#23 Clutch Performances
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Hello, folks. What's up? Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. Welcome back. I'm here with Aaron Weber, Brian Bates. I'm just later. Welcome. I have a Halls. I don't think I'm sick, though. It's a weird time to get you feel abnormal. Like, you know, golf. We were with Alabama. The weather's changing dramatically. And so I just feel like some sinuses.

Got my taste of all my taste, all this stuff. That's the hard part, though. I think it's going to be tough for winter because everybody gets colds and stuff in winter. And normal wear and tear. Normal wear and tear. And now you've got to give a disclaimer every time you have it. And you've got to be like, that's not COVID. Right. What if they're like, oh, what do you got? Fever? Can't smell anything? Taste anything? You're like, no, I think that is COVID. Is it? I think it's just a cold. You can taste that Hoss? I can taste this Hoss. All right. If you can't taste it, let us know.

Yeah, I'll let you know. Now, if I can taste the halls, it feels good. I feel all right. I have no energy. My voice is just a little whack. I think it's good. Yeah, it's good. Sounds good. What's up, everybody? Thanks for watching us. We also don't have a front door to our house.

Everybody liked the Laura episode. Well, let me tell you what Laura did. We're getting our door. It was like something was coming. Whatever the house we bought, it came with the door. This house we bought came with the door. And then the paint was coming off, and it's got a lifetime warranty that they will fix it. This starts the beginning of the coldest day of the year. It's snowing outside right now. They knock on my door. It's like 930 in the morning.

I get up, obviously I've been awake just recently and I go to the front door for them to tell me, we're about to take your front door. That's what they said. I had no, I have no idea that this is even happening. And I just, Laura's gone and I go, hello. And I opened the door just for them to go. We're about to take that door. Yeah.

And I go, well, it's snowing outside. And they go, ah, we put something up. And so we don't have a door all week. Kind of looks like a crime scene. Like the house is being sealed off. Somebody got killed here or something. We're preparing for after the election. That's what it looks like. It does look like that. We're boarding up. We're the only one in that neighborhood. But just in case they make it this far. Yeah, it's funny to...

It's very funny just to have the door taken. Hey, we're taking your front door. It's so funny. I mean, last week would have been beautiful. Beautiful week to take someone's front door. October? September? That's like when we did Huntsville, the comedy club, back in July. And on the way down, they said, oh, by the way, the place you're staying, painters are coming to paint the house while you're staying there.

This weekend. And there's nobody there. Yeah, that was during COVID. Yeah. July. Yeah. Yeah, it was like, well, when COVID was happening, they were able to go back to half capacity. So it's not like their schedule's full. Right. Yeah, stand-up live, it's not like a normal, like, well, we have to pick someone, and you're the one that got picked. It's like, what's next week? Nothing. Yeah. Yeah. But the house pretty much sits empty Monday through Friday.

Thursday. Yeah. And then the right, as soon as I get down, they're like, Oh, painters are coming this weekend. So they're going to be painting around you all week. We do it while you were here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I thought about, I might say that as a joke on stage, which I do want to address. Cause I've always, you know, people always make sure you go do, do you do comics, do material on stage that they do that we talk about here.

And it has happened. I told the funeral story last week and it was very, and I did it on stage and it was good. Uh, I, I honestly, this will be, I won't know for sure until we're done with this new hour, but I, you're going to get stuff. And from what I've talked to other comics, it just happens. Like, yeah, this is how you come up with materials, remembering stories, telling stories or being funny and,

So I think it's going to happen. I will say, having seen something talked about here and then seeing you do it on stage, I mean, it's vastly different. Yeah. It's refined. It's stand-up. It's not a conversation. You listen to a lot of podcasts. A lot of podcasts do that, right? Right, yeah. Everybody. Everybody. I know some people, but no one really in the general... To me, I think you'd be like, you're in on it. Yeah. You get to be a part of it. I mean, look, our special, if it's called...

The greatest average American, Nate Land's a part of that. Right. Nate Land was here when that happened, which then made them see it. So that's fun. Yep. All right. Let's get into it. Kid nurse 1970. I wonder if they're a nurse. Child's nurse and born in 1970. Doogie Howser? Could be. Was he a nurse? He was a nurse. No, he was a doctor. He was a doctor. He made it as a doctor. Okay. M.D.?

It wouldn't be that good of a show to go. I mean, it's a make-believe show.

And then they go, should we make him a doctor? And you go, ah, let's not shoot too high. Yeah, that's not realistic. Let's make him just be a nurse. Just like a receptionist at the hospital. Yeah. You're like, so what? And who can get this job? Everybody can get this job. You're like, yeah, yeah, it's not that hard of a job to get. He's the smartest guy in the world. He's the smartest kid ever. My daughter's working. She's got, she's, so she's obsessed with horses. And there's a Creekside horse something. Yeah.

It's called Creekside. I don't know what it's called, but there's horses there. And she's like helping. She goes and sits around, waits. She goes and we give her rides. You pay for rides or training. She's truly obsessed with horses. We don't know where it came from. No one in our family rides horses.

But she's obsessed. And she goes there and goes, I want to stay and help. And they'll be like, well, you're eight. So we can't really have you helping. But sometimes they can do some stuff like lead a horse here and there. Learning little things where they're being watched. And she goes, well, I'll just wait.

And she just waits them out until they go, all right, you know what, Harper, you can come over here. And then she goes and gets help, which is my sign that she loves this. Yeah. Because usually if a kid just liked horses, they would just want to ride them and then be done with it. I mean, she wants to, she's cleaned up the manure. Yeah. She's giving it a go. That's awesome. All right. Kid Nurse 1970. Just when I didn't think the show could get any better, this was an awesome episode with an adorable family.

Each episode just gets better, and as an aspiring comic, I love the insight into your life. Thanks for sharing, and much success and blessings. Well, thank you, Kid Nurse 1970. She's getting out of the nurse game. Or he. Or he. Whoever it is is getting out of the nurse game and going to be a comedian. Sure, your parents are proud. That's that.

Michael McIntosh. What happened to, hello folks, we voted and everything. I said it this time. Can I just say, I didn't realize Nate, Aaron, and Brokeback Munchkin were clean comics until you addressed it. That's a sign of true talent when you don't even notice. And also, let me be honest, swearing isn't needed to be funny. All three of you are the truth. Respect.

Thank you, Michael. I did forget hello, folks, last week. I just forgot because we're new. It's new. Right. Yep. And I just got into it. Harper gave a sign off. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He probably was like, I didn't make it that far. Who's Harper? Who's this Harper you're talking about? Barfuman362. I would like to know the secret to Nate's crisp shark. Shark. Golly, dude.

You were doing well. Barfingman362. I was on a good streak from even last week. Barfingman362, I would like to know the secret to Nate's crisp, sharp cheek. Sharp. Man, that's a tough one. Crisp, sharp cheek. Yeah. Can you say that? Crisp, sharp cheek shave line. That would be like a... That's tough to say, and I said it pretty slow. Crisp, sharp...

Cheek. Shave line. Does he hold a ruler up whilst trimming? Whilst. You don't see whilst thrown out there that much. Okay, Shakespeare. Is whilst, is that used a lot?

Not very often. It's like betwixt. Definitely. Who are you trying to impress? Definitely not in YouTube comments. I meant to fix that. From Barfy Man. Did he say whilst? He said whilst, but I meant to change it to while because sometimes people throw stuff in there just to mess with you. I mean, you should have went with crisp, sharp cheek. I didn't think that was going to be a problem. We can throw some commas in there next time. Whilst trimming. I get my beard trimmed at the Moose.

in Nashville, Eric Miller. He does my hair, gives my haircut and beard. I tell you what, for all the men, I get a lot of stuff. Get your beard done right, Aaron. Go get your beard done. You would be, you would like it more than you think. It really looks good. I did it once and I did like it. You're young. You're a mess right now. No one cares. No one expects you to look good. Get that beard done. But one day, one day when you hit your 30s,

People are going to want you to clean up a little bit. You got to start taking care of it. You can't just barrel in the room with that beard and Notre Dame hat, and then you painted your jacket black. You have the same jacket on, but it's black now. You did, didn't you? You painted it. Did you paint it?

Look. No, I had this one first. I've had this one for a while. Okay. I think you've got to paint underneath the collar. It is the exact same type of jacket. Yeah. But it's just a little different color. They're not going to make fun of me next week. And then you just got to brush paint on your jacket. We're going to see a little... How'd you get that horse to stay the same color? No, it's red. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you put painter's tape over it. The beard, though, it is a...

I get asked a lot about this. And if men, if you have a beard or a haircut, go do it in a proper place. And it's something that I got my haircut at Supercuts for years. Sports Clips loved it. Loved it. They give you a towel. You watch ESPN. It's the greatest thing. My hair grows quick. I mean, I loved it.

But you go get it properly done. You look good. It makes you look good. I think it makes you... He cuts mine to make me look thinner. Where the way it's faded down and stuff like that. Yeah. I'm doing a little more mustache now. We're just trying stuff. I don't know if any guy looks worse with a beard. This is my theory on it. No, they don't. Because there was a while where a bunch of politicians started growing out beards. Ted Cruz grew one. Yeah. Paul Ryan grew one. They all looked so much better. Yeah. I tried it. It didn't work.

Did, uh, how, how, how long are you looking at your politicians? Baseball cards? Did you trade them? Someone traded you Paul Ryan for dead crews and you go, I don't know. That's not a fair trade. He's got a beard. Paul doesn't. This is before. And that's when Paul grew up here. Uh, no, it looks, did you try it? You tried it for a while. Try to go to you.

Oh, a goatee. You should do one for the people at home. I got that video. Oh, yeah. Me wearing one. Yeah, it doesn't. I don't know if it works. I think I do know. It does not work. Yeah. Brian, this is what we're doing. This is what we got. He's 48 years old. You don't think the man's got to look.

His look is done. 49. 49. Done. Why don't you ever just let me? I always shave a year off. Yeah, I know. You should let it happen. Yeah. Honestly, though, if someone wants to do it, Christmas is coming around. A lot of wives listen to this. If you want to give your husband some kind of fun, give him this. Give him a day to go do it. And then, you know, and you don't have to. I go do it. You can do it once a month, you know.

Wildcat grad 30 seconds of fun. That's a great title for a special slash tour. I do like 30 seconds of fun as a title. Uh, I, you know what might've been with the Tennessee kid. I might've got to put it on there.

At the end. I can't remember being like my production company. I don't have a production company, but if I have one, I thought about it being 30 seconds of fun productions. I thought, and I had it count down the clock, like, you know, 27, 28, 29, 30, and then, and then be 30 seconds of fun. So I have thought about that being as, as, as that it could be a tour. Yeah. It's a good title. I like a tour name, 30 seconds of fun.

Walker Wilhoit. Wilhoit! Nate, sorry about the loss of your grandmother. Hearing the story about your family at their funeral reminded me of something after my grandfather's funeral. All right, you might have to read this. For some reason, I'm having trouble. Nate, sorry about the loss of your grandmother.

