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Hello, folks. I love it. Welcome to Nate Land Podcast. We're excited to be here. Welcome to the show, everybody. We've had a big fun weekend. A lot of traveling. Went to Dollywood. Loved it.

It was an amazing trip and we're going to keep it. We got more this weekend. If you want to come out to the show, you can go to natebargetti.com. One night only tour. We have two weeks left. This is it. You can see this. You can see this. If you want to watch four men bomb, we're the show for you. So we are excited to be here. Also, we have the Tonight Show. All the guys that filmed this stuff, they filmed the Tonight Show. They got some

A little Tonight Show. We all got Tonight Show credit. Now we're all Tonight Show people. Thanks for watching that. Thanks for all the nice comments. The people loved it. It's the first stand-up back since COVID. It's awesome. Pretty fun. That's neat. We're the start of the new era. Stand-up comedy. After the pandemic. All right, we're going to get started as usual with some comments from you guys, as we always love reading all this stuff. Steve Edging. Steven Edging. Edging, right? I think so.

Nate, you may get me arrested for LWD, listening while driving. Twice now listening to you, Buttercup, and Aaron while driving. I have laughed so hard I couldn't see to drive. I guess I am the idiot for listening while driving. Buttercup's a good one. It is a good one. Buttercup's a... That's another good name. That's a great name. I'm wondering how long before I'm no longer amused by these. I don't see any signs of slowing down. Yeah, it's going to be tough, man. They're all pretty good and fun. So...

I enjoy them. Lane Saunders, a show where a group of men discuss childhood topics. The last three shows have been magic, animals, and pirates. Can't wait for the next show when Nate Aaron and Banana Bread discuss imaginary friends. Well, all right. You might be in luck because we might be doing that. Chris Minnit, Minnit.

The animals episode literally had me crying and unable to breathe from laughing so hard. I thought Nate Aaron and beer guard, beer guard, or regard, maybe beer, beer guard can do no wrong with these shows. And then came the pirate show. Even Michael Jordan missed some free throws, keeping up the mostly hilarious work.

The Pirates episode, that's Nick's fault. Yeah. I'll accept. I will walk off the plank for that one. I mean, we've been doing, we've been on a great roll. And Nick, we had put Nick in. His agent forced us to have him. In fairness, he didn't, the beer guard, that's a tough name for you. Beer guard? It is a hard one. That's Brian's middle name. Mike Boehm.

I've always just listened to the podcast, but this week I decided to watch with the video on YouTube. If you haven't done that, I would highly recommend it. The Beverly Bootstrap Bates jokes are way more hilarious when you see his reaction. Don't know how he sits there and takes it from everybody, but I'm glad he does. Love you guys in the podcast. You produce something funny and positive when most of the stuff you get on TV or online these days is negative garbage.

And that's why we're here. Yeah. Not changing any minds. Mind your own business. Do whatever you want. No negative garbage. The rest of the episode is like, all right, now let's be negative. Well, it's negative to each other. We keep it in this world of negative. I'm sure I've yelled about something else, but we're negative to just each other. Ian Renfrew. In-frew. Renfrew. Ian Renfrew.

Love the podcast. Love your stand-up. Laughter is extremely important right now. Saw you last winter in Rockford, Illinois. My face and stomach hurt from laughing so much. Pretty sure bed rest opened for you. He wasn't funny then either. Oh, pretty sure bed rest opened for you. He wasn't funny then either.

Whoa. That was a tough one. Hurt people hurt people. Pretty sure bed rest. That one almost, when they slip a man and I don't realize that that's what they're doing, I thought that was the sentence. Like he was saying he was bed rest or something. He didn't capitalize bed rest. I didn't mind. I like sneaking it in. When you have to go back and go, oh, he's calling Brian bed rest. That last line was uncalled for. He wasn't funny then either. Yeah, Brian was funny. Rockford, Illinois, one of the most dangerous cities in America.

Oh, yeah? One of the worst cities in the country, yeah. It sounds so nice. Statistically. Like Rockford. It does. It does. Oh, like a magical place? Yeah, when we went after his town, he goes after bedrest, we go after you. You don't take down one of our own. Ross Montgomery. Excited to see this lineup at the Texas show. I'm going to learn the Morse code for hello, folks, to flash my headlights. I hope Ben didn't can dunk.

Bad and Canuck wears his shirt at the shows. Oh, Badonkadonk. Badonkadonk. Wow. I've never seen that word spelled out. Honky Tonk Badonkadonk. Badonkadonk. Badonkadonk. Is that what they call you? Huh? Badonkadonk. Badonkadonk? Yeah, that's what they call him. I don't think they're talking about me. Yeah, can you believe that? Now they're talking about Aaron. Can you believe that they call him that? You got junk in the trunk? Yeah, he does. They call him Badonkadonk. Everybody calls him that. You didn't know they called Aaron that? I didn't know that. Yeah, dude. Everybody does that.

It's going to be a long weekend. Every time he gets out of his bunk, I'm going to be like, well, there it is. Badunkadunk. Badunkagunk. Badunkagunk. Badunkagunk. Good song. Nick, how did you not realize that

All he's been called is names that are Bs. Yeah. And you think for some reason this guy switched it to Aaron. Yeah. Well, I mean, it just gets out of control. Some of these names, he's got more nicknames than anybody in the world. I know, that's the whole point of the show. But for some reason, you thought this one was talking about Aaron. You thought this guy changed it up. But Dunkin' Dunk, I'm like...

Well, now if he's got the junk in the trunk, I'm going to be noticing that on the bus. All right. I'm not sure Nick really knows what's going on right now. Nick's got badonka gone. You ever seen Nick? There you go. Nick's got one of the best booties in stand-up comedy. I've always said that. Did you think Aaron had some junk in the trunk, so that's why they were talking about him? Well, I don't know. That was the name. That was the name I saw in the comment. And I'm like, maybe they know something I don't know. I haven't noticed that.

But the theme of always using B nicknames and being ridiculous, you thought that this one changed up just because we're like- Maybe they gave that to him. They're like- Because of the junk he has in that trunk. That's what I was thinking. Okay. Brian Lee, I enjoyed Nick Land this week. This episode would have only been 45 minutes if not for him. Keep up the good work, y'all.

Way to go, Nick. This will be the Nickland podcast. I don't know if you're suggesting Nick was talking too much. No, I think he's saying he liked Nick. Which I like Nick. I think he's saying he carried the episode. Yeah, like Nick was everything. Yeah, yeah. Nick did great. He did great. Nick will be off the show next week. Brian Lee is blocked.

Russell D. Williford, Nick's joy is contagious. I love how mirthful he is. What is that? Mirthful is a great word. I don't know what it means. It's a good thing to be. It sounds like a nice. You want to be mirthful. Yeah. Like a combination of mouthwash and, you know, like. Mirth. You get a mirth for a mouthwash. Constantly chuckling and laughing. Y'all are supposed to be comics. Maybe you could take a page from the book of Nick's awesome personality.

Nick does have good personality. Here's the thing. I have multiple accounts that I write some of these as Russell B. Welford. What does it have to do with being a comic, though? Being merful. Because he's got a good laugh. Nick's a good laugher. People are good laughers. Audience members are good laughers. Some are not good laughers. Well, that's a good audience member, then. That's not a good comic. Well, but some comics are really good at being... They're a personality.

Yeah. Nick's a good personality. Like some comics are, have great personalities. Some are not. I don't think I'm the most personality. That's why I've never been a good host of a show. Cause I would never be like, what's up everybody. Welcome to the show. Like I'm not a good, if you're going to tune into ABC wet and wild, uh,

And I'm like, what's up, everybody? Got a great show. People are sliding and stuff. Everybody's like, this guy hates his job. And I don't, but that's what I do. So I stick what I do in my lane. Were you ever like that at all when you were hosting shows? I was never a good host. I would always just go the route of I would. But I would have comics tell me they liked me hosting because I would do my act. I was never a big, where's this guy from? Asking the crowd where they're from and stuff.

Uh, so, but I would get them in the rhythm of listening to jokes, which I like to follow. I'd rather follow that than follow a guy being like, where are we at? Where, where is this? What are you doing? What kind of hat is that? Like just,

That's just a different kind of show mentality the audience is in. Because it either goes unbelievable, like some people, or just great at it. Or you can get into just a train wreck moment where you start talking to people. So like, what is it like being a dentist? Huh? You got it? Dentist? They're in a whole big thing. And then like nothing. They all want to be talked to. The crowd wants to be talked to. The crowd's like, this guy's so much fun. He's just yelling at us. And then you go up and do your act. And then everybody's like,

Well, where's the guy that was funner? The guy that made fun of us. The guy that talked with us. The guy that talked with us, yeah. I'm an act guy. I present my act that I created, and then that's what it is. But a lot of comics are introverts. Yeah, comics are not... A lot of people say we're not...

If you meet us, we're not what you think when you meet us. We're not this like, yeah, this super fun guy. And I think we can make a lot of jokes and we can be funny in situations when we hang out. But yeah, we're not super fun. I mean...

The tour bus has been pretty fun. Well, it's we just rail on each other. It's kind of this. How we're making fun of each other. It's essentially that's what comics do. We tend to just go hard and make fun of each other. That's what the comedy cellar was. When people talk about the comedy cellar, that back table, it was that. It's everybody just trashing each other and making fun of each other. And that's what's funny to us. So it's very mean-

And that's what it is. And that's, you know, and that's what you like. And that's how comics can be. And we can be too mean. So we hang out with regular people. If we, we have to tone it back. I can't just walk into your house and start trashing your house because that's, you're going to think it's rude. So then we end up just not talking because I don't want to cross the line and

I mean, you know, sometimes comics make jokes and we have to go like, hey, man, this is like a regular person. Yeah. Like you can't do it like that. I don't know if I've talked about this, but I always heard Patrice O'Neill, one of the greatest comics. He's passed away. He's one of the best ever. But he was on The Office, the first few seasons of The Office.

And then he was off the office. And whether this is true or not, it makes sense. But I always heard that Patrice was a comic and Patrice would really break people down. And he would do that to the actors on the office. And they would have to tell him, like, you got to calm down, dude. These are not comedians. They can't. They don't take it like a comedian does. Like, we can't really you can't offend me.

I'm never going to be, if a comic is good, I truly believe this. They can't be offended. They should never be offended. It doesn't matter. They can get mad. You can get mad about stuff, but I'm never going to be offended and be like, you can't say that about me. Like, you know, I don't, it doesn't really matter. And so Patrice would do that. And then they would be like, yeah, man, you can't, these are regular people that are actors. Like they don't, they're like sensitive. You can't just be like, well, this is a loser here. You know?

