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Today's episode of the Nate Land podcast is brought to you by DraftKings, GameTime, and AG1. Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Welcome to Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Berg. It's your Brian Bates here in Weber. Dusty Slick. All right.

uh welcome we're here uh it's labor labor day yeah what is labor day for the workers yeah us people that labor oh really yeah so it's a day for everybody if you have a job just for blue collar people like us do they make people that don't have jobs go to work

Yeah, that's why Labor Day. That's what it seems like. It's like, get to work. Well, stuff is still open today, right? So not like federal. It's a federal holiday. That's good. They need some. Yeah. But like Lowe's is still open today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so who gets it? Just the federal people? The IRS. The IRS are like, God, man, this day is to celebrate us. And then they go to Lowe's and have a Labor Day party. Yeah, they go. Schools are closed. Let's go buy some stuff. Put those people to work today. Yeah, but the schools, the students are not working. But the teachers get off. Okay. So then parents that work at Lowe's now have to figure out what to do today. Yeah, that's true.

Yeah. Well, happy Labor Day, everybody. I hope you're out there with your loved ones celebrating this weekend on this hot day in Nashville, Tennessee. We have everybody's loved ones are coming over today. Yeah. Yeah. Daycares are closed on Labor Day, so it's more work for us. Yeah. Yeah. Because of your age. Yeah.

Cause I have to spend time with my child. Yeah. I was glad to do this podcast. Yeah. Uh, we're glad to be, y'all were talking about caffeine before.

I'm jacked up. You're jacked up. Yeah, Dusty had a half a cup of coffee. Listen, I quit coffee for a while, and I've been drinking it for about a week now. Took a little tolerance break. And I am fired up. I mean, I got a little shake to me right now. You like that? I don't really. Oh, I feel good. I had a little AJ1 to balance it out, so I got a little caffeine, a little greens. Yeah, kind of the old days, you think? Yeah.

Yeah, it's wild. I mean, I feel I'm ready to go. We could get some stuff done. I drank a Celsius on the way here with Dusty. Then I drank a full cup of coffee. And I think I'm finally up to normal. Now I have the energy that I should have. I did no coffee. I've done no coffee yesterday. And then I haven't had any today.

I may have a heart attack. I'm going to try not to do it. I may have a heart attack during this podcast. You can't even say it. Yeah, I can't even say it. I'm already slurred. Yeah. I had like, the other day I had it. He might have had one as he said, you know. What if you had one and they go, we don't know what's going on. And you're like, I'm having a heart attack. Yeah. And they're like, what? I'm having a heart attack. And they go, I think he's fine. I don't know what. And then that's how it goes down. That's like an old country term, heart attack. Yeah.

If you had one here, we would leave the cameras rolling, show the body bag go out. And then Greg Warren just walked by and sit right down that chair. And we'd just be right at it. We don't even cut. And then that one guy on YouTube that always does hashtag dump Dusty, he would celebrate. Yeah. Oh, they did it. Yeah. He's always there. That's me, Dusty. That's his life's mission at this point.

He doesn't even say why, really. It's like, give some details, bud. Yeah. It's a problem. Trying to get Dump Dusty trending. Yeah. If you click on somebody on YouTube, click on their username, it'll show every comment they've made on your channel. And this guy, just a vendetta. I mean, every episode for probably a year, just Dump Dusty, Dump Dusty. I assume it's an old comic that I used to know, and they're mad at me. That's what I think. And they have their own little code names.

whatever. He might be your number one listener. Yeah. Or he may listen to your podcast too. Yeah, I hope so. Yeah.

He's a fine genius. He hates you so much that he's ended up loving you because he just listens to you so often. Yeah. I got some people like that too, but the people that I usually am like that towards, they're not motivated enough to do podcasts and stuff, so I don't have a lot of material to watch. There's one guy in particular, I won't say his name, but I love to dig and try to find what he's doing in standup now. It's very little and it bums me out because I'm like, give me some more. I want to show my wife this stuff.

Yeah. Because you don't like them. Yeah. Yeah. Like it's like the hate watch or whatever. Yeah. That's a real thing. Yeah. Yeah. You can really get sucked up being like something makes you like it.

Probably not good though. I don't think so. So with caffeine, I did, so I played golf the other day and I was like, I think I had so much that it like messed my tempo up and I felt jittery and I was like, it was like the first time where I was like, I don't like this. Like, I don't, you know, and it got like out of control and then yesterday I was like, I'm not drinking coffee. Look, I still had my, I had a couple diet pills

Dr. Pepper's. But I mean, I've been a little bit easier on those. I just, I like to eat them with, drink them with food and then that's about it. I don't eat, drink. I mean, I talk like I drink a ton. I can't drink a ton and I used to, but if I'm home,

Maybe two 12 ounces, maybe. No, it's nothing. Yeah. Two 12 ounces. Well, I've gotten good. That's before lunch. I think it's, I don't know. You're old, dude. You just can't do any. It just crashes down on you. The energy drinks are what seem extreme to me. Yeah. What do you mean?

Well, it's like, how much energy do you need? I always take a little more. Yeah. I've been asking for more since he started this. Nate's the one sending them to me. I got them on my Amazon. He doesn't even know where they're coming from. He goes, I'm just going to deal with Celsius. Every Monday, he comes to my door. Are they Celsius energy? That's the new energy? I'm into it now. They just kind of took over these gas stations. Now they're everywhere, dude.

They came out of nowhere, Celsius. But I'm into what they're doing. They got good flavors. Zero sugar. Yeah. That's big for me. Yeah. You know. You got to give something. Something's got to give. Yes. And you go, that's zero sugar. What do you get with it food-wise?

You just go in there and get the Celsius? Just kind of get after it. Do you get food at the gas station? No, no, no. Just a Celsius, maybe some Tic Tacs. What's the name Celsius? That's like a temperature, right? Mm-hmm. I know how to use it. You know how to calculate now. Yeah, it's double at 30. Okay. Yeah, remember we did it. Yeah, right. So it's 20, 40, 70.

Easy. Easy. Yeah. Right now. It did seem easy, but I forgot it the moment we left the podcast. So today's going to be 90 minus 30, 60, 30. So it's 30 degrees Celsius outside. Wow. Yeah. Wow. That's well done. Yeah. Thanks. You can be using that a bunch. Yeah, I will. I might put all my stuff on Celsius.

I don't know why. What's that? My car. Oh, I like that. Our air conditioning in the house. You can change the Celsius. Why don't we do Fahrenheit? Huh? Why don't we do Fahrenheit? It seems like everybody does Celsius. We're weak.

I don't know why. No, I think everybody does Fahrenheit. I thought they, I felt when I was out there, it was the vice versa kind of thing where you're like the Fahrenheit. I thought it was like, we're the only ones doing Fahrenheit or something or like it's meters. They do meters everywhere. Maybe it was meters. The metric system. Yeah. And it was like everybody switched to the other one and then all these have just held on to that way. But because they're the ones that have to switch usually.

I mean, I guess when we go to other countries, we don't really, we're just like, we just know what we know. Yeah. We're still going to do miles. Yeah. We're not going to get into kilometers. Yeah. They say a lot of kilometers and kilometers. I don't have, I don't know how to do that. About stones. Yeah. I don't know what that is. I've seen stones too. And I don't know that. I've never heard the weight. You weigh like six stones or something. Oh yeah. Yeah.

That feels vague. It sounds better than 300 pounds. Yeah. It seems vague, doesn't it? Yeah, how big's a stone? Yeah. You have like six stones. You're like, that's not that bad. Six stones is 84 pounds. Oh. So how many stones am I at? 180. Yeah. Five. You're almost 13 stones. 13 stones. So 300 is... 300 is 21 stones. That's a lot. That's tough. Starts filling. Starts filling. That's a wheelbarrow. Yeah. That starts filling. Yeah.

That starts feeling worse than 300 pounds. You go, I didn't, you know. My weight's old enough to drink. There you go. There's 21 stones over here. Because then you think, because then your mind just goes to carrying 21 stones. And you're like, it's an all day project. You just had to lift one stone and move it to the other stone. That's a wall. That's tough to count. Yeah.

That's a good size wall. It can be a skinny wall that you can't see over or a nice long wall. That's a dusty. That's what we're calling walls. Yeah. You might not even have that many stones. It's tough to find. You could. You'd have to borrow some. Get down one stone. And then maybe it would take you a while to get down one. How much to get down one stone? So if it's a 21, what's like 290, 280 is 20. So to lose a stone,

You have to lose 20 pounds. I mean, you might be a better weight thing to do stones. They're better milestones, right? I'm trying to... Milestones. That's where it comes from. But it doesn't feel as good when you're like, yeah, I lost a stone. How good does it feel to go, did I drop five stone? Well, five. That's 500 pounds. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But your motivation would be to lose, instead of pounds, because that's so...

Like, you know, when you try to lose weight, it's like, it's so slow. So if you just go, I'm just trying to lose a stone.

That means it's 20 pounds. People are like, you mean a kidney stone? How many pounds is a stone? Trying to lose a stone. 14 pounds. So 14 pounds. So that's pretty, that almost be like, all right, I'm trying to lose three stones. And so instead of weighing yourself every day for a pound, you weigh yourself once a month and you're trying to see if you can lose a stone. Right, right, right.

We figure some stuff out today. I actually might do that. So you're going to change your car to Celsius. You can change your scale to stone. Yep. You can start driving on the other side of the road. Yep.

Yeah. It's all stuff going. Start with driving on the other side of the road. That's what I want to do. Just be like, Hey, I'm just doing the metric system or whatever. They're like, that doesn't have anything to do with that. And I'm like, yeah, but I'm living like abroad. You've probably driven on the other side of the road. I was going to say, this is your argument to the police. Yeah. Yeah.

Trying to broaden my horizons a bit. We're just happy not seeing the water. Yeah, I'm getting ready for England, man. Yeah. They're like, sorry, sir, you're never leaving the country ever again. You're like, well, I'm sorry. All right. Can we turn that air down? Let me turn it down. Yeah, because it's on Celsius, so you won't know what to do.

He's going to put it down to... You got to add a couple minus some. Is he about to make it warmer in here? Yeah, I think he means up. That's funny how air like... Did he say turn the air down? That means it would blow less. But is he turning the air up or the temperature up? I think he's turning the temperature up. That's the question. That is the question. So Nate, settle an argument. What just happened? Turn the air down.

You turn the temperature down? Yeah. Oh, you made it colder. Yeah. All right. Nice. Is that what you say? I figured you were making it warmer because you're usually cold. No, I'm hot now. All this hot caffeine coming from the sound. But some people get confused. That means turn the air down means to blow less. So it would make the temperature. You say turn the AC up.

I think that means make it colder, but you could argue that means you're turning the temperature up. Yeah. You know, make it a little warmer. Yeah. I say, I think I say, I don't say AC, but I would say turn there. Can you turn the air down or turn the air up? Air up would be, it's too cold. Air down would be, it's cold. Yeah. That's how it is. Can you cut it down? Cut it off? Can you cut the air on? Cut the air on would be.

I like to say cut on because it really frustrates people and they go, you don't cut it on, you cut it off. And I like to go, no, I cut it on. I cut ours on. I like to cut things on. Most people just turn it on or turn it off. Yeah, but I like to cut it. I cut it. I had a joke where I stopped saying cut it because it was, it just would be. Confuse people? Yeah. When I was just, when I was here, it doesn't, but everywhere else, it's just like. Yeah. They're like, what?

Yeah, it's like it's because I was like, and I just like I like cut it off, cut it on. You're going to cut these lights on, cut these lights off. Is that the joke? Cut it off. Oh, yeah. You're going to cut these. Yeah. Yeah, that was it. Yeah. You're going to cut these lights on. And then I think I switched it to turn because it was like everybody's like, you don't cut lights off. It's one of those that you're like, I'm taking them out of the joke, even though I like saying it. Right. That's just how I say it. But I guess it's because you cut the power to it. Right. When you turn it off. But I like to cut the power off.

I like to cut that power right in. Yeah. I'm cutting it in. We look at more of the on off as the. And I feel like that's the more important part. Yeah. On and off. It's like, shouldn't be confusing if I go cut it on. You know what I mean? It's on. It's on. All right. You know what I mean? Cut it on. You tell someone to cut it out, but you don't usually tell someone to cut it on.

Right. But you don't really want them to. If you need them to cut it out, you need them to calm down. You never want to go, hey, cut it on. You guys are just too chill in here. Cut it on. Nate's often said to me, I wish Aaron would have cut it on today. Oh, okay. Two Celsius. Yeah. But I wouldn't. Yeah, I wouldn't say it in that way. I would just say it in the air. Cutting the lights on and off. Yeah. Cutting the air conditioner on. You'll cut the volume down.

I would say turn the volume down. Okay. Interesting. Cut it up. Yeah. Is it something to do with the actual physical device? Because when I still, when I think volume, even though I don't think most volume changers are like this anymore, I still think a knob that you're turning left and right. Yeah. That'd be turn the volume down. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. But I don't know if I say it because of that. I say it because people in my life said it. And now I say it. I don't, I don't, I'm not really, you know, looking at the, well, what am I doing?

What is that? Etymology? Etymology. Etymology. I for sure have said cut it up. We're going to have some nuts in there. Cut it up. I for sure have said that. Cut it up. It seems too weird. It is weird when you think about it, but I for sure said it. By your radio? Yeah. Turn it up. Rip the knob off. Cut it up. You not feel it when I say it? No, no, no. It feels uncomfortable. I don't think you said it.

You would have said cut it down, cut it, all that stuff. But you don't, there's some things too far. Is it? Yeah. That's ridiculous, Dusty. All right. Yeah. What are you thinking? Cut it down. Okay. It feels, I don't know. It feels like I would have said it, but.

I found an old video of myself as a kid where it seems like I made frog have two syllables. I was like frog. Yeah. You know? That I could see. Yeah. Big old frog. He probably talked about frogs a lot. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh.

