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Today's episode of the Nate Land podcast is brought to you by Bombas, Mountain Dew, Chime, and Aura Frames. Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Aaron Weber here reporting live from the Nate Land studio desk alongside fellow comedians, fellow Nashvillians, my buddies, two of the best friends any human being could ask for. I got Brian Bates and Dusty Slay right here with me. All right. Okay. Nate is not here. He'll be back. He's back next week, right?

I have no idea. Okay. Well, I'm pretty sure he is. Just putting that out there in the world, I think it's going to happen. Yeah, he is back next week. Do you believe in manifesting things, Brian? Because I think- Put it out in the world. Put it out in the world, and then it just kind of happens. I think it's the power of positive thinking. Well, that's another way of saying the same thing. Yeah, you know. But manifesting seems like it's witchcraft. Yeah. The secret, right? But you're just saying this is going to happen, and you're building it up positively for yourself. Yeah.

Setting a goal and achieving it. Words have power. And if you're negative about yourself, then it'll start to, well, it'll start to manifest in you. Now, there were two books a decade or so ago. I might be getting mixed up. The Secret. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. Well, there's more than two books, period. Yeah. And then The Prayer of Jabez. Was that it? Yeah.

Never heard of that. Never heard. I didn't read any of that, though. The Prayer of Jabez. Yeah. And it's been so long, but I think it's Old Testament, Dusty, so you might be into it. But I think he basically, the point is, I think it's okay to ask God to reward you bountiful in finances and wealth. Sure, why not? And whatever. Yeah.

The book has been highly criticized and compared to Prosperity Gospel. I don't think there's anything wrong with asking for those things, but I like to—myself, I like to pray—

the Lord's will be done, right? Like where it's like, if I'm going, I want a million dollars, but God's like, I know if I give you a million dollars, it's going to ruin your life. Then I don't want the money. You think it could ruin your life with a million dollars? I don't think so now, but there's a time in my life where it would have ruined my life. Yeah, three years ago. Yeah. Well, at least, I would say at least 14 years ago, before I quit drinking, if you had given me, I don't know,

It wouldn't even have to be a million dollars. You could have given me 10 grand and I could have ruined my life. But I was just thinking you guys, I consider two of my closest friends, but this is the only time in our life where we could have been 15 years ago.

We couldn't have been friends because you were a totally different person and it would have been creepy for us to be friends. Where else would we have hung out? You know, yeah, exactly. 15 years ago, you would have been. Oh, 15 years ago, I would have been. 18? Yeah, 16, just turned 17. So that would have been a little weird for me to be a 30-something-year-old man. You would have had a great time hanging out with me, though.

I mean, it would have been a... He'd be drinking more. You would have been a horrible influence on him. We would have had a great time. I don't think I would ever have allowed it, but... You didn't even like yourself then. Well, I like... No, I mean, myself now wouldn't like myself then. Yeah, but you were having a good time in the moment. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

My health. I just got, I got, I started feeling too bad. It was a problem. I could have kept going if I'd exercised a little. But now we all have a lot in common. We're all fathers. That's right. Comedians. Podcasters. Podcasters. We do never-ending podcasts. That's what I'm referring to as podcasts in general now. It's like a TV show that never ends.

Yeah, sounds great. I never want my favorite TV shows to end, dude. Just keep making them. But sometimes, with TV shows specifically, podcasts generally speaking, we're just talking from the beginning.

But a TV show, let's use the TV show Heroes. Did you ever watch that one? Season one of Heroes, unbelievable, because it was based on this graphic novel, right? And then season two, they were like, oh, we didn't know it was going to do so well. So they scrambled to write season two, and it was not as good. That was a superhero show, right?

Yeah. Don't you feel like that a big part of that was that was before the where everything was a superhero movie and everything was a superhero show? Oh, yeah. Didn't it kind of it was before all that? Yeah. OK, well, then. Yeah. I mean, imagine trying to do a show like Heroes now. You're like, OK, no, but I'm saying these. But even by season two, it had already lost steam. But their main story was gone. Yeah. Yeah. I just rewatched when I was a kid. I love the Superman movies with Christopher Reeve.

And then these... What's he been up to? I just rewatched them. You did? Yeah. Did they hold up? I think so. Well, they didn't. There's one of the four that was pretty weak. Well, the three and four I'm not even talking about because those really went down. Even then, I didn't like those too much. Where was the one where he fought himself as bad Superman? I think that's three. That was pretty awesome. That's the one with Richard Pryor, right? Yeah. Well, anyway, I just rewatched one and two. Four is where it really dipped.

Anyway. Okay. Anyway, these more current... I'm going to disagree. These more current ones, the Man of Steel ones... Yeah. ...that have come out recently, I'm like, ah, they're so dark, and why can't they be more like whatever? But then I just watched the first two Superman. The special effects are so bad. I'm like, all right, this meets somewhere in the middle. This is what I think. What we need is a Superman movie where...

He just is rescuing people the whole time. That's all he is. At least start it. Man of Steel, right out of the gate, there's just problems. He never got to be a hero at all. Let's just see you popping around town, rescuing people. Maybe you're not even Superman yet. You're just the guy that everybody knows that can rescue you. Yeah. Or maybe leave all this IP alone for 20 years and we'll come back. You know what I mean? Yeah. Do we need a Superman movie? No. What's IP?

Intellectual property. All this built in. Sorry, killed the conversation. No, I just didn't know what it meant. But yeah, I would agree. Take some time off. They've, I mean, they've done. Yeah, they milked it. They did one with the guy, I can't think of his name, where he had a son. Remember that? No. No. There was a Superman movie 15 years ago. Okay. Where there was only one with this guy, but he had a son with Lois Lane.

Okay. And did they have superpowers? Yeah, they didn't. Superboy? She didn't realize it was his son. And then Lex Luthor's played by Kevin Spacey. Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember that one. Yeah, that one was good. Yeah.

I think you have lower standards than I do, Dusty. Well, you know, I just take the movie for what it is. It's a Superman movie. Yeah. It's pretty cool. I mean, the opening scene of that movie, there's a plane crashing and he catches a plane. Now that is good. And the Superman return, his return to the world was coming down on a baseball field and lowering a passenger jet in the middle of the baseball field. And they'd not seen him for 20 years. And here he is. He's back.

Now, that is pretty good. That's good. Dang. How is he doing that? What is he using? Superpowers. Yeah. Yeah, he just... Are you familiar with Superman? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's just from a planet. It's kind of like magic, right? He's from a planet where... Kind of like magic. It's the sun. Well, yeah, I guess. I mean, I'm not saying I want to be friends with the guy, you know? No, it's our yellow sun that does it.

Yeah, I mean, he's from a planet where everybody's like that. Okay. Yeah, but they're not as powerful on Krypton as they are here. Right, but everybody's like that, though. Yeah. And then he's just, compared to us, much stronger. There's probably a lot of, you know, anti-Christ symbolism in there, I'm sure. Yeah.

I mean, if you want to dig into it. That wasn't quite where I was going. I felt like you were trying to take some magic digs at me. I was a little bit. Yeah, you didn't have to make it that real. But happy to be here. We're back at Nate Land Studios. What's been going on, man? I hate to jump into it too quickly, but I haven't seen you guys in a while. I want to know what you've been up to. I know you were on the road, Brian. Yeah, Thursday I was in Gadsden, Alabama. Oh, Gadsden. I got family from there.

I went to a funeral in Gadsden. So did I, my show. No, no, no, no. I did a show for Young Life. Oh, yeah. It was very funny. They said, yeah, we had Nate spoke at our national convention in L.A. earlier this year. I'm doing the Gadsden, Alabama chapter of Young Life, which is that's where it is again. L.A. to A.L. That's right.

But I tell you what, I did not feel like I was doing well. I only had to do 30 minutes, and I'm like, I don't feel like I'm doing good. What's the setup? Are you going up cold? Are you following somebody? No, totally cold. Do they know it's comedy? I'm still not sure they know it's comedy.

I mean, are they coming to a comedy event? Like, what's the setup? Young Life is supposed to be pretty hip. I mean, that's the idea. That's probably my first problem. They want to appeal to young people, so they want things to be Christian and hip. Yeah. I remember with Campus Life, which is sort of a Young Life thing, we had like a Christian heavy metal thing we went to one time. I thought it was pretty cool. I never followed up with those bands, but in the moment, I was like, this is pretty cool. Well...

I feel like I was struggling to the finish line. So I was like, I gotta do something. I gave basically Henry Cho's testimony. Yeah.

I mean, I didn't say it was mine, but I'd never heard of Young Life growing up. But Henry Cho told me how that's how he got involved in church was through Young Life. Yeah. So I shared Henry's... I'm like, you guys know Henry Cho? No? Well, I'm going to tell you his testimony anyway. And I shared about Henry. I shared someone else's testimony. Oh, is your closer? Yeah. Just to finish it out. Yeah.

All right. So it's going well then. Yep. Yep. That was Thursday. Great time. Was it like teenagers in the crowd? No, this was for like volunteers and adults just to raise money and things like that. There were some of the kids there, but this was for adults.

Friday, I did one of those Don't Tell Nashville shows in town. Everybody in the audience and on the show besides me were like 23. But I did great. Yeah. I feel old on those shows. Thank you. You are a professional comedian. Yeah. As much as we joke about you not being...

like you are a professional comic. You've done it a long time. You can figure out how to do well in your room. Those don't tell shows. I don't know if you're listening. They have these don't tell shows all over the country in different cities. And the way it works is you sign up and then they, you know, it's like a hidden location, hidden lineup. They send you the info morning of after you buy a ticket and then you never know who's going to pop in. But they're, they are usually young, like date nights. Yep. I feel like an old man at a lot of them do. Yeah.

That was Friday. Saturday, I was in Litchfield, Kentucky at the Alice Theater. I took my friends Paula Kaczynski and John Dettoy with me. Nice. All right. They did great. Great comics. They're great comics. They're such a great couple. They're so positive. They are. I found us saying just positive things about comics the whole time of the trip, which is weird. They're very nice people. Yeah, too nice. Very nice people. Very funny.

