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Hello, folks. Let's go, folks. We don't know. We had to pre-record this one, so we don't know. It could be over, it could not be over. Podcast could be done. I mean, everybody's dead. I feel like even when this podcast ends, you'll still be pushing for it. Still up here, just alone. And one day when all of it goes away, I'm alone in a nursing home. Going, let's go, folks. Hello, folks. I'm saying it backwards. Just trying to get them to go.

Welcome to Dateland. I'm Nate Bargetti, Aaron Weber, Brian Bates. We're here as always, living it up, living the dream. We, yeah, I don't know. We had to pre-record this one, so...

I don't know what people do. People say that on other places. I don't know. Other podcasts, they say... I feel like I've heard people do that before. Yeah. Or they just act professional and just do it. I would kind of like not knowing. You would like not knowing? No, no. I would like knowing. I would feel weird if they would just pretend that... Well, I've done that where I've done stuff. But you're like pre-taped something for...

You're like, we're going to air this. You can do an interview sometimes. When the specials come in, you'll be like, all right, I got to pre-tape all this. We'll be like, all right, Saturday morning here. I'm like, hey, it's crazy Saturday. We just did one with my...

It's funny, they overly try to make it be, wow, how's your morning going? You're like, man, it is going just, you know, golly, the sun was out. No, it's just pouring Saturday because you don't know. Oh, I got up early this morning, went fishing with my uncle. I haven't seen him in 25 years. And we decided to go fishing this morning and it's...

Just act like it's all... That's what you should do every... If you do any prerecorded, you start it going like, all right, what day is it? Just make sure they tell you. This is going to come out on Thursday, February 19th. And you go, oh, great. And then you just start...

Happy Valentine's Day. Yeah, we still haven't celebrated yet. We usually do it on February 21, so we're pretty excited. That's in a couple of days now. This being February 19th, five days after Valentine's Day. Just overly stick with it. Yeah, I like that.

All right. Today's... Y'all bailed on me quick. I was thinking about there was an old TV show. I can't remember the name of it. I think Corbin Bernson was on it where he was a sports anchor. And he had to go live from some guy's retirement party, some former athlete. But he had another conflict that he didn't want to miss. So he recorded himself ahead of time. And they said, we can just put that over the backdrop of this retirement party. So you can go to your event. So he does it. But the guy has a heart attack.

at the event yeah so the guys just passed out with paramedics and he's like oh we're here with bob smith you know what a great day for him you know that's funny yeah it was very funny what show was it it was some short-lived show like corbin bernson i think was the main guy yeah he was a sports anchor i don't think the show lasted very long but i remember that scene yeah

Wow. It's going to happen one of these days with Brian. Yeah. I mean, we're here with Brian breakfast baits. Yeah. I'm going to be able to floor. He's not there. Yeah. He died two weeks ago. What's up everybody. Hello. Like, and then he's, and then everybody's like, is he alive? Yeah. And I don't miss the one time. I don't mention that it's prerecorded. Brian goes down. And then no one thought to catch it. No one thought to catch it. Well,

What's up, everybody? Everybody's super healthy. And whatever he dies of, we really made fun of that day or something. Like his hair loss. That's the reason it got here, his hair. Brian's got some new moles in this week. Looking a little weird over here. Mole alert, baby, baby. He zooms in and out. And then, I mean, we're just, it's sad. People are just...

That is, you know. Mole alert. We have a mole alert, but if I had a computer, I would hit mole alert. Like a morning radio DJ? Yeah. Like, just really get into it. There's nothing funnier than morning radio when they hit those sounds. That's very funny. That's very, yeah, yeah. Just the timing of it, it's good, man. That's one of the jokes that's like,

A super old joke, but it never gets old. Still very funny. Yeah. Just when they do stuff like that. Funny sounds. I wonder if you look up if there's just when we started these comments, you can look up and see if there's like a funny sound or like if ever been played inappropriately or like at the wrong time or, you know, maybe funniest radio sound. I don't know. I don't know. Something.

Hammer home the example. I feel like there's an example of how you said you'll say something ironically and then it becomes the norm. I almost feel like that's what those are. They're cheesy, but they're so fun now because they're dumb. We should get a soundboard. Oh, you can have one here. Yeah, we got our own little soundboard here. Oh, no.

This is the worst. This is one of these websites that you just open up and you're like, this is attacking my computer so bad. Yeah, it was my computer. So be careful. Keep going. Chase Miska. I think we can all agree, no matter what you choose to go with, whether it be hello folks or let's go folks, Nate is still going to open up.

Nate is still going to open up most of the episodes with what's up, everybody. That's very funny. That should be the first. About 50% of the time. What's up, everybody? It flows a lot better. What's up, everybody? Hello, folks. Yeah, that's very funny. Corin McKenzie. I love that Nate struggles a bit with reading, remembering things, and math stuff, et cetera, is officially on his Wikipedia. Is it? We've got your Wikipedia pulled up here. Yeah.

Right there at the bottom. At the bottom. His most recent stand-up special, The Greatest Edgerang was released on Netflix and then his film that was Universe Studio Hollywood. And also Nate struggles a bit with reading, remembering things and math stuff, etc. I took a towel. Yeah, let's check the source on that. What's the source? What is the source? It is a link to the podcast. Link to the podcast. It's you saying I took a test for dyslexia, passed with flying colors. That's perfect. That's great.

That's funny. Yeah. A little alarming. We can just have your Wikipedia page edited like this, but I'm all for it because I don't have one. Well, yeah. I mean, I think I just, people are talking about some Wikipedia as being like, everybody says it's not the greatest source of news. What? But I mean, right now it's killing it. It's named all my stuff. Pretty accurate so far. For the neighbor gets the news. It's the most reliable source. Yeah. That's funny.

Daniel Rucker. I believe I know Daniel Rucker. I know I know. Nate, in episode 52, about 20 minutes in, you're talking about nitty gritty. But you said nit and gritty. The definition of nitty is an infestation of nits. So you were fine with what you said. It makes sense. If you're looking at it, if you're looking at nitty, it's the small, tiny, little nits you're examining of an issue. If you're looking at the gritty...

You're looking at all the small pieces of gravel and dirt in a problem. So knit and gritty has the same ingredients as nitty gritty. Also, the writer who took issue with that phrase called it a cliche, but I think nitty gritty is actually an idiom. Idiom? Why didn't you say it? He also did a hand gesture. An idiom. An idiom. He said idiom. I was thinking idiot. Idiom.

Maybe people should just laugh at the jokes. Yeah. Good point. That's what you were thinking when you said that, weren't you? What? The jokes? Yeah. Of Daniel Rooker's... Yeah. His defense of nit and gritty. Yes. You agree with it? Yes. You do not agree with it. I had a little trouble following it, to be honest with you. Yeah. Yeah.

Because Daniel's smarter than you. That's probably true. No, I know he is. 100%. I've known Daniel Ruckers since seventh grade. Oh, really? Yeah. He moved his whole family. He's got a lot of brothers and sisters. And they moved down the street from us, the Ruckers. When I felt... In my special, I think I talked about falling down the cliff, right? So when my buddies ran up to go get help, the first house they went to was Daniel's Ruckers house. And they knocked on his door. But they were just moving...

into that house. I don't think they were there. They were there like the next day or something. So no one was home. And then they had to go to another part. So Jerry Rucker almost killed me, basically, is what I'm getting at. It's a great start. The Rucker family refused to help me survive. No. But we used to... I won... I did somewhat good in school until seventh grade. I won the science award in seventh grade. Whoa. Yeah, my name's... I would love... If someone's listening at DuPont Hadley in Old Hickory,

They put our names on a plaque in the office. I don't believe this. They did. I don't know if it's still there. They had it. DuPont Hadley Science Award. What was the award? My science project. I mean, your project, yeah. It was something with magnets because my dad had a bunch of magnets. And so we did magnets. And I remember...

I think we were supposed to go, which could be funny. I think we were, I was supposed to go compete in the, cause I won that in like the city regional, regional one or something. And, uh,

I remember we couldn't go. So I don't think my family believed in... They thought he's good enough for DuPont, Hadley, but he's not good enough for... He's going to get destroyed. And I might have even sent my project just on its own and maybe it got beat or something. I don't know. But I was like... I crushed it as being smart. And then Daniel Rucker came to school and won every single award. Bigger magnets. I mean...

Yeah, Daniel won. It was very funny. The year before, I won that science award. I always had perfect attendance. And then the next year, I just got perfect attendance award. And then Daniel. I mean, the whole, you know, because they're giving these awards out. The whole time, they were just like, Daniel Rucker was basically just like, hey, just stay up here. And he's the smartest person I've ever known. What's he doing now?

What is he doing now? I've seen him. Maybe lawyer or something. I don't know. It's always something super smart that I don't know. Does he live here? No, they live in Michigan. I'll see him when I come to Michigan. Do you know where he went to college?

No, I don't remember. Notre Dame? No. He could have. He could have went anywhere. I think he got – I'm going to be making Daniels sing. I think he got almost a perfect score on the ACT. Wow. And the reason he did it is because he ended up missing a line from what I remember. You know, like sometimes you answer a question to 20, but you fill it in 19. So he accidentally does that on the last like –

20 questions and still almost got a perfect score. So probably would have got a perfect score if he didn't do that. So maybe that's qualified for Notre Dame. Maybe they, if you can't, if you, if you do stuff like that, they don't want you.

If you mess up the last 20 questions. You get them correctly, but then you... You're off of it. Which for me, my ACT, I didn't just fill most of it out. The difference. So Daniel Rucker, the reason I can't read and stuff is because Daniel Rucker came to my life and took all my glory. And then he's off living it up. Smartest person ever. Daniel Rucker.

So y'all, he's smarter than all y'all listening. I get real defensive with my friends. Let me tell you, every one of y'all listening right now, Daniel Rooker's smart in every single one of you. He's the kind of guy that if you met now and he tried something like this, you'd be like, oh, that dude's the worst. I'm not hanging out with a guy like that. Yeah, well, if someone, I don't know, if they're defending me, I'm on board with it. That's a good point. Yeah, idioms and cliches.

Daniel's just correct and smarter. No, I know he is. I'm saying if Aaron threw out idioms and cliches, it wouldn't go over well. An idiom? Yeah, an idiom. You're an idiom. Yeah, don't be an idiom. Don't be an idiot. David Theobald.

So I'm at a family reunion talking to one of my wife's cousins. I mentioned a podcast to listen to where a guy had squirrels attack his fuel lines on his car. He immediately goes, Oh, you listen, Nate land. Thanks for being a great talking points, connect family members. Even though we live far apart, we're connected not just by being family, but also folks. Also thanks for the laughs, break lines for inspiring our family conversation on squirrels. That's,

I almost like our podcast being described as that. I listen to podcasts where one of the guys had squirrels attack his fuel lines on his car. That almost is like the perfect where you go, you know, you're like, is it about cars? Like, no, no. Is it about squirrels? Fuel lines? It's not about it. It's about none of that. That's just one of the things that happens. We're out here bringing people together, man. Bringing people together. It's kind of beautiful. That's what we're about.

Thomas Bukart. Burkhart. Sorry. Nate, I love this special. I've been a fan since Y'all Don't Buy a Clown. I am from Tennessee, but I've been stationed around the world for the last 17 years with the Air Force, and your comedy makes me feel like I'm back home. I am not a sneakerhead, but I love a great-looking shoe, and my wife would say I buy too many. I have to know a pair of Nikes you had on in this special, and if your wife has a coupon, love the podcast. Give Aaron and Brisket my best. They're Air Max.

