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Today's episode of the Nate Land podcast is brought to you by Delete Me, Butcher, Box, Rocket, Money, and AG1. Hello, folks, and hey, bear, Nate is not here, so we'll give you a few seconds to turn it off. You read that like it was NPR. Yeah. That was very sad. I'm closer to the mic than I usually am, so it feels very... What's that show?

What's the show on NPR? Hot Breath? No. What is it? Something like that, though, right? Fresh Air? No, not Fresh Air. All Things Considered. All Things Considered, yeah. That's what it felt like. Yeah. This is Aaron Weber here with Dusty Slay. All right. And Brian Bates. All right. Nate is somewhere. Somewhere in the world. Yeah, who knows? I don't know. I can't keep track of him anymore. But it's the three of us. Energy's good in the room. I feel good about this episode.

Yeah. I mean, I feel great. I feel great about all of them. I come in here with a positive attitude. And it just slowly drains away over the course of two hours. He's doodling by five minutes in. One hour is a good length for a podcast, but two, it's a little much. You know what I mean? Have you always doodled during the episodes or am I just noticing it more now? No, I'm just, I'm doing it more now. Okay. Is that by choice? I don't find that doodling takes my concentration away from listening to people.

Yeah, but it can take it away from the other three people at the table. Do you ever think about that? Like you watch me draw? Well, it just feels you feel a little disinterested. Okay. As we're talking, it's like when I'm at dinner with my wife and I'm in the middle of a story and she's on her phone.

Well, the phone is different. Okay. Because a doodle is mindless. The phone takes your attention. Okay. But I get what you're saying. Okay. It hasn't bothered me. It's just since we're talking about it. It's bothered me. I'll be telling a story. I do think this. My daughter, you know, we've been drawing more with my daughter. Like, it's like...

We're all addicted to our phones. I'm addicted to my phone. My wife's addicted to her phone. It's hard to keep our kids off these screens because we're addicted to our screens. But we are trying to make effort to do more drawing and stuff like that so that she has activities that are fun that are not these screens. Okay. I think that's great. So we've been drawing a lot. So-

I've been drawing more and I used to love to draw. And now, so now I'm drawing back into it a little bit. And you're just as good as you used to be.

Yeah, I mean, I reached a level of drawing, and then I never got better than that. And I'm about the same spot. You're not as good as you once were, but you're as good once as you've ever been. Yeah, I mean, yeah. I used to be good as a kid. I thought I was at least. And now I'm not as good, but as I'm growing more with my daughter, I'm getting better. It's like it's coming back to me. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. I mean, well, that's good. I mean, I used to, my whole thing with drawing was not. What, Aaron? You think about cave drawings? No, no, no. Just those whole conversations. My thing wasn't an individual, like one individual piece of goodness. Mine was just like, I put a lot of stuff out there. I should bring some of these crazy. It's like your comedy. Yeah. Yes.

Throw a lot of darts. That's right. I should bring some of those crazy drawings I did in here. Yeah, you bring in your literature. I'll bring in my story. Yeah, yeah. And you bring in whatever y'all did. You bring in your red wagon. Yeah. And we'll just compare our childhoods. Radio flyer.

My daughter is – she watches these YouTube videos. To your point about screen time, she watches a show called Egg Surprise. Do you know this show? No. Is that where they open eggs? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I've seen something like that. And –

To the point where, so they go open, open. It's like a little surprise, and then there's something that pops out. Surprise eggs. Yeah, she calls it egg surprise, but I think it is called surprise eggs. Quite frankly, I think egg surprise is a better name. I think so, too. This video has 607 million views. Yeah, the kids' videos have so much that I kind of want to start making kids' videos just for monetization on my channel. I'm like...

Because some of this stuff, I'm like, you know, this is pretty good animation. But some of them, they're like just playing with toys and making a lot of wild sound effects. I could do that. It's nothing. But it affects her so much. Yesterday, we did an Easter egg hunt with all these kids. All the other kids are just running, grabbing as many eggs as you can. She would get to one and go, open, open. Like, she took her five minutes on each egg. I think that's better.

Well, a little delay gratification. Quality over quantity. See what's in the egg. Is it good? Do I have enough? Usually it was nothing, but yeah. I would like to start filming this with you, Dusty. Make some. Yeah. I like the idea of you doing a Bob Ross type show. Some of your doodles. Yeah, let's do that. You know, let's put it together. I think that could be fun.

What were y'all up to this weekend? Where have you been? Where are we going? I was home. Could have been working, but chose not to. Hanging out with my family. We did a lot of fun stuff. Like I said, we did an Easter egg hunt. Oh, yeah. Happy Easter. Thank you. Happy New Year to you. People first. Well, yeah, I guess it is. I don't know. I never know what the New Year is. I mean,

I mean, technically speaking, the Bible says that Passover comes on the 10th day of the first month. Right. And I think Passover is supposed to be April 22nd. Okay. So April 12th would be like the new year. Okay. So we're not quite there yet. We're not quite there yet. Oh, okay. I apologize. That's okay. Well, you're gearing up for the new year. Yeah, I'm gearing up. That was April Fool's joke. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and it's like, I've also not had a lot of sleep. Yeah.

My daughter got up in the middle of the night and I read her about 10 books and sang some songs. And then I had to get up and do a bunch of radio calls today. So you did some call-ins. Yeah, I did five radio shows this morning. Wow. I tried to do the Zoom number and that was so complicated. You didn't get that set up? Oh, I'll help you get it set up. It's so easy. I love it now. Yeah, I do a VOIP.

I don't know what any of that is. It's a voiceover IP, so I can call phone numbers on my computer. I use Zoom, but you can use whatever. They wanted me to put my home address in there.

I was like, why not? Why are we doing that? I don't do that. That's when I came to- You tried to sign up for Clear. They wanted all your information. Yeah. But I just was like, I don't know why you need this. I tried to put the P.O. box in and they were like, we won't accept that. So I was like, all right, well, just give me my money back. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry about that. That's okay. So where were you this weekend? I went to, I did two shows. I went to Jacksonville, Florida, Ponte Vedra. Dude.

Duval. You know what? That's funny. In the green. I don't know why they didn't say it during my show, but in the green room, they were like, they're not booing. They're saying Duval. And I was like, well, that's what I'll tell myself for the rest of my life. That's weird. They did that in my show in Louisiana. So I guess there's a lot of Jags fans there. Yeah.

But it was great. The Ponte Vedras show sold out way in advance. The show was hot. The moment I got out there, it was hot. I had... Openers didn't do well. No, they did great too. No. Chris Buck that listens to the podcast opened Wesley... God.

Gosh, Johnson, I believe. I hate that I – it is Johnson, I believe. I hate that I'm forgetting his last name right now. This is like the We're Having a Good Time podcast. Yeah. I just want to – yeah, Wesley Johnson. And they were great. They used to – Chris has been my friend a long time. Wesley –

hosted for me last time I was at the Jacksonville Comedy Zone. So we kind of brought that whole show to Ponte Vedra. It was hot, super hot show. The moment I got out there, I mean, I did, I think I did an hour, 25 minutes. I mean, I am all about time on these theater shows. I mean, I am milking it.

It's so great. I mean, when the shows are good, it's like they're just laughing. I'm riffing. And if you don't feel like you're keeping them there, you know? Yeah. Because I've had that feeling where I'm like, I get to the end. I'm like, all right, I'll let y'all go. Yeah. You're being nice, but I'll let you leave. Well, that's how it feels at a club a lot of times. Right. Because they've done last call. They've already signed the receipt. Yeah. They're ready to get out of there. But then in that theater, I'm like, this is great. And then the next day.

I went to Atlanta, which the show was great, but I flew from Jacksonville to Atlanta. I did a direct. Flight was great. But as we're landing, it's starting to get real rough and I'm starting to get a little motion sickness. And then I get an Uber.

And the Uber is about 45 minutes. Standstill traffic in Atlanta. Of course. And I don't really have enough time to comfortably go to my hotel and then back to the theater. So I just go to the theater. You're in road limbo. That's all you can do. I'm motion sick. I'm out there walking around.

Um, yeah. And then, uh, I ran into a guy out behind the theater from my dad's hometown, kind of my hometown in a, in a sense, my second hometown of Penn and Alabama Penn and T O N pronounced Penn. And, uh, if you say Penn, then you're like, uh, you know, here now from around here, uh,

But the Atlanta show was really great. You did the one with me last year. This theater was about 800 more people. Wow. It was huge for me, about 1,800 seats. Yeah, this is the Atlanta Symphony Hall, right? Yeah.

Yeah, 800 seats is enormous. And it was a hot show. You sold it out? I don't think I sold it out, but I was like. Jeez, Brian. All right, I apologize. We'll edit this part out. I want to think I was like probably 95%. It might have been sold out, but it wasn't sold out in advance, but it was very close. 95%, something like that. That's a bummer. All right. Let's move on then.

But it was hot. I mean, hot show. And then I got to, you know, hang out with some, I had my friends, Vince Fabra, Evan Burke, that I kind of started comedy with on the show. Liam Nelson was there. And then I had some high school buddies we all hung out after in the parking garage, had some cigars. And it was great. That's awesome. I had some high school, other high school friends just show up that I didn't know would be there.

A lot of Nate land people. There you go. Reg Griffin, who was reaching out and looking for a meet and greet. I did a meet and greet. I wanted to do one, but it was a bit bigger of a theater than I'm used to. So I was like, I don't know how that's going to work, but he had commented about it. So I was like,

You know what? I got to do it. I got to do the. And you signed a baseball, right? I did sign a baseball. There's a guy who's been getting all of our signatures on the same baseball. Yeah, this baseball is so chewed up. Well, that's part of the story. And he gave me, I think you let us sign it and then get it chewed up. But he gave me a Sharpie and I'm like, I barely signed this. It's like signing. It's like it's so tore up. Your signature looked pretty good. Yeah, well, I got a good signature. But mine looks real bad. Mm-hmm.

People will ask me to sign their t-shirt sometimes that they buy for me. And every time I go, listen, I'll do it, but it's not going to look good. Right. They go, I don't care. And then I'll do it. And usually they don't. And it's one girl at the show. She goes, I don't care. And then I signed it. You could tell that she didn't like how it looked. And I was like, I told you. It's impossible to sign a t-shirt with like a sharp, like certainly not a pin. Have you signed a body part before? Yeah.

All the time. What are you on about, Aaron? A couple of times. I don't get it. I'm not trying to do it, but I have done it. Yeah, if somebody asks, you'll do it. Somebody was like, sign your name here. I'm going to get it tattooed. I go, well, I'll sign it, but don't do that. Please don't. Yeah. Please don't get my signature tattooed. Don't do it. Don't do it. I assume you have? A couple times. It's never. It's just like a fat guy. Oh.

Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Words he wants you to sign. On his chest. I've had that. I've also had women do that a couple of times. But I'm like, you know, I'm a married man. I'm not looking in to do that. Of course, but you don't want to disappoint a fan. I'll do it. I don't like it. You also don't want to disappoint the people watching this go down, too. It's like, let's do it a little bit. Yeah. You don't sell your own merch anymore. No. But...

Well, I was about to ask this. You don't care about your fans anymore, right, Dusty? I do do the meet and greet and stand next to the merch, but I always thought I would never want to not sell my own merch. But the moment I stopped doing it, I was like, oh, this is way better. Yeah, it's just scaled to a point where you can't do it anymore. Well, you did it for a long time, so you'll still fit this question. You ever feel awkward, though, when you're out there selling your shirts and

There's some different size people. Of course. You have to ask. Of course. What size do you want? And kind of point them toward a certain way. Well, you never. You don't have to do it in a creepy way. Point them towards a way. You just go, what size would you like? Brian puts a scale out there. Stand on that and I'll eyeball it for you. It's just asking what size they need. What I hate is if they're a little bigger and they go, what sizes do you have?

