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Hello folks, welcome to Nate Land. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Aaron Weber, Brian Bates. Welcome everybody. We're here. I don't know. We had a long... Today's been a day. Long day. We're doing it, but it's going to be exciting. And Steph, I don't know. Easing into it. Yeah. I got to ease into it. Fell asleep on a plane on the way here. It was nice.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't even know how, like, you know. You were telling me when you flew from L.A. to Miami, the plane was crazy. It had swivel seats and all kinds of stuff. Yeah, I was luckily in first class. I don't necessarily want to bring that up on the air. All right. I mean, good night.

Yeah. When you fly a lot, you get a lot of miles and you know, yeah, you did. You get to do that stuff. So I got lucky to get upgraded. I mean, golly, dude, just what they tell you story about your bank account. You had a funny thing with your bank account the other day. My first comment. I mean, good night. We're going to get into your comments. So we're going to avoid those comments. Uh,

So as usual, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Apple Podcast Reviews, and Nateland at natebargetzi.com. All right, the wrestling episode, Danny Sanchez. This podcast is like if you were drinking some beers with your buddies in the backyard and have already talked about absolutely everything, and someone brings up wrestling at 3 a.m., and it keeps rolling. That's where it does. Like someone brings that up, and you're like,

You know, at 3 a.m. there's something you could be like, I don't want to do this. Which is very, I'm just not in the mood to talk about that. Could you say that about wrestling? I think I could. You know, I don't want to get into this right now. Yeah. You ever have someone try to bring something up like that and they want it to keep going? You're like, yeah, let's just stop this early. Yeah. Let's be done.

David Granum, Nate and Brian's sudden knowledge of the topic like professional wrestling reminds me of the episode of The Office where Kevin is suddenly very good at math because it involved pies. Because we knew a lot of it. Yeah.

Yeah, I wonder, did we know that much about it? The diehards were frustrated with us because they were like, you guys are idiots. We knew nothing. Yeah, compared to the real wrestling fans. But compared to me, I feel like you both knew a ton. Yeah, well, it's a Super Bowl of events. Yeah, so David, we're like, I mean, David's like, you guys were...

You know what? Do you guys used to wrestle? How much stuff do you know? They're just used to us knowing so little about everything. And then we can get into a little bit of wrestling. Yeah, we don't know. There's a whole world. I mean, it's a whole thing. And I have plenty of friends that know a lot more about it.

than I did. Maybe we'll do another episode about it. If I've had, Dan Soder knows a ton. Yeah. Yeah. That's what people were saying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If Soder ever comes back, or not comes back, if Soder comes on, which we found out Titans, 49ers play at the Titans this year. Yeah. Like right before Christmas. So he might come down to that. And so. Is he a 49ers fan? Yeah. He's not a Broncos fan? His mom lives, or,

or his grandmother lives up that way like so his dad went I believe his dad like moved there but he grew up in Aurora and so he's a Nuggets fan but I mean 49ers is what he grew up loving and he's I mean he's a big fan oh that's cool yeah

Jack Preston, love getting deep insights from this education podcast like Andre the Giant is so big, it's so crazy. It's a quote straight from the source. Yeah, well, when you call him a giant, it's almost, it doesn't do it justice how big he is.

Yeah, there's a lot of people that you could say are Giants. I mean, meeting under the taker, that's a big dude. Yeah, he's huge. He's huge. And Andre the Giant was much bigger than that. Yes. Yeah, you know the old offensive lineman that used to be called Refrigerator Perry? Yeah. He would not even be one of the biggest dudes on a team. I mean, it's comical how small he is now. Yeah. But that actually holds up Andre the Giant.

Yeah. So I thought it was worthy of it. Yeah. Andre the Giant is so big, it's so crazy. That's very funny, though. Which is, I mean, that's how you would describe it. Yeah. You know, it's like you go, well, how big is it? It's so big, dude, and it's just so crazy. And you're like, well, give me a little more than that. You're like, I don't know if I can. I mean, even like a doorframe, you're like, it's not even...

That. It's bigger than that. You ever hear the saying, if you haven't seen it, no explanation will suffice. If you have seen it, no explanation is necessary. That's what I think about Andre. I don't know if that statement was necessary. It's very philosophical. I'm just saying, if you've seen Andre the Giant, somebody's like, how big is he? You're like, you just have to go see him. Yeah, you have to go see him. Just go look at him. I can't describe him. He's big, dude. He's a big dude.

He's not asking a question. Nate not knowing that both of these sentences are indeed questions is why I listen to this podcast. Yeah, he wants an answer. You guys smell what I'm cooking? And they're like, eh, a little bit. Yeah.

If Bates was a professional wrestler, his name would be the ultimate warrior. Which is funny, Joe List has a sketch where he does the ultimate warrior. Yeah, he does. And I just realized I left off that person's name, so I apologize. Yeah, we worry about it the whole show. But there's our comedian buddy Joe List. He does a very funny sketch where he's the ultimate warrior. Yeah, that's fine. It's very funny.

Matt Parrish. I think Nate is thinking about Mississippi and Tennessee, not Arkansas and Tennessee. State line runs along the border of Mississippi and Tennessee and West Tennessee. Could be. Could very be that. I hope it's right. Yeah. State line road. State line road. A lot of people are still saying you're talking about State Street in Bristol. You can step on it and be in Virginia and Tennessee. I mean, I just don't think I was in Bristol. Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe so, though. But you were hanging out in Memphis? I think it was, why did I go? I don't know. What did I do? Were you with me?

I went to Memphis. We went to the Bass Pro Shop. The Bass Pro Shop there is enormous. The Pyramid. The Pyramid. It's crazy. The Grizzlies played in it, and now it's a Bass Pro Shop. Did the Grizzlies play there too? Yeah. Wow. And the NBA teams. LeBron James has played basketball in a Bass Pro Shop. Yeah.

I mean, Michael Jordan might have. I don't know when they came. When did they start? It's been a while, but they've been in the FedEx arena for a while now, too. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so that was very early, though. So Jordan might go in that Bass Pro Shop and just be doing some shaking and being like, right here, I hit a big jumper. They left in 2004, so he was playing. Yeah, he was playing. Yeah, for sure.

So, yeah. I don't know. I will find the streak. Golly, I need to look at it. I'll look it up. Mississippi and Tennessee could be right because if we're down that way. If it's down that way.

President's episode, Chase Schubert. I taught U.S. history for seven years until this past fall and have a degree in history education. After listening to so many history-themed podcast episodes over the past several months, I was nervous for the inevitable day that the U.S. President's episode would come. Well, today was that day. I had my notepad ready to keep track of all the corrections and commentary I thought might be necessary and was bracing for the worst.

Folks, somehow y'all nailed it. I would happily return to teaching just so I could sign this podcast to my eighth grade students. Not that it's going to help them pass any major exams about the American Revolution or Civil War, but it just might spark a bit of enough excitement to get the kids generally interested and maybe help them become one of the folks too. There we go. That's a real teacher. Yep.

And he loved it. That feels good. Yeah. You nailed it. Yeah, that's what we're trying to do. We're not here to talk about debate the Civil War. Who's even heard about the American Revolution? We're here to talk about Andrew Jackson fighting people. Somebody gave me a great president fact this weekend.

They told me to tell you guys. McKinley's wife, I don't even remember when McKinley was president, but his wife would have seizures all the time, and this is before they knew what to do with that. So the way they handled this is whenever she had a seizure, they'd just throw a napkin.

over her head and just wait it out so this would apparently happen at like state dinners like ambassadors are over and like the president's wife just starts having a seizure and they just pick up a napkin and put it over her face and just keep eating while they waited it out and just sit there is she good yeah she does this is what she does don't worry about this so what were you saying you have to talk to it yeah

There could be some of that old president stuff. I have a joke in my act now. I talk about going to the White House. And yeah, that could be, I need a little more with it. So that one could be, it's kind of fun because there is some fun stuff in there. That's unbelievable.

Yeah. We talk about Andrew Jackson throwing parties. Somebody said that the parties would get so wild because he just invited all his friends. They would have to take all the alcohol outside just to lure the people out of the White House because they couldn't get them to leave. Yeah. It's because of the booze. So it's almost like tempting a dog with treats. Come on out here, guys. They just start playing closing time at the White House. They do Reese's Pieces, like E.T., booze.

Isn't that what they do with the E.T.? Yeah, right. You get E.T. to come out with Reese's Pieces. It's been so long since I've seen that movie, I can't remember. Little airplane bottles of whiskey and stuff. You don't remember him putting Reese's Pieces in E.T.? And he was hiding and it would make him come out? Yeah, he would eat them. I mean, it was, you know. It's a 40-year-old movie. It's one of those famous scenes of a movie is the Reese's Pieces. Reese's Pieces, I think, are only famous because of that. Because they're not that good and only E.T. could like them. Yeah.

I'm not a big Reese's Pieces guy. I like them. I think they're better than M&M's. Ooh. Seems crazy. No. Are they along in the same family? Yeah. Oh, yeah. They're the same shape. They're both chocolate. Same company? No, I don't think so. Reese's is Hershey. Oh. M&M is... Come on, you know. Mars, maybe? Yeah. Is that what the M stands for? I don't know. I feel like you're trying to miss it on purpose. You know, Aaron. Just tell us. Yeah, just get to it, Aaron. You know, tell us the history about it. You're...

When was the first time you had one? Do you remember? I gasped when I had my first one in for sure. Chase Miska. It sounds like a wrestling name. I'm impressed and relieved that you had an entire episode about U.S. presidents and still managed to avoid talking politics. Duels, hats, UFOs, and animal nicknames are my kind of politics. Keep up the great work. Yeah, it was...

You know, yeah, I did like that we did that. Like it's because there it is so crazy. There's so much fun stuff. They were all getting shot. Yeah.

There's enough, we got enough going about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every one of them was getting assassinated. And we didn't even get to all of them. Oh, yeah. There's a lot more that either got shot at or somebody pointed out, why didn't you mention Reagan being shot? Well, he didn't get that far. No. We got to like the 1920s, right? The last thing, fact we have is about Reagan, but I mean, we had enough guys dying that we don't have to cover just the flesh wounds. Yeah, yeah.

Well, we could probably do another one. It's just fun. It's fun to, you know, I don't know. That's the funnest part, to talk about that kind of stuff. You don't want to get too close to and then you start getting into politics. Yeah. So you just go super old. Matt Wolfe. The golfer?

The U.S. president episode was hilarious. It was mind blowing hearing you all learn about some of our most famous presidents for the first time. However, watching the whole episode on YouTube, I could only focus on one thing. What on earth is sitting on the table next to the Nate land sticker near Nate's right orange hand? I could not take my eyes off of it. And my friends and I were trying to guess what it was.

Could it have been keys, a half-eaten cookie? One of my friends recommended maybe it was a retainer. If I don't find out what it is, I may lose my mind. Is it this? That's what it was, yeah. It's Kevin Best made us... Can you zoom in on it? A keychain with all of us. You got it? I just keep doing this the whole show. Michael Scott. Yeah. Who thought we just had a loose retainer on the table? It did look like one. Yeah? Yeah.

I mean, I still wouldn't have thought that was it, but I see how it looked like it. Yeah. You're like, all right. Yeah. So that was it. That's what's on the table. But I get how that could be confusing. This is a pin. From Zanies. You start going to the map, see your buddies. It's what we call like a cup and a coaster. It says Tonight Show. He's just going to start asking stuff.

