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Hello, folks, and hey, bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. Neighbor gets you Brian Bates and Weber. All right. Dusty Slay. All right. We got our mini versions of you if you're looking on YouTube. Buddy Mike Kallenberg. What are these called? They're the Funko Funko. Yeah. Funko Pops. And they're of us. All right. Cool. Very cool. Yeah, it is cool. Cool to have your own little toy, you know? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's crazy. My guy's got the planet fitness logo on his jacket. Oh, that's funny. Yeah. Yeah. It was all kinds of little details on Fiore. He's got Nate land on the back. Really? Oh, cause you have like a, oh, that's good. He's got me like that NASCAR jacket. Yeah. These are some dilated pupils here, man. We are having a wild time. Yeah. My hair has never looked better. Yeah. You look good. Yeah. Look at that. Yeah.

That's you in high school. Yeah. You got a Letterman jacket on? That's MTSU. That's me in college. Okay. Did you ever have a Letterman jacket, guy? Yeah, I'll wear it. Future episode, if you'd like. Now, did you ever get a... Did you ever letter in a sport? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Oh, yeah. Soccer? My baseball. I got my baseball jacket on. Oh, that's cool. I almost wore it on the Halloween episode, but then it was just me in dust. Costume? Well, yeah. Is it...

Not for fun. Do you still fit into a high school jacket? Do you think? Yeah. You're about the same size. You think you're wearing the same size clothes you were in high school? It'd be a little tighter. Yeah. Yeah. It kind of evens out. He's like Jerry, where it all just evens. Lose some up here and gain some down here. He was basically born like this. Yeah. Yeah. Did you play in high school, baseball in high school? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I thought the stories were all from younger. Well, that was. Yeah. I'm not saying I was good, but my senior year, my coach. Did you play all four years? No, just my senior year. I tried, but my senior year, my coach was kind enough just, yeah, we'll find a spot for you on the team. You're like Rudy. Yeah. All the other players are like, we're not going to play if you don't let Bates on the team. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I like to think. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a Rudy, but. Yeah.

It's similar since I got in the last game. You did? Yeah. Did you do anything? No, I think I batted four times all season. I got one hit. 250. One hit. That's not a bad batting average. How was it running? Where did the ball go when you hit? Do you remember? Some people said it was an error, but I caught a hit. Yeah, I'm left-handed batter, and I hit it, and it kind of –

Went over the shortstop. Actually, I think it kind of skipped between the shortstop and third base. Shortstop got a glove on it. Sounds like a good hit to me. With my speed, he ain't going to get first. Was it a close play? It was closer than it should have been. He and the third baseman touched the ball, and they still almost got me out. Their coach goes, take your time, boys. Take your time.

So. All right. We're here. I got a corporate gig after this, so I'm already dressed. Yeah, you know you're supposed to be here. I announced, you know, that we won't all be together for a month. Yeah. You surprised us. Surprised us. How about it? Yeah. So. Christmas miracle. I was looking forward to our break, but. Yeah. Whatever. Here we are. Yeah. Yeah. So we're here. That Manning episode would have came out. I don't know how that went. Mm-hmm.

I'll tell you what, I watched it. I kind of like Peyton and Eli now. Did you watch it? Yeah. Is it bad? Depends on who you are. Yeah. Not for the other guests. What do you mean? Oh, the Manny cast. Oh, you watched the Manny cast. You watched the Manny cast. Yeah. I thought you meant our episode. No, I haven't watched your episode. I don't remember specifics, but I don't remember it being that bad. I think you were just talking through it. It just happened. It just happened.

Yeah. Let's hope it all was good. Yeah. Still frustrated by it. I'll tell you, it was the, yeah. He made jokes about my dad's trick a bunch. Yeah. And then that's really what sent it. It was like, who do you think you are, dude? Right. But I've moved on to bigger things. Trying to do other stuff. Got a podcast coming up. Phillip Rivers. What? What?

No, I don't. But I just do the opposite. The guy that actually committed to the Chargers. I decided to go do his podcast. Yeah. The guy that bailed on the Chargers. That's a, I mean, yeah. I think only Eli Phillip and you get that joke. Here's a review I like to go to whenever I'm down.

about you on the manny cast the first name is not a person many fans knew and after his appearance fans wish they knew a lot less who said that some reviewer oh my god no but someone's yeah someone said they uh it's pretty big everybody i don't know if he was that they're ai generated articles oh really i don't because you do want to like when i saw that because i saw it and you're like

What fans? Where's this board at where everybody was up in arms about it? Well, I started one, but yeah. Well, let's say I didn't watch and I don't really know what you guys are talking about. What if there are other people? So what happened? Well, we would explain it all. It went into a whole thing.

Oh, you already had the – Yeah, yeah. We did it on the podcast. We talked for about 40 minutes. I'm saying – Oh, okay. All right. I got you. Yeah. It's a long talk. Okay. I get it. Yeah. So – Should I go watch it? Should I go find the – The Manning cast? Yeah. Yeah. If you want to. I don't care. I figure you don't watch anything any of us do. So – I watch some things, but yeah. I mean – I've got it on DVD if you want to copy. Okay.

I don't even know what the Manning cast is. I thought that Peyton and Eli just did like Monday night football commentary. That's what Manning cast is called. And I never, I'm not that into that. Yeah. I like those guys, but I'm not into that. Yeah. I'd rather the real professional commentators do the commentating. Well, it's fun to hear them talk like the inside stuff, but like, that's all you need to really hear. They don't need guests on there. They should just do that.

But look, it's not my show. We're still recording a week behind, but last week when we were talking about Will Levis and how great he is, I was like,

By the time this comes out, he'll be injured or something. And then he got hurt. Yeah. And again, I think he's going to be okay, but I think he's going to be okay. He's fun. It's pretty fun for a second to see Tannehill. Like, yeah. Tannehill small. I think so. I think he did. I think he did. He's a fun guy. Yeah.

Yeah, it was a funny... I'm sure there's something... He's not smiling for that, obviously. But man, it looked... They go to that on the ground, they go to Tannehill, and he's like... He's like smiling. But you got to probably be...

I'd imagine in the NFL, like people get injured. You're just like, all right, dude, here we go. Like you're just so focused on yourself. You don't want anybody hurt, but it's like, that's the. And also imagine like you've watched this other guy get sacked a bunch of times in this game. And now you might get to go in for one play. Yeah. Like the whole time you've been there, you're like, I might get sacked in one play. Yeah.

Did you ever get hurt in football? Oh, I had so many injuries in football. Like you wouldn't get up? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I broke my back in two places. What? Fifth grade, I wore a back brace for nine months. Football in fifth grade? Yeah. How'd you break your back? I don't know. Yeah, just two broken bones in the back. Just got hit weird. Yeah.

I had knee surgery in seventh grade. I've had a few bad concussions. I broke my wrist. Everybody's had concussions. I've had some myself. No, I'm joking.

But you, so you've been in a game where you just lay on your back and. Yeah. Where they had to, I got carted off on a, did you give a thumbs up? Oh yeah. Did you get, you had to give a thumbs up. I did. I did give one of that was a great. No, that's actually, I'm not doing that well, but this, that game where I played full, full pad football in college and I got, I get hit really bad and I had to get carted off on a, on a Gator.

You know, and like the 15 people that were there were like clapping. It's like, oh, this feels kind of dumb. Did you give a thumbs up? I did. You got to give a thumbs up. You got to. You got to be part of the way. And then, so that was like a. I'm in a lot of pain. This is the only thing I can move. Yeah. Intramural. Yeah. And they had a medical staff.

Oh, yeah. There's a hospital on campus. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think did y'all football team have medical staff? They had to go. Yeah. We had one of us was the coach. Unsanctioned? It's about as sanctioned as you can get, actually. High school refs would ref the games and stuff. So this is just guys that can't let go? That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah.

Guys, when you're playing, are y'all like, dude, what if Lou Holtz walks over here? Well, dude, it happens. I don't know who the coach was. That would be my area. Bates called a pass from Joe Montana. It was Brian Kelly at the time, so there's no worry about him coming over. But there was a history of players getting pulled up from intramural. At one point, our kicker,

was just seen at an intramural game. And they're like, we need a kicker. So he became the starting kicker at Notre Dame. Wow. When was that? When I was there, I think. What? That recently. Oh, wow. Yeah. So there's always a little bit of that. I never had Eddie. Rudy could just play intramural? He could have, yeah. I bet he did. But that probably was the annoying part. People were like, just go do intramural. Yeah. You can go play football. Yeah. And you'll be good, kind of. Did they still let him do it?

They just discontinued it. Everything fun is coming to an end. It is coming to an end. Well, they had to carry them off on a gator. That's probably the final straw. I think the insurance liability is pretty massive for the college. Big boys hurt again. It's had a broken back since the fourth grade. Yeah. Yeah. You might be the first fifth grader I've heard break a back. It was rare. Not that I've heard. I don't get a fifth grade update, but-

From Harper? From Harper. Yeah, I'm going to ask Harper. She's in sixth grade now, but does anybody, have you heard anybody broke their back? Yeah, I had to wear a metal brace under my school shirt for nine months. It was tough. I could only take it off to take a bath. Wow. I had to wear it. But that was super cool for you. I was about to ask, was it kind of cool though? Like, yeah, football injury. No, not really, dude. Fifth grade? Yeah. Yeah.

We're in junior high, right? Fifth grade. Yeah. What were you playing in fifth grade? Football. Yeah. That's like rec league. Rec league. YMCA. Yeah. Yeah. That was our league. I know. What fifth grader gets to have to cart them off? And then he has to. I just can't. I know. Can you imagine watching children play football and you go, one of them broke his back. What? Yeah.

Why are we – I mean, I don't know how you didn't shut down all of football at that point for fifth graders. It's pretty crazy looking back. I was talking to my mom about it recently because my older brother, my younger brother both had injuries all throughout it too when they played. It's pretty insane they just let us do it. Dusty's Funko Pop keeps falling over. The only one. Yeah. He's not having a good time. I think he got too much back with the hair and the hat. Too much. He's got a bit of a mullet going on. Yeah. Can't balance it out. Yeah, I think it's – yeah.

It's okay. There you go. So they all played your brothers. Yeah. My other two brothers played and they had, I mean, my brother ruptured a spleen playing football. Yeah. Yeah.

The Webbers were at the hospital. There's one point where all four kids were on crutches at the same time. Wow. And I remember we went to a Chinese buffet. People were staring at us. Yeah. Because we walk in four kids with crutches. You're like, what is happening in that family? Oh, yeah. Your sister got hurt playing football? They're looking at your dad's knuckles just to see. Their faces are all busted up. Your mom's in a sling. My sister had hip surgery from soccer.

So she was on crutches and then I had the knee surgery. So I was, my brother had something in my little, I don't remember what my little brother had. We were all on crutches. Good thing your dad was like a teacher. Cause that insurance was getting stretched. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. We hit the deductible. Yeah. Yeah. They might have something written about you in hospitals. Maybe. Like the Weber family, they just have like, you know, like, like, and then maybe insurances go like, all right, let's look at this one family. Yeah. Weber family. The Weber plan. Yeah. The Weber plan where let's say it all goes wrong for all everybody at once. Hmm. That's crazy. It doesn't hold up as good as the grill's.

