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What's up, everybody? This is Nate Barguzzi, the Nateland podcast. I'm here. As always, I introduce Aaron Weber right there, Brian Bates at the end of the table. I think that's, you know, I introduced myself. I think someone said that. Yep. That lady were like, well, who are you?

I hope they made it here. Who are you? I don't know. I said it. I said, I'm Nate Bargetti. That's the first thing I said. Oh, sorry. I was zoned out. Uh, like typical listeners. They're all, that's what we get. People zoned out. Uh, thanks for, uh, listening again. Uh, love all of you. Everybody's been super nice and supportive. And, uh, you know, as we figure this whole podcast thing out, we've had a lot of people reach out. I mean, just super nice. Uh,

And we've, I mean, it's been awesome. The comments have been great. Brian's been talking to a lot of you. Too many. Too many. He gets, that's what they said too. They go, he gets...

Hey, that's what my messages are. Like, hey, tell Brian to back off a little bit. Like, he messaged me. He reached out to me. He's asking other people questions. So we're going to, as usual, I don't know if it's as usual, we just did it last week, but we're going to read some comments from the last week's episode. Just some questions I got. We're going to...

One was the hat I was wearing last week. It said Troub on it, T-R-O-U-B, and someone wants to know what that is. That is a golf course, Troubadour. It's a golf course here in Nashville, so I golf a lot. I get a lot of hats from different places, and that's what that hat was. So I wish it was cooler than that. Also, someone asked, in response to Nate talking about wearing rubber bands and more than one pair of shorts...

Definitely did the rubber bands growing up. This guy, my brother would use the bands that keep asparagus bundles together. I did have a friend who wore two pairs of shorts at the same time, but it was because his top layer didn't have pockets. I got a lot of people saying that they did what you did. They did? Yeah. With rubber bands or the shorts? Both. Both.

But I don't understand if you want pockets, so why not just wear the shorts that have pockets? Because it's cool to wear two shorts, man. Look, all these people that wore these two shorts have to be my age. I mean, there's no way they're not. Do you wear two polo shirts, too? I would wear two shirts. I'd wear two t-shirts. Yeah.

I bet everybody that wore them has to be my age. Class of 97, high school, there's no way they're not. You can always tell when someone's your age. Yeah. And they're like, I do that. You know what I thought of? I actually might think of this as a joke in my act. So, you know, I'm sure that happens a lot with podcasts. You do stuff and then get in your act. So just be aware of it. But I thought...

The older I get, the more I, when I see someone, I'll like meet them and I'll talk to them and I'm like, oh yeah, man. I'm like, uh, how old are you? And I mean, dude, I think they're going to say 50 and they say like 38 and I'm 40, like I'm three years older.

And it happens all the time. And I mean, it's people that I'm like, dude, how old do I look? Because this guy looks like he's 60. And he's like, doesn't even understand my references. That's how much older I am than him. Like you're blown away. It's just like immediate.

You just, it's like, you know, obviously you can't see yourself. So you just, in your brain, you think, well, I'm, everybody's older than me because you're 20. Everybody's older than you. And then you hit 41 and then you realize I'm the one older than every, like, you just have to go. Every thing you're talking about, you're like, well, I mean, I'm much older than you guys. And they're like, no, I don't know about that. And then I'm like, well, how old are you? They're like 30. And you're like, oh, I'm much older. You just repeat it. I'm much older than you guys. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, I'm definitely like that. I mean, we go to these open mics, and they're all Aaron's age, and I feel like we're the same age. Yeah. But we're not. I'm like one of those deer videos where a dog raises a baby deer, and they don't even know that they're not the same breed. I think I'm one of them. Just walking around. They're like, oh, my God, my dad's here. There's times with someone where I'm like,

I want to be like, could you call your dad and could I hang out with him? I will get along with him more than I will. All right. Maybe that won't go in the act. I don't know. I think it'll go. I got a spot for it. That's what I do. Find a little spot. Just find a little wedge it in somewhere. It can get in there. Little pieces. That's how you build your act. Piece by piece.

It's like finding wood. You find old wood laying out. You're like, I could do something with this. I don't know. I said Jamie from Progressive was jacked. Someone looked up Jamie from Progressive. I think Nate's definition of jacked is a bit different than most people's. I thought he was like swole. I thought he looked like he was strong. He looked good, dude. He looked strong. Yeah. Like a strong guy. I bet Jamie would fight this guy.

We're going to get Jamie in this guy's fight. Even actors that look like a little dopey, they're all in great shape. You know Michael Scott in The Office?

He was very in shape. And I know people that wrote on that show, and they would have to give him clothes so you couldn't tell how in shape he was because it's not as funny. I mean, if you really saw it, you see it like there's like an episode where you see it where he has a tight shirt on. I mean, he is just a thick guy.

Cut, like his muscles, like his pecs are just gigantic. Did that happen between season one and two? Yeah. Because I remember season one, he looked a little... He was balding. He was a little bit out of shape. Yeah. He must have filmed something between season one and season two. Well, that show took off. Oh, yeah? I mean, The Office, I think... Office was out the gate pretty good. It's not like Seinfeld. Like, Seinfeld was...

you know, I just listened to Seinfeld talk about it. Like it was like four seasons and they were just barely hanging on, but someone liked it. And they're like, keep plugging along. But they, they, and they said Ted Danson, uh, retired. And then they got Thursday night. And then that's when Seinfeld just went and shot up. Uh, but for the office, I think, cause they did good. The British office did good. And so the office kind of came out the gate and it, I felt like it was like a good show. Right. Um,

Oh, I thought you said it took off between one and two. No, I'm saying from the beginning, it wasn't like Seinfeld, where it was like four seasons of them being like, are we going to get canceled? I think The Office was kind of...

After season one, he's almost like, I've got to go get in shape and look good because we're about to do 22 of these, and this is going to be a hit show. Like Modern Family. Modern Family was a hit show from the beginning. Once you get on it, they know that it's happening. You've got a show that you're going to be able to do as long as you want to do it. You can tell. Seinfeld was doing a show where he was...

I don't know if it's going to happen. Every time they're like, are we going to get canceled? Keep in mind, the only reason we're talking about Jamie being jacked is because a lot of people say he looks like me. So just keep in mind, remember why we were even talking about this.

You all have the same shirt, but besides that. In response to Nate saying three identical strangers kept stopping on Hulu, Nate, the Hulu problem sounds like an ad block is enabled and blacking out the ads. That's unbelievable. Were you watching on your laptop? No, I was watching in the TV in our bedroom. And I was watching in there. But I don't ever watch TV in there. But I was like, the family was gone. And so I was like, I'm going to lay in bed and watch TV.

that much a weird identity of a Strangers movie and I just kept stopping that makes so much sense that comment good for you that's a huge help because I I would have just accepted that that's what that's what's happening

You know when you just accept something where you're like, yeah, you see so many times that you just are like, yeah, it just goes black for a little bit. For 30-second increments. And it would come back on. I thought Aaron said that last week. Did you? I don't know. I was thinking that when he said it. Was it you? I don't know. Somebody suggested that last week. It would come. I mean, it would like, at first it would go black, and I just was like, all right, I'm

I thought something was wrong with my internet. And then I one time left and came back, and it was back on, and I was like, oh, maybe I just got to wait it out. None of this ever clicked in my head. You hate ads, too, don't you? Yeah, I got YouTube. Yeah.

If you can get YouTube with no ads, people should do that. It's I, you know, cause you can, I got it through my buddy, Dan Shacky, a comic. Uh, he got it and he's allowed to give it to like five people. And so I'm one of his five people.

So you can do it like that, but the YouTube no ads is amazing. Yeah. Amazing. Speaking of ads, no, we don't have an ad, but we will hopefully have ads. Progressive. But it's unbelievable. When you get it with no ads, you forget that you're like, dude, this is so much better not having to sit. People just get used to waiting for ads, though. So they're fine with it. In response to the Tribbets All Smoke with the same brand of cigarettes...

Someone said, I love this conversation, but brand of cigarettes is definitely a bigger deal among smokers, more so than you might think as a non-smoker. I have these close friends who all smoke different cigarettes. It's more interesting than it sounds. So just being like, people like talking about like what kind of brands, like are you a Camel guy, you're a Marble guy. I think that fits in the, I'm a Diet Pepsi person.

But I can do Diet Coke. People don't like Diet Pepsi, though. For some reason, my family, we've always done Diet Pepsi. Yeah. But that's a big one. My buddy's a Coke Zero guy. I'm not a big fan of Coke Zero. I don't think we were saying that your brand of cigarettes wasn't meaningful to you, just that...

All of their favorite branded cigarettes is the most popular branded. If they were all smoking turquoise American spirits, that would be interesting. I feel like you took offense to that comment. Calm down, big fella. All right, just a person leaving a comment. Yikes. Just shining some light on it. Easy, big fella. Someone that's like, easy, big fella. All right, here we go. You just lose your mind. I'm really defensive of Marlboro Lights. Yeah. Anyway.

If I could do something, I would smoke cigarettes. If it was like, hey, it's fine, I like it. I like seeing people do it. I think it's old school. You should do it on the show. That would be great. You're saying if it came out that there were no health repercussions at all, you'd be all about it? Yeah, it turns out, guys, they were right in the 50s when doctors were saying smoke. Yeah, I just think I like...

You know, again, this could be the older, you just miss some older stuff, seeing older stuff. Yeah. I mean, you would see smoking cigarettes on TV everywhere. On planes and stuff. Oh, yeah. I never saw a plane, but Bates probably did. He probably smoked on a plane. Did you ever see, did you ever see smoking on a plane? No.

How old do you think I am? Well, what year did they stop smoking on a plane? I was born. For some reason, I've looked this up recently. It was later than you think. Mr. Cigarette over here. It was like late 90s. Really? Yeah. Oh, really? I mean, people started to... Airlines started to phase it out. Yeah. But it didn't become a law until the late... I have no idea. How do you phase it? Were they like smoking or non-smoking? Just look up real fast what...

That's very interesting if it's late 90s. A lot of those planes are, you know, it's the no smoking. It's a light because they could turn it on and turn it off when the planes were made. It says 88 started phasing out. By 2000, it was prohibited on all U.S. flights. I'm amazed that was right. Can you imagine 2000? I mean, they should still do it every now and again, man. I'd fly on it. Or an all smokers plane. How about that? Yeah, I'd fly on it.

I mean, dude, I loved how just smoking was... I mean, you walk into an office building, it just wasn't like... There's something... I think growing up in that era where smoking was cool... Doctors, I think, would smoke in commercials or something. Oh, sure. I mean, they were for it. They encouraged it. The doctor would look at your chart and go, have you thought about smoking? I mean, that's... I get the health risk, but...