Now in my head, I'm trying to think what actor on The Office. I think all of them. I think it was Steve Carell that was like, get him out! I don't think anybody probably... I don't know what happened. I don't think anybody probably specifically got him out. But I just... You could probably tell if he's the only one doing that in a group of 50 people, then naturally the showrunner is going to be able to feel the vibe to be like, we just can't have this dude here anymore. Didn't you tell me that...

Supposedly Craig Robinson's the one that said, hey man, you got to chill a little bit. Supposedly, that's what I heard. He's like, tell him, you got to calm down, dude. These are not comics. Craig Robinson can handle it. He's a comic. And not saying that these people are bad because they can't handle it. It's just such a, comics can be ruthless. What if he wasn't attacking the cast, but it was the crew, the guy holding the microphone? I think the crew would be able to handle it. And he's just like, you got to hold it like that? And the guy's got to hold it. I mean, the crew could handle it. They're a bunch of union guys. I mean, the union guys. Blue collar. Yeah, blue collar. They're all about that.

I think it's the actors, and rightfully so. I agree with that. You have to know when to tone it down. My stint in Hollywood is like you could tell that, yeah, you can't just be saying crazy stuff. Almost you can't have full-on real conversations.

Comics are very open. We'll talk about anything. You can tell me anything and I'm not going to care. I want you to be interesting. I would rather you, you know, when we talked about conspiracy theories, if someone's like, I don't believe in space, I would love to talk to that guy. That's way more interesting to me than someone that's going to tell me something that's like factual. It'd be like, we need to worry about climate change and then goes through this whole climate where you're like, I'm not saying that we don't, but I'd rather talk to the guy that just doesn't believe in outer space. Like that guy. And that's what everybody should do.

Everybody should live. Anyway, Nick's off the show. Emily Zell, when Bradley was talking about how the school in Crossbones was so scary, all I could think about was he looks worried.

For real. Love your shows. I'm a college student at Mizzou. And when people see me walking around campus on Wednesday, I'm usually laughing out loud because of Nate Land. Mizzou Vandy postponed. That's a big win for us. Big win for us. We're going to be playing you, Emily, this week, and we postponed because we don't have enough players. It's a mess. They're coming off a big win, though, right?

Yeah, they beat LSU. This is our big win. Yeah, this was our big win. We don't have to play. We don't have to dress up. Aaron showed me footage of him playing football. So maybe he can... What if he was thrown in? Badonka-gonka-gonka got in there, dude. Yeah, I'll tell you what. It has messed us up with COVID, dude. I'm doing fantasy and it's a nightmare. It's no fun.

Titans, again, second week in a row, I'm just losing guys because their team's not playing for COVID. And you're just like, this is not even worth it. They're playing tonight. I know, but then they postponed. Didn't something else happen again and now they've caught back up? Well, they postponed last week's game. I mean, they made it their bye. But the Steelers got canceled this week. So all of a sudden you had to move that.

Yeah, did they? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I could be making that up. Yeah. What if I'm like, you know, Belichick has coronavirus. What are you talking about? What's he saying? And he has to go answer that question. I would love that this gets that high up that he has to go. I do not. Who said that? Nick or breakfast?

We had a guy call me breakfast this weekend on the golf course. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We got recognized. Bates got recognized. First time? Solo recognized? You know what? I don't even think that was solo. I bet he saw you first and then put it together. Yeah. And he goes, oh, I thought that was Nate's dad. Turns out it's breakfast. But we did get recognized on the golf course. We did get recognized. Yeah. We golfed this weekend. Fun little weekend. Golfing next weekend. Golfing coming up Thursday. Yeah. Valhalla.

Big chorus. Big deal. Bates hooked this up. This is all Bates. Big time chorus. That's what I do. This is a... It would be a... Mark it off as one of your best choruses you ever played. It's awesome. Top, top. US Open was there. Tiger won his Tiger Slam. That was one of the choruses. Beat Bob May. How funny is that? Tiger Woods beat Bob May. Bob May? Sounds like a name someone gave me. I mean, it's like... It's honestly like if...

Yeah, it's just nothing. It's like, and he just like was a, I mean, obviously a great golfer, but when you see the video, it's like Tigers, like this is 2000 Tiger. It's like Nike. It's like, I mean, it's just the boom, top of the world. We're all like, think he's the coolest guy in the world. And,

His foe is someone's dad, Bob May. And Bob May got after it. I mean, he, it was a problem. He was that good. You want to lose to somebody really bland when you're like the greatest superstar in the world. Yeah. Well, that's what's tough with golf, I think, because you don't lose to cool. You know, Miami Heat just lost to the Lakers, LeBron James. You know, it's like cool. In golf, you could be

You're Tiger Woods. You're, you know, you're all these like cool guys. And then you lose to Fred Couples. Like, you know, just, and it's like, well, who's that? And it's a guy that you would be like, that guy's one of the best golfers ever. You're like that guy. Like, it's just a guy in slacks that, you know, picking his daughters up from school. And he just destroys you on the golf course. Yeah.

Phil Hill. I feel like every time there's a guest, Aaron doesn't speak as much. We've had a lot of problems with Aaron not speaking. Aaron, why don't you speak as much? Just out of respect for the guest. That is true. But it's Nick. Nick's kind of a co-host. Nick's staying here for a month. I'm never leaving. I just live on this table. Phil, Nick's not coming home.

Yeah, speak, Aaron, what's your problem, man? I'll try to step up, man. I was just trying to give some room. Yeah, well, Phil doesn't like it. Maybe he does like it. Maybe he is. You know what? I feel like every time there's a guest, Aaron, episodes are better because he doesn't speak up as much. T-Cum 1012, you know Nate is a good guy when he has the same chair as the rest of the group. That is true. What a sacrifice. I could get a better chair.

That is a good sacrifice. Brian's not impressed. I mean, what a- These are nice chairs. A throne? These are good chairs. I should have a throne. That would be great if your chair was like twice as high as everybody else's. It should be. And you just start- What do you think of that? I don't think the podcast being my name's enough. It should be one more. I should separate. I should build something that separates us. Nate's- We might be changing buses this week and we're already riding in bunks. So I'm being amongst the people. Wow.

None of y'all will be near me, but I will be in the bunk as you. I will have multiple bunks around me that are empty, but I will be in the same bunks as the people on the bus. I'm going to wait until I get it. I'm going to have a car just drive behind us and I just get out. When I did that cruise ship with Paul Allen, my big corporate gig, they almost had his boat follow the cruise ship.

Which is like, that's a... It was just because it's like, he has to do work. He has a basically cruise ship. If anybody's ever looked it up, you can go... I forget what it's called, but Octopus maybe or something. But you go look up Paul Allen's boat and it's unreal. It's got a submarine on it. It's crazy. But he was rented out a cruise ship that was 250 people on it.

only on it so it's empty and there was a moment of like where he's like well should I just have our my ship follow in case he's got to get off and you know I mean he was just like a guy that sometimes needs a space I mean I get it like he's changing the world so maybe he needs a space he's allowed a space but he didn't do it but it was crazy to be like that could have been an option yeah so

If I wanted to have a car, trail, or bus, I probably couldn't afford that. You were here about those billionaires. They buy a house. They also just buy every house around it. They buy the whole neighborhood. Because they don't want anybody near them. Elon Musk, I think. Yeah. Look, when you get to that certain level, it makes sense. It's something everybody would do, I think. Because you're looking for some privacy in the fact that

When these guys are so big, you can't have just your regular neighbor just be like, that's Elon Musk. It just gets out. And then you have people, so you're just like, I'll just buy every house and no one's allowed. That's you with the bunks? That's me with the bunks. I make a place. And I'm going to wake up y'all in the middle of the night and go, switch bunks. I want your bunk now. I'm going to make moves like that just to make a point. You know what I mean? That's what your daughter did to me this weekend. Harper likes the top bunk.

She wakes up and the buttercup is right beneath her and she tells you she's up, right? Sometimes I would just open my eyes and she'd be right in my face, like leaning over. She's got the curtain open. Yeah, her foot was in my face one time. I love that she had her hands like going under the little hole. She set her alarm.

So Harper, we had fall break. Harper and Laura came on the road with me. And we, so Harper would, I mean, she was just not going to bed till midnight because it's, you know, it's on a bus. She loves being the top bunk. It's a fun trip. And she would set her alarm for 7 a.m.

Because she wants to get up and then have time in the bus. But she needs sleep. And like the good dad I am, I would, once she goes to bed, I climb up there. I take her. She has a little iPad and I would take the alarm off. And the next day I go, what time did you wake up? She's looked at me so mad. She goes 9.50 because someone turned my alarm off. And I go, did they? I wonder who did that.

That's like you do that when it's like Christmas and you're like, I was waiting for Santa Claus. Well, Santa came three hours ago. Yeah, I don't know what happened. Leah Isabella, Aaron's face when Nick said that Krispy Kreme probably had dairy because of the cream should be on the next t-shirt for the podcast. You could see him trying to figure out if it's worth arguing or if he should just let y'all have it, which is the podcast in a nutshell. I think that is true. Aaron's like a scientist that...

You know the answer, but you're having to watch us. I don't even think he's that smart. It's just that we're so dumb that it makes him look smart in comparison. We went to Notre Dame. I believe that. I don't know. You went to Notre Dame. It's pretty great. Did you get a scholarship to Notre Dame? No. You look like you're wearing a Northwestern hat today, though. Oh, yeah. This is some random school. School. I don't know why you think Northwestern, but. It's purple. Yeah.

Tigers. Yeah, it says Tigers on it. Northwest Wildcats. Kind of the same thing, right? They're the same family. They're known for. Badaka gone. Texas Hold Me Girl. TX Hold Em Girl. Peggy is my name. Don't even bother letting Nate try to pronounce my handle. Too late. Too late, Peggy. Peg, you could do an entire show of Nate trying to read. People think the best part of the podcast is the comments. In reality, the best part is hearing Nate try his best to read the comments.

And also I agree with whoever said, get Brock a hat. It looks like a secret club that he got left out of and he's very worried about it.

Someone's trying to look professional. I've debated not being a hat guy anymore. I still like a hat. I'm just in the habit of it, but I some days don't want to wear a hat anymore. On stage or just in life? I don't ever wear it on stage. Yeah. I've honestly, there's a handful of times I've wore a hat on stage. Everybody thinks I wear a hat on stage. I've never worn one on stage. I wear it immediately off stage. I never did it because you don't want the shadows covering your eyes. My eyes are what sells your jokes, man. You got to have your face covered.

And you got yours, you know, your eyes covered down. Yeah. Imagine the laughs you could get if people could see those eyes. Steve Keck, I can't imagine this being your objective, but the animals episode turned me vegetarian. Knowing how smart pigs are made me reevaluate everything. And I don't like the idea of eating something that experiences fear walking into a slaughterhouse. Well, sorry you're gone, Steve, because we ate pig right after that. I had a lot of pig this weekend. We did. We did.

