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Let's go, folks. Does it sound good? Yeah. And we could be rolling with it. We were having to pre-record this episode, so we don't know when it's going to come out. So let's go, folks, might be already over. People might be furious that you just said that. It might be... That might be an edited out. Might have had a call and say the people are outside my land.

they're at the front gate of my land i don't have a gate but if i did they would be out there what's up everybody uh obviously you can see uh i we are we're not in the studio i'm not there we're down in florida so uh we pre-recorded this let's go folks uh welcome to the nateland podcast i'm nate aaron brian uh

I don't know. I started it because I started that weird. You know, we were talking about, and this is in the past, you're having more energy with your intermittent fasting. Yeah, and then I... You just fell asleep on the couch like an old man. So, I mean, you know,

Just wondering about that. Yeah. I had a long night last night. That's true. That's true. And then I ate a nice meal for lunch. Yes. And then I put on baseball. It's the perfect storm, dude. It is the perfect storm. It's going to knock me out. A little College World Series. Yeah. A little sandwich. Or did you have salad? A sandwich. Sandwich. Yeah. College World Series. I mean, that's... Try to stay awake. It's a recipe. Recipe for gal. And there's...

That's a good nap. I feel good. I'm ready to go, dude. I'm about to kill this podcast. Yeah, a good nap is a nice 20 minutes. You know, 10 minutes. Anything more than that, I think it throws your body off. 20 minutes is the sweet spot. Just kind of like rest. Yeah. Just rest your body. Just tap out for a minute, regroup. Yeah. I try to do that more on the road now. I try to lay there. I remember Louis Katz said that once.

very funny comedian and me and Lou were on the road and we were going to try to take a nap and he says he gives himself 20 minutes if he can't fall asleep then he gets up and goes and I remember just thinking that that was almost like a good like don't sit there and try to make yourself you know it takes 40 minutes for you to get to sleep that's at night too when he goes to bed for the night no no no it's just for a nap okay I was gonna say yeah he's never slept I give it a go if it doesn't take I get up and do things at three in the morning hmm

No, he, yeah, for a nap, you give yourself, go in there. Like sometimes if you lay there and relax and like calm everything down, you know, you can fall asleep and take a nap where you're not really asleep and you're, you kind of hear everything. But then that's usually a pretty good, it's a pretty good nap. I don't know, man.

Doesn't matter, dude. Let's go, folks. Doesn't matter, dude. Could be our new tagline. Let's go, folks. Doesn't matter. You know. Carlotta Simonison. Simonson? Simonson. Wow, the Simonson family.

Thought you all died off, but apparently some of you are still hanging around. That's why I was so confused by the name. Carlotta. Have we read hers before? No, after you said whatever it was you just said. Yeah. And he corrects you, I think we have. Carlotta.

This has been on here quite a bit of time. Do you have deja vu there for a minute? When you said Simonson, it hit me like, oh yeah, we've been doing this before. Yeah, it's maybe the same comment. One of the many things I love about Nate Land is how professional the whole thing is and how committed they are to doing it week after week. I know it must be tough with touring to coordinate everyone's schedule to make sure this happens every week. I also love that it's in person only and not over Zoom. It's obvious that Nate gets it. He understands if it's worth it.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing all the way. Even in a podcast about nothing, it's a clear ton of work goes into it. I, for one, love it. Well, I love that, Carlotta. Yeah, it's very nice. That's a very nice comment. It is that. There is a lot of work that goes into it. Y'all's schedule is pretty wide open, but they're... How do you type in available? There's...

But it is. I do appreciate that because I know we talk about nothing and dumb, but we got a lot of cameras, the crew, and there's 25 people in this room during COVID at all times. And few of them had it. Leslie Hambrick.

In my improv class, we learned the first rule of improv is yes and, which means that no matter what someone throws out, you go with it. Nate's first rule of podcasting is that's stupid. We're not talking about that. When Aaron or Beaker throws out an idea he doesn't like. I know it's tough when the whole subject's that. I love yes and. I did some improv, and I remember yes and. And my favorite thing about improv

is maybe my favorite thing in comedy, like something that's bad, is in improv when someone doesn't get it. When someone doesn't get the yes and, it's so fun to watch. When they're like, you know, someone's like sitting here like, oh, hi, welcome to the zoo. And the other guy goes, I've never been to a zoo in my life. All right. All right. Just ends it. I mean, there's nothing better just to go.

You here for your checkup? I died five years ago. And then they have to run with it. And they have to run with that. I mean, Michael Scott is one of the greatest. He's got all the guns. He holds his hands up. He whispers in his ear and he holds his hands up. He goes, what did he tell you?

He said, he can't show you right now, but he does have a gun. Give me all your guns. And he has to hand him all his guns. Wow. He pulls one out by his leg. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, I mean, he broke every, like they go, I'm at the lollipop. Give me your gun. You ever seen the clip of Liam Neeson and Ricky Gervais? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's unbelievable. He does that exactly. I just talked about it this weekend. I mean, it's one of the greatest. It's the best thing of that whole show. Yeah. What show? It was Life's Too Short. Life's Too Short. You're a chiropractor at the doctor. Oh, you didn't think I'd know, did you? No, we thought someone said it was extras. And then it's the Life's Too Short. Yeah.

Yeah. If you're a hypochondriac, I go to the doctor and he goes, oh, not you again. I've never been here. Ron Bridgewater. Not sure if I listen to you folks too much, but this might be a sign that I do. I am a pastor and this past Sunday when I got up to preach, the first thought that popped in my head was, hello, folks.

It might have been the Holy Spirit. Not sure. I'm a little late to the 8-land party, but so glad my son introduced me to it. Thanks for making me laugh on a daily basis. Also, Nate, could you please attempt to say, E-cess-ilicities. E-cell-is. I don't know that. What is the word? Ecclesiastes? Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes. Oh, man. That took showing up to the wrong apartment.

I mean, that's like me knocking on the door and then I look across the street and they're like, no, we're over here. And you go, oh, I'm sorry. I was at the... Y'all's house looks the same though. I'm saying Ecclesiastics and...

a Sicily's would live across the street from each other. And a Sicily's triangle. And a Sicily's triangle. How do you spell Sicily's? Did you see this tweet that kind of got some traction, Nate? Yeah. Nate Bargessi's transformation from youth pastor to pastor. Yeah. That's so great. Yeah, it's funny. Yeah. Yeah. You really have changed. Uh, yeah. You know, start growing a beard. That helps. Uh,

Everything else just falls into place after that. Everything else falls into place. Well, you just get older. If everything starts, you start, you're becoming less of an animal. You just start, you know, it just all kind of goes away. And then you're just like, all right, I need to try to focus on the career a little bit. That would help out. Maybe he's going to say, let's go, folks. Let's go, folks. Hello, folks. I like hello, folks, still. I'm fine with either one. I mean, who knows when this episode comes out? We might have already made the decision.

I kind of hope it's a let's go, folks. You're already backtracking a little bit, I feel like. No, but I do think it's, I like it being, that's a very original, like that's, no one says that. I do like that. I think that's important, but probably shouldn't be talking about it because it's already happened. Madison Hill. So I had to emcee an event for work last night. When I wrapped up my five minute intro, I sat down at my table and a woman leaned over me and said, good, great job. You reminded me of my favorite comedian, Nate Bargetzi. Y'all have the exact same cadence.

I just wanted to come clean here and let Nate know I must have stolen his cadence and tone unintentionally from listening to the podcast so much. I'm sorry. I will try to talk like him less. Well, Madison, I appreciate that. That'll be your last gig you ever get. You ever come in here. Madison, you can have my cadence. Just with like $3 a day. I'll take $3 the whole day you use it.

It's like one of those infomercials for $3 a day. $3 a day, you can have my cadence. You can sponsor Nate Bargatze. And take my cadence. Take it out with me. Esolicities. You don't even know how to say stuff like that. Spencer Day, as a speech language pathologist working at a specialized stuttering facility.

facility just jam them all in a box is that what a bunch of stutters they just throw in a facility like a barn they go back back back where and they just shovel me in a barn and they don't open that that's what that sounds like don't open that door what is it you just hear

It'll come out. All right. I have to say, I really appreciated this episode. I generally feel like my best work is done on Wednesdays as if I'm already primed by listening to this chaotic mess of a podcast before helping others with speech, language, and communication difficulties. Thanks for the laughs and small highlights to our field, PSM, PSM. PSI, I'm currently taking new clients of either Nate or Barracuda for the nose whistling, or

are interested. Love the podcast. It's a cue up to great work. Doesn't need me. Doesn't know. I don't need any work. I don't know if you do. I don't know how big that facility is, maybe. If one of us goes down, I'm bringing us all down.

You know, someone did say that they, someone told me they think I have dyslexia. Well, we read that on a live podcast at Zany's. Oh, yeah. Someone said it again. Got to.

I like, do you get checked for it? Oh, I did it online. I looked up an online thing. Do you take the test online? I didn't look up a, this one's like just the rough, like questions to, I think, see if you should even be talked to. I was an answer to every yes to every one of them. Like it was, uh, give me a second. And then, uh, have you, that's not what I want.

I do. Have you asked him? Yeah, hold on. What was that? We'll go back to that. This is the, have you? How do I know if my child is behind? This is from the parent's perspective. Let me find it. Send that to his parents. Yeah, yeah. All right.

Andy Asper, Nate, I'm a huge fan of your comedy and I'm an aspiring comedian myself. I'm trying to learn the ropes and I've listened to every podcast interview of yours I can find. I hear you often talk about the importance of the hang when it comes to being around other comics. I've noticed that you...

I think I get made fun of. I'm about to quiz you on whether you have dyslexia. I know. I think...

So this happens a bunch and maybe I'm wrong, but people tend to think that I don't get made fun of. I'm getting, I said, I get, you said it, the way in front of you being old, I'm getting told that I don't know how to read and people just overlook it. I think maybe it's because when I make fun of y'all, it is better than when you make fun of me.

And so then it feels like it's heavy handed. But that's not my fault. Y'all are not as good. That's a big part of it. So what do you want? Andy, what do I need to do when I'm hanging around lesser than? He's telling us to step it up, I think. I think that's the message. You can make fun of a comic. New York is like, look, I do think.

You learn to... You got to learn when to do it if you're a younger comic. You don't want to come in and just be... Like, you're trying. And, like, it's getting too much. So it's, like, have fun and make fun of each other. You're going to go harder on the people you're closer to. Yeah. And then if you are around someone that's older, I do think there's a little...

