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Hello, folks. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber. All right, everybody. Welcome. Welcome to the podcast. Sorry, my voice is still... I woke up maybe 15 seconds ago. 11 o'clock. It's a tough one. We've had some rough traveling.

To get here, I think all of us. And we'll tell you all about that shortly. But I want to start with you guys, with our comments. First up, Paul Snyder. Listen to Nate and Aaron break down Shakespeare and Romeo's name and then immediately have Nate butcher the name of the next listener, Dunstan. Is exactly what keeps me coming back.

Each week, forget Cliff's notes. What this podcast needs is a director's cut that is longer and goes on more tangents. This is my go-to podcast when traveling. Thanks for all the laughs. That's like the, what's the movie that did that we talked about? The Zack Snyder cut of the Batman. So we should have that. I think we're giving you everything we have. I was going to say, that implies we're making cuts. There's no cuts. You can probably tell we're not. Yeah. Cuts would be, this would probably be watchable.

uh joe did uh chime in by the way the guy who oh really yeah it was his favorite episode ever yeah he loved it yeah yeah he did he really chime in yeah he did oh that's funny uh that's he made it there we go yep duane bateman seems like two names that don't go together duane bateman you know does it am i wrong or no you're not wrong duane bateman i think it sounds like a

I thought Dwayne Wade and Patrick Bateman. I think that's why. Yeah, yeah. Because you think Dwayne Wade. Not Jason Bateman? And maybe it's Dwayne, The Rock, Jocelyn. Yeah. Dwayne Johnson, Dwayne Wade. How you doing? Dwayne Bateman. It's like Cooper Manning of that group. Maybe the hardest I've laughed in a Nate Land podcast was Nate saying you'd see a picture of Romeo and Tupac together. It was so out of nowhere, it was hilarious. You remember saying that? Not really, but...

You were saying, when Juliet was saying, wherefore art thou Romeo, he realized she was crazy, so he faked his own death. Oh, like Tupac? Yeah. You see a picture of him with Tupac. Yeah, just hanging out. Elvis in the back. Matthew Van, oh, Matthew Vander Kooey. Is that it? Kander Kooey. Kander Koo.

No, Vanderkoo. V-A-N-D-E-R-K-O-O-I. Kooey? Kooey? Kooey. Vanderkooey. Vanderkooey. That sounds much better. Matt V. Matt, Matty V. Vanderkooey sounds, that name goes to, it wasn't good to be in like, it's a pretty good last name. It sounded like NFL kicker, doesn't it? Yeah. Vanderkooey. I hope they're Vanderkooey. There's two O's though, I don't know. Yeah. Vanderkooey is Hawaiian.

To my surprise, Matthew's not Hawaiian. No. Yeah. It's another Dwayne Bateman situation. I want to see where they're located. To my surprise, these both sound like fake names that you're like, we got back-to-back witness protection people. Like,

To my surprise, this past Saturday morning, my wife told me we had tickets to Nate's show in Greensboro, North Carolina, and I needed to start packing for the trip. Hands down the best live stand-up I've seen yet. My wife was the one to yell, let's go, folks, from near the front row when Nate walked out during the late show, and Nate gave it a little acknowledgement, and now she won't shut up about it. We love the podcast. Thanks to all three of you for everything you do. Maybe one day we'll make it up to Nashville to see Bubbles and Rudy strut their stuff too.

You need to come up and see them. They only do local shows. That's what it sounds like. That's what he's pointing out, yeah. Yeah.

No other state wants them, but head on up. You know, I loved, I got yelled, let's go folks. Every show we did eight shows and, uh, every show. And I was like, that's it. That's pretty cool. That's why it's that. Like, I'm glad we're, we're at hello folks here. It's figured it's home out. It's a nice place. They yell, let's go folks. It's very inside. A lot of people don't know we have a podcast either. So they all think we're crazy. Uh,

They think those people are crazy. And then I acknowledge them and they're like, we don't know what's happening. Yeah. Brady Baron. My wife and I got to see Nate this past Sunday in Charlottesville, Virginia. But in order to do so, I had to miss the Bears game. I signed up for NFL Game Pass, a service for watching full game replays, seemingly for this exact situation. I logged in, clicked on the game, and was practically smacked in the face with the final score.

The website seemed to enjoy spoiling the game. Unbelievable. Nevertheless, I really enjoy the show, and I'm a huge fan of the podcast. That's tough. Yeah. You know? I mean, because you just don't want, A, they got rocked, right? And then you don't want, you know. You know, I always think that with, like, ESPN. Like, if you don't record it, and they're showing the replay, but then they always show the score at the bottom. Yeah, there's a ticker on the bottom. Yeah, and you're like, come on, man. You got to, like, DVR it.

That is tough. Sorry, Brady. Sorry for all of it, you know? And then at least you have to sit through that game. Sometimes you're kind of happy where you're like, all right, they got blown out. You're like, I would have wasted three hours. That was the one to miss. Yeah. Arden Darnell. My friends and I thoroughly enjoyed my birthday gift as we watched Nate perform live for the first time. I was pretty proud of the shirt I created for this. Just thought I would share. Hello, folks. Look at that. That's a great shirt.

It's you, but it also, for some reason, looks like Baker Mayfield. Could be either one of us. It does a little bit look like Baker. I was going to say me, but okay. I think it's more Nate than me. I don't think so. It's obviously not me. I was kidding. Not sure if your head would fit on that shirt. And... You see your sideburns on her arms. And I made an Aaron Poncho. He thought it was going to rain. Uh,

I loved it. Thank you, Arden. Very good show. Chase Schubert. Larry Bird actually hurt his back redoing his mother's driveway. Having said that, doesn't change the fact that he could have sure hired someone else to do it for him. That is true. That's right. His mother's driveway. Yeah, still just like, yeah, get someone else. I picture a very long driveway for some reason. I don't know if that's the, I don't know why. Maybe they showed the driveway. It's like a driveway that goes down a hill, then back up a hill. It's like a crazy long driveway.

That's crazy, too, if you can Google Larry Bird's mother's driveway. That's literally what I was about to type in. But, yeah, it just says it. I don't know if it's... Yeah, this is a... If that's the house... It looks like it's got a big driveway. This is the house he built for his mom. He built it. That's what this article says. Well, it probably meant he paid to... Yeah, I don't know. I think he was a part of it. Yeah, he probably... I mean, he might have paid, but he's like, but I'm...

He stands there with all of them when they go, all right, today, boys. Larry, how you doing? You just seen how things going? He goes, I want to help. We go, okay. Somebody said that he would come home off season, I guess to French Lick. I forgot. And you just see a guy riding a bicycle around town, a six foot nine guy in short shorts riding a bicycle. It was clearly Larry Bird. Wow. He's just a part of the people. It's tough to blend in when you're six nine. Yeah. Yeah, you can't.

I mean, it depends on how big that bike is. I think that's the best picture we can find. You would need a big bike so it looks normal. One of those old-timey bikes, basically. Yeah, you'd almost have like a tandem one, and you ride on the back, and then your hands are on the front, and then everybody's like, no one really notices it. Then they notice the bike more. That family bike we showed where the woman was sewing? Yeah, on the back. Yeah, Larry had to get one of those. Yeah.

Rocky Duncan, most of the time you guys sound like little kids. Having J Color at the table made you guys look like little kids too. Yeah. He's a big guy. He's a big guy. Came to the Greenville show, which I think we were going to talk about. I don't want to talk about. I don't know what the – had a little bit of Us Weekly news. Yeah. Because I guess he's with the – you know, they're saying what the article said, Jenna Kramer. I didn't know anything.

I was not a part of anything. You didn't give them the tip? I was the, they said, what's your source? I was the source. I called them a good guy. I kept calling it US Weekly all week. I don't know why. I kept saying it. If I talked to anybody I talked to, I was like, I go, they mentioned this in US Weekly, which is a completely different magazine than US Weekly. Like, not what you would think. You're like, well, how would they write about that in US Weekly? I don't know. It's usually just about American flag stuff, but for some reason, they talked about Jay Culler this week.

Of all weeks, 9-11, 20th anniversary. U.S. Weekly. He's talking about Jay Cutler's new girlfriend. And at the end of it, he said, oh, by the way, 20th anniversary of 9-11. That's like the Tom Brady. Janelle's husband wins the Super Bowl. Yeah. Yeah. It was very fun having Jay there. And it was cool. And yeah, it's funny to read that stuff. Like, it was just like, you know?

I was like, God, that's crazy. Yeah. But that's a, that's people are obsessed with that. I'm not involved in it. I had nothing to do with it. You're in the world though. That's what's crazy. That's what's crazy is you're in the world of all that. I'm in the world and they're like mixing it up and you know, and I'm like, man, you know, crazy.

I said, do you want to meet my friend? He has a camera and works for TMZ. He's a buddy of mine. Actually, Adam Glenn, I know, I'm friends with. He's great. And he worked for TMZ forever. I think he does it on his own now. He's a comic. So I do know someone that's in that world. But he's a good dude. I just watched an interview with him this morning with Conor McGregor. Yeah, he interviewed him. Because Conor got in a fight with Machine Gun Kelly. Yeah. On the red carpet. Yeah.

Yeah, threw a drink at him. I saw the clip of it. I mean, it's just so funny. Like what? He tried to punch him. What happened? Megan Fox something. I don't know. Is that her? Yeah, that's her right there. I'm pretty sure.

I like it because it's like no matter how rich they can get, you can't take that out of them. You know? Like it's still like I'll still fight everybody. Right. And you're like, there you go, man. You're still who you are. That's what got you here. That's what got you here. You still, I'll fight every single person. So just a fist coming before his face. Yeah. Machine gun killing, not scared. Yeah. I mean, you got to be, I mean, he broke his leg two months ago. Now he's already trying to fight machine gun killing.

I feel he's going to fight Jake Paul.

I just think he's on the path of that. Have they talked about that, the two of them? No. He still wants to fight in the UFC. Yeah. That's what he said. He's still not done with it. But there's part of me that thinks, like, they make so much money in the Jake Paul thing. I know. And then, like, he's kind of born, like, McGregor's like, you know, he's the champ champ. He's done all the kind of stuff. I mean, I still want to fight. He's still very fun to watch fight. Yeah. But it's like, go do something like that. Dude, that would be, I would lose my mind if those two guys, just them, the buildup to that fight. Yeah. Yeah.

It would be so fun. But, yeah. Yeah, machine gun killing. I don't know, man. What are you going to do? You know? Megan Fox. She's been around forever. She's in the mix. She's in the mix. She did it. She's from 90210. Didn't we say she's from Tennessee? I think she is. Because you said she seems very Tennessean.

I mean, she shows it, you know, representing us. She's in the middle of a brawl right here. In the middle of two dudes fighting. I mean, you know, what else do you want? I just love, like an older person's got to be

Then you're like, oh, did you see the Conor McGregor machine gun Kelly fight? I mean, just to be like a mafia guy or something like that? Yeah. Machine gun Kelly. You're like, I thought he died. Did he work for Al Capone? And you're like, yeah, he made it. He's still doing good. He performed at the VMAs. He was at the VMAs last night. It's crazy. Glitter on his face. Unbelievable. Him and Romeo. Yeah.

He's with Romeo. There's one island they all go to, Elvis, Romeo, Tupac, and they live forever. That's the crazy part. All right, where was that? Jay Schubert, we did that. Rocky Duncan, we did that. Kelly K.J. Smith. I like the K.J. Mm-hmm.

uh was that her middle name or uh i think maybe her name's kelly smith but she goes by kj oh so that's added there that's two letters you don't see together very kj yeah there's like com cj aj i like kj kj is awesome uh-huh uh kevin johnson maybe it's kevin johnson um

Maybe Kelly Smith and Kevin Johnson have an account together. Kelly, Kevin Johnson, Smith. They share an account? They share an account. And she goes, do you mind if I leave a comment on the Nightland podcast? And he's like, you know, no, I didn't even know. What's your name again? Kelly Smith. That's right. I always thought I hated color. I couldn't have been more wrong. Yeah. We got a lot of that. Yeah. Because he's fun. He's fun. You know?