Every week we got to explain it. Yeah. Matt, how you doing? This is a table. And so a lot of people have been using those to eat on and stuff like that for a long time. And so we kind of decided to go with one. We are not eating on it. But this is for us. What makes this a table? Hey, it's a great question, dude. It's a great question. We answered it, though. Yeah. No, we didn't. Yeah, we did. I said, what...

What was the... I said something. You said you go by its purpose. Yeah. That's what determines a table. What is a table? Who determines the purpose? The creator of it or the user of it? It's another interesting question. The creator, because he says... Well, they both do. The creator goes, I get you started, because here's what I would do. Every time we're by a table, a guy walks in, he goes, what I would do is I would probably eat on this table. And we go, okay, well, we have some other options. And he goes...

Your table. Yeah. You can do whatever you want. But I mean, if you make a dining room table. Yeah. Specifically for a dining room. Okay. You're making a table for a room. Okay. Where dining is. Right. So the creator is, he does, I made this for this purpose. Right. And what you do with that is. But what if I put a mattress on here and use it as a bed frame?

You're being a lunatic. So you can, I mean, if you want to do that, you can. Yeah. But that's what like with the philosophy ideas, like if someone says that you go, well, there's a point where you're just a crazy guy in the street yelling at cars. Yeah. So you can get there quickly. Yeah. You're like, so I mean it can, it can all stop, but the, we've all, we needed something to put the food on. Yeah. Our desk to write on as an office. Here we are to lay our key chain on. Okay. Yeah. That's fair.

would i just this philosophy i think i would crush it in there you would man i think i'd go in and it'd be a they wouldn't like it i just be holes i go that's stupid did they really ask y'all like the table thing were they really that's just a like yeah experiment would it be more like when you're building it when does it become a table well it's just it's it's just an example to illustrate the question of

what makes things what they are. Because if it didn't have legs, you wouldn't say it's a table, right? Yeah. It'd be a table on the ground. Yeah, it'd just be a slab of wood at that point.

So maybe a table's not the best, but usually an apple. Apple is used a lot. So what do they say? What makes an apple an apple? Is it the redness? So you can think about it like, what if I take away that property from it? Is it still that thing? If you take away the redness of an apple, it's still an apple. Wouldn't you agree? It's a ruined apple. Yeah. It's not as green apples. Yeah, yeah. So the color doesn't make it an apple. If you take away the sweetness...

or the shape of it. It's you take away those things one by one, you start to realize none of those singular things make it an apple.

I mean, but we say apple, and they're all this one thing. So it has to be an apple because it's like we've all said this is what this thing is. Okay. And so when you taste it and you go, this is an apple, you know what an apple tastes like. Oh, so it's the taste? It's the taste that makes it an apple? Maybe it's a bit of everything. Okay. It's not just one thing. Nothing can be one thing. It's a bit of everything. Okay. That's fair.

Why do you think that's... I'm saying that's a legitimate... I would think philosophy is just put in just to be annoying.

That's how I would think, y'all. Some of it is, yeah. Like in philosophy, he keeps saying it. You're going like, just say you don't want to teach, man. Just say that. That's what I would tell the teacher. Just say you don't really care about teaching and you're trying to waste time because this is not going to help any. But you could do that all day long. There's a point where you're like- And you do. You do do it all day long. Then you just go, I guess so nothing makes it an apple and you go there and then you're just done? No. Yeah.

You go, oh, it has an apple-ness. That's the answer? That's one answer. It's a pretty big one. That's what Aristotle would say. He would say it has an apple. He would say it has the essence of an apple that's independent of all its accidental properties. Just a nightmare hanging out. I mean, it's just it doesn't... Like, what's this keychain? What makes it a keychain? Is it this that holds the keys? What is this on it? And, like, it's all...

It just doesn't stop. It never does. No, it hasn't stopped for thousands of years, man. And where are we getting with this? I mean, to where we are now. Nowhere. Nowhere. I guess. It reminds me of the office where Michael's taking CPR lessons. And she's like, is he dummy breathing? He's like, no, it also has no arms and no legs. It's like, at what point do we not revive? What kind of quality of life would that be? Ed Riley Jr.

We just watched the U.S. President episode, and I must say we were genuinely surprised. My son's face lit up the moment you guys read the comments, and he sent the episode to all our family members. So I have to say that you guys might have gained a few more unsatisfied viewers. We want to thank you, Nate, for providing us tickets to his show. If the Sacramento show doesn't happen, and believe me, I've had some words with my so-called friends who sold me tickets to his show that may not happen.

One other issue we might have is my wife overheard the episode and unfortunately she wants to go as well. So, Nate, you may have to send another ticket. We will. We'll get you all squared away. The Sacramento Show is...

Oh yeah. The Sacramento show is happening. It's just, I think a different day. Okay. Yeah. I don't, it's all up there. All my dates are up there now. I almost think we're adding a show in the Sacramento show. Uh, yeah. Go to, uh, the crest theater in Sacramento. Yeah. And rain check tour. Oh geez. Yeah. Just go to my website. Yeah. Give me a minute. That'd been a little bit easier to go neighbor gets it. I come then. Uh,

Sorry. That's what a lot of people do, but either do like Aaron and don't go, look, hey, we changed the coloring of the website. Yeah, it looks nice. How about that? Looks good, right? It looks real nice. Yeah, yeah. I was like, let's mix it up a little bit. Sacramento here. Go to March. Because I think it said March. Yeah. March 5th. That was right. Two shows. So March 5th, which is March 5th of 22, if that happens.

Those will happen. So it got moved to that. It was supposed to be in August, but then because... Jayden has to finish another school year. Oh, yeah. He's going to be praying college. Straight A's, Jayden.

But I, yeah. From what I understand, California is never opening again. But if they, when they do. Yeah, so it did get moved to March 5th. So, but we said to get him tickets to that, or there was a show that was closer to him or something. But if you, we'll get you hooked up for that. Or he had tickets, I don't know. We'll meet him. It'll be all figured out.

Rebecca F. The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Babe Ruth, but since the candy inventor didn't want to pay Babe to use his name, he changed one letter. Babe then sued and lost because the candy inventor lied and said it was named after the Grover Clevens daughter. What's my source? History Channels. The Food That Built America, Season 2, Episode 2. Your source is about as good as our source. I guess you're saying they look stuff up a little more than we do. Yeah.

Apparently. Baby Ruth. Yeah. I mean, imagine, what was it like suing someone back then? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, if you met your baby Ruth, like you say, I'm going to sue you. And you're like, I don't know. What are you going to, what are you suing for? Like my wood, my cow? She had been. Animals.

Because I want 40 goats and a lot of land. And you're like, all right. How much land? They know a lot. Just one lot. You're like, oh, they said a lot of it. A lot. No, a lot. So you don't want the whole thing? No, no, no, no, no. Just one lot. What? I was going to say, I looked up the baby Ruth had been dead for 17 years when the candy bar came out. So babe probably had a... She died as a baby.

I don't know if she died as a baby. She must have died young, but she'd been dead for a while. She named after Aunt Baby from Seinfeld. That's pretty good. How old would she be today? She never would have made it. It's my favorite. Maybe my favorite line in all of Seinfeld. The whole show? It's unbelievable. Like he goes, Aunt Baby died when she was a baby. And then Stell asks Frank, says, you know, Frank, if Aunt Baby was alive today, how old would she be?

And he said, she never would have made it. I mean, he won't even play along in the game. He wouldn't even acknowledge it. She would never, yeah. But you're like, all right, but just in general, how many years has it been since she died? And he goes, no, it doesn't even worth our time. She never would have made it. Thorn Ingeseth. Ingeseth. Thorn. You go by Thor? Yeah.

Thorin Anguseth from Middle Earth, apparently. Yeah. Thorin. I wonder if they go by Thor. They go, just call me Thor, and everybody's like, all right, dude. Just, you know. Yeah. You better fit the bill of that. Thorin Anguseth. Thorin. Oh, it could be Thorin. Probably like the 12th or something. Oh, maybe they own. I mean. They could own a city. Yeah.

Yeah, probably. It sounds like they have a river named after them in England or something. Yeah, they did some stuff. Oh, yeah. Aaron was right to be skeptical of the history of OK since it's not really known where it came from and what Brian said was just a theory. That sounds like someone that did own a lot of stuff early on. Yeah. And was probably, his family was in the mix when OK came about. Yeah. And he goes, no, I had my great-grandparents...

My uncle said he came up with it. Like these idiots. When okay came out, like it dropped like a mixtape. What's that? He goes, okay. Okay, I'll be ready. What'd you just say? Huh. Okay. Okay. And he says it a couple times. That's how stuff, let's go started like this whole let's go, which makes me.

I've talked about that on here, right? I don't think you have. We've talked in private about it. So angry. Yeah, that's how I privately bring it up. When people just get up and they go, let's go, it makes me so mad. I feel like a lot of the stuff I start to say, I start to say it ironically, and then it just becomes unironic over time, and I find myself saying it actually. Do you have an example? Yeah, so it's still the worst. You're still the worst for doing it.

I agree. Yeah. I'm trying not to do that. But like, if I say something, it's like, that's fire. Like I say it as a joke. And then down the road, I'm like, I, I said that without thinking it was a joke. I say bounce. I'm like, let's bounce. Bounce is fine. Bounce has been around for. Yeah. I'm kind of stuck in my age group of something could be pretty dope. I could say dope.

I'm kind of stuck with my... I haven't really left. He says like rad. He says like groovy and stuff. Groovy and rad. No, I think that was still a bit after him. Okay. He's still getting okay. I say old Kinderhook. Yeah. I was saying it before they shortened it. Yeah. Yeah, like everybody... We said let's go when we announced... Because the social media... When they posted my special date, they put let's go. Yeah. And I was like...

I was so mad. And it was on my thing. But someone else posted it. And I was like, don't. I can't stand it.

I don't know. Everybody says it. I just don't like when everybody... It's not like I don't like the saying. I like the saying. It's now everybody is saying it. They're at their grocery store just going, let's go. Save $20 today. It's like, all right, dude. Tom Brady says it when he wins a Super Bowl. Yeah, like an NBA player dunk. It's like a guttural, let's go. That's what it's built for. It's not built for regular people just doing nothing.

You know, just going, got enough gas to get to the gas station. Let's go. You know, like that's not what it's for. It's, you know, Griffin Bryant. Sounds like that's another one. Griffin Bryant sounds like a park, you know? Yeah. There is a Bryant Park, I believe. And there's probably a Griffin Park. Griffin. I own both of them. Maybe his family got divorced.

And his wife got one and he got the other. Split the parks. And then they named her after both of them. I'm surprised at all the assassination talk. The curse of Tippy Canoe wasn't brought up.

Starting in 1840, every 20 years, whoever was president died in office. This went all the way until 1980 when Reagan survived his assassination attempt in colon cancer, then finished his term. 20 years later, Bush had an assassination attempt on him. Now Biden sits in office 20 years after that. That's crazy.

Did you look this up? I did. When did Bush have an assassination? You know what? Are you talking about the shoe that got thrown at him? No, I looked it up. You ever been hit by a shoe? And shoes, where was that at? That was like over in... I think it was in Iraq, right? Yeah. What kind of shoes they got to wear over there to walk around in that? Their whole floor is dirt. You got to wear boots, dude. You ain't wearing loafers.

I did not remember Bush having an assassination attempt. I was sitting next to my wife who worked in the Bush administration. She didn't remember it, but we looked it up. Someone threw a grenade at him. They were in the country of Georgia. Yeah. And someone threw a, it didn't, and it didn't go off. It didn't detonate. Wow. And it landed near him? I don't know how close it got to him, but they were trying to kill him. How quick did you read this article?

