235: #235 Social Media ft. Trey Kennedy
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Hello, folks, and hey, Barry, welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bay, Taren Weber, Dusty Slay. All right. We got a fun guest in today sitting in with us. Yeah. I've not officially met you until just now. Just did. True.

Trey. Yes, just in case. This is Trey Kennedy, everybody. Thanks for having me. I thought it was John Crist. Oh, there you go. Just found, just right now, figured out it wasn't John. Yeah, hey, that's all. He's been waiting about two years for that. I was with John this weekend.

I just did his pod. Yeah, that's what he said. Oh, yeah? Yeah. What'd y'all do? Just talked about you. Yeah. What'd y'all do? This week we gambled. I mean, I gambled. That sounded bad. I did. I didn't mean it like that. I'm not, you know. Right. We golfed.

And that's what I meant to say. We were golfing. It's a bit of a gamble on your emotions, golfing is. We did. We play a game when we golf. I never play. I'll tell you what. I got lit up. Chris played out of his mind this week. Oh, yeah? Really? In golf. He can golf. I mean, this week, I got lit up by he was making everything possible.

So he played – I mean, it's probably the best – it's the best I've seen him play. I play with him a lot, and it's the best I've seen him play. But I'm sure he'll tell everybody about it. He talked about it enough this weekend. Trey probably knows about it. Yeah. Surprisingly enough, he didn't mention it. I'm sure he was done. Oh, yeah. I'm sure you handled it well, Nate. Oh, I handled it fine. I can't imagine you were serious.

Yeah, I've been working on comedy. Oh, yeah, yeah. I let him know. He popped on. We had him pop on to do the late shows in Vegas. So it was – yeah, Vegas was fun. It was fun. Let me read this. We got a little Nate Land news.

Nate Land presents DC Improv Sunday, January 6th. Julian McCullough, Derek Stroop, and Joe Zimmerman. They are doing a show, one show at 7 p.m. If you want to see those guys, go see them. I'm there before that, and then I'm leaving, and they are staying because they will be with me that weekend. And then they are doing a longer set. So you can see Julian, Derek Stroop, and Joe Zimmerman Sunday, 7 p.m., DC Improv Sunday.

That's a hot show. That is a great show. And then Dusty, one-hour special, February 28th at the Walker Theater. Low ticket alert. First show sold out, I think. Second show, there's some tickets. There's some tickets. Get those tickets and see the next big special. And then my tour starts Big Dumb Eyes. This weekend did Vegas six shows. We got somewhere.

We're getting somewhere. We're able to do... I'm pretty pumped. I mean, I still stink right now. Q&A's coming together? I only did a Q&A. I didn't do it the last day. I was able to do an hour without a Q&A. Which was nice. I did do a Q&A, but I think I'll still do it at some of the clubs because I think it's a fun... It is fun for them. And I won't be able to do it. Yeah, that's what I say. I go, I think this is fun for y'all.

Selfless. That's how I say it. Yeah, I go. I assume y'all have stuff that you've always wondered what I...

No, it's... How do you start a Q&A? What do you say? Oh, I just... It's not good. Okay. I just go... I'll kind of finish one thing, then I have a closer. Man, having a closer, dude. I got a great closer. Okay. It's so unbelievable. I wish I had a closer. Yeah. I don't know. You wouldn't know what to do with it if you ever had one. So... Where does it go? Yeah. He goes... Yeah. Yeah.

You don't know. I mean, that's not your thing, dude. You leave on a low note. No one can tell if you're about to wrap up or it's the middle. They just go. Leave them wanting less. Your closers, they go, I think we're about good. That's the audience. My closer is my merch pitch. You would always do a merch pitch closer.

God, people, comics would get good at merch. I had a good merch pitch, but it wasn't my closer though, but I had a good merch pitch. It was right before the close. It was right before the close. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, I just would talk about my shirts and I don't know. It was all good though. I got laughs and it boosted the show. Yeah. I used to annoy me because you had about 20 minutes on shirts and then 20 minutes on hats. And then you're like, hey, I got some hats and shirts. You built this whole act to sell stuff and it really worked. Yeah, it was hot. I had a hot merch thing. I mean, I was working it. Do you still do merch stuff now? I do, but I don't do a pitch now. Okay.

There's no time. Yeah. There's no time to put it in. Trey, do you do a pitch on the road? You know, I don't do a pitch. Should I? I think a pitch is fun. Yeah, yeah. I mean, if you can write it in. Yeah. First time, Trey. You're selling stuff, right? Yeah. Oh, I do. Actually, I did my first pitch. I played. We got back on the road because we had a baby girl. I was in Madison, Wisconsin. Oh, God.

Hey, congrats, everybody. Yeah, it's a huge accomplishment. We all have one. We all have one. Nothing new, Trey. Bring some new stuff to this. Two under two, that gives you some oohs and ahs. Yeah, okay. That is something. That is something. Two under two. John was two under two, first two holes. And I swear, is that why you brought it up? Yeah.

I was going to say, Trey does not have kids. Not married. He did that on purpose. All right. Sorry. Go ahead, Trey. But I had a – I launched like a – I'm trying to do a wine thing. So I did a pitch on stage. The first night I did it, it was like the most pathetic kind of like just if you want to. Your heart wasn't in it. I like a pitch like that though.

A pitch like that is good. That makes you feel sorry. I'm embarrassed to be doing this. Also, it's like you're not putting it on the – I hate when a merch pitch is like making the audience feel like, oh, I guess I got to support this guy. I'm like, if you want to buy it, buy it. It's good stuff. It's the best stuff you could get. I don't know why you wouldn't want it.

want it. I'm doing you a favor. Yeah. It's like, I say, Hey, maybe you're thinking I got to go out and get a hat. Well, now you can do it tonight. You know, save yourself a trip. And I use the kit. I'm like, I had two under two. So it's a lot and it's expensive. So that's why I do that. Here's wine. Makes sense, right? Yeah, I think it does. I think it's great. Uh,

What do you do in wine? What do you do? You started a wine thing? I started, yeah, I announced it in October. It's called Basic Cellar's Wine. I was just trying to...

I don't know because I- Do you have a wine, what is that called? A vineyard? Vineyard? Vineyard? Vineyard? Do you have a vineyard? I don't have it. We partnered with like an existing wine company. So a vineyard feels like what it was initially called. I bet it was. And then as it went along, they got fancy with it. Oh, it's a vineyard. The wine got, well, the elite started drinking the wine. Vineyard, that's what it is. That's what it is. It's a yard of vines. It's a yard of vines. That's a great point, actually. Yeah. Yeah.

I feel like that's amazing because initially I thought that was stupid, but you were right. That's how a lot of this works out. Everybody, sometimes it takes a little bit longer for people to realize, maybe a couple weeks. Yeah, but I mean, I've been here for five minutes. You've been here five minutes. I'm getting better at it. Yeah, right. Yeah. So anyway, we were in Vegas, but yeah. Having a closer though, dude, this is the quickest I've ever had a closer.

Like that's a laid out closer. Like, I don't know if it really has any other place. I'll be interested to see in a year if it's, but I can't imagine. I don't know where else it's, it's almost, I'm scared I'm going to get tired of it too.

Because I've had it so... I put it on the shelf for a while. You ever do that? Yeah. If it's already good to go. We don't have something else back there, bud. We ain't got something sitting back there, bud. We got, you know, I try to sell Trey's wine. Maybe. Maybe I could try that. But I don't know. Yeah. We don't got nothing else. Nothing else that fills...

Like, you know, we can get off. But maybe if I find something else. I was on the show, Trey's first time ever on stage. Oh. When was that? 2018. Wow. 6,000 people in Dallas. Trey had never been on stage. Walked out. Where? At what venue? The Verizon. It was called the Verizon Center. Grand Prairie. Yeah, yeah. I've been there. That place is awesome. It was awesome. Very cool. That place is awesome. That's an awesome spot. The set was rough.

It was? His set? I mean, I didn't even really do a set. Did you go up before? I'm just kidding. No, I mean, it was... You've not done an open mic, anything like that? No, because I didn't even do a set. If people... So Trey...

Do you want to explain? Like, Trey, say Trey is. I've never met him, so I didn't. Yeah. I know I've. No, we go way back. No, yeah. Explain to Trey, you know. I've been making videos for a long time, and I met John Crist because we were making videos, and people mistake us for each other. They still do. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we look alike. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously. Both selling wine. Yeah.

You sell wine, he's a wino. Yeah, it's a lot of the same stuff. A lot of the same stuff. We just, a lot of synergy. And we, and so I was just a kid making videos and he blew up and he's like selling these tickets and doing these big venues. And he was like, come on the road. People know us together. You should come on the road. And I was like, well, I don't do that. I don't know what to do. And he had me out. And in hindsight, this is insane because he just, I was like, what am I going to do? He's like, just, I'll just call it. We'll kind of be out there together and we'll like.

riff out there and I was like and you've never been on stage that's John all day yeah so I had not in that format John's act is like we'll figure it out out there he goes I let the crowd figure it out

No, I had done stage stuff, but not like that at all. Like what? Like a little play? I did a lot of... Spelling bee. I was in college spelling bee. I did a lot of singing and I was like in an improv group. So I had done, but not really, right? And so I just waltz out there and he just kind of lead it. I just was like, I was out there for six minutes. What was your improv troupe name?

It was... We didn't have a troop name, which is a shame. Your show's treble. Yeah. After you did the six minutes, is that when you thought, I'll do a 6,000 seat venue? You went straight to that? You go, I think I got it. I didn't even do a set. I just walked out and John's like, here's Trey. I was like, hi. And he like...

I'd kind of like make... We'd make fun of each other and walk off. So we did a show in Houston that weekend right after the devastating floods of Houston. The famous floods where J.J. Watt saved a town. Remember all that? Oh, yeah, yeah. Where it was like a big deal. This is maybe... There's still water on the ground, right? So...

That's not true, but it was fresh off the flood. I'm sure somewhere. Trey goes out there. He's got, yeah, he's got, uh, him and John will wear these jeans that are just, they're like too high off the ankle. Roll them. Yeah. Yeah. And he says, you've got the flood on that jeans is great. And Trey goes, yeah, well we are in Houston.

That was my first ever joke. Smashed it, huh? You love it. I love it. I think it was topical, so it's good. It was timely. So you're a political guy. I was all a blur. Really environmental. No, but it was a wild week and I was so... I hardly spoke to you guys. I was so terrified. This is how naive I was. You had a million followers on whatever and I was like,

I've been doing comedy for like a year and a half. And I was like, yo, Trey, dude.

I think you could make like t-shirts. Oh yeah. Jimi Hendrix. Yeah. I'll think about it. He's got an empire. You should make t-shirts. I forget. Yeah. You were still working. You were still grinding a day job. You were like, I'm going to be back on the bus. I was very early on. Anyway. Now Trey is doing his own thing. He's doing theaters and musical. I did the podcast. Dusty's done. Dusty came on my podcast. Thanks again. It was a good time. Awesome.

But looking back on that, shout out to John. He was good to me and was trying to show me the ropes a little bit. But I didn't know why I was there. But how did you and John first meet?

He jokes about this. It was like 2017. So it was both kind of like getting a bunch of videos viral and he ton of like mistaking ton of people mistaken us for one another. And he reached out. He DM me, but I guess I didn't see it. And Emma, his sister, y'all know. She reached out and I saw it. So he forever he'd be like, oh, you saw the cute girl DM me her back, but not me. I was like, well, I didn't do it that way on purpose. We just kind of linked up. He was in L.A.,

And so we made a couple videos and people viral, people liked them. So we just kind of stayed in touch making videos and he had me out with them 2018, 20 and 2019. I came back for a couple and actually did some standup. Yeah. Um, so yeah, it was, I appreciate it. Hmm. Great. Then he took a break and,

Oh, he did? Yeah. Oh, wow, what happened? No, you were really nice, so I remember you hitting me up just kind of like, dude, I hope you're not getting too much slack for this one. And John was great, and it was fine. No one, it was whatever. Rough time to be mistaken. Yeah, yeah. I started posting a crap ton of marriage content. He goes, being married be like. Yeah, Trey, I see you shaved your beard. Yeah.

