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Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. Hello, folks. Hey, Bear. I was going to say it. Give him a second, Brian. Let him ease in. Why did you think I wasn't going to say it? Yeah, because you always start with that. Oh, I was going to do it after. I would have done it. Hello, folks. And hey, Bear, welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. Yeah, I was going to say it after the Aurora. And then...

And so then, but I was going to say it after. All right. So I would have got it in there. I apologize. Yeah. Off to the races. Really jump the gun. Hey man, everybody's getting involved. Well, I figure everybody else was saying a thing. I might as well jump in here too. Well, we're here, everybody. You know who's here. Bates. All right. Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. All right. People don't like me doing that. Do they not? Nah. They're real mad about it, huh?

Trying to steal Dusty's essence. Stolen Valor. By doing that. Stolen Valor. Yeah, you got to get your own time. Yeah. Yeah. We're having a good time. Well, the two of you have de facto copyrighted so many things on stage that there's so few things I can do now. Yeah. I can't put my hand behind my back. Everybody thinks I'm ripping off Nate. No, you haven't copyrighted anything.

I thought you were talking about them two, too. No, no, no. I was talking about Nate and Dusty. Thank you so much. I get told every day you're ripping off Brian Bates on stage. Everybody knows I invented waving and saying we're having a good time. And we're having a good time is a more common phrase than people realize. Sometimes you want to say that. I know. And they think I'm ripping you off. It is fun that people think I invented saying that. And they think Nate invented putting his hand behind his back. I did invent it. Yeah.

Feels good. That was the first to ever do it. Yeah. Shane puts his hand behind his back too. Shane Gillis. I haven't noticed that. Yeah. He will too. I think he said he told me, I think it's because I did it, but it was, but you just end up seeing something that's, you know, that you just do. I don't think it matters. If you have your hand behind your back, it's like whatever. That's why I do this completely the opposite. Yeah. He puts it low behind his back. I'm up high in the front. Yeah. Yeah.

Completely out. What does that leave me to do? You got to come in the middle. You got to do something about right here. You got to do this. Yeah, just leave the hand right there. That's one way to do it. Well, it's, yeah, I did it. I think I did it to keep my hands out of my pocket or out of my front park. And that's what it started from.

And then why do you not want it in the pockets? You just didn't like the look of that. I'm not saying it'll be in the pockets. Like if I have a hoodie on stage, I can put it in the pocket. Yeah. Uh, I don't know. I've been thinking a little bit more about how you stand on stage recently. Like just, you know, have it. I, you know, I want, I tend to want to put my, this hand in my pocket. I want to put this hand somewhere. So then that I just went behind my back and, you know, and even that last special, it's like the, uh,

the jeans I had, the pockets were sold, sewed shut. Really? They were fake pockets? Yeah. And I didn't realize, yeah, because I didn't realize that they did that. And then, like, I mean, in the special, I just go, and I hit my hand on it and I go, she sold those pockets. I was told that Jeff Allen once sewed the, sewed shut his coat, pockets on his coat jacket because he didn't want to put his hands in there. So he sewed it shut. Yeah.

I like to just move my hands all around in a real distracting manner. That's what I like to do. Well, it depends on how you're, yeah, it depends on like what, you know, where you, what's going on, where you're standing. Like, you know, when I was in the round on the last one, it's like, I'm moving a lot more.

So it just feels, you know, it feels better. I like to do everything that they tell you not to do as a comedian. Yeah. Like Ralphie May would say, don't wear a hat. Don't have glasses. Don't have a beard. Or long hair. Yeah. That's what he said? I think so. I didn't hear it. People tell me he said it. Don't have a hat. Don't wear glasses. Don't have a beard. Yeah. Or long hair. Everybody has a beard now. Yeah. Well, he said there's all kinds of studies that show that your trustworthiness is

increases the less distractions there are in your face. That's why politicians typically don't have beards is that you tend to trust somebody more who just has a clear face. I don't want them to trust me. Yeah. I think it's your, your, well, well you're selling, yeah, you're selling something different. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You don't know how the show's going to go. Yeah. Buy a ticket. Hopefully it goes well. Yeah. They don't know if you take all that off when you get home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That's what I'd like to do. One day when I do shave and cut my hair, I'd like to do a show and then just kind of take it off mid-stage, mid-show. Just go, you know what? I'm tired of wearing this. That'd be hilarious. Pull it off. Pull off a whole mask and I'd be Brian Bates. That's what we should do. Yeah. And then you go, oh, that's why he's doing it. Yeah. He's getting jealous of his own creation. Yeah.

I mean, the very first comment on here is basically kind of what we're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Well, glad I was here. I went to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, this weekend. We were in Cleveland, Erie, Pennsylvania. Wonderful times there. And this national this this center is awesome. It's awesome. It's it's really, you know, you can do a lot of stuff.

And they just have so much stuff like interactive there that you can go do and learn about comedy and learn about, you know, TV shows. And they have, um,

They have TV shows. They have movies. You can, you can do who's on first. I was able to film a video. I think I might've had it. I don't know. Maybe I could show it, but it's like, I just stand, I sit there and with, you know, they take your picture and then you, it's like AI. Like you just, it looks like you're standing with, you know, Abbott and Costello. You're the big, the big guys. Yeah. But are.

I don't remember which one's which. I don't know. The tall one's Abbott. Yeah, okay, Costello. So you're Costello. And then you just read the lines. Oh, that's awesome. But I mean, it looks like you're just faces in there. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. And so it was just a really cool experience. Do they have a Hall of Fame? Is it like you can get inducted into this? No, that thing was the best too. The...

You can get on stage. I have, we have some video of all this, but you can get on stage. And like, I did a Seinfeld joke.

And so they, I did the Halloween joke, you know, about trick or treating, you know, kids, first time you hear about it, you know, it's like, what? Who's giving brain candy? Who's giving money? Everyone's giving candy. So then you go on stage with a microphone that works and then they, it's like karaoke, but stand up. So then it's going like, all right, here's, it lights and shows you when to say it and stuff.

And you, and then, so people can go in there and just try to be like, try to tell one of the jokes. And it was, I mean, it was super cool. That, that was very cool. And then they have, they have Caroline's on Broadway.

In New York. They have the backdrop of Caroline's. Oh, yeah. And the wall. So if you... Caroline's like... Did y'all... You did Caroline's. I did. Did you ever go in there or anything? It's an iconic backdrop, though. Yes. I can see it. Yeah, yeah. And it's...

the receiving pulled up. I saw a photo of all you guys with it behind you. And I thought, how did y'all, I didn't realize that's where that was. Where was the photo? Oh, Michael Clay posted it. Oh yeah. Uh, I don't know if they're going to have, you can just do the Carolines. Oh yeah. Just to see what it looks like. Well, that's the logo right there. Yeah. Cause they would have just got it. Cause the Carolines, Carolines shut down and, um,

That club just, it was, yeah, that back, I mean, it's crazy, man. It's really, really crazy when you see it. And like, I was, I didn't know they had that.

And so it's me, Vecchione, uh, Lachlan Patterson was with us. Who's, uh, uh, very, very funny. Great, great, great dude. Great comedian. And, uh, Lach, but Lachlan, he's didn't care lines, but he was in LA. So, but me, Julian McCullough, Mike Vecchione, Gary Veeder. And so we all turned the corner. We all were started there.

So none of us know that this is in there. And I don't, they, I don't think, you know, it's not like they knew that, but they didn't, no one really thought of it. And we just turn a corner and it's like, the four of us are like, oh my gosh. Like we stood against that wall for years, years, years.

When I was standing in line and we spent the night for Last Comic Standing once. Stayed out all night, spent the night, go down there, get told no, leave.

I mean, just the contest, like they had the March Madness contest. Julian won the first one. The first year, I won the second year. You hosted it one year. I hosted it one year. Vitor won it, I think, one year. Mike Vecchione came in second place. We brought that up quite a bit. And the Jerry Seinfeld comedian. I would have liked to have done that. I never even went.

Well, you can go stand there and like, because if you leaned against the wall, you could put your hand, like guys would grab, we'd always like grab the kind of back of the wall. There's like a place where there's a hole because the wall's white. I mean, I was really like, they had bar stools in there from there. They had like, it's just- So it's the real background. They didn't just create it. No, no, they gave it to them. Oh, that's awesome. Because Caroline's closed, which was just heartbreaking. Why did they close?

I don't know. I mean, it's just, you know, New York and I think it's just is in Times Square. It's the craziest spot for a club to be in. Yeah. And then New York's just become so crazy.

Times Square specifically probably is insane to try. It's a ping pong place now. Okay. So they do ping. You can play ping pong down there. That's fun. And then just get my whole upbringing. You just walk down there and they're like, what's up? Ping pong. Yeah, it's sad. I saw you open for Bruce Bruce there. Yeah. Yeah. You say Bruce Bruce?

Did I emphasize the wrong Bruce? Bruce Bruce. Yeah, it's the first Bruce. Bruce Bruce. There you go. Bruce Bruce? Yeah. That told a story, right? They called his name. I was in the green room, and I was hosting. Sold out. And I met him briefly. Very nice. And then, you know, I was a new comic, so I was just stinging out of the way. And so then I do it, and then they go...

or maybe I featured something Mark Theobald might've hosted. And then Mark, you know, he goes, give it up for Bruce Bruce. And I've never seen this. He doesn't like, I'm, I'm standing against the back wall and he's not coming out of the green room. And I'm like, I'm like, I don't know if he knows. And I almost,

And thankfully, I did not. But I almost was about to be a joke. They called your name name. I wish you would have. Yeah. But I thought like I thought maybe he didn't hear it. And then it's like, no, there's music playing. He's letting the music get to a point. Yeah. Then he walks out. It's a whole. And you're like, OK. I believe you had a guy in front of him and behind. Yeah. Security that he was bigger than. Yeah.

I opened for Dominique one time and she would do that. I would announce her name and my wife said that she saw Dominique, like Dominique was in the back of the room, poured something in her drink, mixed it up, took her to, I had no idea. I'm like, Dominique. And then I'm just standing there. I'm like, what's going on here? And then she eventually makes her way to the stage. She's very funny too. Bruce Bruce was one of my favorites. So he's very funny. Yeah, very funny.

I mean, would destroy. Well, that's when... I mean, I would learn a lot during that stuff is because you learn that it's a show and that's what it is. Like it's that little extra buildup, that little extra everything is part of the whole experience. Yeah. And so you're just...

You know, and then seeing him walk out to music and then he sings the last song, the crowd sings a song. And you're like, yeah, dude, it's it's a pretty special thing. Like, you know, and you're like and then when you see it, you're back there like, oh, that was awesome. Like, OK. I used to watch him on Comic View all the time. And and then when he came to Zanies, when I first moved here, I went and saw him at Zanies. And it was like, man, he just murders. He kills so hard. Yeah, it is.

When I hosted for him, I could feel the room vibrating on my feet from the green room. He was killing that hard. I remember his feature. I brought her on stage.

And then she walks out there and she goes, uh-uh. She goes, uh-uh. I came all the way from Cleveland. That's how you're going to bring me out? What we're going to do is a redo. Aaron, get back out here. So I come back out to reintroduce her and the crowd's like going nuts. So I like give her a super over the top intro. And then she comes back out and I was...

just started. So I was like, God, did I mess this up? I was thinking that the whole show and then she comes back. She's like, nah, I do that every show. It's like, well, let me know next time. I don't feel bad about myself the whole time, but man, this, did she do it again? Another show? Yeah. All six shows that weekend. So you would then start playing into it. Yes. I would give her a, a purposefully bad intro the first time. Cause I knew I would have to do it again.

You're a great guy for that though, because you can turn it up. If that's me, I'm like, oh, I don't know how to bring you up a different way. I mean, young, I would have been like, you know, I would have went back out and been like, this is the energy I have. Yeah. This is all I got. I don't know what you want to do. Yeah.

Yeah, that would be tough. Yeah, I mean, it's... Well, I wasn't really prepped that we'd be doing two intros here. Dude, by the end of it, I was... Huntsville, Alabama! Are you there? See, you're the perfect guy for that. Yeah. Well, thank you. Yeah. That worked out. Yeah, it's... Talking about murder, it's like that's what's so wonderful about comedy is just in a room and just people...

not being able to breathe because they're laughing. Like there is no, there really isn't. I don't think there's anything better than that because it's the most honest, you know, they don't want to be doing that. That's what I like about it. I mean, they want to laugh, but when you can really get the crowd going, you're, you're, they're, they're past the point of going like, I don't want to be laughing. It's an involuntary reflex. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Aaron sent me some video. It's a lady and she's going out and she's like pulling drinks out of her shirt and she's got a glass in there. That's from Def Jam, yeah. And it is like, I've never seen people laugh so hard in my life. How would you even follow your own opening joke? You got to do a set after that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Good stuff. It's tough to go from that and be like, well, I was in the Home Depot there. Yeah. Yeah, you got to start with whatever you start with. You got to ride that through. Yeah. And make sure you're able to sustain that. Yeah. Short sets, you could do it. Long sets are...