I usually wear Air Maxes. I don't know where we got them. So there's your answer. My wife still has a coupon, though. You know what? I've thought about it, but I didn't think I'd get ridiculed. I would put what I wore on everything. I get asked a lot about the shoes, about it could be shoes, watch, jacket, everything. There's a guy asking about my shoes I wore in Tennessee Kid.

And I keep telling them, these are just the kind of Nike Air Maxes. That's all they are. And you could design them exactly like that. They're not custom-made Bargetti 7s or anything? No, no, no. They're just off the rack? I got some that I'm wearing on this tour that we designed. But anybody can design Air Maxes. It's not like I'm going to a guy. Someone can design them. But I've had a stylist. A stylist dresses me for that. Amber.

She does a lot. She does Dan and Shay. She does Shay, our boy Shay. But she dresses like a crazy person. But he's a rock star. Yeah. And that's what they... He's from Arkansas, so he's never seen nice clothes. And so when he goes to a store, he's like... So sweet. Yeah, so sweet. Sweet. That's how his dad would call him in the store to let him know. Did we talk about it? Did we make fun of that? Yeah, he did. My buddy...

Ryan Malone, he is dead, but when we'd be at Walmart, when it's time to leave, he'd just whistle real loud. That's how we would know it's time to go. Really? Like, we're talking about whistling, like he'd just whistle, he'd be like, we go into Walmart and he had to go get stuff, so we were allowed to go run and

go look at toys or whatever. And when we heard a whistle throughout the whole store, we knew it was time to go. Wow. And that's how we would run. That's a loud whistle for a whole Walmart to hear it. Yeah. Man. Yeah. Look at you. Yeah. Would you wear that bomber jacket? Probably not far off. It's not far. I could, that's not too bad. It's a little flashy. I think for what I do for standup,

You know, that's, that, that's the only issue, you know, picking what you wear for standup. It's kind of a, it's a, cause you got, you want to look good, but you don't want to be, it doesn't need to be too much. I mean, it depends on your act, uh, what your act is. If your act fits, uh, it could fit something. I've got like what I'm wearing on this tour, like, uh, what I want to wear on this tour. This was the first kind of tour I'm doing where I've like actually got a few different outfits.

and it's, you know, I don't know. It's kind of fun. It's fun to do. And, uh, I don't know. You can mix it up. I mean, I, before this, I mean, you're trying to, I'm trying not to just, I'm like, what's the least I like zipped up jacket sometimes. Uh, and then, uh, so I'm just, sometimes you're trying to find the least amount of stuff I got to bring, but it's like, you would just wear your show stuff. So you look nice on stage and you know,

And people ask, so it's working. So they ask about your beard, haircut. You got your beard cut. Yeah. You let it go. Do you still go back to them? I've been back a few times. I had to get a haircut in Albany this weekend. So I broke the streak there. You traveled to a different town. Yeah. Why'd you do that?

I didn't travel there for the haircut, but I was there. Yeah. And you felt like you desperately needed it? Well, I wasn't going to have a chance between now and when I'm in L.A. this week. I see. Oh, yeah. So you took your chances. I took my chances. Yeah, your big debut of the Just for Laughs. Mm-hmm.

We got to hope this doesn't pre-air before the announcement. But at your big day, you get a Supercuts haircut. Does it look like Supercuts? You have a hat on, so I don't know. Oh, well. There's a reason I have a hat on. No, I can't remember the name of the place. I just, man, typed it men's haircut. Yeah. But will you wear a hat on stage? I don't know. Because you usually do, don't you? Yeah. But for like a big, I don't know. I'll figure it out. Yeah.

Sometimes I think it casts a little shadow in my eyes, dude. That's why I don't. Yeah. Someone said that once where they said, I thought you don't wear a hat on stage, but I could post the Instagram story. But I was doing soundcheck. I wear it on soundcheck.

We don't wear it, so pop it in at Zany's doing a spot sometimes. Maybe sometimes, but not a ton of times. I don't. I usually... I try not to, just because it does that. It hides your eyes. I tell a lot of jokes with my eyes, but I think you're more of a physical guy. So...

That is the most hats. Every picture is a hat. I wear hats a lot. I don't wear them on... You can't find one where I'm on stage. There it is. That's not on stage. That's doing it. Oh, that's not like a panel? It's a live podcast or something. Okay. You can't find one on stage.

My beard was big there. All right. Besides that one right there. That was outside. That was outside. Outside doesn't count. Outside in Austin. In Austin. Doesn't count. Doesn't count. That's the same show. Same picture outside. That's a panel. All right. Hey, fair enough, dude. Super consistent. I wear it outside and in interviews. Yeah. Can't find one.

Can't find one. Yeah, hat's an interview thing for you. Hat's an interview thing. Outside, there's an excuse. Right. If there's a practical reason for it. I can think of one picture where I have a hat on stage. And there's an actual reason for that. Where on the back of my album, I'm on stage indoors with a hat on. Be yelled by a clown. Yeah. But it's because I had LASIK, which I talked about.

In a special on the back of this album, I'm wearing a hat and I go down right there, right there. So that's on the back of the album. I think that picture. Yeah. And I'm almost positive. Is it that one?

Maybe there's a multiple. Maybe I, you know what? I'll be honest with you. Maybe I do wear a hat. It fades a lot. No, I don't remember. That's the picture on the back of the album. But the one I have, the back of the album, I have to, I was wearing a hat because I had LASIK. And the lights were, I mean, I just had LASIK. And so the lights were killing my eyes. On this one, it's like you're trying to get it in here. That looks, yeah, that was early. That was like, you know, some early headshots. So, long time ago. That's the thing.

You got one with the iron you're pressing on your shirt, right? Yeah, that was a good one. Yeah. Yeah, it was a good Giannis and Jesse. All right. So, Austin Fitzsimmons, I feel like you guys should start doing the Sonic commercials. I'd love that. Oh, yeah. The ones that sit in the car? Yeah. Where are you at?

Oh, I'd love it too. I mean, those two. In the back. You'd have to be in the back somewhere. Oh, you mean where I'm literally at in the car? I think where I'm at on this. I'm like, I'm on board. Yeah. Obviously, Aaron gets to sit up front. Would I be sitting? And you got to sit behind me. Aaron, I mean, that's what I want to do. You got a seat as far. The whole commercial is just you going, just go back any farther. You're just asking if you're trying to move this seat back farther. And you got to lean it all the way back.

And you order on your own window. You reach under the Sonic thing and I just hear you ordering. You order a side meal that you don't let any of us know you're getting. You just quietly press the button and we just hear you. Man, you know what would go great right now? We think the microphone's off. You know what would be awesome right now? An extra cheeseburger with tomatoes. Yeah.

And we're like, I guess, yeah, that'd be cool. And then she comes to the empty spot and tosses you. And you just, boom. Didn't even know what happened. I love it. When you go through a drive-thru, when you're driving a car and you go through a drive-thru, do you order out of the back window? Never. No. I mean, when you're driving. When I'm driving? Yeah. And you lean back far enough that you're in the back window and you roll down the back window. And when they pull up, they're confused. Yeah.

You're all the way back in the back, like Shaq, just in the back. They expect the front to roll up and they just feel that back and they're like, oh, who's driving? I'm driving. I think Shaq would have to do it. He has to do that. He'd almost have to, yeah. He has to sit, yeah. Shane Etheridge. I'm wondering if there are any jokes any of you guys have regretted doing after the fact because it doesn't fit who you are now.

This podcast. Real-time regret. Live regret in the moment. I've had some stuff. I've had some jokes where I was, I think, like me. I have some...

I think I've had some jokes, some dark jokes. Like, uh, I forget one's on like laugh factory and I regret doing it. I don't even want to say, uh, it's a great joke. It's not a bad joke to be honest, but it's mean. And I actually had someone, uh, they emailed me a lady and, uh, I was like, yeah, yeah, sorry. Like I, I was like, I don't have control over that video. The video's up.

But I was like, but I don't do that joke, obviously. It was just kind of a very mean-spirited joke. So I don't like that one. But just because it's, you know. And then it was like personal. So then I responded to her. She was very nice. Was it your wife? Yeah. Yeah. Did your wife email each other? Yeah. That's so funny to think about. Just in the same house. You text a lot sometimes. Do you do that? Text is fine. Yeah, but like to send a dear name. Dear name.

Is the stove on? No subject? I don't know. Do you have any? I mean, I've always been clean, but I definitely, when I first started trying to get laughs, I would innuendo stuff that was bad and I wouldn't do now. Yeah.

I think just for me, it's like just the quality of the comedy. There's just some terrible jokes. Not long ago. Still have some I'm trying to get rid of. I think everybody knows which ones. I think everybody listens to the album. No, yeah, there is definitely some old jokes here. Yeah, I mean, I used to do real dumb ones.

Nate, I noticed that you tend to start your sets with some variation of, all right, this is it. We're doing it. Is that kind of like the comedy version of your pre-shot waggle and golf? Kind of, yeah. It was kind of started with just letting the audience hear my voice. So it was when I would go on stage and, you know, you're in front of people that don't know you and I've got to get them into my rhythm.

I found it being very, the quickest way for me to do it without wasting a joke was to go, all right, this is it. All right, we're doing it. It's happening. And I still do it now. Some of it's just to get it started, you know, and it's, it just, you can hear me. I talk my rhythm here, just that little sentence. And then I can start my first joke and out in that first joke will work. Otherwise, sometimes your first joke doesn't really work because they're kind of like, what?

People are kind of confused by something, your voice or something. Did you say his name? Matt Crone. Matt Croney. Or crony. Depends if the E is silent or not. I bet it's crone. Yeah. And I bet a lot of people go, Matt Croney. And he goes, here. Yeah. Michael Marks.

I just want to say thank you to Nate for his comments before the 1970s episode regarding drinking. The way he put it as it was just wasting too much time really hit home with me. I am 32 years old with two young kids. I definitely don't have a drinking problem, but I really wanted to cut down. Hearing Nate and then reading Alan Carsey's way has changed things for me. I just completed my first week completely free of alcohol, and I absolutely love it.

Waking up with energy is amazing. My wife laughed at me yesterday and said, all it took for you to stop drinking was this comedian who you think is God, apparently. Love you guys and the podcast. Again, wait to see Nate in Saginaw in November. Hopefully I'll be several months alcohol-free then. And then we can, you know what, Michael? Maybe we can

Go booze it up right after that show. Me and Michael both get off the wagon right after we see each other in November and just get, wow. That's great, buddy. It's a great thing. It's a great thing. I promise everybody. The older you get and 32 and all, that's a great time to, and if you're younger, look, if you don't have a problem, go have fun, man.

But most of the time when people don't, it's like you don't have, not everybody's drinking problems are the same. They're not all hiding. I've seen people. I remember, I think I talked about it at the time I worked at the water company. I don't think so. When I first worked there a long time ago, this guy I knew was an alcoholic. First time I really saw it up close. And he would drink during the day. He'd come to work drunk, like, I mean, 6 a.m. So you're like, oh, he didn't sleep.

And he's just been drinking and he's, there was times he'd show up there and you're like, you shouldn't have drove dude. Like you should have called me. And like, I don't know how you came to work. Uh, we were in a trailer park once. I think I talked about dusty cause he was in trailer park reading water meters and he was drunk and he got real mad at me and threw a shoe at me in the trailer park. Like we just looked like we belong there and we're like reading the water meters. Um,

And I remember him and seeing that. And so there's that. And so people think, I don't have a drinking problem. But that's what they think it is. They think drinking is just like this, oh, you got to be, I need to be drinking during the day. And I need to be, you know, all this kind of stuff. But sometimes it's not that. It's just like you're around alcohol too much and you're drinking just enough to waste a lot of time and waste that next day. And so that's a great way to,

Michael, just stick with it. There'll be times you'll think, you know, you definitely miss it, but you only miss that first drink as a great soda, is what he told me.

