The Nateland Podcast - 171: #171 Halloween (The Bible) ft. Stephen Bargatze

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

This week, Nate is in New York preparing for his Saturday Night Live debut and Aaron is in South America using his Babbel skills, so Brian and Dusty are joined by Nate's dad Stephen to talk about Halloween. The guys discuss their favorite halloween traditions, candy, and costumes but also delve into topics like hypnosis, magicians and witches in the Bible, and the best names for grandkids to call their grandparents.  - Hello Fresh - HelloFresh.com/50nateland Go to HelloFresh.com/50nateland and use code 50nateland for 50% off plus free shipping! That’s 50% off plus free shipping!  America’s #1 Meal Kit Indeed - Indeed.com/Nate Start hiring NOW with a SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLAR SPONSORED JOB CREDIT to upgrade your job post at Indeed.com/NATE. Offer good for a limited time. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? You need Indeed.

Hello folks and hey bear As always i'm here with dusty slay. All right, i'm brian bates Aaron, oh wait, i'm as big as as Aaron so I can fill up his space. I didn't even notice. Not the head, though. I don't have the head. Stephen Bargatze sitting there. All right.

A.K.A. Nate's dad. That's right. That's right. Where's Nate? I'm not supposed to say. They told me so many things I can't say. Nathan's in New York. Yeah.

I guess you have a lot of secrets. Yeah. What was he on? Was he on, I don't even know, Good Morning America? Nathan's in New York Yeah I guess I guess you have a lot of secrets Yeah What was he on Was he on I don't even know Good Morning America He was on This morning on Today Show

We're recording this on Monday Today Show I get a mix up I recorded the wrong one So I got in a bunch of trouble I recorded The Good Morning America Oh well

And he never I waited I never saw him So I think he's on Seth Meyers tomorrow night Did you text him You never showed up

What happened Did you get bumped You You never showed up? What happened? Did you get bumped? He was on a radio show here in Nashville. And I was listening to it in the early morning when he didn't show up. And I called in. Oh, yeah. And they ended up putting me on it because he never did show up. Oh, he didn't show up?

He overslept. Oh, okay. And so they thought it was great, just more fun to be. I was going to go, wait until I get over to him. Oh, yeah. Oh, he didn't show up. He overslept. Oh, okay. And so they thought it was great. Just more fun to be. I was going to go wait till I get over to him. Oh, yeah.

I know exactly where he's at. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's fun. And he just overslept? Yeah. That's not the story he told. I don't want to get him in trouble. He said he was out running.

He was sleeping. And he just missed his time. Well, I feel like oversleeping is better than I'm out running. That's worse. Yeah. You're like, sorry, I missed the interview. I was better than I'm out running. That's worse. Yeah. You're like, sorry, I missed the interview. I was exercising.

I was wide awake. I just chose to forget about it. Oversleeping, that's a mistake. Running, that's a choice. Yeah. Running away from your responsibilities. That's right. Well, it's going to be the Nate Less podcast pretty soon.

He's missed three straight weeks, but he's back next week. All right. The grand return. Grand return. I'll go ahead and tell you next week's

topic will be Saturday Night Live. Yeah. And so if you got either questions about the show or

after you watch it, you got questions, email us at nateland at natebargatzee.com and we'll read

some next week and learn about Nate's crazy week on Saturday Night Live. Yeah. Great. I have some stories just that we did Radio City Hall

the Saturday. Radio City Music Hall, yeah. Music Hall. Three sold out shows. And we knew, I knew something was up because there's some people that said some people

from Saturday Night Live are here. And I think they came, I'm not 100 percent positive on this, but I think they came two nights in two different shows. And I thought they were there to see you. I was hoping they were there. No, I was going to tell him about you guys. But but it was just something that we thought. Well, I wonder if that's kind of strange that why would they come? But it was just something that we thought, well, I wonder, that's kind of strange. Why would they come? You just wouldn't think that they did.

But also, Seinfeld was supposed to come and Jimmy Fallon, and that didn't happen. That's how it always goes. They're always like, oh, Seinfeld's coming. That's what they tell me every show I do. Every show. And then he never comes. He never comes. But they did come.

And did y'all get a tour of Saturday Night night live uh y'all's a pretty big word uh laura and them and all them did laura did you oversleep or were you out running they specifically requested you not come i was running that happened the night the day after and uh i'll be honest with you i don't know but nathan works a lot and i had worked three weekends in a row and i have doctors to see so i so instead of staying and going to see jimmy fallon i went and saw my doctor the next day so i said i gotta fly home so me and carol didn't uh that sounds like a huge mistake it was we probably should have stayed there yeah and did that but uh we actually did stay in keep harper so that that Laura could go and have some fun. And then we left early the next morning to get home for me.

And I've taken three weeks off. But that turned out not to be a good idea either. You might need that mic a little closer. I don't know. I'm just having a little trouble hearing you. Yeah, get up in there. Well, take the headphones off. I bet you can hear me a lot better.

Yeah, we don't even need these, do we? Yeah, and you can adjust, get up in there. Well, take the headphones off. I bet you can hear me a lot better. Yeah, we don't even need these, do we? So. Yeah, and you can adjust that right up in there too, if you need, whatever you need to do. Yeah. You let me know, buddy. Yeah. I'm just hanging. You know what I mean?

I'm just hanging. You're the professionals. Yeah. Aaron is, he's been talking about this trip to Brazil for what, two years? He has been. I actually am shocked that he actually went because for a long time he kept saying, he kept doing that ad read and saying, I need to brush up on my Spanish because I'm going to Brazil. And I really didn't believe that he was going. I don't think of Aaron as a- Portuguese,

I believe. Okay. I don't think of Aaron as a liar, but- We were starting to question it. Yeah. It could be a bit. Well, he went. Is it Portuguese? I thought Brazil was Portuguese. Makes sense to me. I think he's in Chile right now. They are in Chile. So he's down there living it up. And then I don't, Dusty doesn't eat pork.

And I generally thought God doesn't care. But then something happened to you that makes me kind of question what, I think Dusty might be onto something. He could be. Not me. There's the picture. God is onto it. What happened here?

I was eating pork. That's what happened. Something came down. That's what happened. The parasites caught on fire. Yeah. If you're listening at home, there's a burnout kitchen at the Bargatze house.

And it completely smoked the house. It was a grease fire because I'm from, originally was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and we know how to cook bratwurst. Right. And you can't even buy the bratwurst that I grew up on. They're very hard to find here. But the Publix that we shop at with Dusty, they do sell it. They sell them. Yeah, that's a good Publix.

But they don't sell it with the other bratwurst. You have to know where to find it. It's a little secret place. But it's an all-white bratwurst. And what you do, you have to deep fry it. And then it splits open. And then it's delicious. Oh, then the oil gets down in there. Oh, you know.

I like it. You know, they make chicken and beef bratwurst, but they still use a pork casing. So it's tough to really find. I don't even know what the bratwurst is. I don't know what animal comes out of the one I eat, but it's just called brat. But what happened? It caused the fire. Well, I like to blame a lot of other people.

But I had come home and I was... You were out running. I was out. I was running. I actually was at the Y doing my water aerobics. Came home. I had a golf game at 1.30. So I came home and I was just going to cook me a bratwurst for

lunch. Just one. I've always said golf ruins lives. The worst thing of it home and I was just going to cook me a bratwurst for lunch. Just one. I've always said golf ruins lives. The worst thing of it all is I wasn't even supposed to be home. I was supposed to be in Seattle with Nathan. But like I said, I had three weeks in a row. I had enough of, I mean, I love Nathan, but I just want to go home and see doctors and just get off that bus for a while. I just needed a break. So I said, I'm not going. I already had my plane ticket and everything, but Nathan was kind enough to say, okay, you can go.

I had to pay him for the ticket. But other than that, I was allowed to stay home and I cooked this brat in celebration. But I got a phone call about being on a podcast. I won't say nothing else, but you know that most people call me, they want me on a podcast. I won't say nothing else, but you know that most people call me, they want me on a podcast. They don't want me. They want me to bring Nate. So I have to be really nice and go, yeah, yeah, I would love to do this and stuff. Yeah. But I don't, you know, I have to kind of say no in a nice way or figure it out how we're going to do this. So this is what the phone call, it just threw me off. So I was trying to go, oh yeah, oh, we would love to do it and stuff. But you know, they was even wanting us to come there and all this stuff it's like you know i

don't think they really understand his life and uh i could do it but he you know i was just trying to explain in a nice way got my mind because i'm old and i just ate the bratwurst and left and i left the stove on full blast with about five inches of oil on it. And it melted my microwave completely that. And it had the whole house, the entire house, was solid black smoke. Carol was home. Can't smell because she lost her smell and taste in COVID in 20. Really?

Yeah. So she still can't smell or taste. Okay. Not as funny as you would think. This is hilarious to me. Sorry. The cool part is now when we go out to eat, we don't go out for flavor. We go out for texture.

Okay. What do you want? Crunchy tonight? Or you want soft and stuff? Because she can't taste anything. Wow. And she's lost it 19, I mean, 2020. And she still mentions it every meal. There's not a

single meal that she doesn't go, I can't take this. What about hot pepper? She trying to get into that? She knows spices. Okay. She knows if something has heat like that, she can taste that and stuff. But she has, I mean, that block was sort of been wasted on her anyway. So I wouldn't know, but I didn't cook her one. I just made me one. So she also lost sight of black smoke? Well, no. I was gone about 20 minutes. Okay. I say 30, but she's going to say 20.

And, uh, and she did not smell the smoke. Cause about in, in 20, in all, it was on at least 30, 40 minutes, full blast, the oil was. And I left, she left. She did not smell it. And she stayed gone two and a half, minutes, full blast, the oil was. And I left. She left. She did not smell it. And she stayed gone two and a half, three hours. Oh, she was gone. So she went, she took Skye.

Okay. And he took her to a park, came home. And she calls my daughter first. She's like, I don't know what it was. I couldn't breathe in there. I couldn't smell anything. She says, our house might be on fire. The smoke alarm alarms going off.

And then she opened the door and it almost literally just burned her throat, burned everything up. It was solid black. So she did call the fire department. They were awesome. They were there within four minutes. There's a lot more to this story I'm not going to tell because I know Nathan will. What hole were you on?

I was on hole number two. I fired five holes in a row. After you found out your house was on fire? Yes, because it's not my fault. Abigail said the house might be on fire. Oh, so you kept on playing. And she said, I'll call you back and took her five holes. And when she didn't call back, she texted me saying, why aren't you here? There's three fire trucks here. I love how relaxed you are though. The house might be on fire. You're like, all right, well, I'll keep golfing. Might is a big word.

Yeah, I'll keep golfing. It could have been a towel. How do I know? But then what happened- I am just on hole two here, though. On hole five, I remembered that I left the grease work. Oh, man. So I go, uh-oh.

I think I better go home. And I was about an hour away. I was about an hour away. So it wasn't easy. When I got there, everybody was gone. But I will tell you, my wife has been so nice. My friend goes, you should hurry up home. I go, why should I hurry? Because I'm going to be yelled at for the next three hours.

Three weeks? It was for the rest of my life. Yeah. Now, she brings it up a lot, but she has not really yelled at me. Okay, good. But anywhere we go, I say,

where do you want to go out and eat? She goes, oh, that's because you burned our house down and let's go here. And I have no choice. Be tough to sell her on bratwurst. That's going to be, I think we're going to give up pork

for a little while. I wouldn't break up that lack of taste and smell to her after that. Yeah, give up pork and microwaves. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a sign. But we have great insurance. State Farm, Vernon Wells came in, and he said that he, they're taking care of everything.

Sponsored by Vernon Wells. We just can't live there for about three months. Three months? Yes. Where are you living? Well, that's going to be a big surprise. And I don't know if Nathan's going to hear this before he's done, but we're living with Nate now. He doesn't even know it.

So it's going to be a big surprise on Nate when he comes home to realize that you think the bus was crowded. Now I'm living in your house. He hosts SNL and is back living with his parents. That's right. That's going to be great. He's going to come home to charge his phone and the CPAP is going to be plugged in. That's going to be great. He's going to come home to charge his phone, and the CPAP's going to be plugged in. He's going to love it. It's going to be a great surprise.

We haven't even told him yet. Wow. Well, surprise, Nate. That's awesome. Where were you? Did you burn a house down? No, I did not. I went to Des Moines, Iowa.

Birthplace of Magic. Is it? That's right. Oh, okay. Is it? Nate, you just have a joke? No, I did not. I went to Des Moines, Iowa to be- Birthplace of Magic. Is it? That's right. Oh, okay. Is it? Nate used to have a joke saying that. Oh, okay. No, it was a great place.

That's where Nathan got in that box. Oh, okay. To surprise me. Yeah. Those that know that joke know. Yeah. But it's a great place. I like it a lot.