You just don't do it as much because they're older than you. Reverence. Yeah, and you're just kind of like, I don't know. Yeah, you look at them as like a senior or something like that. And so you wouldn't go as crazy. And there is a little truth in that. The most you're going to get is people around the same age starting. Not even age, but comedy age. Those people are going to, comics are going to go the hardest after each other.

And then I think there is a difference in the fact of like, just in your careers, you're going to, like when I was with, I mean, with all the comics that are older than me, if I'm around Burr, if I'm around Burr, like I don't make fun of Burr a ton. Like I could joke around and make fun of him. I could, but I don't like it's, it's uncomfortable. Like it's,

But it's Burr, and you're like, I'm just not going to do that as much. But he could trash me. And Burr wouldn't be – Burr's not saying he would try to stop me from trashing him, but he would, you know. That's just the dynamic between – Yeah. Do you want to take this self-assessment? Yeah, let's see what it is. Number one. I mean, this is for you, Andy, that thinks – Number one, do you read slowly? No. No.

I mean, that's crazy. Did you have trouble learning how to read when you were in school? I mean, I guess it doesn't look like I learned. Do you often have to read something two or three times before it makes sense? I mean, who wrote this? Is it folk? Did a folk write this? Are you uncomfortable reading out loud? I mean, it's embarrassing. I am uncomfortable. Like, I don't. I wouldn't. In this setting, I'm fine, but I'm not going to.

Do it in a... Do you ever read out loud like a church or stuff like that? No, I would never do that. Do you omit, transpose, or add letters when reading or writing? I think I see a different sentence than y'all see. Do you find you still have spelling mistakes in your writing even after using spellcheck? I sometimes spellcheck can't even... I'm not even on the same page where they go, I don't even know what you're trying to do.

Do you find it difficult to pronounce uncommon multi-syllable words when you are reading? I mean, I'll answer that one. Yeah. Do you choose to read magazines or short articles rather than books and novels? Longer books. I don't even, I think a magazine's pretty long. I don't know what kind of magazine that is. Yeah, like what's shorter than a magazine? And who's reading, yeah, short articles? A whole magazine? No. Do I breeze through a short article? Yeah.

Do I get a glimpse of it? When you were in school, did you find it extremely difficult to learn a foreign language? I remember we took Spanish and it was very brief and I don't know how I can say hola and agua and stuff, but I didn't do much with it. So I didn't take more. I mean, I could say hello in water. I mean, I don't know what else you want. What else are you going to say if you're in trouble? I'll go down there. Hola. Agua? Yeah. Those are mainly the two things I need. Cool.

Do you avoid work projects or courses that require extensive reading? Yeah. I mean, I started stand-up comedy where I don't have to read. I did it so much so that I got out of it. I think there's yes on the – what is that? I mean, what are the other yeses you haven't said? Did you have trouble learning how to read when you were in school? I mean, yeah. All right. I was being nice on some of these. Oh, I mean, it's for my health, so you don't have to be nice. So it is –

Do I have it? Well, the self-assessment, I am 10 for 10 on yeses. So let's get, we'll get a doctor in, maybe check it out. We'll get one on the pod. What are you supposed to do? You have dyslexia. Get sapped, Archon. What does that mean? You can... I thought it meant you read stuff backwards. It's like you just look at stuff wrong?

That is some of it. So, yeah, yeah. Dr. Safdar Khan. I'm going to be in this Spencer Day. Yeah, Spencer Day. We're going to be in that facility. Oh, that's right. I'll be in there. We'll get him. Just here in the other room here. It's a bunch of nose whistlers. Just in the right there. Is there like birds in here? Noggin nose whistling class at 12. It's just...

No, do it again. Back away. Everybody grabs a breathe right before they sit down. You know, Rudy had dyslexia. Did he? He did. That's cool. And they made a movie about him. What do you do? It's not fun. I bet it's not fun. It's not even worth looking into. I wouldn't.

I haven't even checked to see if I have gout. It's been a year. Yeah, but isn't gout... Which one's more embarrassing? Gout goes away. Gout's pretty embarrassing. Gout goes away. I'm 29 years old with gout. That's pretty embarrassing. Yeah, but then you've lost like 50 pounds or something. Okay. Yeah. I mean, you really answered it. So you've gotten better. Yeah. Does it... What are they... Dyslexia, they just take you out in the barn and shoot you like a horse? Like, I don't know. I think I had about eight. Like...

If he teaches you or anyone teaches you about your weight, you could lose a hundred pounds in a year and show them or anything, almost anything you could prove people wrong. Yeah. But for someone makes fun of your age, it's like, I'm going to prove them a year later. You're just going to be a year older. There's nothing you can do. It's just going to get worse. I want to work really hard. And then a year from now, I'll show you older than I am now. You had to make it all about you, didn't you? Yeah.

I'm learning to have dyslexia and we can't make fun of your age. We can fix that. It's a very old thing. How can you fix dyslexia? That's what he's asking. I don't know. Well, I think the speech pathologist can do it. It'll change my whole game up. Jay Workman. That's a good name. Since Nate hates Let's Go, I would like to get his take on the fan who yells, get in the hole on every putt during golf tournaments. They do it on team shots too. Yeah, it's ridiculous.

Here's my thing with sayings that I truly believe. If you hear it so much, don't be the one that says it. Come up with a different thing. That's all that you got to do. That's almost like you see homeless guys have funny signs. Well, for a while, you're like, I've already seen that sign, dude. And so it's like when the guy has this super original sign, then you kind of go, I've never seen that one. And that's the same way. You're getting the whole mashed potato.

You know, Baba Booey. I kind of understand Baba Booey because it's Howard Stern. They're trying to, you know, Howard Stern usually like shows, plays that. But it's, yeah, I don't, I don't come up with the original one. That's all I would say. To me, the guy that yells get in the hole is the guy that yells free bird at a band. Yeah.

where they think it's so original and clever and funny, but everyone else is like, God, I've heard that a million times. A million times. And it's very annoying. Yeah. They haven't heard Let's Go, folks. Or maybe, yeah. Hello, folks on a, could be good on a golf tournament. Right after a ball's hit. Hello, folks. That would be very, we're like, well, we definitely know what that means. You don't say that in that scenario. Yeah.

Colt Keller. Hey, Nate and crew. Love the episodes. It's just the random things y'all banter about. The more I've listened, the more I'm convinced that Nate and I would probably be great friends. McDonald's, golf, and random rants that get serious about nothing. Keep it up, guys. P.S. Gout isn't a joke. I'm 28 and dealt with it since I was 19. It's definitely something you don't want. Took a turn. 19. That did take a turn. Thanks, Colt. Yeah. He's looking out for you, man. You know?

You want to take a test on if you got gout or not? Yeah. Do you have trouble reading? No. Do you wear Walmart slippers? I do wear Walmart slippers quite a bit. Do you have two different size socks?

The ideal way to diagnose gout is to draw fluid out of the joint and have the fluid examined. Well, I can't do that on the podcast. Sure we can. Dr. Saftar Khan. Yeah. Well, yeah, we got real doctors, dude. They come in here and do it. Get Saftar Khan on. He gets under the table like Holly. Down there doing the show by the end of it. You just see him. He cuts your ankle open and he takes it on the finger and goes, tastes like mayonnaise. Gout. Yeah.

- This is mayonnaise in my joints. - Yeah, a little spicy. Marion Scott Lusk, like the Lusk mattress. I challenge Nate to not touch his microphone for 60 seconds or be nice to breakfast for 60 seconds, your choice. I do touch it, but I think a lot of people do. I won't touch the microphone for 60 seconds.

Easiest question ever been asked. That's like when Michael Scott was trying to pretend like he liked Toby. I can't. I can't do it. I can't. He's the worst. He's the worst. Ben Simpson. Nate, when you're on podcasts like Tom Segura or Your Mom's House, which is a completely different style of humor than yours, you seem to have a pretty good skill of turning...

uncomfortable questions or topics back to your own style of humor, deflecting the topic to something else. Just wondering if that was something you developed over time. Yeah. Yeah, it would have been. I mean, just over the years of, I'm not going to go there. So you just make a joke on whatever they're going to talk about. People are pretty good. Segura and them are pretty good with, you know, me and him talk a little bit. We're like, we're friends. Like, I think we both are very interested in,

I don't know where we're at in our careers, both as comics. So I really liked our conversation on there because we talked a lot about comedy and stuff like that. But yeah, you did get good at it. I don't think it's like you intentionally...

I guess you are. You do work at it. You get good at it. It's like I always think something like it's like I specifically work on this thing. But it's like, yeah, I mean, I had to do it every comedy show I ever did in New York going up. I mean, I was following everybody's dirty closer with a clean opener because I would be next. And so it would just be like you have to figure out how to like, how do I get these people into switching gears? So you do that. But I mean, they were good. You know, Tom and them were so good. Tom and Christina are so great. So...

Sean Moose, the Michael Scott quote perfectly describes what it's like to listen to Nate read. Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way, like an improv conversation, an improvisation. Yeah, that is that. Glenn Whelan, hello folks. I created the Nateland theme park in a video game called Planet Coaster. I just wanted to show you guys how much you are all appreciated and congratulate you on the first anniversary.

Wow. Do you want to see the Nate Land theme park? That's crazy. What is this on? A game called Planet Coaster. Can you play the game? It's like SimCity, I'm guessing, where you just build it. But there's a mode where you can take the perspective of somebody going to the park and we're kind of walking around. You see Zanies is there in the background. There's a Planet Fitness. Isn't this crazy? That's crazy, dude.

Even in the Zanies, there's a truck that's crashed into the wall. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I didn't see that. Man. Wow. There's a fire. There's a fire. That's pretty crazy. Yeah, this is awesome. Look at that. We're on the marquee outside Zanies. Yeah. There's a Serpetarium ride where you go, like you dodge alligators or crocodiles. And it's busy. Yeah. No mask. We're in Nate land. We're...

We're on a roller coaster now going around. I mean, the amount of detail and thought that went into this is pretty amazing. Yeah. So this video is, is this on YouTube? Uh-huh. Olivia's mini golf right here. Oh, wow. Yeah. So will people be able to play this? So you could, in theory, you'd play his map. Yeah. So there's the Serpentarium right over there. Wow. Let's see if I can find where it is. I think it's around the 11-minute mark. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. That's so cool. And now we're inside the Serpentarium. Yeah. Alligator. Yeah, yeah.

That's pretty crazy, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So this is really cool. Thank you. Who is it that sent this in? Glenn Whelan. Yeah, Glenn Whelan. Really, really cool, man. Yeah, that's awesome, man. That is awesome. Yeah. Nine views. Glenn. It's unlisted. It's not public. Will he make it public ever? You know?

