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Hello folks and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Bargatze. We got everybody back. Everybody's back. Aaron, wherever Dusty's slaying. Everybody's back. I missed you guys. Back in the game. I feel like I haven't seen y'all in forever. Yeah, I missed you too. I missed you guys. You guys couldn't take the heat from all the...

blowback about the one hour episodes. That's right. It was fun to start a controversy and then just leave for a week and let y'all deal with it. You know, do you know we're back to two hours? I do know that. Yeah.

I didn't really tell you. Dusty called me furious. Oh, I figured. Dusty wants to give you three. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I want to get, you know, I want to get in depth there. We could leave and then let we go. And then there's the dusty hour where everybody leaves and Dusty just stays on. All bets are off. Yeah. I'd like to talk for an hour about this Super Bowl halftime show. Yeah. I mean, I could get into it, but yeah, no, it was fine. Yeah. No sponsors on the dusty hour. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You'd have to even, when we get done, go, whatever happens after this does not represent anything. A disclaimer. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. It's like a midnight hour type thing. Yeah. I like that. Take some calls. Yeah. Did you... We say you didn't like the...

Now, it used to be, I feel like they've gotten real tame now, but for a few years, it really seemed like some kind of ritual was going on on the halftime shows. But I think people have kind of caught on to it now. So now it's much more subtle type things, but I don't feel like...

You know, I'm not like an Usher fan. I mean, I was in 2003, you know, and I'm not hating on him. That was a great year for him too. Yeah, I'm happy he's having a real resurgence, I guess. Yeah. I don't know. And it was nice to see Lil Jon. Ludacris was fun. Ludacris too, yeah. I mean, I don't understand why Ludacris wasn't the whole halftime show. Yeah, I like Ludacris a lot. Like he's just very fun and he has a lot of songs. Yeah, I thought it was –

uh, I didn't think they, you know, what's funny is the, the camera shots, I didn't think were good. They never showed it from a big scope. Really. It was all kind of like, just right up on the person that was singing and you would see a lot of stuff going on behind them, but they never like showed, you know, I feel like when they did that one with Eminem, like you saw some big scope of, you know, that it was a big, big thing. And this one felt

Like, unless when they went on that stage and they zoomed out to show you the, that stage was cool. That was Circle. Yeah. But I thought it was just like, it just felt like, like, you know, it felt like an old person taking a picture where you go, boy, you're not getting everybody in there. That's what it felt like.

Which could be perfect. I mean, Usher might be how old? Is he my age, maybe? I don't know that we really needed the whole Usher taking his shirt off mid thing. It's like, who's that? He's 45 years old. Your age. You're younger. Who's that for? I mean, I'm a year younger. The Taylor Swift fans tuning in? Who is that for? Are you talking about Usher taking his shirt off? Yeah. No, I don't. That was for a lot of people. Yeah. I don't know. But there's, I do. Yeah, there's. Yeah. I'm just going to throw it out there. Not everyone was upset by it. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I don't think his... I mean, his one song that I liked, You Got It Bad. You remember that song? That was a hot song. And I felt like his version... And I'm sure it's hard to sing on the football in a football stadium. But what he did last night was not a good representation of a hot song. Yeah.

Well, yeah, it was in Vegas. I mean, I think it was just like a different vibe. I don't know if Vegas is the best vibe for a Super Bowl. I feel like Vegas feels like it's the best for a lot of stuff, but it's kind of its own thing that you're like, you don't need everything to be there. What's the perfect setting, you think?

I just think Vegas is too big. Vegas is making a big research. Like, I mean, they're, you know, they're trying to have, they have the Raiders there and, and they have just so much stuff going on now. And they have so many shows. It's just, everything's big. So the parties are big. It gets real. If you get tickets, tickets were the cheapest ticket was like 10 grand or something, nine grand to go sit there.

in there. And, uh, I just think Vegas is like, they got their own, like just be Vegas, be Vegas to the world. You don't need to be Vegas, you know, just be we're Las Vegas. I don't, you don't need another, you know, the Superbowl is its own Las Vegas.

In a craziness. It's like putting a hat on a hat. Yeah. So then you're going to go put it into like, you know, a town that's like, we're already ramped up to 50. Yeah. And then you're like, well, you, what are we going to do? Yeah. We're ramping up. Like you need to, that's why when it goes to like, you know, just not the main, not Vegas. Yeah.

The other cities are like, oh yeah, well, we get to have this big event and it's a big thing. It always seems like it's the same people in a touristy city. It's like a video game simulation where we're like, oh, we need tourists here. And then you place them there and they're the same. The first time I went to Vegas, I was like, oh, this is the same people that I used to see at Gatlinburg.

I mean, it just seems like the exact same people walking around every tourist place. That's just, you just, it's like, you just click and drag them to a new setting. Airbrush t-shirts. Yeah. I mean, matching fanny packs. I never saw more seatbelt extenders on a plane than leaving Vegas. I mean, it was, I mean, I was like, they run out. People got into it out here. Yeah.

They run out. I mean, Aaron asked for one. They're like, come on, man, not today. They go, not today. Look around. You're going to have to suck in, buddy. Look around, Slim. Yeah. I had a taxi driver tell me that it was better when the mafia used to run Vegas. He said it was more fun back then. I think everything was more fun back then. That's what I would think, too. I think everything, you know, they go, it was all...

I saw a video today or something about they interviewing like kids from the 60s or 50s or and they're like, what do you think it's going to be? I don't know if I believe this. It was like, was it going to be in the future? And they're like, I feel like it'll be.

you know, everybody, not, no one talks to anybody or all this stuff. No one has a connection with anybody. And I don't think it'll be very fun for the future, but it was, but now that I say this out loud and look back, you're like, what, why would these elementary kids know what the future was going to be? And,

In the 50s. Now I don't even believe that video. Oh, yeah. And I did believe it enough to bring it up one second ago. Sometimes you got to just say stuff. Say it out loud. Once you say it out loud, you go like, oh, what? What am I saying? Asking kids in the 50s? Yeah. That's interesting. But it could be fake too. I don't believe anything. Yeah, everything could be AI now. Yeah.

We can create AI stuff that looks pretty good. So what can they really do with it? Well, they could have, yeah. You know what I mean? They always say that the government has technology seven years ahead of us. When we get it, they've had it for seven years already.

So it's already better what they have. We're like a third world country to our own stuff we make. Yes. We get it when it's already like, we're not using that. Exactly. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Hmm.

They throw it down to, I mean, we could be eating AI food out here. Who knows? Yeah. They are. They have said that they're now approved to. AI generated food maybe. To serve lab grown chicken and meat to us. Oh yeah. Although that's AI. Artificial though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I can find a word for the eye in that, though. You had a few things to get off your chest. I feel like you've been locked up in a closet for a week and a half. I've been in L.A. doing podcasts where I couldn't say a lot of this stuff. Yeah. This is the podcast you can really let loose. You had to go with the flow in L.A. Yeah. I just had to be cool. I had to play it cool. Yeah. Yeah.

We were – so we had a good – Bates was out this week, and we had a fun week. We did. We were in Madison, Wisconsin, Omaha, Nebraska, and then Kansas City the night before the Super Bowl. The heart of America, dude. Yeah. I heard that show got canceled. Yeah. Yeah, our buddy John Reed, he was trying to do a joke and say, like, my show was canceled, so come to his show. Because he was in –

He was in Kansas City. So was Vecchione. Vecchione was at the other club in Kansas City. And so, yeah, then he went and he was trying to be funny and posted something canceled. And I was sick. And I wasn't. But the venue, I think, found out.

I think a few people got mad. When they introduced me, I would get such a pop that Nate was having a hard time following me. I mean, he would eventually get them. I thought it was his knee.

He thought a gunshot went off. No, no, it's just his joints. Don't mic those knees. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody did come, more than one, like, wow, he went up those steps better than I expected. Oh, my God. Well, we don't have a...

Yeah, because there's no railing. I know. That's tough. Look, I didn't even – I wasn't offended by the comment. I went up better than I expected. Yeah. Well, yeah, when there's no – like, we might have – should have put a railing there. Yeah. We had to have – you know. Or someone could lead you up.

Maybe we have a woman do it. A woman stands there and holds your hand as you go up. Or I take her arm. She leads me up. What would you do if you fell going up the stairs? What would your recovery be? I think about it all the time. I would sit about six to eight months. Yeah, at least. I look to see if they started the clock yet. I crawl up and I got 30 seconds left. Nate's like, wrap it up.

I would think that you, if you fell, you would get it. Your adrenaline would get you up, but then it would be when we saw Bates later, it would be,

Once it wore off. It'd be tough. I'd go straight to the bus. Yeah, yeah. We'd have to keep an eye on them. We played basketball two straight days. Yeah. We did a lot of activity. Yeah. They had, I mean, every place was awesome. Omaha had this great backstage area. You were inside and we played basketball. And we played basketball.

Uh, like three on three, four on team one. I got blocked by baits. Wow. Yeah. What? I mean, I do a tombo. Yeah, I do it. I went in, I was in his area by doing an underhand shot. So I'm low. And so one of my, one of my moves, my go-to moves is you go to do a layup and I'll go, you know, cause the person's hand up, I'll go under. Sure.

Well, he caught on to it and then, boom, smacked it down. Brian just hadn't gotten up there yet. You're just too slow on the initial move. You know, I'm taking the balls down in his village at the bottom. And then so he go, yeah, it's going to get knocked out. With moves like that, you would think that you would have said basketball player instead of soccer player when blending in as in another sport. Yeah, I mean, you're right. I guess I'm just good at everything. We watched him play basketball, though. It'd be tough to blend in. Good dribbler.

You know, looks at the ball the whole time. Like Stanley from The Office? Yeah. No, he does. He played good. I mean, yeah, Bates did good. He made some shots and lit it up. He's a quick release. Deceptively athletic. You can tell that you're... You're like, yeah, this guy was a decent athlete in the 50s. Did you do shirts versus skins? Yeah, I guess when he...

You know, he was playing basketball and the real hueser team was playing. He goes, yeah. So he was for Lebanon. It's not very decent. Oh, Adley right there. Four corners. Yeah. Just ran it out. Yeah. For a team that just runs the clock out. I watched a girls basketball team once to that. They ran the whole like.

Third quarter, fourth quarter. They just dribbled over the line and then just the girl dribbled. And it was... Because there's no shot clock. There's no shot clock. And then they stand back and there was no guard. It was younger. But I mean, it was... I want to say it was junior varsity maybe or something or...

And they just tribbled. And you just sit there and, I mean, it's one of those that you're like, I can't even believe I'm watching this. Yeah. Why wouldn't they put somebody on her to make her get a five-second call? I think if a team is doing that, the other teams probably, they're not playing a team that can, they're probably like, we'll take the break. Yeah. We're trying to get out of here anyway. Our parents are making us do this. Yeah. I think, yeah, everybody wanted to leave. We had family friends that were softball coaches, and he used to have

a hand sign to tell his players to tie their shoes just to run the clock out. And you could eat like 20 minutes off just people tying their shoes. Softball? Yeah.

With the children's leagues, they have a hard cut a lot of times, and there's a time limit. Just tie your shoes, take as much time as you need. I kind of like gamesmanship like that. You would think if there were some post-game press conferences for those. The kids love them? Yeah. They would go. Well, you want to just let them play, though. Yeah. You want to get the win. If you're winning and you've got 15 minutes left, let's eat a little bit of this clock, dude.

Yeah. You don't respect that at all? Well, I think you want to like- I think what you said, Dustin. It's gone. The moment's gone. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure it was great though. It was. You guys messed up. Yeah. I think people heard it. You guys messed up. It was going to be good. I think there's some people that were listening. It's fine, guys. I mean, you know what I mean? We're having a good time here. Yeah.

Yeah, your Netflix special is hot, so we got to knock you down a little bit. Yeah, that's right. You've been on the West Coast tear. Yeah, it is hot. Nationwide press tour out here. You won after midnight. I did, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's very cool. I did win after midnight, yeah. Congrats on that. Yeah, I mean, I rocked it. It was awesome. Welcome back to reality. Yeah, it was good.

