154: #154 Shoes feat. Mike James
02:03:38 Share

This is an ad by BetterHelp. What are your self-care non-negotiables? It's hard to make time for the things that keep you healthy, but being consistent with self-care is like working a muscle. And when life gets crazy, that muscle keeps you strong. Therapy is the ultimate self-care, and BetterHelp makes it easy to get started with affordable online sessions you can do from anywhere. Never skip therapy day with BetterHelp.

Visit BetterHelpHELP.com today to get 10% off your first month. Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Today's episode of the Nate Land Podcast is brought to you by Electric E-Bikes, Fabric, and Babbel. Now, hello, folks, and hey, bear. I jumped the gun. Hello, folks, and hey, bear.

Sitting here, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and filling in for Dusty Slayer, buddy Mike James. Yeah. Yeah. Keeping it real. Yeah. Yeah. Don't say too much. And then we ask him not to talk too much. Fall is the perfect time to cozy up with a hot drink and enjoy the season. And now with the Northwest Federal Credit Union credit card, you can make the most of this time of year.

Earn double points on everything you purchase with your NWFCU credit card. Every swipe gets you closer to your next reward. Don't miss this exclusive offer. Visit your nearest NWFCU branch or apply online at nwfcu.org. Northwest Federal Credit Union, official credit union of the Washington Commanders. Terms and conditions apply. Yeah, Dusty, I think, is very close with the baby, so...

He's there. We got Mike. Mike was out. Where were we at? We were somewhere. Charleston. Charleston. Got a little weird in Charleston. Yeah. Went to Charleston together. What happened? It was 2 in the morning. I came out, ordered some food, 2 in the morning, and a drunk guy was peeing in a church lawn across the street. And then a homeless dude punched him in the face.

They were fighting in the middle of the street. This really happened. They were fighting in the middle of the street. Nate didn't tell us any of this. Three police cars pulled up. And the rest of you. That would make sense, right? I did get nervous. I was like, I think they're here for me. No, but they saw what happened, looked at me, and just drove off. Drove off. I was just like, oh. It was almost like, welcome to Charleston. That's how we get down. What were you doing at 2?

What were you doing out there at 2 a.m.? Oh. He sounds like a cop. DoorDash? It's your fault we made it out there. Yeah, you know, fast food. Where you heading, buddy? A little fast food. If my wife is not there, you know. I know what's happening. Yeah. Yeah, got to. Yeah, comics get older. It used to be you got in trouble at bars. Yeah. Now it's all about DoorDash and...

you see it come up it is very funny to if you catch someone because you can do when you do a door dash late you imagine you kind of want to do it privately oh yeah but then you have something like that happening you're like well you can't yeah oh you and her yeah oh so it's like she she sees it but yeah you know i mean i can make up something yeah and be like we were yeah yeah bunker down there's a hurricane what do you want me to do

I was starving. They were fighting in the middle of the streets. Yeah. Homeless people. But that's why you do DoorDash. You can see something like that. Yeah. You know? Exactly. That should be in their ad. Yeah. That's why you do it. I like when you catch someone doing like, you know, like not, it's like, especially on the road, like another comic, like,

you know travis our tournament he's been known to door dash some things and you can see they door dash it like they think everybody's asleep yeah you kind of do it privately you just kind of go like i don't know the door then someone just on the bus like i go to the bathroom going there and you got four bags of mcdonald's like where did you get that you know because i imagine how many door dash is just like they give it to like just

like dudes alone like oh you know that's gotta be the most of it late night yeah but I don't know it's like I know people would say drunk they could do it but I mean I think how many stone cold sober door dashes of just a guy alone yeah single guys yeah

Hey, you turn the lights off. I bet they get asked that. Will you turn the lights off when you pull in the driveway? I bet you door dash. I would bet anything. Park down the street. I'll meet you. You know what? I'm going to order this door dash, but I'm going to come to you. Just stay there. Just stay there. Now, I do that, and I've been told that it's actually rude to do, but I will. Anybody delivering food to my house, I walk out there and meet them at the car. That's rude. Yeah.

I think it's probably alarming for them sitting in their car. Then I just walk up. I basically beat them to the punch. I think I knock on their front door window. I'm ready. Hey guys, I've been waiting. I've been waiting for all the last 30 minutes for this. Uh, yeah, I think the whole fun part now is they don't, there's no interaction.

I don't think you want interaction with, with what you're ordering. I don't, I think I'm ashamed. And yeah, you're not, you don't order a, you know, pushups on door dash, a little jog on door dash. You're ordering stuff that is, yeah, it's supposed to be between you and that guy. They should be like, it should be like a therapist where they go, I can't say anything that you like.

Like, be against the wall. Yeah. I can't tell anybody what you ordered. I can't tell anybody what you ordered. I promise I won't. I appreciate that, man. It's like attorney-client privilege. Attorney-client privilege. It is door-to-driver customer privilege. Yeah. And you know, they just, during their off hours, they go by. I'll tell you about that guy in that house right there. Just this big house. Because I bet you do go to some giant homes, too, where it's like, you know, you're just going to be like,

Yeah, this dude. They have him sign an MBA? Yeah. Donald Trump likes McDonald's. You'll get a Donald Trump guy that wants a McDonald's. That's not Donald Trump, but someone that has money like that and then just be like, he just wants a McDonald's, dude. It's 2 in the morning. Who's he going to go get to go get it?

Have y'all been embarrassed of anything y'all ordered? On DoorDash? Just in time. As long as they don't think it's me. I've been embarrassed in a hotel room when you order room service, and then they're like, so for two? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There are about four of us in here. And I mean, you're ordering. I've called where you would...

I would order a big, I mean, there was, that was the, it's the most fun sometimes. Like if you just are like, you're stuck in your hotel and you're like, all right, I can order, you can order room service and you order it. And then you're like, they have a good dessert. Then you, then cause you're like, I want to order them at the same time. Just so it seems normal. But then I don't want the dessert to just, I like it's ice cream. Just sit there while I eat. So then I was like,

I'll tell them before I go, I'm going to order this now. I'm going to call back though. Just so they know. I'm going to call back. So I'm just trying to take any kind of like them thinking in their head, like, can you believe this guy? Yeah.

I did Zany's in Chicago last night for the first time. And I got in town yesterday afternoon and the condo's right around kind of behind Zany's. And I get there, I didn't have much time. And there's, I mean, it's an old town, all these great, beautiful restaurants, but I didn't want to go somewhere to sit down. There's a McDonald's right there in the corner. Oh, that's a great McDonald's though. Right there on the corner. Yeah. Yeah. So I went to that. I mean, Chicago is such a food city. People, so many people,

told me places to go. I hit up a McDonald's and then I go and I do the show. Your downtown things? Old Town. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the city. And then I get done and I do go downtown excuse me, by myself just to

Walk around I went to try to go the Cheesecake Factory. Yeah in John Kahn yeah, yeah, it was there was a wait So I didn't I didn't go but I just walked up Michigan Avenue basically by myself chicken stuff out Yeah, got back to my condo kind of late and I'm like well now I am hungry So I went back to that McDonald's it was the only thing up. So I did McDonald's twice in Chicago yesterday. That's all I had Yeah, you didn't go get pizza

Why didn't you go walk and get, I would have walked and got, they got like. See, now even you are judging me for McDonald's. Well, I just think like pizza is not healthy. It's not like I'm telling you to go get a smoothie. I'm saying like, did you, you go eat something worse than McDonald's. I mean, I get it. I know. Look, I've eaten McDonald's. I get it too, but there, I mean, there are about 14 different restaurants within a hundred yards of that McDonald's. But they're all like, you go in and sit down and.

Yeah, you can get to-go food, though, you know? I know. Well, like, Giordano's or something like those famous pizza places, Uno Pizza. Sure. Those you can go in and, like, you just go get a big deep dish. Like, that's kind of fun. You just go sit there, look at your phone, wait for the deep dish, come out. Did you get the same thing, both meals? No. You mixed it up? I mean, I got fries both meals. Okay. Yeah. You have to. Yeah. Yeah.

I've eaten McDonald's. I'm not mad about it. I feel like I'm being judged now by three fitness experts here. Not at all. No, it's just funny. I can eat McDonald's all day. Yeah. But I would think if you're going to – and you usually take in a city. I mean, I took it in. Like I said, I tried to broaden my horizons by going to the Cheese City Factory. Is it because Chris Farley would eat down there? Well, just because we just talked about it on the podcast. And I thought, I'm going to go here. But anyway –

Did you go up to John Hancock, Bill? No, I mean, this was after the show, so it's kind of late. Michigan Avenue is not... I've been there with you not too long ago. It's not what I remember, though. I used to remember it being bustling, and it was kind of just dead.

Well, Sunday night. Yeah. I guess I just, I used to envision it like almost like Times Square where no matter when it's busy, but it was not like that last night. I don't think Chicago is, I don't think Michigan Avenue was like that. I think they all, the stores shut down and it's not Times Square. Well, they had. You're correct. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, all right, let's walk back and eat McDonald's. Did you get in yesterday? Mm-hmm. So you got in the, like you landed and then did the shows. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It was good, though? Yeah, show was great. It was my first time at that Zany's. A lot of folks came out. Yeah, it was the first club I ever went up at. Did you play the piano on stage? I did not. Did you? No, but I thought about it. It used to not. They took it off for a little bit. I think they put an electric piano up there. Oh, is it? I think so. When I was there, it was the only one I opened for this comic. I was a host for Jim David. Yeah.

he was in, I didn't, he just came in town, but that's the first comedy club I ever, uh, went on stage at, uh, was, and he played piano. I remember that, but, uh, yeah, that I got a host there. They were a great crowd, but,

But, you know, I usually get like, understandably, like holiday, like it was Father's Day yesterday. I often get a weekend nobody else wants. Very often they say, I can't believe we're doing a show. There you go. But you answered the phone. So here we are. I mean, they really, if somebody said, well, you know, it's, you know, Juneteenth's tomorrow. And I'm like, yeah, I bet that's it. I bet my crowd is dressing up for Juneteenth. I bet that's why. Did we come out for you? Did we support you? I would have sold out if it wasn't for Juneteenth. Yeah. Yeah.

And just so you know, we did not have Mike only on because of Juneteenth. I was going to ask about this. I didn't even think about that. I go, yeah. Oh, I thought we did. Yeah. Dusty's downstairs, but I go, we can't show Dusty. It's the opposite of Dusty. It'd be disrespectful. Dusty's June 91st. Dusty looks like there's the reason there is a Juneteenth. Yeah.

Oh, man, that was a good call. Good call. You know, I was thinking this. You think... I don't know if it's a funny joke, but like DoorDash is like...

It's room service for everybody. It's like poor people room service. That's what you don't even need a room. You don't even need a room. People are just like, yeah, I want room service too. Like hotels are so expensive. They go. All right. All right. What if, uh, you got a phone? If I got a guy that's willing to go into that McDonald's at 3 a.m. Yeah. That's funny. Yeah. That's funny. Right. They were talking about you. Like, uh, the conversation,

the comic that open for me said that he's like, yeah, there's open mic here, cigars and stripes. And they said, Nate, Nate Bargetti used to do it. Do you remember that? Uh, maybe at Zany's? Um, no, just in Chicago. He said it's one of the longest running open mics. Yeah, I did. I remember, I don't remember it was called that, but I remember that they had, when I was there, they had an open mic. That was the longest open mic. It was at, uh, I forget the name of the place, but, uh,

But that's where, wherever it was, you'd go sign up and it was a list and it'd be like 70 comics would sign up. And so you would sign up and then you'd get your order and you wanted to be like 30 because what are you doing? Two minutes.

Three minutes? Yeah, maybe it's like three minutes or something. But it was, you wanted to be like 30th because 30th was like 8 p.m. Like, and people would, real people would come in. Yeah. So, like, first was like, I mean, no one's, you know, no one's in there. 30th is, you know, the 30 to 50 is like, you know, it's a bar. So it's like real people would come in for those. And then after that, it's just like, you know.

Otherwise, you could be going up. If you're last, you're like 2 a.m. Was it a host?

Yeah. Yeah, they ran this show. I mean, they might have switched it all. They might have a different host for... You'd be in good shape getting your steps in. But you'd go sign up there and then see where you're at. And if you were like 70th or 60th or something... Go do another show. Just go do other shows and then come back later. If you're first, you just go do this, then go do whatever. But if you were in the middle, it was like, you're going to have a good spot. That's what I did.

