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If it's got to be clean, it's got to be tied. Today's episode of the Nate Land Podcast is brought to you by DraftKings, Rocket Money, Factor, and BetterHelp. Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm sitting here with Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. All right. And we got with us this week, beautiful Nick Favreau.

Thune? Thune? How do you say it? Thune. Thune. Yeah. I mean, I'll take anything, really. It's the way that your jacket is. So it's Thune. You think they would probably... This is like a French workwear jacket. So if someone saw you, everybody knows Nick Thune, everybody from the Nate Land podcast. But if someone saw you with that jacket and they saw your name...

They might say, is it Thune? Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's that which is French slang for cash. Is it? Oh, Thune. No, Thune. Oh, really? Thune is Canadian. Yeah, Thune is Canadian. A loonie and a Thune. So Thune is... Man, so if you go there, you'd probably have to be a rapper or something. Yeah. It really would change things up. Well, at least your gold tooth helps. This...

Is that linen? This is horrible. I mean, you guys, this is hitting on everything over here.

How am I supposed to deal with this? Just move it to the side. Okay. There you go. It's like a seatbelt that's uncomfortable. This is not, yeah, we're not about comfort here. No. It goes, I hate everything about this, but I do it. I mean, I'll show up. You think I want. I had to drive here this morning from LA. I want to be here alone, but I got to sit next to everybody every week and I do it. I do it.

We had a lot of stuff from the Nate Land stuff, the Nate Land aspect. Saturday, we had Aaron Webber's special. Sold out. It was great. Yeah, man. Hot shows. I've heard. Yeah.

Yeah, it was a lot of stuff. Are you going to tell this? Yeah, we can talk about it a little bit. It was just a crazy couple days. We had a routine doctor's appointment on Friday, and the doctor told us, y'all are having this baby today.

My wife and I. So we were like, oh, God. Did you guys already know she was pregnant? It was a lot. It was a lot of information. Aaron was like, what? What? Two what's? We did an ultrasound, routine ultrasound, and the kid wasn't moving, which is just like a terrifying 10 minutes trying to get the kid to move on the ultrasound. So she's like, we might have to deliver this baby. So yeah.

We headed to Vanderbilt downtown. I texted Nate and everybody. I was like, I'm about to have the kid today. We're pretty sure. So we were all kind of scrambling last minute what we're going to do with these. We had five sold out shows at the club and the special was going to be recorded and everything. And we got down there, everything got figured out. The kid just decided, hey, I'm going to start moving all of a sudden. Mm-hmm.

He was just chilling. Just chilling. That seems to be the medical diagnosis as far as I know. Yeah. The baby was just hanging out. It's a relaxed baby. Relaxed. That's a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. So Lucy's at the hospital for two days. We didn't think she'd be able to make the special taping, but she got released at like 8 p.m.,

So she ran over still with the hospital socks on, ran over at 8 PM and caught the second show. So everything worked out. It was just a crazy couple of days. I got the worst night's sleep of my life. The night before the special at the hospital. Did she take the socks back or did she keep those? I mean, they're pretty good socks. I don't know if you've had hospitals. They have the grips on the bottom. Oh yeah, dude. They're the real deal. Yeah. I mean, they probably cost 500 bucks. I'm sure. From the hospital. Yeah. Insurance does cover that. Yeah. So, uh,

Yeah, it was just really funny the way it all worked out. Everything seems to be good now. The kid's coming any day now, but it did not come this weekend. So we got the special. Thank you, Nate, for everything. Thank you, everybody. It was awesome.

It came out really well. I thought the crowds were great. I'm excited to see it. My wife went to the Thursday show. She loved it. Oh, good. That was great. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah, the one we didn't take. I'm joking. Yeah. No, she wanted it, you know. It was a good day. Yeah, she's like, I don't know. The whole thing was great. Yeah. Yeah, it was awesome. Read her first ad. Today's brought to you by Northern Illinois. Yeah.

University. This is the ad, Aaron. I don't know what it says. Northern Illinois, great place to go to school. Winning program of football. I'm just reading the ad. The winning program of football. I think that's what it says. We're on a streak right now. This is a new ad. I didn't know we had. Edith Bates didn't even know about this new ad. They're top 25 now. Isn't that funny? We had to rank them to make us feel good. It's pretty crazy. Yeah.

So you had a whirlwind this week. Yeah, it was a lot of emotions. We were all rooting for Notre Dame, just mainly for your – because you were recording. You just had a lot Saturday. Yeah. Saturday was a lot, so we were like, at least please win this game. Maybe you weren't giving Notre Dame the attention they needed this weekend, and that's why. That's true. I watched most of that game from a hospital –

on a small TV. Yeah, you're like, this day gets sadder and sadder. Yeah, it did. But, who knows? Vanderbilt's on a streak, though, huh? Oh, buddy. We are just glad we're not Notre Dame and going through what they're having to go through. Yeah. We're...

Top of the world. Yeah. It's going great. And then NFL on Sunday, yesterday I got on the plane. Uh, uh, the Titans were up 17 to nothing. I was like, Whoa, look at this. Flew back from San Diego, landed in Nashville and it was shocking. What happened? It was not good. Now. Very frustrated. They crumbled. Yep. Yep. Tough. What was the final score? Like 24 to 17. Yeah. It was not good. Uh,

Well, Sunday, speaking of Sunday, we also did Nick Thune.

Thune. Nick Thune did his special. It was great. Sold out. Nick had his dad here. His dad. That was fun. He introduced me. Yeah. He took a little liberty on it. He did get into it. It's funny. Second show, he got a little more into it. He was talking to Nate's dad, and Nate's dad's talking about how he's doing all these shows. My dad didn't know that Nate's dad had been doing that his whole life.

and so he thought just because he worked with nate on the road that he was now getting work oh yeah he was like this is crazy yeah well your uh your girlfriend asked me what i do for a living so oh she did yeah after i was so she said it perfectly how i told her to yeah i think a lot of a lot of people listen to ask him after we all kind of want to know what brian we're like what brian what

do you do? She asked after you were on stage? I misunderstood her. She was talking about, she's going sightseeing today in Nashville. And she thought you were... She's like, what do you do? But I thought she was asking me what I do for a living. So I was like, I do stand-up comedy. That's my job. So it was just a misunderstanding. Okay. Yeah, Brian hosted the shows all weekend. Did a great job. All weekend. Yeah, man. It was a whole big Nate land. It was really great. The lab's awesome. Y'all's specials look great.

They really do look great. Yeah, Homeless Pimp directed them. Nate's whole family came out. Oh, yeah. Everybody was here. It was a Nate Land affair. We missed you, Dusty. They were both so funny. Sorry about that, guys. And just silly, no message, no trying to tell you how to do anything in your life. Aaron had a message. Well, I mean, I think if you look at either one of them, you know. He's making a message with that jacket. I was going to say. Yeah.

Both of them are telling you how to vote in their own way. I'm trying to counteract Nick Funayo right here. So they tell you without telling you, is what I'm saying. This brand is Bottomland. It's Carhartt, but yeah, Bottomland, it's like a brand of camouflage. That's cool. Are you hunting? Yeah, I hunt all the time, dude. It's the name of our next podcast, Bottomland. Not mine. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was, yeah, the whole thing was great. We can't wait for you guys to see those specials. This is a good, yeah, good weekend. Upcoming, we have Steven Rogers. We're going to tape his special. It's on sale. It's taping at Comedy Fort, Fort Collins, October 11th and 12th, 7 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. We will be recording October 12th.

So if you want to come check out Steve Rogers, very funny. We got a lot of stuff. Last week we recorded another showcase here at the lab. Dale Jones debuted this week. Dale Jones.

Del Jun's so funny. Very funny. So funny, man. Coming up, we have Chastity Washington, DJ Demers, and Nick Murphy. I mean, this lineup, they've all been great. The crowd was just on fire that week of the showcase. I hosted, too, so that probably got them real fired up. I think it was Dusty's tone. Yeah.

So every Monday, 4 p.m., a new set will come out. Check out the Nate Land Podcast Network because we added the show. Obviously, don't make me come back there with Dustin and Melissa Nickerson. It's a family parenting comedy pod. It comes out Wednesday mornings. And then I also was announced I'm doing a holiday variety show on CBS. It's going to air December 19th. You're about to see why I've been busy.

uh, why I've missed a lot of stuff. Uh,

It's about to come out. So there's going to be... You're going to wear that hoodie there, you think? Seems like a mug shot. Did you get arrested? It's a good look. I didn't even know the camera was there. You got arrested for wearing that sweatshirt. I've worn that on stage so many times. People don't care for it. I know. You've ran it by me multiple times. I've been like, I mean... It's good. If Nick's like, that's pushing it, then maybe...

Yeah, that's true. Nick goes, I don't know. But yeah, so you're about to see. We got a few more announcements that are coming out of stuff that I'm doing. We're having Nate Land be a part of it. The production company, these guys I will not have be set foot near this. Real Hollywood stuff. Yeah.

And, you know. Don't worry. These guys aren't coming near. Guys, don't. Yeah. This is going to be good. Yeah. What you see here, you will only see here. And what you see there, you will see there. You know. Yeah. Nick's Hollywood, though. Yeah. Nick's real Hollywood. Very Hollywood. He's the most. You're the most Hollywood out of all of us. Well, that's why we're doing the topic today. Yeah. Because Mr. Hollywood's here. Yeah. We're doing a talk. Yeah. California, right? Yeah. Hollywood. That's what I know about. Yeah.

So, yeah. So that was our weekend. We were kind of all here. I mean, us four were all here. I don't know if you had any special stories that we didn't know about.

This weekend. About being here this weekend? Yeah. Usually we just talk about where we've been, but four of us were here. Yeah. Where were you? I was in Phoenix, Arizona. Should we promote those shows? Well, I was already there, but they were really great. Phoenix, San Diego, two theater shows, great time. Balboa. Balboa. And what was the other one? Orpheum. Yep. Heat Wave going on out there. Very hot, but I like the heat, so I was into it.

It's a great time, but even hanging out late at night in Phoenix. You ever wear shorts on stage? Oh, no. Well, there was a time. There was a time. I got a picture of myself in cargo shorts on stage. I'm wearing shorts right now, but yeah, I was wearing cargo shorts, and it's a bad look. It is. He used to do comedy barefoot, Nick.

I started comedy barefoot. First time doing comedy, I wore overalls and was barefoot. Like have a fishing pole? No, but if I had thought of it, that would have been good. Yeah. John Doerr does that. Yeah. And you just talked about. Well, it was not the jokes. Like a character. Yeah, it was a character. The jokes weren't really bad. I mean, they would be not good now. Like I wouldn't do them now. But it was a good set. Yeah, but you have like, could you post a set?

I could post some of it. That'd be great. You know, I've said this before, but your first album, for some reason, every time I turn on my car, it starts playing your first album, making that fudge. Yeah. And I think it's still very funny. It's still good. I remember at the time being like, this is great. Yeah. But you're just so much better now than you were back then. Yeah. It's like listening to a different guy.