I get it. I feel like I could be vegetarian. I can somehow get in some weird thing that I'll end up like something would click in my head and I couldn't get it out. And then I would end up switching right now. I don't have that yet, but I could see this comment for you. You're like, no, Steve hasn't got me yet. I feel like I feel worse if the pig was brave. Yeah. You know, then that's like a admirable trait. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, like if he... He says he doesn't like to experience his fear, but if it was brave... All right. Let's move on. Yeah, you wanted Aaron to talk more, didn't you? There you go. That's why I don't do it. Yeah, you like that feel? Madeline... Madeline Brish in the hand. Aaron's fun fact that only three words in the English language start with DW is incorrect.

His source was West Wing because Jed Barlett says it. Aaron, I think you need to use better sources than fiction TV shows. For example, Dwarf, Dwell, Dwindle, Dwyne, Dwayne, Dwarfism, Dwelling, and Dwelt. My source, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. I feel like she kind of threw dwarf out there a bunch. She said different angles. Dwarfing.

But that's, I mean, blown up. I'll be honest. That is what it's from. That's a line from season one, episode six. I might fly Madeline. Of the West Wing. But I will say, look, a lot of these words are just derivatives of the same word. Dwell, dwelling, dwelt. That's all the same. Dwindle, dwindle, dwam. Dwam is not a word. I think Madeline disagrees. Well, I trust Aaron Sorkin.

DWs are hard to say, generally. Yeah. Like, Daryl Walter. That's why, you know, I mean, I said it last week, but it's, the dwarf is hard for me to say. Yeah. And it's like, could you imagine also being named like Dwayne? Dwayne is a Scottish word used in the Northeast. Oh, Scottish words. If we're bringing in other countries, I'm sure there are a ton. We're talking about America here.

All right, we're going to have Aaron and Madeline go at it head-to-head during the Krispy Kreme Challenge of naming DW words. It won't take long. There's only three.

Alex Spears. Someone explain to me why Barstool looks like a toddler and a senior citizen at the same time. That's a pretty good one. That was a good one. Toddler and a senior citizen. But we always had somebody say you look 20 and 40. I feel like you just... Yeah, but yours is meaner and funnier. That's what makes it great. It's definitely meaner. Three English words begin with DW. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle. There you go. I'm still on Madeline. Team Madeline.

BSF 125, love the podcast. This may come as a shock, but I think you guys misunderstood something when it came to the eye patches. Pirates are storming ships so they don't get to choose where to fight.

By the way, I

I don't know anything about pirates. This is just what makes sense, giving the info on hand. Keep up the good work, fellas. I mean, I was in. I was like, oh, wow. This sounded like a doctor and pirate. We have a pirate guy right here. By the way, I don't know anything about pirates. I love that. That makes sense. That's the spirit of this show. That's what we want. Yeah. This guy could do the show. Kind of talking so confidently that at the end he's like, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Guys, just makes sense in my head why they did that.

All right. Good for him. Jstew72, there's zero chance that Nate and Aaron survive being marooned. Benchmark might survive. The look on his face leads me to believe he has considered every possible tragedy and he is mentally prepared. You might have. You've considered every possible tragedy. But I think the possibility, I think your world is smaller than people think. I don't think you've. You've only lived here.

You have no, what experiences do you have? I was in Louisville and Charlotte, North Carolina. There you go. Borderline when we first got on the road was fifth time he's ever flown. No, I don't know if that's true, but you're not a big flyer before. No, I'd fly about once a year before we went on the road.

So not much. Yeah. So you think your travels would prepare you more to be murdered? I think I have a lot more information to... So when the plane goes down and crashes, that's somehow going to help you because you've been on that plane a lot. No, if I make it, it'd be like, I've been to Des Moines, so I can lasso this tree. Yeah, if I make it, I think I have a lot more... I think experience is a gigantic thing to have. Jay Larson commented you would survive for five days and then you'd be gone.

You guys are... Wow. I'm going to do it. Y'all eat Krispy Kreme donuts, I'm going to be on an island. Let's see what happens. All right, before we get started with this week's episode, we are going to... One thing I want to talk about, Bill Burr hosted SNL, and we watched it, and it was unbelievable. Burr did great. It was a big, big deal, man. I'm obviously, you know, we're with All Things Comedy, and that's Bill and Al Magical, and

Burr, seeing Burr come, like he's the guy to me that I've talked about on this. I got to watch him come up. I mean, he was above me, but I got to watch his success as he rose into now he's hosting SNL. And he did it, man. The standup on it, I think it sets, it's great for standup comedians, for pure standup comedians. We are the funniest comedians.

Burr was the funniest. You're not doing nothing better than him, man. Every sketch was better. Every, everything was great. They, I, I don't know if it's like the writing on the show gets like with a comic in the room. I'm, I'm obviously being a standup comic, but standup comedy is an amazing art form. And dudes are just the funniest dude. And he was the best. He was, he, he absolutely killed it, walked out, owned it. Uh,

I mean, you know, it's like, how do you not just book that guy multiple times? I mean, how do you not want that? You're not... It's just to start this SNL like that is just so good. And it was just a huge thing to get to see that and get to watch it. We all watched it on the bus and being on the road and seeing a real stand-up comic, you know, do it. Someone that's not like...

You know, I mean, Chris Rock's a real stand-up comic. He did. But Chris was on SNL. Chris did amazing. And then when you see like Burr pop up, it's like this dude, this dude's a straight up comes out of his own world. That's what it's about. He's a stand-up. He's his own thing. But it's Bill Burr. Bill Burr is what is his own thing. And now he's you're bringing him over hosting this SNL. And it was awesome. It was awesome to get to watch.

Also, one little quick link to that, but it's to our producer, Laura Bargetzi. It's our anniversary today, October 13th, which you'll be watching this on the 14th. Happy anniversary. I'm glad I'm here to ruin it for you. We love it. We love it. I've been on Jason Day.

Past two years, I've been his anniversary. They've spent it with me. Two years in a row. One was their 10-year anniversary. That's a big one. Yeah, that's a big one. They were at our house. And this year, we were together. But we love having you, Nick. Nick, happy anniversary to us. Yeah. I feel like. I've actually been at your house other anniversaries. Yeah. As a comic...

you always end up celebrating. Laura does very good with, you know, Valentine's day. Valentine's is a big day to work. It's a great comedy night out. So we don't really get those together. Our, uh, and then also like our anniversary, she has to put up with not doing, you know, not getting on the exact day, but she pulls it in stride. And,

Happy interversion. So are the three of you going to do something romantic tonight? Maybe. I got some flowers. Sleep on our Helix mattress together. Everybody comes in. The dog, everyone. All right. This week, they're talking about imaginary people. Imaginary friends. Imaginary friends. And you know what? We're going to talk about that. This week, we're going to talk about hoaxes and urban legends.

We have a joke of mine that actually fits with this story. We're going to play that. I think we can play this clip and it's not going to not be cut off. I think this clip, we have it on its own thing. Yeah. Hopefully that happens. We'll see. If you can't hear it, then we somehow got cut off. But I think I own this clip, so we're good to go. I don't know what it is. I'm a pretty dumb guy. Pretty dumb. It's fine, though. I don't know. Here's my proof, if you need. I don't think you need proof, but if you need it.

My first job when I was 15, I worked in Nashville. Nashville used to have a theme park called Opulent Theme Park. So I worked there. And one day I was eating lunch and this couple sits down and we meet each other. And I was like, hey, my name's Nate. And they were like, the guy goes, my name's John. This is my wife, Jane. And her last name is Doe. He was like, we're John and Jane Doe. And I was like, blown away. I was like, are you serious, dude? I was like, can you even do that? And he's like, we're doing it. You know, I don't know. Blown away. Couldn't believe it.

Cut to when I was 35, I was driving and I just started randomly thinking about meeting John and Jane Doe and I was like, you know what, I bet they were lying to me about that. That's how long it took, 20 years for me to catch on, yeah, I bet they were lying to you about that. I even, I looked them up, I googled them. I tried.

And, yeah, turns out they were murdered. That's what I found out. And, you know, that's what you get for lying to kids. That's what happens. They still don't know who did it. John and Jane Doe. That was a real story. That really happened. I worked at OptiLand theme park. I remember being, I was at lunch, and they were sitting across from me. And then they told me,

And I remember... How old were you? It's a weird thing to do as a couple. Yeah. What if they were called John and Jane Doe? I mean, I had to be 15 or 16. Operating was my first job. So whenever you could work, did you work 15? I think I was 15. Because I think my parents, my mom, dropped me off the first day and would pick me up. And then it's quick, you get a job at 15, man. Why do you think they just wanted to mess with you? I have no idea. Probably. I mean, you know... I mean, it could have been... They were...

kid and they were probably 20. So they could have been like, the guy's like, my name is John Jane. My last name is Doe. And they're like, that's funny. And they could have even been like, oh, they didn't know that I would take it. Like, I mean, this is my first job. I'm like talking to other coworkers. I've never done that. They're older than me. I'm like, wow. Yeah. And then it took a long time for me to even remember that.

Like when I thought of that as a joke, it just popped in. Like it was like something I was like, oh yeah, I got told that. I remember getting told that. But that's like a name too, or at least me, I would...

I probably wouldn't even find out in the end that that was the... Well, I never found out for sure, but I just imagine... Or just even the John and Jane Doe, that those are fake names. I feel like I would never... You know John Doe? You know that they use that as a name, though? Yeah. For if they don't know a crime. John Doe was killed last night. They don't know the name of the person that got killed? Yeah. See, I didn't know that. Yeah. You just thought...

Don't name your kid John Doe because you are in trouble. These kids, these John Doe kids, it's a very common American name, and they never make it. They never make it. Do you know that? Everybody knows that? I'll tell you what, you know who has it rough in this country? That's who we need to be doing marches for, the John Does of the world that can't walk outside without getting shot. I mean, hundreds of them a day. No one talks about them.

And the Janes. Could you imagine naming your kid John Doe? I'm sure there's real names that are John Doe. Yeah. I'm sure there has to be. Someone's last name's going to be Doe. Yeah. If your last name's Doe. I've never met anybody named Doe. I bet it's a name. I can't. I'm sure it is. It's like a big, like, ex, you know, high school linebacker, you know, or offensive lineman. I know a John Downs. It's close. It's close.

I will say, every time I have to give my name at a restaurant or anything like that, I give a fake name. Yeah. Wow. Because I don't like saying my own name. I always have to repeat it. I give a fake name. I say Nathan a lot instead of Nate. Because when I say Nate, I think I say it. They don't have to say it multiple times. And if I can go Nathan...

I can say it and like, it just gets it easier. Yeah. They're not going to confuse that for anything. Yeah. For some reason, the older I get, people are starting to hear me say Mick instead of Nick. They go, all right, Mick. No, no, Nick. Yeah.

