The Nateland Podcast - 194: #194 Poetry

Episode Date: April 3, 2024

This week, Nate is missing in action so Brian, Aaron, and Dusty thought it would be a good time to talk about poetry. Aaron demonstrates his improved auctioneering skills, Dusty hears Beethoven's 9th symphony for the first time, and Brian writes a Haiku about Nate but has trouble pronouncing the words "poem" and "poetry." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DeleteMe- JoinDeleteMe.com/NATE Take control of your data and keep your private life private by signing up for DeleteMe. Go to JoinDeleteMe.com/NATE and use promo code NATE for 20% off.   ButcherBox- Butcherbox.com/nate Today ButcherBox is giving out listeners a special offer. Use code NATE to get $20 off your first order at butcherbox.com/nate. Code NATE.  Rocket Money- RocketMoney.com/NATE Stop wasting money on things you don’t use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/NATE AG1- drinkAG1.com/nate If you want to replace your multivitamin and more, start with AG1. Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3 plus K2 and 5 free AG1 travel Packs with your first subscription at drinkAG1.com/Nate.

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butcher box, rocket money, and a G one. Elite Me, Butcher, Box, Rocket, Money, and AG1. Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Nate is not here, so we'll give you a few seconds to turn it off. You read that like it was NPR. Yeah. That was very serious.

Well, I'm closer to the mic than I usually am, so it feels very... What's that show? What's the show on NPR? Hot Breath? No. No, what is it? Something like that, though, right? Fresh Air?

No, not Fresh Air. All Things Considered. All Things Considered, yeah. That's what it felt like. Yeah. This is Aaron Weber here with Dusty Slay. All right. And Brian Bates.

All right. Nate is somewhere. Somewhere in the world. Yeah, who knows? I don't know. I can't keep track of him anymore. But it's the three of us. Energy's good in the room.

I feel good about this episode. Yeah. I mean, I feel great. I feel great about all of them. I come in here with a positive attitude. And it just slowly drains away over the course of two hours. He's doodling by five minutes in. One hour is a good

length for a podcast, but two is a little much. You know what I mean? Have you always doodled during the episodes or am I just noticing it more now? I'm doing it more now. Is that by choice? I don't find that doodling takes my concentration away from listening to people. Yeah, but it can take it away

from the other three people at the table. Do you ever think about that? Like you watch me draw? Well, it just feels, you feel a little disinterested. Okay. As we're talking, it's like when I'm at dinner with my wife and I'm in the middle of a story and she's on her phone. Well, the phone is different.

Okay. Because a doodle is mindless the phone takes your attention okay but i get what you're saying okay uh it hasn't bothered me it's just since we're talking about it's bothered me i'll be telling a story i do think this my daughter you know we've been drawing more with my daughter like it's like we're all addicted to our phones. I'm addicted to my phone. My wife's addicted to her phone. It's hard to keep our kids off these screens because we're addicted to our screens. But we are trying to make effort to do more drawing and stuff like that so that she has activities that are fun that are not these screens. Okay. I think that's great. So we've been drawing a lot. So I've been drawing more and I used to love to draw. And now, so now I'm drawing more. You're back into it. Yeah, a little bit. And you're just as good as you used to be? Yeah.

I mean, my, I got, I reached a level of drawing and then I never got better than that. And I'm about the same spot. You're not as good as you once were but you're as good once as you've ever been yeah i mean yeah i used to be good as a kid i thought i was at least and now i'm not as good but as i'm growing more with my daughter i'm getting better it's like it's coming back to me yeah oh yeah i mean well that's good. I mean, I used to, my whole thing with drawing was not. What, Aaron? You think about cave drawings?

No, no, no. Just those whole conversations. Amusing. My thing wasn't an individual, like one individual piece of goodness. Mine was just like, I put a lot of stuff out there. I should bring some of these crazy. It's like your comedy. Yeah.

Yes. Throw a lot of darts. That's right. I should bring a lot. I should bring some of those crazy drawings I did in here. Yeah. You bring Throw a lot of darts. That's right. I should bring a lot. I should bring some of those crazy drawings I did in here. Yeah. You bring in your literature. I'll bring in my story.

Yeah. Yeah. And you bring in, you know, whatever y'all did. You bring in your red wagon. Yeah. And we'll just compare our childhoods. Radio flyer. My daughter is, she watches these YouTube videos.

To your point about screen time, she watches a show called Egg Surprise. Do you know this show? No. Is that where they open eggs? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I've seen something like that. And to the point where,

so they go open, open. It's like a little surprise, and then there's something that pops out. Surprise eggs. Yeah, she calls it Egg Surprise, but I think it is called Surprise Eggs. Quite frankly, I think Egg Surprise is a better name. I think so, too.

This video has 607 million views. Yeah, the kids' videos have so much that I kind of want to start making kids' videos just for monetization on my channel. I'm like, because some of this stuff, I'm like, you know, this is pretty good animation, but some of them, they're like just playing with toys and making a lot of wild sound effects. I could do that. It's nothing. But it affects her so much. Yesterday, we did an Easter egg hunt with all these kids.

All the other kids are just running, grabbing as many eggs as you can. She would get to one and go, open, open. Like, she took her five minutes on each egg. I think that's better well a little delay gratification quality over quantity see what's in the egg is it good do i have enough usually it was nothing but yeah i would like to start filming this with you dusty make some yeah i like the idea of you doing a bob ross type show some of your doodles yeah let's do that you know

let's put it together i I think that could be fun. What were y'all up to this weekend? Where have you been? Where are we going? I was home. Could have been working, but chose not to. Hanging out with my family. We did a lot of fun stuff.

Like I said, we did an Easter egg hunt. Oh, yeah. Happy Easter. Thank you. Happy New Year to you. April 1st. Well, yeah, I guess it is. I don't know. I never know what the New Year to you, April 1st. Well, yeah, I guess it is. I don't know.

I never know what the New Year is. I mean, technically speaking, the Bible says that Passover comes on the 10th day of the first month. Right, right. And I think Passover is supposed to be April 22nd. Okay. So April 12th would be like the New Year. Okay, so we're not quite there yet. We're not quite yet. Oh, okay. Well, I apologize. That's okay. Well, you're gearing up for the

new year. Yeah, I'm gearing up. That was April Fool's joke. Yeah. You know, and it's like, I've also not had a lot of sleep. My daughter got up in the middle of the night and I read her about 10 books and sang some songs. and then I had to get up and do a bunch of radio calls today so well you did some call-ins yeah I did five radio shows this morning wow I tried to do the zoom number and that was so complicated you didn't get that set up oh I'll help you get us that up it's so easy I love it now yeah I do a voip so I don't know what I can just do phone it's's a voiceover IP. So I can call phone numbers on my computer.

I use Zoom, but you can use whatever. They wanted me to put my home address in there. And I was like, why not? Why are we doing that? No, I don't do that. That's when I came to. You tried to sign up for Clear. Yeah.

They wanted all your information. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I just was like, I don't know why you need this. I tried to put the PO box in, and they were like, we won't accept that. So I was like, all right, well, just give me my money information. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I just was like, I don't know why you need this. I tried to put the P.O. box in and they were like, we won't accept that. So I was like, all right,

well just give me my money back. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry about that. That's okay. So where were you this weekend? I went to, I did two shows.

I went to Jacksonville, Florida, Ponte Vedra. And- Duval. You know what? That's funny. In the green, I don't know why

they didn't say it during my show, but in the green room, they were like, they're not booing, they're saying Duval. You know what? That's funny. In the green, I don't know why they didn't say it during my show, but in the green room, they were like, they're not booing. They're saying Duval. I was like, well, that's what I'll tell myself for the rest of my life. That's weird. They did that in my show in Louisiana. So I guess there's a lot of Jags fans there. Yeah. But it was great.

The Ponte Vedras show sold out way in advance. The show was hot. The moment I got out there, it was hot. I had- Vedra show sold out way in advance. The show was hot. The moment I got out there was hot. I had Openers didn't do well. No, they did great too. No.

Chris Buck that listens to the podcast opened Wesley gosh Johnson I believe. I hate that I it is Johnson

I believe. I hate that I'm forgetting his last name right now. And I- This is like the, we're having a good time podcast. Yeah. You know, I just want to, yeah, Wesley Johnson. And they were great.

They used to, you know, Chris has been my friend a long time. Wesley hosted for me last time I was at the Jacksonville Comedy Zone. So we kind of brought that whole show to Ponte Vedra. It was hot. Super hot show. The moment I got out there, I mean, I did, I think I did an hour, 25 minutes. I mean, I am all about time on these theater shows.

I mean, I am milking it. It's so great. I mean, when the shows are good, it's like, they're just laughing, I'm riffing. And if you don't feel like you're keeping them there, you know? Yeah. Because I've had that feeling where I'm like, I get to the end.

I'm like, all right, I'll let y'all go. Yeah. You're being nice, but I'll let you leave. Well, that's how it feels at a club a lot of times, right? Because they've done last call. They've already signed the receipt, all that. They're ready to get out of there. But then in that theater, I'm like, this is great.

And then the next day, I went to Atlanta, which the show was great. But I flew from Jacksonville to Atlanta. I did a direct. Flight was great. But as we're landing, it's starting to get real rough. And I'm starting to get a little motion sickness. And then I get an Uber. And the Uber is about 45 minutes.

