The Nateland Podcast - 169: #169 Sports Movies

Episode Date: October 11, 2023

This week, Nate is in NYC living his best life so Brian, Aaron, and Dusty hold down the fort while talking about sports movies. The guys share their favorite sports movies, look at historical inaccuracies in sports movies, and debate why comedic movies aren't taken as seriously as dramatic movies.

Today's episode of the Nate Land podcast is brought to you by Delete Me, Viori, Rocket Money, and BetterHelp. Hello folks and hey bear. I'm Brian Bates with with me always is Dusty Slay, Aaron Weber, and Nate was fired for making a joke about Aaron being fired, for making a joke about Dusty being fired. Yeah, we've been really firing a lot of people. Me and Aaron had to come back because Nate had been fired. Yeah. I don't know if the four of us will ever do a podcast together again i feel like i haven't seen nate in months i wish him well and dusty in a while yeah yeah i like this is like whose line is it anyway like it's just a rotating four yeah i hope we could all be in the same room together again but after what nate said about

your mom i don't know if we ever will. That's true. I didn't, yeah, I wasn't ready for that. Yeah, that was shocking. That was a lot. I don't know if you watched last week's podcast. No, I never watched. I heard it was okay.

Yeah, it was okay. That mom comment came out of nowhere, but besides that, it was okay. It is tough to watch a podcast you're on. I can watch my own stand-up but i cannot watch me on a podcast i can't watch anything of me i can't watch i film my sets and then that night i go back oh it's tough to do it that i thought i did okay and then you watch it like i like to film my set and then watch it about six months later i found an old video of me i was i was uh my old computer i had this video file in a random folder called like omg.mp4 or whatever it's like what is this

and open up and it's an old video i took of myself when i was like 11 and i did it for comedic purposes but it's a video of me eating yogurt while just crying oh there's an old website called crying while eating.com that i thought was hilarious where it's just videos of people eating and crying and me being 11 or 12 years old i was like i want to get on this website so i filmed a video of myself eating like yo plate yogurt. Like real tears? Well, no, I mean, I'm acting. You should do it again and go still crying.

You know, like show the 11 year old now and you're like still crying after all these years. But I'm going to do something with that video at some point. It's too funny to not just me and bowl cut eating yogurt maybe a video of like it's you eating the yogurt and then cut to you now yelling at little you i'll do something with it that's amazing at 11 there are already websites you you and i grew up in different worlds yeah i grew up in this century yeah when you were 11 you were seeing the train. What do you mean?

Just a train coming in? You were like, dang, where did they get the train from? You had a sundial at your house. I mean, closer than what you were doing. I mean, you had Idiot Boy. Yeah. I wish I could find Idiot Boy. That was a great video.

I don't know where it's at, but it was a great sketch that I did. Have you heard about idiot boy? No. Well, idiot boy was a sketch I did about a guy that was getting picked on. I don't know that I could even describe the whole pod, the whole thing, because you know, it's got some stuff in there, but he goes to visit these guys to get some protection. And instead, they sell him some other things. And he does those things. And then he feels good. He's like, oh, I don't need protection because I feel good now. And then he leaves and gets picked on again.

There's drugs. You said it now. Okay. Okay. Well, Nate, I don't know where Nate is now, but he was in New York this weekend doing Radio City. It looked incredible. He did Jimmy Fallon Monday night, and he's probably doing Fallon right now as we speak. That's insane.

All right. Back at it. Yeah. Strikes over. Well, the actors still can't go on to promote movies or TV shows. Oh, really? I thought it was all done. Just the writer's part. Just the writer's part.

So if an actor goes on, they have to promote a book or something not movie related. So I'm hoping this is my chance to get on there. Nate's inability to act finally working in his favor. Huh? That's right. So you and I can't do that because, you know, we're actors on Sprung. That's right. We might actually be in SAG, aren't we?

I'm in SAG. I don't, I'm surprised that, but I guess Nate's not promoting. What are you in SAG for? Because I did the Netflix, the standouts. Oh, okay. I mean, I don't know if I'm still in or not. Like, I don't do anything with it. Yeah.

Well, Nate probably is in SAG, but he's not promoting the movie. He's just doing standup. Yeah. So, anyway. Okay. Well, good for him. Yeah. Where were you this weekend?

I was in Syracuse. That sounded very insincere it did sound this is i've had look i just haven't seen nate in a while yeah you know yeah you've kind of grown to not like him apparently i've turned against him yeah yeah yeah that'll happen if you don't see somebody for a while you can your heart they say absence makes the heart grow fonder but also you could start to hate a person. Also the exact opposite. All things are possible. Right.

But I was in Syracuse, New York, and I had a great time, but my prediction was true. Not a lot of people came. I keep whittling it down. I like to tell the audience that, hey, each year I come here and the audience gets smaller every year. And I feel like we're really refining the audience. We're really finding who the true fans are. And I said, you know, a lot of comics will tell the audience to, you know, tell a friend. Next time you come, tell a friend.

I said, for you guys, I want you to not invite two people at your table right now next year. And let's see how small we can get this. Yeah. But it was great. I had a lot of fun. The people that do come are into it. Yeah. And we have a great time.

Yeah. And it was hot shows. I'll go back next year. I hope no one comes. I love the club. If that's what they're looking for, they could have booked me a long time ago. I can do that anywhere in the country. Well, the club wants people to come.

I can tell you that. Oh, okay. They do like me a lot, but I bet they would like to make a little money for themselves. But could I email them and say, look, I know I don't draw many people, but neither did Dusty, so why not just book me? Well, they would be like, he did pretty good. Oh, they would? I think. Okay.

I don't know. I mean, give it a try. Yeah. Just to reach out to them and go, listen, I'm, you know, I don't have a, I don't sell a lot of tickets and I'm looking to find a place that people are not used to selling a lot of tickets. Yeah. Now you're the place. Yeah. I don't know how other people do, but, uh, I go there every year and there are people that come back to see me every time I'm there. But for some reason, I'm not reaching the greater Syracuse area. Last year, I went, Syracuse football team was undefeated and they had a home game and it was homecoming. And the manager was like, he was like, ah, it's just a tough weekend.

You know, this year, not undefeated and it's a way game it's just a tough weekend. This year, not undefeated, and it's a way game. That's a tough year. Yeah, it's like people are bummed. The team lost, and they don't even want to leave the place. Global warming. They start playing and stuff. It's just like, okay. But at least you've graduated to college football.

Mine's always like, ah, high school football. Big of this town. I've had a club go. The economy's just not. okay yeah and i you know but nate was in rochester on friday and rochester is pretty close to syracuse okay a lot of people on saturday came to my show said they saw nate on friday i think he he sucked up a lot of my fans there. That's what I think. Okay. Yeah. I think they were like, well, we could go see Nate or we could go see Dusty. And I think,

you know, ultimately they made the wrong choice, but what do you do? What are you going to do? I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Friday with Angela Johnson at the Hard Rock Casino. Nice. All right. How was that? It was great. Was at the Hard Rock Casino. Nice. All right. How was that? It was great. Was it a Hard Rock-cino?

Is that what they called it? If they did, I missed that. Okay. That's what they used to call it in Cleveland. Really? Hard Rock-cino. Why would they call it that? It's called the Hard Rock Casino, right?

I know, but I think that it's trendy to mash the words. Consolidate the words? Yeah. If they did, I called it wrong because I just called it the Hard Rock Casino. But she sold it out and it was a great show. And then Saturday I was in Knoxville, Tennessee at the Bijou Theater where you recorded your special. Yes. With Henry Cho.

And that was a great show as well. It was a really hot crowd and I had a good time. Had something on my flight. Never happened before. Bijou is great. Bijou is great. We were landing in, I can't remember if this is my connecting flight. I think this was the two Tulsa.

We were landing in Tulsa. Yeah. I have a window seat looking out the window. We're almost touching down. Yeah. And then the plane takes back off. Oh boy. And I'm plane takes back off. Oh, boy. And I'm like, what's going on?

I'm like, are we about to have a midair collision? Are we avoiding something? Did we land in the wrong city? What's going on? And it starts circling around the city. People around me are freaking out a little bit. What is happening here? And we circle around the city about 10 minutes and then we finally start coming in and then the flight attendant said

probably noticed what happened blah blah we were coming in too heavy so we had to circle around the city to burn off some fuel before we could land now in my mind we avoided near death yeah i get off the plane angela's sitting in a seat a little bit better than mine up front, if you know what I mean. Different part of the plane. Different part of the plane. I get off. I'm like, man, that was crazy, right? She had no idea anything had ever happened. She said she was watching a movie. She had her headphones. I had to tell her that it even happened. So we had different experiences on this flight. Well, that's what a movie does on a plane. I mean, you can be like, I'm not ready for the plane to land yet because I want to finish this movie.

Oh, man. I don't know if I've seen a movie that good. You feel a touchdown. You're like, ah. Yeah, exactly. I've never seen a movie that good or been in a seat that big on a plane where I thought, I'd like to finish this film real quick. Yeah. But have you ever had anything like that where the plane has to take back off?

I had one and I had the flight attendant got the biggest laugh I've ever heard a flight attendant get. We were landed somewhere and then we did the diverted landing like that. Yeah. We landed in Louisville or something that we had to wait. And then we took off and landed back in Nashville. And finally, after all that, we landed in Nashville and the flight attendant goes, welcome to Hawaii.

And it got, got borderline applause break. These Southwest people, man, they cannot stop. But that's not bad. That's pretty good. It's not bad in that moment to make that joke. It's in the moment. But they do get a little carried away. It bothers me as a professional comedian to see a flight attendant doing jokes and getting a lot of laughs.

I'm like, come on, guys. This is not that funny. You know like, come on guys. Yeah. It bothers me. He's up to us. He's like, do you even know who's on this flight? I'm like, take it easy guys.

Have you not heard jokes in a while? You guys ever watched a little thing called Netflix? Yeah. I mean, get with it guys. They do this thing now, whenever they want to start the announcements, they go,

did anybody drop this? And everybody looks up and they go, now that I've got your attention and I fall for it every time. Oh yeah. I fall for it. Maybe 12 times on a flight. It makes me mad every single time they do it.

I had a Southwest flight last week where, um, they asked me, the flight attendant asked me to sit in the middle seat and I did it. Why? to sit in the middle seat. And I did it. Why? Because, so I was B58, which you get big 58, you're going to ride on the verge of being able to get a window seat or aisle seat. You might get an aisle seat or a window seat.

Yeah. But you're right on that verge. And sure enough, I see a seat in the back and then I'm headed back there. And then I hear the flight attendant behind me say, hey, hold those two seats for these kids coming on board, like a family. And she's like, okay. But I still see one aisle seat very back of the plane. And I go back there.

And there's a couple there. And I'm like, is this seat taken? She's like, ask her. Talking about the flight attendant. And she said, would you mind sitting in this middle seat right up in front so this family, these kids can all sit together. Oh, Brian. Yeah. You got to stand up for yourself.

Yeah, you do. That's a ridiculous request. This idea that you all need to sit together. It's like nothing's going to happen. Just wait till the plane lands and then we'll all get off. I don't think it matters. But how young are these kids? I mean, they're pretty young.

Not like, I mean, I don't know, eight or 10 or something like that. Oh. Yeah, that's too old. Throw them in the cargo bin. I mean, eight and 10 years old. Yeah. I thought you were meaning like a baby. No, no, no.

These parents are just letting them fly on their own. So it's like. No, no, no. The parents were there too. Oh, then they needed to be, like the parents. Oh, damn.

I'm the four. Eight and 10 years old. Well, then the dad gets on a little bit behind and he gets, somehow gets a window seat. And then the parents, I'm the four. Eight and ten years old. Well, then the dad gets on a little bit behind, and he somehow gets a window seat. And then the flight attendant who asked me to sit in the middle between a rather large guy and a woman with a dog, she's like, would you rather sit in this window seat? And I'm like, yeah. And she's like, sir, do you want to move back here closer to your family? He goes, nah, I'm good.