A little bit. You got to do an hour after that. Yeah. I think we've all seen comics though that have hit a prop on them the whole set. And at the very end, they pull it out. Oh yeah. You were, you hit that the whole time. That was not worth it. Yeah. Well, Chris Killian, you know, that we all know, he famously had a closer where he would pull a rose out, uh,

of his pants at the end of the show that he had had in there the whole show. I mean, I've worked the road with Chris all over the place. That would murder for him every time. I mean, he might not even have the best set the whole time, but at the end, it didn't matter because the end would murder. I mean, he had a little dance that he did and it was like every time. I mean, I watched these hotel conference room comedy shows we would do. And I mean, it would just,

He would just bring a guy on stage and dance around. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He, well, I worked with him too. Yeah. Yeah. It would destroy.

John Chris tells a story. I don't think he'd buy me saying this, but Chris Killian opened for him once, buried him just with that closer. Buried him so hard. And there was no green room. So John went to the bathroom and he sat in the bathroom after the show just so he wouldn't have to see people. And just one by one, he'd hear people walk in and go, man, that last guy's stuck. He's in the stall. I love that. Yeah. Good stuff. Yeah. I mean, that closer that he had, I mean, it was a killer.

The yeah, so the comedy center is Jamestown, New York's where Lucille Ball's from and uh, it was very it's very new It's five. Uh, you know, it's like five years. I think I they had the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival I was I did their first one 2011 Or when they it was the hundred year Lucille Ball would have been 100 years old when I did it uh and so, uh

Because they were going to make a thing about her there. And then she's like, well, you should make it about all of comedy. And so it's, you know, there's Carl Reiner stuff. They have Mel Brooks. They have a lot like a lot of that stuff. They have some Seinfeld stuff. But I mean, the fact that how much they show a stand up, it's really, I mean, really, really interactive.

Like just some fun little things. And they have, they have like a blue room downstairs, which I thought was kind of cool. It's like, you know, cause you, you want families in there and stuff, but you know, the art to the dirty, they have, you know, you gotta, you're, if you're not old enough, your wristband, you use a wristband to open the thing. Your wristband wouldn't open the door. So if a kid tried to go down there alone, a parent can take a kid down there. Yeah. But it's like, but then once you go down there, it's, it's its own,

like kind of thing with, you know, more George Carlin stuff and the roast and all that kind of, Oh yeah. Like that kind of stuff. Uh, but George Carlin scroll of, uh, euphemisms here. That's pretty cool. Well, they, you know, the cool thing too was like they, for, for us comedians, I'd imagine for, uh,

you know, I'm not sure everybody, but I could, you could see the notes of like Dangerfield, like one of his like notes and set lists. Wow. That's awesome. And so you're seeing them that you're like, Oh, they wrote their, like, you know, I write a set list out. They also write a set list out. And so they wrote, you know, uh,

He wrote, you know, hey, how's everybody doing? And he parentheses two times. So say it twice like that. That exact. Wow. Which I never did that. But it's, you know, how you doing? How you doing? But his his his act when you see it now, you're like, it's a rhythm based. So it's kind of like I bet that gets him those first. He probably needs those two lines to get into his rhythm and you get into his rhythm is what I would imagine.

And that's why you're like, go up there and say, Hey, doing folks. Hey, doing folks the other day, you know, and then you're just, you're into that. And that's like what you got to do to get them in, you know, but it was interesting to see Carlin's. He had some set, some of his sets there. And it's just, you know, these guys wrote all this stuff out and it's just like, you know, in your head, you don't know what they were doing back then, but it's like, no, they were, they were prepared. They were in your stuff in there.

No. I have a video. I was in a couple of video interviews. We always think about. I did an interview for them. They have one of your puka shell necklaces. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I left my. Yeah. Well, you think about these guys. I left the hat on accident and I was like, I'll just see what happens. I just walked out. I go, Oh, drop my hat.

Hope it's hanging up in there somewhere. They mail it to you. Yeah. You left your hat here. Yeah. Y'all could have kept it. This is a hat Nate wore when he came to visit. And they're like, what? No one wants that. I think I could. I'll probably give them stuff.

If they were, see, I didn't have anything in there. I don't have anything in there. It's, it's all the guys that have been around for a long time, but yeah, I mean, you would definitely eventually, if hopefully it continues, give them stuff. A lot of, you know, science. I mean, it's very, very cool. Like, you know, stand up. That's what I, when the interview, I talk like it's stand up is becoming its own thing. It's a, a much more mainstream thing than it ever has been. So something like this, uh,

is people are going to want to go see it and they're going to want to go, you know, and see, uh,

And actually get to see how hard, not to act like we do something hard, but how exact comedy can be. James Gregory always said that there's more people that do brain surgery than do stand-up comedy for a living. And I don't know if that's true, but it may be. Yeah, let's hope so. I'll counter that. There are way more bad comedians than there are bad brain surgeons, I'd say. Yeah.

I've seen a lot more. Yeah. Well, because anybody can be a bad comedian. That's what I'm saying. But I mean, I think that's what it is. He's saying like that. Do this well, professionally. Right. More, more brain surgeons. To do it professionally. There's like a level and it's the amount of years where someone has to be. And that is a special thing.

Yeah. That's like to a bad brain surgeon kills somebody. Yeah. You can't just, there's not like open mic brain surgery, you know? Yeah. I think when you're on the show, you don't just update your Facebook profile to be a brain surgeon. Yeah. You know? Yeah. That would be, yeah. I don't think, I think you go from nothing to Madison square garden and brain surgery. Yeah. Yeah. There's no buildup, you know, not even a radio city in the middle. Nothing.

Yeah, they go, they let you give it a go on bait. They go, when he's 94, they go, all right, we got a guy. He's like, I'll do it. I'll let you mess around in there. The open mic. The open mic, yeah. Maybe they do. Maybe they have, you know, maybe there's... There's just a guy, John Smith, brain surgeon, Facebook page. Yeah.

We haven't even done surgery yet. Are you calling yourself a brain surgeon? Yeah, maybe their people are hard up for brain surgery. They're like, I'll let anybody show up. When you go do the $5 haircut. Yes. Maybe they do that. Maybe you go, yeah, I'll give it a go. $5 brain surgery. Yeah. And it might be worth it. Yeah. Yeah. Just for the practice. That's right.

Where you go? Do you remember what you guys say? Well, I was going to say about, you know, you're talking about set list of people doing it. It's like you always think of these people as like legends and, you know, like Rodney Dangerfield. But it's like at some point, you know, they were real nervous about doing a comedy show. They were like, you know, he has these famous Johnny Carson things where he's sitting on there and it's like, but probably, you know, that was worked out a bit and probably Rodney Dangerfield was nervous about it.

Doing that. Now we watch it and we go, this guy's amazing. And he is, but he was probably nervous before he went out there. Oh yeah. You know? And he said no respect. And it's probably because he probably was not getting a lot of respect for a long time. Well, he wasn't, I mean, he was 50. Yeah. So he was on up there. Yeah. Yeah.

That's his hero. Yeah. Yeah. It is. I mean, I love Rodney Dangerfield. Give me a break. Yeah. 39? Yeah. You got it too quick. Yeah. What are you talking about?

Where were you at? I was in Little Rock, Arkansas at the Studio Theater Saturday night. Great show. A lot of folks came out. Somebody brought me. I meant to bring it to you. I forgot. A Ziploc bag of leaves to give you. Oh, yeah. So that's what people are bringing now. Come on now. Leaves. Get me the leaves. He's like, I brought you something. I'm all excited. What's it going to be? It's just a bag of leaves for you. Maybe it's a new merch for you. Yeah. Sell Dusty's leaves after the show. Or maybe a currency. You can pay for things with leaves. Oh, yeah.

Are you still needing more? Well, I don't need any more, but I'll take them. Okay. People want to put their address. They live in Nashville and they want to put their address down. I'll come pick them up. You might have too many people trying to get. Yeah. How many leaves can you have? Well, when you mulch them down, if you run over them with a lawnmower, they really kind of go down to nothing. So you can use a lot. And I have nine acres out in McMinnville that I can spread leaves out on.

I'm all about it. I would like this to get to a point where it's a problem. Yeah. Where you have too many leads. Yeah. One day in this podcast, we go, all right,

It's dead serious, everybody. I can take no more leaves. I go, I don't know how else to say this, but we're good on leaves. I have had more success in the neighborhood though. People are giving me the leaves. Word's getting out. Yeah. And so I'm not, I'm not being a, you know, like my neighbor next to me, let me rake his leaves. The one that.

Didn't want you to? No, no. A different guy. Yeah. And then my other neighbor, he said I was- That's how nice is that? He let you rake his leaves. Yeah. Well, it's like, yeah. I mean, actually, he had really nice grass. And he had you tell him, and you had to say thank you. Well, he said thank you to me too, but I was thankful that he gave me the leaves. And so you're going to put them on nine acres. Yes.

How often do you got to do this? Well, you know, they only come in the fall. So, you know, I just thought I got a lot out there. It's like, you know, in Tennessee, we got a lot of hard clay, right? So it's not good for planting things. You got to, if you can build up a little topsoil, that helps. So that's what the leaves do. They break down over time. So what do you think in 2064, you made a plant a flower? No, I think in a year you can, you know, you can do it. You can get a good layer going. Yeah.

Now, what's in your backyard in Hermitage? What is that you want it to be? Wildfire? Yeah, I got, yeah, clover, wildflowers. I want it to be real bee-friendly.

rabbit friendly. So you won't be mowing it at all? Well, I got, I'm going to do like the back half, a lot of wildflowers, you know? So the front, I do want some lawn for my daughter to be able to run around and play in, but, uh, she gets just a little, you think the rabbits get more than her? Well, you know, they can share some, you know, my daughter likes that too though. Cause we get butterflies and we got bees and we got, uh, you know, she likes the rabbits. She chases the rabbits around. We got birds. I mean,

It's fun. It's a good time out there. I'm going to try to put up the bat house tomorrow. Oh, yeah. That's going to be exciting. Yeah. Yeah. That's a lot for the neighborhood. Yeah. I've decided to get. I feel like in a neighborhood, you're like, I hope we don't have bats. And they're like, we got one guy that wants the bats to come. Yeah.

He's building them a home. Well, you know, people spray for mosquitoes. They spend all this money on pesticides or mosquitoes and bats will just eat them. Yeah. And they can give you rabies and do other stuff. Yeah. But how often do you really hear about someone getting bit by a bat? I don't think people are because they're not attracting them to their homes. I was going to say, I don't hear about people building houses for them in their backyard that often. Yeah, there are though.

Okay. Have you seen someone have a bat house? Well, my sister has one at her house. As we go down this one branch of tree of the dusty slave family. But I'm also, you know, I'm not talking to a lot of people about it yet. So words getting out. I'm sure people will message and let us know they have bat houses. Does your HOA know about this? No, but I mean, they're allowing chickens and stuff like that. It's like, if you're going to allow that, you got to let me have bats. Yeah.

We should go to this A.J. meeting and you, the chicken and everybody's got to vote. One of them's got to go. Yeah. And then you got to make your case for the bat. Well, I decided against the owl house in the neighborhood because I was told they will kill chickens. So I didn't want to kill the neighbor's chickens.

Even though I would really love to have some owls. I think that'd be a lot of fun. Yeah. Owls, they get mosquitoes too? No, they'll kill rodents and stuff. So you could have both. Yeah. How big is this house? It's not very big. Oh. It's like a bird box. Yeah. But like a slightly bigger bird box. Yeah. And then the bat house is a real thin thing.

Yeah. You know, and I don't have the, cause they say in a neighborhood, you're probably not going to attract a whole family of bats. So they got like what they call kind of a bachelor bat house. Yeah.

where just some random bats can live, but not a whole family. Yeah. Yeah. You're getting the worst bets. Yeah. Yeah. Getting the ne'er do well. Yeah. Yeah. They can't. Yeah. They can't even stick with the family. Yeah. I think it's going to be great if, if it ends up being bad. I mean, I'll retract my statement. Yeah. I hope you don't get rid of them. Yeah. Yeah. I'll come in here and I'll go, I was wrong. Yeah. You won't. Cause you'll be dead. Well,

Well, yeah. I mean, if the bat kills me. You're only going to be able to do this podcast at night. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, maybe I get superpowers. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that could be something, huh? Wait a minute. I was in Little Rock. Yeah. Aaron? I was across the border, man. I was in Edmonton, Alberta. Oh, yeah. I was in Canada all weekend.

Very fun. I did five shows at the comic strip. They were all four of them were great.

And, uh, man, a lot of people came out. It was like, it was exciting to, uh, to be in another country doing comedy. I was at that mall for four days and I was going a little stir crazy by the end there. What happened with the one? Yeah. Oh, one was just okay. Okay. Yeah. You went to meet. I did go to meet and other people recommended meat too. Yeah. Meat was pretty good. It was great. Wasn't it? Did you do the thing that I was saying with the, the pickle and the mustard and the meat on each bite? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. They had all that set out there on the table. Yeah. It was a really good spot. Edmonton. They make you think everybody's going to be speaking French in Canada. I know that that's the case other places, but Edmonton just felt like it felt like Iowa. Yeah. Very blue collar. As Montreal is where they're. Yeah. It's more that side. But when you fly into Edmonton, they're doing the announcements. Because half the country or the Montreal that side is.

