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What's going on? Hello, folks. Hey, Bear. Welcome in to the Nate Land Podcast. This is Aaron Weber talking. Across the table from me is your old pal, Dusty Slay. All right. And then sitting cat-a-corner to me at the end of the table, like the father of the family. Give it up for my buddy, Brian Bates. All right. And then next to me on this side of the table, the strong side of the table, is our old pal, return guest,

It's the Nate Land Podcast. Give it up for John Reap, everybody. The pride of hickory. The pride of hickory. Good to have you here, man. Good to be back, fellas. I'm a big fan of the show and what you do and all of you. I watched your stand-up. I forgot where it was not long ago. You had a funny, hilarious bit about deer pee. Oh, yeah.

Which I thoroughly enjoyed. Oh, thanks, dude. I enjoyed your special. All right. Thank you. I appreciate that. And when I walked in here, I said, I, like you, pronounced the word poem, not poem. So when you guys were dogpiling on him the other day, I was like, wait, I say it poem. I think Dusty would, too, if he went first. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know how I say it, but, and I wasn't even, you know, I don't even notice it with Brian, but the, the, but Aaron pointed it out and then it hit me in a, it hit me in a way. It's selective listening, right? It's like, you can't listen to don't fear the reaper without hearing the cowbells now. Yeah. That's all you hear. So that's what I did for Brian. And apparently Nate has a joke and especially just recorded this weekend where he also says poem like I do.

Oh, okay. Well, that makes sense because you guys are from a very similar part of Tennessee. That's right. You grew up hop, skip, and a jump away from each other. When I was working at Hyman's, a girl moved to Charleston from Tennessee. Which is a restaurant, by the way. Yes, yes. Oh, yeah. There's a guy there that worked there named Buster. Oh!

And she said, she would say, wash. Yes. Wash. My mom says that. Yeah. Wash. And I'm like, why are you putting an R in there like that? You got some clothes you need to wash. And I'm like, I don't think so. How do you wash? Is that different than washing? Yeah. Washing. It is different somehow. Yeah. Tennessee's got its own vibe. So it makes sense that you guys would say it the same way. Yeah. Yeah.

And we're both from Alabama, so we're like, Tennessee words are weird. Isn't that funny? People outside of the South think that we're all one thing, but really we're pockets of many different things. Yeah, we've got a lot going on down here. So if I heard someone say, read that poem, I would think, why did you say it that way? You think you're smarter than me? Why are you putting so many syllables in words? Yeah, why are you translating? It's a poem.

Like I say, Brian. Brian. Brian. Yeah. Not Brian. You're right. Brian. Brian Bates. Yeah. I think we all say it that way in the South. I think Aaron's the outlier. I might be. I usually am in situations like this. Well, I just wanted to bring it up to let you guys know. I watch what you do, and I'm a fan and a fan. Oh, thank you. You watched the one-minute clip. Yes, that's right. Thank you.

Don't ask me another question. The last one. He's like, let me research real quick. I watched an entire episode of Carolina Reaper. We're preparing for this episode. I have notes, questions. But we've been keeping up with you too, John. I remember last time you were here, you had just taped Curb Your Enthusiasm. Oh, that's right. And I don't believe the episode had come out yet. And now...

It's out. It's out, man. It's a hot clip. You know, when I first started watching that clip, though, you do so much AI stuff, like with your podcast and stuff. I thought at first this was a fake clip that you made up. Really? Because I don't watch the show. I mean, I don't even know where it's at. I mean, I like the show, but I just don't watch any shows. But at first, I was like, did he make this clip up? There is something I could and would do. Yeah. But no, luckily, I didn't have to do that. Yeah. No, so I just got the audition.

When I was in Hickory, and it's just for this role, I can do that guy all day, every day. Easy peasy. And so I recorded the podcast. That's the same guy from Harold and Kumar, too. It's the same guy. That's the same guy from the Hemi commercial. Yeah. That guy was a little bit in Rodney Carrington, but without the beard. Yeah. That guy was into the storm. Yeah.

The movie, Into the Storm, basically the same dude. So I just do that. But it was great. It was fantastic. I was there two days. We shot it in LA, even though it took place in Atlanta. I was a little bit nervous working with Larry David because I've heard things. He's a legend. And you're in the scene improv-ing with him, right? Yeah. They don't give you a script. That part is true. They give you pages with...

bullet points of where your conversation needs to go.

So in this first scene, I am in jail with Larry. I don't know why I'm in jail. He doesn't know why I'm in jail. All he knows is I got stomach cramps and I'm doing this a lot. Can you create in your own mind, at least why you're in jail? I can. Yeah. I liked, I didn't do it this time because it didn't go that far. Like when we were there, I mean, I,

I sat down. I didn't want to walk up to him and go, hey, I'm John Reap. Because at some point, I knew he was going to have to talk to me. And I know he's a very busy dude. He's talking to everybody. The director, the lighting. He's doing all kinds of stuff. So I just sat on the bench in the jail. And you're a big deal, too. I mean, let him come to you. Yeah. That's a power move. Yeah. Yeah. At some point. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm here. I'm doing a thing. Of course. I'll see you in a minute. When he comes over, I was like, not yet.

Yeah. I'm getting into character. What's your name? David? David. Oh, Larry. Larry.

Davey? No, but I was intimidated because he was a little curmudgeon-y, you know, but he was super nice. And the director was a big part of it too, because we would just improv the lines. We would go and then we'd stop and the director would come over and go, okay, that was good. Take this part out. John, say this, this time instead of that. And we just whittled it down to what they want. We shot this scene maybe 10 times. Yeah.

And then moved the camera around, did another 10 times. I was very proud of one moment, and I hope it makes it to the blooper reels, where I made him laugh out loud. All right. And I hope they give me that as the blooper reel. Yeah, let you have that in your own highlight reel for doing shows. That's the clip you want the comedy club to be using. John Reap's coming, and then it's a clip of you making David. It's just like a...

Where would the blooper reels even appear these days? I don't. Good question. I think the last time I saw a blooper reel was at the end of Smoking the Bandit and the credits. I mean, where do they put them anymore? They put them out on YouTube.

Okay, just like on their curb. Yeah. And you can still get physical copies of shows like that. Yeah. Blu-rays. It was great. It was fun. It wasn't funny, but it was the right answer. I was legitimately asking. You'll get tired of it. Dusty will come over and get it from you. That's right. I'm going to tell you a little story about this. So that character...

Larry, later on, have you seen this episode yet? No, I saw that clip though. Okay. So later on, Larry needs a favor from me. He calls me up and now I owe him something because he cured my stomach cramps. I'd like to know what he did. He told me to stop eating cheese. That was it. I didn't either. And so he goes, well, I need you to do me a favor. I need you to steal a lawn jockey.

And for whatever reason, he wanted me to go find a lawn jockey and give it to him. So I got him this lawn jockey that's part of the show. Fast forward. Now I have a new house and I've been told that my house looks like the house from Home Alone.

You've seen the movie Home Alone. You haven't, Harry. I'm familiar with it. In the beginning of Home Alone, I think the pizza guy... You called him out on that. He's seen it. Because last time he said he didn't see it, we got so many emails from people saying, that's worse than not seeing Shawshank. Was that worth stopping the story for? Probably not. Well, I'm telling you this to tell you this. My house kind of looks like that.

And in the movie, there was a pizza guy. In real life or in the house? In the movie, in the show. In real life, my house kind of looks like that. Okay. Yeah, I just bought a house. All right. Lesson learned.

Less than a year ago. A lot's happened. I got married. Yeah. I got a house. Oh, wow. I have a new son. Today's his anniversary. You have a new son? Yeah, he's 22. His name is Tate. He lives in the basement. He's my stepson. But he's new to me. Okay. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right.

My wife, for my birthday, got me a lawn jockey. Wow. Because our house looks like the Home Alone house. And the scene that with me, with Larry and David, I have to steal a lawn jockey. So it was apropos. And that's the kind we have. We got that exact one right there. Not that one, but one similar to it. Was the pizza guy that knocked over the lawn jockey in Home Alone, was he redheaded? I want to say yes. I mean, there's a little Easter egg there. Thank you. It's all coming together. Yeah.

Yes. Now what I got to do is order pizza. Yeah. A little conspiracy. Call up and go, I need a ginger to bring it out here. And then they'll come and arrest you. I'd like the delivery boy to be a redhead, please. No other ethnicity or color, please. Only the ginger. And then you have to bump into it because that's what happened in Honolulu. They ran over that thing like two or three times. But.

Yeah, it was good times. Oh, look what we got here. We got paper. Oh, look at that. We got some stuff. Is this for everybody? Is this for you, John? All right. All right. Straight from the trash. Look at that. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Straight from the trash. Yeah. Yeah, this has got coleslaw on it. Should we get into it? I love coleslaw. Let's talk about where we've been. Oh, right, right, right. I'm sorry. Oh, yeah. This weekend, I did Charleston, West Virginia. I did two theater shows. I did Charleston, West Virginia. My first time doing Charleston, West Virginia and not doing the Holiday Inn at the Comedy Zone. Okay. Good. And it was really great. I had a lot of fun at this place. Yeah.

And then also there was like a volleyball convention in town. So after my show, I had to go. It was younger. And I had to go because I was going to make jokes about volleyball. And I go, how old are they? And then I was like, no, I'm not going to do it. And so I had to walk after my show to do the meet and greet. I had to walk through the volleyball thing that was going on. So I walk through it because it's in the same convention center. Okay.

So I walk out into like 10 volleyball games going on. It's still going. I cut through one dad off to the side goes, Oh, we're having a good time. And I was like, all right. And then, uh, and then, uh, and then after the show, I was out having a cigar and, uh,

A lot of the volleyball people were staying at my hotel, and it turned into a party, and they were doing jello shots. Oh, wow. I took pictures with people out in the park. I was like, I got to get out of here. I thought these were kids. They're parents. They're parents. I was like, what is going on here? Yeah, the parents. And then the next day, I went to Pittsburgh and did a show in Munhall, PA, right outside of Pittsburgh. Another theater show. Really great. A lot of fun.

I saw a guy, James Brumbaugh, that I used to sell pesticides with. Oh, no way. Me and him hung out a little bit and it was fun. How was that? It was great. We had a couple of cigars and just complained about our old bosses. There you go. And some of his friends were there and I was complaining a minute about it. And they go, this sounds just like you talking about. Like he had the same complaints that I had. Yeah.

I got heated for a second. I got a cool. Anytime I talk about my old boss, I have to, I get fired up and I have to scale it. It's been a long time. Yeah. Wow. I'm not mad about it until I start to talk about it. I'm not even mad, but I just, I start calling him, you know, you know, like a fat idiot and stuff like that. He was overweight. Yeah.

And he wasn't smart. Yeah. And I don't mean to do it. And I feel bad that I'm doing it, but it all comes back. You're heating up right now. He used to dip and would never spit. He would just, he's a guzzler. My friend from high school, his dad was a guzzler. It was disgusting, dude.

I know. This guy would be like, I'm going to come. He had a real raspy voice. He goes, I'm going to come work with you this weekend. And then he'd go meet me at the store at 8 a.m. So I'd get there at like seven to really get it straight. Right. Ten o'clock. He'd call me. He'd go, oh, I had a conference call. And then he'd show up and he'd go, let's get some lunch. And then he'd go, I got to get on back. And then he would go home. This guy sounds awesome. Wow. I think sounds great.

But yeah, he was a good guy. But that's it for me. It was hot though. It was a lot of fun. Do you sell merchandise? Yeah. What do you have these days? I got shirts, hats, stickers, posters. I got a yard sale. He's got a flea market. Yeah. Yeah. I'm all about it. Do you use one company?

I do. Farm it out. Yeah, use a company. And yeah, now I got people that come sell it. And it's like, I thought, I always said, I don't want to do that. I like selling the merch. It's fun for me. And then the first time somebody else did it, I go, that's the way to go. What was I thinking? Well, you'll stand next to it and take pictures and stuff. That's all they care about. Yeah.

well, that's great. So he made some cash. Yeah. And I got good merch, right? That's the point for me. It's like, I don't want to, I don't want to shirts that people like, I want shirts that people can wear. Even if, if, uh,

Even if you don't know the comic, you're like, this is still a cool looking shirt. You have that. Yeah. The wolf. I got a wolf shirt. I got a NASCAR shirt. I got one that says we're having a good time. I don't like the satanic thing you got going on here. Well, that's my friend's podcast, Ninjas Are Butterflies. And it's a flying saucer. It's just an unidentified flying object.

It's not, there's no aliens. There's nothing. What's these? And this is size, you know, this is like a weapon that a ninja would use. And then there's just a spotlight on it. It's, you know, listen, I can spot them. I've checked it. This is okay. All right. Okay.

