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Hello folks and hey bear as always I'm Brian Bates always Aaron Weber and that's pretty much all the always we have these days Nate is still on location shooting the breadwinner Dusty is in his bunker but filling in the wonderful we don't know where Dusty is but yeah he's not here Joe Zimmerman's back all right it's your boy with my boys good to see you boys happy to have you back man

It's been a while. When was the last time we saw you? It was the birds episode, which people loved. People loved it. Yeah. Yeah. We did the bird. We did the bird contest. Yeah.

I like that you come ready. Yeah. You come ready. A lot of these guests, these people come on the podcast, they take it for granted. They go, we're going to make Brian do the heavy lifting. Joe comes in. He's got PowerPoint slides. He's got an easel. He's got a laser pointer. This guy's ready to go, and I'm excited to get into it. But before that, I know we got some big Nate Land announcements. We do. We do. Is that a good? I feel like that was pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good. Throwing it to you.

Like we're real anchors here. Back to you, Aaron. The Big Dumb Eyes Tour. Nate had incredible shows this past weekend in Roanoke and Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk? Is that how you say it? Norfolk. I think the L is silent, like folk, right? Norfolk. Norfolk? I have no idea. Okay. Keep going.

hello Norfolk. Anyway, they had Will Forte out there on the road with them opening the shows by singing the national anthem and that's pretty cool. And anyway, the Big Dime Eyes Tour is coming to a city near you so check out nateland.com. Nate is...

he is burning the midnight oil. He's doing that on the weekends. And then during the week, he is filming his movie, the breadwinner. He's down in Atlanta shooting that it's, uh, it's going to be great, but Nate is not taking any days off. Long days. Yeah. Long days. Uh,

When I flew into the Nashville airport, I was greeted by his voice telling me to check to make sure I'm taking the correct luggage to his guest house. It was very confusing. It's like Nate and Reba and Keith Urban. Lately, it's just Nate I hear. Yeah, it's just Nate's voice. It was all Nate. But as someone who's been traumatized by Nate in the Nashville airport, when I hear him just yelling, check your bags, I'm like, oh my gosh, he's...

He's here. I couldn't believe it. You land in Nashville. Hello, folks. Yep. I'm like, come on, Nate. Yep. He's everywhere. Get out of here. It's his city, dude. He is everywhere. Nateland has a handful of great specials from Greg Warren, Aaron Weber, Nick Thune, Stephen Rogers, plus Nateland Podcast Network, The Consumers with Greg Warren every Tuesday, Correct Opinions with Trey Kennedy every Wednesday, and Don't Make Me Come Back There with Dustin Melissa Nickerson every Thursday.

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Uh, but Joe, speaking of great specials, you had a great special still do have a great special cult classic. I appreciate it. And it hit a big milestone, I believe.

Yeah, hit 500,000 views on YouTube a little while ago. And a lot of nice comments. Thank you for the comments. And there was an idea to do a greatest hits. And so some folks went through, found the top 10 jokes from the special. And that clip just dropped on YouTube. Greatest hits from my special. And then it's ranked 10th best through best joke, according to the internet. Do you agree with the list? Yeah.

um it's it's according to the internet so i'm kind of like uh i don't i don't know i i don't have like a well i guess what i'm saying is i don't have like a favorite yes joke okay you know what i'm saying you know they say the voice of the people is the voice of god yeah that's beautiful so let's just defer to them and let them let them decide do you have jokes in your act that like

Like they're for you. You ever think about it? Like I enjoy this more than it ever gets from the audience. Yeah. And most of what I'm doing these days. And sometimes those jokes continue to do poorly. Yeah. And other times,

Those will get drop on YouTube and those will hit the hardest. They'll find the little lane that it needs to be in. Right. So some of those in the top 10 were those jokes I was doing for myself and they found their little lane on the internet. Oh, that's great. Yeah. I love that. Joe has one of my favorite jokes of all time. Every tax season. I think about it about filing taxes. Oh yeah. It's the most stolen joke in the history of the internet. I think. Thank you. There are a lot of memes now.

it's so funny full-on sketches of people doing the bit basically word for word yeah yeah yeah um i'll take it that's uh the only the only the only uh weird thing for me is a lot of people will tag me and be like you stole joe zimmerman tag that's kind of nice though isn't it oh my god so i see so i see get to see everyone yeah yeah i got accused of uh i

I posted a bit from my special, and there's a comment that says, this is a stolen bit. I just saw it somewhere. And I was like, oh, I'd love to see where you saw it. He saw a woman lip syncing my bit. Yep.

And thought that, I don't know, it was like you stole it from this woman lip syncing my, yeah. I know. It's like, golly, man. People really jump to the steel accusation fast on the internet. They love doing it. They love catching you. And they go, oh, you stole it. And you're like, no, that's really not how it works. And then I love to say, show me where. And then they go silent usually. And that's still not good enough for me. I want to keep badgering them. Oh, yeah, I'm still waiting.

One of the worst heckles I've ever heard in my life was at me in a giant theater. Yeah. I'm three minutes into my set opening for Brian Regan and it was going great in Durham. Everybody's into it. I'm not even like bragging, but I'm saying that because then you hear very loudly, this guy is stealing his material. Yeah.

yelled from the back and I've never heard a heckle like that in my life and I was so everybody just silent and I was like okay uh who's material am I stealing yeah who's a sea lion bit was that that I just did and he was like he was silent

And I was like, okay. Yeah. Well, don't back away now. You're the one. Yeah. Let's hash this out. And then he was just quickly removed by security three minutes into the show. And apparently, quickly, apparently he was hammered. And to this day, I'm like, I wonder if he heard my voice on serious XM and just was like, I've heard this. Yeah.

This guy's stealing material. I've heard this sea lion bit. Even blackout drunk, he's got a deep sense of justice. So anyway, you don't get heckled very often, but every now and then you get a guy...

Full yelling mid theater. That is quite a heckle. And then the rest of the show went great. I was about to ask, did you recover? People were literally like, did you set that up? Because that was really funny. Did you set up that heckler? Yeah. Wow. You have a very distinct voice on SiriusXM. Whenever I listen, it always takes a little time for my screen to update to what the next joke is. Okay.

So your joke will start and it'll still be saying Angela Johnson. And I'll be like, I don't think this is Angela. But as soon as I hear your voice, I can like, that's Joe Zimmerman. I like to guess it's just a little game I play in the car. Yeah. I don't know how to describe my voice because I only hear it how I hear it. So you feel free to describe it. Sultry. I don't know. Sleepy. Like if a sloth could speak English. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, let's get into our weekends. We pre-recorded last week's show. We've been gone two weeks now. Yeah. So we got a lot to catch up on. Yeah. Where were you? What have you been doing? How have you been feeling? Tired. Okay. Is that just age or things going on? It's age. It's age and having a three-year-old. It's a perfect storm. Yeah. It's all of it. But yeah.

Where have I been? This is going to be a quick... Also losing my memory. I was home this weekend. Okay. I'm thinking about last weekend. Right. Oh, I was with Nate. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I was with Nate last weekend in Chattanooga and Fayetteville, North Carolina. Fayette-nom. Yeah. Did they call it that there?

No, not to me at least. I don't know if that's a derogatory term or not, but that's what people call Fayetteville, North Carolina. I'm going to guess it's derogatory. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess Fayette-nom has a negative connotation. That's fair. I didn't know if it was something they've embraced as a city. No, I've only heard that from you. Okay. I didn't make it up. I want to make that very clear.

It's not even a good pun. It's Fayetteville, Fayette-nom. It doesn't even make sense. Did you have a bad gig there once? I had one of the worst gigs of my life in that city. That's why you call it Fayette-nom. Yeah. I opened for Dusty at a place called The Dog House. Wow. And it was a bonkers gig. You ever worked bonkers rooms? I've heard about bonkers with a Z. Bonkers with a Z, of course. I've only heard of them.

Yeah. And it was two shows at the dog house and they didn't clear the room between the shows. So it was just people at the bar. We did a show and then nobody left and nobody came and we had to do another show. Same people. Same people. Same people that didn't want the first show. We got to come back and do another hour and a half. That's like a bad dream. Yeah. I said, Dusty, what do you want me to do? He goes, nah, I don't care. He was like, just open mic it. So the second show was terrible.

uh worse than the first one but would you call it your fayet nam i said we're taking the last last plane out of here right so i gone joe where uh have you been lately i uh well how was how are the nate shows chattanooga he broke attendance record or something yeah um

It's like every time. Yeah. Why are we even talking about it? I guess he broke the tennis record. Who knows? No, he did. It's got to be embarrassing to brag every time he does a show, you know? Yeah. The Chattanooga show started 45 minutes late because they'd never had that many people in that arena. Wow. So it just overwhelmed everything. Yeah.

Uh, so these people who have babysitters, they loved it when they saw me coming up and said, Nate, they were like, this is, this is what we want. We've been waiting this long. No, it was, it was a lot of fun. Um, I started thinking of anything unusual from the weekend, but it was just a good fun weekend. Just a good time. Yeah. Where are you been Joe? Um, I'm, I'm coming down from my apartment in New York city. Uh,

I guess I've been home. I will say that each night, some of you know this about me, I go to sleep using YouTube ambient sounds. Are you familiar with this? I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me. Yeah. You go to rainfall. Of course. Waterfall, brown noise, pink noise, space station, green noise. You ever do just traffic noises?

or you already have that that's what i have currently okay that's just new york okay so i go to drown out the traffic yeah yeah so do you guys ever do that with with ambient sleep i don't use youtube but i have a white noise machine that i use everywhere i think that's smart because youtube there is a gauntlet i have to run every night where you open it and i try to keep my eyes on the prize

I try to keep my eyes, click brown noise real quick. Okay. Because it shows you all the temptations below that the robots think that I would click. And they know you really well. They know everything about me based on everything I've ever done. And so it's usually Charles Barkley and Shaq. Yeah. And I've just, I can't. Classic tale. Yeah.

But late this week, I had a good, clean, sober streak going of not clicking any of the temptations. This past weekend, they found a new corner of the internet that hit me, which was old people giving life advice. Yeah.

