The Nateland Podcast - 136: #136 Valentine's Day

Episode Date: February 15, 2023

This week, Nate's still on the road, so Brian, Aaron, and Dusty once again hold down the fort. There's no better topic that guys like to discuss than romance so what better week to do it than the day after Valentine's. The guys learn about the history of Valentine's Day, discuss their favorite love songs and delve into their favorite romantic movies.  Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail]

Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Welcome to the Nate Land podcast. That could not have been less smooth. You bumped into the table five times. That's perfect. That's really on brand. Hello, folks. Brian tried to swirl around in his chair like an evil movie villain.

Yeah, it felt like a real Dr. Evil moment. Well, Nate's not here again. Laura's not here this time. I got here early last night to grab this chair. You're clearing out all the Bargettsies one by one. Brian's really taken over here. We're a few weeks away from Brian moving in and just living here, making it his place.

He's really taken over here. Brian has a picture of his family in a frame, just making yourself at home. I love it. Batesville. Yeah. Well, I don't have any of just me to put in a frame, just making yourself at home. I love it. Batesville. Yeah. Well, I don't have any of just me to put on a wall, but here's one of my family. All right.

All right. Today's episode of Nate Land Podcast is always brought to you by Indeed, Helix, Viore clothing, and HelloFresh. Hello, guys. Hello. All right. Nate is on the road. He will be back next week, so don't worry.

Don't worry. This is not a regular thing. No, no. As far as we know, Nate's going to be back for a foreseeable future. Although I do enjoy this chair, so I don't know. It may be a regular thing. I mean, who knows what's happening. I may just put Nate over here.

I may write my name on this one. Well, we'll see. We shall see. I even wore a vest today. I just got a vest for Christmas. I haven't worn it yet, but maybe I'll try it. I've made fun of vests my entire life. Every time I see somebody wearing a vest, I've made fun of them.

But recently, I got a vest, and it feels good. I always think of that Dimitri Martin joke. What is there, a narrow cold front sweeping through the town? It's like a small hug all day. Oh, okay. It feels good because it's like your core stays warm, but you're not hot. The arms are not so hot. You're not wearing a jacket over this.

Yeah, I never really understood the purpose of a vest. It feels good. It covers what I think is probably the last part of me to get cold. But I think the core is the most important part. Yeah. You got a little extra core, you know? Yeah, I do have a little extra. What about guys who wear vests and then leave them unzipped?

I'm not into that. All right. I don't know why. You look like a wealthy finance dad. Khaki pants with the black puffy. It's like a little puffy. A little puffy, yeah. I like that look.

Oh, you do like that? Oh, I like it, yeah. There was a guy at church yesterday. He had a vest on, kind of like yours. It was more puffy, kind of. Yeah. Unzipped, and I'm like, I don't understand the purpose. I bet that guy's making deals.

Yeah, he's making deals. He wanted to let you know. He's like, I'm open for a deal. Well, I remember from the first Batman movie, Christian Bale- It's not the first Batman. Well, the first good one. Liam Neeson and Christian Bale are the first one for people under 50. Christian Bale and Liam Neeson are in the, they're in the cold. And Christian Bale's freezing and he's rubbing his arms, right? Trying to get warm.

And Liam Neeson says, rub your chest. Your arms will take care of themselves. And I don't know if that's backed by any kind of science, but that's how I've been approaching the cold ever since. I've never looked into it. I will say if I were cold and Liam Neeson told me anything, I'd go ahead and do that. You think he knows what's up? No, I think he'll hurt you if you don't do it.

But now anytime I'm cold, I remember that line from the movie. I don't know if it's true. I don't want to research it and find out it's not true. You know, Liam Neeson's pushing 70 probably, and he's still doing action movies. And when I see that, I think, because I still want to make it as an actor. I think I could still do action movies if I get with it. Do you want to have a Liam Neeson-type movie career?

Yeah. A little Schindler's List-type movie to get me really over the hump and then become an action star. I'd like to see a version of Taken with you as the lead. I have a set of skills that helps no one. You get the phone call, you're like, alright, see ya. Brian, if you could just face

away from the camera. Alright. You're not used to those sideways chairs. Leave all this in. I want everyone to know, Brian was so excited to have Nate's seat, and we got to reframe the scene four minutes into the podcast. Well, I don't like looking straight on it, Aaron.

I don't blame you. It's not appealing. I don't blame you, dude. This is all part of it. Heavy is the head that wears the crown, Brian. That's a good point. Well, we have not gotten to do a podcast since we did our show together in Kentucky. Yeah.

Which was a lot of fun. It was a blast. We got a lot of Nateland people that came out. Yep. It was great. People brought us peanut butter. They brought peanut butter. They brought hats. They brought playing cards.

They brought beef jerky. So much stuff. Provisions. Yeah. I mean, we had it all. We were able to survive it was great we had a great show we took a lot of pictures with people really great yeah dusty sold like a thousand tickets and there's a sold out theater in lexington kentucky pretty amazing well i bet you know there's

some people that came to see you guys so you know i sold some you sold some it was a lot of fun we'll see how many of those people come out to see just me i think i think you're gonna be surprised and then we went down to atlanta me and you and uh had another theater show where we sold out and it was great yeah that center stage theater in atlanta we tell you i i don't know if you felt this way dusty i felt like that show was much more your fans i mean they were all your fans in lexington but in atlanta i was getting ready to go on i was like oh these are dusty's people out here why you feel that way well yeah i mean there was a lot of drunk people like yelling out stuff well that's not what i meant but yeah that's what i meant for sure but it was like uh yeah so there was some redneckery going on out there you know I've never been so conflicted as somebody who's traveled with Dusty and done, you know, garbage shows with him all over.

Lots of them. Now he's selling out a thousand seats in Atlanta. The crowd is chanting, Dusty Slay, Dusty Slay. It's so cool to hear that, but it's pretty tough when you're about to go up instead of Dusty. Why are you on stage, they're yelling that. Yeah. As the opener, you never want to hear them chanting the headliner's name. Because it's going to be about 30 minutes before y'all get to see the guy you came to see.

Dusty told me they started that chant midway through your act. Is that accurate? You know, I talked about Hardy not long ago. And, you know, one time I was in Vegas ago and you know one time i was in vegas hosting a music show and hardy was on the show and then after he was done i had to come back out and the audience started chanting hardy and i was like he's not coming back this is as hardy as it's gonna get okay but looking for you that you're pretty hardy. Yeah. Yeah. No, they were so rowdy. It was such a weird show. Yeah, it's a little shot to our pride.

I really wanted to think I helped sell out that show in Lexington. And then the next night, I'm out there and you sell it. You didn't even advertise that when it sold out so fast. Yeah, I mean, well, I used to go to Atlanta all the time, right? And I've not been in a while. So, that's great. Well, me too. And I sold 12 tickets.

Okay. Well. Well, the 12, yeah.. And I sold 12 tickets. Okay. Well. Well, the 12. Yeah. No, I sold more than that. But I had a lot of people say, thanks for nothing for not coming to Dusty's show, Brian. And I'm like, I was just there last month. And they're like, well, come on.

We need a little bit more than just you. Yeah, we want to see you, but let's not make it about you. We want you to be an add-on. We don't want you to be the main thing. It was fun, though. Where did you guys go this weekend to be an add-on. We don't want you to be the main thing. It was fun, though. Where'd you guys go this weekend? Well, I stayed home. Thanks for asking. I always try to

take off Super Bowl weekend just to get up for it. Get my food with the grocery store. Stuff like that. What about you? I went to Tampa. I went to Side Splitters that I've done a bunch of times. We sold out a bunch of shows.

It was great. It was fun. It was hot. I had a Friday late show that was so good. And then my early show Saturday was like good, but the Friday late was so good that it was like it felt bad. If you hadn't had the other show, you'd have been like, that was an awesome show. Yeah.

The bar was just set way too high. It's like one of those shows where like everything you say is funny and you think, oh, I wrote 15 new minutes. And then you're back at a regular show and you're like, okay, they were just in a vibe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're just rolling with you. Yeah. And it was really fun though. I love it.

When I'm in Floridaida i walk around i walk down the street with my shirt off and uh because i just feel like you can do that sort of stuff in florida you know like when i'm walking around i take the shirt off get some sun do you really do oh yeah it's 85 degrees in florida florida is a shirtless vibe but where are you walking around to target you put your shirt on right before you walk in yeah i tuck it in my to Target. You put your shirt on right before you walk in? Yeah. I tuck it in my pants

while I'm walking and then when I get to Target I put my shirt on. Oh, man. But I'm just out there. Well, you walked from the hotel to a Target to shirt off?

Side of the highway. Shirt off. Just cruising. And you don't even stand out, I'm sure. No, that's what I'm saying. Florida's a vibe like that. Yeah, you might be the mayor.

You never know. I like doing shows with you but not in warm weather yeah i mean i love it i couldn't i took my vest i couldn't even wear it in florida i had a little tsa issue they were patting me down at the airport and then i got in the uber and i was complaining about it in the uber and then the uber driver started going well you know that's just for your safety and then i argued with the uber driver i've I argued with the Uber driver. I've never argued with an Uber driver. And then he kept talking. I go, I'd like to not talk anymore. And then, yeah, we got real heated.

And then I told him I was going to give him a bad review. I said, I've never given anybody a bad review before. And then it got real heated. And then by the end of the ride, I was like, all right, I'm not going to give you a bad review. And then we got out, we gave each other a hug, and then I went to my hotel. Is that true? It is true.

That's how progress is made, people. That's how you bring the country together. Well, I was so mad about what happened. You hash it out, and then you hug it out. Yeah. I was so mad about what happened at the airport, and then this guy was like, what happened? And I told him, and then he's like, well, you know,

that's just for your safety, and I'm like, oh,? And I told him and then he's like, well, you know, that's just for your safety. And I'm like, oh no, I disagree. Yeah. And you just, this guy didn't know. You just wanted to vent to him. Yeah. Yeah. He's thinking, man, this guy's trying to have a conversation.

Yeah. I didn't need any of that guy's advice. Yeah. I used to drive for Uber and I just agreed with him, whatever they said. Yeah. You know, just to go with it. I'm trying to get a tip here. Yeah.

You guys got in a full-fledged fight. Yeah. Weged fire we almost got yeah i mean it got heated for a minute you grabbing him from the back seat yeah you know data feels like you know how it's pronounced and you're doing it right whereas data feels like you just kind of like like the the restaurants that are spelled P-H-O, and it seems like it should be pho, but everybody goes pho. Yeah. And I'm like, even if pho is correct, I don't like it. Like I'm going pho. Well, I think the difference there is pho, it's another language. Data and data is not a language issue.

It's just a pronunciation. Data could be a language. I did say data. Yeah, you did. It's just a pronunciation. Data could be a language. I did say data. Yeah, you did. You don't even know what you're saying. To me, data sounds like, it's like saying mature. It's like saying, I know you can pronounce this in a different way. Data just feels more down home.

Huh. Now, mature is the word I said that you guys ripped me on. Uh-huh. Yeah, I know know but you're saying it's okay to say it like that i'm saying i mean technically technically it's an acceptable way to say i don't think i was here when that was now you weren't but i would still make fun of it like mature is the what you what you said there you go oh boy well all right let's read some comments about kentucky well i was also somewhere you're were at a place. Yeah, I was in Omaha, Nebraska for the first time.

Never been to Nebraska for some reason. I just kind of hopped around that state, but planted there for a week. I got there a day early because I was going to do Todd and Tyler's Radio Empire, which is a really fun radio show, the number one radio show in the greater Omaha area. Big show in Nebraska. It's a big deal. So I got there a day early. I show up 8 AM Friday morning. I walk in the booth. Guess who's there? Greg Warren. Greg Warren is in town for a corporate gig. He's a favorite on

that radio show. So I had Greg there sitting next to me, which is just makes everything more comfortable when you're not going in alone. So Greg's there. He's telling stories. He's killing. I'm chiming in. I'm laughing. I'm doing whatever I need to do.

And then Greg is like, well, I'm just in town for a corporate. I go, come by and do a spot tonight. Do as much time as you want. Greg shows up. Well, it's a nice surprise for the people that know me from the podcast. Of course, they know Greg. So he goes up there, does a spot, for the people that know me from the podcast. Of course, they know Greg. Yep. So he goes up there, does a spot, kills, talks about Walgreens or whatever for 15 minutes, whatever.

It's awesome. It was just a fun. You never expect to see somebody like that. I wasn't expecting to see a friend at all. Greg was there. Amazing. It's a really fun weekend. Thank you for everyone that came out.