Yeah, right? Yeah, I'm all right. Hearing the story about your family at the funeral reminded me- You started all the way over. Yeah. Reminded me of something after my grandfather's funeral, sir. Funeral several years ago. We went to a local church in our hometown. Diner. After- All right, just read this. This is a long one. All right. Sorry. Sorry, Walker. Some reason I'm not following along. Maybe it's the COVID. All right.

All right, so his grandfather's funeral several years ago. We went to a local diner in our hometown after the graveside service. The waitress walked up to the table and recognized my uncle, who she had not seen in many years since he moved out of the area. As she filled his coffee, she attempted to quickly catch up and ask how he was doing. He said, actually, not that great. My dad died, and we just finished the funeral. Obviously not understanding a word the man said over the loud diner, she instinctively responded, oh, that's awesome.

It took everything for my family not to make eye contact with each other, lest we burst out in laughter. My uncle kindly restated what he previously said, and the waitress felt terrible. I imagine the mistake haunted her, but it absolutely made our family's day. Just what we needed to lighten things up. Loving the podcast. Keep up the good work. Thank you, Walker.

That's a pretty good one. We had a little pinch hitter come in. I'm trying to, I don't think the word church is in this whole paragraph. He saw a diner. They're trying to find church. Jumping around, man. They were at a funeral.

Okay. I figured they went to a church. But usually when I do something like that, it's like that word is somewhere. It's like maybe a line down. So I was looking for church somewhere to build. It's not in there, man. It's not. I just put it in there. It's in there. I'm seeing the word church. TB, at one point, Brian became the Barbara Walters of the Bargetti love story.

He was leaning forward to hear answers to questions he must already know. I heard him say, so how did you guys meet? Like he was Wolf Blitzer. It was adorable and I loved it. It was very good. Good job, Brian. Ryan Dance, boat ramp. Should take some pointers from Harper. Her 9-2-2 joke was awesome. Also, someone let Laura know Vandy is worse than Kentucky at football. So her analogy should have been Alabama versus Vandy when comparing income levels.

because we all know historically accuracy is paramount for this podcast. Well, bye folks. People are using a lot of words. It's a lot of like, you know, I don't know. These sentences are longer. I think people try to flex a little bit in these comments sometimes. Yeah, they're pretty good. Yeah, some of them they say, it's like the same word, you know, they get me running on a sentence and I don't know where I'm at.

That's what happens. I'm ready for the sentence to be over. Is this how smart people write? You write long sentences? Write longer than normal? I just know, like, manual labor type of writing. We get to the point. Is this college-educated writing, Aaron? I can't tell, man. Ryan Dance? Maybe Bill Dance? Bill Dance's son? Bill Dance's boy? Call me Boat Ramp.

Boat rams. That's what Bill would call. You remember that old commercial? What were those phones that you just say beep? It was like a walkie-talkie. They were cell phones. Nextel. Yeah, it was a commercial about if firefighters ran the world. It was a bunch of firefighters in the Senate. And they were like, beep, beep. What is this? It's a bunch of paper that says we need clean water. You guys want clean water? Yeah. And they just did it real quick. That's how you would do it? That's how I would do it. Get to the point. Nextel. What is all this flowery nonsense? I had a Nextel radio.

Would you use the walkie talkie a bunch on it? Yeah. Cause I mean, that's, those are the jobs that I had. Uh, so I would use it a bunch in the hard part. You'd leave it on. If you ever went in, we'd go like McDonald's during lunch. And so you'd go in, you'd be waiting in line and the guy in the truck would just start being, would just start yelling stuff through the thing really loud, inappropriate, inappropriate stuff. And you're just like,

You're just trying to grab it because you forget to turn it off. And I mean, he's just saying crazy. So it just starts coming through right away. You don't have to accept it. No, no, no, no. That would be the, you gotta be, it's a walkie talkie. Nextel was great. It had a, it had a run, man. Yeah. They were killing it. They were killing it. Yeah. I liked it. It worked to Decatur, Georgia. I always remember Decatur, Georgia, because that's what they told me. My phone, it'll work to there and then they'll cut out. So we would drive all over it.

And so every time someone brings up Decatur, Georgia, I'm always like, my next telephone would work to that town. And that's it. Jennifer G. Harper was reading so fast, it felt like she was trying to prove something. Harper's a better reader than me. Harper's smarter than me. She's the best reader at the table. Yeah. Somebody commented that. Someone said she was the smartest at the table. Yeah, she's smart. Yeah. Wow.

Christopher Stanley. Wait a minute. I'm at the hour 28 minute mark. Did they just gloss over the fact they met Crist Novoselic? I don't know. I don't know. Crist. Novoselic? Novoselic. What the heck? I'm looking for Laura. What the heck is going on here? We did just gloss over that fact.

We met him on the Paul Cruz, Paul Allen Cruz. Did I, I mean, it's, uh, where everybody was there. All these celebrities were there. I performed at it. He was the first one we met. He was there with his wife. And then he, me and Laura started talking to him is before I performed. So I just can't, we just kind of randomly talked to him. Me who knows nothing about music. I, of course I know who Nirvana battle. I have no idea who he is. And that was the first one we got done. Laura's like,

told me that's who that was. And then we ended up talking to him a good bit. And then he flies his plane, telling us about that. Telling me, he was like trying to convince you. I was like, tell him, I was like, I'm ready. We should do it. And he's like, you should do it. You should be flying. Yes, we did gloss over that. Sorry. Merritt P., hearing Lars say, Big J is more my speed, is like hearing Barry Manilow say, Ozzy Osbourne is more my speed. That is very true. That is very surprising that people are always surprised when

Because if he's here, she'll go. She's going to go. Yeah. I mean, I would go. If I'm here, I'll go. But I'm not usually here. But that's the one that she'll go down. I don't need to be there. It's not like, you know, it's like she's as close as I am to Jay. Jacqueline Higgins. Higgins. Jacqueline Higgins. As an out-of-work server, that comment about marrying lotions was gold.

Loved the podcast and was excited to finally meet your wife. The idea at the beginning about clean versus dirty comedy is right on. There we go. What was that idea? I don't remember that. What was it? When she puts all the lotions together in one bottle. Oh, marrying the lotion. You're talking about the idea at the beginning about clean versus dirty. Oh.

Comedy is right on. Now, Laura put this comment in, so I'm not sure. Ooh, Jacqueline. Laura. Laura's a big fan of you, Jacqueline. Yeah. She does marry all the lotions. Let me read a couple more, and then...

Jeff Wyatt, very impressed by Laura, particularly her thoughts on family finances, which were roughly, if I'm unhappy with how much income we have, I should go make more. Not rely on my spouse. She's tempered it with the, if he isn't making much, he shouldn't be spending more at CounterPoint.

Love the self-reliance, and it was clear she absorbed her dad's work ethic in expectation that she would be content whether scraping by or doing well financially. That is all true. I mean, is that not a long sentence? Does it seem like big work? Well, it's not one sentence.

Do people use this gigantic words in just everyday life? Which one? The one he just read. I don't know, it just felt like a lot. Which word? She tempered it with, if he isn't making much, he shouldn't be spending much counterpoint.

Love the self-reliance. Counterpoint self-reliance. It was clear she absorbed her dad's work and expectation that she'd be content whether scraping by or doing well financially. I feel there's a much easier way to say that sentence. I thought you nailed it, man. I think I nailed it. I'm not even saying that it's wrong, that Jeff did something wrong. I'm saying...

I think I'm hanging out with different people than y'all are. That's what I'm saying. I think I don't have friends that would ever say any of that. They would never use a lot of those words. Maybe this guy. Yeah, well, he went to Notre Dame. And so you're smarter than everybody. But that's what I feel. I feel like some words, I just think I'm in a, I don't think, I'm not a smart guy. I'm not a good sentence. I'm not a big word guy. But, you know, who knows, man?

Maybe that's how you guys talk. That's what I think y'all do. That's how you talk to dumb people. You said you're not a big word guy. Yeah. You talk for a living, man. You do pretty well. I pick, my words are much different. That's true. My words. That's true. You don't have to write out your set either. That'd be very different. Uh,

Yeah, my words are a lot different. All right. So this week, we had Thanksgiving. Everybody, I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. I think, Aaron, you ate in your closet alone. Go ahead. Aaron, go ahead. I had a meal with my fiancee and a couple friends over. It was great, man. Oh, that's how you contact tracing. Yeah, is that safe? It was friends that I'd already been. Look, I don't need to defend myself, but it's people that I've already been around from comedy. Oh.

So... Healthiest people. Yeah. Yeah. We had a little gathering, but we all went in our separate corners and stayed apart. Did you guys see the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade? No. I caught a little of it. Ronald McDonald had a float. Oh, wow. And the...

There was a float, but then in a car, he was in the back of a car with Grimace. He was wearing a face shield. Really? I've got to pull up. First of all, they taped it ahead of time, so there's no crowd there. It's just him outdoors in the back of a car with Grimace. He's wearing a face shield. Grimace has no face shield. Grimace did not have a face shield. Grimace is what I hear anti-vaxxer. Really? So, man.

Could that have played into it? I don't know this for sure. Grimace is anti-vax. What I hear in the McDonald's community I'm a part of, Grimace is anti-vax. And thanks, mask or a joke. That's Ronald McDonald taking precautions because he doesn't want to be around Grimace. Ronald McDonald. He's very anti-science. Much more, you know. That's interesting. I figured Grimace was very careful. That's why I asked Ronald to wear it. No.

No, that Ronald says to Grimace, you are the high risk we're talking about here. You're the one that can't get it. Grimace is overweight. Grimace is wildly overweight. I don't know about wild. Huh? I don't know about wild. Okay, look, he's going through some stuff. I'll give you that. I thought you had a picture of both of them together in the car.

Oh, yeah. Let me get that. That's, uh, yeah, that's pretty crazy though. That there's a lot of that though. That suit, the mask that's annoying. I was saying with the NFL, are they not testing everybody? Like if they, like, you know, what do you mean? Like the NFL refs and the coaches. Yeah. And then they still wear the players on the bench. He has to put a mask on. It's like, you can't, they're playing. Yeah. Yeah. Aren't they not getting tested?

And then when they get tested, they should be like, once you pass, you get tested and then you pass this area. And you guys are good to be normal. You would think so, right? Kind of like the NBA did. I think they do. Ronald McDonald did it.

Yeah. I mean, he, yeah, I think Ronald McDonald, I mean, they, I think they like showing, you know, safety. I think everybody does it for, look at us. Cause it's, you're in a situation. If you're probably on TV, there's a, you don't need this mask, but they want, they want to have, you also don't want to cover up.

That iconic face. Yeah, with the mask, right? So you got to do the welder's mask. Yeah. I learned that the first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott. You guys know Willard Scott? No. Oh, really? Long time Today Show weatherman. He was the first Ronald McDonald. He created the character. Yeah. You know what's funny on that mask too? Grimace is...

How tall he is over Ronald McDonald. If he turned and coughed, it would actually, the way his mask is, it would funnel. It would go right down. The mask, so Ronald McDonald has one, his mask is sometimes- He's wearing it upside down. Wearing it upside down around his neck. So the top is open. Grimace. Perfectly. Perfect height.