I had three shows. Two were sold out. The third was very close. And it was great. It was a hot weekend. I had my friend Alec Parent with me. Was it a theater? Comedy Club, the Des Moines Funny Bone.

Oh, okay. That's a good place. It was great. Yeah, yeah. Weather was great. It was good. Yeah, it was great. I had a great time.

I went there for the first time in 2015. I featured for the comic Dominique. We were doing a two-person show, and I pretty much bombed everyone. So it's nice to come back since then. I've been back since then. But it's nice to now sell it out and have great shows. It feels good. Did you ask everybody, remember the time I bombed?

Any Dominique fans here? No. I don't think there's a ton of crossover between me and Dominique's fans, but I liked Dominique. I thought she was very funny, but I struggled on those shows. Yeah. What about you?

I was in Hoover, Alabama at Stardome opening for Angela Johnson. And she sold out every show and just had a great time. What's her fan base? I mean, majority women. Like Leanne Morgan. So you're becoming a majority in women? Yeah, that's true.

That's true. That's my go-to open for women, much more successful than I am. And they're fans. But I do do well with those shows. I know you're material enough to know it would go well. Yeah. It would do great. So it was a lot of fun.

I hadn't been there in a while. A lot of people asked when you were coming, Dusty. So we had a great time. I thought the Tennessee-Alabama game was down there 50 minutes away. And I thought, who's going to come to it? But Angela's fans. Yeah, probably not a lot. Yeah, their husbands going to come to the, but Angela's fans. Yeah, probably not a lot. Yeah, their husbands used to wear crossover so much now, but probably not a lot of crossover fans.

Yeah, well, apparently not because she packed it out. Nathan has a great, you know, his Angela Johnson story? I don't know. They were in Montreal and Angela hadn't been in comedy a month, but she was killing it with the fingernail thing and stuff like that. And so Angela came up to him and said, you were the nicest guy here. You're the only guy here that hadn't hit on me. And she said, when I go, I want you to come warm up for me. And Nathan kind to himself kind of went, look, look darling you've been in this a month yeah i've

been you know i got seven eight years into this stuff and he didn't say it he goes maybe but within a month he was warming up for her wow so it came out exactly what you're gonna say he said well you're gonna go have a drink and talk about it no but uh so he ended up working we she came over our house several times nicest Nicest person in the world. We love her. Yeah, I was at your house with her when Nate got the announcement about his Comedy Central half hour. Yeah, yeah. And you did some magic tricks for her and her friends.

I still have that picture on my refrigerator with her. We're trying to be, because she's living here now, we're trying to be her grandparents. Because all of her family and his family are not from here. You got to have some grandparents, somebody in there to take care of your kids. So we have volunteered. Yeah, I mean, our kids could need some grandparents too. You don't have family? Well, I do, but they're all in Alabama.

Oh, well, then we put us down. Yeah. Yeah. We'll keep, drop them off. Yeah. Keep them in. Just, I won't cook and I will keep them. Yeah. Yeah. We'll keep dropping them off. Yeah. Keep them in. Just I won't cook and I will keep them. Yeah.

Perfect. We would love that. Well, her baby and your baby are, I think, born the same week. Yeah. My newest, my son, Sam. Yep. About the same age. And you and her, same age.

Yeah. Are we? I think y'all are born the same week. Wow. No way. How do you know this stuff? I just know a lot of stuff. And she was supposed to be on today, but then she bailed.

So we had to- Oh, man. Thank you, Angela. Well, you weren't our second choice, but you were 10th or 11th choice. Yeah. Actually, you know what? A lot of cancellations. We asked the crew to be on.

I'm a big fan of, from Texas, big red, the big red soda drink. Yeah. And, uh, they're very hard to find in Tennessee and especially in the glass bottles. Luckily for me, one Bucky sells it and, uh, and the fountain, which I love, but the glass. So I had bought one cause I was supposed to do this podcast in December and I bought one, one. It's been just for that podcast. But we lost it in the fire. So I took a turn.

I have to take that. Well, last year, this is our Halloween episode. Last year, I went as Dusty for Halloween, if you remember. I do remember, yeah. I remember that, yeah. I was going to go as you this year. I thought we had already did a Halloween episode,

but I guess Halloween comes around every year, doesn't it? Yeah, here we go again. Well, last year it was horror movies and scary stories. Okay. Now, two years ago, we did a straight-up Halloween episode with Nate, Aaron, and Mike Vecchione, but I'm like, hey, we've got different people, different perspectives. Yeah, people are going to hearione. But I'm like, hey, we got different people. Different perspectives.

Yeah, people are going to hear some stuff they've already heard, but whatever. Should we get in these comments? Yeah, let's do it. All right, comments. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and natelandatnatebargatze.com. This is from John Lahr. As a... Oh, gosh. All right, here we go. Let's get it. You know, I gotta, I gotta move slow here. As a major fan of the podcast and Utahan, I waited and bait,

I waited with bated breath for the Utah episode. I was kind of nervous knowing much of the state's history and waiting to see if y'all would botch it i am relieved y'all recovered y'all i can't i don't know why i can't read today but should i do it no no i'll be fine all right i uh i am relieved y'all covered it in such a manner i am grateful for the fun facts the jokes the stories and this week's episode well you botched up the reading of it so they ought to be happy for that you know you did well on the, you botched up the reading of it, so they ought to be happy for that. You did well on the podcast, but you botched the reading.

Yeah, exactly. It helped that we had Alex on, who was a native Utahn and could answer a lot of the stuff. Well, I know nothing about Utah. I've been to Salt Lake City a couple of times, but I don't know anything about it. One thing we didn't talk about, we talked about Mormons a lot, and they don't drink coffee.

And we didn't get into that. And again, just like with the pork, I didn't really think there's anything to it until you went to Salt Lake City and tried to go buy coffee and God struck you down. That's true. I got vertigo out there. Wow. And I've been struggling on and off again with coffee. I felt like coffee was not doing me right. So I would quit it for a while and then I would start to feel good and I would go, you know what, I'm going to drink coffee. And then I would drink it for two or three days and then seem like something else would happen to me. So I don't think I'm supposed to be drinking coffee. I'm off it again now. I love coffee, but it is really addictive. I mean, I'll have one cup one day and I'll be like, all right, that's good. I had a good cup of coffee.

I feel good. The next day, I'm like a cup and a half. And then I'm two cups. And then before you know it, I'm three cups driving down the road looking for another cup of coffee. What makes a good cup of coffee? I hate coffee. I like black coffee. And I just think- I mean, does it matter who makes it?

It does matter. I don't have a particular brand that I like, but you go to a better coffee shop, like Folgers, stuff like that. That's no good. That's like- The kind they give you in the hotel? Yeah, it's like gut rock coffee.

Yeah, it's just like, it does matter. I don't want something so highly caffeinated, but a good coffee, it's got almost a little bitterness to it. I love it. One thing about the Mormons that I found, we were in Salt Lake two weeks ago and we got to visit the Capitol and then the governor's office, maybe you don't want me to tell you this, but they had a little back room and you go back there, there was a whole thing of Cokes, like a fountain. Oh, okay. So they had- Wow, they're really partying at the governor's house. They didn't have- A lot of Coke.

No, but it was like, they don't have, they didn't have coffee. Yeah. Right. Who needs it? Well, they have Coke. But they did. I shouldn't have said Coke. They had Pepsi.

Yeah. Yeah. But they can drink soda now. Yeah. So that's got caffeine. Yeah. Yeah, it's not caffeine because they've explained to me before. Oh, I thought it was only caffeine.

People think that, but it's not. It's something about the Book of Mormon talks about hot drinks and things like that. Oh, they can't have hot drinks? See, I shouldn't even. I ordered a tea there hot. Now John's jumping in. He's like, now you're boxing. Sorry, John. It's not caffeine, guys. It John's jumping in. He's like, now you're watching. John is so mad. Sorry, John.

It's not caffeine, guys. It's the hot drinks. We blew it. Don't even drink. If you're going to have soup, you can't drink it. You got to eat it with a spoon. Oh, man. You're not allowed to drink your soup.

When I was there, my first meal was hot tea and hot soup. So I was, ooh. Hot tea, I love. I love hot tea. I'm a big hot tea fan. I'm a hot tea major fan. Well, sorry, John, for we blew it there. The comments.

Anyway. He wanted us to botch it. Deep down, he wanted us to botch it. Yeah. All right. Chad Kirk. Breakfast. I love the shingles joke.

Bring it back and add Dusty's and Aaron's additions. That made me laugh so hard. What was Aaron's additions? I don't know what Aaron brought. Yeah, I don't know either. I actually tried it out this weekend at Stardome, Saturday night. Yeah. You know.

Well, it was fun in the moment. It was fun in the moment. But it's probably not a funny scene right now. The way I tried it is I did a separate joke about how everybody wanted my baby to get sick with chicken pox. They're obsessed with her getting chicken pox. And then later in the set, was there any single ladies? I mean, single ladies. I mean, my daughter would get chicken pox.

And that's the way I did it. How did that go? About like what you just did. Did you bring it? Did you do the, if you liked it, then you should have put some cream on it? Oh, well, that's where you went wrong. You're still doing your old joke. You got to buy it.

You just did your old joke. You didn't add the tags we made. Well, I have a reason now why I want a woman to be shingled. I mean, that's the line you gave me was give a reason. Hey, I'm married. I'm looking for a woman shingles because my daughter needs shingles. All my shingle ladies. If you liked it, then you should have put some cream on it.

Well, I think I would have been escorted off stage. I don't think so. In that moment. I think you would be surprised. You are in Birmingham. It's funny in the moment, but I mean, I don't want to put cream on it because I want them to keep their shingles. Give to my baby. It doesn't matter.

Don't get too into the details, you know? Well, yeah. It's got to take a chance. Yeah. Have some fun. Yeah. Loosen up a little bit, you know? Well, you can have that joke going forward since you wrote it.

Well, I don't want to take your first joke. Johnny Linsenmeier. He's got to spell that a lot, you bet. Yeah. Over the phone. He has to divide that up. Linsenmeier. Linsen, and then Meyer. Yeah.

But they go together. It's L-I-N-S-E-N and then Meyer, like the grocery store. I was blown away by Bates thinking he could blend in as a professional soccer player. Soccer requires tremendous amounts of skill and cardiovascular endurance. No offense, but I don't think Bates has either. Wow. If he could blend in with any sport as a professional, my suggestion would be one of the middle guys on the bobsled. The push off and jumping in in the sled may be tricky,

but he could do it. Well, that's a pretty good suggestion. A lot of people still made the same mistake Dusty made by listing whatever they're best at in sports. And I think you would just get called out real quick. A lot of people really were upset about me saying soccer because they're passionate soccer fans. The soccer fans are the worst. And I'm sure they're right. They're so intense. Oh, they are.

They're so intense. I'm sure they're right. I'm just saying I feel like I could hide out there for a little while. And look, all right, you're right. I'd get exposed and the game would end one to nothing instead of zero to zero. Come on. How big of a deal are we going to be here? Well, I mean, I felt the same way. I was so offended by you guys not thinking that I would be blended in as a professional swimmer. I mean, I'm a very good swimmer. What's the hair also?

I mean, I'm a very good swimmer. What's the hair also? I think that stuff's kind of overrated. I mean, if we're really trying, I mean, I could cut it. You know what I mean? Somebody said bowling. Hey, I would say bowling for- I'm terrible at bowling, though. I know, but be the one of you do that.

Oh, actually, when you look like you'd be a good one of those. Maybe, but I'm at least a good swimmer. It would be like, wow, that guy really got beat bad. But you're not allowed to wear the fins. Yeah, but- Well, least a good swimmer. It would be like, wow, that guy really got beat bad. But you're not allowed to wear the fins. Yeah, but I never wear the fins. I'm a great swimmer, but I'm a terrible bowler. I'm probably not great at throwing an ax. I look like it, but the moment I threw it, you would go, well, this guy's not good.

I just think it needs to be a team sport where they could carry it for you and you don't even have to touch the ball, maybe. Well, bat-tee ball. What's the ice one? Curling. Curling. Maybe. Bowling is the one sport where if you get lucky, you can do the best that's possibly can do on a few rolls. I can't even think of the word.

But, I mean, you can roll a strike very first time playing. You know what? very first time playing? You know, we, I worked for the Athletic Association here in Tennessee and did school shows and stuff, but I had to work several sports. And we, while I was there, we picked bowling up as a sanctioned sport and we started doing it. And I kind of thought, I don't know. But you talk about crazy fans. They're the craziest.

Oh, really? And it's one of the greatest sports ever because you have five guys. And everybody's going against the one guy. Oh, yeah. The one, two. So the worst guy on the team, he just has to beat their worst guy. Oh, yeah. And there's some times where he just gets a spare and it wins that whole game for them.

So sometimes his game is more important than the two guys that are bowling 200. Oh, that's interesting. And it was- Maybe I don't understand team bowling that way. Yeah, team bowling was just such a different thing. My mom used to do a lot of team bowling when I was a kid. I would hang out. I was a bowling alley kid.