He's a good guy. Stacy Simmons, Jay, literally the armchair quarterback, telling Aaron how to Google. What is that? It's a mean one, right? Well, like armchair quarterback somewhere. Yeah.

Yeah. You were playing the game. I was bombing. I was bombing. So you were playing the game and then saying like, yeah, Jay, yeah. Jay, at some points, he was just like, just give me the computer. Yeah, let me have it. I was like, here, you got it. Yeah, yeah. I was loving it. Yeah. I'm sure you were. A lot of comments were like, you got to give Brian the computer back. And I think we've forgotten what it was like. Yeah. You know? Our brains...

Self-defense mechanism. You only remember the good things in the past. Forget the bad. Brian, when Brian had a computer, the screen was facing outward. And he's like, it's hard to type. Yeah. Typing over? Yeah. What is this? Is this a 2015 computer? I've never seen this. This is not very ergonomic.

I was listening to the Jay Keller episode of my earbuds while standing at a urinal at work. Bonzo asked Jay how far he could throw a football and I couldn't control my laughter. I felt so embarrassed that I could zip up and flee the restroom without washing my hands to avoid having to explain why I'm laughing while going to the bathroom.

Mike, just be honest. You didn't want to watch the video. Just admit it. Look, that's how you handle it. We've all been there. We've all been there. You go in there and you're like, no one's in there. You're like, perfect. Right. And then sometimes if they're still at the funeral, I just go stand and cut the water on, just stand there and I cut it off. Maybe grab one paper towel, wipe off my dry hands and be like, all right, man, I'll see you out there. They have hand sanitizer outside the bathroom too. I always use that. You know what I like now? I saw it at the airport this weekend. Some of these...

The sink has everything right there. Water, soap, and the hand dryer right there at the sink. Yeah. And it's just a one-stop shop. I don't like a hand dryer. Well, if that's the only thing you got, then you have to use it. But I just hope they have hand sanitizer. They should put hand sanitizer in there. Well, those are all over the airport, but they're almost all empty. You say, just get rid of soap and water altogether? Doesn't people who don't have enough water just send the water to California? They need it.

So just give me hand sanitizer. I'm going to get rid of most of the water in the house. We have no water upstairs. They don't have to ship an iceberg if they do that. If they do that, just cut down on washing hands. No one ever brings that up. No one ever offers that as a solution. Go through a drought, just tell people to stop washing their hands. Don't wash your hands anymore. Are you just going to sanitize your whole body?

No, you still have in the shower, but just getting rid of all the sinks. You know how many sinks we got in the world? Yeah, just brush your teeth with hand sanitizer in the sink? No. All right. In the shower. In the shower. Brush your teeth. Move more stuff to the shower. Okay. Shave in the shower. I would shave in the shower. I mean, I don't shave. Yeah, brush your teeth in there. Yeah, I always shaved in the shower. It was awesome. I never brushed my teeth in there, but I wish I would. Yeah.

Just to save time? Still can. I know. I just don't. I forget about it, but I wish I could. It's not too late. You go do it. I mean, it's still like the hardest part is when you go to bed at night or you're about to go out and you got to stay in the shower with your hat on. And people are like, God, does it start raining out tonight? You're like, no, I'll brush my teeth for a little bit. Claire B. Wilson. Our daughter was born Friday, September 3rd, and her name is Indiana. We're calling her Indy.

We thought it was good timing that the newest episode was Indiana. She's officially the youngest Nate Land podcast listener. Welcome to the world, Indiana. There's a pic. Oh, look at that. That's awesome. I fell asleep during it. Friday, September 3rd. That's the day we recorded the episode. Oh, yeah? That's pretty crazy. Oh, wow. That's crazy. Indy. Congratulations. Congrats. That's awesome. Sean Herring, in response to Nate's question about what to do with deer roadkill, he said,

I was a police officer for a small town where there was a prankster going out and leaving get well soon balloons next to roadkill. Turned out to be another officer. That's very funny. That's so great. I like that. We got a picture of you. There's a picture of it? Yeah. If you don't want to see a dead deer. Don't look now. Yeah. I mean, even Pete is like, that's too much, man. And you're like, well...

What a, that's a sense of humor right there. I know. I mean, he's buying get well soon balloons everywhere. He's got a bunch in his car. And they go, golly, man. He comes in every time and they're like, get some new friends or something. You don't, why is everybody crumbling around you? He's like, no, no, no, it's fine. I mean, he's made by 40 of these balloons. Well, these look like all different places around the country. So apparently this is a thing. Oh, it's a thing that everybody does. I mean, I don't think that's all the same place.

I don't recommend searching for this on Google Images, guys. Yeah. A lot of dead animals on there. I apologize. Yeah, do Conor McGregor and Sheegan Killen. That's a little bit easier, you know, better off. All right. All right, everybody. So we had, yeah, my voice could sound kind of crazy now. I don't know. I did eight shows this week, and the shows were unbelievable.

They were just so nice. It was so nice to be back out. The Let's Go folks, when they yelled that, it was a lot of shows. Four nights, eight shows. I got back last night. And it's been fun. You know? It's been... It's just...

so nice to be back out yeah yeah i saw the video you walking on stage that's really cool yeah it's a cool walk yeah and then i met tyler joseph uh the next night we did so this shirt that's what i was at jason day's got a uh like a for their foundation brighter day foundation and so they do a golf tournament and then we all hang out at jason's house and this shirt is lpga it's michelle we west it's

It's a thing that she wears. Very comfortable shirt. I'm trying to get my daughter to get into golf. So I'm just trying to look the part though. Hence her way. Yeah. She did. I wanted, I told her I would show everybody this. She got the game ball on her softball game. That's awesome. Yeah. Played shortstop. They, she called it second through its second base, got the girl out. And that's,

I mean, they've just learned how to play like three weeks ago. They don't know anything about softball. And we've played some teams where you're like, well, they've been playing together for a long time. And then so she knew to – she scooped it up. The girl ran over. She threw it to the girl, got the out.

Game Ball. That's awesome. Pretty excited about this right here. So very, very fun for that. Their name is The Nightmares. Did you name the team? Yeah. You came up with that. We come out to Enter Sandman. That's how the girls run out. I don't even know how the song goes. But it's

it's uh yeah they voted it's very funny kids are just the greatest thing on earth and uh they all wanted to name she wanted to name hers flame which is her favorite horse that she goes this little horse camp uh and she has a full-time job there uh at nine but the horse there is named flame so she wanted to be called the flames which i thought was a great name for baseball and uh

And then every other girl had like a fun name and then they let them vote. And three of the girls all voted for nightmares. So they're like, we're the nightmares. Still a horse reference. Is it? Nightmares? Yeah. A mayor. Isn't a mayor a horse? At night? Yeah. A nightmare? Very loose. Yeah. I don't think anybody's thinking about that.

You sound like the uncle that talks to the niece. You're like, it's still something. And the parents at home go, we got to get this fixed. And you're like, it's still a nightmare. This guy's a nightmare. I'm just saying, you could still spin it as a horse reference. You could. That's true. Yeah. We were on a roll there. You kind of shut it down. I'm sorry. Yeah. Do they play at night?

They do play at night. All right. I said, you're going to have nightmares. Our team, I was telling them, you go tell them, you're going to have nightmares about us every week. We lose. I think the first week we lost 15 to 4. So someone's leaving home with a nightmare. Them, us, us.

it's a nightmare but they're very i love watching them it's so fun and they're she uh she did catching in practice sunday and i was i was a catcher and so i was pretty pumped about that you know i'm gonna tell her some stuff to go do i gotta go buy all like we bought her the glove and everything and uh and she likes it she likes it a lot so uh it was very pumped that she got that uh and then uh yeah so i did the show i'd like i said jay color came to the show and uh

uh, with, uh, you know, is on that. US Weekly? Yeah. Jenna Kramer. I don't know. It's, yeah, they were in the US Weekly, uh, full different, different type of magazine, a lot of gun stuff. Uh, and then they go, well, the gossip part of it, um,

I mean, I don't know why, dude. I couldn't not say Us Weekly. Yeah. I had Joe Zimmerman and Mike Vecchione with me this weekend if anybody was at those shows. They're both two amazing comedians. And I was telling Joe and Mike all weekend because they mentioned us all of it. And they said, I was like, Us Weekly mentioned us. I wasn't even realizing I was saying it. And Joe was like, are you saying US? He goes, do you mean Us Weekly? Us Weekly.

But it was nice. I was in the mix of just some celebrity gossip. Do you think Kristen, what's her name? Cavalieri. Do you think she hates you now? I hope not. I mean, I've actually met her too. So I'd be friends with everybody. I don't know what all is going on, man. I'm just, you know, I don't want to lose Jay. That's all I don't, you know? So I want to tell him, yo, I'm not the source.

I just tell them, look, I wasn't a source, but this is one of the bigger things that ever happened to me in my career, Jay. And I need you to know.

Well, Lisa says they had a fun date. What if they broke up there because the show was so awful? Yeah. You brought me to this? It was great because they say a lot, the show was super great and all that stuff, which was nice. It would be funny. Was the show good? They're like, it was not, so we were able to focus our attention pretty hard on Jay and Jenna. And that was nice. So it was nice that they did that. Aaron also...

You had a big week. Yeah. First of all, I did the Tulsa Looney Bin. That's not what I'm talking about. But yeah, no, it was good. Are you talking about the first pitch? No, but you can talk about Tulsa. I'm just kidding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tulsa Funny Bone. Looney Bin. Looney Bin, sorry. Looney Bin there in Tulsa. Had a lot of podcast fans come out. And the Eatons, I think their name was, they're a couple that likes the podcast. They brought a...

or a can of gout ointment for me to autograph. Yeah.

Oh, they kept it. They kept it. They wanted me to sign it. Eaton's, he needs it. But you didn't bring two and go just sign one and then the other one's for you? It's called Gout and You. That's what it was called. We'd love for you to sign this. So that was very fun. That sounds like a book you'd read about gout. It does. Yeah. How to deal with gout. Gout and You. And you're like, all right. So you just found out you have gout. Yeah. What now? He goes, well...

You're already probably sitting down. So... Stay sitting down. Stay sitting down. It's called gout and you? Gout and you is what the ointment was called. That's a good name. Yeah. Yeah, so that's very fun when people do stuff like that. Yeah. All right. And then the first pitch. The first pitch I threw out. Oh, my God. What? What?

You just kind of trailed off after. I thought you were just rolling into the first pitch. My bad. My bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The first pitch was awesome, man. Yeah. So somebody, Wade, who works for the National Sounds, is a podcast fan. So without consulting me, I'm glad he did it. He added gout survivor to my bio so that as I'm walking to the mound, the announcer goes, our first pitch tonight is Aaron Webber.

Aaron is a stand-up comedian and gout survivor in the Nashville area. So it was super funny. That was really cool. That's why minor league baseball is awesome. It's how sports should be. Like, that's so funny. The names are funny. It's just great. Yeah. Yeah, it was really, really, really cool just to get to do that and do a high strike.

What does that mean? That means it was pretty high. It was pretty high. A loose one. You need a favorable ump.

