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Okay, today's episode of the Nate Lant Podcast is brought to you by Viore Clothing, ZocDoc, and Delete Me. Wow. Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Dusty Slay here leading the charge today. Wow. Making sure to really sound out those T's for you. Here with me today is Brian Bates and Aaron Weber. Good to see you guys. Nate is not here.

Yeah, he told us last week he wouldn't be here. I don't know how he finished in the golf tournament. Does anybody know? I don't know. Somebody sent an email at some point letting us know how good he was doing. It took me about 15 minutes to find his name on that list. I think middle of the pack is how he ended up ahead of Charles Barkley. Okay. I saw, which is good, which is my benchmark.

I just wanted to know. He's only 85 now or something. Charles Barkley used to be a terrible golfer. He's gotten better. Terrible, but yeah, he's gotten better. Terrible. He's got a lot better. I've got much better at golfing. Ernie. Charles Barkley is an Auburn graduate. He is. So I'm a big fan, big fan of Charles Barkley. Yeah, because you ride the fence. You refuse to pick.

you know, aside on the thing that everybody picks aside on in the state of Alabama. I'm a state of Alabama guy. I support the state of Alabama. Right. So that'd be more of a university Alabama. No, no. Anybody in the state of Alabama that, that, you know, I support. That's how you sell tickets right here, dude. You ride the fence. Iron bowl. You just want a fun game. Yeah.

This is how I always do it. Now, I don't, you know, it's like, this is the thing for me, right? I'm not a, I don't say, I don't ever say we. When I talk sports, I never say we. I didn't go to either college.

So I never say we. So if Alabama has a chance to win the national championship in the Iron Bowl, I pull for Alabama. If it's Auburn, I pull for Auburn. That's how I go. I want the state of Alabama to bring home a national championship. Now, what if they're both undefeated and they're number one and number two in the country? I can't recall a time when that's happened. Well, I got to answer for that. Yeah. They're both still going to make the playoffs. Yeah.

Oh, now with a 12-team playoff. But even when there was four, I would say most likely. But there have been, in recent memory, there have been Iron Bowls with national championship implications for both teams. I don't recall. Let me ask you this. Well, it's happened. I think there's been years where... The kick six game is a perfect example. Would you ever... Yeah, maybe so. But to a degree, though, during those times, it is like...

I almost pull for Auburn a little more because Alabama had so many, you know, that it's like you kind of, you know, you want to see Auburn win. Auburn's the underdog in that matchup. But I don't want to see Auburn win just for the sake of ruining Alabama's season. I hate that sort of stuff. That's how most Auburn fans are, though. I know. And that's how most Alabama fans are about Auburn. I know. They used to say if Auburn played Al Qaeda.

you'd pull for al-Qaeda. I've heard Alabama fans say just that. I'm not that negative kind of guy. I would like to see al-Qaeda field a football team. Even though there's a guy in the Nate Land podcast Facebook group that says I've been very negative lately.

Lately. Yeah. He says, I'm negative, but I just live in reality. You're not negative. I just live in reality. That's right. Yes, I want to know. You don't have any other choice. Yeah. I want to know. Well, there is choices. George Jones says, I've had choices since the day that I was born. That's pretty profound. Yeah. Do you know that song? No. Really good song. Okay. Yeah. You know it. I do. It's one of his later ones. Yeah. But very good. Yeah.

It's about alcoholism. Okay, I figured it was. I don't even know what my top three guess is what that song's about. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, what are we even talking about?

Well, you know, we're here. We're having a good time. We're talking a little bit about Alabama football and riding the fence, and I don't know how we got into talking about Alabama. Well, I know why it's relevant is because right now, within an hour of this podcast being recorded, the new NCAA football game is coming out. First game in 11 years. I don't know.

It's a pretty big deal. Yeah. I never really liked football games, but I almost want to go buy a gaming system just to play this game. You know how many people in my life I'm trying to convince to do just that? Yeah. I'm texting my brother, like, get a console, dude. I almost want to go get one. Yeah, just to play. My wife won't let me do it, but I could take it on the road with me. Exactly. She doesn't even have to know about it, dude. Just keep it in the car, man. Now, why do you need him to have it, like your brother? I want to be able to play with him, dude.

Okay. Yeah. Remotely. Yeah, yeah. There's this thing called the internet and you can play against each other no matter where you are in the world. I'm so far behind. I'm just used to playing against the machine. Yeah, but of a satellite on the roof of the hotel. No, yeah. You can play. You can get dynasties started over the internet with other people and play like entire seasons. It's a lot of fun. So that'll be occupying.

A lot of my time between now and when the baby comes. That's for sure. That's exciting. It is exciting. It's very exciting. Well, I had, what did you guys, what were you guys up to this weekend?

You want to go last? It doesn't matter. I just was trying to pitch it to you guys. Mine's pretty quick, I guess. I did one show at Zany's with Dusty. Oh, and I do want to show... What did we do? What show was that? It was an all-star show. Oh, Zany's Comedy All-Stars. Yeah, it was a hot show. Apparently it meant more to me than Dusty. No, no, it meant a lot to me. I wanted to show... I show up... Let me...

send you this picture. I show up and Zanies has this up on the screen promoting some of the hot new comics that you might get to see. That's right. Yeah. Coming up here at Zanies. Oh, yeah. And yeah. Seems right. If you're listening, it's three fourths of the Nightland podcast. Yeah. Maybe because the other four airdropped me a screenshot of a picture that you took on your phone. Just airdropped me the picture, dude. Well, I don't have the picture.

You didn't take the picture? No, I think this is... I mean, that's the picture I took. That's a digital picture. But you airdropped me a screenshot of the picture in your photos folder.

You see what I'm saying? You can just airdrop the picture directly. Oh, I'm not trying to. It's just very funny that you're like, why would they not include me in this list of hip young comedians? Yeah, well, if that's what their criteria is, then I am in bad shape. No, that's very funny. Brian sent us this picture. There's plenty of room for you to here, man. And I'm kidding. Obviously. Yeah, I'm just joking. But you do have a show now that.

It's sold out. You've already sold out one. Yep. And, you know, the lab is new. So sellouts at the lab are not exactly gimmies. Nope. People are not selling out. Very few have happened. Yeah. This is a big deal. And that show was a lot of fun. So maybe that's why they did it, because they know I'm good. And you three might need a little help. That's right. We need a little bit of a push. I bet that's it. Dusty and Nate don't, obviously. But I would take a little bit of a push. We're going to add you to this. I'm happy to be included. I'll tell you that. Yeah.

About that. And then what, Brian, you were at the Opry. I have the video of you here. Well, this was from a couple of weeks ago and I was, I was telling you about it in the green room at Zaney's and, uh, and you said, you gotta get that video. And I did.

So I had my set and at the Opry felt good about it. I say goodnight and I walk off. And as every time the host, you know, reaches out and shakes your hand. And for whatever reason, this time Kelly Sutton reaches out her hand and I just hand her the mic and like, here twits, take care of this for me. And I walk off. Here's the video. And having done that Opry many times, it is so funny to think about you doing that. Yeah. It is so funny. Yeah.

I'm feeling great about myself right here.

Now, in my defense, as many people pointed out, she did reach out with her left hand, which is not your shaking hand. That's true. That's true. But given the blocking of the stage, it only makes sense to do a left hand. Well, I... Oh, yeah. I'm not knocking her. No, no, no. I did the Opry this weekend, and I talked to her about it. We laughed about this video quite a bit. Right. And she said she's instructed to reach with her left hand for what you said, so as not to be blocked from the cameras. Uh-huh.

But she reached out almost like she was cupping her hand, like, give me that mic. I'm like, all right, there you go. Now, just so everybody understands, there's an entire crew of people there.

who handled the production of it. They're waiting three feet past the host to be handed the microphone. Kelly didn't give you that. Yeah. Kelly could not be less involved with Brian's microphone. No, not at all. That's a power move, Brian. I like it. I know. I mean, look at this. You had a good set. You're dressed really sharply. This is a nice look. I don't know where this jacket came from, but it's a good look. You were with me when I got it. Oh, really? It's one of the ones from Purpose Boutique. Yeah.

Well, it looks really nice. It doesn't. Just look at that, dude. Music playing. I just did the Opry last night and I faked her. I faked her one of those. Oh, that's fun. That's fun. Yeah. Now, what happened with you at the Opry recently? That's my new move. I heard about how you got brought up.

Oh, yeah. Well, that's true. The same Kelly Sutton here. She brought me up, did my intro, read off some credits, old credits. I don't know where that was coming from, but regardless. And then she goes, he's a public figure.

So it really kind of threw me. And this is not just a show in a room. This is live broadcast. This is live radio all over the world. Yeah. Hundreds of thousands of people listening. I mean, she's not wrong. I still stand by my defense of public figure, that it's the nicest way to describe yourself, being put in the public eye. The public eye. I mean, what are we talking about? These are just funny phrases to hear you say. Yeah.

In the public eye. Dusty, you're so full of yourself. Yeah. I mean, you know, we're putting ourselves out there. Oh, that's very funny. Where were you this weekend? I did the Opry all weekend. I did Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Opry. Oh, that's nice. I did a three-night stint. I got to work with Vince Gill, who I've worked with many times before. So I didn't get a picture with him, but it's fun to do the Opry. It's fun to get to know these people, you know?

You guys are both tuned out. No, I was pulling up the pictures that you sent me. But, you know, Vince Gill. I was tuned out. Yeah, I know you were. But big fan of Vince Gill growing up.

And so like to do the operate and then like hang out with him and talk to him and have him watch my set. Yeah. It's pretty amazing. He's a very nice guy, but he's pretty intimidating. He's huge, right? He's like six, nine or something. But so nice. Such a great songwriter. Yes. And then this is Colin Ray. I met Colin Ray. Really? Big friend of Colin Ray in the, in the nineties. And, uh,

And I'm still a fan of him, but I just don't know a lot of his newer stuff. But he's great. So nice. And then I met Martina McBride here. Wow. Big Martina McBride fan. It was exciting to meet her. And then this is Don Schlitz. And a lot of people probably don't know who this is. I didn't know who it was either because he's a songwriter. He's not really a performer.

But he was going through, he said he was telling the songs that he had written before he performed them. So he started off with the song The Greatest by Kenny Rogers. And I was like, wow, that's a good song to write. And then he hits, the next song is When You Say Nothing At All by Keith Whitley and Alison Krauss. Great song. He wrote that song. Great song. And then he ends with his very first song that he ever cut, The Gambler. Wow. By Kenny Rogers. Wow.

And, you know, just some other songs that he's wrote here. Here is a list. This is just Randy Travis songs. On the other hand, Forever and Ever Amen, Deeper Than the Holler, Heroes and Friends. I mean, that's amazing. Wow.

