The Nateland Podcast - 154: #154 Shoes feat. Mike James

Episode Date: June 21, 2023

This week, Dusty is at the hospital welcoming baby #2 so the guys are joined by their friend and fellow comedian Mike James to talk about shoes. The guys learn the history of footwear, debate the best sneaker ever, and look at the future of shoes. 

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and uh filling in for uh dusty slayer buddy mike james yeah yeah uh keeping it real yeah yeah don't say too much and then we ask to not talk too much hey i'm jillian and i'm patrick and together we make the podcast true Crime Obsessed. If you love documentaries the way we love documentaries, you might be interested in our show because we recap all the documentaries that you're watching. We've covered just about every true crime case you can imagine. We're talking the Hatchetwielding Hitchhiker,

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We're your friends now. We're the friends you talk about that stuff with. Yeah. We're True Crime Obsessed Podcast. Search for us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Yeah, Dusty, I think, is very close with the baby. So, he's there. We got Mike.

Mike, where were we at? We were somewhere. Charleston. Charleston. Got a little weird in Charleston. Yeah. We got Mike. Mike was out. Have you been? Where were we at? We were somewhere. Charleston. Charleston. Got a little weird in Charleston. Yeah. Yeah.

Went to Charleston together. What happened? It was 2 in the morning. I came out to order some food, 2 in the morning, and a drunk guy was peeing in a church lawn across the street. Yeah. And then a homeless dude church lawn across the street. Yeah. And then a homeless dude punched him in the face. They were fighting in the middle of the street.

This really happened. They were fighting in the middle of the street. Nate didn't tell us any of this. Yeah. Three police cars pulled up. And the rest of you. That would make sense, right? I did get nervous.

I was like, I think they're here for me. No, but they saw what happened, looked at me, and just drove off. Drove off. I was just like, oh. It was almost like, welcome to Charleston. Yeah. That's how we get down. What were you doing at two?

Hmm? What were you doing out there at two? Oh. He sounds like a cop. No. It's your fault we made it out there. Yeah, you know, fast food. Where you heading, buddy? A little fast food. If We ain't out there Yeah you know Where you heading buddy A little fast food

If my wife is not there You know I know what's happening Yeah Yeah Comics get older Used to be You got in trouble

At bars And now Now it's all about DoorDash And You see it come up It is very funny If you catch someone Cause you can do

When you do a DoorDash late I imagine you kind of want to do it privately. Oh, yeah. But then you have something like that happen. You're like, well, you can't. We're on the same account, too, though. Yeah. Oh, you and her? Yeah.

Oh. So it's like she sees it. But you know what I mean? I can make up something. Yeah. It'd be like we were bunkered down in a hurricane. What do you want me to do? I'm starving.

They were fighting in the middle of the streets. Yeah. Homeless people. But that's why you do DoorDash. You can see something like that. Yeah. You know? Exactly.

That should be in their ad. Yeah. That's why you do it. I like when you catch someone doing, like, you know, like not, it's like, especially on the road, like another comic, like, you know, Travis, he's been known to door dash some things and you can see they door dash it like they think everybody's asleep yeah you kind of do it privately you just kind of go like all right i'm gonna do it then someone just on the bus like i go to the bathroom going there and you got four bags of mcdonald's like where did you get that you know because i would imagine how many door dash is just like

they give it to like just like dudes alone like oh you know i wonder that's got to be the that's got to be the most of it late late night yeah yeah but i don't know it's like i know people would say drunk they could do it but i mean I think how many stone-cold sober DoorDashes of just a guy alone. Yeah, single guys. Yeah. Hey, can you turn the lights off? I bet they get asked that. Will you turn the lights off when you pull in the driveway?

I bet you DoorDash. I would bet anything. Park down the street. I'll meet you. You know what? I'm going to order this DoorDash, but I'm going to come to you. Yeah. Just stay there.

Just stay there. Now, I do that, and I've been told that it's actually rude to do. But I will, anybody delivering food to my house, I walk out there and meet them at the car. That's rude. Yeah. I think it's probably alarming for them sitting in their car, then I just walk up. I basically beat them to the punch. I think.

I knock on their front door window i'm ready hey guys i've been waiting i've been waiting for all the last 30 minutes for this uh yeah i think the whole fun part now is they don't there's no interaction i don't think you want interaction with with what you're ordering i don't i think i'm ashamed and oh yeah you're not you don't order uh you know push-ups on door dash a little jog on door dash you're ordering stuff that is yeah it's supposed to be between you and that guy they should be like this should be like a therapist where they go i can't say anything that you like against the wall yeah i can't tell anybody what you order i can't tell anybody what you order i promise i won't you i appreciate that

man it's like attorney client privilege attorney client privilege is door desk driver customer privilege yeah there you go and you know they just when during the during their off hours they go by i'll tell you about that guy in that house right there. Just this big house. Like, because I bet you do go to some giant homes too where it's like, you know,

you're just going to be like, yeah, this dude. They have him sign an MBA? Yeah. I mean, yeah. Donald Trump likes McDonald's.

Like, you'll get like a Donald Trump guy that just like wants a McDonald's. That's not Donald Trump, but like someone that has money like that and then just be like, he just wants a McDonald's. That's not Donald Trump but like someone that has money like that and then just be like he just wants a McDonald's dude.

It's two in the morning. Who's he going to go get to go get it? Have y'all been embarrassed of anything y'all ordered? On DoorDash? Just in time. As long as they don't think

it's me. I've been embarrassed in a hotel room when you order room service and then they're like so for two uh yeah yeah you know about four of us in here and i mean you're ordering i've like called you know where you would i would order a big i mean there was that was the it's the most fun sometimes

like if you just are like you're stuck in your hotel and you're like, all right, I can order, you can order room service and you order it. And then you're like, they have a good dessert. Then you, then, cause you're like, I want to order them at the same time. Just so it seems normal. But then I don't want the dessert to just, like it's ice cream, just sit there while I eat. So then I'll like, I'll tell them before I go, I'm gonna order this now.

I'm gonna call back though. Just so they know. I'm going to call back. So I'm just trying to take any kind of like them thinking in their head, like, can you believe this guy? I did Zany's in Chicago last night for the first time. And I got in town yesterday afternoon and, you know, the condo's right around kind of behind zany's

and i get there i didn't have much time and there's i mean it's in old town all these great beautiful restaurants but i didn't want to go somewhere sit down there's mcdonald's right there in the corner oh that's a great mcdonald's though right there on the corner yeah yeah so i went to that i mean chicago is such a food city people so many people told me places to go yeah i hit up a mcdonald's and then i go and i do the show your downtown things old town oh yeah that yeah yeah in the city and then uh i get done and i do go downtown excuse me by myself just to walk around i went to try to go to the cheesecake factory yeah uh in john kankok yeah yeah it was uh building. There was a wait, so I didn't go.

But I just walked up and down Michigan Avenue basically by myself, checking stuff out. Got back to my condo kind of late, and I'm like, well, now I am hungry. So I went back to that McDonald's. It was the only thing open. So I ate at McDonald's twice in Chicago yesterday. That's all I had. Yeah, you didn't go get pizza?

Why didn't you go walk and get – I would have walked and got – See, now even you are judging me for McDonald's. Well, I just think pizza is not healthy. It's not like I'm telling you to go get a smoothie. I'm saying you go eat something worse than McDonald's. I mean, I get it. I know. Look, I've eaten McDonald's.

I get it too, but there are about 14 different restaurants within 100 yards of that McDonald's. But they're all like you go in and sit down and... you can get to go food though you know i know well like it was only like is it giadorno's or uh something like those famous pizza places uno pizza like sure those you can go in and like you just go get a big deep dish and like that's kind of fun you just go just go sit there look at your phone wait for the deep dish come come out. Did you get the same thing, both meals? No. You mixed it up?

I mean, I got fries both meals. Okay. Yeah. Well, that's what you have to. Yeah. Yeah. I've eaten McDonald's. I'm not mad about it.

I feel like I'm being judged now by three fitness experts here. Not at all. I just want to know. No, it's just funny. I can eat McDonald's all day. Yeah. But I would think if you're going to – and you usually take in a city. I mean, I took it in.

Like I said, I tried to broaden my horizons by going to the Cheeseney factory. Is it because Chris Farley would eat down there? Well, just because we just talked about it on the podcast. And I thought, I'm going to go here. But anyway. Did you go up to John Hancock, Bill? No, I mean, this was after the show, so it was kind of late.

Michigan Avenue is not, and I've been there with you not too long ago. It's not what I remember though. I used to remember it being bustling and it was kind of just dead. Uh, well, Sunday night. Yeah.

I guess I just, I used to envision it like almost like Times Square where no matter when it's busy, but it was not like that last night. I don't think Chicago is, I don't think Michigan Avenue avenue was like that i think because they all the stores shut down it's not time square well they had you're correct yeah yeah i'm like all right let's walk back and eat mcdonald's did you get in yesterday so you got in then like you landed and then did the shows yeah yeah yeah it was good though yeah show was great my first time

at that zany's yeah a lot of folks came out and yeah it's the first club i ever went up at did you play the piano on stage i did not did you no but i thought about it used to not they took it off for a little bit i think they put like an electric piano up there oh is it i think so i saw the when i was there as the owner, I opened for this comic. I've hosted, I was a host for Jim David. And he was in, I didn't, he just came in town. But that's the first comedy club I ever went on stage at. Wow.

Was, and he played piano. I remember that. But yeah, I got a host there. They were a great crowd. But I usually get, understandably, a holiday. Like it was Father's Day yesterday. I often get a weekend nobody else wants. Very often, they say, I can't even believe we're doing a show.

There you go. But you answered the phone. So here we are. If somebody said, well, you know, it's Juneteenth's tomorrow. And I'm like, yeah, I bet that's it. I bet my crowd is dressing up for Juneteenth. I bet that's why. Did we come out for you? Did we support you?

I would have sold out if it wasn't for Juneteenth. Yeah. And just so you know, we did not have Mike only on because I was going to ask about this. I didn't even think about that. I thought we did. Yeah. Dusty's downstairs, but I go,

we can't show Dusty. It's the opposite of Dusty's June 91st. Dusty looks like there's the reason there is a Juneteenth. Oh, man, that was a good call good call you know i was thinking this you think uh is this i don't know it's a funny joke but like uh door dash is like uh it's room service for everybody it's like poor people room service that's what you don't even need a room you don't

even need a room like it's like people are just like yeah i want room service too like but hotels are so expensive they go all right all right what if uh you got a phone if i got a guy that's willing to go into that mcdonald's at 3 a.m yeah that's funny yeah that's funny right they were talking about you like uh the comic that opened for me said that he's like yeah yeah, there's open mic here, cigars and stripes. And they said, Nate, Nate Bargetti used to do it. Do you remember that? Maybe at Zany's? No, just in Chicago.

He said it's one of the longest running open mics. Yeah, I did. I remember, I don't remember it was called that, but I remember that they had, when I was there, they had an open mic that was the longest open mic. It was at, i forget the name of the place but uh but that's where wherever it was you go sign up and it was a list and it'd be like 70 comics would sign up and so you would sign up and then you'd get your order and you

wanted to be like 30 because what are you doing two minutes uh three minutes yeah maybe it's like three minutes or something but it was you wanted to be like 30th because 30th was like uh 8 p.m like and people would real people would come in yeah so uh like first was like i mean no one I mean, no one's in there. 30th is, you know, the 30 to 50 is like, you know, it's a bar. So it's like real people would come in for those. And then after that, it's just like, you know, otherwise you could be going up.

If you're last, you're like 2 a.m. Was it a host? Yeah. Yeah, they ran this show. I mean, they might have switched it all. They might have, like Like a different host for It'd be good shape Getting your steps in

But you'd go sign up there And then see where you're at And if you were like 70th or 60th or something Go do another show Just go do other shows And then come back later If you're first

You just go do this Then go do whatever And then But if you were In the middle It was like You're gonna have a good spot That's what I did Yeah just go do this then go do whatever and then uh but if you're in the middle it was like you're gonna you're gonna have a good spot that's what i did yeah that's my first open mics you said

hannibal still pop in occasionally yeah he uh yeah we were all there it's crazy uh yeah we did that's right outside that longest open mics where i uh i remember talking to my dad or something about Brian Regan live. Like, that's when I... I picture Brian Regan live in that open mic. And, like, that's where I, like, heard that, like, his... I remember hearing his CD or something. And it just... Or my dad telling...