They had some fun back there, man. All right. Almost done. In response to Brian saying some twin athletes have different degrees of success, bailing out Brian with twins Jose and Ozzy Canseco. Thank you. Thank you. So they had wildly different. Yeah. I could not think of one right off hand unless we did, though. I've never heard of Ozzy Canseco.

Yeah, he's a baseball player too. He's Jose's twin sister. No, brother. Oh, sorry. Oh, I had it upside down. Oh, okay. Yeah, he... Well, you know Jose Canseco, right? Sure. Yeah, he had a twin brother. Politician, Jose Canseco? Yeah. Yeah. But Jose, not Hall of Fame. Really? No, he's the king of the steroids. Didn't he run for mayor of Toronto? He's the one that told everybody. Yeah, nobody believed him. No one believed him. Yeah. Yeah.

But, you know, that's weird to think, are you fine with him saying it? Like, you know, like Jose, like, are you... Because there's a weird thing with like whistleblowers, kind of, where people get mad at whistleblowers, which is really unfair. Because it's everybody wants to know the rules are not getting broken, and then the guy does do it, and then everybody's like, why did you say something? But I get it with that...

If you're doing it and taking all these steroids, why do you like on the way out the door? Like, I think it's how you do it. If you're like, Jose's career is kind of going down. And then he's like, by the way, everybody's doing steroids. It's just so funny because, I mean, he's so infamous. He had a home run ball bounce off his head. That's what I know him most from is that clip. And now he's big on Twitter because he posts the most ridiculous stuff. But people retweet him all the time. I mean, some crazy stuff. He's like OJ without the murder.

He was kind of like Grock. OJ without the bird was a pretty fun guy. Yeah. Not a bad game. Likes to golf. You know? Once you get over that part of it. The last response to Nate's orange hands. I don't think they're orange. I think my tan and I think the lighting. I got a bunch of responses on this. Oh, man. It might be low on iron. Did I say iron right? I don't think I said it right. We know what you're saying. How do you say it? Iron. Iron? Yeah. Iron. Iron.

I think it's very Southern. I think we say it Southern. How do you say it? Iron. Iron. Iron. Nate might be low on iron if his hands are orange by the looks of his clothing. He's freezing while everyone's in short sleeves. We keep it very cold up here, like David Letterman's studio for the laughs. You can see Nate get a little bit colder. And then I cold him. When we tape, we do this.

11 a.m. I mean, I have not been up for long. Like, I'm not a, I don't get up at 6 a.m., 8 a.m. Like, I mean, I'm up as they get here sometimes. You're the most cold-natured man I've ever met. I'm very cold-natured in the morning. I think this person's onto something. You just got through working out, and you're wearing a coat. Well, today I worked out. I don't always work out. Today was the first day. I'm not wearing a, I think it looks better, too, to not.

Have your arms all flailing out. If you're jacked, people want to see it. Him and Jamie. Could you guys put some jackets on? I like wearing long sleeve. We keep it cold up here. It's not crazy to wear this during the day. We're not doing it out in the sun. I'm in a normal place. I'd like to be...

Left alone? I got nothing. They get it. But normally I do wake up. Today I did work out. I'm trying to work out. But then normally I do wake up. People don't really, like sometimes you're, I'm talking to someone and I've been awake for 20 minutes. Dead sleep to 20, like, you know. I've woke up at like, I think 10, 15 and we do this at 11. And I don't go to bed until 2. So that's, I always get that. People always...

I'm not an early... I don't get up early. I'm starting to get up a little bit earlier, but I don't get up early. But I don't go to bed... I sleep eight hours usually. It'll be eight or less. But I'll go to bed... Last night, I went to bed at like two something because I finished...

Mission Impossible The Fallout. Yeah. And it's a good one, man. It's really good. I haven't seen it. It's great. It's really great. And so I watched that. But yeah, that's the comics lifestyles. There's no schedule. We don't really have a routine. It's very hard for us to get into a routine. That's why working out and eating good is extremely hard because you're just always kind of, especially when you're touring, your times are always messed up.

You're doing shows at 9. You've got to be awake at 9 and rolling at 9 on top of it. And then you can't go to sleep. That's what the Bulls documentary they did. They would say they would take naps during the day because they have to be at their peak performance at 10 p.m. Imagine playing a full basketball game at 10 p.m. What time do you go to bed? I like this one. Last one. I just asked what time you go to bed. Yeah, I would...

I would pull an all-nighter like once a week for years for no reason. My sleep schedule is crazy. But I would go to bed two or three most nights. Yeah, that's what I do now. I like to go to bed at 1. I would love to get it down to midnight. If I could get it to midnight, go to bed at midnight, it would be terrific. But I like to 1. It would be great. Have you ever seen the sunset? Or do you already sleep always? Anyway, it's pretty good. Do you go to bed late? I mean, I watch the local news. Yeah.

Everybody, welcome my Aunt Patty to the show. That's a Gary Veeder joke, Aunt Patty. Very funny comedian, Gary. Yeah, I see the seven-day forecast, and then I turn in. Do they still tease it for quite a while? Yeah, they keep you around. It's pretty crazy for them to tease it, and you're like, y'all know I can just look this up in two seconds.

But they know you won't. Well, let me just share this. When I worked in TV news, they do 15-minute increments for TV ratings. So they would always say, do not hit the seven-day forecast until 1020. Because if you watch it for five of those 15 minutes, they get it counted for the entire 15 minutes. Does that make sense? Yeah. So they said, don't show it until 1020 because so many people stuck around for that.

that you'd get counted for the whole 1015 to 1030 in the ratings. Wow. So that drives a lot of the views, the weather, huh? Yeah. But that's had to hurt a ton with phones. I'm sure. Yeah. But it is something great about waiting. Yeah. You know, it is like I've seen –

I've like had to, you should try commercials. Yeah. I've seen the news when I've seen like local news on, and then they, they always kind of break up the weather and you are like, there is a little bit that you're like, Oh, well, what's it going to be? And you know that you could go figure it out, but you're like, I don't want to figure it out. I would like to hear him tell me like, there's a, there's kind of a fun thing to that. You should not get everything whenever you want it. Uh,

Last one. Love Nate. Love the podcast. Haven't been a podcast listener until now. Welcome. Downloaded all three episodes while traveling recently. So fun. Sad to miss seeing Nate live, but this has been a good substitute. Enjoying getting to know Brad and Aaron. Keep it up, guys. Funny stuff. Brad and Aaron. This is Aaron. That's Brad. All right. I love that. I sent that to Brad. Speaking of Brad, Brad had a bit of a morning.

Are you talking about me? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I left here. I left to come. Well, I had to go pick up his iced coffee on the way. So that's another story. But I go to my car and apparently I left my door unlocked and somebody got in my car and ransacked through my car. Stuff strewn everywhere. They don't sleep in there. They make it them homes. So luckily I don't keep...

Much valuables in there. They just went through my glove box. Bit of a downer for that guy. That's so funny that nothing was stolen. The guy left Brian $10. I don't know. He left Brian $10. I got to Starbucks, and I popped my trunk, and my golf clubs were still there. I mean, if you've seen these golf clubs, it would have been a headache for that guy to take these golf clubs. It was not worth the time. He's left-handed, which is not even the problem. It's the age of the clubs.

But to look at him and go, all right, maybe I can do something with them. And he's like, and they're left-handed? I mean, the buyer for that is limited to he would probably have to sell them back to Brian. That's the only thing he would have to somehow follow Brian and pop up and be like, hey, would you like to buy some clubs? And you would be like, oh, these look familiar. I love the thought of a guy ransacking through cars, and he pulls them out like, left-handed? Yeah. He puts them back. Puts them back in. Yeah.

The trunk was, you could tell that they're in the trunk too. No, the trunk looked fine. I don't think he popped it, but I didn't know. No windows broke. No, apparently I left unlocked. So that's on me.

Wow. That's a little bit on the guy that broke in, too. Yeah, it's a lot on him. That idea that... I always hated that. People were like, well, I left my door locked. People should not be stealing, too. So that should happen. No, I agree. I was prematurely saying that before you guys chastised me for leaving my door unlocked. No, I've never... We had an old neighborhood. Someone did our whole street

And they came, like, that seems to happen, where they just come down. And we parked in the garage. And anybody that wasn't parked in the garage, every car got broken into. And they just came. And I'm always up, you know, because we're talking about being up late. Like, I always take a gander out, see what's going on. They did it at, like, four. No one goes out at, like, two. You know, if they did two, I got it. But I don't know what I'm going to do. Yeah.

Well, now he knows your sleep schedule. You're going to bed at midnight. He can just run wild all night. Maybe I don't. Maybe I go to bed at four. You know? I think it's... You never know. You also got stabbed in the neck during this. No, I didn't get stabbed. I had...

I went, uh, had a basal cell carcinoma, which is the smallest form of skin cancer. It's fine, but that they said had probably been there for years and, but it's on my neck and I had to go have it removed. It's not fun. So I go there and, uh,

I don't know about you guys. I don't like to tell people I'm a comedian because I just don't want to get into it. I do. I used to not, but I can't even think of ideas anymore. It's just, I don't like telling them. I try not to say anything. Right. If I get pressured, I'll say it. I don't like to say anything. The first lady at the checkout, she said, are you employed? And I just said, no.

Which has basically been true lately. Yeah. But then I get in there and they're working on me. And I mean, they're digging into my neck. And one of the guys there was like, so what do you do for a living? And I was like, well, I'm actually a comedian. I always say I'm actually. It's like I'm embarrassed to say it. I see. I'm actually a comedian. And then he's like, oh, really? And he's like, yeah. He's like, I was always class clown. I've been thinking about getting into that.

And then he keeps talking to me about it. Thinking about getting into it now. No, no, no. This was a male nurse. Oh, well, then he's obviously, he should get into it. Anyway. Said he majored in something else in college. Just still thinking about getting into it.

So then these other nurses come in and the doctor, and he's like, this guy's a comedian. And then this guy starts telling jokes and borderline inappropriate jokes. I mean, there was a Viagra joke in there and it's so awkward. And this guy's working on me. The best part is though with masks. Well, you know, we all had masks on. It's great because you don't have to smile. You don't have to fake it as much because we have a mask on. So he has no idea, but it was just, it was not fun. I love them. You were saying this story. So I, uh,

Did like, were they either you, they know you or they ask you if you're a comedian. I had it at my high school, my high school in Nashville, Donaldson Christian Academy. We went to it and they, my only alumni. So I do, we do a golf tournament and it's become the Nate Bargetzi golf tournament. It wasn't. And then now it's just become that.

And so we did it a few months ago. Have I not told this story on here? No. No. So we did it a few months ago. And I'm sitting there taking a picture. I would go around. I just kind of went around, talked to everybody. I'm taking a picture with this kid.

He was like, oh, me and my mom watched you on Netflix. Very nice. I'm taking the picture. Another guy that I know from, he's like my friend's uncle or something. I kind of know him, but not really. He's like, what's up, man? He's like, you still doing that comedy thing? Just asked me, as I'm taking a picture with the guy that's a fan of my comedy thing that I'm doing. I was like, yeah. At the event that's named after you? At the event called Nate Bargetzi Golf Tournament.