Learning to Live Again by Garth Brooks. Rockin' with the Rhythm of the Rain by The Judds. He has two Grammys and four ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year awards. In terms of country music songwriting, this is the upper echelon. Old School by John Conley. I mean, it's just like... Forever and Ever Amen is one of the most iconic songs ever. I mean, I was told that he had like...

Like 20, 25 number one hits. 24. 24, according to that. And then 45 top 10 hits. Mm-hmm.

Amazing. And so I, you know, I went up and I wanted to get a picture with this guy because I was like, this is amazing. This guy is really good. And to hear his versions of those songs are really good too. And, uh, and I did my joke about Brooks and Dunn, uh, the song, uh, hardworking man, uh, which is a breakdown of that. And both Vince Gill and Don Schlitz, both great songwriters really love the joke. So I feel very good about what I got going on. So,

Well, it's good. It's about time. Good for you, buddy. You're turning it around. You're coming out like we were challenging you. You didn't have a good weekend. That's what this podcast is. Every week, it's a challenge for you guys. It's a constant challenge. You had a better weekend than us. I feel good about where I'm at, no matter what you guys say. Yeah.

This guy, this guy talking about me being negative goes, he always draw, he says something about conspiracies. He loves to drop a conspiracy and then look around the room to see if anyone supports him. And it's like,

Like, this guy's observing that all wrong. I know no one in here supports the things that I'm saying. The guy's reading it all wrong. And it's like, if you're getting it that wrong, how can we trust anything else? That's right. Yeah. None of your opinions on the podcast. So you've made a conspiracy even about him. Yeah. I mean, this guy, I think his last name was Leaks. Oh, Leak. Wiki Leaks. Yeah. Leak his brains out of his head. That's what I was thinking. It's short for. Okay. Yeah.

Oh, that's fun. Yeah, that's fun. I was in Lake Forest, Illinois, about an hour north of Chicago, about an hour away. And a lot happens in that hour, dude. Lake Forest is nice. One of the nicest places I've ever been. It's like a little...

John DeToy was with me this weekend and said it feels like a little ski town almost. Okay. Where all the buildings are nice. It'll be a Walgreens, but it'll be the nicest looking Walgreens you've ever seen in your life. Love those kind of times. One of those cities. I got there very excited. I saw a huge line of people when I showed up. And I was like, oh my gosh, dude.

They're all coming to see Aaron Weber tonight at the Gordon Center. It was the train. They were getting ready to get on the train. To get out of there. To get out of town. Aaron Weber's here. Let's go to Chicago for an hour. But the show was great at the Gordon Center. Very nice people. It was just a fun time. They put us in. You ever show up at a hotel to a gig, and it's so nice. You're like, this must be a mistake.

It was like, that doesn't happen very often, but we pulled up and we were like, well, this can't be right. Yeah. It was so nice. You walk in and they were like, do you want us to take your bags up to your room? And I always say, no, I don't want you touching my bags, but I'll take some free snacks over there. They did. They had a dude. They had to take it back up to the room and get a better set of clothes for you. That's right. And they had two big tubs of Tootsie rolls and, uh,

Heath bars, underrated candy bar. Doesn't get talked about enough. That's the kind of place. It was called the Deer Path Inn. Very nice. Robes in the room. Wow. It was just a very nice weekend. Thank you to everybody who came to the Gorton Center. I like that. This weekend in Lake Forest. Yeah. All right. Oh, I also want to say this. Yeah. Just in regards to the Opry, we all do the Opry. It's so great. It's so fun to even be a part of the Opry.

And I was talking to some people that, you know, do some of the booking around there. And they got word of our podcast. Are you about to ask me to be a member? That's what it feels like. I'm not a member. Come on in, guys. And they heard us, the podcast with Greg Warren. Yeah.

And now they're going to be reaching, they're working out to get Greg Warren in. Yeah, he told me that. That's amazing. Very exciting. Very deserving. I mean, Greg should be getting it even without us. But the fact that we talked about it, we all have a good relationship with the Opry. We joke about the Nate Lamb bump, but look at us making waves out of it.

But it's good. I'm very pumped about it. That's awesome. Doing the Opry is really amazing, though. It's like as a lifelong country fan, like I went to the Opry when I was a little kid. So the fact that I get to go there now, I'm like buddies with all the backstage people and like the director and all these people. And it's just it's so fun. Do you have them give you a note as a light? Yeah.

I love that. Do you do that too, Brian? I got a note. A piano note. I acknowledged the note this time and they said they don't think anybody's ever acknowledged the note. Well, how'd you acknowledge it? Well, I told a joke that was questionable and the room got a little quieter and then the note came and I go, oh, you hear that? That's them telling me to wrap it up. Did I get a laugh? Oh, that's fun. If you don't know what we're talking about, traditionally at a comedy club or even a theater sometimes,

the sound booth or the production will give you a light. They shine a light at you to let you know you have X amount of time left. And there's no real way to do that at the Opry with all the cameras and everything going on. So we've arranged that the piano player behind us will play a high C, I think it is,

I do it with one minute left. I don't know how y'all prefer to do it, but if you ever watch us at the opera, you're listening and you hear just a rogue piano note. That's them going, all right, it's time to get off.

You know, and if you have Sirius XM, you have Willie's Roadhouse, there's a bit of a delay. So you can stay and finish the whole show and then go get in the car and turn on the radio, Willie's Roadhouse, and it'll be about the time your set is playing. Oh, that's cool. So on Saturday, that's right, I got in the car and listened to my set on the way home. Yeah, how did it sound? Much better, actually. Yeah, they liked the crowd pretty well. Yeah, I was like, oh, I did pretty well. I'm murdering. Yeah.

I had a pretty good weekend. I posted a clip from the Opry. I was texting. I was complaining to Dusty about this. I posted a clip of a joke from the Opry where a set where I'm like, this is going really well. And then I posted the clip and there are so many comments that were like,

Sorry, dude, this deserved more. Or like, where's the crowd at? And you're like, I guess they just weren't mic grade on that video. But you can tell when a set's going well. Well, with the Opry, it is a deeper laughter. It's a huge room. So you can hear it. But it's like if you're just used to hearing comedy club audio where the people are right there.

It's a louder, faster laugh. I'm not posting a clip where I'm bombing. I'm getting laughs. I should have amped them up in post a little bit. But anyway. I've had plenty like that. You feel good about it. And then the comments are like, I would have laughed so much harder at that if I were there. Oh, thank you. And then you're like, we'll start buying tickets to my show. There you go. Coming out and laugh loud. Yeah. I'd appreciate it. Dusty, you want to tell us about Viore? Oh, yeah. I'm wearing Viore right now, matter of fact.

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And I'm straight up and wearing these shorts like every day. Like they get washed, you know, once a week or so. But I'm straight up wearing these shorts every day. It is so hot. Yeah. And I wear these. And, you know, I'm pretty anti wearing gym shorts out in public. And I'm pretty anti, you know, just... A lot of stuff, yeah. But I'm like...

Save us some time. But it's so hot. I'm wearing these gym shorts, and I don't feel like I'm wearing gym shorts. I feel like I look cool. Yes. And I've been wearing these out. I've been wearing them out for years. I got burns in them. I got – because I'm going to be out having cigars in them at night. If you're in a hurry, those Bugle Boy shorts get a little pee sometimes on them. I don't know what that means, but –

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Wow. Boom. All right. Yeah, please finish that. Well, I was listening to We're Having a Good Time podcast. Oh, okay. My own personal podcast. Did his own personal ad for Riori and said he used to wear these Bugle Boy shorts, but he'd go to pee and get a little pee on them. Oh, okay. I don't. You don't recognize? That was a callback to your own podcast. Oh, you mean like khakis. Well, yeah, you said Bugle Boy, but yeah. I said Bugle Boy?

What kind of shorts did you used to wear? Were you more of a duck head kind of guy? Maybe it was duck head. I don't know. I peed in a lot of shorts.

So it was the brand that threw you off, not the peeing in on me. You couldn't remember. Yeah, I don't know, really. I don't remember saying that, but I talk so much. Do you ever pee in your shorts? Well, I mean, not my shorts. I don't know. This guy's lived a life out here. Of course he has. Come on. I mean, when I used to drink, I've dried khakis at the hand dryer in a bathroom several times before where I'm like,

this got out of happy hour got out of hand here and but i'm like i'll be on a minute but uh uh yeah you know it gets it gets wild out here but uh the um

Viore is good. I mean, they dry quick. Moisture wicking. Yeah. Well, I'm sorry to bring that up. I thought if you said on your own podcast, it was safe to mention. I don't mind. Yeah. All right. I got a lot of pee stories. And thankfully, today's episode is on pee. Let's get into the comments right here. Where do the comments come from, Dusty? I'll tell you where, but do you want to read them? No. Well, I'll...

I think people prefer you read them. Okay. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and nateland at natebargatze.com.

And that's it. That is it. Yeah. That is it. You can also hand them to me at a show with a gift. With a gift, though. With a gift. Uh-huh. Oh, somebody, I should say this. Somebody, gosh, I could remember her name. She's very nice. I think she drove a long way to the show. She brought me, she DM'd me and said, there's a gift for you waiting in the green room. Green room is unbelievable. At this Gordon Center? Yeah. It's huge.

and i get in there there's a dozen krispy kreme donuts all right waiting in there and john and i are looking at them and i go i don't even want to think about these till after the show dude i had five before the show wow

How'd the show go? I was struggling at the top. And then John made a yo-yo out of one of them. He could. I'm telling you, man. I know he could. Yeah. He could if he wanted to. It is pretty amazing. I think John has a yo-yo in a holster like a gun. And if you go, hey, could you do a little yo-yo? He could pop it. I mean, it's not even in his pocket. I know.

And the string's not even attached to the yo- I mean, I don't even know how he does it. He's like Spider-Man, but with a yo-yo. It's like just in there, right? Like Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man, where it's in his hands. Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? Nate's dad's like that with cards. Yeah. He'll just pull some out, like, where was that even at? And he'll be doing a card trick for you. Yeah. Or some magic. All right. This comment is Amy Gilden.

This has to be right up there with the ant discussion and animal episodes. I don't know what it is about you guys, but when you get on the topic of anything to do with nature, it gets even more hilarious and ridiculous. And I just love how incredulous Nate and Dusty are whenever they come against any scientific numbers that they think no one can prove.

That's true. I think we should all be like that a little bit. You know, somebody says to you, these shark have 30,000 teeth in a lifetime. You go, well, how do you know that? Yeah. A little healthy skepticism. Right. And I think the explanation should be, should be ready. Okay. But if you're given the explanation, do you go, okay. Sometimes. I mean, are these sharks coming from space? Then, then no. But yeah.

Yeah, but I think she's right, though. Animal episodes are very fun. That was a fun episode. We do a good animal episode. The ant is still my favorite one, I think. Yeah.