I think I remember my dad telling me about this. And being like, I had to pull over because I was laughing so hard. You got to listen to this guy's CD. And then I listened to it. Crazy. Yeah. Where were you at? I had a corporate in Florida.

Working. Working, man. I had the nicest hotel room i've ever been in i check in at the hotel this is in outside of fort myers florida and i'm checking in and the lady goes well it's gonna be about an hour i was like yeah and she goes it's worth it oh what i go okay i just i thought i had a normal room. So I walk around a kill time. I come back and dude, I basically have a whole floor of this hotel. There's eight different balconies.

There's a pool table in there. There's two bedrooms. I was like, this is insane, dude. So anyway, this was in like a Hyatt Regency. I know where. In outside of Fort Myersers floor oh yeah the city bonita springs or something like that yeah and uh now i'm like golly it's a lot of pressure for this gig this is the nicest hotel room i've ever had can't even imagine how much this costs

and uh it went okay yeah so i get off the show went okay the show went okay yeah i did fine yeah i didn't i didn't get off and go they should have got me two hotels it felt like oh that was okay and everybody was nice and then i get i have to get on an elevator with everybody that was just at the show and i'm going up higher than them i'm at the penthouse so then it's just such a different feeling being in that room after the show oh yeah now i'm just alone looking at a pool table and feeling like i didn't really earn this do you know what i mean then i just got out of there it's just a weird feeling door dash to mcdonald's that night played pool by

myself yeah it's a lot less fun than with a friend yeah you know yeah it's a weird feeling yeah was it how many were in the corporate about 500 people there it's a big big event in the ball room of how much time did you i did 45 minutes yeah we tell you four or five of those minutes pretty good yeah and then it was you think it went that bad no it didn't it never goes as bad as you think i think it just did was it a big room big room yeah had some trouble with the microphone that was kind of a thing the whole time i just wanted it out it was just yes i was just dealing with that but the room was so nice i like i wanted it to be electric. I wanted them to be like, yeah, we'll do that again next year.

And it just wasn't. And it's on me. It's nobody else's fault. It's just not feeling to go back to that room. You're like, I wish it wasn't quite this nice now. Yeah. I'll take the pool table out. Yeah.

So Aaron and I are texting each other the same night because i had a corporate at the music city center uh downtown nashville and they wanted to recreate a naughty theopery so it was me and a couple of uh country music performers uh the part of the band sugarland they're recreating a tuesday night at the office yeah tuesday night and uh sugarland was there uh one half of sugarland and i wanted to tell the guy your story but i never got a chance oh yeah that'd been awesome yeah so uh yeah i don't know if it was sugar or land that was there but one of them was there uh so i did mic check right before it started this is the setup so this is my vantage point from the stage oh wow there's this giant dance floor and look how far you're on the stage

i'm on the stage right there that's great i love having people that far away yeah so now i'm like are they having dancing they did like i asked why is that giant dance floor in the middle there and they're like yeah they're gonna hope to come out and dance later did they i don't know i left not their mindset yeah that's for sure yeah that's so crazy it is crazy so they get way behind schedule wise like doing sound checks and stuff like that and then to make up for it they cut some stuff out but what ends up happening is for some reason because they cut out so much i end up going up earlier than it was even supposed to when they called me up there's nobody in their seats everyone's mingling they're talking they're drinking and i had to do 20 minutes and i did

20 minutes to not one person oh that's awesome you couldn't find anybody acknowledging and they're so far away i can't even make eye contact it was 20 minutes of just people talking and having a great time and catching up with each other this This is convention they were at. Yeah. And I just, you know, I had to do my time. So boy, you really start realizing just when you do have to do an act out or a voice or anything and nobody's watching.

Yeah. It's hard to commit. Yeah. It is. What'd you, did you address it? Like I did, but they,

you know, nobody's listening. So I didn't get that. Yeah. And there was one woman that just kind of walked by accidentally. I started talking to her, and she got out of there. She was just going to see her friend. It would have been great if everybody got up and started dancing

just during your set. I mean, the whole group, the whole people watching, just get up and they just start. They do that dance where you listen to your own music. A silent disco. the whole group, the whole people watching just get up and they just start like, they do those, that dance where you listen to your own music. A silent disco.

And then Bates is up there going, you know, doing his act. I mean, nobody knew I was even there. When I announced that I just had a baby

and no one clapped, you know, they're like, nobody's even listening. They're not even listening. Because when you texted me that video, I was like,

my instinct would be if it's a wireless mic, I would walk out there and do it on the dance floor. And I considered that. This isn't even a salvageable situation. It wasn't. I actually went out there just to try it. But I'm like, it's not Brian Bates night. I'm one small part of this thing.

Wait, during the set, you walked out there and tried it? No, but before, after you suggested that, I thought, let me go out here and get a feel. I'm glad I didn't. It wouldn't have worked anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Well, then they're like, well, I don, let me go out here and get a feel. I'm glad I didn't. It wouldn't have worked anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Well, then they're like, well, I don't know. Where's that coming from?

Yeah. They can't find them. That's exactly what they would have done. I always pictured you walk out there, try to tell jokes, and you're like, oh, this isn't working. You walk back. Then I have to clob up on stage. I have to put the mic up there. Oh, I've done that before.

Some of those gigs, if it's set up like that i mean people just don't know they don't do it on purpose but then they right but some of you like you wish they would come up and go like hey we're gonna just pay you don't do it we're this is pointless like we messed up and like you know just be but i think they're just like now we they're paying you so it's like you gotta go do something while i was up there i was thinking would they rather me just get off well it almost be like let me host yeah and we had a host yeah oh and she's like uh you know a country music star yeah and but i mean they weren't listening to her either yeah yeah it almost be like let me go up with the host in or something or like let me do something that like we can just talk yeah that's a tough situation well you told me that it did

make me feel better about my gig because they were listening and laughing everybody was nice so thank you for that did you have friends there anybody you know that's so funny though that you would only you would happen to you just to be like you're like man this is terrible you're like yeah your mind i guess i'd kill for that it seems like it's one of the best gigs. He goes, is the audience within 200 yards of you? Then sign me up. His audience was in the room over.

There's a show in South by Southwest that you used to do. It was a cool show. And they would, it was on purpose, but you do a show, and you can't hear the audience. Ooh. So you're just in a sound booth-type room, and you just tell stories, or you do whatever. And I forget the name of the show, but it was—these guys did—they might still do it, like other places. I did it at South by Southwest. And you would—it was such a cool idea in the audience.

Like, you know, you go in there for five minutes, and're like, you're just talking and you can't hear the crowd. So you don't know what's, uh, happening. I did a show. Did you ever do the show surrogates that they would do in Atlanta? Do you remember that show, Brian? They did it as Zany's once where you, you're in the green room and you get somebody from the audience and they wire them up. And you feed them your jokes. And you feed them your jokes and then they perform your set.

Yeah. And it was really fun. My person murdered. It was the best set I've ever had was through somebody else. So you just say what you're... I'm in the green room cut off. Yeah. I'm wired with a headset to a stranger on stage who's i'm using them as a puppet

essentially performing my act yeah it was really fun yeah wow it uh it hurt pretty bad i i wanted to get out there so bad you know i wish i had was a electric e-bike electric e-bike. Electric e-bike. Oh. Could zoom out of there with that. I mean, I don't know if that would have helped. Drive an electric e-bike around just in there. What if you just went out and said, I'm giving away an electric. Like, you're just doing something. You just turn it into a giveaway. Yeah.

And they're still like, I don't know. No one's listening. If you have not gotten anything for dead yet for this Father's Day, give them a gift of a fun power. Hey, I'm Jillian. And I'm Patrick. No one's listening. If you have not gotten anything for dead yet for this Father's Day, give him a gift of a fun power. Hey, I'm Jillian. And I'm Patrick. And together we make the podcast True Crime Obsessed. If you love documentaries the way we love documentaries,

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or wherever you listen. They're going to be broke. Yeah. But it was a, I was doing a corporate gig in D.C. That was yours. No, it was good, though. At least we didn't break a bone.

Yeah, that's how good I was killing. We're all trying to one-up each other with these stories. What happened to you? What was y'all's corporate gig? Was yours good? Yeah, it was a good gig, but the luggage rack in the hotel room fell on my toe. Yeah, I don't understand.

You mentioned this earlier, but I don't think I get it. What? Like an empty? Was anything on it? No, it was nothing on it, but I was getting the- How weak is your toe? It was perfect. How big is his luggage?

Are you talking about the thing like a bellhop? Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. The thing in the closet. He has a lot of luggage. Yeah. You sit your luggage on top of it. I think it'll fold out. I don't think I- Oh, okay. Yeah. He has a lot of luggage. Yeah. You sit your luggage on top of it. And they'll fold out.

I don't think I, oh, okay. Yeah. Is that what that's for? Yeah. Oh, it's the best. It is. You never use it? No.

What do you do? Leave it on the floor? I had a lot of furniture to choose from last weekend. Yeah. One of his mini pool tables. I put it on the sectional. Yeah. So I was getting the iron board out and it fell on my, so perfectly.

Yeah. Like landed right on my toe perfectly. Like landed right on it. So it chipped them on. So I went and performed. With that, you know, I had on some slides going to it because I don't wear my shoes. And then when I got there, I had my shoes and it was just like thriving the entire time. But you did the show. I did the show.

That was your flu game. Yeah. Yeah. And killed it. Like Jordan dropped 38 great yeah yeah and maybe i should go watch mike pick up some pointers uh corporate gigs man i was in uh uh sioux city iowa uh awesome and then six shows in St. Paul, Minneapolis. Six. Couldn't do seven, man. No.

It was tough, man. A grind six out. It goes. But, yeah, it was six shows. It was just so great. Everybody was so nice. We got to golf. I went out golfing with a guy,

uh, Tim. Uh, uh, he's a member at Hazleton. And, uh, so he took me and Joe and Sonny Gray. We all went and golfed in Hazleton.

Hazleton is a big, they've had a majors there. Like, uh, it's, it's a big, big, big course.

And, uh, so, but it was, it was a super fun It's a big, big, big course. But it was super fun. We walked. Joe Zimmerman, who's a good golfer, he – I don't know if I've talked – we have a special coming out. I don't know when, but it's like in a couple months. But there's Joe, and then Joe played college golf at Davidson. So Joe gets – we get started, dude.

He birdies one. And then he hit three birdies on the front nine. And I'm like, you know, he played college golf. So Joe, I mean, Joe can do something. Like, and I'm like, yeah. I was like, I was pretty excited because I was like, dude, what if Joe just rips apart this place? Back then, a little different.

Yeah, back then. Me and him played three days, and we played in Sioux City, too. And then we played here at Legend, where I play. And then we played. So we played three days in a row. That third day, we went to Hazleton. We walked, and I was like, I was pretty tired. My back was, like, sore. But was like sore it but it was like it was hazelton and it was like we had a good group and

it was like it was almost nice because it's like uh i gotta just have fun like instead of being you know you can take some stuff you can get out there like i'm trying to do too good or whatever and here was just kind of like it was fun we walked there was no pressure here was just kind of like, it was fun. We walked. There was no pressure. It was just kind of like a good, good time. The greens were super fast. So if you're a starting pitcher like Sonny and you know it's not your day, you can go do that stuff? Yeah, he pitched the night before.

Yeah, so he knows he's not going to be playing. Yeah, he's not going to be playing. So he had to be there at 3.30 at the clubhouse. So he went. So we got done. And I texted him like the night before and i was like hey be there at 10 20 hazel team and so then he comes out and then uh so we go play hazel team and then uh which is pretty fun group for the guy we play with i was like can i bring one more person and he was like yeah i was like all right it's your starting pitcher of your favorite team. That's crazy. And then, yeah, it's fun.

And then so, but it was like awesome. And then Sonny's just the best, man. He's doing really good this year for the Twins. You said it before. I mean, he's in position to maybe win a Cy Young. I mean, he's been playing unbelievable. Look at Shane Lackland there. Wow.

He's 11-1. Yeah, I know. But until recently, Sonny was leading major leagues in the ERA. Yeah, but he's in the position to be. Sonny's having a great year. Unfortunately for him, they don't give him a lot of runs, and he didn't get any decisions. Yeah.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but it's like, I mean, even if he's in the running, it's like that's a solid thing. I know Bad News Bates wants to bring it down. Well, I'm supporting him. Good luck, Sonny. Good luck. Remember when he was on,

I pointed out that he led the league in wild pitches. He didn't even know it. Yeah, he just brings sad things up. No, I support Sonny. Yeah. Doesn't feel like it. I support it. They need to give him more run production.