Mick, we'll get you in a little bit. I think you look like a Mick, though. Yeah. I could see you being a Mick. A Mick is a guy that's going to come up and be like, I've been talking to Mick all day. Have you met Mick? And you're talking to everybody. Yeah. You could be a Mick. There are real people named John and Jane Doe. You loved that we were in when the manager came up and was like, well, good talking to you earlier. You're like, ugh. Yeah. Where was that? The hotel. Nick will talk to everybody, man. Nick loves...

What did we, when we were walking somewhere and you go, I would have asked him. I like asking him. Like Nick loves asking questions and then getting like, he just wants to walk into wherever he goes and goes, Joe, do you want to ask some questions about that? We need, do we need questions answered? Nick's wonderful. Cause Nick will, he loves talking to him. He's going to talk to him anyway. Yeah.

So you might as well give them a task. You know what I mean? Like, you might as well get something out of it. No matter what, we're going to wait for him to talk to everybody. So I might as well throw, hey, ask where the bathroom's at as well. You know, just so we know where it's at. So we can get something, you know, at least I get some information about it. Do you talk on flights, Nick, to people next to you? I'm a big, like, I'll talk to somebody that looks like they're working. And I'm like, so what do you do?

I'm a flight attendant. I have a flight attendant. I'm the pilot. That's why I'm up front with the pilot stuff. Why are you in there? How long have you been doing that? You fly on this plane? You're not flying on this plane. Yeah, I'm flying. There's definitely times where I'll see somebody throw a headphone on. You know, like,

Yeah. Start working. I'll be like talking to him about stuff. I was listening. Nick took his headphones off and back on just for the audio people. And they might be like, I'd like to see an act out of that. Well, you got to be a video watcher if you want to see the full act out of Nick headphones back on. And then he did a little. Remember the mystery? Remember the sketch we did?

where it was like the words long time ago we were playing charades oh yeah we have video of it and like nick it was a masseur which is a man masseuse man masseuse yeah and so the word was masseur so him acting it out he just went like so he did massage hands but with going and he's like we were like angry massage and it was like no it's man massage because a man doesn't mean er

Remember that? That was the greatest. And ukulele? Yes, I remember that. He started playing the flute. So the word is ukulele, and he keeps going... Like he's doing a flute action with his hands. And we're going, flute, harmonica. We're yelling all that stuff. And he'd get frustrated, and he goes...

and then he does the same like when we when we didn't get it it was him going back to the same exact thing when you see someone do charades they always like you always end up doing that like or if they're pictionary they're drawing and they're like no that's not it and then they just draw the same thing again and then tap at it point at the same thing i was so convinced that a ukulele was up there something not maybe not a flute but in the family

Yeah. And when he gets back, he goes, when we get done, he goes, ukulele. And Big Jay goes, you mean like the little guitar thing? He goes, ah, yeah, nevermind. I was way off. There was no way you were getting it. You're holding like a violin almost. Oh yeah. Violin. Yeah. Violin. We could have maybe at least got into the ukulele family with violin. Hmm.

What about hoaxes? There's been a ton of them. I talked about hoaxes. Manti Teo was a big hoax, right? I have a joke about that. Manti Teo was at the Crime Museum we went to this weekend. Went to, in Dollywood, which this is a joke I think I'm going to do if people, they talk about stand-up being in the act. I think I can put this, so I won't do the whole thing. But we went to Alcatraz, this crime museum, and took Harper.

eight years old to a crime museum. And it's, uh, don't last night. I hear crying. Her and, uh, Laura, Laura's trying to get her to sleep. And I just hear bawling.

And I go in and she's, all she's thinking about is, I mean, it is just a straight up. Yeah. It is a big crime museum that goes into very much detail. I was scared in the middle of the night. It's a lot. I woke up and was like. It's a lot. We, while we walked in, it's like, everything's fine. And then it was just not fine. They have like John Wayne Gacy's clown suit there. I mean. Oh yeah. Oh, it's crazy. Yeah. It does. It's crazy. Yeah. So, but yeah, I'm going to try it on.

Let me try it on stage. But Manti? So they had Manti Teo in there because they had that kind of stuff. And I had a joke about Manti Teo. But Manti Teo had a girlfriend. Remember this big hoax? Big Notre Dame guy. Yeah. Right? This is what you guys did. This is where everybody knows you guys from. Yeah, I was in the thick of this, dude. You were in the thick of it? Not really. He played the girlfriend. That's right. I was Lene Kikua. Were you in school when this happened? This was my junior year, yeah. Junior year. That this happened. So my roommate...

Was on the football team. Yeah. And I remember we're watching ESPN and this story comes on. Wow. And he immediately says, this is nonsense because I talked to this girl on the phone. Wow. So he believed, so he was like, that's his gut reaction was, this is nonsense. Uh, I know Manti. I talked to her on the phone at work, just in passing, like in the locker room, like, Oh, my girlfriend says, hi. So did he never meet her?

Never met her. It was like, it was just an online, uh, relationship. Yeah. And so then, you know, we're watching, we're like, this is crazy. And then just throughout the day, everything just kind of collapses. It was wild. And she was supposedly in Hawaii. She was, um, California, California. Yeah. He's from Hawaii. Yeah. Um,

This is a week after we lost the national championship game too. So this is like a, this two week stretch is like everything's falling apart at Notre Dame. It's all Notre Dame. I thought it happened before the national championship. No, he, he had kind of found out what was going on.

He found out at the Heisman ceremony, actually. That's a crazy part of the story. Yeah. Wow. But it didn't come out publicly until afterwards? No, not until a week after. They show the photo of the real person? Was he trying to get her to come to the Heisman thing? He's probably trying to get her to come. Like, hey, I'm going to maybe win the Heisman. Well, she had already died by that point. Oh, she died. That's right. This is the story that I've heard. I think I've heard him talk about it.

he's at the Heisman ceremony and during a commercial break, he gets a phone call. Yeah. From her. Yeah. Who he thinks is dead. Wow. Wait, how did she die? So do the, do the man, do the quick run through the man. Yeah, sure. Just a brief over, you know it. Yeah. You know what? Brian's got the information. Yeah. So basically, uh,

She had cancer. Or at least that's what she told him. May Tateo was a linebacker for Notre Dame. Big time linebacker. One of the best. Lost in all of this. He's one of the best college football players ever. He won every award except the Heisman. So Tateo and his parents on December 26th, day after Christmas. It's nice they waited. Found out that he'd been a victim of what appeared to be a hoax. Someone using a fictitious name. Apparently...

ingratiated herself with Tao, the school said. Early morning, December 26th, Matai called his coaches to inform them while he was in attendance in the ESPN Awards show in Orlando. He received a phone call from a number he recognized with Lenny Kikua. When he answered it, it was a person whose voice sounded like the same person he talked to who told him that she was, in fact, not dead. Matai was very unnerved by that, as you might imagine. So at first he thought she was still his girlfriend, still real, but actually alive.

I like this at an ESPN award show. It gets to Heisman. It's the Heisman. It's the Heisman. It's the biggest thing in the world. That is such a non-sports person article written. They were doing some ESPN, I don't know, it's like a game show, award show, like something they get like some trophies or something. Football gala. Yeah. Yeah.

Something where a lot of the guys that are the better guys, I think, meet up together and they do something. It was a super contest. They do something like that. It's a meeting that, I don't know, I think it's on TV. I think they show it. Heisman's the biggest thing on earth. And it's just, I mean, there's commercials. It's unbelievable. The trophy's famous. It was... So this is, yeah, so he, just to set the stage a little bit,

So his girlfriend died and his grandmother died on the same day. Yep. His real grandmother. His real grandmother died. Yeah. And then his girlfriend died on the same day. And this became a national story because he went out and played and had like a great game. Yeah. And then that becomes just a story that people talk about all season. Yeah. That this great player on an undefeated team overcame these two losses in his life. Yeah. Yeah.

So, you know, she's dead. And then he gets a call from her at the Heisman ceremony saying, I think she answers and she's like, I'm on the run from drug dealers. And he's just like, I can't talk about this right now. That's great. I'm about they're about to come back from commercial break. Yeah.

bizarre yeah and so did they ever catch like this woman this is why too leave your leave your phone off if you're in a big moment like that just leave give your phone to your mom and say hey hold on to this I just want to stay in this moment and enjoy this moment that's crazy to be at a commercial hello huh like just to be it's like you're in the middle of the Heisman can you imagine

Yeah, so they caught the guy who did it. Yeah, a guy named Renia Tuasosopo. Yeah, and he was talking to her in just a girl voice? He claims to be her. They would talk for hours and hours every night. They'd fall asleep talking to each other on the phone. It turns out it was this guy. He's also a Hawaiian guy. But would he change his voice? Like, he's an unbelievable actor? He would, but some people don't think it was him because on Dr. Phil...

he refused to replicate that voice. Yeah. He's like, I can't do it with the cameras going. So I don't know what he was doing to get that voice going. Yeah. So maybe that's pretty, so it's kind of fun that it, maybe it's still the guys, the other person's still out there. Yeah. But,

I could also see that too, to be like, what if he's got to be in some crazy character mindset that he's in, like he's in his room, like, hello, like, you know, and he's got to, and it would be super embarrassing to do on TV with a live audience. Like in a world where he's like, dude, I can't, like it's in like, you know,

What if he just nailed it, though? And he just is like unbelievable. Oh, he does. If you listen to the audio. He's an actor. He becomes like Jim Carrey all of a sudden. It's like switches character. If you hear the audio, and there's some clips out there that he released, I mean, you would just never in a million years think it was a guy.

a guy would he release voicemails or something some voicemails yeah do you see if you can find the voicemails yeah uh so you would yes so they would he would just have some god that's crazy i i the joke i had about man titan which i have this exact joke was was defending him and the fact that yeah like it's like because everybody made fun like they make fun of them and you're like do everybody could fall for this how right and especially in college like i don't i never did online dating

But I'd imagine everything you're, you have relationships in a world where they do become real and you don't ever really meet this person until probably towards the end. And then once you look into like the extreme lengths, this guy went to, to, to lie to Manti. He found this girl and he used her picture. And then he actually reached out to the girl in the picture and got her to send specific pictures with like words on a,

he he you know wow why did he do it what's that why did he do it i don't know he didn't he trying to get money he's asked about i mean it's you know why do any of these people do anything but he didn't know he didn't know man tateo no he didn't know him personally with matt that's that's part of what they talk about on dr phil he's like i mean i think maybe i don't know i'm confused about everything yeah wow yeah play here's a here's a voicemail sample

Hi, I'm just letting you know I got here and I'm getting ready for my first session and I just want to call you and keep you posted. I miss you. I love you. Bye. I mean, I could see a dude being that voice. Hello. But now that it's in your mind, but if you had just heard that, you'd have been like, that's a woman, right? Oh, no. Yeah, yeah. I'm saying like I could see that a guy, it's not like she's going...

like he's having to go so so feminine yeah like he's kind of in that middle like in your head you're thinking that's gonna be like the voice of like Kristen Bell from like Frozen yeah yeah I mean I don't think it's like you know I don't think he's doing too much hello but it seems like he wouldn't have to get in some big acting for that it's just hello yeah you know I'm doing that for hours and hours every night hi this is uh Julie how you doing

How'd the game go last night? You guys look like you did a real good job down there. I'm the opposite of... I go the opposite. You'd know way too much sports facts. I know. That's great, man. Hey, what was the over-under, right? What happened? You think you guys have to kick that field goal? And he's like, I don't know. Maybe he sounds more feminine than me. Like...