Ants versus humans. I'm going to go back and recut a different clip of that debate. I think I did a bad job. There's so much context involved that it was tough to get in a 60-second clip, but I need to go back and recut it because I think that that can do well. They should be a whole, like just the ant discussion, even if it's 10 minutes long on YouTube. Well, we put it in the best of. I put it in the best of. I don't remember how long it was, but I think it was a few minutes. Not 10, but it was a few. Yeah, we'll do that.

I think a big clip of that would be great. Adam Rain King. You think that's what it is? The Rain King. The Reigning King. Reigning King. Yeah. Wow. That's a powerful name. We are an American family living in Prague, Czech Republic. He might be a king. Anytime we go on the road trip, we listen to the podcast to pass time. I love how everyone made fun of Dusty for five minutes for saying he was a public figure. Very funny. However, I totally agree with him. This guy gets it.

That is a very tactful way of getting the point across without bragging. Out of all the synonyms you read, that's the only one that really fits the context. Okay. This guy gets it. I'm pretty jacked up. I've had a lot of coffee here. Yeah. Had a hard time reading. My eyes are all over the place. You're doing great. Yeah. But this guy, Adam Reinking, gets it. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, he has a little Czech Republic, so...

They probably hear a lot more braggadocious terms. Do you think that about the Czech Republic? Oh, yeah. The Czechs are known for that. Are they? I have no idea.

But that's what I thought too, right? And I get it. This is a comedy podcast. It's very funny that you said that. I mean, I get what you're saying. I was just thankful it wasn't me who had said it. Because I don't think I'm famous. Of course. And just saying comedian is not really portraying what I'm trying to say. It's like once you put yourself out there to be looked at by other people, then you invite judgment.

Right. That's the point. But you try to put a term on it. You better be ready. Garen James. Garen. Both of those are weird names. Garen and James. It should be Aaron James, which is my first and middle name. Yeah. It sounds like me in disguise. The worst disguise ever. I'm not Aaron. I'm Garen James. Garen James.

Y'all need to get some culture on this podcast. This is Eric. Oh, geez. Yeah. There are more sports than football and baseball. That uphill sprint between...

Oh, geez. To judge Pogacar and Jonas Vinogard at the end of today's Tour de France stage was absolutely insane. All right. Yeah, I'll be sure to look into that right away. I appreciate that. Can't wait. I mean, spoiler, I had the Tour de France DVR and I was about to watch it.

Well, I apologize to those people that I can't pronounce their names, but they're obviously very good at their sport, so they probably don't care. But Garen, James, you know.

I would argue that somewhere in the world, there's people that just like Tour de France and soccer. And then there's some guy like us going, talk about football. Right. You know, and it's like, hey, you know, football is the best sport ever invented. Hands down. American football, the best sport ever.

And baseball's, you know, fun to watch if you got an afternoon to, you know, you want to catch a nap, wake up and still watch some of the game. Unlike the constant fast paced action of the Tour de France. Yeah. Yeah.

I thought you did a good job reading those names. Thank you. Yeah, it was better than we could have done. Sam Yannick. These names are crazy today. Aaron's question, is it the Winter Olympics did not receive enough attention and ridicule? It's July, dude. Even if it's technically winter in the Southern Hemisphere, this year's Summer Olympics are in Paris. Plus, have you...

Ever heard. I don't know what the asterisk means. She's trying to make it bold. I don't know. I think it's a woman. Yes, I do. With this attitude. For sure. Plus, have you ever heard of the Winter Olympics happening in July? Come on, man. I can't remember whether I said that as a joke or not. I mean, looking back, it's ridiculous that I think you were joking. Yeah, but it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere. And if you're I was supposed to know, I don't know when the Summer Olympics are.

And I also don't know where they are, when they are. I don't know what's happening. I mean, look, I'm a few weeks away from pretending to care about this like I do every four years. And then I'll know all the details then. I think it's hard to care about the Olympics now as an American because it feels like we just kind of like import things.

all the best people from around the world and then go, look how great we are. We like win gold and everything. But they don't, foreign born players don't play for America's teams in the Olympics. They go back and play for their, like Giannis plays for Greece. I don't know, maybe not foreign born, but it feels like we got a long-term plan.

And we're like, we're like, who's the best runner? And we go, Hey, move here. Have some kids in 20 years. You're going to, we're going to be dominated. That's the American dream. Yeah. Come on over. You know, I think my wife ruined it a little bit for me because my wife is Canadian. Right. And she's like, when we would watch the Olympics growing up, she was like, it was America gold, gold, gold, gold.

gold and then she's like canada would win a silver medal and this guy would be the talk of the country for years to come whereas in america we win gold and we don't even know who it was yeah but i think the winter olympics is a little reverse not not as drastic but yeah how many olympians like famous u.s olympians can you name could you name five of of like the last 10 years maybe 10

Oh, no. I mean, Michael Phelps? Yeah. It's a good one. Yeah, I don't know. Simone Biles? Yeah, I guess so. You named her. Sean White, remember him? No.

Sean White. Oh, he's a skateboarder? He's a surfboarder? Snowboarder. And he did X-Games stuff too. He's like a skateboarder too. Guy's a freak out. Yeah, I mean, Simone Biles is very famous. And I guess because she's an Olympian who won gold, but it's like... Katie Ledecky. There you go, Katie Ledecky. I haven't watched like when I... The 96 Gymnast. I

I was about the same age as those girls that were, you know, the 96. Carrie Scruggs. Carrie Scruggs and Dominique Luciano. The girls won gold. It was big. It was heroic. And it's like, I was about the same age as them. I had a huge crush on all the girls on the thing because it was like,

was like, "Oh, this is the best." Dominique Mucciano did the freestyle thing where Charlie Daniels' devil went down to Georgia. That was made for you. '96 Olympics were in Atlanta. It was unbelievable. I celebrated as these girls were heroic people, but then you look back and you're like, "Oh, they were under the pressure and made to do it even though they were like, 'I'm hurt.'"

And they were like, no, you better do it. Whereas Simone Biles, it felt like this year was our last year, whenever it was, was like, I'm not doing well. I'm not going to do this. Yeah. And she had the twisties. And I like that. Yeah. Which we all get. What are the, like the yips? The twisties are like, I don't know, but I assume twisties is like when she, what was it when she turned in the air, she couldn't. Vertigo? Vertigo.

Well, I can't even... If you were moving the table, I would be like, oh, no, no, I'm dizzy. I know, I'm like that. You had a joke about that other night, Zany's. I was thinking, that's me too. My daughter, if she wants to do a little game where we spin around, I do too. I'm like, I'm out. I got to sit down. The twisties. She couldn't get her... You don't remember this? I remember. I never heard the word twisties, though. It's like the yips, though, where you just kind of... I forgot what it was. You can't catch it. It's where she couldn't get a...

Her balance, I can't remember, but she had to sit out for a while. Alicia Taylor, we're moving next month and the old owner of our new home told us about the next door neighbor. He said, just give him your leaves in the fall and he'll leave you alone. If Dusty owns a home in Boise, we're definitely moving next door to him.

Well, I'm not in Boise, but I like this guy. I like that this guy's a little bit irritating, but if you just give him your leaves, he'll leave you alone. But Dusty won't leave you alone. Nah. Nah. You'll deal with him every day still. I do have an offer to go to Boise in 2025. I've never been to Idaho. Nice. Very excited about it. I have no idea when, but at some point in that year. There's a new club opening there. Yeah, theater year. Oh, awesome, man.

Awesome. Exciting. Very exciting. Matthew Berth. Apparently, my frequent podcast listening has caused me to start sounding like Dusty and it's rubbing off on my kids. A few days ago when my wife announced it was time for dessert, all of my kids said, all right, exactly the same way Dusty says it.

When he is introduced at the start of each podcast. Well, I think that's good, Matthew. I mean, it sounds like your kids are cool and hip and they're with it and they know how to react to things. That's right. You don't want a bunch of kids going, yay. You want kids going, all right. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's what I'm talking about. A friend of mine, also a listener of this podcast, sent me a video the other day of his daughter. He said, he's not been teaching his daughter this, but he said-

He said, all right, like, all right, in the kitchen. And his daughter, three years old, goes, we're having a good time. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. That's really cool. So I'm changing culture out here. His friend was named, daughter's name was Daisy. I was getting her to do all right for a little while. She stopped doing it. That's fun. Daisy's got her own thing going on. She like, pfft.

I don't need to be doing what you're doing. I want to be doing my own things. Yeah, yeah. Justin Kello. You think that's how it is? Kello? Yeah. Kello!

I am so jacked up. Yeah. I just did my first open mic and I didn't know it was a one minute competition. I had to try and condense the five minute story I had planned down to one. It did not go well in the early days. If when you truly did terrible at an open mic, what was it that kept you going? All right. I don't think we're going to have to reach back too far to answer this question. Oh, this kill Tony down to one minute. Yeah. I would do terrible in that now.

I will say, I bet that your five minute story is not really a five minute story. Yeah, it's probably a two minute story. And it can be condensed and it's probably going to be a better story if it's way shorter. But what kept me going in the early days, I would say, honestly, I had nothing else going on. I mean, I had a job I didn't like. I wasn't married. I didn't have kids.

And comedy was it for me. I mean, that was my social outing. If I could be funny that night, then I was cool. And that was what happened. That's your advice, Justin. Destroy the rest of your life. Well, don't destroy it. But it is like when people have very happy homes and they have wives that they like and they want to go home, it's hard to set in an open mic.

Yeah.

They're like, what am I going to go sit in an open mic room and listen to the worst comedy I've ever heard or sit at home with my wife who I love? Yeah. And hear her tell the worst story. I'm just kidding. Well, congrats on doing your first mic, Justin. That's the hardest hump to get over. Yeah. And if you'd have known it was one minute, you probably wouldn't have chose that five minute story. Yeah.

And also toughen up. You know what I mean? Yeah. Just toughen up and get out there and have some fun. Everybody stinks. Nobody's good. Just know that. Yeah. None of it matters. And some of these open mics, nobody ever is good. Like even like if, if,

it's like to some degree you could take the most famous funny comic you know and if you could change their name and disguise them and they just showed up to an open mic with new jokes it's debatable if they would actually think he was funny I think about that sometimes even with like a special where the comic is murdering at the special I think if you do that set some of these open mics I go to I don't know if you're going to even have a good set

Yeah, because it can be tough rooms. Sometimes it's like it's mostly comics in the room or people aren't paying attention or like something weird happened earlier in the night. Now that's all anybody wants to talk about. So it's just it's there's a lot of variables at play. And just so just keep doing it over and over and over and over again until you've lost all your other friends outside of comedy. And then that's your whole life.

