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Today's episode of the Nateland podcast is brought to you by Gooder, BetterHelp, Aura Frames, and Viori. Hello folks, and hey there, welcome to the Nateland podcast. I'm Nate, I'm Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay. Alright. Soon to be...

Two-time dad. Two-time dad, yeah. Soon to be. Two-time dad. Any time now. What is it? Are you getting a boy or a girl? Boy this time. Boy, yeah. Yeah. Got a name? I don't have a name, but Brian put up a poll of four names. We had Duke, Hank, Jesse, and Sam. Oh, yeah. Here's the poll. This is Instagram. I did Instagram and Twitter. Very close. Hannah likes Duke the best. Oh, really? Yeah.

Did you just make these names up or you gave them? Now, these are names I've been thinking about. Yeah, yeah. Hank is a name I like the most. I like Hank. Jesse was the number one for a while, but it's slipping. Yeah. And then Sam...

We just like the, I think, what is it? In the Bible, Hannah is the mother of Samuel. My wife's name's Hannah, so we thought that had a fun. Yeah, that's nice. But that's ranking pretty low on the list right now. But Sam Slay, I think, has a fun ranking. Sam Slay is, yeah. I like Hank Slay. A lot of people say Duke. Everybody's like, Duke's a dog's name. But Duke is like a...

title of nobility the duke you know and then his middle name probably will be richard because that's my middle name so it'd be like and richard is like a king's name you know so duke richard i mean that seems that's very royal until they get to the end and it's like right yeah yeah

So all English names, though, you know, Slade comes from England. You know, as far as we've been, my family has been able to trace back. We came, the Slades came in in the early 1600s. As far as we can trace it back in England is to Richard. The farthest guy we found, his name was Richard. Oh, wow. Richard Slade, which is what my dad's name is. So pretty wild. Yeah. The Slades, we go way back. How do you, yeah. What was, how was Richard?

that one back then. You know, it's just a name when you get back that far. Actually, pictures don't go back for my family very far at all. I mean, you're... You think pictures are too also going away for your family? Like, I could see... Yeah. In the future. Slays, y'all are like, we don't take pictures. Yeah.

I could see it. You know, I'm into that. I mean, you know, because back in the day you find a picture of a relative. You're like, whoa, this is amazing. But now we have a thousand pictures of ourselves. Right. So I could see my family drifting away from the photo. Yeah. Yeah. Go the other direction. Yeah. Yeah. We're ready. Just have like a in the sleigh. Just, you know, just a little clump in the middle.

Yeah. 30 year window. 30 year window of just. Dark ages of the sleighs. Yeah. No one knows what happened after that. Yeah. And we just were farming, you know, and then, but I think that's what we've been doing the whole time is farming, but we dipped into technology a little bit. Here I am running around from city to city. Yeah. Yeah. Really breaking the sleigh mold. You might end up being the letdown. They might, they're most frustrated with you. Right. Out of the sleighs. That could be true.

Because you sold out. Yeah. And then, you know, you put too much of a light on. It could be we're trying to lay low. Yeah. I think the slaves have been laying low for a while. Well, I mean, I think that's Duke's job. Yeah. Duke is going to have to. He's going to have to get back in it. He's going to have to get back in it. Like really get back to the dirt. Yeah. Get back to the land. Yeah. Get connected. Yeah, I see that. Duke or Hank. You know, and I like Hank Williams and I like Hank Hill.

Those are the two strongest Hanks I know. I like Hank. And Hank, I think, means like master of the house or leader of the house, which makes sense why they would give him that in the TV show. He might try to overthrow you. Yeah, he may. Well, you would name him Henry, right? And then call him Hank? I think I'd go straight for Hank. I don't need to name him a name and then...

choose a nickname you mean like you do with your name yes well you know that is what my family did i don't like to reveal that about myself but people that my parents did write down dustin on the birth certificate but they never called me that oh yeah so i don't know if i knew that i don't know why we're doing so it said dustin slay dustin everybody said everybody called me dusty your license is dustin yeah it does yeah yeah it's the saddest thing about me yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

And people, yeah. I mean, do they have trouble with that at the airport? They're like, you go, but it's Dusty. They go, I believe that. Yeah, I think they're like, I don't think they believe Dustin. You don't. They look at the ID, they go, I don't know if that's your name. Yeah. Doesn't fit, yeah. Yeah, I mean. Have you ever met another Dusty? I've met a few Dustys. Well, you know what? I meet Dustin's. And then they're like, we go by Dusty too.

I met a girl named Dusty in Houston, Texas. She's a comic. I don't know her last name. I didn't do comedy with her, but I met her. Yeah. Dusty Rhodes?

It could be, but I don't think so. No, as a wrestler. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And Houston Dusty Baker must have been. Yeah. Oh, yeah. My dad says I was named after Dusty Rhodes, but my mom says I was named after a character on a TV show called Dallas. But both of those are named Dusty. Neither are named Dustin. Yeah.

Well, maybe they thought they couldn't write down Dusty. I think they got afraid in the moment. They were like, we can't do that. Or maybe they said Dusty and then the person that wrote it down was like, I think they mean Dustin. Now, that could be true because everywhere I go, if it's a restaurant or a Starbucks and they ask for my name, they always write down Dustin. Yeah. Sometimes I'll go Dusty with a Y and that really confuses them because I think they're like...

They think I'm saying like the first letter, Dusty with a Y, and they're like, that doesn't make sense. Justin. Yeah. What if they write Dust instead of the I, they put a Y. Oh. See, that's how a kid from this era would spell it. Yeah. Dusty with a Y. So you were named after a character from Dallas? That's what my mom says.

And your kids are named after the Dukes of Hazzard. Daisy and Duke. Yeah. Well, not yet, but maybe. Maybe. But that's how it'll sound. If I go, these are my kids, Daisy and Duke, that's what people are going to think. Yeah. I think Daisy and Hank still keeps a Southern vibe without going all Dukes of Hazzard. Even Jesse, there's Uncle Jesse on the TV show. Yeah.

I mean, I like Dukes of Hazzard, but I'm not that big of a fan to name my family after the show. You know what I mean? To name your family. You're about to do it. I know. I know. But it's like Duke is a fun name to me. Yeah. Cooter. Cooter. Cooter too. Yeah. Cooter Slay is unbelievable. That's too much. Yeah.

I would love to actually introduce my kid to people. This is Daisy. This is Cooter. And with a straight face. Just to make them go, oh, that's cute. Yeah. What is it? They go, what is it now? Cooter. All right. Well, that's a cute name. You don't hear that a lot. Daisy's a good name. Daisy is a good name. Daisy and Duke. When will you decide? Like.

I don't know. It may come down to the wire. Game time decision. You may look at it. I think you look at the kid and you decide in that moment. Yeah. Yeah. Is this a Duke or is this a Hank? I feel Hank. I like Hank too. I mean, both polls are almost identical, Twitter and Instagram. But Duke and Hank are neck and neck there. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I should do like a runoff now and get rid of those other ones and let the people decide. Let's include the middle name.

Hank Richard? Yeah, Hank Richard or Duke Richard.

Or, you know, maybe we should, you know, I told my dad today what the middle name was going to be. And I thought he'd be excited. And then all of a sudden he was wanting to tell me what the first name would be. And I was like, all right, well, if you're not happy that I've done that, because my dad's middle name is Richard. My middle name is Richard. So I'm doing that to keep that going. But then he was like, you know, Austin, there's an Austin Riley that plays for the Braves. So he likes the sound of Austin Richard. And I'm like, well, it's probably not going to be Austin.

But it's like, if you can't be happy that I'm going to name him after you,

What does that have to do with Austin Riley? I don't understand. He likes the sound. He just likes it. Okay. Austin Riley, Austin Richard. It's kind of. I don't know if I don't, I don't mind Austin Richard. Well, Austin. Sounds like a NASCAR driver. Yeah. Austin Richard Slay. I mean, awesome. You'd be like. Or a serial killer. Yeah. One of the two. It's got a ring to it, but I don't, I don't really like the name Austin. I know some Austins, but I don't, not for my. I don't know. I don't think for the Slay family. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I think Tank or.

But my dad, you know, my dad had some surgery today and I talked to him and he's like, you know, a little loopy because he's like on medicine because I didn't know he was having surgery. My friend saw it on Facebook and said, hey, I heard your dad's having surgery today. And I go, oh, I didn't know. So this is a heart surgery. You know, I'm like, you can give me a call. Let me know this is happening here. And yeah.

He is okay. Not major. I guess it's always major. But he has a pacemaker, so they were replacing a valve, which they say is not that big of a deal. But I had to find out from my friend secondhand from Facebook. And he's all loopy, and he's still trying to tell me what to name my kid. I'm like, why don't you take it easy a little bit? Why don't you worry about yourself right now? What's his first name? Guy. Guy.

See, my granddad was named Guy Slay. I'm told he had no middle name. Born in 1900. Wow. And then my dad is Guy Richard Slay. So I'm Dustin Richard Slay. So I'm trying to keep the Richard thing going for my dad. Yeah.

I mean, Aaron's losing it. Guy slays. Unbelievable. That's what I'm saying. I like it, but I, you know, I don't think I would have ever guessed you were about to say guy. Yeah.

Especially with him guessing, with him suggesting Austin. Yeah. Yeah. But maybe he's like, let's just get into the real world with some names. Yeah. Yeah. And he's like, Austin's like, you know. My dad loves the Braves. Yeah. You know, I thought about the name. We thought about the name Bear for a little while too. But then I thought everyone that listens to this podcast would think I'm naming it after, hey, Bear. But I mean, that's okay. But then I also thought Bear Bryant. Right. Yeah. So.

Dale for Dale Murphy. Dale Murphy. Oh, that's a good one. You could go Dale Murphy, Dale Earnhardt. That fits. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, congrats, man. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I appreciate it. It's big time. Yeah. Yeah. This is a big time. It is. We're so welcome, everybody. We're say I was in Vegas this week. Las Vegas all week. Fun time. Fun shows.

Did some golfing. Did you meet Mel Gibson? No, he was at the show. How did you know that? I got my sources. Oh, yeah. Abigail? No, somebody emailed us. Oh, really? They sat next to him. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, we get the guy. We're standing in the back. Greg Garcia came down and hung out. So he got, and Greg got food poisoning. And he ate some crab soup.

But everybody else ate. Like, I didn't eat it, but, like, Chase ate it. Other people ate it. Greg's the only one that got it, so we didn't believe Greg. But Greg had to come. We had a super fun weekend. It was, like, just the last day we went and, like, sat at the pool. And, like, just did a – I was, like, just trying to write some stuff, like, talking about jokes and, like, whatever. And it was just a really fun –

it was a fun weekend. Like, and, um, so, uh,

was oh i'm sitting there we're sitting backstage you know in the dressing room the green room just talking and uh a guy that guy that runs the venue like he goes did mel gibson come back here and then he just said it i mean out of nowhere yeah and and then at first i was like no and then i was like what i go wait what like it was just so i didn't understand what was happening and they uh

And so they said, yeah, Mel Gibson was in the show. And he, I mean, he had a scooter. He like broke his leg, I guess, or something. I didn't get to meet him. I mean, I would have liked to meet him, but I mean, I think he just kind of like he got done and, you know, scooted out. Yeah. He got out quick. I mean, I could have like hunted him down, but I was like, I don't know if he just wanted to leave and whatever. I mean, I think it becomes probably.

He would have come back if he wanted to, I'm sure. Yeah, maybe he didn't think. Yeah, he's like, this show's done. Yeah, not what I thought. No, I don't think. Yeah, I don't know. Sometimes you can, some people, people come back. Sometimes they like coming back. Sometimes they're like, we're just here to see the show. And like, they just, you know, kind of get out of there. And so something doesn't become a whole thing, which I don't, you know, it'd have been neat to meet him just because I've never met him. So, yeah, I was very, that was one of the surprising ones.