Standstill traffic in Atlanta. Of course. And I don't really have enough time to comfortably go to my hotel and then back to the theater. So I just go to the theater. You're in road limbo. Of course. Kind of my hometown in a sense, my second hometown of Pennon, Alabama. Pennon. P-E-N-T-O-N pronounced Pennon. And if you say Pennon, then you're like, you know, now from around here. But the Atlanta show was really great. You did the one with me last year. This theater was about 800 more people.

Wow. It was huge for me, about 1,800 seats. Yeah, this is the Atlanta Symphony Hall, right? Yeah. Yeah, 1,800 seats is enormous. And it was a hot show. You sold it out? I don't think I sold it out, but I was like-

Jeez, Brian. Like- All right, I apologize. We'll edit this part out. I want to think I was like probably 95%. It might've been sold out, but it wasn't sold out in advance, but it was very close. 95%, something like that. That's a bummer.

All right. Let's move on then. But it was hot. I mean, hot show. And then I got to, you know, hang out with some, I had my friends, Vince Fabra, Evan Burke, that I kind of started comedy with on the show. Liam Nelson was there. And then I had some high school buddies we all hung out after in the parking garage, had some cigars. And it was great.

That's awesome. I had some high school for other high school friends just show up that I didn't know would be there. A lot of Nate land people. There you go. Reg Griffin, who was reaching out looking for a meet and greet. I did a meet and greet. I wanted to do one, but it was a bit bigger of a theater than i'm used to so i was like i don't know how that's gonna work but he commented about it so i was like you know what i gotta do i gotta do the

and you signed a baseball right i did sign a baseball there's a guy who's been getting all of our signatures on the same baseball yeah this baseball is so chewed up well that's part of the story and he gave me uh i think you let us sign it and then get it chewed up well that's part of the story and he gave me uh i think you let us sign it and then get it chewed up but he gave me a sharpie and i'm like i barely signed this it's like signing it's like it's so tore up your signature looked pretty good yeah well i got a good signature but uh mine looks real bad people will ask me to sign their t-shirt sometimes that they buy from me and every time i go listen i'll, I'll do it, but it's not going to look good. Right.

They go, I don't care. And then I'll do it. And usually they don't. And it's one girl at the show. She goes, I don't care. And then I signed it. And you could tell that she didn't like how it looked. And I was like, I told you.

It's impossible to sign a t-shirt with like a sharp, like certainly not a pen. Have you signed a body part before yeah all the time what are you doing a couple of times i i don't get i'm not trying to do it but i have done it yeah if somebody asks yeah you'll do it somebody was like sign your name here i'm gonna get it tattooed i go well i'll sign it but don't do that please don't yeah please don't get my signature tattooed i assume you have uh a couple times it's never it's just like a fat guy oh yeah you know what i mean where's he wants you to sign on his chest i've had that i've also had had women do that a couple of times but but i'm like you know i'm a married man i'm not i'm not looking in to do that you know of course but you don't want to disappoint a fan

i'll do it yeah i don't like it you also don't want to disappoint the people watching this go down too it's like let's do it a little bit yeah you ever uh you don't sell your own merch anymore no but well i was about to ask this. You don't care about your fans anymore, right, Dustin? I do do the meet and greet and stand next to the merch,

but I always thought I would never want to not sell my own merch, but like, the moment I stopped doing it, I was like, oh, this is way better.

Yeah, it's just scaled to a point where you can't do it anymore. Well, you did it for a long time, so you'll still fit this question. You ever feel awkward, though, when you're out there selling your shirts and there's some different size people and

of course you have to ask of course what size you want and kind of point them toward a certain way well you never you don't have to do it in a creepy way point them towards a way you just go what size would you like brian puts a scale out there go stand on that and I'll eyeball it for you. It's just asking what size they need. What I hate is if they're a little bigger and they go, what sizes do you have? And I'll go, I have from small to three X and they go,

Oh, I'm not that big. And I'm like, I just, you ask what sizes I have. I'm just giving you the range. I've told this story before, but I was selling shirts at the John Chris show way back in the day.

We're in some church, and this old woman comes up to me, and she goes, can I get a 2XL or 3X? She goes, can I get a 3X? And I go, sure. And I gave it to her, and she goes, thanks. This is for my husband. He's huge. I was like, oh oh that's all right yeah you know i wear a 3x it's not a big deal and she goes oh yeah let me get a 2x

and i i mean i told that story on stage with my merch pitch forever yeah i thought it was so funny it's it is so funny yeah anyway it's so good i'm I don't point them, but like sometimes you're like, come on. You know what you do? You're going up the line. You don't need a medium. Here's a way to make a fan for life, dude. You get some bigger sizes. You don't even have to put them out.

Just hide them in your suitcase. And you'll see a dude walk up who's a four or five X. Yeah. And he's like, what do you got? And you go, I got you, dude. And then reach in. You throw a four or five x yeah and he's like what do you got and you go i got you dude and then reach in you throw a 4x at a guy that's a fan for life dude just have a couple of those in your suitcase that'll be 50 dollars yeah this is the material you want 200 bucks. I did.

The first time I got merch, I had some 3Xs and I thought, geez, I'll never sell these. And I did shows in Nebraska that weekend. That's all I sold. I know. But here's the thing, dude. There's 3X people everywhere, man. And, you know, it's like people just seem like if it's a 3X and, oh, you must be so fat. People are just big.

It's not necessarily that people are fat. It's like people are big. There's big people. Or they want a nighttime shirt. Yeah. You know, just something to throw on. You know, people can buy whatever they want, but it does bother me a little bit when I was selling my own merch when like a small person would go, let me get a 2X. I want to sleep in it. And I'm like, well, now when the 2X person comes along

and I don't have a shirt big enough for them, you're costing me a sale here. Would you just wear a shirt? Would you just wear it like a normal person? How would you sell a small to a 2X size person? Cut the sleeves off. I would tell people in my merch page. Cut the sides off too.

When I would get down to the end of the weekend and I only had smalls, I would do stuff like that. I'd go, listen, all I got left is smalls, but they are very comfortable. So even if you're bigger than that, it'll feel good. You can wrap it up, use it as a do-rag. It'll feel good, tight against your skin. You can wear it like an underarm or a shirt. Yeah.

Work out in this stuff. Where were you? I had a very fun weekend. Las Vegas, Nevada. I was told multiple times I said it wrong last week. I said Nevada. And I want to say my instinct was to say Nevada. But for some reason, I thought Nevada was correct.

I think it would have been the same way. It's Nevada. I feel like I'll never not say Nevada. But the nice part is if you say Las Vegas, you don't have to say the state. Yeah. Say Vegas. They know where you're talking about. Vegas.

Yeah. Yeah. I was in Las Vegas. Wise Guys Comedy Club. I did the smaller room there. They have two rooms now. Wow. Wise Guys Comedy Club does.

And Dry Bar is doing them right. I know, man. And that room i mean the shows i did were hot dude they weren't sold out but it's a small enough room that you can pack them in there everybody kept calling it a kill box what's that with that term it's a comedian term i've heard you and i heard it used a lot this weekend i kind of don't like it but it's appropriate it's a kill saying that it's like. It's a kill box. Saying that it's like you're just going to kill in there? Yeah, where it's just like a perfect room to have a good comedy show. Well, they do say the thing about that club is that it's geared toward locals,

whereas everything else in Vegas is geared toward tourists. Right now, there's a lot of comedy in the city, but most of it, it's on the strip or whatever. That's different. This is in the arts district. This is locals. I mean, the host went up there. Jarrett, very funny guy.

It was his first time hosting a weekend at the club. He was excited. He had a joke about anti-California or whatever. And the place went nuts. So I was like, oh, these are local. These are Las Vegas people. The whole country hates California people. Yeah, that's true.

That's true. California or Florida. Yeah. It's kind of like pick a side. That's kind of what it feels people. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. That's true. California or Florida? Yeah. It's kind of like pick a side. That's kind of what it feels like. Well, the thing about Florida, though, the thing about California is they're moving out of there and moving to all these states. Yeah, yeah.

And then Florida, they're moving to Florida. I mean, I don't know anybody go, yeah, I just moved here from Florida. Yeah, I was trying to think of somebody. Right. But at the other Wise Guys Club, which just opened back in September, it's a different part of town. Big Jay Oakerson was there.

It's a much bigger room. Man, I like it. The room I was in was great. We went by there and hung out with him. I had a great comedy weekend. We did my show, then hung out at Big Jay's show. Then the next night, the Tropicana, which is a casino in Vegas. It has the Laugh Factory comedy club there.

The Tropicana is closing. So it was like the last weekend of the Laugh Factory. So we went over there. Dustin Nickerson was in town doing Brad Garrett's club. We went and hung out with him. Then we went to the Laugh Factory and hung out. Sawrian regan there wow jackie kashian was there all these comedians that were we just like hung out i was like what a great comedy weekend that's awesome yeah yeah i got some embarrassing pictures of myself it was propaganda feels like a real classic place

that seems sad that it's closing even though i don't have any connection to i think i might have this wrong but i think that's where they're going to build the new baseball stadium. Okay. Which they don't seem to be thrilled about. I was saying, I would be so pumped if Nashville got an MLB team. But every time it was mentioned on stage in Vegas, it got boozed. Oh, they're getting the A's. Yeah, they're getting the Oakland A's.