Yeah, exactly. That's my advice. Exactly. If you guys had a really like commit to it. Yeah. High pressure showcase for industry, whatever. It's going to really make or break your career. What's the amount of time you would want to do? If they said you can do as much or as little time as you want. I'm at a stage now where I feel like I, I can be more sounds whatever I can. I feel more confident doing like a 30 minute set versus like a five minutes.

Yeah. You know what I mean? At this point, I'd say, give me an hour. Yeah. And let me do my full set. Yeah. I don't feel that confident yet, but I'm kind of like that. I would say 20 to 30 minutes. I feel much less nervous than five. Right. I can stretch out, take my time through stuff. With five, you pick the wrong jokes. You can't recover. Well, that's the hard thing about the Opry shows, even. It's like...

And the Opry is a much different audience than what I'm normally encountering. Nowadays, thankfully, it's like my audience is my audience for the most part. Right. But even in a comedy club, it's like just a different audience. And then I got 13 minutes. So I'm like, yeah, the opening joke doesn't go well, which it didn't last night. Yeah. I'm like, all right, now I got to like recover. Oh, on Saturday, I have a couple of old jokes that I do at the beginning of my set of the Opry show because I know it always gets them.

Somebody yells, do new material.

Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, Oh, and, and who yelled at Dan Rogers? But the set, you know, I had like my, that's you're describing my worst nightmare. Yeah. But it's like, for me, it was like the rest of my set was new material. Like it was like, that was what was planned. It was these two jokes that I want to do to get in there and get the, get the audience going. And,

And I had to really force it. I had to really stuff it down. I got chills hearing you say that. Yeah. I was so mad. Did you address it? Yeah. I said, what am I getting heckled at the Opry? Oh, that's man. And that's all I said. And then I just tucked it deep down in the anger filled my body and I just stuffed it way deep down. And who's that's insane to do new material. Yeah. And it's like,

The Opry is like the spot for the greatest hits. Are they yelling at Don Schlitz to do new songs? Exactly. Yeah. You yell at Vince Gill. He starts playing the gambler and they go, play a new song. Yeah. We've heard this one. Yeah. Wow. So. I got me fired up just hearing about it. It was my worst nightmare. I would have thrown the Mike and Kelly Sutton after that.

Yeah. And I hope that they found that guy and drug him out back and beat him for a while. That's what I hope they do. Casino. Yeah. Drug him out back and put a roll of quarters in a sock and beat him up. Start ripping his fingernails off. Yeah. Dusty guy. Yeah. Yeah. So, but fortunately for me, my, the rest of my set was planned to be new material. Yeah. So, wow. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Roxy444. Dusty, I feel you on the leaf blower. My neighbor uses a leaf blower to fluff his grass every single day. Fluff his grass in all caps. Yeah. And it's not a small yard. It's just on and off all throughout the day. I hate it so much. I respect the dedication to the lawn. Yeah, I do too. I like it.

your grass. I didn't even know that. It sounds like a euphemism. It does, especially with the name Roxy 444. I feel you on the leaf blower. What is this guy doing with his leaf blower? I can't believe that one slipped through me.

They're like, Bates won't know what fluffier grass means. But the leaf blower is, it's like, all right, to some degree, I get it. You want to clean off the driveway or whatever, but it's like, it's just so loud. And it's gas powered. So you get fumes out there. I'm trying to enjoy some fresh, clean air. What about an electric leaf blower? Yeah, mine has a battery. Yeah, mine's a battery operated. Is that okay? That's better. It's louder. Yeah. But it's not hurting the environment. I don't know.

That's better. But it's like, and I don't even care about the environment. I just mean, don't. Clearly. It's just like, I don't want to smell it. Okay. Oh, it's the smell. Yeah. Not necessarily the noise. Yeah. No, the noise too. Those two things. But if you had to pick the noise or the smell. I'll take the noise. I prefer you sweep.

Get yourself a sweep. The grass, though. But what are you? You're leaf blowing the glass grass. Yeah. I think if you got some nice, long manicured grass, you need to fluff it. Oh, rake it. Yeah, I don't think I don't think you can fluff with a rake. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think you've ever fluffed your grass. I don't fluff my grass. That's for sure. Do you mow your grass? I do mow it. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. I mean, I, you know, right now my grass looks terrible. It is so dry. It is so hot and so dry. Yeah. I mean, dang, it's hot. I don't know what I'm doing either. I'm just watering it. I'm sure if somebody knows about lawns, they'd see me just standing out there. I'm probably doing everything wrong, but you know.

I think a lot of this journey is just seeing what works, seeing what doesn't. What they say is you want to water the grass early in the morning because watering plants in the heat of the day forces the plants to work harder to pull in the water. So it's worse for them to water midday. Okay. But I do it all the time because I'm like, that's when I'm up. Sure. I took out a –

Not real related, but I'm going to share it anyway. Other night, getting ready to go to bed. We were ready to move on anyway. Yeah. Yeah. I was getting bored with you guys' conversations, so I thought I'd start my own. Yeah. Other night. Is this a lawn care podcast? It's like 1.30 in the morning. I'm getting ready to go to bed. I'm going to take out this trash in the back before I go to bed. A.M.? Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Yeah.

Okay. Sorry. Spaced out for a second. And I see a critter. A critter? Moving around near the trash cans. It's in the dark. And it looks like a possum. Oh, geez. It steps out a little bit in the porch light. It's an armadillo.

All right. And it like then scared. And I got a little video of it scurrying off, but it was almost gone by the time I did it. But that's the first time I've seen an armadillo around here. I've only seen them dead on the side of the road. Yeah. They used to never be here. I know they've migrated here over the last few years. Yeah. But that's the first time I've seen one. Kathleen Madigan has a bit about this other migrating north. Oh, really? Yeah. I didn't realize that was the case. So we're going to see more and more of them.

I used to go to Alabama and I would see them on the side of I-65. All the time, yeah. And then they started coming up I-65 closer and closer to Nashville. They say armadillos are born on the road dead.

That was an old street. Yeah. Armadillo by morning. Yeah. All right. Matt Sinclair. Is there any food besides snack food that is okay to carry eat on a plane? No. Yeah. I don't care as long as it doesn't stink up the whole plane. That's what I think too. But when you fly out of Charlotte, cause Charlotte's like,

like church's chicken headquarters. I think it's like the airplane will be filled with fried chicken and I'm, I'm okay with it. Cause you're eating it too. I love fried chicken. I'm a big fan. Yeah.

But if you weren't a fan of it, you'd be like, this is ridiculous. Yeah, I think. I don't want people eating pork rinds because I think they have a loud smell and then they're real crunchy. Loud smell. Yeah. And... Rancid sound too. I'm okay with people eating whatever on the plane, to be honest, because I get it. I travel a lot and I get hungry. But don't be messy with it. Don't be a slob. Yeah. You know? What do you think? I mean, I...

I'm okay with it. I mean, sometimes you have such a tight connection between flights and that time you get through the line. It's a lot of times I'll be like,

My plane's already boarding and I can just rush this down really fast or just wait and get on my plane and sit down and enjoy it a little bit. And that's what I do. I like to eat my food on a plane and go, this is good. And then offer the person next to me a bite with my fork. You want a bite of this? That's what I like to do. You want to take a little bite of this? Come on. Yeah.

Okay. Katie McMillan. Hello, folks. And hey, shark. That's fun. Yeah. My family was vacationing in South Padre Island, Texas during the 4th of July, and we were about 50 yards away from the first of four shark attacks that happened that morning. We took a walk down the beach.

after to see if we could spot any sharks and end it up finding the shark i've included my video recording here it is gosh now right there it looks like there's two of them right yeah there's not it's just a big shark that's just one so that's its dorsal fin and then its tail yeah is that is that dorsal is that what it's called i don't know it's a fin and a tail

That's crazy. I mean, that's so close to the shore, man. Because I don't go out far, but I would go out that far. Well, that's pretty. Thank you, Katie. I'm sorry I butchered your comment like that. But they were down South Padre, Texas during the 4th of July when about 50 yards away from the first of four shark attacks that happened that morning. That's pretty wild. I thought you were going to read the whole thing again. We took a walk down the beach after to see if we could spot any sharks and ended up finding the shark. That's crazy.

You never know who's listening to our podcast. She said, I didn't put that part in, but she said a lot of the news outlets started using her video. We broke it. We broke it first. Did you get any credit, Katie? Yeah, she said she's a public figure now. Okay. Follow me for more shark stories. Yeah, exactly. I've got the shark. Miles.

I think it's about time we got a certified scientist on this pod to challenge Dusty's conspiracies. Thank you. Once he finds out how microwaves actually works, once he finds out how a microwave actually works, it will blow his mind. Love the pod, guys. Get on it, Butterbean.

I don't know if he means me or Brian with Butterbean. I'm pretty sure he means me. Once he finds out how a microwave actually works. You're going to have your mind blown, dude. Yeah, buy the microwave.

If you know a microwave expert, let's get them on the podcast. Let's get them on. I can't wait for someone to just drone on and then go. It's very scientific. You actually, you probably can't understand it because you're not a scientist. I don't think I knew how it worked until we talked about it on this podcast. How's it work? Just heats up the water elements in the. But with what? With the microwave. Electricity. What's a microwave? Microwave.

What do you mean by that? I mean, what is it? It's an appliance. No, I mean, what is the wave that does the heating? Yeah, I can't break down...

what a microwave is. Well, how does a toilet work? Can you break down how a toilet works? I'm guessing you use one every day. You pull the, you pull the lever down and then it opens up and allows all the water inside the toilet. Allows all the water. What do you mean? What's happening? Well, you, you physically, what's happening? You remove the suction stopper from it. Suction stopper.

Yeah. So there's a stopper that keeps the water from going down. It lifts up. So now all the water falls down and the water from the back tank flows into the other tank. Why does the water fall down? Well, you know, that's how it goes with weight and matter.

There's not some kind of principle that causes the water to... The water is heavier than the air around it, so it falls down. Right. So the heavier it is, the faster it'll fall, probably. I don't think so. I just think that it just has to be heavier than the air around it. Heavier than the air around it. That's why helium goes up. Because it's lighter than the air around it. So when a plane takes off, the plane's...

gets lighter than the air around it. Well, it has like an engine that pushes it up into the air. Pushes it up. That's good. Well, yeah. That's good science. Yeah. So we don't know what a microwave is. That's the point. But it heats up the water molecules like the... Right, but I want to know what the microwave itself is. Uh-huh. Well... Alex Haas. Okay. Now, I'm sure a microwave expert will be able to tell me. He'll be able to tell me what...

you know, makes up the microwave. And I, and I look forward to it. It induces it's okay. It's an electric oven that heats and cooks food by exposing it to electromagnetic radiation and the microwave frequency range. This induces polar molecules in the food to vibrate and produce thermal energy in a process known as dielectric heating. Wow. Radiation. That sounds scary. Yeah.