Yeah, those were my first open mics. You said Hannibal still pop in occasionally? Yeah. Yeah, we were all there. It's crazy. Yeah, that's right outside that longest open mic is where I remember talking to my dad or something about Brian Regan live. I picture Brian Regan live in that open mic, and that's where I heard...

I remember hearing his CD or something. I think I remember my dad telling me about this. And being like, I had to pull over because I was laughing so hard. You got to listen to this guy's CD. And then I listened to it. Crazy. Yeah. Yeah.

Um, where were you at? I had a corporate in Florida working, working, man. I had the nicest hotel room I've ever been in. I check in at the hotel. This is in outside of Fort Myers, Florida, and I'm checking in and the lady goes, well, it's going to be about an hour. I was like, yeah. And she goes, it's worth it. I go, okay. I just, I thought I had a normal room. Yeah.

So I walk around a kill time. I come back and dude, I basically have a whole floor of this hotel. There's eight different balconies. There's a pool table in there. There's two bedrooms. I was like, this is insane, dude. So anyway, where was it? This was in like a Hyatt Regency. I know where in Seattle.

outside of Fort Myers. Oh yeah. The city Bonita Springs or something like that. And now I'm like, golly, it's a lot of pressure for this gig. This is the nicest hotel room I've ever had. Can't even imagine how much this costs.

And, uh, it went okay. Yeah. So I get off the show. The show went okay. Yeah. I did fine. Yeah. I didn't, I didn't get off and go, they should've got me to hotel. It felt like, Oh, that was okay. And everybody was nice. And then I get, I have to get on an elevator with everybody that was just at the show and I'm going up higher than them. I'm at the penthouse. Yeah.

So then it's just such a different feeling being in that room after the show. Oh, yeah. Now I'm just alone looking at a pool table and feeling like I didn't really earn this. Do you know what I mean? Then I just got out of there. It's just a weird feeling. Door dash to McDonald's that night. Played pool by myself. Yeah. It's a lot less fun than with a friend. Yeah. You know? Yeah. It's a weird feeling. Yeah. Yeah.

How many were in the corporate? About 500 people there. It's a big, big event in the ballroom. How much time did you do? I did 45 minutes. Yeah. We'd say four or five of those minutes were pretty good. Yeah. You think it went that bad? No, it didn't. It never goes as bad as I think. Was it a big room? Big room. Yeah. Had some trouble with the microphone. That was kind of a thing the whole time.

I just wanted it. It was just, yes, I was just dealing with that. But the room was so nice. I like, I wanted it to be electric. I wanted them to be like, yeah, we'll do that again next year. You know? And it just wasn't, and it's on me. It's nobody else's fault. Yeah. It's just, it's just not feeling to go back to that room. You're like, I wish it wasn't quite this nice now. Yeah. I'll take the pool table out. Yeah. So Aaron and I are texting each other the same night. Cause I had a corporate at the music city center.

uh downtown nashville and they wanted to recreate a naughty the opry so it was me and a couple of uh country music performers uh the part of the band sugarland they're recreating a tuesday night at the opry it's a and uh sugarland was there uh one half of sugarland yeah and i wanted to tell the guy your story but i never got a chance oh yeah that'd been awesome yeah so uh yeah i don't know if it was sugar or land that was there but one of them was there

So I did mic check right before it started. This is the setup. So this is my vantage point from the stage. Oh, wow. There's this giant dance floor. And look how far away. And you're on the stage? I'm on the stage right there. That's great. I love having people that far away. Yeah. So now I'm.

Are they having dancing? They did. I asked, why is that giant dance floor in the middle there? And they're like, yeah, they're going to hope to come out and dance later. Did they? I don't know. I left. Not to her mindset. Yeah. That's crazy. It is crazy. So they get way behind schedule wise, like doing sound checks and stuff like that. And then to make up for it, they cut some stuff out. But what ends up happening is for some reason, because they cut out so much, I ended up going up earlier than it was even supposed to.

When they called me up, there's nobody in their seats. Everyone's mingling. They're talking, they're drinking.

And I had to do 20 minutes and I did 20 minutes to not one person. Oh, that's awesome. You couldn't find anybody? And they're so far away. I can't even make eye contact. It was 20 minutes of just people meeting and having a great time and catching up with each other. This is convention they were at. Yeah. And I just, you know, I had to do my time. So boy, you really start realizing just when you do have to do an act out or a voice or anything and nobody's watching. Yeah.

Yeah. It's hard to commit. Yeah, it is. Did you address it? I did, but nobody's listening, so they didn't get that. Yeah. And there was one woman that just kind of walked by accidentally. Yeah. I started talking to her, and she got out of there. Yeah. She was just going to see her friend. It would have been great if everybody got up and started dancing just during your set. Like, I mean, the whole...

The whole group, the whole people watching just get up and they just start like, they do those, that dance where you listen to your own music. A silent disco. And then Bates is up there going, you know, doing his act. I mean, nobody knew I was even there. When I announced that I just had a baby and no one clapped, you know, they're like.

Nobody's even listening. They're not even listening. Because when you texted me that video, I was like, my instinct would be if it's a wireless mic, I would walk out there and do it on the dance floor. And I considered that. This isn't even a salvageable situation. It wasn't. I actually went out there just to try it. But I'm like, it's not Brian Bates night. I'm one small part of this thing. Wait, during the set, you walked out there and tried it? No, but before, after you suggested that, I thought, let me go out here and get a feel. I'm glad I didn't. It wouldn't have worked anyway. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, then they're like, well, I don't know. Where's that coming from? Yeah. They can't find them.

That's exactly what they would have done. I was picturing you walk out there, try to tell jokes, and you're like, oh, this isn't working. You walk back. Then I have to clob up on stage. I have to put the mic up there. Some of those gigs, if it's set up like that, I mean, people just don't know. They don't do it on purpose. But some of you, you wish they would come up and go like, hey, we're going to just pay you. Don't do it. This is pointless. We messed up. And just be...

But I think they're just like, no, they're paying you. So it's like, you got to go do something. While I was up there, I was thinking, would they rather me just get off? Well, it almost be like, let me host. Yeah. And we had a host. Yeah. Oh. And she's like, you know, a country music star. Yeah. But I mean, they weren't listening to her either. Yeah. Yeah. It almost be like, let me go up with the host or something. Or like, let me do something that like we can just talk.

Yeah, that's a tough situation. Well, you told me that. It did make me feel better about my gig because they were listening and laughing and everybody was nice. So thank you for that. Did you have friends there? Anybody you know? That's so funny, though. Only you would happen to you just to be like, you're like, man, this is getting terrible. You're like, yeah, do you mind? I guess so. And I'd kill for that gig. It's funny.

It seems like it's one of the best gigs. Is the audience within 200 yards of you? Then sign me up. His audience was in the room over.

There's a show in South by Southwest that you used to do and you would, uh, it was a cool show and they would, they use on purpose, but you do a show and you can't hear the audience. So you're just in a sound booth type room and you just tell stories and you, or you do whatever. And, uh, I forget the name of the show, but it was, these guys did, they might still do it like other places. I did it at South by Southwest. And, uh,

It was such a cool idea in the audience. You go in there for five minutes and you're just talking and you can't hear the crowd, so you don't know what's happening. I did a show. Did you ever do the show Surrogates that they would do in Atlanta? No. Do you remember that show, Brian? They did it at Zany's once where you're in the green room.

And you get somebody from the audience and they wire them up. And you feed them your jokes. And you feed them your jokes and then they perform your set. Yeah. And it was really fun. My person murdered. Like, it was the best set I've ever had was through somebody else. So you just say what you're... I'm in the green room cut off. Yeah. I'm wired with a headset to a stranger on stage who's...

I'm using them as a puppet, essentially performing my act. Yeah. It was really fun. Yeah. Wow. It, uh, it, it hurt pretty bad. I, I wanted to get out there so bad. You know, I wish I had was a electric e-bike electric e-bike could zoom out of there with that. Uh, I mean, you could, I don't know if that would have helped, uh, drive electric e-bike around just in there.

What if you just went out and said, I'm giving away, like, you're just doing something. You just turned it into a giveaway. Yeah, and they're still like, I don't, no one's listening. If you have not gotten anything for dead yet for this Father's Day, give them a gift of a fun power. Big one. Yeah, that one took me out. But it was a, I was doing a,

a corporate gig in DC. That was yours. No, it was good though. At least we didn't break a bone. Yeah, that's how good I was killing. We're all trying to one-up each other with these stories of what happened to you. What was y'all's corporate gig? Was yours good? Yeah, it was a good gig, but the luggage rack in the hotel room fell on my toe.

Yeah, I don't understand. You know, you mentioned this earlier, but I don't think I get it. What? Like an empty? Was anything on it? No, it was nothing on it, but I was getting the... How weak is your toe? It was perfect. How big is his luggage? Are you talking about the thing like a bellhop? Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. Okay. No, the thing in the closet. He has a lot of luggage. Yeah.

You sit your luggage on top of it. And they'll fold out. Oh, okay. Is that what that's for? Yeah. Oh, it's the best. It is. You never use it? No. What do you do? Leave it on the floor? I had a lot of furniture to choose from last weekend. One of his mini pool tables. I put it on the sectional. So I was getting the ironing board out and it fell on my, so perfectly. Like landed right on it. So it chipped them all.

So I went and performed with that. You know, I had on some slides going to it because I don't wear my shoes. And then when I got there, I had my shoes and it was just like thriving the entire time. But you did the show. I did the show. That was your flu game. Yeah. Yeah. And killed it. Like Jordan dropped 38. Yours was great. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I should go watch Mike pick up some pointers. Corporate gigs, man. I was in Sioux City, Iowa.

Awesome. And then six shows in St. Paul, Minneapolis. Six. Couldn't do seven, man. No. It was tough, man.

The grind six. It goes. But yeah, it was six shows. They were, it was just so great. Everybody said nice. We got to golf. I went out golfing with a guy, Tim. He's a member at Hazleton. And so he took me and Joe and Sonny Gray.

We all went and golfed in Hazleton. Hazleton's a big, they've had majors there. Like, it's a big, big, big course. And so, but it was, it was super fun. We walked and Joe Zimmerman, who's a good golfer. He, I don't know if I've talked, like we have a special coming out. I don't know when, but it's like in a couple months.

But it's – there's Joe. And then Joe played college golf at Davidson. So Joe gets – we get started, dude. He birdies one. And then he had three birdies on the front nine. And I'm like – you know, he played college golf. So Joe – I mean, Joe can do something. And I'm like, yeah. I was like – I was pretty excited because I was like, dude, what if Joe just –

Just rips apart this place. Back then, a little different. Yeah, back then. Me and him played three days, and we played in Sioux City, too. And then we played here at...

legend my where i play and then we played uh so we played three days in a row that third day when i hazleton we walked and i was like i was pretty tired i was my back was like sore it but it was like it was hazleton and it was like we had a good group and it was like it was almost nice because it's like um i gotta just have fun like instead of being you know you can take some stuff you can get out there and be like i'm trying to do too good or whatever

And here was just kind of like, it was fun. We walked. There was no pressure. It was just kind of like a good, good time. The greens were super fast. So if you're a starting pitcher like Sonny and you know it's not your day, you can go do that stuff? Yeah, he pitched the night before. Yeah, so he knows he's not going to be playing. Yeah, he's not going to be playing. So he had to be there at 3.30 at the clubhouse. So he went...

so he, we got done and I'm not texting him like the night before. And I was like, Hey, be there at 10, 20 Hazleton. And so then he comes out and then, uh, so we go play Hazleton and then, uh, which is pretty fun group for the guy we play with. I was like, can I bring one more person? And he was like, yeah. I was like, all right, you're a starting pitcher of your favorite team. That's crazy. And then, yeah, that's fun. Uh, and then, so, but it was like, awesome. And then, uh, Sonny's just the best man. He's doing really good this year. Uh,

for the twins. You said it before. I mean, he's in position to maybe win a Cy Young. I mean, he's been playing unbelievable. Look at Shane Lackland there. Wow. He's 11-1. Yeah, I know. But until recently, Sonny was leading the major leagues in the ERA. Yeah, but he's in a position to be. Yeah, he's in there. Sonny's having a great year. Unfortunately for him, they don't give him a lot of runs, and he didn't get any decisions. Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

Yeah, but it's like, I mean, even if you're, he's in the running. Yeah. It's like, that's a solid thing, you know. I know Bad News Bates wants to bring it down. Well, I'm supporting him. Good luck, Sonny. Good luck. Remember when he was on, I pointed out that he led the league in wild pitches. Yeah. He didn't even know it. Yeah. Yeah. He just brings sad things up.