Where if he turned and coughed, just shoot right down. You can make an argument that Ronald is trying to get it. And when they gave him that mask and then he goes, how can I get it? He goes, wear the mask upside down. And he goes, oh my God. I was just not going to wear a mask. He's like, you know what's even better than not wearing a mask? Wear it upside down and stand next to someone a little bit taller than you. Trap that COVID in. Trap that COVID right in. That's funny.

We had a, uh, uh, we had a, a bid week, a big way this week, this week, we are going to talk, we're going to talk about clutch performances. So it's going to be sports. And if you're sitting there going, ah, sports, I don't care. You got to look as you bared with us the last sports episode, we are going to make it interesting to you. The person that doesn't care about sports. A lot of people love sports. A lot of people don't like sports and we're going to make it where anybody's going to be able to sit and listen to this. Uh,

Vanderbilt had a big weekend. We had the first woman play in a football game in the Power Five Conference. Women have been a part of teams in smaller conferences, but never in an SEC, Big 12, Pac-12, a giant conference, ACC. And Vanderbilt did it.

So we got that. Lost 41 to 0. She never got a chance. She only got it. She did one kickoff on the second half. The only time she the only time her or just any kicker would have been on the field. Yeah. Derek Mason then was immediately fired, which is crazy. I mean, that's I mean, we say that it has to be because of that.

The whole world watched this. Yeah, for the first time ever. Yeah. And as Vandy fans, everybody's like, oh, that's good. And we're just sitting there as a Vandy fan. I was going to ask you how it felt to have millions of people watching Vanderbilt for the first time. Did that feel...

I don't think I, I didn't want it in the, in the light that we had it in 41. Yeah. Honestly, if we were like had a winning record and she, and we had to get her, it would feel better to me than the way we got her. Yeah. We were, we're Owen eight. We're going to lose. We're playing Georgia next. We're going to lose Georgia. It's bad. And then we bring her in. She gives a halftime speech, which is,

I think that's a little crazy to think this girl, I mean, this girl was the only winner on the team by, I mean, on the field, by the way, she just won an SEC tournament. Our women's soccer team is amazing. So it's not like she's super athletic, but it was, yeah. I mean, to go talk to these guys, I mean, these guys are on Owen, it was Owen seven and about to be Owen eight.

And she's like, why are y'all not excited on the sideline? You're like, I don't have you. We have a different sport going on over here in your sock. You're awesome winning soccer team. Yeah. We're not super thrilled. Yeah, it's bad. I got to tell you, I, along with most people, I think wanted to see her kick a field goal. But the fact that not only did Vanderbilt not score, but never got

in field goal range is the funniest thing ever. They only got across the 50 once, I think. I think so. I think once, and I think it was like to the 40. And then he went right back to the 50. That is so funny. They didn't let her try a 57-yarder or whatever they were. Well, I mean, it would have been a 60. Yeah. What I'm saying is the fact that they never even got in a position where they could let her. Her only chance would have been for us to

Try a field goal on third down or second down and it would have been an NFL record. Like that's all that could have happened.

I think they wanted to get her. She would have kicked an extra point. Yeah. And they couldn't do it. And I mean, honestly, it costs Mason the job. I mean, Mason will definitely not probably let women ever play again in anything. He'll be the one that just says no. And they're like, but she's really good. And he's like, I've done this before. It doesn't end well for me. It's like she goes on to have a great career and I always end up getting fired. Yeah.

So we're on a coaching search now, which is if you're a sports fan. When we take your defensive coordinator, it's not going to be so funny to you. I'm hoping Clark Lee, Notre Dame defensive coordinator, played at Vanderbilt, NBA, from here, hometown, close to Corbin. It would be my, that's who I'm rooting for.

Uh, there's a few I like, but a coaching search is, I mean, I know people that are college sports, like get how fun they are. They're so fun. You start tracking private jets, you put in tell numbers, being like, why is he flying there? Why is he going there? And like, it's, it's the funnest. It's like NBA free agency when you, I love NBA free agency because you just don't know what's going on. And everybody's like, and you're just talking about all the possibilities that could happen.

You remember, everyone thought Gruden was coming to Tennessee. How obsessive people get. Like Gruden's mother-in-law owns property outside of Knox County or whatever. Oh, they start getting down. Insane. If no one's into sports, you can make fun of someone for that because it is very funny. I do it too where you're going, you know his cousin, he had a cousin that had a long layover at Nashville airport once. And I heard her cousin was on the phone with him and said, you know, this looks like a nice town. Yeah.

So, something, you know? I loved it. That's how far they go. Yeah. Peyton Manning, when he visited the Titans, and he wore an orange pullover, everyone was like, it's a good sign right there. It's a good sign. He's evolved. It means he's coming here. And then he immediately goes to the Broncos who wear orange. Yeah. It never crossed anyone's mind that

That might be the problem. He played for Tennessee. He's got a lot of Tennessee stuff. Yeah. I thought for sure he was coming. I also thought Brady was coming. When Tom Brady was with the Titans, talking about him going to the Titans, I knew he was – I heard he was at a golf course near here practicing with his son. And so I heard that, and I'm like, oh, no. You always hear they visit schools. Yeah. So that's always a big thing. You know, they went and visited the school. NBA, I remember hearing that. I don't think that was true, though. What?

You never know if it's true. LeBron visited schools in LA when he was going to LA and I was watching that and that ended up being very true. His kids went there. He's hard to miss. You know? Yeah, it's tough. I mean, that's the thing when you're that big. You can't. It was just some other six foot nine. Even with the mask on. Yeah. They might not know you're LeBron.

But they're going to be like, you're somebody. But you're that in shape with that mask on. Just that big. You have Shaq with a mask. It's like, wait, is that Shaq? Yeah, of course it is. I think Shaq could walk around with a bag on his head. He's got to be... Is there a more recognizable from a distance person in the world than Shaq? Manute Bull.

Maybe. He's so skinny. But he didn't have the same level of fame as Shaq. Shaq's everywhere. He's dead. He's in every commercial. He's the new Papa John's. Shaq went undercover as an Uber driver and people didn't recognize him. But he's sitting up front. They got him sitting up front with a beard and stuff. Yeah. If you're not going to expect it, if he walks around, I don't think you're not. Yeah. You're not recognizing him. Yeah. You're figuring it out. Yeah.

But if he's up front in an Uber, you know, you could just not be paying attention. But you're thinking, this guy's enormous. Yeah, but they probably got him in an SUV. Yeah, I think he had to try to do a Jamaican accent or something. Yeah. Patrick Ewing, Jamaican. Seven foot tall, random Jamaican guy. Patrick Ewing's Jamaican, which always blows me away when I hear him talk. I had no idea.

until he was a coach yeah and never heard him talk and then you're like oh he's like from jamaica i had no idea till you told me oh yeah right now or i mean you told me that so i heard you talk about it just recently i talk about it quite a bit uh it's his go-to i bring it up uh yeah you know patrick is jamaican and then people are like what that's like the iris or the actor

Idris Elba? Idris. Yeah, he's from England. And he's so good. You see him in these movies. I just watched Molly's Game. He's great in that. We could talk about being a clutch performance in poker. Super clutch. Molly was... I remember I read the book. I think I read the book.

Almost positive I did. Last night I was like, did I read this book? And I just don't remember. I don't remember anything. You and I saw that movie together. Yeah. And I think you told me you read the book. I did read the book. I loved the book. And I don't remember. Oh yeah. I loved it. I loved it. I remember I loved it.

That was such a quick turnaround. I don't know if I read it. One of the best books I ever read. Actually, it's my favorite book. You probably read the back of it. You know, you read, that's all you need sometimes. No, I read the whole thing. American Sniper, I read it, loved it. There was one a long time ago. I used to always read, you know, any books about the military. And another one I read about Fallujah. Is Fallujah the, that's in Iraq, the one town that's like crazy. Yeah. Yeah.

And there was another town that they mentioned that was crazy. That was a, they, the amount of fighting that would go on in this town was unreal. It just was a constant fight and it's all just this tiny town.

And they killed the guy that was like Mr. Iraq. Like he was like the built guy. You know, like what are those guys called? The world, Mr. World. Oh, the world's strongest man? No, he's about like bodybuilders. Bodybuilders. But they were, he was Mr. Iraq. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It just sounds so funny. I thought you were just saying he was like...

Like a guy that was known in that town? Yeah, just like a famous enemy combatant. He's Mr. Iraq. I think he was Mr. Iraq. That's probably right. And he worked out, and then he was killed. But yeah, I do remember. I mean, I remember her book, but yeah, I just don't remember.

I mean, I've seen all these games. I watched it last night as if I didn't know what happened. I just forget. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, creator of West Wing. Oh, yeah. Wow, a lot of West Wing stuff in that movie. That's what I want to say. It's more than complaining, fellas. Too West Wing-y. It's the same kind of thing, man. Yeah, a lot of words. This might be here talking about... I'm not going to take a stab at his name, but... Is that...

Ibrahim Aduri. That's something. At least we'd be like, is that all right? He's like, yeah. I think he would turn around if I said that. You know what I mean? I think for sure. He wouldn't just keep walking.

He was, Zot, Abraham, Aduri. Yes. Did I get that? He's like, oh, yeah. You got it. Enough. That's awesome. Yeah.

I think it's who you're talking about. Wikipedia asking for more money. They always ask for money. I've given them money. You ever give them money? I gave them $3. All they asked for is $3 one time. I was like, I can give them $3. They go, guys, they always break it down. It'd be like if I just said, you know what? If everybody in the world gave me a dollar, I'd be a billionaire. That's what they say to me.

That's the same. They go, if everybody who goes to Wikipedia gave us $3, we'd never have to ask for money again. Yeah, it's like, yeah, dude, everybody would live that life. You know what? If just my whole neighborhood gave me $10, I would be able to buy a car. And everybody's like, you know, that is a good point.

GoFundMe does that now. I did a $100 donation and it come up $115. And I was like, what? Is there tax? And then GoFundMe was like, we don't make money, so we need a donation. They just put in $15. I always do it. They should do it. If you want to do it, though, it needs to be $3. Just automatically be like, there's our $5 charge.

15 is a lot because you're usually giving like 100 or you're giving something a little bit more. And then so when you throw 15 on top of that, I always take it out of the person I'm giving it to. I always. I gave 85. The kid that needs a heart, I go, I'll give him 85. They're going to ask me for 15.

I think that's, I'm going above. I said I'm willing to do 100. It doesn't matter how the 100 gets broken up. That's not on me. Yeah. I'll give 85 to the kid. Yeah, you're helping two causes. But they should just take, you know, just be, I think if most people just do that, be like, we're just taking $5. If they came out, just set it. Yeah. Everything you donate, we're going to take an extra $5 because we have to run this, for this awesome thing to work, someone's got to pay for it. So everybody just always chip in an extra five bucks.