I had a hot run out there. I did Neil Brennan's podcast. I don't think it's out yet. Blocks. Yeah, yeah. I did Adam Carolla's podcast. Nice. It was fun. I did Fortune, Feimster, Tom Papa. There you go. It was great. Netflix radio. Netflix radio. Right. Did some SiriusXM radio takeover things. Oh, okay. That's fun. And then I won after midnight. Now, I was only there two days.

And I don't really want to do spots. I'm like, I'm about to go to Milwaukee and do five hours of comedy. I'm good on the spot. Is that one show? Yeah. Yeah. Theater show. Well, yeah. I mean, if you really break it down, it was probably more like six hours. Yeah. Yeah. It gets a little long. Who were you with? Sarah Tiana? Sarah Tiana and London. I don't remember her last name right now, but it was all very funny. Bridges?

London Bridge? Yeah. London Bridge is falling down. Are you wearing the same thing you're wearing right now? Different hat, I think. Different hat. He's wearing his Dillard Hart hat. I think it was a bit of a different shirt. Same color. Yeah. Same idea. Yeah. I mean, every day it's the same idea. Everything's the same idea. I didn't get my Dillard Hart hat approved, though. That was exciting. Yeah.

You got it approved? Oh, yeah. Well, it's a big problem. Most of the time I wear my own hat if I do TV things because it's my design. So it's approved to wear. But this was such a homemade hat that they were like, yeah, there's no copyright on this. Oh, yeah.

Says Dale Earnhardt, seven-time champion. This is like Miss America where they're about to announce the winner. Yeah. It looks like you and Sarah. This looks like Duck Dynasty where the guy's got a billion dollars, so you got a girl like that. And you're like, I don't feel like. And then you hear Sarah talk. She's super sub into it. You're like, all right, well, it makes a little more sense. She's country than me. I know. She is. Well, I don't know. In accent. Oh, sure. In accent. Accent-wise. Yeah. Yeah.

Y'all two up there together. You know, and then we had a British girl and they say British is like a, you know, like Southern accent is like a slowed down British accent. So it's really just a. Did you try that out in real time talking to her? No, I don't know how to do any accents, but I did say that a couple of times to people. Yeah. That was a joke I did a couple of times. Yeah. People enjoyed it. Mm hmm.

If I get a joke that works at a party or something, I'll do it. I'll circulate it. Yeah. I'll do it a couple of times. Yeah. And then everybody's, did you hear about that? Do you hear the dusty? Yeah. And then once I've touched everybody, I'm out of there. That's it. When I show this, how much steak do you think you could eat in one setting?

Could eat or would eat? One of those contests where you eat this much. Not as much as you'd think. I mean, two pounds. Is that a lot? Let's say ounces, so it'd be regular. I could do the math. That's 32 ounces, right? 32 ounces. Is that about...

I don't know. That's a lot of meat. College ruins everything, dude. What are you talking about? That's a college answer. You go two pounds. No one even – just say three. I never even understand it when they go – when I go to the deli and they're like, you want a pound of meat? I go, I don't know what you mean. But sure, I've walked out with a pound and a half of meat because I don't know what – I don't know how to break it down. Look, and that's on me. But I'm saying in this game, we're trying to ask – it's a regular person asking –

We're asking you to come down to our level. Okay. So I'll try, but I think weight is not, not the question here. You should go for like surface area. There is like a 32 ounce steak that's at restaurants and it's normal. If you order a steak. Okay. I think so. Right. Three of those.

Three 32-ounce jigs? Yeah, so 96 ounces. That's a big difference. Yeah, the old 96er. You said not as much as you would think. That's more than I thought, I'll be honest with you. Well, the old 96ers are the great outdoors. Yeah. I was thinking 150, so he was right. Because if we get the gristle down, can we get some hats for the kids? If John Candy can't do it, I don't know. He did do it. Did he? Yeah, he walked up, the shirt's laying on his body. But didn't they say...

They know you got to eat the gristle and the fat. Did he do it? Yeah. I thought he didn't. And then, uh, then, then Dan, I caught it. Maybe he says, he goes, I think he says something. He was like a dessert down. And we throw in some hats for the kids. Yeah. A dessert down. Yeah. So like, uh, 96 ounce. I mean, what's the question is if I could, if I had to, like, if it was one of those contests where you get, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, our buddy Michael Clay came along with us this weekend on the trip, and I think I sent you a couple of pics of this. Somehow. You did not.

um somehow um oh he did yeah brian i gotta dude brian brian's like he'll find a way to send me like a 100 by 200 version of can you ever get a full-size resolution photo i don't think no well i mean it's just pictures taken by people's phones i know but why don't you can find like the real text them

I could, but I just thought with this computer, email would... With my computer, I can somehow generate a higher quality version of an image that's already been corrupted nine times. No, I'm just asking about

All right. I'll start texting them to you then. Yeah. That's all you got to do. Yeah. All right. I'm sorry. This guy's hat though. Michael Clay. I like his hat. Look at that guy. He looks like my uncle. You guys all right? We're good for sure. But yeah, yeah. He's like, you pull this image up. And I mean, the image is the size of a postage stamp. So I'm zoomed in, you know, 500 times. So it's just not a good quality photo. And that's on me.

No, I mean, I'm all right. It's all right. Well, we got to hash this out ahead of time. I'm sorry about that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Everybody had to peek behind the curtains here. Three quarters of his life before computers are born and you want to make him out of your mind. But every time I sit you. No, you didn't. Oh, yeah, you did. Actually.

You're going to send an email? You're lucky you got an email. Well, there's one photo. There's no subject. Nothing was written in the email. What do you expect that picture to be? That kind of is on you. Justin's peeping over his shoulder like, I wish I'd have got that. You're mad at a time machine for not sending you a good picture.

Anyway, there's two photos labeled steak eating contest. We don't know where that other one is. Anyway. So Michael Clay, me and him moved to Chicago together from our water meter reading jobs at West Wilson. And so we went from Chicago. We moved from Nashville to Chicago to start comedy. So me and him lived there for two years. And we...

We did some Second City classes. I did for just eight weeks or something. And then I started with my stand-up classes, then stand-up. He did like a year course at Second City. So Michael comes on the road with us. And so the original idea of this bet was because a long time ago when we were in Chicago back, you know, we have no money. We're waiting tables and

It was like our birthdays or something. And so we go eat at this restaurant. And I want to say it was me, him. I want to say our buddy John that we also live with. I'm not positive. But so we have a steak. We have like he eats like a 30. Do you remember the ounces he said? Like 20 years ago? Yeah. I thought it was 40 something. Yeah. So how many pounds is that? A little over two pounds.

Yeah. Oh, is it? Two and a half, maybe. Two and a half. So, yeah, it was like 40-something ounce or whatever. But he ate a potato. He had salad. He had oatmeal. And he goes, I could eat another steak. So back then, you know, we're 24 years old. We're like, well, if you can eat another steak, if you eat it, we'll pay for it. But if you don't eat it, you got to pay for it. And so he goes, all right, I'll do it. So then he gets another steak. And, yeah, so it's going to be – it ended up being – but he's already had so much other stuff. And so it's going to end up being like 40-something ounces of steak.

And he gets to the last bite and he can't do it. I mean, the last bite. He was like, I'm going to throw up if it goes. I cannot make it go down. If he'd have thrown up with that, it made the whole thing invalid. Yeah. So keeping it down was part of the bet. Also, you just don't want to throw up in the middle of a restaurant. Yeah, yeah. For a free steak, I don't know. So what we did was...

We normally he was he would have had to pay for it, but we just all split that extra steak just because he did get it basically get it all down. Yeah. So cut to 20 years. Now we're back at it. And I'm telling that story. This steak. This is in Madison. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, great. Tornado. Yeah, Tornado Steakhouse. Yeah, they had a tornado that night. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tornado Steakhouse. And so, yeah, so we eat. I ordered a steak that was like a 30 or 28 ounce ribeye.

And it was enormous. So when I get there and I get it, so I mean, I eat a barely little bit. I shouldn't have ordered that big of a steak. He had a 20 ounce steak, I think. Right. And so he had a 20 ounce steak. And then I was like, you think you could eat this one? And so I kind of bring that up. And then so we handed my steak. And so now he's eating probably a good 45, 45 ounces of steak.

And bets were made. And he had the sides already and he had all that stuff. So bets were made if he could make it or if he could do it or not do it. And he did it. Yeah. He did it. I won. Me and Bates, I won too. You bet on him. You said he could do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys got a real gambling problem, it sounds like. Yeah. Yeah. Not if you win. Yeah. That's true. So I did. It's only a problem if you lose. Yeah. Yeah. Me and Brian bet on him to win. And then...

And then everybody, yeah. So it was fun. Yeah. He was, did he eat that hamburger there with the sauce there? Yeah. They brought that out too. But I mean, man, it was, I love a French dip. It was a lot of food. It was a lot. It was a very fun night though. Cause it was like, we were just all sort of arguing what's left on the bone. Like it's just a very, it was a very fun, uh, fun night. Yeah. You eat that much steak. You're going to need a doctor.

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all with verified patient reviews. So don't settle. Go for the best and find the right doctor for you. With ZocDoc, you've got more options than you know. It is a free app and website where you can search and compare highly rated. This is a photo that Pimp took. Yeah. So it's unbelievable quality. Yes. But what I was sent was, I mean, this is a 82 kilobyte. I mean, this could not be a smaller image. Yeah, so I don't know what happened along the way. How many pounds is a kilobyte? Yeah.

Where did you get that picture from? I took it. Wait. No, this is a picture by Mike Lavin. It says it right here. Oh, okay. There were some I took, but I guess I just sent you the ones. But even you scan it, I mean, when you send it, what happens? It shrinks? Did you take a screenshot of it on your phone and then email it to me? I don't remember. Okay. Well, that doesn't help.

I would argue maybe bring it up sometime before episode 190. Not while we're on the podcast. Yeah, I thought it might be building up for 190 episodes.

I was trying to throw you a bone, and you're like, you don't even know how you sent it. You don't recall any of this. And you're like, well, now I don't know what to tell you, bro. I also think the quality looks great. I don't recall this dinner. Do we really need a high def? Do you think this quality looks great? Well, what do we need? We really need a high def of this guy cutting a steak here? I mean, yeah, this is a high production quality podcast. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, we put it all out there.

I can tell that's a French dip. It looks like he's got kind of an old telephone. The issue is not can you tell what it is. It's just if we have a high quality. You know what I'm saying? Look, when you carry this podcast like I do, I can't remember everything. You three bring nothing to the table. So I'm not going to be able to remember everything. I'm kind of the only one defending you here. I don't know why you're.

You're right. You're right. The new Beyonce song. The Beyonce song that came out last night in the Super Bowl looked at the writer's credits written by Beyonce and Brian Bates. Did you see that? Did anybody tag in that? No. Evidently, there's a songwriter named Brian Bates, and he's writing songs with Beyonce. But when you click on the info for a Beyonce song, that's not what you expect to see. Yeah. It's written by Brian Bates. So yet another Brian Bates doing better than I am. Well, I think only one can make it.

Well, there's a few out there fighting for the title because as I've said before, I get Google alerts every day about Brian Bates and they're all doing a lot better than I am. You ever see the movie with Jet Li called The One? No. It's like where there are lots of different universes of you in it. And then this one guy is going around and he's going to all the universes, killing the other version of himself. And then each time you do, the others get a little more powerful. Oh, that's what Brian needs to do. Yeah. Yeah. Is it fun?

It is fun. Yeah. I mean, it's violent, but it is a fun movie. Yeah. Yeah. Jet Li is awesome. Yeah. If you watch that tonight, I will be furious. You just start watching all these other movies based on just that flimsy recommendation. It's great though. I've been hyping up the greatest movie of all time for three years now. But it's a whole thing. It's not that big of a thing. You gave me a big thing and that seemed like a fun. It's a loose, fun, easy watch. Yeah.

Yeah. Not a lot of. Shawshank is not that. No. That's what I mean. It's like I'm not looking to write a history book. Shawshank can leave you being like, jeez. I mean, it's good. Yeah. There's a lot going on. Yeah. You got to leave. I'm watching this show on Netflix called Fool Me Once.