Did the catcher catch it? Oh, no. If Larry Bird was your ump, you'd be like, he would have called it a strike. That's right. Yeah. Six foot nine. Six foot nine. Larry Bird. The mascot didn't catch it, man. It was so high. It went over his head? The mascot was catching it. How high did it go? No, it went through his glove. Oh. He just missed it. Oh, it was too much heat. It was too much heat, for sure. Did you go on the mound? I walked all the way up to the rubber. Yeah? And threw it. Did they say anything to you afterwards? No. Yeah. They were like, we don't care anymore.

dude oh really no not really they're like it's the end of the season they're like yeah just just go out there and do whatever yeah did anyone react when you threw it uh watching the video you actually hear a couple people kind of boo yeah from the top because it was not a great pitch yeah but there were people there that were fans of the podcast i got a couple let's goes yeah as i was walking around beforehand that's cool it was really really cool yeah

I need to go. I need to go to Soundscape. I haven't been to their new stadium. I need a Sounds hat. Yeah. I'm going to go up there and buy it. Well, Wade, who runs all the merch and stuff. Oh, he runs the merch. Yeah, or I don't know his exact title. I think he's a little more than that. Yeah, he might be. Yeah, Wade, I think he sweeps up or something like that. But he takes a trash shot. He'll look around when he picks up all the cups that everybody leaves. He'll see if there's some hats laying on the ground. Maybe he can grab you a couple. Yeah.

Yeah, he's in there. He's a big fan. He's a big fan of the podcast. And Bates...

You had your Grand Ole Opry debut? I did. Yeah, man. It was great. I mean, it was the Clampetts come to Nashville. I took the family. Oh, yeah. Your mom had to be thrilled. She was. And my sister went and my wife. And we pulled up. And the guy at the guard shack said, hello, folks. Oh, really? Didn't watch the podcast. Oh, yeah. But I thought it was a good sign. Yeah, yeah. We pulled in. And they treat people.

Your first time, I mean, they roll out the red carpet. They had my own assigned parking spot with my name on it. And your dad called me that morning and he said, hey, we're debating –

People here are saying you're just on the Grand Ole Opry show tonight, but I told him you have your own show at the Grand Ole Opry tonight. Yeah. And I'm like, you thought I had my own show at the Grand Ole Opry house a month before Nate did. He's like, I thought so. And I was like, no, I'm just on the show. He believes in you more than you. And then he said, oh, it's just the Grand Ole. I'm not going to. He's like, those tickets are too expensive. I'm not going to come to that. Somehow it flipped like I was trying to talk him into it. And we hang up with him just being like.

I'm not coming to that. And then the show went great. Everyone treated us so good. They gave us a hat show print of the show. Very nice. I don't, but... That's it right there. There's the poster. Oh, yeah. What is that called? Hat show print. It's a... Oh, it's not just a poster? Did they change it to poster afterwards because it made more sense? Yeah.

A hat? That's the name of it. Like H-A-T, showprint. H-A-T-C-H, hatch. Hatch. Yeah. Show, oh. They're a local company that does a lot of posters. I thought you said hatch, oh, hatch, showprint. But they're like legendary, like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, they're, yeah, no. And they gave me one, and my mom, we got in the car, and my mom said, I wanted to get one of those too, but in the gift shop, but it was $12. And she's like, I'm not paying $12 for a poster that's going to, they're just going to throw away after. Yeah.

So my mom didn't get one because she didn't want to spend $12. But we had a great time. The show was great. Did you go first? No, I went third. Oh, wow. Is it all singers? Mm-hmm. And then you... Yep. How much time did you do? John Connolly right there? Yeah, it was John Connolly. I did 13 minutes, which that's pretty lengthy. That's long, yeah. For the Opry. Yeah. Yeah, it went great and...

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they treat us great. So it was, it was a lot of fun. Yeah. There's me with my mom in the reserve parking space. You got that sign now? I did. They give you that. Oh, they give you that sign? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's cool. Yep. They, uh, they really treat us great. Yeah. And my mom, yeah, she had a blast.

So much fun. Yeah, that's the best. That's awesome, man. If she could have just gotten that poster. Yeah. And that's so great. $12 is a lot, you know? She's like, oof.

I mean, I think she could have probably said, that's my son. Can I have it? And they might have said, sure. If I just asked the Opry, they would have gotten me another one. But we were in the car driving home. She's like, I'm not paying $12 for that. That's ridiculous. It's a piece of paper. I'm going to throw it away when I get home anyway. So I don't know why I would pay $12 for it.

But yeah, it was great. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. Look at that. It's already aired. It's on. People see it? No. I mean, this was just radio. It's the radio. Yeah. That's how you were meant to be. Yeah. That's the closest I've come to like, I mean, because you can, I think you listen to WSM radio. Well, obviously online you can listen anywhere, but I think their signal goes everywhere. Yeah. No, it's a, yeah. It's probably one of the biggest radio shows.

Yeah, longest running, isn't it? I think it's the longest running, yeah, live radio show. 95 years. Yeah. That's crazy. They're coming up on their 5,000th Saturday night or something crazy like that. It's been going on a while. 95 years sounds better than 5,000 Saturday nights. Does it? Yeah. 5,000 is a lot, though. 95 years is a lot. Yeah, but 5,000 is a bigger number than 95. But I think I have to go like, okay. So you just think about the Saturdays, but 95 years sounds crazy.

It's like when we talked about how lightning is so much hotter than the sun, but you needed to hear an oven to kind of get it down. Yeah. Okay. Five thousand Saturday nights. Got to do some math there. Yeah. How many Saturday nights are in a year? 52. Yeah. So that's almost 100 years. Yeah. That's all that. That wasn't that much. But you're trying to just get me to go, so it's 95 years. So you're trying to guess the thing that we should just be saying. Yeah.

We should just say 95. That's what 5,000 Nights is. 5,000 Nights sounds like someone's Saturdays. It sounds like someone's just going like, oh, we've been doing this for 5,000 Saturdays. God, that's crazy. How long has that been? 95 years ago? Yeah, that's what I was looking for. And I would have been probably, if I didn't have to search through this to find that answer. It never stops at 5,000 Saturdays and they walk away and they're like, can you believe that? It's 5,000 Saturdays. I've been alive for 2,500 Saturdays. Can you believe that?

No one celebrated that on their birthday. Guys, welcome. This is my 1,000th Saturday, and I couldn't be here without any of you. That's fair. Maybe they should, right? Yeah, maybe. I don't know. The Opry seems to think so. They've been pushing that for a while, coming up on number 5,000. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah. It's crazy. It's a lot. Derek Barganci liked it. There you go. He listened. Yeah.

That's awesome, man. Oh, what was I supposed to mention? Oh, well, you were in The Atlantic. Oh, yeah. It was a very nice article. Yeah, it was a great article. Very nice article. Yeah. Nice as a man and stain. It doesn't sound like that after just making fun of literally everybody. I saw some people comment that. I haven't listened to Nate call Brian Aaron losers and idiots on the podcast.

I think they just made it among comics who have made it. Yeah, just a select group. Well, it's fun. You know, it's like that's what – yeah. You know, I always think that because it is like sometimes you – but it's like that's just us being comics. Right, right. Like that's what you do. Like it was – well, like this weekend we had like – so we had Shea was playing in Greenville. We both started in Greenville.

Then so we had John Augustine came, Doug Brown, the guy did the music at the beginning of this, and he's done a bunch of other things that are way better than that. That's his only credit. He got lucky enough to land the opening song of this podcast.

And so we all went, we went golfing and stuff like that. And it's, but it's, yeah, you get, you start getting back around comics and it's just trashing each other. And it's like, that's just, you know, it is what it is, but we are nice about it afterwards. Right. Right. You know, that's the fun part, but it was a very, very nice article. Tim, Tim, Alberta. He was with us that whole weekend with all my buddies and my family. And it was very, very cool. Very big deal.

I mean, the greatest headline I could ever ask for. I know. It's very nice. That's what I do want that...

As much as I sound like my humor is slow. He calls you a human Xanax bar at one point, which I loved. I think he said, he asked me, he goes, I've heard that. Is that accurate to say? I was like, I don't know where you've heard that. But he's like, well, people are talking. He totally made that up. And he's like, hey, people are saying this. He goes, real downer. Is that fair to say? I go, could you go Xanax bar? And he goes, all right.

Yeah, he, it was, no, it was great. He was super nice. And that's what I do want. I want to, I would rather be known, like, I like that. Like, you want to be the funniest stand-up you could ever be. But I want to be nice to everybody. And like, I give a hard time to us, to our friends, to other comics. But I don't do that. You know, it's not like I'm just a nightmare. Yeah. Try to meet everybody. Right. Take pictures, have fun. Everybody's very, very nice.

And so, yeah, that's it. It was a very, very nice article. Yeah, it was great. So, all right. Well, we're going to get started. We're going to do, just now get started. I'm just praying for all the people. How you doing? Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. All the people that fast forward the whole front. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. This week, we're going to talk about the year 2000s. Not the year, but the 2000s. That's the thing. What do you even call the decade? The 2000s?

I mean, that's what we call it, I guess, but that's not right. I call it the O-O's. O's. The O-O's. It's three O's. O's. It is three O's. The O's. Yeah, but the decade. There's no T. O's. Oh, 2000? That's why you call it O's? Why would you call it O's? What did you think I just said? O's. But you said O's?

No, os. I might have said os, but I meant os. Yeah, I might want to fast forward a little bit more. Like the O's? O and then S. I just don't know where the T came from. Did you say ots? Yeah, ots. The ots. Where does the T come from? It's the ots means like we call the first decade of the 1900s. Yeah. It's called the ots. Was it? The ots, the 10s, the 20s, the 30s. Yeah. Oh. Yeah.

I've never heard that ever. You remember. Yeah. Well, I was about to say, finally in a decade, you can remember and bring something to the table. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Ooh. Sorry. We're starting off with aughts, so not going good. I know someone said if you, to be 21 now, all they look at is if there's a 19, they don't look past that. Yeah.

Everybody that was born with a 19 in front of them are all 21. Yeah. It's very easy right now to be a bouncer. Yeah. My old roommate's a bouncer on Broadway. He was like, I can tell if his ID's fake so quickly. Why? He said, I can just feel it. Yeah. He just holds it and he just knows. He goes, I ain't buying it. Yeah. Yeah. He goes, well, it's paper and it's this big. That's what he feels. He goes...

I'm sorry, I've never seen an iPad, a license the size of an iPad. Let me see. You were born in 1935. Yeah. The odds was mentioned. Yeah. What do you call it?

I mean, I always call it the 2000s, but I know that's not technically right. Yeah, because we're technically still in the 2000s right now, right? Yeah. I mean, now we're in the 20s. Finally, we're in a decade. I know what to call it. Yeah. The 20s. Do we call it the 19s? Well, it wouldn't be. That would be a year.

Oh, you're talking about the last... Oh, you're talking about the 2020s. Yeah, 2020s. You know, in the roaring 20s. Right. Okay, yeah. But the last two decades, I don't know what... Well, the 10s. You got to get us out. The 10s is easy, right? I feel like 1920s, like we call it the 20s. We're still referring to 19 when we say 20s. You got to get us out. We need to all be... Once we're all dead. And then in the 70s, they will be like...

You know, my grandfather was born in the 20s, and they will know it means 2020. Right. We're too close to it. We're in the thick of it right now. So I don't think we can call it the 20s because we still all think old 20s. Right. I think the next generation will. I wonder if you talk to, like, Nick Harper. Does she say the 20s? We talk about it quite a bit. And...

I don't think she says. I don't know what she says. Yeah. So this was the 2000s, the first decade of the 21st century. I don't think she understands 1900. Like, I was born in 1979. That sounds insane. Yeah. You know? I mean, it sounds insane to me. Uh-huh. You're just so, you're like, golly, man. It's a whole, just another world. Mm-hmm. It sounds so old. 79, born in the 70s. It's crazy. As you were, too. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah.