All right, man. I'll hit you up tomorrow, bro. Good to see you. That'd be great to be. That's the, we would have heard those voicemails. That would have been the best. Those sound legit. So man, 10 tail, like, I mean, I get fallen for it, but if he goes, I got the voicemails and he plays it. It's like, uh, man, Ty, what's up? How you doing? Uh, really miss you a lot right now. I love you. Uh, love the flowers that you sent me. I got on my, put them on my table. Uh,

Anywho, and he just keeps going, you guys think you're going to cover, but what's the defense look like against Penn State? They seem like they got a good couple corners. The nickel, they've been running the nickel quite a bit. And he's like, this girl knows all about football, and she loves what I do. Like, he's just even falling more in love with it. I love that. I love that. It's like the world's greatest bookie. Hmm.

You know, like it's just like, it's also comes out that it's like, I, it's like the creator of Bovada. And he's like, look, I really want. I read the long snappers had a cold. Is that true? Cause I don't, I mean, I'm putting a lot of money on this and I need to know, is everybody healthy? Just real specific, you know? Uh, that's funny. Yeah.

What's some other big hoaxes that they've had? Well, one of the biggest ones, have you heard there's a sucker born every minute? That phrase? Yeah. So that comes from the early 1900s. How many babies are born a minute? If a sucker's born every minute, is there... I guess there's got... You know, it's like, what is it? One out of a hundred? That's a good... Thousand? What's your guess? How many babies are born a minute? In the world? That's...

Yeah, let's do worldwide. Worldwide? I mean, world is crazy. Yeah, 100,000 every minute? I'm going to say... I think that's a lot. I'd say 85,000 a minute. I think it's much lower. 10,000. Well, you're... I mean, what are you... I mean, you're already reading. Are you real? You're changing your answers a lot. Are you going 100,000 or 10,000?

I'm going to go 100,000. Worldwide, 100,000 babies are born every minute. You got to realize there's so many minutes. Look at the actual number. That would be a lot. That's a lot. I haven't looked yet. I haven't looked yet. I don't think... I'd say it's lower. I think it's lower. I have not looked at the number yet. How much lower? I mean, I was going to say...

I mean, a thousand, maybe, if not 80. That's not bad. 53. 256. Yeah, I mean, I was going to say 100. 100,000. 256. I said 85,000. 85,000. There's a lot of misinformation going around. Hey, one of us went to Notre Dame. One of us did not. Because I'm the guy I learned from the streets. You're too. You're egghead. You're sitting here looking at the data. I mean, why don't you add up 85,000 babies a minute?

Dude, we would have so many people. Overpopulation would be a straight up- That is kind of crazy. Every 10 minutes- No, he said 100,000. Every 10 minutes, that'd be a million people. He said 100,000 people. No, I didn't. No, I mean- You said 100,000. What are you like? You go 100,000. Yeah, but I- And then I go, there's no way, dude, and you go 10,000. I meant more like 350,000.

I think 10,000 is even, you said a hundred thousand. No. You, you're right. You keep saying no. I said it, but now I'm backtracking. I,

I know, but you go $100,000. And I go, that's crazy. And then he jumped in $85,000. He thought, that is crazy, Nick, you lunatic. $85,000. That's what Aaron said. What he tried to do is Price is Right me. Like, let me just go like $0.10 lower. Nick, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. But I was convincing because he went $85,000. I know. Nick, what are you, an idiot? $100,000? You should lead the podcast. $85,000. $85,000.

I was going to go 100, and then I thought, well, that's got to be more than that. So I said 1,000 was about low. 256 is the answer. That's 2016 data, so maybe it's went up, Nick. So maybe it's up to 100,000. Let me know when you get the 2020 data, okay? Yeah, all right. Nick said 100,000. So 256, so all right. All right. So one out of it, you got to have one out of a 256 chance to be a sucker. Yeah.

So basically, the Cardiff Giant is one of the most famous hoaxes in American history. And it happened in Cardiff, New York. So this guy got in this argument with this preacher. This preacher was saying in the Bible, it said there were giants that roamed the earth at one time. And he thought, I'm just going to mess with them. So he created this petrified 10-foot tall man and buried it. He had some help. He buried it in the back of a yard and then buried it.

waited some time and then got some well diggers to come and like, Oh, look what we found a petrified man. It's 10 feet tall. And it became this big thing and they started charging money for it. People came all over around the world to see this, what they thought was a real petrified giant. And then PT Barnum was so into it. He asked to. That's Nick's favorite guy. PT Barnum. Is that not the guy who's the, the.

I thought you know a lot about P.T. Barnum. Who do you know about? I know P.T. Barnum. Yeah. I don't know if he's like your favorite guy. I don't know if little people are like, that guy, the circus guy, that's our hero. Well, who did you say you like that you talk about? Like you read his book or something. Barnum, maybe I'm thinking that. Bailey? Are you like talking about something completely different? Barnum and Bailey. Barnum and Bailey? Is that...

I didn't really, I'm from Connecticut though, where he's, he, PT Barnum lived in. Did you do a movie with him or about him? I didn't get that move. Thanks for bringing it up. Yeah. You're like, cause you weren't a fan. Yeah. Yeah. Come out the Hugh Jackman movie. Hugh Jackman movie. Yeah. I thought you just mentioned to me this weekend that you liked someone with like a name like that Barnum or Barn, you know, something. I don't,

I'm like, that's like a wildly off. Don't get mad at me because you said 100,000. That's what I feel like. You're mad at me because you said 100,000 and now you're bailing on me. When we get done with the show, you're going to go, by the way, I'm a big TV. Obviously, I'm a big TV.

Well, P.T. Barnum offered $50,000 for the giant. And when they refused, he hired someone to create a plaster replica. He started displaying that saying, this is the real giant. There's his fake. And it worked because people are like, oh, OK. They believe. So then that's the best. You could do all that before social media. If you were really great.

work in a room and a crowd. The original. Even newspapers weren't... He would get people there and just kind of go on this crazy thing. So he wouldn't let people touch it? Probably not. And then that's why he wouldn't sell it for $50,000 because he's like, it's over if I sell it. I don't know. I think he just was making so much money himself. People coming around to see it. He's like, no way. And then... $50,000 in 1869 is a ton of money. Yeah. So then...

The phrase there's a sucker born every minute. It's about 100,000 now. Yeah. A sucker born every minute is a reference to spectators paying to see Barnum's Giant. Oh.

It's crazy. They were both fake. Yeah. I think the first guy sued P.D. Barnum saying, you can't show this as fake. But they were both fake. They were both fake. How did they eventually find out? They went to court and then the judge, the guy finally had to confess. Judge goes, let me just touch it. Yeah. And he's like, okay.

Because he probably wouldn't let anybody touch it or get near it. He just looked at it from a distance. The original Cardiff Giant is currently on display at the Farmer's Market. I'm sorry, not Farmer's Market. That would be great. Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York. I think it should be at the Farmer's Market. Be like, you need eggs? Yeah. Look at that giant. Yeah. It's crazy that we're still paying to go see it.

Yeah. I mean, it's a made-up thing that we're all like, what an idiot. And I'm going to go pay. I'll go to Cooperstown and pay whatever it costs to go look at it. I feel like you would bring us there before you bring us to the Baseball Hall of Fame, though. I would go see this. I think this would be fun. I think I have a better chance of getting...

a story out of that museum than I do a baseball museum. If I'm looking for material, I'm definitely going to, that's got a way better chance than going to the, I'll go to both. What's the management team of that museum like? It's like a family legacy where they keep- Weirdly, I think I read something about he's seven feet tall, the guy that owns it. No. Yeah. How crazy is that? That's why he did it. That's great. That's why he did the giant thing. They're all giants that run this museum. Yeah.

It's a big family. That's how they got into it. They would always get told they were giants. This sounds like a Billy Crystal movie. Do you ever see that? My Giant? Which movie are you talking about? He was in a movie about it. George Marisand was in it. Big George Marisand fan. What is that? I have no idea. He's Billy Crystal's

Yeah. And they go there and it's like Eastern Europe, my giant, you know, he's like, he goes around the town with him. Yeah.

You want me to share some more? Yeah. All right. War of the Worlds. That's the one that maybe most people think about. That's a movie. Well, it was a movie, but it's a real-life thing. Orson Welles did a radio play back in the 1930s, and he did one about Martians attacking Earth. Yeah. And they say at the beginning of the episode that this is just a play. It's not real. It's whatever, blah, blah, blah. But everyone...

was tuned to another station at the time listening to her ventriloquist which is very funny that you're listening to a ventriloquist

Uh, so no one heard the disclaimer that this isn't real. Then once the ventriloquist, not everyone flips over to this and freaking out because they're like, they're attacking Chicago, the St. Louis, the national guard's been wiped out. People are fleeing the big cities. And then people really did start fleeing and freaking out and, uh, started calling, begging police for gas masks, requesting their power be shut off. So the aliens wouldn't see them.

And some people were treated for shock at the hospital. Wow. That's great. So they just missed... That's crazy. So they just missed the announcement. The disclaimer, yeah. Hey, this isn't real. And then they just hear complete terror. Yeah. It was like a newsman, folks. Here's the latest. St. Louis has been destroyed. Yeah.

It says a woman ran into a church in Indianapolis during the evening service, proclaiming, New York has been destroyed. It's the end of the world. Prepare to die. Wow. Yeah. When CBS got wind of the hysteria, Orson Welles went on the airs himself to remind listeners that this was fiction. The FCC investigation found no wrongdoing, but networks agreed to be more cautious regarding programming going forward. I wonder how many people this was. It sounds like a lot of people. Sounds like a lot of people.

What the greatest thing about is Orson Welles has, I believe he had that great voice, right? Didn't he have like, I don't think so. You could. I'm Orson Welles. He had like a great Orson Welles kind of voice. But what if he just like, really like was like, look, I'm, I'm not on today, guys. He's like, it's not real. Like, he just kind of like, he just like buried and whispered that. And then everybody's like, oh my God. Yeah.

