The Nateland Podcast - 178: #178 Mythical Creatures Pt. 2

Episode Date: December 13, 2023

This week, the guys resume their discussion of mythical creatures and the conversation stays just as ridiculous. Nate, Aaron, Brian, and Dusty learn about the Kandahar Giant, chupacabras, a dog lady who now has a boyfriend, and much, much more. 

Hello folks and hey bear welcome to the Nate land podcast I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slate. All right welcome everybody's here we thought we you would be late, but you made it. I made it. Yeah. I drove 45 in a 35 mile an hour zone, and I thought, I'm going to get in trouble. Yeah. That's a school zone, too, right around here. Well, I was on a different road, but I saw a budget truck got pulled over, and I thought, you know what?

I'm going to get picked up here. You use a lot of different roads. Well, yeah, I do. I do. Yeah. I think my Google Maps is programmed weird. I find myself on all the wrong roads. Yeah.

I mean, it's the right road, but I'm like, did we need to be on this road? Yeah, it's just gotten to know you a little bit. Yeah. And it just knows this guy doesn't want to be on the main stuff. Yeah, they're like, there might be some leaves on the side of the road. Yeah. We're going to take you near the leaves. Yeah, they're like, there might be some leaves on the side of the road. Yeah. We're going to take you near the leaves.

Yeah. Yeah, I could see that. I figured you just went a different path every time to keep them from tracing it. Well, yeah, but they're all tracking us now no matter what.

Yeah. There's no getting away from it. Get that. All right. Get an old delivery. Thank you. Coffee. We're doing this at 5 a.m.

So. Thank you. Coffee. We're doing this at 5am. Yeah, this is great. Mine's from T. My voice, I think my voice is getting beat up. Oh, yeah. Laura just mimed, I think, to cough away from the mic. What's that? My, she just goes, she just goes, yeah, yeah.

I'm gonna, I'm my own functioning man. Sometimes I don't know how to do anything. Uh, yeah. Uh, yeah. My voice just got bad. It's,

it's, uh, it's not bad. It's just, you know, we've done a lot of shows, a lot of shows, a lot of crazy.

I got my, uh, Georgia's not bad. It's just, you know, we've done a lot of shows, a lot of shows, a lot of crazy. I got my, uh, Georgia tech go jackets. All right. I'm happy to find out. That's what that means. Yeah. Cause you were getting go jackets yelled.

Yeah. Cause John Chris was on here when you guys did go jackets and I didn't know what that was. And people would say go jackets to me. And I'm like, you know that I wasn't on that episode. Yeah. We got a, uh, uh, we got a picture of signed Next to Go jackets.

I think I have all this. I was like, oh, we'll show this. And then I didn't do anything with it. But we went to, we got to go tour the golf facility, met the golf team. They have like their golf thing right in the middle. It's like really in the middle of downtown Atlanta. They have like 14 acres and it's just, there's a little par three and it's their own practice facility and stuff.

Probably simulators and stuff in there. Simulators. Yeah. They can't drive her and it goes, it's like 360. They said, wow, which is, I mean, these guys can hit it that you know far so but the whole thing was uh they they were very very cool uh we saw the football stadium so the locker rooms and they did they really nice and like she gave us a big tour was it was hopefully meeting chris winky which would have been fun see the coach the coach? Yeah, he's coaching there. And then.

Your Murkowski? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. It's about my age. Yeah. Is he? He's not that old.

No. He was like 32, wasn't he? When he was a quarterback. He was older. 29 or something. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. I don't know if he was going to like that. Sorry, Chris.

Yeah. Chris could have went two ways, but could have went that way, could have went your way. But it's, yeah. So, but they were having like recruiting or something. Like it was like recruiting meetings

so when they hit it, I would get it out to me in time. Would have been fun, but. When you were talking about hitting the ball 360 yards, you're talking about, I thought you were talking about golf. Yeah, that's what I am. But you're talking about a coach now.

Well, I switched it up. Okay. We also toured the football. I got real confused. Yeah. Yeah, okay. All right. Yeah.

Because I do not know a lot about Georgia Tech football. Yeah, go Jackets. Yeah. I don't know a lot about them. Yeah, go Jackets. It's in Atlanta. Yeah, they're the Georgia team outside of the SEC. Right. Yeah, I don't know a lot about them. Yep. Go Jackets. It's in Atlanta. Yeah. They're the Georgia team outside of the SEC.

Right. Yeah, they were in the SEC. Yeah, there's a line in the Alabama Fight Song mentions the Yellow Jackets by name. Oh. Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave. Wow. Because it used to be an in-conference rivalry years and years ago. Wow.

A little fun bit of history for you. Yeah, it would be like Vandy. You think about it, Vandy and Georgia Tech and Northwestern, like if we had our own little conference going. Yeah, like a smart school conference. Yeah, Stanford. Duke. Duke, you know.

Do our own thing. For what, like a trivia competition or sports? No, no, sports. Like a Southern Ivy League. Oh, yeah. That would be fun. That would be good. Yeah, Southern Ivy League. The SIL. SIL. I like that. I don't support Georgia Tech

because they beat up on Cumberland a little too much in football. Oh, when they won the big game? 222 to nothing. Yeah. What? They made a point. Yeah. Wow. They're... Not recently. 222 to nothing Yeah What? They made a point Yeah Wow They're Not recently

Yeah It was I mean they ran Their big thing was the option And he was like They ran that I mean they Dude they had Calvin Johnson

Right He went there I mean they've had Obviously a lot Demetria Johnson Right I think He passed away.

He's from the Broncos. The guy that died. Demarius. Demarius. Thomas. Yeah, Demarius Thomas. Right. A tough career Calvin Johnson had then, huh?

Georgia Tech to the Lions. Yeah. I can't catch a break on that. Hall of Famer, though. It's crazy. I mean, he's great. Megatron. Yeah.

Well, they said he was like a four-star recruit out of high school. And, you know, I don't know. Georgia Tech might have been good then. The Georgia Techs, I mean, they won a championship in 1990. Mm-hmm. I think they shared it with Colorado. Yeah. But, I mean, that's not that long ago.

Yeah. Calvin Johnson, the four-star recruit out of Tyrone, Georgia. 2004. 37th ranked wide receiver in the country. What other schools were? Oh, Georgia, Miami, and Notre Dame. No interest. Wow.

I guess he got an offer from all of them. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure. He's not interested. Yeah, he's not interested at all. Yeah, I guess he got an offer from all of them. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure. He's not interested. Yeah, he's not interested at all. Yeah, I bet he was going to, well, he's from Georgia. So he visited, took an official visit at Georgia and Georgia Tech. Yeah. Couldn't bother to come up to South Bend and check it out.

He did not go. Never did an official visit. Yeah. Bummer. That's a lot. What a loss. And then he ended up in Detroit. So maybe it's a little Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry.

Maybe. Yeah. But, yeah, we were in. So we did shows. Evans, Georgia. Two shows at State Farm Arena. The Hawks play. Crazy.

How many shows were there? All in all, this weekend was about 50,000 tickets. Wow. It was. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. All in all, this weekend was about 50,000 tickets. Wow. It was, yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. It's Evans and Evans, you know, Evans might have been 2,500, 300, 30,000 or something.

And then it was a beautiful theater. It's brand new. That's Augusta. It's like, I mean, they don't want, it's a town. It's not Augusta, but essentially it's part of Augusta. It's like, I mean, they don't want, it's a town. It's not Augusta, but essentially it's a part of Augusta. But great place. The crowds are so good. And then, you know, especially these big arenas.

I mean, in Atlanta, we did a thing that I haven't seen. From January on, I'll be in the round, in the middle. Like you've seen the Bridgestone Arena pictures. I'll be in the round, in the middle. Like you've seen the Bridgestone Arena pictures, I'll be in the middle. This one, I had people behind me. So they sold, but this wasn't an in-the-round show. But they sold tickets. I didn't even realize they did this. And I got there and they were like, well, there's people behind you.

And I'm like, what? And then there's tickets and they're sitting right behind me. They're like, they're, it's a, it's a rear view seat. Partially obstructed view. Well, that's kind of rear view. Yeah. There's a big screen in front of them. I do almost think they weren't bad.

Like if you think of seats, you're like, I mean, you're pretty close. I mean, I'm never looking at you, but you're looking at the screen. And you're bending, but they're right there. Like it was, and I've never done that before. Someone posted on the, I think the fan page. I can't remember. Were you in Tampa this weekend too? I can't remember if it was Atlanta or Tampa that somehow the arena messed up the seating.

They had like 10th row center. Whatever seat they had, it didn't exist. And they posted their photo and they were off to the seating. They had like 10th row center. Whatever seat they had, it didn't exist. And they posted their photo and they were off to the side in a corner, like up high at your show. I don't know. And it was the, they weren't blaming you. They were blaming the arena. They were actually cool about it.

Like, this is kind of crazy. Yeah. But they just said the seat didn't exist. They got sold. Oh man. Well, they spring it up on public. Those are the Brian Bates seats. Yeah.

Yeah. That happened to me a lot this weekend too. Yeah. Yeah. My seats. And then someone said, uh, somehow when Nick thing was on stage, it's like a walk-in review. You're walking Yelp.

I just go, everything is just go ahead. Bates advisor. Yeah. Yeah. I'll tell you a couple other things I read about your show. Somebody's got to. Yeah. That your dad's mic was going into Nick and he was hearing you, your dad backstage.

Yeah. Yeah. That happened. That was because they mute. So they, when my dad takes, because my dad has to walk on with a mic, like on his ear. Because he needs both hands for magic. Yeah, a hand-free mic. And so they, but they usually, they just got to mute it.

So when he takes the stuff out, like when he turns it off and all, he wouldn't pick it up. Yeah. And it just was a mess of an idea. So Nick was up there and it was coming through the monitors. And then Nick just kind of, Nick Thune just played with it played with it and he did great yeah i feel bad for those people yeah i didn't know that i mean i don't know like some of that i don't know what's going on right sometimes if you buy tickets too i i'm not saying these people did this i have no idea but you know be aware of like uh when you buy tickets on that second market or whatever you're doing uh you know that's you

you get out of a control of really anything you don't know what's going to happen uh i think i've had i've had it happen where i bought tickets and right you get there and i've had double two tickets sold yeah where you just sit there like at a uh it was a long time ago dude uh florida tennessee football game in Gainesville. I went with all my buddies, and then we bought tickets. And it was like these people had these tickets, and the other people had their tickets. And then everybody just squeezed in.

But, yeah, it's wild, man. These arenas are wild. And super, super fun. Everybody's so nice. It's great. It's wild, man. These arenas are wild. And super, super fun. Everybody's so nice. It's great. It's great. Yeah. Well, I was a little bit different.

I'm still on the Christmas party circuit. I did do a show yesterday in Knoxville at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Don't try doing a show at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Don't try doing a show at three o'clock in the afternoon in Knoxville. You cannot sell tickets there. Why? Because didn't you just do that? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I just did it. And sold it out. Yeah. Now, I was opening for Karen Mills, and she basically sold out the Bijou Theater, and it was a great show. Oh, wow. It was a great show, and so that's where I was.

All right. I had a gig, dude. I had a gig at noon today. Wow, really? Corporate gig. Those are the best, though, because you're already worked. This was not the best, but yeah. I know, but it doesn't matter.