Yeah, Mel Gibson, you know, obviously had a little issue for a minute, but he, I mean, he has like the movies from my childhood. I mean, he was crushing it. Oh, yeah. Passion of Christ. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, that's right. What's the Mad Max, all the Mad Max movies and then Braveheart and. Lethal Weapon. The Patriot, Lethal Weapon. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, it's crazy. You ever see What Women Want? I did see that. Yeah. I actually like it a lot, too. I just didn't want to name it in that list. Oh, I'd say it's up there. It's a great movie. It is really good. It's a lot of fun. He's got a lot of good movies now, though, too. There's that one where he's in a Mexican prison or something. Oh, Get the Gringa. Yeah. That's a good one. That's a good one, too. It's really good. No, I've never heard of it. I thought it was going to be bad, but it was really great. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it's yeah, it was very cool that he came out like, you know, it was very, very surprising because Vegas, you will get people that can come to, you know, we had Dana White come. Yeah, like you end up just having people stop in. So it is kind of neat. And then but yeah, that one was I was definitely no Gibson come back. What? No idea.

So yeah, we did that I mean Vegas was great Vegas was great St. Paul, Minnesota this week And Sioux City Then I got a little break Which is nice Nice Yeah Yeah Where were you at? It was a little different I was in Glasgow, Kentucky Vegas of Kentucky Yeah Yeah I was with Henry Cho Las Vegas they call it Yeah Las Vegas It was a great show Met some folks So Henry killed it So it was a fun time Nice

I was in town doing some shows. Still working. Still working. Yeah. I haven't quit comedy yet. Did a show at a candle bar. Just people in there. Just so drunk. Oh, okay. I always think that. Oh, really? At a candle store. Yeah. One guy got kicked out right when I went on stage. He was causing problems the whole show.

And then I get up and they finally come up and go, you need to leave. And it was like he was waiting to be asked. He goes, all right. Yeah, you're probably lighting the candles. No, dude. It was just like this, just yelling stuff, sleeping. I've been kicked out of a lot of places when I used to drink, but never a candle. That's what I said. If that guy's like me, he's going to wake up tomorrow and go, I did all that in a candle shop last night. Yeah.

Anyway. I did a spot at the CMAs. I did a, at the Music City Center. I did a 45 minute set at 1145 AM. Wow.

following an interview from Reba McEntire. So Reba's on stage doing an interview and then comes off. I never met Reba McEntire. She comes off stage. I'm standing there with my buddy, Evan, who's also a comic. And she comes back, comes right up to us, shakes my hand, shakes his hand like we're old buddies. And she goes, hey, have fun out there. And I was like, whoa, what's happening right now? And then she stood there for a second.

And then some people came and got her and, you know, kind of whisk her away. But.

I thought we were about to just hang out. I guess she had watched the podcast and seen me sing. That's the night that the lights went out. Yeah. And she's, you know. That's why she's a star, dude. You can just tell. She just had that. Well, that's what Evan said. He's like, that's how you make it right there. I mean, she just came right up, shook. I mean, I was like, this is great. I love Ruby McIntyre. Yeah, I do too. So it was great. She always had a place on 109, off Highway 109. I remember just driving by growing up. That's Ruby McIntyre. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It was great. I mean, I was so pumped. I wanted to get a picture, but I'm like, she's almost made it. Like we're friends in this moment to where I can't even ask for a picture. Maybe that's the move. Cause now it's like, now it'd be weird. Otherwise I could just be a fan, but she's made us like friends here. She probably thought you were someone else. Yeah. I mean, maybe I was Hardy. Yeah. Hardy. Yeah. Uh,

Is it? I might have talked about it. That's what I heard George Clooney does is he'll just go up to you and shake your hand and meet you. And it's so quick that he's in control of it that you don't think to ask for a picture because it's like, oh, yeah, I can't believe he came up to you. And then so it's like you're in. He just gets ahead of it. Just gets ahead of someone in control. That's what Larry Cable guy did with me.

Yeah. Golf course. Yeah. Yeah. I met, I met Tom Hanks at the Ryman one time and I was going to tell him that I have this joke where I say, I look like Forrest Gump after he ran for a long time. Yeah. And I, so I go up to him and I go, I was just gonna, you know, I'm just going to start talking to him because I know that he knows that I know who he is. Yeah.

So I go, hey, I start talking. He goes, Tom. And he sticks out his hand. I'm like, yeah, yeah. I mean, I was like, I introduced myself, but I know who you are. Yeah. You know, and he was very nice. Yeah. I think it's like, what are you, they got to just, it would be,

Crazy if he just said like, he was like, yeah, I know, you know who I like, you know, you're just trying to be a polite person or just trying to be a normal person that just goes Tom. And that's what I was trying to do was just like, just start talking to him instead of making it all weird. I mean, like, Hey, I'm a huge fan. What do you say about the joke? Well, he laughed a little bit, but then he went, I thought he left.

because his wife was performing. But someone months later at the Opry, a security guard told me that Tom Hanks was in the upper deck when I did the joke on stage and said he was really laughing, slapping his knee, he said, which seems like a fake laugh. Yeah, it does seem. Yeah, but I'll take it. Why don't you name your son Hank Middleton, Tom Hanks Slay? Oh, Tom Hanks Slay. Because it almost says with the Hanks Slay, it's almost like a S, like Hanks. Yeah. Yeah.

I like Hank Sly. Yeah. Probably leave off the Tom. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's start with some of you guys' comments. All right. Scott Cumrow.

I'm a middle school band director, and I've been struggling with getting everyone's attention to start the day. I've tried a few techniques, but the most successful right now is to say, hello, folks. And my whole class responds with, hey, bear. Oh, they don't know why they're saying this, but they love it, and they wait for the next thing that I have to say. Thank you. There you go. All right. That's awesome. That's great. That is a good way to start. That's great. Yeah. I like it. Gets them ready. Mason Long.

I introduced my mom to the podcast a few weeks ago and found out she was listening on one and a half times speed. I tried it, and you can't understand what anybody's saying except for Nate, who now sounds like a regular person. Wow. That's funny. I wonder, does their mom know they were doing that? Probably not. They were just listening like, this is... Yeah.

They're really going fast here. Do people listen to one and a half times? Some people who are uber productive, I know they'll just maximize their day. They'll listen to these podcasts sped up. You want to hear what you sound like? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's in your family. Derek's got some rude kids. Brian sounds good, too. It's listenable, dude. You have to listen. No, you have to be paying attention. I think you could... For me, I could see it being... It would be tough. Two times speed is a little more intense. Derek is also a successful actor. He has... Trevor's going to 1974.

And that's you reading. Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. Get the podcast done in an hour that way. Yeah. Yeah. What does it do? It's like you just, it does, it cuts it in half. So if you did 0.5 speed, it would take four hours? Yeah. Wow. And then 0.5 speed is probably tough to listen to. Oh, that's your brother. Your brother. Yeah. Everybody's drunk. Yeah. Yeah.

Very Sanders. Yeah, that's what that sounds like. Randy Reeves. Why do y'all keep pronouncing the L in folks? I'm from Mississippi and I even know not. I and I even know not to do that. Folks, folks.

Why are you supposed to say it? I don't know. I don't know. Folks. Folks. Folks. Folks. Hello, folks. Folks. Folks. I can't have another word where I'm overthinking how I'm saying it. Folks. Yeah. We do the L.

Just because we like to get all the letters in there. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's not fair to the L. That's right. It doesn't get it sound. We love everybody that listens to this podcast. Right. I was like, I'm in here too, buddy. The people know who the L's are in this podcast. The listeners go, I bet I'm an L. Yeah. And this guy doesn't acknowledge you. Yeah.

Randy Reeves. That's a good name, too. That is nice. That sounds like that fits. Yeah, it's got a good one. That's who Hank would be friends with. Yeah. Sounds like a news anchor, doesn't it? Where are you at? We're going to Randy Reeves. We're going down to Randy Reeves' house. Randy Reeves. I like Randy, too. My mom dated a guy named Randy for a while, but she wouldn't like if I named my kid Randy. But I like the name Randy. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's probably tough.

Who are you named after? My mom went on a few dates with a guy named Randy. And I liked him. Yeah. Yeah. Well, how did we use your mom dating? Well, uh, it's explained everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Kristen Herbert. I just want to say thank you to Aaron for his tip to use your skull as a school. Skull. Skull. Skull. Skull. As an antenna for your car key to find your car. Saved me from searching for my car for an hour. Hey, Bear. All right. Glad I could help. Hmm.

I did a little video demonstrating that this does work. It does extend the range. And I don't know the science of it other than what Google's telling me is that it uses the fluids in your head as a conductor, extending the range. It's like a little tumor in your chin here. Yeah. I'm sure it's good. You keep your keys in your pocket? Oh, yeah. I mean, all that stuff that's coming, I mean, it's all coming to my legs. That's for sure. Yeah.

Without your legs, it's going to. Austin Meek. Austin. Yeah. I just went to purchase a new We're Having a Good Time hat from Dusty. I died laughing when I noticed I had the option to finance my Dusty hat for four easy payments of $8.75. Yeah.

I can't imagine a more trailer park scenario than a guy in a suit showing up to showing up to repo dusty hats from the trailer park faithful because they defaulted on their hat payments. Yeah. We'll get you. We'll get you. I mean, don't think they won't come for that hat. Interest free. That's a good deal. Yeah. I don't know any of that stuff. I, I, all I read is the name of it. Uh, I wrote the red dusty slate trucker hat and, um,

They're out of stock right now, but I got a lot of them at the house. I put 52 online and I sold them all in one day. Wow. And it was a real mess at the post office, but I did get it done. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if people do. I mean, I remember doing layaway. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I didn't know you can make payments on the hats. I mean, I've not had anyone do that yet, but I wish they would. Yeah. I love that idea.

You want a hat, but can't afford it. But you're like, I'm going to go ahead and make those payments. Yeah. You know, the good, that dusty sleigh hat, some sunglasses, maybe some gooder. That's true. That was good. You're proud of that one. I could tell. Yeah. There, I mean, yeah, I, look, I'm a big fan of them. I, they, I got some, I mean, I have three pair, uh, that, and that was before they came on.

J. Mill, got to say I'm a little surprised Dusty allowed his wife to officially become a U.S. citizen. Ooh, I like that. He strikes me as the kind of guy who would argue with her that she should stay off the government's radar if she has that luxury. Not Hannah government official, a binder full of information on her.

And worst him. Yeah. Well, the thing about it is they already have all that information, you know, because she had to get a work visa to come down here and work. So she already had the information and they don't let you just hang around. You know, you gotta, you gotta go through some stuff. If she had a baby though, would they, is it like. I think the baby helps, you know, but you still have to.

You know, you have to, I mean, I think there's a way to do it illegally, I guess, because people talk about that a lot. So that seems to be happening, but the legal way is not super easy. Yeah. And I'm not, you know, there was an old Doug Stone Stanhope joke, I think, where he talked about marriage and he's like, like, he's like, this is going pretty well. Let's get the government involved, you know? So I'm, you know, I'm into that. There's no reason to bring the government into anything, but she's a, you know,

foreigner. So I had to lock it down and get married. Yeah. You know, did you think Canada existed before you met her? Well, I knew it existed, but, um, you know,

I didn't know that it existed the way it does. Like, it's great in Canada. I had a lot of fun there. I drove there and I was like, oh, this place is great. When I was growing up, I thought rednecks were only in the South. Oh, no. And then I pulled into Canada and I was like, oh, this whole country's full of rednecks. I mean, outside of Toronto, I mean, that is what it is. Yeah. Yeah. What if your kid's name is Freedom? Freedom. I like that. Because it represents she's free now in a free country. Yeah. She's...

She left Canada and came to freedom. Freedom. Freedom. Sleigh. Freedom. Sleigh. Freedom. Sleigh. Freedom is a good name. Yeah. It fits. I like freedom. Yeah. Like he only has American flag apparel. Yeah. That's all he has as a kid. He always has to carry an American flag with him. Yeah. Well, freedom. Today's flag day. Is it really? Yeah, it is. The day this podcast comes out. Wow. Do you know why there's 13 stripes?