How about you, Aaron? How was your weekend? First of all, John, you don't run the podcast. We'll be the ones calling the shots. I don't like dead air. Yeah, there was a lull there. We're fine with it. We're used to it. It's a slow pace. And if you don't like dead air, at least don't just skip me.

Go straight to Aaron. You just assume I don't have shows this weekend, which I did. What did you do? All right. I didn't have anything. But don't assume. Don't assume. I actually, Nate's dad was doing magic in my hometown of Lebanon, Tennessee, and I had a finagle tickets. Call in. Face.

in my hometown because it was sold out, but I took my mom to see his show and it was so great. A lot of folks were there. He's very funny. I would love to see that. Nate's dad's very funny. Puts on a great show. Yeah. He is. And Nate said last week in the podcast that stand-up comedy is the hardest form of entertainment. I'm not going to argue with that, but man. I agree with that statement. His dad has to do a lot. He has to, I mean, pick people out of the audience and

And just hope that they play along right. He said he made an audible call. Why second this woman? Because he does a trick where he takes a ring off your finger. And he looked at her ring when he got close and was like, that ring's not going to work. And he just quickly switched to somebody else. She had two fat fingers. Yeah, he was like, he ain't even getting that ring off. I don't know, but he's great. And that is not an easy job.

as well. Uh-huh. Doing that. Yeah, magic's tough, man. Does he do a lot of up-close stuff or is it like... No, it's up-close. I mean... He's a sorcerer. Right. Does he do mental stuff? Like, nah. Okay. He levitates. Oh, I love that. My favorite trick...

Dude, Nate's dad levitating. If he could levitate, that would be the best. Jump on my back. We're going to use you. How far, when you say levitate in your brain, how far up can you go? Before you're now, you're flying. I think about a foot. About a foot is a levitation. I'm thinking David Blaine from that special when he levitates. That's like a foot or two. I'm even giving him six inches. If you can get up a foot, you're right. You are flying at this point.

Oh, I was going to give you five to 10 feet. Oh, I don't know. I think if you can get a foot off the ground, I'd be telling people I can fly. Yeah. Well, fly or levitate. That's his point. I'd go up one foot and go, I'm not going to do it right now, but I just wanted to show you that I could fly. Yeah. I could do it. It's just how long we got to be in the air. Right. So the rules are. Because if there's no time limit, I could levitate right now. Yeah.

For .0002. Oh, yeah, we can all do it. You can get a foot up there. Not a foot, but you can get 12 inch for it. I wish, if I could levitate, I would use it just sometimes in crowded areas just to seem tall. Yeah. Like I'd just go up six inches and be above everybody. Just stay there. And also clear everybody out of there pretty rapidly. Just levitate with your arms up like this and then everybody would go, ah! Magneto. Head back like this.

Yeah. And then it'd start raining and the eclipse comes. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. So that's what I did.

That's fine. It was a good show, though. Yeah, his dad is so funny and so talented. I don't know how he does. I was about to share a trick, but I thought, well, he may not even want to tell the punchline of the trick, so I won't tell it. But I have no idea how he does any of them. Yeah, he's pretty amazing. Yeah. I was in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dr. Grin's Comedy Club. In the B.O.B. Yeah, whatever it's called. The Bob. Great.

Grand Rapids gets wild at night. We'd leave the club and be like, what is going on down here? I feel so old. You stand across the street at the hotel. Right across the street. So there's just madness going on. I love to hang out out there and have cigars and just watch that building. There's a little park bench right there. Yeah. That's what we did a little bit because they just come out in droves because the bars close pretty early there. Last calls at 1230.

which feels so early to me. Yeah, for them. That's way too early for them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nashville, I think the bars are three, right? At least two. Yeah, at least two. So one o'clock is pretty early. But the shows were great. Did five shows. One was completely sold out. A couple were pretty close. It was just all shows were great. You know, like you're on a weekend, you're waiting on the bad show of the weekend.

And then there never really was one. All right. I mean, we're better than others, but it was all it was solid. So thank you to everybody that came out. Had you been there before? I had been there, not as the headliner, but I'd been there and featured. I will say this. I went to the minor league baseball game when I was out there. I had been emailing this. I was trying to throw out the first pitch at the Western Michigan Whitecaps game.

And they just ghosted me, dude. They responded once, and then they go, yeah, yeah, yeah, email this, and then they ghosted me. So I was like, whatever. I'm going to the game. I want to see who they got to tell me. Oh, it was your feature? I want to see. I went with my buddy, Zach, who was a feature. We went there. We got there a little early. I was like, I want to see you start on the first pitch.

And dude, they go, and now direct your attention to the mound. The ceremonial first pitch is Xavier celebrating his 13th birthday. It's just this kid up there. Dude, Zach was dying laughing. He's like, you loser, dude. They passed on you for a kid celebrating a birthday. Yeah. How was this pitch? Yeah. Not even a super young kid. Not bad, honestly. He had a pretty good arm. From the mound? Yeah. Yeah.

You know what? I mean, if it was like, if he was like seven, you're like, all right, but he's 13. I mean, it probably meant more to you than it would him. Probably. Yeah. Which is probably not good. He was like, I got to get up early on Saturday. Yeah. Two o'clock game. Yeah. Anyway, thank you to everybody that came. Great club. Great town. Have you heard like the, that building, the B.O.B., the Bob, that people died in there?

I don't, I've not heard it, but I don't doubt it. I think they probably die at those clubs every weekend. Yeah. On the stage. They fall off the staircase. Yes. The staircase. The staircase is dangerous. Yeah. Yeah. It's an interior sort of staircase that if you're on the third or fourth level, the third floor is the club. Okay. And so there's bars on the first floor and the second floor. And then there's an event space literally across the hall from the comedy club. So there can be like a wedding reception. Yeah.

six feet from the club. And luckily there wasn't one this past weekend, but yeah, I could see how people could fall off. I almost fell off of them. Yeah. Completely sober during the day. A girl was so drunk there. I've told this on the podcast before, but she was so drunk there. She bought a t-shirt for me and thought she was getting admission to a club. And she thought I was hardy.

That's how drunk she was. She thought I was Hardy and that I was either selling my own merch or taking tickets for the club. She bought the shirt for me. I handed it to her and then she went over to my feature and she goes, I'm trying to get in the club. And he's like, this is not how you get in the club. And she goes, is that Hardy? Did you give the shirt back to them? I refunded. Oh, yeah. She kept the shirt, but I did refund the money. Oh, wow.

Somebody got engaged during my show. Oh, nice. And when I say during my show, I mean just in the middle of I'm telling a joke. And I just start to see a camera flashing. And I'm like, what is going on? See a guy on one knee? Literally. Yeah. Just in the middle of a bit, a guy just proposed to his fiance at the table. And they're all celebrating. What? Okay.

Yeah. It wasn't like a bit that got them going. It had nothing to do with. And then she came up to me after the show. She was like, I got married. And the staff was so rude. They kept telling us to stop taking pictures. I was like, come on. We just got engaged. I was like, when did you get engaged? She's like, while you're on stage.

I mean, 10 feet from me. This is a great Michigan accent, by the way. Yeah. While you're on stage. While we were on stage. I mean, they told us, why are you doing that? I mean, they're 10 feet from me, and they just...

I mean, could not be less interested in what I'm doing. I was going to wait till afterwards, but let's just get on with it. Yeah. Wait till afterwards or do it before. Or they could have reached out to you and said, hey. Right. I would have told them no, but they should have done that. He's like, she's about to fall asleep. I better do this quick. I had a Greensboro Comedy Zone. I had a couple get engaged. I was featuring. They came up on stage. They coordinated with the host.

And so they went up on stage and he proposed to her. I mean, awful. Yeah. Awful set. Terrible. 25 minutes. And he still proposed to his girlfriend right after me. I mean, no momentum for the show at all. And he gets down on a knee. The headliner probably appreciated it. It took a while. It took a while for her to say, yeah, dude, the crowd had to start chanting. Really?

Say yes. Oh, no. Kind of like get her onto it. If that's me, first off, I would never propose that way. But if I did do that and then the audience had to chant for her to say yes, when we got off the stage, I would go ahead and call it off. It's over. I would go, yeah, we're not going to do it. I'm sorry I put you in that position, but we're not going to do it. Matter of fact, we're going to break up. I don't think he had a ring either. It was just a joke. That's not a real proposal. Yeah. I doubt they're still together.

You propose after watching me bomb for 25 minutes at the Greensboro Comedy Zone. Do you remember the headliner? Tony Tone. Oh, if you were to Tony Tone show in 2019. Wow, what year was that?

Yeah, it must have been 2019, 2018. Go ahead and let us know. How is it going? Is it working out? We'd like to know. Did you ever get a ring? I don't think they're podcast listeners. I don't think this will get to them, but you never know. You never know. I did a gig with Tony Tone and Tony Stone. At the same time? Separately. But here's what had happened. It was. I was the MC.

Oh, they were on the same show? No. Oh, okay. It was supposed to be Tony Tone. In the newspaper, they had Tony Tone. So a lot of people showed up to see Tony Tone, a lot of his fans. And they messed up. It was Tony Stone.

Do you guys know who Tony Stone is? No. Old white guy. Exact opposite of Tony Stone. And there's a crowd of people there to see Tony Tone. And I have to go tell them that Tony Tone is not here, but we do have Tony Stone. Ha ha ha!

And they go, all right, that's kind of close, I guess. They thought I was joking at first. And I was like, here he comes, Tony Stone. And it was brutal. Just some Larry Reed looking guy walks out there and they're like, oh. Yeah. That was a set, though.

He was good. Yeah. It took him a minute. I'd say so. Yeah. So out of an hour set, he got them going around 10. Once they figured out like, this is what we're stuck with. Yeah. Some people kind of left, but not in a rude way. Yeah. He just went with it. What a, the club couldn't find, they were like, at least the names are close. Yeah. Like the club. Don't tell them. We don't have to tell them. They don't know. They'll never know. The names are so close. Yeah.

The audience will never know the difference. Tony Tone is very funny. He had a line that weekend that I quote often. He asked somebody, where are you from? And she said, from Costa Rica. He goes, you from the coast of Puerto Rico? I just thought I was in the back. Like, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard. Maybe. Anyway.

What were you up to, John? Oh, last gig I was in Denver, Colorado at the Comedy Works. Hang on. If it wasn't this weekend, don't get to take credit for it. I had to talk about going with my mom to see Nate's dad. So don't be like, oh, it's in Denver. Got it. I didn't know the rules. Okay.

This weekend, I was at my mom's. I saw Nate Bargatze's dad. I saw you. I didn't want to talk to you. No, I went to a crawdad's game, a hickory crawdad's game, and it was so windy that we stayed maybe two innings. How old was the guy that threw out the first pitch? I didn't see him.

But we did hear the guy sing the national anthem. He sounded 13. Okay. Sounded like he had a great voice. LP Fran Stadium. LP Fran Stadium. That's right. It's a nice looking ballpark. Yeah, it's not bad.

It's fun. Who are they affiliated with? Oh, it used to be Chicago. The Rangers now. It's the Rangers. These things change so often. It's tough. Yeah. But like you, I love the weird mascots that different minor league teams have. We are the crawl dads, but this technically is a crawl dad shirt, even though it's a llama. Like once every, I guess once a year, they change to a llama. You become the llamas day hickory. Right. Yeah.

Celebrate Mexicant heritage. Okay. Well said. Thanks, guys. I speak Spanish, but not Mexicant. Well, I talked to Nate's dad today. Apparently, we hang out a lot together. But he flew Sunday to Phoenix to watch night two of Nate's special. Fly or levitate? Levitate.

Oh, my God. Call back. You know, I didn't ask, so I don't know. But he made it. And he said it went great. He said they told him that after night one, they had everything they needed. Really? Which is a great...

uh thing to have just to relax for night two bit but he said night two was incredible so i think nate special went really well and all right yeah that's awesome we'll hear more about next week but i think he had a great weekend let's watch it together dusty yeah we'll do it we'll watch it home alone and then nate special and uh we'll get well you know we'll both see things we haven't seen before that's right yeah ebay motors is here for the ride remember when you first saw the potential

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Have you ever had the airbags go off in your car? No, thank God. Yeah, I've never had it. I'm terrified of it. I have. How hard does it come out? I was blacked out, but I have no memory of it. Someone told me about it. It's how he's alive. That's great. Honestly. Yeah.

Well, have you ever seen the videos of the prank videos of people sitting on these things? They go off and they shoot some way up in the air. Yeah. Can you imagine that? You were blacked out before it went off. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Right.

That's fun. That's a good time. All right, we're going to get these comments. Let's do it. Who's reading them? Who wants to take the lead? I don't remember who did it last time. I think I did last time. You want to go, Dustin? Yeah, I'll read. I'll read and then we'll see where it goes. Whenever you want me to tap in, I'll tap in. We'll see how my reading goes. And these comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and Nateland.

at Nate Bargatze. And you can text Brian too. I mean, 6153. Two weeks ago, Aaron said, brunch is the same 12 people. That's not what I, oh, I didn't say that actually. Which is not true. All right. Lisa Miola. Lisa Miola. Is that how you'd say it? Liza Minnelli? Lisa Miola. I think that's right.

