234: #234 The Golden Globes (and a Little Elvis)
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Hello folks, and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay. Alright. It's all of us. We're back. We're back. Last time you two have been here for a while. Yeah.

right i mean i was here on the i was on the episode last i mean together oh yeah together yeah yeah it has been yeah a lot of people speculating the two of you would only agree to do the podcast if the other one wasn't there and i would fuel the fire i would go yes that's true yeah yeah yeah i'd like to they go absolutely uh yeah so yeah it's not a tape uh

My voice is a little... Does it sound better or no? It sounds great. It sounds all right. Good. It is what it is. It is what it is. Late night last night, the Golden Globes. We will talk about that.

I don't know what it was. What were you guys doing this week? That's the general. Titans got the number one pick. That's fun. I know. The Titans, they always send us swag before the season starts. Right. And I've been waiting all season for something to get excited about. For a victory. So finally, I dug it out. Number one pick, baby. All right. Who do you want? Travis Hunter, Shadur Sanders? Who do you want? I don't know. Maybe it's Travis Hunter.

That'd be fun. That'd be fun. But, I mean, you know, I think they need just excitement. So it's like you either get Travis Hunter or you get Shador Sanders because you just need publicity. Right. I would almost be like get Shador Sanders maybe just to – so ESPN talks about you every day. That's honestly what you need. Right. You are selling tickets. New stadium coming. Get some excitement. Yep. Do you think – Guys, let's be practical. Trade back, get more picks. I mean, just –

We need some linemen. I know. I'm not trashing Will Levis, right? I'm not trashing. But do you think it's better? It's like, here's a guy that no one was talking about at all.

And then he comes in at the end of the season last year, does some big things, and is front-page news. I mean, when they sent out the swag, it was Will Leva stuff. And then to almost immediately go right back down. You think it's better to kind of not even remain...

talked about or just to get that little flash and then to be brought down pretty hard? I think to get the flash because it'll probably help you if you go to other teams, stay in the league. His last throw, he threw a touchdown and it was a bomb. Mm-hmm.

So, I mean, clearly his last... It should have been interception. You're only as good as your last throw. It should have been, but yeah. But I mean, if you're like looking at a guy with an arm, I'm sure someone thinks like, oh, I could work with this guy. Yeah. Yeah, he's got an arm. Today, this comes out January 8th, 25-year anniversary of the Music City Miracle. Oh, wow. Wow. And you were there, right? I was there. Wow. Telling him to get out of bounds. Right.

Just, yeah. Yeah. I'm the one guy that stands there, get out of bounds, get out. Although, NFL Network a few years ago did Greatest Moments in NFL History, and that was one of the top ones. And Jeff Fisher said he was thinking that. I don't know if he was saying it, but.

Like, get out of bounds. We were down by what? I think we were down by two. Either two or three. Either way, it would either tie it or one with a field goal. Yeah. And I didn't think he was going to go all the way, so I'm like, just get out of bounds before the clock runs out so we kick a field goal. Yeah. Fun Bates. Fun Bates. Like you said, trade back, get some linemen. Yeah. You know, if Bates was your owner of your NFL team, it would be to, you know...

We don't want the number one pick. We don't want the pressure of the number one pick. We shoot for a nice eight, nine. Well, that is true. I'm Mr. Yeah, I always shoot for average. Eight, nine. Is the number one pick that good, though? You know, I know, obviously, ideally, it's good and it's fun. But does it pan out? There's I don't know. More times than not.

No. Yeah. I mean, a lot. Tom Brady was like the last. Caleb Williams, Bryce Young, Joe Burrow, Baker Mayfield. Yeah, all doing good. Yeah. These are all stars. I mean, Andrew Luck retired early. Cam Newton, he's got some fun hats. Cam Newton had a good run, though. Sam Bradford, man. Yeah, he was Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Jadavian Clowney, you remember that? Yeah. Oh, man, when he tackled that Michigan guy. Yeah, yeah. We all thought he was – He was the best. We were like, he should be able to go to pro right out of high school. Yeah. Mario Williams, that was the big one because he went over – Reggie Bush. Reggie Bush, yeah. And did he – Oh, yeah, and he went to Pro Bowl one, two, three, four times. Yeah. Eli Manning had a decent career too. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, I think you want the number one. Okay. All right. No, I'm convinced now. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Because it feels like they talk about it like it's not good. Like it is good. Well, I think what they talk about too a lot is the people who get the number one pick, you're putting this star athlete into a program that's not good. Yeah. And so like that's what they're – the Bryce Young with Carolina Panthers, you're like the number one just goes in and just, you know, they're like they don't know what they're doing. Right. And then Caleb Williams. And then they act like he's a flop because he can't turn the team around. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. You just need excitement. That's what the Titans, I believe. You got to be, you're selling tickets. I get the idea. I know you, you know, everybody wants to, you know, win by four points and the score to be eight to four, but it's, you know, you're selling tickets should be entertainment. But wouldn't the most entertainment be winning?

It would be, but it's just – it's also – you're in a different time now. But be realistic. Yeah, you got to be – you're entertainment. You're not like – you're not serving the military. Right. Yeah. You're not – it's not life or death. You're like less – you want to win. You can have some fun and you can win. These teams are winning that are fun. Joe – the Bengals were super fun. If you're a Bengals fan, I mean, how fun was that? I mean, they didn't get in, but you just – Joe Burrow, you got –

what's the receivers chase yeah and then they got another receiver too that's good yeah i mean just super fun you know so all right yeah no one cares uh notre dame biggest win of your lifetime biggest win of my lifetime nobody saw oh yeah i mean it's crazy i didn't see i almost don't know if i want to win i don't know if i want to win you ever think about that

Because you don't know. What was it all for? What is it all for? Maybe if you get the thing that you've wanted your whole life, it won't mean what you thought it would mean. Do you know what I mean? Maybe I'm defined by the journey and not the destination. Yeah, yeah. Notre Dame.

Winning a 14th championship. More than that. 12th. 12th. Yeah. But not since 1988. Not since 1988. Three years before I was born. Golly. Really? Yeah, I mean, it's not going to do anything for your life, but it would be fun. You'd be surprised how much it will. I'm the only one at this table that can remember when Notre Dame won a championship. I was six years old. I think I probably do. Yeah, I was probably eight. Rocket Ishmael.

Was it him? I think it was after that. I remember Rocket Ishmael. Rocket Ishmael was early 90s, I believe. I remember him very well. At 88 was, you know. Look, I do want to win. I'm just joking. But it was very fun. I know what you mean. It's the best team. It's the best team we've had in a long time. We feel like legit. It doesn't feel like a fluke. Yeah. You know, so it's fun. It's fun. It's like when you did Bridgestone Arena. You finally do it. What's now? What's next? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You find other stuff. You do two shows. Yeah. You'll win two next time. Smaller stage. Next time, smaller stage. Put a few more chairs around. The size of this right here. Just a two-by-two thing. You just got to stand there and do it. Yeah. No room to turn. So this weekend, we will get to the Golden Globes being there. And then...

I was at, but I was at Bray Improv running my new hour. Back in the clubs. Back in the clubs. How was that? It was great. It was great. It was up to your territory. I did 75 minutes. All right. Yeah. Don't plan on that. I mean, yeah, it was up there for a while. It's crazy. I did a Q&A. I don't know.

I don't ever really do, you know, I never do them, but in a club, I was like, I did them at comedy magic club. And then I did it at, uh, then I was like, let me just see, like, you know, kind of right before I do the closer. And so that can last 15, 20 minutes. All right, we're back. We are back. We had, uh, the power cut out for second, uh,

It's Tuesday now we're recording this. We all went home. No. So, yeah, I was doing Q&A. That was about like 15, 20 minutes. And that's fun to do. Last time I did Q&A, only other time I've ever done Q&A, why I was scared of doing it. I've done it twice. One was I remember doing a show at Florida State, and I did a Q&A. And anybody had any questions, everybody said they go, no. No.

And then, uh, yeah, terrifying. That, that was enough to like, I go, I'm not going to do it. And then once it be, uh, when I was in Washington, DC, uh, at the Warner theater, I thought, you know what? I'm at a theater. I was like, maybe it's time to do a Q and a.

Ask question, guy goes, are you really this dumb? Oh, gosh. And so then that scared me off for, again, maybe eight years. Wow. And so now the clubs, it's been, you know, I don't think you could really do it. You couldn't do them in an arena. It would be kind of too...

Too much going on. Got a question? Yeah. Yeah, see, those two responses are why I don't do Q&As. Oh, yeah. I would never want to go, who's got any questions? And they're like, nobody. Yeah. Do more jokes. Yeah. Now you kind of know. I get asked about SNL or something like that. Yeah.

Were there any repeat questions? Yeah, kind of. They can say, what's your favorite joke? They say stuff like that. Oh, so you could just, they go, are you really this dumb? And then you go, the question was, what's my favorite joke? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's the idea, if people, like crowd work is, I mean, I am getting different questions, but I'm also getting the same questions.

So if you know that they're going to ask – they can only ask so many questions. I mean, that's essentially what people don't realize with crowd work is to go –

Yeah, you're going to ask people, what do you do for a living? And it just doesn't really matter what you do. I have jokes that I can, if I've asked enough, I'm going to have stuff in there that's going to be an act that can, you know. You know a great answer to, are you really this dumb? You go, I don't understand the question. Yeah, that would have been great. Yeah.

It would have been great. Start taking Dusty with you. But I just, it took me, you know, I wouldn't have had it right there ready. But now, now I do. So I hope I get asked that. I would have gone, yeah, what'd you pay for this ticket? Yeah. I am this dumb. You're a bummer. One question, one lady asked I liked. She said, do you think, how do you, she was like, what do you think it is to make you this, to be in as clean as you are and be in this way to be as relevant in this industry that's not? Oh my God.

Was it a journalist in the crowd? I thought it was a good question. It is. I know, but that's like something you get on a panel. Yeah, yeah. It was a good question. How do you navigate this space, Nate? But I was able to, you know, it's because of you. It's because of you listeners, because of the people in that crowd. Like, that's the only reason I'm relevant is because you come out. I thought you were talking to us for a second. Y'all bring me down. It's...

Yeah, I'd be hanging out with Brad Pitt tonight if I didn't fly back and come here. You're Joe Burrow and we're the Bengals defense. Yeah. Tom Inks goes, you want to come by the house? I got to go meet Brian Bates. Got to go hear about Brian's weekend. I got to go see where he was up to. He went and saw Big in the theater. I did. Did you?

Bit? Yeah. It was like mid-80s. Maybe late 80s. I don't know. Talking about the Tom Hanks. Hey, Steven Spielberg. Oh, yeah, dude. I saw E.T. I bought two tickets. One guy didn't show up. You have real weird. The other guy didn't show up, so I just went alone. And it's a whole big story. And then a guy was dressed as E.T. I got a picture with him. An old camera. Got his autograph.

But yeah, Bray was good building up the new hour, trying to get it figured out. You know, this next tour is going to be very exciting, very, very big. And so I was like, this has got to... I got to get on it, man. Get it figured out. But I didn't do any old jokes. I did DoorDash jokes. Because everybody, you know, actually they heard my material everywhere. I disagree. Yeah.