Are you familiar with this? Brian has a podcast. That's your new podcast. Yeah. I love that for you. How old are we talking? It'll be, it's just a thumbnail of a guy. Looks like he's a hundred. Okay. Sitting on his back porch, blurry face close to the camera. Yeah. Yeah. Like a USS Missouri cap. Oh, there you go. And it'll be like,

Do they know they're giving life advice? Yeah, it'll be like, my grandson set this up for me two hours ago. Oh, I see. I see. And he'll be like, you know... I would love that. There's a lot of different types of old people. My favorite, I think, is the overly modest one. Yeah, yeah. That's like, you know, I don't know too much about these device gadgets. But...

But I did invent the steamboat, so I think you'll find some of the things I have to say pretty interesting. Not that I know how this computer works, but I did get nine Purple Hearts, and I've survived four shark attacks, so hopefully you'll find some of this interesting. And the best part is there's no edits. You'll just see him just kind of gaze off and think. Think about what he's done. Oh, yeah. Take a deep breath. I love that.

So anyway, I love YouTube with no edits. It's my new thing is just the long form direct to cam 30 minute ramble. Not unplanned. I like that. You know, nothing's candid anymore. I was thinking about this. There's an old video that I became obsessed with for a while from like 1988. And this guy just walks into a 7-Eleven at two in the morning and he's got a video camera. And it was the time when it was a big deal. Sure.

If somebody had a video camera on it. And it's just like an hour of continuous footage at the 7-Eleven. And you're like, there's no continuous footage of anything anymore. It's all just, let me hold my phone, record a video, stop it. But there's no, like my family videos growing up were somebody just turned the camera on opening Christmas presents. And it's just like an hour of, and you get to really see people

how they actually are and they're not just performing for the camera. It's kind of fun. Yeah. I, I yearn for the, the lack of, when I see quick cuts on YouTube, the ones with 19 million views, I can't do it with the quick cuts. Right. Yeah. There's a, I'm sure it's on YouTube. There was a, like a public access station or something that would just put a camera on the back of a train and just show it going to,

from behind going across the country yeah and people would watch it all the time there's just something mesmerizing about just watching go through it that's that's that's my kind of ambient yeah yeah y'all are old man brian's old i am old brian's old my least by the way i'll i'll cap your least favorite person yeah brian bates yeah my my

Ryan Hamilton's my arch nemesis. Brian Bates is my arch enemy. Yes. Yeah, which is a guy you hate, but you're not competitive with at all. Exactly. I don't feel competitive toward Brian. It's just pure spite. It's nothing to do with competition. Well, thank you, Jeb. Appreciate that. Yeah, it's not a sign of respect, but. Somebody's feeling comfortable in that seat now. Third time on, you got to start roasting. Hey, dude, three-timers club. Yeah.

Well, that was great, Joe. Thank you for sharing. But I just wanted to wrap. There's more. Okay. Oh, I didn't. I just wanted to wrap what I was saying. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Go ahead. Wrap what you're saying about me. How you hate me. Go ahead. Ryan's good at this game. I have newfound respect. Wow. Yeah, Ryan Hamilton would never bring the heat like this. No.

I'll just wrap that, what I was doing by saying my least favorite form of the old person advice. Yes. Woman. Young person. Thank you. Yes, exactly. Is young person asks old people for life advice. And then you see this 19 year old who wants to be an influencer. Yeah. Being like, Hey, I'm trying to ask.

Old person advice. Somebody like on the street. Yeah. Like you just find a random old guy. And it'll be like some woman that's like, I'm 30. And he's like, perfect. He's like, what's it like? Yeah.

She's just like, I guess I would have drank less when I was 19. I don't know. He's like, that's wise. Do some of these old guys have accents that you don't hear anymore? I love that old time, like turn of the century accent. Oh, yeah.

that you don't hear that just kind of died you know what i mean i mean i can't do it but um you know what i'm talking about yeah it's hard for me to delineate between an old person's voice and then the 1950s accent i don't know which one's which okay you know what i'm saying i think maybe one in the same you're thinking about how it's weird accents excluded just how as you age your voice changes like you can tell an old person's voice just by hearing it like what's that all about

Yeah. Is it in their accent? It's in the sound of their voice. Like our voices change. Yeah. The vocal. And become a little. Well, you know. I don't know. There's a little patina in it. I don't know what else you call it. The vocal box. There's something that changes. It gets worn down, dude. It's just, it goes through some cold winters. What are we going to do when our voice is like that? Are we going to embrace it? But don't you. I've embraced mine. Yeah.

You don't have an old guy voice. I bet you've sounded like this forever. I bet you were in middle school and you sounded like you sound right now. You know, I didn't realize it, but when I watched videos of myself when I was younger, I had a much more southern accent.

I believe that. Not that I don't have one now, but I had a really Southern accent. Well, Nate had a much thicker one. Yeah. Back in the, like you will old Henry Cho clips. It's like crazy. Leanne's amazing how she's held onto hers. It's been that consistent. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have an accent, Joe? Where are you from? Who are you? I grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia. Oh, did you really? I did. And I've lived in New York city for 12 years. I spent 10 years in North. I've been about eight years in North Carolina. So yeah,

I'm told in New York that I have a Southern accent. When I'm in the South, I'm told I have a Northern accent. Okay. I don't believe I have an accent, but most people don't believe they have an accent. I bet I'll hear it in a, like a few words. You can probably hear it just the way, but just in general, I think it's just kind of nice down the middle.

Yeah. No, I don't think anybody's ever successfully done an imitation of a West Virginia accent because they vary from North to South. Yeah. But in Morgantown where I grew up, we're really close to Pittsburgh. And so you'll get a little bit of that steel town accent where it's like, uh, um, yins or like go going up to the Stillers game this week. Real excited to get, well, we don't know how Aaron Rogers is going to be, but we love the Stillers.

I could take a leave Aaron Rodgers, but we'll be, well, you know, best quarterback stillers have had in a couple of years. Stillers. So that's the closest I can do to a Morgantown accent, but that's more Pittsburgh and Morgantown is like Pittsburgh South kind of. Okay. Yeah.

We're going to get into some, we're going to get into a lot more of that coming up here soon. I'm excited to dig into it. As you know, father's day is coming up. What do you get the man who has everything or says he doesn't need anything? That's me. I've been saying, I don't want anything. Hmm.

You say that and people ask you, what do you want? No, I list a lot of things. You have a list ready to go. I have a lot of needs. I go, I don't know. I'm good. Well, get your dad something he'll love, an Aura digital frame. Every year when Father's Day comes around, I have so much trouble shopping for my dad. We got him an Aura frame. We have one for the family. And all the kids are hooked up to it, and you can send pictures to it.

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All right, Aaron, you got your Notre Dame jersey there. Where you been? Where was I? I was off this past weekend, but before that, I was in Northern Indiana, South Bend, and

Did a show at the Notre Dame reunion at the Washington Hall. Beautiful theater on Notre Dame right underneath the Golden Dome. Wow. Just a great night. The show was great. Then we did two shows in South Bend the next night. And then Fort Wayne, two shows in Fort Wayne. It was a long, very fun weekend. So thank you to everybody who came out in northern Indiana. I love it up there.

I love it up there. That's God's country. That's what they say. Which states are not God's country? I mean, I think you know the answer to that. We don't have to get into it. Aaron and I just saw the new Mission Impossible movie. Oh, I haven't seen it yet. Heard good things. Who'd you hear them from? Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise specifically said it was good.

Anyway, I don't want to give too much away, but in the movie, they have to choose a city to wipe out with a nuclear weapon. But they never say which city it is. And we were speculating in the car ride back what city it would be. I'm not going to throw any names down. Yeah. We all have our favorites.

that's a fun game if you had to blow up one city yeah gun to your head you ever do the nuke map we've done it on this podcast before i won't do it again but there's a great tool online called the nuke map and you can pick any bomb and drop it anywhere on google maps it'll tell you the casualty count what the the radiation fallout would be and i mean it's crazy spent hours on there wow

Wow. Yeah. The largest bomb ever dropped. If it dropped on the Batman building in Nashville, I'm burned up in Mount Juliet 25 minutes away. I mean, that's just the radius of these. I mean, I'm wiped out anyway from the. Like a food. The rate. You better move. You better move further out of town. You're farther. You better move farther away. Yeah. Move to Lebanon.

I'm sorry. I didn't know where you were going, Aaron. Which part is tickling him so much? He said he's out anyway because of lack of food. I bet the massive fireball coming from him.

Oh, that's funny. That's good stuff. Want to get it in the comments? Sure, let's do it. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and Nateland at NateBargatze.com. Absolutely love this podcast. It's opened up a whole new... Well, who said it? Oh, I'm sorry. I apologize. Jeffrey Rollins. Jeffrey Rollins.

Absolutely love this podcast. It has opened up a whole new perspective on what truly is funny. It doesn't have to be spoken in vulgar and inappropriate language. It can be done just like this, and nobody is offended. Also, I stand with Dusty in everything he believes in. Well, this guy's a loon, but... Yeah, he had me there till the end. Good thing we got this comment in while Dusty was not here. Yeah. Well, thank you, Jeffrey. That's very nice. He doesn't need the confidence boost at this point. You know what I mean? Yeah. We agree with you. Yeah.

Yeah, that's what we go for. Yeah, thank you, Jeffrey. Rollins. Yeah. Mike Myers. Austin Meek. You think that's Meek? I am Meek, probably. I was driving a rental minivan in LA traffic when bathroom issues hit. I didn't make it. Hey, dude. You know what, man?

I've been there, man. I couldn't get the smell out. It was too embarrassing to return. I was too embarrassed to return it, so I parked it in front of a smoke shop and reported it stolen. I've always wanted to turn this story into a stand-up bit. A rental minivan reported stolen. That's so great. I've always wanted to turn the story into a stand-up bit. Is he a stand-up? I don't know. I think he might be like, I might just launch your career just because of this story. He probably could.

I mean, those are your two options, right? You buy the car or you report it stolen. I don't think he had any other choices at that moment. But you know that feeling where it hits and you look around and you're like, it's happening. Yeah. It's happening right now. Yeah. And I can't do anything about it. I feel like a decent investigator, Austin, would have gotten to the bottom of what really happened pretty quick. Yeah.

His DNA is all over that van. Some strong evidence here. What did he do? Did he just get an Uber from the smoke shop? What did he do? Did that Uber driver has to report his car stolen? Just a cycle. He just has to destroy some Uber car.