That is a lot of Quebec. That's all French. And some people in Alberta speak it, but I'm not running into it. Bilingual country. Everything has to be in French. I was saying on stage, they did the announcements in English and French, and I looked around the plane. I was like, I don't think you need to do. Yeah. You might need to do English twice. But yeah, I didn't run into it at all. People were great. Thank you to everybody. Do one more French. Yeah. Alberta is a real like ranching.

Part of the country. Like, I think they do a lot of that's where the culture wall is from that country singer. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Yeah. I never heard the culture wall. No, no. He's just culture. The Canadian. I'm like an old man with the Facebook. Yeah. The Facebook. Yeah. The Kroger.

The Canadian accent's crazy, dude. Like the people that really have it, it's wild. I met a guy from Saskatoon on the elevator. Saskatoon. And I could barely understand what he was saying. He was a very friendly guy, but I didn't have a clue what he was talking about. Told me his whole life story. In the elevator? Yeah.

he saw i had a bag with a sticker on it he's like oh wait wait wait i don't know dude i don't speak french yeah you know it's like uh their version of you's gotta talk to his version of you like whatever the it's really the same version of the person right yeah but you're like i don't know if this is gonna go good y'all are

Y'all might be on the same ideas, but your accents are going to be... Wait, he had a French accent? No, he just had a real thick Canadian accent. Oh, okay. I thought you said, I don't speak French. I was like, yeah. Okay. I was just saying I didn't understand it. I got you. That's just English. I got you. But anyway, great weekend. Thank you to everybody that came.

Well, I did a theater show in Chattanooga at the Walker Theater. Sold out. It was great. A lot of fun. Saw some old friends in Chattanooga. Eric Lonez came out to hang out. A host of the Comedy Catch. Eric Lones. Eric Lones, yeah. And he came out, and then we...

and then I did Bowling Green, uh, theater and Bowling Green, the sky pack. Yeah. It was awesome. A lot of fun. They gave me, I got a gift basket from a candle place and I forgot the name of it. And I meant to talk about, and a guy gave me this hat off his head. Uh, Nate on it. Uh,

It does look a bit like NATO. I don't think it is, though. There's a chance I might have was supposed to get tickets for someone to that show for you. Okay. In Bowling Green? Yeah, my buddy Patrick. Well, I hope he made it. I don't know if he did. It was a great show. I did an hour. Pardon me. I was like, yeah, yeah. Let me see. Because I've known Patrick since he started. I'll always give you tickets.

I don't think I've ever got past that point. And now that you're, I just picture Patrick standing outside. I mean like, no, no, no, no. I'm friends with Nate. Yeah.

Well, I did an hour and 25 minutes at that show. Whoa. And I'm like, that's what I'm talking about. I'm in the theater vibe now. I could easily be up there for two hours. You let your opener do three minutes? Yeah. I mean, that's where I'm at. I want someone to just go out and bring me out. You want to be there for two hours? I mean, I get into it. I love it out there. I probably should just sell enough tickets to do two shows and that would satisfy it. But yeah, it feels good. I mean, I'm out there. Yeah.

what do you have? Just one, one opener. Yeah. Yeah. And Chattanooga, I got my, my old friend from Charleston, Vince Fabra to come and, uh, do a set too. And, uh, that was fun. Do a, you know, have a buddy that kind of started comedy with me, but he doesn't really do comedy a ton now. Yeah. He's getting back into it, but like it started comedy with me where we would work these, uh,

where no one would show up and then we would split the money. And now he's opening for me at a sold out theater show. Oh my, that's pretty awesome. Yeah. You get to show them how much better you are. Who's that awesome for? Yeah. Well, that's awesome for me, I guess. Yeah. I was thinking about him while I was saying it, but I guess it is just awesome for me. Yeah. Yeah. You gave him no money. Yeah. I was like, Hey, we ain't split tonight. Yeah.

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Eight minutes. And it did you that? I mean, I got a little, I was like, oh gosh, what's going on here? And then, but I was fine. Were you sitting in the front? Yeah. Well, the front helps a lot. I mean, I'm always a little sick at my stomach. But if you're in the back, you can really get hit with some car sickness. Yeah. So, yeah. So you were, that makes sense because you were in the front. Yeah. But it's...

I would think. He jumped out of the car. He goes, was that driving insane or what? And the woman's still standing right there. And I was like, well, maybe we'll get inside. Something like a maniac. Well, she probably was nervous because you jumped up front. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I mean, the whole thing was probably not a great vibe. Yeah. I'm sure everybody was happy to get out of that car. This week, throw your comments. Dallas Owens.

I spit out my coffee when Nate said breakfast looks like the character in a video game before you pick anything.

If Bates is the character before you pick anything, then Dusty is the character after you pick one of everything. That is true. You get all the accessories. Great point. Great point. Mack McNaughton. Mack Matt. Man, that's a lot. That's a lot, yeah. Mack McNaughton. That's a lot of stuff. Mack. McNaughton. That's a mouthful in itself. If it was Mack Naughton, it'd be easy. Yeah. It's Mack McNaughton, so you got to be...

I bet he's been a lot of times in school where they go, Matt. And he just says, let's go here. It's fun. He's here. We had a cat run away once. A year later, someone put a missing cat poster up on our complex bulletin board. It was a picture of our cat. Someone else wants our cat too. That's right. That's very funny. I think you just got to kind of let it go. Yeah. Like, ah, I get it. That cat's free. Just wants to be on the run. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a bad house. Yeah. Yeah.

Cats wouldn't really, they don't go in families either. No, I don't think so. I mean, maybe you could put up a wild cat house, just see what comes. I have trouble picturing your neighborhood. In my head, I picture my neighborhood differently.

when I was in Hermitage, but it was a cul-de-sac. It was, you know. Yeah, I'm in a cul-de-sac too. Sidewalk? No sidewalk in my cul-de-sac. Okay. That's all I needed to know. The sidewalk ends before you, there is a sidewalk in the neighborhood, but it ends before you get to our cul-de-sac. That says a lot. We're a tight cul-de-sac though. We're all buddies down there. No, no. I, yeah, I'm not, but I'm just saying the vibe of cul-de-sac that would allow chickens and bat houses and all the stuff you got going on.

We don't encourage walkers down there. Yeah. I don't. Yeah. In my head, I'm picturing a sidewalk neighborhood. But then what you're saying, I'm like, God, it just feels weird to fit in that sidewalk. But when you say there's no sidewalk,

It's like kind of like don't. I try to give people a dirty look when I know they don't live in the cul-de-sac, but yet they're driving down there. I try to give them a dirty look like, what are you doing down here? Well, they're probably trying to see the wildlife going on. But they're kids. Yeah. Yeah. I just, I still do it though. Yeah. You're like the burbs. Yeah. That movie. I go, what's going on down here? Guess which part you are. Patrick McCormick.

Aaron shouldn't worry about the awkward Brad Paisley meeting. Who meets someone and ask, and what do you like to do? It's like asking, how have you been this year? How have you been this year is kind of a good question. Yeah. I mean, it's more of an honest question. When you see, you know, the casual Kate Quaidens, you see, you go, how's the year been going? It's going great. It actually would feel,

That actually, yeah, actually, it might be a nice thing to say to people because you got to be like, well, everybody's busy. You go, how's your year going so far? Year's going great. You know, it's better than how's the day. Yeah. Who cares about the day? The day's nothing. Nothing. How's your, this person might have just got me into asking people, how's your year been going? Which is a much more interesting question.

Well, he had a lot more that I cut out. I mean, he was saying basically that's a Santa Claus question. Like, how have you been this year? How's your little brother? Oh, okay. Which I get that. I like the idea of you walking to a gas station with a cashier. How you doing? You go, how's your year been? That's funny to me, but I do like it. But I mean, I think just for your acquaintances that you are seeing would be a good thing. Like if you see a comic at the airport or something. Yeah. How's the year been? How's your year been? Uh,

But it might even be a good question at a gas station. Like, how's your year been going? How's your year been is a good question in like March. But in November, that's a weird question. Might be tough. Yeah. How's your year been? You mean the whole thing? Yeah.

Well, yeah, then it's a better question, I think, because now you have more to reflect on. Yeah. You then go, you know, not been bad. I go, the beginning of the year is still slow. Summer, we, you know, I went on a trip in summer, so that was nice. And you got Christmas. And then you're like, all right, you kind of almost can...

capture that person and who they are. Yeah. Now, if you catch the wrong person, it's like, it's been tough, you know, how's your ear been going? But they tend to like to tell you too. Yeah. They'll find a way to squeeze. Yeah. They, they, yeah, they, they want to just say it. They want to go, how's your ear been? They're like, I've been waiting for this. Yeah. I've been walking around basically wanting people to ask me this. You get, you get a, with that, just saying that if the person can answer it, I, it would probably take a long time to get people used to that question.

But if someone's like, how are your years? You know, it seems like, how's my year been going? Yeah. It'd be insane. You'd be like, you know, did was a Bridgestone this year. SNL. It's been, it's been just wild. They go, man, that's yeah. It's crazy. Uh, yeah. You're the wrong person to ask. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You'll really bring people down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know. I think it really, it's a question that would catch people off guard. People are ready. A lot of people are ready for a small talk answer with how's your day going? Maybe even how's your week? Hmm.

But how's a year going? People are like, well, let's up it. How's your decade been? Yeah. How's your family been would be a year to five year question. If you came up and asked someone that, how's your family been? That might be a 20 year. If you see someone over a 20 year reunion, how's your family been? That's a giant question. Go right into talk to me about the development of your family.

Go for a question like that. That's a crazy way to word it. Yeah. Tell me about the development of your family, dude. Yeah. He goes, I don't think Dusty knows what a family is. He's trying to get answers. He goes, what is a family to you?

Do you remember when I was thinking about awkward encounters with celebrities? I've had many. Yeah. When I met the Titan guy who lived in my building. Yeah. And so you can only imagine how this goes. A guy who asked for an autograph of another high school student. Right. There was a Titan. His name was Rashard Matthews. And he...

came to the Titans. He lived in my building. I met him when he was moving in and they were showing him around. It was in my mail room. I got a little too excited and I was asking him a lot of questions, being very friendly at first. And then I kept going a little too deep. So I was like, cool, cool, cool. You know, and I was telling, I said, well, what unit do you live in?

And he got real quiet, real quick. And I could realize, I realized like, he didn't want to tell me. So then I try to help him out. And I'm like, you don't know yet. He's like, nah, I don't know yet. Which is ridiculous. You just gave him an out. Yeah. Answer. But, uh,

To me, it's like if you lived in HOA and you're in the HOA office and somebody new moves in, you might ask, what house is yours? So to me, it was the same thing. Yeah, but a house is more committed where an apartment is more... People are coming and going. I mean, people could live there for six months, especially even a football player could live there for a month. Yeah. Especially the day you move in. Yeah. Or unit. I'll help you. Yeah. How soon did he move out, Brian? Well, pretty soon, but...

I doubled down because he lived one floor below me. Oh, he found out. Yeah. You go, I was just looking to it. I was always around. So then one day I'm downstairs.

And it's early morning just happened. PK Subban walks out. Now PK Subban play for the predators. One of the more famous hockey players, Nate Chael. And he's got a fur coat on a big hat and he comes out and I like PK. And I'm like, Hey, could I get a selfie with you? And he was very nice. And why, I don't know why I said this because he was coming out for shards for us. It, were you visiting Rashard?

why I said that? And he didn't even answer. He just ignored the question. But it was the dumbest thing for me to say. Yeah. This was before he had a family. That's why he, this is why the family has really helped Bates out. I mean,

I don't think you have any sense there, but I don't think it's as bad is like, you know, you had, you had a lot of free time. And so you see PK, you're like, Hey, I've been outside 12 times hoping to see somebody. That's how you recover. Now you go, Oh, I have a family. You go, you're visiting Rashard and he looks at you. Where'd you go? I have a family. Yeah. Now, well, now you don't with a family. You're not as like,

You just got, you know, you got your family to think about your life and family to think about. Brian says he's had plenty since. Well, I mean, when one of my biggest pet peeves is when people go up to famous people or comics and say, you don't remember when we met? You don't know me. I hate that. When Kevin Nealon was on this podcast before we started, I kind of did that to him.

He sat down. Now, Kevin and I have worked together twice. I thought he would remember me. He did not. And then I thought, oh, he's going to feel he's going to remember it eventually. So I'll just go ahead and tell him. So I was like, oh, we worked together. And he's like, well, oh, we did. And he's like, well, how are we? And I said, well,

through your wife, which is such a weird thing to say. Yeah. And I met his wife because she was in the green room at Zany's and she was on Parks and Recreation. And I remembered her. He's like, how do you know Susan? I was like, from Parks and Recreation, which sounds like. That's not a good. Yeah. Like. You don't hear that. Oh, from TV, from a poster on my wall. Yeah.