He's asleep before the flight even takes off. That's what I don't like about Southwest. With no assigned seats, they just think they can do whatever. They're like, hey, these people missed their flight. They get to board first now. And then here's a bunch of people in wheelchairs that I'm not convinced all the people need the wheelchairs. If you need a wheelchair, fine. But these people,

they're in a wheelchair and then they get down to the plane and they get up and walk. Did a miracle just happen down here? Or were you capable of this the whole time? Like the guy who left his cane at the thing. Yeah. Yeah. Here over the overhead, come back to security if you forgot your cane. And I'm like, well, why don't you go ahead and explain to them why you don't need that cane? Why are you walking around with this cane out here? Everybody's like, I see everybody in wheelchairs and then they get to where they're going and they get up and walk around.

I sit in the handicap seats all the time because they're wide open. And I'm like, hey, if I see- Oh, at the gate? Yeah. I see a handicapped person and they need it, I'll get up. I lay me in the handicap seat on the plane, which I've never seen before. I was about to say, yeah, where's that?

Yeah, I'd like to get in on that. I might start bringing a cane to the airport. But then it's also like when people are in wheelchairs, they get a family member on with them at the same time. It seems like a scheme. If you're like an able-bodied person, but you want on the plane first, bring your grandma. You know what I mean? Because she'll get to board and you get to come along or bring someone's grandma yeah i'm a ma1 i paid money for a1 and i'm

boarding 20 people behind i'm like how is this now we'll say there is some justice because if you pre-board on southwest they do not allow you to take exit row seats. Okay. They do have that built in. So if you do board early, they're not taking the best seats on the plane. A1's getting the best seat. See, I want the first, I want second seat because I want to be able to put my bag under the seat. So I don't want the first one.

I want second seat aisle. That's what I want. Oh. I want to get off that plane. Second row? Right away. Yeah. You don't need the leg room, huh?

No, no. Okay. I'm fine. All right. I want to get off that plane. When we land, I want to be out of there. I can't handle watching grown men struggle to get their bag out of the overhead. It's tough to watch.

And I'm like, get it, get it. You can't handle it. Check it. Get it. You know what I mean? I mean, I see them. They're looking around like they want help. No one's going to help you.

Let me ask you this. You've listed your, if you were at an airport, list of things you would do. Right. I think I agree with all of them. Okay. A couple of, well, one's just a personal thing. Most of us, including myself, when you get on a flight, you put your bag in the overhead above your seat, but it really makes more sense.

I think putting the overhead across from you for where you're sitting. Cause when you get up, it's right there, grab it and go instead of doing the twist, the turn. Well, the problem is Brian, there's another side of the aisle and they're going to have to reach across and you get their stuff. Yeah. You get cross trying to get their stuff yeah you get cross trying to yeah get your stuff i like what you're saying though but oh yeah all right that's fair

point yeah and what about this for non-southwest yeah um instead of doing how about everyone who who bought a window seat boards first middle seat second aisle seat third that way you're not climbing over people i'm down with that yeah and board the back of the plane and work your way up to the front that'd be great too best strategy yeah i don't know why they don't do that yeah yeah i'm down with that because you know i i like to believe when i have an assigned seat that i'm going to be because i'm in you because I'm in group one, right? So I board basically first. I've been flying the same area.

Yeah, okay. You're doing well. Yeah. You're doing well for yourself. But I like to believe, I go, all right, I know I got my seat, so there's no need to rush onto the plane. I can just chill and let other people board. But the moment they say group one, I'm like right up in there. And then once I'm there,

I'm like trying to edge my way in because I don't like getting stuck behind people. A lady jumped in front of me the other day and then she didn't have her ticket ready. I'm like, what are you doing? Hang back. Get it. Get your ticket ready.

Don't be up here fumbling around. Oh, how do I do it? If you're not ready, don't get in here. I don't know what people are doing at the airport. But in all honesty. All right, go ahead. No, no, no. Go ahead.

The thing I did where the flight attendant asked me to sit somewhere else because of kids. Would you not have done it? I would have. No, I don't think I would. It depends on the mood I was in, where I was going. Yeah. No, but I haven't sat in the middle seat in a long time, and I don't plan on doing that in a long time. I didn't plan on it, but when someone works there, asks you to do it for the sake of children, I mean, there's some pressure there. I agree there is pressure.

And granted, I hadn't seen the kids yet because they're behind me. I think you go, I don't want to do it. Maybe you could ask one of these other people if they'd like to move for the kids. But I don't want to. I like to pee a lot on the plane. I don't want to act. Oh, there you go. Spin it like that.

Yeah. I like to pee a lot on the plane. Well, I got one time years ago now, I was on an aisle seat and this guy asked me what I swapped for the middle seat so he could sit next to his girlfriend. And I said, nah. And then when we're about to take off, the girl starts crying next to me because she's in the middle seat. She starts crying. Yeah. So I ended up switching with him because I felt bad for her. I regretted the decision.

I'll never do it again. Did she stop crying real quick? Probably. I was like, oh, gosh. So I moved. And then I sat in front of two big dudes. It was very uncomfortable. And I was like, there was no reason for me to do it.

Neither of y'all like sitting next to big dudes, huh? That must be tough for y'all. Where were you this weekend? I've been all, I haven't seen y'all in forever. I've been all over. I was in Salt Lake City this past weekend, which was a lot of fun. Wise Guys Comedy Club. Two hot shows there at Wise Guys.

And the week before that, I was in Seattle and I was in Alaska. Ketchikan, Alaska. Had a great time. Y'all should both go up there. I'd love to go to Alaska. I tried. Yeah. You tried to go to Ketchikan?

Yeah. You should go. Well, they said no. They'll get you up there i'd love to go to i tried yeah you try to go to catch a can yeah you should go well they said no they'll get you up there man i would move there he said they didn't have the budget and then when i saw you were going i got back to him he's like well things change so you're like well how's the budget looking for me now he's like listen i'm joking i got to see a lot of al. Shout out to the Ketchikan Adventure View. They took me and Jay Flake, who came with me. We got on a boat. Within an hour of landing in Ketchikan, we were on the water, riding around.

We got on some ATVs, riding through the Alaskan wilderness, dude. Wow. Beautiful up there. I want to tell you something I saw at the bar there in Alaska. We were hanging out after the show. I don't remember the name of the bar. It's not important. We were just hanging out there, and all of a sudden a bell rings,

and everybody cheered at the bar. And I said, what just happened? And evidently this is Alaskan tradition, that if somebody had a good day or if you're just in a good mood, you ring a bell and you buy a round for the entire bar. And everybody, have you all heard of this before? No, I think I keep it to myself. And I was the only one that didn't know what this was.

And they go, well, somebody's just bought a round for everybody. And a server walked around with poker chips that were like, you can redeem for one free drink. I love that tradition. We should bring that everywhere yeah you know i like just you had a good day show up to the bar ring the bell everybody cheers everybody's in a good mood that's a really good day yeah then you come home honey how was your day i made a lot of money but then i bought everybody around at the bar so broke even

well there were maybe like 25 people at this bar so it's still you know still a couple hundred dollars for that guy for sure but it's not gonna yeah break the bank that's great i thought about doing it after him but i don't want to steal this guy's thunder this guy kind of became the hero yeah i don't want to walk over after him and ring it twice you're like you know what two rounds i got two bells here. Then you just leave. But I was at the next day. We're taking the ferry to the airport. And you have to walk up and pay $3 or whatever to use the ferry.

And I'm like, man, they should put a bell here. Oh, yeah. I would buy everybody's ferry. Let me ring the bell. And everywhere I was going, I was like, I wish they just had a bell here. I'd ring it. I'd pay for everybody. That's very nice of you.

Yeah, it is very nice of you. And I know that you would do a thing like that. You won't sit in the middle seat for kids, but you'll buy everybody an Alaska drink. Yeah, I mean, when I go out to eat with you, I like to look and see how much you tip. So I can tip well too and not be outdone by you. Yeah. But sometimes you've tipped so well that I'm like, I'll just have to. I tip stupid.

Yeah. I'll just have to let you win. Because I'm like, this service wasn't that good. Like 50%? Like I'm a good tipper, but every time I tip, I look over at Aaron's thing and he's like, he's really upped it. And I'm like, oh, dude. I'll really tip well at like a Waffle House.

Like really well. Well, they know you there. Well, like a Waffle House. Like really well. Well, they know you there. You don't want to get spit in them waffles next time. You're going to be back in a few hours, so you got to be nice to them. You know I'll be back today.

Oh, I want to give a shout out to someone. I was in Tacoma, Washington at the Tacoma Comedy Club. I was never able to talk about it because I got sick. It was great. Very good club. People came out. It was awesome. But the, um, Thursday night I was up on stage and I was making fun of my clothes. I was making fun of what I was wearing. My pants were real baggy. You're wearing that. Close. My pants are real baggy and my shirt was real tight and i was saying that i look like a triangle up there like and this lady listener of the podcast named christy uh and her husband flip were there and they oh what a great name yeah flip and they own some clothing stores in the area called Purpose. Purpose for men is the one store. And they were like, we love the podcast, Nate Land podcast. And they said, we want to give you some clothes. So I went to their store and there's a little-

Purpose Boutique? Yeah. Women's clothing? Well, they have have purpose for men okay and okay so they took me there they had all of these clothes hanging for me in the dressing room i tried them on had a nice little fashion show the whole place was like cheering me on i mean it was really great it felt beautiful yeah it was amazing and then she gave me clothes wow um and it was really great. It felt beautiful. Yeah, it was amazing. And then she gave me clothes. Wow.

And it was great. There's a little video on the Instagram. You don't have to pull it up. But I don't even know which one it would be on. She has several. But I just wanted to give them a shout out because they listen to the podcast. And it's great. And they donate a percentage of their profits to fight human trafficking.

Oh, wow. So it's great. So I think that's where Purpose comes from. They're selling some clothes. Oh, wow. So it's great. So I think that's where purpose comes from. They're selling some products. Oh, there you are right there. How about this? How about it? All right.

Hey, we had a great day out here in Ruston Point. Point Ruston. We're so hooked up and we feel good. It's so comfortable here. It's hot. Good job, Tina. I didn't get those. That's boardwalk dusty right there. Little cotton candy pattern on the shirt. I got the shoes and I got the jeans, but not that shirt. If you're listening, you got to go check out this shirt.

Yeah. Purpose boutique. Yeah. That's very nice of them. It was very nice of them. Yes. Well, this is Tacoma. Well, I need to get up to Tacoma. Yeah. You know, Tacoma, where I was at, the club was great, but I was on one side. Was that Catherine Blanford?

Yeah. She was headlining the other Tacoma Comedy Club. So she went along with my feature, Georgia Comstock, and we all went and, you know, had a little fashion show. Christy even gave them a couple of outfits. Nice. Yeah. So very nice people. Thank you, Christy.

Yeah. That's cool. Purpose. Very cool. You want to tell us about Delete Me? Yeah. Didn't even try that time, huh? No.

Folks, we, folks. It's a tough word. I don't actually say that time, huh? No. Folks, we... Folks. It's a tough word to... I don't actually say that word that often. Folks. Is that the word you leave the L out of a lot? Yeah. It's like wolf. Yeah.

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Yeah. Comments. I'm not supposed to say that. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast Reviews, and nateland at natebergazzi.com. This is from Sarah Cosbab. That's fun. Yeah. Cosbab.

My favorite member of the podcast keeps changing. Right now, it's Dusty. All right. Because of how often he nonchalantly mentions crazy car accidents he's been in. Well, there's still more to come. I laughed out loud when he said he drove a car into a lake in the same tone as someone discussing the weather. Yeah. I mean, it's wild.

I mean, when you have a lot of car accidents and you don't get hurt, it just, it is nonchalant. It's a good time. You're like, hey, add another dukes of hazard there was so many i always go back to my day erin uh that was that show had a big impact on my life yeah yeah there was so many car i mean jessica simpson right no the katherine bach oh wow daisy duke do you have a poster her the original maybe who were like your your like the women when you were a kid rita hayworth i was gonna say judy garland was judy garland considered attractive i mean i know she was attractive but were people like judy garland topped i don't. That's just the first thing. You said Rita Hayworth because Shawshank.

Yeah. Farrah Fawcett. Farrah Fawcett was a little bit even before my time, but I think her poster was the most. Cindy Crawford. Probably. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I didn't have those.