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All right, where were you? I was in Fort Myers, Florida on Saturday. Did two shows. Nice weather. Yeah, it was great. Did two shows at the Luminary Hotel. You stayed there too? Yeah. That's nice. Yeah, it was awesome. It was awesome. You still go down there? What time do you get to the show when you're at the hotel? Shows at the hotel. What time's the show? Seven. Six and eight. Six and eight. You get down there at 445? Yeah.

We got to do a mic check. Yeah. What time did you get down there? Five? No. He rolls in at 5.55, right? I was later than that. My opener started at six. I rolled in about 6.05. Oh, that's great. Big time. Wow. I do get there early. You do roll in like that? Late like that? I came down, then went back up. Maroon. Oh, okay. Watch a little football.

Wow. That's pretty nice. It is nice. You can go sit in your own hotel room. It's like something about sitting and then you're about to go be on stage. The condo in Wichita. Sorry, I stepped on that. Yeah, you know, but you got jumpy. It's a pretty solid joke. Go ahead. I didn't hear it. Huh? What'd you say? I said, you know, it's fun to be sitting there watching TV when you're about to go on stage in front of 10 people. 10 people?

You go, you could go do your act in your room, and it's a little bit different downstairs. Well, there was more than 10. Thank you very much. No, there was 10. He's killing it. That's fun. I would say that club in Wichita where the condo, the bedroom shares a wall with the club. That's crazy. So you can be in bed.

And you hear the show going on the other side of the wall. And I did that. And you can hear the whole show? You can hear it, yeah. It's right there. I mean, like, the comic is five feet behind you. You were in bed? I was in bed when the host was up. I was in bed. How hard is it to get into... Is that where your alarm...

Was that your alarm to host? Hey, we got a great show tonight. Aaron Webber's asleep right there like a bear. It's 7 p.m. He fell asleep. In a condo with no windows, no good ventilation. That's true. Two other comics in there. A lot of sadness. Yeah. That club has since closed. It's depressing. It was a good club, though. Yeah, it wasn't. I liked it. Okay.

I'm kidding. Fort Myers was great. It's one of my favorite places. Fort Myers was great. Two great shows. A lot of folks came out. What's Fort Myers? What's the club? It was a hotel. Oh, okay. They have a club. They're Snappers. Okay. Yeah.

But this was an event space in a hotel. They usually use it, stadium seating, well. Theater seating. Theater seating is what I'm about to say. But they use it for culinary demonstrations in class. There's like a kitchen down on the floor. So you were in a kitchen performing? Behind the island. Draped it off the island. Yeah, it was down on the floor. But it's the first time they'd done comedy. That's cool. How much time did you do?

An hour each. All right. Yep. Trey, were you anywhere fun? I was supposed to play the club in Huntsville, but it got snowed out. Oh, really? So I... I didn't think they snowed, did I? Snow's tough on Alabama. They got like six inches, yeah. Yeah, six inches in a city like Huntsville will shut things down. We were shut down all last week because of the snow here in Nashville. Yeah, so I was at home with the two under two. Just putting in the work.

Super dad. I was just in town doing spots at the club here. Big football game this weekend. I won't talk too much about it, but it was unbelievable. Unbelievable. And we got one more to go. We were all watching. I was telling you, Greg Garcia was with us, and he was like, if I knew Aaron a little better...

I would have texted and been like, hey, you got time to chat real fast? Just write with like 30 seconds left. And I was like, we should just call him and then just see. All right, that's why I was joking when I said I was going to text you with a minute left and go congrats. I mean, that's infuriating when the game's not wrapped up. And it's like, dude, if we texted Aaron now, we'd go congrats, man. You get so many people, dude. Nick Novicki, he can't wait to text you.

He'll text you congrats first quarter. I mean, he loves it. I go, Nick, do not talk to me until after the game. Yeah. Because he'll be a minute in. He goes, Vandy's looking good. We lose by 40. And then, you know, he's like, whoa. Really turned around. Yeah, yeah. And I'm like, Nick, I swear. I remember when the Titans beat the Ravens when they were the number one seed in the playoffs. We watched it at your house. And –

Titans are up by, I don't know, 10 or something like that early in the fourth quarter. And Ryan Malone shows up and he goes, oh, it's over. Yeah. And I got so upset. Just him saying that because I feel like he was going to jinx us. Yeah. Yeah, I don't like it. I don't like it. Dusty?

I was in town Friday. Friday got snowed out, but I did this weekend at Zanity's. I did four spots at the club. I had no shows. I did a spot. I did two guest spots on Catherine Blanford's show, and then I did a spot on Killer B's show. Oh.

the Nashville legend Killer Bees. And then I did a Zany's Comedy All-Stars. So four shows at Zany's in one night. That used to be unheard of. Unheard of. It was so great. And yeah, it was just fun. I was practicing. Actually, I'm doing the Tonight Show on Thursday. Oh, yeah. So I was practicing a set. And each time I did it, it got worse. Yeah.

By the fourth time, I was like, I don't even know if I should do The Tonight Show. But I rewrote it and did it on Sunday, and it was great. Oh, that's good. I think it's good sometimes to – you know the hard part when you run a set? It's because you're only running that set. Yeah. And so when you go up there with a job to go – I'm just trying to time this out –

it's a weird kind of thing. So you almost have to, when you run a set, you have to have a couple jokes just to get the room going, and then you get in the set without them even really knowing it.

Because it can go bad. Yeah. I like to do it that way so that I – just in case the audience is not hot when I get to the show for whatever reason. I agree. I would always go run my set in the worst – you need a bomb with your set. I would always go run it in the worst situation possible.

And I would usually bomb with it. I bombed too many times with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To where I was like... Well, that may not be a good set. And that's... Yeah, I know. That's the problem. Because you do have to then eventually go, I need to say something. Yeah. And have a couple other things just because I need to get some gauge on the real timing of this set. Yeah. Because it's just a weird... You just come out...

And I don't, it's like, even if you didn't say I was running a set, it's, it's just, it feels like everybody knows. Oh yeah. And so it's every, everybody's kind of like, it's almost like they know cameras are out or something and you're like, well, they're not, we're just practicing, but then they're going to vibe. They're going, this is what you're going to do. This is what, this is your idea of your best five. Did they bring you up or did you tell them I was doing tonight show?

Do they bring you up as the... No, no, no. Just as a guest. Obviously, I'm doing the Tonight Show this week. Here's what I'm going to do. Normally, you know I would be on the road. I'm a headliner. That's right. I'd like to be doing an hour 20, but tonight I'm doing five. I'm doing five to give you a taste. Who else is on your episode?

Oh, actually, Kenny Chesney is on the episode. Whoa, wow. Big time. That's fun. I actually wanted to try to write Kenny Chesney jokes for the thing. Yeah. But,

For me to make fun of a song, like to break down a song, there's got to be, I don't know, and his songs are good or they're kind of funny songs. So you can't make fun of a funny song. And then, I don't know, there's other songs I like. I like Kenny Chesney. Yeah, and I would think just go do a set and assume that not everybody wants to see you do a very specific that night. Well, that's true, too. Breakdown of a song nobody's heard of. That is true, too.

Yeah. Where did that last guest get off? There's no context to it. He just walked out and started trashing Kenny Chesney. And then also, Brian told me Brooke Shields is on the episode, too. Is that right? Yeah. Well, I guess it's kind of obvious when I asked you who's on the show that I knew. But yeah. Yeah. Kenny Chesney, Brooke Shields. Yeah. That's a hot show. It is a hot show. Is Kenny playing? Yeah.

I don't know. Have you ever met him? I never met him. I've never met him either. I'm trying to get it set up to meet him, though. Yeah, I would like to meet him. Yeah, I'd like to meet him. Yeah, he's one I would love to meet. You've got a story for him. Why? Well, I have a story with him. Kenny Chesney? Yeah, but I think we've shown it. It's the song. The song. Oh, okay. Back where I come from. I played it at the... Oh, okay. I never got to meet him and say that. Yeah.

Just so you let him know. Yeah. So let him know. I got a song story for him too. He's got a song about an alcoholic and I'm like, now he does have a song about an alcoholic and it's a good one. You know, that song where he's like, uh, what does he say? Uh,

Now I can't think of it. But he's talking about going to AA. The old man stood up in the aisles and said, I've been living a life of it. I don't know. It's a good song. That's why I'm here? That's why I'm here. It's the simple things in life like the kids at home and a loving wife. You get it. That may get us flying. I love it. Yeah, I love that. That was pretty close to getting you. Yeah.

Yeah. Boy, I love some Kenny Chess. The devil takes your hand and says, no fear. Have another shot. Just one more beer. Yeah, I've been there. Have all y'all seen him live? No. I have, yes, actually. Yeah, I have. He plays Arrowhead in Kansas City like every other summer, like Fourth of July weekend. It's a big deal. It sells it out. It's amazing. It's so fun. You live in Kansas City? Yeah. Are you from there? I'm from Oklahoma originally. I thought you were from Texas or something. Yeah.

No, Oklahoma, born and raised, and then went to Oklahoma State. Because you just look like Dude Perfect. I just did a thing with him. That's pretty solid. You could fit in for Dude Perfect. I do. Yeah, I've met those guys. They're really super nice guys. They're the best. I did post something with them. I got a million DMs of people like, you're them. Yeah, yeah. So I'm hoping I'm on the understudy in case one of them...

Yeah, something that goes down. Yeah, shout out Kenny. Yeah. Have you met him? No, I've not met him. Yeah. No, no, no. What was the Dude Perfect thing you did? Do you want to talk about it? Oh, yeah. You were hanging out at their new headquarters, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why don't I know? Did they need another bigger one?

It looks like the same thing. I'll read it. Well, the show The Vegas. Dusty's got a hat on. We had some people come to The Vegas Show. The Vegas Show was so good this weekend, man. And so everybody dressed up as one of us. I played myself. Harper on the far right. Brian Bates. Is that the Star Trek?

It looks like it does. It looks like the Star Trek head. No, no. No, the other one that's like a little something. Oh, Klingon. Yeah. So. Yeah. Uh.

Come on, man. And then... It does look like that, though. A lot of ripples. I'm wearing the same... I think Worf is his name. The Nate one's pretty good. Nate's dead on. Dead on. I don't appreciate that this person wore a fat suit for me, but I think she nailed it. She nailed it. And then Dusty Slay. And then look at that. Look at that. Got the hat on. Boom. Wearing the hat. Yeah, y'all thought it was real hair. It's not. Dusty's got his real...

That's fun. Yeah, they were awesome. He is going a little too high with the wave, I think, here, right? Yeah, he is too high. It looks like he's asking a question. Yeah, you don't want to get it too high. You're like, well, yes, you, sir. But I think impressions are a little exaggerated. Right, right, right. Obviously, with Bates, not the case. They toned it down. No, it's, yeah, everybody. That's really cool. Thank you, guys. It was very, very, very cool. Yeah.

I like that camo jacket. It seems like they would have one of the women play the guy with the long hair and then maybe have the guy play me or Aaron. That's right. I think having the older guy be used got a little on the nose. Is that a woman? I think that's a woman there. On the left. You're talking about being dusty. The older guy being dusty. I'm talking about the guy that's dusty. I mean, the obvious choice would have had him be Brian, but that's a little too obvious. Is that a real beard? Yeah.

Did he answer? No, it doesn't look... It's Dustin Chaffer. I'd like to see, what if he really looks like Brian? It's like, you could have just did it. You could have done, yeah. He's like, nah, I'd rather look like Dusty. Yeah. He wanted to be cool for once. Yeah. He's like, well, I made the hat. Yeah. All right. That's fun. Oh, that's headphones. Looks like she's hiding a baby under there. Like a little baby's head, like she's got it in the...

Yeah, she's got a t-shirt on with a horse. Pretty fun. Yeah, that's awesome. All right, we'll start it off. Your comments. Christine, I've seen every episode of Nateland multiple times, and Nate has never been so giddy with such pure joy more than the moment he got to prove Aaron wrong about Elvis. An iconic Nateland moment. You a big Elvis fan, Trey?

No, I can't say. Yeah. But what's the argument? Aaron's really taken a lot. He doesn't. Aaron doesn't think Elvis is that big of a garbage. He thinks it's a big of a deal.

