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Hello folks, welcome to Nate Land. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber. Welcome everybody. Got my fantasy draft tonight. Fantasy draft tonight, longest running, right? It's been going... 26 years. 26 years for the internet.

Do you know that? We've talked about that on here. Yeah, yeah. It's just crazy to hear that out loud. 26 years you've been doing this. We... I mean... Have you won it ever? Yeah. Okay. A couple people died. They...

Has anybody died? Yeah. It's one of those. Our very first champion has died. Oh, my bless his heart. Yeah, it's one of those things where you're like, it's a different group now. I like the ones that are like that, where you guys... I'm in a...

with Ronnie Bargetti, my cousin, we're in a golf fantasy and they've been doing it. This is my first year doing it, but they've been doing it for 30. So everybody in it's Ronnie's age. You're all like in their seventies. And so everybody's been doing it for like 30 something years. And it's great because you just do one draft and then you don't do anything else. And then he just tallies up the score. Yeah. And so it's pretty fun because it's like I was supposed to do one this year and I said, no, I just, it's too much.

I get that. Like I would have done, like I was in one a long time ago with some friends, Michael, Clay, who we moved, started comedy with. And like, I liked it. I was like, you know, we knew everybody. I enjoyed it because it was like close. And then it started getting a little spread out where you kind of be in it. And you're like, I don't even know. I know like three of the people. And then you're just like, I just have no, I don't have the time to pay attention to it. And it's just a lot, but I get doing one like that.

But you were almost kicked out of it. Yeah, I was. It's my former job. You look at him when you... When I throw... I say the question to you and you go to him like he's... I know. Well, because you know the... It's like a talk show. Is that how that works? When they do it and they go like, Brian, you were once kicked out of it. Go ahead. Go ahead. It's like Kramer. I'll ask the question. Yeah. He asks the exact same question. Yeah.

So you and Elaine dated. Yeah. No, because you know what I'm talking about, so I'm telling him. I didn't know. When I worked at the TV station, that's where we started the Fantasy League draft. And then when I left there six years ago, they were almost going to kick me out. You talked your way in. He teamed up with someone that stayed. Now that guy leaves. They're in big trouble. Yeah. Listen, I'm already 22 years into this, man. The guy you're with is the Emmy story, right? Yeah. We told that on here. My favorite story.

Yep. He got one in me. He had two chances, and then the other two people tied, and the other two people won. I forgot about that. And he was the only one that lost. I forgot about that. Out of the three people nominated, he was the only one that lost. The other two guys won, and he was nominated twice. That's so, I mean, it's unreal. It was four, yeah, four nominations. He was two of them. He was two of them. And then there was a tie, and the tie was the other two. And so he just loses. I mean, it's...

The odds are unreal. It's unreal. We talked about the odds on here. Yeah, it's great. It's great. All right, everybody. If you guys saw the poll, we didn't do the poll. Someone asked. We only had like one person asked, though, right? Or a couple people. Maybe a couple people. They missed it. We said we're not doing it. Yeah, we talked ourself out of the poll. We're moving on.

I think everybody was like, all right, we get it. I like where it's at. Hello, folks. If you're in the wild, you're able to respond. Let's go, folks. Let's go, folks. It's a fun thing to yell at each other when we're out. I mean, don't yell at all of our shows the whole time. But it is funny when you... I do enjoy it when I walk out. If someone does a let's go, folks, that's almost like a...

That's almost perfect at a show. But they do it because they do it great. Or they just yell it and then it's like, all right, we acknowledge it. It's out of the way. Out of the way. We know people are there. And then, so I like what it is. Hello, folks, is how we will introduce it. But let's go, folks. I know there's let's go, folks, Instagram, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. So there you go. Mm-hmm.

We were... It's at its point. I stayed outside Zaney's the other night and some guy drove by and yelled, let's go. Yeah. Yeah. But then I realized I was... I was standing in the street. We played... I golfed yesterday. Bell Mead Golf Course. Never been there. It's like... And John Augustine, our guy John, course record. Yesterday? Yeah. Yeah.

I've seen him set two course records. Yeah, you just told me about one. Governor's Club, he shot a 62. They didn't give it to him at Governor's Club. Why not? It's crazy. I don't know. The guy goes, because we walked in and we go, what's the course record? And he was like, I think it's like 64 or something. And we said, oh, well, now it's 62 because he shot a 62. Well, John's a professional golfer. Yeah. It's not insane for, it's not like me walking in going, yeah, well, you know. And the guy's like, ah, you got to do it competitively or something. It doesn't make sense. That's not how it works. Yeah.

And then Bellmead, exact opposite. They're thrilled about it, and they love it. And I think he shot a 65 because they moved the tees back.

he had two, like, I mean, chipped in the first hole, uh, like a 45, 50 yard, knocked it in the hole, uh, for Eagle. And then on a par four, probably like a hundred and yard, a hundred yard shot. Just like a boop boop. And then dropped in. And it's crazy. And he had, I mean, dude, he had, I think, uh, two, three putts and three bogeys and shot a 65. Yeah. That's amazing. It's pretty wild. Uh,

So. We're playing today. Brian and I are playing later today. Don't expect any course records out there. He's wearing that out there. If y'all finish, I'll be happy. Nine holes. Kids will be out there. God, they see y'all two walk out there and they. It was camouflage. They just look. You're his caretaker. You come out. See a head floating out there. Yeah.

You got you wearing the jacket. Jacket fits good. It does fit. Have you worn it out? No, it's the first time wearing it, man. It looks good. It feels good. It feels powerful. Yeah.

you know yeah you do if you feel power with that i do over just as much as i'm gonna get yeah over deer over deer that's not nothing that's yeah something deer everywhere when you see them they don't come they don't run in front of your car they don't even look at me i saw a deer get hit the other day and it was uh i didn't see it but it was laying in front of this these people's driveway and i was like man that's the worst yeah like what do you do when you hit a deer you gotta call somebody

The police or something? I mean, if there's damage. No, but I mean like when it's... You call somebody and they come and get it. Someone comes and gets it. I don't think you have to take care of it. Do you know who you call? No, I don't know who I would call. 1-800-DEER? I think it's animal control. Oh. Oh.

I thought it was like the highway incident response. I guess it depends where you're at. We have a ton of deer in our neighborhood and squirrels. There's always some dead animal out in our front. Y'all call them for a dead squirrel in the yard. And they're like, and the guy's like, just drive over it in the middle, dude. Like, why are you, I'm not coming out there. Ruth calls like once a week. Yeah. Come and scoop these things up. There's that many? I mean, there's a bunch. Scoop them up like with a shovel? Well, I'm joking about the scoop. I don't know how they pick them up, but she's like. There's that many that you have to call, which is very funny.

yeah you're just like it's just you know you're just like weirdly there's always when i take my dog for a walk there's always some carcass we're having maneuver around we had my old neighbor we had a dead possum in the middle of the road for probably a month nobody nobody wanted it it was like it's not mine you know like nobody wanted to take credit for it that's tough that's a tough part neighborhood you gotta hope when you move in the neighborhood you got someone that's like a

go-getter and that person should be rewarded like you should like acknowledge that person should be you yeah you have that jacket because everybody you will you show up with that jacket i'd have to if i just everybody thinks he'll get it he'll scoop up that possum yeah probably eat it they you know i think that's what they would honestly think they would just they would see they would see you with that jacket and then they go golly i guess he's got someone's got dinner tonight

Aaron's got takeout. Where is he going out? You're just out there with that shovel. Pulling enough out of the... Honey, I'm home. Anybody else want this? Lucy? Am I frying this up for me? Get in on this. Daniel York. Yorkie.

I have to say this is my favorite episode of an already fantastic show. You could do every episode with just comments. The tangents you go on are ridiculous, and it gives us all folks a chance to be part of the conversation with Nate Aaron and Banana Hammock. It's great. It's great to feel like I'm part of such a cool niche. Niche? Niche. Niche. It's niche, right? It's one of those I hear it said both ways. Niche. And we all know what we're talking about. I thought it was niche. Okay. I don't know. I would rather say niche.

I didn't know people did that. I'd say niche. I think they both work, man. I think you're both doing great. I thought that was one of the words that was trying to... An olive branch to the English speakers of the world. That's very mature of you. I walk in, yeah. I walk into an art gallery and go, wow, this is a very niche painting. This is niche art.

It's pretty niche in here, huh? Leslie Dewberry. My wife and I have been nomads since Hurricane Ida hit. Normally the drive from New Orleans to Chattanooga. My family and I. Oh. I think Leslie's a woman. Oh, okay. My family and I have been nomads since Hurricane Ida hit. Normally the drive from New Orleans to Chattanooga would be around seven hours, but with thousands of other folks evacuating as well, it took us 14 hours to finally make it there.

We've been hotel hopping since then, trying to find something stable through the already booked Labor Day weekend. The Nate Land Podcast has helped me and my two girls keep a shred of sanity and, for the most part, positive attitudes during those long car rides.

and we even learned random facts along the way. Please wish us luck and keep us in your prayers as we navigate our next steps. Thank you for not taking life too seriously and sharing laughs. My whole family loves you guys. We're really looking forward to one day seeing you in a... It says seating.

Seeing you in person at a show. We're going to seed you. Leslie, we will. Prayer's up for you guys. I mean, that's brutal. That's tough. 14 hours, man. Everybody's leaving. That's a long drive. And then your end goal is Chattanooga. Yeah.

uh not saying anything bad about chattanooga but if it was the other way around you'd be like all right well it's worth it new orleans at least now we're in new orleans at least for now we're in new orleans it's fun and you're like chattanooga you're like all right let's go look at the aquarium unreal aquarium and then a couple other things and then we're done let's go let's get on back at it one time once you get there you're both basically like all right let's head back mm-hmm

Be good out there, guys. Be safe. Tal Under the Door. My Date with the President's Daughter is an absolute classic starring Will Friedle, who also played Eric on Boys Meets World. Keep up the great stuff. Aaron Land is my favorite podcast. I've turned a lot of folks on to it. Oh, Aaron Land. He's got some listeners. That's great. It's going to be tough if you're an Aaron Land fan, but you're not really into Nate Land. I mean, they get through it. Yeah. Y'all recognize this guy?

I think Boy Meets World was a little bit after. I do. It was after y'all's time, right? I do the old way, not the new way.

I bet he's a guy that now when you look at him, if you see him now, you would just stare at him and be like, how do I know? Are you saying younger and older? Yeah, like the young one. The one with that long hair is like, you're like, yeah, that guy there. You're like, yeah, yeah, know exactly who he is. But then you look at him, that picture on the left, like the older one, you would be like, you might, like I bet so many people are like, golly, dude. Can't put my finger on it, but I know that guy. When did you graduate?

You know, it's like a lot of that. And he's like, I mean, I'm one of the most famous shows on. He's one of the most famous shows ever on television. And all he gets now is, what year did you graduate high school? Were you in my grade? Like, that's all people think. Yeah. And he goes, no, I was on Boy Meets World. We won an Oscar for it. Mark Maxwell. Oh, man.

Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Though? Art? Though? Wherefore art thou? Romeo means, why are you Romeo? It's literally meaning is that Juliet is agonized to think that Romeo is a house of Montag. Is it Montag? Montague. Huh? Montague. That feels like you're making that up. No, it's the Capulets of the Montagues. It's Montagues. They're rivaling families. Oh, okay.

She agonized to think that Romeo's house of Montague and painfully wishes him to have been from some other family. Aaron Lane going strong. I don't even understand that sentence. Any of it. I don't think I could talk to Mark Maxwell. I think we would have trouble. I think he would end up

Our knight would end up, he would just throw popcorn in my mouth, and I would catch it, and he would think, we would both be like, I guess this is all we can really do to each other. Like, we can't have a conversation, so he'd just be me sitting over there, and he's like, just throwing popcorn, I'm just trying to catch it, and then I'd go, all right, man. Well, he said, wherefore art thou Romeo means, why are you Romeo? But you just read it just now, why are you Romeo? Which kind of changes the meaning of it.