They didn't stop and go, this is not real. I mean, how many people didn't hear that? I always thought that in war, you know when they stop, like Civil War, when it's over, there's guys in the mountains. I mean, how long does it take from when it's like, hey, we're done, to just a guy that's the farthest away from...

it being over. I remember reading about a group of Japanese soldiers. On an island, right? On an island, yeah. And it was decades, right? And they just thought the war was still going on. Until recently, until 2000. I mean, it was just recently. I've been to there. Oh, really? I went to there. Look up the exact date. They got the guy... I mean, I honestly think it was five years ago or maybe 15 years ago where the guy has been...

This guy came to Nate's show. He was like, look, you're my enemy. Is that him? Yeah. So he died in 1997, so it's not five years ago. But it was... I want to say it was... I think this is him. Japanese for hiding on Guam. Is that it? Jungle of Guam. 26 years after U.S. forces had regained control of the island in 1944.

So way off on the years. 26 years is pretty crazy, though. It's crazy. And he just thought the war was over. So anybody that would come talk to him, he just thought they were an enemy. And so he stayed hidden.

And, you know, it's like he just thought, I think he's, yeah, maybe saw Americans too and thought, well, they took over. They used to do a bunch of weird stuff at Guam. They had, they had, they didn't want, when America was going to take over, they would have people walk off cliffs because they, they said that America was going to kill your family if they caught you. So they would, they would get them and they would, there's a cliff that,

That they would just have everybody just walk off and commit. So it's like, it'd be better to die that way than to give yourself to the Americans. Wow. And they would have them just go, right, walk off. Crazy. Families, sad.

Yeah, it was 1972. 1972. We also showed that exhibit yesterday to Harper. I explained it to Harper. I go, they had kids who just fall off the cliffs. Anyway, good night. I love you. I just don't want to go to bed. I mean, she, oh, watch anything. Dracula movie. I think, what did she get tired of? Vampires maybe one night. It's like all kinds of stuff, man. And then they just go lay in there. And she's in our bed.

but yeah it's tough where is she now I don't know we haven't seen her since last night I thought I heard somebody leave in the middle of the night she's in school hear a car start up what has anybody had a hoax

Lucy was telling me... Is she going to tell you? She's fine telling you? Yeah, she almost got scammed pretty bad like two days ago. Two days ago. Lucy, Aaron's fiance. Still? Still. Yeah. I think she's not going to do it. This really made me question things, but I didn't. But...

Yeah, she got a phone call saying that her identity had been stolen, that it was involved in a drug ring in El Paso, Texas. And in order to verify her information, she had to wire money to somebody. And she almost did it. She almost did it. Yeah, pretty close to doing it. I would get it. You know what? I had someone...

still my identity in Las Vegas and I had the Las Vegas police call me. Yeah. And like they would send me emails but I think it was real. Like the guy goes we found everything on this. So you should send him some money. He knew. I think the guy knew my information and he's like we found it all through this. No I was never asked to send money.

He goes, we found all this information on this person. This person, they arrested someone that just collects people's information. I was one of the people with the information that they collected. And then, so they had all this. I had to find that email. And, like, the guy, I didn't know what it was. I mean, I think I had my, I, like, showed it. I showed it to my agent or something. Like, I showed it to someone to be like, am I crazy? Is this, like, not being, like.

And it was like, but it was the person that just had my information. And I never had to send money. It was like, I was just answering questions. I was never like, you know.

confirming or anything. It was straight up him telling me that they found this person with all this information. Yeah. I think it happens pretty insane amount now, like through Twitter and through other things where people are, you know, creating. I know I've been like, even by friends. I mean, you have in your act like multiple times where you're tricking me and doing that. I'm like the perfect target because I'm, I'm very trusting. Yeah.

Yeah. So you think giants own that place? Yeah. I had the best, uh, Clint had, had a great hoax on me. Yeah. You know, where he, uh, a very good friend of mine, but this is like, uh, one of the best pranks of all time. This is,

you know, we're going back 15 years. You better hope this story is amazing. Cause you're setting it up a lot. You didn't have to say that. You didn't let us just do it. I wish I had now. I mean, now, now you go one of the greatest pranks. People born a minute, but he, so this is, this is pre where you could like,

check everything out on the internet in such an easy way. This is like 15 years ago where it was literally, it was much harder to get information to find out if things were true. So I told my buddy that I was dancing at a club, you know, and I'm, it was like, I was like, yeah, it was a nutty night. Oh, it was crazy last night. I was dancing on top of a speaker and I'm dancing and getting crazy. And with all these girls on top of a speaker, you're making this up and not making

it up you know that i was on up like i was like working at the club i'm dancing on top of a speaker with girls and it was crazy and you know it's like a it was like a living like a rapper lifestyle somebody's like god i'm that guy where people are like come on on this side of the carpet and hang out with us and i'm like sure so i'm dancing on the speaker and i just tell him loosely that i and this is also a little person my friend and about two weeks later he says i'm

Nick, you must be so mad. I'm like, what? He goes, they did a story. ABC News did a story about little people that exploit themselves for money. And they had you dancing on that stage. I go, what are you talking about? Then he had other people from around the country tell me that

you know, Oh, like I saw that I'm, I'm ashamed at you. I can't believe you would dance. Like you're, you're exploiting yourself. I'm like, I was just there. Like they wanted me to go up on this. I did. I went on the speaker. Cause I was like, so like it literally went for like,

I think even weeks that I was like, to the point where I contacted ABC's PR department. And I was like, we got to figure this out because I'm going to sue you. I'm going to go crazy. Like Clint's mom, I'd be like, this is going too far. And it was that great moment where I was like,

I was just like, wow, that was just so, it just made me laugh. Like it was like, I wasn't even mad because it was so funny that it happened like that. And that it was orchestrated because it wasn't like I was, yeah, I didn't do anything. It wasn't like I was online too. Yeah. This is even like, I believe pre Facebook. So it wasn't even like, I'm like, you know, I'm doing like a, like a story of like, oh, ABC, you know, or it just was a couple of phone calls and it was so much easier to do that and not fact check it. Yeah. Yeah.

You should tell that story in your act. You should figure out that's a great story. And then it's funny because you think with the internet, it would be, you're like, well, it's going to be harder to trick people and it's actually become easier. And you would think because you're like, oh, I could look everything up. I can see if this is real. And they're starting to figure out

They have ways where Facebook, you get an email from Facebook. I mean, I'll get them where it's an email and it says from it's to Facebook. There's always one little thing off, but it's so close that you would never know. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I have a couple stories, but I tell them in my act about you. But Nick, have you pretended to be your own agent? Whoa, whoa, whoa. These accusations. Come on. We're going to talk...

you're you're offending my agent what is my agent's listening right now my mistake what are you saying i'm doing no but i'll do like i i enjoy that kind of like calling as people or just goofing around even my mom i did something to my mom where i would call i used to call like in goofy voices like hello i'm nick you know like it's like a a russian you know randomly i heard mick there by the

Hello, I'm Mick. Yeah, that's Mick. Yeah, I did say Mick that time, the first time. But anyways, I would do these phone calls like that, and my mom was trying to sell a car.

And so this Russian guy really wanted the car. Yeah. And he had like a very like fake sounding accent. Yeah. And he's like, hello, I'm interested in like this car. And my mom was like, Nick, shut up. You're, you know, it was just like, yeah. I kept calling back. No, I'm not Nick. I really want car. Yeah. And the guy bought the car. The guy bought the car. Yeah. That's funny. I started thinking one for...

The only thing I can think of when Twitter first became a thing, there's a standard, I guess, if you're going to do a fake account for someone, you're supposed to make it obvious. Yeah. Like it's a fake account. I didn't know those rules. So I thought it'd be fun to create an account for Marvin Harrison. The football player? Yeah. Who never says a word. I thought that'd be so funny if Marvin Harrison, you know, was saying funny things. I wanted it to be fake.

But I made it way too real. And I got so many followers so quick. Wow. And it was getting out of hand really quickly. How many followers was it? I mean, it was more than I have now. Yeah. I don't know. Like 10,000? Maybe something like that. I mean, it blew up fast.

Were you doing statements as him? Yeah, but then I didn't realize you're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to make it clear that it's a fake account. So if anybody can arrest Brian Bates that's listening, he's... I mean, I deleted it quickly. Marvin Harris might, if he finds out about it, we know now he doesn't have a... He has a little bit of a temper on me.

Marvin Harris doesn't talk ever. And then he retires and just, didn't he shoot somebody? At a car wash or something. Yeah. I was in my head. I was like, wasn't there a car wash?

Crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. It's the best. I mean, not the best. It's sad, but it's funny to me. Marvin Harris was like, what a wonderful guy. I'm not saying he's not bad. I don't know what the situation was, but it's just crazy to be like, he never spoke and then kills a guy or something or some kind of shooting involved. And this had already happened when I created this account, which made me think, this will be so much funnier, but I made it way too real. All of a sudden, you got a lot of new followers or comments. There they go. I've got a lot of fake accounts right now.

That I get messages. If you ever, if you're hearing this, if you blue, if I don't have a check mark next to my name, then that's not it. I get messages a lot and they're getting really good. They use your photo that you're currently using on your thing. And then they, and people send me direct pictures of the direct message. Like they'll be like, Hey, what's up? And you know, they're like, Oh, I'm a big fan. And they're like, Oh man, I appreciate you. I love hanging out. Uh,

I'd love to meet you after the show sometime, please come. We'll get your tickets. Come to shit. Like, I mean, it's a whole long thing. And then they send it to me to, you know, be like, Hey, this is crazy, but there it's a, it seems like it's a real person. It's not a, it's not a bot. They're, they're, they're crazy. I was in, um, it just happened to me actually. The, uh,

but I wasn't, they weren't making up that they were me, but I was in a New York times article. And the writer of that article has, it was like a big writer and he has a lot of Twitter followers and I got a message from him and he was like, Hey, blah, blah, blah. Can you sign up for this?

thing and it was like uh some kind of disability related thing and that you know i'm in that world and so i was like yeah i run this plug yes i run this uh easter sales disability film challenge it's a weekend film competition where you need to have somebody with a disability in front of or behind the camera if you guys go to disabilityfilmchallenge.com check out all the amazing films from this year's challenge

But so anyways, I'm in that world of disability. So I thought like, oh, well, maybe I'll just sign this thing. And I, you know, I tell him, oh, by the way, thank you so much for including me in, you know, in this article. And what an amazing honor. No problem. You deserve it. And we're having a conversation as if this is the writer, but then he keeps asking me to click this thing and sign up for some kind of loan involving disability. And I'm like, well,

Well, I mean, it is in this disability thing and the article is about the challenge in me. So I'm like, so I contacted him and he was, we ended up going to Twitter and being like, this is a fake account. And yeah, you know, and they, and it's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. That's how they get you. Wow. I just realized that wasn't Nate that finally followed me. It is a different story.