Soda, see his drink. You only want the first drink. You only want the drink when everybody goes, all right, cheers, everybody. That's the only one you want. That's interesting. Once you get past that, you don't want anything else. Everything else is a nightmare. Yeah. Everything else after that gets a- But the one drink does lead to the other. But the one drink leads to the others, yes. But there's nothing better than the first drink to go like, all right, everybody, everybody get a drink. Hold up your drink. Everybody wants to- Here's to a great night. Here's to a great night. That's-

all of the drinking builds up to that moment. And then once it goes, it gets on past that. You're like it, then, then you just misery. Are you a toast guy? Nate? Do you ever give toast? No, I'm not a big fan of them. Uh,

i've never liked them really yeah you don't like the camaraderie of uh i again in the let's go way of things it's gotten you know we're toast isn't let's yeah it is all right everybody let's go i know but it feels like we're at applebee's and it's uh all right everybody huh guys great podcast today like it's you're going like all right dude we're just eating let's just eat like

I mean, it's every single, you can't even sit down with everybody. You know, you're like, what's it been? Last Wednesday we got together. Let's one more time. And you're like, Oh, and you're like, Oh, I guess. Okay. Yeah. Glad we're together. And you got to take a drink. I got to hit the table and do like, like I'm an Irish fiddler on the roof. Just like, yeah, I think it's too much.

Too many toast. Too many toast. It got out of control. Cheersing. Yeah. It got out of control. Cheers. Cheers, everybody. Cheers. Cheers. And you're like, look, I don't mind cheersing after something. There's the time for it. Yeah, there's got to be a reason. There's got to be a reason. You got to be doing something. It kind of slipped into, you know, it's free wings at Fridays. And they're like, huh? Every Friday we meet here.

Tony Florio, a good friend of mine, told me that he and his brother worked out a deal where they got to work out for free in exchange for cleaning the gym a couple times a week.

When I asked how often they worked out, he said they never did once. This went on for at least six months. I still laugh and I think about these guys just showing up a couple times a week at this gym, cleaning it and then leaving. That's very funny. Because it sounds like a great deal. You're like, oh yeah, dude, we will work out. But then you would get to a point where you go, dude, I'm there already twice a week. I don't want to go to my place of work. And you're like, but your work is what's...

is how you're getting there. It's hilarious to think even while they're there, they don't just work out. Like, it seemed like while they were cleaning, they would either work out before or after or something. But even then, it's just get in and get out. And just to, I mean, that guy who gave him that deal, that's so good. Six months, you got your gym cleaned.

And then you're like, do the guys work out? You're like, I don't think so. I only see them when they come into work. That's very funny. How long does it take to clean a gym? I mean, we start depending on the... Well, think of the planet fitness that you quit. It's a pretty big... I know. That's twice a week you go in there? That's not... It should be more. Maybe this is a small gym. I'm sure it's a small gym if they work out a deal. Like, it's like a guy's... Probably a smaller but more expensive gym.

It would have to be for this to be a good deal. Yeah. I'm trying to think of Planet Fitness said you could come in and clean this Planet Fitness twice a month. Yeah. Or twice a week. Twice a week. Or $10 a month. Which one do you want to do? Or $10 a month. Yeah. Yeah.

This feels like they were young when they did it. Like, you know what I mean? Like I would imagine if they're not, that's even better. Yeah. If they end up being like, no, they were in their thirties. I would love that. But this feels like they're 16, 17. Yeah. And they, you know, then they go there and,

You know, they probably don't really have a job. And so like, it was nice to go do something. Yeah. But it's funny that they, that guy got free. Nate, the worst word I butchered. Chris Radcliffe. Oh, Chris Radcliffe. Nate, the worst word I butchered while reading out loud was horse devours. Hors d'oeuvres. Hors d'oeuvres. Yeah. He, I pronounce it as hours devours. Hours.

And probably got ridiculed by my friends. I'm curious how you're pronouncing it right now. I said horse divorce. A horse divorce. A horse divorce. It's been happening a lot around here. Horse divorces.

What if you get a lawyer? That looks like a business card should be that. What do you do? I do horse divorces. And then he goes, oh. Specialize. You specialize in horse divorces? Do they get divorced a lot? More than you think. Imagine what do you think it is? And you go, I think it's zero. And he goes, it's every one of them. There's not one horse that I've met.

That stays with his running mate. They're all so unhappy. They're all so unhappy. And I deal with horse divorces. I got more than I want. And then someone comes over and gives him some caviar and he goes, Oh, thank you. Cause that's what they'd be serving at a horse divorce party. Upscale. Upscale. Upscale hours devours.

You know, if you don't say, what is it? Hors d'oeuvres. Hors d'oeuvres. How did they get to that? I don't know. Do you think anybody says that word correctly the first time they see it? There's not a chance. Yeah. And even if you know it, you don't see that in your head when you say hors d'oeuvres. Yeah. You know, nobody does. Horse. You about to say, Brian? I was going to say, I can see how he would, hours devours.

I could kind of see that leap. Horse divorce is a little more of a leap, but... Horse divorce. I guess duvres. I could have said horse duvres. Excuse me, would you like any horse duvres, please? Oh, okay.

I will. You know what? I don't mind if I do. I'm picturing you as a waiter at a fancy event, walking around with some pigs in a blanket. Can I tempt you with some horse divorees? Divorees? What's that? Horse divorees. This is horse? No, no, no. It's pigs in a blanket. What's the matter? You don't need any cutlery for this. What's the matter? You don't need any...

Cut Larry. Cut Larry. You don't need Cut Larry for this. This is horse divorce. What do we got going here? This is a civilist station. Just add every, you can almost make that a whole sentence. Yeah. Horse divorce. Cut Larry. Validity. What was it you said? Yeah. Validitimity. Validitimity. Yeah.

What's that? What's the Mary Poppins song? I knew I was saying it wrong. That one I knew. I was like, for some reason the right words weren't coming. And then I thought, well, let's just see what words. Let's get to the docious part at the end. Yeah. Yeah.

Horse divorce. Just seeing a horse in court. Just sits there, both. I don't even want to look at it. Every judge. Why is the long face? All right. He goes, he loves it every time. He goes, all right. All right. I always start like that. What's the problem? Uh, and...

She doesn't want to be near me anymore. A lot of jokes like that. That's where the lawyers have a good time. It's a good, it's a fun place to be. At a horse divorce. To go in there. Horse divorce court. Horse divorce court. And to go in there and they bring in the little... The ponies. The ponies. And they're just sitting there.

And they're branding them. Get back. And you got, golly. One shows up with a bunch of brands all over him. And you're like, oh boy, this one's trouble. Look at all the brands he's got. He's got a bunch. He's all branded up. Alan Meeks. Brian, thanks for keeping the dress code business casual.

Nate and Aaron look as though they have games to coach after the show. Love the show and hilarious banter. Thank you, Alan. That sounds like a guy that would be on board with your dressing. Alan Meeks. Alan Meeks, I'm here at the Earth. That's what they say. Yeah. We dress. I do dress like we dress. I dress like someone who plays golf. You got to.

A t-shirt on today. I dress business casual. Today's not the day to... How you let Alan Meeks down. I'll tell you that. Alan Meeks finally gets... His comment gets read. He goes, ah, and he looks over breakfast across the breakfast table and sees this.

What is this from? Why are we doing this? Yeah. Why are you dressed like this? This is to honor the 1990s, today's subject. All right. So I'm 90 years up. I got my Tennessee Oilers mug here. Which is from what year? 1997? 1997. That was the first year Tennessee had a football team. Yeah. Played Memphis. Graduated high school. I did. You graduated high school in 97? Yeah. We both graduated high school in the 90s. Yeah.

Both went to college in the 90s. So I'm almost exactly 20 years older than you. And I remember just a few things about the 70s. Do you remember anything specific about the 90s? Not about what was happening in the world. I remember stuff in my life from the 90s. You don't remember any events or anything? I was born in 91. That's when you graduated high school? 90, actually. Yeah.

I was in college in 91. Yeah. I remember the home run race of 98. I remember watching that. Okay. That's good. Do you remember Jordan playing for the Bulls? I remember watching Kobe play against Michael Jordan in the All-Star game when Kobe was a rookie. And I remember knowing who Michael Jordan was, but not being old enough to be aware of

The significance of all that. So does Michael Jordan, Kobe meant more to you than Michael Jordan? I saw more. I saw his whole career. Yeah. And I caught the tail end of Michael Jordan. Yeah. And he's, I know him from Space Jam mostly, just in my childhood. Yeah. You know?

uh it's interesting uh i always say like i was never the big kobe fan jordan fan but i felt like i always if you were probably our age like we just got done with michael jordan and then kobe was the same thing and you're like well i can't watch this guy yeah but like there's people that like it's funny like you are like people younger than you like kobe's everything yeah

And then there's people that LeBron's everything. They don't even remember Kobe or Jordan. And so everybody has their thing. But I feel like you always miss. I kind of came back on LeBron because I just my age. Like it was like I saw Jordan. And then when Kobe came, I was kind of like, all right, I'm kind of.

not paying attention to it like I was about Jordan. So I didn't really pay attention to Kobe too much. I mean, I remember Kobe and Shaq playing and all that. And then I kind of came back to LeBron. I was like ready for like that again where I'm like, all right, I'm ready to devote my time to like a guy. It's like you just like you skip.

I remember when Kobe and Kevin Garnett came in the league. I think they came in the same year, and they both came straight from high school. Moses Malone was the only one before that. Yeah, the last guy, but that was before even my time. So I was just like, there's no way these guys – Really? Yeah. I don't even think it was allowed for a long time. That was just the norm is so many kids are coming out of high school. It was a big deal. Was Kevin Garnett first? I thought they came out the same year.

uh, Moses Malone was the first one and then it didn't happen again. I mean, look up like there might've been like some, yeah, it might've been Kevin Garnett was the first, uh, I don't think it was allowed for a long time. Yeah. I think there was either age or you had to go to college, but I just remember thinking these guys are Kevin Garnett, 95.

Yeah, the move was highly controversial. The conventional wisdom at the time was that high schoolers were neither emotionally nor physically mature enough for the rigors of the NBA game. But Garnett was selected with the number five pick in the first round by the Timberwolves. So that's crazy because I remember when they went back to you have to play one year in college.

And Kobe was the next year. And Kobe was the next year. Kobe and Jermaine O'Neal. Yeah. And then Jermaine O'Neal had a good career. Then after that, it just kind of started. And it was like Tracy McGrady. Yeah. Then Al Harrington, Rashard Lewis. All those guys are big names. Darius Miles. I mean, I think they were all big names, but they all did kind of big stuff, uh,

And then it gets to where it started getting back to, I think, the bad way where it was like guys were doing it and you're like, they're not even making it. And then you're like, they're throwing their whole careers away. Yep.

Was it Kwame Brown that Michael Jordan drafted? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know, I just, uh, who, oh, no, he went to Ohio State. The guy, Greg Oden. I saw him in Vegas. Oh, you did? Yeah. I've seen him twice. Like, uh, I forget somewhere else too. Like, out and about. Like, uh. He looked, I, he looked 48 when he was in college. He looked like a biblical character. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he's, uh, I mean, he just made a ton of money and just got hurt. He'd feel terrible, but he made a ton of money, dude. Like, uh.