Just because they got, they said, well, 37 million people watch it. I go, all right. And I don't think I, it's good. I mean, I don't know if I love it. That's all it took? 37 million people watch it? Yeah. Like I just, I thought, well, let me give it a go. And like, it's this, you know, now I got to see the end because it's all changing, but it doesn't make sense. And,

it's this, what if nobody's watching it? Really? They fooled you. They might've. I think that as I watch it, I think that, well, my Netflix show, it was number two and number one was fool me once. Yeah. Yeah. What'd you call it? Fool me once. Yeah. Fool me once. Fool me once. And then, uh, yeah. So it was, yeah, that girl, Michelle Keegan. So the thing, the hard part to get, she's great. Uh,

Yeah, look at that, 84 million. It is the ninth most viewed Netflix series of all time. Yeah, I don't know how. I mean, it's a very much you don't know what's going on, and then a lot of stuff happens where you're like, well, what is going to happen here? So it's great at like... I feel like it's a simplistic thing to keep you every end of the episode, you're like...

Well, now I got to see what the next cliffhanger at the end. Yeah. Yeah. But they do good. They do good with that. But the problem is that Michelle, the main woman, I mean, my that plays my stern. She's I mean, does it show how tall she is or something there? I wonder. She probably has to be five, four hundred and twenty pounds. And she's like Jack Reacher. Yeah.

Like she just beat people up in the show. And she just talks to her brother-in-law, like gets frustrated once. She's like, Oh, give it up. Give it a break. Her brother was six, four to 10. And her brother goes,

She goes, give it a break. I'll put you on the floor in two seconds. And he's like, you better not. And he just goes forward and she twists his hand and he goes to the ground. He's like, oh, all right. Leave me alone. That's where they get the title from. Yeah, maybe. Before he wants. Yeah, maybe that will come at it. Like I'm not saying I don't like it. It's just very...

It's very like kind of crazy when you're watching it. You're going like, I'm watching this tiny, tiny girl. I mean, she talks to giant dudes like they are bumps. It's exactly like Jack Reacher. But Jack Reacher is believable. 6'5", 6'6". But Tom Cruise was short. People didn't like that.

in the movie. That's what they said. And they actually messed up. I didn't know that until after, but they didn't like that because the point of Jack Reacher is like, you are big. Tom Cruise is...

You wouldn't think that. He was a great. But he was a great. Yeah, he was a great Jack Reacher. Is he short in the movie or do they trick with the camera? I don't know if you know. Yeah. And Tom Cruise, no one's ever really above Tom, like in their height wise. You never see them. They do it where you could be like, who knows how tall he is in this movie? I know he's not tall, but everybody's his height, really. So it doesn't really, you know.

And so I get it. I mean, that makes sense. You know, it's like, what's the difference of it? But it just it's hard for me to take the like I don't you know, but I have a hard time. I mean, she just that guy was he's drunk. I mean, it's all the things that are maybe not. I think he was, you know, he drank a little bit. I mean, a big, big guy.

And she's like, I'll put you down the ground. And then she just like twist his hand and he goes to the ground. He's like, oh. Yeah. And he's like, all right. All right. But also if like he knows he knows this woman like and she know he knows she has this superpower. Yeah. Then he wouldn't be like lunging for her.

Yeah. Well, he wasn't like lunging. He was trying to grab something like back, but then she hit, she hits another guy in, uh, this other cop. This dude again is six, four. And this dude is looks, I mean, he's got a suit on, but he is looks jacked. Yeah. And, uh,

She like he like kind of touches her not even crazy Just touches her look which maybe this all adds up and I'm saying this maybe this is all gonna play into touches her a little bit and then she just hits him in the chest and he's like oh and yet like I get in that she walks by him and he like kind of flinches and you're like you're

I mean, you're like three times her. Yeah. Maybe she's a superhero. Maybe. That'll be revealed in the end. Yeah. Then it'll be good. No, I, I, I've been, it's, I mean, it's definitely, it feels like a kind of trashy TV. Like, uh, you know, I think like where it's, uh,

Yeah, not saying that. I'm not trying to be, yeah. You know, it feels like just something, yeah, you would be. It does feel like a British television. It is British, so. Everybody's British. Feels a little British. No, a little too British because everybody's British in it. A little trashy. Maybe it is because everybody talks British. Then you're also like, you like that. Yeah. And then you're, you know. All right.

Did you have anything? Oh, I've already covered mine. Yeah. I haven't been here a while. I was in Chicago. I had a great weekend in Chicago. Added a show, which I've never really had to do before. Pretty cool. Three shows in one day, which is pretty exhausting. It feels dumb to say, but.

uh yeah thank you to everyone that came out to chicago and then i was dating this weekend it was great so thank you to everybody all right yeah i just did milwaukee uh at the improv at uh four of the five shows sold out last time i was there with you club too with you um yeah we weren't anywhere close to that and a few years back so it was awesome really great time all right we

Good for you guys. Yeah. We're trying out stuff out here. Working it out. We're trying. Start with you guys' comments. Damien HBC. I have to admit, I was one of the people that commented in a negative way about the last podcast. And to see Nate address and fix the issue is truly great. I apologize and admit I was too quick to judge. Thank you so much for the long format again, gentlemen. And God bless.

Thanks. Yeah, no problem, Damien. Anything for you, bud. He went too far, though. He brought your mom into it. I mean, it was out of hand. I feel like you're feisty something today, too. What? I feel like this corner could be in trouble. We're going to have to work through some negative energy over here. You do sell out arena shows, you know. A little feisty. Ego. That's what I just hit. Yeah.

This is very funny. Yeah. So someone, Katie stuns made this shirt for us and I survived the hour of nightland podcast, January 24, 2024 to February 7th, 2024. Yeah. Very funny. It was a wild time. That's a great shirt. Yeah. I did have a lot of people after the shows this weekend. Tell me they're like,

you know, I work, I'm a mailman or I work a job. Like I'm happy. It's going to be longer. Cause I just listened to it. Yeah. Uh, hope or Sini. No, no, I just, uh, I think that's funny. That's all.

I just think it's funny. Is that a mailman? No, no, just out of all mailmen. Yeah, it was. This was real tragic for people. Yeah, people were on suicide watch for a minute when you're thinking about and it never was an hour. I don't think we ever did an hour podcast. I think the shortest we ever got was an hour and a half.

Hour 14. Oh, hour 14. It was hour 14, hour 19. I think it was just people just trying to be nice to us and compliment us. Okay. Yeah, yeah. And I mean, you know, maybe there is a thing. Don't do 200 episodes and then go, I'm going to change it all to an hour. You know, I learned something. Hope we're seeing. It feels like people came and threatened your life in a way.

Like you were like, you know what? We'll do the two. Yeah. I think people were, I just thought people were more, they're, they're excited. You know, I'm not, you know, uh, hope or Sini Mike's background laughing fits. Uh, I read them like they're all, I think periods after stuff.

Mike's background laughing fits are incredible and contagious. Episodes without Aaron are always missing his giggles, but Mike filled that part perfectly in this one. There you go. Mike's great. Mm-hmm.

Okay. Mary Ellen Goodwin. He is great. No comment. I don't know about Mike's laughing fits. Yeah, he's fun to get laughing. Yeah. He'll get going. He's fun on the road because you just see him. He'll lose it. He'll lose it and he'll be caught on something. It's maybe early and then he's just kind of gone. Oh, yeah. And it's fun. Mary Ellen Goodwin. Oh.

Only Nate would say he ate seven donuts out of a dozen and four left. So I did eight. Yep. Apparently so. Yeah. A couple of people commented to me about how many donuts you ate. Eight. Wow. In one podcast? Yeah. Was it a competition or were you just eating while you were going? No one knew. No, no one knew. I just surprised, you know, gave the people what they want.

Donuts are delicious. No one's still near there. Like, I don't understand this part. No, they do not. He's eating a lot of donuts. In LA, I had some donuts at a place called Sidecar and I had a couple of old fashioned donuts. And I was like, man, I've not eaten a donut in a while. And I was like, that's a good donut. What's an old fashioned donut?

The only other old fashioned I've had is at Dunkin Donuts. Starbucks has one. Okay. And it's like. It's like a glaze. Like a cake glazed. Okay. And the Dunkin Donuts is not glazed. I thought you meant like the drink in old fashioned. Oh no. A donut of that. No, no. It's just like. Of alcohol? Yeah. It's like an old fashioned. I think it's like before we started frying them, this was the old fashioned way. Okay.

Delicious. That side card, I mean, it's not out of the realm of possibility. They have like an alcoholic confused. I bet they do have an alcoholic drink. I don't know. What are you going to do? Take a shot and then eat the donut? Or there's like rum inside of it or something. You never know, dude. I don't know. They're doing wild stuff with pastry out here. Yeah, I don't think they're doing that. It's only been going since 2012. The world's freshest donuts. Seems fun, though. Where is that? It was in L.A. next to a Trader Joe's.

Got a few donuts in there and I was tearing it up. Oh, yeah. I love a donut. Yeah. I like a donut too. Would you go in there and sit there and eat alone? No, no. I was with someone. I mean, I would have eaten alone. I like to do stuff like that alone. It's nice. Yeah. I like to sit alone, look at people. I love that. Listen to their conversations. It's so fun. I'm all about it. I'm all about being a little bit of a creep. Yeah.

Justin Gibson. I love this episode, but it did make me miss Aaron a little bit when Blue Belt didn't even try to pull up the picture Justin was talking about or the end of the Super Bowl that the Titans lost. Yeah, that's fair. The picture he was talking about was at the first Super Bowl, the quarterback was smoking a cigarette in the locker room. Yeah, so that's fair. Aaron's very good.

Pull that stuff up. But I was also trying to- Was that Joe Namath smoking the Zingler? No, this was Lynn Dawson. Oh, okay. I saw that picture, and for some reason, I thought that was Joe Namath. Same era. Look at that, dude. The good old days, huh? That's what I'm saying. What is he drinking? That's what half my special is about. Fresca. Wow. Drinking just a Coke, soda, whatever, right there. Yeah. That's insane, dude. That is insane. It's a tough game.

Victoria Brown saw Dusty for the second time this past weekend. I was at the Friday night late show in Milwaukee. It is always a bummer when someone in the audience can't keep it together and become a problem. But Dusty, you handled it so well and had the entire club laughing in support. Love the new hour. All right. Thanks, Victoria. Yeah, I mean, it was just a lady. She kept like commenting a lot. And then I just had to be like, I just had to like really make the lady be quiet.

And then it was fine. But yeah, it's just like, I don't know. I feel like sometimes people want you to... Because I was like, hey, I was basically like, hey, will you be quiet? And she was like, I love you. And I was like, well, show me that you love me and stop talking. And I'm like, I don't... I feel like sometimes they want you to do crowd work with them and mess with them. And I'm like, I don't want to do that. I'm doing a thing. Let me do this thing. I don't want to be mad at you. I don't want to embarrass you. I don't want...

You just all of a sudden get mad and be like, oh, now he's mad at me. I just want you to just stop talking. Yeah. You know, this is about me. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, it's like it is, though. It's like it's not about me. It's about the all the other people that are in this audience that want to see me. Yeah. And this lady's like, you know, all drunk, somehow got up front. And I'm sure she's a very nice lady.

She's by herself. She was with another lady that seemed pretty embarrassed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She was. And this, like, I'm sure deep down that lady that was embarrassed wanted me to roast her friend.

And I'm like, that's not what I do. Anytime I try to roast people, people are like, oh, that was mean. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, okay. Well, I was trying to be fun. You remember when I was opening for you? I feel like you don't show remorse. No, no. I guess. Maybe that's it. Yeah. So I'd rather not do it. Yeah. You know? It's like a serial killer. You're like, oh, no, I'm going to kill you. I'd rather just not go in your house. Yeah. Because you're like, what happened? You come in and do it.

I'll do what I do. Exactly. I mean it. Exactly. Yeah. Sorry. That's good. I was open for Dusty once in Minnesota and this lady came up to us before the show and said, can you make fun of our friend? She has really bad skin. Do you remember that? I do remember that. Rochester, Minnesota. Yeah. She was like, our friend has like horrible skin. Can you please make fun of her? And Dusty was like, no.