What do you mean? That wasn't the real Nate Bargatze. He thought, oh, finally. That guy's a big fan of your comedy.

Do the Sid Finch, if people don't know that one. All right, Sid Finch. That's a great one. So this was an April Fool's Day hoax that Sports Illustrated did. They realized the issue was coming out April 1st, 1985. So this writer wrote this article about Sid Finch, a fictional baseball player. He was raised in an English orphanage, learned yoga in Tibet, and could throw a fastball as fast as 168 miles per hour.

Real guy. Really? Yeah. Go ahead. Keep going. And so they found this, they put Sid's picture on the cover and it said he was a rookie baseball pitcher training with New York Mets. Got hurt.

He would have pitched. He got hurt one year. Can you believe that? It was like, what year was it? 1985. 85. When were you born? 82. He got hurt 168 miles an hour. Could have pitched. How crazy is that? That is crazy. You wish you would have went to your... Yankees? What new team are you a fan of? Always been a Yankee fan. Yankees. Sid Finch would have went to the Yankees in 85. You'd have hurt it. You'd have been a Hall of Famer. Got hurt. Can't throw that fast.

He wore only one shoe, a heavy hiker's boot, when pitching. How crazy is that? That would be, I'd sign him up on my team. Everybody signed him up. You're throwing 168 miles an hour, who's not signing him up? You know? Sid is kind of a shady name, though. Sid Finch is a great, it's a baseball name. You don't think it's a baseball name? It sounds like a name. He got lost in the shuffle in the orphanages and then came up 168 miles an hour. Dude, you know how fast, like, a catcher couldn't catch it.

that was the thing i feel like i missed part of this so this is a hoax though right he's not a real guy no it's a real guy i don't feel like i i zoned out for a second i'll be honest i'm like i think i missed part of where it's like it's not a real lie to you the whole episode i know he is the whole episode's about hoaxes this is my life with nate we will like he will stretch out a lie and a trick for

days or if not weeks with me sometimes where it's like this is my aunt and i'm like well i guess it's his aunt you know it's telling you the people that run that museum are all seven feet tall he had never heard of this 30 seconds before yeah and you're like oh wow nick that would be great if it's a giant museum with a seven foot guy that works there you try to get that no that's why they started it because the guys are seven feet that's what made them think of it uh

Aaron loves this. I know. He's a fan. All right. Anyway, Sid Finch. Who did he get drafted by? The Mets. The Mets. Went to the Mets. You don't remember this? He played with Lenny Dystryk. Played with him. The Yankees wouldn't take him. I'll tell you that. But the Mets, Lenny Dystryk played with him. Yeah. Let's see. Where is it? Yeah. Lenny Dystryk talked about him on Howard Stern. He met him once before he got hurt. Big fan of those car washes. They interviewed Mets pitching coach Mel Stoudemire about it.

And anyway, Mets fans were very excited, overjoyed that they're lucky in finding such a player and flooded Sports Illustrated with a request for more information. Crazy. Do you think you could be, do you think that was a hoax or not a hoax?

I mean, I would say it felt like a real story. It is a real story. I know, but this is the game. But this is a hoax element. Do you think it was a real story or not a real story? This is the game. People thought it was a hoax because it sounds so crazy. But 168 miles an hour seems too fast. That is fast. Well, that's so fast. I think 100 miles an hour seems like you never hear anyone throwing 120 miles an hour.

Yeah. So how do you go to 160? Guy Buck Johnson, 315 miles an hour. Look that up. He's the fastest pitcher. Yeah, Buck Johnson. That sounds like somebody that beat Tiger Woods. It's Joe Buck's great-great-grandfather. Joe Buck.

See, Aaron will never let me be completely tricked because he laughs at... Aaron, you need to leave the room. Aaron is like... This is so obviously not true.

168 miles an hour is insane. It is, though. You would think after being friends with Nate for like 100 years that I'd be like, he's probably lying. And I'm like, I believe him. On an episode about lying. He is very trusting. I mean, an episode about hoaxing. Every story, I just said that giants own giants. You were like, oh, that makes sense. Nick pays attention, and then Nick, it's not that he doesn't, like, there's not a dumb factor in this. It's Nick pays attention, then Nick zones out.

And I just know when Nick is zoned out. And then I pounce on that opportunity. So we've just been friends long enough that I just can see Nick is not really... Nick's kind of thinking about something else. Yeah. So I know he's kind of not in the conversation. And then I know when to throw this thing in. And then Nick kind of...

starts agreeing with you, I think, before he's back in the conversation. Like, you know, he's like, oh, wow, that's crazy. Yeah. And then he's like, is it? And then it's like, I've got him. If I keep like, he's in a sweet spot. Yeah. Yeah. I get like, if I just say a little things here and there and then kind of go back and I keep jumping back in and, and, you know,

But yeah, I mean, the whole episode's about stuff that's not real. So I don't know why we would throw a real story about something like that. It's pretty crazy to be like... It says, many people fell for the prank. The magazine printed a much smaller article in the following April 8th issue announcing Fitch's retirement. We...

We had a guy fall for the prank as we talked about the prank. So that was that good of a prank. I used to work for the Mets. Do you want me to do these other ones? Yeah, do the Balloon Boy. Do you know that? Do you remember that? This was just a few years ago. Seinfeld episode? Bubble? Yep, Bubble Boy. What's the news thing? Just say what the news thing was. All right, so on October 15th, so here it came up on the anniversary, 2009, a homemade helium-filled gas balloon

came untethered in Fort Collins, Colorado, and the family called the police. Their six-year-old son was trapped inside it. Do you remember that? No. You don't remember that news story? I don't remember it. They were saying it was helium, and it wasn't helium. Authorities confirmed the balloon reached 7,000 feet during its 90-minute flight. It was...

Up there's some long news crews like had helicopters. I remember watching it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People watch it a lot. Watch it on the news. The event attracted worldwide attention and the boy, his name was Falcon, was nicknamed Balloon Boy by the media. National Guard helicopters and local police pursued the balloon after flying more than an hour. He's still up there. What is he?

He's 16 now. Yeah. 16 years old. Well, he turned 17 in two days. Just turned 17. 17 in two days. Yeah. He's driving. Well, he's not. He's in a bulletin. Yeah. Above the sky. But he's 17 years old up there. I almost can vote during this. You know, not quite yet. I don't believe it. Again, Aaron is like the reason. Yeah. I don't even know how to read this because I don't know. Yeah.

All right. Let's see. This is a news story. We could do the news footage of it. I believe it. Aaron, do you remember this? So I remember hearing of this. Can you see him in the balloon? You see the balloon going up. Yeah, but you see the balloon. It's referenced. Yeah, he's in the basket. Let me pull up some video. It's referenced in the office.

It is? Yeah. What was it? And it's like a part of the zeitgeist. So I heard of it. I don't know how this ends, though. So I don't know what. Yeah, I don't. So the kids in the balloon. These all sound like great movies, by the way. Every one of these. The balloon boys. Look, there he is. Where's he at now? He's right over Kansas. His name is Falcon, by the way. We just kind of brushed over that. Yeah, I know. Oh, sorry. No pay for the ad free. Oh, my God.

Big production budget here on Nate Land. I mean, my bad. Who could forget that homemade flying saucer? You don't remember this? Whoa. So he climbed in. He climbed in when his parents didn't know he climbed in. He was just like, oh, look at this. And then it's gone. He's in there. He calls it now. Is that crazy? He was in there.

Because he climbed in, and the parents didn't know where he was at. They have three kids. Boys are crazy. And then they climb in and do it. But there's never, like, to me. It's not a normal balloon. It's not like a hot air balloon. I want to see him in, like, an egg. But that was the balloon. What is it? Like Willy Wonka. It's like a weather balloon. Yeah. It's a weather balloon. So that's what he climbed in.

See, I wouldn't believe that. I would need to see it happen. I don't know what to do. There's a video. Well, that's the video. You can't see him because he's inside of a weather balloon. It's not a normal. It's not a hot air balloon. The basket wouldn't trick me. Huh? I wouldn't be fooled. You would have said he's not in there. I would have said he's not in there. Because I think you kind of believe it right now. I mean, everyone believed he was in there. Everybody thought he was in there.

Was he in there? Yes. Then why would it be in the hoax? The hoax episode? No, he wasn't. Everybody believed he was in there. You don't have to play anymore of the video. When Falcon was not found... I just ruined the fun. I'm like... Then I'm going back to that other thing. Did they get the balloon? Did they down the balloon? The balloon landed on its own. All right, I'm going to tell you. When it finally came to landing on its own...

And when Falcon was not found inside, it was... Terrible name. Is the kid's name real Falcon? That's his actual name is Falcon. Yeah.

When Falcon was not outside, it was reported that an object had been seen falling from the balloon. So a search was begun. Later that day, the boy was found hiding in the attic of his home where he had apparently been the entire time. Suspicions of a hoax soon arose, particularly after an interview with Wolf Blitzer and Larry King Live that same evening. Asked why he was hiding, Falcon said to his father, you guys said that we did this for the show.

Finally, the Sheriff's Department announced... Did they have a video clip of that? Wolf Blitzer? Yeah, him saying you guys did it for the show. Yeah, I remember when it happened. Bates was there as the weatherman. Bates was working on the news then. I was. So he would have been... Did y'all cover this? I love that clip that you had with the old clip of you and... The weather clip. That was me in college. That was awesome. That's a hoax.

That wasn't really bait. The dad finally pled guilty to attempting to influence a public servant. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail in order to pay $36,000 in restitution. And his wife was sentenced to 20 days of weekend jail. What was the balloon boy in the office? Oh, sorry. It's one of the Scranton Stranglers driving by. And they said there are three things we...

You need to watch live the balloon boy, Michael Jackson's funeral, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Michael goes, I saw him, I saw him. And he takes gravel. Yeah. What's the Microsoft buys the Catholic church. I don't know that one either. Microsoft acquisition hoax is a bogus 1994 press release suggesting that Microsoft acquired the Roman Catholic church.

It's considered to be the first internet hoax to reach a mass audience. Many of the press releases claims were unrealistic from suggesting that Catholics would soon be able to take Holy communion through their computer to claiming that conversion to Catholicism was an upgrade. Yeah.