Why not Romeo? Why are you Romeo? Why are you Romeo? Why are you Romeo? Yeah, so you're mad that why are you Romeo? Why are you in this family that I'm not allowed to talk to? Such a ridiculous question, though. I mean, an insane, like, what if Romeo just said- It's a rhetorical question. He's not literally going, why are you- Oh, that was him asking that? No, no, no, sorry. Yeah, it's her asking it. Okay, so then his supposedly, Romeo, get a little heads up. Your wife's going to be a nutso.

Because she's questioning, you don't want to be in that marriage. You don't want to be in a marriage. She's already going, why do you have to be born in the family you're born in? You're like, I'm born. We're past the point of that. Yeah. There's no more like, all right, I'm sorry. I mean, he's acting like he had a choice. Yeah. I don't think she brought it up after they got married and had a couple of kids. I know. I think he got the heads up and said, hey, what if we just both kill ourselves? That would be easier than getting married. Yeah.

Cause this, this questioning is driving me insane. He faked his death to get out of it. He did. He's doing fine. We see a picture of him and Tupac together. Uh,

Drew Medden, on the topic of Cliff's Notes, my older brother and I had a little business when we were in college together. We would find out which classes allowed note cards during exams, check which chapters would be covered in the exams, and then hand write entire chapters on five, eight note cards.

I could fit three to four lines of text within one line on the card. We'd then scan and print copies of the note cards and sell them to other students. I never went hungry at that school. It's a pretty good idea. See, I... We have the lawnmowers. I can hear... I don't know if y'all can hear them, but I heard lawnmowers. You're gonna love that.

But that kind of thing, to me, what he did is better than school. Weirdly, you go, the fact that you guys figured that out and then sold it, I bet you're doing better than... Even if you'd be like, well, they cheated on the test, you're like, it doesn't even really matter. Not saying you want kids to cheat, but it's like the... It's not cheating, though. I mean, it is exactly cheating. You're writing down... You're not taking the exam. You're writing down the chapters on the note card.

Yeah, but they allow you a note card during the exam. They're just giving people the note card. Yeah, but they don't give the note card going like, you guys swear you're not going to be writing down all the chapters? I don't think the teacher would be thrilled about it. We used to put a lot on those note cards. We had classes like that. I'd write so much on it. I don't know if I ever had a note card.

They're like for like a math exam. You can write, you get one note card. You can write down formulas, put whatever you want on there, but that's all you can reference. Oh, that's your only help. Yeah. Oh, so instead of like an open book exam, you just get a note card, but I love why they did this before you bowled. You just looked at your note card. Oh yeah. Strike. Okay. Yeah. They, uh, got another X. Golly, I can't catch a break. No, it's good. Oh, that's good.

You know, you'd be good at this because I've seen your set list. You're very good at writing very small. Yeah. And that's what you got to be able to write legible, but very tiny. I'd be great at cheating. Yeah, I don't think I ever did any of this stuff. This could be why I had trouble in school. That or the dyslexia that we still haven't figured out. I got to go to that school. What if a dude if I figured out I do they're like you have it.

That would make so much sense. Would it change anything at this point? Huh? No. It's like, Romeo, I'm already too far. It's like, what are we going to do? We already made it this far. I'm not going, can you fix it? I don't think you can fix it. Someone asked that you not do it.

They're like, they think that's your secret genius. Funny and don't ruin it. Yeah. What would, if I found out I was. You got fixed? I don't think they can fix you. You're just a boring guy. They don't just hit me in the head with a bat. I walk out of there like, wherefore art thou Romeo? And I go, that makes sense now. You ever see the episode of House with Dave Matthews? No. Yeah. When did it air? During West Wing? Yeah.

Different era, different era of television. Were you driving when you watched it? Dave Matthews plays a young man who has a head injury, but he's a piano savant. He's like unbelievable at piano. And they fix his brain, but that he loses his ability to play piano in the process. So his dad is like struggling mentally.

Do I fix his brain? And he'll be able to button his shirt up now, but he won't be able to play the piano anymore. I think that's kind of the same dilemma. Yeah. That happened to George Costanza when he had sex. Yeah. It's clean podcast, bro. Janine Ashcraft says,

I totally agree with movies not sticking. I was so excited when the movie Boston Strangler was going to be on TV. That's a hilarious movie. I planned my whole evening around it. Then in the first five minutes, I realized I had already seen it. I wish I'd either remembered the movie or not. Then it would be new every time. What Boston Strangler movie? I looked it up. It was from 1968. So Janine might be more my era. Yeah.

I get it. I need to go watch this. I mean, the fact that you're... With Henry Fonda? I guess. The fact that you're waiting, planning your whole evening around watching something on TV probably means it's from a bygone era. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No TiVo. Which I loved. I loved. I mean, nothing better than waiting. Because you have to wait for everything.

That's something that kids don't, that's gone, and that I wish they had. Waiting, you have to wait for everything. Can't wait until... Sporting events is like it now on TV. But then you're like, I'm going to watch it. I'm going to record them. I'll go have a day. Don't tell me what happened. I'll just watch and fast forward and watch a game quick.

Cameron Clark, I think Nate blew Aaron's mind a little bit when he asked why he even used a bank if he was negative $8. That laugh was the laugh of realization. It was. It was. Yeah. I'm better than negative $8 now, so now I have a reason for a bank. Negative $2. They're like, oh, yeah, here comes Big Spin. You walk in with that jacket. Check his ID. That's all you hear. You know, a check casher place is not called a bank. That's where you don't keep going.

Where do you bank at? Advanced Financial. Yeah. And let me ask you something. Is your bank open 24 hours? You just keep giving the check guys money and you leave and they're like, this guy, I don't know. We just keep getting money from him. Just a Kroger ATM. Yeah.

John Armstrong, listening to Aaron's story about ripping the gas pump out and then casually putting it back. There's no way there wasn't more significant damage, and whoever the poor sap was who pumped there after Aaron probably had gas spilling out all over his car. Very true. Nah, I checked on it. You stayed? No, I didn't. Did you watch it? I felt good about it. You didn't pull to the next door business and just sit like a...

private detective and just kind of watch what's going on. Pull around the corner and just wait? Yeah. No, I didn't do that. I had somewhere to be. But... That's true. I think John's right. I think the other person's like, God damn it. And then he's like, I don't know how this thing... He's like, Breaking Bad. He goes, and the pump was when he's trying to...

He goes, in the nozzle, the click, click, click. I should sue that place. I should sue that place is what I should do. Aaron, are you in a little bit above your head with something that you want to tell us? That's what we think it is. You know what? That makes a lot of sense. William Roberts, don't get me wrong. I love the constant banter between the three of them. The three of them. However, it was cool to see Nate's genuine excitement and listen to Aaron and Bart LeBee experience shooting a TV show that will actually be aired. Keep up the good work, gentlemen. All right. That started off where I was like, oh, boy.

And then it was very sweet. Yeah. Have you talked to Greg? A little bit. Did he say anything how we did? He said that y'all did. He said, I did text him. He said, y'all did great. Yeah. He said, y'all did great. I don't think you're beyond, but you did great.

They're going a different direction. With my character? Yeah, your character. They were like, I don't know. They look too real. Scare children? Yeah. It's supposed to be a comedy. Yeah. Good night. What's wrong with that? Boston Strangler here. Colby Goller-her. Golly-her.

That's what it's G-O-L-L-I-H-E-R. Golly her. Golly her. Colby, golly her. Get in here. Dead gummit. Dead gummit. Middle name dead gummit. Colby, dead gummit. Golly her. Aaron said, that's fair. It's a change versus dollar bills argument. Like it's actually made any sense at all. In change, we have ones, fives, tens, twenty-fives, and the rare fifties and dollars.

In bills, we most often use ones, fives, tens, twenties, fifties, and one hundreds. Why would they not be the same? That was my point. Yeah. He's saying your argument, Nate, or Colby, or maybe she, I don't know, didn't add up. I feel like it was the price of stuff. I don't know. I think twenties make more sense.

I don't know. Y'all go change it. I don't know. You and Colby, y'all get together. Do your own $25 bills. I don't know. What do I care? Y'all can both. You can be on the front. Colby on the back. Robert Hart. When we were in high school and had $0, my friend came up with a brilliant scheme. The bank and the grocery store offered $60 to open an account, so we all stood in line and opened an account, promptly asked to pull out the $60, then asked to please close the account.

I don't know what they were thinking, but I was $60 richer. That's so funny. I mean, that had to be. So that bank was like, all right. They had a meeting the next week. All right, next week. They're like, all right, guys, we lost $240 with that. Did you ever think that through? Whose idea was that? Whose idea was that? No one wants to say anything. Yeah. Well, you owe me $240. That dumb idea. That's a great. I love that they thought of that. That would be smart, too. Mm-hmm.

Bryce Hockenberry. Who else checked the description just to see if they actually timestamped Joe's comment? I think a lot of people did. Yeah, we did, right? Yep. No response from Joe? Not at this moment. Not that I've seen. We'll see what happens. Joe's probably done with this. A few people agree with Joe. Oh, I get it. They just want their own timestamp. Yeah. James Greer. My wife and I went out for our monthly date night dinner.

Our monthly date night dinner. Is that how you would say that? My wife and I went out for a monthly date night dinner. I guess so. How would you say it? My wife and I went out for a monthly date night. I don't think you say what you're doing. You wouldn't go, my wife and I went out for a monthly date night movie. Maybe that's all they get into is dinner. I guess they're saying we went to dinner. And they're going to talk more about it. Dinner. Okay. That's the sentence that messes me up. My wife and I went out.

my cousin and my uncle went out. I'm like, I'm off. Hold on. Hold on guys. Let me get it together. My aunt, my grandmother had been married for five years. You're like, what? Oh no. Okay. I read that one. My wife and I went for a monthly date night dinner. The waiter came to our table and said, hello folks. My heart filled with joy. He,

He took our drink order, then proceeded to tell us the specials of the night. To see if he was a true fan, I asked him who his source was after he finished telling us the specials. In his best Nate voice, he said, our manager, Bob Ripplepants. How funny is that? I gave him a high five and he walked away. The look on my wife's face was like watching a car wreck because she had no clue what the heck just happened. Keep up the greatest average podcast. How about it?

I, you know, that's one of my, that is date night dinner. I'm going to start saying it now. Now your con story came. What a fun story. That is so good. Like the hello, like, cause it is, that's what's so fun about it is like people can, you know, you take a risk when you do it. So that waiter's walking around saying hello folks to all his tables. All his tables. And it paid off for him and it paid off for James. Like that's, yeah, it makes it

I mean, yeah. I love the risk that we're all, you have to put out. Like, I love someone goes, hello, folks. And you have to say something. You have to say, what's your source? That's even like, and the guy could be like, I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, what a weird question. And you're like, sorry about that. Now your waiter's weird with you the whole time. I love the danger that you get put in. I mean, the non-important danger, but just the awkward danger that you get put in with it. You get to go, let's go, folks. And they're like, God, get out of here, dude. Yeah.

And people just say it. All right. We'll be right back. Welcome, everybody. We're very, very excited for this guest. I've put my jacket on. This is a big one, dude. It is. Jay Cutler is here. Did you get that when you were like eight, nine? I bought it the day that you signed with Vandy. I went to that club naked.

I was there. You didn't even know who I was when I signed a mandate. He said, I've been looking at you. I go, look at this tight end. We got this top tight end. That's what we talked about in his podcast. They brought him in as a tight end and they told him no. That's what he was being recruited as first, as a tight end. Yeah, I listened. Yeah. Crazy, huh? Big fan of the podcast. Maybe if he was a tight end, it would have worked out. You ever think about that? I might still be playing. Might still be out there. Yeah, might still be doing it. Do you sit there and ever, don't you have to stay in shape? Like what if you get called?