I mean, yeah. All the time. Every day. How many frogs do you think you were around growing up? Lots of them. Lots of them. You know, they used to say if you pick up a frog and it pees on your hand, then you'll get warts, right? And then they say that's like a wise tale or a wives tale. I don't know whose tale it is, but-

But old wives tell. Yeah. But I would pick up frogs all the time. They would always pee on me and I would always have warts. But as an adult, I'm not picking up frogs and I don't have warts. Oh, you really, you did have warts a lot as a kid? I would get little warts. Not a lot of them, but like I would get, you know, random little warts here on my hands. And you pick up frogs quite a bit, huh? All the time as a kid. Yeah. They were always peeing. Frog gigging? Isn't that what it's called? Well, I wouldn't kill them. I'd just pick them up.

Yeah, that's putting a spike through them. Oh, gigging means killing? Yeah. Oh, for what purpose? Just for fun? To eat. Well, people don't grow up with money. They have to go out in the wild and do stuff. Yeah, eat frogs. That's why you don't know what an anus is. Right. Yeah.

All this time, you thought frog gigging was just hanging out with frogs. Hey, little buddy. I thought it was catching them, like fishing. Yeah. Like you just kind of scoop them up, admire them, and then throw them back. No, they have like sticks with like a fork on the end of it that they would just. Like spear fishing. Yeah. I never did it. It's like picking up trash on the side of the highway. Right. We didn't have a lot of money, but we had more money than eating frogs out of the creek. Oh, that's good to know. Yeah.

Some. Yeah. We'll go to a restaurant and get them. Yeah. We ain't making them. Right. The slave family ain't made frogs in a long time. We ain't going back to it. Yeah. But if there's frogs on the menu, you'll have some.

You know how they say everything tastes like chicken, but it's always fried stuff. They're like, oh, it tastes like chicken. It's like, maybe you just associate chicken with fried. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I've had like snake or alligator eat that. Yeah. But it's like very tough. Yeah. It's like hard to chew and eat. They say that, right? Yeah. Yeah. Game? Game. No, I think game is like, I thought it was like duck, like ducks gamey. Like it's got a. That's all game.

I thought it was like a smell. Like it was like, like duck. I think I was like, it just smelt too much like the animal it was. That's where you get like a duck curry at an Asian restaurant and put a lot of curry in it. And then you're like, all you taste is the curry really. Yeah. Oh, they're trying to get that game out of there. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. You need to get the game. I don't ever get duck.

I used to like duck at this one Thai place. So I've tricked myself into thinking I like duck and I'll get it at other places. It's never good. I'm never like, I'm glad I made this decision. Because you think, oh, I eat chicken all the time. It's boring. But then somebody will get chicken, I'll get duck. And then I'm like, I wish I would have got the chicken. You know what I mean? I never go, wish I would have got the frog legs.

You know what I mean? I've had frog legs before. It's not good. People act like it's delicious, like gator tail. And they're like, oh, I love it. Like, you don't. Yeah. You just like fried that you dip in a sauce. Yeah. Yeah.

Like calamari. It's like, you don't like that. You just like a fried. I think people like calamari. I'm not a fan of it. I don't like the texture of it, but I think people do like it. I like it fried. I think people do. I like it fried. And if you dip it in the sauce, which I'm just trying to get to the sauce. If I think about what it is, though, it grosses me out. What is calamari? Squid.

Babies. What'd you never heard? I've heard of calamari. I could have told you what it was. It's little rings, little real chewy rings. Oh, yeah, dude. I mean, it's a squid you're eating. It was in the ocean. All meat's kind of gross if you think about what you're eating. That's probably true. I don't know. Like a meat that you can eat, like beef that you can eat mostly raw is, I think that's pretty gross.

Oh, like a steak. Yeah. Okay. Not like ground beef. Oh, okay. Some people do that, though. In the Midwest, it's called tiger meat. Oh, yeah. They just eat raw ground beef. Oh, really? They'll put it on like a charcuterie board, saltine crackers, onions, pickles, and raw ground beef. I'm not ready for that. I would try it. I would try it, too, if it was out. Ain't that how you get sick? I think you can...

I guess if it's real fresh, fresh, that's when it's supposed to be. Okay. Tiger meat is a raw beef dish commonly found in Midwestern U.S. states with significant German populations such as North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Often referred to as a cannibal sandwich. It gets worse as it goes. Yeah, yeah.

I guess you put egg, onion, salt and pepper and other stuff in it. Salmonella. Mixing raw beef and raw egg. I mean, again, it just gets worse as it goes. Sounds like a comic from the 80s. Salmonella. Salmonella. I'm still out there. How's that guy doing? The Wisconsin Department of Health Services warns against consuming raw meat sandwiches. And they're at risk of contracting bacteria. Finally, some government stuff. I'm on board with it.

Well, I was in Wisconsin. Yeah, you were this weekend, right? Did you have some? I ate at Culver's. Oh, nice. Got me a Butterburger. Nice local place. Yeah. Is that? Yeah. We have a Culver's, right? Yeah. Oh, we do? Oh, well, never mind. I was all excited. Yeah. That's a chain. I saw a Culver's in Murfreesboro yesterday. It's a chain, but it's their thing up there for sure. Yeah. How was it? It was great.

It was a lot better when I thought, I'm getting something these boys never heard of. I can drive you one right now. Probably for the podcast. Honestly, eight minutes. It's probably an eight, seven minute drive. You could go there, eat, come back. We'll still be doing that. I'll look out the window. You could see the sign. Oh, yeah. You could sit down and eat and we would still be doing and drive back. And we'd still be doing the podcast, maybe wrapping it up. You would be able to let us know how it was. You'd still be in the comments.

Yeah. Yeah. You could also drive to your timeshare and back. Well, if I go there, I'm going to lounge. It's beautiful. How was Wisconsin? It was great. Skyline comedy club. Saturday, two shows was great. Um, a lot of folks came out, um,

Just a lot of fun. Well, they got quite the Nate land lineup there, right? You're there. Greg Warren is there soon. And Dusty's there pretty soon. All in September. So if you're a Nate land van in Appleton, Wisconsin, this is your, this is your month. All the promo videos were just you guys. Okay. Oh yeah. Cause I'm there in November. Yeah.

oh yeah about it oh that's i mean not all but you're gonna do it you're gonna do it soon name appleton yeah i did do it i mean probably not soon but i did it before i ran the last hour so i was he'll do it on the way back down huh yeah when it all comes crashing down that's when i'm gonna hit you know i'll be lucky if they say yes uh but that was when i went to that was uh when i ran the

You know, like going to a club to warm up for... Right. I went to Appleman. It's a great club. It is a great club. Friday night, I did my fantasy football draft and 28th year in this league. Were you gone? No, I left Saturday morning. Yeah. So I was here for it. You do the draft in person with these friends? You've been doing it 28 years. Yep. Now remind us, I know you've talked about this, are these college friends, high school friends? Co-workers. Okay.

But in my defense, it was my first year there out of college. 1995, my first year at Channel 5. We started a fantasy football league, and it's still going. Wow. 28 years? Yeah. I didn't even know fantasy football has been going for 28 years. I mean, it's got to be one of the oldest leagues. Wow.

still going continuous 28 years didn't yeah and you almost kicked out of it because when you when you left channel 5 yeah but they let you I share a team I would yeah me and my buddy we co-own a team together okay just so it's legal are you still the only one that doesn't work there yeah you think that's uncomfortable

You think they talk about it a lot at work? Last year, they offered me to get back in, and I have fun with it because we're all busy, so me and my buddy would do it. Right. It's fun. How many times have you won this league? I don't want to talk about it. It's not as many as I should for 28 years. Have you ever won it? I'm like the Jets. I've won one. Okay. In our history. Got to the championship a couple times. There you go. I choked, but it's still fun. You all do it online?

Yeah, we've talked about that before. When we started, it was totally. But we still have very old school basic rules because when we started, we had to go to the newspaper and look up the scores. So we basically just do touchdowns. We keep it simple. Okay. So we do do some yardage, stuff like that. But our scores are much lower than, say, what the average fantasy football. It's not a PPR league or anything like that. No, no, no, no.

We played one year. Fantasy football doesn't always seem like too much work. It is a lot. It seems like you're really managing a team. Oh, yeah. I stopped doing that. Yeah. I'm like, I just like to watch a game here and there. I like to listen to them talk. Yeah, I wanted to do it. It's fun. And I had one of those leagues. It was an old league. We started in 2003. I started comedy. And so I kind of liked that because it was just like we got started. I could see that.

Like where it's like, it's a good core group that you want to still stay with. But now once you get out of it, you're like, I can't. Last time I did one, uh, buddy Adam, uh,

I did with him. It's a lot of people from DCA, my high school. And, uh, but they, I mean, the, I got probably, I felt like I had Le'Veon Bell and I was getting more trade requests than I think he probably got. I had like a guy calling me.

Texting me all day. That you didn't know. That I didn't know. Trying to trade with you? Yeah, just going like, hey, what's going on with that Le'Veon Bell? You think you want to move him? And you're like, I don't want to do this. Yeah. And so now I will sit on him. I picked a good guy. Well, he didn't sit out that whole year. You're doing more work than his actual agents. Yeah. I should have. Honestly, I should have probably traded him, but I was so like...

I can't talk about this guy. This is insane. Yeah, because if you trade him, then he's going to be like, oh, this guy will trade, and then he's going to call you about everybody trying to trade. Did they have a text thread? Because I was with Adam the other day, and he was showing it to me. I mean, it's thousands of texts of just, you know, but that's the fun part, but it's just that's the part that you go like, I got to get out of here, dude. Like, I can't. There's so many texts. Yeah, you're like, I have a family. I have a family. Yeah. Like, I have a family. I got to, I mean, I really...

was more involved with Le'Veon Bell than maybe Le'Veon Bell was. Yeah. I was getting action all day. Just someone just, what are you doing? Middle of the night, early morning. Hey, just hope you have a good day. Let me know what you think about Le'Veon Bell today. I'll be thinking about it. Like, just put it in my mind. It's Thanksgiving. Yeah. It's like before you go out to work. Hey, have a great day. Yeah. We can talk about Le'Veon Bell at some point, but...

Let you know. I'll be around. So with fantasy, so like Le'Veon Bell physically was not playing. He set out. So he's no good to you necessarily. No good at all. But this guy wants him because he thinks he may come back.

Because he may come back. And honestly, it would have been better for me to trade him because that guy had the other running back for the Steelers. So the backup running back who had a great year that year. James Conner. So it was better. You want to have like that system. I never did that. That's a smart system to do though because then if one of them goes out, you got the other ones playing. Okay. So either way.

you know, so that's why he wanted Le'Veon Bell. Cause he could actually sit on Le'Veon Bell and it would make sense where I actually needed Le'Veon Bell, but I, out of principle, uh,

of getting texts too many times. Yeah. I decided I will let my team fail. Yeah. If Le'Veon Bell dies in real life, I'm still keeping him. I would. You could say retired just to be a little bit nicer. That's true. That is true. If he retired, I would.

I would keep him. Yeah. Yeah. There's a similar situation going on this year with Jonathan Taylor. He plays for the Colts. He was the number one pick in a lot of fantasy drafts last year. And now he's wanting to trade and, you know, he may sit out. So he could start the whole year. Who knows? But I read some of this. So we have the donations with Wikipedia. Oh, yeah. I read somewhere that.

that they have a ton of money, but I don't know if that's true. I bet they do. Yeah. I don't know. You know, you read it just anywhere. Like it's, it's all comes from, I don't, you know, it feels like a dusty, just in a corner going, dude, they got, you know how much money they got? And you're like, I mean, do you know? And then it's no one really knows, you know, it's probably true. Would you rather than just put ads on these Wikipedia pages?

instead of asking us. I'd rather than just get rid of them. Yeah, I'd rather just delete it. I just want to know. It said they had money. Oh, delete Wikipedia. Yeah, it said they had money and I want to know do they have money? I think they have money. It's like the reason we use Wikipedia is because we Google something and Wikipedia comes up and now Wikipedia acts like we need them. It's like, just delete it. I think you'd suffer without them. Every week I need them for the questions. Yeah.

I think it's easy to go, but there should be other alternatives. That's the thing. There's no other alternatives. Yeah. Why don't you start a Dusty? I should start one. A Dusty Beatty, that little, you know, that's like. Some loose ideas. Yeah. A lot of stuff. You know, a kid in school looks up the moon and then it's your face going. A lot of my stuff starts with, listen, I can't prove this.

Dustypedia. Yeah. All right. Here's what they're telling you. Here's what I think. But they're like 2% of our readers donate. I mean, that has to be millions of people still. Yeah. Oh, of course. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing that's crazy. So if 2% of your, which seems like a lot, 2% of our readers donate. You're like, so you're good.

They donate a dollar, $3. I mean, there's gotta be, how many people use Wikipedia? Hundreds and millions of, you know. I love how you went hundreds and millions. No, I said hundreds. And NPR does the same thing where it's like, I thought you were funded by the government. And they're always like, we're funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but donate some money. Doers like you. Yeah, we do need the donations.

They had that with Oprah and The Rock. They said, donate money to Maui. People just lit up on them. Yeah, I saw that. They're like, Oprah's a billionaire. Yeah. Yeah, Oprah could rebuild the whole island. Yeah. Yeah, The Rock. And The Rock's from there, right? And then you're just like, yeah, you just...

Y'all just do it. They're like, we gave $5 million. You're like, that's not- Yeah, his family's Samoan. Yeah. I mean, look, $5 million is a lot of money, but it's like, whatever you're making, you're like, I don't know if that's- Yeah. If you got a billion dollars, you could do a lot better than that. And she probably has multiple billion. Isn't the government helping?

Like that's the thing. There's a government. Like they're asking people to give money. There's a lot of federal funds. Yeah, there's a lot of federal funds. Then you got The Rock and Oprah. There's a lot of celebrities that live there. Yeah. So you're kind of just like, yeah, why don't y'all kind of get together? I think that's why people don't want to donate because you think, well, you're going to donate to something that the government's just going to come in and, you know, like just take over and do. You know, it's people not knowing where the money's going to go. Right.