Every game he pitches, he does great, and then they don't give him any runs. Yeah. You know, and he gets a no decision. Yeah. He – Well, I think he's doing great. I think he's doing great, Sonny. I think he's doing okay.

Sonny, I think you're doing – Do better. He's a wonderful man. And so he – we went to the – then I went to the game, got to throw out the first pitch. Another one. Why don't you just let me just have something? I promise you I'm not trying to do anything in these first –

these first pitches are being thrown at me. I don't want to do them. How'd your pitch go? How'd you do? It was good. It was over the plate. You would have swung. You're tall.

He wouldn't have swung. You wouldn't have swung. But Mike's tall, so I would have got Mike. What's going on here? I would have probably got rocked because mine was high. And don't batters like high pitches? I don't know. I think if you leave a pitch up a little too high.

Oh, then it's gone. It was like he was telling me just get it over. You want air under it so it's not going to hit the ground. Right. I don't want to throw super hard. Yeah, see, that's the difference. I'm going to give some effort. Yeah.

You just phone it in. You don't even, yeah. We had Eric film this, and for some reason. you don't even yeah we had eric filmed this and for some reason uh he put it in slow-mo which is not a bad look that's real speed yeah it's a little too high but i don't know why eric now i always remember i always say he's just a barber even though he tells me how to eat yeah that's what we'd say to him all the time. Yeah, you're just a barber. Have I said that on here? No.

Anytime he says anything, he goes, well, just remember, he's just a barber. He's just talking about like working out or something. And he also did great. He doesn't understand baseball and think about maybe show where the ball goes. Right. When you film something. I don't know how you could not. He's up in this. he's up in he's up

in this he's already in the seats up in the top how could you not do it sideways and just get me and sunny filming that's who do you think i'm throwing to right what is what was he thinking there it looks like that's a warm-up i don't think i didn't watch this video till now that looks like a warm-up well nicks doesn't even look like the real thing. Nick's is even worse. Nick's videos, yeah. Nick, you can't see the catcher, and you can barely see you. I'm not sure you knew which one you were.

Yeah, I don't have the whole. Did I send that to you? Yeah. It went good. I think I sent you Travis's. Yeah, they were super fun. Yeah, Travis's video, it was like a good one but it's blurry and then uh so he couldn't see it but it was uh yeah it was an awesome awesome i mean who's that this is the worst video quality flip phone

that's travis's oh yeah why does it do that though like why does it why does it when you film it you know when you text it and it goes small yeah why does it do that because it it it compresses it if it especially if it's sent over text message and not iMessage yeah it'll compress it to make it smaller so it can be sent so what would you have to do i airdrop it airdrop it's typically the best way and it would be then it'd be normal and perfect yeah yeah uh yeah there's there's yeah sonny sonny had some big catching duties it was me he had to catch me then his two sons for father's day sonny had to catch me and his two sons i also got sonny's glove because he we mean him went in through on the field which was very cool to go do that. Just,

just kind of throwing just back and forth so I could just pitch a couple and then, so he let me do that and I had his glove that I think

that he used in the game and then I just just took it. I got it at home now. No, he doesn't have a glove. It says 54 on it. It says dad on it.

For instance, that's his kid's game. I love you, dad. You're so special. Yeah, it's a glove he uses in the game. That's his glove. And I just. He just kind of kept it. He goes, I just kind of walked out.

I just heard him go, well, I guess Nate's keeping that one. And I was like, looks like it, Sonny. That was a good pitch. It looks way better from that angle. Yeah. Did you get nervous before? I think right before you pitch. I mean, it's like, because this is really, this is only the second time.

If I could go out there and just do it a couple times, then you could be like, all right, all right. And then you'd be like, I know what to do. But if I do another one, I need to start bringing it and try to hit across the plate. Yeah. I need to I need to start bringing it and try to and hit across the plate yeah I need to throw a better pitch

I need to throw that George W. Bush pitch like after 9-11 like we did oh yeah just you know just boom is everybody paying attention

at that time like no I mean no I mean they you know they announce you they play clips

like people cheer and stuff i don't think it's too crazy it's not yeah it's not you need a bush after 9-11 moment we need something with equally high stakes yeah i didn't have yeah we were just doing shows on two shows on sunday uh so people could only get so much behind that and yeah the clip nick sent me they introduce you and it sounds like nobody it's not like my corporate like nobody even knew you were out there people knew people knew I got a little they go they popped there's a little like yeah yeah well you can't hear because Nick films with his phone on his eyeball.

And then he just goes because he can't see. Nick did film the – I posted a clip of Sonny telling me what to do, and Nick filmed that. Yeah, that was good. Yeah, that was good. He did a good job with that. Yeah. And then – yeah, so – So, Mike, if you don't know, I'm throwing out the first pitch in the Sounds Game.

On 4th of July, right? 4th of July. Now Nate's going on a barnstorming tour of every baseball field in America. That's hilarious. What he doesn't know is I'm going to drive the pace car at a race coming up. Hey. What are you going to do about that? Are you?

No. Oh. But you are. I was going to say, you are, right? Yeah. I went to the Indy 500 this year. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

You did? Where? In Indianapolis. I mean, where? That's our Juneteenth how was it it was it was it was it was a lot like i didn't it was were you on the road there no we were in um uh louisville so it was just right up the street yeah we went by there and um yeah man 450 000 people yeah that is a lot that's crazy i've never seen that many people where did y'all go like is it

it's like through the city right or is it around just the or is it around the track yeah so it's it's like a square track i think right i've been there in the brickyard that would be not a square but it's like it's not uh it's not like a big egg or something they have a golf course in it it's enormous yes huge uh i'm not saying it's square like it's see what i mean like it's like yeah oh yeah it's a little like mario kart it's not the normal. It's not like a. Yeah, oval. Yeah, it's a little. It's not a NASCAR track is what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. And there's a golf.

So there's a golf course right around it. And then when you go play, some of the holes are inside the track. That's awesome. I would love to play that course. Like that's just to see. That's got to be crazy. Yeah, it was. I mean, they were having a concert in the during the

the race so y'all were you got tickets inside and you yeah i mean uh i was with godfrey so he knew someone and they brought us in it was like a promoter or something that's awesome yeah man and then uh y'all watched the whole thing no we didn't have time. I've never seen that many sleeveless shirts. So many. But it was, I mean. They're so loud. So loud. A guy from Hendersonville won. Oh, really?

Oh, did he? Yeah. Oh, yeah, we left. Who? I don't know his name, but he's from Hendersonville, I believe. That's good enough for me. Yeah. Yeah, that's got to be.

Too much. That's crazy. Yeah, I Yeah, that's got to be. 200 miles an hour? That's crazy. Yeah, I mean, that's so fast. Did you see what happened to your buddy, Jesse Rothacker? Uh-uh. You know, from Forgotten, what is it, Forgotten Friends Reptile? Yeah. Look at this, the headline here.

Snake on trail, he's bitten 50 times. It says, take a bite. snake on trail he's bitten 50 times it says take a bite summer warning as nature lover meets cannibal snake on trail

and is bitten over 50 times in wild video oh oh my god he's in a coma why he's in a

oh he's fighting oh bitten by an eastern milk snake more than 50 times while trying to warn audiences about

the different markings each reptile has. Yeah. That's crazy. I'm glad he got that out of the system after us. Yeah. You're not with us. You guys, y'all will watch Coyote. What's his name?

He does a show on YouTube where he like takes things from uh i've yeah i haven't watched did we want or we watched it after one of our uh insect episode yeah i forgot his name but yeah yeah coyote peterson that's his name yeah yeah dude like just i cannot do it so many things yeah people are just uh So many stings. Yeah. People are just. He has a tour though.

That's like he has a tour. Yeah. What's he doing? Just stung? Just talking about animals. Yeah. Yeah. If I'm going to do that before that.

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Yeah. I'm not shaved it. It's just buzzed down. Back to, yeah. I not shaved it. It's just buzzed down. Back to the old Nate. As Laura said. This is step one. I don't know if there's any pictures in here. Yeah, step one.

It's nice to do a nice little buzz. I don't think I like it, but we're here. It was like summer and you're like, I was all right I went short, and then I was like, you know what? I'll just go a little bit shorter. That's what I did. Cool off a bit. I did the same. Yeah.

How short you go? I just went as short as I could. Yeah. Okay. So there you go. Way to go. How short you go, man. Some places shorter than others.

Sorry to you guys' comments. Start the show with it. Someone commented last week that you always say that 45 minutes into the podcast. Yeah. Well, we'll do it. Yeah. William Ryan. I sometimes listen to the podcast on.75 times speed.

Everyone sounds super relaxed and maybe a little buzzed i know the podcast is two hours long already but i listen while it works i wanted to listen to hang out with the gang as long as possible while at the office that's very nice yeah uh curtis curtis bonesack Curtis Bonsek. Bonsek. Yeah. Right? Bonsek. The billion served on the McDonald's side refers to the number of burgers sold, not the number of customers served. Is that true? I have no idea.

I think either way, they've now qualified to say billions and billions served. So it doesn't even matter at this point. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I didn't know that either. Did you know? Yeah, that is interesting. Did you know that when this is 40% chance of rain, you know what that means?

I'd learned this super recently. Then Eric learned it from the same TikTok vid. You learned a TikTok video? Yeah, yeah. That's how. You know, the knowledge of everybody i'm saying it right now but it's like i'm almost annoyed with because i like i i i do it too where i see these videos but it's like everybody's just got annoying little facts now and you're like

oh you're like and then you're like how'd you know that you're like because you're jammed your face in your phone for 12 hours and you saw a video but it's i'm not it's it's just like uh it's very funny to be like yeah i did learn that but when i i saw that video and then i did uh morning tv and i asked the meteorologist and i was like you know i just learned that and act like that was the dumbest thing ever i think every well what's the answer y'all need to do a better job of explaining what this actually means. Yeah. When they say 40% chance of rain, I thought that meant there's a 40% chance that there's going to be rain.

That's not what it means? But what it actually means is 40% of the area we're talking about will experience rain. So it's a matter of your area. It has nothing to do with probability because i think 90 chance rain oh man there's a nine out of ten chance it's gonna i'm gonna see rain today that's not what it means and this is true which is which would make sense is why it could rain everywhere but not where you're at right right all they're saying is 90 of the area that we're discussing right will experience rain right so if they say davidson county they're meaning 90 of davidson county will experience

rain okay yeah this is true yeah yeah that's that's how it's actually that's what they mean when they say that they need to explain it yeah they need to word it a little bit yeah there's no way anybody knows that. Gary Burgess. Now someone's going to say they learned it. Where'd you learn it? On a podcast? Yeah. On a video?

Where'd they learn it? Video. Everybody just learned it from the same video. Gary Burgess. Burgess. Nate suggested the Minnesota Lakes for a team mascot. The LA Lakers were originally the Minneapolis Lakers and moved to LA. Look at that.

That makes sense. What is a Laker, though? Just a guy that hangs out by the lake? Yeah. I think so. Yeah. It's probably better than lakes. Yeah.

Yeah. That is why with the Los Angeles Lakers, we just accepted that they're called the Lakers. Yeah. I never thought about that. And then never, never. It doesn't make sense. It's like the Utah Jazz. Yeah.

Yeah. They were the New Orleans Jazz, right? Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Same thing thought about it. And then never, never. It doesn't make sense. It's like the Utah jazz. Yeah. Yeah. They were the New Orleans jazz, right? Yeah. Right. Yeah. Joshua Parker. I grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, where the Mayo Clinic was started by a doctor who came to help with injured people after a tornado destroyed most of the town.

Nuns helped his nurses. town. Nuns helped his nurses. Thus the street thus the St. Mary's wing at the Mayo Clinic. The Dr. St. Mary's wing at the Mayo Clinic.

Street Paul, Minnesota. That's a lot of sentences, man. We need to stop. The doctor who was Dr. Mayo had two sons who also became doctors and helped turn the Mayo Clinic into what it is today, leading in new surgeries and techniques to treat people. It's very nice. That was nice.

The Memphis Grizzlies also. Yeah, they're the Vancouver Grizzlies. Yeah, we probably have some Grizzlies. In Memphis? Yeah. Tennessee, we have Black Bear. Yeah yeah we've got a million videos i'm just saying this so people can stop sending them of a moose chasing a grizzly bear yeah that's all that yeah they're both surprisingly quick yeah if we went like we just had that was a good time with that. We made a lot of dumb things.