I'm not going to just make fun of somebody for having acne. Especially some kind of weird specific thing that you know your friend is probably very self-conscious about. Oh my gosh, yeah. But I did notice her, who she was talking about. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Oh, her skin was. Can you imagine if I just unloaded on this lady's skin? Out of the gates and just come out there. Oh my gosh, put her in the back. What's up with your skin? I think it was her birthday and she wanted to make fun of the birthday girl with the bad skin. And Dusty was like,

It's not really the kind of show I do, just so you know. Yeah. I hope that's not anyone's show. And for the record, that show I was practicing to do a Tonight Show. So I was doing my first five, which was really good. Really good. And then the next 45 was like, okay. And so it was like that show, each show would start so hot. Like the audience was like gearing up for the best show they had ever seen. And then after that five, it would drop off pretty hard. Yeah.

Yeah, the up top, so tight. Yeah, yeah. And I'm pulling chunks out of all my other good bits. So it's like, it got weak. So you can't even go back to it. Yeah. Nate Holstein. Heard Brian talk about asking a stranger about the daycare. Wanted to ask if the guys have any tips for the new girl dads. Are things they wish people told them before becoming a parent?

My wife is due with a girl later this year. It's her first child, and I'm trying to collect as much input from experienced dads as I can. Yeah, I mean, it's the best, man. It is the best. It's the greatest thing ever. We don't do daycare. It's not really advice. We're in a good spot. It's not really advice. I mean, you know, it's like I never know what to, what are you going to, you know, it's. Just do it. It's your little girl. Yeah. Like, it's like you're, it's just going to, she's going to be your little girl, and it's, you know.

I don't know. I like...

For old parents, I'd say get soft floors because we got hardwood floors and it's killing me. Oh, really? I can't get up. You mean you keep dropping your daughter? Well, I'm on the floor playing with her and it's killing my knees and I can't get up. Get soft floors if you drop them a bunch. He said for old parents, get soft floors because it is. It's hard to hold a baby. They're wiggling. Yeah, that's very, yeah.

Well, that's a good note. I mean, because we got a lot of carpet and we are on the floor a lot and it's very easy. I mean, I'm not even making an age joke. I mean, I'm not as old as you, but I'm not that far behind you. It would be...

he can't, if y'all racing, he can't see you, but yeah, you're not that far behind. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Yeah. 20, 30 years, but he's not worried about it. Yeah. If you're in a race, do you feel like you can be prepared for everything? Or is there just a moment of like, you got the kid now you're like, well, well, I'm trying to think like, you know,

Yeah, I don't know. I'm not a good advice. I don't know. I don't know what to say. I can say this for me. It's like, we don't have a lot of family around. I mean, my wife's family's in Canada. My family's in Alabama. And it's like-

We just had a baby and then they just, they made sure we had a car seat and then they just let us go. Yeah. And then we just get home and we're like, oh, now we have to just, we have this baby now. Yeah. For good. We went from being these like two, you know, childless people in a house. Artists. Artists where we did whatever we wanted selfishly with all our time, uh,

And we're both pretty independent people. And now all of a sudden we just have this baby. She keeps waking up in the night. We don't know what's going on. We don't know how to, we keep calling the doctor all the time going, is this normal? Is this okay? And then, you know, not to be just too much info on my wife, but she, you know, we, we were not bottle feeding. And then like when you've never had a kid, sometimes the milk doesn't just come and

And it was like, we were like, are we starving our baby to death? What's happening? But it all worked out and it was all so great.

And I, it's the best thing that ever happened. I'm so pumped. So you do have advice. I'm so pumped. Uh, yeah, just like, you know, I mean, you know, don't be afraid to call the doctor, but also. I never thought I'd hear Dusty say that. Well, believe me, I did not want to, but it's not myself. I call, I mean, go to the top window and yell his name out in the field. And he, and then the largest cow comes over and you talk to it. Uh,

But it was very helpful. I mean, find a doctor that you like. We did find one that we liked and we trusted and, you know, and they're out there, you know? Yeah. I think that you're, it is good advice. Like that is, yeah.

You'll be nervous, but everything that you think is like, well, mine's the only baby that's ever done this, every baby has done that. And that's the hardest part because you're like, are they fine? And then you're like, yeah, they're fine. And don't be afraid to. Because you always worry about if they're cold. I'd always say that. I remember my mom saying, were you cold? And you're like, no. You're like, they're fine.

And it's also like your kids. So don't be afraid to, you know, do, you know, make your own call. Like, it's like when I was in the hospital, I was like, they wanted to, I was like, I don't know. I didn't want them to just take my baby away. Like the hospital I was at, you know, they had like these little things they put around their ankle and it's an identifier and, uh,

I've read stories where a nurse was like, I swapped out babies, hundreds of babies. And it's like- That's hundreds. Yeah, that makes sense. And it's like, yeah, I mean, I don't... It's like we all have this idea, right? That like everybody in the hospital is just angels. And it's like, maybe they all are, right? Most of them are probably all great people. But everywhere you work, there's got to be one person that's a little devious. And they're like...

And so it's like, I didn't want him to just take my baby away. Eventually, we're like so sleepy. We are like, yeah, do take her to the nursery. But... I don't know if that's the advice he wanted. I'm just saying, don't be afraid to... Don't be afraid to not trust your hospital and the people that are... Exactly. Yeah. It's your kid. I mean, that's... Yeah, don't remember. It's your kid. It's your kid and your whole life... The government does not own that kid. And your whole life, it's your kid and it's your job to protect them. So...

I'd say you got to take care of yourself as well as your child. And the best way to do that is AG1. Oh, yeah. You got to take care of your body. That was good. Taking care of your health isn't always easy, but it should at least be simple.

That's why for the last year, we've been drinking AG1 every day. Just one scoop mixed in water once a day, every day. And it makes me feel ready to take on the day. A lot of days I feel like in this. That's because each serving of AG1 delivers my daily dose of vitamins, minerals, and probiotics. That's what they do. That's what the news people do. They just read the word. They don't even think about what they're reading. You probably can't have it really in motion tied to it.

Yeah. See, I like to get into it, but if this is a new, like, you don't be like, Oh my goodness, can you believe this happened? Like you just need to say it. I should have read this one time before just reading it out loud here, but I like to, I like to try to, you know, get into it and really try to put some,

some love into it. When I did a Carol Sullivan, her show, the Nashville daytime show. Did you just do it recently? I think so. Yeah. I, when I was sitting with her on the couch, she was reading off the teleprompter. There were like four errors in it and she just corrected it on the fly. It was impressive to watch. Yeah. I told her that after they were done, I go, that was amazing. She's like, yeah, I do this every day. Yeah. Yeah. That's anyway.

Yeah, she's great. Yeah, but I mean, that's why you do have to be kind of mentally, you got to be thinking, you just got to make sure I'm saying the words.

But this was like, it was something about a fair and it said circus themed, but it said circle themed. That's what came up. She just corrected it to circus. So you have to have a little context of what you're talking about. After the broadcast, they were like, it's actually circle themed. Yeah. What happened out there? It's a circus. We got a lot of circles. They don't take it on. Tina Bletchley, Bletchley, Bletchley.

Wow. Tina. Bletchley. Bletchley. I bet it's Blackle. Blackle. Tina Blackle. That's probably better. Blackle. None of these are good. What would you say? I wouldn't say any of these. I'm saying it's a tough name no matter how you say it. Blashill. Blashill. Blackle. Blackle. I bet it's Blackle. Tina Blackle. Might be Tyna. No. Okay.

Brian's factored about how the Super Bowl got its name. Help me win a T-shirt from my favorite radio station. They prove Nate Land still belongs in the podcast education category. All right. We're doing it. Don't say we never did nothing for you. That's right. Is that quick? Can you say that real quick? How did they get it? One of the owner's sons had a ball called the Super Bowl. And the owner said, well, we should call this championship game the Super Bowl. Oh, okay. That stinks.

Yeah. Okay. It's what Nate said last week. All right. Yeah. The fact or the... The fact. That's a pretty boring story for why they call it that. Yeah, yeah. No, nothing about you. Okay. All right. Well, you guys are in unison about that, then. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's just not a fun... I think it sounds like a lie. The folks thought it was interesting. So, I guess you guys are in tune. I know.

I'm not saying it's not. Yeah, you go like, okay. But it's, yeah, it's just like surprising that it's, maybe it's, you know, it's just surprising that it's that little of a thing. I think it's so true. Yeah, I could see that where you go like, what? No, it's not. And like, you know. Yeah. Catty Stuns. Katie Stuns. She's the one that had the shirt. Oh, yeah.

When I was a kid, my mom went to Sonic so regularly that one time we went out of town for a few days and came home to a letter in the mail from Sonic's manager. He said that he figured we were probably out of town just to come by when we got home for a free dinner. Wow. Yeah. That's a good move if you live alone and you're scared.

You know, buddy up to a local restaurant and they'll keep an eye out on you. It sounds like either she went there so much or the manager had a crush on Katie's mom. I think there was something else going on. Come on by for a free meal, Mrs. Stunz. I miss you. Figured you were out of town because you hadn't come by in a while. I'd love to see you. Come by. I'll give you a free burger and some tater tots with a blast. That just seems like a lot. Like it's too, though.

What does? Like, cause for me, it's like, then I would just be like, all I would think about is like, well, we have to go to Sonic. Cause this guy thinks, you know, it's like psycho. Yeah. Like I, I mean, I just don't know how to, I wouldn't like, and that's me. I don't want to take it just a nice gesture. I got to take it with like, now I feel like I'm an obligation. Like I have to go to Sonic now, at least keep this going. I mean, for this guy to write a letter.

How did you get my address? That's what I was about to ask. How did they know your home address? They wrote checks. Back in the day. Well, that's a little violation of privacy, don't you think, to pull up a personal check? I don't think privacy existed back then. Especially if you go to Sonic this often. You put your name and address in the yellow page. So, I mean, it was everywhere. Or you knew where you lived or you knew where you lived.

Where do you live at? When we got a phone book every year, first thing we do is flip to make sure our phone number and address is listed correctly. And you wanted it to be listed correctly. Back in the good old days. Wow. Yeah. We wanted everyone to be able to reach us that wanted to. Man, that's so different. Back when everything felt safe and we weren't worried about people tracking us down.

Yeah, it is crazy to go from that to now you want nothing. I want delete me. I want to take it off of everything. Yeah, that is crazy. John Hoskins. Why do girl scouts? Is it John Hoskins? Yeah, just the way you emphasize it. Why do girl scouts? John Hoskins is, wasn't there a John Hopkins? Yeah.

I bet that gets confusing. This guy just missed out. All day he's got to. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's got to be like John Hopkins and you're like, no, trust me. Yeah. As he walks back home, John Hopkins is in his helicopter above him. Why do Girl Scouts only peddle their addictive cookies in February?

Everyone sets new year resolutions to lose weight or give up sweets for Lent, only to be sabotaged by these cute little cookie goblins conspiring to raise money for unknown nefarious activities. It's absurd. I propose these silk wigs in October and November so you can share with your family while your body's getting wrecked around the holiday anyways. Yeah. An upper cell? No. We bought some the other day, though.

Where you find it, I'm mad. I could go for some. They're everywhere. They were at Walmart. And they corner you, yeah. Yeah. You know, I saw like some Boy Scouts or something selling popcorn. And I was like, oh, I'll support. And then I was like, how much? They were like $20 for a bag. And I was like, I still did it. But I was like, geez, I feel like- For a bag or for, don't they sell those tins of them? Something. I feel like they really got me though. I was like, oh. No, it wasn't a tin. It was-

I feel like you guys really got me here with this. Yeah, well, I don't think you're really doing it for the cost efficient. I think it's the gesture. Well, I have a good product at a decent price. Yeah. I think you should just give the boys $20 and you would feel better.