I know I talked about Community College in my first CD, and I talked about it again. I'm talking about my life. Well, you mentioned your wife on your first ever album, so you're not allowed to talk about her ever again. It's a journey. It's on stand-up. I hope you watch it in order. I hope you can sit. I met some this weekend, and they told me that they were suggesting to watch me to someone, and they go, you got to watch it in this order, though.

Like the half hour first, because he has another story with the Starbucks and then with the Cape Fear service. And that was the point of doing it that way. Because you were hoping to be like, I thought that would be pretty neat. I don't know what stand-up's done that, where you go, hey, I have an add-on. It's not the same. It's a completely different joke. It's just a different situation. It's going to be me in situations. So unless I become an astronaut...

I'm going to be, you know. Yeah, you don't have a, you can't just pull out a different past. Yeah. Yeah. I was in community college. Yeah. And so then I thought of a fun new way to talk about it. And it's set up. Yeah, not the same stories. No. This guy talks about Tennessee a lot. Yeah. Yeah, it's just Tennessee. Talk about Ohio. What's this guy, a teenager his whole life? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so I already got a closer. It's good. Okay. That's nice. That's big. Yeah, that was big. And it's a closer. I can sit. It's nice. I need a closer. I can do a Q&A even to go, I'll save this. I'm sitting on it like an old joke. That's what's so fun about it.

You know, like when you got a joke that destroys. And you got all the beats on it. And you can be like, I can make this. I can even open it up to the audience. It might not go the way we want it to go because I know I. I can steer it back. Yeah, I got something that's going to steer back. You do the Q&A in the middle of the closer. I do it at the, yeah. I go, I'll pull back out. I go, you guys can't handle what's going on. But it's, yeah, it's been very fun and.

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Great shows. Nice hotel there too. Yeah, I love it. Stay at that Embassy Suite. Just walk over. You can see the club from your room. A lot of ducks and swans out there in that pond. Yeah. It was awesome. Did a little Q&A. A lot of questions. Did you do a Q&A? There's a couple times. Okay. Did you... You say, do you have any questions? Yeah. And are people like, how long is this show? One lady asked...

That actually was a question. One lady asked, do you still drive for Uber? I think she was concerned about my financial future. Wow. What did you say? Did you say I keep renewing it? Not currently, but I do renew it. I keep my documents up to date. I want to be able to drive for Uber. You're like, why do you need a ride? Yeah. That was great shows. Thanks to everybody who came out. I met a lot of folks.

What a great club that is. Jordan said I sold more tickets than I did last time, so that's good. You always want to be building. That's what it's all about. It's being built. It's going forward. Q&A will get longer every year. Yeah. Anything else?

You go, well, we just talked to you before the show, so I don't know why I would ask questions during it. I'm going to be in the lobby after if you want to keep asking me questions. You do it multiple times throughout the show? You'll be going along a bit and you go, you got any questions about that bit? Well, you greeted us when we showed up, so I thought I got it out of the way. I've done shows like that where I walk to the green room and if there's...

Like, I don't know, 15 people there. I'll just go, what's up, guys? It just feels weird to act like I'm backstage. There's 15 people here. I might as well just say hi before. Yeah, yeah. And they go, who is that? And then they just look like a crazy person. Yeah, they go, I got these tickets. What's up, boy? Got a great show for you tonight. They're like, all right. The manager, I guess, is excited.

Who was that? Yeah, who was that? You walk in, 15 people, and they don't know who you are. I know it's awkward. I've been in this situation. Yeah, you walk in.

Yeah. I mean, look, I've walked in with many a crowd where you just go in, you're in line with people. I remember San Francisco Punchline once I did that. I was walking in and there was no really other back way in. And I think it was the first time I sold it out. But I came up and I just had to get in my own line. Yeah.

And I'm just standing in my own line. And you know, it's, it's, you think it's going to be a ruckus. It's not that big of a ruckus. Like no one's that surprised that you're in your own line. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't think you helicoptered into. Yeah. They're just like, Oh, Hey man, you excited for the show? Yeah. Yeah. This opens a good one. You know, it's very uncomfortable. There's a big difference between helicoptering in and standing in your own line for a show. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Be saying now I helicopter now. Yeah. Yeah.

My helicopter hovers above the show until I make sure everybody's done. The opener just hears. Yeah. And that's the way the helicopter honks to let you know, let's wrap it up. You think a helicopter has a horn? I bet it does. Pull down. Yeah. Would you ever do a, you're underneath the stage and you rise up onto the stage? Oh yeah. I could see him doing that. Uh,

Lower down. Yeah, yeah, I guess. I would lower the stage down on top of me. No, we're in the middle.

No, I don't think so. I mean, look, I could never do that. Yeah, I know. No, I couldn't. I mean, you could see like, yeah, I don't know. You do think of it like, oh, that could be cool to come up like that. But you think you want to do it. You've thought about it. Well, yeah, who wouldn't think? You've had Travis look into it. It does. No, we've never had anybody look into it. It does seem cool to have all these entrances. But yeah, it's like. It's so funny. You get like parachuted in and then you're like, yeah, like.

Start talking about ketchup. Yeah, yeah. We're a big ketchup family. As Parachute said, ketchup on it. It had Heinz on it. Yeah. You got T-shirt cannon shooting out ketchup packets? Yeah, that's the next. The next two are big dumb eyes. We're going to be.

You know, just coming in. I come in with some music. It's cool. Finally some new material. Yeah, we do make it look cool, but it's not. What's the music you're coming off to? It's always, I don't know. I don't know what we're doing this year, but it's been a bunch of different kinds. But, I mean, like this special, we did that Sunday's Best. Yeah. And you walk out, and I would walk to the crowd, and I like that. You know, it's just fun to see.

It never feels like you're beating your chest. No, I don't even feel that. But yeah, it's crazy. Just trying to make a good show. Aaron, I remember in theaters for a second, I walked out in the middle of the curtain. In the middle instead of the side. That's kind of cool. Yeah. Did you kind of act like, oh, I don't know how to get out of here? No, it was...

It was like the thing. Everybody came off the side. Then the curtain would open. I would walk out right in the middle. And it just felt still like I'm like... Oh, the curtain would open. Open, yeah. Oh, my gosh. I did that a lot. You're just standing there. No, no, no. I never raised it. I know, but you should. I know, but I would have someone... There was a guy that worked on tour. It was very funny because we were talking about...

songs. We'd be, he would be picking a song to play. You're trying to find the right song that could be with a theater, especially like it needs to be kind of quick before it gets to it. And then boom, and it hits and then you go out. And, uh, so we're trying to find a song. And then he picked a song. And then I would, then eventually I was like, well, I think I'm going to change the song. And then, and I did not think he liked that I was changing his song. And so he would open the curtain for me and the song would be playing that I picked. And he would be like,

This song's not the song. And then he would open the curtain. So the last thing I would hear before I walked out was him upset with me because I changed his song. He's like, the other song's better. And then I'm like, hey! So I did the middle. There might have been some people that have seen the middle, but it felt a little too about me. You feel a little too like... It's a weird energy to start a set with. What's the middle? The middle of the curtain.

So everybody comes on the side. Oh, not a song. No, no, no. Jimmy Eat World. Yeah. I did the Opry once right after intermission. And the way they go, welcome back. And then they bring you up and then the curtain opens and you're just standing there. Yeah. And it's such an awkward. You feel like you have to go, ta-da. Yeah. And I'm just going to have to go into the set. But, you know, there is a world with that where –

You see it with... It's a show business. You know, it's like... It is your putting on a show. It works for everything except the comedian. Yeah, I agree. This is what I picture. The curtain comes up, you go, I spent $182 at McDonald's. I don't open with the last line of my clothes. Yeah, yeah. You're just giving...

Look for that in Aaron's special when it comes out. You'll see it at the end. That's an old, old joke. It is. Yay! I was telling them, we were talking about at the Opry, they're weird about the time. So sometimes you'll finish like a minute under, and you're like, what do I do for a minute? Because you just had that, right? Where you had like squeeze a joke in. Yeah, I put in one...

joke at the end just to fill my time. I did once where I had a minute left and I just did a minute of like, oh man, it's an honor to be here at the Opry. Make some noise if it's your first time in Nashville. Welcome to... I just did that. I was so embarrassed. I couldn't think of what else to do. It kind of played off okay, but...

Yeah, it wasn't good. A minute of that. And to do it at the end. Keep it going! Who's excited to be at the office? Is he done? Because you walked out and didn't, he walked out and didn't acknowledge us. Like we were a bother to him. He works backwards. And now it does feel like he needs us. Like they feel like this guy needs us.

Any questions? Any short questions? I don't got a lot of time. 20 seconds. They asked a question. You're like, that's my time. That's all I got.

Oh, man. Is that it? You did great? Your show was great? Yeah, I did great. The show was fun? My shows were great. My shows were fun. Great time. Drove home Saturday night after my late show because they got a blizzard up there. Came in Sunday morning. That's always a good feeling, though, right? Yeah. You never regret that the next day. No, no. You get to wake up. Always regret it at night, though. When you're driving there, you're like, man, this stinks. Yeah. You got to kind of just get on the road.

Yeah, because you're on that. But you gained an hour back. Yeah, it wasn't too bad. I got home like at 1.15. You're on the Bluegrass Highway or whatever, and that's barren out there. It's long. Yeah. Listen to We're Having a Good Time podcast. All right. Listen to you on Fungula, Angela's podcast. All right. It's fun. Do you ever listen to people you don't know really well? No, that's fine. He's a company man. He's a company. Yeah, he is. He is a company man. I bring it all to this. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know what Dusty's ever doing unless I listen to his podcast. That's true. He does listen to it. He listens to Dusty's podcast. That's someone he doesn't really know. They listen to his podcast to find out about him. Yeah. I like to learn about Dusty. He had a stand. I like to learn about my co-host. I had a fun weekend here in town, man. I did the Ryman. They did opera shows at the Ryman. Oh, that's cool. I had two sold-out showcases here at the Lab.

Did one, ran over, did the Ryman, came back and hung out. It was just like one of those really great comedy nights. Everybody here was just in a good mood. We hung out here at this table, actually, for most of the night. It was awesome. Come check out the lab. Any of these local showcases if you're in Nashville, they've been really great. They're just so much fun. Dusty pops in on me. Well, that's what I've been doing. I've been off.

So I've been doing these showcases. They are great. Really great. I did a couple of shows with Eric Eaton over the New Year's Eve. The magic of Eric Eaton. I did some guest spots. It was great. Wait, talk about that where they didn't know you're, they thought you were doing magic.

The first show. Oh, well, the first show. Yeah. I don't know if they thought I was doing magic, but I was just like, I felt like it was just going okay. And then Eric goes out after and he goes, how many people here are here for the comedy? And like two people raised their hand. It's sold out. He's like, how many people are here for magic? And everybody raises their hand. So the next show, I'm just like, hey, I'm not doing magic.

And that got a pretty good laugh. And then my set was much better. Oh, yeah. We were saying with Dusty's hand motions on set, it kind of looks like he's about to do something. Yeah. He's always like, I saw what he did. When his hand goes up, it's someone's phone number in the crowd. And they go, wait a second. But, you know, Eric, they had a great show.

I can't believe you would do a show with a magician. Well, you know, I'm not into magic, but it's, you know, it's tricks as Nate's dad says. It's tricks. It's not magic. That's what they tell you. Spells. I was into it though. I thought it was fun. Yeah. Yeah. He was good. He knows your dad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was great. He was a very nice guy. Was kind enough to give me, I'm working on a thing. So he's nice enough to give me some guest spots and I appreciate him. Yeah. Working on a thing against magic.