Was there no details in it? There probably was. I was just verified if it was true. I have to do a lot of research, guys. I don't have time to get in the weeds. That's pretty crazy. That just never made the, yeah, this is... The mainstream news. This happened in 2005 in Georgia. It was a Georgia national named Vladimir. Won't even take a stab at the last name. Attempted to assassinate him. Wow. See if you can make him turn around. Vladimir Aruthionian. Yeah.

I don't know. I mean, if you said Vladimir, he would. But if you just had to say his last name. Vladdy. Vladdy. Well, I mean, he's probably going to be behind bars right now. It'd be pretty easy. He might still not turn around, even though he's the only one in the jail cell. Wow. It landed 61 feet from the podium. So not a great toss. Not a great toss. 61 feet is pretty far. Probably why we didn't hear about it. Yeah.

61 feet is like a pitcher's mound to the home plate. It is. 60 feet, six inches. Yeah. So pretty far. I mean, that's crazy. It was, it didn't engulf him. It would have killed. We would have definitely heard about it. Guys, did you hear W was assassinated? Well, I'm saying it would have, it would have, uh, it hit a girl.

It said, and the thing didn't go. So I'm saying if we would have heard, if it would have just even killed, I mean, 61 feet. Yeah. I don't know if it would have killed the president, 61 feet. I don't know a lot about grenades. I've thrown a few in my life, but no, I've never thrown a grenade. Bush didn't even know about it until after the rally ended. They didn't even stop him. I don't know if anybody knew about it. I don't think so, except the president.

Griffin. Somebody sent him anthrax once, right? Remember the anthrax scare? I think it was right after 9-11. Who hasn't been sent? You tell me someone hasn't been sent. Byron Smith, you got to say, I hate white rabbits to make the smoke go away.

And what I said, I remember saying, what was it? Fuzzy bunnies. Yeah, I think he had bunnies. Yeah. But someone commented on it. There's a lot of, I mean, we got so many different. There's a lot of debate about what the exact phrase is. I think it was Fuzzy Bunnies, Fuzzy Bunnies. I think that's what I remember. Fuzzy bunnies. When someone put that in, I was like, yeah, that's what I've heard. But it's all, but we know it's not, if you're a rabbit, it's not good news. Yeah.

A lot of people said you had to say it three times. Yeah. Well, what is... Oh, so it's like a supernatural thing. It's not... I was thinking the breath coming out. Yeah, it's like the breath coming out is what makes it do it. I mean, I thought maybe that was the thinking. It's like when you mouth elephant foot. You know, have you ever done that? No. You say...

it looks like i love you yeah okay and then you said elephant foot you loser and then you open up to me and i go what a loser that's the whole point of that you go elephant foot and the person goes i appreciate it man i love you too and you go beat it dumb person and then you you say i said elephant foot which means worse than i don't you go so you don't love me you go i hate you i said elephant foot all right uh

It's nice to be back. I've been gone. I was gone for 10 days. I was at the Miami Improv. I'm wearing this shirt. They have a very cool no sleeves today, so I'm going to see how that looks. Some of y'all might already be turned off.

But, yeah, this is all the staff wears. I mean, one of the best improv shirts I've seen. And Miami was awesome, dude. Well, we were in Des Moines before that. Des Moines was wonderful as well. Des Moines was great. Funny Bone. Funny Bone, great, great club. And then the Miami Improv, it's a new Miami Improv. They used to have the old one, but the room was split, which is very funny. You'd go on stage, the door would open, you'd just be on stage. Right.

And the crowd, like in the front, the crowd would be sitting. And then there was like a V-shaped wall with an office in the middle. So then the seats went like there. So those, if you were in the back, you would not see the other half of the crowd. And performing to it was, it felt like that. It's like two different rooms. Two different rooms. Yeah. And it's weird.

It feels weird. You ever do well in one room and then the other room is not doing great? Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, I've done shows in two different rooms anyway, just like starting out. But yeah, you could feel like, oh, this side is like not getting it. This side gets it. And you really feel that. The way it is now, it's not that at all. Now it's a great, wonderful room. But it was always weird. Funny, I did it with this comic, Al Jackson.

Al Jackson is a black comedian. So me and him were co-headlining. Very funny. And then... Oh, yeah. Dude, I called him when he was about to... This was years ago. And I called him...

And I was like, hey, are you here in Miami? He goes, no, we're about to land. He just answered the phone on the plane. He's like this. And I go, you're talking on the plane, dude? And he's like, yeah, yeah. He goes, but we're landing, I think, right now. And I was like, all right. But when you looked at the marquee, it said Nate B. and Al Jackson. They didn't have enough letters for Bargetzi.

So I was like, if someone walks in and then they see me and him co-headlining and they don't know who we are. Yeah. I mean, he definitely looks like Nate B and they think, well, that's Al Jackson. The, the, the, you know, the white Southern guy. Yeah. That's Al Jackson. Uh, everybody's confused. Uh, but this was, uh, yeah, Des Moines was awesome. Everybody was very, super nice. Great hotel there. There's a hotel called, uh, Serity. It's downtown Des Moines. Uh,

And they were really, really cool to us. And it was, it's, it's pretty, it's like brand new. And they, the whole, everybody there was like really cool. And then Miami, uh,

I went to LA too, but Miami, Miami, Miami surprised me. I, you know, I was talking about it. It's like, I don't know, selling tickets in Miami. It's like kind of tough. And dude, they, they are, their crowds are awesome. Yeah. They were, they're just like so much good energy and they're so excited. Oh, that's cool. And they, you know, it was so many different people. They were young, they're older there. It was just a great mix. And, uh, Miami is a fun town. I don't even know. I've been, I've been, I, but I,

I don't think we stayed in Miami, not too far from South Beach, but not in South Beach. We drove over there. But Miami's just a, it is a, I like it. It's like a good vibe. Like everybody's, I don't know, it's a fun to party down there. Like it's a, you know, but it's not, I don't know, it's not crazy. Everybody seems nice. Food's great. It was fun. I really liked Miami. And then LA, we went to LA too, in the middle of that.

They got some great outdoor shows in L.A. There's one called Supernova. And there's another one called Jam in the Van. And those are the two I did. And there's Supernovas in the round. It's all outside. It was nice. It was nice to get up in L.A.

Just because it's been Nick Novicki Yeah Nick was out there Nick popped out there For us Adam Ray I saw Adam Adam was supposed to be On the podcast today And he got He couldn't make it So But yeah It's I think Adam's At Zany's Wednesday Yeah Tonight Yeah tonight The day this comes out The day this comes out If y'all remember Adam When he was here If you're in Nashville He's at Zany's So yeah It was fun I mean it was a good You know A good little trip

I got Travis, my buddy that I grew up with. He's my tour manager. He's new. He's having to go through it. Yeah. He's obviously never been a tour manager. And so he got our car towed. Where? Near the Miami Improv. He parked at this Famous Dave's parking lot. And there's signs everywhere that say they're going to tow you. But he went and talked to Famous Dave.

no no Dave was there David he goes yeah uh now he goes and talks to the manager in there and there he's like can I park at this thing because they were kind of closed yeah and he goes yeah that's fine and I mean I think he goes yeah it's fine and then they just immediately towed our car and so he had to go get it uh

And so, yeah, but it was good. Justin Smith was with me, and he does great. And so, yeah, it was a fun, you know. Did the manager, did he go talk to the manager and say, what happened? Yeah, it's operated outside of him. So it's not like it's famous Dave's deal, right?

They're just like, they do it. And then there's other signs. And then they just call this company. I think they said this guy walks around and just like VME view park. They just, they, even the towing company, they told him they're like, they've been calling us all night. Like we've just had to tow everybody. Wow. So yeah. See, I don't know if there, if there's money involved or something like, I mean, look, your parts in no tow way zone.

Yeah, you can get towed. But it's funny if the touring guy would be like, yeah, we don't even want to go there anymore. They're just calling and we're towing everybody. So it was tough. But overall, wonderful trip. Yeah. Wonderful trip. That's awesome, man. Love Miami. And I'll be in Naples.

June 11th through 13th. So one more little Florida trip. And then also the one night only tour. Our one night only tour. All these tour names. The rain check tour. The rain check tour. All of them are up. All the dates are up. The dates that we've listed, we're going to be adding much more.

So many more cities we will be adding. I'm touring everywhere. And so I get a lot of like, you're going to add Texas. You're going to add Denver, Chicago. Yes.

I will be adding those cities. We just can't announce everything right now, but I mean, you're, I will be coming. I, this is going to be a full on tour. Uh, so we will be out there on the road. And, uh, so make sure you go, uh, check that out. A lot of these were at, I mean, we've met, we posted a bunch of day. We've added a bunch of shows. Uh, I think some, somebody's might, we might have a third show added, a lot of late shows added. So just go get these tickets, these tickets, people are buying them.

Which is very nice and very sweet. I can't thank you enough for not buying them. But make sure you go get them, you know, so you can get out to the Raincheck Tour. All new hour. Yeah. Yeah. That's exciting. That's pretty amazing, man. Yeah. It's pretty good. Maybe, you know, it could be terrible. Yeah. So, and this is your last week of freedom. Yeah. Yeah. What should I do? I get married in...

Go to Mexico. Six days. Go to Mexico for a little bit? No, he means permanently. Yeah. Start over. I want to see you as they come over this border this way, you going that way. You always see the videos of them going through a river. I just want to see you walking through the river the opposite way. Hey, is this the best way to go? Yeah, yeah. High-fiving them? Yeah, yeah.

One of them can have my spot. I live here now. Oh, you just walk into that river. That's one of my heartbreak kid with Ben Stiller when he has to come over the border illegally. Yeah. And then he does it and he's like, he's got a baby and he keeps getting caught and he falls in the water one day and he holds him. And by the time he gets, he's been trying to get over the border for months. He speaks full Spanish. It's amazing. Yeah.

Yeah, but do that. You don't hear about that much people going over the border that way. Yeah, I would think like Shawshank would rip the shirt off in the rain. Never seen it. Through the Rio Grande. You've never seen Shawshank? No. Watching E.T. Yeah, E.T. you might have already been, I guess, too old for it. But I watched it. That's the first movie I ever saw at a movie theater. That was E.T. Yeah, so how old would you have been?

I mean, I've seen it. Yeah. It's just been close to 40 years since I've seen it. Yeah. I was, yeah. Yeah, my parents drove me and you drove. I think it was like 82 or something when it came out. Oh, yeah. So I don't even remember seeing it. I was three. But I do know that was my first movie and I cried. And then, you know what else I'm watching? I'm going back to The Matrix. I don't think I've ever saw The Matrix either. I never have. Yeah, yeah. Well, I started watching it.

And then it's all, you know, I don't even know if I really get it. But, I mean, I started the second one. There's just a whole town. I don't want to give anything away. You should watch it. Oh, yeah. The first is like this little thing. That's Reloaded, right? Isn't that the second one? Yeah. They don't do two or three. So you got to go look it up.

And then... That's a clear example, I think, of a movie they never thought they'd be making sequels to. Yeah. And then it did so well. Well, they were saying, Justin on the road with us, he said that they were going to make it, the first one, all like make three episodes and they go, no, you can make one. So then they had to combine three seasons or three movies into one and it was...

Unbelievable. Yeah. And they go, okay, now you can make three. And they're like, oh, that was the whole story. You're like, that was kind of everything. But yeah, because it just pops in. Second one, I don't know. There's a town and you're like, I don't even...