Despite these warning signs, several readers of the fake press release contacted Microsoft to confirm the claim of the hoax. See, I mean, that pre-2000, you would need to actually watch the news to find out if it was a fake. Now you could just go and be like, it's not. But now more people are falling for stuff. Even the media falls for stuff. I mean, everybody's falling for it.

can fall for things because it's hard to check. Like the balloon boy thing is like, that's a story that when that happened, that's, you know, it's a high speed chase when you see those on TV where everybody goes and watches. And it's, that was like a moment where everybody's watching this. Everybody thinks his kids up there and it's, it's unbelievable. Why did the parents do it? Cause they were just trying to be funny or. I think they just wanted media attention. Yeah. On what? Just put like their family. I,

Is there a difference between a hoax and a scam? Like the catch me if you can. We saw that in the museum. Yeah, he's in there. It's unbelievable. That guy's story. Those are all real things. He was a pilot. He was a doctor. He was a lawyer. Yep, I'm a doctor. It's crazy. That guy passed the law. He took past the bar with Leonardo DiCaprio. What's his name? Henry...

Frank Abigail. Frank Abigail. And then he... That movie's unbelievable. I love that. Awesome. But he actually did all this stuff. This goes back to my thing that he's a guy... I think we've talked about it before.

He's a guy that's so smart that could just be wildly successful at any of these things. But there's something in his mind that makes him try to cheat the system. And then he's so good at it. Now he works for the FBI. He ended up working for them because he was so good at it. That's like that girl that was the...

the drug Lord that I talked about where she could have been anything. She was, could have been a runner in the Olympics. And then she's like, I want to do this. And so she's the best drug Lord there's ever been. It's the, it's these people that are just, they're really good at what, at anything. And they can go. And that's what he did. Frank, uh, Abigail, Frank, Abigail jr. Yeah.

Yeah, it's crazy. So that would have been, what is that? That's a hoax? That's not a hoax. Is that a hoax? That's a scam. That would be a scam. Scam artist. So that would be the difference. Bloom Boy is a hoax. It's what I guess mass people believe in. A hoax is probably a story. A hoax is something that mass people believe this thing. Yeah. That's a hoax. A scam is one guy scamming a system.

So that would be the difference. Twitter, if you get that on Twitter, you're getting scammed. Yeah. Versus MantiTayotl got scammed.

It wasn't really a hoax. It was probably a mix of both. What's crazy is 9-11, there was all these fake charities and things. I've got one here. I thought you were about to just be like, 9-11's a hoax. I'm like, we're a different podcast now. Thanks a lot, Nick. You guys wanted Nick, now you got him. Nick Land. Nick Land. Hey, everybody in Nick Land.

There was a woman who claimed to be a survivor of the World Trade Center attacks, and she went by the name Tanya Head. She joined the World Trade Center Survivor Network support group, later became its president, but in 2007 it was revealed that her story was a hoax. She wasn't even in New York City on September 11th, but in reality was attending classes in her native city of Barcelona, Spain. Yeah. Steve Ranazzisi was the same comedian. Yeah.

He's a great guy. Besides that. That's a little thing that he did. Nate, you'll like this one. Go ahead, Aaron. No, I wasn't going to. I don't even know why. My bad. Yeah, he was trying to talk too much. Talked a little too much. That guy's going to come back. Phil. Phil's going to come back. Phil Hill's going to come back and go, yikes, I guess I opened that barn door a little too far. He ran all out.

The Edward Owens hoax was a historical hoax created by students at George Mason University in 2008 as a class project to see if they could create a false story that would be spread across the internet. The students created a website and a fictitious entry on Wikipedia about Edward Owens, supposedly a Virginia oyster fisherman born in 1853, who became a pirate.

The hoax was reported as true in some media outlets. This was a class project that Professor led them in. Let's see if we can create fake news story and it'll work. And it did. I think you could create a fake story. I think we could talk about it on this podcast and create a fake story. Us talking about creating this fake story. And you could be like, hey, everybody listening.

We're going to do interviews on the media about it. And when we do it, we are going to be completely lying, but we're going to stick to this story. And I'm telling you that we're lying on this podcast because I think people do not do research anymore. So they do not look up any kind of facts. They would never listen to an hour and a half podcast to figure out me going, I am lying to you. And we're almost like, if we could ever do it, if we could ever think of something, it'd be fun to try to do. Yeah.

Everybody just goes to jail after. You're like, would you go to jail? I don't... I mean, if you're... What happened to Matt Tattoos? I think you're... Did that guy go to jail? We're not doing... That guy... Yeah, I don't know. Did he go to jail? I don't know what that guy... I don't know if he even did anything illegal. He just broke a guy's heart. It was just kind of a mean thing to do. Yeah, it was mean. Now, have you ever seen the...

A recent example of that, of creating a fake news story, that Justin Bieber eating a burrito sideways. You ever see that picture? No. It's a group of guys, internet guys, and they wanted to create a fake story to go viral. Yeah. And they hired a Justin Bieber impersonator, and they were like, what's the weirdest thing we could have him do? Yeah. So they took pictures of him sitting... I want to see this. Sitting at a park, eating a burrito, like a corn on the cob, sideways. Yeah.

And that picture of Justin Brito eating a Bieber. Eating a Bieber. Yeah. I remember when that picture went viral. They were like, what is wrong with Justin Bieber? Why is he eating a burrito like this? That's not him. Just a random dude. I'm wearing the same shirt as him, basically. Trending number one on Twitter. I mean, it was a huge thing. And it was just some guy's lying.

Yeah. Pretty great. Yeah. And they did it just to do that. Just to lie. Yeah. Just to lie and just watch people blow up. Cause it's just show people's reactions or everybody's reaction is first to, there's no questioning. Yeah. There's no like, Hey, could this be true? He tried to make us believe the way Boggs went in the hall of fame as a Tampa Bay devil ray. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. Yeah.

We didn't fall for it, though, did we, Nate? Was that... Were you just making that up? No. Or you thought that? It was a thing. Yeah. It's a hoax. You played there. Oh, it's a hoax. It's a hoax that I fell for. Yeah. You know? That's what Aaron thought. Was that a con or a hoax? It was a hoax. It was a hoax.

The guy, yeah, it's an easy one. It's not as good as the burrito, Justin Bieber burrito, but it's a guy that's just like, I like to have a little fun. He's like, what's your hoax you made up? Wade Bogg went into the Hall of Fame as the Temple Bay Deborah. You're like, oh, that's cool, man. Like, you know. I'll tell you my favorite one. There's a video. It's a video on YouTube. You can look it up. It's some guys who scanned TripAdvisor. They're in London. They created a fake restaurant.

with the goal of making it the number one rated restaurant in London. And they did over the course of months and months, they posted fake pictures, they got fake reviews and it became the number one rated restaurant in London. It's not a real place. Yeah. And they were just getting flooded with calls and they were like, we're booked, we're booked, we're booked. We can't. And eventually they opened up their backyard one night and created a fake restaurant and tricked all these people. They served them like, uh,

Ramen noodles and stuff. I told him it was... Oh, that's great. Everybody bought it. They're like, this place is amazing. It's all fake. I love that. Because Yelp, I really do trust Yelp and TripAdvisor. So I would be that guy that's like, this is some of the best. Well, when you read TripAdvisor, you always got to...

It takes a special person to be writing some of these reviews. I do love someone that writes an honest review, but you can't... When you read some of these reviews, they get too personal. I would say this on stage sometimes where I was like... They say someone's name at the hotel. They're like, everything was nice except for...

benjamin that worked at the and you're like well now i don't even trust this review because you're too angry yeah you can't you talk to someone that doesn't when you're trying to level them like trying to tell them to calm down they can't if they're so angry they're not they they can't be there's no rational they don't become you know rational they're they just lose it so when people if you're mad enough to go leave a review it's either this is the greatest or this is the worst

There's never a guy that's just in the middle. I had an alright time. Yeah. I had a great time. Food was great. Dollywood. I would really review. I love Dollywood. I think I was super impressed because I didn't know what to expect. You know what we realized too? I was like, why did we never go there as a kid? Because we had an Opryland. So we never would have went because we had a theme park here.

A country music themed park already. So it never would have been, you never would have thought to go. Cause I was like, I told him, I called my mom, I go, why did we never come here? Like you would just been an easy vacation, but it was cause we had Opulent. I loved it. I was a little surprised though, that there wasn't like a million Dolly Parton things around.

But we were saying, too, the live shows. Yeah. Dolly Parton would have probably been live shows, but they couldn't have live shows. Yeah. She talked. It's not Dolly. It's not like it's Mickey Mouse. Yeah. Where it would be, you know, you see Mickey Mouse everywhere. That's what he wanted. It's an unbelievable park, though. And it's beautiful, too. You're like going into like a national park. And they're not telling us to say. I don't think we got a free Dollywood trip. We did not.

No Ubers out in Dollywood. We learned that. Yeah. No Ubers in Pigeon Forge. Aaron and I learned that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, they did. We took a taxi from Pigeon Forge to Knoxville. How did that go? How far was that? It was about an hour and 15 minutes. Oh, really? Something like that. It was just a lady in her car, basically. Yeah. We were setting the vaccine. She had a wet towel down the back seat. Not soaking wet, but damp for some reason. Who was sitting on it? You? You had to sit on the towel? Yeah, we sat on the towel. I'm not.

That's great. I don't know. Aaron fell asleep immediately. I felt so bad. Me and her. She was talking too. I was like, I'll just let Brian do it now. He just makes him the sacrificial lamb. Oh, man. Angel. You sit up front or no? No, I sit in the back, but that didn't stop her from talking to us. She's very nice. She's very nice. Hour 15, that's tough. All right. Is there any more hoaxes? I'm out of time for Urban Legends. No, that's the main ones. We're due Urban Legends tomorrow.

On its own separate. Hoaxes was enough. This is all hoax. We got Nick to convince back and forth. Nick thought there was a hoax a couple times. That was fun. I couldn't handle it. Huh? I couldn't handle what you were doing. The pitcher.

The pitcher kind of got me a little just because the reading of it sounded like 168 miles an hour. I know. Well, it's crazy to even how could it even remotely get you when you when I say read the story about the hoax? I just say read the story. I go, Brian, go ahead and read the hoax story about Sid Finch. We're reading hoaxes. Why would we throw one in there? That's like a real one.

And then you're like, oh, wow. How about for Urban Legends? I'll throw in some real ones and see if Nick can do it. That would be a fun game. Can you tell what's real and what's not? I love that. Yeah. I think I can get you. I think I can make one up for you. You think I could do that? I probably could make one up. Time is on our side. Yeah. Time. Yep.

How many minutes are babies born? I'm regretting that one. Yeah, 100,000. Well, then you try to backtrack it. That was the best. Like, I go, no, you said 100. You go, no, no, no, no, no. I never said that. People can hear the video. People can listen to the audio. You should run for office. Yeah, you go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I never said 100,000. You just said 100,000. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I said 10,000, which is still insane. Aaron...

threw you under the bus to then cut it down to $85,000. He thought $100,000 is a lunatic. What are you, a lunatic? $85,000. That's great. What are you, Insanity Dude? Nick, get off the podcast. Nate, $85,000. Final answer. All right, everybody. Nateland, thank you so much. Thanks for leaving the comments, reviews, YouTube.

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