Hello, folks. Love this podcast. I found the podcast because of Nate, but have become a big fan of Brian. Oh. I wish I'd have read these ahead of time. That's nice. My tastes have widened. That's for sure.

I've lowered the threshold of what I like. Just let Lisa talk. Go ahead, Dusty. As a yoga instructor, I feel he is the grounding element of the group. Oh, thank you. I agree. I must say. Wow. Anyone else can be replaced by a funny guest.

But no one can fill the seat of Brian Bates. That's right. How about it? Wow. I'm Brian, by the way, if you didn't know. Brian Bates. That is true, though. I'll give it up, though. Thank you. That is true. I had to have this comment read while Nate wasn't here. That's good, though. I mean, last week, he did have to replace me with two people. That's true. Yeah. So, but.

It's a fun episode, though. But you were missed. You were missed. Where were you? You guys let Nate wear a shirt from NASA while I was gone, huh? What am I supposed to tell him? Take it off. Come on, dude. Out of respect for Dusty. Did you ask Dusty first? Yeah, come on, guys. All right. Brian Paris. Paris. Hello, folks.

I'd be interested to hear if how Jerry Clower influenced your path to becoming comedians as a, as a group of, I don't know why I was adding a word in as a group of all Southern comics. I have to think at least some of you were exposed to him as much as I was as a kid. Love the show.

I'm a huge Jerry Clower fan. Yeah. Well, I wonder how old this person is because I'm 52, and I think I was just on the very edge of Clower. I didn't get the full Clower experience growing up. Yes. I had to be told by other people. For sure. And look it up or go – someone hand me a tape and I listen to it that way. I didn't – he wasn't around, so –

Not a huge influence, but just someone who would hand you a tape and you're like, oh, he yells a lot. And that's pretty funny. Oh, no. You could be the next Jerry Clower. Oh, we got in that church. It's Sunday at noon. It was high.

Hoochie's coochie. I mean, he's like one of those guys. He just screamed a lot like a preacher almost. He was like a preacher. He has a great bit about how he recorded an album and somebody from New York City, they contacted him and they were like, next time you're in the vicinity of New York City, we want you to stop by the office. And he goes, well, I ain't never going to be in the vicinity of New York City. So if you want to talk to me, you come down here to Yazoo, Mississippi. Yeah.

He was great, though. As a comic, he's not my favorite comic by any means. I can't listen to a bunch of Jerry Clower bits. Sure, sure. But I do like him. And my dad told me that he used to be a fertilizer salesman, Jerry Clower, and that he would go around to the feed and seed stores, and he remembers Jerry Clower coming to his –

local store in Alabama as a fertilizer salesman and said people would come in off the street to hear this guy tell stories. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah.

So that's fun. Kind of reminds me of James Gregory a little bit. Yeah, a little bit. I mean, wasn't James Gregory in sales before? I mean, everybody was. Probably. I think Jerry, I mean, I think James Gregory is a much better comedian. Yeah. In my opinion. I mean, James Gregory is like his dry bar. I mean, you can see the age on him on that dry bar, but that man is sharp and he is nailing it. I mean, he crushes. He does. Yeah.

All right. Stephen Parker. Do you know Jerry Clower at all? I know of him a little bit. It's like it's a style that

It's like, isn't it not street jokes? Wouldn't be the word, but it's like joke jokes. It's long jokes. Right. He would take a joke that it's a story. Honestly, it would be a joke that you could tell in five words. Yeah. But he would make a story out of it. And he would get into a lot of net Marcel led better. He loved to really sound out a name and long names. Say it over and over. Very detailed kind of stuff.

Okay, Stephen Parker, if he hasn't already, Dusty should start grinding his own ground beef. All of the ground beef that you get from the store is a conglomeration of scraps from multiple cows. You really have no idea what you're getting.

Okay. Well, yeah, I mean, I'm with you. I don't grind my own beef, but I don't even have any cows to kill and grind up that beef. Do you mind if you found out your burger was from three different cows? Right. Thank you. Not at all. I don't know if I would care. I mean, you assume it's from one single cow, but if you told me that's from...

I don't know if I'd care that. I guess it doesn't really bother me. I mean, I think you have to, you have to separate a little bit when you're eating out at a restaurant or, or because you're like, I don't know where this is coming from. You just have to let it go. Yeah.

Once you've accepted, I'm going into this restaurant. I don't know who's cooking it. I don't know if they're on a two week notice. I don't know what kind of attitude problem they're having today. I don't know where they got the food from. The people working down at the plant grinding this beef, were they having a good day? Are they mad? You have to let it all go. Yeah.

So even if it was like a steakhouse and it said grass fed or whatever, something that – would that help or hurt? I don't trust any of these people out here now. So it doesn't matter. No, but I think maybe somewhere along the line it might matter, some restaurant. And some of these people may be very honest, but I just think – I was told by a guy that works at Publix that you can –

You can feed a cow whatever, and then the last two weeks before you kill it, you can feed it only grass and then be considered grass beef. Well, what's cheaper than grass that you're feeding these cows? Well, I think that the corn fattens them up. So you get more money for the cow once it's fattened up. Since you sell it by the weight. Yeah. And then the corn is all GMO, has all kinds of chemicals. And I'm told- You need a lot of land.

They don't have that much grass to feed them. Cows are not really supposed to eat corn, I don't think. They love it. But I think if a cow was just out in a field with a bunch of grass and some corn stalks, I think it would just eat the grass. Now, I don't know. But that's what I think. It's legit. Sounds legit. I believe that. But I appreciate Stephen Parker. And I'd like to grind my hair. Hey, let's skip this next comment. Is that okay? Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Hope Welsh. My dad was born in 1971, and my birthday is less than nine months after Aaron's. I love imagining Buckwheat as Aaron's dad. I like it, too. I'm Buckwheat. Oh, okay. If that helps, John. Why is this? Any name with a B, people try to come up with as many possible B names for him as they can. Okay. All right.

Well, let's skip that comment. And no. Well, John and I are the same age, so you could also be Aaron's dad. I'd love it. I'd love it. Well, how old are you? 32. 32. How old's your son? I have my son's son is 24. Okay. Yeah. And then my stepson's 22 and I have a stepdaughter who's 18. But yeah. What do you think when you told us that you had a new son, you didn't include your stepdaughter?

Well, I can tell. I'll tell you why. When I told you I had a new son, your face was like, oh. And then I didn't have a chance to tell you. I'm just kidding. I'm just messing with you. And then it was over. Okay. But why did you even start it with, I have new kids?

I thought you just had a baby. That's why I said it, though. Yeah. I thought that you found out about a kid. That's not what I thought. That's not what I meant. Oh, yeah. The joke I was trying to, it's like I just had a kid. Okay. Not kids, but I had a kid. But I do have two stepkids now. And today's John's anniversary, Tony. Yeah, one year today. Look at that. Congrats. Thank you. Thank you. How long have you been married now?

I got married in 2018. Maybe I got married in 2017. I got married in 2017. Maybe seven years. Y'all got married, right?

What do you mean? You don't know when it happened. It did happen at some point. I'm the worst with dates. I mean, it really is. I got like four birthdays memorized. And that's people from my sisters, my dad, and my mom. And even my dad's, I have to go. You don't know Hannah's. No, I know. Now I have Hannah's and my own kids memorized. But it's just like all these dates that we got to memorize.

If somebody held a gun to your head and told you to say phone numbers that you have memorized, how many could you do? I've got maybe two, including my own. I can for sure do three that I can.

I could do maybe three. I can do my dad's number because it's been the same since I was a kid. I can do my mom's old number that is not active, but I could do it. I don't know if that would count. And I have my wife's number memorized and my number memorized. Your dad's cell phone? Is that what you're saying? No, his old home phone. He still has his home phone. Okay. That's why I was wondering. My mom still has her home. And you got that one memorized? Yeah. It's interesting. You don't need to know it anymore. Yeah.

I think that's one of the reasons we got married on April 15th, because it's tax day. Yeah. And I'll never forget our anniversary. The government won't either. Something's happening. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Can't forget that. Do you guys know what we were doing a year ago today? What were we doing? Oh, April 15th, we were doing Bridgestone Arena. That's right. Wow. This time last year. Wow. How about it? Amazing. That's pretty amazing. And now we're all selling out arenas. Yeah.

Amazing what a year. Yeah. Yeah. All right. At the time, it felt crazy for Nate to do an arena. Now that's all he does. I know. It's crazy. I told somebody, even after it happened, I was like, it's like everybody just came together to be nice to Nate to do this special night. And now he does two arenas a day. I know. That's insane. That's crazy. Well, thanks, Hope.

Yeah. Son? Let me sit you down. Oh, we're going to shake hands? Yeah. All right. Thank you. Father and son. Let's have a beer. Okay. Chris Kelly. For me, nothing is more awkward than being sat on a plane next to someone who doesn't have any entertainment on board because I always catch them looking over at my phone when I'm watching a movie. So I ask, would you rather have a person next to you who won't shut up and wants to chat the whole time or someone...

Quiet, who's constantly looking over at what you're doing. Oh, quiet, looking over at what I'm doing. Totally. I just will hide what I'm doing. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm not doing weird stuff on the plane either. Right. You just shut your eyes and take a nap and never see him looking at you. Yeah. Yeah. You just listen to a podcast and shut the video part down. Right. And then close your eyes. Yeah. Someone that won't stop talking to you is... It's like...

Even if I'm interested in talking to the person, once the plane takes off, the pressure of the ears kind of hits me and I don't want to have to keep this going. Right. Yeah. I had this happen. I was getting on a plane. I try to be the last guy on the plane if I don't have a carry-on bag because I don't have to worry about bin space. I've just got my backpack and I've got a seat in front of me and I don't have to stand in line as long. I like to be the last guy.

And so I was the last guy on the flight and my seat was a aisle seat. I walked right to it. There was a guy whose jacket was in there. And I was like, that's my seat. He goes, oh, hey, do you mind switching seats with my son? He's up there like two rows up. I go, oh.

Does he have an aisle seat? He's no, no. I go, no, I'm not doing that. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. I love it. It was trying to put me in a middle seat. Yeah. Yeah.

The balls on that guy. You can't be away from your son for two hours. He should be trying to switch with another window seat guy. That's what I told him. Or was he a middle seat guy? He had another son next to him. So him and his other son had the middle and the window. I said to him, if you can somehow finagle a way for someone to switch and

to where I get an aisle, I'll do it. Yeah, I want an aisle. But I'm not going to go make that happen. I booked ahead of time. I got on top of this. I booked the seat I wanted to get. Exactly. Don't now try to put me in a middle seat. And then make me feel bad about it. Yeah. He didn't let me sit next to my son. Was this signed by himself two rows up? I never got a good look at him.

I was going to say he should switch with him and let the two boys at least hang out with each other. Right. How old were the kids, you think? The kid, this kid on the left in the window was probably 10. Yeah. And I'm guessing the other one. Must be older. That kid wanted to be. Yeah. They don't want to sit next to their dad on the flight. I did that kid a favor. Yeah. Yeah. That kid wanted some space. Yeah.

Up there drinking beer. I'm going to have to hold his dad's jacket the whole time. Right. I told a story a long time ago about being on a Delta flight and I chose the Sopranos to watch and I just assumed they edited out the bad part and I was mistaken. Yeah. And

Well, it happened to me again a couple of weeks ago. I'm flying home and this time I'm watching a movie on my laptop that downloaded from the airline Oppenheimer. Yeah. I thought Oppenheimer would be a safe movie as far as anything. There's a 10 year old girl sitting in the seat next to me. And out of nowhere, you don't see the scene coming.

There's a scene and I was like, whoa. And I quickly just slammed my laptop shut and she didn't see it. But later in the movie, there's another scene like that. When he's given a deposition at the table. All movies have it now. You have to watch older movies. All movies have it.

But you would think if it's a movie that is offered by the airline and they know they have children in there, that maybe they would clean it up for the children. And now that's making you look like the bad guy for choosing something that they offered. And now you have to be worried about it. Yeah. They put it on you. I don't like that. You're on a list somewhere. I don't blame them. I should be. But it should have a little like questionable content in 10, 9. Oh,

Oh, yeah. Countdown. Yeah, you can prep for it. At least if you're on the phone, you can just tap it to skip. I watched a movie called Death Wish with Charles Bronson. Great movie. Great movie. You know, other than some shooting, it's like pretty, pretty, but it's got an early scene where there's like a home invasion. But, you know, I could see what was about to happen. I just went tap, tap, tap, tap. And then we were through that. I know what happened. I don't need to see it. Yeah. And then we're out. Just tap, tap, tap, tap.

