#71 Comments, Catching Up & Brian's Big News
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Hello, folks. Welcome to Nateland. Thank you for being here. I'm here with Aaron Weber, Brian Bates. Thank you, everybody. Welcome to the show. We're back. This is a real deal. It's been a while. It's been a while. It's been about a month. Has it been a month? I think so. Three weeks. Three weeks. That's a month. Yeah.

Yeah, three weeks since we've been back up here to do one live, or the week of. Yeah, touring, getting crazy. We were together all weekend, so all last week. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah, so it was a lot, to be honest. It feels like a lot. But it's nice to be back. Everybody's doing good, except you might die during this. I might. Yeah. Yeah.

I might be having a stroke. We think a slow stroke. Yeah. Yeah. Like just a numbness. Got some numbness in my hands, my feet, a little bit in my face. In your face? A little bit. Oh, wow. On my lips. Oh. Oh. I am rolling into 50 with a bang. I mean, you're coming out of the gate. Right out of the gate. I mean, just...

Yeah, no questions asked. Yeah, it's next week, right? It's the day this comes out. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's this week. Happy birthday. It's very serious. Happy birthday breakfast. But also hilariously how casual this conversation is. Yeah, I got a little numbness in my face. We're not doctors. You'll go have a more serious one with the doctors. Yeah, November 3rd, right? Wednesday? Yeah. 50.

breakfast is birthday happy birthday but i get some sour patch kids are right behind you uh take all that you want thank you it just sits in the side of his he can't move he can't chew it like get on the other side man we have to we have a podcast we're gonna will yeah there's gonna be like uh once there's a moment of this they're gonna go what do they do the breakfast they will him in and he's he's always in that same spot just kind of sits there and

nods off we'd have you on even if you couldn't talk you would I think we'd just put your plotcher there you'd prefer it wouldn't you yeah we'd just have you right there and you'd just come in and you'd just sit there

Could turn your mic down. People see you talking, we're like, everybody gets used to it. That would be even a fun podcast to explain if there's like, you know, this can already be a hard podcast to explain to people. Yeah. And then that one, they go, but what's with the guy? Like, I see him talking, it's the microphone to where it go. Oh, yeah, he had a stroke like on the show. And he's just still keep showing up. And then...

When he talks, it doesn't make sense, so they just turn his mic off. And us and the audience, we're all just kind of like, yeah, man, just let him still feel. But he's drooling. You got to look past that. There's some real gems in there if you look past. You got to get past a lot. I mean, somebody's just facing the other way. Yeah, he's just facing the other direction. He's not even facing the camera. He sleeps during most of it.

It's going to happen soon. It may be happening now. It might be happening. A slow right now. Coming into 50 hot. I think you'll be all right. Well, thank you. I think you'll be all right. We'll find out. Give positive thinking. Positive thinking? Yeah. Yeah. You're going to be fine. Can't be you.

You think the odds, you can't just get a stroke on your birthday. It's not going to happen. We'll find out. I got two doctor appointments this week. Oh, yeah? Yep. Same doctor? No. Oh, so you get two opinions? Well, I got my primary doctor and then I got a specialist. Oh, yeah. And then they go in and just give you a rundown? How long does it take you to have a stroke? Like you'd be having it now. Yeah.

Like, you want me to hurry up and get out of the way? No, I'm just saying, like... Should we get to these comments? I mean, well, yeah. I'm like, should we go now? Finish it. Like, is it a slow roll where you're like, you get a little... Does the stroke give you a little heads up to going, hey, just so you know, I'm here. I mean, we'll find out if I start slurring my speech or... Yeah. Somebody smell toast? Yeah, there they go. I'll tell you what, he had a stroke, nose whistling was gone, though. And I do, like, which one do you want? You know? Yeah.

That's what the new listeners. The guy at the end doesn't talk, they go, I know he had a stroke. Bless his heart. Yeah, they're like, all right. Well, how was it before he talked? His nose whistled the whole time. I'll be honest with you, it's a tough call. I'm just glad to see him. He shows up every day. We just leave him up here, turn the lights off. That would be a good way to end.

In the podcast, the lights cut off and you just still sitting there. You're gone. You're gone. And then we cut it back on. Hey, I always, every time I always forget you're still up here. That was, did we tell the Foxworthy story? Ollie Joe Prater? Yes. Oh yeah. Yeah.

That's that, pulling the sheet off. People want to know, what was that book again? I Killed, I believe. I want to say I have it. Yeah, I Killed, Stories from the Road, something like that? Yeah. I have it. Maybe I gave it to someone. I want to read it again, actually, because it's just so wonderful. It's so good. And they're just so funny. And you got to like... I would say when you read a book like this, yeah. Rich Schneider. I've met him, Mark Schiff. They...

When you read stuff like this, you got to just remember, like, I always, I mean, maybe people do read it like this, but like, just take it as like, you can't believe this is happening to this person. Like, that's how I take all this stuff. You're like, that's so funny that it's, you know, you don't take anything serious, I guess. You're just kind of like, yeah, dude, that's so funny. At A, some of the people you're going to hear about that, Ollie Joe Prater, that guy's crazy.

crazy yeah and like you're like the fact that that guy exists is unbelievable is the best i mean he was a real comic a touring comedian and just you know oh i love it and all of them leno's got a bunch of great ones especially because the older the older guys i mean it was just uh free for all back then so like their their stories are terrific because

You know, there's a lot of stuff. I mean, there's still stories now, but back then, it was... It was different. It was different. It was different. I think Henry Cho has a story in that book about performing for a group of Korean businessmen, and they only spoke Korean. No. He was halfway through his set before he realized. Kind of like your joke. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, so you get stuff that... This stuff still happens, but it's not as... I mean, it's just so funny. It's just...

It's just very funny. It's a good, fun read. You've got to picture the... Because all these comics think it's... Even when you're in it, they think it's hilarious when they're done. That's why they tell these stories. Because you're like, dude, it was so bad. I'm trying to think if I have one that I haven't told. Do you have one? A terrible bombing story? Or just a... Yeah, I've got a bunch. I can't think of any in particular right now. That's a good answer. Yeah.

But I always hear from older comics, they're like, you've never had real experiences because it's so different now. Where it used to just be like the Wild West. Just craziness everywhere. There's still stuff going on. But you still go do... I've done... Maybe it's different. I started before social media.

And so it's a different era, man. That's a, it's a whole different thing. No phones, none of that stuff. Uh, I remember going to some places they could still smoke in the, you know, and you would see the smoke rise and you would just be like, I'm going to smell like just a straight up cigarette afterwards. There was something cool about to like, you're like, you know, I didn't get to see a ton of that, but I saw some of it. Right. Uh,

But yeah, like the 80s and stuff, I don't think that you would never experience anything like that. But the road, I mean, I remember going to, I remember doing a corporate gig once in a hotel. Were you doing it with me? And they had that other room in the pool, the comedy zone? I don't think so. There's me and Grant. And it was in West Virginia. And we don't know, we're doing just a corporate in this ballroom of this hotel.

And then we find out there's a, like a comedy zone that's also by the pool. And normally they do it in that room, but these people had that room rented out for their corporate. So the, the comedy club, you'd go in through the lobby and just go to a hotel pool and then, uh, speakers set up. And then you're, and then like those lawn chair, those white ones that don't fold. Yeah.

They would have those, and that was the seats. And so you would do your show by the pool. That sounds like a Comedy Zone gig. Yeah. Yeah. Not like the show. Yeah, Comedy Zone has some. Charlotte is the club, and Charlotte's Unreal. And then they have some that are just a lot like that. I remember doing one. I won a prize for one one time. This was my first 2005, 2006 show.

And I came home. It was in Murf Spurl. I drove to it. It was at this bar. And I remember I walked in and just the type of acts that they have. Usually the guy, uh, when I walk in, he goes, where's your stuff at?

And I go, what do you mean? I go, I don't have any stuff. He goes, but your stuff that you need, like where's your, you know, like your suitcase with your props and all that kind of stuff. And I go, I'm just a stand-up comedian. And then he goes, you know, then walked away from me. Oh, good luck, buddy. And like I was like, this guy –

There's so many people that have props that he just assumes you have props. Everybody that shows up. It's not like he's like, what are you? Which one are you? He's like, if you're coming here, you're doing props. He was trying to help you. He was trying to help me. He was like, you're not going to make it. And I was opening, and I remember I just said,

All right. And I opened for some guy in Murf's, for some bar in Murf's world. And it was just a zoo. I mean, I would do a ton of those shows where you go up and it's 500 people in there. And then you're just, no one's lit. I mean, people would not know you went on stage, which was crazy. It's crazy to go talk on a microphone into people. And then afterwards they could be like, when was this comedy show? Like you were looking at me at one point. Yeah. And you just didn't, they're like, oh, I thought that was like,

You're like between bands or something like that? That one, I don't think we were, but it just wasn't, you know, it's like. They just didn't care. They didn't care. I did a gig for a, I had a church for a pastor and his wife, their 50th wedding anniversary. It was a celebration for them. And people got them spoken, honored them. And then, and I was going to go last. They put the cake up on stage. And they told people to line up.

while I was on stage performing, and they cut the cake. So the whole time I'm up there trying to tell jokes, I just hear over here, chocolate or vanilla. Yeah. Chocolate or vanilla. Yeah. Chocolate or vanilla. The whole time. Yeah. And then people just walk off right past me. And then they go back to their seat? Yeah. And watch the show? Yeah. How much time did you have to do? Like 30. Oh. The only thing I remember about that, I was watching –

It was like Vanderbilt, Florida basketball game. It already tipped off when I was at my house. I went and did the gig, terrible gig, got home, saw the end of the game. Oh, wow. And I was like, wow, I got paid, terrible gig, but saw the beginning and the end of this basketball game. In college basketball, that's not that long of a game. No. That's a quick turn. You walked in basically as they were, yeah.

You asked to go up when I'll just go when they cut the cake. That's fine. There's some gigs where you do, you would be like, I'll go up when they eat. Like, you know, even if you get this, this room set up, right. It's not going to work. Right. So just, I'll go up the more chaotic, the better. Yeah. Let me just get it done with. I mean, and that's, there's a lot of rooms like that. That's when you first start. There's a lot of that. There's a lot of going. And I think it's the thing like, cause you know, like now,

I'm doing these theaters, and y'all are just with me. Sorry, my voice. Y'all are just with me. The crowds are unreal. It's crazy. People always ask if you get nervous and stuff. I always like to say, I heard Tony Finau said it. You don't get nervous, you're excited.