I know you didn't have posters. What posters did you have? I had sports figures. Right. I don't know if my parents were working Billie Jean Billie Jean King Yeah, Billie Jean King Was she a runner?

Yeah She was a tennis player Oh, yeah One of the best of all time I remember that Yeah No, I had like baseball players and stuff Dale Murphy

Yeah, guys like that i like dale murphy yeah not in the hall of fame what a shame that is a shame let's see what the next comment all right mike terry you know mike terry uh does the um i don't think i'm sorry did we finish that what we were talking about i don't even remember what we were talking about sarah cosbab about me having a lot of car accidents and being nonchalant about it. Oh, we were talking about the Dukes of Hazzard. Oh, yeah. Oh, I did interrupt you pretty.

And this is a very powerful point I'm about to make about Dukes of Hazzard. There was a lot of car wrecks, so you got kind of used to it. All right, go ahead. That's tough. That's a tough one to come back to this it is because in the moment it would have been like oh yeah it reminds you of that because they're doing having a lot of car wrecks but to have to come back i know i honestly forgot what we're talking about and then when it hit me i was like oh this wasn't that good anyway yeah but now i gotta i sense that

that's why i steered it the other way but But you brought it back. Yeah, I did. Well, thank you, Sarah Cosbab. I appreciate that. All right, Mike Terry. You know, Mike Terry does SiriusXM country music. He does the countdown. And then he also brings people out at the Opry sometimes, Mike Terry. I don't think this is the same one, but that name, Mike Terry. I don't think it is either. Mike Terry's probably brought you guys out at the Opry.

No, I've never worked with Mike Terry. It's always Bill Cody and Charlie. Bill and Charlie. Yeah. Yeah. Bill Cody, Charlie. One time, Kelly Sutton, I think. Yeah, Kelly Sutton's done it.

I don't know Mike Terry. We've had Mike Terry before because, sorry, Dusty, you've made that comment before. Have I? Yeah, I believe so. I don't remember Mike Terry. We've had Mike Terry before because, sorry, Dusty, you've made that comment before. Have I? Yeah, I believe so. I don't remember that. Okay. Well, you got a good memory. I mean, I thought this was a real revelation.

Saw Aaron at Wise Guys, and of course, he was fantastic. I sat next to a guy who said he didn't know who Aaron was, but was a huge Dusty Slay fan. Apparently, he isn't one of us. I don't know what that means. Well, like a folk. He doesn't listen to the podcast. Oh, okay. But I brought that guy to your show.

Well, thanks, man. Yeah. Well, that's great. Wise Guys was great. Thank you to everybody. I like that. I liked your hiking video. Oh, thanks, dude.

And Nate had just been in salt lake city the weekend before and a lot of people told me they came to both shows which is very nice nate sold a little a few more tickets than i did but it's nice that people came to both yeah nate sold 32 000 tickets so about 300 that's not which I was actually pumped about. That's not bad. Yeah. All right. Barrett Wilson. Thanks to Balanced Books Bates, I checked online and found that I had $45 of unclaimed property in Kentucky and $1,634 in unclaimed property here in Tennessee. Add this to the list of most useful life information that I have learned from this podcast. Keep up the great work. Brilliant Bates and crew.

All right. Brilliant Bates. I don't think it was really Brian Bates that did it, though. You brought it up. No, it was somebody who emailed me. That guy sent me some stuff, too, but it was both under $100. And I don't know how hard it is to track it down. So you're just.

I let it be. Let it slide. Yeah. Oh just. I let it be. Let it slide. Yeah. Oh, well. Yeah. Yeah. Some guy emailed me and looked my name up under unclaimed property in Tennessee and I had $4,000 coming to me. Okay.

I did see that somewhere. Was that a clip that was posted at some point? No. Okay. Maybe I just heard tell of it. Maybe. It was from last week's episode. Brock Sanderson.

Does Dusty realize that the whole country of Columbia is named after Columbus as well as Washington, D.C., District of Columbia? That's debatable. debatable. If you look at the Columbia Pictures logo, when a movie comes on, it has this statue of liberty looking lady. And a lot of people believe that Columbia was an ancient pagan goddess, or maybe not even pagan, just an ancient goddess. And so it looks a lot like this thing. So it looks a lot like the Statue of Liberty in Columbia. There's all some relation in there. Some people think that's where Columbia comes from. And as we discussed before, they don't even know if Christopher Columbus was a real person.

I mean, we didn't say that last week. I missed a lot on last week's episode. I think we did say that. Christopher Columbus, we don't even know if he's a real person? I thought that's what we talked about. A lot of people think Shakespeare wasn't a real guy. Yeah, I've heard that too. Maybe we didn't say it last week and that's just something that I believe.

Maybe you're waiting. But it's like, yeah, it's debatable about this, but I get it. I mean, I hear you. I said that I don't think Christopher Columbus ever even knew he discovered a new world, you know, even when he died. But I never said anything about him not being a real person. Okay. But you said Columbus, Ohio is all he got. In Columbus, Georgia.

Oh, yeah. Sorry. Columbus, Georgia. Columbus, Georgia. Well, I mean, my point being, if he discovered America and then they named some cities after him, and then a guy making the map gets the name of the country. Yeah. That seems a bit, but then this person's pointing out, well, he did get a country in South America, but you're saying that's debatable. Yeah. Okay. But most people I know are not going to agree with me. And they're going to say I'm a lunatic. Yeah. But look it up. All right.

Look it up. The Columbia picture thing. That's a weird coincidence, though, huh? That it looks so much like the Statue of Liberty. All right. Dylan Blue. You glossed over Leif Erikson a crazy amount and just riffed on his name. He reached America 500 years before Columbus.

That's insane. That's how good the Viking boats and sailors were. They did something 500 years in advance of the next successful attempt. That's roughly the same distance between Columbus voyage and the 1990s. That's pretty crazy. That is pretty crazy,

but maybe their ship got lost too. You know what I mean? Maybe. That's pretty crazy. listening to the podcast. I was expecting to learn about Leif Erikson a little bit. Well, a lot of people pointed out, that's not even how you say his name. I think it's Leif. But I've never heard it pronounced Leif. I've only heard Leif. Yeah. You know? That's like people go into a Mexican restaurant

and really knowing how to pronounce things. And it's like, just order the quesadilla. Let me get a margarita. Yeah, exactly. That's Italian. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's only if it's written in italics. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, yeah. Margarita. Yeah, exactly. That's Italian. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's only if it's written in italics. Yeah, there you go.

Yeah, yeah. Margarita. All right, Patrick. But there's a margarita pizza. That's Italian, right? Margarita pizza. Is the A on the end? What?

I thought it was margarite. What? Margarita pizza. Margarita pizza for sure is. But I just didn't say margarita on both. I don't try to get into, I try to say it the American way every time. That way we're not. I bet you know it.

We're not getting into a whole thing here. I'm just doing my best to order the. There's a lot you can say about you, Duzzy, but you never pretend to be somebody you're not. Yes. That's what I'm saying. Like a gyro, right? Everybody's like, it's a Euro. And I'm like, I don't do silent Gs. You know what I mean? You don't trust them. No, there's a lot of silent letters out there that I've accepted that I'm not doing. I'm not

doing a silent G and I'm not putting an O in front of possum. I never will. I never will. Not do a silent G. Yeah. Or an O possum. I'm not going to put an O in front of possum. I never will. I never will. I will not do a silent G. Or an opossum. I'm not going to put an O in front of possum. When I write it, I'm never going to do it. That doesn't make sense to me. Good for you. You stand for something. Well, another name we had last week that so many people

emailed us back about Cherith's cute story was one of the names we read. That's a fun name well apparently it's one of the it was it's from Arrested Development oh uh which I've seen and I love Arrested Development I didn't catch on to that didn't pick up on it and then the next comment was about David Cross where we talked about Arrested Development so that set people off yeah I mean in Arrested Development was just brought up but it's like I didn't I like that

show but I didn't get into it that hard. Like, it's like, I feel like it's good for like, I don't know, so many seasons. And then it's like, it just becomes the same thing over and over again. Yeah. You know what I mean? I didn't love the last couple of seasons, but the first three or however many they had, I thought were great. Yeah. I enjoyed it.

Yeah. But I didn't get into it so much that I would pick up on the Cherith cute story. Yeah. Well, obviously I didn't either. So don't get mad at us. You know what I mean? Yeah. Next comment's from Jim Halpert.

All right. Patrick McCormick. Actually, there is a Leaf Phoenix, the brother of River Phoenix, aka Joaquin Phoenix. His siblings were named River, Rain, Liberty, and Summer. For some reason, he was given Joaquin. So early in his child acting career, he started going by Leaf before changing it back to his birth name. How about that? You believe that destiny i mean uh you know good for him i don't know why he would do that it doesn't seem like rain liberty and summer were doing a lot so we didn't know we didn't know about all that you know if rain liberty and summer were

all famous actors like river you would be like oh okay yeah why is he not uh you know some type of nature name i don't even know if leaf fits that pattern river rain liberty well liberty is kind of the odd one out there yeah summer summer that's a season yeah i mean it could have been anything walking joaquin almost fixing it as good as leaf does yeah anyway he's made a lot of bad decisions i think joaquin you ever see the rap video that he was trying to make or he's doing a documentary where he was going to be a rapper oh you've never seen that documentary have you now the whole thing was a joke you would actually love it oh would i yeah it was all designed it was all a farce okay yeah what on letterman is that character was pretending to be a guy in public who was transitioning to become a rapper.

Oh, see, I never got too into it. And I just assumed he went insane because he didn't win an Oscar for. Well, that's what the documentary is about is the public thinking he's insane. When in reality, it's all just a joke. Okay. It's great. I'll check it out. Yeah, you should.

I like him. It's called I'm Still Here. That changed so quick. We've did a big 180 here. I feel like, yeah, I do like him though. Gladiator, he's really good. Unbelievable actor. Really good in Johnny Cash. Walk the Line. Signs. Oh, I haven't seen that in a long time. Joker.

Oh, Joker, yeah. That was great. The Joker. Yeah. That was really good. Good twist in there. I didn't see it coming. Yeah. We just talked about that a couple episodes ago. Yeah, we did.

Mickey Owen was on. Mickey Owen listed him as a genius. Yeah. Well, he didn't write the movie though, right? No. No, but he's a great actor. Good actor. I don't know if he's a genius.

He was talking about Joker. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Paul M.E. Mueller. I feel like we've had that name before. We have. Brian, you said Magellan almost made it back to Spain. He died in the Philippines.

It's barely over halfway back to Spain and a far cry from almost. Perhaps a globe would have been a helpful prop for this episode. Wow. I like the heat he brought in. They're coming for you, man. Dusty ain't going to have no globe on here. Perhaps a globe would have been nice to have on set. Coming with the attitude.

You're right. All E. Mueller with the sass. You're right, though. You bring a globe in here, I'll flatten it out. It's going to be a pool table pretty soon. Maybe a map would have been good for you too. He is right though. In my mind, so Magellan was the first one to sail around the way or his crew was.

He died in the Philippines. But in my mind, you make it all the way back to almost mainland China. I mean, Asia. You're almost made it, but that's a pretty wrong distance still to Spain, as he points out, almost halfway. When I was in Alaska, we were looking out at the water and Matt Peebles, this guy showing us around, he goes, if you just head out that water, next thing you know, you're in Japan.

And Jay Flake was like, Japan is that close? He just meant that's the next thing you'll run into. We were thinking, Japan is this close to Alaska? We looked it up. It's like 8,000 miles away or something. It's a big ocean. Yeah, it's a real big. The biggest.

That's what I heard. I hear you can see Russia from there. Not from where we were. We're the very bottom right part of Alaska, but there are parts where you can see it. That was a joke where they really made fun of Sarah Palin. She was like, I can see Russia out my back door. I think she was just making a joke. Well, no, I mean, I think there are parts.

It's very close, right? Yeah. They're connected. That's the Bering Strait? The Bering Strait at one point, yeah. I think the reason people objected to it is because it was offered as foreign policy. That's right. That's right. How are you going to deal with Russia? Well, I can see it from my house.