Me? Yeah. Would they call you? No. You replaced Ryan Tannehill in Miami, right? I did. So if the Titans, let's say last week of the season, Ryan goes down, they're getting ready to go to the playoffs, they call you, Jay, we need you. You can still serve on the school board. Yeah. You can still play.

You can do all that. You can do all your stuff. You can go to your GC9 meetings. I can do my podcast. Uncut. Yep. But we just need you to lead us to a Super Bowl. That's a tough – I don't know if I could do a school board and Super Bowl in the same season. Yeah, that is true. That's true. I mean, that's a two – I would love that to be your thing on ESPN. You're like, guys, I just got a lot on my plate right now.

to be honest. One night's a school board meeting. Yeah. I mean, Super Bowl's a Sunday. It's not on Sundays. Are the Monday night games over? Because that's when we meet. Yeah, that's when we meet. It's an hour commitment and it's really, really important to me. Can we do it in the locker room? How is everybody comfortable with men naked? Is that, you have to be comfortable, like that's just men naked all the time.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a lot. That's probably, that makes a lot of people not play sports. I don't know. I think it does at a high school level. Yes. For sure. Because at a, I mean, where I guess we're going down this road. Um, but at a high school level, like, you know, there's towels, like you're, you're, you're, you're still discreet. Yes. You're nervous. You're nervous, but you're trying, you don't want to be dirty. So you want to take this shower. But so it's like, Hey, like,

Take your towel right to the water. Do your thing. College, less. And in the NFL, it's just like... It's just naked men. And it's a job. It's professional. Everywhere. We're professionals. And we're just like... There's nakedness everywhere. What if... So Aaron would probably take a shower with his shirt on. Would people be upset about that? Or are they... Like, is that...

Well, high school is you have kids who haven't hit puberty yet. Yeah, you get a mixed bag. With grown men. Yeah. And then once you get past high school level, they're all grown men at that point. Some are grown more than others. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're grown men. They're grown men. Are there reporters in there when y'all are? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, there's reporters. There's male reporters. There's female reporters. I mean, there's just...

people just coming and going. You know, it'd be a funny sketch. I thought of that you could do for your, uh, for uncut. Uh, yeah,

And Jay's got a great podcast. I was the second episode. Very honored to be the second episode. Uncut. Uncut with Jay Cutler. It's on everything. It's doing better than this podcast already. Give it time. Give it some time. That's what we're waiting on. We'll have you back and you're like, Jay, what happened? That's what they said. We opened it, whatever, and I was like, oh, damn it. I wish we were like 101.

Yeah, yeah. Just to ease in. Yeah, the only way to go is probably down at this point. Yeah. We'll see what happens. It's going to be great. You're going to love it because it's – look, when I started this one, I didn't know. I mean, I do. I talk for a living. But I didn't know. A lot of people do podcasts, and you're like, I don't know if I want to do it. But I've really, really enjoyed it, and it's nice to – I don't know. For me, it makes it – you're funnier. You're thinking more. You're just like –

And so like, you're just going to realize when you're doing these every week that your, your like brain starts thinking differently and you start thinking of stuff and funny stuff and whatever. And it's just nice. Yeah. I have noticed that. And just, I mean, there's, there's something about like, you know, being around people in a, in a, in a, in a artistic and engaging way. Like it just kind of, like you said, it stimulates you and kind of gets things going. So I've enjoyed it so far. And they can see your personality. Everybody thinks you're not fun. I might not be, you know, to be determined. Who knows? We'll see what happens after,

I was worried about Nate. I mean, I was like, Hey, like he's obviously super funny. I've watched Netflix. I've watched this podcast. And I was like, he's super funny, but he came in, you know, very just under the radar. Didn't say a whole lot, not a lot of expression. And he sat down and he's like, what do you want to talk about? I was like, you know, I mean, I've got some, we'll just kind of, let's talk. He's like, okay. And I was like, in the back of my mind, I was like, Oh my gosh, my second one's going to bomb. This is going to be real, real, real bad. And,

And then I think we talked like 15 minutes before I even got to question one. Well, I think we're very similar in that we're kind of low-key, not like super animated, not just kind of easy. If I played football, I think they'd think the same thing. You're like, he doesn't care or something. They'd be like, I love everything. They would hate you. They would be furious, dude. I get it all the time. People think this guy hates his jokes. They think all this stuff, and you're like, no, I'm having an awesome time.

I just don't show it. Oh, I think it's hilarious whenever you tell a joke and you just kind of go strange. I'm like, this is funny. That's what makes it funny is you don't... And I tell these jokes every night. I hear them. They're all good. We have... I have a picture of you over there.

In that top right-hand corner. Oh, yeah, Denver. Denver. I think it's autographed. Jay Cutler. It is. Vanderbilt turf up there. That is – yeah, that's a legit – That's a real one? Yeah, that's a legit one. You can tell? Oh, yeah, I can tell. Just because of your signature. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you can tell when it's fake? Yep. Do you tell anybody how? I don't think you should. No, I'm definitely not going to tell anybody how. Because then they start figuring it out. I mean, no one really wants it anymore. What if you're like, I'm left-handed, and that's how you tell anybody how?

You go. It's a big one. Is it... When you sign, I can notice, would you ever get... Does your signature change? Y'all have to sign like thousands of balls. I mean, I don't know. I don't know if people are still signing a lot now. Yeah. Whenever I came out, it was all the cards. It was a big rush. Yeah. And you'd sit there and you'd sign 5,000 little Topps cards. That's crazy. And I got to a point where I was like, all right, do I just...

put JC in like a six at this point or we just continue down this road? Would you change it? I didn't. Oh, that's good. I didn't. I came close at one point, but I was like, hey, you know what? Just do it. I'm already committed. I'm already committed, so just do it. That's good, though. I like that you can tell the signature, too, if you can tell if it's real or not. Would you even remember when that would have been? I mean, obviously at Denver, but would you...

That was my rookie year. Yeah? That was year one. Do you remember signing that picture? I do not remember signing it. Where were you? What was going on that day? I was in my bedroom. All right. It's a little personal. That's what I like. It was the first one I did. That football is flat. I think that might be, that's a Vanderbilt football. I got a lot of Vanderbilt stuff. Helmet. Yeah. What do you think about the new logo?

I saw it. I haven't looked at it so, so much, but I like that. I saw the uniforms and stuff. I think I like it. Is it the gold? What did they change? What are we looking at? Yeah, go to the football. Yeah, there we go. Go like football uniforms or something like that. See, this is what I'm... He doesn't know how to look stuff up. He looks up the worst. I know. Sometimes he types in...

What were you looking at the other day? It's the stuff that gets nowhere. See, I need this on my podcast. I need a Google person. Oh, yeah. That's what you learn. Then you can type it in. Who have you? You probably have a Google person. I know. I need to tell them to be like, you're my Google person. Yeah. I'll come in and do it. What's the new one we're looking at here? What do you mean? The new logo. Yeah. Which one is it? I don't know.

I don't even think they have one. What team is this? Oh, that's Colorado. Sorry about that, everybody. That kid's weird. Well, so I basically, I need a better Google person than your Google person. Well, Aaron's not great. How about you? I'm off to a slow start for sure, but I'll pick it up. How about he uses Safari? Vanderbilt new uniforms. There we go. Brian, you should be the Google person. I was, and they took it away from me. Really? Why? Oh.

Because I'm too good. Brian knows what to do, but sometimes speed is more important. I was too fast. And precision. No, he would go in and it was like, he's used to doing like fax machines and stuff like that. So, all right. That's new. Yeah. That's the new uniform. Who took that picture? Like, why would that be your... Aaron took it. So do y'all have a... When y'all take the uniform pictures, is that like a whole day? There's another one of them.

No. Oh, yeah, the V. I like it. I like the stripes on the shoulders. I like the stripes. The V is, I don't know. The V is a little different. I actually kind of like it, but I don't, I mean, people don't like change. You know, the gloves, it's like, it's... No, I like it. I mean, it's fine. Yeah, I love the stripes on the shoulders. Yeah, I like the stripes. But, yeah, the picture day is like, no, you're there for, it's like five minutes. I mean, it's an all-day thing, but...

You just take your individual... I mean, the NFL is a little bit different because you have all the Monday night, Sunday night, which are different broadcasts. Thursday night, which are different broadcasts. You have to do...

different ones for all of them. You have to say your name. You have to do the intros four or five times. When they show you on Monday Night Football and you're the moving person, that's got to be kind of awkward. That was super awkward. I hated it. Some people love it. You have the personality for it. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, not me. Otherwise, they're like, is that a regular picture? Then they see you blink and go, God, Josh. Exactly. Yeah.

But you have to do that for Sunday night football. You have to do it for Monday night football. You have to do it for Thursday night football. And then usually you have to do it for the team, the team website. And so you have to do it every game? No. Like one video? You do it in the beginning of the year for the preseason-ish. And then you're good. What was your go-to move? I bet it was like just kind of twirling football. Yeah, you twirl it. Like I hated it. I hated it. I was like, this is like dumb.

Yeah. I would be, it got to a point where I was like, Hey, just tell me exactly what you want me to do. Yeah. Sometimes I like that too. I do. When you go do, I do it. I go, what do you want? Yeah. What in your mind is going to be best for you? And I will, I will do it to the best of my ability. We, the, the little bit, when you do a special, you have to take a bunch of pictures. And, uh, so they would usually do it like right before the special and you got to go and like the dudes like, all right, do this. And there's all this stuff that you learn. You know, I just learned it, uh,

For your chin. So your chin go up, you put like your tongue at the top of your mouth. And it makes that like this go up. So if someone takes a picture of you in the side. Yeah.

I don't know if I do it right, but it makes it goes up. Yeah. I mean, me and Nate have the double chin problem. Like you just cover yours up with, I have the same problem. I'm just, Brian just doesn't care. He just leans into it at this point. So that's what it fixes. The double chin. Yeah. Tongue to the roof of the mouth. Tongue to the roof of the mouth. And then I just learned that, uh,

And so, like, there's little stuff like that that, you know, so, like, people that know how to take pictures. That's why I always think modeling is kind of crazy because they have to, like, it's hard to look good and photogenic. And so these models, like, have to know how to, like, stand and, like, do stuff. And it's, like, all day of just, like, doing these –

Cause when I go do those pictures of the specials, like you just sit there and you start moving and they're like, you know, the guy's like, I mean, it's just every picture is the same picture. And he's like, I get it. All right. And like, when I go and then they send them to you and they're like, what do you think? I go, I don't, I don't even care. Yeah. I don't care. Just put whatever out. And then they usually pick one that you're like, well, that's the worst one I've ever. And then you go, well, let me see them now. Cause I think apparently you don't know what I look like. And that's awful. And like, I think it's good. I don't think anybody looks at it. I don't think they care. I think for, uh,

I've learned that with comedy.

We get on posters. One of the best posters I've ever did was a picture of me holding my nephew when he was born. And so then they just cropped my nephew out. And I'm like this. And it was like, Nate Bargetze, tonight, Eastville Comedy Club in New York. And it's just like a picture. And I'm like, that's me holding my nephew. I know, but does anyone really want to be like a good-looking comic? I feel like the worse you look, maybe the funnier you are. Yeah, it's difficult for me for sure. Yeah.

Yeah, but he fights through it. That's why he wears that jacket, just to balance it out. Do you recognize that camo? You're a big hunting guy. What is that, Realtree? Oh, yeah, for sure. Look at this. Tomorrow's a big day in Kentucky. Yeah. The season's open tomorrow. So Aaron just looks the part. Oh, okay. But he loves it. I respect it. He respects it, and he loves to look.

He's like a fan. It's like a guy wearing a bear, a bear's uniform. So you just buy camo. Yeah. I was gifted this. Yeah. This particular jacket, but I will buy camo. Yeah. But like never for functional purposes, just for, just for. I love the way it looks, man. Yeah. I love what, I love the statement. He's trying to hide a lot. What's the statement that it makes? Just like, you can't push me around. Like there is a limit.

you're pretty close to be uh you should just wear the orange jacket over it so you don't get shit like you should that should also be your yeah yeah at all times at all times when you go like no i'm just a fan just go you a hunter you like not just big fan fan of the gang i just walk around the woods a lot just cheering them on let's go boy let's go boys today's your day let's go you gotta whisper it let's go today let's go let's go they're uh

Yeah, so Kentucky's – Open tomorrow. When's Tennessee? It opened last weekend, but there's a three-day season, and then it's closed. It's closed for the next two or three weeks. Oh.