Shows were packed. One show was not, two were pretty Omaha's great Nebraska's great I never done that radio show maybe I called in one time but um I always I miss it so I I'm like I'm doing it later in June I think I'm there it's a lot of fun a lot of people come out from that wow it's one of the last few radio shows like that. Yeah. So many times I've done, or not so many times, but the times that I have done press, in the back of your mind you're thinking, this isn't. Nobody's watching this.

Like if you're doing morning TV. It's like anybody awake to see this will be asleep by the time my show starts. Totally. And you're doing it for, I mean, best case scenario, I get a funny clip to post myself out of this. Right. But these are actual people listening, and they love comedy. They have comedians on every week, and they came out to the show just from listening to us on there.

Wow. Yeah. It was a lot of fun. Thank you to Colleen and everybody at The Funny Bone. Hope they have me back. I had a blast. Well, I had two questions for you, Dusty, before you get those comments, or to anyone here.

I wanted to get your take on. Keep it vague. To you, Dusty, or anyone. Yeah, the one other guy at the table. You, Dusty, or Super Bowl. Thoughts on Super Bowl? Well, you know what? This is what happened.

I went to a party. My neighbor had a party, and it's like, everybody wants to have a Super Bowl party Well, you know what? This is what happened. I went to a party. My neighbor had a party and it's like, everybody wants to have a Super Bowl party to watch the game and then you go and then nobody watches

because you just talk to each other. But I do think there was a bad pass interference call late in the game that like shifted the entire way that went and I'm like,

that's my theory. I never felt like the NFL was scripted, but I do feel like the officials can sway the outcome of the game. I feel like they can sway it, but I'm like, that's my theory. I never felt like the NFL was scripted, but I do feel like the officials can sway the outcome of the game. I feel like they can sway it, but I feel like it's because of human error because they're not. I don't give them that.

There's too many replays. You think they know what they're doing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think that was not an egregious penalty. If you accept the premise that that was pass interference, it's not an egregious penalty. If you accept the premise that that was pass interference, it's not an egregious example of it. So why call that when you haven't called that the whole game?

You call that at such a pivotal moment in the game. It was just such a bummer for me because it had been such a great game. And then, golly, it comes down to that. It was like somebody punctured a balloon for me. I was so annoyed. I was like, this is all a wash. I mean, I've had that even when a team

because I wanted the Eagles to win. But even when my team goes in their favor, I still hate it because I'm like, it felt like we didn't win the right way. Right. Did you watch the commercials? I mean, it's been, we're recording this the day after the Super Bowl.

Yeah. So it's on our mind. By Wednesday, everyone will have forgotten about it, I'm sure. Yeah. But I got so annoyed watching the commercials because I feel like literally every commercial is just, they just throw a celebrity in. I saw your tweet. I was furious about it.

I don't get that, though. What do you want? Just some random dude that you want me on there? No. Well, yeah, an actor. I want like an actual commercial. Why? I'm an actor.

I was in Sprung, two episodes. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, more than me. Yeah. I like the John travolta one where he was singing with the scrubs guys i'm a big i was a big oh my god are you serious i did like i like john travolta i like seeing him i like greece so i like that one too yeah i mean you want a bunch of no names doing the same commercial i mean that was maybe the worst example of what i'm

talking about and you were a fan of that well listen it's like if greece were like a movie that had just come out not long ago or something, and I would think that it was ruining Grease. Yeah. But it's such an old movie now. And John Travolta is probably like, yeah, revive me a little bit. So maybe people remember who I am. Tell me more, Kay.

Yeah. Yeah. So you liked it because it represented a resurgence in John Travolta's career. I like John Travolta. Okay. I liked it because I was there resurgence in John Travolta's career. I like John Travolta. Okay. I liked it because I was there opening night when Grease came out. Nostalgia. Yeah, there's a lot of nostalgia there for me.

But I don't remember it ever being as bad as it was this year, where literally every commercial is just a nothing commercial, but, oh, my God, it's a celebrity, so it's supposed to be interesting. I went to my neighbor. I sat on her back porch and had a cigar and watched most of it through the window. Okay. That's how I like to party. I'm surprised.

I'm a little disappointed neither of y'all are on board with how upset I got about this. Well, I didn't see a lot of the commercials. So what do you want? You just want like, I don't know, Viola Davis selling you Sprint? I'd buy Sprint from Via davis i mean i well creativity is dead and 100 that's what i'm saying it's like why even create an interesting commercial that's funny well written just throw miles teller in and then now you got a commercial keep in mind when i came up we watched the Bud Bowl with intensity. I mean, there was no halftime Rihanna. It was the Bud.

Do you remember Bud Bowl? Mm-mm. Bud Bowl? I feel like I've heard of that. See, I'm too old for you guys even. Bud Bowl was where. This was pre-Super Bowl? It was like at halftime, people would watch this Budweiser bottle versus Bud Light bottle.

Oh, I remember Bud. And they played a real football game. And we took it as like legit, like, ugh, this is going to be a tight one. Budweiser bottle versus Bud Light bottle. And they played a real football game. And we took it as like legit, like, ugh, this is going to be a tight one. Sometimes people talk about that more than the game. So my level of entertainment is a little bit different maybe than yours. Oftentimes the Super Bowl is the least entertaining game for me. I thought that was a close game last night.

It was good. I liked it. But I just felt like all along they wanted Mahomes to win this. That's probably true. I mean, the Mahomes is the future. And, you know. But I guess what annoyed me is that the Super Bowl, this year I was more than ever annoyed by what felt like Hollywood coming in and taking over football

celebrities everywhere. I mean, we got to do nine different songs before the coin toss. It's just so much nonsense. And then every commercial is just another celebrity. And it's just like, I don't care about celebrities. It started to annoy me that they were every, there was a Pringles commercial or halfway through. I was like, thank god this is not just a celebrity driven commercial and then it just megan trainer just shows up and i was just like i mean what are we doing now you don't even want to eat pringles anymore well i don't go that far well i'm still gonna enjoy some pringles but no i get what you're

saying though it seems like where they could just have a creative, well-written, fun commercial, they're just like throwing in celebrities to make up for lack of creativity. Yes. Yes, that's all it is. Just entertain me. Don't try to wow me. But to me, it's representative of what I think Hollywood thinks of America. Just like throw, I don't care. I guess a lot of people do.

I just don't care about these celebrities. Here's some chips. Here's some hot wings. Here's some celebrities. And here's a person that's better than you you know what i mean they're better than you in every way just look at them that's why i'm okay with the john travolta one because he is better than dusty's a scientologist now you know well i gotta you'll like this dusty did you see the commercial of it was was a Coors guy and a Miller-like guy arguing. And like, this is a Coors commercial. This is a Miller commercial.

And they fight. And then at the end, it goes, actually, this is a Blue Moon commercial. And everyone's like, well, that's really creative. But you know, it came out that all three of those brands are owned by the same company. Coors probably owns them all, huh? Yeah. I can't remember the name of it, but it has a parent company that owns all three. Wow.

That was pretty smart. Nobody's fighting at a Blue Moon party, though. You know what I mean? I will say that. You got your oranges in there. You got a little fruit in the drink fighting. I don't think so. Nobody's fighting at a party with garnishes.

Yeah. You make some valid points. I was thinking about some of the previous great Super Bowl commercials. The 1984, that one, the frogs, the Budweiser. Budweiser frogs. The white half. All that. But at least this year, I feel like maybe that was very good yeah thank you i

feel like last year maybe the year before there was a two three years there where they were getting sad like it was all trying to send a message and there was some type of course thing i don't really feel like that was this year well now they're just shoving hollywood down our throat i'd rather it was it was like if if i hadn't noticed it, then it ruined it for me. As soon as I was like, there's a celebrity in every commercial. And then every commercial is just, bah, bah, Jack Harlow. I mean, I don't even barely know these people. But as someone who's on his way up and about to be on these commercials, I support it.

So you don't even recognize half of them are celebrities. You're like... I don't know who Jack Harlow was. I guess I saw him. I didn't know who that was. I just know the halftftime show i was looking for a special guest to come popping out i wanted to see a special you know i like uh i like a halftime show where you're like you don't know what's about to happen well she's got a special guest yeah she's pregnant yeah yeah she even said she was like i might bring somebody with me oh that was pretty nice oh that's the

guest yeah okay very creative i'm happy she's pregnant i like it all right the other thing i She was like, I might bring somebody with me. Oh, that was pretty nice. Oh, that's the guest. Yeah. Okay. Very creative. I'm happy she's pregnant. I like it. All right. The other thing I want to ask, and this one really is more directed toward you, Dusty, is the spy balloon and the objects they're shooting down. Oh, people are all talking about that now.

I don't know. I don't know what to think about it. I mean, I don't think it's aliens. And I can't imagine, I mean, if they are real spy balloons, that does not say a lot for our military intelligence right now. I mean, I feel like we're supposed to have like the best to be able to get rid of these things before they go float. We're using balloons now. And they're like, well, I heard they've been, people said, I heard they've been getting through our intelligence. And I'm like, well, that's what I'm talking about. That would be a concern.

I don't know what it is, but I said on Twitter that it's all the balloons I let loose in the 90s where I wrote my address on it, hoping someone would find it and write me a letter. They're finally finding them. Now, how many times did you do that? Several. We thought that was it. You was it for a friend we'd get balloons with helium in it and we thought this would be a fun thing you know kind of write the address in a little note and then send it up and then if this balloon comes down somewhere and they find it they could write you a letter and say hey i found your balloon in so and so state that's

nice but of course my address was lot eight mooreiler Park, so people are probably like, I don't want to give this guy my address. There's probably drugs in this balloon. Yeah. Now, I read a conspiracy theory that it's just all a big distraction because of something else either they're about to do. Well, it usually is. Yeah. You don't know what it is?

I don't know what it is. Well, I have some ideas. We don't have to get into it on the podcast. Just tell me afterwards? Yeah. All right. You guys want to read these comments? Yes.

All right. Kentucky comments. This is from Christina Marshall. There is zero chance that Aaron would have worn those sunglasses for more than 30 seconds if Nate were present. While the cat's away, the mice wear sunglasses indoors. Yeah, I never would have brought them inside that is true we all knew that yeah we're all a little looser yeah what's that hat you got this is uh the omaha storm chasers where i was this weekend this is the uh the runza

you know what a runza is seems like some kind kind of Italian, I would think, like a calzone. It is. It's kind of like a calzone. I don't think it's Italian. I think it's a roll with ground beef, onions, and cabbage in it. Oh, I love that. Yeah. It's like a little meat pocket.

I've had cabbage rolls with beef and rice inside wrapped in cabbage. Very good. In a tomato base. But this sounds great, too. Yeah. I'm all about it. Try it next time you're in cabbage. Very good. In a tomato base. But this sounds great too. I'm all about it. Try it next time you're in Omaha. Omaha was where they invented the Reuben sandwich. Really? That's what they told me in Omaha. And I had one there. Delicious.

I'd rather have a Reuben on this hat than a Runza. But that's like their official hat? It's like their alternate. All the minor league teams do an alternate uniform with a food. A runza sounds like something you get after you've eaten something bad. Got the runzas. An Italian guy with diarrhea.

Yeah. Got the runzas. All right, Joe Tech. This episode was proof point for the Ewing theory. Aaron can look that up real quick. I don't think I need to look that up. Patrick Ewing for the New York Knicks was widely considered the best player on their team. You know, he's one of the greatest players of all time, but he was considered the best player on the Knicks.

And for some unexplained reason, when he was out, the team seemed to play better without him. Wow. So I think it's a description of that phenomenon. When your best player is gone, the team will somehow perform better without them. Because they know they have to step it up. Because they're all motivated to pick up the slack. I see.

I was a big Patrick Ewing fan. I liked him. Yeah? Yeah. I think I had a poster. It might not have been mine could be my stepbrothers but it was in the room all right you remember looking at him yeah all right abby rose esposito very few things make me laugh harder than breakfast's golf swing with the delayed foot lift

also cracked up every time he blamed laura for not letting be Nate. And he did it again today. I used to listen to intellectual podcasts to learn something, but my life has legitimately improved since listening to this podcast and getting a good giggle throughout the week. Thanks, boys. That's nice. Yeah, that's because people that think they're intellectuals are telling you nothing. They're always telling you nothing. It's like on these podcasts, they're like, and they use these big words and try to explain these things. And it's like, you're not talking about anything.

I don't mean you. You're our intellectual here that does tell us things. Okay. You knew what the Ewing theory was. I was not even sure if I would be able to pronounce the name. I feel like I came in too hot with all the celebrity stuff. I apologize for that. Set the tone bad for the podcast. I feel like I came in too hot with all the celebrity stuff. I apologize for that. Set the tone bad for the podcast.