And he goes, you still doing it? I was like, yeah, just plugging along, man, doing whatever I can. And he's like, that's good, man. All right, good to hear. I mean, if I was like, nah, it didn't work out. We're construction now. He'd be like, all right, that's cool. Yeah, man. Well, at least you gave it a go, you know? Chase your dream. That's more than most, you know? I mean, that's what the other route he would have gone. That's what I should have said. I tried my hardest. He was going to offer you a job. Yeah. And I need it.

We're talking about getting recognized. What's you recognizing? One time we were doing a show, and I can't remember what it was, but the next day I went to a subway or something. We're waiting there, and I recognize somebody from the show.

And we're still there waiting. And I said, hey, were you at the Nate Bargetzi show last night? And she's like, yeah. She said, were you there? And I was like, yeah, yeah, I was on the show. And then she immediately tried to recover. She's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought you, she's like, I got there a little late. We were sitting far away. I couldn't see much. So I recognized her. She did not recognize me. That's so great.

Come to the shows. Brian will recognize you out. You want to feel like a celebrity. Brian goes out, Hey, fourth row, kind of in the middle.

Big lady next to you. And then you're like, yeah. I was on stage. Remember? We get the full experience. That's part of the VIP package is just Brian will recognize you. You get to go out in public and order food and you can't be left alone. Brian comes up to you. Can I get a picture with you? And you have to go like, I mean, I'm meeting with my family right now. So maybe after. We give you the full on real experience.

You don't even have to recognize me. I will spot you. Don't worry about it. No, I think we met. Yeah, you leave going, I guess maybe I knew that guy. I don't know. That's so funny. All right. So this episode, I feel like we've already been doing two hours, but this episode, we're going to dive into sports. Sports are back. Baseball's back. Golf is back. Golf has been terrific.

If you've watched any of that, it's been very exciting rounds. I know people don't care about golf always, but it's very fun, very dramatic. People should care about golf. Golf is a very, especially when you watch a tournament, it's like a soap opera. It's like you just watch, some guy will be in the lead, and then it's so slow.

And then he loses the lead. And then you watch him kind of fall apart. And then another guy gets hot and then rises up. I mean, it's unreal, dude. Some of the majors, they've seen Rory McIlroy lost in the Masters. He was a kid. He was, I think, 19 or something. And he crumbled. And, I mean, it's the one, people that watched it, he hit a ball so far away

out of like up in the woods that now they have a sign up there. I think that says, this is no one can believe that the ball got up that far and you see him and he does it. He just like leans on his, I mean, your heart breaks. It's just this, it's a kid. It's a kid. And his aim, you just eat and he lost the tournament. Jordan speed had the same thing happen to him.

It's very, I mean, it's just how dramatic it is, is unbelievable. I know it's very slow, but I get the idea of that. But we're all enormous fans of sports, so we want to talk about sports. And sports, you got to love sports. We were thinking about what qualifications do you need as a fan to be able to call a team us or we when referring to that team? So for Vandy...

I say us and we for Vandy. Titans, probably two. I have a whole system in place, and I'll call people out on it. I have a friend, but he's a big Lakers fan. He's like, yeah, I think we're going to take it this year. That drives me crazy. Johnny W. Yeah, Johnny W. For me, I think...

If you went to that school, then by all means, you can always call it weak. For you, Notre Dame, Vol State, you can always weak. You went to Notre Dame? You graduated from Notre Dame? Yeah. Really? You could have went to Vol State and you'd be in the same position. You're right. I could have gone to Vol State. So if you go to the school... But you didn't. We got serial killers there. Yeah, that is true. We're a little more rough around the edges of Vol State.

Regis just died. Shout out to Regis. He's a big Notre Dame guy. Anyway. Yeah, Regis is amazing. Dude who's on TV. You could say, I mean, almost as much as his regular life. Well, he had the world record for most minutes on television. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Is it even close?

I don't know. It was like 20,000 hours or something? Yeah, a ridiculous amount of time that guy's been on TV. Wow. Anyway. If you live in that town, you can call it Wee. Or if it's a state school or a state team like the Titans, if you live in that state, I feel like you can call it Wee.

Okay, so Nate can say we for Vandy. Yeah. Because he lives in Nashville. Yeah. Okay. These are the Brian Bates rules. But the Braves, no. I don't even think Memphis Grizzlies. Even if you're a Braves fan your whole life. I think if you're a fan your whole life.

If you're a diehard fan and you love them, I think you can no matter where you live. I mean, we didn't have a football team. So before the Titans, you know, Ryan Malone, the guy who grew up, he's a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. And so he would do it. He would, you know, he could say we. I do get it. I don't ever care about it that much. I just want you to be a fan of the team. Ryan played for the Steelers, though. Yeah. Yeah. Ryan Malone? Yeah. Did he? No. Bellevue Steelers? No. No.

I thought that's why he was a fan. No, I was a Redskins fan because I played for the Donaldson Warriors and we had Redskins helmet. Oh, I thought he played for the Steelers. Or Washington football. All right, my bad. But I think if you're a big fan and you love the team... My problem with... I don't like when people are kind of loose fans. And I remember Vandy lost when they lost to MTSU last year.

one year that someone like does not care about M-Tissue, but they went to M-Tissue and then they call to like, you know, be like, ah, we beat you. And you're like, hey, my whole life is this Vandy team. So maybe you don't even, you don't know who the coach is at M-Tissue. You've never been to a game, even though you went there. Like maybe back off.

Like, this is my whole world is Vanderbilt sports. Our Titans, you know, now Titans. So I think that's when you can say...

I feel like I say it more with Vandy than I do with the Titans. Yeah. I think the Titans, I don't know why. Well, I feel better. In college sports, there's something other than the team that you can align yourself with, right? There's an institution that the team is a part of. It's like an NFL team, it's just the team. I don't feel a part of the Tennessee Titans the way that I would a university that's nearby. You know what I mean? It's like there's a whole... Even if you didn't go to that university? Yeah.

I don't know. I would never say... I grew up a big Alabama fan. I don't know if I ever said we or us. Yeah. But I would be more likely to say that about Alabama than the Falcons. But if someone... It's like if someone's like, how's Alabama going to do this year? Like, we're going to be, I think, pretty good. You say it like that. Some of it, too, is just the way you talk. It's not... You just say something the way it is. I don't think it's...

You know, like you're making some crazy big statement. But, I mean, you know, the guy that went and knocked that tree or, like, poisoned the tree at Auburn. Harvey Updike? Yeah. I love that. Can that – I mean, that guy can say weed. I would say he's earned it, dude. He's earned the weed. But he lived in Alabama. He was an Alabama fan. It's from Dayville, Alabama. And then if you don't know, there's a big famous tree in Auburn that they roll the toilet paper on. Tumor's Corner. Yeah, Tumor's Corner. I saw it after it was poisoned.

But it was still there, and they were like, it's got two years left. It doesn't die. It's a long game for that guy. And that guy couldn't wait. He told him immediately. He could have told him way later. Oh, he had two years. Two years before it goes away. And he called the local sports show. Feinbaum. Oh, Feinbaum. Oh, not local. It was because they put a Scam Newton jersey on a statue of Papa O'Brien. So it was retaliation. He had to let them know right away. Yeah.

Like, I didn't just let this sit. Like, I acted immediately. What drives me crazy is when someone says we when the team starts doing well, and then as soon as they start struggling, it's they. Yeah.

Well, as two Predators fans, did that annoy you when the Predators were good all of a sudden? The town seemed to embrace them? I'm a little different with that because I think hockey is still so new. I am a Predators fan, but it's not like it's football, so it's not the same thing. So I do want the town to embrace it. I do like when the town gets behind the team. I understand why they do that. I went to the Stanley Cup Finals when it was here. I mean, how crazy is it during those final runs –

I got very annoyed that they just kind of like ESPN. I was beef. I was living. ESPN would not. They kept being like, is Nashville even a hockey town? And dude, it was cheaper to fly to Pittsburgh and buy a ticket and a hotel than it was to stay home and buy a ticket in Nashville. So you're like, what point do you like? What do we have to do? Broadway shut down. I mean, there's 50,000 people or 100,000 people out on the streets watching this show.

Yeah, dude, we are fans. So I, you know, but with hockey, I mean, you know, it's like, I mean, there's guys that are way into hockey, but I'm way more into football. But with the Predators, I don't know if I've ever said we. Vanderbilt, I do feel now a very close tie with. I mean, how much I've, you know, know a lot of the coaches, I know stuff. So Vanderbilt's the most. Yeah. And I mean, they've always been the most thing that I love the most because we didn't have this stuff.

And then it was tight. And then the Titans came and, but you know, if when the Titans were bad for a long time, I mean, I watched them all, but you're able to get a, maybe a little distant from it where Vanderbilt when, you know, I mean, it's like, I'm just sitting in that stadium. We got four wins, a hundred people there. Yeah. And I'm just there like, just, you know,

Brian, can I ask you, is there a time when you should stop saying we about your high school team? Is it like you're too old to do that anymore? No, no, you can always do that. If you're in that town, I think if you stay in that town, I think if you're a small town,

Okay. Like my high school is in Donaldson, but we're a suburb of Nashville. So it's just kind of, it would be different to say we, but like, you know, if it's Friday Night Lights, if you're in some... That's true. Yeah. Okay. This is your, that's how they, you know, South Pittsburgh is...

In Tennessee, we used to go play South Pitt. It was just a small town. South Pittsburgh, Tennessee? Yeah. I did a diner there. It was all about the high school team. If you live in a town like that, I get it. I would feel weird talking about my high school like, oh, we won on Friday night. You're still holding on to that, dude. Not me. You still wear your Letterman's jacket around? If you just said, we won...

And someone was like, can you guess what sport? I don't know if they would ever even get to your, is that, oh, your high school football team? Like they would never even, if you go, hey, we won the other day. Can you guess the sport I'm talking about? They would, I don't, I think they would give up and then go, what are you talking about? High school football team. And they'd be like, oh. I don't think they'd think sports right away. Yeah. Is there an election? Yeah, the election and then go down.

If you're – I was trying to remember this stuff. Do you prefer when fans stay in or sit at games? I remember, you know, standing at – so Vandy game, it was the Vandy-LSU game, the one I talk about the most where we had – we scored with three seconds left, seven to six. Vandy's going to go for two. LSU's number seven in the country. Vandy's going to go for two, go for the win.

and we're going to do a two-point conversion. We get two back-to-back delay game penalties. Back-to-back. Yeah, we have talked about that on this. Oh, yeah. Okay, so that game. But I remember people standing. We were standing there, and I remember someone, this lady behind me was like, can you not stand? The whole stadium's standing. And she's like, can you not stand?