It is interesting to go back and, like, just, like, the size. You don't really think of the size. Like, there's a weight class for a reason. Someone might have said that. And then it is, like, the size of that moose is, I mean, the grizzly bear couldn't, if it got it. I mean, the moose seems like it fight. But the moose, it's just so big. But it's fast, though. Like, it can run, like, 30 miles an hour.

Yeah, really fast. We can't re-litigate this whole tournament. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Flatcat Jessica. I was at my nephew's high school graduation. After a girl got her diploma, she tripped and fell. Afterwards, I asked my nephew about that poor girl as I felt so bad for her.

He told me that she had got paid $50 to do that. And if you watch videos, you will see they are doing that at college graduations and high school graduations. It's a challenge. She's basing it off that guy who threw out the first pitch and oh and fell which everyone does agree yes that was fake yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah just be skeptical of everything every time you see somebody do something like that but also if you do something embarrassing it's a good way to play it off you're like oh this yeah this is part of a challenge oh yeah yeah well I needed this.

These. A long time ago. Yeah. Could have made a lot of money. Yeah. Yeah. That's like a, I mean,

it's just a young, a young, it's young people. It's whatever their thing that they're into. That's cool that they do that. You don't like it?

No, I'm joking. I don't care. I mean, it doesn't, you know. College kids. I know college kids i mean it's like yeah no it's high school well even more so yeah just for fun who paid her 50 who in high school has 50 she's gonna give away that's what i don't understand i think it was the parents getting asking them to have a kid yeah yeah what plan are you on that you like what are the people grow up now and they you think you can just ask your parents for can i have 50 to make this girl trip that's crazy and your family just like yeah yeah here's 50 yeah film it and monetize it 50 is the most that's a lot of money like i mean especially when i graduated i mean it was like you know and you're just like doing it like ah we got to give her 50 bucks i think i think 20 bucks is pointless to

kids now no it doesn't mean what it used to it doesn't it's like five it really is five dollars was our 20 20 is the new five yeah 20s yeah 20 is the new five. Yeah. 20's the new five. Five was, $5 was like, it was, I got paid $5 to mow my neighbor's yard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And it was like, Five bucks. Five bucks. That's how I bought my Mortal Kombat. Yeah. A yard at a time. Yeah, I'm already down.

I'm like, don't bring that up in my act. My daughter got $50 from my dad yesterday, and she couldn't care less. For her birthday? No, just because. Yeah. And she couldn't care less.

Like, it wasn't $100. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I think it's because- But that's parenting. Yeah. That's what that is. It's a little bit on you, Mike.

You can't put that on her. Teach a kid the value of a dollar. Yeah, I'll give you that. Is that what you said to her? She goes, I you, Mike. You can't put that on her. Teach a kid the value of a dollar. Yeah. Yeah. I'll give you that. Is that what you said to her? She goes, I got $50. You go, it ain't $100. It's a mix, too. I don't know if they wrap their head around what the money is.

Right. But yes, it doesn't like, it's just a different time. How much does the tooth fairy give at your house? $10. $10. That's changed. Yeah. She was giving out $1.

Well, see what happened was one time, I think it, we only had a $10 bill. So you can't go back after that. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Bates was probably, you did yours before the 2-3 was born. We just added it all up at the end.

Yeah. Do you remember who your high school graduation speaker was? Speaker? I don't know who he had. You had a speaker? Oh, you're talking about to give the... Commitsment. I thought it was the Valedictorian. No? Yeah.

Did you have somebody? We didn't have one. That's college, right? Oh, to give the... Commitment. I thought it was the Valedictorian. No? Yeah. We had a... Did you have somebody? We didn't have one. That's college, right? Probably fluid. You all have. Bill Gates. In college, it was somebody of that caliber.

Who was it? I don't remember the guy's name. Oh, okay. Are you talking about college? It was Biden and Pence the year before. Oh, wow. Together? Yeah.

Oh, wow. That's weird. I think. It was like two, or it was like, what's that guy's name? The guy that was orange. It seems like he's thinking Donald Trump. No, no, no, not Trump. There was another guy who was orange.

John Boehner. John Boehner. Yeah. It was Boehner and Biden, I think, together. Yeah. Oh. Hanging out. So whoever it was, it was a little bit of a disappointment the next year.

Who was yours? Our high school graduation speaker was Watson Brown. Okay. He was Vanderbilt's football coach. And he went on to be the losingest coach in the history of college football. So the guy who spoke to us about going out in the world was the biggest loser in all of college football. I'm not saying that led to anything. That is filled.

Was he at the time? No. I mean, this was when he was at Vanderbilt in his early, you know, but he went on to, he had a long career of losing other places too. But I was so excited. We keep him. Vandy. Yeah.

Terry Weaver. One of the reasons that WCW Monday Nitro's first episode was recorded at Mall of America is because Hulk Hogan had opened a new restaurant in Mall of America in 1995 named Pastamania. Pastamania. That makes more sense yeah it closed after less than a year well that's because they people were going past the pot nobody got it yeah uh jonathan curds curds aaron i would like to car talk with my oh wait Yeah. Jonathan Kurz. Aaron, I would like to car talk with my... Oh, wait.

Aaron, I would listen to car talk with my dad when he would take me to work with him on some Saturdays growing up. Very fond memories of click and clack getting into it. Seems like this one should have been more of a personal text. Akilah, you've never heard of that show. It's fun. They had two Boston accents, which as a kid in Alabama,

you just never hear. So it was just fun to hear them talk. NPR. Was it on NPR? Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was. was, right? Uh-huh. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was.

Austin Thomas Selby, we couldn't even afford FM radio. We just had AM. Did you have to pay for it? Like, would there have been time? Some radios would only have AM, though. Really? Mm-hmm.

I think so. Maybe a long time ago, yeah. Oh, okay. But not... Don't act like you don't remember. Before my time. Yeah. I think so. Maybe a long time ago, yeah. You don't remember. Before my time. Yeah. I mean, there was AM stations. All your credits are from AM radio.

AM radio is enormous. I mean, if you're counting the Grand Ole Opry. Yeah. Yeah. Look at the Grand Ole Opry. Grand Ole Opry. July 11th. July 11th.

Mike Jameson was Grand Ole Opry. So, the Grand Ole Opry is July 11th. July 11th. Mike James would be Grand Ole. The Grand Ole Opry is enormous. I ain't ready to, but you know, there's some cars that they don't have them in it. Austin Thomas Selby. On last week's episode, you guys discussed boy names for Dusty's son. The name Austin

was brought up, and Aaron said Austin is a serial killer's name. Later in the episode, Nate says that the name Thomas is too high-fluid of a name for McDonald's. My name is Austin Thomas. Thanks the inadvertent shout-out. Love you guys. That's Austin Thomas. Well, I think together I like him.

I was just saying. We have three names? Three names like that is where it gets into serial killer territory. I have three names. Three first names. No, no, no. But you don't introduce yourself as... Michael Thomas James.

Okay. But if you went by that, I'd be like, that's a little bit of a serial killer. Old money. Michael Thomas James, it does sound... It does sound Michael Thomas James. It sounds a little old money. Oh, yeah. I'm not surprised that she's not impressed by 50 bucks.

Michael Thomas James has a little old money. Yeah. I'm not surprised that she's not impressed by 50 bucks. The family you grew up in, you just have the most cash alive. Austin Thomas Selby. Yeah. I like those two names together.

I'd work on that last name, but the first two names are great. ATS. Work on the last name. ATS killer. Can do. ATS killer. Austin Thomas Selby. Yeah.

I wonder if he, I bet he goes by Austin Thomas. I think those do go good together. Dusty, I don't know. His kid can't be Austin Thomas. Not AT. AT? You know, there are some names where there's just two letters doesn't quite work. Mm-hmm.

AT is almost there. Can you see calling somebody AT? AT. Yeah. It's like AC. I don't like ac slater right yeah but that's ac saved by the bell ac works he made it cool though yeah because it was him yeah okay well this guy could be cool no boy at in the house at uh all right uh lauren talon Talon Talon My husband and I never watched

The Little House on the Prairie growing up So we started watching it with our four kids recently We haven't gotten to the part Where Mary becomes blind In the future If you could add spoiler alerts For 40 year old TV series That were also books

We would appreciate. My kids don't listen to podcasts, so at least they're still being surprised. That's very funny. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, all right. Well, that would be just in case you haven't seen. I bet you could do spoiler alerts for almost anything now

because there's just too many old, you know, like we're actually in the backlog of like're there's just too many old you know like we we're actually in the backlog of like actually there's a bunch of old movies so uh and people are just going to go back to watch it now so about with the writer's strike going on oh yeah with the writer's strike but no i'm saying just because kids that are younger like they're now you know you don't think about it you're like because it's easy as're now, you know, you don't think about it. You're like, because it is, as you get older, you just think, you ain't seen Sixth Sense. And someone's like, I wasn't even born.

It was 35 years ago. Yeah. Crazy. Was it? It wasn't 35 years ago. Close to it. 30 probably. No.

What? No way. When did that come out? 90? 2000. Wait, 99, right? Did it? Okay.

So 24 years? 1999. Yeah. Yeah did it okay so 24 years in 1999 yeah yeah so 20 or 24 years that's way different than 35 it's not that different it is because if you say 30 then i'm like oh no it is like you say 30 i mean i was like i graduated high school in 97 so i'm like yeah i'm like is it yeah three guys here graduated high school in the 90s. Yeah. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. You need us to get up to that five. You have a moment in time. You think when-

Born in the 70s, graduated in the 90s. What'd you graduate in? 90? 74? Go ahead. Someone commented that we're like Michael and Phyllis on The Office when he always calls out how old Phyllis is. Yeah.

We're basically the same age. You think when I'm 88 and you're 81, we're still doing this podcast, you'll be making fun of me? I don't know. No. It'll ease into you. I think you might be facing backwards by then. I think we'll be lucky if you sit in the right direction.

You're going to see this podcast. This podcast will be filmed downstairs. Brian can't get up here anymore. That's definitely true. Ryan Joy, I wish Best Buy sponsored this episode so we could have Gooder, Better Help, and Best Buy. That would be fun. That would be fun.

I think I've used all of those words. I've used Gooder. Good, Better, Best. best willer i think that's what he was implying good better best yeah good better best we did talk about best buy because they're out of minnesota yeah uh willard garrett wanted to congratulate erin on his comedy central stand-up feature yeah i saw erin two years ago when he came to auburn and he was great not to imply i know all that much about stand-up, but I can tell he's made huge strides between then and this feature.

I really enjoyed it. Not only that, but a few of my buddies were sending in on TikTok of Aaron's YMCA football bit, who before that clip didn't know Aaron or this podcast. So, Aaron, congratulations, and keep on trucking. All right. How about that? A very nice message thank you wheeler i i did have a uh all the messages to aaron today should have been like y'all should have just texted aaron all of this stuff didn't go yeah you just dm me these nice messages very

nice i had a bunch of dusty comments and in the last minute when he couldn't make it i had to replace them with some nice-air comments. And it took you a while to find them. Went in the archives. Yeah. Isaac Valk. Guy Slay sounds like Nate trying to remember the term manslaughter. Guy Slay.

That's funny. That's funny. Dusty's dad's name is Guy Slay. Yeah, that's funny. Did you know that, Mike? Guy? His name is Guy. We read comments before the show, Mike.

That's funny. I didn't know what was going on. Yeah. It's like, what is this? We have a podcast with you, Mike. Yeah. We're recording. We're recording right now.

It's already out. I thought we were just talking. Yeah. All right. So today is. It's already out. I thought we were just talking. Alright, so today is, the day this comes out, first day of summer. Oh, that's nice. I buzzed my head. Does anybody know why? I don't know what that means. Does anybody know what summer? No, because you buzz your head because it's summer. You get a summer haircut.

Okay. You don't think you ever did that i never paid attention to when the official first day of summer was and then scheduled a haircut i'm just saying just generally in summer i mean i would think you know you don't get hot uh i do i do get my hair's a little too long for my taste right now yeah you don't ever want to just go i need down, buzz it down in the summer. You don't really have. Do you have anything? You have shows? Any big, big stuff?