I feel great. I just got fired up. No, you were representing Nate. Nate's going to 100% agree with you on that. I was tapping into Nate's energy a little bit for that. Yeah. Let's go back to me. Wait a minute. You were a Patrick Ewing fan, but you were afraid you wouldn't know how to say his name?

Well, yeah. I didn't say Patrick Ewing, right? I know how to say the name. Yeah. It's an E-wing. know how to say the name yeah it's an e-wing you know out of context it's an odd looking word yeah all right all right joanna zimmerman dusty being anti anti-microwave but cooking himself in a tanning bed is peak nate lynn podcast we're having a good time i mean i agree you're saying, but a microwave is not a bunch of halogen bulbs that take, you know, 20 minutes to cook. A microwave, when I was a kid, I put bugs in the microwave and it kills them fast.

Yeah, I imagine it does. Right? I've been in a tanning bed for 20 minutes before and all i got was a good tan okay i came out of there looking good you know what i mean i'm like the bugs i like the bugs i mean that kills them what would you put in the micro i mean you don't have to get into beetles grasshoppers stuff i grew up in the country and i was bored at you know they're doing science yeah that's all you're doing there was no internet back then i was not trying to be like evil and kill the bugs but i was like what would happen if i put something alive in the microwave and now you know not to put you know a human being in right exactly and i also

you know it's like it's weird when you you put something in the microwave and somehow like the middle is hot but the outside's cold and i'm like i don't like that kind of, I don't know what's going on in there. And I don't like it. That's what happened to me at the airport. The body scanner, that thing that goes around you, I don't like that. I don't know what that is. So when they randomly select me, I ask for the pat down, you know, but I'm polite about it. But they really treat you like you've, you know, just robbed the place if you for the pat down you know but i'm polite about it but they really treat you like

you've you know just robbed the place if you want to pat down and then you took it out on your uber driver yeah because i one time i i was like i don't know what was happening but i got randomly selected so i just did the body scanner and then i did the body scanner and they still made me take off my shoes and pat me down so i'm like just go ahead and pat me down yeah i don't mind if you're you know yeah touching on me. Well, the TSA is such a well-oiled machine. I mean, anything messing it up. Yeah.

It's like, oh, we can't have that. Yeah. Kaba 1996. Brian asked Dusty what made a certain county in Kentucky the most dangerous place in the country. And Dusty responds, all the murders. Brian reminds me so much of my best friend. Level-headed, reasonable, but sometimes ask dumb questions. That's the reason I listen. I was physically slapping my steering wheel with

laughter. Well, I guess I should have worded it differently. I guess what I was trying to get at is why of all places would it be Harlan County, Kentucky? You think Chicago or what is it about that place is what I was trying to ask. I think sometimes it's population, right? Chicago is such huge population, even though they have so much crime, it balances out. Whereas Harlan, Kentucky might be a tiny town where everybody's killing each other. Yeah. You're asking what are the socioeconomic conditions such that there are so many, okay.

I was asking, you know, like, what leads to that place being so dangerous? And I think you followed up with moonshining. Yes. So there you go. That's what I was trying to get at. All right. Kevin Kearns, the reason you can bounce a laser off the – oh, here we go.

Buckle up. The reason you can bounce a laser off the moon is because if you believe it, it is said they placed a mirror at specific coordinates. And the reason it works is because the moon is tidally locked with the earth. The moon doesn't spin. Every time you see the moon, you're looking at the same face as you were the night before. So the mirror is up there. The mirror up there is always in the same spot. I mean, yeah. I mean, I hear you. I mean, it's like, I knew about the mirror, but yeah, I mean, I don't believe the moon stuff. But you would at least agree that the moon doesn't spin?

Well, I know it doesn't spin. I mean, I've seen that same face my entire life, but I was told that it spins and that there's something going on. Somehow it's up there and it's, you know. I do find it hard to believe that it spins around the earth. It rotates, yeah. But somehow is locked. That one side of a circular object is locked so much that you never even see a teensy weensy little bit of another side. Yeah, it's tidally locked.

Tidally locked. But, you know, nothing, there's no other evidence of something tidally locked so that we can compare and go oh actually that that is what that is there's no other thing where we go what's another example of something that's tidally locked none of our other moods are right nothing else there's no other tidally locked thing so we'll just go well i guess i guess i believe it because it's tidally blocked and even even still, I mean, I just, I don't know. I can't buy into it. Because if you're, what are you seeing?

Like, let's say the Earth spins, the moon's tidally locked. So where we're at, we see the same face of the moon. But what if you're on the other side of Earth? What are you seeing over there? It's just that same side of the moon just rotates. I don't know. I'm not buying it one of pluto's moons is tidally locked now if well you're right right but but pluto way away sometimes

they don't even plan it and and they're like they go what's another example oh the farthest planet planet away. Like if I could shine a laser on the moon and it hit me in the face, I'd be like, okay, okay, you got me. Like if I were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what is that? Now, I saw a shooting star the other night and I wanted to ask you, what do you think that's all about? I don't know't know i mean they tell us that a star has burned out somewhere in the universe and we're seeing that or it's a meteor or something like that it's a meteor burning up in the atmosphere yeah i don't know i mean i think it's just you know it's a little show up there you know god's giving us a little show up there well i agree well those two things aren't mutually exclusive that's right god's giving us a little show he's

like hey appreciate you looking up here for a change instead of looking down at your phone. I'm going to give you a little something. You know what I mean? Yeah.

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Yeah. It's like we're sleeping on the side of a hill. Yeah. There was a comic, Zany's recently had a very funny joke about camping and

they said, I don't know anything about air mattresses. I know one thing, if you're the heavier person in the two, the other person, they get the air. That's for sure. That's for sure. That is true.

Yeah. You know, I had my sister sleeping, her and her boyfriend at the time, sleeping at my house on an air mattress when they got engaged. And then later didn't invite me to the weather. Maybe if you'd have given them a real mattress. That's true. That is true. Should have given him a real mattress. That's true. That is true. Should have got her a Helix. Yeah, that is right.

Yeah, buy your family a Helix, and they'll invite you to the wedding. All right. Should be their tagline. That's one of the lesser known birds. Yeah. Here is reality show comments. I wasn't on this one. I guess this was with John Reap.

This is John Reap. You know John. I know John. I actually was really bummed I missed that one. I like't on this one. I guess this was with John Reap. This is John Reap. You know John. I know John. I actually was really bummed I missed that one. I like John a lot. I did not know that stuff about Lovell Crawford and him being on at the same time as him and then reading off the winner and being disappointed

as John. Do you know Greg Warren was on that same season? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we talked about it a little bit this week. It's a hot season. This is Tad Cooper. When I saw the episode was about Do you know Greg Warren was on that same season? Oh, yeah? Yeah, we talked about it a little bit this week. It's a hot season. Yeah. Yeah. This is Tad Cooper. When I saw the episode was about reality TV,

I scoffed at the idea of someone watching a bunch of people doing nothing of consequence once a week. Then I remembered I religiously watch a two-hour podcast hosted by guys talking about how they don't really know that much, giving out basic facts they often disagree with, and talking about how space might not be there. Well, it's not. I guess we're all just trying to justify. No. Whoa. I put just trying together, justify. I added a F in there. I got fired up. Instead of talking about space. Yeah.

I guess we're all just trying to have a good time. Thanks, guys. We are just trying to have a good time. Yeah, Ted. Don't get so, you know, people love space. I mean, they just love it. They just hope to go there one day. And we have a vast Earth here.

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Did you? Yeah, for sure. I did, too. Went to space camp in fourth grade got indoctrinated young oh yeah no i still i still would love to be an astronaut you know some people will point out that the word now not how it's spelled but how it's kind of pronounced like astro not right they're not really going to astro spell different yeah well you know a russian astronaut is called a cosmo not right yeah so it's all yeah they ain't going nowhere well i don't know that i'm going to make the cut but aaron you might be young enough to be able to go someday i think in my lifetime by the time

I die, they're still going to only bring people up there who have something to contribute. Do you know what I mean? They're not going to bring tag-alongs by the time I die. You might have to be really rich. Or super wealthy. Right. I think what you have to do to go to space, you have

to be really rich, and they know that you won't tell that space isn't real. You get enough money that you're in the club, and then they're like, go up there, and then you get up there, and they go, hey, it's not real, guys, but we know you won't tell. Yeah. So, not is a suffix indicating a person engaged in the navigation of a vehicle. This is also heard a lot in nautical sailors. Oh, yeah. Nautical miles.

Yeah. Cosmo knot. Yeah. I like it. I mean, I'm into it. I'm just, you know, we're having a good time. You know, Red Hot Chili Peppers said, space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement.

I mean, you know the song. You probably sang along to it. Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement. I mean, you know the song. You probably sang along to it. Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement. Oh, okay. Californication. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that.

You probably sang along to it. I probably did. Yeah. Yeah. Those guys get it. Yeah. All right. Scuba Steve Bryce Phillips.

What a fun episode. My family watched the original reality show, Bill Dance Outdoors, every Saturday when I was a kid. I was wondering what show the guys watched with their parents when they were young. We're all 10 years apart, so. Yeah. Probably all have different shows. I'd say so. Big Bill Dance fan, by the way. I didn't watch his show a lot, but I've gotten into him. I like what he represents yeah i like that tennessee trucker hat he has in that black and white photo you have pulled up there it's down a little bit but uh yeah it's a it's a great hat and when he got famous and he got a lot more money

he didn't get a new hat he just kept that he looks the same ever since i can remember uh-huh and he was it was he he's uh i went to the bass pro shop museum springfield missouri they have a lot of bill Dance stuff there. Oh, yeah. I've been there. You know, I didn't see Tom Mann when I was growing up. He seemed to be a bit of a big deal. He made a fishing lure that was pretty famous.

And his brother, Billy Mann, lived next door to my dad. Really? Did you ever meet Tom? Never met Tom. I think Bill Dance is the only fisherman I could have named yeah but Tom man's

another big one apparently yeah Jesus that's true maybe the biggest of all well Jesus was a carpenter it was his followers

that were fishermen that is true but he I mean you can't argue that if he's like if Jesus is like hey go down there

there's gonna be a fish down there with a coin in its mouth. That's a pretty big deal. He could have crushed it in fishing. You know what I mean? Yeah, you're saying he couldn't have been a fisherman, dude? He would have been the best, dude. He would have given Bill Dance a run for his money.

Yeah. Katrina Lewis. It was surprising to hear Aaron dismiss the challenges priests faced in coming up with material for their homilies. A priest friend of ours has shared that. In fact, priests are constantly scrambling for material, trying to make the scheduled reading relevant for parishioners. Wow, this is a tough read. They theorize it would be easier if they could choose the scripture themselves like the protestant counterpart parts yeah they might theorize that but i think they're wrong i think it i think it um i think

it being so open-ended is probably more challenging than they realize what's a homily like a poem a homily is the sermon during a catholic mass and it is if it's longer than 10 minutes, people start to be like, oh, God, ramp it up. How long is like a whole service? Hour. If the priest is good, 45 minutes. So if he's 10 minutes, then what's the other 50? Stuff is happening.

You're reading a lot of things. You got to kneel a bunch. That was my point is that the sermon is such a small part of the Mass, just time-wise. I'm not going to argue it's important. I mean, personally, I think it's probably the least important part of the Mass. But time-wise, it's a fraction of it. So it's like, who cares? If the priest did a 90-second homily, everyone would be thrilled.

Let's move on on let's move on to the next part do you prefer the priest singing latin i like a latin mass it's fun i've been to a latin mass i enjoyed it i didn't know really what was going on but i did enjoy well that's the nice part about it you don't really need to know what's going on you know you're just part of it yeah it's fun i would go if i slept in through when i was living with my parents if i slept in too late they would make me go to the spanish mass at 5 p.m where everything was in spanish and i never it was all the same stuff happening but i didn't you know you could tune out a little bit yeah felt good yeah all right it's tough to pay attention for 10 minutes, you know?

Well, the mass is it. I don't understand why you don't enjoy a Latin mass or Spanish mass if you don't understand what's going on. Well, it's one of the nice things when your religion's been around longer than 30 years. You can do stuff like have a Latin. When I go to a church, I like the preaching. I could do less singing

I'm like let's get in there and hear them surprise to hear that Dusty because I feel like that would be you wouldn't agree

with anything they said no but but I like hearing them you know get into it break it down oh okay I'm not interested

in anyone breaking anything down I love it I love the you know kind of like hearing the point of view and touching

on verses and bringing them up i like to follow along in my own king james version and then make notes about how i don't i think if they had used king james and they would have gotten a different interpretation here i'm an niv guy i used to write i used to write the preacher's emails later dusty's been banned from numerous churches alright here's Sean fun disagreements between friends yeah it's a good time Sean Tobin it's too bad Dusty wasn't there to tell

his last comic standing story I heard him mention it on his podcast it ended with a nice story about Norm Macdonald maybe he can tell it when he gets back. Well, no, no. It's on my YouTube. It is a long story. I got like a 20-minute story on my Last Comic Standing experience,

which was not as successful as John Reap's. Yeah. I made it to the final 100, and then I was out. Didn't you have, you can tell this part, a party where people were watching and then you weren't, you got cut out of the episode? Well, yeah. I mean, they told me. Now, I don't have this written down anywhere.