So he went one, right? And Durant went two? Yeah. Yeah. I just never – I just got played. And just, I mean, just – yeah. You know, just a college kid. Yeah. Just a young man. Yeah, in college. He looks older in college than he does in the NBA. That M. Night Shyamalan movie. A lot of athletes, sometimes you see them and they –

He played in the big three too. But a lot of athletes, you see them and then they, like they, you're like, John Rahm is 26 years old as a golfer. And I thought he doesn't look, you're like, God, they get so young. Yeah. Like, you know,

Yeah. He just, yeah, tested positive for COVID again in the Olympics. Did he really? Yeah. I saw DeChambeau. That happened to him. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. He missed. They pulled him from that one tournament. I saw that. He goes and wins the US Open, then goes to the Olympics, tests positive again. Yeah. And you're like, I don't even know at this point.

You're like, COVID might just be a Jon Rahm problem. It's a no one else problem. Jon Rahm needs to wear a mask at all times. This dude just gets COVID constantly. Give us a day he doesn't have it. So I got a Nashville Cats hat. Do you remember the Nashville Cats? Yep. We went to their championship game. I went to it. They lost. They ring a football team.

Oh, awesome. And this was our first, besides the Nashville Sounds, like our first professional. I mean, I think we'd had some minor league hockey, but this was such a big deal for football. And I remember Corey Fleming played for them. Yeah. He was a local guy that played at Tennessee and went pro. Andy Kelly was the quarterback who was a quarterback at Tennessee. So it was a big deal. Yeah. And their games were so much fun. They played at Bridgestone Arena, what's now Bridgestone Arena. What was it then?

I think it was just called The Arena. I don't think it had a name. I literally think it was just called The Venue. Where are you guys going? The place downtown? The place to be. The place to be.

So did you have an NFL team that you cared about here before the Oilers moved, or were you just big Cats fans? I was a Washington football team fan. Really? Yeah, and I never said the Redskins. You called them that always. I knew. I felt it as I played with a Donaldson Warrior on the side of my helmet as a junior. I played for the Warriors, so I liked the Redskins because my helmet, my helmet,

or two I played football was the... We had red skin colors and all that stuff. So, like, in our helmets were, like, warriors. With that logo? Kind of that logo. So, it was like... Someone's going to find a photo of you and you get canceled. Oh, yeah. It was more cartoony looking. Yeah. It makes it worse. It was a little... No. No, we were the Donaldson Warriors. I might have...

I'll see if I have it. I probably have a jacket. But because of that, we watched... There's your zone. We were the Seminole midgets. Good night. I mean... You cancel each other out with political greatness. I mean, mine's not that bad. I mean, you know.

We were the Seminoles, but that was the name of our division. Did y'all come out with a gong getting banged? I mean, good night. What's happening? What are y'all? I don't know. Just anything that could be just remotely not appropriate. Y'all just...

You know, the whole crowd is like doing that. Like, oh, tone it down a little bit. Everybody feels the heat. You're wearing face paint. And y'all played the Bears. That was the Prattville Bears right there. Oh, you about to put a move on that guy. I'm about to break that kid's ankles. Over pursuing there. What did he do? Is this the last time you ran? That successfully, yes. Yeah. For sure.

That's awesome. Did you get by this guy? Oh, 100%. 100%. I ran for 3,000 yards last season. Do you remember this at all? I vaguely remember playing on that team. I was seven in those pictures. So this was 99. So I was seven about to turn eight. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Wow. Good times. Those are my 90s memories. Yeah. All right. Mm-hmm. So- 99? Yeah. Golly. I was-

I mean, close to starting college. Well, I started in 2003. I moved to Chicago in 2002. That was well into my career in 1999. How do you feel about the Guardians, by the way?

You like that name? No. You don't like it? No. I watched PTI and they talked about it. They had the Spiders. They had another team called the Spiders. Yeah. It was like an old baseball team. So I was like, why would you not just take that? You're like, Spiders is actually a pretty cool name. But I was thinking about it. I could see they could say the Spiders and we'd be like, well, that's stupid. You're probably going to get everything. But Guardians doesn't.

If you don't know, the Cleveland Indians changed their name officially to the Cleveland Guardians starting next season. Yeah. And their logo is like a baseball. This might be coming out. It might be in the middle of next season baseball. Yeah? Do you think it'll be on the shelf that long? We might hold it. Michael Marks is back to drinking by the time this comes out. Michael Marks. He needed that comment for inspiration. Yeah, he needed that comment to keep going. Yeah.

Me and Michael are both. We've already done the show. I got Michael to start back. I think every new name seems weird. You're like, that's so dumb. And then after a while, just get used to it. Guardians does feel... I don't think I like it because it's like...

is you're stopping the Indian thing because you're trying to, it's like, all right, you're being, you're trying to be nice and polite. So then Guardians feels like you're trying to be like, so now we're the Guardians. Like it's kind of, you're like, all right, dude, just be the dinosaurs. Yeah, be an animal. Like no one cares. Just go be, you know, the T-Rexes, the Cleveland...

caterpillars nobody that's not bad that's not bad yeah i love an alliteration i'm a sucker cleveland caterpillars the caterpillars well the spiders like that was made sense if it's like connected me the cleveland spiders do you know how the national predators got their name sounds like a from your dad's story

From your Predators joke? My dad's a Predator. My mom's a Predator. My uncle's a big old Predator. I don't realize how Southern I am until someone does my jokes. My dad's a Predator. My... It's his hands. It's his hands on the back of his... On the back of his like this. My dad's a Predator. My mom's a Predator. Oh, man.

Oh, folks. That's how we be primed on television. We don't like mutants. We don't like mutants. And that's all just his whole show is his hands resting on the back of his hips. Always a very uncomfortable position. Why?

I don't know if you ever see people stand like that. It's what old people do. It's like Forrest Gump stood like this. Yeah, he did. And then it's always, yeah, it's like, it's a very uncomfortable, you're like, does your wrist not hurt? Like, and people are just like, no, this is how I wait for the bus. And you're like, oh, well, maybe, is it? What does Brian, does he have a headset mic or does he just have the mic in front of him with the stand? He leaves it out there and he touches the top and he goes, hello, folks. And I'm like, here.

Because he can't move it down. My dad's a predator. That's a good guess. Yeah. Where did it come from? They found a saber-toothed tiger underneath downtown Nashville when they were doing some construction work. Really? Part of a... Just anywhere downtown Nashville. It was... Well, I got specifically here. Um...

It was during 1971 during construction of the first American national building. Now the UBS tower, it's partial skeleton of a saber tooth tiger. So they held a contest to see that people pick what it should be called and

75 names. They got it down to the final three, the Ice Tigers, Fury, and the Attack. But then the owner of the Predators said, it's my team, so I can choose what we call it. So he said the Predators, and they became the Predators. I like this guy. He just totally ignored the polls and did what he wanted. Let's go, folks. I think this guy gets it. You know what? Turns out it's my podcast and my team, and I can do whatever I want. What were the other names?

The final three were the Attack, the Fury, and the Ice Tigers. The Fury? F-U-R-Y. And the Ice Tigers? Ice Tigers is terrible. I was about to say, I like that one. You like that one? Ice Tigers? It's different. The National Ice Tigers? It's different. I don't like the name being a concept.

Like heat or fury or wild. Sounds. I need some sounds. Yeah, I don't like that either. You don't like the sounds? Give me something concrete. Oh, I like the sounds. I'm open to throw out the first pitch September 7th. Nashville sounds if you're listening. I still support them. I'm just saying. The sounds are great.

I love the sounds name. Sounds. I just feel like we lean into the music thing quite a bit. That had to have been weird, though. Well, that's kind of our thing. Yeah. What else do you want it to be?

I mean, the Predators. The Ice Tigers. The Meat and Threes. Is that what you want? Dude, that would be awesome. Nashville Meat and Threes. Imagine the concession stands at the Nashville Meat and Threes. What's the construction look like? We're doing bigger seats for sure. We know our audiences.

We can't be squeezing everybody in. It had the room to hold 2,000, but we did 800 comfortably. I imagine every seat is like those desks where the little thing flips out right in front of you. You just got a full meet and greet. All ramps. No steps. No steps. They got just...

Still out of breath. Yeah. Seventh inning stretch is like, it's just. Yeah, like you actually need to. Yeah, it's like a real, like people like get up and. I've mentioned a lot of rascals just running around the ballpark. It sounds awesome. You know, I'd go. I'll throw out the first pitch. Yeah. National meeting threes. National meeting threes. You're just sitting down from a rascal scooter. Yeah. Yeah.

They pull you up in the back of a truck. They just backed it, drive over the mound and you don't even get out of your chair and you just throw the first pitch and then they just drive you off and then you go out and then they unload you from the truck.

They should have a team that's for the larger folk. Yeah. They're just big. Nobody's doing the wave at that one. No one's doing the Nashville Big Bones. That would be a good name. The Big Bones? The Big Bones. Alabama Big Bones. The Huskies. That's what the Huskies is. Oh, yeah. Nebraska. Nebraska.

No, corn. Washington. Washington Huskies. Corn Huskers. Corn Huskers. Yeah, yeah. Washington Huskies. Yeah. Now, that's like the wolf, right? I know, but it's also Huskies. Kind of big. They're big over there is what basically they...

We got Husky Pants. What if they should let other states pick the team name? Mm-hmm. To be like, what do you... They go, what do you think of? Mm-hmm. You know. So what's Kentucky's? Let's say we get to name Kentucky's team. It'd be, yeah. We have Caves. Caves. Kentucky Caves. Kentucky Bat Caves. Bat Caves. They have the Louisville Bats already. Yeah. So...

It's not far off. So they kind of nailed it because they named themselves what other people would name them. Yeah. So we're just sounds. So that works out. I get, yeah. Reds. I like Cincinnati Reds. Cincinnati Reds is nice. They were the red stockings, I think. Yep. Reds is good. But you don't think of red when you think of Cincinnati. Yeah.

That's true. Well, that was so long ago. So we got a Cincinnati Reds jersey right there. So it agrees. Autograph. I bet when the Nashville sounds first, that's such a weird name that it was probably hard to get on board with. It probably sounded weird. Yeah. Yeah. Cats is good. Nashville Cats is good. With a K. Yeah. The K is funny. Apparently that came from a song. There's a song called the Nashville Cats. Oh.

I looked that up. You, when you walk in somewhere, they look at you like a merch, like you're just a merch. I mean, you just, you, wherever you go, you just buy Planet Hollywood, Nashville. Yeah. Do you remember when the one down there, I went to the grand opening, all the celebrities came into town and we were a media sponsor. So I got to be down there with them and Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger,

Vanessa Williams. Their movie had just come out that weekend, The Eraser. Yeah. And they were in town promoting it. Bruce Willis sang on lower Broadway. Yeah. It was pretty awesome. Yeah. Yeah. What is Planet Hollywood?

you don't know what it is you know what is it like the wax museum no no just a theme a hollywood themed restaurant oh it's like hard rock cafe okay but like but instead of music it's just movies yeah they never really took off and i uh they still have one in opry mills uh no i don't think hollywood i don't think so but it was like a fun it was like hard rock everything they kind of put on they put them everywhere they went after it dude i mean they went everywhere

And all these celebrities were part owners. Yeah. But then it just kind of... I think there might be some left. They closed... They won a national close in 2001. So it was a pretty short ride, dude. It was open in June 96. Yeah. Yeah, had financial problems. Couldn't hack it, dude. It was, you know... Tough to make it in this city. Yeah, the thing was, like...

