The Nateland Podcast - 142: #142 Pranks & Practical Jokes

Episode Date: March 29, 2023

This week the guys commemorate April Fools Day by learning about some of history's most infamous pranks and practical jokes. Nate shares some of his favorite pranks that he's played on friends, Aaron shares his distaste for those who like to sample ice cream flavors, and Dusty questions video of rockets going into outer space.  Sunday  - GetSunday.com/Nate Sunday is offering our listeners 20% off!   Full-season plans start at just $109, and you can get 20% off when you visit GETSUNDAY.COM/NATE at checkout!   That's 20% off your custom plan at GETSUNDAY.COM/NATE Fabric - MeetFabric.com/Nate Protect your family today with Fabric by Gerber Life. Apply today in just 10 minutes at meetfabric.com/nate.   That’s meetfabric.com/nate.   Policies issued by Western-Southern Life Assurance Company. Not available in certain states.    Prices subject to underwriting and health questions. Athletic Greens - AthleticGreens.com/Nate If you’re looking for an easier way to take supplements, Athletic Greens is giving you a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. Go to athleticgreens.com/nate. Check it out. Harrys - Harrys.com/Nate Don’t get overcharged for razors. Get Harry’s.   Get a $15 Truman Shave trial set for just $3 at harrys.com/Nate.   

Hello, folks, and hey, Bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. Welcome, everybody. Excited to be here. We're here. We're doing it. Kind of, yeah. I feel like I'm, yeah, we're rolling. It's already started.

We're in it. I got to get it to it. My mind was, you got to get it together. But it's, yeah, we're doing good. I'm, had a good weekend in Florida. Well, it's been a month since we've all been here together.

Yeah, that's true. So it's going to take a few minutes to get back into the swing of it. Yeah, yeah. People just, can you imagine someone listening and they go, and someone's like, I want to turn it off. He goes, no, no, you got to give them. They could fast forward it. Give them 15 minutes.

But he goes, give it. That's how our podcast is that, where they tell, don't people say, they're like, you got to give it a chance. Yeah, Dusty, what do you call your comedy

sometimes on stage? Oh, crock pot comedy. Yeah. It takes a while to heat up. Yeah, yeah. You know,

at first you don't even know if this thing's on. Yeah. Before you know it. You got a pot roast. You got a nice meal. Yeah. Yeah.

You got to start it a day early. You got to think about it. Yeah. pot roast you got a nice meal yeah yeah you gotta start it a day early you gotta think about it yeah know what you're buying yeah i uh well i mean that we're that's where we could be the most like seinfeld seinfeld was like that where you're like you gotta watch it if you watch it you're gonna love it yeah fau which is in the final four basketball they released a hype video put together by withinfeld clips. Oh, really? It's very funny. It's like showing Frank Costanza when he called Jerry's dad and said –

I'll be all over that shuffleboard court. Try to keep us out. Try to keep – yeah, that's great. Yeah. Oh, look at that. So you find like they need to hire a younger social media person. You and I are the only two that like it. People are like, what is this?

Who's your social media guy? You're like, I'd imagine is he 43 years old? And he'd go, yeah, how'd you know that? Well, who would? He's never got a chance. Nobody thought FAU would go this far. So they're like, just let Harold do it. That's funny.

You had a big birthday. I had a big birthday. 44-year-old. 44 years old. Happy birthday. Thanks. It was in Tallahassee at Florida State, the basketball arena. And they did nice things, and they had some stuff.

And when I went out, I had a lot of people yell, happy birthday. Oh, wow. Which is a sign. I took it as a, you know, because I've gone on, I've probably done shows almost all my birthdays, if they're at least Thursday to Sunday. And before, I almost want to say last year year i'm trying to remember where we were we're in uh i don't know if anybody yelled happy birthday last year uh i'm just saying no one would know

it was a down year right it was a down year like no one made some major moves though and made some yeah and yeah i may be someone yelled that i didn here, but it wouldn't be an overwhelming happy birthday. And before that, you usually have to tell the crowd, it's my birthday. You got to finish a bit. You got to go. He goes, I don't know, man. I'm getting older.

Today's my birthday. You just got to slowly let it slide. No, no, no. You got to sit down. It's my birthday. But this one was a giant yelling of happy birthdays so it was it was very it felt uh i mean they make it every audience and it's what i love everything feels very warm and i just like to picture that they're all everybody's just nice

to each other there and we're just having a wonderful, just a good time. So it was very sweet. And then I ate, I mean, just, they had ice cream cake, cupcakes. I was mixing the ice cream cake. I mean, I was like, I had ice cream cake before I went on. I had ice cream cake before I went on. Florida State, Donald L. Tucker played.

That's the name of it, convention or whatever. Civic Center? Civic Center. Donald L. Tucker Civic Center. So everybody that worked there, they brought me all this stuff. And then – Is that you on stage? That is me. Yeah.

No. While people are yelling out happy birthday, get your arms raised. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're like, bring it in. What you don't see is I'm going, the screens behind me go, guys, it's Nate's birthday, everybody. On three. And I'm like, guys, quit it. Quit it.

Now, there was no acknowledgement of my birthday that I know of. Maybe someone said it before. I didn't hear Julian or Justin. I don't think they would have. But it was, yeah, it was very nice. And then, so they had, as I was doing ice cream cake, and then Outback, who's our promoters, not Outback Steakhouse. A lot of people think that.

It's a company called Outback. And so they are the promoters. They got me something, and they got me these cupcakes, and the cupcakes were awesome. And we did a little Elaine the muffin, top of the muffin. So they, or the promoters, they got me something, and they got me these cupcakes, and the cupcakes were awesome. And we did a little Elaine the muffin, top of the muffin. Top of the muffin to you. Yeah, that's cool.

We took it. I mean, the top was unreal. Unreal. And so then we had, like, after we got done, we went to this hotel. What did you do with the stumps? I would then kind of get after the stump a little bit. I did a little of stump but i mean they left them in there okay you know and we gave them to a homeless guy out so uh no we go to he was so mad yeah we go to this hotel uh afterwards travis mature manager and they set up like a fun you know you're usually working on your birthday

set up a very fun night we went to this hotel and like they they had a room that had like a pool table and like we played cards and just uh had that cake and we ate at this steak uh restaurant before so it was a nice thing and then uh people just got married in this room like this hotel has a room that like you can rent out for i guess like a wedding or like a reception or something after so then they uh you crashed it no no but they left we booked it after them so they they had to leave but then they i think they were big fans so they came i met them and then they came back in and we took pictures they just got married which was fun on my birthday i always remember their wedding anniversary yeah uh they'll always remember your birthday they're always my birthday I always remember their wedding anniversary yeah

they'll always remember your birthday they'll always remember my birthday I hope so maybe they forget and you're like dadgummit

you go well I got y'all something so this is awkward and then so yeah we went there Ricky our bus driver broke the door to the hotel

I don't we walk into these glass doors and Travis is because you go to the steak restaurant We walk into these glass doors, and Travis is up. Because you go into this steak restaurant. The steak restaurant was in the Don Chula's, like a Don Chula, like his restaurant. And so you go in there to the steak restaurant,

and then it's a glass door. So Ricky comes in and just – I mean, it's a 400-pound glass door that just comes off the hinge. And Ricky just, he's, like, got it up against his face, like, just holding it. And Travis just looks at him. He's like, because his door's broke. What a strong guy, though. Oh, yeah. Yeah, then Travis went over there and held it.

Then his kid came. That's who you want driving the bus. That guy can handle things. Oh, yeah, Ricky can do it all. Yeah. And so then they had to who you want driving the bus. That guy can handle things. Oh, yeah. Ricky can do it all. Yeah. And so then they had to like hold the door. Then that entrance was just shut off for the rest of the night. So we put a stop to that.

He didn't break it. Something was wrong with it. But, yeah, it was fun. But I've officially got my – I'm back to my starting weight, almost back to when we started. I'm 185. All right. We can start over.

Start over. Yeah, we can start over. I'm starting today. Yeah. You're back in it. I'm back in it. What are you at, Brian? 185.

Okay. Oh, look at that. I mean, I never moved. Were you at 185 back then, too? Yeah. All right. We're back in it. All right.

Here we go. Round two. What's the race, too? What are we racing back down to? Mine's going to fluctuate. I mean, at least I'm going to're back in it. All right. Here we go. Round two. What's the race to? What are we racing back down to? Mine's going to fluctuate. I mean, at least I'm going to go back to 160. I was 160 when I shot the special. Wow.

And I might even go below. I'm going to go and see what my body does. I can't believe you gained that much. Doesn't look like it. No. I have. And it's tough, man. It is such a letdown.

It breaks my heart. I know. It's's tough, man. It is such a letdown. It breaks my heart. I know. It's so sad. Yeah. That's the hardest. I mean, and I'm at a point where I'm like, I'm not going to have Eric on the road with me. Even if you can have someone, you'd think I'll just have someone on the road with me that does this. But he doesn't.

You got to do it and understand it on your own. Right. Cause it's like, then we get off the road and then I come here and I eat a 32 ounce granola with yogurt. I mean, I'm eating like a full pizza worth of yogurt and granola. It's like, how do you even get these things that are healthy, combine them to make them unhealthy? It takes work. It takes a lot of work. I don't know that granola is that great for you. They really sell it. They really push it on us like it's good for us, and I don't think it is.

Oh, it's so good. It tastes good. You put all that sugar and honey on it. Oh, man, that is fun. I ran into Shea the other day, and I didn't recognize him. Yeah. He has totally changed. Shea Mooney, Dan and Shea.

Shea was on the podcast. Shea, if you go look at that podcast and go look at Shea now. Shea, we just golfed last week, and, I mean, he is tiny. Yeah. Like tiny. He weighs 140, I think. Wow. Look at that picture.

You've got a before and after right here. Look at it. I'd like to say I started all this because I lost weight before he did. Looking like Bert Kreischer. I got down, and then he started doing it. So I'd like to say I was the start of Shea. I'd call him fat a lot to his face. He's got a Bert Kreischer before body.

That is very effective. It's a very effective strategy to have your friends call you fat to your face. Yeah, yeah. People are against it, but I can tell you it works. Yeah, Shea looks it looks crazy dude like he's just uh he looks so good and like i mean it's just looking at him and yeah i'm back to that shea's body before i wish my nipples looked like that and uh you know what's tough is scrolling through your phone and you have a bunch of before pictures like that that there was just never never an aftertaste because you were like here we go yeah and you forget about it yeah yeah

yeah i'm uh i'm gonna go i'm making a big i gotta my mindset's gotta change to be like i was i'm starting to run uh so i want to be i want to be a runner and i want to be uh So I want to be a runner, and I want to be healthy. I think your mind, dude, with food, your mind gets all foggy, and you're just not. And you think it's the same way when I stop drinking. When you stop drinking, you think, well, I'm going to lose who I am and what makes me a comic and all this kind of stuff. And so you feel like an identity with food too,

that you go, well, I'm not going to go to McDonald's. Like if I'm not going to McDonald's or stuff like that, am I even the person you think? Hey, that's real, man.

Yeah. You do. You believe that. You know, what do I do with my nights? It is true. I've gone through that with drinking, cigarettes,

food, all sorts of things where you, you give it up and you think, oh, well, I'm, yeah, now I won't, what will I even joke about? Yes. How do I make jokes if I feel good all the time? Yeah. But you go do more stuff and you're just trying to like, not, you know, your body's just, it's just so hard, man. We're so addicted. I am so addicted to sugar. It's insane. And it's frustrating to be like so, like, you know, I mean, dude, so my plan was I have a before picture from Red Rocks.

So when I started losing this weight, it was February, so my special 22, was it February of 22? February of 22. Yeah, my special came out this year, 23, taped it in 22. So it was February of 22. And, uh, I was doing, uh, the Paramount Theater in Denver. And so we drove to Red Rocks just to go see it. And so we drove to Red Rocks just to go see it. And it was the day I started working out. So we took a before picture, a before body picture that day. And we're like, all right. And I was like, in my head, I'm like, all right, you know what? Next time I come here, I'm going to have an after body,

and I'm going to be playing Red Rocks. Yeah, wow. Well, I'm going to Red Rocks in May. Sold out. 9,000 people. And I am back to my before body. And it breaks my heart. But if you had to choose one of the two to have come true,

it's like the right one happened. Maybe meant to be. Yes, maybe meant to be. But it's the letdown in your own, like to go you can't even control the easier one to control the harder one might be to get the tickets

to sell the tickets and become good enough to do that that's definitely harder than losing 20 pounds you can just tip a cardboard cutout when you're at 165 put it on stage and mission accomplished there's a chance I could have been shredded we still got two months man Put it on stage and mission accomplished. Dude, I would have been, there's a chance I could have been shredded by the time.