And you're like, lady, this whole thing. I mean, you can't go to the game. People need to. Don't go. I think it is annoying when, you know, there's a system to it. You stand. When everybody else stands, you stand. When everybody sits, you sit. There's a system to it. But somebody has to start that.

Let the whole system start. So if you go to a concert and someone stands, look around. If other people do it with you and you're the one that starts it, you started. If it doesn't work, acknowledge that your thing didn't work and sit back down. Don't be the guy that is on his own. You know what I mean? Like the guy that stands up and is yelling. I mean, it's like all of them. They're yelling at the ref and they're yelling at like,

You know, I mean, there's so many times you want to just walk around that stadium and just go up to those people and go, what are we doing here? You know, what's going on? Everyone around you is sitting down. You're up screaming. You're up screaming. Yeah. You're only ruining the experience for like four people that are behind you. Yeah. And your family that's embarrassed. Yeah.

I don't like people wearing jerseys either. Like that's kind of off. I don't, if you don't, uh, I would always say a hat. I think you wear any hat to anything. Yeah. Cause I don't think people don't have 50 hats, you know, but I also, I don't think a Jersey, when you see someone like, I'd go to like Vandy, Alabama and someone shows up at Tennessee Jersey. It's like, what are you doing? Oh,

Oh, you mean the jersey of another team? Yeah, another team. Oh, definitely not. But that happens a lot. Yeah, that's dumb. I mean, really, I've seen it. Titans game, Titans-Chiefs game, and then the guy in a Steelers jersey shows up, and you're like, what are you doing? You just want to argue with people. That doesn't make sense. Just wear, what do you got to do, show us that you're into sports? Like, how are they going to know? Is an adult doing this? Yeah. Ah.

I mean, kids, you can let kids do whatever they want. But I think you're putting your kid in a bad position if you gave him, like, why don't you wear your Steelers thing? I mean, you want your kid to be in arguments with adults, drunk adults that become irrational.

And then, you know, there was once my freshman year of college, I went to visit my buddies at UT and we're going to go to the UT LSU game, I think basketball. And I brought my Vanderbilt Jersey. I mean, not Jersey church, just for fun, just to wear. I thought it'd be funny. We're in the student section and my buddy was like, man, it's going to be funny for a minute, but just why would you want to do that the whole game? And he was right. And I didn't wear it, but I was going to do that. But I think that's what people do. They think it'll be funny.

I don't. I think people want to argue. I think they like to... They want you to come up and say something to them, and they want to... It's always the guy who walks like, yeah, like, you know. It's that guy. I mean, that guy wants you to say something to him. I'm not even a fan of adult men wearing other jerseys. I was about to say, I think just wearing a jersey in general, I don't like it. Yeah. It's weird to me. Yeah. When you really think about your...

Sports is entertainment. Yeah. And you're dressing up like guys that are younger. You're dressing up like guys that are younger than you to watch them. Yeah. You know, it's when you think about it like that, it's strange. Yeah.

Well, it's kids. I mean, that's the problem. Kids are... Exactly. No, no, I'm not saying young kids, but I'm saying these, like, being a Vandy fan, and now I'm old enough to be the father of these people is crazy. It's like a lot. You're like, golly, you know, there's like some 16-year-old. I'm like following on Twitter to see if he goes to Vandy, and you're like, what am I doing, dude? Yeah. Did you go to college with Vantateo? We did overlap a couple years. Yeah, he was a year older than me, so his...

My junior year was his senior year. Did y'all date the same girl? Yes, actually. That year, for sure. Welcome to Nate Land, everybody. Now we're rolling. This is when that episode's going to start here. It's been brutal until then. Same thing, what about wearing a glove to a baseball game?

Guys wear those. If you're at the game where Barry Bonds is going to hit his 71st home run, you can bring a glove, I feel like. But if it's a noon game on a Wednesday with the Padres versus the Braves, don't bring a glove. That might be the one to bring one. That might be the one you'll be wide open. You just go sit in the stands. But at what cost? Well, so there's this one guy who set the – he's had over 1,250 home run balls caught.

And he wrote a book on the best ways to catch a home run. And basically, you've got to be able to knock down kids. I mean, that's the gist of it. He's called the most hated fan in baseball. They hate him because he'll do whatever it takes. But he says, get somewhere where you've got some running room. Like get on a concourse, get spread out. Don't get where everybody else is. Spread out, get some room.

He doesn't do the foul poles. He says people congregate there for whatever reason. He gets in the power alleys. He's got a whole system down. Wow. What's the power alleys? You know, like not dead center or dead right, kind of in between there. So he doesn't go for foul balls. He wants home run balls. He wants home runs. He caught Mike Trout's very first home run, and he caught A-Rod's 600th, I think. And did he get Barry Bonds or none of them?

I don't know if he – not any historic home runs from Barry Bones. Oh, so he's just got the most home runs. The most home runs. Over 1,200 major league home runs. That's a person that would wear a jersey to a different team. Dude. Like a guy that's willing to knock kids over. When you always see that, we're like – I mean, they show the videos of some lady that just doesn't want to give the ball up to a kid. Yeah. I mean, it's all alcohol. Well, that happened to me. Really? Yeah.

About 20 years ago. So I was Aaron's age. I went to a spring training game in Florida with my parents. And it was the Braves and somebody. And we were in the outfield, and you could sit on the grass. It feels like you're still too old to go to something with your parents. You know, you're telling the story like you're like, about 20 years ago, me and my parents, all right, so he was like 14. And you're like, no, no, he's 30. He bought his own ticket. I mean, they like...

I was. I was like 28. But we were sitting in the outfield on the grass. And Andrew Jones, you guys remember Andrew Jones? The Braves? He caught the third out. And as he would tend to do, he would turn around and just flip it into the stands. Well, this time he turned around and flipped it, and it came straight to me, and I caught it.

And I was so excited. But then this guy, there were kids running around. This man started yelling, give it to the kid. Give it to the kid. And I felt all this pressure. But I'm a kid in my mind. I really wanted to keep it. I kept it. Did no kid come up to you?

Well, as soon as he threw it in the air, everyone's kind of scrambling, like a t-shirt contest, but it came straight to me. I kept it. I still have it. I don't think that's what a t-shirt contest is, but it's a t-shirt cannon. T-shirt cannon, yeah. Yeah.

T-shirt contest is something different. You would also be there. So no kid then came. There was no direct, can I have that ball? No. I mean, they were milling around hoping that maybe I would do that. You could act like you don't hear. I mean, I did. I just looked straight ahead. I think that's a nice thing to do, hand the ball to the kid. I don't think you should feel obligated at all.

I mean, if you went and caught it and got it, like you earned it. Yeah. But spring training, I don't think there's – but, I mean, that's maybe where they go to get a ball. I mean, you've got to think that kid, that kid's going to be very excited about it. On the other hand, clearly he's – do you still have the ball? Yeah. I mean, so that – like to a guy that's going to keep it, like almost like you could – if you said, guys, I will keep this ball.

And you told the kid that? I'm sure he would understand. The dad might go, hey, son, let him. Yeah.

You know, he's probably going to be like, something's up with this guy. And I mean, he's, I mean, if you, if that's what an adult should do, they want it, they go, hey, I'm going to like put this ball in my bedroom. And then someone's going to be like, oh man, that's awesome, man. Then the whole crowd be like, good for you, man. They would clap. Kids start bringing me balls. Yeah, they go, we'll get you. And then here's mister. And you're like, thank you, kid. I mean, you would, you could turn it around then. Yeah.

That's what some of these people should yell. I will keep this at my house. Yeah. And then they're... Like, when you see the drunk woman that's, you know, we can all kind of picture the video. Yeah. And that's all alcohol.

alcohol related. That's what these kids don't know. This lady's juiced up. Wait, what's the drunk woman doing? She takes a foul ball from a kid. Rip it out of a kid's hand. They just show it and then you're getting booed by the stadium. She just says no and hangs on to it. There's a buddy of mine, a comic from Chicago, Alex Drakovich. He has this great bit about...

you're led to believe that it means more to the kid, but it means so much more to the adult. Because the kid's life is amazing. The adult has some real hardships. Brian still has that ball. The kid would have, I mean, he wouldn't still have that ball. No way. He'd probably lose it that night. Exactly. It means so much more to the adult because the adult has real things going on.

That's a ball, though, that's, you know, you're like, where is it from? You're like, oh, Andrew Jones. Wow. Is that a big game? Spring training. Do you guys ever call a ball? No. Huh? I mean, I think, yeah. No. I went to spring training. We're in front of Sonny Gray. Here we go. Pitching right now. What do you want me to do? It's life I live. I don't know what to tell you. Name drop. He threw us a ball. He threw me a ball. And I said, I'm good, man.

My buddy was at a National Sound. If she gave it to you, you would have kept that. Would you keep it? How far removed could you be from the ball? Like if I brought you a ball that was like, hey, Sonny Gray warmed up with this ball. I'd keep it. Yeah. And so you're fine being removed. You know, like that's like a big golf thing is if someone gives you – my brother-in-law got me a shirt for Augusta. And I'll wear it, but then sometimes I do feel weird because I still – because people always go, oh, have you been? And I haven't been.

And they, and so like, you know, like, but like, I, I mean, I still wear the shirt. I like the shirts. Awesome. Like I have, my dad will wear a shirt from anywhere. If I go, you know, if I went and played pebble beach and like, I brought my dad a pebble beach shirt. He would like, it's like all my son went to, you know, it's like, do you feel like removed? So like if someone gave you, that's like buying memorabilia, would you ever buy it? Like an autograph or like, I like memorabilia. How do you say it? Like,

I would love some sports. What's he talking about? Is that how you say it? Memorabilia? Is that how you say it? I don't know how to say it. Memorabilia? Huh? Memorabilia? Memorabilia? Let's avoid the word altogether. I avoid that. You know what name I avoid? Bartholomew. Is that how I say that right? Yeah. You nailed it right there. I used to be like, Bartholomew. I never met someone. What's your name? Bartholomew?

theater is my movie theater movie theater I say theater theater theater I'm putting it R yeah don't go down there there's a movie theater down there yeah I have trouble with some words but I would love to buy some memorabilia I think for me I'm still not saying that I thought I slowed it down you're just stretching it out a little farther yeah

You don't have to punch it so hard. People are going to fast forward through me saying memorabilia. He's still saying it. That's how slow it goes. Right when he starts mem, hit the 15-second button, and then the word sounds correct. Yeah. You've got to change the playback speed on the podcast. Yeah.

There was a dude who caught Mark McGuire's 70th home run, who at the time was the major league record for home runs in a season. He caught it. The Cardinals offered him some memorabilia, and he said, well, I want to meet Mark McGuire.