That's what, that's what. Yeah. Tapping or some sort of countdown. Yeah. I like the countdown. Get on that. Yeah. Yeah. Cause then if you want that, you're like, yeah. I'm going to hit pause. We'll get a beer. Come right back. Yeah.

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Cameron Betts. Yeah. As a comic with rising careers, what is it like to do shows knowing things are going well as opposed to when you're starting out just making ends meet doing comedy? Does success at any level affect how you perform and write? I'll take this one. I was going to say I have no idea.

I don't. For me, it doesn't. For me, I am just writing the same kind of way that I've always been writing. The only difference is now I'm getting to do shows where I know if the joke is good because they laugh or they don't laugh.

Some of the older shows that I would do, they're not laughing because they're not listening. They've already had a bucket of beer. They're asleep on the table. They're fighting. They're proposing during the show. I mean, we do a lot of bad gigs. I thought this was Tony Tone. So I just feel I can feel the confidence of being like, all right, I'm going to go do this joke.

And if they don't laugh, it's because it's not a good joke and not because this is an audience that hates me. Yeah. You can't blame them anymore. It's like, they know who they're here to see. Yeah. Yeah. They're here because they like you and they want to see you. Yeah. I think over time, you just, the more you do anything, the better you get and you figure things out and, and confidence comes with that. And then I think it's,

When I started out, I didn't know what I was doing. It's still debatable. I would just write a bunch of stuff, try to memorize it like it was a script, and then go up there and do it verbatim. And then over time, I whittled it down. And now it's like, I don't even do that. I'll just say, I'll have an idea, jot something down in my notes, and then take it to the stage and see how it comes out. Yeah, riff on a bit. Yeah.

Yeah. Unless it needs to be a real story. Well, you riff on it a bit. And then as things start to come together, you go, okay, this line got a laugh. This line got a laugh. And then you try to... And then the ones that aren't getting laughs, you try to take them out. Yeah. And then what you think is going to be a 20-minute chunk just gets whittled down, whittled down. And then it's a...

10-second bit. Yeah, you're like, this is a one-liner. Basically. Right. Well, I got this joke that I'm doing now in my set, and it's about getting sick in my car. And I had this... When I used to try to tell it, I mean, I had...

I bet I had five minutes before getting to where I just start the joke. Anybody else have a car out there? Who's got a car? You've seen them though, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the other thing- Where my car people at? Because I'm the same. I still write out. And the problem is I think when you see it written out, you're less likely to give up on those bad lines immediately.

because you're more invested in them. Yeah. Where if you go out and riff, you kind of figure out quicker what works, what doesn't. Yeah, because you're not making yourself beholden to the words that you wrote in the order you wrote them. And maybe in your head, you're like, oh, I screwed that one thing up.

When really all you had to do was just say it a different way. That's what I think too. And if I write a joke down and then I write it and I go, this is the funniest way to say it. Right. And then I, and if it doesn't work, I have a hard time abandoning what I wrote because I'm like, no, this is funny. But I wrote this. Yeah. Why is this? I don't know why you're not laughing at this, but this is good. That's what happened to me. I got at five o'clock somewhere. I got 10 minute bit.

But it all started because I had this one line that I wrote, and I thought this line was really funny, and it never was getting a laugh. So one day I sat down and I was like, I'm going to listen to this song, and I'm really going to figure this joke out. What was the one line? It said...

Five O'Clock Somewhere is one of my favorite songs because I, too, like Alan Jackson, believe I should never let my personal responsibilities get in the way of my alcoholism. God, that's wordy, huh? I know. But that's what happens when I write. Yeah. Because that was the whole idea was, you know, it's five o'clock somewhere, so let's drink. You know? Yeah.

sure i got a lot of stuff to do but yeah it's five o'clock and i'm an alcoholic so what am i gonna do yeah right that's interesting but you never talk that way i know in in real life but i do write that way that's why i had to kind of quit doing it like that yeah yeah yeah i bet though like john when you won last comic standing people get to know you dusty i've seen with you because now you have a fan but i certainly see with nate nate no one has to go up and say i'm married with

Yeah.

And this is a big moment. I have stopped doing the setup for the we're having a good time joke, and I've stopped doing the setup for the wave joke. Wow. I just have my last few weeks, I've not done that. Because they know what it is. So what do you do? He does 15 minutes of comedy. Yeah.

Well, I still wave and I still say we're having a good time. I just don't do the. You don't need to. Yeah. And I feel like it still hits harder when I do the wave joke because when I because then even everybody's in on it. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I just stopped doing it. It feels good. Same here with the word hickory. When I tell people I'm from I used to say I'm from hickory. But that was a whole thing. Just being from hickory.

And now I don't even, they say it. I'll say, I'm not from Denver. I'm from, and I put my head. And people go, hair cream. I do like Hulk Hogan. Yeah. And then they say it. And I go, oh, y'all came. Oh, that rules. And I don't have to do that joke anymore.

I have to explain a lot when I get out there. This is a stand-up comedy show. I'm a comedian. You're in a comedy club, so that means you can't. Yeah. All right. All right. Cody Mason.

Actors can be amazingly talented. John's an actor. He said can be. John's a comedian. But the transition between an actor trying to be funny live and a comedian trying to act seems to be very much favored towards the comedian. Does that seem to be accurate? I feel like I've seen so many more cringeworthy videos of actors thinking they are funny than comedians who can't act.

Like saying that it's easier for a comedian to be an actor than for an actor to just be funny. Yeah. I would agree with that mostly. Yeah. Like 80% of that. Yeah. I think so. Who's an actor that's become a really good comedian? Jeremy Piven? Yeah. I've never seen his live show. I don't know. He's had success. What about Brian Callen?

Did he start as an actor? I don't know. I bet they all started as stand-ups first. Yeah, his stand-up, I think, is really funny. And I think he's a good actor, I guess. Is that question regarding stand-up comedy or just being funny in a movie? Like, are they saying, like... I think stand-up comedy. Okay.

Because I don't know. Because he's talking about being funny live. Being funny live. Yeah. An actor trying to be funny live. So stand up, I'm guessing. Okay. Yeah. I don't know many actors. Yeah. Known as that first. Trying to get to be actors. Right. I don't know a lot of actors going, I'm just doing this acting thing for a while. Don't get into it. They put me up at the open mic. Yeah. Just. Well, I think what happens. Use that as a credit. Yeah.

I think what happened, my buddy Kyle Davis, who was in this movie, End of the Storm, with me. Good guy. He's my neighbor. He was thinking about doing stand-up. And he is just an actor. And he would come to the comedy store with me. And he tried it a couple of times. He's like, there's no way. I cannot do it.

It's a total different thing. And as actors, if you're in something, getting the part's the hardest part. And then once you got it and you do a decent job, it's kind of easy. There's caterers there and everyone's kissing your butt.

You know, that's a whole different, you know, you don't have to write anything. You just have to read the words that someone gave you. Yeah. Stand up is all of that without the catering. Like local actors, like when I lived in Charleston, you know, like the comics and all the kind of artsy people would all kind of drink at the same bar. And it was like the act, the local actors were, I had a lot of them were my friends, but overall the most pretentious of everyone, the local act.

And I'm just like, you guys are just pretending to be a different person. You're very good at lying. Yeah, we're up on stage being vulnerable about ourselves. You're just pretending to be another person. You're not better than me. That's tragic.

All right. Elijah Brown. Is it better to take a stand-up comedy class before doing your first open mic, or should it be the other way around when starting out in stand-up? I am signed up to take a class this year, but I have yet to do an open mic. I was wondering which way would benefit me most.

I don't think it matters. I don't think so either, but it might help to run down, do an open mic just so when you start that class, you're like, all right, I've at least done this one time. Right. You definitely don't need to do a class, but if you're struggling with...

getting the confidence to go to an open mic. I'm sure a class can help you with that kind of stuff. But if you're already comfortable talking in front of people, just go to an open mic and figure it out. Yeah. I don't think you need to take class. You don't need the class. Yeah. You can just go to the comedy club, uh,

And watch other comedians pay a ticket, go in there as an audience member and learn from just watching. And watching live is way better than watching on TV. Yeah. If you just start going to open mics, it may bum you out to the point that you don't want to. Yeah, exactly. What did you do, Brian, when you started? I took a class first and it helped me just a lot of reasons you just said, though, confidence wise. Yeah. I met some people in the class and then when we go to the open mic, we would hang together and you just learn some basics like.

It's tough. You don't even think about it, but moving the mic stand and just basic stuff like that. So either way would work, but, but it worked for me to go to the, take the class first. And I never took standup classes, but I started first doing improv. So I took a bunch of improv classes. So I was like,

getting into, and I had done improv shows before I ever did stand up. So I got, I got into comedy a different way. I don't know why that's so funny. Just you do an improv is still funny to me, dude. How would you rate yourself as an improv? Well, I don't think that I'm necessarily a great improviser, but I was always funny and I could, I did understand the rules of improv and how to play the games and how to do like, I just am not good at characters and,

And I'm not good at looking like, like when you create a world and you're like, all right, we're at a farm right now. Everybody else looks like they're at a farm. I look like I'm on stage. Yeah. So you say, so I'm good at improv. I'm not good at characters or world building at all. Well, what are you good at? Well, I'm good at like, you know, a snarky comeback. Yeah. And I'm, I'm funny and I'm awesome, but I'm funny in a way that they, they call like, you can, uh,

The bad funny is when you say you're pimping out your team, like you're getting a laugh because you destroyed the world at the expense of the scene or the team. I'm good at getting a Scott with the gun. Yes. Yes. I'm good at getting a laugh while staying in the world. I just am not good at like, yeah, I can't be silly.

And it's hard to do any other character. They call that being generous too. A generous comedian. Yeah. You're lifting everyone else up in the process. I mean, I'm into being a part of the world. But I just, I still do it in my stand-up now. I got a little feet shuffling thing that I do. And people always try to...

Tell me I've been doing it for, you know, counting improv. I've been doing it probably 15, 20 years. I've been shuffling my feet. I can't stop doing it. And it's always going to happen. So, yeah.

We should do a Nate Lane, Whose Line Is It Anyway? We should. Just to see who's got the chops. I wish I would have taken an improv class early on. It can only benefit you. It's so good. I love improv. Yeah. I took an improv class years after I'd already started stand-up, and I was so bad because I'm so used to editing the funny stuff.

for standup and improv, you just kind of got to go with it. And right. See where it goes. You do an improv is funny too. I'm just saying, but just to answer your question, how would I rate myself on a scale of one to 10, just knowing how bad improv can be. Oh, I'm going to give myself a seven.

I love it. Out of what? 10. Oh. And that's because you're judging all improv actors across the country. Eight, nine or 10 is I would say a nine or 10 is very good. And those people are knocking it out of the park. I'm not there, but I'm not. I mean, it drops off quick. So I'm at top. I'd say I'm top 10.

of all the bad improv. Oh, that's good. I'm top of all the bad. Very good. But I'm like, I'm like right there. Upper middle class. I'm so close to being the worst improviser you've ever seen. And I also haven't done it in 10 years. I mean, I may be a four. Do you do any of it on, I mean, we all kind of do it on stage here and there in between jokes, I'm sure. But do you give yourself a section in your act of like, okay, here's a five minute chunk where I'm just going to

See what I can make happen. Now, this is what I use the Monty Mitchell method.

it. Monty Mitchell says that comedy is like a tree and your main set is the trunk. And that's what you've written down and you're like, all right, this is my set. And then when you do a joke and you go, oh, I want to riff on this. So you go off on a branch and you go out and you go out and when the limb starts to bend and break, you go, oh, get back to the trunk. But sometimes there's a piece of fruit out there. Yes. You know what I mean? You guys are deep. Yes.

That's the Monty Mitchell method. Do you know Monty? I don't think so. He's a Nashville comic. That's the Monty Mitchell method. I think it might set like a telephone pole. We're going to go straight up? You get to take no? You go up, you go back down. If you reach off, you'll get electrocuted and die. There's not a ton of branches on my tree. I'll say that, but there are some. I'm having... Charlie Brown Christmas tree? Yeah.

And Monty sometimes has too many branches. Yeah, Monty might. Sometimes he's all branch. Sorry, Monty. He listens to this. He's a good buddy of mine. Monty's great. Monty's so funny.

Anyway. All right. Over the years, we've all had to deal with the check drop. When the check comes out, unless- You're great at the check drop. You're great at- Me? Yeah, you're great at check drop. Well, that's kind of how I learned to improv. Oh, yeah. Because I know they're not listening to what I'm saying. I'm not going to waste my material on someone who's not even listening. So in those moments, I've-

decided to improv and just go with whatever's happening. I'll look at someone's table and go, oh, what were you drinking? And then just get into it and wait for it to end. And then if I could remember where I was, that's good. Sometimes I don't, but. I always remember you having good check drop moments. Yeah, right. It's a skill that I developed out of necessity. I didn't like it, but if I didn't do it, they weren't going to listen to me. You know, when I first moved to Nashville 10 years ago, I moved here 10 years ago in April.