What was your take? He ain't Notre Dame's better than Elvis. I got word for word. He's been taking a lot of heat for it, though. Have you? I have been taking some flack. I've gotten more messages of support. People are giving me private support, which I understand, given the circumstances. You said Elvis sucks? The Elvis people are out, dude. Facebook, these people. I'll tell you what. I would think we have a lot of Elvis people.

I would think a lot of our listeners. You do. Yeah, we have a lot of people that love some Elvis. And it's very platform dependent. Facebook, Elvis is their favorite person of all time. Yeah, yeah. And they're like, man, I thought I couldn't love Nate anymore. Hearing him defend Elvis. Now he's my all-time favorite. I love it. Kick that fat idiot off the bucket. Oh, wow. Send him to jailhouse rock, man. I feel like, guys, you're our age and younger, though. If this is what you're saying, I don't care about Elvis.

Well, yeah. Kick you off too. Yeah, but I guess we'd be careful. You're going to be done. There it is. I just said I think he's more of a cultural icon than a musical one. I don't think his music is aged as well as other people from that era. I get what you're saying. Like Sinatra. We're still listening to Sinatra. You put that on at the holidays. Yeah, yeah.

It took a turn when he thinks the same thing about Sinatra. Yeah. He doesn't. I thought he was going to agree with me and he was like, Aaron doesn't think anything before his existence is pointless is what I would say.

That's right. Yeah. And then everything after the Bible. I am all that matters. Yeah. Me, me, me. He believes in the Bible, but only in the iPhone version. Yeah. He doesn't think Elvis can sing. That was where he lost me. I made fun of his voice a little bit, but Dusty used to dress up as Elvis. So anyway, it's been a whole thing. It's been a whole thing, but I just want you to know.

Got a lot of support out there for people messaging me. I was worried about you. You are right and going, I can't believe nobody agreed with you. Shame on Dusty for turning his back on you in the middle of an argument. A lot of stuff like that. Well, you kept heightening the argument to a place where I was like, I got to get off this. I'm not wearing my space suit here. I'm losing oxygen. I got to jump off. Trying to have a fun podcast. You know what I mean? Yeah, just trying to. That's not what we're about, Aaron.

Nathan Bright-hopped-hooped. Nathan Brit-hooped. That's a tough one. Bright-hooped. That's a tough one. That looks like what my name was before, and I changed it to Bargetzi. Yeah. Don't care what the numbers say. Aaron is 1 million percent correct about Elvis. Now, that's the kind of statement I like. Yeah. I go, and I don't care what the facts are. Yeah. Yeah, don't show me the proof. Yeah. So we looked at Spotify. Spotify. People listen to Spotify. It's...

enormous people listen to it. 47 million monthly listeners for Elvis. And he thought it was going to be like... I thought Beatles would be 100 million. Beatles, 33 million. Yeah, Beatles and Bears. Now, what a lot of people told me is that, and who knows if this is true, that how Spotify calculates the monthly listeners as it looks at the previous 28 days...

So what we were seeing, heavily skewed by Elvis' Christmas album. Now I'm just going to, I think we should look at those numbers again in April or May. I like that. I look forward to it. I look forward to it.

But then April, May feels like a Beatles month. Yeah, it does. They're big in the spring. Yeah, well, then that's here comes the sun skewed. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so I want a little... That's true. What would be a neutral month then? September. Fall's not really neutral. I would say July. Okay. Elvis is like America, so then maybe that would be... July could be...

Maybe July. July doesn't feel like Beatles. I think February is a good one. Okay. Yeah, we'll wait. February could be good. Yeah. Think about all the old people, though, that are Elvis fans who aren't on Spotify. Yeah, I think April, May seems all, that's Beatles all day. I'll wait till the numbers. I bet that's when they would tour. Or what they want. Is April and May. Yeah, yeah. I'll wait till the numbers are good for me and then we'll look at them together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Clint Jurgens. Elvis Dusty broke me. I wish we could hire him for an event. You can hire me for an event. Would you do Elvis? No, I don't think so.

I mean, if the money was right. I bet there's a. There's a price. There's a price. There's a price. And your price is much different than it was back then. Yeah, that's true. I don't even know that they paid me back. Back then it was one. Yeah. Back then it was one Bud Light. I think. But now. I think they rented the suit and gave me a bar tab. Yeah. But it was, that video was bumped up. I shared the video on my personal YouTube because that's, I didn't upload that video, but I shared it on my.

personal YouTube and it's bumped up. It's not gotten views in 14 years and now it's seeing some sunlight. Yeah. Yeah.

I will say I did see this clip, but I watched every second of it. It's a good clip. It looks like a good time. A girl I was dating at the time made that video. No offense to the other women in the video, but she took all the attractive ones out. There was a lot of attractive women at the event, and I posed with them too. No offense to the women who weren't attractive enough to be removed from the video. Yeah, but trust me. As some woman goes, look, that's me. Yeah.

And I don't mean it like that, but it's like, just saying. There's attractive levels, and there were more attractive women at the event. Yeah. Was it an event? It was the roller derby team. It was Elvis Bingo. I was Elvis, and the roller derby was playing. Female roller derby team? Yeah. All week long, somebody's like, Marge, we saw you on Nate Land. Yeah.

That's why I watched the whole video. I was like, there's got to be some hot girls at this party. At Subway. Yeah. You got to watch this all the way through. Some strong women were probably there. Yeah. There were some strong ones. Yeah. Mark Bigley. I was born in Hawaii while my mom was pregnant with me. She and a friend met Elvis and a couple of his entourage walking down the beach. They sat down and had a short conversation. He patted my mom's stomach as if to say hello. This was in 1969.

Your dad's Elvis, dude. Yeah. Mark, I don't know how to tell you this, but your dad is Elvis. Yeah. Had it or stomach. Pretty cool. That's pretty. Yeah. That's pretty crazy. Elvis. Yeah. It'd be 90, right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not saying I don't believe him, but that's an easy one to lie about. Well, I mean, his mom would have just told him this. That's what I'm saying. The mom could easily lie about.

Yeah, you know, yeah. I got an... Seems weird. Seems like a weird lie. I would say... It's not that weird because it's a cool story. I know, but I would say... To me, I would think they would just say we met and hung out and whatever. Her saying he patted on his stomach, I believe it. I mean... Yeah. I believe Elvis... A story like that's got to be true. A story like that's got to be true. I believe that. Fun time Aaron. Uh...

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What was it like for Nate to meet Dude Perfect and what was his favorite part of the new headquarters? Yeah, the Dude Perfect was awesome to get together. Those guys are, you know, Trey, they're awesome guys. Are they? Yeah, they are. Make sure Trey agrees. I've met three of the five. Yeah. So at least the majority are nice. Good people. I like them. And then so, you know what's funny? CeeDee Lamb was in that video and he was at Vegas.

We saw him in Vegas. I didn't go. I didn't talk to him. If I would have known he was... I didn't realize he was in that video or I would have probably said something to him. But yeah, we went and it was awesome. They were very, very cool. Their headquarters is huge. It makes you want... I want Nate Land to have the same headquarters. I mean, when you walk in, you're just like, well, I want this. Like, how can we... I don't even do any of this stuff. But it was like crazy...

Yeah, I mean, it's just so impressive of a thing. Are you in this video? Yeah. What score did you do? I'm at like 150. I did a basketball thing. I just did like comedy. I think I'm at a minute 50. Everybody gather around. Yeah, right here. Tell some jokes. Really? No, I did this. Oh, like a bit. Okay. Yeah. That's an awesome cut to a tight. Yeah, yeah. And then I did like a far shot and then –

it's good so and then I did a couple of little pop ups like just funny stuff but they yeah so I got to bring Harper my niece and nephew and then a couple of my nephews and so it was like you know it was like unbelievable for them to all get to see you know get to go do it so it was a special day and a special trip and yeah Dude Perfect is awesome

And so I made a basket. Their new gym's good. And Ryan, have you seen the – there's one of the basketball goals that's really high that they show. I made it in there. I don't know if you see it right here, but I made it in the – it's a basketball goal that moves. Mine was not moving, but it's very tall, and I made it. So there you go. And did – yeah. Yeah.

All right. No, I think I pretty long ride to school for Ryan here.

I was going to say a little bit of both. I've mentioned this before, but John Chris made a Dude Perfect spoof video, and Aaron is very, very funny in it. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Way back in the day. That was a good video. Oh, I remember y'all, what did y'all call yourselves? Bro Epic. I remember Barstool, y'all got the Barstool bros were coming at you because they did a

I think those guys did a bit very similar at the same time where they were like, we're bro-sweet or something. Oh, okay. Yeah. That was good. I went down that slide. The original idea is always get copied, you know what I mean? Yep. But our idea was copying another idea. It's hard to... Ciro Gonzalo Cibivoldi. Ciro... Ciro...

Cyro Gansarlo Giancarlo I was going to say Giancarlo. Delete me, set up this username. Cyro Giancarlo Sepulveda Sepulveda I just downloaded Babbel.

to learn Spanish. I haven't started it yet. Five years after this not being a sponsor. Yeah, but I thought I was like, yeah, maybe try. I met Cody Rhodes. Yeah, I met him. What language are you doing? I haven't even started, but I did. It's pretty good. Spanish. I was going to try Spanish.

I haven't done it yet. But that's the big first step, downloading the app. Next is signing up. Plus you're learning to speed read, so you've got a lot on your plate. Still got to read that book. I have to give props to Aaron. I'm currently sitting in a Southwest flight with an open middle seat. I'm a big dude, and I used Aaron's technique of picking a row with another big guy sitting in the window seat.

I set myself in the aisle seat and watched as everyone passed by. We had the only empty seat on the flight right here next to us. Hello, big folks. Yeah, that really is a good strategy. I admire you for using it because it does hurt your feelings a little when you're the only seat next to you. But if you just lean into that, it doesn't have to be just fat people either. Any undesirable person.

Yeah. They smell bad or they look weird or something. Yeah. Anybody. I find the only potential problem is that you get kind of like the worst person. Right. If like he's fat, he's probably like the person. No, I mean, the person of size towards the end of the flight, you get the person that's like, well, it's all we got.

It's a little bit of a roll of the dice, right? You ever been stuck with three fatties? Yeah. What if they, oh, if the guy goes in and he goes, I guess this is our seats. And then he sits in between. And I mean, yeah. Oh, this is for doing things. He goes, I thought it was our section. I thought they made us sit together. I go, are you kidding me? Y'all making us sit together?

And then he just has to go and he's, his butt never really touches the seat. He's just cause he can't get all the way down. And then they have to come move you to balance the plane. Uh,

And then they got to move up. Guys, you can't sit on the same side. They've never seen three armrests all pulled up. All of them. Yeah. He does that little trick. Maybe you ever knew. Do that all the time. Yeah. The aisle armrest. The aisle armrest. One seatbelt extender all the way across. There's no room in between. Oh.

And you're in exit row and they go, guys, I don't know how to say this, but you can't. Windows fogged up. Yeah.

It's a lot of heat. They do the math and they realize that they're in the seats where they first start the food service. Y'all know what row it is? It's the first row back from exit row. That's how they usually do it. It is a little bit of a risk, but very, very rarely.

is there not at least one open seat on a Southwest flight? Even when they come on and say, you know, we got a full flight today, ladies and gentlemen. So that doesn't really mean it's full. Sometimes they go, we got a very full flight. We're like, well, full is binary. So you're already being a little. What do they mean? Full. It's heavy. It's a heavy flight. We're at capacity. Do you ever look at the guy and you guys kind of give like a.

I'd give a, I almost every flight this happens, I give a little nux to the guy next to me. Do you do it? You make sure to do it. You hear a crunch? Yeah. You both have chips in your hand. Crunch. And he goes. What do y'all both look at each other and lift those little middle armrests up?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, you both look and it's like... Of course. You got to flood over into that other seat. Because sometimes... Are y'all still touching?

just our knees yeah you can celebrate a little too early because you go you look around and you go oh we're good and then some idiot runs on the plane last second right and I've had that happen all the time so I got excited this is the last time I flew I got excited with the guy next to me and he looked excited too and I go don't count don't count your chickens for the hatch and he goes oh I know and then when the plane started moving it was like we got out of there yeah

You got to wait for the door. You got chicken? Yeah. What? What chicken? I don't think they serve chicken. I'll take one.