I'd like to do that for the ball. And Mark McGuire said, pass. I don't want to do it. So the guy didn't meet him, didn't give him the ball. And he sold it three months later, that ball, for $3 million. I don't understand. Wait, why did Mark McGuire not want to meet with him? I don't think he cared about the ball that much. Maybe, or he's just like, I don't want to meet with this guy. I don't care. Maybe if he doesn't want the ball.

But the Cardinals wanted to put in their museum. Yeah, he said, they said, we don't negotiate. Which sounds like something you'd say to terrorists. Like a hostage situation. Yeah. It's completely fair for that guy to want to meet Mark McGuire. Yeah. That's completely fair. This is the one that went right...

It didn't go in the stands. His one went right over. No, not that one. That was the 62nd when he broke Roger Maris. This was the last one of the season, which they thought was going to be the record. And he said he obviously is glad he didn't because he'd rather have $3 million. He was caught up in the moment at the time and would have just given it to him. But he sold it for $3 million. And then the crazy thing is the guy who bought it, Barry Bonds broke McGuire's record. Yeah, not that long afterwards. Three years later, and that ball is now worth $250,000.

You've got to save up. Now you've got to not do anything with it. That's crazy how much that... $3 million it goes down? Yeah. Because it's not the... But the guy who bought it also owns Bond's record home run too, so he's very rich. And that's probably gone down in value now, right? Because of steroids and stuff? Yeah. People don't even talk about Barry Bond's home run records anymore, unfortunately. Yeah. He was my favorite player growing up. Is he? Yeah.

Yeah, he was. You like cheaters? Who was before that? Pete Rose? No, I'm just kidding. I love Pete Rose. Shoeless Joe Jackson. Shoeless Joe Jackson right before that. I think Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame. It's crazy. It's crazy to me. There's no reason. He's at, like, I saw him in Vegas. He signs autographs in Vegas, and you just pay to go see him. And, you know, it's fun. It's crazy. He's, like, the real deal, man. Pete Rose, just, like...

Stats, I saw him play my first baseball game I went to as a kid. It was the Braves and Reds, and he was manager for the Reds. Yeah. And we went to it. And that's the first one. But Pete Rose, I mean, he sells records. Oh, hit record. Just unbelievable. He had one of my favorite sports moments of all time at the All-Star game when he –

the catcher because he was... Oh, yeah, Ray Fossey. Yeah, because he just trucked him because he was at the base. Everyone's like, this is the all-star game. Chill out. Yeah, relax. He just didn't have another gear. Yeah, he just laid into him. He's like, this is the gear. Why would you not love that? And when he gambled, he only gambled on his own team. Supposedly. Supposedly, yeah. But I don't know how you prove any of that stuff. Speaking of dominant...

People in their field. I love seeing people that... We were talking about Bobby Fisher. Yeah. For chess. Yeah.

You know, he's considered by, what is it, many of the greatest chess players of all time. At age 14, he became the youngest ever U.S. chess champion. At 15, he became both the youngest grandmaster up to that time and the youngest candidate for the world championship. 20, Fisher won the 63-64 U.S. championship with 11 wins in 11 games, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. That's still held today. I mean, his chess still...

you know, around, kicking around. Yeah. The current reigning champion, a guy named Magnus Carlsen, he's now considered to be the best chess player of all time. Oh, really? He's been the defending champ since 2013. Yeah. He's like a young guy. Not quite as young as, Bobby Fischer was like a prodigy at a very young age. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's still going. Is he from, where's he from? He's Norwegian, I think, from Norway. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. My dad played competitive chess for a long time, so we were real into it. Well, you know, when you said your Netflix documentary, why would you not bring that up over your dad's a principal? How do you not, like, I mean, there's a documentary. I mean, I've seen a Bobby Fischer movie. How come? What was your Netflix documentary? My dad was a principal for a while. Oh, by the way, I forgot he did competitive chess. Well, he wasn't a grandmaster or anything, but he was real into it, so he got me into Bobby Fischer. I bet you're, are you good at chess?

I was never good. I never had the patience for it. Yeah. You know, some of these Bobby Fisher, I mean, it was hours between moves just staring at the board, but they would go down, not do that. He would play people go down the line and just one after the other and play them all. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Um, yeah, that's so crazy.

Some people, some of these freak prodigies, they don't even need to see the board. Yeah. They can just close their eyes and visualize all these different boards at once and play the games. I mean, it's insane. How do they know to grab the piece? Well, they just say what move they want. Oh. They'll be like, move the pawn up to, you know, E5.

Or wherever. What's E5? I got to ask him. Yeah. And he has to open his eyes. He's like, dude, you're killing me. I go, I don't know what E5 is. You're the one controlling the board? Yeah. I'm for him because he's not. He just moved up two spaces forward. I go, thank you. I don't even know how to play chess. Which one's the rook? Yeah. Yeah.

Move the Rook. You never got into it? I've played it. I've played it. Is it like over a trillion possible moves or something? I mean, it's crazy. Dude, when you get to the level that those guys are playing at, it's like a different world. I mean, he would beat you. It's a joke. It wouldn't even really be fun.

No. And you've got to think these guys are playing thousands and thousands of games a week. They're just constantly playing. What if you did one move that he was like, oh. And you get him, and he's like... That's three out of five. Yeah, you're so bad. You know, that's what makes people mad at poker. It's because some buffoon gets up there and he's like...

And then just wins. And you're like, I don't even know the rules. Those are the scariest. I mean, obviously chess is a strategy, so it's not that. But poker is... I mean, you can blow up a table. Just some drunk sits down that's like, I'm here to have fun. And the next thing they know, I mean, just wipes out the table. Because they just... They don't know...

They don't know anything. This is after three moves in chess. There are now 121 million possible moves. It just goes up after that. If you look into some of the Bobby Fischer story when he played Boris Spassky from the Soviet Union in 1972, that's one of the most dominating. A lot of his losses were like,

he would forfeit the game because the lighting was bad. He was a crazy person. So he'd be like, I don't like the lighting in here. I'll forfeit this game. Or I want the cameras out. I'll forfeit this game. And then he just dominated the guy. So his only losses were that. I was looking this up last night. You play best of 24. For Spassky. So it's best of 24 games. First game, Bobby Fischer lost. Second game, he forfeited because he didn't want the cameras there.

And then like third game, he wanted to go play privately where no one could see it. He made all these crazy demands. Yeah. And then he came back and just started dominating. Yeah. Win, win, win. Typically, it's like chess at a super high level like that, it's almost always a draw. Yeah.

You almost always, you know. Kind of like tic-tac-toe? Yes, exactly. And then if you win like two games, that's like you're going to win. Yeah. And he won. I mean, he just dominated the game. Who was the best in the world at the time? Yeah. But he'd go play by himself. I mean, that's such a weird – because it's like a – you know, it's not like, ah, let me go shoot some hoops over here at this different –

And then you still finish. You know, you're like, Bobby, this is like a four hour. Everything's like seven hours. Like, you can't just wander. I'm going to go play a private nine hour game. You're like, no, dude. I mean, like we need, there's a system in place. Billiards is the other one we've talked about being a weird. I've been to Minnesota Fats, his grave. He's buried in Hermitage, Tennessee.

Hermit is right. I mean, I grew up right next to it. Was he, he was from here? No, he retired here. He retired here and then married someone here and died here. My dad, I remember my dad was like, when he died and then just buried like five minutes from our house. Wow. And so my dad was like, oh, we need to go see, you know, I didn't really know who he was.

But he was known as one of the more famous pool players. Yeah, I think he's... Probably the most famous. Yeah, I would say he's definitely the most famous. But in doing research on pool, not even really considered close to one of the best. Just got a great name. Just got a great name. Well, the movie... I mean, that is a great name. The movie The Hustler, with Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman, was based kind of on him. And that's kind of made him famous.

But as far as great pool players, they're like, no, this guy's not close to being one of the best. There's a guy in Kentucky who's known as the best pool hustler. He was just this good old country boy, and he would never play in tournaments because he didn't want anybody to know who he was. And he would just play these...

back alley games or stuff and just rack up against the world's best players. And they're like, who is this guy? And sometimes he'd have to wait forever for them to make him. Then finally people started figuring out who he was and they wouldn't play him. And then he would just come up with these crazy, like, your advantage. Like, you've got two balls left to all my balls on the table kind of thing. And he'd still be. He was that good. Yeah, he was that good. He did these bank shots that nobody could figure out. And he's just some country guy from Kentucky. Yeah.

So to be a hustler, he would have to pretend to be bad first and then come in and beat everybody? I guess so. You can't do that in the same town for a long time. No. No, he would just drive around and do it. Guys do it at golf. You know, golf...

hustling like they we did there's a guy I was told John my buddy John Augustine that plays his a guy he knows he's like a radio guy but he's a good he's like a plus six handicap which is if anybody knows handicaps most people Brian's probably a

18 to, or maybe I'm a hustler. Maybe. Yeah. We'll see. It's going to, I would love to see ropes one, you know, it goes, he's actually right-handed. Yeah. And you're like, Oh wow. And then boom, just bombs play for some money.

People always love the story I tell. I go, Brian carries his driver to every tee box. Par 3, par 5, driver, driver. Doesn't ask the yardage, just hits. And it all kind of works out. It goes the distance it's supposed to go. Maybe it needs to go 130. It's going to go 130. If it needs to go 200, it goes 200.

I've never hit one 200, but... You've hit one 200. Well, maybe. I had one good one the other day we played, and I felt so good about it. I go back to my cart. You know how the bag's got the different...

partitions for your different clubs. And I tried to take it and just kind of slam it down. But I hit the partition, and my club bounced up. And the guy behind me saw it. And then I tried to do it again, and it hit it again. And I finally just got on the cart with my club and drove off. Holding on to the club. I just did. But so this guy – so plus six handicap is – the pros are –

Jason Day, he kept his handicap when he was number one in the world, and he was plus 8.1. They say Tiger in 2000 was like a plus 10, which is nuts. Like a handicap roughly means you're going to get... Plus 10? Plus 10. Tiger in 2000. Okay. When he's run at the Grand Slam. Not minus? No, plus. Okay. Minus is like I'm... So I'm a three. So zero is scratch.

And then you get to plus one, plus two. Pluses are better. Oh, okay. Plus, it means you get strokes basically added on to you. Okay. So, like, if me and you play, and you're an 18 and a three, I got to give you a shot for 15 of the holes. Okay. And so, but like with Tiger Woods, he would have to give me 13 shots. And so, this guy goes up, and it's like a, like golf, I love golf. Like, they come up, this dude, they said he pulls up,

out of his car, and just walks to the first tee. Just no warm-up. He's got like a visor backwards, like socks up to halfway up. And he's like, all right, you want to gamble? The guy's like, yeah. The other guy's like, good too and wants to play. He's like, well, I'm a plus six. I'll give you three strokes a side. So that means on the three hardest holes, he'll get one stroke. If he gets a bogey, he gets a par.