Wow. Mason Vandy. I'd like Austin right in with some more details. I just want to find out like what, I mean, just all the, like, what'd you do? You pull over to the smoke shop, you get out. You're obviously not in the best condition. Like, what do you do? Yeah. There's a lot of unanswered. Yeah. That's a, that's also a shout out to how bad LA traffic is. You can't do anything. How bad is it? I'll tell you how bad LA traffic is.

Austin, yeah, let us know. We want to produce your next special. Mason Vandypole? That's a made-up name. Mason. That's good, Joe.

You should try comedy. Don't hate on me. Don't hate on me, Brian. That's a cult classic. My wife and I had the pleasure of seeing Aaron in Des Moines last year. All right. And I had him sign his card. All right. Now I just need Blank, Dusty, and Nate to create cards so I can complete the page. Why don't more non-athletes in the public eye have trading cards? I would think it's an easy merch item to travel with.

It is an easy merch item to travel with. I'm going to have some new baseball cards coming up this fall, I think. I have baseball cards that I've made. I sign them and put my dates on the back. It's a nice little easy thing to sell. I think it's, I have to say, the main reason more people don't do it. It's a little embarrassing to be a grown man or a grown woman and you have a fake trading card that you designed yourself. You know what I mean? So you have to get over that hurdle. But if you do that, I recommend it.

Have you seen some fun merch from other comics, like some crazy things that people sell?

On the road. I've seen some embarrassing t-shirts. Oh, for the most embarrassing. Yeah. Comedians. We have to embarrass ourselves with our merch. You do have to a little bit. The more embarrassing they are, the joke, I feel like the better they sell. Exactly. The cooler, the shirt that you're going to sell one, you're going to sell one. It's going to be some hipster person buys it. Yeah. The more, the more people make fun of it. It's just hotcakes. That's right. Oh yeah. So I do know. I thought I won. There's a flaming wallet. Merch. Have you seen this? No.

there was an mc good comedian but he was an mc was mcing the week uh at some improv or funny bone and so mc feature headliner at the end of his mc set he would be like by the way i got these walls for sale and he opens it up and the wallet catches fire oh that's pretty cool and then he closes it has nothing to do with his act nothing to do with that he doesn't even do it in a bit at all no no no bits

But he has a little joke about the flaming wall. Okay. Like pulling it out of the store or something. Okay. He does a bit about the merch. So after the show, it is a line longer than you've ever seen just to his table. And me and the headliner over here by ourselves.

Everybody wants a flaming wallet. Brian Regan's just sitting there just watching. Well, how does it work? There's well, it seems like a safety hazard. Well, I can guarantee that many people have set buildings on fire with this merch. Okay. So it is, there's no way it's not.

There's no way it's safe, but basically as you open it, it strikes like a lighter strikes. Yeah. That's crazy. I'm not an expert on the flaming wallet. I'm sorry to admit. Yeah. Did you buy one though? Or did you not? I know you wanted one. And I believe the wallet. Let me ask you this. Is it a one-time thing? No, it keeps, it keeps. It doesn't catch it on fire. I think you can keep refilling it like a lighter. Okay. Yeah.

Um, I bet you can find a video of a flaming wallet and I, I'm sure there's more people, more comedians in the country selling them because I mean, he made, he must've made three grand just on his flaming wallets for the week. Wow. I recommend everybody to sell flaming wallets. Have you ever sold merch? Yeah. I got my, um,

I got my two birds, one scone t-shirt more recently. I have more embarrassing ones in the past. I have a, I'm trying to think of my most embarrassing one.

uh i'm just i live my probably my worst selling one was just i heart matt damon okay and it was funny to me yeah and people like we don't really need this you sell a lot of didn't sell a lot yeah what's your most embarrassing your cd nice yeah you're probably right about that the fact i still sell it

We don't have a CD player. Well, just give me $10 then. You do still sell? It's a coaster. I got a bunch in my trunk if you want one. I do. I want one. I only started selling shirts in the last two or three years because – and they're Nate Land themed shirts because I never could – like people would always say – my friends would say, put that joke on there.

that you tell about this, but it's not a standalone. It's not funny enough unless you know who I am. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like Nate, Nate's had so many, had one for Hammett C's or whatever. People know Nate. It's just, you're excited to buy his shirt, but for some no-name guy, unless the joke's really funny. Yeah. Why would they want it? And then you have to tell that joke every time you want to sell it. That's true too. Yeah. So you get boxed in that way. Yeah. It's tough. It's tough. Well, thank you, Mason Van De Poel.

Let's see here. Run. Yes, sir. I just like that. I just think that is the correct way to describe the four of you as non-athletes. Just to follow up on what Mason said. Well, I forgot we're dealing with a college athlete here. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. Good memory. Thank you. Played golf at Davidson. Davidson College. With Steph Curry.

division one athlete steph curry was basically a teammate as close as it gets was he there when you were there no okay but feel like feel like he was but if you ever met him that'd be a conversation starter right there right yeah i yeah i played golf at davidson i played golf at davidson would be a conversation starter i have met him i think it would end i have met him i did say that did you really yeah it'd be weird if you didn't ever bring it up

it's uh yeah it also is it's a little weird that he's probably like he's probably a better golfer than most of the guys that were on the team at the time you think so is he that good no sorry i should just say he's probably better than me because he is like a scratch golfer and so he could have easily played on the golf team wow yeah golly athlete those freak athletes athlete yeah

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I really hate Dusty's out here for this comment. I recently saw Craig Ferguson live and he came right out with no openers and did an hour 30 minutes in a theater. The crowd was immediately into it and laughed the entire time. What are your thoughts on this and who else do you think could pull it off? Well, a ton of guys tell me if you disagree, a ton of guys could do that if they wanted to. Any of these big Brian Regan, any of these guys, they could go out and do an hour and a half and it's just, they don't want to. It's easier to jump in there.

when the crowd's already warmed up and you know they've been they've been hot for 20 minutes yeah i agree i i also have seen musicians that i really wanted to see and they came out cold i would say called cold they just came out performed for two hours three hours and it was great i get to see the musician i want to see the whole time

But at the same time, I kind of like the buildup and the anticipation. To me, there's something about the buildup and the anticipation and also getting to see a variety of performers. Seeing somebody you've never seen before. Yeah, that makes it more of a full show. So I would ask, sure, Craig Ferguson put on a great show for 90 minutes, but it's also possible that it could have been a better show. That's true. That's true. So I'm not a...

I mean, it's just his style. It sounds like that's Craig Ferguson's style. And he's capable of that because he's hosted his own show. Right. He knows how to host stuff. For 15, 20 years. That's right. I feel like for music, people have really kind of built in, if we don't get there in time or need to go to the bathroom at concession stand, it's just the openers. So I could see how some people would actually be annoyed if the person or group they came to see started

right off the top. Yeah. The late comers are going to miss something. Uh, but anyway, he's saying this, Justin is saying that Justin who squiddy airy is saying the crowd was immediately into it and laughed the entire time. So he said it was a great show. And, uh, what are your thoughts? Uh, yeah, I think that, I think that you can do it either way. Yeah. More power to him. And if, but I will say if the whole crowd is there to see, uh,

Just you. That makes it much more doable. Yeah. Me to a paper comedy club. Yeah. I want a couple of birds in there to bite the bullet. The bullet is almost always the crowd. The laughs aren't going to be feel as big in the first five minutes and 10 minutes. Yeah. And then everybody's sort of is warmed up after 10 minutes. So it sounds like Ferguson quote unquote, bit his own bullet and then went from there. Yeah. Hmm.

Well, I think Dusty would agree. Dusty has his opener do five and then he does an hour and a half. Is that real? Yeah. Uh, pretty close. Now he, his opener does, I don't know how it does more than five. I don't know. 15 probably. Yeah. 15. Then I see you'll do about an hour 20. Wow. Okay. Yeah.

Is something wrong with it? What's wrong with Dusty? We were trying to answer that on this podcast for over a year now. I've heard Greg Warren, a comedian I respect so much, say that nobody wants to see more than 50 minutes. I've heard him say that. Wow. I don't know if he still agrees with that, but I've heard him say that. I think people want to see more than that from Nate. Yeah. Or any headliner. I think in hours. All right. Greg, you heard it first. Call him up. Tell Greg he doesn't know what he's talking about. Greg. Greg.

You're wrong, Greg. Yeah. Consumers podcast. Greg Warren. Ginger Giffen. As a fellow sleep apnea comrade, I'm curious what lotion breakfast uses on his face to help with the redness from the mask. Aaron, do you use anything? Thanks, guys. Love the pod. We found our audience, Brian. Joe, do you wear a CPAP by chance?

Uh, I actually wear, um, a little, I, I do wear a sleep aid. A breathe right strip. It's like a breathe right strip, but it's more powerful. It's got the magnets on either side. It pops open. I've seen those. They look pretty exciting. It feels good. Yeah. You put the magnet on your nose. All of a sudden you're inhaling all this oxygen. You ever just wear it like to the store or anything? I, uh, I've seen people with them on podcasts. I don't know why. It's almost like an eye catching thing.

But I've worn it around the apartment. I like it. It's a good feeling. More oxygen. I use, prescribed by my dermatologist, Keto... Ketamine? It's not ketamine. It starts K-E-T-O and then some other stuff in there. Keto? You're on the bacon thing. That's a good joke. Yeah.

So anyway. No, I don't use anything, man. Just get in there, you know? Because you're a real man. I'm a real man. Get it dry. So it's some sort of cream you use? Yeah, because the mask right here especially. It'll irritate the skin. Irritate the skin. So I'll just rub a little. Nice. I used to do a little Aquaphor. That's what we put on. A little beef tallow, something like that. I don't know what that is, but. It's keto. Beef tallow is keto. Oh.

Well, Aquafor is what we would put on our baby's, you know, she had a diaper rash or something. And I'm like, hand me some of that. Yeah. Jacob Dean. There actually is a Shazam for bird calls. The app is called Merlin Bird ID. A good time for all of us 40 plus year olds who have entered our bird watching phase. Love the podcast. Joe, do you know about this? I 100% have.