We still got two months, man. Yeah. Don't sell yourself short. I mean, I have to go on. I mean, I just basically can't eat. Maybe double down. Be heavier. Go 225.

Yeah. Go big. That's true. Yeah. You're like, I sold this out. Who needs to lose weight? Yeah. Yeah. That is true. Yeah. I can like, I sold this out. Who needs to lose weight? Yeah, yeah, that is true.

Yeah, I could do it. We'll all do it. Let's do a weight gain challenge. Oh, I like this. Yeah, let's switch it up a bit, huh? Start it off with a Krispy Kreme challenge. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, look, I like eating all this stuff. I don't think I'll ever not eat McDonald's, but it's just your relationship with food's got to be much different. It's got to be, you know what you're doing and the mindset's got to be different. And I want to be able to get into that stuff. It is sugar, though. Sugar's the death. It's crazy, dude. Sugar's... I did a show Friday night. I was listening to Dusty's podcast in the car on the way home. I was in a McDonald's drive-thru while Dusty talked about how McDonald's is poison. It did not deter me one bit. Well, I don't talk about it a lot on this podcast because I know this is a very favorable McDonald's podcast.

So I don't talk about it. If anything, it made me want to get it more. I don't diss McDonald's when I'm here. Yeah. Yeah. Good. You know where your bread and butter is. You're not on this side of I'm here. Yeah. Yeah. Good. You know where your bread's butter. Yes.

You're not on this side of the table anymore. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's tough. It makes it where you do want, you know. And look, I do think about that a lot. Like, I don't know, what if I do get healthy? And like, I'm not trying to say I want to be like, I don't want to be jacked. I'd like to be where you're that in shape where you just look good.

And like, you can't even really tell when you have a jacket on stage and but i think i can do more if i'm in that shape you know like sometimes people like you know you know people too they're like oh i liked it i liked uh fat nate was funnier and like now all this stuff and you're like but you're like dude i'm trying not to yeah i mean i'm trying to go to the cities to come do shows. Like, I can't. I will have to quit. You have to go. I can't physically do it.

It's so, when you're on the road so much, it's brutal. Like you, and you, if you're, I mean, people that are listening to this, there's probably a ton of people that travel. A lot of truck drivers listen to this. You know how hard it is for those guys? It's impossible because you just are like, what are you going to? You're bored. You've got to go to a lot of gas stations and all this stuff.

You just, you know, it's insane. Yeah, and gas stations, even the truck stops, are not bringing in a lot of healthy options. They're not. They got a lot of hot dogs on the roller. Yeah. I mean, you have to do a lot of things. You got to make your own kind of thing. And so it's like the mindset has to be like you got to just be like,

all right, we were reading something to Eric this week, and there's a book called Atomic Habits. And I was like, I started reading and then I told Eric about it because I was trying to basically be like, why don't you read it and then we can talk about it. So I don't have to. But a lot of it is like the minds, some of it's a mindset. Like you just got to be like, if I a like i'm a run like if i want to

start running i just am like i'm a runner like if you ask me something to go do i'm like well i'm a run i gotta run today i'm a i'm a guy that runs and you just start saying you're this guy and you live like that guy and like so it's in instead of being like uh i'm trying to start running because then you're like well now you've already right i won't do it you've given yourself an out a little yeah yeah i'm now my brain i'm talking a little bit this on stage at the beginning uh but it's like yeah i can find i'm not saying that i'm a runner thing like i'm not just starting with super positive i go let me tell you something guys look at this crowd and i don't want to look like you just make me so mad. They're all super healthy and everybody's in good shape.

You know, it's, you see, I've never been healthy. I've never, I've never done it. 44 years, never worked out, never, you know, I mean, I did it for the special, and I had the motivation for that special, and then I hit it, and it just slowly, I just couldn't stop the old me. I didn't go like, all right, dude, we're now 160. We're a body that's 160, and that's what we are. And now let's work out and keep it going. I just slowly went the other way.

Specials in the can. Specials in the can. Welcome back, Nate. I think you argue there and one time on this podcast that keeping it off is not as hard as keep going. And I would say most people would say keeping it off is the hard part. I think they're both. Yeah. They're both very hard.

It's easy to feel good about your progress that you made and be like, all right, I did it. That's why they say it like AA, right? They say you get a chip for the – when you go in, you get a chip for the first month, you get a chip for the second month. Because the second month is where people start to convince themselves that now that they've quit drinking, now they're like, oh, I can quit anytime. I've already quit. I've accomplished this. So now I can go back to drinking because I can quit whenever I want. Maybe don't give a chip the first month then.

Well, I think you get a chip for coming in, and you get a chip for 30 days, and then you get the second month chip is like, all right, you've hit a milestone, but don't turn back now. Right. Yeah. Well, that was like the drinking uh it's just understanding what this stuff is and that's the same with food it's like just understanding what

it is and just being like you know there's you think you're like you just feel like you're you don't you don't have you don't have any energy and you don't have any like drive to go do anything. And you just feel like you're, like, the world's trying to keep you like that just to be, like, you don't, you know, achieve anything. And then you grow up anywhere that's not New York or, like, you know. And now, especially growing up when we grew up, I mean, there just weren't restaurants. There wasn't, you know, all these, like, new restaurants or new places to go eat or all this. You had to go to, like, either you went and made stuff at home or you went to McDonald's or you went to –

and if it was, like, a big trip, you'd get to go to O'Charlie's or something. Like, you know. And then – but there's no – you weren't – you know, they didn't have – I can't think. Applebee's was a big deal in the 90s. I mean, I know you worked there. Yeah. But, yeah, the 90s, I mean, they didn't have, I can't think. Applebee's was a big deal in the night. I mean, I know you worked there, but yeah, the 90s, I mean, it was a nice restaurant. Oh, yeah. That you would, you know, it'd be like really fancy to go to. Yeah.

For my family, it was. It was like, whew. We had a place called Ryan's. Oh, yeah. I know Ryan's. I know what it is. That was a big deal. I tore up some Ryan's, man.

Yeah, Ryan's was great. Ryan's Golden Corral, Western Sizzlin'. Yeah. Is it Sizzlin' or Sizzler? Well, there's the Sizzler out west, but in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, there's the Western Sizzlin', little apostrophe at the end, no G. Sizzlin'. I like Sizzler better. I've never been to Sizzler, but I worked at Western Sizzler.

I've done the name. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Are they the same person? I don't think so. Wow. I think we would call it the Sizzler sometimes. It does have a cool name, the Sizzler.

Yeah, it's easier to say. Western Sizzling is kind of difficult to say. The Sizzler sounds like a drink to me. It's like an icy. Let's go get a Sizzler at the 7-Eleven. Oh, yeah. That's what it sounds like to me. Like a lot of, yeah, like 7-Up. I think I associate it with Western Sizzler at the 7-Eleven. Oh, yeah. That's what it sounds like to me. Like a lot of, yeah, like 7-Up.

I think I associated with Western Sizzler too much. What about Ponderosa? I've been to a Ponderosa. Yeah, that was good. Lebanon had a Ponderosa and a Western Sizzler. Well, that's money. If you have money, you go to Ponderosa. Yeah, yeah.

So we went to Western Sizzler. Yeah, yeah. But then they passed liquor by the drink, I think, in the early 90s, and we got an O'Charlie's and an Applebee's. It was a big time. Yeah. But then they passed liquor by the drink, I think, in the early 90s, and we got an O'Charlie's and Applebee's. It was a big time. Yeah. But we didn't go because we protest. Oh, because they're drinking.

Yeah. I went on a retreat with my dad. His company, he won an award, and they got to go to a trip. And it was a bunch of people from his work, and we went to an O'Charlie's one night and like hamburgers were like 10 bucks. And my dad was not broke, but he got really fired up about it being a $10 hamburger. And it was a big deal. A fight happened the next year, same situation.

My dad refused to go to O'Charlie's. So me, him, and my stepmom went to a Shoney's and ate a $7 hamburger to avoid the $10 hamburger at O'Charlie's. We ate alone as opposed to eating with the group. We saved $9. Yeah. And yeah, and yeah. Wait, so y'all left? We were like, they were all like, we're going to O'Charlie's.

And my dad got mad. He's like, I will never go to O'Charlie's's again i still don't eat there now because of this yeah i mean i'm with my dad it's principal but yeah it was it was kind of like i was like i'll throw you the nine bucks just so we can eat with the rest of the people yeah yeah wow i mean it was i mean'Charlie's, it is uppity. I talked to a guy this weekend who does it in the Steak and Shake, I guess, has a thing where you order, it's not people coming to your table anymore. Oh, yeah. Oh. And so.

That was part of the charm of it. It was like a diner. Yeah, yeah. And so he just went in there and he goes, oh, I went in there and told them, oh, these are taking people's jobs. And then just like lost it you know not like angrily but like just like his wife's like oh gosh and he's like and he couldn't he's and they left he goes we won't eat here because he goes this is you're just having these computers work for people and you're taking people's jobs i don't like that that's happening like you know i saw somebody just do that at at McDonald's. Yeah. You could only order on one of those mobile screens

at this particular McDonald's. And this older guy, he was just like, uh-uh, I'm out of here. I think he was just mad that he couldn't talk to a person. Probably harder to order. He's like, yeah, just tell somebody. Yeah, you just want to sometimes go, I don't want to go.

I like it sometimes because it's like, I'm going to be no one. I'm going to do all these like no things so you like to kind of do the screen because you're like I don't feel bad about doing it telling someone

but I do understand too when you're like yeah dude like an older person going in and I'm going to be that older person you know you're going to be like

I don't know how to do this yeah so Stake and Jake spent 50 million dollars to eliminate table service at its restaurants in favor of self-service ordering and uh it kind of worked for them they had three years of losses and uh since then they've posted profits of 11.5 million 13.5 million they also close a lot of

stores too i mean i just physically saw them disappear we lost the one in hermitage oh yeah what a burger showed up yeah i just ate at the one uh daryl walter ponda when i go there i go across the street that steak and shake and yeah you gotta order on the screen and then they just yell your name you go up there and get your food is it it no tipping? I'm sure they still want to tip. No, I think I paid there at the thing, and I don't remember. Yeah. Give it some time. The machine will want to tip.

Yeah. Yeah. You know? I had that parking machine ask for a tip. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen. Where? In Houston. I had a parking garage.

It was like $30 a night, and then i swiped my card at the end and it asked for a tip for a machine i didn't interact with a human being the whole time yeah i was furious dude i put zero dollar tip oh yeah got out of there i had a guy at a car wash do that to me like it's like a self-serve thing but he came up to help me and i'm like it was irritating me i'm like i got it i know how to work the car and then he goes do you want to tip and i go what do you do he goes oh you don't have to tip if you don't want to and i go well no well what do you do yeah he goes oh we just you know he didn't really i was like well no then i don't he didn't we just help out and i was like i go through a machine nobody's washing the car yeah well yeah Well, yeah, you're tipping for like the, you're like, well, we have to like shut the building down tonight.

Yeah. Like that tip to the, yeah, that one, the parking thing, you want a tip to go like, I'd like to follow this money. Where's that going? Yeah. Who's getting the money for this? Yeah. Because I did not see a human being in this parking garage. There's AI in there.

He's like, tip me. Yeah. Chat GB too. Yeah. Chat GB, too. Yeah, yeah. I feel like sometimes they have this setting, like, from something. Like, I wonder if it's, like, you know, like a setting from, you're doing, like, a restaurant check system that has a spot for tipping, and then you're like, and they just haven't changed over.

I think they just go, let's just see if any idiots actually throw a tip. Just leave it on there. And people do, I bet. Oh, yeah. I mean, I probably would get caught. Like, you just – anybody could make you tip. I mean, a guy could walk up like that, like that gassed, you know, unless you're going to be confrontational.