Have you ever had to go around on that little, that little cart or whatever it is where you put your knee on it and. And

No, I always just did traditional crutches. Yeah. That's a new thing, right? Yeah. The way you see the guy with the knee. I haven't seen that. I complimented a guy on his crutches the other day because I was like, I see too many people with these carts out here. I like to see some old crutches. Right, right. That's cool. Was he appreciated? I think he liked it. I think he was into it. Yeah. I was like, I like to see a guy on crutches instead of having that little cart out here. As you ran away from him? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think he was into it.

Yeah. I was a one on Southwest this morning. Oh my God. I thought I'm going to be the people who hired me dead. And I thought I'm going to be the first person to get you out of there. Yeah. Yeah.

They take me to the airport. Just get them on. Just get them on. Get them out of town. We want to make sure you get on this plane. Yeah, they signed you up for clear too. Just to get you out of there. I think I had the earliest flight I've ever had. I got back to Nashville at 6.50. Wow. And I left my hotel this morning at 3 a.m. So I did the... An hour earlier than normal? Yeah.

like Nana who's going to the bank. Yeah. I'm ready to go. No, I did the whole, just tell yourself you're taking a nap. Oh yeah. How'd that feel? Good. I mean, it's the best way to go. Yeah. Then feel good, but it's, it helps you to just look at it that way. Yeah. Were you sleeping in your clothes?

Yeah. Yeah. That's what you do. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. You sleep in your clothes. Just to trick your brain. You just telling your brain, like you're like you, you wrap your head around the day. Like this is the day I'm having. Yeah. And so you sleep in your clothes and you just go almost lay down, take a quick nap and then get up and start my day. And then you just go. Yeah. Wore my pajamas on the plane. So yeah. Were you the first person on the plane? No, because these two ladies in wheelchairs come up last minute and then they got two or three people with them.

We got to help them. Did they get their first? So they set up front where you wanted to go, right? Yeah. Your age probably wants up front. You don't like to step front. I still like the exit row. I don't mind up front. I like the X row at Southwest, but I would go up front. Up front is, it's tough to get. You can't, you have to have a fully able body plane to get those front seats. Oh yeah. I mean, you just can't. Or they're all taken. Yeah, they're all taken. Row two aisle seat. That's where I'm trying to get.

Well, it was like a regular seat though. Well, I just, I want to be able to put my bag in the chair in front of me and then I want to get off that plane fast as possible. Yeah. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to get right out of there. Yeah. Um, I was so excited about having been the first one on and then they're like, there's only 71 people on this plane. So everybody just spread out. So wherever you want. And they made us spread out because they said of weight distribution. And I'm just thinking a plane this big, it still matters. Oh yeah. Yeah.

That seems scary that it's that important. And they're not even specific about it. They just ballpark it. Spread it out. You get over there, you get over there. Yeah. But I like an empty plane like that. That's pretty nice. But when I got back to Nashville, my car in the garage pulling out to pay, they had cones up.

And I had to get out and move the cone. I think I was the first person to leave the garage this morning at the national airport. Or you went out the wrong exit. Or that. Like, what are you doing? Yeah. Six 50.

Did you sleep on the plane? A little bit. Yeah. Not as much as I thought I would. I thought I'd be out. Because I had an hour and 10 minute drive from Delaware to Philadelphia airport. And I thought, man, we're going to have a plane crash. You don't got any airports in Delaware? They don't have any airport in the whole state? I think they have one small that maybe has two or three flights out of Florida. Wow. Yeah. They have the Newcastle County Airport.

It's not an international airport, it looks like. But Delaware is so small that they're close to Philadelphia, D.C., Baltimore. That plane going to Delaware? That seems like some kind of prescription medication. Avila? Yeah. That's that new airline. People are talking about it. It does look like. Are they? Yeah. I hear people talking about Avila. I haven't even heard about it either. It's like the new Allegiant.

Remember when everybody started talking about Allegiant? You can fly to Albany for 80 bucks. Avilo's the new one. I wonder what they...

Is it like, no, the seats are tiny and the... I don't know. I don't know what the catch is. It has to be. I was watching an interview with the guy from Ryan. Our wheels don't go up. What if that's the catch? What? Our wheels don't go up. That's how we can afford to charge these price for these tickets. We have to fly with our wheels down the whole time. So we add about 45 minutes to each. Yeah, it takes a while. It takes a while. We don't go as high.

A velo. We don't go as high as the other guys. But the seats are comfortable. Because what if someone tried to cut cost another way instead of the seats and the food? Just flying lower. Just flying lower. Keep the wheels down. How low are we talking? Enough that you'll be able to wave at the same time.

Your Wi-Fi works the whole time. Cell service works the whole time. We're never higher than the cell tower. Like 500 feet? Yeah. So low. A velo. We drive some of it. And then there you go. We land in an airport. We always go, no, no, no. We're laying in the backpack. So, I mean, it's like a 30-minute ride back to, you know. A taxi back in. A taxi back in. But you save money.

That's nice. What were you going to say? I don't remember. Well, this comes out December 27th, so Christmas is over. I hope everyone had a good Christmas. Merry Christmas. Our last episode of the year, I was looking at, as I like to do, your year. And I did a little analysis, a little breakdown of your year. I don't have it in front of me. How's your year been? Yeah, how's your year been? So you had quite a 2023 year.

So, and I just picked one for each month, January. Hello world premieres. Yeah. Oh, this is my year. I was a Nate special. Yeah. Yeah. It was on Amazon. Which one of you are Nate? Just so I can wrap my head around what I'm seeing here. Hello world premieres in January, February. You debut at the AT&T pebble beach pro-am, which was a really big deal. Yep.

March, you do a tour of Europe for the first time. Yep.

April set a Bridgestone Arena attendance record. All right. That was a great time. May, you sell out Red Rocks. Okay. Yeah. That was a huge, huge thing. Yeah. June, you're the pace car rider at the Nashville Speedway. Yeah. All right. Just drop it off a bit. Yeah. The summer, you took a little time off. July, you make your debut at the Lake Tahoe Championship. Playing golf on TV. Super fun. It's crazy. August, you tour Australia and New Zealand. Yeah. Crazy. September, you set a Salt Lake City attendance record.

for comedy. October Saturday Night Live host. I didn't see that one coming. November college game day picker. Didn't see that one coming either. And the December my favorite, the Manning cast guest. And what a year. Yeah. Yeah. That's quite a year. Yeah. And I mean, I've left off so much stuff. You presented the CMAs. Yeah.

You had quite a year. Yeah, the NHL awards, all that stuff. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah, it's been, yeah, it's definitely been a big year. Thanks to everybody. Because everybody comes out and that's, you know. Did you do our years?

Well, your ear is like, they go, uh, they just say, you know, Nate and Nate did all these things. Yeah. Yeah. Each month, Nate land podcast. Yeah. Well, my mind is that, uh,

open for Nate at the Bridgestone Arena. Went to see Serial Life. We all were on the show. Yeah. For the highest attended show. This table is the highest attended show with my dad. As I often say, I went first, so technically I set the record. Yeah. So. Yeah. That's pretty fun though. The Nate Land podcast is the highest. Yeah. We're over, uh,

Morgan Wallen were over. Taylor Swift, just because they can't do it. Taylor Swift can't do it. I wish she'd try. She did 12 stadiums. You think she can do that?

Yeah, it's very cool. It's crazy. So I wore my Nashville Cats hat here. Nashville Cats with a K. Because I was looking at 2024. The Cats are coming back. Are they? Did you know that? No. Yeah, coming back, I think, in the spring. Arena football? Yeah. Where are they going to be playing? I think it's Municipal Auditorium, which is... Are we getting a new stadium? New NFL stadium? Yeah. Maybe they could take the old one. Yeah.

I don't know if the logistics. It's arena football. It's like it's inside. Oh, okay. In an arena. Yeah. I mean, I have high hopes for the National Cats. I don't think they're going to sell 70,000 tickets to every game. Maybe they will. No, but I mean, that'd be fun. Yeah. No. So I was looking at 2024. Some things we can look forward to. Yeah. Another total solar eclipse. Yeah.

Really? They've been coming around. Do they come this often? Not usually. Is it going to come through Nashville? Not totally in Nashville, but Arkansas, Kentucky, that area, it'll be total eclipse. Oh, wow. It's very rare that it's that often, I think. Hmm. So there's that. I don't know what causes it to sometimes. Into the world, probably. Yeah. It's like a warning. Yeah.

Probably start coming a lot more frequently. We're like, I better start paying attention to some stuff. Yeah. God's like, well, I did this. So are Crips. Yeah. Even you were like, they shouldn't be coming around this often. He's like, yeah, I was sitting a pattern. Yeah. The sky is darkening a lot. Yeah. Olympics are this year again. Seemed like it just happened. Where are they? I think in Paris. Okay. Summer Olympics. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Wow.

Uh, so, you know, it was in 2020, the last one, which was just like a, I felt like that's like the saddest time to be in the Olympics. Like they were in China. Right. And I feel like I was watching something and like this, uh,

Chinese guy was in some event, but no one was allowed to be at the event. So imagine you've worked your whole life to be in the Olympics. The Olympics are in your home country, and there you are, no one cheering for you. Weren't they delayed? That's brutal. Like a year or something? Oh, yeah. Maybe that's why I feel like it just happened. It would surprise me if they did it in 2020 in China. I thought they did. And it was just no one was there. Yeah.

I feel like they delayed and still nobody was there. It was Tokyo in 2020. Oh, yeah. Tokyo is China, though, right? I think it's Japan. Is it? Okay. It's close enough. I'm sure they appreciate that. They hate each other, but Japan and China do hate each other. But either way, the point is nobody was cheering for them. Yeah, it's a bit of a bummer. Hopefully, yeah, the audiences will be back this time around. Yeah.

I got two sports predictions. You're probably the only one who's going to care about this, but it's because it's for Nashville, but it's for 2030. It'll be gone. Everything will be gone by then. There you go. Sports will be the least of our worries in 2030. I mean, go on. By 2030, either this already happened or it's already on the books to happen. Okay. Nashville hosts the Super Bowl.

Wow. Okay. And Nashville has a major league baseball team. Oh, that would be very exciting if that happened. Yeah. They've been talking about that for a while. I think they're going to announce it this year. You think it'll be an expansion team? Yep. Okay. Yep. If you had to name the team, what would you name it? The Nashville Stars. Okay. You would go Stars, huh? That stinks. Because that's what they already plan on calling it. Oh, they do? Yeah.

We should try to get a vote going on that. I don't like that. Well, it's the Dallas Stars. I don't think it's bad. I think it was – I don't know. I don't have the name. But, well, you know, by 2030, Nashville will probably not even be talking about country music anymore. Unless the Stars doesn't really have to be – I think it was an old Negro League team in Nashville, and they won a –

you know, honor them and bring that back. So I can't, uh, now I can't say it's a bad name, but, uh, yeah, I'll let you finish that part. So I don't know. I just, I feel like you could get more creative with it. Like you already Dallas stars. We already got a stars out there. That's hockey, but,

Yeah, but we already got stars out there, you know, like I feel like even like the Tennessee Titans, right? Like with the Oilers thing that they're doing, like they're really it's really like they're like, we wish we were the Oilers. You know, I know that it is. It was the the the Houston Oilers, but it's like every I don't know. It just feels like it's really Oilers theme these days. Like they're really like, man, I wish we were still called the Oilers. We regret switching over to the Titans. Yeah.