And so your nerves are just a little different. Like it's not that you're not nervous. Look, if a joke doesn't work, you're going to get nervous real quick. But you're just – but when you've done it for so long, you're like, I can't wait. And I've got that feeling again now when we're doing these theaters. It's like I can't wait to go out and do this show for these people. Like I cannot wait. It's so fun. And the audience is so great. So it's a little different. But at the beginning, before you can get to any of that stuff, is the situations of that where you're –

They shouldn't have had a comedian. And in theory, they think it's going to work. And then it doesn't. And you know going in, it's going to be bad. I mean, there are gigs that we would take, and they'd be like, this is going to be awful. But it's $250. And you're like, oh, wow, that's crazy. Yeah, I'll do that. Did I tell you about the Christmas party I did last year in Arkansas for a company that...

I was at their Christmas party, and I got there early, and they had had a bad year. So they were talking about that the whole time. They were like, listen, guys, revenue was high, but expenses were high, and I know the bonuses aren't what everyone was expecting to be. And I'm just sitting in the back like, oh, my God, dude. And then I had to go up. Pay for you. And do 30 minutes. Made $100. $100. $100. You drove to Arkansas. I was there for other shows. I added that on. Yeah.

But yeah, we've talked about, I hear now we're just talking about how we're doing more corporates now and we're scared to give demands. Like, cause it does make a difference the way the room set up, where the people are seated, all that. I'm personally like afraid I'm going to do all these demands and I'm still going to bomb and they'll be like, no dude, it's you. Yeah. Yeah. But it does make a difference. So you do need to ask for that stuff.

A big one you start doing... The interesting thing that they always... When you're first starting, and I know I've talked to you about a bunch, is you get where you're going. You're first starting to do stuff, you don't know how to price yourself. Yeah. That's something that I know a lot of comics...

A lot of young comics ask. And it's always a tough thing where you're... But someone's like, hey, I want to hire you to come do 30 minutes of my corporate thing or whatever for my company. And you're like, how much? And you don't... You're like, I don't know. Because you're going... I would do it for free. Yeah. I just want to go on stage. But I know I got to tell them a number. And then what's the number? Is it...

I feel like $250 is a good... You know, saying a comic, no credits or anything like that. If you're brand new, if you think, I'm going to go deliver a good show, I'm at least a good comic and I can do it. Yeah. And you have the time. But even that number feels insane to ask for when you start. Yeah. I got $7 last night for the show and now I'm... Well, it goes from zero to $250 and you're like, I don't know. But it'd be like a hundred bucks, you know? And maybe you're like, I'll bring two comics. Mm-hmm.

I mean, you know, yeah. But I mean, sometimes you got to be like, sometimes you got to be like, you know, you do a college, you'd be like, I'd ask, you know, be like, ask for a thousand. You're like, dude, I don't want, they're going to say no. So I'd rather just, you know, and then you're like, I'll do it for, you'd be like, I'll do a college for, you know, you're like 700 or 500. And they're like, yeah, yeah, for sure. And you're like, God, Lee, I could have asked for a thousand. You could have asked for 3,000. Because they don't know sometimes as much as you don't know.

I've priced myself so low in the past that people, they're like, something's up. Yeah. Like they question it. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's the thing too. You don't get so low that they're like, who are we getting? Yeah. I did a church. They're right to question that. I did a church for like Valentine's Day last year. And the pastor of the church pulled me aside afterwards. And he's like, you should be asking for a lot more money. Yeah.

He was like, if I didn't know you, I would have thought this guy's garbage because of how little he asked. I was like, I just didn't know, man. I don't know what's the number. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, you gotta, I mean, a lot of it depends on your, where you're at in your career. So if you're not really have anything to kind of sell off, that's like the credits all matter. And like, you're at least going like, all right, I got some late nights and then they could go, this guy's been on tonight show. He's been on whatever he's done, whatever. And you know, uh, that tends to, uh,

that helps where you can raise it up a little bit. Because, yeah, until you get agents and all that kind of stuff, it's you're on your own and you're figuring it out. And, you know, you only got much to go off of. You know, like I know if you go headline a club, when you first start, have we ever talked about the numbers on this? I don't think so.

They might find this interesting. They might not. But with a headliner, you're selling no tickets. So the point of this headliner is you're at the beginning when you first get a headline. Yeah. And I think usually a club, you'd get...

I want to say $100 a show. Is that somewhere? No, that's the feature would be the middle act. That'd be good, though. Yes. A good, if you do a big club and they pay you $100 a show to be the middle act is like basically the top. It doesn't get much better than that. Yeah. And it's been that way for decades. Yeah. That's kind of the standard. Yes. Host is getting $50 a show usually. And the headliner gets $250 a show. Yeah.

At a good, good club. Oh, at a good club? Yeah, I think. Yeah. The host, $50 is good only at a good club. Yeah. There's a lot of clubs. Host gets nothing. Yeah. And feature gets 50. Yeah. And then I remember you go take gigs like when you first start headlining and it would be

I remember you get $1,000 and no travel. They give you a hotel. So $1,000 and a hotel, you got to get yourself there. And then you finally get up to like $1,200.

And then you get like $1,500. And then you get like, or you get to $1,200 and then it's plus travel. And you're like, oh, all right. This is starting to get, all right, they're going to give me a hotel. Now I don't got to pay for the flight or the hotel. And then it goes $1,500 and then it just kind of goes up from there. But like that's the general...

Because people ask that stuff a lot. I don't think people have no idea. If you're booking a comic for a corporate gig, I would say, if you're listening to this thinking like I was going to do like a local comic or someone, it just depends on the comic. But if they have the time and you know they're good, like you've seen them at a club and you're like, hey, this guy I think will be really good. And I've seen him do 10 minutes and it's really good and he can handle this.

If you had them do 30 minutes of that, you could do $300, right? Yeah. $500 would be pretty amazing. That'd be very nice. But then if they have any credits, it'll go up from there. It just goes up to what you can and can't take. Yeah. Right? Is that about 30 minutes material, $500? That'd be great. That'd be a solid gig. I'd do it. Yeah. Yeah.

That's a solid good. That's what we're trying to get y'all right now for. I'm saying, will you guys go? When people are listening to this, if they want to hire Bates and Aaron, you know, Bates needs a ramp to get in your... It's one of his demands to get in the building. It's his rider. It's his rider. Just a ramp. A ramp. And could everybody sit to the right side of the room, please? And that's it.

He goes, well, do you want a good show or not a good show? He goes, it's really up to you. And they go, we kind of already got everybody set. And you're like, well, I'll do 20 and then I'm going to get out of here. Same money. Some comments. It's been a while since I've talked to you guys. So as always, you can email them.

Our Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, podcast review, nateland at nabargetsy.com. These are the Oklahoma comments. Austin Hoffer or Hofer. Hoffer. Hoffer is probably two Fs. Hofer. Hoffer. Hofer. Hofer. Austin Hofer from Oklahoma. Ooh, a little fancy, but he wasn't welcomed. He's actually from Wisconsin. Oh.

It's probably Heifer. Oh, it might be Heifer. Yeah. Hey, Nate, I'm a huge fan. Back in March, my father passed away unexpectedly. Sorry, Austin. You're going to jump right out. During that time, there were many long nights with my siblings at our mom's house.

Keeping her company. One of those nights we flipped on your special as a way to lighten the mood. That really marked the first time after his passing that we sat together and had a laugh. Your comedy helped us teleport to a different place at a time when we needed it the most. Once your tour was announced, we knew we needed to go. This Friday, my family and I will be at the Milwaukee show to see you. I'm not sure you will see this, but I just wanted to thank you and tell you we are excited to see you because you mean so much to us all.

That's awesome, man. Thank you, Austin. That's very, very nice. I can't wait. Where did they do? They messaged you or they emailed it? We'll go. Yeah, let's. I would love to meet y'all, Austin. So we'll email them with Travis. All right. And then we'll meet you at the Milwaukee show. And I'll get back down to your last name. That'll be fun.

Come back. I hope it's completely different. I mean, I'm not even 100% sure that's his last name. Oh, there's a great chance of that, Austin. We're sorry. It was Austin, and then he had some handle. And so I looked him up on Facebook and Instagram, and I'm pretty sure it's the same guy. Yeah. Oh, I mean, that would even be. It's definitely Austin, though. Yeah. Oh, yeah. All right, Austin. Start by sending us your real last name. Yeah, just any Austin out there. Shannon Moyer.

Did I say it? Yeah. M-O-Y-E-R. This is my absolute favorite podcast. Love you all. My husband and I met in Oklahoma, and he proposed to me at the center of the universe. Whoa. Did you go to that? No. Oh, okay. We went to the Bass Pro Shop. They got a big Bass Pro Shop there in Springfield. This was in Springfield, Missouri. Oklahoma is the center of the universe.

Uh, but in Springfield, Missouri, which was on that, we, they, they have a Bass Pro Shop and it's,

You could spend the whole day there. It's amazing. I think you could spend more than... I think you could do a couple days easy. There's a museum, and then there's a museum and an aquarium. It was so long that we were in it. I joked in Springfield in this joke, murdered there, and I said it was... I was like, they should give you a heads up. If you run, it'll take you an hour and a half to get through this. It was...

It was just like I wasn't... I thought like, all right, we're in a store. So I'm going to go through this. We got our daughters with me. So we're just going to run through this real fast. We got two shows that night. You're not just sitting on... You're not on vacation. And then, I mean, we... By the time we hit the aquarium, I was like, I think I just got to get out of here. And then you can't even really get out. You kind of go in and... I mean, the aquarium was awesome.

And you're like, I just wish I would have wrapped my head around what I was walking into. We didn't really go to the store. Yeah, there's like three or four different museums there. There's a NASCAR museum. Did you see that one? No, no. We went straight to like, it was almost like a history museum. History of Bass Pro Shop. No, no. Oh, dude. You barely scratched the surface. Yeah. History of what?

It was like a natural history museum. It had those kind of old animals. There's an NRA museum, too, with a bunch of guns you can check out. You wore a Bass Pro Shop jacket, didn't you, on the podcast? I did. I got it from that Bass Pro Shop. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, it was...