I'd love to share it. Yeah, yeah. We'll find out. Yeah, we'll email it back and ask him to make it public. Yeah, see, we're posting it out so that people see it. I mean, that's so cool, dude. Like, that's, you know, it shows you. You can make a theme park out of nothing. There's beds, like, it's all, but you can make it. It's pretty, you know, would people go to this theme park? I want a theme park now. I never not wanted one. And it would be, the entrance would be, the word E would be spelled backwards. Yeah.

Little nod to the dyslexia that I died from. And I didn't survive. He died of dyslexia. They took him out back and shot him. Yeah, they took him out again. He can't read. All right. This week, since we, this is going to be coming out in a few weeks, so I don't know when, but we are going to talk about... Discoveries. Discoveries. Like I just discovered I have dyslexia. Yep.

Almost anything can be a discovery, I guess. If you find a $20 bill in your pocket you didn't know you had, is that a discovery? Yeah, I think so. I think it's a found. It's a found? It's not like you found it. Those words are pretty similar. I know, but they're not discovery...

You know, if you're Columbus and the guy next to him goes, well, I discovered a $20 bill in my pocket last night. And you're like, all right, we're taking a little steam away from it. A little liberty there. I discovered America or whatever he discovered. Did he do America right? He was in the Americas. The Americas, yeah. Yeah. Well, we've talked about some of the Explorers in the Renaissance episode, I guess. And some of the...

Guys discovered planets and stuff like that. These are more like surprise discoveries. First, like in medicine, penicillin. Penicillin changed the world. That's antibiotics. And this guy was not trying to... That's stupid. I mean, just talk... It's like people get sick and they take medicine. I mean, this is a paper people write on it.

I don't want to assume anything on here. Maybe assume some so you don't point out too much. Do I get made fun of? I mean, no, I get just told I don't even know what. All right.

Sir Alexander Fleming was trying to do an experiment on the flu virus. He took a two-week vacation and left his workout and came back and found mold that started growing on it. But he noticed that destroyed the virus, and that's what led to penicillin, which changed the world. Yeah. That's amazing. Does he make money off of it? I don't know. If it's patented. Like, does the penicillin family, do they get...

Are they good? Are they set? Like his family should be set forever, right? The Penicillin family? The Penicillin family. There's one guy, right, that found it. Well, the Sir Alexander Fleming was the guy who found it, yeah. Yeah, so the Fleming family should be, if you're a Fleming, like we got. I would hope so, dude. Yeah. They've saved millions of lives. Yeah, yeah. So I hope they're set. Yeah, that's what I mean.

I'm just saying I hope that's the case. I hope so, too. Yeah, I don't know. It was in the 1920s. That name in the 20s? Sir Alexander? Where was he at? He was Scottish. Yeah. Oh, that's him? Yeah, I mean, are they doing good as a family? Alexander, yeah. Yeah, but I mean, you've learned no one respects anything. Queen's on money. Who isn't? Who isn't on money? Yeah.

We got a theme park. Doesn't matter. You know, everybody can get everything. And this guy's got on a stamp. Yeah. It's like, I wonder if they make, you know, it's like, is that like, but it's pharmacy money even, you know. Big pharma. Big pharma. You know, a lot of these guys. You know, why didn't he sell this to Pfizer? Yeah.

Well, a lot of these guys that make discoveries in medicine, they elect not to sell the patent just so that everyone can get things cheaply and they just choose not to make any money. It's possible this guy does that. Which is the best. Yeah. Which is the way it should be. When you hear people did that, they're like, yeah, I'll just make it available to everybody. Yeah, yeah. It's the greatest thing. It's the point of it. Yeah. Versus, yeah. But it can also be the incentive factor.

for people to do research and find stuff out if you know that you're going to be able to make money from it. So it's like, it's a, it's a, it's a balance. But that, but if you have something like that, if it's, it's, you know, look, if it's to cure gout, don't spill the beans. I get it.

you know but if it's the main thing yeah oh that's yeah that's fair and changes that's what they were arguing about the covet thing right it was like they were all like uh they none of none of them were given the how to make it and they're like we'll just tell us and they're like no we don't you're like well it's affected the whole world so maybe we should know right maybe don't try to make we just let us know this time yeah like so it's like you can look at stuff there's plenty of money to be made off

or whatever. So it's like, yeah, let's make the other one a little more available. Speaking of Pfizer, they patented Viagra. They were doing treatments for heart conditions on men and they noticed it had some different side effects and that's what led to that. And then they got Pele, who was probably one of the most famous people in the world, to do a campaign ad for it and that's what led to Viagra. The soccer player? Yeah.

He did a commercial for it too. That's crazy. Yeah. They don't even do, do they do commercials for it? I guess they still do. Oh yeah. All the time. Yeah. Seattle, it's Viagra. Yeah. I remember seeing like Rafael Palmeiro and I think Tino Martinez and all these baseball players start to do Viagra commercials early on. Before the steroid stuff came out? I think so. Yeah. I think right around there. Yeah. That's when they had to do it. Yeah. And they go, do you still do it now? He goes, surprisingly, no. Yeah.

Who would have thought? Who would have thunk it? There it goes. Raphael Perrault is the one that famously wagged his finger at Congress. I remember watching that live. I did not take steroids. And then I remember watching that live. You know who I never thought did anything? What's the guy for the Brewers? Gary Sheffield? No, Tony Gwynn. Tony Gwynn.

Yeah, the outfielder. Yeah. It wasn't Christian Yelich, was it? Oh, Ryan Braun? Ryan Braun. Yeah. Like when he came out and said, I didn't do it. And he was like, they did something. I think I remember thinking like, yeah, this guy didn't do it. He didn't look, he's not like enormous. And so you didn't think that. And then, I mean, and it just came out and you were like, oh, this guy. And they just crushed him. Immediately just said no.

I was looking the other day at, if you look at Barry Bonds, the size of his head, because that was introduced in those testimonies, was how his hat size changed throughout the year. I mean, look at this picture. Look at what he started. I mean, just his head is so different. I think he went up like a half a hat size throughout, and that just doesn't happen to people. Your head just doesn't get half a hat size bigger

As you get older, you know, it's just shaped completely different. Yeah. It's wild. That one's not real. Yeah, look at that. It looks like he's a real bobblehead. That must be bobblehead night. No, that's Barry Bonds. Oh. Do you think he got a royal deal of like, you know, I always think like, I like when someone says like they should be, just put them in a different section or something like that. Yeah. Like, it's like you don't take them out of the,

you know, the hall of fame. Pretend that these guys didn't dominate the sport for decades. Yeah. But I get it. It's tough. Like the guys that, that did played fairly. So I understand that. I understand that like the, the toughness of like having to deal with that decision, but like P row, like P rows, it's like, just put them in there. But it is kind of crazy when you talk about P rows did gamble.

And it's just been so far removed that they're like letting him go. But it is funny that you go, all right, dude, every time you go back and go, let's just let him in. Let's relook at the case. What did he do? He bet on the games he played and they go, you know what I mean? Like that's, and it's still like, dude, I just bet on my team. You're like, well, how do we ever know that? Yeah.

I've never heard that perspective before. That's interesting. What? How do you... I mean, almost everyone I talk to about this, they're like, ah, who cares? Just let him in. He's the best ever. Yeah. But I've never really thought about what he was accused of doing and what he did. Well, if you go look at it, I would say let him in.

But I would think every time you go – because you get removed from it, and I think every time you go, all right, let me look at what his case was again. He bet on the games he played in. And we – and then someone's like, well, he only bet on his team. You're like, so who said that? Him? Yeah, him. Him? He told us that he only bet on the games he played in? That's a lot of trust. Now, I'm for –

I have nothing against P. Rose. I think he should be in it. But I do understand. I bet every time you go look at it, you'd be like, we just can't. He's bad on these games. It's the main thing. Shoeless Joe Jackson. That was the whole thing. And you got them out, right? They made a movie about him. Didn't they? Yeah. Eight men out. Eight men out. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah.

A lot of thinking on this podcast. Pondering. These are... You give me a lot to think about, man. Some surprise discoveries. The microwave. The guy was trying to make an energy source radar, but he noticed this chocolate bar in his pocket. It melted. Yeah. So he's like, let me try it with popcorn. He put popcorn in it, and it started popping. That's how the microwave was invented. There's a lot of... I think if you're...

married to an inventor. It's a lot of like golf for you. Like, I think I got it. Like, I think it's a lot of switching, you know, it's like, I'm doing a radar thing. You're like, Oh, it's great, man. That's cool. And then like a week later, what are you doing? He's like, yeah, the radar thing. We'll do a thing that heats up food and you go, okay. Like, it's like, you know, you go from respecting the guy to then go not respecting him to then that guy is the most respected. Yeah. But when he first, you know, he had to go talk to a neighbor and,

That he just said, you know, I was talking about the radar thing. I'm kind of off that now. And like these guys that invent stuff, you are always just kind of throwing stuff out and you just tolerate it. Right. You know, at first you're like, oh, that's cool, man. And then there's probably years of just garbage. Yeah, nothing working. Nothing. Yeah. And you're like, all right. Yeah. Okay, dude. And then he tells you, we worked this radar thing forever. And then he's like, I'm going to heat up food quick in a microwave. And you're like.

I don't care. I don't. And you just hope that's not the time you do it because then that becomes huge. Yeah. And then you're like, you got to then be- Should have believed in him one more time. One more time. And you're sitting here at a Sears buying his thing. I hope the Microwave family's doing well too. It's this guy. I mean, like is this guy, look up his net worth. Percy Spencer. Percy Spencer's net worth. I mean, the Microwave, can you, is it something that you can-

Is one of the richest inventors. Yeah. At $1.5 million. He's doing great. Wow. Yeah, I don't know. So he was very, very young when he discovered this. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's... He was a millionaire at the time. When did the microwave get invented? When World War II was ending, so the 40s. Okay. So $1.5 million, if that's what they're saying then, that was a ton of money. Yeah. Yeah.

Good for him. He deserves it. God knows I use his product a lot. I used it yesterday. Used it every day. Yeah, it's a big one. I don't know how it works. It's hot as an oven, but you can open it up. Immediately. Yeah, and touch the side of it. Doesn't someone have a joke about that? I don't know. Yeah. All right.

Good night. Some energy. Y'all better get some... Dude. All right, let's step it up. Look it up. Here we go. Jokes about microwaves. Anesthesia. During the early 1800s. Listen to this episode. That's what they're going to do. Get your wisdom teeth out. They're going to just play this episode. What does a microwave mean? The person's going to be so asleep, they don't feel being stabbed in the mouth. That's how...