Well, that's like all the names are. When you really look at them, it's very weird. Yeah. You know. And you don't even think about them. I don't usually tell someone. Like the Lakers. Somebody pointed out they're called the Lakers because they used to be in Minneapolis and the lakes there. And we didn't even think about it until someone pointed that out. I never thought about why the Lakers were called the Lakers. Yeah. And then the Utah Jazz. We talked about that, right? Yeah. Yeah. New Orleans.

The New Jersey Devils, I should have mentioned this in the Mythical Creatures episode one or two, but that's because there's a legend, a mythical creature of a devil there in New Jersey. Oh, I believe that. And they named him after him.

was devils everywhere right dusty but yeah absolutely but but anyway yeah all right do you have anything you gotta get off your chest or no yeah i don't think so i feel right i'm having a good time very good uh let's start you guys comments uh mark brown i'm the magician from aaron's corporate event and in and in his defense

We learned afterwards that half the audience did not speak English. Yeah, I didn't know this at the time, but he DM'd me later that night. And I said, I hope you did better than I did. And he said, well, I learned that half of them did not speak English. He was trying to do magic to them and they didn't.

Thankfully, magic can transcend language. That's what I was going to say. In a way that my comedy cannot. That's the thing about comedy. All we have is our words. That's all I got. And if you can't understand what I'm saying, this ain't going to work. That used to be the motto of this podcast. Words are all that matter. I don't know if you remember that, but that was our catchphrase. Okay. Words are all that matter. Words are all that matter. Well, I agree with that. Yeah. That's all we got.

Uh, Kai Wackley, Wakely, probably Wakely. Yeah. Wackley would be tough. Yeah. Uh, if it were a Wackley, you'd be like, nah, it's Wakely. Kai Wackley. Let's just change it to Wakely.

I know the anti-college jokes are just in good fun. They're not. But Nate and Dusty have very inquisitive minds. I think they would actually enjoy college coursework very much. Studying subjects...

Studying subjects that you are interested in that are taught by talented and engaging teachers is a pretty amazing and fulfilling experience. The pursuit of knowledge is never a wasted endeavor, and we should all strive to be lifelong learners. All right. There you go. That's very sweet. I think you can pursue knowledge without having to go to college. Yeah, but you too. In general. I'd love to have gone to college like 40 years ago.

I think that would, I feel like college had its real time where you really were in there trying to like be expanding your mind and this, this, it was this really, I just don't think that's what's happening now. Probably not 40 years. I mean, even I would say. You think the eighties is when it was happening? No, I bet the nineties and nineties. Yeah. Nineties were probably good. Yeah. That's when I was there. Yeah.

Look at that. Yeah. Look at that. Yeah. You could be this. Pumping out the sky. What was, there was that movie was Sean. Wasn't a lot of pressure. Look at it. Yeah.

What was the movie with Sean Connery where he was like helping that guy write The Rock? Finding Forrester. Finding Forrester. And I don't know what era of schooling that would have been. But see, when I watch that, I think, yeah, I'd love to be in this kind of college. Yeah, but those like geniuses, right?

You're like, oh, if I was. Yeah, but he's a genius. Yeah, I mean. The people he would be around. Don't cut me short. I know, but you're like, oh, I'd love it. Go to school here. Well, I don't know. Put yourself around the right people. You could be the genius. I just think that it was that era of college that seemed fun. I think he was in like prep school or something, wasn't he? Yeah, this movie also came out in 2000. Right, but I don't think it was set in 2000, though. No.

1999, probably. I don't know, but I saw a part of this movie recently. Yeah, it looks old. But that's the year... Oh, you're right. This is post-World War II. Yeah. So that's even... What about Good Will Hunting? You want to learn like that?

Uh, mid 90s seemed okay. Yeah. I mean, the movie was great. Uh, tough to say what was really going on in the college. Yeah. I mean, the janitor was solving all the problems. Yeah. I mean, let's be honest. Yeah. I don't think the teachers were that involved. Yeah. I mean,

I mean, yeah, the teacher couldn't figure it out, but the janitor could. It's like, I think we've lost something. I think the teacher is the one to put the equation up there, right? Yeah, but he didn't know. He's like, I've been trying to figure this out for years. He was so mad. He was so mad at- How quickly he did it. Yeah. But then he set it on fire with his lighter, which I can see you doing. Yeah. That's the part where I don't understand where that equation, like what does that equation do? I know.

I like the part where he left college to go chase down a girl. That was my favorite part of the movie. You haven't seen the movie in a while, have you? Is that what he does in the end? A couple of details. No, he leaves a job. He gets a job. He never goes to college. Yeah. Yeah. But he stops the studying with that.

That was part of his probation. Yeah. Meet with him. I mean, I've often said you and Nate are good. Well, honey, this guy was basically working at the rock plant. Dusty was in a construction site. Yeah. And you were living in a trailer. And now look at you guys. Yeah. Netflix darlings. We'll see. Morgan. These names are wild. Coistra.

K-O-O-I. Straw. Wackley. Morgan Kostra. Kooster. Kooster. Kooster. Koo. Morgan Kooster.

After listening to the two mythical creature episodes, I wasn't finished with my dishes yet, so still needed some entertainment, and went back and started Dusty's first episode as a guest. I don't know how many dishes you have that you... After four hours. Four hours was like, all right, got a little bit left. More.

Morgan does dishes once a year at the end of the year. Buy a dishwasher. Yeah. We started Dusty's first episode as a guest. The topic was dinosaurs, and dinosaurs in the conversation was almost identical. They may be talking about the same things two years later, but we're still having a good time. At least we're consistent. Yeah. You know? Mm-hmm. Dustin Cosby. Life is about the simple joys.

One of my favorite things is Nate reading people's names on emails and comments. Someone needs to put together a super cut of these. Dude rarely reads a name once without riffing on it or pronouncing it three or four different ways. It's a beautiful thing. Keep it up, fellas. Well, Cosby, there ain't much to riff on that. I'm dead to go with Dustin to be like, no, no, no.

Cosby. Dustin Cosby. Yeah, if one of the Cosby kids was named Dustin. Not all Cosbys. Yeah. Not all Cosby, you know. Jose Vasquez. It sounds like a liquor. Yeah. Jose Vasquez. Is it? It is a name. Yeah, Jose. Jose's a, yeah. Vasquez is a, yeah. Vasquez is a cool last name. Yeah. Vasquez. Jose Vasquez.

I'm super proud of Puerto Ricans finally making it to the podcast. Only to find out that it was about mythical creatures. By the way, I lived in Puerto Rico when the whole Chupacabra thing started. The way that I heard it was... Hold on.

The way that I heard it was that it was... Yeah, that's a tough sentence. The way that I heard it was that it was an experiment on monkeys gone bad. Apparently, there was a lab in Puerto Rico that was testing different drugs on monkeys. I could see that. Yeah. I never even thought about that. I saw some video the other day that said that they were... I don't think it was Puerto Rico. I think it was China. They were...

Trying to make a monkey pig hybrid and they were trying to blend these two together to start growing, you know, parts for humans like, you know, if they could get those things to work out, then they could start, you know, growing limbs and things for us and organs for us. A monkey and a pig. Yeah. So in a bar. Yeah.

No, I mean like- It seems like a joke. Yeah. I'm just saying. I don't know if it's true, but I saw it on a video. This wasn't it. The video they showed was like, whoa, there's a guy holding this thing? Yeah. And it was wild. And it looked like a monkey and a pig. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's the, you know, see, I think they're saying they're going for the limbs and you're like, what are y'all doing here? Yeah.

Like if you're the head of science, is there no head of science that just walks around going, what? What are y'all doing? We're doing the monkey and the pig thing. What? Was this it? That wasn't the video, but look at that thing. That is tough to look at. Like imagine they could grow a heart, right? And you needed a heart transplant. And they're like, well, we got this monkey pig heart here about the size of the human heart. Let's give it a try. Yeah. Then you start. Would you take it? I think that's how it started. I mean, if you had a choice, I mean, if it was like-

you're going to die or that. Yeah. Might as well try to do it. But I mean, would you do it though? If you're like, I'm about to die and all they got is this monkey pig heart. Yeah. I'm saying if you're about to die. Yeah. Why don't you try it? Wasn't the first heart transplant a monkey? I mean, uh, uh, an elephant. What am I saying? I'm so tired. An elephant's a pig's heart.

I went from a monkey to an elephant to a pig. Wasn't it? I don't know. I'm wondering if you get a monkey pig heart, if you have a little tendencies to... You start acting like them a little bit? What if you smell better? You can smell worse, right? How do you mean actually smell? I thought you meant your scent. Once you have some animal, you start going to the bathroom outside. You just like it.

You don't know why. You like mud? Yeah. Some people think that pigs are even like a little bit of a human wild boar mix.

There's people out there that think that. I'm not saying I do. I would love to meet all your people. We're going to find one day we find your news channel you watch and we all go, oh, yeah. They were showing like the hoof of a pig in like a human hand and like they look

Like, really close. And then, you know, in the movie, or the book, Animal Farm, it is all the pigs that start to become the most human-like. Yeah. I didn't think that movie was like that. The book, you know, they, as they... You read it? I did read it. It's a short book, but I did read it. George Orwell? Yeah. Megan Whitehead. Hmm. Hmm.

My abuela. No, that's the my abuela. It's like the grandmother, right? Abuela. Abuela. My abuela. Make him whitehead. That does not sound like you have an abuela. No, it does not. Jose Vasquez is like, what? The whitehead family? There's white in their name. Yeah.

My abuela grew up on a farm in Puerto Rico and swore she saw a chupacabra suck the blood from her goat long before 1995. Yeah. I believe her. Yeah. I believe she saw something. Yeah. J.H. My grandfather could have used that mouse ear. He lost his ear to skin cancer, and so he had a rubber ear that he glued to his head.

In the bar, he would take it off, hold it out, and say, what'd you say? Fun guy right there. Yeah, that's fun. I had a substitute teacher in elementary school. Stop me if I've said this before, but he was missing an arm and a leg on one side of his body, and he would play all kinds of pranks on the kid. If you weren't paying attention, you'd turn around, his leg would be on your desk and stuff like that. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. He used to have a shirt just with the sleeve dangling, right? And if a kid was acting up, he'd go, come look in this shirt real quick.

you come look in the sleeve and everyone would be like no I don't want to and then he'd take his other hand and stick it through right and then they'd open up the sleeve and he'd just stick it out and oh it was the best yeah he'd play all kinds of pranks shenanigans galore yeah it's fun

You laid there. Were you laying on the floor because you're back? You're like, come look in this brace. Yeah. They go, all right, everybody. Aaron's going to be laying flat on the floor during the last half of this year. Cat Cook. I took evolution of human mating. Oh, hold on. I took quotation evolution of human mating. Does that need quotations?

Quotation marks, yeah. Yeah, it does. Yeah. Yeah. I took Evolution of Human Mating in college, and we learned a lot about other animals' mating habits. There is a type of male squid that evolved to look like the females because that's how it sneaks past other males to fertilize the eggs.