Yeah, my style was even different. Not really funny, but just a genuine feeling I had. Yeah. Well, I talked slower. I had a different thing going on. I'm wide open now. It's frustrating, though, when it plays automatically. I'm pretty sick of that album. I love it. I love that that's happening to you. I don't really understand hunting, you know? Yeah. We got plenty of food at home. Oh, that's a bit that I've heard. We got money to buy it. It's not even like...

Is it because his name starts with a D? No. It's the only thing I have downloaded on my phone. It somehow knows what would annoy you the most. Mine is Brian. For years, it's just Brian's album. For years, it was Brian's CD. I have so much stuff on it. Easy app? Yeah, easy app. But it's funny. It's like you... It never... Just take Brian out of it. Thank you. Which I would like to know how if someone knows how. And...

It even picks songs that I wouldn't. It's never picked something that I go, oh, that's cool. It's always like, what are the odds it picks something that you chose?

No, I didn't. But I didn't. One of it's like LA Guns is on there. I think that's Laura. I didn't pick up. Not that I have anything against LA Guns. I don't, I just don't, you know, I don't know. But it'll like play something. I'm like, what is this? You know, it's crazy. All right. So did you get to hang out with Bobby Kelly? I saw Bobby Kelly for a second. Yeah. Yeah, he had two shows. By the time he was out, I had already smoked two cigars. I mean, I was like, and it was like 100 degrees at night.

I was roasting. I was smoked out. And I saw him for a second. He likes a cigar. Yeah. That's what I was trying to do, but he had two shows. But we got to see him for a second. Yeah. I love Bobby Kelly. Bobby's the best. Yeah.

Let me tell you a little bit about DraftKings. NFL started this week. If you took Chicago minus four and a half, you'd have still won against the Titans. But DraftKings is the place to go. We had people here this weekend playing DraftKings. Some other comics, some of the staff hanging out. Everybody does DraftKings. It's just a fun way to, you know, you don't have to bet a lot of money. Some people are betting $5 just for fun. And it's a good time. Yeah.

Ready to place your first NFL bet? Try betting on something simple like picking a player to score a touchdown. You can do that, Nick. Yeah. Do you know any NFL players? Yeah. Yeah, he's a big sports fan. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't look like it, but Nick's a big sports fan. Well, I knew he was a big baseball fan. Bet DraftKings. This week, Vanderbilt's favored by 10.5 over Georgia State. Mm-hmm.

How do you feel about that? It's a big game this week. Georgia State, favorite 10 and a half. One of the best teams in the country, Georgia State. Yeah. I don't know. They'd give Notre Dame a hassle. Notre Dame has trouble against just teams that are the state, that are just the location of the state. That's who y'all don't want to play. You're like Western Arizona. You're like, oh boy, that's going to be a tough one. That's too specific. Once they tell us where they're at, we don't do well.

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The crown is yours.

And you know who would love this? Lucy.

Yeah. Lucy's big into football. She's into it. She wants, yeah. What about, is that Tyrell Owens that got arrested? Lucy, by the way, came in on fire.

And she was, Lucy going through all she had to do, she just came in and was just boom. I mean, we all got roasted. Boom, roasted. Boom, roasted. And she did one fantasy draft, I think, this weekend, right? Yeah, yeah. And then she just, when Aaron was on stage, she goes, I think we should do more of a fantasy. I was like, just because you did one good one. Yeah, yeah. She's like, I want to take everybody's money. Yeah. Yeah.

She won week one, right? Yeah, against my mom. So I'm saying wait until week three when the season starts to settle in a bit. She might be less excited about it. This is my fantasy football league's 30th year. That's awesome, man. You've been doing fantasy football for 30 years? Was it always on the computer? I didn't even know it was around. You could almost track it down to the internet.

It's when the internet was invented. I had no idea it's been around that long. Yeah, it's before the internet. That's how crazy... That's what people need to realize about the internet. That is crazy. The internet is before the internet. How did you...

You had to be in person to do the draft, I guess, everybody. And then do you just keep in touch via fax machine? These were my coworkers, so we'd see each other at work. We would look through the newspaper, the box scores. And manually total up your scores. I always said fantasy football ruined the NFL. I guess it was just something else that did it. I think the NFL's doing great.

Well, you remember last year when the Super Bowl went to overtime and Dusty was like, golly, the Super Bowl was just so boring. You remember that? It literally was an overtime. It was boring just because it went to overtime. I mean, what if it was 0-0? I mean, that's a boring way to get there. I think that's boring. Super Bowl is always boring to me. It's overhyped. I like the season, but the Super Bowl itself is always really boring. Yeah.

You like getting in the weeds of it. Yeah. You don't like the payoff. Yeah. You like week nine. Yeah. Yeah. Nice week nine. Nothing's happening. Yeah. No, you don't have a lot of real old musicians coming out to do the halftime show. I hate the two-week break. It's like you get so excited, and then they're like, all right, we're going to take a week off.

all the players get kind of messed up. They're not used to that much time off and they do all the press. It's like, just have it now. Yeah. That's what I love about baseball. It's like boom, boom, boom. Yeah. NBA too. Yeah. Yeah. No losing of momentum. Nothing. I agree. Yeah. I agree too. We'll probably look into that. Maybe I'll check it out. I'll be on, since I'll be on CBS, I'll ask.

I think I have an easy way to get into. You know, I was on CBS too. I did two episodes of Hollywood Squares recently. That'll be coming out in January. So I'm on CBS too. Oh, wow. This is a lot of CBS. Look at Nate Land taking over the network. I was on the, what was the Taylor Tomlinson show after midnight or after midnight. That's CBS as well. CBS, yeah. Yeah, we're taking over CBS. Yeah, that's crazy. CBS is invested. Yeah.

All right, let's start with some of you guys' comments. Christy Crawford. I feel like Nick is a perfect cross of Dusty and Aaron. It's not bad. How do you feel about that, Nick?

It would be brains and then the look, probably. So who's... He doesn't look like Aaron, no? So the brains are him? Yeah, he's Notre Dame. Yeah. Okay. And then you got a kind of dusty look. That's why I never wear a hat on here last time because I was like... I didn't wear a hat today. I think I'm more of a cross of Nick and Aaron. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

You know what? That does make sense. That makes sense. Christy, you're dumb. Come on, Christy. Yeah, talk to us when you have your sister Cindy there. Exactly. It's probably a pretty common name. I'm joking. Or your brother Lavelle, huh? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Lauren M. Swaller Watson. Lauren M. Swaller Watson. She put her social security number down there as well. Two. Yeah.

Manners tip from spending, I don't even know how I'm getting this. Manners tip from spending a lifetime in a family in politics. Never say nice to meet you. Always say nice to see you. I agree with that. I agree with that. I figured that out on my own in L.A.,

Well, not figured out. I forget to do it. But I kept seeing – because I kept going, nice to meet you, and I kept having people come up, and they'd go, hey, good to see you, good to see you. And they would always say something like that, and I was like, I've never met this person. And I was like, oh, I bet they're doing it. I was like, that is a smart way –

I even will catch myself go, nice to meet you. And they're going, nice to see you. And I'm like, oh, man. Because you're waiting for them to say again. Nice to see you again. If you just cut it off, nice to see you. It's like, yeah, you saw me. Yeah, yeah. Right, even if it's the first time. First time, great to see you. I like to say great. I like to go great. Great to see you. Yeah, that is a good move. Shake the hand, get close eye contact.

Yeah, that's what I say to y'all every time before we start a podcast. Nice to see you. You don't even say that. I go, what was his name again? What's the old one's name? Oh, man, that feels like there should be a comma here, but I don't know punctuation really, but manners tip.

Should, I don't know, it feels like that should be something, huh? Yeah. No. Well, it might have been cut off. Was it, so, yeah, manners tip from, yeah, I would think there's something. Here's a manners tip for spending a lifetime. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. It should be, I knew there should be something. I mean, I didn't know what it was. Even in a here's, there's kind of a comma up in the air. She used all, all. Yeah. Yeah.

She used all three names. Her lifetime in politics, an assassin. Yeah. Maybe she ran out of character since she added her middle name. She couldn't put hears. M. Swaller has a lot of stuff in it. Carson Meyer, Aaron, when you go to breakfast at a hotel, don't wear pajamas and slippers. Have some pride and self-respect in how you look in public. Let me tell you something. It really bugs me when I see you. Okay, you added that.

It really bugs me when I see anyone out in public dressed like they don't have self-respect. Aaron, what do you want to say from a guy that's dressed like that on television right now? Nate's going to be such a good reader. He's just throwing in stuff and not even stopping. I got into that one. I mean, because you agree with the sentiment of it. I disagree with that person. You should be able to wear your bathrobe down there. It's a hotel. You are living there. Nick wears a bathrobe on stage. Nick is not a good...

If it's at a hotel, then yes. But Nick's a guy, if he wears a bathrobe out, you're like, oh, he's supposed to be doing that. He just got something where you look like you know what you're doing. No, he looks homeless. My dad got to the hotel at midnight the other night, and I went down on my bare feet to meet him in the lobby. That's Nick 101. But there's a pool down there, too. So you're telling me that I can't go barefoot down to the pool? You're grounded. I like it. Flip-flops.

Yeah. You just do you. That's what you always do. So you walk out and you're going to be barefoot in an elevator with Pete. You're just throwing a lot on other people. That if someone's like, I didn't really want to see another dude's foot today. And you're like, well, you're going to see. Then don't be near me. Should have stayed at a different hotel. Should have stayed at a different hotel. They should know that you're there. And that's, yeah. You made your dad share rooms with you this week. Yeah. Yeah. That was nice. It was fun. Yeah. Yeah, y'all had fun. Yeah.

You got that CPAP machine. Yeah. Pretty quiet, though. The technology on those have gotten a lot better. Yeah, they've come a long way. We've come a long way. Kathy Colcord. Colcord. Colcord. Continental breakfast is not cooked. It's like cereal, maybe. Danish fruit. The other is called a hot breakfast. I'm a fan of the hot breakfast. Thank you, Kathy. I think that's what I said. I agree with Kathy. Continental breakfast is not cooked. No? No, I just...

I just love this comment. I love that Kathy was like, you know what? I got something to say about that. Well, I think I said it. I agree with Kathy. I could see them having one of those pancake machines at a continental breakfast, though. My whole career is based off of him and a pancake machine. Waffle. Danish seems fancy for a continental breakfast.

I don't even, I mean, it's like. I think they have Danish because I think they got a, you know, it's like they got, if they didn't have, if one person dresses up, they're like, throw some Danish out there. It's like now if everybody walks down like Aaron and Nick, they're going to be like, don't waste the Danish this morning. You know what I mean? We got a bunch of you-hoos walking around. It looks like, you know, people are in there serving them food. Yeah.