You're like, where did it end? I got asked, like, Travis was like, so there's just a town? Like, am I supposed to know that this is, I just don't, you know. And other thing I started watching, your West Wing. Have you really? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. This is exciting. Have you watched it? I haven't. Get on it, dude. I'd love to. But he was covering it. Channel 5 News.

President Bartlett? What do you think, man? Do you like it? Yeah. It's kind of quick-paced, right? It's super quick. That's all Aaron Sorkin. Yeah. Just dialogue, dialogue, dialogue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I'm maybe only two episodes in. Okay. Three, but yeah, I enjoyed it. I like actors. I do like the quickness of it. Uh-huh.

And so, yeah, it's good. That's exciting. Yeah. So we'll see. Yeah. See how far I get. See if I get rolling on it. Yeah, you might. I'm not going to probably understand a lot of this. What, the show? Yeah. Well, that's a lot of Aaron Sorkin stuff is just like, you don't even necessarily have to understand what they're talking about. It's just like professional gibberish. Yeah. Just to let you know, hey, they're smart and they know what they're doing. Yeah. You don't have to know everything that's going on. Yeah, yeah. It's like philosophy.

It's kind of that. Yeah. I think so. It's basically, yeah. Yeah, that's a good analogy. Yeah, just like it's professional gibberish. Professional gibberish. Right. But then you want to go, but so no one really knows. Yeah.

Like philosophy would be like that. Eventually you would go, you could get by the end of it, go this whole, like the last day of your school, you go, this is all made up. Right. They tell you that the last day? No, you have to say that to the teacher. Oh, you confront the teacher violently. You have an F. Yeah. And you go up to him and go, let's just admit that none of this matters or is true. And it's just talking. It has no real consequences on anything. Yeah. And he goes, changes that F to an A. And he goes, you did it. You passed the test. You passed the test.

you're out there talking gibberish yeah what is a table yeah imagine walking in just hearing that class and this is our fossil dude what is a cup that's what a lot are you drinking out of a cup i have a cut you had to take two philosophy classes at school so everybody had to take these classes dude people were just like they were furious so many of these kids like this is so dumb

I used to hear him just like complain. How could you not just be whatever grade he gets you? What determines what you think what by grade I should get? How do you know what I should be learning or what I did or did not learn? Like, why didn't you do all that? I got real lost in that question. Exactly. Well, that's philosophy's whole thing. That's all part of it. Yeah. But if he goes, here's an F, and you go, how do you give me an F and not an A? What if an F is an A? Who are you to tell me what I've learned about this philosophy class?

What do you know? Do you have philosophy figured out? Because either you know philosophy and have it figured out, or you don't. Maybe you know no philosophy, and maybe you're the least qualified to teach philosophy, but you have the audacity to give me an F based on what? How could you not? Right? Would that not work? I think Aaron just didn't go to class. That was a big part of it. Yeah, for some of the classes. It's a little bit like your bowling class. You didn't go to philosophy. You change an F to an A with one line. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Yeah.

So why? Yeah, I didn't think it needed to be said. I think everybody got that. But if Aaron, this is how Aaron, everybody listening, this is what Aaron thinks of your intelligence. This is Notre Dame right here. He thinks we don't know. You can change. Hey, everybody like us, we've been changing F's to A's a long time, man. Before we get home, we go, look, it's an A. Why is it a different ink? I don't know. Her ink thing ran out when she was doing it.

This week, did you have anything? Nothing. Oh, yeah. Did you decide on your groomsman's gift? I did. And I want to thank everybody that reached out. And a lot of people messaged me that had engraving services and they had a lot of great ideas. I ended up getting... With none of their ideas? No, it was just a time thing. Because they were messaging me and I was like, I have to ship them what I want and whatever. So it just would have taken long.

I feel like y'all are going to make fun of me for what I ended up doing. I hope so. I bet we are. I got everybody rare... Flask. No, baseball cards for a player relevant to them or our relationship. I went and found old rookie cards and autographed cards and got them framed up. Yeah. Something a little different. Yeah. But it was interesting to me to kind of go through and find players that I thought...

they would relate to, you know, and hopefully it's something that increases in value. Uh, years. Uh, like what, like one, could you name one? Could you say one or? Yeah, sure. For my brother, I got a Bo Jackson 87 rookie card. Legit rookie. Yeah. Yeah. And framed up. Was he a Bo Jackson fan or? No, I, well. Is he black? No.

My actual brother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's what I mean. Your actual brother. You're like... You go... I think this is obvious why I got you this. No, no. This is for sappy reasons, but I have their traits in both of them. Yeah, okay. They have the same traits that I admire. I don't know. I felt like something different to me. The way he ran up that wall and ran back down that wall reminded me of just the...

All the hurdles you had to go through in your life. No. Something like that? That would be a stretch, but it was a little better. When he got injured, his career was cut short. That reminded me of all the potential you left out on the table. Like BoJack said, you are a what-if story. You could have been the best of this family, but you were injured and riddled with whatever. Yeah.

I think that's cool. Yeah, thank you. I've started collected baseball cards. Do they know already? No. So now they will? Well, none of them listen to this. No, I think my brother does. They'll find out eventually. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's different. Yeah. It's different. And then they can put it up on a... Yeah, it's in a nice display type thing. You know, the baseball card market is insane. You can't find baseball cards anywhere.

Did you have to change anybody up because you couldn't find the original one you wanted? Yes, a few. Or afford it? For sure. Some are crazy expensive. If you go get a Mike Trout rookie card, they're like,

Cheap as you can find is $2,000 for a rookie card from 10 years ago. Yeah. It's insane. Target stopped selling them because people were having fights. Huh. Yeah. They were storming the shelves. It's pretty crazy, man. I was a huge baseball card collector. Yeah? I still have them all. Oh, yeah? You ever gone back and... Yeah. I went back recently. I did not buy this when he played.

I bought this at an auction. It was just a box for cheap, and I went through them. It was a Roger Maris rookie card. Oh, nice. Wow. I mean, it's not worth a ton, but it's depending on who you talk to, a few hundred dollars. Is it in pretty good condition? It's not in mint condition, but it's in good condition. Like Roger Maris. Yes. Thank you.

Roger Mayers would be the rookie card you have. It's like a perfect, it's not Mickey man. It's it's, but it's like, I mean, he had the world, he had the home run record. You know, it's like, it's, you know, it's like a very funny, you know, where you're like, yeah, it's a good card. Yeah.

That was my go-to thing, though, when we would be at the checkout line with my mom. Oh, that's great. Pack a Topps baseball card. I'd get that over candy. Yeah. If they still sold them, I'd still do it at the checkout line. Well, now... Did you get the gum? Yeah. Yeah. Now they're like 50 bucks a pack, if you find them. 50 bucks a pack. I remember when they used to be $1.50 or a dollar. Yeah. Yeah. Or a buffalo nickel. I was done collecting them when they were a dollar. He got out of it. He goes, what are these, crazy? These ain't going to go that high. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Baseball cards. It would be curious to see. I don't know if I have any. I mean, I did. I collected them too. Yeah. It's a fun nostalgia thing too. It is a fun. It is. Yeah. Remembering all these players and it's cool. Yeah. So this week we are going to talk about theme parks. You know, we talked about carnivals and stuff or fairs. Yeah. A little bit. World's fairs. World's fairs. So we said, you know, what about theme parks? Yeah.

You know, so here we are. I'm pretty interested in theme parks. Are you big theme park guys? I, uh, I am. I like going, I mean, I'm probably getting a little more scared of riding rides than I was. I was better at it. If I can get my, but I want, it's hard when you have a kid cause you want your daughter. Like I don't want her to be scared. I think I got scared of riding rides.

One was the Nashville fairgrounds. I don't know if I told this story. Remember that white roller coaster they had at the fairgrounds? That thing is what scared me from riding roller coasters because something would fall off of it regularly. I mean, if you went, you would see a piece. You would just see something kind of go down. And you're like, is that good that that's down? And it would make you... It was just not put together good.

And so I remember going to that as a kid. And I remember, I think we rode it. And then my, you know, then my mom, I think my mom was like, because my dad would always want us to go. And my dad always told my mom that she's the one that made us scared. Because then when we were, you know, my daughter's age, 8, 9, 10, 11, like my dad would want to ride a ride. And we were like, no, none of us are riding these rides. And I did get better. I've ridden.

a lot of rides. The big one we rode was the Beast at Kings Island. We'd go to Kings Island. The Beast was the longest wooden roller coaster in the world. I don't know if it is now, but, and I remember my dad said, he's like, you know, we'd always go. He's like, if you, if we go, if you ride this roller coaster, I'll let you buy something, whatever you want. Oh, interesting. And I mean, it's so funny that like my daughter now, like, you know, she just knows she's going to get something.

So there's no real reward. Yeah. It doesn't work like that at all. Cause I'll get it. I mean, to buy something growing up, they just couldn't afford like they, my parents were going to, it was enough. We'd always have to go out of the park to eat. Yeah. You'd always have to bring your own lunch and like, you know, like you see all you, I mean, there's so many things. This is why I do spend money. Like if I go to a park now, just cause like growing up, uh, which I might actually say this in a part of the joke, uh,

Because growing up, I didn't do it. So I might bail on what I was saying. Because it actually might fit in a spot. But yeah, we would always have to go out and eat. And I just remember wanting to just, you know, I just want to buy the food that's in there. Yeah. And I have a big thing with that everywhere. If I go to Disney World now, I'm like, we're eating here. We're eating inside. So my daughter's getting the rewards of me getting no rewards. Yeah. And the fact that I will, yeah. Yeah.

You got nothing. Write all this stuff. You got nothing, so your daughter gets everything. Yeah, yeah. This is the beast right here, looking at it. It's the longest wooden roller coaster in the world. Yeah. I was at a big...

I've never been a big roller coaster guy. I was always too scared of them. But growing up, the only place we'd ever go was Opryland. Yeah. Did you ever make it to Opryland? No. Opryland was gone by the time I moved here. Yeah. It closed in 97. So you'd have been young. I'd have been, yeah, very young. But they had a ride. This is one of the old rides there, the Wabash Cannonball. Do you remember that, Nate? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. I worked there. And it went upside down. Yeah. And when we went once, it was me and my sister and my cousin. And I was probably about 10, and he was 8, which at that age, that's a huge difference because the 10-year-old is supposed to be so much ahead of that year old. And my sister, who's five years older than me, wanted to ride it, and I was scared to do it.

I couldn't do it. And my eight-year-old cousin was willing to do it. And it was such a pride versus fear moment for me because I'm two years older than him. I should be the big, brave guy. And I just couldn't do it. I just chickened out. Fear won. You never rode it? I did later, but not that particular day. I just fear won out. And they went and rode it. And...

Got off and loved it, but I was just too scared to do it. Just the going upside down part just was too much for me. Yeah, operating was awesome. Oh, yeah. Well, I've seen this. I've seen this.

I worked there. My first job, I believe, I ever had. And I remember my mom dropping me off to where I went and got my uniform. And I checked in. And they gave me a broom. What did you do? I was a sweeper. I never got to where you got to send people off on a roller coaster. But yeah, I remember this roller coaster. It's so crazy to me that they tore this down. I don't know why.