When you did Grand Ole Opry, like 800 Saturdays. That's probably right. Yeah, they go, this is the 800th Saturday. I never thought they'd make it this long. I have been a live longer now than... The Grand Ole Opry? Well, than half. Than he-haw? Not he, but... The pencil? They weren't at 2,500 shows when I was born. When you were born, did they not have softball? Who was softball invented? Yeah.

Look up and see when softball was invented. It was bigger than that. I'll say that. Yeah. When I grew up, softballs were bigger. Well, these were little kids. Well, they were all the same size. 1887, softball was invented. So you at least knew what it was. That seems early for a softball. I know.

In Chicago, Illinois. I'm guessing it was still a men's sport back then. I feel like you would be a guy that would invent softball. Like you would be playing baseball and you're like, what if we just throw it underhanded and make the ball bigger? A lot easier. A lot softer. A lot easier. Make the whole bat a sweet spot. Yeah, the whole bat's a sweet spot. And they go, I guess so. Yeah. He's like, maybe get some girls out here. And it's just you playing with the girl. Let's get it out there.

I was telling Aaron about this guy, the king in his court. Have you ever heard of them? No. It's four softball players and they would just beat everybody. Just pitcher, catcher, shortstop, first baseman. And.

And they never lose. Really? Yeah. Well, I mean, this was fast-pitch softball, so they rarely could even hit it. It was men? Yeah. So men play fast-pitch softball? I mean, yeah, there's leagues there. Yeah. Here they are. And they would play teams of nine, right? And one guy – Teams of ten. There's four guys and two, four, six, seven eyes. Yeah.

If you're listening at home and you can't listen, four guys and only seven eyes, and they beat everybody. They would beat teams of nine or ten people? A guy's got an iPad on. Yeah. With just four dudes. Yeah. Seven eyes. Yeah. What position does that guy play? He's got to be on the left side of the field.

Maybe, I don't know. Because I'll play first, obviously. That's the first thing, obviously. Can you run over to third? Well, I remember, I think that guy in the middle probably was a pretty big help. I thought you guys are old. Who would they play? The old guy in the middle there was the pitcher.

Yeah, so where was this? I mean, they'd go over the cut. They're kind of like the Globetrotters, except it wasn't fake. I mean, they really would beat you. They'd beat a whole team. Yeah. Because it was rare anyone could even hit him. Yeah. And if they did, they could barely hit it. And then they would just rock everybody when they would get up to bat. Yeah. In his fast pitch. He said he wanted to do just three guys, but he realized if they all got on base, somebody's got to bat. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

So that's where the – he goes, you know what? Next best thing, bring my buddy Jack. He's got one eye. How much of a slap in the face is that? Fine, we'll do four, but our fourth guy. Jack, go stay in the right field. He just stands on the white – he stands on the outfield line. He goes – he played first base, and he's like, you know what? Never saw a runner touch the bag because he just never sees it out there. Yeah.

He catches the ball and has to look and be like, out. Oh, great. And throws it back. He doesn't know where he's at. That's unbelievable, dude. I've never heard of that. How long did they do that for? I think they did it for, I think this is like during the 60s and 70s. Wow. King and his court. I think that guy, didn't I tell you he was from Alabama? From Huntsville or something? I think so, yeah. I think that's why we started talking about it. He was the greatest softball player of all time.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's crazy. He's so old looking. He's so old looking. And he just was killing it. Yeah. Four guys. I mean, that could happen again and everybody would watch it. Yeah. Four guys beating...

entire team. Yeah. Did they ever lose? I mean, they lost some, but they won the vast majority. Like they were juicing a little bit. Well, so I mean, I've seen, so when you play like church ball, there's men's softball in church. Yeah. And I remember seeing there is like leagues where a home, a home runs an out.

So like you're only allowed to hit – some of them your home run was an out and some of them – Wait, why? Because these guys could hit home runs every time. This was slow pitch and they would be – you'd always be playing with a guy that's like that guy had a cup of coffee with the Cubs and then he's out there just balls gone. And so they could – there's teams that could just all hit home runs. So they just all had to – That's interesting.

Yeah. I never heard of that. Makes sense, though. Yeah. I mean, I played in Chicago when I moved to Chicago. I played softball for maybe a restaurant I worked at or something. But you'd always play some teams that were just, you're like, these dudes didn't make it to the pros. Maybe they played in college, and then they'd just come dominate. So they had a catcher, pitcher, and then two guys in the infield. I think a shortstop and a first baseman. Yeah. Yeah.

Maybe the guy with the one eye was the catcher. I'd probably be better to put him there. I guess, but boy, if you miss it, it's going to hurt. Yeah, but he's just tossing the, yeah. He's like, he just knows to turn his head. Angled a little bit. Always catches it. King, king, right here.

I mean, the where is, yeah. He's just sitting there behind the plate. He's coming home. He goes, and he just has to, you know, he doesn't even know. That's their only weakness was all the times someone stole third. He goes, and that's the only thing people couldn't figure out was like, if you steal third, I mean, you can just walk by him. He's like, he's always startled. Oh, God, where'd you come from? He's coming. He's coming.

All right, the 2000s. Yeah. The aughts. It's the first decade of the 21st century and the first of the third millennium. First of the third millennium. So I had to think about that. It seemed like it'd be the second millennium, but zero to a thousand was the first, thousand to two thousand was the second. Actually, the new millennium started on 2001. Yeah. This is the Kramer. Yep. Newman. Yep.

And it started, the first place was- But everybody celebrated 2000. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was Y2K. Yeah. Were you guys worried about Y2K?

I think a little bit. I mean, like, it was just like, you didn't know if something was going to happen. You didn't, I mean, there was all this stuff, like everything's going to go down. I don't know. It just, yeah. It was like so futuristic. It felt like, like you're coming out of the 1900s. Not that we didn't have stuff, but you don't have computers. We didn't have all this stuff. So then right when you get 2000, everybody's going to get computers. Internet's kind of going. So I feel like everybody was, you know, like just talking like it could be crazy. Trying to think where I was.

We talked about this on the 90s episode. Yeah. You said you didn't have a job that would require anything to be shut down by Y2K. Yeah, yeah. You were either driving the drunk car simulator or... Maybe I was. I think I was doing that. Yeah, I think I was doing that. Which actually just reached... Those people reached out to me. Because they listen to the podcast? I don't know if they listen to the podcast, but they might come to the show, which I'd love to see them.

Well, New Zealand was the first country in the world to welcome the new millennium. That's where it starts. Yeah. But they're first every time. Yeah. That's funny. Yeah, every night. Yeah, every night they're first. I got a buddy there. I call him every day. I go, how's it looking today? He goes, stay in bed. I go, all right. He makes a heads up. It's not good. Yeah. Yeah.

Is New Zealand farther? So it's like New Zealand and Australia? They're very close, but... Yeah, New Zealand gets it first. Yeah. So there had to be one guy.

I wonder if there's a guy standing on the ocean to go like, you know, as the time zone passes him. Yeah. And he goes, I was the first to see the year 2000. Yeah. But then I like to picture there was another guy in the ocean and they both had to keep just backing up to be the first. And they finally agreed, let's both be the first. Yeah. And then right when it came, one guy dropped back and he goes, are you kidding me, dude? Yeah.

And then when they don't realize, too, then they kind of go up and then the guy just pokes his head up out of the water. He's been behind them the whole time in the scuba gear. So they're actually the second and third guy. First! Yeah. Yeah, they even have a city, Gisborne, New Zealand. There it is. There it is right there. There's Gisborne. Well, that's water. Well, Google. They live on the O in Google. Yeah.

New Zealand's a lot smarter. I knew a guy, or my sister, I think had a boyfriend that was from New Zealand. He played basketball for New Zealand. Oh, yeah? Or was a basketball player, yeah. He was a Kiwi? Man, that's a journey, man. Yeah. So the time zone just comes out of nowhere, and then it hits that little line. What was the- Crooked line, the dotted line. And then it's like- So Southern Ocean, I mean, they got to be like-

Well, we saw it. I guess that's where it ends. Yeah. I mean, who's the last one? I wondered to get it. Yeah. Who's the last? Oh, let's go to the other side. Or it's probably right in front of New Zealand then. Yeah. So go up. Hawaii? No, Alaska. Is that line even the line? Yeah. I don't even. Google map. I don't know if Google messed it up. I don't think that's a time zone line though. Well, why would they have it there then, Aaron? Yeah.

I mean, the North Pacific Ocean and the Philippine Sea. It looks like a kid that was just drawing dots. Well, let's look up the time zone map. Of the world, probably. Yeah. All right, there you go. There's the world. Yeah. I mean, that's not the one I would have clicked on, but the other one has the words. This one? A cave drawing. Yeah. You just did the opposite. All right. Yeah, go down. Scroll down. Oh, we found it right here. Oh, boy. Where does it begin? Oh, no.

All right. We'll get back to it. Just look at it. You need Jay Cutler back on here to whip me into shape, dude. Jay's going to see this and be like. Told y'all. Yeah. So the 2000 presidential election was one of the craziest in history. George W. Bush and Al Gore. It wasn't decided until over a month later. Yeah.

So Bush was sworn in in 2000. And then... Were you in the news then? Was it just, you know... Yeah, because Gore's campaign where they watch the results, he did it in Nashville, I guess. That's where they... Did y'all go? Well, I mean, I was working, so... Yeah, I know. Did you go to it when... Or you were at... I was at the station. Yeah. But obviously, I mean, national news from all over... Well, I mean, all over the world was in Nashville. Yeah.

Because that's where he was. Yeah, Al Gore was on the plane behind me once. The big guy. Yeah. Is he big? Yeah. I called his house once and he got mad at me. What did you say? Because I asked who was speaking. Yeah. It was when I was working the news and we had heard that his mom had passed away. And they told me to find out. And I called his house and he answered the phone. Yeah. And I was so surprised he answered. I was like, who's speaking? Yeah.

Yeah. Which is really rude to anybody that you call. Uh-huh. Yeah. You call them and immediately go, who am I talking to? Yeah. Let me call you back. Hello? Let me call you back. And then he said, who are you calling for? And I said, Vice President Al Gore. He said, this is Vice President Al Gore. I was like, oh. I was like, well, let's kind of see how your mom's doing. She's dead. And that's what happened? She was okay. She was all right. But he wasn't happy that I called him.

Was this when you tried to start the TMZ section of Channel 5 News? You just trying to get on the horn? You were one-on-one on the phone with the vice president. At his home in Carthage. That's pretty crazy. I was just so shocked he would answer his own phone. How'd you get his number? Yeah, so am I.

We had like, no, but we had like contact numbers, but you just don't ever think you're going to get the actual person. Just like somebody there. Yeah. This is during landlines. Yeah. Yeah. Butler or something. I mean, the guy, I know, but he's like, I'm at home. I answered my own phone. I'm tending to my sick mom. Yeah. Right. How far can you throw a football? Yeah. Albert, what do you want to hear right now?

All right. So Bush is elected president. And then a few months after he was elected, of course, we just had the 20-year anniversary. Terrorist attack, 9-11. I'm going to spread it in there. Let everybody know. Where were you in 9-11? I stayed home that day. I was recycling tires.

And I had to get up at like 6 every morning to do something. And I called in sick that day. Yeah. I don't know. You felt something. You were a suspect for a while. Yeah, yeah. Interesting. I had a lot going on that day. And they, no, I felt, I just was like tired. I called in sick. And then Laura was getting up to go to work or something. You weren't married? No, no. So maybe Laura wasn't there. Oh. Yeah. All right. Ruined everything. Sorry.

