206: #206 Idols & Heroes feat. Steven Rogers
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Aaron? Sorry. Out of the game. I bought an AdBlock for the party. I appreciate it, bud. Game time. Helix and ButcherBox. Which sounds like me. Yeah.

Uh, hello folks in Hebert. Welcome to the Nate land podcast brought to you by, uh, uh, no, I already did that brought you by Nate Bargetzi. Uh,

I'm Nate, Aaron, Brian Bates, your boy, Aaron Weber. And filling in for Dusty, a cleaned up Dusty. Yeah. Steven Rogers. I love that every guest is just a different version of Dusty. We got the handsome Dusty. We got cleaned up Dusty. This is a cleaned up Dusty. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. You wouldn't have been out spraying pesticide long. They would have brought you into the office. Yeah. I would have stayed in the store. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Easily.

Steven, very funny comedian. He's with me. You come out and rode with me a bunch. You're in New York. So you were out this weekend. So yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah, we're glad to have you, bud. It's a fun time. This is a very fun time. Yeah. You know what Nate always says about you? For the first time, I never even met you. I think the first time we ever worked together, he said,

Steven is a great hang. And he said that multiple times, including, I think, last weekend on the pod. He's never said you're funny, but you're always a great hang. He said the best hang, actually. The best hang. The best hang. No, Steven. So. All right. The. It's a big speech coming. Listen up, everyone. The hang for comedians. The hang is so much. It's so important.

The hang is, is a lot. Your act and being funny is like in the grand scheme of things, you should be funny. Like we're, so we're not, we wouldn't even be really in the conversation of like you, the, the act. Yeah. The hang is, is everything. And if you can't do that, then you're, I mean, it's really, you should, I don't care how good a comic you are. You'd be like, well, then you're not worth bringing out on the road. Yeah. I agree a hundred percent. Yeah. Cause it's only 90 minutes of a show. Yeah.

And the 23 hours left in the day, I didn't do the math right, but I'm not a great math hang, but yeah.

There's so much more time. Driving, flights, airports. Meals. Yeah. And that's the whole job. That's the fun part, too. That's the part that's like, you come up with jokes sometimes. You do this and you go do whatever. And you're like, hey, we're going to go do this. You're like, yeah, yeah. All right, let's go. It's the best. Yeah, I love it. We had fun this weekend. A lot of fun. Went and did. I don't know if we did anything. Well, St. Louis, we did a lot.

What did we do? We didn't really go do anything crazy. Yeah, you broke the attendance record at one of the country's most historic theaters. Well, besides that. It was a lot of meals. A lot of meals. Like, hangs at the table, basically. Yeah. You had 3 p.m. shows Saturday and Sunday, so that kind of...

that makes it hard prevents you from doing a lot during the day yeah yeah you know you wake up and you're like well i want to be getting into show mode around noon or something so it's tough you got a couple hours to play around with yeah yeah it was a great time yeah a lot of good comedy talk yes yeah there would be you know people always talk about comedy talk but no one likes it and we love it so much that's all we do it's all yeah

That's all I'm good for, I feel like, at times. Yeah. Yeah, we've established that. We've made that clear right off the top. Once we get into the other stuff, I'm going to be pretty quiet. Yeah. But if you could have a... This podcast is just comedy talk. It'd be like we're going out for a small audience.

Because it's not going to be a big audience. People are annoyed by it. We're going to whittle it down to just... You can do it on Rogan now. I think Rogan, if he has a comic on, I think they're just like... I get disappointed when I go to a Rogan episode and it's not even touched upon. But they are listening to the rest of the audience by not doing it. But I want every nugget I can get from comics talking so much. I know a guy who sat behind Kirk Herbstreet

And I think Reese Davis, the rest of the college game day crew at a restaurant, like the back of his booth touched theirs. Yeah. And he heard them and they were just arguing about college football. The whole meal. And this is just what they, that's what you want. That's what I just love it. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anytime when someone says that thing, I don't want to talk about work.

You're like, it's kind of, well, in an elected, like not elected, but in a chosen field of this stand up or like announcers, if someone's like, well, I don't want to talk about work. You're like, well, then you're not, you're not going to make it. And you're actually kind of pointless to talk to. If you're talking to someone that has made it.

It's like, well, we can't even really have a conversation. It's like when you talk to a comic that kind of dabbles in it. I mean, it's like talking to... And you think like, oh, we're about to have real comedy talk. And then it's just very base comedy talk. And then you're like, this is...

It's not even enjoyable. Now I don't want to talk about work. Yeah. Yeah. You've made it worse. You've made it work. Now I could really bond with that guy. Yeah. Come on. But there are different levels. In all seriousness, you really can't – people can't fully experience and understand what you go through unless they really are selling out big venues. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. But I don't know. I'm just talking about in general, talking comedy, talking shop jokes, jokes like this guy did this. We were talking a lot about specials this weekend. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, it's like that kind of stuff. Getting in the weeds of it. Yeah. Inside baseball, man. I love it. I love it so much. Well, we were in St. Louis. We had a blast. We had shows were awesome. You know, really can't thank everybody enough to come out. That was a rescheduled date from Saturday Night Live. So it was, I mean, just really was the best weekend. Yeah.

Yeah, Fox Theater is beautiful. It's awesome. Yeah, the whole nine. It was, you know. Yeah. It was great.

I saw Sonny Gray, boy Sonny, had a great game yesterday. Perfect through six innings. Yeah. And then came to Nate's show after and was recounting it pitch by pitch basically. That's something I've noticed these athletes, they can recall details of a game. He was like, yeah, it was 2-1, I threw a slider. At first I thought you were saying he was perfect through six and pulled himself out to go to Nate's show. Oh, yeah.

I was like, what? He said, I'm not going to miss Nate. He's on the mound. He cancels all the games. I go, Sonny, come on now. You told me you're going to be there. Yeah. We'll start late. Everybody throws the perfect game, Sonny. It was a 1 p.m. game.

7 p.m. show. So the game was over by the time he got there. We couldn't even... Because then the night... Yeah, we had Mike Yashimski, Kurt from the Giants. And then... Because everybody played at Vandy. And then...

And so they're all buddies, but they were competing against each other that day. And so, yeah. And I mean, Aaron's a giant baseball fan. So it was fun to hear, like, because you got to hear. They're talking about everything. Yeah. I was just a fly on the wall. This is awesome. Yeah. They talk about it, too. Like we talk about it.

Fireball on the wall. Oh, yeah. It's the kind of stuff I bring to a hang. Good times. He throws it out there, boys. This guy is a great hang. This is it. That's what Steven does bring. It's not material. It's just a...

He shows up. And that's what you like. I swing. I'm constantly swinging. Constantly swinging. That's true. I like it. I like it. Baseball humor. Yeah. What were you? Where were you at? I did a show in my hometown of Lebanon, Tennessee with our buddy Derek Stroop. And...

Man, I have imposter syndrome before every show, but something about being in my hometown. Yeah. I got there early and I'm watching people going in and I was like, what in the world am I going to say that's going to be any different than what they could? You know what I mean? And I mean, I really almost just psyched myself out. It ended up being a great show.

They were a great crowd. I really do think anybody could have got up there and gotten a few laughs. This crowd was so good. But it was an awesome show. Derek destroyed, of course. It was in the round, right? It was in the round. That's awesome. So the arena tour. But you had a little experience doing shows in the round. I said, let me show you how to do this, buddy. No stage, but it was in the round. Oh, that's so fun.

And then I did my first official don't tell comedy show this week. I say official because I've had plenty of don't tells unofficially. But this was an official. Have we ever talked about what don't tell comedy? I don't think so. It's basically, you probably can explain it better than I can, but you know that it's going to be in your town. Right. Probably your part of town. Right. So like in this case, it was in Brentwood.

People know ahead of time it's a show in Brimwood. They buy tickets. The day of the show, that morning, they get an email where the venue is going to be. It's usually like, in my case, it was at a barbershop. Something like that. And then they show up that night. Secret lineup. Yep. The idea is it's like a fun, exclusive thing that's all secretive. And you're going to be in a cool venue that you've never been to. Yeah, it's never a venue that...

is built for what you're seeing, which is cool. And then, yeah, the lineup's always a secret. And then it's always packed. I've never been to a don't tell that's like, what is this? I did one at a lingerie store once. Man. Talking about

Yeah. My kind of place. Just like my kind of people in there. Yeah. There are a lot of, but they're really exploding across the country. I think that's like, you know, we're a hundred cities, just the U S they're everywhere, man. And yeah.

And, um, but I've never done one. I mean, some comics have blown up from videos. Yeah. From those don't tell. Yeah. Troop had one, right? He just had one. Yeah. Do really, really well. Ralph Barbosa. Yeah. Catherine Bladford. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I did one.

So did I. That's okay. Go check out Steve in there. Don't tell. Yeah, we didn't blow up. We didn't blow up, but I can do the lingerie one if the booker's listening. We had good, reliable sets. Yes, it was super fun. You're the grease that keeps everything rolling. That's right. We make sure that there's videos on the side. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. We can just start comments, right? Yeah. Kind of quick into it. Leslie Cooner. I think that's it. I think you're right. I like how you got into it. Such a fun and great show this weekend and the perfect way for my husband and I to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Thank you for rescheduling St. Louis after SNL and for adding the extra shows.

Do you have to get into a different mindset to go back and forth from stadiums to theaters? Thank you all and keep it up. Brian, you want to take this one? Sure. I'm just kidding. Yeah. It's not about you. Like, you know, when you go to Titans game or a play.

That is true. She didn't even say arenas. She said stadiums. Well, I'm in the back of the room for both, but at a theater, it's like you're sitting up close at a football game. It's...

It's different. Do you feel yourself wanting to spin around at a theater? No, it's funny to not hear people behind you laughing, though, after doing it so long where you're just swallowed in the laughs. Yeah. The arenas are...

I mean, really just so crazy, man, because you're just surrounded by it. Just laughter everywhere. It's just very fun. But a theater, I mean, theaters are, you know, that's the original, like that was the best thing for this specific theater. Yeah. Being Fox Theater is like very old. It's, it's looks beautiful. There's, it's a very, very special place. So to do that, yeah, we were, yeah.

Yeah. I don't know if you get in a different mindset. It is a different thing. It's, you know what? It's the pacing. I think I was like not knowing where to, how to stand was probably the, cause I got, I'm so used to kind of making a circle and, and then, you know, now just going back to my old way of, yeah.