Like, you come from the slaves. This is what they do. They're used to people walking up and being like i'll talk to you about it but most people you get you know you are some people like you could just feel pressured and be like okay yeah two dollars you know you something and they're like oh thank you know And then you just feel uncomfortable with them. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that place, it's like, there's a thing where I do the stuff and the guy's coming up to the window helping me. And I'm like, I don't need help here.

I need, you've made it more complicated. He helps you touch the, yeah. It's like, you've made this more complicated for me. I just want to pull up here and you're out here taking my card and asking me what car wash I want. I'm like, just let me look at it. Yeah.

All right. I wonder if they already go and start doing, they do tipping where it's like you're just not, businesses like, well, just don't pay the minimum of the workers or something. You know, a model I've seen a lot, I see it on mostly with software. Like I'll download a an app or something and it has variable pricing where you just choose how much you want to pay for it it'd be like 8 24 38 and a surprising amount of people don't pay the minimum they're like i actually like this product i'll just pay more for it wow wait what is oh it's variable pricing you download the app and then you decide how much you

want to pay for it for what for like i i had this old uh they're like web development apps that i used to use that were variable pricing huh you just got to choose how much you paid yeah it's not for like a shirt or something no no this is like for like no matter what you pay it'll be the same thing yeah it'll be the same thing. Yeah, it'll be the same thing. You just decide. Yeah. It's interesting.

And if you're genuinely like, this is a small company that makes this app, I want to support them. I'll pay a little more for it. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't do it, but some people did. Yeah.

Yeah, that kind of stuff. You know, there was a coffee shop in Opelika that I went to one time and I ordered a cup of coffee and I was like, what does it cost? And they go, whatever you want. Just pay whatever you want. And I'm like, I don't like that.

Was it a Christian coffee shop? I don't know. They didn't seem overwhelmingly Christian. They weren't really putting it out there. But they're like, pay whatever you want. I'm like like don't do me like that you know what i mean because now i feel inclined to pay a little more so that i don't seem cheap right yeah you know i'm paying five dollars a cup now because i'm like well i don't know i feel weird about it coffee shops there's no music they're just it's quiet you're staring right at the person. Yeah, I thought of it this weekend.

I went to, I bought some new golf balls, the Pro-V ones, which they have a new one that they came out with. Pro-V is the most expensive ball. And I haven't, like, completely, I mean, I always play, like, I've played Callaway. I've played, like, a bunch of different golf balls. But, like, I started thinking about it. Some reason it hit me.

I was with Justin Smith, meeting him, riding around, and it just – it hit me as I had a ball go, you know, a lot like into the rough stuff. And I'm like, this is $5 a ball. Yeah. And I don't know if it's like I'm getting – it's almost like maybe my 44-year-old showed up, and it's never showed up until right then.

And I thought, this is $5 a ball. Yeah. And you're like, am I – you start to – you're like, am I even good enough to even know the difference or all this stuff? And then you're like like these balls are so expensive do you still lose a lot of balls when you play i mean how how how many balls would you lose in a normal round of golf uh i mean it can you know i'm like i'll burn through 20 or 30 yeah

oh no no you lose that many balls oh yeah i can be it's been what i'm what i'm doing like i can if it's not going on i could could easily lose five, six balls. That'd be $100 or more for that. Well, I'm not. I'm hitting balls I stole from the driving range. I'm not. Yeah. I don't have timeless V1s out there.

Yeah, yeah. But it makes you go like, oh, yeah, if you're having whatever rounds, you're like, maybe I need to just use some other. They're so expensive. $5 every time you hit that thing. Well, just for some comparison, Aaron's saying he's losing 20 to 30. How many are you saying you're losing? I mean, you would hope to, it depends on the day, the course.

At least, you know. I don't know. I could have some. The other day I played, I didn't lose. I lost one. Okay. But then I've lost like three. But, I mean, I can easily lose.

Like I've had days recently where it's just I'm not, I'm just, it's not together. And I've lost like six. Yeah. And that's 30 bucks on top of – So a bad day for you, you lost six. Yeah. That's a very bad – I've played with you where you've not lost any. Yeah. Okay.

So I just – well, I never golf, so I just want to get an idea 10 to – or 20, 30. Yeah, some important context here is Nate's a way better golfer than I am. Yeah, yeah. Just keep that in mind. But it would be, yeah. But it could be that. But you know, you can lose a ball in a fair way.

I get so impatient. I'm like, if I don't see it right away, I might as well just drop another one. I'm not keeping score anyway, dude. I go to Walmart and just buy a giant bag of balls and they're like mixed, just different. And you and I were playing one time with Henry Cho, and he needed a ball.

And he's like, give me a ball. And I tossed him one, and it was like a Wilson. He's like, I'm not hitting this. He made me go get him a real ball. He threw it back to me. Yeah. What makes, you know, what really, what's the difference in a wilson and like not even like a titleist the the best what's the difference in a wilson and a you can feel if it's a really cheap ball you can just feel it gets marked up pretty quick i mean a cheaper ball will

will break a lot it gets scuffed up and like you can have cuts in it pretty quickly. Where like a Pro-V, that's the thing, though. Besides losing it, if you're not losing it, a Pro-V, you can hit it a lot longer, and it's not going to scuff as much. It's supposed to go farther, faster. Yeah, they're doing a thing where they're trying to roll back the balls for the pros. Okay. Like they're trying to make balls that are not going to go as far because everything's going too far.

Like the wooden bat with the baseball. Yes. Or tennis. There's been talk about going back to wooden tennis rackets. Really? Because they're hitting too far. Because they serve so fast that there's not even a lot of volume. It's just power.

Yeah. They think it'd make it more interesting. Power's pretty fun, though. Yeah. Yeah, but it's after like three you'd be like okay somebody returned the serve all right we uh so do you guys comments uh madison hill i would have bet my life that we would never get a guy on this podcast more well versed in this subject matter than greg warren and his grocery store products. I stand corrected.

The confidence in which Mike spoke about the mafia was mind-blowing. Never once was he stumped or stuttered on any response or question that was put his way. He could easily be an adjunct professor in a mafia class at an elite university. That is true. He was very good at what he does. It was something because it was like, you know, I wanted to like throw in jokes, but I'm like, Mike really knows what he's talking about.

There's not really a lot of room for error. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. Matt Budd. I'm not sure how I feel about having a guest who is actually knowledgeable about the topic. Can we go back to summer interns and people work with Nate's sister?

It's true. Yeah. Mike was too much. He knew too much. It is better if he'd know less. Like, that's what I thought coming into this. I'm like, I know nothing about the mafia. This will be fun.

Yeah. I had no idea Mike was a real expert. I would like to check in with Mr. Giada at some point. See what he's up to. Bigfoot expert. We forgot his actual name. Oh, yeah. We call him the Bigfoot guy so often. But I think about that guy a lot.

Yeah. How's he doing? Yeah. Michael DeLazer. DeLazer. Zs. DeLazer. We absolutely need a part two.

The fact Lucky Luciano is barely mentioned, and Al Capone was completely left out as criminal. No pun intended. Yeah, another great show we didn't talk about, Boardwalk Empire. Yeah. Both of those characters in that. Which friend of the podcast, Nick Novicki, was on. Yeah.

Yeah, he was at our house when he was doing it. Oh, really? Yeah, he'd stay with us. Michael Mitchell. I've told that story about going to that after party, right? I think so. I think so with us. Michael Mitchell. I've told that story by going to that after party, right? I think so. I think so, yeah. Michael Mitchell.

Instead of searching for the actor in black mass, I'm pretty sure Dusty was just watching some YouTube conspiracy videos. The responsibility distracted him so much, he is so much more involved when Aaron does the web searches. Yeah, I'm telling you, the computer is too much pressure. Yeah. It is too much pressure. Well, people get mad. I see telling you, that's too, the computer is too much pressure. Yeah. It is too much pressure. Well, people get mad. I see comments all the

time that go, they're sitting there talking about stuff that Aaron can just look it up. Well, that kind of just kills the conversation. Yes. You look stuff up right away. It's a balance. Yeah, you don't want to look up stuff right away. You want to have the conversation. Josh Foot

Footy Foot Foot Which is probably Josh Foot Probably With an E They put an E

I think that's how Shelby Foot I think that's how He spells his name Oh You know Shelby Foot? Uh uh He's a

Historian Oh Why would I know He's in a lot of Like the ken burns documentaries he's i've never listened to anything he's fine i've never listened to kim burns well he you would watch him he had documentaries i've never watched any of it so i always hear i've never read any ken burns stuff you know yeah i'm sure he wrote he wrote wrote a book? He probably wrote a book. Not that I know.

He's famous for documentaries. You'd watch it. I bet he wrote a book. But there's a guy, Shelby Foote, who might be related to Josh Foote. Mm-hmm. I feel like it's when your last name's Foote, and they're like, we're getting destroyed over here. They go, we're throwing you at the end of it.

You got to church it up a bit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's Shelby Foote. I mean, doesn't that look like a guy that you'd want to hear history from? You don't recognize him at all? No. I don't even know what Ken Burns looks like.

That guy looks like everybody I've ever seen. Well, Ken Burns has an interesting look. Yeah, Ken Burns is odd looking. Where would you watch Ken Burns at? PBS. So y'all all watched him a lot, Dusty? I never watched him. Yeah.

College educated watchers. That's exactly. I never watched him. College-educated watchers. Yes, yes. That's exactly. I watched the one on baseball. Baseball once. I hear he did a good one on country music. I would like to watch it, but I've never watched it. I think, yeah, it's a college thing.

Yeah, I think so. The educated. Yeah, you guys wouldn't understand. I like a documentary made in a basement somewhere. That's my thing. Yeah. I like some rough cuts. I want a guy that your documentary needs to be, the FBI is probably about to knock on his door.

There's a chance they're outside. Yeah. You want a made-up iMovie. Yeah, you got to watch it today because it might be deleted. Yeah, yeah. Oh, Josh, for about a 48-hour period in 2003, the world thought that Jimmy Hoffa had been buried in my aunt and uncle's crawl space in Bay City, Michigan. A guy who was writing a book from prison about the old Teamster boss claimed that he hid Hoffa's body in my family's home back. What? In my family's home back?

Home back when he owned the home. Oh. What? In my family's home back? Home back when he owned the home. Oh. I'd say when you look at some words, and then it's almost like I just forgot the context of the sentence I was in. And then you're like, well, that doesn't make sense at all. All right.

The old team's boss claimed that he hid Hoffa's body in my family's home back when he owned the home. I did not expect another home to be in that sentence. He should have went with house on that second one. Right. It's not a great sentence, to be fair. There wasn't. He's like, I'm typing in a comment, and I'm not writing a book. Guy that can't get through it, we're like, all right,

let me clean this sentence up. Yeah, it's your fault, Josh. Josh. There was, in fact, a body in the crawl space wrapped in a garbage bag, but it was not Hoffa. My uncle and cousin would regularly go in the crawl space to put mice and pest repellent, and they had no idea they were right above a victim. Wow. We've got video of this.

Oh, man. This morning, they've been using a backhoe and metal detectors to search the ground under the swimming pool. What they got growing there, Dusty? Maybe some grapes? Muscadines? Yeah some muscadines Muscadines Alright Yeah Pretty crazy

I don't know if we get to watch the entire night You're like You started with that weather of that night Watching the entire news show. It's a one-minute long video. Yeah. It's a minute 40. A minute, you know.

We got 20 seconds in. Yeah. We made it 20 seconds. Yeah. And we're just moving on from it. Like, you'd be like, let's watch it. And you go, all right. All right.

Steven Vitry. My mom was a hairdresser in hallworth new jersey she had this one customer who came in twice a week for a blowout and even though she came so often her husband always came along so my mom built a relationship with both of them one day my mom was watching tv and sees uh this guy's face on the screen. Her customer's husband was the Iceman. That's wild, dude. Yeah, I mean, if the husband's coming with the wife every hairdresser appointment, there's something going on. Yeah.

They don't just have that good of a relationship. There's something going on. Yeah. That's crazy. I mean, that's got to be. Not that Iceman. That's got to be such a, he was like. Yeah, like it's cold in here.