I guess I said Laura was going to work. She called me and told me, get up and look at the news. And then we watched it, and yeah, it was crazy. Craziest thing ever. Do you remember? Fifth grade. I was in fifth grade. Principal came on over the speaker and goes, there's been a plane crash. And we were like, why? Thanks. We don't care. And then we just went home.

after that yeah they let everybody go home they let everybody go home half day yeah so we were pumped yeah yeah we didn't know any better we were like this is awesome oh man what a day yeah yeah i'm gonna remember this day forever we got a half day yeah you and your classmates get together every september 11th and go remember this day today we got a score yeah yeah it's awesome yeah yeah it was it was crazy just had the yeah

Yeah, I mean, just unbelievable. My wife was at the White House. Ruth worked for Condoleezza Rice, and she was in the Situation Room when it happened. So they told her to get her contacts together. Bush was supposedly coming back to the White House at that time, and they were going to meet with some foreign leaders. So she had to get the contacts together to arrange it.

And then things just kept getting crazier. And Secret Service came in and grabbed Condoleezza and ushered her out. And then pushed Ruth in the way. Yeah. Yeah.

She was 25 years old. I mean, she had just started there a few months earlier. And her boss, this woman who was kind of like a mentor to her and like a second mother said, just give me the contacts and run. She said, I've lived twice as long as you have, so you just get out. Whoa. Oh, wow. And so she just left. This woman just told her to do this. And then, you know, United Flight 93. She ran to the Pentagon. Yeah.

Flight 93, if they had to take that plane down, they'd think it was going to go to the White House or the Capitol. Oh, wow. So, yeah. It's pretty crazy. That's what they did think? Yeah, they think that's where it was going to. That's where it was heading, yeah. Yeah, so one more plane they thought it was going to the Capitol. I mean, probably where the White House would have been. Probably where. Yeah. But it would have never. But I think, can you imagine? I mean, oh, man, those people in Flight 93 is awesome. Yeah. The fact that they were able to.

even realize that like you know they knew the other stuff and I mean obviously everybody on the planet it's just brutal but yeah I don't know if they would I wonder if they would have even made it there like because they those fighter jets go up and

It would have been shot down anyway. Yeah. I mean, it had to be shot down somewhere, you know. You think, but I mean, it's such a crazy thing that it's almost no matter how smart and prepared you could possibly be. Yeah. How do you even know to stop something that insane? I know. I know.

I know. And if it's cut them so off guard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those people are amazing. So this is Ruth. She's like three months in working at the White House. A few months in. Yeah. Yeah. And you're like, oh man, this is easy job. I'm coasting. And then this happens. Yeah. It's gotta be crazy. Yeah. To be in the thick of it. Yeah. Yeah. To be there. I mean, that's the one. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, um, any other massacres? Oh, I got a bunch on here.

I mean, Katrina. I was going to say, let's do Katrina next. All right. The Pope died. Oh, no. In the year 2000? 2005. Oh, yeah.

That's when they have to redo it, though. They have to reelect it. They do the smoke. Yeah. Yeah. It's fun. We watched that live at my school. That's the kind of stuff we would watch live. Well, it's a sad thing that the Pope dies, but it's pretty fun to watch. That's how they let everybody know the city now. They put that smoke up. Yeah. Yeah. So Pope John Paul was Pope from 78 to 2005. People liked him, right? It's a long run. It's a long run. Yeah. Was he shot once? He was shot once.

And then he brought the guy in and gave him confession. Wow. The guy that shot him. There's a famous picture of the two of them. He let him confess to him? Yeah. Oh, yeah. He came in and... Did the guy confess? Did they say that? He gave him confession? That's how you say it? Is that how they found him guilty? Well, he did. Yeah.

He goes, where were you at on this day? And he goes, I promise I'll forgive you. Yeah, I'm going to forgive you. He goes, he's got a tape recorder. I don't know where I was. Under his apple robe. Where were you at? He goes, I think I was pretty close to you. I promise I'll forgive you. Just tell me. Oh, that's him? Yeah.

The confession, the sacrament of where you go to a priest and you... Yeah. That's got to be wild, dude. I mean, that's got to... Can you imagine you shoot him and then you're shaking his hand? And you're like...

why did he do it i mean that's crazy that's like you know i watched him you know it's like me watching jay color play college and then he's here but a little bit five times that i mean i could at least talk to this guy about the same thing like it was a crazy when the pope came and he go i don't know i'll stop him to go let me tell my jay color story real fast and then you do your pope story is that guy dead now i don't think i shot him

So did he and I have to go to prison? I think he went to prison. So just the Pope forgave him. Okay. Yeah. He goes, no, let him go. Let him go. Don't press charges. Was that in prison where they met? I think so. I think so. Yeah. Okay. That looks like a prison outfit, doesn't it? Because he's wearing the same thing in this other picture. It says, what does that say? So he now cares for stray something. I'd imagine dogs. Now cares for stray animals. Yeah. So he's rehabilitated. Yeah. U.S. son. Yeah.

Oh. Yeah, he's been in prison for three decades. Oh, yeah. He's 62 years old now. Yeah. I mean, golly. Was John Paul II, was he the most loved pope? When he died, it was the largest Christian pilgrimage ever for his funeral. Four million mourners went to Rome. Yeah. More heads of state than ever. Four kings, five queens, 70 presidents and prime ministers, and 14 heads of other religions. Hmm.

Yeah, they just put him out there at the funeral, huh? Yeah. He's like sitting in the front row with everybody. Should we get a casket? Yeah. Let's just drop him out. Yeah. I mean, everybody wants to see that. It's such a crazy. It is. I mean, the Pope's got to be wild, man. I mean, you just. You know what's crazy is just I'm eligible to be the Pope, technically. Oh, wow. Because you just have to be a baptized Catholic. You can't be married, can you?

You can just be a baptized Catholic. Oh, really? It's the only qualification. Has a pope ever been married?

I think back in the day, yeah. 1700s? No, way before that. And then you think now you could be the one that brings it back? No, I don't think. Look, I don't think I have a shot at being the Pope. I'm saying on paper, I qualify. Would you like to wear what he wears? You don't even have to. I would love to. He's got some great outfits. His hats are pretty cool. Yeah, it's like very just down, very comfortable. He's got one of those hats, I bet. Yeah, I would love that Pope hat like that.

So if I just went and got baptized Catholic, I could be Pope? You'd be eligible. On paper, you're eligible to be Pope. Oh, so right now. You don't have to be a priest or a cardinal or anything to be elected Pope. Would they look at it as like social media influencers? Look at your numbers on there. Gaffigan could be the next Pope. Oh, yeah. Good luck, Gaffigan. Maybe he runs for it. Can he run for it?

My understanding is you can kind of campaign for it. You don't officially list your name on the ballot. Yeah. But you can kind of cajole. Walk around, rub some elbows. Yeah. And Pope Benedict just quit, right? He tapped out. Yeah. Which is very rare, right? Very, very rare from what I understand.

And just like, I don't want to do this. Yeah. Do you think the Pope ever carries, does he grab a wallet? Like John Cena? Yeah. I mean, when you see him walk out, you just see a little wallet shaking behind his. He's got pockets on those ropes? I mean, he's got to have someone with him at all times. So I imagine he just doesn't buy anything. It's almost like you just live freely. Anywhere you want to go, you just go do it. And there's no concept. Money doesn't exist.

But like, does he have to grab a license? Does he ever walk out with just a ball cap on? I don't think he needs ID ever. But what if he just wears a hat? Like who did we say? Queen Elizabeth? Yeah. Like what if he, what if him and Queen Elizabeth want to go get some coffee? Two of them together. Yeah.

And he wears a ball cap just with that gold cross. And they're like, you got to do a little more. It's not still. He goes, what? You think you can still tell? You go, I mean, it's the gold. It's real high. Like, it's just a ball cap. It's still high up. Like, it's like, why don't you wear like a Yankees ball cap or something? And I think that would help. Both of them don't get it.

She's sitting in a chair at Starbucks that's like a queen's chair. Why did I just borrow my own chair? But you guys are drawing so much attention. Normal people don't bring their own thrones around. He's forgiving people in line. Yeah. Someone cuts him in line, I forgive you. I forgive you. Oh, thanks. I didn't even see you there. Music of the 2000s. You want to guess the top-selling artist? Britney Spears. That's a good guess, but yours is better. Eminem. Eminem. Yep.

Yeah. Britney was fourth. Ooh. Christina Aguilera. Boyz II Men. Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey. Boyz II Men. Or Beyonce. Beyonce was fifth. Oh, God. I'm going backwards. Yeah. What's the genre of music? Garth Brooks. No, there's no country. Oh. Uh,

And Eminem was twice as much as the next guy. Uh, would we know him? Yeah, I would never get this, but you know, just say I'm Lincoln park. Oh yeah. Lincoln park was number two. Yeah. According to this and Coldplay. Yeah, that makes sense. Lincoln park's awesome, man. I, I, I like, uh,

I listen to them a lot now. I'm just kind of fascinated with that. I mean, the guy, the main singer, who sadly died. But his voice and stuff was crazy. He was just a very interesting guy. Yeah, their music was big in my childhood, for sure. Yeah, they had two of the top four albums of the decade. Hybrid Theory? Hybrid Theory's number one and Meteora. Okay, that was the next one.

Wow. Wow. Sports, athlete of the decade? Jordan. Nope, that was the 90s. Oh, Kobe or Lance Armstrong? Nope. Oh, that's a great guess. You guessed this person for the 90s and then you guessed Jordan. Kobe? Oh, wait. Shaq? No, who did I guess for the 90s?

I don't remember. I don't know. Tiger Woods. God, I knew that one. Tiger Woods. I knew it. Yeah. And we looked at how many records he was number one. Yeah. How many weeks he was number one. Let's just reshow that clip. Yeah. Lance Armstrong was second. Yeah. Lance Armstrong. Roger Federer third. Still playing. Yeah.

Yep. Michael Phelps, fourth. Tom Brady, fifth. Okay. That's enough. And Usain Bolt, one of the greatest American. One of the greatest American runners of all time. I only mentioned Tom Brady because it's the 2000s and he's still going. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty amazing. Yeah, yeah. I think everybody knows that. Okay. And it's maybe the only thing we've talked about since 2000 is the fact that he's still playing. The Lakers won four NBA championships, 2000s? Yeah.

Patriots won three Super Bowls and the Red Sox won the first World Series in 86 years. Yeah. Curse is broken.

Right? Yep. Curse the Bambino. Imagine y'all having a podcast system. That would be it, guys. I quiet down so y'all would see if I leave. This is Day Code. How about back out and just let them see what it would be? Let them just see. Does it feel good? It did not feel good. Just like reading. The last five minutes haven't felt good. I feel like we were rolling before that. We were. It sounds like you're just reading a newspaper article.

Like on local radio. Well, I am. I'm trying to get things started. Yeah. This is a podcast. And it's a comedy. A lot of, you know, it's like Tiger Woods won on a Sunday at Will Beach. Beautiful day that day. King Review Jr. turns 30 in six months from now. Anyway, back to you. Let's do the weather. Okay. 72 degrees today.

Fun. It says fun on there. 70 degree is fun. Fun day. Expecting Hurricane Katrina in five days. Yep. Right after 9-11. Anyway, back to you. That's what you should... You know how John Krasinski did the good news thing, which is the greatest thing ever? You should do a bad news. Bad news baits. That's every other newscast. Is what? I mean, that's what...

Everything but John Krasinski. I know, but you could actually, this is pretty good of a thing. If you were Bad News Bates, we could even let this be a segment of the thing. Just do Bad News Bates and you just give bad news. I think we'd get a segment of that whether we wanted or not every episode. I know, but now we have a name for it. Bad News Bates is a great name. Someone's probably called you that.