Well, the, I love about the, in the round, and I've heard you say it before, is it, it does wake you up a little bit more because you have to move. You want to make sure everyone's got a good view at some point you're moving around. You know what? I could feel some jokes. I thought I can tell that they hit harder in an arena because of the screen. Yes. Interesting. Yeah. Like there's, yeah, there's just, and it's not that they don't hit hard in the,

But like, you just realize it's pretty interesting to see, to go, wow, that joke in the arena. Cause I was in the arena. I'll time it out to the camera.

And so then I make the face to the camera and then that's just such a, you can hear the extra where in a theater it's like, you know, I mean, people can see your face, but I'm farther back. I can't see your face that much, not to really get a facial expression. So that aspect of it was, yeah, definitely pretty interesting. Yeah.

This joke, I'm telling where I'm bent down like that. Yeah, what's going on there? So that's one joke I tell. I wore that shirt. I didn't wear it again the second show. I liked it because you could zip it up. I want to be zipped up right now because of just my...

Tubbo body and just the sponsor. Yeah. Yeah. I got it. It is chubby. Yeah. I mean, I'm yeah, I'm the I'm right there.

So, uh, were you still doing keto? I kind of, yeah. So fat. I gotta go. He's sweating. Yeah. Turn it down. Lauren, turn it all the way down to 58. The AC up actually. Turn it down. Turn the temperature down, but turn the AC up.

You want it to be colder? I say, can you cut it down? Cut it down. And then that's it. Okay. And then everybody does it. And it's just kind of understood in the house. That's what it is. I think if I said that, you would get the vibe of that. You don't think it's like, was he cold? No.

I mean, not you got to be out of your mind right now. I think it's about to get hotter in this room. You're going to wonder why. I know, but are you not? Of course, I'm always hot. Yeah. Yeah. I'm happy you said that. Yeah. I was just curious the way you said it. Bottled up. So...

But that joke specifically was, that joke used to get a big laugh in the better, but then it got really good in the arenas because we got it good on the screen, the joke, what I'm doing in that moment. But yeah, it is interesting. It is interesting. But yeah, I mean, dude, it was awesome. They were awesome. They were really good. And you're back in the theater doing a wired mic.

Yeah. Haven't done a wire Michael while had Greg Warren out. Greg Warren did. Yeah. Dustin Nickerson, Greg Warren, Steven, Aaron, me. Pretty great show. Really, really great. It was a good show. That show in the round I did was a wired mic. Wired mic in the round. Oh yeah. I was like, I can't move. You're all bundled up. I had to start going the other direction. Yeah.

You have to constantly shake it. Yeah. Because my last special had a wire. You got to just constantly kind of grab it and shake it so it kind of stays. Lego Sunday Masses. Look at that. Do you guys pick out the music that plays before your stand-up shows? The music at the Fox Theater in St. Louis is great. Yeah, we do. I think...

Tony, our promoter, is the one that put the list together. He picks great music. Yeah. And I would tell him the vibe. I want it to be just happy and people would be like, oh, yeah, this song's nice. Get everybody in a pleasant mood. It's almost like wedding songs. Yeah. Just like everybody knows them. Yeah. Everybody could be... You're not mad that it's on. You're just having a good time. Yeah. I find it makes me...

like a little more energetic as I walk out because I was listening to the music. So it works for me as well. Yeah. Oh, well that's the main reason we're doing it. I guess.

It makes Steven to get in the zone. I think the question was to Steven. It makes me finally want to be there. I misread the question. Steven, do you pick out the music that plays before your stand-up show? No, I was saying what I thought you wanted to say. Yeah, it gets me in the mood. It gets me excited. Yeah.

I thought the work was enough. Because we got to fire him up. Yeah. Like finally the music. Steven's got a lot of demands. You got to keep carrying the hang, you know? Yeah. There you go. Everybody at home is like, how good is this hang? I go, it's a good hang. There you go.

Yeah. Erica Zach Zewski. Zach, Zach, that R is one that's the problem. Yeah, it's tough. Erica Zach Zewski. The second Z isn't easy either. Zach Zewski. Erica Zach Zewski.

Can someone make a highlight video of Nate reading comments starting from the beginning, leading up to now? Such an improvement. Actually pretty cool to see. Educational podcast through and through. Clearly. You have made great strides. That being a better reader. Taylor Knott.

I often have lucid dreams. My most memorable one would have been when I dreamed Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien broke into my house. Are you laughing at me? A little bit both. My most memorable one would have to be when I...

to be when I dreamed Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien broke into my house and took my mother hostage. Oh my God. I felt very scared until I remembered I was in a dream. I quickly jumped straight in the air, traveled across the room and kicked them both in the face to save my mom. They never stood a chance. Love the pod. Ha ha.

Wow. That's a way more fun dream than I think the ones I'm having these days. But that's a real lucid dream. Yeah. That's what those, like when P. Holmes and Barry Mono talk about, they can do what you're, it's like a movie. Jasmine Lozano. I've had a few lucid dreams. I was in school stressing out.

and looking for a class and looked down and saw my wedding ring. I immediately knew I was dreaming. So I jumped in a school bus and crashed it on purpose. Oh, man. So they were in school stressing out and looking for a class.

and looking for a class and look down at some wedding ring. I immediately knew. Oh yeah. I mean, that's like when you're in control of it, you better really be sure you're in a dream. Well, that's what they say. You immediately go, well, let me go crash a school bus. Well, that's like, yeah, man, maybe confirm it a few different ways. Uh, well, that's what they do. Like they could either, you could either, you could jump,

and see if you come down. Then you're like, oh, I'm not. But they have to figure out that they're in a dream. Yeah, in Inception, I think they'd have a token. Yeah. It's spinnative. Don't go. If you're not sure you're dreaming, hijack a school bus, drive it off a cliff, and just see what happens. There's a song by Alice Cooper, Welcome to My Nightmare, where he talks about his wife dying

And he kills her and he thinks it's in his dream, but he wakes up and he actually killed her in real life. Oh my goodness. His name's Steven. Oh, the guy did it. You're doing that to mess with me? Why? That's the album I was named after. What? Yeah. I'm obsessed with that one, Scooper. What? What?

I didn't know that. Everything I said was true. Everything I said was true, but I brought it up because he was named after the character. You're named after a character. He was. I was named after the song Stephen by Alice Cooper. The guy I just referenced. What did Stephen do? The whole album is about a kid named Stephen who gets stuck in his own nightmare. It's like every song is something that's happening in the nightmare.

And then he he does have a there's a song mentioning Crimson Dots and he he dreams that he killed someone. Then he wakes up and realize they did. Oh, that he did. Yeah.

so let's name our kid after him yeah and then he messes with dead bodies and does some terrible terrible things yeah but it's all uh the music's great yeah yeah music's great it's fun yeah it is really fun yeah actually kind of like the music where you don't if you're not noticing you're like it's a pretty good time you're like these are great and then you look at some of the words and you're like oh this is a different thing that i thought and

Is your parents into music like that? Yeah, well, my dad's a big classic rock guy. Oh, okay. Yeah, and yeah, he liked Alice a lot. And so he went with just the pretty common name, Stephen. His dad's name's Stephen. I don't think it was Alice Cooper. Stephen from the Bible. Yeah, it's funny to...

It's just a regular name. Yeah, I was named after the Beatles. It's named John. All right. Well, I mean, yeah. Not Walrus? Yeah. Your brother's name is Pinball Wizard. Steven from Alice Cooper. No one was going to guess that. No, no. And they never do. Yeah, they never do.

Yeah, that's crazy. So you're a big Alice Cooper fan. Big Alice Cooper fan. You've been to his shows? I've seen him over 15 times. Wow. Are you the only one that looks like you? I'm the only one that looks like me. I'm the only one in orange at the Alice Cooper's.

Yeah, you have to be. Have you met him? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've met him a couple of times. I used to I would do meet and greets and stuff and he would pretend to choke me, you know, family stuff. And yeah,

We got a picture of me being choked by him and then I got a shirt of him of that picture. And then every time I would see him, I would get a picture of him choke me with the shirt on and make a wormhole. That's cool. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I can tell you right now that's... I'm a great hang. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's... I mean, for Alice Cooper's like...

Let me guess. I know what we're going to do. Yeah. You're like with your parents. You're still there. You're like, did you tell him? How old are you now, son? He's 32 years old. Still with your parents. Yeah. Just alone. I'm going with my dad this summer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They'll get mean grief. Uh, no, we didn't do it this time. Yeah. Yeah.

Now, I learned from my research, Alice Cooper, that's the name of the band. That's not him. He named the band Alice Cooper, but then they started calling him Alice Cooper, so he changed his name to Alice Cooper. Whoa. His real name's Vincent Fournier.

Oh, wow. But Steven's like his alter ego, right? Steven is just the character from Welcome to My Nightmare, but Steven comes up a lot in the albums. What's crazy about the song Steven is there's like ghostly women whispering my name in it. So if I'm listening to it with headphones, it can creep you out a little bit. Sure. Yeah. That's great. You call him Vinny by now? You're on a first name basis with him? Yeah.

He's met him over 15 times. Yeah. You've met him a bunch. Yeah. He's a big golfer. He's a huge golfer. Yeah. There's a book about how it saved his life. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So if you met him outside of meet and greet, that'd be fun. Yeah, I would lose my mind. Yeah. I should figure a way to meet Alice Cooper. If you ever golf with him, I would lose it. Does he live here? He lives in Arizona, I think. I bet he would remember you too. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think so.

I mean, you being a weirdo that's taking the same picture and wearing a wormhole. And is named after his album. How many times did you do that? I did it at probably five or, yeah. I mean, come on, you don't forget that. Yeah, my dad once made, this is embarrassing. My dad got a tape of my standup and gave it to him. Hope it wasn't for this weekend. Yeah.

You gave it to Alice Cooper? It said what? Like, this is what you did? Yeah. Yeah, and I was real bad. I was real bad. It was early on? It was early. That doesn't even work when you do that to late night shows. No. Uh...

So I haven't heard back. Yeah. I think I've met Alice Cooper at a golf thing. I want to go now. Now, we're going to find him, Stephen. Get you and your dad. Are you a mom fan? No. No, just you and your dad? Yeah. Yeah. We got to do it. Oh, man. Because that's fun. That'd be awesome. Here's Alice Cooper listening to Stephen stand up.