You got to wait till that door shuts. Yes. I've learned that. And another one, you got to wait for the door shut. You got to make sure everybody's sitting down because I've been caught with someone behind me. Like in the back and they walked all the way back past and then they go, it's full back here. And so then they turn around and now they're looking for the only empty, the first seat that's empty. Or they go back for cabin space or something to put their,

bag yeah yeah you could you just gotta you gotta be sure you want to be almost moving there's nothing worse than celebrating and then it gets yeah yeah you want them to come talk to you in exit row already like if they've already talked the move is to go when the flight attendant i go if you want if you need to stand here while the boarding happens that's great yeah and then the flight attendant will stand in the middle seat in the exit row yeah and that's that's that's a big one right there

You like them when they... I like when they do that, too. I go, you need a place to stand. This is great. You stand right here. It can come across a little weird. Sounds creepy if I do it. You need a place to stand? You can straddle me. Start whistling at her. I get kicked off the plane. Adam...

I was going to say, spent three hours at the Lebanon DMV today. You start to understand Brian a little bit. Oh, yeah? You know what I mean? Just zero urgency. Oh, yeah. Nobody knows the answer to anything. They have to ask each other. Three hours is 30 minutes to them.

You know, they... You're going to interrupt to tell that? Yeah. Oh, by the way? I knew Nate would like that. Yeah, three hours ain't nothing. Well, I had a thing. That's all they have to do. I got renewed my license, and I didn't get the paperwork for it. Brian goes up there to watch. That's good.

They probably charge people. They do have to pay for parking because too many people get up there and try to get up there and just watch so they can give advice and help everybody out. Oh, my goodness.

They go, what are you doing up here? The courtroom's closed today, so we figured we'd come here. Hold that thought, Aaron. When I was a kid, my grandparents, they would go and park on the square in Lebanon and just watch people drive around. Shut up, Dusty. And it was kind of fun. You see people you know. Oh, yeah. Hey! I get it. My granddad would...

Oh, yeah. That's nice. God, what a great time. Simpler times. Yeah. Yeah. So shut up. Nobody's whittled in years. No. I'm sure people whittle, but I bet they do it now because it's... They do it on TikTok and stuff. Yeah. It's like, you know, it's a video. Yeah. Time lapse it. Yeah. Time lapse it. Unless he doesn't do anything. Unless he sees it on TikTok. Well, there's a lot of ideas on there. What are you going to do? TikTok's gone. I don't know. It makes me sad. It's a fun... We'll get into it. Okay. Yeah. What? Oh, yeah. I guess we're doing... So I want to get my license renewed. I did...

I did it on the kiosk like Brian did. And then I got a receipt that said, you need to see somebody at the desk. What ended up happening was my license did get renewed. There's an error with the machine. I didn't get the paperwork. So I'm waiting in line for two and a half hours to tell somebody. And so I tell the woman and she goes, boy, I don't know.

So I go, well, if not you, who? Like, this is your whole thing. Boy, I don't know. Were you really two and a half hours? Literally two and a half hours. Wow. I got there at 1245, and I didn't get out of there until 315 or whatever. So that's why I was a little late getting here today. And so I go, well, what should I do? She goes, well, let me email Tennessee Tech Support and see what they say. So she emails him.

And then we're just standing there. I go, are you waiting for a response for the email? She goes, yeah. This is how we're doing it. You're sending an email to not a specific person, like an admin at Tennessee.gov. And you're like, what are we doing here? So I go, I had to leave to come to the podcast. I didn't even get my license. Oh, wow. Because the woman was just, she had no idea what to do. That's crazy. But I was like, that's Lebanon for me. So you got to go back tomorrow. Yeah, got to go back in the morning.

Maybe get your act together and don't wait until your license expires. You gotta have... Look, look, look. Talking about urgency. Of course I take the blame for putting it off until now. Yeah. But it's very funny.

It wasn't funny at the time, but it is now. Yeah. To wait for two and a half hours, and then they go. Just send an email. Yeah. Boy, I don't know. Let me send an email. That answer is so frustrating. Boy, I don't know. It's like, this is not fun for me. I'm not having a good time here. She was nice. She was a friendly person. Yeah. It's fine to be friendly. But just no urgency. No like. I'd rather you be rude and efficient than friendly and not. You know the day you're.

Because he just, you just had yours renewed. I just got mine renewed. Yeah. Like you keep it a date. Like you look forward to it. What's my, it's my birthday. Yeah. But isn't it like every, every eight years. Yeah. And you love it. Well, I'm going to look forward to the next one because my current one, I'm doing this. So the next eight years. Yeah. Oh yeah. We got it right there. We got it right back there. Yeah. Look at that. Yeah.

You shared that online. That's a good picture. Thank you. That's how they always look to me. Adam Pfaffman. Wow. Pfaffman. Some names today, man. Right? How did you, Adam? How did he teach his sixth grade Sunday school? Pfaffman. They got to go, hey. I think.

Teacher Faf... Mr. Faf... Reverend Fafman. You've got a silent P, a silent F, and then just to top it off, another silent N at the end. You assume. I mean... Yeah.

Yeah, like half those letters you don't pronounce in that word. I'm guessing. It's like they gave him his name. Yeah, his name was Fafman. F-A-F-M-A-N. And then they go, you can have these other letters. And he goes, I'll use them. I'll use them. Yeah, I'll put them wherever. I'll put them. I teach sixth grade Sunday school at our church. All the boys were talking about Nate's Christmas special and his new Netflix special and how they all watched it. Love how your comedy reaches all ages. Thank you very much to all the boys.

Appreciate you watching it. Fafman. Adam Fafman. Yeah, that first day of teaching where he had to write his name on the chalkboard. And he kept going. They were like, golly, this guy. His teacher's like, I don't think that's right. He starts with Adam, and they're like, all right, it's not that bad. Good night. He just keeps rolling.

Kyle Morrison. We saw Nate in an arena, Dusty in a theater, and Brian at a comedy club. I'm curious what venue is y'all's favorite. Each seems charming in its own way, but the club just feels right for comedy. Saw Aaron at Dollar General. Well, not all of us are doing arenas, so we don't really have a take on it. I mean, we've done them, but headlining is different. It's a different feel. The club is probably the best because of the comic you saw. Yeah. Yeah.

I like the theater. I, you know, I never thought I would, I always told Aaron, I don't want to do theaters. I said, I like comedy clubs. And then I said, don't worry about it. And then I, and then I did a theater and I was like, Oh no, this is better. Uh, but I do like comedy clubs in its own way. And, uh, because they're, it's fun. It's like real personal. You're right up in there. Uh, like clubs like comedy off Broadway that you were, you were just at, it's like people are right up on you and it's like, you know, it's fun. Um,

But the theater's great, too. Yeah. Parking's the easiest at Brian's show. There you go. I'm talking about the comedy club. I'm doing the comedy club, too. He helps you out. The arena, we did...

Go ahead, Dusty. No, I mean, just saying doing Nate's show at Bridgestone, that's incredible. But yeah, it's like it's a different thing for Nate than for us, right? We're up there for seven minutes. Nate's doing an hour. So when you're up there for an hour, you really get to feel it out. Yeah. Why didn't you give us more time? Sorry about that. I spent the first three minutes wondering why the stage wasn't rotating. Yeah. And they told me it was the round. Yeah. I thought you figured it out. Yeah.

No, but so I just mean it's a, you don't really get a, I don't, I don't have a feel for what it's like to be, to do arenas. That's my point. I was going to say, you got your start in arenas. Yeah. Now you're doing clubs. I went back to clubs. I didn't like it. I did an arena once. Yeah. For like, and there's like 300 people there. Really? Yeah. So that was fun. Uh,

Your own show? No. Memphis Grizzlies had me do their family fun night or something. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it was the day Kobe died. Oh, and they still did it? Yeah. Oh, man.

So, it was a tough gig. Yeah, keep the fun going, guys. Grizzlies, they were terrible. So, there was like no one there. It was like a faith and family night. It's like the saddest day for basketball. So, there was like a few youth groups you could tell. They were like that. You almost think they just wouldn't do it. A really good guy texted me. He's like, we don't know if the game's happening. We don't know if anything's happening. And the guy, he was cool and all, but as I was coming out, he's like...

Just do your best. Sorry, man. Sorry. Just act like you haven't watched the news. How much time did I think? It was legit like 45 minutes. Yeah. Not good. So that's my whole arenas. Good? Yeah, I've done FedEx for them. It's no big deal to me, but us three have. I like arenas. No, I've never. Yeah, I've done every kind of arena you could imagine.

I've done every venue. It can be as small, it can be as... Yeah. Seen it all. Yeah. And they're all... I get asked this question a lot. It's... They're all great. And they're all great in their thing. Now I'm doing comedy clubs like I just did. You know, I'm going to...

Omaha and DC Improv, Funny Bone, to work on this new hour. And then Vegas' theater is awesome. They all feel great. The arena. I do look forward to getting back to the arena because I think this act is going to... I'm going to be able to use the cameras a lot with just facial expressions and stuff. And so the screens and really play with them and the way we're setting it up, it's going to feel like you're... There's going to be a lot of screens and I understand that, but I think if you just watch the screen and go with it, I'll be able to...

really use expressions to get laughs and stuff like that. And so I'm very excited for this run in the arenas. But yeah, I like it. They're all awesome, and they're all great in their own right. And it's a matter of go see it where you want to go see it. So yeah, you can go see it.

Jake Stevens. How do you feel about McDonald's abandoning the iconic white, red, and yellow straws for the clear ones? I, for one, hate it. It doesn't feel right. It seems like the Coke doesn't even taste the same now. I don't know if I've noticed it. I haven't seen it either. I don't think I've seen it yet. And I mean, I had McDonald's. I think, I don't know if I've noticed it yet. Were you in the moment or were you just going through the motions? I don't know if I was in the moment, but it's...

It doesn't stick out. I think I would notice it. Can you Google see if that's true? Yeah. Somebody sent me this picture that I thought you guys would like. It's McDonald's serving Krispy Kreme. Oh, how about that? Man, it's like the Avengers teaming up. Yeah, that's a tough one for me right there. You could bring that for your buddy on the plane. You'll never guess what I got on both these things.

McDonald's quietly switches classic yellow red straw for the new flimsy option. Yeah. And it's not paper, so it's still plastic. I feel like I still am. Maybe I'm just they haven't made it to us yet. So I don't maybe I haven't noticed it. But you know what, dude? Maybe I have no because they got the clear cup now, right? Maybe I have noticed it and I just haven't noticed the shame. I maybe I think I have noticed it, but I don't know if I've.

Others complained the clear straw had a strange taste similar to petroleum. I think that's coke. Yeah. 1,000% affecting the taste of my drinks. Awful change. Yeah. But the snack wrap is back, so you take the good with the bad. Josh Harry. I'm 43 and grew up the road from Dusty and Valley, Alabama. Growing up, my family always referred to sandwich bread as loaf bread.

The first time I used the phrase loaf bread in front of my wife, she looked at me like I was not normal. This is completely normal, right? I'm sure Dusty toasted many a piece of loaf bread at Jim Bob's back in the day.

Well, this guy tweeted this at me. My mom grew up in Valley. And I mean, we called it loaf of bread, like a loaf of bread. But we never called it loaf bread. We called it loaf bread. You called it like you're like, oh, I want a sandwich on loaf bread. He's always good for. Is that right? You're like, I want to say other people will make me a sandwich. What kind of bread? Loaf bread.

We didn't have a lot of options of bread around my house. So loaf bread is like sliced, like Wonder Bread, something like that? Okay. But what other bread would you have? Sliced bread was pretty new. Yeah, yeah, that's true. What'd you say? I didn't hear what you said. Sliced bread was pretty new for you. I don't know when it was invented, but... We call it like loaf of bread, like get a loaf of bread. Get a loaf of bread. Get a loaf, yeah. Yeah, but...