Yeah. We talked about John on the podcast before. He's the guy that plays yo-yos. I don't know. A real asset to the Nashville comedies. They both are. They both are, for sure. They really bring a positive vibe to the Nashville comedies. They do. I like that. I do. I'd like them to get jaded a little bit.

well, I just want to trash some comics, but they're so positive. I know, that's what I'm saying. I'm like, man. Oh, yeah, you got to be able to trash some people. Yeah. I was trying to trash you two, but they really love y'all. That's fine. You got to do it. There's plenty to talk about with men. But a lot of folks came out. That was a great show, Saturday Night in Litchfield. And then last night I was in London, Kentucky.

Doing a show for... It's called Laugh All Night. It's for New Missions, which does a lot of things, but sponsors... This particular one sponsors some orphans in Haiti. And it was at a church there in London. And I did it with a few other comics. Did you eat at the restaurant? I didn't. The guy who...

Dusty was telling me about a steakhouse there in London, Kentucky. Shiloh. But the organizer, he wanted to take us out, but we went where he wanted to take us. I wasn't going to say, no, I don't want to go there. So, great time last night in London, Kentucky. How late was the show? Like, how late did it go to? Not late at all. Give me a time. I think it was over by...

8, 8.30? Laugh all night is what it's called. Yeah, I pointed that out last week. I know, but I just wanted specifically to know what time it went to. Yeah, there was about 60 to 75 minutes of laughing. And people were like, are we going to be here all night or what? I'm not even laughing. No, it was great. That's awesome. Good time. Your buddy Bob Smiley was on the show and Rick Roberts and...

Sean Reynolds and Michelle McNair Miller I think who I never met but they were all very funny fun lineup and yeah great night

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All right. I would think that. I don't mind it. Yeah. Boom, boom. It's like a rotation here. Think of us like a circle. You go this way, and then you go here. You can also go this way in a circle. Yeah, but he started it. He passed it to you first, so now you're passing it back to him. We're going counterclockwise. Yeah, you don't pass it back. You pass it around. You know, if you go north long enough, you'll eventually be going south. But if you go east or west, you're always either going that direction.

Oh, that is fun. I like that latitude and longitude. Yeah. Yeah. So where were you? Yeah. Well, I just want to say I went to McMinnville. We hung out a little bit and a lot of fun, a lot of fun. Went to Tammy's, had some burgers. Yep. Tammy's is still the best restaurant in McMinnville.

Shout out. But I want to make an announcement. I'm recording another special. Whoa. Yes. February 28th at the Walker Theater in Chattanooga. Beautiful theater. Beautiful town. It is a beautiful theater. My last special I filmed in Knoxville. Now I'm filming in Chattanooga. I think I'm going to do all my specials in cities of Tennessee. McMinnville next. Yeah, maybe so. They've got a beautiful

Well, next is Chattanooga, February 28th. And today is pre-sale tickets. So today, Wednesday, you can get pre-sale. I got two things here. I got artist pre-sale is on Wednesday. I don't know what that means really, but the code is Slay. The pre-sale code is Slay. And then Thursday is local pre-sales. And I don't know what that means. But then official on sale is Friday. Okay.

But get tickets. Two shows. February 28th. Chattanooga, Tennessee. Walker Theater. It's going to be great. I'm filming another special and it's going to be hot. Two hours? How long is it going to be? I don't know. Well, I have been working to try and narrow. I want an only an hour long special. I think anything longer than an hour is too long. My last one was, you know,

uh, an hour, five, six, seven, eight. I don't know how long, but it's, that's with the credits. Yeah. Yeah. No, for most people I'd say, yeah, but if you, I'd say at least hour 20. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think when you go to a live show, you, you, you know, get, get your money's worth, you know, but if you're watching at home and hours, what you want. All right. That's what I think. Like if there were more hour long movies, I would watch more movies. Mm-hmm.

But like when I go, how long is this movie? An hour 50? Nah, I'll just watch YouTube again.

I watched three hours of YouTube videos. Yeah, exactly. So this two hour movie. You know what I have been doing though, real fast. I've been taking DVDs, not Blu-ray DVDs and burning them onto my computer and having the digital copy. It's very low. It's not low resolution necessarily, but it's a low memory file. I can easily airdrop it to my phone and watch movies on the plane. And then I can watch all of these great old movies, uh,

on on my phone you're airdropping the movie yeah to your phone so how how small is the file i don't know is this like four four but it i mean when you're looking on your phone it still looks good does it really yeah i mean i'm not it's not like pixelated okay from a dvd yeah all right blu-ray is different yeah yeah sure blu-ray is harder to do uh-huh but that's exciting what are you watching

Well, I've only done one trip with it, but I watched, I think I taught Lords of Flatbush was one of them. And then Run, Ronnie, Run, which I haven't finished. All right. But Run, Ronnie, Run is really funny. It's David Cross. It really seems like the inspiration for Joe Dirt, which is, Joe Dirt's one of my favorite movies of all time. People say you look like a cross between David Cross and Joe Dirt. But Run, Ronnie, Run is really funny.

All right. I thought it would be airdrop it to me later. Why not? Yeah, why not? Yeah, I got space. All right. All right. Make it happen anyway. Where were you at? Yeah, no, hold on. Well, you interrupted something to say that.

You're special. You're talking about your special. I already pitched it, though. I did the whole pitch. All right. Yeah, nothing else to- February 28th. Do you know what you're going to do with it? What's it going to be? I don't know where it'll end up. There's no- Last time I filmed a special, I didn't know where it was going to end up. I just filmed it. I just filmed a high-quality, top-of-the-line special with A-plus jokes and visual quality. And then Netflix was like, we got to have it.

And so that's what I want to do with this one. I want to, I want to, I'm just gonna, I got some people have said they like this hour better than my last special. So I'm, I'm looking forward to this hour and plus I'm ready to move on to some other jokes. So I need to get them down and you got this new hour quick. Yeah. I was really impressed at, I mean, your special hadn't even come out yet and you had it already out there going. Yeah. I don't know that I'll be able to do that this next time, but I, um,

I feel good, though. I was digging through some old notebooks today, and there's a lot of stuff that I wrote down in the past that I was like, these are good ideas. I just wasn't good enough to make them jokes. So I'm excited to kind of dig into some of that. You got to do that smoking in the rental car bit. Oh, yeah. I do have to do that. That would fit in your act pretty easily. Yeah, I think so. Well, congratulations, Dusty. Yep. Big time. Thank you. I appreciate you. And it's called what?

I don't know what it's going to be called yet. The last one's called Working Man, which is still available on Netflix. By the way, I got another hour that's on YouTube. It's at 3 million views. Hit 3 million views. So I don't know what the next one's going to be called, but we'll go Working Man, and then we don't want to do... I feel like we don't even want to do in the same realm. Lounge and Man or something like that? Yeah, or something. That's fun. It's fun to think about. I'm excited.

I'm excited. It's going to be fun. I'm recording a special at the Ryman. All right. For Netflix. No, I'm not. I did just perform at the Ryman. I forgot to mention it last week, but I opened for Kathleen Madigan at the Ryman here in town. Oh, I opened for her last year there. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. It's a good time. Beautiful theater. It's like the best. It might be the best. It's so fun. It might be the best theater ever.

In the country? I don't know what else would be better. Y'all have done a lot of the big ones, right? I mean, it's like...

Sounds perfect. It feels like a club, as dumb as that sounds. But they're kind of right on top of you. You say it does sound dumb? No, no. It sounds like a club. It sounds intimate. Okay. You can't do two questions back to back like that. That's true. I do that to my daughter. My daughter will answer the second question. I say, do you want to go here or do you want to go there? And she'll say yes. It's the second one she wants. Uh-huh.

Anyway. And Nate's CBS holiday special is filming this week. I think Thursday at the Grand Ole Opry House. That's right. That's where he is today. He's getting ready for that. That's going to be super exciting. I think that comes out, is it December 19th? Yeah. December 19th. Co-produced by Lorne Michaels. Yeah. Pretty exciting stuff. So keep an eye out for that.

A lot happened in the Nate land. I mentioned a couple things very quickly, and then we'll talk more about it later. But Greg Warren, friend of the show, one of the best, he's recording his next hour special in Columbus, Ohio, November 23rd. First show sold out. There are tickets available to the second show. And then Mike Vecchione.

Old friend of the show. He's recording an hour special in Nashville, December 28th. Tickets available for both shows. So if you want to check out a couple specials of Go to See Dusty's in February, but if you want to see some other Nate Land friends, we got a couple options there for you in the coming months. That's awesome. I do want to say we've all performed in Chattanooga a lot over the years at the Comedy Catch, and Chattanooga has always been a great comedy place.

I like it. That's why I'm excited to do the special there. Yeah, and they've got a couple of theaters, Walker being one of them that are really nice. Yeah. I miss the Comedy Catch. I do miss them. The Comedy Catch is like, that's a mainstream room, dude. That's like, I'm trying to figure out the way to describe it. I remember being very young in comedy, and I went to Chattanooga and did the Comedy Catch, and I was like, oh, this is real people. Yeah. So different from...

you know, where you perform as an open mic or where JJ's Bohemia. Yes. Yeah. Places like that. JJ's is great. JJ's is fun, but it's just totally different. But it's a, yeah, it's more of a, it sounds bad to say, but it's like more of a hip scene, right? If you go, once you go to an actual mainstream club, it is regular people. So you're like, Oh, I got to like my hip,

cultural references may not get me by here. Oh, yeah. They don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah. People have jobs. They don't know the new snarky thing to talk about on Twitter. Yeah. And I remember being like, oh, man.

I need to figure it out because these are the crowds that you need to be able to perform in front of these crowds. Well, that's how it was for me in Charleston. Charleston was like a real hip, artsy city, and I was doing really well there. And then when I left and started working the road, I was like, oh, man, this is a different gang out here. That's right. Yeah. Yeah.