Like Bad News Bears, Bad News Bates. Probably. Baby Killer Bates. Baby Killer Bates is a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I was talking about sports then. I'm going to keep going. The 9-11 talk was a little more lively than the sports talk. Well, I'm going to keep going. Right out of the gate of the 2000s, January 8th, 2000, the Music City Miracle. Oh, yeah. You were there. I was there. Yeah. Yeah. I have my brother-in-law, Joey Robbins. He left.

I always love hearing his story. He was walking on the bridge, like heading back, and just hears, just the biggest roar ever. And they're like, what happened? It's so funny. Did you think it's almost worth it now he has the story of that? That's almost better than if he were there. Yeah. I mean, the experience, though, is like, because he was there. We have both. Was it pretty cool being there? No. Yeah.

I don't know what Brian's doing. What is Brian going to be? He's going to be like, I'll be honest, he wasn't that special. It's maybe one of the greatest plays in the history of NFL football. Yeah. And your question to him there is, was that pretty neat? Hey, we're interviewing Michael Phelps with all his gold. He won the most gold of all time. Aaron with the first question. Michael Phelps, was it, would you say, fun winning those gold medals? Yeah.

That's fair. Brian, so where were your seats? How old were you? What was the situation? Are you a guy that storms the field? Late 40s. Nicest guy in comedy. Nicest guy. Nicest man in stand-up. Don't ever forget that.

Well, as I've told you, I was the guy yelling, get out of bounds, get out of bounds. Because I did not see the play develop immediately. I didn't think he was going to make it a whole way. And all we needed was a field goal. So I'm like, he's going to get tackled and the time's going to run out. So I was like, just get out of bounds so we can kick a game-winning field goal. But he didn't listen to me and he just kept running. He heard you and he was like, nah. Where were you sitting?

I mean, I was at upper deck. Yeah, he's up there. That's why you couldn't hear him. He's up there. Your seats are better now, though. They're better now. I'm into your old seats. When we went, was that your old seats? Yeah. Are you at season tickets at this point? He's at season tickets the whole time. Yeah, ever since they've. Really? Yeah. But that was the first year in Nashville. Oh, I didn't realize that was the first year. They played Memphis and Vanderbilt. It was the first year at that stadium. Wow. First year they were the Titans. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Man, that's pretty solid. PSLs. So was it good time? It was great. It was a great time. I love my seats. Now, Nate, when I took him, he was like, these are your seats? No, I didn't mind them. You're up there high. But yeah, you got a good view. Are you in the aisle? On the aisle? Yeah, you're on the aisle. I didn't mind those seats. When I took you, we sat in a... Didn't I take you? Yeah, we sat in the suite. Yeah, there you go. There's a difference. When you took me...

There's a lot more. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Now we're on the aisle. When I get big enough. I know we came in on the other side. He always walks through. He walks a long way. I want to high five everyone. Excuse me. Excuse me. And then we sit down in the aisle and go, why don't we just enter that other side? And he goes, I don't even think about it. Get out of bounds.

spike the ball spike is all his plays are just let it go in the end zone don't catch it I mean if Bates was coaching the punters he'd be like wouldn't even see a punt catcher out he'd go just let it hit everybody just try to just stand up and let them go by and then just let the ball hit let's not have any problems did you ever have a Lance Armstrong lift strong bracelet uh

Probably. I think so. You were big into bracelets. Yeah, I loved the nice bracelet. I remember when that became a thing and I was like... But you're anti-trends though, right? Yeah, I mean, I was hanging out. But the rubber band thing was a trend. I think I'm just late to them and then it looks like I'm doing them alone because everybody's kind of moved on. Already moved on, yeah. But I think I wore the yellow kind of thing. Now I'm just more... I noticed the trends more...

And I don't, yeah, I don't know if I, I just don't want to do it because everybody's doing it. Yeah. And so it just doesn't seem as fun. Right. To me. Right. But, you know, but everybody's yelling, let's go folks. So I'm fine with that. Yeah. That's a trend. Yeah. It's a small trend that 80 of us are doing, but that's the kind of trends I like. The ones that start just tiny and they're just special. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

At the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games, Spain had to return their gold medals after they found out their basketball team, nearly all their players were found to have no disability. They just faked it. They were dominant. Yeah. Were they in wheelchairs? I think so. So they're in wheelchairs. How did they find that? I mean, that's so funny. The guy goes in the locker room. Oh, guys, I almost forgot to tell you, they're all standing up taking a shower. Yeah.

Hey, why are y'all's wheelchairs not wet? I'm like, what do you mean? Well, I mean, everybody else's wheelchairs are wet because they can shower in a wheelchair. But you guys are, you have them all parked outside your locker room. How's that happen? What happened, Aaron? Spain was stripped of their intellectual disability basketball gold medal shortly after the games closed after somebody, a member of the victorious team and an undercover journalist.

to the Spanish business magazine that most of his colleagues had not undergone medical tests to ensure they had a disability. The IPC investigated the claims and found that they required mental tests, which should show that the competitors have an IQ of no more than 75. So that's the cutoff. You had to have an IQ lower than 75. They never took that test. So they just claimed the whole team had an IQ lower than 75. None of them did. That's enough to get be disabled. Uh,

You could qualify for this team. Dude, I could dominate. Like, all you have to have is less than a 75 IQ and you can play in the... You don't have an IQ lower than 75. Aaron, come on. What are you talking about? But, I mean, honestly, that counts as a disability? I guess so, according to this. How low is 75? What's the average IQ? 100, I think. Oh.

Well, that doesn't seem like it. God, that seems crazy. I mean, I would just think disabilities, like wheelchair kind of thing like that. I mean, the fact that these dudes went along, they were fine with that. Yeah. They go, all right, guys, before we walk out, I need everybody to walk into the door. Do not forget. All of you, hit your head on the door. Forget to duck. We got a game to win out there, boys. That's crazy. Yeah.

highest grossing films of the 2000s. Oh, man. The number one is the highest grossing film of all time. Avatar. You know, it's so funny someone said that too about Avatar. Isn't it crazy? It's the highest. I just, someone said to me, they read it. I don't know, but the highest grossing film of all time. Nobody can really tell you anything about it. Had no impact on anything. No cultural impact. No cultural impact. Star Wars,

All this other stuff. All these big movies had every Titanic. Titanic's huge. All this stuff. Avatar, the most watched. And I mean, y'all saw it? Yeah. Do you remember it? No. I never saw it. It's the one where they're all blue. Yeah. And it's just Pocahontas. It's like Blue Man Group kind of like in space. Yeah.

That's what I think. But they sent that to you because we've already, we talked about that on here, right? What? About how, we've talked about how that movie had no impact. Like number two is Titanic. Yeah. With James Cameron. Did y'all see Avatar? Y'all remember it? Isn't Avatar James Cameron too? Yeah, that's what we talked about in the 90s episode, how that's the number one movie. But people still talk about that, Titanic. Yeah. I'm the one that had to keep Air and Land podcast going. So I've now, I've now filterated.

Infiltrated? Infiltrated. 75 IQ. You're carrying two podcasts now, dude. I think if I played in that team, they'd be like, he has an IQ of 77. That would just be just enough. I mean, where they're going. I don't know. Blue Man Group, unbelievable show, by the way. Yeah, it is a great show. Have you seen them? Yeah, I have. Have you seen them, Brian? I have it. They are so good, man.

I don't know if it's the same dudes. The whole point of it is that they're blue. We're blue today. Kind of. Oh, God. It's like you were slowly regaining faith in the episode. Yeah, it was all coming back together. And then you just watched it go off the rails again. Oh, yeah. We're wearing blue shirts. Inventions of the 2000s. The Segway. The Snuggie.

Well, I'll just tell you. Segway in 2000. But the Snuggie's not. We've talked about that. What's the other one? I can't remember the name. What are the two? It's Snuggie and. The two what? Slanket. The Slanket? Look up Slanket. I've never heard of that. Slanket is the original one. It just looks like a big hoodie.

It's not, but it's the original Snuggle. Me and Giannis Papas did a commercial for Slinkit. Really? Giannis knew the guy that invented Slinkit. And then what happened was it was doing good, and then a big company comes in, and they just... And you can't like...

I believe you can't, you know, like trademark it because it's like a couch. It's like a blanket. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it's not something you can really do. So then what happens is these big companies, Snuggie comes in and they go, well, we'll do it and we got more money behind it. And then Snuggie becomes the most famous thing ever. Wow. And Slanket does not. And they do not. So like there's people, there's company, which is just infuriating of just, there's a lot of mean accounts like this and stuff like that.

Not all of them are people on jokes online where it's like they just let someone else create the thing and then they just get the big following and then they put it out and everybody's like, wow, that's the thing. And you forget like this dude is the one that came up with this idea. And we knew that guy and we, Giannis knew him. But he couldn't get it patented, huh? So then they were. We have a commercial on YouTube and I'm watching the Vandy Kentucky game.

And we just went to Giannis' house. So the commercial we did was like he filmed, he just filmed us the official Slanket commercial. And this is the marketing he had that all he had to do was pay us. And we're watching Ditch Films, Giannis' and Jesse's Couturo. Let me turn the sound up here. So they did. So we just did this. We filmed it all day at Giannis' house. We just went to his house and filmed it.

All day long. Do you have audio on this TV? I don't know. Yep. That was me waking up at Giannis'. And Giannis' laying there. I mean, we just went over there all day. So we did like we got up. Look at us. Look at Giannis. That's Giannis right there? I mean, this is, dude, I don't even know, 2006. And we hang out all day. And so we just set up a camera. Those of you listening, it's Nate and Giannis hanging out in their living room. It's

Yeah. Post this. Yeah, we'll post it. Order a pizza. There's one part I screamed. I'm watching the... No, no, no. Right there. Just leave it. Yeah. This is... I'm watching the... Vandy game? Vandy-Kentucky game. It was on CBS. And it was very exciting. I just picked my nose. We got it all. There it is. There it is.

Yeah. All right. How long ago? That's good. This was... Look at the year. I'm guessing 2009. Yeah. 28,000 views. The downfall of the slinket was this video. But I was, yeah, I remember I watched Vanity. Remember, it was like 2009, Vanity in Kentucky was on CBS. Yeah. And it was crazy because I'm in New York and I'm like, I got, they're going to play the main game on CBS.

I want to say we lost, but it was like barely. Our basketball team was pretty good then. And it was like very close. We might have even won. Oh, this is basketball. Yeah, basketball. I was about to say football. No, basketball. Yeah. And I almost, was that the year we went to the SEC Championship? That's about right. Yeah, yeah. And then so, yeah. And I remember, man, it was such a great game. But we did it, so go by Slinket instead of Snuggie. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

iTunes came out in 2001, and then nine months later, the iPod. No. You've been waiting. No. It was later. Wikipedia. Is that what your gas sounds like? Is that gas? I thought it was more breathy.

Yeah, there you go. That's more of a gasp. That's more of a gasp. It's tough to fake a gasp. I know. It's suddenly like a, ooh. You're struggling with, you know, a gout's moving up. And you're like, ooh. It's moving up to my neck. You go, is gout just your feet? No, no, no. It spreads. It spreads. Wikipedia in 2001. Thank goodness I was there. They're asking you to donate, I noticed on your thing. Oh, Wikipedia is. I should do that. Yeah. The Blackberry in 2003.