And I'll go, I have from small to 3X. And they go, oh, I'm not that big. And I'm like, you ask what sizes I have. I'm just giving you the range. I've told this story before, but I was selling shirts at a John Chris show way back in the day. We're in some church, and this old woman comes up to me, and she goes, can I get a 2XL or 3X?

She goes, can I get a 3X? And I go, sure. And I gave it to her and she goes, thanks. This is for my husband. He's huge. I was like, oh, that's all right. Yeah. You know, I wear a 3X. It's not a big deal. And she goes, oh.

Yeah, let me get a two-way. And I mean, I told that story on stage with my merch pitch forever. Yeah. I thought it was so funny. It is so funny. Yeah. Anyway. I don't point them, but sometimes you're like, come on. You know what you do, man? You hold up the line. You don't need a medium. Here's a way to make a fan for life, dude.

You get some bigger sizes. You don't even have to put them out. Just hide them in your suitcase. And you'll see a dude walk up who's a four or five X. Yeah. And he's like, what do you got? And you go, I got you, dude. And then reach in. You throw a four X at a guy. That's a fan for life. Just have a couple of those in your suitcase.

That'll be $50. Yeah. This is two shirts worth of fabric. You want two? A hundred bucks.

I did. The first time I got merch, I had some 3Xs and I thought, geez, I'll never sell these. And I did shows in Nebraska that weekend. That's all I sold. I know. But here's the thing, dude. There's 3X people everywhere, man. And, you know, it's like people just seem like if it's a 3X and, oh, you must be so fat, it's...

People are just big. It's not necessarily that people are fat. It's like people are big. There's big people. Or they want a nighttime shirt. Yeah. You know, just something to throw on. You know, people can buy whatever they want, but it does bother me a little bit when I was selling my own merch when like a small person would go, let me get a 2X. I want to sleep in it. And I'm like, well, now when the 2X person comes along and I don't have a shirt big enough for them, you're costing me a sale here. Would you just wear a shirt?

She doesn't wear it like a normal person. How would you sell a small to a two X size person? Cut the sleeves off. I would tell people in my merch sites off too.

When I would get down to the end of the weekend and I only had smalls, I would do stuff like that. I'd go, listen, all I got left is smalls, but they are very comfortable. So even if you're bigger than that, it'll feel good. You can wrap it up, use it as a do-rag. It'll feel good, tight against your skin. You can wear it like an Under Armour shirt. Yeah. Work out in this stuff. Where were you, Eric? I had a...

Very fun weekend. Las Vegas, Nevada. I was told multiple times I said it wrong last week. I said Nevada.

And I want to say my instinct was to say Nevada. But for some reason, I thought Nevada was correct. I think I would have been the same way. It's Nevada. I feel like I'll never not say Nevada. But the nice part is if you say Las Vegas, you don't have to say the state. Yeah. Say nowhere you're talking about Vegas. Yeah. I was in Las Vegas. Wise Guys Comedy Club. I did the smaller room there. They have two rooms now.

Wow. Wise Guys Comedy Club does. And Dry Bar is doing them right. I know, man. And that room, I mean, the shows I did were hot. They weren't sold out, but it's a small enough room that you can pack them in there. Everybody kept calling it a kill box.

What's that mean? That term? It's a comedian term. I've heard you in it. And I heard it used a lot this weekend. I don't like it, but it's appropriate. It's a kill saying that it's like you're going to kill in there. Yeah. Or it's just like a perfect room to to have a good comedy. Well, they do say the thing about that club is that it's geared toward locals, whereas everything else in Vegas is geared toward tourists. Right now, there's a lot of comedy.

In the city, but most of it, you know, it's on the strip or whatever. That's different. This is in the arts district. This is locals. I mean, the host went up there. Jarrett, very funny guy. It was his first time hosting a weekend at the club. So he was excited and he had a joke about that.

I don't know, anti-California or whatever. And the place went nuts. So I was like, oh, these are local. These are Las Vegas people. The whole country hates California people. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. That's true. California or Florida? Yeah. It's kind of like pick a side. That's kind of what it feels like. Well, the thing about Florida, though, the thing about California is they're moving out of there and moving to all these states. Yeah, yeah. And then Florida, you know, they're moving to Florida. I mean, I don't know anybody go, yeah, just moved here from Florida. Yeah.

Yeah, I was trying to think of somebody. Right. But at the other Wise Guys Club, which just opened back in September, it's a different part of town. Big Jay Oakerson was there. It's a much bigger room. But man, I like it. The room I was in was great. We went by there and hung out with him. I had a great comedy weekend. We did my show, then hung out at Big Jay's show. Then the next night, the Tropicana, which is a casino in Vegas. It has the Laugh Factory.

comedy club there, the Tropicana is closing. Okay. So it was like the last weekend of the last factory. So, uh,

We went over there. Dustin Nickerson was in town doing Brad Garrett's club. We went and hung out with him. Then we went to the Laugh Factory and hung out, saw Brian Regan there. Wow. Jackie Kayshian was there. All these comedians. We just hung out. I was like, what a great comedy weekend. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I got some embarrassing pictures of myself. It was a good time. Tropicana feels like a real classic place. I know. It seems sad that it's closing, even though I don't have any connection to it. I think I might have this wrong, but I think that's where they're going to build the new baseball stadium. Okay.

Okay. Which they don't seem to be thrilled about. I'll say it. I would be so pumped if Nashville got an MLB team. But every time it was mentioned on stage in Vegas, it got booze. Oh, they're getting the A's. Yeah, they're getting the Oakland A's are moving out to Las Vegas. So I guess they're worried. Traffic's already bad. Oakland loses everything to Las Vegas. I mean, the Raiders are in Las Vegas now. What kind of embarrassing pictures are?

Did you take? No, I was just like, just hanging out. You know, we're hanging out. Okay. I thought something happened in Vegas that stays in Vegas, but there's some photos out there. Well, yeah, it is going to stay in Vegas. I took it myself. Oh, okay. That's all I'm saying. We'll just pull them up. Let's see. Did you see the sphere? I did see the sphere and I didn't go in. Okay. You drive up here. I get it. Okay. It also doesn't look as good in person. You can see, you can see the mechanism inside of it. At least during the day.

So it's not like a solid image up there. So we drove up. We were like, I get it. Did you have a steak? No. I love a steak in Vegas. Why? I don't know. It just feels good. Yeah. It feels right. It feels good everywhere. No, not cigars. We were doing other stuff.

You know what I mean? Yeah. All right. We were having a good time. Yeah. It was just more of a, I thought it would be a Vegas weekend, but it was a comedy weekend. I don't know if that makes sense. It was like good comedy hangs. Did you gamble at all? No, I didn't gamble. Yeah.

Yeah. Didn't gamble. Just on my health. You know what I mean? But thank you to everybody who came out. That was two hot shows. I can't wait to go back. I was on stage the first night. I was like, God, I wish this was a special date. It was going that well. I want to say thank you to people that came to see me, too. I forgot to say that. That's okay. It's implied. You reminded me. It's implied. I was just thinking of a way to put a button on that story. Anyway, I love you all. It's not lost on us. Film your special.

I should. Yeah. I'm not going to be back for a while. I am going to be taping something soon. Call it kill box. Call it the kill box. Yeah. Call it the slay box. Name it after me. No. Tuesday, I, uh, all of a sudden middle of the day, I started getting this pain in the top of my calf and I'm like, Oh, I guess just, I don't know. Muscle tightness, whatever. I'm like, I'll go for a walk.

It kept getting worse and worse during the day. And then I Googled. Yeah, exactly. What could possibly be? And it said, if you've taken any long flights, it could be a blood clot.

I'd just gotten back from the West Coast where I didn't get up the entire time on the plane. So in my mind, I was sure I had a blood clot. I was doing these tests. They said to try to do. I felt like it was happening. And blood clots can be very serious. So the next day I went to the doctor and I mean, I was sure I had a blood clot. I just basically went to tell him, I got a blood clot. Can we do something about it? They sent me for like an ultrasound test.

Came back negative. I'm just old. What was it? I mean, I don't know. I still don't know. It's just like a pulled muscle or something. I just said not in my calf, but I was sure in my mind I had a blood clot. That's scary. Did you do stretching, though?

I did stretching. I looked online and it said if it's a pulled muscle, you're supposed to bend your foot one way and it will relieve it. Or maybe if you pull muscle, if you do this with your foot, it's supposed to help it. But if it's a blood clot, it's supposed to hurt. And to me, it was hurting. So I'm like, ah, I got a blood clot. The problem is...

I'm not a doctor. There ain't now. They don't know anything. The problem is the anxiety that comes with any kind of body pain now. The moment I feel like, because this all happened to me after I ruptured my appendix. Used to be, I'm like, nah, I'm fine. Any body pain, I'm like, nah, I'm fine. But when I finally ruptured my appendix, I was like, oh, geez. So now every time I'm like,

And then like, if it's pains like that, usually I stretch and it goes away. Yeah. But like, if it doesn't go away, it's like your mind can just go to a place. You got kids, you're living for other people too. Yeah. It's a lot. Yeah. And then it's like, then anxiety can make that seem worse. Yep. Like I don't have regular anxiety out here. I'm not worried about things, but-

Something happens with my body and I'm like, oh, geez. You know what I mean? It's like. Well, I got one of those guns things if you need to use them, Brian. What is that? Those little things that just goes. Oh, it's a workout muscle. Oh, yeah. Theragun, whatever they're called. You ever use one of those? No. Yeah. I go to the chiropractor and this guy is he cracks the back. I mean, I'm talking about for muscle stuff. Yeah. But yeah, I could use that. Yeah. I'll bring it in one day. Let's do it.

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All right. Let's get into it. Well, I want to say. I think people are sick of my voice by now. I agree. This part's very important. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and Nateland at NateBargatze.com. Or at BrianBatesComic. Just DM him. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. nope

Sure. I mean, if you want to just throw the whole show to the wind, sure. Just do whatever you want. I just want to say I saw this one today in the Nateland Facebook group from Brittany Wessner Hefner. It says, Dusty is right about everything. So thank you, Brittany. There's nothing more to it? That was her comment, and she added some claps in there. But Dusty is right about everything. You probably should have saved that for a few comments in when you get blasted, and then you could have retracted with that. But we'll just remember that.

All right, well, can I read this guy's comment on that one? You guys will like this. Yeah, go ahead. Is he in here? Let me make sure he's not mentioned here. Okay, he says, I used to enjoy the show a whole lot more until Eeyore started interrupting every conversation with doubts about everything. Who, Eeyore? I guess that's me. It was slightly amusing. Now it's just irritating and tired. Wow. And I, you know, I'm sorry, Dan. I'm sorry that's happening to you. But you got to wake up and realize that...

The truth hurts, Dan. You can't believe everything out here. It's not all rainbows and unicorns out here. I know you lived a lot of life before the internet was around, but now it's out there. So we are living in the information age, and you can find out that not everybody's telling you the truth out here. Get with it. Don't shoot the messenger. Right. All right. Sorry. All right. I thought that would be a lot of fun.

That was fun. Yeah. I am sorry, though, Dan. No, I'm not. I'm not trying to be a downer, dude. But I do like Eeyore. I'm not trying to be Eeyore. I do like Eeyore, though. Yeah. He's a realistic guy. Eeyore is like Squidward. I'm just trying to find an analogy.

For my generation. Yeah. You ever watch SpongeBob? A little bit. Yeah. Are you familiar with Squidward? He's like the Debbie Downer of the neighborhood. Yeah. And you grow up and you start to identify with him a little more. Right. You're like, hey, maybe shut up in the middle of the night. They know the next door neighbors. Yeah. Exactly. You know what I'm talking about? I have no idea. So in the Andy Griffith show, let's find a reference. That'd be Ford the barber for me. That's right. Exactly.