Now, last time we talked about Comedy Catch, wasn't there like, didn't Danielle, the owner, challenge you, Dusty, to a swimming race? Yeah, I'm ready. To build a, but it was, a green room was on the line, right? Yeah.

Yeah. So nothing ever came of that. Well, I'm ready. You know what I mean? Here's what came of it. Dusty's coming back to the city and recording a special at a different venue. So there you go. Who wins in the end? Hey, if there's an indoor pool in Chattanooga, let's do it. Let's do it after the special. That's right. So that I don't get hurt.

Because when I was in Canada, I talked about this on my own podcast, but when I was in Canada, I swam in a lake up there. And I was swimming and I was like, man, my shoulders are older now. And it is not as easy.

Well, swimming uses muscles you don't use in everyday life. So I admitted on my own podcast that I may not be as fast as I once was. But you know what? Just like that old Toby Keith song. I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was. That's what I think. Give me one straight shot. Yeah. I think I can. All right. Did you guys watch the Mike Tyson fight? I did, man. Exciting. Thrilling.

Down to the last round. It was really close. The fight right before it was unbelievable. Yeah. I forget their names. It was an unbelievable fight. And then the Mike Tyson fight was like, it was like sad. It was like depressing. I got mad that I watched it. I do think that's part of it, though. You have these big headlining things just to get people to watch these other, you know, really good fighters that otherwise nobody would be watching.

A lot of people saying the fight, the fight itself was rigged. That probably is. The Tyson fight? Yeah. Yeah. For what reason? To make tens of millions of dollars. Yeah. You don't want to make. Well, they're going to make that anyway, though.

Yeah, but I think Jake Paul might be kind of the future of boxing for at least entertainment purposes. So if he wins, it looks good. And if Mike Tyson knocks him out at 60 years old, which he probably could have, I think, if he knocks him out at 60 years old, that's not looking too good for Jake Paul. I see. So y'all think Tyson could have won? No. I think so. No, I mean, dude, I mean...

He's 60. I remember when it happened, I was like, I feel dumb forever thinking this could have been close. Everybody thought Tyson was going to kill him. Yeah. Because that was nostalgia.

I shouldn't say everyone. Sure, sure. You remember Mike Tyson when he was 18 years old, 19 years old, knocking everybody out, right? Yeah, I mean, I grew up. Well, this is a 27-year-old kid who's a good boxer, who's knocked people out before, versus a 60-year-old man. Yeah, 50. I mean, even if he's the greatest of all time. He was the greatest of all time 40 years ago. Yeah. So...

I felt dumb for even thinking this could have been close. I should have bet a lot of money on what is now the obvious. Yeah. In hindsight, it's obvious. Not to Dusty. I don't think if Mike Tyson really got some licks on him, I think he could have knocked him out. I mean, Mike Tyson's still super strong. Sure, he could have, but he didn't.

Right, but he didn't because you can't. I think it's right. I think boxing is easy to rig, and I think that's why it went down in popularity because people caught on to it. So I think it's easier to rig than. You said if Mike Tyson landed more punches, he could have won.

I didn't watch the fight, to be fair. But I do think – The New York Jets could score more points. They could have won the game. Yeah, that's how it works. Yeah, yeah, of course. But I'm saying, though, I think he could have done it. And was deliberately – Yeah, I saw a couple highlights on the internet where he lit him up a couple of times, and I'm like, yeah, he could have kept that going, and he would have been out. I think he just – he was out of energy by that third round, and if he hadn't have done it by then –

He was just holding on. He looked wiped by the end. And maybe. That's the age. That's where the age sets in. Well, you missed, I mean, Netflix really handled all the traffic really well. I mean, was it a nightmare for you too? Cutting out every two seconds? No. I mean, there was a few times where it never even buffered on me. A couple times it wasn't clear. It would like,

Got pixelated. Pixelated a little bit. Resolution dropped. Yeah. It's a mess for me. But as one of those, I mean, kudos to them. They pulled off. They made tens of millions of dollars. Yeah, Mike Tyson got to make a little money here at the end. 20 million, right? Yeah. They made a ton of money. Yeah. And we all watched a big nothing.

I feel like that's so many of Mike Tyson's fights over the last several years. Like, well, I remember watching a Lennox Lewis fight way back. That was his last real big one. Yeah, and it was like, he just got punched in the face a ton of times. That was people still holding on to Tyson still had something. Lennox Lewis was the champion. And then-

He was so big. Yeah. People champion. Do you want to get into some comments? Let's do it. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and at Brian Bates Comic on Instagram. No. Cole Slaw. NateLan at NateBargatze.com. Okay. NateLan at NateBargatze.com. First comment comes from Cole Slaw. I love Cole Slaw. Cole Slaw is great, but do you think his first name is actually Cole and Slaw is a nickname?

Or do you think that that's a real name? I think his real name's Cole, not Slaw. Yeah, me too. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. Cole Slaw.

I don't think there's ever been a bad episode of Nate Land. I'll challenge you on that. But this one was particularly enjoyable. The combination of the subject, the fact that all the hosts were there, and Joe Zimmerman was such a fun guest. He's been catapulted onto my Mount Rushmore of Nate Land guests, along with Wardog and Vecchione. Who's Wardog? That's Greg Warren. Oh, Warren. That was his old nickname back in the wrestling days. Wardog! All right.

That's a high compliment. That's high praise for a Nate Lamb fan right there. Yeah. For a barbecue side, you know, to give us this compliment. Getting compliments from sides. Next comment. Potato salad. No, it's Erica Zekerski. Erica Zekerski. Erica Z. Just wanted to acknowledge Blackbird Bait saying, who? When?

When Dusty said he thought the dove was an owl because of the sound it made. No one at the table laughed. I laughed out loud. You're welcome. Boom. Thank you, Erica. I don't think Brian was making a joke. I think that you just, Erica, you caught it. You're like, that's a good joke, but I don't think he was making a joke. I think he was, but I think it got what it deserves.

Not only did I make it, I even looked at the camera and kind of like, well. You jimmed him? Yeah. You jimmed. A little bit. That's fun to do on an audio podcast. Have you heard? What do we know about it now? A dove, though? Yeah.

Like I used to think that there was an owl outside my house. And then one day I saw a dove sitting on my back deck. And I told us this last week. I don't, I didn't get into the details. And then I saw it making the sound. Who? And no, but it's like, Ooh, like I can't do it, but it's like, yeah, you could play a dove sound, but okay. Well, thank you, Eric. I'm playing chess. These guys playing checkers. Let's move on.

there's a great you ever watch old steve harvey stand up yeah one of the best of all time one of my favorite he's got a story about going to his niece's wedding in cleveland and it's just sort of like he keeps calling it a raggedy wedding it's just like anyway he takes us through the whole story but the end he's like

They go out for the releasing of the doves at this wedding with no budget, all this. He said, they opened the dove cage. All kinds of birds was in there. It wasn't a dove in the bunch. They had pigeons came out, black crows, chickens came. I think about that every time I see the word dove. That's funny. Go check that out. It's called ghetto wedding or something like that. But it's Steve Harvey. So good.

Kristen would, I'm pretty sure Aaron mentioned he was going to see creed in a previous episode. All of this could have been avoided. I don't remember doing that, but.

I thought there was an episode a few months ago where you said you were going to see them at Ascend Amphitheater. That's right. I had a lot of the details mixed up. And then Nate did say, then I am too. Oh, okay. And then three months later, when you guys said you saw them at Bridgestone, I'm like, man, Creed comes to Nashville a lot. That's right. Jumping around venues too. Yeah.

Rob White, not Ron White, Rob White. With Dusty and his conspiracy theories, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the birds aren't real movie. Well, I think that's kind of a hack conspiracy. Well, it's not even that. People always say, I can't believe Dusty's not into it. That's making fun of conspiracy theories. It is. Yeah. It's like an ironic. Some of the videos they make are very funny. I mean, there probably are some fake birds. Let's be honest. But birds are real. Yeah.

Man, come on, guys. But what is the bird? We did a whole episode on spy gear and how they, you know, it's like at this point, I bet they got some pigeons in New York City that are robots. Yeah, I don't know about New York, but I do think they've created spy gear. Yeah, I do think that's true. Birds or hummingbees or, I mean, that is a bird, but. Hummingbees. I mean, hummingbirds. Yeah.

Honeybees. You'd think the hummingbirds are fake. Could be. That'd be the easiest one to fake. See, I don't think so. I think that'd be a really hard one to make. Why? Well, a pigeon... It looks like a drone almost. A pigeon in New York City. Maybe, maybe. But a pigeon in New York City just, you know, just walking around on the streets. Okay. You know what I mean? What's it do? It spy it on people at the bus stop? Yeah. Who knows? Yeah. Everybody's in New York. Maybe. Maybe. So are, I guess, the...

So some of them aren't real, but most of them are. Well, I'm just saying the birds aren't real movement. So many of the conspiracy movements that are actually mainstream, I believe it's all controlled opposition. But they're not claiming to really think that. Their whole thing is just to make fun of conspiracy theorists. What does controlled opposition mean? Well, it's like you want to –

You want to create the other side. You're like, oh, we're going to say we support the conspiracy, but then they'll usually go so over the top and crazy with it that they actually become a joke. Right. Sure, sure, sure. To take credibility away from the other side. That's perfectly fair. Justin Higgins. I use an app called Merlin that will listen to all the bird songs that are currently being

and then tell you which birds you're hearing. That's pretty amazing. Yeah, a few people told us that. Merlin. But how would you even know if it's accurate? Just like Shazam. I don't know. I know, but you just have to trust it to know because you can't confirm it. You can't ask it, hey, what kind of bird are you? If Merlin could tell me what they were saying, that would be impressive. It could tell you what they're saying. If it could do that, this would be the top comment of the podcast. If there was an app that could translate bird language. Marsha Coke.