I used to hang out there a lot. A lot of cigarette smoking there. Yeah, yeah. Because they go by the total of their points. Yeah. So that guy who's not that good can just, you know, can bowl a 79, but that could beat the other guy's 76 and be enough for them to win. And, you know, I cried every year watching it.

But. Somebody that would do good. And it's one that physically handicapped kids can play. The physically challenged kids, they can bowl. They're allowed to put that little ramp thing and push it off, and they can get points for their team. But what if you just had five good players? Then you're going to win.

I mean, that would be amazing. That would be amazing, and then do it. Betts. Mookie Betts. Mookie Betts. I was there the year that his team, they went to the state championship. And there was everybody. And of course, you just knew he was a good football player.

And we just thought it was amazing that this guy plays football and stuff. But he was an awesome bowler. And not a bad baseball player. Yeah, he does pretty well at that too. Yeah. Yeah, I think I've heard that he'd rolled a 300 game one time. Yeah. I don't think he did in the state.

But, I mean, he was great. And your mom's a Kentucky Hall of Fame bowler? Yeah. And her dad, both of them. Wow. Yeah. How good a bowler are you? Terrible.

My mom didn't like me. I was the only one, she never took bowling and she took, but my sister has bowled a 300. And, uh, so, uh, everybody else, but I never really, uh, I never really got into it. But I liked the bow. It got sadder as it went. It got what? It got sadder as it went along. Well, it's kind of like I figured that's the way it should be first because Brian picked these out.

Why would you even pick this one out to read? And if I was going to read this one, I would start right there where it says, well, if he could play sports, I like that suggestion that you'd be the middle guy in the bobsled. Very funny. Very funny. Very good. But I wouldn't have read that top part. The part that makes fun of me? Yeah.

I just read what he puts in here. I know. I'm not blaming you. I'm just a teleprompter guy here. If he's the guy that's picking these out, I would have done some editing. You're saying to just make myself look good. Yeah, I would. Yeah. Well, a couple weeks ago, I was blamed for only picking saying to just make myself look good. Yeah, I would. Yeah.

Well, a couple of weeks ago, I was blamed for only picking ones that did make me look good. You can't win. You can't win. All right. Pilot Bill. Love the podcast and all the Southwest Airlines comments, critiques. I'm a pilot with them, and I have seen most of the situations you talk about on the podcast. Dusty is spot on calling out people who get in a wheelchair

to pre-board. It is not uncommon to have less people using wheelchairs at the destination than use them to board at the departure city. We call these miracle flights where the passengers are miraculously healed by the magic of air travel. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. I mean, all of the comments I got of being an ableist and being a jerk, I'm vindicated again. I mean, I'm just a nice guy, and I'm trying to call out the people faking in wheelchairs, and people act like I'm the bad guy. Come on, guys. Now, I can think of- Thank you, Pilot Bill. Yeah.

He's right. I can think of the only situation I could think of where that could make sense is if the airport you depart from, say it's Atlanta, some huge airport, and you're flying to Appleton, Wisconsin, where you just basically walk out, get in your car. If the airports are greatly different, then maybe I could see that. Well, if it's not Southwest Airlines, I think what you're saying is fine. But if it's Southwest, the wheelchair gets you to board before everybody else, regardless of how much they paid for a ticket. So when I pay a lot for my ticket so that I can get a good boarding spot, and then there's a lot of wheelchairs in there, I'm like, come on, guys. I got a guy who uses a cane in his act. He juggles a cane. Yeah. Nothing's wrong with him, but he gets, every time he flies, he walks with his cane so he can

get on. I think it's wrong. Yeah. I think it's 1,000. The thing that happens to me, and you didn't mention it, I've had it happen two times where somebody comes in and they want to sit together and I paid extra to get in first. Yeah. So I'm at the window and they go, would you switch with this lady? And you got now, you sit in the middle. Even though I paid the 50 bucks more to get where I want. And one time I said, if she gives me the 50 bucks, I'll sit in the middle. And you'd have thought, I mean, the whole plane hated me.

Oh, yeah. Like she said, this guy wants her to pay. Well, and so I was very angry when I sat in that middle. I sit on planes all the time thinking sometimes I'll just take my backpack in and I won't check a bag. But then the area under the seat will be real small. So I'll put the backpack in the overhead. And then as people start, it starts to fill up and I see people looking for space. I'm always thinking somebody is going to

try to ask me to move my backpack. And I'm so ready to defend myself that I'm like, I paid the money. That's my space. I'm not putting two bags up there. That's my space. I shouldn't have to be cramped because you can't check a bag. You know what I mean? I get fired up about an airplane. I was coming, I was airplane. I was coming home. I have my, it is a backpack, but it's only, like you, it's the only bag I have up there. Some guy comes in late and he proceeds to just smash my, just jam his in there so much. And I have my iPad in there and everything. And I turned around, it was Henry Cho.

Oh, gee. Oh. Wow. And I went, oh, my gosh. I let him have it when the plane was over. I caught up with him and he just laughed. Sorry, dude. Wow. Now the whole world knows.

He's the one to do it. I feel like I can see Henry being like, who put this backpack in the overhead? He's the guy. It works both ways, right? Because as mad as I get thinking that somebody's going to smash my backpack, if I had a bag and there's a backpack up there, I'm like, what's this backpack doing up here? That doesn't go in the overhead. That goes under the seat. It's true.

It all goes both ways. It does. It does. It does. A couple of weeks ago, I suggest on here, Nine Southwest Airlines board window seats first, then middle seats, then aisle seats. Like two days later, United Airlines announced. I know. I saw that. We're doing it.

That's awesome. So we're getting things done around here. Yeah. We're making it happen. All right. Lee. Wow. That's a-

Very common name. That's a very common name. That's lucky to get that username. You know what I mean? Lee, Dusty has come up with a great idea. We need stand-up comedy at the TSA checkpoint at the airport. It would make the time at the checkpoint more enjoyable. I don't know that I came up with that, but I would never want that gig. No. I don't even know that I would like it at the airport. While I'm getting yelled at by the TSA, some guy's up there going, hey, airport baggage, huh? Magic, maybe. It would be like Nathan's joke. If you don't know the guy's a comedian, it's just a mean speech.

Oh, yeah. You would just be some mean person. This guy's making fun of everybody yeah yeah i don't even remember you suggesting that to be honest well lee i appreciate you saying that i came up with a great idea but i feel like even if i did come up with that i feel like it's not as good but you do up close magic so while they're waiting you could just do a little trick for them you know uh when i did the armed forces entertainment that became very very important. There was many times, especially going into

Iraq and going to some places, they want to look at your bags really close. And they want to look at a pack of cards. They literally want to look at every card. And then you just make them disappear. Yeah, so I just say, I do magic. And you end up entertaining about five or six of them in your stuff. And this is a true

story. I got a gun in the O'Hara. I have a gun. It looks like a gun, but it's a starter pistol, but it looks like a gun. I took the end out. It looked just like a gun. Fired the blank. But I used it for a trick.

This was in the 70s. But even in the- So far, I'm taking the airline side on this one. In the 70s. 80s. Maybe 80s. But anyway, you're still not allowed to have guns, but you could use it in a magic show for a trick. And I was about to miss my plane. And this guy goes, well, we'll make it.

We'll guarantee it. It was a private gig. So they drive me right up to there and get me in. And they just throw all my stuff. And the plane said that they would put it underneath. But I realized I got a gun in there and I hadn't told them. And I said, I guess I'm going to jail. And the first little bag went through and the guy goes, what do you do? I said, I'm a magician. Let me show you this. And they all came over. My other bag with the

gun went through, I was doing magic and they go, thank you very much. I got on the plane. So that's the only time. That's the way to go. I quit carrying the gun went through, I was doing magic and they go, thank you very much. I got on the plane. Wow. So that's the only time. That's the way to go. I quit carrying the gun. You know, one time I had to, I had to, I was late for my flight, so I couldn't check my bag. And I had a bunch of stuff in there that you can't really fly with on the plane, but you can check. And the guys running the TSA checkpoint were like, they said, they go, Hey, you look like Forrest Gump. And then I say, yeah, a lot of people say I look like Forrest Gump after he ran for a long time, you know, because I have that joke already. They both laughed. They were like, get out of here, man.

And then I got all the stuff in. I love it. Yeah. Love it. But a lot of the TSA has no sense of humor. No. They're not. No.

They're not having a good time. No. All right. Luke Reed, the actor Josh Lucas, does the narration for the Home Depot commercials. And the more Alex talked, the more I heard the similarity. That's what I'm saying. Maybe you guys didn't get what I was going at, but I just thought people knew the Home Depot commercials and that voice. And I thought it sounded like Alex.

See, I felt like it was a more of a deep voice guy that did the Home Depot commercials. More saving, more doing. That's the power of Home Depot. I fast forward commercial, so I wouldn't have a clue. Yeah. Well. All I know is that I spent a lot of time in Lowe's and Home Depot selling pesticides. And they always make the commercial seem like the employees in there

are just so friendly and just ready to help you. And they're just smiling and they'll load everything in your car. The truth is they're understaffed and overworked and they hate being there. And they, I mean, there are some nice people in there. I'm not saying that, but I'm saying they're overworked. The Home Depot makes it seem like there's, the commercials make it just seem like there's a plethora of employees. Yeah. They can't wait to have, they're like, oh, thanks for coming in. I can't wait to talk paint with you. And it's not like that. All right. Mark Zimmerman. I am surprised someone of Bandicoot's age doesn't know about the website Runpee. I don't know about that either. It tells you when the best time to go to the bathroom is during movies.

Oh, I get that maybe Aaron has built up a tolerance by holding it in on flights. But this website has saved me from missing crucial movie parts. Well, there it is right there. I got to download that app. That's the greatest thing I've heard in weeks. We need it for this podcast. I'll be checking it out.

This new movie that just came out with, what, Robert De Niro and Leonardo is like over three hours, I think, or right at three hours. And so I may have to run pee a couple of times. I don't know that I'll ever watch that. I made three hours.

I'm like, come on, wrap it up. I made $30 hours with a lot of money on watching Titanic with my manager and stuff. So we both had to get a large Coke. And the first one that pee had to pay the other one 30 bucks. Wow. And that's hard in Titanic. When it starts to go under and you're sitting there. A lot of water.

I won 30 bucks. I've never seen that either. They're too long now. I don't have the time now because I'm like, it's just who, it's like, what are we doing? You know what I mean? Like, I feel like they're not, they don't tell stories well anymore. So when you just drag it out, I feel like you just drag it. It's like Lord of the Rings, right?

All three of those movies I loved. They're great. But then because they're all based off a book. That's right. But then they took The Hobbit, which was one small book, and made three movies out of it. And I'm like, you're just dragging it out now. I don't need to see The Hobbits singing a song in the house. You know what I mean? You know what I mean?

You know what I mean? I was like, yeah, we could do it in one movie. They're just milking us. I saw Lord of the Rings. I didn't see any of the one time. They're all great. I like the Hobbits, but I'm like, you drug it out too much. Let's do it in one movie.

That's my thoughts. I'd agree. Dave Owings. That's my thoughts. I'd agree. I'd agree. Dave Owings. Dan. Yeah. All right. I was focusing on the Owings. Yeah. It's like Owens, but with a G.

Owings. Dan Owings. I'm a pastor, and Stephen's story about the lady who colored her hair at the church had me rolling. I'm definitely finding a way to work it into my sermon. When did this story come out? I think three years ago when you were on our podcast last. Oh, okay. Wow.

So you can go back that far in comments? Well, they're always on YouTube, yeah. The comments? For every episode, yeah, that's still on there. Everything on the internet lasts forever. But I don't remember the lady who colored her hair at the church. So what is that? I did a class to teach children pastors and pastors on little magic tricks they can do

to give them message. I forgot what you call them. You do this. You do a little trick and you teach them. Some kind of, you do this, you do a little trick and you teach an object. It's object lessons. And so, and this pastor, Tennessee church, but he, he did it. And apparently they must've not liked him anyway, but they used that he did magic in the pulpit as a way to fire him. So they said, you're gone. We don't have that witchcraft stuff in here in this church. So you got one month.

And so what he did is he hired me on his way out. He hired me to come and speak to that whole church. He doesn't tell me this is going on. And so I come in and I'm going to do my whole show. And he, he wants me to do the gospel and everything. And I don't, to be honest, I'm not, this will sound weird. I don't like to give the gospel to church as an entertainer because people will come to you and they're not really receiving the message. They'll come to you and they go, how'd you do that trick?

Or they just want to talk to you. So I say, when it comes to that, I've read the pastor to do it. And that's basically what we did. But he told me before we on he goes three ladies up front they're the ones that started the campaign to get me fired and they're just here to get you and do whatever you so i did my best uh telling the why the difference between magicians and sorcerers and all of this stuff and and i went through all of that and And so they were writing stuff down. At the end, this lady came up, very large lady. She had orange hair and like a really red flower.