I do remember like deer season. Do you? I mean, I never did it. Yeah. But I just remember the guys that did it. It was a thing. It was a thing that they were like, season starts today. Is it like bow or? It's bow, yeah. But you can use crossbow. I don't, but the boys are what, nine and seven. So they'll use a crossbow tomorrow. But you do bow. I do like bow bow. What time do you go?

Now, during this time of season, we only hunt in the afternoons. Oh, yeah. Would they get up at 4? The boys? Yeah. Oh, yeah. They love it. They're getting there. Yeah. It's still you kind of going like, no, it's going to be great. You know, it's one of those things that

You tell them it's going to be great, but you better make it great. Yeah. Yeah. Like if you build it up, build it up, build it up, and then it's not great, it's going to fall flat real quick. So if there's no deer, you're going to kill a person. You got to do what you got to do. See that guy? We're pulling the trigger on something. We're pulling the trigger on something. Squirrel. I mean, something. Something's going down. A corn stalk. Like something has to happen. Yeah.

Bow hunting is that, well, that's the most like real, like that's the intimate, you know, uh, the purest, the purest of the real purest. Uh, Rogan, big bow hunter, Jeff Foxworthy. Yep. Big bow hunter. Yep. He talked about it cause he wanted, cause he was trying to get me to go out.

I've never been. But I'm not going to cut. You don't want to start with bow. That's a whole. I don't even want to. You kill it and you got to like. Dress it. Yeah. That's a whole thing. Yeah, it's not dressing is not what you think. You're like. It's not turkey. I'll dress it, dude. Like, I think it's putting clothes back on. You're like, I cover it up. You're like, no, it's the exact opposite. We're going to get in there. And like, you're like, this is the worst. All in there. All in there.

Well, we want to talk about, you are from Santa Claus, Indiana. Yes, sir. Funny story I found out yesterday, my parents went there for their honeymoon.

Really? I don't know how I feel about that. Dude, they... Why would they go there? Because they have $8. Holiday world? Do they go to holiday world? No. So my dad... So they... My parents, they got married. They were in their 20s and they just had no money. And so their vacation was to go...

Keep going. They're honeymoon. They're honeymoon. Either way. I'm just going to type it in. Yeah. Santa Claus. I'm bombing over here. I mean, the Google guys really terrible. Not the Google Maps guy. There it is.

So they drove. They said they went there. They got there. It was in November. And as they pull up, there's a big snowstorm. Everything shuts down. They basically stayed one night and left. Well, there's nothing that shuts. I mean, there's literally a gas station and a couple of things. I mean, what year was this? 1970. When did they get married?

I know when they got married on November 20th, I can never remember. I would love to know where they stayed. I'll find out. But I don't even know. They had to leave because they had to go to – my parents are from Louisville, Kentucky. So then they had to drive. They just drove to Kentucky basically after. They got there and just – I thought they went to Metropolis. Metropolis.

Which is, where's the metropolis? Is that Indiana? It's Kentucky, I'm pretty sure. I thought it was Illinois. Illinois. It is Illinois. It is Illinois. That's where Superman's from. Outside Paducah, right? Okay. Yeah. Who want to raise them? Superman was. The guy they based it off of.

Clark Kent. Am I wrong? I don't know. Spider-Man's from New York. He is from New York. Do you know how Santa Claus became called Santa Claus? There's all kinds of rumors. Well, I know the truth, so go ahead. I think I want to hear the rumors. Are the rumors great? Well, we have kids listening, so let's not go, you know, just remember that.

Do a lot of kids listen to this, you think? I think so. We're not very high-level podcasts. I mean, I talk below. Like one child, your daughter? No, I think your boys would be. I might be too dumb for your boys. They'd be like, I don't know. Let's just go hunting. You're like, all right, Dad, I'll go. I'll go. We can either stay home or watch Nate Land. They're like, all right, I'll go out there. I'll go. I don't even care if we get in there.

How does Santa Claus get started? Well, they originally tried to call it Santa Fe. That was already a town. Yeah, and that was already a town. So the post office rejected it and said, no, you got to call it something else. Way to be original, guys. How about Santa Claus? They became the most original.

That's very funny. It's like go to Santa Fe, the most unoriginal name to then go, we got to be original. And they go, all right, I'll take it up a notch. How about Santa Claus? You're like, yeah, you're definitely the only one of that. Boom. Boom. You did it. Take that post office. Santa Fe. Santa Fe. Imagine if you were from Santa Fe, Indiana.

I think I'd like it better. Really? I think so. Santa Claus is... But that's kind of... I mean, you get asked... What do you get asked? It's just annoying. You just like constantly. Yeah, it's annoying. What do you say? In college, I wouldn't even say it. I'd be like, yeah, I'm from Evansville. Evansville. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Evansville. Just outside of Evansville. Close enough. Yeah. It's like, what's the difference? Yeah. Because it's like Santa Claus. Really? And then everybody wants to go, but Jay, say where you're from. And they start finding out.

Jay, that's not where you're from. That's not where you're from. That's not where you're from. Do the whole thing. You got to do the whole, whole, whole thing. Do the whole thing, Jay. You're from Santa Claus. But did you go to Holiday World and stuff? We had season passes. Yeah. So that was fun, right? Yeah. But I mean, if we can get... Yeah. He's not going to... What are we doing? What are we looking at? So...

Oh, Christmas Village. Christmas Lake Village. So it's like Christmas all... Do you have like... Give the satellite here. Yeah. Let's do this. Is it Christmas all year there? Do you want me to just run the computer? Yeah. You want me to slide it over? From his hometown, maybe for your hometown. Christmas Lake. Yeah. So Christmas Lake is like a...

Driving in your subdivision, by the way, you're doing very well. Thanks, man. We got, you know, we killed the people that own this house. We just moved in. I got it. They're buried in the cross space. I don't think people will find out for a long time. But my subdivision wasn't this nice, but it reminded me like... Yeah, growing up though, but that's... Mine wasn't either growing up. You're acting like now. Your subdivision is very nice now. Don't act like I'm living in this amazing... He's like, I wish I could one day have the...

But you drove in, and I mean, it's Christmas Lake Village in Santa Claus. It was the most bizarre thing ever. But there was probably, I mean, a thousand people in the town, and you could drive your bike everywhere, and there's a park, and there's a lake. I mean, you're obviously messing it up again over here, but I'll fix it. What was your mascot? Reindeers? Reindeers.

Did they have masks for reindeer? No, we went straight for just Rudolph. Just really. Just kidding. Your face mask is red with a white helmet? Just go straight into it. How good would that be?

What high school did you go to? Christmas Lake. Yeah, it was a county high school. So it was Heritage Hills High School. What's y'all's mascot? The Patriots. Patriots. And it was the old New England, like the three down. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You think you'd find that one? Yeah, yeah. The old, you go type in Heritage. Oh, there's a Vandy one. Look at that. They have the stripes. I just found that. There you go.

Did y'all have any? Yeah, that exact one. That's fun. Yeah. Did anybody else play? Did anybody come out of Santa Claus? Bob Greasy? Oh. Bob Greasy's from Evansville. Okay. That's what he tells people. He's from that area. Is that code for you're from Santa Claus? There you go. He's the second best Miami Dolphin to come from Santa Claus. Oh, you are? Dude, that's it. I'm too. Yeah.

I'm a strong two though. Strong runner up. That's unbelievable. That's the second best nine you don't. Ken Dilger. Ken Dilger. Okay. He played for, he played tight end for Tampa, um,

When you start making it, does Bob Greasy call you early when you go to Vandy? Is it like, oh, dude, you're from Santa Claus? I'm from Santa Claus? No, I don't think I've ever... I've never talked to Bob Greasy. Well, you brought him here. Bob, come on in here. Come on in, Bob. Yeah. Yeah, so Spencer County, Indiana is where I was from. He was from Rye Hill.

uh, what, it went to Illinois. He was a quarterback in high school starter and as a tight end, same thing. Yep. And then he played tight end and, uh, won a Superbowl in Tampa whenever with, uh, what was that? Who was there? Gruden maybe? Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. This one, uh,

They really want to make you all tight ends over there. Big tight ends. Big tight end school. Were you from Santa Claus, Indiana? Tight end? Let me guess, tight end. Tight end you. Yeah, and you're like, I don't want to be a quarterback. You're like, all right. We'll see about that. Yeah, hand me that coffee over there. Okay, watch this. What else about Indiana? Well, Dale Harris, was he from Santa Claus? Do you know who that is?

NBA coach? Dale Harris. No way. All right. According to Wikipedia. Dale? Dale. Dale. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You remember him, right? He was born in 1937, Jay.

Let's go early life. This was... No, this is like... 1937. Yeah. Plainfield. Well, Brian started following him when he was at the Utah Stars. I just thought if he's from your hometown, you might know him. He's from Plainfield, Indiana. Is that close? I think it's up north. Oh, wait. Oh, he was born in Dale, Indiana. Really?

Yeah, that's like 10 minutes away. Oh. It's 84 years old. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's okay. I wasn't around in the 40s there, so I'm sure a lot's changed. Well, him and Brian and Dale were. Where's Plainfield, Indiana? I think that's up north. All right. Indianapolis is the capital and largest city in Indiana. You guys talk about Indianapolis a lot? Yeah, outside of India. Outside of Indianapolis. How far is Indianapolis from you? Like three hours. Would y'all drive up there at all? No.

Evansville. Who were you? Were you a Colts fan?

No, I was a Bears fan. Okay. Because all my family is from Chesterton, Indiana. Chesterton, like Valparaiso. Yeah. Like Bryce Drew. Yeah. Is that Valpo? That's Valpo. Yeah. All my family is from up there, my mom and dad's family. So they all grew up Bears fans. So I grew up a Bears fan. Did. So probably a lot of people were Bears fans in that. Yeah. I mean, a lot of people were Colts fans. And then Ken Dilger went to the Colts. And so like everyone was kind of Colts fans around there.

That's Valpo. Would you have went to school at Valpo? Did they go to Valpo? Your family? Some of them did, yeah. They moved out of it. All my family was up there, but we would just go visit for Christmas and whatever else. People in Indiana are called Hoosiers? That is correct. No one seems to quite know what a Hoosier is. Do you know? What do you have? Some people said that...

People in Virginia, California, or Carolinas and Tennessee called Indiana people Hoosiers because they were backwoodsmen and country bumpkins. It was like a...

Derogatory. You think it's like a basketball? I mean, you're like, oh, it's a pretty good... They're like, Larry Bird is from Indiana. You're like, no, they don't... They can't read. It says bumpkin? Country bumpkin. Indiana, they consider... I guess Indiana, what do you think? Y'all are pretty. They think redneck, like, you know. You're like on the cusp. We are on the cusp. I think you can get there. You can definitely get there. There's places. Oh, yeah. You can find places. You can get there in a hurry. Yeah. But I think once you get like...

Indianapolis and above. Yeah, no, no. They think more Chicago. We're a little bit more sophisticated. More northern. He's from Alabama. So that's like, yikes. But he went to Notre Dame. I did. How? I don't know, dude. They read Shakespeare for breakfast and stuff. Really? They would just talk giant words at his family. Well, it makes sense he can't work at a computer then. He's just booked.