Merlin bird ID. I have called it the Shazam for birds and I walk around central park with it and it tells you all the birds that are singing. Do you find that it's pretty accurate?

It is very accurate unless you have a mockingbird in the area. Whoa. And the mockingbird does perfect imitations of about 14 other birds. Is that why they call it a mockingbird? They do. It nails other bird calls. That's crazy. Exact other bird calls. What's the purpose of that? Is it a camouflage technique or what?

Or is it just being a jerk? I mean, what's the evolutionary reasoning? I can only guess because I've seen one David Attenborough documentary where there was some type of bird that mimics sounds and some sort of wild boar was sniffing around its nest about to knock down its nest.

And the bird made some like call like. 911. Like. It's an intruder. The bird made some call of like whatever predator of that animal was. Yeah. And the animal like ran away. Wow. Wow.

So I can only imagine it's maybe used in weird cases like that, but I don't know. So this app is never usable because you could always just be like, well, there's probably a mockingbird nearby. The good news is there's only a mockingbird around like once every five tries. So you're okay. I mean, she has 20% of the time. It doesn't work. 80% accurate. 80% accurate. I 100% agree that it is 80% accurate. Can you, can you imitate?

those calls and trick the app sure you want to hear a tohi i mean i've been waiting did you want to hear a tohi yeah yeah all right i'd like to hear a tohi okay here's a tohi drink your tea that's it i just did it perfectly i don't even know what just happened i just did a tohi call i don't know what else just happened i told you what i was gonna do and i did it

Is that a bird? Yeah, it's how he, it says, drink your tea. A barred owl says, who cooks for you? Who cooks for y'all? I'm doing bird calls. Anyway, you wanted it and now I'm done. So I'm not doing it anymore. Okay.

Can you verify that, Eric? Yeah. I'll take his word for it. But now if I did that, the Merlin bird idea, I admit, would not register. It wouldn't pick that up. I don't do it as well as the Mockingbird. That's fair. Yeah. Well, I meant to ask you before we even got in this comments, but I forgot. Before we read the last comment, you had a follow-up on our last previous discussion about birds evolving from dinosaurs. Yeah. And again, I really hate that Dusty's not here today, but we'll play –

devil's advocate although he wouldn't agree with that term either but we'll play we'll play his role yeah okay well i i just we did our last podcast was on birds and and i think there was a moment where nate said i don't think birds are dinosaurs and we all kind of nodded our heads and i i hadn't really thought about it that much i always hear people say

I hear scientists be like birds are dinosaurs, but I've also heard people say, you know, alligators are dinosaurs. Okay. And I don't know what they mean by that. Yeah. Do you guys know what they mean by that? Alligators? I could see, they seem like they come from the same species. So I decided to look into it. Cause I'm like, if Nate said it, it's probably wrong. Right. Yes. That's a good, that's a good starting point. Good. Yeah. Yeah. So here's what I found. Um, so here's how birds are dinosaurs. Okay.

This is what they mean when they say birds are dinosaurs. And this has only been consensus for the last 15, 20 years. All right. So I learned something different when I was a kid. 65 million years ago, the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, correct?

we we suspect right is that confirmed or that's how we think that's the leading theory that's how we think they died yeah yeah chick salob asteroid um went 120 miles 120 miles into the earth's surface they found the crater where where was it uh somewhere in what's now mexico yucatan peninsula yucatan peninsula yeah wow if you were in malgilia they would watch you out uh

Speaking of nukes, something like a million times the power of a nuke. Wow. Tsunami one mile high. Yeah. So that is our understanding that the dinosaurs went extinct after that. But what's actually true is the big dinosaurs went extinct. The little dinosaurs, under 50 pounds, dinosaurs survived. How? Follow me? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

And so the asteroid that extincted the dinosaurs didn't extinct the dinosaurs. It extincted the big dinosaurs. The little dinosaurs stuck around. A lot of them had little feathers. Yeah. And some of those were birds that...

that birds today descended from directly. So essentially, dinosaurs didn't go extinct. And now the reason they say that birds are dinosaurs is because birds are literally dinosaurs. The way that humans are primates are mammals. It doesn't mean all mammals are humans.

Right. Sure. Right. It doesn't mean whales are humans. Yes. Yeah. But it means that humans come from mammals. So the way that humans are mammals, birds are in the group dinosaur. Now we did a long time ago, we did an episode on dinosaurs and some of this is familiar to me. I think that's why I knew about the Yucatan Peninsula. Okay. Is it because, um, yeah, big dinosaurs, um,

they have to eat a lot and most of the things were wiped out. But some of the, is it because smaller animals could just survive because they didn't need as much resources? Well, if they could fly, they fly above the tsunami, huh? Well, I don't, I think it had more to do with the change in the atmosphere. It didn't support bigger, bigger animals anymore. Okay. But if you go back to the previous image, Aaron, so this is another reason it's confusing because,

What do you see, Brian? What do you see up high there? It looks like a cross between a bird and a dinosaur. Yeah. So that's exactly. Thank you. So that's. I get ahead. Oh, sorry. That's correct. And what do you see down below? That just looks like a bird. It's a common mockingbird. Okay. So this display worked because what you see up top is Archaeopteryx.

The old drawing of Archaeopteryx, this is what we thought Archaeopteryx looked like. And now what we think Archaeopteryx looked like is that bird. So that helps us with a better understanding of how dinosaurs are birds or birds are dinosaurs. If you look at that lower,

drawing that looks like a bird so it's more believable yeah that birds are dinosaurs it's more it's more just that we're picturing these old renderings of like green gray dinosaurs yeah and and now all the new renderings are like colorful and feathered right even t-rex t-rex uh and t-rex uh i think uh is one of the theropods which is related so the t-rex is more related to a pigeon

than it is to triceratops okay yeah just like we're closer to a banana than we are like a lobster right i don't know if i can agree with that wasn't there something we have 98 of the same dna as a banana is that true i mean i feel like it's been said before i think it's more like 50 but i'll go with you

I don't think we're that close. No, it's a cucumber is 98% water. I got to mix. I got to mix. Oh, yeah. That's a common mistake. I got to mix it up. Yeah. Yeah. All right. But we do share some DNA with, yeah, fruit. Well, that's very interesting. Now, Dusty would, I guess, would argue the fact that you just admitted they're changing the way they look. He'll be like, well, sure. 10 years from now, they'll say something else. Maybe. They'll say it comes from a plant.

Mockingbird. And I would say, Dusty, that is scientists. That's how scientists work. They like to be wrong because they're trying to get the information correct. So they keep changing the information as they get new fossil records and more DNA records. But yeah, so that's archaeopteryx, what we used to think. That's archaeopteryx, what we think now. And so it makes birds being dinosaurs a little more believable in our heads. Totally.

Let's see. And dinosaurs, think about it. Warm-blooded, they lay eggs, they build nests. T-Rex probably built nests to lay eggs. Really? How? All the velociraptors. With their mouths, I guess. And so if you look at a cassowary or an ostrich or an emu, you get a vibe of like kind of how dinosaurs were. Yeah. On the ground, feathered, but not flying.

A lot less fun than they've been depicted in the past, huh? Well, there were some fun ones. There were some fun ones. There's just such a big group. And when you think of the little ones, you can sort of start to figure out why birds are considered dinosaurs. And here's the other thing. Alligators and crocodiles...

Not dinosaurs. That's a whole separate thing. Okay. What was their ancestor? Do we know? They came from- Just in the ocean? A further back ancestor that's considered reptilia, which branched off into dinosaurs and lizards. Oh, okay. If I simplify it. Okay. Salamanders in there somewhere. Somewhere. Yeah. Yeah.

But I will say taxonomy, very complicated. Yeah. And so that's why it is confusing. Okay. Yeah. That's fun stuff. So I think that's it. If you look at the cassowary feet, they pin down their prey. They stand on it until it dies. And that's basically what they think T-Rex and Velociraptors do. Yeah, these feet are terrifying, dude. Yeah. See, there you go. Dinosaur feet. Yeah. I mean, yeah, this does look like. So that's a Velociraptor. Is that a Velociraptor or a cassowary, do you think? Yeah.

Yeah, the feet are disgusting looking. And then you can start to imagine how some dinosaurs might have had those sort of colors instead of being how we picture them as gray from our childhood. So there you go. I was surprised to learn that birds are literally considered dinosaurs. Wow. And I was surprised to learn that dinosaurs didn't all go extinct. Yeah. Yeah, I thought they were all...

Out of there. Yeah, pretty crazy. Was there a nuclear winter? How exactly did the asteroid kill them? Well, the asteroid changed everything. It killed everything within where it hit. Sure, yeah. And then on the other side of the planet, it changed the atmosphere. And I'm sure for...

One of the things was, you know, there's a dark, the sun is blotted out for 10, 15. Yeah, so no plants can grow. 20 years, however long the sun is blotted out. And for whatever reason, that new atmosphere, the new oxygen levels didn't support big animals. Oh, okay. And the little ones, a few of the little ones, well, a lot of the little ones survived. Some little mammals survived. They just had to breathe real heavy. Some little mammals survived. Some little dinosaurs survived. Yeah.

Some little reptile survived, et cetera. What little mammal survived? A little shrew-like creature. If you imagine a shrew, you can sort of imagine. I'm sorry to make you think of that. Let's see. I'm not an expert, by the way, but I looked into it a little bit. A little pointy-faced mouse, essentially. That's very interesting. Yeah. Yeah, so, I mean, you could also say we're closer related to that shrew than...

a t-rex is to a triceratops as well i guess we could say that i don't know or a banana but but i was kind of blown away by that and i'm sure dusty and nate would be sitting here uh disagreeing vehemently that birds are dinosaurs so probably oh but that's okay yeah that's okay not everyone has to agree with what's scientifically obvious yeah uh

So when you're looking at a chicken. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. When you're looking. 60% of the, we share 60% of our DNA with bananas, by the way. Also chicken. So not that far from 98. It just occurred to me, chicken, a lot of our diet is dinosaur. How about that? Damn. We eat dinosaurs every day. That's crazy. Egg laying, warm-blooded, nest making. That's my, that's my, that's what I had to say. I love that. That's what I had to say about dinosaurs. What do you think about them bringing back some of these extinct animals? Yeah.