They're moving out to Las Vegas. Oakland's losing a lot. Oakland loses everything, too. To Las Vegas. I mean, the Raiders are in Las Vegas now. What kind of embarrassing pictures did you take? No, I was just hanging out. You know we're hanging out.

Okay, I thought something happened in Vegas that stays in Vegas, but there's some photos out there. Well, yeah, it is going to stay in Vegas. I took it myself. Oh, okay. That's all I'm saying. Well, just pull them up. Did you see the sphere? I did see the sphere. I didn't go in. Okay. That's all I'm saying. We'll just pull them up. Did you see the sphere? I did see the sphere. I didn't go in.

Okay. You drive up, I get it. Okay. It also doesn't look as good in person. You can see the mechanism inside of it. At least during the day. It's not like a solid image up there. We drove up. We were like, I get it.

Did you have a steak? No. I love a steak in Vegas. Why in Vegas? I don up there. So we drove up. We were like, I get it. Did you have a steak? No. I love a steak in Vegas. Why? I don't know. It just feels good. It feels right. It feels good everywhere.

No, not cigars. We were doing other stuff. You know what I mean? We're having a good time. Yeah. It was just more of a, I thought it would be a Vegas weekend, but it was a comedy weekend. I don't know if that makes sense. It was like good comedy hangs. So,

and they gamble at all. No, I didn't gamble. Yeah. Didn't gamble just on my health. You know what I mean? Uh, but,

uh, thank you to everybody who came out. It was two hot shows. I can't wait to go back. I was on stage the first night. I was like, God, I wish,

I wish this was a special statement. Well, I was like going that way. I want to say thank you to people that came to see me too. I forgot to say that. That's okay. It's implied. You reminded me. It's implied. I was just thinking of a way to put a button on that story. Anyway, I love you all. It's not lost on us. Film your special

there. I should. Yeah. I'm not going to be back for a while. I am going to be taping something soon. Call it Kill Box. Call it the Kill Box. Call it the Slay Box. Name it after me. No. Tuesday,

all of a sudden, middle of the day, I started getting this pain in the top of my calf. I'm like, I guess just muscle tightness or whatever. I'll go for a walk it got kept getting worse and worse during the day and then i google yeah exactly what could possibly be and i said if you've taken any long flights it could be a blood clot i'd just gotten back from the west coast where i didn't get up the entire time on the plane.

So in my mind, I was sure I had a blood clot. I was doing these tests. They said to her, I do. I felt like it was happening. And blood clots can be very serious. So the next day I went to the doctor and I mean, I was sure I had a blood clot. I just basically went and told him, I got a blood clot. Can we do something about it?

You know, they sent me for like an ultrasound. Came back negative. I'm just old. What was it? I mean, I don't know. I still don't know. Just like a pulled muscle or something. I just said, not in my calf, but I was sure in my mind I had a blood clot.

That's scary. Did you do stretching though? I did stretching. I looked online and it said, if it's a pulled muscle, you're supposed to bend your foot one way and it will relieve it. Or maybe if you pull muscle, if you do this with your foot, it's supposed to help it. But if it's a blood clot, it's supposed to hurt. And to me, it was hurting. So I'm like, ah, I got a blood clot.

The problem is. I'm not a doctor. There ain't now. They don't know anything. is uh i'm not a doctor that ain't now they don't know anything the problem is uh the anxiety that comes with any kind of body pain now the moment i feel like because this all happened to me after i ruptured my appendix used to be i'm like now i'm fine any body pain i'm like now i'm fine but when i finally ruptured my appendix i was like oh geez so now every, I'm like, nah, I'm fine. But when I finally ruptured my appendix, I was like, oh, geez. So now every time I'm like, and then if it's pains like that, usually I stretch and it goes

away. But if it doesn't go away, it's like your mind can just go to a place. You got kids, you're living for other people too. It's a lot. Yeah. And then it's like, and then anxiety can make that seem worse yep like i don't have regular anxiety out here i'm not worried about things but something happens with my body and i'm like oh jeez you know what i mean it's like well i got one of those guns things if you need to use them brian what is that those little things go. Oh, it's a workout muscle. Oh, yeah. Theragun, whatever they're called.

You ever use one of those? No. Yeah. I go to the chiropractor and this guy is he cracks the back. I mean, I'm talking about for muscle stuff. Yeah, but yeah, I could use that. Yeah. I'll bring it in one day.

Let's do it. Yeah. Do it on the table. Part of the podcast. Patreon. Yeah. Should we get any comments? Hey, I'm Jillian.

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Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope So thank you, Brittany. There's nothing more to that. That was her comment. And she added some claps in there. But Dusty is right about everything. You probably should have saved that for a few comments in when you get blasted. And then you could have retracted with that.

But we'll just remember that. All right. Well, can I read this guy's comment on that one? You guys will like this. Yeah, go ahead. Is he in here? Let me make sure he's not mentioned here. Okay.

He says, I used to enjoy the show a whole lot more until eeyore started interrupting every conversation with doubts about everything i guess that's me uh it was slightly amusing now it's just irritating and tired wow and i you know i'm sorry dan i'm sorry that's happening to you but you gotta wake up and realize that uh you can't truth hurts dan you can't believe everything out. It's not all rainbows and unicorns out here. I know you lived a lot of life before the internet was around and it's like, but now it's out there. And so we are living in the information age and you can find out that not everybody's

telling you the truth out here. Get with it. I don't shoot the messenger. Right. Right. All right. Sorry. All right.

I thought that would be a lot of fun. That was fun. get with it i don't shoot the messenger right yeah right all right sorry all right i thought that would be a lot of fun that was fun yeah i am sorry though dan no i'm not i'm not trying to be a downer dude but i do like trying to be eeyore i do like eeyore though yeah he's a realistic guy yours like squidward i'm just trying to find an analogy for my generation yeah you ever watch spongebob a little bit yeah are you familiar with squidward he's like the the debbie downer of the neighborhood yeah and you grow up and you start to identify with him a little more right you're like hey maybe shut up in the middle of the night they know the next door neighbors yeah exactly you know what i'm talking about i have no idea so. So in the Andy Griffith show, let's find a reference.

That'd be Floyd the Barber for me. That's right. Grateful 58. Such an amazingly enjoyable show. So many things to comment on. I forget them all. I should take notes. But the absolute standout is Nate asking, why is it the food pyramid bigger at the bottom?

And Aaron saying slowly and wisely, because it's a pyramid. And then Dusty losing it. Such great stuff. Yeah, it was a fun moment. You know, that was really fun because I had also just had a sip of water when you said that, and I almost spit it up. It's so funny. I put a clip up of that this morning. Yeah, I saw it.

Yeah, I'm glad you did because people love that moment. Nicholas Butcher. Nicole's Butcher. Yeah, back butcher yeah back in the day dusty before you were with us it's one of the first inside jokes of the podcast nicole's butcher yeah nate misread that nicole's butcher okay so i was like i didn't just nicole right in she had a butcher yeah good times. Nicholas Butcher. Dusty was absolutely right. Prior to 2013, Pizza Hut was the number one buyer of kale in the United States. They used it to decorate their buffet bar. See, I don't know. This is a good example.

Is that a claim that you made? You just said that they were the number one. Well, I didn't say it specifically about Pizza Hut, I don't think. But buffets used to put it out. They would lay it on the buffet and then put stuff on top of it. Did we challenge you on that? I don't think so, but I appreciate Nicholas coming in and letting you guys know. Because people don't think that I know anything, but then, I mean.

Wow, look at this. Look how much kale on this buffet spread right here. I know. I mean, that's more than the food it's a lot of smooth yeah why not just get fake kale like fake plants in an apartment that's a good question i don't know uh taylor smith using dusty as a medical expert is tough there we go it's like some fact mixed with some decently science-backed opinions mixed with completely erroneous statements. I would agree with that.

Well, why don't you try to be more vague about it? You know what I mean? Oh, some facts in there, some decently science-backed opinions. What's a science-backed opinion? I do think on science, with food, nutrition, you're much more in agreement than, say, the moon or astronomy. I mean, most doctors, I think, would agree with you. Water is the way to go. You should drink more water, less soda. McDonald's is poison.

And who's using me as a medical expert? I guess the podcast. But I go to the, I mean, I've been to the doctor about several things. And the doctor's always like, I don't know, man. We can run a test. When I ruptured my appendix, I went to the doctor and I talked to them about the pain that I was having. They said, well, we'll run some blood tests and find out what's going on. So I said, okay.

And they ran the blood test. I'm in pain now. I have pain going on in my body. Scale of one to 10, where were you at? I don't know. Depending on the day, some days it wasn't really hurting at all. Other days, seven, eight. Yeah. The day you came to see me at the St. Louis Funny Bone.

Yeah. You were not in good shape. Yeah. I was not doing well. I went to the doctor on that Monday. They ran these blood tests. They called me later. They go, good news. Everything's fine. I go, okay. Well, I'm in a lot of pain here. So people, medical expert, it's like, listen, there are some very good doctors out there, I'm sure. But- So I'm told. But they're wrong about a lot of stuff. I think medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in this country, think wow that's number one uh like broken heart like heart attack heart disease okay it's something like that and it's

like you know because the body is tricky all these things are tricky you don't know what what's affecting what you don't i mean it's like you know i mean the stomach is a very complicated thing right and we're eating a lot of poison out here that's right and it's like it is messing us Like, you know, I mean, the stomach is a very complicated thing. Right. And we're eating a lot of poison out here. That's right. And it's like, it is messing us up. Yeah. You know what I mean?