Great name. Marcia Koch and Cole Slaw. I mean, we got unbelievable names today. Marcia Koch, Autobahn versus Autobahn had me yelling at the TV. I don't know how the crew behind the camera keep from correcting him. Hilarious episode. I don't understand how Marcia Koch doesn't see how those two things aren't pretty similar.

It's hilarious. Of all the egregious errors we made on the podcast, that's one where you're like, all right, I've had enough. Somebody correct them. She's yelling at the TV. You got to lay off the cokes there, Marsha. Okay.

Marsha Coke, the Coke family. That's a great name. I get it. Jim and John Coke. I told Tristan never open his mouth, so better not say that. A lot of times the crew does try to speak up. Brian shuts them down real quick. He goes, I don't know who you think you're talking to. Shut it. I'm Breakfast Bates. That's right. Next comment comes from JBDDS. JBDDS. JB, damn. Dusty.

Think about all the millions of babies that now get immediate skin-to-skin after birth because of that study. Science is beautiful, man. The parents also consented to participate in the study, so the researchers weren't sick.

or evil or anything. They were just trying to figure out what is best for babies. And they debunked the opposing theory that Nikki babies should be kept in incubators for fear of germs. Well, all right, buddy. Um, but, uh, it's like, yeah. Okay. So, I mean, no one said science is not beautiful. Um,

Except you.

should go right to its mom and let its mom hold them. And then it's cold and the skin-to-skin warms them up. Who doesn't know that? Everyone knows that. I'm going to push back on that. I don't think that that's intuitive and obvious, that of all the immediate concerns for a newborn baby, that skin-to-skin contact should be a priority. I don't think you knew that. I don't think you would know that. I knew it. If you got parachuted into a birth of a child knowing nothing,

You would go, well, obviously, make sure the skin touches the mother immediately. Well, no, but you would go, all right, that baby just came out of the mom. Let the mom hold the baby. Well, that's not what they're saying. They're saying that there's an immediate medical benefit

For the skins to be touching each other. Yeah, but, you know. Such that it takes priority over other things that need to be done to a new. I don't think so. I think, you know, sometimes things need to be done. Sometimes immediate things need to be done. But I think the natural immediate thing that needs to be done is that the mother and the child should bond and should be should hold close to each other. And it's like, I think that's an obvious. But why?

Well, it doesn't matter why. Yeah, it does. You know, it doesn't matter why. You just want to make sure that child is comforted by its mother and that it's like the person that's been carrying me, the voice that I've heard, I now recognize the first person I see in this world is the mom that's carried me for nine months. And I think it's just obvious. And, you know, the why I think is secondary to just knowing that it's obvious. Yeah.

But your why is wrong. This isn't in the one you just stated is wrong. It's not like for the emotional benefit of the mother or for the baby. They're saying that there is a physical, a literal physical thing happening. Well, sure, but that doesn't make me wrong. It means that because of this natural instinct that we have that the baby should be close to its mother immediately –

uh results in this positive uh scientific thing happening all we've done here is we go well uh we know that this makes sense but let's dig into it and let's find out what it really does it doesn't make anybody wrong but it's obvious that all of nature the moment the baby is born it it needs to bond with its mother i mean all animals

I could understand an argument, though, if it was a preemie baby, a sick baby. I can understand the thought, like, oh, the best thing we can do for it is to get it in an incubator where it doesn't need germs to make it sick. Just temperature regulation is a real problem. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I mean, if there are problems, you know, it's like, all right, let's do some, you know, let's take some precautions. But even then, I think...

There should be a moment. I personally believe that the first person the baby lays eyes on and makes eye contact with should be its mom. I think it's very important for eye contact, for this baby to know, hey, here's my mom. This is what she sounds like. I know what she sounds like. This is what she looks like. I think that's very important. How would that work?

What do you mean? For her to be the first one. Why do you think that's important? Well, even if the baby sees other things, it's still handed to her and they lock in that eye contact. I think that's important. I think the eyes are the window to the soul, as it said. So it's like, let's make some eye contact with my mom, the one that's carried me. I wanted to make sure that happened with our babies. And I'm secondary. I'm next. But I wanted to make sure that

Hannah and our kids had that real time together before I ever got involved. Right, right. You know? I saw a picture of you holding baby Olive. Yeah. Yeah, he came by yesterday. Babies are the sweetest, most delicate things in the world. And it's like, we should...

that comfort of, of being like, all right, what's going on? I'm being, I'm being, I'm being, I've been in this, this womb for this amount of time and now I'm coming out and now all these doctors and all these people, they got lights and everywhere. Where's my mom? I think that, so the baby doesn't have some, uh, trauma, uh, right away. It's like, give me my mom. And then, you know, if there's issues, if there's, you know, things that happen, you know, obviously we got to like, you

you know, we got to take care of them. But I think it's important to have that

mom-baby connection. Yeah, and all this guy's saying is that, yeah, they confirmed that with the... Well, I don't remember all what we talked about, but he goes, the researchers weren't sick or evil or anything. We were joking about them being sick. But I'm like, were we? I don't know what the... I don't remember what the study was exactly. We're talking about the study proved that skin-to-skin contact was beneficial. Yeah, but what was the study? And then we joked that it was like, what, did they deprive some babies from skin-to-skin? That's kind of sick to do that. Right, well, it is. The point is, we didn't... The study was...

Okay. I guess you nailed it, JB. Well, I mean, just think about it, though. This guy wants to believe that this is just some lovely scientist just having tea, going, ooh, I can't wait till we find some research on babies and figure out what helps them, when really some, probably some sick people in some hospital

sterile room somewhere going, all right, here's the baby. Get it out of here. Get it out of here. And it's just like, they don't care. And that's my take. This guy's take is everything is roses and rainbows. And mine is a more realistic point of view. And that the world is sick. We live in a sick world out here. That's right.

It could be the name of your next special. Yeah, the world is sick out here. I mean, it's like we got to do our best to make sure our babies get love because there are a lot of sickness out here. And I'm not saying – I don't know these scientists, but I think a lot of these experiments are sick.

Yeah, not necessarily this one. Who knows? Which is trying to help babies after birth. A guy that won't even put any of it. He won't even use any vowels in his name. J.B. DDS. He's coming at me. I guess he's a dentist. Is that what DDS means? Yeah. That's like MD, but for dentists. So this is Dr. J.B. He's a dentist. I guess.

Okay. He's doing a lot of root canals on people. I know. He's doing root canals on babies. This guy's sick, dude. This guy's sick, JB. I mean, come on. You should be ashamed of yourself. I just, you know, I don't know that these people were sick, right? I'm just, but it's just like the idea that he's like- You knew that that meant Dennis the whole time? Are you just going to let us look like idiots?

I just assumed you went to Notre Dame. Science is beautiful, man. The parents also consented to participate in the study. Did they? Did you talk to them? Oh, you're putting a lot of tone of voice into that. I'm going to read the same comment, but in how I think you wrote it. Science is beautiful, man. The parents also consented to participate in the study. Did they, though? I mean, yeah.

But you read that as science is beautiful, man. He's not yelling at us. He had an exclamation point. He goes, skin after skin birth because of that study. That's not. He had an exclamation point. Is that how you read every sentence with an exclamation point? Yes, it is. Exclamation point doesn't necessarily imply anger from whoever's writing it.

I want to see the study that says how many babies got skin-to-skin contact before this study and then how many after. I want to see because he said millions of babies that now get immediate skin-to-skin birth because of that study. But maybe they were all doing skin-to-skin birth before that, and these doctors were like, do we really need this? Let's do a study to see if it even helps.

Maybe that's what happened. Oh, you think now? Cause I just went through this. It was like procedural. They, and they told us from, it's like right after the baby's born there, the one of the first thing they do is they're going to put her up for skin, skin to skin. So it's just like part of the process now. Maybe it was before though. That's all I'm saying. Okay. I love this guy. J B D D S period. I didn't know that meant Dennis.

Who puts that in there? Did he identify himself that way? No, I don't know. I mean, I don't know why it's capital D, little d, capital S. I think it's a lot. It's like PhD. The little h is little. I think it's a lot. All right.

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and you should drink it. Lindsay Blair. So next comment, Lindsay Blair. Dusty is the real life version of Bill Hader's character Dave from Hot Rod, and I cannot unsee it. I'm actually curious to hear Aaron's thoughts on the movie since we're around the same age. I'm 32. It's one of my favorite comedies, but it's definitely a love it or hate it

We're having some internet connectivity problems here. I've never seen the movie. Never heard of it. I like Bill Hader, though, so I'm into it. I like Bill Hader. I looked it up. I think it's the Andy Samberg movie where they're racing dirt bikes. Yeah, I remember seeing previews for the movie, but I never saw the movie. You do kind of look like him. He's got a wolf t-shirt on. Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm into it. Thanks, Lindsay, I guess.

That's a compliment, I think. I'm sorry I haven't seen it, Lindsay. There's a lot of movies I haven't seen. I still haven't seen Snow Day with Josh Peck. I'll burn it and airdrop it to you. Okay. Yeah, please do. Please airdrop it. Just start airdropping movies around the plane, dude. Anybody trying to watch Limitless? Just...

Start airdropping it? Yeah. The hero of the plane. Susan Gassman. Especially if the internet's not working on the plane. Oh, you're a hero. And I go, I got movies I can airdrop to. Who do you want to look at? Comedy? Romance? Drama? Oh, yeah. Susan Gassman. That's a tough, tough name. Gassman. The Gassman. How did they know I had gas? Remember that? Uh-huh.

Susan Gassman. Veal is young beef, lamb is young sheep, and mutton is older sheep. Dusty is correct that if you want to eat younger animals as older animals can be more tough. Also, a general rule of thumb is that you want to eat animals that eat grass or corn. Yeah, come on, Susan. That's what I'm talking about. You know what I mean? Finally, Dusty was right to comment up in here. Wait.