So I don't, but they told me everybody is going to get some TV time, right? So we're all, and they make you promote it, right? So I had to share it on my Facebook. And then a girl I went to high school with kind of picked it up and shared it like, hey, our friend is going to be on Last Comic Standing. And I thought, well, I know I didn't win, but I will at least show up. And you're not allowed to tell anybody that you've already been eliminated, right?

So, you know, I'm watching with my roommates at home, but I had five roommates at the time. And we're all watching. And then I'm just, you know, the internet people I went to high school with are watching. So I'm like, just hoping that I get some little clip. And I hope that I get the point where I talk to Norm MacDonald. Because I got to talk to all the judges. And then I talked to Norm MacDonald because I got to talk to all the judges. And then I talked to Norm MacDonald and he said, you know, he said, you know, material comes and goes, but you have a great voice. And I think you have what it takes to be a great comic.

It's awesome. And it was such a great thing. I'm like, hopefully they at least show that. Yeah. Show me get eliminated, but show Norm MacDonald saying that. Yeah. Of course they never did. Wow.

So. But that, you know, Norm MacDonald wasn't always nice to people on that show. Yeah. me get eliminated but show norm mcdonald saying that yeah of course they never did wow so but that you know norm mcdonald wasn't always nice to people on that show yeah so that's pretty cool that he gave you such a good compliment and then i later i shared the video and then i tagged norm mcdonald in it just he was still alive at the time i tagged him and it helps yes and he responded he said i remember you i don't have the tweet exactly, but he's like, I remember you from that show, and I've been following your career since. It was a joke about fishing, I believe. I did several fish jokes. Yep.

And we had watched the TV show, How I Met Your Mother. I'd watched one episode, and a guy tried stand-up comedy, and he did jokes about fish and was bombing real bad. And my roommate said to me, when we were about to watch it, I said, well, I didn't advance. And he goes, well, at least you won't be telling jokes about fish. And I did do three minutes of fish jokes. I have the tweet right here. Norm MacDonald says, hey, Dusty, I remember you well and have followed your career since last comic standing. I told everyone those fish jokes.

One thing about failure, it makes for the best stories. If you only have three minutes, it makes complete sense to use them all on one subject. Peace. You're having a great time. Yeah. Wow. That's so cool, man. That would be like my save screenshot. Oh, yeah.

Well, you know, I did share it. But yeah, I mean, I didn't want to do it when he was alive because I felt like it felt too like fanboy-ish to be like, look what Norman Donald said, you know? And then after he died, then I felt like I'm like chasing this dead man's clout. You know what I mean? You got enough time now. Yeah, yeah.

I realize we never really answered Scuba Steve's question about what shows we watched as a kid. For me, Dukes of Hazzard was very big. I was a big Dukes of Hazzard guy, which you're too young for that, but you would watch it. I watched a lot of reruns of Dukes of Hazzard. Well, I think the question is what shows we watch with our families or our parents. Oh, well, Dukes of Hazzard. Dukes of Hazzard is a big family show. It's a Friday night.

Andy Griffith. I mean, my dad loves Andy Griffiffith so we watched so much of that growing up my dad loves old westerns gun smoke bonanza bonanza love bonanza i've seen i've seen so many episodes of these shows colombo was a big one that we used to watch matlock you ever get into that i see a little matlock he wasn't so into that but i've seen some Matlock. I'd like to get into it. It's fun. Yeah, I mean, Andy Griffith, or Andy, yeah, Andy Griffith's a great, he's just a good character. I like

a courtroom show, too. Yeah. Like courtroom drama. Matlock was big in our family. We watched Andy Griffith's show as a family all the time. The black and white episodes, you know? Yeah. Trash when it got color, in my opinion. Law and order. We were into all the law and orders as a family.

We would say the guy from Criminal Intent, we'd always say, looks like my dad. Okay. We'd watch that and make fun of him. Okay. That show's still on, isn't it? Criminal Intent might still be. Or Law and Order. Yeah, they're still making some iteration of it.

It's incredible. Yeah, it's been around forever, man. The Simpsons came out my senior year in high school. Wow. And it's still on. And you were talking about, last time I was standing, how everyone was going to be on. Remind me, did you guys have video yearbooks in high school? Video yearbooks?

Yeah. No. Maybe it didn't last, but while I was in high school, they're like, we're going to do a video yearbook. And this company came in to shoot it. And they said, if you buy one, everybody in the school is going to be in this video yearbook. So you'll be in there. And then like the last day they're shooting, anybody they hadn't shot yet, they're like, everybody come to the gym. And they just had us walk through a line and wave at the camera and then just keep walking and that's the way they got everybody in the video yearbook yeah you pay like 50 or

whatever to see yourself wave for five seconds do you have that somewhere i do yeah it's on vhs if you're the waving guy it doesn't really feel like you were really part of it even though you're in the video right well everyone was just waving. What else are you going to do? There's someone behind the camera going, come on, come on. Yeah. I mean, they were just hurting us like cattle. Like, come on. Yeah.

We got to do it. The yearbook was such a big deal to look through and see if you got pictures in there. I always would get a little something in there, but it was never great. What was your quote senior year? They didn't do quotes for us. Really? We didn't do quotes. Probably a good thing. It would be something that I'm embarrassed of, I'm sure. But we didn't do quotes for us we didn't do quotes probably a good thing it'd

be something that i'm embarrassed of i'm sure but uh-huh we didn't do quotes and i i always wanted to i thought i thought that'd be great there weren't a lot of quotes around yet when i was in high school i think therefore i didn't take history in high school either it was limited yeah it's very easy current events yeah current All right, we got two more here. Cat Cook. I'm an architect for a popular home remodeling show

and it's infuriating. Trading spaces? They don't like people to know that architects are involved so they have someone else take all of the credit. It led to their own

home and gardens line in Walmart. Line at Walmart. At Walmart. It led to their own home and gardens line at Walmart. At Walmart. At Walmart. It led to their own home. Home and Gardens line at Walmart. Yeah, thank you. Like a line of product.

Yeah, thank you. Thanks for coming in there. Own home, it's hard to say. It's tough back to back. Own home. It's like a tongue twister. Was this Dr. Seuss? Just always remember.

He doesn't do tongue twisters, does he? Yeah, he does it just rhymes a little bit no no I've been I've been reading them to the baby and they are like

still tripping you up yeah anything can be a tongue twister if you're not a good reader that's true always just always remember there is so much more

going on behind all of these shows and a lot of times the person on screen actually has absolutely nothing to do with the design build permits or even meeting with the client.

Well, I believe it. Yeah, that didn't surprise me at all. Mike K. But thank you for sending that in, though. Yeah, it's nice. I do, yeah, I mean. I'd like to know what show she works on. Because I watch Restaurant Impossible a lot, and I like that show a lot.

Actually, matter of fact, Robert Irvine just. I saw that. Yes, right. He's tweeting that. Yeah. Yeah, it's really great. But I like that show a lot. Actually, matter of fact, Robert Irvine just- I saw that. He's tweeting that. Yeah. Yeah, it's really great. But I like the show. But it's like, they always act like they're like, we got two days to do this build.

And it's like, don't tell me that you're so stressed for time. I know you can just do as much time as you want. Yeah. You know what I mean? But there's got to be some stakes to it. She gave you some hints too, Aaron. Home and Garden Line at Walmart, you could probably figure it out. I could, but I don't want to reveal. If she clearly didn hints too, Aaron. Home and Garden Line at Walmart, you could probably figure it out. I could,

but I don't want to reveal if she clearly didn't want to tell us. Yeah. Yeah, because I was watching a Restaurant Impossible and they were just

doing a remodel and then all of a sudden there's Pat Sajak just remodeling. I don't know, Robert Irvine said they featured him on the episode,

but I don't remember them seeing him even talk about Pat Sajak. He just popped up all of a sudden. Robert Irvine says, Dusty, we did introduce Pat Sajak in the show, LOL. He's a, look at that, Robert Irvine saying LOL. Yeah, I know. I don't know why that means.

It's got to be a Robert Irvine team. It might be him, dude. You know? It's probably not, but he's a great friend of the show and our whole team. Also, Mark Summers. Now, I see Mark Summers always credited in there, but. I don't know the show. It's great. You know, restaurants are failing and they're about to lose their business and they call Robert Irvine in and he comes in and he embarrasses them and trashes them and tells them their food sucks and that their restaurant looks bad.

And then he fixes it up, shows them how to cook, changes their life. And it's a lot of fun. And then six months later, the restaurant's out of business again. Yeah. Because they're like, he goes in and he's like, how much money do you owe on the place? They're like, I don't know, $500,000. He's like, how much are you making each month? Nothing. We're losing money. Yeah. Losing money every month. And he's like, oh gosh. But one of the things I remember in that show is almost every time he's like, your menu's too big. Right? Isn't that a big theme in the show almost every time he's like, your menu's too big. Right? Isn't that a big theme in the show?

Yeah. It's like rather than have a million things you're okay at, pick nine or 10 things that you're great at. And now every restaurant I go to, I look at the menu and I judge them based on how big the menu is. Cheesecake factory. Cheesecake factory is insane. Yeah. Well, you know, I used to work at Hyman's in Charleston and that was always my complaint for them, right?

Hyman's had a lot of food they did really well, but they had this gigantic menu with just everything you could. And it's like the kitchen would get so overwhelmed at times because there's like so many different, like the crispy flounder they're displaying there is amazing. But, and, and, you know, they might've dwindled it down. I mean, this is years ago when I worked there over 10, almost 10 years. But it used to be, I mean, it was a huge three pager that you're flipping through. And I'm like, let's narrow it down here.

They don't need all these options. Because people come in there and they go, what do you like better? The amberjack or the tilapia? And I'm like, oh, the amberjack is really good. And they go, okay, I'll have the shrimp. You know? They're just judging you. Yeah, yeah.

They had a bet going. And last one, Mike K., how do you not talk about Theo Vaughn and Christina P. on Real World? Hmm. I don't know. How did we not talk about that? Road Rules, too. I didn't watch those. I knew Theo was on a reality show. I couldn't even tell you why. Yeah, I thought they were on Road did we not talk about that? Road Rules, too. I didn't watch those.

I knew Theo was on a reality show. I couldn't even tell you why. Yeah, I thought they were on Road Rules, not Real World. Maybe both. I never watched either of those shows. I have no idea. I don't watch any reality shows. The only one I kind of watch, I mean, if you count that, is Hard Knocks.

Oh, yeah. And I just watched a 30 for 30 called The Bullies of Baltimore. And it's about the 2000 Baltimore Ravens. And it's very hard to watch as a Tennessee Titans fan because they were our nemesis. They put us out when we were the best. But they had so many characters that the next year, they were the first hard knocks because they had so many just crazy characters. Oh, hard knocks. I thought you were talking about the show where kids go into prisons and they yell at them.

Oh, Scared Straight. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Well, not too far off. Yeah. It comes later.

But, you know, they had Ray Lewis and Shannon Sharp. Terrell Suggs. Yeah. He wasn't on that team. He wasn't a vocal, but Tony Siragusa was a big character. Ed Reed. Yeah. He was on that team. Yeah, he was on that team.

Yeah, he was on some of those Ravens teams. He wasn't highlighted as much as far as, but Brian Billig, they were very arrogant, very cocky. Oh, yeah. And good. Very good, yeah. Yeah. But they kind of started that part of the reality shows. Yeah.

But they kind of started that part of the reality shows. I watched the reality show a little bit with Vanilla Ice and Vern, who played Many Me. Vern Troyer? It was a- This is where they hang out with Amish people? I don't know. It just seemed like a real- Ridiculous. What are you talking about?

I just think reality shows are so ridiculous. They just bring out the worst in people. They are ridiculous. But Vanilla Ice did have- It's called Vanilla Ice Goes Amish. No, no, no. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying. It wasn't that.

But it had a bunch of like, almost like, this is. This is still on the air. This is unbelievable. I mean, I would do a reality show with the Amish, though. I do love the Amish. But. Yeah. I'm a big fan.