What is this? That's your dad handing it to him. Can you imagine? Can you turn the AC up even more? I just got real hot on that one.

Can you imagine, like, say we're at my show, and then Alice Cooper came back to St. Louis. No one would even remotely, and then, like, seeing Steven, like, starting to, like, get nervous. Sweating. Freaking out, and you're like.

You're like, what is wrong with you? Or Alice is meeting you and he goes, Steven? What are you doing here? The thing is, when you're around the people that you... You guys would do better around him than I would, and it would mean more to me. Sure. Yeah, yes, of course. That's what stinks about that stuff. Yes. But I would... I never in a million years would have thought that you would...

be that. Oh, love it. Like, you know, like that star struck. It's very, he's very funny and it's really, it's just really great. I love it.

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I put those shorts on today. They're awesome. They're awesome. Michael Campton. Campton. I've had a lot of lucid dreams, and one thing about them is they're fragile. When you first realize you're in one, you want to go crazy and fly, but you wake up. Once I learned more, I would tell myself in the dream to take it easy and go slow, and they will last longer.

Okay. Makes sense. It's going to be hard to do. The restraint to be like, all right, I can do anything. Well, the fact that you can do it. I can do it. Yeah. The fact that you could do it that much that you learn to go, all right, well, don't do this and don't do that. How much are you all sleeping? I've had plenty of dreams where like that one previously, it doesn't make sense, but I just...

I don't think, oh, this is a dream. I just think, boy, it makes no sense. But I keep going. Yeah. Dan Coolbeth. Coolbeth. That's his last name or like his internet thing. Coolbeth. No, Coolbeth probably. You think it's his last name? I think that's Coolbeth. Because it's Dan. Why would he go by Coolbeth if his name's Dan? And his wife.

That's a weird thing to do. They make you do weird things. Brian Cool Ruth. That'd be crazy. She is the cool one. It'd be accurate. She's going to do Ruth Cool Brian.

You guys missed an opportunity to talk about the best ending of a sitcom ever. The ending of Bob Newhart's show where he wakes up next to his wife from a previous show and says, I just had the weirdest dream. That's great. You remember that, Brian? I did. I mentioned that last week and then didn't get to it. It's very funny because he had two successful sitcoms. And at the end of the second one, his wife in the first one

He's in bed. I mean, basically just what this person said. It's a very funny scene. Yeah. Wow. I mean, out of nowhere, this guy.

Yeah, I knew it. It's really awesome. So you go do this whole other series. It's its own different completely thing. And just imagine when everybody's watching that for the first, I mean, there's no, they don't, you know, it's like, again, like this stuff is so new that it's like, they're not doing stuff like this. And then at the end of it, he just out of nowhere. A reunion and a finale. Yeah. And before spoilers were a thing. Yeah. No one saw that coming.

Yeah. Amazing. Was the show kind of slapstick where that that made sense in the world of the show or was it totally. He's like a very dry. OK, it was like just a family sitcom. Just a multi cam. Wow. Yeah. And he explains the basically explains the premise of the show that is wrapping up to his wife from the previous show.

And it's murdering because like it's stuff that it's like a crazy. He's saying it's like it's a crazy dream. So it's all punchlines. Wow. It's like a Jerry Stiller in Camp Queens woke up and he was. Yeah. In back in Seinfeld. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Like if if Estelle from Seinfeld was the one in bed. Yes. Yeah, exactly. He woke up as George's dad because. Yeah, yeah. He wakes up first. He like sits up in bed and then his wife gets up and it gets like this huge reaction. If I remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Applause break. Yeah. No one knows what's going on.

Yeah, I love it. Another one I thought of on the show Dallas, Patrick Duffy's character, he wanted to leave the show. I think he just wanted to pursue other stuff or had a contract dispute or something. So they kill him off at the end of the episode. Dies in a car accident. Is he J.R.? No, it's his brother. Okay. This is Bobby Ewing. Yeah. J.R.'s brother. Over the summer, they work things out. He decides he wants to come back, but now he's been killed off. So episode one of the new season,

His wife walks in and he's in the shower. She said, I just had the craziest dream. And they just wiped out the entire last season. Just pretend like it didn't happen. Oh, wow. Just to get him back on the show. Were people mad about that at the time? They were. Including some of the actors because they had a storyline that they liked. Right. That was about to happen. And now that's just all gone. Wow. Because they were writing around a problem. Yeah.

of him leaving and then it's all undone. Yeah. Was Patrick Duffy a fan favorite? So like people were happy to keep him around the fans.

I don't know. I mean, it was a big part of it. Who did you like? Because you were watching this as it was happening, right? I was a kid, so my parents were into it. But you were into it. Yeah. I mean, Larry Hagman was one of the iconic characters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to really know the, yeah, Larry Hagman. J.R. Ewing is one of the all-time TV directors. Who shot J.R. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so people are just getting killed left and right on this show. Well, he didn't die. Oh, I'm sorry. Spoiler. Yeah.

But yes, I remember Dallas. I remember the who shot Jr. I didn't watch it. I just remember everybody talking about it. Like, uh, but you've met Patrick Duffy, haven't you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I can't think of him right now. I think he auditioned to play your dad or your sitcom. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Uh, step by step. Yeah. Yeah. He's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. So he would. Yeah.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer. Sorry about that. Keep swinging. How's your batting average so far, Steve? I'm having fun. That's what his batting average is. When he gives us a bat, they go, he's having fun. He's happy to be here. Maria Burns.

Has anyone else heard the stories about people dreaming whole lives and then waking up? I just listened to one where the girl dreamed she was pregnant, then had her son, then watched him grow for 40 years before she woke up. She lived 40 years in one night. She said it felt so real. She grieved for her son for years. Whoa. Yeah, I looked this up. She posted this on TikTok and it's pretty crazy. Assuming you believe her.

Yeah. Was it, um, what, what happened? She said, I mean, basically that, but she said she realized she was dreaming and then she thought, okay, this dream's going on the first day. This dream is going on a really long time. And then she thought I'll wake up and then it's got nighttime now. It's time to go to bed. She's like, I haven't woken up yet. So I guess I'll wake up while I go to sleep. Wakes up the next morning, still in this dream.

Keeps going. After a while, she says she's missing her real family. I mean, she's not married. She's like a college student, but missing her real life. Eventually, after a time, she's like, I guess this is my new life now and just starts living in this dream for 40 years. And then on her son's surprise 40th birthday, she wakes up. Whoa. Yeah.

I have no way to prove it, but that's what she says. That's wild. Yeah. I wonder what a scientist would say if that's even possible. I watched one video and the guy said time distortion in dreams is crazy. That's why, you know. 40 years. I know. I know. Man. I don't know.

It's sad. What do you mean it's crazy? It's just like you don't know. You might dream that something's going on for a couple hours. In real life, it was only 30 seconds or something. Something like that. But you guys could still just be a dream. I mean, you're under 40. I mean, who knows? I hope not. We'll see.

Good luck. Good luck with that. If you found out right now that you're really a 10-year-old who's been dreaming...

the everything after that in your life would you want to wake up or would you just go let me just finish this dream do over yeah yeah i mean sorry ruth yeah sorry sorry eleanor i'm going back are you kidding me a second chance no of course not yeah of course not yeah

He's like, I don't know if he could. You don't have to string everything that's gone for him again. Yeah. He was a tightrope act just to get him where he's at now. He's like, I don't know if I can do that again. What was George Costanza say when he was pretending like to be just moving there? He's like, if you take my whole life and put into one day, it's not bad. It's not bad. Samantha Brun grabber. Brun grabber.

Brun grabber? I don't know. Yeah. Broom grabber. Brun grabber. She's a broom grabber. Samantha. Hi. I saw Nate and Aaron in Green Bay, and the show was incredible. I bought some friends who were not familiar with either of them, and they were so glad they came. Upon Aaron's reveal, my sister-in-law leaned over to me and said, he looks like Steven Avery.

To my horror, I realize she might have a point. Do you agree that you bear a striking resemblance to Wisconsin's most notorious murder and subject of the popular Netflix documentary Making a Murderer? No. I mean, maybe. The beard. Yeah. Yeah. That's tough. Yeah. It's like, I mean, I would kind of know him in this gray hair, like,

I don't think so. I mean, would I maybe... Look at him young right there, though, dude. Look at him young. Young Brad Pitt. That was the first time he killed somebody. Yeah, he looks great. But he was acquitted of it. Or not... Yeah, like that one you do. Yeah, but I look like wrongly accused Stephen Avery. I don't look like the actual murder he did. A lot of brave Stephen Avery. Yeah. But I definitely would use it as...

I'd call you that. It was a fun. Yeah. If I was with someone and saw you, I'd be like, look at that Steven Avery up there. Have you ever been called that before? No. Yeah. Well, how about him getting fresh out of prison right there? Now that's the beard I'm going for. For sure. Are you going to try to do that? No, no, no. I got too many people in my life that wouldn't let me in my life.

Anyway. It's fun. Well, I'm glad you enjoyed the show. Aaron Maul. Each of the comedians attract a certain type of persona. A person who likes their comedy and connects with it.

I'm curious to hear how a Boston crowd differs from Dayton, Ohio. Two different geographies, cultures. Do you find the best jokes land everywhere? Some land regardless of the location type of slash type of audience. Yeah. I mean, overall it's roughly the same, you know, that, and that, that's, that's the interesting part about that's what, you know, and I've talked about making TV shows or movies and all this stuff for, uh,

you know, the people that are, you know, Hollywood can, can be kind of out of touch with what's going on. Cause that's, what's the most interesting thing to me is when we're going around to so many different places, even if you go to Europe, if you go to Australia, like wherever you're at, everybody's a fan, you know, everybody's got a mom, dad, like in the grand scheme of things, everybody's got the same exact thing, wives problems. So you can say them anywhere.

And then, you know, the only difference would be like some of the way we talk and they talk, just little things would be different. But that's what's, you know, yeah, it's, you know, I mean...

I don't know. People are never as unique as they think they are. Yeah. And it's seriously true. As you think, man, my life is so one of one. Yeah. No one's really original stuff. Yeah. We're all seeing the same stuff. We're all watching the same stuff. We're all out here. You know, that's where, you know, what are the odds of me? Like if, you know, I get an iced coffee with milk.