There's also a type of spider where the male does a mating dance for the female. If he does it wrong, she kills him and eats him. Wow. It's typical, regular life. Don't a lot of female spiders eat the males anyway? I think once they- Black widow? Yeah, once they mate- Yeah, they got a problem there, man. Spiders need to-

Well, just the women have a problem. I know. They should get the women under control. I agree. And the spider. It sounds like they can't. No. I know. The women are really running it. And it's like you mate and then they eat you. And maybe it's like the nutrients they need for the eggs.

You eat that mayo and that's the nutrients you need. Yeah. And you think the male spotter, none of them even just go, I don't think this, you know, he's going, I'm going on a date. He goes, I don't know, man. She could be the one. She might be the one. All right. But I don't, you know, you know, my dad went on a date. I've never seen him. Tom never came back. Yeah.

I mean, I feel like if you're a squid dressing up as a female to get past the other males, you might have some other issues. If you're too convincing, those males might take interest in you.

Yeah. You're tired. That's a good point. He's going to pat me. Yeah, he's like, hey. Thank you. He's tired. Yeah. You know? We're still getting going. But now we're getting going. You got to get revved up. I think you peaked way earlier. You know how I'm fading? You gave all you got, and we appreciate that. It's like a Manning cast. Yeah. Paul D. Paul D.

I can picture some old guy in Dusty's trailer park claiming he invented Velcro and NASA stole it and Dusty believing every word of it. Yeah, like people don't steal inventions from other people. Happens all the time. But I feel like there is probably a higher chance in a trailer park that somebody would

Maybe claimed I invented something. Well, yeah. And that's why he's living in a trailer park now because his invention that he was like, oh, this is how I'm going to make it. He presented it to someone and they go, oh, this is crap. And then they steal it from him. And now he's just depressed because he's seeing his idea make millions. And they're going. And then NASA's like, oh, we're using it in space. And he's like, I invented that.

And now he's depressed and he's an alcoholic. He's drinking Jose Vasquez every day. Him and Megan Whitehead haven't been seeing eye to eye. He's been killing the goats. And he's like, you know. I talked to this guy in Tampa this weekend that he's one of those guys like I said hi to him. And then like 45 minutes later, this guy's told me everything about his life. And I think I believe like

80% of what he told me, but he told me like he got, he got Rocky made. He met Sylvester Stallone back in the day and he knew Bill and Hillary Clinton before they were famous. And he told me all these stories, just some random guy in Tampa.

I don't know. I want to believe him. Well, Rocky, there is the, supposedly there was a guy that sued Rocky or Sylvester Stallone. But I mean, so unless it's that guy, like. This says a guy, he just knew Sylvester Stallone and he was like, how do I get a movie made? Then he connected them with Liza Minnelli or something. There's a lot going on. A lot of moving pieces to this story. Like it's, I don't believe, I wouldn't believe it. I, you know, the more you see stuff, it's like you see, you know,

There's a lot to getting something made. And so, you know, everybody, you know, it's like these ideas or whose ideas or whatever, you know, is my idea of the muffin top. Or Kramer with the beach. Yeah. You know, that's kind of like what you're saying. You get depressed when somebody else steals it. But it's, A, everybody, you know, there's only so many ideas that people can think of. And then like a guy like that, you're like, I just don't.

I don't think someone that you couldn't be. If you're Sylvester Sloan, you can't go do what you did and then just be the biggest fraud on. I'm actually watching Rambo right now. Uh, going back to Rambo. Rambo First Blood is really great. Yeah, I did that one. I'm about to start too. First Blood is unbelievable. Yeah.

And then, uh, get worse, but, Oh, they do. I don't know. To me, to me, Rambo, the first Rambo is so good. It just, it really touches on some stuff going on. It spirals out of control quick. Yeah. Yeah. The first Rambo you're, you're like, I don't, uh, just a one normal person could have,

walked in and said, Hey, what are we doing? Yeah. Yeah. Brian Dennehy though. Yeah. Losing his mind. Yeah. Yeah. That did. It just let him, you know, and then he drives him through town and he's like, can I get some deep? And he goes, and he drives him through town and he goes, there's a low town, about 30 miles. He's got to walk 30 miles to that other town. That's going to take him three days. Dude's hungry right now. He's hungry now. Yeah.

And you just, there you go. There's a bridge. 30 miles that way is food. Yeah. But I mean, yeah, you know, it's, that's like everything in life. Just, it's, you know, someone, this, that, you know, and I'm just saying stuff does get stolen. I'm saying it doesn't, but it's, you know. Was that part of, was that the 20% that you didn't believe? What was the other 80%? I believe just the general essence of the guy. Okay. You know what I mean? The details were,

Who knows what the details were true, but this guy just, this guy had just been waiting to talk to somebody. I listened to him for 45 minutes. Where was it at? Outside the club. Did he come to the show? No. Oh, okay. Yeah. He just hanging around outside. It was, I don't want to go into, he's a guy who hangs out around outside places. Oh, you know what I mean?

Okay. No, I don't. Just like someone that's just always at the club or someone that's always like around. Just kind of outside the building. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Nice guy. I feel like I've talked to like six, six different comics. You've said they gave Dan Whitney the idea for Larry, the cable guy. Oh really? Or not gave him the idea, but like, Dan, you should do that as a character. Like I've talked to numerous comics who say they're the ones that kind of encouraged him. And that's, yeah, it's like,

I'm always with that. You probably like, yeah, probably some people did say it. But he did the, you know, it's like, it just got to happen. And that's how you know when something's going to work. And a lot of people are like, dude, that thing's really funny. And, you know, I mean, with like Giannis,

uh he's going to hold it with maurice and that's it with snl but people might not know maurice's he made this character but i remember when he made that and it became popular and all this and you're like dude that's so funny but it's like i would never be like i you know i've said like i was there i remember being there like that's fun yeah we were in a diner like it's cool to have been there and be like man that was at the beginning of that and see that go but it's like

I have no ownership in that. But I don't know if people are saying... If they're saying that about Dan Whitney, I don't... They feel like you're saying...

Not that he's still, they're not saying he's saying, you know, he started off doing it. I think you'd call in on radio and do the character. Right. He did a little bit in his act. And then I've had more than one comic. I don't know if it's six, but a few they've said, they're the ones that like said, Dan, you should just become that character. That's what you should do. That's crazy. I did tell dice to do dice, but you're like, you know, you should do nursery rhymes. You ever thought about that? Like you got this whole thing going, but what about nursery rhymes? Yeah.

Dice is very funny, man. Your SNL re-aired this weekend, by the way. Oh, yeah. All right. They replayed his Saturday Night Live. Yeah. Nice. Dice is very funny. He does on Instagram. He's very, very funny. Mm-hmm.

because he does these things where he goes up and acts like someone wants to take a picture with him. And it's just, it's like, well, you're here for the photos. And the person's like, I don't even know what's going on. And it's a whole long... It's one of those, if you don't get it, you're going to be like, this guy's a, like, what's this guy's problem? But when you get it, he's like, all right, come on. And he goes, we're doing it because I'm here for the photos. And they just walked into like a Chipotle. And they're like, what? Yeah.

Uh, Patrick McCormick 200 years ago in a world where selling was far more important to the country's commerce than the NOAA. The NOAA. The NOAA was very necessary. Or NOAA. NOAA. The NOAA was very necessary. It's like back in the day, the postmaster general was a presidential cabinet position. Yeah. I'm just saying it's a made up thing. Yeah.

I think it's crazy to have on your website 200 years, you know. I agree. And why would they say atmospheric? Yeah. It would have been just like national ocean. But they do like, you know, NOAA weather radios, like the alert you when a tornado is coming. NOAA does that? Mm-hmm. I've never heard NOAA talk to me about a tornado. Yeah. I use Nashville Severe Weather X on Twitter. Yeah, they're great. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. I mean, so like NOAA's like, yeah, we're still around though. We're still doing it.

200 years. Science, service, stewardship. But if it was the middle of the night, 3 a.m., it would wake you up. To be caretakers of stuff. The weather radio, it would alert you. Oh, that's NOAA. Yeah. That's the difference between you being on Twitter.

Yeah, but you basically would listen to it to go to that Nashville severe weather. It would just give you the heads up. I like that that account blew up. Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, yeah. I remember following it a long time ago, and I don't feel like it had a lot of followers. I think I was the one that told it to do what it should do.

But it's like, it's fun to see like, then, and then it's like, oh, that guy's a, it's a, whoever runs that is a crew of them. I was watching them just when we had the tornadoes recently. I was watching them from afar. Um, I was out of town, but I wanted to see what was going on. They're on video now. Yeah. They do live streams on YouTube and they watch them together and they talk about everything. It's like three or four guys. I support them on Patreon. I love those guys. Oh, look at that. How about it?

There you go. Really one-upping us here. Yeah. It's kind of... Weber money. Yeah. Jared E. L. That doesn't say Eli, but it looks like it's L. E-L-L? You got Eli on the brain. Yeah. Jared Eli. Jared L. I like that last name, L. Yeah. That's probably a lot, though. I mean, you probably...

L? What's the L stand for? No, L-E-L-L. Every day he's got to do that. Yeah. He goes, well, yeah. How do you spell it? How would you spell the letter L? I would just do one L. Yeah, E-L. What if Johnny W's last name is actually spelled double than U? Yeah. Yeah, you just shorten it down to the letter, I guess.

A1 Southwest. This is what A1 Southwest produces. This is what business class? Yeah. Dusty very clearly said, I think pediatricals.

Oh, p-dact... Pterodactyls. Pterodactyls. There's another silent P in there. Yeah, pterodactyls. You didn't know pterodactyls spelled that way? I don't. I doubt it. Pterodactyls are dragons. I think pterodactyls are dragons. Why would you put a P in there? I don't know. Pterodactyls. I don't know. I think pterodactyls are dragons. And everyone breezed right by that comment like nothing happened. Are pterodactyls fake or are dragons real?

Who knows? Well, the point is, Jared, that Mr. L, that, you know,

Everybody at the table, I assume, would believe in pterodactyls, but everyone would say that it's ridiculous to believe in dragons. So I'm just saying, if everybody believes that dinosaurs are real and that pterodactyls were flying, scaly, reptile-like creatures, then is it really that much of a stretch to be like dragons were real? That's my point. I would agree with that. That's my point. Mm-hmm.

It's just hard to... You picture all this stuff in your own head. Like, you're just... Dusty or just anyone? No, with media and, like, you just picture a drag. Like, it's just...

It's the fire breathing part that gets some people. Yeah, but I mean, isn't there something that can shoot fire? Yeah, Dusty's talked about it. Yeah, the bombarder beetle shoots a little spark. I mean, eels shoot out electricity. That's true. It's like- Lightning bugs. Yeah, lightning bugs. Yeah, a little fire on them. A little firefly. There you go. We produce electricity. Yeah. Static. That's when your shirt feels weird. Yeah.

I think that's what it feels like, an eel. That's probably why they're in the water, because it would just be a nightmare to be on. Every time they touch something. Never get any clothes on. Yeah. It would be. Sticking to you, your hair's a... Yeah, they go. Yeah. Eels probably made it. Maybe that's how you say it, Jared eel. Maybe that's it, eel.