Well, I thought it sounded like I worked on Parks and Rec or something. And he thought. Oh, no. I don't think he took that. Yeah. That's what he think Kevin even thought. Man, Nate's got some kind of staff down there. This guy left Parks and Rec to go host a podcast. What kind of podcast is this? Maybe that's why Kevin did it.

Maybe he regrets doing it now because he's like, I thought you guys were – Hopefully he's not listening to this episode. I didn't know I was being the showrunner for Parks and Rec. Yeah, we got him down here. I just kept digging deeper into it. What hotel are you staying at? What hotel room? You and Nate hanging out later? Where y'all going? Imagine you go, I know from Parks and Rec. You're like, oh, I get it. I did not work on that show. It's like, what?

Then he's going to be like, oh, yeah. I didn't think you did. I didn't think you did. I thought you were asking generally the way you're asking, which is the wrong way to ask. Yeah. The Parks and Rec. That's funny. Well, anyway, I kept digging myself in a deeper hole. So there you go. So don't feel bad about Brad Pace. They always say, whenever you think about your own awkward moments, try to think about somebody else's awkward moments. And it's pretty hard to do.

you know what i mean you just think of me no i don't i don't even i can't remember i mean the stories you tell are funny but i can't think of anybody else's weird awkward moments you know just something to think about ryan dorfman i saw him chastise a comic in the greenies zany's green room for doing that wasn't me but uh uh kirk herb street came in the green room and the guy was kind of like you don't you don't remember like where we met yeah it's like how

Oh, I'm sorry. I don't. And then when Kirk Herbstreit left, Dorfman said, don't ever do that. I mean, this guy sees a million people. Yeah. It's such a weird thing to do. It's like, really, you do meet a bunch of people. I remember a lot of people, but sometimes, yeah, you don't. Yeah. I mean, you might see people a few times a year.

And you could, and then be like, it's just not because it's out of the context because you see them. That's the thing with, we're seeing them in so many different places. Yeah. That's why it's so hard to remember. I remember I went to the place, but it's like, oh, we met, we went out to eat after. And you're like, I went out to eat every city in America this year. Yeah. And so like, I mean, maybe I like, I mean, odds are like, I'm gonna say you won't, but it could be as big as that. You're like, no, we hung out and you're like,

You know, it's like nothing you're trying not to, but you're like, I don't know. You know, you just, you're thinking of, I mean, I forget my whole, I thought this weekend, I don't know my, I don't think I could do the hello world special right now. I was like, think about it. If I had to go do that, if he was like, go repeat that. I don't, I don't know if I could. Yeah. My brain is so into this new hour that I would, I'm like, I don't think I could even start. I don't couldn't do the shields joke. I kind of remember the jokes.

But it's like, I couldn't do the shills joke. I don't think I could do... I wouldn't remember... Even the Christian parents... Like, if I got the rhythm started, I could get it probably quicker, but I have to really go work at it. Somebody yelled out a joke to me in Bowling Green, one of my older jokes, that I don't do at all anymore. And I was like...

And I was like, I'd like to do this joke for them. But it took me a minute. I went through other jokes while trying to think of how this joke went. And I did get it and I did it. But it took me a minute. It's like, I don't just know all the jokes. So that's how you get into an hour 25. Were you taking requests? I did do that one joke. Yeah. I mean, that joke was like, that was, it was like a minute. I mean, yeah. I mean, I'm ready. Yeah.

I got lots of jokes. I mean, it's like, I don't know. I love a theater world is fairly new to me and I'm soaking it up. I'm into it. Yeah, I'm into it. I had a real ego check this weekend. I have a long bit about beef jerky that I've been doing for a while. And to this guy sitting in the front row at the show, I looked during my set. I looked down. He's got a huge bag of beef, like a huge bag of beef jerky on a stable. And I was like, oh, did you bring that for me?

And he's like, what? I go, you bring it for my beef jerky thing? He goes, I don't even know who you are. He just bought a bunch of beer.

I was like, God, I feel like an idiot. I'm like, oh, this is so cool. This guy brought me beef jerky. Nah, it's just a guy from Canada. Yeah, I'm good, man. How's the beef jerky? It went great. I worked it into the thing. Yeah, yeah, it was good. And then he gave me some after. Yeah. Really good. Just right out of the bag? Right out of the bag. Just some loose ones? Just, yeah, been touched by a bunch of strangers' hands. Yeah, it was solid. That describes Canada. I mean, Edmonton.

Real beef country. Yeah. The fact that a guy that you're that comfortable would bring a bag of beef jerky and sitting it on a table. You don't have it under your seat. It's beef jerky smells. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was like we did. My dad, Abigail, I went to my nephew's basketball game. She posted a picture of it, but he's eating a hot tuna sandwich.

That he made from home. In a gym? In a gym. And they're just, his hair, my dad's hair is a mess. He's just eating his hot tuna sandwich. And you're like, Dad, there's, I mean, everybody's got to smell that. The whole gym smells like tuna. Because I'm watching my grandson.

Can't have a hot tuna sandwich. Can't just eat a hot tuna sandwich. I mean, you know. I went with a comic on the road one time, Jim Seward, and he had pastrami in a cooler in the car. And every time he would open, I love pastrami, but every time he would open this cooler, it would just fill the car. It was making me so sick. I'm like, this is disgusting. Like of all the meats to put in a cooler, you're putting pastrami in here? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's what's hard about packing your lunch or packing whatever is because it's the smell. Yeah. And it's like when they're like, oh, you have a cooler and you do it and you're like, I don't want to. If I smell it, that means everybody smells it. I don't want to get used to the smell that I don't even know what's happening. Oh, yeah. So you're just walking around and you're like, I don't, you know. I mean, yeah, on a plane is like that's, I mean, they're.

Laura will do it, I think, on purpose. Oh, yeah. With me. She'll bring something that I'm like, we can't be eating that on this plane. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the Charlotte Airport has a Popeye's chicken in it, and people buy that and bring it on a plane. And I love fried chicken, but I'm like, it's tough on a plane. It's a risky move. Yeah. Yeah, that's, I mean, but it's tough to put it in there. That's a tough one for people to just not. I mean, because the airport is the only place where you're like,

Well, I'm going to starve to death. Yeah. So you can make the most excuses. Right. It's the hardest place to stay alive.

eat healthy. I'll eat PF Chang's at 7 a.m. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you're like, I don't, what am I, what am I going to do? I can't do this. And so to have a Popeye's next to it is like, how do you avoid smelling like smoke? Well, last week, this is very exciting. I'm glad you brought this up, Brian. Uh, last week, the West coast legend himself, Snoop dog announced that he is done with smoke.

It's over. He's eliminating it. How could that be that the dog father could be going smokeless? Well, we learned this week, as it turns out, that he is going smokeless, but not in the way you think. He's actually joining forces with our old friends, the makers of the world's most popular smokeless. Yeah.

You should get peacocks or guinea hens. They eat not only mosquitoes, but ticks and other bugs as well. Each year, the peacocks shed their feathers, so you get free peacock feathers, which you're already in the hole buying those. So guineas offer an excellent security system, as they let you know whenever anyone comes in your yard.

Well, Thomas, this is great. This seems much easier than bats. Yeah. Peacock's pretty fun. Peacock is fun. And who couldn't use some extra peacock feathers? Yeah. You know what I mean? Maybe saying the cost to relocate for you is very expensive.

He says your neighbors won't be happy with bats. And if you get tired of them, the cost to relocate is very expensive. If you get tired of your neighbors, the cost for you to relocate is very expensive. I don't know. I think he's talking about the bats. Well, then what does that mean? Why was that expensive? You just take it down. Maybe because you're... I mean, he might be picturing a bat house like I'm picturing, which is a shed type house. Yeah. I picture you trying to get... Like an old...

Like an old clock tower. Yeah. If you're like, well, I got four bats. I mean, four bats might not. They can't do all the mosquitoes. Yeah, this is a very small house. It's just that the wood is really close together. And that's what bats like to be able to get in there and hang down. Yeah, but is that many? Do you need a lot of bats to not have mosquitoes? I don't think so. I think a couple of bats could eat a ton of mosquitoes. Yeah. What about spectrosyte?

Well, I just am not really into pesticides these days, you know? Forgot where you came from. Yeah. I'm trying to go pesticide free. You give her ticks too and other bugs. I mean. Well, I'm into that. I mean, I, you know, if I had some land, I would be into some peacocks. What's a guinea hen? I think it's just a male peacock. Oh, right. I think it's a different kind of species altogether. I mean, it's a bird, but. Yeah. I think I've seen guinea hens in people's yards, though.

We've lost our connection there. I think a hen in itself is a female. Yeah. Look it up. Glad we got to the bottom of that. Richard McElroy. McElroy.

Brian should consider apologizing for saying Coco the gorilla killed her pet kitten. The truth is it escaped from Coco's cage and was run over by a car. When it was signed to Coco that her kitten had died, Coco signed bad, sad, bad, and frown, cry, frown, sad, trouble. Coco was also heard later making sounds similar to human weeping. Brian. Wow. Wow. You should apologize. I hope no one says that you said that to Coco.

Well, I did. I got it wrong. I got Coco mixed up with another ape that killed their pet. So I do want to apologize. Coco's no longer with us. I want to post if Coco's family's listening, I want to apologize to them or anyone else in Coco's immediate family that

Heard me say that. I apologize. Maybe don't sign it to Coco that the cat died. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You ever see a video of Robin Williams doing comedy to Coco? Mm hmm. He's killing to another species. Oh, really? Yeah. Apparently Bill Burr has a special. He's tickling it funny and he's like laughing. I mean, that's that's impressive. Bill Burr has a special where he talks about this and I think it's called Justice for Coco or something like that.

Oh, okay. Robin Williams was very hairy. I think so. He could be part gorilla, Robin Williams. Yeah. He's a very hairy guy. So that's why he connected with him. I guess his whole comment was just making fun of the dad. Coco and Robin Williams, he pulled him in here somehow. Taylor Collins. I used to babysit for my cousin and my aunt had an African gray parrot.

He was very smart and would make the sound of the phone ringing and then shout at my cousin's voice and say, Mom, phone. Oh, gosh. What a nightmare. Yeah. That's fun. Good job reading that comment. Yeah. Yeah. That was solid, dude. I mean, you emphasized it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The mom phone. SNL, the acting really paid off. The acting coming out. It's coming out. Annie Halcom. I love that Dusty brought up his future worms on the pets episode. I'm not allowed pets in my apartment.

But I'm dreaming of setting up worms outside this spring for food, composting. As a newcomer to the pod, this felt like a sign I'm in the right place here. You're being into some more of this stuff. Yeah, in the right place. I mean, keep listening to the things I say and then get into that stuff. Yeah. I mean, that's the way to go. I've not set up the worm farm yet, but I do have the tub now. So it's on its way. Where's the tub? Tub's in McMinnville. It's...

Yeah, it's unloaded. I unloaded a cast iron tub out of the back of my truck by myself. Wow. I've been working out. Yeah. Do you ever sit at home? You ever have? You feel like you got a lot going on. Yeah, we're moving around a lot. I mean, we like to get into it. Yeah. Yeah. I noticed from listening to your podcast and just your special... You go to...

Michaels a lot. Still very funny that you have a podcast. Yeah. I like to talk. I'm a bit of a talker. Everybody go check. What's the other one? Michaels. And what's the other one that you got kicked out of? Joe. I didn't get kicked out. Joe and fabrics. Yeah. And you're always looking for picture frames or fabrics.

Yeah. I mean, picture frames. Well, you know, I like to frame stuff and sometimes I have deals by one, get one free, but they also, they don't make it very clear what the deal is. So often I take the frames to the counter and I go, I just want to make sure these are on the buy one, get one free list. And there, and, and, but in the back of my mind, I'm like, I know they are, but I don't want you ringing them up and not being, they go, oh, well not these. Yeah.

And I'm like, well, not these. Why you got signs all over the whole area? Yeah. I mean, so I'd be specific about it. I walked out. I just walk out. Eight dollar picture frames. I leave them with the frames. Yeah. I go, well, all right then, get your signs right. What do you think is going to happen? Like, let's say you get super famous. Everybody knows you. Do you think you ever just stop it or you just, this is what they get? Well, I hope that,

You know, they'll just remember that I did this when I wasn't famous. Yeah. You know, and don't make it like a fame thing. It's like, no, I've always been difficult in a retail store.

Man, fame's got his head. No, no, no. Your biggest defender? Nah, he's always been difficult. Yeah. Any kind of store, you don't want that guy in the store famous or not famous. Exactly. He tipped badly when he didn't have money. Yeah. I've been in, I worked in retail stores too much. You know, I've been, I know how the employees are in there from working side by side with them. It's like, don't play these games with me. Yeah.