Yeah. Yeah. It's fun. I bet she's glad she was nice to him. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Man. Yeah, just-hmm. Mm-hmm. Man.

Yeah, just see that later on. Be like, you were just with pure evil. Yeah. I wonder if you could tell. I wonder if the wife kept coming in for the haircut, though. I bet you look back and things make sense. Yeah. Yeah.

You know? You never think that at the time. But once you find out, you're like, oh, maybe he did act a little weird that one time. Well, even like Dusty said, the fact he comes every time with her, I don't know what that means, but something's weird. I've not been with my wife one time to get her hair cut. Yeah.

Almost wouldn't even know where she got it. Yeah. I don't know where mine goes either. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So every time, you're like, this guy didn't have a job? Yeah. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. So every time, you're like, this guy doesn't have a job? Yeah. Mike McYoung shaves his own head, stands over a newspaper, and does it in his house. So that's maybe the opposite of. Stands over a newspaper? Yeah, so the hair doesn't get everywhere.

Oh, okay. Just shaves his. So the middle of his living room or what? Yeah. Yeah. I think he takes all his clothes off and just hands over a newspaper and just grinds it in. That's impressive. He is.

I'm just saying he's the opposite of this. Yeah. He's the Iceman. He tells Katie to leave while he does it. Yeah. His girl goes, I'm also there when he gets a haircut. And you're like, because he's a psycho. He does it.

Brooke Bonano. Hey, folks. Direct Mafia dissent here. Descendant. Oh, descendant. As soon as I saw the topic of the podcast this week, I immediately knew Nate was going to butcher my last name. I've heard it said a million different ways,

but go Nate for keeping it original and dyslexic. Usually it's annoying, but this time I couldn't feel more honored. I absolutely love you guys. Thanks for making a hard week better. All right. That's one of the five families. Bonino. I think it was the Bonano family.

Bonano. Yeah. Banana the Bonano family Bonano yeah Banana Bonano wow that's crazy that's it's crazy yeah you really don't even

want to make fun of this guy's comment because you're like well you've really given us some information there at the beginning Brooke

it's Brooke might be a girl yeah so you're in trouble Dusty well yeah Brooke

well I know a guy named Brooke do you I do know a guy named Brooke. Do you? I do know a guy named Brooke. Yeah. He doesn't spell it with the E. Yeah, I think that's probably distinguished. Yeah, it's probably a pretty big difference.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Garrett Moore. Two Thumbs Borghese is a perfect mob name. I agree. Yeah. I agree. Josh Fox. Hey, Bear. I'm. Yeah. I agree. Josh Fox.

Hey, Bear. I'm glad Dusty's back. All right. I grew up in an RV park in Florida and then lived in a trailer park in Georgia for years. Good to have someone on this pod for our kind of people. We're having a good time here. Well, that's true. Although RV's pretty fancy in my view.

See, I would have thought that'd be moving up to go from an RV park to a trailer park, but you think it's the opposite. Yeah, I think that the RV being so mobile. I mean, like I know that they call a trailer a mobile home, but it's not that mobile. You're there. Yeah. The police can come get you. Yeah. RV. You can move your address quick.

Yeah. I mean, you can be out of town in no time. Abby Wainwright. Dusty basically said, so I went to this place called Cookie Dough Magic, and I was shocked to see they served me cookie dough instead of ice cream. Well, it's true. That's true. Fair point.

There's no justifying it, but when I typed in ice cream on Google and Cookie Dough Magic came up, and then I went there and they had the cooler set up like it was ice cream, but inside was cookie dough. And you look at this. I mean, that looks like cookie dough. I mean, that looks like ice cream. You know what I mean?

Yeah. It's like, it's, but you put a spoon in there and eat some of it and you're like, this is warm. Well, I think that particular picture we're looking at is cookie dough in ice cream. But if you look at some of these other, I mean, that's pretty clear. Do they serve ice cream at all? They did not at the place I went to. And it also closed.

It looks like they're doing pretty good now. Trussville, Alabama? In Huntsville, Alabama, they did not care for it. Yeah, smooth as cookie dough you could imagine. The roughness is what I always had a problem with.

Try our cookie dough in a cone cup milkshake or sundae. I'd eat cookie dough that's not smooth enough, dude. They have dough cream. So that's probably the dough cream. But it's cookie dough magic. I mean, it's being like, hey, we're doing cookie dough here, and that's probably the dough cream. But it's cookie dough magic. I mean, it's being like, hey, we're doing cookie dough here, and that's what we do. I mean, it is true. I mean, they let you know.

That is my mistake. How do you feel about doing a free sample? I always judge people that do free samples at these places. It's like part of it is you just, if it's, you know, you might not like it. Yeah, but I think part of it is the fun of like, let me try that. You know, you want to go. I think you're allowed. Holding up the line for 20 minutes.

I think you're allowed one or two free sandwiches. I would say one or two. But if you're doing all of them, it's too much. Yeah, it's just the whole. One or two. Yeah, that's good. I'll do it. I mean, I could never do that.

Let's try the Rocky Road. Then you go, I'll have vanilla. That's delicious, but I'll have vanilla. Yeah, yeah. Well, you're a guy that's going in there like clocking in, clocking out. You're there to do that. Let's try the rocky road. I'll have vanilla. That's delicious, but I'll have vanilla. You're a guy that's going in there like clocking in, clocking out. You're there to do work. Most people are treating it like a vacation. I would be annoyed too.

Let's go. You're walking in there like it's your job. What are we doing here? You're like, enough. They should just have you the usual and they just hand it to you and you walk out you're there for business they're there for pleasure that's the difference yeah and i would understand the frustration of i've gone

to places and you're frustrated with everybody being fun. Yeah. And you're like, I've got a problem here. Right. And so I'm here to fix this problem. And I know what I want. I want chocolate. I want to eat out of my way. And I want to get about my day and go eat this in my car alone and order a large and act like I'm giving it to other people. Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. Chandler Rapper, I guess. R-A-a-p-e-r so it went man we stopped it there yeah i mean how is anybody not saying it that way i don't know it could be give that e to rapper repair right gonna be reaper or something yeah repair maybe it's repair's Rapier. You hope it is. You hope it is. That's a tough last name. Man, what a life. Yeah.

Vincent Dufrio was in Full Metal Jacket. The Breakup, Men in Black, and Law and Order. And Dusty went with, he played the Thor guy in Adventures in Babysitting. Classic Nate Lane. Well, I thought it was fun that he ended up in another superhero TV show later. And then so back in the day, he played kind of a Thor character in that movie.

But you're right. That's a good point, though. He has a lot of great movies. And I went with this one bit part when he was very young. This guy's great, though. Yeah. Card Ye West.

Card Ye West. I'm an artist who does smaller scale stuff i've recently found the enjoyment in creating using artificial intelligent intelligence so i made this recent card i call the bright future set photo attached Photo attached. There it is. Oh, wow. We've got the Nate Lynn crew as babies. Wow. That's crazy. I love how Brian is not really a baby. Yeah. Brian's got a little Benjamin Button situation going on. For sure.

I love these. Yeah. That really does look like you. Yeah. I bet if you lined that up with one of your childhood pictures. Well, your dad commented and said it looked nothing like you, but. Oh, okay. I look Asian in there, I think.

I think it looks most like Nate if you just said, guess who these people are. Right. I look like Augustus Gloop. Yeah, I don't really think it looks like you. Yeah, do you got a little stuff on the side of your mouth like you just ate something? I did. Got a little cookie dough magic on the side of the lips there yeah it does look like you what kind of hat you wearing there dusty i don't know it looks like a fish i look asian i got like a fisherman's hat there i'll tell you what i'm on board with all

of them yeah i think they all look great i'm ready to man a boat out here. Baits is great. Yeah. Yeah. Those are a lot of fun. Those are fun. That's awesome. This week we're talking about pranks and practical jokes.

This Saturday is April Fool's Day, so that would be a good time to talk about it. Dusty, I think a few weeks ago in the podcast, you kind of identified the origin of April Fool's. Do you remember? I think a few weeks ago in the podcast, you kind of identified the origin of April Fool's. Do you remember? Well, I mean, well, my belief, I don't know if it's true, but my belief is that April used to be the first month, at least in a sense. That was when the new year came in. So it makes sense when life is new and things are springing out of the ground and things are coming back to life.

So they changed the calendar from April 1st being the new year to January. So anybody that kept celebrating April 1st as a new year was called April fools. That's the most popular theory. They went from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. We all know that, right? Everybody knows it. A lot of people didn't get the word. So April 1st rolls around, they're celebrating New Year's, and people would make fun of them. Like, you're a fool. Yes.

They put a fish on your back. And it makes so much more sense. Did they put a fish on your back? Yeah. Like your real Jan, just a guppy, gullible. They'd walk up and just put a fish on your back? Yeah, like slap it on your back. Like a kid would put a sign that says, kick me? Yeah, I think so. I think so. They'd just put a fish on your back? Yeah, like slap it on your back. Like a kid would put a sign that says, kick me?

Yeah, I think so. I think so. They'd just slap a fish on your back. Because the new year was April 1st? Yeah. What a weird reason to bully somebody. When did they change it? 1582.

Did they make a big announcement? How could you back then? Yeah, so how do people even know? I just think it makes sense, right? It's like when things are coming to life. I mean, January 1st. I mean, how do people even know? I just think it makes sense, right? It's like when things are coming to life. I mean, January 1st. I mean, it does not feel like a- Yeah, it does make sense.

It feels like a real dead time. Yeah. You want to go back to the Julian calendar. Yeah. I mean, that's how I do now anyway. I don't yell it out loud. I don't want people to fish on me. You really-

You shoot fireworks. Yeah, but I feel like, yeah, I mean, I like that. I like to go with that. Saturday's going to be a big day for you. Yeah. I mean, you know, I'll be alone, but, you know, I'll be doing comedy, but nobody will be celebrating with me.

You think you're dressed a little better? Yeah. Maybe so. You know, I'll be at Comedy Works in Denver. I don't know that anyone is going to celebrate with me, but I may come out and pop a confetti balloon just to see if people. Friday night? Happy New Year's. Do a countdown, see who joins in?

Yeah, just see if they'll get into it. Yeah. Happy New Year's. Yeah. So do you have a favorite practical joke or prank? Because I found, I'm going to tell you, I found an article from last year from LA Magazine

where they ask you and your dad. Yeah. Do you remember this? Yeah. Do you remember what you said? No. Lotion and

Oh, yeah. Conditioner? Yeah, yeah. I did Kurt Metzger. He, we were on the road years ago and I was opening for kurt and like back when you

didn't i would open it's like kurt would be headlining and i'd be opening we would have to share a hotel room and so we're sharing the hotel room and then so we're going to go do radio and kurt walks uh a kurt kept calling me his opener all weekend. And, like, Kurt's older than me in comedy, like, about, you know, not much. But he was above me in the scene, but not – I mean, I was, like – Like, he was with Big J, and, like, so I was, like, right below – was, like, me, DeRosa, Mike Vecchione, like, the newer guys.

And then there was Jay and Kurt, kind of, they were right above it. So I'd open for Jay a lot, open for Kurt a lot. And so we go out and we're doing, we're in like, the whole time he's like, he'd be on the phone and he'd be like, what? He's talking to somebody. He goes, no, it's just my opener. And I'm like, Kurt, we Kurt, A, we're friends. That person knows me.

You could have just told him my name. Yeah, yeah. And then he goes, so we're going to do something. And he was like, hey, where's the lotion at? And I said, it's in there. It says conditioner. He just asked me at the hotel. And he got to go, it says, I said, I go, it should be in the bathroom.

Then he goes, is it the conditioner? I go, yeah, yeah, like conditioner for your skin. And so I just said that. And I wasn't doing too crazy. And then I walk over, and I mean, he's just rubbing it all over his body. All over his body. And I was like, that's not it. And he was so mad because we had to leave because we were late.

So he couldn't change or anything. We left, and his whole body was sticky. Ah. And it made it super funny. And Kurt would, yeah. Conditioner for your skin. Oh, yeah. It's ridiculous. And that, like, Kurt would, yeah. Conditioner for your skin. Oh, yeah. It's ridiculous.