What if it was Eel? He's like, well, we just pronounced the E. We really sounded out. Yeah. It looks like Jared forgot to keep putting the rest of his name. Jared Eel. It's like Jared Elliot or something. Ellis or something. Yeah.

Reverend Keith Burney. I'm about Nate and Dusty's age. So I'm nostalgic for about the toys from the 1980s. In October, I learned that Transformers are considered one of the forgotten five toys because they've been a finalist for entry into the Toy Hall of Fame, but have never been inducted. I find it travesty given that kids still play Transformers all these years later, but

Since he wasn't on Toys episode, what were some of the ones Nate played with as a kid? Transformers, He-Man. G.I. Joe. G.I. Joe. A lot of G.I. Joe is my main thing. See, I never really did Transformers, but G.I. Joe and He-Man. That was, yeah. Transformers was a little more expensive. Like when you bought them, like it was, you know, because it was usually a very big thing. I think I had, I think I did get,

Optimus Prime once. And then I remember a lot of G.I. Joe's. G.I. Joe's is where it was at. G.I. Joe's, I agree. I mean, everything can move. I remember just thinking for a long time, I was like every... Because then toys like stopped. Even you see the toy we got today. It's like stuff...

They started making toys where not everything moves. Yeah. And with G.I. Joe's, you could, everything could move. Yeah, they had shoulders and elbows. Yeah. And I think even they had a spinny wrist a little bit. Yeah. I don't know if they did that. I think some did that. Was that too much? That was too much. If you did that, that would be annoying. I think you were forcing it. Yeah. Well, you're younger than Nate, so. But they did have the little, like, little midsection part where the legs would move and they had knees. I mean. Yeah. Yeah, G.I. Joe's were the best. Their head.

The best. Yeah. And stuff stopped moving. But I think, I don't think these were ever meant to be. No, I, I, I, these are not toys. I'm just saying as an example, toys felt like they went to the, like, not really moving much.

Where G.I. Joe's would move so much. Yours moves. Well, he turns his head, yeah. I mean, mine doesn't. All right. The general idea, you get what I'm saying. I know, but I'm just pointing out Dusty's is the only one that apparently moves. No, mine moves too. Oh, mine doesn't. Mine's the only one that continuously falls. Oh, so.

Is yours moves? Yeah, mine moves. No, mine doesn't. Well, they just made yours realistic. Yeah, yeah. You got a stiff neck. You got a crick in your neck. Yours moves. Throat behind. Oh, get lost, dude. Yours moves the most. Yeah, yeah. Who sent that in? I'm going to ask him to send another one. He just severed Brian at the waist. There he is. Look, you move. Dang. I got to get some glue. Yeah.

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Sorry. Yeah. Yeah, if you go either direction. Yeah, I'm kidding. Oh, I got one. Yeah. All right. I don't think I even understand what we're doing. Well. Turnarounds. Things that have just started. All right. I got one. Well, go ahead. You want to start it? No. Well, if you got one. Yeah, you got one. I would say Subway did a real 180 in a negative way.

I remember Subway was real hot and you had Jared Fogle. Yeah. And he was like, it was like the Subway challenge was like big time. And you were like, oh man, Jared's the guy. And it's like, he lost all that weight by doing Subway. And then all of a sudden, Jared gets in some real bad trouble. Yeah. And then they're like, and then they're like, oh no, there's, they're putting stuff from fire suits or yoga mats in the bread. And then you're like, oh, the meat's all slimy. And then you're like,

Ooh. Yeah, things turned around quick. Subway took a turn. But I feel like it's going back to a good way. Maybe they're doing another one. Maybe they're doing a 360 in the end. We should have saved this. For that episode 360. But maybe by the time we get there, they will have fully turned around. I used to love Subway. I used to love Subway a lot. But yeah, I think Subway's doing better. But then you've got some competition. Jimmy John's great.

Firehouse Subs is great. But they dominate that market. Yeah, because they're everywhere. So it's not even close. Yeah, they're everywhere. Because you can put one up in a closet. Yeah. Remember Quiznos popped up for a bit and they were like, where's the meat or something like that? And they're trying to compete with Subway. Quiznos was good. Quiznos is kind of gone now, right? Yeah.

So that's a 180. A little too much meat in his sandwiches. Yeah, that's a bit of a 180 right there. Yeah, it's just all negative ones. Satan, he was in heaven. Then he fell from grace. Yeah. He was a pretty big 180. Yeah, he messed up. But he probably got more popularity from probably more people know him now. He's pretty popular these days. I will say that. Yeah. Well, for businesses, some that did a complete turnaround. Apple. Apple.

Apple was almost dead in the 80s. Microsoft was killing them. And then Steve Jobs came back in the 90s and did, of course, the iPhone, the iPad. Is that how you say it?

iPhone. The iPhone. The iPad. The iPhone. Emphasis on the I. iPhone. The iPhone. iPhone. You emphasize what you want to emphasize and I'll emphasize what I want to emphasize. Pods. Hey, that's fine, dude. Well, Bill Gates lost focus. He got into too many other things. He stopped focusing on Microsoft. Yeah. He went, well,

Conan Lane. You look so... You look like I punctured your balloon. I'm sorry, dude. It caught me off guard. I've never heard anybody say it like that. Excuse me, do you have an iPhone? Do you have an iPhone? iPhone? Bill Gates is curing malaria now, though, right? Yeah, but he lost focus on Microsoft. Yeah. Is he curing malaria? Yeah. And what, are you putting a lot of his money toward? Yeah.

I mean, haven't they made great strides? He got like some like award for like the most donations to charity. And then it's like he donated his money to his own charity. Yeah. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Yeah. It was like most charitable. You're like, yeah, but you donate it to yourself. Yeah. It's still in your, I think that's brilliant. Yeah. Yeah.

Uh, FedEx, FedEx was out of money and Fred Smith went to, uh, Vegas and gambled what little money he had left and attempt to double it. And he got just enough to keep the company afloat. He went from $5,000 to 27,000. That's a good lesson for everybody to learn. Yeah. If your business is struggling. Yeah. Liquidate your assets, go to Vegas, go to the roulette table.

With company money, he did that? Yeah. That's pretty... I mean, talk about desperate. If he only had $5,000, I mean... It's like, why not? Everybody might be like, yeah, just go. Yeah, might as well. We're already done. Five grand. When was that? It was in the 70s. Okay. I remember when I got $1,000 in my bank account, I was like, I'm doing well. Yeah, when you get a comma in there? Yeah. Oh, dude, that's big time. Did...

FedEx too, wasn't it that the movie also helped it too? Castaway? Yeah. No, I think they were a huge, huge company by then. Yeah, but I feel like it made them – because UPS is still gigantic. I remember – When I was a kid, I felt like UPS was the big dog. I think UPS is still the big dog. Oh, it is? UPS feels like a classy place to work. From what I remember in FedEx, when I worked at FedEx –

I thought I remember like, it's like FedEx was competing with like DHL. UPS was so big that, and they've been around for so long that it's like, it's not even a competition. Like when the UPS truck comes to the neighborhood, they got a uniform on, they look good. There's some dignity with them. When FedEx drivers come through, the music's all loud. They got no uniform. Sometimes they'll just be in a car. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's like Amazon. Amazon's getting a little loose. Oh, I guess it's Amazon. Sometimes it'll just show up in somebody's personal vehicle. Yeah, on a Sunday. Yeah. Is UPS? They're pretty close. Globally, they're pretty close. So FedEx has a global market size of 343 billion euros. And UPS has a market size of 375 billion euros. So they're pretty close. Yeah.

Yeah. I think it's, and this was 20 years ago. So isn't the postal service still, the postal service is still like. They still, yeah, that's still most mail I think still goes through them. They still do really well. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. No, I, yeah, but I think UPS, I thought UPS too. I thought I remember saying that, but I don't. Market share. Yeah. They're a little cheaper. You know how to look that up? Market share. That's crazy.

Yeah, as of March 2021, USPS held the largest share of courier service market based on revenue. FedEx is next, UPS after that, and then DHL after that. So FedEx has passed UPS. That's as of March 2021. I mean, who knows what's happened the last two years? Yeah. I know I said this, but I said something else.

What? They could have said something else. Maybe he meant the postal service instead of actual UPS. But I remember just being like, is UPS the competitor? And he was like, no. I remember them saying that. Well, you said that was 20 years ago. Yeah. They really took off after you left. They were just, yeah.

UPS was just huge. Yeah. I mean, I feel like UPS, like when people in my hometown, you know, 20 years ago, getting a job with UPS was a, that's a big deal. It's a good job. You know, he's still a good job now. Yeah. They had really good benefits. Yeah. I mean, I don't know what's going on, but I just remember a couple of guys I knew that were like, yeah, I'm trying to get on with UPS. One of my good friends started working for UPS out of high school.

loading trucks. Yeah. Dude, he got in such good shape. Yeah. He was like, it's an intense workout every night. He got like jacked real quick. And then he quit that job and kept eating the same way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Reddit, Reddit was found in 2005 and they had zero visitors. So the founder started creating several fake accounts and holding fake discussions, which I still do. And, uh,

Until visitors eventually started trickling in. And now they have 55 million daily users. And it's the seventh most visited website in the world. Yeah. Reddit's like past my thing that I don't think to go to Reddit a lot. It's my default.

It's like my main thing that I look at. Yeah, yeah. So anything you want to look up, what do you look? A review of a movie? Yeah, like I saw the Godzilla movie last night, and I immediately... Is it new? Yeah, it just came out. Oh. Unbelievable. It's good? I didn't know there was one. Unbelievable. It's Japanese. It's with subtitles. Oh, wow. They made it for $15 million. Like the lowest, and it's...

It's unbelievable, dude. I don't know how they made it for that cheap. It's in theaters? Yeah. I asked Steve Byrne. I was like, should I go see Napoleon or should I go see... He's like, the Godzilla movie is unbelievable, dude. Anyway, it's so good. Isn't that risky? They're asking, Steve, should I go see this Godzilla movie? Why? Isn't he Asian? I mean, yeah, but he's a movie buff. That's what I was saying. Oh, okay. All right. Come on. But Godzilla killed their villages, Aaron. Yeah.

Steve, you would know about Godzilla. Immediately after the movie, I go, there's a movie subreddit where they have discussions about all the movies that have just come out. So I find the Godzilla one. I just want to hear what people had to say about it. Did you like Godzilla versus King Kong? I haven't seen any other Godzilla movie. Oh, I like that one pretty well. This was like a real, this was everyone saying this is the best Godzilla movie ever made.

That's like the consensus. What about Napoleon? It was not good? He said it's just long. It's a little slower. And nobody's talking about that Godzilla movie, but it's that good. You should go see it. Yeah. I didn't know Steve was that big of a movie. Yeah. He's made movies, so he likes to watch them. Yeah. Yeah.