Yeah. He's a book guy. He wears camouflage just to kind of, this is what he thinks poor people dress like. So he wears that just to fit in. He goes, this is what they wear, right? What did you study at Notre Dame? Marketing and philosophy. Really? Yeah. How's that going? He talked about philosophy here. It's all kind of ridiculous. Really? Yeah. What'd you study at Vandy? Oh,

Human organizational development. That's like the... Yeah. And then I got a minor in communications just because I didn't want to go to grad school. Yeah, I took speech at Volunteer State Community College. For a couple weeks. Same thing? Yeah, all the same. Yeah. That's as good as a communications degree from Vanderbilt. Same thing. Same thing. I told him that and I talked to my speech class about the 95 Vanderbilt season. We went five and six. I showed the highlight reel. Yeah.

That was my favorite. It was, uh, you were my favorite. Corey Chavis before you was my all time favorite, uh, Vandy player. Uh,

I had a football signed by him. The signatures. I need to get Corey Chavis' autograph again. Is he still doing? He still does football fantasy stuff. I think. I loved Corey Chavis. Yeah, he was big in the NFL draft stuff. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Yeah, yeah. He was doing that. Yeah, he knows everybody. Yeah. Knows everything about everybody. Big Corey Chavis fan. When the Titans call you to come back, I'm still on this. Sure. Will you call Earl Bennett? Will you be your first call? Say, Earl, we got to get the guys back together. Get the band back together. Earl's like, he's, I think he's on staff at Mandia.

Like he's, he's got a real job. I don't have a real job. So, I mean, I can pull it off. Yeah. You might go play arena football.

Yeah. So anybody can call you and they just come here. Yeah, I'll try it, dude. I'm in. Sure. I'll give it, I'll give it a shot for a day. I'll give it a shot, dude. I'd love to. See what happens here. Could arena, would arena football be, could you play arena football or is it like so weird? No, I think I can play tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause it just would be really fun cause it's like weird. It'd be like playing on a basketball court. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It'd be a blast. Yeah. Is that still on TV? Uh,

I haven't seen it on TV. I haven't seen it on TV in a while. I don't know. It used to be big. It used to be awesome. Yeah. I went to Nashville Cats. The only game I've ever been to was their championship game. They lost. Jared Lorenzen played arena football. He did. He did. This is a weird story. The last arena football game I went to,

And the only arena football game it went to was with Steve McNair. Oh, yeah. Probably enough. Yeah. A couple weeks before he – Oh, you went with him? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, he wasn't playing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Yeah. Oh, man, that's crazy. It is. Yeah. How far can you throw a football?

That sounds like a child just walked in. How big's your hands? Yeah. How much do you weigh? Is your head bigger than my dad's head? I think my dad can beat you up. You're like, all right. Can we get him? Can someone calm him down a little bit? Jay, how far? Give him some chips. Right now or at a... Both. Okay. 75 at some point. Maybe 78.

Oh, 70. He's tested. Okay. Yeah. And then right now. 30, 10, 15. 15 yards. No. Did you hit me? Barely. I might have to use my left arm. What's your roll? I don't know. 60 maybe? Yeah. Ooh.

Was that farther than you? Aaron played football in college. Yeah, I was a center. Not at Notre Dame. No, not at Notre Dame. I played while I was at Notre Dame, not for Notre Dame. He played in the general area of Notre Dame. Notre Dame was there, and he played around the school. I could get to it. Yeah. I could walk there. I couldn't run 60 yards. The suburbs of South Bend. The suburbs of South Bend. Yeah.

Did they... Where did y'all... What was the... Did y'all... We played Notre Dame when you played? No, we played the year after, the second year. But I grew up a Notre Dame fan. Yeah? Yeah. Big Notre Dame fan. Wanted to go there. And then they wanted you to be a linebacker. No, they wanted nothing to do with me. I don't think they knew I existed. Is that... Like, when you get...

Because that was the big thing. I was a big Bobby Johnson fan. Bobby Johnson did more for Vanderbilt than I think we gave him credit for at the time. And then as you saw all of you guys kind of come out of that, you're like, oh, this dude was the real deal. But do you all get super motivated when you don't get recruited by someone? And then you get to Vandy and you're like, well, I'm going to show you all that stuff.

Because you're going to these schools and you're like, none of y'all wanted me. And then after your first year, they're like, well, they would all take you now. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I remember we went – I don't know if – well, we were in Florida. And I was my red shirt. I was red shirting. But I was still dressing. Like it was me and another quarterback. And on away games, we would switch back and forth on who went in the away game. And you just dress. You weren't playing. And we were in Florida. And it was – gosh.

I think it was 28 to nothing into the first quarter. And we ended up losing like 72 to 10. Yeah. And I got home and I was like, this is bad. Yeah. This is really bad. I think I, I need, maybe need to find my way out of this place. Yeah. Obviously I didn't, but yeah, I mean, there's definitely a part of you that once you get somewhere where, you know, you've,

Maybe necessarily didn't want to go and is a little bit below where your expectations were that you want to. And you're like, oh, we're not good. Yeah, you want to go out there and figure it out. But then we came. Yeah. And you did. We started. Yeah, it was amazing. Bobby, for being, you know, a Steve. Who did he look like? Steve Martin. Steve Martin. Yeah. Looked like.

But Dan liked him. Yeah. And kind of just your old, like, grandpa-looking white guy. Like, they recruited really well. And I think if you look at, like, the James Franklin teams and, you know, his early success is because, you know. Yeah. Jordan Matthews, I think. Yep. Those guys recruited so well. He's still around. He, like, really kind of disappeared. Like, he. He's got some health issues right now, unfortunately. Oh, that's. Yeah.

Well, he like retired and then, uh, it's a cool picture. Remember that picture? Where were you at on that? Arkansas. Okay. Arkansas. What time was it exactly? I was, I was just talking about that game a couple of days ago. Cause one of my quarterback coaches, um, I had in Chicago is in Arkansas now. And, uh,

We had a two-minute drill. We had a fourth in, gosh, I want to say like 18 or 16. I remember listening to this game on the radio. Yeah. And we hit. Yeah, he just got TV a couple years ago. Yeah. And I hit Eric Davis in the seam. And then we ended up scoring Marlon White on a slant to win that one. Yeah. Yeah, I remember that. I remember Eric Davis. Yeah.

This is the first time he's ever seen you in person. He's only heard you on the radio. I didn't know you were real. He goes, wow. I thought you were black. I was hoping you were black. I just assumed. He goes, oh, that makes sense. Walks out and meets the wrong person. I had that. Where was that? I don't want to say. It doesn't matter where we're at. But the

I went to a comic club. I remember going to the green room and the guy just walks in. He goes, all right, who's Nate? And he just looked at all of us and you're like, I'm headlining. I think it was sold out. And it's just such a funny, I was like, all right, here. And he goes, whatever. It doesn't matter. Don't care. Yeah, don't care. So who's, like, he just, I could have, he would have let me host if I said I'm the host. He'd be like, that's fine. All right. Kruger. So you're Nate, you're last. Who's going first? Who's going now? What's the other order?

So, Indianapolis 500 is the largest single-day sporting event in the world. I've been to the racetrack. So have I. It's the largest in the world? Single-day sporting event, it says. Really? How many people? 250,000. That can't be relevant still. Well, we don't really look at that. We don't look up too much stuff. We let our fans comment and tell us the truth for the next week. But I mean, the largest, longest? Largest. Largest. One-day sporting event. 250,000. Who else would...

I feel like maybe like Talladega. There's got to be some NASCAR stuff. No, I don't think. I think they're under 100 or 200. I mean, they're probably close. But, I mean, the Indy 500, is it around the –

It's a track. It's a track, right? It's not through the streets. Yeah. No, it's just, you said you've been to the track. I've been there. It's an oval. It's an oval. It's like a square, right? I think it's an oval. Yeah. I think they make it, they turn the blinker on. I guess. Because it's a sharp turn. I know everybody makes that joke about do they have to. Just left turns. Left turns. Uh,

I mean, I guess it's a rounded square. It's a rounded rectangle. Yeah. You've driven around it? Yeah. Why? How? We went to a NASCAR race a long time ago. The Brickyard? The Brickyard. He didn't. He just thought it was through the city of Minneapolis. He just drove through downtown. But I've been to the Brickyard. Same track. Same track. And so my buddy Tommy Hall went and did his wife's.

dad worked for NASCAR or something so we got to drive around the track and we drove around it I mean very reasonable slow nothing crazy it was at the end of the race so I mean once you get around it you're like okay it was like just going like 30 I mean it was cool it's a good story I drove it huh it's a really good story right you know you're like is this the guy's podcast you're like it's a lot of this dude like I just mentioned people that I grew up with and they're like

My neighbor Felix, you met him earlier. You talked about him. I drove. One time we went to Charleston. Is this as good as the Rick Carats? I don't know. We're going to find out. Richmond. The Richmond race. No idea. Whatever NASCAR race is in Richmond. And the gate was open, and we just drove our regular cars around it. Really? And then someone came, and they got pretty mad about it.

How fast were you going? Very bumpy. Not fast at all because we were like, it was like there was like potholes and stuff. Really? Yeah. A little run down. Maybe that's why it was open. I'll be honest with you. Maybe it wasn't that one. The Richmond Raceway? I don't know. Maybe. It's just like a track around a football field. I was in someone's driveway. I was like, maybe that's what they get. It was a family. You know what? That was a family that ran out. You know what turns out? Someone's house. It wasn't that exciting. Maybe. What's the largest crowd you've ever played in front of?

Knoxville? Yeah, probably 100-something, 105 maybe. God, dude. Yeah. That's a lot of people. It's crazy. But you don't even hear it. Like, it's like... Dude, it's tunnel vision. Like, it's... Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and then... I mean, it gets so loud that you just...

You're just screaming in the huddle and you just hope that everyone hears you. When the receivers take off running a little bit early, is that a sign we're not a part of this play? It's either a sign that they don't care and they're not a part of the play or it's going the other way. Or they heard – most of the time they only need to hear like one piece of the play. Like they don't care about the protection. They need to hear the –

formation and then whatever their piece is. Yeah. And if they hear that piece, they're like, all right, I'm out. Yeah. Don't care what else is what happens. You always see it as like, how funny it'd be like, God, why are they stopping us? So you're like, hey guys, I don't know, maybe receivers don't take off running. Basically they walk away and they go, it's time.

I've been in huddles where you said the play and the receiver just walks to the sideline because he's not giving up all. He's like, I'm out. Get somebody else in here. And then you're like, but we need. So part of it is like they don't know. Maybe you're part of it. That's the trick. And then they just because you always see them run off. Yeah. Yeah.

Would you see it at any game? Like, would you notice us? Because we'd just be up there. Four of us up there waiting. Would you see me and Brian? Jay! Jay! A couple parents. Yeah. Was it a bigger jump from high school to SEC or SEC to pro? High school to SEC. Yeah. I mean, the thing about the NFL is...

I mean, playing at Vandy, like, you were always – I think we talked about this for a second – is, you know, we had, like, four good guys. Yeah. Maybe five. And, like, the SEC school was, like, they had 11 dudes that were legit. Yeah. Then when I got to the NFL, I was like, oh, well, all 11 of my guys are pretty good. So, like, it kind of evened out. It got a little bit – I mean, I'm not going to say easier, but it was just – Yeah, well – It was a more level playing field. Yeah, yeah. Well, I get – I see the shock of the high school at SEC. Mm-hmm.

And then the shock of SEC to – you saw – you played against those people. And then you're like, yeah, and that's true. I never thought of that where you're like, yeah, well, my 11 guys are just as good as your 11 guys. So you're at least like – it's quicker and stuff like that. But it's – did you – Sounds like the jump from Vandy to other SEC teams was the biggest gap. That was a big gap. Yeah. That was a gap. Yeah, I mean you got – yeah, I mean it was tough. You'd get sacked a ton. Yeah.

And it was just, I mean, I remember you getting just killed in some stuff. But we did good. I got a DVD. I'm going to get you to sign this DVD of the 2006. I watch it every night. Repeat. Yeah, just repeat. Puts me to sleep. You want to watch it? Love to. Yeah, just me and Jay. He's like, all right, I got to get out of here, man. What else about Indiana? Two of the greatest sports films ever came from Indiana. Hoosiers. Hoosiers and Rudy. Rudy. Hoosiers about...