I'm just saying you are more in line with them than you are with other forms of science. Yeah. Fast food's bad for you. Yeah. I think they would agree with that. You're probably more pro meat, maybe. Yeah. That's what I've always said about you.

Yeah. Well, meat is good. I mean, meat is good but too much too much red meat is not good for you that's what they say yeah but you know i don't think vegetables would be higher i think that you we you're not supposed to like the quantities that we eat a food is bad yeah but i think like a small amount of red meat i think it's very good for you but i think we should eat it every day. I don't always do that. But, you know, and it's like you go get a hamburger, you're like, and then you feel bad or whatever. You always blame the meat, right?

But a lot of these hamburgers, it's buns that's made from some, we don't even know where the flours comes from, some enriched wheat flour. And then it's like put together with a bunch of sugar and starches yeah and then you got they spit on it yeah yeah and then you got some cheese and maybe it's good cheese maybe it's american cheese that's uh practically plastic but you leave it out and then never mold right right and then you eat that you go and then you put a lot of mayonnaise on it or whatever and then you eat it and you go, and then you put a lot of mayonnaise on it or whatever. And then you eat it and you go, I've been gaining weight. It's too much red meat. And it's like, well, maybe it's all that other crap.

Maybe it's 64 ounce Coke you drank with it too. Yeah. And the fries, you know, all delicious. It's all so good. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm just, you know, I don't mean to get fired up. I'm not even mad at Taylor Smith, but his-

No, I love him. That's why I put it in there. His sentence doesn't mean to get fired up. I'm not even mad at Taylor Smith. No, I love him. That's why I put it in there. His sentence doesn't make a lot of sense. You could tell he put a real word salad together. Decently science-backed opinions mixed with completely erroneous statements. Yeah. There's some syntax and grammatical errors in there. Taylor.

Some facts and then science back should be hyphenated. Yeah. But give it another shot taylor taylor enjoys hearing themselves talk you can guarantee that well we all do well yeah i do two podcasts a week and stand up down an hour 25 on stage so i'm with taylor on this yeah all right christopher sarnowski great name bonehead monsters ain't care yeah bonehead referring to me Wachowski. Great name. Bonehead. Monsters, Inc. character. Yeah. Bonehead, referring to me, thinking 16 ounces is a gallon, helps me understand why he's worried all the time. Well, I admit, 16 ounce, thinking that was a gallon is pretty dumb.

I don't really understand why that would help him understand why I'm worried all the time, but okay. Yeah, I mean, that's what is a 16 ounce. That's a regular bottle of regular bottle of water. 16.9. I think. Yeah. I thought it was a gallon, but I was like, when I was a kid,

I thought that was a gallon. I said that last week. Remember, but you thought like water was a gallon. I just, no, no, no.

I know what a gallon is. You get a gallon of milk. What is this? A barrel? Well, you know, when I was a kid, like you get, it was a 16 ounce Coke. And then they started introducing the 20 ounce. And the 20 ounce was like a big deal. It was like, ooh, a big Coke.

Oh, yeah. And now 20 ounce is the standard. That's a small now. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I love it. It's like Hardee's. Keep it bigger.

When I grew up, we used to eat hardy's like every day i mean it was hardy's on the way home and we would eat hardy's all the time and this is pre-thick burger too oh yeah it's like original hardy's yeah when they had chicken on the menu and monster burger that was a big one for me but they they the small uh that they used to have now doesn't really exist. The old medium is the small. The old large is the medium. And like, you know. The same with people.

Yeah. I mean, it really is. It is true. I was looking at an old wrestling video and there's a wrestler named The Earthquake. Yeah. Remember that guy? I do. I remember seeing that guy as a kid old wrestling video, and there's a wrestler named The Earthquake. Yeah, yeah. Remember that guy? I do. I remember seeing that guy as a kid thinking, jeez, that guy's big.

And then I was like, oh, I saw four people like that at Walmart today. I mean, that guy. Yeah, well, I remember him. That's like my dad after he lost weight. It's like Aaron after he lost weight. I remember, yeah, I tried a bit about this for a while, but I watched the movie Heavyweights as an adult. Oh, yeah.

And I was like, these kids aren't that fat. These kids look pretty good. Well, from my day, Refrigerator Perry was like the biggest football player you'd ever seen, and he was 300 pounds. And now he would be a small office of linemen. It's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. Hmm.

All right. Uh, they wouldn't even call it. They call him mini Fred. Slim, slim Perry. Uh, Eddie cooler.

Uh, where are we at? Will Russell. Aaron trying his best not to completely lose it while Dusty was reading the Butcherbox ad and Dusty watching Aaron's almost breakdown was the best part of the podcast. Oh, boy. It made my day along with a stomachache from laughing so hard. That's very nice, Will. But I would say if you're pitching the podcast to somebody, don't lead with the best part or the ad reads.

That's not a good sales pitch. Oh, man, you got to check this out. The ad reads are unreal. The best part is talking about butcher box. You know, you would think, though, that, you know, and maybe the ads, they do like this because it's like, you know, a lot of times I'm listening to podcasts. They hit an ad. I'm like, skip, skip.

Skip, skip, skip. Because, you know, you know they're like a minute. You hit that on your iPhone. It's got the little 30 second. You go, boop, boop. And then you're done. Boop, boop. But, you know, if it's going to be, you're going to get some laughs in there.

You're like listening. And you're listening for the laughs. But then you're like. Not only laughs, but the biggest laughs of the whole podcast, apparently. Yeah, give you a stomachache. Hey, I'm Jillian. And I'm Patrick. And together we make the podcast True Crime Obsessed.

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that's how you get it that's a special with nate's okay sound like a western tennessee kid yeah it does doesn't it yeah uh i think that would be ice coffee whipped cream ice oh maybe i don't know after we're yeah yeah i think it is okay it's call back to the half hour right i think so yeah I think that would be iced coffee whipped cream. Iced. Oh, maybe. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. I think it is. Okay. It's a callback to the half hour, right? I think so. Yeah.

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The roots of auctioneers goes back in the Civil War. The colonel would sell the belongings of the dead soldiers to the other soldiers. One time a colonel was selling and he saw a Native American camp dancing and singing. He started saying the numbers in that same rhythm and has grown from there. Still to this day, auctioneers are called colonels. All right. Whoa.

Don't know if that's true, but that's what his grandpa said. How about that? I've been working on the auctioneering, dude. I'd say there's probably a lot of completely erroneous statements in there. You know what I mean? That's what this podcast is.

Oh, yeah. Some science-backed stuff, too. Let's hear it. Well, no, no, no. I'm not ready to display it yet. I've been working. I watched this guy and he said, he gave these phrases to say, and as you gradually get them faster and faster.

So you do one, one and a quarter, one and a half, one 75, two, two and a quarter, two and a half, two 75, three, three and a quarter, three and a half, three 75, four, four, four, four and a quarter, four and a half, four 75 75, three, three and a quarter, three and a half, three, 75, four, four, four, four, four and a quarter, four and a half, four, 75, five. You just do that. Get it faster. Boom. That was good.

I was just doing that in the car this weekend. Wow. Just looking like a crazy person in the car. Five, five and a quarter, five and a half, five, 75, five, 75, five, 75, six, six and a quarter. This is great. One of these days. It's starting to sound okay, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now I just got to be able to say something. Then you just throw some random things in here and there. Really mix it up. That was very good. I'm telling you, dude. And then once I find a bit to do it in. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, just hit. That's what I'm talking about. Auction off plants. Tie your plant joke in. Somebody yelled do the plant joke this weekend, and I did it, and it's not good. Yeah. Did not do. Did not go well.

Well, the buildupup i guess it's too much for too little well let me ask you this though did the person that yelled it out enjoy it did they come up to you after the show i think they enjoyed the moment they yelled i'm sorry that it was over yeah but that show was so hot i didn't lose anybody oh yeah it was good that's awesome uh jonathan eldridge ledridge uh i worked at an auctioneering school when in high school people listen to this podcast or is it the same 12 people we started to feel like yeah we should just invite these people to just come hang out with us it's a simulation well people are not gonna like you saying that because we have so many people right in they're gonna be like oh brian has his 12 favorites i don't think that's the now is there a program

where you get a comment read then now you get bumped to the top because that's what it feels like i'm not questioning your process but i don't look at the names i just find the comments that i that i think what you're saying is just get better at writing. These people are good at writing. I guess so. I guess so. Ladrage. Sorry. I worked at auctioneering school, went in high school, and it's not nearly the trick you hope it is.

Really, the only thing it is good for is driving away women at a party. Sorry, Aaron. Also, I'm surprised to hear that Dusty goes to auctions. As much hat and glasses touches as he does, I figured he might have been in a little trouble after he accidentally won all of the items. Great comment. That's really funny. That is funny. I don't really go now.