I got a taping in August that I'll definitely get cleaned up. Any reason at all to get out of bed? I got to get cleaned up before August. A taping? I got a taping, yeah. Eric will get you cleaned up. Yeah, yeah. What is that? Can you say it? I'm doing a don't tell. cleaned up before august uh we're gonna get a taping yeah eric will get you cleaned up yeah uh what is what's that can you say it i'm doing i don't i don't tell oh you know that's cool yeah

so i gotta get lined up yeah uh yeah so you don't want to go short because you would let me tell you i don't think i have to be because that's what I was thinking about it buzzing my head I was like do I have anything and I did it last night for a show and then I Don't I doing I'm presenting at the innate. I'm doing the NASCAR. I'm driving the pace car. So if you're in Nashville Alley NASCAR race Alley NASCAR Cup I'll be John Pace car, but I mean that I figured where it had like it didn't matter and then uh, Allie NASCAR race, uh, Allie NASCAR cup. Uh,

I would join the pace car, but I mean that, I figured you wear a hat like it didn't matter. And then, uh, I am presenting an award at the NHL. Awards. That's cool.

Yeah. So that'll be the only thing that will be. Filled. When's that? Uh, next Monday, I think. Oh,

wow. Close. Wow. I think so. Is that air live? I don't Oh, wow. Close. Wow. I think so. Is that air live? I don't know. Okay. Yeah.

I just met T.J. Oshie, plays for the Washington Capitals. He's in Minneapolis, came to the show. He's awesome. He's a good dude. Does anybody know why June 21st was chosen the first day of summer? Summer solstice, right? That's right. What is the solstice?

Do you know what the summer solstice is? Something to do with the sun. Yeah. I didn't know this. It's when the earth... We have two solstice and two equinox. We have a winter and summer solstice and a spring and fall equinox and they all fall around the 21st and the solstice is when there's the most daylight and the least daylight and then the equinox is the two times a year when this we got 12 hours

of sunlight and 12 hours of nighttime so june 21st is the longest day of the year daylight i mean the most daylight oh it is yeah so summer starts on the most daylight yeah i know it seems like it should be almost in the middle shouldn't it yeah and in europe they call it midsummer but it technically summer starts on the longest day of the year. So suns will set in Nashville at 8.08 p.m. tonight. Longest day of the year. 15.6 hours. Oh, the night this comes out. Yeah, Wednesday.

So tonight, since two days before, it'll be like 8.07? Six? Something like that. What if it's like every minute? Does it do a minute? I always thought it was every minute, but I learned it's not quite that. It accelerates and decelerates depending on time of year so uh it'll start increasing um um about a minute every three days oh i'm starting but then as it gets closer to fall

it starts increasing about three minutes per day yeah this is a good golf day you can go get a nice tea time like five o'clock and sun's up sun's up and you could you know get a golf cart and you could play easily play nine you know you can play 18 three hours like just go hard it's nice so the earth's tilted on its axis the most in the Northern hemisphere on this day. And it kind of wobbles, right? It's kind of wobbling on its axis.

I don't know about that, but, uh, at the North pole, it's sunlight around the clock in Alaska and Fairbanks, Alaska, the amateur baseball team, they do a midnight baseball game every year where they start at 1030 and just play.

And it's just like 24 hours. Yeah. I'm going to Alaska State Fair. I saw that. August 26th. Alaska is the last state for me to go to. Wow. And you'll have done comedy in all 50 states.

So I've not done comedy in all 50 states, but I will have been to all 50 states i don't think i've done comedy in montana uh but that's it so alaska will be the last one then after that i got i need to do a show in montana uh i gotta make sure i haven't done but i've been to montana but we just went and uh I've been to Montana, but we just went up there. And I've done Wyoming. I've done North Dakota, South Dakota, everywhere else. And I want to perform. So I'm going to – I'll figure out how to do some comedy in Montana. Wait, wait.

This isn't our main topic, thank God god because i don't think nobody's really interested but in the southern hemisphere it will be completely uh dark at the south pole yeah and then it starts switching because and and then in the uh winter equinox is the opposite way around it's dark around the clock at the north pole and light around the clock what how what what will the sunlight be for the alaska state august 26th like how long will alaska have uh where is that uh where's what there's state fair uh so like august of this year sunset will be 9 25 p.m wow that's not that it's pretty late no that's i mean like it says down there was let's say sunset today is 11 40 p.m that's yeah and sunrise at 4 20 yeah i'm sorry i thought they don't get 24 hours like light 24 hours all the time no that's what i'm saying it'll start decreasing

just like us yeah and then all right so that so when i go out there it'll be light i'll probably do the show in the light oh yeah yeah see where their state fair is at i forget where it's at uh the alaska state fair is in palmer alaska where is that so right now 11 45 yeah let me see the map of where that is okay uh because i uh i'm very excited about going to uh to alaska we've never been and we're going to try to do some fun so it's near anchorage yeah northeast of anchorage okay so you can yeah i'm gonna i could probably stay in weorage, I guess. We're going to go see.

Yeah, we're going to go. I bet that's a long distance. Yeah. You did a cruise there, right? For one day, but we spent a week there on my honeymoon. Okay. We went kind of all around. Anchorage to Palmer is going to be a 45-minute drive.

Oh, okay. Wait a minute. That's not bad. No. If we wanted to. Yeah. All right. For one show.

All right. All right. We'll move on. Does anybody have any other questions they might have about that? I didn't even. I barely listened. All right. But summertime.

It's one of the biggest days of the year in sweden summertime this day june 21st so it's summer for everybody but they call it midsummer northern hemisphere northern hemisphere yeah southern hemisphere this is winter so australia when i go to australia it's gonna it's gonna be winter time then yeah when do you go uh july yeah yeah something yeah in july that's their december 24th 6th something like that yeah see it's gonna be cold i bet i don't i think i don't think everywhere's i suppose it's like 50s there like you know beautiful i went i went there in july yeah was it cold no no it wasn't too cold not like here yeah yeah you get cold at night but it wasn't especially if you're where you're in brisbane and sydney yeah every bunch of places yeah all right you saw wait you you've been to australia

yeah um do you see a lot of spiders you could smoke on planes when he went could they it was a penal colony could you smoke on planes no yeah do you remember flying on planes do i remember flying on planes smoked no wait yeah wasn't it till like 2000 it was like it was pretty late we looked this up it was later than you think yeah smoking on a plane yeah i remember in the restaurants that was yeah i remember the restaurants like i remember i mean i did a comedy where people smoked. But Smoking on a Plane was later. I don't ever really remember it. I don't guess we would have done it. But I mean, I thought it was like...

1994, Delta was the first U.S. airline to ban smoking on all worldwide flights. Yeah. That laid in the game. I would have never thought of it. Yeah. Yeah, if I had a... I just didn't fly much. I i would have we flew once we didn't fly at all either we had to fly once for my grandfather's funeral and i was five and so we had to go home and uh i bet they could have

i need to ask my parents if they smoked on that, if they're smoking on that plane. I don't like, so I was five. So I don't, and this was, I mean, there had to be smoking. Like it was 1984, something like that. Uh, and then I don't know.

And I don't know if I've ever, I, and I don't think I flew again until like doing comedy. Yeah. Do I move to Chicago? Like, or maybe, you know,

man, you just not be able to flying is just it's crazy how easy flying's gotten i mean it's expensive but just the access to it is just so much easier uh and it's like just everybody people kids flying plane you just would go your whole life and you would never really fly on a plane. Right. Yeah. Alright, so today we're talking about shoes.

Is there a problem over here? It's just such a pivot. We're an hour and 15 minutes late. Now we're talking about shoes. Were you hoping it just was the summer thing? No, no. Okay. I thought it might have a little bit more.

Yeah. What's George going to say? More of its own volition or whatever. Yeah. But it didn't really take off like I'd hoped. Well, you know what, Brian? It's kind of a gross day today. It's raining.

It's overcast. Couldn't really get in the summer mood. I think if Dusty was here, he would have some takes on. He would have gone, oh, yeah. He would have been into it. He wouldn't have believed any of it. I feel like this is coming at me. You don't want Dusty here?, he would have some takes on. He would have gone, oh, yeah. He would have been into it. He wouldn't have believed any of it. I feel like this is coming at me. You don't want Dusty here?

No, no, no. I think it's good Dusty wasn't here. Once he said the earth was going to wobble, Dusty might have walked out. Yeah. All right. Today we're talking about shoes so last week michael jordan we already talked about the flu game his shoe sold uh from flu game for 1.38 million dollars wow uh he gave them to a utah jazz ball boy who was bringing him applesauce before games.

And there's a photo of him giving this kid the shoes. So, so they know it's authentic. And this kid held onto them for 15 years. He sold them himself in 2013 for 104,000. And then now they've gone up to, yeah, 1.38 million, not even the most expensive earlier this to, yeah, 1.38 million.

Not even the most expensive. Earlier this year, Jordan's 1998 Game 2 shoes sold for $2.238 million. Yeah, there they are, the Jordan 13s. I have those. Yeah. You have Jordan's pair? Mm-hmm. No, no.

I wish. He bought them. Yeah. I mean, that's insane. Yeah. That much money. LeBon's shoes don't go for that do they no no they don't oh i forgot yeah this is a big sticking point with you well it's just yeah and i like to argue around mike that lebron's better than michael jordan he doesn't even really sets him off it doesn't matter if i believe it it's just who can construct a better argument

and i feel like i construct a much better one than you ever i would love that i mean is are you gonna base who's better on how much their shoes sell for no no of course not but we can do that though you said you would win that yeah yeah yeah so yeah i mean we can you know and that's so crazy 2.2 million dollars yeah i just just watching the video of him the other day where he put on the Jordan 1s for his last game. Was it the last game of Madison Square Garden? Yeah. And his feet were just bleeding.

Yeah. And he was like, man, these shoes have really advanced. Yeah. He dropped like 50 that game. Yeah, he had a pretty good game. It was his last game. In New York. Oh, yeah, yeah.

I remember that. Yeah. So, shoes have been around for washington right no this was the bulls in 98 yeah i mean i really don't count washington even though he's still average 20 oh yeah did he really did some crazy stuff in washington 50 game for in washington yeah he's the only one i think he's's the only player to score 40 at 40. Oh, okay. Well, LeBron will do it

in a few years, but I'm sure. Yeah, it's so funny because everyone always talks about Jordan's wizard years as if you just write him off like it was just a wash. Yeah, no, he averaged 20.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. He was still good. It was fun. It was nice to get. I actually, I saw him, I saw him play

in Chicago. Oh, yeah, yeah. Not the, it wasn't the last time he went to Chicago. It was the second,, I actually, I saw him, I saw him play in Chicago. Oh yeah. Yeah. Not the, it wasn't the last time he went to Chicago. It was the second, the second to last time he went to Chicago. Oh, right. Uh, cause he came back one more time in, uh, Laura came to Chicago and I lived there and we bought tickets and I, we, we bought standing room only tickets.

Yeah. And, uh, we went, I walked down towards the court at the beginning during warmup. So I got to see him at least somewhat like you could see him close. I just saw him kind of shooting. You're just like, it's really, it's the only guy. I mean, him and Tiger, you just can stare at and just, it's weird. Right. Like I saw him, the record setting game in Atlanta, the attendance record.

So we saw that. That was like his last year in Chicago, and that was insane. We watched him walk out of the hotel. Everybody was just standing around. Bill Winnington just walked out. Nobody said anything. Yeah. But as soon as Jordan came out, it was insane.

I would have said something different. I rode in the elevator with LeBron. For real? Yeah. Did you speak to him? I said, said something. I rode in the elevator with LeBron. For real? Yeah. Did you speak to him? I said, good luck. It was game two. He's playing for the Cavs.

I was in San Francisco for a festival in the hotel I was at they were staying at. Yeah. And we saw him earlier. We saw them all come in. Yeah. And then we saw LeBron. And then you saw Kyle Korver. Kyle Korver is so skinny. And then, so you see them all come in and then we saw LeBron and then you saw like Kyle Korver. Kyle Korver is so skinny.