There was a theory that I read one time that Native American people were from China that walked over the Bering Strait years and years and years prior and settled down in America. Yeah, I've heard something like that. Yeah. I'm surprised you would even visit that thought. Yeah, that's kind of the accepted thinking, and it has been for a long, long time. Is it? Yeah. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Well, I mean, I think- Next comment. Well, I guess it just depends on whatever you're saying is, you know, whatever timeframe they would say. But I could just imagine that happening. I didn't know that was accepted. I think I read that in a Bob Dylan book one time. A Bob Dylan book?

Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. I think they thought they were all closer together, the land masses, and therefore ancient man. That's how they first got here but i just wonder does it even have to be ancient you know it could have been you know if a couple hundred years ago well blowing in the wind if we didn't discover it until 1492 and then left or

whatever they want to call it yeah uh came over years prior to that. Did he see people? Was he talking to people? I don't know. But maybe it happened just 100 years before Leif Erikson came over. Right. You know what I mean? Times are changing. You know what I mean?

For sure. People love an ancient thing. I know. Like a rolling stone. Yeah. Chase Schubert my senior year in college i wrote a paper on the map that first named america wait i wrote a paper on the map that first named america as america after america vespucci it is nicknamed america's certificate, and for 200 years –

For hundreds of years. Okay. I'm getting real twisted up here. There's a lot of quotes in here. Too many Americas. America as America. America vespucci. It's too much. knew it existed but could not find it. Then around the turn of the 20th century, it was discovered accidentally in a castle's basement in southern Germany. But with World War I and World War II, it was forgotten about and left there until finally, in 2001, the United States Congress paid $10 million for it, making it the most expensive map ever purchased how about that well that is look chase is probably smarter than me that's a very nice that is the most horribly written i was i was gonna trash dusty for that i mean that's two sentences that whole comment basically just everything's comma comp that's just there's a lot going on did you edit that

just before i trashed chase did you kind of change the way this was written? There actually wasn't a period between Germany and butt. That sentence kept going. Oh my gosh. So I put a period between Germany and butt just to give Dusty a break. I was so distracted. I barely know. I barely know what this comment said.

Well, I can't believe. I don't believe this. That was tough. You don't believe what? I don't believe it. This, this. I don't don't i mean i believe that he researched it and he read this but i don't believe that he lost it and then it was accidentally found in a castle basement and then lost again and then the united states paid 10 million for it but why why wouldn't you believe that well i just don't think things get lost like that.

I mean, I can't find my car keys half the time. Yeah. I can see during a war, maybe something. But if you had America's birth certificate, you'd hold on to it. Your car keys aren't America's birth certificate. Do you have your birth certificate? I don't know. Probably don't. They didn't make them back then.

Chiseled into stone? Yeah. I mean, I don't. I like this, but I just don't trust anything now. Yeah. Well, it's obvious. You know what I mean, I don't, I don't. I like this, but I just don't trust anything now. Yeah. Well, it's obvious. You know what I mean? I'm sorry I attacked your syntax so much, Chase. It was just, it was distracting. Yeah, Chase. I mean, you're not, you know, Paul M. E. Mueller here.

Maybe a dictionary would have been nice for you to use. Maybe someday you can be. But anyway, I thought that was interesting. All right. Elias C. Sampao. That's how we do it. You really hit the pao. That's how we do it.

Sampao. Sampao. Sampayo, maybe? Payo, I'd say. Sampayo. Sampayo. I'd say. Some Pio. Pio. Elias C. Sampaio. That's probably right.

In middle school, I asked my social studies teacher, how did people create the map layout? And how do we know if it's the correct shape? I remember she couldn't answer me. So she gave me an attitude. Well, that happens all the time. This was the first time I felt stupid as a kid only to realize later, later on, I should have been teaching the class. I get worse at reading the whole time, the longer this goes on. I don't know what's happening. Well, that was also, that one was tough too. I got your back on these last

two comments. Thank you. But I like this, I like this because that's what happens when you ask people a question and they can't answer it. Rather than going, you know what? I don't know. They give you some kind of weird attitude. And you probably should have been teaching that class. That's an intuitive question. I'll take the teacher side. You want me to?

Yeah. Yeah. How about this kid trying to destabilize the class by trying to, I mean, it'd be anarchy if everybody thinks this teacher doesn't know anything, right? And this is a question that's not really important to what they're talking about. And you're just going to waste time explaining this, destabilizing the integrity of the class. I wonder if the teacher was like, do you want to know what the shape of the office is? Because that's where you're going if you keep this up. That's been a pretty good answer. Why don't you go map out the principal's office over there yeah we'll have you draw the detention room whatever you call it but i just look back at a lot of times

where i thought i was in the right with a teacher and now as i'm older i take the teacher's side a little bit more than i did there's some stuff I still think I was right about. But if I were a teacher when I was in school, I would have hated. I'd love it. Yeah, I would have hated. You would have hated you as a teacher. Yeah. You know, what subject are you teaching?

Yeah. Well, I mean, oh, oh, just I don't know what subject. I just would hate me as a student. Just I was always trying to be funny. Home ec. Sometimes I was very funny. I would like to teach home ec. That would be great.

Yeah. You know what they taught us? How to take biscuits, pre-made biscuits, and flatten them out and make little pizzas out of them. Oh, that's useful. Have you done that since? No. You know what? I did do it at home a couple of times after that.

Oh, there you go. As a kid. Yeah. It's great. Some practical stuff. Stephanie Benson. Aaron opened my eyes when he said Andy from Shawshank Redemption was a metaphor for Jesus. Wow. I have loved that movie forever

but never put that together. Thank you. It makes me love the movie and Nate Land even more. All right. How about it? I don't know if, I mean, look, I don't think Stephen King is a Christian. I don't think he intended it to be that. And I haven't seen anybody else say that, but I think it fits.

You know, I've heard that about the Green Mile. Also a Stephen King book. That the big guy. John Coffey. John Coffey. Like the drink, only not spelled the same. Yeah, yeah. Is a representation of Jesus too.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. So maybe. Thank you, Stephanie. Maybe I will also open Stephanie's eyes to something. Well. Ben Rosser.

I love how when Dusty was asked if he had a diaper genie, he instantly got uncomfortable and said no, despite not knowing what it was. You could sense his reaction to the word genie was similar to if you had forced him to listen to a Harry Potter audio book. I think there's some truth to that. Yeah, probably so. I think it's a good uh analysis ben i did we ever decide what the diaper genie was well i think that's maybe just a brand and it's almost like band-aid maybe that's it's the thing you dispose your diapers oh baby's diapers but they do have one of those trash can we do have one of those it's like um you open it up and you can put

the diaper in there and then when you close the lid, it kind of sucks it down. Yeah. And then there's a bacon soda like filter over the top to keep the smells from coming out. By opening the lid on the top of the canister, a soiled diaper may be inserted into the mouth of the container. Do you need to use the word mouth there? People are disgusting. I agree. I agree.

And this is Wikipedia. Yeah. They usually keep it pretty, you know, level-headed. Yeah. Mouth. Just say opening. You know what I mean? Yes.

This is written by someone that doesn't have any kids. So that makes me think Diaper Genie is not the brand, but just that's what the thing's called no this is this is a specific brand it's a brand of playtex products okay 1999 all right yeah i mean i'm not offended by genie i mean i don't you know i don't i don't think genies are real but if i found one i would be tempted to make some wishes. You know what I mean? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I hope so.

It would be hard to not do it. Oh, sure. Yeah. What would you do? What would you wish for? Unlimited wishes? Well, if that wasn't an option, I would go for an extreme amount of money right away. Because, you know, not that I'm trying to be greedy with money, but that would just, you would never have to do anything else.

And then you could give money away and help relatives out and ruin their lives probably. But, you know. This surprises me. You've surprised me on this. And really cause inflation and ruin the economy. Well, maybe the money, you know, maybe I would make a wish that the money would come from the government. You know what I mean? So your one wish so far is to steal money from the government, right? Yeah.

Yeah, okay. That's a good first wish. It'd be like the Robin Hood type situation. But you're just stealing it for yourself. But to give to other people, to give to other relatives. That's what they always say. To maybe give it to them, but to also. But also, yeah, relax a little bit.

You know what I mean? I'm just saying it would be easy to be corrupted if you had a genie. I would feel like you would do the two wishes and just hang on to that third one. Because you're like, I never know when. In case something comes up. Yeah. and just hang on to that third one. Because you're like, I never know when. In case something comes up. Yeah. If a genie said, you can live till 80. Okay.

I guarantee you, you don't have to worry about getting hit by a car, blah, blah, blah. You can live till 80, but you're done. Would you take that offer? I'd have to consult with a doctor and see what my realistic life expectancy is. Well, I mean, the average life expectancy is, I think, like 78, something like that. I don't think I would do it. So what's the trade-off here?

Well, you're guaranteed not to die early. Okay. But I could live longer than that. That's right. Or you could have some horrific accident that would have killed you. But because you've made this wish you must continue living and no matter what kind of pain you're in you cannot die yeah well maybe we that's not part of it yeah yeah man you don't get the sweet release yeah yeah you're you're you get hit by a car at 35 and you're like the rest, you know, the next, what is it?

45 years. You're paralyzed. You're in extreme pain. But you get to board the flight first. Yeah. But where would you go? Looking for that genie. All right.

Last one. Jordan Pendley. Have any of you been a part of a show where the opener was better than the headliner? Aaron? We'll take this one. Back when I used to open for people. Boom. Is that true? Now I have had, you know, I did a, I don't want to know if it was better, but I always talk about this. There's a comic named Jeff Bodart out of Indianapolis and he headlines. And my very first

headlining gig at Crackers in indianapolis the owner of the club booked him to feature for me and i felt like he did better than me all weekend yeah um now prior to that i had opened for jeff and i felt like i did better than jeff opening for him but him opening for me i think he was doing better heavy is the head that's the sweet spot yes that feature spot's the sweet spot yeah uh answer is yes that that happens all the time i think especially like bar shows and like local shows like that whoever's closing out the show does not necessarily have the best set and i've been that guy i've closed out a show and i thought other people have done better than me but But that happens.

The show goes long. People are over it. The opener has a much easier. They're in a much better position. They have a shorter set. There's no expectation of them from the crowd, so they can just kind of do whatever. It's looser. It's a lot easier of a spot.

That's actually why I like doing an hour on a 90 minute show as opposed to 45 minutes, which is all you really have to do. But I don't want the other comics to be out there for that long. I want to keep those sets short because it's my show and I want it to still be my show. I don't want to give them so much time that there's an opportunity for it to become their show. Oh, okay. You know what I mean? Yeah.

And also, I want to do a lot of time. I like to have the extra time to tell people about Viore. That's how much

I love Viore, guys. Viore's great. I was wearing Viore shorts earlier today. Well, I got out my... You cut your set short. Yeah, that's how much

I love it. I got my viore on today it's paul's here yeah you can enjoy viore you made me i don't know if you guys know this or not but i always been considered a cool guy but i don't believe that i'm a cool i think you're cool dude well i appreciate that i got some of my cool friends i had one of them recently asked hey is that viore and i'm like yeah i don't usually know about brands i'm saying yeah my friends you know they think i'm cool now you don't believe me here but all right don't usually know about brands. I'm saying. Yeah. My friends, they think I'm cool now. You don't believe me, Aaron, but does this shirt not look cool?

It does look cool. It's not in the shirt, but yeah. It makes it look nice. What would you call it? I call that a pullover. Oh, yeah. A little quarter zip. A little quarter zip.

All right. Whatever. All right. So this week, guys, it is this week, week i believe marks the 30-year anniversary of the release of the movie rudy wow so that'd be a good time to talk about sports movies yes i love it i love i love sports movies a lot so i like that we're doing this boy doing a little research i forgot just how many sports movies there are there There are a ton, including some that I'm like, I didn't even really think of that as a sports movie. Like Jerry Maguire. Yeah, that's a sports movie.

I think that's a relationship movie with sports in the background. I kind of do, too. I mean, I guess I think of a sports movie as they're playing. Even like Rudy is a story about a guy overcoming adversity and persevering. It's about the human spirit. It's not about football. But he really wants to play football. He really wants to.