Grateful 58. Such an amazingly enjoyable show. Wow. So many things to comment on. I forget them all. I should take notes, but the absolute standout is Nate asking, why is it the food pyramid bigger at the bottom? And Aaron saying slowly and wisely, because it's a pyramid.

And then Dusty losing it. Such great stuff. Yeah, it was a fun moment. You know, that was really fun because I had also just had a sip of water when you said that. And I almost spit it up. It's so funny. I put a clip up of that this morning. Yeah, I saw it. Yeah, I'm glad you did because people love that moment.

Nicholas Butcher. Nicole's Butcher. Yeah, back in the day, Dusty, before you were with us. It's one of the first inside jokes of the podcast. Nicole's Butcher? Yeah, Nate misread that. Nicole's Butcher. Okay. I thought it was like...

Why didn't just Nicole write in? She had her butcher. Yeah. Good times. Nicholas Butcher. Dusty was absolutely right. Prior to 2013, Pizza Hut was the number one buyer of kale in the United States. They used it to decorate their buffet bar. See, I don't know. This is a good example. Like, uh,

Is that a claim that you made? You just said that they were the number one. Well, I didn't say it specifically about Pizza Hut, I don't think, but buffets used to put it out. They would lay it on the buffet and then put stuff on top of it. Did we challenge you on that? I don't think so, but I appreciate Nicholas coming in and letting you guys know.

Because people don't think that I know anything, but then I'm in. Wow, look at this. Look how much kale on this buffet spread right here. I know. I mean, that's more than the food. It's a lot of smoothie. Yeah. Why not just get fake kale, like fake plants in an apartment? That's a good question. I don't know.

Taylor Smith, using Dusty as a medical expert is tough. There we go. It's like some fact mixed with some decently science-backed opinions mixed with completely erroneous statements. I would agree with that. Well, why don't you try to be more vague about it? You know what I mean? Oh, some facts in there, some decently science-backed opinions. What's a science-backed opinion? I mean, I do think...

On science, with food, nutrition, you're much more in agreement than, say, the moon or astronomy. I mean, most doctors, I think, would agree with you. Water is the way to go. You should drink more water, less soda. McDonald's is poison. And who's using me as a medical expert? I guess the podcast. But I go to the – I mean, I'm –

been to the doctor about several things. And the doctor's always like, I don't know, man, we can run a test. When I ruptured my appendix, I went to the doctor and I talked to them about the pain that I was having. They said, well, we'll run some blood tests and find out what's going on. So I said, okay. And they ran the blood test.

I'm in pain now. I have pain going on in my body. Scale of one to 10, where were you at? I don't know. Depending on the day, some days it wasn't really hurting at all. Other days, seven, eight. Yeah. The day you came to see me at the St. Louis Funny Bone. Yeah, you were not in good shape. Yeah, I was not doing well. I went to the doctor on that Monday. They ran these blood tests. They called me later. They go, good news. Everything's fine. Yeah.

I go, okay, well, I'm in a lot of pain here. So people, medical expert, it's like, listen, there are some very good doctors out there, I'm sure. So I'm told. But they're wrong about a lot of stuff. Sure, sure.

I think medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in this country, I think. Wow. That's number one. Like- Broken heart. Like heart attack. Heart disease. Okay. It's something like that. And it's like, you know, because the body is tricky. All these things are tricky. You don't know what's affecting what. I mean, it's like-

I mean, the stomach is a very complicated thing. And we're eating a lot of poison out here. That's right. And it is messing us up. Yeah. You know what I mean? I'm just saying you are more in line with them than you are with other forms of science. Yeah. Fast food's bad for you. Yeah. I think they would agree with that. You're probably more pro-meat, maybe. Yeah.

Yeah. That's what I've always said about you. Yeah. Well, meat is good. I mean, meat is good for you. But too much red meat is not good for you. That's what they say. Yeah. But, you know. I would think vegetables would be higher. I think that you're not supposed to, like the quantities that we eat of food is bad. Yeah. But I think like a small amount of red meat, I think it's very good for you. But I think we should eat it every day.

I don't always do that, but you know, and it's like, you go get a hamburger, you're like, and then, and then you feel bad or whatever. You always blame the meat, right? But a lot of these hamburgers, it's, it's buns that's made from some, we don't even know where the flowers comes from, some enriched meat.

wheat flour. Yeah. And then it's like put together with a bunch of sugar and starches. Yeah. And then you got, you know, spit on it. Yeah. Yeah. And then you got some cheese and maybe it's good cheese. Maybe it's American cheese. That's practically plastic. But you leave it out and then never mold. Right. Right. And then you eat that and you go, and then you put a lot of mayonnaise on it.

or whatever and then you eat it and you go I've been gaining weight it's too much red meat and it's like well maybe it's all that other crap 64 ounce coke you drank with it too yeah and the fries you know all delicious it's all so good yeah

Yeah. But I don't mean to get fired up. I'm not even mad at Taylor Smith. No, I love him. That's why I put it in there. His sentence doesn't make a lot of sense. You could tell he put a real word salad together. Decently science-backed opinions mixed with completely erroneous statements. Yeah, there's some syntax and grammatical errors in there. Taylor. Some facts, and then science-backed should be hyphenated. Yeah. But, you know, give it another shot, Taylor. Taylor enjoys hearing themselves talk. You can guarantee that. Well...

We all do. Well, yeah, I do two podcasts a week and stand up comedy. I'm hour 25 on stage. I'm with Taylor on this one. All right. Christopher Sarnowski. Great name. Bonehead. Monsters ain't care. Yeah. Bonehead, referring to me, thinking 16 ounces is a gal and helps me understand why he's worried all the time.

Well, I admit 16 ounce thinking that was a gallon is pretty dumb. I don't really understand why that would help him understand why I'm worried all the time, but okay. Yeah. I mean, that's what is a 16 ounce. That's a, like a pound. That's a regular bottle of regular bar wash. 16.9. I think. Yeah.

I thought it was a gallon, but I was way off. When I was a kid. You thought that was a gallon? I said that last week. Remember? But you thought like a regular bottle of water was a gallon? I just, no, no, no. I know what a gallon is. You get a gallon of milk. You're like, what is this, a barrel? Well, you know, when I was a kid, like you get, it was a 16 ounce Coke.

And then they started introducing the 20 ounce and the 20 ounce was like a big deal. It was like, Ooh, a big Coke. And now 20 ounces, the standard, that's a small now. I love it.

It's like Hardee's. When I grew up, we used to eat Hardee's like every day. I mean, it was Hardee's on the way home and we would eat Hardee's all the time. And this is pre-Thickburger too. Oh, yeah. It's like original Hardee's menu. Yeah. When they had chicken on the menu and Monster Burger, that was a big one for me. But the small that they used to have now doesn't really exist anymore.

The old medium is the small. The old large is the medium. And like, you know. The same with people. I mean, it really is. It is true. I was looking at an old wrestling video and there's a wrestler named The Earthquake. Yeah, yeah. Remember that guy? I do. I remember seeing that guy as a kid thinking, geez, that guy's big. And then I was like, oh, I saw four people like that at Walmart today. I mean-

I mean, that guy. Yeah. Well, I remember my dad after he lost weight. Yeah. It's like Aaron after he lost weight. I remember. Yeah. I tried a bit about this for a while, but I watched the movie heavyweights as an adult. Oh, yeah. It was like,

These kids aren't that fat. These kids look pretty good. Well, from my day, Refrigerator Perry was like the biggest football player you'd ever seen. And he was 300 pounds. And now he would be a small office of wine. It's crazy. It's crazy. All right. They wouldn't even call him. They'd call him Mini Fred. Slim. Slim Perry. Slim.

Yeti cooler. Where are we at? Will Russell. Aaron trying his best not to completely lose it while Dusty was reading the ButcherBox ad and Dusty watching Aaron's almost breakdown was the best part of the podcast. Oh, boy.

It made my day along with a stomachache from laughing so hard. That's very nice, Will. But I would say if you're pitching the podcast to somebody, don't lead with the best part or the ad reads. That's not a good sales pitch. Oh, man, you got to check this out. The ad reads are unreal. The best part are talking about butcher box.

You know, you would think though that, you know, and maybe the ads, they do like this because it's like, you know, a lot of times I'm listening to podcasts, they hit an ad. I'm like, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip. Cause you know, you know, they're like a minute you hit that on your iPhone. It's got the little 30 second, you go boop, boop, and then you're done. And, uh, boop,

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Good times. My boss. All right. It's a requirement to watch Nate specials. That's right. That's right. You got to pass an entry exam. When people ask, can they do the podcast?

We go, well, have you watched all the specials? Get back to us when you can quote some of them. But not just watch it, memorize it. Yeah. Know it. Yeah. Do the closing bit on the Tennessee Kid right now. Yeah. That's how you get it. That's a special with Nate's. Okay. Sound like a Western. Tennessee Kid? Yeah. It does, doesn't it? Yeah.

I think that would be ice coffee, whipped cream. Ice. Oh, maybe. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I think it is. Okay. It's call back to the half hour. Right. I think so. Yeah. Derek. You guys do got it memorized. Yeah.

That one I knew very well because I was touring with him all the time. Don't turn this on us. I'm HR. That's our boss. Derek Cochran. A story my auctioneer grandpa told me. The Roots of Auctioneers goes back in

Wow.

All right. Whoa. Don't know if that's true, but that's what his grandpa said. How about that? I've been working on the auctioneering, dude. I'd say there's probably a lot of completely erroneous statements in there. You know what I mean? That's what this podcast is. Well, yeah. Some science-backed stuff, too. Let's hear it. Well, no, no, no. I'm not ready to display it yet. I've been working. I watched this guy, and he said,

He gave these phrases to say, and as you gradually get them faster and faster. So you do one, one and a quarter, one and a half, one 75, two, two and a quarter, two and a half, two 75, three, three and a quarter, three and a half, three 75, four, four, four, four and a quarter, four and a half, four 75. You just do that. Get it faster.

I was just doing that in the car this weekend. Wow. Just looking like a crazy person in the car. Five, five and a quarter, five and a half, five, 75, five, 75, five, 75, six, six and a quarter. You know, this is great. One of these days it's starting to sound okay. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now I just got to be able to say something. And then you just throw some random things in here and there. Really mix it up.

That was very good. I'm telling you, dude. And then once I find a bit to do it in. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, just hit. That's what I'm talking about. Auction off plants. Tie your plant joke. Somebody yelled, do the plant joke this weekend. And I did it. And it's not good. Yeah. Did not do. Did not go well. Well, the buildup, I guess. It's too much for too little. Well, let me ask you this, though. Did the person that yelled it out enjoy it?

Did they come up to you after the show? I think they enjoyed the moment. They yelled, I'm sorry, but it was over. Yeah. But that show was so hot. I didn't lose anybody. Oh, yeah, it was good. That's awesome. Jonathan Eldridge. Oh, oh, oh. Eldridge.

I worked at an auctioneering school when in high school. Do people listen to this podcast or is it the same 12 people? We've had it before. Yeah, we should just invite these people to just come hang out with us. It's a simulation. Well, people are not going to like you saying that because we have so many people right in. They're going to be like, oh, Brian has his 12 favorites. I don't think that's the case. Now, is there a program where you get a comment read, then now you get bumped to the top? Because that's what it feels like. I'm not questioning your process, but...

I don't look at the names. I just find the comments. I think what you're saying is just get better at writing. These people are good at writing. I guess so. I guess so. LaDridge. Sorry. I worked at auctioneering school, went in high school, and it's not nearly the trick you hope it is.