And then, so you see them all come in and this was the year they won it. They didn't win it this year, but they won it the year before. And so they go through and, and then we're riding, we're like in our head, we're like,

we're going to show. And they had that game that night and we're like dude it'd be crazy if like what if lebron got in the elevator but you're like why would he do you know and then we're riding the elevator down and uh floor door opens lebron just comes in he's got beats on and he just kind of stands there sunglasses doesn't really look anybody and like uh and i mean we're just all it was like me and anthony jeslinick and then this other couple and there's a guy standing with lebron because the other couple like kind of pulled their phone up and he was like yeah they

go and then uh lebron just like stood there and then when the doors open he let all of us walk out first and then uh i was like have a good game yeah i'm 20 years older than him sir have a good game sir how old is he no he's 38 i'm not that i mean yeah i'm you know seven years older than him but he had his headphones on didn't hear you at all well what are you gonna say i don't know what's mr j Mr. James, excuse me. Mr. James. Hi. Play hard out there, sir. I have a big show tonight. Yeah. So shoes,

they think shoes have been around maybe 30,000, 40,000 years. They're basing this off of bones. People's

feet used to be bigger and their toes were thicker. Oh. And they think that shoes led to shorter, thinner toes. The oldest proof they have of shoes was from like 15,000 years ago, cave drawings

where they had shoes on in the paintings. And then the oldest really proof of actual shoes is from here in America. They found in a cave in Oregon from, they think it was about 7,000 to 8, eight thousand years ago some sandals so it makes sense they're all sandals to start out with moccasins sandals stuff like that oh these right here they look like this just a mess. Just ugly, dude. What are those? Looks like some users. Yeah.

Looks like... Yeah. Just walking on rope back then. And that was more comfortable than the ground. I bet it was cold. I bet the cold was even more than... Yeah. I think Native Americans just walk barefoot unless you were in the northern area or in the wintertime when it got cold.

Then there were moccasins. But generally speaking, I just think they were and dust if dusty was here he would say that's how we all should be dusty's moccasins are they're still around yeah yeah it's like a type issue right yeah yeah i think so they're not i mean it's not the same kind, but yeah, that, that's like considered a moccasin. Almost like a Sperry. Yeah. Looks a little bit like a moccasin style shoe. Huh?

Yeah. A Sperry. That's what that's called? That's what I think of them as like that boat shoe. Oh. Yeah. Um, shoes with heels came along with the 10th century. It was originally for men, not women.

More short man. Uh, well, you're kind of right. At first it was for Persian soldiers to avoid falling out of the stirrups when they were shooting their, their bows. Okay. Well, that makes sense. Yeah. But then the wealthy Persians noticed this short ones notice, Hey, it gives you some height. So then they started wearing it.

notice this short ones notice hey it gives you some height so then they started wearing it and then when they went to france and the french royalty saw these guys with taller heels they're like we got to start doing this and then it just took off that's ridiculous height is overrated we don't like it yeah it's overrated coming from a guy who's six nine i'm just saying it's not yeah wait how tall are you? Six-five. Yeah. And a half. I got to throw that in, man. It's overrated. Six-five and a half. You don't like being tall?

It's not that I don't like it. It's just it's overrated. It's not that good. Yeah. A lot of stuff I miss out on. Shoes, especially. I miss a lot of Jordans. Oh, yeah.

Because they don't have them in your size. There's a lot. Like, a store may get one or two shoes in 14, 15s, and that's it. You would think he would make them for that size. You would think. I bet he just looks at the people buying them. But it's weird, though. If you go to StockX, some shoes in my size in a 14, they'll be like $1,000.

And then one size smaller will be like $300. Because it's a specialty made. They'll kill a whole whale to make your sheep. Because it's got its own factory. They got to wheel it in a wheelbarrow. What is that one? 298. Yeah, this is a Jordan 1 Retro High OG

with Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse starring Nick Novicki. Yep. You can get it in a 14 or a 15. Yeah, I'm going to get those for my son though. Okay. I wear a wide, so I struggle, dude. dude wow how do you you got to order yours right

no they have one you're just they have the monarchs the air monarchs technically that's four pair and then he cuts them and then he glues them together and then that his shoes got two tongues yeah yeah he's got two tongues I just figured out the other year

I was like I've never felt like shoes fit me that well and then I tried one on a wide and I was like dude that's a game changer

where'd you have problems on your side side of your feet? No. Yeah. Yeah. I just felt like it was not wide enough. So I'd go bigger than there'd be a lot of space in the front of the foot. And then I got a wide.

I'm like, this is, this is, this is where it feels good, dude. How many pairs of shoes do you guys own? I own a lot. Yeah. i mean jordan's alone i think i got like 11 pair would you consider yourself a sneaker head no no like i got with scott eason yeah scott eason there's some comics that are very into it he's a sneaker head i think scott eason has over a certain, yeah. So somewhere between 11 and 300 you become a sneakerhead. Well, not 11. No.

Yeah. Okay. Is that a lot to you? It's a lot to me. I mean, it's 11 more than I own. You have one pair? Yeah. Shoes?

You're talking about sneakers, right? I'm talking about Jordans. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Well, no. There's shoes. You mean Jordans or shoesans or no i meant shoes i just all i mean like i have shoes like just to wear around to have shoes like this yeah i don't

have anything like this yeah yeah like nothing i would put on a shelf yeah but i don't know are you really the guy that would no i'm not the guy they want they want to be wearing this is lucy lucy got it lucy owns a bunch yeah yeah we a big shelf downstairs where she's got a ton of stuff. Yeah, I was going to say, because I see some of her shoes. Do you wear them? They're sneaker heads when they do it. I have a lot of shoes, Air Maxes I wear on stage, but I wear them. Do people not wear them?

You kind of collect them? Yeah, a lot of people just collect them. Yeah, Giannis Papp pop is a sneaker head oh is he okay now do you worry about creasing them i never do because i like i usually i don't wear my shoes until i get to wherever i'm going so if i got a show i carry it in my backpack yeah you see that all the time yeah yeah so yeah you know i don't wear mine till i go on stage yeah i have shoes that have really only been worn inside a place. I mean, maybe I'll wear them from the bus to the thing,

but I eventually wear them. Like, eventually, if new ones come, then I'll just, like, start wearing them. But, yeah. Your last two or three specials, a lot of people have asked what kind of shoes those are. Oh, yeah. The last pair was Rag and Bone. And then the other ones have always been Nike.

Air Max. Those are Rag and Bone. Yeah, if you Google Nate Bargett's shoe, there's a lot of discussion going on here. On Reddit, people ask him. Yeah. No one's ever done that with me or Brian. No, I mean, it's a shoe shoes has of a canoe, I guess.

You know, one of those, like, you have to wear those things that people wear to walk in snow. You walk in it. Like, yeah. Walking on tennis rackets. Yeah. I read where the average woman owns 19 pair of shoes and the average guy, six pair.

My wife must be average then. Cause she definitely has that many. I don't know. I probably, I have more probably than Laura, but I don't know. Laura might have a lot. She might have nine.

I don't know. 19 feels like a lot. Yeah. To me it is. But I think they have, they have them. They have, they,

it's like fit. You just have so much different reasons to, you have to wear it. Like, you you know the women have to wear like an they have like one shoe i think that goes with an outfit where we could have multiple shoes that go with an outfit yeah whatever jeans you're wearing right yeah yeah um left and right shoes weren't invented till 1817. Oh, wow. Man, the sock thing is got the left and right sock. They put L and R on a lot of socks.

I've never seen that. That's a thing? Yeah, do y'all not? I wear Hanes socks. Oh, well, Hanes is good. Yeah, both of mine say H. Nike socks. Nike socks.

Don't have a left ear. Yeah. Are they different? Are they shaped differently? They're enough that I don't know. I'd imagine they are, but I can't do it knowing. If I walk around and it's not right then i just think about it if you had two l's on you'd be thinking about it all day i wouldn't wear it because i've had it

i have it happen i'm not buying things like i bought those swift stick or socks or the you know like whatever the ones uh people wear uh some don't do it bon uh maybe is it bonos or something their socks might not have the left and right and i like when they don't because if they do then it's like i can't have to know i have to know and i have to when i fold them together i need them to be i need them to say l and r and if i fold it now if i randomly didn't see it some reason if i was like hurrying i could then i don't know but i mean that's only happened maybe once and you yelled at your maid yeah what is this what is this i told you do y'all wear show socks i don't have a maid just so you'll think i do hey show socks show sucks you know uh like i wear show socks after

show socks show socks you know uh like i wear show socks after after the show no just i just have to yeah it's just something just something for you give you a little juice yeah yeah like dress socks yeah yeah like different kind uh i i wouldn't be against it like i i've definitely had some i've only got me some socks that had like initials on it. I like those. Yeah. Yeah, that was nice. It was, you know. But, yeah, I wear a lot of just, I wear those Bono socks, or Bonobos maybe, or something like that. Bonobos? Bonobos maybe.

And they're just black. I try to find really the perfect sock. It's Allbirds has some new socks. Who's that? Allbirds. And theirs are very soft. Yeah, Bonobos there. Bonobos.

Yeah, some nice stuff. Yeah, I wear a lot of short socks. But I mean, not on stage. On stage, I wear it. 18-17 was the first year somebody decided, let's make these shoes. I guess we're done with this sock talk. I was trying to tie it back into work. This is a shoe episode, Nate.

Aaron's just trying to. Hey. I thought this was going to be a great time. Looking at the socks. Moving on. Yeah. He goes, all right, do the sun stuff again. No, socks are next week.

That's a long time before they did left and right shoe. Yeah. That's the only point I was trying to make. Yeah. Trying to say it took a while. I'll set the next couple points out. No. I mean, I guess it's not like you were wearing a right shoe on a left foot.

They were just more straightforward. It might not have been as bad as it would seem yeah i figured that's what it was but none of us have seen shoes that aren't left or right foot so i don't know i'm sure the uh those wooden shoes people buy i think are oh i was about to get to that wooden shoes yeah that's my next thing um or clogs or clogs oh they're uh big and holly didn't get it till he said i was like wooden shoes and then when he goes clogs you go oh those yeah yeah yeah those would i'm wearing those right now yeah clogs are wooden shoes i just think it it's... It is weird that I knew that.

You're like, oh, it's these wooden shoes. There you go. That's one of the earliest jokes I remember. I'd like to go to Holland. Wooden shoe? Well. It's a good joke, isn't it? That is a good joke. It's a good kid joke.

I was going to tell my kids that joke. It's a good dad joke. It is. Most of Holland's below sea level, so their area is really marshy. So they had to have a shoe that wouldn't get wet or get ruined. So they invented wooden shoes. Okay. And they're still popular today.

Are they? Yeah. According to this. I've seen them. You've seen people wearing wooden shoes? No, but they make them. I've seen them being made. I've seen them on like elves.

Yeah. I think there's some people. but they make them I've seen them being made I've seen them on like elves yeah I think yeah I think there's I think people that probably work on farms or like stuff like that I bet they do wow

that just seems like because it's like you won't sink you probably got a gel insole in there you have to you probably got a nice I don't know

I think people are just used to it like you know some of those dudes are yeah just calloused bottom of their feet and they're just

those are just real men yeah I would almost be like you put some tennis shoes on then just wear them like make them that big so they fit on your tennis shoes yeah slip them in

okay yeah that makes sense I respect that yeah according to the National Shoe Retailers Association the average male shoe size

anybody want to guess 15 9 I bet it's 15 you're average well you just said you have a hard time finding your shoe okay you're right i'm above average yeah you're above average i would say uh yeah nine nine and a half ten and a half oh really wow that's crazy Oh good for them That feels big Yeah The biggest shoe ever Was worn by a guy We just talked about him A few episodes ago

Anybody wrong? Oh the The guy I made fun of Alton What's his name? Robert Wadlow The world's tallest man Yeah

And what size were those? Size 37AA Wow Yeah Wait how tall was he? 8'11". 6'4". 8'11".

Yeah, yeah. Big guy. He played basketball. Did he? No, he's the least athletic looking person you've ever seen in your life. Yeah, that's the problem. I mean, he lived for like an hour. It's tough.

It's hard to be that tall. I bet when you and Mike were kids, shoes with lights on and Velcro shoes were popular. Lights? No. Like lights on the, is that? You just make it like, how old are you? I'm 42. Yeah.

No, they didn't have. No. How young do you think we are? Aaron probably had lights. I never had them, but man, I was jealous of the kids that did. Okay. So I'm too off on that. Yeah.

Yeah, we didn't have lights. I mean, I grew up in the 90s it says in 1992 the led shoe craze began i don't remember that i must have missed it 1992 yeah wow i was in alabama probably took a few years for that craze to kick in yeah yeah but i would say by the time i was eight or nine, that's when kids started rolling up. Aaron was down there in his Buffalo Bill Super Bowl shirt. Ross Perot for President. It was, yeah, this is the craze was in the 90s. The craze.

I don't think. You probably had to have money. You had money in mind. I didn't have any money. All right, what about this then? The Reebok pump. Oh, yeah. I remember that.