Ish Mendoza. Ish Mendoza. Seem like it's going to be a hard name. Not as bad as a good one. Yeah. Ish Mendoza. Brand Muffin said chowchilla instead of chinchilla.

Chow Chilla is a small farm in California town about 40 minutes north of Fresno. Messed up Fresno. Yeah, I meant to say Chinchilla. Chinchilla. Chow Chilla, I do know. My grandmother lived there for a couple years when she was little. Wow. What? You believe that? I don't believe it. That's crazy.

This is like the 19-teens. Oh, that was probably 1850. Yeah. No, not that far. She was one of the first people out there. Yeah. She might have been up for the gold rush. Yeah. It's the gold. Oh. Chow Chow has a very famous thing happen. Well, I don't know how famous, but a school bus of kids got kidnapped and held hostage, and the hostage takers buried them alive in a rock quarry.

Wow. Darker as it went. But they all survived. Oh, man. Bad news baits coming alive. It ends up well. In Livemore, California.

Well, that's where they got buried, but they were from Chowchilla. Look at that. It's got the 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping. For ransom money. And they were asking for ransom money. And then the kids. They spent 16 hours underground. That's brutal. And you told it like it was a positive day. Well, it ended up good. Yeah. Yeah.

That was 47 years ago. So these kids are probably, are they your age maybe? Or how old were they? I don't know how old they were. 26 children, 5 to 14. So 47 years ago. So some people on that bus are your age. So we could be looking at a Chowchilla victim right here. Has your grandmother not moved? Yeah, has your grandmother not moved? You would be, this is the exact age you would have hit it.

Dead on. You'd be Chowchilla. I'd be a hero. You think those kids got their parents to drive them to school after that? I think so. I wish I could take you, but I still have to work. It'd be like you trying to get an apartment. You're George Costanza versus the Andrew Doria survivor, but you're trying to get it from one of them. They're like, well, we were underground for 16 hours. You got to

How many people go underground on a normal bus? Yeah, yeah. How many hours on a regular bus are you underground? 30, 40? Come on. All three people who did this have been paroled. They're all out walking free. Wow. As of last year. Wow. So they're still out there. At least they're reformed. That's what you hope people understand. Younger people and they do crazy things. Those guys were in prison 47 years of their life.

Yeah. You go in, they are in, and they obviously had to be older. It was the quarry's owner's son and two of his friends. So it was like younger kids that did this. Yeah.

Yeah. But yeah, they were in their twenties. It's too bad for the kids. I mean, the, the dad. Yeah. But it's like, he drug his kids along and they were like, all right, well, dad says we should do this. So let's do it. Yeah. That's tough, man. That's, you know, you really, honestly, you hope kids like, I don't think kids think of stuff, you know, where you're like, man, your whole life, those kids go in at 20.

And they're not out till they're 67, 70 years old. Jeez. Yeah, it's real. Your whole life is. And then you, and you get out at the end just to be like, here's the end of it. Yeah. And you go to prison in 1976 and then you come out now, like the world is completely changed. You're in a different place. You won't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're getting a senior citizen discount and Shoney's is not even around anymore. Yeah.

Finally. You know what I look forward to? Going to Shoney's. Yeah. He goes, I hope they're around. What are you, out of your mind? That was the pop in this place. Like, you could never imagine that they would go into the ground. Yeah. I think at this point, it's only better. Imagine what you thought the breakfast buffet would be. Yeah. There's a couple still left. Yeah. Shoney's was nice.

It's a great name. Yeah. That one with Donaldson Pike still there, isn't it? Oh, I don't know. It's Shoney's was like, we didn't, we didn't get to go much, but man, when we, it was like, it would be a big deal. Like if he was like, you gotta go to Shoney's, you'd want to go every week. Oh yeah. You know, big boy.

That was called the burger was called the big boy. Big boy. Maybe I always got the kids fish and chips. I went as a kid. Yeah. And just stayed the same. Yeah. Who's that? This is the victory parade for the survivors. No, maybe trap them on a float for six. Some of the kids don't look pumped about it. I don't know. Can we walk around a little bit? No, no. Stay on the float. Don't get off the float. But I mean, you know, we're just kind of.

Kind of antsy. That's wild. Yeah, that is crazy. Chad Mangum. Mangum. Mangum. Chad Mangum. Mangum.

Man gum. Like dad gum or man gum. Chad man gum. Man gum. I love the ongoing debate of who would blend into which sport, and I would be interested to circle back to Aaron being a long snapper. You can fine-tune the snap to be quick and accurate, but what about punt coverage? The average punt travels 45 yards, and the snapper is the first guy down the middle of the field. Can Aaron make the tackle or at least force the returner to go wide?

No, I don't think I'd succeed at that part of it. I have a hard time thinking you're going to still be the first person down the field. You might be the first guy that can run, but you ain't. I'll get a head start on everybody, but I'm not getting down there. Yeah, I think it's going to be like, golly, that long snapper barely makes it 10 yards. What I took it as, if you saw me standing on the sideline,

Yeah. In pads. And somebody said, that's the long snapper. That's the closest chance I got to blending in. Yeah, but you got to go play.

See, that's what I'm saying. I think I'm on a really good team. We don't punt that often. The debate is the debate who would look best in the uniform. No, no. I think it's you got to play. Yeah. See, that's what I think too. Dude, I love this idea and I've thought about it a lot. And so I want to see maybe one day we can do something like it's – but it's –

I like to shoot, shoot something or cause I do. I think it's very fun. I'll do the swim. I'd like to train a little bit, but I also, if I do the swim and get embarrassed by other swimmers, I need Brian to be out on a professional soccer field.

Yeah, yeah. Well, you'd have to, it'd be very fun. We could try to shoot it where it's like you have a camera that's, you know, like a kind of a far view camera. Swimming would be easy. We get everybody's a professional swimmer and then, you know, anything.

And maybe you have to put your hair up in that thing so no one could tell your hair. Yeah. I mean, I'm fine losing. Well, I'm fine losing too. Well, that's how they're going to pick if you go, if everybody's wearing the proper things. And one guy's in a t-shirt. Yeah.

but I'm fine losing and swimming. Yeah. I brought my own shorts. Cut off jeans. Yeah. As long as I get to see Brian on a professional soccer field. Yeah, you would. I mean, then we'd, we'd have Brian go play like probably, you know, whatever level soccer would agree to do this. Wouldn't it be amazing if he were really great though? Like if this whole thing came down to Brian is actually a great soccer player. I mean, yeah, it'd be amazing if there was peace on the world.

world. What are we talking about? You saw him going up and down the stairs. I don't know what you think. He's going to surprise you out on the field. Well, again, I never claimed to be a great soccer player. I can walk around out there. But I think, yeah, I think he would, a ref is what you, a ref. NFL ref for sure. Anything. NFL is a long way to run.

He might do good. Even NBA. Just stand down the right field line. Yeah. Yeah. Fair. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be good. Yeah. Yeah. Baseball. Someone heard us talking about it. It's like baseball would be a good one. Cause you, you know, you can just, you know, baseball, it'd be go stand out in right field.

I mean, it's like my whole life. Yeah. Yeah. Stand down. Right. You go do your, your cutoff man's 10 feet from you. Yeah. That's how close he's got to get. There's two cutoff. He goes,

I need to run up. He goes, throw it to the cutoff. Boy, I can't get to the cutoff. I throw it to the center fielder. Here, you throw it in. You throw it to a man in the stands and he throws it to the center. Hey, could you throw this in for me?

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Our most recent travel took us to Nashville for our very first time. We got to be a part of New Material Monday at Zany's and heard Dusty and Aaron. All right. That's awesome. That's the show I'm thinking of. That was a hot show. They didn't say whether or not they enjoyed it. Yeah, they didn't comment on the show at all. Yeah, they did see it. This could have been the beginning of an angry email. You know, I signed up for this when I first quit my job.

I signed up for Trusted House Sitters to go to different cities. I don't think I ever actually did it, but- I thought you switched apartments with someone. I did that too a few times, but I also signed up for this. You helped me take a picture of

I didn't have a dog and they wanted photos of you with pets. So Annie goes over your house and I spotted them next to you. You did a photo shoot with Nate's dog. With Nate's dog and Annie and Nate took the picture for the website. It's crazy you didn't get it. Well, funny the name is Trusted House Sitters and your whole thing is based on a lie. Yeah. That's why I didn't get it. They could see through me. Yeah, that is true. These guys might be good. They might be real good. Yeah.

Uh, Shelby Parker, Aaron, an octopus is also my least favorite animal. They creep me out so much and I can't even watch them on TV. You perfectly described the reasons that they're the worst. That got me wondering what is everyone's least favorite animal? Uh, I don't like snakes. I mean, I guess that's a popular one, but yeah, I don't, yeah, I don't know. Uh, I don't know.

But the snake doesn't have near human intelligence. You know, that's the creepy part of this for me. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I don't think of creepy with an octopus. Cause it's like anything underwater. You're like, they don't feel gross to me or something like, Oh really? Stay out of the water. Yeah. They don't feel, yeah. I mean, they could scare me, but.

I get the idea. You could talk, I could see how that's like, not, yeah, that's. Well, I reacted to when somebody had an octopus in their house. That's what I'm saying. So like an octopus, they don't, I'm not frightened day to day by octopi because they're in the ocean. Yeah. You know, somebody recommended documentary. A couple of people did that. You should watch. I think it was called Mr. Octopus or something. My octopus teacher or whatever. Yeah. That creeped me out, dude. Oh, it didn't work. Okay.

I'd check that out. No. See, this is creepy to me, too. I never really thought about that with octopus, but that's pretty creepy. Octopus teachers is dude that just like swam around and fell in love with an octopus. Oh, okay. No, I don't like that. Nah.

That's what the movie's about? He developed a relationship with an octopus. People will be marrying an octopus. Yeah, it's getting us close to that, isn't it? It's getting us close to that. I don't think it's like a romantic love, but they just become infatuated with each other. What is it? I think it was nominated for an Oscar. I mean, it was a very well-received documentary. Oh, it's a real thing? Oh, yeah. My Octopus Teacher.

Well, I'm ready for you to pay me my 20 bucks here soon. I mean, that's coming. People said it already happened. A year spent by filmmaker Craig Foster for forging a relationship with a wild common octopus in a South African kelp forest. It won the award for best documentary at the 93rd Academy Awards. So it was a big deal. But I turned it off about halfway through. I couldn't handle it. I didn't like it. I think I would agree. Why? Because of the octopus? The whole thing just creeped me out and was weird.

And yeah, once you learn how smart they are. What if she was every time she went there, it was a different octopus and she never knew. I mean, how do you really know? Yeah. They say octopus can. How does she know which one? Pregnant itself. They just go to the same spot. Well, they have distinct markings and it would be in the same spot. And it got to a point where it would come up. It would come up to him.

Oh, is a guy. And just let it follow it around. Like where? Like in the ocean? It says the fort. He'd walk around in the ocean and it would. In South Africa. Yeah. Snorkel down with it. Yeah. Just hang out with it. Yeah. Spend time with it. It's like it's friend. It became friends with it. That would make me want to watch it more than what you described it as. Like he fell in love with a.

He did. But I mean, it's like his buddy, like the way you love a dog. I said it wasn't a, it's not a romantic thing. Yeah. But it was like, it's more than a dog though. It's different.

Yeah. It's different because this thing, because it's smart. Watch this after Shawshank. Yeah, but he loves it like a dog. Watch what? This after Shawshank. I'll do this first. What's Sherry? It would really upset me if you watch this before you watch the Shawshank Redemption, dude. Do you think that octopus has seen Shawshank? No.

I mean, it's already won an Oscar. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They watched it. It's more than Shawshank one. Yeah. They didn't win an Oscar. No, because they were, it was the toughest year ever to be nominated because Forrest Gump just won everything. Oh, but I thought, I thought Shawshank was the best movie ever. Shawshank was a flop at the box office. It didn't make money at the time. It picked up steam later.

Ted Turner bought it and he put it on TNT forever. And then DVD sales came out and made a lot of money after the fact. Yeah. I didn't realize that. Kind of bombed at the time. Yeah. Terrible name. It's a tough name. If they should redo it, they should name it something else. Well, I don't know now. I think it's a great name because it's the most you recognize. But if you know nothing about it and you just see Shawshank Redemption, that's not... That's what's kept me... Then maybe I would agree to it if I saw it. What's kept me from watching is I just...

Picture some whole heavy thing. It sounds pretentious. Yeah, it does. Yeah. It does sound pretentious. But it's great. Brooklyn Stabel. Stabel. Stable. I bet Stabel. Because there's an I. Yeah. Stable, but an I after the B. Stabel.

I bet there's something. You're doing a little something at the end. Stay bile. Yeah, I don't think you're just going stable. I think you're doing a little something at the end. I think you get to the B and you're like, you better buckle up. Hold on. Brooklyn stay bally. Stay bally. Bile.