Really, the only thing it is good for is driving away women at a party. Sorry, Aaron. Also, I'm surprised to hear that Dusty goes to auctions. As much hat and glasses touches as he does, I figured he might have been in a little trouble after he accidentally won all of the items. Great comment. That's really funny. That is funny. I don't really go now. I did go as a kid with my dad to the cattle auction. But you go now and you're having a good time. I'm just waving. I'm just like, hey, Dusty.

Guy keeps looking at me and I go, and it really gets me in a lot of trouble. No, but I did work with an auctioneer not long ago. I did a gig where I was doing standup and he was auctioning off items and he was great, man. I wish I remembered his name, but he was crushing it. I think I was there when you started really doing the, we're having a good time. Cause you had a moment on stage and I've told the story to other comics quite often. I don't remember which show, but it was not a hot show. Yeah.

but you were kind of having fun with how bad it was. So you're doing the wave that you, I like the wave like this.

You don't want to go too high. It looks like you're asking a question. You like to just keep it down here. And he kind of did this. And then you caught, you caught a woman with your hand and you go, gotcha. And I was dying. I don't remember if it got last at all. Is this the main hanger? Gotcha. It might've been, it might've been after that. Hmm.

Anyway. That's fun. Gotcha. Gotcha. Well, we did some bad gigs. Yeah. Gosh. Some real bad ones. I'm still doing them. Save your pictures for shows to the end of the podcast. Okay. Neil Curran. Come on, bad gigs.

Speaking of bad kids, this weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Neil Curran, kindly writing in to share that it was Phil Collins, not Queen, who performed in London, then took a Concord to the U.S. and performed in Philadelphia. He performed on two sides of the Atlantic on the same day. Well, I'm glad. I wasn't too confident that it was Queen. I knew it was somebody at Live Aid, so a few people let me know it was Phil Collins. They're basically the same, dude.

Mark Frank. I'm not a huge Phil Collins guy. Oh, I love Phil Collins. I was just like, somebody was just telling me about, you know, Genesis. They were like, oh, you, you know, they were like, they're like one of my favorite bands you got to get into. So I went and listened and I mean, I'm like the, the, the greatest hits are great. Like the one, but I'm like, I'm listening to just albums and I'm like, man, I, I,

I'm only liking it when I get to like one of the greatest hits one. And I'm like, oh yeah, this is a good one. But the other stuff I'm just like, it's okay. It's gotta be, it sounds, this sounds so lame, but some of it just sounds so dated. That 80s sound. Oh yeah. The drum tracks and everything. Phil Collins is a great drummer, but the drum tracks just sound so lame.

I mean, I was in Atlanta one time when I had this weekend. This was like when I was like 18 or 19 and I'd never go to Atlanta. I mean, and it was like it was like a big deal. I mean, that was like the city, you know, and we were at the Hard Rock Cafe in Atlanta. Yeah.

and in the air of the night was playing hard this is you know this is late 90s early 2000s when hard rock was like jamming everybody had the hard rock shirts and the city on it and the air of the night was playing it was on all the tvs it was loud and then they hit that kind of lap that last doo-doo-doo-doo and a guy in the kitchen bangs on the on the metal like in rhythm and i was like oh

This is amazing. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Man, I loved it. That song is incredible. What's the name of it? In the Air of the Night. In the Air Tonight? Yeah, whatever it's called. Yeah. I can feel it coming in the air at night or whatever night it is. Oh, Lord. Remember that song by Phil Collins, In the Air of the Night, where the guy could have saved that other guy from drowning but didn't? Remember that? Yeah. Eminem, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

How does a band or someone decide to go solo? Because Genesis and Phil Collins sound the same to me. Oh, yeah. Well, some of Paul McCartney's stuff sounds like the Beatles. Yeah, I guess I'm just curious how sometimes people decide, I'm going to be a band. And sometimes, even if they're a solo artist, they still have a band behind them. You think about starting your own podcast? I just don't understand why I need you guys.

I think this is what happens. Like a lead singer sometimes will be the writer of all the stuff. Okay. And then they're like, I'm, and I don't, not every time, but I think a lot of times they're like, I'm writing everything. I'm the recognizable one of this band. Right. Yet I'm still splitting the money with this band. Yeah.

I just go out on my own. But, you know, in the beginning, you know, you have your band. But, yeah, in the end, you're like, you know, I'm just going to do this by myself. Sure. And sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't. Yeah. Or the band just breaks up. They're like, let's all, we all want to do our own stuff. Some side projects, you know. Mm-hmm. Or like Bruce Springsteen. It's Bruce Springsteen, but the E Street Band. E Street Band. Rest in peace, Clarence. Mm-hmm.

He's played saxophone. Mark Frank. I've been dealing with a phone that barely connects to chargers for over a year. Wow. When Barley, I think that's me, was talking about his phone charger conundrum, I just happened to find a pin small enough to clean my charging port out. Voila.

Phone chargers are working again perfectly. Y'all at Nateland are making the world a better place. Thanks, buds. How about that? Sounds like Mark works in the government. How would you have pronounced V-O-I-L-A, Dusty? Voila. Voila. You would have got that? Yeah. Don't you say voila? I may not have gotten it. You're probably right. I emphasize W. I would have loved Nate to have read that word. You said voila? Voila.

Isn't it voila? I think voila. I said voila, but I think you're probably right. You probably are right. I think you kind of do both. But I've heard voila so long without seeing how it's spelled. Voila. That's what Nate would have said. Voila phone chargers. Like a specific type of phone charger. Voila phone chargers are the best. Voila phone chargers are working.

No, I had an issue like that, too, for a long time. I had a few people say the reason that it happened then was because you had those new pants that have all the pocket linen on them. If you buy a new pair of jeans, they got a lot of linen there when you first buy them. So Christy Johnson caused me some problems. You just hadn't worn new pants in a long time. It's been a while. It had been a while. Spring Whitney. What's that name? Spring. I like spring as a name. Yeah. Spring Whitney. Mm-hmm.

Could be the season. Could be the verb. Could be the creek. There you go. Spring. Or I'm thinking like an actual spring. Yeah. Wow. I know the name. Yeah. At the risk of coming off as too sensitive. Oh, geez. Just kind of made my heart hurt a little with the whole making fun of Dusty not being invited to the John Chris party. Thank you, spring. I know we're all adults here.

But it just brought back memories of childhood when you were left out of things either on purpose because they didn't like you. Yes. Or because they just didn't think about you. Also, yes. Not sure which one is more worse. Which one is worse? Well, I agree. I agree. I'm sorry. I apologize for us making fun of you.

I'm usually the one that gets picked on. I was going to say, how different would this be if it was Brian that wasn't invited? Would you think you'd put that comment in for the episode? Spring Whitney, I understand where John Chris was coming from. Thank you, John. I'll say this about it, though. I'm gone a lot, and that particular time was like...

I didn't have very many days at home. And had I been invited, I would have gone. But it was nice to go home. I think I knew that. So therefore, I feel like I was comfortable with us teasing you because I knew you didn't really care. There were also a bunch of people there that weren't invited. So everyone would have been very excited if you showed up. Well, I don't like to crash. Just so you were missed. There was no crashing. There was no crashing. Plus, roasting is just not even your thing.

Well, you know, I don't like roast battle, but a friendly roast with a friend is fun. And I did invite him to my party to roast me and he came. I'm sorry it took spring to bring it to my attention. It was a surprise for him. He didn't not invite you. Yeah. Just everyone else didn't.

But Spring, I appreciate you. I don't know. Maybe Spring's not her first name, though. Maybe this is she has different. This is maybe it's really dusty or maybe maybe her name's Whitney, but we're in spring. So she's like, this is Spring. Yeah. And fall. Whitney writes in and says, I'm glad y'all didn't invite. Yeah, exactly. Allison Hensley.

Dusty mentioned the amount of sodas he would drink when he was younger. When he referenced Coke, was he saying he drank Coke specifically or is that just his word for any soda? Definitely just my word for any soda. Right. But because we would have like a grape soda, orange drink, whatever.

Dr. Thunder. Dr. Thunder. Whatever Walmart had at the time, it was Sam's Choice. That's what we had a lot of. And then my dad had like, I don't remember what grocery store they had, maybe Piggly Wiggly. And they had Czech Cola. Czech Cola. Yeah. So you had like, I think it was even Dr. Lightning or something like that. Dr. Lightning. Yeah.

And they would have a lot of different drinks like that. Chet Cola and, oh, Red Rock was also another one. Fact check. Coca-Cola does not cause a positive COVID-19 test. Okay. Dusty doesn't believe that. Oh, Red Rock was another one, too. Red Rock Soda? Yeah, look that up. Oh, man. But they didn't look like that. We were drinking them in a can. There's a can right there. Yeah. How about that?

Never heard of that. Right. But the Coke is the all-encompassing term. Your friend comes over, you want a Coke or something? Yeah. And then they go, all right, what do you got? Sprite. Yeah. Like khakis are like all dress pants to me at the time. And people that make fun of this, you wouldn't go to a restaurant and go...

When you order something, you're specific about it. Right. You never go, yeah, can I get a soda? Yeah. Right. You say specifically what you want. And if it wasn't Coke, which we did that as well, I would say soft drink before I say soda.

Interesting. I think we were a little more redneck and we would say like drank. Yeah. Let me get a drink. Yeah, maybe that. Yeah. I would never say soda. I say sarsaparilla. Jasmine Lozano. Great name. A lot going on in there. A lot of pizzazz, a lot of flair, a lot of fun. Dusty, your friend Marshall's alias was Mitch.

You told this in another podcast when Aaron mentioned he uses the name Doug at restaurants. I'm shocked Brian didn't catch this retelling. I caught it. I just have to pick my battles. Well, thanks, Jasmine, for bringing it up. Yes, thank you, Jasmine. Well, really, I'm the one that brought it up by putting Jasmine's comment in there. Yeah, but she was on it, though. Yeah. Well, I didn't remember, and I knew I had told the story, but let's be honest. Everything...

is told multiple times. I've told that story on here. I've told it on my own podcast. I've told it to other people. I've told it to friend groups that used to be friends with me and Marshall. It's a good story. I was thinking, because this weekend, this is the second time I had done that club in Las Vegas. So I was able to pull up my set list from the last time I was there. And I go, I'll do all new stuff this time. How nice would it be to have that

With people. Yeah. You go to lunch with somebody, you pull up, all right, here's what I talked about last time. Oh, yeah. Now I got to put together a set list for the conversation. That'll be the future of Google Glasses. Totally. It's like Terminator. You meet them and it's telling you stuff about them. And you're like, all right, you told them this story last time. Right. And then you could use that even in a different way just to be fun. Like, all right, these are the stories I told them last time. I'm going to tell all the same stories. Mm-hmm.

Just to hit them. If somebody starts telling you a story that they've already told you, do you stop them or do you let them tell it? It depends. Is the story good? Because I have told people recently, a couple of times, I go, you told me this story before, but I will hear it again. Oh, that's nice to hear. Yeah. Do you ever go, I'm going to cut you off right there? You've already tried this on me. No, I wouldn't do that to her.

You ever have anybody who starts telling you a story and you say, oh, yeah, you've told me this. And then they keep going. Didn't even faze them. They're going to tell it again. Or they're like telling you about a movie and you're like, yeah, I've seen it. And they keep describing the plot to you. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, well, listen, this is my story. Okay. I do this at all the parties. This is all I got. Yeah. So let me get through this.

Yeah. I have a neighbor out in McMinnville. She's told me a story about her grandson several times and about the Amish. And I just think that I don't know if she remembers telling it or if it's just, she's like, this is a fun story for me to tell. And so she's like, I'm going to keep doing it. And whether your laugh is real or fake, you laugh every time. That's right. Just like audience members do a lot of times. How long ago had you been to that Wise Guys before?