And then Kurt had. Well, the question, I mean, even him asking you, is it the conditioner? It's like. I just take advantage of, like, a situation is what I would do. Kurt would be like, Kurt was like a guy that was like, I mean, just a real, like, a genius as far as a joke writer. And was one of the comics when I first saw, when I moved to New York, that was, I just was, like, really couldn't believe I was, like, seeing someone that good.

That was us. That was nobody. Like, we were all just starting. But it was, like, Jay was always the funniest person I've ever met. And then Kurt was like, because they were coming together. They just, you know, from Philly. And then Kurt was just like, the jokes he was saying, it was like, it just could.

I was like, this is crazy, dude. Like, this dude is, and, like, he's extremely dirty. Like, all, you know, like, everybody. I don't have a, everybody I'm friends with is, nobody's really clean except the guys here. But it's their, but it's, like, he was just brilliant. And, like, I mean, I just was, like, I can't, I couldn't believe, like, how good, you know, someone was. That's why I felt. Shane Gillis was like that now.

Like Shane, for the same way I felt when I saw Kurt is when I watched Shane and I was like, golly. Like it was the exact same, much different in the fact that I've been doing comedy, like now I'm an older comic. But seeing Shane Gillis was like that where I was like, this dude is, it's just different. But, yeah, that was my big lotion print. And then your dad's was the wheels and, I mean, not the wheels and doors, sorry, a different debate, the doorknobs and the doors.

Yeah, I'm saying that on stage. Oh, so we should get into that? Yeah, I'm saying that on stage. Oh, so we should get into that? Yeah, right now. I mean, you know. Another one he did was... Well, you guys, let me just say, if you Google, I mean, you've got a lot of pranks that you've played. Because you talked about it in your act. If I just Google it, the most popular one is the McDonald's taking the bite out of the burger.

But then you've done numerous to Nick that you've talked about on stage. Yeah. The Wolf. The Wolf is good. The Wolf is good. And I mean, you watched a prank. Like the Greatest Average American, we showed a prank. Oh, that's true.

The Betsy Kerrigan. That's one of my happier moments of just being able to truly show you, we show you, because at the end of it, we show you when it happened, because we were filming. Yeah. And then we thought of, and then I just kept it that way. And then I was like, the first time I say, when you see the joke about with Nick,

the first time I say that is on that stage. I've never, because I was never able to tell that because he was with me the whole time. So, Dusty, you've never seen Nate's comedy, but he has a bit about... That's my favorite running joke. He doesn't know. This is pretty funny.

So you're, how long have you been doing comedy? You do comedy too? Yeah. I was, it was when we were on the road doing the drive-in tour, and I can't remember who texted me, but I was outside the bus, and they texted me and said, we're all lying to Nick Novicki and telling him we've never heard of Nancy Kerrigan. And Tanya Harding and that whole thing.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, we've never heard of Nancy Kerrigan. And Tanya Harding and that whole thing. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we've never heard of it. And I remember I walked in and he was like in a fierce debate. Y'all haven't heard of this? I mean, my God. And we're all just pretending. We were like, wow, that's a crazy story. Because on the surface, it is figure skating.

So you'd be like, Nick, why would we know figure skaters? Yeah, yeah. But obviously, it's so much bigger than that. So that was a great one. We played one on him while we were on the road. Now, you and Nick have been friends for so long, and y'all are so close. And we were walking around. I think we were in Dallas.

This was Austin. Austin, okay. We were walking around, and you bet Nick, could you ride your bicycle all the way down to the certain location? It's pitch black at night out in this drive-in. And Nick's like, of course I can do that.

And he takes off and then you tell everybody, everybody go hide. And we all take off and we go hide. And I knew, I've known Nick for a while. I think that was the first time

you'd really been around Nick much. And to show how good of a person aaron is he and i were hiding together and he said i don't really feel comfortable doing this i don't know nick that well you come back remember nick's blind and it's night yeah so he comes back and we're watching nick like look around for us and we're all just hiding behind bushes yeah it shows you're a good person because you felt bad about it. We watched him get on the bus and look for everybody and see nobody was there. Then he comes back.

Well, I mean, we hid for a while. Yeah. It was great. I do remember that now. It was all in the parking lot. And he thought we were in the bus. We saw him go in. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, it's all. Yeah, look, I do a lot of pranks with Nick. Lewis with the rollerblades? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Lewis. Have I not told that?

Lewis J. Gomez, whose birthday is April 1st. He was – I was – for Gary Veeder's wedding. We had to get tuxes at a men's warehouse. And so I was there in the city getting fitted. And so Louis calls me and I said, he goes, where are you at? I go, I'm at men's warehouse. And he's like, all right, I'm going to come by. And I told him, I was like, all right, I'm at come by and i told him i was like all right i'm at this one i told him where i was and then he calls me and he's at he goes i'm here i don't see you he's at the wrong one i go they know you're coming just ask for nate and then i hang up and then uh not knowing that lewis is on rollerblades and so he first gets there, he's in front of the window, like rollerblading, like trying to be funny

because he thinks I'm out there watching. And then he comes in with rollerblades, starts rollerblading through the store, and they're like, you can't rollerblade in the store. They're carpeted store. And he goes, it's fine. I'm with Nate. He's in the back.

And he's just in there like, we don't know what that means. There is no, like, I don't know what, you know, with Nate. He's in the back. And he's just in there like, we don't know what that means. There is no, like, I don't know what, you know, with who. And then he goes, why would he lie to me? And then he's like, well, he would lie to me about this. And then, yeah, he didn't go. That was my big boo. I like to let stuff happen. If something's about to happen, like Nick, hiding from Nick at the thing is I don't always do it like that, like where it's like, you know.

But I let, like, if you're going to do something, I'll let you do it. And then I'll go from there. Even if you know it's not going to go great, yeah. Even if I, yeah, it's like it doesn't make sense what you're doing. But if you're going to, yeah, if you're, like, Lewis calls me and says he's at the wrong store. You're like, I'm not going to go. You're at the wrong one. I'll just go, yeah, okay. Well, like, Lewis calls me and says he's at the wrong store, you're like, I'm not going to go, you're at the wrong one. I just go, yeah, okay.

Well, come on in. I'm here. And then I just hang up and just know it. And then I just picture the, you just having to talk to people and they don't know what you're talking about. And, like, you know. Because you told the other story about somebody getting in a car. John F. O'Donnell. Almost got in the wrong car.

Almost got in the wrong car, and I stopped it. And I always think about that. He was about to get in. I was on the phone with him, and he goes, is this you? And I go, no, that's... And I was like, Emmy's hand was on the handle of a wrong car.

Yeah. So I was like, why did I stop? You should have just let it happen, yeah. Yeah, it's like... And it's usually like I'm telling the person, like I'm in a white car, and they're just not really thinking. And so then I just let it. If you're not being aware amongst yourself, I'm going to let you not be aware.

I'm going to let you walk into something. I enjoy that. Do you guys do pranks or been a victim of one? Well, I was the son of a high school principal my entire life. So it was every year senior prank was a pretty big deal. Yeah. Things would happen to our house almost every year. The house would get egged pretty regularly.

We'd get rolled. We only had two trees in our front yard, but they would get rolled and the house would get rolled. I remember one year was actually a problem was they paintballed our minivan, like just lit it up with paintballs. And so where it was like dents and stuff. So that was a problem. Was your dad furious? I think he was probably mad about that one.

The other stuff didn't bother him that much. Well, my mom, what my mom started doing is she realized that these kids, they trashed the house, but they wanted to see it in the daylight. So they trash it at like 2, 3 in the morning. And then once sunrise, they come back to like, you know, maybe get pictures, but to see what they've done. So my mom would clean it up between those hours. My mom would sit there in the living room and watch them through the window do this to the house. And then when they leave, she'd go out and clean it up.

And then she'd stay awake, get a cup of coffee, and watch them pull around to look at the house, and it was all perfectly clean. She did that for, I mean, 20 years. So your mom would know when they were coming to do it? Yeah. It would be like, it would be something happening that she would know. Or she'd hear it out there.

You kind of hear it and you're like, oh, it's the time of year where this is going to happen. Yeah. Yeah, you just go out there. I like that she took that approach rather than just being out there when they show up to have them not do it. And just scare them off. Yeah. That's a lot of work on her part. Yeah, yeah, it was a lot.

I didn't help at all. She stays up all night. It's probably satisfying, though, to sit on the front porch with your cup of coffee and watch them come to see their work. Oh, that's why she did it. You know that you foiled it, yeah. That's why she did it. She was like, that just felt so good for them to be so disappointed.

It's all gone. Yeah. But did you guys do senior pranks when you were in high school? Was there? I feel like we rolled somebody. Yeah. That's like. No, I never was into pranks.

That's one that you do and then you're like, what are we doing? You're just making someone clean up. I know. Because I feel like I had, my house got rolled because that was a big thing to get rolled.

I don't know if that still is, but like you would roll, you could get your house rolled or someone else rolled. When I was a big thing to get rolled. I don't know if that still is. But you would roll. You could get your house rolled or someone else rolled. When I was in middle school, it was big. Not since COVID. Now you've got to save that time. Oh, that's true. I didn't even think about that.

It was a big thing. You asked from stage, don't you? Senior pranks. I did. I had a bit where I talked about it. Yeah, and asked what people do. Yeah. My school, people do. Yeah. My school, and I think this is an approach that more schools are doing, is it's sort of a school

sanctioned senior prank. It's where they allow it to happen. They understand there's going to be some kind of senior prank. So what we'll do is we'll allow it, but we'll just make sure it doesn't go too crazy. That's how ours was. Like a teacher was there with us when we were doing stuff to the school. They let us in, but a teacher was there to make sure we didn't light the building on fire. But I think we took all the desks and chairs out and built this huge pyramid on the front lawn, did a bunch of other stuff. A common one is taking red Solo cups and filling them up with water and then just

like paving the floor with it where there's just thousands of solo cups full of water in the yard no inside in the school in the hallway in the hallway of a school so like you just can't even take a step without no you you mean you have to individually empty all the cups. You can't just flood the school floor with water. Yeah, so the pranks are just making someone do. And making the janitor's job real hard. Yeah, well, my school, it was the kids would come in and the other kids would have to help fix all this. The younger kids. Yeah, the underclass.

So the kids that called in sick that day, they're the ones that did it. No, this would be a school night we'd do this, man. Okay. Right, right. So the next day when somebody's like, I'm sick today, they're like, oh, you did this. Oh, right, right. But they know it was us. It was like approved by the school.

Oh, okay. And so, yeah, and then you just know, all right, juniors have to go do it or something every year. Yeah. Because then it gets cleaned up probably pretty easily. I think ours, it was like, it took like three and a half, four hours for them to where they could resume school. Does someone have to run it by the administration to make sure it's safe? I don't know.

There's probably more of that going on than they let us know about. But we had like a cool teacher that was like, I'll just make sure it's not crossing the line. Yeah, we didn't have those kind of cool vibes at my school. You know what I mean? There were no school-sanctioned pranks. Yeah. That I'm aware of.

Do you remember, did y'all do anything? I don't know. A statue didn't get stolen. I don't know. I'm like you. If Nate had been like, go hide, I would be like, well, I'm on tour with Nate, so I have to do what Nate says. But I don't really want to hide from Nick.

I was the guy, when we would go roll people's house in middle school, I was always the guy that was like, come on, guys. I was the lame guy. Like, guys, come on, let's get out. We don't know. We'd do it to strangers' houses. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it always made me so uncomfortable. Yeah, I didn't like that either.

I never liked. Yeah, I mean, the pranking thing is like like most of mine is just I let it happen. Yeah. If it's going to happen, then I'm going to just let it happen. And like that's, you know, I don't like doing, I don't like necessarily doing something. I forget why we did that. Like that one when Nick was like. It was just right place, right time.

Yeah. And it just like, it just happened where he was like, he was riding remember what. It was just right place, right time. Yeah. And it just happened where he was riding his bike. We were in a parking lot. He kept making, I don't think he said that. He just kept riding it way off and coming back. He might have been making circles, but then you bet it. Could you go all the way down there? Yeah.