I think I told this. Did I tell a story about when I slept walk at a hotel last time I was on this? No. I woke up and I was in Arizona doing a show with Rory. And we were on a level of the hotel where you needed a key to get just into the level of the hotel in Anchorage. And I woke up on the outside exit stairwell, just locked off my floor in my underwear at 7 a.m.

peeing off the and I was like oh my god I couldn't get back in my floor so I just had to go all the way down 14 flights of stairs and I get to the bottom and there's a door I'm just in my whitey tighties

And there's a door and I go, I don't know where this is going, but here we go. And I open it up into the continental breakfast. It was just all these older people. Hey, well, went up to the front desk. They're like, do you have an ID? It's like, come on, man. Are you joking? Yeah. I wonder what Carson Meyer felt about that. You know what I mean? Yeah.

You're like, I'm going to get a couple of things. Let me get some danishes on my way back. Again, you could pull it off. You could pull it off. You'd be the only person to go do that. That would look like you're the confident one in the room. Yeah. I mean, you were comfortable with it. I just casually walked through. Yeah. Did people say stuff? No, they were scared probably. Did they let you in the room?

The guy went up to me, back up to the room with me. Oh, wow. And then I had to go in and get my ID. Because I was going to say, that's a good way to get into a room. I should have gone in and shut the door and been like, gotcha. And then just start a chainsaw. Oh, no. Where did he get the chainsaw? He already had it in that room. He already had it in the room. Do you sleepwalk often? Did you know that that was even on the table? I have. Yeah, I've done it. Okay. Man.

NP. That's the thing. It's like, cause you know, when you stay in hotels so often bathrooms are in different places than, you know, like, and if you're getting up to go to the bathroom and, you know, I mean, I've,

Used a few closets in the past. Drinking, though? That's back drinking. I peed in some closets drinking. For sure. Those are my old days. I peed in a dryer once. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Opened up the door, closed it after. Easy to clean, I guess. You just turn it on. Drives it right out. Christopher Walker. Why do I love this podcast? Dusty wants to abandon...

Almost an abdomen. Dusty wants to abandon space exploration and instead discover what cool and interesting things are beneath the ocean.

However, we discover possibly the coolest animal of all time in the narwhal, and he immediately dismisses it as a hoax. That's pretty funny. Well, it is funny. It's a good point. But that animal's not even cool. It's like a seal with a weird thing sticking out of its head. It's more of an inconvenience. And it's like, we're not going down deep. I want to go down deep. If you found the narwhal, if you were like, we're not going to the moon anymore, we're going to the bottom of the ocean. We've been all the way down.

Did you hear about Mariana's trench? Yeah. Were you guys talking about the people that were stuck in space right now? Yeah. Oh, okay. That's what got us into it. Yeah. Yeah. But, and then you found the narwhal down there. I might buy it. I don't buy the narwhal. James Cameron went to Mariana's trench in a submarine. That was Leo. That was a movie. Yeah. So someone brought me at a show, their child's narwhal, uh,

in reading class they had to learn about the narwhal and answer some questions here that's cool that that's the kind of stuff you get at shows for this podcast yeah i thought it would be perfect for nate to be able to read and understand so there's just a few questions and answers there where all right where do narwhals live in the ocean in alaska

The Arctic. Is it like in a certain level of the ocean? Oh, it's in Newfoundland. Locations. Oh. Location. Newfoundland. Oh, okay. The Atlantic Ocean. The Arctic waters of Canada. Greenland, Norway, and Russia. Okay. That's where Norway is. Arctic regions of Canada is Newfoundland, I think. What do scientists believe is the purpose of their long tooth? Hunting. I think they think it's like an antennae.

Oh, yeah. You're going to go with that too? Yeah, I'll go with that. I can tell you that's wrong. According to this middle schooler. Why do they have the long tooth? I think she's third or fourth. Yeah. Oh, so they can sleep. They probably use it to jab it into the ground. Like a flagpole so they don't blow away. It's very windy up there. It's like an anchor. Yeah, something to do with attracting female narwhals.

I like that, Allison. She did write something to do with. That's how I would have answered it. Something to do with, you know, why is the narwhal a threatened species? I will say, though, when I was looking up to see if the narwhal was real, the thing that they were talking about was they're recently discovering that it may have something to do with hunting and not stabbing things, but they can kind of. Sonar. Yeah, and kind of swat animals with it and kind of.

knock them out and then eat them. That's cool. Allison may need to get it. Do they eat them with the same tooth? Do you know what a narwhal is? It's a fake animal. So it's not real? I don't think so. It is a real animal. It just looks kind of... It looks crazy. It ain't real. Look at that thing. Those are obviously drawings. How does echolocation help the narwhal?

It allows them to hunt for food more easily because sound waves bounce off their prey. So that thing, I think that is. Yeah. That's the thing that you're talking about. Yeah. All right, Allison. You got 100%. Yeah. Star. So yeah, this is what women throw me on stage. That's nice. No wall, baby! It's my son's test. That's for you. I appreciate that. So...

Kevin Daly. I spit out my water when Aaron asked Nate, did you ever use a McFlurry spoon in a Chipotle bowl? Chipotle bowl. That's pretty funny. That was a good joke. Yeah. I read that and I thought that was funny. It was a joke. Okay. Yeah. You're talking about using a straw from a different fast food place in a McDonald's cup. Mm-hmm. That's what got into it. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I used to do that when a place gave you paper straws. I'd be like, eh, go next door and steal a plastic straw. Yeah, I have some Starbucks plastic straws that I just kind of keep for that situation. I'll bring my own straw somewhere. Jared Shaverman. I don't know. I think that's a U. Shaverman. I like Shaverman. Shaverman. Jared Shaverman. Showerman. What would it be? Showerman? Showerman.

Charmin. Charmin. Jared Charmin. Shoreman. I teach U.S. history, and one of my favorite fun facts is that John Tyler, the 10th president, who was born in 1790, has a grandson who is still alive today. None of my students who were all born in the 2000s can process this information. I think we talked about that a little bit on the president's episode. Yeah. He was very old when he had his kid, and then his kid was very old when he had this guy, and then this guy is like 95. Wow. Yeah, that's crazy.

Did he ever meet him? I guess he never would have even met him, right? No, he died like... Kids grew up without grandpas. 1862. So does this guy not have kids? I guess that wouldn't matter, right? We want to keep it as close to him as possible. Apparently you can make fun of her asking questions on this podcast. Once he dies, the new trivia will be his great-grandson's still alive. Yeah.

Still impressive. It is. I'll tell you one thing. I'm more invested in Rachel Robinson now. Oh, yeah. Jackie Robinson's wife. I check on her every day. I know. I Google to see if there's anything new. There's nothing out there new, which is what I like. I just want her to keep doing good. Do good. Sharon Volpe. Sharon Volpe.

Volpe. Volpe. She married into that name. Anthony, yeah. Thune. Volpe. I think she married into that name. Yeah. You think so? Yeah. I don't think a Sharon would be born with a Volpe. Well, what's a good first name for a Volpe? Eric. Eric Volpe. Wade. Wade Volpe. Wade. Yeah. Sharon Volpe. I have this weird hearing issue called Superior Canal Dyshynsia Syndrome.

What is that? Dehensi? I have no idea. Dehessence. Dehessence. Yeah. Superior canal dehessence syndrome. Man. Sorry, guys. Yeah. We're falling apart. I think I might have that same hearing. Yeah.

Oh, wow. I hear myself blink. I mean, that would have been, she's heard all that. So she knows when she loses a staring contest, she knows right away. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I hear my heart beating all the time. I hear my blood flowing. Breathing is always just so loud. I just wiggled my toes and I could hear it. The weirdest thing that I have to do is sleep with the television on all night. It helps to block out some of the sounds so that all of my loud body noises, like my fingers moving can,

uh can't be heard man that's crazy i think that's called anxiety no you can hear your blood flowing yeah well yeah when you're having like uh when you're getting a little anxious i mean you can hear a lot of things yeah it's like a yeah one of them sounds like a river i bet there are these i want to know can she hear other people's toes move uh i bet if you go to like no or something like in hotel lobbies no i bet she just hears her own so i think it's an in you're hearing inward

Yeah, those rooms that are the quietest rooms in the world. You can hear your blood flowing and stuff, and people go crazy in there, right? Yeah. So this must be. That's crazy. I guess you're used to it by now, but all day. The good news is if you have a clot, you'll probably know pretty quickly. Yeah. Yeah. She'll get a good night's sleep for once. What is that? Yeah. Oh, I have a clot.

Yeah, that's crazy. Callie Gunn. That's a great last name. That is a great last name and a good first name to go with it. Callie Gunn. My dad had a horrific, my dad had horrific vertigo a few years back in the Gunn family, of course.

Yeah.

It's the Epley maneuver. That's what you got to do when you got vertigo. Oh, yeah, the Epley maneuver. You had bad vertigo recently, right? Yeah. Well, it was about a year ago now. But yeah, it's the Epley maneuver. Can you show us? Can you do it on air? Did they roll your head around? I don't have vertigo. Well, what you got to do is you sit- I do when I stand up, but- You're like, I don't know exactly. You would look it up. But you sit on the bed and you want to hold your head like a certain way. I think you'd go this way and then you go back and you want your head to hang off a little bit. So you drop it back and-

And then it stays that way. And you hold it that way for a while. You have to have somebody else do it. And then you roll. And then you spin the head to the other side. Something like that. It would look it up. Does it feel good? Hannah's done it for me a couple of times. I mean, when you do it. And you don't know which ear is making you dizzy, right? Which? Which, yeah. You don't know which.

I think you got a little bit of it now. So you have to... If you do it the wrong ear, it can make you dizzier, make you throw up. But when you do it the right way, it's like, you're like, oh, gosh. Did that happen to you? Yeah. She turned you the wrong way? Well, I was so bad. Go back, go back. I was so bad. Yeah, I mean, every time she would do it, I would throw up. No matter what side. I mean, it was like...

You're just so dizzy and you cannot stop being dizzy. It's like you close your eyes and you're still dizzy. Open, you're like, it almost like your vision is moving to a side and then it readjusts and then it just keeps doing that. And it's the most insane thing. There's nothing you can do. It's called the Edley Maneuver? Epley. Epley. It's on YouTube. That's a person? Yeah.

I assume. Yeah. Maybe the first person to have vertigo. Boy, when he figured that out, I mean, that probably was a great day. Adam Diaz, big time correction needed here. Light travels in a vacuum at 186,000 miles per second, not per hour.

A Dyson vacuum. Yeah, we weren't talking about a vacuum. We're talking about light outside. I don't care how fast it goes in a vacuum. I don't think it makes sense. Is a vacuum on? Well, yeah, the vacuum's on. It goes fast. It's how fast the dirt goes up. That is seven half times around the earth in one second. When lightning strikes, we basically see it immediately and have to wait for the sound waves to travel.

So yeah, I did misspeak. I meant to say per second. I said per hour. Big time correction to you. Per hour is still pretty fast, though. That's what's crazy about it. But per second is insane. It's the closest thing we think we got to. It's way more faster. Obviously. Yeah. Is that why the thunder hits later and you count it out how far away it is? It sounds so slow compared to the light. If you get a vacuum on, it's hard to hear. Yeah. That's true. That is true.