I don't know that, I mean, I don't think my mom, you know, who I imagine is older than Josh Harry. Well, he's 43. Okay, yeah. Not guaranteed. Sliced bread, 1928. I bet by the time I made it to Lebanon, big boy Bates was, Brad Bates was getting into it. That guy, you know. Brad Bates. There you go. You hear about that loaf, Brad? That probably took a long time to get to it.

They had to get that around. Invention of sliced bread. And look how quickly it caught on, though. By 1933, over 80% of bread sold in the U.S. was pre-sliced. Was that about Comedian Red Skelton? It got hot. It's amazing it's that much of a selling point. Because you can get the bread...

But then once they pre-sliced it, it says the bakery sold 2,000% more bread. So it was that big of a selling point just to have already cut— Maybe not a hassle. They might even have had knives in every house in 1928. That might be one of the few things you needed. Like a sharp knife, sharp enough to slice bread? They might not have had a bread knife. Yeah, exactly. But I would think it's just the annoyance of—

slicing bread was you know there were people like you're paying extra because you're too good to cut your own oh yeah yeah give me a break fancy boy yeah you go it's easy gotta get that loaf bread yeah todd weinberg weinberg uh josh harry too that's a good name todd weinberg nate can we get an update on former intern cole uh yeah he's at auburn

He's probably... He's about to go to college. Are you almost done? Yeah, he's probably almost done. That's crazy. Yeah, crazy. He announced his college of choice on our podcast. Just like... Oh, wow. So... He put on a hat? Yeah. He put on a hat? Yeah, put on a hat. Yeah. And his brother Jackson, the Air Force, going to fly fighter jets.

Crazy. What's Cole doing? He's going to be, I don't know. He's in, yeah, it's like maybe finances or something like that. Like it's a, they're both very, it's a very smart family. So they were all very smart. But yeah, he's, Cole's at Auburn and I think he's having a good time down there. We see him when they come back for the holidays and see, and then Jack's at,

So you're going to come back to Nate Land, cook the books a bit for us? Yeah. I mean, you know, the job market is tough out there. So, you know, if we can get an Auburn grad, get a college. Big time. I go, we're putting in the offer for Cole. I think we'll be competing. Yeah, up against Deloitte. Deloitte, yeah. KPMG. And then Nate Land.

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All right. This week, as we've already alluded to, TikTok's supposed to end this Sunday, I believe, unless something happens. Whoa. Is it that soon? Yeah. You broke it to me like that. I didn't know that news. You really broke it to me like that. You thought it was still a hypothetical kind of? Yeah. Yeah, there's a date. January 19th. Wow. Now, I guess the Supreme Court

I mean, I don't guess they've made their official ruling yet as of this. That's sad news. This taping, but. That's my biggest following. I just hit half a mil on TikTok. Well, now it means nothing. Congrats. I do wonder. Half a mil means nothing to Trey. Well, of course. Trey goes, wow, that's a good Tuesday. What do you have, Trey? On TikTok, I have four million. That's going away.

that's how it works you know whatever are you gonna try to i mean you have a few days to try to convert those people over to your other platforms now i read if you have a vpn aaron i don't understand that but you do you can still do it well so as i understand that the ban it's not like it'll disappear off your phone it just means it's like you're kind of grandfathered in but you won't be able to download it again but then it just no one's like running it so it's gonna just

deteriorate in the coming months. They won't be fixing bugs. Oh, I like that. Kind of like running it into the ground. Yeah, I like that. This actually might be when Dusty thrives. Unless someone decides to just straight delete it or something. But yeah, it's kind of crazy. All of a sudden. It is a big. Is that your biggest following? No. Facebook. Facebook.

I'm lucky. Facebook and TikTok are more important to me. I mean, it's still not good. It sucks. I mean, I'm sure everyone has a following here on TikTok. You said Facebook and TikTok. Instagram, sorry. Facebook and Instagram are... If they deleted Instagram, I'd be super bummed because that's... I feel like that's the most helpful for me at least. Yeah, yeah. But

Instagram feels the most real to me still. Yeah. It feels like it's the most real people. I don't know if that's accurate statistically. I think so. So it's, yeah, with TikTok, yeah, it'll be interesting to see what happens in the creator world. Because, I mean, people are going to, like, there's people that are only on TikTok. Are they not even? Yeah, there's definitely a ton of kids who are only on it or if it's like 90% of their income.

You know, I mean, there's a lot of kids who are probably just like, dang. Yeah. Of all ages, kids, adults. Trey, you're in a unique position to talk about this because your first platform where you got a lot of followers, and I remember seeing you on this way back in the day, was you were huge on Vine. Mm-hmm.

- Oh yeah. - And then Vine went away. Now what was that like taking all those people from your, I mean, starting over or did you convert those people or how did that work? - Yeah, I started over basically and that was a good learning lesson. I was just making TikToks in college and I had almost three million there and they just straight delete, they're like, on this date it will disappear off the face of the planet.

TikTok is really stuck in your mind, I think. I feel like every app that you're trying to reference, you say TikTok. Did I just say it again? You're making vines. It's clearly affecting me. Better help. Seems like you're taking it well. I guess it was good learning the lesson with Vine because when that ended, I really didn't have a following elsewhere. I had to kind of

start from square one what did you do like on go on vine say all right i must be here like is there is was there a formal ending a last post uh the really yeah there really was they had a date yeah so as vine ended every single kid of mine was just like follow my instagram yeah yeah and i got i maybe had 50 000 when i ended but i i had three million so luckily i was able to keep going build new followings and and keep

I post across five platforms on purpose now because this happens. It's kind of wild. But for those TikTokers out there, I was able to keep it going. I think if you're good at making content, it can work on any platform. I mean, if you can do six seconds, then the rest should be easy.

I mean, I wasn't convinced of it, but luckily it worked out. Yeah. It's just great. And now we're reverting back to it. I feel like kids are making 10-second videos again. Because Reels is where it's at. Right, right, right, right. Because Reels is a little bit more like TikTok, right? You just can scroll and look at the videos. Yeah, YouTube Shorts, same thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just vertical scrolling. Oh, yeah, YouTube Shorts. Even X, when you click on a video, it basically becomes TikTok. Yeah, they're trying to. You start scrolling through vertically. Facebook the same way.

I haven't been on Facebook in forever. Facebook. I see your post pop up. You're killing it on there. Yeah. You do well on there. Yeah, yeah. I haven't. That wasn't you who messaged me back? Yeah. Yeah. If you get a message, you still get a lot of that. No, Facebook, people hate on Facebook, but it's still the most used platform. I mean, it's... You have 1.5 million on Facebook, Nate. All right. That's nice. That's great. Yeah.

You know, see that event I just posted? I'm doing something for reading. You're doing an event called the Celebration of Reading? Yeah. A Legacy of Literacy. That's the next special title, right? It's at the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation. Wow, what a gig. Yeah. April 1st. Yeah. Oh, it's a joke. No, it's not. It does look like it's a joke. I get it now. Because it is funny it's on April 1st.

But it's, yeah. I will be there. Mary says, Nate, you're great and very loved. Thank you, Mary. She's a top fan. I appreciate that. I read some of the comments. Based on that comment, I don't want to read the others. Yeah, we're on...

Yeah, we keep an eye on – we have an idea on Facebook. I try to somewhat be removed because it's a – it's just a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot, and so you try to – you can get in stuff where you start – I don't need to be looking at stuff about myself. No, for sure. It's in a bad space. No, if you're fortunate enough – if you can just have someone do it, I mean, that's the dream. Yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, that's good. I mean, it's a lot of comments. So Facebook is, yeah, it's very active. It is still. Yeah, Facebook is still like happening, but I'm like, I don't really get on Facebook either, but it's really happening. So then our podcast Facebook is good too, right? The fan page? Yeah. Yeah, like 7,000 people. There's two of them, two fan pages. Oh, really? Why won't they join together?

Together. They don't like each other. Oh, really? They're competing. It's a Elvis thing. Are you serious? No. But the other one's a lot smaller. But I just don't think the small one knows about the big one. Oh. They have to know. I don't know. Yeah. So when you make a video for something, you're making it

In general, are you making it for one specific one or is it kind of like for all? Kind of for all. Sometimes I think Instagram and Facebook have a similar vibe and TikTok's a little different. So sometimes I make a video kind of like I think this will be better on TikTok versus Instagram and Facebook, but really just posting it everywhere.

I don't get crazy and make certain videos for certain platforms. Is there one thing that you can post it and it goes to everything or do you got to individually go put it in? There are those services. I've never used them because I like to really pay attention when I'm posting and be involved and react because then there's some videos I post to one platform or not the other based off of performance. Instagram will give you the option to post to Facebook because they're owned by the same people. That's true, yeah. But then on Facebook, the handle...

won't tag that person yeah because it's still the instagram facebook is kind of it's so big and stuff but i feel like no one does anything but complain about it's difficult to use analytics are weird and all that but now it's i mean this day it's i used to make longer videos and it's all about just making like vertical 40 second videos now does anybody do horizontal anymore any platform

No, I mean, YouTube for like those Mr. Beast type, those YouTube's now a world where you just make like 30 minute videos or YouTube shorts. And then I feel like any Instagram, TikTok, all that, no one's uploading long videos. I get annoyed when a video is horizontal. I'm like, yeah. But on YouTube. I rotate my phone. YouTube, it is still nice though. I always forget which one is what. Horizon. Horizon. It's a great way to think about it. Horizon. Oh, okay. Horizontal. Horizontal. And then vertical. Jump.

You're vertical. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, that's a bare bones discussion. There you go. We fixed that one. He goes, check salt. So how do they want it? Vertical. Most videos now. Vertical. It's just how we watch stuff now on our phone. Everything's vertical. But YouTube can be like TV. So you can go, you can put it on your TV, watch YouTube, and then so horizontal is still good on YouTube. They're filming all this in landscape. Yes. Horizontal. Yeah. Yeah.

16 by 9. 16 by 9. Yeah. 4K, I believe. Do you have a team? I do. I have a small team. A couple of videographers, editors, assistants. There's just like four or five of us. Think tank? Do you have a room with a whiteboard where you just get into it? Not that much, but we do sit around. I have a couple of guys help me bounce ideas. My wife did a video with you and John one time.

That's right. In a church, yeah. Yeah. Back in the day. Yeah. Wow. Forgot about that. Forgot about that too. That was fun. Great gal. Yes, she is. She's all right. The first social media, there's a little bit of, well, I'm not going to ask you, it's a trick question. Morse code. 1844. But they would use...

They were shortened words. They didn't have O-N-G. Sure, sure. But they had little initials that meant certain things. BRB. S-O-L. SFD meant stop for dinner. What was it? SFD. Oh. Like out to the kids playing or something? I think it meant like, I'm tired of telegraphing back and forth with you. I'm going to stop for dinner. Yeah. GM meant good morning. And there was an article saying how...

Some of these people who could telegraph each other. Via telegraph. I was thinking you're on a ship or something. Just flag them. No, like... You can do it visually. No, I don't know what I'm... That's wrong, probably. But there's a lot of... There's a lot of fake SFDs. Stop for dinner. Oh, yeah. He just says, he's like, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. And he's like, give me a break. It's 2 p.m. And he goes, what happened early today? There was a newspaper story in...

The 1840s saying how these people, they'd rather be friends with people on, they could telegraph Morse code back and forth within their actual friends. They'd rather chat that way. And those are, an article said, now people just say whatever's on their mind. There's no thought. They just send stuff out. So in many ways it was like social media. That's kind of wild. But it's, yeah, with Morse code, what would you, how would you even get to the other place? Yeah.

Through a wire? Some wire, electronic, yeah. But your wire would have to be connected to that place? I don't know how it works. Would you have to go knock on the door and go, will you take the other end of this wire? Hold it. Yeah. Like how, like, I mean, yeah, I don't, over wires. I don't even know how it works now. I mean, it's just invisible. Transmits electrical signals over wires.

where the sender would press a key to create electrical pulses that would travel along the wire to the receiver, which would then translate those pulses into audible clicks or printed dots. So, I mean, this might be so dumb, but to me it seems like you have to be right on the other end of that wire. So I don't know how you link up with somebody across the country. Yeah, you'd have to meet someone.