Bumpkin family. 1954 Indiana State Championship champion, Milan High School. Oh, that's what they had made it about. First, they go, what's this about? They go, all right, well, we don't need shoes for this film. And then they, you know...

Feed y'all hay. There's a lot of story in this thing, though. There's an alcoholic. It's my favorite sportsman. There's the coach. The coach is like, he got kicked out of a different school for you don't really know, find out what. There's a love story in it.

There's a couple of broken families. Y'all watch this in school? Yeah. Would they show it to y'all in elementary school? Yeah, this is part of graduating sixth grade. That's how you get out. Yeah. Do you want to go to middle school? You have to watch Hoosiers and you have to give a report on it. And it better be good. And it better be.

If not, you're taking sixth grade again. Yeah. What was the other movie? Rudy. Rudy. Oh, that's right. You think Hoosiers is better than Rudy? I mean, I did. I thought they were both great. Rudy's probably my second favorite. Well, when you look into it, Rudy, and you're like, wasn't it like the real story of Rudy's like... It's not great. You can't do that with any of these movies, though. Yeah, but Hoosiers is a made-up movie. Okay. So that's what I mean. So the Rudy one is... No, Hoosiers isn't made up. No, it's based off a real high school team in Indiana. Oh, I mean...

The 1954 Indiana State... This is the first I'm hearing about either one of these movies, so...

What's wrong with Rudy? What's the real story? The story isn't... They say it's not that accurate, and Rudy was a little bit not that type of guy that he was portrayed as in the movie. I think about it now, older, if that kid were on my team, I would hate that kid. Oh, yeah. Come on, guys, we're playing Purdue this weekend. It's like, shut up, dude. You're not even supposed to be on this team. You're not any good. Yeah. That would be you if you enrolled at Vandy and finally got in there, though.

Yeah, but to be the voice of Rudy was the voice, right? I think I would know my place and I would just back off. And they gave me a shot. People would be happy.

Like I'd be the – you know, when they throw the kid out there. You see that Vandy basketball, you always see like the seniors that have been there the whole time and they go play. And again, they get a start. He hauled the goalpost when he was in high school down West End. We beat Duke. Really? So – it's such a funny – but we beat South Carolina the week before. And it was our first SEC win we've had. So this was – when was that? 95? And this was our first SEC win. Long history of excellence at Vandy. Yes. And so –

We tried to take the goalpost down that day, but the Titans were playing the next week. So they were like, you can't. And I mean, literally one guy told us no. And you guys were like, no problem. Keep them. Nobody. There was like a guy just kind of near it. He's like, guys, do you mind? We've got a Titans game tomorrow. We go, yeah, that makes sense. And then we all just went home. And then we beat Duke the next week.

And then we took it. And I remember I was like in high school and I'm carrying it. We carry it out of the tunnel and we take it to some fraternity house and they go, just put it in the yard. And we laid it down. And then I was like, all right. And then just like, they didn't invite me to hang out or anything. I was like, all right. Like I just literally was labor for them. Yeah.

I'm 35 years old. No, I'm joking. I was at least in high school. So, I graduated in 97. So, but they, yeah, it was very funny, though, to be like, we did it against Duke. And it's crazy, too, because Duke was terrible. And now, I mean, Duke's gotten a lot better. They're okay. Yeah. Who was, I used to always say, I,

I always thought our first SEC win would be Alabama because that's how bad Alabama used to be. Yeah. And that's always crazy to me because they're so good now. Yeah, they're a machine. And it was like before, they were terrible. And you're like, dude, we could beat Alabama. Dude, you beat Alabama? Or they already turned? No, they were. They were already turned. They were turned up. Yeah, it was good. Yeah. Yeah.

Them and LSU, like, it didn't matter. Like, offensively, I think they've gotten a lot better. But defensively, like, they had just animals up front. Like, their front four, like –

They had like three first round picks every year. It's like, where do you guys keep finding these dudes? Yeah. Aliens up here. When you throw, the mechanics of throwing, is it just kind of a feel thing? You're just like, I'll just throw it. You know what I mean? Not really. Try again. Super mechanic. Golf is very mechanical, right? So you got to think of like,

All these kind of different moves. Okay, I'll help you here. So a golf swing and hitting a baseball with your hips and moving your weight is a lot like throwing a football. Okay. From...

From your feet up. Yeah. Up to probably like here. Yeah. And then you have to incorporate, you know, your arms and all this stuff. But from, you know, from here down, it's not that far off. Yeah. Like everyone kind of wants to correlate it to pitching a baseball and stuff. And it's not even close to that.

Because you're stationary for the most part. You might take a small step, but you're grounded in the ground where baseball, coming off a mound, you're getting momentum. And then you're basically falling off a hill. And throwing off the wall is not like that at all. But it's your legs and stuff. It's your legs. It's your hips. It's your core. That's where you're generating all your power. This is just an extension. This is just like a whip. So you could...

get man boobs right now and go just real super fat up top and just keep nipple below top shape. And you can, yeah. And I could get some enhancements or something and just then do the whole thing. Just come in. You have to wear an extra big, your, your shoulder pads going to go up a little bit farther. No, I got a gun here. Cause Jackie's like,

But your bottom is just a rock, dude. He's throwing it on her neck. You can still spin it. Yeah, he's like, dude, he's good. He's good. Look at him. He's got some boobs, but he looks fine. He leaves his shirt on when we go in. It's 2021. Yeah. Everybody's cool with it. It's perfectly fine. Everybody's cool with it.

All right, that's what I'm doing. All right, another movie set in Indiana, Christmas Story. Oh, yeah. Set in Holman, Indiana. I met the guy. Which guy? The kid, the main kid. Ralphie? Ralphie. Yeah, he might be moving here. Why? I don't know. He's a, what does he do now? He's a- Looks like John Heffron a little bit.

Yeah, the other, God, is it him? No, yeah. Is he an attorney? Yeah, no, there was another guy. The kid from Goonies is an attorney. Yeah, entertainment. Yeah, he's a good lawyer, entertainment lawyer, but he's the fat kid from Goonies.

Yeah, they get out of acting and then they get into like, you know, still somewhat in the entertainment world. You just Google Goody's Fat Kids. Yeah, Truffle Shuffle. We used to chant Truffle Shuffle at Fat Kids. Huh? The student section in high school basketball games, if a fat kid had the ball on the other team, we would chant Truffle Shuffle at them. How did you feel about it? I mean, now I reflect back and I think, wow, I was so immature. Yeah.

Did they ever point at you and they go...

I had the safety of a mob at the time. I wouldn't stand in there by myself. I'd call the kind of whack here. I mean... Come on! Just a leader. Look at Amir. Just a team. Okay, now we're making fun of fat people. Did anyone ever ask you for your autograph in high school? No. He didn't meet Brian. Who did you ask for? Carlos Groves.

He's like, who was he? He played basketball in Tennessee. He played basketball in Tennessee. And you asked him if he was autographed in high school? Yeah. What did he say?

I mean, he reluctantly did it. His buddies made fun of him. I didn't care. I was like, hey, give it to me. Yeah, they were like- What'd you do with it? They were classmates, I believe. I mean, I looked at it last night. So like in English class, you're like, hey. Yeah. Carlos. We weren't at the same high school. How did you find him? He came to our school to play. I approached him with my magazine. Oh, your- Which I'm going to do with you after this podcast. Yeah, perfect. Yeah. Yeah, thanks. Yeah.

Indiana's had one president, six vice presidents. Who was the president? Benjamin Harrison. Oh, yeah. He was an exciting one. One of our better ones. Lasted 30 days, right? 32 days? No, not him. This is the first time I'm hearing about him. Big president guy. Was that William Henry Harrison? Maybe.

Pence was the last VP, I take it. Yeah, six VPs. Dan Quayle before Pence. That does a good VP. That's a good state of y'all in Indiana where you're like, look, we ain't trying to be all up in everybody's business. We're good at what we do. Happy to be second. Happy to be number two. Yeah, number two. Their nickname is Second Best Miami Dolphin from Santa Claus. Boom. Team player. Indiana's nickname, one of their nicknames is Mother of Vice Presidents. Never heard that. Oh, the mother of... Because there's so many...

Yeah, because there's six of them. I don't know. They're getting a little crazy there. I mean, do we lead the country in vice presidents? I think there was a period back in the 1800s where every election there was a vice president. They didn't have a lot of names for people. Largest Christmas tree in the world is in Indianapolis. What about the New York one? Or live one? I don't know. I just make this stuff up. I got you. Oh, because it's in the middle of the square row and they do it in Santa Claus. Why don't y'all do that? I think there's more than one Santa Claus tree.

Is there? In the U.S. I'm guessing. That's not fun. Santa Claus cities. How many towns? It said the question at the top. Oh. Three. Boom. Yeah. I knew I was right. I'll follow up. Indiana, Georgia, Arizona. But the one in Arizona is a ghost town. They got abandoned in 95. That's a ghost town. It's a town that's just not a town anymore. Wait, so where is Santa Fe, Indiana?

Because that seems to be the problem here. Yeah. Found at 1840 L at Santa Fe. I think that was- The name changed two days, or two years later to Santa Claus. To avoid confusion with another Indiana town of the same name. Yeah, so I'm saying, so is there a Santa Fe, Indiana currently?

I think it was. Yeah, there's another one. It's in Miami County, Indiana. Yeah. That's a big confusing place. It's just getting more. A lot of places in Indiana named where you think like there's a Mexico, Indiana. Yeah, it's right there. Kokomo. Kokomo. Yeah.

So what's a ghost town? I think I was going to start saying it. I don't know what a ghost town is. I'm from Santa Fe. Can you go to a ghost town? Yeah. No one lives there. Like out west? Yeah. Towns that came up really fast during the gold rush and stuff. And you could just go walk around there.

I mean, I think it's tourist sites now, but I think there's... I would think you can't go live. You could just be like, I'm going to make this my town. Yeah, I don't think so. Might be able to. Someone knows. I mean... Why would you not? Yeah, I mean, they're just old buildings. If you want to live there, I'm sure no one's going to stop you. Why don't we go start a town? I follow... There's a guy on YouTube I follow who bought an old abandoned mining town in Colorado. Bought it, moved in. He's just trying to...

renovate it. Mr. Beast? Make it his own little town. No, it's not him. It's not Mr. Beast. It's not Mr. Beast. He watches children's stuff. Would you play in the game on Roblox? Is that where you got tipped off to it? Yeah. In the chat on Roblox?

He's trying to adopt me. How's his ghost town going these days? I mean, I haven't checked in on him in a while. He was trying to get internet going. He was struggling for a while. He was trying to really do what? He was trying to move in. If you make it a real salon, people would go stay there. But didn't worry about water or electricity. He was like, I need internet. It's a major thing. When he goes to the bathroom, he goes, ah, dadgummit. He just sits there. We got Wi-Fi, though. Yeah. He goes, I don't know. Look it up. You can look up how to make bathrooms. Then they go...

The Batesville Casket Company is located in Batesville, Indiana. My uncle works for Batesville. What? Yeah. I think it's Batesville. What's another casket company? I don't know. Yeah. The reason I'm telling that, my last name is Bates. Oh. Yeah, thanks, Jay. Probably wanted to know that. Well, he's probably wondering why I'm talking about a casket company. I was. I think everybody is. No, I definitely was wondering why that was on the list. It's a Batesville podcast. Yeah.

Yeah, but the Batesville podcast has often made fun of this show. I don't know if anybody was at home going. No one except maybe Jay, who I bet probably didn't know that. He didn't know that. I don't think I didn't know that. I don't think I wanted to know that. I don't even know what we're talking about. Let's talk about some famous people from Indiana. Let's start recording. Larry Bird. Who's that?

Some French Lick? French Lick. I mean, French Lick, was that like... There's some look-up French Lick attractions, or there's some monastery or some... What's this thing? Amenities? French Lick? This is a hotel. Yeah, look at this thing. Oh, they have a great... I think I've heard it is a big golf course there.