It was crazy how long of a walk it was. I mean, just so big. It's a mall size, I think, right? Probably? Yeah. It's as big as a mall. It's as big as a mall, but it's one store. There's a food court in it. Yeah. Just like a mall. I think I would have liked to see all that stuff. I think I just got stuck in the...

one part of it and then I'm like I wasn't aware of what I was walking into I'd like to go back to it and then be like alright I know what's happening now did I tell the story in the podcast about going to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and not realizing it was multiple levels I don't know no no what

Well, we all went last year. Yeah. But I went in the 90s. And it just opened like a year or two before. And I spent like all day on the first level. And then they were like, we're about to close up in like 30 minutes or something like that. And I saw somebody coming down. I was like, what's up there? There's like six levels. And I just ran around. The whole day I was like, this is cool, but it's not that great. Yeah. Yeah.

And the bottom floor is like borderline just... It's a gift shop. It's a gift shop. Like it's... The bottom floor is... You might be able to get into free. It might just be... I was like, Melissa Etheridge is cool, but I mean, that's all you got? Bumper sticker? How long were you in there? A few hours. Yeah. Oh my God. Just reading everything. I mean, yeah. I was like, I got some time to kill, so I'll just look at these key chains a little bit longer. Yeah.

There's like a kiss exhibit one floor above me. Yeah. Yeah. That's so funny. Yeah, there's so much. Yeah. So much above you. So I just ran through the top five levels in the last 30 minutes. I mean, that's so good. It's such a funny, just to be, you know.

I'm trying to think. I feel like I have something like that, too, where I've walked in somewhere and then you're like, what's that? Bass Pro Shop? Yeah, that Bass Pro Shop, I guess. But that's huge. Yeah. I don't know. I can't think of anything. But it's like that where you end up just not realizing. You're like, what's that? And then someone's like, no, no, no, this is not even part of the museum. I'll be honest with you, this is the only floor I'd tell you not to go to if you had a limited time. I would say do not waste a second on that first floor. Yeah.

Yeah, it's a whole, it goes, it's a cone, right? Yeah, that was a pyramid. Is it a cone? I don't, yeah. Yeah, it's a triangle. So it did get smaller as I went up, but. Yeah, as it kept going. Yeah. And it's a pyramid. That's a triangle. A triangle? Yeah, it's a cone. Yeah. Back to some comments.

A. London, how does the show's researcher, Brian Bates, not mention Oklahoma's own Brian Bates, a.k.a. the Video Vigilante? Growing up, I briefly remember the Video Vigilante making the local news in the mid-90s for videoing prostitutes working in high-class areas. He's right. I'm familiar with this guy because on my daily Google alerts for Brian Bates, it's usually him. It's never me, but it's usually this guy.

So, he's right. I forgot all about him. Oh, wow. He's been around. Yeah. He's a big deal. He's doing more with your name than you've ever done. What's that? Little Jerry? Oh, yeah. That's what he says. You're just jealous because he's done more with your name than... Big Jerry and Little Jerry. Big Jerry and Little Jerry. Yeah. So, I am familiar with this guy. He's been doing that for a while, going around trying to...

I guess, shame people from going to prostitutes. Yeah. Okay. He's doing a good job. Yeah. As far as I know. Yeah. Looks like you with keeps. Yeah. That does. I think maybe this commenter put in there that at first they thought, could this be the same guy? Yeah. And then eventually you learn about the background and it's like, no, it's somebody different. Yeah. Anthony Barajas. Yeah. I bet it's with like an H. Barajas.

Apparently, my great-great-grandmother was the first girl to be born in Oklahoma. I don't know what year that was, and I'm not exactly sure what her name was, but I heard that from my granny one year. Also, this makes it on the podcast, my last name is pronounced...

It's the Spanish word for cards. Oh, yeah. Anthony. Everybody. Is that how you say it in Spanish?

You give it a little, everything's a little like, got a little like. Bah-rah-has. Bah-rah-has. Roll the R a little bit, I think. That's my guess. Do they tell them to roll, like in school, do they go, you know, Q-R-S-T-U-V? Like, do they roll it? I mean, I think you learn. R-R-Q-R-S-T-U-V.

Like, how's their song? L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-R. Yeah, I mean, if you do that, you're already, the other person's on you. And you're like, I was still doing the R. Q-R-R-S. B-H-R-R-S. I love that we're reading a comment of Anthony that could or could not know if this is true or not. Right. Fits us. Yeah, the idea that it's just like...

Maybe. And, you know, if you told Anthony, he's like, and if I didn't ever hear that and I just saw it on TV one day and watched it on the news, I'd believe that too. I'd believe any of those scenarios. I think it was my granny told me. Yeah. Could have saw it on the news. Does he mean his great-great-grandmother was the first girl to be born in Oklahoma after it became a state? Yes. Okay. Not just in the land? Yeah. That is Oklahoma. Yeah. I'm guessing when it became a state. Okay. Okay. Andy Hess. Yes.

Red people is a common mistranslation for Oklahoma. The Chautau word for red is also used for courageous, brave, and honored. Okay. There you go. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, it does. They appreciate it. It's actually a wonderful word. Yeah. Okay. Jake Peterson.

How do you not mention that there's a town named Durant in Oklahoma, and there was a petition to change the name to Westbrook after Katie left the OKC Thunder? That's classic Nate Land material. He's right. Again, I dropped the ball on it, but there it is. They changed it to Westbrook? They had a petition. This is a fake picture they made. They need more signatures. Yeah, they got almost 3,000. At 5,000 signatures, this petition is more likely to get picked up by local news.

That's funny that it's like that's all they're trying to get. You're like, so 5,000, they're going to do it? They go, no, no, we're just hoping someone will notice it. And we think 5,000 is a solid number that then we would be able to get people to do it. What's the update? There's been anger sparked. This is five years ago. So this might be the biggest press this has ever gotten. Yeah. This podcast. Oh, there is a Westbrook, Oklahoma. There is a Durant, Oklahoma. Yeah. And they were wanting to change it.

But then that sign said there's a Westbrook. I think that's Photoshopped. Oh. Yeah, this is Photoshopped. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. Welcome to Durant. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah. Well, Westbrook's gone now, so I guess this whole thing's over. Yeah, there's another petition. Yeah, there's another. You know, let's call it Chris Paul. And you're like, well, he's in Phoenix. This is...

Ah, who can we choose? They don't even have a history. What's the tall guy? He might be gone too now. Steve something. Name it that. Steve something Oklahoma. Welcome to Steve something Oklahoma. RW, just for reference, when T-Boone Pickens donated. T-Boone, that's such a fun name. T-Boone Pickens. That's what everybody, that's such a fun name to say.

Everybody should pause. T-Bone. If you're listening to this, you should say it and go, T-Bone Pickens donated $165 million for the OSU Stadium. He was worth $3 billion. If your net worth is $50,000, that would be like donating $2,750, which I bet Justin has spent just on season tickets over a couple of years. So, yes, Justin is a bigger OSU fan than T-Bone Pickens. Wow.

Well, Justin's not worth $50,000, so. Yeah, yeah. His net worth is $50,000. You're like, R.W., I guess he's going to redo it after he hears the beginning of this. We talked about how much comics get paid. He goes, all right, so let's say your net worth, say you don't have one. It's not registered. Let's say it's not registered. I would say most comics, when you first start, you do not have a net worth. No.

Because your net worth, you have to have stuff. Or it's in the negatives because you have student loans like mine is. Oh, your net worth is negative. Oh, yeah. It's got to be. I've never sat down and calculated it, but I definitely owe more than I have. Yeah. Wow. I feel like there's very few... See, you think this right, middle class comedians. Most struggle, struggle, struggle. And then if you ever do break through, then you can do pretty well. Yeah. But there's not many that are just in that middle range. Most are struggling. Most. I would say there's a good...

There's got to be a good chunk. I remember always looking at, like I would say, when I first got on cruises, when I got my first, I had some late night credits and stuff. Yeah. Conan and then did the Comedy Central. I remember just thinking I would hit different safety nets. And for me, a safety net was being clean and had a couple credits. I could do cruises. And so if I did cruises, at that time, you get paid three grand for the week.

which was a ton yeah and uh that was more than you'd get at a club and so it was like all right so if i go do that do that every week it's 150 grand i mean you should at least make a you can make 100 grand if you won't do 50 weeks but you're just and with that amount you know it's like i straight up just did that and i just like was like all right i'm gonna dive into this this is my kind of outlet and so i remember thinking that when i got into cruises i was like all right

Worst case, like I should be able to, you know, maybe I can make a hundred grand a year and like doing comedy.

And that was like being clean. Let me think about the new corporates. You would just be like, all right, let me just get to this point. First, it was like if I can make just as much as I made working waiting tables. And so if I'm making 18, 20 grand a year or something, waiting tables, whatever it was. And then I get to that where I'm like, oh, I'm doing that. That's all right. All right. Now we can't. Now I'm not wasting my time because I'm actually doing –

you know, no college education, no. So it's like, I'm like, whatever I would be doing, I'd be, I'm making that. And so you're like, all right, it takes, it took pressure off you actually. Cause you're just kind of like, well, I mean, I'm doing what I, you know, I, I didn't have a lot of people. I had like real college degrees and their lawyers or they got another name, waste their family's money and name. Waste the name. Wasted the name on, uh,

I'm doing more with that name than they ever did. Yeah. So, all right. Yeah, kind of build on that. You're just sticking it to your family. I was going to let you do it. That's as hard as I can go. Yeah. That's pretty out of character, honestly. I know. That's why I think I stopped talking. I was like, golly, dude, it's your family. It's your dad. Yeah. Your dad's a principal of a big school. Yeah. And now Philip Rivers is there. Well, now he's leaving.

He's going to the Saints. Oh, is he? That's the rumor. Oh, man. Don't drop that on me. I had no idea. Football season's over. Yeah. I thought you thought that you're saying his dad's leaving. That's what I thought you said. That's what it is. Now he's leaving. Yeah. I go, why? And then I'm like, wait, are we not supposed to? You're probably not supposed to say it. Yeah. I haven't called him in a couple of days. How do you know this? And I don't.

I haven't seen this. Phillip Rivers might be leaving. Yeah. All right. Well, the high school football season's over, so why not? That'd be smart. You know, why not? Yeah. Just go get it. I think Titans, Derrick Henry's. Signed Adrian Peterson. Huh? Signed Adrian Peterson today. Titans did? Yep. Oh, good. I didn't know that. That just happened. Yeah, just happened a couple hours ago. So there you go. Everybody old's getting a chance.