And they were like, by the sixth hole, the guy's down four strokes. Because the other guy's like seven under through six. Just comes out of his car. Just out of his car just is unreal. Looked like a clown. I mean, they said he wins club championships. And he has Phil Mickelson as a member at the club that he's at. He's a dude that is just super solid. I think he's a guy...

That would be like that hustler. They could easily go turn pro. They could be pro. But they will be more successful doing it the route they do it versus... I mean, I think this guy's a very successful guy, so I don't know if he needs golf. But it's like...

there's more of a story with the guy doing that. I'm not telling that if that guy finishes 50th in a tournament, you're like, I don't know who that guy is, but you're like, I definitely have heard of that other guy. And that's what these hustlers, they end up thriving off of, is to be like, this guy's got... I mean, we're talking about him right now. This guy was not a professional player. But that story is more of, you'd make a movie about that. And so it's like, what do you want to do? Maybe if you're...

Not so good. Maybe if you're great at your craft, but you know I'm not at the top of the top of it. So you go find some other little roundabout way. You could probably do it like you're a construction guy. You could probably just be like, I go do it. Everybody likes hearing about the other guy. You're like, I got a guy that's real legit. As a business, if you hired someone to do stuff, yard work,

And then if you're just like, this guy, you know, we're going to find this guy on the yellow page. We're going to find a guy like that. It's pretty crazy. Bowling, we were talking about bowling, too. It's just kind of odd sports. My grandmother's in the Bowling Hall of Fame, Louisville Bowling Hall of Fame. Really? Yep. She's the most 300s, I think, is what she's bowled. How many? Two? One? She actually didn't have one, but it's still the most. No, no. Maybe it's the most.

Like 299s or something. It's something like that. Okay. It's been a while since I've asked about it. But unbelievable bowler. It's in the genes. I felt bowling, but my high, my game high is 266. That's pretty high. Yeah, that's pretty good. Pretty good. Do women and men bowl differently? Women do it between their legs. Men do it like this. Is that what you mean? Not form-wise. I just didn't know. I mean, is there like a...

What do you mean? A difference in, you know. Yeah, here we go. The color of the ball? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Is it pink? I'm trying to think about how to phrase this. Do men bowl better than women in the way that they golf better and things like that? So, yeah, are women, basically, you don't think they're equal? Long story short, could women do podcasts even at all? Are they not good enough?

Well, like your grandmother. Yeah. Would she bowl with men? I see what you mean. I think so. So it's like a guy, the best woman golfer in Tiger Woods competing would not be the same. Sure. Like that. Sure. Bowling seems like the one sport you could probably do. That's what I was saying. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know.

Yeah, they could. That could Peter Weber do. Could Peter Weber and your grandmother. Yeah. Is there even a women's bowling league? Professional bowling league? Your grandmother's in the Hall of Fame. I know, but she was just... She's in the women's bowling hall of fame. No, she's in Louisville. They're bowling. But I don't know if it's... I don't think it takes... To get into the bowling hall of fame, I don't think there's just...

It's not like the NFL. It's going to be regular people. People that are in leagues. Okay. That is interesting. After making fun of you, that is actually a very interesting... Because the difference in how men and women golf, obviously men can drive the ball farther. Yeah. But men also putt better than women, and nobody's quite sure why. Men always...

Who putts better? Men putt better than women. And I don't play golf, so I'm not flexing. You're making a point. Oh, yeah. But you hate women, so that's just you. That's the main takeaway, for sure. Yeah, I don't know. You've got a problem. Yeah, there's a professional women's bowling association. No, women, you know what they always tell you? If you're a regular person, you should watch the LPGA more than the PGA.

For women, LPGA, their numbers are more like our numbers for a golfer. I've golfed with an LPGA player. They're going to destroy you. Sure. It's nothing. It's all perfect. Everything's straight. They've got very smooth swings. But as an amateur golfer, the LPGA is way more...

Like us. Their distances are about the same. The shots that they have, they can obviously do way more shots, but it's more similar to my game versus Bryson DeChambeau that's hitting it 430 yards. Sure. There's what professional women bowlers make. Shannon O'Keefe's by far making the most there. She's made $61,000. That's a pretty good year. It's not bad. Yeah. Just make it on the side.

Yep. Who's, yeah, who was the Earl? You said Earl Anthony won 43 professional bowlers association titles during his incredible career and was named PBA Bowler of the Year six times. He was also the first bowler to top $100,000 in earnings in a year and the first to surpass $1 million in career earnings. He was above Peter Weber? In the rankings I saw, yeah. Wow. Wow. Wow.

He thought Peter Weber's the only one. What does he say? Who do you think you are? I am. Yeah, who do you think you are? I am. I mean, he's got to be the most famous bowler. For sure, just for that one moment. Who do you think you are? I am. I mean, I love it. Yeah, I love it. I love the greatness of all this stuff. We're talking about racing A.J. Foyt. I love greatness, man. Secretariat, horse racing, everything.

It's crazy. I mean, it is crazy. Like, you know, I'm a big MMA fan. Jon Jones. Jon Jones is the best, I think. Khabib is probably the other one. But I watch people for greatness. I watch... Like, I would say...

People that don't like, I mean, look, if you hate sports, then none of this matters. But if you're into sports, you've got to expand yourself and go watch these things. You're watching stuff that's a once-in-a-lifetime. Seeing Khabib or Jon Jones MMA. If you like the sport, Khabib, he fought a bear growing up. That's what he fought in Russia. There's video, and he wrestles a bear. This guy is a once-in-a-lifetime guy.

person so like i enjoy when you feel someone is you know it's like this is not normal this guy is better than the best so i try to watch those things tiger woods i watched his whole career you just can tell you know you know when these people are going to be greatness is unbelievable what it takes tiger woods jordan i always said like i never watched kobe and because i was too close to jordan if you're i think if you're around my age it was almost like

We get Jordan, and it's the one regret I wish I would have paid attention more to that transition and then watched Kobe. And I was just, when I was 20 or 21, I don't think I cared as much. But I would have loved to...

have seen that transition more and watch them more and then really appreciate Kobe's game. But I think if you're my age, that's why you're such a Jordan fan. And then Kobe was just kind of missed. You were almost like, it's too much. I just got done watching this dude. I can't, I can't get into this guy again. Like you're just like, I'm, I'm spent right now. And now I'm back into LeBron James. I've watched his entire career. Cause I was like, I had to like, I had one removed and then now I'm like, all right. And so like now I'm trying to make myself in the NBA, the NBA, the NBA,

You know, whether you like it or not, as far as talent goes, they have the most kind of once-in-a-generation talent. I mean, you know, Steph Curry, obviously, but I don't even think he's not the freak of nature I'm talking about. Like Giannis at Milwaukee and Luka Donic at Dallas. I mean, dude, those two...

are pretty crazy. Luka Donic is, where's he from? He's from somewhere. Yeah, I think you're right. Spain or something, maybe? Let me get on that. Yeah.

It doesn't matter. Slovenian? Slovenian, near Spain. I have no idea where Slovenia is. I wouldn't even begin. If you told me, leave right now and go to Slovenia, I mean, it would be... I'm trying to think. I don't even know what continent it's in. It could be... I think it's Eastern Europe. Yeah. Or Western Asia. I would head to Russia. Start there. I would be like, I'm going that direction. Yeah. Okay. And then I would go from there.

But Luka Donic is, this dude was playing with like grown men and there was really not a ton of like video on him. But he was, you know, I mean, he just turned 21 and I think he was like 18, 17, 18. He's playing in the men's league. And so he came into the league and was just like a dude already, like a real just grown guy. And he's really got a shot. I mean, he could pass all of LeBron's. I mean, dude, this dude can be nuts.

And it's pretty crazy. So he's someone that you're like, all right, you should, you know, you really need to probably keep an eye on it. Like it's a, it's a guy that's going to be kind of crazy. You just don't want to like when their career is over, think like, I didn't watch one thing. Like, let me ask you this. If you could choose guy comes to your show, loves your comedy. Y'all become best friends for life. Everyone knows your best friends, Michael Jordan or Luke Adonick right now, Michael Jordan.

But he's retiring. He's going to be dead in a few years. I know, but he's – Luka Donic, for 15 years, you could be on the sidelines, NBA, high-fiving him. You could be the next Spike Lee. Do you want to get in on the ground floor? The ground floor. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just – my age is too much like – you can't pass up. Until Michael Jordan dies, you get a chance to be with Michael Jordan. You just got to take that – he's too much of a thing.

What about you, Aaron? Michael Jordan, I mean, he's the brain. Like, yeah. How much of a language barrier is it with this guy? It's not good. I'm just thinking about it. Tell you what, it's not good. Let's pretend like... I'm just thinking about the hangs. Let's pretend like you speak Slovenian. Or let's pretend like, yeah, it's perfect English. He speaks perfect English? Yeah, it's like you speak Slovenian. Like, I mean, he's going to have a better life than, you know...

I mean, we'd say... You speak Slovenia. I think you have a decent shot to hang out with Luka Donic if you could learn the language. That's true. For the next 15 years, he's the face of the league. You're on the sidelines coming over. He's getting popcorn from your bucket. Yeah.

I mean, you guys are tight. I'd do it, man. I'd do it for sure. But you can never meet Michael Jordan. I'm never going to meet him anyway. Well, you could in this scenario. You could be best friends with either one of them. It's a very loose game. Maybe you and Michael and all can become friends. You can just get whatever you want out of it. That's a good question, though. I have no interest in knowing Michael Jordan on a personal level. All right. He's a golfer. I would love that. Yeah, sure. That makes sense. Split vote. I think I can meet Michael Jordan.

You think I'll ever meet him, golf with him? Probably at a golf charity event at the Nate Bargatze charity. You know what, athlete I'm most surprised that you've never met and aren't BFFs with is Brent Snedeker. Yeah, never met him. Because you know a lot of people, especially Vandy people. We've never just crossed paths. I would love to meet him. I'd love to become best friends with him. With some of the other greatness, Coco Gauff, she was the 15-year-old that –

In the Wimbledon performance, she beat Venus Williams in the first round, reached the fourth round. Would you rather be best friends with her or Serena Williams? I'm not going to rest if I'm friends with Coco. Yeah, Coco's got a real shot to be kind of a phenom. But I mean, I don't...

She has the best chance out of the tennis, but Serena, I mean, Serena doesn't, I don't think, get the acknowledgement of what she's done. She's been, she's borderline, she's with Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan. I mean, she's one of the most dominant athletes there. Yeah, she's the greatest women's tennis player of all time. Hockey, Connor McDavid, he's only 23. He's a dude, I remember hearing about him.