13 colonies. Do you know why there's 50 stars? 52 states. 50 states. I know. I thought of that joke after I said that. And so I never thought the thing would come back up. And so then the question arised itself and I go, oh, I can try the 52 states. Do you know who sold the first flag?

Susan B. Anthony. You do remember. Yeah, we got it. Yeah, that's from last week. I did learn a couple other things for Flag Day. I thought we might do a flag episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My grandfather, Guy Slay, by the way, born on Flag Day. Just wanted to bring that out there to you. Wow. There you go. Old Glory. I heard it's a Nashville connection. Nashville connection. Yep.

There was one of these transplants, of course, moved to Nashville from Massachusetts. And this is during the Civil War. He flew his American flag outside his house. He moved from Massachusetts to Tennessee during the Civil War? Well, right before it started. Okay. Man, talk about bad timing. Flew his American flag. He bought when the real estate was high. Yeah.

And he called it Old Glory. And then once the war officially broke out, they're like, we're going to get that flag from him. And he took it and he hid it where they couldn't find it.

And then when the Union took over Nashville, he took it down to the Capitol to the Union general and said, I've been hiding this flag. And they flew it. Wow. And like, you know, Old Glory. Now it's in the Smithsonian. He just called it Old Glory. There's no other meaning than that. Yeah, I guess. That's pretty nice. And we gave it a whole day, huh? Well, the flag day, that was actually a teacher said we should have a day honoring the flags and should be June 14th.

And then he wrote a letter to the editor saying it should be June 14th. And he kept pestering him. Finally, the president was like, let's make it June 14th. A teacher is trying to get a day off of school. I guess. And that didn't happen. Well, that's true. Yeah. Yeah. A little backfire. Good point. Day off of summer school. It's a good joke either way. You still got in-service days and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so we just celebrate all the flags, all our flags. American flag. Just the one flag. Just the one flag.

Not our state flags? Yeah, I don't think it's a day for all flags. Yeah, I think it's just the American flag. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah, people- They call it American Flag Day? They may should call it that. Should be called that, yeah. I think back in the day, they used to really put the flags out on this day. I think it kind of goes by unnoticed now. People don't really celebrate it now. We put a flag out. We have one out. The flag day? But year round. Yeah, year round, yeah. Yeah. I think the day goes mostly unnoticed. It's also my sister's birthday. Yeah.

I think you're not living as close to car dealerships as you used to. I saw a lot of flags today. Car dealerships love a flag. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Something about freedom and getting yourself locked into a car payment. It goes hand in hand. Yeah. Zachary Peters. Nate, I was right there with you on finding out Michigan is more than the Mint. Educational podcast.

Thanks, Nate, Aaron, Dusty, and Betty Bob Bates.

He's just saying, is this educational podcast? I think it is because I learned about the UP. Yeah. A couple of people said they didn't know either. Yeah. I like that in doing these comments, you have the power to change every time somebody calls you something back to your own name and you still put it in there. Keep it original. Yeah. Yeah. That is true. I mean, every time. Betty, I don't even know what this is. Yeah, I don't either. You could have just...

Changed it back, but you kept it in there. I don't even notice it anymore. Yeah. I respect that about you, Brian. KD Visaggio. I think I nailed that. I think you did too. Visaggio. That's your Italian blood coming out. Yeah, yeah. That's Visaggio. V-I-S-A-G-G-I-O. I think it's like there's only one way to say that. Visaggio. You would find a way. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's good. Well, people argue that was Nate that was. Yeah, I think so, too. And people from the Internet always they always have all the answers. Right. But if we had asked someone that first question, everyone, the way it's worded, no one thinks the Constitution. No, not at all. But people on the Internet, of course, will go, oh, no, I had it. You know. Yeah, I agree. But but Katie, I mean, do homeschool your kids, though.

I support it. I support where you're going with it. Yeah. Kyle Shadid. Kyle Shadid. She didn't say anything about homeschooling, did she? Sorry. No, I think she said she's a homeschooling mom. A homeschooling mom. Oh, and former teacher. I mean, it's right up your alley. Oh, yeah. She left the system. Yeah. She's like a homeschooling mom and former teacher. She said a homeschool teacher. She just homeschooled her kids and then also went to work.

No, no. She was a teacher and she got out of the system. She got off the grid. She's you, dude. This is you. This is a female you. I support Katie. That just left the game. Yeah. Said, I don't like what's going on. Yeah, I support it. Kyle Shadid. I love that Nate got the war from the 1900s answer right on accident when he said Iraq because he definitely was not referring to the Gulf War. That's probably true.

Well, I think we were in Iraq. Yeah. Afghanistan. Right, right. The Middle East. The Middle East. Yeah, it's a broad... It's a safe answer. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't think of...

Vietnam. I said Vietnam. Vietnam, you could have said. World War I, too. That's probably people's... Really, all the wars, with the exception of like... Silver War. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I thought... The war of 1812 was in there. I thought what happened was, because he said war from the 1900s, and I thought you got 19th century mixed up, and thought that really meant the 2000s. Oh. And I thought that's why you said the Iraq War. Oh, no, no. I was just kidding. Kidding.

You got it right. I was just, I don't know, nailing it. Yeah. Don't read into stuff too much, everybody. Right, right. Sometimes the kid just got it. Yeah, yeah. And I think that's what that was. Grant Morgan. I recently had a flip phone for two years. It was so nice being disconnected from a smartphone. I finally had to go back to a smartphone because all my kids' activities involve using apps. For example, my son's baseball team communicates on a team app.

Once I was on the way to a game out of town while driving to the game, it was moved to a different field because I didn't have a smartphone. I was the only one at the wrong field. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I did. I would love to get a flip phone. I mean, I tried like the Blackberry. I've tried it so much and it's just, you know, you just have like so many group texts that you got to do or so much. There's just too much stuff. That's like everything's kind of like it is what it is. Mm hmm.

Yeah. I mean, I bought a flip phone recently. I mean, I still have the smartphone. I'm going to try to go two phones. Yeah. I'm going to try to be a two phone guy. Yeah. That way when I'm in the hotels on the weekends, I can turn the phone off and live my life instead of being trapped in my phone. Yeah.

And then you just would have the different number? Yeah. That way if my wife needed to get in touch with me, she would have that number. But I could turn the phone off and like do things. I get really sucked into social media. No. It's bad. Okay. And then they could still reach you. Yeah. All right. I think you're just going to turn that phone back on. Probably so. But I'd like to try the experiment. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, you can do it. Like, I mean, I leave my phone when I go eat or something. Go walk around, just leave it in the hotel. Yeah. Go eat. And that's what I want to do too. But if somebody needs me, like in my family, I like to have a way for them to get in touch with me.

Yeah, that is true. But it's like, it's amazing though, how throughout history and even in our lifetime, that used to just not even be a thing that we thought about or worried about. And we all just got by fine. But now that it is, it would be like something bad happens. I know. Just hanging out, eating lunch. I know. It's crazy how it's changed. But do you have like, if you're on the road, you got someone with you.

Sometimes. So that's what I'll do is you just go, like, I'll tell Laura, I'm not taking my phone. And then so call Chase. Yeah. Call, you know, like, and then there's phones. Yeah. So, like, if you got someone with you on the road that doesn't care about bringing their phone, then you can be like, text your wife, just say, hey, something happens, call. That's a good idea. Mm-hmm.

Then you leave it and then you just sit there. I give my wife the hotel number and then I try to sleep with my phone on airplane mode. And she called me once and it was terrifying. The hotel phone rings in the middle of the night. Yeah, I don't like that. Was it something? There's always something. You know what I mean? Was it worth the call? Yeah, I guess it was at the time. But yeah. Yeah.

But it was like, yeah, the deer inside the house. I Tara Stratos, Tara Stratos.

I've started to love and look forward to Nate reading the comments. And after the first run at every person's name, he always follows up with an alternative pronunciation. He's usually right the first time, but then starts sounding it out and it cracks me up every time. You're doing great, Nate. Really love this podcast. Thank you. I'm so glad you did that second pronunciation. Yeah. Stratos.

David Epstein. Epstein. This sounds like he misspelled it. He put a Z. I know a lot of Epsteins and he put a Z in the middle. Maybe after the recent stuff with that name. You know a lot of Epsteins, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know a couple. Here's a link that describes what current animal skeletons would look like if scientists never knew what they look like. Given this, like Dusty, I am out on dinosaurs. Yeah. Yeah.

This is what Hollywood thinks dinosaurs look like. And then here's what scientists think they look like. I don't like that they're pinning this on Hollywood. I never thought I'd defend Hollywood. But don't act like that's not how every dinosaur in every museum looked. That's true. You know what I mean? It wasn't just Hollywood taking a lead. Yeah. Some of these animals. Other examples here. If you just found a baboon skeleton and you reconstructed it the way they did dinosaurs, that's what it would look like. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

I just think we're just, they're just making this up. This is a zebra skeleton reconstructed like a dinosaur. It looks a lot like a Thestral from Harry Potter. If anyone's interested. And then there's a cow. Looks a little bit like a gazelle.

Yeah. I met a guy at the CMAs who told me that he mutes the podcast when Aaron starts talking about Harry Potter. And I was about to give him a fist bump. And he said, because my daughter's reading the books. Doesn't want Aaron to give it away. Doesn't want Aaron to spoil it. Oh, look at that. An intellectually curious kid listening to the podcast. How about it? What is that? That's a cat.

Oh, really? That's a house cat. I don't want a cat like that. And it looks horrifying. What? I mean, so they're just saying, like, if you just gave them bones, that's a flamingo. Who wrote this? These are swans right here. Swans. So it's saying, you know, we found the skeleton of the dinosaurs. We just reconstructed it. But, you know, there's so much.

These are all examples of you can't just go off the bones because there's all skin and fat and tissue and everything else. But our bones look like it makes sense. Now here we're going to end it on at the very end. It's this is what here's a python, but they have the human being. This is what it would look like if we just found the human skeleton. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Looks a little creepy. Looks like an alien almost.

Yeah, but why? I know. But so we know we don't look like that. Yeah. So that would make it be wrong. Wrong. That's what he's saying. That's the point of this. Yeah. All these animals, they would have got it wrong if they didn't know what we really look like. Oh. If they tried to figure out what these things look like just based on the skeleton. Yeah. This is what we think they'd look like. Yeah. But we know that they don't. Yeah.

Yeah, I think things were just bigger then. I mean, there is some research like with they find those like dried sap and they find like oxygen inside them and they can test that and find that the oxygen was thicker years ago than it is now. So things could grow more because they had more oxygen in the air. So I think things were just bigger.

You find a T-Rex, you really probably find some kind of, you know, bird. But the biggest animal ever is alive right now. It's a blue whale. It's the biggest animal in the history of the world. But it's in, you know, it's in the ocean. Who knows what's going on down there? Yeah. There's oxygen in the water. Yeah. Yeah. But maybe the blue whale was even bigger. They have so much room to grow. Yeah. Maybe it was even bigger back in the day. And we don't know because those bones floated to the bottom where we can't go. Yeah.

All right. I forgot to mention last week you threw out the first pitch at the Sounds game. I did. How'd that go? It was good. We didn't talk about it last week? I don't think so. No, we didn't. Yeah, it was good. We had my daughter's softball team, the Hurricanes, H-E-R.

Kane. Is it really? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's not bad. That's fun. Yeah. And so then, uh, so yeah, I was like with the, they all got to come out and, uh, we all got to go on the field and it was kind of, and it was fun and a lot of pressure with all them out there. A lot of pressure. They're all throwing and, uh,

It was a booster, the rooster catching you. You know what? Harper to be like, that's not my real dad. Boom. Yeah. Now that he dropped the ball went through his glove. Too hot for him. Too hot. It was a solid throw. Give me a real catcher out here. A little mascot to the left. I said I wasn't gonna stay on the mound. Then I did say, cause they like said like, yeah, they kind of said it. And then it was like, you know, I had it all them and I was like, Oh, let's just go stay in. And, uh,

So I do find interesting. You almost always wear a hat and then you're out there on the mound. You don't have. Yeah, I did not wear a hat. Well, sometimes I think it was like because it's like I'm not, you know, not trying to hide. Like it was like because they're it's like you feel like they're invited to be out there to be comedian. They wear gets you. So you're like, yeah, all right. Maybe I shouldn't wear a hat.