And I think everybody would be like, okay. I'll say I've made a few GoFundMe donations and they ask, they do that now. They say, you want to give us a tip? Yeah. And I'm not. You say no. Y'all can figure it out. Yeah. How would they figure it out? Ads. I don't know. Viore.com slash Nate. Yeah. Wikipedia. Wikipedia always does. I've done it, but they ask more than they act like it. They always say the same thing. It's awkward, but this is Monday. No, it's Cyber Monday. Oh, it's Cyber Monday.

No, I guess it is. This is the seventh appeal we've shown you. Just you specifically? Yeah, they're keeping track of how many times. It's awkward, but this Monday we need you to help. We don't have salespeople. Maybe you should get some salespeople. Yeah, that's obvious. But fewer than 2% give. I've given.

I get, you know, you do, I do give, but then you think you give and you're like, all right, now back off me. And then they, they make it worse. If you're seeing Holly right now, Holly's got a cone on her neck. Holly got bit. Harper. She looks like Ronald McDonald. Yeah. They, that's what, yeah, it's a, that's what Ronald McDonald has, a dog cone on his head.

Holly stayed at a place, and I don't think it's not the place's fault these dogs play. Holly's pretty energetic and rough. She's always, one place she stayed at, we go, Holly's not a mean dog. She's not bad. She doesn't do anything, but she's got a lot of energy and plays a little rough. And they go, your dog was definitely the most spirited. It's just a nice way to put your dog's out of her mind.

And we got her home. Laura's giving her a bath last night. And I mean, she's just got a hole in her chest and got bit. And she's, but she's, she's got the cone on. Did you take her to a vet? I could, I could see that it was a hole. I mean, you already had the cone. We already had to go. Okay.

No, we did take her to the vet. I was trying to make a joke about that. But Laura took her to the vet this morning. Oh, okay. And the vet's like, yeah, it's a hole in her chest. So I gave her some, I think, some medicine. But yeah, it's a dog. She got bit. I watched on Shark Tank last night. They made someone had a dog mask. COVID? For COVID. So they made a mask for dogs.

And they come out and they're wearing it. It's real long. And the guys have it on. And so you're like, you're like, who's going to wear this mask? Yeah. Yeah. Canine mask. And so they're wearing it though when they walk out. And you're like, well, no one's going to wear that. Like I thought it's going to be some mask that you can breathe in. Yeah. It looks ridiculous, but you can breathe in it good. And they go, no, it's for dogs. That was the big reveal. Was it just sagging?

No, it was sticking. The mask on theirs was going out. I mean, they just had it on. They had it tight. And they go and they explain, you know, mask. I mean, they there is it was pretty good, you know, because they always do like a little show. Right. And it was pretty good that they they did it where they did it where they were. You were like, oh, these dudes are they this is for humans. And you're not even thinking it's for anything else.

And then they do a sign down and like, that's a dog. Then everybody was like, oh, I love that. And the... Are dogs getting COVID? No one knows, dude. You can't. I mean, you ask them where they've been. It's a pretty big question. Yeah, we ask Holly all the time. We say, hey, what do you feel? And we're the only dogs coughing at the place you stayed. And then Holly...

You know, she has double speaking in English. And so we don't know what she says. Right. So we don't know if she has COVID. She might. I definitely don't, but she probably does. I think some dogs got COVID. Yeah, I think I've heard of it. Yeah.

Enough to go, let's start a company. No. No. About dog masks. So a big part, it wasn't always COVID. It was also like fires in California, like breathing that bad air. Oh, okay. That's another one. That's fair. They go walk the dogs. They only got one deal with the Damon. He did a deal. He was basically like, I'll give you the money and I want 45% of the company. Versus, and they're like, would you do 40? He goes, I'm only doing 45, so y'all at least...

own the company he's like i would normally be like 50 like i'm definitely not going to afford because it was it was it's so small of a market but there's a market it's like you know because he you know what he thought which i thought was good he thought about new york he goes because when he goes if you live in new york in the city you gotta go walk your dog around the streets of new york

well they're putting their nose and mouth into just i mean you know a dead rat like i mean just like the streets of new york and they just come right back in your house and like lick your baby so there you know i was like all right damon made that point yeah so he made a better case for this he made a better case for it than they did and so it's like all right he goes that's

He didn't say they were dead rat and baby. I made it a little more colorful. That's what I would have said. Shark Tank's great. Harper watches it. It's a good show. A kid can see. Ask her if she wants to invent something. She doesn't. Anyway, we're talking about the soccer. Clutch performances. We've covered our sports podcasts.

background yeah it probably doesn't shock you i don't have any personal clutch performances and a clutch performance for someone you know it is a last second shot that you make and that you confidently make i think don't know it's not always luck yeah i'm sure you wouldn't if someone got really lucky by my buddy jeremy morrow or p pp as we called him

Still call him Pete. He's got three kids, married. I was still like, Pete, what's up? We're both 41. He might be 42. He was always older than everybody. But he shot once. We played basketball in high school for – or in PE. And we called it AP Wellness because we were in no AP classes. So we would say we were AP Wellness. And we would play – during the game, this coach would –

Just like let us play a full game. He would keep score. And I mean, my buddy Adam Son, who actually played for Belmont and then played overseas, he would always complain. Dude, these were epic games. We would call timeouts. It's supposed to be a running clock. I mean, it's a class. The bell rings. You got to go to class. And we're like, timeout, timeout. And we're calling timeouts. They're giving us timeouts.

We would always be late to whatever the next class was. This is like our senior year. And then one time we passed it to Jeremy and P. So we give it to P. And then P's like looking to pass it because P wasn't a basketball player. So he's trying to pass it. I'm covered. Everybody's covered. And P just launches it over his head and it goes in. And then we win. And I mean, this is a win for nothing. Absolutely nothing.

And we just, I mean, we're, we cheer, we carry them off into the locker room and when we're late to the next class, we're just missing. It was the greatest thing ever, but that wouldn't be a clutch performance. I don't think. Cause that would be considered. You're saying luck. You threw it over. You're throwing a ball over your head. Yeah. You know? So I think that, that would, that would come into it. But do you get, do you guys ever remember teammates or guys you played against that just somebody who's like that guy just took over the game?

Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah. I've had a couple when I was super young and it didn't matter and the stakes were not high at all. You want to share one? I pitched when I was like nine or ten. I remember I struck a guy out to win a playoff game in the rain. It was kind of it was like a scene from a movie almost. And that was kind of the peak of my athletic career. So you're pitching downhill from the house pitching in the rain in the rain and struck out. They bring you in.

I think I, I don't know. I don't remember. Yeah. But I closed out the game. So I remember that. So it's such a clutch performance that you like me reading Molly's book. You don't remember if you started pitching. I don't remember if I started the game or not. I remember, but I ended it. Yeah. And that's, that's, that's really all that matters. That's all that matters. Yeah. I had one last second shot.

When I was 12. And I dribbled down and threw it up in the middle of everybody. And it went in. But, I mean, that was a luck. It wasn't a crazy shot. It was a normal shot. But I don't think I was... There was no, like, give me the ball. I know what to do. There was no thinking of that. I'm a no-hitter. But, you know. Very luck things. I'm playing 12-year-olds or 10-year-olds that...

Can't hit. Yeah. I had that heat check once. Remember? I talked about that. Oh, yeah. I hit two in a row. But the second one, it got helped because a guy tipped it and the coach didn't see it. So he's like, get the ball to Brian. And then I launched it over the backboard and went into the concession stand. Yeah. Too hot. I mean, the fact that the – that's so funny to get heat checked.

Yeah. My eighth grade year, I played basketball and then like the last game of the season, they were like, all right, we're going to let all the kids that don't play that much, like start the game. So I started it. I remember really, we're gonna let y'all play, you know, let y'all start for a few minutes. And I inbounded it and I hit the back of the backboard inbounded.

inbounding it. And they were like, all right, we're going to put the starters back. What is wrong with me today? What is wrong with me today? Usually make those. Were you trying to do an alley-oop? How did you hit the bounce? I was trying to just pass it. I mean, it was just like a comedy of errors. Everything went wrong. So they're like, yeah, now we know why you didn't start. Yeah. You know, anyway. All right. So what traits lead to high performances in clutch situations? Researchers from Australia and England did a study on high performers performing clutch situations and

There were some common traits. They talked about getting in the flow, which I think we think about kind of like in the zone. They said more in the flow. Well, the flow, I know it as golf. John Augustine plays at Vandy. Now he's a turning pro. But I know he can get on. So he starts getting some birdies. He'll continue to make birdies. And he'll get on a run. And not him. I'm specifically saying him because I've played with him and we've talked about it.

But Tiger, I mean, look at the last Masters that they just did. Tiger got a 10 on a par three, a 10. That's unbelievable. And then birdied five of the last six. So to flip, that is a clutch performance. He flips something to go, this is going to be embarrassing.

I mean, if I got a 10 on a hole, my day's done. I'm not going to bounce back from that. I'm definitely not going to par. I'm not going to do. And he goes and almost gets, he gets all of those extra shots back except for two. Brian, if you get 10 on a hole, you're pumped, right?

I have actually. I've asked him to pick up way before he could ever get to 10. I would be like, that's good. Yeah, he always tells me triple bogey, just pick up. Triple bogey max. If you're a golfer and you're terrible, just do triple bogey, grab your ball, move on. Unless you're alone or you're playing with someone equally as bad as you. If anybody else is good, get the ball and come on. This is not the time. They talked about some common characteristics from these people. They're so absorbed in the task, they're not even aware of the crowd.

They have high levels of confidence, a sense of control over their performance, enhanced motivation to succeed. They enjoy it just enough, but not too much. It's kind of interesting and being fully alert. Some say things slow down for them and they even have a hazy memory of the event. I could see. That's interesting. I could see that. Like you could be like, how would you feel? And you're like, I don't know. Yeah. You know, I think the highest you can get as an athlete is,

is to whatever you're doing there's no thought you just know to do it i you know me learning trying to learn to golf the swing that i'm trying to learn is i'm trying to get to a point where i stop thinking about my swing that's what that's that's the difference of besides their natural born gifts and talents of a professional golfer

Someone that's not good is they can't get over a lot of a big reason. Now they could just not be good. There's many other things, but a gigantic thing while you're chunking balls and all this stuff is you're thinking about too much stuff.

And so you're trying to make everything too perfect in a weird way. I would imagine a lot of clutch performances. Oh, you could probably almost say almost besides tigers where you, that, that has to be such a precise thing. But a lot of times it probably wouldn't, wasn't a perfect swing. Perfect shot. Yeah. There was a lot of stuff that didn't really, it's because they, they're fine. It's perfect to them. You know, like they, they're not searching for perfect.