And we were already given all this money to Wikipedia. The Rock Party show posted a video of him working out already. I saw it last night. He posted a video of a new shirt that he's selling for their company. It's a shirt they're trying out. That's the part that makes you go, I don't care. And I do care the most for those people. Sure. Absolutely the most. But that's the part that makes you, when it's just this guy just, and I like him. I like Oprah. I don't mind it. But it's like, they're just kind of out of,

Was it a foundation they were asking people to give to? Yeah. I mean, who cares? It's all the same thing. It doesn't matter. I guarantee you it is. There's no difference. I don't really understand charity, but whatever the foundation is or whatever this, everybody's got something and nothing is getting solved, but everybody's got something. So you're giving money to something. Nothing is getting, they never show me a finished product of anything.

of anything that's with charity never goes, we're good. We just solved it. What's the next thing to solve? So there's no ending solution. And so The Rock, when The Rock and them, they do it. I mean, he is, Art posted a clip of him working out, showing his shirt that they're going to start selling. And, you know, and that's fine. But you're like, you just yesterday told me that we need to give money to

Maui. And then now we got to buy your shirt. Two days later, you're like, we got some good merch coming up with the rock logo. I mean, how much better will we like celebrities if they all just came together at a moment like this and they go, hey, we got it. We got it. We're going to rebuild Hawaii. Let's sing a song. By the way, the rock weighs 18 stone. Isn't that fun? Isn't that fun? The rock.

Yeah. Weighs 18 stone. See, I think that's, yeah, it doesn't sound good there for him. I think you'd rather be strong. I think the rock, you know, that's good weight. Yeah. Those are good stones. Those are good stones. Yeah. Those are healthy, muscular stones. 18 good stones. How tall is he? I think he's pretty. What's the difference between a rock and a stone? I think rocks. Hard work. More raggedy. What is? It feels more raggedy. Like a rock feels like, ah, it's just a rock. Oh, a stone's smooth. But a stone feels like, this is valuable. 6'4".

There's some dispute whether it's 6'4 or 6'5. So we'll get to the bottom of it. Solve that. Y'all have anything? Well, anyway, I finished football draft. It went great. Yeah, get more into it. Well, I have a reason for it.

Here's why. If you don't have friends to play fantasy football with, then all this fantasy football, they don't even do it online. But yeah, let everybody TMZ Brian. What's going on? If you don't have friends to play with, maybe you should try DraftKings. Oh, that was nice. That was good. I'm sorry. No, that was actually good. You actually did better. Let me ask you this. Can you believe

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I think Charleston was one of the first cities altogether. We're looking for first city or state. Let's do state. Delaware is the first state, right? First city in the country? I think we're doing just between the two. Yeah, we got Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Oh, man.

Oh, man. South Carolina. Yeah. Where does Maine even come in at? I mean, they stopped listing them. Yeah, they were just – Yeah, they were just added recently. 23rd. That's embarrassing. Alabama. Alabama beat Maine. When were we? I think Tennessee – 1796. Tennessee was – It's hard to get across those mountains.

16. Oh, yeah. We're up there. Yeah. I named the year. Nobody's impressed. 17. Yeah. That's cool. You knew the year? Yeah. He knows every zip code in Tennessee. So, yeah. I know the old Hickory zip code. I can always remember Tennessee because it's 20 years after the country you were born.

Still doing that joke? Yeah. It was a good joke in the 80s, still relevant now. Good joke in the 1780s and still a good joke now. So you enjoyed Maine.

I love Maine. I wish I would have been able to see more of the countryside. Actually, this guy that my mom used to date when I was like six, seven years old. This should be good. Lives in Maine. And him and my mom dated for a little while. They actually rode in a Jeep all the way from Alabama to Maine one time. And he came to the show. Oh. It was great. You know, the guy didn't date very long. I don't have any bad things to say about him, but it was pretty cool. Yeah. To see this guy. Yeah. Yeah.

We talked for a second. Nothing really to say. There's only so much you can. I was going to say, how long do you talk to that guy? Right. I mean, not long. Like, hey, I remember seeing you a couple of times. Great to see you again. But yeah, it was fun. You know, he had brown hair back then. It's gray now. But this guy's getting old. That's a very different, like growing up.

Like the, just to be like, oh, my mom's boy, my mom's old boyfriend's coming tonight. Like, it's a mindset that you're like, I wouldn't even know how to handle it. Not saying good or bad, but I remember Jay, Jay would have, Big Jay would always be like, oh, this girl dated my mom. You know, it's like, but you always have a very

If you grew up like that, I feel like you just have a very healthy, you're like, yeah, I met him. He's a good dude. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it is different than your parents. Like my dad's had four wives, you know, so not counting girlfriends.

You just, it's just what it is. And so you're just like, yeah. I got like two guys out there that were like my brothers for nine years. And now we're like not related to each other at all. You know, they were my stepbrothers, but we were like raised together. Oh. And now they're just dudes. Yeah. You know what I mean? Still talk to them? A little bit on Facebook, but not.

Not in real life. Yeah. Yeah. And y'all lived together for nine years. Yeah. Wow. We were like brothers. You were. Me and this one guy. I mean, my stepmom used to dress us alike. We were a year apart. So we would often be dressed alike. Now, are these the brothers in the Gene Hackman video? Yeah.

He met Gene Hackman in a video. And they were in there. Yeah. Wow. That's crazy. It was very exciting. I mean, they used to show sheep and cows. And I'd be there looking at them. Your brother's proud. Yeah. Yeah. Excited for them. My dad's yelling at them. I feel bad. Because I'm just like, I just want to show the sheep. Yeah, you're right. Don't yell at them about it. Because you feel like it's on you. That's your blood. Yeah. So you're kind of like, you know.

You think they would feel that where you kind of, you feel like you represent the guy you brought and then they represent their mom who they brought. Yeah. So if there's any trouble, you're like, sorry about that. Yeah. It's like you work there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, it's great. I mean, so I had a good time. I love it. You know, my dad was telling me this. My dad left me with this guy one time, like while he went out on a date and I swallowed a penny and it was real bad. I had weird poops and stuff after when I was a little kid. And my dad and I knew about this story, but my dad went.

on and on telling me the other day about this guy. He knew this is degenerate gambler and he lost everything. And it's how he was going down to the dog track and Opelika or shorter Alabama. And he lost all his money and lost everything. And then after he talked about this guy for a long time, he goes, that's the guy I left you with one time when I went to on a date, you swallowed the penny. That's a good call. He left me with this guy. His whole life's falling apart. It seems like a good babysitter. Yeah.

Maybe his life was good, though, at that point. Maybe. Maybe the pennies would send him over the edge. He needed that change. Lucky penny. He's going to gamble that penny. He had everything in front of him. He's probably the next day, he's like, I got a big, tomorrow I'm about to start my first day as a lawyer. He goes, hey, that's awesome. Will you watch my Sunday night? He's like, yeah, absolutely. What could go wrong? Then you swallow a penny and his life goes. Can't handle it. I hope he doesn't listen to the podcast. I'd hate for him to know.

Then I swallowed that penny. Oh. Ruined his life. Oh, yeah, yeah. He knows. He knows. Yeah. Read some of your guys' comments. Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, NateLand at NateBurguzzi.com. Olivia Branch. This week's episode was exactly what I needed. A couple of weeks ago, I found out I'm pregnant with twins. All right. Congrats. Congrats. I'm incredibly overjoyed and slightly terrified. Lo and behold, the topic this week was parenting. And what else? Leanne Morgan.

She is walking, talking, laughing, hug. She is a walking, talking, laughing, hug. I was like, shouldn't there be an A in there? And it's just I moved on. Yeah.

There is a name. This is so perfect and made me feel so good. I definitely shed a few tears at baby daddy Bates getting mushy about his own sweet girl. Were you crying last week? He cried a lot. Yeah, I cried a lot. It was manly. I was scooting over to where you were by the end of it. It was a lot. Aaron and Leanne switched seats. I can't do that.

Leanne said on the podcast I should have my testosterone checked. She did. I've been crying a lot. It's like, have you had your testosterone looked at? And Leanne always says nice things. I know. Well, that is nice for her. It came from a place of compassion. We've had that conversation before on the road numerous times. Have you ever got it tested? Yeah. Is it low? Yeah. You asked me that last week. I have none. I forgot. Sorry. You had to say it again. Yes.

Say it into the mic a little more, Brian. To hundreds of thousands of people, I have low testosterone. I have low T. But you're riding it out. I commend that. Yeah. Yeah, I don't have time for T these days. I don't know if anybody can handle you with T. Brian comes in with high T one day. I would like to see you get on that just to see what it would do. I did do it for a while. You did? Yeah. What did it do?

I was jacked up. Yeah. You're like Dusty on a half a cup of coffee. Yeah. Yeah. Came a real rageaholic. Yeah. And sewing harder. That's funny. You're like sewing with rope. Starts crocheting. Yeah. Crocheting with violets. With a rainbow. You got a rainbow knife using it. And you're like, well, that's not, I think that makes it worse. Yeah.

Good times. That should be. We should see. I want to see Brian Bates on T. Me too. I mean, let's make it happen. Let's get a go fund me. Let's get a go fund me. Everybody. Oprah's going to donate five million. We'll donate money. Mm hmm. Do test. A hundred dollars. Testosterone shots on the podcast. There you go. Live. And you would then you'd be right.

Mine was a cream. Was it the shot? Yeah. We'll do the shot and then you just know to do it every Monday. Right. That's how you know you have low testosterone. They're like, do you want the cream or a shot? You're like, I'll take the cream. They're like, all right, you have low T. That will give you two shots. Trick question.

I think you could figure out the squirrel problem if you had tea. Yeah. I think you'd have the energy to solve it. Uh-huh. That's a good point. Now you just take it. Yeah. That's a good point. You guys are making some valid points here. Yeah. I can't argue with anything y'all are saying. You know what? Let Ruth feel what it feels like to be married to a man for a second. That was far. I didn't think that was far. On Labor Day, Nate? Yeah. It's their day. It's the woman's day.

Low T-tongue. That was mean. I didn't think it was going to be mean when I was saying it. I said, think about a podcast. Otherwise, you're just joking around. But when you're on a podcast, you're like, oh, the joke that I wish that I did not make is now recorded. Right, right, right.

Or if you're just hanging out, you're like, you just. Well, I can take it out. You move on. Yeah. I can take it out. Nah. Nah, it's too late. I mean, they like the joke. Go back and crank that volume up. I'd like to hear that again. Luke Tharp.

I like that last thing. It's Luke Tharp. That's a whole good name together. Luke Tharp. Luke Tharp and Olivia Branch. I think Olivia Branch is a good name too. And Luke Tharp. Yeah. Two good names. That's like cousins. Yeah. You know?

Uh, listening to breakfast and Leanne talk sounds like overhearing the older couple at Waffle House that bring their own cups. Well, we're on a trend here now. Um, but Leanne and I have stopped at many a Waffle House on the road. Don't bring our own cups, but we've had, like I said, some

hormone is that a type of person that brings their own cups to a waffle house i've never heard well just a waffle house but i think some people just bring their own cups to yeah my dad would meet with people at a coffee shop and the one lady that would come wouldn't like to drink coffee out of a paper cup so she would bring her own coffee cup to drink and my dad's on to decaf now so if he goes to a place and they don't have regular he'll bring his own mug

and pour his decaf. That's smart. Oh, he'll, yeah. So he can drink decaf. So there are people out there bringing their own mugs. Waffle House has a ceramic mug. Yeah, they got their, they're doing great with mugs. If you're bringing your own cup to the Waffle House, you're too picky for Waffle House. Exactly. You're in the wrong place. And that's like the best mug because it's, they're like, this is, this is our thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So Luke, you sound stupid now. Took a shot of tea. Beat it.

He's got no shirt on now. It looks like that sunscreen where you can see it. And you're like, I think you're supposed to rub that cream all the way in. He just got it under his eyes. It's all tea. It's just all tea. He walks out the door every day with tea. Beat it, Tharp. You're like, oh, yeah, Brian.

Aaron Platzer. I'm a father of two young daughters, so I thoroughly enjoyed your parenting episode. Trying to be a good father, I've been working on getting my three-year-old daughter to get into the Nate Land spirit. I'm proud to say that I've succeeded. Now when I say hello, folks, my daughter will respond with a proud, hey, bear. Thank you, Nate.

Ballywick Dusty and Aaron for the hilarious podcast that's awesome thank you Aaron yeah now Brian do you want to say I don't know when you want to say this but I just saw this morning speaking of hello folks your dry bar do you want to talk about that at some point

Is it out? It says it's coming out September 14th. I did not know that. I saw it on social media. It's called Hello Folks. Yeah? Yeah. I saw September 14th as a release date. Really? Well, maybe let's look it up later, I guess. I thought you were going to talk about it. I'm sorry. All right. All right. September 14th. You get a little tea and these things start happening. I got on the horn and it's like, get it out. Yeah. What are you hanging on to it for? September 14th is soon. Yeah.

Thank you. I'll look it up. I look at it, but I 99% sure. I saw that on Facebook. Another comment who has one coming out, posted the upcoming lineup and yours was, and yours was on there. I'd love to see it. Yeah. Uh, there's a lot of good week.

Yeah. I mean, you got to be doing press for it. You're like, guys, give me time. There it is. Coming soon. September 14th. Brian Bates. Hello, folks. Hey! Look at that. 51 years old and freshly a father, Brian Bates tells the story of his late-in-life baby supporting poorly named sports teams and the challenge of canceling a newspaper.

There it is. There's a trailer and everything. Yeah. Let's watch the trailer. I didn't mean to break the news. Let's watch that. Let's watch that. Yeah. Let's watch the trailer. This is going to be so awkward. I'll tell you that. I know I am. I'm much more appreciative. Sometimes I'll just be sitting there watching TV and I'll just turn and look at her out there cutting the grass. Yeah.