They asked me to wear one. They did? Yeah. Did you wear a scarf as well? Yeah. Sometimes I won't wear a hat if I know, like, you know, it's going to be nighttime soon. And then you're like, well, I don't want to, you know, and maybe it feels dark to me. And I'm like, well, I'll just not worry about it for too long.

But that one, honestly, I was like thinking like, well, I'm going out there to, to throw the pitch. I was doing an interview with something else. Then you're just kind of like, you know, I don't want to just look like I'm just, if they would have given me a Nashville sounds hat or something. What about the video you made off this pitch here? Of Nate getting taken yard. Yeah. Oh, I had a lot of fun making that. Yeah. Laura sent me that video.

There it is. That's a foul. I've also, a million people have sent me the video of the guy who just fell on the mound. I don't know if you've seen that video. I think it must have just happened. The guy threw out the first pitch. I don't know who he was. He just slips and falls down, completely falls down. So a lot of people have sent me that saying, just try to be better than this guy. Boom. I have a theory that that guy did that on purpose. Oh, really? Yeah, because I saw a TikTok he made about it.

Where he was like, oh, I guess I messed up. And then if you watch it, you're like, that looks a little intentional. What do you mean he messed up what?

The first pitch where he tripped. Oh. He's trying to go viral. He's like a content creator on TikTok. Yeah. Oh, I don't believe that at all now. You tell me that. He looked very... To me, he looked embarrassed when he got up, but maybe you're right. No, I agree. I think I did see this, and then I thought, well, he didn't. I don't know if I believed it because it was dumb. I've watched it a bunch because everybody sent it to me, why he slipped. Like, it's...

Yeah, it doesn't make sense why he slipped. And yeah, and then, I mean, well, now I'm completely done with it. The fact that you go, he's a content creator. Yeah, then you get a viral video. Everybody's watching it. And then if you got some other videos. Maybe I will slip now. Yeah. There he is. Yeah. Yeah, here's the pitch. Yeah, that's fake. Then the throw in the ball like that. Yeah.

He should have threw some confetti up too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I believed it too. He looks like an athletic guy. Yeah. Yeah, man. Like he looks too athletic to. Yeah. Nobody's going to question it if I do that. I hope you do, Brian. It's to go.

I really want you to practice and burn it up out there. That's what I want. It's to go, Var. Man, this... He did a good job. Yeah, so everybody see this video. That's like... I think about that. If you're a content, golly, that is like a prison that you're in. Where you just have to do stuff like this all the time? You have to do anything that you do. You have to...

create and like do stuff and like fake stuff. And, you know, just cause it's because why, like what else are you going to do? Like, yeah, the ball throw. Yeah. Here. Yeah. It's like people that just have a story going all the time on Instagram. And it's like, that must be exhausting. Exhausting. I mean, I can't do it. No. Well, it's the difference of, um,

I always think that with comics, it's like they think put all your stuff out or whatever and you're like, you need to save. If you have a good joke, save it. Don't just put it out on something that's kind of going to get...

just flipped by it's going to be like oh that's really funny and like maybe get shared i just don't think there's a connection to it it's like it's like eating fast you know he was eating fast food you don't get full you're just hungry again it's like it's kind of that doesn't really matter how good the joke is or whatever it is it's or whatever it can be it's like everybody will see it everybody's going to go and it's going to be the whole world will be like oh yeah you

That's that. And then it'll just be gone and no one. And then, yeah, there's a balance, though. You have to put stuff out to be seen and kind of stay in the mix. I yes, I it's a lot harder now as a as a younger comic that you do have to do that. And that's why when I see the crowd work stuff, I guess I don't mind that. I mean, I don't like I'm not the biggest crowd work person.

fan but it's there it's uh but i don't i understand i i understand like that's an easy way to be like not easy but it's you it's a way that you're like yeah what are you gonna do like you're just you're you have to do it to get into these things but man you just paint yourself it's just like you gotta do that forever dude you gotta go talk to i don't feel like you're ever gonna really get to do

be a comedian. Like you're not going to really learn how to be a comedian because it's, I mean, obviously these dudes are very funny and Pete and I get it, but you're not going to like learn how to do a joke, learn how to really work a joke out. You got to work. A joke takes a long time. Yeah. A long time. That's the, it's comedy is like fun and it's all like, you know, just, just being funny, just being silly. It's,

to like, it's just, it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work to get a joke to work. Right. Or you can just do this. Yeah. But I mean like that guy, like that. Yeah. Look, I, I, I feel, I do feel bad for like, uh, comedians that are starting out. Like, it's like, you gotta go do that. I mean, I don't even know what I would tell him. It's like, I get that. You gotta go put that stuff up. I get, you gotta go put jokes up on social media and stuff like that. But, uh,

Yeah, just do one current event joke a week. Mm-hmm. You know? Add an open mic and put that up. And then you don't have to burn your real jokes. Or I would honestly just do this. Start a podcast. Like, do something... Sketches or something. Yeah. Yeah, that could be expensive, though. But it's like, you could do podcasts or you could do... I mean, you got to do stuff. It's a weird, slippery thing. But I think if you also work on your act and you become...

Just go like it's like you could do stuff, but then just go keep working on your act. If you're knowing like, all right, I'm going to stand up. I'm going to tell these jokes. I'm going to keep just doing this. Like you think about there's something that's rewarding to think about, like, or that's good to if you have a good joke.

no one can see it until they see you live or they can see you or you sell a special. Look, getting to that point is obviously very hard, but you should be protective of stuff that's like good. Otherwise, you don't want to throw something that's so good at that you're like, dude, that could have been a five minute

stand-up bit that everybody would have remembered yeah instead you like put it out and you're like it's gonna everybody's gonna look at it multiple times and then they're gonna kind of move on they're not gonna really because it's like this stuff like with that guy falling down you're not gonna be like what is it you know it's like I mean that guy has to just do this like like he has to go you know to like everything he does every

The second of his day, he has to walk into a door or like do something. Imagine being proud that you fell on the mountain. You're like, oh yeah, this is great. This is going to be awesome. This is what I wanted. You would rather fall than throw a good pitch. Because a good pitch, that's got, you know, two views. Yeah, I mean, look, it really made me laugh when I first saw it. When I first saw this video. And then I found out who the guy was and I was like, I kind of.

I mean, I go like, well, I don't know if I believe anything. So it's like when you see the I think when I saw the first, I was like, I don't know. Like, yeah, I don't believe that. Like it's because it doesn't make sense why you would fall. Yeah. And you can it's and he's young. He's too young. He's too like he's a big dude. There's a great chance. Like I bet if you really looked at me like this guy probably played sports like this guy, you know, you're like, you're just not going to.

Yeah. And then there's people that won't create anything. Right. I got a younger sister and she works all these jobs that she hates, but she had like 20 dogs. Right. I was like, why don't you, why don't you film yourself feeding these dogs and post that?

I was like, just do something. You might pick up a following and you might make a little money off this monetized. She won't do it. I'm like, just get in there in the pen, throw some meat out there. See if they tackle you, whatever. Just film it. You know what I mean? Just go crazy. Yeah. Fight these dogs. And she won't do it. I'm like, you love these dogs. Just get in there with them. The neighbor has some dogs. You can fight those dogs. I said, I'll buy you the camera. Let's do it. Yeah.

But they won't do it. I think stand-up is a good... Stand-up's in a great spot right now. So...

The comics coming up, it's like it's a good thing, man. It's it's a lot of stamp comedy is more known than it's ever been known. A lot of people are doing big, big places. And it's just in a it's in a it's in a great spot. So the one starting out, you just just have make sure you have an act. It doesn't even really matter. Like whatever your act is.

Have an act. I'm not, if it's crowd work, if it's this, that, or whatever it is to have a show to be like, when people come see you have a show, if, if the ones that make it and the ones that are going up, if they have a show, they will continue to grow the whole art form of staying. And it's going to become giant. Just have a show. People need to sit there for an hour and feel satisfied that they, you know, they saw you and then we'll be good.

Yeah, I agree. I mean, it's like, there's nothing like putting out a video that you think you're like, oh, I love this joke. This joke does well live all the time. I'm going to put it on the internet. And then it kind of bomb on the internet because now you're like, oh man, now I can't do it live. But it's like having an act. I mean, that's what I try to do. I post a lot of kind of bad jokes because they like-

They got a laugh in the room, but it's not ruining that material for me because I want to save all this stuff for the live show. Yeah. I mean, I want people to come and be like, oh, I've not seen any. I want them to be pleasantly surprised. They're like, I've been seeing these riffs on the internet and now the show is great. Yeah. That's what I'm looking for. Oh, I mean, look at a special. Like, why would someone watch a special if they've seen a bunch of clips of this already? Yeah.

It's like you want to see it. I'm trying to set the bar real low. A lot of people think I'm terrible at comedy. They show up and I got punchlines. And they're like, wow, I had no idea this would be like this. I didn't expect this. Exactly. All right. This week we're talking about Minnesota. All right. The Lake State.

10,000 lakes. Way in the 10,000 lakes. Yeah. You know why they call it that? Because there's 10,000 lakes there. There's actually 11,000 and something, but... It doesn't have the same ring. That sounds better than 10,000. Does it? 11's more. Well, it's like 11,300 and... I don't know. Oh, you don't need to be that specific, but...

But the name though, the land of 11,000 lakes. Oh, I like it. There's alliteration there. Land of 11,000 lakes. Land of 11,000 lakes. You don't like that? But I mean, maybe when it was called that, there was only 10,000 lakes. Maybe so. And so then they're like, well, we can't just keep...

Yeah. And then someone's like, we probably shouldn't put a number on it. Yeah. They probably just couldn't count as well back then. I mean, and then what if they go, well, how many lakes does other people have? They go, there's a good chance they have 10,000. There's a good chance every state has. Yeah. Like depending on what we're calling a lake. Yeah. How many lakes are in Tennessee? I have no idea. What do we even consider a lake? 10,000 seems like a lot. Could a pond be a lake?

I don't think so. In the right context. There are 1,393 lakes in Tennessee. Oh, okay. So there's a lot more in Minnesota. Yeah. Okay. Now look this up. Cause I think we talked about this on the podcast before the difference is going to lake in a pond. It's about depth.

It's not necessarily about how wide or long it is. It's about how deep it is. How deep does it need to be? I think you just kind of go, that's pretty deep. Like if it dries up in July, it's probably not a lake. It changes into a pond real quick. Or a marsh. Yeah. The legend is Paul Bunyan and his blue ox created the lakes with their footprints. I believe that.

The other alternative, you've already beat me to the punch, Dusty, is melting glaciers is what scientists say caused it. But I figured you would go more with Paul Bunyan, even before you heard the other answer. Yeah, yeah. Where was he walking to? I don't know. What is the deal with Paul Bunyan? Keith Alberstadt used to have a funny joke about driving through Minnesota, and they're like, oh, look at that blue ox. And they're like, yeah, he's from here. They're like, oh, the imaginary blue animal. It's just a legend. Paul Bunyan imbued the blue ox with,

They have a statue there in Minnesota. And according to Kodak, it's the second most photographed statue in the U S behind Mount Rushmore. I had a book where John Henry and Paul Bunyan played baseball. Oh yeah. John Henry was going to pitch and Paul Bunyan was going to bat. And they were both giants. And John Henry threw it so fast and Paul Bunyan swung so fast, the tree burned up, the ball burned up. We don't know. It was a pretty riveting tale.

But Paul Bunyan, you know, was a giant ax man. Yeah. It's just like a big lumberjack. Giant ox. It was blue. Yeah.