What's that? You're working on a thing. Yes. Yeah, I'm trying to shut it down. I got to know some inside tips. Yeah, yeah. Trying to shut it down. You said you cut it back to 50? Yeah. Well, I asked for 10 and I did 13. That's fine. Yeah.

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And then we're getting Golden Globes. Okay. If people want to hear, I mean, I think they want to hear. I think people want to hear. It was a big thing. It was a big thing. I didn't realize Golden Globes is like the Super Bowl for my wife. Oh, yeah? She prints it out and predicts all. Oh, really? Yeah, it was crazy. Oh, wow. And she knows Nikki well and knows you, and so it was like the biggest night of the year for her. She's going to send me a text. Didn't even know she...

I thought we were pretty good friends. Went over, saw the baby, hung out. You did. Yeah, it was really nice. Yeah. Luce. Looking at you, Luce. Meredith Granger. Granger. Granger. Isn't there a baseball player? Maybe. There's a tool company, I think, called Granger. A baseball player named Meredith? Yes. Meredith Granger. Oh, yeah. Maybe she's from the tool family. Maybe so. So probably some money. Yeah, big money. Ooh.

Thank you for continuing to put out new episodes, even over Christmas and New Year's. So many other podcasts take a few weeks off during the holidays. You're welcome, Evan. That's my idea. The rest of the people do not want to do that. We begged for time off. We begged for it. They go, these people don't matter. Just replay something. Who cares? That's what, quote, Brian Bates. Unquote. Aaron Webber.

Still got it. Daniel Earl. In 2025, I think Nate will use his new level of success to continue to elevate everyone around him, and we will see big things in the Nateland universe, not just Nate. Maybe a big platform special for Aaron. I was thinking Dusty will achieve a level of success that will make him disappear into the woods.

Well, let's hope so. From your lips to God's ears, Daniel. I like that, Daniel, though. Nothing for Brian. No prediction for Brian. Aaron Dusty? It's going to take off. Brian's on borrowed time. And he's at where he's at. Brian will always be here. Where I'm at, Brian will be at. It will, yeah, I hope so, too.

It's, yeah, I keep bearing with me with this stuff. I got a plan. Everybody gets worried. You go to Hollywood, they think you're going to be weird. Why? I've never changed now. I talked to someone at the Golden Globes that we brought up. It was someone that we ran in circles in New York kind of the same a long time ago.

Not anybody that you would have seen me with on camera or anything. And then they brought up someone, and then I go, oh, yeah. I go, you still see them? They just go, oh, I don't really run in those circles anymore. Yeah.

And in my head, I'm like, I mean, that's all the circles. My circles are just everybody that I've ran with. I never got that, you know, where it's like, why would you not talk to people that you were with your whole life? Yeah. You don't just come up. You have acquaintance, you know. But, I mean, maybe this person really wasn't that close, but it's just a weird way. You know, it's like.

Sounds like they're embarrassed. Yeah. And you're like, yeah. I mean, my friends, I mean, some of my, most of the friends I started with, they're the opposite of anything that I would ever approve of in my life. But I still was me during all that stuff. Yeah. Look, we're, we, Nate Land's a, it's a long, it's a long story.

But it's, we're going to do it, man. We're going to, we're going to, it won't be just me. The point of it is to hopefully I will get out.

And then we can get Brian's name added to this thing. And then we start Batesland. A few weeks ago. It's open for two hours. Batesland is open for two hours. 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. And it's him at the gate just asking you, you know what, it'd be great if you guys just went home. Yeah.

You guys planning to stay the whole two hours? Yeah. There's not that much to do here. Yeah. What is Baitland? Well, you get to walk by my car. And when you walk by that, we'll have a Q&A about it. What was the basketball player you got autographed? Carlos Groves. Carlos Groves. You go, Carlos Groves over there in a tent. Y'all want to meet him? No, I'm good. Everybody's like, what?

It's a meet and greet with Carlos Gross. Y'all don't want to meet him? You don't want to meet him. He was in my magazine in 1988. Yeah. Player to watch. A few weeks ago, Dusty said, talking about Nate Lynn's success, a rising tide lifts all boats. Well, I said, yeah. I mean, I think I said something like that. Yeah, I was trying to say it. And Aaron and I were arguing that...

You were the tide, right? Yeah, that would make the analogy make sense. Well, I said Nate's boat's rising and we're all rising and lifting us all up. Your other boat. Yeah. But they want to be boats and they want you to be the whole ocean. I'm like, we're all boats. He's got a bigger boat, but we're all boats. We're all boats.

They're like, no, Nate's the ocean. Well, what is the ocean in your analogy? Success. I think you said good luck. Yeah, it's good fortune, you know? It's blessings. Yeah. Yeah, it will all – yeah. I'm excited. I think about it all the time. Everything I think about will be in – you know, I try to think of the audience. I try to think –

Kirkwood, I hate to say this, but Nate and Dusty will be fine with or without this podcast. Brian and Aaron unfortunately need this too much. Wow. What's the context for this? This was going on when... You're blindsided by this, aren't you? Yeah, what the heck? I mean, the last commenter's like, get this guy on Netflix. People are always commenting when you're not here that, oh, he's just going to end this podcast soon.

So he was just playing off of that. Oh. Well, maybe put some context in there for Aaron so he doesn't go jump off a cliff tonight. I think that was very funny. I mean, he's not wrong. But it doesn't need to be said. No, we need the podcast. It's, you know, podcast. Look, I am going to get busy and I'm going to be here. But the point, it's a good anchor of a show. I talk about anchor shows a lot. It's a good thing for us to be here. We're going to have other comics coming.

you know, they're going to come in. We're going to, it's, it is our podcast together. It's no, it's not Nate's podcast. It's our four podcast. We're all the same. You know, I have a hard time calling people folks. I never been a big, but a lot of Nate land listeners come to my shows and it's very, it's very good. I love, you know, it's a great audience that listens to this podcast. I know. I just have a hard time with the word. People told me,

Quit calling us Nate Land listeners. We're folks. Yeah. You go give them a nice hello, folks. Yeah. You say Nate Land people. Yeah, Nate Land people, listeners, our friends. Podcast subscribers. Yeah, yeah. Our friends. It's our three podcasts. Dusty has his own group of people. Yeah. Yeah. Dusty and Nights. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, folks, it's a hard word for me to say, first off. It's a tough word for anyone. It's a tough word. Folks. It feels like the L shouldn't be in there. Hello, folks. But you just do it like a, hello, folks. Yeah. Just ignore the L. Let's go, folks. Folks.

Yeah. If you ignore the L, it's a little easier. Folks. Yeah. There you go. Hello, folks. Maybe put it in there a little bit. I would just imagine somebody who hasn't listened to the podcast in like two years, they put on, they're still talking about it. Yeah. Two years, like four years. Let's go, folks. You said let's go, folks, on your Christmas special.

Y'all think I don't think about you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't get, yeah. Easter egg. Did everybody get nice and a little credit for that? Yeah, you're the only one that even liked that phrase. Ben Ryder. I'm interested in how someone of Nate's size thinks about material that goes into a special.

Like my physical size. Got a big one over here. He's got a big boy. Nate, as you get bigger, is it going to be more fat stuff? Nate is obviously in rarefied air as someone who's been on SNL and had a re-entour and released a special on Netflix all in the same year.

Yeah. How does someone think about material that goes into special? Uh, you know, people, it's, it's, I, it's all a journey. Again, I think I, I'm, you know, there's a point I think you start trying to figure out kind of, you just, I just gotta do what I think is right. Uh, I do worry. Somebody asked that. They're like, you know, cause you don't want to just be, am I getting laughs just cause it's, everybody's excited to be there and these jokes are not funny or these stories are not funny. Uh,

I think about that a lot. It's in my head constantly. It's exhausting. You don't ever have to say it. Everything that you would think negative or say negative, trust me, I've already thought about it a thousand times. The most scared of...

phoning it in and like, you know, I don't want to do that. I would, I'd rather be out before I would ever get to that point. But it is the way it's got to go now. I think it's just got to evolve. It's like, I mean, if you want jokes, it's like, that's why the Tennessee kid and the earlier stuff was jokes. That's where you learn how to write jokes. But as, as you grow and evolve and then become as a bigger act and as standup is even becoming into a big, but standup is as big as it's ever been in the history of standup.

And so as you're seeing all this new kind of way, the point of it is like, it's, I look at myself as like, it's a movie you're watching. I'm just describing a movie. And so it's me in the movie and this is the stuff I'm going through. And I'm talking about my family and whatever I've been going through and you can relate to it on where you can relate to it.

Yeah, I don't know if the jokes are... It's not always the same kind of thing, but it's your laughing. I mean, the last hour was completely different than...

the Tennessee kid and all that stuff, but it was murdering on the road. And you're like, you know, and it's just, it's almost like a song. It gets to like singing a little bit. And so that's what makes it, that's kind of what you're doing is when you get up there for a while and then you're just kind of like, I'm just trying to make it be like, we are just having a conversation, but if I can keep the laughs, boom, boom, boom, boom, keep going. That's when, you know, it's like, that's the one thing that you're like, well, I can't, you guys are laughing. Yeah.

Like constantly, you know? And that's where the joke is, I guess. Now my jokes are probably not, the whole thing's not a joke. The whole thing's a story, and then the jokes are the little, there's a bunch of little jokes. That's probably how it looks now. Yeah, people get too picky about stuff now. Yeah, enjoy it. I mean, or don't enjoy it. I don't care. I'm not saying, I didn't mean to say it like that. It doesn't matter. But in, it's, I...

I just hope, you know, you want, like, you know, this is the first, like, comedy's in a spot where it's like people are able to get to a level with stand-up only. That was not the case when we, even when we were first starting. It was like, but you had Gaffigan and Sebastian and,

and Louis and, you know, where it was like Chappelle, I guess, you know, like he did the Chappelle show was the biggest thing. But so you had this where guys were just getting, you know, it's kind of a newer thing where comics are becoming just stand-up comedians. You know, I've never done anything besides stand-up comedy, besides like SNL and all that stuff. So you don't get it. And hopefully new comics, comics starting now can see that.

you know, we can become a real, you know, we just got nominated for, put on the thing for Golden Globes, stand-up comedy. It was like, it's two years. Yeah. It's been since 1940 and it just was two years ago they acknowledge stand-up comedy as it exists. Who won? Ali Wong. Ali Wong. Okay. Yeah.

Crazy. Me and Ally. You presented the award. Yeah, I presented the award. I was hosted. Oh, yeah. No, I presented the award. Me and Ally started together in New York. Kind of crazy. That's cool. Yeah. All right. Cory Buckner in the new special is Nate wearing a woman's jacket.

I noticed the zipper pulls on the left. I'm pretty sure men's jacket always have a zipper pull on the right. Michael Scott. Michael. I saw this. Yeah. And somebody said, like, European designers, the zipper will be on the other side. That's a woman's jacket. You can tell. Huh? The way it's cut. It's not a woman's jacket. You want it to be a woman's jacket real bad. I do. I do. It's a lot more fun than... I never would have noticed that. I did see the comment. It's a lot more fun than European cut. Well...