Oh, wow. That is ethically complicated for sure. But I, from a, from a fun standpoint, which is how we like to operate here on the podcast from a fun standpoint, I would love to get the woolly mammoths back. I would love to get the Dodo bird back because, and can you imagine,

the the the app on your phone picking up the dodo i mean wouldn't that be incredible that would be so sweet uh because my argument would be it was humans that early it was early humans that wiped out the woolly mammoth and recent colonists that wiped out the dodo so if if humans killed them maybe maybe humans should should bring them back passenger pigeons to bring those back start using them again

If we could bring them back, I say that would be fun. But also there's all sorts of ethicists that are confused about it. Yeah, it's a complicated thing. Dodo, by the way, new evidence says, was a smart bird. Not as dumb as... We just assume, oh, it died, so it's dumb. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is kind of mean, if we're being honest. We didn't name it the Dodo bird until after it was extinct.

What do we call it while it was still around? Yeah. How do you feel about them bringing them back? Wooly mammoths. The same. Yeah. I think it'd be fun. I was disappointed that that dire wolf was a completely false story. Oh, was it really? Well, it's not really a dire wolf, is it? They just brought back some other type of wolf. But even wooly mammoths, aren't they just trying to breed some hairy elephants? Yeah.

Well, the reason they might be able to bring a woolly mammoth back is that woolly mammoths could maybe crossbreed with African or Asian elephants. I forget which one. So you might be able to impregnate an African elephant with a woolly mammoth baby. That's great. We don't even know if they get along. And then you have a half woolly mammoth, half elephant, and eventually you could get to a full woolly mammoth.

I'm creating a lot of silent responses. No, no, no. How would you get to a... I'm bored with it. I don't understand. How would you get to a... Oh, if you had multiple woolly mammoth. If you had multiple half woolly mammoth, multiple half... But that would still just keep splitting them more. Eventually, you might get lucky and hit on a full woolly mammoth. Hey, you can't win if you don't play. Well said, Joe. Well said. Okay.

Anything else? That was my birds or dinosaurs notes, and it really kind of blew my mind. So I thought it was worth bringing back. It absolutely was. I appreciate that. That's what I'm talking about. This dude comes ready to go. I know. I'm going to need you to come back next week for the counter. Yeah, next week. Also, the way that we're in the category mammals, do you know the category that birds are called?

It's called Aves. Yeah. Aves are within. The avian flu. Aves are within theropods, which are within dinosaurs. Okay. So there you go. Our next sponsor is Viore. Aaron, we love Viore so much. We all love it. Even Dusty loves it. And Dusty's

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Aaron's already moved on. On the Virginia episode, y'all bring up Travis Tritt and Bonnie and Clyde's song, not making sense about I-95, but don't bring up John Denver's Country Roads. In the first line, he says, the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River in West Virginia, but they are both in Virginia. The song is a lie. Wow.

All right, so now that we get into our topic of West Virginia. There it is. Joe, answer that first. Is there a more iconic song for a state than Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver? Now, John Denver has two. He has Rocky Mountain High for Colorado and Country Roads for West Virginia. Yep. So he's got two...

I'm sure Tennessee has some, you know, the Tennessee Waltz, Rocky Top. You can probably put those up there. But Country Roads is...

I mean, what a great song. Thank you. Thank you. Have you ever heard that? Sweet Home Alabama for Alabama. Yep. Come on. If you go to a jukebox at a bar in Morgantown, which if you go to a bar in Morgantown, Country Roads will play about one every seventh song on the jukebox. But did you know the part about Shenandoah? So I learned that, yeah, in the lyric, they talk about the Shenandoah

valley which is mostly in virginia western virginia right uh and what else what's the other thing so appalachian mountains well the appalachian mountains are west virginia uh what was it blue ridge mountains oh yes blue ridge mountains are mostly in virginia and i think maryland um so some of the lyrics are representing places that are

kind of on the border of West Virginia, but most of the, so, but most of the lyrics, you know, they also talk about coal miners and,

And, and, and most of the lyrics do represent, uh, West Virginia. So West Virginia adopted it as our, as our anthem. But, but the other fun fact is that they wanted it to be about Massachusetts and Massachusetts didn't just didn't sound good. Take me. Yeah. Massachusetts. Now I think, uh, so they're like, all right, West Virginia, let's tweak the lyrics. I think it was Maryland actually.

Maryland. I read, I thought I read that when they wrote the song, they had a road in Maryland in mind. Okay. Uh,

I don't. Maybe both. But even if all those things are mostly in other states, all the things mentioned in the song, I always picture the song was about a guy driving home to West Virginia. Yeah, that's true. Country roads take me home. So he's seeing all these other things and they're a reminder that his home is not far away. Exactly. He's almost there. You know, it's like when I see

um, you know, you see the Buc-ee's coming back. You think, take, take me home. Yeah. Bringing me back to Nashville. So, so the people, yes, you're right. So people that are saying he got it wrong geographically, you could push back and say, actually the Shenandoah, um,

valley and the blue ridge mountains do touch west virginia yeah and yeah if you're driving home you might drive through there those are all the landmarks you see and you go i'm almost there so plus john denver's dead so he might have nailed it and he's dead you're right he might have nailed it um so you grew up in morgantown west virginia you said grew up in morgantown and then was there till you went to college yep so you you're a real west virginian

I grew up in, I guess, yes, you could say that. I grew up in West Virginia. It's the 10th smallest state by area, 12th least populous state, 1.7 million. Capital and most populous city, Aaron, do you want to guess? Huntington. Charleston. Charleston. There you go. 49,000 people. You're talking to me. Speaking of 1.7 million, I got to hit you with my population fun fact. Sure. I love these. This might blow your mind, Brian. Yeah.

I bet I'll. Okay, go ahead. So would you believe that the northernmost tip of West Virginia is as far north in terms of the latitude as guess how far north? Canada. Come on. You went too far. Well, you said it was going to blow my mind. New York City.

It is as far north on a latitude, if you allow for the fact that the Earth is a sphere. Okay. It's as far north as New York City, and there are more, so there's a greater population in New York City south of the northern part of West Virginia than all of West Virginia.

wow because so basically staten island and some of brooklyn are south of the northern tip of west virginia and but you can only you don't see it on a flat map you'd have to do the um the spherical map sure to see that it's slightly north of new york city wow but this little i don't know what you call this this little finger yeah panhandle is it called the panhandle uh it is now

Oh, I believe so. Yeah, I won't do the hand gesture that West Virginians use to point to where they live. Okay. But yeah, I believe it's called the pan. Have you been up here before?

How much would you say you've traveled around West Virginia? Do you think you've explored every crack and crevice of this place? I have not been to Southern West Virginia that much. Southern West Virginia is kind of a long way from Morgantown, but I have been to a lot of West Virginia thanks to high school golf tournaments. Okay. Yes. You get to play in a lot of mountainous backwoods golf courses. Is it the most mountainous state?

In the country. I wouldn't think so. You don't have the states ranked by mountainousness? I don't. But I'm going to guess it's one of the Rocky Mountain states. You're going to guess it's what? One of the Rocky Mountain states. What did you think I said? You're still saying Rocky? Rocky. All I know is that West Virginia is the only state that... Why are you laughing at me? Because you said Rocky. Rocky.

and you kept saying ruck oh man rucky road uh go ahead you're see rucky four yeah how would you say right rocky four yeah rock and roll rocky four it's getting better that's great you have a real accent i like but i picture west virginia the whole thing is in the mountains right it's all contained in the appalachian mountains it's the only state that

All of it is in the Appalachian Mountains. It's called the Mountain State. Yes. The Mountaineers. How about that? Thing's starting to fall into place for me over here. Here's something. What thing is starting to fall into place? I'm sorry to connect all the dots. I never put it together why they're called the Mountaineers. It's because they're in the mountains. Yeah.

You don't think about that, you know? I don't think about the name for the University of West Virginia that often. Or WVU, sorry. Yeah, you're wearing a Notre Dame shirt. What's Notre Dame's mascot? The Fighting Irish. Because they're Irish people who fight. Yeah, the Bar Fighting Irish. That makes sense. It was a pejorative term that we co-opted. There you go. Spun it to our...

To your advantage? Yeah, West Virginia Mountaineers. I grew up going to football games and the Mountaineer would come out and shoot a big shotgun into the air. Yeah, that's awesome. Boom! We would go, whoa! Was he wearing like a some type of skunkin hat? Skunkin cap? Skunkin cap? You got, yeah, yeah. Something like that. Yeah.

I did not know this. It became a state during the Civil War when Virginia seceded. Did you know this, Aaron? Mm-hmm. Oh, okay. But keep saying it. Maybe the listeners don't. Virginia seceded from the- Don't want to pretend to not have heard it. Keep going. I was just, I thought I was going to impress you guys. This is important. This is important. I was just impressed by Mountaineers. You just keep going. When Virginia seceded from the Union, the western part of the state-

did not want to do that. And their lawmakers strongly were against it. So they... Just lazy or what? They were like... They feel like doing the paperwork? So they broke off on their own and became a northern state. Yeah, went with the north. Went with the union. And they're still with the north. Stayed north. Yeah, I was going to ask you. I mean, we talked about this earlier, but I was going to ask Aaron this. What do you think of West Virginia as far as what part of the country it's in? I think of it as its own thing.

That's not a fair answer. But I don't group it in. I don't group it. I don't consider it part of the Southeast. It's not part of the East Coast. It's not the Midwest. I don't know what else to call it. What do you call it? It's like Cincinnati. What would you call Cincinnati as a city? Is it a Midwestern city? I don't know. It's right on the cusp. I say since Ohio. Yeah, I'd say Cincinnati is. Louisville is the place I use. What do you call Louisville, Kentucky? Yeah.

I call Louisville South. I call Cincinnati Midwest. Okay. What do you call West Virginia? I think you nailed it, actually, because I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what I am. Because when I'm in New York, people say I'm from the South. And when I'm in the South, people say I'm from the North. Some people say it's in the Mid-Atlantic with Maryland and Delaware. Yeah. But I think a lot of people call it just Appalachia.