I never thought about that. All the animals you eat, eat grass or corn. Not necessarily, right? I mean, what else? All the animals I eat. I don't even like corn, though, because we've got a lot of GMO corn out here now. I heard that the only two edible foods that you don't have to kill something for is milk and honey. How about that? I bet you kill some bees in the process.

of getting honey don't you think i mean they're making the honey if you're good at it but they're making honey for a reason right i don't know why they make it i guess it is for a reason yeah so you're taking it from we should do a study maybe jbdds knows about it you don't think that's important to know like how we treat bees yeah i do that's what i'm saying let's get some studies let's do see if skin to skin matters to bees when they're going fur to fur that would hurt wing to wing does it matter

That's good. I think I mistakenly forgot what veal was. I got some comments about it. People were not happy. People went, oh, Mr. Notre Dame doesn't know what veal is. As if that's a course you take at Notre Dame. That's the first thing they teach at Notre Dame. That's right. I majored in cuts of meat. It's in the arts and letters department. Butcher Brian. That's right. Butcher Bates. Thank you, Susan Gassman. Sorry I harped on your name so much.

Next comment comes from Bren3669. I don't think the Pinocchio paradox is an actual paradox. Being wrong isn't the same as lying. Well, in this made-up scenario... I think he misunderstands the paradox, though. I don't think so. I asked the same question. Yeah, I just feel like for this made-up

pretend scenario Pinocchio did know and was lying. You can make it either way, but for the paradox to work, yeah, he would have to know that that's not true, what I just said. I want him to ask, is Geppetto a good dad? People loved your breakdown of Pinocchio. They want you to break down all the kids' stories. Yeah, we got to go through some old Disney movies and let's just dissect them together. I mean, I agree. If Pinocchio was just mistaken, then that wouldn't be a...

Paradox, right? So can we walk through it again very quickly? Pinocchio says, my nose is about to grow. Yes. My nose grows now. My nose grows now. Yeah. And in the way I took it, he's telling somebody that he knows that's not true, but he tells them that he lies to him on purpose. And then, but since he lied, that made his nose grow. But then since it grew, technically he was telling the truth. So it shouldn't have grown.

Okay. Well, you said you... No, no, no. I mean, yeah, I'm getting a little tripped up. Brand 3669. Tripped up in my own brain right there. Yeah. It's fun. It's a fun one. I just lost my train of thought. We love you, Brand 3669. Thank you, Brand 3669. Next comment. I love JBDDS. I love JBDDS. I love JBDDS. Yeah, I still like Cole Slaw. Cole Slaw? Eric Bowling. Golly. The Bowling family. What do you all do on the weekends?

Laser tag. Guy on stage wore a hat that said, God is dope at church today. Not usually a fan of hats in church, but I do in fact believe that God is dope, so it's acceptable. Some people think heroin is dope. Put that on a hat. I don't know. What is this? I guess it depends on your definition of dope that day. That is true. Yeah. Yeah, I get it.

I would never wear that hat. Yeah. Or, yeah. There's a lot I don't like about that. But people are different than me. I bet that's not a Catholic church. People are guaranteed it's not a Catholic church. Yeah. What kind of church do you think it is?

I think it's a progressive. One of those ripped jeans. Non-denomination. Yeah. Where everybody's ripped jeans. In a strip mall. Something like that. Yeah. And look, different, you know, everybody's different. This is just a personal thing. We're not mad at you. Yeah, I don't think that that person's a bad person. We are mad at the guy who wore that hat. No, I'm not even mad at him. It's just I personally wouldn't wear it. Extremely upsetting. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah.

God is dope. Yo. You know, if it were Catholic, it would have been the Virgin Mary's lit. Yeah.

Ashley Matthews. I think a hats episode could be interesting as you are all clearly hat connoisseurs. Ashley, I think we're about to prove you wrong. Let's get into it. Correct. Let's talk about hats. I noticed last week. This is bottom of the barrel, ladies and gentlemen. I'm kidding. I'm excited. I'm actually excited. Of course I am. I'm a hat guy. Yeah, of course. I noticed last week's episode.

This is very rare. Usually I'm the only one not wearing a hat. Last week, four out of the five of us were not wearing a hat. I think that's the first time it's ever been where the majority were not wearing hats. Dusty was the only one wearing it? Yeah. Wow. For whatever reason, you and Nate both weren't. Well, I got called out on this podcast for wearing a Braves jersey and a Braves hat.

During the eclipse? During the eclipse. Yeah. So I think I was leaving the house. I had a Braves pullover on. I go, what's the move here? Let me ask you this. Do you think that jinxed the Braves? That you wore both of those on the eclipse day? No. That's why they started to... There was a lot. There were bad things happening to the Braves before that happened. You mean you only have Braves hats? No, but what do I wear? A different team? And wear two teams at once? So all your hats are a team.

Most of them. Most of them are. A team or like a brand or something. Or a NASCAR. You've got to be a real company man like Brian. That's right. I would have worn that hat. Yeah. By the way, people ask where they can buy this. I don't remember who sent us this hat, to be honest with you. This is not something that Nate sells. I think a fan sent this to us. It's a nice hat, though. It is a nice hat. So people always ask, how can we buy one? I don't know. You can buy this one.

Put a price on it. Do you guys wear hats on stage? You do, Dusty. Yeah. Yeah, do you ever wear a hat on stage, Brian? One time, I did a show with Dusty at Stand Up Live in Huntsville, and I had shingles on my face. What?

gotta put some cream on it and I think Dusty took me somewhere to you know oh yeah the shingle ladies I didn't even think about that yeah yeah I think that's besides maybe the open mic occasionally it's the only time I've ever wore a hat on a real show did it hurt did it like hurt the whole show uh it didn't feel good this was a corporate gig right that we both I don't think so okay I don't think so um

I just remember saying to you, are you okay with me still going? Come on. I'm not afraid of it. Yeah.

Yeah. I've had skin stuff before. So you own a ton of hats. I do, yeah. Dusty, you own a ton of trucker hats. I'd say two tons. I was going to ask you. How many hats do you think you own? Yeah, that's what I was going to ask. Have you counted? I don't know. I did have to move some around the other day. I mean, I would say, I don't know, let's say 200 hats. Yeah. That's about where I'm at, I think. 200. And where do you keep them? Well, I moved them all to the top shelf of my closet, one that wasn't really being utilized.

And I bet, yeah, I mean, it's so many hats. I like to buy them as souvenirs if I go to a ball game or if I go to a stadium or anything. I like to get a hat. I've been with you before when you've done that. That's right. Yeah, it's just something, a fun thing to take away from it. And then that just piles up over the years, dude. And then people start giving you hats and then, you know.

I get so many hats. I just started buying them. I got a hat guy who knows how to find some old school trucker hats. But up until then, people had just been giving me hats.

I still get hats. A lot of hats. You got like an American Pickers guy going out finding your hat. Well, he, yeah, we met at a show in, um, in, uh, Missouri and, uh, Cape Girardeau. He came and hung out and then he was like, oh yeah. He's like, I sell hats. I get vintage hats and I sell them. And he sent me so many pictures of hats and I've been, this guy's really got my number. It's a nice one. He got on right now. Louisiana. Yeah. It's a good looking old vintage hat. Yeah. I'm

I'm jealous of that. I have jokes about it in my act, but it is true. My head is so big that I can't wear most hats. You wouldn't be able to wear this one. Couldn't wear that one. I'm on the last. Couldn't wear that one for sure. This is a new era 5950. I'm rocking one button, and it's not as comfortable as I'd like it to be. What does 5950 mean? 5950 is the...

5950 is a description of the shape of the hat, like the structure of it and the size. So there's like a 49 and 29. It's all just different crown sizes. And you notice the difference just visually. Where do you even see that? Is it listed on the tag? Oh, yeah, yeah. It's all on the tag. I don't think I've ever bought a fitted hat, but that's basically all you try to do, right? I don't like the way...

No, for whatever reason, I'd rather wear a snapback with one button than wear the fitted hat. I don't know. Fitted hats feel weird to me. Oh, I thought you loved fitted hats. Like I'm Fred Durst. In high school, the fitted hat was, I mean, I'm 10 years older, but when I was in high school, the fitted hat, that's what everybody wanted. I mean, that was, you get a fitted hat.

They didn't even have them back then. No, I don't think they've been invented back then. They were top hats and stuff. Have you guys ever, not for fun or ironically, you wear trucker hats, you wear baseball caps, or either for work or some other style of your life, any other type of hat? Not trying to be funny, but either you think it looks good or for your job. With my hair, if I wear a baseball cap, it really looks bad.

Why? I don't know. It just does. I need a high riding hat. This is about as small as I can go. Well, this is about the same crown size as that. It's pretty high. I like the design of this hat, but I'm not particularly fond of the shape. I got to tell you, a different hat type would just immediately change your whole outfit.

Vibe. If you had a little train conductor hat on, you'd be like, this guy... Runs a train. He conducts it.

Yeah. I'm saying the trucker hat gives shape to everything else about it. Yeah. It's the finishing piece. Where if you had any type of hat, I would go, that makes sense with the rest of them. One of those little bellhop hats. We'll put it to the test today. I got a hat I'm going to wear for, I'm going to do a short segment. Okay. Okay.

Dusty was on Pete Holmes' podcast and he kept talking about how the hat changed his life and transformed it. And Pete was laughing so hard. He was like, you're saying it's like the mask where the character totally transformed when you put the hat on. Yeah. As far as comics that wear hats, it's part of what you think of them. I think you might be the top one.

Drew Thomas, we mentioned last week or the week before. Yeah. He'll always wear his hat and then take it off and put it on the mic stand. Doesn't he have like a paper boy hat? What kind of hat? You know what I'm talking about? I don't know what that is. The extra, extra read all about it hat. You know what I'm talking about? I don't think you think about Drew Thomas, though, with a hat, though. I don't. Larry the Cable guy, I think of. Yeah. I guess I always notice Drew Thomas because he hangs it on the.