You don't even know if the thunder ever comes. You're like, wow, that was far away. Usually when I turn the vacuum on, it takes maybe 20 seconds to hear it. Yeah. You can see it start working before you hear it. Vacuums are quick. You're that tall. Yeah. To get up there. William Galeano. Galeano. Galeano. Why does A.A. Ron hate California?

Has he ever lived here? He has fans on this side of the country, but yet he makes so many negative comments about California and almost every pod. California. That's what I always say. Anti-Aaron. Anti-California Aaron. That's what I call him. Yeah. Out of everybody on this podcast, I'm definitely the most anti-California. Um, uh,

I don't know what he's talking about. Have I made negative comments, Brian? I mean, we've had that. Is it because you never made it there? Got turned away. I like California fine. I don't know. I think it's just an easy joke to make. It's like what the rest of the country does with Florida. Yeah. You just say California. That comment was a while ago. I put it in today because that's our topic. But I think there was two or three weeks there where –

you know, just something fun about California and Michigan state.

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California. Yeah. We got into the stuff pretty regularly. This is pretty comfortable. Yeah, and I don't have much, so this could be a short one. I love California, though. I can talk a lot about it. I like to go there. Oh, God. Ride the fence. I've lived there 20 years. I'm a big fan. You just got back from there. This guy loves to ride the fence. Most states...

that we've talked about. Yeah, take a stand on something, Dusty. I don't know. I like Alabama and Auburn. Everybody's great. Listen, there's some stuff I don't like. God forbid I alienate a single human being on this earth. What if he's got so much other stuff that he's against that he's like, I need to give them something. He's like, I got to give, you know. I got to compromise on something. Well, it's a beautiful state. It is. I mean, it's everything. It's awesome.

LA is a little much for me, but when I go to LA, once I get into like a studio or something, it's always fun. It's always a lot of fun. The food's good. I hate the traffic. You know, just like if you're doing TV or whatever you're doing, once you get in there, you're like, oh, this is great. The problem is, is everyone that comes there, I believe goes to the wrong area. Like you go to a place that I don't think is convenient to live and doesn't have the best food. Like, cause where do you stay when you go?

Well, I usually try to stay near the airport so in the morning I can leave. Compton? When I stayed there for the Netflix festival, I stayed in Hermosa Beach and I loved it. I had a great time. That's a good experience. Yeah. Yeah.

If you're going to be in LA, though, the east side is the most beautiful. That's where it was like old Hollywood back in the day where the old Disney Studios were and Silver Lake and Echo Park and Pasadena. I stayed in Silver Lake before. I went out there a bit. Because you're 20 minutes away from snow or 40 minutes away from snow, I guess, in the winter. 60. 60.

I thought we were bidding. All right, we'll do 60. Draft kings. Most states from our research named either a Native American word or named after a king or something like that. California, anybody know that guy's name? Gold. I don't know the connection, but this guy's surfing. From that TV show with David Duchovny? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was from a book, a book from 1510, a mythical island of California. And Queen Califia lived there. And one of the Spanish explorers that were one of the first people there named it California. Yeah. It's funny. That's interesting. There was a city named Nevada that's in California. And then when they made the line between Nevada and California –

They had to name their city Nevada City. And since they were angry about it, so they drew up their county line in the shape of John Dillinger's revolver, which is touching the point of it's touching Nevada. Really? That's awesome. Can you see that? Yeah. Is it like... What's the county? You can see it. Nevada City. Yeah. I was like, are we about to prove that it's not true? Yeah.

I mean, let's see the county line there. Type in. Yeah, Nevada City County. Type in Nevada City Revolver County line or something. Well, I mean, I guess you. There we go. Type it out. Yeah. Oh, geez. We don't know if this is true. Yeah, yeah. Give me a minute. Or if you just go to images there.

there you go that's very real you didn't get the fingers on it yeah but that's what the shape of the county looks like yeah oh man yeah you can see it over there the old map yeah yeah this old map yeah i mean yeah a little passive-aggressive it's a beautiful area yeah who told you that uh i've been there a couple times i have a snake and you drove around the county

No, but they all know it. You have a friend that... Lives in Nevada City, but they have a hotel there that is the oldest hotel that's been running since west of the Mississippi. So it's like one of those like old, old hotels. I think it's called the National Hotel. And it's got a lot of history, but it's really like a weird, it's like kind of a hippie city, kind of not, you know, a lot of gold mining. It's on the river. It's beautiful. Yeah.

They still gold mine today? Oh, yeah. My son's class went gold mining. Really? They went looking for gold in a river. They get anything? It was like a field trip. Yeah, they got little specks. Yeah, keep doing this. Yeah, they do field trips every day. It's like a teacher just needs to kill some time to substitute. Let's go on that river and look for some gold. It's the most populated state in the country, 40 million people. The population has been declining, but...

2020, 2021, 2022, the population went down. 2023, it started going back up. I wonder, is that cost of living? Yeah. It's like, I think, crazy expensive out there. Oh, yeah. Dusty, do you know the capital of California? I have no idea. Sacramento. No. Yeah, something like that. Is it Sacramento? It is. Okay, yeah. Good job. Mm-hmm.

What? It's the most patronizing. Yeah. Good work, Nate. No, I was impressed. You really did a good job. It's not one of the... I'm surprised by it. Of all the major cities in California, that wouldn't be your first choice. I never think of the capital of California. Sacramento's awesome. Sacramento's a town that I tell people, what's a city you like that people don't think? And I'd say Sacramento. Well, how often is the capital the first city you think of in a state? Not that often.

I guess not. You really get down to it. Like Washington. It's not Seattle. Olympia? Yeah. Yeah. Why would they do that? It's the ones that were centrally located. Most of them are in the center of the state. Yeah, like New York. I bet if you're the governor of New York, because you got to go live in Albany. Yeah. And I bet it's frustrating because you're just like out of – you're like –

well i gotta go up there and you're like just out of the loop you know i bet you would be like just let me go let me go down there where the action is yeah yeah yeah i bet they're hanging in the city though quite a bit i bet they do kathy hokal she's down there kicking it yeah yeah who kathy hokal that's the governor of new york okay i thought it was that bald guy with the he dyes his hair and it rudy giuliani oh yeah yeah

It's the last time you check. But like California is so big. San Diego to San Francisco. How long would that be? Oh, San Diego to San Francisco? That would be seven to eight hours. Yeah, I mean, that's like from here to Canada. It's about five hours from LA and it's about an hour and a half, two hours to get down to San Diego. San Diego is really great. I was just there. I've been there a few times. I love San Diego. Did you see Dustin? No, his wife came to my show though. Melissa came.

He was somewhere else, but the, I love it there. Yeah. So nice. Well, the weather isn't at the best weather. That's what they say. The weather, it was great the whole time. They said it was a heat wave, but I was like, it feels great. Speaking of that, Dustin told me his house, they don't have air conditioning or heating.

oh that's how perfect the weather is yeah wow and i was like do you ever have to do any goes out once a year maybe you wear a sweatshirt in the house yeah and it goes the cold way yeah exactly doesn't go the hot it goes the nice way that you can easily fix yeah clothing wise is frustrating because you're you're ready to start wearing jackets and it's like you can't you can't wear jackets until december january yeah you know you better get comfortable with your body in a t-shirt

But in LA, you can wear a jacket all the time because if you're near the ocean on that side of it, there's a breeze. I mean, the temperature difference from the ocean to where I live is pretty crazy for just being six, seven miles. Yeah. San Diego does have the wildest homeless people though. They are like, I got yelled at a couple of times. You talking about the Padre fans? Yeah.

You have a couple of stories. I mean, a couple of the stories from your act. Yeah. That was from San Diego. But even walking from my hotel to the theater, which was like four blocks, was like, I walked by. It feels safer in San Diego at night than it did in the daytime. But it was like, people were yelling at me. Yeah. Downtown is not. Yeah. You know, the gas lamp district, I think, is what they call that area down there.

But at night, it was great. I found a cigar, a lot of hookah bars in San Diego. I had a cigar outdoors, hung out. It was great. I was just there on Thursday. When were you there? Saturday. Oh. Look at you. Yeah. Passed in the night. Two-thirds of the nation's earthquakes are in California. Oh.

Yeah, there was just one the other day that was so crazy. But it was just – it wasn't a huge – on the Richter scale, Andy Richter, they check in with him. But it was so close to my house. And it was like shook. It really shook. Yeah. It felt crazy. Yeah, earthquakes feel very helpless.

If you want to be humbled, an earthquake is where you need to go. I started second guessing myself. I got up and I was like, okay, go under a door? What do I do? So I just ended up going close to a window and hoping. Yeah. I don't think you did the opposite. I think get on the roof. Higher ground sounds like vertigo. Is it crazier? Higher ground is where to go. That sounds like vertigo. Yeah. Earthquake every day. Yeah. In your head. Yeah. Do you think California is going to fall in the ocean? Hopefully.

No, I, yeah. They say LA is going to, is going to crack off, right? Yeah. There's a certain amount of, of land we're losing every year, right? It's kind of going up, going up. That's having a house on the ocean has got to be pretty disconcerting. Like, you know, is that the right word to use there? I have no idea. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I think you could just say concerning though. Yeah. It's got to be concerning to have a,

I think it's disconcerting, not disconcerting, right? Yeah, if you're not concerned, you're disconcerting. Yeah. Causing one to feel unsettled. Disconcerting. Disconcerting. What would you say about concerning, though? It would be concerning as a synonym. See, this is what reading does. My girlfriend told me that I've been using a lot of better words from how much I read. Oh, yeah. He reads. Yeah. He just reads. He doesn't watch TV.

A guy that listens to this podcast commented that he loses brain cells every time I talk. Good, you lose the weak ones and then you're left with the stronger ones. So you're welcome. I think he's talking about Dusty. I think that's a compliment on us. Oh, yeah. I took it. Yeah, he is talking about me. Yeah, yeah. I agree with the guy. Either way, I find it a little... Disconcerting. So the USGS, Geographical...

What about the sentence there? He had a disconcerting habit of offering jobs to people he met at dinner parties. What a bad habit. Yeah. He goes, who does this guy think he is?

It just, every dinner party, he goes, everybody just stops him. Everybody gets quiet. You just hear him go, you know where you should work is with me. And they're like, go get Billy. Ted, come it. And then they got to go over there, quit offering these jobs to everybody. It makes everybody uncomfortable. No one likes it. Don't invite him, dude. He'll just offer you a job, not stuff. So we're going to bring out the second course. And who, is anyone here looking for work? Yeah.

That's an AI sentence, I bet. Oh, I'm sure it is. Yeah. Yeah, I bet that isn't it. Yes, AI doesn't know. That's what AI is like. That's crazy. The USGS says that the tectonic plates are shifting. That in 15 million years, LA and San Francisco will be side by side. Wow.