And in the end, he does get to. In the end, Jerry Maguire gets the girl or whatever. Right, but he's a sports agent in the movie. Yeah, but I don't think of it the same. I mean, I could see both sides, but I just, that's not what I, and Karate Kid

was another one, which, yeah, I guess it's a sports movie. I just think it was a coming of age. Gladiator. You think Gladiator is a sports movie?

I don't, but I could see that. That was their sports. Yeah, that's true. It has all the makings of a sports movie. The under, you know, the guy they all rallied behind. Yeah. Yeah, that was sports back then. It has all the makings of a sports movie. The guy they all rallied behind.

Yeah. That was sports back then. It's not much different than football nowadays, if you want to be cynical about it. Yeah. They're just gladiators in a coliseum. That's true. So what's your favorite sports movie?

Oh, man. Moneyball. Moneyball or Rudy. Those are probably my two favorites. Sandlot. They're all great., my two favorites. Sandlot. They're all great. They all, they all scratch a different itch. I think for sure it's Rocky. I think Rocky, not only maybe the best, and I know you guys already talked about it without me, which I was very bummed about. I mean, Brian knows that I love Rocky. But, um, uh, the, um,

I think Rocky may be the best movie. You and Becky Young have a lot in common. Outside of sports movies. It's such a great movie. It is a great movie. Almost to the point where it's so good, I almost don't even think it is a sports movie. I know it is,

but that movie almost transcends sports. I get that. Yeah, yeah. Because it is, as Mike pointed out, it's just, it's a movie about the will, the spirit of someone who was just down on their luck. The Rocky series, and I know you already talked about it.

I'm going to make this last comment. No, no, no, go ahead. But up until Rocky IV, it is like the best series. Rocky V ruins the whole series because Rocky V, he's lost everything. He's got dang near brain damage and he's losing his son because he's focused on Tommy Gunn. He's losing everything in Rocky V. And it's like, if you just stop at Rocky IV, it's, you know, because Rocky IV, he gets punched so much.

But you think, wow, this guy's just tough. Rocky V, you're like, oh, that fight almost caused, he's like, my hands won't stop shaking. And I'm like, well, he just ruined IV for us. You know, because now this heroic thing he did is now you're witnessing a tragedy. And the Russian, he had to go back to Russia and be a loser and get exiled. Which we learned in Creed. Or Creed 2, maybe. Yeah, it's like, nobody wins. Yeah.

I'm sorry about that. Stop making it after 4. Just let it go. Yeah. Well, maybe stop making it after 1, to be honest with you. No, no. Well, the movie, it totally... Rocky 1 was just...

It was totally different after Rocky 1. But Rocky 3 was also an incredible movie. Very underrated. But much more Hollywood-ish. Much more, you know,

unbelievable. He doesn't win in the first one. That's what, it makes it more real. But he doesn't, he loses in the third one too. Yeah, but then he comes back

and wins, which is every sports movie. But he wins in the first one because he says, but then he comes back and wins, which is every sports movie. But he wins in the first one because he says, I just want to go. He never expected to win. Right. He's like,

I just want to go the distance. He said, I don't want to look, you know, I don't want to look bad out there. I want to go the distance. And he does. Mm-hmm.

So. Yeah, I mean, Rocky's great. I love, I think for me, maybe Hoosiers. Okay. Hoosiers is a good one.

Why is that funny, Aaron? I don't know. Hoosiers is a good one. I just re-watched it. Okay. It's the same guy that made Rudy. Okay. It is.

I didn't realize that until... Same director, same writer, same everything. It's really great. It is. It's really great. It is. I think Aaron thinks that was my time that I grew up in. Now, that movie did come out when I was in high school. Yeah, 1986 it came out.

Yeah. Gene Hackman's incredible. He is incredible in it. And I do love Rudy. And I've really lately, because I've seen Moneyball a bunch lately, I love Moneyball. The thing about, and I recently watched money ball. Well,

I recently watched Rudy again and money ball. When I was in the eighties, some sports movies, the S the scenes of the actually playing sports was so bad. It's so unbelievable. But now these movies, I mean, money ball,

it's incredible. Yeah. The way they kind of combine the actors with the actual footage from the games it's based on. Yeah. They did a really good job of it. They look like they really know how to play sports. Rudy's the same way.

Um, I was reading about where they, do you know how they shot that final scene? They shot the, the actual game footage during, it was at halftime of a football game? Yeah. They were playing Boston College.

That's right. Yeah. And in the movie, they're playing Georgia Tech, but it was filmed in the middle of a Boston College Notre Dame game. So you can actually see a lot of Boston College shirts and stuff in the crowd. You can. Yeah. Yeah.

And they went out there at halftime. They gave the director two games to choose from that one in the week after which i forgot who they were playing uh but it ended up being snow in that game so i this was the only shot they had and the football players said they're going in the tunnel they see all these like what is this is this one of these peewee games at halftime and it's these it's these actors. And there's footage on YouTube of the Notre Dame-Boston College game. Somebody posted the whole game. And it was a blowout.

Notre Dame blew out Boston College. So they just start interviewing some of the actors from this upcoming movie, Rudy. Wow. And it's kind of interesting to see NBC's footage of them out there shooting the scene. Starring that kid from the Goonies. Yeah. Yeah. Sean Astley.

Was he in the Goonies first? Sean. Yeah. I think he was way younger than that. Okay. And then Lord of the Rings after Rudy. 51st dates. He's great.

He is great. He's a little much in Rudy though. It's like when you see him like going up to the guy that's running the ticket booth, the security guy, I'm going to play for Notre Dame. That's like, all right, good. Okay. Well, that's as you age. I do watch that movie differently.

I do too. Golly, dude, if I were on that team, I'd be like, shut up. I know. This kid that's not good enough to be on the team. He's only on the team because the coach feels bad for him. So he's on and you're just like, I got to listen to this guy yapping at me all practice. I'm a real athlete.

Yeah. I'm getting, you know, I have a scholarship to be here. This kid stinks. And I got to pretend that he's a real football player. I get that side of it too, but you got to put all that aside. Watching the movie.

I like the movie though. Yeah. You got to get into it. His family doesn't believe in him and it's nice to see. It's not for us. It's for rich kids. Smart kids. I like that guy though, his dad in the movie.

He's an awesome actor. Ned Beatty. He had a rough time in Deliverance. Yeah, he did. Rudy's dad will never go on a canoe trip but you know what there's a movie i like and i bet you guys have not seen this called digs town you ever seen that no boxing movie james woods lou gossett jr uh heather graham uh It is so good. James Woods is in jail and learns about

that he's a big gambler. He learns about this town. I just want to say, Dusty, I believe you that this is a good movie. This poster looks like this is the worst movie ever made. It does. He's wearing a bathrobe and boxing gloves and then James Woods is leaning on him.

Well, James Woods is a hustler. The hustle, the muscle, the scam. See, they go to this town. This town is a small town, but a real big boxing town. And one guy kind of owns the whole town because of a fight where he bet on one guy. And everybody else bet on the other guy. Bruce Dern is the bad guy. bet on one guy and everybody else bet on the other guy bruce stern is the bad guy and uh and so he makes a bet that lou gossett jr he has a boxer that can beat 10 of digstown best men in one day

so and it's that's fun yeah it's great i've never seen this message on a wikipedia entry before it said this article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. Somebody dug in. I mean, Chase Schubert

was the comment. Yeah. It's great, though. It is one of my favorites. Such a good movie. Never heard of it. Nobody ever talks about it. I've heard of it.

I haven't seen it. That's so great. I have it on DVD if you guys want to come over sure man you and aaron both own a lot of dvds yeah i love a dvd it did lose 14 million dollars but you know well i for some reason yeah people a lot of people don't like it also the kid i just learned this on the way here i was on imdb in the car here and uh the kid bruce dern's son in the movie was also the oldest kid in honey i shrunk the kids how about that not a sports movie but one of my favorites so you had a joke about um remember the titans right

did you always feel that way or from the time you saw the movie or did it come to you later have i explained my theory about that movie have we talked about it in detail on the podcast before well just if not i think maybe briefly but just tell people again about how the historical inaccuracy yeah i. I just looked. Remember the Titans? You've seen the movie, right? It's maybe one of the most culturally important movies of my generation. It's very good.

I feel like it's watched a lot. It's referenced a lot. It's quoted all the time, especially growing up playing football. There were lines in there that were, strong side. I mean, we did all that stuff. I could live my whole life without hearing that river. Ain't no mountain high. I could never hear that again.

That river song. Yeah. I could never hear that again. Ain't no mountain high enough. I can't do it. And well, the movie also, it made all these songs popular again,

all these great soundtrack. That's the one thing I'll say about the movie. Unbelievable. The song is great. Spirit in the sky thing I'll say about the movie. Unbelievable soundtrack. The song is great. Spirit in the Sky. I mean, it's great stuff in there. But at some age, I Googled the real story. And there are so many differences between the movie and the real story that it kind of ruined the movie for me. And I understand that when you're writing a

film you do have to move things around you have to change stuff for it to work as a movie but they made so many changes chief of which being that every team the titans played 1971 or 1972 when the movie took place every school had already been integrated so every team they desegregated i guess or is integrated the right word i think integrated racially integrated okay yeah desegregated yeah there were black and white players on every team they played right and they were pointing your joke your joke line though my joke is that isn't that insane that Disney resegregated the Virginia public school system for a film? And the whole movie, they're like, wasn't this awful? It's like, yeah, y'all did all this.

Yes. Not to say there weren't awful things going on back then, but it's like you created all of this because that wasn't even a narrative about this team at the time. Because every team also had black and white players. They were dealing with with race in the same way the titans were now they were a great team that's now here's a detail that you should change if you're making a movie in real life the titans just obliterated everybody there was not a close game the whole season in the movie the championship game comes down to the last play it's a dramatic you know i understand yeah but to fundamentally change the whole reason for the film you're like that feels a little a little gross to me or just don't say it's based off a true story

you know just make a movie. Yeah, you could. Yeah, you could do that. But it's like every that's the school. That's the actual school. T.C. Williams and. Or say loosely based off a true story. Sometimes they do.

Yeah. Based on true events. But wasn't there another thing where the kid. Gary Bertier, who, by the way, was committed to Notre Dame. He was the number one linebacker recruit in the country at the time. He after the season ended, he was paralyzed in a car accident in the movie. He gets paralyzed right before the state championship game. Yeah. As if to say now it matters. You know, now it's important. We got to win for him. Yeah. As if to say, now it matters. Now it's important.

We got to win for him. Right. Before we were just winning for all the races. And now we have to win for this guy too. Well, it's just like you're changing these details

in a way that just feels kind of deceptive and gross to me. Yeah. I agree. Well, you're... But you loved it when it first came out.

Of course. I think it's a... I would still... of course i think it's a it's a i would still i'm just saying i would still enjoy a movie you're wise beyond your years if you as a kid saw that like i don't know this was me maybe in college i started i looked this up so this is way after the fact there's some things it does like you said about rudy i love i still love rudy i think it's a great movie, but the, the janitor, I forgot his name, but the, the black man that plays the janitor,

there's nothing, a hundred, nothing. Yeah. Since that movie, I don't know if that was the very first one, but there's been so many more since then where the wise old black man, and then there's spoof comedies where they even have the wise,

you know, that it almost seems like a, such a caricature now that at the time it didn't feel that way, but now it almost seems a little different. Do you know what I'm saying? Like Joe Dirk with Clem. Christopher Walken.

Yeah, I guess. It's just like things become hacky at a certain point. Yeah. There's all tropes now what was the golf movie with Will Smith and Matt Damon Legend of Bagger Vance

oh yeah yeah and he's not even like a real person doesn't he like right he's like a ghost of an old golfer yeah

just a little wise man that movie stinks is it I don't know I never watched it I don't know I actually don't know I'm sure it might be good

what about remembering was it remember Bobby Fisher the chess movie searching for Bobby Fisher searching for Bobby Fisher I'm sure it might be good. What about remembering? Was it remember Bobby Fisher? Searching for Bobby Fisher? Searching for Bobby Fisher. I remember that to be really good. Yeah. That was a good one.