Like you say, I don't want the ball going. Here's $20. I got to agree with John here though, for some unknown nefarious activities. Like where is this money go? So these kids can learn to pipe. That's what you agree with him on. Yeah. I mean, I don't care what time of year. Girls up to. Yeah. They're selling this poison, but the yeah. I mean, what are they learning to tie knots better with the money? I mean, it's rope prices going up or what? You know what I mean? Yeah.

You went from where can I get some? I want some to this poison. How you doing ladies? Where's this money going? Just buy one, please, sir. As a little kid. Yeah. Where is it going? It is poison, but your body can handle a little bit of it once in a while. As long as you're not eating the cookies every day. Jennifer Marbach. Marbach. Why doesn't Dusty ever come to Las Vegas?

I see it as shows in cities and surrounding states, but never Vegas. It is the whole Sin City thing. Looking forward to seeing Aaron for the second time at Wise Guys on March 29th. We all will be wearing our Aaron Land shirts. Tell him to bring his posters, and I'll buy some of those too. All right.

I have been to Vegas before. No, I just don't participate in those things while I'm there. I don't gamble and stuff like that. But yeah, I did Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club in 2019, maybe early 2020, actually. I did open for Kathleen Madigan there one time. I did a corporate gig. And we are working on a Las Vegas date. Keep an eye out. Dusty will be there. Yeah, I will be. Oh, and you know what? I did some country music thing there not long ago.

The ACM, some thing there. It's like Gatlinburg. Like Gatlinburg. Same people. It is the same people. I was really blown away by it. I really expected... Me and my friend Evan were there and we were like...

We really wanted, we thought like vague, like we don't want to gamble, but we were like just picturing movies where it's like all comical and everybody's huddled around the craps table and we're cheering them on. We went and like stood by a table and everybody looked at us like, what are you doing over here? And we're just trying to get into the Vegas action here. It just doesn't, gambling never, it only seems fun on TV. I don't know. Every time I see people gambling, I feel bad for them.

Well, it depends on where you're going. Like some of the casinos we've done together, that's all sad. Yeah. Yeah. A Vegas casino could be fun. Yeah. Yeah. People go and people having a good time. If you're going in there and doing what you, yeah, you just can't be relying on it. Right. Yeah. You can't go to the Mother's Day buffet. Yeah.

At the casino. That's sad. We did do a casino in Michigan, upper Michigan. Harris, Michigan. On Mother's Day. That's what I was thinking of. The Mother's Day buffet. Yeah. Just people plating one hand, cigarette in the other hand. Harris, Michigan. Yeah. Island casino and resort. One of the worst weekends of my life. The weekend was good, but that show was really bad. It was awful. And that was the way we ended the weekend. Yeah. Yeah.

You got to think like our bodies are pretty good that there's a lot of there's majority of people can, I mean, can be eating this food and smoking and they can live to 80. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty like the body is think of it positively. Yeah.

It's actually like, wow. It's amazing we're doing this well. Yeah. Because the choices we're making. Because everybody's like, well, you're going to die. You're like, I mean, they're probably going to make it to 70, 80. Yeah. You're like, they're going to make it to the average age. It's going to be tough at the end there, but yeah, they're going to get there. Yeah, they're going to get there, but I mean, they're going to be, we didn't have...

Yeah, our bodies are probably designed to live a lot longer than we do. But it's just like we're just it's just constant poison going in that we're like our body just shuts down eventually. Yeah. How long do you think we could live if we did it right? At least I think everybody would at least live to 100, 120, I think.

That's what I think. If we were like eating healthy food, just out of the ground, grown food, I think meat is good. Not pork, but red meat and chicken. And I think we would live a lot longer, but we do eat a lot of bad stuff. I mean, I eat bad stuff all the time.

So the oldest person ever to have lived 116 years old. That's verified by modern verified oldest people in our era, 116 years old. So you're saying nobody is doing it right. Right. I want it to be 120. No, there's one 20. Yeah. Right below that. I don't, I don't know. That's the man, I guess. I don't really trust this info, but, um, you know, I was told there was, uh, we have a U S one in there. I was like that, that could tell you right there.

He had died in 99, 119 years. I'm just making a rough estimate, but I say 100 to 120. And so there are people living to 116. So they may be doing it right. That's women though. What's the men? Why didn't they just say the oldest person? Because I think there's such a difference. Okay. We can look at the oldest men then. Yeah. What is the oldest person?

oldest verified man that living right now is in Venezuela, 114 years old. Yeah, so some people are doing it. Yeah. But it's a, why are so few people not doing it right? Well, I do think that- People are the, I feel like you see people having 100 birthdays a lot more than you used to. I think so too. But I do think, yeah, I mean, if we were eating, you know, like just, I just think there's a lot of like processed food now that's really not good for us. Oh, sure.

All right. So this week it's Valentine's Day. So that'd be a good time to talk about farming. All right. Yeah. Oh, that was a good kind of lead into farming. Yeah. Processed food. Yeah. Absolutely. That was good. You're going to live off the land, Dusty?

I don't know. Probably, I probably never will, but I'd like to. I mean, it's hard to do. That's why I think we're in the spot that we're in, right? Because two generations ago, like my grandfather was born in 1900 and he was a farmer. He raised lots of food, but it's like, it was hard. So by the time my dad comes around, things have started to become easier. You can get canned foods and this and that. So it's like, it's so appealing to eat less healthy because it's easier. And it's better.

Well, it probably tastes better. I don't know. I don't know about that. It may, but I think it does. I mean, the process. Yeah. Like stuff that comes out of it. Like that stuff. That's why I, like, I have so much trouble with processed food. Cause it's. Yeah. I get it. I feel like that's all. I have a, I have a running theory. This is a new theory. I've just come up with that. Cause I'm like just now. No, no, but just this weekend I bought this bread. Uh,

It was like a sourdough bread, but it's like it said on the bag, you know, made with only the best ingredients, healthy and delicious. And it was disgusting. So I feel like they brand things like that so that we think healthy and delicious, healthy is gross. They're like, oh, I can't eat healthy because it's disgusting. I think they make...

healthy things disgusting. So we go away from it. I don't, but I don't think they are disgusting. I just think the ones that are not are that good. It's like cake versus eating, you know, just a whole wheat bread. Like you're going to be able to, this cake is a lot better. It's yeah, that's got a lot more stuff in it. I think if you only ate that bread,

bread that was super healthy, you wouldn't think it's gross. But I think that I eat some, like a sourdough bread is good. And then there's a sprouted grains bread, which I think is pretty good for you. And those are delicious. But this bread was branded healthy and delicious. And it was gross. Why would a company...

deliberately want people to not enjoy its own product. Well, they're probably some umbrella corporation and they own this brand, but then they also own a lot of unhealthy brands. So they deliberately sabotage one brand to drive sales to the other brand. Yeah, because they're all under a thing. It doesn't matter. And then they probably own some pharmaceutical company that would, once you eat all the bad bread forever, they'll give you a pill.

to keep you alive. Okay. That makes sense. It does make sense. Some people say we deliberately sabotaged the podcast like Coke did when they introduced new Coke. Oh, interesting. And then quickly after a backlash, you went back to the Coke Classic and it drove up numbers. And we never planned on changing it at all. Some people...

think we did it on purpose too. Oh, in the hour? Yeah, yeah. I respect the people that think we put that much thought into it. I like that though. I like that. Yeah. Yeah, we're not even owned. We're owned by... We're a side project. Yeah. We're actually owned by... BlackRock. A company that... It's a company that owns a lot of...

owns a lot of dirty podcasts. That's right. So they drive, you know, and they get so dirty that people are like, oh, can we find something clean? Clean and funny. And they go, this isn't funny. But that's one of those, you can say anything. You can say anything's delicious. Yeah. If you're a company, that's one of those pufferies, the term. You can say anything. Yeah.

You can say it's amazing. Those are all just terms you can use. Because you can't prove it. There's no objective standard of something's tasty. But I think healthy is a term that is regulated. Like you can't claim Doritos are healthy. Right. But like we'll make cookies sometimes, right? And you'll use the recipe. And then we'll just cut the sugar in half. And the cookie is still good. It's still okay. But it's not as good as it could be.

Right? I don't know. I enjoy less. Are you eating more cookies because of that? That's where they get you. You'll eat twice as many cookies. I don't know. I don't know. How about one great cookie versus three ones that are okay? Yeah. I like an oatmeal cookie. Do you like an oatmeal cookie? I don't know. Oatmeal raisin cookie? I don't like the raisin part of it, but I don't mind an oatmeal cookie. I feel like those are good. If you catch me at the right time, I could. Yeah.

I don't think I'm seeking it out. No, nobody's seeking it out. Like a coffee shop. You go to like a real hipster coffee shop, get yourself a coffee, oatmeal raisin cookie, sit down, write some jokes. Oh, no. I've never written. I feel like, yeah. Yeah. Write it out. You write it out word for word? I used to. That was a routine I used to do in Charleston. I'd go to this place called Kudu Coffee. It's a very Charleston thing. Joe Zimmerman writes like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, he's a South Carolina guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So y'all just... And there's a lot of coffee shops in Greenville too. Joe will find a coffee shop. Yeah. Anywhere. And he watches birds too. Yeah, yeah. He loves to go sit in a coffee shop and he just writes and, you know. By hand, on paper. It is fun to handwrite, Joe. I like handwrite too. I'm going through that now where I'm trying to decide...

Cause I've, my set, I still always do set lists, but I've been doing it kind of just on, the only thing when it's on this is like, I can move it around a lot easier. So I can like, if it's on paper, if I typed it up, I can just, you know, be like, let me move this chunk here. And it's, it's kind of easier for me to see it. And you can just kind of look at it as a big picture and be like, you know what? I'm gonna try to move this there. And now I'll start with that, you know?

So I liked it. Um, you know, it's the, the note cards. Can I say, I think Nate's new hours, best one yet. It is really, really good. Okay. Really? Well, you said that about the last one and then the special came out and you were like, Oh yeah. Yeah. I think it was getting better as it should. Do you feel that way? Nate, do you feel like, uh, yeah, I mean, I was trying to be, yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to, I'll tell you, I, I mean, I'm in love. I love standup comedy, so I don't, I love it so much.

I love the art of it. I love the, so it's a big puzzle. It's a big, the way stuff is, the rhythm. And I mean, I talked a lot about, we were talking a lot this weekend, but I mean, I'm like falling in love with it.

More than I ever have just these with these arena shows. It's just you do you feel like a Disney on ice type of Knicks? Yeah, you I mean you need to deliver that kind of thing, but it's like you want to be like it's just this it's a movie, you know, it's it's just this great kind of it's so fun and just like how do you and

Get this into this. And when you're hearing people laugh, it's just the gratitude that you get back from that is so good. And it's a play. It's a really beautiful. I mean, I'm just. A real symphony. Yeah, I love it. I really do love it. It felt like symphony was where you were going with it. Yeah. Could have been. Yeah. A little symphony of laughter. Yeah, probably. I don't think I would. Yeah.

Yeah, but it is. You're conducting. You're kind of conducting me. It's like a song. I mean, I think it's like your rhythm is kind of singing. I always think about comedy like that, like songs. Yeah. Like each little bit is like your own little song. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just, when you go up there, it's a prepared... I mean, I know what comedy can be, but like...

It should be two separate things because at the beginning, I understand you're one thing, but it's like, yeah, you should just keep growing. And so every hour should be like, well, what do I got to do to this one to make, you know, like this one I wanted this hour to flow the best.

So that's what I thought of. Like, uh, before I started, I was like, I want to make sure I can, I need to make this, like, I want it to be so flowing that you don't know that I'm into another thing. Where it almost feels like one cohesive thought. Yeah. The whole time. Yeah. And I think I still got work to do at that. And I think the, I could see for the next hour, I want to, uh,

Maybe I won't. I don't know. I don't want to get ahead of thinking the next hour. I need to make sure I even have this. But it's making this stuff. Because I have that Saturday Night Live stuff in there. I get in my head about that. That's the problem. Because I'll do the...

I do the donkey story and the orangutan story and, uh, some of it, but it's, it's a lot of added stuff. And again, that was nine minutes. And so I'm doing that part of the nine minutes, but the, some of the stories have a lot more to it than just not a lot more, but like that. But in my head, I think every, you know, it's like, well, everybody's seen that, you know, but it's like, I don't, I'm going to, I want to own those jokes. So yeah, it's like, I'm going to do them.