15 million years. Hey, better go ahead and get ready for it. I'll tell you right now. Help comics out. They have a lot of clubs close by. I think that'll be the place to go as a comic. There'll be more. They'll go there. I love that scientists are like, we don't have any problems right now. What's happening in 15 million years, though? I don't think they're saying the first thing at all.

But I think you can do two things at once, right? You've made that argument. They're not fixing the problems, though. You made an argument when Tennessee signed a law about chemtrails, and you're like, come on, guys, we can do two things at once. So it's the same argument. I don't think it is, but I'm just saying. But it is a point –

I get what he's saying is like, what does that information do for us? It doesn't do anything for us. If you're only looking at... It makes me think, well, why are you even looking at that? Who cares if it's going to be in 15 million years? And what are you going to do about it? Tell me... Let's look at 1 million years. I wonder if that guy... Like, let me... Well, I think by looking at 15 million years ahead, you do...

look at you are looking at the near future too then so just tell us what in 100 years because i don't think the number is big enough i think john tyler's grandson will still be alive oh yeah but i also don't think they're saying that this is like something we need to stop they're saying this is the inevitable reality of the way the earth works

It's just like, yeah, this is what it's going to look like. I feel like it's that feeling of, what does that do? There's a lot of talk.

Or it feels like there's a lot of talk and like stuff gets brought up very far in the future. And you go, okay, but right now we have these problems. So like what, let's solve these problems. Like, and they go, well, you know, and it's this and that, and you know, we've got to prepare. It's like, well, just let's talk about right now. It's too bad we won't be around to call them out.

It'd be nice if you're like, no, I bought a house in LA thinking that in 15 million years, I'd be right next to San Francisco. This was an investment I made. Yes. And you messed me up. Yeah. Get frozen.

chronologically frozen come back come back ready for my property just the first thing i mean everybody's in space suits and everything but you just god like i started getting los angeles golden state bridge shirts yeah yeah you start selling them yeah get merch now it's probably cheaper now to do it yeah get the domain buy the domain yeah do you know the state animal california bear

On the state flag. The golden bear, right? Yeah. It's a grizzly bear, but they used to be the bear state. They haven't had a bear there. There's a bear problem. Well, not grizzly bear. They haven't had one since the 1920s. There's a black bear problem that's happening. Well, that's between you and... Yeah. Easy. Grizzly bears haven't been seen since the 1920s. Grizzly bears? Yeah, which is crazy. And that's your state animal. Yeah. But, yeah. Is that embarrassing? You've got a little egg on your face. Coyotes and bears are dangerous.

They're becoming more dangerous. I saw a coyote in Silver Lake one time. Oh, they're all, I mean, see them almost every day. Yeah. Yeah. What do you do? Are you allowed to shoot them in California? That's the thing is that you're allowed to trap them like and kill them just like a rat. That's the same. Oh, okay. It's the same legal rights as rats. Yeah. Is that what you do with all the shootings you already have going on? You're like, you just were like, hey guys, if you're going to be shooting, might as well. Yeah, shoot the coyotes. Do us a favor. Yeah.

Yeah, there's a dad that attacked his daughter and he shot her. Man. And that used to never happen. He should have been a little quicker with the gun, though. Yeah, why are they... Why is it getting worse? Yeah.

Uh, they, because people are feeding them and then wildfires and then also like animal rights people are like saying like, they're safe. This is safe. We shouldn't be doing anything, you know? And there's even talk about like how there's this bear that people are concerned about. That's like people are finding in their house, like the bears getting inside their house.

But all of the neighbors in this whole area have a text chain where they don't tell the authorities about the bear because they don't want them to do something and kill the bear. So they're keeping it all in-house. Like, hey, I saw the bear today. Just watch out. It's weird. That's crazy. Is it, Brian, you said wildfires? Are they getting displaced? I don't know. I was just guessing. The wildfire thing is, I mean, I've been affected by that before. You have? Yeah, I was just...

I was staying in a rehabilitation center that burned down while I was in it. Was that a sign to go back? Yeah, I started drinking right after that. Yeah. I woke up. There was smoke. It was in Malibu. There was smoke the night before. And I go in the kitchen, and I'm making a water. And everyone's kind of frantic, but I'm like, huh. And I say, hey, is the fire going to affect us? They go, what?

We're leaving right now. Like they were already, and I was the furthest room away. So they didn't even wake, every morning they woke me up. They didn't wake me up in the morning. Thank God. Yeah. Oh my God. I was on the last van out of there with the nurse. It was crazy. And then it like within two hours, house gone. That's crazy. Yeah. Did you get all your stuff out? Yeah. Yeah.

I pretty much just had one pair of clothes. What did y'all do then? They got an Airbnb up in Oxnard. Then we went to some other place. It was definitely, it was funny because we got to the Airbnb and I got there first. And I just thought, I go, I know there's going to be vodka in the freezer. And I go in the garage and there was just a full bottle of Tito's in the freezer. And I was like, why? Why would they do this to me? I gave it to the nurse.

Yeah. She poured us two drinks. Yeah. She goes, look, I think we all need a drink after that. California has the highest elevation and the lowest elevation in the lower 48 states. Death Valley is the lowest, right? Yep. What's the highest? Mount Whitney. Mount Whitney. So wait, Death Valley is lower than sea level? Yeah, way lower. That's why it's so hot.

Oh, crazy. Yeah, yeah. That's why it's so hot? Yeah. It's the hottest place on Earth. Hottest place on Earth. Why is it? Oh. Is it Earth? We're close to hell. I think it's Earth. Yeah, the closer you are to hell. The air just gets hotter the further it travels? I guess so, dude. A vacuum. It's a vacuum. You're closer to a vacuum. California has nine national parks more than any other state. Wow. Yosemite's the most visited.

Joshua Tree. Nick's probably visited. Didn't they just have Burning Man? Have you been to Joshua Tree? Yeah. Sorry for assuming. He's got a bungalow up there. I read somewhere they were going to like...

Get rid of a lot of those trees for solar panels. The Joshua tree is a really weird tree, too. Yeah. When people see what a Joshua tree is, they're like, that whole area is named after that? Yeah. You think it's one singular tree, but it's a bunch of them. No, it's just one. A Joshua tree? Yeah. It's just like this really, it's not even a cactus. But I thought it was just one tree.

Like one, only one. Oh, you thought there was just one tree? Yeah. Joshua tree. Yeah, the Joshua tree. It's a type of tree. Yeah. You just thought there was, yeah, and they all have different names. That must be a big tree. That's an Eric tree. That's a Jason tree.

I think I thought it might have been thought of as like one, like you go and you go, that's a Joshua. That's the Joshua tree. Like there's in, if, if, is there one in particular that you go, that's the most memorable? Yeah, no, they're all, there's nothing memorable about, about a Joshua tree. Why are people so into it? Oh really? Yeah. They would have been like a move. Like, no, it's like, it looks like a little J like a T or like a, like a, they're just there. Why are they so into, why are people so into it? Uh,

They're not really into the trees. But the thing is, is that the national park is it's beautiful because it's so expansive, but it has these huge rock piles that are just like boulders that go so high that you can, you know, and you go there and you just you just drive in and you find a big rock pile. You pull over and you just climb it. And like my son, it was the best thing in the world. He loved it. Yeah. And it's pretty fun. You get up to the top and.

But other than that, I don't know why people go there. I guess I'm like, you know, on drugs. Yeah. When you're on reclimate, do you see anybody else out there? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Have you been to Burning Man? No. No, never. Would never go to that. Really? It's not my thing. Oh. I mean, it just doesn't seem fun at all to me. Nah.

Yeah, I don't think I understand. I thought I read somewhere that there was like, maybe I saw a video or something. Someone was saying like they flew out of there. Like to get out of there after you get in is like, well, last year that was like Chris Rock and what's his name? Diplo had to like get taken out. I mean, it's the thing is, it's got really popular.

And you know why they call it Burning Man is they build this huge structure, like out of two by fours or whatever, like this huge man. And then they burn it. And they just all stand around it. And who knows, they don't wear deodorant and stuff. And they all wear crazy clothes. I mean, it looks fun, but it also just... That's what we were thinking. There are people that do it, very wealthy people. Like that's the problem that, you know, the people that have been doing it forever now hate like Brad Pitt goes. Yeah.

but has his own compound and they pay for chefs and people. And like, they're staying in basically like a luxury hotel in Burning Man, which is just where people build their own structures. Yeah. And so people are upset about that because they'd rather be like, you're supposed to be like living off the land kind of. It's kind of what ruined music festivals too. Like, you know, VIP access to rich people. And it's like, we're all just, we're at a festival. Like, let's just enjoy it, you know?

But now they have like roped off the front area of like every festival show where there's just like half the amount of people that could fit in that area. Oh, yeah. Standing there just like I remember like when we do like Bonnaroo and stuff, there'd be like some guy backstage. I'm like, who's this guy? They're like, oh, he has the extra VIP pass. He gets to like kiss the artists. Oh, yeah.

So look at that. That's one of the things being burned there. Yeah. Yeah, it seems dark. It does seem dark. Well, that's in Nevada, right? It seems like some real negative energy. No, it's in California, I think. Oh, it is? Yeah. Didn't something happen at a recent one? Like a really bad thing happened? No, it just got flooded. Oh, yeah. Last year. Ugh. And then, yeah, because it's just... Moshe Kasher goes every year. He's been going every year for like 15 years or something. He used to work the gate.

Because people also work jobs there. The people that go there, they like work a job. They have responsibilities. It's like a working community that they live in. You bring something to contribute to it, right? Or something like that. Yeah. They do comedy there? I mean, I think the whole, yeah, I'm sure they do. I mean, there's like a lot of weird sections of, you know. And they do, they have like real bands perform there? Like didn't they? They've had bands perform there, sure. Yeah. They have DJs, obviously. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

DJs and how long is it like a weekend or a week or I think it's like 10 days oh wow so it's like you go disconnect and you're just yeah I think that's the point you're gone or yeah when you get back you're gonna need Factor

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Just in general. Okay. The largest trees in the world are in California? In the Redwood Park? Well, Burning Man, didn't they have the thing where the trash is a problem too? Yeah. People just leave stuff out there. So people like bring bikes and they just desert their bike. You would think they would just burn it in the man. Yeah. Yeah. And then kind of be like,

Yeah. We're done. Just burn everything and walk away. I think there's people that do kind of a cleanup thing, and in the end, there's just like all these bikes just piled up, you know? And then they maybe save them for the next year. Yeah. Have you ever been to the Redwood Forest? Oh, yeah. Unbelievable. It's...

it's life changing. It really is. When you see a tree as thick as this room, it's like, Whoa, like how is that even? Somebody told me they're like, you got to hug a tree, you know, like you just have to like, and you, I got like, got up to one of those huge trees and just like put my arm around it and it felt significant. Like it felt like, wow, this is big. Well, when you see something so much bigger than this, you know? Yeah. I love trees. Yeah. It's amazing. You should be an arborist.

I should. I do love trees. Look at that thing.