I remember her perfect hair was all teased up and it was orange. And she said, she read, and I forgot the name of the scripture, but you shouldn't practice deception. Because I explained why magicians are different than sorcerers. And she said, you may not be a sorcerer, but you practice deception. And deception is wrong. And God just gave me, I just looked at her. I go, well, do you dye your hair?

And she got very angry and turned and left. And the pastor thought it was the greatest thing ever. I do like that. And they did fire him. He lost his job. Seems like that pastor was a little vindictive. I think he was. I do like that turn.

I mean, because that's true, though. You are deceiving people, in a sense. Yeah, and a football, if you're. Yeah. And a football team fakes one way and goes the other way. Is that a sin? I mean, you can take it too far. All right.

Robert Wood. Do magicians develop an. There's a lot of magicians. I'd like to know if this Dan Owings did put this in his sermon it was three years ago so he's had time he might have quit listening to the podcast by now but hopefully not Robert Wood do magicians develop an hour of material in a similar way to

comedians or do they often stick with the same material for a long period of time thanks for the podcast fellas I think a lot of comedians stick with the same material for a long period of time. Thanks for the podcast, fellas. Wow. I think a lot of comedians stick with the same material for a long period of time. Well, this is where me and Nathan differ so much.

When I grew up, it was very hard to have a good hour. And it was like your child. I'm still doing tricks that I did in my first show when I was at Opryland in 98, 99. All those, that long ago um they i was always told by my manager don't go on television there was a guy named the guy you bet titanic no no yeah it was a different one okay but uh like maize and jonathan was the funniest comedy magic went on tell them did a special and he couldn't perform for

five ten years because everybody knew every joke he ever did and your second show will never be as good as the first and i mean different in comedy but uh for magicians it's very hard to get 10 things and for me now i have 10 tricks in my show and i i'm working on new stuff all the time 10 tricks in my show and I'm working on new stuff all the time. But who am I going to get rid of? What person, what trick am I going to go? You're not good enough. You're gone. And it's something I've been doing for eight years or 10 years. And, you know, and with magic, you have to,

you have to learn the trick backwards and forwards before you make it funny because you can't be thinking about what you got to do. You got to have that down pat so much and now i can think and look and see and all the funny stuff that happens and so it takes a good year to get something where it's really really funny and so it's very hard for me to throw away nate i mean nathan and them they were loving me to just throw things away but i know in my heart it's not as funny as it, as it, as the old stuff. But, uh, you know, next year, a lot of the, I'm no longer trying to travel with Nathan so much on the, in theaters. He doesn't need me.

He don't need three people in when he's doing two shows a night. Everybody has to cut too much. Yeah. So I'm just going to be doing the, the arenas. Oh, just the big ones. The big ones. And, uh, if you ain't over 10,000, I'm not coming. Yeah. So I'm just going to be doing the arenas. Oh, just the big ones. The big ones. And if you ain't over 10,000, I'm not coming. Yeah.

But also I'm going to be working in the round because he's getting ready stuff, I was told. So that changes everything. Magic, not, it's hard to do magic when you tell, I need section A to L to close their eyes just for a few minutes until I do this stuff. Well, you really crushed on that Bridgestone show. Yeah. You know, but I felt like I didn't. I did one of the weakest tricks I do. It was one I used to do at Opulence with the kids.

Yeah. And, but. It really crushed though. It was amazing. Yeah. That I hear that. But, so that's what I'm working on something right now. To take the place of my, the gumball machine which i would do which

will not which i can do in the round but uh for the most part most of us all the old guys still were doing a lot of the same material we've done for a long time which might not be good but i also i don't you know i do slight hand close-up I've been learning that every day and that's what keeps my brain sober. And that's what keeps me fun. And I'm always learning new tricks and doing them and forgetting them and stuff. But also if you see my act, I bring somebody up on every trick.

So that also makes it new. Yeah. It's not, it's never the same, no matter what, because I don't know what that person is going to do or say or anything. And it could, uh, you just never know.

I knew a comic that did a little bit of magic tricks. And he had one where he would, someone, he would go, does anybody got a $20 bill? And then the guy would give him a $20 bill. And he goes, you gave me this, right? You gave me this $20 bill. And the guy would go, yeah. And he would go, thank you. It's an old gag.

It's not his, but it's still, it's so funny. How do you do it? Have you ever seen, and I do, you ever seen the one where they go sign this and they pull out a bank pin that's got the chain on it? Oh, yeah. Magicians fight over that forever because they say, well, you got to quit doing that because it's not original. And that Gary, who filled in for Jay Leno? Gary, very funny guy died not too long ago. Gary Shandling. Shandling.

He says he wrote that joke and he says every magician stole that from me. He, he had a big rant in that. Well, I was happening to be watching, uh, my brain. I'm sorry about being old. Who's the real cheap guy that a long time ago. Jack Benny. Jack Benny. Oh, God, my brain. I'm sorry about being old. Who's the real cheap guy that a long time ago? Jack Benny. Jack Benny.

He's on with... Us old guys have to stick together, Dusty. Jack Benny's on with Lauren Twelfth, and Lauren Twelfth has to sign something. Jack Benny pulls a pin out of his pocket with a chain on it. So even Gary was wrong. That gag goes way back. Somebody reached out to Jack Benny. I was doing that back in the 1800s. I can't believe it. That gag goes way back. Somebody reached out to Jack Benny. I was doing that back in the 1800s.

But I personally, I add, if you ever see me do that, I got a very good tag to that. The tag is what makes it. And that's what I try to tell young guys. I mean, because my comedy was different than you. When I was doing clubs, being a prompt comic was not fun. No one liked that. And two, they counted your laughs. And they would have some guy in the back, he'd come up,

so you only had this many laughs a minute. They might have been longer or different or harder, but we have process that has to happen. You know, you have to sign a card, you have to do this and that, and there's no laughing doing that always. So that's why the bank pin's so popular, because you can get a laugh. If you sign this, everybody sees the bank on the chain pin is so popular because you can get a laugh. You're signing this. Everybody sees the bank on the chain and they laugh.

And that counts as a laugh. I wish there would have been somebody counting laughs for a minute. For me, I would have moved up a lot faster. Really? I mean, I got a lot of jokes, but you got to sell tickets now. It's not about how many laughs you get. They don't care how many laughs you get. How many tickets are you selling? Yeah.

You think that has to do with your pace more than your jokes? No. No, it's his jokes. No. But are you slow, fast? No, he's saying you're slow. I'm slow-paced, but I have a lot of laughs. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Because I'm uncomfortable on stage if people aren't laughing. So I'm all about as fast a laugh as I can get. Because I have a hard time setting up a long joke because I'm uncomfortable. If they're not laughing, I'm like, oh, no. So it doesn't matter how powerful the laugh is. Is it worth it if it's a great laugh? Can you tell that is a great laugh or they're just laughing because they're one in a row?

Yeah, I think so. I think they're all pretty powerful. Yeah. Yeah, I feel good about them. Yeah, but you don't see one more powerful than the other? Yeah. I mean, you know, I got, you know, I have a powerful one, then I'll have a lot of tags and I'll have a powerful one.

I feel like they're all pretty powerful. Yeah. That's what's great. Yeah. If I had, I'd rather have a powerful one than a bunch of little. Yeah. I like, I like to mix them both up. Yeah.

I like to give them, you know, give them some jabs and then another cut. You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay. Nathan Mandsanger. Oh, gosh. Mandsanger. As you guys are the experts on all things names, I just found out that I'm going to be a first-time grandfather. I'm super excited, but we're having a heated family discussion on what my grandma, what my grandpa name should be. All right. That was confusing to me on what my grandpa name should be. I prefer Poppy, but my kids are not fans. I would appreciate your expert input. I'm not a fan of Poppy. I like a classic. I like Grandpa or Pawpaw.

That's what I like. I'm Southern. I like Grandpa, Pawpaw. Right. Since I'm the grandfather here, I hate that. I seem like I'm talking too much. No, I'll put this in for you. I hate to bust your bubble. You're going to be whatever they can pronounce.

Well, that's true. I'll give you that. Yeah, because they're going to say something. Gammy, my wife is called Gammy, but she was something. I don't remember, but it made no sense because that's all that Caleb could say. So that's what you become. Ever since I had kids and had money, we've always did Compassion Connection, Compassion International, and World Vision. We've had kids in those programs.

We still have a boy that we're losing coming up pretty soon. Why? Because he'll be an adult? Yeah, he'll be 18. We have aged out three kids that took them all the way down to they were 18. Sometimes your tone will start to seem sad. I don't mean to be sad. We have one that we're losing. That's why I asked to clarify.

I just meant that we've had him since he was six. Yeah. But my very first child we had was a little girl. She called me Pawpaw. And that was the name. Pawpaw, yeah. It means father. I don't know what it means.

She was from. Who cares, right? She was far over there. I'm joking. Pawpaw. Might have been Tarleton, but that's what she called me. So that's what the name I wanted. That's what I called my grandpa, Pawpaw. That's what I wanted. That's what I liked. I mean, my one grandfather died before I was born and the other died when

I was pretty young. So I didn't call him Pawpaw long, but that was what I... Pawpaw, that's what I liked. I like that. Pawpaw and Maumau. Yeah. Maum I, Pawpaw. That's what I like. I like that. Pawpaw and Maumau. Yeah. Maumau was mine. Yeah. So I called her Maumau.

And then I had Granny. That was my other grandma, Granny. And she liked it? She died when I was pretty young too. But so I don't know. If I hear that name one more time. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You're going to be what they ever, they call you. Yeah. And stuff, but you can start it off. You say, I'd like to be called this. Yeah. And it may not. And then spank them every time they don't do it.

Yeah, yeah. Just the same way it's easy to dog to pee. Yeah, newspaper. How many grandkids do you have? We have seven. They all call you the same thing? Yes. What do they call you?

Papa. Oh, Papa. Okay. Okay. Because that's what Papa. Oh, Papa. Okay. Because that's what our little girl, Yana, that's what she called her. Poppy to me, this guy. Poppy is like a drug or something that eats in the poppy seed. Poppy seems like what a Latin woman would call the man that she's into. Right?

Yeah. Now you know. He's never going to go with that now. His wife's going to go? Yeah. Now you know. He's never going to go with that now. His wife's going to go, nope, you're out. But maybe Nathan's Latin. I don't know. I'm sorry, Nathan. You can't use that.

All right. Or she can't ever see this podcast. All right. Bree Tosolini. Oh, I know this girl. Do you? She's Abigail's best friend. Okay. Yeah. She came to help me at Zany's. All right. Bree Tosolini. Oh, I know this girl. Do you? She's Abigail's best friend. Okay.

Yeah. She came to help me at Zany's. All right. She was great. Okay. Well, here we go. I went to Vegas with Nate's sister. We went to a Mack King magic show, and she was so excited when they asked for a volunteer

and they picked her. When she walked up and turned to the crowd, her fly was down. Everyone noticed it was wide open. I thought she would be embarrassed, but when I told her, she thought it was hysterical. Out of all the fun things in Vegas we did, that's my top memory. Like father, like daughter. Okay. I think that last line was added, but like father, like daughter.

I think that was it was added, but father like daughter. I think that was it. I did two shows. The first time I did the Grand Ole Opry, it wasn't the Grand Ole Opry, but it was on that stage. The first time I did it, I did a whole show with my fly open and my shirt tail hanging out. On purpose. Not on purpose. It's hard to tell. I had a splint thing.

I did this quite often. I had a trick that you had to, I had to fix it by going into this pocket. I cut holes in the corner of my pockets. I had a handkerchief tied and I would have to feed it through that hole all the way across my fly and into this pocket. So I could do this with a handkerchief between my pockets. A very funny trick, the way I did it. But you'd have to see it. I could bring that one back for in the room.

I mean, it seems funny to me. Imagine it. But the problem was in setting that up, a lot of times I would forget to zip the pants back up. So I did many a shows with a little handkerchief hanging out of my fillet. Could they see the handkerchief through? No, I didn't do that. It wasn't that type of show, but they could on days I left it open. Yeah.

They were going, wow, no wonder. That's what I mean. Yeah. Yeah. And I had the lady, this lady at the Octo-States came up to me. She said, you're very funny. And she goes, I love your little tribute to Minnie Pearl. And I thought, well, she goes, you're with your fly, your shirt hanging out your fly.

I guess that you were honoring her. And I looked down. That was the first time I noticed that my fly when that thing was out. And I had to go, yes, I hope she enjoyed it. So embarrassing. So I guess that's what it is. And that was true. I remember Abigail doing that and her fly was open.

Were you there? Yeah. We all went to the show. Yeah. Yeah. And my king, he's at the Excalibur now. And stuff. He's doing shows there.