Wayne Gretzky called him the best prospect he's seen in 30 years. Wow. One that's kind of different, Kyle Buga Geersdorf. You know this guy? My nephew probably knows him. I don't know him, no. He's a Fortnite player? Yeah, he's an esports guy. I mean, esports, it's bigger than all of these other sports we're talking about, which is crazy to think about. It's bigger than basketball? I mean, more people watch the League of Legends championship now

which is a video game, then watch the Super Bowl. How many people watch the League? Look up how many people watch the League of Legends. Yeah, the League of Legends video game. And what is it? It's a Fortnite matchup? No, it's a... League of Legends is a real-time strategy video game. It's not like a first-person shooter. What do you mean, look up? League of Legends, I don't know. Views, ratings, views. Yeah, League of Legends views for the championship. Yeah, versus Super Bowl, yeah. Oh, do you mean...

So, uh, did we go back to Superbowl? Yeah. Yeah. Versus Superbowl. There we go. It's, I mean, yeah, yeah. This, the, this e-sports giant drawing more viewers in the Superbowl and it's expected to get even bigger. Over 10,000 League of Legends fans descended upon St. Louis this week and more than 600,000 people watch the event online. I don't understand. It's, it's get draws in more viewers than how many viewers does it get though?

Well, let's click on... Does it not say, like, figure out... Just try to figure out how many viewers it gets. All right. I'll get back to you. Okay. It's huge, though. It's enormous. For them to say that, I mean, like... That kind of stuff fascinates me when it's this huge world just kind of going on underneath us and you really don't know about it. Yeah. You know? Yeah, it's...

I mean, it's definitely people don't... If you're older, I mean, you know, I think this country's going to get taken over pretty easily in 20 years when the guys that should be fighting have never left their house. I mean... This is more than 100 million people watched it. That's crazy. Yeah. That's crazy. I mean, it's fun to watch. But I mean, what's the age? Like, I mean, you could get down to the age, dude. Like, so my nephew, Caleb, he's real big on Fortnite. He does the...

Twitch, and you can watch him on Fortnite. I don't know his name, but on Fortnite. But he does all that stuff, and they play it. And they're obsessed. I looked up, like, there's a guy, Ninja, that's a big Fortnite player, and all these kids follow him. He's, like, famous. I mean, these guys are famous. And they stream, and, you know. And it's a different kind of thing. They watch. You know, my daughter even watches Fortnite.

uh she plays a game roblox and it's you know just a i don't know a kid some kind of dumb game that's got like you got to kind of keep an eye on because it's a it's online you know everything's online everything's online with them and so you got everything you do you got to keep a pretty strong eye of what they're doing but she's watched videos of people playing of them like streaming their game online

So, I mean, it's something that people are into. What's funny is, like, I jokingly said, like, this country would get taken over by these kids. But there's a chance that, like, they could just, they don't have to fight, but they have... War game videos? Yeah, yeah. Like, they're, like, sending stuff out, and we're actually unbelievable at it. Like, so, maybe the country will do fine. Who knows? But that's pretty, yeah. I can't believe it's 100 million people that are watching a video game.

Watching two guys play a video game. But it's like you want to watch the best people in the world. It's the same concept with traditional sports. You play basketball as a kid, but you want to watch Michael Jordan play. You want to watch the best people play. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I would almost want to watch it. I feel it's so quick. That's the thing that's hard with video games to me is it's very fast. Right.

Like, I don't know the moves. So it's just, you know, like you see Fortnite and then building a, whatever they're building, it's just ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. It's like super quick. Some people, I feel that way watching hockey sometimes. You know, if you're unfamiliar with it and you don't know what's going on right now. Yeah. A couple more greatness to just watch. I'll just say it quickly. Christian Pulisic.

Right? They already say he's the greatest American soccer player of all time. And if we get to the World Cup, if you're in it, he'll be playing in it as a long run at it. Also, I was a big Katie Ledecky fan because you would see her swimming. And I loved seeing the videos where she would be – people would be out of screen. Like you would be like, oh, she –

She's swimming by herself, and then she's beat people by that much. Olympic swimmers by that much. And then you found out Regan Smith is the next one. That's supposed to be maybe better than her? According to this. That's great. If you have them two going at it, that's nuts, dude. Because Katie Ledecky's already so much better than everybody else. It looks like it's not fair. And this girl comes in, and now she's that? And they're both American?

Bumped American. There we go. There we go. Something. We got something. A couple weird stuff about records. Wayne Gretzky is one of the more impressive. As far as Jordan, Tiger, all that kind of stuff, Wayne Gretzky is in that boat.

And Wayne Gretzky, I mean, his records are nuts. I love like talking to someone that's really into it. My buddy Graham K is from Canada and he, you know, obviously they love hockey and I'll just like, I'll like always, even I get the same answers from, but I always just, I'm like, how good is Wayne Gretzky? I like hearing just where he's like, dude, he goes, no one's even, no one's even close to his records. No one's even, I mean, they're, uh, he scored the most points in NHL history and,

The next closest, 28-57. The next closest is Yager, Yarmir Yager, at 19-21. And Yager played in almost 300 more games. And he's barely within 1,000 points. That's insane. And Joe Thornton has the most points among Axe players at 15-09. I mean, it's not he can't. No one can do it. No. His records are the ones that I don't think can ever be broken. Will Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game.

Could that be broken? I mean, Kobe did 82. I could see it being broken. Really? Kobe had 82 points. If they let someone do it, then it can be broken. He scored 82. These guys are so good. That's closer than anybody's gotten to Wayne Gretzky's. Oh, that's true. I mean, you're at least going like, all right, he needed 18 more points. Could Kobe have scored? I don't even know if he played later in that game.

So some of these old records, it's like the game has changed significantly since then. There was not a three-point shot when Will Chamberlain was playing. You get some guy on a run of three. I mean, they're shooting. Yeah, it's nuts. Cy Young at 511 career. That's mine. Had the most wins. Now Verlander at 226. Yeah. I mean, the only thing I would say about the wins is these guys are playing longer.

And they're able to play into their 40s now. No, baseball, they may not have another 300-game winner, they said. Oh, really? Yeah, because the game's changed so much. Back in Cy Young's time, guys pitched almost every game. Yeah. They'd have 40 feet. The pitching rotation, yeah. And now... That's true. So I guess that's pretty good. Cy Young is 511. Only one other guy has more than 400. It's like leaps and bounds higher than anybody else. Yeah. It's insane. Nolan Ryan with 57 straights.

5,700 strikeouts and Justin Verlander's 3,000. So, I mean, that's got to be pretty tough to beat because now it's going to be broken up. But that's the thing that's hard is like, I don't know if anybody's going to, like, there's going to be guys that are good enough to get those, but they're not going to get the opportunity to get those. Yeah. But you could say the same with Gretzky. I mean, man, I don't know. Gretzky has so many points. Kyle Ripken, 2,600 consecutive baseball games.

What do you have? Insane. It's insane. The current streak is Whit Merrifield of the Royals, who played in 247 straight games. I remember watching the Kyle Rifkin show.

yeah, it was a huge, it was a, that's when, I mean, that's like the Aguirre Sosa. It was, it was, you were worried. Yeah. They kept, I mean, man, it's, you know, you know, I'm trying to think what's the last sport that had something where it was like, you had to watch it. I mean, maybe like, uh, remember when Michael Phelps in the Olympics, that was like a, every night let's tune in and see, you know, so Olympics, Olympics, but Olympics are Olympics. Uh,

That's true. It's something like regular sports where it's some kind of record. Brett Favre, but that was probably even around Kyle Rifkin. Not as big, but Drew Brees has set a few passing records. But it was like a regular Sunday and like, you know, like they went to it, but it wasn't.

It wasn't Kyle Ripken. It wasn't this Sammy Sosa. I feel like baseball in general, people just... The records are more exciting. People keep track of them more. Shooting a 59 for golf... If someone shoots a 59, there's always a 59 watch. And you want to go kind of see it. He's got to go 200 to get... Jimmy Furyk shot a 58 in a tournament play, which is nuts. Have you heard the conspiracy theory about Kyle Ripken's... No. So Kyle Ripken...

He holds the record for most consecutive starts in baseball. And it was, like you said, it was a huge deal when it was happening. And here's the conspiracy theory is that there's one day where Cal Ripken was late to a game.

And the Orioles, in order to keep the streak going, because it was so lucrative to them, it was such a compelling story, they faked a power outage at the stadium so that the game would get postponed so that Calrican could continue the streak. Now, the legend is that he...

caught his wife with Kevin Costner. And that's why he was late to the game. Because he was driving to the stadium, was like, oh, I forgot my wallet, turned back around and found Kevin Costner and his wife at house. Everybody involved denies that this took place. But that's the legend. He was late because he was beating up Kevin Costner at his house. The Orioles freaked out. They were like, pull the plug. All the lights went out, and they had to postpone the game.

Does he say why he was late at all? He says, I was at the game in the dugout. And there's one sports writer from Baltimore who corroborates that. But it's like, I have no trouble believing that the Orioles would do something that drastic to keep that record alive.

I think they would do that. I think they would, too. I think he wants that record, so he's not going to go be late to a game, too. And so I could see it also being like the non-fun version, which is usually probably the right version, is like he probably is in that dugout. Yeah, it's probably all beta. And someone didn't see him and goes, where's he at? And then they're just like – because everybody wants that to be the story. I know. And the Kevin Costner thing is wonderful. I mean, how would they even be –

Imagine Kevin Costner is a major, major movie star at that point. So Kevin Costner was actually filming a movie in Montana, I think, the day that this game took place. So people that are really into this theory think he flew out to Baltimore because he knew that Cal Ripken would be. And I think Cal Ripken and Kevin Costner are like best friends.

So anymore. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Adds a layer to it. Adds a layer to it. Yeah. I love conspiracy theories like that. How do you know he won't come home? And it's like, if you know anybody's not going to come home, it's that guy during that time. Exactly. Like that's the best time to do something. His wife could just be like, come on. The whole world's watching. I promise he won't be here. 2,600 days in a row, honey. He has not come home. Yeah. Yeah. Trust me. I try to get him to come home. Uh, yeah.

So, all right, those are the records. I mean, we've done, you know, about enough, plenty. So what's the last thing we'll do is that I do want to ask is what is your greatest sports moment? Which I'd love to hear some people respond to us to see because I bet there's probably some listeners that have some pretty crazy sports moment. My, which I don't...

I think y'all's will be funnier than mine if you grab that ball right there, the dirty one, if you can. This is my greatest sports moment. I have the ball. This is a home run ball you caught when you were in the stands? Not a home run ball. Yeah, I did. April 23, 1990, I threw a no-hitter. No-hitter for the 1990 minor league, minor team Phillies, in case you're wondering.

And I threw a no-hitter. Wow. Yeah. I walked some guys. Some kids got on. It wasn't a perfect game, but... It wasn't a perfect game. Did you hit anybody? I did not hit anybody, but threw a no-hitter. And that is my... And a no-hitter at that age is unheard of. No one's ever done it. I'm the first ever no-hitter. Wow. And...