The feeling is like, yeah, I've already done stand-up today. I bombed horrifically for 30 minutes already. I'm in a second gear. You bombed or was it just kind of a weird environment? Well, I don't want to blame anybody. It was not a perfect situation for comedy and I did not

do well. So it was a perfect storm. Can you describe the situation a little bit? About 250 people in a room. Very long and narrow mike's situation was not good brought up by the dj they're eating lunch it's noon uh pretty bad dude yeah well how'd the dj bring you up he goes we got uh well well he he did a bunch of things he was a nice guy he did some stuff wrong but i don't think that hurt me it might have hurt me for 30 seconds,

but he brought me up Aaron Weber. This guy performs at the Grand Ole Opry. Aaron Weber. I don't think they knew a comic was coming up. They're trying to eat lunch. Oh, he just brought you up as performs at the Grand Ole Opry. It's a bit confusing. They were like, where's this guy's guitar?

I know. And then when it's just the guy talking, it's a bit of a disappointment. They're like, this guy's explaining this song for a while. 30 minutes. Just get into it, man. If there were a guitar. The crowd starts just clapping just to be like, let's help him out.

If it went, I mean, it was going so bad. If there were a guitar on stage, I would have picked it up and started singing just to shift gears a bit. I had to do 30 minutes. Five minutes in, I did the calculations in my head. I thought if I get off now, I don't think they would be upset. I think they'd be a little relieved if I just did five minutes. The people who booked you. Yeah. Because it was like, you can see people be like, you know what I mean? You see people in the crowd be like, they hired a guy that's not good this stinks and I have 25 more minutes left but sometimes five minutes in you and you know they

don't like it it's like it's almost like a punishment now for them it's like you don't like me well I'll be up here for 25 I've seen Dusty do that real time I didn't want to turn spiteful at one point there was one table in the front with two guys that were looking at me and so i just kept mentioning i'm killing with these two guys and at one point i go hey the back of the room y'all i'm killing up here and i look back and this girl in the back just goes yeah just booze me from the back i was like oh no dude a magician had to go up after me and we crossed paths. I immediately left after I got off stage. I immediately left. I passed the magician.

He goes, good luck. He said, I respect you, brother. As I walked out. Then I got in the car and drove here. I got a phone call that I forgot to grab the check. You got to get that check. I got to go back and look them in the eyes and grab that check at some point. They're like that magician was great.

Yeah. Yeah. But just remember when you get the check, look them right in the eye and go, I had a great time here. Yeah. I had a great time. This was a lot of fun.

One of my best shows. You say, tell them to keep it. Yeah. I thought about it. Yeah. Just keep it. Yeah.

I don't want to come back and see everybody again. I sat with the table in the back waiting to go up. And these guys sat down. They're like, you the comedian? I go, yeah. And they go, oh, man, we're pumped, dude. I talked to him for a while. They're nice guys.

And then as I was asking the dude, they didn't look at me. That's why I don't want to see anyone before the show. Yeah. People before the show all after. Now, that being said, I was in Chattanooga at the Comedy Catch. It was great.

I met a lot of people. Brought you some leaves. All right. Dusty. Did you bring them here? I got the leaves for you somewhere. They're in my car.

They brought Nate Sour Patch Kids. They brought Brian Ensure Breakfast shakes. All right. So I have stuff to give you guys. Those crowds were great.

I want to tell you one quick story. So late show Friday at the you guys. Those crowds were great. I want to tell you one quick story. So late show Friday at the comedy catch this table sitting in the front and they're the, the worst table. It's just what you don't want. It's a group of like four, four guys.

They all work together. They're hammered. They don't know who I am. You know, they're just, let's just go in and see this. They made the whole show about them they were awful i i hated their guts okay i played with them enough that i

think they might have had fun but they were the worst the worst um so it's like a whole thing we talk about it the next night dude they come back to the Saturday Night Late show. I was standing in the back of the room and they walk in and were, are you kidding me, dude? The other comics are like, that's the table. Oh, no. And, you know, the staff of the comedy gets is great. They don't know who this tape. So they see them. They're right up near the front again.

I was, you've got to be kidding me, dude. And I want to say this. They were great. that second show. Wow. They weren't drunk. It was almost like they came back to apologize for the night before. They didn't laugh because they had already seen the show. They're sober now.

Yeah. They liked us a lot less. Wow. But they sat right in the front and they were great. Yeah. The second night. It was almost like they were like, we ruined his night on Friday. Let's let him ruin our night tonight. Just to balance things out. It's like a cat bringing a bird to the door.

You know, and that cat will bring you. Yeah. That's like a little sacrificial offering. Yeah. They just came and sat. And I said. Did you talk to them? I talked to them after. Yeah. I said, A little sacrificial offering. Yeah. They just came and said. And I said. Did you talk to them? I talked to them after.

Yeah. I said, y'all were great. Thanks. It was just kind of a mutual understanding of we've now, the universe is in balance again. Yeah. You know. But dude, I was so mad when they walked in the second night. You almost think, just buy the tickets and don't go.

Yeah. Yeah. That would have been great. Yeah. Anyway, all the other shows were great. Knoxville was great. A lot of people came out. So thank you, everybody.

Great weekend. I hate to harp on just the two bad experiences I had. Well, I like hearing it because it's – That was just super fun. Yeah. I mean, that corporate gig and that stuff that warms my heart

to I like seeing it I like it I like it a lot it's just it really takes you back you know it does

you're like I sold 50,000 tickets this week yeah it's nice to remember those times I got booed before 1pm today

oh at one point I go I am good at comedy I said that at one point It's nice to remember those times. I got booed before 1 p.m. today. At one point, I go, I am good at comedy. I said that at one point. Nobody agreed. That's good when you know you go, guys, my career is going good. There's no evidence of this today, but trust me. Oh, man. That's so funny. Those are the – and it's crazy because you like

you think you're going it's going to happen once you're like no it happens a lot you get you happen so much that you get not bad at it yeah that's the weird part that you just have to figure it yeah you're like i don't want to do any more of these corporate gigs and then it comes up you're like i'll take it i'll take it yeah i would do it tomorrow yeah yeah you're like that those same guys uh i'll come right you come right back and they go this guy again like i get my check i would do i remember doing that i don't know if i said the community uh community college you do nooners is what we'd call them and a guy i was late 1202 i showed up and he goes you're late i got him i was like i'm sorry and then uh he had a box with a microphone he took it out handed to me he goes i'll be back in an hour

and then that was it and there was no hey there a comedy show. Like you don't see any posters. Where are you in like a cafeteria? Uh, somewhere outside of Chicago. Uh, I brought, uh, Ben,

uh, uh, what's his name? That wrote his Ben Bergman, big Bergman. Yeah. Ben Bergman came and he had him open. I remember that.

Thankfully. And so, I mean, he goes, I mean, so I'm going to make him go. I mean, there's no,

we're in a stage in the corner. We're just in the cafeteria. He said, what were you in the cafeteria? And you go somewhere outside of Chicago. So kids are trying to eat lunch. Yeah. I mean, there's no, you know, and look, I'm a community college guy. There's a bunch of different ages in there.

No one really cares about school. Yeah. So it's, and I mean, I have to go up and the guy's just like it was you know like i was going in a prison and they're like you got to entertain them for an hour and the warden leaves but there's no like hey there's a comedy show starting in 10 minutes if everybody no that's like lexington kentucky they would have a room like that where you would be in there doing comedy and there would be free food and people would come in there and get the food while you're on stage and get the food and leave.

Yeah. The Tom Sobel gig. Yeah. They wouldn't even, they didn't come in and go, Oh, there's comedy. I'll sit down and eat the food here.

They get the food and leave. What was the gig you did for the apple cider? Oh, that was Red's apple ale yeah yeah and and uh charlotte north carolina big conference room i mean it was like i was it was every whoever whatever beer company owns red's apple ale it was like all their brands in one giant room next to me was a like i don't know a dunking booth and the other was like a dj and i'm on a high stage behind the bartenders two young girls i was like who's your favorite comic they

were like kevin hart and i was like okay well you're not gonna like this and it was uh pretty bad people nobody knew what i was doing yeah i was just up there and I started calling people out by their names on their name tag. And one lady was like, what are you doing up there? I'm like, I don't know. I'm singing. You'd rather be in the dunking booth. Yeah. That's the special part.

I mean, I really do. Even though, I'm sorry, it was not fun. I love it. I love hearing it. But just because I know that's the right path to be on. You have to be just down this path. You got to get. When you're up there, it's really insane.

Because when someone thinks they want to start comedy, and they're like, I'm going to go do comedy, and they go to open mic, right? And say they stay in open mics and whatever. can be bad they're not as bad as when you go alone you drive there's no one to talk to you don't have anybody you drive by yourself and then you're on stage and people don't even know you're on stage and you're and then you're having to do your act and you're just, and you're in your joke, you know, you just sitting here, your jokes like Olivia and I just, and nobody is, nobody's even looking at you. Like, and you could, you could just walk off stage and no one would know. You

could just go to them and go like, Hey, I'm, I just did 30 minutes and they'd be like, Hey, I felt like five minutes. You're like, Oh, it felt like I played longer than that. And jokes that you would do the night before in the comedy club and just murder and you're like i'm the best i was thinking i'm the best comedian in the world thinking two things i was like i did the same joke in knoxville it was great yeah and it just dating i care at all today but i was also thinking i can't wait to talk about this in the podcast in a couple hours it's kind of yeah got me through it. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah.

To get done, to already be done for the day, to already do a set is. Yeah. Man, that's nice though. I always liked that. I always felt, even, I mean, I mean, that one got bad, but even if it's bad, you just feel, it's like you worked out. Right. You go, like, you just gotta be like, I've already got all my stuff done. You've already won the day.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think the worst with a corporate gig for me is like when I do like some of my newer jokes that I think are really good and it doesn't and it bombs. And then I go, all right, I'm about to hit them with some of this old stuff. That's a real classic. Yeah. And then you do that and it bombs.

You're like, oh, I got nothing. Yeah. I got nothing. All right. You get a little bit of greatest hits crowd. All right. I'll pull it of greatest hits crowd. All right. I'll pull it out. Yeah.

Yeah. This will get them. Yeah. And you're like, oh, God. Where were you this weekend? I was at the Liberty Funny Bone in- Cincinnati. Liberty Township, Ohio.

It's a great club. It was great. I had a lot of fun. I also finally brought these. I don't know. Months ago, I was in Des Moines, Iowa, and this lady brought us all a Texas Roadhouse gift card. She was a very nice lady. She said her husband didn't want her to do it.

Oh, why not? All right. Well, because it's probably his money, or at least the family's money. And he's like, don't give these guys these gift cards. Oh, wow. But yeah, she gave us all her gift cards. It's money. I don't mean, you know, but I mean, it's the family's money.

Yeah, I think a family going to Texas Roadhouse, it's his money. Yeah. But. I love Texas Roadhouse. Yeah, so do I. And so she was very nice. Thank you. And I've had them in the truck forever, but I wanted to give them when we're all here.

Yeah. Oh, thanks all here. Yeah. Oh, thanks. I got, I got some nice gifts this weekend for y'all. But the shows this weekend was great. Had a lot of fun. That club's great.

The funny bones are awesome. A lot of fun. Yeah. You have a special coming out. I do have a special coming. Yeah. Announced it. Yeah.

I really thought, Hey, I've announced this. This will really turn the sales around for this weekend. And, and it did not. And, but I did not sell 50, I've announced this. This will really turn the sales around for this weekend. And, and it did not. And, uh,

but I did not sell 50,000 tickets, but I did sell that. I just, I don't know what to say. I did sell, I did sell 50 to a couple of the late shows. So that was, that was good.

That's not bad. No, it was great. I had a lot of fun. I actually, I like sometime in, uh, you know,

of course you want to sell out every show, but it's like, I like sometimes when it's a small crowd and they're all a little drunk because you just get loose with it. And then I'm riffing and I'm just talking about all kinds of crazy stuff and that's fun to me. Yeah. But yes, I have a Netflix special coming out on January 16th. All right. Big time. So very exciting. Congrats. Congrats.