Is that the big ball? No. Excalibur is where they have the, where the horses go at each other. Oh, yeah. And they do that. I think. I don't know if that's really right, but it's where those,

all those guys dance. Men Down Under. I don't know. In Vegas. Yeah, it's in Vegas. But he's a daytime, one of the funniest comics.

The guy who, I went to high school with Lance Burton, who had a great big show in Vegas. And my king lived down the street from us. And at one time, all three of us did a show on the strip in Vegas. And we lived less than a mile from each other in Louisville growing up. Wow. Isn't that weird? It is weird.

I was trying to look it up. I think I accidentally just booked myself a room. Excalibur. But, oh, well. Oh, yeah. That's it. Wow. That's a nice place.

Okay, well I'll be staying there October. Well go see, Mike will get you in. It's great. Great show, great show. Go see Mike and then the guys dancing.

Mac, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Stay for the dancers. All right, Zach Johnson, Dusty's favorite movie must be Scary Movie 2. He mentioned it like five times on the podcast.

Well, it's not my favorite, but it is a funny movie. Scary movie too. I never saw one. It is. I always saw two. Two is the only one worth watching,

but it is funny. How do you know that? If it's only when you saw it. Well, I don't know. You just know. Somebody, if you don't,

somebody gave me, they hand delivered me a comment. They said, my comment never gets read. So they hand delivered me one. Oh, you're starting something, Dusty. How do we do that? Should I not do it?

I mean, we're too far in now. It's pretty long. It's a card here. Oh. Let's give it a try. All right. Nate, Buckeye, Dusty, and Aaron. When my wife and I were getting ready for our honeymoon, I was excited to share my favorite audio mystery series with her.

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Who knew there were even stoves with two levels like that? Who would have a stove like that? That's crazy. Double-decker. Well, this week we're talking about Halloween. This is our last episode before Halloween. I know you don't do Halloween now, but you did as a kid, I bet. A lot of times.

I got a lot of experience with Halloween. Did you have a favorite costume? My favorite costume was as an adult in my 20s when I was drinking a bit. I had two costumes that I liked a lot. But Jack Sparrow was really popular during that time. I had long hair and I grew my goatee real long. I braided up the goatee and then I put the braids in my hair and I went out drinking a couple of days before

Halloween. So there were not a lot of people dressed up. There were a few downtown Charleston. I was still drinking in the daytime. I went out early. I was so excited about the costume and I went out by myself, but I always knew a bunch of people. And I was walking on this street in Charleston and there was a college and I was dressed up like Jack Sparrow, pretty, pretty sauced up. And there was a bunch of people coming my direction, just one after another. And I just started high-fiving people and everybody on that whole street gave me a high five. They were all so happy. It was a great moment. Later in the night, I blacked out and ruined a lot of friendships. But early in the day, it was really a lot of fun. Were you a waiter then still?

Yes. I would say dressing up. If I went to a restaurant and my waiter dressed up, I'm going to be extra nice. I would think, this is great. This is great. I'm glad you're here with this. My other favorite was I would dress up like Austin Powers sometimes because a lot of people, when I had a short kind of swoosh haircut and I had glasses, people thought I looked like Austin Powers anyway. I would love to see that picture. Yeah. So people thought I looked like him anyway. So it was an easy costume. I would just buy the cheap pimp costume from Walmart and then like purple. Just buy a suit from Walmart. You're there. Yeah. You're there. Yeah.

Like, I'll see. Yeah, exactly. And then, and that was great. I would always end up at the Huddle House on James Island and I'd be,

you know, real drunk and the Austin Powers was great because I was doing the, like the elevator trick for the staff,

you know, where you push the button and the list goes down. They loved it. It was a great time. All right. I always like making my own costumes too.

Last year I went as you, and that was fun, just picking out the stuff. And I was going to go as you this year, but all your stuff smells like smoke. Yeah, it sure does. Thanks for bringing that memory back. So that didn't work. But I was trying to think as a kid.

I mean, you're not, well, not, I'm way older than you, but you were in the generation where you made your own costumes. I doubt that y'all went out and bought me any. Well, I did have some like, Jerry Seinfeld's got a joke about the plastic mask and the thing pops off. Yeah, I had that. You made a lot of costumes out of a feed sack.

I'm not that old, but I remember, I don't know, once I had a work party, I would try to go as Eminem. Yeah, I like that. I would bring out my 80s stuff. I still got some 80s shirts and stuff like that, and I would wear those to parties. I'd like to know more about your Eminem costume. Were you doing some wraps? No, I would.

Or like the candy? No, you had to write the first time. I went with candy. I was the rapper. Which one were you? Were you chocolate or the red one? I don't remember. I was trying to be like that.

Did you have spaghetti on your sweater? Yeah, I think I did. I don't even get that. trying to be like that. Did you have spaghetti on your sweater? Yeah, I think I did. Okay. That's about all I remember. See, I don't even get that. That's one of his lines. Oh. So you got some pictures here of the kids doing trick-or-treating.

This is Caleb, my grandson. Yeah. And he went as Nate. You can also see that back here on the shelf. People have often asked, who is that? Is that Nate? No, that's Caleb. Yep, that is us.

But he's dressed as Nate. He came in as Nate. He even got him a mic and everything. He's doing the Vanderbilt sign right there. Had a whole little routine. And that was one of those nights where every door he had to explain who he was. Oh, yeah. Who are you?

Now he may not have to do that. I don't know. Back then he did. Yeah. But that was it. We're a big family on dressing up. Especially my grandkids still do all that now. They like to go make up different.

This is me and Nate when I was in college. Look at that. Wow. And I was not dressing up. I played. You played college football. We had college football in a very small league and everything. I was a quarterback.

I led the league four years in touchdowns and interceptions. Wow. Every time I threw it, somebody caught it. It might not be my own team, but somebody caught it. This feels like this is not even about the costume at this point. This is a brag. No, no, no. Well, I said interception, so it didn't mean I wasn't a very good quarterback.

Oh, okay. How old were you here? I missed the joke. I was probably 25, 6, maybe. You're a little bit older for the average college. Yeah, it took me a long time to get to college. Yeah. But that's Nathan's costume.

He's a football player, and he probably was a football player 12 out of the 15 years that he always went as a football player. He probably was a football player 12 out of the 15 years that he always went as a football player. Very cute. He wanted to be Vanderbilt, but back then you couldn't get Vanderbilt costume. You couldn't get a jersey or anything Vanderbilt. Cockerbell wasn't carrying them yet. Barely can now. Yeah, still

hard, but that was Nathan's favorite costume and stuff. That's very cute. Yeah. This is, all right, this is, this shows you how much we gave up when Abigail came along. And because, you know, Nathan has that joke about watching that movie and that he had to call us to come get him. I was the one that came and got him.

I don't know, Halloween or I think is what they were watching. And then when we got to Abigail, we just kind of, so this is Abigail dressing up. I thought she got that, all those clothes are her, my wife's mom's clothes. So I thought she went as my wife's mom because I was quite dumb. You're like, how sweet. But she told all her friends she was Pretty Woman. I didn't even know that Pretty Woman's a prostitute, and I probably shouldn't have let my daughter go out as that.

But I thought really she was just, I guess she's being Carol's mom. I didn't know. But that just showed you how much we kind of gave up. But I think this costume, by the time in Pretty Woman that she's wearing this, I think she's on the way out. Oh, you're right. That's after she went shopping. Yeah. She's classy. I think at I think she's on the way out. Oh, you're right. That's after she went shopping. Yeah.

I think at this point she's, you know, she's on the way out of that profession. Do you have to explain that at every door? I'm on my way out. And is that her friend with her? Yes. She is Pretty Woman's friend in the movie? I guess.

This is more of the early stage of Pretty Woman. I'm hoping she's on the way out. He's already been chopped. Yeah. We don't know what happened to her. All right. This is a tradition that we, as a family do,

we all have, uh, uh, Nate, it's true that Nathan took over the family stuff. Like we just have everything at our house. Now, Nathan,

Nathan does Christmas and Easter and Abigail gets Halloween. And so she decorates and stuff like that. But one of our traditions is we always meet and go out to different stores and they pick their costumes or buy it. And this is one we just went, we had to go without Nate because of the Saturday Night Live thing. He didn't get to come home. And we, you know, And the longer you wait, the harder it is to find what you want. Yeah, y'all are in the adult section back there. Yeah, so he wanted to be a ninja, but all the ninja outfits that fit him are gone by now

because we waited too late. Harper's going to be a police officer. Good for her. Not the bad guy. And Harper's going to be a police officer. Good for her. Not the bad guy. And Maya is going to be something from a cartoon I never heard of. I have no idea what she is. My other two girls are making their own costumes from scratch. So we got to go to Hobby Lobby for them and just buy a bunch of stuff and paint and stuff like that. What are they going to be? Some kind of Martian.

The Martian with the big head. Is it all blue? I mean, that could be a bunch of them. Yeah, but it's supposed to be? Some kind of Martian. The Martian with the big head. Is it all blue? I mean, that could be a bunch of them. Yeah, but it's supposed to be a funny movie. Mars Attacks? No, I don't know. I don't think it's Mars Attacks. I've heard of that. It was something I never heard of. That's it. Megamind.

Do you know what that is? Yeah, that's a good movie. That's fun. She's going to be Megamind. So I had to get a bald cap for her, some blue thing that we had to get. The big collar was made out of a car seat. That little thing piece. So she's making it all. So that'll be fun for her. This is a great little story. This is my Halloween. You go to pumpkin patches and fall festivals and things.

So make sure you're talking to Mike. His class did something. They won you're talking to the mic. They won. His class did something. They won a free trip to the pumpkin patch. And so he's walking around looking. And we had the whole film for this. But that's my grandson, Zakhar, Zach. And there's a sign out there that says, what does it say? Keep your eyes on Jesus.

Keep your eyes on Jesus. And in that cage is a bunch of donkeys. And Zach goes, I bet one of those donkeys' name on Jesus. Keep your eyes on Jesus. And in that cage is a bunch of donkeys. And as Zach goes, I bet one of those donkeys' name is Jesus. We better keep an eye out for him because they're telling he must be pretty wild. So he's looking, he's telling his friends, look out for Jesus. He's in there somewhere. That's great. If you're listening, we'll post all these photos on our social media so you can see

what Steven's talking about yeah have you do you feel like costumes have changed though since like they're more intense now

than they were way more evil I think Halloween has gotten so evil now I agree a thousand percent I mean when I was in my 20s it just felt like

it was like when I was a kid it felt pretty innocent when I was in my 20s it felt like felt like it was like when I was a kid, it felt pretty innocent. When I was in my 20s, it felt like we were all just going out to party. And then now it just seems super evil. Everything's a horror movie now. I say horror, not horror. I like to say horror.

And they're all so evil and like twisted in a way. They're not like, ah, scary. It's like some kind of messing with your mind and everybody in the whole country's got anxiety now i'm like well maybe stop watching scary movies that's why i don't watch them i'm like i don't need to be scared i don't like being scared i don't need some psychological thriller running my life um i don't need that stuff in my mind. So I think it's also evil now. I used to be a clown, Yo-Yo the Clown. I was a clown when it was safe to be a clown.

There's no clowns anymore. They're all evil, mean. They got big teeth and they bite your head. So come on, that's not what a clown is. Right. And stuff. I hate it. Everything has to be demons or something related to it and stuff.

You know, ours, Ghost, was just a sheet over your head with two eyes cut out. Yeah, and you're just going, whoo. Yeah. And you did the Ghost for your second time out. You would be a hobo first time. And then you put the Ghost thing over top of it and you go out again. Double the candy. Double the candy.

Especially if you found one that gave out those big bars, you had to go to that house at least three times. Oh, yeah. And it's like getting candy back then felt like a bigger deal. Now, I think just candy's everywhere. Everybody has candy all the time. Candy's everywhere. It's like, is it even that big of a deal? That's right.

Easter and Halloween is the only time you got to get candy. And candy felt cool. Candy feels like all poison now. Back then it was like, oh, don't have too much sugar. Now it's like, don't have too many weird chemicals. That's what candy is now. You read the ingredients, just a bunch of weird chemicals. Petroleum in there.

If you tune in and there were three old men complaining about Halloween, do you guys know how Halloween started? old man complaining about Halloween. Do you guys know how Halloween started? I would assume that it was a satanic ritual. I always thought it was to disguise yourself from other demons so they wouldn't come back and get you from the dead or something. Yeah, that's close. That sounds like what I said too. Well, okay.

It was a Celtic festival. They felt like the new year started November 1st. Right. Because that's kind of when it's getting cold and everything's dying. So, November 1st is the new year. So, October 31st was that. That's a good time for that new year, right? When everything's dead. Yeah. So, October 31st was. The day of the dead. October 31st was the day of the dead.