It looks awesome. Yeah. I'll say thank you, Lord, for putting her in my life. Yeah, that's a good joke. Sometimes I'll pause the game and take her some water. So thank you.

That's a great job. Thank you. Yeah, that's a good trailer. Sorry, I thought you knew all this. I knew none of this. I wouldn't have brought it on you like that. That's exciting, though. Yeah. September 14th. Hot Jimmy Buffett joke you had this week, too. Yeah, yeah. You taking any heat for that online? I have taken some heat for it. Yeah, too soon? You got a lot of too soon? I got a lot of too soon, and...

You know, I wish I'd have kept more of the joke in there because at the end I say, some of y'all probably don't like this, but come Monday, it'll be all right. Yeah. Which is another Jimmy Buffett reference. But yeah, it's gotten a lot of little traction for me. What was the joke? So Jimmy Buffett died Saturday. And I said, there's already people speculating on this cause of death. And...

Some people say there's a woman to blame. That's from Margaritaville. Yeah. That's the joke. And then I'm like, but I think we know it's nobody's fault. You got to know the song to get it. No, that's good. Yeah. I get the joke. All right. We were on a roll for a while. Now I'm back to no tea. No, no, that was good. Yeah. This is awesome. It's awesome. So keep an eye out for this, everybody. Hop on there. September 14th, Dry Bar. Ooh.

I love the name too. Hello folks. How do you do breaking news? Drum roll. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like if they,

That's how they find out if you're an American in the woods. You do the ESPN. They just do that. They go, and then they get quiet and someone goes, and they're like, we got it. We got them. There's a lot of good. Shane Gill's special comes out tomorrow. Netflix. These are going now a little vice opposite of Bates, not clean. So the other way.

Shane Gills has one on Netflix. It's going to be unreal. And then my old... Still great friends, Luis Gomez. He has a half hour out. Dave Smith. They're doing...

uh with all their you know their world kurt metzger just kirk metzger just did one joe list recently uh yeah gas digital uh yeah joe list just put out a special there's a lot of comics to put out us joe joe list just put a hour on youtube you can go watch that and then uh lewis and them or and as yeah as i was saying there's this would be if you're if you're going they're not going to be like brian's and the the clean side of it but these are all my

good, good friends. My friend Evan Burke put out a special too. Oh. It's very funny. Yeah. There you go. Evan's a funny guy. Nashville comic. Yeah. Went to number one on iTunes. Yeah, he did good. That's pretty cool. Yeah. There we go. A lot of specials. That's fun. And we'll be September 14th. Is that next week? I think so, isn't it? It's like next Monday. So this comes out on the 6th. So it'll be. Next Wednesday. It'll be. Is it the 14th?

Let's look at the calendar. It's next Thursday. Next Thursday. Oh. Well, I'm glad you mentioned it because we've already recorded next week's episode. So if you haven't seen this. You wouldn't have been able to plug it. Yeah. We wouldn't even have known to plug it. Oh, wow. Thursday night. Next Thursday night. How about it? Oh, wait. What is today? Today's the 6th. Yeah. Today's the 6th. Yeah. So, okay. So next Thursday night. Oh, yeah.

Did it say it comes out at night? No, it doesn't say any details. Oh, you said next Thursday night. And I thought, oh, maybe it's released. Would you rather come out at 730 a.m.? I don't know. I'm just wondering when you said next Thursday night. I thought, oh, is there a certain time? I hate that they don't put dry bar on YouTube now.

I mean, that's how I always watch it. I'm going to bring up the negative. I don't think I knew that. So they don't put it on YouTube? They have their own streaming network now. Because I'll tell you what, I think it's hard. People can't find that stuff anymore. Anyway, September 14th. Go to www.drybar.net.com. You can watch it. It'll be on maybe morning, maybe at night.

It'll be up there. It'll be up. We will be posting it. I'll have it posted. You will all be able to find it. This one's clean, but my next one, now that I got some tea in me. It's going to be out of control. Nobody knows. It could be wild. We do our next half hour of Gas Digital. A lot of beeps. A lot of beeps. Yeah.

Scott Crawford. Aaron, I'm glad to hear you have a second cat. Two cats are always better than one. They will learn off each other and you'll have more balanced cats. Best to keep them inside if you want them to live long and healthy cats are graceful, clean, neat, and small. Speaking of low T. Dang.

boom you've been ready to say that for a while oh yeah oh yeah yeah but you get a dog like a real man we do your sister found it i don't even know if we talked your sister yeah last week yeah yeah it's hard to remember when your cat person uh every day's the same day you know they wake up they're just they're there they're there

Matt Epsey, a little disappointed in breakfast not knowing this. The cereal town in Iowa Leanne was talking about would be Cedar Rapids. That is correct. Home of Quaker Oats, Cedar Rapids is the city of five seasons, but locally known as the city of five smells. That is, it is Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Yep. City of five smells. Why are they five seasons? What's a fifth season? That's a good question. I don't know. You know. I don't know. Extra cold?

City of five seasons. The name five seasons was adopted by the Cedar Rapids Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. It's a symbol of the five seasons it appears through. Not a lot of explanation. Yeah, we're looking for that fifth season. It's for the extra time to enjoy the other four seasons. Whatever that means. Five smells is better. It's the tree of five.

No real good explanation. What's the extra time? The so-called fifth season. I don't know what that means. Which is time to enjoy the other four. Yeah. So you have to block off...

Their motto is the fifth season is the time to enjoy life, to enjoy the other four seasons. They're like, listen, they ain't a lot going on here. But the fifth season is you got to use it. You got to get a lot done in that fifth season because you got to enjoy four seasons in it. So it's year round. That fifth season is year round then, right? The City of Five Seasons was based on a Bible verse from Ecclesiastes. To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

Old Testament dusty. There you go. Yeah, but I mean, now we come back around to it. Now we like it. I like them using it, but I just still don't get it. All right. There you go. They're doing it for the right reason. The city of five smells. If you could only smell five things, what would it be? Let's talk about that. Like the five finger thing that we did? Yeah. Five smells. That's an interesting question. I was about to wonder, is it five specific cereals that you can tell?

Do you know? Oh, I don't know. I think they're just saying their city smells. You know what it would be? Your five-year smells. Laura, Harper, your family. You're talking about food. Well, any smells. I'd have freshly cut grass is one of mine.

That's a good smell. I like that. I would have new car smell. Yeah, it's supposed to be a new car smell. What about a cookout? It's a bit overrated. Yeah, baby smells. Yeah. The Sunday morning coming down song. You got to have a baby smell. Sunday smell of. Baby smell of. Oh, it's a good. A cat smell. Yeah. Okay. I would not take it. It had nothing to do with cats. Fried chicken, like fried chicken with bacon. Yeah, cooking, smelling somebody frying chicken. Yeah, bacon. A little apple pie right out of the oven. I think you'd get tired of it. Yeah. I don't think you would get tired of bacon. Oh.

It would be. I already don't like it. Yeah. I mean, every day, just cinnamon rolls. I love a cinnamon roll. I'm not tired of it yet. I'd also say water. You're like, well, that doesn't have any smell. And I'd go, exactly. But if you're near the water, you can smell it. Yeah, I don't want the ocean water. You pick stuff that has no smells. And then begin, and I'll just smell everything else. Flowers. Paul M.E. Mueller.

There's a lot of truth in gender and birth order differences. As a teacher, consistently the best students to have in class are the oldest girls from big families. They are smart, organized, and independent thinkers, but they have a caring empathy for others. I like that. That seems like a statement that someone with two middle initials would say. That sounds like a teacher's name. Right. It feels like a very educated. Why would you do that? What is it? Like Paul, Michael, Eric, Mueller? Mm-hmm.

Well, we get a lot of Paul Mueller's that write in. So he's trying to differentiate. Yeah. There's a lot of Paul M. Mueller's that write in. Right. You got to add the E.

Is there? No. You and Dusty are both like- The way you said it, though. I was like, oh, okay. I feel like we've read Paul. We have. It's called Comedy Guys. Get with it. Paul's a longtime fan of the- Longtime listener. It's a good name, though. It feels like- The M-E feels like he's some sort of education, even though it's in the middle and not at the end. If it were M-D, I'd be like, oh, this guy's a doctor. Yeah. But you're like, why is your doctor in the middle of your name? Yeah.

Yeah. Paul, PhD, Mueller. Yeah. There you go. What is it? It was Paul Hampton, Dustin. Yeah. Oh. It's more of a nickname. Oh, all right. So it's like your middle. Yeah. PhD. My name is Paul, Paul Hampton, Dustin Mueller. Paul, medical examiner. You can call me P, PhD, Mueller. The Mule Dog. LLC. Jesse Maupin. Maupin.

I sympathize with breakfast on crying at movies since becoming a parent. The morning my daughter was born, I had to go home and shower. I sat down and watched I Am Sam.

starring Sean Penn. Holy crap. I bawled my eyes out for two hours. Yeah. Well, that's a crying movie anyway. Well, I'm sure your wife appreciates going home, take a quick shower, then sitting over a two hour movie. She's like, where have you been? Well, you understand. I had to watch. I am saying, I cried the day my daughter was born. I didn't cry over a two hour movie. We got Ron Malone or my buddy, Ron. He, uh,

He just brought up when Harper was born because we were at the hospital. And it was, I think, the day, maybe the day after he was born. And I called and I just said, hey, you want to go see the Vandy uniform reveal? And he thought I was calling, like being like, hey, come up to the hospital. Like it was a thing. And he just brought it up. And because we were downtown and they were having the.

uniform we grew at the bookstore. We all went. We all went. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, let's just go. And like, I mean, I have a brand new daughter. She's all right. Yeah. It times out perfect. Yeah. Tag really worked out. You're like, you know, what can I do? I'm in the area. I'm in the area. Yeah. Laura doesn't care about this kind of stuff. She doesn't want to go see it. Rick Sanford, the third.

When Aaron puts his hand around his eyes, similar to how binoculars, he was doing a good thing to improve vision. Our eyes naturally adjust to the light levels in the environment. If you put your hands around your eyes in such a manner, your pupils will open a little more to adjust, thus widen your field of view and making whatever you're looking at a bit clearer. I knew that. Thank you, Rick. Yeah. Actually, I have no idea what I was doing in that moment.

I don't think you have to go like a real, like a real kind of like a small. I think I was like rubbing my face a little bit, you know, and then it looked like I was. Yeah. Well, I wasn't even doing that. It does work. It's got to be real small. Like just doing that is that's the same. You got to go real small with it. Get a little darkness around it. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks, Rick. Rick Sanford. That was a politician, wasn't it?

Rick Sanford? No, Santora. Rick Santorum. Yeah. Paul Lee G. Paul Lee G. I've always heard that a lot of comedians don't perform with their real voice, including comedians like Ralphie Mae, Tom Rhodes, Chris Rock, Kathy Madigan, and even Chappelle. Is Leigh-Anne's voice her real voice? It almost sounds like a character of a Southern accent.

She's actually much more Southern. Yeah. Yeah. That's her real voice. And she's toning it back. Yeah. As far as I know, Kathleen Madigan, that's her real voice. Everyone's real voice. Tom Rhodes, Ralphie Mae. Everyone named there. That's all just how I don't know. Chris Rock. And I don't know Dave Chappelle, but Ralphie Mae, Tom Rhodes, Kathleen Madigan, they all talk like, I would say you're, it's not your, your voice on stage. Maybe because you're doing a show.

It's just the rhythms are going to be different and that's what's going to make it seem like it's different. I mean, there's definitely comics that they have a voice on stage and then a voice on like they they just sound they could definitely sound different. But overall, it's it's the same. It's the same like you would recognize who the person is.

It's not that different. Yeah, I mean, I would say my thing is different, like doing the podcast than doing comedy. But it's just, yeah, it is that rhythm. It's a rhythm. It's a show. It's a little more, you know, you're not, you know, I mean, Larry Kibblega, like...

Talk to him. It's the same. It is the same. It's the same thing, but when he's doing his act, it's maybe a little, it's just so much more of it. It's a little more into it. Turn it on a little bit. Turn it on a little bit. Accentuate words a little differently. Jackson B. Has bus route ever heard of pack and play, stroller, or car seat? Strap that baby in, man. That poor child will be scarred for life.

Yeah, he's referencing when I said last week, Dusty, I said that sometimes I have to, if I'm watching my daughter alone, I'll have to take her to the bathroom with me if I got to go and put her in there to make sure she doesn't hurt herself.

And he's right. A lot of people said that we do have all those things, but she throws a fit if she's strapped in somewhere. But if she's in the bathroom with me, she doesn't complain. That's my point. I'm like, wow, it seemed like this is going to eventually bother you. She just lives it up in there. Throw her in the tub. Let's hope it eventually bothers her. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it's one of her smells that she's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You won't be on there. Yeah. Brian Blint, how often do you actually have material on something but then pivot away if you feel that the crowd isn't buying what you are selling? I can answer this one. I'm not buying what you're selling. So this weekend, I did two shows Saturday night. The first show, I did that Jimmy Buffett joke, and it went pretty well, if I do say so myself. Show two...

A little bit smaller crowd. And I said, did you guys hear Jimmy Buffett died today? And they're like, what? No. So I broke the news to them. And then as more I got into it, they don't even know who Jimmy Buffett is. It was a young crowd. I thought they were talking about Warren Buffett.

So I pivoted on that joke because it doesn't work so well when you don't even really know who Jimmy Buffett is. Yeah, you're like, some people claim there's a woman to blame. They're like, what? It was murder? It's like, no, it's nobody's fault. They're like, what? What are you talking about, dude? You had a stroke? He went to my dad's high school. Really? McGill 2, Catholic High School, Mobile, Alabama. Not to get your dad younger.