They're searching for it to get the job done. And whatever they do is, you know, you could probably have a weird shot that had the shot feel like it didn't feel that great when it came out. It wasn't like if I knew it felt so good, perfect. It's like, they're like, I don't know. I've like rolled off my pinky, you know, but they were, they were, they're prepared for that to happen. I think that's excellence at anything is that you just get to a point where you're no longer, uh,

focused on the mechanics of something. You just get to a point where you can just feel it and kind of like, like when you're doing standup, you're no longer thinking about the like rule of threes, all these technical things that you learn when you start, right? You just evolve past that. I watched this interview with John. It's the rules of three. If someone doesn't know that's in comedy, well, they might, if,

But the idea is that you always have something happen in threes. Yeah, if you list something, you always list three. For whatever reason, that's just... First two could be funny, and the last one needs to be the funniest. First two might not be funny, but the last one's the funniest. Third one's different in some way. I watched this interview with John Mayer about

what he thinks about when he solos. And he says he just thinks about shapes and colors. He's just thinking about the feel of it because he's so mastered the technical aspects of playing guitar that he no longer needs to think about that. He's just what he's feeling in the moment. I think that's cool. You get that good at something, you're no longer consumed with the mechanics of it. Your body just does it. Right. I mean, that's why they can...

And like, I mean, with athletes, they can learn something pretty quickly because they're trained to learn how to do it. That's why a lot of them, when they go over to golf, a lot of them are very good because they can figure it out and be like, what do I got to do? They might be terrible. I saw a guy play. This guy played football. And I was like talking to him. I forget his name, but he was with my buddy Toby Mack, if anybody knows Toby, lead singer of DC Talk for a long time. They were huge in the 90s. Yeah.

And they're so huge now. He still does very big now, but they were, they, he was, this other guy came up and he was his friend and he played football and he's kind of swinging the club. He's just starting.

And the first shots were like just awful. But even in a little time of 15, 20 minutes, he hit a couple that were like pretty good. And you're like, oh, this dude, if he wants to figure it out, he's an athlete. He's like, oh, I just don't, I'll figure it out. You know, like they have that mentality. Just such control over their bodies too, in a way that, you know, normal people don't have. Yeah. When you ever see a slow-mo of what they're doing, of how they're twerking their body or,

you know, like even like when they go up, you got to think like when Michael Jordan would, when he does the dunk and he switches, I mean, we always see it in this slow motion. Just try to jump and hold a tennis ball and give it to your other hand. It would be very hard. And his is a, it's a commercial. It's a movie. That's what it looks like. It's that like an actor did it. And he did that in that high level of a,

I think they slow everything down. Everything becomes slower to them. So they're seeing it in a slower way. Now they have the physical abilities to keep themselves up that long and jump that high. I just watched they had the Tyson fight. Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. fight this weekend. Wasn't that a pretty good fight? Yep. It was fun. They had Jake Paul and Nate Robinson was one of the fights. Nate Robinson is a basketball player. Jake Paul is an internet YouTuber guy.

who called out Conor McGregor. He wants to fight Conor McGregor. I mean, yeah. Uh, but Jake, I mean, if you saw the difference of Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. who are both in their fifties and Jake Paul, who's 23, who looks like he's, Hey, Holly, Holly's having nightmares. I don't know if anybody that picked up, you just said, Ooh, she has nightmares. She has regular nightmares. Maybe she's got a hole in her chest. She's PTSD from this week. Uh,

So, but they're in their 50s. And when you watch Jake Robinson, Jake Paul and Nate Robinson fight, it was like, Nate Robinson's unbelievably athletic. Star football player, three-time slam dunk contest, 5'9". He's got a 44-inch vertical. I mean, his head's touching the rim, and he's 5'9". So, extremely athletic.

What he was trying to do was come in quick with these punches. He's never boxed, and that other guy has fought once and trained a bunch and wants to be a fighter. But even Jake, his swings were so kind of wild-looking. When you watched Roy Jones and Mike Tyson, who are the best?

But when you see their swings, their punches, it's so tight. Even the ones that they come outside are not as far. Jake's are way out here and they're there. Like that's a big difference. Just, you know, if you swung out to like your shoulders going is your hook punch. But if you go outside your shoulder, well, that's how much longer that takes to get there.

Just seeing them, how a professional fighter versus not a professional fighter. It's wild, dude. And how much even Jake Paul, who just trained more than Nate Robinson, it wasn't even a fair fight. They should have called that fight before they called it. Nate Robinson got knocked out like three times. And they should have really called. Did you watch the thing? I just saw the highlights. Yeah, they should have. I mean, he laid there and it was like, this needs to end, dude. Mm-hmm.

it's not good jake paul walked out to we're playing basketball and when he did that i was like all right i'm rooting for him yeah i love a villain he's a villain dude he is a villain for sure he seems about one of the more unlikable people i've ever seen and then you're like well how unlikely it can be well his brother's logan paul you're like yikes you're like that old family stinks dude like uh

I mean, they're... I was pulling for him, dude. When he walked out to that song, I was like, you got to love it. You got to just love the pageantry of this. Just a villain against... I do love him calling people out. I love the show. It's someone... I texted my neighbor, Felix, we had texted. He goes, I go, I kind of didn't mind it. He goes, I definitely was entertained. And I was like, that's a good way to think about it. And that's how some stuff needs to be looked at, where people go, wow, I'm not going to watch this dumb fight.

It's about your entertainment. Right. That's all that matters. It's not, yeah, dude, no one's watching. This is like, I'm trying to be like, I'm learning about boxing. Yeah. I want to be entertained. And so this, it was, the show was entertaining. Snoop Dogg is very funny. He would like comment. Yeah. Uh, it, it was very entertaining. They did a really good job. And the Tyson Roy Jones, unified was pretty good. It was pretty good. Yeah. Well, we, uh,

Let's get to some of these examples of clutch performances. And we got some sports, of course, there's a million sports ones, but we got some non-sports ones too. This one's kind of sports, kind of not. George W. Bush throwing out the first pitch at the 2001 World Series. To me, for people, you know what's crazy? I'm like, well, we don't have to say what happened in 2001. But you might.

Oh, because some people might not know? I mean, some people are so young that you might have to... So 9-11 just happened, 2001. I mean...

John was born in 97. John Augustine. Yeah. So like most people, there's people that listen to this that would, you know, definitely don't, you don't remember it, right? I do remember this. I followed baseball pretty closely this year. What? I remember it was the Diamondbacks. I was 10. Yeah. Okay. When this happened. That's crazy. Yeah. I mean, you would have, 9-11 wouldn't have been, you remember it, but it was not. Yeah. And I was in, I was in Alabama. So I didn't really fully appreciate the. Uh.

No, I didn't understand the national relevance of this moment, which now is one of my favorite moments. It's maybe one of the best moments ever. And you were talking to George Bush, just the pressure. There's a great 30 for 30 about this. I'd recommend anyone go watch. So the setup of it is 9-11 happened.

you know, I mean, a, his speech that he gave was unbelievable that he gave down there. Yeah. Well, that's like three days after nine 11, he went down to ground zero and, uh, he's down there with all the workers and he's on the bullhorn and the guys are on, we can't hear you. And then he says, I can hear you. The world hears you. And pretty soon the people who did this will hear us all. I mean, I,

What a riff. I'll run through a, I mean, I'd run through a building right now, like just this wall, just run through it. That kind of, that, those moments are,

that's an unbelievable moment. I mean, that speech is a clutch performance. And the fact, he doesn't know what he's going to say, dude. There's no way the guy, they're like, all right, you shout this. They planted him. Yeah, you don't plant him. That's, again, what the Vandy football, the woman this weekend, it did happen, but it doesn't feel like that. Yeah.

It doesn't feel like that moment. It doesn't, you know, that's where it feels. It feels the exact opposite of that moment. Yeah, no. Well, I think she's as important to us as George W. Bush. But no, but like her moment this weekend was, yeah, they did need help. It's COVID. We didn't have kickers. But it feels, she gave this speech at halftime. They had a hashtag. I play like, girl already set up. It's almost like nowadays, if you do have something that happens kind of naturally, they...

they put, they corporate it so much that it doesn't feel like it. Right. And he's just standing on the rubble with a bull bullhorn. Someone yells that I can eat that. It's unreal. So like, just to come up with that stuff. I mean, the whole, the whole world's looking at you for an answer. This was the most helpless the whole country has ever felt is what can we do? And they're looking at this guy and this guy delivers that message. And then that almost, I mean, dude, 300 million people don't know what to do.

They don't know what to do. People, people are blown away that this could even happen in America. Yeah. And then him to say that is nuts, is unreal, dude. Unreal. His approval rating at that point was like 99 or something so high just in that moment. Yeah. Because you're like, dude, this is,

I mean, it's the most unified we've ever been as a country. It was the most amazing thing ever for him to do that. And then he goes to New York and they postpone the playoffs. And he goes and throws out the first pitch. The pressure on this first pitch. There's not a Super Bowl. There's not any sports. There's not a World Series.

There's nothing that's as important as this first pitch. There's nothing. He said it was the most nervous he was ever during his entire eight years as president. I mean, there's nothing, dude. I mean, you can't... There ain't a Notre Dame player that knows what that feels like. There's no... Sports is sports. No one cares. In the grand scheme of things, who cares? It's a game. This pitch... I mean, that's what's so crazy, dude. This pitch is...

The biggest, most clutch over Jordan's sick game, all the Jordan shots.

It's unbelievable that a pitch that doesn't count is the most important possible sports moment in the history of all of sports. Right. Well, the country wasn't looking to Michael Jordan and going, tell me I'm safe. Tell me and my family that we're going to be okay. Yeah. And it's in that moment. He had all of this on his shoulders. And if someone doesn't remember it, I mean, I don't know if they're young, they might think that seems I'm being over. Like, that's kind of crazy to think like. Yeah. But this at that moment. Dude.

It happened in New York. It happened. Yeah, let me give a couple more details for people who might not know. Yeah. So as he said, the playoffs, the baseball season obviously was put on hold when 9-11 happened and then everything got backed up. So now it's the World Series, the Yankees versus the Diamondbacks. His Secret Service, security wanted him to do it

In Arizona. Yeah. Because it'd just be safer. He wanted to do it in New York because of what happened in 9-11. They finally agreed to it. They were like, you got to wear a bulletproof vest, which makes it a lot harder to throw a baseball. Right. He went down to the bullpen to warm up beforehand and Derek Jeter came down

and said uh don't bounce it or you'll get booed which a lot of people do and then he said most most guys who throw out the first pitch they don't stand on the mound they stand much closer and throw it he's like if you throw it through the mound it'd be even better he went out stood on the mound which nobody ever does and threw a perfect strike a perfect strike play yeah

Wave. Crowd's going nuts. I don't know if I want to play the audio because MLB is notorious for that. But yeah. Boom. Perfect strike. Perfect strike. Right down the middle. Yeah. Pretty special moment. And we'll post this. Yeah, we'll post it on social media. Yeah, it's like, dude, if he bounces that, I mean, look, in the grand scheme of things, it's not like the world's going to be different if he bounces it. Nothing's going to be different.

And, you know, when you really think about it, nothing can happen. It's a non-baseball guy throwing. He played baseball, I think, or something. But it's, yeah, not an athlete. Got a lot of stuff on his mind. Fair to say. Yeah. He's got some busy days. Yeah. And so nothing's, but the idea, the idea that they, that he did that is remarkable. It's remarkable to throw that strike from back there. The whole world's watching.

The whole world. This isn't a regular game. I mean, it's the first game back. World Series game. Not even playoffs, right? World Series. It's World Series. Arizona won, actually. Yep, they did in seven. The Yankees couldn't even step up to it. How much better would the story be if the Yankees would have won? Yeah. I think a lot of people were rooting for that that year. Oh, yeah. Just what a story it would have been. And you don't do it.