Is that not what it is? No, it's just funny. That's the takeaway. Yeah. All these old guys are getting a chance. We got one falling apart. I mean, it's all over the place right now.

Pennsylvania comments. Jason Miller, this whole episode belongs in the Nateland Hall of Fame. Mike was my favorite guest so far, and Nate's bit where he was making boat sounds and talking about leaving baits on his island was incredible. It sounds like the perfect opening scene to a Nateland TV series pilot. Thanks for making Wednesdays a day to look forward to. Keep it up, folks.

Yeah. I don't think I remember it. I don't remember that either. You were talking about going out on an island and just leaving me there. And I had my hands like this. I'd have my back turned out. I wouldn't hear it. You got to do that thing where you got to move it with your hand. Yeah. Okay. And you're just like, all right, I think we can do this. Turn around. Here, I'm gone. Sorry, we'll do it again.

Jvilla92. So about the ketchup thing. Restaurants do not leave the bottles out overnight. They go in the walk-in cooler, then sit out for a bit on the tables before they open. That's a health code violation to not refrigerate ketchup. But every time you eat it, it's warm.

Because they sit it out for a second before they serve it. That's what this person is saying. But is it not, you're then making it cold, then warm, then cold, then warm. I don't think that's good for anything. I agree. It's like beer, skunk of beer like that. Yeah. I think you're probably right. I think you just eat it cold like an adult. Well, you either do it cold or just leave it. Let's keep it one temperature. I've never heard anybody doing that. Leaving it out? Leaving condiments out like that. Did anybody say they do? A lot of people defended putting bread in the refrigerator.

Unless people are out of their mind. I meant to tell Travis that this weekend. That's crazy. And you got to toast it every time you want it? Some people just said it's cold meat, cold bread. It all fits. Yeah. I mean, even like...

When you buy like a cold sandwich at like a deli or something where like at the airport and it's all cold. I mean, I'll eat it cold there because it's like, I don't prefer it. Right. It's not like you're- The bread's usually hard. This is a lot of people that are just, you know, they're just stuck in their ways. That's what I would imagine. If y'all have bread in your refrigerator, y'all are all stuck in your ways and I'm going to come to your house and pull it out and I'm going to sit with you for a week and watch you eat warm bread.

to make sure because you're just, you go, my mama used to do it and I'm going to do it. That's what I think. Travis does that. Laura's got a lot of that. Well, this is not way. They've got it. People got that. They don't, they're stuck. Me putting ketchup, leaving it out was, I changed my family. Groundbreaking. We were never been done. Never been done as a Bargetti. Let me tell you something. We love ketchup. Yeah. It's our favorite vegetable.

We're big ketchup people. But you don't like tomatoes. Don't like tomatoes. I like to put, I still, you know, I might do that as a joke. I might have said this one joke I have about ketchup. I've always wanted to do. I think it's so funny.

Not about it, but I like to put so much ketchup on there. I like to use enough ketchup that someone that sits with me has to say something about it. Oh, yeah. Like I use enough ketchup that they go. There's a moment where it gets so much that they go, it's a lot of ketchup, huh? There's a moment they don't say anything, and then there's a moment they go, it's a lot of ketchup there, huh? They got to say something. They got to say something. I use enough that they have to. I know I'm done when they ask.

When the person across from me goes, it's a lot of ketchup. I've said that to you. That's when. Yeah, that's when you go. I just squeeze and look at their face. I don't even have to look at it. And they go, that's a lot of ketchup. And I can eat it all. Yep. I use french fries just because the spoon's not appropriate. I remember we were at Five Guys, and you filled up container after container after container, just lined them up on the table. Yeah, pretty fun. I said, that's a lot of ketchup. You said, we'll see. We'll see. Yeah.

It's probably cold ketchup, though. No, there wasn't. All right. It's out on the counter. All right, man. You're not eating cold ketchup unless you're going to your house. And apparently most of America's house. But if you come to my house, you're getting... You get some warm ketchup. I want everybody to come to my house. Everybody listen to this. Y'all come to my house, and I'm going to give you some warm bread and some warm ketchup, and y'all are going to be blown out of... I mean, I'll give you ketchup and mustard on bread. I've used to eat that.

I would love a walk-in cooler. That's like, you ever think about it? At your house. At your house. Something. That's one of those goals. You win a lottery. Yeah. I had a walk-in freezer at my old job. That was the best, dude. You'd just walk in there every now and then. Yeah. If you were trying to let people know how much you weigh without them seeing a picture of you, that would be how you would do it.

to be your life goal is if anybody's never looked at Aaron and they go, what if Aaron's a big guy? Well, Izzy, his life goal, if he wins the lottery, is to have a walk-in cooler because he eats up so much out there in the real world that he needs to get toned down a little bit, just like a polar bear that jumps in the water. That's what...

That's such a, that's a big man dream. I think that's got to be every big man's dream. Oh, just to have one room in your house. There it goes. Just one in your house. You go in there and you go. Dude, I do think that actually that is, they should have that at the big and tall store.

The big and tall store should be a walk-in cooler. I mean, unbelievable, dude. How good would that be? The whole big and tall store was like just the walk-in. You hear it and you go in and everybody tries on clothes. And you're just like, that is the best store I've ever been to in my life. I spent the day there, man. They should do that. Why are they not doing that? That would be so good.

Yeah, that's great. Every DXL, the fitting room is like a walk-in. Yeah, it goes to just a little window. They knock on it. How's everything doing? It's great. Yeah, he goes, I feel great. Cat Altenbach, right? I think so. Cat Altenbach. Bok.

It's a short first name for that last name. Kat Altenbach. Like, I'd be like, Kat? Oh, nice to meet you. She goes, Altenbach. I'm like, oh, Kat. I'm like, what? Like, Catherine Altenbach, you know? Catherine Bach was Daisy Duke. Catherine Bach was? Some of this is like a distant relative. Yeah, I would say so. And they added a little more to it.

I was so excited during the tone challenge on this week's episode of Nate Land. I could hear the sound and my husband could not. I'm 29 and he's 33. I'm a speech language pathologist and my college degree is in speech language and hearing sciences. The tiny cells...

Within our ears that recognize sound and frequencies are called hair cells. As you get older or as you expose your hair cells to damaging loud sounds, the hair cells slowly die off. Once dead, a hair cell cannot regenerate and your body doesn't make more.

So that's why. There you go. There we go. So you got a bunch of dead cells in your ears, huh? You're getting there, though. I'm getting there soon, dude. You're getting there soon. Yeah. I might as well just cut them all out now. I wonder if you lose them if you just get, every time you go, just take a little bit off the top of the ears, and then you're like, I didn't realize how important those were. That's why I can't hear that sound. Just to take a little bit. Let's just do a little, you know.

there was a lot of debate about that sound man i think when i got especially on tiktok as nate posted on tiktok and i think when they got posted there they altered the audio quality of the clip yeah so it's not playing in that and the comments are like this guy's tricking you there's not actually a sound playing we're tricking you then right no i just wanted to be known that

The original video and on the podcast, there was a sound playing. Yeah. And a lot of people confirmed that. Oh. We need to put the real sound on. It's just TikTok corrupts the quality a little bit when you post something. So you can't hear it. Whatever happened on TikTok, you can't hear it. Yeah. But everywhere else, Instagram, you can hear it fine. Yeah. Huh. Huh. I can't hear TikTok because of my age. Stop.

It's the first time he's ever heard of TikTok. Yeah, what is it? Zach is nobody. That's his thing. But I do agree with that. The Kroger near where I did my undergrad. I don't even know what that means. That means you graduated. Yeah. That's so ridiculous, dude. He just went to regular college. He put undergrad in quotation marks, by the way, which is very funny. Yeah.

But, you know, people only say that undergrad. They only mention that. So they don't say undergrad. They go, I went to, I graduated from college at blah, blah, blah. That's what they say if they're undergrad. And then if they went and got their graduate degree, they go, I went to undergrad here and then I went to my graduate school here. Right. So that's why they say it like that. Yeah. So the undergrad word is only for people that kept going. Yeah. That overgraded.

But that's, yeah, they overgraded. That's so insulting to the people that are like, well, I went to college. Did you just go to college? Yes. And you didn't, that's it. That's insulting to him that someone goes, oh, I went to graduate school too. Well, I would be like, well, I thought I was done when I was done. Yeah. So I just keep going for the rest of my life, you know? A Kroger near where I did my undergrad. It seems insane that I do kind of want to know where this dude's undergrad. The fact that you have a Kroger that close.

To where you went to college. I just think. Not a good sign. It's not a good sign. That it can't be. You don't go, you know. It's not Notre Dame? If we're going to meet up at Stanford, I don't think I can be like, let's meet at the, let's stop at the Kroger. It's right next to it. I just don't think those, you know, if you go down to Vanderbilt, I guess you're, there's no Kroger right there.

But you're in a major city. Yeah, I don't know. It's kind of funny. The Kroger near where I did my undergrad played a constant high-pitched sound outside in front of the store to keep young people from hanging out around there. Older people didn't notice, but it always drove me crazy when getting groceries. It did work, though, because no young people loitered in the area. That's a pretty good idea. Yeah. I've seen it used as riot control before. Yeah. You can have targeted sounds and just fire it at crowds. One of the riots you were in?

I haven't seen it in person. And he just said, like, yeah, like you're going out and about. You go, one of my usual walks. We all have fun here, but when I leave, I get busy out there on the streets. Get busy out there on the streets. And they stopped us. My Kroger may do it. What's y'all's problem, kids? I wouldn't know. They're going crazy. They're like, what's wrong? You could do that in like a Kroger, one of the social –

Just go in there and start playing it super loud and then see all the kids lose it and the adults be like, what's wrong? Because that would be crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Man. You mean like a social experiment? Yeah. Yeah.

filming on ring cams. Shelly Biggs, my husband and I are relatively new to the stand-up world and recently went to a show for a supposedly clean comic only to be disappointed with the amount of hardcore swearing and adult content. We had to come home and turn on Nate Lane as a respite? Respite. Respite. What does that mean? A break. A break. A respite. It's kind of a fancy... Do people say that instead of break a lot?

I thought it was a Jewish. Is it a Jewish word? Is it Yiddish? I don't know. I don't know. Shelly? She's like, we're Napoleon. I don't know how I could think of anyone who didn't know what Napoleon was. I couldn't think of it. I was trying to think of it. We're Napoleon. She's like from another country. She's like, I'm sorry, we're Napoleon. I come from, my ancestors are all Napoleon. Yeah.