Yeah. I mean, I recorded it in May in Knoxville, and I've known for a little bit of time that Netflix was going to pick it up, but I didn't have a date. Yeah, yeah. So I was like, you know, I was like, so I didn't talk about it,

but now it's out and very exciting. Yeah. So I'm pumped. It's going to be great. Yeah. It's going to be great. Yeah. It's going to be great. Yeah. It's an hour of comedy that I like.

And it's my first thing that I've ever gotten to film that I've really got to do it in the South. Right? Like every time if I do, you know, The Tonight Show or Jimmy Kimmel or I did a Comedy Central thing and even the other Netflix half hour. It's always New York or LA. Yeah. Which they're great. But, you know the south and the midwest is where i learned to do comedy yeah it's in your pocket yeah you're in

the pocket so it was fun i did the bijou where you were at this weekend karen mills and uh it was hot i love it it looks good it sounds good it looks the way i want it to look and uh i'm pumped yeah dude i can't wait. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. It's exciting, man. Yeah. This is our last episode of the year where we're all together because we got to do some episodes where some of us can't be here. And one of my predictions for 2023 was that you do a one-hour special and put it out.

All right. Oh, yeah. All right. You did it. All right. Oh yeah. All right. All right. What was your prediction for Nate again? Well, Nate's a retrospect. I wasn't even thinking.

I said, you'd win a Grammy for hello world, which the way that, that it came out, you wouldn't even have been nominated this year. So yeah, I wasn't even thinking about that. And I didn't get nominated for next year,

but you found out today. It did not get nominated for Golden Globe. So it makes you feel any better. We didn't either. Our critics choice or anything else. So yeah, you really nailed it, Brian. Well, you've exceeded any prediction I could have ever had for 2023. I would say make some more predictions for me. I'm 0 for 2 for you.

That's okay. Well, I want to say real quick before I forget, Danielle, the manager at the Comedy Catch, listens to the podcast and took objection to all your swim talks. She was a collegiate swimmer. She's trying to get a one-on-one competition with Dusty started. She was like, I would

smoke him. Well well i like that i mean everybody thinks they can swim faster she swam in college that doesn't matter i'm she can yeah i swam in college age yeah you know and i you know somebody uh brought me uh a fan of mine uh brought me a swim, and I forgot to bring it today. He brought me up. So I now have a medal for swimming, and someone brought me a swimming cap. Yeah. So I'm ready.

Yeah, people are. I mean, I think we've got a lot of offers of people. We could do it at a lot of places. People are into it. Yeah, I'll race Daniel. I'll get up from this table and race Daniel. I mean, let's go. You know what I mean?

Well, she's in Chattanooga. Let's go. Well, we're flyer up. Yeah. Just so drive. It's a short drive. Yeah, shorter than

flying probably. Yeah. My prediction for you for 2024 is you'll star in a movie. Now, it won't be out in 2024, but you'll at least shoot it in

2024. Yeah, that's going to be my prediction. I mean, there's nothing left to do for him. I know. You'll sell out a theater. You'll host Saturday Night Live. No. I mean, there's not a lot left, so I'm going to say movie.

Let's hope so. White House Correspondents Dinner. There it is. Me? Yeah. I'm just kidding. Yeah, yeah. I don't know if i did that yeah you could host an award show uh yeah i don't know i think i would enjoy that i'd like to try it you'd find a way to make it

fun yeah i bet yeah i like it's fun to go like if you get to do some of this stuff yeah i don't i mean i don't know you know we got a lot of stuff. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. We got a lot of stuff that we're working on. A lot of stuff comes and goes. Yeah, it's all going great. It is. Like, there was the Grammy thing. Like, the Golden Globes came out.

It was announced today, and you felt good, and I just didn't get nominated for anything. And that stuff's hard, but it's not hard. Like, you really's not hard. Like, you really, you can feel yourself, you don't really care that, you know, you're like, this isn't what you're doing it for, but then it's also like. And this is the first year for comedy, right?

Yeah. So at least you can't say like, I would always want this. Now, how would you feel if Dusty's Netflix special wins a Grammy next year? That'd be awesome. I'm just kidding. I wouldn't like it. You wouldn't like it? Yeah.

Well, I, yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't, I'm not, I'm not looking to win any Grammys. As we're talking about it, I think about the old Eminem song where he's talking about, you know. You think I give a, about a Grammy? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's just fun. I love that.

That song was great. Most of you critics can't stomach me, let alone stay in me. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I think always people, but everybody does like to win. Of course. Yeah. I'll take the Grammy.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, yeah, it doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't. You know, I just want to. Yeah, dude, I love stand up.

I love, you know, this weekend I was like, I just love it so much. I love hearing people laugh. I love stand-up. I love, you know, this weekend, I was like, I just love it so much. I love hearing people laugh. I love trying to write. You know, like doing this hour and just like, I mean, it's so fun. It is fun. I get pure joy. Yeah. When I'm up there, it's, you know, to hear the laughing is,

there's nothing more rewarding than that whatever i would maybe want to win or something is is i understand there's no depth with that and i have the depth right that i want it's you know yeah you just competitively you can sometimes but i have i have everything you've already found meaning i've already yes yeah and so now i just want to continue to make that kind of stuff and then hopefully do stuff like that where you can do a movie or a TV show or whatever it is to continue to, you know, make stuff for all these people that want to come because a lot of people want to laugh and have a good time.

Yeah. Yeah. It's fun. I get it. What's your special called, Dustin? Working Man. Working Man. 50,000 tickets.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. No, my, well. Not even close. 50 tickets, late show. Well, you know, my manager really likes the idea of. Working Man.

Like, let's tell people what the special is. Yeah. In the title. Yeah. Let's not. I like that. Let's not get too cute with it. Let's tell them what the. is yeah in the title yeah let's not i like let's not get too cute with it let's tell them what the i like that because i mean in my head i'm always you know i want to

name it making that fudge you know stuff like that and i'm like let's tell them what it is counterpoint do you think your name already does that no it doesn't go you don't think so no okay and that that's why you're looking that's why I was the Tennessee kid. No one knew my name. I mean, no one ever knows your name ever. But he's joking that Dusty Slay. His name is Dusty. Oh, okay.

Yeah, that guy's not a stockbroker. But that's the idea. And I got a lot of jokes about jobs I've worked. And I was a pesticide salesman for like 10 years and a waiter. And it's like, so it's all inspired by that kind of stuff. That's awesome. Yeah, I like it. I think I actually agree.

That was a Netflix thing when they said that, or they, or my manager might have come, but then they came up with Tennessee Kid. But it's, it's what could, what's the title that you go? Like, I basically know what I'm getting into. And then they, and then, and then it's just, you know, then they watch it and they love it. And Working Man is like, you're like, yeah, that wraps up everything. And on the Netflix half hour, I came out to the Working Man's Blues by Merle Haggard. But this time my friend, Jesse Daniel, my country singer, wrote the theme song that I'll be coming out to. Oh, that was in the trailer?

Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. So he wrote that song, and then he's going to do a whole album. So he's going to release that song on his own, but he wrote it for the intro to the album. That's exciting. That's cool. That's exciting.

Jesse Daniel's great. If you've not heard him, he's really good country. Yeah. Really good. Couldn't help but notice you're wearing Viore. I am. As am I. We all love Viore.

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Yeah. A lot of people want you to run for president. All right. We'll figure this Nessie stuff out. Some, not so much. I would say Nessie. I understand not doing it now. I'd say just for the town. It's the lure of the town. Right. You shut that town down.

Yeah. Tourism industry is over. I think it's in there though. And I think they find it and then tourism booms. I think it's in there, though, and I think they find it, and then tourism booms. Well, then tourism would be insane. Yes. It would be the craziest year, but that risk-reward is probably too much to be like. I just don't believe that. I mean, the whole world's pretty different if there's a Loch Ness Monster. Yeah.

If there's a dinosaur in this lake, it's... See, you think that, but think about, you talk about it in your last special that, think about all the alien stuff

that's come out and we're not living life. But we still haven't seen an alien. Yeah. That's the thing. Okay. They still haven't,

I mean, I'm saying the second you pull a body of something out, if they pull a Bigfoot body or if they do it, everything's different it has to be undeniable yeah i mean the ufo stuff is like they're saying it's the government saying

like yeah we've seen some stuff we can't explain what this thing moving quick is but you see so much of it that you're like what does this even mean like i don't even know you know even though it's like fun and they're telling you still still, there's no- Yeah, I just don't think these world governments really care about the tourism money. You know what I mean? They're like, no, no. If they want to find it, they'll go, no, we're going to check it out. Yeah. We don't care about your little tourism money.

I'm saying for the town. Right, I think they don't care about the town. But a lot of times there'll be a conspiracy video where you see something and then the government will say no that's just something else and you'll say ah they're probably covering it up yeah but it seemed like that town would want that to exist so tourists would come see it i think are we assuming here's a question do a lot of people travel to look for the loch ness monster i just i mean know, it's crazy. Two days after we, uh, recorded this podcast or the day after I talked to,

uh, one of my business managers who was there that she was there the day we talked about this. Really? Yeah. Searching for the Loch Ness monster. Oh man. Okay.

All right. I mean, some of these African countries that have like, man. Okay. All right. I mean, some of these African countries that have like- Whoa. That's always just fun, dude. Where's this going? You better get to the point quick. They have safari, they have elephants, have lions, things like that.

They make a lot of money off people coming there to go on these safaris. So if you have some new creature that no one's ever seen, you make a ton of money. Well, yeah, if it's there, well, yeah, you got to make it. But if you find out it's not there. Yeah, I agree with that too. It's trouble. But I just feel like there's got to be something to it, right? Because what's to keep anybody from just being like, hey, I got some stuff in my leg.

Yeah. I'll charge you to look around the leg. Isn't there one in Canada that's kind of like that? I don't know. I think there's another kind of North American Loch Ness monster. Oh, we should do a mythical creatures episode. Yeah. Part two.

Part two. Joanna Marie Zimmerman. creatures episode yeah part two part two joanna marie zimmerman it's a lot that is a lot joanna marie zimmerman uh uh brian's got a speakus sorry joanna i'm still looking at your name it It's hard to get started. It's like a long sprint. It's a lot to write. Yeah. Try to sign that on a check. It's good. You write a check to her.

You're like, dang. You got to write it in that. My hands hurt. You have to write two checks just for one. Tape them together. Tape them together. Brian's got to start speaking up during these reality-based conversations. Watching Aaron go head-to-head

with Nate and Dusty when discussing anything of substance is brutal. Justice for Aaron. He needs backup. He should have phoned a friend during these debates. I'm sorry, Aaron,

but I'm here for you today. It's hard sometimes when Nate's on a roll to even jump in there, but I'm here for you today. It's hard sometimes when Nate's on a roll to even jump in there, but I'm here for you today. I'm ready to defend you. I appreciate it. I agreed with you about we should be doing space exploration. I don't even remember what the argument was about.

I didn't agree that the focus should be 4.5 billion years for the sun. But I kind of understand what you're saying now, because everybody was like, Aaron, if the sun explodes, Mars. By everybody, you mean me and Nate. No, the comments were all like. I did. I took a lot of heat for people thinking. I said, the sun's going to explode, so we need to go to Mars. And they go, well, don't you know Mars is in the same solar?

I'm not saying we stay on Mars, but that's obviously the first step. Obviously. To expanding outside of the solar system. You think we can just see farther then? Like we get to Mars and then we're like, oh, these decum plants keep going. There's another sun down there. There's more of them. He goes, oh, we got to just keep hopping.

Well, we got to set up somewhere else. Got to get going. But it's true. But if the sun does. Yeah. What's the difference of. Well, we got to start somewhere. I'm just saying, if you want to leave the neighborhood, you got to get to the end of your driveway first.