I just say that. And then it's like, everybody's like, oh yeah, I get still to this day. I get tagged in that. I've seen a horse lay down. Right. Or like, you know, it's like, because like everybody sees it. We're all seeing the same stuff. There's not that much stuff that's different. Right. That's the thing with crowd work.

If it's a crowd work, there's only so many people that's going to be in the crowd, types of people. And actually, those are the ones you can make the most jokes about because you get to reuse those jokes in a way. Right. Versus with someone out of nowhere is just like, I run a circus. And then you're like, that's kind of, that's like, all right, well, I got to figure this out because it's, you know, like a kind of a weird kind of thing now.

But, I mean, overall, yeah, everybody's the same. They can, you know, I think it can be. They stayed up in a prison once. That was its own thing. That was its own thing. Yeah. They all had a lot in common with each other. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think sometimes when I talk, if I'm in the South, I feel like I can always see sometimes, I guess maybe some difference could be

They're laughing. It could be laughing at me versus with me, maybe, because if I'm talking about the South or they're picturing it more, they might relate to that, you know, like, you know, some crazy story. They might my cousin's wedding Tuesday. But even that everybody has cousins and they have crazy weddings and whatever. But, yeah, maybe they like, you know, they could laugh more.

And not in a mean way at me, but laughing like, oh, that's funny that he had to go through that. Right. Versus like if I did it in Tennessee, you know, I talk about Tennessee. I mean, people are like, yeah, I live this where I live. J. Walter Taylor. I love the movie Breakdown, mostly because Kurt Russell's character's name is my name, Jeff Taylor. I was 14 when it came out and it blew my mind. Does anyone else share a name of the movie character?

Yes. Oh. Captain America. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's Captain America's real name is Steven Rogers. Yeah. How did you feel about that? I know the comic's been around forever, but the movies really... I remember in middle school and elementary school, it didn't...

Whoa, okay. I come up faster than I... Oh, thank goodness. You're moving up there, dude. Oh, man. You're not in the top row, but you're all the second row. Well, there's all... They saved us some time. They blocked off Captain America. Is that John DeSito? That's its own thing. Yeah. I'm fine with not coming up when you search Captain America, but I'm glad my name... Yeah, it's heavy. Heavy Steven Roberts.

Yeah, when when the movies came out, I had like, nerd, like a couple, I've been a comic book person. But like, I had people being like, having me look at, like, they asked to see my ID, they couldn't believe I had the same name as Captain America and stuff. It was a big deal. And then after every show.

for a long time was why isn't there any Captain America jokes? So I just ended up opening with one just to stop it from happening. Sure. But yeah, it was, it was, it doesn't happen so much anymore, but it was happening for the whole run of those movies. Have you thought about changing your name? No, I'll never do that. You wouldn't do that to Alice? Yeah. You wouldn't portray. I mean, Stephen Cooper would be a better name. Yeah.

Yeah, that would make me less weird around him. Yeah. You show up to meet him for the 17th time. My name is now Stephen Cooper. I still got the same shirt. Someone pointed out that if you go to the bands in town for the Opry and see some upcoming artists, you'll see Aaron on there. Aaron's there tonight, right? Not tonight, tomorrow. Just Thursday. Oh, just Thursday. Okay. But then if you scroll down to artists, upcoming concerts from similar artists...

There's Brian Bates. Who is that? I think that's a singer named Brian Bates. Oh, is he going to? No, I'm there June 30th. You just don't have a bands in town account set up. I do have a band. But it's just pulling the picture of probably a 14 year old kid with an electric guitar taken from a web. I mean, I think that's the guy I'm guessing when my sound exchange, I have a whole story about sound exchange where I owe them money.

because I was getting money from a musician named Brian Bates. I'm going to guess that's him. That guy looks young, though. Yeah. It's an old picture. It's black and white. It just pulls the wrong picture sometimes. Hmm.

Can you imagine when that guy probably gets your picture on his stuff and he's like, why are tickets not moving? They're like, I don't know, because you're in a rock venue and look at the poster. It looks like a guy that came here to shut down this rock venue. Looks like our band's account. I'm the pastor from Footloose. Yeah.

But how about Ben Rector? They think if you like Aaron, you're going to like Ben Rector. My close personal friend, Ben Rector. Yeah. He's a wonderful person. He's very funny.

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So use game time. Trying to think of a story like I had. I remember doing a news story once. Something reminded me of it. I remember doing a news thing. It was like promoting a show. This was very early on.

And it was in, I think I want to say Syracuse actually. Oh wow. Cause Dan Frigolette. Yes. I know Dan. So Dan was in Syracuse. He's from Syracuse. So like, uh, and we were doing like their local TV. Yeah. To promote. Uh, probably bridge street. Well,

It was part of that. We might have been doing like, I think I was doing something. It was like the Italians of comedy, something. But it was funny as they promoted it like that. And I was on it. And I was like, hey, there's not going to. I was like, dude, I had like at that time, I had the one Italian joke. I'd be like, spaghetti or something, you know, whatever. And then, so I was like, you're going to make people come and think this is like, they're going to, you know, this is like, they're expecting a real Italian show. They're expecting you to be in a tank top. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, so we go on this local TV show. And it was a guy and his wife was filling in for actually the girl that usually is there. So his wife's just there. And it was just such a funny thing. So before me, they had someone come on. And I just can't remember what she... Say she was selling...

you know, clips or say purses. It doesn't matter what she was selling. I don't remember what it was, but she's selling purses. And then, uh, so then in the TV moment, she goes, huh? Like maybe would you want one of these purses where the person said, I would love one of those persons. Cause you would just say that you're on TV. Why would you not? Of course. Yeah. And I remember she goes, nah, I'm good. We have, and you're like, yeah,

All right. And then he goes, that lady goes, well, that's fine. You know, I just had to move on. But I never, and it was like his wife was filling in. It just, I wanted to know the whole dynamic of it to be, why was she there anyway? And why was she on? She's clearly not on TV. Yeah. But then she just shot it down. This woman's trying to sell purses on the TV show. So just say it. Like, what do you, she goes, no, I don't want to buy anything.

Like, well, lady, we're not going to, you know, they're not going to ask for money when you get off the air. I'd love one and move on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just go with it so she can sell. And she was like, no, I don't. We're good. I just got a way better. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. I don't know. I don't know what that person is.

Tim Wright, good day, folks. Good day. What was that saying with Australia? That if you say it one way, it sounds like you... Shrimp on the barbie. No, I thought some of the way someone said something. What was it? Good day. They said a way to say it. Good day, folks. Hey, Koala. I live in Brisbane, Australia. Got to see Nate last year and just got home from seeing Jerry Seinfeld. As has happened before, he was asked...

who his favorite comedian was, and he said, Nate Bargetti. So, Nate, I hope you come again soon and get a bigger room. Wow. That's very cool. Pretty cool. Funny enough, I was texting with him. Could you say my name? Yeah. I texted. I mean, that is very funny to even see that because I literally just –

text them and we were texting because I was like I just got home or something and then he was like I just landed and he's in Auckland now and he said he did an arena

Wow. Yeah. Well, no. I mean, Melbourne. When I talked to him, he was like, done Melbourne and Sydney. And I guess Brisbane. Well, maybe Brisbane. I don't know when he did Brisbane. But those two were like an arena. It was like 36,000-something tickets, dude. That's crazy. I mean, Seinfeld's 70. Yeah. That's like insane to go over there and sell that many tickets. Yeah, it was insane.

Insane. I mean, you're texting them this morning. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's absurd. Brian and I texted this morning. Yeah. He didn't text me back. Brian's my Seinfeld. He is your Seinfeld. But that's, yeah, that's so cool to hear. Like, yeah. I mean, dude, Seinfeld just legit sneaky, just crushing. Yeah. I mean, like, yeah. I mean, you know, to be like that many tickets.

He's an arena legend. Yeah. Yeah. It's awesome. I thought it'd be a good segue into our topic today, which is idols and heroes. I mean, I know certainly you and I Seinfeld's been an idol for a long time and it must feel crazy to now be friends with him. And he's telling everybody that you're his favorite comic. Yeah. It's yeah. It's, it's, it's insane.

And I also thought of it because I know you guys saw Brian Regan. I mean, I know you opened for him a lot, but you guys went to see him in Nashville. I know he's another one that you've always loved and your dad loved, and you guys got to see him. And what was that like? Yeah, we went up. I got to bring him up. I posted a clip of me bringing him up. And...

I mean, everything I said in it is what it, what it would mean. I mean, he, he was definitely someone, you know, Seinfeld's the guy that was like, I was obsessed with, but then Regan was the first I heard that I just couldn't, it like opened my mind to like, Oh, like it's not just Seinfeld. Yeah. There's other people. And, uh, seeing Regan come through, go through, cause I saw him and three comedy clubs, uh,

during his come up. Not his come up. He was already selling out the weekend. Was it when he was doing the two different hours? No, I think it was before. That's crazy. I think it was even before that. I saw him in like 2008.

three, four, and then probably five and then seven or something like that. But I saw him in Chicago at a comedy club. Just bought a ticket, went in there and sent him. That's fantastic. Yeah, it was nuts. It was nuts. And just to be in there and watching it. So yeah, Regan, the fact that I know him and he knows me, it never gets... It's just insane. Yeah.

He's so great. And he's so kind. He is a great person. He's obviously, for me, someone that... Meeting him, he's kinder than you'd imagine watching his...

And he's so generous. He goes and watches comedy. He loves comedy. He's just the best. Yeah. What's the saying? Don't meet your heroes. Yeah. Saying right. Yeah. And it's just it's just not true. Yeah. We hung out with him. Yeah, we did in Atlanta. It was crazy. I crazy. Stephen was opening for him. Yeah. Actually, that was a crazy week. Talk about it was a crazy weekend in Atlanta County. Nate was at Fox Theater. Mm hmm.