It's funny because there's a Nate Land subreddit and just the type of people, every social media platform has different types of people. The Facebook fan page. I ventured in there one time. That's a real mistake. Which one? Nate Land subreddit. Oh, subreddit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They just have a different vibe, just a different type of person in that one than in the Facebook group. YouTube's kind of a hodgepodge. I feel like all of them.

but interesting. Yeah. Yeah. The reaction will be totally very different depending on the platform. Right. Yeah. I can tell you how something will do on Reddit versus Facebook. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's Reddit a lot more negative. Yeah. It's,

Yeah. To a point where like, I have to not look at it sometimes. Yeah. I mean, why, but that's the thing you can't, how do you trust any like review of anything? Cause you're just like, I don't know where this person's head's at. Like they're sure. You know, I, I, cause I would like to look up some reviews of some stuff. And that's like when you see reviews of movies and they're always, you know, the audience is like, they love that. I look at Amazon reviews for movies and,

And I mean, they're all like whatever movie you have, there'll be like, yeah, there's five stars. And then if you look at it somewhere else in the big, ah, that they hated that movie. Yeah. I think the movie's called Godzilla minus one. Yeah.

It's about a kamikaze pilot in World War II. And he pretends that his plane isn't working because he chickens out essentially from being kamikaze pilot. So he's dealing with like the shame of that after the war. He's like an outcast because he was, you know, he didn't bring honor to everyone by being a kamikaze pilot and then Godzilla attack. So he has to like,

It's so good, dude. Yeah. Yeah, I would check it out. We saw Wonka last night. How was that? It was good. It was all right. Yeah, Jake Harper. Yeah. I don't think I know if the movie's good or bad. I mean, no, Wonka was great. Yeah. But it's like I could see someone just being like, oh, he had... I mean, Wonka's not even up there as a review. I think it just came out, right? Yeah. How long has this movie been out? A couple weeks. Oh, okay.

Is it like you should go see it in a big screen too? I think so. Visually, it's super impressive. I mean, Godzilla just tearing these cities apart. It's pretty amazing. Is Rotten Tomatoes, could you trust that? I don't trust it. Really? But dude, if it's like 98%, like this Godzilla movie is 98% audience and audience.

Critics. Critics. I think audience score is the only one you trust. You don't trust the critics one at all? No. I don't. I trust the critics, not the audience. Really? Yeah. Oh, that's crazy. I'm a little more leaning towards that as well. The critics? Yeah. I mean, you see there's reasons why.

There's stuff that you've seen, though, where the critics are at zero and the audience is at nine. Once you see that, you're like, well, then why can I ever trust a critic? I don't always agree with them. But if a critic review is like 99%, you're like, well, that's probably a good movie. I agree. Yes. But why would you just automatically trust the audience? Because I don't think there's a motive with the audience. The audience is just trying to do... And there can be, because I know people can't go and...

vote stuff down. But I mean, when you're seeing some stuff where it's like critics are at 10% and the, it happens a lot. And the audience is like 95%. Once you see that though, you're like, well, now I can't, I don't know how you go. Well, I just won't trust them on this one. Like, how do I know you're being unbiased? I don't know what the reasoning for, you know,

I mean, there's two, like... See, I feel like the critic's real high and the audience is real low. That's where I'm lying. I don't trust it. Yeah. There's going to be some artsy thing. I guess you could take both in account, like where it is, like if it's 98-98. But, you know, it's...

Yeah, it's, it's, it's, well, you like action movies like all the Rambo. So you should go audience Aaron and I use our brains. So yeah. Well, I wonder if, if I, I didn't look up this before I saw this movie. I just had a guy I know who said it was good, but I wonder how much this would paint how you watch the movie.

Right. If you go into a film and you know, it has a 2% on Rotten Tomatoes, would you be sitting there like, when is this going to get bad? You expect it to be bad. You probably walk away thinking it was bad. Right. Yeah. Would you see this was a 180 from some of the other Godzilla's you'd seen? That was good. You brought it back. That's a good point. Or vice versa. If you're like, I don't even get this movie, but the critics say 98%. So I guess I'm supposed to like it. It must be good. Right.

All right, here's one maybe for the common folk. PBR. PBR had gone down for a few decades because... What is it? Pabst Blue Ribbon? Professional bull riders? Oh, I thought it was professional bull riders. Can you tell me about the beer? Yeah, Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Yeah. The hipster world grabbed PBR and, and, and it became like, there was a bar when I was living in Charleston, there was a bar in Charleston. I forget exactly what it was called, but it was the number one seller of PBR cans in the country. Wow. It was like this real hipster bar. Dave and Buster's. Yeah. No, it was like downtown. So I forget the place, but I remember going to a place, it was kind of a nice restaurant. And I asked for like a, you know,

This was probably 2005, and I asked for a – no, this was probably 2010. I asked for a Bud Light, and they go, we don't have Bud Light, real snooty-like. And the guy that was with me goes, I have a PBR, and they throw a can up and crack it, and it's like, gee, that's not act like PBR is so superior to Bud Light.

a regular old light beer. Yeah. Hipster, they do really good at making like cheap things. Cool. It's all they're doing is they're going, I don't want to spend a lot of money. So instead of being like, I'm poor, they go, I'll make it where this is like, they can look down on a bud light. Right. Yeah. Pretty. But then sometimes they take cheap things and make them artificially expensive too. Like you got like a vintage store where it's like,

A PBR t-shirt for $90. I'm like, what is this all about? Yeah. Well, that's what ends up happening because they do that. They also go to neighborhoods and gentrified neighborhood, you know, where they go and they make something, they move into this thing and then make it where it's becomes very expensive. Then the people that live there are like, well, we can't even live here anymore. And you're like, well, they made it.

You know, that's like their angle. Yeah. Pretty crazy. And so instead of just being like, they just, instead of saying like I'm cheap or something, they just go, I'll just make it where you're, you order Bud Light and you look dumb. Yeah. Yeah. And then like, they go, I'm a PBR and they put, and it's a can that they cracked. It wasn't a draft. It was like, I was like, oh, please. I never liked PBR either. I don't think, I never thought it was a good beer.

Yeah. Probably nobody did. Right. It's just the hip thing. It was just cool. Yeah. Yeah. The people just like stuff that it's the story. Cause I remember in New York, it was like PBR is where, you know, you go to all those things. Everybody's getting it. It's all people that you're like, you would actually probably despise the people that drink PPR for real. Yeah. But you know, it's the, it was the cheapest, you know, they could be whatever it was. I forget. Cheap. A couple more businesses. Uh, Netflix. Yeah.

When they announced they're going from DVD to streaming, their stock dropped considerably. They lost around 800,000 subscribers right after the announcement because they split it up into two different things, two separate subscriptions. And the DVD, I don't remember this was called Quickster. If you have a,

Netflix subscription. Do you remember this? No. Did any of you have Netflix when it was the physical DVDs? I remember getting some. I don't think I ever had it, but I remember, I remember my roommate. I'd go to red box. I did red box a few times. I did red box actually a good bit. Cause it was like just a one-off. You just go and look and grab it. Yeah.

Right outside the gas station. Yeah. It was, it was that, that idea was great. I mean, and you wish stuff is stuff. Shouldn't be just at your hands. Meaning, uh, Graham, Graham case was on the road with me this weekend. He's, he's still here. So Graham K comedy, go watch Graham. I think he's been on the podcast. He's been on twice from Canada. I told him I'd give him a, you know, but, uh,

So what? No, I just think that shout out the way you did it is really funny. Yeah. I guess he's here. I guess. Yeah. Go look at him. I guess. No. Yeah. Graham. Graham's wonderful. Everybody go watch Graham. He's doing a one man. He was doing a one man show in New York. Uh, his brother's autistic and it's about that. And, uh, it was really great. And, uh, so yeah, no, Graham's the best. Uh,

He but we thought about flipping, you know, we were like going through watching TV like you just flip through the TV and you like let the TV decide what you're watching. And that I didn't Redbox was like you go there and when you pick you pick the movie and then once you pick it, you're like, yeah, this is what I'm watching. I got to watch. I got to watch this. I'm going home. I did where you can go to Netflix and you're just flipping around trying to find a movie that.

Yeah, and you start a movie and you're like, ah, this sucks. And then you go find, you go flip to another one. Like when you rented it from the store, that was like your movie. You didn't have other movies laying around and you're not going back to the store. So if it sucks, you just watch it. Yeah. Because you're like. It's too, yeah, this stuff is too available. Yeah. Like it was, you know, that's like old, but like, you know, renting, going to Blockbuster was like, that was the, I know there's no reason for it.

But it's like, man, that was the fun. You drove there. It was something to do. You felt like it would take your whole night up. I love walking around a Blockbuster. It's fun. Or Adventure Video. It wasn't all Blockbusters out there. Family Video. Family Video. Hollywood Video. Yeah. It was great. You just go walk around in there. That was like the one business that stayed in small towns longer than in big cities.

Yeah. Like you couldn't find a video store in Nashville, but you could still find, not now, but you could still find some in McMinnville or something like that. Lebanon have some? For a long time. Yeah. Hadn't been that long since the last one away. I wonder if you figure out how to do the, go ahead. And the whole wall would be like a new movie came out. The whole wall would be.

be that movie and you go and it's like there's none behind it you're looking and then finally like there's one left and you're like oh I got the last one I mean it's very that was my that was my job in college what I worked at a video store oh really mega video I love that job yeah

Would you recommend movies to people? Yeah, they'd ask. And they'd be waiting by that box when you cleaned it out, you know, to see if there was one in there. I was right when VHS and DVD was kind of switching. Yeah, I remember going in and being like, will you check the box?

Like you asked me, they was, someone would drop off a movie. So the return, the return. So sometimes if you wanted to see a movie, you would stay in there for a while. People would camp out. Yeah. Cause they'd be like, they know, well, there's like two of them that have to come back today. Cause there's just no other way to watch it. There's no other way to watch it. So there's two of them that have, yeah. Two of them that have, I mean, it's the best. It really is. Two of them have to come back today and you're, you know, so a, you've got to stand there and kind of hope that,

that they're not going to just you're in your head. You're like, well, if they're rich, that's a nice thing. If they're rich, they don't care about the late. If they're not rich, they, you know, so you kind of just hoping like they're, you know, they're poor. Yeah. You just hope it's like me. You're like something that's like, we got to get this movie back. Travis on our, he, they forgot to take a movie back.

And like it would for, I mean, it was like crazy long. Hundreds and hundreds of dollars in fees, right? Oh. Did they just build up? Yeah, he basically, I think they still might have this movie. And I mean, I was like our whole high school was just going like, y'all got to take that movie back. Yeah. Like, I mean, we would get stressed about it, even though, because you're just like, dude, it's going to be, you know. But they just outlasted the company. They just held out. They just held out to the company. That's true. You know, but it is, yeah, it was crazy.

It's that's the I think people you had much more appreciation for stuff because you and now that's why a weight is not a bad thing. Like, you know, like, I mean, not comparing our podcast that but you have to wait a week or like TV shows that make you wait a week to go because it's it's not bad to have to go, man, you get it. You get to sit on that for a week or whatever and just.

And you have something that you're looking forward to. It just gives you something to go to. And talk about it for a week. You never went to a video store? Not that you remember. We go a little bit. We get video games from there. Even then, you were getting DVDs. You weren't even getting VHS. It was always DVDs. I don't remember. You don't remember the be kind, please rewind. I remember rewind. We would record stuff from the TV on the VHS tapes every now and then.