And we're saying, let's not even bother with the driveway. And I'm going the whole neighborhood. Do you bring everybody to the end of the driveway? I mean. Well, you got to start. Well, you got to start with somebody. I don't know. Yeah.

You got to drive the car out there. Yeah. This is going to be like when they, they would show this video in 4 billion years and hearing us talk. And it's going to sound like, you know, just like we saw an old video, just something like,

but we've been driving. They go, what's a driveway? They go, they're not even hooked to Neuralink. Yeah. Why are they talking? That takes so much effort. They needed to talk back then.

That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. And they go, and then you're, and they go, that was the guy that goes, we need to get going. Doug Brulette. That's a long one. B-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-T-T-E. He's like, let's get all the vowels in here.

I feel like his family just gave him Doug just to give him a break. A little balance. Yeah. I'm sure it's Douglas, and they're like, but just go by Doug just so we know what's happened. That's a name I don't think anybody wants to spell. Because Brulette, if you're a boss of him, you go, I'm going to write Doug B on all your checks.

Of course. And he goes, yeah, that's understandable. Yeah, if you're a teacher, it's Mr. B. Two L's and two T's. We were Mr. My dad was Mr. B that's understandable. Yeah, if you're a teacher, it's Mr. B. It's Mr. Oh, yeah. Two L's and two T's. We were Mr. My dad was Mr. B as a teacher. Smart.

Yeah. Love no so to no end. All right. Doug's coming around on me. I might have to name the ship after his family's name. The USA does have NOAA, National Oceanic. Oceanic. Oceanic. Imospheric Administrations.

But they are pitiful on stuff like the Loch Ness Monster and Octopus Cities. Great episode. That's true. Yeah, so pitiful on stuff we didn't even know about. Yeah. But I don't like that they're even throwing in ocean and atmospheric atmospheric space yeah i don't need you to do the atmosphere yeah i don't want you to do both just pick a lane first of all who do you think you are maybe that's where we're not getting anything done yeah because you're like well we do both we do the ocean and the air air

and you're like well why don't we just focus on one? And then we start a new one. Again, I mean, the whole argument is- Then what's NASA for? It's just exploring the ocean first and then space. That's the whole debate, I think. If you have NOAA, what's the point of NASA? Different things for different airs.

NASA is space. I don't think the NOAA is trying to go to the moon. What are they trying to look at? We're supposed to be going back to the moon. Do you guys see that? What do you think about that? I have trouble with the word back.

It says unmanned, so I don't believe it. No, we're going to send people back soon. The NOAA warns people for dangerous weather. They chart seas and sky. They guide the use of the protection of ocean and coastal resources, and they conduct research to help understanding and stewardship of the environment.

So nothing really with the ocean. They're celebrating 200 years. NOAA's been around for 200 years. I know. There's no way. 200 years. I agree with you. Yeah.

What is that? 1823? And we've explored. Is that really when it got started? 1823, they started doing stuff? 15% of the ocean. Is that what we've explored? I don't know.

It was a low number. Yeah. 200. There's no way. If they walked in and go, I'm a 200 year, get out of here. 18, 23,

they're like, oh, the waves are bad out there. Yeah, it takes a while. Their mission is to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, ocean, and coast. And to share that knowledge and info with others.

They're kind of busy right now. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're doing important others. I'm kind of busy right now. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're doing important stuff, too. I want to show you this. Somebody in Greenville brought me this. This is Reed Jones brought me this. I don't know if you remember at the end of the episode,

Lauren, one of the producers here, put a logo together for NoSo, and he made the official. Oh, look at that. Official ID badge. Wow. Yeah. For NoSo. What's those? for no so and he made the official oh look at that official id badge wow yeah for no so what's level four band clearance so codes get you to this qr code is good on my website all right he made that oh that's awesome i'm officially sanctioned yeah you're in yep uh yeah 200 years huh reed jones uh What do they get off? I don't understand what you're...

And what was the constitution? 1776, right? Yeah, so they were like, better. So they got really got going, didn't they? We're a country now. Let's start. Yeah, they do the constitution. And then they're like, let's start figuring out this ocean and atmospheric stuff.

That oceanic probably wasn't even a word back then. Yeah. I don't believe that. 200 years. Sam Sansalone. What is? Sam Sansalone. Man, that's.

Everybody goes and meets people and goes, I'm Sam. And they go, what's your last name? Just call me Sam Nah, you gotta say it Sam Salone Listening to Nate Make a passionate case For how to solve

The world's largest problems While wearing a ketchup hat Is Pete Nateland And I am here for it Yeah Alright Got your pizza hat on now This is assistant over there

Yeah This is what over there. Yeah. This is what ketchup, ketchup gets the pizza started. Somebody gave me this hat in Ohio. They said this, there was their golf hat. They said they were team slice. Oh,

that's fun. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. Yeah, that's fun. I was wearing a Michigan hat in Ohio and they really took offense to it.

It wasn't a university of Michigan. It was just a, doesn't even matter. It was a state. Yeah. You just wore a random hat about the state just like pure michigan well you know so just so you know white trucker hat that has a it's like a you know engine bearings you know just kind of a old company do you wear a lot of hats to other when you go to a new state yeah i got a i got a des moines i Iowa hat I'll wear around a lot of places. Even to other places?

Yeah. Yeah. The Michigan hat and the Des Moines, Iowa hat are my favorites. I mean, they're classic looking hats. Yeah, it's just the Michigan, Ohio State thing. And they just play. Yeah, I was like, I don't know. I hate the whole state, you know?

Yeah, that's the whole point. Katie Shea. I was like, I don't know why you hate the whole state, you know? Yeah. That's the whole point. Uh, Katie Shay. This has been the funniest dusty episode ever. I'm dying. Zucchini. Peony is killing me. All right. Zucchini.

Peony. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know how to read sometimes. And, uh, you put zucchini right next to a word like that. Zucchini peony. I mean, it rolls off the tongue. You know what I mean?

Thank you, Katie. Kristen Flavel. Flavel. We're getting some people today, boy. Flavel. Flavel. Kristen Flavel. There's an episode of Drain the Oceans where they actually did scan the lake that the Loch Ness Monsters supposedly lives in, and they did not find any large creature.

I think it's more fun to leave it alone and let people believe in the myth. I agree with that. I disagree, but. Never heard of the show, Drain the Oceans. Yeah. I disagree but never heard of the show drain the oceans I mean it sounds like some kind of propaganda TV show where they're like oh no we scanned it we can tell what's in there now

I bet you can I bet you scanned it you know what I mean no we scanned it we're the myth busters of Loch Ness here it is good though you could just be like well he got out yeah they probably were like of Loch Ness here. It is good, though. You could just be like, well, he got out. Yeah.

Yeah. So they got in and they probably were like, yeah. Guys, didn't you suggest maybe he went through like a tunnel or something out in the ocean? Who knows what's going

on down there? Yeah. Now, let me ask you this. What television show producer would be incentivized for there not to be a Loch Ness monster?

Why would they make up the opposite? It's better TV if they find it, right? Well, there's some. I mean, there's shows around chasing Bigfoot where they never find Bigfoot. But they'd love to find it.

I know. But you would never argue they actually found Bigfoot and they're just not showing it on the TV show. That'd be the best TV show of all time if they found it, right? Bigfoot is... There's just such a defiance with the lake it's a lake right so i don't know why i talk yeah why it's on discover the oceans or drain the oceans well they do a lot of stuff like like no so yeah they do some lakes and rivers yeah you want to go oh

this episode of drain the oceans we're going to go uh jet skiing in old hickory lake you're like well this doesn't make sense and that's what happened so uh yeah i would think you know a bigfoot like you're like all right well they're not in that where you're looking but it's like it could be anywhere and this is like pretty like it's either there it's pretty contained well i agree with that but to aaron's point if flogness is there this TV people would love to find it. Well, sure. Well, I mean, depending on what their overall agenda is. I mean, maybe their agenda is just to make a TV show and make you watch it regardless of the outcome.

And so they're just saying, that sounds like a good episode. We're going to get to the bottom of Loch Ness Monster. Yeah. I'll watch that. And maybe they find other things in there. Maybe in the episode, they're like, oh, there actually is some cool stuff in here. I guess if it's just one episode on Loch Ness, they don't care. Right.

We tried it. At the end of the show, they're like, we didn't find him. Next week, we're talking about algae. I mean, I've watched lots of useless shows where at the end, they don't find what. And of course, maybe they would love to find it, but they're like, well, we already filmed the show. Yeah, you said a joke about it. Yeah. Yeah, the Bigfoot joke. If they, yeah they're like, well, we already filmed the show. Yeah, you used to have a joke about it. Yeah, the Bigfoot joke. Yeah, can you imagine?

That's why you watch it. Can you imagine if they find it? The world's different. You ever watch the show River Monsters? That guy who catches basically mythological fish all over the world and catches them? Yeah. And he just stopped doing the show. Why?

Because I've caught everything. Oh, really? That's what he said. He's like, I've gotten everything I've ever wanted the show. Wow. Because I've caught everything. Oh, really? That's what he said. He's like, I've gotten everything I've ever wanted to catch. Wow. There's not, this is, I've done everything. And the only thing that makes this mythological is that we haven't caught it. Well, I mean, it could be, you know.

I guess it could have died, right? It was a long time ago. And it's like, you know, I watched just a show just on, you know, the ocean. And like there was like these, the orcas will kill a baby blue whale, giant baby blue whale, just to eat the bottom jaw of the whale. And then this giant whale sinks to the bottom of the ocean where other things eat the rest of it so if Loch Ness dies I'm sure there's something down there to eat it yeah you know so yeah it might have been 100 years ago yeah which we would have already been to 100 years of the d whatever that was then yeah Noah Noah Noah, yeah. Yeah.

Charles Soden. The problem with Nate's rant is that many of our current day inventions came from thinking about the future. I'm sure people thought NASA was wasting their time creating things like the laptop, computer, camera phone, wireless headphones, or insulation. They were invented for space but became widely useful everyday items. Velcro. It's another big one. Came from NASA. Oh, yeah. Would you like to issue an apology? No, I don't even remember

what I was saying. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'm thinking the future i know i would also debate all of these things that nasa invented them for this or that whatever insulation oh come on guys come on you're telling me nobody was sitting around going i wish there was something to keep getting so cold in here while we're inside the house yeah yeah that's true i mean i would debate that nasa invented that for space. And it's like, oh, you know what?

What else we can use this for? Our trailers. Yeah. So NASA invented everything? Yeah, yeah. I mean. I'm sure Apple would probably disagree a little bit too. All right.

Here's a quick list of things that came from space. Camera phones, scratch resistant lenses. I mean, you wear glasses. Right. This is what they claim. But they probably stole this idea from some poor smuck out there. He goes, hey, I invented scratchless lenses. I mean, you wear glasses. Right. This is what they claim, but they probably stole this idea from some poor smuck out there. He goes, hey, I invented scratchless lenses.

And then they shot him. And then they were like, we got it now. Foil blankets. Well, there you go. Yeah. Next marathon you run, think NASA. A foil blanket, I'll give them that. I'll give them foil blankets.

A dust buster. I mean, that's nice. Yeah, that probably used aluminum foil and just slept under it? Right, yeah. Yeah, you're like, I'm cold, and all I got is this roll of aluminum foil. Wireless headsets, memory foam, freeze-dried food, smoke detectors, baby formula, artificial limbs. I mean, this list is crazy.