And Arizona wins. And then everybody's like, oh, that's good. I feel bad for Arizona now because no one cares. I mean, now no one – everybody's moved on. We got a ring. You say you won in 2001, everybody would be like, no one is going to think about it that way. But in that moment, dude, I just don't know who's been under that pressure because he's not pitching. I mean, he obviously can throw a ball, but he's not pitching. But he's at least an athlete enough that –

Now, if Sarah Fuller would have had to kick a potentially game-winning field goal this past weekend, do you think there would have been a lot? Not obviously a different level than this, but there would have been a lot of external pressure like that, too. It would have been enormous. If she had to go out there to win that game, that would have been unbelievable. Yeah, that would have been really cool. That's the thing that we were never putting her in a situation to thrive. I mean, she was...

I told Nate they'd make a movie about it. He's like, yeah, a one-to-nine football team. Yeah. They'd make a movie about it. What movie? Oh, you get done watching the movie. You're like, how did that team – you go look up. How did they end up? Coach got fired immediately right after. Oh, really? The next day, right? I mean, I think that day. I think that night he got fired and the news came out that day, the next day. So, I mean, yeah, they're not going to –

The movie needs to be focused on her. And maybe you should just make it about the SEC, the women's soccer team that actually was really good. I think this is my most clutch, obviously, this Bush. I always think about it. I've watched it. I'll go back and watch it every now and again. It's just such a good pitch. I mean, just the amount of pressure that you're under.

unreal dude unreal yeah what's another one all right let's do a non-sports one at all uh Miracle on the Hudson Sully Sullenberger you were living in New York when this happened I was living in New York when this happened I

Did you see it? No, I was at home. I don't remember. Laura was probably working in the city then. I don't think she could have seen it. I remember it coming on the news, and I remember watching the news and it happening. And then we watched it, and I called Laura, and Laura was working. But Laura couldn't see. I don't think she could see the Hudson River from her building. But him landing that plane. I mean, yeah. That's the thing. It's like these clutch performances. Everybody's going to think it's sports. It's just...

that's life or death. These are all more important sports. Right. Yeah. And you know, I mean, people are going to die and he's got to land this plane and then just seize the river. And his idea of doing that, they said most pilots wouldn't have thought of it. They would try to get back. He wouldn't have made it. He would have killed all those people and people on the ground. Yeah. And for him to land it in the river, uh, and no one to, to die was a true miracle. I think, uh, Joe list, very funny comedian. I think he has an album out.

right now just came out uh he he did uh joe uh met a girl like he was at a bar near there didn't see it but later that night maybe he's at a bar and started talking to a server or not a server but a girl sitting next to the bar and she's like he's like oh what's up just starts talking to him what are you doing she said she was on the plane oh my gosh and he's like oh really like why you know maybe it wasn't that day maybe it was later

I don't remember. But yeah, he's like met one of the people on it. I went to a guy who spoke at an event and he was on the plane and it's getting from there to safety in the water, freezing water was the biggest thing because I mean, you could die so quickly in that cold of water. Yeah. Did anybody die on the plane or did everybody survive? Everybody survived. Got all their bags back. Pretty amazing. Made their connection. Yeah. On time. Yeah. That's how good he was. That's how, yeah.

That's a truly great thing. The pressure and the adrenaline of those situations just seem to bring greatness out of people. I mean, that's where the 10,000 hours. There's a book about that, and I've read that book. I read some of it, not all of it. But they talk about that with the Beatles. The Beatles played...

Their 10,000 hours was they played at like a restaurant or bar fair. It was something. They just were in the back. No one listened to them. No one cared. But that's where they played over and over and over again. That's where they got so good. That's always interesting to see. I would be curious if any listeners, have you seen anybody perform that became huge but you saw them

I did not like when they were nothing. Uh, I like, I've had people I've talked to that, uh, a guy, Ed, uh, that is, is I've met his family and they, I think they saw, who did he say he saw? Maybe Kevin James or maybe even Seinfeld, but maybe Kevin James at a club. No one knows him. And then, you know, then it becomes this huge person.

I bet most of those guys, they have something where people recognize, oh, this guy's got like an X factor. Yeah, I would be interested to see, like, do they think like I could tell. But that Malcolm Gladwell book, that's what you're talking about, right? Maybe. The 10,000 Hours, it just talks about the repetition and you gotta put your time in. Yeah, you put your time in. You do it over and over again. That's what I was thinking with comedy. That's why New York is...

I think the best comics come out of New York. Yeah. We're doing comedy every single night. Your peers that you started with or knew when they, before they blew up, could you predict or tell who was going to reach that next level? Uh, you know, I don't know if you're thinking about it as much when you're in it. Yeah. So you, when you see people that you're like, this is different.

So I see someone, I mean, maybe when I saw Burr and that's why I kind of followed Burr around or like kind of watched him closer is I could tell this guy is, is, is something different. Yeah. He's really, really good. Yeah. And so, but I don't know how much you're thinking about that. Right. As if you're in it, you're trying to be one of them.

So I don't know if you're always like, you can tell, you kind of just go to the guys that are good. Yeah. And you're trying to learn from those guys. Mm-hmm.

But I mean, that's why those guys in New York, I mean, that, that, that's why I think anybody that starts in is in New York. I don't think no one can just imagining seeing like Kevin Hart very early on. And you're like, Oh, this guy, there was like a star factor. Yeah. That they had in there. I do think there's, there's like, do they have it? They have, you know, they always people talk about it. You have it, whatever it is. Do you have it? Do you, you know,

uh i said that about you i mean i didn't know you when i first time i saw you perform at zany's and i was blown away first time i saw you because you were just so good i mean this was i don't know 12 years ago so i don't think you've done any late nights yet um maybe that cmt thing but you're so funny that you're the type of material we're doing was just so different than anything i'd seen in nashville and uh

you know, I didn't know you were. And that's always a great thing. When you see somebody, you've never even heard of this person. You're like, who is this? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I am. I mean, I'm one of the greatest, the greatest average American that's ever lived. So obviously you would feel that. No. Uh, yeah. Well, when I went to Burrs and Patrice's thing was that I could feel the audience.

just be like what is who was that like just be when burr performed and they they go is hbo one night stand you can go watch that and he's doing a half hour and you could feel the audience just go like what what was that who's that guy like i mean they just took them you know they're having to talk to everybody like that was something right like you're you're a part of a moment you know that almost be like what anybody has anybody been a part of a moment is the listener a

Have you ever been a part of something big? Like, you know, if you're on that plane or if you were on, were you at a game and you're like, I saw this. I was at the BC city miracle. Oh yeah. That's, that's one of the biggest plays in NFL history. Yeah. Yeah. You were at that game. Yeah. I feel like that. I was telling him to get out of bounds. Yeah. Yeah. He yelled it. Yeah. I was like, get out of bounds, get out of bounds. Uh, the, I, my, uh, brother-in-law, Joey, he left.

A lot of people left. And he was on the bridge walking back and just heard the roar. All the people that missed it. Yeah. And I feel like you know that's going to be big. Don't you think? Because it's big because we won a playoff game and we went on. Oh, I mean, I knew as soon as it happened it was going to be big. Yeah. You're talking about something you didn't know at the time? Yeah, I mean, I guess, yeah, could there be something that, you know,

You know, Laura, did Laura text you about the nine inch nail thing? Like, so nine inch nails when they performed, I think it might've been Woodstock where they had all the mud on them.

You know that? I think it was pouring down rain. Oh, that was Woodstock 94 with all the mud, I think. Yeah. Type in Nine Inch Nails. So that's iconic. Didn't they have the guitar in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or something? They had their outfit that they were wearing. And so they performed, and it was so muddy.

And they just got so, you know, like they could have not performed. It was like too muddy. It was like raining. It was, it looks like he was trying so many things. I don't think they were though. I don't think there, it was like, it was a big problem at Woodstock 94.

The mud. Yeah. Right. Where it was like ruining performances. How were you getting all over your head though? And they, well, I think he then slid. He probably, I think they got, they pushed each other in the mud before they went, you know, it was just like, you know what? We're going to just accept that this is happening and then go with it. And then, so then they performed.

Cause I was trying to talk to her about like any, those performances that are not sports related. Here's a good one. Kind of along those lines, uh, Scott Halpin, 1973, the who was doing a concert in, uh, Cal palace in San Francisco, their drummer, Keith moon, uh,

out on stage from some serious drug overdose. They took him off stage, revived him, brought him back out. He kept playing. Then he passed out again. They drag him off again. This time they realized he wasn't coming out. So Pete Townsend asked the crowd, can anybody play the drums? He repeated the question, asking forcibly. I mean, somebody good at this time, this 19 year old kid, Scott Halpin, who was up front, his buddy said he can play. They,

They brought him up on stage, and he finished out the Who concert playing the drums. That's awesome. And he did good. I think he did okay. Yeah. Keith Moo is like one of the best, best ever. Yeah. Yeah. But just... That's crazy. Right place, right time. That's awesome. But that's a huge... That is a clutch performance. Yeah. And that's interesting to be... Because I would imagine a lot of clutch performance, you don't know you're getting in them. Yeah. It's not like you know they're happening. And then that guy just got pulled up. That's wild, dude. How's that like the movie...

the Wahlberg movie where he's a rock singer with Jennifer Aniston, the rock, not the rock. I never saw that. I never saw that. It's great, dude. And, uh, his, he gets on a, they pull him out of the crowd. Really? And he was singing in a cover band. That's like Journey. I mean, Journey's the guy, the guy that sings for Journey now. Uh, he was, he's in a, he was in a cover band in like Thailand. Yeah. And he was Asian. And then, uh,

and now sings for Journey. And kills it. Rockstar with Mark Wahlberg. I had never heard of that movie. I love it. It's a great movie. It's one I'll watch if it's on.

I feel like someone's going to be like, that movie stinks. I thought I heard it stunk. And I mean, I, one of my favorite movies. I mean, Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston. He read the book. Yeah. The novelization of rock star. It's weirdly about Mark Wahlberg. Nate wrote it. And I think the book would be, this would be based on a true story. The movie's based on the book, which is about Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston. Yeah. Take, what if they did a movie together? Yeah. Uh,

Muhammad Gassama. I don't know. Would he turn around? I don't even know if he would turn around. He'd keep walking. He probably would.

He's from Mali, but he was living in France in 2018. He climbed four stories in 30 seconds to save a four-year-old boy who was hanging from a balcony. Did I send you this video? Is it a former high school player? No, not that. This is the other one you sent me. Yeah, I did. Well, anyway, it's pretty crazy. This guy's just scaling. There he is right there. Scaling. So a four-year-old boy's hanging. Yeah, look at that kid hanging there. And then this guy just...

leaps into action and just quickly... I mean, that's unbelievable. Yeah, he's not... And he just climbs up if you're just listening. I mean, it's four stories and he's jumping from balcony to balcony and there's someone at the top. Yeah, I can't quite reach him because there's a partition separating the two balconies. Yeah.