No, I support Sonny. Doesn't feel like it. I support it. They need to give him more run production. Every game he pitches, he does great, and then they don't give him any runs. Yeah. And he gets a no decision. Yeah. Well, I think he's doing great. I think he's doing great, Sonny. I think he's doing okay. Sonny, I think you're doing – Do better. He's a wonderful man. So we went to the – then I went to the game, got to throw out the first pitch.

Another one. Why don't you just let me just have something? Dude, I don't even... I promise you, I'm not trying to do anything in these first... These first pitches are being thrown at me. I don't want to do them. How'd your pitch go? How'd you do? It was good. It was over the plate. You would have swung. You're tall. He wouldn't have swung. You wouldn't have swung. But you're... Mike's tall, so I'd have got Mike. Hmm.

What's going on here? I would have probably got rocked because mine was high. And don't batters like high pitches? I don't know. I think if you leave a pitch up a little too high. Oh, there's no. It was like he was telling me just get it over. You want air under it so it's not going to hit the ground. Right. I don't want to throw super hard. Yeah, see, that's the difference. I'm going to give some effort. Yeah. You just phone it in. You don't even – yeah. Yeah.

We had Eric film this, and for some reason... He put it in slow-mo, which is not a bad looking footage, man. That's real speed. Yeah, it's a little too high. It's thorn.

But I don't know why Eric. Now, I always remember, I always say he's just a barber, even though he tells me how to eat. Yeah. That's what we'd say to him all the time. Yeah, you're just a barber. Most important person in your life. Have I said that on here? No. Anytime he says anything, he goes, well, just remember, he's just a barber. He's just talking about like working out or something. And he also did great. He doesn't understand baseball and think about maybe show where the ball goes. Right.

when you film something. I texted Nick yesterday. I don't know how you could not. He's up in, he's up in this, he's already in the seats up in the top. How could you not do it sideways and just get me and Sonny filming? Who do you think I'm throwing to? Right.

What was he thinking there? It looks like that's a warm-up. I didn't watch his video until now. That looks like a warm-up. It doesn't even look like the real thing. Nick's is even worse. Nick's videos, yeah. Nick, you can't see the catcher, and you can barely see you. I'm not sure he knew which one you were.

yeah i don't have the whole yeah it went i sent that to you yeah it went good and then uh i think i sent you travis's yeah they were super uh they were they were super fun yeah travis's video was just uh it was like a good one but it's blurry and then uh so he couldn't see it but it was uh yeah it was an awesome awesome i mean who's that this is the worst video quality flip phone that's travis's oh yeah

Why does it do that though? Like, why does it, why does it, when you film it, you know, when you text it and it goes small. Yeah. Why does it do that? Because it, it, it compresses it. If it, especially if it's sent over text message and not I message. Yeah. It'll compress it to make it smaller so it can be sent. So what would you have to do? Air drop it? Air drop. It's typically the best way. And it would be, then it'd be normal and perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Uh,

Sonny had some big catching duties. It was me. He had to catch me, then his two sons. For Father's Day, Sonny had to catch me and his two sons. I also got Sonny's glove because we, me and him, went in through on the field, which was very cool to go do that. Just kind of throwing just back and forth so I could just pitch a couple. And then so he let me do that, and I had his glove that I think that he used in the game.

And then I just took it. I got it at home now. No, he doesn't have a glove. It says 54 on it. It says dad on it. I love you, dad. You're so special. Yeah. It's a game. It's a glove using the game. And I was, that's his glove. And I just, uh, I just, he goes, I just kind of walked out and I just heard him go, well, I guess state's keeping that one. And I was like, it looks like it's sunny. Yeah.

That was a good pitch. It was good. It looks way better from that angle. Yeah. Do you get nervous before? I think right before you pitch. I mean, it's like, because this is really, this is only the second time. If I could go out there and just do it a couple times, then you could be like, all right, all right. And then you'd be like, I know what to do. But if I do another one, I need to start bringing it and try to...

and hit across the plate. Yeah. I need to throw a better pitch. I need to throw that George W. Bush pitch like after 9-11. Like we did. Oh, yeah. Just, you know...

Just boom. Is everybody paying attention at that time? No. I mean, no. They announce you. They play clips. People cheer and stuff. I don't think it's too crazy. It's not. Yeah, it's not. You need a Bush after 9-11 moment. We need something with equally high stakes. Yeah, I didn't have. Yeah, we were just doing shows on two shows on Sunday. So people could only get so much behind that.

Yeah, the clip Nick sent me, they introduced you, and it sounded like my corporate. Nobody even knew you were out there. No, people knew. People knew. I got a little, they go, they popped. There's a little like, hey. You know, a little, all right. Oh, yeah. I can hear it. Oh, neat. Yeah. Well, he can't hear because Nick films with his phone on his eyeball. And then he just goes, because he can't see.

Nick did film the, I posted a clip of Sonny telling me what to do and Nick filmed that. Yeah, that was good. Yeah, that was good. He did a good job with that. Yeah. And then, yeah, so. So Mike, if you don't know, I'm throwing out the first pitch in the Sounds game. On 4th of July, right? 4th of July. Now Nate's going on a barnstorming tour of every baseball field in America. That's hilarious. What he doesn't know is I'm going to drive the pace car at a race coming up. Hey. So what are you going to do about that?

Are you? No. Oh, but you are. I went to the Indy 500 this year. Oh yeah. Yeah. You do? Yeah. Where? I mean, that's our Juneteenth.

How was it, man? It was a lot. Were you on the road there? No, we were in Louisville. So it was just right up the street. We went by there. And yeah, man, 450,000 people. That is a lot of people. That's crazy. I've never seen that many people. Where did y'all go...

Like, is it, it's like through the city, right? Or is it around just the, or is it around the track? That's the oval track. Yeah. So it's a, it's like a square track, I think. Right. I've been there in the brickyard. That would be some sharp turns. But it's like, it's not, uh, it's not like a big oval or something. They have a golf course in it. It's enormous. Yeah. It's huge. Uh,

I'm not saying it's square. See what I mean? It's like a little Mario Kart. It's not the normal oval. It's not a NASCAR track. There's a golf course right around it, and then when you go play, some of the holes are inside the track. That's awesome. I would love to play that course. That's got to be crazy.

Yeah, it was. I mean, they were having a concert during the race. So y'all were, you got tickets inside? Yeah, I mean, I was with Godfrey, so he knew someone and they brought us in. It was like a promoter or something. That's awesome. Yeah, man. And then did y'all watch the whole thing? No, we didn't have time. So I've never seen that many sleeveless shirts. So many.

um but it was i mean they're so loud it's just a guy from uh one oh really oh did he yeah oh yeah we left who i don't know his name but he's mintersonville i believe that's good enough for me yeah uh yeah that's that's gotta be too much that's crazy yeah i mean it's so fast did you see what happened to your buddy uh jesse rothacker uh-uh

You know, from forgetting, what is it? Forgotten friends reptile. Yeah. Look at this, uh, the headline here. Snake on trails. He's been 50 times. It says, take a bite. Summer warning is nature lover meets cannibal snake on trail and is bitten over 50 times in wild video. Oh, oh, he's in a coma. Why? He's in a coma.

Bitten by an Eastern milk snake more than 50 times while trying to warn audiences about the different markings each reptile has. Yeah. That's crazy. I'm glad he got that out of the system after us. Yeah.

You're not with us. Y'all will watch Coyote. What's his name? He does a show on YouTube where he takes things from... I haven't watched... Did we watch? We watched it after one of our insect episodes. I forgot his name, but yeah. Coyote Peterson. That's his name. Yeah, dude. I cannot do it. So many stings. Yeah. People are just...

He has a tour, though. He has a tour? Yeah. What's he doing? Just stung? Just talking about animals. Yeah. If I'm going to do that before that, I'm going to get fabric life insurance. Fabric by Gerber Life. It's quick and easy to help protect your family's future. Mike, you get bit by a snake or stung, you're going to need life insurance.

You laugh now, but when you're on your bed, you're going to wish you had it. Do the right thing, Mike. Smooth. Fabric was designed by parents for parents to help get a high-quality, surprisingly affordable term of life insurance policy in less than 10 minutes. It takes less than 10 minutes to apply, see your quote, and then personalize your quote. So I was going to show you, like people there, I shaved my head. All right. Yeah. I not shaved it. It's just buzzed down. Back to the old Nate.

This is what Laura said. This is step one. She just saw it today. I don't know if there's any pictures in here. Yeah, step one. It's nice to do a nice little buzz. I don't think I like it, but we're here. It was like summer, and you're like, I went short, and then I was like, you know what? I'll just go a little bit shorter. That's what I did. Cool off a bit. I did the same. Yeah. How short you got? I just went as short as I could. Yeah. Okay. There you go.

Better go. How short did you go? Some places shorter than others. Sorry to you guys' comments. Start the show with it. Someone commented last week that you always say that 45 minutes into the podcast. Yeah, well, we'll do it. William Ryan, I sometimes listen to the podcast on .75 FM.

.75 times speed. Everyone sounds super relaxed and maybe a little buzzed. I know the podcast is two hours long already, but I listen while it works, so I wanted to listen to hang out with the gang as long as possible while at the office. That's very nice. Curtis Bonsek. Yeah, right? Bonsek. The billion served on the McDonald's side refers to the number of burgers sold.

Not the number of customers served. Is that true? I have no idea. I think either way they've now qualified to say billions and billions served. So it doesn't even matter at this point. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I didn't know that either.

Did you know, yeah, that is interesting. Did you know that when it says 40% chance of rain, you know what that means? I learned this super recently. Then Eric learned it from the same TikTok vid. You learned a TikTok video? Yeah, yeah. That's how. You know, the knowledge of everybody. I'm saying it right now, but it's like I'm almost annoyed with, because I do it too where I see these videos, but it's like everybody's just got annoying little facts now and you're like,

Oh, you're like, and then you're like, oh, how'd you know that? You're like, cause you're jammed your face in your phone for 12 hours and you saw a video, but it's, I'm not, it's, it's just like, uh, it's very funny to be like, yeah, I did learn that. But when I, I saw that video and then I did, uh, morning TV, uh,

And I asked the meteorologist and I was like, you know, I just learned that. And they act like that was the dumbest thing ever. I think every, well, what's the answer? Y'all need to do a better job of explaining what this actually means. When they say 40% chance of rain, I thought that meant there's a 40% chance that there's going to be rain. That's not what it means. But what it actually means is 40% of the area we're talking about will experience rain. So it's a matter of your area. It has nothing to do with probability.

Because I think 90% chance of rain. Oh, man, there's a 9 out of 10 chance I'm going to see rain today. That's not what it means. And this is true. Which would make sense is why it could rain everywhere, but not where you're at. Right. All they're saying is 90% of the area that we're discussing will experience rain.

So if they say Davidson County, they're meaning 90% of Davidson County will experience rain. Okay. Yeah. This is true. Yeah, yeah. That's how it's actually. That's what they mean when they say that. Yeah, they need to explain it. Yeah, they need to word it a little bit differently. Yeah, there's no way anybody knows that. Gary Burgess. Now someone's going to say they learned it. Where'd you learn it? On a podcast. Yeah. On a video. Where'd they learn it? Video. Everybody just learned it from the same video. Yeah.

Gary Burgess. Nate suggested the Minnesota Lakes for a team mascot. The LA Lakers were originally the Minneapolis Lakers and moved to LA. Look at that. That makes sense. What is a Laker, though? Just a guy that hangs out by the lake? Yeah. Yeah. It's probably better than lakes. Yeah. Yeah.

That is why with the Los Angeles Lakers, we just accepted that they're called the Lakers. Yeah, I never thought about it. And it never, it doesn't make sense. It's like the Utah Jazz. Yeah. They were the New Orleans Jazz, right? Yeah. Joshua Parker. I grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, where the Mayo Clinic was started by a doctor who came to help with injured people after a tornado destroyed most of the town. Nuns helped his nurses.

Does the street, uh, thus the St. Mary's wing at the Mayo Clinic, the doctor, Mary's wing at the Mayo Clinic.