Nah. It's a game. Yeah, I would say it's a game. I don't know the difference, but it seems like more of a game than a sport. What is the difference? Well, I think that there needs to be some kind of physical aspect. You need to be in shape in some way to be in sport. You need to be in shape?

In some way. Bowling? I mean, bowling. You ever go bowling after not bowling for years? Your arm hurts after the bowl. You know what I mean? So you got to be. Okay.

That's some way. Yeah. You're in shape in some way. Your arm is built up to be able to hold the ball, curve it. You're in shape in some way. Curling? Yeah. I be able to hold the ball, curve it. You're in shape in some way. Curling? Yeah. I'm sure you got to learn.

You got to know how to skate. Darts? Curling? You have to know how to skate? Don't you have to skate across the ice to push the thing? No. They're just out there on shoes. Are they on shoes?

Well, you got to learn to stand up on ice. Pool? Pool and darts to me is back to games. Okay. Okay. But there's physicality involved. Yeah. I've been sore.

Hand-eye coordination technique. There is something, but I would say that's close. So you've been sore from playing? Playing a couple too many games and I'm sore the next day. I've been hung over after playing pool for a while. Yeah. But I would say those are games.

Okay. Well, you know what? It's not a game. Rocket money. That's true. You know what? Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.

What? What are you going to ask us? Yeah, please ask me. Are subscriptions draining your wallet? No. But you know why? Because you use Rocket Money. There you go. There you go. Well, you know why? Because you use Rocketbook.

There you go. There you go. Well, you know what? I was just thinking the other day about how many things I'm subscribed to. It is unbelievable. The average person

has around 12 paid subscriptions and they might not even remember subscribing to half of those. If you have no idea just how much you're spending each month, you need... Yeah.

Yeah. I don't like Chase, so... No, but you'll tighten it up for Nate, right? A spending each month. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I don't like Chase. So you'll tighten it up for Nate, right? A lot of times. Oh yeah. I tighten it up a lot.

Yeah. Do you change words a lot? I don't change words. I might. Yeah. I just tighten it up. Okay. And maybe occasionally if it has the same meaning,

but, but it makes it's clear. I try to keep it. Six lines or under as far as the paper goes because that usually fills the screen. I don't know how many of that line would be on screen, but sometimes they're just too long.

So there's so many sports movies to talk about. Maybe we just take a sport and then name our favorite movie from that sport. I like that. Yeah, I love that. Baseball. Baseball.

Baseball. I gotta say Major League. It's great. I mean, Major League is a great... I mean, I'd love to say something more serious like For the Love of the Game, because that's a great movie, but Major League is... It's so fun. Major League is fun. Can a comedy be

a truly great movie, though? In the same way that a dramatic film can. Because when I think of the greatest movies of all time, I gotta be honest with you, I don't think a single comedy is on that list. And I don't know why that is, but I think for some reason

when I see it, I don't take this as seriously as a movie. What's more dramatic than watching Charlie Sheen come out and put on the glasses? Wild Thing. Wild Thing. Have you seen this movie? I have seen this movie, but I just don't think of it in the same vein

as Field of Dreams or something like that. But what do you think that is? Why can't I take a comedy as I'm a comedian, and for some reason I don't respect comedies the same way I do other. I mean, my favorite TV shows are not comedies. They're Breaking Bad or.

Oh, my favorite are all comedies. Really? That's why I'm so sad about the way comedies have gone lately, because they're not good. Comedies used to be so great. I don't think there's any good movies, TV shows, TV shows, movies. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, obviously Se Seinfeld and The Office, those are my favorite shows.

But nobody nowadays talks about, hey, did you watch the last episode of some comedy? Well, that's what I mean. Now, present day, comedies are not good. But now they're all mixed together. They're dramedies. And, I mean, I think Moneyball's got some very funny scenes in it. But I bet if I look at the IMDb's top 250 movies, these are the greatest movies of all time,

how far along do we have to scroll down before comedy shows up? Ten. I bet it's a lot further than that. Okay. We got 12 Angry Men, Schindler's List. That's not a comedy, right? I mean, Pulp Fiction's arguably a... Yeah, but nobody thinks of that as a comedy.

I guess so. It's a Tarantino movie, so there's funny moments. Yeah. Is Forrest G as a comedy i guess it's a tarantino movie so there's funny moments yeah forrest gump is forrest gump a comedy i think so i mean forrest gump is a it's a rope romantic movie it's a war movie it's like a it's an epic what about when he says she tastes like cigarettes yeah she tastes like cigarettes yeah that's funny. She tastes like a cigarette. Yeah, that's funny. Sorry, Lieutenant Diane. She tastes like a cigarette. Good fellas.

I mean, you understand what I'm saying. I do understand. These are all dramas. These are all action movies. Or look, Silence of the Lambs is like a thriller. Yeah. If you did, what is that list? This is IMDb's top 250. These are as rated by IMDb voters. Yeah. If you did, what is that list? This is IMDB's top 250. These are as rated by IMDB voters.

Gotcha. Gotcha. Kind of the definitive list as far as I'm concerned because Shawshank is number one. I'm sure there are other lists. AFI is like the go-to list. Oh, really? Yeah. AFI top 100.

But I'll agree with you that Shawshank. But I just, I don't understand i don't even i don't think it's right the way i think but i just i never think of comedies in that way this says citizen kane is the number one movie the godfather number two i don't see any comedies on here yeah well that's just a myth that's what our our society has come to they can't even enjoy a good laugh they gotta they gotta have their emotions manipulated to enjoy a movie well you're probably the graduate yeah with uh dustin hoffman dustin hoffman's number 17 i doubt it i mean i know it's on there but i doubt what are

you saying about i mean that's kind of a comedy that's what i'm saying that's that's the 17 that's just one the rest of these are all. Anyway. Yeah. Sorry. I didn't mean to shoot down your major league. That's okay. But I do think it's my favorite baseball movie. Okay. I mean, I love for the love of the game. I think it's great.

But major league came out my senior year in high school. So there was a lot of quoting of that movie with all my friends. You know, I saw it so many times. I like, like filter dreams. I didn't really get that movie when it came out. It's just, it's too,

I don't know if I can completely get it now, but it's too mystical, so to speak then. Yeah. It's supernatural. Yeah. And I didn't really, I mean,

it's like baseball transcends things, but yeah, as a kid, when it came out, you know, like James Earl Jones, a speech at, but yeah, as a kid, when it came out, you know, like James Earl Jones, a speech at the end there, I didn't,

it's kind of nice, but you didn't really, I appreciate it now, but as a young guy, I like funny lines, you know, in major league where, you know,

run like hit, like maze run, like Hayes or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Stuff like that. Yeah. Um, but yeah,es or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. Stuff like that. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, Major League. I would say now it is Moneyball. I think Moneyball is so good. But Major League's on up there for sure.

What's your favorite? Rudy or? Baseball. Oh, baseball. You could argue Rudy's a baseball. Yeah, you could. Uh,

the Sandlot was a big movie for me as a kid. The Sandlot. I've talked about some of these movies. They're like, they're so impactful when they, they come at a certain time of your life. Right now. I think the Sandlot came out of 90.

It came out when I was very young, but growing up playing baseball, it was still quoted all the time. You're killing me, Smalls. You're killing me, Smalls. You play ball like a girl. All that stuff. I mean, my entire childhood, these lines were quoted.

I don't know how much this movie holds up as an adult. The Sandlot is a kid's movie. And some would argue it's not even really a baseball movie. It's a movie about childhood. It's kind of a coming of age. The, uh,

the dog over the fence is a metaphor for Jesus. All your movies have metaphors. You don't think, do you know the plot of The Sandlot? They hit an autographed Babe Ruth ball over the fence. Yeah, some guy. Some lady wrote her name on it. Baby Ruth.

Oh, my God. That was the same guy? Yeah. That movie's great. Yeah. But you don't think there's a metaphor in there somewhere? These kids hit a ball over a fence, and there's a dog that's over the fence and they're scared of it and then ultimately the dog is not that scary and they learn to live with it you

don't think there's a metaphor i'm sure where you have any theories on it i to me maybe it's like the next stage in life they're about to get older it's adulthood it's the gravity of of real life right these kids are growing up some of them are i think only one of them has hit puberty, it seems. So they're like, they're right on the cusp of becoming adults. And here's the scary thing over the fence, and it's not that scary. That's kind of nice. But I would argue it is that scary. It is that scary. If Dusty had written the film, the dog would have eaten all the kids. And they would have gone, let's not go near that fence anymore. You were probably the perfect age when that movie came out. Yeah, I loved that movie.

It was really great. Yeah, like I was already too old for it. Nice James Earl Jones speech at the end of that, too. Oh, yeah, it's great. James Earl Jones is kind of the common thread in all of this. Oh, he really did? Yeah, he was the guy who owned the dog. He was the blind guy. Oh, is kind of the common thread and all of oh he really did yeah he was he was the guy who owned the dog he was the blind guy oh i kind of remember that now now there's

some historical inaccuracies and that too because when the kids visit his house he's like yeah i played with george herman ruth and you're like well the color barrier wasn't broken yeah you could not have been unfortunately you could not have played with him but that's true yeah huh but still fun to put in the movie yeah yeah anyway all right sorry to suck the joy out of that no yeah you've been ruining a lot of sports movies for us yeah even pulled up to let me know hey you like comedies well none of them are the best movies no i'm not saying that's necessarily true. You like comedies.

You don't even like movies. I'm just saying, I mean, they literally have a separate category at these award shows. They're literally thought as something different than quote unquote real things. That's how little comedians are respected. I agree with you. I'm just wondering why that is. Yeah. Anyway.

Because we have to be valid. We're validated by real people on a daily basis. With the art world, they have to validate each other. We interact with real people. That's right. I think the Golden Globes

has a new category now for stand-up comedy. Do they really? I think so. Wow. So, you know, one of us could be winning the golden globe i mean it's gonna win one soon i take back what i said you got uh what sport you want to do next

well i have a question for you what what what what is a sports moment or team or something that you wish they would make a movie about that's's a good question. Because I was just very disappointed. I've always wanted a documentary about the Urban Meyers era at University of Florida. That's when Tim Tebow was the quarterback while Aaron Hernandez was on the team murdering people. Half the team's been arrested. It's a crazy story, a crazy part of college football history.

They made a documentary. With Tim tebow being a metaphor for jesus okay sorry i'm reading between the lines on these films dude i'm sorry about that but they made a documentary that uh in my opinion was just a fluff piece that's what i heard for florida it made urban it didn't talk about any of the things that are interesting. What everybody wanted to hear was what was it like Tim Tebow being in the locker room with Aaron Hernandez? What were the dynamics like amongst the team? And they didn't talk about any of that. They just talked about like the games.

Yeah. Kind of. It blew over a lot of crazy stuff. I wouldn't mind a Jalen Hurts documentary a bit. Oh, yeah. Losing his starting position at Alabama. To Tua. Yeah.

And then coming in in the SEC championship for Tua and then winning that game. Yeah. And then not getting his position back, then going to Oklahoma, and now being a huge success in the NFL. his position back, then going to Oklahoma, and now being a huge success in the NFL. Well, now, because of 30 for 30s, they do so many sports documentaries. And that's not exactly what you're asking. But in that vein, a 30 for 30 or some type of documentary. Remember when Tennessee fired Butch Jones?

Yes. And then they hired, I'm drawing a blank on this. Greg Sciano. Greg Sciano. And the social media backlash, they pulled, retracted it. They retracted it. Yeah, yeah. That's never happened before. Do you remember this?

And there were borderline riots on University of Tennessee's campus. Yeah, this was, I don't know, five, six years ago. A little longer than that. He was, well, the claim was that he was involved with Joe Paterno stuff, right? Yeah. He was on the staff at Joe Paterno and that, you know, there was some allegations that he knew, you know, enough that he should have spoke up and said something. Um, but he was also not maybe as good of a coach as Tennessee fans wanted to be their

next coach. Well, that was probably most of it. Yeah. So they kind of used that, and then there was just this kind of wave of people getting so upset, and they just retracted. I support it. The offer.