I did go as a kid with my dad to the cattle auction. But you go now and you're having a good time i'm just waving i'm just you know i'm like hey guy keeps looking at me and i go and this really gets me in a lot of trouble no uh but i did work with an auctioneer not long ago i did a gig where i was doing stand-up and he was auctioning off items and he was great man i wish i remembered his name but he was crushing. I think I was there when you started really doing the We're Having a Good Time one. Because you had a moment on stage, and I've told this story to other comics quite often. I don't remember which show, but it was not a hot show.

No. But you were kind of having fun with how bad it was. So you're doing the wave. I like the wave like this. You don't want to go too high it looks like you're asking a question you like to just keep it down here and you kind of did this

and then you caught a woman with your hand and you go gotcha and I was dying dude I don't remember if it got last at all is this the main hanger gotcha it might have been after that anyway I don't remember if it got last at all. Is this the main hangar? Gotcha. It might have been.

It might have been after that. Anyway. That's fun. Gotcha. Gotcha. Well, we did some bad gigs. Yeah. Gosh.

Some real bad ones. I'm still doing them. Save your pictures for shows to the end of the podcast. Neil Curran. Talking about bad gigs. Speaking of bad gigs, this weekend. Neil Curran, kindly writing in to share that it was Phil Collins, not Queen, who performed in London, then took a Concord to the U.S. and performed in Philadelphia.

He performed on two sides of the Atlantic on the same day. Well, I'm glad. I wasn't too confident that it was Queen. I knew it was somebody at Live Aid, so a few people let me know it was Phil Collins. They're basically the same, dude. Mark Frank. I've been reading. I'm not a huge Phil Collins guy collins guy oh i love phil collins i was just

like somebody was just telling me about you know genesis they were like oh you you know they were like they're like one of my favorite bands you got to get into so i went and listened and i mean i'm like the the the greatest hits are great like the one but i'm like i'm listening to just albums and i'm like man i i'm only liking it when i get to like one of the greatest hits one and i'm like oh yeah this is a good one but the other stuff i'm just like it's okay it's gotta be it sounds this sounds so lame but some of it just sounds so dated that 80s sound oh yeah the drum tracks and everything like phil collins is a great drummer but the drum tracks just sound so 80s i mean i was in atlanta one time when i had this one this weekend this was like when i was like 18 or 19 and i'd never go to atlanta i mean and it was like it was like a big deal i mean that was like the city you you know, and we were at the Hard Rock Cafe in Atlanta and in the air of the night was playing hard.

This is, you know, this is late 90s, early 2000s when Hard Rock was like jamming. Everybody had the Hard Rock shirts and the city on it and the air of the night was playing. It was on all the TVs. It was loud. And then they hit that kind of lap, that last doo doo doo doo. And a guy in the kitchen bangs on the on the metal like in rhythm and i was like this is amazing you know what i mean yeah man i loved it that that song is incredible what's the name of it in the air of the night in the air

tonight yeah whatever it's called yeah i can feel it coming in the air at night or whatever night it is. Oh, Lord. Remember that song by Phil Collins in the air of the night where the guy could have saved that other guy from drowning but didn't? Remember that? Yeah. Eminem. Yeah. How does a band or someone decide to go solo?

Because Genesis and Phil Collins sound the same to me. Oh, yeah. Well, some of Paul McCartney's stuff sounds like the Beatles. Yeah, I guess I'm just curious how sometimes people decide, I'm going to be a band. And sometimes, even if they're a solo artist, they still have a band behind them. You think about starting your own podcast? I just don't understand why I need you guys. I think this is what happens. Like a lead singer sometimes will be the writer of all the stuff.

And then they're like, I'm, and I don't, not every time, but I think a lot of times they're like, I'm writing everything. I'm the recognizable one of this band. Right. Yet I'm still splitting the money with this band. Yeah. I just go out on my own but you know in the beginning you know you have your band and but yeah in the end you're like you know i'm just gonna do this by myself sure and sometimes it works out sometimes it doesn't yeah

well the band just breaks up they're like let's all we all want to do our own stuff some side projects you know well or like bruce springsteen it's bruce springsteen but the east street band east street band rest in peace clarence you know um he's played saxophone mark frank i've been dealing with a phone that barely connects to chargers for over a year wow when barley i think that's me was talking about his phone charger conundrum, I just happened to find a pin small enough to clean my charging port out. Voila. Phone chargers are working again perfectly. Y'all at Nateland are making the world a better place. Thanks, buds. How about that? Sounds like Mark works in the government. How would you have pronounced V-O-I-L-A, Dusty?

Voila. Voila. You would have got that? Yeah. How would you have pronounced V-O-I-L-A, Dusty? Voila. Voila. You would have got that? Yeah. Don't you say voila? I may not have gotten it. You're probably right. I emphasize W.

I would have loved Nate to have read that word. You said voila? Isn't it voila? I think voila. I said voila, but I think you're probably right. You probably are right.

I think you kind of do both. But I've heard voila so long without seeing how it's spelled. Voila. That's what Nate would have said. Voila phone chargers. Like a specific type of phone charger. Yeah, yeah.

Voila phone chargers are the best. Voila phone chargers are worse. No, I had an issue like that, too, for a long time. I had a few people say the reason that it happened then was because you had those new pants that have all the pocket linen on them. If you buy a new pair of jeans, they got a lot of linen there when you first buy them. So, Christy Johnson caused me some problems. You just hadn't worn new pants in a long time.

It's been a while. It had been a while. Spring Whitney. What's that name spring i like spring as a name yeah spring whitney could be the season could be the verb could be uh could be could there you go spring or i'm thinking like an actual spring yeah wow i know the name. Yeah. At the risk of coming off as too sensitive. Oh, geez. Just kind of made my heart hurt a little with the whole making fun of Dusty not being invited to the John Chris party.

Thank you, spring. I know we're all adults here, but it just brought back memories of childhood when you were left out of things either on purpose because they didn't like you. Yes. Or because they just didn't think about you. Also, yes. Not sure which one is worse, actually. Well, I agree. I agree. I'm sorry, Dusty. I apologize for us

making fun of you. I'm usually the one that gets picked on. I was going to say, how different would this be if it was Brian that wasn't invited? Would you think you'd put that comment in for the episode? Spring Whitney, I understand where John Chris was coming from. Thank you, John. I'll say this about it, though.

I'm gone a lot. And that particular time was like, I didn't have very many days at home. Sure. And had I been invited, I would have gone. But it was nice to go home. I think I knew that. So, therefore, I feel like I was comfortable with us teasing you because I knew you didn't really care. There were also a bunch of people there that weren't invited, just so you know.

So, everyone would have been very excited if you showed up. Well, I don't like to crash a party. Just so you were missed. There was no crashing. There was no crashing. Plus, roasting is just not even your thing. Well, I don't like roast battle, but a friendly roast is fun. And I did invite him to my party to roast me, and he came.

I'm sorry it took spring to bring it to my attention. It was a surprise for him yeah he didn't not invite you yeah just everyone else didn't but spring i appreciate you yeah yeah i don't know maybe spring's not her first name though maybe this is she has different this is maybe it's really dusty or maybe maybe her name's whitney but we're in spring. So she's like, this is spring Whitney. Yeah. And fall Whitney writes in and says, I'm glad y'all didn't invite Dustin to the party. Yeah, exactly.

Allison Hensley. Dusty mentioned the amount of sodas he would drink when he was younger. When he referenced Coke, was he saying he drank Coke specifically or is that just his word for any soda? Definitely just my word for any soda. Right. Right. But, you know, because we would have like a grape soda, orange drink, Dr. Thunder. Dr. Thunder.

All the, whatever Walmart had at the time, it was Sam's Choice. Yes. That's what we had a lot of. Yes. And then my dad had like a, like, i don't remember what grocery store they had uh maybe pigly wiggly uh uh and they had um check cola check cola yeah so you had like um i think it was even dr lightning or something like that dr lightning and they would have a lot of different drinks like that check cola Cola. Oh, Red Rock was also another one. Fact check.

Coca-Cola does not cause a positive COVID-19 test. Dusty doesn't believe that. Oh, Red Rock was another one, too. Red Rock Soda? Yeah, look that up. Oh, man. But they didn't look like that. We were drinking them in a can.

There's a can right there. Yeah. How about that? Never heard of that. Right, but the coke is the all encompassing term your friend comes over you want a coke or something yeah and then all right yeah what do you got sprite yeah you know like khakis are like what all dress pants and to me at the time and people that make fun of this you wouldn't go to a restaurant and go when you order something, you're specific about it.

Right. You never go, yeah, can I get a soda? Yeah. Right. You say specifically what you want. And if it wasn't Coke, which we did that as well, I would say soft drink before I say soda. Interesting. I think we were a little more redneck and we would say like drank.

Yeah. Let me get a drink. Yeah, maybe that. Yeah. I would never say soda. Nah.neck and we would say like drank. Yeah. Let me get a drink. Yeah, maybe that. Yeah. I would never say soda. Nah. I say sarsaparilla. Jasmine Lozano.

Great name. A lot going on in there. Yeah. A lot of pizzazz, a lot of flair, a lot of fun. Dusty, your friend Marshall's alias was Mitch. You told this in another podcast when Aaron mentioned he uses the name Doug at restaurants.