But they would probably want you to make fun of them or something. Yeah, and I wouldn't do that. Well, they also, Amish people don't want to be on camera. Right. So it's going to be tough. I don't know how they do that show because they don't like being photographed or filmed. Yeah, I think they say something like they feel like it takes their soul,

a photo. I think that's Native Americans. Okay. It's the same, right? Yeah. i live in a similar lifestyle i think it's a vanity thing off the grid kind of thing yeah i think it's a vanity thing as well okay where it's yeah to be photographed immortalized in that way you know i went to an amish uh community one time and they had a store and the bathroom was an outhouse and i went out there to use and i was using the outhouse and, you know, standing. And I thought that I locked the door, I moved the lock to the lock place, but I guess it did not latch around the thing.

And then someone came and opened the door and then ran away real fast. And I thought it was my buddy who just opened and saw I was in there. And then he goes, oh, he goes, I bet you just traumatized that Amish lady. He's like, this Amish lady opened the door and then closed it real fast and took off running. I was like, okay, well. She'll be all right. She's got bigger problems.

Well, you've talked about it. There's different levels of Amish. That's true. They're not all live living the exact same way. We saw a guy in the hotel lobby. You saw him. Yeah. I forgot about that.

Googling girls. He was in the hotel. Was it in Pittsburgh? Yeah. I think, yeah, yeah. He just had girls typed in on Google. You got to start broad. Yeah.

You don't know how to Google stuff. It's not a bad place to start, I guess. Oh, man, that's wild. So he's like, finally, a computer. Let me see what I can find. He's not even being dirty about it. He's like, I'd just like to see some women. Oh, yeah.

It starts off simple and then quickly. All right, guys. This week, I thought, you know what? Valentine's Day is only 364 days away. Yeah. Let's talk about Valentine's. Now, all right. So this comes out Wednesday.

We're recording this on Monday. So tomorrow night's Valentine's. Dusty, how are you going to be celebrating Valentine's? Well, you know, of course, I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. Oh, okay. But I don't believe in it. You don't think it exists? Well, I mean, it exists.

But I think, yeah, I mean, it dates way back. It's got some weird stuff. And who knows what anything is really derived from. But it's got some weird stuff and a lot of pagan origins, like the god Pan, who's got goat legs and a human body and plays the flute. Pan flute. Yeah. Is that where that comes from?

Yeah. I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. I think there is some Peter Pan origins in there too from Pan. So I don't like it. I'm not into it. I don't really celebrate any of the holidays. Yeah, I was about to ask you.

Is there any Thanksgiving? Yeah. Right? Yeah, yeah. I like Thanksgiving okay. But I can't find any pagan origins to Thanksgiving. But like Father's Day or Mother's Day. You know, I'll call my mom and dad, but I don't, you know, only because they're like,

they act like it's a big deal. But I'm like, I'm calling you anyway. Yeah. You don't really need me to do this, but I'll do it. Yeah, because those aren't pagan. I don't buy cards for them though. I don't support this idea that they just go, hey, this is a holiday. So on this day, you got to make sure you got to buy a card. You got to buy, like Valentine's day, they're like, hey, be sure to buy

flowers today that will be double the price if you buy them tomorrow and make a reservation at a restaurant that will be real crowded when you could just come here, you know, tomorrow and it'd be a pleasant experience. And Dusty, I mean, is Hannah on board with this? Hannah made a joke today, which maybe wasn't a full-on joke, but she says, you know, I just keep holding out hope that one day my husband's just going to buy me some chocolates on Valentine's day. And I said, well, you can give up that hope. I said, I'll buy you chocolates any day of the year let's not do it this day just not that day yeah but it's got to be tough to be left out when everybody else is getting chocolates and roses you know what i mean yeah but you know we're she's you're you're you know you're a good husband i'm

sure yeah good father to your to. Yeah. I know you are. Yeah, I know. And also, Valentine's Day is this weird kind of thing. Like, when you're single, it makes you feel lonely. Like, if you're single and you're like, I'm fine, then you don't care. But if you're single and you, like, want to be dating someone, Valentine's Day is like a sad day. Yeah. I read somewhere that who knows this is true because I feel like they put this for everything

suicides go up yeah around Valentine's I feel like every holiday they say that though yeah I've heard that Christmas and Thanksgiving and everything else yeah yeah that's any day where other people are happy

and you're not right I bet that that is difficult yeah you know yeah I mean Christmas can be like that for people if they don't have families, it can be very sad. But I tried to watch.

I used to be really into the details of what was all going on with the Valentine's Day paganism, but I feel like we don't need to. Well, I got some details I want to share. Okay, yeah, I didn't need to bring everybody down. No, that's okay. No, no, no. If you want to do it, do it. You're not wrong.

Yeah, exactly. Participate in commercialism all you want. I have- Well, I'll tell you, this is a Catholic feast day. This is what I was told. Okay. There's St. Valentine. Okay.

He's a real person in Italy in, I don't know, 200 or 300 AD. And he would- Christians weren't allowed to get married. He would marry people in secret. And that's how Valentine got associated with sort of love and dating and wooing and courting people. All right. And he would give them a heart cut out of parchment or fabric or something. And that's how the heart became associated with.

So that's not a... I've heard different things about the heart that is not even appropriate to share on the podcast. But yeah. Okay. But I like that. If people were getting married on Valentine's Day, I'd be like, all right, let's do it.

But I feel like it's really turned to a weird kind of date. I mean, based on our research, you're both right. But will you and Lucy do anything for Valentine's? We have dinner reservations for Valentine's Day night. Yeah, yeah. Outside of that, nothing really. Yeah. All right.

Sorry. No, I asked you. You seem disappointed. No, I mean, that's the thing. You get some flowers, you go to dinner. That's what people do. That's what we, I don't know. I didn't mean it like I just cut you off.

You said it like, man, wow, that's all? No, no, no. I didn't mean it like that. I think that's great. When I was younger and trying to like scheme to get dates rather than just be honest and confident in myself and just ask around on a date, I would always think that Valentine's Day would be a good day

to like ask a woman out on a date. Yeah, she's desperate. And it was always, it never seemed to work out. But I always felt like, yeah, you know, I was always like this, yeah, she's desperate. She'll be lonely today. I don't know that I was thinking those things. She's about to kill herself.

Well, maybe subconsciously I was thinking that. But, you know, it just seems like, you know, it would be just a good, you know, but, you know, it's easier to date people if you just are honest and you actually care about them. It took me a long time to learn that. Yeah. Well, it took me a while. Not as long as me. Not as long as you.

Valentine's, Ruth and I, I sent her flowers to her work and I waited all day to get a call, a text from her, something like, oh my gosh, you're the best. Thank you so much. All that. And I never heard anything. So then we had plans that night to go out for dinner. So I was like, all right, I guess she's just going to tell me in person, whatever. We got to dinner that night and she never says a word. And now I'm like, what is the deal? So finally, at the end of the night, I just have to ask her,

I'm like, look, did you by chance get something sent to you today at work? Like, I guess I said flowers or whatever. And she was like, no, no,

I didn't. And so then I tell her, I sent you flowers. I don't know what happened. And so the next day I call the florist. I don't know if I didn't. And so then I tell her, I sent you flowers. I don't know what happened. And so the next day I call the florist. I don't know if I'd believe you. If you were her? Yeah.

Yeah, I get that. That's fair. But she did. And I did send flowers. And I called the next day and I said, she never got the flowers. And they were like, yeah, we had a lot of people call out sick, delivery drivers or whatever. We just didn't get to all of them. And they said, we had a lot of people call out sick, delivery drivers or whatever. We just didn't get to all of them. And they said, we're going to do it today. And they said, we'll just take it

off your bill. And I was like, oh. You're like, all right, $75 back in my account here. It was over a hundred. And I'm like, for free on February 15th, sign me up every year for that. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So it was the best Valentine's I ever had. Wow. Well, that's what I'm saying. They just manipulate you, right? It's like they know that it's now an established holiday. And if you don't buy your significant other a gift, then they're going to be mad at you. So they're jacking up the price. Now I get it. If you own a flower shop, you're like, this is our time. Oh, yeah. We're going to make that money. This is like firework stands on July 4th. Yes. They're like, make that money.

Yeah. But... Make that fudge. Yes, exactly. It's a lot better than the rest of the year, which is funerals, so... Yes. Yeah. And they also take advantage of you then, too.

That is true. Yeah. That is true. They're like, oh, your loved one died? You're grieving? Oh, buy these flowers for $500. I don't even know. That could be low.

A low balled on the Valentine's Day. No's a little that's a little high okay i mean i don't it depends on what you get i guess but anyway all right so how valentine started you are correct there's two there's two theories two uh there might have been two different guys named valentine or it could have been the same person. But one of them was – Well, I'll just say this, though. In my – some of the research that I've done, they do incorporate those two things, that this was already a thing. Yeah, I'm about to get to that. Okay, all right, okay. You're right, too.

Okay. So the story is the emperor of Rome didn't want his soldiers to get married because he felt like it distracted them from being at their top physical fighting or whatever i don't know just okay they need to focus so this guy valentine would secretly marry soldiers um and then they found out about it and they executed him so that's kind of what you're saying he's a martyr he was a martyr then there was another valentine story that um the heart probably came from the shape of an arrowhead. That he got killed with? Yeah. There was another Valentine. He was helping

Christians escape Roman prisons and then they called him and they beat him and tortured him and then he fell in love with the jailer's daughter who would visit him while he was in jail and before his death he wrote her a letter signed, From Your Valentine.

Wow. How about that? That sounds like a country song. Yeah. Now, your part comes in, Dusty, because there was a pagan celebration called Lupercalia, and it was very pagan. And then after a while, like I think a lot of these religious holidays, they did combine them. Yes.

The Pope was like, look, let's just take ours and put it on the same day as theirs and then hope to kind of overtake it. I think Halloween's that way. We've talked about some other ones. Well, Christmas used to be Saturnalia is the big celebration they used to do. So it was a pagan celebration called winter solstice. Well, Christmas used to be Saturnalia is the big celebration they used to do. So it was a pagan celebration called winter solstice. And during Lupercalia, it was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture. And it was a three-day feast and they would sacrifice a goat and a dog.

And then they would whip women with the hides of the animals they just killed. And young women would line up. Seems like a good day to buy some flowers for. Jeez. Young women would line up for men to hit them with this because they believed it would make them fertile. Yeah. There's some deeper, darker stuff in there too. But I don't, I mean, there is. Well, this is dark enough for this one, I guess.

That's why I'm not, because once I started researching it again, I was like, actually, I don't even want to. I don't want people to even have to listen to it. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty dark. There was another theory that birds, I don't know how people know this, they made on February 14th, around that time. Okay. So that's how they made Valentine's, why they made Valentine's Day.

Maybe why they gave Cupid wings. Maybe so. Yeah. What's Cupid all about too? Is that Valentine's kid? No, he was a Roman god. He was much more sinister, I think, than what we think of now. I don't know if sinister is the right word, but he wasn't cute and chubby.

In the Bible, Nimrod is mentioned, and Nimrod is a warrior and a king with a bow. And some people think it's derived from Nimrod. And is he a bad guy? Yeah, he built the Tower of Babel. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. He's the grandson of Noah, maybe great-grandson of the cursed son.

Nimrod, great insult, by the way. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Don't we call people Nimrods? Yeah, Nimrod, nincompoop. So he led the construction of the Tower of Babel. Yeah, he was the king, yeah. Okay. Because there was a lot of people building it.

Yeah, I mean, he probably was not even lifting a rock. Yeah, yeah. He was just overseeing it. Yeah. He was the contractor. You think he wore one of those helmets on site? Yeah, probably a hard hat. A hard hat, yeah.

He was carrying around a clipboard. Valentine started becoming more of a romantic thing in the Middle Ages. Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet, wrote a Valentine's poem in 1375. And then the Duke of Orleans, he wrote a poem to his wife, a letter while he was in jail. I think we talked about this during the Middle Ages episode. And it just kind of become more and more over the years a romantic thing but yes it did not start off that way it kind of yeah see that's yeah they get a little softer yeah but then it probably it probably takes a turn at some point like halloween i felt like when i was a kid halloween was pretty. And now it's like real devil-y.

It's like gotten, I mean, like people my age, like we were like really doing the trick-or-treating. And now we're like grown and we take Halloween like way too serious now. It's like. It's a big business now for sure. Yeah. And it's like, I mean, it's just money, making money. Now I've seen pictures of Halloween, the turn of the century, like early 1900s, and those kids' costumes were scary. Oh, yeah?

Yeah, they were like homemade, of course, and so they would just go dark. I mean, those are pretty scary. Maybe not that one. Yeah, that one's tough. Yeah. They're talking about like that. Yeah, little kids with weird, scary masks on and stuff. Yeah.