Maybe that's why I don't think of him though, because he takes it off. Well, the reason I asked about that up top is it, the conventional thinking with standup is at least I was taught early on. You're not supposed to wear a hat. Yeah. It's, it's the same things that make, uh,

I heard Seinfeld talk about this. The same things that make a politician trustworthy. Right. No beard, no hats, nothing covering up your face, hiding your facial expressions. Those are the same things you should try to do as a comedian. I think J.D. Vance is the first vice president or president to have a beard. Since Abe Lincoln. Not Abe Lincoln, but I think maybe. Maybe.

I don't know, Grover Cleveland or one of those. He seems like he has a beard, Grover Cleveland. I don't know what he looks like. Well, he was a fat guy, right? So I think you got to have a beard if you're effective. You might be thinking about Taft. No, I think he was pretty fat too. Yeah, you're probably right. Cleveland was pretty fat. Yeah, I think, I mean, Teddy Roosevelt had facial hair. So it's not since Lincoln, but it's probably been early 1900s. Oh, mustache is different. Mustache doesn't even count as facial hair. Like in the military, I think, you're not allowed to have facial hair, but you can have a mustache.

And in restaurant business, you can only have the mustache, not a beard. You know, there's some baseball teams that can't have facial hair. Yeah. The New York Yankees famously will make you shave your beard when you have to have a clean face. You can have a mustache. A couple guys on the team have mustaches, but they will make you shave the beard. And I read...

on Twitter, some baseball reporters talking about that rule alone has caused some people to be like, I don't want to go play for the Yankees. Yeah. Not because of that specific rule, but you're like, if you're going to be that particular about something as unimportant as my facial hair, I don't want to play in that kind of culture. Isn't that crazy? And then they offer so much money that you're like, all right, I'll do it. And then they go, do you want $680 million over four years? You're like, yeah, I'll shave my head. I don't care. Yeah.

Shaved my eyebrows. See, Grover Cleveland's pretty fat. Yeah. But Taft, for some reason, Taft is the only guy that gets talked about as being fat. But, I mean, let's be honest here. I mean, come on. Especially during that time. Yeah. And if your name is Grover, you got to stay in shape. This guy looks like everybody I know right now. But back then, that was big. Yeah. There's about like 100 comics I know. Yeah. That's athletic.

If he's got that top hat, that's what they wore back then. That guy's winning bare-knuckle boxing matches out here. Yeah, lived in some triangular... So you guys never wore like a beret? He had a beret phase or...

coonskin hat dusty oh as a kid for sure i wanted to be davy crockett what is the type of hat i was talking about the extra extra that's a that's a newsboys hat derby hat the irish hat the irish hat yeah yeah yeah this hat oh is that what he wears no i don't know i don't know i thought that's what he wore what is that called a newsboy hat now if you're listening this is the hat that it's also like a fedora

That's not a fedora. It's where it's got a bill like a baseball hat, but then it kind of droops over to the front of the bill, where in my opinion, it looks ridiculous. But some people can pull it off. Older people pull it off. If you are 1930s Brooklyn, you can wear that hat. Or Peaky Blinders, as you see up there. Yeah, exactly.

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Pork pie? What does that come from? I don't know. It probably was made out of some kind of pork skin. I had kind of a hat like that that I was wearing for a little while. I like that hat, but I got made fun of online one time. Just a very slight remark.

Oh, yeah. I think... That was enough to do it in for me. Wait, you wore a hat like this? I liked... I had a hat like that I was wearing for a while. Yeah, that's what I was asking you guys. When? Yeah, I forgot about it. Probably 2016 or something. I feel like there was a picture of you and Ed Wiley. Were you really? Maybe, yeah. And you look like a... Yeah, you look like a little bit like an Amish slash missionary. Well, I was just messing around with hats. I found it in a store. It was a Stetson. I found it in a store in...

Did you bore city? And I liked it. Did you ever have a phase where you wore a cowboy hat on a regular basis? No, I always wanted to. No, I don't. Are you? Cause I feel like we're both from basically the same. Yeah. Same part of Alabama. I did not have a lot of friends. Nobody wore cowboy hats. Did not have a lot of friends that were cowboy boots either. Yeah. Same thing for you. Yeah. Nah. Yeah.

Yeah, a lot of my roads were paved. Yeah, yeah. Opelika's not a real cowboy hat place. When you get out to Texas, that's where you see more of that. Yeah, Oklahoma, Texas, Mexico. Yeah, I think people fake Tennessee's like that. And I'm not saying I don't ever see it, but generally speaking. How often do you see a guy unironically wearing a cowboy hat at the grocery store?

I'm like, very, very rarely. I mean, I don't know the grocery store. I grew up in the country. There's guys I know out there who wore cowboy hats. Still do. They work on a farm. Oh, while they're working on a farm. Yeah. But they would wear their nice cowboy hat out to a restaurant. They'd take it off. I'd love to see a cowboy hat. They're dying off, right? Probably. Probably. It's a little sad. I love a cowboy hat.

Sorry. I like the idea of it. I just look... My head's so big, I look dumb. I mean, Yellowstone probably maybe has helped it, the show Yellowstone. That's probably true. I used to wear a duster, though, in school. What's a duster? It's like a long leather coat. Oh, my God. Like a Columbine looking? No, I mean... More like a... Like a hip cowboy. Yeah. Golly.

Duck Duck Go is not working today. What's it called? A duster? Yeah. I remember a duster jacket from Red Dead Redemption. Yeah. Yeah, these look sweet. Dusty wore a duster? Yeah. So you wore this with a pork pie hat? No, no, no. And bleach blonde hair? These are all maybe with the bleach blonde hair. And those glasses. Yeah, you're bringing all the styles in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, there's over 100 types of hats. Baseball cap.

Now, we had a big debate, Dusty, on this podcast before you joined us. I wore... I have a hat. It's not the one I wore, but... Okay. Let's see what he's got. Brian's pulling out a hat. Dusty, what would you call this? Well, that particular one, when I was a kid...

We would have called that in Alabama where I grew up. Maybe it was just my mom, but we would have called that a toboggan. That's what we would have called it. That's what started it. Nate said that and people lost their minds. But my wife is someone who loses her mind over that because she's from Canada and a toboggan is a sled.

And she calls it a toque. Calls it a toque. Toque. And then that, as I got older, I would have called it like a beanie. I'll call it a beanie now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was basically the three names. Or a winter hat. Most of them, yeah. Most of America, I think, calls it a beanie. People in the South, go ahead. You wear the no-sew hat. Yep. Yeah, what's the national... Ocean...

and some ocean and space yeah ocean space ocean yeah ocean space yeah yeah yeah an old episode were you on that yeah yeah yeah he was big into that but he and nate were hand in hand space is dumb and we should explore ocean oh slar some lakes and rivers stuff yeah yeah yeah yeah all right that's fine yeah somebody made that who made that for us somebody i mean by the next week yeah they had it to us so cool um

Derby hats, coonskin hat, cap, fedora. Indiana Jones wore fedora. A coonskin cap. I used to wear that. I was a real country little kid, and I used to wear that just around my dad's place. We just wanted to be Daniel Boone. Yeah, but you kind of knew it was a fun thing to wear. Yes. Yeah. Now, I don't know anyone who wears that legitimately. I bet that there are parts of Kentucky, East Tennessee...

You think there's where some guy... 30 years ago. You think? I mean, there's one guy now just drinking a bush light. The Tennessee Vols mascot is, you know, the guy who brings out the dog. He wears a coonskin hat, but he's dressed like Davy Crockett. Uh-huh.

Yeah, because it looks like such a... Because there was a movie or something, Davy, Davy Crockett. I mean, man, we love Davy. King of the Wild Frontier. We love Davy Crockett. What did he do? He wasn't the Alamo, right? I think so. He was the Alamo, but he did... I think he helped... I get him and Daniel Boone mixed up sometimes. That's where I'm confused. And I think they helped settle this part of the country. I think they helped... Well, I think he was a great hunter, but I think he also helped...

surveyors or whatever okay uh i should know all i knew was that he wore this hat and uh i like the name davy davy crockett i love that song what did he do on the show i i don't know yeah

I think he just got in. It's not even important. Wild Adventures. Yeah. I don't know anything about him, but I remember he wore that hat and I thought it was cool. I thought the hat was cool, but I was a little, little kid. Yeah. I wasn't. You were 16 or 17 when you first got wearing this? I got my driver's license picture taken in that. With a duster jacket? Yeah. In a coon skin cap. You ever had a job where you had to wear a hard hat? Nah.

not the whole time i've had jobs where you i had to wear them for some on site somewhere yeah for you're doing a particular job yeah you a hard hat guy no okay what in general like when i'm on stage i don't know people are throwing things at me you could be a hard start wearing a hard hat on stage it could be a tim allen carry your clipboard carry your jokes on a clipboard

Yeah, you're a construction... You're like Tim Allen, but you're like the... The supervisor. The supervisor. You're not actually doing... Yeah. The guy who everyone hates. You have a laptop. I was thinking a clipboard and just... You want one of those metal clipboards with other papers inside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Trucker hats. Yeah.

are sometimes known as gimme hats or feed caps because they originated in the 1970s as a promotional giveaway from U.S. feed or farming supply companies. They were given out to farmers, truck drivers, or other rural workers. Now what makes Dusty, I'm going to defer to the expert here, what makes a trucker hat

A trucker hat. I'll tell you, my instinct is when I see trucker hat or when I hear it, I think the mesh back. Yeah, see, I can only talk about what I think about them. That's all I'm asking. Yeah. I don't necessarily think it has to have the mesh because my first hat that I started wearing was from West Point Pepperell. It was a mill near where I grew up, and my uncle was a truck driver.