I'm shocked Brian didn't catch this retelling. I caught it. I just have to pick my battles. Well, thanks, Jasmine, for bringing it up. Yes, thank you, Jasmine. Well, really, I'm the one that brought it up by putting jasmine's comment in there but she she was on it though yeah well i didn't remember and i didn't you know i knew i had told the story but let's be honest everything uh is told multiple times i've told that story on

here i've told it on my own podcast i've told it to other people i've told it on my own podcast. I've told it to other people. I've told it to, you know, friend groups that used to be friends with me and Marshall. It's a good story. I was thinking, because this weekend, this is the second time I had done that club in Las Vegas. So I was able to pull up my set list from the last time I was there. And I go, I'll do all new stuff this time. How nice would it be to have that with people? Yeah. You go to lunch with somebody, you pull up, all right, here's what I talked about last time. Oh, yeah. Now I got to put together a set list for the conversation.

That'll be the future of Google Glasses. Totally. It's like Terminator. You meet them and it's telling you stuff about them. And you're like, all right, you told them this story last time. Right. And then you could use that even in a different way just to be fun. Like, all right, these are the stories I told them last time.

I'm going to tell all the same stories just to hit them, just to. If somebody starts telling you a story that they've already told you, do you stop them or do you let them tell it? It depends. Is the story good? Because I have told people recently a couple of times, I go, you told me this story before, but I will hear it again. Oh, that's nice to hear. Yeah.

Did you ever go, I'm going to cut you off right there? You've already tried this on me. No, I wouldn't do that to them. You ever have anybody who starts telling you a story and you say, oh, yeah, you've told me this. And then they keep going. Didn't even faze them. They're going to tell it again. Or they're like telling you about a movie and you're like, yeah've seen it and they keep describing the plot to you yeah yeah they're like

well listen this is my story okay this i do this at all the parties this is all i got yeah so let me get through this yeah i have a neighbor out in mcminnville she's told me a story about her grandson several times and about the amish and i just think that I don't know if she remembers telling it or if it's just, she's like, this is a fun story for me to tell. And so she's like, I'm going to keep doing it. And whether your laugh is real or fake, you laugh every time. That's right. Just like audience members do a lot of times.

How long ago had you been to that Wise Guys before? October 2022 was the last time i was there so about a year and a half about a year and that's impressive you did a whole new set thanks dude now if i were to do my best set there would probably be some stuff from a year and a half ago it's a balance act isn't it yeah so yeah it's tough you should do all of your stuff that you did from that album one time before on video. Just put that on YouTube. I've thought about it.

I'm also 70 pounds lighter than I was when I recorded it the first time. So it would look a little better. Yeah, do that whole thing just for fun. I've thought about it. But do you think it was a lot of the same people? It was some of the same people. Some people had my shirt last time I was there. So it was some.

But I still like to challenge myself to do newer stuff. This is what I've stopped. I thought that I would just keep doing the setup for my wave joke and for the, we're having a good time joke because I like doing that. But the last few weekends I've stopped doing it. Wow. And it is, uh, I still say we're having a good time. I still wave, but I've not been doing the setup you don't need to describe it anymore they know it feels pretty freeing i've been doing it for a long time it feels pretty freeing yeah you finally took one hand behind your back and now you're yeah i just uh because i'm like i like doing it because it when i do it it does give

those things more impact. And I'm not saying I won't ever do it again. If I'm bombing somewhere, I'm going to do the wave job. Or corporate. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, feel free. So I'm doing an hour 25 out here, not stuff on

the special. Crazy. That's great. Yeah. A lot of stuff from the special before that, but nothing. No, Crazy. That's great. Yeah. A lot of stuff from the special before that, but nothing. No, no. Okay. It's all fresh.

That's great. Well, the eclipse is next week. How about it? I read a prophecy, um, that not only that it may hit the Parthenon, it may hit anyone who even visited the Parthenon.

So I'm so glad that I did not visit the Parthenon and may hit anyone who even visited the Parthenon. So I'm so glad that I did not visit the Parthenon. Well, you know, my dad was here last week and my stepmom. I didn't know this. And me and Hannah, we watched that prophecy about it. And we go, we didn't know where to take my dad. We were like, you know what? Let's go to the Parthenon. like the parthenon creeps me out but i've been there so many times yeah i saw hannah post a video of you with that big statue of a thing i'm like what in the world

is going on here we lost dusty yeah we lost him he brought his kids there it's so creepy to me but i love to go there they did don't tell comedy did a show there oh yeah they did a show right in front of that statue oh wow uh very well attended it look i mean it's a very cool setting for a show yeah yeah yeah i bet the acoustics are good for that it's creepy in there it's so creepy in there i saw where i wouldn't want to be in there at night sorry no that's okay i can't believe you were in there during the daytime. I can't believe I go either. Yeah. I'm disappointing myself.

Yeah. I saw where Rutherford County Schools here in Tennessee, which is Murfreesboro, close to Nashville, they're counseling school that day, next Monday, because they can't control kids staring at the sun. Because they can't control kids staring at the sun. Now, people have been roasting them for this. And I read the article. It seems kind of to make sense. Apparently, that's right when school's letting now, which this seems very early. It says, out of an abundance of caution, Rutherford County schools will be closed on April 8th because of the timing of the eclipse occurs when many students will be on buses and can't be supervised from looking at the eclipse.

I mean, just say you want to give them the day off to look at the eclipse. It's a special day. We're going to take the day off. You could do a half day. That seems like a fun compromise. Let them out at noon. Gives them a couple hours to go where they want to go.

They can stare at the sun at home. But I think it's like two o'clock central. Doesn't that seem early to be kids on buses? No, they let them out early, man. They do? Yeah, they let them out early. These are, you know, the schools are falling apart. So let's just, we'll send them home.

I heard they're firing up CERN for it. You know? Yeah. They're getting, you know, the Hydron Collider out in Sweden. They're firing that bad boy up. I read that too. Trying to find some dark matter out here. Are they really?

Yeah. During the eclipse? Yeah. Is it going through Sweden? I don't think so. I think it's just coincidental that it's happening at the same time. They're trying to summon some demons. Some people say when they fired up last time, the world ended.

We just didn't know it. Yeah. I've heard stuff like that. Some person's the world ended. We just didn't know it. Yeah. You know, I've heard stuff like that. That some person was dusty, actually. Did I say that? Yeah. I was going to say, I've heard stuff like that. I don't know.

It's going to be fun. Oh, I had a conspiracy theory. I can't remember what it was now. I bet Dusty would be on board with this, but now I can't remember what it was. They were telling me in Las Vegas about the tunnel people that they have out there. Did you know about that? Yeah, I've seen some stuff. Yeah, pretty crazy.

I think Barstool Sports did a thing on it. Oh. I think it was. It was something where it was odd where I was like, why are they doing this? Yeah. But yeah, the guy went down and was interviewing people, and it's like, you couldn't go too deep. They said it gets shadier the deeper you get but yeah i bet because like i think they flood the tunnels once in a while just to kind of die all the time down there anytime it rains people people died on there it's

like the sewers yeah there's just a huge population there's like a second city underneath the city yeah tunnel people they're called because i think we talked about that with new york as well a lot of people live down in the subways has it i think uh oregon has something like that too they have some underground tunnels and i had i was walking to the gas station in las vegas this dude comes up and they will approach you in las vegas i'll say that yeah this dude comes up he's fully tatted and he walks up to me, he goes, you got any cash? And I give him like two bucks. And he goes, man, I'm in a world that's not my own. And I go.

Amen, brother. Look how dusty his face is. He's like, I'm with this guy. He's like, yeah, you're not. But I go, what does that mean? He goes, man, I came out here from Idaho. I'm the only real punk rocker in this city. And then I watched him walk away for a while.

And he just walked out into the horizon. Yeah. So I've been thinking about it. I think punk rock is dead. So I agree with that guy. I should have been like, yeah, you are. Yeah. Go back to Idaho, brother.

You should have given him Dusty's dates and say, go talk to him. You don't have a lot in common. I'm in a world that's not my own. Yeah. Well, that is a good time to talk to that guy about some stuff. But it's hard. It's hard out there. You didn't want to talk to this guy.

You were like, well, I actually am surprised that you said, what does that mean? It was such a funny, crazy thing to say. It didn't even follow what had just happened. You're like, well, I hope that two bucks helps you. Yeah. Because I didn't even ask him how he was doing. He just told me, I'm in a world that's not my own. Yeah.

Anyway. Huh. Well, okay. All right. I thought next night here, this would be a good time to talk about poetry. All right. We can get into what we want to talk about. That's right. I thought next night here would be a good time to talk about poetry. All right. We can get into what we want to talk about. That's right.

Poetry. True art of this podcast. Now, we should address this up top. You say the word a little funny. Oh, I do? Yeah. What do you call the... So, a poet would write a...

Poem. I don't even know how I say it. Poem. That's crazy, dude. know how I say it. Poem. That's crazy, dude. Oh, I say it with one syllable and it's two? No, you say poim. I don't know what I'd say now. It's a poem.

Poem, yeah. Yeah. That's the country coming out. But it's two syllables. We're talking about poim. It's two syllables, right? Poem, yeah. And I say it with one.