I mean, they made a Rewinder that you could buy. Oh, we had one. Yeah, we had one. Yeah. My mom worked at a plant that made VHS tapes. We had a lot. We knew a lot about VHS. Yeah, I remember just like when you got done watching it, it was like, you're just like the first thing you needed to do was go hit stop and hit rewind. And then you would talk about the movie, Why I Rewind. Yeah. And like, I mean, it was just-

Yeah, it really was. Like that's the stuff where it's everything's so on demand now. I mean, yeah, I forgot about that one for the box. Like just being like, hey, can you go check? Is there any in the box? You'd have to ask them. Is there any in the box? And they're like, and I do remember them one time being like, that was Brian. I remember one time they go, you have any in the box? And I remember they go like they didn't have any and they open and they're like.

And they do have, they go, someone just dropped it off. And then you're like, now you get to watch that movie. Oh yeah. It's a great feeling. Yeah. We also had the video running, you know, there was TVs in there and it would be basically trailers for all the upcoming movies, but it would just run over and over. So on your shift, by the end of it, you're just sick of hearing. So I'll still watch movies now and lines from movies just stand out to me from

From the early 90s. Shawshank Redemption. Yeah. I heard get busy living or get busy dying. So many times that I was just sick of it. Oh yeah. But it just, you heard it for eight hours shift. What was the craziest movie that came out? There was like a, people flocked to the store. Any standout Titanic, something like that. Titanic was after. He took the original. Yeah.

Forrest Gump. I remember it was really big. Braveheart. I think Braveheart might've been right after I left there. You would drive to multiple video stores. Oh yeah. So you would go, you know, you could go, you go to Blockbuster. Cause a lot of times you end up going to find the smallest one cause they would,

Because everybody's kind of thinking Blockbuster or Hollywood Video or the big names, and you can go to a small one. Well, this was in Murfreesboro. This was Mega Video. Mega Video. They had two locations in Murfreesboro, one in Smyrna. What's a movie that maybe people ask you the most questions about? What movies do you like talking to people about? I love Shawshank Redemption. There was a movie, Quiz Show.

directed by Robert, Robert Redford. I've seen it. And I think I told you about it. Yeah. Did you like it? Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was really good. It's a true story about a, uh, rich millionaire socialite who got caught up in the glamor and started faking his way on a quiz show. Have you ever heard of this? I think we've talked about it before. Yeah. I haven't seen it yet, but it looks great. It's a really great movie. Yeah. Scorsese's in it. Yep. Wow.

All right, let me jump ahead because I forgot. This one needs to be a little bit shorter, doesn't it? Some sports turnarounds. Here's one that I think you'll be interested in. Kansas State football was the Vanderbilt of the then Big Eight for –

50 60 years i think they'd won one game in three seasons now they're the mississippi state no they're still i mean they go to bowl games every year i'm kidding yeah bill snyder took over and in two years had it turned around and you know they've had some really really great years and they're always at least going to a bowl they've been like 10 and 2 i think one year yeah

And they were just the laughingstock of the Big Eight forever. And then after he's left, they've had ups and downs, but they're still a winning program. Same with Florida State. Bobby Bowden, they were 4-29 when Bobby Bowden took over. And by year two, they were 10-2. What would you say a 180 would do? The opposite would be like Nebraska. Yeah, that's a good point. Nebraska was...

when I started watching college football at first, Nebraska was, you know, that's the weirdest part of seeing teams when you're, you think like, man, like you would never remember Nebraska being good. Well, I remember Nebraska playing in the national championship against Miami. And that's kind of the tail end of the empire. Yeah. Yeah.

Man, they were like the 90s. They were dominant. The black shirts, right? They were called their defense. I don't know. They won back-to-back national championships. Yeah. I believe they blew out Florida one year. I mean, just the biggest thing in the world. And then you would see them now and you're like, I say that. I mean, Alabama was like that where Alabama was just terrible. Fire for Saban.

Because I always say that's the – I thought that was going to be our first SEC win was Alabama. They were terrible by Alabama standards. Yeah, but I mean, I thought we could beat them. They were not good for a while, yeah. But, I mean, they were still usually good to a bowl, I think. They were just – Yeah. You know. But I thought we could have beat them. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I remember the last time Vanderbilt beat Alabama. When was that? I think 1984. Wow. Yeah.

Has it really been that? I think so. Yeah. And I think, here's what I remember. I don't know why I'm telling this, but Vanderbilt started 4-0. They beat Alabama. They started 4-0. The next week, they played like...

the Citadel or somebody and got beat. Wow. And I think they finished the year five and six. Was that 84 though? I remember us. I think I remember losing the Citadel. I may be wrong about the team. They played, they beat Alabama. I think there were four and oh, and then they played some really small school and got beat the next week. Vanderbilt got a technical last night before the game even started.

in basketball because of the LED lights weren't right. Really? The women's game. Something was wrong with the gym, so the team they were playing got to shoot a free throw before the game even tipped off. Oh, wow. That's the most venerable thing ever. All right. Jump ahead. Some actors who've made 180s. Danny Trejo. Yeah. He was in prison. Did he die? No, he's still alive. All right. He...

Then he was like a drug counselor. And one of the guys he was helping was like an extra on a movie set. And he went down there because the guy was needing him. And somebody saw him and said, you'd be really great as an extra in this movie. And then someone else knew who he was and knew he had some boxing skills. And then one thing led to the other. Wow. He's been a great actor for. He's so much too. Yeah. Breaking Bad. Oh, he's 79. Tortuga. Yeah. Yeah.

That's crazy. I didn't know his career. What was his first movie? Oh, 85. Yeah. I'll say one I was thinking of is Matthew McConaughey. I bet he's a great guy. I bet he rules too. I bet he is too. And I almost think I've heard that. I've heard that too. I think he's awesome. I think so too. I think I've heard he's just a really good person.

Yeah. He's a passionate fan of the LA Rams. So he's not perfect. But he's a good guy. Who are you going to say? McConaughey is the first person I'm thinking of when you talk about actors because I remember growing up, he was a bit of a punchline. He would be the example of kind of a who cares, you know, kind of chick flick actor. That's how you thought of him, right? And then they call it the McConaughey sense. Like he just became...

One of the generation's most beloved and celebrated actors. And it happened pretty quickly, I feel like. I agree that he had a major upward trajectory. But I think when I think 180, I think because even as his chick flick movies, I mean, he was still very successful and people liked it. But he wasn't. I don't remember. I might be wrong. I don't remember him being taken seriously as an actor. No, no, he wasn't taken. You never think this guy's winning.

He won an Oscar for Best Actor. Yeah, that's true. You know, you go from failure to launch, you're playing Terry Bradshaw's kid until you're winning an Oscar. That was a fun movie. That was a fun movie. Yeah, I know, but you know what I'm saying. I just saw that movie for the first time. I would be with the critics on that one. Did you not? I mean, I thought it was fun. It was fun at the time, but I've not seen it in a while. Yeah. But like he started off dazed and confused. That was a fun role. Right. He was good in that. Yeah. Yeah, that's his first big, you know, these movies. All right, all right, all right. Yeah.

And again, I always think you guys want to see it because he's like, I could go to college or could just get a job and put some money in my pockets and listen to some guy that doesn't know what he's talking about. Tell me what to do. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Can't disagree. A couple that have gone down. Shelly Long. Cheers was the biggest show on television. She left it.

She thought she was going to become a big star actor, actress, and really did nothing much after that. That was her though, right? I think she's a problem. Yeah, probably. I almost heard that. I don't know if we talked about that, but I've heard. I've never even heard of her. She was great on Cheers. I want to say, I can't remember. I got into Cheers for a while. I do want to think she is or was very difficult. And I'm not completely positive about.

But I feel like I've heard, I thought it was known, but I almost think she was pretty difficult. And so a lot of that stuff happens because of that. The person is just difficult, but they think they could want something, then next thing you know. Oh, the money pit was good though with her and Tom Hanks.

David Caruso. You guys know him? CSI Miami. That's I know. Yeah. But he was, he was on in Carradine. Yeah. He was on NYPD blue, which is a huge one 80 show in the nineties. Then he left that to pursue movies and he might also have been difficult, but just nothing ever panned out. He got on CSI. Yeah. So he went back to television, but he left like the top drama on TV to do movies. And then I didn't even know he did a movie ever.

I mean, I saw one movie was in Jade, but I mean, I think it flopped and I don't know what happened, but anyway, I'll do a couple more. Cause we probably got to wrap it up. Uh, jelly roll. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, he's yeah. It's awesome. Dave Ramsey. Oh, really? Oh, I forgot all about it. Dusty. Thank you.

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So, you know, there is a truth somewhere in the middle. There was a politician years ago who lost an election. Like he didn't get enough votes. And his statement was like, I'm happily going to embrace my promotion back to like private life. You're like, that's quite a spin. You know, you lost an election. You got to work it. You know, you got to work it. Thanks for giving me my release. That's what I say. Every job I've lost. Yeah.

Thanks for letting me fly. Thank you for letting me get back out here. Spread my wings. Not have a lot of money. I'm tired of all this money in my pocket. Yeah. Dusty, would you say you've made a 180?

Well, yeah. I mean, it depends on where you look at my life at some point. I mean, there's some things that I've done where it was like, I got arrested at one point and was about to join the army, got arrested, didn't get into the army. And then I got my driver's license suspended. So from that place, it's for sure a 180, but.

A 135. It was a slow 180. It took me a long time to turn around. But even from your drinking days to when you quit drinking and then comedy just blew up for you. Is that a 180 though? Like it's like you're working. Wouldn't a 180 have to be, well, you know, it's like, I guess it would because jelly roll would be the same.

Kind of thing. You're this, and then you turn it into this. Turn over a new leaf. Dave Ramsey. Didn't he go bankrupt? Oh, I have no idea. I think Dave Ramsey was bankrupt at one time. He went bankrupt. He has the nerve to talk to people. I don't know. That's why people listen to him. Yeah. I had no idea. Yeah.

Notre Dame football. They used to be a powerhouse. Now they haven't won a championship since 1988. Yeah. I like that. It's tough. You know, Georgia football, for that matter, I would say that's a real 180. I mean, they were like not good for a long time.

They were good, but not great. Mark Rick, they were like 10-win teams. In my opinion, I know that there's not a lot of room, and I'm glad Alabama made it in, but in my opinion, there's no reason Georgia should not still be in the top four. I think they should. They should be a chance to win the national championship three years in a row. I think, gone to your head, most people still go Georgia's top four team. Yeah, it's a real disgrace that they're not in.

I mean, I'm glad Alabama's in, but Nate and I've had many sports arguments. I feel like he's been wrong a lot, but one of the ones that when they fired Mark Rick for Kirby smart, I'm like, what are you doing? Kirby Mark Rick has taken this program to 10 and Nate's like, yeah, but he's been there forever and you're not to that next level. You got to take it to the next level. Right. I thought it was crazy. Obviously you're right now. They're the most dominant program in college football. And where's Mark Rick at now?

Well, he went to Miami. He's like a wonderful person. I think he's got some health issues. Yeah, yeah. I think like that. But Mark Rick did. I mean. I'm not saying he's a bad guy. No, no, no, no, no. I mean, he got his doctorate. Yeah, where's the doctor? No, he's a good person. He has health issues. He's a good person. So relax a little bit. So maybe back it down. He's a wonderful person. He lives next door. Yeah. And so. The Nashville Stars. Yeah.