Mm-hmm. Regan was at the Buckhead Theater. That's right. And I was opening for Kathleen Madigan at the Cobb Energy Center. That's right. I had lunch with Graham, who was opening for me. That's right. Yeah. So it was just this vortex of comedy. Yeah. In the city. But anyway, you just look up and I'm with Brian Regan hanging out. It was just a crazy, crazy weekend. So fun. I had Brian Regan live memorized word for word. I used to perform it.

at like family, my dad would make me do it. Oh man. And I had it word for word. I didn't tell him that. Thank God when I met him, but, uh, you know, this story, but, uh, that weekend at, uh, Buckhead, some, uh, at a certain point, I finally revealed to Regan how much I'm obsessed with this stuff and how much I love him. Uh, and, uh, so he, uh,

Before he'll tape a special, he'll watch all of them to make sure there's no accidental repeating of anything. At one point, I had to

call him out because he was about to take a special. And I was like, that bits on this thing. And he goes, I disagree. And I go, I'm sorry. And then I'm opening for him on the taping and he comes up to me and he goes, I owe you an apology. It's on the thing that you told me.

You knew his material better than me. I did, yeah. So he knows that about me. So when we were doing Atlanta, he goes, I have a favor to ask you. A friend of mine is in the audience and requested the Say 8 bit, and I don't remember it. Can you help me remember? So we did the bit together.

to each other in the green room. And I just I was like, this what is life? This is so unreal. That's insane. And then he goes, Can you just be off stage right by the curtain? When I do the bit? In case I need you? I was like, Sure. And I pulled up the transcript because I'm like, I'm not gonna let my like arrogance of being a Regan fan take over. Sure. So I have the transcript ready. And without fail, just go

goes up and kills it doesn't need me at all he's the best snap that's so cool man i love him did you want him to need you or are you kind of like steve come out here do the bit with me the the moment the private moments enough yeah it's like sure sure i don't like he's the best he doesn't need anybody but like to do that together what i'll never forget that it was so cool yeah

When you said never meet your heroes, Willie Mays just passed away. I know. You killed off another one. Every time Brian talks about somebody on this podcast, they die within a week. Most of my guys are in their 90s. Sorry, Bob Newhart. Yeah, that's legit worry. I want to meet Bob Newhart. Yeah. Is he one of the few that you probably haven't met? Yeah, definitely.

Dick Van Dyke. Yeah, I would love to meet him. Yeah, yeah. Have you met Steve Martin? No. No, Martin. Stop naming people. All right. They're going to die. Tony Kornheiser. Jeez, dude.

Nate loves Tony Kona. We've both met Tony Kona. He's a wonderful person. But Willie Mays was his favorite player. And they said, you know, never meet your heroes. And in my case, it was true. And he didn't seem put out by it, but he didn't even go on to what exactly happened. But I'm sure he was probably a young journalist. It's not like a fan, whatever. And he was probably annoying him or whatever. And I think Willie Mays just blew him off. He didn't seem to take it personally.

you know, he probably agreed with him to a certain extent. It didn't change his fandom of him, but he just said, yeah, in his case, you know, it wasn't the best first meeting or never anyway. And that's the only time they met. He didn't say that, but I kind of took it as that. That can happen. They catch people on a bad day or something. You never know. You never know what it is. Do you kind of remember when you went from a fan of athletes as a kid to

to then you kind of start catching up with them in age. And then you pass them and how you're just, the way you think of them just changes. Completely. Yeah, now they're all younger than me. That's crazy. Not professional athletes. Even professional athletes. A lot of them are. Most of them are younger than me. Yeah, I haven't had one. Baseball, there's a few that's, yeah, I'm trying to think who would even. For me, it's coaches now. Yeah.

It's about 50-50 on coaches. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you got like 10 years on J.J. Redick, the new Lakers coach. Oh, man. I mean, Sean McVay was like your age when he got the head coaching job. Yeah. Right. Yeah, well, that was crazy even when he – I mean, he's so young. Yeah. But I remember, you know, because your kid – even like college football players, like, man, those are grown men. Yeah. You know, and I'm 32 and I watch college football. I'm like, dude, I'm –

I'm 10 years older than the oldest people playing. I was fine with them being bigger than me because they were older, but now they're younger and giant. Yeah. It's so unfortunate. Yeah. I mean, some of these kids are huge. Yeah. There's a kid that basketball kid. That's eight. I think almost seven, nine. Yeah. Yeah. For Florida. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And then, yeah. And there, I mean, it's just insane. Yeah.

There's one of my favorite pictures of this. Whoa. This is from Foley, Alabama.

is DJ Fluker, who played offensive line at Alabama for a while. But it's just like, yeah, at this age, he just looks like a different thing than the rest of the big guys. I mean, 71's a big dude. My hairline's at his belt. But, dude, DJ Fluker was just insanely big. That's him in high school? That's a high school picture. So he's 17 or 18? Yeah. That's pretty difficult, I think.

You could see that that's probably tough on those kids because it's hard to not talk to them like an adult so early because you're looking at them and you think,

You know, and you want to go like, hey, that's a 16-year-old. That's a 14-year-old. Yeah. Like, they're not, it's like, it's a kid. Yeah. I know they're bigger than you. I know it's, but it's hard, but it's a child. And like, you know, this kid that's eight feet was like, you know, when he was, I think when he was eight, he was six feet tall. And then it's like, when he's 11, he was like almost seven feet tall. Crazy. Well, Harper's 11. Whoa. So, yeah. So, it would be...

Like having to talk to him is like the way I talk with Harper and the way I can still, I could still, Harper still, I can carry her. You know, like all these things. She's still my little girl. But then if you're like, well, your kid's eight feet. He's seven foot tall at 11. Man. This doesn't even look like a real picture there. That guy can't drive. Yeah.

yeah yeah i don't know what car i mean it's like shack where you have to take out like the back seat he's barely old enough to drive too yeah saying yeah nuts yeah again pti they were just about shack and they said he's one of the few of those super tall athletes that's comfortable with his body so many of these guys understandably you just think of them as just these behemoth giants that they're only out there because they're so tall and they've

Lived an uncomfortable life their entire life. Shaq embraces it. He was obviously a great player, but just can have fun with it, you know. But Shaq is short compared to some of these guys we're talking about. Yeah, I mean, Wimby's 7'4". He's got five inches on. On Wimby. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. I mean, that's in a tall family, but he's still, I mean, he's kind of a, he's, he's a big guy too. It's not like, it's not like, uh, not a big high recruit. I don't feel like, like it's like a, you know, in my head, you just think those guys are going to be like, he's, they're like, he's six stars. Yeah. Cause you're like, I don't know. What else do you want to, you know? Well, he's white.

What? What? Can't cut. Yeah, but. I literally did zone out for a second. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't even worry about it. But, I mean, that doesn't. Yeah. That's insane.

I mean, you can't. What are you even wearing? I mean, that's tough. Yeah, I bet that's. Put that guy out of that bag. Yeah. Yeah, like that. I mean, you know, his dad's got to. Is that his dad? No. I hope his dad. I assume they're both very tall. Yeah, I think everybody's kind of tall. We just looked at a picture of his family together. Luke Cornett. All right, Brian. I think I was thinking about the white reference. I was trying to think about. Yeah.

With that, Lou Cornette just won an NBA championship. Yeah. Played at Vandy. He's 6'11", I think. And I remember when his dad played at Vandy, who's obviously very tall. But his mom, who's a news anchor here in Nashville, just average height. Normal height. Yeah. So I don't really have a point to that. She's probably six feet tall. I mean, she might be taller than the average woman. Yeah. Yeah.

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Who's that? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's funny. Yeah. Cornerback for Vandy. He was my favorite. He was my favorite Vandy. He's my first favorite Vandy player.

was Corey Chavis. I had a ball. I think I still have it. I don't know where it's at now, but I had a ball that was used in the Tennessee Vandy game because my mom worked for Vandy. And so they got the ball and signed by Corey Chavis. Wow. The signature's coming off. It actually is. I think it's that ball that's right over there. It's flat. It's like I actually need to get Corey Chavis to sign it again, actually. Yeah, played in the NFL for 10 years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Went to Mason. He was awesome. He was an analyst. Funny thing is he's three years older than you.

Yeah. I met him at a game once, but when he was playing for Vandy and, you know, told him how much I liked him. Yeah, safety quarterback. Made Pro Bowl. Oh, yeah. First team, all SEC. Yeah, he was awesome, man. He was, you know, he was, I just, I don't know. He was a defensive back. He was great. He was just, you know.

I just always liked him. He was my first. Why do you think it's athletes that we idolize a lot of us? Was it like that for you, Steven? You're not a huge sports guy. Did you care about athletes growing up? I've always found it impressive, but they were not the center of my focus. Who was it? Alice Cooper. Was it musicians? It was comedians. Really? Yeah. Who was it when you were a kid?

I went through a lot of people, but Ellen and Ray Romano were, and then eventually Regan were a big, big ones growing up. Do you have like an Ellen poster in your room? No, I don't think I had any comedy posters. I don't think they have comedy posters. I guess they sell. That's a funny question. I had sports posters all over my room. Well, you were in comedy. Yeah. You know, you think comedies...

That's like a journalist question of someone that's not in comedy. How do you come up with ideas? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, man. Yeah, you know, the Ellen comedy posters. Yeah, maybe you cut out the cover of Time Magazine and frame that on your wall. No, no. Yeah, I don't think I had much on my wall. You didn't have a Dane Cook fathead or something? Come on, man. And that would just...

What did you have? Just bare walls in your room? I think I had bare walls. Captain America?

He was a swimmer. Yeah, he's the real deal. Swim college. I didn't swim in college. I could have. College wanted me, but I didn't want college. He's better than that. You think you could beat Dusty in a swimming competition? Yes. So who were the swimming? I mean, Mark Spitz.

Greg Louganis. Greg, he was a diver, right? That's all pool stuff. I don't think you love the pool. Well, you're probably young enough for Phelps. Phelps was going down while I was in high school. Yeah. So Phelps was a big deal. Yeah.

I mean, I think you're just. Water. Yeah. The wet. They're in the water. I love fish. Yeah, they're all the same thing. The wet mammals. Yeah. I met Michael Phelps. You did? Yeah. I've golfed. Yeah. What? I did a golfing thing. The Justin Timberlake golfing thing I did a while ago. I got to get good at golf. You're meeting all these great people. Yeah, I think I could go play with him. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't see a good golfer. I'd be just a great athlete. Great athlete, but like, yeah, big, big golfer though. Like that crew in Arizona, like all of them that go play, like it's, uh, and so I played with the met and then he did the stretch and the, you know, we clap like, yeah, hands go all the way back. Yeah. Double joint. Yeah. I've never told you guys this and haven't told anybody this cause I always been embarrassed about it, but I've never known how to swim. Um,

And I never took lessons. I could teach you. And, uh, but my daughter, Eleanor has been taking lessons since she's one over a year now. She's been taking swimming lessons.