Yeah, my dad was born two years before he graduated high school. So that was a weird way of putting it. Yeah, he's 16 years older than my dad. Yeah, that's how old was he? He's 76. Yeah.

I don't know how old he was. I don't think people. Why would you? I'm like, do they go together? Like, did you listen to a lot of Jimmy Buffett? I don't feel like people younger than me necessarily really know a lot about Jimmy Buffett. I'll be honest. I've heard. I really only knew the two Cheeseburger in Paradise and Margaritaville. Oh, yeah. It's kind of all I knew.

It's weird that he's so famous, but he's really, I mean, it's like, he's got a lot of songs I like, but like not transcending time here. Yeah. Yeah. You don't know Come Monday? It's the lifestyle now. He Went to Paris? He Went to Paris is a great song. Five O'Clock Somewhere? I know that one, but he was featured on that song. It's not his song. It's a lifestyle. That's what I associate with him. It's less even about him. It's about...

That type of... Parrot heads. Parrot heads. Yeah. Yeah. Island escapism. Is that what every song's about? Pirate looks it for it. A lot of that. Is that kind of vibe? Especially as he got older. His earlier stuff was more country. Yeah. I would say. Folksy. Yeah. Hannah Jo... Hold on. Hannah Joy Freidenlund. Goodness. Freidenlund. Hannah Jo... Hannah Joy Freidenlund. I actually spent my gap year...

In Opelika, Alabama. Wow. What's a gap year? Like in college or between high school and college, sometimes people will spend a year exploring, usually backpacking in Europe, but she took a different route. I had a grandma there and figured it was more exciting to work some jobs and live there for a year instead of Ohio. I worked at a coffee house called The Overall Company.

I did go there. Yeah. Sorry. I wonder if Dusty ever went. I did go there. I think it's closed now. But I went there. It was at, I don't know any of the streets, but it's right outside of downtown. It was, it was pretty cool. I liked it. I mean, that was built long after I left, but I went there probably 2015, 14, 15. And then I did a show at the

The Coke company. Bottling plant. Oh, yeah. I've done that place. Yeah. Went there. It was great. Had some coffee over there. The weird thing about Opelika coffee shops is like they're weirdly like really snobby. It's like, you know, like there's one coffee place downtown where they're like, name your own price for coffee. Oh.

And I'm like, all right, guys, like just charge an amount. I guess it's a weird kind of thing. And I felt like the overall company was like that too. But it's like, I just feel like, like be a coffee shop, but just be cool. You know what I mean? What would people do? What's the average when they name your own price? A dollar? I mean, I feel like you'd go five bucks. Five, I'm guessing is the average. I bet it's not the five. I would be willing to bet it's not five. I think that's high. It depends on where it is in town.

379, I'd say on average. There's a restaurant I go to in McMinnville. And if you get takeout, they charge you 10% for takeout. And I'm like, what? And I was like, what's this? I asked somebody, I was like, what is this? And they go, oh, it's for the, you know, the, the staff. Like, it's like a tip.

And I'm like, well, you should put, you should say that, that you do. It's a gratuity. Yeah. Or let me tip. Yeah. Because it's like, it feels like you're just charging me extra. And now if I don't tip on top of that, I look cheap and it really is keeping me from ordering from the place. Yeah. I'm like, you're charging me an extra 10% just because I didn't want to eat this food here. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like if I, if you charge for the box, that's one thing. But if I eat there and then go, let me get a box, you don't charge me. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, you should go order when they bring you the food. Go. Could you box it up? Yeah. Yeah. I should do that. I'm going to get out of here. Yeah. And do it to avoid the 10%. Yeah. But just like, I don't know. I just think that's weird. It's like, it's keeping me from wanting to go there. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, they should just be gratuity. I, yeah, I wish we would become a world where gratuity is included, especially over here. Like, and just, it's, it's kind of taken out of everybody. You'd like that in Australia. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, I mean, it's, you're, you're so ingrained in it that it's hard not to tip, but I wish we would just,

be like, here's the price. And this is what I'm paying for. And you charge the price. I think you get everybody to move on with their lives. I'm getting there too, because it's like everywhere you go is like a tip. Everybody wants a tip. And I'm like, why don't you just tell me what it costs? Cause it's like, you go to a coffee shop and it's like, if you just get a black coffee and they want a tip, I'm like, you did nothing here.

Like if you're making me some cappuccino and you got a little design, you put a little, you made the foam, you made a little heart in there and you, all right, maybe you get a little tip. But I mean, I just got a black coffee and a cinnamon roll here. It's just because they all use iPads now and we all play with cards. So they just flip it around. I mean, if we paid with cash, that wouldn't be a thing. At least places like coffee shops. That's going to be, but that's like the, uh,

It's because these people don't, they don't pay them enough. Or like, it's like the businesses are like, well, you just make all your money from the, I can pay you $3 an hour and just make it on tips instead of paying them. But now the people like that's for servers, but now the people that are making an hourly wage are still getting tips too. Yeah.

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Like they miss the job because they have to go to the concert. No, no. You're a guy that's really worried about the, I'm not saying you, I'm saying. Yeah. If you're an artist, it's like, like, I don't like that. You know, if something happens, you're, no one's going to be like, well, we can't give that up. Yeah. You're the first thing they're going to. Johnny Paycheck. Remember him? Oh yeah. Take this job and shove it. I bet he's got a lot of unemployed people. Oh, that's true. That is true. That's the unemployed man's anthem.

Oh, you're saying like that I'd be the first one if they lost their job, they ain't going to come see me because. Yeah, I'm not saying you. I was saying in general. People like it. Yeah. But yeah, because it's like you'd use the job loss to go. And then I guess who's the audience that's going to lose their job? Let's get crowd. Yeah. I think they're a.

They're always lost their job kind of at the. Yeah. Like early on, the crowd would be, they may, if they lost their job, they'd still go. They'd lose your job. They'd quit their job to go. Like they lost their job because hemp necklaces went out of stock. Yeah. But the ones, the ones that are still going now, they're in their forties. You're like, they're probably going to lose their job. Sure. Sure.

I don't know what I'm saying. I'm into this game, though. Yeah. I just think of the fan base that's most likely to lose their job. That's what I'm thinking. It can't be a serious. Yeah, you can't really have a serious, serious job. It's got to be. What comedian? Truck rallies. Doug Stanhope. That's a good one. Yeah. Somebody that rebels. Yeah, it's got to be. Their audience has to be kind of rebellious. Rebellious? Rebellious. Yeah. Yeah.

Like Leanne from? Leanne's crowd. I'd say Leanne's crowd is like, they're like, uh, not even have jobs. Like not that they're, they're like married and they're like, this is our lady. You know what I mean? Like they're all doing fine. I don't feel like they're a job losing crowd.

Well, this week's topic is football. All right. And I was thinking, like, there's so many traditions in football, like the Gatorade bath and stuff like that. It's just changed. What is it for, like, comedy has been pretty much the same since the beginning. Stand-up comedy. As far as traditions or trends or changes. I can't even think of anything. What's even one tradition? For stand-up? Yeah. Mics in a stool.

Like that. I mean, that's been since the beginning. Yeah. Is that what you mean though? I guess I was thinking it's not a tradition, but now so many comics do crowd work. That's a new trend. Yeah. There's trends. And that's social media trends. Mostly having a bottle of water, that kind of thing. Maybe. Yeah. I guess I don't understand the question. I don't think I do. I don't think I do either. So I don't think there is any, you know, there's live performance where people say break a leg or people say slay them or they go crush it.

Yeah. You know, are those murdered tonight? Yeah. Murdered tonight. A lot of the language. Yeah. It's kind of grandfathered in stand up. So new.

Still been new. It's still so new compared to like football, which has been around for 60 years. I'm glad we're not doing Gatorade baths. I'll tell you that. That even annoys me seeing it happen to a coach. Why? I'm just like, oh man. You don't like the camaraderie of it? I was like, that guy was all dry and now he's like, he's all wet now. He's got to give a conference and he's all wet. But you're getting Gatorade baths on the best day of your life. Sometimes. Like if it's the Super Bowl, maybe, but like this, like it'll be a conference game and you're getting the Gatorade. I'm like,

And now it's water. Usually it's all cold. No, you usually, you can usually do a prop bet on what color the Gatorade. Oh, it is still Gatorade. Yeah. It's usually Gatorade. Oh, okay. I don't, I'm not a fan of it.

I think you feel differently. I think I'm in the minority here. If you lived a life where that kind of thing would happen, you would pray to get a Gatorade bath. Yeah, if you try to get into a state championship for high school and you finally make it, then it's like, yeah, you're going to go to four of those. Maybe in your career. Yeah. Or if you're lucky, four. But you're probably going to go to one. Maybe it's just overdone. Have you had a Gatorade bath moment in your stand-up career? I think you've had them.

That's a better question than what I try to throw out. It's a lot better. Yeah. It's a lot better. Yeah, that makes a lot more sense. I would say I feel like my first tonight show would be a Gatorade bath. 100%. But I'm glad nobody did it. Yeah, because it'd be inappropriate. It should be found. No, that would be a great clip. It'd be memorable. Yeah. Yeah.

It's not taking a little literal. Yeah, this is the metaphor of it. Yeah. If you were outside, like when they're playing football too, like they're already sweaty and they're already, you're already showering. But it's the coach though. I know, but he's also showering. He's been out there too. I mean, when it's hot, you're going to be, yeah, you're going to be sticky. You go in and take a shower. Your clothes are gross and you're, it's like, that's what it is. Like that's when they spray champagne on each other after they win a championship. It's because...

you're celebrating. You're like, ah, you can get as, I think there's a celebration to go. You can get, there's nothing funner than a kid. When you go, you get as dirty or messy as you want. Yeah. There's no rules. Dive around in the mud. Your whole life is don't get dirty and messy. And then it's like, here's a moment. Get as messy as you want. Well, what about this though? Do you ever see a coach get a Gatorade bath? And you think, well,

I don't know if that really deserved a Gatorade bath. Oh, I'm sure there's plenty. Sure, yeah. I'm sure there's plenty of games where you're like, all right, that's kind of ridiculous. That's what I think. Kentucky's coach got one and then they lost. Yeah. You get one prematurely. That's great. That's in the Bluegrass Miracle. That's a tough game, right? That's the worst one. That's a tough one. That is a bad one. You're wet and you lost. You're wet. Sticky. Sticky.

And you lost the game. You're like, why are you so sticky? Oh, they dumped Gatorade on me. Oh, you won. Well, nah, we lost in the end. We were celebrating. If someone said, like, why do you like sports? That would be, you'd almost show them that clip. Yeah. To go, this is the unpredictability. Right.

To go, that can always happen. In a world where everything's increasingly automated and AI generated, what's more human than that? Nothing. When a player runs and drops the football before he crosses the line. It's way too obvious. I mean, you're seeing it all play. Yeah, you're watching it and you could stop that.

clip 10 yards before the end and you can go what have i told you he's not going to score and you're like there's no one around him you wouldn't even be able to guess how he wouldn't be able to score you'd be like he trips and i'm like doesn't trip you honestly couldn't dress guess it you'd be like i don't know then how and then it's just you press play and you realize well why would he do that you're like no one knows he doesn't know why he did it yeah it's and that's the that's the fun

Totally. That's the uncertainty. I think college football has a little bit more of that than pro. I mean, that example happens both, but college football is a little bit more of –

The band on the field. The band on the field is one of the craziest. That's one, too. The band on the field. Brady and the Falcons. When he came back and beat the Falcons, it was 28-3. Everybody thought, well, that's done. You've never seen the play, Dusty. This is Cal Stanford. Huge rivalry. This is in the Rose Bowl, right? I think so. Two ACC teams now. It looks like it's at Cal. At the end of the game, Stanford's kicking off to Cal. Stanford thinks they've won the game.

This is a crazy lateral play like you've seen where they're running around. Throw it behind him. Now everybody thinks the game's over. Look who's on the field. The Stanford band is on the field. You got to run through. He trucks a player right here. Wow.

The band is on the field. I love that he hit that. The band is on the field. From Bone Player. Yeah. I love that he hit that band member, though. Yeah. That's great. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah, one of those iconic plays in college football history. Wow. 1982. Now, see, that, I think the losing coach should get a Gatorade bag. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I think. It should be reserved for the losing coach. They should do all the band. Yeah. Yeah. And not be allowed to shower.

hour. Maybe the band has to walk to a car wash. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I like that. Yeah. With their instruments. Yeah. They have to play it. They keep playing the whole way through. I agree with that. Dude. Speaking of bands in college football. So this weekend, Lucy got me tickets to Notre Dame's home opener in South Bend, Indiana, which was exciting because we were playing a school from Nashville, the Tennessee state Tigers. You brought up with him. I did. Yeah.

Tennessee State is an HBCU, Historically Black College and University, historically and currently. And we beat them 56 to 3. It was not a close game. But the Tennessee State University aristocrat of bands, their halftime show was like...

specialty. I've never seen a halftime show like that at Notre Dame Stadium. I love the Notre Dame band. They're my band. They're the oldest university band in the country, but they're playing a different game. The Tennessee State band. They came out

It was very funny hearing fans around me comment on it. I like how their band's dancing. I heard a lot of that. Seems like their game is the band. It did feel like that. It felt like, I mean, we played like one song and then we were like, we're just going to give you all the floor.

And they put on, I mean, it is a real show. Look at the people that stay. It is a real show. Yeah. I've never seen this many people stick around to watch it. They were getting into it, man. Did they get a big round of applause? Standing O from the whole stadium, which I've never seen before.

And there's a guy, I've never seen this at a halftime show. There's a guy with a mic kind of narrating it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Throughout it. And he kept going, South Bend. He kept going, Notre Dame, we love you. Ain't nothing you can do about it. He kept saying that kind of stuff. It was just so much fun, dude.