Yeah. That guy gets up there as everyone watches. Just like Prince of Persia, man. Yeah. What is that? It's an old video game where they... Wow. Yeah. So that's pretty crazy. He just leaped to action. He's... Yeah, he's not... Where was this at? This was in France. Yeah. And then they got him. What's crazy...

is there's a family next to him that you're like, yeah, why don't you get it? What if they would have grabbed him right before he did it? That would be like how much the moment would have been ruined if like, cause the baby's trying to come over. I mean, four years old, dude. I just think about your Harper's eight. I mean, when she was four, could she hang the grip strength on that kid? The kid's got a clutch. Yeah. That's two clutch moments.

You know how clutch that is for a four-year-old? And the kid gets no credit for that either, man. But we're going to give him some. The kid. Hanging on for that long. Go ahead and show that other one, Aaron, because they're similar as far as just people coming to the rescue. This guy's a former football player. This happened just a few months ago.

And they're like... There's a fire at the top. And they're like, throw your baby down. Yeah. He runs in and catches the kid. To be honest, it doesn't look like he caught the kid from the video, but clearly he did. Well, I think they were trying to throw it to another guy. Yeah, he kind of intercepted that guy. Yeah, they were trying to throw the... I don't know where the baby came from. The mother threw it out the window, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, which is... Oh, bless her. And then... Yeah, it's...

Yeah, that could have been orchestrated better. There's another guy standing there that's like throwing the baby that clearly doesn't look like he's prepared to catch this baby.

And then she just, I mean, in that heat of the moment, that guy has to run in and he barely gets the baby. The literal heat of the moment. Yeah. Like they, there wasn't like, give me a second. Throw the baby one second. Yeah. It was like, throw the baby. They just, she, you know, threw the baby. So that guy, the fact that he came in.

It's unbelievable. There's a few cases, and I have other ones here. There's a subway rescue guy in New York, saved a guy who had a seizure, fell on the subway. He got underneath. And he was on Letterman. James Shaw's local guy, Waffle House. Yeah. Saved everybody. Yeah. I mean, some people died, but he saved a lot of lives. So then I was reading about this thing called the bystander effect. You guys heard about this? It's pretty interesting.

It's how people will be less likely to rise to the occasion if there's a group of people around because no one will take charge. Yeah. And they did this study and the one they put a bunch of students or people in a room to take questionnaire, to fill out a questionnaire. And they planted a bunch of seeds, people who knew what was going on. And then they pipe smoke into the room.

And the people who knew what was going on just remained calm. And if a person was in a room by themselves and they saw smoke, 75% got up and ran for help. But if there were other people in the room and they looked around and everyone was calm, only 10% left the room to go get help. Hmm.

And they have a bunch of situations like that where people just won't help out if they, because they're either not sure if it's a real emergency or not, or they don't want to take the responsibility of doing it. And someone said they were having a seizure, and if they were the only person who heard it, 85% sought help. But if other people they knew heard it, only 31% would jump in and help. Interesting.

I wouldn't want to be the guy freaking out and it's actually not that big of a deal. That's embarrassing. That's what everyone's afraid of. That's what everybody's afraid of, is being like, man, you really went crazy. Everybody's afraid of one other guy going up going, dude, you look like a maniac. And you go, I thought it was happening. You're like, you think you're going to be the one that gets to see this crazy moment? Because you don't think you're ever going to be. That's when they always go back to think about

I mean, they talk about like school shooters. Yeah. And so they always go to, you know, how's the family not see this coming? Cause you can't imagine your kid is the one that would do this horrible thing. So there's, even if there's signs, Jeffrey Dahmer, they interviewed his dad. I think him and his dad.

I think it was like a fun interview. It was, but he was a good dude. Yeah. You're like, I mean, take obviously let's not talk about the obvious. Right. Wonderful. Mistakes. Wonderful guy. Honestly. Yeah. They, they talked to the dad and he was like, did he do anything? They're like, I mean, he used to kill cats and stuff.

And the dad's like, it's the 60s. I don't know. Kids were killing cats. You know, it's just like a rough dad that it wasn't like he lived in this nice neighborhood and he was doing and he's the only kid killing cats. I think he was in a rougher neighborhood. And then it was like kids were being crazy. So there's when you go back and look and point this stuff out, you're like, yeah, dude, that's

Straight up what happened. But people get mad at these parents. And you're like, why would they ever imagine? No one could ever imagine that. You could never imagine it. Flip side of that, the BTK killer in Kansas City, I think, they found out he'd been killing people for decades. And there's this big interview with his daughter. And they're like, were there any signs that your dad was this

you know, a great dad by day and then by night this sociopath. And she was like, I mean, he got mad at dinner a few times, but that's, you know, parents get mad. You know, we're not supposed to, you're not thinking, oh, my dad might be a serial killer. Yeah. You know? What was the flip side of that? You were talking about it from the parent's perspective, the kid. Oh, okay. The kid to the parents. Well, I thought flip side, you're going to say, I thought flip side would have been,

That the kid goes, yeah, he killed my mom. That's true. That would have been the flip side. Is that not the flip side? I didn't frame it right, but yeah, you're right. That would have been the flip side. So you should have said another example of that. Another example of something similar, yeah. Would have been the flip side of that. Here's the same thing that you said. Flip side sounds better, though. Flip side of that, Aaron. Same thing. Kid. I've got a much lower stakes example coming through in the clutch. Let's see it. You ever play the original Street Fighter game? This is one of my favorite YouTube videos. This is a...

a championship match at a street fighter tournament. Yeah. And there's a guy just getting destroyed to the point where he has no health and he's one hit away from being killed. Yeah. And this is what happens. It's at a big conference. Lots of people are cheering blocks, a move place goes nuts and then turns around and kills the other person. Oh my God. It's just, uh,

An unbelievable performance. Yeah. Ah, Ken wins. From this guy. Wow. The guy was just getting destroyed the whole match, and then at the last second. And it's over. That's fun. Yeah, that's a fun... Yeah, those moments are fun, where the video... Yeah, these kids... I mean, now, that's a real... It's a sport. Right. It's sport. That's before Twitch. You had to go to these conferences and watch people play live. Yeah. What's some...

Here's a four ones or you have one more fun one. That's kind of sports, kind of like George W. Bush, Whitney Houston's singing of the star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl. Yeah.

It's the greatest performance of it, people say, ever. She did it. Aaron, you're going to have to tell me here. Get on with new music. The Star-Spangled Banner is written in three-fourths time, and she did it in four-fourths time? Four-fourths time. What does that mean? That means there's four beats to every measure. So a four-fourth time, that's how most pop songs and songs are going to be written that way. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. So that's four-four. Four beats for every measure. Okay.

3-4 would be 1-2-3 1-2-3 1-2-3 That'd be a 3-4 So it's harder to do in the 4? No, it's just a little bit different arrangement Of this traditional song This is 10 days after the Gulf War started Goodyear blimp had been taken down There was jets flying all over the Super Bowl Some people thought they shouldn't even play the Super Bowl

And then she went out there. She thought it was going to be warmer. So she brought a dress. It was cold. So she had to wear a track suit and Nikes and went out there and just nailed it. It's like the situation made it like her wearing that is better than a dress. Yeah.

Yeah, the best rendition of the national anthem, in my opinion. Oh, yeah. Also, yeah, just the context of America being at war. And the old clip, shots of the crowd, and everybody's got American flags. It was like, the context is awesome, too. Yeah. Yeah, that is an unbelievable... Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's great. Clutch. You know... Hold on. Hold on before you go. There was something I was going to say. All right, go ahead. God, what was it? Is...

What are you talking about? Three, four, three, four, four times. Uh, I don't know, man. It was, uh, Oh, it made me think of the four minute mile. And someone said on, which hopefully it wasn't just podcast. We talked about it, but someone breaking the four minute mile, like it's impossible to do.

And then once someone broke the four minute mile, the next week someone broke. Right. Yeah. Like that's, it's almost like you just need. It's a mental thing. It goes, oh, it can be done. Yeah. That's pretty wild. Yeah. That you just know to, it's like, oh, and then it just keeps going. Yeah. You know, when does it stop? Minute mile.

Minute mile is pretty quick, man. Sure? You sure about that? Yeah. That's what they said about the four-minute, Aaron. That's true. They did say that about the four-minute. When Nate does it, people stick to it. There obviously is a point where we can no longer get any faster. Yeah. It's just... Well, with that kind of attitude, yeah. Yeah, I guess you're right, dude. Yeah. What's some good sports ones? Christian Laettner, the shot against Kentucky in CAA tournament. Many people think it's the greatest game ever.

He wasn't in the championship game. No, it wasn't the championship game, but sent him to the Final Four. He was 10 for 10 from the field and 10 for 10 from the free throw line. Never missed a shot the whole game. He scored the last eight points in overtime to win that game. So that's a good example of just taking over. Yeah. Do you remember that game? Yeah. What year was it? 92. Yeah. Yeah, I remember watching it. Yeah. Not like greatly, but.

Carrie Strug at the US Olympics, 96 Olympics, gymnast. Do you remember this? She injured herself, but she had to make one more land for the US gymnastics team to get the gold. She landed and then immediately hit the ground as soon as she did it. They had to carry her off. Collapsed. I've seen that clip. Yeah, she can't land on her feet. The opposite of that is the flip side of that. Is...

What's his favorite? The Celtics, which is... Gordon Hayward? No, Paul Pierce. When he got carried out. There's a big debate about that. And then he came back in. He played in a playoff game and they had to carry him to the back because he got hurt. And then he runs back in and plays and dominates. But there's a big debate that...

No one thinks he was hurt. Yeah. That's like the bloody sock game, too. Flip side of the Celtic thing. By the way, these are no flip sides. By the way, it's just the same scenario.

I don't know what a flip side would be. Flip side would be the argument. Flip side of that would be, I think, everybody else is lying and Paul Perry's just telling the truth. Wouldn't that be the flip side? Yeah. I'm lost. Keep going. Now, someone, Mr. Smart, the secret genius over here, apparently didn't learn about flip sides. The flip side is I'm correct and you're wrong. That would be the flip side of this. That's the flip side, for sure. But the bloody sock, where

What's his face? Pitching. Yeah. Curt Schilling. Curt Schilling. People don't believe that sock. They think he did it? Well, obviously, when you got something like this, there's going to be a lot of conspiracies about it. But they don't think his foot was as bad. But, I mean, the blood was coming through the sock.

They're just showing it on TV. You're like, he's bleeding. I remember watching that. I think the Sox and the Smithsonian or something. Yeah, I think it is. Or the Baseball Hall of Fame or something. Yeah, yeah. I mean, the crazy performance. Them, they come back and win that year. They were down 3-0. Is that the same year? I don't know. Could be. Should be. Should have been. ESPN removed it from their 30-for-30. Why? When they fired Curt Schilling.

ESPN. Oh. They took the whole Bloody Sock storyline out of the 30 for 30 about the Red Sox. Really? Retroactively. Went in and removed...