And I'm like, I don't want to be embarrassed. And she has to rescue me from the deep end of the pool. So two weeks ago, I started taking swimming lessons. Oh, man. That's awesome. How's it going? Good. I've taken two lessons. Yeah. And the first one, I was so exhausted so quickly. Just my cardio. Yeah. Swimming will do that. And she was like...

are you okay? Like she said, did you enter the right side of your body? Because you're not moving your right side. I'm like, no, I'm just out of shape. She said I was the first adult she'd ever had in all her years of teaching. She was kind of like perplexed. Like, I don't even know how to. This is the same one that taught your daughter? No, it's a different one.

And I asked for, I almost asked for a public lesson just for the joke. Just whatever. But I was too embarrassed. So I did a private lesson. But... I think that joke's still laying. Just the fact you're taking a swimming lesson. Yeah. Your age is still... I love it. Yeah, that's one of the reasons why I didn't even tell it at first because I wanted to get the beats of the joke down. Yeah, yeah. But what does happen is...

the class right after me shows up. So all the kids and their teachers just sit around the pool and watch me trying to swim while I'm out there. That's a very vulnerable thing. But he could go teach you right now. I could. Yeah. Would you take lessons from him? Well, sure. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, you should do it. And then you go back to her and you go, I got it. He starts doing the Michael Phelps. How old is the teacher? Like 30. Yeah. What has she taught you so far?

the first one was just kicking off the wall. Like, are you holding onto the wall and treading water? She's like, I've got like a little thing. And then she put a little float around me and then it was just kicking. And then the week two, I thought now we're going to do some arms. She's like, no, this is keep working on kicking. She put fins on me. Yeah. Just to work on my form. I was blown away at how much easier it is with fins. Fins is unbelievable, but obviously, uh, you can't use them. You can't use them. But, uh,

Yeah, it's, it's once your arms are involved, kicking is important to learn because when I swam, I would notice I would barely kick because my arms were like, I was just way better with strokes. So kicking is important to learn first because it is necessary. But once your arms are involved, you'll

She was like, where are these fins? So you can just focus on your form and not on trying to stay alive. Yeah. Yeah. So once arms are involved, you're going to have to learn how to breathe.

Which is a whole other thing. Well, she keeps telling me, remember to breathe. Yeah. Because I'm so tense in the water. Yeah. Because I'm not comfortable. Man. So, anyway. That's awesome. That's great. Thanks. Yeah. I don't think I've ever tried to think if I've ever seen you in a pool. Probably just a shallow one in a pool, I guess. Yeah. I mean, really, there's not that many times where it even becomes a thing. At my age, most of our friends aren't, you know, trying to. People don't have deep ends in their pools. Not as much. Not as much. Ours is. Yeah. Yeah.

We have a pool. But it's like six foot. Yeah, you'll tread water a little bit, but it's not like 10 feet. I didn't play basketball with you guys. Yeah, he would be in...

True. But I mean, growing up, nobody around me had a pool. Yeah. And my parents didn't know how to swim. Nobody in my family knew how to swim. And it just wasn't a thing. Yeah. The pools were still segregated. I got old. Yeah. I got embarrassed about it. And then I just, you know, just never, I'm like, I'm too old to learn. Well, dude, I admire you for that, man. Yeah, I do too. That's pretty cool. Yeah. So. You're just going, yeah, dude, you're going to be a better swimmer than me.

I'm going to have my swim teachers post-traumatized. She's my hero. What would happen if you fell in water? You think you got out? I only think I remember, it's been years since I've even tried, but I remember my cousin, who I'd go visit occasionally, they had a swimming pool. And I remember one time we were playing a game in the water, like a basketball or something.

And just because I wasn't thinking about it, I kind of started swimming. Oh, yeah. I was exerting so much energy, though. That was the thing. Yeah. So I could kind of swim. Yeah, you're flailing, probably. Flailing, yeah. But that's where all the energy is going. But yeah, so that's...

I feel like it is an instinct that everyone can do, but to learn it is the proper way. Yeah. Don't they teach, like, how do they teach a one-year-old? Don't they just throw them in the pool? There's videos of that. I've seen that before too. It's terrifying. It's crazy, but we didn't do it. There was, uh, my buddy did it with his kids and we didn't do it. Cause it was like,

I couldn't have done it. No. I was like, we, and Laura, I was like, I couldn't be, which I think sometimes they would tell you, leave.

They make you leave and then you just... Just to watch your kid just be tossed in the pool like that. Yeah, they just throw them in the pool because the kid's learning to get on their back so they can breathe and then just start kicking. Uh-huh. Yeah. No. Yeah. It'd be tough to do. It's tough. They throw it off the diving board. You're like, whoa. Yeah. That's a little high. Yeah. Yeah.

Eleanor, she can fold her back and she's, they work on things like getting out of the pool, like your elbows and pulling yourself out and stuff like that. Playing sardines. Why don't you just kind of tag with her lessons? Just kind of listen in? Yeah. She's got a wire. Yeah. Free lessons. Free lessons.

I got a headphones on the corner. You're in a van. What did she say when you asked her to give lessons? Like the girl was like, well, when I called to schedule it, the guy was like, oh yeah. Uh, I told him it's for me and I'm 52 and he's like, oh yeah, Bella. She, she's great for that. And then I got there and she had not, nobody told her that it was an adult. She was looking for my kid. Yeah. And then I'm like, no, it's me.

And she was so perplexed. She was in the water because she just got done with a lesson with a four-year-old. And then next...

And then I go over there and she was like, all right. She's like, this is an episode of what would you do? I'm getting pumped. Bates has got, you know, you have a shirt on. No, I took my shirt off. You're wearing those old tank top. What's those old bathing suits? The black and white stripes. It's like a one piece. Yeah.

It's cold. Swimming cap. Floaties. That's cool. I need to go back and learn some stuff I never learned. I'm trying to do that. I'm thinking about doing golf lessons. I take boxing lessons. Trying to do stuff that makes me uncomfortable. Yeah.

Because learning new stuff is the most vulnerable thing, I feel like. It's a lot. And the older you get, the harder it is. Yes. To step outside your comfort zone? Yeah. So I imagine getting swimming lessons, not only the discomfort of being in the pool trying to swim, but...

calling somebody and getting the, that was probably a lot to do. It's like calling your first open mic and signing up. Yeah. Gosh. Yeah. I got to do this now. Crazy. Um, I think we're more shocked with the baby or the non-swimming lesson.

that he brought up. Like you guys? Yeah. Those are two pretty big reveals on the podcast. No, no, no. I would say definitely the baby. I would think the baby. I didn't even know you were married when you had the baby. So it was like, it was a lot being thrown. Well, that's why we got married. I figured you probably guys assumed I didn't know how to swim. Yeah. No, I would never. I mean, I don't know.

No, I never thought about it. I mean, after week one, I really thought, what if some people just can't swim? What if I'm too old to learn? Right. I think I just swam my whole life, so it's hard to imagine not being able to. That's something that's true. When you see people that can't swim, I always think,

Well, they could swim. Like if you fell into water. Your body would figure it out. Yeah. Your body's going to, you're going to just be, even when you're doing that panic, it's like, you're going to be able to keep your head above water, but I guess you get so tired so quick. Yeah. You really got to, yeah. You got to learn how to do it to sustain it. Yeah. And to get to the side or to get to the whatever. Yeah. This is going to sound like a bit, but they taught,

us what to do if you fall out of a boat or if you while you're like clothed is you take your pants off or your shirt off. You need long sleeves and you and you tie them off and then you bring it up over to catch air in it and then you pull it under and you it will be a floaty for at least a little while. But they yeah, people should know how to do at least that stuff. But to

It's easy to say not panic, but that will burn so much of your energy. But like when you do that and you take your pants off and the boat just turned around and you're like, and they're like, all right, dude, I was wearing a regular boat. You really wanted to leave the horizon. Yeah.

Dude, stand up. We just ducked. We just got off the dock. Yeah. We can still see you taking your pants off. That's so quick. Well, anyway, I'm going to embarrass my daughter enough. I didn't want to be the guy that. I admire that you're doing it. That's great. That's huge. I love it. Can you ride a bike? That's next. Do you ever know how to ride a bike? I mean, barely. Yeah. Barely.

I mean, I know it sounds almost counterintuitive. I lived out in the country, which you kind of, I think, associate with Dusty's like that. He rode a bike everywhere and was swimming in the creek. But where I live, just it didn't. Sure. It wasn't that. There was nobody around close to us. And so, I mean, just barely. Yeah. That's next. Heck yeah, dude. Same teacher. You know, the good thing with the bike. I'm back. The bike, you get one of those ones without the pedals. Yeah.

And like, I think those are the coolest thing ever. I bought one for Harper and she never even did it. She can ride a bike now, but we did it the old way, but it's, uh, let's call it a motorcycle. No, no, no. It has no, it's like the balance ones. So you could probably get it even like just, you could get any bike, take the pedals off before your feet touch. And then you just kind of, you push and then lift your feet up and ride for a second. But then you're, you're only going with your feet.

So your feet are what is what making you go. So you never, so your feet are just kind of dragging on the ground the whole time. And then that's a, that's a great way for kids to like learn because you can catch yourself and all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. This is what you should do. We get that. We could take something, take some pedals off some bike.

And then I would officially learn how to ride it just normal. Or basically putting them through a triathlon. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think the balance, it'd help you do the balance. And then you, I mean, the other way you're just pedaling, but it's like the balance is the part that's the hardest. We're going to tie shoes after that. We're going to do it all. We're going to do it all. Yeah. You blending in a sport though is running. I mean, I don't, you know, I don't know if you could blend in a sport. No, we can only do so much. Yeah. Yeah.

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We were talking about posters on the wall. I had three baseball players that I remember having. I had Del Murphy, Pete Rose, and Dwight Gooden. Two of those three got in a little trouble. Pete Rose, Del Murphy, and Dwight Gooden. Dwight Gooden just got in trouble for drugs and stuff. Pete Rose obviously got banned. Del Murphy. I was a big Del Murphy fan.