Which is a mix of everything. It's the three things. It can be any of the three things. We're Napoleon. Nothing to do with Yiddish, by the way. Sorry about that. Does that do something with Napoleon? It's old French. Where's Napoleon from? France. Oh. There you go. So if you're Napoleon... You're French. Did someone say there I'm Napoleon? Just you. Oh.

Got a little Napoleon in me. We got our tickets for Nate's upcoming Minneapolis show and are looking forward to wearing our homemade shirts in honor of two of the three podcast crew. Honor of two of the three. Breakfast time. How about that? That is no joke. Love it. That's great. Thanks for all you gents are doing. We appreciate the fact that we can listen to you and count on great laughs without questionable content. That's what we're here for.

Boring and... No. We just go... That gives me that... I mean, that whole thing. I didn't know where spit was. Respite. Respite. And I said Napoleon.

Shelly, I got outed a few times just trying to read your thing. It is just to show off our shirts. Yeah, yeah. This has nothing to do with me. This comment just embarrassed me and my family. Mine says, Gowd is no joke. Yeah, that's very funny. With the Notre Dame logo on there. Yeah, I like that. I love it. Gowd is not a joke.

But stroke is. Yeah. Breakfast time is actually pretty good because there's a lot more open space on the left side. And I feel like that's already a shirt that's in place. Like that's a shirt that if you have a stroke and you're back here next week, they would be like, well, this still works. You know? Yeah. Yeah. It's got that little spot in the left side where it can droop down a little bit. Sorry. Am I supposed to make fun of strokes like this? Do people get upset about that?

We'll see. People could. I know. She's talking about how it's just easy to listen to. We're making fun of Brian having a stroke. All right? It's not. Sorry. Halloween comments. Matt Palmer. Favorite part of this episode was when old Booberry said the most famous ghost in America, Aaron, in full confidence, broke in with Casper. Casper?

And Bryson continues with the bell, which I laughed and laughed. If you're going to be wrong, at least be confident about it. That's what I've learned from this podcast. That is the best way. That is a great takeaway. That's a good way. We have some bell, which we got bell, which info. Yeah. Somebody reached out to us and said that they reached out to someone they knew at the,

Adams Chamber of Commerce, I think. And I think the owner of that cave just died like a couple weeks ago from COVID. So they are in flux right now, but they're going to stay on top of it and let us know. Yeah. Would you buy the Bell Witch Cave? You can buy it? I don't know. I'm just saying if the owner died. If they decide to sell? They try to sell the land? Yeah. Yeah, man. I mean, let's see. I'd see how much it costs.

We make $1,500 a weekend, so I can only afford so much. Yeah, and Leigh-Anne Morgan's from there, right? She is. Yeah. Yep. She texted me today. She's like, guys, come on. I'm your Bell Witch expert. Yeah, we do. We should have her on. Well, we'll have her on. Yeah. We can talk about those haunted places with her. She did Bell Witch. Yeah. That'd be fun. Yeah. Yeah, it would be good. Yeah. That is a good one. All right. Way to come through. Leigh-Anne Morgan. She's on tour right now, too. Very funny.

Benny Blankenship. Penny. I saw that Blankenship. Penny Blankenship. I bet that happens a lot. When my kids were little, there was a house that would give out packages of dry ramen noodles. The kids loved it. To this day, that's the house they remember the most. Just some weird dude handing out soup to kids. I could see. We had a guy across the street. I can picture the guy's house. He gave out toothbrushes.

Because he was a dentist. And I can picture that house. You remember the ones. Last night, we went trick-or-treating. And it's... I think it's my favorite holiday.

And I do. And I, even last night I was like, it's my favorite by far. I wish we did a little more to it. I wish we made the house a little more scary and like did some stuff like that. So maybe next year I'll try to do it. Uh, cause we got someone in our neighborhood, we got a great neighborhood and they, uh, they just all go, uh, that's Harper and her friend Carter. Harper was a horse. Carter was a Tig. Nice. Uh,

So they just run. They ran through mud at one point. I mean, your walkways, you can't be on board of the trick-or-treating and want people to stay on the walkway. It just is not going to happen. Like their kids... They run through the grass. You run the quickest. I mean, they don't even... They stepped in...

They ran through the grass at one point and all stepped in crazy mud. We had like a group of like seven kids or something. And one was just cute. She was like, I want to say four, maybe five.

And that's when they're, when you see them that little, you miss, you miss yours being that little. And it's fun to watch her want to stay with all the nine year olds and eight year olds. And she's, I mean, she did it. She did the whole neighborhood where you were like, this girl is going to get high. I mean, she's tiny and she ran with them. And then, uh, then they all trade. That's a big thing. Did y'all do that? They trade their candy. Oh yeah. So they all come up here and do, uh,

Y'all didn't trade candy? I mean, it was just me and my sister and out of the country. We'd drive miles to each house. So, no, there's no trading. Oh, I never even thought about that. You had to drive from house to house? Why didn't you drive to a neighborhood? I mean, there wasn't even one close. Yeah, we would. So, yeah, it's big to trade. So, you go in and be like, all right, what do you, I don't want this. Who wants this? And then, so, they were doing all this. And that little girl, she said, yeah.

I was trying to help her trade because I was like, she's going to get taken. I mean, her sister was in there. Sister wasn't going to let him think. But like, I was like, these older girls are going to try to talk her into something that's not good. You don't want to get a bad deal. Yeah. I was like, I don't want her to get a bad deal. And then, so she traded one like Jolly Rancher for an airhead. And I was like, all right, that's a solid trade. And then, uh,

And then I go, do you want to try it again? She goes, no, I'm good. She was just like, I'm done with it. Like, I don't want to. Like, I think it was like, they're little. They're like, well, I don't like. Yeah, it's a lot. So you're just taking my candy? Like in your, and her mom would take some too. It was so funny. Her mom was like, she would be, because I just, you know, when you have kids, so she's got, her bag was getting heavy.

And so her mom's like, let me just carry some of this. And she's like, no, I'm good. And she's like, I'm not going to take it from you and not give it to you. Because she knows, like, once her mom takes it, it's like, you're going to keep this candy and I won't get that candy. Because as a parent, that's what you do as a parent. And so it was very cute to see her, like, just be like, no, no, no, no. I'll just, I mean, she's having to lug it. Because she's like, I do not let my mom take any of this because I won't see this ever again. But it was fun. I loved it.

It was the best. Did you say Nick's mix? Yeah. Little baby. Yeah. Yeah. That's their first Halloween together, right? Yep. Yep. Avocado toast. Avocado toast. Yeah. California. Very cute. Yep.

Yeah, it was the best. And Halloween is the best. And we ran around. Like these people in our neighborhood, they do like this kind of like to go get the candy is like just kind of all this like haunted kind of stuff. And they go in and do that. And then you get it. And then it's like all this stuff's kind of shaking and stuff. And then you walk out. And that one's awesome. Yeah.

And like they did that. They did a thing in their garage where they actually did a haunted house. There was another one that I went to an old bakery that did that. They would do it on a haunted house and you could watch the person go through it.

Oh, that's really cool. Like on a screen. Oh, wow. Like it was like, it was just set up and it wasn't like, this was like rigged, but they had it rigged where you watch on this little TV and you could, you could see like a camera, like, you know, it was cool. So my sister lives in Dallas. This weekend they went to her parents, her, uh,

father and mother-in-law's neighborhood for Thanksgiving. So, or not Thanksgiving, Halloween. So they just left a big bowl of candy out on the porch, you know, like everybody does. And they have a ring doorbell. So they caught, she sent us the video. So quickly, this group of high school kids run up on it. They see a big bowl of candy. They not only take the candy, they took the huge ceramic bowl that she had on their front porch. And they were just...

I mean, pretty wild. I've never thought of stealing the bowl. Yeah. You dump it into the bag. People expect that. But to take the bowl with it. Just take it and run. It's high school kids. It's like you're too old to be doing this to begin with. Yeah. But why would they? Yeah, because you leave this stuff out. I would always be. I was a rule follower, so I would always just take what I'm supposed to take. And you're going to get so much candy. I don't think kids realize how much candy you're going to get.

Especially now, even. I think it's even more than it's ever been. Yeah. Because you can buy it. It just... It feels like back...

like a long time ago just was harder it was it harder to buy stuff i don't mean like i feel like it's just so easy to buy stuff now we go into town once a week the general store yeah y'all would y'all would y'all really i mean there's some truth to that you were looking at me like was it harder back then no no i mean even just for us like you'd go to walmart and stuff but online like now i mean you're just i feel like people can order people order candy and they're like

I bet people are buying more stuff now than they've ever bought just because the ease of going like, well, I'll just take, yeah, yeah. It's $2 Amazon. And I order it.

And you're not going out. So like when you go out and actually have to grab something with your hands, you can be like, I'm not buying. This is too much candy. But like I think there's people buying more stuff now than ever. And like you're seeing how much candy we have. It looks like a bowl's, two bowls worth that we would be trying to give away for the neighborhood. Because everybody always has their own candy too to give back. No one ever rarely goes, oh, I'm done. I gave out just the right amount of candy.

Like, even our, like, ours, all the cul-de-sacs kind of, like, will have, like, big, some tables and stuff. Like, so people just sit out. And, like, we had, like, a fire. We used our solo stove, actually, last night. And we had, we all built our, around that. And so then the parents, like, we always, the dads, we used to go walk with the kids. And then the moms used to kind of stay, a lot of them stay back. And then, but they, that's what they did. And then, you know, so they just run up to the,

But we still had a bunch of our candy left. You got to, I think, make it enticing. But I saw more kids in our neighborhood than I've ever seen. Yeah. It was definitely, you can tell a lot of people moving in. All right. I don't know where we were at. Jay Ruffin. Yeah. Yeah, we did pennies about the ramen noodles handed out. Jay Ruffin Tart.

To answer the airplane window question, a pilot must have the window closed before takeoff. Explanation point. If not, the aircraft will not pressurize and the oxygen mask will deploy. If you're curious about my sources, I am an airliner, pilot, and mechanic. Is that good enough? Yeah. Why does he have to do both? I was going to say, I didn't know you could do both. Yeah. Maybe it's a...