Yeah, no, that was big. That was Shaq. Now you're speaking their language. I love the Reebok pump. That was awesome. In February 1991, Dee Brown inflated his Reebok pumps in front of a national audience before winning the slam dunk. Didn't Shaq have it, though, too? Yes.

How much are they worth now? The original? Was it Nike? No, Reebok. Reebok. Reebok pump. Remember when they had the little canister you could use then instead of using a pump? See, I know these primarily from Robin Hood robin hood men in tights oh yeah remember

dave chappelle had these and he stopped the fight to pump them up it's the funniest thing i've ever seen in my life yeah i i never had a pair what did you did you pump them up yeah would you actually play basketball oh i never had it i never had a pair oh okay i would i think you had a pair i would dunk yeah they got tight enough. Wait, have any of y'all dunked before? I dunked a tennis ball. A nurse ball. I count. On a 10-foot goal.

Yeah. I can touch backboard. You've heard? Yeah. The highest I ever got was maybe halfway up the net. I was never even close. So that counts as a. I count yours.

Yeah. Pretty good. I was in high school. I was probably... And I was like 5'9", 5'10". I could always jump. I'd have to run the length of the court. But I ran and didn't go up.

You probably could have dunked if you... You were tired by the time you got there. You did the Jordan run. You could have started half court. It seems so far I would take a I would get in a cab and drive me to the

to the and I would start thinking about it in the cab then I'd get out running from the parking lot into the

and if I got enough going I would did you jump off one foot or two one I don't okay I was about to say because if you ran that far,

you jumped off two. And then I just stopped. And then they go, what does it take? It takes a break. I don't realize it. And they're going, well, dude, I mean, you're stopping with two feet. You lost all your momentum. I go, what?

No, I would have to be running. And so I was like, and then I could go. I wasn't a good one foot jumper. I was two feet. Can you dunk now? I can. I still can. It hurts.

What part of it hurts? Could you dunk? Like your knees? Yeah. Yeah. Super easy. Your ego, maybe. What, could you dunk?

Were you able to dunk like just at, like, whenever you wanted to and you could dunk? In the game? Yeah. No, I mean, that's hard. I mean, but, yeah, like, if I'm on a break, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, you know, you see, like, obviously, yeah, like, you, it was like, it'd be easier than, like, you could dunk, you're not worried about. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because I'm sure there's a spot where you're like, you're like, if it's, you know, if you're in a game, you're like, I need to probably lay it up. Yeah, it's funny you said that because there's times I think back to games where when I laid it up, I was like, I should have dunked that. I wish I would have dunked. And I still remember this one game I should have dunked, and I just laid it up. Did you miss the layup? No, I made the layup.

Then why should you have dunked? Because that would have been more forceful. It would have set the tone. Yeah. It would have just let- You would have sent a message. If anybody wanted to jump. Oh, no.

This was in Merrillville, Tennessee. 1994. Go ahead. Hasn't let it go yet. Go ahead, Mike. Get it out. You got to let these people know. Tell Merrillville High School they should-

Merrillville, y'all lucky. Y'all got lucky. Y'all really did. I should have dunked on it. I should have dunked you. Yeah, it was a college. Y'all got lucky. Y'all really did. I should have dunked on you. I should have dunked you. Yeah, it was college. Yeah, Maryville. At Fisk?

Yeah, when I was at Fisk. Yeah. You went to Vol State too. I went to Vol State first. You played there? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was.

We would have just missed each other at Vol State. Yeah. Well, I was 90. I went there in 98. So you probably went there in 2000? 2000. Y'all took the same classes? Did you take remedial classes?

Absolutely. All right. Maybe. First thing I signed up for. Yeah. Did you graduate from Fisk? I did not. All right.

I finished playing ball. Yeah. I've had enough. I have a similar story. Both guys, two guys dunking. Yeah. Just dunking, man. Just two dudes dunking. Yeah, just out dunking, man. Just two dudes dunking.

Running the length of the court. Stopping and jumping. Just imagine somebody running full speed with a tennis ball and then stopping. They're like, dude, why don't you just...

Yeah, yeah. Who's the porter running the... In 1917, advertising executive coined the word sneaker. Came up with the idea

because the rubber sole made no sound so you could sneak up on people we would still say we say tennis shoes i mean i'd say sneaker now tennis shoes too because uh yeah but i would if i'm just saying hey we grab me some tennis shoes like that's what i would say but i've started saying sneakers just because some people say it and it was like i guess you know sneakers becoming a thing now so you're like you sneaker mean something yeah it used to be like an up north thing right yeah yeah we would say tennis shoes yeah i looked at a map almost the whole u.s still calls it tennis shoes except the northeast oh yeah yeah why would we call it tennis shoes because that was the the famous like shoe uh like tennis tennis

players used to put shoes the most right back in the day and then anything athletic we just called it that yeah because the players used to the tennis players used to be the ones that used to sell sneakers oh really yeah that's why they were if you watch the jordan documentary they were saying that um they were asking where you are the jordan documentary they were saying that um they were asking where you are you trying to make him like a tennis player oh yeah i guess it's just because people would wear the shoes playing tennis there's no there's no real real reason for it good it sounds better sounds better to me. My story? I feel weird saying it.

Yeah, I think Mike just said it. My story sounds better. Yeah. We'll go with that. It seems like we got the truth. Yeah. This is the bottom of it. The first sneakers were Keds,

invented in 1917 by Adidas. Adidas was around then. Wow. What were they making? Probably like guns or something like that. They were a German corporation. probably like guns or something like that's like all these they were they were they were a German

corporation I feel like there's like every it's a German man Adidas that's how they say it over there Adidas

yeah I liked it his name is Adidasler and Jesse Owen won four gold medals at 1936 Olympics wearing Adidas wow

and then 1923 Converse hired a basketball player named chuck taylor he had the first kind uh he was the first uh player to have a shoe named after him and chuck taylor's is still around today those shoes are ironic because how can you play ball in those they have no support yeah i've wore them they're not it's even to walk around they're not it hurts your back yeah people wear them and i'm like i don't like it i know it's a style yeah but like to really walk around in it i mean they used to play full games in these yeah if you watch the sandlot you ever see the sandlot remember at the end that's a secret weapon as benny the jet pulls out a pair of these yeah and how are

you gonna run it looks like the most uncomfortable shoes of all time converse looks like they don't do left and right either like they're still like we don't do it just put whatever you want to put on and then in 85 the air jordan oness were released. Boom. And that changed everything. In my opinion, still the best looking shoe. The Jordan 1? When I think of a nice basketball sneaker, this is what I think of. So the 11 is the most popular because I think that's the most versatile one. Okay. Let's look at the 11s.

See, to me, these look a little... I don't like the way these look. I like these. Those are the most versatile one okay let's look at the 11s these look see to me these look a little uh i don't like the way i like those are the most popular ones those are more popular than the ones these are yeah the 11s are the most specifically the uh the uh the red black and white ones okay those are the most popular now are they more comfortable than the ones probably i mean look those are the ones i had on when i broke my toe last week so i mean they have no giving okay okay so they're not good shoes not to play ball and i okay but so these weren't meant to play basketball in yeah they were but not okay because i feel like if you if you go play a basketball game, pickup game somewhere, are people wearing these types of shoes? Yeah.

You would wear Jordan 11s and play basketball? I would. I mean, for me to wear Jordan 11, they have to be years worn down. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Yeah. Because if these are shoes, people don't want to crease.

Crease? Mess up? You know, you're just going to go play basketball at the Y? What would you shoot? Would y'all get shoes in college when you play college basketball? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So you just get whatever you want?

Uh-huh. Like whoever they sponsored by. Yeah. What brand was it? Nike? Nike. Oh, there you go. So would you get Jordans?

No. No. No. I think the closest we had was, I think we got Jason Kidds. So everybody had to wear the same shoe? Mm-hmm. That's quite a downgrade. We didn't have Jordans.

We had Jason Kidds. It wasn't that brand. Kyle Corvers. It was another style. These are some of the ugliest shoes I've ever seen in my life. But those were like a famous team shoe. Like a lot of teams wore those. Okay.

Because they came in so many colors okay they're easily customizable okay it makes sense yeah i like crazy shoes yeah me too he's like do your next special in some jason kids i mean i'm just too now i'm too old but it's i like you would have worn these back in the day i've always for some reason liked kind of ridiculous looking shoes i just always think they're fun i don't think those look bad they don't these look like they're like the jetsons are gonna wear them yeah i mean they look absurd which is kind of fun i just i don't know i just remember maybe this is nostalgia but it's just like i remember those being so cool the jason

kids i didn't even know he had shoes he had a couple those aren't the ones we had though we had the the kind that were like real thin i can't even remember some of these look at these would you wear these if this is like a salvador dali painting just melted and And anyway, sorry, I got distracted. Go ahead, Brian. Uh, there's a guy named Jordan Geller. Who's a sneaker collector.

He opened a zoo shoe museum, the world's first sneaker museum. He has the Guinness world record for having the largest sneaker collection in the world at 2,388 pair. Wow. I wonder how much is the word? Does it say, uh, I don't know,

but he altogether, I don't know. He has some unworn pair of Nike Moon shoes that sold for $437,000. Because some shoes. They're worn pair? You said they're unworn? Unworn. Those are the ones. Like they won, so they wore on the Moon?

No, I think it was just one of Nike's earliest brands. Marty McFly's. Called the moon shoe. Yeah, the Back to the Future shoes. Yeah. I wanted those. I've seen those. I've never, like, I've seen them somewhere.

Like at a place, yeah, those are like $25,000. That's insane. Yeah. Those light up. Yeah. Those do light up. The Marty McFly's. I was like, dude, did they moon landing? They just Nike sponsored it? They should have. Yeah. Those do light up. The Marty McFlyers. I was like, dude, did they moon landing?

They just Nike sponsored it? They should have. Yeah. Well, you know, conspiracy theorists say that the tracks on the moon don't fit with Neil Armstrong's, the tread on his space suit. And it said that he actually left his shoes on the moon, his boots, because they brought back samples of dirt and i don't know what else and they had the weight had to be exactly right so they had to leave stuff on the moon and he left his boots he flew back barefoot no he had on a space suit and then he put boots over the space suit well i just would they still be up there yeah as far as i know

Will they still be up there? Yeah, as far as I know. Wow. Y'all believe the moon landing? Y'all believe it? Yeah. We kind of dance around it on this podcast. Yeah. I mean, we do a lot of bits.

I mean, I do, but. Yeah. The people sitting in that chair usually don't. I do, too. Your seat is. You might just be feeling something right now. It felt like it. Yeah.

I was like, I don't know. You sat down. You're like, what just happened? You kind of saw the world as it is. I was like, I don't know. You sat down, you're like, what just happened? You kind of saw the world as it is. I'm like, oh, this is weird. My eyes are open. Aaron, why don't you tell us a little bit about Babbel? Oh, I was weak.

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Yeah. We're True Crime Obsessed Podcast. Search for us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. What would the equivalent be in American culture? That's a good question. Fling a trash can lid at him like a frisbee i don't know flipping the bird oh okay i don't know i feel like that's been so i'm so desensitized to that now right maybe there is no equivalent you know well it's like a tradition

like you know to be like we consider that to be well i don't think here we consider anything to be anything you know what i mean yeah do we i don't know you're right no we don't like yeah there's nothing here that's like passed down of you know well we believe that the front door mat is where the spirits live like no one's saying that when they're going to your house. You're like, wipe your shoes off. Yeah, I think in many countries you have to take your shoes off before you enter. That's a baseball. He's winding up. Bush is looking at him.

He pops up a little bit of a smirk. He's like, hey, come on. He didn't even flinch on that second one. He's like, hey, this guy doesn't have any aim. I was so one. Yeah. It was like, hey, this guy doesn't have any aim. Yeah. Look at that one. That was so smooth. Yeah.

Yeah. He said, ooh. Yeah, you got to throw at the body. Look, in the second one, he looks like that. People. Mr. First Pinch of a Hair. He throws the first one. Then he leans down and takes off his other shoe.

He didn't do anything. Why don't you take them both off at once? Well, he didn't think he was going to have to get to the second shoe. He was cocky. He was cocky. Because yeah, he sits there and he goes, I'm going to throw my shoe at him. He might not have told anybody he's going to do this, but he did talk to someone for years. I'm going to throw my shoe at him. He goes, you're going to take both off. He goes, you're going to hit him, dude. Like no one's expecting to ever have a shoe thrown at him. He probably was all baseball player. I don't see how you look.