Unless they all had a wire that went to a town. But then how does it go? You know, a picture of one building in a town. Telegrams relied on a network of wires strung along long distances to transmit the electrical signal. So it was like, yeah, okay. You could like link up to like a hub and do it that way. That's crazy. So it doesn't have to be one-to-one. Yeah. Like an old internet coffee shop. But how does it know? I wonder how it knows to go where. Or are you just putting it out there in general? I have no idea. Yeah.

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You guys heard of this? No. Started in 1997, went till 2000. It was basically six degrees of separation. It was kind of like MySpace and Facebook where you just link your friends and they know these many people and things like that. It was short-lived. Never heard of that. Then there was makeoutclub.com.

So this all started as dating stuff, it seems like. I don't think Six Degrees was. I think it was Makeout Club probably, though. I wish I'd known about Makeout Club. I didn't know about that back then. This is like to meet mutual friends. I could have used that in 98. That would have been fun. Did you have internet in your house all your childhood? Oh, no. No, I mean, I don't even think the internet was really available until probably...

I don't know, 99? Yeah, so do you remember getting it for the first time? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

You remember, too? Y'all both remember? Do you, Trey? I think I have internet in college. No, I don't remember. I don't remember the day like, guys, we have internet now. I don't. But you guys are about the same age, right? So you've had social media your whole childhood. I think my senior year, I think people had AOL. I remember people having dial-ups. Maybe it was 98, maybe 99. Maybe I was out of high school.

I remember when we got a cable modem at our house. That was a big day. And I remember the guy sitting in front of our computer and he goes, name any website. And my dad goes, ESPN.com. And the guy types it in. He goes, watch this. And he hits enter. And it takes like six seconds to load. And we were like, oh, my God. We thought it was the fastest thing in the world. But we had AIM. And I can use the phone.

And a phone at the same time. Yeah. Well, life-changing thing that was. But AIM was big. AOL Instant Messenger. Oh, did you get home from school and just fire that thing up? Yeah. And then I'd say that transitioned to MySpace. Yep. And then at the time... You remember Zynga? Were you ever on Zynga, dude? I had a very active Zynga that I'm embarrassed about that I've looked for and I can't find it, thank God. But I had some thoughts. Dude!

sixth grade. I had things to say, dude. Oh, I wish you could find it. They were not good. Please don't look for them. If you can find it, please send it to me. Please, genuinely do not do that. And then by the time we got to high school, you were just starting to be allowed to have a Facebook. Because it wasn't open to the public yet, but they had just opened it up to high schoolers. So I remember that. And then by the time college, it's

The wild west, dude. Everybody's doing everything. But yeah, we've seen kind of the whole growth era like that. Yeah, and you were probably paying attention to it because you were using it. Oh, yeah. Where we would not have been. We were just kind of like, oh, okay.

I, uh, I remember having to get a MySpace page for comedy. Yeah. Like that's like when I started you, I remember, yeah, we didn't even have, I mean, dude, yeah, it's crazy. YouTube wasn't even a thing when I started comedy. So YouTube came in 2005. You still got a MySpace music account where you're yelled at by clowns on here. Similar artists, Ron Funches. How about that? I just saw him. Uh,

When I started at the TV station I worked at. You always accept cookies? I'm 50-50. Sometimes I go, no. Sometimes I'm feeling generous. Yeah, I trust Justin Timberlake. I trust what they're doing. Yeah, I always try to say no. I actually thought about that one. I don't know why I hit accept. It just felt right to do it. I have no idea what it is at all. I don't really know either, and I never know what to do. I want to just accept it.

I'll accept it. Sometimes I'm like, if I got some time, I'll go in there and figure out how not to accept it. But then the one thing says you have to, well, it's the ones that we need to run the thing. You're like, well, y'all never needed them before, but now I guess you need cookies. So I don't even believe that. And then...

Yeah, it's all a scam. They just want your data. I mean, that's all it is. Well, some stuff you need the cookies to operate. That's literally the way it's not a scam. If you want whatever your website you're using to remember information that you've inputted like on a previous page or something like that, that's how cookies work. So you don't have to redo it every time. Yeah, so stuff like that. You're right. Everything's bad. That's what cookies is.

Everything is bad though. I mean, it's all about getting your information. They remember it for you, but for them. Come on, Dusty, we're having a good time over here. We are having a good time, but just, you know, it is a scam. Well, when I started the TV station...

we can have a good time but live in reality yeah yeah you guys yeah i mean isn't tiktok getting canceled because of this because they're like right and that's what i'm saying yeah finally we got a little bit of freedom of information out here and they're like let's take it away i

Oh, I thought it was because we're getting spied on or something. No, it's for the exact opposite. It's because Dusty, it's for the exact opposite reason. According to my TikTok videos. Well, that's what they tell you, right? They go, we're protecting you, but go eat McDonald's, but we're protecting you. You know what I mean? They're like, they don't protect us anywhere else, but they're like, oh, we're protecting you now.

Even Mark Zuckerberg now is like, hey, guys, remember when I said we weren't hiding information? Well, we were, and now we're not going to do it anymore. So I don't trust any of these social media things. So I don't trust TikTok any less than I trust the rest of them. I mean, come on, guys. Come on, guys. Come on, guys. Who are we kidding here? Let's get it together. I mean, dang.

I don't need to bring it to a halt here, but I just need you guys to know. Yeah. I think we all know. They're all spying on us. I think we all know.

That's the cookies. Yeah. Well, anyway, this story's not that good. I've been trying to tell it for three years. No. Sorry. I want to hear it. Dusty did as a favor. He did do as a favor. When I started at the TV station. Oh, God. It's about you? Let's move on. No, no. I do want to hear it. I do want to hear it. He started at a TV station. 1995. Yeah. The internet was just becoming a thing. You don't know.

thing you heard rumblings about it yep and the guy who worked at our TV station was smart enough to buy the domain for news channel five dot com now there's a new channel five in every city in America yeah but he was the ones he got it first so if

If you look at the ABC affiliate here in town, they're WKRN.com. If you look at NBC, they're WSMV.com. But we're NewsChannel5.com. Wow. Because of that guy. And he didn't... That's crazy. Did he ever get anything for that? He never sold it, huh? Yeah. Well, he bought it on behalf of the station. His job was whatever role was to...

do things like that. Oh, oh, but good on him for good on him. Yeah. Smart enough to buy it for buy it, but not, he should have bought it for himself. Yeah. Sold it to me. Yeah. He should have maybe did maybe realized, oh, that was such a good move. And then maybe he did buy other kinds of stuff. Oh yeah.

I keep trying to buy. Hello, folks. Oh, yeah. I have TreyKinney.com because my dad bought it when I was like a toddler. Oh, really? Your dad was thinking ahead. Yeah, dude. My dad's like the ultimate repair guy, but he bought me and my sister. He just bought our names just in case. You know, that's funny because that is –

BrianBates.com. $120 for BrianBates.com. Oh, it's taken. It's taken. You got it? Is that you, Brian? Is you BrianBates.com? I'm BrianBatesComedy. Can you buy that? This is a gig, and we can probably get it for $120. But it is taken. Yeah, why don't you go get it? Sure. Yeah.

See, it's not being used right now. Somebody's just sitting on it. Yeah, they're waiting. Boy, he goes, not yet. Because I give you $120. Somebody saw I'm blowing up and they bought it. They bought it. That's what they did.

What do we think? Yeah, AaronWeber.com. Same guy bought it. I wonder if that's really real or if you get down to it, he's like, actually, he Googled you. I don't think it's real. We had to go get something for me. Do you have neighbor gets you? I have neighbor gets you. Again, fortunately, it's like when you get it, my name's

So there you go. Yeah. That's my domain is ticket. I will sell it for $120. Uh, this guy's pretty confident. Yeah. I can get you any site. I'm a great negotiator. Give me Nate's number. I'll call him up. Yeah. Uh, but I, you know, when I got mine, it's like it would, no one would have even grabbed mine. Yeah. Dude. Nate Bargatze dot fun for two bucks. Yeah. Yeah. Some other ones that are meaner. Uh, but, uh,

Yeah, so mine was easy to get because no one would have got it. Nate Land, we had to go do some negotiating for Nate Land. Really? Yeah. Yeah. He knew what he was doing. We should have hired him. I was trying to get Nate Land before Nate Land was even started. I was already kind of trying to find Nate Land, and it was taken. So I always kept an eye on it, and I always tried to keep looking at it and seeing it. And then we –

We just went and just did it recently, right? And the guy, and we got NateLand.com. And they're like, you're kind of hoping like they don't know. And they're like, does he know? And they go, oh, he knows. There you go. Golly. And then you got to just pay a price. It wasn't $120. No. I think that's just to get you started. Maybe you should have used this guy. Yeah, this guy could have got it for you for $120. Yeah, that was a mistake. That's nice.

He's got his right. DustySlay.beauty for two bucks. I have DustySlay.com. You do? Yeah. What would it take? Would you sell it? Yeah. I mean, yeah, man. I'd sell it for... I wonder if people... It's smart to buy your kids' names. It's called domain squatting. Yeah. Oh, really? Well, yeah. Maybe I'll go do it after we record this podcast. Yeah. Not a bad idea. Oh, yeah. We got to do it by Wednesday. Before it comes out, yeah. Yeah.

All right. Well, better hustle. Unless they make you do cookies or something. Well, I accept them. I've accepted that the scam is out here. There's a certain amount I have to accept. There's no point fighting it. But, you know, you just be aware of it. You know that you're being had, but you just – that's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Like they take your picture every time you go to the airport. Now they're taking that freaks me out a little bit. But it's like, what are you going to do? You can refuse. You can refuse a lot of stuff at the airport, but it's a hassle and they want to make it a hassle. But it's like, do you need to take my picture every time I gave you a driver's license and I'm standing right here? Yeah. You don't need to take the where do they take your picture when you're going to check in? Oh, just a quick. They say, oh, we delete it every time.

Yeah. But I'm like, oh, uh, like in the security. Yeah. I don't think I even realized that they took your picture every time. I guess not every airport. Yeah. And it's fairly new, but yeah, it's like, yeah, they're doing it every time. And it's like, you could fight it. You could say, I don't, I don't want that to be done, but they'll make it really hard for you. Yeah.

But they know you have to catch a flight. Yeah, exactly. All right, I'll do it. Yeah, but they got my flight in for tomorrow, brother. I got nothing but time. He goes, yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready. Because I don't like the x-ray machine that you got to stand in, you know, for various reasons. But, you know, so you have TSA pre-check and you don't have to do it. But if you get randomly selected, you got to stand in it. And I've refused before, but, you know, you're very polite. You just go, I'd rather have the pat down. You know, I don't want to stand in the thing.

And they just make it such a big deal that you're like, finally, after a few times of me saying no to it, finally I'm like, I'll just stand in the middle. I'll just take the radiation. Just hit me with it. You know what I mean? I don't want you. Who needs those last two years of life? Yeah, they just get you. They try to embarrass you out there to the point where it's like, all right, all right. Just do it.

So MySpace launched in 2003. By 2006, it was the most visited website on the planet. And then by 2008, Facebook had passed it. And I read why they thought that was. And a MySpace executive said that they had a three-year advertisement deal with Google for $900 million. And it said while it was a short-term cash windfall,

It handicapped them in the long run because it required MySpace to place even more ads on its already heavily advertised space, which made the site slow, more difficult to use, and less flexible. And MySpace could not experiment with its own site without forfeiting revenue while Facebook was rolling out a new clean site design, which is kind of talked about in social network. Yeah. Wow, interesting. Because, you know, the MySpace guy, he sold and he just...

He got out. Yeah, Tom. Yeah. He just went and he's just like, uh, he's just hanging out. Traveling the world, taking photos. He's just living the best life imaginable. He made like half a billion. He's just chilling. Yeah. And he, so he just was like, he just never worked again. Yeah. Yeah.

He's like in his 20s, I think. It's crazy. How old is he now? Oh, he's probably 40. Yeah, he might be 40. Yeah, he was born in 1970. Off a little. Yeah. It's probably like, I wonder if you would even really know him. He looks young. I only really know that one picture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He did start it when he was 33. So...