You talking about Opryland in general? Yeah. Was it prime real estate? Where was it? No, I mean, the mall's there now. Oh, it was where the mall is now. It's where the mall is. You know, I read a little bit about it, why they did it. And I mean, I never read a good reason. One, it said when Dollywood came in, it took away a lot of people's

From this part of the country. Yeah. And then Six Flags opened, I think, in St. Louis or something like that. So regionally, when it first opened, Operating Land was the only theme park even close. And then they took some people. The real estate, it's in between the Cumberland River and Briley Parkway. Yeah. So they couldn't really expand that much. They expanded as far as they could go. Yeah.

And I think they just finally decided to bail on it. Wow. Yeah, it was Hangman. You remember Hangman? But that came along right at the end. That came right at the end. And it was a roller coaster. You hung. Your feet hung. So you're sitting...

and like in a you know like in a swing basically and that was like a big deal because that we'd never seen anything like that and so that was yeah that was the last thing that came but I think it was just such a good it was a very uh original park like it's you know country music and all this kind of stuff I mean Dollywood is that now but why would they not just make Dollywood just be that like that's uh Dollywood's great though Dollywood's awesome

But it's just, you know, it's two hours away. It was like, I mean, it was, you know, yeah, I was a sweeper. I did whatever. I was 15 years old. You're just doing whatever they need. Yeah. Maybe, I think, $3.25 an hour was my minimum wage. I remember when the Grizzly River Rampage came. Yeah. I was into it because that's not a roller coaster. That's a whitewater raft. And I'm fine with getting wet. I just didn't want to go fast and high. Would you go down to Old Mill Screen? No.

i think about is that the flume zoom no it was the one that was like kind of like you set all the way down and you go down this hill and then you would stand at the bridge and everybody gets oh yeah yeah you would do that hill i would do that i mean a little bit maybe not when i was a kid but when i got a little bit older i remember you'd be there someday hot days you'd love getting splashed oh yeah kids just get just crushed yeah they're uh my daughter does pretty good with uh

rides grizzly rampage is great and then she does good with uh she would do that she rides this jurassic world rider universal and it's a roller coaster and uh she's done it there and somewhere else and it was one that uh i told her she goes i want to ride it this is when i got i talked about it in my special uh it was the trip i got claustrophobia from the simpsons ride and then uh

We go ride. She goes, I want to ride Jurassic world and Jurassic world is, you know, I mean, everybody knows that universal or it's a roller coaster. That's with Jurassic park stuff. And, uh, she goes, I want to ride that. And I was like, I was like, let me, I go, no way. Like, you know, I wanted to ride everything, but I was like, there's no way she's going to ride this ride. Maybe it's a water ride. Uh,

and you had to water ride and so she goes no no I want to ride it and I was like no and she was like crying because she wanted to ride it and I'm like she gets scared of like some stuff and then I was like very surprised that she wasn't being scared of this so I went and rode it I was like let me just go see what it is first and then I rode and then I was like alright I was like if you want to ride it ride it and that was actually that was the moment where I was like oh this claustrophobic thing is not going away because then they shut that thing down and the whole ride I was like I was like feeling it there and uh

So I was like, ugh. But it was, yeah, she loved it. It was good and fun. Yeah, it's a pretty cool ride. That's cool. Yeah. I looked up the top. Travel and Leisure just did the best theme parks in the country. They're all the ones you'd expect. Is Disney World and Universal, are they connected? I don't think so. They're just close. I think you can buy a package. They're just close. I think you can buy a package and it can go, you know.

It's weird they set up shop in the same city, though. Well, I mean, I think they're friends. They're close. Well, I mean, seven of the top eight theme parks in the country are either Universal or a Disney. Yeah, I think Universal is like Nickelodeon. Because when you go to Disney World, Universal, I believe, would be where you see all the Nickelodeons. So like Doc McStuffins was where we would go. That's where if we wanted to... When she was into Doc McStuffins, which is cartoon...

If we wanted to see those things, we had to go to Universal. And those were a big deal for her to see. Well, just a few of the top ones. The latest in Magic Kingdom, number one, which I have been to that. Universal's Island of Adventure, number two. Was that a...

I thought I had it on here, but now I don't see it. It's got the new VelociCoaster scheduled to open next month in a Harry Potter themed. It's in Orlando. Oh, Orlando. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I've been there. These roller coasters, I think, are going to get nuts. I think it's about to get nuts, too. Yeah. I mean, you're just going to keep getting, they're going to get crazier and crazier. Disney's Animal Kingdom is third. I thought I had the location on here, but.

It's got the world of Avatar and avatars. Do you find that going to these places with your kid, it's a different level of enjoyment for you? Yeah, it's the best. That's the whole fun of it. Especially where our whole family goes. We went with my brother's kids. His oldest is 13 now. We took her when she was five.

And, you know, before Harper's Bore or any of that. And so, yeah, that was the enjoyment. They believe this stuff's real. Like, they're sitting there. I mean, you know, Disney's unreal. And it's the, you know, Cinderella's castle. And you're like, you're seeing this little girl that's like, that's where Cinderella lives? Like, it's... Yeah, there's nothing better than that. And that's one of the greatest moments I'll probably remember forever is just...

and taking my daughter which now she's like a little bit now it's a little more fun along for the rides i can probably get her on a little more stuff we can ride ride some more things than we used to be able to ride uh but yeah i mean when i was first taking her to meet the princesses yeah and like you're going in and you know to do it uh when you're going to see them be very excited and all this stuff i mean it's uh yeah it's unbelievable you used to have a joke about that

about your friends say don't take your daughter to Disney World yeah yeah yeah yeah yes yeah yeah but don't you want to waste your money yeah like yeah because you won't remember it because you won't remember it yeah but it's like you're taking home because you're like she can't believe this is real what we did is like when she was two we were living in LA we would just go to the free part which was like you know outside of the park and

where they have all the stores it was like just go there because she's two so and then she gets to go into the store and see all this Disney stuff and you're just kind of look at all this instead of like spending all the money to go to Disneyland it was like just go walk around this thing she's too young to get it yeah and then to really want to see you can't do much

Like when they're that little. They want to meet the princesses. You're basically just going and meeting people all day. Just going to look at stuff, essentially. You're kind of looking at stuff. They had some great stuff in Disney World where they had this game that you played. It was a map and you had to go find stuff throughout the park. That was...

a very fun thing to do. It's a whole day. It's a whole day. It's a whole day. And it's, but there's a lot, but you know, with a kid, you're not just like, I think if you got boy, you know, I mean, look, a lot of girls are riding these rides too and they love it. But all my friends that have boys, I mean, it's like, you know, they're just, it's a bunch of dudes and their boy, they're just running to roller coasters. And so you're just riding, you're like, boom, we got to run here, run here. Like my buddy Doug, who did our,

at the beginning of this podcast. But he's got two boys, and so his boys are just, they're like ready to roll. All about it, yeah. And so like he goes, I mean, I think they have to kind of map it out to go like be like, all right, we got to hit this ride, this ride. They want to ride every ride.

And then, so it depends on what, who's into rides and not. Do you get that level of excitement as an adult ever again? Or do you just have to get older and then live it again through kids? I think you live it again through your kids, but there's people that are, there's, there's people that just go to Disney world that are obsessed with Disney. Yeah. That are adults. And I don't always completely my, like sometimes we always make fun of those people. Like it's couples that don't have kids, but they just go to Disney world because they love it so much.

I mean, you know, we're talking about baseball cards. What's the difference of that? That's more ridiculous, probably. Yeah. And then... So, yeah, I think I could see you going. Like, it's a great vacation. The stuff's all kind of there. It's easy to do. There's a lot of rides, but even if you don't ride the rides, like, you could go and, I don't know, you could walk around and have a pretty fun day and just eat a bunch of garbage, and it's fun. But I think you definitely...

live through it through your kids. I mean, going to see them see this stuff for the first time is pretty spectacular. I mean, you know, when they go meet Elsa, you know, we were... So we got to go with the Frozen craze, which was unbelievable. Like, it's these two... Still big, right? Isn't that the big... Yeah, it's still big, but it was...

It was nice to be able to go. She was at the age, which I'm sure every generation has their person, but she was at the age where Elsa and Anna and Frozen. And Frozen was such a good movie. And it was, so we got to go like see all that stuff. Trying to think of who that was for me. Probably SpongeBob.

Yeah, I miss Spongebob. Spongebob was after you. I know people always talk about Spongebob. I never watched it. Yeah, it was pretty big when I was second, third grade, around that age. It was pretty much everywhere. You mentioned the Disney princesses. I was reading a site that, this is like on Reddit, where Disney employees share personal stories and stuff. And they said, if you're playing one of the 90s Disney princess characters,

don't be surprised if newer cast members don't want to sit with you. So they have a break room there. They say it's like high school cafeteria. And if you're Elsa or Anna, you just sit on one side and you don't even make eye contact with the old characters, Mary Poppins and Snow White. Mary Poppins and Snow White are old people now. And they're not cool. But it's not like they're old...

It's like a young person being them, right? It is, but I guess the kids think Snow White, does your daughter like Snow White? Yeah, yeah. She does? Yeah, you show all those movies. We saw, we met Snow White. Yeah, she loves Snow White. I mean, her favorite has always been that and Tiana. Yeah.

And, uh, I think that's her name. But do they, so the, the theory being the older people with the older characters resent the people who get to play the younger, cooler, hipper character. Meredith. Yeah. She's like Meredith, which is brave. Yeah. Meredith. Meredith Vieira. That didn't sound like a real Meredith Vieira. Yeah. Yeah. Speak Meredith Vieira fan. Janet. Janet Yellen. Go see, uh, Janet's always working though. Uh,

She's always tough to get, you know. She's annoyed when you come there. What? And you're like, hi, Janet. We saw your thing. She's like, it was a commercial. And you go, I know, but we're big fans of the commercial, so you might want to take your picture. Flow from Progressive? You know what I mean? The flow part of the section. That'd be a great theme park. A commercial. Just commercial characters everywhere. Yeah. I bet it. Probably not, but it's...

If you just go in, I mean, that's just like the people that watch TV more than anything in life itself. Oh, yeah, it'd be great, dude. You got the Verizon guy walking around. Yeah, I don't know if people will be walking around that theme park. You're going to need one of those...

motorized walkways. There's going to be a free-for-all on wheelchairs that you drive. They got Wilford Brimley doing it. I mean, I'm just saying, anybody that would go to a theme park that's commercials, you're watching TV so much that you're not getting up. Right. And so it's just like a theme park that's

Their whole thing would be like you drive four-wheelers around. And they're like, oh, why? There it goes. Because these people ain't walking around, dude. These people are just in line. They scoot up into McDonald's. Everything's a drive-through. They have to go get all their food. It's like a reverse mortgage stand. So there's a lot of crazy theme parks that, you know, there's a lot of Bible-based. I'm not saying that's crazy, but just unique different theme parks. Dollywood obviously has one. If there was a Nate Land...

Nate Land theme park. Theme park. I think you'd go to McDonald's and your burger's already got a bite out of it. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be good. Iced coffee and milk. Iced coffee and milk. Oh, man. The wheeze and the worry. The wheeze and the worry. Could be a ride. The clocks would be 10 minutes fast, so you're always worried that you're late. That's the...

Is that something you do? No, you're worried. I'm saying... Oh, that's the worried ride. It brings... Not the worried ride. Like, it's just in general. The whole podcast is just... You're kind of like, oh my God, we're going to miss our reservation. Everything just makes you... You're just kind of worried the whole day. Oh, I see. Because you always kind of forget about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah. It could be a Nate Land. It could be a Nate Land. Yeah, that'd be good. Yeah. I mean, a gout foot.