But yeah, it's I don't know. It's just super fun. I mean, being in an arena is it's it's just a different thing. And I just it's I mean, man, I love it. Like it's you know, you think about a TV show, movies. And I mean, I have I you know, I want to do stuff, but.

It's just the best thing in the world. Like it's like- - Well, comedy is where it's at. That's what, it feels like people always talk about. They're like, once you succeed in comedy, they're like trying to get you to do other things. And I'm like, this is what I want to be doing. This is great.

Yeah, I mean, I could see making a movie because I wouldn't mind because those are very long lasting. Or if you could create a sign, you just want to create something that's going to be a long lasting. I would want to make something that people could go back and rewatch. And, you know, not saying that I will or won't or whatever. But yeah, with stand up, it's just like you just learn in that right then and it's.

Just so much fun. And it's just so interesting in just being. Yeah, it's the best. Like the, you know, the shorthand you have with comics and you're like, I got into that quick and I sped up that too. You know, it's, you know, the comics can be like, oh yeah, I know. They know what you're talking about, but it's a very, are the language to each other is just, is I love it. Yeah. I don't know. I love it.

Yeah, and the more comedy that gets out there publicly, the more obvious it is that not everybody can do it well. And it is fun to be able to do it well. It's bad for me. It's hard. I hope that there's a generation that comes, and I think there will be, because you're in that younger generation where you do love it. You love the idea. It's a performance.

So go be a performance, whatever type of joke teller you are. If you're Stephen Wright or Hedberg or if you're Seinfeld, if you're storytelling, whatever, crowd work. But if you do crowd work, make it a performance. You can't like the thing with the problem with crowd work is you're going up too unprepared.

And so when you go up there, it's like they got to find it. But if you wanted to, you know, I think that's Ian. I talk about Ian Baglock. I think Ian Bag is really good at that where he does crowd work. But it's he has jokes that are connectors jokes.

so it doesn't just get silent. It's not for no reason. It's never silent. Yeah, yeah. Because it's like, well, he can do this and what do you do? And then that, and then now I'm in this other, now he does a joke that he has prepared. Then he's back into like, well, what is that? What do you do back there? And then if something goes, if something starts working really in the room, then he can expand on it. But that's a,

that's a, someone that's practiced that and like really, and have to have stuff set up. Like you have to be able to do it. And when I think when, if you go out there and you don't know, and you're unprepared, people don't want to prepare. It's a lot of hard work. The idea of comedy is,

The idea of stand-up comedy is it's, I think the allure to it to people is that it's easy. You're just being funny. I'm funny. So I'll just go up there and be funny. And so no one realizes, and a lot of comedians fall into, it's not the audience's problem to figure out how hard it is. But if you're going to be a comedian, you need to know, dude, it is insane. I mean, how much you got to come up, think about being a musician. You have to write a new album and

every two years, a year and a half, every two years, roughly. I mean, you're not going to do that at the beginning, but once you become a

Older and kind of get going, you are kind of doing that. And even if it's three years, people take eight-year breaks between albums. And they have a team writing. It's you. You have to go do this performance. But when you do that, it helps you write quicker too. If you go into it and think of it, your hour as a – it's like, all right, this is a whole performance. I'm writing a movie basically. That's how I – that's my new –

But I think a standup is like, I'm a movie, I'm the star of this movie. And so here's my movie. And then when you do that and you just kind of can, and all the story, I'm not making stuff up, but it's like, all right, that happened to me. I'll grab that story. And then, oh, I heard that. And you know, it's like, you just slowly start and then you put it together and then it becomes a one thing. That's it.

There's nothing better. And you get to figure it out. You get real reaction every time. That's the craziest part. Well, that is what's great. Golly. That's so, you write a movie. I think you're, well, you only wait two years. You're not going to know. I mean, you're going to be about time it comes out. These people have to be like, what was this movie about? Yeah. And then you go, but stand up. You get it. I got to get it right now. This podcast is about to Wednesday. And you don't have to convince somebody else that it's funny before it's an actual audience sees it.

Like when you're writing scripts or whatever, like somebody else has to approve and go, okay, this is fun before you even make it. But stand up, you can go, oh, this just happened to me right now. I'm going to go say it on stage. And if people laugh, it's like, boom, it's a bit. Yeah. Yeah. It's, I mean. You don't have to go, what do you think about this? And then they go, I don't know. You just go do it. Yeah.

I might go to Zany's tonight now. I'm all fired up. Well, I told Lucy no. You have your phone and text her and say I might come. It's, yeah, now I'm fired up. Now I want to go. You jacked up. Yeah. I love it, man. It's just, you know, it's the, it's, you know, it's such a,

you know, comics, I get, you want to be like, you don't want to like this art form. And we don't like saying that stuff, but it is, it, it's,

If you can look at it like an art form. I do like saying that. I hate when people don't consider it art. I mean, it's like almost like one of the purest art forms. I mean, it's like you're straight up putting yourself out there. If it doesn't work, you fail in front of a lot of people. It's like it's so much art. Now, there's people that do it in a very not artistic way. Yes. Where it really can be really trashy. But there's a real art to it.

It's the best. It's just that she'll give you five minutes if you want. Thanks. I feel bad because she texted me. No. And I was like, no. And then, but now I'm starting talking about it. I'm like, well, get a little bit fired up to go do a little shit. Yeah. Yeah. It's, I mean, I look forward because we're taking this special in April. I'm taking it in April. Then I'll finish the year touring and then still be the Be Funny Tour. So it'll be, you know,

all that. And then I'll have a little time off and then, you know, 25 have another tour. Uh,

But yeah, I mean, I look forward to building that. I mean, I'm, I'm nervous about it. I'm scared because I'm like, I don't know how I'm going to come up with anything. I mean, you know, I remember you saying that on this podcast a year and a half ago. Well, that's what you just think though. You're like, I mean, can't, you know, I feel really good about it, but then you're like, it can't just be getting better. I just get scared. I'm not going to know I'm terrible. That's my, and so I'm just scared of that. I'm the, I'm, I'm always like that. I think like, I'm great.

And then everybody's like, this guy stinks, dude. And I have no idea. And I look like an idiot. And that's my biggest fear. And I work off pure just that panic of I'm scared to death that I am terrible at comedy. And everybody's just being very nice to me. It's like the kid that finds out he's at fat camp halfway through the summer. Yes. You know what I mean? Yeah. He's like, oh, my God. I think Brian. He's like, man, these guys are cool, dude. Yeah.

I think Brian will let you know. I don't think you got to worry. As long as Brian's in your life, I think he'll let you know. I've been waiting for that day. I'll be the first to tell you. But to your point about stand-up comedy, you make a movie, you don't know it's bad, I guess, until maybe the audience doesn't go. But stand-up, if they don't laugh, that's a first clue. It's the fact that you can...

Yeah, I mean, it's just that instant... There's nothing more pure. I mean, that's the thing that Gaffigan said in the Golden Globes. He said, now the Golden Globes now have led the real talented people. An award for the real talented people because they're saying that the comedians are the ones that write the jokes. But it's... And then they have to perform and they have to sell them. It's really a very, like... I can get you back in farming. It's a very farming type thing. You're...

Watch how I'm going to get it back. Because you plant your food, you eat your, it's sustainable. It's self-sustained. You're an art form that's self-sustained. I don't need a camera. I don't need a, I mean, you know, you want a microphone, but I don't need a microphone. Technically, I don't need anything. You're off the grid. You're off the grid. It's the only art form that's off the grid.

And that's like farming. Farming is that. And if you don't weed your garden in the sense that you have too many words in your joke, if you don't weed the garden, then those weeds will suck the nutrients out of what you're actually trying to grow and ruin your whole bit. So you got to take a bunch of words out. You got to get all those weeds out of there. Yeah.

And every few hundred years, new technology comes and uproots the industry and you have to rethink everything. But the thing is, stand-up, it's going to be hard to get uprooted. Because you're still, yeah, the same plant, we're still growing this, you know, they may, you know, they may GMO it, but we're still eating the same kind of plant. You can only do it sometimes a year. It's very seasonal. Yeah. I was laughing because you go, I'm going to bring this back to Farbid.

it's a very farming type thing. It is though. It is though. Brilliant. I agree with you, but it was, if you didn't stop there. Yeah. It's like farming. Yeah. Yeah.

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It's very, very hard. And you got to write new stuff. Even if you love the stuff that you're doing, you have to write new stuff because that's what makes you better. You don't get better not writing new stuff.

You know what I mean? Like if you're just like, there are people that I've known in my life that can work an hour, they'll write an hour and they can work that hour forever. And it's amazing that they can do that to perform the same joke over and over again and, and, and, and deliver it with some real passion. But I think, you know, you get, that's how you get better is writing stuff. I got to go work on transitions. That's what I need to go down there tonight. Just one transition.

It's just funny to think of the joke. Yeah. But I'll do a joke to do it, but I just need to get. That's funny how small and precise of a thing. Yeah, it's like I just got to get this one. Like I need to be able to get to this, to this. And I'm doing it, but it's not there. There's another joke too that I think I could maybe say different. All right.

All right, farming. Farming. Farming's been around pretty much from the beginning. You wanted two hours. That's right. There you go.

In the Bible, Adam tended the Garden of Eden. That's kind of like a farmer, right? At least a gardener. I don't think he had to really do anything in the Garden of Eden, though. It was not until he was thrown out that he had to farm the land. Yeah, they were just growing. God was like, if you just do what I tell you to do, you're not going to have to do anything. And he was like, nah. And then God was like, all right, now you're tilling the land. Well, he had to name the animals. Yeah. That's something.

Yeah. That's not farming though, but. Well, I mean, does a farmer name all the animals? Like if you have a bunch of cows, are you naming them or are you just kind of having to go out there? Not how I grew up. Yeah. Because you're about to send them off to slaughter. You don't want to get to personal. We didn't have any names for any animals. What would you go? That one? You're like, go grab that one. Well, you had to have tags on their ears. Numbers on them. Yeah.

And we liked them. We cared about them. Did you? Yeah. I mean, did you have one that you're like, I like nine, nine, four, four, seven. Yeah. Then we had short, you know, we didn't have that many cows. It'd be like number 27. Go get Niner Tingo X-ray. But we had a bull for a while that would chase you. And we, we named him sweetie, you know, kind of like that sort of thing. And he would chase you around the pasture and it's pretty terrifying, but also fun at the same time.

Like fun because we never got hit by him. Yeah. But pretty scary. Yeah. You just stop calling him sweetie real quick. Yeah. And probably send him off to the slaughter immediately. That's right. Mm-hmm. Did you hear him just, did you, when were you on a farm? Well, I grew up with divorced parents. So my mom lived in the trailer park. My dad lived on a farm. Yeah. And he had cows. Yeah. And you know. Did they wake you up in the morning?

No. No. No, I wasn't like that. Have you ever woken up with a cock-a-doodle-doo? Is that ever, you've ever started a day like that? No, we never had chickens. Is that real? Is that a real thing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I've heard it in the morning. I think I've woken up. Really? I'm pretty sure I have. From a rooster. Yeah, I think I have from like just a rooster being, you know. I grew up on a farm. We didn't have chickens, but we had cows and horses. Yeah, that's what we had. I had a donkey for a little while. Now, we did go camping. You named the horses? Yeah.

We named the horses. Yeah. We only had a couple. Yeah. And horses are a little more like. You're keeping them. Yeah. I mean, they call people like, like they call things like cattle for a reason, I think, because they're just indiscriminate groups. But like horses feel personal. What did your dad grow? He just raised cows. Oh, he didn't grow anything. And we would grow hay and then bale hay every year. Yeah. Yeah. He's, he'll, he would do random gardens, but we were just a cow farm. Yeah.

So anthropologists say that early man, it was- Who is that? Who are anthropologists? Yeah. Just a group of dudes and some gals, I guess. Yeah, of course. They say early man was hunter gatherers. That was like the first. And then they eventually evolved into farmers. And that's when people really started to flourish and thrive because you're not now hunting for your food to live. You're growing it.