It was like, it's fun. You're like, yeah, that's cool. Yeah. And then you go to it once and then you're like, I don't need to ever go again. Yeah. I don't know how the Hard Rock Cafe still stays open in Nashville. And that place has been there forever. Yeah. I feel like when my whole life. On Broadway down there? Yeah. Since the 90s. Yeah. And maybe because of our music. So it kind of works out that it's like, I mean, it is prime location. Yeah. Yeah. It might be the best location of any place.

Yeah. Right there on the corner. You see the river. I forget it's even there. It's just like, you never hear about it. Well, kind of because there's a parking lot in front of it, which is crazy. Yeah. And there's usually not that. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. That's crazy.

I don't know how local we need to get on this. Well, just my attire. I think I'm done. These socks came from... No. What do you think of when you think of the 90s? I mean, surely you remember... Saved by the Bell. Yeah. 90s. That show? Yeah, I remember. That show or like that aesthetic? That show. Okay. We used to watch the show. I think it was airing live then. Would it come out on Saturdays? So I remember Saved by the Bell, Dawson's Creek.

TV shows a lot. I remember the Titans coming here and going to a game and they played the Redskins at Vanderbilt. Were you... I mean, high school. So you said you were a Redskins fan. When did you get on board? Did it take you a while to get on board with Nashville's team? No, I remember... So, our buddy Ryan Malone is a Steelers fan still. And I remember he was like... It was like kind of a debate. Do you trade your... Do you go for your home...

or do you stick with your, your true thing? You know, like that you kind of grew up a fan and, uh, and I, but I, I was like, I was pretty like, I was like, you can't not cheer for me. It's hard for your home. Uh, he's still a Steelers fan though, but he was a diehard Steelers fan. And then, uh, and he was a Steelers fan because of Andy, because their colors were similar as far as like black and yellow. And it's like, all right, I'll just be a Steelers fan. So he's a big Steelers fan. Uh,

You had to pick teams. I know. It's so funny. That's why you choose a team as a kid, and then it just lasts into adulthood. Yeah. Because you like the colors when you were a kid. I totally get that. Oh, I mean, so many people do that. I mean, you've got so many Cowboy fans, or it's all this random stuff. Some of these games people could see. So, yeah. So, I remember. But then I became a Titans fan, and now we're all Titans fans.

Do you remember OJ and all that stuff? So I remember, I do remember OJ. I don't remember it as much as everybody does. Yeah. I always like think about that because I wish I did. Like, you know, I remember it all happening. I remember it doing, but I just don't think I was, was it 95?

Yeah, the crime happened in 94 and his trial was 95. Allegedly. Yeah, allegedly. Sorry. Yeah. Well, the crime definitely happened. Yeah, we don't know when it happened for sure. Yeah, a crime happens. Okay. Allegedly it happened in 95. Allegedly a crime happened. I remember, like, but, you know, I was like, so 94, 95, I had to be 15, 14, 15. You know, you're just not. Yeah. You don't have the.

What is it? The where-a-thaw? Yeah. The bandwidth. Is that it? The bandwidth? I think where-with-all is where-with-all. Where-with-all works. I said where-a-thaw. Yeah. Well, it depends on how you finish the sentence. I said where-a-thaw. The where-a-thaw? Where-a-thaw. I wasn't really where-a-thaws back then, so I couldn't. I don't know. I wear some thaws from time to time. Where we, what is it? Where-a-thaw. Where-a-thaw. Where-a-thaw. What does that even mean? I don't know. Yeah.

yeah but i think with all like the mental fortitude i think you're using it correctly the capacity i don't think i had the wherewithal to think this is this i remember it being on my parents watching it but like you're yeah the presence of mind the presence of mind you you gotta realize you have no you're not on the internet you're not on all this stuff you're not checking blah blah all this thing so you're just kind of like you go outside you're just like you live in just your town and you're and

nothing's around and you just are like i live i'm playing my buddies well also did you care who oj simpson was at that age probably not right i mean because he was way before your time brian you grew up watching yeah i remember when he uh usc i remember the hertz commercials where he ran through the airport yeah yeah oj's sneaky like played old like

Like an old time player. Like you think OJ, because he's been so famous just with everything. Yeah. That you don't realize like he played, did he play in the 60s? 60s, yeah. In college, yeah. In college. Like that's crazy. And you're like, oh dude, that's old. He played with like the one bar on the helmet. Yeah. Like it looks so old when you watch the clips. I remember him from the Naked Gun movies. I love those movies. He was in those. He was great in them. Naked.

I think we all say naked. Yeah. That's very Southern. Yeah. You say naked? Naked gun. Naked is how regular city folk. I'd probably say naked. You'd probably say naked. Naked gun movies. I'd probably split the difference. Where are we going? Naked gun movies? We're going to go over to a movie theater and watch naked gun movies. Go, what's that? What are you doing, boy? Hmm.

I was trying to say earlier Tennessee Oilers. Oilers. And Laura couldn't figure out what I was trying. I have a hard time with that word. I say oil. I don't do it. I can't say oil is one of my words I can't say on stage. And I had a joke about that. Not that. I changed it. I forget what the word. But I couldn't say oil. I'd say motor oil. Just so if I go, I could go change to oil. People are like.

They don't know. They go, what? You got to say petroleum just to avoid saying it. Yeah, I would. Petroleum would be – Fuel? Fuel. Petrol. I remember I was still in college when the chase happened, OJ Chase happened. That was just such a crazy story. But to your point, if you don't have CNN or something –

You know, you're not going to see it just around the clock. You would see it like on the news. Yeah, like on the news or just on TV. It's going on. Bigger than like the Casey Anthony trial was.

I think so. Yeah, probably. Yeah, because it was the only thing. I'm trying to think of another trial that kind of dominated the news headlines for a while. I mean, they call it the trial of the century. They also call that Scope's monkey trial. I was going to say, you can't just keep throwing that around. But the trial went on forever. I mean, everyone who testified became a celebrity. Right. Kato Kaling. Still are. They're making TV shows about it still right now. Greta Van Susteren. That's how she became first well-known, I think. It was from that. Yeah.

You know who that is? I know Greta Van Susteren from Fox News. Yeah. But Casey Anthony was huge. What was she doing during? I think she was giving legal analysis then. Oh. Yeah. Patricia Clark. Compare it. Who would have to do that now for it to be as big of a story?

Like, if you could give a modern comparison to somebody who's not only famous and successful and was good at what they did, but also beloved in the way. Peyton Manning, you think, is... Career-wise, got to be done. Got to be somewhat out of the limelight. OJ had been done longer. Yeah. That's a pretty good one. But Peyton's beloved by people. Yeah.

It would definitely shock us if Peyton murdered his wife. Yeah. Well, yeah. Was it Nicole, his wife? Were they married? Yeah. They were still married. Oh, they're still married? Oh, maybe they were divorced. I don't know. Yeah. Estranged? Yeah. Allegedly. So maybe Peyton has done this and we just don't know yet.

It would be amazing if a story comes out by the time this airs and it's all they're talking about. And Brian's dead and so is Peyton Manning's wife. And you're like, God, dude, these guys. We might go to the top, Aaron, of number one podcast. I was trying to think of someone like Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley would almost be funny. Yeah. But someone who's been out for a while but we still well know. Yeah, Shaq or somebody? Yeah.

yeah i feel charles barkley is so everything he does i think he's so funny that it would have a totally different tone do you know what i mean yeah i think it might change pretty quickly if he murdered two people yeah oj was a naked gun and those were pretty funny that's a good point that's a good point he goes all the way down the stands and his body flips off the california angels game yeah that's the top of the world yeah you're making great points i retract it

But I bet your mom was all about the OJ trial. Oh, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, like, yeah, the big trials now, I'm trying to think of the last big, was it Casey Anthony? Man, I guess so. I mean. Other than, like, the way more, like, the George Zimmerman and that kind of stuff. Derek Chauvin. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But it didn't, like, even those, it's, yeah. Yeah.

There's something different about, like, that's, like, some of those are, like, the times we're in and blah, blah, blah, that kind of stuff. I understand that. And there's a difference between, like, this kind of, like, it's like, there's a soap opera-y feel to this kind of. There were so many. I mean, it's brutal because it's a child, but it's, like, it kind of does have it where it's got, you know, there's all these, you just, the news are just all over it. Yeah. Yeah.

There were so many crazy stories, soap opera involving athletes, not even sports related. OJ, if you count that, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. That was just another, that dominated the news cycle. That was right before the Olympics. Yeah. I remember that. When was that? 96? I think it was 94. 94. I remember that.

And those Olympic women's figure skating, which is always very well watched anyway, was just one of the most watched events ever, I think. Yeah, because Nancy Kerrigan was huge. Did Tanya Harding end up competing that same year in the Olympics? So she was being accused of this and then ended up and went out there and competed? She did it, and then I think she stopped. She had issues with her laces and started crying. Yeah. And Nancy Kerrigan did not.

She was hurt, right? Completely out of the Olympics? I don't even remember. I feel like she competed. I thought she had a rehab and then she came back the next time and almost won. I can't remember the time between the Olympics. It's so crazy, dude. When it first happened, I think I do remember it being like,

Nancy, like, first they're like, who did this? We didn't know. And then it was just like, oh, it's the other skater. And that's like a, I mean, they made a movie out of it. They did. I talked about it in the special. And she really didn't know anything, though, did she? Tonya Harding? Yeah, I thought her husband did it, got Jeff Gillooly to do it without her blessing.

I don't know. I think you're being pretty generous there with the facts, Brian. Yeah. I'm a big Tony Harding fan. Just like what she represents. So there's that. There's Mike Tyson biting Evander Holyfield's ear. Oh, that was... Oh, man. Yeah. So I remember that. 90s were great. Yeah. They were...

I remember when that happened. Was I watching that? I was. Yeah, I think I remember. I don't know where I was. It was a rematch, and Holyfield had beaten him the first time. He's on his way down. Tyson, this was the end. He was getting near there, yeah. He was so invincible. February 9th, you start the decade, he loses the biggest upset in boxing history to Buster Douglas. Then he came back, and then, yeah, then Holyfield, he fought Holyfield twice, and

Second time he bit his ear off. Not off, but partially off. Partially off. Yeah. Crazy. He was losing when this happened? Yeah. Yeah, and he accused Holyfield of headbutting him. Yeah. It's kind of hard to accuse somebody of headbutting after you bite their ear. That's why he did it? Yeah, he was getting frustrated saying he was headbutting him. So he just lashed out in anger. Yeah. I just watched a documentary on Tyson that was very good, and they said he was the most recognizable person on the planet at his height.

At his height? Yeah, like... Oh. Yeah. That's standard. Among 5'10 males. The height of his career. Yeah, I can see that. And now he's got the tattoo all over his face. Mm-hmm. So it's hard for him to blend in. Very, very famous. Yeah. Yeah.

He's up there with the queen. And there's not many kind of villains. I mean, he went to jail for sexually assaulting a woman. Yeah. He abused his wife. He bites a guy's ears off. And now he's still so beloved in this next chapter of his life. It's pretty crazy. Everybody looks past a lot. Everybody looks past a lot. He's almost like the reverse OJ. Well, yeah. Maybe if you just don't murder someone, people can deal with quite a bit. Yeah. Yeah.

There's a line and it gets drawn. Yeah. And it's the death of another person. Don't brutally murder two people. That's all we're asking. Yeah. Do you remember when Monica Seles got stabbed? No. Who's that? Tennis player. She's the number one tennis player in the world and she got stabbed on court. On TV. During a game? During a match? Yeah. There was a Seinfeld where she comes back and Kramer's the ball boy. Yeah. Gets her hurt. First match back. Yeah.