We just check people out for their gout. It's not even a ride. It's just a medical stand. It's like how they do vaccines at a drive-thru. We're going to just the gout tent. And you're like, oh, is this like a fun ride? You go, no, literally we're

We think gout's a bigger problem than people realize. And we're just, we just gotta, you guys stick your, you just pull up and your foot's just out the window. And a guy just starts poking it with a pen. And he's like, I think you're good. A little hangnail there, but besides that, I'd get on. And he goes, thank you.

We check you for gout before you come in. That's your ticket. If you get 20, if you got gout and can prove it 20% off, you get that negative gout test, negative gout test to get in. You can have a serpentarium where there's always a crocodile that gets out. Yeah. You could have a, that'd be pretty good. You'd have a, a theme park,

based on jokes this could be what if we do it i gotta i got a long way to go tigers but if you can if i can start and call it nate nate land is good yep already got a head start on it got a head start could be where arpy land is bulldoze arpy mills out there yeah where you grew up do nate land yeah it's all based on your comedy you'd have to have some you'd have to have some awesome rides yeah but then like a comedy uh comedy theme park where you do you know you have comedy shows

You know, doing my dad magic. Make him do four shows a day. I'll just make him to work. He goes, how much do you get paid? Nothing. You get 20% off of your food. It's better than a lot of clubs. That's what I'm going to make him do for making us not be able to eat.

In the park, he goes, well, can I buy food? It costs more. You got to go eat in your car like you made us do when we were children. And that's a ride. People just go follow my dad out and have to eat the car with him. That's a ride. Yeah. That's one of the rides. Then he leaves the car door open. Yeah. The entire time. And the food, everything's hot. Yeah.

I had a dog get loose at Opryland. Yeah, you told that story. Yeah. And I forgot what happened, though. It was okay? I think so. Yeah, they found him. He was pretty upset. The family was not thrilled. Yeah, that's funny. It could be like people could say, yeah, what is some fun Nate Land rides? I think it's more. Yeah. We could do a Krispy Kreme challenge. Yeah. Oh, dude. That would be like Nathan's.

Hot dog. Hot dog thing. Yeah. They could do it like once a year. We do the Krispy Kreme challenge. That's our big weekend for us. Yeah, for sure. That's a big week. July 4th weekend. Yeah. Typically. Yeah. Yeah. And we do Krispy Kreme. It's going to happen. Dead horse. Just dead horses laying around. Yeah. That's a game. You got to guess which one's dead, which one's awake. Yeah. But they're all dead. The hard part is four of them will be dead. Yeah.

And then the one, you go, well, that one's alive. It's walking around. I know it's pretty tough to get him to lay down, to be honest. The game would go better if he would lay down. But the fact that he gets up and walks, it's a dead giveaway. Yeah. And then when the other one's asleep, you're like, no, they're dead. You could make it like some, like in one of the games. Yeah, yeah. A dead or, yeah.

Yeah, some time travel. Time travel rides. Yep, yep. There's all kinds of stuff. There's a mountain that you have to climb, maybe. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mount Rainier. Yeah, but they give you stuff you have to carry. It's a ride. They give you, yeah. Mount Rainier would be, oh, yeah. Just walking up a big mountain. You got to leave everything down. You get up there, there's babies up there. Yeah, there's babies up there throwing wood. Yep. Yeah.

We ran out of stuff pretty quick. Just going through. Got to go through every joke. You went out there and it would be every joke, but yeah. I'll make my own Dollywood. Nate Lane. She did it. Yeah. Why can't a comedian do it? She was the only one on this. I said seven out of the top eight were either Universal or Disney. She was the only one. Dollywood was number six. Wow. That's pretty good. Yeah. What was the list? Just read through them. Just speak on here. All right. So...

You read two. All right. Got a top 10 list. Here's the first two. Then we're going to move on. I think I read three. Well, usually I feel like get bored with when I start listening to these things. Well, then maybe just do five. Universal Studios Florida is number four. Yeah. It's got the Simpsons and Harry Potter. Yeah. Universal Studios. Claustrophobia. Oh, that one? Yeah. No, that's a riot at Nightland. They just trap you in this box. Yeah. It just gets smaller and smaller. And you see how long you can last. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. People leave with real...

Traumatic. You leave with real problems. We get you .25 Xanax as you walk out. Get you addicted to it. We're run by Big Farm. Big Medicine. What are they called? Big Pharma. Big Pharma. That's who sponsored it. Big Farm. Well, we got a Big Farm section. We're brought in by all the big stuff. Big Pharma. Big Farm. It could be a ride where you just unpack a Helix mattress. Yeah. Just watch it. Yeah. Walmart stuff.

Yeah, there's a lot there. Yeah. Number five, Universal Studios Hollywood. I haven't been to any of those. Dollywood, six. Disneyland in Anaheim, seven. How about Twitty City in Hendersonville? Is that on there? It is not. I looked up Twitty City, though. I used to drive by Twitty City all the time. It was a baseball team. Twitty City was a...

All my friends played for Twitty City. They had a baseball league there? Yeah, it was like a really good, I think it was kind of a traveling kind of thing, but it's such a good name, Twitty City. Yeah, it's great. And that was, I mean, now it's Huckabee Studios. Oh, that's where he does his show? Yep. But it was just kind of like Lifestyle of the Rich and the Famous. You just drive through and see where Conway Twitty's, all this stuff was. No rides. No, nothing like that. It's a neighborhood.

With a catchy name. Aaron might not know what a theme park is. No, I looked it up, Aaron. Okay. Because I wasn't sure either. Silver Dollar City in Branson, number nine. Yeah. Pressure started at 10, huh? Yeah. Disney Adventure Park, number 10. This is the Avengers. I don't even know how to give charts out. All right. What have you been waiting on? Top 10 theme parks. Start at number one. And then you get it.

Is this just in America? Yeah. Yeah. I really didn't think you would want to hear more than a couple, so that's why I started at the top. But number 10, Digi Adventure Park, June 4th, which is what, next week? Yeah, coming up. The Avengers campus opens. It's like a new section there. It's supposed to be really big. Wow. So, and then it gets into-

Use code Nate when you go buy tickets for it. Just as you go in, go Nateland Podcast, and then they charge you more. Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville is number 21. Do you have them all? I have 25. I'm not going to read them, but I thought you might be interested in Kentucky Kingdom. Keep going until you hit Visionland in Birmingham. Is Kings Island on there? No. No. It's not. Cedar Point's number 24. Cedar Point's got the highest roller coasters.

Yeah, I thought that'd be higher because they're pretty proud of what they got up there. Yeah. But 24. I don't know. I mean, that's just one thing. It's not too great. Well, I'd take it as gospel. Yeah. For sure. So at Kings Island, they have a ride called the Racer. Yeah. Yeah.

And it kind of helped put roller coasters back on the map. I guess roller coasters were big back in the 30s and 40s. Then they kind of went away. A bunch of people died probably. And then in the 70s, an episode of the Brady Bunch, they went to Kings Island and rolled the racer. I thought this was the step-by-step roller coaster. Yeah, I've done this roller coaster. Yeah, and you race, which is the theme of it.

It's called the race. How do you determine, how do you affect how fast you go? Do you just lean forward? It's just red and blue, and they're just racing. I mean, I think it's just the general idea that you're on a roller coaster. Is it not a tie every time, though? I don't think so. Probably not. You know, I'm sure it's just different.

I'm sure it's like you have more weight or more whatever. Okay. I don't know if you don't really. Yeah, I don't think it's like a big I don't think anybody cares. It's like you're just on a roller coaster. Yeah. Kings Island is where we would go. Kings Island is a cool park.

Yeah. This guy, Don Helbig, has set all kinds of Guinness World Records for roller coasters. They finally hired him as the public relations manager at Kings Island. That's a good move. He's rode the racer over 12,000 times. Wow. I mean, how do you even have... I mean...

He was working for the Cincinnati... Do you know how many times 12,000 is? Yeah, 12,000. Yeah. For sure, dude. It's a lot. It's a lot of times. He was working for the... I like that. Yeah. That fist bump, you didn't care for that one? He doesn't know when to do them. Trying to give you one in there. One last fist bump of freedom before you get your life snatched from you. Yeah.

I mean, 12,000 is kind of insane. How long is this roller coaster? It's like probably 90 seconds. Is that, that's about right. That one said watch three, the video you're going to say is three minutes, but say it's a minute. Yeah. 12,000 minutes. How long is that? This guy, he worked for the Cincinnati Reds and Major League Baseball won a strike in 81. So he just started riding roller coasters and he set the single day record for

with 97 rides in one day. And then he broke his own record with 111 rides. And now it's currently 112. By him? Yeah. Wow. I wonder if that's all you can jam in. I don't know. That's 8.8 and a third days of riding on that thing. Of the minutes. You've got to be just going straight for eight days. 200 hours.

straight 200 hours yeah so it's 200 hours so if you go do it well if you go if they ever let you just stay on I mean if you would have to go every day yeah if you go every day it's open and you ride it non-stop non-stop wow but yeah uh yeah I mean it's it's it's you know I mean I guess it's cool like it's like

You do all of that for him to go, I've got the world record for most roller coasters in one day. And someone goes, oh, it's crazy, dude. Cool, man. Yeah. Yeah. It's cool, man. Because I rode the racer over 12,000 times. They're like, where is it at? Kings Island. He goes, I don't know if I've heard. Yeah, might have. Is that in the top 25? No, it's not.

Oh, it's not? Okay. He goes, yeah, you can't. He goes, hey, Disney ain't going to let you ride something 12,000 times. You know what I mean? There's a little more rules there. You got to go to King's Island, which is a little dicey, where you can tip the kid to go, let me go five times. Yeah, I'll just stay in it. I'll just stay in it. And he goes, yeah, absolutely. I gave him 20 bucks. Let me ride it for three months straight. You think you can't go do that at Disneyland? No. You think at SeaWorld they're going to let you just get in there? No, you got to go to a little dicier place.

Where you go, can I touch Shamu? They go, absolutely, dude. Hey, whatever. Get in there, dude. I don't care about this job. Yeah. Are y'all water park guys? I used to be. Yeah. You might be getting back to it. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe one day. Yeah. We used to do our family reunion in Evansville, Indiana, in a part of this complex. And it had batting cages and mini golf and all this kind of stuff. But there was a huge water park that was a part of it. I used to love that thing.

and all these crazy rides that are probably so dangerous looking back. Yeah. Bumper cars. You ever done bumper cars on the water? Yeah, bumper boats. You're just like inhaling gas. They're called bumper boats? Bumper boats. Yeah, it's pretty common. I've never done it. There's one at Opry Mills that they've, no, Opry Mills, that putt-putt course.

The Grand Ole Opry Miniature Corps has bumper boats there. All right. Bumper boats are... I'm not saying it cracked the top 25 list of places, but... I mean, they're everywhere. It was a fun thing. You've never seen bumper boats? Not right off hand, no. Dude, I mean, I've seen... I mean, maybe I have.

Yeah. Well, yeah. Take these little rides. There you go. Yeah, they're pretty fun. Did you do like Nashville Shores? I mean, you described it as you were describing bumper boat. Like you were like, it's like bumper cars, but on water. I didn't remember the term that it was called, but you know. Yeah. We thought it was special, dude.

For you. Well, it is special. It is special. My buddy, Jake Gulledge, I don't know if you guys ever met him. I've heard of him. He's a big guy, probably 6'3", at least 350. Yeah. There was a new water park opening in North Carolina. He took his son, like maybe the first week they were open. His son, probably nine, adopted, so he doesn't have Jake's frame. He probably weighs 60 pounds, maybe. Yeah.