Is that this one? Yeah. Get the French Lick. What is that? Yeah, look at this place. Oh, my bad. Oh, wow. French Lick Resort? Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. Yes. And the rest of the town is... There's nothing. Just Larry Bird statues. Yeah, it's just Larry Bird. Is there a statue of him there? There's a hundred of them. Yeah, every other street's Larry Bird Avenue. They talk about Larry Bird every day. I remember doing the Larry Bird... Someone said...

I can't, I'm blanking on his name. He's a comedian. But he talked about when he watched the Larry Bird, like 30 for 30 or something, him getting hurt. Yeah. Look at this thing. Look at that thing. It's an enormous. So they, that's a big popular, I've looked at it like, cause there's a, why is it there? That's a, that's my whole question. Like, why is it there? It's a big golf course. And I think it's just like, they do a lot of conventions and stuff there. Uh,

is what I understand. I've looked at it because of the golf. I think it's a really good golf. So, but he said something about when Larry Bird, because Larry Bird hurt his back, like carrying like semen or something. Like he was like doing his own driveway and, and like he was picking it up and it got too heavy. And so funny to be like me, he's a million, I mean, he's a millionaire at that point. You're like, just hire some Larry. Yeah.

You're the greatest ever. And he just shows up. He's like, my back hurts. You're like, because you picked up... Because you redid your driveway. He was like saying, if I could go back in time and do anything, I would just pick up that cement bag for Larry that day. That's the guy. He's from Boston. So he was like, that's all he would do. He could go stop anything in the world. He's like, I would just go show up...

Larry's driveway that day. If he had a time machine, that's where he's going. That's where he's going. Nothing to do with Hitler. Nothing to do with Hitler. Nothing to do with anything. Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry. I got it. I got it. He's that guy. He just picks it up and he carries it. Take a seat, Larry. I got this for you. I got this, buddy. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about a thing. Have you ever met Larry Bird?

I don't think so. Y'all don't have like Indiana meetings or something? I mean, yeah, no. We need them, obviously. I mean, maybe after this podcast. This could get started. Y'all start talking about Indiana stuff. This definitely could spark it. What would y'all do? Where would y'all do the meeting? I mean, I think right here. Oh, yeah. I think you got to do it at the Fresh Lake. I guess you got to have a convention. Yeah. Resort. I mean, I want to go to this place now. Yeah. I mean, it's amazing. Y'all have a roller coaster.

What was the park you said earlier? Holiday World. Okay. And Splash and Safari. And Splash and Safari. It's actually, it actually is legit. Yeah, it's like awesome. Yeah, it's, yeah. I said it had the two longest water slides in the world. Oh, yeah? That's fun. The Mammoth and something else. I forgot. Yeah. You don't know about having...

Yeah, we had season passes. We would just ride our bikes up there. Oh, yeah, and just get to go all day long. Yeah, just... I know, those days. They were the best. Unlimited coke. Was it on a highway? Was it on a major highway? There was no major highways. Where is this park at? Just in someone's backyard? It's a big park. It's literally right next to Christmas Lake Village.

Oh, so it's like kind of down. No, like there's no highway. This is a two lane road. Yeah. Young Jay and his friends are on their bicycles in the middle of the road and just swing off in there. I mean, if he can figure out the map thing, we might have a job. It's so funny to think about the days of like your parents could send you to a theme park. Yeah. And just go and you go, how are we going to get there? We're going to ride a bike on a road. Yeah.

And we'll be back maybe 15 hours. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was okay. Here, give us the satellite. No one even knows what this thing is anymore. Wildebeest and Mammoth were the two world's two longest water coasters. It's the world's first theme park.

Oh, the world's first theme park? According to them. Oh, according to them? Yeah. I Googled it and some different answers there. There's some debates. But the guy started it because he went to Santa Claus, Indiana, and there was nothing Santa Claus like fun. Yeah. So, I mean, if you follow my cursor here, like this is the exit out of Christmas Lake Village. Like you just drive up here or we would go actually, we would kind of cut through the woods back in here and hit this like country road and just ride our bikes and

And then you just go, actually you go down here and then just, you just ride in there. Yeah. And then you're in holiday world. Yeah. You go through with your little pass. Like this is, all this is a parking lot. All this, all this is a parking lot. Yeah.

So you just park your bike right here at the ticket thing, show them your season pass, and you're... How fun is that? You're five minutes from a roller coaster. What a fun childhood. Unlimited Coke at Holiday World. I remember that. You get a cup, and there's just drink dispensers all over the place. Super healthy. Gosh, that seems like my kind of time. Do they still do that? Oh, yeah. They do. I love it. I'll go there. Yep. Just sweeten. Passing out sugar. I mean, like... Oh, we drink Diet Coke, Jay. We're not crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep it together. It's all good for you.

I mean, I would just be changing up. It was a problem. Now they might have the machines where you get a pick. I'm sure they do. Do you drink soda? No. You ever drink soda? Yes. I mean, growing up. Yeah, sure. Grew out of it. Grew out of it. Decided. And now you don't drink it at all? No.

It's really good, man. Oh, I know how good it is. Okay. I've had it. That's what I understand about eating good is that's the thing you go, you know, it's great. Like, I mean, you have the Sour Patch Kids for breakfast. You're like, no, you're like, you know, it's really good though. It's a great time. Yeah, dude, I agree. I think it's amazing. I'm just trying to live. That's it.

Some more famous people. David Letterman. Oh, yeah. Where's he from? Born in Indy. Grew up in Muncie. Went to Ball State. Oh, Ball State. Cardinals. Yeah. He talked about Ball State. He played Indy in a lot. He was a weatherman in Indianapolis. Yeah. Really? Yeah. He would do funny stuff on the air. He congratulated a tropical storm for being upgraded to a hurricane. Oh, that's funny. Just fun stuff like that. Super fun. The Jacksons.

for all from Gary, Indiana. Gary, Indiana. Not a place you want to go. Gary's a fun town. Yeah. A lot of fun things happening up there. When we would take this, we would take a train from South Bend to Chicago and it stops in Michigan City in Gary. And you can just kind of feel it when the train stops. You're like, what happened?

Like a chill goes through you. It's just a dark place, dude. Someone listen to this in Gary, like in Gary, Indiana right now. And you're like, you just sit there like. They know better than I do. They know what it is. Chill goes through you. You just wake up. You feel it, man. You're asleep in your car and you just kind of like wake up and go, God, someone cut the air on or what? You know, oh, in Gary, Indiana. That makes sense. John Mellencamp. Yeah. Born in Seymour.

I can remember when he was John Cougar Mellencamp. Why did he get rid of that? What happened? Did you ever know him as John Cougar Mellencamp? I mean, a lot of people did. Yeah. Oh, okay. Why did he change? Well, I think his real name is John Mellencamp. I think he started calling himself John Cougar because he didn't think Mellencamp was a good rock name. And then he went John Cougar Mellencamp, and then he finally come full circle and just went back to John Mellencamp. I think he just sort of went John Cougar. Yeah. John Cougar would have been a great name. Yeah. Yeah. Did you ever have a nickname in football? No.

Cuddy. Did you ever want one? Cuddy? Yeah. Kid Cuddy? Everybody would call him Cuddy. Did you ever see those memes of you with a cigarette? How fun are those? Super fun. Right? Yeah. Yeah, they are. Just promoting cigarettes. Didn't Aaron Rodgers do one? Didn't Aaron Rodgers do one just kind of making fun of that meme? Don't know. I don't know. It was a very funny...

But you know what you always think about? That is the most comfortable way. Everybody holds their... Oh, I think he's just doing a signal. Oh, okay. Like we had that signal too. It's either smoke or probably a drag slam. And there's no telling what it is. I always think holding your pads though, very comfortable. That is. You know, you always see like cops do that. They're bulletproof vests. It's super comfortable. It is. Yeah.

Unless you had a hand warmer. Those are fun, right? I bet those are good. Would you do a hand warmer? Oh, loved a good hand warmer. And we had hand warmers for when it rained. It had like this wick drying like stuff in it. Yeah. And those are cool. I like those. Did you, when you put your feet in those heater things, does that really help? Oh, super hot. Really? Oh yeah. Those things are, you get to a point where if you sit there long enough, like you have to put like a towel down and sit on them. Oh. Because they're,

Is it like when you're playing that cold, is it the worst or is it? I liked it. Yeah. Because everything's slow. Everyone's slow. Yeah. Everything slows down. Like the defensive line's slow. I mean, you have to just keep your hands so warm. You just don't feel it really.

You just kind of get out there. Would you wear... You ever go short sleeve? No, I'm not an idiot. But the linemen would, right? Wasn't that like a point of pride? Yeah, some do. No, I didn't. I was like, I need to be... I went to a point where I bought... Or a coat. You know what I mean? Just went out there with a parka. Just paint my number on this, guys. Bulk it up a little bit. You got just a big starter jacket underneath it. And you're just out there throwing. We bought...

Like three-quarter sleeve wetsuits. Oh, wow. Tops. Oh, that's pretty smart. Tom Brady, I think, was probably one of the first ones that did it. And then I heard about it and we bought some from a company from California. Yeah. Scuba gear, basically? Yeah. And it was awesome. Like you...

You'd feel fine. You'd feel fine. And you can throw and everything. You had to make sure that it wasn't too thick, like the millimeters and stuff wasn't too thick, but they worked great. That's pretty smart. Yeah. Tom, smart guy. Jim Gaffigan. Oh, yeah. Report Indiana. Played football at Purdue, then transferred to Georgetown and played there. Didn't know that. I didn't know they had a football team in Georgetown. I did not know that either. According to this.

25% of the U.S.'s popcorn comes from Indiana. Did you know... I just figured this out because my farm in Kentucky, we're doing it. There's a certain corn that you plant that actually is popcorn. Oh, really? Yeah. There's popcorn corn. Yeah. And then there's just regular like corn on the cob and then there's different... I didn't know that. You can just put what you want out there. Apparently. Yeah. Because we had corn and we leased it out and I was like,

They're like, it's popcorn. I was like, what do you mean? Yeah. Like, well, this is specifically for popcorn. I was like, really? Like, what's, why can't they just use regular corn? Like, no, like this is popcorn. This is popcorn. I was like, okay, we got popcorn. And it pops. I guess it's like pop, more poppable. You put it in a bag. And it just pops. And shove it in the bag and then you go microwave it. Microwave it, yeah.

Imagine somebody you go to their house and they're like, you want to get some popcorn? He's like, yeah. You got to walk on his field. You're like, I don't know if I want it anymore, dude. He's like, no, we're good. We'll get it. You know, you're like, all right. It pops the seed or the corn? I don't understand the question. I don't understand really what's happening. So it's making corn, but I thought popcorn is, don't you pop the seed? Yeah. The kernel. It's the kernel. So they're planting things to get the kernels.

How does that even work? We had a long debate about why popcorn's yellow one time. I think they must dry it out. They have to dry it out, right? It has to go through some sort of... Like you get woken up at night just hearing pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, and you're like, oh, God. Probably during the day when the sun's out. If it gets too hot out. Yeah. Oh, I need the cloud cover to come over. It's burnt. Here we go. Growing popcorn. Give it to us. It's easier than you think. I mean, it just takes a little extra space in your garden.

Oh, they might've lied to me. Like I might just have regular corn out there. Not all corn pops. Okay. So variety matters. It's a special variety of corn.

Take a shot at that. I'll be honest with you. I'm hoping that they lied to you. At this point, I hope that they just said, I just told them it was popcorn. What? Let this idiot talk about it. They go, they get, you know, they're like, should we tell them the truth? You go, where is he going to say it? I don't even know. Who would hear him say that? Why would he talk about this? Why would he ever talk about this publicly?