Yeah, a fan of Steffi Graf ran out there and stabbed her in the back. Yeah. Why? Because she was the number one player and he was a fan of Steffi Graf. I mean, he's obviously crazy. Yeah. Yeah, he's not a – They didn't do an interview with him afterwards. Talk about it. Well, you know, I've been debating it for a while. How crazy is that? That happened. Can you imagine that happening?

Can you imagine? Seeing that now, like just like the most famous tennis player gets stabbed. I mean, the announcers of that, wasn't it on TV? Yeah.

Or maybe it was. I just remember seeing the highlights. I don't remember if it was live or not. It was the French Open, right? They quickly do the highlights of it. And right here, this match got called. Stemnograph gets stabbed in the back. I think I only remember. Vanessa Williams. She closes her match out. And you're like, what's that? No, go back to the stabbing. She's on the, what is it? The DL? What is it? The injury reserve. She's on the IR. Okay.

Got stabbed. Oh, God. At her house? No, no. On the court. Oh, yeah. We have footage. During the match. We have footage. We'll go to it later. Brian's always watching the highlights, huh? He's eating cereal. She got...

what's going on in there stevie graph got stabbed yeah no they breezed over pretty quick i guess it wasn't that big of a deal yeah i now that you make that point i only remember seeing monica sell us that shot of her on the ground with them treated maybe they purposely didn't show the stabbing or maybe as a kid i just didn't see it that is crazy i i that i missed that one

They haven't done a 30 for 30 about that one, I guess, yet. Because I haven't heard of it. She was so young. She was 16 when she won the French Open, I think. Yeah. Did this end her career? No. She came back, but she was never the same. I mean, that's – yeah. I mean, she's still younger than I am now. Yeah.

She's 43, yeah. Yeah, so she got stabbed in 93, and then she came back and started playing professionally in 95. You're possibly, Bates, older than the knife that was used. I'd say so, yeah. There's a great chance that is Brian older than the knife. I was 22 years old when that happened, so probably so, yeah. Yeah. Oh, man.

Do you remember Monica Lewinsky and all that? Yeah. Yeah, I remember all that happening. But I mean, like this is, in my 90s, I'm just... Living life, man. Well, I'm a teenager, basically. So you're paying attention to the news as much as a teenager is.

By not really, like, you know, by it's happening, my parents are talking about it. Right. But I'm not. Especially something like that. They're not going to be talking about that around the kids. I started at my TV station the day after the Oklahoma City bombing. Oh, wow. That's what got you into the news? I just remember being so nervous. And now I'm like, I got to learn everything about this bombing. So when I show up for work, you know.

I'll be up to speed on it. Yeah. Do they ask you stuff? Well, no. Ask if you did it. Where were you yesterday? There you go. That's the first thing. It's pretty convenient. Wow. Perfectly times out that the drive from Oklahoma City is about...

The start of your shift. We told you to be here at 8 a.m. and doing the math. Well, I did have to be at work the day after the Olympic bombings. Yeah. And I went to the Olympics. Yeah. In Atlanta in 96. And I was there for like two days. And then I drove home that night because I had to be at work the next morning. And when I woke up the next morning, it was on the news about the bombing that had happened later that night. Oh, wow.

So on paper, it looked like you bombed it and then he fainted. I could have been a suspect in that. And then headed back to Nashville. Yeah. Yeah. I was almost the Richard Jewell of that situation. He just got away. That was the 90s too, right? God, there's been a lot going. A lot happened. Yeah. A lot of stuff movies are made about. Yeah. The 70s and 80s stunk.

They were 90s is where it's at. That's where stuff started to happen. Yeah. Look, I threw out some pretty morbid stuff in the 70s. It got shut down. But now that we remember it, it's all fun and games. Yeah, that's right.

I mean, Princess Di-Di. There we go. Keep it coming. Yeah, we've talked about that a little bit. I was in Memphis to see the Tennessee Oilers. Yeah. And you're scooting by with your bag like Newman and Seinfeld when he goes to the Super Bowl. And he goes, excuse me? He's going, what is he having? You have all your stuff, your mug and your just bag. Giant popcorn. Yeah.

Spent $120 in the gift shop. So we'll talk about, I mean, Columbine also happened. That's pretty bad. John Bonnet Ramsey. Whisper that in there, man. John Bonnet Ramsey. John Bonnet Ramsey. I remember that.

But that didn't die. When was that? Early 90s? I thought that was like the 40s. Yeah. That was 96. Didn't a famous kid go missing in like the 40s? Yeah, they're talking about that. The Lindbergh baby. Yeah, the Lindbergh. Okay, my bad. Yeah, probably the same thing. So the World Wide Web, first one online in 1993. Yeah.

Because I said World Wide Web? Just funny the way you said it. Yeah. The internet started. Do you think that when they started the World Wide Web, they thought, they go, I bet people say World Wide Web. And they don't think WWW. I remember people calling it a lot the information superhighway. Yeah. People called that unironically? Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. Back in my day. 93, it goes on. Woof.

In 96, Hotmail launched first web-based email service. They were the first. That's surprising. I have a Hotmail still. You use it for professional? No. It's just... What is it? Still out there. I don't even... Yeah. It's...

I need one for when everyone emails about asking you stuff. I could just give them that account. Give them your Hotmail. Yeah, now it's just like an email that's like sold. There's nothing. No one would ever send me anything. Now it's like just used for if it's like you require an email on something, you can just put that one in. You don't have a Hotmail? I did. I don't still have one, but that was my first email. Yeah, but it is a good way to do it. You just create some –

that's like, you know, I'm about to go back and use it. Maybe I'll clean it up and yeah. Sort through. Sort through it and get it going again. Before the Google, there was Ask Jeeves. Oh yeah. You guys heard of this? Oh yeah. I remember Ask Jeeves for sure. Okay. It's now, I think it's still around. It's called ask.com but it,

They had the whole thing where it was supposed to be asking a butler questions. Right, I remember the guy. Oh, okay. Those before your time. Alta Vista, man. That was the search ends of the 90s. In 93, CDs finally passed cassettes as more sold towards music. Didn't you say cassettes are making a comeback? Kind of. I was at a sub pop store at the airport in Seattle and all the new indie bands came

They had cassettes there for sale. I thought that was interesting. Did you ever have a pager for your friends? Yeah, I did. Yep. I remember getting a pager and you could, and like you would text, you know, 143 was I love you. Did you know that? Uh-uh. You were probably too old for that. You were too old for a pager? 149? 143? Yeah. Do you know why? Can you guess why?

One, four, three. First three letters? Is it I-L-Y? No. No. I don't know why. I is one. Love is four. You is three. Oh. That's how you wrote out everything? Yeah, we did on one. Yeah. No, you'd write it like you had a girlfriend at the time. I didn't know. You'd text it over. That's how beepers work. That's how you sent messages. Well, you would talk in numbers. So you would have to like talk in numbers, you know,

9-1-1 would be like, you need to call now. 1-4-3. Maybe 1-4-3. I don't remember. Look up beeper. Yeah. What does it say? Why does 1-4-3? There you go. Yeah. There you go. I love you. There you go. Based on the number of letters in each word. Something to do with Mr. Rogers, too. Mr. Rogers used to say that number a bunch, I guess. Hmm.

Interesting. We had a buddy who wore a pager and he's like, most people, there's no reason he needed to have it. He just thought it looked cool. So we would, me and my roommate would go, like we'd take turns. He'd be over visiting. He'd have his pager on. We'd go in a back room, just one of us. We'd call from a phone his pager and just put in some fake number.

And it wouldn't be instantaneous like a cell phone is now. It'd take a minute for it to go through. So by the time he gets it, we're already both back out sitting in the living room and he'd get this page and he'd be like, God, who is that? And we'd just watch him call some number of somebody. And he's like, dude, I've got the number right here. You just texted me. And he would get furious.

And then he started catching on like, I don't know what this is. So then we had to start putting in Lebanon prefixes because he was from Lebanon. So he's like, oh, that, I recognize that number. I just can't think of what it is. And it would just be something made up. We did that for months. And I think he finally gave up his pager because he was like, this thing, I'm just getting crank calls all the time. It was just us. Maybe finally yours now. Yeah. Big fan. I could never do.

Crank phone calls. Someone just asked me about doing one and I was like, I'm not the... I don't like them. I'm uncomfortable. I'm super uncomfortable, dude. I've talked about playing pranks a lot, but I'm good with pranks the way I kind of just... I got to make it feel like... When I do all the pranks with Nick about the Nancy Kerrigan, it's like I can get caught up. If I can make it where I can be laughing and I made that one where I start laughing because I'm like,

I'm like, I can't believe you even know. No one knows. How do you think people know this? If it's that kind of way, I can do it. Then I got to stop it, and then I got to move on, and then let it sit. I like pranks, but I like those. I'm not a good on the phone. Bothering a stranger. Yeah. This is one where we didn't have to do anything except just dial a number and let him do the rest. Yeah, yeah. I could do that. Yeah. I could do that one all day. Yes. Yeah.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in his garage in 1994. Yeah, I was under a box. At first. He was moving stuff out of his garage. Honey, what's this? It says Amazon on it. He goes, oh, no. It started out just an online marketplace for books. Yeah. And then eventually music and videos, and now it rules the world.

Minimum wage in the 1990s. Do you know? $325? $425. $425. That's right. That's what I was paying. Yeah. Opry Land closed 1997. Yeah. Still biggest mistake in Nashville. Why'd they close that? Such a good theme park. Opry Mills is doing well, right? No. Not anymore. After the pandemic? I don't think so.

I mean, I think people still go out there, but I don't think it's as good as it was when it first started. I mean, the theme park was so great. It was just, it was its own little theme park, Auburn Theme Park. Yeah. Well, speaking of Amazon, did you know I was at the mall in Albany, New York this weekend? They had an Amazon Prime store in the mall. Have you seen those places? Uh-uh.

It's like you get in and you show that you're an Amazon Prime member and everything's cheap. Oh, yeah. It's great. I had never seen those places before. Yeah.

I like that because you can actually go see the stuff you're buying. Pick it up and hold it. Yeah. What is this stuff? Just like nonsense? It's just like a mixture of every kind of thing. Yeah. A lot of Amazon devices and stuff. Like Brickstone? Yeah, like one of those kind of stores. Yeah. But it's all right there and it's all cheap if you just show them that you're a member. Yeah. You can take over the physical mall too. Yeah.

I hope that malls don't ever go. You still like shopping. Maybe people just eventually will be like, oh, I don't care. They won't even know. It's like, yeah, you try it when you get it, and then you send it back. Returns will just become everything. Yeah. You probably know because I sent you my notes ahead of time. The top movie of the 1990s. You saw that, right? Mm-hmm.

Of the whole 90s. Yeah. Home Alone. It's a good guess. This movie's the biggest grocer of all time until 2010. Titanic. Yeah. Yeah.

It's twice as much as the second one. And it was another James Cameron movie that topped it, right? Avatar. Oh, yeah. Aren't they doing another Avatar? I think so. It's crazy to me that Avatar did so good. At least talked about movie. Do people talk about it? Not the way you would think for the most. Like Titanic is still on all the time. Avatar, you're like, I don't, I watched it once because it was like, you had to go watch it. And I've never watched it again. Did you see in 3D?

I don't remember. I feel like that was one where you're supposed to see it in 3D, so maybe that's why they don't show it as much on TV. But I mean, it just doesn't feel like it gets for being... It's the most... I agree. It's the most... It's the... Yeah. Number one of all time. Yeah. I've never seen it. It's the blue one. They're all blue. They're all blue.