Is that true? Europeans do backwards? That's what I read that, yeah. Like how they drive. I wanted to be like Michael Scott when he was wearing a women's pantsuit. Yeah. I think it's a sharp look. Thank you. And also, who's the... Who's Cory Buckner that he's the fashion police out here? Oh, women's zippers are on the other side. It's like, Cory's wearing a woman's jacket when he's writing this comment.

Don't pick on Corey. It's a good question. I'm glad he asked it. Look, it is because I think it is a European jacket. I think some jackets are being made like that, and maybe it's the European jacket. Because I do remember a long time ago, I had a jacket that did the same kind of thing, and I thought the zipper's on the wrong side, and I asked, is it a woman's jacket, and then that's what they told me. So it is not.

Why would women have the zipper on one side and men on the other? They're not strong. Yeah, that's how you zip with your right hand. No, you zip with your left. I'm joking. You zip with your left hand. They go because they need help to do it. So they put it on that side so the man can use his right hand to zip it because it's going to be hard.

You know, you unzip a woman in the back. A lot of them, you do it in the front too because they can't get down there. Not a lot of grip strength. Yeah. Yeah. It's just science stuff, man. I don't make these stuff up. Now, people have said the poster for that special, your face was AI generated. Have you heard that? No, I haven't.

Everybody wants everything to be something. That right there. It looks like it's a little. Oh, it looks like it. That's shape. That's a little touched up. I think it's probably a little touched up. Little? Yeah. It's not even you. Yeah. It's a bad AI. That's not AI. I knew you could see the jacket looks different. I don't think it's. I don't think AI can do hands. That's true.

So, yeah, it's just probably a little... Just the face. Touched up. It's a good... But it looks good. Straight ahead, like a good picture. You look rugged in it. Yeah, that's why it's not him. I know. Well, that's why they make it. New year, new Brian. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know. We live in a weird age where people are just able to just overanalyze everything that's happening all the time. Yeah. It's a weird age. I'm starting to get a little bit more of that. It's funny you can tell.

when you just you can kind of cross over into people start really talking to you like you're not oh yeah a human yeah and then they're just like and you're yeah and i was thinking i could it be more like you right yeah but nice stuff uh at least uh baits make sure we see them in the comments or if they're not in here i'll bring it up myself yeah

Hey, you won't believe what they're saying. Yeah. I couldn't even bring this to the public. Did you read this? Owen Bergstein. Bergstein, maybe. My family watched Nate's new special and it really managed to bring us together. Halfway through, my grandma, who loves to make weird comments in the middle of movies, declared, so he has two prosthetic legs, doesn't he? When we asked her what she meant, she calmly explained that she thought Nate's legs looked really skinny and assumed they were prosthetic.

This guy has two prosthetic legs. Yeah. Doesn't mention it once. Yeah. For an hour. And you're wearing pants. It's not like you're wearing tights. No. My legs are skinny. It's because the top got too big.

That's why. I can tell your grandmother it's because he got too fat. Just imagine that, though. You assume because someone's legs are skinny that he has two. He does stand-up comedy on two prosthetic legs. He travels the country doing 260 dates a year on prosthetic legs. And really booked it walking up to the stage. Yeah. It's kind of impressive.

Well, it's their grandmother. Cut her a little slack. No, no, no. You got to shut that stuff down. You guys are taking everything so serious. That's what I like to do. I like to attack the commenters. I thought it was a fun comment. In defense of other people on the podcast. Yeah. Nate Hammerbeck.

What? That's a pretty good name. That's what we're doing right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just re-watched the Krispy Kreme Challenge video from a few years ago. The powdered donut holes record of 5 and 17 seconds was brought up. And Nate thought he could beat it.

I was wondering if Nate will do this. Donut holes record of five and seven. Oh, and powdered in 17 seconds. I would try it. You just talking about putting five in your mouth. I don't think you're not. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no, no. Yeah.

Yeah, now I think I'm a little, now I'm like, yeah, it's probably, it's going to be hard to get them down. Yeah, it's the powder. You missed the moment. There's a saltine cracker challenge that went around years and years ago where it sounds, on paper, you're like, I could do that, but it's something about

the dryness of it yeah you couldn't get that down yeah I have to mature dude you know what I mean I'm not even gonna bite on that I know you're trying to get me roped in here to try to talk about this too but no I'm not gonna take the bait yeah he'll do it I'll just do that on my own I'll do that off camera I'll do it on my own time anytime there's a I'm not trying to break records I'll do it in 25 seconds I'll do it for the love of the game anytime there's a record like that you do gotta think you probably can't break it yeah

Because anybody reads that and they go, oh, I can do that. Yeah. You can't do it. You can't do it. Not with that attitude. You can't do it, Aaron. Bet you can't do it. It's like the four-minute mile. No, I can't do that. Alex Garen. Garen. Garen. Alexis. Alexis Garen, man. Maybe it's Alex is Garen. I bet that Alexis you can't get an Alexis in your house.

Alexa? Yeah, can you change the name on an Alexa? I think there's an option to. Oh, really? You can have it answer to a different name. I don't know the other name. But if you're named Alexis, you can't have that. You can't be talking to Alexa in the house, right? Yeah. I don't know. It's like, huh? Is it? No. The other one. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. You can just change the name of your Alexa device. To anything else? Yeah, you can call it Alexa, Amazon, Echo, Computer. You can't choose custom names, apparently. That's like all Elon Musk's family's name. He goes, it's all those things. All his kids. He goes, well, so I can't have an Alexa, I guess. Yeah. He goes, my computer told me I could have one.

I like the name computer. Keep it vague. Hey, computer, equipment. Yeah. I like that name. Really talk down to it. I like that. It's better than humanizing it with a human name. Alexis Garen. On October 30th, I gave birth to my third baby. I was trying to find something for late night feedings that wasn't too stimulating, allowed me to easily fall back asleep.

I'm happy to say your podcast is now my favorite listen while feeding the baby at 2 a.m. Your voices are all very soothing, and you talk about nothing, so it's perfect to fall back asleep to. Thanks for some great laughs. That's all we're trying to be, baby. I've said that many times. I mean, because I do that a lot in hotels, especially if I'm like a true by Hilton, and there's a lot of demons in there. I need to fall asleep to something, not silence. Mm-hmm.

And a good podcast like that where you're just talking, that's the way to go. I'm doing the 3 a.m. feeds right now. So I've been watching Monk. Oh, Monk. Just put something on. It's about to go off Netflix. What a great – I got the whole DVD collection. I'm watching through – me too. I'm watching through Monk right now just during that 3 a.m. feed. So I get that. Monk is one of the best shows ever. It's really great. I'm going to send you a picture because you talked about hotels for Dusty. Yeah.

Michael Clay, you know, started comedy with. He was just some, he was wherever and he just, look at that, took a picture of that. Oh, the Fontainebleau in Panama City Beach. Let me, let me pull it up before. Yeah. Don't show all my text messages. It's just like, sorry, next time, book you next time. I'll read them. All right.

No new counts. What does negative mean on the ticket count? He goes, well, he goes, don't read into it. He goes, I think we're going to have a good, you know, the show's in one hour, so I think we'll be all right.

The Fontaine Bleu. Fontaine Bleu. That's where my dad and my stepmom met. Yeah. Yeah. Animal City Beach. Yeah. That's a good hotel. Yeah, I can tell. It looks like. He said they didn't stay there, but he was driving by all week. He messed up. Is it in? Yeah.

It's like it's a former Soviet Union. Yeah. Like an abandoned building here. This is a functional hotel? That's a hot spot. Okay. Yeah. Looks like there's a nuclear blast not too far away. See the ocean. Chernobyl Beach. Nuclear blast of fun up there.

Where'd they meet on the rooftop? Well, they met in the lobby. I saw them meet. Really? Where is the lobby? Well, my dad was very slick. Yeah, where's the lobby? The very small lobby? I'm sure you saw them meet. Moreover, to the right here. Did you say you saw them meet? Yeah. I was there. Me and my dad went down to Panama City with his friend and my friend. He's like his fifth wife. Oh, okay. I thought you were talking about your dad and your mom. Oh, no. Okay. Oh, no.

Okay. That's very different. Yeah, my dad and his fourth wife and current wife. What do you mean, his dad and his mom? That's why I was like, explain. It's impossible. You were like, explain the impossibility of that. Go ahead, Dusty. Well, I have been around this earth for a long time. My dad was in the lobby, and my stepmom and this friend were down there. My dad goes. He found out. He heard what room they were in, and they were next to ours. And he goes. My dad was like,

He goes, now, we're going to be staying right next to you. So don't be making a lot of noise. We need to get sleep. And then a little while later, after we got up to the room, those two women came and knocked on the door. Wow. And wanted to go for a walk with my dad and his friend. Oh, man. And then they ended up locking us out of the hotel room for many hours. Yeah. It got a little cold at night, and we were stranded walking around the floors of the Fontainebleau. How old were you? Well, 12 or 13. Oh, yeah. Old enough-

But still young enough to need to get back in. Old enough to fend for yourself for a while. A little while, yeah. We had some saltines or something. Now, what happened to his friend and her friend? I think they got together or whatever, but they didn't carry on. That's amazing. Look at that. And who were you with? Well, I was with my friend Adam. Oh, okay. Me and him had a good time. Yeah. Still friends with Adam. S. Murphy. S. Murphy.

I've always loved stand-up, but never venture into a comedy club because there's so much raunchy content. I didn't care for the Nate Land. What? Oh, okay. Because there's so much raunchy content I didn't care for. The Nate Land Network has changed everything. I now buy tickets to shows for a whole list of awesome comics. I can thank you enough for making this genre more accessible. All right. S. Murphy. S. Murphy.

Thanks for coming to the show. All right. That's very nice. Yes. Smurphy. Could you just name a kid one letter like that? Sure. Would they let you do that? I don't know legally. I would think so. If you could. We'll see. JB? That's right. John Lee Bonley. You guys ever look up family history stuff? Yeah, a little bit. Somebody that listens to this podcast sent me...

Some family history stuff. Of you? Yeah, I guess they heard me and Brian talking about my grandfather, and they looked him up, and they said their church is a big family history thing. So I looked at this link, and then I started looking at other relatives, and I'd never really gone down my grandmother's lineage, last name Tally. And I started going down it last night, and it would be my grandmother's

My dad's great grandfather on his mom's side is named Samuel Richard Talley. And I named my son Samuel Richard. And I just thought that was cool. It's like, you know, several generations ago.

This guy, I read about him a little bit. There was a little bit in there. His dad and his four brothers were all killed in the Civil War, and he had, in 1865, he had to fight at 14 years old. Oh, my God. Golly. At 14. Just at 14. Probably all of them were made to do it. Uh-huh. Yeah. Insane. Yeah, should have been in eighth grade. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. Insane. Yeah. Man.

Was he a real, did he have a drum or did they really put him to work? It said he was only involved in some small skirmishes and then it was over. Jeez. But 14 years old. Yeah. I'm hanging out at the Fontaine Blue. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. I think I'd rather be in the Civil War. But I just found that like, you know, the tallies are like probably Irish. Yeah.

And my wife, she did a DNA test. 99% Irish. Y'all could be related. We could be, yeah. My kids are very Irish, apparently. They don't feel that Irish to me.

Well, you don't spend a lot of time around them. That's true. Big drinkers. Yeah. That's what I mean. Pretty fiery tempers. Yeah. These kids. Okay. These kids are sweet, but they'll let you know when they're not happy. Yeah. My son is one years old and we were trying to give him a banana the other day and he was really mad. He took the banana, threw it on the floor. Oh, that's awesome. Kid loves bananas. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. They can have some tantrums.