They have this water slide that you go down where you ride a, I don't know, some type of float or something. Yeah. You go down and then you go down in the water. They came down this slide and he had so much weight in the back and this little son in the front. When they hit the water, it skipped because Jake was waiting down the back. It skipped all the way across the water, out of the water, across the pavement and crashed into a fence right next to the road. Yeah.

He almost went in a row. Yeah. If it wasn't for that fence, he would have been on I-40. And, you know, he was banged up. Like wave pool? Wave country or whatever? This was a brand new water park. And they probably never tested someone that size with someone in front of him that little. Yeah. And he just, the velocity just caught it. And it just, he skipped all the way across and left the premises. Yeah. Kept going through the pavement. Did he have to show his ticket to get back in? Yeah.

They paid his medical bills for him. I mean, they freaked out. Was he that hurt? He was pretty banged up. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Was his kid all right? His kid was fine. He said he kind of turned at the last minute to protect his kid from hitting the fence, but he took it head on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of stuff that happens. I mean, they have lifeguards and stuff. I think if you're- We can't stop that. No. You always make sure somebody bigger than you is doing it first. Yeah.

It's a good rule of thumb. Yeah. You never want to be the biggest. Now you got a lot of options. Yeah. The new Aaron. You never want to be the biggest guy going down. Yeah. Did it take you a while to find that guy? Sometimes. The old Aaron did, right? Not anymore. You guys done. Y'all go ahead.

I know you've been over for like four hours. He'll come. He's coming. I'm waiting for him. And then we just see you behind a guy that's just gigantic. And then you're like, you're just in the thing. You're like one skinny person in between that guy. And that's how we know it's Aaron's turn to go. Just this, he weighs 450 and you're finally behind him.

You're just scoping out the bottom of the slide, just waiting to see. Cannonball. Nice big one come down and you go, all right, I'll ride it. Yeah, pretty much. Another thing I read on the Reddit was about Disney World. They let cats roam. Have you heard this? During the night? Feral cats. Once they close up the park at night, roam all through it. For rats? Yeah. I mean, at first they just were there and then they decided to keep them because they control the rat population.

So there's like 50 of them that just roam the park at night. How do they keep them out during the day? Are they nocturnal? People do say they see them some, but I think they usually just sleep during the day and stay away from people. Yeah, and a lot of people. So it's probably too much for them. I don't know if I've ever seen a wild rat somewhere. I know in New York they're everywhere. I don't think I've ever just seen a rat in the wild.

New York is wild, dude. Yeah. I mean, they're, yeah, they're everywhere. Aren't they huge? They're huge. We, one of my first jokes when I started comedy was about, we live in Chicago and there were, they would be in Chicago and they would be, and so they just knocked a building down next to our building and we lived in, we called it the dugout and it was a little basement apartment, me and Michael. Uh,

There would be a rat. The rats would... Because they just went inside something. So they knocked this building down. So they all came into our apartment. And dude, you would hear them. And they were... I mean, dude, it was the worst. What would you hear them like walking around? Oh, yeah, dude. Like, get something out of the refrigerator. I mean, they're just... I mean, they're... Just make themselves at home. Cut the TV on. You're like, oh, God, he's watching West Wing. And then he's... He turns it up. They can't hear as good as you think. And...

They're, but they do, they were, it was so, it would be so big. And we were coming from here. I'd never seen stuff like that. And I mean, we had like where our water here was, was this little, like what's the folding door that folds, you know, like, like a closet door that you fold out. And so they would push that door open. Are you kidding?

Because they would, but it's the water heater was like kind of add like behind the water heater was almost like just like a crawl space. And so they'd be there and they'd come in the house and they would just push, they'd come through the door. I mean, you have to push the door open. Like, it's like that big. I remember I heard one time, one under my bed. Like you could just, I'm going to sleep at night and you just hear like, and it's there and you're like, it's just under the bed. Yeah. What do you do at that point? I mean, I just waited out. Just, you know,

That almost would be enough to make you quit comedy. Just go, I don't want to do this. Yeah. Laura came and stayed with us when she came up to visit. We... I remember one day, she goes... She's... You know, we're trying not to bring up... We're like, hey, don't bring up that we have rats living with us. Yeah. And, I mean, dude, he'd bring...

They brought these mouse traps, these rat traps. They're huge to get this rat. So one day, one of them gets it. We hear it. And so Michael runs in there. And Michael's like, we got a broom. And he's trying to get it. And he's trying to sweep it over. And the rat's not really on it.

And then like, it goes and he's still alive. And dude, I mean, Michael just jerks back and just breaks the door. So now the whole part of the front door was like broken because it was like, we thought this rat was dead and it's not. Because you got to just get up. They're like, what happens when you get it? You're like, well, you got to get it out. Like, you know.

So, Laura, I remember Laura came over and Laura's in the bathroom, like getting ready. We're about to go out and I'm sitting in the living room and a rat just runs from my bedroom to Michael's bedroom. And then I just shut Michael's door, like left it in there because I was like she was there and I didn't want her to know. Yeah. Oh, there's a rat.

like you know to be like do you see them a lot you're like I see them all the time they seem pretty comfortable in the place opening doors opening doors it was I mean dude it was terrible terrible gosh that sounds terrible yeah

So there's been a lot of ride in Nate land. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Take it to the whole haunted house. Uh, there's been a lot of rides where people have, uh, you know, been injured or something. One of the most famous was Fabio when he opened this new ride. So this was in, uh, I think Virginia and, um, uh,

Yeah, I'm losing it here. But the ride's called Apollo's Chariot, and it's got a Greek god theme. So Fabio, you know, he has the look, the hair, and the muscles. Looks like a Greek god. So they brought him in to this bush gardens with women dressed in white robes to be like his goddesses. And this is not even when it hasn't opened yet. This is the test. This is media day. So all the media is waiting at the end of the ride.

And Fabio, with all his beautiful women, are supposed to ride this thing. And then you may have to skip ahead a little bit. But he hits it right there, I guess. Right there is when it's gone bad. On the first turn, he's a goose with his face. Breaks his nose. Kills the goose. Yeah. How crazy is that? Now, this is where all the media is just waiting. Like, oh, my gosh, how fun was it? How was it? And he comes riding in.

With blood all over his face. The women next to him aren't smiling anymore. That's who I'm telling about. That's amazing. You don't see the goose hidden. No. But he's, man, that's crazy. What was Fabio, by the way?

He was like a male model and he was in some commercials and did a little acting. Did they have books about him? Oh, yeah. He was on the cover of romance novels. Romance novels. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's famous enough to have a ride after him, huh? Not named after him. He was just- No, they just chose him. They chose him. Because he looked like- I thought this was the Fabio ride. He's got to be the most famous like- That guy? Yeah. How old is he now? He's 62. Wow. Wow.

Yeah, he's, yeah, I don't know. You had that in the holster, dude. Yeah, I finally, finally. Last night I was like, I wonder how old Fabio is. Yeah. Finally, I came through. The Bryantown podcast has been studying. He's my favorite male model. Yeah. In my top 25. Yeah, he's top 25 for sure. I mean, he got super, super famous off just really his looks. I don't know if I can name another male model.

Not like him. I mean, I don't know how to name him. Marky Mark, but he became something else, obviously. Cindy Crawford is even like female models. Yeah. I mean, Cindy Crawford, I guess there's a lot more. But I feel like he was a little bit like Jose Canseco. He was almost more of a joke than what he was, right? I don't know. How is Jose Canseco a joke? I mean, I think when the ball bounced off Jose Canseco's head, he was already considered like a dumb guy. And like, it would just be... But they were the Bash Brothers. I mean, they were...

They were. You're talking more about his mayoral campaign for Cape River where he ran. Yeah, like maybe after the. After his career. They were the Bash brothers. That was like the top, the biggest thing on earth. Yeah. All right. I mean, that's a bad example. Maybe now though. I mean, Jose Canseco. Now. Yeah. Yeah. But I just remember when the ball bounced off his head. People were like, of course it'd be Jose Canseco. Oh, right. And Fabio was a guy that everybody just kind of made fun of, I feel like.

Richard Simmons, he's another one of my favorites. He's my top 25. We stayed, when I taped the stand-ups on Netflix, we got an Airbnb, and it was like me, Dan Soder, Mike Vecchione. And where we rented this Airbnb, it was next door to Richard Simmons' house. And this was in Richard Simmons'. He might still be. It was not coming out of his house. He was missing for a while, like MIA. Yeah, he was just locked in his house.

Oh, is that where he ended up being? Yeah, but we stayed in the house next door to it. We never saw him. We did look. I mean, I don't think we could really see his gate or anything. Look at that. He came back during the quarantine, but he was gone for six years. He did his own quarantine. That's funny. He goes, all right, I'm coming back. No, I actually need to go back in the house. He goes, all right, been inside for six years. I'm starting new. What do we do today? They go, we need you to head right back in that house for one more year.

I mean, that's... How crazy is that? I'm back! Get back inside. Get back inside. Back inside now! Back away from the car! Adam Racer.

Have you done the Pirates of the Caribbean ride? I don't know. That's in Disneyland? Yeah, I think so. I don't know. How do I not remember this? I don't remember that unique of an experience to go, have I been on a pirate ship before? Is it a pirate ship? Well, I was just going to say, sometimes, especially if we're promoting a new movie, Johnny Depp will show up and play it, the character himself. Oh, yeah. I think I sent you a video of him. Oh, that's pretty cool. Oh, okay. Sorry. Yeah.

So, I mean, so he freezes like he's, I guess, like a mannequin or whatever. And then when they get close, they realize it's really him. You may, again, have to skip ahead a little bit. Fast forward. So it's one of these rides where, like, you go through a cave on a little boat and it's all wax figurines, but it's actually Johnny Depp. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That's cool. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. And then... He's done it for Alice in Wonderland as well, they said. Oh, yeah. He seems like fun. My dad did a show once for, I think, Johnny Depp's kid. Yeah? Yeah. He came to the Magic Castle in LA and did a show, yeah. That's cool. He was just in the crowd, or was he... I think his kid was there or something. There was a reason for that. There was something like that. I don't know. It's not like he was there, and I don't know if it was like

You know, he's kind of his own kind of dude. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He, the World's Fair, we talked about that a little bit. They've had some crazy stuff up at the World's Fair. The 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, there was a serial killer on the loose. And they just didn't tell anybody. Yeah. Just kept doing it. It's another ride on the Nate land. I mean, that's a ride that you don't have to. He goes, so what do you want me to do? He goes, just do you, dude.

Do you? Yeah, this guy killed a bunch of people in Chicago that year. They just kept it quiet. Did he have a name? Yeah, H.H. Holmes. Oh, I've heard of him. He took them to the murder castle. That's what they called it. Why didn't they search there first? What?

Where should we look? Yeah. What about the murder castle? You go, don't be ridiculous, dude. That's the first. Yeah. It's not going to be that obvious. Yeah. It's not going to be that. Oh yeah. And then two days before the world's fair, where was it closed? I swear I'm not their castle. That's where we're going to go. Two days before he closed, the mayor of Chicago got murdered, get assassinated. So they ended the closing ceremony. They had all kinds of problems with this world's fair.