Maybe he's not a commercial airline. He has a plane and he works on it. I would like to think that if he was just one of those, we wouldn't believe him. He goes, how do I know this? By source, I'm an airliner pilot. You go, whatever. And he goes, well, I'm a mechanic. All right, I guess I'll listen to you. I'll read it again. He does have two sources, which I do like. He's a double source. Yeah, he's a double source. If you can be your own double source. That's pretty impressive. That's pretty good.

Derek, that's better than any undergrad. Derek Danik flew down to Nashville for Nate's show at the Ryman after buying a ticket nearly two years ago. Where from, you ask? Columbus, Ohio, where Nate was the next night. Well worth the travel expenses and night on my sister's couch to see the boys and that guy pretending to be Mr. Bargetzi. Yeah, that's so funny. That's Batesville.

that's batesville yeah batesville uh instagram like she drove down uh i remember like she couldn't go to one and all right right right like that's like that but he actually went to the show yeah she would have never made it to the show but yeah the batesville world yeah they just don't even make it now they don't see the top floor of the the rock and roll hall of fame yeah they didn't go they they all did the whole thing like if they came to a show if she came to show batesville

What's it? Batesville Podcast, right? Yeah. And if she came to a show, she'd be like, his dad was on the show? And you're like, I just saw him. Nate was the only one I saw. You're like, oh yeah, everybody was on the show. She definitely is not seeing the whole show. Right. You almost can't because that's not on brand at the Batesville. It's a podcast that's like, we don't talk about everything. How did you not see people going upstairs?

The whole time you were there. You didn't just look up? I mean, did you look up at all? Did you think about looking up? I guess not. Do you look up in a lot of rooms, you think? I guess I just look straight ahead. Have you ever been to a second floor of a mall? What if you've never? Have you ever? I don't do escalators. You don't do escalators? Oh, he gets on them. It's like...

I mean, but that's been 10 years. You get on escalators like that. My God, I can't imagine now your age after having a stroke. Now I got to go with you to the airport, get on the escalator. You really don't like doing escalators? No, I just said that because he talked about how something's happened. No, but you've ever seen an escalator? Go on an escalator with him and watch him get on it. It looks like he's been told within the past...

Two weeks about Escalator's existence, and this is maybe the third one he's seen. It's not a smooth transition onto it. Yeah, it's not like it's...

uh yeah he's you know it's like he's like he knows about him he's done him a couple times but he's not like used to him yet and he gets on it very will ferro from elf yeah yeah just goes up like that yeah he just steps on it very like you know like it's a ride like all right i gotta make sure i get the right step or it's gonna go real i struggle with the dismount sometimes

Yeah. Because you want it to be smooth. You just start walking. But it can be tough. Yeah, it can be tough. He'll talk to you in the middle. He won't talk to you at the beginning and the end. Kind of focus. Yeah, he's like the suit Nazi. He goes, all right, I got to get my... He just turns away from me and goes, I got to get off this thing. The walking, the moving sidewalk, I do like... Oh, I love those. I mean, I don't get on them or get off them without probably touching the side handle. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you got to.

A lot of people don't. Yeah, I think I could walk on it. Really? Yeah. It's moving pretty fast. Not that fast. How about the people that don't use it? Yeah. That just walk with it. Oh, really? What was the joke? Saying like go to the airport. It's not a ride. You're talking about the people that don't use it at all. Yeah, there's like one on either side and there's people just walk in the middle and I'm like, I'm blazing past them. You guys are idiots. I've been that guy. I do that all the time at Atlanta Airport.

Because I like, if I have time to kill, I'll just walk in the middle. It's very calm. Otherwise, what am I doing? Do I have to run to go sit down in a seat next to the gate? That's what people are trying to do. You're trying to be like, how am I going to get... This is big man talk again. These idiots just... I mean, you're like, as you pass them on a shuttle, and then you're like, why would you walk? Yeah.

Is it whoever, if I get there before them, I get a sit where I can almost hear the speaker at my own gate. I'm never sitting at my own gate. I go sit way away from everybody. I go find a gate where there's seats, you know, and then I'll go back over there when it boards. But I mean, I'll watch people.

I watch people and it blows me away. I mean, there'll be one open seat and they will go sit in that seat. I would never, I've never been that guy before comedy for anything. I've always been, why would I ever go just be in the mix of everything? I would go, I would get up. Especially when you're about to do it on a plane. Yeah. You know? Well, I mean, I understand if you want to hear the thing, but.

Do you really need to? Yeah. Would you go sit in it? You'd go sit with just in the dead center. No. I mean, if that was literally the only seat, we're going to be there a while. Maybe I know, but say there's so like, you know, an airport, there's two gates, right? There's four gates, two are across the way. And then two are on the thing, but you, but the speakers are really, you can only hear them under your thing. And there's, so there's one empty seat.

Like, you know, are you going to go sit in that seat? But it's right next to the gate that you're getting on. As opposed to what? Going and sitting at one of the other ones, maybe if it's a little more open. I'll go to a different concourse if I can find somewhere to sit by myself. Yeah. Now, I would go to one of the other sides where there's more seats. Yeah. I just keep my eye on it. Yeah. All right. Got the bottom of that. Literally. Ooh, figured that out. Yeah.

Connor Smith. I love that Aaron brought up hallucinogenic aspects of the Salem witch trial. It was pretty ergot rye mold in the grain silos. What? It was ergot rye mold in the grain silos. Why did I add pretty? Yeah.

Did you? I think I did. You did. I go, it was pretty air got rye mold in the grain silos, which makes that sentence. Honestly, because the word present is in the line below it. Oh. I think your brain's just getting ahead of itself, man. Yeah. Pretty is in the next one, too. I don't. It was air got rye mold in their grain silos.

That is even, so that's how the sentence should be. I love that Aaron brought up hallucinogenics. I think hallucinogenics, I think I was like, all my brain wasn't caught back up. Like I still had some pieces hanging on to it. It was a bit of a hangover after that. They got some that got stuck and they go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, everybody, hold on, we don't got everybody. And we kept going.

aspects of the Salem witch trial. It was pretty ergot rye mold in their grain silos. I mean, you would think I'm having a stroke with that sentence. Yeah. If I said, you know, it was pretty ergot rye mold. You'd be like, all right, let's see what he said. Something ergot rye mold in their grain silos. Most of the remains that have been examined show that it was present in their system when they died.

Yeah, so I got a pretty major part of that wrong, though, where I thought the people that were falsely accusing women of being witches were tripping on hallucinogenics, when really it was the women that were being accused.

unknowingly. No. Oh, it was the, I have it right. It wasn't even them. It was people were having weird reactions and fallouts from this hallucinogenics and they thought the witches were doing that to them. Oh, that's the way I read it. Oh, okay. So it was just involved. Just there. Everybody was just tripping and they didn't know. Yeah. And they're like, okay, why is she acting like that? Because this witch did it to her. That's how I took it. Oh, okay.

It's pretty argot of you to assume that was what it was. Yeah, you're right. Did you get that, Nate? No. I about zoned out of y'all's whole thing. We got to the bottom of it. The rye in the silo was something was wrong with it. Yeah. Got in their bread and caused them to trip out. There was a late frost one winter. Oh, and that's why they think, yeah. That's why they were just-

You're saying the witches were the ones that were hallucinating. That's what he said. He said. You're saying the whole town was. I think what I read was that's why they thought they were witches because people were having these hallucinations and they thought the witches were doing it to them. So they had to accuse someone. Oh, yeah. I could see that. I was thinking the whole town's hallucinating and they're like, if you weren't, they were like, you're a witch. Yeah. I could be wrong. They just didn't eat bread that day.

Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah. Who was what? And you were thinking the witches were the ones. Which could be... I think they're... Yeah. Maggie Ray. This is an interactive map of the top candy bought per state. I'm from Illinois.

Ours is Sour Patch, Tennessee's candy is pretty lame. What is wrong with y'all? Keep the good work. My husband and I have tickets for the show in Peoria, Illinois. Now, Nate, before I scroll up and reveal this map, what do you think Tennessee's most popular Halloween candy is? And I guarantee you, you're not going to guess it correctly. Twizzler. No, Twizzler's way better. Tootsie Pops. Yeah, I was going to say that. I had one last night.

Oh, all right. Second Skittles, third, what was that? Saltwater Taffy. Yeah.

How do they even get this stuff? I don't believe any of it. So I dug into this. This is a company that wholesales candy across the country. So they just use their own data from several years of where they were shipping the most candy in different states. So apparently Tennessee, they're ordering the most Tootsie Pops more than any other candy. I had some last night. I think Sour Patch Kids is going to make a big...

Push. I mean, you know, it's crazy. Sour Patch Kids is leading in Nebraska, Alaska, Illinois, New York. What's California? California is Reese's. Oh, new winner. Reese's is the number one in the whole country, according to this. What was last year's winner for us? Doesn't have it on here. Oh. So whatever his last year's winner is, he got bumped. We were exactly the same. This is probably last year's winner. Yeah. Yeah. Ohio's blow pops. Ugh.

I like blow puffs. But to be the number one. To be, that's the main thing you're going to get. Well, I mean, that's the same. We're giving Tootsie Pots. I had it because Harper didn't like it. And I was like, I'll eat it. Then I had it last night. Had it on the wall. It's actually the first candy I had for me to be acting like it's like, well, that's crazy. What is Alaska? Alaska Sour Patch Kids. Oh. I mean, Sour Patch Kids are just killing it, dude. Yeah.

They're just so good. There's some gummy worms, too, like those, what's the, with the H, like hair. Haribo. Haribo or something. Yeah, yeah. They make a gummy bear that's sour, but it tastes like a gummy bear. As good as Sour Patch Kids? Pretty good. And then Sour Patch Kids has a, there's another kind that, I want to say it's like a high C flavor. I had a bag of those. Gosh. They're unreal. Yeah.

And I didn't have them. This was off Halloween. This was just in the mix of life. Just living life, man. It was great, man. Rachel Kane, the amount of misfortune that happens in Brian's life. I need a reality show. Please, someone just follow this man with a camera, keeping up with the Kardashians. Would have nothing on bad luck Brian. Can I address this? Breaking Brian. That's what we call it, Breaking Brian.

Yeah. I admit I've had my share of embarrassing moments. I mean, I may be having a stroke right now. Yeah. But I also turned 50 today. So we've all, you live that long, you're going to have some embarrassing moments. Yeah. And as comics, we share them. Yeah. And that's what makes them funny. Now, so I hope they don't really think, I feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world. Yeah. I got great friends, present company included. Yeah.