Poim. Plus some other stuff. Yeah, yeah. You're throwing Y's in there. Well, how do you say it with one plus some other stuff yeah yeah you're throwing wise in there well how do you say it that's crazy dude a poem i think you heard once you're called out on it then you overthink it i don't think i would have been calling it i mean i've been into poetry uh for a bit i mean i don't know a lot about it but i'm i'm into you into the idea of it yeah you ever written any poetry yeah a little bit wow did you bring it i didn't bring it i i wouldn't uh want to be sharing it okay well it was like private stuff too yeah i mean i not published any poetry but i used to i really got into it i'd be crazy if we if you had and we didn't do it i actually got a book you know the internet ruined a lot of stuff for me. But because, you know, back in the time when you could just be bored, I got very creative with stuff. I was living on the beach in the, you know, 2003 or 2004, around that time, drinking a good bit, going to the beach a lot.

I was writing poetry. I was getting into it and reading the Charles Bukowski stuff and listening to a lot of was writing poetry i was getting into it and reading the charles bukowski stuff and listening to a lot of bob dylan a lot of early bob dylan which is very poetry like stuff yeah and uh yeah i mean doesn't he have a nobel prize for poetry uh that sounds right i don't know but yeah bob dylan does i mean the were you writing poems to people, like love poems to people? No, no. Or is it just like almost just to unload your own thoughts? Yeah, just unload my own thoughts.

And I was getting into it. I mean, I love the rhyme. I write a little bit now. I wrote a country song the other day that I really liked. Literature. I shared it with some people and nobody liked it. Who'd you share it with? A couple of country singers that i

know and uh that's like them shared jokes with you they said yeah i well i prefaced it like that i go listen people share jokes with me all the time i'm just gonna send this to you and they weren't like i don't like this but you know it's you know they didn't send back a demo or anything y'all know ben rector the musician yeah i'm a huge fan of his and i saw him randomly on the street in raleigh north carolina and then i saw him at the airport so we followed each other on instagram and he like oh you went up to him yeah i went up to him but he he's familiar with nate he's familiar with the podcast and he's very nice so he probably was less familiar with me than he led on because he's a nice guy yeah but i posted a an instagram story with a song and he responded and said this is a great song

so i was like all right this guy likes my music yeah so i go hey have you ever checked this guy out and i said it and i was just like what am i doing dude i'm recommending music right like you're bonding with a guy well i just didn't haven't heard back yet so i think john chris i think the friendship ended pretty quick you know what i mean he's like oh good grief it was also like it was a reach of a suggestion it was like it was a gamble because he could check it out and be like you went. You went for it. This guy stinks. Anyway. Yeah, you're probably blocked.

It can happen. Why isn't my message going through? Well, this is going to be a long episode for me since I say it incorrectly because I got a lot here about poems. I'm sorry, but I just feel like we needed to call it out. Okay, so I say poetry. I'm good. Why are you hitting it so hard That's how I say it Okay

Well tell me how to say that Keep going Just try it again I'll just do it my way Okay Try it again Try it again I'm going to say it the same way

Poetry What's going on We've talked about it for so long you hit it so hard you hit it so hard you hit it so hard that's crazy alright sorry Brian

I'll get it together just avoid saying it however you can. It's going to be tough because I know it's the topic. Just try to avoid it. Okay. Boy, yeah. That word's in here a lot. It's coming up a lot.

Oh, boy. Let me just give Dusty a second. No, I'm good. We're good. We're back. We're back. We're back. My stomach hurts though

A poem Is it a better poem? Poem Poem I like poem Poem It really separates the syllables like that too Poem

Poem Yeah Poem Yeah, you're great. I'm used to it now. A poem. A poem. A poem.

Is what? Finish the sentence. Okay, I'll just keep going. It's a piece of writing that in contrast to prose, primarily aims to evoke emotion

in readers and listeners. Poems often make use of rhyme schemes, rhythmic structures, and figurative language. All poetry prioritizes emotional impact. A poem can make this impact through virtuous rhythm, perspective, use of literary devices, or a combination of these. Right, right, right. Yeah. Did you guys get combination of these right right right yeah do you guys get any of that yeah yeah i got it all i got it all also i think we knew what a poem was

glad we got into it well have you written poetry i have really i have actually anything you'd like to share i would actually um I mean, there's a... I'll share it. But I'm just saying, you say you know what a poem is. I know. I was just kidding. Yeah, yeah. There's a difference between lyrics and a song.

Totally. Rap. Could be different things. Prose. Have you written raps? Yeah, I've written everything. When I was in fifth grade, I wrote a poem for my school newspaper about the basketball game that we had in front of the school. You did journalistic poetry?

I did. And they had a suggestion box that no one had ever used the entire time it had been there. And this was junior high newspaper, so you can imagine how bad it is. So I wrote it in fifth grade, this poem, and I put it in the box. And when Dusty's eyes get big like that, he's just trying to hold it together. I feel great. And they published it on the front of the paper. Oh, nice.

That's awesome. So you're a published poet. Yeah, I am. Amazing. For my school newspaper. It doesn't matter where it was published. It was on paper. Absolutely.

And back then, they had to put all those letters in the thing and then it was a computer it was it was typing yeah i wrote a poem for my high school graduation they did not use it but i did write one and i think it was in contention to to be one of the ones but it did not get picked what are we talking was this uh like tetrameter? What was this? Just, you know, I don't know. What kind of meter were you working with? I would be like, one line and then the next line

and then one line and then line four rhymes with line two. Isn't that a limerick? Maybe. There once was a man from Peru who dreamt he was eating a shoe. He woke with a fright in the middle of the night to find that his dream had come true. How about that? Right now, that's a limerick.

See, I would say it would be more like... There was once a man... Or a trochaic. All right, let me tell you the different types. Maybe we'll figure it out. Okay. Sorry. All right, there's three main genres.

Narrative. poetry, dramatic. I won't say the second word. Narrative, dramatic. And lyric. Narrative tells a story. Dramatic is used in plays or dramatic action. And lyric expresses a person's state of mind or attitude. Okay.

Those are the three main groups. And then there's a lot of sub groups like haiku, haiku, haiku, ode, elegy, and limerick. This is a tough one for me. Yeah, there's a lot of words. Well, I don't know any of these words. Do you know what a haiku is? Well, I know what a haiku is, but... I wrote a haiku in the car on the way here.

Did you really? Let's hear it. Well, first, let me tell you what a haiku is. Right. It's an ancient form of Japanese poetry. It's small size. It consists of just three lines. Right.

The first and third lines have five syllables whereas the second has seven so you knew that yeah five seven five okay you know a lot more about poetry than i do you hadn't heard of a haiku i had but i could have told you the five seven five okay i just knew it was a short yeah so you wrote a haiku? I wrote it in the car here. Nate is a comic. Okay. He is doing... Wait. He is doing better than me.

Wait, is that... That's eight. Wait, I had it. Yeah, well, the way you say it, it's like six. Not he is. Maybe he's doing better than me. There you go. He's done better than me. he's doing better than me there you go he's he's he's done better

than me he's done better than me he's doing better than me seven yeah all right so we'll do that unbelievable that's perfect you said nate warren that's great yeah how about that iq unbelievable write your own hakus and put those in the comments we'll read all your hakus i was gonna do me but we couldn't determine if my name was one syllable or two so oh that's right brian yeah brian brian i figured out you know there was a wrestler named flying brian pillman but we always called him you've told that. Okay, sorry. Listen, I got nothing new. Okay, guys. The well's dry for all of us.

Flying Brian. There's free verse. That might have been what you were doing. Free verse, Dusty. There's a sonnet. Free verse, meaning that, like, I would go, like, I wrote a, well, I feel like all mine have some kind of reference that, know i'm you know i was yeah i was doing a lot of stuff yeah you're living a different life whatever you're not

told last week you told us about a broomstick in your eye so yeah well no i just mean like you know this was like i wrote a poem one time it was like there once was a man who lived in the woods everyone came to him because he had the goods. That's great. Like it was those kind of poems. Oh, sure. However that works. So it would be like that line and the next line and then a line and then another line.

Yeah. I like it. That was called The Woodsman and it was a longer poem, but that's the only ones I remember. Now, do you know Walking Through the Woods on a snowy evening do you know that yeah is that robert frost yeah this is this is a very famous poem two paths diverged in the in the woods i know that right this that's the same one that's just the first line of it now they're two different poems whoa yeah you got me mr got me, dude. Mr. Poetry over here. Was that a trap? No, you're just dumber than I thought.

That's the easiest one. And you took the path less traveled. What's that poem called? And it's made all the difference. Two roads diverge in a wood. In the woods. I don't know. I mean, I think most people would say the road less traveled.

Yeah. I thought that's what you were going to say. No, but what's the actual poem called? It's called, that one's called The road not taken the road not taken and most people what is it most people think it's about it's about uh i think it's widely misinterpreted well all right you do know more than i thought i think everyone quotes that poem as like you should just do what everybody else is not doing that That's where the real value is, is in taking the road less traveled. You heard that, right?

Yeah. Taking your own path. I think the actual poem is about a guy reflecting on his past and convincing himself that he took the right path, even though he knows deep down he probably didn't. That's closer. Okay. He actually wrote it for a friend of his who could not make a decision and was kind of making fun of him. Like, you can't decide which road to go down. And now you'll just think about the road you didn't take.