Yeah, you almost seem like you'd be too young for him. Because you've talked about you did his batting stance. I did his batting stance, yeah. I love Del Murphy. Man. Del Murphy, Bob Horner. I was into baseball. I was into the Braves. Yeah. I love the Braves. And then it's like, again, I said I'm the strike. When the strike happened, I just kind of. Killed it. And then I just kind of quit playing baseball. Because baseball was getting serious, and I just don't think I was going to.

be as serious with it. I went to a baseball game with my niece and nephews and one of the players they saw made the sign of the cross before they went to bat. And my niece goes, man, they really care. They care about baseball that much to pray before and at bat. And I was like, yeah, well, these are their jobs. She's like,

She's like, these are their jobs? She could not wrap her head around it. It was so funny. Stuff you don't even think about. I thought they were just playing with their friends. I was just watching them. 16? 7 or 8. Sweet. Adrian, who works with us now, he said on his post on the wall,

Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens. Yeah, three juicers, huh? Yeah. Adrian seems too old to have those guys on his wall. But anyway, do you remember as a kid what you said you wanted to be growing up? I always said I want to play basketball.

But I mean, weirdly, I do think I wanted to be a comedian quicker than I even think I did. But I think because I just always think, yeah, I never even thought about being a comedian. But then I'll think back on it. And then you're like, you do all these things and you're like, maybe I was. And I've publicly told in interviews, like, that's the crazy thing about when you get older. It's funny. You start just thinking about stuff and you see all the that's the one. It's the interesting part of getting older is you just all the stuff that

you've said, you were like, no, I never thought about that. Then you just get older. You're like, yeah, probably did. Think about that. I just don't remember anything.

you know, thinking about it, but it was, you know, and I mean, in high school, I wrote on my thing where I'll be in 10 years performing at Zany's and, uh, my, you know, I told a joke with my dad or, you know, so it's like, and my dad was doing it. So, I mean, I think I had, I don't know if I, in the, in the sense of it, like, I wasn't like, I'm going to be a standup comedian, like those exact words, but it was, um,

Being funny. An entertainer. Yeah, I liked that. Man. But, I mean, I liked, you know, yeah, I would always joke about the NBA. I loved basketball. Mm-hmm.

I knew sports were out for me pretty quick because I played them. But I think like a lot of kids, I would want to be an astronaut. Yeah. Or Dusty would say an actor. Yeah. A zookeeper. I had zookeepers. You were into zookeepers? I loved animals. I think a lot of kids. I think I had that too. I had work in a zoo. Yeah. Wow. You want to work with animals? No, I never thought about that. Well, you were...

College professor. I wanted to own the zoo. You're smart. Like y'all come, you know, y'all are. Well, I liked animals too. I just didn't even know that was a job. Oh yeah. They did a poll recently of kids. That's what you'd say. Beneath him? Yeah, beneath him. And his family would go to the zoo and go, who works here? And then someone walks up and then goes, Oh, these are animals too. Like your niece. Just like your niece that goes, it's a real job. There you go.

We go to Notre Dame. Uncle Aaron, why are these poor people playing this sport and these uneducated people? Do they not know the future is at Notre Dame?

Well, they surveyed kids recently about what they want to be when they grow up. It's changed a little bit. Social media influencer. Yeah. YouTuber. Oh, there it is. This is a teen. So professional athletes still first for boys, but YouTube streamers second. Professional gamer. It's all entertainment for the most part for girls. Girls and boys. But doctor and nurse. Yeah. That's a good sign. Yeah. That's an actual job.

I mean, look, if I were, if I professional gamer is on here for, for dude, if you would have told me as a kid that I, my job could be to play video games and that would have been one on there. That wasn't even an option when I was a kid. Right. Yeah. That, I mean, yeah, I mean, it wasn't, we didn't have borderline games. I can play Oregon trail for a living. Yeah. Like, but I mean, yeah. Me as professional gamer on Atari. Yeah. Professional pong player. Let's do it. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's YouTube streamer music. Yeah, but everybody, I don't know. How old were these kids? I think you said teenagers. Of course, I know 13 to 17. Wow. Yeah, I think early 20s start to give up on all this stuff. I think the problem is like now versus back then was like you could do that, but it was like

It didn't seem attainable back when we were kids. So if you wanted to be something like this, it was almost like you wouldn't have even said this because you were like, well, that's... It's like, well, I mean, you just are like... You don't get to be...

I'm just trying to think of someone like Billy Idol. I don't know. I can't think of it. But Billy Eilish? No, Idol. Like the old Billy. Like I'm saying a long time ago. Not that I would. But you don't get to be like, well, I want to be Guns N' Roses. Right. You feel like they're – I want to be Tom Cruise. You feel like he's built in a lab somewhere. Right. They're just so famous that you're like, we don't even live on the same planet. Sure. Right. So I can't be that.

I feel like you can't. But now... Everybody feels accessible. Everybody feels accessible and everybody can kind of become famous. You can have anything go and then it catches on and then you kind of become famous. And even...

The smallest scale of it, you could be famous in your own community. And the fact that you're just, for some reason, you make the funny videos and just say you're in your town. Everybody watches your videos. Well, you have a level of, everybody knows you in that town. So you have a level of fame. And then so. You can have a niche now in a way that. You can have niche. You can make a lot of money in some niches. I mean, professional gaming, these guys are right. Did someone kid get drafted? I saw a clip of a, for 2K. Yeah.

Like NBA 2K, like a kid got drafted. Oh, wow. And I don't understand if it was – To do – I thought it was on Bleacher Report, but it was like a – he got like the NBA 2K draft. You know, it's like – I don't know. Like as a player, I guess. I have no idea. I can't find anything. They have leagues. Well, there was that race car driver –

Oh, yeah. They made a movie about it. Yeah. So there's a 2K league. Yeah. And they do a draft, I guess. So they picked this kid. Professional 2K players. Wow. Yeah. That's pretty fun. But I mean, that's the stuff. And they're covering it. But it's like, what is that? What does that mean, dude? I don't know what it means. This is where I...

I could go. I don't know where the money could come from. I don't know where any... I mean, I know gaming is... I guess it comes from gaming is a billion-dollar industry. So I guess it's something. But it's like even when people are watching it, you're like, well, how many people can be watching this? I just can't imagine. A lot. More than you think. I know how...

100,000? No, millions. Didn't we talk about it was more popular than the Super Bowl? One year. The League of Legends finale or the League of Legends championship match. More than the Super Bowl. It feels like now people are getting, you know, it's like creators are going away. Yeah.

They're not a creator. I worked in TV. You're not making something. You're just playing the game that's being laid out the best. You're making memories with your friends. Yeah, yeah. But I'm saying... Yeah. If someone's young... That's the best thing of all. If someone's young, listen to this. Go be a creator of some sort. Be know-how-to-create-out-of-nothing. Versus... I don't... You know, that kind of stuff... It's like... A...

For you to get that good, that's probably less odds than being a professional basketball player. It's going to be harder because you're competing with the people that just physically can't make it to the NBA. So right there, you knock off all these people. Well, every human on earth can play NBA 2K.

So to be the dude, that's the best of this, even though it isn't out, even though it's an outlet, you're like, well, that the odds of that are insane, which if you want to go for it, it's like, I guess go for it. But there's not like creating is still, if you're a creator,

That's what I always feel good with standup. Cause I don't think you can with, with my, I've created standup, created an act. I have something from nothing, from nothing. And so you know how to, you know, that's like, if you know how to build a house, you're like, you're never not being a house. Cause you're like, I can build a house. So I know how to do it. Like it's, you know, and I feel like it's, uh, we have so many like just weird jobs. And then, then it's like, well, these kids are making tons of money and you're like,

Even when it's YouTube and you're like, well, it's like that person unwraps presents and they make $30 million a year. And you're like, okay. But that's still, for some reason, they're doing something that makes you watch them. That does not mean...

That there's just $30 million out there to be. You have to work. Whatever they do. And what they have to do is they have to do it every single day. Even this kid that plays NBA 2K, he has to play it, honestly, probably 12 hours a day. And you just got to sit there and think about it.

All day long. So if you find yourself being even a little distracted, it's like enjoy NBA 2K. But if you're even a little like, oh, I didn't play for a month, you will not be that kid. Yeah. You just can't be. Yeah.

When I played World of Warcraft, when I moved to Nashville in high school, I moved in the summer. I had no friends. I did football workouts in the morning and then I got all day. I'll play World of Warcraft. And I got into it. I would play it a lot that summer. And in my guild was this guy named Dadal. That was his name.

uh, Dottle actually Dottle was his name and he played all day. People would log on and go, what'd you guys do today? Meaning what did you do in the real world? And this guy would go, well, I did, uh, did some, uh, Irving. And then I, uh, he would talk about, he's been on the game all day. And I finally got to a point where I was like, how do you play this all day? And he's like, he told me he was a bus driver in Canada and he got in an accident.

sued the city and now he just lives off a disability and he just plays World of Warcraft all day. And there was like maybe 10 minutes where I was like, that's the life, dude. And then it got real sad after that. But yeah, that guy would play. I think about him sometimes. He's probably still playing. You know, back on, see if you can find it. Well, that was different. Yeah. It plays a different game. That was 16 years ago.

Yeah. But he played at 12, 13 hours a day minimum. And that was his life on there. And what do we play? Like me and Nick play NBA, UK all the time. Like it's fun. I love video games are, but it's video games are great. They're a good distraction.

They'll eat your life up. Yes. I told a story downstairs before you were here about how I don't know how to play NBA 2K. You and I played on the tour bus. I was the Lakers all-star team, which was all-time Lakers. Magic, Kobe, LeBron, Kareem, Shaq, Wilt,

Will Chamberlain. You were like the 2012 Sacramento Kings. And it went to overtime. And they was playing, but it was barely playing. Yeah. It was fun. LeBron on the bench. Yeah, but if you go play with them, it's like those kind of kids, I don't think it would be fun. They would just destroy you. Yeah. Yeah. And you go. But I mean, you know, I don't want to say that guy did work hard. But it's like you got to.

It seems in everybody's head, you go, well, that kid, he goes, he's playing video games. Like I could go do, everybody thinks they could go do that. And you're like, you can't. Yeah. This kid did work.