But I mean, I know your theory on Halloween, and I get it. I dress my daughter up as a bunny. I don't think she's doing anything satanic. Well, she's not. Not yet. That's how it starts. Yeah, not yet that's how it starts yeah yeah that's how it starts um and then chocolates became a thing richard cadbury cadbury chocolate oh yeah cadbury egg yeah he uh he's a real he's a real hit on easter too yep that's true the old cadbury bunny that's true. The old Cadbury bunny. That's true. He started selling heart-shaped candy boxes in 1861. Okay.

And he realized that people would keep these boxes. He could promote it like, hey, even when you're done with the candy, use the box to put your possessions in, your jewelry, your loved ones, and that became a- So when we rob you, we'll know where it's at. I like that. The guy's like, listen, I'm going to give you this box. And then when you're done with it, put your jewelry in it.

Yeah, put all your valuable. Keep it by the door. Send me your address. Yeah. Now, did you guys exchange Valentine's cards as kids? I meant to bring you guys one today, but. At school. Yeah.

At school, you did. I had a box that I would stuff them all in. I wrapped it up. I loved Valentine's as a kid, collecting Valentine's cards. Yeah, it's fun. It's fun giving them, too. We had a school. You had to give one to everybody in the class.

Oh, that would have been nice for me. It wasn't just the ones, people you like. Yeah. I wish I went to your school. Keep everybody involved. Well, by the time he was in school like to think they had they had gone through that where they're like some of these kids are not getting balanced that's 100% what it is yeah yeah a lot of these got nothing

all right oh that's a lot of fun all right so um was dating do you have any valentine story from like when you're in high school or well i don't i don't know that I have a lot of Valentine's stuff. I mean, I got dating stuff because I, for a long time, I mean, I lived in a relatively small town. And it's like, you just kind of date people that you went to high school with, that you just knew. There was never this having to meet someone that you didn't know. Because I kind of knew everyone in the town because I went to school with them. Right. So.

Right. And I worked with, I have very embarrassing things. I used to like to make CDs. Mix tapes. Yeah. I made a, I worked with this girl at Western Sizzling and I really liked her and I rather, and I look back on it and I think, you know, had I just asked her out on a date, had I just been a man about it and been like, hey, I'd like to take you on a date, then I would have got a clear yes or no. And then I at least would know, but I think if I had done it, she would have just gone out with me. But instead I would do all these

things to try to make it seem like you know like just try to get her like i made her a i don't even want to say it but i made a mixtape with a song on it i heard this i don't even want to but i talked about god knows why about kid rock yeah tell us who the artist is and we'll guess it's so bad uh well if i told you the if you knew the song and i told you the artist you would know i think it was their only song. It was Mr. Big, I think. Mr. Jones? No, no. The artist was like Mr. Big or Big.

The song is called, yeah, look it up, see what it says. Mr. Big, American band. Alive and kicking, To Be With You. Yes, To Be With You. And it is, well, it really conveyed what I wanted to say, honestly. But I could have just not been, it's just like, it's cheesy though. So we never went out on a date. And I can understand why.

She probably put that CD in her car on the way home and ejected it within 15 seconds and threw it out the window. Like, you have to hear the song. Have you heard the song? You have to hear the song. Have you heard the song? I have not heard the song. I don't know if we can play it. No, probably not. But we can pull up the lyrics. Yes, pull up the lyrics.

It would be best if we did. But it's one of my most, it's one of those memories that I can think about and then retroactively be embarrassed. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I have plenty of those. Let me look these up. Okay.

So you would burn a CD. Yeah. I mean, I had to. I did that a few times. I did. Never worked. I had to play a cassette tape where I would listen to the radio and be ready. Oh, yeah.

Let's play and record and then have to stop it before the DJ talked over the song. Oh, yeah. It took a long time for me to gain personal confidence. Like, I always was confident like to make people laugh. I had lots of friends. Most people would probably not think that I was a lower confidence person. But personal, like one-on-one thing, like I could make women laugh like nothing, right? But then the moment I thought the girl that I liked liked me, then I was like, oh no, there's a new level.

Like we could be laughing. And then somebody goes, she likes you. And then it would just shut down. I'm like, I don't know what to do now. Yeah. Because now there's a pressure. Sure. Yeah.

You don't feel that pressure at all? I mean, does that translate to anything now with your career? I don't think so. I mean, you know, once in a while, but I just feel like right now where I'm at, I'm like think so. I mean, you know, once in a while, but I just feel like right now where I'm at, I'm like getting everything that I want, like comedy wise that any other things are bonuses, right? Like I don't, it's like any kind of TV stuff that might come along as a bonus, but all I've ever wanted was just to do comedy for a living and, you know, and sell out the shows.

So now the sellouts are finally happening. So I'm like, I'm in the perfect place. This is where I want to be. If some TV thing comes along, great, I'm all for it. But I don't feel the pressure. Okay. That's good. Yeah.

I think when I'm on stage, I'm still more confident than when I get off stage. Yes. Sometimes, and it had to be girls, just hopefully it's not girls since I'm married, but guys or anything, just talking to people one-on-one. Yeah. Well, I worked with this guy. I used to work with this guy and I wanted to talk about him anyway, because he kind of taught me how to date, right? When I was 21, I moved to Charleston and I had just come out of a trailer park. I was living in a trailer for a few years and then I moved to this really nice city of Charleston.

And I'm drinking a lot. And I'm selling. I'm the assistant pesticide salesman with this guy who was in his late 60s. He used to play football for the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, you've talked about him. And he's just like this huge guy. Looks a little bit like Billy Graham, a little bit like Christopher Walken, slick back, white hair, big glasses, big chin. And he used to, you know, he would give me all this advice.

And when I would talk to him about kind of, you know, finding it more difficult to have one-on-one conversations than to talk to a bunch of people. And he said, you know, that's because you get to go into this like character character almost, where you're entertaining people as opposed to actually having to have one-on-one conversations, which I do still think is more difficult. One-on-one is harder than to just talk to 10 people. Oh, yeah. That's because you're just talking to people versus talking with. That's right. You know? Yeah, yeah. That's because you're just talking to people versus talking with. That's right.

You know? Yeah. There's reciprocity. Yes. I mean, even like if I'm hanging out with somebody and we're talking, even if it's a good friend and then other people show up, it can change. The whole way that I'm talking can change because it's like I shift into entertainment mode. Would you rather be in a long car ride with one person you didn't know or two people you didn't know? One person. Yeah. I think I'd rather be with two. So would I, so they could talk to each other.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. I'll switch. Two people I didn't know, and I'm in the backseat. Oh, no. They're in the back, and I'm driving. Yeah, yeah.

Have them talk. What is reciprocity? I might have misused the word. I've been thinking about it ever since I said it. It's reciprocal. They're going to have to – when you say something, they say something back. Yeah. It's not just you talk.

Do you wait to talk or do you listen? Oh, I try to be conscious about listening to what they say. Yeah. And not just jumping in with yeah what i'm saying i find it hard to uh wait and talk uh because or you know what i mean because we're like we're comics right so our uh we do podcasts where we talk about ourselves we uh do comedy where we talk about ourselves we're narcissists like we are and I'm spending time thinking about how I can talk about myself. Yep.

And it's not, I don't think it's so much a narcissist thing, narcissistic thing, as it is like, this is what I'm talking about on stage. It's not that I just want to talk about myself, but it's always the safe thing. I can tell my own stories and no one's ever offended because it's my story, right? So if you spend all this time mining your own memories and thinking about these things and that when you're actually now talking, you're like, oh, so what I always try to do

is find some relatable story that I have. Because I don't know, sometimes I think, I don't even know how to talk to people that aren't comics. You're talking to Dusty, he's just thinking, all right, how can I make this about you? Yes. And I don't even mean to do it. How can I tie this into Dusty Slay? Yeah.

But I am aware that it happens. Right. Yeah. You know? Well, I looked up some great stalker stories. Do you guys remember? I thought you were about to say love stories. In your diary?

Well, we're – Boom. Boom. Stalker stories. Do you guys remember? I thought you were about to say love stories. In your diary? Well, we're... Boom. Boom. That was a good one. All right. Well, I have some of those in my journal. But no, I left those. These are all women pursuing men.

Because I feel like when it's a man stalking a woman, it gets much more sinister. Somehow, it's a little bit lighter when it's the woman chasing the man. Do you guys remember the astronaut who drove from Texas? With a diaper. Yeah, I read on Wikipedia that that's maybe not true. That was just- Oh, that was the hook of that story. That was the hook.

You remember the story, Dusty? Yeah, I think she discovered that space wasn't real. And then she's like, I gotta get out of here. I'm driving to Florida. Astronaut. Yeah. Well, just to refresh everyone's memory, she was married, but I guess her marriage was going nowhere. It was about to end.

She was seeing another guy who was an astronaut. Then he started seeing this woman who, I guess she was a pilot maybe. And she drove to Florida to confront her and supposedly wore astronaut diapers. Sounds more fun to say that, right? So she didn't even have to stop driving. And she had a lot of- But she needed to stop for gas, right? Yeah, that's a good point.

Why not just use the bathroom when you're stopping for gas? Put jet fuel in the car. She didn't want to go in the house. I mean, going into the convenience store. Was she on the run from somebody at the time? No, I don't think so. Why was she in such a hurry? I thought she was on the run from police.

I don't think so. I think she just, once she made up her mind, she wanted to get to it. And she knew that when this woman's flight was coming in, so maybe she wanted to get there. Meet her at the airport? Yeah, by then. Lisa Nowak. Lisa Nowak. And she...

I'd say there's a little bit of whack in there. You know what I mean? She confronted this woman in the... Lisa some whack. Yeah. Very whack. Yeah. She confronted her in the parking lot at the airport.

And I guess once the woman saw who she was, she did roll down her window and then she sprayed her with pepper spray. Wow. And- Lisa sprayed her with pepper spray? Yeah, Lisa sprayed this, the victim with pepper spray.

They found in her car latex gloves, a black wig, a BB gun, and ammunition, and pepper spray. And ammunition, a BB gun, and ammunition. And pepper spray. And ammunition. So BBs. I guess. A hooded tan trench coat, a drilling hammer, an eight-inch Gerber folding knife. I don't know what all she had planned, but she drove 900 miles to confront this woman.

Wow. I like Lisa. Yeah. Seems like a motivated lady. Like when she's got something on her mind she's gonna get it done she might be one

that would spill the beans on this whole space thing yeah that's what I'm thinking that's what I'm thinking Lisa Nowak was like I've discovered things

oh they pinned this on her maybe yeah and they were like she's trying to run and they're like oh she's got a she got a crush yeah

so all this is just made up yeah there was there was a woman this is another country she called uh a guy 65 000 times in one year lisa did no this is i'm moved on okay okay there's different ladies 65 000 times that comes down to 200 calls a day and assuming she's awake 16 hours a day, 11 calls an hour or one every five minutes. This guy should have thought about blocking her. Yeah.

At a certain point, it's on him. This might have been before that. It might have been his home phone for all I know. Oh, man. You go ahead and unplug that and be like, if you want to get in touch with me, you write me a letter. And then another woman, this is Arizona, she texted the guy 65,000 times. Same number, 65,000 texts to a letter. And then another woman, this is Arizona, she texted the guy 65,000 times.

Same number, 65,000 texts to a guy she met online. She told him he was her soulmate. And then she lived in Phoenix and she visited the guy's home and office and flooded him with threatening text messages. And sometimes 500 texts in a single day. You know, they always told you growing up, if you want to be persistent, you know, be persistent. Don't take no for an answer. They say women like persistence.

And clearly this woman does like that. She just is doing it. She's the one doing it. Well, they asked her about it and she said, love's not perfect. That was her answer. Yeah, or good at all. Yeah. I wonder at all. Yeah. I wonder what the guy had to say, though.

I don't know a lot of statements from him. The worst moment was he was out of the country, and I guess he had a home surveillance video, and he could see that she was in his house. So they called police and went to the house, and she was taking a bath in his bathtub, and she had a butcher knife in her car. So it could have been a little fatal attraction thing going on here. Jeez. She was taking a bath in his bathtub, and she had a butcher knife in her car.

So it could have been a little fatal attraction thing going on here. Jeez. Dang. It's intense. Yeah, or maybe she was cutting up fruit, you know? I mean, she's like, well, this knife looks suspicious, but I like lemons in my water. Maybe. Like an orange in my blue moon.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, blame the blue moon. So we're in my blue moon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Blame the blue moon. So we're three confident guys here. Can talk about our, you know, our romantic side. What's a good romantic, what's a song, Dusty, that you always go to to really feel? Well, I'm really the worst about that, though, because I like songs like that. But I'm like, I think Al Green has got some of the best. There's a song called How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?