Yeah, he was. Yeah. Well, sometimes the person has to come in to do all the work to build it up. That's a lot on someone. And then it's like you can get it up to this one level and then it's just kind of, you know, it's everything's kind of probably against you. Like there, you know, people just want to see a new person.

thing flashy kind of thing yeah what's another what's a not sports one do you have a not sports one i got a lot of actors john travolta his career was kind of dead and and then when paul fiction look who's talking well that's when they were saying what was his career the p was grease grease and saturday night fever saturday night fever so good i just watched it not long ago so good and then it was and then it went to the look who's talking and and all that goddy

I watched Dark Knight. Did I say this? No. I watched Dark Knight. The first Batman? Yeah. I watched the first two. That's the second one. Yeah, I just watched those two. The Joker one and the Bane one. Yeah, second. Yeah, the Bane was so good. For them to have to follow that Joker, you go and then you follow it with Bane. You're like, that's pretty awesome. Someone told me that when Bane opens the door,

prison that the the original script was to have joker come out of the prison because joker would have been in there so when bane opens it joker comes out and that was going to be in the third movie what happened to joker well he's a wonderful person and yeah yeah i mean i think the dark knight ends with when he's caught he's like i'm always gonna be part of your life you can't

Because he could have killed him. He could have let him fall off that building. Yeah. And he catches him. And he was obviously playing for future movies, I think. It's too bad the Joaquin Phoenix Joker wasn't around at that time. I felt like that would have been a good villain. I've never watched that. That's good, too. Yeah. They're making a second one. Yeah. Yeah. I always think, like, Dark Knight, I was, like, watching. I was like, that's the stuff, like, I want to make. Like, you know, not Dark Knight, but, like, the...

But you see, like, you know, that's not dirty. It's PG-13 because of the violence. But it's not even... They don't show insane violence on there. You know, it's like a good... It's as violent as your act. Yes. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All we need is more superhero movies. Get some original ideas. Yeah, I know. It's all about the... Sensibility. Yeah, the sensibility of that kind of movie is like you could just go... I feel like that's what movies were. They were...

nothing's too dirty into the two graphic. Nothing's too, you know, it's not a whole thing, but you're not making kid movies. You can make the dark night. Yeah. When an Oscar and you're just like, yeah, we're just not going to show the inside of a body. You know, I agree.

That's like where that with the, what's the Ryan Reynolds Deadpool. It's like, they were like, Oh, uh, R rated superhero movie. And I'm like, I was just like, I enjoyed Deadpool, but I was just like, yeah, all the movies are R rated now. It's like, it's not so it's like, Oh, a superhero movie. The kids can't say that's a bummer. I walked out of that movie. Did you? Yeah. With Deadpool within three minutes. Oh, really? Well, packed theater, uh,

A joke I didn't think was funny got a huge laugh, and I thought, I'm going to be miserable this whole movie. I'm just not in the mood to watch. I just got up and left. Have you watched it since then? No, I don't think I ever will. First one I liked. Two I didn't like as much. I don't want to watch that guy be charming and funny for two hours. No interest in that. Do you think that's what you would look like if you lost the weight? I could see that. You could be right. When you look at him, you go, God.

It should be me up there. I can see you being a Ryan Riddles. I'll take it, man. You get a Ryan Riddles. I'll take it. Yeah. I get called Fat Brad Pitt all the time on TikTok mostly. I think they're being mean. I can see it. You've had jokes that people have laughed at I've walked out on. I mean, it's like, I think this is funny. I can't sit through this whole set. Yeah, this crap. Yeah. I think it was mostly...

I hate being packed in in a movie theater. Now we're getting to it. That Godzilla movie last night. I mean, I had a whole living room to myself. That's all movies now. Yeah. Yeah. You know, just stretched out, but I was packed in like this, like the middle seat on a plane. I go, I'm not doing this, dude. I don't care about this movie. Were you with friends? I feel like you've told this story before. Yeah. Yeah. I told, I texted my friends and said, y'all enjoy the movie. I went to a bar next door and just drank by myself.

Yeah. I had a pretty good time. I like that. That's cool, man. Talk to a stranger at the bar. You believe about 80% of what he said? Yeah. Let's hang out out here. He's like, you know, I set up Ryan Reynolds with the Deadpool. You know. Winona Ryder. She was big in the 80s. Then she got some personal stuff. She was shoplifting.

And, you know, stranger things. Now she's back. It just goes to show people forget all this stuff. Like, I barely remember that. If you just stick around long enough. Shoplifting was her rock bottom.

Well, I mean, she maybe had some other issues. Okay. But it was a big thing. She was a. She dated Johnny Depp. She was a big actress when she was shoplifted. It wasn't like this before people knew her. Oh, I don't really. I didn't really know her. I only know for Mr. Deeds. And then on after that. What was she in before that? Edward Scissorhands. Edward Scissorhands. Beetlejuice. Heathers. I don't remember. This is in the 80s. You never seen Beetlejuice? No.

Yeah. Oh, that's a good one. You'd like that. I've seen Beetlejuice from the Howard Stern show. Yeah. Oh, not that guy. It's not that. Robert Downey Jr. I mean, well, Robert Downey Jr. is one. He was falling off until Iron Man came along. Michael Keaton is what I meant to say. Yeah. He was big with Beetlejuice and all that. And then until Birdman. Yeah, Birdman was unbelievable. Yeah. So good.

I loved it. Oh, I've seen Birdman. You know, I never saw that box one. What's the Netflix one with the bird box? Yeah. With Sandra Bullock. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. It's fun. It's fun. It is. It's not like it's not going to blow your mind. It's not the greatest movie ever made, but it's a fun movie, right? Yeah. If you like to see people kill themselves. It's a wild summer romp. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Okay. I didn't even know what it was about, so I didn't.

But just with Michael Keaton, though, you didn't think, I mean, like he wasn't doing well. I mean, I felt like Michael Keaton was always hot in the box offices. He was Batman. Batman. But that was a long time. Long time between that and. It was a multiplicity. That was a hot movie. Yeah, multiplicity was fun. Multiplicity was great. Hey, I felt like. Mr. Mom. Mr. Mom. That's a great one. Yeah, those are the. Well, multiplicity, it's not maybe, but those. Mr. Mom's early 80s. To me, Michael Keaton was always top.

I feel like they just maybe take some time and then they go, you know. Yeah. Any predictions for the college football playoffs this weekend?

Alabama, uh, Alabama wins over Michigan and Texas wins. And we get an Alabama, Texas national championship. Exactly what I think will happen. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and the whole country will be furious. I think Alabama wins out and Alabama wins the whole thing national. And then Nick Saban will surpass the amount of national championships that bear Bryant had at Alabama. Uh, and it will be a big deal. And, uh, uh,

you know, all the world will be right for a little while. What about Florida State and Georgia? Georgia destroys them. I think so too. Absolutely destroys them. Yeah. All right. Well, another year. Bye.

You're in Miami this weekend. I'm in Miami this weekend. Uh, crazy. Amelia, Amelia arena, uh, near Fort Lauderdale sunrise Florida. But so, I mean, if you're down there, you know, it is near kind of near Miami, near Fort Lauderdale, all that, uh, awesome show. Awesome. New Year's Eve show. Uh, we got, um, Julie McCall's hosting, uh,

All the people that did our special, Greg Warren, Joe Zimmerman, Mike Vecchione, my dad, then me. It's going to be just a really great time. So everybody, come out. We would love for you to come out, and it'll be fun. Come celebrate the New Year's Eve, December 31st, and then I'll be back out there January 11th to be finishing up the run. We got a fun run.

All in the round coming forward. Oh, thanks. So I'm excited. Yeah, I've done the round. Bridgestone Arena. First one. I'm off this weekend, but next weekend I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma at Looney Bins, January 4th, 5th, and 6th. You know, I was supposed to be there in October, but then you were there at the same time.

And so I asked them if we could move it because, you know, I thought that's not a good idea. You don't want to pull too many tickets from Nate. Yeah. I did it for you. But the guy who's featuring for me, who I haven't met, but he reached out to me and said, he asked if he could feature. And I said, sure. I felt bad for him. Like if he couldn't do it now. So I reached out and said, Hey, just so you know, uh,

I'm moving this show to January. Hope you can do it. He's like, man, I think that's a good idea because I had tickets to see Nate. And now I get to go. So he was happy that I delayed his show. So he can go see you. Yeah, I think we talked about this, but it was. Yeah, well, I would think it'd be maybe a good thing. I told you shows at the same time.

I mean, I think it could be. Probably would have been. Yeah. It could have been a good thing. Well, like my shows at that same club, the Tulsa Looney Bin, they were the same weekend as Dusty was at another club across town. So they were like, let's move that. So we did.

Yeah. You don't want to back them up. People could go and like, yeah, but if you just, you, you go like, I'm going to go that show. Then I'm gonna go to that show. We'd pull from each other. Yeah. Who knows who would get the most. It's a tall set, but I did it for you. Thanks. Well, I see that Nate is going to be in Columbus, Ohio, January 11th and 12th. Uh, if you want to do two weekends of comedy in a row in Columbus, I'm at the Columbus funny bone. Uh,

January 7th, one night or Sunday night. Great club. Come on out. It is a great club and new years. Uh, if you're nowhere around Florida, I'll be in salt Lake city, Utah, wise guys. Great. I'm doing six shows. I think it's, uh, you know, like the 29th, the 30th and the 31st, it's going to be hot. Uh,

So, yeah, do come. The Downtown Club. Oh, nice. I did New Year's with Nate once. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Look at that. Sick shows, man. Yeah, it's going to be a hot weekend. A lot of fun. I love Salt Lake City. Are you doing the countdown to midnight, do you think? What's that show? No, the show's at 830. Well, I mean, you're doing three hours on stage now. That's true. It might be. Who knows? Yeah.

Sometimes by getting to the request, it can go a while. I feel like New Year's Eve is like you do the show, you get it done, then everybody can go do whatever they want to go do after for their own New Year's Eve. Yeah, I love that. 6 p.m. and an 8.30 show. That's what I'm talking about. Dumb about 10. Me in bed before midnight. Yeah, exactly. It's not the real New Year's anyway. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you for the Funkos. Yeah, Funko Pops are awesome, man. Awesome. All right. Yeah. Look, we had a wonderful year. Thank you guys for listening. You know, we will be back for next year. And we love you. We hope you have a great year. How'd your year go? How'd your year, how your year is going? Or is it going to go? How do you think your year is going to go? Oh, that's a fun one. Yeah. That would be instead of that. You just say that. How do you think your year is going to go? Go. I, you know, I got some stuff that's better than even,

You go, I don't know. I think it could be. We're going to give it a go. We're going to give it a go. You ask, you go, how's your day going? And then you go, how do you think the rest of the year is going to go for you? Yeah. I like that. Yeah. Ask it like that. This day is brutal. Okay. But how do you think the rest of the year is going to go? Zoom out a bit. Yeah. Yeah. Happy New Year. We love you. See you later. Bye. Bye.

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The Nateland Podcast

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How Did Nate Land's Year Go?

What Were Some of Nate's Favorite Childhood Toys?

What Are Some Business Turnarounds?

Are There Any Predictions for the College Football Playoffs?

How Do You Think Your Year Is Going to Go?

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