That's great. Yeah. Auburn always had a good band, the Spirit of the South, they called them. And that was fun. I used to go to those games a lot. And Auburn was great. Yeah. The band. Yeah. There's like the Notre Dame band, Auburn, Alabama. They're very precise. Yeah. They move with like military precision. This was not like that. This was like a whole different thing, man. Just dancing, grooving, having fun. I was getting into it, man.

playing some chaka khan they're playing old school stuff yeah you know what i'm saying yeah i love it you know i'm talking about i do know you're talking about all right anyway so that was very fun to see yeah that's awesome yeah shout out the aristocrat of bands yeah when it's a small school playing a big school it's like we know we're not gonna win the game but we can go up and put on a show and that's what they did yeah so what's the best game you've ever been to

Best game I've ever been to. Notre Dame-Stanford 2012. Goal line stand. Manti Teo stops. The running back stormed the field. I've stormed the field three times in my college career. But that season, there were a lot of great games. That's the year Notre Dame went to the national championship game. Michigan was a great game that year. Stanford. There's been a couple others. That one stands out the most. It's not a game that I think people who aren't Notre Dame fans remember, but it was a big one for us. Do you think you maybe rushed the field when you shouldn't have?

Like, it's kind of like the Gatorade bath. Like people debate, is that field rushing? Cause Notre Dame, you guys have so much tradition. Yeah. It's embarrassing. It's kind of rare. He beat Stanford.

Yeah, Stanford was top 10 in the country at that point. What are you talking about? Have you ever stormed the field at Vanderbilt? Yeah. Yeah. And you win. Would you beat Mercer by three? I think you beat Duke. I stormed it with Duke after we beat Duke. Really? No, because we, yeah, I think I've told it. Yeah, we've told it. They beat South Carolina the week before. And then we...

We ran on the field, and then Titans were playing there the next day. So basically one guy's like, hey, guys, Titans game is next week, so if y'all don't mind. And we're like, oh, yeah, that makes sense, and we just left. That's very respectful. Very respectful. And then the next week we beat Duke, and so then they were like, you can do it now. And then we ran and took it. Oh, that's fun. This is a bowl game we were at in Birmingham. Is it the Compass Bowl? Compass? Compass? Yeah. It was James Franklin's last game.

at Vanderbilt and Vandy won. That's a Tennessee game, right? Yeah. And there's us on the sideline there. That game was great because we just destroyed them. Yeah. Is that Wesley Tate? Do you remember him? I do remember Wesley Tate. I don't know if that was when he was there. I played high school football with him, dude. Taught him everything he knows. I was going to ask you, who's the best player you ever played with? Him? Yeah.

Probably. Yeah. Yeah. In high school. I just missed, I moved to, I would have played with golden Tate if I had moved to Tennessee a little earlier because he went to my high school, but I got there after he had left. So his brother, Wesley Tate, who played at Vanderbilt freak athlete, just,

a man playing with kids is what it looked like. You know, you see like just one of these guys who's so good. They look like they're playing with children. You watch old high school highlight tapes of like stars. It's like the child's play, dude. You know, just stiff arm and children out there. What about you? Do you have that one more? That's that guy that you got an autograph from? Yeah, there's me on when I was a guest picker in college game day. No, well,

Do you know that, Dusty? That doesn't seem real. What are you talking about? I'll be honest with you. That looks like you on T. It looks good. Yeah. It does. It does look. That's a great picture. It's a good Photoshop, but it. Yeah. Whose body is that? Are those cardboard cutouts, Brian? That's at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. It used to be in South Bend. Oh. Anyway, it's in Atlanta now.

Yeah. It's in Atlanta now. And it's just a green screen where you sit down and you look very fit there. Yeah. Well, it was a different time. Yeah. Oh, fresh cut. A few years ago. I think you look remarkably similar to how you look now. Oh, well, thank you. Cause I look good there and I look good now. Yeah. So anyway,

uh what was the question i don't know go around the room anybody have a question somebody asked me a question i said well let's show that one more picture well aaron said who's the guy the best guy you ever played with that guy you got an autograph yeah well i didn't play football carlos gross was a basketball player okay best player ever saw play yeah carlos gross um i mean i've seen a lot of great college football are we talking about

Obviously not pro because then you're I've seen Tom Brady play in person. Sure. Yeah. In college. You see, I went to MTSU. They had a big game this weekend, too, against Alabama. Yeah. Yeah. It's close game. Could have gone either way. But, you know, pretty exciting. I just experienced one out in the end. I think, you know, equal talent on the field. Yeah, I guess so. I don't I don't know. I'd have to think about the best player for Vandy that.

I thought would be for sure a star in the pros was... Jay Cutler. Well, I mean, he was... But the guy that didn't... Wasn't as great that I thought he was going to be was Jordan Matthews, wide receiver for Vandy. And he was... Yeah, he's a fan of the podcast. Is he? I don't know. I met him recently. He was so much better. He's back playing. He's still playing.

Well, there you go. He's training. He's got time. But yeah, he was... In college, he's unreal. Unreal. He was... Trapped by the Eagles in the second round of the 2014 NFL draft. I think sometimes these guys, they work real hard in college to make it to the NFL. And then when they make money, they're like, actually, I'm good. I don't need...

to keep working this hard. I've made money. I don't think he made the money like that. Okay. Like it's... He was a three-star recruit. Give me an example of who you're talking about. He had a good career. He came and did stuff with the Eagles and did good and he's kind of bounced around. I want to say he got hurt too. They got him as a tight end. Who was the guy? Yeah, I think he...

He had dreads. He played for the Dolphins. Ricky Williams. Ricky Williams. I think that's a good example where he was like, I want to do what I want to do. And I've already made some money. And if you're going to keep like holding me to these rules, then who cares? Yeah. Right. Yes. Okay. That is a great example. I wonder if they're allowed, how much money they're allowed to take though. Like if you do something like that.

Because, I mean, really, there has to be things. Because, you know, the NFL is a business. So it's like they could say, like, we're giving you all this money. But, you know, these guys are like, I also realize I'm giving it to an 18-year-old or a 20-year-old that doesn't know anything and that might just quit. Yeah. Johnny Menzel is another example. Yeah. He made a little money and then he's like, I don't care.

this. Yeah. Does Johnny Mizzell just like get $10 million and then he's just... You have clauses in your contract. A lot of these contracts will have a morality clause where they can void... They don't owe you anymore if they find that you violated that in some way. So there are all kinds of stipulations in the contract. But with like a decent business mindset, you make $2 or $3 million. You could turn that into something to work for you. Sure. Yeah. I don't know, man. It's hard to make...

Even if you can turn it into a note, if you, even if you make something to, to, to, even if you got, if you left with $2 million, it's, it is very hard to make that more.

You know what I mean? Like you're famous and stuff like that, but you got to realize if you're Johnny Manziel, I don't know what he's making right now. Outside of investments, if he can get involved in investments and like really do that, cause some, you could do that stuff, but that takes its own talent and persistence. And you gotta be, all your money can't be in one thing that if that thing fails, it's going to go away. So even if you're Johnny Manziel, you're like,

All right. We all like Johnny Mazzel, but like how much is going to get paid to go to a party or go to a thing or whatever? He's doing appearance fees. He needed to stick around a little longer. Yeah. It can't be that. Like I'm just saying like to go get it, like you got to really have some, be built on some concrete things or be really good, you know, or yes, you can live on $3 million, but you, you want me to live like you might want to live. Right. You know,

I think how much money Johnny Manziel could have made in college if you now. I know. I just watched that documentary about him and talked about how he signed a ton of autographs and stuff and he was taking...

taking money from people. It's like, yeah, he would have gotten all that. He would have made so much money. He was the most popular college athlete in the country. It was unbelievable to watch. Johnny football, man. That's the most disappointing college to NFL guy I've seen. And I had not seen it forever, but it's like he did nothing. Really bummed me out. Yeah. There have been some busts, but that was up there for sure.

To Marcus Russell? To Marcus Russell is, yeah, one of the worst. That's probably the biggest. Yeah. Probably. He was number one. Number one overall pick. But, I mean, that guy, isn't he got a regular job now or something? I would think so. Yeah. Yeah, and I don't know. So, I don't know what money he got. But, I mean, and two, like, they don't, you know, bless their heart, they don't know what to do. Yeah. See, I don't know him. I was not. Played for LSU. He might be coaching, though. Is he coaching? Or, no. No.

No, there's somebody else. He doesn't have his current job on his Wikipedia. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was just, it's always weird to think about them working a regular job. Like, you know, I was like celebrities. I remember reading about Jim Carrey when I was growing up and it said he used to clean toilets before he became famous. Yeah. And I remember reading that being like, wow, I can't believe that. I'm like,

I'm like, oh, he's cleaning toilets like the rest of us out here. You know what I mean? It's not that hard to believe when you put it in the scope of like, there are people that clean toilets. That's their job to clean toilets. But you read it about a celebrity like, oh, I can't believe it. What a dirty job he had to do. But I've cleaned toilets for money before. You know what I mean? I clean it for free. Yeah. I think, yeah, it's the starting from nothing to get to something. And so it's hope.

Yeah. You know, and like, that's, I think that's obviously what, yeah, it's always like regular. Yeah. I, people like that more than they like, he went to Harvard. Right. You know? Yeah. When you do hear about a celebrity that like went to Harvard, you're like,

You like them less. God forbid somebody get a good education. Well, if they went to Michigan State or something. Bless your heart. Rags to riches. God, that guy barely made it. I don't even know how he did it. Who's the most famous person to come out of Notre Dame? Regis Philbin, maybe. Joe Montana. Oh, a football player? Well, I just meant anybody. I would even say maybe Joe Montana or Regis Philbin. I think he is. I think Joe Montana is.

No, I think Joe Montana is number one. Rudy? Rudy might be number one just because that movie got more reach than anything. But I think you're thinking of the actor. I think if Daniel Rudiger walked in here, you wouldn't even know who he was. I know, but if someone says Notre Dame, they're going to go Rudy. They're not going to say Regis Philbin. They might say Joe Montana. He went by Rudy. I don't think they're going to say Joe Montana now because it's already past the thing. Rudy is probably the main thing.

It's a made up story. That's what y'all had to do. As far as no presidents have ever went to Notre Dame. We've had Supreme Court justices. We've had some. Everybody has that. Yeah. MTSU's got half a dozen of them. Yeah. Who's not? I'm a dozen. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, look, this list is too long. I mean, it appears that Vanderbilt, again, I said this last week, I'll say it again, Vanderbilt and Notre Dame are headed for a collision in the college football playoffs. It's going to happen, dude. Vanderbilt can be 7-0 before we get to Georgia. I just don't see how anybody's going to beat us. I don't know about Notre Dame's schedule, but

It's headed for a showdown, both 2-0. Yeah. But I honestly think we could be 7-0 going into Georgia or 6-1. We could also be 2-5. Ah, we're going to be good. Yeah. We turned it on late against Alabama A&M.

I can't wait to see it. We had a crazy second half. We did start off slow, and it was like, what are we doing? But the typical Vandy would always start slow and then stay slow at the burner. 16-9. The final score was like 47 to... It was a blowout. It was a blowout. But the second half, we scored 40 points in the second half. So it just showed...

Yeah, we turned it, you know, great. Clark Lee goes to give a great speech at that halftime. Really got into them, I imagine, because they came out and turned it on. I thought you heard it. You were in the locker room and you heard the speech. I would say, probably. I assume. Great halftime speech. Yeah, they did great. They need a good halftime boost. You need a good speech to get you going. Deion Sellers is so fun.

The Deion Sanders stuff, I'm rooting for Colorado. And I never would have rooted for Colorado. I just never – I don't think I ever liked Colorado. Maybe because they're black and gold too. And so, like, that was always, you know, Vandy was over. Who do they got coming up? What's their schedule? Nebraska. Yeah. But, like, Deion Sanders is – you want – I don't know if there's a kid, a parent in America that doesn't want their kids to go play for Deion Sanders. Is his son also the quarterback? Yeah. But, I mean, he's just – like, dude, he's awesome.

He seems awesome. They might be 3-0 coming into Oregon. Oregon and USC are two tough games for them. And then, you know, they play in. They've got a decent schedule. I mean, their schedule's not easy. They play in essentially a fictional conference. So they're going to have, you know, if they beat USC and Oregon, that's a.

I think Nebraska beats them next week. Yeah, I like Deion. We were just watching the Florida State game last night, and Florida State looked really good. You're like, man, he's got to be just looking at – I don't know if he wants to coach the pros or not. Maybe he does. But you're like, I wonder if he's looking at that Florida State job. Like they got to be like – There are people that wanted – people at Florida State who wanted him. Yeah. Yeah.

But he wasn't really there yet. No, he hadn't proven himself at a D1 level yet. I read something that when he played for the Cowboys, he played 50% of offensive plays and 80% defensive plays while also playing baseball. Major League Baseball. I mean –

And 100% of special teams since he was the punt returner. That is unreal. It's crazy. He's never really off the field. And then they got a kid now that is playing both sides, which is very – I don't know. We were trying to say, like, when do you even see that?

It's like Shohei Ohtani. It just never happens anymore. Yeah. That's the crazy, the Shohei Ohtani. If, if, if no, I mean, it's the angels and it can be hard to find them baseball player. But what that guy's doing is it's, it's like, I keep just at least be aware of it. Cause that's, that's a guy that when it's, when he retires or dies. Yeah. Uh,

Both possibilities. Both possibilities. They are, yeah. You're not going to want to be like, I wish I would have watched some of it. I'm not saying watch every game, but that's a pretty special play. I think there's a shocking amount of people. He's literally the best baseball player ever. I don't even think there's an argument otherwise. What's he doing that makes him so special? He is...

Leading, at least he was as of a day ago, leading the Major League Baseball in home runs. Okay. He's a 300 plus hitter. He's one of the best hitters in baseball. And he's one of the best pitchers in baseball. Wow. Okay. Who's he playing for? He plays for the Angels, who are not good.