Anybody on the Joe Paterno staff of that era is questionable. But I'm sure there's people on that staff who had no idea that anything was going on. Still questionable, though. You know what I mean? I'm not saying they're in that staff who had no idea that anything was still questionable though. You know what I mean? I'm not saying they're guilty, but it's sketchy. Yeah.

But you wouldn't want someone accusing you of something if you didn't do anything. No, that's true. But I'm just saying if you're, if you're on that squad, it's sketchy. Yeah.

I don't know what he, so would you watch this movie? I guess that's the question. I don't know. Yeah. I don't think so. Now there has been a, there's been a movie about the Joe Paterno stuff, right?

It was an HBO movie with Al Pacino. Al Pacino. I watched it. Al Pacino plays Joe Paterno. Was it good? Yeah, it was interesting. It kind of portrayed him as just- Was it a comedy?

Yeah. It's very funny. That'd be a bold move, making a comedy about that. Let's throw in some jokes. It kind of portrayed him as clueless to the gravity of it. His allegations are starting to come out. It was a sympathetic portrayal of Joe Paterno.

He's watching game film when all this stuff's going on. It's like he doesn't get what is going on. Right. Still, come on. That doesn't give you a free pass just because you're old. We're really getting sad now sorry about that i feel like i feel like it's all my fault well at least this could become one of the greatest podcasts because we've made it sad now yeah oh yes less comedy less comedy more drama you're not you're not happy with what i

said no no i mean you proved your point so i'm not i'm not upset with you i just don't like that that's a thing so aaron you've had a lot of tragedy in life right what you have let's talk what you tell us about better help if you've been listening to this podcast and it's a little too heavy uh we're sorry about that what you should do is get with better help this episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Do you ever feel like your brain is getting in its own way? Yeah. Like, you know what you should do, what's good for you, but you just can't do it. Sometimes it just helps to talk to somebody, to talk through these things.

Therapy can help you figure out what's holding you back so you can work for yourself instead of against yourself. If you're thinking about starting therapy, it could probably be the movie. This goes back to the question of what actually makes it a basketball movie. The one with Will Ferrell. You wouldn't call American History. The Will Ferrell basketball movie I really like.

Semi-Pro. I never saw it. I just watched it not long ago. The Flint Tropics. It's really good. Woody Harrelson. Yeah. I'm into it. Okay. I didn't think it was that good. Oh, White Man Can't Jump, though. That's probably the best. Are you talking about the remake they just made? No.

No, I am not. But Woody Harrelson reminded me of that. White Man Can't Jump, that's the best basketball movie. Wesley Snipes. Yeah. That's a great movie. Yeah, that's a fun one. That's the best.

There is a Disney Channel original movie. I cannot remember the name of it, but it was about an all Jewish basketball team. And I like that one a lot. What's it called? I gotta look that up. I was waiting for the punchline. No, it's not a punchline. It's a real film. White Men Can't Jump, though? Not up there for you? No.

It was a little before my time. Okay. Who likes the remake? Who's in the remake? I think like Jack Harlow or something. Full Court Miracle. All right, I'll give that a look. There's also one called Double Teamed. Did you ever see that one? Do you ever watch any Disney Channel original movies?

What about your dog movie? Air Bud. Air Bud, yeah. Well, Air Bud, they've made an Air bud iteration for every sport now there's a lot of bad basketball movies yeah like what well like air bud air bud it's a legitimately good kids all right you're i'm going white man can't jump semi-pro what's the one with little bow wow be like mike yeah yeah like mike i think it's called another space jam. Space.

Jam's awful, dude. I loved it as a kid. You go back and watch it as an adult. It looks bad. It's like cartoon mixed with, it's just terrible. Yeah.

I didn't see the remake with LeBron. I hear it's terrible. Yeah. I thought the first one I went, that was great. You liked it. I don't even know if I've seen it, but I just thought that everyone thought that one was great. It is. Well, this is, look, I said that as if it was great. You liked it? I don't even know if I've seen it, but I just thought that everyone thought

that one was great. It is. Well, this is, look, I said that as if it was obvious. This is a controversial thing to say among people that like the movie.

Yeah. I just, I think it holds up horribly. It makes no sense. Bill Murray comes back at the end for some reason. If you were a kid, though, it's like,

wow, Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan. Yeah. You're like, this is amazing. I get the commercial appeal of it. Yeah, but not a good amazing. I get the commercial appeal of it. Yeah, but not a good movie.

I haven't seen it in a long time, so I don't know. But what about- Plus, it's a comedy, so it could never be good. Oh, you got a basketball? I'll throw a wrench. Hoop Dreams. Hoop Dreams. Never seen it.

I had no idea. It's a documentary about two young high school players, I think in Chicago, and just kind of all the stuff they're going through. And it, I mean, it's been so long since I've seen it, but I remember at the time thinking, this is so good. All right. I'll check that out. Yeah, check that out too. Send me some of these. I've heard of it before.

All right. What about? Boxing? Boxing. Well, boxing's got to be Rocky for me, but let's just take rocky out of it to have some fun uh raging bull you guys seen that i'm going digstown though i mean did you see the fighter oh the fighters are great and mark wall yeah that's great really good yeah very very good it is very good actually creed 3 is really good too. The most recent Creed.

I thought we just took all the Rockies out. I know. That was okay. Creed III was really good. Creed I, I didn't like really. Creed II, I didn't really like. Creed III, great movie. You didn't like it?

I haven't seen III. I saw I and II. III is great. It's the best one of the series for sure. Do you think if you were cast in a boxing movie, you could get in the shape that you need for it to be realistic? No, I'd quit the movie. Yeah.

There's not enough money. My whole life, I've thought I'm going to get in good physical. And I look okay. But if you were cast in a movie, they go, we're going to hook you up with personal trainers. We'll pay you all this money. You just got to devote the next eight months of your life to getting in the best shape possible. You wouldn't do it.

I don't think you're casting Creed for, you know, and he fights you in the ring. You don't think you could do it. I got no interest in being a movie star. I couldn't do it. There's movies like there was one with Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro where they both come out of retirement and maybe fight each other. Oh, it looks awful. That sounds terrible. I hadn't seen it,

but De Niro wasn't in good shape because he was supposed to be an old... Yeah. Stallone still. You're saying you would want to do that? Yeah. I could do that maybe. In that movie,

Stallone would crush him. It's like grudge match is what it's called. Yeah. That's what it's called. I don't think there's any time period where he wouldn't beat De Niro in a fight. Yeah.

Yeah. For sure. Yeah, that's probably true. Did we all cover boxing? Well, we covered the big three. Oh, Cinderella Man was another really good one.

Yeah, Russell Crowe. Never saw it. It was a pretty good movie. It's a lot about the depression. Okay. So, right up my alley. I like boxing movies. You know, you could argue

that It Man 2 is a boxing movie. It Man is martial arts. But in the second movie, he fights an American boxer who's like the champion boxer and he's come to China and he's beating up all these martial arts guys. And so It Man faces him. guys and so it man faces him yeah and it's great yeah it man very uh nobody ever talks about it but it man one two three all great martial arts movies if you're into that best fights it's not quick cuts where you can't really see what's going on i mean it's really great fights it's one of the best my favorite comedy is probably million dollar baby i hated that movie actually yeah it really plays on your emotions doesn't it why'd you hate it i just i don't know i just feel sorry for the girl the entire movie yeah she buys her mom her house and her mom's like why don't you just give me the money i can't afford the taxes on this house and i wanted to punch the mom right and i was like and

then you know then she ends up you know paralyzed and it's like there's no joy in this movie yeah it's a give us some joy some i agree some kind of redemption yeah at the end yeah favorite golf movie oh dude happy gilmore i'm going happy gilmore myself trying to think of what else oh oh yeah caddy i think happy gilmore is funnier than caddy shack caddy i don't know caddy shack is really great to me i love rodney danger comedy age is so horribly it does i don't know some of it's it's so corny and on the nose and and obviously happy gilmore's like age now that way too but see people love bill mur Murray in Caddyshack. That's almost one of my least favorite Bill Murray roles.

I like Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfield in that movie. Somebody, my buddy Zach Townsend, a comic here, he said that the greatest litmus test for somebody's sense of humor is to ask him who the funniest person in that movie is. A lot of people do think Bill Murray's character is is the funniest in that film i agree with you on that yeah least favorite i don't think i don't think he's funny at all i don't either i'm not saying bill murray's not funny i'm saying i did not laugh at ted knight maybe he's to me the funniest one he's very funny it's rodney dangerfield for me yeah dangerfield but ted knight's a very good

funny straight man so what what? Let's dance. Yeah. All that. I didn't remember Ted Knight's name, but he is very funny. I know who you're talking about. Tin Cup's another good golf movie. Oh, that's Kevin Costner? Yeah.

I don't know that I've watched that as an adult. I think it used to be on HBO when I was a kid. Kevin Costner's done so many sports movies, especially baseball. Three baseball movies. There's... Field of Dreams. Uh-huh. Bull Durham. The Love of the Game,

Bill Durham, yeah. And then there's the one with Dennis Quaid, it's a true story, The Rookie. Oh, yeah. Also four baseball movies. Well, no, no, I'm just saying, I don't know why I said it like that, like that's another one. But I just thought of it, another baseball movie is a story about a guy who makes it to the big leagues at like 35 years old or something.

Yeah, okay. Now, in the movie, it's a little more dramatic because Dennis Quaid is so much older than that in the movie. Oh, yeah. In the movie, you're like, this is a pretty old dude. Dennis Quaid was born 35. He seemed old his whole time. Oh, yeah. He's always been old. What about, there was a movie that I remember seeing as a kid, a baseball movie, where the guy like hits the ball at the beginning and he knocks the cover off the ball.

He hits a light. The natural. Yeah. That was, is that Robert? Robert Redford. Yeah, that was a good one. Mm-hmm. All right.

What do you got? What about bowling? Kingpin. Kingpin. Yeah. There's a Disney Channel original movie called The Alley Cat Strike. And it's a, they're competing for,

it's called the mighty apple. And at the very end, I mean, it's a great movie. I checked that out. Oh yeah. Disney channel, original movies.

They cover just about every sport. There's a box car racing one. There is a surfing one snowboarding. They cover it all, man. You guys missed out on that. Just, just based on when you were born. Here's two more. I sure did. Here's two more categories that we didn't cover though. One cover it all, man. You guys missed out on that just based on when you were born.

Oh, here's two more. I sure did. Here's two more categories that we didn't cover, though. One of them reminded me. We didn't say what our favorite football movie was, I don't think. I think I know, Rudy. I think so. The Replacements is a really great.

Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's a comedy. I think that's a great one, yeah. Yeah. And Any Given Sunday, Gene Hackman. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's a comedy. I think that's a great one. Yeah. Yeah. And Any Given Sunday, also very good. One of the greatest speeches in a movie, I think. Al Pacino's speech in Any Given Sunday.

Yeah, I didn't love that movie for whatever reason. It's a bit dramatic. When I was stuck in the middle seat next to the fat guy on the flight, he was watching Friday Night Lights. Yeah. That movie was great. It really was. Now, I couldn't listen to it this time, but I'm looking at his iPad. There's some, talking about some great realistic football scenes in that movie.

Yeah. I'm like, I think this is a real game. It does look that way. Yeah. It's amazing. Yeah. They're really getting hit. Everything's full speed.

A lot of times you'll watch a movie like that and everything, they're kind of like going half speed. Right. You can tell. This one, man, they're taking some real hits. What about racing movies? Well, you'll say Talladega Nights. I will say Talladega Nights.

But I'll tell you what, I just watched, I was trying to get my daughter into it. She didn't care for it. But the movie Cars, I'd never watched that before. It's really good. With Larry the Cable Guy? Yeah. I think I read that's the highest grossing sports movie before. It's really good. With Larry the Cable Guy? Yeah. I think I read that's the highest grossing sports movie ever. It's really good. If you count that as a

sports movie. Wow. More than Rocky, huh? I mean, maybe adjusted for inflation it'd be Rocky, but... But also, what's the Tom Cruise one? I can't think of it. Days of Thunder. Days of Thunder. Not really good.