That's insane. Which is a huge part of that whole narrative. That's the only part of it. Yeah, well, it was about the Red Sox breaking the curse and everything else. The bloody sock is as important as breaking the curse. Yeah, I'd say it's a major part of it. We just watched the movie Fever Pitch. Yeah. It's a great movie for, it's a good romantic comedy to watch with your wife, and if you're a sports fan, you get it. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Jimmy Fallon. Yeah. When they break the curse. It's a fun movie. Yeah. Yeah.

Never seen it. I know I have to. There's a clutch comment right there. Come in. Yeah. John Elway's 98-yard drive in the AFC Championship game. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. What's that? I was saying I remember that.

yeah you remember that i remember watching in 1987 lips of it no do they say what i didn't watch it clutch performance ever it's called the drive right yep it is the drive uh i saw some rankings some people put kurt gibson's home run in the world series yep i remember that was one of the first sporting events i remember watching yeah because i just remember him doing this you know yeah the fist pump yeah yeah uh i think tiger's gotta have yeah that that

That shot on 15 in the Masters. That's my favorite shot in golf at the Masters where he chips it up and it rolls and then the Nike symbol. I mean, you know, it's like these, I guess it's iconic moments. Now with golf, he, I can't remember what was he, he needed to make that chip.

It's like that's one – the whole day is clutch. That one shot didn't come through. But that's why I think golf is so crazy. The clutchness that you have to have is a long day. Yeah. You got to sit there. I mean, if you'd watched, the perfect scenario was last year when Tiger won in 2019. So it's – in 2019, they –

When he won that, everybody before him hit the ball in the water on 13th.

Everybody before that. It's a hard hole to read. It's either eight or nine iron for these guys. And the way the wind kind of swirls, it can feel one way but then become another way. And so, I mean, this is the whole Tiger got a 10 on this year. Yeah. It's because he went in the water. Augustine went in the water. A lot of guys go in the water. Yeah. So he goes in the water. He does all this stuff. And so for that day, Tiger's not leading in last year or 2019 for the Masters.

This is a big comeback story. He's not leading. These other guys all have the lead. They all go in the water. This one group, I mean, I think every one of them went in the water. Three of them. All in the water. And Tiger sees that. Because on 12, the hole before it, you can see them teeing off. And he sees them all go in the water. And he said, he goes,

He goes, if Brooks Kappa was one that went in the water, he goes, I knew he probably hit a nine iron and he didn't get it there. So it's going to be an eight. And then what Tiger knew was to go left of the sand trap and don't even try to go at that flag. They were going at this flag and he did that and then won the Masters. And so it's like the clutchness of, you know, I guess it's like clutching is relying on it. Are comedians...

What would you say about, like, Freddie Prinze, who went on The Tonight Show, first time ever, 1974. Nine months later, he had his own hit sitcom because of that performance. I mean, the performance has got to go good. Yeah. So, you know, as a comedian, I think when all the shows that you do, when you go do late night, they all have to go good. Yeah. It's got to go that good to... You just got to be that different and unique. I don't, you know...

I mean, that's what I do wonder if, like, do comics have, do we have a, is there something in us? Because there's got to be some kind of some gene, you know. It's either, what has to happen, like we said, is you have to not think about what's happening, basically. So that's why sometimes, like, that guy climbing up that building,

is if you ask that guy to climb up that building, I mean, he probably could. He obviously could. But if you asked him to climb it with no circumstances, he would probably be super nervous to do it. But he's not even thinking. He's just thinking, I got to get to that kid. And so I think it's like you got to have those moments where –

You know, I feel like comedy, you could have. I think when you were getting ready for your special, I remember you couldn't figure out how you wanted to word this one particular joke. And I remember you just thinking, I think you said,

I'll figure it out in the moment. The pressure of taping a special and everything else, it'll bring out what I want to say. Yeah. So that's a test. Oh, really? Backfired. We cut the joke. No, no. Okay. No, I think I got it figured out. My favorite example of a comedian is Dane Cook.

Improving half of his Madison Square Garden special. Have you ever heard him talk about that? No. Or he hadn't done comedy three months leading up to it, and he had Madison Square Garden booked. He was taping a movie. And then they're like, you're going to do the show? And he's like, yeah, I can't cancel. So he just walked out, taped a special. He said 50% of it is just riffing because he had no material. Yeah. And just hearing about that makes me nauseous.

I don't know how much I believe that. Yeah. I don't know. I would think... He did crowd work, right? Some, but you're at Manistow Square Garden in the round. Well, you're putting... I could see there's stuff that happens. This new special, we have stuff happen. And that is probably going to be in there. But I could see...

With him. I went back and watched it. And if you watch it thinking, oh, he's super trying to stretch. Yeah. Then you can pick up on. Because 21,000 people. I got to do an hour. I only have. To do the special. Yeah. I hadn't done comedy in a while. Pretty wild.

Why did he not do comedy for three months? He was taping a movie, he said, and then he just... My moment would have been with this special after this first night we taped because outside I did 44 minutes. The second show, I have to do an hour. And the first show was 44. Because usually when you get done taping that

First show, you go, we got it. Tennessee Kid was like, we got it. Relax. Go have fun. Maybe that's when you can add lips and stuff because you're like, we got it. And this one was, we don't. Hey, we don't have it. I mean, this is the first thing I ever did where they go, we don't. You're unbelievably short. You know, I mean, it's got to be at least 57 to 60 minutes. And we're 13 minutes short, which is a lot. It's a fourth of the show. Yeah.

Even the Tennessee kid, I've told you before, I mean, there's so much pressure on you. You've got so much friends and family backstage. Yeah. And everyone's asking for stuff and just, I mean, I didn't mean that. There's just a lot of things people are pulling on you. They did pretty good. Well, the good that Laura does very good about it. Yeah.

kind of keeping but no one bothers me but it's because you it's not that anybody's asking for stuff it's that you want to go talk to everybody right and so you're kind of going over there and then you got to go back and you're you know you always feel bad if you're like i gotta walk away but you just now like my family goes they know and you're like i'm gonna just walk away and laura is really good to be if i walked away no one would ever think it's rude i mean she's she would be like no he's got it's you know

There's stuff like that that I do think. Sometimes you can have too much going on because you won't take your show as serious because you think, I've done comedy thousands of times. So I can go up and talk and do these shows. And so I won't take it as serious. And I've actually thought about that recently. And I'm going to try to

starting this year to get a better routine. So when I'm doing these theaters to mentally be more into what's happening, like to have my, you know, have a time where I, my phone goes away, everything goes away. There's no contact to me because I want to be more,

in what the show that I'm doing. And I've like, and so which is, will be this next tour is, is my plan is to do something that builds some kind of routine up. Cause I, I can get too loose.

And you don't, and you're like, I was talking to people on the phone. I got to go on stage. There's, I used to play, I mean, I had videos. I'd be playing a video game and just walk on stage. Cause there's something about it. You're like, that's fun to do. And it's like, I can do that. I always think it's fun to be sitting. I'm alone playing a video game. And now I'm in front of 2000 people and like that. And that's in within a matter of eight seconds. So I, I do. I always liked that idea of doing that, but I think it hurts.

Because I don't think you're, you know, because as comics, you feel stupid. That same thing that we talked about, you feel someone's like, why'd you act so crazy, man? Comics had that too. If you're like, I'm going to take this serious. You just picture, I picture Bobby Kelly, all these New York comics being, you're a dumb comic. Yeah. You tell your dumb jokes, get up there and go tell your stupid jokes. You'd be funny, but you got to be accurate. Oh, you got to go prepare. Like you're doing Shakespeare up there. You have that going on in your head.

So you end up never doing that stuff. But that attitude's important, too, to have a little bit of that. That attitude's important. You got to have a little bit of that. Yeah. Can't be taking yourself as serious. Right. That's why no comics really call themselves artists. But I mean, it is an art, what we're doing. Making people laugh is technically the hardest thing to do. To move someone's not that hard. Yeah. I can tell you a sad story. I can make you cry. But to make someone laugh, it's hard to make someone laugh. Yeah.

they don't just voluntarily laugh. You got to really, it's a bunch of strangers. Right. Yeah. So it's like, you do have to figure something out, you know, but I think when you're, yeah, when you're in it, it's just different. All right. Is that, is there one more fun one? Um, Dave Johnson, they've all been fun, but all right. Well, I give him a downer.

Yeah, I mean, they've been inspirational, I guess, but some of the hero... She's got a big inspirational speech about how everybody should get it together. I mean, I've won another one. I'm just saying it's very funny. All right, you want to do... Let's do one that's not a nightmare. Let's do something good real quick. Dave Johnson sinking a putt at the 2016 Ryder Cup. Oh, this is fun. So during a Thursday practice round, he was heckling Roy McIlroy,

All right, so you got it. Dave Johnson's not a golfer. He's a guy in the audience. I was about to tell that. Well, the way you set it up is like Dave Johnson's singing and playing at the Ryder Cup. I was thinking, oh, this is a golfer. Dave Johnson's a perfect golf name. Yeah. Dave Johnson sounds like a guy that you'd be like, yeah, I remember that guy. He is.

He's got one major. Like, hey, he won the PGA Championship one year because people went to war. So people didn't, you know, like, yeah. Yeah, he's been dining off that check for a while. You know what I mean? Well, no, he's a fan from North Dakota. He was at the practice round. He was heckling Roy McIlroy and Andy Sullivan that he could hold a tricky putt that had baffled them.

Henrik Stenson so wanted to see this guy try it that he invited him to come underneath the ropes. And then Justin Rose placed a $100 bill next to the ball for this 12-foot shot. It's a 12-foot putt, probably downhill. He's wearing jeans. Wearing jeans. Looks like he has borderline Crocs on. Yep, yep. Huge crowd watching. Huge, I mean, it's, yeah, maybe 10,000 people. I don't know. He's lining up the shot. A lot of people. Lines up the putt.

Everybody gets quiet. 12 feet. I mean, he's got the full pressure of everybody on it. Swings for the putt. Drills it. Drills it. Does the Tiger Woods fist pump. Yeah. That's got to feel awesome. That's got to feel awesome. Yeah. I mean, that's 10,000 people.

Rory in front of everybody. If you miss it, the moment is unbelievable. Yeah. Can't do that ever again because of COVID. Those moments are gone. Will we ever have an exciting... What will be the first big moment back from COVID where fans are there? I bet it's golf.

I bet it's golf related. You think? Outside, I think you would get fans. I think it's going to be a UFC fight that has a crowd. It's going to be awesome. Connor, I don't think they're going to let them back in Vegas. It might not be that particular fight. But any of them, they're indoors. Like a full crowd? Like a full crowd. What sport is it going to be? I think it's golf. Well, it's going to come around summertime probably. So what's going on in the summer? Baseball will be going on. Yeah.

But it's not going to be a big moment. You have majors going on in golf. Okay. So that would be going on. Maybe the NBA Finals. Yeah, NBA Finals. If that could be happening. I bet it's golf. I bet golf is the first we hear the crowd. Something tiger. And you're like, we're back, baby. Mashed potatoes. All right, everybody. As always, we love you. Thank you for listening very much. Go check out the Vandy Coach shirts.

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