A computer mouse. Yeah, see, I debate all that with them. Like, they're like, we invented this, and I'm like, yeah, I bet you did. NASA developed an 8-ounce ear thermometer, which used infrared astronomy technology

to measure the amount of energy emitted by the eardrum. If you're making this stuff, though, what are they doing? They're making all this stuff for space and they're like, you know what? This would go great in target as well. They go, well,

we've got to have a human being survive in space, which means we're going to have to do all kinds of things. I understand that. Yeah. I would say, so then they get all the resources, they get the funding to do research and develop this stuff. And then they're like,

and then they can pivot that. Yeah. So they get the funding to do research and develop this stuff and then they're like and then they can pivot that yeah so they get the money so and the money comes from taxes probably for nasa yeah it's a government so the thing that's inventing all this stuff it has unlimited of our money right and then they go oh and then on top of it we're the ones that we're the only ones that get to invent this stuff. Because you can't even have tried to invent it. And then they resell it to us, and we pay taxes on the resale. And so, man, I guess we'll do it. We have money invented.

That's the system. That's a bleak way of looking at it, but yeah, I guess so. That's the reality. Reality is bleak. Memory foam. Here's a good example. 1970, y'all made that? 1970s NASA.

Who do you think you are? N-O-A-A? Get out of 70. 1970, y'all made memory foam? That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It may help make everyone's seats more comfortable.

I mean, it's so like what? They get the process of owning a bed. I guess they get it started. And then these companies like Apple or whatever, maybe buy the technology and then they patent it and make it go out to consumers. I don't know how that works. I'm not giving all this credit. Yeah. I think I'm back to...

I think I stand with whatever I was talking about. Jake Larson. Aaron talks a big game with a lot of things, but Brian is closer to David Beckham than Dusty is to Michael Phelps. Might be the most outlandish thing he's ever said on this podcast. Dusty, I'm with you. Yeah, sorry. I'm reading it in a different speed.

Dusty, I'm with you on this. I'm baffled that everyone thinks breakfast could blend in on a soccer field better than you in a swimming pool. Having played soccer my whole life, I can assure you that Brian would stick out like a sore thumb no matter what he does. That's what I'm talking about. talker my whole life, I can assure you that Brian would stick out like a sore thumb no matter what he does. That's what I'm talking about, Jake.

You know why I'm saying that? Because you look like a thumb. Well, that's what I'm talking about, Jake. That's the joke inside of the joke. I mean, it's like, my argument is not that I am Michael Phelps, but I mean, I'm just saying. You're blending in. Yeah, I can, you know, I have as much chance to blend in as Brian. Yeah, I'm just saying you're blending in. Yeah. I can,

you know, I have as much chance to blend in. Yeah. He's just saying, yeah, I was going to say that for the next comment, but we'll go ahead and look at this if you want. The next comment,

Mike Hunt says, Brian is severely underestimating how much soccer players have to run, even when they're not near the ball. Here's messy this weekend. It's a time-lapse video following Messi around the field. And he's just walking back and forth. But you would be running to keep that pace. Yeah.

I can walk. Yeah. He's jogging a little bit. Yeah, I can jog a little bit too. This is the thing that makes you watching Messi walk not seem weird is that when he does spring into action, it's pretty incredible. Well, he's just trying not to ever spring into action. Yeah, exactly. But I mean, the thing is, that's a lot of walking for you, man, because you got to walk.

You can't ever really be left out of the play, the competition. If you're trying to blend in, you kind of need to be in the thick of it so people don't notice you. So, I mean, if you get tired, I mean, you can't even be walking that far back because, you know, you need to kind of be – so you're going to have to do a little running, and, I mean, you're going to be exhausted. Well, I don't deny that. And they play for 45 straight minutes.

And then you're going to complain about, but the clock stopped. Why is it still going? I do that from the stand, so I'm sure I'm going to be doing that on the field. I mean, people have emailed me trying to explain the whole thing. They're like, it's not about whether you're good at the sport or not. It's whether you can blend in. But my argument is that you have to play the sport in order to blend in. We're not just talking about the sidelines, right?

I mean, it's like. It's the. I know. That's why you picked the worst one possible. Swimming stuff is your body. I don't know why we think my body's so bad, but. It's not a swimmer's body. I'm ready to go.

Let's go watch any swimming. I mean, you're- But you're talking about Olympics, right? I argue that there is a professional swimming league out there that we have no idea about. We could find that. Yeah. And we could find that where you could just go. I mean, I'm looking-

But you're going to stand there with Speedos and no shirt on. Are they all wearing Speedos? I don't know. I don't think they have Tommy Bahamas on. Cut off jeans. Yeah, I mean, you know, but yeah, I'll do it. I mean, let's go. You could wear those long ones that go during your knees.

Yeah. Yeah. Or you can maybe wear a full body suit. A bit more of a swimming suit. You'd probably wear, yeah, you'd probably be, you'd want the most coverage. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, and I'd trim the beard back. I'd wear a swimming cap. I mean, you'd be want the most coverage. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, and I'd trim the beard back. I'd wear a swimming cap. I mean, you'd be like, all right. Yeah. This guy's ready to go. Yeah. You see a lot of swimmers with beards. Well, you know, you got to really trim it back.

Yeah. It has to really be close. You're willing to go back to old Dusty. Well, I don't want, I mean, I'm not going to shave it off. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean. You take it down. But who knows what's, you know, we're seeing the guys make it to the Olympics.

We want to see like the local swim. Yeah. There might be a professional league, almost like a minor league swim team where they're never making it to the Olympics. Yeah. Didn't someone say bowling too? Bowling would be good. But I'm terrible at bowling.

I could do it. I could do bowling. I would immediately not. Yeah. You're pretty good. I mean, you're a good bowler, but again, I don't think it needs to be an individual sport. Blending in means get out there and try to stay away from the action.

Yeah, that's true. But nothing says I'm not good at this, like staying away from the action. Well, I'm not saying that you're trying to make people think you're good. Try to blend in and not be seen. I think that when the gunshotshots fired and you jump into the pool everyone will go that guy's not supposed to be here yeah but we even said in the original that we would have time to train we said we would give some time to train you just said i could hop

off this table right now and beat danielle in a race but not blend in yeah you know what i mean so i would love the first thing i would do if I were to start training was learn the form of jumping off that. Right. Right. Right. Cause that's where I don't have, but swimming in the pool speed wise,

I'm ready. Freestyle. I don't jump off a lot of the, you know, a lot of the, I think, I don't know if you would get training because you would, you would be,

I mean, you know, I think you get a couple of days notice training. If it's a real mission, I don't think they're like, hey, in six years. You don't jump off a board, do you? You jump off something. You jump off the edge of the pool, I thought. I think it's a platform of some sort.

Yeah, I think it's a platform. Oh, okay. Yeah. Because those are your swim meets back in the day, above ground pool, circular. I'm just trying to remember the Olympics. I mean, this will have to come. You can push off the ladder, do 40 laps, first one win. It's just a small amount.

This will have to come down to a competition. The Watson family is the one that's judging it. It will never be settled. Who's the Watson family? Remember the Watson pools? Oh, yeah. The Watson girl? Yeah.

Somebody suggested slot receiver for me. Oh, okay. Because they said you just got to go 10 yards and they'd have to cover you. Just don't throw it to them. I don't know about that, dude. I started thinking about it. I would want to just see you in these uniform. Seeing you in full pads would be pretty good.

Yeah. See, team sport, I think, to me, is the hardest to blend in with because you're up next to all your other teammates. Yeah, football might not be. I would never fumble, though, because whenever they try to determine if that was a catch or not, they're always like, he didn't make a football move. I could run 30 yards downfield with a ball.

They're like, he never made a football move. I don't think it was completion. Somehow he never had possession of it. Do you think an offensive line could hold a defensive line long enough for you to get to 30 yards? How many yards? How many yards do you think? Even this might be a fun question.

I'm doing Manning cast. All right. Oh, that's on there. That's all right. But it was a fun question. I'm doing Manning cast. All right. Oh, that's on there. That's all right. But it was maybe a funny question to bring up. How good of an offensive line could some, if it would be to get me to get to, or to get you to 30 yards away?

You know how the Eagles have the tush push? Yeah. I mean, they'd have to really do some pushing. Football's terrifying. I mean, that'd be – they'd have to really do some pushing. Football is terrifying. I mean, I would be – it would be so terrifying. The quarterback's got to be – it's going to be like you're going to make it. You're running a 30-yard out. So that means you run 30 yards and then cut out.

Yeah. So right when you turn, I was saying, could you – like the – could the O-line be like, boys, I need you to hold? Because he's slow. Yeah. Because he's going to get caught up at the line. The D-back is going to – I don't know if you even get past the D-back. No.

But even if there was no one guarding you, just as straight. No one covered me. No one covering you. Yeah. Straight 30-yard out. covered me. No one covering you. Yeah. Straight 30 yard out.

And then he goes, could any offensive line hold long enough for the quarterback not to get crunched? Yeah. For him to be like, I can't, you gotta get there sooner. It had to be prevent D for sure.

Yeah. The rush one, maybe. I would like to see this. We could probably get a football team to be like, y'all just, you know, they're doing their practice. Let Brian full pads and everything.

He's got to run a 30-yard out. And then you can see, like, what would be the out, the average shot? Because it's like, they get like three or four seconds. I think you could do it. How far do you think you can get 30 yards?

How far can I think I get 30 yards? I'd say about 30 yards. How much time? I mean, it would take me a little bit. What I'd like to see is the goal line, first and goal with one. And I do the thing. Eye formation. Where I jump over the line to score the touchdown.

Oh, my God. With Bo Jackson. I don't think you could get over your own line. No. I know I couldn't. I think you would go, your best guess is to go low. Go underneath their legs. You'd butt fumble it, dude.

I mean, can you imagine getting hit? I mean, at least if you're in the NFL, you've been getting hit like that since high school. Yeah, you're already a little brain dead. I mean, at least if you're in the NFL, you've been getting hit like that since high school. Yeah, you're already a little brain dead. I mean, gosh. I remember I played football in middle school one year, and we did hitting drills, and that's when I was like, I'm out. Oklahoma? Yeah, me too.

You want to tell us about Rocket Money? Oh, I've been waiting all day to talk about it. I love Rocket Money? Oh, I've been waiting all day to talk about it. I love Rocket Money. If I asked you, Brian, how many subscriptions you have, would you be able to list all of them and how much you're paying? No, because if you would have asked me this question before I started using Rocket Money, I would have said yes. But let me tell you, I would have been so wrong. I cannot believe how many I had and all the money I was wasting. I've talked about it all the time. I sign up for stuff.

You know, I get ambitious and I think I'm going to change my life and I sign up for something. With Aaron doing a cannonball is absolutely gold. Episode was hot. I agree. It was a hot episode. Yeah. It was good. We're going to do a little bit more.

We'll do a little more with this episode. What is this episode? Mythical Creatures Part 2. Oh. All right. Yeah, maybe we really talk about some mythical creatures, you know? Well, we did. Grand scheme of things, we barely scratched the surface. We spent most of our time talking about the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot.

In space. Yeah, in space. But I'm guessing there's a bunch that we didn't get to. There's a few. Now, there's a whole pseudoscience called cryptozoology. A cryptid. You're going to hate me for this. I took a cryptozoology class in college.

I don't even know what pseudo means. It means it's a size that nobody counts. Oh, really? I mean, that's not what pseudo means, but basically it's not like an official science. There's a lot of that out there. Oh, yeah. All of it for Dusty. Yeah, there's a lot of that.

It's all pseudoscience. It's called NASA. Yeah. What, you took a crypto? I took an anthropology class in college that was about cryptozoologies. We talked all about this stuff. How would you even know to take that class? You had to take it.

Saw a flyer. I think I tore one of those little things off like guitar lessons. Uh-huh. I had you. When you honestly, when you pick classes. Yeah. Did they just you have to go, hey, what does this mean? And they're like, I will go talk about like bugs and stuff.