October 2022 was the last time I was there. So about a year and a half. About a year and a half. That's impressive. You did a whole new set. Thanks, man. Thanks, dude. Now, if I were to do my best set,

There'd probably be some stuff from a year and a half ago. It's a balance act, isn't it? Yeah. So yeah, it's tough. You should do all of your stuff that you did from that album one time before on video. I thought about it. I'm also 70 pounds lighter than I was when I recorded it the first time. So it would look a little better, but yeah, do that whole thing just for fun. I thought about it, but do you think it was a lot of the same people?

It was some of the same people. Some people had my shirt last time I was there. So it was some, but I still like to challenge myself to do newer stuff. This is what I've stopped. I thought that I would just keep doing the setup for my wave joke and for the we're having a good time joke because I like doing that. But the last few weekends I've stopped doing it.

Wow. And it is... I still say we're having a good time. I still wave, but I've not been doing the setup. You don't need to describe it anymore. They know. It feels...

Pretty freeing. I've been doing it for a long time. It feels pretty freeing. Yeah. You finally took one hand behind your back and now you're, yeah. I love it. Because I'm like, I like doing it because when I do it, it does give those things more impact. And I'm not saying I won't ever do it again. If I'm bombing somewhere, I'm going to do the wave job. Or corporate. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, it feels freeing. So I'm doing...

an hour 25 out here, not stuff on the special. Crazy. That's great. Yeah. A lot of stuff from the special before that, but nothing. No, no. I'm kidding. It's all fresh. That's great. Well, the eclipse is next week. How about it? I read a prophecy that not only that it may hit the Parthenon,

It may hit anyone who even visited the Parthenon. So I'm so glad that I did not visit the Parthenon. Well, you know, my dad was here last week and my stepmom. I didn't know this. And me and Hannah, we watched that prophecy about it. And we go, we didn't know where to take my dad. We were like, you know what? Let's go to the Parthenon. Like the Parthenon creeps me out. But I've been there so many times.

Yeah, I saw Hannah post a video of you with that big statue of Athena. I'm like, what in the world is going on here? We lost Dusty. Yeah, we lost him. He brought his kids there. It's so creepy to me, but I love to go there. They did. Don't Tell Comedy did a show there.

Oh, yeah. They did a show right in front of that statue. Oh, wow. Very well attended. I mean, it's a very cool setting for a show. Yeah. I bet the acoustics are good for that. It's creepy in there. Yeah, it's so creepy in there. Creepy. I saw where- I wouldn't want to be in there at night. Sorry. No, that's okay. I can't believe you were in there during the daytime, but- I can't believe I go either. Yeah. I'm disappointing myself. Yeah.

I saw where Rutherford County Schools here in Tennessee, which is Murfreesboro, close to Nashville, they're counseling school that day, next Monday, because they can't control kids staring at the sun. Yeah.

Now, people have been roasting them for this. I read the article. It seems kind of to make sense. Apparently, that's right when school's letting now, which this seems very early. It says, out of an abundance of caution, Rutherford County schools will be closed on April 8th because of the timing of the eclipse occurs when many students will be on buses and can't be supervised from looking at the eclipse. I mean, just say you want to give them the day off to look at the eclipse. Yeah.

It's a special day. We're going to take the day off. You could do a half day. That seems like a fun compromise. You know, let them out at noon, gives them a couple hours to go where they want to go. Yeah. They can stare at the sun at home. But I think it's like two o'clock central. Doesn't that seem early to be kids on buses?

No, they let them out early, man. They do? Yeah, they let them out early. The schools are falling apart, so let's just send them home. I heard they're firing up CERN for it. Yeah. They're getting the Hydron Collider out in Sweden. They're firing that bad boy up. I read that, too. Trying to find some dark matter out here. Are they really? Yeah. During the eclipse? Yeah. Is it going through Sweden?

I don't think so. I think it's just coincidental that it's happening at the same time. Trying to summon some demons out. Summons demons. You know, some people say when they fired up last time, that's the world ended. We just didn't know it. Yeah. That some person was dusty. Did I say that? Yeah. I was going to say, I've heard stuff like that. I don't know. It's going to be fun.

I had a conspiracy theory. I can't remember what it was now, but I bet Dusty would be on board with this. But now I can't remember what it was. They were telling me in Las Vegas about the tunnel people that they have out there. Did you know about that? Yeah, I've seen some stuff. Yeah, pretty crazy. I think Barstool Sports did a thing on it.

I think it was something where it was odd where I was like, why are they doing this? But yeah, the guy went down and was interviewing people and it's like, you couldn't go too deep. They say it gets shadier the deeper you get. Yeah, I bet. Because I think they flood the tunnels once in a while just to kind of flush. People die all the time down there. Just to flush people out. Anytime it rains, people die down there. It's like the sewers? Yeah.

Yeah, there's just a huge population. There's like a second city underneath the city. Yeah. Tunnel people, they're called. Because I think we talked about that with New York as well. A lot of people live down in the subways. New York has it. I think Oregon has something like that too. They have some underground tunnels. I was walking to the gas station in Las Vegas, and this dude comes up. And they will approach you in Las Vegas. I'll say that. This dude comes up. He's fully tatted.

And he walks up to me, he goes, you got any cash? And I give him like two bucks. And he goes, man, I'm in a world that's not my own. And I go, amen, brother. Look how dusty space is. He's like, I'm with this guy. He's like, yeah, you're not. But I go, what does that mean? He goes, man, I came out here from Idaho.

I'm the only real punk rocker in this city. And then I watched him walk away for a while. And he just walked out into the horizon. Yeah. So I've been thinking about it. I think punk rock is dead. So I agree with that guy. I should have been like, yeah, you are. Yeah. Go back to Idaho, brother. You should have given him Dusty's dates and say, go talk to him. Yeah. You don't have a lot in common. I'm in a world that's not my own. Yeah. Well, that is a good time to...

talk to that guy about some stuff, but it's hard. It's hard out there. He,

You didn't want to talk to this guy. You were like, well, I actually am surprised that you said, what does that mean? It was such a funny, crazy thing to say. It didn't even follow what had just happened. You're like, well, I hope that two bucks helps you. Yeah. Because I didn't even ask him how he was doing. He just told me, I'm in a world that's not my own. Yeah. Anyway. Huh. Well, okay. All right. I thought next night here would be a good time to talk about poetry. All right.

We can get into what we want to talk about. That's right. Poetry. True art of this podcast. Now, we should address this up top. You say the word a little funny. Oh, I do? Yeah.

What do you call the, so a poet would write a poem. I don't even know how I say it. That's crazy, dude. Oh, I say it with one syllable and it's two. No, you say poem. Okay. I don't know what I'd say. It's a poem. Poem. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Country coming out. But it's two syllables. It's like two syllables, right? Yeah.

Poem, yeah. And I say it with one. Plus some other stuff. Yeah, yeah. You're throwing wise in there. Well, how do you say it, Dusty? That's crazy, dude. Poem. I think you heard Aaron. Once you're called out on it, then you overthink it. I don't think I would have been calling it. I mean, I've been into poetry for a bit. I mean, I don't know a lot about it, but I'm into it. You're into the idea of it. Yeah. You ever written any poetry? Yeah, a little bit. Wow. Did you bring it? I didn't bring it. I wouldn't.

want to be sharing it. Okay. Well, it was like private stuff. Yeah. I mean, I not published any poetry, but I used to, I really got into it. It'd be crazy if we, if you had, and we didn't know, I actually got a book, you know, the internet ruined a lot of stuff for me, but, uh, because, you know, back in the time when you could just be bored, I got very creative with stuff. I was living on the beach, uh, in the, you know, 2003 or four, uh, around that time drinking a good bit, uh,

Going to the beach a lot. I was writing poetry. I was getting into it and reading the Charles Bukowski stuff and listening to a lot of Bob Dylan, a lot of early Bob Dylan, which is very poetry like stuff. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, doesn't he have a Nobel prize for poetry? That sounds right. I don't know, but yeah, Bob Dylan does. I mean, the, were you writing poems to people like love poems? No, just like almost poetry.

Just to unload your own thoughts. Yeah, just unload my own thoughts. And I was getting into it. I mean, I love the rhyme. I write a little bit now. I wrote a country song the other day that I really liked. Literature. I shared it with some people and nobody liked it. But...

Who'd you share it with? A couple of country singers that I know. That's like them sharing jokes with you? They said, yeah. Well, I prefaced it like that. I go, listen, people share jokes with me all the time. I'm just going to send this to you. And they weren't like, I don't like this. But they didn't send back a demo or anything. Y'all know Ben Rector, the musician? Yeah. I'm a huge fan of his. And I saw him randomly on the street in Raleigh, North Carolina.

And then I saw him at the airport. So we followed each other on Instagram. Oh, you went up to him? Yeah, I went up to him. But he's familiar with Nate. He's familiar with the podcast. And he's very nice. So he probably was less familiar with me than he let on because he's a nice guy. Yeah. But I posted an Instagram story with a song. And he responded and said, this is a great song. So I was like, oh, this guy likes my music. Yeah. So I go...

Hey, have you ever checked this guy out? And I said it and I was just like, what am I doing? I'm recommending music. Right. Like you're bonding with a guy.

Well, I just didn't. Haven't heard back yet. It's like John Chris. I think the friendship ended pretty quick. You know what I mean? He's like, good grief. It was also like it was a reach of a suggestion. It was a gamble because he could check it out and be like, you went for it. This guy stinks. Anyway. Yeah, you're probably blocked. It can happen.

Why isn't my message going through? Well, this is going to be a long episode for me since I say it incorrectly because I got a lot here about poems. I'm sorry, but I just feel like we needed to call it out. Okay, so I say poetry. Okay.

I'm good. Why are you hitting it so hard? That's how I say it. Okay. Well, tell me how to say that. Keep going. Just try it again. I'll just do it my way, okay? Try it again, yeah. Try it again? I'm going to say it the same way. Poetry.

What's going on? We talked about it for so long. You hit it so hard. You hit it so hard. You hit it so hard. That's crazy. All right. Sorry, Brian. It's all right, dude. I'll get it together. Just avoid saying it however you can. It's going to be tough because I know it's the topic, but...

Just try to avoid it. Boy, yeah, that word's in here a lot. It's coming up a lot, huh? Oh, boy. Let me just give Dusty a second. No, I'm good. No, no, no, we're good. We're back. We're back. We're back. My stomach hurts, though. A poem. Is it a better poem? Poem? Po-em? I like poem. Poem.

It really separates the syllables like that too. Poem. Poem? Yeah. Poem? Yeah, you're great. You're great. I'm used to it now. A poem? Okay. All right. A poem? Is what? Finish the sentence. Well, okay. I'll just keep going. All right. It's a piece of writing.

that in contrast to prose primarily aims to evoke emotion in readers and listeners. Poems often make use of rhyme schemes, rhythmic structures, and figurative language. All poetry prioritizes emotional impact.

A poem can make this impact through word choice, rhythm, perspective, use of literary devices, or a combination of these. Right, right, right. Yeah. Did you guys get any of that? Yeah, yeah, I got it all. I got it all. Also, I think we knew what a poem was. Glad we got into it.

Have you written poetry? I have. Really? I have, actually. Anything you'd like to share? I would, actually. But, I mean, there's a... I'll share it. But I'm just saying, you say you know what a poem is. I was just kidding. There's a difference between lyrics and a song. Totally. Rap.

It could be different things. Have you written raps? Yeah, I've written everything. When I was in fifth grade, I wrote a poem for my school newspaper about the basketball game that we had in front of the school. You did journalistic poetry? I did. And they had a suggestion box that no one had ever used the entire time it had been there. Yeah.