It's not part of the North or the South. Yeah. So it's either Appalachia or it's the Midwest or it's its own thing. It's the ACC. That's how I think about it. There you go. That's how I think about it. Yeah, it's grouping them up like conferences. But that doesn't really make sense anymore now. I know. I had a joke about that. Yeah, all these USCs and the Big Ten now and all this stuff. But yeah, I think of it as the ACC area. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to... But the annoying thing is

People like disagree with me. Like if I'm in New York, they're like, you're from the South. And I have to be like, well, I grew up near Pittsburgh. But they mean culturally, not locationally. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, let's get into some of stats about West Virginia. It's the- These are going to be brutal. This sounds fun. Highest- You just come with fun facts? I like fun facts. Start with the fun ones. You're doing fun facts? Yeah, fun facts. It leads the nation in smoking rate. There you go. All right. 21% of West Virginia- Harkening back to a better time. Yeah. You know? It's the most obese state in the nation. Yeah.

I mean, I'd like to fact check that, but sure. I mean, I think it's close. I think it's a real... I think it's a real race. I see a lot of skinny people around West Virginia, but I don't know. But you found these facts somewhere. Yeah, from U.S. News and World Report. Fair. It has the shortest life expectancy in 50 states. Golly, Brian. Jeez, Brian. What? What?

What are you trying to say about them? Just sharing the facts here, guys. I think all these things are connected. Smoking rate, obesity rate, and life expectancy. Can you click on the life expectancy to see if that works? Yeah, let's see if this one. All right. There's your top ones. Okay, Hawaii. Hawaii's got the best life expectancy. Almost 80. 79.9. I love that. Bottom. Oh, this one has Mississippi edging out West Virginia here. 70 years. You're only 49.

49th, baby. Tennessee, not far behind him right there. Oh, there. Average life expectancy, 72.4 here in Tennessee. Yeah, you guys only got a year on me. Yeah. Think about how much more we get done in that year than you ever do. Yeah. That is a lot. I'll end on a positive one, though. Okay. And I mentioned this when we did an episode a few months ago in school. Yeah. Highest graduation rate in the country, high school. What?

I don't know how any of this adds up. Highest graduation rate for high school? Mm-hmm. That link I sent you, I think it's the same one I showed, we showed a few months ago. That is shocking to me. Now, after we showed that the first time, a teacher wrote in and said, it's because their standards are so low. And she was a teacher in West Virginia, so...

But 91% in Tennessee's second. See, even when we do something good, people are still ripping us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even when we do something good. Yeah. Unbelievable. Well, speaking of West Virginia having a bad reputation, Aaron, have you seen the movie Deliverance? I have seen Deliverance. Okay. Thanks for bringing this up as well, man. You know where it said it?

I thought it was Georgia. Okay. Well, you're just destroying my theory here. I feel like most people think it's West Virginia. Oh. Do you think that? I never really thought about it, to be honest. Okay. California. I always thought it was. Now, part of the reason Rick Roberts. Do you know Rick Roberts? Yeah, he's a. Stand-up comic. Nashville based. Plays guitar. And he used to have a joke where he'd say, and he would play the first few chords of Sweet Home Alabama. And like, you know, that's the coolest thing.

state song when he's like GDC every song you know every state has its song like and then he would do the chords to Deliverance and he would say West Virginia

I said the chords are on. Oh. Couldn't matter less. DCG. Okay. Okay. Sorry. Anyway. There you go. I heard it that time. I heard your age. Just coughing into the mic? We were talking about the voice. Sorry, dude. I'm getting distracted here. Keep going. Anyway. Yeah.

Yeah, he would do the thing through deliverance. He said, I asked him about it. He said he used to do it for Georgia. Yeah. And everyone would argue with him. No, it's West Virginia. He finally just changed the joke to say West Virginia. Wow. But I always thought it was set in West Virginia. I've never seen the movie. Yeah. But it was set in Northern Georgia. I wonder why that is.

But you didn't think that. So it was set in northern Georgia and in the movie it's considered northern Georgia? Yeah, I'd never heard of it being based in West Virginia. I guess it was just me then. You're saying the connotation for West Virginia is so bad that people assume that the deliverance took place there. I googled this and it said because the hillbillies in it, people associate it with West Virginia. They probably set it in the mountains. It's probably in the same Appalachian mountains maybe.

But just keep in mind, when you're watching Deliverance, it was written by Hollywood outsiders. Was it really? It was not written by anyone from that area. It was written by Hollywood outsiders who wanted to use the stereotype to make a movie. As a device. Hollywood insiders. Exactly. Hollywood insiders. Thank you. People in Georgia would be Hollywood outsiders. Okay. Yeah.

But I'll tell you, West Virginia is the setting. I don't know if they filmed it there, but the setting of one of my favorite movies from my childhood, October Sky. Oh, yeah. Homer Hickam. Which is a great movie about Homer Hickam and the Rocket Boys. Have you ever seen that movie? No, I don't think I have. It's Jake Gyllenhaal, a few others. Yeah.

Laura Dern. And that's based on a true story. It is based on a true story. Homer Hickam, very active on Twitter. You can go check him out. He's on there all the time. What's he doing on there? Mostly tweeting about NASA and stuff. Okay, nice. Still works for NASA.

But he's a group of four boys from a mining town called Coalwood that has since been disbanded. And they get inspired by Sputnik. They see Sputnik over their town. And they decide they want to build a rocket. So they build a rocket and they enter the science fair and they win the national science fair. And these four kids from a coal mining town where the only way to get out was to play college football. They all got scholarships.

To go to college. Great movie. Great movie. I would have thought that West Virginia was by far probably the leading coal state in the country. It probably was in the early 1900s, right? Maybe. It's second now, but by far, number one is Wyoming.

I would have guessed Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania's third. Wyoming does 41%. West Virginia's second with 14% of the coal. Good for them. Good for Wyoming. I think we already extracted a lot of our coal back in the early 1900s. Yeah. And I also always thought diamonds came from coal, but I read that that's not the case at all. Yeah, that's confusing. They say, yeah, what do they say makes diamonds? Pressure. Pressure makes diamonds. Yeah.

There's more there. Aaron, what makes diamonds, Aaron? It's a little more beautifully worded than that. Pressure makes diamonds. What makes diamonds, Aaron? Coal plus pressure equals diamonds. The largest diamond, avial diamond ever found in North America was found in West Virginia. Jones diamond. Did you?

they don't know how it got there i think a bird maybe dropped it are you serious joking yeah that feels like you're joking it does feel like i'm joking based on who i'm talking to but no that's that's true okay uh have you ever heard the term west by god virginia oh i've heard that a lot people say that a lot i've heard that a whole lot people in west virginia say that okay what does it mean

what's the expression what is it west by god virginia i feel like i should mention a lot of west virginia's kind of have a self-deprecating sense of humor about themselves yeah i would compare it to the way if you ever go to ireland or scotland they'll also kind of make fun of themselves and just be kind of a funny funny people west virginia's are self-deprecating funny people and they'll be like yeah i'm from west by god virginia man

Oh, okay. But they're doing it in a joking way. Right. Yeah, yeah. Now, according to its origin, there's two different origins, they say. It first appeared in online publications, online accessible publications, in 1926. OAPs?

It says online accessible publications. I don't know what that means. When students at the University of Virginia wrote an article claiming that West by God Virginia women could consume corn liquor on its own without having to mix it with other liquids. So it was about the West Virginia women could handle their liquor. And then a history professor at WVU said,

uh was called a virginian and he got annoyed by it and then he claimed he yelled i'm from west by god virginia there you go yeah i mean it's got a nice ring to it it's like saying freaking or something yeah it's just the rhythm of it the rhythm has a nice little ring i have never said i'm from west by god virginia but i've heard it a lot i think it sounds a little sacrilegious well good thing i never said it good thing i never said it's god's country dude you can say it okay

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We talked about this recently, a Mother's Day episode. Mother's Day started in West Virginia. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the woman that started it. Remember, she later tried to stop it because it became so commercialized. Yeah, yeah. But she originally started it to honor her mother in West Virginia. There's never been a president from West Virginia. Yeah.

But there has been a candidate, Democratic nominee for president, 1924, John W. Davis. John W. Davis. Never heard of him. He lost to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge. He lost his home state of West Virginia. That tracks. Yeah. Probably lost most states, let's be honest. Probably so. That happens more often than you would think. You lose your home state? Al Gore lost Tennessee when he ran. Did he lose Tennessee? Yeah.

I mean, Clinton won Tennessee, didn't he? Mm-hmm. So gorgeous. Kind of stunk, huh? That's just when the shift happened. Yeah. I think it's happened a few times. The oldest and youngest governor. I mean, Trump lost New York. That's an obvious one. Okay. You know. In 2016? I think both times. But he was running against Hillary, who was also from New York. Oh, that counts. Yeah. I thought she was from Arkansas.

She was a senator in New York. Yeah. I think New York and California have always gone blue. No, I mean, Reagan won both of them. I think Trump ran. Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah, he had to because Mondale. I think Mondale only won Minnesota. Yeah. Yeah. 1984. Yeah. That's a long time ago. Um,

All right, so let's get into some famous people from West Virginia. Aaron, who would you say is, what do you think of West Virginia? Who's somebody famous from West Virginia? Homer Hickam. Okay, I don't have him on here. Joe Zimmerman. I think of, I don't know, I watched Dope Sick recently. You watched what? The movie about the opioid crisis.

Okay. Or show about the opioid crisis. I have no idea. I can't name another person. I can name. Not John Denver. Some of these I forgot about until, but I think I could have named it Brad Paisley. Oh, yeah. Okay. West Virginia. Randy Moss. Oh, yeah. Wide receiver. Was committed to Notre Dame. Yeah. And then they revoked his scholarship. Yeah. What a shame.

And then there was one other on here. There's a lot more. Oh, Chuck Yeager. Jerry West, the NBA logo. There's a lot more on here, but I'm thinking about people I could have told you were from West Virginia. Chuck Yeager, the airport's named after him. The Chuck Yeager airport? Yeah, in Charleston. Okay. Yeah. I think I knew this. Jennifer Garner's from West Virginia. All right. So they are churning them out. Now, here's some I didn't know.

Don Knotts. We got Don Knotts Boulevard, Morgantown, West Virginia. Really? Mm-hmm. Oh, that's cool. Steve Harvey. I didn't know that. I feel like he, I think of a few. He was born there at least. Cleveland, and then he spent some time in Birmingham, I think. Yeah, he was born in West Virginia. He probably moved. Okay. Some after. Nick Saban. Oh, wow. That's another one. I didn't know that. You didn't know he was from West Virginia? No, I had no idea. Yep.