And you're like, all right, I'll do that. Well, there's usually a course description of what you're going to talk about. You're looking for some easy credits? Well, you have to fulfill certain requirements, right? Like you have to do at Notre Dame, you had to do like a theology requirement. Or you have to do like an arts and letters, a science or something like that. And I can't remember what it was. I think this class counted as a science class or something, even though it was about pseudoscience but it

was just all about how to recognize falsified evidence and stuff like that yeah for for these types of things all right wait wait stuff these mythical creatures they're called cryptids and there's a whole science out there don't know what that means but anyway there's a whole science out there. Don't know what that means. But anyway, there's a cryptozoology and paranormal museum in Littleton, North Carolina. So why is it there? It's a big thing. I don't know. I don't know. I was trying to think which one to start with.

Now, Dusty, you sent me a video. You probably don't remember because it was a couple of weeks ago. It's just normal video. Just your daily video that you send. Take a look at this, but it was the one in Indonesia. Um, that one's fun. Uh, let me find it real quick. All right.

Well, what we're talking about humanoid in Indonesia. Yeah. Uh, so these people are out on a paddle board or guess or whatever. And, and then they see these things out there. And they're kind of like some type of monkey with crazy legs. And we don't have audio, but they're basically playing music, right? Yeah, I mean, you know, and I don't know, but it's a pretty fun video. Can I turn audio on in here?

Is that okay? Just to hear it? I want to hear it for a second. Is it in the video, Brian? Yeah, it's in the video. It seems that they're performing some sort of ritual with music and water.

These animals seem to... I just want to hear it. Yeah, there you go. It's kind of creepy if this comes back copyrighted we know it's fake yeah yeah this video is great though i mean you know whether you believe it or not i'm not saying i do but you it's a fun video i mean now i didn't watch the whole video you sent me but the explanation is given is it was some type of performance art piece. And those were people in costume. Well, this was the mainstream kind of like, oh, they were like, this is what it is.

But they kind of break it down in that they don't look the same. They're very similar, but they don't look the same. the same. I just tend to, I just like the idea of believing that there's a little more out there in the world than what we're like, see every day. I just think it's fun to not just live as though everything is so boring and like the swamp monster guy or whatever you're talking about. He's like, I've caught everything. It's like, it's just boring to believe that we've seen everything, we found everything. I like to believe there boring to believe that we've seen everything we found everything i like to believe there's a little mystery still out there you know i like how they're already being critical of you know you're seeing possibly alien type things yeah and they're

like oh they're making music and this was like well that one guy's not that good at it. Yeah, that's what the bottom says. You're seeing an alien. They're playing music. All pretty good. We don't even know what these people are. Yeah, the caption is, if this is a performance, the guy sitting down isn't playing the part very well. I think they're talking about one of the guys in the boat that sees it. What?

Wow. When they're in their little canoes,'s a guy who is like kind of freaking out so they're saying if this is a performance where everybody's in on it that guy is not playing his part well oh okay yeah i would i would not believe in it i mean i would imagine yeah how do you act like you're you look like you're on a uh uh prince harry yeah yeah it looks like you're on a something like that they go to all the time right and then you're like now well i agree they found like it and too like what if you saw something like this how would the government not like fly in and be like all right we're going down to find it well that's what you're

arguing they probably is going on right maybe they did yeah maybe this video came out they go down there they capture all those things and they go oh that's just a performance art piece make us some costumes it looks like yeah and then now these little beings are in some laboratory and they're cutting them open going what is this so they can release it in 40 years and go, they are real. And then we'll all go, I don't believe it. You know, Mexico can deliver it out and go,

we got the bodies right here. And we're like, nah, nah, nah. And I don't know. I'm not saying they're real. I don't, I just like the idea that this is.

Yeah. Yeah. It would be fun. There's a Native American tribe that talked about these group of giants that all had red hair and they said they legend was they would fight fight these giants this was in nevada and of course people just thought it was myth and legend and i mean a lot of people still do but then in like 1911 they found uh giant skulls and remains in a cave in Lovelock, Nevada, right where this tribe lived. And they found red hair and they found a bunch of other like giant footprints and things like that.

So there's a lot of evidence that maybe there was something to these legends. Yeah. There's a lot of native American, uh, paintings and stuff with these six finger, six toed giants, uh, that was living here back, back in that time. Yeah. Yeah.

Red haired cannibalistic giants. Yeah. Mummified remains of a man, six feet, six inches tall were discovered. All right. Well, that's not that impressive.

You know, my thing about the, then we talk about the basketball players being like in 50 years, of a man six feet six inches tall were discovered all right well that's not that impressive you know my thing about the then we talk about the basketball players being like in 50 years they're all seven feet yeah i mean i'm seeing videos all the time now uh and maybe because i look that it's like a 12 year old that's 6 10 yeah yeah this you know yeah you're like what and they're all dribbling they're all shooting shooting. They're all playing like they're five, eight. Yes. I mean, they're, you know, it's like eventually 50 years. Like that.

I mean, there might be. So in 1911, you find a six foot six. It's just crazy. You're like, oh my God, guy is a giant. Yeah. Six foot six. You've never seen a human being that tall in 1911. Yeah, I didn't read this.

That's Wikipedia. Mm-hmm. I watched a History Channel video, which is weird to me that History Channel is even getting into the cryptid stuff. But this was narrated by William Shatner. Oh, really? Yeah. They were like it was nine feet tall and all this stuff. But, Dusty, I figured you'd be more on board with the Native Americans.

Well, yeah. I mean, I think that their accounts mean something. And if they said that they saw it, then we should give them some credit. But instead, we're like, I don't know. We found six foot six, mommy. Nah, that's not that tall. You know what I mean? By the way, this was discovered in 1911.

You know what I mean? By the way, this was discovered in 1911. Mm-hmm. In OAA, almost 90-something years. Yeah, they've been around a while. 1911 in OAA. You cannot get past that. They've already been, they're 90 years in. They've been scanning the ocean for almost 100 years.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Before the light bulb. Yeah yeah they've been just going around yeah we've been doing 200 years why is it such a big deal that they were red hair they seem to point that out a bunch and why is that scary all had red hair why is that scarier than if they all had brown hair? That's a good question. What color is your hair red? Brown.

Oh, yeah. I think a lot of Native Americans had black hair, right? So it's like if you're living here. It would be very different. Yeah, and then there's a giant race and they all have red hair. But don't you agree that if you're given two scenarios where a giant's running at you,'s a little more creepy if it has red hair yeah yeah if they all had red hair yeah i mean if it's a big giant i mean they they talk about having six fingers six toes some say two rows of teeth i mean all pretty scary yeah yeah well there was also red hair which might be the scariest yeah well there was also. And red hair, which might be the scariest. Yeah. Well, there was also the Kandahar giant.

Y'all heard of that? No. When troops were in Afghanistan, the story is a troop, a whole group turned up missing. They sent another special forces group to look for them in these caves in Afghanistan. And a giant came out and he had red hair and he attacked this troop and they finally shot him and killed him. And what happened to him after that, nobody knows. But legend is that, you know, the troops in Afghanistan found this giant in a cave. Yeah.

See, I don't see why all this stuff is so crazy, right? Like we believe in a Tyrannosaurus rex. We believe in a flying pterodactyl. We believe in all these things. It's like, okay okay so you have a big human because they're supposed to be gone i think well and because we have fossils of those things yeah we have nothing well yeah but you do actually you have a full body which is well that we've seen yeah but i mean i think that's supposed to not that's not supposed to be here. And that's the, that's the problem.

And so, yeah. They say it was redheaded too? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how that doesn't, I don't know how in a war, two countries can't come together and go, let's maybe hold off on each other and let's go find these giant red-haired men in these caves. Yeah, time out. Hold on, guys, guys, guys.

I would think even, yeah, the Taliban would be like, all right, we're open to that. Yeah. Right, but it's like, think about this. Like, the common belief seems to be that we're getting larger, right? We were a smaller people before and now we're getting larger. So evidence of larger beings like that would undermine that. So it would change the whole view of things. Well, I think somebody that big, it's much bigger than us even now. It's not like it's big

relative to somebody from a thousand years ago. They're like, they're giants. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like the Nephilim. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I mean, and that's all stuff that's talked about. I mean, historical things.

Maybe we had to be that big. But we don't. Because, uh, transverse wrecks were, you know, we, they're big. So they needed to be the size of like a, think of a little turtle. Now we're not scared of a turtle so for us not to be scared of transverse wrecks we need to be as big as that that's true yeah and again i don't know but it is it is interesting that they do have all these accounts different places different people are like yeah we saw this thing but everybody's like nah that's just a myth like the idea i don't know you know when they it's like you you're evolved

over time to get used to something and i always like you have to think you're like well i can't do that and you think uh i won't worry about it because in a million years we'll be able to do it yeah i mean we'll be on our way to mars and uh you know what i mean to jump to the next planet it's but isn't it like what's like an animal has to evolve to uh eventually like it's like i don't know like they say we're all underwater and then some got to go out of water yeah so well they have to change yeah so which is the accepted belief by the way that we evolved human beings evolved from a water water that's where we started came out of water yeah to land yeah so and that's what i'm saying it's just i and i'm not trying to say anything

it's it's just funny to me to be like the first one came out died immediately and they're like this is not good. And then they kept coming. And then I guess they make it a little bit farther. And then the females and the males were evolving at the same time so that they could reproduce. Otherwise, they would not be able to have babies. That's how it works, right? Or maybe a creature had a genetic mutation that allowed it to stay out of water for a few more seconds than the average creature, right? Or maybe a creature had a genetic mutation that allowed it to stay out of water

for a few more seconds than the average creature, right? That allowed it to hop out of the water and eat more than the other creatures. Natural selection says... But it would have to be two at the same time, though, right? You'd have to be a... Sorry.

That's okay. I didn't mean to cut you off that aggressively. Wow. Nope. but i'm saying start calling you nasa yeah i know natural selection says that's the creature that's going to breed more than the one that can't eat more i mean it's it's you're competing for resource it's going to breed more right and then pass that genetic mutation down to its offspring and then that one breeds more but do they really have positive genetic mutations? Oh, all the time. You don't think there's any like anomalies of people that can jump farther

than other people or people that are smarter than other people? We all have genetic differences. What makes being able to jump farther than somebody a mutation? I mean, is it just not, you know i mean like you just you have like a little extra when i say a genetic mutation i mean a genetic difference that's that's just a product of random chance you know it's a lot of i mean yeah i mean but yeah there would be like a lot of random chances now you get us from the, the water to the land to, to be in a,

well, yeah, we're talking millions of years of chances. That's what it is. Millions of years of this. So it's going to play out over time. Now, you know,

people whose arms are longer than other people's, right? Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, lots of people, just different size.

That's what I'm saying. If your arms, if your arms are four, but like a person who has long arms, Not many. Just different size. That's what I'm saying. If your arms are long. I know, four. But like a person who has long arms. Yeah. And they have a baby with someone. Like their kid's arms not necessarily just longer than that.

And then the next thing you know, people are dragging with their arms on the ground. But I'm saying if all the food in the world is hanging from a tree and only the people with long arms can reach it, those are the people that are going to breed and pass down long-armedness to the next generation. That sort of evolution, yeah, makes sense. Well, that's all it is. It's just that with a ton of different variables over a long period of time. Yeah, but to get from, you know, from, from nothing essentially,

because there would single celled organism, but there would be, but either way, I mean, there had to be nothing before the single celled organism there, because at some point there had to be nothing, right? Unless God created everything, there would have,

unless there was an ultimate creator, whatever you'd like to call it, then there would have to be nothing at some point. Because the idea is that God exists outside of time. Space time, yeah. So time means nothing to God. So there would have to be a creator or otherwise there would have to be nothing. And then something comes from nothing. Which some people argue. I think Stephen Hawking said that.