And he actually, he's having Tommy John surgery in like 10 days. Yeah. But he's still, he can't pitch the rest of the season, but he's been hitting with a messed up elbow and he's still hitting home runs. Yeah. I mean, pretty crazy. Nobody's ever done that. Nobody's ever done it. Babe Ruth.

That comparison is almost offensive at this point. Well, he did do it. He didn't do it. He didn't do both for long at all. Yeah, but I mean, he did him.

That's what he's known for. Initially, that comparison made sense. But he didn't do both at a high level at the same time. The football episode. He gave up pitching once he went to the Yankees, right? Yeah, he started playing outfield. Oh. He started as a pitcher, and then he only did both for like a season and a half or something. Didn't do both at the same time.

Football episodes really turn into a baseball episode. Well, listen, we're talking about greatness. So this... You kind of got to get into it. All right. I'll share just a couple of facts here. So football started in the 1800s.

Harvard was the first American school to play it. Walter Camp is known as the father of American football. He brought in a lot of the inventions like line of scrimmage and the system of downs. What if you're Walter? What if you're that guy and you invent football and you're like, I mean, I'm going to be talked about forever. And then everybody's like...

You won't. Yeah. And you're like, but I invented it. Yeah. And you go, then now he would go, well, is football not a big deal? And you're like, it's the main thing. It's the main thing we do as a country. It's the main thing we do. You're like, and I'm not brought up every day. You go, I,

I would argue a lot of people don't even know who you are. Is there an award named after him? The Walter Camp Award? It's not even a good award. What is that for? You go, is it like the Heisman? You go, it's not. It's not. You want it to be, and I understand that because you invented it. But it's... I've heard of it. I've heard the award. It's the Walter Camp. It's given to the player of the year. Yeah. I mean... So, I mean, OJ won it twice. Yeah. Yeah.

Who won it recently? Caleb Williams for USC won it last year. But I mean, it's not the Heisman. Oh, Cole McCoy, Cam Newton, Andrew Luck. Oh yeah, that's a hot lineup. It basically looks like...

whoever gets the Heisman gets that. Yeah, it looks like it. And if someone says he won the Walter Camp Award, I mean, in the football world, I think it matters. Like, they matter. But to your average fan, no one's watching, you know, they might do that award during the Heisman. Do they do it during the Heisman? Or right the day before? I think it's the night before when they do the Home Depot Awards. I do it the night before. The guy, what's the Heisman named after? John Heisman. Oh, what does he do? The grandfather. He goes, I...

He goes, I dated Walter Kemp's daughter. Did you? John Heisman. He was a player and coach of American football. He was the head coach of Oberlin College, you know, college football powerhouse. Yeah. And a few others. He was a good coach. He's also the head basketball coach. That's how long ago this was. I believe he was the- I sense he was president of the Atlanta Crackers baseball team. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

And you know what? If they were to stay like that, they could have kept that name. Yeah. I believe he was the coach at Georgia Tech when they beat Cumberland 222 to nothing. Oh. Oh, right. Biggest blowout in college football history. But it's funny to be, you know, you're Walter Camp and you're just like, yeah, your name for a lot of people, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, you know, you're just kind of like, yeah, yeah. And you're like, you're the only reason we're out here. Like he invented camp, right?

Yeah. You know, that's what it seems like he'd be associated with. Walter Camp. He invented camping. Before that, we were just sleeping outside. Right. Now we're camping. I would think if you went up to a person, they have no idea what you're about to ask them. And you said, what did Walter Camp invent? Some people might say camping. Or camping supplies. Is that like Walt Disney? They think it's something to do with that. I don't know if they'd say he invented football. Animation maybe or something. Yeah.

Or maybe being real silly, like campy. Yeah. Man, I bet he was furious. I bet he died angry. No, I think he died. I think he was like, I leave the legacy. And then now he went back. He'd be like, no, you're yeah. You left legacy. But it's they talk about you on a podcast occasionally. He died in 1925. So it was like football was like.

a budding hobby at best in 1925. Nobody cared back then. But still, you invented it. I know. I know. So he never even got to see it become something. I mean, you would think that our main stuff would be called the thing after the guy that invented it. Yeah, he called it camp ball. What's the guy who invented basketball? Junaid Smith. Junaid Smith. Like, Junaid Smith is very much, everybody knows he invented basketball. Everybody knows he invented basketball. I didn't know that. Well, and that's because you've never seen basketball. Yeah.

And they at least named the hall of fame after him. Yeah. NBA hall of fame. Yeah. It's been, yeah. Naismith Memorial. What's his first name? John. I thought it was James. A lot of John. James Naismith or John Naismith. It was one of those J names. Yeah. James. I guess football is,

Walter Camp's the closest to an inventor, but there's not one clear. They kind of took it from rugby and just kind of changed the rules a little bit. Maybe they said that much earlier. That's a great point. You kind of ran with it more than I expected. When did you think of that point? When you were kind of on that last part of the round. Maybe I should clarify. We're now talking about John Naismith. Dusty, why don't you tell us about AG1? James Naismith. Well, listen, our next partner is AG1.

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So in 1905, 19 players died on the college football field. So President Roosevelt said, you got to- So we're doing pretty good these days. Yeah. He's like, you got to come up with something to make it less violent. So they made it the Ford Pass legal thing. What was it? Just backward passes? So it was just tax- So it was like rugby. It was a lot like rugby, I think. How did they- How was it so- Because rugby, I feel like, do they die like that?

I don't think so. I hope not. Yeah. But... And probably also alcoholics in 1905. Yeah. It's true. Yeah, they're like... Dehydrated. It's got to be safe. You're like, it's typhoid. Yeah, they're dying. I already know. What are you talking about? They're all 44. That's what they eat. Yeah.

So back then, the forward pass fell incomplete. It was a turnover. Wow. So it was pretty risky. I like that. Pretty risky at that pass. I like that rule. Now, Notre Dame did perfect the forward pass. They're the first team that became a pass first, run second team. That's real confidence, especially if it's a turnover. It's not a very old tradition. Yeah. That's kind of new. You feel like a very new kind of, you're like Oregon changing uniforms all the time. That's what it feels like.

The school that does that. You know, you're not just a – Notre Dame, you think it's a – like they get in there. It's like it's defense. We run the football. We're old school. Turns out y'all are the ones who couldn't handle the heat. So you got out of the kitchen. We're finesse players. Yeah. George Gipp. George Gipp. Win one for the Gipper. 19, 19, 19, 20. Old G.J. Started airing it out. 19, 21 team. I think it's K-I-P-P-E-R. Gipp.

G-I-P-P. G-J. Win one for the Gipper. Ronald Reagan. Yeah. Double J. I thought it was Kipper. Good game. George Kipper. If you could change one rule about football, what would it be? I got two. Okay. What would you do? If you were a commissioner. Because I thought this question might come up. Commissioner of football. College and NFL. The made up position. What would you change? So there's a limit on how many challenges a coach can have. But I feel like if you're continuously right.

Why should it be your fault if the ref keeps screwing up that there's a limit on how many times you can challenge it? Oh, I like that. That's a really good rule. You only get one, but you can use it the whole time until you lose it and then it's over. Yeah, you could do that. I would do that. How would you do it? Because you can't have them just challenging every single thing. Yeah, it'd be nonstop. But that's on the refs if they're

Because you do lose a timeout if you're wrong. So there is some penalty that you incur. I know, but just say, so you don't get one challenge. You get one challenge. If you're right, then you can keep going. You don't lose your challenge. The second you're wrong...

You're done. I think there should be. I like that. But there should be sometimes like you feel like you do a challenge and they don't overturn it. And I'm like, you should overturn it. You know, I feel like there should be a little oversight in that where like, I don't know. I feel like it's rigged a little bit these days.

They had a golf thing just for the LPGA or women's golf. They did these girls together. They're doing a playoff on 18 holes and they're driving and they, she was driving in a car. Cause that's what they do. They hang on the car back to the tee box. And then someone was like, you got to get off the fairway. They told her to get off the fairway. So she drives, the lady's driving through and then she holds the rope up as they drive through and then she lets it go and it breaks her driver.

And so then she has to hit a three wood and the other girl hits a driver and the other girl wins with an Eagle. Cause there's a par five and the other girl couldn't get there too. Cause she had a three. And that was the moment. She shouldn't have been driving on the fairway though. Well, but they, they do. It's that was a moment. I don't know anything about it, but it's uncommon. Yeah. Yeah. It's uncommon, but it's, it's, uh, and you know, it's like, that's a moment that you're like, there's no way to even think about it.

what's about to happen. Like even when she's holding that rope, everybody's like, oh, she should have held it longer. You're like, you can't think I'm about to drop it and break my drive. Like it's just so much. I can't believe nobody has an extra driver out there. Well, you're not allowed to do it. It's the rules. You couldn't do it. It's like the rules are out the window at this point. So the rule, if you break a driver, if an audience member breaks your driver, you got a too bad,

I've seen it before where the golfer will break their putter and now they have to putt with an iron. Well, I agree with that. If you're breaking your own clubs out there, that's your bad. Yeah, I think if it's a club malfunction, you're allowed to do it. But I mean, breaking it, you just broke it with the rope. You didn't. It's no malfunction. I mean, and I don't know if they would have had, they should have probably been like,

It's one of those that you just feel so bad that you want to go like, we're going to let her use the driver. You go, you make that other girl be like, you can only use your three-wood. This was our fault. I don't know. But the rules are the rules and you can't get too much into it. I like this challenge rule. You know what I also, a rule thing, I hate when

They don't call pass interference, and I believe pass interference happens, and there's no way to challenge that because you can't challenge a no call. I don't like that.

I feel like that's how, that's why I think that I don't think the game is rigged in the sense that you come out and you go, this is what's going to happen. I feel like the refs though can, can sway a game. Oh, sure. I thought you were saying your role is that you should be able to, you're like, sometimes I watch it and I think it's a bad secret. I'd like him to be able to. Okay. But what if you did the challenge thing and you said you can challenge whatever you want to challenge?

Yeah. You can challenge a no call. You can challenge a challenge, a spot of the ball. You get whatever the time is. They look at it real fast. I mean, they're watching up there at the top. You challenge and you go, what are we looking for? Yeah. And you can tell them, I think there was a holding on the, yeah. Okay. That's really interesting.

I like this. This is not a rule, but I would like this to happen. Like sportscasters that get real, like they're real cocky and they're like, this is what's going to happen in this game. This is what's going to happen in this game. I think after all those games that week, all those guys come back in and you have to, you know, they get like shamed for where they were wrong.

I think the internet does that to a lot of them. Yeah, the refs. I feel bad for the refs. The refs or the analysts? The analysts. Oh. Oh. I can see the analysts because they sometimes say stuff that you're just like, I can't believe you said it. Yeah. But- I think- Yeah. Sometimes they say stuff and you're like, how do you not see that? And then I'm like, they might not have a TV up there. Yeah.

And, you know, like there's not even those guys. I mean, like the Stephen A. Smiths. Yeah. Whatever you call those guys. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They go trash in the court of public opinion. Yeah. All the time. I mean, not as then.

And I'm not calling out him specifically, but... Who do you want to hold their feet to the fire? Like the government? No, no. Just, I don't know. Fans, maybe just coaches. You're like, maybe the government could do something. Yeah, yeah. Make my life easier. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know, get Joe Biden to come down and explain to him what went on. Yeah. One other rule that I would change. Yeah. If someone fumbles the ball out of bounds...

Then you keep the ball right there where it goes out of bounds, right? Mm-hmm. So if you fumble at the one-inch line, you still get the ball on the one-inch line. Right. But if you fumble an inch forward, it goes through the end zone. The other team gets the ball on the 20, correct? It'd be a touchback, right? Yeah. And they would get it. It just seems like that's such a drastic difference. Mm-hmm.

for sometimes just a small... Hold on to the ball. I feel like if a team fumbles through the end zone, they should get to keep the ball, but maybe back them up to the 20. But it seems like it's drastic that if you can fumble out of bounds, you get to keep it. But if you fumble and it goes in the end zone, it goes out of bounds, the other team gets it. How many times did you see this happen? I mean, a lot. No. I support it. Fumbling through an end zone? He's been in the fantasy league for 28 years. There's not... I think it's a rule that...

This thing's not happening. I mean, it happens every year, though. It's not like it never happens. It's not like a perfect game in baseball. There's a few times a year that teams fumble, and then it's a touchback. I just feel like it's just a drastic. Yeah, I get that it's drastic. I don't think it's that big of a deal. I think if the referee gets in the way and ruins a play,

That you should call a penalty on the referee. You hate the refs. I do. Well, that's like, they'll be in the way and they get run over. And it's like, oh, you ruined that play. They're part of the field. Yeah. People use them as screens. Yeah. But the referee, you're trashing a guy that's making the least amount of money out there. Not in college. Yeah.

We're talking about NFL. NFL. NFL. But even in college, what are they doing? Donating their time? Or it's like, they're still not. There's got to be some kind of... I think baseball's got an umpire problem right now. I can see complaining about baseball umpires because it seems like they're making it about them on purpose. So that has a feeling of that. But I always just feel bad for the refs because you're like, I mean, it's an insane job.

I agree. I don't feel bad for him. $57,000. Why would you even do it? Median salary for a football ref in the NCAA, $57,000. Why would you even do it? I'm just saying that's a lot of money, but why would you even put yourself through? I mean, there's a chance someone's going to come burn your house down if the game is big enough. Don't mess up. Yeah.

But that's the average. So some people are making more. But I think maybe you try to work your way up. NFL refs make $200,000 a year on average. Yeah, just to travel around and watch football. Best seats in the house.

You're right there on the field. I think the goalpost should be moved back to the inline. That's crazy. Crazy they used to do that. Yeah. Do you? No. But it is crazy that they used to do that. They do it in CFL. CFL now, but NFL did it up until 1974. Yeah.