Which is a crazy bet. Yeah. Yeah, obviously I could ride my bike to the end of this. Yeah. Paved parking lot. lot comes back and yeah but yeah i don't like i don't necessarily like uh lying to someone's face like i don't you know it's well you don't premeditate though yeah a friend is different though i've always a friend is different strangers it makes me so uncomfortable dude i watched i was watching uh a video on instagram and they it showed a kid that's like i duct taped my parents house and he duct taped his old and like his dad flips out all the time and you're like you see these kids and you're like you're just doing it to be uh like what is this for it's for it's for clip and it's just constantly like he does stuff he put peanut butter on all his parents kitchen

does he live with his parents yeah and so there's a there's a point that it's like you know it's it's because but it's like some of them he had some views that were like 4 million views and then some were like 150,000. You're like, is it worth it? I mean, my dad would not play that. No. If my dad came in and there was peanut butter everywhere, I wouldn't be living with him anymore. I'll tell you that. Yeah.

There was a case here in Nashville just a couple of years ago. They were making a YouTube video in Hermitage, Earl Hickory at that urban air trampoline you guys know that place and uh they pulled butcher knives on some people in a parking lot and one of the people didn't know it was a prank yeah and he had a gun and he shot and killed the guy wow really yeah wow they were just making a YouTube video yeah I don't know why I'm laughing but but if you're going to pull a knife on somebody as a prank, you got to be. It's so dumb. It's just a prank, bro. It's so dumb.

I mean, the guy obviously wasn't charged because. Yeah. I mean. One of my guilty pleasures is this guy on TikTok I follow, and I'm not proud of. I don't like what he does. I'm against what he does, but the videos are so funny. It's just him. He's got a GoPro on, and he just walks up to people at Walmart and just picks fights with people.

Oh, I've seen some of that. Out of nowhere. And the guy's looking at steaks. Right. And he just walks up, and he goes, yeah, you're not the only one getting steaks tonight, buddy. And the guy's like, what? And he goes, move along, pipsqueak. He keeps calling people pipsqueaks.

And it's so funny, but I don't like it, but it's so much fun. And did they fight him? No. He just eggs them on. Don't get into it with them. Yeah, but most people are just so shocked by somebody walk. Imagine somebody saying that to you. Yeah, yeah.

You're not the only one getting stakes today. There is that guy that would do, he did a bunch of different things, but he would go, would you look at that? Would you look at that? And he would always, he would get real close to people. And he did a bunch of different things where he would go, he would go try to buy cars and he would kick the tires and stuff. And he'd go, yeah, that's pretty good. I forget what he, I forget the guy's name. It's great though. Yeah, that stuff though is, so your talent is you

are just, you don't care that, so you're doing something awkward. You have no talent. The talent or whatever, what they have that I don't is that ability. I could never do that

to a stranger in public. Yeah, yeah. So your talent is like you're a rude person. Totally. Yeah, totally. So your talent is like you're a rude person. Totally. Yeah, totally. So you don't care. And I don't approve of it, but it's just, God, it's fun to watch sometimes.

I don't like, yeah, so there's some of it I could see laughing at, but some of it I don't. I don't like if someone's, you're making someone that doesn't want to be a part of something be. Agreed. Like feel bad, i like you could argue i do it with nick but i mean we're me and nick are buddies and like we i would never uh i just do pranks on him because he falls for it and there's but there's i love nick yes i like

you know yes of course and practical jokers is about as far as i can go yeah because it's mostly them obviously it's them that has to do the dumb stuff. Yeah. I still sometimes feel bad for the people around them. Yeah, yeah. But it's really them. It is. And Practical Jokers is weirdly the best show on TV. I never am like, I want to go watch a Practical Jokers. But if it's on, I can watch it for 18 hours.

Well, it's on TruTV around the clock. When I opened for Dusty at Levity Live, where is that? In New York? West Nyack. Yeah. Remember the green room had a little TV in the corner that was just stuck on Impractical Jokers all weekend. That's part of the weekend. And we would just sit back there.

And you start, when you're first, you're like, ah, God, I don't want to watch this. And then like 20 minutes go by, we haven't said anything. We're just like, this show's pretty great. It's great. I've hung out with them a couple of times with you. They're like rock stars. Everyone knows them. great it's great i've hung out with them a couple times with you they're like rock stars everyone knows them do you know like i don't know how they're still pulling off pranks without everyone

being like let's obviously sal or well i mean stuff moves on and then i mean i think you could i think it's become a lot harder for them i bet it has and they have to do maybe some makeup or they when they did the movie they had to do you you have to try a few more times where someone's not going to – but you're still – even if you're the biggest show on the planet, still a million people are watching. Right. Five million people are watching. It's not – You'll still find people. Yeah, you're still going to find people.

But I think it became very hard for them. Because they're always in a mall or something something there's a lot of people yeah like sasha barrick cohen he had to basically stop that because couldn't get away with him yeah i i would sometimes it hit i his were it was very funny but i would it was some of it i thought was very mean spirited like and that's that's the where how it's coming off to be like it's very funny but you're trying to make someone look dumb and some of that i'm like oh i agree i don't really find that to be fair like it just doesn't feel to be fair because you're like you're really you're making money off yeah that the first borat i thought was so great and then later i went back

and watched it and i was just like the only reason this is working is because all of these people are nice to you. Yeah. They think that they're dealing with a situation where you don't know better. Right. And you're making them look dumb because they're being nice to you. Yeah. Because they're talking to you and being. Yes.

Yeah. So one of the first original pranksters was a Roman emperor named Elagubulus. I guess that's how you say it. He was a teenager when he became emperor, and he loved playing pranks. And he, for his papa's dinner guests, would put a whoopee cushion in their seat that made a farting noise. He's the first known person to use a whoopee cushion. Wow. Farts are timeless, huh?

Timeless But he did some crazy, crazy stuff Like if his guest got drunk and passed out in the room He'd put a bear in the room with him They'd just wake up with a bear in there Just a harmless prank Just a harmless prank Really escalated from a whoopee cushion

Oh, it gets much, much worse Yeah He did some terrible stuff. He would do a lottery system or a raffle where he would give away prizes, but you never knew what you'd get. He'd give away gold and stuff, but he'd also give away a

beehive or a dead dog or something like that. Or he would have them catapult gold all over the ground. Everyone would be scrambling to get it. And then he'd catapult snakes all over the ground. Everyone would be scrambling to get it. And then he'd catapult snakes. Wow. So you'd be fighting snakes.

This doesn't feel like pranks. This is torture. He was a terrible person. This is an emperor? Yeah, a teenage emperor. He was a teenage emperor at 14. I mean, imagine being 14. You can just do whatever you want.

No repercussions. Well, he was assassinated at 18, so that shows. Okay, he only made it four years? Yeah. But he would just do crazy stuff like that. A lot of pranks are, you got to think about them when you're going, this sounds better. It sounds, you want to hear someone say they did it.

Like being like, you wake up with a bear in the room. You're like, that's hilarious. You're like, I just need to hear it. It doesn't mean everybody needs to go do that but that's very funny to when you hear it a lot of pranks like they sound good like the plant but can you imagine if a guy woke up with a bear in the room that's all like that's all it takes you don't need to go do it yeah but like the like uh jackass like when like I love, their stuff is very fun. They're doing that to each other and they're assigned, like it's, you know, they have, I think Bam, they put him in with a cobra. That's one of the all-time great sketches.

Yeah, yeah. But at least like he's in on it. He may not be in on that sketch, but you know what you're in for. He signed up to do the movie, yeah. Yes. But he signed up to do the movie, but that's like his, I feel like that was like the line. He actually was very afraid of snakes.

Yeah. He thinks he's filming another sketch, and then he falls through the ground in a pit of snakes. Wow. Well, that one, or the one they put him, they locked him up with a king cobra. I think they must have messed with them a bunch of times. Yeah.

Yeah, they did a lot of crazy. It was, their stuff was always very funny, but it was, you know, it's obviously some of it's very. Now, Richard Branson, billionaire Richard Branson, he played a prank. I guess he's been rich for a long time because this was in 1989. I couldn't find a video of this, but somehow he and his buddy took a hot air balloon and decorated it to look like a UFO and flew it over London on April Fool's. And people freaked out.

And like, oh my gosh, there's a UFO and police and everything. Everybody came and then they land it and police like surround it. And somehow they opened the door, a hot air balloon. I'm not sure how they did that, but they had like dry ice to make it just like you see in a movie with smoke,

everything. And his buddy dressed up as ET and walked out. And he said the cop that was approaching him freaked out and ran the other way. He's like, you didn't get shot, but they ran the other way. But he said that's his favorite April Fool's prank. I'd say so. Yeah, that's a pretty impressive one. Yeah.

Or maybe that's how Richard Branson actually came to Earth. That was how. That's another theory. He is an alien. Maybe. He's like, oh, it was just a prank. I've been here the whole time but no one knew him before then

yeah like that's that's how he got there maybe so maybe so there was the the great moon hoax the New York Sun

don't start Dusty the New York Sun ran an article about a scientist astronomer who had found pyramids

and and vegetation and humanoid creatures living on the moon. This was 1835, so people again believed it and they went with it. Problem is all these things, it takes a while for people to figure out it's not real. This is just a few years ago in Alabama. Still not sure that last one's not real. This is just a few years ago in Alabama. Still not sure that last one's not real. In Alabama, on April Fool,

there was an article that said, state of Alabama, the lawmakers change pi from 3.14, whatever, whatever, to just three. Because there's like,

three is a good solid number. It's in the Bible. It's a lot easier. Not all those other numbers. And then they issued a press release, you know, saying NASA scientists and Huntsville were all upset about changing pi. It was a lot easier, not all those other numbers. And then they issued a press release saying NASA scientists and Huntsville were all upset about changing pi.

It was not true. Some New Mexico paper, I think, wrote it. But it makes Alabama look dumb like they're doing this. But a lot of people bought into it and believed it. I think it's kind of overestimate. They assume we all know what pi is.

You think they gave Alabama more credit than they deserve? I think for this joke to work, you'd have to first explain the concept of pi to a lot of people. Yeah. And then be like, it's actually three. Yeah. I couldn't tell you why pi is 3.14. I just know what it is or what that means. Oh, he saw the space thing.

We saw an Elon Musk rocket go up in melbourne florida really yeah when it came back down and landed no no when it was taken off oh i thought they were doing a launch okay where'd it go the rockets come back down yeah i'm sure it will i saw the beginning i don't know what more conversation we're having i watched the launch where did it go so what are you you're like why didn't i see the end of it my understanding was that spacex one of their big innovations was that the rockets were reusable and they'd launch something and then the rocket comes back down and lands where it's sure it does in a couple days no no this is like at the moment so it didn't happen that's all all I wanted to know. Oh, in the moment

did a rocket come? Yeah, it comes right back down and does it. I don't think that's right. Is it? I think eventually it comes back down. Yeah, I think it...

I thought it was up there for a while taking payload or whatever and then it eventually comes back down. Maybe. Like where does it go though? It hits the dome.

I got a joke about it now because I took... When you... I opened with a joke about it. I almost see if it works everywhere. But, like, yeah, that rocket takes a hard right. Yeah. Yeah. It does. Yeah.

It's like I got to very – I got to joke about it. So I don't want to do it because it was very fun. It's very fun to talk about. Yeah. Just being silly. Maybe it because it was very fun. It's very fun to talk about. Yeah. Just being silly. Maybe it is not instantly. Yeah. I imagine you sit next to Elon and the whole time you're like,

but it doesn't come back. He's like, I mean, you're not impressed with what's going on right now. And you're like, well, I just was under the impression. I've read the New York Sun and they said that it comes back immediately. So I guess it's like when someone tells someone, when they're like, well, I read this other thing. When someone's realizing that they're wrong, and then they have to, you have to kind of wrap your head around, and you're like,

well, you were just wrong. And then you just, I'm not saying this is just a good point. No, no, I understand, I understand. And then you see the person, they go, well, I read it. I read it. That was what I was told. Like they're, you know, you're not just going like,

yeah, but you could be wrong. I'm admitting. I'm pretty good at admitting. Yeah. No, I know. It just made me think of when you have to just go, yeah, I was way wrong.