Street Paul, Minnesota. That's a lot of sentences, man. Yeah, we could just stop. The doctor who was Dr. Mayo had two sons who also became doctors and helped turn the Mayo Clinic into what it is today, leading in new surgeries and techniques to treat people. It's very nice. That was nice. The Memphis Grizzlies also. Yeah, they're the Vancouver Grizzlies. Yeah, we probably have some Grizzlies.

Yeah. Tennessee. We don't, we have black bear. Yeah. Yeah. We've got a million videos. I'm just saying this so people can stop sending them of a moose chase and a grizzly bear. Yeah. Yeah. They're both surprisingly quick. Yeah. If we went like, we just had, that was a good time with that. We made a lot of dumb things. It is interesting to go back and, uh,

Like just like the size, you don't really think of the size. Like there's a weight class for a reason. Someone might've said that. And then it is like the size of that moose is, I mean, the grizzly bear could, if it got it, I mean, the moose seems like a fight, but the moose, it's just so big. But it's fast though. Like it can run like 30 miles. Yeah, really fast. We can't relitigate this whole tournament. Yeah. Flat cat, Jessica.

I was at my nephew's high school graduation. After a girl got her diploma, she tripped and fell. Afterwards, I asked my nephew about that poor girl as I felt so bad for her. He told me that she had got paid $50 to do that. And if you watch videos, you will see they are doing that at college graduations and high school graduations. It's a challenge.

She's basing it off that guy who threw out the first pitch and fell, which everyone does agree. Yes, that was fake. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just be skeptical of everything. Every time you see somebody do something like that. But also, if you do something embarrassing, it's a good way to play it off. You're like, oh, this is part of a challenge. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Boy, I needed this a long time ago. Yeah. Could have made a lot of money.

Yeah. Yeah. That's like, it's, I mean, just a young, a young, yeah. It's young people. It's whatever their thing that they're into. Uh, that's cool. They do that. You don't like it? No, I'm joking. I don't care. I mean, it doesn't, I, you know, college kids. I mean, it's like, yeah, no, it's high school. Well, even more so. Yeah. Just for fun.

Who paid her $50? Who in high school has $50 to give away? That's what I don't understand. I think it was the parents asking them. Her parents asked her to do it. What plan are you on? People grow up now, and you think you can just ask your parents, can I have $50 to make this girl trip? Yeah, that's crazy. And your family just like, yeah, yeah, here's $50. Yeah, film it and monetize it. $50 is the most...

That's a lot of money. Like, I mean, especially when I graduated. I mean, it was like, you know, and you're just like doing it. You're like, ah, we got to give her 50 bucks. I think 20 bucks is pointless to kids now. No, it doesn't mean what it used to. It doesn't. It's like five. It really is. $5 was our $20. 20 is the new five. Yeah. 20 is the new five. Five was $5 was like,

I got paid $5 to mow my neighbor's yard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it was like- Five bucks. Five bucks. Oh, yeah. That's how I bought my Mortal Kombat. Yeah. A yard at a time. I'm like, you bring that up in my act. My daughter got $50 from my dad yesterday, and she couldn't care less. For her birthday? No, just because. Yeah. And she couldn't care less. It wasn't $100. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I think it's because that's parenting. Yeah. It's a little bit on you, Mike. You can't put that on her. Teach your kid the value of a dollar. Yeah, I'll give you that. Is that what you said to her? She goes, I got $50. You go, it ain't $100.

uh i don't it's a mix too of like i don't know if they wrap their head around what the money is right but yes it is all it doesn't like it's just a different time how much does the tooth fairy give at your house ten dollars ten dollars see that's that's changed it's uh yeah yeah she's giving out one dollar well see what happened was one time i think it we only had a ten dollar bill

So you can't go back after that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Bates was probably, you did yours before the 2-3 was born. We just added it all up at the end. Yeah. Skipped one total. Do you remember who your high school graduation speaker was?

Speaker. I don't know who he had. You had a speaker? Oh, you're talking about, oh, to give the... Commitment. I thought it was the valedictorian. No? Yeah. We had a, did you have somebody? We didn't have one. That's college, right? You probably flew in. Bill Gates. In college, it was somebody of that caliber. Who was it? I don't remember the guy's name. Oh, okay. Are you talking about college? I'm talking about high school. It was Biden and Pence the year before. Oh, wow.

Together? Yeah. Oh, wow. That's weird. I think. It was like two, or it was like, what's that guy's name? The guy that was orange. It seems like he's thinking Donald Trump. No, no, no, not Trump. There was another guy who was orange. John Boehner. It was Boehner and Biden, I think, together. Hanging out.

So whoever it was, it was a little bit of a disappointment the next year. Who was yours? Our high school graduation speaker was Watson Brown. He was Vanderbilt's football coach. And he went on to be the losingest coach in the history of college football. So the guy who spoke to us about going out in the world was the biggest loser in all of college football. I'm not saying that led to anything. Was he at the time?

No. I mean, this was when he was at Vanderbilt in his early, you know, but he went on to, he had a long career of losing other places too. But I was so excited. We keep them. Vandy. Yeah. Terry Weaver. One of the reasons that WCW Monday Nitro's first episode was recorded at Mall of America is because Hulk Hogan had opened a new restaurant in Mall of America in 1995 named Pastamia. Pastamia.

Pasta mania. That makes more sense. Yeah. It closed after less than a year. Well, that's because people were going pasta mania. What is this thing? Nobody got it. Yeah. Jonathan Kurz. Aaron, I would like to car talk with my... Oh, wait.

Aaron, I would listen to car talk with my dad when he would take me to work with him on some Saturdays growing up. Very fond memories of click and clack getting it, getting into it. It seems like she's been a, this one should have been more of a personal text. Uh, I can't believe you've never heard of that show. It's fun. They had two Boston accents, which has a kid in Alabama. You just never hear. So it was just fun to hear them talk. Mm. Uh, uh,

NPR? Was it on NPR? Yeah, yeah. It was, right? Uh-huh. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was. Austin Thomas Selby, we couldn't even afford FM radio. We just had AM. Did you have to pay for it? Like, would there have been time? Some radios would only have AM, though. Really? Mm-hmm. I think so. Maybe a long time ago, yeah. You don't remember. Before my time. Yeah.

I mean, there was AM stations. All your credits are from AM radio. AM radio is enormous. I mean, if you're counting the Grand Ole Opry. Yeah. Yeah. Look at the Grand Ole Opry. Grand Ole Opry. July 11th. July 11th. Mike James would be Grand Ole Opry. So the Grand Ole Opry is enormous. Yeah. AM radio, you know, there's some cars that they don't have them in it.

Austin Thomas Selby. On last week's episode, you guys discussed boy names for Dusty's son. The name Austin was brought up and Aaron said Austin is a serial killer's name. Later in the episode, Nate says that the name Thomas is too high-fluid of a name for McDonald's. My name is Austin Thomas. Thanks the inadvertent shout out. Love you guys. That's Austin Thomas. Well, I think together I like him.

I was just saying... I'll be honest with you, Austin. When you have three names? When three names like that is where it gets into serial killer territory. I have three names. Three first names. No, no, no. But you don't introduce yourself as... Michael Thomas James. Okay. But if you went by that, I'd be like, that's a little bit of a serial killer. Old money. Michael Thomas James, it does sound... It does sound Michael Thomas James has a little old money. Oh, yeah. I'm not surprised that she's not impressed by 50 bucks. The family you grew up in, you just have...

Let's catch you live. Austin Thomas Selby. Yeah, I like those two names together. I'd work on that last name, but the first two names are great. ATS. Work on the last name. ATS Killer. ATS Killer. Austin Thomas Selby. Yeah. I wonder if he goes by Austin Thomas. I think those do go good together. Dusty, his kid can't be Austin Thomas. I'm not AT.

A.T.? You know, there are some names where there's just two letters doesn't quite work. A.T.'s almost there. Can you see calling somebody A.T.? A.T. Yeah. It's like A.C. I don't like that. A.C. Slater, right? Yeah, but that's... A.C. Saved by the bell. A.C. works somehow. He made it cool, though. Yeah, because it was him. Yeah. Okay. Well, this guy could be cool. No, boy, A.T. in the house. A.T.? All right.

Lauren Tallon. Tallon Tallon. My husband and I never watched Little House on the Prairie growing up. So we started watching it with our four kids recently. We haven't gotten to the part where Mary becomes blind.

in the future, if you could add spoiler alerts for 40-year-old TV series that were also books, we would appreciate it. My kids don't listen to podcasts, so at least they're still being surprised. That's very funny. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, all right. Well, that would be just in case you haven't seen. I bet you could do spoiler alerts for almost anything now because there's just too many old...

You know, like we were actually in the backlog of like, actually, there's a bunch of old movies. So and people are just going to go back to watch it now. So about with the writer's strike going on. Oh, yeah. With the writer's strike. But no, I'm saying just because kids that are younger.

Like they're now, you know, you don't think about it. You're like, cause it's, as you get older, you just think you ain't seen six cents. And someone's like, I'm a, I wasn't even born. It was 35 years ago. Yeah. Crazy. Was it? It wasn't 35 years ago. Close to it. I mean, 30 probably. Yeah. No. What? No way. When did that come out? 90? 2000. Wait, 99, right?

Did it? Okay. So 24 years? 1999. Yeah. Yeah. So 20, 24 years. That's way different than 35. It's not that different. It is. Cause if you say 30, then I'm like, Oh no. Dude, you say 30. I mean, I was like, I graduated high school in 97. So I'm like, yeah, I'm like, is it? Yeah. Three guys here graduated high school in the nineties. Yeah. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. You need us to get up to that five. You're having a moment in time.

You think when, uh, 70s graduating nineties, what you graduated in nine, nine, uh, 74. Good. Someone, someone commented that, uh, we're like Michael and Phyllis on the office when he, how he's caused out old Phyllis is basically the same age. You think when I'm 88 and you're 81, we're still doing this podcast. You'll be making fun of it. Uh, I don't know. No, he's into you. I think you might be facing backwards by then. I think we'll be lucky if you're sitting in the right direction. Yeah.

You're going to see this podcast. This podcast will be filmed downstairs. Brian can't get up here anymore. That's definitely true. Ryan Joy, I wish Best Buy sponsored this episode so we could have Gooder, Better Help, and Best Buy. That would be fun. That would be fun. I think I've used all of those words. I've used Gooder. Good, Better, Best. Willer...

I think that's what he was implying. Good, better, best. Yeah. Good, better, best. We did talk about Best Buy because they're out of Minnesota. Yeah. Uh,

Willard Garrett wanted to congratulate Aaron on his Comedy Central stand-up feature. I saw Aaron two years ago when he came to Auburn, and he was great. Not to imply I know all that much about stand-up, but I can tell he's made huge strides between then and this feature. I really enjoyed it. Not only that, but a few of my buddies were centering on TikTok of Aaron's YMCA football bit.

Who before that clip didn't know Aaron or this podcast. So, Aaron, congratulations and keep on trucking. All right. How about that? A very nice message. Thank you, Wheeler. I did have a... All the messages to Aaron today should have been like, y'all should have just texted Aaron all of this stuff. Didn't go. Yeah, you just DM'd me these nice messages. Very nice that you wrote it in. I had a bunch of dusty comments in at the last minute when he couldn't make it. I had to replace them with some nice Aaron comments. Nice Aaron comments.

He had a, and it took you a while to find them. When the archives. Yeah. Uh, Isaac Valk, Guy Slay. Sounds like Nate trying to remember the team, the term manslaughter. Guy Slay. Oh, I can see that. That's funny. Dusty's dad's name's Guy Slay. Yeah. That's funny. You know that Mike? Guy. His name is Guy. We read comments before the show, Mike. Uh, uh,

I didn't know what was going on. Yeah. It's like, what is this? We have a podcast with you, Mike. We're recording. We're recording right now. It's already out. I thought we were just talking. Yeah. All right. So today is, the day this comes out, first day of summer. Oh, that's nice. I buzzed my head. Does anybody know why? I don't know what that means. Does anybody know what summer? No, because you buzz your head because it's summer. You get a summer haircut.