I want to get another BlackBerry. I never had one. I never had one either. I just had another one. I never had one. You're going to make a comeback at some point. Yeah. Like iPhones aren't going to last forever. BlackBerry I thought was the coolest phone ever. It was the coolest phone. Yeah. Everybody had one. There's a keyboard on it. People had money. The only ones that could afford it. Or like a real job. I had a Cricut phone. When Cricut came out. Yeah. You had Cricut too? Mm-hmm. Yeah. MySpace 2003. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Facebook, 2004. Oh, man. I'm going to keep going. YouTube, 2005. First video on YouTube. I think I've seen it. Charlie bit my finger. No, it's the elephant or something. Zoo. Me at the zoo. Me at the zoo. It's called Me at the Zoo? Yeah. I think so, yeah. Is it still on there? Yeah, yeah, it's still, but we're not. People can look it up. Look up Me at the Zoo on YouTube.

Twitter, 2006. I mean, all this is in this decade. I like to show my sling it commercial. That means nothing. And then the first, YouTube changed the world. And you're like, let's go look at the first video. Don't waste anybody's time. They already sit through my sling it commercial, so don't you dare show the first YouTube. The first iPhone in 2007. Oh, yeah. Big, big day. It was $499 for 4Gs or $599 for 8Gs.

8 gigabytes yeah i just did my cloud uh you call them g's yeah people not say that that's how they say it what do they say gigabytes yeah 5g is the 4g is like it yeah that's the signal that's the signal i'm sorry yeah uh to goes uh the air and land crew love that yeah yeah

They're a younger crowd over there. Most people didn't even catch it. They go, oh, wow. Wow, 8Gs. This guy was born in the 70s. Yeah. We don't get it. I just updated my iCloud storage to 2 terabytes. Two Ts. Yeah. Because it said it. I'll be honest with you. I don't even know what's on this iCloud storage.

I remember you just get an email. They're like, do you want to do it more? And I was like, yeah. I did like the 200 gigabyte, whatever it is, monthly. And I was like, that's good. I don't know if I put stuff on it. Do you have all your photos automatically backing up on there? Probably. I guess so. Yeah. And then it said, you're almost out of space. And so I went to terabytes, which I don't. Is that forever? Is that a lot? It's a lot. Yeah. And then so they're like, you're cool now. But...

I don't even, uh, it's just a matter of time. Am I a part, is iCloud more important than I know what I'm doing?

No, you're fine, dude. What if I don't do any of it? Do you still need iCloud? I don't use iCloud for anything. Anything? No, I just have it all on the phone. So you just delete your phones or you just have them on your phone? So they're backing up to iCloud. Yeah, they're backing everything up. So I could delete all the videos off my phone. You could. And then I'd just go to that. I would make sure they're on there first. I was going to say, I hope you do that. I could delete them. I don't think I care. I'm not a super, super sentimental person.

Is that sentimental? Yeah. Cinnamon guy? I'm not a big sentimental guy. I'm trying to even get better. I try to do it like I think. You take a picture. I like posting a picture and stuff like that. But then you kind of just move on. I'm never going to look through these. My daughter is the only ones. My family and my daughter is the only ones that I really want to. I have a voicemail.

On my phone, that's my daughter singing a song to me when she was like five. You'll keep that forever. I keep that. I don't want that to go away. I don't want the videos of her going away. But as far as the other stuff, I mean, I don't care. Yeah. It's just a lot. I'm the exact opposite. I mean, half the videos on my phone, like I've said in my act, is just because my daughter's on my Apple ID. Yeah. So, I mean, every time I look at my phone, I just have...

videos of her like hello guys let's go what do they say like and subscribe how do they say it what's up guys you know it's her and my niece Maya nephew Zach they made a bunch of videos when they spent the night see I add a little more to it than just going you know blue man group sold 1200 tickets year 2000

I was throwing out that the Red Sox won the first World Series in 86 years. Yeah. I think that's interesting. I mean, we know it. It's not too – we were there. No one listened to this was born in 2000. I think you'd be surprised. I guess because they could be their 20s. Yeah. Somebody's 20, 21. Yeah, that's true. And it's being taught in high school classes all over the country.

It's in history books. That's right. Yeah. I'd love to go see a history book now. I don't want to get in the weeds with it, but I'd love to just get a breeze through. What are y'all talking about? How far back? Do they say anything that you're like, I guess they do 9-11. And so it'd be kind of crazy to- Yeah.

It'd be kind of crazy to get a history lesson from your teacher that was like, I remember this. Because usually it's just old history stuff. I don't ever remember coming up that far to modern day and history class. I don't even know if we touched the 1900s ever.

Y'all didn't touch the 1900s? We did a little bit, but I don't feel like we ever talked about the 80s and 90s. You just got to 1899 and you go, yada, yada, yada. Y'all are here already. So let's graduate. Thank you very much.

The Civil War ended. Yeah. Y'all didn't talk about World War II or Pearl Harbor? Oh, we probably did all that. I'm talking about the 80s and 90s. I don't know anything about what happened. Yeah, well, I don't think that's that. That's much different than, say, 1900s. You're right. Hitler had quite a bit of a run, and then I'm sure some history classes talked about that. Yeah, he had a busy decade or two. Yeah, for sure. The top-rated TV shows of the 2000s. Seinfeld.

Friends. Seinfeld was over. Everybody Loves Raymond. Whoa, Seinfeld ended in the 90s? 98, yeah. Friends was, I think it's final season. Everybody Loves Raymond. No. No? American Friends Home Videos. No.

Succumbs? This is just TV shows, period. You're on candid camera. MASH? Survivor, first year. MASH, preview. CSI for three straight years. And then American Idol for the last four. I've told the CSI story, right? I don't think so. I believe this is true. It could be wrong. I thought I've told it. I believe it was CSI. There's a big reason. Someone would tell me when we were selling, when we pitched these TV shows,

You always think, well, if this network that you're pitching to, you're like, when they say no, we can go anywhere and we're just pitching to the other networks. Which they always say that it's not that exactly true. It happens, but it's not as true as it once was. And a big reason for that was CSI. So I believe it's CSI. I could be wrong on all of this, but I think it's, it was, I was told it was the show was CSI and CSI,

Where's CSI at now? CBS? Yeah. Okay. So like say, I forget, maybe it was ABC, whatever. They had CSI. They shot it and they didn't like it. And then CBS goes, hey, we'll take it. We'll buy it. And they go, not only can you buy it, but ABC was the production company that made CSI. They go, your production company can take it over. We don't believe in that show. And then that show became the biggest show ever. And it's a billion dollar mistake, a multi-billion dollar mistake. Yeah.

And so since then, a lot of stuff like that, because your production companies end up being like Universal, which is NBC, or CBS. You're kind of with the Disney, ABC. You end up kind of being, that's the studio, and then that's the network. And so it's all kind of in-house. Production companies can kind of go everywhere. And the other ones can't. I mean, Modern Family was ABC, and then I think it was 20th Century Fox that

shot it so they like to try to keep them together like so 20th Century Fox likes to be at Fox or you know whatever they can kind of go but it kind of stopped for a while because they made that mistake of just going like now and I mean if they would have kept the production of it it would have been a big success so much money and they go we don't believe in it at all you can have everything there's going to be 8 spin offs I mean it's like the biggest franchise ever yeah it's crazy crazy

Reality shows just blew up and I'm still calling it the 2000s. The aughts. Yeah. Like I said, American Idol. You should call it the 2000s. No one says aughts. Okay. I think you'd be surprised. I don't think I would at all. I think a lot of Aaron Land listeners call it the aughts. Yeah? Yeah. It's the problem with Aaron Land.

There, no one says aughts. You hear aughts? Like out in the wild, you hear aughts. I think a lot of people would know what you meant when you said it. I'm not saying that they might not know it. I don't know what it means, but I'm saying you hear it. Yeah. I don't think you hear it. I don't think you hear it in casual conversation very often, but I think we need to raise the bar in this country, honestly. And say the aughts. Uh-huh. That's a good place to start. O-T-S. How do you spell aughts?

O-U-G-T-H? I thought it was A-U-G-H-T. That's the word? Is that right? Spelled like that? Aaron Land says that's right. Yeah, the oughts. A-U-G-H-T. The digit zero. The decades in 2000-2009 is the oughts. Back in the early oughts, he worked as a marketing specialist. That's their sentence. I would walk out of the room. That'd be on his resume. All right. Back in the early oughts, this next guy worked at the marketing next. Next.

You ought to be ashamed he came in here like that. He has his resume broken down. OTS is like one section. You're like, hey, you can go ahead and leave. I swear to you, I ought never hear that ever again. Well, the reality show, like I said, actually the last five years. That's words to catch people that are dumb like me. That's how they get us. You throw in an OTS? No, they throw in something like that. That's how the 2000 Paralympics. That's how they find out. Yeah, that's how they find out. They go, how's your OTS going? And then I have to go, what'd you say? And he goes, idiot.

And that's how they know. You're not real. Gold medal gone. In England, they call it the naughties. Call what the naughties? The aughts. The aughts. They call it the naughties. So they call the 1900s the aughts? No. Yeah, because the 1900s, no one was being ridiculous. Is that why? Maybe. Yeah. They were more just living life. It wasn't going so easy that they started making up random things. Yeah, they had real challenges back then. When was this word invented? Let me look that up. So in England, they called it the naughties?

In England, yeah, the equivalent term in British English for aughts is the noughties. Yeah. Aaron read that just so of everybody listening. I don't think you knew it. You read it as if. It's like one of those things where once you read it, you're like, oh, I do remember knowing that. Yeah. You do? No. No. I've never heard. All right. Keep going. All right. Well, all the big reality shows, Real Housewives, Bachelor, American Idol, all those took off. Yeah. Still going strong. Last Comic Standing. Just like Tom Brady. Last Comic Standing. Yep.

Never got on it. I've told that story though, right? Yeah. Yeah. I don't think so. I was just trying to move it along. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. You want to just continue some more reading? I'm not sure you know what entertainment is. I'm kidding. Tell the story. Like people just want to hear. No, just let them keep going. All right. Well, the aughts were. The noughties. Last time I was standing, I auditioned for it. When the first time I auditioned for it was in Chicago. Yeah.

at Chicago Zanies. We stood out in the, it was, I mean, maybe 20 degrees and we had to get out there in the middle of the night and then we, and I remember the worst part was across the street there was a bank that showed the time and the weather and it was like the worst thing ever because you just couldn't not see it. Yeah.

And so you're just seeing it just be like, it was so cold. And the other one, we go to New York, we do it. We set out front. Sven Wexler, a guy that I moved from Chicago to Nashville, or to New York with, he had a van. And so we would sit out front. It was like Hannibal was there with us.

uh, Hannibal Burress and, uh, Rich Ronovich. I mean, Dustin shave. I forget who was all there. And then we would sit out there and then like, we would like be like, all right, you can go sit in the van. One of us, cause it was cold there. You go sit in the van and we're staying out. And then we would just switch, uh,

Which is very fun. It was very, very, I mean, it's not ideal when you say it, but like in the looking back, you're like, this is what, this is why you're starting, man. You're staying outside. You spend the night outside. You don't go to any sleep. Then you go do an important audition. Maybe you're going to get through it. I never got through it.

And then I remember I did finally be able to get it because a lot of people don't know. Or maybe they do. But after a while, when you get kind of higher up, you don't have to go do that. You don't have to go stand in line. There's spots that they... Like American Idol has that where kind of the bigger singers, they still audition, but you're not... But they don't got to go wait in line with everybody else. It's like starting with a callback phase. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Almost like that. Yeah. They might even show them at the beginning auditions too, but there's just not going to make them...

because the you know a lot of times you know so the longer you're into something because you would be like well I'm not going to do it anymore I'm not going to go stand in line anymore so they got to be like well we'll let you just have a time yeah and you come and it's always like brutal because you walk by all the comics waiting in line but I don't you know you're like I was out there waiting in line you're like yeah this is the point yeah and um

So I remember we go do it. Greg Geraldo was hosting. One of the funniest things I ever heard. He said when Craig Robinson was hosting the last comic standing and he was in the movie Hot Tub Time Machine, he said, he goes, Craig was African. Craig was like, said someone was like, all right, I would like to promote my new movie Hot Tub Time Machine. And Greg Geraldo goes, oh, what's it about?