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It is kind of crazy. Like, Ali was, me and her did Star Together. It is pretty surreal when you get up there and you're like, you've just been around these people forever. Denzel Washington. You're just looking. You're talking about just the celebrities? No, no. Just the other comics. But I'm saying even just career-wise. You know how Nate and Denzel are just hanging out all the time? Like, what? DW. He's just like us, guys. I go, I watch Glory. That's the only one of your movies I'm allowed to watch.

And then, so I, I wrote this. So I did a presentation. Uh, I wrote this, I had this story and I was like, this was like, I had to write it in a joke form. Cause it was, it had to be so quick. The, uh,

Parrot, this is a real story. South Dakota. I might have talked about it on here. Talking Parrot at the show. Yeah, yeah. It did not say you're not funny. It would just squawk. I mean, just randomly during the show, it was there for the two early shows. Late shows, he would put it to sleep in another room.

And then that's when it made me ask him, I go, why would you not just do that in the early shows? And he goes, well, I like him in the early shows. And so you just knew you had to deal with. So just throughout the show, just go squawk. Oh, just yell. It's a bird that yell. If you've ever been around a parrot, it's loud. Yeah. A cockatoo, right? Yeah, a cockatoo, yeah. Yeah, they don't chill out, you know. So it's, you just don't know when he's going to do it. And so it's just, it's the worst kind of,

thing because there's no timing to it you know it could be right as you're saying the last word of a punch line it's just and you're just like oh it was uh yeah it was so i was a little nervous doing this joke i read uh i ran it this weekend at brea up top uh because it was like you're making a parrot's noise i'm not you know it's like doing a little something that i'm not

super comfortable doing. But I was pretty nervous before I walked out. That's one that, you know, they actually get nervous. As I'm walking out, I'm pretty nervous. My hands were, I wiped my hands off. They had Kleenex in the back and I wiped my hands off because they were feeling like kind of sweaty right before I went. Because you're just, you know, you're like, golly, if you bomb in this room or, you know, it's just going to be whatever.

The whole experience of the Globes, it's awesome, man. You see this stuff on TV, dude, it's crazy, and it's the best. Me and Laura went. Laura looked beautiful.

And so we, you know, you did like some red carpet and you did that. You did the legit like walking down a red carpet? I did. We did not at the first because the line was so long and they were only doing...

The presenters, it's funny, you just see everybody in line. So you see Harrison Ford, Ted Danson, Jason Segel. They're all just in a line waiting to go through that red carpet because it's like, now you go. It's not like anybody just gets to just go right in. Oh, it's not just you walk through when you show up.

You walked down, the whole red carpet's a whole red carpet. So you're walking down the red carpet and there's people, you know, there's some fans, there's people taking pictures and you're just in the middle and people are talking and you're waving. I did like a quick little interview with the Today Show. That was about it. I don't know.

You know, they tell you, you have a publicist that kind of tells you, like, you know, you can do interviews or don't. Or he's like, don't worry about interviews here and just kind of keep going. But the Today Show, I'm going back to, I'm doing the show with Willie Geist in January. And then I just did the Today Show and they've been very nice. So I was like, said what's up to them and then talked to them for a second.

But it was, the night got started, so we start walking down the red carpet. I'm going to say all this stuff. I mean, yeah, this will be names. I'm not trying to, you know, everybody. Well, the whole point of this is names. The whole point of this is names. But you're telling it like a fan, not as a colleague. Yeah. But tell it like a colleague. Be like, these are my friends. These are my peers. I go, okay.

Harrison. I go. Don't run in those circles anymore. I go, Harris. I go, Harris, how's it going? 4D. Yeah. The Red Hulk. He goes, what are you doing? I go, Harris, what are you doing? He goes, what house you at now? He goes, I'm in between the 12 houses. I go, that's cool, man. I did see him at an after party, and he came out and got mobbed.

Like with people wanting pictures and autographs. Like when I came out, I get pictures and I sign autographs. But I mean, it was like insane. And I mean, he's old, man. He's old. Like you see him. Yeah. He, he, uh, even when he was up there and talking, he's old. Yeah. When you're Indiana Jones and Han Solo. Yeah. That's pretty. Two of the most iconic movie characters ever. Yeah. So, uh, fugitive. And now he's the red Hulk.

Do you know that? No, I didn't know that. What? I didn't know what that is. There's a new Marvel movie, a new Captain America coming out in a couple weeks, and Harrison Ford's the Red Hulk. He's just like the voiceover of it? No, he's in the movie. He becomes a Red Hulk. Well, it's CGI, though. Why is there another Hulk? Yeah. Huh? I don't know. Yeah, I think there was in the comics. There was. There was a Red Hulk. Yeah. Yeah.

There's all kinds. He's real angry. That's the only other. He's being white Batman next year. Yeah. That's a, yeah, that's what a red Hulk. And then you just got to go like, okay, something, your old dude. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to be the red Hulk?

It's because they make the movies so... That's because they're making the movies. It's costing $50 billion to make that movie. So they got to be like... We got Harrison Ford's in it. Can we will? Yeah, Walmart's playing one part. They just need everybody. Anybody and everybody. Amazon, we got Alexa. Alexa is going to be most voices. We got to try to make our money back on this.

So we're walking down, and you're seeing everybody. I'm walking in. Angelina Jolie right next to me. Wow. This started it off. So it's me, Laura, my manager, and my publicist. And then so we're walking down, and then she kind of is walking, and she looks over, and I was like, hi. I go, I'm a comedian, and I'm next. She goes, I know you. You're my favorite comedian. Wow. So we started off.

I mean, so I got a little pep in my step now. I'm like, Glenn Powell doesn't stand a chance. I'm going to walk up to him and be like, Glenn boy, Glenn. Hey, I go, Ang knows me. Ang knows me, Glenn. Uh,

So it was, she was very cool and very like it was, uh, she was there with her, one of her daughters, Zara, I believe. And, uh, her daughter was very nice too. And she was, they were just very, you know, it was like crazy. It was like crazy. Like, you're just like, oh. And so, you know, you kind of like, thank you. And, you know, and you have like a nice little moment or second and then she kind of went on and, you know,

Then I go through that. This is all at the beginning. Then I go through there, and then when I get there, I'm making a turn, and I get tapped in Jake Gyllenhaal. And he goes, you know, he's like, he goes, I love your stuff, you know. And I'm like, oh, thanks, man. I go, I loved Roadhouse. That's what I said to him. Yeah. I go, I loved Roadhouse. I go, it was so much fun. He goes, yeah.

He goes, thanks, man. I mean, he's even, he's nominated for something. I don't know what it is, but I'm like, I loved Roadhouse, man. I go, that was super fun. I love fun stuff. This is exactly what I said to him. Yeah. Yeah.

I go, how was Conor McGregor? He goes, he's Conor. He's like, yeah. But he was very, very good. Did Roadhouse not do well? No, no, it did great. Oh, it did? Yeah. On Amazon? Okay. Yeah, yeah, it did great. People don't, if you say it's a bad movie, then you're just, there's no point of you watching the movie.

Like, it's not... I just wonder why he would have that reaction to you when you say, I love Roadhouse. No, he did. He had a nice reaction. But I'm just saying, out of all the stuff, you know, he's a legit, real, crazy actor. And just to be like, I love your Fritos commercial. Yeah. He's like, well, I've done...

the presumed bubble boy yeah yeah which is what i presumed i would have said maybe even the thing he was dominating presumed innocent that show that yes yeah that's what everybody else there is doing and i'm just walking in like roadhouse it's just uh roadhouse is just you know it's just a crazy it's what's the cowboy movie

Oh, Brokeback Mountain? Yeah. That would have been a different one to say. That would have been a different one to say. Love Brokeback Mountain. Yeah. My guy. Yeah. Watch it nightly. Can't quit it. It's a good reference. So then now we're kind of in the thick of it. Yeah, Jake, he was super cool. And then now we're in kind of the thick of it.

and then we're going in glen powell i did uh glen powell did the waist manager i did not meet him then it's a golf tournament the golf tournament that we i did a couple years ago but yeah then came as a cool man i'm a big fan of glen powell i think glen powell he lives in austin texas i think he's doing a lot of what i want to do for nateland like the stuff that he's making is a lot of twister and you know it's it's it's very fun fun movies um

And so we talked for a second. It was fun. He had his parents with him. And then I'm trying to think. So then I go in, and I think that after Glen Powell, it's like kind of –

We're trying to go to the red carpet, go around. I'm trying to think about something else there. So then we go into the... Then we're into the show. And so I'm sitting there watching the show. And so you're like... Now we're watching the show and you're... Do you have assigned seats, I assume? Yes. Yeah, yeah. So I went and did the run. I did my rehearsal the day, Saturday. So you go in and just kind of do your thing. And then you see... We had a seat...

Our seats were – Laura was on camera. I'll hear it. This is the video. You got the – Oh, on Twitter? Yeah. So look at this. Can you expand it? Yeah. So this is Tim DeChalemay and Jake Gyllenhaal. Then look at me in the back. You see my hands shaking my jacket out because I'm hot like a fat idiot. I mean, my goodness. If it couldn't look more like –

Just, you know, like I'm at a carnival ride. Timmy the Shadow Man looks nice and cool. Everybody, no one does that because they just go, yeah, you sweat it out and just be normal. You don't air yourself out. So we're sitting right next to them.

And just so ridiculous. So that close to kind of the main... Oh, the thick of it, dude. We're in the thick of it. We were with Abbott Elementary. Everybody... Oh, okay. Yeah, they lost. That was who was at your table? Yeah. Everybody at the table was Abbott Elementary and me and Laura. I was trying to figure out who else was at your table. Yeah, and they were nominated. And then they were all very cool. Janelle's great. Yeah, Janelle James. Did you know her from stand-up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so...

Everybody was like fun. The guy that was the producer, I guess, was kind of next to me and he goes, it's embarrassing. Like, it's just like, I've been doing good this past week. We're serious about losing some weight. You can't be waving your jacket wide open in front of

Kylie Jenner. She's worth $40 billion. She is Hollywood. It's getting hot back here, boy. It was so hot in that room. Timmy Chalamet went up to him. He knew me, said hi. I just told him, I go, you were great on College Game Day. Oh, yeah. He was unbelievable. He was unbelievable. He goes, I love it. He was just at Vanderbilt. Oh, really? The day before College Game Day. Oh, yeah, yeah.

So with Abaddon Mentry, they lose their thing. And then so then they're all there and they do a cheers and they're doing cheers for each other. Right.

To Abbott Elementary. And then, so then I'm there and I'm thinking like, oh, you know, so I hold it up. And when I hold up to cheers, I cheers the guy. And as I touch his glass, he goes, well, it's for everybody at Abbott Elementary. And then I go, so I just jumped in on their cheers. He didn't want me a part of it. That's so weird that he would be like that towards you about it. You're like, I'm just at your table. I'm at your table. You guys lost. I'm cheersing to you. Yeah, I thought, I was like, what do you want me to do? Be like, you know.