So they go to Knoxville because Knoxville goes, hey, we're a little bit calmer down here. All right, I'll give you the sun sphere. Yeah. All these things debuted at all these war. It's kind of like a consumer electronic show for today or something like that. Like a big science fair. So Chicago World Fair happened and a mayor was killed and an active...

serial killer was walking around. Was on the loose. And was he killing people at the World Fair? They think he lured some people away, yeah. Yeah. He's responsible for dozens of deaths in Chicago. And they just, I mean, can you imagine? I mean, the whole park could sue him. Yeah. I mean, Babe Ruth, I mean, I just don't, you know, but you could just sue, like you could go, they go, yeah, what's your complaint? Yeah.

I mean, starters, I didn't care for the food. But besides that, I would just say the fact that you let a serial killer walk around and they go, okay, that's a good complaint. That is fair. That is fair. Yeah. It was one of the calmer weekends in Chicago, actually. Yeah. It was actually pretty nice. The Valentine's Day Massacre.

That probably happened. Yeah, a few years later. Yeah. A lot going on in Chicago at that point. H.H. Holmes killed some estimate over 200 people. Yeah, that's total. He was getting busy. He traveled around. We're not doing total. Don't be ridiculous. Oh, not that weekend. Give me a break. This is like the guy that rode the racer. He's like, well, no, I didn't do it all in one day. It takes a long time. 200.

Is he the biggest ever? I don't know. Could it be that they let him roam for so long? Could that be how he... Apparently, no one was trying to catch him. He died at 34. So, I don't know. I mean, 30... So, the place he was taken was the World's Fair Hotel, informally called the Murder Castle. Oh, because of him. Yeah. Oh, he was taken from the World's Fair Hotel. Yeah.

He was the subject of 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. So there you go, Nate. Yeah, he was sued or sued over 50 times. It's so funny. Besides being a serial killer, Holmes was also a con artist. Yeah, I assume he lied about some stuff. Other than being a serial killer, he's a pretty straight up dude. Like if you asked him, did you kill this? He would have said, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, you just couldn't probably catch these guys. Like, how could you? You have to basically watch them do it. He confessed to 27. They said they think he did 200? They think he did over 200, some estimate. How could you do 200? It's like that guy on the racer. Add up how long that would take. I mean, longer than the racer. Yeah. 200? Yeah.

I mean, you got to, this is, are guns even like around? I wonder how he. And then it's like, and he died at 34. So he probably got caught. Right. He was just hitting a stride. At 33, 32. Coming into his prime. So when did he start? When he was seven? He was a prodigy. 1891 was he started. So he started, he was, okay. Yeah. He was young. He got after it early, you know?

I mentioned last week President McKinley. He was the one that had the thing that was lapel, and he gave it to a little girl, and then he got shot. That was at a World's Fair. Oh, yeah. At the World's Fair in Buffalo. And they have all these – Maybe this is why the World's Fair stopped. Maybe. I mean, I didn't know. We think it's like, oh, no one even wants to see that stuff anymore. You're like, no, no, everybody was getting murdered at these World's Fairs. Like, we can't do them because many people died.

You know, they have all these things like the telephone, the television, all this stuff displayed at a World's Fair. It's kind of like where you see it before it comes to the public. At this World's Fair where McKinley was shot, the x-ray machine was on display and someone suggested that we use this to try to find the bullet. This is different than the springs from last week, but they just weren't up to speed on it. They're like, I just don't know. We don't know what kind of

how it'll work. So they didn't use it, but they couldn't find the other bullet. And he died? And lighting, yeah, he did die. Lighting was just invented, the electric light bulb. And they had thousands of light bulbs outside the building, but none inside where they were working on him. So they had to use a pan to reflect sunlight onto the operating table. And they had to operate right there. Yeah. And he died there. I think he died a few days later, but they had to remove the bullet right then. Yeah. And they have basically, they have an x-ray machine and lights. Wow.

They put the lights outside by the sun. So no one ever just said, well, you can't really see it. They go, yeah, I mean, we didn't even think about it. Can you imagine being the person that has to hold the pan to reflect? All right, keep it still right there, right there. You're in my eyes. And then on it, you just see someone with a big hat. He's like, I think it's over this way. He blocks it all. He's like, no, we're going to meet. He's just in the way. Can you imagine being at the World's Fair? That's what's so crazy.

It's like, so you're there, you're at another part of the section. And then you go, you know, they just did surgery where everybody could watch on the president of the United States. And you're like, where is that at? He goes, what were you doing? He goes, I was watching some show. Three legged man. Yeah. I went on, I went on, like it starts on this bearded woman for quite a bit. See what she was about. You ever talk to her?

He's like, no, I was watching the president of the United States have open heart surgery. In the dark. In the dark. That's what I was doing. He goes, again, I'll ask you, have you ever talked to a bearded woman? The bearded lady. She's got some stories. Yeah. Yeah.

I told her what was happening. She goes, been there, done that. That's what she said. I go, I hear the president is having open-heart surgery and we can watch and it's free, no tickets. And she goes, trust me, it's going to be a waste of time. She goes, I didn't vote for that guy anyway. So at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, a couple of things that came out. Cherry Coke. Wow.

That was the big thing. That's still around. Tide has turned on your feelings of Knoxville World Fair. I'm saying, who loses light bulbs when Cherry Coke is still around? And the touchscreen. Wow. Wow. What was the touchscreen back then? The iPhone. Well, it was the same thing where you can touch a screen and drag it. Yeah, I know what it is conceptually, but what was using a touchscreen in 1982? I think you deal with Cherry Coke more than touchscreen, so it's...

I had a cherry cook this morning. Cherry cook zero.

You answered your flip phone and said, hello. I've had a cherry Coke Zero. I know. That's pretty spot on. Oh, that's great. Knoxville Fair gets its revenge. What were they touching? I think it was just some big TV screen thing. And stuff moved? It was some medical equipment back then. Yeah. Maybe. At Knoxville,

I guess Disney has a water park as well. And they, have you been to that? I don't know. They tell the, uh, I don't remember these landmark things. Have you seen the statue of Liberty? I can't. Where's it at? I don't know if I've done these things.

They told all the employees in character, you have to stay in character. And the Water Goofy, they told, if you drown, start to drown, we cannot remove your costume because it will upset the children. So we cannot perform CPR on you until the lifeguards carry you away. Wow. When was this? I mean, this is one of those Reddit confessions of Disneyland employees. Who knows if it's true?

Yeah, that stuff, though, you're going, I mean, you hope that's not true. I find it hard to believe that, you know. Push comes to shove. You're going to let this guy die. And then, you know. Yeah. So I'll do a couple more. Wilson County. I'd like to see, though, I've looked at, like, those princesses. Because they are unbelievable. They do such a good job.

Like the princesses there. And I think they appreciate what they do. I would, I would hope like, that's the thing that Disney does so good. You don't feel like they're annoyed that they're there. Like they, they truly give every kid it's a, it's time. It's, I mean, it's, it's a pretty special,

Is it super competitive, I bet, to get some of those roles? Yeah, I mean, I'd imagine. I mean, I think it's a good, I don't know at all, but I'd imagine it's a good job. I mean, when you go walk through there, these, I mean, I would always say, if you ever want to feel what it would be like to be a Beatle,

Yeah. Go do, go be a Disney princess. Cause you, it's a, it's a, you get mobbed. They can't even walk. They can't even like kind of poke themselves out. Like it's just, everybody's like, yeah, it just goes over to them. So they, they can't just walk around like, you know, they have to come out. Somebody that's always going to be standing near them. And I mean, if you're Elsa and Anna and you know, uh,

uh, what's the one Laura Harper likes the one with the long hair, uh, Rapunzel. Like that was Rapunzel was a big one that she loved. And Meredith, Meredith, Janet. Yeah. Uh, yeah, we go out. I'd always be like, let's go see Jimbo. He's just a guy. A buddy of mine used to work there. I told her it was a character. I go, it's an older movie. And he goes about a janitor, but there, uh,

They have to kind of stay protected. They're in an air-conditioned thing. But yeah, if you're like an older princess, I guess, where no one cares about you, princess. They just throw you out in the middle of the 140 degrees. And you got to go walk around just getting mobbed.

You know, what are you? People just asking you. I don't know. What's a good old princess that's like... You're like one of the stepsisters of Cinderella. You just got to go out and tell me where the bathroom is. Like, you're just... Like, no one cares. You just...

yo where's the john and she's like it's over there that's all right yeah it's over there weren't they called the ugly stepsisters oh yeah it's not i mean i talk about the yeah you go in there wanting to be cinderella and they go you're talking about the stepsister talk about the ugly steps yeah oh yeah that's what i thought that's what you were asking for i think you're

And I'll be honest with you, that might be a stretch. I don't know if you looked in the mirror, sweetheart, but... Mirror, mirror on the wall. Mirror, mirror on the wall. We might have to do something, a little costume. You ever thought about Goofy? And she goes, Goofy could be fun. She goes, just a heads up, you have a heart attack or anything, we leave you to die. Just so go ahead, if you want to ride. You're basically going off to war. You get hit by a car.

Good luck. You're on your own. You're on your own, man. You're like a Navy SEAL. I mean, like those CIA, I've watched them. I'm reading a book about that. Like these contractors, like all these guys are CIA contractors. They tell you, like, there's no backup. You're on your own. Something happens to you. There's no bringing in the cavalry. There's no bringing in the cavalry. And that is goofy.

Goofy is that in Disney World, dude. Goofy is that level of a thing. They tell Goofy every day when you walk out there, once you go through that door, you're alone. We don't come after you. We don't come back for you. Don't ever let anybody know. And then they have a pill they have to eat with just some fat kid sitting on his chest going, Goofy, are you okay, Goofy? And he's got a nightmare. Goofy.

Disney World, though. One of the best places I've ever been to. All right. That's it, right? Can be. Good. Can be. Yeah, that's enough. Everybody gets it.

Miami Improv. You guys, how was Fallon? Oh, it was awesome. O'Fallon was awesome. A lot of listeners for the podcast were there. One of them gave me a nice wedding card for me and my fiance. People are very cool. And then a lot of them said they're coming to see you, Brian. So get out to O'Fallon. O'Fallon, Missouri. Yeah, that's awesome. You anywhere this weekend?

You got to think about it, didn't you? Yeah, I did. Think about it, yeah. Omaha. Headlining a rehearsal dinner. Oh, yeah. This is the weekend. This is the way. We'll be there. Yeah. Amen. I get back that day. We'll come to the wedding. That morning? Yeah. It's not going to be like a whole thing, right? Wait, in and out, right? Yeah. We're in a good table, though. Yeah, you got a great table. You got a great table. Yeah.

That's good. Yeah, Lucy was your fiancee. She died her hair. Did she change her hair, get a new haircut or something? Did you know that? She did something. Oh, you're not supposed to say? No, no, no. I thought she was trying to get out of this. That's what I told her.

She changed it. I go, Lucy's not handling it. I go, Lucy, you can still get out of this. I told her the same thing I tell you. Y'all don't have to go through this, all right? You can back out. Y'all can back out. Usually you tell that just to the man. I felt that he changed it to the woman. I go, hey, Lucy, what are you doing here? Uh-huh.

Y'all are great together. Yeah. And I'm excited. We're pumped. Congratulations. Yeah, it will be a good time. Going to meet the whole Weber family. Yeah, they're all going to be there. Yeah. Yeah, man. Oh, man. What do y'all do? Is the ceremony in Latin? Are we even going to understand it? Is your Purdue brother going to sit with us? There might be some black. Where do you put your black brother? Bo. Bo. I guess we're obviously seeing him. Yeah.

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