Because they're like around for so long. And it's like plants are alive in a sense, but it's like, you know. Problem is you got to cut them open to see how old they are. Yeah. Yeah. But it's like, you know, you see like a big tree in a neighborhood and you think that tree was here long before this neighborhood. And like, what did the area look like around the tree for as long as it's been here? Well, and they're smart too. Like there's a, like if you have an avocado tree,

If you have an avocado tree in your yard, there has to be another avocado tree close to you. Yeah. They are connected. And if you cut one down, like somebody was telling me like their neighbor cut down an avocado tree and then there's just died. Wow. Cause they're like, there's like, I don't know why or how, but, um, how did it get started then? It must've started with one. Yeah. I'm sure they just fell in love. Yeah. You know, like a lot of trees. Yeah. Some of these trees they say are 4,000 years old.

Wow. Yeah. Can you imagine what that tree has seen? Not that the tree has eyes, but what has it seen in all this time? I mean, that's amazing. My uncle was a lumberjack in central Oregon and that's like huge trees there, you know? And I mean, just if you, if you ever go back and watch like pictures or footage of like in the seventies, like lumberjacks, it's crazy. Oh yeah. People are dying out there. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Well, trees are so heavy that people don't even think. I mean, I know I've known not personally, but, you know, connected that have been killed by trees falling. Yeah.

And did the trees, did they go, did they get out free or what? Yeah. I mean, well, they're already dead. You know, personally? They're like, I'm, well, my friend's uncle went out his back. He had some work being done around his house and they were cutting down trees. He went out his back door. One of the trees fell, killed the guy. I have a friend that that happened to their dad. Yeah. It's crazy. That's crazy. Could this be the same guy? Is it Minnesota? No. Okay.

Isn't it crazy to think with a tree, though?

you just throw that tree in the water it just floats it down that's what I was about to say as heavy as it is it's still going to float are you sure about that would the whole tree float I think it would it does no like if you see like they'll transport huge logs they'll just be towing them behind boats in the water they're just like stacked it's crazy yeah it's like that's unbelievable that you have a thing this big that you're like well what could we ever use it for we can't move it and

And it goes, well, here's water. Yep. Just floats it. It's crazy. You know, push it on down. Yeah. Yeah. Like people do that where they were like trying to try and run on the log or whatever. The most famous tree in the biggest volume is called General Sherman. It's not quite the tallest though. There's another one, Hyperion. It's 380 feet tall. They won't tell you where it's at. The tallest one? It's probably not there. Could you just get a helicopter and be like, there it is?

That's a biggie. You could, unless the floor- You can't really see it in this picture, though. They have that one you can drive under. I think that's an organ, though. I mean, it's obviously big, right? But you can't- I feel like if you were that lady standing right there, I mean, you get the- Right. They had to go 0.5 to take this picture. That lady weighs 500 pounds. Yeah, at least.

but there was a, uh, like a chestnut tree of some sort. It's not a California tree, but we're just on trees. And, uh, that was supposedly big in the United States early on, but they, there, some, uh, you know, fungus from another country made it here and killed all these trees. And these trees were like, uh, a big food source for animals, for people, the wood burned really well. Uh,

And it was like, I don't know. I watched this little tree documentary and it was very sad. Yeah. I saw a tree, this tree documentary avatar where they all, I mean, they live in these trees. Well, the second Lord of the Rings where you have the tree, kind of the tree people, you know, you guys ever seen the movie? Oh yeah. They're like the living trees. That's why it's my favorite. Two is my favorite. That's great. That tree, the biggest trees is big as a statue of Liberty.

Yeah, that's General Sherman right there compared to the side. That's 83.8 meters tall, and then the Statue of Liberty is 93 meters tall. That would be more impressive than the Statue of Liberty. Oh, yeah. To see that. Totally. They should throw it out there. Uproot it. What's funny about the Statue of Liberty is how far the roots could go. You just bring it to New York and just let it sit there and grow. What's funny about the Statue of Liberty is it was just a gift. It's like...

I don't understand. Yeah, we didn't really know where to put it. Just put it out in the ocean. I won't put it here, I guess. Start charging people. They go, we want it, but put it more in New Jersey. We don't want to deal with it.

Deadliest earthquake in US history. San Francisco, 1906. 3,000 people killed. 80% of the city destroyed. I remember that World Series. Yeah, yeah. Earthquake was crazy. That's probably the first World Series I remember. Yeah. Is that 87? 89? Yeah. 89, I think. Yeah.

Was it during the game? Yeah. Yeah. Before it started. But they were showing it. The bridge collapsed. I mean, it was crazy. Yeah, it was a pregame show. And then, like, Bob Costas starts shaking on the air. Did they...

And what did they do? Not play the game that day? I think it was delayed for a couple weeks. Oh, yeah. I say do it. Just go for it. First major earthquake in the U.S. to be broadcast on live television. That's pretty crazy. That's crazy. It was the two teams from it. I wonder if it got residuals. They were trying to catch it. Aftershocks. It was the A's and the Giants. So the two teams that...

We're both affected. They were like, bridge collapsed. You guys will have trouble getting home. Let's cancel the game. Yeah. And the air grows in. Yeah, just do the game. Let them try to sort out the bridge. They're like, man, we already bought a ticket. It's like, now we got to go home? Talk about the worst luck just being right where the bridge goes. Oh, yeah. Well, and then just think,

It was the A's in Oakland? It was the World Series? Yeah, I think it was the Giants and the A's, so they were both right there when it happened. It's not like you can go back to New York or something and play the game. Yeah, that's crazy. It's like, yeah, and you're like, well, every game is here. Yeah, Stevie Wonder was doing the National Anthem. On his harmonica. He could sense it.

Before it happens. Is that what blind people can do? He's on his harmonic. It goes... People speculate that Stevie Wonder's not really blind, though. Maybe he doesn't have those senses. I BCC him on all my emails. Jose Canseco was spotted filling up his car at a self-serve gas station. Still in full uniform. Wow. That's so funny.

So the California Gold Rush. I did a movie. Stevie Wonder had his daughter was like had a role in it, I guess. I didn't know this. And they had a premiere. And afterwards, Stevie Wonder heard me talking and like walked over to me and was like, you were great in the movie. Oh, one of the best movie reviews I've ever had. Wow. Awesome. Couldn't even see me. Yeah. Yeah.

he was with jermaine dupri it was so weird all right it was pretty wild wow doing a remix i have a picture with them dupri with it remixes he's the atlanta guy right yeah yeah hotlanta was his name was he the thong song i think that was the cisco oh cisco cisco something like that oh just cisco not the cisco that that's such a good song

You can't. I mean, hey, it was spring break for me. I mean. When that came out? Yeah. Yeah, that was a big, that came at the right time. Yeah. The California Gold Rush brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States.

1849, people who came were called 49ers. There you go. The statement in this thing says, it's funny, with Seiko, that someone portrayed, because his wife was pumping the gas, and someone wrote an article saying he's chauvinistic because he forced his wife to pump the gas. But she was like, look, you're in full uniform. Oh, yeah. So that's going to be a whole thing, so I'll get out and pump it.

And people were just like this maniac, dude. Like he... Sitting in the car. Now you would be chauvinistic if you wouldn't let her pump the gas. Yeah. This guy's a hero for doing that now. He was doing it back then. So he wasn't even at the field yet? Uh...

I think he was getting out of town. They were returning him. You can read all about this in Jose Canseco's book, Juiced. Wild times, rampant roids, smash hits, and how baseball got big. I mean, those... I bet it's probably... I bet it's got some good stuff in there, yeah. He's the only one who told the truth. The Bass Brothers. The Bass Brothers, man. Yeah. I loved that era. It was so cool. Mm-hmm.

I love that they replaced Stevie Wonder with the Gatlin brothers to sing the national anthem. That's funny too, because the Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla and Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire, I would have thought that Bobby Bonilla was going to be the best player and that Jose Canseco was going to be the best. To me, those are my favorite players. And then it came out the other time. Why would Stevie Wonder pull out of the... They said, they were like, all right...

oh, they're on game three. Well, it didn't happen until a couple weeks later. So maybe he got an obligation or. Oh yeah. Probably had a movie. Yeah. I met Larry Gatlin, you know, so we, right here, we know all these guys. Oh, I met Larry Gatlin. You just heard your voice. We could get to the bottom of this. Yeah. Yeah. You call Larry, you call Stevie. Call them up. Uh,

You met Larry Gatlin too, didn't you? I've done the opera with him. Yeah. You go in there and meet those guys though? Yeah, I talk to people all the time. Just go in their dressing room? I feel weird just going, hey, hey, I'm the comedian on the show tonight. I don't do it like that. What's happening here? I bounce around a little bit. You go, hey, we got a party in here, huh? Yeah.

I just stay in my room. Well, Dusty looks like everybody, everybody pictures that talks on the Grand Ole Opry. That's true. They all just, they picture Dusty. Hey, oh, they got a mascot. Yeah, yeah. I bounce around a bit. Yeah, these are people I've been listening to my whole life. I want to meet them. Yeah. Shout out to Greg Warren, by the way. He made his debut the other night. Yeah, yeah. Talked about Nate Land a bit at the end. It was pretty nice during the interview. Okay. Yeah, it was cool. Anyway.

I'm still in this gold rush thing. Yeah, they're called the 49ers. 49ers, named after the team. Yeah. That's good. I never knew what that was about. And the guy who first found the gold proclaimed Eureka. Which is a great city, Eureka. Is it? Yeah. There's a Y-Reika and there's a Eureka in Northern California. Is that true? Yeah. All right.

So the gold rush, they just went out there and... I wonder if that's maybe where he did it. Maybe so. Might have been. Yeah, somebody found gold, and then the word got out, and everybody started going to California. How does that word get out? Probably takes some time. How long does that take? Newspapers. Yeah. Somebody says to you, like, hey, they're actually finding money in rivers. Yeah. No, they're not. Did you ever see that movie? You would love this movie with Tom Hanks, where...

with News of the World. You've got mail. Oh. Yeah. Castaway. You ever heard of the premise? I know what the movie, I don't know if I know the premise. Yeah, it's just all these communities, people that can't read. Yeah. So he would just go to their town and read them the newspaper. Yeah. And that was like his job.

And they would just based on a real thing. Yeah. This was a real job back in the day. The whole town would gather around. They just want to hear what's going on in the world. Yeah. So he would come and read to him and, and then he loved that. Isn't that fun? That's awesome. And then is the movie good? Uh, no, it's like, it's okay. It's okay. I want to do that. That's a good job to fall back on. Yeah. No, it's there.

Yeah, but you could just make up nudes. Well, yeah, you can. Is that what the movie's about? Fake nudes. They would make it interesting. He'd really do it up. He'd put on a show for these people. Yeah. How long could that movie be? Longer than you'd like it to be. Stuff happens. There's a little girl. How do you even end a movie like that?

Everyone learns how to read. Yeah. Yeah. He's out of a job. Yeah. Yeah. He goes, AI. He reads that news that everyone's going to read. Wait, what is this new article? He goes, beat it, buddy. 98% of people can read. He's talking to one person. Nick, are you familiar with the Bakerfield sound?