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All right. One last comment here. Alex Haas. I worked for a cruise ship for five years. Food leftovers are grinded up and pushed out into the ocean.

Fish do follow the ships for the food. All waste from the engine and garbage is taken off port, not thrown in the ocean. And that is what I was saying. Now, I don't know if that last sentence is true. The part that you're – All I'm saying is – That's all you do, Dusty. You just negate anything that you don't agree with. All I'm saying is I don't know if any of it's true.

Right. But this is, I assume that they would throw the food off. And I've heard people talk about saying that fish and sharks follow these ships around because they've gotten used to the food being out there. Sure. So all I'm saying, yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure these, these ships are very ethical and they don't throw the trash in, in the water. But if they have this grinder, you know, what is, what is trash and what is, you know, but yeah,

But the point is, fish do follow these ships around. And if you fall off, that's very scary. Oh, yeah. Very scary. For sure. And I know that I could be a little much, but- I don't think you're much. I am right about most of these things. Because the fish would eat you?

Yeah. That's why it's scary to fall off a ship? Because it'd be very cold. Yeah. Also, you're alone in the water. And the ship, even though it seems like it moves slow, it moves very fast. So very quickly, it would be away from you. They say it takes so long to turn around and come back and look for you. I would think they would just be able to throw a life raft in the water and scoot out to you. But who knows what the water's like out there. It's true. And then sharks are out there. Not even sharks. It's like...

Even just little fish that just nick at you. I mean, that would be very scary. Yeah. The ocean's scary. We're not supposed to be out there. No.

But thank you, Alex, for writing that in. I trust that he's right. All right. I'll just say it. He's right about the garbage and the waste. How about that? It's a good segue to today's topic. But I do agree with what Nate said, which they take it and they take it to land and then dump it in the trash. It's going to be processed on land first. Today we're talking about trash.

I learned a little bit about it. I learned there's a little bit difference between trash and garbage. What is the difference? Because they're used interchangeably. They are. I think garbage technically means food. Food waste. What about rubbish? Yeah, I don't know. Rubbish, that kind of makes me think food too. Don't you? Oh, interesting. Rubbish, I think of like an abandoned house and there's just kind of just rubbish all in a row.

But that's a British – rubbish is like a British term, right? Yeah, but that's what they do. On a back road in Alabama where my dad lives, there was a sign that said no dumping of rubbish. I was like, what is that? Yeah.

Anyway. So garbage is food. Henry Cho has a joke about his buddy. I think they were in New York or something. And he went to the trash chute. And he came back and he said, they refused it. It said, refuse. It's pretty great. Yeah. So anyway, garbage is technically more of the, I think, the food waste. Whereas trash is just every...

Everything we think. Yeah. I wonder what percentage of, what percentage of it is food waste versus other waste. And I bet there's a ton of food waste in the country. I bet there's a ton. Oh yeah. Yeah. I read where not, I guess this means everything. I don't know. It's four, 4.9 pounds of trash per day for us resident per person per person. So, so between the three of us, you think we totaled 15 pounds of trash today? Well, the day's over. Let's go through yesterday. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. Who wants to do it? I live pretty green. I'll just say that. Yeah. You're wearing green? You live green? I do compost a lot of most of my boxes. Any stat that we say on the podcast probably doesn't apply to you. Yeah. I compost a lot of my boxes, and then I also compost all my food waste, unless it's like meat, because...

Uh, like wild animals will come get at the meat. Okay. And if I lived more in the country, I would just do it. But I'm like, I don't want to bring a lot of raccoons and stuff into the coyotes. Yeah. Once you go to one of your many lands that you own. Well, I, well, I, I would take it there, but it's like, then I just got, it's got to sit around in a bucket for however long. That's right. And that's one of the difficulties of trash disposal, right? It is. How do we take it? How do we take it to other places?

Interesting. We'll come back to that. Yeah. We'll be right back. We'll be back after these messages. And you could burn it, right? But people are very against burning. That's what we did as a kid. You burned all your trash? We lived out in the country. We didn't have any trash pickup. And I think we eventually started hauling it to the city dump. And I'm not making a joke about your age, but probably when you were a kid, there was a lot less plastic. Yes.

Well, I should have waited until you finished your sentence before I said yes. I was going to say a lot less regulation.

Well, that's for sure. But there was like plastic had a real revolution where it was like they used to like even when I was a kid, a lot of the Cokes that you would buy were in glass bottles. That's true. You were buying glass bottle Cokes? Not like the old school Coke, but even like a 16 ounce or was still in a bigger glass. Yeah, I remember buying a lot of stuff in glass. Did you buy like milk would come in a glass? No. Okay. Always a plastic jug. Milk's been plastic my whole life. Yeah. Okay. Or paper. Paper.

I feel like there's less paper contained. There is less paper now. Yeah, because of paper, orange juice, those kind of cartons. I mean, plastic, I remember commercials for plastic on TV. I mean, it was a real revolution of things being in plastic. Just a commercial for plastic? Yeah. Just being like, guys, we need plastic? Well, they were pushing it. It was like got milk commercials. Oh, like a cotton commercial. Yeah. I remember a Coke commercial where...

Or one of the soft drinks where it would show a glass bottle falling off the table and just shattering everywhere. And then it would show this new plastic bottle falling out and just bounces. Wow. How about that? As if to say, out with the old, in with the new. Yeah. These dumb glass bottles shattering all the time. Right. And I wouldn't even think about that. I bet they lost a ton of inventory through shipping when it was glass. It was much more. There's a lot more spillage.

I bet that's a big part of it too. Did they keep... How long did the commercial go? Did it end up with like... Do you see the plastic bottle? 45 minutes. You saw the plastic bottle in the ocean at the end? Yeah. Just floating for eternity? And they showed a bunch of microplastics in our gut. That's right. Doesn't shatter out here. It shatters inside. Yeah. The movie The Graduate, which was before my time. Dustin Hoffman. I think it was like late 60s. 67, I believe. I was going to say 68. But he just right out of college and...

one of the man says plastics that's like the future getting the plastics I was like their AI yeah yeah and look what I did to it yeah look what AI is doing to us I mean plastics obviously done a lot of really great things but I just don't think like what well you got prosthetics that are plastic all the good ones are a

Are they? I have no idea. Okay. Yeah, I just wanted to push back a little bit. But it's like, it's done great things, but it's like, I was watching just a TikTok video and this...

girl was in a grocery store and the whole thing was like, she was going through all the things she was buying. She was like, this produce is in a plastic bag. This meat is in a plastic bag. This is in plastic. Everything she was buying was in plastic. And she's like, then when I get to the register, they won't give me a plastic bag unless I pay for it because they're saving the planet. And it's like, it's all a scam. It's like, I am

I am very hippie about like taking care of things. Like I want, I wish that every tree in our neighborhood was a fruit tree instead of just some weird ornamental. I wish that we had gardens instead of grass. I wish that you roll by the clip where Dusty said, I don't care about the environment. Remember that from earlier? This is the point. Cut back to now. This is the point when it, when it comes to the environment, that is some sort of, uh,

a term used to say, let's let the government control the weather. You know what I mean? And it's like, I think, I think we should take care of our own stuff and be more, you know,

Worry about what each of us are doing and not let some overseer. You can trust most people to do that? Not right now. But I think it would take, you know, education in this area to teach people. Like they did plastic commercials. We'll do some commercials. But the government is not trying to teach us how to take care of our own things. They're trying to get us to pay more money for this and that and drive an electric car, which is, you know, coal burning to give us the electricity. Right.

But there's all kinds of campaigns to show us how to save the environment. Yeah. Like what? Preserve things. Only you can prevent forest fires. Right. Don't burn the forest. Don't be smoking in the woods. That's right. Yeah. Don't have a good time with your friends in the woods. But what are some of the programs? Recycling campaigns, which I know you also don't believe in. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Well, I'm all about reduce and I'm all about reuse. Yeah. But recycling, I think, is a bit of a scam. Okay. So you'll reduce, reuse.

And that's it. But that's the thing. They want a recycling campaign. It's much less catchy with just the two. Yeah. It's like you got to buy a special recycling. You got to pay an extra fee and then you got to do this and you got to do that. And then at the end of the day, they pick it up and they dump it in the same dumpster as all the other. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's nothing that they'll say that you will believe, but they do do all the things that you're saying.

I just don't think that they do. I think it comes to like educating people individually on how we just be better citizens of the world, not let a government agency control what we're doing. We just moved in to our new place and we were trying to get trash service started. And dude, it took like three weeks for them to, we showed up there's at our old place, we showed up and there were just two trash cans there.

And I don't even know how we got it set up. They were just picking up the trash. I didn't even think about it. This place show up, no trash can. So the only company in the area is waste management. So I have to call waste management and go, I would like a trash can. And they go, well...

well i'll look into that i go all right well i've been paying it i set up an account and i'm paying but i need a trash can and they're like okay i call back a week later and i go i would like a trash can please the trash is piling up i'm doing 4.9 pounds a day of the stuff so i need you're probably above average that's average

You're making up for what I'm reducing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You burn it all. So they go, we'll expedite it.

And I go, what does that mean? She goes, I honestly don't know. She goes, it's just like a different folder where we put your number. So we finally got a trash can to come. But dude, now we're like backlogged on trash. Yeah. Because we didn't have one for three weeks. So I'm trying to like. And you're unpacking a ton of stuff. So you have more trash than ever. We got so much stuff. I got to call Tracy the trash man to come get this stuff. It's a dude I found on Craigslist.

Oh, it's a separate company? No, it's just a dude named Tracy. There is a dump that you can go. And like, it's just... This is too much to transport myself. So it's just a bunch of stuff in my garage. So I got to get Tracy to come out. When waste management fails, I call Tracy the trash. Yeah, well, I like Tracy. Do you have a recycling bin?

No, it's just a... Just a trash. Just a bucket. They go throw whatever you want in here. Yeah. Batteries. I just don't believe that they really can recycle a lot of these things. I just don't believe the whole process of... Like glass, I think maybe. Yeah. I think they could definitely reuse a lot of bottles. My backpack's made out of reused tires. That's what they say. Yeah. Who knows if that's true. Right. But it's good to think about. Yeah.

It's hard to imagine my day yesterday was almost five pounds of trash that I went through. Well, go through it. Are you including human waste? No, but then it's way more than...

Why is that not included? I mean, that's going somewhere too. It's easy to not think about it because it just flushes away, but that's going into the ocean. Going into what ends up being our tap water again. I think they just filter. Into the water tower? That's where it ends up. I think it goes to a water purification plant or whatever, and our toilet water is our tap water. Yeah. That's why you got to really filter that stuff. I think. Yeah.

I knew a person or I knew of a person that would put a brick in their toilet and they had only flush your toilet once a day. Oh, that's disgusting. Yeah.