That's how the silence of the boringness of this podcast has gotten. What's the difference between a microwaved sweet potato and a thrown pig? What? One is a heated yam, the other is a yeeted ham. Come on, man. Is that the joke you were thinking about? All right. This is...

It would be funny if we were coming off some steam. I feel like we were for a minute. We got to pick it back up, though. I hear you. Anesthesia, during the early 1800s, they were having nitrous oxide parties. They called them laughing parties. People were just doing it. And then they finally realized, you know what? We could use this to help mass pain. And anesthesia was born. Started using it for surgeries. It's like...

Cocaine eventually will be that. That's what I'm saying. It was a party. It was just a house party. Yeah, it was just a club drive. And now it's like, you imagine every time the people that go to the dentist after that, and they're right on the cusp of going to parties and doing that, and then with their kid, and they're doing that, and they're going, I can't believe that we're doing that here. It's got to be weird. It's like doing...

Yeah, it's like going to the dentist and they make you snort a line of cocaine. Yeah. And you're like, I thought this part of my life was over. Yeah, you start cleaning up. And they're like, what's he doing? What's that?

Start filling stuff out. And you're filling forms out. You may fill that form out for you. They fill your own forms out for you here. And he goes, what's your name? I'll write it all down. This is an inappropriate dentist. It's like, what's his face? His dentist. Oh, Tim Watley. Yeah. Tim Watley. Yeah.

Uh, let's get into some animals that were recently discovered like the last hundred or so years. Let's get into them. Yeah. Uh, like someone's like, I don't hope this thing was over. All right. We'll come back to that. Uh, but you ever see a guy given like a speech at something and you're like, you hope they're coming to it. And then they flip, they have another page and you're like, Oh, we'll come back to that later. We'll come back to that is I think,

For speakers and for comedy or anything, I think it's one of the worst sayings you could ever have. We'll come back to that later. But I'll get back to that. Because people don't want to know that we're not... Are you going to come back to it?

I want to be done. How many chapters are there? I'll just do the chapters. If you're going to do it, just do it. But if you start something like, oh, we went to the beach one day, but we'll get to that later on. How much later on are we going to get? I don't think it's a good...

thing to say. I don't think people look forward to it. They don't go, I can't wait until we get back to that. You're competing against Transformers on a movie screen. We're going to get back to that. You're going to be watching Beetlejuice right now. Dinosaurs? Dinosaurs was only...

Not that long ago discovered. It was discovered in the 1800s. They found the first fossils of dinosaurs. Yeah. And then they, that's when they gave it the name dinosaur. You gotta think, all the founding fathers, those guys were all around before they knew about dinosaurs. Yeah. Does that change the way you think about them? The founding fathers. Yeah. Or the dinosaurs. The founding fathers. Well, they were figuring out everything out above ground.

So they weren't looking. That's fair. They had other stuff going on. Yeah, they did a pretty good job. And then you wanted them to start digging too. It wasn't enough. Well, it's just as crazy that there's this huge thing that they just had no idea. Nobody had a basement.

And that's where you find them, is you dig a basement. That's right. Well, it makes you think, what are we blissfully unaware of? Aliens. Aliens. Yeah, well, we are aware of them, maybe. Maybe now. Barely. Barely. Not in the way that we are now of dinosaurs. Yeah. Generations ahead, I think we'll be like, do you believe there's a time we really thought we were the only...

living creatures in the universe. You're going to look like buffoons. Yeah. To go, yeah. And then there's aliens just flying, you know. And then an alien gives us coffee.

So they come here and work for us? Yeah, I mean, I think they, you know. Start to come here, they're unpaid interns. I think it's their vacation. Because I'd imagine what vacation they're going to have, I think a vacation then would be some leisurely selling coffee. Oh, it's like a mission trip for them, almost. We're Habitat for Humanity, it's the Earth, it's the aliens, and they're going to come here. Mission trip. Yeah. Yeah.

And they come down here and work. You got to help these idiots out. Yeah. Get them some coffee and stuff. I wonder if that could be, that could be a pretty funny joke. Yeah. Have you ever heard that even now that people think that dinosaurs aren't, weren't real? Yeah. Yeah. I know. Yeah. 50, 50 on them to begin with. Yeah. I mean, I've heard people that based on the Bible, because there's no mention of the Bible. Right. I had a, but they didn't know they were,

That would be the thing. The founding fathers didn't find them either. Yeah, the new wrote the Bible. They didn't know about them yet either. Yeah, but like Noah's Ark or stuff like that. I had a minister when I was growing up that taught our Sunday school class who said that God just put those bones there to confuse us.

to test our faith. Wow. Because he didn't believe that was real. It worked, huh? Yeah. JJ Redick. You guys know JJ Redick? Yeah. On his podcast. We had to go back to back with those two. You know, local...

This story reminded me of J.J. Reddick, his local pastor in Lebanon, Tennessee. Were they both white? Yeah. Okay. That's the connection. That makes sense. That's the connection. J.J. Reddick said on his podcast, he's not entirely convinced dinosaurs existed. He said, I'm not. I've come across some weird websites. The word dinosaur didn't exist until 1842. There was no word dinosaur. And all of a sudden, a guy finds some bones. And a few years later, people were finding them everywhere. Yeah.

I think to myself, all right, humans were here since 10,000 BC and just now we're finding them. It makes you think. I don't think it does. Uh,

If it would be discovered, so you think they went around and planted all the bones of the dinosaurs? Yeah. I guess. It wouldn't make sense. Look, I'm all about going to look at some weird website. I'm all bored. If he doesn't believe in dinosaurs, I'll love it. I'd rather talk to him about not believing in dinosaurs than someone that does. But-

That doesn't make a lot of sense. That doesn't. Like his statement for it. The argument that doesn't make sense. His big argument is they didn't have the word until it was discovered. It's like, yeah, usually. They didn't have any words. Usually you find out that something exists before you give it a name. Yeah. Usually that's the order. The word sky. That'd be like not believing in sky. Yeah. There wasn't a word for sky until 10,000 years ago. Guy looked up.

Because you ever looked up? Yeah, what is this? Yeah, it's like nothing. It's a big sky. No, no, no, but I think there's something. You got to call it something. Yeah, you got to call it something. And he goes, sky, sky, sky. Sky. Sky. Okay. And then he tells everybody, you know, puts it in a dove that ironically flies in the sky to the other things, to the other people. And it goes, sky. Sky.

And finally gets the JJ Reddick's family and goes, I don't know if I buy this. A dove is ironically a dinosaur too. Birds. Oh, yeah. Birds are dinosaurs. They're like live dinosaurs now. I think so. Isn't that generally agreed on? For dinosaurs in the bird family? They're essentially dinosaurs, yeah. But...

Who would disagree with him? J.J. Reddick. J.J. Reddick for one. I don't know if it's generally agreed on. I don't know if we... Is there a topic that we all...

What do you mean? I don't know. It's just a funny way to put it just to go. I think we all agree. It's one of those things. I think everyone agrees that these doves are dinosaurs. Yeah, but it's one of those things that if that wasn't the case and I had said it so confidently, I would have felt like an idiot. So I needed to cover my bases. I think we can agree to disagree that it's done.

Okay. Generally agree. No, I just like the term. I like saying generally agree. I think that's funny to be like that big of a thing. I think generally we all agree that, right? Yeah. Birds are, I think that's how wars are started. I think generally agree that we should be allowed to do what we want and then you can't. Yeah.

I mean, generally, I think it's literally probably the start of every war. Generally agree that communism is the way to go. Right? Right? I don't know about generally. Some assumptions. Yeah.

This says that scientists say dinosaurs lived on the earth. He brought it. Yeah, we've covered that, haven't we? Yeah, yeah. I was just over here. I stumbled upon this paper I found. I discovered it. Yeah, I discovered it. All right. Scientists say that dinosaurs lived on the earth for about 165 million years. Homo sapiens have lived here for 300,000 years. So they're making the point that dinosaurs...

lived here so much longer than we have yeah oh even now even now yeah but they're dead i went to we got that going for us yeah we're winning right now who wrote that a dinosaur i don't know if i generally agree with that statement uh the mountain gorilla wasn't discovered till 1902 i'm discovering it right now yeah yeah where's a mountain of gorilla

The mountain gorilla? Yeah, it's a gorilla just in the mountains. I think it's the kind of gorilla that you're thinking of. Oh, really? Yeah. Like the main one. I think we touched on this a little bit.

when we were talking about Bigfoot, but it was one of those creatures that had been kind of like seen and people thought it was a myth. Yeah. And then it wasn't confirmed that it's a real thing until the early 1900s, 1908, I think you said. 1902. 1902. WWF did it, World Wrestling Film. Is that the same thing as the silverback? Vince, this is how wrestling got started. He goes, look at these big things. What if we had some big things fight? And then they got wrestling started. Did you know that? Did you know that?

Did you know? Do you ever hear that? It's generally... You never heard that? That's not the big show got found? Generally agreed upon. It's not generally agreed upon. Yeah, I mean, it looks like the same thing. Silverback. Silverback. Imagine... Okay, so imagine you're hanging out in the jungle. You see that thing. Yeah. And you have to explain that...

You've never seen anything like that. Yeah. You have to explain. It's a monster. You're going to sound like somebody describing Bigfoot. Yeah, yeah. For sure. Yeah, yeah. It's a monster. We just saw a monster. Right. Which, what if the Bigfoot stuff is still just these gorillas? Still just more gorillas. Like, still the story of how we described these gorillas is the story of these gorillas is still lingering, but everybody just thinks it's not talking about gorillas. Yeah. And so we're all just repeating the same story that they did, but

But now, because no one thinks, they're like, well, it's not gorillas. You're like, no, but it was. Yeah. And well, they've kept going with the story. So now, well, we know gorillas exist. Because now it's generally agreed upon that gorillas exist. What if I just figured everything out?

That's pretty good. It does make a lot of sense. That the story of Bigfoot has now become a thing. Because you go out in the woods, you can hear anything. You can hear anything you want to hear. Pretty crazy. Yeah. Your mind can do whatever. Yeah. And so we've just convinced ourselves. And if you believe that it's, you know, everybody says they saw one, I guess. But, yeah. Do you think, did they catch one and bring it into the town? The gorilla? Yeah. No. No, I don't think so. No.

I think they just found out. How'd they get into the zoo? I mean, eventually. I don't think that first guy caught one and brought it in. I think they just found out where they live, and then other people started going to see it. Oh, okay. That makes more sense. Yeah, who talked to them? One of them talked to them, right? Somebody? Robyn Williams. Jane Goodall. Robyn Williams. And Robyn Williams. Yeah. We sent Robyn Williams. What? We sent him to the gorillas. Yeah. We did. Yeah. He did the...