My mom was majorly depressed. Oh, boy. And my mom was majorly depressed and needed to get out and be around others. So I invited her to join me on my six-hour drive. I put on the podcast, and she said that she had never watched any of Nate's stand-up. We proceeded to watch every special we could find for the remainder of the trip. And the Nate melody made the time go by faster and had her crying with laughter. She said she hasn't laughed like that in a long time, and I think it was really healing. Yeah.

Well, that's the best. Wow. That's great. Thank you, Brooklyn. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, man, hearing people laugh, it's a very rewarding thing to hear. I can tell you that. It really does mean – it means a lot in hearing stuff like that because it's – That's why you do it. That's why you do it. And you really do do it for that. And that's what I've enjoyed with doing –

Stand-up is like, you're just like, because you can just, I mean, man, when you're just hearing people going, you're like, it's, you know, you just feel it's really, you know, it feels great. And it fuels us to be wanting to get back because you're like, I just want to keep going.

Yeah. And I think if you laugh a lot, if you're around people that make you laugh, you can really take for granted that some people aren't in those environments where they're not laughing a lot. So really, they really do need a comedy show. Yeah. And they really get to like, oh man, that was, you know, feel, hopefully feel the relief and the happiness and, you know, just can move forward. All right. Does anyone tell us about AG1? I sure do. Yeah.

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Bathrooms are called different things in different parts of the world. It's relatable because, you know, we all use it. That's right. Unless you live in an area where they don't have them. But you still use the bathroom. You do. I'm guessing if that's the case, you're not listening to this podcast. That's probably true. Yeah. Well, yesterday was World Toilet Day. Oh, okay. And that's to bring attention that much of the world still doesn't have access to that.

And what those people want most is for us to know about it. Yeah, just dive into the history of it. They're like, yeah, we don't have it, but we're still not going to have it, but it's good if you know that we don't have it. What is the world toilet day, though? It's because how many people don't have toilets? I know other countries and stuff, and they do it. But then you also want to go, why can't we get them toilets? Yeah.

Well, I think it's not the actual toilet, but maybe the piping and all the- I mean, Derek and them, they go over there and they do a lot of stuff and build these communities up. Right now, there are 3.5 billion people still living without safe toilets. 419 million people still practice open defecation. What's a safe toilet, though? One of my toilets in my house is not- I've used some unsafe toilets. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

World Toilet Day is about accelerating change by doing whatever you can. Take action today and share the campaign with your people. I guess it's just raising awareness. Break taboos. Talk about the critical connection between toilets, water, and you know.

Yeah. Yeah, it's... You know those toilet taboos. Yeah. I understand. I just think how you can't have... How could you... What is the plan? Well, for one, let's stop putting food waste, oils, medicines, and chemicals down our toilets. Well, that's true. Yeah, we got to stop doing that. Right? Compost. Yeah. Got to get into compost. It's about being the change.

That's right. I can see that. But it's like, I thought the big thing was like, let's talk about. I could see if it's World Toilet Day and it's like, hey, here's how you do toilet. But like, they want you to give money. And I just don't, it's like, I'm just saying like, how's it going to get to the toilets? Well, it's got to work its way down. If I give this thing money. The people running the organization are for sure going to get themselves a toilet. Can I buy five toilets and be like, and they'll just knock on the door and bring a person to the toilet.

No, I don't think that's what this charity does. I don't know if this is. I mean, there's not even a place to donate on here. I think there's really just one place to donate. Oh, I thought it said give money. But just like on your own, do whatever. Make your commitment and be the change. I bet that's where you give the money. Oh, yeah. They disguise the word donate. Yeah. It's probably a monthly thing. You don't just give one time. You got to sign up. This is the unwater.org. Is it United Nations?

Yeah. It would be like, that's what I'm saying is I would like to, if they're like, I think that's what happens is when they're like, well, three and a half million people don't have toilets in their head. You're like, then how come we can't just like, let's go solve that. And I think everybody would be like, yeah, but I just want housing. Just, I want it to be done. Right. So let's, you know, and I understand it might. I don't want to hear about this next year.

But honestly, you go, let's get it done. Like, let's go. Okay. That's the giant thing. Then let's, what do we got to do? Yeah. If they laid out the plan, they were like, all right, in this area, all we need is this much money and we can get it built. Then we could all donate to there. Yeah. And then we'll say, all right, is it done? And then if it's done, then you can go, all right, well, let's start doing this everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you.

I am shocked to hear it's that many people. I think they've made great strides over the last few decades in getting people access to... I mean, yeah. Yeah, last year it was 3.7 billion. Now it's 3.5 billion. Are you serious? No, I'm just making... I'm saying it's such a huge number. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, yeah, it's like 3.5 still living without safe toilets, but 419 million still practice going outside. Well...

I do. So half of those. I practice going. I pee outside three or four times today. So that means, yeah. I mean, it's not that late in the day, Jesse. So we're going down. So right now we've already cut it down to 3 billion because half of them are trying to do it outside. That's what that says. Yeah. Half of them are like, that's the main thing. This is where we do it. We do it outside. Save yourself some water. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Well, anyway, bathrooms are bad. I don't want people to die. I mean, that, yeah. Right, right. This is for kids, but it's... I don't understand what a safe toilet is. I'd like them to define that a bit better. I think just a toilet. Yeah. Like, just running water. It's really, it's a running water. Yeah. Because you have water, you'd have all this stuff, which Derek, my, everybody over there, they go and do a lot of this. Right. Stuff. So they do, you...

and go build up these, a lot of mission trips and stuff like that. Yeah. But it's always like that kind of thing where you want to go. And I believe they are all doing that kind of stuff. And I have trouble, I guess, with this thing specifically being like, well, what are you, if you're this big thing, what are you doing?

probably they're probably very unsanitary a lot of these non-safe toilets and disease probably spreads um but bathrooms are more than just toilets they're showers they're sinks yeah keep going yeah bath mats yeah yeah bath mats sometimes they'll have a floor tile in there thank you dusty yeah uh

Uh, they're called different things in different countries. Australia. You might know what they're called in Australia. A washer. Loo's. Yeah. Uh, the loo. Is it? I was just. Water closets. That's England. Well, they're. WC. Cut from the same cloth. Okay. Well, they call it a dunny. A dunny. I haven't heard. I don't. I didn't hear that. They gotta go run to the dunny real quick. Yeah. According to the internet. Canada, it's a washroom. Yeah. Uh, Japan, it's a binjo.

All right. Dynamite stuff right here, boy. We're rolling. Well, the average person spits between six and eight times a day in the bathroom. Six and eight times? Yeah. You got to be hydrated out here. You got to be drinking the water. I bet so. All together. I'm ace for anything.

To go in and look in the mirror, to go in and brush your teeth. Well, I think you're peeing. That feels like a lot of times. If you're properly hydrated. At my age, it seems low. Look, on this podcast, I noticed you guys. He was Brian McKill for six days. He goes, sign me up. Where can I get six? I've done that since I've been here. But on the podcast, you guys rarely drink your whole mug of water. Every time I drink the whole mug of water. Nate often brings a refill of water. So I bet you're not properly hydrated.

I think I'm doing all right. How do you know? No, I bet you're not. I actually make an effort to do it. How much do you drink? About a gallon a day. You need a gallon. Yeah. I think it's. How do you do it? You have a big thing? I have water bottles and I drink eight of them. Yeah. You know?

And you don't pee eight times? No. You drink eight bottles and you don't pee eight times? I don't know. I don't do it often. I really don't keep count. Maybe I'll keep count the next few days. Do you hold it for a long time to build up? Sometimes I do, yeah. Well, I don't do it for a reason. Yeah. It's just sometimes I do. You're like, I want to make sure I only pee four times a day. My own self is young. Yeah. Doesn't go.

How you pee a lot of time, 20 times a day? 20, 25. Yeah. Oh, dude. No, I don't know. That's your whole day. Every time you walk by a bathroom, do you think about it? Might as well go. Might as well go. I'm about to sit down, so I might as well do it before I sit down. Yeah. That is good. Water's delicious. That is good water. Water's delicious. I love water. I know I have friends that don't, they tell me they don't drink water.

I never drink water. And I mean, I've been doing it for the past year, like trying to, it's hard. I can not do it. But I mean, man, when you want it, it's, and I've started being able to feel the sodas and the stuff that dehydrates you. And you can feel coffee like this kind of, you can just be like afterwards. Like, I mean, that just felt like it sucked so much out of me. So, I mean, I, I understand it. I get, I get needing it.

I only drink water and black coffee. That's what I like. And when I would have cigars, I haven't had cigars in a month. I would have like a ginger ale. Nicotine free right now. Oh, yeah. It feels good. Yeah. Yeah. I've been a little more intense, but it feels good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's where the bat house stuff is coming from. Yes.

Or are you looking for stuff to find interesting? No. Well, we're on episode 175. You said find stuff that's silly. I love it. Yeah, I love it. The first flushing toilet was invented by a poet. Thomas Crapper. Wasn't that his name? He's the guy who... I swear to God, that's his name. I was getting to him next. But he's the guy who really refined the toilet. But he wasn't the inventor. Okay. He brought it into a different league. The last name Crapper faded away shortly after that.

Well, I mean, no, I think, well, was it, was it used that way before him? I think, I think, I think we're paying homage to him. That's what I'm saying. Like the last name. Oh, but yeah, they stopped using it. They were like, we're going to go ahead and change this. Well, he is like the, yeah, he refined it. He ran a plumbing company in England and he made it a lot better. And there's legend that World War II soldiers from America, uh,

saw the signs everywhere and say, I'm going to go use the crapper. And that's how that came about. Oh, but I don't know if that's true or not. I saw crapper plumbing signs all over, all over England. Yeah. But the guy, John Harrington, he's probably like, well, that's not, it's like a mix of good and bad for business where you're like, you have people are aware of your business, but then you're also being like, that's not the best word to have associated with your business. But maybe back then it was not associated at all. Bad. Yeah.

Yeah, I think it was just a name. But now crap has got to be real bad. Yeah, that's what I think. You're like, you're crapper, you invented it, and then they start calling it a crapper, and then you're like, oh, I don't want my last name to be this anymore. He held nine patents, three of them for water closet improvements, such as the float. A lot of this terminology is pretty wild. He improved the S-bend plumbing trap in 1880 by inventing the U-bend. I mean, this guy...

You turn the downplay as involvement, Brian, but this guy revolutionized the revolution. I, that's a good word. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think they put his parents name, his parent, I guess he had one parent, uh,

Charles Crapper. Old Chuck Crapper. I mean, but why would they only put one parent and then they go, I don't know. And then, and I feel like his name is like, you're like, what, you know, I feel like Wikipedia is like Thomas Crapper. And then everybody's going to be like, well, who's, who is that? His wife kept her maiden name.

His spouse is Maria Green. That's why you don't see his mom. Maria Green Crapper. Maybe that Crapper name went down quick. Yeah. His father, Charles, was a sailor. He was apprenticed to his brother, George. I mean, there's no talk of his mom. I guess they don't know. She might have not want to be a part of this. In 1904, Crapper retired.

Passing the firm to his nephew, George Crapper, and his business partner, Robert Marr. Wareham. That's a tough name, too. Oh, yeah. Like, Wareham. Like, it's not... You know, it's like you would hope it'd be like a cool name to be like, all right. Offset it. Well, come on down to Crapper and Wareham's...

Can't crap them, wear them. Yeah. We got on down here. Yeah, that's tough, man. But I think you got to put his dad's name in there just because you're like, you almost believe it almost has to show you. I wonder if they do it because it has to show you that this person's real. Yeah. Because you'd be like, they're making this up.

And then that's all they got to do. You go, they're not making up his dad's name was Charles Crapper. That also could be made up. Yeah. But it's been in your head. You're like, well, if he had a dad named Charles Crapper, then I bet Thomas is that too. Yeah. Oh, it was World War I soldiers. Excuse me. That's okay. But back to John Harrington, who was a poet and he was the godson of Queen Elizabeth I. And he wrote some risque poems. So they banished him from the court.

And during his exile, this is in the 1500s, he built a house and devised and installed the first flushing toilet. He called it the Ajax. And then eventually Queen Elizabeth forgave him and visited his house. And he showed her his new invention and she tried it out. And she liked it so much, she ordered one for herself. And when you say you're going to the John, it's because of John Harrington. Oh man, and Porta John. Oh, Porta John, yeah. This guy really made a splash.

So this was invented in the 1500s and it wasn't until Tom, Thomas Crapper came along that it really got revolutionized. 400 years. Yeah. It took 400 years to really take it to the mainstream. Yeah. Maybe people didn't really worry. I mean, we couldn't get word around back then. Yeah. It's pretty, I mean, what a different time. This guy was exiled for writing books.

risque poems imagine caring that much about a poem yeah you kick somebody out of society for the original cancel culture back then oh man i'd like to see these poems now i feel like one of our early podcasts we were talking about what's the greatest invention and was it you that said the toilet or was it nate and you said air conditioning no i you said i've always been an air conditioning fan okay yeah i think we debated over which one was more important

Yeah. If you're living in the South, it's tough to debate the AC thing. Cause I always thought, why would people live? Why would they settle up in Minnesota and Wisconsin with it being so cold? But then I realized like before the air conditioner, why would you settle down South? Yeah. A lot of them didn't until, until the AC. Yeah. If you track like population growth in the South, it's after air conditioning, central air got used. That's when they really started taking. Yeah. Cause you could actually live down here comfortably. Couldn't do that for a long time.