That's all he says. It's very funny. It's hot tub time machines in A. Oh, tell me more about it. But I remember I did that show and it's one of the only regrets I have, two regrets in comedy, one, the Daily Show audition and that audition. It hurt me. It was the first one that really, really hurt me. Because you wanted it. I just, you know, I was clean. I was like, I'm doing all the things I'm supposed to be doing to get this thing. And I did it and they said no.

and i you know i tried a bunch and i never got it and that was that one hurt the most did they give you a reason uh i the jokes i chose were just like didn't make sense uh i think i had the evolution joke uh about like you know whatever 98 monkey dna i did that and then i did a joke about homeless people or something

And it was like, they were like, they don't go together, which makes total sense. Yeah. It's like one of them's being like, you know, this one thing where you're basically saying you're a Christian and the other one is you're making fun of homeless people. And I just looked at like, well, those are my two jokes that work the best. Yeah. Right. And so I'm just doing the jokes. I'm not thinking of like. The narrative. I'm not thinking of like the idea that your joke should kind of really go together. Like instead of just.

going here's my five slammer jokes it'd be better if someone I believe if there's comics listening to this you have to do an audition I think it'd be better to have your five minutes go with each other like let them flow into each other that's a better thing instead of going like well here's my five best jokes

make sure they even if one joke's maybe not the best make sure it's good but have it you know open and close and make sense yeah and then I mean I left I remember calling Laura I was like I just man that was that was that was the most down I've ever felt about my in the run of my comedy was was that I remember I remember walking down from Gotham I walked alone I was like my stomach hurt I just was

You know, you're just like, everything's going to change. And you're like, I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm the only one clean. Yeah. And y'all are not letting me, you know. Yeah. But you're doing better than maybe anybody ever on there. Well, I'll show them. Nicest man in stand-up. I bring it out. I call him every day.

I go to Greg Geraldo's grave and I let him know. No, that's sorry. That's too, that's not the nicest. Greg, Greg would have loved that joke. Uh, I opened for Greg once and, uh, I'll never forget that. But one of the nicest moments I ever had with Greg Geraldo, uh, I, it was, uh, it was me. I think Pat Dixon, uh,

was emceeing. Pat Dixon knew Greg and I didn't really know Greg well. And he was like, I bet I had a car. And so we were going to do a college and Greg was like, you can emcee and I'll, you know, and I can drive them down there.

So we go pick up Pat. We go to Greg. I'm driving. It's very cool. Greg just telling us all these stories. And I remember I got out of the car, this white Honda Accord that my brother just had. I think we had to get rid of it finally. That Honda Accord, it was a large car. It's been everywhere. My whole career was through that Honda Accord. And so Greg, I remember, I'll never forget, we got out of a truck stop or something to just go to the bathroom, stretch.

And I remember he's over, he opens the door, he's standing on the other side of the car and I'm on this side. And I knew he was married and he had kids. And I asked him, I go, you know, cause we were at that point probably thinking about having kids. And I was like, is it, what do you, what do you think about having kids? Like, does it really hurt like your comedy career or something like that? And he just looked at me, he goes, it's greatest thing that's ever happened to me in my life. It's having these kids. And I, and I,

Think about that all the time. And it's, you know, he loved and loved, loved his kids. And so I, I always think about that. That was a huge part just to see that, you know, and then I watched him that night and you're just like, this dude was just unreal, unbelievable comedian, you know? So, yeah.

It's so great to hear a comedian not cynical about stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's like what I just did. That's what I think. The nice thing is saying, or the idea that is like, we're always usually very, I'm sure there was a joke followed right after that. But it's like, there's a curtain that we go like, we still, I love everybody. And it's like, yeah, dude, I love my kids. It's the greatest. But you're not going to go with comics. You can like, you basically can open that curtain, show it. And then you're like, you got to shut it quick. Right, right. Because you don't want to let too many people, because then everybody's like,

Because we're just, like we talked about that, Bert, like you're just uncomfortable with like, even with us together just being this kind of sweet kind of thing. Like we can tell, you know, me and Soder can hug and be like, I'm like, I love you, buddy. He's like, I love you. And then we'll just trash each other for the rest of the time. But there's the moments. That's just kind of, I think, the comedy aspect, which I think is great. I think it helps. That's what, you know, helps you be a comedian. You're always kind of just trying to be fun, funny. Right, right.

uh some pop culture moments the 2000s um the halftime show the super bowl with janet jackson the war girl malfunction let's show that uh yeah i remember watching that and i remember just being like you know because all like kind of like is that what i you know i never i didn't see i've never watched halftime shows you don't i think you i thought you would

No, I mean, I usually, I mean, it depends. Usually that's when I, if you're a part, that's when I get up and go to the bathroom and get chips and get ready for the second half. And that takes a good 30, 40 minutes. So you're like, that's why you time it out. So during the regular season, you're like, I'd make it back mid third quarter. But Super Bowl, I don't ever miss a second. You got to get the jar of salsa open. Yeah. I go to the, I go pee. I go fix some stuff. I go pee again. Come back, get my drink ready, pee one more time. And then.

sit down and then boom. That's true. I have to pee right now. You watch the Super Bowl halftime show? Yeah. That's all part of it. You want to watch the commercials. You want to watch the halftime show. If I don't completely care about it, then I'll look at it. Maybe I do talk, but yeah, I watch. Back then, I was definitely watching the halftime show. The Sopranos ended in 2007. One of the most unusual endings. Yeah. Yeah.

Most unusual endings in shows. Oh, because it ended that way? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was. That's what they say on there? That's what I said. I'm trying to move fast because I can tell you're... You can feel it. I can, yeah. I'm trying to help you with your timing. We should cut the podcast off like The Sopranos. Yeah. This episode. This episode just goes black. Don't stop believing. Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV VMAs. That was big. Yeah, I remember that. Uh-huh.

uh yeah that was crazy did you know her then i did did you talk to her about it uh i talked to her family about it yeah because i went on i went on this was right before our senior break of senior year of high school and this was like maybe two weeks after this happened now we went on vacation with her family and so it was like all we were talking about at the time because it was it's crazy it was crazy it was this huge cultural kind of moment like obama was commenting about it like it was insane what were they saying

Yeah, I mean, just. They're upset? Well, I mean, what are you going to, of course she'll be upset. Like, I would imagine it's just, you know, you're like, what are you going to do? But it's like that moment, she was just like, it was like her stardom was like, it's not like she didn't deserve something. Like, she's the biggest ever.

Not like Beyonce didn't deserve something. It's like any of like, you know, it kind of is the beginning of showing how Kanye's kind of out there a little. Right. His own thing. Right. Yeah. But Beyonce and Aeroswift, I mean, they're probably the same kind of, you know, they're both just mega, mega, mega stars. Yeah. You know. Their own stratosphere. Yeah. I think I remember when it first happened, some people thought it was rigged. Like they. Yeah. Thought they did it on purpose. Yeah. Yeah.

I think they hashed it out, and then they might have got weird again. Yeah, they had beef on and off for a while, I think. But yeah, I definitely understand thinking that that could be planted. I'm cynical in that way, too, where I always think this is all, you know. But I don't think that one was. I don't think it was, and I don't think anything was as cynical back then.

I think that was the start. I wonder if you could look at that and go back, because that's the start of reality TV. It's the start of all this. When you start figuring out reality TV is written, and you're like, oh, you watch Kardashians. It's all made. It's all kind of directed in this certain way. It's all kind of people. And I wonder if that, people saw the response to that. And so now it's like, well, let's try to recreate those kind of moments. And so maybe it is. And I feel like that was a real moment.

And so, you know. When Michael Jackson died in 2009, TMZ broke the story. And that was basically the first time. That was a shift from just your national news to what TMZ is. Now you see that a lot more other places, but that had never happened before. And then, I don't know this. Conan took over the Tonight Show June 2009. By January 2010, they moved Jay back in. Right. And then Conan left a few days later.

I never did. I did Conan before. I did Conan after. And I never did that. That whole Tonight Show stuff, I don't know. I don't want to... Conan was very, very good to me. But that's a weird kind of thing, man. I mean, Jay, people would always... Jay Leno is...

I mean, the nicest guy ever. Like, and he called me after my special. Like, I'm not trying to just say that, but he's that kind of guy. He's a real, he's just a comic. And he's a comic that calls you and just goes, man, that was great. We loved it. You know, it's like just a real comedian that wants to just be a comic and hang out. And he was number one. And I get why they wanted Conan to move up. I totally get it. And Conan, though, is doing what Conan should be doing now. Conan is crushing it.

conan's unbelievable like the stuff that he does he's so funny and like him going to these other countries like that's conan is just the greatest at that kind of stuff it's actually like kind of like you're like yeah dude this is it this is your future of like you're gonna be just better and better than you probably ever was yeah or ever were and and he was great i conan was the only one i watched uh

But I always thought that when they kind of, you know, I always felt bad for Leno. Leno got a lot of like, I think Leno is a good guy that's a blue collar dude that was like, you know, I'm just trying to, I feel like he looks at himself like he works for this company. I show up every day, I do what they want me to do. And then so then he gets caught up in like kind of the

attitudes and the you know kind of of everything and it's like he's like i just do what i'm supposed to do he was number one and then they go we'll go do conan he's like okay and then i think conan they did conan i don't know how good it was doing and then they go we'll go bring leno back and leno's like okay i'll do whatever you guys want me to i get like he's a you know a company man kind of person which is admirable you know like you can't be mad at a guy like for that like uh

That's what I've always thought with that. I always thought of the Letterman stuff. I don't think he's backstabbing. I mean, he was the best comedian coming up. Everybody watched him. I don't think Leno was ever a backstabber and did stuff. I know people like Letterman. I get it. Letterman went and did crazy things, but Leno did great, man. Leno's a great, great guy. And, you know, Letterman was great too, but I mean, Letterman...

I don't think, like, Leno would be, I never did a show, but I would hear, you go do his show, he's back there talking to you. He goes and meets everybody. He does all this kind of stuff. Letterman, you don't see him. He walks over to you at the end, and y'all wave, and then that's it. Like, it's not as personable, like, you know.

you almost probably feel like he doesn't want you on the show. And Leno was not that type of guy. So I did not do either one of the shows. Letterman obviously is unbelievable. I'm not trying to say one's better than the other one, but I always just think Leno gets a little too harsh of a rap. I mean, he's just a great dude. And this is coming from the nicest man in stand-up. So don't ever forget that. Yeah.

All right. That's it, right? Yeah. We're done. We did it. You think we'll do the 2010s? The 2010s? Oh, I guess so because it's 2021. So maybe we'll do the 2010s. I don't know. What are they called? The oddies. Ottens. Ottens. The begottens. And...

Yeah. So maybe we do them. I don't know. Yeah. You know, I got to see, uh, you know, I might even do this podcast. So we do need, uh, yeah, we, we will, we will do something. We're do, we're not going to do them next week. Don't worry guys. I won't make you sit through another of, you know, who, so, uh, all right. Uh,

I'm out. Raincheck Tour. We're doing shows. They've been awesome. We've loved them. Check my website, NateBurguzzi.com. All the dates are there. Thank you for everybody coming out. This weekend, I'm with Leanne Morgan in Richmond, Virginia and Baltimore. I'm Fayetteville, North Carolina. Patty's Irish Pub. Headline there this Thursday. Tomorrow night. Come on out. Tomorrow night. All right, everybody. Thank you.