Okay. You don't think you ever did that? I never paid attention to when the official first day of summer was and then scheduled a haircut. I'm just saying just generally in summer. I mean, I would think, you know, you don't get hot.

uh i do i do get real my hair's a little too long for my taste right now yeah you don't ever want to just go i need to take it down buzz it down summer you don't really have do you have anything you have shows anything any big big stuff i got a taping in august uh yeah yeah any reason at all to get out of bed uh i gotta get cleaned up before august

Uh, we'll get you a taping. Yeah. Eric will get you cleaned up. Yeah. Uh, what is that? Can you say it? I'm doing, I don't, I don't tell. Oh, you know, that's cool. Yeah. So I, I gotta get lined up. Yeah. Yeah. So you don't want to go short because you would, let me tell you, I don't think I have to be, cause that's what I was thinking about. It buzzed in my head. I was like, do I have anything? And I, I mean, I did it last night for a show. And then, uh,

I don't. I'm doing, I'm presenting at the NHL. I'm doing the NASCAR. I'm driving the pace car. So if you're in Nashville, Alley NASCAR race, Alley NASCAR Cup, I would drive the pace car. But I mean that, I figured you'd wear a hat, like it didn't matter. And then I am presenting an award at the NHL awards. That's cool. Yeah. So that'll be the only thing that will be filmed. When's that? Next Monday, I think.

Oh, wow. Close. Wow. I think so. Is that air live? I don't know. Okay. Yeah. I just met TJ Oshie plays for the, uh, uh, Washington capitals. He came to, he's in Minneapolis, came to show. Uh, he's awesome. He's a good dude. Uh, what does anybody know? Why June 21st was chosen the first day of summer, uh, summer solstice, right? That's right. What is the solstice? So do you know what the summer solstice is?

Something to do with the sun. Yeah. So I didn't know this. It's when the earth. So we have two solstice and two equinox. We have a winter and summer solstice and a spring and fall equinox. And they all fall around the 21st.

And the solstice is when there's the most daylight and the least daylight. And then the equinox is the two times a year when we got 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of nighttime. So June 21st is the longest day of the year. Daylight. I mean, the most daylight.

Oh, it is? Yeah. So summer starts on the most daylight? Yeah, I know. It seems like it should be almost in the middle, shouldn't it? Yeah. And in Europe, they call it midsummer, but technically, summer starts on the longest day of the year. So suns will set in Nashville at 8.08 p.m. tonight. Longest day of the year. 15.6 hours. Oh, the night this comes out. Yeah, Wednesday. So tonight...

Since two days before, it'll be like 8.07? 6? Something like that. What if it's like every minute? Does it do a minute? I always thought it was every minute, but I learned it's not quite that. It accelerates and decelerates depending on time of year. So it'll start increasing...

about a minute every three days we'll start but then as it gets closer to fall it starts increasing about three minutes per day yeah this is a good golf day you can go get a nice tea time like five o'clock and sun's up sun's up and you could you know get a golf cart and you could play easily play nine you know you can play 18 30 hours like just go hard

It's nice. So the Earth's tilted on its axis the most in the northern hemisphere on this day. And it kind of wobbles, right? It's kind of wobbling on its axis. I don't know about that, but at the North Pole, it's sunlight...

Around the clock. In Alaska, in Fairbanks, Alaska, the amateur baseball team, they do a midnight baseball game every year where they start at 1030 and just play. And it's just like 24 hours. Yeah. I'm going to Alaska State Fair. I saw that. August 26th.

Alaska's the last state for me to go to. Wow. And you'll have done comedy in all 50 states. So I've not done comedy in all 50 states, but I will have been to all 50 states. I don't think I've done comedy in Montana, but that's it. So Alaska will be the last one. Then after that, I need to do a show in Montana. I got to make sure I haven't done a show in Montana. I've been to Montana, but we just went in –

I just went up there. I've done Wyoming, I've done North Dakota, South Dakota, everywhere else. I want to perform. I'll figure out how to do some comedy in Montana.

Well, anyway, this isn't our main topic, thank God, because I don't think nobody's really interested in that. But in the southern hemisphere, it will be completely dark at the South Pole. Yeah. And then it starts switching. And then in the winter equinox, it's the opposite way around. It's dark around the clock at the North Pole and light around the clock. What will the sunlight be for the Alaska State, August 26th? How long will Alaska have...

Where is that? Where's what? There's State Fair. So, like, August of this year, sunset will be 925 p.m. Wow. That's not that...

It's pretty late. No, that's, I mean, like it says down there was, let's say sunset today is 1140 PM. That's yeah. And sunrise at four 20. Yeah. Sorry. I thought they don't get 24 hours, like light 24 hours all the time. No, that's what I'm saying. It'll start decreasing just like us. Yeah.

And then, all right, so when I go out there, it'll be light. I'll probably do the show in the light. Oh, yeah. See where their state fair is at. I forget where it's at. The Alaska State Fair is in Palmer, Alaska. Where is that?

So right now, 1145. Yeah. Let me see the map of where that is. Okay. Uh, cause I, uh, I'm very excited about going to Paul, uh, to Alaska. We've never been, and we're going to try to do some fun stuff. I'm near Anchorage. Yeah. Northeast of Anchorage. Okay. So you can, yeah, I'm going to, I could probably stay in, stay in Anchorage, I guess. Uh, we're going to go see. Yeah. We're going to go. I bet that's a long distance. Yeah. Yeah.

You did a cruise there, right? For one day, but we spent a week there on my honeymoon. Okay. We went kind of all around. Anchorage to Palmer is going to be a 45-minute drive. Oh, okay. Wait a minute. That's not bad. No. If we wanted to. Yeah. All right.

For one show. All right. All right, we'll move on. Does anybody have any other questions they might have about the show? I didn't even. I barely listened to it. All right. But summer, summertime. It's one of the biggest days of the year in Sweden. Summertime? This day, June 21st. So it's summer for everybody, but they call it midsummer. Northern Hemisphere. Northern Hemisphere, yeah. Southern Hemisphere, this is winter. So when I go to Australia, it's going to be wintertime then. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

When do you go? July. Yeah. Something. Yeah. End of July. That's their December. 24th, 6th, something like that. Yeah. See, it's going to be cold. But I don't think everywhere is cold. I suppose it's like 50s there. It's beautiful. I went there in July. Yeah. Was it cold? No, it wasn't too cold. Not like here. Yeah. Yeah. You get cold at night, but it wasn't. Especially if you're where you're in Brisbane and Sydney. Yeah. Every bunch of places. Yeah. All right. You saw, wait, you've been to Australia. Yeah.

You could smoke on planes when he went. Could they? It was a penal colony. Could you smoke on planes? No. Do you remember flying on planes? Do I remember flying on planes? No. Wasn't it until like 2000? It was pretty late. We looked this up. It was later than you'd think. Smoking on a plane? Yeah.

I remember in the restaurants. Yeah, I remember the restaurants. I mean, I did a comedy where people smoked. But Smoking on a Plane was later. I don't ever really remember it. I don't guess we would have done it. But, I mean, I thought it was like… 1994, Delta was the first U.S. airline to ban smoking on all worldwide flights. That late in the game. I would have never thought of that. Yeah.

yeah if i had a phone i just didn't fly much i think i would have we flew once we didn't fly at all either we had to fly once for my grandfather's funeral and i was five and so we had to go home and uh i bet they could have spent i need to ask my parents if they smoked on that if they're smoking on that plane i don't like so i was five so i don't and this was i mean there had to be smoking like it was 1984 or something like that um

and then I don't know and I don't know if I've ever and I don't think I flew again until like doing comedy yeah until I moved to Chicago I mean maybe you know man you just not be able to flying is just it's crazy how easy flying's gotten I mean it's expensive but just the access to it is just so much easier uh

And it's like just everybody, people, kids flying a plane, you just would go your whole life and you would never really fly on a plane. Right. Yeah. All right. So today we're talking about shoes. Is there a problem over here? It's just such a pivot. It's like an hour and 15 minutes later, now we're talking about shoes. Were you hoping it just was the summer thing? No, no. I thought it might have a little bit more. Yeah.

What's George going to say? That war on its own volition or whatever? But it didn't really take off like I'd hoped. Well, you know what, Brian? It's kind of a gross day today. It's raining. It's overcast. Couldn't really get in the summer mood. I think if Dusty was here, he would have had some takes on. He would have gone, oh, yeah. He would have been into it. He wouldn't have believed any of it. I feel like this is coming at me. You don't want Dusty here? No, no, no. No, I think he's good Dusty wasn't here.

Once he said the earth was going to wobble, Dustin might have walked out. All right. Today we're talking about shoes. So last week, Michael Jordan, we already talked about the flu game. His shoe sold from flu game for $1.38 million. Wow.

he gave them to a Utah Jazz ball boy who was bringing him applesauce before games. And there's a photo of him giving this kid the shoes so they know it's authentic. And this kid held on to them for 15 years. He sold them himself in 2013 for $104,000. And then now they've gone up to $1.38 million.

Not even the most expensive. Earlier this year, Jordan's 1998 Game 2 shoes sold for $2.238 million. Yeah, there they are, the Jordan 13s. I have those. Yeah. You have Jordan's pair? Mm-hmm. No, no. I wish. He bought them. Yeah. I mean, that's insane. Yeah. That much money. LeBron's shoes don't go for that, do they? No. No.

Oh, I forgot. Yeah, this is a big sticking point with you. I like to argue around...

Mike that LeBron's better than Michael Jordan. He doesn't even really set some off. It doesn't matter if I believe it. It's just who can construct a better argument. And I feel like I construct a better one than you ever. I would love that. I mean, is, are you going to base who's better on how much their shoes sell for? No, no, of course not. Well, we can do that though. You said you would win that. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, we can, you know, and that's so crazy. $2.2 million. Yeah.

Yeah. I was just watching the video of him the other day where he put on the Jordan ones for his last game. It was the last game Madison square guard. Yeah. And his feet were just bleeding. Yeah. And he was like, man, these shoes have really advanced. Yeah. Booty dropped like 50 that game. Yeah. He had a pretty good game. It was his last game in New York. Oh yeah. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah.

So, shoes have been around for Washington, right? No, this was the Bulls in 98. Yeah. I mean, I really don't count Washington, even though he still averaged 20. Oh, yeah. Did he really? He did some crazy stuff in Washington. He had a 50 game in Washington. Yeah. I think he's the only player to score 40 at 40.

Oh, okay. Well, LeBron will do it in a few years, but I'm sure. Yeah. It's so funny. Cause everyone always talks about Jordan's wizard years as if you just write them off. Like it was just a wash. Yeah. No, he averaged 20. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. He was still good. It was fun. It was nice to get, I actually, I saw him, I saw him play in Chicago. Oh yeah. Yeah. Not the, it wasn't the last time he went to Chicago. It was the second, the second to last time he went to Chicago. Oh, right. Uh, cause he came back one more time and, uh, Laura came to Chicago and,

And I lived there and we bought tickets. And we bought standing room only tickets. Yeah. And we went... I walked down towards the court at the beginning during warm-up. So I got to see him at least somewhat. Like you could see him close. I just saw him kind of shooting. You're just like... It's really... It's the only guy... I mean, him and Tiger, you just can stare at. Dude. And just...

It's weird, right? Like I saw him, the record setting game in Atlanta, the attendance record. So we saw that. That was like his last year in Chicago. And that was insane. We watched him walk out of the hotel. Everybody was just standing around. Bill Winnington just walked out. Nobody said anything. Yeah. But as soon as Jordan came out. Yeah. It was insane. I would have said something. I rode in the elevator with LeBron. For real? Yeah. Did you speak to him? Uh,

I said, good luck. It was game two. He's playing for the Cavs. I was in San Francisco for a festival and the hotel I was at, they were staying at. And we saw them earlier. We saw them all come in. Then we saw LeBron. And then you saw Kyle Korver. Kyle Korver is so skinny. And then, so you see them all come in. And this was the year they won it. They didn't win it this year, but they won it the year before.

And so they go through and then we're riding. We're like, in our head, we're like, we're going to a show. And they had that game that night. And we're like, dude, it'd be crazy if...

Like, what if LeBron got in the elevator? But you're like, why would he get in the, you know? And then we're riding the elevator down and, uh, floor door opens. LeBron just comes in. He's got beats on and he just kind of stands there. Sunglasses doesn't really look anybody. And like, uh,

and I mean, we're just all, it was like me and Anthony Jeselnik and then this other couple. And there's a guy standing with LeBron because his other couple like kind of pulled their phone up and he was like, yeah, they go. And then, uh, LeBron just like stood there. And then when the doors open, he let all of us walk out first. And then, uh, I was like, have a good game. Yeah. I'm 20 years older than him. So,

Sir, have a good game, sir. How old is he? He's 38. I'm not that old. I mean, yeah. I'm, you know, seven years older than him. But he had his headphones on, didn't hear you at all. Well, what are you going to say? I don't know what to say. Mr. James, excuse me. Mr. James. Hi. Play hard out there, sir. I have a big show tonight. Yeah.