Yeah. You get trapped in an Indiana conversation. That's how you get there. He's in Kentucky. Is this where you hunt? Yeah, you get there real fast. Yeah, quicker than you think. Some TV shows set in Indiana. Stranger Things, set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. Parks and Recreation, set in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. Yeah.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, set in the fictional town of Dernsville, Indiana. A lot of fictional towns in Indiana. Why don't they do a real town? I think because it just represents just middle America in a way. The middle, set in the fictional town of Orson, Indiana. 0 for 4. Season one of the Jeff Foxworthy show was set in Bloomington, Indiana. Yeah, that's really. It's a real town. Then they changed it. It went from ABC to NBC and they put them in Georgia.

Wanted to make it more southern. Did they explain that in the show or are they just in Georgia? I think they just started off. The next episode. They started dipping and stuff. Haley Joel Osment was his son. Everybody figured it out. They go, he just, first scene, he's popping a can and you go, oh, let's move this to Georgia.

They go, just have to get scared. They never addressed it. They never like really have to say it. They go, everybody gets it. You know, who, Damon Wayans, his sitcom, his daughter changed in the, remember, was it Damon Wayans? Oh.

He had a great sitcom. And I think it was Damon. The Wayman Brothers? The Wayman Brothers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like Damon's... Damon had a sitcom on like CBS. Oh, just him? Or something. It was like his family. It was like a family sitcom. And so his daughter changed. They just didn't address it? In the middle of it. She walked downstairs and he goes, God, you look different today. And then they just kept going. It was like very good. Yeah. It was just like we all...

address it and then we moved on. Remember, yeah, the Fresh Prince, the mom changed in the middle of the show. I don't think they ever addressed it. Never say anything. Yeah, you shouldn't. Yeah, you're just like, everybody gets it. You're like, they get it. They'll figure it out. It's still the mom. The Miss Pat show was just renewed for season two. Miss Pat's Real Life, hometown in Plainfield, Indiana. She's from Plainfield? Know that place? Is Miss Pat like the comedian Miss Pat? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Don't know that one.

The first professional baseball game was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana. There you go. Could you have played any other sport? Maybe baseball. Did you play baseball in high school? Aren't you All-State in basketball too?

In high school? I think so. He's all everything. I was getting Carlos Groves autograph and he didn't even know if he made all stake. He, well, cause you're just like, yeah, I mean, if you're an athlete, I figure if you're an athlete, you can make it to the NFL. You could probably play like all of them could kind of play. Could LeBron play in the NBA? Like, I mean the NFL, like,

I don't think so. You don't? No. He's enormous, though. And so fast. I mean, it'd be interesting to see what happens. He could figure it out. You guys could all figure it out. I think he'd figure it out.

You know, getting hit is different with that position. Like, you're going to get hit. You're going to get smoked a few times. And you're going to get hit, like, looking at the ball. Every game. Yeah. You know, he's one of the most impressive athletes ever to play any sport. Yeah. So, athletically, he can figure it out. He just has to be willing to get hit. It's a lot to get hit. Yeah, it's not fun. It's not fun. And you're getting hit by the strongest person ever. Yeah, you're getting hit by – Who hit the hardest? Like –

Did any stand out or is it just... I mean, they all suck. Yeah, that's about the same. Did any of them ever you go like, that was them, man? Yeah, I mean, there's sometimes you get some guys and it's like, oh, he took care of me. Instead of just smoking you, they'll kind of wrap you up and just roll you down. He's like, hey...

Thanks, bud. I appreciate that. That's when he walks away and we always see you hit the other guy. You're like, hey, man, I really appreciate that. I appreciate that. I bet there is a nice – that's like a class. Yeah. A little nice class that he goes like, dude, this dude could have rocked my world. Oh, could have. And he just went down. I'll go down too. I'm not going to try to fight you. Yeah. And then it's called a day. We're all good here. We're all good. Let's go to the next play. Yeah.

Did you ever get hit by Brian Urlacher? Was he still the Bears? Yeah, we played in Chicago when I was in Denver my third year. So, yeah, when he was in Chicago. When y'all both were on Chicago, they would never. No, no, no. You don't ever get hit by your own team. No. In practice? No. That's why as a quarterback, you just get to do. Yeah, that's why they're also kind of like, hey, you –

Kind of like a prima donna. It's like, hey, you never hit anybody in practice. And these guys are out here hitting every single day. Yeah. For the most part. And now. What was the most you've been sacked in one game? I want to say we were in New York, and I think it's 10. I think it's like eight before halftime. Is it? That might be our record. Do you ever go back to the line and you're like, that was like a lot today, guys. Yeah. I think that game I was like, hey, bro, I was like,

Are we just not doing this today? We just not, like, you just don't want to block it. We going for the record? Yeah. Are you guys boycotting? Yeah. It didn't tell me? What if they go? Yeah, yeah. I would have stayed home. Yeah. I didn't need to come out for this. What do y'all want? Golf carts or something? Don't y'all always have to buy weird? What do you, y'all don't like the scooters that I got? I got everybody a scooter and y'all go tell me, right? This is how you're telling me? You don't like it? You guys wanted to watch? You wanted to watch? You wanted to watch this show? Well, just ask for it. I'm open to that. Dude, I would love to buy you a watch. It's too late now though, huh, guys? Yeah, yeah.

We're already at eight, Jay. You might as well do. If you knew you were at eight sacks, is the most? What's the most? You're not the most ever, right? No. Maybe four and a half. Would you ever want to be the most? What if you find out the most is like 15 sacks and you're like 14? You're like, well, I might as well do one more. 14? I wasn't far. Yeah. Oh, 14 is the most. The Giants allowed. So if you're at 10. That's 1952. I know. Do you ever want to just go like, you know?

Let's go for the record? We're at 13. You're like... Let's give them the record. Let's give them the record. The opposite of what Brett Favre did for Michael Strahan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, all 14 aren't on the quarterback. You might have a couple in there, but most of it's on someone blocking. It's their fault, not yours. So it's a tough thing. Yeah. I remember high school, we're getting...

destroyed by this team and I was playing defensive line and the offensive lineman I landed in front of him he goes hey dude it's not coming over here so let's just relax yeah I was like thanks dude yeah we just kind of chilled over there yeah it's probably why we were getting destroyed yeah that kind of attitude but yeah you're making you're making deals with the opposite team yeah because I did let's just you want to just chill this part you tell me I'll tell you swear I'll let you know yeah yeah you pinky promise dude you go back to him and you're like of course it's coming over here

Like you're just annoyed with him. And he's like, oh. And you're like, it's like you're talking to, like your wife won't let you go do something. I dig it.

You know them. Come over here this time. Yeah. And then they're like, all right. I'll try to trip him before he gets here. One of the worst acts of sportsmanship in high school football history happened in Indiana. That's cool, man. Heritage Hills High School defeated Pike Central 90 to nothing in football. And that's the worst? That's the story? They don't fight or anything? That's not true. That's his school. Oh, yeah, yeah. I played in that game. Yeah. How many times

How much is enough isn't enough, Jay? Come on. We were up 90 to nothing, and they put – Wait, you played in that game? Yes. He was the team that won 90 to nothing. Yeah. The worst sportsman. He made that part up. I made that part up. I was just doing that to see what he would say. We were up 90 to nothing, and I think we had been on the – I had been on the bench since halftime. And this is really bad. And they're driving down to score.

And they're on like the four yard line or something. And all of a sudden I heard first team defense. We're up 90 to nothing. Yeah. So we all go back in. First team defense is back in the game. We stop these guys. We get the fourth down and they're trying to kick a field goal. And when we all out block. Yeah. And we either blocked it or they missed it. And we won 90 to nothing. Yeah.

It's so awful. I mean, that's – it's a mix of like – you want to be like, yo, dude, just let us be 90 to zero. We're already at zero. And they're like, but just let us score. You're like, and we're already here. You know what I mean? Like if you just scored like in the third quarter, yeah, absolutely. Sure. But we gave you a chance. Yeah, you had, you know, four quarters. Like it's the last 30 seconds. 90 to nothing feels a lot better than seven. Yeah, just take a knee. Yeah. Do you really need that six points? Do you all shake hands afterwards?

I'm sure. I mean, I'm sure the coach probably didn't. Yeah. Is that your 2000 season right there? You won another one 79 to nothing? Yeah. Wow. Did y'all win the state? Yeah. Oh. Wow. Yeah.

Oh my God. I mean, there was not... Decent season. Zionsville. That's the championship game. The championship game was a tight one. But other than that, it was 79-0. I mean, you're already a nightmare team. Can you remember specifics this far back in games? I found that sometimes athletes can do that and it blows my mind. I remember the Booneville game. I remember the

tell city game a little bit. The wooden memorial game. I returned like three punts for touchdowns. Like there you did. Yeah. There were guys like literally like we watched them and guys like running away from me. Like they didn't, they were like, Oh, we don't want to do this. Uh, Southridge game was on the road. I remember that one. Um, cause that was supposed to be a tough game for us.

North Posey was supposed to be better than that. We destroyed them. Tecumseh was a walk. Gibson Southern. I don't know if we have to go through everyone. You sound like a native town that you're saying. The South Spencer game. That was a tough one. Yeah. I fumbled twice in that game. That's why. I had a touchdown run called back.

But that was our last race. What was you doing? You were quarterback and? And safety. Safety. Yeah. And then Washington was on, I guess Washington was, I think, no, Washington was on the road. Would you throw a lot? We would throw 20. Or is it like basically Jay just run? 20, we started throwing more, 20, 25 times a game. Yeah. Mount Vernon beat us here before.

We won that one, obviously. Whiteland was on the road. That was a tough game. Ron Colley was – they were supposed to be the best, one of the best in the state. We destroyed them. 27-0. And then Zionsville, we were up. We were up 14 to 21-0 at halftime. Ooh. And they ended up coming back, and the running back had –

I want to say 200 and something yards. Oh, wow. I mean, he was – I had like 18 or 20 tackles. The other safety had like 18 or 20 tackles. Like we couldn't stop this dude. Yeah. And they came back and I threw a couple of picks that game. Didn't play very well. And they – it was 24 to 20 – no, that's not right. It was like 21-21.

And they got the ball and drove down to the 20-yard line, 25-yard line, like three seconds on the clock. And the freshman kicker missed the kick to win state championship. Wow. Went to overtime. They had the ball first. They kicked a field goal. And then we ran one play from the 10, I guess it was, what was the rule then? No yards. And then we put four dudes out to the right,

And I think there was one backside and through like a lateral to the right. I stepped back. The whole offensive line started going that way. They threw it back. Throwback to me. And we ran in, walked in and game over. Wow. That was your senior year. Yeah.

And do you know, like it's just like a fun, is that just like, do you think back, is that like your funnest memories? Yeah, I mean, I think high school football is like the purest. Like you're just playing with your friends, your guys. Your best friends, yeah. It doesn't get business-y. No, it doesn't get business-y at all. Yeah, I get that. Like when you do a comedy, I was thinking about going back to New York. When I first started comedy in New York, you're like, this is not a better time. I wouldn't want to go back, but it's the best time ever. Because no one's trying to...

make it as a career I mean you're all trying to make it but you're just like you're doing it for the love of the thing it's like we're just asking each other about joke like it's yeah it's special I compare it to you running that I have the same thing same thing I used to hand out flyers at the club same kind of thing same feel yeah same high I was yeah big up top chunky at the bottom could hand out the flyers real good I ever get a great comedy show tonight

All right. Is there anything else? That's pretty much it. That's pretty much it. I think so. All right. Well, anything uncut? Yes, sir. Uncut with Jay Keller. Yep. Great podcast. Just started it. You're doing great. It's coming together. Hopefully. Might all fall apart. We'll see what happens. Yeah. That's the attitude. If not, I think I can be your...

You're a Google guy. Where have you come in here, dude? You come in here and do it. There's only been two people that fist bumped him. Most don't. Really? Yeah. You'd have to say that, but I enjoyed it. Well, he did it. I think you'll be the best one for him. He left it there for a minute. I was like, I guess they have to do it. He didn't want to, but he did it. He's a nice guy. He's like, I don't know, dude. I got that large child up there. I had to fist bump him. The guy goes in there.

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