And then he did it, and he goes, I wound up too much. So he tipped his hat a little too much. He did. And that's what made him dodge it. And then the second one was actually probably closer. And if he had thrown the second one first, I think you would have hit him. That's true, because look at the second one. Barely goes over Bush's shoulder.

Yeah, strike. Yeah, because look at the second one. Barely goes over Bush's shoulder. Yeah, the second one is the one... The second one is, like, that's the... That's the one... If he'd have thrown like that, because he just, like, kind of released it a little bit quicker. First one is too much of a wind-up. Yeah, the first one had more passion. I think that's what it was.

He was overzealous. Yeah. I mean, the first one would have hurt, though. Yeah, they would have. That could have took his head off. Second one, you would have been like. I love the other guy. I guess the president just kind of tries to flick it on the second one. Look, he didn't even move. Yeah.

He tried to block it. He tried to catch it. I got you, dude. Which is like. And that was. George Bush is probably like, don't touch it. If you touch it, I'm going to get hit. Yeah.

Like, you know, when someone tries to help. And it was such a fake attempt. He wasn't even really trying. If you touch it, I'm going to get hit. Yeah. Like, you know, when someone tries to help. And it was such a fake attempt. It wasn't even really trying. I mean, no one seemed to care that this guy threw a shoe. And then you got to go. I mean, when do you got to go up there and. Oh, then you got to finish. You got to go get the shoes.

Yeah. After all that. After all that, you got to. You got to walk over there barefoot they go i'm leaving i'm living well someone grabbed my shoes though i need my shoes and they go you can't have your shoes he goes those are my shirts it's evidence yeah it's that's what they would say it's evidence i guess you gotta know you're getting rid of these shoes maybe he was a baseball player through shoes though you have a pair of shoes that you'd be like,

okay, I'm fine just walking away from these shoes. And it's probably 50 bucks. It's like throwing 50 bucks at the president's head. You got to just launch shoes at him. That had to be really premeditated because he had to put on some shoes that he didn't like. I bet he borrowed shoes. He goes, hey, can I borrow some shoes today?

I can't say that. He goes, I'm going to like a nice event. Why not? And the buddy's like, yeah, yeah, of course. He's like, but your shoes are nice though. He goes, I know, but let me use yours. He goes, oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, what?

It's my favorite shoes, but yeah. Yeah, what are you going to do? I mean, I've never, who on earth would borrow shoes and then never be able to give them back? I don't even know. You'd have to throw them in a lake. And then he goes, are at the president of united states of america he goes this i never saw that coming uh these guys my age that's the guy who threw the shoes it seems to be yeah he's my age so i could have been he could have been in

that situation yeah the shoes were later destroyed by US and Iraqi security forces. They had to destroy them? Yeah. They smell that bad? Wow. Like, I got to make sure. There were calls throughout the Middle East to place the shoes in an Iraqi museum. They call it a shoeing.

Yeah. But why would they destroy the shoes? I bet there's no way they destroyed the shoes. Someone has those shoes. Yeah. He was sentenced to three years in prison, ended up only serving one year. They were released early for good behavior after spending nine months in jail. Well, he didn't have any shoes.

He couldn't do anything. That's crazy. So shoe tossing or shoe feeding is when you throw a pair of lace shoes over a wire, telephone line, things like that. It's often associated with drug deals or gangs.

Is that right, Mike? Yeah. but 2015 research by Chicago Tribune says that they can't find any proof that that's what it is it's just like graffiti in Victoria, England you throw

shoes at someone after they get married it's like a thing of good luck it's like us throwing birdseed oh yeah shoes launch a shoe at someone's head you thought birdseeds yeah you know when you walk down and everybody throws rice i thought yeah maybe it is rice oh back in my day it was bird. Yeah. I think we did rice, but I don't know. Yeah. Bird seed. Yeah. Well, you got married later than all of us.

I know, but I'm talking about all my friends who got married 30 years before I did. Oh, yeah. Maybe it was bird seed. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I didn't get it. It was during the depression that couldn't get rid of the rice.

Nobody's ever heard of that? Huh? Going bird seed? No, I don't know. Maybe. I think I assumed you meant rice when he said it. Yeah. I don't think I've ever asked what it was.

I just took a handful and threw it. Now you like people blow bubbles. Bubbles. Bubbles. My dad's side of the family does tennis balls. Well, they have. That's where the money comes from. Y'all throw tennis balls at each other? Yeah.

Yeah. They won't get a thing of tennis balls. No. You got to bring your own tennis ball. I think somebody shows up with a couple pallets. I don't remember

they said your wedding. I wish we would have done it at my wedding, but we didn't. Yeah. We had some pretty good arms at your wedding. Y'all had sparklers.

Oh, yeah. I would have got lit up at my wedding. Yeah. That would have been very easy. Yeah. Your honeymoon

on a black eye. I would have took my wife's ball and used hers. Yeah. It would have been brutal. You're going on your honeymoon in a black eye. I would have took my wife's ball and used hers. Yeah. It would have been a lot of husbands taking their wife's ball. That's what it is. Yeah. You'd have to give it.

You'd want the kids to get it. I mean, kids would definitely be. And the kids are going to be relentless. Uh-huh. Yeah. Well, that's the point of it. Yeah. Y'all throw them that hard at, you know.

Oh, yeah. I remember my uncle's wedding just going after him, what if a divorce happened because she is why didn't know like it's like just a woman marrying into this family and she's like they have they seem cool well wait till they have they launched tennis balls at you yet and she's like what have you not got to the part? The Webbers. It is a part. Tennis ball. If you not hit the part of it. I mean, can you imagine?

First date. They go, you have no idea. Let's make it Lucy. Yeah, Lucy's getting married. First date. Someone, she goes, I don't know. I had a dream last night, but I think I'm going to get hit by 70 tennis balls being with you. And you'd be like, where would that happen?

Nowhere. Nowhere. It would never. If you would have told someone in your family, you will be hit by tennis balls. I don't. And you go, we're not going to tell you when or why. The last place they think it's going to happen is the day they're walking

to their car. So, so is it a part of the ceremony or just randomly you can just throw just anytime it's at the same time that you would throw rice it's not just yeah just randomly surprise i'm a whole man that's all these other countries have all these things they do this is what we have uh these countries you you're like, the bottom of your feet is considered insulting. You're like, we're launching tennis balls

at the person that's dressed up the most. We're celebrating that person. And we just launched. We're happy for them. Yeah, we're happy for them. I think that's awesome. I wish I'd known that

at your wedding. I know. I almost, I thought about like, but you know, when you get married, it's like the bride's wedding. It's not the husband's wedding.

Yeah. Another reason you shouldn't be throwing tennis balls. Right. For your uncle's wedding. It's about her. Yeah, that's a good point. But our family, we like to throw these tennis balls and they go. Like I've never heard of this.

That guy's dad is like, I don't. I think I've done it at two or three weddings now. I just assumed wrongfully that we would do it at my wedding. I wish we did. Wait, so this is just a family thing? It's just my dad's family. I've never seen it anywhere else. I want to know where it started.

Have you ever asked? No. I need to follow up on that. I'd imagine in a castle. I just want to know why. Before the Webbers got started in a big castle in England, I'm playing on grass. Is that where? Maybe.

It's just made it down to Alabama. So a lot of runners say that it's better for your feet if you ran barefoot because shoes cause problems. And they did some research and you will avoid heel striking if you don't run with shoes on. you'll run on the balls of your feet like you're supposed to or if you wear runner shoes your your heels will more likely get hurt there's a guy wrote a book called born to run and he uh it's pretty soon he visited a mexican tribe that all run 100 miles at a time and none of them get hurt. And they do wear shoes, but they're so uncushioned

that they cause injuries from not happening. And they have thin sandals. And they think our shoes are too cushioned and therefore causing problems. I know, like, the fastest people in our neighborhood always took their shoes off when they were getting ready to run. Every time. Yeah.

That's how you, if you saw somebody, you were about to race somebody, and they started taking their shoes off when they were getting ready to run. Every time. Yeah. That's how you, if you saw somebody, you about to race somebody and they started taking their shoes off. Yeah. Just don't worry about it. You're not going to win. Yeah. That is crazy. That is a, that's a, a flex as they say that.

Yeah. Just being. Is it like taking your shirt off before a fight? Yep. Okay. I don't do that either. Yep. That's a jackal just wait a second let me go get my jacket

uh saw it on the future of shoes so there's a new uh shoes out called the moonwalkers that is kind of like oh here they are um what and you basically they you can walk uh much faster because it's kind of like this the thing at the airport yeah i think well they kind of do that for you walking all the time there's video oh yeah i did see those um how much faster do you go you can go, I thought it was on there. But I think you can go like... 250% faster, they say. Oh, this is crazy. Man, you're just flying. Yeah.

These look awesome. They look stupid, but like... Yeah. Yeah, but it's like, how do you go like yeah you feel like i mean he just oh this is the guy the video the guy trying them out to see if they actually work they seem to work great yeah except on cobblestone that's an old version there those are the prototypes yeah let me get the final version here most of the prototypes yeah let me get the final version here so it's not as fast as if you're speed walking but he's just walking it looks like a normal pace

and he's kind of flying yeah down the pavement there yeah those are fun yeah did you see me on one of those moving things at the airport? Where are those? I mean, just wearing those on a solid ground. I think those would be probably fun, I guess. Like you would just, it's like skating. You know, eventually you're just going to skate. So just wearing, I'm wearing skates. Yeah. That's all.

But yeah, like if you were on those. It'd be bad. It'd be, you know, you'd be, no one would know you're on something but you would have a helmet on but like they look like regular and people be like is that guy just walking with a helmet on walking strange yeah in his regular shoes yeah yeah it seems kind of like a novelty yeah try it one time it's fun that's how those heelys are i got a pair of heelys a while back like when you were a kid no like a few months ago oh the one you made a video of yeah yeah i got i did them to make a video and i thought maybe i'll just start wearing these yeah and uh i was not

good at it it's not intuitive it takes work which is weird because it seems like it'll be easy just to you see the commercial those kids are just like gliding yeah and it's very difficult huh it's very difficult for me i i bet these are similar i bet these take a little getting used to yeah yeah probably like a hoverboard yeah we're we're good. Yeah. Shoes. Shoes, that was fun. All right. Yeah, I'll be where you guys will be at. You'll be where we'll be at? I'll be.

No, I won't be where you're at. I'm home. So I got a good little playing in the Lake Tahoe tournament, the ACC championship, I think it's called. But I'm doing that in July. That's the one that's on TV. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. So I'll be on that in July. And then, yeah, I'm going to do the NASCAR race. Like, no shows, which is very, it's like it's good and i want to get some new material so i need to live a life and uh so and then we go to australia at the end of july awesome and then uh alaska state fair in august and then september will be back to grinding it out uh but loving it not grinding it out it's the best but back on doing

shows every week and all that so yeah i've got a nice little summer yeah i'm off too this week i took some time off to train for my first pitch so yeah it's been about 16 18 hours a day i'm off uh i'll be in uh bristol tennessee at blue ridge comedy club coming up not this weekend but coming up got some corporates got some opening for people i'm working and working you know that sounds well my show got rescheduled to later on tomorrow so next week i'll be in ontario at the uh improv nice california yeah your other show you just it got moved to the to the, it was Huckabee doing that, but it got moved to later on in the year. And July 11th, you're at the Opry. Yep.

Your Opry debut. Opry debut. Yeah. We can talk about that. That's awesome. Yeah, a lot of people. Jelly Roll had commented that he was going, he was trying to come. Oh, yeah.

And then so many people hit me up and was like hey man uh i didn't know you know jelly roll i'm gonna have to come check your show out yeah yeah jelly roll local dude yeah man very fun yeah yeah exciting that guy like uh just from here it's awesome yeah have fun at the opera yeah if i don't see you that's awesome big time man thank you appreciate uh yeah well thanks for popping in mike thanks for having uh and then uh well there you go dusty's baby should be here should be here yeah it's not here it should be here uh baby slay that's not bad that's not bad yeah baby slay baby yeah and call and yeah and then just baby baby's not bad yeah baby slay. Baby. I liked it. Yeah. And call and yeah. And then just baby. Baby's not bad. Yeah. Baby slay.

You don't see that a lot anymore. You don't see it. No. All right. That's it. We'll see you next week. Have a great summer day. Summer solstice.

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