So shoes, they think shoes have been around maybe 30,000, 40,000 years. They're basing this off of bones. People's feet used to be bigger and their toes were thicker. And they think that shoes led to shorter, thinner toes. The oldest proof they have of shoes was from like 15,000 years ago, cave drawings where they had shoes on in the paintings.

And then the oldest really proof of actual shoes is from here in America. They found in a cave in Oregon from, I think it's about 7,000 to 8,000 years ago, some sandals. That makes sense. They were all sandals to start out with. Moccasins, sandals, stuff like that. Oh, these right here. They look like this. Just a mess. Just ugly, dude. What are those?

Like some users. Yeah. Yeah. Just walking on rope back then. And that was more comfortable than the ground. I bet it was cold. I bet the cold was even more than. Yeah. I think Native Americans just walk barefoot unless you were in the northern part

or in the wintertime when it got cold, then they wore moccasins. But generally speaking, I just think they wore them. And if Dusty was here, he would say, that's how we all should be, Dusty's. Moccasins are still around. Yeah. It's like a type of shoe, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think so. I mean, it's not the same kind, but yeah, that's considered a moccasin. Almost like a Sperry. Yeah. Looks a little bit like a moccasin-style shoe. Huh. Yeah. A Sperry.

That's what I think of them as, like that boat shoe. Shoes with heels came along in the 10th century. It was originally for men, not women. Well, you're kind of right. At first it was for Persian soldiers to avoid falling out of the stirrups when they were shooting their bows. Okay, that makes sense. But then the wealthy Persians noticed, the short ones noticed, hey, it gives you some height. So then they started wearing it.

And then when they went to France and the French royalty saw these guys with taller heels, they're like, we got to start doing this. And then it just took off. That's ridiculous. Height is overrated. You don't like it? Yeah. It's overrated. This is coming from a guy who's 6'9". I'm just saying it's not...

yeah wait how tall are you six five yeah and a half i gotta throw that in man it's overrated do you like you don't like being tall it's not that i don't like it it's just it's overrated it's not that good yeah a lot of stuff i miss out on shoes especially i miss a lot of jordans yeah because they don't have them in your size there's a lot like a store may get one or two shoes in 14 15s

And that's it. You would think he would make them for that size. You would think. I bet he just looks at the... But it's weird, though. Like, if you go to StockX, like, some shoes in my size and a 14, they'll be, like, $1,000. And then one size smaller will be, like, $300. Because they had a... Because it's a specialty made. They had to kill a whole whale to make their shoes. Because it's...

What is that? That's got a tone factory. They got to wheel it in a wheelbarrow. What is that one? 298. Yeah, this is a Jordan 1 Retro High OG with Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse starring Nick Novicki. Yep. You can get it in a 14 or a 15. Yeah, I'm going to get those for my son, though. Okay.

I wear a wide, so I struggle, dude. Wow. You have to order yours, right? No, they have wide. The Monarchs. The Air Monarchs. Technically, that's four pair. And then he cuts them. And then he glues them together. His shoe's got two tongues. Yeah, he's got two tongues.

I just figured out the other year. I was like, I've never felt like shoes fit me that well. And then I tried one on a wide and I was like, dude, it's a game changer. Where'd you have problems on your side of your feet?

No. Yeah. Yeah. I just felt like it was not wide enough. So I'd go bigger than there'd be a lot of space in the front of the foot. And then I got a wide. I'm like, this is where it feels good, dude. How many pair of shoes do you guys own? I own a lot. Yeah. I mean, Jordan's alone. I think I got like 11 pair.

Would you consider yourself a sneakerhead? No. No. Like I got with Scott Eason. Yeah. Scott Eason. There's some comics that are very into it. He's a sneakerhead. I think Scott Eason has over. A certain amount. Okay. Yeah. So somewhere between 11 and 300, you become a sneakerhead. Well, not 11. No. Yeah. Okay. Well, is that a lot to you? It's a lot to me. I mean, it's 11 more than I own, you know, one pair.

Shoes? You're talking about sneakers, right? I'm talking about Jordans. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Well, no. You mean Jordans or shoes? No, I meant shoes. All shoes. I have shoes just to wear around. To have shoes like this. Yeah. I don't have anything like this. Yeah. No. Like nothing I would put on a shelf. Yeah, but I don't know. Are you really the guy that would? No, I'm not the guy they want to be wearing this. Is Lucy? Lucy.

Lucy owns a bunch. Yeah. Yeah. We have a big shelf downstairs where she's got a ton of stuff. Yeah. I was going to say, cause I see, I see some of her shoes. Do you wear them? They're sneaker heads when they do it. Like I have a lot of shoes, Air Maxes that I wear on stage. Uh, but I wear them. Like do people not wear them? Like you kind of collect them? Uh, yeah. A lot of people just collect them. Yeah. Yannis, Yannis Pappas is a sneaker head. Oh, is he? Oh, okay.

Now, do you worry about creasing them? I never do because I usually, I don't wear my shoes until I get to wherever I'm going. So if I got a show, I carry it in my backpack. You see that all the time. Yeah. I don't wear mine until I go on stage. I have shoes that have really only been worn inside a place. I mean, maybe I'll wear them from the bus to the thing, but I eventually wear them. Eventually, if new ones come, then I'll just start wearing them.

but yeah your last two or three specials people a lot of people have asked what kind of shoes those are oh yeah the last pair was rag and bone and then uh the other ones were i've always been nike airbags i like those are rag and bone yeah if you google nate bargett's shoe there's a lot of discussion going on here on reddit people asking yeah no one's ever done that with me or brian

I mean, the shoe size of a canoe, I guess. You know, one of those, like, you have to wear those things that people wear to walk in snow. Walking on tennis rackets. Yeah. I read where the average woman owns 19 pair of shoes and the average guy, six pair. My wife must be average then because she definitely has that many. I don't know. I have more probably than Laura, but I don't know. Laura might have a lot.

She might have 19. I don't know. 19 feels like a lot. Yeah. But I think they have, they have, they have, they, it's like fit. You just have so much different reasons to, Oh yeah. You have to wear it. Like, you know, the women have to wear like an, they have like one shoe. I think that goes with an outfit where we could have multiple shoes that go with an outfit. Yeah. Whatever jeans you're wearing. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Um, left and right shoes weren't invented until 1817. Oh, wow.

So, man, they've been the sock thing is gotten the left and right sock. They put L and R on a lot of socks. I've never seen that. Oh, oh, that's the thing. Yeah. Yeah. Do y'all not? I mean, I wear Hanes socks. Oh, well, yeah. But yeah, both of mine say H Nike socks. Yeah. Nike socks. Don't have a left. Yeah. Yeah.

And I, are they different? Are they shaped differently? I don't, they're enough that I, I don't know. I'd imagine they are, but it's the, I can't do it knowing if I walk around and it's not right, then I just think about it. If you had two L's on, you'd be thinking about it all day. I wouldn't wear it. Cause I've had it. I have it happen. I'm not buying things. Like I bought those Swift stick or socks or the, you know, like whatever the ones, uh, people wear, uh,

Some don't do it. Is it Bonos or something? Their socks might not have the left and right. And I like when they don't. Because if they do, then it's like, I can't. You have to know. I have to know. And I have to, when I fold them together, I need them to be, I need them to say L and R. And if I fold it, now, if I randomly didn't see it for some reason, if I was like hurrying,

I could, then I don't know. But I mean, that's only happened maybe once. And you yelled at your maid? Yeah. What is this? What is this? I told you. Do y'all wear show socks? I don't have a maid, just so people think I do. Show socks. Show socks. Like I wear show socks. After the show? No, I just have to. It's just something.

to something for you give you a little juice yeah yeah like dress socks yeah yeah like different kind uh i i wouldn't be against it like i i've definitely had some my mom got me some socks that had like my initials on it i like those yeah that was yeah that was nice it was you know but yeah i like but i i wear a lot of like just i wear those bono socks or bonobos maybe or something like that no boss no boss maybe

And like, they're just black. And then I try to find a really the perfect sock. It's Allbirds has some new socks. Who's that? Allbirds. And those are very soft. Yeah, Bonobos. Bonobos. Yeah, some nice stuff. Yeah, I wear a lot of short socks, but I mean, not on stage.

but i'll stay you're wearing 18 17 was the first year somebody decided let's make these shoes we're done with this sock talk i was trying to tie it back into this is a shoe episode name just trying to hey i thought this was having a great time moving on yeah because all right do the sun stuff again yeah no socks are next week um

So that's a long time for they did left and right shoe. Yeah. That's all. That's the only point I was trying to make. Yeah. Trying to say it took a while. I'll set the next couple of points out. No, I mean, I guess it, um, it's not like you were wearing a right shoe on a left foot. They were just more straightforward. So it might not have been as bad as it would seem. I figured that's what it was, but none of us have seen shoes that aren't left or right foot. So I don't know. I'm sure the, uh,

Those wooden shoes people buy, I think, are... Oh, I was about to get to that. Wooden shoes. Yeah.

That was my next thing. Or clogs. They're big in Holland. I was just like, wooden shoes. And then when he goes, clogs, you go, oh, those wooden shoes. I'm wearing those right now. Clogs are wooden shoes. I just think it's... You're like, oh, wooden shoes. That's one of the earliest jokes I remember. I'd like to go to Holland. Wooden shoe? Oh.

It's a good joke, isn't it? It is a good joke. It's a good kid joke. Don't tell my kids that joke. It's a good dad joke. It is. Most of Holland's below sea level, so their area is really marshy. So they had to have a shoe that wouldn't get wet or get ruined. So they invented wooden shoes. Okay. And they're still popular today. Are they? Yeah. According to this.

I've seen them. You've seen people wearing wooden shoes? Yeah, but they make them. I've seen them being made. I've seen them on like elves. Yeah, I think there's some people that probably work on farms or stuff like that. I bet they do. That just seems uncomfortable. Because it's like you won't sink. You probably got a gel insole in there. You have to. You probably got a nice... I don't know. I think people are just used to it. Some of those dudes are...

just calloused bottom of their feet and they're just those are just real men yeah i would almost be like you put some tennis shoes on then just wear them like make them that big so they fit on your tennis shoes yeah slip them in though okay yeah that makes sense i respect that yeah

According to the National Shoe Retailers Association, the average male shoe size, anybody want to guess? 15. Nine. I bet it's... 15? That's what I'm... You think you're average? Well... You just said you have a hard time finding your shoe. Okay, you're right. So I'm above average. Yeah. You're above average. I would say, yeah, nine. Nine and a half. Ten and a half. Oh, really? Oh, wow. That's crazy. Oh, good for them. That feels big. Yeah. Hmm.

The biggest shoe ever was worn by a guy. We just talked about him a few episodes ago. Anybody remember? Oh, the guy I made fun of. Yes. What's his name? Robert Wadlow, the world's tallest man. Yeah. And what size were those? Size 37AA. Wow. Yeah. Wait, how tall was he? 8'11". 6'4".

8'11". Yeah, yeah. Big guy. He played basketball. Did he? No, he's the least athletic looking person you've ever seen in your life. Yeah, that's the problem. I mean, he lived for like an hour. It's tough. It's hard to be that tall.

I bet when you and Mike were kids, shoes with lights on and Velcro shoes were popular. Lights? No. Lights on the... You just make it like... How old are you? I'm 42. Yeah.

No, they didn't have. No. How young do you think we are? Aaron probably had lights. I never had them, but man, I was jealous of the kids that did. Okay. So I'm too off on that. Yeah. Yeah, we didn't have lights. I mean, I grew up in the 90s. It says in 1992, the LED shoe craze began. I don't remember that. I must have missed it. 1992? Yeah.

I was in Alabama. It probably took a few years for that craze to kick in. Yeah. But I would say by the time I was eight or nine, that's when kids started rolling up. Aaron was down there in his Buffalo Bill Super Bowl shirt. Ross Perot from President's shirt. It was...

Yeah. This says the craze was in the 90s. The craze. I don't think. You probably had to have money. You had money in mind. I didn't have any money. All right. What about this then? The Reebok pump. Hell, man. I remember that. Yeah. No, that was big. That was Shaq. Yeah. Now you're speaking their language. I love the Reebok pump. That was awesome. In February 1991, Dee Brown inflated his Reebok pumps in front of a national audience before winning the slam dunk. Didn't Shaq have it, though, too? Yes. How much do they worth now? Oh.