A great job. I get to do what I love. Yeah. I got a great wife. I got a baby on the way. I got a lot to be thankful for. You don't have a baby on the way. I do. Do you really? Yep. Are you kidding? Are you kidding, dude? Get out of town, man. There we go. That's awesome, man. Congrats, dude. Congrats, buddy. That's unreal, dude. Thank you. That's so great. Wow. Thank you so much. Golly. That's crazy. Oh, man.

I thought you were just joking. I got a lot to be thankful for. Nope. Yeah. Wow. I'm very serious. We'll get to the bottom of this stroke stuff a little bit quicker than we think. I know. We'll figure it out. Got to get it figured out. Got to be healthy for our baby. I know. How long, how far along is she? She's already in second trimester. Yeah, yeah. I mean, at our age, we wanted to really wait and make sure that everything was good, but we felt like now we're at the point where we can tell people, so...

That's so great, man. Oh, man. Little girl. A girl? Wow. Oh, wow. Yeah. Wow. That's crazy, dude. Yeah. That's crazy. So I'm very, we're so excited. Is your mom just, she? She was thrilled. Yeah. She just couldn't believe it. Yeah. Yeah. So we're all so excited. Yeah. I don't know if anybody thought we were going to have a kid. I'm sure y'all didn't think you.

No, we didn't. And, you know, it's not easy at our age, but things happen. It's a miracle. So we're doing it. Yeah. Wow, dude.

Congratulations, man. If you're the praying type, I ask for continued prayers for a healthy baby. Yeah. And that I'm not having a stroke. Yeah. Let's do the baby first. We're going to rank it in order, like the way the prayer is ranking, like where people in states. And they go, well, Alaska does, they did the stroke first, but most of the other country did the baby first. Yeah. That's so awesome, man. Thank you. Look at that. Thank you.

That's so wild. That's one reason Ruth hasn't been coming to your shows this weekend. I mean, she's not a fan of your new stuff, but also because she doesn't want to be around a lot of crowds right now. Yeah, yeah. That's crazy. Does Laura know? No. Laura doesn't even know. No, no one knows. That's unbelievable. I know. I honestly thought you were joking. Well, I'm serious. Like, you know. Uh-huh.

Man, that's so good. Thank you. Look at that. Are you excited about being a dad? You got any advice for me? It's pretty easy. I'll be 68 when she graduates high school. Yeah, that's not... Like Theo Vaughn, I think he had the joke that he says his dad was 70 when he was born. But yeah, when you're 68, when you graduate, you're not any different than... I think usually people at your age...

that are on your A-track are just a little more successful. But...

True. So we'll have some obstacles. I tried to think of an example. The only example I think of is like, you know, like multimillionaires that got divorced with their first wife and then married their second wife. A lot of them, I think you could relate to a lot of them. They have a nanny. They have a nanny. They have like, Larry King has like a five-year-old, you know? Yeah. And he died, I think, right? Yeah. He did. But like, didn't he have like little babies? You're like, yeah. So. Yeah. Y'all have a lot in common. Yeah.

You have just as much in common as not in common. Yeah. Yeah. But no, I think that'll be great. Yeah. When she did. April 8th. April 8th. That's my sister's birthday. That's her fake birthday that I think.

Because she was due on... I think Abigail's birthday is the 12th, I think. Maybe it's the 8th. Yeah. Every year, I can't remember. She was due on one of the days and was born the other day. And I don't remember which was which. So she just celebrates both? No, no. I'm the only one that gets them mixed up. But I've always got them mixed up because I was 10 years old when I found it. So...

It was like that number stuck in my head so much because I was so young. And so every year on her birthday, I'm like, I can't. Like she was due one day and then she's born the next. And I don't remember which one's which. So it could be finally an eighth. Maybe it's my sister. That's what we were shooting for. Yeah. Man, look at that. Yeah. That is a lot of stuff.

I thought you were like, you want to comment on it. I mean, I was taking, I really did not. I thought, right. I thought you were about to be like, listen, I'm tired of getting comments like these, honestly. Yeah. I was like, you know, you're having a stroke. You're having like, yeah, dude, I get it. I get it. That's it. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. That's how you figure out, you know, yeah. Like being, having a kid, it's the best. Nothing better. My kid's right there.

And, yeah, they made – it's great. So let's do – someone mentioned the word count. Yeah. We have to shift from the big news because that was big news. That's huge news. That's the first breaking story I've ever had. I'd be the only one. Yeah. Probably will be. Yeah, we don't break a lot of stuff on here, but broke that. That was the first – yeah, having a baby. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, people, yeah. It's been hard not telling you guys. I mean, we were together all weekend this weekend. How long have you known? A week, a month, a year? Yeah. I've known for quite a while. Yeah. Yeah, that's hard to not tell. Yeah. But I get, you know, when you're older, it's like you got to be super careful. Uh-huh. And then...

It's, you gotta wait a little bit longer. Yeah. And then, you know, when you're like 24 and you're like, you tell everybody that week, that day. But, yeah. Yeah. That's awesome, man. Thank you. It's great. It's great. It's crazy. It's big. Yeah. Aaron? Aaron?

I don't have anything to announce. Walk-in cooler? Same kind of emotion. You'd feel terrific. You're going to come in one day and go, I did it, boys. I got a walk-in cooler at my house. I feel like the luckiest man in the world. I've got a great wife. I got a walk-in cooler at my house. It's where I'll be delivering the baby. And then you're like, ah! I'm excited. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So, Nate Word Count.

So this is what I was asking. Yeah, so you... I guess it was last week's episode. We were talking about how many words we use in common language. And you joked that you used... What did you say? I don't know, 50 or something like that. And you said, I'd love to know how many words I actually use in my specials. Yeah. And somebody...

Did a program and found out for you. So they do a program. A few people did this. Yeah. WordCloud. This guy broke it down maybe more than anybody. So there's a program to do this. Mm-hmm. Because I was like, people just like old, you know, to lick the pen and be like. Just add it up to. Like my fantasy football. I don't even know there's a new thing. I know. That's why I'm like, I feel bad. I'm like, well, everybody did this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So Nate used over 1,200 unique words in his first Netflix special and over 1,300 in his latest special. Your vocabulary is growing. Expanded by over, just under 100. I wonder what the average, I don't know, make someone figure it out. I know. Give him more work to do. I don't want to give you, but you already have the, I wonder like what some other comics like. It's already open. You know, like you'd be like, what would be, is this good or bad? Dennis Miller. Yeah.

Yeah. What is Dennis? It'd be pretty different, I think. Most common word each time was I. I. No words in the top 50 had more than one syllable. No words in the top 50. That's definitely true. Nate was correct that both like and so were in his top 20. Was said 103 times in the first special, but only 33 times in the second special.

Pretty good. I've got that down. Yeah. Which I have consciously worked on. That makes me feel wonderful. That's a lot. Yeah. And I think, I mean, hopefully this one, I got it down even more. It's nice to even see that you're like, all right, I've been truly working on that. Right. Try not to do it in real life and then make that go into reality.

I consciously think about it. It's like, just give yourself that moment. Don't go, uh, you're still going to do it, but don't, when you're thinking, just make myself stop and then say it. And that's, so that's actually very nice to hear that, that shows you that you can just do that. And that's a,

I get 70 times less. Yeah. Yeah. Substantial. Yeah. So if you think you do something too much, just don't say it. What was it again? The uhs to us? I think it's uh. I know, but tell me the numbers again for each special. 103 times in the first special, 33 times in the second special. Yeah. I mean, that's pretty great. Yeah.

In this first special, you name drop Vanderbilt four times. It goes unmentioned in your latest special. Ah, forgetting where he came from. Forgetting where he came from. That's what I said. I don't think it's mentioned in this one either. So the words are all just like I and you, it, like, that, the. It's all those kind of words. She, 109 times.

You used I 81 more times in this last special, dude. Talking about myself too much. Just getting a little self-absorbed. Yeah. I wonder, 100 more words. That's so funny. That's so cool. I love how you think all polls are just bogus. And then this one, you're like, finally, someone. Well, this guy did a program. So why would that be wrong?

I agree. But I mean, this is off too. This is off like a, it's not a, it's a very easy thing to put in. You're putting in this special and this special and the program's going, like the candy thing could be, who knows? Yeah.

What, you know, who are they asking? They're going to one place that sells candy. What if you, you know, do you go? That's fair. That is fair. What if, you know, they're not, they're not used in, you know, we don't have big sales to Tennessee. So, but the, our big seller in Tennessee is Tootsie Roll Pops.

Yeah. What if that's the case? That could be. That absolutely could be. Easily could be. It's got to be one of the states to be like our most common candy out to California's Reese's Pieces. But like we were based in Atlanta, so I don't even know. We're probably not going to start sending stuff to them anymore is what they're going to say. That's pretty awesome that he did that for you. Yeah. No, it's very, very nice. It's very, very cool. That's unbelievable. I love it.

And he said, I don't know if you mentioned his name or not. Dave Perry. He's coming to your show in, is it Bellingham? Yeah. Washington? All right. Dave, we'll get you to say hello to Dave. Yeah. I wonder if you can give me a heads up that night of the show. I think it's in May or something. Oh, no. I'm saying, yeah, yeah. Yeah, just email us back and we'll get you all squared away. Analyze your set that night. Analyze my set that night. Like after the show he comes up. It's kind of more work for you.

bring your laptop like in his hat and he's like on all his papers and he's like all right it was tough but smoking a cigarette yeah but i think i got it just i mean just just paper after paper just you know being like i don't it's even hard to read this kind of stuff one of those little green visors yeah just trying to figure it out yeah uh

Yeah, the shows in Nashville were crazy, and everybody that came out to that, it was just so nice. My dad was on the rhyme. Columbus, every show has been so great. I'm trying to say unbelievable. I'll say unbelievable. But every show's been so great.

And it was special, the Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman. Grand Ole Opry being that was the first job I had was Opryland Theme Park. My dad worked in that theme park too, doing magic in that theme park. So for both of us to get to be on that stage is pretty insane because you never thought we would ever – why would we ever be on that stage? And then the Ryman is too, is just fantastic.