And it was his hat, and it had no mesh. I just think it needs to be high-riding. Yeah, that you can... Well, I hear this. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, I just think it needs to be high-riding. And that's... You want kind of a billboard face. This one's too short. This would not be a trucker hat. Okay. But you want a billboard face because you might want some jokes up there. It's some kind of functional...

benefit to that for truckers? I think for a giveaway though, I think you, you could put fun slogans on there. Oh, it's all about maximizing. I think so. Okay. But the, the, the mesh to me is more of a summer hat. That's just what you would call that. Yeah. I mean, when you're at a truck stop, there's some funny stuff on those hats. Yeah. I mean, women want me, fish fear me. That's my all time favorite. I wanted that hat so bad as a kid. Um,

I thought this is true in many religions, I guess most. Women very often have to wear a head covering, but men, generally speaking, unless God's dope, do not wear a head covering. In church, it would be the opposite. You would take your head off. Yeah, I think the Bible tells women to cover their heads when they pray and men to not cover their heads. But even in – I mean, I know it's more than just –

when they're praying but muslim tradition i mean there's a lot of head covering but it kind of depends on if you're a man or woman but in jewish you you wear a yarmulke right uh yeah vatican too it's like 60s and 70s that's where they catholic not as good as the original catholic church got rid of yeah it was a disappointing sequel some would say but i i heard like my grandmother would tell me before that if you forget like you're a little girl and you forget

your head covering to mass, the girls would just put like a Kleenex on their head or something, just some, some type of covering over it. But that, as long as I've been alive, that hasn't been a requirement. That's interesting. Do you know what the hat that the Pope wears is called? I mean, I know he wears more than one, but the little one, uh, the papal cap close. Yeah. The Zucchetto. I think that's what the Cardinals wear. Red ones and bishops were violet. Pope wears a white one.

So, do you know how hat sizes are determined if you wear a fitted hat? The size of your head. Yep, but a little bit more than that. Is it circumference? Is it radius? Circumference of a person's head about one centimeter above the ears. The amount of heat your head puts off, too. You don't want to blow a gasket up there.

Felt hats can be stretched for custom fit. Can you imagine going to Lids and you go, I'm looking for a hat. And they take out a thermometer. I'm like, see how hot that head gets, brother. The record for most hats, according to Gizbook World Records, Scott Leagrid, he inherited his father's, I may have even emailed you this, emailed his father's hat collection. He has over 115,000 hats. He has John Deere hats from every state, right?

John Deere hats. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, this is awesome. This guy's really into it. I'm into it already. Yeah, you would like those, right, Dusty? You'd wear all these hats. Those are trucker hats. Oh, my gosh. It's a real flat brand. That guy looks like every man I knew growing up. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Yeah, that's too big of a build. Yeah, I don't like that. That looks like Smalls from the Sandlot build. Yeah, this guy's got an unbelievable collection.

Now, do you like to curve the bill at all, Dusty? It just depends on the hat. Depends on the hat. Yeah, I mean, this got a little curve to it, which I don't mind. I like it to be slightly curved. I don't want it to be flat, but I'm not doing that anymore. Remember, people used to put a baseball in the bill and tie a rubber band around it. That's a bit too much. Yeah. That's a bit too much. Yeah. It could damage the bill that way, too. Do you know where the hat capital of the world is?

I'm going to say Oklahoma. Is it in America? Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Hattiesburg, Mississippi? Hattiesburg. No, I'm joking. Dansbury, Connecticut. Dansbury. Why Dansbury? They had a hat manufacturing company there. Started in 1780. By 1800, they were producing 20,000 hats. By 1859...

They had 100, not 100, 1.5 million hats annually. That's a ton of hats by 1859. But you ever heard of Mad Hatter disease? Yeah. That came from that. From top hats. Because they were using some kind of... Mercury. Yeah. They were using mercury in the felt for these hats at the factory. They were using what? Here we go. What were they? Ha ha ha ha ha!

Mercury? Okay. Mercury? Is that how you're saying it? Mercury? That one I messed up. Hang on. Mercury? How do you say it then? I'm overthinking. Mercury. Mercury. Mercury. Well, anyway...

They were using mercury on the hats. Yes. To do what? In the felt. Okay. And it was poisoning workers, and they started having slurred speech, tremors, stumbling, in extreme cases, hallucinations. They called it the Danbury shakes. The effect of mercury on the workers' health was first noted in the late 19th century. That's what I was telling you about, mind control hats.

Well, that's not quite what I just said. But, you know, you get it, though. Tell me. Well, I don't know. I watched a video on it. I forgot all the details. Well, you texted us and you said sometimes top hats were used for mind control. I know. But you remember those guys where I showed you that video of the weird things under the cave? Cryptoids? Yeah. Those same guys made a video about mind control hats. I should have had the link ready.

And that had something to do with Mad Hatters? I think so. That's what they were calling it. Wouldn't you think if you put on a hat and all of a sudden you start shaking around...

Convulsing But I think Wouldn't you take the hat off? Yeah but I don't think That's what was happening I think they were Making the hats Oh it was the guys Who were making it People at the factory Oh okay So they were around it All day By wearing the hat You contracted I think you still can though too Okay But these were factory workers I think That were getting this In fact The guy who This is interesting I'd kind of forgotten about So John Wilkes Booth Right Killed Abraham Lincoln Yeah

But then you know what happened to John Wilkes Booth? He died right after that. He got killed too, didn't he? He did. They tracked him down to a- James Earl Ray. James Earl Jones. Thanks, guys. I wouldn't even notice, to be honest. I know that the doctor who helped him got tried for treason, right?

Who helped John Wilkes Booth? Yeah. I don't know about that, but they, after he shot Lincoln and ran off, they tracked him down and I guess he held up in a barn. And one of the guys who was tracking him shot him without permission, shot and killed him instead of taking him alive. That guy had Mad Hatter's disease. Really? And they think he suffered mental illness and was thrown into an insane asylum and

because he, this Mad Hatter's disease, he was a hat maker and he had it. And they think that's why he went crazy and killed John Wilkes Booth without,

Sounds like a conspiracy to me. It does sound like one. Oh, the guy that killed the... He's crazy. So somebody assassinates the president. There's a manhunt. Yep. And they go, let's call the local hat maker to come out and help us. I guess it was just different times, right? Everybody... Maybe that was a previous life. He was a mad hatter. All hands on deck. Yeah, I guess all hands on deck. Let's go get this guy. Like in the movies when there's like a posse, a mob. It's a crazy guy who makes hats, runs out there and just blows him away.

He was considered mad as a hatter for going against orders when his unit had booths surrounded in a barn in Virginia. Wow. Sounds like he did what he was told to do. Samuel Mudd. He was forgiven for his disobedience, but left the army and went back to hat making. So I guess he joined the army. Okay.

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Tricorn was popular in Europe. The first five U.S. presidents wore them. I don't think that's accurate. I think that is a bicorn. Looks like a bicorn to me. Whoa. So I think the whole... Well, maybe it wasn't the only hat George Washington wore. Maybe he had a couple hats. He was president. Yeah, but I'm saying the one that he's famously... The one they're trying to portray here, I think this could be historically inaccurate. And I'm calling NATO as a fraud. I love it. Yeah.

I don't know. Not quite the same. The top right up there. Look at that one. This one? Yeah. From this painting? Yeah. I don't think we have any real photographs. It could be. It could be. Oh, a chef. Let me look him up on YouTube real quick. See if I can find. I do have a couple more little facts here. People used to have to wear hats on Sundays and holidays. In 1571, Queen Elizabeth I ruled that everyone had to wear a hat on those days. The rule was for anyone over the age of seven.

They had to wear a hat. Yeah. Just around in their house? I guess, or at least out in public. That's ridiculous. This will be the last one because I can tell you guys are... No, no, no. Just let's end on a good one. I was trying to be Nate. Chefs traditionally wear big white hats, which are known as toques or toques. They have 100 folds in them. The folds represent 100 different ways that you can cook an egg.

I thought that was interesting. Wow, that is interesting. Are there a hundred different ways to cook an egg? I don't know. I challenge you to name ten. Well, you can fry it, boil it, scramble it. You can... I'm done. Poach it. Okay, that's four. You can... Well, you make an omelet. You can make a quiche. Make a meringue. You can make mayonnaise. That's not preparing an egg.

That's using eggs for other stuff. Well, I think that's what we're talking here. Oh, no. Well, if it's a hundred things that have egg as an ingredient. No, but a meringue, I think, is mostly egg. And mayonnaise is mostly egg. If you're at a restaurant and they go, how would you like your eggs? Can I get it mayonnaise?

I don't know. Let's try it. I'll do bacon and can I get those eggs meringue, please? And a hat trick is when in hockey, someone has three goals. Everyone throws their hat on the ice. Have you ever done that? No, I've never done that. I didn't know that. I guess I've never seen it happen. All the mics just cut out. I don't know if it cut out for y'all. Hmm.

I can hear Dusty. Mine seems to be working just fine. Yeah. I think we got it just like we like it. Oh, it's just me? Yours is just unplugged there. Oh. Just unplugged. How we like it. Look how quickly I blame the system. Yeah. You just unplugged it. So, Dusty, I went on this, then we'll turn it over to you. You're at a Predators game. You've done the thing. Your face is red. You got them fired up. Yeah.

Guy scores three goals. You taking your hat off, throwing it on the ice? Depends on the hat. Okay. So you would do it in some cases. Yeah, if it were... If it were a Predator's hat they gave you that night. Yeah, for sure. You'll throw it on the ice. Yes, yes.

Yeah, but no, likely not. All right. Likely I might be the only guy in the audience with this hat on. I'd be like, I'm not throwing this hat. And they're like, well, it's just an old Buick hat. And I'm like, this is my favorite hat. I looked up at what they do with them because there's sometimes hundreds of hats. Sometimes they just throw them away. Sometimes they donate them to some charity that can repurpose them. Basically throwing them away. And then sometimes they give at least some of them to...

To the guy who had the hat trick. Oh, okay. Which I don't know what he's going to do with 100 hats, but... I think they let whoever's cleaning up the arena that night. Have them? They go, you take these off our hands. Yeah, do whatever you want to do with them. Some 19-year-old kid puts 500 hats in the back of his truck. Maybe. That's what I think. Maybe. But I mean, most hats, you wouldn't wear one of your hats on the rink. It depends. I don't care enough about the Predators to do that, but if it were the team that I was super into...