The joke, he made the gorilla laugh, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty special guy, Rob Williams. Kind of crazy when you think about it. It's almost kind of weirdly, you're like, yeah, it makes sense. I know, yeah. It does. It's like a very sweet. Yeah, his sweetness and kindness transcends the human race. Yeah. The Komodo dragon wasn't discovered until 1910. Everyone thought it was another, like they thought it was just a wives' tale, just a made up story.

until they went to this island where they live and found them and realized it was a real thing. Hello. They welcomed them. Hello. You exist. Hello, folks. Let's go. There's a young Komodo dragon. Let's go. And he's their button heads or whatever they do, hitting each other with tails. Oh, gosh, they're Komodo dragons. Yeah. This is right after dinosaurs have been kind of talked about, right? Yeah.

So then you show, imagine showing up with Komodo dragons. Yeah. And everyone's like, these dinosaurs used to exist. And then they're like, nah, some of them are still around. I think that'd be even more impressive if we didn't have alligators or crocodiles. But they look different. They're pretty impressive. I mean, they are different. They are. But I mean. But you're right. They're not. We've seen reptiles. They're not unheard of. Yeah. But where, but you don't see them here, but they're, they're, they're super dangerous. Like.

With their tails and stuff, too? What do their tails do? They can just hit you with it? I don't know. They don't even have tails. Oh, you know what? I was thinking about the wrong term. Were you really? No. They have tails, too. Yeah. Are they super dangerous? Yeah. Their tails are, yeah. I mean, their mouths are just filled with, I mean, just all the viruses. I mean, basically everything. COVID. COVID, flu, common cold, headache, gout.

Dyslexia. Dyslexia. You get everything. You get bit by one of these things. You get everything. You go to a doctor and he's like, I don't even... Where do I start? And you go, penicillin. And he goes, yeah. And he goes, we're past penicillin. You have to get a bunch of stuff. The giant squid...

It had been a myth for years. Sea captains have been saying they've seen this giant... They called it the Kraken. Probably the least listened to person is a sea captain. I mean... What do you mean? Just the nonsense that guy comes off. You just picture... I think they're drunk the whole time. A sea captain? Yeah. You picture them being drunk. A modern day sea captain? Or like just... Yeah, I think all the...

You go out on a carnival cruise, you see some of the routes they're taking, you go tell them that guy ain't having a little sip. No, but I mean, like a sea captain, like, you know, going back, oh, there's a giant squid, and you're like, oh, God. All right, buddy. Don't you think, like, those sea captains then, just no one took them seriously. Like, they go, you know what I've seen out there? Yeah. And you go, no one cares. Pirates. Yeah, probably a scurvy. You know, like, this guy's not healthy. Yeah. You know? How big are they?

uh i don't the first giant squid was seen in live in the early 2000s yeah that's how recent it's been they've been talking about it for decades i mean for centuries and then they would find some occasionally washed up but they didn't have video of them till the early 2000s that's pretty big and that they're significantly bigger than a human being yeah yeah but i mean it's like a bus yeah yeah it is like the size of a bus they're uh

That's where... That's an alien swimming. I know. Is that a man or a woman? So, I think he just gave birth to an alien. Maybe that's how they give them... Maybe that's how the aliens are born. I don't know. That could be wildly offensive to say. In 100 years. Imagine in 100 years they're going to go, they said they thought the...

what is this? A squid gave birth to the alien alien that serves me in my coffee. Yeah. Can you believe that they said that back in this? And then I just get canceled. Yeah. My family's canceled. Like they, you know, you got to take down Nate land theme park. Nate land theme park actually got built. I couldn't believe it. And we're actually, and it's all, it gets taken down. All of it. All of it. They drum up this.

The first exoplanet, planet outside our solar system, wasn't discovered until 1992. And now we've discovered more than 4,000 of them. A planet outside of our? Our solar system. And they think there's billions and billions of them now. They think that. It's easy to say. Just in the Milky Way or in general?

Just in the Milky Way, they think that for every star probably has on average one planet. Ours has, what, seven? Eight, right? Oh, we have eight planets? Yeah. Oh, we ate. We thought we had nine because of Pluto. Okay. We're all kind of forgetting Pluto quite easy. Which ones did you forget?

I just couldn't remember if the number was seven or eight. I wasn't naming them off. I always forget Mercury. Mercury, well, who cares about Mercury? There's nothing going on. You know, weirdly, I forget about Neptune. I don't know why. I always think it's a diner because I've been to a Neptune diner and I never put it as a planet. Can you believe that? Pluto. Pluto.

Not a joke, my Pluto joke. But that would be... See, that's what I mean, these scientists, you know, you can just say whatever, dude. Like, who cares? Like, they go, we believe there's probably billions. No way for us to ever... Who's going to count it? No. Nobody can. And I'm not saying that there's not, but it's like just being like, yeah, dude, it's nuts. I would like them to go like, we don't know. But it's probably wild, dude. Right. I...

Here's where we're at. I quit the job because I can't. It's more than I care to know. And I'm doing ocean stuff now. And that's what the guy said. Ocean stuff. Yeah. He left it. That's what the scientist left. I'm mainly doing ocean stuff now. But I do think for the argument of life on other planets, I mean, we've already found 4,000

It's just outside our solar system. And there's so many stars out there. If they do all have a few planets, there's bound to be life out there somewhere. Wouldn't you think? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man. I've talked about it. Yeah. We were saying we're fine. Yeah. Yeah. It's bizarre. It's bizarre. Yeah. To not think that. The ocean's probably where the most stuff is that we don't, you know. There's so much stuff we don't know. Yeah. That's quid. That's crazy. It's a pretty big...

Imagine misplacing, it's like not finding your couch in your house. If you walked in, you'd go, dude, that couch, it was in the closet. It's like 40 years. The love seat was in the closet. Never saw it. That's what that's like. It's just a giant thing. So big. Some celebrities that were discovered in unusual ways. Justin Bieber.

Oh, in unusual ways. Yeah. In 2007, he participated in a local singing competition. He placed second. His mom posted a video of his performance on YouTube for family and friends who were unable to attend. She also put up some other homemade videos. And then Scott Scooter Braun, music promoter and talent agent, watched them, invited Bieber to come to Atlanta. He met Usher and they signed him and the rest is history.

Where is he at now? Yeah, what's he at now? Scooter Braun's a Shays person too. Yeah. Yeah, he was the guy on the first YouTube and still does it. I mean, still just, I mean, that's like someone we talk, they have no, his reality. I mean, you make more money than your parents. Like you're wildly more money than your family. Yeah.

Like the dynamic there has got to be, how old was he? 12, 13? 13. The dynamic is just crazy. And you're, you know, those kids are just so young. But he seems kind of normal now. How old is he now? I think he's a couple years younger than me. He's like mid to late 20s now. Maybe 25, 26. Yeah. Yeah, I think pretty. I think he leveled out pretty well.

They're all going to go through that. Yeah, he's 27. Yeah, they go through all the stuff they go through. He figured it out. Yeah, they figured it out. He's married. Post Malone is only 25? Yeah, he's a young dude. Wow. What? He looks like he's 100. He looks a little older. You want me to tell you what it is? It's drinking. Post Malone's a perfect example of –

partying and drinking beer every night. That's your number one example is Post Malone. This is what you end up looking like. Yeah. But it is like the... When I was in New York and when we were out, we were drinking every single night. My old videos, you can see. All the old stuff that I post, that's all just because you're... It's not like you're just...

having some beers every night. That stuff, that's what happens. And that's Post Malone. That guy's 25 years old. I look like that. And then you stop drinking and you look, if Post Malone quit drinking, he would look amazing. Look, his face is,

Like everything, alcohol just, all that stuff goes away. It just kind of comes in a little bit. You can still get it eating bad. Obviously, like I've still, not like I've lost everything, but it's like you just get sucked up a little bit without alcohol. You don't get, that's, I mean, you know, I don't get post-blown people get mad, but that's what that, I mean, I just can see it. That's crazy. I've got to be 25.

I didn't know he was that young either. I thought he was at least my age. I thought he was 40. I would have used some different... What? I would have... No, he's post. Should just be in the Malone phase, but he's already post. Why is he post Malone? I don't know. I'll look into that.

His first name's Austin Richard Post. Oh, that's a great name. Austin Richard Post. So where did the Malone come from? Yeah, Austin Post. Even if it was Austin Post, it would be a pretty good rap name. Austin Richie Post. I mean, Austin Richard Post is a really good name. Austin's a good name. Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift.

No. When Taylor Swift was, well, there's two diversions. When Taylor, she says when she was 12, she was doing her homework and a computer technician came to her house to work on her computer. He saw her guitar in the corner and he says, do you play guitar? And she says, no, I've tried. He said, well, do you want me to teach you a few chords? And she said, yeah. And then he's the one that

made her in who she is today. Sounds like a real creep. What's the next? How did he make her into? Well, he's the one that got her started. Like, yeah, learn to play guitar and write songs and stuff like that. He continued to work with her.

That's her version. His version is she hired him to give her guitar lessons, and after a few lessons, he also works on computers and said, I can fix your computer for you. That makes way more sense. That makes more sense. That's the story I'd prefer than like... Yeah. You would almost think it'd be the other way around. Imagine inviting the plumber over, and he's like, hey, little girl, you got a guitar over there? Can you play any chords for me to teach you? Yeah. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I have a problem with the...

a 20 year old doing that to a 20 year old girl. Yeah. I already don't like pulls out a guitar. That's pulling out a guitar at a party is, is, is like, uh, the,

We'll get to that eventually. That's what that feels like to me. When you see a guy pull out a guitar and you're like, oh my. You don't like it? I do not like it. You did it all the time, didn't you? No, no. You had to wheel the piano in the other room. You had to go get their piano and they're like, guys, can I get a hand? And then you all have to carry it into the little short steps because you can't really move a piano because it's awkward. I played in a group.

And all through high school and stuff. But I would never bring a guitar to a party and like pull it out. And just play Wonderwall. Yeah. Yeah. I was never that guy. Those guys did exist. They still do. They still, yeah. That's how Dave Matthews got started.