Yeah. That is crazy. Yeah, that would make sense. You're like, you got to go somewhere in between. Yeah. You got to somewhere in the middle. My grandmother didn't have air conditioner in her house in like the nineties and in Alabama, we would go to visit her and you just have the windows open with a oscillating fan. Yeah. It's brutal. Yeah. Didn't you say your dad had an owl house? Yeah. When he was growing up. Yeah.

I can remember outhouse at my church when I was a kid. Wow. Yeah. So if you had to use the restroom during service, it was outside. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good way to encourage people to not go to the bathroom during the service. Yeah. I didn't go very often. Yeah. I mean, this was, yeah, it was the eighties. I'd actually be a fan. If you could have a really nice outhouse, it maybe should be separated from the house a bit like a little air conditioned shed out there. Yeah.

I mean, just... Your neighbor is watching while you walk out to the middle of the yard with a newspaper.

And the whole neighborhood is like, oh boy. Get the kids. Get the kids. He's about to hear some screaming going on. It's a little earlier than usual. He must have got into something. Going out with a cup of coffee. Yeah, I want it separated. I mean, your family might want it separated. But I mean, you don't need to put that on everybody. These people in the neighborhood just see you.

You got your open bathrobe, newspaper. Horse with no name. Yeah. Every morning. You hear that playing as you're walking out. As you're walking out, walking down there. Bill, how you doing? He's walking to his. I mean, just, I think people are too comfortable in the bathroom. I do think. I don't like it. What do you mean?

I should be the place where you're the most comfortable though. Right. I mean, no, I'm the least comfortable. Are you talking about a public bathroom? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yes. They meant like your own bathroom. No, no, no, no public bathroom. I feel, I mean, I feel like people are too comfortable in it and it's like, what do you see him doing in there?

I mean, just, I mean, just acting like they're at their house or like that no one exists and you're, you know, cause it, especially with men, cause men have got this like, kind of like, you know, this is what we're doing. We're not, who cares what we are. Right. And you, and you just have that like, Oh, let's just be normal for two seconds. You know, just, you're going to keep to yourself. Don't be a problem. I don't be like, you know,

I read a list of public bathroom etiquette and most of them was just don't talk to anybody no matter what. Not at the sink, just get out before you talk. In and out. Even if you know them, just don't talk to them while you're in there. Now, which stall and which urinal do you think would be the cleanest? The middle one. I'll tell you, I think it'd be the one closest to the entrance and the exit because I bet

I think I've looked into this at one point. When you want privacy, you're going to go as far away from the door as possible. So I imagine that's going to be the dirtiest one and it's going to get cleaner the closer you get to the entrance.

Yeah, I can see that closest. And that one's going to get cleaned the most. Yeah, it's the first one. Oh, yeah. See, I would think the middle one, especially if there's three, I guess if there's three urinals, like you don't want to walk up to the middle one. No. So I would think that one would be the one that would get used the least. And you know what's funny is like everybody listening to this because you're going to mess me up too now. Now I'm going to, because I would always go, I would go farthest away.

Cause I'm just trying to be in a corner or a urinal or a, I mean, everything you talk about a urinal, both, both. Yeah. Anything and everything you're trying to just be, cause I mean, when you're up there in the front, it's you're, you're in the high traffic zone. You're in the mix, the mix up. Yeah. But you're going to, for someone like me now, you're going to go to public bathroom. Like I'm going to end up being at the front of the urinal. And yeah, I think a lot of people listening,

We'll end up, you just got in our head enough just saying that, that you're going to be at the first one. You can see a lot of like, hello folks at the first year. Yeah. You get it. Yes. But I'm not really. And then the other, and then the guy goes, you're not supposed to talk in here. You're not concerned about the cleanliness of a urinal though, necessarily. You're not touching the urinal. Well,

You will notice the cleanliness of the ground in front of the urinal, that kind of stuff. I've seen some nightmares, man. I've seen some bad bathrooms. Would you say that was an unsafe urinal? I felt unsafe in the urinal before. For sure, man. What about bars? I used to go to bars where they would just have troughs. I was like, I hate the trough. I think that's still in Europe. I think they...

I have a lot of them like that. I couldn't do it. I hate the trot. Yeah, I just don't understand it. You're like, you know.

I think Vanderbilt... But maybe these people don't have bathrooms for Royal Toilet Day because these people, we haven't even moved from troughs. Yeah. So now that I think about it, I might be like, you know what? Maybe I'll give them money because I don't know. Like, that does make sense. Because it's not like, you know, every, like, a house has Toto's or whatever those fancy bath toilets are or whatever. It's like the ones that lift up. I think it's called a Toto. I don't know that. It's the...

It's like a bidet and it's got like all kinds of... Toto toilets. Yeah.

And it's like, it's automatic. Like you walk through the door and it's like automatic. Oh, they open up for you. Yeah. I mean, some of them, you know, like they're, that one says it's got a tornado flush. I mean, what kind of flush you got? I got tornado flush. High power. Yeah. I'm going to bookmark this real quick. Yeah. It's an unsafe toilet. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, it is. It's like that. F4. That one on the left. That one on the left. It's a with tornado flush.

An elongated bidet. Yeah. Dual flush with tornado flush seat included. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. But it'll be like, the thing will be heated. It'll be when you walk up to it, it would just wait. Have you ever wanted heated? Have you ever sat on one of those? I've been in a hotel. I've had, it's been in a hotel that had them. It's,

It's not bad. A heated seat, though? It's nice. I like a heated if I know it's not heated by the person that was just in there before me. What do you think is in there? They got just a guy. That's part of Toto's plan. Yeah, it comes with a guy. Toto, come here. You got to wipe me walking in your own bathroom at home. You got to go. Then he gets up and goes, ready to go, chief. His legs are asleep all the time.

I used to walk around. It's a guy warming it up in your own home. That's how much money you got. That was probably the rich, maybe the kings and queens of old times. Thought I wanted, they go, so I pay a guy to sit on the seat. They call him the John. Yeah. He sits on the John to warm it up. Maybe it comes from Thomas. Thomas Crapper. Toto. Yeah.

I need that tornado flush, man. That's like, you're... You go, what's going on? You go, you know what's going on. There's no... I mean, I bet the guy that walks in for a tornado flush, I bet they go, let's just show him the tornado flush. It's not even... I bet people that show toilets, I honestly think that they could see some walk up and they go, I'm not even going to introduce the economical flush to this guy. No, no, no. This is...

This is like, hey, we mean, I mean business. It's like Kramer, the low flow shower. Yeah. The one for the circus elephant. Yeah. Yeah. He just can't handle that. Yeah. Yeah. That's, I mean, there's people that are like, I want to, you know,

It's just so funny. Is there an example of it flushing? I want it to sound like a train. A tornado flush? I don't know if we need to see an example. I mean, I think anything and everything is just a giant... Power gets knocked out. See the lights flicker in the neighborhood. Aaron comes out, shakes his shoulders off of his...

It's in the middle of the yard. It's a good day. You have a good day to vote by stretching out there in your yard. That's why I got it away from the family. They don't need to see. I got two kids up there running around. They don't want to be a part of what's going on down here.

Well, you mentioned bidets. They're finally starting to take off in America, apparently. 6% of people already have bidets in their bathroom. What percentage? 6%. Oh, okay. I don't know anyone. That's about what I thought. Do you know someone who's had one? People talk about them a lot. People are very arrogant about them. Yeah, but they talk about that thing because it's that. It's got, honestly, where I heard it, I remember like a long time ago, I think hearing Howard Stern talk about having one.

And this was like forever ago. That's the only reason I ever even heard about it. And then I, you see, there could be some hotels that are nice that have, that have them. Uh, but it's, it's like, I think when he, like people just, it's heated it. Like when you walk up to it, I mean, it might, both might raise up, you know, you can wave it. You're not touching really. You know, it's like, that's the whole, you know? Yeah. It's a good Christmas gift.

Thousand bucks? Thousand bucks. Tornado flush. Tornado you go. Oh, I appreciate it, man. But he goes, I didn't do the tornado flush. It's just so expensive. You go, yeah, of course. And then you're like, that's all I wanted. You're like, all right, I guess I'll put it in my guest bathroom. We're never going to use it because I need it.

I need that power. Is there more power than a tornado flush? They have like a hurricane flush. Oh man. Tornado is actually more powerful than I heard. Is it? Faster speeds. Well, New York's, New York's, I mean, cause you would, I mean, we had like a, in our apartment in New York, the bathroom was like a, one you'd see at a,

public you know park yeah like it was it has that metal oh yeah metal pole that you kick with your foot yeah that was our like normal bathroom oh man but is those flusher unreal yeah and so that yeah tankless is that what it is yours didn't have the thing on the back did it oh no yeah it was tankless yeah wow just noticed that yeah yeah that's not that bad that's the first thing I noticed when you come to your house like there's nothing back here yeah

Yeah, yeah. I never thought about that. That seems most efficient. Yeah. You hear some flushes and you're four blocks over. Yeah. Well, people are switching to bidets because they say it's more hygienic and it cuts down on toilet paper cost and just helps the environment. Toilet paper also I've heard has bad chemicals in it. And that part of your body is very absorbent. So you take in these bad chemicals. What kind of bad chemicals?

I don't know. Just dyes and bleaches. Well, dyes. It's just white, right? Do they dye it white? Toilet paper is dyed white? There's other companies. Yeah, it's bleached. Oh. Can you get a different color toilet paper? Well, you can buy bamboo toilet paper, and it's not supposed to have that in there.

Bamboo toilet paper. What color is it? It's still white, but it's... Bamboosh white? Yeah. Yeah, it's a little off-white. Yeah. Maybe. 100% renewable and sustainable bamboo. I've been buying bamboo toilet paper. Biodegradable and plays well with most septic tanks. That's a weird way of phrasing that. Yeah. You got a 50-50 shot. Yeah. I'm saying if it plays well with septic tanks, like it's like being like... Yeah, it could be anything. It works, it not works. Yeah, it plays well with it. Yeah.

Yeah. I've never even heard of this, Dusty. Do you do this, Dusty? Yeah. Not this brand, but yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I got into it because I'm like, you know what? I'm trying to not take in a lot of chemicals. I don't know what's going on out here, but I'm trying to be chemical free out here. It says, how does it feel? And it says it feels much better on your conscience. So that tells me it doesn't feel great. It's not as soft. It's tough. It's not as soft. Splinters? Not that hard. I mean, it's better than cheap toilet paper, but it's, yeah, it's not like Charmin. Yeah.

It's like the back of a loofah. Like, yeah, it's not the bottom, like one that goes on your hand. You're like, it's not the bottom. It feels like the back where you can still feel, you can still tell that it's a loofah. And you're like, well, that's not that comfortable. You go, yeah, yeah. But it's better than the other side. That's what their whole message is.

is go is it that bad you go we're definitely happy we were not some other things and you're like okay it's like healthy food where you're like you're eating and you're like i wish it tastes as good as unhealthy food yeah but it's better for me it's that kind of thing where you're like i wish this were chocolate but well i can't think of a good segue but uh nate you want to tell us about aura aura

Or we have one right here. Can you hold it up? It's the perfect gift. It can be really hard sometimes. This is Aura Frames. This is a great gift for a lot of families and holidays coming up. Very clear picture. So, yeah, it's a great, like, you know, it just rotates. Laura's got, I think, two pictures in here. We haven't loaded it up. But, you know, what's funny is I saw this today.

And I did. Python. Yeah. So you go, you go to the urinal and then you're just looking at snake. And the snake smells with his tongue. So, you know, it loves it. Yeah. And then the women's. I see his tongue go. He sees, he sees the guy go in the stall. You see him, he sucks his tongue up. Waits till he goes. And then the women's, it's a six cotton top tamarins, whatever that is.

uh, critically endangered primate species. Yeah. It's, it's really, really, it's an awesome, uh, yeah, that is, it is an awesome. First time I go in there too, you send someone in there, everybody's, you live in Nashville, you go to the national zoo. National zoo is, is a great zoo. And, uh, but it's right before you get this, this bathroom specifically is right before you go through the entrance.