Yeah. So they felt like there was that transition periods when the dead and the living kind of got crossed up and the dead spirits would come out. So they would disguise themselves as maybe like a demon or evil or whatever. So not to catch them. And back then the itself um came into new towns a new country they they didn't want to just say you can't have all your rituals they wanted to kind of like it's like easter i mean that's right you can keep the bunny but we're going to add the cross yeah we're going to do this and you can keep the guy in the white beard but we're going to do all of this so it's and i think halloween was another one that was just sucked up into all that. It was.

The Pope, to kind of, just what you said, he kind of thought, well, let's incorporate some of it to get people on board. So he made November 1st All Saints Day. Yeah. And then it was called All Hallows. And then October 31st was All Hallows Eve, Halloween. So it had some pagan starts and then it kind of got incorporated with the Catholic church and then it became what it is today. Yeah. It comes in. I remember when our kids was real little, it was Wayne Denton and our Happy Meal guy. So his daughter and my daughter were pumpkins. And so we went to a porch and this lady came out and she was a pastor of a church. And she just blasted my little, that time you just let the kids go and you stand it back a little bit and they get the candy. And she was preaching to our little girls about four. This is all from the devil. You're all of this stuff or whatever. And I said, I just went up and after I go next year, you're not going to be the pumpkin from hell.

We're just going to have to make you something else and stuff. But it was just rare back then. But some people, even when my kids were little, but I would say today, most people that probably think that way just don't turn the lights on. That's what we do. Yeah. And I admire that. I think that's great. Don't do it the lights on. That's what we do. Yeah. Yeah. And I admire that. I think that's great. Don't do it.

I would not yell at kids for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, you shouldn't be yelling. It's not the time. I mean, still most kids, even today, see it as free candy day. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I agree. You don't give candy. I know. Y'all do it. Yeah. What do you think about teenagers?

Nah. I feel like 12, 13 is about to cut off. I used to think that. Now I go, I'm glad you're doing this, having fun, getting candy. It could be worse. You know, you could be going, you could go get in a lot of trouble, but you're still going out and getting candy. That's right. You still got a little bit of kid in you though. Yeah. I'm not against it anymore. I go

more prior to them. If they're nice at my door and stuff like that, I would give them. I always invite the kids in. Do you really? No wonder. Everybody's glad you got out of it. Come on in. Now when they come to your house and say

trick or treat, you say trick. I used to. And Carol stopped all that because it would take too long. I always had several magic tricks. I had a great trick. And it's one where you make a light appear in your hand. And then so I would go, you win the special prize. And I would make a light and then drop it in the bag.

And when you drop it, you let the light go off. So then the little kid would go out in the yard and dump his candy out looking for that light. Oh, yeah. And I found that was kind of mean. I like that. Yeah. I got a friend of mine, Pat Hazel, I shouldn't say his name. He used to put ice cubes when they were kids.

They would put a handful of ice cubes in people's bags. And then they said it would melt and the bag would break. And the next morning they would go out and get behind candy all over the streets. Wow. That's mean. You could just do that. That's what you should do.

Throw ice cubes in there. Well, save those kids from eating that poison. Yeah. Keep it for yourself. Yeah. Again, it wasn't poison when we were doing it. Yeah. Back in the day, the candy was probably a lot better.

It was just probably real chocolate and some sugar in there. Yeah. Now it's. And you didn't need it every day. Like you said, it was such a rare thing. some sugar in there yeah now it's and you didn't need it every day like you said it was such a rare thing oh yeah i'm gonna kill you and stuff i did get uh we had a house down the street for me that everybody said a witch lived in and when i was a kid there's only one really big memory i had and then we would just dare everybody to go to the witch's house oh yeah and yeah. And so I went and she came out.

It was very scary. That's where you got your magic powers. No, yeah. She gave me lemon heads. Oh, that's fun. I've never seen so many. So a box of lemon heads. But when I got home and opened them up, they were full of acorns.

Really? All acorns. Wow. I thought it was great. Yeah. So she wasn't a witch or something. Sounded like a witch. I know. I didn't eat the acorns. Really? All acorns. Wow. I thought it was great. Yeah. So she wasn't a witch or something sounded like witch. I know.

I didn't eat the acorns or maybe I would not eat it. You should have planted the acorns. Yeah. On beanstalk. I don't know what would have happened.

That's a true story. She did that. So I was wondering if she knew everybody thought she was a witch. Now that's something I want to do. Give out some candy

but in there it's just nuts. I'll have you back in Halloween and stuff in this stuff. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. Do you believe in witches? I believe in witchcraft because I believe in demons. I think ghosts are demons.

I don't believe people come back from the dead. I believe that Satan does and he disguises himself. And so I do believe, I believe everything demon. You really saved me from having to say that. I appreciate that. Okay. That's why I started with him. I like that. I wanted you to look good. Yeah. I like that. But you, I've met many of your magician friends. They're all just like you, just good,

wholesome guys that aren't trying to deceive anybody. I mean, not in a satanic way, but are there magicians out there that either, like professional wrestlers, who try to act like they come back from the dead or try to do stuff? I always disagree with them. Doug Henning went off and thinking that and following Eastern and witchcraft and stuff like that. And there's magicians that do do that or, and that practice that stuff. And I think you're just getting in line with the devil. Me and Dusty talked a little bit about this before. When I first became a Christian, I had a pastor tell me that magic was evil and stuff.

And a lot of people think I sacrifice cats and things like that. I just don't like cats. It has nothing to do with it. I get it. I don't really like cats. It has nothing to do with it. I get it. I don't really like cats either. It had nothing to do with tricks. But I gave it away. I walked away from it.

I said, oh, if it's evil, I need to give it away. And then I went and saw a guy named Andre Cole. And he used to work for Campus Crusade for Christ. Just died last year. First Christian magician that I liked and that I thought was really good. He did a regular magic show. He was an amazing inventor. Copperfield, every magician you ever heard of does his tricks.

And he was also the one to stop the masked magician from being on TV because he did one. The masked magician was exposing old magic that nobody had, but he exposed one of Andre Cole's tricks. And he's still alive. And he sued Fox and all of them for putting it on. And he won. And they had took the show off. Wow. So it's good for Andre.

But anyway, I saw him. He did his real show. But the whole show, he goes, I got one more trick at the end. I'm going to come back, but I'm going to share my testimony. Yeah. And he goes, and if you don't want to hear that, no problem. Be great. I'm going to take a 10-minute break, and then I'm going to come back,

and I'm going to share my testimony, and then I'm going to show you a really cool trick. So, of course, most people never laughed because they wanted to see that real cool trick. So I just thought that was really good, and I got to go back and meet him and talk to him. And during the show, I mean, he talked about the sorcerer, that the word, and what he explained, the King James saw a magician do a trick. And I think it was the cup and ball, which I do. It was just a sleight of hand trick with things appear under the ball, under the cup. And the King said, he's a sorcerer. He calls himself a magician. Magicians back then were jesters. The jesters were magicians and sorcerers were sorcerers. Sorcerers claimed to have power and they wanted to have power and

they would do drugs and potion. We get our word pharmaceutical from this. And this was all in his, it's in his book. And as we talked, he says, so you should be aware of war games, not magicians. But King James was fooled so bad that he said, the magician must've put me under a spell. I must've blocked out, woke up and the things were under the cup. There's no way he could have gotten underneath there without doing that. So he said, and the King James, and he said, make the word magician too. And so for a long time, the magicians couldn't go to churches and everything. That's why a lot of Christian magicians won't say they're magicians.

They say they're illusionists. Because it's like an illusionist can come to your church but not a magician. And so, after reading that and understanding it and that the first

magicians were, they were putting down sorcerers. They were going, these guys are just using tricks. And just like the Moses

with the staff, their magician was able to copy that. How did they do that? I know how I would do it. But have you ever seen the appearing cane? You know how you would make a staff turn into a snake? Piece of cake. Have you ever seen the trick where the magician makes a cane disappear?

No. Like, boom, there's a big cane. Yeah, right. Or you can get a cane and make it turn into a handkerchief. Just put a snake in that cane and disappear the cane. Boom, a snake comes out. Well, just disappear the cane. The cane, that's very easy to do.

I don't want to expose everything. Yeah, yeah. But it's easy. It's a trick you can buy for $2, and you put a snake in there, and it'll disappear, and the snake will fall on the ground, and you've turned it. But they also picked the snake back up and made it a staff again. They did. I don't know if they did. Moses.

But they did. Moses is a snake. Yeah. Way better. Way better. Yeah. His snake ate their snakes. Yeah.

But again, I believe, I believe they were like, again, they were, they were staying pretty close to the demons and they might've had some powers coming. Satan's powerful. And he'll do, the Antichrist will do some pretty neat look like magic trick things and probably just be real satanic stuff. But anyway, so he just explained why you can be a magician and a Christian at the same time.

And at that time, Bennikins was doing magic shows and I'd been out of magic for about three years and I was starving. And so they offered me $100 a night, which was an 83. Yeah. And that was a lot of money just to come in and do card tricks. Yeah. So I learned, I remembered five tricks that I used to do.

And I worked for three weeks at Bennikins. And then I never put the magic back down. And I would always do that. three weeks at binnacons and and then i never put the magic back down and i and and i would always do that and you know i i i do always try to explain if i'm doing anything in the church or anything that i have no powers you know that i just i learned you learn magic the same way you learn to play a piano or guitar or anything like that it's just a skill practice as long as but i'm not i don't want you to think but that's why i avoid the mind reading tricks and stuff and i could do a mind reading trick on you and you would think there's

no way he could do that without having but i'm telling you there is yeah i don't like that so i don't like hypnotist or that sort of stuff either i was at i did naca um you know and i was just uh i went to watch someone uh that I knew I went to watch their set. And then I just stuck around and the next person was a hypnotist and I was way in the back and he was doing it. And, and I started to feel real weird and like zoned out. And I left, I was like, I gotta get out of here. I was like, I don't know what's happening, but I gotta get out of this room. I get in a lot of trouble for this.

I worked for a hypnotist for eight years. Well, don't get yourself in trouble. No, I don't believe them. I don't want the hypnotist to come for us. I know a guy that did hypnotists. Rich Guzzi is pretty ripped. I don't know if you've seen him before. I don't want to get beat up by Rich Guzzi.

I don't think you can do hypnotists. I think you can hypnotize somebody, quit smoking, lose weight, but you, it takes sessions. You have to meet with these people a lot and to get them down. And I've seen guys, I knew a guy,

a magician that did that, but to get 25 people up there and hypnotize them in five minutes to do anything. No, I don't think that's possible. Do you think there's some plants? Because some of these people seem like they're really like, like you just see videos of it.

And it's like, why would you just act like that? Yeah. You want to know the truth? What I think, this is what I think. I know that we'll get a lot of hate mail on all this, but I think I could do it because I worked for him for eight years, two times, three times a night. Sometimes you give me 25 people. And what I do is all I'm doing is looking for the people that really want to be hypnotized. And they're really trying really hard.

So they're falling. They're doing, okay, you're cold. They give you all these easy stuff. And he's getting rid of the people that think that it's real, and they're waiting to go, I'm not cold. So he gets rid of them. He gets the ones trying, that's playing along. And you get them going down a little track and then all of a sudden it turns and now you have to dance like a chicken or do something dumb. But you've already played and lied to the whole audience, the whole show. You can't all of a sudden go, oh, I was kidding. I'm out. Right. you're in you're in show business now so you have to keep pretending that you're hypnotized and now

well some people will call that a state of hypnosis that you get to a point where now you're going to do everything i want because i got you but it's not like you're in a trance it's like i got you you just lied to all these people so you got to do whatever i tell you to do there was a guy that i went that came in every night for uh three four years was a heavyset guy and he would do the same thing he he could buck dance like anybody you've ever seen and he would do that and then he would fall in love with another woman and he was married and he would just fall in love and he was hilarious and the funniest thing in the world and The same guy would come to get hypnotized? Every show, every show. And one night, the last night,

and I would be out in the audience filming it because the guy would pay me extra to film the show for him. And the guy's sitting down and he talks to his wife. He goes, I want to try to get hypnotized. She'd go, you've been hypnotized every night for the last two years. He goes, no, it's never worked on me. You know, he's playing the game.

And so this night, on the last night, the last show, everybody that ever thought about trying wants to get on that stage. So they just go flying up there. And so he didn't make it. So now he's sitting down beside me and he's not in the show. And he's so bummed out. And because there'll be another year before he gets to perform again. And then he uh, he, he goes on and the guy's doing the show and all of a sudden he stands up in the

audience and starts doing everything. And people go, that guy out there. And then the hypnotist notices him and knows that he's fantastic, that he's great. So he calls him up. He got on the show. Oh, so that guy just, he's like, he's putting on a show. It's all show business. And I'll tell you this, my daughter, Abigail, went up there and it took me three years to get her to admit to me that she was not hypnotized. Because she, Abigail's perfect. She's going to do everything you tell her to do and act all that stuff out. And she kept saying, Dad, I did not know.