Yeah, it's not based off a guy, right? Like, it's just like a... I don't know that there's any... I don't think... Now, Johnny Appleseed was like a real guy, right? At one point? Yeah. Okay, so this is... Paul Bunyan's different. Was he hanging out with Paul Bunyan? I don't know if they were the same time period. No, I don't think so. It'd be a fun hang, though. Yeah. Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan. I don't know that Paul Bunyan was ever a real person. I think it was just folklore. Minnesota's a Native American word, which means land of tiny soft drinks. Yeah.

That's funny. That's good. Did you make him up with it? It took a minute. Come on. That's pretty good. I was not making the connection. That's good. It took me a minute. It's a smart joke for smart people. Dumb it down for this one. It was a good joke in the 80s. Still good and relevant now. Does anybody know the capital of Minnesota? St. Pargo.

That's North Dakota. Not the capital, but what'd you say? St. Paul. Yep. St. Paul. That's where I'll be. Six shows, right? Six shows. Six shows. Yeah. That's the, that's the city of Minneapolis, right? Yeah. Theater. Wow.

They're sisters, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Twins. Twins. The twin cities. Yeah, I didn't realize. Not identical for term. Yes. I didn't realize when my routing. When I see where we're going and stuff, I didn't really think about it. And then it's like St. Paul. And so then I'm not thinking that's Minneapolis. I'm looking at all these cities. You're just kind of like.

okay and then i feel like we were trying to do a bigger an arena or something there and then it was like oh let's do this other one and i was like that makes sense saint paul who knows you know if i'll sell tickets yeah i don't know it's minneapolis but my agents are they're good they're very good at knowing what to do uh so then we ended up doing it then i'm like

Wait, where is St. Paul again? And then they're like, look at them in proximity to each other. It's a few blocks away. Yeah. It's just across the river. Right. That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. It's yeah. It's the same. It's playing the same. It's just like that venues there. Yeah. Yeah. But it's fun. We'll be there. Yeah. All week. And so that is fun. Six shows, man. That's crazy. Yeah. It's a lot. So St. Paul is the twin city. Not originally though.

According to the Minnesota Historical Society, it was originally St. Anthony.

That was the original Twin City. And then because St. Paul is 14 miles from Minneapolis, which was a day ride away back then. Oh, yeah. But then over time, St. Anthony just became part of Minneapolis. And then later, St. Paul became the Twin City. Okay. St. Paul at one time was not going to be the capital. They voted, the legislator voted to make it St. Peter.

But the St. Paul legislature who later legislator who was in charge of making it happen, he took he took the bill and ran and hid for days to keep them from passing it. And then they just never. Well, pocket veto. Well, pocket veto. It's like the flag day person just kind of. What do you mean? Well, they got a flag day. They just kept emailing or writing in. Yeah. Whatever. Persistence is key. Yeah. Same kind of thing. You just.

This guy took physical possession of the document, ran and hid for days in a bar and nobody could find him. So they finally were like, all right, now that documents in the Smithsonian. Yeah, it might be, who knows? But they kept it St. Paul. St. Paul was originally called pig's eye.

Oh, geez. It's a good change. Yeah, I was going to say. Called it Pig's Eye because- I like Pig's Eye. I don't think it was officially called that, but there was a guy with a patch on his eye. He was blind in one eye, and they called him Pig's Eye, and he ran a tavern. Everybody liked him, so they called the place Pig's Eye. The town. Doesn't sound like they liked him. The whole town they called it, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, this is when it was first becoming an establishment, like a place called Pig's Eye, and then they changed it to St. Paul. Yeah, when was this?

Early 1800s. Yeah. Or mid-1800s. That's about the time they were doing that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to know a lot about this. And they're like, is it Pig's Eye or St. Paul? By the name. It was like a pretty unanimous poll. Yeah. It came down to St. Paul, I think. Exactly.

Now, I bet the people at that time liked pig's eye better. This was just some uppity guy who changes to St. Paul. Some priest, some Catholic priest comes in, tries to ruin things. That's what they always do. They're trying to live in a society. No, but we like pig's eye. He's blind in the one eye, you know? Yeah. That's why we call him that.

Yeah, where's a pig come from? I was about to say, does he look like a pig? Did he smell like a pig? Is he big? It was a pigskin eye patch. I bet he's... I have a feeling he was just a big guy. Yeah.

That has an eye. Maybe his one working eye was from a pig. Maybe it was a pig transplant. I thought that you say that he put a pig's, the other eye was like, he's like, well, I'll just put a pig's eye in there. So one of his eyes was from a pig. It doesn't say that. It just said he was called pig's eye. His name is Pierre Perrant. Oh, he's a Frenchman. Yeah. I think everybody was. That's why they're calling him a pig. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Probably a real cultural thing. They hated the guy. Pretty nice. Yeah. It was a polite thing. Yeah, maybe. Maybe pigs were a term of endearment. Mm-hmm. To take your shoes off at someone's home. Maybe so. Minneapolis used to be called Mill City. It was the mill capital.

The world. The meal capital? M-I-L-L. Okay. Mills. Sorry. No, that's a meal. Well, I say it the same. It would take a while to be the meal capital. Old Mill Scream. Yeah. Riding Nashville at Opryland. Old Mill Scream. Yeah. That was a, okay, a ride. Yeah. Like the Scream Machine and Six Flags. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember that? This one was a water ride. This was a water ride. You just went down a hill. Old Mill Scream.

There you go. A mill. What is a mill? It's a water thing. It just pumps water. It's a windmill. Windmill. Or it could be a water mill. What's that called? This is a water mill. Is it called a water mill? I don't know what it's called. They were a mill town. Like flour. Mill. There's the old mill scream right there. Like they produced things. So the old mill scream would go down and there's a bridge. You could stand over it and you'd get splashed.

with water. So like kids would just go stand over it and just get drenched. Yeah. They had one of those at Six Flags too. I remember that. What was that called? But you could stand on, you stand on the bridge and they just soak you. Yeah. Yeah. And the old, what was the TV show? Step by step. They had a scene at the beginning where they were standing on that. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So they had more of these in Minneapolis than anywhere else?

Old Mill screams you. There's a Mill City Museum there. Now you can go visit. What kind of mills did they do, though? A flour mill. Flour, okay. Yeah. General Mills is still located there. Okay. I think we talked about that. So they did a lot of wheat. They're doing a lot of wheat, grinding a lot of wheat in there. Yeah. Thrilling stuff. I guess so. Minneapolis is, I mean, Minnesota is home to Target. Right. Best Buy, 3M, Duluth Trading Company, and General Mills.

I don't know. Maybe I did know that. Target's not one of those when it got y'all's attention. I like that you were losing interest as the list went on. Kept waiting for somebody to jump in. Is Duluth that big of a... Yeah. I think it's pretty big now. They have a lot of commercials. Yeah, they do have a lot of commercials. I see them everywhere. I remember them coming out. Yeah. Yeah, you remember stuff. It's crazy to remember stuff coming out. Like the cartoon commercials? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess they've been around a minute. They've been around for a while. Yeah. Yeah.

I've had stuff from Duluth. And 3M. I love tape. I love being able to use tape. Scotch tape was invented there. Oh, in Minnesota? I use tape almost every day. I use a little tape. They started in 1989. And that's short of time. 34 years ago. They really made a splash. Good for them. Target started in Roseville, Minnesota. Yeah.

but I think they're headquartered now in Minneapolis. Target Center. Target Center and Target Field. Yeah. For the twins and the... Timberwolves? Yeah. Well, that's where the Minnesota Twins comes from because of the Twin Cities. There it is. I never knew. Did you just piece that together? Yeah. Yeah, it's fun, isn't it? Yeah, it is fun. You think they were just named after... I had no idea. Yeah. Minnesota has one of only 13 McDonald's in the country. This is in Apple Valley. You should go visit this, Nate. Still has the original design.

Oh, really? Oh, wow. Look at that. Oh, wow. Yeah. It does look fun. I like the McDonald's where it still has the number on there of how many people they've served. It says over 1 million people. They probably eclipsed that. Oh. It's just...

Yeah, I mean, do they not say that everywhere anymore? Well, they're probably losing a lot of eaters, too. I think it's over a billion now. You don't see these signs. I've seen them say billions and billions served. Oh, really? I've seen that, yeah. I've never seen it. I remember seeing the one million. The one million was everywhere. When people pass away, though, do they still say they're serving them? I mean, the numbers should be balancing out in some way. No, it's not serving at this moment. It's- That they've served over time. It's only going to grow. It's total number of customers lifetime. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They don't have to go recalculate when people die. It's a tote board. Yeah. We're going down. Well, 3M makes some post-it notes, I bet, too, so they could easily just fix it. Oh, work together. Yeah. Yeah, I wonder. That would be fun to go to that McGaugh's. I looked it up. It's in Apple Valley, which is a suburb of Minneapolis, so not too far. All right. Got a little something to do. Still got the original packaging on all the food. That's cool.

With a single arch. Yeah. It looks a little weird. I love McDonald's, man. I just look at it and I mean, I... It's probably my favorite restaurant. I can smell it looking at the logo. I can kind of smell it. Yeah, I would honestly say it's my favorite restaurant. And lucky for you, there's a bunch of them. I know. But it's like, I just...

I like the colors. I like everything about it. I know it's not good for you, but the last two nights driving home from shows, I went through McDonald's drive-thru. Talk me through it, Brian. What'd you get? Number seven. Okay, what is that? Two cheeseburgers. Oh, okay. Well, it used to be number two. Yeah, they got the number two. Now the number two is the quarter pounder? Yeah. I've had one quarter pounder in my life in this because I was trying to order two cheeseburgers, and I said number two. And then they... It was not too long ago either. And then I go, what is...

I was like, what is this? I don't, cause I'm not a, people that like the quarter pounder, they're into the quarter pounder. Like that's their thing. Uh, but I was trying to get the two cheeseburgers and they switched his number seven.

I don't like it. That's the one thing that it's a weird. I don't think that's a that's a good number. It was not fair. It was two was like such a good because it's two burgers. Yeah, it's two burgers. I'll take the number two. McDonald's almost you just get back in line. You go, I don't like this. Just get back in line and get where you want it. It's that efficient. Yeah. Yeah. You could in a lot of ways. Yeah. Yeah. It would be as if I had my last meal. I think I would probably go McDonald's.

I would just... That's your death row meal? Yeah. I'd want it, you know, like hot. Like, don't like, you know, that's... You order the number two by mistake for your last meal? I would order a lot. I go, you know what? I'll take the number two. It was... Yeah, I would do...

No, I would do number one. No onions. What's the number one? The Whopper? The Big Mac. Oh, Big Mac. The Whopper. Sorry. What does it matter what you do? Get off this podcast. Yeah. I've not been to McDonald's in a long time. The only thing I've had- Why don't you name your son Thomas? Because you sound like you're too high fluting that you don't know the poor man's food.

Is that what McDonald's is? No, no. I think it's a, I think it's real Americans. I think it's the last true cross section of America. I've had a hat. You know, I like the hash brown that McDonald's has. That's great. I like that. That's what I like. Fast food. I don't really know. I don't really eat. Did y'all not eat growing up? No, we ate it. Like it was the only food that exists. This is, this is the opposite as we had fast food once a year. Yeah.

Once a year? Yeah, Fat Tuesday. Is that true? Yeah. On Fat Tuesday? As your family? Yeah, our family. We'd go to McDonald's, and then we went to Dairy Queen on Fat Tuesday. Two in one day. We double dipped. Wow. And then we never had fast food. My mom cooked every meal. So I think that that was actually a problem later in life. Yeah. When I was on my own making my own money, I was like, every day can be Fat Tuesday. A lot of times I ate Hardee's two times a day. And it did.

If that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. That's your special holiday. I've seen that joke. That's my Martin Luther King. Old pig eye. Pig eye Weber. Yeah, pig eye Weber. Look who he is. He's going back through the line. But actually, I believe in that theory. I think you should let kids eat.