Uh, he was from Fairmont, West Virginia. And so was Mary Lou Retton. Oh yeah. Mary Lou Retton. Who would you say the signature person from West Virginia is? Like, I think we determined on here at some point, Tennessee is Dolly Parton is kind of the, the signature celebrity that represents the state more than anybody else.

I'm in Morgantown. It's Jerry West and Don Knotts. I can't really speak for the rest of the state. Thanks for coming on this episode about West Virginia. See yourself out over there. I don't think we... I'll take it from here. To answer you. If we do a Morgantown episode, we'll call you back.

Just speculate. I don't think we have a celebrity that, but it might, you know, I don't think we have a single celebrity that we're like, that's our person. I can think of one that in sports, that's pretty Bob Huggins is pretty universally loved, right? Is he? Well, I don't know all the scandals. Yeah. He's one of the winningest basketball coaches of all time. Yeah. He's a lot of fun. West Virginia coach there for many years, a legend at least.

sure i don't think people in west virginia would be like that's our guy okay but but he is a guy yeah he's a guy i would think maybe as the people i don't know um i think i think jerry west comes close he's the nba logo yeah yeah i always thought he looks like he's about the i never liked the pose of this nba logo sure the way he's bending like what is he doing

He's making a move to the right. He just crossed you over, Aaron. That's how they moved back then. He just crossed you over. He's about to do a little finger roll. I mean, it's iconic. That's a fast break. That's a fast break. Fast break, Aaron. Come on.

A few more before we decide who's the most, I mean, I think we have Bill Withers. Oh, yeah. Slab Fork, West Virginia. It was the inspiration for the song Lean On Me. Lovely Day. He wrote Lovely Day. Yeah. Bunch of good songs. Bill Withers. You see about the MLB logo? I don't know who this is based on. I don't think that's supposed to be any guy in particular. No. But I always thought this is because that guy, there's no way he hits that ball. Yeah. It's going to hit him in the shoulder. Well, it's...

That's going to be a big, big old bruise right there. The ball, even if that's a, let's say that's a strike. He didn't even have his arms. He didn't have the bat pulled back yet. He hasn't even started the swing. I guess he's about to take a ball high, maybe. Yeah, so why would your logo be a guy taking a pitch? This is how boring baseball is.

Here's the logo to represent exactly how much fun you'll be having at a game. Now, do you think that that guy's a right-handed batter or a left-handed batter? That looks very right-handed to me. But now that you say it, I can see the left hand. It could be either one. Now that you say it, I can see it more left-handed. I don't see left-hand. You don't? I mean, we'll just try to. He's facing this way. Yeah, but that could be the front of his face. And he could be facing either way.

That's a softball he's hitting. There's a lot of problems here. The point is that Jerry Westwood's not as bad. Anyway, that's supposed to be Babe Ruth, but it didn't quite come out right. Lou Holtz is from West Virginia. Oh, that rules. Heck yeah. Lou Holtz feels like an accurate representation of West Virginia to me. Yeah, just the way he talks. Michael W. Smith. Oh.

Charles Manson grew up in West Virginia. Thank you for bringing that up. Are y'all proud of that? Or do you talk about it a lot? I actually not proud is not the word, but I did not know that. I knew he was a Scorpio. I did not know. I did not know he was also from West Virginia. So we share a few things.

He grow up there? He just go to like juvie there or something? No, I think he grew up there. I think he went to live with his aunt and uncle or something. He had a bad childhood. Okay. That tracks. Oh, I thought he had a great childhood. Now, what do you know about the Mothman?

Uh, Mothman, I know that's like our version. It's kind of our Bigfoot. Yeah. Um, I don't know a lot about it other than it being in Mount Pleasant and Dusty types would love the Mothman. That's about like Dusty probably knows everything there is to know about the Mothman. Yeah. He probably just uses a demon, but, uh, there's talk of it being some sort of alien. In fairness, this looks like a demon. I mean, this, this drawing of it right there, it looks, if I saw that in the woods, I think that that's,

you know, that's Satan sending one of his boys. But I know that Mount Pleasant, it was a foggy, I know it's a foggy area, a lot of fog. So it tracks that you would just see something in the fog that looks scary. Yeah.

Is that your explanation? Especially if you're drinking a lot of moonshine. So that's what it is. Moonshine plus fog. I think that's the combination. With pressure. If it's not an alien. If you want to believe in the non-alien theory. Okay. But I actually don't know the story very well. Brian, if you know the story. In West Virginia folklore, it's a humanoid creature reportedly seen. This says Point Pleasant.

Uh, but maybe it's near Mount Pleasant. Okay. Point Pleasant. From November of 1966 to December of 1967. And a lot of people claimed they saw it, but then it was introduced to a wider audience in 1970, uh, with a book. And then another book in 1975 called the Mothman prophecies. And then it was later adapted into a film starring Richard Gere.

I'm guessing it wasn't a great movie. I'm guessing it wasn't a highly reviewed movie. I haven't seen it. I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it. I bet it has 32% on Rotten Tomatoes would be my guess. This is the movie The Mothman Prophecies, 2002, supernatural horror mystery film. Richard Gere and Laura Linney. I mean, that's a great cast. Laura Linney. I love Laura Linney. Yeah. Yeah, this must have... Deborah Messing. I mean, this is like a...

star-studded cast i'm gonna go 28 critic yeah yeah well it lost well it made 20 million dollars in the box office uh i'm gonna look this up real quick my fan prophecies 52 on rotten tomatoes so critics or audience let's take a look yeah i want to know how far off i am oh it's pretty close okay so i'll give that a watch i'll give anything over 50 a chance

Sure. That would be the most critically acclaimed movie we've ever talked about in detail on this podcast. Nate will come in and go, hey, I watched this snowboarding movie from 1982, and it'll be 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. He'll be like, I loved it. It'll have a whole breakdown about it. Nobody's seen this movie. And he'll love it. He'll think it's the greatest thing ever. All right, here's some other movies set in West Virginia. We Are Marshall.

Okay. Yeah. That, you know, that's for people who don't know, that's kind of a crazy story. The deadliest tragedy of any sports team in U.S. history. It was the second college football team plane crash in a month. I didn't know that. What else happened? A month earlier, Wichita State had a plane crash that killed 31 people.

You kind of feel for Wichita State that Marshall came in right after, kind of stole the thunder. Thundering herds. Yeah, nobody's ever heard. That's impressive. I didn't know how you were going to turn two plane crashes into a joke, but you did it. I was really worried we weren't going to get anything funny there. You better put those fears aside for this podcast, Joe.

I've seen this movie, We Are Marshall. It's good. We are with Matthew McConaughey. Yep. I can't remember who else, but I remember Matthew McConaughey. Well, that's all you need. That was that model for that kind of movie. You just need like one star. Yeah. And then just like kind of an emotional sports story. But how crazy is that for an entire football team to get wiped out and just start all over? Yeah, when was that? The 70s? Yeah, maybe 1970. Okay. When I was in college, the early 90s,

Marshall was one double A like my school in Middle Tennessee State University was. And they were kind of rivals because they were both good. They weren't in the same conference, but often in the playoffs, they would meet each other. Okay. Because Marshall's had a lot of good play. Randy Moss, obviously. So you were happy that it happened? Well, that was before I was even born.

There's definitely a famous NFL quarterback that played for Marshall, but I'm spacing on him. Byron Leftwich. Thank you. Yes. And Chad Pennington too, right? Byron Leftwich is now the head coach somewhere, right? He was a coach in the NFL. By the way, West Virginia University has Geno Smith starting QB in the NFL right now. Yeah. Geno Smith. I forgot another famous person. Tavon Austin. Greatest highlight tape of all time. Yes. Love Tavon Austin. Pat McAfee. How about that? West Virginia. Perfect.

Mike Vanderjack. You guys know Mike Vanderjack? How long is this list? I got one more after that. Mike Vanderjack was a great kicker. Oh my God, what is Brian doing? He's just trying to... Well, we're almost at... Squelched a lot of West Virginia stuff. Mike Vanderjack was a great kicker for the Colts. Right. And during the Pro Bowl...

I think he said some stuff and then they interviewed Peyton Manning on the sideline and he said, our liquored up kicker, like he totally like blast. Oh, that's a great moment. Yeah. He just trashes them. And I think Jeff Dye has a joke about stealing his jersey. Oh, okay. So they looked at it. And the last one was Pac-Man Jones who played for the Titans. Nashville legend. Pac-Man Jones. Love Pac-Man Jones. Big comedy fan.

yes he used to come to stand-up shows yeah not nice to people all right so a few more movies set in west virginia the x-files one of their movies uh was in west virginia x-files i want to believe silence of the lambs clary starlin was from west virginia wow remember when hannibal he could tell her accent oh yeah kind of broke it down was your father a coal miner

I'm trying to remember her accent. I think she did a, I want to say she did a good job with the West Virginia accent, but I don't know if that's, it's been a while. Well, she was great in the movie. That was a great movie. Jodie Foster. Yeah. I think she did a good, pretty good West Virginia accent. Don't you think sometimes you watch a movie and they have like a bad accent and you're like, just don't do an accent. Because there are people from everywhere that don't have accents. Thank you. Just be a guy without an accent instead of trying to do this crazy, like, what are you doing? Who?

Who's one that you're thinking about? The British guy in White Lotus this year. Trying to do a North Carolina accent. Oh, yeah. Jason Isaacs? Yeah. His North Carolina accent was all over. Lucia's Malfoy. Yeah, and I warmed up on Parker Posey's throughout. I thought it was terrible at first, too. But I was watching Catch Me If You Can, Tom Hanks' character. Crazy, crazy accent for no reason. And he's playing a fictional character. So you can just do any voice. Why are you doing a crazy voice? What was he trying to be?

Carl Hanratty. I can't even, I mean, it was like insane. Worst accent I've ever seen was Twister, the bad guy in Twister. He was played by Cary Elwes, who I love. And you can say Ewells. That's fine. People think it's Elway. It's not John Elway's brother. It's Elwes. That's how you pronounce it, Elwes. Where is he from? The Rocky Mountains? He's from somewhere in the UK. The Rockies. Yeah, he's from the Rockies. Cary Ewells. Just go ahead.