Yeah, and to be honest, I can't even remember if this is the actual ball or if it's from another guy. I thought it said no hitter on it, but I can't find it. But then I was like, oh, I think it's this one. What's your most embarrassing? I mean, most embarrassing is the joke I have where I thought I got a home run off a walk. And then that's a true story. It was 13-year-old league.

I went to first base, ran around, and then the umpire said, that was only ball three. If you haven't heard the joke, it's an old joke, but I got a...

I had to bat again. Three balls, two strikes, immediately struck out. That was the most embarrassing that I've had. Didn't you strike out in a celebrity softball game? I struck out and we started poking, we started digging. Oh, you've done your homework. Oh, wait, what is this? Oh, man. Oh, there it is. I look pretty good right there. That's made at the celebrity softball game. It's a great picture. Right before. It's a loose. Royals jersey. Grown man can't wear his own jersey. That jersey has my name on it. That's pretty cool.

I struck out at that church softball. I mean, church softball. Church softball, I had some embarrassing ones. I got the yips.

trying to throw from second to first base, and I would launch the ball. And you know how like Church Softball League fields, like the top of the – there's no top on the dugout fence. Like it's always like the fence, and then it's like open. And, I mean, dude, I could not get the ball to the first baseman. I just – I didn't know how to do it. And, I mean, I would – and, I mean, I was like a pretty good – I was a pretty good baseball player, so I know how to play like –

And I just got in my head and I would grab it and I mean, I would throw it and it would just go above

above him every time. I mean, if I got the ball, I needed to run and toss it to him, and I would just launch it 15 feet above his head, and it would hit the fence and fall into the visitor's dugout. And then they just got to kick the ball. I mean, it was just like, hurry up! Just launching it to him. But I did strike out in front of all these people at Kansas City for the Big Slick. It's a great organization. They do a lot of stuff at the Children's Hospital in Kansas City, and all these celebrities are there.

I'm the only one that struck out. There's obviously no rules. David Koechner is on the team, and you would get him out just four times, and he just wouldn't leave. And then they'd count the run. It was very funny, but he would...

you'd be like i got you and he just stands there and i mean there's not even a question like he's not and then he just goes to second then he would steal to third and you would tag him three times still in the third and he gets to run and they put the run up like it's the point of it is that and uh so you could have stayed up there i could have said paul rudd was because all these people from kansas city it's pretty crazy paul rudd david kechner eric stone street uh

Rob Riggle and Jason Sudeikis. And so it's all of their thing, all of them from Kansas. Pretty famous, crazy group. I was on Paul Rudd's team. But it's funny, they weren't letting anybody strike out. I mean, these old ladies are playing, and they would just keep pitching them until they got a hit. And I was the only one.

That got three pitches and then was like, you're out. Were you whiffing them or were you taking them? Oh, whiffing them, dude. Oh, okay. Well, maybe they saw maybe a difference between you and an old lady. I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. I mean, I went to – I sit down next to Paul Rudd. I go, I can't believe I struck out in front of him. He's like, oh, no one cares anymore.

And then no one else struck out. And then I'm the only one that struck out. And I think it's because I golf so much, it was weird to me to see a ball coming in versus like, you know. And I mean, full on straight three pitches. Didn't like wait, like that and fell outside. Three pitches, dude.

Wow. And didn't walk and have to go. Did anybody in the crowd, was there a response? Did they laugh? No, I mean, I was early. People are still coming in, but I'm sure someone had to know. I mean, I talked about it that night on stage. It's like striking out a kickball.

That's probably more embarrassing because you probably fall down. Exactly. I got to participate in one of those in-game things at the Nashville Sounds game where you go out on the field. Yeah. And this was, I mean, I was like 18 or 19, so it should have been my peak physical ability. Yeah. And they had a board with a donut hole in it, and you had to throw three balls through the donut hole.

And they picked me. So I'm going down there on the field, and I said, has anybody ever done this? And they're like, no, but we usually have old people. You probably have a chance. And they had what they called, then they called them soundettes, basically Nashville Sounds cheerleaders. And they were each holding the board. And I'm out on the field during in-between innings, and my first ball sailed over the board.

And the sound out had a duck and it whizzed her head. And I mean, the crowd did respond. Yeah. The next two, none of them went through. It just hit the board. Yeah. And I mean, people were heckling me walking off the field at a Nashville sounds baseball game. They're yelling at me.

And then I went back to my seat. I was with my buddies, and they said, the lady behind them said, I've been to every game. That is the worst thing you've ever done in that. That's the worst. Man. And just think, 10 years later, you went to spring training with your parents. That adds up. That's about right, actually. That's your most embarrassing? No, that's not my most. That's just one of them. That's not even top 10.

Just one that happened to fit the story. Man. I barely even remember that one. I balked in the winning run in high school. That's the worst way to lose a game. If you're a casual sports fan, you might not even know what a balk is because nobody ever does it. What sports did you play in high school? Football and baseball. I played basketball in middle school. Fair to say. He was in a Taylor Swift video.

Oh, I saw you post a picture of it. Yeah. They filmed a Taylor Swift music video at my high school when I was attending there. And there I am storming the field after the main character catches the game-winning touchdown. It's a fun memory. That's the video. Taylor Swift was accepting the award for that video when Kanye West interrupted her on stage. Oh, wow. Which is like a famous cultural moment. Yeah, yeah. So I like to think I was a small part of that. Yeah. You know?

Do I? If you remember Kanye and Kanye West, you're like, do I? I was a part of that whole mess. Yeah, that was a crazy time in my life, man. That was awesome. All the press had to do. I know when they talk about it. All the press you would go do, Aaron will not talk about Taylor Swift or Kanye West. Next question. And then they're like, well, that was the only one. We're good. We don't care about anything else. Yeah. Fun time. Yeah.

Did you tell... Do you want to talk about the best play? He told his most embarrassing, I guess. The most embarrassing. What is your greatest? We have a video of this. Do you want to set it up? Yeah, I have a video of my greatest sports moment, which happened much earlier in my life than I would have liked. I was 7.

I was seven playing for the Montgomery Seminoles. We were the midgets division. That's ages six and seven. Little people. I was number 37. I played defensive end. This is in Tallassee, Alabama at Hot O'Brien Stadium. And I remember...

I played defensive end. When you're six and seven years old, nobody passes because your hands aren't even big enough to throw a football at that age. Imagine, yeah. What are we doing at this stage? October 30th, 1999? Oh, I know. I'm probably, I mean, I'm out of high school. My college career is officially done. Okay. Just ended. Okay. I'd been working for a while at the TV station. Okay. Yeah.

So you might have talked about this on the news that night. Yeah, because this was a pretty big moment. You know, they had one kid. You might want to mute it just because the music could be copy. I don't know. The music adds to it. Yeah, well, it might be copyright. Oh, all right. Interception. Yeah, that's me. Taking it all the way back. To the house for the win. To the house. I mean, look at that. That's legit speed for a seven-year-old back then. Yeah.

There's my dad going crazy on the side. The coaches are going nuts. This is the biggest thing to happen in the state for a while. It's like you've been there. I remember... This is one of the few sports moments in my life where I remember exactly what was going through my mind. They had one kid on their team that could throw the ball. Just one kid. I remember he had weird sleeves. Earlier in the game, he threw a touchdown pass. They brought that kid in at the end. I thought...

They probably only have one pass play. I'm just going to go where he's going to pass. You jumped the route. I did jump the route. Yeah, not what a defensive end is supposed to do at all in that play. That's what's so funny. Wow, what a great cornerback. Actually, defensive end. That was not what I was supposed to do at all. I had an interception. I never had a touchdown.

Never scored a touchdown. Really? And then I had an interception. I was probably 11 or 12, and we were playing UNA. UNA. UNA. U-N-A. And I was a cornerback, and they were receiving. So the kids are older. This team was unbelievable. This team was always the best team ever. And I remember he ran like a little out route, and then I just stepped up in front of it, and I jumped up and caught it. And I remember catching it.

And then I remember being slammed on the ground. Like, it's like I caught it, and the kid just grabbed me and threw me on the ground. And they announced – we had one other kid on our team that was amazing. And they said – on the loudspeaker, they said his name for the interception. They just assumed. They were like, well, obviously that guy did it. And then we were just like, no, I did it. And that was – I had my big interception. Wow. Wow.

That's crazy. What's your greatest? I really don't have one. What could you? All right, so I thought about that. I mean, the only thing I could possibly think of is I play baseball and basketball, and there's me as a basketball player there in junior high. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, look at that. So. Why don't they get colored cameras? And there was one game. I mean, I was terrible. I was always terrible. I never scored. But there was one game I hit a touchdown.

10 foot jump shot. Yeah. Legit 10 foot jump shot. So then we go down the other team, come back down. They throw the ball on me. I shoot again.

The guy on the other team tipped the ball like when I shot it, but somehow it made it go in the hoop. Yeah. My coach didn't see this apparently. Uh-huh. So he yells, Brian's hot. Give him the ball, which I've never heard in my life. He doesn't know that the only reason that ball went in is because another guy helped it. So then we go down. Then we come back down, and they're like, give Brian the ball, which I've never had before. They throw it to me. I shoot it. It goes over the backboard. Yeah.

It was one of those makeshift concession stands over there where the parents run, and it bounced over into them where the dad had to throw it back in. That's my greatest moment. Your greatest moment is a heat check. Yeah, a heat check. For a second, they thought I was... He's cold. He's back off. That's what they have to yell. Don't throw it to him anymore. No more Brian. No more Brian, everybody.

But, I mean, I stole a base once and thought that somehow the guy fouled the ball back. And I ran back to first. And it confused him so much. I was on second. I thought, oh, they fouled it back. So I started running back about halfway there. He was like, throw it. Throw it to first. And I had to slide headfirst into first base. Back to the base.

And I'm back right where I was with the first base coach. He's like, what are you doing, man? You were there. I was like, I thought they fouled it. I thought they fouled it. I didn't know. So in a way, I stole two bases. That's never happened before. You're the only one that knows.

He stole a base that he stole in the back. The look on my first base coach's face when he saw me coming back there. Oh, dude. I mean, just to be – just to have to dive in. Just to like have to – you have to slide to fix a problem that shouldn't be a problem. Like you're getting back to the original. You could be like, dude, you could have just stayed here, man, and we wouldn't be going through this. And for you to get all the way to second. Yeah.

That's amazing. That's like, I feel like with you, you end up, anybody else, it's like maybe you make it back to first, but you just go back to first and you're like, well, that was a stupid move. And you're the only one that gets in a battle situation just trying to get back to the original spot. I mean, it's a full-on real play. I mean, I went in head first. It was...

The op had to call safe. Oh, dude, that's unbelievable. That's awesome. All right. All right. We've got to be. That's enough. This is too much. So we're going to have to get some more of your sports stories. Man, I like closing out with some nice Brian Bates sports stories. That might not be in the top ten.

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