I go, Abigail, you're lying. You knew everything. No, I didn't. And finally she goes, okay, I knew everything. Wow. People are not. But I think you can be. I went to a hypnotist when I was about 19 to quit smoking cigarettes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we were in a room, like a hotel conference room,

and I really wanted to quit. And my sister went and my sister needed to quit. So we were really trying to do it. And we all went in there, we did the whole thing. And my sister went and my sister needed to quit. So we were really trying to do it. And we all went in there, we did the whole thing. And then the moment we walk out, one of the guys that was in the room, he just lights up a cigarette right outside of the thing to let everybody know, I'm not getting hypnotized. And he did it like he was tough, right? He was like, oh, you can't hypnotize me. Yeah, sure. I can get addicted to something, but I can't be hypnotized. And I went home that night and I was like, I was working a third shift, not all the time job, but that week I was working third shift. So I went home and showered and I had

to go to work that night. And I was just like, how am I going to quit smoking? And I ended up just quitting, uh, because I was like, I knew my sister wanted to quit. So I was like, how am I going to quit smoking? And I ended up just quitting because I was like, I knew my sister wanted to quit. So I was like, I'm just going to quit. And I don't know if the hypnotizing had any effect on me at all, but I did quit. That's awesome. I mean, I got a guy that that's what, that's what he did. Yeah. And he said it would take several times and you have to really build a trust up with the person to get them to start listening to you and do it.

And I believe that kind of stuff happens. And I just don't, I have a hard time believing that you can get 30 people up in the night and five minutes to have them all under and they're doing what you say. But they do narrow it down like you're talking about. They do send people out. But that's interesting. The one guy who got like, he's like, he's putting on a show. Yeah. Yeah.

And so his wife would go with him. Yeah. And fight with him about how do you do this every night? Yeah. That'd be a great question. Yeah. I bet they are. Yeah.

I bet his wife's pretty sick of it. That's enough of it. Yeah. I've got friends of my wife though that. Start getting paid. They don't seem like the type that would be seeking the spotlight. Very quiet and all manner. Yeah. Yeah. I've had friends in my life, though, that start getting paid. They don't seem like the type that would be seeking the spotlight. Very quiet, mild mannered. Yeah.

They've been hypnotized. They're the perfect person because they're not the type. So this is the one chance they get to be that type. Oh, they get to say, I was hypnotized. That's right. So you're getting the freedom to do whatever you want. Things that in your darkest dreams you would never do. I get to

now do it and blame somebody else oh yeah and all you have to do is say really i did that okay that's what that's my opinion and i know there's a lot of people that disagree with it but i don't think that takes away from the show just because he can put a great show of how jacked rich guzzy is i'm gonna go ahead and say i believe it and uh I mean, Dusty almost got hit in the tie just in the back of the room. I can believe it. Well, that's what I'm saying. It was weird. I don't know what was going on, but I was like, I didn't feel like I was up ready to dance or whatever, but I was like, I started to zone out and I was like, I got to get out of here. Well, if you're a hypnotist and need some people as a plant, find good talent on Indeed. Indeed's the hiring platform where you can attract, interview, and hire all in one place. Don't spend hours on multiple job sites looking for candidates with the right skills when you can go do it all with Indeed. Take it easy and keep it simple. If you're hiring, you need Indeed. Why wait? Indeed's U.S. data shows over 80% of Indeed employers find quality candidates whose

resume on Indeed matches their job description. It's their opportunity to be entertaining. It's like you almost are hypnotized in a way. Yeah. I think that's what people believe. Where it's like, you're like, I wouldn't normally act like this, but now I'm acting like this. I must be hypnotized. Yeah. And if I take you down that road, you can't get out of it. Yeah. You got to do whatever they say. And then you never want to admit that you weren't because you're like, I did some pretty silly stuff. Yeah.

Sorry to you guys. Some of you guys are great. Is this going to reveal how this trick is done? No. Watch it for 10 seconds here. Okay. Just to see. But this would work.

This is what I'm talking about. Well, I thought it was quicker than this. Here we go. He's about to make this thing disappear. And instead of a handkerchief, you put a snake in there. Guess what you're holding,

or guess what falls on the ground? A snake. Well, I'm blown away by that trick. And that trick, that trick also works the other way around. That's why I don't like this though.

It could become a king. Because I'm like, this guy, I don't know how he did that and I don't, I don't care for it. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I mean, magic is fascinating. He's using something that you can find in every grocery store. He used to. So the other thing they did

where they were able to turn water into blood, which that could just be food dye or something, right? It could be a lot of things. And frogs. But in the Bible, they turned it to blood and then the fish were dying.

That's Moses' version. Yeah. They didn't say they died when they did it. Everything was dying. And then they created more frogs. Yeah. The plague. And all this was related to the gods that they had.

Yes. They worshiped God. Yes, it was. So everything was God saying, your guy can do it. Can you do this? And God was showing them off. But after a while, they couldn't keep replicating it. And the flies, they say, it wasn't really flies. It was like dung beetles because

they worship, a lot of the Egyptians worship the dung beetle. I always wondered why the different Pharaoh, but the one that caught all his magicians to have the dream interpreted. None of them could do it. That's right. That's Daniel. But, well, Joseph also interpreted.

Yeah, you're right. I was like, why did y'all just lie? I mean, it seemed like you could just say anything. In 30 years. Yeah. At least I lived 30 years. Yeah, exactly. Well, I think you're probably terrified.

No, remember, they had to tell him the dream. He didn't tell them what the dream was. Oh, yeah. Oh, I think you're probably terrified. No, remember they had to tell him the dream. He didn't tell him what the dream was. Oh, yeah. Oh, is that right? That's right. So they couldn't have lied because they didn't know what to lie about. Oh, okay. You're right. So Joseph told him what the dream and then what it meant. Then what it meant. Okay. All right. Well, stay on the Bible thing. There were witches.

There was the witch of Endor. Yeah. She saw, got her son and Samuel from the dead and tell him what was going to happen. I believe that the witches today, and I believe they contact in seances and all that stuff can be real, but you're contacting demons. You're not contacting the real person. I agree. I've opened for like a medium at Zaney's and she tells people what's going on. Yeah.

That's called code reading but the the the uh in samuel when they when they conjure up sanio that's a weird one because it's a weird one to me because he's like you shouldn't be doing this right so it's like that's where i'm like i always think that you're not contacting the person you're contacting a demon but in that situation where he comes and he's like you shouldn't be doing this that's a weird one for me because it feels like they did bring him. You think that, but yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, I never thought about it. It's interesting, yeah.

He said, you and your sons are going to die tomorrow in battle, and they did. I think Saul committed suicide, but he got it right too. Yeah. And the witch was freaked out. Again, if she was like, oh, this is just my buddy, Tom, the demon, she was freaked out when she saw it. Well, everybody likes to think around like they want to mess around with the demons and stuff like that. But anybody in the Bible that encounters angels or anything like that, they're terrified. They're never like, I mean, you know, the angels will calm them down.

But on first meeting, they're terrified. I would. angels will calm them down but on first meeting they're terrified who i would the the the israelites when they were in the desert and god appeared to them on the mountain after that they were like hey moses will you just talk to god from now on like we yeah that scared us too much you know yeah i mean i know this has become more of a bible episode but i just recently put together that the wise men the magi that's the same word as magician? Yeah, well, kind of. And they were astrologers. And a lot of people don't realize they were probably followers of Daniel. Because you remember when Daniel went there and he

interpreted the dream, the king put him in charge of all of his wise people. So he taught them the way that he did and the signs in the sky and stuff. So those guys were probably disciples of Daniel. And so they studied the signs that Daniel told. So they knew the time the Messiah would come. So they knew in the skies with the stars and that's why they went and they were there. They were astrologists.

Huh? That's interesting. Here's the top Halloween costumes of 2023. Barbie's number one. I figured that. One of my granddaughters is Barbie and I don't like it. You don't? Yeah, I didn't like it.

Why is that? Because it's Barbie. I hadn't even seen Barbie, but I heard it's pretty much, that's all hate men, people. That's what I heard. But I don't know. I don't think I'd see it anyway. But I have one of my granddaughters is being Barbie.

All right. You're getting some Halloween candy? No, is that all? We're just doing number one? You don't know the number one for boys? I wonder what that is. I'm going to say Ninja because we couldn't find one. Oh, yeah. So they're buying them up. I think these are combined. These are boys and girls. Yeah, Spider-Man.

Spider-Man is still's just number nine. Spider-Man is still. Ninja was number nine there. Wow. A bunny? I would think more superheroes would be in there, but Wendy's Adams, I thought that's an old thing. I think they just did a reboot of a show. Yeah.

She's got her own show now. We can get the dog costumes if you'd like. Or the babies and dogs. Barbie and Ken's number one. Of course. Yeah. I don't even know. Bonnie and Clyde. These kids don't even know who that is. That's great.

Yeah. Yeah, let's get into some Halloween candy. Yeah, yeah. Alright, Halloween candy. So, this. You should listen to me. All right, Halloween candy. So this is candy.com. They break down every state, what the top Halloween candy is, how they know, I'm not sure. I mean, I guess they just look at sales from a certain period of time. For Tennessee, it's the Tootsie Pop.

Wow. Well, there must be a lot of doctor's offices buying. I mean, that does. I like Tootsie Pop. Wow. Well, there must be a lot of doctor's offices buying. I mean, that does. I like Tootsie Pop. I like them too. I like Grape and Red. No other ones. I like them too, but that surprises me that that's the most popular.

Right. I've never licked it to the chocolate. I can't make it. No. It seems like it's a little salt. I'm crunching. Yeah. But I still like those.

I haven't had one in a long time, though. Number two is Saltwater Taffy. In Tennessee. Oh, really? This is in Tennessee. In third skills. That's just because they sell them at Bucky's and everywhere. Maybe so.

And there. Where else do you get Saltwater? Shocking numbers. Candy, that's loose, isn't it? What? Just a Saltwater Taffy? Yeah. That you break it out of the pack?

Is that like Laffy Taffy? I don't even know. I don't even know how you buy that because when you get it, you get a big old box. You're not giving the kid a box. You're taking one out. You used to get the little individual Laffy Taffy. Yeah, yeah. And then you open it up and there will be jokes in there.

Oh, I don't remember that. You eat the candy, but there's jokes in the wrapper. That's why you're probably in this business today. Yeah, yeah. One for Laffy. Laffy Taffy, yeah. It could be it. Who knows? I always loved a joke. It wasn't for Laffy. Laffy Taffy, yeah. It could be it. Who knows?

I always loved a joke. I love the joke as a kid. You want to look at, so you're from Kentucky. That's Kentucky. Kentucky, and then we'll do Alabama. I want to see if anybody

could guess their own state. Oh, okay. But I would not have guessed the Reese Cups. My wife loves Reese Cups. Oh, see, I would have said Reese Cups would be the number one for all states.

Oh, wow, really? They're expensive and you only get two. Well, who knows how... I mean, this is crazy. Number two, it's hot tamales and third, Swedish fish. Love hot tamales. Okay. They used to be one of my favorite ones.

Alabama, what are you guessing? I'm going to say... What is Swedish fish? It's a rubbery... It's almost like a sourpast. Okay. I'm going to say, I don't know. Let's go.

I don't know. Snickers bar. Nobody's got that much money. Maybe M&M's. Let's see. Alabama. Skittles. Skittles.

Oh, that was close. Skittles is a good one. The name is close. We'll start with an S. Skittles. Skittles. Oh, that was close. Skittles is a good one. The name is close. We'll start with an S. Second Starburst. In with an S. Third is Hershey's Mini Bars. Oh, Hershey.

You know, I don't know if I've told this story on here before, but at Easter, you used to get these Hershey's. I think it was Easter, but it was maybe a Hershey's Bunny or a big oversized Hershey bar. And we would get candy like that and we would put it in the freezer. Oh, nothing better. And my sister- I still do that.

I have a sister that's diabetic. She was like type one diabetic where she takes insulin every day. And my other sister, they both got this candy and they're about 10 years older than me. And we were in a trailer and my sister who's not diabetic had already eaten all her candy. And my diabetic sister, her candy was still in the freezer. So my sister started eating it one day and she was like, hey, that's my candy bar. And they got into a fight about it. And my sister cussed at her, but she goes, here, take your candy bar and threw it at her and hit her in the head.

And she had to get several stitches. This is great. Yeah, she busted her head with a frozen candy bar. But I'm kind of with both. I see both sides of that. I do too. You're not going to eat it. Yeah, you're not going to eat it.

Don't leave it in here all day. This can kill you. So let me kill you by hitting you in the head. Yeah, let me knock some sense into you. Stay away from this stuff. Well, she should have at least sold it to her. Yeah. I mean, I would have made a deal.

You do my shorts. They should have did a business deal. Yeah. They were a little hotheaded. I think I was in the room when it happened. Wow. Before we go too far there on this candy, I like this. Did you have any people that gave whole pieces of candy bars?