I don't always flush every time, but that is, and that's another thing. I pee outside a lot. I'm very conscious of wasting water. I don't want to be watering my grass, but I don't want it to turn into dirt out there. Sure. You know, I don't need to be lush and green, but I want to keep it alive. I want it lush and green. Yeah. So I'm very conscious of wasting these things. I try to save water. That's why I built the swales out on the land so that when the rainwater comes, hopefully it can hold the water.

you know, so that it just doesn't go to waste. But it's like not flushing, but one time a day is disgusting. I understand. What's the brick do? Brick might not be the right word. In the tank. You put it in the tank. Some type of, yeah, you plug up, you beautifully described it. So it doesn't fill the tank all the way. The water goes down. Yeah. So even if you hit the

thing it wouldn't do anything. Well, it just would be less water in there because the brick takes up space. So as the water rises in that back tank, it just hits a level point where it shuts off. Basically plugging it up. Gotcha. And then you flush it. Now, what kind of trash bags? I'm thinking now, just have the self-restraint not to flush it. Exactly. What do you need to put a plug in there? You probably just would forget maybe how to just have it. That's true. That's true. I used to pee outside when I lived in an apartment complex.

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I think you got to do it. You got to get there are a few things. I'm in a favorite trash bag. Oh, I know. I'm saying, okay, what do you got? Yeah. Well, no, now finish your thought. I like the black ones. Okay. Hefty. Hefty. I was just about to say there are a few. I buy off brand stuff, almost everything. But there are a few things where I think it really I notice a difference and the difference improves my life in a meaningful way.

The amount of bad experiences I've had with cheap bags that break and the ties come off, it's worth it to me to get a durable trash bag. And I use them, and I love them. I feel the same way. I grew up, my mom still uses...

cheap trash bag with the twist tie where you like take the tie and twist around it. Yeah. Her trash can. I have a foot pedal. And she, every time I go to her house, I put my foot there. I'm like, where's the pedal? And...

Yeah, just little things like that. You should buy your mom a foot pedal trash can. Well, you're right. I could do that, couldn't I? She doesn't want it. My mom doesn't want anything that's too uptown. Yeah, I get it. And I do use, I use Dollar General bags, Kroger bags. I use those for almost everything too, but like for real, like,

In the kitchen stuff, I got to use a real name brand. I'm total Publix brand for trash bags. Oh, Publix brand is good. I'm talking, I was thinking like the Dollar General brand is like an abomination. Oh, yeah. And I'm talking about one that has at least draw stripes. I don't even go to Dollar General. I don't even know how to get around in there. There's always somebody that seems like they quit mid-stocking. It is. You never get to walk clean through an aisle at a Dollar General. No.

You walk up, the cashier smoking a cigarette in the parking lot. She's mad that you're there. She's got to come in. And the bathroom, even to use a bathroom, you got to have a key to use the bathroom. Of course. It's a real situation in there. And finding water. Sometimes I'll go to the Dow General if I'm on the road just to find some water.

They hide it. It's like, it's all Cokes in there. Usually back right. They want you to be dehydrated up in there. Of course, everything in there is dehydrating. Yeah. That's the way it works. I like how you say the Dollar General. You have a joke where your sister worked at. Yeah, my sister. Well, yeah, that's an old joke. The joke never went that well, but my sister worked at a Dollar General and I always wanted to, I always wish I could be in the Dollar General. She was working there and

And apparently it got real busy and she was running the cash register and the line was backing up and no one would help her. So she kept paging for a manager to come help her and no one would come. So she just walked out. Wasn't it like she hadn't been working there that long? No, this was at the time like her longest job. She'd been there like nine months, which was a long time for her.

And she just walked out. What was the joke, though? I said, I never had any family in the military, but my sister did do one tour with the Dollar General.

That's a great joke. That part of the joke went well. Yeah. But I always wanted to be in that Dollar General when she walked out. I just would like to be there with a few items. I'm bothered that there's a line. The cashier's freaking out and then she just leaves and we're all like, oh. I remember when I worked at the country club here in town.

like the busiest day of the year, this big event and this girl that I worked with screaming in the kitchen and just walked out. It's, I had never seen that happen before. I mean, it was pretty great. Like, Oh God, like we needed you. Yeah. Like we need you right now. Yeah. Yeah. This stinks. We need you though. And she just left and never saw her again. And once the anger's gone, it's like, ah, you think she's like getting in the car and like, ah, she probably.

I should probably have. Yeah, I lost my job. I just lost my job and my reference for my next one. That's right. Yeah, yeah. You burned a bridge. That's what Larry David did, right? Yeah, he just showed up the next day and pretended it didn't happen. Was it SNL? SNL, yes. First season there. That's the way to go. His only season. Because to some degree, depending on how bad they need you, they might let it go too. Yeah.

Not this. I remember. I remember the manager being like, good riddance. Oh, yeah. It's pretty great. Yeah. Anyway. Now, have you ever been dumpster diving? No. I've thought about it. Mm-hmm.

Was there anything in particular you were looking for? No. Sometimes you'll see a little. Dusty's got a bit about this, too. But sometimes you'll see a little like some furniture in there. Yeah. What got dumped in this dumpster? Yeah. I don't think I've ever been dumpster dumpster diving, but I've for sure like spent some time. Yes. Seeing some stuff on the side of the road. And I'm like, well, I'm going to mess around through this here.

you know, looking for furniture and stuff like that. I feel like dumpster diving is like you throw open a lid and you get down in that thing. I don't, I've never done that. Apparently at one point though, some people in my family had figured out where in Opelika Walmart would dump all their returns. Like, because apparently when they get returns, they're not allowed to like

At least back then, like put them back on the shelf. Okay. So they just get dumped. Wow. Or maybe it's like no one can take it home or something like that. Okay.

Whatever it is, they found the place where Walmart was dumping this stuff and they were going out there. What a score. Yeah, my mom had like a ton of Christmas stuff, but it would be like a deer that only half of it lit up. And she was able to fix some of it, but it was like, this is stuff you don't need here. Yeah, yeah. At Daisy's birthday party.

We were playing with our Eleanor. I play with Daisy's dollhouse and it's a nice dollhouse. And your mom said, yeah, I found that on the side of the road. Oh, I love it. Yeah. Well, yeah, it was like, you know, it's been around a lot of the kids in the family have played with that dollhouse and my Daisy would go there and play with it. My mom's like, oh, the kids here don't even play with this. Why don't you just take it? She loves that dollhouse. Yeah. It's a great dollhouse. Yeah.

When I was- I didn't know that. Oh, you didn't know that until right now? Oops. When I was in high school, I had braces and then a retainer. And I lost my retainer more than once. And my parents, my mom especially, really like, you know, it's expensive to go replace it. And I was probably a sophomore in high school. I was old enough to drive and I-

Apparently left my retainer on my tray in the cafeteria. You know, you take them out when you eat. And then I went up there and dumped my tray, whatever. Then I realized later on what I've done. And I was so worried that my mom, my parents were going to like really let me have it. My cousin, who was a couple of years younger than me, had a metal detector.

And I came up with this idea. Let's go to the dump behind the high school with your metal detector and do the bags of trash and see if we can find my retainer. And so my cousin was in eighth grade, I think. I was a sophomore, but could drive. And we went and we got in there. And what we didn't realize is the whole bin is made of metal. So it's like, man, it's everywhere in here. Yeah.

It's like using a sand detector on the beach. It feels like the only thing nerdier than a retainer that you've lost and you're now looking for is being caught out back with a metal detector by the dumpster. Well, you get caught. I know, but thankfully. That's the only reason you're here today is because you didn't get caught. Yeah. What we ended up doing was we're like, well, we got to get away from this metal bin. So we loaded up bags of trash in my car.

Drove back out to the country where I lived. There's always some back road, a creek bed where people would be disposed of anyway. We just went out there. The bags of trash and went through. Talk about disgusting. Yeah. So disgusting. We did not find it. School's trash too. You're better off to get a job and buy yourself a new retainer. Well, I'd have to do it in the next four to six hours before my mom found out. It's a stupid, stupid thing, but that's hilarious. I'm just sharing that. That's so funny. Yeah.

And a shame that you trash that creek in that way. Yeah. It's a different time back then. There's a scene of there's a scene in Mad Men where they're having a lovely picnic and like a park. And then they finish up and they just like crush their can and they just start throwing their trash into the forest.

And it seems so crazy now, but I think that's how it was done back in the way back before your time, way back in the day. That's how it was done, right? There is no thinking that we need to put this in the trash can. I don't think everybody was doing this at this time, but when my dad would pick me up, my parents are divorced and my dad would pick me up from school every other Friday. And it's about a 30 minute drive back to his house.

So we would stop and get a Coke and some peanuts. We were real old school. You probably know about this. Put the peanuts in the Coke. Put the peanuts in the Coke. Yes. And then we would eat it and drink it on the way home. And then after we were done, we would stuff the peanut wrapper down in the bottle and my dad would throw them out the window on the way home. Like we could easily just left them in the car, put them in the trash when we get home, but he just launches them out on the side of the road. Just hit some guy in a chain gang on the side of the road. Yeah.

I mean, we did. It was just everywhere on the side of the road. People just threw it out and didn't even think about it. And next to a sign that says, keep Tennessee beautiful. I hate litter so much now. I am pretty anti a lot of environmentalist stuff that is propaganda. But I hate littering. I hate trashing. Because it's so easy to not litter. Yeah. Yeah.

There was a campaign growing up in Tennessee, Tennessee Trash. And there was this commercial about

Where this guy... That could easily be like a neighborhood. Tennessee trash. Yeah. Or a term. Yeah. It was a great commercial. I just remember this guy in a convertible. I believe. I say that. Now I'm questioning myself. But pretty sure he's in a convertible. Just going down the highway, just throwing stuff out everywhere. And then at the end of the... Luke's all the way back on the street. He's just got stuff all over the highway. Yeah. And it was just like, keep Tennessee...

clean and i just remember that commercial so it was just the guy throwing trash out of the yeah i think his name was repercussions tennessee trash yeah it just shows i think it was supposed to show how quickly you know brian bates on the way from the school the bag of trash looking for a retainer it could have been who knows but uh i still remember that commercial of course the famous ones the indian with the

Tear. Native American, excuse me, with the tear. That was I, right? I've never seen that. I never saw it, but I've heard reference of it. You don't even know what I'm talking about? No. This was like a nationwide campaign? Yeah. Yeah. Iron Eyes Cody. Iron Eyes Cody. The environmental commercial, which first aired. Oh, this is an actual. Hold on.