That he thinks the Big Bang, before the Big Bang, there was just nothing. And then it happened. Man. But you were- Right. I mean, that makes sense. I mean, unless something created it that exists outside of time. Sure.

Then there would have to be nothing before something. I think if Ian Baver was like, what do they talk about Notre Dame? What do they talk about Panama City Community College? These are the conversations that Notre Dame's doing this. Right. But what would be the other scenario? I don't know. I'm just saying I enjoy that.

They really should throw us some regular folk into we should be able to get into the real colleges just so we can be like just going like wait a second yeah you need a couple that idea of a variable like show that like then the racing olympic racing show a regular person to show off fast and look sometimes my initial reaction is to scoff at what i think is a dumb question and then i go i don't really know how to answer that that happens a lot right because some people uh say that well god set evolution into motion but it's like or that's what all christians believe for almost 2 000 years but yeah well i don't know if all of them i don't

know if you can account for all of them but you you would also. That's a wild statement, Aaron. Aaron just said all of them, everybody. And everybody knows he meant all. Yeah, I don't think you could know that. Look, evolution wasn't a theory until the 1800s, but anyway. But it's like, you know, you could just believe that. National Ocean. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's when they already invented it. That's when they got started, yeah. But, you know, God could, you know, have potentially just created everything with a purpose, with no need to. And I believe in the whole idea that Galapagos Islands thing where some beaks are stronger to crack the nuts. And so you end up with the stronger beaked birds and the weak beaked birds die. But I just think that's a leap to me to get from, you know, a fish to a man. And I realize over millions of years, but it would be a lot of different chances. For sure.

To get to that place. I don't think anybody's denying that. Yeah. Do you think if a fish, say your fish, that's now turned into you. It'd be a great swimmer. If he could, yeah. Maybe that's why you're you. Be a great swimmer. If he could, yeah. Maybe that's why you're so confident in your swimming. Do you think he would be disappointed where he's at

or do you think he's like, this is a million years, this is all we got? Well, that's another thing too. He's like, I'm on Netflix. When did the evolved being get consciousness? Did that fish always have it? I think he knew he was going to get Netflix one day. Yeah.

He had a dream. Yeah. I mean, at what point are we going along? And they were like, now I'm aware that I'm a being. There was a dusty slate fish. Do you think that dogs have consciousness? No. I don't think dogs have consciousness? No. I don't think they have a rational mind.

So why would some things get it and other things not get it? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, that's the big question. But you were making a point at the start of this, I think might actually be interesting, that we shouldn't worry about a million years from now because what are you trying to say? That we'll evolve to the point where it'll just take care of itself? Yeah.

Yeah. Like it's all going to just like you shouldn't worry about anything. We evolved to live without the sun. Yeah. If there was ever something that, yeah, you would just figure a way out. Yeah. We don't eat stuff anymore. We don't eat plants. Yeah, if you have a cold time, you just- Well, figure a way out is what he's saying.

You start going to other planets and you live somewhere else. No, I'm saying you figure it out as the person. Why leave the earth? We just adapt to it over time. Yeah. We could be that- That's what the dinosaur said. We could be the human that could live for a couple extra seconds without oxygen.

Well, some of the dinosaurs did adapt. If it's alligators and tortoises and whatever. Birds. Birds. So they would have adapted. They just changed it up. So it's like they just were like, hey, let's not be so big. That's what they said.

That's what they all agreed on. They voted on it. They go, you all want to start not being as big. They go, yeah, here we are. That's true. I'm behind on my ads. So Aaron,

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my name my email my phone number they've removed all of it tender for me your website had it but you said it wrong uh probably i say a lot of things wrong. It's a Latinx. It's a what? Latinx Bigfoot. I don't think that's how you're supposed to say it. Wow, look at this guy. This is like part fish, part man right now. Isn't it Mexico? Yeah, I think Mexico is where it's prominent.

Yeah. I would have thought this has been around for maybe hundreds of years, the legend. It maybe has in some ways, but 1995. That's what probably NOA was invented then. Yeah. NOA. NOA. NOA.

They don't want to say that, but you're going to go flip. They should be flipped. Right. Chupacabra should be from 223. Chupacabra literally means goat sucker in Spanish. Yeah. So people turn up with their, pretty much that their livestock killed goats and something. There was holes where something had bit them and suck blood out of them.

And now I read where the woman who first claimed this Chupacabra was in Puerto Rico and she just watched the movie species, which which has an animal that looks exactly like that. Oh, okay. And she was a little delusional and thought that that was like a real thing, the movie. But it caught on. It caught on. Now, you might say the government was trying to make her look crazy.

Well, if she was just watching the movie and then she described the thing that was in the movie. But maybe that's what the government's saying she did to try to discredit her. And maybe the thing in Species was based off this. Yeah. It evolved. Maybe there really is no imagination.

It's just people seeing things. Now, there was a video. There was a movie about this. Do you have the video of the chupacabra from last week? Yeah, I think you said it. Here we go. This will get to the bottom of it right here. Here we go. Let you said it. Here we go. This will get to the bottom of it right here.

Here we go. Let's watch it. This is... This is in California last week. Oh, boy. It's like a wolf. Is this the one I sent you? Yes. Oh, okay.

Look at that thing. That looks like a wolf mid-evolution. Yes. Oh, okay. Down to kill livestock. Look at that thing. And it's translated as goat sucker. It's the way it's translated. That looks like a wolf mid-evolution. If you're listening, it's a video from the news about a really scary looking one. What is that? Yeah. It's a... I just read the closed caption.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a coyote with mange is what people are saying but it looks i understand if you ran into that at nighttime you'd be like oh my gosh dude that thing is terrifying definitely doesn't look like the description that we were just seeing what do you mean yeah well that that that wikipedia right right right macabre or whatever it whatever. They ain't looking the same there. This looks like a werewolf caught. He's like partial full moon.

On the Wikipedia, it says that in Hispanic America, in Puerto Rico, it's generally described as a heavy creature, reptilian and alien-like, while in the southwestern U.S., it's always depicted as more dog-like. Oh, okay. So this fits like the american understanding you think you could call any animal over to you you know you call dog some people just have it

yeah you know what i mean like they just relate to animals like yeah you think you could do it uh i think you know people do lions and you go in yeah, you think that's what you would do. Say you're backed in a corner with one of these. Chupacabra. Chupacabra. And you just go. He's like, no, he's like, get one out of here. Yeah.

High five. That thing's wild though. That does look like a werewolf mid transition. Yeah. Look at that back leg. It's like it's got two joints. He's just been through it, man. He thinks he had a rough life.

I think he put that thing out of its misery. You know what I mean? It almost looks like a half-bat, half-dog. It does. It really does. It's a fat dog. Maybe some kind of science experiment gone wrong.

Escape from a lab some scientists were like let's try to blend a dog and a bat together see what happens yeah have they ever created an animal like a off maybe it's like dude i guess labradoodles or dogs you know the breeds like what are the you just start throwing some stuff together. Yeah, they're talking about bringing animals back that have gone extinct. Yeah, they talk about that all the time. Is that actually going to happen? I mean, they're still talking about it. I've seen them grow up. We're going to put the woolly mammoth there.

I was going to say, who gives birth to the woolly mammoth? I understand taking the DNA and cloning like a zygote or whatever. Maybe 3D print it. That's the part you understand. Not really understand. But I get that. I mean, obviously, DNA cloning, blah, blah, blah.

No, no, no. But who's going to carry this man? I just don't know how they give birth to him. Where are you going to put it? Kentucky? Kansas is a bit of land. That doesn't feel woolly mammothy.

It needs to be colder, doesn't it? Kentucky feels it, maybe because mammoth cave, I'm thinking. Oh, yeah. Kentucky feels like a good woolly mammoth

would go in there. Maybe like where Aaron was at, Edmonton. Alberta. North Alberta. That's where Canada, that's where you throw them up there.

Yeah, because they have fur, right? Mm-hmm. I mean, I think from our previous episode, up there. Yeah, because they have fur, right? Mm-hmm. I mean, I think from our previous episode, we talked about it, and they're talking about breeding just two really hairy elephants. There we go. And then what's the hope? We're trying to get, I bet there's someone that works there that goes, we're basically trying to get an elephant with a jacket.

Long arms. Sorry. Elephant with a jacket. Long arms. Sorry. Elephant with long arms? That's just a taller elephant. At that point, it stands on its arms. I think there's a thing where they grew a human ear on the back of a rat

to help grow prosthetics for people so i think yeah look at this thing it's like a kramer's pig man the vacanti mouse was a laboratory mouse that had what looked like a human ear grown on its back the ear was actually an ear-shaped cartilage structure grown by seeding cow cartilage cells into biodegradable ear-shaped mold and then implanted under the skin of the mouse. So an ear. They built an ear on its back.

Yeah. And they cut that thing off, put it on a person missing an ear. Wow. What did it do? Get that rat ear. I mean, but you got to like for them to do all do all that like this is the stuff that i'm saying like they're like yeah so we're working on that you're like yeah what about cancer though like how many people you said to stop cancer funding to search for the luckness monster i'm saying you

get something done yeah but i'm saying this is the problem they could do this ear thing and you're like how many people have one ear 30 40 like i mean you're like that's for all the people they're missing ears you're like well no one even we don't hear that much about the ears so if you can especially if you're missing your ear you don't hear a lot about it you don't hear a lot about it so i'm not saying we don't ever want to fix ears but like is that not a whole lab we could be like let's have you guys work on some cancer they go now we're gonna do the ear thing yeah we're gonna be growing noses next they go i read about a guy that has a one nostril is all skin so we're gonna get a rat and then make a nostril hole

yeah i think they're trying to grow pig human parts with pigs too. Because they say the pig is the closest. Internally, the pig is the closest to being a human, I think. Like the organs and the... Did you ever dissect a pig or anything at the high school? A baby pig in high school. Yeah, we did too. What? Yeah. We did that in Alabama. Where did y'all go to?

We were big into it in Alabama. It was maybe like this big? No. I've never even heard of that. We ate it for lunch later. We dissected into it. Big? Was it wide? Maybe like this big? No, no. I've never even heard of that. We ate it for lunch later. We dissected a cat. Oh, wow. Where did you go? Where was y'all's class at?

Under your trailer? Yeah, I mean. We dissected a frog. We actually had. I think we did a frog too. We had so many cats. I mean, everybody. I think it was two people would have a cat.

I mean, it was like. There was a lot of cats. I thought you were going to say two cats to every person. Was it like a fully grown cat or like a cat fetus? Yeah, like a fully grown cat. I don't think I did mine because I think I was like, I was like, I can't do this. It's so disgusting. It is gross.

He's not going to be doing science stuff. I remember doing the pig being like, this looks like a human being. Yeah. You know, just it's laid out, it's arms and legs and everything. We did owl pellets. Did you ever do that? Oh, maybe we did. We see little insects in there. Yeah. You know, just it's laid out. It's arms and legs and everything. We did owl pellets. Did you ever do that? I don't. Oh, maybe we did.

We see little insects in there. Yeah. Skulls and stuff in there. And then. Buster, you're a scientist. Worms, frogs. And then, yeah, pig was the big one, though. Y'all did a lot of animals.

Yeah, we dissected a bunch. Where? In school. In Alabama. Yeah. In school. That's crazy. I never even thought that different states would we did a frog and that was it we did a worm too did you do the one yeah there's a good chance i never made it up to this level of this is fifth grade we did that i

was in high school yeah i was yeah i think mine was my senior year. It was a frog. The pig was high school, yeah. Yeah. I believe it was 10th grade for me. Anatomy was the class. I was 10th grade, but it was biology. Yeah. So there's. I did not like it.