And this was junior high newspapers. You can imagine how bad it is. So I wrote it in fifth grade, this poem, and I put it in the box and...

When Dusty's eyes get big like that, he's just trying to hold it together. I feel great. And they published it on the front of the paper. Oh, nice. That's awesome. So you're a published poet. Yeah, I am. Amazing. For my school newspaper. It doesn't matter where it was published. It was on paper. Absolutely. And back then, they had to put all those letters in the thing and then stamp it down. It was a computer. It was typing. Yeah. I wrote a poem for my high school graduation.

They did not use it, but I did write one. And I think it was in contention to be one of the ones, but it did not get picked. What are we talking? Was this a tetrameter? What was this? Just, you know, I don't know. What kind of meter were you working with? I would be like one line and then the next line.

And then one line and then line four rhymes with line two. Isn't that a limerick? Maybe. All right. I got the difference. There once was a man from Peru who dreamt he was eating a shoe. He woke with a fright in the middle of the night to found that his dream has come true. How about that? That's a limerick. See, I would say it would be more like a trochaic.

All right, let me tell you the different types. Maybe we'll figure it out. Okay. All right, there's three main genres. Narrative, poetry. Yeah. Dramatic. I won't say the second word. Narrative, dramatic. And lyric. Narrative tells a story. Dramatic is used in plays or dramatic action. And lyric expresses a person's state of mind or attitude. Okay. Those are the three main groups. And then there's a lot of subgroups like haku.

Haiku. Haiku. Ode, elegy, and limerick. This is a tough one for me. Yeah, there's a lot of words. Well, I don't know any of these words. Do you know what a haiku is? Well, I know what a haiku is, but... I wrote a haiku in the car on the way here. Did you really? Let's hear it. Well, first let me tell you what a haiku is. Right. It's an ancient form of Japanese poetry. Haiku.

It's small size. It consists of just three lines. The first and third lines have five syllables, whereas the second has seven. So you knew that. Yeah. 575. Okay. You know more about poetry than I do. You hadn't heard of a haiku before? I had, but I could have told you the 575. Okay. I just knew it was a short. Yeah. So you wrote a haiku? I wrote it in the car here. Okay.

Nate is a comic. Okay. He is doing better than me. Wait, is that? That's eight. Wait, I had it. Yeah, well, the way you say it, it's like six. Maybe he's doing better than me. There you go. He's done better than me. He's doing better than me. He's doing better than me, seven. Yeah. All right, so we'll do that. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

That's perfect. You said Nate Warren. That's great. Nate Lynn Lou. Yeah, how about that? Haiku. Unbelievable. Write your own hakus and put those in the comments. We'll read all your hakus. I was going to do me, but we couldn't determine if my name was one syllable or two. Oh, that's right. Brian. Yeah, Brian.

Brian. I figured out there was a wrestler named Flying Brian Pillman, but we always called him Flying Brian. You've told this story. Did I? Go ahead. Tell it again. I got nothing new. That's right. The well's dry for all of us. Flying Brian. There's free verse. That might have been what you were doing. Free verse, Dusty. There's a sonnet. Free verse, meaning that I would go, like I wrote a, well, I feel like all mine have some kind of,

that, you know, I was doing a lot of stuff. Yeah, you're living a different life. Last week you told us about a broomstick in your eye. Yeah.

Well, no, I just mean like, you know, this was like, I wrote a poem one time. It was like, there once was a man who lived in the woods. Everyone came to him because he had the goods. Like it was those kind of poems. Oh, sure. However that works. So it'd be like that line and the next line and then a line and then another line. Yeah. I like it. That was called The Woodsman and it was a longer poem, but that's the only ones I remember. Now, do you know...

Walking through the woods on a snowy evening. Do you know that? Yeah. Is that Robert Frost? Yeah. This is a very famous poem. Two paths diverged in the woods. I know that one. That's the same one. That's just the first line of it. No, they're two different poems. Whoa. Yeah. You got me, dude. Mr. Poetry over here. Was that a trap? No, you're just dumb enough off. That's the easiest one. And you took the path...

What's that poem called? And it's made all the difference. Two roads diverge in a wood. In the woods. I don't know. I mean, I think most people would say The Road Less Traveled. Yeah. I thought that's what you were going to say. No, but what's the actual poem called? It's called... That one's called The Road Not Taken. The Road Not Taken. And most people... What is it most people think it's about? It's about...

I think it's widely misinterpreted. Well, all right. You do know more than I thought. I think everyone quotes that poem as like, well, you should just do what everybody else is not doing. That's where the real value is, isn't taking the road less. You heard that, right? Yeah. Taking your own path. I think the actual poem is about a guy.

reflecting on his past and convincing himself that he took the right path, even though he knows deep down he probably didn't. That's closer. Okay. He actually wrote it for a friend of his who could not make a decision and was kind of making fun of him like, you can't decide which road to go down. And now you'll just think about the road you didn't take. Wow. Most people take it as a positive. It was actually a negative about focusing on the road you didn't take. Wow. Wow.

but it's quoted all the time. That's probably like the one poem most people can name. But I'd like to think of it, you know, just in my own way. You take the road less traveled. That's made all the difference because you get new and different experiences that the majority of people don't get because they're taking the one that everybody's taken. So they're all having the same experiences. But if you take the one less traveled, then you gain more experience. Yeah.

This is so interesting. There's such a philosophical difference between the two. This is honestly, this is like, this goes back to like our biblical interpretation. Yeah. I'm reading exegetically and you're reading isogetically. Whoa. I wish Nate was here for this. What does that mean?

It's just, you're talking about you get your own, you don't care about the poet's intent at all? Well, I guess I do care, but I'm like, you know, with art, it's like they write it and put it out. Right. And there was a time where you wouldn't have really got what they intended for you to get. You would just read it and interpret it how you interpret it. Sure. And now we're able to find commentaries and maybe it existed, but it wasn't a quick Google search. Right.

Sure. I agree. So you would just see the poem and read the poem and then be like, this is what it means to me. And the same way looking at a painting is like, this means this to me, but maybe the artist meant it to mean something else. Interesting. Yeah, I think that's a good way to look at it. And I think they would probably, as long as you enjoy it, I think they'd say, make it what you want it to be. But to be fair.

I've not spent a lot of time reading that poem and dissecting it. No, neither have I. I mean, his friend didn't get it, and they would write letters back and forth.

And he finally had to tell him, dude, you kept giving him clues. I'm making fun of you. Like, this is a poem about you where, you know. And then he published it. And it became super famous. It became his most famous poem. But I've spent a lot of time listening to music albums, like especially, you know, I made this reference several times. But before the internet, when –

And not even before the internet, but before music was so endlessly accessible, I would listen, you know, I might, I had Pink Floyd, The Wall, Disc 1. I didn't even have Disc 2. I just, Disc 1 just came into my possession. Wow.

And we would listen to it all the time. And me and my friends would listen and try to break it down and see what story he's trying to tell. And I love doing that. I mean, you know, then you can, you know, later you can look up what he really means or whatever in the commentary, but it's like-

I love doing that. Yeah. You listen to it backwards. Yeah. I mean, it's like, yeah. And then, you know, later I learned that a lot of this stuff is pretty dark and I don't want to listen.

leaking into my subconscious but at the time oh it's in there like like leds up when i'm like i'm completely out on now i feel like they're very dark but man i used to stairway to heaven i mean i listened to that song like you wouldn't believe trying to you know dig in there find out what they're talking about have you ever had songs like that that you totally misinterpreted

But you still like it because you just like your version. Yeah, I'm trying to think of one, but I had just thought about this. You've been singing a song your whole life and then you don't actually. A good example, Semi-Charmed Life.

By Third Eye Blind. Remember that song? Oh, yeah. Yeah. You sing that as a kid. I sing it as a kid. Such a fun song. Yeah. And then you look into the lyrics and it's. Then I bumped again. Yeah. It's about drugs. Yeah. What was the song you said at Nate's graduation that's actually about suicide or something? You remember that? Not at Nate's graduation, but Don't Fear the Reaper.

Oh yeah. That was one of our first episodes. Maybe our first episode mentioned that, but I thought he had a song, but I guess that was the one. Yeah. I can't remember. I think there's, there's another one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Don't fear the Reaper. Yeah. Early radio head albums. I used to really kid a, uh,

I mean, I really tore up Kid A. Kid A. I never heard of that. There's a guy named M. Ward, and he had an album that I used to – I really loved it. I forget the actual album. Yeah, Radiohead Kid A is like – I mean, that album is – Radiohead is not that good anymore, but that album and Amnesiac is another one. Yeah. Those are bad albums. That was their next album. The M. Ward – oh, it's called Transfiguration of Vincent. Yeah.

Great album. Very poetry oriented. This guy went on to record an album with the girl, Chloe. She was an actress. She was an elf. Chloe Deschanel. M. Ward and her. Zoe Deschanel? Zoe Deschanel, yes. The two of them recorded an album together later. She and I are, what is it? I think that's the band. Us? No, she and I, I think is what it's called.

Matt and Kim. Yeah, I have to check that out, man. I only really know the one Radiohead song, Creep. Oh, yeah. That's a hot song. It is a hot song. But the guy who got me into Radiohead told me that he's like, I like Creep. He's like, that album, not even worth listening to. But the other five that we got into, man. I got to tell you, with poetry...

You got to get out there. I always have an instinct to like, think this is stupid. Right. And you got to get past that a little bit and just like, tell yourself. Kind of like improv. Yeah. Kind of. Yeah, for sure. I remember this poem, I think freshman year of high school.

We were shown this poem at school, and I lost it at how dumb I thought this was. It's called The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams. Have you heard of this poem? I have not. So, I mean, we have time to read it out loud. If you can't see it, it's about 13 words in this. So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

It's beautiful. I'm into it. I mean, I'm into like, well, listen, I use a wheelbarrow sometimes. I say wheelbarrow. I said barrel for a long time too until I saw it in a kid's book the other day and I was like, geez, I've been saying this wrong my whole life. But I use a wheelbarrow, you know, and my life is not depending on farming, but it's

If your life is depending on farming and this is the wheelbarrow is the only way you got stuff to get around. It's like a lot is dependent on this poem is about like appreciating how cool the wheelbarrow is. Is that a famous poem? That's a very famous one. Yeah. Look how long the Wikipedia entry is for this poem. Wow. Considerably longer than the poem itself. I'll say that. And what is it about it that makes it so special? Well, it's a prime example of early 20th century imagism.

So there you go. 16 words long. The Red Wheelbarrow is one of William's most... That's William Carlos Williams, the author. It's most frequently anthologized poems ever.

and a prime example of whatever. Sometimes I think people's over explanations of a poem like that, it does ruin the whole creative take that you could have. Cause now you read it and you go, Oh, that's what it means. So now your whole imagination is gone because you read this person's explanation. I agree. But, but be honest, your kid brought this poem home was like, I wrote this. You'd be like, this stinks. Yeah.

It doesn't even make sense. What are you writing about? But because some were told that this is a good poem, then you can be like, oh, it is pretty nice. I guess I agree with that. But there needs to be someone being like, no, this is good. Analyze it a little bit. I feel that way about...

Yeah. Paintings and modern art. Modern art. Modern world is not old art. Old art is like, this is. That's the right term. Yeah. I guess what I'm saying is I'm not even denying that this is a good or important poem, but I'm saying if you found these words written on a piece of paper in the street, you would throw it away. Yeah. You'd be like, this is nonsense. It's a crazy person. Right? Yeah, exactly. Now, what is kind of cool is each stanza kind of looks like a wheelbarrow.

Let's see it again. You're looking at it right here on the right. Oh, okay. Look at that. You see it? Yeah. See the shape of it? I don't know. I like to think it's on purpose. I think it is on purpose. It's got to be. Okay. It's got to be. Maybe. Maybe. eBay Motors is here for the ride. Remember when you first saw the potential?