Those, uh, uh, the original, what was it? Nike? No. Reebok. Reebok. Reebok pump. Remember when they had the, they had the little canister you could use then instead of using a pump. See, I know these primarily from, uh, Robin hood men in tights. Oh yeah. Remember Dave Chappelle had these and he stopped the fight to pump them up. It's the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. Yeah. I never had a parallel. What did you, did you pump them up?

Would you actually play basketball in these? Oh, I never had a pair. Oh, okay. I would. You had a pair? I would dunk. Yeah. If they got tight enough. Wait, have any of y'all dunked before? I dunked a tennis ball. A nurse ball. I count. On a 10-foot goal. Yeah. I can touch backboard. You've heard of it? Yeah. The highest I ever got was maybe halfway up the net. I was never even close. So that counts as a...

I can't choose. Pretty good. I was in high school. I was probably, when I was like 5'9", 5'10". I could always jump. I'd have to run the length of the court. But I ran and didn't go up. You probably could have dunked if you were tired by the time you got there. You did a Jordan run. You could have started half court. That seems so far. I would get in a cab and drive me to the...

And I would start thinking about it in the cab. Then I'd get out running from the parking lot into the, and if I got enough going, I would. Did you jump off one, one foot or two?

Yeah, I don't know. I was going to say, because if you ran that far, jump off to and then not just stop. And then they go, well, it doesn't take a break. I don't realize it. And they're going, well, dude, I mean, you're stopping with two feet. So you lost all your momentum. I go, what? No, I would have to be running. And so I was like, and then I could go. I wasn't a good one foot jumper. I was two feet. Can you dunk now?

I can. I still can. It hurts. What part of it hurts? Could you dunk? Like your knees? Yeah. Super easy. Your ego, maybe. Were you able to dunk just at...

Like whenever you wanted to and you could dunk? In the game? Yeah. No, I mean, that's hard. I mean, but yeah. Yeah. Like if I'm on break. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you know, you see like, obviously, yeah. Like you, it was like, it'd be easier than like, like you could dunk. You're not worried about. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I'm sure there's a spot where you're like,

You're like, if it's, you know, if you're in a game, you're like, I need to probably lay it up. Yeah. It's, it's, it's funny you said it. Cause it's times I think back to games where I, when I laid it up, I was like, I should have dunked it. Yeah. I wish I would have dunked it. And I still remember this one game I should have dunked it. And I,

I just laid it up. Yeah. Did you miss the layup? No, I made the layup. Then why should you have ducked? Because that would have been, that would have been more forceful. It would have set the tone. Yeah. Yeah. It would have just, just let, if anybody wanted to jump. Yeah. Oh no, this, this was in, uh, 1994. Go ahead.

Hasn't let it go yet. Go ahead, Mike. Get it out. You got to let these people know. Go Maryville High School. Maryville, y'all lucky. Y'all got lucky. Y'all really did. I should have dunked them. Was this in college? Yeah, it was in college. Yeah, Maryville. At Fisk? Yeah, I was at Fisk. You went to Vol State too. I went to Vol State first. You played there? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that was. We would have just missed each other at Ball State. Yeah. Well, I was 90. I went there in 98. So you probably went there in 2000. 2000. Y'all took the same classes? Yeah, 2000. Did you take remedial classes? Absolutely. All right. Maybe. First thing I signed up for. Yeah. Did you graduate from Fisk? I did not. All right. Finished playing ball. Yeah. I've had enough. I have a similar story.

Both guys, two guys dunking. Just two dudes dunking. Running the length of the court. Stopping and jumping. Just imagine somebody running full speed and then stopping.

They're like, dude, why don't you just... Who's the porter running the... In 1917, advertising executive coined the word sneaker.

Came up with the idea because the rubber sole made no sound, so you could sneak up on people. We would still say tennis shoes. I mean, I'd say sneaker now. I would say tennis shoes too. Because, yeah. But if I'm just saying, hey, will you grab me some tennis shoes? That's what I would say. But I've started saying sneakers.

Just because some people say it and it was like, I guess, you know, sneakers are becoming a thing now. So you're like, is sneaker mean something? Yeah. It used to be like an up north thing, right? Yeah. Yeah. We would say tennis shoes. Yeah. I looked at a map. Almost the whole U.S. still calls it tennis shoes except the northeast. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Why would we call it tennis shoes? Because that was the famous like shoe, like tennis. Tennis players used to put shoes the most, right? Back in the day.

And then anything athletic, we just called it that. Yeah. Because the players used to, the tennis players used to be the ones that used to sell sneakers. Oh, really? Yeah. That's why they were, if you watch the Jordan documentary, they were saying that they were asking, are you trying to make him like a tennis player? Oh. Yeah. I guess it's just because people would wear the shoes playing tennis. There's no real reason for it.

Good. It sounds better to me. Sneaker, I feel weird saying. Yeah, I think Mike just said. My story sounds better. Yeah. We'll go with that. Yeah, it seems like we got the truth. Yeah. This is the bottom of it. The first sneakers were Keds, invented in 1917 by Adidas. Adidas was around then. Wow. What were they making? Probably like guns or something like that. It's like all these. They were. They were. What were they? They were a German corporation. I feel like there's like every. It's a German man. Yeah. Adidas. Adidas.

That's how they say it over there. Adidas? Yeah. I liked it. His name is Adi Dossler. And Jesse Owen won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics wearing Adidas. Wow. And in 1923, Converse hired a basketball player named Chuck Taylor. He had the first Converse.

He was the first player to have a shoe named after him, and Chuck Taylor's still around today. Those shoes are ironic because how can you play ball in those? They have no support. Yeah, I've wore them. Even to walk around, they're not comfortable. It hurts your back. Yeah, people wear them, and I'm like, I know it's a style, but to really walk around in it,

I mean, they used to play full games in these. Yeah. If you watch the Sandlot, you ever see the Sandlot? Remember at the end, that's a secret weapon is Benny. The jet pulls out a pair of these. Yeah. And how are you going to run? It looks like the most uncomfortable shoes of all time. Converse looks like they don't do left and right either. Like we don't do it. Just put whatever you want to put on.

And then in 85, the Air Jordan 1s were released. Boom. And that changed everything. In my opinion, still the best looking shoe. The Jordan 1? When I think of a nice basketball sneaker, this is what I think of. So the 11 is the most popular because I think that's the most versatile one. Okay, let's look at the 11s. See, to me, these look a little... I don't like the way these look. I like these. Those are the most popular ones.

Those are more popular than the ones? Yeah, the 11s are the most popular. Specifically, the red, black, and white ones. Okay. Those are the most popular. Now, are they more comfortable than the ones? Probably. I mean, look, those are the ones I had on when I broke my toe last week. So, I mean, they have no giving. Okay. So, they're not good shoes. Not to play ball in. Okay. Yeah.

So these weren't meant to play basketball in? Yeah, they were, but not for me. Because I feel like if you go play a basketball game, pickup game somewhere, are people wearing these types of shoes? Yeah. You would wear Jordan 11s and play basketball? I would. I mean, for me to wear Jordan 11, they have to be years worn down. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Yeah. Because if these are shoes people don't want to crease. Crease? Mess up? You know, you're just going to go play basketball at the Y. What would you shoot? Would y'all get shoes in college when you play college basketball? Oh, yeah. So you just get whatever you want. Uh-huh. Like whoever they sponsored by. Yeah. What brand was it? Nike. Oh, there you go. So would you get Jordans? No. No. No. I think the closest we had was...

I think we got Jason kids. So everybody had to wear the same shoe. That's quite a downgrade. So it wasn't, we didn't have Jordans. We had Jason. It wasn't though. It wasn't that. It was, uh, it was another, these are some of the ugliest shoes I've ever seen in my life, but those were like a famous team shoe. Like a lot of teams wore those. Okay. Cause they came in so many colors.

Okay, they're easily customizable. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah. I like crazy shoes. Yeah, me too. Do your next special in some Jason kids. I mean, now I'm too old. But it's, I like... You would have worn these back in the day? I've always, for some reason, liked kind of ridiculous looking shoes. I just always think they're fun. I don't think those look bad. Yeah.

they don't these look like the jetsons are gonna wear them yeah i mean they look absurd which is kind of fun i just i don't know i just remember maybe it's nostalgia but it's just like i remember those being so cool the jason kids i didn't even know he had shoes he had a couple those aren't the ones we had though we had the the kind that were like real thin i can't even remember some of these look at these would you wear these this is like a salvador dali painting

just melted. And anyway, sorry, I got distracted. Go ahead, Brian. Uh, there's a guy named Jordan Geller. Who's a sneaker collector. He opened a zoo shoe museum, the world's first sneaker museum. He has the Guinness world record for having the largest sneaker collection in the world at 2,388 pair. Wow. I wonder how much does it work? Does it say, uh, I don't know, but he altogether, I don't know. He has some unworked pair, uh,

of Nike moon shoes that sold for $437,000. Because some shoes... They're worn, Pear? You said they're unworn? Unworn. Those are the ones. Like they won... So they wore on the moon?

No, I think it was just one of Nike's earliest brands. Oh, called the Moon Shoe. Yeah, the Back to the Future shoes. I wanted those. I've seen those. I've seen them somewhere, like at a place. Yeah, those are like $25,000. That's insane. Yeah. Those light up.

Yeah. Those do like that. The Marty McFlyers. I was like, dude, did they moon landing? They just Nike sponsored it? They should have. Yeah. Well, you know, conspiracy theorists say that the tracks on the moon don't fit with Neil Armstrong's, the tread on his space suit. And it said that he actually left his shoes on the moon, his boots.

Because they brought back samples of dirt and I don't know what else. And the weight had to be exactly right. So they had to leave stuff on the moon. And he left his boots. He flew back barefoot? No, he had on a space suit. And then he put boots over the space suit. Would they still be up there? Yeah, as far as I know.

Wow. Y'all believe the moon landing? Yeah, they, yeah. We kind of dance around it on this podcast. Yeah. You know, I mean, we do a lot of bits. I mean, I do, but. Yeah. Yeah. The people that sit in that chair usually don't. I do too. Your seat is, you might just be feeling something right now. It felt like it, yeah. I was like, I don't know. You sat down, you're like, what just happened? You kind of saw the world as it is. I'm like, oh, this is weird. My eyes are open. Yeah.

Aaron, why don't you tell us a little bit about Babbel? Oh, I'm weak. Well, I know. I got behind. That's okay. So where are you going this fall? I'm going to Babbel. If you have an upcoming summer trip abroad, my go-to travel hack is Babbel. Whether you're a seasoned traveler like me or you're going on a road for the first time like Brian, communication is key to fully experiencing a new culture.

That's where Babbel comes in. It's the language learning app that sold more than 10 million subscribers. What would the equivalent be in American culture? That's a good question. Fling a trash can lid at them. Like a Frisbee. I don't know. Flipping the bird. Okay. I don't know. I feel like that's been so I'm so desensitized to that now. Right. Maybe there is no equivalent, you know?

Well, it's like a tradition. Like, you know, to be like, we consider that to be, well, I don't think here we consider anything to be anything. You know what I mean? Yeah. Do we? I don't know. You're right. No, we don't like, yeah, there's nothing here that's like passed down of, you know, well, we believe that the front door mat is where the spirits live. Like, you know, it's like saying that when they're going to your house and you're like, wipe your shoes off.

Yeah. I think in many countries you have to take your shoes off before you enter. Oh yeah. That's a baseball. So you guys wind it up. Bush is looking at him a little bit of a, he pops up a little bit of a smirk. He's like, yeah. Hey, come on. He didn't even, he didn't even flinch on that second one. Yeah. It was like, he, this guy doesn't have any aim. Yeah. I was so smooth. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, you got to throw at the body. Mr. First Pinch of a Hair. He throws the first one, then he leans down and takes off his other shoe. Why don't you take them both off at once? Well, he didn't think he was going to have to get to the second shoe. He was cocky. He was cocky. Yeah, he sits there and he goes, I'm going to throw my shoe at him. He might not have told anybody he was going to do this, but he did talk to someone before. He goes, I'm going to throw my shoe at him. He goes, you're not going to take both off. He goes...