And the only reason they finally pushed it back is because there were so many field goals. They're like, we got to try to encourage people to score more touchdowns. So they pushed it back. But yeah, players. That's 10 yards. That means, you know, if you're hitting a 50-yarder, and if it's up there, that 50-yarder becomes, you're kicking it from literally the 50-yard line. Yes. And then the, I mean, there's been 60-yarders. So that means someone could try to kick a field goal from the 40. Their own 40.

Wow. Yeah. That'd be pretty crazy. Yeah, dude. This is a funny story. Transmitters and helmets. So it started in the NFL officially in 1994, but back in the 50s, Paul Brown, who was coach of the Browns. Yeah.

That's where the Browns came from? Mm-hmm. Wow. I think it was just the same name. Oh, okay. It worked out. Oh, okay. He goes, I want to call it the Browns. And he goes, not what you think. Yeah. I swear to you, it's not what you think. He experimented on his own and started putting a radio transmitter that didn't tell anybody in his quarterback's helmet. And then people started noticing that they're not calling in signals anymore. That, you know, somehow the...

The quarterback's getting it. And he's got a big antenna coming off his head. And for some reason, he just looks. It's like, you ever watch that quarterback? I mean, like right before he just gets in a – it's like a trance. He's just like – And then he talks to the team. He sits there quietly for 30 seconds. Watch it. 30 seconds. He goes – And then he tells the team what's going on. That's a weird way to communicate. Yeah, I mean –

Yeah, it's like telepathy. Yeah. So he started doing it on his own. And what year was that? I think this was in the 50s. Wow. How did he do that? Yeah, how big was his helmet? I think we had all kinds of Soviet spy technology back then. I didn't see the cord that was going in the front. Yeah, yeah.

But people started figuring it out. He runs like a dog. He goes so far. His helmet jerks back. It's an orange extension cord. So he finally just admitted he was doing it. They're getting ready to play the Giants at Yankee Stadium. And he warned because they were trying to jam his signals. These other teams. If you do that, it's an FCC of up.

Violation. $10,000 fine. Wow. To jam the signal? I think he just told them that, just tried to warn them. So the Giants said, all right, basically...

They didn't jam it. They just found a way to listen in. So they just listened into his frequency, knew all the plays that they were running. And after that, the NFL commissioner just said, we got to stop this. So we outlawed. I wonder, did they beat them pretty easily? 21 to nine. Not as bad as you might think. Did the Giants beat them 21 to nine? Yeah. But they do it now, right? They do it now, right? Yeah. Since 1994, the NFL's had it in quarterback's helmets. Yeah.

And they can just talk to him. I'd love to put a helmet on and hear what it is. I don't really know what it is. I love, dude. NFL mic'd up moments are so great. Did you see that one that went viral of Aaron Rodgers in the preseason game? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, where's the mic, though? Well, I mean, the earpiece? The earpiece is built into the helmet. Yeah, they can't talk to the coach, but the coach just talks to his tutor. Oh, it's not two-way? It's like a baby monitor, huh? Yeah.

I don't think the quarterback's talking back to him. I thought they could at least go, yes, sir. No, I think that's when they do that. They're trying to hear and he goes, all right, run the blah, blah. And isn't there a guy on defense that also has it?

I'm sure they're all talking. They all got stuff going on. What if you're like the one guy that doesn't have the year and they're like, I don't even tell him. It's not worth it. I don't think they all have it. Do they? I thought it was just like the quarterback and like maybe the middle linebacker who's calling the defensive plays or something. I've never played at a level where you had that. Do they have it down in college? Run in the play. They have it in college too. Maybe. I don't know. They got to get off and talk to him on the phone when they get on the sideline. I thought you would know all this, Aaron. A little disappointed. I didn't play D1 football.

I want to focus on life studies. All right. Lambo Leap started in 1993. Yeah. What's that?

You don't know what the Lambeau leap is? No. Aren't you glad I brought it up? Yeah. I mean, he doesn't know anything. Well, I don't know all these historical things. I mean, it's shocking that he's into sports. These things don't mean anything to me, the Lambeau leap. Do you know what Lambeau Field is? Yeah, that's the Packers. Right. The Lambeau leap is when they jump into the crowd after they score a touchdown. That's called the Lambeau leap. You've never seen that? No. I mean, I've seen them jump. It seems too much to me to give it a name. It's like, well, just...

Score touchdowns like it is your job. You know what I mean? You don't need to have a thing. Act like you've been there before. Right. You don't need to leap into the crowd and the fans now have to hold you up. Yeah.

You're complaining about something that began 30 years ago? Yeah. You know what? Like it's new. Yeah. I'll tell you, this game's changed. You were seven when they invented this. Let me tell you something, man. When I was young, you see people on the court or the field and they're doing like this to the crowd. And it's like, well, we've already bought a ticket. Why don't you just do, and we'll cheer when you do something cheerworthy.

You know what I mean? Don't tell us when to cheer. Yeah. You know, I see comics do it sometimes too, though. Do like this. And it's like, well, give them something to cheer about. You know what I mean? Don't, don't be like, cheer for me.

You know what I mean? Yes. Do you know what spiking the football is? I do know what that is. Yeah. So that started in 1960s. I got him Homer Jones scored a touchdown. He was about to throw the ball in the stands, which was, I guess, tradition back then. But then he remembered that commissioner Pete Roselle recently banned that. So the last minute he tried to stop himself and the ball went into the ground and he, uh,

People liked it. Dusty, go control your baby. Oh, yeah. Sorry about that. Is that your son? I guess so. I don't. Can you not recognize a cry? No, I think I could, but I can't hear it that well. Oh, okay. Yeah. Do you even know your son? If he's defensive at all, that's a fight, right? Oh, so you can't recognize your kids? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know my son. You can't even know who you are? Yeah. You just punched me in the face. Well.

Well, anyway, that's how the spike started. And people liked it. Yeah, people liked it. You're not allowed to spike the ball now, though, right? No. No, you can't. Not in college. NFL, you can't. Yeah. For a while, NFL, I think they...

It was the no fun league. And they outlawed any celebration. I always thought if I was a running back, I would throw all my touchdowns. I would throw them in the stands and let someone take them. Let like, you know, be like just nailing people. Well, I don't want this. No, but it's everyone you score, you throw it, give it to a fan. Yeah. And you just go, it's about,

Like this football doesn't mean anything to me. It's a fun part of baseball. You see, cause there's so many, so they throw so many balls in the stands and it's fun to, you know, you find a kid. I bet it's fun for the players. Well, Cam Newton used to do that. He would run up and find a kid. Hand it to him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Scam Newton. Yeah.

That's your name for him, not mine. I always thought like – I would sometimes think about this dream. It's like if you're a running back in the NFL and you score touchdowns, you throw every touchdown ball in the stands. At the end of your career, you see how many of those people you can find, take a picture with all of them. Yeah. And they all stand there holding the ball, and it's all these people. That's fun. You've really put some thought into that. And ask them if they still have them. It's only like four. Yeah. He goes – I call it. Nah, he was available. Because he –

Just one guy. What if you're like, you still have the ball? They're like, ah. Yeah, I sold it. But it's almost like you would have to go like, I would be okay with whatever they did with the ball. The idea of it is you go,

I'm getting, because I think about this all the time. And I think like, so what have you like retired? So you're the most touchdowns ever and all this. So they want something for the thing. You're like, well, I'll give you my uniform. You could keep a uniform. There's a million things that you could kind of keep. Maybe you keep, I could even see keeping the last one. If you think it's our one, just being like, this is the one. So we're going to hold on to that one. But all the other ones have been given away. I could see some stuff, but it's like,

It's not, you know, it's like you just, you're lucky to, you worked hard. You're lucky to be in that situation. And then you just, you're always throwing. And then you're like, you're, you're the, you're the moment. So what do you need the ball for? You know? Yeah.

You're the moment. It's a lot of balls in one game though. I always think that too, but you're allowed to throw them in the stands. Super Bowl touchdown. I would keep that ball. Yeah. You're allowed to throw the ball in the stands. So they can do that. Because I always think that too, it could be wasteful. Is it considered wasteful to be like, we got to keep making, I mean, I don't know how many balls they have. I mean, you know, footballs,

Or for sale and just in general. That's job creation. There's a ton of football. Job creation. A ton. Yeah. Maybe people in football factories are like, keep throwing them out. Right, right, right. What about the jersey swap? Would that be fun? I think that would be like, dude, I don't want to take this off right now. Yeah. I would do it probably once and then I would say, I'm not going to, I can't take it off. What's the jersey swap? That's when players will give each other their jerseys after games. Oh, okay. You know?

It's probably a fun thing. Would you ever shirt swap comics after shows? Anything like that? Depends on the comic. If you're holding a towel up there, no. That's a great point. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to have to separate that. I don't want to put this in a plastic bag to get it home. And have to drive home with no shirt on. Yeah.

So the cheese head started when a guy was cutting up his mom's couch. He took the foam, made a hat out of it, wore it to a Brewers game.

player for the Brewers, Rick Manning saw it, wore it in the dugout just for fun. It became this big novelty. The guy eventually did that who created a company and sold millions and millions of cheese heads. Just sold it to the Green Bay Packers this year, that company. Now that's some good capitalism right there. You talk about rags to riches. He was digging foam out of his mom's couch. Yeah. I mean,

And he sold his company to the Green Bay Packers. How about it? That's a guy. Fomation. It's an author space. And he goes, I like the guy that invented the pet rock. Yeah. He made a million dollars. Yeah. Yeah.

I did want to show real fast before we go the fantasy football, Nate Land fantasy football league. I thought you were about to show from yours. No, no. If you guys want to follow my league that's been for 20 years with a bunch of 50-year-old men. There's a few difference in the Nate Land league. Oh, there is a league. Yeah. See, I like this.

Yeah, so just these names. Dadgummit. Oh, wow. Horses with no names. That's a fun one. That's great. Ice Whip Coffee Whip Cream. The Gaspers. The Gaspers. What's the Gaspers from? Because I gasp. Who made this? It's the second year I think they've done this. Is that all the team names? Isaac Valk. This is only one of the leagues. So we've got another league called Dusty Town. Oh, I'd like to see some names. Yeah, we got Team Town.

Trailer Park Tornado. A lot of teams available. Demon Slayers. I was going to say, Dusty Town is open for business. The No Pork Players. That's a lot of fun. I think there's actually... We've got a Batesville League. I've got a few openings.

They got... It's a four-team league. Looks like a show. There's a chance Batesville was started by Brian. The Deadly Squirrels, according to this, the nosebleed seats. Yeah. What about the airlines? Is there an airline team? I think so. Let's see what's going on. I think you sent me the wrong league. Yeah, it's okay. Oh, I'm sorry. I feel bad. I think there's two Nate Land leagues.

Yeah, you sent me the wrong link. That's okay. Okay. Well, I'm sorry to the guys that we didn't get to show. That's all good. Yeah. Well, there's an Aaron Lane. Yeah. It was very fun. Yeah. Good luck to the gaspers. I'm rooting for the gaspers. You look worried. Sky's the limit. Folks. What's sky's the limit? Is that something you say? I don't get that. I don't know. I might. I've never said that. I don't believe it. Yeah.

You can't go past the sky. Well, maybe that's what that's about. Oh, yeah. That is it. You just called it out. The reference in you. You can't get past it. Oh. Yeah. Good job, Dusty. Figured that one out. Yeah. All right. All right. I guess it's a good place to stop. All right. Talk about where we're going. All right.

Sorry, dude. Yeah, we're getting to it. All right, I'll let you wrap it up, dude. You just act. You go ahead, man. I thought you were about to just shut it off. Go ahead and say where you're going to go. I thought you were about to cut this podcast off. I was about to cut it off. Where are you going, Aaron? You got to get it out there. Where are you going? It's a lot of pressure. This weekend, I'm in Bakersfield, California with Nateland alum Mike James. He's going to be with me. All right. So that'll be a fun show. Bakersfield and then Pleasanton, California on Saturday.

So if you're in middle of the Northern California, come see us. All right. I'll be in Tacoma, Washington at the Tacoma Comedy Club.

We'll be all West Coast because I'm San Diego, Tucson, and LA. All right. Where are you going, Brian? We're going to be in North Charleston, South Carolina. All right. Other side of the country. We'll be all West Coast. East Coast. Middle country, we'll be free of mainland. North Charleston, that's my part of the country there. Yeah, I'm going to be at the Sparrow. Okay, I know the Sparrow. That's this Saturday. Tell them I said hey. I'm going to get home in time to watch the Titans beat the Saints. Yeah.

All right. I'd like you to try to find a guy named Bill Davis and talk to him for a little bit. I'd like you to come back after you've talked to Bill and let's talk about him a little on the podcast and see what you think. Bill Davis. Okay. September 23rd. He didn't write anything down. He acted like he would. He might as well just write it down, man. Bill Davis. Bill Davis. You won't remember that. He's a real guy. September 23rd, Jasper, Indiana. September 30th, Millington, Ohio. October 1st at Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia. Hmm.

All right. And September 14th. September 14th. Oh, yeah. Hello, folks. Dry bar comedy. Oh, yeah. Go check that out. I guess I probably plugged it. But yeah, then Spokane the next weekend for me because we're not doing one. Are you staying out there the whole time? No, I'm just saying no. Yeah, next week is. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The next week I'll be at the Corn Fairy event. Oh, yeah. Next week at the Simmons Bank Open.

I'll be out there some Augustine. I'm playing that one. Augustine. Yep. He's playing it. It's at the Grove. Uh, yeah. And, uh, and so it's a, it's a great event and I'm doing, I'm playing the pro-am like Monday and then the term will start Thursday and it's going, they do stuff all week, but, uh, I'll be out there wandering around. It's fun. It's fun to watch. Awesome.

Cool. Yeah. All right. September 14th. Yeah. You want to do it? No, I don't. Actually, I was doing it as a joke. Yeah. I've struggled with it before. You do it way better. Yeah. So we'll be back. Not next week, but the week after. All right. Well, we hope you have a wonderful Labor Day. Hope you have a great next week. You know, we love you and we'll see you later. Bye. Bye.

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