And I'm not grossed out easily, but the formaldehyde smell. Oh, yeah. And then the cats also had, they were real fat. So you really had to cut through all this fatty. Oh, yeah. And then the cats also had, they were real fat. So you really had to cut through all this fatty. Oh, jeez. Oh, so gross. They had fur? No, I think they had taken the fur off or something.

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Oh, yeah. I don't know if I want to that much. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah, he's kind of posing like a wolf, too. Poor guy. They said he never caught on to most things. But we do.

He did pick up smoking, though. Did he really? Yeah. Well, I mean, Buss has already probably needed it. Yeah. I'll be honest. How old was he? I mean, I know they might bright and needed it. Yeah. How old was he? I mean, I know they might not be able to know the age exactly.

Around six. Oh, when they found him, he was around six? Yeah. Well, he said he's 1860 or 1861 to 95. He lived to be 35, I think, but I think he was around six when they found him. Why not just leave him with the wolves? He seemed to be like doing all right. When he arrived at the orphanage, he reportedly walked on all fours and ate raw meat.

Yeah, it's like the dude's being raised by wolves and you go, let's get you out of here and get you into an orphanage so some other kids can pick on you. I still feel like that was the right thing to do. I say let him stay with the wolves. He'll just leave a six-year-old out there with the wolves. But he survived six years with the wolves? He's been for 20 years. Yeah. He died of tuberculosis. Probably from the smoke. Yeah, he would have

been fine out there with the wolves. And there's a woman, this was recently, she's still... I want to live with wolves. She's still alive. By the way, guess what's been rolling for 40 years when they found this guy, guy lives with wolves 40 years deep in OAA.

Noah's going, man. Noah was rolling. There's a woman named Oksana Malaya. O X A N A. Can you look her up yeah m-a-l-a-y-a she was raised by dogs and and she's still alive this was within the last you know few years i think and they found her she's doing good now i think she has a boyfriend and oh that's nice no picture of her though huh no there's some video of her. Oh, yeah. We'll find her. I'd like to get an idea.

I mean, she's got a boyfriend. I'd like to see what she's looking like. Yeah. She's doing well now. Oh, she's like a normal? I mean, relatively speaking. There she is. Oh, yeah.

It was difficult for her to shed her dog-like tendencies. I bet. Get out. Get out. Rub my belly. Because the boyfriend has, get off the couch. Get off the couch. And she's like, sorry.

But she's doing good. I think she's adjusted. And like I said, she may be married. She's found at 23. I can't remember when they found her, but she's. She was living with dogs for 23 years. And you're like, let's get this girl a boyfriend.

I don't think they took her straight from the dogs to meet a guy. She was on a dating site the next day, but... She does not like to be called dog girl. That's fair. You know what? That is fair. It's like, come on, Malaya.

Dog girl. how did she get started in the dogs uh i forgot um i think her mom abandoned her or something and um i mean all that stuff's really sad obviously but i'm just saying if you if you if you're a kid and you survive for six years with wolves i mean that's your that's some peak that's some peak learning years yeah and now they're like yeah i gotta get you into an orphanage man and it's like i just feel like that would be really reunited with her father she got reunited with father in 2003 there's a documentary about this i might watch this this is amazing How old was she when she was... I mean, her father's holding her there. Is that how old she was when...

Oh, no. They let her down and said, go on, get out of here. Because like... I mean, that's crazy. She's still running. It is crazy. Okay, so it says,

most experts agree that children generally have until five to learn to speak before the brain loses the capacity to develop language so she must have picked up a little bit before she was cast out with the dogs or else there's no way she she'd be able to pick it up if you don't so you don't learn language by the time you're five you just can't learn it evidently wow you obviously you can learn a second language but you have to know the first one Yeah just I guess I mean this is

That doesn't look like A very reputable website Speech development I mean How to say the words I don't think people really learn I don't know But I don't think they really learn

Second language as well As adults right Like It's best if you learn it As a kid That's true Yeah Well

Is she playing basketball there Is she on the sideline right there What are you saying Oh that looks like a basketball jersey No It looks like she's She's warming the bench Yeah she's off Is she playing basketball there? Is she on the sideline right there? What are you saying? Oh, that looks like a basketball jersey. No. It looks like she's sitting off. She's warming the bench. Yeah, she's off.

Is this Air Bud? Yeah. That's the true story of Air Bud right there. Yeah. I mean, that's what I could get off. Ever try to put a sweater on a dog? I mean. Sorry, Malaya. We'd love to have you on the pod. Whoa. We'd love to have you

on the pod we'd love to have you on the pod yeah that is terrible yeah it's awful yeah imagine the guy

I mean the guy that goes I got a date tonight who with Malaya the dog girl hey she doesn't like that.

Hey, that's my girl you're talking about. They go to a nice dinner. Or take a steak. She's like hers in a bowl. On the floor. Table for one. I'll just have her around my legs. She's under the table.

Bless her heart. I got her tails wagging. Yeah. Thunderbirds. I've heard of Thunderbirds. The cars. There's cars. There's sports teams. I never thought what that meant. T-Birds from Greece.

Yep. Native's Native Americans have all often had this legend of Thunderbirds and they've had drawings of this giant bird that, uh, comes out of the sky and in of all places, Tombstone, Arizona, uh, there's a newspaper article about some ranchers that had a giant bird swooped down that they described like a pterodactyl. And they said they killed it. And there wasn't a picture in that particular newspaper with the story, but I haven't seen that one, but there's a different one of guys who said a better one than that. That might be the worst quality picture I've ever seen.

There's a good one. There's a really good one. No, it wasn't. That one right there. Oh, this one. Oh, that's a pterodactyl. Man. That feels like an AI-generated picture.

It does, dude. It's probably fake, but they did that in the 1800s. I mean, that picture's been around for a while. Has it? At least 10-15 years I don't know That's a dragon

126 years ago You don't think it's a pterodactyl? 1890 Well I think pterodactyls are dragons 70 years in 1890 And guess what? 70 years

I mean an old company This is what they were. That's how early they got started. Older than Apple is right now. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Older than Microsoft. Older than all this.

They weren't even. Well, no, they weren't even thought about. I thought you meant older than an actual Apple, which they might be. No. I'm saying back then it was older than those companies are now oh yeah companies that are like so ingrained in our life like apple yeah yeah how old yeah apple's not 70 yeah what 40 years old 70 yeah noah was was double the length of apple. And then they didn't swing on up to Arizona and go, let's take a look at that bird.

Yeah, where are they at on this? Why does it not have a report that NOAA came up and checked it out? They go, well, was it in the atmosphere? It's not our concern. The people back then are like, the what? Yeah. Yeah, like, I would think in 1823, you would have more of what we did know so. Yeah.

It'd be more like national only, ocean stuff only. That's how they're naming stuff back then. But they've celebrated 200 years. Slares and some lake stuff. Some lake and river stuff. Some lake and river stuff. Well, I'll probably get a lot of hateful comments on this podcast. About what?

I'll get some hateful. We both will. I'll let Joanna Marie Zimmerman down. We both will. This is just how Dusty and I talk to each other. Yeah, we've been on a lot of road trips. Yeah. I mean. Yeah, no, I think it'll let Joanna Marie Zimmerman down. We both will. This is just how Dusty and I talk to each other. Yeah, we've been on a lot of road trips. Yeah. I mean.

Yeah. No, I think it went good. I've always known that Aaron believed this way, and he's known that I believe this way. This is not new. Right. We just have Brian here to instigate it. I know. Late, making desperate attempts to be like, let's get back to jokes, guys.

No, I don't think it was bad. No, no, we're having a good time. We are having a good time. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I mean. We don't have your mic plugged in. We can't.

We can never afford to do that. It's too risky. All right. I got to get ready for Manicast. Yeah, that's exciting. Crazy. I'm in Iowa this week. It's two of the rescheduled shows from the SNL thing.

So I'll be there this week. And then New Year's Eve in Sunrise, Florida, doing the arena there. It's me. I'll be headlining. Then my dad and Mike Vecchione, Greg Warren, Joe Zimmerman. Jeez. Yeah. And then Julie McCullough hosting.

It's, yeah, a challenge you to find. I mean, like, pound for pound, that show is going to be ridiculous. Right. Right. It's, I mean, going to be insane. So it's, uh, we're, we're very pumped about that. Uh, so yeah, we'll be down there. Uh, this Friday I'm with Henry Cho with the Shoals Theater in Florence, Alabama.

That's a cool theater. Yeah. And then I'm back on the Christmas party circuit. There we go. Going to Delaware for the first time ever. Never been to Delaware. I'm there Saturday and Sunday

in Dover, Delaware. All right. That's awesome. This weekend, I'm in Tampa, Florida at Side Splitters. All right. Great club.

Comedy club. Yeah, great club. Love it down there. I'm down here all weekend, Thursday, Friday, or Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And then one more thing. I'm at Zany's.

I'm co-headlining Zany's with two friends of mine, Laura Peek and Casey Shornima. Casey's a writer on SNL. Laura Peek's in LA, a regular at the store. They're both funny. All weekend at Zany's, December 22nd and 23rd, like Christmas weekend. Your tri-headline.

Oh, yeah. Triple feature. That doesn't only mean two, does it? I thought it did. Maybe. I'll be December 18th. I'm at Zany's doing a show. We're co-hosts of the podcast.

I don't think we are, though. I think we're tri-hosts. Quad host. He says co-host. I think it's wrong. Oh, he doesn't. He's never co-headlined. He's never headlined.

Yeah, December 18th, I'll be at Zany's. Hot show. I'm sorry, go ahead. Yeah, I'm just going with it. And New Year's, Salt Lake City. Wise guys. Awesome. I got a little time off, so that's fun.

Could be working, but you're... But I am taking the time off. Feels good. Yeah, it's your choice. Yeah, I'm going to be around, just hanging out with the family. I'm going to be out on the land. I'm building some things for the land that I'll be filming. How much time are you taking off?

Just two weekends. Okay. Yeah. I'll be back New Year's. I'm doing a show, actually, yesterday, and then on Monday, December 18th at Zaney's in Nashville, and then New Year's. So it's going to be great. I mean, we're having a great time. Having a great time.

January 16th, this special is coming out, and I think I'm going to be very busy. So I'm enjoying a little time off before. Yeah, yeah. Everybody, January 16th, Netflix, start of the year. I mean, that's going to be fun. Yeah. Just, you know, getting the year going and just pop in. It's going to be a big year for you. I have to say it's a big year dude i'm excited yeah i'm pumped we're pumped yes we're having a good time if i

don't get canceled after this podcast episode and now we're having a good time no yeah i think you would have already been yeah i don't think it's going to be a shock to anyone actually it's probably nothing that i've never not said on here yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then your own podcast, I mean, you even go more into it. Yeah. I mean, I'll probably do some extensive explaining about this one. Have me on. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Go hash it out over there. All right. I'll be back though for the year. Yeah. You'll be, you'll be here next week. Yeah, I'm here next week.

All right. And then, all right, so I'll see you then. And, but this is the last time all four of us will be? I think for like a month.

Whoa. Because you're going to be out a couple, Dusty's going to be out a couple, so. I'll miss you guys, man.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, some, one of us will be or one of us not as all four of us so we won't be

till after New Year's. Yeah, there won't be quad headlining till after. Quad headlining till after. I mean, quad hosting. Sorry. Yeah. Well, as a group, guys, Happy New Year. Congrats on everything.

We love you as always. And yeah, we'll see you next week. All right. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the Audio Boom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nateland Podcast.