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I'm sorry to interrupt you. People get mad at me when I interrupt. We got to do it. Like I want to be the one that just interjects these ads. I know. I know. You're just a cog in the machine. That's right. So I'm sorry, Dusty. I didn't mean to interrupt you. Do you even remember? Yeah, I remember. Is the moment gone? No, I don't know. It's not gone, but now I feel... But I was trying to find a Charles Bukowski poem that I used to really like. Yeah. And it was basically...

what he seemed to be describing was his girlfriend, uh, just complaining at him all day about every little thing. And then at the end going, uh, what's wrong with you? Is it called girlfriends? Is that the name of the poem now? Well, it's like the thing about it, I couldn't find it. Uh, there's so many, I mean, he's always talking about women and, um, this guy's your hero, right? He's not my hero, but like, uh,

I really, I mean, I think he is kind of a, you know, if you get into poetry, he's kind of, I don't know, I don't want to say he's like an entry-level guy, but I think he's more popular than a lot. He's accessible. There's nothing wrong with that. But I... Yeah, I don't think that...

I understand the instinct to think that that's reductive in some way, but no, it's like easily you can, it's an easy read, but I just, and I think that's it. Right. And it's not all rhyming. So you just reading this guy's little stories. And I just think that it, uh, I don't know. It always resonated with me. Yeah. I always liked that kind of lifestyle of just kind of like on your own. No responsibilities. Yeah. Contributing nothing. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, you read some of these guys, Emerson and Thoreau and all these dorks. They just wanted to be a tree. Yeah. They're like, God, I wish God had made me a tree. And they just go out in the wilderness. I mean, Hannah read a lot of these books. I forget. And she would always tell me about them. She's like, you should read this guy. You would love this. But they just want to go out into the woods and they want to be with nature. And that's where they get their creativity from.

And I think there is something to that. I mean, you know, not to just go to the Bible every time, but it's like, you know, Jesus would disappear off into the woods and would go. I mean, it's like all people in the Bible would go out into the woods and meditate in the woods. I think there's a, there's a thing about it. The woods gives you creativity, gives you a spark. Do some grounding. Yeah. Do some grounding, touch some trees. You ever seen into the wild? Read some fresh air. Yeah. Okay. Great book.

Great movie. Yeah. But the whole point of it is, is he, is he wants to go out in the wilderness? Cause he believes you don't need human beings to, to achieve happiness, right? Yeah. Happiness. I think the way he words it is happiness is not reached principally through human experiences, right? So he's like, I'll just go out, just be in the Alaskan wilderness and I'll be happy. And he dies out there and I have to spoil the movie if you haven't seen it, but found in his book, he had scribbled in the margins, uh,

Happiness only real when shared. Yeah. Basically, he concluded out there it was all nonsense. You need people to be happy. So I think you got to have a balance of both. Balance is exactly right. Well, the issue is I think these dorks, they went out there and they just...

Yeah. They weren't around people, right? You do because it's like, yeah, it's like – Sorry to call them dorks. I don't know what else to call them. Yeah, they're literary giants. If you're just – for lack of a better term, if you're just in the city and just hanging out with people all the time, only socializing, then you're not getting any time to recharge. Right.

But if you're only recharging all the time, then what are you even recharging for? People recharge differently, though. Some people recharge in social situations. Introverts and extroverts. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. But I do think you should get some solitude.

And away from your phone. Right. Of course. A time to not just take things in. Process the things that you're taking in. Be alone with your thoughts. I don't think we spend enough time now processing. That's why I keep referencing before the internet. It's really not the internet. It's before the smartphone.

When, you know, like before the smartphone, you would go, like I would go to the beach. I would get off work and I would go down to the beach by myself and I would just sit there. And I lived two or three blocks from the ocean. I would just walk down there,

be in the sun, be grounding. I didn't even know about grounding and I didn't even really care about being in the sun, but I just knew it felt good. And I would just sit there and think about stuff. Wasn't that like the lowest time of your life though? In some ways. Yeah. But it was also the big, in some ways it was, yeah. But I was also thinking and processing. Right, right, right. Being very creative. Yeah. Getting bored, being sad. That was interesting what you said about boredom earlier and just, I bet there are a lot,

fewer poets today than there were back in these times. You know, I can't, I see kids now that are 10 and 12 and that age, and I can't imagine they're writing poetry.

Yeah. They're just... Do you come up with creative ideas in the shower or on a walk or cutting the grass? In the car, usually. When you allow your brain a little bit time to not look at your phone? Yeah, where you're just alone with yourself. Yeah, you're not looking at a phone. You're right. Do you, Dusty? I'm looking at the windshield. The car used to be huge for me. When I would drive to do gigs, I would do... Especially doing these comedies on gigs. A lot of them would be so bad that I would end up... My A jokes were not working and I would start riffing.

And I would riff on stage. And then I would get in the car on Sunday, driving home, thinking about these riffs. And then I would think about new jokes to add on to them. And I wrote a lot of jokes. The Mobile Homeowners Association. I remember writing, this wasn't a comedy zone. It was in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. There was a club called The Laughing Gas. And I remember going home and that whole Mobile Homeowners Association, I kind of came up with it that weekend.

And I thought about a lot more stuff in the car and it was just like, it was great. There were other things I would do, but not for this podcast, but my mind would be stimulated and I just would think of a lot of stuff. Not all of it was good, but I would think about a lot of stuff.

That other Robert Frost poem that I can't say it, that we referenced, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening. I forgot what the actual title is. I'll look it up. After apple picking? Sorry. War thoughts at home. I'll look it up. Anyway, I read somewhere that some people think he was referencing Santa Claus.

Interesting. And if you read it, there's some little clues that would make you maybe think, do I think that's what it was? No, but, uh, you had it up there right here. Yeah. Uh, stopping by woods. Should we do a dramatic poetry reading? Yeah, do it. I think I'd like you to do it. That's it.

I didn't read through this one time before, but whose woods these are. I think I know his house is in the village though. He will not see me stopping there to watch his woods fill up with snow and so on and so forth. My little horse must highlight the parts that they think reference it. His horse thinks it's odd that they're stopping by a farmhouse and

Without a farmhouse near. Does he think it's odd? He thinks it's queer. There you go. To stop without a farmhouse near. As they like to say, Santa, why are you stopping here? He gives his harness bells a shake. That could be, you know, whatever. And then at the end, the woods are lovely, but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. As if to say, he's got a busy night. He can't be stopped. Look at it.

Wow. Well, I'll never be able to read this another way. You're reading it a lot? Every night. Yeah. Every snowy evening. I sit down and I read. I'm a big poetry head. I read a lot of poetry. Are you serious? I hate prose. Yeah. Do you know, listen to the song by Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue? Sure. That's a great one. Is that about the Easter Bunny? Yeah. Yeah.

But, you know, real poetry kind of song. And Hootie and the Blowfish has the song, I Only Want to Be With You. Yeah. And they take, like, basically a whole verse from Tangled Up in Blue and put it right in that song. Yeah, they even say Tangled Up in Blue, don't they? Yeah. But they just take straight up, like, a whole verse. I don't mind it. I think it's great. But aren't they almost just referencing Bob Dylan? I think they are referencing it, but, you know, but they still use a whole verse. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it's a good song. Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize winner. So you mentioned a couple weeks ago, Buckets of Rain. Also a good one. He's got, I mean, we could go all day. We could go all day with the hits, but there's some secrets in there. I don't know the hits. Yeah, some B-sides, as they say. Yeah. Meet Me in the Morning. That's a good one. I think that's what it's called.

Mr. Tambourine Man. Shakespeare wrote a sonnet. It's a good one, though. Called Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Day? You referenced it a couple weeks ago. Yeah, that's a hot one. I just always assume. Have you heard of this poem? Yeah. I always assumed it was about a man talking about a woman. Did you?

Or maybe you knew. No one would I know now about Shakespeare. I don't know. It was a man talking about a man. Yeah. And just, it's a good looking dude. And I'm impressed by, you know, his physical nature. Now that makes me read that totally different. Of course. Not that I'm going around quoting this poem a lot. Yeah. Yeah.

Don't be self-conscious about how you say poem. Well, it's kind of a little bit of a hard. Yeah, I'm sorry I did it. I'm sorry I did that. It was very funny. It was funny in the moment. Now it's gone. Yeah. All right. So we're not even thinking about it anymore. We're not. You're not? No, we're not even thinking about the way you say it anymore is what I'm saying. And I'm sorry if I made you self-conscious about it. And I really value our friendship. Well, that's gone. Yeah.

Limericks. Have you heard of a limerick? Oh, yeah. We referenced it earlier. It's got the traditional A-A-B-B-A. A-A-B-B-A. It's a hot structure. You know what that is? Yeah, you know, a lot of country songs are like that, too. Charlie Daniels has a song called Trudy. Call up Trudy on the telephone. Such a great song. Is that a limerick? I think they do A-A-B-B-A. Interesting. I think so. Yeah. But I could be wrong about that, too.

Not the chorus. Call up Trudy on the telephone. Send her a letter. That song's got some interesting... Just got to town last Friday. Because there's one time where he fires up a motorcycle or something, or a car, and he goes, boogie boogie. Oh, yeah. He just throws in some... Heard the buzz whining in the siren's wail.

Boogie Boogie? Boogie Boogie. Yeah. I think that's what it is. Boogie Boogie. Yeah, something like that. It's just funny. He just kind of throws in. Yeah. That's a great song. Charlie Daniels was unbelievable. Rest in peace. All right, I'll do a couple more. Ode. Ode. Ever heard of Ode? Ode to Joy? That's a song. Ode to Joy. That's a hot song. Ode to Billy Joe. Okay.

It's written to praise a person. You know that one? Ode to Billy Jones? Do you know Ode to Joy? Oh, no. I don't know that one. It was a poem that Beethoven set to music. Oh, okay. His Ninth and Last Symphony. You would know it if you heard it. You would recognize it. I do like Beethoven. I like classical music a lot. It's probably the most famous classical piece of music. I don't know a lot of the names, but I do love classical music. Yeah. Ballad. What about The Raven? The Raven.

Oh, yeah. Edgar Allen Poe. Yeah. Yeah, I used to go down to Sullivan's Island. They had a bar called Poe's down there. Back when I was still eating shellfish, they had a hamburger with a crab cake on it, and it was unbelievable. I'm trying to play Oat to Joy for you real quick. Okay. I was going to say, Dusty, if you want to tell us about AG1. Oh, yeah. Oh, you're actually playing this. Just like I remember it. You don't know that one?

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That means to you. Now, let me ask you this. What about snapping? Because that's the trope, right? Is a guy reads a poem and the crowd snaps. What is that all about? I did not know that. I don't know why you can't just clap.

I've never been to a poetry reading. But you've never seen it depicted in a sitcom or something? No, I've been. Snapping? In Charleston, I would- You don't even know what I'm talking about? I mean, I can, that's instead of clapping, they snap. A guy with a bongo and then everybody snaps. You've never seen that? I don't think I have. You ever go to a poetry open mic to do comedy? No, I never. I've done that a few times. Yeah. Did you do a little poetry while you were up there? No, but I have a way of doing comedy that the poetry readers appreciate. Yeah.

And they were like, thanks for not coming in here and yelling and roasting the room. Yeah. You went to slam poetry. I had to follow a slam poet at a show at a barbershop in Milan, Tennessee. And he brought some real energy to it. What was your first words when you took the stage? I said, keep it going for the poem guy.

And I said, I'd like to do a little, I said, I'd like to do a little poetry now. Okay. We go over the point that you just heard. Yeah.