It's crazy. It's just, it's, uh, your dad cried. Both shows cried. Both shows. I mean, it was, dad got two standing O's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the, in one show in one set. Yeah. One set. He finished his last trick, got a standing O and then he brought you up and got a standing O and I was like, Oh my gosh. Yeah. Murder. Yeah. Yeah. I think somebody gets standing when he walks out. Yeah. Yeah. They love him. They love him. And he does great. Uh,

You appeared on the Grand Ole Opry again. Yep, I did. Apparently I did well enough the first time for them to invite me back. All right. So I did it again. First time as a father, you know. Well, I haven't had the baby yet. Yeah, well, just in general. But it went great, and everybody at the Opry is so nice, so I'm glad to get to do it again. Yeah. Yeah, man. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I think they said something about, I think I need to go do it. I'd like to do it. Yeah. The Grand Ole Opry. They said something to me about you coming to do it. Yeah. So that's how you get on. What do you got to do to get on to be in the Grand Ole Opry? It helps them know us. Yeah, that's true. I'll put in a word for you. How many times have you been on? I've done 10 or 11 times now. 10 or 11 times? Yeah. Wow. How long do you do?

anywhere from eight minutes to I did 20 there once. Wow. Yeah. Cause somebody, somebody finished early. So they were like, you're doing 20. Yeah. It's one of those things. You don't even have time to like get nervous cause you're, I'm walking out on stage. So it's always been fun though. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy.

You had your national TV debut on Howie Mandel and Friends. I did, on the CW. CW. Yeah, Howie Mandel. Don't sneeze on me, it was called. It was great. You did a wonderful job. Thank you. One of the things I love, he's following in your footsteps. It aired the same night as the Titans-Bills Monday Night Football game. One of the best Monday Night Football games in years. Yeah. Same night. Well.

Well, I was driving back to maybe find a way to watch it. I don't have cable. So I was driving back and my minivan broke down and I had to call AAA. And then the jokes I told on that special were all about my minivan having problems, which was just so funny, the irony of it. I couldn't even get home to watch it because my minivan broke down. Yeah, that's comedy. That would be a story I'd kill.

Yeah. Is that, that, that kind of idea. Cause when you first get TV, that's what's always funny too, is you get TV. I remember having day jobs and you would, you'd be like, I was on television last night. I filmed it late in Conan. I was there. And now I'm here at a temp job. Like I remember going to a temp job and being like at a convention and I got a shirt on. I still have those shirts to say, ask me a question.

And so I'd be like someone, they come in and they go, where does this? And I would just tell them I have that job. And you're on TV. And I was on television the night before. That's so funny. And you get up and go do that job the next day. Pretty wild. Pretty crazy. But that's what it is. You drive in a van. I mean, I'm sure I'm biased, but I thought you had one of the best sets of anybody on that special. Thank you, man. Appreciate that. Really good. Who else was on it? Guy was correct. Patton Oswalt.

Preacher Lawson, Natasha Leggero, Ryan Hamilton. It was like a crazy lineup. Yeah, that's crazy. And then was it like a one-time show? They do one just for laughs, with just for laughs every year. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like a gala show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.

The fact that it was on CW. Yeah, it's pretty cool, man. It's usually not on... It's usually just up there in Canada. Right. And it's not 4.2 this time. It has an actual number. I'm guessing. I don't have a cable. No, CW is a real channel. Yeah, man. Yeah, because they usually have that in...

gals are in canada they only show them up there yeah and they so you don't ever see you don't ever see them and uh and you filmed it when you went to just for laughs that's what you filmed i went back a month month later and filmed it out there yeah that's great they put it up pretty quick yeah very cool that's cool man that's great you also visited the grand canyon i did i did packed a lunch i did man i hiked i bit off a little more than i could chew i hiked down

Four and a half miles, and then you just turn around and hike four and a half miles back up. Straight up. Straight up. Straight up. Saw someone with a mask on out there. I did. Yeah. I did. It's still very funny. We were up to things just under that Grand Canyon. The freshest air on planet Earth. Yeah. And you got a mask. Wild. This weekend when we were in Columbus, we stayed an extra day. And so we were just hanging out, you know, in hotel rooms. And I hear...

I knock housekeeping. And then I just hear a guy go, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm still in bed here. And she's like, oh, well, sorry. Your door was open. And I was like, what idiot? Yeah. Left his door open. And a few hours later we go to lunch and we see the house. Hey, I'm sorry about walking in on you, Aaron, but your door was open.

I barely remember this, but I was asleep and I woke, you know, you wake up suddenly, you don't really know what's going on. I just kind of like jolted awake and the woman's in the room and I go, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm still, give me a minute. It was so awkward. And I was probably so rude to her in that moment that when we passed each other in the hallway, I stopped and gave her a super awkward apology and Brian heard all of it. Yeah.

I thought she apologized to you first for walking in on you. Well, she did that so that I could give her, so I could apologize because I didn't know it was her. We had hotel rooms. We actually shared a door. That's how close the rooms were. So he heard all that. So you think you left your door just accidentally ajar? I almost don't believe. I don't believe my door was open. Oh, I don't know if I'd believe that either.

I think I forgot to put the do not disturb thing. I think that's what she probably said. Uh-huh. And you probably heard. No, she did say that. She said your door was wide open. And I go, I didn't leave the door wide open that night. Wide open? You prompted her? Yeah, like I put a chair there or something. I didn't get the wide open. I thought maybe you just put the little latch, but she said it was completely open. She said the door was wide open. You slept all night? Yeah, with a wide open. That just did it. Yeah.

It was pretty funny, though. You get a little breezy in here, huh? You get the hall light. That hall light was something. It's like when Michael Scott threw that party when he went on the road and had the strobe lights and all the alcohol. Oh, yeah. Just sitting in his room by himself. The hall light in the hotel, the hotel was great. Mm-hmm.

Very nice hotel, but you could see it was a very old building. Sometimes when you're in those old buildings, the bottom of the door was like, it was enough light. It's a nightlight worth of light that comes under that hallway in the door. If someone walks by, you just hear everything.

Like you just, you would hear every single thing. Yeah. And you're like, cause these old places that you're like, you're just, you feel like we're all like in a hostel staying together. Yeah. I could hear Aaron's phone conversations. Oh yeah. Yeah. He's like this old guy next to me. It's just terrible. He goes, I'm never going to have a kid. Uh,

He's too old to have a kid. He's probably going to have a stroke soon. I'd bet. Anyway, so I put the walk-in cooler, I put it right, not where you would think. I think you'd walk through it from the front door. I think you'd walk through it to get into the house. And then that's how he would end it. I should be headlining? Yeah. Oh, I am headlining this weekend.

Where? Gutties Comedy Club. Oh, yeah. In Greenwood, Indiana. Hop, skip, and a jump from Indianapolis. Come on down. It's going to be fun. Yeah, you've been there. It's a good club. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'm with Leanne Morgan. It's Friday in Hagerstown, Maryland, and the following Friday in Indianapolis. Wow. Nice. That's good. Yeah. Where am I? I don't know. I'm in Champaign, Illinois somewhere. Yeah.

I'll put it up. Yeah. Just go to NateBargetzi.com. Nate Bargetzi. Yeah. But I got the dates I've got coming up. Go look at it. All right. Let's see. We're about to tell you.

Virginia Theater, Champaign. Oh, it's sold out. Hope you got tickets. Pats, Milwaukee, seven is sold out. Nine tickets left for the 930. State Theater, Minneapolis. I think both shows are sold out. You can go check them though. I mean, like they go check them. Rochester, Minnesota.

Tickets there. Mayo Civic Center Auditorium. There's still tickets there. You can take your time on that one, too. You better get the tickets. Rochester. You can't sell it everywhere. That Pabst Theater, everybody says that's one of the best theaters in the country. Yeah, it's very great. And then I got that into this. This travel is this weekend. So I go from. So stop right there. So I go Rochester, Minnesota. We take the bus to Chicago. I got to fly from Chicago to New York.

to go do this stand up for heroes thing with Jon Stewart and Bruce Spring. Yeah. Awesome thing. And it's not televised or anything, but, uh, and so I, I fly. So that show is on the 11th. No, wait, that shows on the seventh, the eighth. I've got to be in New York. And then the ninth after being San Diego. Wow. And then, uh, and then I'll have the 10th to just get to Royal Oak, Michigan.

which we have four sold. Three of them, I believe, are sold out. So 9 p.m. tickets left. But go check all that stuff out. All this info is on the website. But shows have been packed and been doing really good. And I enjoy when y'all people, when you guys, when the folks come out, the yell let's go folks. It's very cool. It's very cool. Yeah. So that's it.

I think that's it. That was a good, you know, we can probably put big news in the title. Oh, yeah. Should we? I think you can say. I think so. I would say in breakfast, drop some big news. Again, it's an office when Michael Scott said. Comments at catching up with breakfast giving big news. Yeah. Some podcasts still know how to. Yeah. We'll see how much we can fit in there. Yeah. Yeah.

So, yes. Thank you. Yeah, we're just doing some catch-up. Thank you guys for reading all the comments, or coming in, not reading all the comments, but hearing them and writing them in. We truly appreciate that. We appreciate you guys coming to every show that you come to. We appreciate you, basically. I've been in a very appreciative mood lately. I've been thinking about that a lot with even shows, because you always think,

And you can't when you do a show, I can't do it if y'all are not there. If the audience is not there, like if this podcast, we can't do it if you're not there. So there's you guys. I mean, you could argue that it's an equal relationship that we have.

And so I was trying to remind myself of that. It's good to, you know, I think it's good to say a thank you to everybody there. Yeah. Let's listen. Even the ones that some people are like, well, I'm not a fan. That's true. You know? All right. I think we'll have the baby. I think Ruth would have the baby live on the live podcast. I got my, Celesta, my brother's wife, she's a midwife. Really? Yeah. Sister-in-law, she can do it.

Get in one of those tubs. Zany stage is a little high. I don't think everybody has to see everything, but just enough. And you come out and you hold the baby up like a... Simba. Like Simba. You're probably in a wheelchair, but someone next to you will hold the baby up next to you.

We can talk about it. All right. Hey, that's all we want. First, we'll go to my stroke doctor and see how that's going. Yeah. Walks in. Everything's, I figured the whole, when you walk in, it's all slanted to the right. Is it? I don't know why. I just think it's one side. What if they did that? Pictures only on the right side. He's on the left side, not decorated. Yeah.

A lot of people who come in here don't even know. That's how we tell out the gate. If you go, there's no pictures on the left side, they go, then you're fine. Get on out of here. All right. One more stroke, Joe. That was it. That was the last one. All right. We love you all. Thank you. See you next week. Bye. Bye.

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