You're going to hit him, dude. Like no one's expecting to ever have a shoe thrown at him. So he probably was all baseball player. I don't see how you look. And then he did it and he goes, I wound up too much. So I gave, he tipped his hat a little too much. He did. And that's what made him dodge it. And then the second, the second one was actually probably closer. And,

And if he had thrown the second one first, I think you would have hit him. Yeah. That's true. Cause look at the second one. Barely goes over Bush's shoulder. Yeah. The second one is the one. The second one is like, that's the, that's the one. If he'd have thrown like that. Yeah. Cause he just like kind of released it a little bit quicker. First one is too much of a windup. Yeah. The first one had more passion. I think that's what it was. He was overzealous. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, the first one would have hurt. Yeah, that would have. I mean, that could have took his head off. Second one, you would have been like, I love the other guy. I guess the president just kind of tries to flick it on the second one. Look, he didn't even move. Yeah. He tried to block it. I got you. Which is like,

George A. Bush is probably like, don't touch it. If you touch it, I'm going to get hit. Like, you know, when someone tries to help. And it was such a fake attempt. It wasn't even really trying. I mean, no one seemed to care that this guy threw a shoe. And then you got to go. I mean, when do you got to go up there and. Oh, then you got to finish. You got to go get the shoes. Yeah.

Yeah, after all that. After all that, you got to. You got to walk over there barefoot. They go, I'm leaving. I'm leaving. Well, someone grabbed my shoes, though. I need my shoes. And they go, you can't have your shoes. He goes, those are my shoes. It's evidence. Yeah. That's what they would say. It's evidence. I guess you got to know you're getting rid of these shoes.

Maybe he was a baseball player. Imagine if he threw his shoes, though. If you have a pair of shoes that you'd be like, okay, I'm fine just walking away from these shoes. And it's probably 50 bucks. It's like throwing 50 bucks at the president's head. You got to just...

That had to be really premeditated. Yeah. Because he had to put on some shoes that he didn't like. I bet he borrowed shoes. He goes, hey, can I borrow some shoes today? I can't say that. He goes, I'm going to like a nice event. And the buddy's like, yeah, yeah, of course. He's like, but your shoes are nice though. He goes, I know, but let me use yours. He goes, oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, what? It's my favorite shoes, but yeah. Yeah, what are you going to do? I mean, I've never, who on earth would borrow shoes and then never be able to give them back? I don't even know. You'd have to throw them in a lake.

And then he goes, are at the president of the United States of America. He goes, I never saw that coming.

This guy's my age. That's the guy who threw the shoes? It seems to be, yeah. He's my age, so I could have been in that situation. The shoes were later destroyed by U.S. and Iraqi security forces. They had to destroy them? Yeah. They smell that bad? Wow. Like, I got to make sure. There were calls throughout the Middle East to place the shoes in an Iraqi museum. Oh.

They call it a shoeing. Yeah. But why would they destroy the shoes? I bet there's no way they destroyed the shoes. Someone has those shoes. He was sentenced to three years in prison, ended up only serving one year. They were released early for good behavior after spending nine months in jail. Well, he didn't have any shoes. He couldn't do anything. That's crazy. Yeah. So shoe tossing or shoe feety?

is when you throw a pair of lace shoes over a wire, telephone line, things like that. It's often associated with drug deals or gangs. Is that right, Mike? But 2015 research by Chicago Tribune says that they can't find any proof that that's what it is. It's just like a...

It's like graffiti. Yeah. In Victoria, England, you throw some shoes at someone after they get married. It's like a thing of good luck. It's like us throwing bird seed. Oh, yeah. You throw shoes. You launch a shoe at someone's head. You throw bird seeds? Yeah. Yeah.

You know when you walk down and everybody throws rice? I thought it was rice. Yeah, maybe it is rice. Back in my day, it was bird seed. Yeah. I think we did rice, but I don't know. Bird seed. Yeah. Well, you got married later than all of us. I know, but I'm talking about all my friends who got married 30 years before I did. Oh, yeah. Maybe it was bird seed. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I didn't get it. It was during the depression that couldn't get rid of the rice. Nobody's ever heard of that? Going bird seed?

I don't know. Maybe. I think I assumed you met rice when he said it. Yeah. I don't think I've ever asked what it was. I just took a handful and threw it. Now you like people blow bubbles, bubbles, bubbles. My dad's side of the family does tennis balls. Well, they have, that's where the money comes from. Yeah.

Y'all throw tennis balls at each other? Yeah, yeah. They had everyone get a thing of tennis balls. No. You got to bring your own tennis ball. I think somebody shows up with a couple pallets. I don't remember this at your wedding. I wish we would have done it at my wedding, but we didn't. Yeah, we had some pretty good arms at your wedding. Y'all lit sparklers. Oh, yeah. I would have got lit up at my wedding. That would have been brutal. You were going to your honeymoon in a black eye. I would have took my wife's ball and used hers. Yeah.

It would have been a lot of husbands taking their wife's fault. Oh, that's what it is. Yeah. You'd have to give it, you'd want the kids to get it. I mean, kids would definitely be, and the kids are going to be relentless. Uh-huh. Yeah. Well, that's the point of it. Yeah. Y'all throw them that hard at, you know. Oh, yeah. I remember my uncle's wedding just going after him, man.

What if a divorce happened? Because she goes, well, I didn't know you. It's like just a woman marrying into this family. And she's like, they seem cool. Well, wait till they launch tennis balls at you yet. And she's like, what? Have you not got to the part? The Webbers. It is a part. Tennis ball. Have you not hit the part of, I mean, can you imagine a first date?

They go, you have no idea. Let's make it Lucy. Yeah, Lucy's getting married. First date, someone, she goes, I don't know. I had a dream last night, but I think I'm going to get hit by 70 tennis balls being with you. And you'd be like, where would that happen? Nowhere. Nowhere. It would never, if you would have told someone in your family, you will be hit by tennis balls. I don't, and you go, we're not going to tell you when or why.

The last place they think it's going to happen is the day they're walking to their car. So is it a part of the ceremony or just randomly? You can just throw it.

just anytime it's at the same time that you would throw rice it's not just yeah just randomly surprise i'm a whole man that's all these other countries have all these things they do this is what we have uh these countries you're like oh it's uh the bottom of your feet is considered insulting you're like we're launching tennis balls

At the person that's dressed up the most, we're celebrating that person. And we just... We're happy for them. Yeah, we're happy for them. I think that's awesome. I wish I'd known that at your wedding. I know. I almost... I thought about like...

But you know, when you get married, it's like the bride's wedding. It's not the husband's wedding. Yeah. Another reason you shouldn't be throwing tennis balls for your uncle's wedding. It's about her. Yeah, that's a good point. And you go, but our family, we like to throw these tennis balls and they go. Like I've never heard of this. That guy's dad is like, I don't. I think I've done it at two or three weddings now. I just assumed wrongfully that we would.

Do it at my wedding. I wish we did. Wait, so this is just a family thing? It's just my dad's family. I've never seen it anywhere else. I want to know where it started. Have you ever asked? No. I need to follow up on that. I'd imagine in a castle. I just want to know why. Before the Webbers got started in a big castle in England, I'm playing on grass. Is that where? Maybe. It's just made it down to Alabama.

So a lot of runners say that it's better for your feet if you ran barefoot because shoes cause problems. And they did some research and you will avoid heel striking if you don't run with shoes on. You'll run on the balls of your feet like you're supposed to. Or if you wear runner's shoes, your heels will more likely get hurt. There's a guy who wrote a book called Born to Run. It's pretty insane.

He visited a Mexican tribe that all run 100 miles at a time and none of them get hurt. And they do wear shoes, but they're so uncushioned that they cause problems.

injuries from not happening and they have thin sandals and they think our shoes are too cushioned yeah and therefore causing problems i know like the fastest people in our neighborhood always took their shoes off when they were getting ready to run every time yeah that's how you if you saw somebody you about to race somebody and they started taking their shoes off yeah just don't worry about it you're not gonna win yeah that is great that is a that's a

A flex, as they say. Yeah. Just being. Is it like taking your shirt off before a fight? Yep. Okay. I don't do that either. Yep. It's a jacket. Zips up. Just wait a second. Let me go get my jacket. So I know the future of shoes. So there's a new shoes out called the moonwalkers that is kind of like, oh, here they are.

What? And you basically, you can walk much faster because it's kind of like the thing at the airport. Yeah. Well, they kind of do that for you walking all the time. There's video of this. Oh, yeah. I did see those. How much faster do you go? You can go. Oh, I thought it was on there. But I think you can go like... 250% faster, they say. Oh, this is crazy. Man, you're just flying. Yeah. Yeah.

These look awesome. They look stupid, but like, yeah. Yeah. But it's like, how do you go? Like, yeah, you feel like, I mean, he just, Oh, this is the guy, the video, the guy trying them out to see if they actually work. They seem to work great. Yeah. Except on cobblestone. That's an old version there. Most of the prototypes. Yeah. We get the final version here.

So it's not as fast as if you're speed walking, but he's just walking. It looks like a normal pace and he's kind of flying down the pavement there. Those are fun. Did you see me on one of those moving things at the airport? Where are those? I mean, just wearing those on a solid ground. I think those would be probably fun, I guess.

Like you would just, it's like skating, you know, it's eventually just going to be skate. You're like, so just wearing, I'm wearing skates. Yeah. But yeah, like if you were on those. It'd be bad. It'd be, you know, you'd be, no one would know you're on something, but you would have a helmet on. But like, they look like regular shoes and people would be like, is that guy just walking with a helmet on? It's walking strange. Yeah. Yeah.

In his regular shoes? Yeah. Yeah, it seems kind of like a novelty. Yeah. Try it one time, it's fun. Mm-hmm. That's how those Heelys are. I got a pair of Heelys a while back. Oh, it's a while back. And, uh...

Like when you were a kid? No, like a few months ago. Oh, the one you made a video of? Yeah. I did them to make a video, and I thought, maybe I'll just start wearing these. And I was not good at it. It's not intuitive. It takes work. Which is weird, because it seems like it'll be easy just to... You see the commercial. Those kids are just like gliding. And it's very difficult. It's very difficult for me. I bet these are similar. I bet these take a little getting used to. Yeah. Yeah.

Probably like a hoverboard. Yeah, we're good. Yeah. Shoes. Shoes. That was fun. All right. Yeah, I'll be where you guys will be at. You'll be where we'll be? I'll be. No, I won't be where you're at. I'm home. So I got a good little playing in the Lake Tahoe tournament, the ACC championship. I think it's called. I don't know.

but I've done that July. That's the one that's on TV. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. So, uh, I'll be on that in July and then, uh, yeah, I've been doing the NASCAR race. There's no shit like no shows, uh, which is very, uh, it's like, uh, it's good. And I want to get some new material, so I need to live a life. And, uh, so, and then we go to Australia at the end of July. Awesome. And then, uh,

Alaska State Fair in August and then September will be back to grinding it out but loving it not grinding it out it's the best but back on doing shows every week and all that so yeah I've got a nice little summer yeah I'm off too this week I took some time off to train for my first pitch so yeah it's been about 16 18 hours a day yeah I'm off

uh i'll be in uh bristol tennessee at blue ridge comedy club coming up not this weekend but coming up got some corporates got some opening for people i'm working and working you know that sounds well my show got rescheduled to later on tomorrow so next week i'll be in ontario at the uh improv nice california yeah your other show you just it got moved to the it was uh it was uh huckabee

Oh. Doing that. But it moved to later on in the year. And July 11th, you're at the Opry. Yep. Your Opry debut. Opry debut. Yeah. That's awesome. Congratulations. Jelly Roll had commented that he was trying to come. Oh, yeah. And then so many people hit me up and was like, hey, man, I didn't know you know Jelly Roll. I'm going to have to come check your show out. Yeah. Yeah. Jelly Roll, local dude. Yeah, man. Very fun. Yeah.

Exciting that guy, like, just from here. It's awesome. Have fun at the Opry, man, if I don't see you. That's awesome. Big time, man. Thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah, well, thanks for popping in, Mike. Thanks for having me. And then, well, there you go. Dusty's baby should be here any day now? Should be here, yeah. It's not here. It should be here. Baby Slay. That's not bad. That's not bad. Baby Slay. I liked it. Yeah, and call, and yeah, and just baby Slay.

Baby's not bad. Baby's slick. You don't see that a lot anymore. You don't see it, no. All right. That's it. We'll see you next week. Have a great summer day. Summer solstice. Summer solstice. Celebrate. It's the most sunlight you're going to get, so you better take advantage of it. All right. Talk to y'all. Love you guys. Bye. Bye.

Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetze, and my wife, Laura, on the Audioboom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nateland Podcast.