The 10-year anniversary of the National Comedy Festival is also my 10-year anniversary. Hey, hey. But your video used to be on the beginning of every show at Zany's. Oh, yeah. The video about tipping. Yeah. And the arms of an angel. Yeah. Yeah, it was really good. Sarah McLaughlin. Yeah. I've never seen that. Yeah. Yeah, I made this like a PSA. Like, you know, the Sarah McLaughlin.

to save dogs or whatever. I made it about helping a poor waiter or waitress for only a dollar a day. You could help. And I'd have like these waiters in the video. Like, Oh, I like that. It was a good video. It was very funny. But if you're a comic hangs out there all the time, he got old quick. They did. They did. And some of the people didn't like it. The people who don't tip hate that. I'd say so. Yeah. No. And that's, you know, that's a good 30% of people like, Oh,

Like a tip? I don't even know if she's even good yet. That's what turned me off on dogs was Sarah McLachlan. Can I tell you my check drop strategy? Yes. Change nothing and be frustrated by it every show.

telephone pole just keeps going up my improv is oh check drops going on and then I just keep going like I acknowledge it but then I don't have anything to follow up with uh oh checks going around here comes the checks yeah that's exactly right

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Let me ask you guys this.

When you were watching the eclipse and the moon covers the sun, did you see the moon making its way across the sky? And the sun was up here and the moon was just working its way. And then you're like, oh, eclipse, there it is. It's covering the sun. Or did all of a sudden the moon just appear in front of the sun? It was cloudy where I was, so I couldn't tell. Yeah.

It all of a sudden just appeared. Well, to be honest, when we got there, the eclipse already started. Yeah. Because a lot of times you can be out in the daytime and see the moon. Oh, yeah. So I wonder why on a – because you would think that you would see the sun, and then the moon would be up there, and then it would just start moving in front of the sun. Well, if it's in front of the sun, then the light from the sun is on the other side of it.

Right. But I know what you're, he's saying, you know how you can see the moon during the daytime? Yeah. I think when it gets that close to the sun, it's just going to be way too bright for you to be able to see the sun. I think when you're seeing the moon during the daytime, they're pretty far away from each other. I just wondered that. That's just a question. Yeah. I heard him say that. I thought that was a pretty good answer we had, though. Yeah. I'm not mad at you. No, no, no. I actually think it's a funny joke. I didn't flip it all the time. I thought you should do a... What if you did? Yeah.

I think it's a funny joke. Like, I'd get more into Eclipse if you could just watch it. Yeah. Actually, I would be. Like, yeah. Like, pong. I will do that. Next show. Look out. Look out, Louisville. That's where I'll be on Friday. No, tonight, though. Zanies. Tonight, I'm at Zanies. Zanies. I may do it tonight. I'm at Zanies. Tonight, I'm at Zanies. That's how I say it. Brian will be down there. Zanies. Zanies. Got to do some washing. Zanies.

Okay, Ryan Goodrum. You think that's what it is? Goodrum. Goodrum. Goodrum. When a comedian wants to pop in and do a set on a night you're headlining, do they ask you for permission or the club owner? Have you ever said no in this situation? I like this. Well, I hate it, first off. Sometimes, if it's somebody I know and they ask me, these are my two conditions, I think.

if you're like trying to get into the club and you go, Hey, do you mind if I do a guest spot? So the club can see me and potentially book me or, Hey, I'm trying to film a thing and I need five minutes. Will you let me do it? I know that's where I'm like, all right. Yeah.

You know, maybe. But people that just live in a city and like, hey, can I do your show? Can I do a guest spot? I'm like, I don't like that. Sometimes they don't even ask. They just show up. Yeah, right. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I don't like that. I've had two people ask me to go in front of me to a guest spot where I've said, yes, if.

I'm like, what am I going to get out of this? Yeah. What can you give me? I'm going to give you that five minutes. What am I going to get? I looked at one guy's. I looked up his Instagram. He had a lot more followers than me. Like, yeah, just mention me on Instagram and you can get five minutes. Didn't do it. Wow. So I'm not talking about how hours, five minutes. He didn't.

I didn't give him the five. Oh, okay. I love that. I love, because yeah, it's like, I mean, I'm not, you know, but if he's got more followers. he had mentioned you ahead of time. Yeah. No, he never replied back to it. It was a text. He goes, Hey dude, I see you're going to be in this town. I'm going to be in that town. I'd love to come up and do a guest set. Would that be cool? And I'm like, and I liked the kid. I was like,

Oh yeah. But what can I get? Yeah. And in return, if you can just give me a shout out on your Instagram, never applied, never showed up, just went cold. I like that though. He should. Yeah. I mean, for sure. At least promote the show, do something. Yeah. I didn't give him a specific thing to say, just a shout out. And that could be anything.

That'd be a better improv game. Yes, if. That is my philosophy for someone popping into my show. Yes, if. Who shows it anyway? All right. Chase House.

In recent years, the frequency of comedians putting out their stand-up specials has increased significantly. How does the group feel about the time frame between stand-up specials? I personally love comedy, so I won't complain, but sometimes it feels like the quality is dropping for some with the fast put-out pace. I think if you're good and you can do it that fast, then...

I wish I could. Nate's popping them out. How many has he got out now? But even Nate's every couple of years. Right. And he's the best. Exactly.

I wish I had that skill. Yeah. Yeah. I like to do it once every 10 to 15 years. It's hard to do it right. I think. I do think, I mean, because I always thought it was crazy to put out a special every year. But for me, I mean, you know, and I wouldn't say I would do it every time, but it's like I put out my special. And then from the time I recorded my special to the time it actually came out,

I was already working on my new hour and I got an hour that I really like right now. And I'm like, do I want to do this hour for another year? Do I want to go to some of the same cities that I've been back to and do this hour again? Or do I think I could record it? Now, once I do it, maybe I don't have another hour that I'm ready to do. But I just think it's like, do you feel inspired? Is it good? Do you have it? If you do, you do. But

But in the past, I've agreed that they're coming out too fast and the quality is dropping. Yeah. Overall, I think that happens. Yeah. There are certain people like Nate who can pull it off, you know, but you got to be really good. Yeah.

I put out two dry bars. No. Those are special. That's not nothing. I mean, that counts. That's great. I mean, come on. I've done zero dry bars. Oh, you have? No. I wish I'd known that before we invited you on the show. Yes, if. Have you done a dry bar? All right. Last comment. Katie Stuns with a Z. Stuns. That's really fun. I'm curious if Dusty has dabbled in...

In the fresh-milled wheat world. There's a whole flower conspiracy. Hold on, is she curious if any of the other of us have done that? Probably not. Dabbled in the fresh-milled wheat world. There's a whole flower conspiracy that I think if he dipped his toes in, he'd sink deeper than even the eclipse hole. I'd love to hear his take on it. I will say this. I have bought...

I'm a wheat miller, if you want to call it that, a wheat grinder. And I do have a lot of whole grain, whole wheat grains. And I do want to do it. I want to get into making my own bread. Like I say, I don't trust any of this stuff out here. Mm-hmm.

I mean, they say that like shredded cheese, if you buy shredded cheese, has little bits of wood particles on it to keep this cheese from coming back together. Yeah. So it doesn't, you know. Yeah, it's great. That keeps it separate. Sawdust. And it's like, yeah. Is it sawdust? Yeah. That's what it sounds like. Yeah, like sawdust to keep.

them from conglomerating back in the package. Yeah. But you don't want them to conglomerate back, right? No, you don't. But I don't really want to be eating pieces of wood. Dang termite out here. Yeah. Yeah. But the... But how far back do you have to go before you trust the person? Like a farmer's market, you trust them? I trust them a little bit more. You just look in their eyes and know? Well, you know, it's like...

I feel like that, you know, there was a place. Now, I don't know if this is true, but they shut down. There was a spot I used to go to in Charleston that was like supposed to be organic vegetables. But somebody told me that they caught, and it's closed now, but they caught them at the grocery store buying stuff and then selling it over at their place.

I think that's hilarious if you got away with it. He worked at restaurants. Good for him. Don't hate the player. Hate the game. He's never been working somewhere and they're in a jam like they're out of something and they go run to the store and get this real quick. Oh, for sure. Yeah. That could have been that. Yeah, maybe so. You know? Maybe so. They didn't get the shipment of apples or whatever and they go, I want to go get some real quick. I've had to do that before. Yeah. I mean, it is true. But they're closed and that's the only reason I would say it. I even talked about them.

I thought – somebody told me Western Sizzlin' and Opelika closed because I've been feeling bad about the green bean thing since I did it. And somebody told me they closed and they opened a Japanese steakhouse.

So I looked them up and they were still open. And I was like, well, are they open? So I called them on my, we're having a good time podcast. And I called them and they, they picked up. I said, nice. We're still Western Settling up in here. Nice. Good. I did. She seemed very happy about it. Yeah. Did you tell them it was you? No, I just said, somebody told me that you guys closed down and became a Japanese steakhouse. She said, no, we're still Western Settling up in here. Do you think they're aware of your joke? I think so. Yeah.

Yeah. Higher ups. Definitely. I don't think she was. Well, the guy that owns that particular one is still the same guy that owned it when I worked there. Oh, okay. I'm sure they're very happy for my success. The reviews on this are very funny.

Reasonable food, poor quality. Oh, come on. What does that mean? Come on, Gale. What does reasonable mean? Green beans too salty. Yeah. I mean, come on, Gale. That food's good. That food's good up in there. This guy says great. You went to the nicest Shoney's I've ever seen.

this weekend. I was driving through West Virginia on my way to Pittsburgh and I saw that my, uh, opener out parents from California and he had never been to a Shoney's and there's not a lot of them around. I'm like, we gotta, we gotta eat here. Yeah. And it was, uh,

The food was okay. I mean, it was like a Shoney's, but it was very nice. And I was so happy to be in there. What did you get? I got the fish and chips. When I was a kid, I used to get the kids fish and chips. My dad used to take me to Shoney's all the time and I'd get the kids fish and chips. And I had not been in a long time, so I wanted to relive that. And it was still good. It was probably not good for my digestive system, but it was a good. We used to go there after church when I was a kid.

My dad's friend, Sunday school class, everyone would show up at Shawnee's for the breakfast buffet. Yeah. It was so good. Yeah. I walked around it this time and it did not look that good. But it used to be. Which came first? Shawnee's or Bob's Big Boy? Because they have the same fat kid. I think Bob's. So,

So Shoney's ripped off. I think they're the same. I think they're the same owners. Yeah. Because I think I used to order a Big Boy at Shoney's. Yeah, I think they're the same. I think it's like Hardee's and Carl's Jr. Why not just call it Big Boy out here? Why do we need Shoney's? I'm just curious why. There had to be a reason why they put Shoney's over here and Big Boy over here. I just feel like I remember the Big Boy out in front of Shoney's when I was a kid. I do too. Yeah. Yeah, they're all intertwined.

Yeah. It's all the same people. Like, why is it Carl's Jr. out west or up north and Hardee's here? Right. I love a Hardee's egg biscuit, though. Egg and cheese biscuit. I haven't had one in a minute. That's where it's at. I'm hungry. I'm starving right now.

Well, this week, like I said, warm up reds because the playoffs starting. Thought it'd be a good time to talk about fandom, fans in general, just what makes a fan, the do's and don'ts and the pros and cons. And one reason we chose this is because Mr. Reap here has created an official document. Yes. Now,

Now, I emailed you. I think he updated this even. Okay. An amendment. Okay. Yes. All right. This will turn into a bit, by the way, at some point. For me. Yeah, you can have it.

Yeah. Rules and regulations on rooting in college athletics. So this is just college sports, college athletics. Now, what inspired this? Were you mad about the way people were rooting during March Madness or what? Thank you. Yeah. Okay. So I went to North Carolina State University. Wolfpack. Wolfpack, baby. We did pretty good in March Madness. Is that what y'all did? It's a wolf. Dusty, you can use this.

You got wolves on your shirt. We're having a good time. We're having a good time. Sign language. Yes. It's right there for the taking. That's also very close to a satanic hand symbol. Oh, yeah. That's out. We're going to kill that. I denounce NC State. No, it's not the same, though. But, yeah, you always do a little dance on Instagram. So the reason why this started, though, was...

My whole life walking around the state of North Carolina, if I'm wearing an NC State hat or a shirt, the school that I went to.

Because Carolina is the number one. Everyone loves Carolina. Every state has a college that the majority of those people in that state root for, and it's the Tar Heels in North Carolina. So if I'm walking around with the NC State hat on, at some point, someone will go, Boo! Wolfpack, y'all suck! You should be rooting for the Tar Heels! And just over time...