Because I don't think Fun Size was in when I was little. Did you have any people that gave whole pieces of candy bars? Because I don't think fun size was in when I was little. I don't think fun size existed maybe when I was a kid. We had like, I can remember like candy apples. Oh, no, I remember that. And stuff like that. That when you're hitting your bag and go, wow. Rice and crispy treats. Yeah.

Homemade. Yeah. Homemade, no problems. I love those. I like those too. But do people do whole candy bars? We always had one or two houses and that's when you had to have a costume change. You know, there's pork and marshmallows. You had to do a change. You had to do it. The pork and what?

And marshmallows. Pork gelatin and marshmallows. No way. What are you learning marshmallows for? Yeah, I know. There's a- That's why they catch on fire. Yeah, maybe so. When you go, if you go into the international section of the grocery store, you can find kosher marshmallows and they will have a fish gelatin instead of pork. That sounds terrible. Do they taste the same? They taste the same, yeah. Yeah, they do sound terrible. I like the little bitty marshmallows. I like them in hot chocolate. You know, my mom said

that when she was a kid, they would give out like fruit and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I remember getting some fruit. Yeah. Those are the houses you hated. Yeah. But.

You should give out meat, you know, give out like little steaks. I mean, here's. Here's a bologna. Yeah. Yeah. I grew up in the country, so there was no going door to door. You, I mean, you had to go to a house, get out of your car. My parents would drive me, get out, go, and then get in a car and drive a little bit to the next house.

Yeah, you couldn't get a whole bag full of candy that way. It was hard. Yeah. It was probably, too, like I think where my dad lived, it would be like the people at the church. It would be like they would go, all right, we're all going to be set up for Halloween. So you would do that. You would drive. To the houses or was it like in the parking lot?

To the houses of the people from the church. Because they do it in parking lots now. Oh, okay. Truck or treat. Truck or treat. I hate it. Oh, that sounds terrible. I think it's a great idea because it makes people bring them to your church and you do that.

But the candy they give away is terrible. Yeah. I mean, I went there too many times and it's like. That's why Tootsie Pops are famous. Yeah. They buy the bag with the 5,000 pieces of candy in it. Oh, yeah. They're all little bitty Tootsie Rolls.

Mr. Good Bars. I like a little Mr. Good Bar though. Yeah. You ain't going to convert anybody with that candy. It's got to give me some. If you're going to do trunk or treat, great. Be a real Christian and turn to Seven Fish. Make it a nice.

Yeah. Make something nice. Yeah. You ain't going to save. Make it a nice. Yeah. Make something nice. Yeah. You ain't going to save anybody with that. Yeah. Yeah. You can't. It's now and later.

I can't even eat that thing. Get some loose donuts. That's what I want. I need a lot of loose glazed donuts dropping in the back. That's what churches always do. Whenever you want to, there's some project where you got to get together with the church. They're always feeding you donuts. Donuts.

Powder donuts. Let us get some protein in here. You know what I mean? You know, I don't really think I believe in ghosts, but I mean, there's some haunted houses I probably wouldn't, I'd be a little nervous in. I mean, the Bell Witch House. The what? The Bell Witch.

You know the Bell Witch? Yeah. You don't know about the Bell Witch? I don't. Yeah, I don't. I don't do haunted houses or anything like that. I don't do them, but that's what I'm saying. The Bell Witch is like one of the most famous ghosts, I guess, anywhere.

And it's right here. It's where Leanne Morgan's from, Adams, Tennessee. Right. Okay. And there's, I think you can go. I've been there. Bell Witch Cave. Oh, you've been there.

I wouldn't go in. Yeah. And stuff. And I read, as a kid, I read all these stories about it. And look, I say I don't believe it, but it scared me. Now, I used to love to tell the stories. Me and my friends, my dad lived out in the country. We would set out on hay bales and just tell ghost stories until we freaked each other out and had to run back to the house. And I, yeah, so I believe in it. Yeah. But I don't think it's anything good.

So twice, going back to the Bible, Jesus' followers thought he was a ghost. Yeah. And he was walking on water and then after resurrection. So I don't know, on water and then after resurrection. So, I don't know. Maybe that's... His resurrection. Yeah. Yeah.

You said that pretty fast. Yeah, it was... That's a word you don't want to... Sorry. I always say he rose again. I never have a problem. Jesus rose again. So, they believed in ghosts.

Nobody corrected them. He didn't say ghosts. That's stupid. Again, there was a lot of demons back then. And it's really funny. That's one of the most miracles he ever did. And we don't talk about it today. The demon possession and all that stuff.

He pulled some demons out of a guy. Threw it into a herd of pigs. A herd of pigs ran off the cliff. Devil's ham. Yeah. Came from that. Exactly. He was like pigs ran off the cliff. Devil's ham. Yeah. Came from that. Exactly. He was like, this is not food.

Don't eat this. I'm going to send this over the cliff, guys. One day you'll burn your kitchen down. Yeah. My senior in high school, The Exorcist came out. I was about to ask about The Exorcist. Yeah. And I never, I didn't have an opinion about God.

I just kind of did. But after I saw that movie, my whole life changed. I mean, I didn't sleep for two or three days. Yeah. And I never, I didn't have an opinion about go. I just kind of did. But after I saw that movie, my whole life changed. I mean, I didn't sleep for two or three days and I couldn't now I believed in, I mean, the devil through this aisle and there was a jail, like there was people, all insane people and behind bars and they're reaching out at you. Oh yeah. So I'm, I'm as far away from them as you can, scared to death. And all of a sudden there was a chair and I sat and I just kind of sat down in it. Or it's an electric chair. Oh geez.

And all of a sudden it lights up and all this noise. I, I passed out. They had to turn the lights on, carry me out the side, put me in an ambulance. And I had to sit there and my now wife had to come get me and take me. How old were you? I was like 17. Yeah. So you're like 38.

Yeah. No. But then when we first got married, the last haunted house I ever went to and she was pregnant with Nathan. And I got so scared. I grabbed her and pushed her in every room first. Her, Nathan. Get in there. Oh, no.

Women and children first. I go, I'm never going through. I can't do that kind of stuff. I don't know why people like it. I don't understand it. Yeah, I don't like it either. Nope. But people love it.

And people love to just get together and watch horror movies and just scare themselves. I don't understand it. Yeah. And if it's a murder mystery, I can watch it. Yeah. But Sixth Sense was a little tough. That movie was scary, scary for me. But if you throw the devil in there, I'm done.

Yeah. Sixth Sense I liked. What's that? Is it Nefarious? Is that the name of the one where the guy is the devil? Just came out last year. It's the only devil one I saw.

I was forced to see it because it's supposed to be a Christian movie. And it turned out very, you would love it. You need to see it. Because the guy, he's on death row

and he thinks that he is the devil. And he tells this. You're not going to give it away. No. But this guy comes in and he's a psychologist and he has to declare if he's insane or not. Oh, okay. It's amazing. It's amazing because

you get to hear... Oh, you know what? I've seen clips from that on the internet, I think. They made me go see this. I would check it out. You should check it out. Yeah. Because you learn a lot about the devil. I like the clips that I saw. They're sitting in a room just kind of across from each other like this, interrogation room. Yeah.

The whole movie is almost that. Okay. It is great. I thought it was very good. And that's the only last devil movie I would ever see. What's the one? Is it Primal Fear with Richard Gere and Edward Norton? Yeah.

I just saw it recently. It's a pretty old movie. It's really great. Is that when he's a priest? No, I think he's like an insane person. Edward Norton. You've seen it? Yes.

Oh, I can't remember. Oh, he was up at the end. He was lying the other way, right? Yeah. Oh, that was fantastic. It's such a good movie. Yeah, it's amazing. I don't remember it. Oh, it is. At the end, you go, oh, you way, right? Yeah. Oh, that was fantastic. It's such a good movie. Yeah, it's amazing. I don't remember it.

Oh, it is. At the end, you go, oh, you were so wrong. Yeah. It's a great movie. Now, I want to mention, because I think we have at least one that listens,

there are witches, like Wiccans, who call themselves witches and practicing, but their whole motto is do no harm. So I want to throw that out there that there are witches and their brew, according to what I read, is

they might make a home remedy, herbal remedy for the flu. My wife just went to, there was a pharmacist on TV, I mean on the radio here, that makes a home brew that helps to bring back your taste and smell. Somebody told me that's a zinc deficiency. Yeah. He gave her a jar of motor oil. So it looks like motor oil, and she has to take it.

She's on her eighth day with it, and she still can't taste or smell. But he made this himself, and he's doing it. I forget how I have to look up the name of it, but it was so far. It hadn't really worked, but the best part is watching her drink it every night. You have to take it twice a day. It's she can't taste it, but it kills her. Well, I hope she gets her taste. It's a home remedy.

So I, you know, there's probably, I don't know about that stuff. Yeah. Well, I just want to put that. All right. That's probably a good place to. Well, this is great. This was a lot that stuff. Yeah. Well, I just want to put that. All right. That's probably a good place to. Well, this is great. This was a lot of fun. Yeah.

You want to tell us where you're at this week? Yeah. Well, this week I'm off. And you know what? There was speculation. People, I saw someone on the Facebook group who was like, we've looked at everybody's calendar. I saw that. And they're all off this week.

They must be all going to appear on SNL. I can't speak for the other two people, but I'm always, I try to take one weekend off a month to spend with my family. I got two small children. That's so smart. I'm so glad you are. Yeah. I just, you know, I like my family. I want to be around them. So I'm doing that. But next week after that, I have a run of show. Well, I'll be in Chicago doing a theater show in Chicago on Thursday, November 2nd, I believe. And then Saturday, November 4th, I'm in Oklahoma City at Bricktown doing comedy, two shows there. So check those out.

They're going to be hot shows. After that, I'm in Raleigh, North Carolina at the Improv. And then I'm in Chattanooga, Tennessee doing a theater show and Bowling Green, Kentucky doing a theater show. So check those out. Skypack. Skypack, yeah. Great place.

Well, Aaron is going to be at the Albany Funny Bone November 3rd and 4th. Yeah. Yeah. Great place. Uh, well, Aaron is going to be at, uh, the Albany funny bone November 3rd and 4th. Okay. So, uh, go check him out there. I will be, um, at Zaney's November 8th. Uh, wow. Here in Nashville one night Zaney's November 10th and 11th at a comedy off Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky. My first time to headline there. November 18th, I'll be at the Murphy Theater. No, sorry, the Studio Theater in Little Rock, Arkansas. Okay. So, folks in Arkansas, come see me,

please. All right. This morning, I was in Colin Crosby's doctor's office, and he's trying to fix a pinch nerve in my neck, and he's the one that fixed my back that I talked to. Great guy. Great office and stuff.

But next week, my next show, Saturday night, I will not go to New York. Me and my wife, since we are invading Nathan's home, we will be staying watching Harper. Okay. And keeping her up late to watch it. So I'm excited. I think it might make Nathan nervous. I'd be nervous to be in there with him. Yeah. And so we decided not to go

and just let them to go. Yeah. I mean, my parents aren't performers, but I don't really want them around on the big moments. You know what I mean? It's too much pressure. You don't want to have to see them

if they are. Whenever we, we went to a lot of Nathan's shows when they were tough with the cousin who he's with. But he just said, as long as I don't see ya. Yeah. You know, he didn't mind. And a lot of times he liked to think that we were there even if we weren't oh yeah stuff like that but uh yeah he never he doesn't want us to be sitting in the

front row oh yeah no don't do that i just watched one of his old specials and they show you and derek yeah yeah that was his uh that's right. The one in New York, uh, for his comedy central special. Yep. Yep. That was an Easter egg. They called it. I had no idea, but that's what it was.

But I, my next show with Nate is actually going to be in Peoria and Chicago on the, on the fifth at the Janie's comedy club. Oh yeah. We need to sell some tickets for that. It's an afternoon show. I'll be doing Nathan's show that night, but we're going to, uh, each one of the guys that openers we're going to do, tickets for that. It's an afternoon show. I'll be doing Nathan's show that night.

Each one of the guys that openers, the other two guys are going to be doing a night show on the 3rd and 4th. I will be on the 5th in the afternoon because I like to sleep at night. Then I'll be in Vegas with Nate on the 10th and 11th with Vic.

We need some people to come out and see me in Zany's on the 5th. Dick. Awesome. We need some people to come out and see me in Zanies on the 5th. November 5th. Go do that. It's the whole show, so it won't be just one track. And Nate will be back next week. He'll tell us all about Saturday Night Live. Like I said, if you've got questions or comments about SNL,

email us at natelandandnatebargatsey.com and we'll read some of them next week on the show all right all right i think that's it thanks for having me guys thanks to our sponsors hello fresh and indeed and uh we're having a good time yeah let's go folks this has been too long all right that is a great idea. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetze, and my wife, Laura, on the Audioboom platform.

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