I'll be like, oh, you guys lost. I don't want to get in on this. Oh, well, you guys cheers. Me and my wife are going to turn her back to the table. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't... It wasn't me. It was like kind of just a...

awkward like you know to your friend Nate Bargetzi like I was like hey yeah cheer like I was gonna be loud about it and go cheers cheers yeah I was just trying to you know go with the what was going on at the table and you're not a big cheers guy you've talked about that before you don't like doing a toast I'm not a big fan I'm not a big fan of it but I mean who won that thing who beat them Hacks Hacks yeah yeah Edward Norton was right in front of us did not talk to him

He seems scary. I hear Edward Norton's are like real hard to work with. That's just gossip. Unbelievable actor. That's gossip out there. That's why they say he was replaced as the Incredible Hulk by Mark Ruffalo. Because he's too hard to work with. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. And so... He could be the Red Hulk. Yeah. Apparently, you know, it's always like you kind of think when people are hard to work with because you hear that and then, you know...

I'm always like, how could you be hard? I'm trying to think. I haven't really seen it. I mean, I guess I've seen some that are, it's like just a little difficult. They're always going to be late. They're always going to be, it just feels like you're on their time. There are some standups that are nightmares. Yeah. Yeah. It's just hard. You have a couple of names. Like who? We'll talk about it off air. Yeah. They just show up when they show up.

I, uh, so we're sitting there at the table. We got a, yeah, a great seat. I mean, I, when I went back to, they come grab you before you go present. And so you go in the back and, uh, it was very hot in there. And then, so you go in the back and then, uh, you, uh,

I was like seeing the TV and that's when I realized like, cause Laura's sitting there with gone. And I'm like, I see Laura like a few times and I'm like, so I came back. I was like, you're on TV a lot. They had, I mean, the seat was like, we're just up against that rail on that second row. So you're just seeing, we spotted you immediately. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're in white. She's in red. Yeah. Ruth was like, is that making? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Laura looked really great. And, uh,

It was so, it was fun. So then it's the cool thing about the Golden Globes is like, it is relaxing. So you're in this room with all these crazy people. Now the fun little story about it, I can tell you this one little story about it. So this is at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. So something that was cool for me when I was, I remember first going out to LA, you always wanted to have to go to LA, you know, like you hear comics and

just go like i gotta go out to la for stuff got some meetings out yeah and you're you're always hollywood's calling baby and i mean that's all you i wanted was to like have a you know be like i gotta go to la for this thing because everybody would say it like that they go pilot season you ever hear that like pilot man you're very i'm going out to la for two months for pilot season i was like i never got to go to pilot season

they would be gone for two months it's like during the coldest time of the year in new york we're just staying there doing spots and then all your other friends are just doing 40 auditions for every pilot and then i'm just back you know so you always want a reason so then when i used to go out i would go i stay at nick's house a lot mainly for years i would stay with nick novicky uh before he was married and even after he was married

And then I was able to finally get to... I could go and kind of stay at a hotel if I went out there not too long ago. But I remember the Beverly Hilton, I would always look. And this was...

This is 10 years ago. So it wasn't like too crazy. It was like, I forget what it was, $200 a night or something like that. I don't think too insane back then. But I was like, man, if I can get to where I can just stay in that hotel because it's like that's a famous hotel. It's like in Beverly Hills. It's like you're just kind of like – I don't know. My brain can only think about the –

I would stay in Times Square in New York. That's just how I... And so I remember I went and stayed at the Beverly Hilton a lot. I finally got to where I was staying at the Beverly Hilton. It was before they have a Waldorf Astoria right across the street from it. And it wasn't even built yet. And so I finally got to the point where I stayed at the Beverly Hilton.

And so it was always kind of a special thing because it was the first little kind of goal nugget kind of cool thing that I just kind of had for myself. Yeah.

You're not trying to brag about or anything, but in my head I go, if I can just get it where I could go and afford to stay there. And, you know, Laura's not like, where are you staying? And everybody, you know. And so to be back there for this was pretty wild. And, I mean, I'm walking by where I checked in. I mean, I walked in a hotel a lot. And, you know, I walked to where I check in and I walked into, you know, yeah, it was like, yeah, it was pretty, pretty, pretty surreal. I was telling Travis, Travis who works with me,

and you know that we grew up with together because travis always come out and hang with me i remember in that hotels when i told him i was like i go if i can ever get big i was like i'll hire you to do something and like so it's like there's a lot of stuff that was just pretty special to then be in there presenting yeah it's a cool full circle it's a cool full circle moment uh so yeah so then so you're going up and you're seeing everybody it's it's it's every i talked to everybody uh i'll i'll send you this i'll

This is someone who I met. I will airdrop it to Aaron. Oh, yeah. Name drop it to me? Oh, airdrop it. Don't say that because that makes me feel bad. I told you it was going to be. I apologized for it. I don't see your thing, Aaron. Oh, airdrop. Now I see it. Angelina Jolie thing. Very cool, though. Very cool. That's unbelievable. Very cool. That's unbelievable. I'm a big Tomb Raider fan.

Oh, yeah, Laura Cross. Salt? Did you mention Salt to her? Here's my boy. The Rock. All right. Which one's The Rock? The Rock was, you know, he's wonderful. Tough to get a ring over your whole finger when you're The Rock. I bet, I was saying as I was watching this, I go, I bet when you meet him, you're like, I get it.

I get it. Yeah. I went up. So, look, I will be honest with you. I got a little confidence when Angelina Jolie said it that I go, I might be able to walk up to some of these people. I might be the most popular guy at the Golden Globes. They're lucky to have me. Yeah. I'm like, all right, all right, let me see. And so, luckily, he was at the table with Ted Sarandos, who

Runs, owns Netflix. And I know Ted from Netflix. So I was like, all right, I have a backup.

to be, if he's like, I'm like, really cool to meet you. You know, I always think like, I'll just go up and say, really cool to meet you, a fan of what you're doing. And then if I don't feel anything, then I just can leave and go to, and then, you know, have a plan. So you're not just stuck. An out. An out. Yeah. And so I was like, saw a little moment. I was like, all right, I'm going to go do it. Right. And then when I went up to him and then he was, knew me,

was wonderful he's a big stand-up fan yeah yeah and then was a big uh he went to mcgavick and glencliffe uh here we talked about i go mcgavick talks about you all the time here in nashville because he went there yeah he went to mcgavick he used he didn't graduate from there no he would go there for a short time he went to glencliffe and mcgavick and he went here uh and then he would wrestle at the nashville fairgrounds okay and so uh

But he was wonderful, dude. I, you know, I've talked about him being everywhere. I think he's done. I think it's been, it doesn't feel like it as much anymore now, but you get like, I, I will tell you from what the moments I talked to him, I was asking him, you know, look, honestly, a lot of stuff about what I want to do with Nate land was a big, like, I was like, I really want to, uh, talk to someone like that. That's built it to be like what he's building. And, uh,

He would talk to you all day. What did you call him? I called him Dwayne when I first went up. Okay, yeah. Yeah. And then now it's- As it went on, you were like, the rock. As it went on, I go, the rock. I go, do you have a smile? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you say. I can show you one other of him, but it's-

It was the moment. Because I talked to him when I was at the. Who took this, Laura? His daughter. Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford. You see it. That's why he's shaking. And then. So that's Nicky. So we went in to Nicky's green room afterwards. Right. We being friends with Nicky, know Nicky and stuff. So and then he came in on his own.

Like, so everybody's gone. He needed some help buttoning his shirt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, it was like, that was like the nice, no one, uh,

I did not see anybody else come back there. Just to tell her you did a great job. He goes... They walk in, they go, Dwayne Johnson would like to just say... And he walked in and said, you did great. This is impossible. And you better... Just told her how great she was and how great... Because I just want to let you know that. I mean, he goes out... He has to go out of back way because it's like he's too big. And so that's like...

Seeing that was like to even go like to think about he said up front, you know, he's gonna get made fun of he didn't win anything Yeah, he just but he brought his daughter and they went back there and he said and he just you know it was after - it wasn't like immediate and It was like it was very very cool And when you meet him did you see him in videos and all this and being fans and stuff like that? I like

I think he's that guy, dude. If you see him meet with people and be nice, he's a very nice person. And he's a person that came up to WWE, loves the stuff he makes is for people.

everybody? You know, when I did Jimmy Kimmel in 2018, he was on there pitching Jumanji and we were in the same room together and I really wanted to go talk to him, but I was so nervous. I had never done late night. And so I didn't, and I do regret not going over and just saying, Hey, cause yeah, I mean, I was a huge fan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was too. I mean, it was, uh, and, and, and, you know, it's funny knowing now he would have been,

the most like he's the best he's he's just a super nice person yeah and uh it would really change your career if you just talked to him i know i do regret at least not you know it's funny this would be dusty land right now yeah yeah he would have honestly probably stayed in touch with you and followed your career yeah uh i know i mean i i mean i already regret it but i appreciate you guys piling it on

he has he goes he has big plans he's what's that uh long-haired woman on your podcast so uh but yeah he was uh he he was awesome dude and then uh

So it's nice to, it's, you know, I, a lot of, you know, a lot of stuff with Hollywood, a lot of, you know, it's like, look, everything's awesome. And you see the golden globes and, you know, stuff's nominated for everything. It's like a lot of the cool stuff wins and, uh, all this. And you don't know what, uh, you know, I, you know, it's like not a lot of people don't see these movies or shows and, you know, award shows. That's been a, a big thing. But, uh,

When I met him, you're like, you do feel like you're like, oh, you got a guy on. There's a lot of people I think kind of like-minded. You know, Glenn Powell. Like people that do think about entertainment to be entertainment and to be what it's supposed to be. Not everybody makes mistakes and everybody does stuff wrong, but it's nice to kind of be like, all right, like I don't, you know, you don't feel like you're the only one. Not that I'm not these guys, but you know.

uh so it was great then we went uh so then we went to yeah then you went to the after party uh yeah netflix after party kevin bagan came up to me really uh yeah he goes he was like this is a big he's like i'm a fan very nice all that stuff and he goes uh he goes yeah i'll come i want to come see when you're in new york and i was like oh yeah man he goes uh what do you do when you go to new york like the beacon

And I had a... And I go, I go, well, I'll be at Madison Square Garden. I'll be there. And he goes, Madison Square Garden? And I was like, I'm like apologizing. I'm sorry. I did...

You really feel bad. No one knows the stand-up. The Beacon's where Jerry Seinfeld goes. Huge. They don't think of it. What are you, middle of the carolines? Yeah. It is funny to humbly be able to say Madison Square Garden. Yeah. I said, I'm sorry. I don't know how to tell you this. What venue are you doing? The venue. The venue. The venue.

So, yeah. Yeah, you're like, well, this time around. Yeah, I've been to the bacon, but this time around I'm going to do a little spot called Madison Square Garden. You do feel stupid saying it. And you're like, I'm sorry. I said it right after. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm no footloose here. Yeah. So, I'm trying to think.

Those were the kind of cool, I'm trying to just tell you the fun, cool stuff that I think people want to hear. I'm not trying to, you know. You have any awkward moments with people? I would have said, I don't know. If I would have met Kevin Bacon, I loved Few Good Men. And then I would have nothing else to say. Tremors. Footloose. I had, the one was. What do you think he's most known for?

In the Weber household, a few good men. I think Footless. I would say Footless. I'm joking because he's like the fourth lead in that movie. Yeah. He's great in everything. Kevin Bacon. He's a good engineer. Him? Right here.