And oh, dude, all of a sudden you've got hours to kill, which was never a thing. Right. Way back in the day, you're hunting all day and then you have no relief. There's no leisure because you got to get the next day and hunt again. But if you're farming and you like stock it up on food, then you got what do I do all day? Now I can sit and think and invent stuff and write and write stories and do plays. I think even animals back.

What do you mean? Well, because they got to hunt all day. Like a bear could get some work done. So a bear could start farming, set up a little garden. They'd get some work done. Yeah, they could. They could contribute something for once. They said they got to hunt. It's like, oh, you know, it's like, huh, every day. Here we go. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I don't know if this is true or not, but I read on the line, half that habitable, is that the right word? Habitable land on earth is used for farming.

Half of it? Is that what you said? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I'm sure. Bill Gates owns a quarter of that. About a fourth of the world's population works in agriculture. A quarter? Yep. Used to be up to almost half. Oh, so that's down. It's gradually gone down over the years. Now more machinery, technology. Yeah, I guess you need fewer people to work it. Yeah. Still, though. That's got to be. Is that the largest industry in the world? It is. Yep.

I think I told this on the jobs. In college, summertime, I'd help local farmers in tobacco. And one time, three or four of us got nicotine poisoning. It's funny. I don't even smoke, but I got nicotine poisoning. You got that when we had a cigar, too. I had some flashbacks. Yeah.

It had rained and the leaves had gotten wet on the tobacco and it somehow seeped into our pores. Oh, yeah. Oh, from physical touch. Yeah. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah, we're all sick. I felt like a doctor would come to you and be like, your pores are more open than most people's. I'm like, that's... I wonder if that's... Shut your pores a little bit. Like Swiss cheese. He goes, this guy can't. Maybe that's the last time you did it. Like they just knew like...

Talk about poor kid over here. Poor kid. Wear long sleeves from now on. Poor kid. He's got a lot of money. Different kind of poor kid. Yeah, yeah. Porous. How was that? What would you do farming tobacco?

From the beginning, you, you know, I always just helped out for it, but they would grow these tobacco slips. And then first you pull them. Once they grow a certain way, you pull them up, gather them up. Then there's a tobacco setter where that was my favorite part. You and it's either a two person setter or a four person setter. You sit there and a wheel goes around and you just plant the, in the wheel and then it plants it into the ground and that makes the rows.

that's fun you got a friend there you're just hanging out doing it i was left-handed so it always worked out good because you know they needed a left-handed person a right-handed person over there and then uh while it grows then you have to cut it to well you have to do things get rid of like weeds and stuff and then cut it eventually and then hang it in the barn and let it dry out cure and then it eventually goes to market the whole process what were you growing were you growing like smoking tobacco or like chewing tobacco

It could be any. Was this like a mom and pop tobacco or was it contracted with a big tobacco company? No, I mean, it was just local farmers. I feel like farming is a little bit like stand-up comedy. There's not many middle-class farmers. So it is like stand-up comedy. Yeah, they brought it back around. They really brought it back around. There's some that are doing great. The big farms, most of them are, you know, just getting by. But you don't get into it to make money. You get into it for the love of the game, dude. That's probably true. They're going to love it. That's probably true.

Well, if you don't love it, you're never going to make it to the top. You got to love it. I've heard tobacco farming is really hard. That's what I've heard. Yeah. Especially like the

No, I didn't do it well. I didn't do it well. I like when I picture you young. I just picture you exactly like you now, but just back in old timey times. I mean, that's not far off. Yeah. You really do look the exact same. Besides my hair, I'm basically the same. Yeah. And the hair is probably pretty close. Like it's enough that you go, yeah, you get it. It's not like it was. You think you've shaved your head your whole life?

Shave my head the whole time. Will always had a short haircut. I mean, I had a full head of hair and then- No, I know, but you never grew out long hair or anything. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like the barber's been doing for 50 years. Have you been going to the same barber for a long time? I would if he was still alive. Yeah. Yeah. If he had a few die-offs. Yeah. Yeah.

It was Raymond and Tony. They were father and son. They're both gone now. Went through two generations. Wow. Wow. Raymond was the dad. Now Tony's gone. Do you think it would even be a take off, take over when they went? I want to do, you know.

You know, I don't think we, I mean, my mom took me at first. I don't think we tipped back then. I don't know if that was a Bates thing that we didn't know or. We never tipped the barber back in the day. I bet we didn't. I bet we didn't back then. I don't think people tipped. Like I would imagine. Stuff like that. Yeah. Our hair coat was, I want to say probably $5 shorty. Tipping's out of control when you go in and you pay for a service and then you're tipping on top of it. It's like, oh, this is how much I charge. And then, you know, if you want me to do it well next time, give me more. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, they, someone, uh, Chase told us too, because we, we actually were selling, we had merch at, uh, uh, the Kansas City, which we're trying to do some merch. I did not know, but someone said one of the merch things had like a tipping option.

And I didn't know that. I was on the tab. Yeah. I'll go make sure. Strong point that that gets all. Oh, I had them do that too. My merch guy had a, well, it wasn't hit, but it just on the thing. I go, oh, never, never do that. Never present that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't even know where that money would go. Yeah. I don't either. I don't have some tip jar where it's coming to me. I don't know who's getting that.

Yeah. Square. Yeah. Probably. I don't know how you could sleep at night, Dusty, unless you were on a Helix mattress. Well, I would love to tell you about Helix Sleep. I love my Helix Sleep mattress and pillows. What is great is you get to take a Helix Sleep quiz and get matched with the perfect mattress for you.

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I think that I was in FFA because I took an agricultural class. Farmers for America? Yeah. Future Farmers of America. Oh, Future Farmers of America. But I did not participate. Growing up, I was not into any of this stuff. I didn't like that I had to go do stuff on my dad's farm. I wanted to get out of that as fast as I could. I'm only getting back to it now because I got into the city life and now I want to get back to it.

Touching some dirt. The FFA has over 850,000 members throughout the country. But they're probably real inactive. It's like when I was in school, we had to sign up for it, and I became a member, but I was like, I didn't do anything. I went down a TikTok rabbit hole of people, the FFA, announcing who the president of the chapter is, or the national chapter.

organization. And these kids were going nuts. Did I watched it for like 30 minutes? I had no idea what was going on. I still don't understand what the FFA does, but those kids are fired up. I think the ones that are into it. Yeah. It's a big part of who they are. Oh yeah. Where those blue jackets. Yeah, for sure. That's good. It is good. Um,

I like the Travis Tritt. It's a cover, a song called Where Corn Don't Grow. That song really resonates with me. Do you guys get a chance? I think it's a Waylon Jennings song, but Travis Tritt has a good version called Where Corn Don't Grow. That song resonates with me pretty hard. Luke Bryan has a great one too. Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey. Whiskey makes my...

baby a little frisky so you should check that out every country song now is about drinking back in the day you're just singing about corn yeah this song is like about a relationship with father and son with a with a the father is you know a farmer and then the son wants he's like he's like dreaming about a different life and so you know eventually he gets out and then he wants to come back

That's where I'm at. I don't want to go to my dad's farm necessarily, but I would like to start my own. I helped Paul Hay too. And I was even worse at that than tobacco because my upper body strength, even then wasn't that great. Lifting hay bales is the worst. Those strings just, even if you're wearing gloves, you got to wear gloves. They just go right through your face. I'm going to ask you a question. I don't want the table to make fun of me. What is hay and what does it do?

Cows eat it in the wintertime when grass isn't growing. It's dead grass that's dried out. And it's literally just food for the cattle. Yeah. Yeah.

It's like rye grass, I think, or bahia, I think is the type of grass. And it comes in those barrels. That's the bays. What are they called? Bale. Bale? Oh, bale. They're square bales and round bales. Okay. And you just spread those out and then they eat them? Yeah, you store it in the winter. Like with the round bale, what we would always have, we'd have a big metal ring in the field. So you go out, you have to pick the round bale up with the tractor.

You lift it up and then you go out there and then you have to- Like on a spike. Yeah. And then you have to lift that ring or a spike or just kind of a two, like a forklift kind of thing.

And then you go out and you have to lift that ring. A lot of times it'd be real cold because that's where you're doing this is in the wintertime because in the summer they can eat grass. So it's real cold and you're lifting up this muddy thing because the cows are all around it all the time. So they're beating the grass down and it's real muddy and cold and you lift it up and the cows know what's coming. So they're all out there around you. And then you drop the bale and then immediately the cows go for it. And then you have to drop

the ring he hit a lot of the cows in the face with the ring i'm trying to get it back down and that's are there hay farms do people just sell hay my dad raises hay and sells a lot of hay okay i'm sure there are could you farm in the right temperature where you never need hay all year if they just eat grass all year long i would think maybe south florida south texas oh okay that would be the place to do it yeah i feel like it seemed weird to see a cow down there

South Florida. Yeah. I think they're everywhere. I'm sure, but I'm just saying, if you saw one in Miami, you're like, what are you doing down here? That's like Tampa and Key West has all these chickens running around, just loose chickens. But a cow. Yeah, it's different. You don't think of cows. Florida is probably the last place you're going to think of. I guess so. Yeah, yeah. Or Hawaii, maybe. Yeah, but I don't know. You're never going to. No one's going to think of Hawaii. You go America, you go America, cows.

I think it's a long road before you get, I think Florida is the last one you get to California, but I think California, happy cows come from California. California is like almost completely agricultural. I think outside of the big city, like I went to a gigantic dairy farm in California. I did a gig for a guy and he took me out there and it's like, that's where they grow all the almond trees for almond milk. Yeah.

And then they have, he had this is, I wish I had, I should have sent you the video, but it was a giant circle that, that rotates and a cow just walks up on it and it rotates a little further and new cow walks up on it. And then a machine comes up and hooks to the udders and milks them while they make the complete turn.

And if the cow, they had sensors on it. If the cow finishes before it makes its way around, it pops off. Wow. And then, and then it gets back around. The cow walks off, goes back down. You got milked in the round. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I thought the round was going to rotate. Yeah.

You could do a round like this though. Imagine comedy like that. Somebody just walks on. It takes about five minutes to go around. You just keep doing comedy. Everybody, the audience members walk on, catch a little comedy, get off, go back to the bar.

You're just out there doing comedy for hours. Yeah. That could be the future. Could be. Could be. Farm Aid started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young to help farmers. They thought it was going to be a one-time thing, raise enough money, we'd be good. And they've been doing it now for, what, 40 years? What do they do, a show? Yeah. It's a festival kind of thing. Yeah, like a woodstock almost. It's usually like in Illinois and –

Just help farmers out. I want to do Farm Aid. I should get on that. Seems like that would be something that you would do. They need a side stage for comedy. Yeah. Yeah, like Bonnaroo does. This is Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews. This is a crazy line. When is this? Margo Price, Nashville's own. Yep, she just recently, I think, joined. They haven't announced the date for 2024 yet that I can find, but it's usually in the summer, I think. Yeah, so...

There you go. You can still get on it. Yeah. There's still time. Still time. I always heard about cows lead to global warming, but from what I read, I mean, I guess it just depends on who you ask. That's not that big of a contributor. Is there a number that we can attribute to? We're talking about cows farting, right? Well, they say even that's misleading. It's more belching, but it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Well, let's hear the numbers. This is from probably – this is from – I can't remember who this is from. Research shows that removing all livestock and poultry from the U.S. food system would only reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 0.36%. So a third of a percent. So go ahead and eat bugs to drop it that little amount. You can start eating some – It's like when you – I feel like it's like – you know when you look at computer storage?

And you're trying to see what you can get rid of to save the gigabytes. Yeah, sure. That's what global warming is. And so you're trying to like, as soon as you're like,

So you got to go through and you're like trying to take the, you're like, oh, well, I don't play those games. And it's like, well, that's a sliver of your, well, that doesn't, you know, but I'm looking at the main thing. That's like, I'm like, well, I'm trying to get rid of some old word documents. It's all different. You're like, well, we could get rid of that. And then China's. Yeah.