Well, fast food. They'll want to eat it less when they're an adult. Yeah. I think there's some truth to that. I don't know. We'll find out with Harper. She's with me. Yeah. Laura cooks, though. I ate it so much. I mean, fast food, so much as a kid. I think generally speaking, you learn your parents' eating habits. I admire you for changing just because you just do it because of the health, right? Because you know it's not good for you. Yeah, well, because my stomach was like, stop doing that. I mean, I just put it to...

I mean, even in my twenties, I would go to Hardee's and get the loaded omelet biscuit and then put a little gravy from the gravy and biscuits on the, I mean, it's delicious, but I was really putting on the pounds. I mean, I was, you know, that's the hardest part about trying to eat healthy.

Is it's just, you know, it's because it's just an immediate reward. So you're just very happy in the moment and you don't feel you feel kind of gross after. Yeah. But man, that that moment's awesome. Sometimes I feel gross halfway through it. Yeah. Maybe like, well, I might as well finish it. You don't even enjoy this. I get that side sandwich. Yeah. It's like you got to get addicted to feeling good. That's the.

that's the thing that you don't want to break the streak of, I try to get my, think of that now with myself. Cause I, I, I'll tend to want to do something and I'm, I'm not, I'm in a better spot than I've ever been where I now I'm kind of like, I know if I, you know, cause it's, you think one bite of this doesn't matter.

So what does it matter if I eat? You know, if I have one McDonald's, why does that matter? But it does matter. But it's hard for me to understand why it matters. Well, don't you think, man, I'm not going to appreciate feeling good if I don't feel bad from time to time. You know what I mean? I got to appreciate feeling good. That is true. But I mean, it's the thing that Tim Young, comedian, said. People don't know how good it feels to feel happy.

Like, they don't know how... You feel like it's every day. You're like, dude, today's the best day I've ever had in my life. Yeah. And it's because you wake up and you just don't feel... You're not bogged down at all. You don't feel, like, kind of sick to your stomach. You don't feel... You're just like... But it's boredom is where you go, then I'm going to go eat. Because you're like, well, what am I going to go do? Like, I'm just standing here. And then so...

It's, uh, you're addicted to, and that's with alcohol, food, all that stuff. Yeah. That's what quitting drinking is all about. When you quit and you wake up and you're never hung over, you're like, cause when you drink every day, you don't, you almost get used to being hung over. And when you're not hung over, you're like, Oh, this is amazing. Yeah. That's how people live every day. Yeah. They don't people, but people do like, they don't, you know, it's, uh,

You know, Kurt Metzger had a joke about something like going to the bath. Like, you're not supposed to go to the bathroom 50 times a day or like, you know, like you're like, you know what I mean? Like your stomach can't just be hurting all the time. It's not, you know, it's it should be. You should be able to like, I don't know, just wake up. You feel good. You don't feel tired. You don't feel. I think caffeine is a problem, too. Yeah. And I have a lot of caffeine and I'm like slowly going like I think.

You just realize like you can wire yourself off this stuff. You're like, I think you can, you would, you're, you will feel so much better. And you realize like, Oh, how much this stuff is so bad. And it just keeps us. I love it though. Like it just keeps, I love it too. It just keeps us,

down because it's like, yeah, you know, you're just overwhelmed. You just have so much stuff. You're addicted to so much stuff that you just are. Coffee is like a real comfort thing too. I did not have coffee for, I don't know, six or seven months.

And I had a cup yesterday and then I got here and they had a cup. I was like, you know what? I'll take one too. And it's like, it just, it's just something to do. It feels good. Yeah. It is something to do, especially in the winter time. You hold a cup and it's warm and you're drinking. It just feels good. And I don't know. I love coffee. Yeah. Cardboard thing over the cup. Yeah. I like that too. Yeah. Yeah. It's just something to do that. You know, someone's like, let's go get coffee. Let's go do something like, you know, I could just sit and talk, you know,

But if you're like, you know, you had a meeting, you're like, let's just go get coffee or something. Yeah. You need something. Even if you're offering something in water, you're doing something like, cause it's just, what are we doing? Well, that's, what's great about cigars too, is it's like at nighttime, it's a thing you can gather with people and do and not drink. Yeah. And they're healthy. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I like about it. Natural benefits.

you know, grown from the earth tobacco. Yeah. Oh, it is all those things. Just good old. Yeah, it is. It's toasted. Yeah. No. All right. Do you smoke cigar at home alone? I would like to, but my, my wife's real cracks down on it. So I have to go do things just so I can have the cigar. Yeah. And then try to hide it. Yeah. Which is not easy to do. Dusty won't share ice cream with his pregnant wife.

Well, what I do do, we had this debate recently, but I do buy her her own ice cream. Yeah. And then she wants mine. Yeah. And I go, well, I don't like your flavor as much. But then what she does is she doesn't eat hers. So I end up eating it, even though I don't like the flavor because it sits in there for too long and I eat it. Yeah.

So it's a real debate because I'm like, don't eat mine because you have your own. And then I eat both of ours. I do. I tell when I like when I'm going to go to McDonald's and I'm like set on like I'm eating this McDonald's. I tell Laura, do you want something? I go, I'm not giving you. Yeah. So make the decision now. But when I come back, you're not going to because every time it's like, well, maybe I'll have a bite of it. I'm locked in.

Yeah. Sometimes you just got to buy an extra thing just cause you know, cause you know, it'll happen. You know, they're going to come, she's going to come like a dog. They just sit there and stare at you and you're like, you better. Yeah. And you go, what are you doing?

Yeah, I hate it. I have a whole system with my ice cream. If you buy a Ben and Jerry's, like a peanut butter cup or a chocolate chip cookie dough, it's got these little chunks in there. And if my wife wants a bite, she's going to want a bite with the chunk in there. Of course. And she's not going to want a vanilla bite. No.

she messes up the ratio yeah you have a system that you kind of like i like you get in a little routine of how you eat and whatever you do like yeah i do the same thing where you go if i know how much something is in there and then i'm like prepared myself to like all right i'm gonna have this tonight yeah and then it's like you go in there and it's gone and i mean it's i would drive to kansas in the middle of the night to fix this problem because you're like i wanted i don't

Sometimes I'll have to tell myself, like, maybe it won't be there. Yeah. So I won't, then I won't, then I can like already like let myself down easy instead of just like,

All right, here we go. I'm about to eat this thing. And then it's gone. Yeah. I've said to my wife before, we would be like eating cake and I'll go, I don't need to be eating this cake. And then later on that night, I'll go, oh, there's some cake in there and I'll go in there. It's gone. She goes, oh, I threw it out. You said you don't need to be eating it. Threw it out. And I'm like, it's the most devastating thing. Yeah. I can get cake anywhere, but in the moment, it's like, I can't

believe you threw the cake out. Threw it out? Yeah. That's crazy. It is crazy. Were you running out of space in the fridge? I don't think so. You should say... Throw it out. She said, you said you didn't want to be eating this. I'm like, yeah, I said it. Yeah, I was just talking. I say a lot of things. We're having a conversation. I don't mean it. Yeah. You got to say...

I shouldn't be in this. I will decide when this will be thrown out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You do have to get specific. My mom used to just put, uh, write no on stuff growing up. She didn't want us to eat it with a Sharpie. Yeah. But it's in there. That's almost a little bit of a torture. Yeah. Well, she's turned it upside down. It's on. Yeah. Yeah. It's a joke about that. Yeah. I feel like you've told that.

I've heard that somewhere. Yeah. Well, we've talked, we know we have a relationship outside of the pocket. Yeah. Oh, okay. Dusty, why don't you tell us a little bit about those frames? Oh yeah. We've got two ads for frames, glasses, picture frames. Yeah. We're framing it up out here. Framing it up.

Let's talk about some famous Minnesotans. All right. Who do you guys think of? Who's somebody that comes to mind? Jesse the Body. Yeah, that's who I would have thought of. I thought Prince. Prince jumps out to me. That's who I would have thought. I didn't even think about Jesse the Body. I thought Jesse. Who's Jesse the Body? Jesse Ventura. Oh, I've never heard him called the Body. That was his wrestling name, Jesse the Body Ventura. Oh, I had no idea. I know him mainly as a governor. That's so funny. I forgot about him. Well, I thought of Prince. Paisley Park. That's somewhere else you could go, Nate.

That's his home. It's kind of like Graceland. Oh, really? Where you can go take tours and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. That's not too far from Minneapolis, about a 20-minute drive. I also think of Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan is from Minnesota. From Duluth, Minnesota. Is that right? I didn't write down where he's from, but he's from Minnesota. I think up in that area. Me and Aaron did a gig up there in Duluth at the, I forget what it's called. The Irish Pub. Yeah. Yeah, I might have even said Kirby Puckett.

Oh, yeah. Minnesota Twins guy. I don't think he's from there, but he played, obviously, for the Twins. He played against the Braves back in the day. That World Series killed me. I was a Braves fan as a kid. They were always terrible. 91, they turned it around. Worst to first. Yeah.

Seven game World Series and twins, one in seven. Didn't he lose an eye or something? He did. Kirby did? Yeah. It was at least blinded an eye. That's what we think of it. From a foul ball, was it? I thought he had some type of weird disease, like some type of eye disease that caused it. Yeah. What a shame. Like in his playing days or at the end, I guess. I feel like it was after he retired. Yeah. He still would have liked to use the eye, I think.

Whoa. You know, my dad died. Yeah. Yeah. He died in 2006. Oh, at 45, 45. So young man forced to retire in 96 at age 36 due to loss of vision in one eye from a central retinal vein occlusion. You know, my dad tore retina in his eye too. He had surgery on it, but they, he had to have several surgeries, not today. And it, he has scar tissue. He can barely see out of that. Yeah. Yeah.

Wow. Had to stop hunting because he can't see through a scope. That's crazy. He's from Chicago. That's close enough to Minneapolis. Such a good name, man. Kirby Puckett is a great baseball name. Kirby, maybe think about Kirby. Kirby Slay. Kirby Slay. What about Puckett? Oh, Puckett. Puckett. Yeah, Puckett Slay. Puckett. My kids, Daisy and Puckett. Daisy and Kirby. You see Daisy and Kirby. Daisy and Kirby, yeah.

Chris Rock used to have a joke saying there's two black people in Minnesota, Prince and Kirby Puckett. Judy Garland's from Minnesota. Garrison Keillor.

Yeah. Prairie home companion. Yeah. Had a girl told me I talk like him one time. Oh yeah. A little bit. Yeah. Sort of your energy is the same. Yeah. Your voices don't sound alike. Would you listen to that? It's funny. Prairie home companion growing up in the car. Yeah. Oh, there we go. What are you talking about? I just, I can see that. Did you not listen to that? No. Are you out of your mind? I,

I would catch it on Sundays. He was on the show. I was on the show. It's right above my head. Yeah. But with Chris Thiele. But I mean, I never heard of it. Y'all weren't an NPR family? Lake Wobbegon? Is that it? Yeah. Would you listen to public radio? No. Yeah. Not growing up. I did listen to it a little bit on the road when I only had regular radio. Yeah. On a Sunday, you find this, you're like, this is actually pretty good listening. This is the difference. We'd also listen to Car Talk on NPR too. You ever listen to that?

No, no, we didn't. I don't know if I knew what NPR was. I don't think it existed when I was a kid. Yeah. I was a kid. The only talk radio was Paul Harvey. Yeah. That was the only. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. I figure you liked Bell. Is Al Bell?

After Hours. I remember hearing about that. Oh, is that like Coast to Coast? Coast to Coast, yeah. I'd be into that. I never figured out how you can find Coast to Coast. Yeah, I remember someone telling me about that, Coast to Coast. Yeah, but Prairie Home Companion is fun. I've done the show. It's very fun. I think it's a certain...

I don't even know what it really is. Your clientele is. It's just a made up show. As I can see, a family that goes to fast food one time a year. Yeah. And they all went to Notre Dame. Yeah. I think it makes sense. It makes sense. You know? Yeah. Oh, it does. Oh, yeah. That's fair. What was your meal at McDonald's the one time a year? Oh, dude, I would go. It's when the dollar menu is hot.