He played a native American shedding a tear about pollution. One of the country's most well-known television PSAs from the group. Keep America beautiful. Oh, how about that? Yeah, that was a very, the 1996 Cody's half sister said that he was of Italian ancestry, but he denied it. Yeah. It was up. So the Sopranos where this guy wasn't native American at all. The Sopranos, there was one where they were protesting something and, and, uh,

And then they point that out to a guy who's native American, you know, iron eyes, Cody, he was actually Italian. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah. I had never heard of this guy. Now I'm glad I didn't do. I'm kidding. Now, do you guys think that police or law enforcement, FBI, whatever should be able to go through your garbage as far as investigation? Nah. Uh,

Legally, they're allowed to if you've voluntarily disposed of it, right? If I put something in the trash can, they're allowed to look through it. Yeah. Yeah, it was a Supreme Court case, I think, about this. Yeah, I mean, if it's out, it's already gone to the dump. Yeah, have at it. What's the end of your driveway? Well, it's still on my property.

still in my trash can that i pay where does your property end do you know that specifically once they come and they that trash truck comes and lifts up that uh that trash can and puts it in their truck then it's no longer no but i mean do you own the sidewalk i don't have a sidewalk but i have had my house surveyed so i know where my property do you own the uh like the curb

Or the grass right past the curb? I'd say the grass right up to the curb. Okay. Okay. So like my new place, sidewalk and then a little more grass until the curb.

So it's like I own that grass, but not the sidewalk in front of it. I would say that's a debate that you even own that grass on the other side. When I have this debate, I'm going to need your help a little bit. Because I would say you're obligated to take care of that grass. And take care of the sidewalk there. I'm supposed to shovel that sidewalk if it snows. I don't think that's going to be an issue. You probably want to do the grass just to make your own house look better. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

I would say you don't own past the sidewalk. Okay. And how far down do I own? To the center of the earth?

Well, there is some debate about that. Like some people can have, like if you buy land, you have to really get people to really dig in because there's a certain thing is like mineral rights or something like that. Like if you were to discover oil on your property and you don't own the mineral rights, somebody could come and say, well, that's not yours. Did you look into this when you bought that land? So how, do you know how far down you own? I don't know. There's not like you own 20 feet or something. I think it's just like you have the mineral rights.

Oh, that's nice. Yeah. How far up can you go? That's another great question. That's another great question. Do you hold the air above you? I think I do. Maybe all the way up to the firmament. I feel like it.

Maybe so. I'm looking at you guys to see if you approve. Do you approve? Are you with me? It's like Dusty's like the end of Truman Show at the staircase. Well, the Supreme Court ruling, they asked that same question. Where does it end? And they used a term, curtilage. Curtilage. Yeah. And the house is curtilage. Curtilage of a home is an outdoor space that is an extension of the inner living space. Right.

and which therefore has a reasonable expectation of privacy from searches by law enforcement. Okay, so if I got my trash can tucked away behind the porch or something. That's definitely not legal. Right, but if it's out where it's available for pickup, then I've legally disposed of it and they can look through that trash. Interesting. Interesting. I would say that makes sense. Good to know. But if it's half in your driveway and half on the sidewalk, I don't know. Hmm.

Judgment call. Yeah. You got to play it by ear. I mean, to some degree, though, like, I don't know. I mean, it's like I'm against it. But if it is in your trash can waiting to be picked up, at this point, you've already said, I'm done with this. Right. You know? Right. Nobody's storing anything out there going, oh, trash about to come. Let me go get that out. I think a lot of cases have been solved that way, at least on TV shows. That's right. Yeah. And some in real life. Yeah.

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People are living on it. Yeah. No, this guy's invented a way to clean the ocean of the trash. Oh, good for them. How are they doing it? Just kind of picking it up? Well, he's got this kind of giant net thing here, and it moves really slow so the fish can get out of the way, and they pull it in. Well, what's revolutionary about this? If you'd have asked me to think of a way to pick it up, I would have said just drag a net. Yeah. Where is he taking it?

Put it in the other ocean. Atlantic ocean. The Atlantic ocean. Let me ask you about this. What do you think about this? Yeah. Let me throw this at you. Yeah, please do. Bit of a biblical thing, but here we go. NIV? It doesn't matter. Okay. When you talk about unclean animals versus clean animals, especially when it comes to water animals. Sure. The unclean animals are like filters for the ocean, like shellfish, sea urchins.

scallops, shrimp, lobster, crabs. They all filter things. Catfish. Catfish. Yeah. So they're all, they're kind of bottom feeders and they filter the ocean. Imagine we didn't eat them. Imagine no one ate them. Right. And they all stayed in the ocean instead of us just getting them out all the time and having them at every restaurant, everywhere you go, anywhere all the time.

They were just left in the ocean. How clean might the ocean be? Yeah. New Orleans would be bankrupt. Right. But how clean? Like, that's what I'm saying. But at what cost? Well. Red Lobster's already gone out of business. But that's the point, though. Do you think it would be much cleaner?

No, I don't think that lobsters are going to be eating all this plastic in the ocean. Well, the plastic would be gone or still be there, but would the – well, we might have less plastic if we were selling less different kinds of food. All the rubber bands on the lobsters. Just the idea is that would the water be clearer? Yeah.

And, you know, and then maybe you see the trash more and then people go and they really can see the effects. They go, oh, this water is disgusting. Look at all this plastic in here. Maybe. But when it's a dark, murky color, you can't see it. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know how much. I don't know. I don't know. They used to let swine eat people's garbage. Yeah. But, you know, now we just use them for bacon. Just think him up.

If we didn't do that. Yeah. They used to just put goats on the white house lawn and let them eat the grass. Yeah. Like, uh, I heard India was letting pigs in landfills to just eat the trash, but then kind of like environmentalists stop that. Oh, good. Well, I still have work to do over there. Um, well, I think this is mostly from what I read microplastics. I mean, that's not right there, but I think if you went out, you wouldn't see two Texas size piles of trash, uh,

It's mostly right. It's a bit of a misnomer, right? Because when you hear the great garbage patch, you think it's like you said, like you can step on it. Yeah. But all it means is there's a higher concentration than there should be. Yeah. In this area. I wonder if you couldn't.

Yeah. What if we couldn't take trash and compact it, smash it all together and build things out of it? We get a big net and we just kind of encircle. His backpack's made out of it. That's right. You encircle the whole ocean and just move to the middle. Let's see this backpack. I don't have it with me. Oh, you guys keep pointing down here. Oh, I thought you pointed. I usually do have it down there. Oh, okay. Yeah.

I don't even believe it's real now. You both referenced something I can't see. What about space junk? You know, that's building up. Well, I don't, yeah, I mean, you know, I don't believe that at all, but. Garbage truck. Oh, this is interesting. I think. Yeah. 1937, George Dempster invented the Dempster dumpster system.

in which wheeled waste containers were mechanically tipped into the truck. These containers were known as dumpsters, which led to the word dumpster entering the language. I thought it just came from the word dump. Like Thomas Crapper. Yeah, to some degree it probably did, but his name is Dempster, so let's play on words. Dempster, dumpster. Dempster, dumpster. Good for him. It's pretty cool. If you're named Dempster, you better do something with dumpsters. That's true. Do you guys tip your garbage man?

I gave my garbage guy a bunch of cigars one time. I didn't know. Is that something you're expected to do? I think some people at Christmas time do. I don't have a relationship with mine. Didn't you get in a fight with yours? I don't think we got into a fight. Just a bit of a tiff? Yeah, that's what I meant. Not a physical fight. Oh, no. It was my old trash company. They were doing a similar thing to me where they would like,

They just wouldn't show up. And then I would call and complain that they didn't come pick up my trash. And they go, oh, we'll just credit your account. And I'm like, I just want you to come pick up this trash. I'd like to pay you to take this trash. I don't have nothing. They go, we'll get it next week and we'll just credit your account. And I'm like, it's full. Yeah. It's full of stuff. Yeah. 4.9 pounds a day. Yeah. 4. I mean, I got a whole family. Yeah.

You're going through almost 20 pounds a day of trash. I don't think we have that much. Is that a worldwide average or is that American? American. Okay. So the worldwide average is probably three ounces a day compared to us, right? Yeah. It is unbelievable. We're so wasteful. Yes. It is unbelievable how much trash. I hate it. I hate it so much, how much trash we have out here. But I don't know what to do about it. So I do compost the cardboard.

Oh, that's good. What do you do? Just put it on the ground and eventually turns to dirt. That's good. Oh, isn't that convenient? Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to try to compost a lot of stuff this weekend. See if styrofoam works. Well, it is. I do think a lot of our trash, if we didn't have it in plastic bags that go to the dumpster, it would just break down. Oh.

Like you throw a banana peel out in the yard. Or a retainer or something. Yeah, a couple of days, it's gone. Yeah. Well, yeah, but banana peel, that's... But if you put a banana peel in a plastic bag, it doesn't disappear like that. Yeah. You know? But if you threw just a plastic bag out in the yard, it's not going to go away in a couple of days. Never. Yeah. You can let it dry rot and run over it with a lawnmower and it'll spread it out a bit. Yeah.

Here's a term that's been used more and more over the years. Dumpster fire. Dumpster fire. I usually think about it now with a sports team. Sure. The Chicago White Sox are a dumpster fire this season. You've heard this term, Dusty? I have heard it, yeah. You ever used it? Mainly about, I feel like it's about people, right? You say, that person's a dumpster fire. Yeah. Just a mess. Yeah. Anybody know where it comes from?

There's probably, well, I was in Portland, Oregon, Byron Dempster. So on fire, I was in Portland, Oregon, and it was a little cold out and I'm driving down and I look under a bridge and there's a group of men standing around a barrel and it's on fire and they're just, you know, warming in Portland, Portland, Oregon. Yeah. And I thought, well, that's cool. That's a real, it feels like a real homeless experience.

You know what I mean? Like an old school, like Merle Haggard has a song where he's talking about standing around a, uh,

barrel fire. Yeah. And those guys, they've had choices from the day they were born. There's been voices that taught me right from wrong. If I had listened, I wouldn't be here today living and dying with the choices I've made. That's poetic. Yeah. That's real nice. Yeah. Where does it come from? Well, this term is dumpster fire, not barrel fire in Portland, Oregon. You are right about that. That was a good, um, you are right. It was first used in 2003. Um,

In a review of a remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Oh. The guy for the Arizona Republic wrote a review and he called it a dumpster fire. The movie. The movie. That's how it started. Whoa. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2? The remake. Yeah. Yeah, it really took off though. I hear it all the time now. Dumpster fire. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Kind of jumped the shark with that one.

You remember that? Yeah. Yeah. Any trash songs, country songs, Dusty Slate's top 10 trash songs? I don't know if there is. I mean, I can't recall a lot of country songs about trash. Have you ever listened to one? I like my women a little on the trashy side. Where they wear their shoes too tight and their hair is dyed. Oh, that's fun. Too much lipstick and too much rouge. You ever listen to...