Is it good? I mean, it must be. It can't be terrible. I mean, I enjoyed it. I thought it was good, but I agree with you totally. Better than Titanic? I saw it in 3D. I think it was because you were going to see it in 3D. Maybe I did see it in 3D, but it was like the idea of it was like it was such a, you were going to go, it wasn't even about the movie as much as it was about just seeing. The experience. The experience of it. Yeah. But like not better than Titanic. No. Titanic's like, it was great. Yeah. And Titanic had the big soundtrack. Yeah.

There's just so much more with it. Yeah. The 90s, I looked up all the top. I mean, the 90s was to me the best decade ever for movies. There's so many good ones. Scream. It did good. Jurassic Park. Independence Day. The Lion King. Great. Jurassic Park's great. Jurassic Park's also one of my favorite movies. Probably big blockbusters, man. Yeah. The Blair Witch Project. All being remade right now. Yeah.

Think about that. Like that's the, that's the mean like nineties were like Jurassic park was a whole new thing. No one's ever knew that scream whole completely different kind of thing. They, they, you know, then they just started almost like scream. Like they almost started that scream, scream to screen. Like it kind of started that world of just like, Oh y'all like this thing. We're just keep doing it. Yeah. And wasn't Blair witch project kind of the first to do the shaky cam low budget.

Everybody thought it was real. Yeah. We all thought, I remember, I remember Blair Witch very much. I remember thinking it was real. Yeah. Yeah.

Look at this run that Tom Hanks went on in the 90s. Okay? From 92 to 99. These are in order. A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Toy Story, That Thing You Do, Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail, Toy Story 2, The Green Mile. And Castaway. And Castaway is in 2000. I don't know if anybody's had a run better than that.

No. Those are all classic. Go up a little bit more. What else is it? And then in the 2000s, you got Band of Brothers, Road to Perdition, Catch Me If You Can. Then he does The Terminal. Then he started Polar Express. But that 90s run was insane. Da Vinci Code. Yeah. Look, he's still making money in the 2000s. But there's Toy Story 3 and 4 and Saving Mr. Banks. He's always there. Yeah. Pretty wild. Yeah.

Rudy came out. Rudy. Best sports movie ever made, man. Yeah. Came out in 92? 93, I think. Joe vs. the Volcano in 90. Wasn't that a big movie? I remember it. I remember it. The Burbs, I remember. Yeah. Big in 88. I mean, he just took off and was just like... Did you ever see that Punchline movie? Yeah. The movie with him didn't stand up. So I talked to him about it. Oh, really? Yeah. I talked to him about...

When he, because I was like, I just asked about doing stand-up because I thought he did stand-up. And I was like, did you do stand-up? I've always heard you did. And he said no. Michael Keaton was a stand-up comedian. Right, right. But Tom Hanks said he never did it. And I would say we'd always joke about there being lockers. Oh, that's what I was going to ask you about. Yeah, they show up to a locker room. I've never seen it.

They're like stand-ups at a club that show up and they get dressed in a locker. Yeah. And then it's like they head out and go do their show. That's funny. Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix. Still never seen Shawshank Redemption, people. You haven't? No. Did we talk about that? No, I talked about it on the podcast, yeah, because people get mad. Yeah, that's probably my favorite movie. Yeah. I think it's the best movie ever made.

Just when you get some time, watch it. You'll enjoy it. You'll love it. Yeah. It's so good, man. It's kind of a thriller. Have you ever seen Whiplash? No. No. I think you like Whiplash. Yeah. Someone's, yeah, you said that. You would love Whiplash too. Yeah. Yeah. It's like it's not a car wreck though, right? There is a car wreck. Oh, there is. Okay. And Whiplash? Yeah. Oh.

Is there? Yeah, have you seen Whiplash? Yeah, but I don't even remember. There's a car accident scene in it. Okay, I don't remember that. I've only seen it once, so I just remember how good it was. Maybe it's not. It's an unbelievable movie, but there's a car accident in it.

Books, John Grisham was the best-selling author of the 90s. Read all of them. Pelican Brief, The Client, The Firm. Didn't you? No, I know. I've read some. I've read Patterson. Yeah. Some Patterson books. Oh, yeah. But J.K. Rowling debuted Harry Potter in 1997. You have read those, right? No. I read The Hunger Games. Okay, that's right. Same thing. Like a teenage...

flying through the clouds you know whatever whatever nonsense i yeah i was never harry potter i don't think i've ever even watched i'll watch them if like harper wants to like i'll go through all that stuff all this stuff i just don't care like so i was never just i was just never into it they're remaking it as an hbo hbo series harry potter yeah

Yeah, I don't think I'll care. Oh, it'll be awesome, man. But you loved it. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, but I didn't like the movies at all. So if they remake it well, I'd be obsessed with it. Oh, you did not like the movies? No. Because you liked the book so much? Yeah. Well, the movies were not very good. I mean, they're objectively not very good.

So I think, but I thought people, maybe not objectively, I guess people, yeah, I guess subjectively, not very good. It is pretty good, but everyone loved it. Let me back up about a minute and restate. I personally didn't like them, but I know a lot of people did and I respect their opinion. Yeah. The most watched TV episode of the nineties was the cheers finale in 1993, 1993 million people watched it. It was on for 11 years.

Yeah. But TV, like number one shows wise, the last five years of the nineties, it was back and forth between Seinfeld and ER. Yeah. It would be one, two every year, back and forth for the last five years. And they both NBC, I think they both came on Thursday nights, maybe back to back. I can't remember. I remember my mom watching ER like was, I loved it. Yeah. That was back to when you had to go, like, it was like,

My show's on. Get out of the room. Don't mess with anything. Kind of fun. Yeah. It's like the, it's hot. Quiet. Watch my stories. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I feel like maybe it's just a function of who I hang out with. But does anybody talk about ER still or care about it in the way that they do Seinfeld? Well...

I would... It's not really... Not in my world. Not in your world. It's just not fair to be... Because your world is not... There's not anybody doing this many Seinfeld references on any podcast on Earth. Yeah, that's not true. So you're just around...

People that obsessed over Seinfeld. So I bet they're not talking about either one. Seinfeld's still on, but ER's still huge. But Grey's Anatomy came along and I think isn't in the same show. It's been a lot of hospitals. Hospital show. I'm going to start dropping some ER references in this podcast. Did you watch ER? No, but I'll go and watch it. You will? While you drive home? You got a long drive ahead of you? Yeah.

I remember Friends was so big too. I never watched ER. I did watch Friends and George Clooney and Noah Wiley made an appearance on like a crossover thing. I remember that was a big deal. Oh, yeah. First Prince of Bel-Air. I watched that. I remember watching that last episode and I cried when that ended. Really? Yeah.

It was great. Then there's a couple scenes of that one. A couple scenes of that show that will make you cry. How come you don't want me? Yeah. Home Improvement, Full House, Baywatch, Beverly Hills 90210. Man, 90s was great. What a great decade. All around. Got some great true crime. Originality. Right. X-Files? It's before it's time. That's what they're doing now. Is it not, unless I'm wrong, but is all this original? Like, isn't it all original stuff?

90s. I like to take ownership of weird. Yeah, I don't know. While in order started in the 90s, it's still on. They were still, they're making stuff for me. And so when they started making TV for your generation, it all went bad. I'm watching all the same stuff you're talking about. No, you hate all this. What are you talking about? You never even heard of ER.

Did you watch Barney? You're asking people still talk about a 90s hospital drama? Is that a little water cooler talk still going on? Yeah. No, I didn't. I know it's not in the zeitgeist. I'm just saying it's not talked about. It's not referenced. Stat. Yeah. Anita. Well, I don't even know. Yeah, it's not referenced like Seinfeld. 143. 143. You asked if I watch Barney? Yeah.

Maybe when I was super, super young. And then it became a joke to watch it. When you were four? You would get made fun of for watching it. So everybody would be like, no, I don't watch Barney. Back when I was still wearing a new kid shirt. Yeah. You're ridiculing kids for watching Barney. It was the number one show on television from 92, 93 season. Oh, weird. On PBS. Weird. That's crazy. But I feel like that's a kid thing. So it's like that's, you know, people start putting kids in front of the TV.

And so you would have, I mean, there's stuff on, I mean, that's like now you could go see YouTube videos of these YouTube stars that are like, it's got a billion views. And you'd be like, I don't even, what is that? That's insane. We've talked about this before, but like, what did I think Barney was watching that show? I thought it was a dinosaur. I thought it was a real dinosaur.

A real dinosaur singing to me? Oh, as a kid? Yeah. I don't think you think through that much. It's just funny. What do you think it is? I don't think any kid is breaking it down like that. I mean, you might be. Your family might be. This makes sense. Y'all probably talked deep about it, but I think most of us would just get thrown in front of a TV screen

our face hits the screen and then we're just like, and it's just Barney. Like, and you're not thinking about whether it's a mascot or if it's a real thing. No, no. For a second that you start thinking about that, it's over. That's what I mean. But I, I see kids see mascots and I just don't, I don't know what they think they're looking at. Uh, they, they're just like, it's, they're obviously not aware that it's, you know, guy in a mascot costume.

Yeah, it's a big scary... But they're not freaking out. They don't think it's a real dinosaur. Some of them do.

What's that? I mean, Sesame Street was my generation. Yeah. I just don't think I even thought about Big Bird if he's what he really was. I just think he's a big bird. Yeah. You think, is this where Big Bird lives? So you just, yeah, you kind of think, well, Big Bird lives on this street. You think it's a real Big Bird. You think it's a, I don't remember thinking anything. You just think Big Bird lives there. And that's it. You don't think, that's crazy that there's a yellow bird living on the, you know, and we're all just fine with it. Like, you know, you don't think, it's not like you. Hmm.

Someone's sitting there going... I mean, now I do. It's a little weird, right? Yeah. It's a little weird. I mean, I did the same thing. I wasn't sitting there thinking about Barney that much. But now I watch kids watch it. I don't get it. Yeah, it's not for you now. Thankfully. Yeah. I mean, I'm still into it. I don't think you hurt their feelings if they're going to air. It's like, I don't watch the show anymore. They go, yeah, I'm glad to hear that. That's what they would say. That makes us feel... Then we're doing our job.

If you're not into Barney. I really outgrew you guys. Yeah. We hope so. We hope so. Is Barney still alive? I mean, I think he's extinct. Yeah, he might be. I don't know if he's still around. Well, dinosaur joke. Music? You think that's what they told him when they fired him? The actual guy. Hey, Jimmy, can we talk to you in the office? Do you know what's going on? Do you hear what animal's going extinct? And they're like, he's like, no.

You. Pack your bags. Get your purple butt out of here. Meteor's coming, buddy. Meteor's coming. That's what they all need. Ask for it. Just type in Barney.com. I'm losing it, guys. It's all right. I'm losing it. Music of the 90s. Grunge took off in the 90s. Smells Like Teen Spirit. Rolling Stone named it the top song of the 90s. It's a great song. Yep. Were you into grunge? No.

I don't know. That's probably a little before your time. Country music also became just hugely nice. Nobody was bigger than Garth Brooks. Billy Ray Cyrus had the number one album of any music genre in 1992. Is he only from... Don't Break Your Heart? That's by far his biggest song. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. He's so famous. And then now the Lil Nas song that he did. Basically, is it two songs? And this dude's got a straight up

I mean, Garth Brooks type fame. I mean, his album was called Some Gave All, which was a song I remember. Yeah. But Achy Breaky Heart was by far his big song. He's not Garth Brooks level. I mean, he's definitely, he's transcended his. Now he has, now Miley Cyrus. He's transcended his own success. Yeah. For sure.