Got on my nerves. Yeah. You're like a surfer guy. Yes, it was at Wilmington. This was in Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach. It always happens. And then my response is like, oh, you must like Carolina. When did you graduate there? And they'll go, oh, I didn't. I go, I know you didn't because you're dumb, dumb. So it gets on my nerves that they're attacking me.

And so I think there needs to be a hierarchy of fans and rules for rooting. For example, if you look at, you may just walk these. I'd love to just walk through it. All right.

Yeah, because I've read them and I disagree with a lot of them. A lot of people do. Okay. A lot of people do. If you want to follow along at home, by the way, John's put these up on a website, NCAA rules, the number four rooting.com. That's right. You can read through these. Article number one, be true to your school. Yeah. It is encouraged that one root for the team of the university in which one attended. You don't have to have graduated from there, but you did have to go there, pay tuition at some point.

I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree right away. Go ahead. Well, I mean, I didn't go to college at all, so I'm not allowed to. No, I think he's just saying this is the priority of who you root for. Okay. All right. Well, let me get into this. Us poor, uneducated people can't root for anyone. You don't have TVs anyway. I'm not gotten there. You got a tier as well, don't you? That's why they have professional sports. Okay. Sorry. You can root for the Predators. That's not a college. That's not a university. Sure. A college...

is an institution of higher learning. You can root for the Predators. You can root for the Titans. You can root for the Braves. Because we pay taxes. Yeah. But you didn't go to that school. Now, here's the thing. You can root. There's just certain things you can't do. Now, they're annoying fans, so I agree with you. What I'm saying is you can't brag. I cheer for Alabama, but I never say we. We. Yes. And you probably don't talk trash. And I don't, you know, yeah, I don't really talk trash. This is what I like. I don't talk trash at all. Yeah.

I may even stop cheering for them now that Nick Sagan's retired. Yeah. It's the saddest thing that ever happened. Yeah. You got an exception here to this rule? All right. Playoff exemption. One is allowed to root for other universities outside of their university only if their university has been eliminated from the playoffs or championship rounds. For example, UNC student Armando Baycott is now allowed to root for NC State because his team has been eliminated.

This is trolling. This is what this is. Yeah, 100%. I don't want to punish people from watching the sport just because your team's out of it. You can still watch

Just can't talk crap. Can't say we. I even have a thing in here. You're only allowed to wear the team gear within a 24-hour grace period of the game. Yes. Otherwise, it is considered stolen valor. Can't have you walking around with an NC State hat on if you didn't go there acting like you graduated. Yeah. Stolen valor. You know, I have a joke. Yes. And this joke, because I grew up in Alabama. Yes. And I grew up right next to Auburn University.

And my joke is where I come from, you're either an Alabama fan or

Or you went to college. Yes, I've heard this joke. But I didn't go to college, so roll time. Roll time. Yeah, that's great. That's great. You're having a good time here. And that's acceptable in these rules because you're just cheering. Yes. You're not saying negative things. John, can I ask you this, though? Yes. On the whole we thing, I definitely agree. Aaron went to Notre Dame. I think he can say we paid tuition there. Correct. Didn't play for the team. Still paying, maybe. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I agree. Went to that school, you can definitely say we. Say we. Yeah. Yeah.

We're just on rule one. Okay. I don't want to get ahead, I guess. I won't do it. I'll just briefly sum these up. So rule number two, jurisdiction and territory. This comes in for you. If you are from a state that does not have a professional team, Alabama doesn't have an NFL team, doesn't have an NBA team, you're allowed to root for any college you want because you don't have a choice. Perfect. Perfect.

So you're in. All right. Yeah. And that goes for other states that don't have teams, you know. Number three, if you didn't go to college, this is what your deal is. If you didn't go to any college, university is preferred that you root for a professional team in the state in which you reside. However,

If you simply must root for a university or college team. It is forbidden in partaking in any kind of bragging, trash talking. Also, one can only wear team gear within a 24-hour grace period of any given game. Otherwise, it is stolen valor. One must know thy role and stay within thy lane. I like this. Yes. I like this. What do you think, Brian? I don't know. This is college, not pro. I guess I feel like...

If you live in Tennessee where you have the Titans, Predators, Grizzlies, things like that, I almost feel like there should be an exception. If it's the state school, like the University of Tennessee or the University of North Carolina, that kind of represents the whole state, that might be an exception. Because of taxes? Yeah.

Well, I just feel like the University of Tennessee, you live in Tennessee, that's the University of Tennessee. Seemed like maybe. I think what people are getting confused here is rooting is fine. Okay. It's bragging. It's saying we. It's talking trash. Okay. Those are the three things that have issues. Claiming any kind of ownership. Yeah. Of the team. If Dusty lived in Tuscaloosa, could he say we? If he lived in Tuscaloosa? Yeah. What team is there? That's where Alabama is. Oh, that's real tight. Yeah. Yeah. No. Okay.

I'm sorry. All right. Sorry. Them's rules, man. All right. Now, I do have exemptions and exceptions, right? So if you're a booster of any kind, so this might be you. I don't know. You know what boosters are? Like I pay money to them? Right. If you help out, you know, if you're a member of the band or a cheerleader or you –

You make meals for some of these people. I can see you making bread for these guys. Yeah. Once I learned to make sourdough, once I learned to grind my own wheat and grind my own beef. Yeah. There you go. I'll be making hamburgers homemade out here. I'll be grinding beef and wheat. And you can say we all day. Yeah. I'll make a roll tide burger. Rule number four is pronoun usage. That's just what we talked about saying we. Article five, age requirements. I like this.

Anyone under the age of 18 is allowed to root for any team of their choosing because they still have the potential to one day attend that university. Although it is preferred they root for a school within their own state. Example, nine-year-old little Tommy can root for the Tar Heels because he's not yet of college age.

He is allowed to root for any team he wants up until the age of 18. Then when he eventually graduates high school, applies to UNC, and gets rejected, he must now rethink his life and revisit rule number one and or two. I agree. I mean, come on. Yeah. Now, my favorite one is the very end here. I was going to say, I like the exception here. It's just like, well, some kids, like, dude, you can tell when a kid's nine if he's going to Harvard or not. Right.

Especially if he's not. Yeah, that's what I mean. This kid's not going to Harvard. And that's where this comes in. Limited mental capacity exemption. It is acceptable for anyone to root for a university outside of their home state or any university of their choosing, no matter their age, if one has been diagnosed with a mental illness. So, like, Nate's a Vandy fan. I think that would be fine. Yeah.

Under this scenario. There we go. Oh, come on. We knew at nine he's not going to Vanderbilt. So he didn't go to Vanderbilt? No. He's going to hate this. No, I think he just gave him an exemption. He might be a booster in some way.

But also – I'm also a Vandy fan. I'm going to go no offense to Vanderbilt here. Okay. But in this rules list, you're not picking Vanderbilt because they're about to win a bunch of games. That's right. Right? It's like – Yeah, why did you choose Vanderbilt? If you live where I grew up in Auburn and you're like, I'm an Alabama fan.

You're picking Alabama because they win a lot. Or there's some family ties. It's easy. It's there. It depends on when you grew up. Alabama wasn't good. That's true. My childhood, Alabama was the Auburn beat them up. That is true. That is true. Now, there's never been a bandwagon Vanderbilt fan. Right. You don't want to start cheering. Same with Wolfpack. There's no random Wolfpack fan. You had to have went there or know someone in your family went there. Yeah.

Even the NWO, WCW was ripping off the whole Wolfpack thing for a while. They called themselves the Wolfpack. They did the same hand motion. Nate and I are both Vandy fans. I think Nate has a little family ties to Vanderbilt. He didn't go there, but some connections there.

I just – everybody was a Tennessee fan, and I just as a kid was a contrarian. Well, I like that. Well, this is interesting. You went to another school in Tennessee. You went to Middle Tennessee State University. Yep. You have MTSU and Vanderbilt played. Who would you be rooting for? It is – that's happened sometimes, and it's kind of tough for me. According to these rules, you should be rooting for the school you went to. Yeah. I'm okay with that. That makes sense. Yeah. Now, military. I put this in here not long ago. If you were in the military, you could do whatever you want. Yeah.

But you can't say, if you went to Navy, you should root for Navy. You can't say we. I do put that in there. I just don't want to read it. It's a military guys contact you. And then you are like, no, I'll change. Yes. On my podcast. I got some, hey, man, I served my, okay. But do you think enlisted guys care about like West, like the Army football team? Do you think they care about like, say enlisted Navy people? Do they watch the Naval Academy and care if they win or not? I think a lot of them would.

You're in it. That's what you're thinking. I know, but they're a huge game. These are officers. I have no idea. I think they probably, a lot of them probably just still cheer for the team wherever they grew up. Yeah. Probably. Like Fort Campbell, which is close to here. I doubt they're rooting for Army.

that much. Oh, sure. I mean, they root for Army against Navy, but generally speaking... We're all Memphis fans like the rest of us, right? Can I show you something else? Yes, please. These are just the rules. Okay. I also have a hierarchy. Yeah, we have that too. Okay, good. If you click on the classification...

Yeah, I have ranked the type of language is so official. I love it. It also looks like the Constitution, the way it's laid. I wanted it to look like one of your new kids, like in law school or something. No, this is all AI. Okay. I mean, I wrote what I wanted to say is to make it sound smart. Oh, was it really? Yeah.

No, but I wrote the rules. I put it in AI. I thought you were put... I gotta be honest. I'm surprised how into AI you are. I love AI. I have a podcast called AI Absolute Ignorance, where we troll AI. I ask it if it can write a joke. I use it all kinds of stuff. Okay. But here we go. The top, the highest rank you can be as a fan, Platinum Elite.

That is any and all athletes and coaching staff of a team. So that's if you played on the team or you were a coach. You're it. That's the biggest. That's the highest you can be. You're on the team. It's your sport. It's what you're doing. No one ranks above that. Right below that, platinum. That is the immediate family, including step family, who live within the same domicile. Did you add that in recently? Yes. 100%. Okay.

Of any and all athletes, coaching staff, blah, blah, blah. So, Platin tier, below Platin Malik, that's the family, pretty much. Diamond tier, college. That's the students. Because at the end of the day, what is a college? It's an institution for higher learning. Without those students. I would say, for that reason, I put them above the immediate family, I think. Yeah.

This is the first time I've disagreed. This is a second draft, and I'm willing to change things. Without the students, there is no college. The students are the school. There is no football. That's who you're rooting for. They are the school. Okay. So you think maybe platinum should be the students and diamonds should be the immediate fans. Yeah. Switch those two. Okay. That does make sense to me. Just an opinion. Yeah. So the platinum elite, that's anyone currently and that used to be on –

Good question. Yes. I'm going to say yes to that. Because I think a current Auburn player should be ranked ahead of someone like Charles Barkley, who hasn't been there in 40 years. Then we have to have different types of platinum elites.

Right. Or it's going to be more ranks. I would think Charles Barkley has been one of the best ambassadors for Auburn. He's elevating the last century. Still talking about people love to go, you know, Charles Barkley went to Auburn. Maybe a bad example then, but, but somebody graduated in the 1940s. Tommy Trott or somebody who played a decade ago. Yeah. I think if you're currently playing. Tony Stone or something. Tony Stone. Yeah. Yeah. He can throw the rock. Yeah. Yeah.

I feel like if you're playing the game, you're the highest, most important. Yeah. Right. Currently. Okay. Right? Yeah. That's got to be the top. Yeah. But you're saying a guy who graduated two years ago ranked a little bit less. Yeah.

Maybe not two years ago, but like... Ten years ago. Or I'm thinking back when they didn't have helmets. The Charles Barkley example was a bad example. Well, without helmets, they rest the most. Well, you're right. All right. Strike that from the record. No, no, no. I think, yeah, that's a good point. I mean, with the Platinum Elite, I think there should be some levels within that of current players, alumni players, and that's it.

All right, so Diamond, we're going to maybe move up. Because if you're a coach, too, and you've been fired. Yeah. No, you're still. Your value is still there? You were there. You did some stuff. Gold tier. That is alumni, professors, boosters, military faculty, and staff. See, I would switch that with Diamond. Yeah. If you graduated from a university, you're more invested than a first semester freshman. Yeah.

at that school? Oh, I think the first semester freshmen is the most invested in it. Because they're going to be fired up and cheering and stuff. They're the most excited about everything. I think. Okay. Well, that's why I put students so high because that's what a university is. It's for that. Right. That's a fair point. I just think a lot of times kids drop out and then they don't even remember. They went there one semester. Right. Okay. They transfer. Yeah. Yeah. If you drop out, you drop a tier.

Yeah, you do. Dropout should still get it. Yeah, you should. If you drop out, you're just all other civilians. Bronze. Yeah. You go down to bronze if you drop out? I think so. What if you were one credit away from graduating? All right, you can stay. Okay.