I think you go there hoping that you are faced with this dilemma. What team are you super into? Notre Dame, the Braves, something like that. Probably those two. Notre Dame scores a touchdown. You just see your hat on the ground. We do marshmallows. You ever see that? Yeah, we talked about that a little bit. They did it. The senior day was this past weekend. Notre Dame's on a roll. Marshmallow. We are, man. Number six. Play what? Army this week? Army. It's actually a big game. Army is as good as they've been since...

World War II. Yeah. So it's pretty crazy. They could beat us. What about this? All right. Okay. If you're listening, just be glad. Okay. Here we go. All right. I don't have my headphones on, so I can't hear you. But this is, we're doing hats. Look at Brian. Brian's got a hat. I've got a hat. That fits you, actually. That looks good on you. It doesn't physically fit, but it looks good on you. It does not.

But this is... This is my segment here.

Dusty's top five country songs. Okay. Okay. About hats. Well, this is going to be my top five country songs about hats. Okay? Okay. And if you want to follow along, I got the playlist on Spotify. It's called Dusty Slay's top five country songs about hats. All right. I'm excited. All right. So what we're going to do, I'm going to read a couple that didn't make the list.

And then I'll do the list. Honorable mentions. We have Under This Old Hat. Can I say how impressive this is? I could not think of any song about a hat. Yeah. And you're like, let's make a list. And let's include some honorable mentions too. I got it. Under This Old Hat by Chris LeDoux. Great song. Chris LeDoux is a great cowboy country singer. All Hat, No Cattle by Gene Watson. That's a great hat.

Okay, so here we go. We're going to get into the list. I have one more honorable mention, but I'll do it in the honorable mention spot. Okay. Number five of top five country songs about hats. Don't Touch My Hat by Lyle Lovett.

He doesn't even wear a hat. And this song... This would be if you go make up a country song about hats. Don't touch my hat. And this song, he's like, you can have my girl, but don't touch my hat. This guy's like, I've had a lot of girlfriends, but I've been through a lot with this hat. All right. Number four. Top five country songs about hats. Cowboy Hat in Dallas by the Charlie Daniels Band. I want to hear this song. That's a really good one. Number three.

Top five country songs about hats. Number three, My Girl Don't Like My Cowboy Hat by Hank Williams Jr. That's not real. This is a great song because he's talking about he's dating a woman and she doesn't like his hat. And he's like, he's got some great lines in it. And then eventually breaks up with her, finds a girl that wears a cowboy hat. Whoa. Same hat as him. Same kind of hat. Maybe not the same hat. True love.

is that what you want though has some great lines in it you want a woman wearing the same hat as you uh Hank Williams Jr. also has a song called I like to have women I've never had so you know he's got a lot of conflictions going on okay here we go number two this is a new song to me but number two on the list of top five country songs about hats is Last Cowboy Hat in California by Robert Henry and the Repeaters it's a

It's a great, very jamming country song. This is new. I'd say it's pretty new. He's talking about how, you know, California, there just ain't no cowboy hats left anymore. Yeah. And, you know, it says they're all gone. The repeater is what they do, just say whatever he says. I think so. I think so. I forgot you were wearing that. That's a good look for you. I agree. I'm not going to lie to you. It should go down farther on his head. It should, but it looks good, though. No, no, it looks good like that. Yeah.

Yeah, I think so, too. It's a cowboy hat that sits like a yarmulke. I'm going to start wearing this on stage. Honorable mention. Another honorable mention. Here we go. My dog took my hat. Before we get to number one, this is called Girl in a Cowboy Hat by Brett Kissel. I know that one. I'd never heard of Brett Kissel before. I just found this song. I think it's a great song. Yeah, that is a good song. All right. Number one. This song. Number one.

Not only is it number one on this list, but it's very high on my list of all-time country songs. Oh, this is so exciting. Such a great song. Here we go. Number one of top five country songs about hats, This Cowboy's Hat by Chris LeDoux. Okay. Great song. This song is all about a hat. A lot of these songs reference hats, but this song is about his hat. Wow. And it's a great song, kind of a talk country song.

Cowboys versus bikers. Recently, they just made a video for it. Chris Ledoux has passed, but his son made the video. Really good. So that's out there now. He's on this list a couple times, huh? He is, Chris Ledoux. He's got a real theme going. Also, a couple others. Cowboy Hat by John Party is in there. I'm not a big fan of it. Under this old hat, a bit different than under this old hat.

Sawyer Brown. Have you heard I Wear My Cowboy Hat Sideways by Post Malone? No. That's not real. I wish it was. And then there was an alternative song I found called Cowboy Hat by a band called That Dog with a period. I don't mind the song. It's not country, but I don't mind it. So that's it. Top five country songs about hats. I appreciate it. What do you guys think about that list? That was fun. I wish I had known

Any of them. I didn't know any of them, so I couldn't really comment on them. What's so funny, Aaron? You look funny in the hat, man. I think it is a good look for you. You look like you're out of a Western. I don't know why everybody's laughing.

If you're listening, you look good. You do look good. It matches your sweater. Yep. You look good too, Dustin. Thank you. I bought this vest in Atlanta one time. I never really have a time to wear it. You never have time to wear it. A time. That's the problem. A time. Oh, yeah. Well, today's the time. Yeah. Ashley Matthews, you were wrong. No, I'm joking. No, I had a good time. Yeah. I had a good time. This was fun. Most famous hat of all time? It's got to be Abe Lincoln's, right?

Oh, that's a good question. Yeah. Is a veil... Would you consider a veil a hat? Like a bridal veil? Yeah. No. Okay. Because Long Black Veil is a very famous country song. Okay. And I would think that would be a good one. And then Merle Haggard has a song called Red Bandana. A bandana, sometimes a hat. It could be a hat. Sometimes a hat, sometimes a mask. It could be a washcloth. Sometimes a neckerchief. And then... So...

All right. That was fun. Yeah, I think we're good. That feels like a great episode. I think we did it. We did it. Should we talk about where we're at this week? Yes, we should. Yeah, we should. Oh, November 27th. I guess that's a week from today. Thanksgiving Eve, I'm doing my next Brian Bates and Friends here at the lab at Zaney's. Look, you're already going to be sick of your family. Bring them out to Zaney's.

It'll be a clean show, so you don't have to worry about grandma being offended. Bring your family. Come on out. Lab of Zany's, November 27th. December 13th, I'm in Fort...

I'm in Fort Worth, Texas. I always wear this cowboy hat because I love Texas. I'm going to be at Hyena's Comedy Club in Fort Worth on December 13th. Just one show. It's in the Red Room. Some people have messaged me. It's like, I can't find it listed. It's in the Red Room. But just go to my website. It's the best way to do it, to buy tickets. What's the website? BrianBeatsComedy.com.

And come see me. I really want to sell off these two shows. Yeah, you can do it. Labazanis in the Red Room at Hyena's in Fort Worth on December 13th. Come on out for those shows. I'll wear my cowboy hat. Awesome. That's a good hat. You're not going to wear that, are you? No. Then it's stretched.

Aaron Weber here. Let me tell you, this weekend, Sunday, November 24th, I'm going to be in St. Louis, Missouri at the St. Louis Helium. I got two shows that are both almost sold out. They were sold out, and then we moved it, and then people said nope. But we're almost sold out. There are still a few tickets available each show. There's a 4 p.m. and I think a 7 p.m. If you're in the St. Louis area,

I got a couple buddies from Nashville coming out with me. It's going to be a fun, fun day. So coming out to St. Louis, Helium Comedy Club. Okay. All right. This weekend, Friday night, I'm going to be in Des Moines, Iowa at a theater. I don't know what theater it is, but I'll be there.

Oh, the Hoyt Sherman Place. It's an awesome theater. Pumped to be going there. Show's almost sold out, so get some tickets. And then on Saturday, I'm going to be at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. Boom. And that show is basically sold out, but there's some tickets. Limited tickets. So they're both pretty close to being sold out. Those are going to be really great shows.

So check those out. And then on Tuesday, I'll be at Zany's, Dusty Slay's grand old comedy show here at Zany's in Nashville. So that is November 26th, the day before your show? Yep.

So come to my show and then come to Brian's. This is awesome, Dusty. I'm looking at the seat map. There's like no tickets. Yeah, it's going to be hot. There's just like single seats. Well, that's what happens with theaters, I've found, is that you get to a place where there's only single seats left and then nobody wants those because people are not trying to sit alone.

But come to it alone. This is not the kind of show where I'll make fun of you for showing up by yourself. Doing the stuff alone is so much fun. Yeah, go alone. Then you can eat all the popcorn. You can do whatever you want. You can laugh at whatever jokes you want, and it doesn't matter. And Nate will be back next week. Nate will be back. It's going to be great. It's a great episode. We've got a hot cast, hot show.

uh crew of people that run this podcast and what's nice is it's interchangeable people can come and go and the podcast remains the same yeah that's what's amazing about it we appreciate you guys uh but what is a constant throughout this podcast at least has been from day one is the beautiful people of genovations yeah who produce one of the main compliments we get is not for the humor but for the production quality of this podcast and uh i just want to have a big shout out tristan it's

It's birthday today. All right. Happy birthday. How about that? Tristan keeps the ship running. Put the agent curse on him. Happy birthday to you. No, no, no. No curses. No curses.

But thank you, Tristan, for everything. Tristan's the man behind the scenes keeping everything going. And check out our other podcast, The Consumers, every Tuesday. Don't make me come back there every Thursday. Nightland is rocking and rolling. Nate will be back next week. We love you all. None of this is lost on us. Have a great week. Have a happy February 28th. Chattanooga. Yeah. Go to Dusty Special. Come see me in St. Louis. Come see Brian here in Nashville and in Texas. We love you all. God bless.

Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the Audioboom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nateland Podcast.

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