I've got re-arranted in Bakersfield once, but I don't know what the Bakersfield sound is now. Is that their soccer team? Who's that? That's like Buck Owens. Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam. It's a type of country music. It's a real Post Malone type. Jeez. This guy's sweeping country music. He's taking country music by storm. Not even doing country. Is it like... And you like that. I can't stand it. Yeah.

I don't have anything against Post Malone. Yeah, you do. But he's not doing country. None of his songs are country. None of the new ones. And then every country singer that I ever loved is posting pictures with him on social media. He's probably a nice guy. It makes me sadder every day. He does seem like a real nice guy. He does seem nice. Every country song should sound like it came from the same studio in the same year. Awesome.

All I'm saying. You're not allowed to advance the genre. All I'm saying, what is the point of a genre if you don't, if there's no boundaries? Exactly. Who cares? Just let them make a song. But I care though. But not everything has to be that. Right. But if you're going to call it country. Who's calling it country? Well, he's making a country album. But it's not the first time this has happened. Ray Charles made a country album. But Ray Charles sounded very country on the album. Oh.

But he's got like my friend Sierra. Y'all better get over here. Georgia? It's a country album. Yeah. It's very good. They go just sound to sound. Ray Charles and Willie Nelson have the Seven Spanish Angels song, Very Country. Okay. Y'all better Spanish angels. It's a great song. Yeah. Yeah. I know it. Dusty, you may need better help. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Yeah.

That's all Dusty looked for in his paper. Yeah. Well, you should be. You need to talk to someone about this. I am right now. What is something you'd love to learn? As an adult, do you make time to learn new things as often as you'd like? Or was that lost in childhood? Kids are always learning. But as adults, I would like to do this actually now as I want to learn now. I bought a speed reading book.

I haven't started it yet. But I got to slow read the speed reading. Yeah, yeah. And so... But then I'll get to the bottom of it. But that's the...

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I figured there was a museum there or something. Yeah. What's the documentary or not documentary, but the movie with the founder, the founder of Nick Offerman. So good. It's a great movie. So good. He's one of my favorites, Michael Keaton. Oh, he's the best. So good. The best. His, his, his role in Batman, the new Batman. Did you see that? No. Oh,

The new Batman? The new Flash? There was a, what was it? Was it Flash? Wasn't that where he went back in like the multiverse? Yes. Yes. Okay. That's what it was. Yeah. I didn't see it, but. I'll check it out now.

You like multiverses? No, I don't. But I just like Michael Keaton, though. This movie's good. Yeah. Would you have watched Harry Potter if Michael Keaton was in it? It was a better chance. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He started as a stand-up, you know? Yeah. Because he was acting, and he was like, I can audition twice a week, and this sucks, but I could be going on stage every night and getting better. And he did one Letterman, and then that's it.

Why didn't he realize he ever did a Letterman? Yeah, yeah. And then he got Night Shift, that movie with Henry Winkler. And then after that, it was just over. I just bought that DVD. I've not watched it yet. Night Shift? Yeah. It's so good. Henry Winkler, it's funny. Now you know who Michael Cera's doing. It's like that young Henry Winkler is like what Michael Cera does now. Oh, wow. Interesting. Not that he's stealing it. I just think it's a similar vibe. Yeah. I think Michael Cera's hilarious. Yeah, very funny. Yeah.

uh denny's ihop taco bell all started in california denny's ihop taco bell holy trinity yeah the concept of that movie too by the way is wild you that movie can never be made now it's guys that work at a funeral home that start using the hearst and they become pimps oh yeah at nighttime taking care of these prostitutes love that so weird have you uh been to the golden gate bridge

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's pretty. No. Have you been to San Francisco? One day. Yeah. What a setup. I just love it. Yeah.

yes dusty i don't know i just thought that was funny have you been to the go it's like like so pointed yeah yeah oh yeah oh yeah well i was hoping he would say yeah let me tell you when i almost jumped off woke up peeing here's the thing is that there's a lot of because of the bay there a lot of fog gets caught in there a lot pretty often and so you drive over that bridge and sometimes it really does like it's so beautiful and crazy that

But everyone's driving over it for that. It gets a little hectic, I think. I think I was driving over it. It is nerve-wracking. You're just so high. Yeah. I mean, it's really crazy. I walked to it one time in San Francisco. You walked over the bridge or to it? I went to it. It's so big that I thought it was a closer walk than it was.

It was like the first time I went, you're like, all right, just right there. And then the next thing you know, you're like, this is – it was not right there. And then I get up it, and you can walk across it. But it's so high. I mean, because there's like – you can get to a part where there's a tall fence, then there's like a regular area where there's no like high fence. And so I went out to like the first –

thing that went up those are crazy looking too yeah I went out to that and then I walked back I was alone I look I actually you know what I remember the joke I actually did a joke on that San Francisco when I did it

Because I was like, if you would have thought someone was going to jump, it looked like I was going to jump. Because I went out, then I walked back because I can't do it. And I'm alone. And then I go, you know what? I'm going to go out just a little bit farther. And I just kept doing that, going back and forth, going a little bit farther. But I mean, it's so high. I mean, it's insane. People, yeah, they get there. There's people that won't drive over it because it's too high. Like they're, you know.

Do you ever go to Alcatraz? I did. Really? Yeah. You took the ferry over there? I've never done that. Oh, man. I would love to do that. Yeah. It was cool. Yeah. It was cool to just see it out there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's cool to see it. Yeah. It's cool to go to it. It's wild that things like that. They're like, that's a good idea. Put a jail on that island. Probably was a good idea. I mean, it is a good idea. No, it's a great idea. But they don't do it anymore. Yeah. I don't know why they got rid of, you know, maybe it was just... Well, Rikers is still an island, right?

Is it still a jail? Rekers Island. Yeah, I think... So we're still doing jails on islands. Do people really escape from prisons though now? I think they got it pretty locked down. Sometimes. I think they get out. People still do. There's this one guy, he got a... He bought a poster.

that he put on the wall. Nate hasn't seen Shawshank Redemption. Oh, no. He might have ruined it. Yeah. And he never will see it. We spent four years not ruining the ending of that. And there's a chance you just did? No, no, no. No, the covering, like the cover of the book is like the picture of the poster. Yeah. And you've read the book.

Yeah. Yeah. Obviously. I was telling him to read it. I think he would like it because it's only 90 pages. It was Stephen King wrote it in a series of short stories that also the movie Stand By Me was in the same book. That's right. Yeah. And it was. I think it's called Rita Hayworth. It's called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Yeah. Wow. And it's almost word for word like the movie. No. No, it's not because it's from the perspective of the Morgan Freeman character. So is the movie. But.

Is it voiceover in the movie for me? Yeah, it's Morgan Freeman's voiceover. Yeah, yeah. Oh. Yeah, yeah. He's a white guy in the book, though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You still read it. You still hear Morgan Freeman's voice. Of course. Now you read the story in Morgan Freeman's voice, which is cool. There are a lot of prison breaks this year already. Oh, really? None in the US, I see.

Yeah. The Congo had a couple, France, Haiti, but all on like, like the July of last year, a prison in Pennsylvania, a guy escaped. It's a dog sniffed him out in the woods. So I think I remember that one. It comes big news. I mean, yeah, it becomes big news that they get out though. Well, there was one recently a few years ago where the woman that became romantically involved and she helped him escape. Yeah.

I think that's the way you got to go. Yeah. Yeah. You got to. That's the only way you can. I'm going to be in trouble. Yeah. Nick, you'll get out pretty quick. Yeah. Brian, she goes, you ain't getting out, sweetheart. Yeah. I'll get more years. There you go.

You think she's just using you and then tells you, you go, once you get in the trunk, she goes, he's in here. And then Thune shuts the other trunk and he's getting out. Like she gets him out because they never saw it coming. They never saw it coming. That would be...

It'd be tough to, I mean, who got out in Alcatraz? Nick Cage. Yeah, yeah, but someone got out. Someone got out. There was somebody who escaped. There's one that they think, they think they never found the body. So they think he got out. But no one, because the water was so cold. It's likely you just drown in the water outside of there because it's so cold and the water's so rough that it's... There's also a lot of sharks there. Yeah, so it's... In San Francisco. It's even if you get off the island, it's not smooth sailing to...

Yeah, that was the whole main thing. But who was there? I mean, everybody was there, right? Al Capone. Yeah, I think I saw Al Capone's cell. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. I think so. I'm saying that. Was it like a Motorola? Yep. He had it early. I go, whoa. Aaron, have you seen the movie The Rock? No.

Yeah. No. You've never seen the movie The Rock? No. What is that? Sean O... Sean O... The Rock. Sean Connery. Sean Connery. Nicholas Cage. Wayne Johnson. No, I've never seen it. Is it about Alcatraz? Ed Harris. Yeah. I've never seen it. It's a great movie. I've seen Escape from Alcatraz, but I've never seen The Rock. The Rock is really great. Yeah. Ed Harris, too. All right. I'll check it out. I'll check it out. Yeah. I'm a big Ed Harris fan, too. You guys like that guy? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's great. Yeah. He's good. Yeah.

All right, sports teams. 19 professional sports teams in California. By far the most of any state. That's crazy, yeah. And they just keep moving it like that. Well, that's major professional. Not even minor leagues. 19. Yeah, so there's probably like 50 or 60 probably. And they just move them around. Like the San Diego Chargers. Yeah. They're up in LA. That's true. You have season tickets to the Dodgers? Mm-hmm.

All right. What's crazy this year is so I split it with four. It's four of us, me and three other guys. And each of us end up paying like 1800 bucks. Yeah. But this year we've made 1500 bucks back each of us because of the Shohei Otani like effect. Wow. And they upped the next year's tickets. Like, cause we don't, we, we sell just some of our tickets. Like the other night they had Shohei, they did like a bobblehead and we were like, yeah, you sell that. Yeah. And you make a lot of money.

Wow. People line up early for those bobbleheads. People stayed overnight. Yeah, it's insane. The first, I think, thousand people got golden bobbleheads. Wow. And it's like, because you can't buy them. I guess you could buy them, but you have to buy them from one of these first thousand people. Exactly. So they're going to get there. They're only making them there. You can sell them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Rose Bowl is the oldest bowl. Do we need a bowl? Is the rose a big California flower? Is that why it's called the Rose Bowl? I don't know.

It's their state flower, maybe. It might be. Is there got to be a... The California wild rose. Rose Californica. There's a California king snake that is... It looks like a rattler, but it actually... It kills rattlers. Yeah. It doesn't get affected by the poison, and there's nothing... It doesn't affect humans at all, but it... Or the venom, it doesn't... Whatever. Whatever.

They've grown up to 78 inches long. Yeah, the king snake in general is always a good snake to have around because it does kill poisonous snakes. Mm-hmm. Doesn't harm humans. Yeah. Why does it want to kill poisonous snakes? I wonder. Like, is it just... It's just a real... They're just good... More fun. They're just good dudes. It's a good balance. Yeah. Good dudes. Good balance. Yeah, I wonder how they found out. Then they were like, we can handle these guys. Yeah. Most people can't. California's the only state to host a summer and winter Olympics. Yeah.