So this is, this is, let's be honest, you're dropping out with one credit. You've dropped in several tiers throughout your life. Oh, a hundred percent. You've dropped in a lot of different. I dropped out last semester, senior year. Just like I'm done. Couldn't hold on a few more months. Yeah. Started a business and it's very successful. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Later, he can go back and get his degree and chug a beer and slam it down on the stage. Travis Kelsey. That was horrible. Apparently, it was not an actual graduation. It was just made to look. It was a podcast they were doing. Really? I didn't know that. Yeah, that's what I'm told, that it was made to look like a graduation ceremony. Okay. Really? That was impressive. To just give those two guys a diploma.

Because neither of them graduated? Yeah. Okay. That's what I was told. I hope that's true. Yeah. Because it made me not like him.

Well, his acceptance speech or whatever is winning. Yeah, that was it for me. He's like, Viva Las Vegas. He's like, oh, yeah, we've had a target on our back. And it's like, yeah, you're the reigning Super Bowl champions. That's how it goes. That's what happens. And nobody was like the chiefs are the underdogs out here. Right, right. Nobody was like, I bet they won't win. Well, as we're talking about fandom, that's what.

I remember going to a Titans game with a buddy of mine brought his buddy who was from Denver was a Broncos fan. Titans are playing in the Broncos the year after they won the Super Bowl. Okay.

And everybody hates on, you hate on your own team the most because you only remember the bad stuff. You know what I mean? Like, oh, that's typical, whatever. But the whole game, he's like, we'll blow it. That's the Broncos for you. We'll blow it. And I didn't say anything because I didn't know. I'm like, dude, you won the Super Bowl. You're the defending champs. We've done nothing. So stop acting like, oh, poor old Broncos. Sometimes I do that as a strategy. When I was rooting for NC State,

this March Madness. I wasn't, I don't care about basketball. I only care about football. But they started winning. I thought, oh, let me check back into my alma mater and see how they're doing. As a gold level, I'm allowed to do that. Okay. All right. You know? And I started watching it and I was like, oh, well,

I would notice that when I'm watching it, they would start losing. I'm like, okay, this is not good. They were winning when I wasn't watching it. So now I got to either turn the channel. So I do things to do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'll say things like I'll group text my friends like, oh, Carolina fans. Yeah, you got this one, guys. Probably going to win by 30 points. DJ is going to foul out in the third quarter. You got this one. I put it out there to jinx them.

So maybe he was doing some of that. Or it could just be a stick in the mud, kind of a human being. Sadness hedge. They also don't have quarters in men's basketball. I like that. Do you know that? What's that? They don't have quarters in men's basketball.

So it'd be hard to fall out in the third quarter. Right. I was talking about the WNBA. How dare you? They don't have quarters? They just have halves in men's college basketball. First half, second half. Women does quarters. Yeah. Women do. Women's does. Women's. The women's do. Women's basketball has four quarters. There you go. That's what I meant to say.

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Yes. The we thing. Now, this isn't just college athletics, but if a team, like you mentioned the Braves. Okay. Well, you're a Braves. We're both Braves fans. Right. Do you feel okay saying we about them? Sometimes in conversation, it's just easier. Than the one word like they? It's just easier. Yeah, but...

No, I'm not a part of the Atlanta Braves. I'm a fan. There's also, it's also about intensity of your fandom, right? Like I probably, just because of our life situation, I probably follow it more closely than you right now. Right. So I'm probably more of an intense fan, but you know,

I think we is mainly bad when you're trash talking. It's like when you're like, yeah, we, we, we, you know, it's like, it's like, that's when it's like annoying. I agree. Like I don't do it at all, but I agree that there is conversation that you could have where you're just like, yeah, we, we, we really, you know, pulled that one out last night. That was right. Yeah. I can see that. Um,

Yeah. Now, when it's professional sports, I'm more apt to say I'm more free with the usage of we because it's not a university. I kind of feel like I still need some state boundaries or something like that. Proximity, too. Proximity. Proximity. Well, that's rule two, jurisdiction. Yeah.

What do you mean? I got a lot of friends. They're like, I'm a Cowboys fan. I'm a Yankees fan. I'm a Ohio State football fan. I'm a 90s Bulls fan. Now, some sports, I've always felt like this because I didn't... I grew up in Alabama like Dusty. There's not an NBA team there. Nobody cares about the NBA. We got no pro sports. And if you did pick up a pro sport, you're just going to take the Atlanta team because it's closest, right? Now, since I didn't have a team

Growing up now, how I follow the NBA is it's more about the players and less about these teams. Right. It's also the players. There's no allegiance to teams anymore. They're all jumping around chasing paychecks. I don't blame them, but it makes sense for it to be more about the players than about the teams. Right. So there are people that go, I'm a LeBron fan. Yeah.

That's how I am with the NFL a lot of times. I get interested in a team when a certain player goes there. Like Tua or Phillip Rivers. Growing up, I was a Dolphins guy. I didn't know a lot about football growing up, but I had a Miami Dolphins starter jacket. I was a Dolphins guy. I love to see that.

I know. A picture of you with that starter jacket. I wish I had one. I have a Panther starter jacket. It was. I loved Dan Marino when Ace Ventura was one of my favorites. Uh, and when Dan Marino was in that movie, I was like, this is amazing. Uh, and so when Tua from Alabama goes to the Dolphins, I'm like, oh, this is great. Makes sense. Bringing it back, you know? Yeah. But I also, you know, I was following around a lot of the Alabama quarterbacks, you know, uh, uh,

The Eagles has Jalen Hurts. The Panthers has Bryce Young. Yeah, Bryce Young. And, you know, dude was at the Patriots for a little while. Mack. Mack Jones. And then there was one other guy out there. Joe Namath.

Well, yeah. AJ McCarron was on the Bengals. Yeah, so it was hot. I mean, and I like that. I mean, now that Derrick Henry is going to what, the Baltimore Ravens? I'm like, I'm interested in seeing what's about to happen. You're going to follow him to that team? That seems like I'm not going to go out and buy a Ravens jersey. You can sit back and root for anybody you want.

Well, this is the difference. I've always thought this between professional and college teams. It's like, what's the common denominator between Notre Dame in 1988 and Notre Dame in 2024? It's all different players, all different coaches. But I'm still a fan of Notre Dame because there's underneath the team, there's the institution. There's nothing underneath a professional team. It's the team.

So if you're not a fan, your fandom is not a function of the players. What is it a function? Unless you grew up in that city. That city. And you have some real. It's just the location of it. You're like, I'm from Cleveland. That's why I'll always root for the Browns, even though they keep doing you wrong. So when I grew up, the Panthers didn't exist. Yes. So everyone in North Carolina was either Cowboys or Redskins. Washington was closer.

We didn't have a lot of Falcons fans growing up. A lot of Washington fans. So that being said, I remember I was a fan of the 49ers because of Joe Montana. I liked Joe Montana. I liked Ronnie Lott. I liked all those guys.

But the back of my brain, I always had this deal with myself. If we ever get a team, I'm switching because I want us to have a team. And we finally got one. And then you went down there and got arrested. That's right. That's all she wrote. They never let me back in there. Long story short, go 49. Now, what about team jerseys? Are you on board with that?

Within a 24 hour Well I guess Okay So you You wore Joe Montez Well you were a kid then Wait a second As an adult Professional sports Anything you want You can wear it anytime you want You'd wear a Derrick Henry Because it's not stolen valor I mean no one thinks That you graduated From the 49ers I know I guess I'm just asking As an adult man How do you feel about Wearing another man's jersey Oh I See That's good I have done it And I don't do it anymore Wow

There's something weird about it. You know, I've done like a gig for the Preds, and they gave me a jersey with my own last name on the back. Yes. That's cool. Yeah. I'm into that. If you're gifted a jersey in a situation like that, I feel like it trumps all the other stuff. We were giving John Chris Flack for having a Braves jersey with his name on it, but they gave him one when he did the first pitch. Oh, then just wear it, dude. That's cool. Yeah.

I made my own for the Panthers. I put my high school number 40 as a Panthers jersey. It said Reap on the back. And I go to a game. And, you know, the Panthers have been around since 96. And these drunk guys are coming to me like, oh, man, he was a good one. I remember him. Fullback. I go, yeah. They don't even know who I am. Yeah, yeah. That's hilarious. I played along with it.

Is the Carolina Reaper something? That's my new podcast. Okay. Carolina Reaper. I once called it country-ish. We changed the name to Carolina Reaper. Does that come from somewhere or is that where I know it from? It's a pepper, right? It's a pepper as well. Okay. Yeah. It's a hot pepper, but they spell it R-E-A-P-E-R, like the grin reaper. I just use my name. Just a name thing. Carolina Reaper. Did it just hit you one day like –

Well, why haven't I been doing this? Kind of. My buddy Alan Jackson is the one who brought it up to me. He's like, shattahoochie. That's right. The Alan Jackson we call him to make it more confusing for people. But he suggested that because country-ish, I thought when I named it that to begin with, I kind of liked the title. But over time, I think it's gotten confusing for people. Some people, the country people don't understand the ish part.

And the East people don't even like country stuff. So I think it's a lose-lose. So I'm just going to be me and call it Carolina Reaper. Yeah. I like that. Yeah.

I like to do a podcast called We're Having a Good Time and then talk about a lot of serious subjects. Yeah. That's what I like to do. Yeah, sometimes I'll listen to Bessie in the car and I'll just start crying. I've got to pull over for a different reason. That's a lie to me. Oh, sorry. Can't say some. It's at the 155 mark. I looked up some rules for fans and either it

Oh, nice. Also at the 155 mark. You go all day thinking, I'm clean, and then I spill a drink. And that'll be the part where we cut out John Rape, and then it just comes back. It just is a hard edit. John got mad and threw his drink. Aaron started to sweat through a hoodie. You sweat through a hoodie. That's big time sweat. Yeah, it is. Big time sweat.

You are correct. So I looked up some rules for sports fans. I don't have it here in front of me, but I think it's in that email I sent you. Okay. We can even talk about that? Concert fans? Comedy fans? Yeah, maybe we'll switch it up. We talk about sports a lot. All right. Y'all want to talk about concerts or comedy? Yeah. Rules for attending a concert. Yeah. Now, I remember I made the mistake once. I wore a shirt of the band that I was going to see.

Is that bad? And I was told I was a kid at the time and I was told that that's bad form for whatever reason to wear the tour shirt for because I got there. You go to the merch table. I want to get a shirt for the band. I was in eighth grade. Yeah. And I put on the shirt and then some guy was like, you can't do that, man.

I think that guy needs to check himself. First off, you wear whatever you want to wear. The band would love to see you. Yeah, you're like, I'm seeing this band. When people come to my shows wearing my shirts, I love it. Me too. I'm all about it.

That dude needs to check himself. Yeah. Now, what I might. Should have told him that. Disagree with. I saw REO Speedwagon one time. Okay. Lead singer wearing an REO Speedwagon shirt. The lead singer was. Of REO Speedwagon. Dusty wears a hat with his name on it. Sometimes. Yeah. Yeah.

You do too. I'm okay with it. Yeah. I'm just saying, what do we think of this? I wouldn't wear my own shirt on. I wouldn't wear my own shirt at all. I will wear my own hat sometimes, but I wouldn't wear my own shirt at all. Not that I don't like it. They're comfortable. They look good. Certainly not both. But you feel like a shirt's a little bit more blusterous than a hat. I think so. Yeah, I would agree with that. The lead singer wearing his own shirt. Well, your shirts also aren't.

It doesn't say, hey, I'm Dusty Slate. It's not like a kiss. It's a cool-looking shirt. Yeah. Something you would wear that people would want even if they didn't know you. Right. Where'd you get that wolf shirt? That's a cool shirt. Yeah. So I think that's an exception for you. I have a NASCAR shirt. I think people...

wearing it, people probably come up to them and go, I remember that guy. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that guy. Yeah. He won this weekend. Yeah. Yeah. Now, if you're attending, I don't know if it's even on there, but if you're attending a concert, we're assuming they're seats. Yes. Is there ever a time you should be upset if someone in front of you standing?

Oh, yeah. I think you kind of have to go with what the crowd's kind of doing. At a concert? Yeah, at a concert. I know. I hate it when people stand in front of me because I want to sit down. Yeah. But I also get it. You're at a show. If they're the only one standing, then yeah, you'd be like, come on, dude. Look around. Right. Read the room. But if you're the only one sitting, you got to stand. Yeah. Especially if you're like Bridgestone Arena or in a...

big stadium at the very top. I mean, why are you standing for? They can't see you. You can barely see them. Maybe just the energy of the song is such that you're like, I got to rock out to it. Yeah. I guess sometimes you're so far away, you're like... You're not going to those kind of concerts, are you? I'm not either. I'm just saying, I'm not going to a concert. The last time I went, I saw a band at the Ryman, and I forget what the name of the band was, but they were great. They were a rocking band. I mean, it was awesome.

but I wanted to sit down and the people in front of me kept standing. And there was, you know, but I think it was because of the people in front of them were standing. Right. And then it's like, but I'm like, just let's sit down for a little while. We don't have to sit down the whole time. There are, we do have seats here. Yeah.