Gary Ewells from Rocky. What's the accent? So he's trying to- So he's a British guy trying to do, I believe, a Southern accent. He sounds like the rooster from the cartoons. What's the Southern rooster? Foghorn Leghorn. He sounds like Foghorn Leghorn. Yeah.

And he's trying to be a southern guy. I'll say there's a tornado approaching. Yes. People are like, what are you doing? Please stop. Apparently they cut so many of his scenes in Twister. And I love Cary Elwes. Ewells. I love Cary Elwes. I'm talking about a different guy. My guy's name's Cary Ewells. But Cary Elwes kills it. He killed it in Princess Bride. He killed it in Robin Hood Men in Tights.

But his accent. Oh, this dude. Seinfeld? I wish you could play. Can you play like a 30-second clip of his accent? Yeah, I'll find it. I'll find it. If you just type bad accent Twister, bad accent Twister, it's going to be worth it, I think. I'll just find a clip of him from Twister on here. Yeah. If it's not, yeah. And this is probably a video I've been over.

If you're listening, video unavailable. The Zadies Wi-Fi network that we're on doesn't want us to have fun. I mean, they take work very seriously here. They go, you better not be wasting time on any. More than the CIA. I know. It's crazy. A couple more movies. Dark Waters. Pops.

Have you seen that? I think I've seen Dark Waters. Yeah. Do you know this movie, Aaron? No, I've never heard of it. There's a lawyer in that? Mm-hmm. Is it George Clooney? I think it's Mark Ruffalo. Okay. Same thing. That tracks, yeah. Yeah, it's the Hulk. And yeah, it's about, I think it's based on a true story about DuPont,

Chemical plant. Good movie. That was a good movie. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. It's people are dying. Cattle are dying and it's because they're poisoning the water. Evil DuPont corporation poisoning the water of West Virginia for sure. A lot of people got cancer terror like in real life. A lot of people got cancer. Yeah. Cause the corporation was just,

ruining a terrible toxic water and then hiding it, hiding it, hiding it, hiding it. And so, yeah, that was one of the biggest class action lawsuits, I think. Wow. In the US. It's like Aaron Brockovich. Yeah. But in West Virginia. So the, catch me if you can, but going back to that. Yeah. Frank Abagnale, is that his name? Abagnale, yeah. He's a real person. He is a real person, yeah. But Tom Hanks' character, was it? I think it's an amalgam of a bunch of different people that worked at the-

the fbi or whatever organization but i think he's playing like it's a made-up guy yeah so why choose a crazy voice just be a normal guy that's why you got carl hanraddy it's like who talks like that i mean tom angst he was like this is my 73rd movie yeah i want to take a risk he's probably yeah i gotta make it interesting for me i'm too good at this let me just do a crazy voice uh patch adams patch adams is a real person

Okay. Still alive. Robin Williams. And no, Pat, Robin Williams is not. How did Patch Adams outlive Robin Williams? Isn't that crazy? That is wild. That is insane. To outlive the guy who played you in a movie? Yes. That doesn't happen that often. Yeah.

uh timothy chow may die yeah no that's what i was thinking that's what i was thinking so patch adams uh basically had a kind of a philosophy laughter is the best medicine i don't know if you say the best but definitely helps i hope i hope it wasn't that recovery so he started the gazootite institute yeah and it was originally called the zanies that's really cool but then they changed the gazootite institute uh

It's in West Virginia. The club sued him. Brian Dwarfman sued him. Those sick kids can go somewhere else. But it's a hospital envisioning fun, compassion, and community. Offering free healthcare, integrating various healing arts. All right. Again, Joe, jump in anytime. Bye.

I don't know everything about everybody from West Virginia. Well, we need you to. We need you to. What do you got there? Are you going to mention any tour dates? Patch Adams, not happy with how he was portrayed in the movie. Really? Joe's wanting us to wrap it up. No, I just didn't know if you're going to do him. I just want to check. He heavily criticized the film. He said out of all the aspects of his life and all his activism, the film only portrayed him as a funny doctor.

And then he said, Robin Williams made $21 million in the movie and didn't give a dime to his hospital. Wow. So he called out Robin Williams. Whoa, I would not have seen that rivalry coming. And then after he died, he walked it back a little bit. No, I think he's great. Too late, Patch. Well, he is depicted as having some sort of

bipolar or something if I remember correctly. Keep chugging along, Patch. Is he wearing a wig there? No, I think he's just a bit of a kook. That's part of his thing. He's got blue hair in that and some Cruella de Vil glasses and giving somebody a hug. More power to him. I've never seen the movie. Is it good? It's been so long since I've seen it, I don't remember it. Huh, that's interesting. I don't know.

The artwork is very fresh. It's putting the nose on it. Patch is like, come on. Laughter's contagious. I mean, that's a good line. There are good writers in Hollywood. All right. So that's it for West Virginia, I think. Okay. Is there anything else you wanted to add, Joe?

I think you covered everything. I'm trying to think if there's anything we missed. Oh, you know, a lot of great Appalachian roots music. A lot of great musicians from Appalachia. Bluegrass. A lot of good bluegrass music. Hammer, dulcimer, banjo. A lot of good roots music. A lot of good musicians from West Virginia. But that's all I can think of that we didn't hit. And a great place. You like it there. You're proud of it. You like it. Oh, yeah. Okay. Morgantown's a great college town. Yeah. And there's a lot of beauty.

uh it is beautiful the newest state park is uh is new river gorge the newest national park is new river gorge wow so yeah a lot of a lot of wildlife uh growing up in west virginia the most west virginia things probably were eating pepperoni rolls pepperoni rolls that was a coal miner food that became a staple pepperoni rolls delicious you got to try a homemade pepperoni roll okay and uh

Let's see. Um, we had the PRT in Morgantown first ever. What's that? Transit, uh, public rail transit first ever built in the seventies went around campus and it's still there. It looks kind of like it's built in the seventies. Yeah. And, uh, I would say one of the most West Virginia things about Grumman, West Virginia was day one of squirrel hunting season. About half the kids would not show up to class. Wow. Yeah. I love that. No, uh,

Ryan Hamilton had a similar story about Idaho potato season. They would take off and –

actually make money by working in potato fields yeah so spud money yeah spud money that's right oh that's interesting i made a lot of money shoveling snow as a kid a lot of a lot of snow in west virginia got a lot of snow days off because steep roads buses can't drive on steep roads a lot of snow days that was the best day i feel bad for the kids that have zoom days now

Because those were sweet. I didn't even think about that. Snowball fights, sledding. The best sledding you'll ever find, West Virginia. I had a corporate a couple years ago in West Virginia. And my connecting flight through Charlotte didn't make it. So I had to rent a car and drive from Charlotte to there. And so I got to see West Virginia. I got to go through the mountains there. It's amazing. Yeah. Very pretty. There's a big span where there's no internet, no Wi-Fi because of the observatory.

Yeah, that's why. The Green Bank? Green Bank Observatory. Yeah, that's why. There's no internet because there's too much science going on there. You're just too science-y. That's the reason. Thank you. Yeah, what goes on at the Green Bank Observatory? I think they chose it

As a good place where Wi-Fi wouldn't be a problem. Oh, they don't want Wi-Fi there. They don't want Wi-Fi. With telescopes? I guess it interferes with something. I believe you.

But a lot of people have moved to that area that believe that Wi-Fi is giving them headaches. Yeah, 5G and stuff is bad. Yeah, a lot of those people moved to that area. All right. Anyway, a lot of beauty. Go visit. Yeah. See some great birds. All right, let's plug some dates. I'll go first. Yes. July 6th, I'm at Good Nights Comedy Club in Raleigh. Beautiful. July 9th, the Comedy Catch in Chattanooga.

Uh, I was trying to think of something else. We'll plug right now. I think I'll just stick with those two for now. Nice. Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. I will be, uh, at Acme comedy club in Minneapolis at the end of July, beginning of August. Okay. And, um,

Tennessee. I will be in Bristol August 30th. Blue Ridge? At Blue Ridge Comedy. Awesome, dude. Have you been there before? I've been there a couple times. Yeah. I haven't been in the new room, but I've heard it's great. Yeah. I'm excited about that. And...

Also the end of July, Chad Daniels Country. I'll be in Fergus Falls and Battle Creek up in Lake Cabin Country in Minnesota. Nice. You got a lot of listeners up in Lake Cabin Country? I think so. I think it's a bit of a hotspot for me. Cool.

Only other one to mention is October, Salt Lake City, Wise Guys. Nice. I feel like you guys got some Utah listeners. And if you enjoyed Joe, check out the top 10 video that just came out. Top 10 internet's top 10 favorite bits from his new special produced by Nate Lee and Colt Classic. Check that out. Available now. You let me know if they got the order correct on those jokes. Okay. Yeah. Make your own ratings on there. Aaron Weber here. I'm going to round this thing out here. I'll plug one day. I got a bunch of dates coming up.

august to the end of the year but kind of the one before that july middle of july i'm at the comedy catch in chattanooga tennessee i'm there for a weekend it's uh you know go see brian on the 9th and then come back out the 17th through the 19th to see aaron weber there what something seems off here why is he doing one night and you're doing three uh he's doing five shows though right

Why are you doing five? Brian, why don't you do five shows? Well, talk to the comedy catch. I said, Aaron's doing five. They're like, okay, you can do one. Listeners, you got to pile into Brian's show. So they add four more shows to be like Aaron. We need so many people there. They're going to add another show. They just go ahead and add four. But come see me in Chattanooga, Tennessee in July. Get those tickets now so we can add more shows.

I'd like to do seven shows there. That won't happen. But please come out and see me and Brian there in Chattanooga. And this was a great episode, and I love you all.

Joe, congratulations on 500,000 views. Keep it up. Thank you for having me. Great to be here. You're welcome anytime. We miss you, Dusty and Nate. We love you. Come back. That's it. Hopefully they'll be back soon. I look forward to hearing their dinosaur takes, hopefully at some point. We'll have to have you back to counter what they say. That's smart on your part. We'll have to have you back. That's it, folks. See you next week. Bye. Bye.

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