Ain't no trash in my trailer. I think it was a Toby Keith song. You ever listen to the, uh, where's that? I can't find this out. The Manson family. Yeah. The Manson family has an album on Spotify and they have a, they have a song just called like garbage dump or something. There's a band garbage. There is a band garbage. I was thinking about while you look that up, I was thinking about movies. The only one I can think of, there's the movie men at work. I'm guessing that. Yeah. Charlie Shane, Emilio Estevez. They were trash guys. Um,

Then there's... I think there's a movie with Hugh Grant where he's married into the mafia and they're dumpster guys. There's a lot of mafia in real life and movies where they run the waste management. Yeah, so you can get rid of bodies. And goodfellas, that's how they got rid of some of them. Garbage dump, garbage dump.

That's got a real ring to it. Well, Charles Manson wrote some songs for the Beach Boys. He was a real good musician. Yeah. This song is a little tough to listen to. Garbage dump? It's one of my favorites. It's tough for me to recommend Charles Manson's album, but just it's on Spotify if you're curious like I was. Yeah. You sent me a lot of... Sorry. I just think of the idea of recommending it unironically.

Have you heard Garbage Dump by Charles Manson? Yeah, off the field, he had some issues for sure. I like him as an artist. Not what he did in his personal life. That's right. That's right. But have you heard Garbage Dump? I separate the man from the artistry. Garbage Dump might be the song of the summer. I had no idea that they wrote songs and put out an album. Is that Charles singing? Oh, yeah. For sure.

I mean, it really makes you think. It does. I haven't digged into the lyrics. I'm a little afraid to. Because garbage is mainly food, and I imagine there's other stuff. But why did they call it a garbage dump? Yeah. You know? Sorry to derail whatever you're trying to say. No, no, it's okay. I was going to mention, you sent me a lot of interesting stuff about the history of trash. Oh, yeah. It went back to ancient Rome before...

You know? Yeah. What were they doing with trash? Not disposing of it in a very sanitary way. That's for sure. The Romans? What kind of trash would they really have, though? They didn't have packages coming in. It must have mostly been waste, like human waste. Yeah. Human waste. Because do they have... I don't know what kind of plumbing they had, but yeah.

They had public latrines and bathhouses. You would think that to me, this is what you would do. You would have a fire that's just always going. Go ahead. You would have people. The Olympic torch. Yeah. You would have people in charge because I don't know if they had gas back then, but you would have people in charge of getting wood, coal and rocks, whatever keeps that fire going and it's always going.

And you come and you got your little bucket of poop and you dump it in there. And that's how you get rid of it. Oh, that's embarrassing. You have to do that in front of the whole town? Well, hopefully it's a bucket that's covered. Go at night. But still, you've been out there a bunch, huh? You're back? It's too heavy. Yeah, you got me. You're struggling this week, huh? And you're like, yeah.

Well, I think in Jesus' time, there was outside Jerusalem a dump that just always smoldered that people did that. It was called Gehenna. Okay. Yeah. All right. I'm ahead of my time. Look at that. Yeah. But I think that would be the way to go. When I hear about just like, I don't know.

I turned down a street one time in Tampa. I was just, I got lost and I turned down a back road and I went through this neighborhood and they had a dumpster that was just completely overflowing and trash. And I was like, how does this get like this? It is insane. Yeah. There was the garbage strike of 1968. Yeah.

That's actually when Charles Manson was let out of prison. I think that was the time he committed the murders in 1968. Whoa. So maybe that's why he was singing about the garbage. Because there's a strike going. So maybe this was a protest song. Anyway, go ahead. Well, anyway. We'll be right back. There was one in New York City. There was one in Memphis where they...

went on strike for higher wages and better working conditions. And Martin Luther King even came to Memphis and spoke that this is a, you know, any job, there should be some human decency involved and they should be treated a certain way. Trash is, being a trash guy is a hard job. Not only because you're dealing with trash, but

The trash guys that come through my neighborhood, like they pull in and they don't have the arm on the thing. There's about three or four guys. They jump off in the cul-de-sac and they grab all the trash cans around, bring it to the thing and dump it in. It's like, just imagine an eight hour shift where all day you're jumping off this thing and grabbing these trash cans.

Yeah. It's really not a respected job for how hard it is. No, it should be, though. I looked up what they make in Nashville, average, $16 an hour. Is that... What's minimum wage here? Probably $10? I don't know. $7.25 still, isn't it? Lauren's shaking her head yes. Yeah. That's what we pay her, so yeah. So is that considered a good... I mean, I think I did the math, and that's $33,000 a year, which...

Unless my math was wrong, but that doesn't sound great. I think $16 an hour is a decent wage, but not for what they have to do. And not for how important they are to the city. Yes. Like if they stopped. I mean, it took me three weeks without throwing trash away. I was like, I would. Yeah. I mean, I would almost go without power for a day just to get this trash taken out. Yeah. Anyway. Best trash talkers? Yeah.

to trash talk oh um connor mcgregor that guy's really mcgregor's unbelievable all-timer the rock for sure very good stone cold steve austin yeah

Phillip Rivers. Never cussed. Phillip Rivers, he would get in there and get in people's face for sure. But keep it clean. That's right. He would keep it clean. Gosh dang it. Yeah. All that kind of stuff. You know Phillip Rivers? Yeah. He coached in Alabama. That's right. My dad's high school. Yeah. They said Larry Bird was one of the best. Oh, Larry Bird. I've heard that. I believe it. Yeah. I mean, I looked up a list of the top trash talkers in sports. They're all...

They're also the best, generally speaking, players. It's true. It wasn't like Michael Jordan, Reggie Miller. Yeah, you're like, okay. Kevin Garnett is notorious. He was brought up there. There's not many Brian Bateses in there that talk your trash.

You are good at talking trash, though. I want people to know that. I am. You are very good. Very quietly and secretly. Well, that's why I made that joke on here one time. There was a guy who got very offended about it, about you getting dirty. And I'm not advocating for you to be a dirty comic.

but I think you are a good trash talker and I think it would be shocking and funny if you just came out with some heat. That's all I'm saying. Just out of nowhere. That's all I'm saying. I mean, it's like, yeah, obviously I don't want you to be a dirty comic. Yeah. Um,

I don't want to be a dirty comic, but it's like just to come out with some heat. Would it be hilarious to us for Brian to just go off on the crowd one time? Yeah. Let me tell you all something. Yeah. That's all I'm saying. Bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep. Yeah. Oh, God. That'd be great. Oh, yeah. Happy Gilmore. I know that's a fictional character, but Adam Sandler in that movie, Happy Gilmore, that beep, beep, beep just reminded me of that. Great trash talk.

Oh, but the best trash talker in that movie is the guy that Shooter Gavin hired to yell stuff at Happy Kilmore. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he was unbelievable. All right.

That was trash. It was trash. Oh, garbage dump. Oh, garbage dump. All right. Speaking of garbage dump, where are you guys going to be this week? Well, you start, Dusty. We usually go this way. Well, you know what? This weekend is big for me. Is it? I got a big weekend. Okay. Friday. Hot weekend, too. Friday, I'm going to be at Bridgestone Arena with Alabama and Gary Allen.

I'm going to be on the show with those guys. I hope they set the Bridgestone attendance record. That'd be something, huh? And then I'd be part of it two times. Yeah. It would be clear then it would be. Still not get any credit, but I'd be a part of it two times, but they won't because there's no way that Alabama could get the stage that small. The stage at Bridgestone was about as big as this table we're talking at right now. Yeah.

And then on Saturday, I have two shows in Richmond, Virginia at the Richmond Funny Bone. But those shows are sold out. On Sunday, though, we added a show. So there are some tickets available to Sunday in Richmond, Virginia at the Funny Bone in a suburb of Richmond called Short Pump. And that's where I'll be.

How about that? I did a show with you in Richmond in somebody's living room once. Yeah. You remember that? I do. And that show was not sold out. It was not. It was a good time, but it wasn't sold out. And then we went to that weird kind of diner place. The Galaxy Diner. Yeah. That was fun. But the next day in Richmond, we went and had a sandwich. And you still talk about that sandwich. It was one of the best. I tipped the cook. I never tipped the cook before. It's one of the best sandwiches I ever had in my life. I wish I knew what that place was. I want to go again. I'm going to go again.

may make it happen. Yeah, yeah. Find it this weekend. What kind of sandwich? Reuben? It was something like that. It was a meat. I think it was a breakfast sandwich, right? No, I think it was more like a Reuben type sandwich, which is my favorite. Corned beef or pastrami doesn't make any difference to me. I love a roast beef kind of sandwich, but it was like

I remember seeing you react to that. I still think about it. Yeah, that's Richmond. Yeah. It's exciting, man. You're going to go back there this time? Yeah. That restaurant? I'm going to try. I'm going to try to find it. Yeah. July 27th. I've been promoting these shows for a while and a couple more weeks. July 27th. Alley Rays in Knoxville, Tennessee.

I just saw where Morgan Walland announced he's doing a Knoxville show at Dalen Stadium. Same night? No, but I want to beat his tennis record. So come on out to Allie Ray's Gastropub. Let's pump it up. Yeah. That Nate Lambong. That's right. July...

30th, 31st at Off the Hook Comedy Club in Naples, Florida. August 1st at Boca Black Box in Boca Raton, Florida. And August 14th back at Zaney's, the lab at Zaney's. We'll sell out another show. We're going to sell it out again. We're going to have some hot friends of the podcast on there. All right. That's a lot of fun. I'd like to do it this time.

I'm not falling for this again, Dusty. I had to refund too many tickets last time. Dusty goes, yeah, I'll get Alabama to come by, too. We'll play a couple songs. Just go see Dave. This is Aaron Weber talking. This weekend, July 18th through the 20th, I am in Cincinnati, Ohio. Technically Dayton, Kentucky, but I think it's spitting distance from Cincinnati at Commonwealth Sanctuary. I've never been there. I'm doing five shows. Whoa. So come on out. Red's at home?

The Reds are not at home, which is a bummer. But next time. Next time. Your ticket sales. Not so far. And then next weekend, I'm going home to one of the first clubs I ever really worked at with you. The Blue Room Comedy Club. All right. Springfield, Missouri. One of my favorites. Christopher Michael Ray. Shout out to Springfield. Birthplace of...

Brad Pitt in Steak and Shake. I'm excited. So Cincinnati this weekend, Springfield, Missouri the next weekend. Bass Pro Shop. Bass Pro Shop and the start of Route 66 and the start of my trajectory to arenas. Old Man Willie. Old Man Willie.

Yes. So come on out. AaronWeberComedy.com is on MySpace page. All right. Well, this has been a hot podcast. I know I came in a little hot with the – had a lot of coffee, but I love you guys. I appreciate you listening to the podcast. We're having a good time. All right. Boom. Nate Land is produced by Nate Land Productions and by me, Nate Bargetze, and my wife, Laura, on the Audioboom platform.

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