He was just the guy at a party. I don't know. His stuff and his songs are always the one that gets played. For my age, it was always Dave Matthews. He was discovered at a house party. Just tried it enough. You know, you play enough and someone finally gets it. I bet that guy's truth is like, I bet she was so young that she thinks

Maybe so. They had a falling out. I mean, supposedly he helped her write the song Lucky You, maybe her first song. But they had a falling out. He created a website, Stuff I've Taught Taylor Swift, and she sued him and all this stuff. Yeah, she's got a lot of that. Yeah. He tells a story about her brother Austin. Is that the one you know? Yeah. Oh. Austin. Austin Post. Oh, that's his name? Austin Swift. It's Post Malone. Why don't you bring that up? Yeah.

He says when he was at her house teaching her lessons, her mom would say, he said her brother Austin, who was a little chubby at the time. Maybe he saw him. Are we sure? He goes, no, maybe it was her friend. Maybe it was Austin's buddy. He was wearing a Notre Dame jacket.

Austin, who's a little chubby at the time. And he wanted to go to Taco Bell. And the guy said, Taylor Swift's mom, Taylor said, I want to go to Taco Bell too. And her mother said, I'm only going to let Austin go because nobody wants to see a fat pop star.

Wait, the guy said that? Taylor's mom said that. Yeah. To Taylor. She wanted to go to Taco Bell and she said nobody wants to see that. This is stuff that that guy posted on his website. Stuff that he observed, he said. Yeah. That seems a little... Yeah. But I mean, I would go with like... I mean, her mom and they're still talk, right? Oh, yeah. They're super close. Yeah. Yeah. But once she moved to Nashville, she did a round showcase at the Bluebird Cafe in 2005. Yeah.

And there was a guy there, Scott Borchetta, who was launching a new record label called Big Machine Records. And he saw her and signed her to a record deal. And her dad bought 3% stake in the company for an estimated $120,000. So I guess he believed in his daughter. And of course, Big Machine took off. Yeah. Mainly because of her. And they're big. Yeah. And so they made a ton of money. Her dad made a ton of money off that. I would think so, yeah. That guy's name is Borchetta? Yeah. Isn't that a... Is it a... Is it cheese? Borchetta? Yeah.

I think it's a type of something. I don't think it's a cheese. I think it's bread. Oh, bread? I think so. Or maybe pretzels. You know... I was thinking that. I was thinking... I was thinking like a Chex mix. It's like the... Oh, that's Gardettos. Oh. Tostitos? Breschetta's a... Oh, it says it's a dish. Oh, it's a chicken. No. Oh, that's what bruschetta is. This is borschetta. Bruschetta is... Oh, it's a dish. It's not... It's like a bunch of stuff. Yeah, it's an hors d'oeuvre of the bread with the...

So it would have been quite embarrassing if they said, do you want any of this? And I passed on bruschetta cheese. And they go, do you want some bruschetta? And I go, I'm on no dairy, please. And they go, okay. You're in a business meeting with that guy. Oh, bruschetta, like the cheese, huh? Yeah, like the cheese. And he goes, we'll give you 1%.

50 grand, 1%. Never come back here and tell you solid. Never say we talked ever again. Deal. Prosciutto cheese. Prosciutto cheese. It does sound like it could be. Yeah. Sam Phillips discovered Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. That's pretty amazing. Two of the greatest of all time. Pretty good. Who was Sam Phillips? Was that the...

crazy manager no crazy man it was colonel parker oh yeah colonel parker was he an actual colonel he was like a you know he was like a promoter or something but i think was wild yeah like you know back in the day like they were you know that's the thing like taylor swift guy gets upset about her like deal and stuff like that but i mean these guys yeah i mean they got their whole life stolen yeah yeah now sam phillips ran sun records in memphis and okay if you're seeing walk the line yeah yeah

Oh, there. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember that guy. Yeah, yeah. It's like a fun guy. It's like a nice fella. He did well for himself. Yeah, he did all right. He found two has-beens. Yeah. Johnny Cash, I bet, was...

So much to just be around. I mean, he had to be just like, just the weight of the world at all times. I mean, just going off that movie. Yeah. I saw him filming something. I think I've said that on here. In Mount Juliet. Did they film it here? Something. He was filming something. I drive by. I'm going to my buddy's house, Nick Newman. Driving to his house in Mount Juliet.

Like, I don't know. I just had to be driving. So maybe I'm 17 or 18 or something like that. So 96, 7, something. And then he's standing in the back of a train. And I drive out. There's just a railroad. And he's like at a caboose.

But there's not the whole train there. It's just a caboose. Oh, this is the real Johnny Cash. The real Johnny Cash. I thought you were talking about the movie. Oh, no, no, no. Okay. No, no. I meant the real Johnny Cash. Yeah. And I just drive by and I look and he's, and it's him all in black.

And I thought there was always rumors he had a house right there or something. He lived in Henderson, though. I know that. Yeah, but that one. But I thought there was something. I don't know. But anyway, I see him just standing on the back of that caboose. Big, long, black trench coat. Just by himself? I think they were shooting something. Okay. I don't know what they were shooting. He didn't even try to hide. Did they have the caboose in, what's the last song? The Nine Inch Nails song? Nine Inch Nails song. Is he standing on a train in that? He might be in the album cover. Hurt. Yeah. That song.

Yeah, look up that. It might be. Yeah, there's something about a train. Because you know what? I don't know if I've ever looked it up. He's on like a railroad track for that. That doesn't look like Mount Juliet though. I could drive you to where it was. Look at Caboose or something. Cash Caboose. Johnny Cash Caboose. Just put on some weight back there. All right. There is one. I don't know.

No, nothing that jumps out. That's all right. Maybe it wasn't him. Just a guy dressed in black. I mean, obviously a lot of people wore that stuff. One of the Columbine kids. Just the goth kid, yeah. The Beatles manager wasn't happy with them. He thought they were going nowhere. So he wanted to find a better act. You're talking about the Beatles manager now? I'm talking about, yes. I've moved on to the Beatles now. Oh, we just jumped right into it.

I didn't ever hear you say this is the Beatles manager. I didn't. He didn't. I just went into it. I thought we were done. So the Beatles manager never thought they would make it. So another guy asked to sign them as their manager. He was a beginner and never done it. But he immediately began working on raising their profile in and outside of Liverpool. Cleaned up their image.

Tell him to stop swearing, smoking, eating on stage during performances, which is funny to think that eating while performing. Yeah, you can't order a sandwich during the show. And it's crazy that I have to tell you all that. That's just what he has to... I think it's insane that you can't have a plate of spaghetti during a performance. You ever eaten on stage before? No. Maybe if I've taken a bite of something or if maybe it feels like a birthday. No, like, no.

Not for a joke, but if there was a birthday or something. Yeah. No. Something. No, why would you? I don't know. I was just wondering. They had to call the Beatles down. They wouldn't have made it. I feel like you've beaten a few times on stage. What you're leading to. Have you? I've done themed shows where you have to eat. Oh, hot chicken or something? Yeah, we did the hot chicken show where you eat hot chicken and then do a set. Yeah. And I enjoyed it. Of course. There are...

Had a terrible set, but enjoyed the evening. Yeah, they hated it, but I loved it. Is that when you had to adjust your feeding window when you know you're about to do that show? Yeah, I got it adjusted. That morning you slide the little timer up where you have a chart. Slide it up a couple hours. A couple hours.

Yeah, I would. That's what I would do. Yeah. That's what I did today. So this guy discovered the Beatles and they made him, the biggest thing he did, he replaced Pete Best with Wingo Starr. He changed the drummer. Mm-hmm. So. What did Pete Best do?

Where did he – because he's still famous. I think he's just famous as the fifth Beatle that got removed. Did he ever go play somewhere else? I think I looked him up, and he's tried to do – he's just like a session musician, but he never obviously – Just wasn't that – yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. But I wonder if he ever – I mean, he's still pretty – you're acting like he did nothing, and I think he did some stuff. I don't think he did anything in comparison to playing with the Beatles.

I mean, he had to because he didn't do much. He was a lifelong career musician. He started his own band called the Pete Best Four and joined and started many other bands over the years, but obviously nothing compared to what the Beatles did. But he had like, you know, man, that's tough. You would think he would be, if he's not good enough to be in there, is he good enough to be in, you know,

Rolling Stone. And it was probably just something about his image or something. I mean, more than his skill as a drummer, I would think. Yeah. Yeah, I think he just didn't have that X factor. That superstar. Whatever that is that they all had, I guess he just didn't have it. Too bad. So this manager changed all this stuff, got him booked on the Ed Sullivan show.

In the U.S. and Beatlemania swept the world. Yeah. So. Yeah. The rest is history. Bigger than Jesus. That's what they said. Really? The Beatles. Who says that? I think it was. In what term? John Lennon or Paul McCartney was like. Oh, one of them? What? What do you mean? That's who said it? Yeah. Yeah.

What do you mean? It's just funny. I thought it was going to be someone else where it's a ridiculous statement, and then it's like they... No, they said it about themselves. Yeah. We're more popular than Jesus. John Lennon said it in the 1966 interview. Yeah. Bigger than Shaq? I don't know. More popular than Oprah in The Queen. Yeah. Is this what they're saying? He wasn't murdered, right?

Because of this? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, this was a long time before he got assassinated. Yeah, I know, but that's what it said. It said he was murdered by Mark David Chabon. Chabon later stated that he was motivated partly by Linden's remarks on religion, including the more popular than Jesus one. How about that? The exact opposite of what I was about to say. I mean, the main thing that did it was that. Wow. No, don't say that.

Bo Burnham. Do you know Bo Burnham? Yeah. He posted some videos on YouTube when he was 16, filmed in his bedroom, and then he became the youngest comic with the Comedy Central special. Went to Just for Laughs Montreal in 2008. I was there. Was he a teenager then? Yeah. He was 16. That's crazy. That was the year I went to Montreal. You were New Faces that year? I was New Faces. Wow. And he was...

Yeah, Bo's very nice. And I like Bo. Bo's one of the more original people I've ever seen. And he just has a new special out. And it's just... I mean, he's just like a super talented dude, man. Like super...

I mean, his specials are all – I just love what he does. And, like, it's its own thing, and I'm way on board with that. But I was in New Faces when he got it. I remember his parents were there with him. He was 16. Yeah.

He was all anybody talked about. Yeah. That was it. He was the talk of the festival. I mean, he was the talk of everything. Yeah. Because he was like blowing up and like all that stuff. And then, I mean, his career has just been pretty flawless in the fact that everything he's done is he's just a super talented guy where he's directed, you know, Chris Rock's special. He did Gerard Carmichael's special.

He directed a movie called Eighth Grade. Eighth Grade. Yeah, which was great. Yeah, it was. Which won, probably won a bunch of stuff. Was it nominated for things? It should have. I think it was nominated. Yeah. And then, you know, and just a bunch of stuff. But yeah, I mean, he was 16. I remember, like, yeah, I don't talk to him. I'll text with him sometimes. I've seen him when I go out there some, but like we, he's always very nice. He lives in LA? Lives in LA. Yeah, always very nice. And, but he's, yeah, I mean, just...