Yeah, I only know that one song, Eat Break Your Heart, and then the Lil Nas X song. And then, yeah, stuff with Hannah Montana from the movie. But in 92, he had the best-selling album of any music, so he was about as big as it was. And Shania Twain in the late 90s was about as big as it was. I remember her being huge. Yeah. Do you remember the Macarena? Yep.

Was that 95? 96. Yep. Part 97. Oh, never mind. I don't remember. Was that the biggest song of all the 90s?

I don't know if it's the biggest song. It was the greatest one-hit wonder of all time, according to VH1. Who was it by? Was it the... Los Del Rio? Yeah. That sounds right. They're my favorite. One of my favorites. What's the dog song? Oh, Who Let the Dogs Out? Yeah. Who Let the Dogs Out? That was... It's the Baja Boys, right? Yeah. Baja Men. Baja Men, excuse me. The Baja Men started in the 70s, dude. Did you know that? Yeah. You may have told me that. It took that long to get a song. Yeah. I tried to dig into that once. I couldn't believe that. They started in like 76. Yeah.

Yeah. Billboard named Mariah Carey as the artist of the decade in the U.S. Okay. That's fair. Top selling Christmas toys. 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Big. This was all I was into. It was right G.I. Joe's too. Okay. They're just like action figures. Ninja Turtles. Yeah. Did you have toys? Spatula. Spatula was the number one. I had a spatula for a while and then Hot Wheels and stuff. Yeah. I had toys too. Yeah. Yeah.

Lab experiments? Just books. Just books, lab equipment. Beakers. There's a pen in your mouth. And you go, so where is Sesame Street? What state is it in? And your dad's like, I mean, your dad's just trying to go to bed. He's like, Baltimore. And you go, okay. And there's a yellow bird running around this street.

On the wire. And nobody's calling the cops. We're not seeing it on the news. OJ, we're watching that. No one's watching. That's a four-year-old. I'm watching the OJ trial. Yeah. We sit there and watch the OJ trial. Still don't think he did it. And then you're telling me no one's getting this yellow bird. No one's trying. That's what you're trying. That's what you're trying to tell me.

Dad. Right. You call him father. Father. Dad. Man that owns this home. Very disrespectful. I want to know how many of these you had, Nate. Super Nintendo. Yep. Talkboy. Talkboy.

What was that? That was from Home Alone 2, the little thing. You talk into it and immediately play back what you just said. I probably never had any of the real... I had always the off-brand stuff. Talk girl. Well, I had... Chat boy. My pair of Jordans I bought. I got them at the...

Dollar General store and they just don't have the logo on it, but they made them look just like Jordans. Yeah. And so my parents would only give me those. You can never afford these shoes. I mean, these shoes were... They were ridiculous. They were ridiculous. They were in your... So he's like, you never would get them. I remember this kid. This poor kid showed up to PE one day with Jordans, but they were fake Jordans and...

the silhouette of Jordan had, you could see laces on the shoes. This kid got trashed so bad for wearing fake Jordans, man. I don't think he ever wore them again, but he tried to sneak them by. I can identify with that. Yeah. Yeah. Having some flashbacks. Oh, I'm sorry. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers? Yeah. I'm trying to think. My brother, I think, was more into Power Rangers than I was. I think I was about,

of toys i was i was gi joe ninja turtles you know would have been that early 90s late 80s would have been more of my toy thing pokemon no i was gone by then all right gone on the road you might have been in pokemon never it was never pokemon jumping trains never any anime anything like that all right i'll finish up some sports athlete of the decade you probably guess tiger

Michael Jordan. Oh, Jordan. Bulls won six NBA championships. Cowboys won three Super Bowls. Yeah. Yankees won three World Series. Wow. Boxing had some crazy stuff happen. Besides what we already talked about, there was the guy who parachuted into the fight. Do you know this? No. In Vegas? Yeah. Like a melee breaks out because a guy parachutes in during the Holyfield-Riddick-Beau fight. They called him Fan Man.

And isn't that the announcer? He's like, this is not. There's a famous announcing. Is it Marv Albert? I don't know, but there's a famous. He goes, this is not what we wanted to. There's a scar on this. Yeah, I think we went with that. It's crazy. I mean, the fighting gets. The melee is really bad. Yeah. Really, really bad.

Oh, this is hilarious. He just lands. He lands. He mistimed his land a little bit. Yeah. Are they just beating him up in the stands? Yeah. Yeah. And then they just destroy him. Good. Well, it's like arrest him, but you can't kill the guy. And then why does it... And then doesn't it become even more of a fight? I don't know. That's a long video. Yeah.

I think they just reshow it. The parachute's trapped. I thought there was another big melee in another boxing match. There was another big fight, and that's the one where they got, like, it's between the two fighters and their teams, and it just gets crazy. Tupac was killed, well, not leaving Mike Tyson's fight, but he had been in the fight earlier that night. I remember that. Do you remember that happening at all?

No. I mean, I know about it, but I don't remember it happening at the time. I don't think I knew who Tupac was until way later. Yeah. And Biggie. Yeah. All those guys. Yeah. I remember watching, seeing Biggie's funeral, I think. On TV? Yeah. When did he die? 97? Maybe. Like Tupac, I remember it, but I wouldn't have known to like go, like try to probably look for his funeral. And Biggie, I might've been. Is it bigger than Princess Dies? You think? No. No.

It was bigger than MASH. Yeah. It was... Well, Biggie was... It was a big... It was big, but... Yeah. It was Biggie. It was as big as... Yeah. As Princess Di. Magic Johnson, I remember when he announced he had HIV and immediately retired. Yeah. Yeah. And then he returned, 92 All-Star Game, got MVP. Yeah.

And then people protested and he retired again for four years, but then returned in 96 and played. I just remember he kept retiring. Yeah. He was coming back. Coming back. Chris Rock, I think, had a joke about apparently HIV makes you very undecisive. Yeah. He played for the 92, the dream team. Yeah. Greatest team ever assembled. We didn't even talk about that yet. The U.S. won by average of 44 points.

Players on the other team got their picture made and autograph, which I fully support. Yeah. I mean, Carlos Gross could have been on some of these other teams. Would you have went over there before the game started or after? I would have done it during. Yeah, yeah. They'd be shooting a free throw, and I'd be right next to Jordan. I'm like, hey, try signing this real fast. Do a selfie.

All right. Tiger came on in 97. Yeah. He went professional in 96, age of 20. April of 97, he won the first Masters by 12 strokes. He was the number one player in the world by June of 97. Stayed there for like the amount of weeks was nuts. Yeah. The amount of weeks he stayed number one. I mean, just... Is it longer than anybody? It's not even close. Yeah. Look at the streaks. The longest number one. Like, it's not even remotely close. Yeah.

Yeah, 281 weeks. And then his second place is him is 264. Wow. So he basically lost it, and then he did it again for the same amount of time. Yeah, and for context, the next person is 96, Greg Norman in 97. Yeah. So it goes from 260. See, six more rows. Did it say Jack Newkiss on there at all? Yeah, Nick Faldo. Yeah, click that. I don't know if they even ranked it.

Oh, boy. Oh, it made you go to... Yeah, Dustin Johnson. Tiger Woods again on there at 60. And then Greg Norman again. Oh. Rory McIlroy. So it's funny. Maybe they didn't really do it when Jack Nicklaus was...

So it's pretty funny. So he has 60. It's basically like he was like 281. Now he started in 99. And then what is his 60s? 2013. Oh, so he got back up. Oh, wow. So then he ends in 04. And then basically gets it back by June. And then runs it for another five years. Nine months later, he gets it back. And then loses it again. Then gets it for another year and a half. Yeah. In 2013. Yeah, pretty wild.

A couple of baseball things. Cal Ripken broke the consecutive games. I remember watching that game. Something they thought would never happen. And the home run race, which you already mentioned. McGuire and Sosa. I remember that very much. The strike happened in 94. People were down on baseball. And that was like a perfect... It was the best. Perfect rebound. It was the best. Nothing was funnier. But they were breaking in on every channel and just being like, here's Sammy Sosa up to bat. It was just...

You need something like that. That's what I think is almost what's bad with TV now is that kind of stuff is...

Not around as much as it was. I mean, everybody was watching that. They were breaking in every channel everywhere. It was just like, here we're going to show Sam Sosa button. Here's my Marlboro button. And then they would hit a home run. It's like softball. It's funny to think about that we never crossed our mind. Like, McGuire hit 245 home runs in four years. The year after he hit 70, he hit 65. Right. People forget about that. He broke the record again the next year. Yeah.

That's crazy. Yeah, that's wild. All right, and the last thing I'm going to end on, last thing of the 90s, Y2K. Do you remember that? Yeah. So you were in college? I was already brought out. I was already done with college. I forget. Sorry.

I forget where I was. I was just wondering if Y2K affected you, your work in any way. No, I don't think I had a real job. As a mover? Yeah, like I don't think I had a job. Bouncing tires. I've been doing the drunk driving simulator. Can I tell you that job? No. No. That's for another time. No, I don't. Sorry. That was we drove. I did this.

Drunk driving simulator where you would take a neon car. Type in drunk driving simulator. Maybe you told us during the odd jobs episode. Yeah. And you would drive slow. And I believe I was doing that during this time. Neon. Yeah. And you would... I mean, maybe it's different now. And you would take it and... Is that right there? The white car? Right here? Yep. And so we would go... That's actually...

That's you in the car. Somebody in the back seat. Uh, see, I mean, and so you would, you would take that to schools. You took that to school? Yep. With, uh, this other couple. And you would pretend to drive. No, you would be in the passenger seat. So I'm, I mean, I'm, and, uh,

There was a break over there for me because they would drive to... And it would be delayed turn. You would try to turn and it would turn late. If they pressed the brake, it wouldn't stop. It'd be a delayed stop. And they'd be like, all right, stop and don't hit this kid sign. I mean, I was 19 or 20 and I'm with all these high school kids. You wouldn't get the kids drunk. It was like going on the road for the first time. I had money when I came back because you got paid and you would get paid to be traveling on the road. So I would never spend any money on the road. Yeah.

So I was 20. Is that when Y2K was? I was born in 79. Yeah, about. So like I was, yeah, I think I was 20. So I was, I might've been somewhere like during that, during Y2K. And then someone stole the car. Really? While you were out on the road? Yeah. We parked at this hotel and we walk out the next day and the cars, someone broke open the thing, got in, sold the car completely. Wouldn't they wreck it? Yeah.

Uh, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I, I can't remember. I feel like you could drive it. It would drive normal. Oh, okay. Cause you had a computer and you would like type in like, so somebody get in the car and you go like, how old are you? Y2K probably happened. Yeah. How much do you weigh? I think you ask them how much they weigh. And then, uh, you put like how many drinks they had or like their alcohol level. Like, so depending on what the level was, was how hard the thing would turn. Yeah. Yeah.

That's so crazy. Stealing that car and then you have to enter your weight and all this stuff just to leave. Yeah. That's funny. I haven't looked at that car in a long time. Well, I was working at the TV station in 99, so we were all hands on deck for Y2K. I mean, people thought the world might end. Yeah. There was like, people were stocking food and... Were you doing all that? Were you prepping? No, I wasn't prepping, but... You got a gun. No, I don't know. You had a plan. Did you see?

I grabbed all your memorabilia. My Carlos Groves autographed magazine and my New Kids on the Block shirt. And became my bunker. Me and Carlos. But obviously nothing much happened. Yeah.

Because we prepared. That's the whole argument. People say they overreacted and the other half says, no, it's because we took it serious and prepared. We did it. Like we did this podcast. 90s. That's it, right? That's it. We did it. We'll see you next time.

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