I think it's poorly written. I feel like they wrote that movie and then were kind of like writing on the fly. Yeah. But it's still good. I love Robert Duvall so much. Me too. Yeah. There's a Disney Channel original movie called Motocrossed about a girl who goes undercover

as a boy to compete in BMX. Or like dirt bike. Motocross, essentially. That's a great one. Recommend you check it out. There's also a drag racing one, too, about the girl from 7th Heaven. It's all good stuff, man.

What about soccer movies? Bend It Like Beckham. What is it? Bend It Like Beckham. Bend It Like Beckham. What is it? Bend It Like Beckham. Bend It Like Beckham. Yeah. Is that a documentary though? No,

it's a movie about an Indian girl who wants to play soccer and her parents don't agree with it because that's not what she should be doing. She should be finding a husband

and, um. What about Ladybugs? Yeah. I knew you had one in mind. Let me break up the category so I can mention the movie. That's what it's all about. Rodney Dangerfield, right?

Rodney Dangerfield. And then that guy who was also in a movie with Chuck Norris called Sidekicks. Yeah. You've never seen Sidekicks? What's your favorite karate movie? There's a Disney Channel original movie. Oh, gosh. One of the Lawrence brothers. It's called Going to the Mat. It's a Disney Channel original movie. Oh, gosh. One of the Lawrence brothers

is called Going to the Mat. It was about a blind wrestler. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He did okay. He had a cane. He walked to the...

He went to the mat. Well, Ip Man is not karate. That would be kung fu, I think. But Karate Kid is really great. And Cobra Kai, especially season one.

I mean, I'll watch it. If they put out 100 seasons, I'll watch it. But Cobra Kai season one, pretty incredible. Yeah. I've watched them all too. And the last few seasons, I'm like, this isn't even really good. I just watch it for nostalgia. Yeah. I want them to this isn't even really good. I just watch it for nostalgia. Yeah.

Yeah. I want them to bring in Hilary Swank. Cause you know, she was the next Karate Kid. Yeah. Still with Mr. Miyagi. So she's still in that world. She's the only one left that they haven't brought in. She's not, you know, in the Jackie Chan.

Jaden Smith. Jaden Smith. She died, right? At the end of Million Dollar Baby. Yeah. Yeah. She did. So she's out, I guess.

Did she die or was she paralyzed? He pulled the plug, right? He pulled the plug. He euthanized her. Oh, because she didn't want to live like that. Yeah, she wanted to not be able to fight. Have you guys seen the Bill Burr joke about

the first black swim team? It's such a funny joke. All time great. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? No. Just about how there were so many movies about the first black this for and he's like i got the point where i just didn't care like the first black swim team it's a very very funny joke

and maybe i was looking up lesser known sports movies how the times have changed um oh yeah this came out 1981 back in my era. Grambling's White Tiger. True story of the first white quarterback of the Grambling football team. Oh, my gosh. It just makes me laugh. Back then, they were making movies starring Bruce Jenner. Wow. I've never heard of this movie. I hadn't either.

But how funny is that? Eddie Robinson. LeVar Burton's in it. Mm-hmm. LeVar Burton's in it. LeVar Burton plays Charles Tink Smith. Really the first female quarterback of the Gramplings, if you think about it. If they did a remake, I guess you're right. Okay.

Well, that's true. Come on, guys. Well, they do it with him. All right. But I just thought that was so funny. That's crazy. I've never heard of this. Make a movie like that.

It's a TV movie. All right. I'm just saying. I'm just reading through the Wikipedia. That's crazy. I've never heard of this. Make a movie like that. It was a TV movie. All right. Well, I'm just saying. I'm just reading through the Wikipedia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, everything you thought of was Disney. It was a guy that directed Roots. Is there another bowling movie other than, aside from Disney movies?

I mean, bowling for Columbine. Oh, The Big Lebowski is a bowling movie. Yeah, I knew there was something else. And I don't know. I'm still going to say, as a bowling movie, I'm going Kingpin, but The Big Lebowski is great. One of the best. I got one more lesser known.

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. What is it? It's a cult classic, supposedly. Okay, this came out in 1979. Yeah. I would watch that just based on that movie cover. That's a pretty good movie cover. Semi-professional basketball team, I think.

Or struggling professional basketball team. That's fun. Never heard of it. All right. I think Cars is the highest grossing sports movie of all time. The highest grossing sports comedy of all time, The Waterboy. Oh, gosh. I forgot all about Waterboy.

What a good football movie. I mean, I was just thinking about it the other day. That halftime when they're in there. He goes, how about when Bobby Boucher showed up at halftime and the Mud Dogs won the whatever bowl? And it's like, oh, man. He comes out of the tunnel. Every season when Notre Dame inevitably loses, I go play the clip of Rob Schneider going, oh, no. We suck again.

It's so funny, dude. Those movies you may think about. There's been numerous back in my day where it would be so cheesy. The public address announcer would also be the play-by-play announcer. So the people in the stands would be hearing, and he goes to the 10, the 5, touchdown. I think there's some movie where Rob Schneider is the, maybe it's the water boy. He's the what?

No, Rob Schneider is just a crazy local fan. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's the you can do it. He's the what? No, Rob Schneider is just a crazy local fan. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's the you can do it. He's the you can do it. There's some movie where Rob Schneider is the play-by-play announcer and the PA announcer. So everybody in the stands is getting the play-by-play. Oh, you know, there's another baseball movie, speaking of, Benchwarmers. That was really good.

A lot of people didn't like that. The remake or the original? The one about Jesus or? The bench is actually a metaphor for purgatory. You know about the guys that did South Park? Oh, basketball? Oh, yeah. I'm getting that mixed up.

Benchwarmers is Rob Schneider, John Heater, and... Oh, you were talking about the remake. Oh, was I? No, I'm thinking of Bad News Bears. Yeah. I think... Want me to wrap this up? Sure. Aaron's done. i'm thinking of bad news bears yeah i think just we wrapped this up sure aaron's done i'm out of it bad news bears though that's one we actually we we we didn't even mention but bad news bears the original was great and i think the remake was good too oh what about hockey movies come on come on a. We'll just do it. Miracle. Yeah, Miracle. I liked, I mean, Mighty Ducks was really good.

There was also one about a Russian team. Miracle. Is that what it was? Well, Miracle's about the USA versus Russia in the Olympics. Did a, a CCCP? Yeah. Was it? Yeah, yeah.

I don't think it's the same movie. It's the Soviet Union. Kurt Russell? Who were the good guys in the movie? I don't think it's the same movie. It's the Soviet Union. Kurt Russell? Who were the good guys in the movie? I don't think Kurt Russell was in it. Who were the good guys? I think the Russians were the good guys. You're watching those kind of movies, huh?

Yeah, it's a different movie. I just saw it when I was a kid. I thought it was really good. Obviously, Mighty Ducks is great, but I feel like there's one- Let's just think a good sports movie. What about Goon? Goon is very underrated. Yeah, Goon was great.

The guy from American Pie. Yeah. Don't you think a good sports movie has to have a moment where you get chills? Yeah. I don't. Yeah. Yeah, I do. Okay, good.

When Russia won, he liked it. Yeah, dude. Do you get chills from the Mighty Ducks? For sure. Oh, get out of town. I mean, I've not watched it recently. But you were a kid when it came out, right? Yeah.

So it was probably... And Emilio Estevez, I'm a big fan of. I mean, if it's not a Disney movie, you just dismiss it. I think Mighty Ducks is Disney. Yeah, but it's got to be on Disney Channel. Yeah, can't be a mainstream hit. Yeah. Let's see.

There's got to be another hockey movie, though, that I'm forgetting about. Well, Slapshot, I haven't seen, but that's one that people often mention. Okay. I don't know that one. Paul Newman. I don't. About pool movies. Are we saying that sport?

Well, you said no, but now you brought it up. The Hustler and The Color of Money. Yeah. The Hustler, I've seen. Color of Money is Tom Cruise and Paul Newman. Aaron has checked out. What are we doing? Ping pong.

What's your favorite ping pong movie? Forrest Gump. I mean, go on. Well, there's just so many. I don't know. I just wonder. A League of Their Own is another good baseball movie. Whoa, what a great one.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a really great baseball movie. I just watched it recently. It is. It's so good. It holds up. There's so many sports movies.

There are. I'm trying to go through the list here. Yeah. All right. Well, we did it. Anything else else Dusty Anymore I don't think so

Chariots of Fire Chariots of Fire I mean Most iconic soundtrack Of a sports movie Maybe ever Outside of Outside of Rocky

Yeah But you know But you know The Chariots of Fire Dun dun dun dun dun I don't even know What that movie is Dun dun dun dun dun There's white dudes running on the beach

You would know the movie You would know that song What about a soccer movie? Is there a soccer movie? I think we did that Ladybugs Oh we did Dusty's into it man

I love sports movies I do too I do too Me I do too. Me too. All right. Gladiator. Yeah. Is there anything else?

I don't think so. I'd like to, I'm going to be in Columbus, Ohio this weekend. Oh, nice. At the Columbus Funny Bone. Awesome. I go there every year. People do come to those shows and I hope they come again. It's going to be very exciting.

If you're a listener from Columbus and you came last year, I got a whole new act from last year. So, you know, I mean, I've been able to pump out. Now the hour's not where I want it to be, but I've been able to pump out a new hour pretty fast and it feels good.

Yeah. If you're listening, it's not where Dusty wants it to be or even where you'll want it to be. It is good though though people have been like loving it that's great yeah

well I was just in outside Columbus and a lot of Buckeye fans said to tell you hello and oh after the loss yeah that's fun

October 27th 28th I'll be in Dallas and Fort Worth at Hyena's Comedy Club awesome November 8th I'm headlining Zany's here in Nashville. All right.

Now, I'm here at Zany's all the time for New Material Monday or opening for you guys, but Zany's finally gave in and let me headlight a show. Are you going to put us on the show? I don't know. I guess I should, right? I'd like to be on it. Yeah, I would like to do it, too. Really?

We're kind of putting you on the spot here. No, we can talk about it later. I'm just saying. But know that if we don't end up being on the show, people know that we did ask to do it. Yeah, well, I guess folks

let us know if y'all want Aaron and Dusty on the show and we'll decide then. So anyway, please come to those shows. Uh-oh. Dusty, tell us when you know this song.

I mean, this feels like Rick Flair's intro music. Best wrestling movie. I think that might get demonetized on YouTube, though, if you play that song. Oh, yeah. You recognize that? Yeah. They'll probably have to take it out, though. No, no, no.

That was less than 15 seconds, right? I don't know. Warren said... I don't know. We'll see. Or we'll remove it later. Best wrestling movie. No, no, no, no, no. That was less than 15 seconds, right? I don't know. Warren said, I don't know. We'll see. Or we'll remove it later. Best wrestling movie. I think we're scrapping this whole podcast. Oh, best wrestling movie.

Oh, no. No Holds Barred with Hulk Hogan and Tiny Lester. I've never heard of it. I like it. I like it. You've never heard of No Holds Barred? What about best arm wrestling movie? Over the top.

Yeah, over the top. What's your second favorite arm wrestling movie? Any dates coming up here? In November 3rd and 4th, I'm in Albany, New York at the Albany Funny Bones. All right. I love that club. Yeah. Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun. Get a good mall there. Yeah. Come to that if you're in the Albany Funny Bones. Alright, I love that club. Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun.

Come to that if you're in the Albany area. Or anywhere around. Or anywhere. Fly to it. If you're in California, you've been looking for an excuse to come to Albany. I know you have. So come on out there. And the next week I'm in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Hey, I like the

Stress Factory. I don't got a lot to say about bridgeport but the stress factory they've been they've been very good to me so come on if you're in bridgeport connecticut i'll be back there and be careful yeah i will be yeah all right all right that's it thank you thank you to everybody yeah thank you as always not lost. Yeah. We love you. We're having a good time. We love you.

I, I feel bad. I've said some mean things about Nate today. I'm sorry about that. It's all a joke. Just kind of recap real fast. What you said, you look at her clip.

I just want to go to the very end around a lot. I, I joked that dusty was fired from the podcast and a lot of people thought that was real. The four of us are still, it was just, it's just schedules haven't matched up. Yeah.

At some point, the four of us will be back and some of you might not want the four of us to be back, but at some point it will happen. Unfortunately. All right. Well, that's it.

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