Just a different person. I mean, just a different, it's a very one-of-a-kind kind of guy, I think. But I remember it was all anybody talked about just for laughs. And that was the year I was there. That's crazy. Yeah. Do you guys, I was trying to think of some athletes that were discovered like some crazy way. Mm-hmm.

I found one from watching PTI the other day. Mark Eaton, who passed away a few weeks ago. You guys know Mark Eaton? He was working at a mechanic shop making $20,000 a year. He was 7'4", working at a mechanic shop. A chemistry professor who's an assistant basketball coach at a small college encouraged him to enroll in the...

Sorry. Did he have to lay down on the wheel thing even when it was jacked up? He still has to lay down. His arms are way up that high. He's still on the skateboard thing. Yeah, the skateboard thing. And there's a guy standing underneath it full. And he's up there fixing it. I bet you could have found someone that he could have done that with. Yeah. Yeah. I bet. Like someone that's like 5'4". Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, he encouraged him to try out at the small community college, and then the guy went on to be an NBA All-Star two-time defensive player of the year for the Utah Jazz. Wow. He was working in a mechanic shop. That's one of those, I mean, discovery. If you walk in anywhere and there's a 7'4 guy, don't you immediately think, that guy can play basketball? Well, it's probably a tough situation because –

you're worried that that's all they get asked. Like, you don't want to go like, hey man, why don't you go try basketball? He's like, I did and it didn't work out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously, I thought to play basketball. Yeah, yeah. I mean, so the odds of that, he's like, all right, I guess I'll go try it.

But back then, there's no internet or stuff. So it probably was very... You could still say stuff like that and a guy might not know. Right. Now with phones and internet... I mean, they go to other countries and they find people and they're like, hey, we think you should... Festus Azili was like that for Vandy. Where'd they get him from? Some African country. And then he never played until...

Senior year of high school, maybe? Yeah, I think senior year in high school. Then comes and gets drafted in the NBA, like ends up becoming just a dominant player. Well, Hakeem Olajon was like that. He played soccer, and he was a goalie, and he was great at soccer and handball. Didn't play basketball until he was a senior in high school after a Nigerian basketball coach spotted him and said, you should try playing basketball. He emailed him. Nigerian basketball coach emailed him and said, if you send me all your –

If you give me all your... I'm a prince. I'm a prince and I got some money I need to get transferred over to. And you go, wait a second. But I mean, Hakeem Olajuwon went on to be obviously one of the greatest players of all time. Of all time. I mean, he's respected as being the greatest, but I still don't think he gets as much as he deserves. Like he's better than...

I mean, the way Kobe went and worked with him, all these people still go work with him. Hakeem? Yeah. They would all these former pros, the stuff that he was doing. I mean, it was pretty crazy. He was unbelievable. Yeah. The kicker, I think this is him, Kyle Brinza maybe. Yeah, the kicker at Notre Dame, he played in the intramural leagues. He was a kicker. We played against him.

And somebody on the varsity team saw him and was like, oh, he might actually be good. And then he played on the real football team. But he was just a nobody kicking, I think, Kyle Brinza, either him or somebody else. I can't remember. I feel like there's a lot. I would think that'd be in the Wikipedia page. Yeah. That'd be pretty crazy if they missed, they didn't put that in.

Like, this guy was a great kicker for Notre Dame. Yeah, that's cool, man. Oh, one thing we forgot. He was just kicking, like, on a sidewalk, and they found him. And you're like, that's where Wikipedia's invented it, is for specifically that reason. Yeah. Yeah. I'll find it. But I thought it said he, just in that, it kicked his freshman year for Notre Dame. Yeah. I think it said that. It did. But it didn't say anything about intramural football. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Well, take his name out. Oh, David Ruffer. Yeah, it was David Ruffer. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. I mean, imagine just sitting, like, listening to this podcast and someone goes, God, they got quiet. You go, I know. They go, well, at least what are they looking to find? An intramural...

Field goal kicker for Notre Dame in the 90s. This is the worst episode of Aaron Lane yet. Aaron Lane is, yeah. Aaron Lane's struggling. Aaron Lane lost some. Lost some of the heat. Lost some of the heat. He got an IG account. Might try to start separating it. Separating from. Becomes Batesville next week. You're like, we're just trying different other things.

There was a punter in Australia. I think a lot of punters. Yeah, come from Australia. This guy wasn't even trying to punt. He wasn't even punting in Australia. He found out about football, and they were just playing with his buddies. And there was an American there that was driving by and asking if he played. He's like, no. And he shot some video of them, YouTube clips, and said it's some colleges. And this guy got a scholarship to Sam Houston State and went on kick in the NFL. What's his name?

Lack Edwards? L-A-C Edwards? Lack. I don't know. That's how you pronounce it. Lock? Lock. Lack. Latch. Lack is almost... Latch. Latch kid. Lack is almost an insult. That's his first name. I bet it's... It's like his family didn't want him. Yeah. I bet it's Lock. This kid's going to be missing a lot. Yeah. Yeah. He was just literally playing with his buddies when the guy spotted him. Yeah.

I feel like there are examples of, I hear all the time, although I couldn't find any, of someone saying, I was watching a recruit, a video of someone else, and I spotted this guy, and that guy goes on to be a star. You know what I'm talking about? Michael Orr from The Blind Side, was he like that? I think we talked about this. I can't remember the exact story, but from the book, it was like,

His discovery was kind of a fluke because his video was trash or something. It was like a running backs video. I can't remember the exact story. That was nothing. That was 45 seconds of nothing. I was trying to get Batesville to start up over here. We're a commercial break, I guess. I was trying to get you to buy me some time so I could find something else. You know what I do? That does make sense that –

That happened, but I can't remember for sure if that was the thing that... I believe it was Aaron that told me that. But I do think there's definitely stories like that. We had a conversation off camera about that, and I remember the conclusion being, I'm not sure. Maybe let's not talk about it. And then he threw it to me. I thought the conclusion was, you're going to get on that. I was doing the best I could. All right, I'm back to the front.

We're done. We can be done. Well, no way. I mean, is there... Velcro. Oh. Does anybody want to hear how Velcro was invented?

I mean, if you already pulled it apart, might as well hear how it got made. A guy was on a hiking trip, Swiss engineer. He found burrs clinging to his pants and to his dog's fur. On closer inspection, he found the burr's hook would cling to anything loop-shaped. And so he artificially recreated the loops, and it became Velcro. Pretty solid. That's an invention. Already discovered, I guess. Discovered it by accident. Probably every invention is like that.

Yeah, I would say. Yeah. So. Yeah. I feel like your dad's magic probably has some of that, right? Yeah. Like he's trying stuff and then. Yeah. And then they, yeah. What do you think you have? It's just nothing answers. I think so. So it's just been nothing answers. Yeah. I'll try. Do you think, what point in your career do you think you were most discovered? Hmm.

I can tell you when I lost it. This episode? This episode. Would it be your first Netflix? Probably the most discovered, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I would think so. More so than the actual, the hour specials after that? Like almost, I think it's Tennessee Kid. That's. It's gotta be the, even more than the standups. Yeah. Yeah.

As when there's the most, but I, but I think that's where a comic is. You're, I think it's gathering, you're gathering just a lot. And so like a lot of people do know before, but the, it's like the most where you kind of are in like a little more, I guess, mainstream of a kind of thing, I guess. I mean, you know, Bo Burnham, but you met him at just for laughs, right?

I think so. I mean, you didn't know him beforehand. No. Has there been a case of New York comic, a friend of yours who almost blew up overnight, discovered somehow? I mean, I remember, like, I don't know the friends, but I remember Aziz, Aziz Ansari. Aziz Ansari was doing open mics. We were doing open mics together. And then he was like, next thing I knew he was,

On that Human Giant show. And then he was hosting the MTV Movie Awards. And it was like, what? I remember we got passed at the Comedy Cellar. And it was just like, he was gone. Schumer, Amy. Amy was kind of around. We're all doing kind of whatever shows. And then she gets on Howard Stern. And she started, like, you know, Last Comic. And then it was just like, just super, super famous. Kumail Nanjiani. I mean, that was...

Kumail, I remember from Chicago, and then I remember he comes to New York, and I think he was doing maybe a one-man show or something. I thought someone said, and it was like, all right, he's doing something. And then I would just see him at festivals and stuff from there on out, and then it was like he just started. He got that show, then it just was like, shh, now he's...

Huge. Movie star. Is it possible for someone just to have one great set at a showcase or audition and just change their career? I mean, the big one, Stephen Wright was with Carson. They asked him to come back. Carson asked him maybe two or three times. Oh, yeah. Like the next night? Yeah. Yeah. Like the next night to come back. And so that was a big one for... I don't know Stephen Wright, but Carson was the discovery for comedians. And I think Stephen Wright had a...

pretty unique like he was like come back and he came back and then destroyed the second time and i think like he had to you know go try set out and all this stuff and the pressure that he did the panel in one of them and he was and he was so crazy yeah such a weird character it was hilarious yeah yeah and it's like i mean that's so many people were watching that show back then like uh

I don't think anybody's, you know... Well, Freddie Prinze was another example on Carson. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That, I mean, he had a great set and basically had a TV show offer just immediately afterwards. He was like 19, right? He was super young. He was very young. Yeah. I would say, I mean, for me, Fallon seeing my set was...

That put everything in motion. I mean, that was... Yeah. It was like stuff was still going good. That's the thing. When someone makes it or someone, they have a thing, it's not like they are just like... I mean, you're not...

my, you know, eating where you're fixing a car. Right, right, right. You have a career and you're doing stuff. And then when Fallon came in and saw me randomly at that club, I mean, that's when it all just kind of changed. Like it all, I was then, I got with him. I started doing that show. We started selling TV, you know, we tried to pitch TV shows. We started selling TV shows. It's like you just got to, I got into a new world. And like you're, so that, I mean, Fallon was,

For me, that would be that. He came in, he saw that set. But that's the, what they always say, it's like preparation meets opportunity. And like, and it's weird to talk about this and I'm talking about it, but I don't know how else I would do it. You guys have not made it. But I can talk about it from an outsider because I remember when that happened for you. Yeah. And you were already, I mean, like you said, you were already doing great.

uh, in your career, but it was, uh, it was a week between Christmas and New Year's. Yeah. And, uh, and you were at the stand and I went to Vanderbilt's bowl game, uh, that same day or the day next day. And you called me, you said, you told me about it and it just, then one thing started happening after another and it just kind of,

It's kind of snowballed. And the same thing with Netflix. I mean, I was with you in Seattle the weekend of the standups came out and immediately started seeing more turnout. And by the time you did Tennessee Kid, you were already, I feel like, selling out theaters or at least getting close. We were about to start. I was going to be able to do some of the easy theaters. Like Chicago, there's the Vic. Wilbur in Boston.

both amazing theaters. It's not like they're hard theaters, but it's like theaters that have, they have a following. Yeah. The theater does and people and they're great, great comedy towns.