I feel that way at football games. Yeah. If the only person in front of you standing or stand up for a big play. And I guess we all have our own judgment what that is. Right. But I want to sit. So I'm old. Agreed. Have you ever asked someone to sit down? No. You just go down in front. You ever do that? Yeah. I've done that before. You throw your voice. I mean, I'll tell him if you want to. Enough. That's good. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. So this is some BuzzFeed, some concert rules. It's just saying, leave the iPad at home. So if you're going to film, look, I think it's just a reality now that people are going to be filming the concert. People are going to be filming everything. Right. So I think it's not even worth saying, don't film it.

But don't bring an iPad. It's too big. An iPad's just saying, I don't even know if I've ever seen that. Yeah. Old people will do that sometimes. They bring an iPad in. I've seen it. It's like they're holding a cooking tray. Yeah. I just did a show at a church where a teenage girl sitting in the front row filmed my entire set.

And I almost said something, but I'm like, after a while, I just started thinking, man, your arm must hurt. You had your arm raised for an hour. I would have said something like right away. I would have been like, hey, are you filming? Right. What are you doing? I know. I should have. I mean, at first I thought she'll do it real quick and then she'll stop. And she never stopped. Yeah. Like, hey, don't film and then delete what you've recorded and then repent immediately.

You're already in the church. Go ahead and repent for bootlegging material. This is going to the offering plate. Yeah. You remember that show in Phoenix I did? That was a bit of a nightmare where I opened for you. When I was up there bombing in front of you, this girl was filming in the front row. And I go, are you filming this? And she goes, yeah. I go, could you not?

And she goes, she like puts her phone away. She goes, it's not funny anyway. And I go, I know. That's why. I go, this is not going well. Don't get this on camera. Gosh, I hated that shot. I was setting them up for him. Getting them going. I was on stage. Did you ever do Deja Vu in Missouri? No. Is it a strip club or a comedy club? Sounds like one. It was a comedy club in Columbia, Missouri called Deja Vu back in the day. I was doing that club and a phone went off.

And I'm like, all right, it's one ring. I'll let it go. That's before cell phones. It was a payphone thing. Who brought that in here? They brought their 900 megahertz cell phone. It was a cell phone. I'm like, all right, somebody's got to get that. And it kept ringing and it kept ringing. And I was saying things from the stage. Well, you're not going to get it. Somebody get it. Finally. And I got mad. And I said, if you don't answer it, I'm coming out there.

And I had a wireless mic. So I walked off the stage and I kept waiting for it. And I found it. It was in my jacket. It was my phone. Oh, no. I had laid on the chair. Wow. I felt like the biggest. But that must have been so funny to everybody. Oh, it's hilarious. That's part of my bet. Yeah. I'm doing it. It's my closer now. And you didn't have voicemail set up?

I don't know. It just rang and rang and rang. It never stopped. It's so funny. Wow. Yeah. It was a flip phone. I know that much. Let's do a couple more. Did you hear that? Yeah. Wow. That was amazing. Do a couple more and then we'll wrap it up. You think so? Yeah. Anything about lifting people on your shoulders. You ever do that? My wife lifts me up. I've seen people at concerts, like girls that...

Probably shouldn't be on shoulders. And these guys just like trying to prove their macho, you know, like, oh, man, that poor guy is a big girl up there, you know, but they want to get lifted, too. Yeah. I wasn't that real Woodstock 99 rabbit hole. Yeah. You ever watch some of that footage? I mean, yes. Crazy. Yeah. But there's always a whole documentary about it was amazing. It was great.

there's always women on somebody's shoulder and you're like, well, that's probably fun for them for a minute, but there are people behind you. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, I'm doing it now with my daughter. If we go somewhere. Oh yeah. Like a parade or something. Right. But not like sitting like you wouldn't do it at a movie. I can handle maybe 30 pounds. Yeah.

Yeah. So it needs to be a weight requirement or an age requirement. For me, yeah. For going on a concert even or something. Or just... Use common sense. Yeah, I mean, what's going on up there? Why are you doing it? It's like if it's an outdoor event like Woodstock, I think you got to expect more stuff like that because it's probably getting wild out there and there's probably a reason she's up there. But if...

You just indoors. Just let's just all stay on the ground here. This one says, don't make the concert about you, which I guess is just what all of these are about at the end of the day. It's don't make it about you. I went and saw Ben Folds is my wife's Lucy's her favorite artist of all time. She's seen him like 15 times.

And he has one song. It's probably his most famous song called The Luckiest. And he doesn't play it live very often, but it's a love song. It was in our wedding. We go and see him at the Ryman. And he's doing a tour where it's just him at a piano. And he's like, I don't play this song very often. But he starts playing The Luckiest. People go nuts.

behind us a couple gets engaged i guess that's their song so they get engaged while he's playing a track wow i know but i'm standing there i go oh that's nice whatever but really who cares i don't know who they are yeah the song ends their friend starts walking down the aisle at the ryman walking towards the stage he's going mr folds mr folds trying to get his attention and

And everyone's like, shut up, sit down. And he's going, Mr. Foles, we got a newly engaged couple back here. And everyone's going, shut up, dude. Nobody cares. And Ben Foles kind of looks at him. He's going, Mr. Foles, clapping, just being a clown, dude. I quote that a lot around the house. Mr. Foles.

Mr. Foles. And Ben Folds never acknowledged him, never gave him a moment. I love that. And they're like, yeah, we are happy for you, but I can't do this. I can't do this all the time. The Ryman is such a weirdly intimate place that people, I was, I used to like Damien Rice a lot. He's a bit of a, you know, a sappy kind of love song guy, but I was into it. I'm not really into that music anymore, but I was into it. And I went to see him at the Ryman and,

And he's just basically out there with his guitar. And he's got this album of songs that everybody liked.

But he's not really doing those songs, which I'm fine with. I'm there just to see this guy sing. He's a great singer. And people just keep yelling out their request. Just random requests all the time. Just yelling constantly. And it's like, just let him play. Just let him play what he wants to play. Do you really need to hear him sing the song from the album that you have at home that you've heard a million times? Just maybe...

He's about to play something you haven't heard that you'll really enjoy. Yeah. Maybe he knows better than you have to do a show. Yeah. Yeah.

I also don't like it when people sing along too loud to the song. Like, if it's a favorite song, you're like, oh, I love this one, and you sing along, but don't try and overdo it to where now it's noise pollution. I actually want to hear the guy up there. Depends on the song type of song, right? Yeah. I mean, if it's a loud song. If it's living on prayer, you want to belt it out. And that's part of the experience is singing it with people. Sweet care.

Yeah. The last time I went to the Ryman, that band that I was talking about, I don't know why I can't think of them. They're really great. But I...

The Alabama shakes. Let me just guess. What kind of music was it? It was, I don't know. They're real jam. A lot of people in the band. Old Crow. Old Crow. No, they're not, not that. 49 Winchester. They played in Charleston one time years ago at a college that my friend Evan. Including the Bluefish. Evan Brothers. No. And he got, I don't know. And, but I'm, it's sad. Wu-Tang? No, but there was a couple.

About my age, really drunk. And they knew every word to every song. And they were like really drunkly like singing it to each other. That's what I'm talking about. And I'm like, no. Gross. No, like you're too old to be this drunk in public. And just stop. You're looking real sappy at each other. You're six months away from divorce and we all know it. Right. The Grateful Dead?

No. Fish? No, but along that line. All right. Did you guys see this video recently of John Cougar Mellencamp on stage? I did see that. You know what I'm talking about? He was ranting about politics between shows and somebody goes... Just sing the song! Yeah, and he got mad. He just ended the concert. And he left. Yeah.

That's who I want to get my politics from, is the cougar. John Cougar. This thing is a little ditty about Black Dime. I know. Come on, play with you. Not the whole thing, just a little ditty. You know what we want. Yeah. All right, you want to tell us where you're at this weekend? Yeah, this weekend, I'm going to be... Well, tonight, I'm going to be at Zany's. Show's already sold out, but I'll be there, though. It's a hot show. And...

Friday, I'll be in Louisville, Kentucky at a theater. Very nice. I should have had the name of it pulled and ready to go, but I'll be at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. All right. Boom. KPAC. And then on Saturday, I'm going to be in Cleveland, Ohio at the Agora Theater and Ballroom. Boom. Nice. All right.

I love it. And then Sunday, I'll be at Zany's doing a Brad Paisley charity show with me and John Crist, my sworn enemy. Y'all better patch things up for us. We'll be there. It actually is a roast show.

hosted by Brad Paisley, just me and John roasting each other. Oh, wow. For 90 minutes. That's going to be great. That's a joke. Yes. I don't want people to be like, oh, I'm going to that. No, it is just going to be a comedy show. Very fun. But I tried to not invite John. John Crist. Yeah. He somehow got the wheels away on everything. Yeah. This Saturday, I'm in Moberly, Missouri at 4th Street Theater.

with your buddy Will O'Donnell. Oh, yes. Will O'Donnell. Great dude. Yeah, I look forward to meeting him. The following weekend, I'm in Fairfield, Connecticut at Fairfield Comedy Circle. Two shows on the 27th. And then I was just in Tacoma, just in Portland. They said, come back. We need you. I'm going halfway in between.

shahalis washington at mcfiller's theater i think you're also going to be there johnson don't laugh sounds familiar well some names ai generated tours yeah all right well i drove down to portland last month i stopped in there just to make a video and i i mean if it's spelled c-h-e-a-l-i-s shahalis that's what i was wait wait wait washington yeah it's not up there but don chialis

Chahalas. That's what I said. And that's Chahalas. Okay. And everyone called me out on it and corrected me on this. Chahalas, Washington. MacFillers Theater. I was just there last month, but I got a whole new hour. So it's going to be exactly what you saw last month. Maybe not exactly. No, no, no. You might go around a bit. Yeah, yeah. I'll have some local references. But anyway, I would love for you to come. That's May 10th.

All right. This weekend, I'm in Omaha, Nebraska at the Omaha Funny Bone. That's April 19th and 20th. I like to wear my headphones like Beetlejuice. You're watching Howard Stern clips. He wears them on his cheeks. That's where he hears me. Yeah. And the next week, I'm in Atlanta at the Punchline. So Omaha and Atlanta. Let's finish off the month strong. Yeah. Nice. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.

That was Aaron, by the way. Oh, you know, since you guys are doing two weeks out, I'd like to say the next Saturday, I, the next Saturday, I'm going to be, this is going to be really great. I've never, I'm going to be in at the Tampa theater in Tampa, Florida on Saturday, the 27th. So there are still some tickets available. I'd like to sell out. So I want to give a shout out. Tampa theater. Sorry about that. No, no, you're good.

Everybody was doing two weeks. Right. And I don't know what to do. I did a whole month because I needed it. I'm going to be at the Ryman tomorrow night. All right. With Mr. Kid Rock. Last night. Yeah. It comes out on Wednesday. Got it. Last night was awesome. And I made a new friend. This coming weekend, the next weekend, I'll be in Richmond, Virginia at the Funny Bone. Nice. And then after that, I'll be in Myrtle Beach. Nice.

A club called The Wonder. It's a new club. It's on my website, johnreap.com. The Carolina Reaper. The Carolina Reaper. Nate should be back next week. We're all about his big special. Can we hear about it? Yeah, I'm pumped. All right. That's it, John. Thanks for coming in. Thanks for having me, guys. Appreciate it. We love you all. Thank you. See you next week. It's not lost on us. God bless.

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The Nateland Podcast

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What's Going On in the Comedy World?

John Reap's Acting Experience on Curb Your Enthusiasm

John Reap's Recent Comedy Gigs and Observations

Aaron's Weekend with Nate's Dad and Magic Show

Comedians' Experiences with Check Drops and Audience Engagement

The Hierarchy of Sports Fans and Their Loyalty

John Reap's Rules for Rooting in College Athletics

Discussion on Concert Etiquette and Fan Behavior

Comedians' Personal Experiences and Opinions on Fan Engagement

John Reap's Upcoming Shows and Comedy Tour

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The Nateland Podcast

Chapters

What's Going On in the Comedy World?

John Reap's Acting Experience on Curb Your Enthusiasm

John Reap's Recent Comedy Gigs and Observations

Aaron's Weekend with Nate's Dad and Magic Show

Comedians' Experiences with Check Drops and Audience Engagement

The Hierarchy of Sports Fans and Their Loyalty

John Reap's Rules for Rooting in College Athletics

Discussion on Concert Etiquette and Fan Behavior

Comedians' Personal Experiences and Opinions on Fan Engagement

John Reap's Upcoming Shows and Comedy Tour

Shownotes Transcript

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