And then that's a good one. And I think he has another one called If I Give My Love to You. And that may not be the name of the song, but that's how it starts. Great. I mean, Al Green is really crushing it in that area. starts uh great i mean al green is really crushing it in that area i've got i like if you're looking for like a little sadder element of this you ever heard this you ever listen to bread bread's amazing now oh the band bread i'm familiar with them okay they have a song called diary okay oh yeah and it's it's a story about a guy who's in love with this girl and he finds

her diary under a tree and he starts reading her diary violating her privacy but he's reading the diary and he's like oh my gosh she's in love with me too so he starts imagining their life together they're going to have children they're going to live this wonderful life together two people in love and he's so excited he keeps reading and it gets to the end and he realizes this is all about somebody else and then the song ends that's very sad why would he think it was about him i missed that part because he was in love with her so he's he just assumed he's just seeing himself in the thing she's writing it's so good that's how that's when you when you don't have confidence it helps you because i would never think that but then but then at the end he it's this very mature realization at the end where he says all the things i wish for the two of us i now wish for you and him oh give me a break that would never happen it's great though bread

there's one i want to make it with you i think it's another one there's uh that the big one is um oh man everything i own everything i own that's a big one guitar man guitar man is really great bread's awesome bread is great just get the bread anthology didn't nate say his mom was a big bread fan i wonder my mom's a huge bread fan too so i wonder if oh it's here's one jim croce uh has a great one time in a bottle and i always like this line he says i remember you showing me this yeah he said if i had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true the box would be empty except for the memory of how they were answered by you and And I'm like that. I mean, Jim Croce died in a plane crash and it's a real sad because we all lost a lot.

I mean, that guy was going to be full of a lot of great songs. Oh yeah. We had a lot more lines like that. Yeah. That's a real bummer. I mean, that verse three is killer. I mean, Jim Croce crushes it. You turned me onto a song by Jason Isbell of We Were Vampires.

Yes. That's a great song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it, but I don't know what that song sounds like. I like the more sad romance. That's a very sad one, but also has a nice – he also comes to a nice realization at the end. I like He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Shepard.

That's a really good one. That's another – is that a sad – that's a sad song. It sure sounds like it, right? Yeah, it's about a guy who loved. He told a woman, she broke up with him. He said, I'll love you till I die. And then the song is like, he has died now. And so his friends are like, he stopped loving her today.

You've never heard it? No. I mean, I know of it. I've never analyzed the lyrics. Some people think it's the greatest country song of all time. Oh, okay. It's really good. Oh, well, they haven tennessee fan by morgan wallen then i guess um have you ever listened to the sullivan baloo letter or read that i don't know what that

is sullivan baloo letter it's a letter during the civil war written by a major in the rhode island infantry and he wrote this letter to his wife. And it's like the most beautifully written love letter of all time. I have it memorized. I listen to it sometimes. Wow. Yeah. And I'll give you the few banger lines from it. Okay. He says, Sarah, my love for you is deathless. It seems to bind me with mighty cables that nothing but omnipotence can break.

And yet my love of country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly with all those chains to the battlefield. The memory of all the blissful moments I have enjoyed with you come crowding over me, and I feel most deeply grateful to God and you that I've enjoyed them for so long, and how hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years, when God willing, we might still have lived and loved together and see our boys growing up to honorable manhood around us. That's deep. I mean, I got lost in it, and I kind of lost what you were saying. Sarah, when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name. Wow.

It's like the most intense, beautifully written love letter, and he dies a week later. Oh, no. Never even gets it to her. They find it in his coat because he was like, oh, I think I'm going to die soon. The war is getting pretty intense. So he writes this thinking, I'll get it to her when I get a chance and he dies. Wow.

Right away. So she, she turned that letters in a museum now it's a, and when did you memorize it? Well, it was, it's in Ken Burns, a civil war documentary.

Okay. And they play it over. I think it's pronounced a Shoken farewell. It's this violin tune and it's on the soundtrack album. And so I just listen to it every now and then. To the Ken Burns. To Ken Burns Civil War documentary. Do you ever recite it to Lucy?

She is not into it. No, I can see that. I don't see Lucy as a big poetry fan. From Civil War era. Yeah. Lucy, do not mourn me dead. I think I am gone. She's like, what?

She's like, ugh. I think I was like, I showed it to her once in the car, and she was like, turn this off right now. Yeah. Well, we talked about on the psychology episode, which is before you were with us, Dusty, that there's a psychologist that came up with 36 questions that if you put a man and a woman in a room together,

have them each ask each other these questions, and in the last four minutes just stare into each other's eyes, they'll fall in love. And apparently he did this with two people, and they got married six months later. And I have the questions here. If you want to look at Aaron. Nate wouldn't do this, but if you're- That would be wild, huh? six months later. So, and I have the questions here. If you want to look at Aaron,

Nate wouldn't do this, but if you're- That would be wild, huh? If I ask him these questions and then something happens, I'm not going to read him the questions. Yeah,

you're afraid, aren't you? Is it a lot of different questions? It's 36. Oh, yeah. I mean, dang,

you practically get to know each other. Well, there you go. That might be a big part of it. Yeah. That's the point. Given the choice of anyone in the world,

whom would you want as a dinner guest? A dinner guest. See, I think we read that one the last time, and Nate said, you got to say Jesus. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think anybody, I think a big flaw in this question is that anybody not from at most 30 years ago, anybody from more than 30 years ago, it's going to be impossible to have a conversation. You can't bring anybody pre-electricity. They're going to sit at this table and just. Where are we?

They're not going to be able to handle any of it. Right? Yeah. And it's got to be. It has to be somebody that speaks your language so we're limited to just english speakers so it's like i'm going i'm going ronnie van zandt the old lead singer from leonard skinner okay yeah he could probably pick up right away yeah you could get on with him yeah real quick i'm sure but it can't be somebody it can't be like you know caesar or somebody you can't have dinner with him but even like uh that jeffrey chaucer poem

that i didn't read it to you i'm like if i lived in the middle ages and they spoke english could i even communicate with them it's so different i think i may have a better chance with someone who speaks spanish now than i would someone who spoke English in the 1300s. Oh, yeah. Canterbury Tales, that whole area. It's a lot different. Yeah, they're tough to recognize. It's tough to understand what they're saying.

If you watch Shakespeare plays in the original pronunciation, you need a translator there, even though it's technically English. So Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, obviously is one of the most famous, maybe the most famous love story, would you say? Yeah, I guess so. Cleopatra.

There's some. It's like, just don't marry a, you got a rival families going on, find someone else. You know what I mean? Well, that's there. It's telling me love has obstacles. That's what's about you know in spite deadly obstacles yeah but julius caesar uh sorry uh shakespeare wrote about real people to the point where caesar might have to there are uh the historical facts that i get mixed up, like Julius Caesar, because Shakespeare wrote about him.

I don't know if all that stuff happened, where he said et tu when they all stabbed him. Yeah. And then Cleopatra, because I was looking up famous love stories. She and, was it Mark Anthony? Anthony? I don't know. Okay, well, anyway. That was one of the famous love stories.

Is he a singer? All right. Mark Anthony? Yeah, maybe he is. Is he married to J-Lo? Am I thinking of the famous love stories. Is he a singer? All right. Mark Anthony? Yeah, maybe he is. Is he married to J-Lo? Am I crazy? I think that's the same name. Okay.

All right. But a different guy. Probably a different, yeah. Am I got the name right? Yeah. All right. Mark Anthony. All right.

Anyway. Oh, Mark Anthony, not Antony. Is it one of the other? It's about the same. Did you Google it? Yeah. Did it ask Tristan? Well, it was a fun conversation.

Yeah. You know, I always just find- I'm coming Nate over here. Mark Antony was a Roman politician in general who played a critical role in the transformation of the, yeah, he's from, okay, Caesar times. Well, anyway, in, I'm sorry, Dusty. That's okay. In Shakespeare time-

Mark Antony is the same. All right. Sorry. Well, the story about Mark Antony and J-Lo is another classic. Yeah, it's another timeless love story. They're divorced now, but yeah. In the Shakespeare, I guess, play about Cleopatra, he dies or commits suicide, and then she lets a poisonous asp bite her and kill her. A wasp no

a snake ASP yeah I almost just said snake but I'm like no I'll stick with it I was like did he probably just

call it a wasp is that what he's really taking the mispronunciation to extremes but so I always thought that was really how she died

but then I looked it up and that's just from the william shakespeare okay play you know this like this is what i learned though about dating and about love and stuff like that it's like you know they don't people always want to play games right there's always these like uh there are always these rules about you know if you get the girl's number you don't want to text for a couple of days because you don't want her to think you're desperate. And it's like, I mean, really, it's all about just having some confidence and like having some accomplishment in life, right? So that you

have something that you, you know, it's like people always make fun of women about wanting to marry rich men, but it's like, why would you not want to marry a guy with money so that you're taken care of and you're secure? So like giving, you have your own confidence. So that gives confidence to the woman that they should be with you. And then just be honest and don't play games. And it's like, I used to like, I grew up with a lot of women, right? I grew up with my mom and my sisters and I grew up watching all these romantic movies. I mean, Grease was a movie that I watched a lot as a kid. I had the soundtrack.

I knew all the songs, still know all the songs. What's your favorite? Well, Summer Lovin' is the best, but also- I love Hopelessly Devoted. I like the song where he goes, stranded at the drive-in, branded a fool. That's a good one, too. Sandy.

I hope to see it in a Super Bowl commercial next year. But it's like all that stuff, it's just so phony, this whole thing of like you just fall in love and then everything is just love, love, love. And I think that's why people get divorced all the time now. Because it's actually a lot more practical. Yeah, because the moment you're not like feeling in love, you're like, well, I should get divorced because I love the guy I just met at the office. Right. Where it's like, you know, it's a, it's a real partnership that you share in that lasts for a long time. And the feelings may, you know, and I've not been married a long time, but this is just what I've gathered. Right. You know, and feelings, you know, come and

go, but it's like, you've agreed to enter into a partnership with each other despite feelings. And we've agreed to enter into a partnership with HelloFresh. A great transition, but really kills what I said. I'm sorry. I totally agree with everything you just said. Want a healthy relationship, you're going to need to be healthy yourself. So eat good food.

That's bad news. Good point. That's bad news for me, but let's keep it moving. Do you have a romantic comedy or just a movie in general, romantic movie that was your go-to? There's a movie that I'll probably never watch again but i watched it during a sappier time in my life and it's a john cusack movie called serendipity oh yeah and i really really like that movie i love that movie why will you never watch it again i don't know it seems like i'm at a different place where it's probably a little too sappy for me that i would not there was a time

where i like really believed in a lot of signs and things like that. And I just, I don't know. I don't really believe the same way I used to believe. Great cast on this movie. John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Molly Shannon, Jeremy Piven. Jeremy Piven is great. Eugene Levy. I mean, wow.

I love that movie because they write, is it a phone number on the dollar? Or some information on a dollar bill. Or I can't remember which denomination it is but it's a currency of money and then they find it later am i remembering yeah something like that on the plane and that was signed and i was when i was a kid i was really big into putting my initials on a dollar bill putting out in the world and just seeing if it would ever come back to yeah like i did like I did with balloons. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. But it's like, you know.

I grew up with the internet. I didn't have to do any of this stuff. So, yeah. The thing about it is he was about to get married, and then I guess he finds the dollar or something, and it just makes him think. Because they said something to each other like, you know, I'll write my number on this dollar bill, and if it ever makes its way back to you, then it's meant to be. And he's like about to get married and then he finds the money. So now he goes on this quest to find this girl. Wow. And it's Kate Beckinsale.

Yeah, it's good. But I'm like, now I'm like, I live in a more realistic place in my mind now. And I just don't know that I would- You couldn't get on board with this premise. I just think that it might- You were more realistic romantically. Like, yeah, you already put the down payment on this wedding. Yeah. You know, you can't just back down. Yeah, I'm not even that

against arranged marriages nowadays. It was, they stayed together more, right? Yeah. Well, if your parents care about you and they're like, I want my son

to be with a woman that's going to, you know, meet his needs and then like the woman's family is like, I want my daughter to be with a man that we know, we care about. I don't know. I just think if the parents care about you, it could be really great. I had many years in my life where I was single,

and I'm like, if we only had arranged marriages, that girl would be forced to be married to me. But I think in movies, they always portray it that way, right? It's always this woman has to marry this hideous guy and so we're all against it. That's not the way he was describing it. Thank you, Dusty. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's not all like that. They're not

all hideous like Brian. Some of them are nice guys. Aaron, you got a movie? Oh, man. God, they're so many. I, you got a movie? Oh, man. God, there's so many. I'm a sucker for The Notebook, dude. I think The Notebook's a good movie. If you kind of get over all the annoying parts about it, it's a great movie.