It was his whole life to get to this point. And like, right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, maybe. I think he just plays. I don't think he works out his thumbs. But he just plays. But it's like, I mean, he has to be thinking about it all day long. He did what OJ did in prison, like works out his hands a lot. Put your hands in sand. You ever do that?

That's a good baseball player. Oh, really? Put your hands in sand and just kind of. Yeah. Yeah. It's nice. Wow. I asked our intern, Amelia, who's I think 16, who kids her age idolize. She said Taylor Swift. Yeah. Taylor Swift. BTS, who I know of. Really? She said K-pop is popular among her friends. And then I had never heard of them. Blackpink.

Oh, yeah. They're another K-pop. They're like the female version of BTS. Oh, I thought it was going to be a black version of pink. But you know, is idolizing kind of the wrong word?

I don't know if people are your fans. Yeah, I mean, idolizing is... That's true, but I don't know. Idolizing, I think, is who you're trying to be. Yeah. At 16, you're probably maybe growing out of that, but I don't know. You might still want to be like her. It's an all-girl, South Korean girl group. Yeah. Biggest girl group in the world. But yeah, I don't know. Idolizing and...

It's just different. They idolize feels a little more serious. 100%. I guess would we idolize Seinfeld? I attribute him to that because I'm like trying to match his work ethic. I'm trying to learn from him and trying to adapt that stuff. Yeah. So I would. That's what I think idolizing is. Lion eyes. I'm trying to think of a better word for it. Yeah.

It's good that we're all swinging now. No, lionize is a word. What is it? Oh, I thought you were doing a bit. To make a lion. To treat a person as if he were important or a celebrity. They're saying lionize like the Eagle song. Like even a hero is... I do number three. To behave as a lion. Dusty would point out, if you were here, we shouldn't idolize anyone. Idols are bad. Of course. I just want to

throw that out there yeah i mean i don't think like even idolizing seinfeld yeah i don't know if i would say idolizing you look up to him but yeah you look up yeah you get he was a he was a yeah an inspiration maybe like worship is that the word yeah yeah you want to be like because i do i do all the comedy stuff yeah you know yeah i yeah like we talked about this weekend

I think it was Bob Newhart said that we're like magpies, like comedians. You see some like things that comedians you look up to do and you you try to learn from that and add that to your pile of like these things you believe or try, you know, and to become better, if that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. We lionize them. Yeah.

It's funny the word lion eyes. This is what's interesting. It's the guys that we're talking about. It's because we're comedians. But do these girls that look up to Blackpink, do they want to be in a Korean girl group? I think they're influenced by them right now. Influenced in what way, though? Are they trying to be musicians? No, they're trying to maybe dress like them. There's kind of style and all that kind of stuff. And it's cool. So it's like they're probably very influenced by them. I don't know if they idolize...

I think Taylor Swift could probably have some real idolized... People idolize her because she got some, you know... Tom Cruise does. Yeah. Tom Cruise was at her concert this weekend. Did you see that? No. Dancing. Wow. Having a good time? Yeah. That's fun. But it's... Yeah. Yeah.

There's probably, you know, but idolizing is a tough word because it seems a little too much. I agree. To be like. Well, hero, I feel like, is the same thing. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. I mean, there are some real heroes out there. Yeah. Right. Like who?

Well, I had a list. Captain America. Revere. Revere is a good one. Yeah, that's a good one. Reference for them. How about this one, Nate? A puffy-o-size. I like canonized. Hero worship. DFI. Canonized? I don't like canonized. It's like lionized, but you shoo. Canon? He's just been acting like a canon. It's bad now. He's going up. Yeah.

You guys are great. Hey. Admire. What about people you admire? Oh, admire. That was right in front of us. There you go. Yeah. Admire. Admire. Admire is good, but I think revere is, uh, I was revere me. That means you respect them. To have reverence. To lanterns or what? Yeah.

Yeah. What'd you say? One or two lanterns. Paul Revere. All right. Batten Average is going down. Just looking at the comments. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Fly ball on the wall. Yeah. Admire is probably a better word. Admire. There's people we admire.

I think revere is. Signfeld would be, I would revere Signfeld. Because I think that gives him for what he meant to me. So that's a much more respectable word. I think so. Like it's a very, you know, I revere Signfeld. Yeah. You know, and it's like that's, you know, yeah. Yeah.

I like listen to interviews of him. Admiring a door feel. I think I'd feel weird saying that about a guy. A door, definitely. It's not weird to say you admire somebody. It feels somewhat romantic. Yeah, I guess admire. Yeah, door does seem romantic. You go, hey, what's up, man? I just want to let you know I deify you. I deify you. I've just been thinking about you. Yeah, I just exalt. I just think of you. You're so exalted.

Bow down is better. Hey, Jerry, I bow down to you. That's crazy. I'd like to dote on you a little bit. Put on a pedestal is not bad. Yeah, put on a pedestal. No, put on a pedestal. I thought that's implies like you're wrong to do so. I think so. That's why it's a weak match down here. Yeah. Anyway, the source. They're fun. They're fun. I used to love it. Dusty doesn't believe in those.

He's back, baby! That was a pretty good one right there. That was good. I listen. Yeah.

All right. All right. You want to wrap it up? Yeah. Oh, man. We're closing on that punchline. Yeah. Get it on top. Yeah. Thank you. Good night. Thank you, everybody. We've been waiting almost two hours. I mean, in the early days, it was all like aviators. It was Charles Lindbergh. It was a real thing. Chuck Yeager. Chuck Yeager. Neil Armstrong. People like that. Amelia Earhart. Yeah. They were like heroes. Right. Yeah.

And now it's kind of celebrity-ish. Much more celebrity-ish. Always sports figures. Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali. That's always been a thing. The biggest in the world we've talked about are like Ronaldo and... Caitlin Clark. It's a big one now. For girls, yeah. I mean, for everybody. For everybody. Some real tickets. Yeah.

That's what Nate respects. I will say this. I mean, he's like, you know, hard to sell that amount of tickets. Yeah. I will say I idolize Nate, but we all need people who, when you're starting out in comedy that, uh, you know, are doing things like you want to do. And yeah,

When in Nashville, the comedy scene, when I started, you know, there wasn't a lot of guys that are really taking it serious. Nobody else was clean. So I remember the first time I saw you at Zany's, I'm like, man, this guy's funny. He's clean. He's telling jokes. I remember your whole set about stuff that I would talk about in a less funny way.

You and Keith Alberstadt is another one. Keith Alberstadt, whenever he would come to town, it was good to know that these guys are successful and they're doing it the way I would like to do it. Yeah, that's cool. So it's important. It's good to have those guys around. Absolutely. And we all need people like that in our life. Yeah. Every step of the way. Yeah. People to chase. What are you talking about? People to chase. Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's like there's competition, but then there's the people you're chasing because you admire what they've done. They show you that you can be successful. Yeah, I adore them. I look at them longfully. Yeah, I admire them. You need people to show you can be successful doing it the way you would like to do it. Yeah. And that like I, you know, what I respect is that it's just the hard work.

It's like, oh, just working. And yeah, I have tremendous. That's why I exalt. You're not going to top the source. Set me up for that again. All right. That was fun. Well, that was good. Where are you guys at?

You want to say where you're at? Me, me, Stephen will be there. Are you there? No. We'll be hanging out. We'll be hanging out. Oh, yeah. Y'all coming to hang out. Greg Warren and Dustin Nickerson. Nickerson. Okay.

And then, so we are, huh? I'm sorry. I thought you were. We are at Indianapolis. We're speaking of Caitlin Clark. We're Caitlin Clark play. So Wednesday and Thursday there, Springfield, Missouri. Then going back to Omaha. It was, the other one was an added show. So this was the first original show. And then Rosemont, Illinois.

And then, you know, and that is kind of the end of the Beef Fun Tour. We go, there's a show, you know, like I'll have... Doing some festivals. Doing some festivals, some fairs, and some stuff. Yeah, I mean, look, I'm not going to have

I don't. This kind of stuff. You've been to shows. I mean, I think we're going to cities that I haven't been to because I don't be coming thinking I have a new hour. I do not have a new hour. That's what I got to figure out. Where are you going in Connecticut? I don't know.

Oh, Foxwoods Casino. No, no. What's the town? Mesh and Tucket. Mesh and Tucket. Sounds like a hot buddy movie. Mesh and Tucket. Rocky and Bowie. Yeah. Mesh and Tucket. Casino. Then we'll go back to Vegas. Minnesota State Fair. A lot of Fargo Dome. Which will be fun. And then...

What is it? Oh, Highland County. Yeah, another casino. Yeah, it's like casinos, like all that kind of stuff. And then, yeah. And then, so it's roughly, besides those cities, it's like this is the end of the big, the big bulk of the Be Funny Tour. Then it'll be kind of sporadic kind of stuff until we get started on the next one. Special will come out this year. Awesome. I will say probably later. It's going to come out later in the year. Okay. But it's some fun. Yeah, there's a lot of...

some pretty fun stuff that it should be figuring out at the end of this year. So this Sunday, I'm back at the Grand Ole Opry. That wasn't my poster that you saw, but I will be there. It's the first time I've been there this year. It's been a while. So it's such an honor to get to do the Grand Ole Opry. So I'm excited to be back this Sunday.

This weekend, I am in Stephen Rogers' hometown, Syracuse, New York at the Syracuse Funny Mode. Just Saturday. Two shows Saturday. So come on to one of them. Or come to, I mean, you're not going to want to go to both, but one of them is going to be pretty good. And, you know, I won't tell you which one.

But then one other thing I want to plug July 13th, I'm in Lake forest, Illinois between Chicago and Milwaukee. I'm doing a theater there and Lake forest, Illinois. So if you're in the Chicago, Milwaukee area, I'll be there July 13th. Someone edited a map over his hands. Yeah. Yeah.

What about you, Steve? I'm out with Nate this weekend. Can I plug my recording? Yeah. All right. Well, thanks for listening, everybody. October 11th and 12th, I'll be recording my special at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado. Awesome. It's called Thesaurus. Yeah, it's called Thesaurus. It's going to be great. Please come.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a great club. Yeah. That is a great club. Yeah. That is a great club. Uh, uh, all right. That's it. We love you. I hope you have a great, uh, rest of the week and see you next week. Yeah. Nate land is produced by Nate land productions and by me, Nate Bargetti and my wife, Laura on the audio boom platform.

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