So it's by the gift shop. And, you know, like when you would leave the gift shops right there. But if you can tell someone to go in there, just follow them into the urinal and then just kind of keep them talking. And then just like, don't really say anything. Cause I'm the first time I went in there or you could,

Just let them go in there and see what happens. First time I went in there, I mean, I was like, oh, like you just don't – I don't know that that's going to be there. So you just get – you know, you just kind of – you're looking down in the bathroom. You go to the urinal, and then you just kind of look up, and, I mean, there's just a snake –

Right there and you're like, oh gosh when you don't know it's very fun when you don't know especially the zoo You think I don't think you want to be I don't think you want this you don't want to be listed on this thing I'd imagine what do you mean? Yeah, like I think it's like I don't know you want a lot of people reading about where the best best bathroom is like as an article and

Maybe. I don't know. Well, yeah. I mean, I don't know, man. It's good. In 2019, LaGuardia Airport was nominated for best restaurant in America. That's good to know. I know. That's what I mean. It's a slippery slope of like, it's good to know to then you're not, you know, then you fall off. I get it. You almost don't want to tell people. How many of these people have been on multiple lists?

Are they doing it back to back to back to back? I think you just go in and you get pounded. Off 65, though, I think it's 65, there's a place that advertises best restroom on the interstate. Bucky's does that too. Yes. They get you in here and they get you to buy something. That's what Bucky's does too. That's the point of VIM. You're advertising that to the driver.

A lot of these airports, I can see it. Are you saying Buc-ee's and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City have different business goals? Yes. So I would think if you're in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, I'd think, which I guess you got to buy a ticket to get into that bathroom. So maybe they're like, yeah, that's enough to fend you off.

But if any of this stuff is free to get into. Yeah, maybe the Natick Mall doesn't want you to know. Yeah, like the National Zoo. You've got to buy a ticket to get in there. Not to use that bathroom. Well, I don't. Yeah, but I think they do charge. You do have to pay your show something to pay to park or something. Yeah, they charge you to park. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

75% people admit using their phones in the bathroom. I think that's low. The other 25% are in their 80s and 90s. I thought you said met using their phones. Admit to using their phones. I was like, what? Well, then you just say, well, that's why I think they say admit because they go, it's 100%. Would somebody be ashamed of doing that?

and not admit to it? Yeah. I mean, you got to, when people are going to ask these questions, they're just coming out of a store. They're probably coming out of a stall. And someone's like, did you use your phone in the bathroom? That's how I picture these questions being asked. But you know what they say is polite. If you're, if you're at dinner at a restaurant and you use the bathroom, it's polite to leave your phone at the table. Oh yeah. Cause I try to do that. But now I notice everybody takes their phone with them. You're going to ruin, you're going to mess me up.

Like you get these, these are things that I can't get it, but I think I might need to get it out of my head to go live my life. Yeah. Get it. Yeah. Yeah. I want to, you know. The idea of being polite about everything is over, I think. Is it already sitting there? Or you take it out of your pocket and put it on the table? Let's say like it's on the, because most people when they're at a restaurant, the phone's just on the table. Mm-hmm. I've noticed that. Most people just sit on the table next to them. Mm-hmm.

And you see they get up and they use the bathroom, they grab their phone and put it in their pocket and take it with them. Yeah, because you want to get caught up with your real friends. That's what it is. Yeah. Check in on what I care about. Yeah. Well, but yeah, but if you're going, I think it's, if you come right back, I don't think no one ever thinks about it. I mean, I think if you're gone for a half hour, if you're gone for a good 25, 30 minutes, like appetizers, they're cleaning the appetizers off the plate. I think that probably put a little people at worry. Yeah.

So I think if you're just going and then coming right back, like you probably just grab your phone because you're like, I want someone to steal my phone or I don't want, you know, whatever reason. But even that's a knock on who you're with. You're eating with other people. No. Yeah. I know. I want you to take my phone while I'm gone. Well, are they going to watch your phone?

I mean, that's not too much of an ask if you're at a table this big and you're just sitting there. Yeah. But I mean, if, if you got, if you're, yeah, if you're at this, if it's me and you and we're sitting there, but I mean, I'd age someone's pregnant, but if you had a big group table at a restaurant where it's a little dark and you got your phone sitting there, someone could be like, where's my phone? You're like, I don't know, dude. And I didn't realize someone, and they just went and grabbed a $2,000 thing from someone.

So you could be, I'll just keep it on me. Yeah. That's too valuable. You probably, when you walk in, there's so value. I mean, there's so expensive. Yeah. So now when you come back, you, I think you do get it to check your, it's, it's probably polite to leave the table. You check, you know, you got any texts that you need to send or whatever. Then you go, you just don't be gone. But I think if you're gone where it's like,

Well, see, that's when I got to do that. I'd come back and say, sorry, guys. I was on my phone the whole time. That's what I want them to think. I was on my phone. I wouldn't do anything in there. Just on my phone. My bad. Standing at the urinal. Just, yeah. Had business deals going on. I go, you should just walk back and go, it's noon in Sydney. Markets are open. Yeah.

busiest day of the year for plumbers. I mentioned this before, day after Thanksgiving. Wow. That's the grossest statistic ever. I know. I just see the plumber industry just like, ugh, they're stretching. They go, he goes, what are y'all doing for Thanksgiving? He goes, I'm turning my phone off on Friday. They call it Brown Friday. Yeah. Do they? Yeah, they do. But the number one reason is not even that. It's like,

food and chicken grease or turkey grease has been put clogged down the garbage disposal. That's the number one reason plumbers are clogged. That's what I would tell the plumber on the phone. I poured chicken grease down the toilet. And then they show up and you go, hey, while you're here. I would tell them that too. Yeah, yeah. It's like the sink. I might have you look at one more thing. While I got you, dude. Yeah.

Only 80% of people wash their hands after using the toilet. I get that. That seems high, right? Yeah. 30% say they only 30% use soap and only 5% wash for the recommended 15 seconds. I think everybody would do hand sanitizer. Yeah.

If you just said have hand sanitizer in there, everybody at public, right? Like, it's just like what, like when you, a sink, it's like, is there, are you waiting in line to do? It's like a whole thing. If you have, you have those hand sanitizers, every, I mean, everybody, that's the easiest thing you could ever do in your world. And I, I'm not using hand sanitizer all the time, like out in, uh, when you're out, it's, I mean, so much easier.

But I don't know, is it meant to do the same thing washing your hands does? I don't think they're meant to substitute for each other. I think they are. It kills 99% of the germs. What else? If it's not, then it's been a lie.

What's it supposed to do? Just knock it back a little bit? I said just rub it on your pants. What's the point of it? Just kill the smell? Yeah. But it feels like you're just rubbing things in, right? It's like lighting a candle where you're like, no, you still saw something went on. You lit a match. You go, well, something happened. I'm smelling a match.

I never smelled. I don't smell match anywhere in my life except right here. And then, you know, so what happened in here? Nothing. I got an accident. He started a fire. I blew it out. Yeah. All right. If anything, I put out a fire. Yeah. I mean, growing, I remember growing up, you'd see, I remember seeing that a lot match boxes on the bathroom. A lot. Yeah. I mean, that's.

That's just a ton of lows you would see. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Match still in the toilet. I've seen that. Oh, yeah. I've seen that too. Yeah. Dusty, did you get a Farmer's Almanac?

Yeah, I do have a, well, I don't get it every time. I do have one right now. Does it have a little hole in it in the top left corner? I don't know. Supposedly that's famous because people in outhouses would hang it up for reading purposes or use it for toilet paper. And they just, they started nailing it to the wall. So now the farmer's almanac just puts the hole in it so you don't have to nail it. Wow. They still do it?

I mean, that's why I was asking Dusty because he's the only person I know to get a farmer's army. I did get one, but I don't remember if it had a hole or not. I can report back to you, but it's a good podcast for me. I should have asked ahead of time. Anybody have an opinion on the correct way to hang toilet paper?

Yeah, over the front. Yeah. Where it comes from, not over the back. Yes. I've never thought I would have an opinion about that, but it does bother me. You know where I saw that to do it was a TV show that had that mama's... Mama's family? Yeah. With the keywords? Yeah. I remember watching that episode as a kid.

And she went on a thing, a rant about it. And she said, you're supposed to have a toilet. They were hanging over the top. And that has stuck with me. I think about that scene to this day. Come in the front so you can, you know, you can just kind of,

Yeah, it's so much better that way. I mean, it says 75%. Yeah, I don't think it's even going to be a thing. I mean, it was just a line. It's just like a kind of throwaway moment. Yeah, do you know Mama's Family? Never heard of it. Type in Mama's Family. I used to watch that a little bit. Oh, yeah. TV show? Yeah. Big for me as a kid. Mama's Family. Yeah. Vicki Lawrence as Mama. Mm-hmm. I remember they used to talk about her all the time. Oh, you know, they dressed her up to look older. Spinoff from the Carol Burnett show. Yeah, yeah.

How about that? Renard got his what the from that show. Did he really? Yeah. Wow. Oh, man. What's this? Renard's kind of catch for it. Renard Hersh's catch was what the? Yeah. He says that. He said he got it from Episode of Mama's Family. That would not have been the show, I guess. It says 75% over. To me, that seems low. I don't know anybody that likes it under. But Ann Landers, who's a vice columnist, said do it under. And she got more than.

letters about it than any advice column she ever wrote. 15,000 letters. I don't think people like it under, I think, the 25% don't even think about it. Yeah, that's what I think. Which is probably how you should live. Here's the under-position argument. They're probably happier. They enjoy their life more. The under-position argument is it's more tidy,

looks better than the over that way reduce the risk of a toddler or a pet like a cat unrolling the whole thing yeah that's true that's actually that's actually that's a great argument it's a better point than I thought it was going to be maybe just don't let animals inside though

Well, you said kids too. Well, I don't really think it's the animals. I don't think of animals doing it. I think kids doing it. But if you have young people... I don't think a cat can get up there. I could see a cat. But then, yeah, I mean, a kid though, that's... I mean, you can see that's actually...

You know, cat we just got. Well, it just loves the toilet. Just jumps in the toilet. If you leave the bathroom open, it sits in. It jumps in there. It loves water. Which one? The one, the one that Abigail found for us. Yeah, it loves water. It'll jump in the shower with you. If you leave the bathroom door open.

It'll jump in the toilet. I thought they didn't like to get wet. That's what's so odd about it. This thing loves water. If you leave the sink dripping, it'll jump in the sink and just stand under it. And we're giving it water to drink. It's not dehydrated. We're giving it. You're drinking all the water. It's got all the water it wants in a bowl right there on the ground, but it'll just jump in the toilet. It doesn't lay in the bowl of water?

No, it doesn't care about the bowl of water at all. It just wants the toilet water. What do you give a cat? Bowl? Do you give them milk? No, not milk. Just water. Yeah, I've always been confused. If someone gave me a cat today and we didn't have this conversation. You might have given a milk. I would have probably looked up what to give. If you gave a milk, it'd probably be a good day for that cat. I bet they like it. But day to day, give it some water. Do you ever give it milk? Do you have two bowls? Or do they share a bowl?

they share a bowl of water and put food in different bowls for them. But it's just, it's a mess at this point. They're eating each other's food. It's just, it's a, you know, it's a real situation. Yeah. Tough to talk about.

That's why you put that outhouse out in the yard. Yeah, yeah. Keep the cat out. So you can have some peace. Peace and quiet. I can't hit all the ruckus in there, dude. Sad day of you going out to your yard, you seeing that cat in there, and you're like, oh, I can't go anywhere. Lucy!

All right. Good. Yeah. Uh, awesome. All right, everybody. Bathroom. We did, you know, we did some work. We had to work at it. That was a pretty good. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah. I mean, it did end up being, I should have known a hundred percent toilet pretty much, but that's the fun stuff. That's head. That's headline news, right? Yeah. Yeah. Uh,

All right. I have Thanksgiving this week. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and hanging out with all your family. That's the best thing you can do. I don't, you know, I'm going to Evans after that Atlanta, uh,

Finishing the year out somewhere and then, yeah, whatever. And then, yeah. Did everybody call it, like, did I explain the breaks when I said I was taking a break? Everyone was very happy about it. Oh. They're very excited that you're taking some time off. Oh, okay. Good. No. I'm joking. Oh. I was trying to imply that they want you to stop. People get it. People get it. Well, and I said that thing, they got worried. But, like, it wasn't, it was literally, I just got to build some material. I'm trying to take, you know.

Yeah, I bet I could. I don't know. I want to see. It's all getting, you guys are coming to so many shows. It's getting crazy. It's, but I just need to be able to create the material is the, is the, is the thing. It's hard to fight with your wife when you're on the road. I'm home this weekend. Yeah.

Yeah, Thanksgiving. Yeah. I'm on the road. I care about my craft and stuff. So I'm kidding. This weekend, I'm in Appleton, Wisconsin at Skyline Comedy Club. All right. Friday and Saturday. Great club. I'm going to New York City for Thanksgiving, and then I'm flying out day after to Appleton. That's fun. So if you're in the Wisconsin area, come see me. And then I got a big run next week, a bunch of different places. So come see me.

Yeah, well, I'm off this weekend too, but next weekend, CB Live in Arizona. And what is that? It's Phoenix, right? It's Phoenix, but it's a little Scottsdale. Yeah, great place. And then I'll be Friday, Saturday, Sunday in Tempe at the Tempe Improv. So get some tickets. It'll be great. All right. Happy Thanksgiving. We love you. I hope you have a great week and see you next week. Bye.

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