So you could do some... I was starting to be able to do some stuff like that, yeah. Yeah, so by the time you taped Tissy Kid, it didn't seem out of place that you're performing in front of a sold-out theater because you've kind of been building up to that. Yeah. But then, to your point... It just accelerates it. Yeah. Even when Mark Maron saw you... Yeah. Was that at Gilda's? Gilda's Laugh Festival. He tweeted about you. Yeah.

That seemed like it made a difference too. Just people recognize who you are. Yeah, that's where it's all kind of, it all like compiles on itself. Like where you're, where that happens. Yeah, when he tweeted that, that was like when Twitter like. Mattered. Mattered. Like you, like the retweets were. When was this? This was years ago? Gilda's Festival. This was like 2010, 2011. Something like that. Yeah. And he said that,

Did he call you the wrong name? He called me Nate or Nick. Nick.

But he mentioned me, and then I did the podcast. Not too long after that. Not too long after that. But you say he's one of the funniest comedians he's seen in years. Yeah, I don't think he called me Nick on Twitter. I think he added me correctly. Right. But he was like... Yeah, he said something like that. He was one of the funniest comedians he's seen in years. And he's never really said anything like that. Right. And his podcast was huge. And it just... He's kind of going. And then that was...

that was when it all kind of started. Like it was, that was, that was a, it was a big, big thing. Like a lot of people, you know? Yeah. I mean, I remember getting texts. I remember getting. That's cool. Everybody going crazy. They're like, dude, he just tweeted about you. And that was, I mean, dude, Twitter was, it just meant way more like. Yeah. And I feel like at that time, WTF was the closest thing we had to Carson. Yeah. As far as just validating the comic. Right. Rogan was not quite what it is. No.

No. I mean, I don't know if Rogan was maybe anything. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, probably was doing something. Yeah. Then yeah. Then Rogan. I felt it last time I did Rogan when I did, when I just did right now, you can tell sometimes like if I go to Seguro's podcast, there's a lot of people that I get introduced to. Their audience is much bigger. They got it. He's got a huge, huge audience.

But it's like you can tell like where, you know, it's like all that stuff just adds up where you can, you just, it's like, you're just getting seen here and here. And there's, and it's like there's, there is, there's these pops where it's like, all right, this is a swing. You things, you know, I always say like things are getting crazy. Like you can feel things just get a little crazier. Like a little more stuff happens that you're like, all right, I've never really seen that or felt that. You know, these, this tour, this rain check tour, we're adding shows.

which is due to everybody listening to this. But it's like, yeah, it gets kind of crazy where you're like, wow, we're adding all these shows and doing all these things and you're, you know, the Ryman and Grand Ole Opry and, you know, back-to-back nights and it all just like slowly, you know. But I don't think you sit there and you ever feel like you're like, oh, I'm done.

Like you don't feel like that. Like that's, that's the hard part. Sometimes you talk about like wanting to make it or you're, you still got this drive and everybody's like, Oh, well they're like, I would kill to have like your career. And you're like, but you don't, but I don't just give up. Yeah. I don't then go like, all right, I got it. I'm going to relax. Let me just coast. I still don't think I've made it. Right. You know, I know I have made it, but I haven't made it. Right. Like I haven't, I'm not there. Like I'm not Seinfeld. I'm not. So I haven't made it, but you know, it's like when someone else is like,

Thanks that. It's tough. That's always a hard part for people when you do do it because then you lose people to talk to because they're like, well, I wish I would have made it. And you're like, I haven't made it though. I mean, I've made it and yeah, we're all here, but it's like I'm still...

I still got this next special has got to still be great. I still have goals I'm working towards. Yeah, it's still got to be, I still want to go, I want to sell out Bridgestone. I want to go sell out Madison Square Garden. I want to see if I can get to that point and do all that stuff. Well, that's not, then I haven't made it where I want to make it, but in theory. So you had a few steps along the way discovered on different levels, but I think that's almost everybody to some degree. I mean, even you, uh,

You did that show with the Zanies, Brad Paisley's show, I think. Yeah. And that led you to get to do the Grand Ole Opry, right? Yeah. Yeah, a guy who worked at the Opry saw me and was like, you should do the Opry sometime. I was like, all right, yeah. And then that guy became president of the Opry two years later. Two years later, I got an email from him out of the blue. Oh, two years later. It was like, let's do the Opry. I didn't realize that. That's pretty crazy. Yeah, it is crazy. Right place, right time.

Had a few of those where it's just the right person was in the room. That's the opportunity. Yeah. Right. Luck is opportunity. Yeah. It's like, you gotta be, I, dude, I remember when Fallon came in, it was, it's like, you know, we talked about Giannis. Giannis is here. And like, it was, uh, Giannis was there. And it's like, I, I mean, I was very ready.

For him to see me do 10 minutes, I was going to murder for those 10 minutes because it was like I knew it was like there, which I think I've talked about when he came back and saw me the second time at Gotham, you know, where it's, you know, like you just knew I knew I could like, you know, I knew I was going to murder and you're just going to come out and it's going to be. And, you know, that's not where you're trying to feel like you're overconfident or anything. You're bragging. You don't really come from that space, but you come from a very confident space into going, you know,

I'm ready for this. I knew the set. You're like, I know the set I'm going to do. I have enough. In 10 minutes, you're like, I can kill easily for 10 minutes. I can kill pretty hard for 10 minutes. And so it was like you knew you could. And the opportunity came. And that's all you're being ready for.

If anybody's doing comedy or anything else, just that's the thing. Don't be, don't go looking for the opportunity. The opportunity will come and it will happen on its own. Be great and be undeniable and like work on that. It's almost like you don't ever know when you're going to get hit. Like you don't know what's going to happen. So just do that and be ready for whatever situation comes. And then when that situation comes and if it's the right time, maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

Because there's times where you think that was the right time and then it wasn't. And then when that time comes, you're ready. But don't go... I think people can sometimes search for opportunity too much. Like they think... And I did too. So I'm not saying don't do that. I understand you're going to do that. I don't like to always... Everybody's got to find their own path.

You know, so I don't mean like if you're sitting there going like, don't be an idiot. And, you know, someone's like, we think Fallon's coming down and you're like, I don't know if I want to go. Like, don't be. Yeah. But I'm just saying be, worry about whatever your act is or whatever your thing is. Make sure that's great. And then when someone comes in to somewhere and then if they vouch for you and you do good for them, that's how you get vouched to other people.

Because then other people are like, no, I can. And that's why on Fallon, they went through all these bookers until they got Michael Cox.

now who's been there now for a while and he's amazing but all the book is I was like everybody's first comic on Fallon because it was like they knew they knew he found liked me and I was good at late night because I was clean and I was kind of doing that thing and so it was like you know it's like you do that where it's like people can rely on you and they're like all right I know this dude's gonna do good it's not gonna be a problem

He's going to kill. It's going to be great. I want people to see him. And then you're, you know, yeah. And then you went on that clean cut comedy tour with him in front of a lot of people. That's front of a lot of, yeah. Front of a lot of people. Yeah. Getting in front of all those people, like, you know, opening for Chris Rock, getting in front of all those people, that stuff all matters. Like getting in front of all those audiences, that stuff has come around. That comes around more than you think.

It's just getting in front of those audiences. Because you don't really think about it. You think about it more about opening for the person. You're like, I'm getting to open for Chris Rock. Yeah. So I'm just really thinking about that. And then you look back and you have people come to shows and they're like, we saw you at Chris Rock. And you're like, oh. It's like the amount of people. Because it's just...

Word of mouth is basically how – is even probably the biggest I've had. But it's people just passing along, and that spreads so much. And that can never be taken away from you. A voucher from a friend, like if a person sits there and it goes, my good buddy says – and I trust him. He says this guy is great. That goes so far. You need the help of everybody else, but that's – the people –

The people watching and listening, people listen to them more than they listen to some guy they don't know. But if they tell me, and then they want to be the one that tells you. How fun is it to tell someone about someone? That's the funnest part. That's why the whole reason you even like watching stuff is one reason is to go like, you got to see this thing. Because then you're like, you feel like a little like, dude, you told me about this. That's crazy. That stuff is, we have it with movies. We have it with artists. We have it with everything.

You want to be that person. Yeah. You want to be the one that puts on to someone else. You want to be a tastemaker, dude. Yeah, that's right. You want to be a tastemaker. You want to be, yeah, yeah, yeah. When were you discovered? Well. Today. It's here. Today. Yep. Yeah. It's podcast. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely. It's podcast for sure. Yeah. For both of us. A lot of the people that have come and seen us, that's where they know us from now. Yep. So that's a really cool thing.

For sure. Discovered. And I did not say, I said don't, specifically don't go watch these two guys. I said the opposite of, no, see? It all comes together. All right. All right. This ended up being, this episode was a weird one. Yeah. Maybe, was it not? I felt like post-game analysis started out great.

Real dip. Came back with some fire. Yeah. And then we ended with kind of a serious note. Sweet. I think something for everybody. Yeah. A little sweetness at the end. Yeah. Some pretty solid laughs in there for sure. I think so. I think so. Yep. You know, then we discovered...

each other what did we discover discovered ourselves uh the grand canyon was oh what is that you have a grand canyon it was 1540 yeah one more uh post-its spanish explorers 1540 that's who discovered the grand canyon yep right time right place yeah you know imagine just being an explorer back then you just get to walk up on this stuff oh yeah i might do that as a joke like how easy it was to be an explorer back then yeah i don't know easy to be explorer back then just like

If you can make it over that hill, you're going to change the way the world looks. Yeah, I'll wander over there. All right. I don't want to give... That could be a pretty good joke. That's pretty good. I like that. That's pretty good. Yeah. I like that. All right. I can't believe we got up to the time that we got to. To be honest, I kept looking at that clock sometimes and I was like, I think it's going backwards. There was a couple of times during this, I thought. I don't know if he started it. Yeah.

But we got there, man. We got there. Good job, everybody. See you next week. We love you. Let's go. Let's go, folks.

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