You went economical the one time a year? No, I'd put in some work on that dollar. Multiple dollars. It used to be very common to just order off of that. I got you. I thought you'd be like, guys, I want to save us money. No, this is Fat Tuesday. It's not what Fat Tuesday is about. Did y'all have a budget? I don't think so. Maybe my parents did, but we weren't thinking about it. Is that what Fat Tuesday is? It's Mardi Gras.

Yeah. But like it, it means to eat as much as you can. Well, we're about to, we're about to go into 40 days of Lent. Okay. So it's kind of, yeah, you live it up before and Ash Wednesday, which is the day after fat Tuesday. It's like a day of fasting. Okay. So the idea is you go in on fat Tuesday and,

Because you got 40 days coming up where you're supposed to hold it back. See, I've read that. That's like the worst thing to do just for torture of yourself. Because on the day before, you expand the stomach. Well, I think that's part of it. And then the next day you fast. So you're like, oh, so you think it's all about- Trying to make the fast more meaningful. Okay. All right. I don't think so. They're like, would you give up, Aaron? He goes, not McDonald's.

Charles Schultz, Creator Peanuts. Oh, yeah. Okay. Laura Ingalls. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Okay. Yeah. You know who that is? I know that name. What did she do? Little House on the Prairie. Okay, yes. That's the prairie I watched. Yeah. We watched Little House on the Prairie. A lot of prairies. Did you watch that? No, you wouldn't have. I know my mom would. I remember watching it. I remember there was a watermill. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You watched it. Was it live when you watched it? It was like, was it...

J.R.R. Martin, they wrote Game of Thrones as the show was going, like you would add. That's what was going on with Little House on the Prairie. When did it air? In the 70s and early 80s. Yeah, so I'm saying you watched it live. Oh, I thought you meant like I was out on the prairie happening in the 1800s. Oh, yeah, I did watch it. Yeah, I mean, yeah. There'd be a cliffhanger and I'd have to wait. That's so funny. Oh, that is funny. I mean, maybe. Albert got hooked on drugs once. Yeah.

he did what was i remember uh that guy land michael land my mom loved michael well i mean dude he was on fire like he did that seventh heaven right highway to heaven i don't think it was on seventh oh he wasn't highway to heaven what's highway oh yeah he's an angel yeah he went from this to an angel

Well, he was an angel in this. He was in Bonanza, which is one of the biggest Westerns ever. Oh, yeah. Then he does Little House on the Prairie. Yeah. Then Highway to Heaven. Bonanza's great. I remember this girl on the top left. She looks familiar. Yeah, that's Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls. Okay. Wait, Laura Ingalls was the little girl at the top left there? Is she the main character of the show? Yeah. Okay, and this show, four kids? Wait, the top, the girl...

Yeah. The little girl. Yeah. Is the Laurie. I think that's the main one. That's Mary below her sister. Okay. Yeah. She's blind. Is she really? She becomes blind on the show. That's why she's looking a different way than everyone else in the picture. She becomes blind on the show. Yeah. Oh, this is a big thing in Minnesota. From hay fever or something. Yellow fever. Blindness is really a big theme in the state of Minnesota, I guess. Yeah. Oh, pig eyes. Yeah.

They cuss what they call her, pig eyes. Pig eye, Kirby Puckett, Mary Ingalls. Something's going on. Something's happening. What's going on there? Too many lakes. Yeah, we'd watch like, I mean, I guess I watched this probably live too. When was it? 70s and early 80s. Yeah. Nah, you weren't watching this live. Your parents might have been. You seeped some of it in. Yeah.

I mean, I watched Andy Griffith and like, I remember like Dick Van Dyke and all that, but I guess it would have. You were watching Andy Griffith a lot. It was like Nick at night. Yeah. Yeah. Matlock maybe. Yeah. I mean, those were all on reruns all the time. Yeah. Matlock probably when I was a kid. That was because Andy was old in that. Oh yeah. It was the 90s. Yeah. Oh, was it really? Yeah. Man.

When I was a prairie, they blew up the town at the end. Some developers are going to come in, take over it on the town. They're like, let's just blow it up. Is this supposed to be in the 70s? I don't think. What time period? 1800s. Okay. Like the 1870s. But the show aired in the 70s. I didn't dress like that as a kid. Look at when the show aired. I just want to see the dates of it.

It aired from 74 to 83. Yeah. Do Dick Van Dyke. The show was in the 60s. They married Tyler Moore. It's a clown from the 60s, man. You're hung up on this. He's still alive. That's crazy. Yeah. 1925. The show. Yeah, the show aired from 61 to 66. Wow.

158 episodes, five seasons. This is where he comes in and he falls over the chair. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen that a few times. It's a great intro. It is. Oh, yeah. It was, yeah, because I was like, I wonder what was, like, what was the TV schedule back then? Carl Reiner created Dick Van Dyke Show? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's crazy. And he was on the show. He tried to, I just watched some of the Mary Tyler Moore thing, and I think the Dick Van show he created and he wanted to be in it,

And then they just told him, we'll do the show, but we don't want you in it. And he goes, all right. And then it's this. But he was in it. He was his boss, I believe. They didn't. He wanted to play. The main guy. The main guy. On a show called the Dick Van Dyke Show. Yeah. Well, there's one problem, Carl. Yeah. Well, I'm saying like, but he was like, he thought. Face it around him. Yeah, it's based around him. They just changed the name. It was off his thing. And then he, and they were like, no.

You know where the Mary Tyler Moore show was set? Where? Minneapolis. Minneapolis. Oh, really? I didn't know either, but I just felt like. That's a good guess. Yeah. Was he, was she still married to him or Mary Tyler Moore show was, oh, like, you know what? Maybe I do know. That was, cause I remember watching that. She was like, had a real job. Yeah. It was like a big feminist thing that she was single. Yeah. She, you know, had her own job, independent. Yeah. She was, worked at a TV station. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. That's right.

That's right. She died. Oh, yeah, that's right. She did die. Yeah, I really liked her. She was like, I mean, I think everybody loved her. Mary Tyler Moore. Winona Ryder is from Winona, Minnesota.

Wow. Oh, see? Did they name the town after her? Other way around. Other way around. She was named after the city she was in? Yep. That's a weird move. Nashville Slay. That could be what that sounds like. Yeah, I don't know. Opelika Slay. Dude, Opelika Slay is pretty awesome. Opelika Slay, yeah.

Let everybody call him Opie. Opie? I don't like that. You don't like Opie? Nah, it's too... Opie Taylor really ruined it. Like Andy Griffith, Opie. Yeah. To me, it's forever ruined. Yeah. Ruined? He's a great character. Yeah, but he's like a... I bet even... He's one of the best filmmakers of the 21st century. He's great, but... That guy is involved in both. I mean, that guy is...

You could be he's Hollywood. Ron Howard. Yeah, he's you know, he's as a kid. He's in the biggest show ever created to go to more biggest shows. To go do movies that he's in movies created to then start making movies that are the craziest movies of all time.

And now his daughter's starring in movies. Yeah. And he did some of the new Star Wars stuff too. Ron Howard did. Directed it. Yeah, he's got his hand in just about everything. Yeah. A little loping. So the Dakota Wars was a fight between the Sioux Indians and U.S. settlers that happened in what's now Minnesota. And this is the one where Nate's great, great, great ancestor, Andrew J. Myrick, M-Y-R-I-C-K,

ran a store and when the, and when they were hungry, the, uh, native Americans asked for food. He said, let them eat grass. And then when that's crazy, dude, that is crazy.

uh if you're listening there's a go look up this guy it looks just like me there's all these conspiracy videos where they'll show old pictures like this and then new actors and they'll say they're cloning people if they put you beside this guy they could easily say they're cloning this guy this guy was alive in the 1800s yeah told the native americans to eat grass they're cloning him it's uh it looks like

like someone photoshopped it. It does. Yeah. Like, I don't even know if I believe, like, you're like, this ain't what this guy looked like. We've talked about this on previous episodes. Somebody made a movie,

and put your face on him. You can't tell the difference. But that's what, are you sure that's not what happened on this one? No, this is from the Wikipedia entry right here. Nate can't even tell. That's crazy. Can you tell? No. I mean, it's... I'd like to see a side-by-side of this. It's nice to go like... Nate, stand up. I'll put that together real quick. It's nice to be able to see what like a, just a nice chin beard, no mustache, you know, kind of looks like. Just to get an idea of what it would look like on you? Yeah. Yeah.

I'll put together side by side. All right. Mall of America. It's still the largest mall in the U.S. and the entire Western Hemisphere. Yeah. Anybody ever been? I have. I've not been. Yeah. Dusty, you'd like this. The first episode of WCW, my name Nitro was shot there. Wow. At Mall of America. Yeah. Yeah. It's when you go do the comedy club there, House of Comedy.

You used to stay in a hotel kind of in the parking lot of the mall, and you could walk over there. But the Mall of America is great. It's huge. It's a big mall. I was booked to do it, but just some comedy club politics led me to not doing any of those. What are those clubs called?

House of House of Comedy yeah so I don't have a problem with them but just politics out of my control led me to not do any of those yeah they did they got Acme too Comedy Club is Acme is considered most comics I did it one time

but Acme is considered to be like one of the best clubs in the country. I did an open mic at Acme, uh, and it was unbelievable. I did five minutes, maybe less than that, maybe three minutes. And it was amazing. It is. Yeah. And yeah, this is Minnesota. They great comedy town. A lot of people take specials there. Uh,

In Minneapolis. In Minneapolis. I imagine St. Paul. It's a club in St. Paul that I like a lot, too. I forget what it's called right now. Aaron's done it, too. Laugh Camp. Yeah, it's really great. Yeah, I like it. I'm back there in February. There's a side-by-side. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, just facial shape. Everything is spot on. Yeah, I mean, that's really something.

Maybe it's the pictures backed up in a way, but it looks like he even kind of combs his hair the same way, just a different direction. Yeah. Yeah. I had a cowlick. Yeah. I'm all Viori'd up. You are. You are. Jacket, shorts, Viori. I'd like to get some more stuff because I have some shorts and a tank top and I'm into it. I don't get enough Florida trips for the tank top, but I, uh, yeah, I love it. I mean, it is very comfortable.

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota is considered the best hospital in the world. Yeah. Why is it there? I read a little bit about the guy, Mayo, was a doctor. And I think he just settled there in Rochester. And I think it's as simple as that. Started a hospital and it was just really good. Did they come from the mayonnaise family?

That's a good question. I bet they did. That's how you keep customers. That's how you keep customers. Keep feeding people mayo and they keep going back to the hospital. But I mean, there's two or three hospitals in the world outside of Nashville that I could name. That'd be one of them that I've heard of. I don't know if I can name another. John Hopkins? Oh, there you go. East Alabama Medical Center. That's where I was born. Minnesota had one of the...

One of those well-known UFO cases. Oh. Sheriff's deputy was out on patrol about 2 a.m. This is 1979. Saw a beam of light on the road. Went toward it. Next thing you know...

I love he has a can of dip in his pocket. Oh, yeah, of course. Makes me believe him. He was unconscious for 39 minutes when he woke up in his car. His car and his watch had stopped for 14 minutes. Windshield was shattered and his headlight and red emergency light were damaged. And his radio, his car was all banged up and bent. Yeah, there's his car. The doctor said he had what seemed like welder's burn.

And that car is now on display at the Marshall County Museum there. It's called the UFO car. Did you see the Vegas UFO? Yeah. I did see that. It's crazy. Oh, there's a whole news story. And it's just like, you see people talk about it. There's on the regular news in Vegas. And it's like they don't know. They're just explaining what happened. And everybody's kind of like.