He looks like Jack Johnson a little bit. So where does he say he's at right now? He's just doing nothing? He's got to be doing something. He was Aaron's age when he started, and now he's basically my age. He's just takes like a...

photographer let's please be right yeah yeah yeah look at he's just jumping out of a plane just living the dream yeah yeah man just doing what you know if you were a kid and somebody said you got you got you got 500 million yeah and you just live in that life and he goes all right i'm gonna do it so you guys missed the myspace a bit you guys were a little older and didn't care no no we i was in no i was in myspace but you weren't you weren't like we were in school i would imagine like

stressed out over my top eight friends. No, we were... I do remember... You still have one. Yeah. You update your age, Aaron. I got pretty into it. Yeah. No, I got very into it. And it was... I remember... I do very much remember in...

when you had your top eight friends, like who you put in there and was, and it was a big deal. And it would even be when I was doing it would be a little politically driven in the fact of like shows. Yeah. So I'm doing, you're doing it on, you know, like you're doing it as this comic that you're hanging out with. And like, so I remember, I do remember worrying about that. And like that mattered. Aaron, someone said that your MySpace page says if Notre Dame was the national championship, you'll pay off your student debt.

That's been in my comedy bio for years now. Okay. And it's been a funny line because we haven't come close, and now we're one win away from. That's why you're not sure if you want them to win. Yeah. Why would you even make that as a thing? What do you mean? As a bet.

Where does it say this? It's not an actual bet. It's just like a little line at the end of my biography. Yeah. He graduated from Notre Dame, still owes them thousands of dollars. He promises to pay them back when they win the national championship. Oh, okay. There it is. That's funny. Yeah, it's just a stupid. How close are you? Not a number, but how close do you think you are? You know, this thing with these loans is you feel like you're paying it off. You're paying it off. And then you look and you're like, God, it made a dent in this thing. You might say that the loans are a bit of a...

Ponzi scheme. Scam? No, because I took out the loan when I was 18 and I was aware of what I was doing. I had full consent when I took out the loan.

So I never thought they're scamming me. But even now you're like, you feel like you're paying it off and then you're like, oh, no, I'm still- It's not going anywhere. But that's just how interest works. I can pay off more than the amount and knock out the principal. But you would say that you're probably, I bet you are smarter than a lot of 18-year-olds. Yeah. So a lot of people are not aware of the amount of interest that are on these things. Yeah.

I would not be there. When you're 18, you're a legal adult. You can sign a contract. But it could be legal, but still be a bit of a scam. They're 100% taking advantage of people. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. I've never denied that. But I don't... But I don't... Aaron. Yeah. You've always been...

You know, with the State Farm thing, with all the fire stuff, you thought that's a good move by State Farm. That's right. They timed it well. You quote, you go, I mean, how good are they? As we talked about the fires and how bad it was, you called me and go, I'll tell you what, State Farm, top of their game. No one's saying this. Top of their game. It's called capitalism. Yeah. Greg Garcia's got a great State Farm story, which he might stop.

He might be coming through at some point, but I'll let him tell it. Okay. Very funny. Yeah, but tuition should be higher. I've always said that. Yeah. Weed them out. Yeah. Did you go to college, Trey? Weed them out. Oklahoma State? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I stayed in the state. Justin Smith. Saved some money. He's a comic. Oh, really? He didn't go to OK State. He's the biggest Oklahoma State fan. Court McCown. Court McCown. Yes.

Oh, yeah. My whole family went. Cousins, sister, parents, aunts, uncles. It's a big deal. So, yeah, big. Had a rough year. What's it like? Growing up in Oklahoma and you say you want to be an influencer, probably not taking too well. No, I mean, I didn't really grow up thinking I'd do this, but I started to do it in college and I did. We lived down the street from my grandma and grandpa.

You know, we grew up Southern Baptist, all that. And I was home from college and I kind of doing all these videos. And my grandma, she like called me down the street. She's like, I need to talk to you. And we're sitting in her like rocking chairs on the front porch. She's like, Trey, someone at church. She came up to me. She asked if you were gay. And I was kind of laughing. My grandma was like, that's not funny. She's like, you're doing these videos. So, yeah, that was more of the vibe where people around me was just like, I guess he's gay now. He's really getting these videos. I mean, I don't know.

Yeah, I went to college almost state. Speaking of social, I don't know if it's on the list. You know Yik Yak? Yes, I remember Yik Yak. You were in college with Yik Yak. Now, I want to hear how it was for you. It was the worst thing to happen to our college. Are you all the exact same age? 33? Yeah, I graduated high school. I was 11, college 15. You're a year younger than me. You're younger. But Yik Yak comes out. If you don't know what...

If you don't know what that was, it was like an anonymous localized Twitter feed. So basically, like, if you posted to it, only the people in this, like,

you know, radius of 10 miles would see it and it'd be anonymous. Oh, I like that. So, well, unless... You've been doing a version of that for quite a while. Walkie talkie. But in college, you know, I'm in a college town. It's a small, big school, but small town and your cat gets going. I'm going on Vine and I'm at the top every day with just, just roasting me. Just brutal. Oh, right.

He thought it was the opposite. No, I mean, I was, you know, I'm grateful looking back because I was early to everything, but I was making these videos and I was just getting bullied mercilessly. These yik-yak every day. My buddies, it's like the root rule thing where like my buddies are trying to support, but they'd like pull it up. They'd be like, Trey, don't look at yik-yak today. You know, they're like losing it, but they're like, this is super mean. We even did...

I was in this theater show thing that the fraternities and sororities did. So I got up and I would sing my lead part and I'd get off and everyone gets on Yik-Tac. It's like, Drake Kennedy sucks, Drake Kennedy. Within 30 seconds. My whole crew's laughing. I'm like, what's happening? What was your Yik-Tac experience? It was mostly just people saying really bad things about girls. That was popular. It was extremely...

Extremely bad. And I heard that it was like, it became popular in high schools too. I can't imagine how bad it is for high schools to have just an anonymous place where you can just say whatever about it. Because the way it worked is you would read them and you'd either up or downvote it. So you'd load it and it'd be the top post. So it was just a bunch of people around being like,

we hate this guy. Yeah. So the girls at OK State were very thankful for you. Yeah, they were. Like, at least I'm not, like four, but Trey's got the first. Yeah. Yeah, he took the brunt of it. Shout out. Yeah, but it was good. I mentioned this before. You knew what it was? I'm about to say why. I mentioned this in a previous episode. A few years ago, my buddy bought it and brought it back.

Oh, wow. I remember you talking about it. Yeah, so what's the update on that? Do you know? I think he may have already sold it. He's one of these that buys companies, tries to do whatever, and then sells them off. But they put in a lot more parameters to keep people from bullying. It's a creative idea, but it went south quickly. Yeah. For sure.

Because I remember, like with anything, it started kind of cute and fun. Like, this person has a crush on this person. Yes. And then one person goes, Trey Kennedy should kill himself. And then it's like a thousand upvotes. Like, yeah, here we go. It is the upvotes on anything that get you. The likes of the upvotes on anything. You see a negative comment about yourself.

And you're like, ha, ha, ha, but then the likes are upvotes. Yeah, that's what stings. One person thinks that. Yeah, this many people like the statement? And they go, I just didn't want to type it. But I agree with what he's saying. Yeah, I totally agree. Someone said it finally. What does it mean when it says you get ratioed?

That's when you have more comments than likes on it. So more people are making fun of the post than engaging in a positive way. Usually negative. Oh, yeah. Got ratioed. It got ratioed so that they're making fun of your post. So they don't agree with your post. Yeah, it's kind of like instead of your post didn't incite a lot of likes and shares, it incited thousands of comments saying you're an idiot. Yeah, all right. Is that still good engagement?

Yeah, I mean, I don't get ratioed, but there's a lot of people who make a living by just rage baiting you. On X, I mean, people are getting ratioed all the time. A ton of followers. And where do you get, are you making your money, where do you think you make your money from? YouTube or all of it? Yeah, so it's interesting. Live shows. The touring's great, but I'd say it's kind of like,

50-50 my socials versus the touring and then of the 50 on social I mean it's like brand partnerships yeah so that's you know where they yell I've got a few going right now they're like hey we're like uh

hey, we're doing this holiday campaign for Amazon's products. Make a sketch including it. We'll pay you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's what I was doing when I was figuring this stuff out and kind of like, I can't believe I can pay the bills doing this. And it turned into a fan base, which turned into selling tickets. And then when you... Did you ever get t-shirts? Did I ever sell t-shirts? No, did you ever get t-shirts? It's a joke. Okay.

How's your merch gang? It is a funny story. Back in the day on Vine, of course, they hit up all the Vine kids like, you should do merch. And I was clueless. I was like 19. And I'm like, okay. And they just sent me some corny merch that just had my face on it. And I'm like, buy my merch. Oh, yuck, yuck. You're selling merch? What is it, an idiot? You know?

But, yeah, I see you get back here. They put in the parameters, no bullying. They're saying that's all that article. They were like race. If you had made the shirts anti-Trey Kennedy shirts, you might have really cleaned up. See, you know, yeah, I

Should have leaned to it. That's a solid move right there. And just do a burner account. Yeah. Like, screw this guy. Yeah. Buy my shirt. So when Vine went away, do you think there was probably a good bit that people just dropped off and it was over? Yeah. I've always said I have a kind of a, I'll never do this, but someone should do this. Just find those Vine kids who were killing it.

And I guess those who disappeared and those who didn't because like the Paul brothers were Vine kids. Bo Burnham, I remember. Bo Burnham. Chris D'Elia kind of popped on Vine. I mean, he was still on Netflix and stuff, but he was big on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shawn Mendes got discovered. Wow. Trailer Trash Tammy. Trailer Trash Tammy. What about like those social houses? Do you have stuff on that? Oh, man. That was a TikTok movement. Yeah. That was just those like –

The weird TikTok's moved away from this a bit, but it was really, really big. Everything on there was just like dancing and being like a hot boy or girl. And so they just throw them on a house and all be hot together. And they like live there. So it's like that big brother. It would be like an investor, kind of a slimy investor guy. Be like, guys, look, you get to live in this LA mansion that costs a hundred grand a month to rent for free. Yeah. And in return-

I get you brand deals and I take most of the money. Yeah. 70% of your brand. Yeah. And you're just making videos for, yeah, that. Yeah. So they got, they got bang energy shaking their hips or whatever they're doing. You thought about setting one of those up? Yeah. Well, I'm glad I have you all here today. Yeah. That's real. The worst content out of all time. Real soul. Every post, he's like, that's another scam. I wouldn't do that. Yeah.

Yeah, soulless kind of stuff. Of course, yeah. The worst. No, what you're talking, like the content house? So aren't you glad it's going away?

Do you feel like TikTok's And it's gross too because they're all like teenagers. Yeah. They don't know what they're doing. Isn't there a documentary or something about one? I think there was I think a Netflix doc on this. Yes. And they yeah. Didn't look good for those people. Yeah. I think it's like the parents trying to go get their daughter back or something and she's in this house and it's like Oh that was a legit cult. Yeah. And that's ongoing. Those they're still in it man. And boy can they dance. Oh they're still in it. The guy can eye some talent. Yeah. Yeah. They're still in there.

Facebook now has over 3 billion monthly active users. So Facebook's top. 37% of the world's population. Facebook's the top, and no one's even close. Facebook and Instagram are the same thing. Both owned by a parent company. By Zuckerberg. And then so it's them two, and then that's like...

Yeah. Well, they also own WhatsApp, which is... Yeah, I don't... It's not super big in the US, but all over the world, that's how they communicate with each other. I think 2 billion, I think I read for WhatsApp. It's crazy. Oh, wow. It's huge in India and stuff like that. Yeah. On Instagram, I looked up the top influencers on Instagram who has the most followers. There's two separate pages, one just for soccer players and one for everybody else. Wow. It's like eight out of the top 10 are...

soccer players bernardo his first bessie second he's also the biggest on facebook who's the other ones like in soccer players i don't know but uh selena gomez was yeah i think number one non one is uh because i've looked this up because it's fascinating one's a cricket player so that's real big in india oh he's got like 200 million followers we would have never heard of him you know it's i think probably way more than that because what does he have what like what messy has uh

Messi's got 500 or something. Ronaldo has 647 million followers. That's insane. Messi has 504 million. Jeez. I mean, with that many followers, I mean, it's really funny because you have to go like, you really can't just post something. No, you can influence whole economies. Yeah, yeah. It's, yeah, you have to kind of,

Yeah, I mean, that's so crazy. Do you remember years ago, Kylie Jenner did some offhanded little tweet or something like, does anyone use Snapchat anymore, LOL? And their stock price tanked that day. So I'm sure she had a talk with her team, but it's like they do have that impact. It's frightening. Yeah, that's insane. And she knew what she was doing. She had shorted the stock. That's why I can see her doing that. That's why I can say the things that I say because nobody's listening to me.