Data, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He came up. Oscar winner. Yeah, yeah. Also in Indiana Jones. Yeah. It was in Indiana Jones. Yeah. And everything, everywhere, all at once, he won the Oscar for. Yeah. And he came up and said he was a big fan of you. Came up and said yes and was saying that. He looks emotional taking the picture. He's so excited. Well, he...

I always I took a picture. He came up and asked to take a picture and then I was like, well, I mean, I guess I should take one too. And then so we did. But yeah, was very, very nice and complimentary and came over. And yeah, it was it was. Yeah, pretty crazy. Yeah, it was. It was. Yeah, the whole thing was. Yeah. Laura had fun. It's like, you know, you see the stuff on TV is like pretty cool, man. Pretty fun. And those were the yeah, that's kind of the highlights.

of it all that my little thing I wrote about the pair was, you know, got a laugh, got some laughs, like, you know, got in and out, nothing crazy. Yeah. The great thing about yours is, uh, I thought Nikki did great off the top and then they start doing two actors, uh,

really tight on the camera off to the side yeah and a lot of it just they were going too long they just weren't hitting but then when you came out you're straight forward on the stage by yourself it's a little bit wider it looks more like a stand-up yeah and i don't know how they decide who did what but yours seemed to really well because i write my own that thing with comics i mean i don't always write everything i mean this one i wrote on my own um

I had this story and I was like, all right, I'll try to do a story. And I kind of wrote it out. Then Vecchione, after we taped Vecchione's special, Vecchione came to my house. And like next day, me and him just kind of like went through it. We had a funny thing with it, the long version of the story. I think I have right here that I liked. And then, did you send it? I sent it to Bates too.

I guess I changed it. Oh, yeah, this. Where I was like, I love standing in the corner. I did the whole other thing. I go, for one, I remember doing a show in South Dakota when I first got started on the road to a small group of people and a parrot. The parrot was in the back, would not have been in the show. I asked the only other employee in the room, a dog, to do something, but he just let it happen. So that was one. That was a line that I liked. You just had to cut for time.

Yeah, and then it was like we were talking about, like, I think the dog confused. You know what's funny? I read it to Harper, and then Harper was like, well, what's the dog? And I was like, the dog's just for the little time I have, the dog kind of confuses me. I read it to Ruth, and she didn't get it. Yeah, the dog? Yeah. Yeah, and so...

So then I was like, all right, well, then I was like, you know. But that was one that I liked. I think the men would have gotten it. But apparently all these women don't get the joke. So, yeah. That was a joke. That was it. But it was fun. It was the best. That's awesome. Yeah. Well, kind of different but similar today. Yeah.

Someone that was never at the Golden Globes. But a huge entertainer like yourself, Elvis. Yeah, never at the Golden Globes. I don't think we can call this episode Elvis, though. Well, we're not done yet, Dusty. It's going to be about Golden Globes and some Elvis stuff. Yeah. No, we're going to do another hour. Then we'll bring up Elvis.

Yeah. I like it. Decide at the end of the podcast what we call it. We're having a good time. We're just getting going. Now, a documentary about Elvis won a Golden Globe. Big Elvis fan, by the way. I was listening to him in the car on the way. Oh, shut up. Well, I want to give a shout out to Brian Smith who wrote in and said, you guys have been talking about Elvis a lot. Won't you do a whole episode on The King? And then I looked...

And today, Wednesday, January 8th, is Elvis' 90th birthday. Wow. Can we fill Nate in on Aaron's take on Elvis? Aaron hates Elvis, and Dusty does too. No, that's not really what I said. I said...

As big as he is and as much of a cultural icon as he is, I don't think anybody cares about his music now. Like no one's ever... Okay. Nobody's in the car and goes, yeah, put on some Elvis. What do you want to listen to? I don't know. How about some Elvis? Whereas...

I don't know, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, like those act, the music, people still care about it, right? I don't know if anybody cares about Elvis's music. Because there is a thing that either an Elvis guy or a Beatles guy, but it seems like all the Elvis people are gone. When was that a conversation? I feel like that was a thing at some point. Yeah. I think there's Elvis Channel and Sirius, people like Elvis Christmas.

Well, Christmas was the exception we talked about. But I think, like, I mean, I've watched that one performance of him in that South Dakota. What's the one song? I mean, that's the best thing you've ever seen. Where he's sweating real bad and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he's about to die. Oh, when he did My Way. My Way. And, like, I mean, I use it as...

I show it... We were showing it before we go on stage and have it playing that concert. But just remind yourself, no matter where you're at, that guy was in South Dakota. He died two weeks later and he went out there and did a show for the people as if it was...

He was in New York City and he was in Rapid City, South Dakota. Anybody that could phone it in at a point was that guy when he's that big and he's. But this is my whole point. The thing is him. Yeah. He's the absolute legend. Yeah. Yeah. But but but his music. You're never been in the car with anyone, I would say.

And they go, what do you want to listen to? How about some Elvis? No. Yeah. I don't think there, maybe there's people not on mine, but I think his music's great. I mean, I think people. I think people more might. Yeah. I think they do too. I think you, you don't. I never hear his music talked about in that way. Where, who are you talking to about Elvis?

nobody that's the point yeah i know because you're but you would never be uh i listened to you just wouldn't be in your world i listened to some music from your parents that era yeah well now no elvis was for the people man you're y'all were the working class not the webers yeah of course you didn't like elvis he goes why would you bach he goes yeah

You know, Elvis. You listen to Bach. Yeah. You go, you liked music that didn't have words. You thought Elvis, you go, he's too wordy. Let's put on some Bach. I don't like the way he danced. Tasteless. Despite being dead for over 40 years, Elvis still sells about one million albums each year. It's all Christmas albums.

Second most paid deceased celebrity. Who's first? Madonna? Michael Jackson. Madonna's got to be up there. She's alive. Oh, damn. Well, depends on who you ask. I think... What does that mean? I don't know. I don't know. I'm trying to get out. Explain that. Yeah. He was the biggest, most famous person in the world at one point. Yeah, still the most famous. Just one name, Elvis. I mean...

It's still that famous. I agree with all that. Yeah. I think people like his music, and I think they listen to his music. I know what you mean, the idea that you just... You think more people listen to the Beatles than Elvis? I think so. Yeah. I don't think it's even close. As far as record sales, it's Beatles won, and then it was him too, but I think Michael Jackson passed him. I think he's third. He sold that many? Yeah.

But when? He sold it all in the 60s and 70s. Yeah, just one day. It was one day he sold that many, and then everybody moved on. You know, he was kind of a, what do they call it, a flash in the pan. In the pan. Yeah. Yeah. He makes a million dollars. He has a better career than you right now. Yeah.

But I still... None of that's in dispute. I still agree with the premise. Yeah, yeah. That in the car, somebody will put on Michael Jackson, someone will put on The Beatles, someone will put on... I don't know. I don't even think anybody's listening to Madonna either, but... I think the age group would maybe be that would listen to Elvis is probably...

not the same where Michael Jackson was younger and kind of like is was more in pop yeah and then and so you heard him yeah so you heard him but Elvis is the king of rock and roll yeah yeah but it's like rock and roll is kind of you know

I don't make fun of him, though. I can't stand for that. You don't like him as a musician. I can't stand for that. I don't think the music's good at all. That's the worst version. I mean, How Dog's probably the worst song. That's his most popular song. You don't get to take away your most popular song. What was wrong with it? It's a great song. It's fine. It just aged. It sounds so hokey. I think he's singing about you. Yeah.

That's why you sing it like that. Another about a hound dog crying all the time. But if something ages... That's my whole point is that... You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine. Now Elvis is all about the phenomenon of who he was as a person. Yeah. Not about his music didn't age through the years well. Yeah.

Does that make sense? I think it does. I think it's the opposite, though. I think it skewed you because he is such a phenomenon that you think of him more as a comical joke. I think you're young and you watch the movie and you didn't like the movie, so you just go, the guy was not that great. That's what I would imagine. Because you're young age, y'all imagine there was no world before you. That's right. And you go, good, get over this Elvis guy. Yeah.

Because back when he was doing all this stuff and he does those songs and they're the biggest thing in the world, I mean, it's like, you know, does every Beatles song transcend into the time? A ton of them do, yeah. Yeah. You guys, I don't know. I think people leave you listening to fun country stuff. I mean, it's crazy. You have two planes. You have two airplanes. I was totally on board with you until you started making fun of Elvis' singing.

And you lost me. He just got a funny voice. You're one guy on the thing. He's got a funny voice. It's a beautiful voice. Oh, yeah. It's gorgeous. What's the song that he's... It's unbelievable. I mean, he has a million songs. But the one, the famous one where he's... Are You Lonely Tonight? Love Me Tender? Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, we're having trouble naming four to five songs. I don't know if we can play it. We'll just look up his top songs. Let's go to Spotify. Let's look at the hard data. No, go to the YouTube of South Dakota where he's... I've seen that. That almost proves my point that it's more...

Yeah. I can't help falling in love. I mean, that's a good one. It's a billion plays. Burning love? Yeah, yeah. I guess that's not that good. Is that 48? And then let's go to one of his lower plays. Is that 48? 198 million. Let's do that one. Maybe that's the one. Is that 48 million monthly listeners? Yeah.

48 million monthly listeners. 47 million of those is the 25 Days of Christmas. Is that one billion? I can't help falling in love? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you're talking about. One billion? Yeah, that's a good song. So, all right. That's a good song. Go to Beatles. Okay. 48 million monthly listeners. It's been dead for 130 years. 33 million. 33 million listeners!

Look at that. Spotify, the Beatles are barely even a band. They're gross. It gets there. Put it out of your mind. You're crazy. Your whole system's falling apart. Spotify is your life. This is all you know. I can't believe Here Comes the Sun, though, has that many. It has 1.5 billion. That's...

That's not the song that I would think. I wouldn't have thought of that either. Look at that, dude. Wow. Oh, man. Elvis is... That stinks. I hate that that happened. I think the thing you don't realize... What about Michael Jackson? You know what the problem is? A lot more Asian people than you think. And they love Elvis. Yeah. That's true. They love Elvis. Let's dig into the American numbers. 45? 45. Let me know when you find one that gets to your boy Elvis. Yeah. Can you beat someone?

Taylor Swift. 96 million. Wow, barely. Barely. Well, that's a shame. That's a shame. Yeah, yeah. 2.7 billion on Cruel Son. That is the saddest. Yeah, but she's alive. She's alive in her peak. In her prime. Not her peak. I don't want to say peak, but in her, like, you know. Madonna's 39 million. Yeah. Unreal, dude. Still more than the Beatles. Yeah. Eagles. 36. More than the Beatles. Wow.

Wow. Yeah, man. Talk about that. Look, man, I wish I had looked up some of the numbers. Hit Metallica. That is one of the... Metallica, I'm guessing 19 million. Just for the sake of it. 26 million. 26 million. That might be one. It could be a highlight of the podcast.

Oh, the people. Oh, man. You know, Aaron doesn't get shut down much. Yeah, too bad I make the clips. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is for the people that are watching the whole thing. But, I mean, getting, you know, oh, yeah. That is something. And he got, at the peak of his career, he got drafted into the Army. Yeah.

and went and had to get served. And then he stopped to make a bunch of movies for a while. Yeah. Yeah, again, that's the point. See, you keep talking about who he is as a person. A renaissance man. I'm just talking about how amazing that would be. Like, Taylor Swift gets drafted now and has to- Went and fought in Iraq. Goes to spend three years overseas. And she goes, where was that? She took some time off. That was in Afghanistan. Yeah.