Can't get rid of that. Yeah. You ever wonder why baseball teams call it the farm system? Uh, I imagine just the metaphor of growing and developing stuff. All right. Cultivate. Whatever. Because, uh, someone's, uh, yes. Uh, I mean, the John farmer's nephew goes, well, that's a super bowl. He goes, we're calling this super bowl.

Do you know who has the top farm system then? Top farm system? I mean... Chicago White Sox.

Based on what? Baseball. I don't know. Major league baseball. The thing I do. Global warming. New York. Is it the Baltimore Orioles right now? Yeah. Yeah. Orioles are good. He's good. He's got some young studs. He's good. He's good. He's a guy right there. Doesn't have kids. All that goes away. I'll tell you what, there's your advice right there. Stop keeping up with that stuff. That's the advice for, uh, pick and choose what you're going to stop caring about. Yeah. That's true. Nate Holdstein. Uh,

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You learn. And that's the fun part. There's a good fun part. This is more kid advice than girl. A, you can't believe how much you love this little girl every day. But all the stuff that you think you care the most about, once you have a kid, you could care less. I mean, just don't even...

all the things about going to a game or going to this or going to, you're like, Hey, you're like, I don't have time for anything. I also say relief in that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Relief. You didn't even realize that. Yeah. Yeah. At the time. Well, it's like, yeah. Relief in the going like, yeah. Why was my, why is everything going into this thing? Cause I mean, it just is when I was young, um,

And, you know, it's like I know everything about Vandy. I know everything, you know. Well, that was exhausting for other reasons. Yes, it was. But I mean, but, you know, but I was just a fan. I was like, you know, and then you slowly do it. You think like, you know, video games. I'm never going to not play video games. I'm not playing. I haven't played video games in 15 years. And I thought, why would I? When would I ever stop? You can start doing it now. Yeah.

Stop playing video games. You can start. You can come back at any time. Well, I've started. I have one. I have it on my bus. But, I mean, I still don't. The only way I like it is I played Madden just because it's a thoughtless thing. Oh, yes. Madden's perfect. You can hop on and play for 15 minutes and you're done. Yeah.

The video games I used to play, you'd have to play for eight hours to get anything done. It would just take over your life. But it's funny. You just don't have a desire to go. Even though I have Madden, you're just still like, I don't know. I don't want to go. I feel like I don't want to do this. Yeah.

You know, I don't, I've never, in the online stuff, I kind of checked out. But it is funny how all this stuff goes away. You just- Another thing about kids, I always had, I never changed a diaper. I don't think my whole life. I had nieces, nephews. I never did that. And I had it in my mind that I- Yeah, I don't think, and that's a good thing. Yeah. You shouldn't have been changing all these diapers. Probably, but I mean, I was around enough family where I'm sure they would have liked it if I'd helped once in a while. I don't know if any-

Yeah, I don't think I changed it. I think my family would have been okay with it. I'm just saying. I know. I'm just saying. You said it like, look.

I don't think I ever changed diapers. I'm just saying I was against it. In my mind, I was not even going to be – I know this sounds ridiculous, but in my mind, I was not even going to be changing my own kid's diapers. But the moment I had my daughter, I was like, I don't want my daughter sitting around in pee and poop. Like if it's in there, I want to get it off of her. I want her to be in a nice, clean environment as much as possible. That's a real father right there.

Well, you know what I mean, though? It's my job to protect my kids. Right. You can't count on anybody else to do it. Not even your wife. Nobody. Well, I mean, hopefully you can count on your wife. But nobody cares about your kids like you do. Not even, I don't know. You just got to do it. I also wanted to say about John Hoskins. This guy may be doing very well, by the way. What was his comment? Now, we just told him that Hopkins was up in a helicopter. Well, yeah.

I just want to say, John Hoskins, maybe. You know, this could be an exciting moment for him that he got his comment read. I mean, it was well written. He put some thought into it. I'm just acknowledging the name. I'm not throwing you under the bus, but I'm just saying. Could be related to Philly's first baseman, Reese Hoskins. Oh, so he could have, I don't know, 30 grand extra. Or it could be just standalone, doing very well. Who's Reese Hoskins? He just names them.

Like he's got like reach talks and got enough money to give. Does he a big time player? I mean, yeah, he's on the tail end of it, but he was, he was pretty good. He was pretty good for a while. I think John Hoskins is doing well on his own. That's my personal. I don't know. He's complaining about girl scout cookies. So he's saying I'm going to be eating them. Why don't you put them out in the end of the year instead of the beginning? Cause he has to go see John Hopkins. Yeah. What is it? It's a hospital.

Yeah. Yeah. No, yeah. College, but yeah. Oh, it's a John Hopkins University, but there's a, there's a John Hopkins. They get a Lou Gehrig. Yeah. Yeah. Another baseball player. Okay. Abraham Lincoln fever. He goes, how'd you get that? He goes, it's crazy. Building log houses. Farming. Yeah. He probably did farming. He did some farming. What was it? The under Adoria. We called it the Ella Fitzgerald.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't. He's a singer? Yeah. Elephant Sterling's the singer. No, the singer. It's the... And then he... Fog hat or...

I don't know. He argued and he said, yeah, on the Cat Stevens. On the Cat Stevens. Yeah, yeah. Also, I'll say. My dad loves Cat Stevens. I was excited about the farming topic, but I think of all the topics we've said we're going to do and then didn't really do anything on, this was the most. This is the most. Maybe the Bible. Okay. Where we were like, we're going to talk about farming and then really everything but. We were like. Was there a ton more stuff? Well, maybe. Not for me.

Not for me. Maybe you want to write up some stuff. Well, I mean, we're at, you know, we're... No, I'm not saying now. I'm saying like, if you want to... We can do this episode, it'll be kind of farming or almost farming. It's like farming more as a meta. We really discuss it more as a metaphor than an actual thing, which is great. Basically plowing the field here. No farming really took place. We plowed the field. We're going to plant some seeds next episode. Yeah.

But if you, yeah, I mean, if you were trying to live, sustain on your own land, you'd have to have like people working. Yeah. You'd have to have, you know. That's why when I talk about having a cabin, people always think I'm trying to go off the grid and I'm like, oh no, it's so hard. Well, it's probably the cabin. I doubt it's just the cabin. And it's a lot. I think it's also your. Yeah, as we say, it's a lot of you. The words that come out of your mouth. Yeah.

I would love to, but I can't get a lot of family. Saying I would love to is one of them. Yeah. I can't get my family involved with it. I keep trying to get my family to, you know, like help me build the farm. Right. And they're all like trying to go to, you know, McDonald's and stuff. You're talking about your children or your family, your fam, my family, my children will have to do whatever I tell them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That's why people back in the day had a lot of kids. Yeah. Oh, sure. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Get stuff done. Somebody's got to milk the cows. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You ever milk a cow? Never have. I haven't either. My dad used to do it, but I never did it. Mm-hmm. You do it? I'm guessing you guys have not ever done it. I don't think I've done it. No. I don't think I've been around a cow. Yeah. I really don't think I've been around one. I've driven past several. This high education doesn't... I haven't been around it either. I'm the same. But, I mean, obviously...

Yeah, you know, corn groves. Yeah. My friend used to go cow tipping. My friend I used to live with. That was one of his favorites when he was at community college. He went to Ball State. They would skip class and they would go to this farm and they would tip cows. That's what we do. And now tipping's out of control. And then he got into Notre Dame? No. No, he dropped out of Ball State. Transferred from Ball State to Notre Dame. Dropped out of Ball State. Oh, you lived with him after. Yeah. Pretty fun guy, right? Yeah, he's the man. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Let's see where you're at. This weekend. I think we're done, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are we out of the state? Yeah. No, no, no. We're done. You're in Florida this weekend. In Florida? I'm in Florida this weekend. Go to Nate's show. Go to mine. Your choice. I've seen Nate's show. Where's your show? I'm in Palatka, Florida at Church of the Heights. All right. Free show. So let me drive home at night. Just remember that. Where's that at?

It is about an hour from Jacksonville. Okay. Just remember it's free. Yeah. Just keep that in mind. If you want your money back, just remember that. Yeah. There's a local Christian radio station that paid your ticket. And then...

February. They didn't buy all the tickets. We'll play it out. We're generous, but we're not. Come on. We're a business too. Let's see how many people show up. If they did BOGO for their own thing. This one is...

Get one, get one free. This is Go-Go. The top Go-Go comic. The top Go-Go. What is that? Just a free show. Get one, get one free. I did have a show when I walked off stage in Kansas City in front of, what, 16,000 people. Felt so great. Walked straight in my dressing room, looked at my phone. I had a text from a comedy club coming up in the future and said, hey, so far we've only sold eight tickets. Do you mind if we do some discounts? And it's just a great...

just bring you back down to earth. Just reminder of a hundred yards from the stage. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's, I think that's great about comedy. Just the, yeah, that's the beautiful. I've had those texts. You'll get, you get the, that's the beautiful. It's the, absolutely. That's the, cause it's, it's the truest form of you. Like,

you, you just, you're in charge of that. You get a salt, like I know it's, but you are the one that gets to go, well then I got to figure out whatever. I love it. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. So this weekend I'm in, uh, Plaka, Florida. Uh, I got the comedy catch coming up in Chattanooga, uh, March 1st, I'm in Hudsonville, Michigan. Uh, and then we'll go from there.

This weekend, Friday and Saturday, I'm in Toledo, Ohio at the Funny Bone. And then Sunday night, I'm going all the way from Toledo to Oklahoma City at Bricktown Comedy Club. That's Toledo and Oklahoma City. Bad routing, but it's going to be a fun weekend.

This weekend, I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma all weekend at the Bricktown, I believe. Bricktown in Tulsa. I've never been to the club. I'm excited. I like Tulsa a lot. I've always been a big fan of the city of Tulsa. I don't get to go there that often, and so I'm pumped. Yeah, and I'll be in Estrezo, I think. I think it's Fort Myers. Estrezo, Florida. See some cows down there. And Orlando. Yeah. Yeah. Show me your cows. Yeah.

I'd like to see them. All right. Love you. Happy Valentine's Day. Yeah. It's a big day for a lot of people. And see you next week. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the Audio Boom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nateland Podcast.

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And then through some elbow grease, fresh installs, and a whole lot of love, you transformed 100,000 miles and a body full of rust into a drive that's all your own. Look to your left, look to your right. It is official. No one's got a ride like this.

There is nothing else that sounds like, feels like, or looks like the set of wheels in your garage. With over 122 million parts, you can make sure your number one ride or die stays running smoothly. So there's no limit to how far you can take it. Brake kits, turbochargers, engines, exhaust kits, roof racks, LED headlights, bumpers, whatever your baby needs, eBay Motors has it all.

And with eBay Guaranteed Fit, it's guaranteed to fit your ride the first time. Every time are your money back. Plus, at these prices, well, you're burning rubber, not cash. Keep your ride or die alive at ebaymotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply.

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And then through some elbow grease, fresh installs, and a whole lot of love, you transformed 100,000 miles and a body full of rust into a drive that's all your own. Look to your left, look to your right. It is official. No one's got a ride like this.

There is nothing else that sounds like, feels like, or looks like the set of wheels in your garage. With over 122 million parts, you can make sure your number one ride or die stays running smoothly. So there's no limit to how far you can take it. Brake kits, turbochargers, engines, exhaust kits, roof racks, LED headlights, bumpers, whatever your baby needs, eBay Motors has it all.

And with eBay Guaranteed Fit, it's guaranteed to fit your ride the first time. Every time are your money back. Plus, at these prices, well, you're burning rubber, not cash. Keep your ride or die alive at ebaymotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply.

Nate Land Podcast is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Most of you listening right now are probably multitasking. Yep, you're listening to us talk while you're driving, cleaning, exercising, or even grocery shopping. But if you're not in some kind of moving vehicle, there's something else you can be doing right now. Getting an auto quote from Progressive Insurance. It's easy and you can save money by doing it right from your phone.

Drivers who save by switching to Progressive save nearly $750 on average. And auto customers qualify for an average of seven discounts. Discounts for having multiple vehicles on your policy, being a homeowner, and more. So just like your favorite podcast, Progressive will be with you 24-7, 365 days a year, so you're protected no matter what. Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers.

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