Right. It's great. I can call everything a scam because I'm like, yeah, that guy. Yeah, I mean, he's about to lose his biggest following. It's crazy to think though, like if you got Ronaldo or Messi, some of these guys, so if they became more like Dusty,

I mean, you're in some big trouble. They would change the world in a positive way. Yeah. They would change the world in a positive way. But you could be in some big, big trouble as like, because it's just too many. Yeah, they would delete their accounts right away. Yeah. Yeah, and shut them down.

Man, that's pretty interesting. Yeah. So, Kylie Jenner had the most liked Instagram post ever. It was a picture of her daughter. This was in 2019. And then an account, World Record Egg, posted a photo of an egg with a specific purpose of getting more likes, and it did it. Yeah, was that Tank Sinatra? You know Tank? Tank's a fan of you. I've seen him comment. Yeah, I know Tank. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's great.

I thought he did the egg thing. He does influencers in the wild, which is good. I think the most, the followers on YouTube is Mr. Beast. Oh yeah, absolutely. He dominates, man. Where do you make the most money? Which one would you make the most money on?

If you told someone that was starting, if someone's young and they want to be a content creator, where would you tell them to focus? YouTube. If you figure out YouTube and you're getting views every video, you're making a lot of money. So, yes. If someone's young and they want to do it, it's like – and YouTube's probably – it's pretty safe.

Like, as far as not going away or anything. Right. It's like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. Seems like they can't go away. No. TikTok's a big... But your stuff can go away on that platform, though. They have pretty strict guidelines. Yeah, I get that. But I'm just saying, if you want to hang your hat and really put in the work, you don't want to put it in to go... Because it's hard, because you get Vine. Everybody's like, oh, I just figured Vine out. You said you had 3 million followers on Vine? And then...

It's all new. You don't really know what this even thing is. And then they're just like, it's gone. And then you're like, oh. And you got to be a real business that you got to go either. It happened with comics being COVID was a big thing. If you didn't figure out how to keep going, a lot of comics, people, it hurt a lot, a lot of people because they would die.

They stopped being funny and creating or whatever it was. So I would think that's how all that other stuff. So you'd be able to, the TikTok news, when you heard it, were you like upset? Or are you just kind of like, ah. I'm just kind of, yeah. Yeah. Whatever it is. I do would say if it like events, if they were like Instagrams on shutdown, I'd be a little more like, oh, I got to figure some stuff out. But yeah. TikTok is so important. It's going to affect me. But yeah, I didn't mean.

Whatever. What are you going to do? Yeah. And luckily, I got all this stuff moving, so it's fine. But yeah, it's crazy. Did it make you like... With TikTok going away, it's like doing the live shows and doing that stuff. Is it... It makes you kind of dive into that more? Like you're like, all right, I don't want to be held...

Because what I love about stand-up comedy is A, doing it, but it is you're selling tickets. So what's great when I have it now, even trying to make movies or whatever you're trying to go do, you can go and go like, well, my career is based off just people coming to see me. And which is such a – you're able to go like, well, I'm a direct to this person. Oh, 100%. You're not relying on –

Yeah, well, yeah, that's 100%. I've always done well enough, which is great and grateful, but just relying on McDonald's to call me and pay me. I've been able to do it consistently, but that was never... I always wanted a thing. And so trying the live shows and enjoying that and getting that to work, it's a huge piece of money. If I didn't have that, I'd be like... I think live stuff is...

going to be I think that's life stuff is going to just keep going through the roof and you're going to you know because I was like I've been thinking about it a lot like because you're it's everybody's like you look at like TV social media probably hurts TV

Movies, I don't think... People still like to watch a whole movie and be kind of taken... And a movie can take you out of it. But social media, all the times you would watch TV is usually you're eating, you're around the house, you're doing this, all this kind of stuff. And sometimes people are... Social media is kind of like taking that away, the kind of nonsense, like just flipping and zoning out for a second and enjoy it. All purpose. My whole comedy is nonsense. I'm not trying to say there's a purpose, but it's...

So, but live stuff is now, cause you're, people want to go do something. Yeah. And so they want to, and you can just go get to them. But it's like a weird, I don't think you can go down a road, like a lot of like business in Hollywood or me. It's a weird thing that I don't think you can go down and like just completely jump on social media and be like, all right, we're going to just do this. That's an, that's a specific thing.

if you if you stop doing social media if i was like all right let's go make something with nateland and do some i would pull you i would be like well i want you out i don't want you to because your brain for creating for social media should be different if i'm making a tv show with you yeah or a movie like it should be completely because it's the mindset is right you know it's like writing a joke when you write a joke you have an opening talking about closers and openers you have an opening joke it's there's a one it fits at the opening you're

You're like, it just feels like an opener. And so my mind works in that way for that. And then you have something at the end that's like, well, it fits in this way. So if you're like, hey, let's do something. You're like, I don't need you to do it like that anymore. I need you to do it. Be creative in this longer kind of way. And I feel like they try, I think some of those people try to combine, you know, they'll grab someone that can't create.

can't do anything for a long time, and then they try to make them, force them into a long-form thing. Well, it's like, well, they can't... You're not training them to do it. You're actually crushing that person that is a creative person. But you're making them do stuff that they can't... that they're not trained to go do. Just like a lot of comics are not trained. Older comics, especially if they didn't come up with it at all, we're not trained to go...

have great big followings because we don't are like it just it wasn't the mindset to go do it but you got to be able to go in and out of it where you have to you know your mindset's got to be kind of different yeah I mean it's shifted now but Aaron and I've had these discussions before I still have the mindset that TV is the biggest thing you could do get a sitcom or something like that whereas

you've pointed out numerous times, there's so many bigger platforms online, social media, that's obviously a much bigger deal than any TV show you could have. 100%. My PR people were trying to set up a bunch of stuff and they're hitting me with this or that opportunity and

like whatever national tv news thing like all right that's good but like being here you turn down the today show to do this yeah exactly yeah no this is a thousand times more because you have a big special coming up yeah and so thanks for having me i'm honored yeah january 24th hulu let's put my special up so hilarious hilarious making the big push big push i mean thank god someone else needed to get into it so

Yeah, that's what's it called? Grow Up. Grow Up. So it's, I'm excited. I shot it last April. So it's been quite a journey, but you know, we made it happen and I'm excited. I shot last April and then mine came out Christmas. Your wins comes out January 24th. January 24th. Exactly one month. Yeah. So yeah. So, but yeah, I mean, do you do doing, it's always good opportunity to get on certain shows or whatever, but something like this is. Have you got a new hour?

So I just, I had, I got off the road August because I had a daughter in September. So it was very off the road until, did some stuff in Kansas City, but I did my first kind of weekend in December. I was supposed to do this weekend, but I canceled. So I'm on the...

step one of the new hour uh yeah so i'm building a new hour i'm a little farther than that so i'm a little bummed because i was like stoked for this weekend before it came out to work that but yeah we'll figure it out uh that's good kansas city there's a couple clubs there they're pretty great and uh i'll i'll hit up comedians let me hop on their shows and stuff so yeah we'll work it out we'll figure it out yeah we'll let you you can hop on one of our shows

No, I appreciate it. We got a show in 30 minutes. Got a show in 30 minutes. You know, I was in and out. I know. The producer texted me, but I'm heading to the airport. Oh, really? I know. Well, no. I wanted to come do... I did some other stuff. It's a great day, but got to get home. But I would love to hop on a show when I'm back. I appreciate it. Good deal. All right. We'd love it. We're good, right? Yeah, just pitch some shows? Yeah. Yeah. I'll be...

Big Demise. Big tour. The Big Demise. Yeah, and then DC Improv, whatever date that was. January 26th. It's Julian McCullough, Derek Stroop, Joe Zimmerman. They're going to be with me when I'm there, and then they stay and do their own show on that Sunday. So go check that out. January 25th.

Is it still recording, though? We're still recording these. We're just losing the lights. What about audio? It won't be clean, but we're still getting signal. Oh, okay. What if we kept going? Is it fine? Yeah, you can. It's just not going to sound as good for the last little bit of the episode. Because you're just getting from the camera. Yeah, we're just getting the camera. We're just doing some show pitches, right? Yeah, just do the show pitches. Do it in a different way. That's crazy. Do you guys need to do a voice memo with that?

help a lot? Yeah, you could. I feel like the audio is pretty good. No, I'm serious. No, I know. I thought it would be charming. Yeah, it's going to be fun to do it. Just say where you're at. We're doing this one. You hear it, right? I can't hear it. Oh, yeah. I like it even more. I think it's... Is it back now? Yes, it's coming in now. Check, check, check. I can't hear it at all.

Doesn't the power go out a lot on him? All right, we're back. We're back. I think we should leave all that in because that was fun. I think so. That was fun. That was, you know, it shows that it's real. Yeah. And then Trey had a good idea with the voice demo. Yeah. No one asked, but he did it.

He's a guest. Yeah. Well, people know you're good in a tight spot. Could you send this to me to edit? Yeah. He puts his real hands on it. He gets it. He gets it.

Next week is just Trey. We're gone. And it's actually better. Brian? January 25th, I'm doing the Honest Fox Comedy Fest in Marietta, Georgia. We just added a second show. So, that, January 31st, I'm at Stardome in

Birmingham, February 7th. I'm in Marion, Illinois. February 8th, Quinton, Virginia. February 13th, Winter Haven, Florida. February 15th, Cocoa, Florida. Mm-hmm.

Am I promo-ing? Oh, yeah. January 24th, Hulu special. Yep. Watch it. Thank you all so much. I'll be in... Check my site. I'm on a few dates over the few months. I'm in Louisville February. March, I'll be in Orlando. I'll be in D.C. in April. Spokane in May. The Huntsville's going to be in June. This weekend, I'm going to Detroit, Michigan.

The House of Comedy. One of the most unfortunate scheduling issues of all time. My show Saturday during the Lions game, which is in Detroit. Biggest Lions game in, I don't know, maybe ever. Yeah, maybe. So, you know, I'll be there. What are they going to do? I don't know. I don't know. I said I'm open to anything. Any solution you want to have? Show the game? Just one show? Yeah.

Two shows Friday, two shows Saturday. So just one will be me. The rest will be you. That's wishful thinking. I'm excited to be there with all the excitement going on. Come out in Detroit. I've never been to Detroit. Never even opened for anybody in Detroit. I looked and saw. First time in the city. And then next week, we just added this. In the main room here in Nashville, doing Aaron Weber and Friends headlining Wednesday night. All right.

You never know who's going to pop in. I got some friends. You never know who's going to pop in. You might see some familiar faces. So come on out Wednesday, January 22nd here in Nashville. It's 80. 22nd? The 22nd. Okay. You available? Yeah, it's the 21st. You haven't shown the 21st.

That's Dusty's show, right? Oh, yeah, that is. Yeah, I got a show. But it's sold out, right? I don't know. It usually sells out. I got a show at Zany's on January 21st. The show does usually sell out. The Dusty's Grand Old Comedy Show. Yes.

So get tickets. It's going to be a hot show. But this weekend, Night Shift Tour continues. I'm in Birmingham, Alabama. That show is sold out. On Friday, on Saturday, I'm in Pensacola. There is some tickets available. Next week, Evansville, Indiana and Indianapolis. And Indianapolis, low ticket alert.

Oh, yeah. You got to let them know. Yeah. And then, you know, tomorrow I'll be on The Tonight Show. So, provided that that goes well, my shows will continue. If it's a bomb, who knows? Maybe it all ends. Yeah. I got a low ticket alert this Saturday, too, but me's a little different. Yeah.

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