Well, yeah, I just would like be curious about what the uh what the point of the rocket is what i mean like especially if it just comes right back but what uh you know just the is that a prank it takes something up yeah whatever it's taken up detaches itself from the rocket now the now traditionally how rockets have worked up until now is that rocket then dies. Yeah. Crashes into the ocean. Crashes into the ocean or whatever. And it's

tremendously expensive. Yeah. So this idea is that rocket will then come back down and lands right where it was. Yeah. So that's what's happening. So you could be throwing stuff up there all day. Yeah. Just goes up there. Just like, zoop!

And then comes back down. Just launch stuff. Yeah. Yeah. All right. But the piece then doesn't come back. Where's it going? To outer space.

To space. You did, we did see the fire thing went away. Like you see the fire thing and then it does go away and I don't see the fire. So his rockets are just up in space right now. Does he have any video of it going from Earth into space?

Yeah. Let's see. That'd be amazing. There it is landing. So maybe it took whatever up, then it comes back. I think it takes satellites. That seems like just they did the video in reverse. That's true.

You don't know that they didn't do that. But I don't. But the smoke is still billowing? Yeah. Even in reverse? So that with, I did not see that. Maybe I didn't pay attention to that. So maybe it did come back.

So maybe you're exactly right, Aaron. Because where would that part go? I think it comes back, but just not immediately. What's it doing? It just hangs out where? Well, it takes a while to get up there. I don't think it comes back, but just not immediately. What's it doing? It just hangs out where? Well, it takes a while to get up there. I don't think it's just 30 feet in the air. No, I know, but then it's – I wonder how quick it comes back.

Yeah, I can't find the answer to that. That's what I've been looking for. Nate's like, why is everyone still hanging out here? That's how it all kind of works out, right? It's almost like, hey, you could – if you'd waited 10 more minutes, you'd have seen it come back. You're like, why are you all still hanging here? That's how it all kind of works out, right? It's almost like, hey, you could, if you'd waited 10 more minutes, you'd have seen it come back. You're like, why are y'all still hanging here? Let's go.

Let's go, everybody. It seems like seeing a rocket land would be more exciting than seeing it take off. Yeah. Well, it is these days. Yeah. We've seen a rocket take off. Yeah. But you don't see it land too often.

Have you ever seen a rocket take off? No. Okay. You said it like, you're like, I don't even know why I even bothered to go outside. Like you go, hey, this rocket's about to take off. You're like, I'm good. Who cares? I think you could find kids now that would be like, hey, this rocket's about to take off.

And they'd be like, I'm good. So I finally found the answer. The whole thing takes about nine minutes. From takeoff to landing. Nine minutes. All right right i guess i'm all right it's pretty impressive i guess i have to admit that i'm wrong i feel like yeah well i was right so we're looking at about four and a half minutes to get to space then no no just to get the whatever on top of the thing is yeah but if that thing's it just shoots off but it's got to

have some force behind it to get it on into space. Well, it probably comes down a lot more slowly than it goes up. Because on the way up, it's literally a rocket being launched. So two minutes to space. Yeah, probably. Probably less than that. I'm confused. The rocket goes up for a couple minutes, and then the payload or whatever it's taking keeps going?

It detaches from the rocket. And how does it keep going to outer space? Well, it's got a pretty good amount of acceleration and momentum because it's been attached to a rocket for that whole time. That'll be enough to keep it going. It'll just keep going. Hard work. Practice, practice, practice.

Puts in the work, huh? Yeah. All right. That's the biggest prank of all, huh, Dusty? Well, I've still not seen the video going from Earth into space. Well, they were talking about. I'm sure it's out there, though. Is there a video of it?

I'm sure there is. Yeah. Yeah, there's a video of this. Just look up a video and just show it when the Cowboy Stadium opened gosh how many years

has that been now 10 maybe I don't know in Jerry's world they would the punter sometimes if they kicked it the ball too high

it would hit the dome you know and they had to they were talking about the score oh yeah it hit the scoreboard yeah you're right

the scoreboard and they were talking about how you had to adjust for that and that didn't happen anymore and i was thinking about dusty how these rockets you know you can only go so high or might hit something and bounce back but they've learned to adapt to it yeah so yeah i'm not saying it hits anything i'm just wondering i just would love to see it okay all right what's the nickname um well we talked about when nick was here because we did hoaxes once before um sid finch yeah sid finch um was made up stories baseball sports illustrated did an april fools issue about a guy who could

throw 168 miles per hour wow and he was an orphan and just all these crazy things he could do. And people bought into it. Henry Rowan Gardner. Yeah. Kind of like Henry Rowan Gardner. People bought into it and a lot of people believed it. And they really played it up. Lenny Dockster, who played for the Mets at the time, was being on it.

And I think Nick Caffey believed it when he was on this episode. That was one that, yeah. Yeah. So. Yeah. So we just redid that one to catch Dusty back up. You get all these people listening, and you're like, everybody, we want to tell Dusty this stuff. Well, it's interesting. If you're going to play a prank like that, that's way too high of a number. Yes, I agree.

I agree. I was thinking that when i read that if you told me a kid through 120 yeah i was gonna say like that's still unbelievable yeah but like that high you'd be like whoa but 168 is crazy yeah yeah but they but they're that who is uh i watched some of the uh world baseball what was it was awesome worldball Classic. Yeah, and they had, at the end of it, Otani and Trout. I mean, the whole thing was that matchup, and it came down to two outs, bottom of the ninth, Ohani versus Trout.

Wild. Insane that that worked out. That Otani guy is… He's probably the best baseball player ever. Yeah, I mean, he's Babe Ruth, but now. That Otani guy is – He's probably the best baseball player ever. Yeah. I mean, he's Babe Ruth, but now. And to be Babe Ruth now is insane. Like, Babe Ruth back then, I feel like people pitched and batted more

and stuff like that. But he only did both for two years. Only two seasons he pitched and hit. Oh, really? And then after two seasons, he just became an outfielder and just hit. So Otani's already done more than Babe Ruth ever really did. You're saying Babe Ruth only did it two seasons. Yeah, did I say Otani?

No, you said it right. Okay. Yeah, Babe Ruth only did both for two years. So the comparison's not even fair to Otani anymore. Yeah, yeah. And also back then, what were they throwing? I mean, max, maybe low 80s. Yeah, which was crazy at the time.

But it's like, yeah, Otani threw 100 miles an hour. Otani threw the fastest pitch of the entire tournament and hit the hardest ball in the entire tournament. Insane. Insane. Yeah, nobody's done what he's done. Yeah, it's crazy. Crazy.

All right, there you go. Here's the rocket coming back down. You've been watching this whole thing, haven't you? Yeah, it's crazy. Crazy. All right, there you go. Here's the rocket coming back down. You've been watching this whole thing, haven't you? Yeah, it's not a good video. You're saying you're watching USC. What do you want? Like a first-person GoPro video? I'd like a video attached to the rocket,

and it's almost like giving you a lateral, I don't know the view, but you're looking out. You can see people watching the rocket take off and then it takes off. And then we go way high. And then next thing you know, we're entering space. I want to see them go through the atmosphere. I want to see it all. I want to see what, what it looks like. I feel like I've seen what you're talking about. I feel like I have too.

I've never seen it. Look up point of view POV. All right. Here's a good one. NPR did this back in 2014 on April Fool's. They posted an article entitled, Why Doesn't America Read Anymore? And people flipped out with all their comments and sharing their opinions and stuff like that.

But if you open the article, it tells you it's an April Fool's joke. So they proved their point about America not reading because no one read the article. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. So that's a pretty good one. Yeah. Wow. When was that? 2014. That's like the old test they used to give us in school. They would say, read all the instructions before you take the test. Yeah. And then if you read all the instructions, the instructions say, do not take this test. Yeah. And you knew who didn't read it because it'd be filling in the blanks.

Yeah. And that was me. I would, I don't need these instructions. I know how to take a test. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would just not take tests and just hope it works out. Yeah. And one day it worked out.

it works out yeah and one day that's at the bottom one day it worked out well you want to be like well why does step why does the last step override all the other steps yeah you know yeah that's the argument is this the video making here's literally a video from gopro of a gopro attached to a rocket being launched in the space let's uh all right let's see all right well all right there's people there's people waving down there oh okay so we already cut away so we've already edited okay yeah there's spinning real fast so yeah it's gonna spin it's gotta go quick gotta get this motion sickness here yeah well we'd have to show you'd have to watch it on your own to be like, yeah. Like, go like a, can we fast forward a little bit? Yeah. Well, I want to get to the exact moment when it comes in.

There you go. Now it's like, look how high that is. Okay. It's very quick. Oh, now we've hit something. I bet you would imagine you hit space. We've hit something here. You've hit space and it's calmed down. So then we edit.

And now, okay, now we're. In space. In some kind of weird CGI moment here. Yep. Now we're in space in some kind of weird cgi moment here yep now you're in space and then oh that's when they let that rocket go yeah see now if it were spacex that would just come back and land so all right so gopro they're working the fisheye lens yeah i know that feature on there yeah there it there it is. Now you're in space. There you go. Okay, well.

That's the rocket that's there. Yeah. Mm-hmm. It's obvious to me what happened. GoPro, in an elaborate attempt to sell GoPros to rocket companies, did this whole video. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that didn't do it for me.

I'll be honest with you. I mean, I was ready for my mind to go. I was hoping it'd be just one continuous shot, too. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I imagine they have it. Yeah. I mean, they're trying to make it watchable.

This is trying to be watchable for people i feel like we're not dusty and but the dusties are like i need to i need to see the guy with the gopro uh-huh yeah i mean i want to see him hook up i want a straight view hook up to the space if someone said if someone because people can go to space now someone said you can go to space would you do it yeah i would do it yeah just to be like let me see where we're going of course yeah i mean and if i'm wrong that'd be great because i'm like i'm in space guys yeah that'd be awesome what if you're right what happens well they probably you know they'll probably kill me right now that's what i'm saying so that's the tough part. Yeah, yeah. So do you, yeah.

Yeah, you don't want to go on that trip, Mike, because once you find out, you ain't coming back. Yeah, yeah. In 1996, Taco Bell ran advertisements in newspapers nationwide that they, to help the national debt, they had bought the Liberty Bell, and they were renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. And people lost their minds over it. Oh, that's great. Yeah. People thought it was real. That's a great way to – it's a great marketing tactic.

I think we've talked about it before. Remember when Omaha Steaks – a big story was that Peyton Manning was going to – when he said Omaha pre-snap, he was going to get sponsored by Omaha Steaks. I don't remember that. Saying that. Completely fake story. Yeah. It got a ton of press for Omaha Steaks. It was never real.

And then the other one I remember was Spider-Man 2. A big story was Spider-Man 2 was going to put their logos on the bases in Major League Baseball games. Huh. Totally made up. People got furious about it. It's the exact same thing as this. Taco Bell buys the Liberty Bell.

Yeah. I feel like you're maybe not far from some of that stuff. I think some of that stuff could happen. Yeah, yeah. Similar, Burger King ran an advertisement for left-handed Whopper. They said all the condiments would rotate 180 degrees to suit the left-handed burger connoisseur. People believed it. And the next day, everyone was lined up at Burger King asking for the left-handed Whopper.

Right-handed people are saying, make sure your mind's right-handed because I'm a right-handed person. Yeah, see, I'm left-handed. That seems like a cruel joke to the left-handed people. We're already dealing with issues out here. Do you buy any or have you ever bought any products designed specifically for left-handed people? Only baseball gloves. Yeah. Oh, interesting.

I never can play catch with people just that have gloves. Because there's rarely a left-handed person out there. And if they are, they need the glove. Right. You know, but somebody will have some extra gloves, like you want to play catch, and I have to catch and then take it off to throw. I was wondering if they make like spiral,

like binders or spiral notebooks backwards for left-handed people. They may, but you still have to like drag your hand all across everything you're writing in or do like this. You're still working against what God did to you, yeah. And all of it, yeah. And all of the desk and school have the right hand. Oh, that

must be tough. And we didn't have that. It's hard out here. It's hard out here for left-handed people. It's tough. I'm sorry, man. I'm a lefty too, but isn't there some languages that... Yeah, we talked about that. Makes sense, dude. Because in baseball, I'd have to shift, and then I would strike out, and they're like, why don't we even move?