You know, Russell Simmons used to have Deaf Comedy Jam. I remember that. And then he, well, yeah, everybody remembers that. But then he switched to, that's not the exciting part, Dusty. I do remember what you're going to say. Deaf Poetry Slam. Probably didn't say it like that. Yeah. Get a little deaf poetry.

I should host it. The Raven, as I mentioned before. Oh, yeah. Nevermore, nevermore. Also one of my favorite wrestlers for a little while. You remember The Raven? Also one of my favorite football teams. I was going to say the Baltimore Ravens. That's what that name is. He's a Baltimore guy, right? Edgar Allen Poe. Yeah, I think he lived there. He's buried there. Yeah, he died on the side of the street, married to his cousin. Wow. Drunk. Yeah.

That's why he died? Urinated on himself. That's how he died. One of our greatest poets. That's how he died. So anyone out there thinking about getting into poetry, that's how it ends.

That is a Charles Buchowski. That was meant to be a joke. I'm sorry, I got no laughs from anybody. Is that true? If nobody at the table laughs, it comes across much differently than I like. Yeah, I think that is how he died. But I don't want to discourage our younger listeners from getting into poetry. So I'm sorry if I did that. That was a thing I did find. Charles Buchowski advised to young men, and it was like...

It was all about not getting into poetry. And I don't know that. That sounds like some good advice. Well, he was like, his list of advice was like, dude, it was like things you would never do, but he kept listing off those any. And then he's like, basically like anything but poetry. Do you know? Oh, captain, my captain. All right, guys.

I know it from Dead Poets Society, which we watched together. Yeah. Yeah. It's one of my favorite movies. I just found out I've been pronouncing it wrong the whole time, but I love that movie. Wait, now what poem is that from? Is that from Walt Whitman? Walt Whitman. He wrote it about Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated. Oh, wow. You know Walt Whitman? Barbaric Yop.

I know the name. I don't know anything about him. He did some good stuff. Did you ever see Dead Poets Society? I don't think so. Yeah, it's a hot movie. Is it? Who's it? Sean Connery? No, that's Finding Forrester, but you might be thinking about it. A young Ethan Hawke. Okay. Isn't it? Robin Williams. Robin Williams. I would be into that. Finding Forrester, I've talked about here before. One of my favorites. Such a great movie. It is a great movie. I think I would be into Dead Poets Society. Yeah, you would.

I like boarding school movies. Yeah. School ties. I don't know why that is. School ties. Yeah, school ties is great. It's a good one. What's another? I didn't. Basically. College. What's another? There's a bunch of them, I feel like. Yeah. School ties is a good one. Yeah. Okay. There is more of that. Son of a Woman. Oh, yeah. That's a boarding school movie.

They all came out about the same time. This movie, The Holdovers, that just came out, which won a bunch of Oscars. I recommend that. That movie is great. I heard it's great. Do you know Acrostic? You ever heard that? It's when the lines... Are you trying to say acoustic? Probably. It's when the lines are arranged... It's when the guitar's not plugged in. It's when the lines are arranged so the first letter of each line helps to spell out a word. Oh, that's fun. I like that. Brian, Aaron, Nate, Dusty, band. Yeah, wow.

Yeah, we're learning some stuff here. But it would need to be a whole line, right? Yeah, that's not- Because that's just what, like an acronym or something. I guess that's true. So it would need to be like, you know, Brian went to the store, Aaron, you know,

Was like, get me some cheese. Nate said, what are you doing, dude? And Dusty said, more cheese, please. That's better than the red. Please and cheese rhymes in our thing here. It does. That was freestyle. If you give it some, you know. I just let you do your thing. Yeah. You'll find the rhyme eventually. Yeah. Do you know any modern day poets? No, I guess not.

Chance the Rapper did a poem on his NPR tiny desk. So I guess he's a poet, but I can't name one who's really kicking. Maya Angelou, is she still around? I think she died, but she's the only one I can name in recent years. Shel Silverstein. Remember?

Remember him? I know the name. He recently died too, I think. With a sidewalk. Oh, I wanted to talk about Shel Silverstein. Because Shel Silverstein had these poetry books, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Lighthouse in the Attic. But he also wrote a ton of country songs. Like so many country songs. He wrote Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash. He wrote a lot. Shel Silverstein? Yeah, he wrote a lot. The Giving Tree Guy? Yeah, he wrote... I don't know if he's the Giving Tree Guy, but he wrote a lot of...

uh, songs. Um, oh, it's a junior. Dang. What is the guy's name? Uh, Hank Williams. No, uh, Bobby Bayer jr. He wrote a lot of, uh, of songs, uh, by him. He wrote, uh, uh, he wrote so many. So he wrote, uh, he wrote, put another log on the fire. Bobby Bear jr. When I was in college would come play at little dive places. Oh, the taker, uh, Chris Christopherson, uh,

Rosalie's Good Eats Cafe. That's a good one. The cover of a Rolling Stone. Sylvia's mother. Uh,

I got a YouTube video where I did Dusty Slay's top five country songs written by Shel Silverstein. Now, after doing that, a lot of people commented and I learned a lot more. It's an old video. I learned a lot more songs that are written by Shel Silverstein. But it's pretty amazing the amount of really great country songs Shel Silverstein wrote. I had absolutely no idea about this. It is so wild. I'm glad you brought that up because I'm like-

Bobby Bear Jr. has so many written by him. Bobby Bear Jr., very underrated. I mean, growing up, no one ever talked about him. Now I'm starting to think I'm questioning. My buddy was in a fraternity at MTSU, and he came and played at the fraternity house. This was in the early 90s, but I think it was Bobby Bear Jr. because I just thought his dad was big. I didn't know...

He had a lot of success. Now, yeah, I mean, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is Bobby Bear that I'm talking about in Junior. But I thought – Well, that mentioned Bobby Bear Jr. under Shel Silverstein. But Bobby Bear sings Lullabies, Legends, and Lies. That album is really great. And I think quite a few of these songs is written by Shel Silverstein. He's an interesting looking fellow. Yeah.

uh, Oh yeah. 500 miles away from home. Great song. Do you know what a, uh, what dusty do you have? Like a favorite Margie's at the Lincoln park in, dang, that's a good song. I don't know it. I was just gonna say, do you have like a favorite song or songwriter that you think is like poetry? Well, there's so many, and, I don't know as many songwriters as I should, but like Chris Christopherson is really great. Um, you know, um,

Some of his songs are just the, I don't know. They're all like poetry to me. These old country writers. It's all like poetry. Sunday Morning Coming Down by Chris Christopherson. The Chris Christopherson version to me is, he wrote it. It's better than the Johnny Cash version because Chris Christopherson sounds really run down.

And it's, it sounds a little more raggedy and it's like, that's what you want with that song. Do you know the song? Yeah.

Yeah. So good. From the Bottle to the Bottom. Yeah, From the Bottle to the Bottom by Chris Christopherson. So great. I mean, it's just like, just a man. He's like, he's basically, you asked me if I'm happy now. That's good as any joke I've heard. It seems since I seen you last, I done forgot the meaning of the word. It's so good. You know.

That's great. There's a songwriter, Lori McKenna. Have you heard of her? She wrote a lot of big country song, humble and kind, but Tim McGraw, she wrote that song, which is a big song for us. You're getting a buck, but she has a song called people get old.

It's one of my favorite songs, dude. And that last, it's just about me. It's about the passage of time through her dad. She's like reflecting on her dad. And she's saying like, now I have all these memories and now I'm as old as you were in these memories now. And then the last chorus, she says, houses need paint. Winters bring snow. Nothing says love like a band of gold.

Babies grow up, houses get sold. That's how it goes. Time is a thief. Pain is a gift. The past is the past. It is what it is. Every line on your face tells a story. Somebody knows something.

The people you love get old. And you're like, dang, I got chills saying that just now, dude. I'm going to listen to that on the way home. You know, the John Anderson song, Years, that we talked about last week or a couple weeks ago. If you watch the video, I feel like it's more impactful because he's talking about years and just how they go by. But you see basically all these pictures going by of all the people he's worked with over the years.

And it's just, it's such, it's such a powerful thing because it's like, you know, you see like this old man, but it's like, look, you know, at the career he's had. And it's like, in the way it's framed though, it's like, he's in pictures with people more famous with him. Right. So he's like, he's paying homage. He's not being like, look how big I am. He's like, look how fortunate I've been to be able to work with all these people. That's how I see it.

But it's just similar to that. You got me into that. I'm going to listen to that song a lot. Don Williams is really great. Don Williams has a song called Good Old Boys Like Me. And that song really paints a picture to me of my own childhood.

Even right up to the very, you know, there's some details where he's talking about his dad reading the Bible to him while drunk. My dad was not an alcoholic and my dad also doesn't read the Bible to me. So, but I can still see that sort of thing. But even right up to the end, like him leaving his hometown to go on and do other things. It's a powerful song. Yeah, Don Way. I was trying to think which my favorite.

I believe in you. I believe in you is great. Lord, I hope this day is good. Yeah. I'm feeling empty and misunderstood. I should be thankful. Lord, I know I should, but Lord, I hope this day is good. You should put a Spotify playlist together of all these songs you're talking about. Well, I do have a Spotify playlist called Dusty Slice Country Songs. It's out there. Very good. I mean, it's so long. I should start a podcast.

a new playlist because it's, it's too long. Now dusty slays country radio is what it's called, but it's, you know, 15 hours, 16 hours almost. Yeah. Well, a little too long, but it's, I mean, I got a, I got a lot of like new and old in there. It's some popular that you would recognize a lot of stuff you wouldn't recognize. It's very good. Probably a good place to wrap it up. Thanks for, uh,

Thanks for sticking with us. If they did, probably not. I would think that. I thought he was a hot episode. Yeah, I thought they were joking. Dusty, you want to tell us where you're going to be? Yeah, this weekend, matter of fact, I'm off. And it feels good. I have been going at it. And it feels good to be off. But next week...

If the world doesn't end after the eclipse, I, I'll be in Charleston, West Virginia, uh, on April 12th at, uh, at a theater. And then, uh, on April, you'll fly into the Chuck Yeager airport. Oh yeah. One of our greatest heroes. Yeah. I can't wait to meet him. You know what I mean?

And then on the April 13th, I'll be outside of Pittsburgh. I guess it's Munhall, Pennsylvania, but right outside of Pittsburgh doing a theater show there. It's going to be great. I'm doing, I mean, I got my schedule is,

Lined up a lot of theaters coming up, and I'm pumped about it. That's awesome. So it's going to be great. Come on out. We're having a good time. How about it? I'm also a theater act now. We'll get to your little comedy shows later. That's crazy. Your little kill boxes. Dang.

Uh, this Saturday I am in Miamisburg, Ohio. That's just outside Dayton at the Plaza theater. Ron Voorhees is on the show. Jesse Rothacker. If you're a fan of the podcast, you can be on the show. Uh, come on out. I'll put you on there and it's going to be great. That's the,

Plaza Theater in Miamisburg. Then April 20th, I'm in Moberly, Missouri at the Fourth Street Theater. Your friend, Will O'Donnell. Oh, yeah. Will's great. Yes. So I'm pumped about that show. Yeah. So I haven't met Will, but I'm looking forward to it. And then April 27th, I'm going to Connecticut for the first time in Fairfield, Connecticut at Fairfield Comedy Circle, April 27th. Boom. So fun month. Yeah.

I'll tell you my April. April 11th through the 13th. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dr. Grin. Nice. I love Dr. Grin. Dr. Grin's for the first time in April. And then at the end of the month, April 25th through the 28th, I'm in Atlanta, ATL, at the Punchline Comedy Club. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Atlanta, Georgia. Come see Aaron. This is Aaron talking, by the way. Are the Braves at home? The Braves are at home that weekend. I'm going Sunday. All right. Who do they play? I don't know. Okay.

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