It seems really, really weird. Uh, so this is a body cam footage of like a something going down. Yeah. And then the, and then the guy is like, all right, I think I saw that. And then they call, uh, there's a nine one from this family and they're like, uh,

Hey, you know, it has huge eyes. So it was eight foot eight to ten. Oh, they saw the alien. Yeah. In their backyard. In the backyard. Big eyes, eight to ten feet tall. And he's like, we're looking at him right now. It's like, you know, we're kind of like. And the policeman said, I wouldn't believe you. But my one of my other officers saw something like this.

He also said alien. The light, that body cam footage caught that light. Yeah. So they've been seeing some strange stuff. I see. Yeah. And that, I mean, that's the, those guys, when you look at like, they're, yeah, I don't know. It's like. The call seemed too chill to me. I know, but I don't, it's, but it was like with the kind of, you know, they're like, they're freaking out. So it's like, they're kind of losing it. And they're, so I don't, I don't know. I don't know if I, it's, you know,

They're saying I'm saying, you know, it's like trying to get all the information out. If it was crazy, if it was like,

You know, like, ah, like that, that would be like, all right, now you're putting on a show. Over the top. Yeah. Like, I think these, these dudes do that. And there's like weird stuff. Like they were like, oh, they go into the backyard, I guess to show. And they're like, well, because of, we can't show the backyard because of, uh, privacy stuff. And you're like, I've never heard of that. Yeah. So the, so the, the police, their body cam, they go, we got to block the backyard out. Yeah. And then, uh.

Yeah, it's weird, man. It's crazy. It's... Yeah. I mean, and then, like, for another... Because it was just, like, this thing comes down. Everybody sees that. But it's, like, why are you not... Like, that's... It's, like, how did they get all this stuff, like, picked up? Like, all right, if it's a... So, a light did come down. So, that's on the video. So, like, there's no... Unless that's...

you know, digitally, whatever. So this light comes down. All right. So where's the wreckage from that stuff? Whatever it is saying, if it's not an alien,

If it's just a meteor or something like that or whatever. Well, there should be something on the ground. Something falls from outer space, I would imagine. It's going to come to the ground. So, like, is there not other stuff there? I like that they highlighted the tweet, here they come. I mean, it really could be about anything. Yeah. Yeah.

I had not heard about this. I did read where a meteorite, they usually burn up in the atmosphere, but I read where one hit the ground in New Jersey. Yeah. Just like recently, just in like the last few days, at least it was there, you know, in New Jersey. Yeah. Uh, you know, in New Jersey. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. He's at the stress factory this weekend, folks. Uh, the Minnesota Iceman was a manlike creature frozen in a block of ice.

Half man, half animal. Oh, yeah? Yeah. They can't see it, though? Well, it was probably a sideshow hoax. Like, the guy that would display it said they found it. Oh, and you paid to go see it. Yeah. So it's probably not real, but it was a big thing. I paid to see a cow with six legs one time. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

Little calf. It says probably born, like it was supposed to be twins. Yeah. But then it was born, but it was- Absorbed the other one. Yeah. But it did. It had two little legs sticking out of his back. They were wild? Yeah. Did you touch him? I did touch it. Yeah. See, my grandfather went to-

Wilson County Fair probably in the 1920s. It's paid 10 cents to see a horse with its head where its tail should be, a tail where its head should be. He went in there. The tail was just in a trough of water. That was all it was. It's just a joke. It's just like, because that's supposed to be in his head eating. So that's all it was. So back then, I mean, at least yours was real. Yeah, this thing was wild. I mean, I was a little kid, but it was wild. Yeah.

I touched it. I was touching cows a lot back then. So it wasn't that weird to touch a cow. You're going to touch it either way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Minnesota. Nice. Which I'd never heard of until a couple of weeks ago when Dusty mentioned it. Yeah. That's where you're basically really, really, really nice to people to face almost too nice. And then maybe not so nice behind their back. That's the bless your heart of Minnesota. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Who's the most legendary sports person from Minnesota? You would say.

Kirby Puckett. Kirby Puckett or Randy Moss. Kirk Cousins. Oh, Brett Favre. He was up there for a minute. Yeah, but he's not. He's not. What about the – I would say Kirby Puckett. What about the running back? Randall Cunningham. Adrian Peterson. Adrian Peterson. Yeah, but they didn't win anything, though. No, that's true. Like, Kirby Puckett, like, you'd probably say, yeah. He's Donald – Kevin Garnett. Who was with – I don't have an answer. Culpepper.

Dante Goldberg. Yeah, that, I mean, that, Dante Goldberg and Rennie Moss when they were there. And Chris Carter. Chris Carter, yeah. Chris Carter, yeah. And I'd probably say Kirby Bucket. Yeah, I might too. Herb Brooks is the coach of the hockey team. A miracle. Three national championships in the University of Minnesota, and he coached the 1980 Olympic team. And he's a legend there. Oh, yeah. They've had a couple of their football team. They had one Heisman Trophy winner.

Back in the 1940s. They've won seven national championships. In football? They've claimed seven national championships. Back in the day, anybody could. I mean, Vanderbilt has two, I think.

We were pretty dominant back then. But in the 30s and the 40s, they, but Bruce Smith, he's a white running back, so he wouldn't be winning today, but he won the Heisman Trophy in 1941. And Bronco Nagurski, we've heard of him. Yeah. He played for Minnesota, and now there's the Bronco Nagurski Award for the best defensive player in the country. Wow. A tradition of excellence in Minnesota football.

They have a hockey team. Anybody know the name? Wild. Yeah. Yeah. I was hoping you wouldn't know. It's in St. Paul, I believe. Okay. No, I think you're right. I know one of the major league teams is in St. Paul. Yeah. I couldn't remember which one. They got down to six finalists for the name. Blue Ox, Freeze, Northern Lights, Voyagers, White Bears, and Wild. And they went with the Wild. They went with the weakest one, in my opinion. Yeah.

The blue ox? Yeah. That probably feels like... It could be the blue oxen, right? Or is it just the singular ox? Who's the mascot for the wild? You should have it be a blue ox. Yeah. I don't know what the mascot is for the wild. I think it's just a paw print. Well, they got to have something out there. Well, no. It looks like... Yeah, it's some kind of... But what would be the thing running around out there in the... It's like a predator. In the rink. Yeah, that should be... It looks like the Predators logo. Oh, I see that now. I've just... Yeah, a little cat.

But what is their mascot? The actual thing that dances around or whatever? Yeah. Let me look it up. Yeah. Oh. Some kind of little cat. Yeah, it's just a cat. It should be a blue oxen. It should be a lake. A blue ox. Yeah. Yeah, one of the lakes. Yeah. I don't know if they're Minnesota lakes. Yeah. Minnesota lakes with the Paul Bunyan. 11,000 lakes. Yeah, 11,000 lakes. Yeah. I don't mind the name Wilde.

Yeah. Timberwolves are named that because there's more Timberwolves in Minnesota than any other state except Alaska. Okay. But Alaska's not going to have a team anytime soon, I think. Yeah. So the Vikings are tied with the Bills for most Super Bowl losses without ever winning a Super Bowl. Wow. Pretty crazy. As long as they've been around, they've never won a Super Bowl. The Bills have never won? No. That's too bad. Yeah. A couple more. Well, the richest Minnesotan. Oh.

Is it Bill Gates? Is it an entertainer? No. Okay. Is it like an entrepreneur? Warren Buffett. Is it someone that we could possibly guess? I don't think so. I mean, maybe. That was the right question. Have you heard of Warren Buffett? I am personally, but he's a multi-billionaire. He owns the Timberwolves and the Lynx. What's he done? What's something else he's done?

He created Taylor Corporation. Mr. Taylor? Yeah. Is that his name? Yeah, his name's Glenn Taylor. Glenn Taylor. Oh, Glenn. You've heard of him? Played for the Eagles. I haven't. Oh, no. Self-made businessman. Yeah. Wow, well, good job, Glenn. It was the Star Tribune, the Timberwolves, and the Lynx. That's the WNBA team. Okay. Never heard of this guy. He was a state senator. That's the way he likes it. And he's a billionaire. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Some TV shows and movies set in Minnesota. Mary Tyler Moore Show. Yeah. Little House on the Prairie. Coach. Oh, yeah. Tony Shalhoub. Yeah, we loved Coach. We did watch Coach. Tony Shalhoub was on Coach? I don't know. Oh,

Okay. I love Tony. Yeah. Coach was, we watched. Wings is what you're thinking about. Yeah. Yeah. Wings. I love wings. Wasn't it? Wasn't wings and coach where they related in any way? Probably the same time. Same time. I thought they were like sister shows. Different networks. Yeah. These are great shows. Coach. Coach was great. Very fun. Jerry Van Dyke was so funny. He was. So that's the, uh,

Older man on coach. Must be your dad a little bit. He plays such a great straight man, a little dumb, but very funny. Yeah. He's called your dad dumb, but he's playing a character. Yeah. Is it a cheer spinoff coach was? But there's a guy on cheers named coach.

Yeah. Totally unrelated. That was the first season of Cheers. He was Woody Harrelson before Woody Harrelson came. Yeah. Coach was Craig T. Nelson. Okay. And they had a guy named Dauber on there. Didn't they have a guy named Dauber? Dauber. He was assistant coach. What were the years when this? When Coach was on? Yeah. Coach was on from 89 to 97. Yeah.

Yeah, we used to watch that a lot at my dad's house. When was Wings? Wings was on USA Network. It was on NBC. Great show. Oh, was it? You're probably watching the reruns. Yeah, maybe I did watch the reruns. 90 to 97, Wings was. Same time. And it was on NBC. Yeah. Maybe I did watch it on USA. Yeah, it was great. I don't know. Oh, wow. That's fun.

And there's some movies, Muddy Ducks. It's a great one. Like all of the Muddy Ducks there. I think every hockey movie, there's at least one scene in Minnesota. Juno. Oh, that's a great movie. You seen that? All right. Yeah. Purple Rain. Prince. Yeah. And it's comedians from Minnesota. Mitch Hedberg, Louis Anderson, Al Franken. Yeah.

Chad Daniels. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very fun. Pete Lee. Is he from over there? Yeah. He's from Wisconsin maybe. I don't know. It's another comedy club. Goonies. They used to be in Rochester. May still be. Had a good time there. Mm-hmm. Been there a few times. All right. I wanted to get that in. Yeah. Glad you did. Glad you did. Goonies needs a shout out. Rochester needs a shout out. Yeah. Yeah.

And you're going to be there all week, right? I'll be there all week. Sioux City, St. Paul, Minnesota, Minneapolis. I forget the name of the place, but it's... I think it's the Ordon Center. Yeah. We'll be there all week, like Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Two shows each night. So come on down. I think there's one show that's not sold out. I believe. It's crazy. Yeah.

So yeah, I'll be there. All that stuff. I'm at Zaney's in Chicago this Sunday. First time ever there. Downtown Chicago. Father's Day? Father's Day. Bring your dad. Bring your dad. Bring your wife. Bring your kids if you can. I know they can't get in, but... But do bring your dads. Yeah, definitely bring your dads. Yeah.

I'm corporate this week. I'm working. Working. Big money. I want you to know I'm working. Bristol, Tennessee. Blue Ridge Comedy Club. Coming up if you're in Bristol. Come on by. Well, I'm still off right now because I'm expecting a baby anytime. Matter of fact, by the time this podcast comes out, I could have had a baby. I don't know. So I'm still off, but I got some dates on the calendar. Dustyslay.com. Go check it out. Second half of the year is blowing up. It's going to be hot. Yeah.

Yeah. You will be working. I will be. I mean, I could be working right now. You could be working right now. I canceled gigs because my wife is pregnant and I was like, well, I better be home. So, but there's dates coming up and it is about to get real hot. Don't think, don't look at the time as a time of weakness from Dusty Slade. No. Oh no. It's,

I'm ready to get back out there. I mean, every day I'm at home, my wife is having me do things. I mean, I'd never experienced it quite like this because I'm not a guy that's at home every day. I'm not a husband that's at home all the time. I'm working. She'd ask if she smoked cigars in the house. I know. I cleaned my nails out with a pocket knife before coming to this podcast. I've been working. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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