I've never seen it. You want to talk about chemistry that leaps off the screen, let's talk about Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling. I mean, my goodness. They are fire in a bottle. Is that a saying? It's a good movie. I got another my goodness. They are fire in a bottle. Is that a saying? It's a good movie. I got another too.

What do you got? I liked Four Weddings and a Funeral. Seen that? No. Hugh Grant. What are you? There's a wrong answer apparently. No, no.

We just not seen it and we said no at the same time. He said it was disdain. That's a terrible answer. Well, no, it's just a funeral. It was funny. I like a little sadness in there too. Some British comedies.

Well, you know what's interesting about the one that I was about to say is it is about a boy with Hugh Grant. Well, I love that movie. That is an incredible movie. That is a great movie. It holds up. I still watch it from time to time. It holds up. It's a great love story, but also it's got more heart to it with the movie. It holds up. I still watch it from time to time. It holds up. It's a great

love story, but also it's got more heart to it with the kid. Growing up with a single mom and having a tough life. It's really great. You seen it? No. About a Boy is really great. About a Boy. I like that one better than Four Weddings and a Fever. I just didn't think of it as a romantic movie.

It is though because he's just kind of like a player almost. But then he falls in love and gets his own heart broken. And it's so good. British comedy. How about A Beautiful Mind? Never seen it, but I know what it is, I guess. Yeah, A Beautiful Mind?

Yeah. That's a good love story, right? I wouldn't think of it like that, but I guess so. I mean, Jennifer Connelly sticks with him through schizophrenia for decades. That's true. Which, disappointingly, is not what happened in real life. They got divorced. Yeah.

The love did not last. She also stuck with Edward Norton when he was the Hulk. Well, yeah, there's some other movies she's been in that are pretty wild, too. Yeah, there's some other movies she's been in that are pretty wild, too. But she, you know, good for her, though. Good for the character in real life to leave this guy. Oh, why? Because she's probably much happier.

Well, he ends up winning the Nobel Prize. Does that mean nothing to you? It doesn't mean a lot to me. They were married? They were married, right? They were married. And you think it's good that she left? She was a student of his when he was teaching math. And I don't know what kind of math.

I didn't know they were married, but did they have kids? They had kids, yeah. But you said on your podcast recently, I had to beef with you on this. If you've got kids, stick it out, which I totally agree with. But you said if you don't have kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you said on your podcast recently, I had to beef with you on this. Okay. If you've got kids, stick it out, which I totally agree with. Yeah. But you said if you don't have kids, hey, leave them. Go ahead. Get out of there.

Well, I just think that it's like this is just from a point of view of like for the kids, right? If you're like married and you have kids and you're like mad at your spouse or whatever, and you're just unhappy, generally unhappy, and you want to get divorced, it's like you're like mad at your spouse or whatever and you're just unhappy generally unhappy and you want to get divorced it's like you're gonna make your kids unhappy you're gonna kind of mess up your kids and this is just my thoughts let me do whatever you want but and i just but i just think if you're you don't have kids well it doesn't matter i don't think it i don't think it matters if you don't. So you don't think, like, biblically, when Jesus said it's a sin to divorce? Not if you don't have kids.

All right, well, that's not what he said. I just don't. But I think in that time, people were getting married and having kids. Okay. Sits and laban. I don't know what that is, but what's that? It's a term. I don't know.

And I'm not even speaking biblically here, though. Mine is more just a practical kind of thing where it's like in our day and age where divorce is so common, if you're married and you got no kids and you're already wanting to get out of it, you might as well just do it. But if you got kids, think about their lives. So you don't think the wedding vows before God and all that. Well, I think a lot of people, who knows what they're even doing? Who even knows what their wedding vows are? They're probably hungover getting married. You know what I mean?

The guy probably had a stripper at his bachelor party. Well, it used to be, wasn't it historically the bachelor party was the night before the wedding? And that's kind of gone away. That's gone away almost completely. People are smarter about that. Yeah. I haven't even heard of that in real life, doing it the night before the wedding. Right.

Now it's, I don't know. I did mine like five months ahead of time, just scheduling. It's tough. It's a week at the minimal, a week ahead of time. I mean, I've been to bachelor parties where I'm like, geez, you're getting married and this is what you're doing? And then also bachelorette parties, I'll see them bouncing around Nashville. And I'm like, they're like, and the, the, the, the, the, just the attire they have. I'm like, oh man, this is.

Stuff. Yeah. Stuff. Yeah. So I looked up some country songs, not country. Most of these are country, but just songs on revenge. It seems like most of them are country. Before He Cheats, Carrie Underwood.

Mm-hmm. That's a, you know, it seems a little extreme. She takes a bat to his car, I believe. She vandalizes a lot of property. I love the song, though. I do think it's a really fun song. Yeah. I'm not saying it's not a fun song, but.

She's insane in the song, but yes. Toby Keith, How Do You Like Me Now? Well, yeah. I mean, I'm, you know, I mean, I've tried to do song breakdowns on that as a joke, but it's like, this guy, it's such a good song. And when I was in high school, I really liked it. But as I got older, I started to realize like, this is exactly what I'm talking about. This guy's doing everything he can. He said, I only wanted to get your attention, but you overlooked me somehow. So he goes to the extreme. He breaks into the football stadium, writes her number on the 50 yard line, says, call for a good time. It's like, how about just ask her on a date? Yeah. Where was that at? Yeah. That's a great joke. I love that joke. Yeah. I mean,

it's like, and then the second verse gets really extreme. He's like, you married into money. And then he said, you know, your husband's always gone and your kids hear you cry down the hall. The alarm clock starts ringing. Who could that be singing? It's me, baby, with your wake up call. How do you like me now? And it's like, wow. So, you know, she's struggling and you're just attacking her.

Yeah. Maybe she's about to get a divorce and this is finally your time to have some love with her. No, he's still vindictive. Yeah, it's like, dude, she never, like based on the song lyrics, she never did anything to him. And he's got this just vendetta against her. Now, I rarely show Dusty a song that he gets into,

but I showed him one a couple of years ago called I Hope by Gabby Barrett. And in the song. Incredible song, by the way. She's singing to a guy. She says, I hope you meet the girl of your dreams. I hope you go out. I hope there's sparks like you've never had before.

I hope when you lean in and have a first kiss, I hope you feel something incredible. And before he reveals it, I mean, that first verse feels like a love song. Yeah. And it is unbelievable. And Dusty's not on board with it because he's like, oh, God. She says, I hope you save up, and I hope you spend all this money on an engagement ring. And I hope she says yes, and I hope there's butterflies.

And then I hope she cheats on you. Like you did on me. Like you did on me. And then the second verse is, hope you make up i hope you get back together i hope you do all and then i hope she cheats like you did i mean it's such a hard song dusty was like fired up yeah it's a good one i recommend it gabby barrett i hope it's a hard song i mean and and yeah i mean i i don't like a lot of these love songs now because they're not realistic uh our friend joe kelly used to have a joke about Bob Marley, and he has a song where he says,

apparently Bob Marley has like, I don't know, just lots and lots of kids by several different women. And he has the song, is it love, is it love, is it love that I'm feeling? He's like, probably not, Bob. That's very true. Very funny. Yeah. That's very true. Very funny. That's great. A couple more here.

She Can't Say That Anymore by John Connolly. This is the one Dusty has theories about. Yeah. Well, I threw out a theory, and you asked him about it, right? Yeah, you said in the song that you think the woman killed, or he kills the woman in the song. And it's a great song a really great song and i asked john connelly about it at the opry one night and he laughed and one of his

bandmates laughed and they said they said we've never thought about that uh because i imagine these guys get asked all kind of questions about their songs and he said i've never thought about it no one's ever asked that but he says i says, I don't think he wrote the song, but he's like, I don't believe there was any killing in the song. I'm not sure what's going on there. But that's a good song too. Oh, that's a great song. And then one other, I did not know this.

Because she cheats, right? And then she says in the song, I've never done anything like this. And then they're like, she can't say that anymore. And it's just like, it's so good where it's like, I don't know. I can't sing, but it's great. Yeah, it's a great song. Do you guys know the song, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia? Big fan.

Do you know that song? No. Reba McEntire? No. That's a night that the lights went out in Georgia. Yeah. No. That's a night that the lights went out in Georgia.

Yeah. I mean, I always attribute that song to Reba McEntire, but it was actually a number one hit first by Vicki Lawrence. Yeah, I knew it was a cover. I didn't know it was a number one hit. But do you know Vicki Lawrence? No. I don't know Vicki Lawrence.

That's Mama from Mama's House. Oh, wow. I remember Mama's House. She's a comedic actress and she recorded this. Her husband wrote the song and... Bobby Russell. Bobby Russell.

And she recorded it and it became a number one hit, her only song. Well, that's awesome. Well, I know that you normally

face the clock and I'm facing it now and I feel like we're at a... I don't know where we end. I don't know. You always call it. Dusty, I run this show. But now you're no longer facing the clock.

Brian's milking it because it'll be a while. It'll be a while until we do another episode where Brian's in that seat. You've had your picture of your family up there I mean the whole episode. I just kissed myself. Alright, where are we at this week? Well, this week I'm going to be at the Ryman with Kathleen Madigan.

Oh, nice. I'll be opening for her at the Ryman on Saturday. It's going to be really great. And then next week, I'll be at the Helium in Indianapolis. We should say, also, you're opening for Kathleen. She's got a special coming out, I think February 24th or 21st. 21st, I think. 21st.

Well, she's great. And if you want to come see me but don't know who Kathleen is for some reason, she's great. Oh, yeah. She's great. Yeah, you'll love it. One of, I think, an all-time great. And it's on Amazon Prime, just like Nate says.

So if you got Amazon to watch Nate's special, you can hop on there and watch Kathleen's. How about that? This weekend, I'm in Charlottesville, Virginia. February 17th. It's one show. I think it's two shows, but one night

at the Boar's Head Resort in Charlottesville. No jokes about Boar's Head. No deli meat jokes. That's half my act. If you want to see me reach, come to the Boar's Head Resort. And then I'm in Asheville next weekend.

I just, I'm doing, I'm going to California, doing some shows out there for the first time in May. Irvine, Ontario, doing the improvs out there. Fun clubs. Check AaronWeberComedy.com. Go ahead and check that out. Oh, I got a new website. My website got updated. It's DustySlay.com still Let's go ahead and check that out. Oh, I got a new website. My website got updated. It's DustySlay.com still, but it's been updated.

I got some fresh things in there. Oh, look at this. You got some stuff going on. Yeah. How about it? Yeah, just got a new website. Looks good. So check it out. Yeah.

It's a hot website. My friend Andy Ford designed that for me. Let's chat. If I click here, I can talk to you? Yeah. Let's see if I get a response. I'll get an email and I'll respond later. Oh, is that really how it works? It really does go to me, yeah. Oh, sorry about that.

People go, this can't be really dusty, and then I'll respond like weeks later and they never respond. This weekend, I am at Helium Comedy Club in Indianapolis. Awesome. We're doing back-to-back weekends in Helium. That's right. This Friday, this Saturday I'm at Helium Comedy Club in Indianapolis. Awesome. We're doing back-to-back weekends in Helium. That's right. This Friday, this Saturday, I'm at Helium.

And the following weekend, I'm at Good Nights Comedy Club in Raleigh. Boom. February 24th, 25th. Hitting the Helium circuit. That's right. And then, weekend after that, March 3rd and 4th, I'm at Blue Ridge Comedy Club in Bristol, Tennessee. Awesome. So, three great weekends.

Come out to those shows. You had some overflow because of Dave Attell, I think, on your shows, right? That's what you said on the podcast. I mean, people bought tickets. That's what you said on the podcast. Yeah, I mean, it didn't hurt me that he sold out all the other shows. Yeah, you said that on the – I have Adele Givens, so. She'll sell out for sure.

So all those Adele Givens fans will come on over to my show. That's what I'm trying to say. And you're going to give the same type of energy that Adele Givens will give. Absolutely. And they'll be like,

it's practically the same show. Absolutely. Absolutely. So Nate will be back next week. Don't worry. This is, like we said, it's not a regular thing. Well, I thought it's...

I think it's been great. But yeah, we have not all been together in a while. No. So it will be fun to be all back. And Nate's done a lot since he's been gone. So we got a lot to talk about. His special's doing great. He's been out there playing golf with celebrities.

Mark Wahlberg. Yeah. My God. Yeah, he is living it up. So as always, we love you. None of this is forgotten on us. Lost on us. None of this is forgotten on us. Lost on us. None of this is lost on us.

I don't even know how you forget something on someone. Yeah. But anyway, we'll see you next week. Thanks. Bye. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me nate bargetzi and my wife laura on the audio boom platform recording and editing for the show is done by genovations media thanks for tuning in

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