Just go back. The first time up, people would shift. Second time up, they're like, just stay where you're at. It doesn't matter. Just move in. Yeah. Shift in. The BBC pulled a prank in 1976 where an astronomer told people that Jupiter and Pluto were going to be in

alignment. So for one minute, there'd be a slight reduction in Earth's gravity, allowing people to briefly float. And sure enough, at 948, people were saying they felt themselves get lighter, even though it wasn't true. But a lot of people were saying it really happened to them. That's the mind. The mind can, you can make yourself feel that. You should almost thank them for doing that. Yeah. Thank you, BBC. Yeah, for doing something that's like, just unites people for a second.

Made us forget about all the real. Yeah. What atrocities were being committed while that was happening. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice. Yeah.

Boston TV station told people that there was a hill outside Boston that had erupted as a volcano. This was a few days after Mount St. Helens. Wow. And they ran footage of Jimmy Carter talking about it, even though they'd just taken footage from the Mount St. Helens thing and put it together and used footage that was also from Mount St. Helens telling people it was a hill

outside of Boston. And of course, people freaked out and lost their mind and, you know, the governor had to issue a statement telling people,

calm down, take it easy. I think the producer of the TV station got fired. But, you know, they always put April Fool's up somewhere, but not not it's not blatant enough yeah

yeah yeah they put it up at the end but by then people already panicked and ran out in the streets yeah yeah makes it uh they yeah people I don't I mean we said none of us really like it but they're always like oh you fell for it well we trusted you you seem like you're an honest person you lied to us i'll never make that mistake again yeah yeah yeah well that's like the being nice is a lot of times the pranks you're someone being nice yes and going yeah okay i'm nick is the nicest yeah yeah so it's someone being very trusting i mean i had a good friend who sent me a flyer and said do you think this is a good flyer i've been working really hard on this i'd like your opinion and i didn't i'm not that gullible poor dusty spent all day trying to help

him well i got the yeah i got the same one too and i was like i was like yeah i tried to point out a couple of things that i thought was wrong with it but Yeah, Aaron made a flyer for his show. Right? Yeah. Aaron's like a graphics guy. He's made flyers for me in the past. So who am I to question Aaron's ability to make a flyer? I thought it legit made you upset Dusty when I said that to you. No, no.

It didn't make me upset. Okay. Who am I to question? Aaron said I've worked really hard on this. And then he said it to me and I'm like, well, I don't really like that microphone in there and he's like well I want people to know it's stand-up and I was like okay can't argue with that yeah I don't know if you saw it but we talked about it hindsight it is not a good looking flyer but I you know I don't know his genius yeah yeah I mean who am I in 2021 The Atlantic ran an article about Nate Bargatze calling him the nicest man in stand-up. A lot of people fell for it.

Until a few weeks later when he called me a cow. And then people knew something's not right here. Yeah. Opie and Anthony When they worked for A station in Boston They Broke in and said That the mayor

Of Boston Had died in a car crash In Florida And they Had soundbites from people Talking about it And went It was just a made up thing

They got fired for it From the radio station Oh that's what ended it For them I guess Yeah Really They were in New York for years, right?

Yeah, yeah. But before they came there, this was in 1998. Did you ever do Open Anthony or was that before you? No. No, I never did Open Anthony. No, I was there during it. And we wanted to get on it, but we were never. I was like, I knew like i think derosa

got on a bunch uh guys got on but i was at i was at the level of like you know that was like a patrice burr like yeah those guys were all in there doing it and so i was like kind of the class under where i thought like maybe i'm gonna get on. Hopefully, I'd get on. And then I just never got on. I've done Jim and Sam now, a bunch, obviously. But yeah, I was never. And then it went away. Your dad told me that one of his favorite all-time jokes or stories is Josh Wolfe.

And I guess a prank he played on his buddy at a bachelor party. Do you know this story? No. His buddy asked him to get him a stripper for his bachelor party and he hired some woman wrestler. And I guess she came out and she did strip, but she also starts picking up the guy and just body slamming him and just like wearing the guy out.

And his buddy gets mad and like tries fight back, and she just destroys him. It's a long – I watch it on YouTube. You hired a hitman. Basically. Yeah. Basically. But it's a prank you play. It's got millions and millions of views.

But your dad says it's one of the funniest stories he'd ever heard. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I haven't seen it. I don't know if you did it justice I did not do it I did not do it justice yeah well it's a little dirtier than

what you were showing I was trying to edit you're cleaning it up edit on the fly yeah well you did it when you said stripper I tell you

yo movies I watch this is not this but I watch you know I always have, movies I watch, this is not this, but I watch, you know, I always have some movies I watch. Last night, had a little classed it up, American Graffiti. Oh, great movie. American Graffiti.

Love that movie. Which is Ron Howard and- I've never seen it. It's a classic, I know. Yeah, well, it was just on. It was on. Same guy that did Star Wars, right? Yeah, George Lucas. Yeah, it was just on. It was on. Same guy that did Star Wars, right? Yeah, George Lucas.

Yeah, it was on. And then there was part of me that I was sitting there, and I did nothing yesterday. I had a nice laying around day. Harrison Ford's in it. Mm-hmm. And then, so I'm just, I was like, all right, let me, it was on, and then Laura's in there, too and then uh she fell asleep two

seconds it's always her use no matter what time it could be she's gonna fall asleep uh and then so i'm just kind of watching and i was like kind of intrigued but then i thought some of me i was like kind of thinking you know we're shooting specials now we're like you know i'm kind of like i need to maybe watch some stuff and see how stuff is shot, see what it looks like, and see. I don't know any of that stuff. I never watched any of this. So I just kind of watched it and then finished it.

And then when I was done, then I went and watched The Italian Job. I remember that movie. Yeah, that's a good movie. Yeah, and that was very fun. I think that's like Harrison Ford's first main role. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah, it was, so, yeah. That's great. Yeah, I did a gig outside of Modesta, and that's where it takes place, right? Modesta, California?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was like, they graduated high school and that was place, right? Modesta, California? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was like they graduated high school, and that was their last night in Modesta before they went out to college. Yes. Yeah. But it's rated PG, and I don't know if it would be rated.

No. It'd be rated PG-13 now probably. But it's crazy with the times how it was so much looser with the pg rating back then and stricter now you almost would think because some stuff is getting like you're seeing you know the kids are seeing more stuff than they've ever seen quicker now but it's supposedly a stricter i bet the rating matters less to how much the movie's going to make. Well, there was no PG-13 back then. Oh, it just went to PG to R? Mm-hmm.

Back in my day. Yeah, just parental guidance. It's like, all right, watch, you know, watch your, don't let your kids watch this unless you want them to see it. Yeah. You know? Yeah. It also makes sense.

It's closer, it must be closer to PG than an R, right? I would say so. Yeah. Oh, you're saying PG-13 is a less harsh rating? Than R. I mean, someone moons

someone in that movie. And someone moons someone. PG-13 didn't exist straight when this movie came out. But I'm saying like if it's PG, it's saying parental guidance.

If it's PG-13, it's saying parental guidance unless they're 13. Unless they're 13 and up. Yeah. Yeah. Unless they're exactly 13. Yeah.

Well, even if they're 13, you would be like, it's not bad for the parent to be. Yeah. Yeah. Like, let me check it out. I could never see any movies growing up. I couldn't either. But it's like, yeah, I would think yeah. I mean, it's interesting to see all the cars, to see

all the, you know, I've read about it too. It was George Lucas directed this. And Francis Ford Coppola came up and said, hey, I want you to make like a coming of age movie. And he's like, all right. And then he

made this. Wolfman Jack? Yeah, people say this is George Lucas' real masterpiece. Yeah, Dusty mentioned him a couple episodes ago when you were talking about the guy with the gravelly voice. You were trying to say Tom Wait. But you said Wolfman Jack. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't know Wolfman. And then when I watched last night, I looked up Wolfman Jack. Yeah, again, back in my day, he was a big deal.

People used to say I sounded like Wolfman Jack. Yeah. Do you back in my day, he was a big deal. People used to say I sounded like Wolfman Jack. Yeah. Do you remember listening to him on the radio? I just remember, not so much the radio, but he would be on these late night

talk shows and stuff. He was kind of like Ryan Seacrest or something now. Like New Year's Eve, he would be one of the hosts or something like that.

I mean, half of those people on that list, I know Cindy Williams was on Laverne and Shirley. You love seeing those names. Oh, yeah. I did Mackenzie Phillips. Candy Clark.

I don't know Candy. Bo Hopkins. I don't know Bo. Richard Dreyfuss. I think you guys know him. Yeah, I know Richard Dreyfuss. There's a lot of people. I mean, my daughter's now watching Sesame Street.

I don't know half the puppets because they've come along since. There was no Elmo when I was a kid. Elmo's been around for 40 years, but there was no Elmo when I was. You know, the Elmo song that I saw on Sesame Street the other day, I pulled it up. It's a good jam, the Elmo song, with Big Bird and the elephant guy. Mr. Sneffaluficus. Yeah, that's a jam.

Sneffaluficus. How did they make that name? Sneffaluficus. I don't know. I mean, it's all make-believe. Yeah, it's all fake. Hate to ruin it. Well, it's April Fool's episode.

It's a good way to wrap it up. All right. All right. Well, happy April Fool's. Oh, yeah. If you want to say you're going, I'm going to this weekend or this week, big shows. Pittsburgh PPG Arena. Penguins.

Where the penguins play. Oh, that's sick and then Raleigh the day before that Raleigh North Carolina the day before that where the

Hurricanes play and then where the Penguins play and then Charleston West Virginia as well that weekend something else there's maybe

something else I think there's oh then Covelli Center in Youngstown, Ohio. And then, yeah. So that's where I'll be at this weekend. And go watch Mike Vecchione's special.

It did great. A lot of people talked about it, and they loved it, and how funny Mike is. And that was the first step into this Nate Land world where we can give you TV clean content, I think. Yeah, it came out great, man. Came out great. Super funny. It was awesome.

So, yeah, excited for Greg Warrens. And we're off and running. Go subscribe to Nate Land Entertainment on YouTube. Dustin Nickerson has a new special out dustin nickerson has a special very funny runs in the family yeah dustin who uh we have not been able to have on the show yet but he dustin comes out with me on the road and uh he's written a book we talked about his book he's got a podcast i mean this is a dude that grinds it out and he's uh hopefully i can do a special with him one day but he's very very funny talks

a lot about family he has a great family with kids and uh that kind of stuff and you will really uh enjoy dustin and uh yeah and i mean truly works very hard so yeah and i opened for him on this special taping so if you're watching and you're like, man, that crowd's hot. I'm the git. That was me. That was Aaron. And it was also Taylor Tomlinson who went up after me. She got him going a little more than I did, but I had a pretty good set on those shows. This Saturday, assuming it's not April Fool's joke,

I'll be back at the Grand Ole Opry. They could be playing a prank on me, but I'm going to show up and see. I'll be at the Opry this Saturday. And then Sunday night, I'm headlining Stand Up Live in Huntsville. So please come to that. Yeah. Okay.

Well, I'll be at Comedy – oh, sorry. I thought you already went. You were talking about things. No. The show was so hot. Yeah, I'm sorry. I got in a rhythm here. But I need this. I'm in Syracuse, New York this weekend.

Oh, yeah. At the Funny Bone. Uh, two shows. Come on out. It's a great club. I always like going there. I haven't been there, uh, in years. Now I'm back headlining.

So I'm excited. And then Lexington next week. Hopefully the 20 people that come see me, it will come out. Yeah. That'll be great. But no, uh, it is great. I like it there. You're going to have fun. And, uh, I'll be at but no uh it is great i like it there you're gonna have fun and i'll be at comedy works denver this weekend april uh whatever the month is now to april i don't know i'll be there thursday friday saturday i don't know the dates come a ring in the new year with

dusty yes yeah on saturday happy new year champagne real yeah yeah the real new year all right uh we love you thank you and uh we'll see you next week bye Happy New Year. Champagne. The real New Year. Yeah. The real New Year. All right. We love you. Thank you. And we'll see you next week. Bye. Bye. Nate Land is produced by Nate Land Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi,

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