Wow. That's interesting. What years? Summer of 84. I remember it. Yeah. And then the next one, Summer Olympics is in LA. The next one. Yeah. Yeah. Where's the winner? I'll say not done it yet. Now they have the winner. One was like 1960. I think somewhere around Lake Tahoe. Okay. Okay. It makes sense.

Yeah, most diverse, naturally, state, it feels like. There's a little bit of everything there. Yeah. It's really cool. Yeah, imagine when people discovered California, they had to be like, this is the whole country. Yeah. Here. Yeah. I heard this comedian... No bugs, right? Is there really bugs there? Yeah, there are bugs, yeah. There's not like mosquitoes. There's not mosquitoes. Not like down here. No. This comedian that was on my show last week, Lucas Hurl is his name. He had a joke where he's like, I bet...

My favorite, you know,

whatever and like what do they call the thing you do in the olympics like uh not a challenge but like uh whatever yeah my favorite competition will be watching the city get rid of the homeless people they'll do it quick and easily yeah are they building new stadiums just for it yeah there's gonna be i don't know what they're doing i mean there there used to be a whole thing how they were gonna build like a huge structure over the la river that was like a proposed plan at some point i don't think they're doing that now though

I've never even heard of the LA River. You've never heard of it? No. Oh my gosh. It's like in Terminator 2. Remember like in that movie where he's driving down that crazy concave cement? That's the LA River. Oh yeah. Grease too. That's in Grease too. Yeah. Drive. The original. Sometimes it's the LA River and sometimes it's not. What do you mean? They let water go down there sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. It's also filthy. Yeah. It's disgusting. Yeah.

When did that water go down there? Where does it go? No, when do they let... Oh, well, when it's raining a ton. There's some parts that always have some water in it. Okay. And then there's some parts that are kind of back and forth. I mean, it goes like rain. Yeah, you just get no rain. This last year, we had a ton of rain. Oh, that's good. It's like it broke a record. Oh, is it annoying? It's probably annoying when you don't have to live with the rain. I'm from Seattle. Well, I know, but it's annoying...

Because you think you've got a good deal where you're not getting rain. Yeah. It's annoying when I come home from other states because that's the best part about living in California is coming home. Yeah. Everywhere you go, you're like, oh, this is a fun experience. Now I'm just going to go back to the most comfortable place in the world. Yeah. California. Well, I went to San Diego for the first time like two years ago. Everyone's always told me, sunny year round. And I get there in May and it's all overcast. They're like, oh yeah, May gray. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, they have the June Gloom. How's San Diego? You just bring that. Is it overcast a lot of places you go, Brian? Yeah, that's what they do. You get to a lot of towns and they go. June Gloom. Yeah, they do call it June Gloom. Every year in June, it's like for the first half of the day, you think, well, it's a jacket day. And then nope.

They just see Brian's face looking out the window of the plane, and you just see a cloud behind it. Because I thought that might come. It just goes, and he goes, so the plane looks worried. It's interesting you say that about California. I feel that way about here. When I go away, I love to come back to Tennessee. I like, no matter where I'm at, I do love to come back here.

Yeah, he's saying, I think, the weather. Like, it's the L.A. weather. But, I mean, you know, it's like, especially, I don't know, just being in the South, sometimes you'll be up in northern states, it's real cold or whatever. You come back here and you're like, oh, yeah, warm again. Yeah. Warmth. Yeah.

I always feel that with Florida. Like when you go like our California, it is when you're when it's winter and you go out to one of those and you're like, man, this is nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Do you have a show in like Florida in February and you're like.

Like you were just in Detroit. Yeah. I remember I did a show in Calgary and it was so cold. And I came from LA. The difference was it was like negative 50. It was insanity. And if you've ever gone outside when it's that cold, it almost feels like you're drowning. Like you can't be outside for very long. I was like trying to run into a bank or something.

I don't know. I robbed it. I just felt like I couldn't breathe anymore. The air was so cold and so thin. That's you. That's weird. Were you dressed like that? I had a huge down jacket on. It was a nice jacket. You got to layer up. You got to layer up. Many layers. I bet you talked to everybody in that bank, didn't you?

Did you? Hey! You did, yeah. Nick will talk. Did you talk to everybody? Yeah. Yeah, you did. Nick, when you walk into any bank,

That's the thing. Instead of talking to everybody. That's the thing is when you're doing, I was playing a festival in that city. So in Canada, they actually, the cities pay to have a festival there. Like it's like government funded for like a music festival. Indoor festival? Yeah. Yeah. But everyone in the bank's like going, are you going to be in the festival? Yeah. We're all going to see it. They all come. Yeah. They can just tell when you walk in that you're a part of the festival. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your room's right here, sir. Yeah.

It's cold. Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park. Oh, Sunnyvale. We got some- Rooster Teeth Feathers. Rooster Teeth Feathers. Rooster Teeth. Why did they go out there? Just because it just worked out that way? I think Stanford's there and a lot of- Oh, good. That's why all phones have Cupertino time because it started there.

Oh, yeah. Aaron, what were your thoughts on the iPhone 16? It's funny to go there when you go there and stay and you're in Cupertino time. Yeah. It is funny because it sounds like a made-up place. Yeah. And then you're like there and you're like, I'm on Cupertino time. What was the iPhone 16? I didn't see the keynote. Was there anything crazy in the new one? I think there's a new button and it's more AI. A new button? Oh, I didn't even know there was a new one. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, Nate just got excited. I can buy something? CBS special. I didn't know there was a new phone. I think they announced some of the details today. Oh, look at that. Yeah, the keynote. I saw people were mad. They were like, the headphones are going to be revamped and it was just new colors.

And just kind of, you know, just rinse and repeat what they've been doing. And they're doing all U2 album on it. Yeah. No, now it's mine. Easy out. That might tank Apple for you. I think it'll be better. I think that would be better than that U2 album. Thank you, Dusty. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome to the new iPhone.

Did you see Apple stock plunging like when Michael Scott spoke at the shareholders meeting? One president from California. Only one? Yeah. Ronald Reagan. Nixon. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Correct. I didn't say anything. Reagan wasn't from? My mistake. Where's Reagan from? Nixon's from like Chino, the Chino area. Somewhere around there. Reagan was governor of California, but he was born in Illinois. Oh. And he was an actor too. It's crazy. That's wild. Yeah.

I watched Reagan, the movie. Yeah. Yes, me and my parents' friends. Because everybody knew he was pretty old. Yeah, it was a 3 p.m. show. Yeah, everybody there voted for Reagan. Yeah, the age group. But yeah, one night we went. I was just like, I want to go see a movie. Because Reagan...

know him obviously but we were I was young and so it was like oh let me just go see what his well have you met Dennis Quaid I think I've met him briefly he lives here yeah yeah yeah yeah

Oh, he loves him. Yeah. I love Dennis Quaid. Yeah. Yeah. He was, yeah. I mean, it was, I didn't know a ton about Ronald Reagan, so it's like pretty crazy. I mean, it's like that dude, like just what he did was like, not even talking about a president, but just him coming up and eventually becoming president. Pretty great. He won every state, but,

But Minnesota, right? Yeah. I remember that. That's crazy. I literally remember it. Yeah. Yeah. Were you covering it with the news? It was in 84, right? Yeah. So how old were you? 13. I was 171. I just turned 13. Yeah. Yeah.

Look at all those. Walter Mondale. Look at all those counties, Mr. Reagan won. Because that's how you don't look at anything as states. You look at America as counties. Tennessee counties. Yeah. Were they using blue and red? Yeah.

That's what they used in the movie. It's like one thing is blue, it's where the other guy's from, and the rest of it's red. That's pretty crazy. Tim Russert invented that, right? I don't know. I didn't know if they were using it back then. Yeah, pretty crazy. It's wild.

He had a lot of really funny lines. Like, that was the thing. Like, he was really funny. Like, you know. Yeah. What was the line? So was George Bush. Oh, didn't he say you missed? He had some good ones. Yeah. When he got shot and he's like, you missed me. You missed me. No, when a balloon popped. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He made a joke about it. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. And then he had the line when they called him old, he said, I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I will not exploit for my, my opponent's youth and inexperience. Yeah. Yeah. And it was like, all right, race is over at that point. Yeah. Yeah. They won everything. Yeah. Yeah. That's yeah. It's crazy. I think we have to wrap up. All right. I'm going to wrap it up. Yep.

Was that a sign that said wrap it up? Wrap it up. They got a show. I want to see that sign. It just says wrap. He starts wrapping a present like what I'm doing. All right. I'll be in Foxwoods coming up. This weekend, I'm at Tempe Improv this Sunday. Great spot. Yeah. The easier to drive tour goes to Tempe.

So I'll be getting hit in the road since this podcast is over. Three days to get out there. Yep. Tuesday. Well, I guess this next coming Tuesday, September 17th, my next Brian Bates and Friends here at the Lab at Zany's. Nice. September 22nd.

what's it called here in the sanctuary Commonwealth Sanctuary just outside Cincinnati September 22nd September 26th at Louisville Comedy Club October 4th I'm back at Alley Rays and I shouldn't say even back I'm doing Alley Rays in Knoxville I was scheduled to be there in July and I got sick and had to cancel so we've rescheduled for October 4th good deal

I will be in Plano, Texas, September 19th through 21st. Wenatchee, Washington, September 28th. And Eugene, Oregon, October 10th and 12th. Nickthune.com or Arby's.com.

Do you really have Arby's.com? Yeah. No, that rules. You do? No. I believe you. I got excited. My last remaining shows of the year were supposed to be this weekend. Two sold-out shows in St. Louis at the Helium. We're rescheduling those. I'm going to announce this later, but...

We're going to have this kid any day now, so I don't want to miss that. So we rescheduled those two shows to November 24th. So hopefully if you have tickets to those shows, they're both sold out. Hopefully you can make the new date. If you can't, I understand. But November 24th in St. Louis, that's my only remaining –

headlining date this year and by this kid he means his beautiful and precious daughter yes yes i'm off this weekend uh could be working but next weekend i'm in austin texas at the mothership

all sold out though uh and then i'm gonna the next weekend i'm in lexington kentucky bristol tennessee then macon georgia and charleston south carolina big kind of homecoming show for me yeah very exciting uh dusty sleigh.com weren't you just there i have not been there in quite a while well charleston south carolina

Okay. I did Charleston West. I thought you were there like two weeks ago. I was in Myrtle Beach. Yeah. It's two hours away, though. All right. Sorry. Yeah, y'all probably figure this out later. Now, go check out Nate Land Entertainment. You too. We got a lot of great stuff on there. Got a lot of big things. Great to see these guys. Great specials. Thank you, man. They're going to be awesome. Thank you for doing it, Nate. Can't wait to see these. And that's it. All right. We love you. See you next week. Bye.

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