And she was in Ramadi. The numbers, though, really were shocking to see that. That was bizarre. Because my argument is I agree with you that people are not like, put some Elvis on. But when you see that 48 million people a month are listening, that's... Ed Sheeran's at 90 million. Drake's at 73 million. My suspicion is...

Suspicious Minds? Yeah. I caught in a trap. These are fake numbers? No, I think a lot of this is skewed to Christmas. The most one is not Christmas. A billion of it is Christmas. It's not Christmas. You know how much a billion is? Do see more and see what else he has. Chill House Rock.

Can you do the Seymour and see whether it's a hit? What do you mean Seymour? Under number five there. Oh, yeah. Suspicious Minds. And then the rest of it is all Santa Claus is back in town. This is your musical hero.

I'll Be Home for Christmas is top ten song. You know who never did a Christmas album? Led Zeppelin. Yeah, well, a billion listeners to not be Christmas. He's got, there's three, Joe House Rock, isn't the one you just made fun of? Yeah. So that one, and then Burning Love and Can't Help Falling in Love, that's two billion. I wonder where Hound Dog is. Hound Dog is the one he made fun of. Hound Dog, yeah. Oh, Hound Dog. Hound Dog is the one I was making fun of.

Yeah. That's got to rank up there, though. It's up there. We'll wait until Christmas season dies down for all these numbers to correct. Oh, let's see about... Man, hey, man, put on O Little Town of Bethlehem by Elvis. Let's rock out for a bit. Well, maybe. That might be a good song. Have you ever heard it, though? Yeah, I've heard the Christmas song. By Elvis. Yeah. No, I haven't heard a guy who's not a good singer sing it.

but that's ridiculous your argument gets worse and worse as it goes along now he's not a good singer he's digging in he's just waiting I don't even dislike Elvis he's deciding if he's going to pull the grenade and just blow himself he's trying to get us in far enough that he blows us all up well how about this let's look it's like dang near opera hmm

Fun stuff. I'm starting to question if you even have spoons under the couch at home. That's what I'm starting to question. Yeah. I think he sold them. I don't know. I'm starting to question that. The whole Weber royalty is unraveling. You turned on me. You were an ally with me. I know. Until you started making fun of the way Elvis sang. It's just the way he sings hasn't aged that well. It sounds a little hokey. Sounds a little funny to me now. That vibrato. It sounds like, what are you doing?

You know? Dial it back a bit. Yeah. Not a lot of people got it. There's a lot of... Some Elvis fun facts. Well, first of all, there's a lot of parallels with Elvis and Nate. Okay. This is the root of the frustration. He goes, let him talk. Let him talk. Elvis had an eating disorder. Aaron's going to leave early.

Elvis had an eating disorder. He had it the other way. Our eating disorder was the other way. All right, I'm back. He gained a lot of weight at the peak of his career. He had a soda machine in his house. And so I don't have that, but I'm working on getting a soda machine in the house. With different flavors? That's amazing. Yeah.

Get that good, get Sonic Ice and have it. That's the dream. If I get that. He said he could destroy eight deluxe cheeseburgers, two bacon-less tomato sandwiches, and three milkshakes in one sitting.

What would he eat with peanut butter? He put peanut butter on something weird? Peanut butter and bananas. He throws some bacon on there too. They have Elvis sandwiches at some place. He ate meatloaf, tomatoes, and mashed potatoes for two straight years. I sent you a video. I did an Elvis impersonation thing one time. Oh, man. This is getting better and better. Hold on. Let me download that.

There's a lot of text I don't want displayed on the podcast. Just a heads up. Yeah. This is you? That's Dusty? Yeah, watch this. Was this when you were drinking? Oh, yeah. It's a terrible video. Wait, is this Halloween or are you just hanging out? No, I did it. Go back to that one. Elvis karaoke. I was hosting a...

Yeah, I had put on a lot of weight. I can't even imagine this being you. Yeah. I did a roller derby karaoke or something. You were the talk of the town. It was a hot video.

Yeah. It's my favorite. Yeah, the hot video. It's called ElvisLives.wmv. Oh, that's great. I'm sorry I made fun of his voice there. I didn't know you used to perform at him. Yeah. Everything you do, and then you look back at that, and then look at that senior picture. Yeah. And you're like, well, how does... You're changing your... Many faces. You change your look the whole time. Many faces. Yeah. Yeah.

Elvis was really in, he wanted to be a cop. So he had all these guns. He had all these honorary badges. And he would put a light on his car, like a police car. And he would see people speeding. And he would chase them in his car, pull them over, tell them to slow down, then sign an autograph for it and hand it to them. Wow. Yeah, I love that. He had an entourage of people. Yeah.

Do you know that woman? Nah. That's it, yeah. Looks like the woman that your dad met. Fontainebleau? Yeah. She's the other woman? There he goes. You should not make fun of the rock shirt anymore, Dusty.

Well, that was a cost. Yeah, you're right. That's my friend Mark. I do know Mark. Yeah. How tall were you then? Mark's tall guy. Oh, okay. Because that woman was taller than you. I haven't grown since. You'll get taller when you lose weight. Elvis had an entourage of friends and family that worked for him, and they called themselves...

The Memphis Mafia? Yeah. So, what would you... The Nate Land Nerds? I was trying to think. The Nate Land Nerds. The Nate Nerds? We went to... Yeah, we went to Graceland. It's awesome. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. He had one guy, one of his entourage guys, they called him Hamburger James because his job was to go out and get him hamburgers at 3 a.m. That was his lone job. It was just a guy that... He stole some stuff from Elvis and they found out about it. And then I think they were...

They weren't at home. They were somewhere else. And they found out he was trying to get on a plane to fly back to Memphis. They went to the airport. Elvis went in with one of his badges, made them stop the plane. He went on the plane, drug the guy off. And he told him, they said they both started crying. He's like, if you needed money, why didn't you just tell me? Because we're a family. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. So that's what you think of Elvis. Yeah. Yeah.

The airport security is a little lax. Yeah. It was pre-9-11, I think. Yeah. It was pre-a lot of stuff. He had a limo driver, and he said, do you own this limo, or do you work for someone else? He said, I work for someone else. He said, well, not anymore. And he bought the limo and gave it to the driver as a tip. Wow. That's very nice. And then that limo driver probably ruined that business in little to no time. Yeah.

He goes, yeah. He's like, so you'll be my client? He goes, no, I got a driver. He goes, but go start your own business. He's like, well, I've got a good thing going right here. He goes, I have insurance. Do you have insurance? Benefits? There's no insurance. And you're going to have to pay taxes on this. You're going to have to pay taxes, yeah. You want to get your title right with this. You're going to have to pay taxes. This is my third day on the job, Elvis. He goes, I would have never picked you up if I knew you were going to ruin my life like this.

But it is crazy to think he could still be alive. He's been dead for almost 50 years and he's 90. There is a preacher out there that they say is Elvis. Yeah, the guy mentioned him. Yeah, I remember an Unsolved Mysteries or something. Bob Joyce. Yeah, Bob Joyce. I remember an Unsolved Mystery that was...

Yeah, that's him. Yeah. And you hear him. This guy's already way better than Elvis. Yeah. Listen to his voice. I want to hear him sing. I mean, he sounds a little bit like Elvis. Yeah. Yeah. That's him. Yeah. I remember watching, like, it was either Unsolved Mysteries or it was, like, it was, like, one of those main shows. Right, right. And I remember old enough that they were watching and they were really doing, like, is he alive? And, you know, it was, like, almost like the...

Geraldo when he did the opening of what... Oh, yeah. Al Capone's Vault. Yeah, Al Capone's Vault. It's like that kind of stuff. People think he faked his own death. Oh, and it was... I mean, it was on the main channels. Why do they think he did that? He just got too big for the world? It's like the same way they thought Tupac faked his own death. The same way they got anybody faked their own death because they're just so big that you just assume... Trying to get out of it. You know, yeah. And they're so young and they can't be...

You know, you're like... There was a theory on... It was a movie called Coffee and Cigarettes. Old movie. And they said that Aaron... Or Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron. Yeah.

No, maybe it was something else. Maybe Aaron's his middle name. But anyway, but it's allegedly his brother died. Jesse Garrett. Yeah, died when he was, you know, born. Yeah, yeah. But they say that he didn't die, this theory, and that once Elvis became too famous, he didn't want it anymore. So he passed it over to his brother. His brother was Elvis. And then that's the brother who couldn't handle the fame. And he's the one that got all fat and out of control, you know. Yeah. It's a fun theory. That one was fun. That's fun.

That's fun. Yeah, I mean, imagine being that. I mean, can you imagine showing your badge and stopping FAA traffic? They go, what's going on? You go, Elvis is here, and he wants to get his buddy on, and they're crying. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah.

Yeah. Like it was just a different world. But height of celebrity, probably the pilot wanted to meet Elvis. Probably. There's a president wanted to meet Elvis. Like anybody that would ever get in trouble. Richard Nixon met him. Yeah. At the White House. He brought him a gun. Oh yeah. They said, I don't know how he got past secret service. He gave Nixon a gun as a gift.

Probably going to the White House. I was hanging out with Larry the Cable Guy one time in this little patio at a casino. And then the security guard came to kick us out because nobody was allowed to be out there. And then Larry Cable Guy kind of did the Larry the Cable Guy voice. And they were like, oh, hey. They got so excited. They started taking pictures with him. They were like, stay as long as you want.

And that's tiny compared to Elvis. That's tiny compared to... To Elvis? Stopping a plane. Elvis the cable guy. Yeah. Yeah.

That'd be fun. Yeah. All right. We're ready to wrap it up. Yeah. Elvis the cable guy. All right. So we put Golden Globes, a little Elvis. Yeah. Yeah. A little Elvis. A little Elvis. You're right. A little Elvis. He's always right. All right. Well, we're back. Glad to be back. Did some shows. Got some shows. I'll be in Vegas. See some Elvis in person. Omaha, D.C.,

Just yeah, just the clubs building it back up building a new hour. So yep, there you go. It's all we Could be adding some shows for the tour for the big demise tour. It's gonna be big and it's gonna be awesome I'm excited So yeah, it's all in there. Can't wait. Yep this Saturday. I'm in Fort Myers, Florida two shows at the event space called the workshop and

January 25th, I'm in Marietta, Georgia at LA Stage. January 31st, Stardome Comedy Club in Hoover. February 7th, Marion, Illinois at the Little Nashville Cafe. That's cool. And February 8th in Quinton, Virginia. Quinton? Yeah, just outside Richmond. Aaron Weber here. Detroit, Michigan. I've never done stand-up in Detroit.

And I'm going to be there at the House of Comedy in Detroit, January 17th and 18th. And then at the end of the month, I'm back down in Texas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, doing the Creek in the Cave for a full weekend. So that'll be a lot of fun. Coming out here, Texas or Detroit. I'll see y'all out there. All right. Hey, January 17th, I'll be in Birmingham, Alabama.

But the show is sold out. That's nice. So you didn't need to say it. Come to my show. But then January 18th, I'll be in Pensacola, Florida, and tickets are available. All tickets, DustySlay.com. I'll be coming into Indiana. I'll be in Evansville, Indianapolis, you know, other places coming up. DustySlay.com. Thank you. All right. Well, I hope your year is going great.

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