Most people take it as a positive. It was actually a negative. Yeah. About focusing on the road you didn't take. Wow. But it's quoted all the time. That's probably like the one poem most people can name is yeah but i'd like to think of it you know just in my own way you take the road less travel that's made all the

difference because you you get new new and different experiences that the majority of people don't get because they're taking the one that everybody's taking so they're all having the same experiences but if you take the one less traveled, then you gain more experience. This is so interesting. There's such a philosophical difference between the two. Honestly, this goes back to our biblical interpretation. I'm reading exegetically, and you're reading eisegetically. Whoa.

I wish Nate was here for this. What does that mean? You're talking about you don't care about the the poet's intent at all well i guess i do care but i'm like you know with art it's like they write it and put it out right there was a time where you wouldn't have really got right what they intended for you to get you would just read it and interpret it how you interpret it sure and now we're able to find commentaries and maybe it existed but it wasn't a quick google search you know sure so you would just see the poem and read the poem and then be like this is what it means to me and the same way looking at a painting right is like this means this to me but maybe the artist meant it to mean

something else. Interesting. Yeah, I think that's a good way to look at it. And I think they would probably, as long as you enjoy it, I think they'd say, make it what you want it to be. But to be fair, I've not spent a lot of time reading that poem and dissecting it. No, neither have I. I mean, his friend didn't get it, and they would write letters back and forth. And he finally had to tell him, dude, you kept giving him clues.

I'm making fun of you. This is a poem about you where – And then he published it. And it became super famous. It became his most famous poem. But I've spent a lot of time listening to music albums, especially – I made this reference several times, but before the internet, when, before, and not even before the internet, but before music was so endlessly accessible, I would listen, you know, I might, I had Pink Floyd. I just, this one just came into my possession and we would listen to it all the time. And me and my friends would listen and try to break it down and, and, and see what story he's trying to tell.

And I love doing that. I mean, you know, then you can, you know, later you can look up what he really means or whatever in the commentary, but it's like, I love doing that. Yeah. You listen to it backwards. Yeah. I mean, it's like- Try to find all the hidden stuff. Yeah. And then later I learned that a lot of this stuff is pretty dark and I don't want it leaking into my subconscious.

But at the time- Oh, it's in there. Like, it's like, it leads up when I i'm like i'm completely out on now i feel like they're very dark but man i used to stairway to heaven i mean i listened to that song like you wouldn't believe trying to you know dig in there find out what they're talking about have you ever had songs like that that you totally misinterpreted and then but you still like it because you just like your version yeah i'm trying to i'm trying to think of one, but I had just thought about this. You've been singing a song your whole life, and then you don't actually.

You know, like a good example, Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind. Remember that song? Oh, yeah. Yeah, you sing that as a kid. I sang it as a kid. Such a fun song. Yeah. And then you look into the lyrics, and it's.

Then I bumped again. Yeah, it's about drugs. Yeah. What was the song you said at Nate's graduation that's actually about suicide or something? You remember that? Not at Nate's graduation, but Don't Fear the Reaper. Oh, yeah. That was one of our first episodes.

Maybe our first episode mentioned that. But I thought he had a song. But I guess that was the one. Yeah, I can't remember. I think there's another one. Yeah, yeah. But Don't Fear the Reaper, yeah. Early Radiohead albums. I used to really... Kid A. I mean, I think there's another one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Don't Fear the Reaper, yeah. Early Radiohead albums.

I used to really, Kid A. I mean, I really tore up Kid A. Kid A. I never heard of that. There's a guy named M. Ward, and he had an album that I used to, I really loved it. I forget the actual album. Yeah, Radiohead Kid A is like, I mean, that album is,

Radiohead is not that good anymore but that album and Amnesiac is another one yeah that was the next um um the uh M. Ward oh it's called Transfiguration of Vincent uh great album very poetry oriented this guy went on to record an album with with the girl Chloe uh she was an actress she was an elf uh chloe deschanel m ward and her zoe deschanel zoe deschanel yes the two of them recorded an album together later he her she and i are what is it uh i think that's the bam us and i know she and i i think is what it's called. Matt and Kim?

Yeah, I have to check that out, man. I only really know the one Radiohead song, Creep. Oh, yeah. And that's a hot song. It is a hot song. But the guy who got me into Radiohead told me that he's like, I like Creep. He's like, that album, not even worth listening to. But the other five that we got into, man.

I got to tell you, with poetry, you got to get out there. I always have an instinct to think this is stupid, right? And you got to get past that a little bit and just tell yourself. Kind of like improv. Yeah. Kind of, yeah. get past that a little bit and just like tell yourself kind of like improv yeah kind of yeah for sure i remember this poem i think freshman year high school we were shown this poem at school and i lost it and how dumb i thought this was it's called the red wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams. Have you heard of this poem? I have not. I mean, we have time

to read it out loud. If you can't see it, it's about 13 words in this. So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. It's's beautiful i'm into it

i mean i i'm in like well listen i i use a wheelbarrow sometimes and i say wheelbarrow i said barrel for a long time too until i saw it in a in a kid's book the other day and i was like jeez i was saying this wrong my whole life but uh i use a wheelbarrow you know and it and it my life is not depending on farming but if your life is depending on farming and this is the wheelbarrow is the only way you got stuff to get around it's like a lot is dependent on is that if this poem is about like appreciating how cool the wheelbarrow is. Is that a famous poem? That's a very famous one, yeah. Look how long the Wikipedia entry is for this poem. Wow.

Considerably longer than the poem itself, I'll say that. And what is it about it that makes it so special? Well, it's a prime example of early 20th century imagism. So, there you go. 16 words long. The red wheelbarrow is one of william's most that's william carlos williams the author it's most frequently anthologized poems and a prime example of whatever sometimes i think people's over explanations of a poem like that it does ruin the whole creative take that you could have because now you read it and you go oh that's what

it means so now your whole imagination is gone because you read this person's explanation i agree but but be honest your kid brought this poem home was like i wrote this you'd be like this stinks it doesn't even make sense what are you writing right but because some were told that this is a good poem then you can be like oh it is pretty nice i guess i agree with that but there needs to be someone being like no this is good analyze it a little i feel that way about art yeah yeah modern art modern world is not old art old art is like you're like this is it's the right term yeah i guess what I'm saying is I'm not even denying that this is a good or important poem. But I'm saying if you found these words written on a piece of paper in the street, you would throw it away.

You'd be like, this is nonsense. It's a crazy person. Right? Yeah, exactly. Now, what is kind of cool is each stands that kind of looks like a wheelbarrow. Let's see it again. You're looking at it right here on the right. Look at that. You see it?

See the shape of it? I don't know. I like to think it's on purpose. I think it is on purpose. It's gotta be. It's gotta be. Maybe. Maybe. Hey, I'm Jillian. And I'm Patrick. And together we make the podcast

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I know. You're just a cog in the machine. That's right. So I'm sorry, Dusty. I didn't mean to interrupt you. Do you interjects these ads. I know. I know. I know. You're just a cog in the machine. That's right. So I'm sorry, Dusty. I didn't mean to interrupt you. Do you even remember? Yeah, I remember. Is the moment gone?

No, I don't know. It's not gone, but now I feel, but I was trying to find a Charles Bukowski poem that I used to really like. Yeah. And it was basically what he seemed to be describing was his girlfriend uh just complaining at him all day about every little thing and then at the end going uh what's wrong with you is it called girlfriends is that the name of the poem now well it's like the thing about i couldn't find it uh there's so many. I mean, he's always talking about women.

This guy's your hero, right? He's not my hero, but I think he is kind of a, if you get into poetry, he's kind of, I don't know. I don't want to say he's like an entry level guy, but I think he's more popular than a lot. He's accessible. There's nothing wrong with that. But I, yeah, I don't think that, uh,

I understand the instinct to think that that's reductive in some way, but no, it's like easily you can, it's an easy read, but I just, and I think that's it. Right. And it's not all rhyming.

So you just reading this guy's little stories. And I just think that it, I don't know. It always resonated with me. Yeah. I always liked that kind of lifestyle of just kind of like on your own. No responsibilities. Yeah. Contributing nothing.

Right. Yeah. Well, you read some of these guys, Emerson and Thoreau and all these dorks. They just wanted to be a tree. They're like, God, I wish God had made me a tree. And they just go out in the wilderness. I mean, Hannah read a lot of these books. I forget.

And she would always tell me about them. She's like, you should read this guy. You would love this. But they just want to go out into the woods and they want to be with nature. And that's where they get their creativity from. And I think there is something to that. I mean, not to just go to the Bible every time, but it's like Jesus would disappear off into the woods and would go. I mean, it's like all people in the Bible would go out into the woods and meditate in the woods. I think there's a thing about it. The woods gives you creativity, gives you a spark.

Do some grounding. Yeah. Do some grounding. Yeah. Do some grounding. Touch some trees. You ever seen Into the Wild? Read some fresh air. Yeah. Okay.

Great book. Great movie. Yeah. But the whole point of it is he wants to go out in the wilderness because he believes you don't need human beings to achieve happiness, right? Yeah. Happiness. I think the way he words it is happiness is not reached principally through human experiences, right? So he's like, I'll just go out, just be in the Alaskan wilderness, and I'll be happy. And he dies out there. Not to spoil the movie if you haven't seen it, but found in his book, he had scribbled in the margins, happiness only real when shared.

Yeah. Basically, he concluded out there it was all nonsense. You need people to be happy. So I think you got to have a balance of both. Balance is exactly right. Well, the issue is I think these dorks, they went out there and they just, you know, they weren't around people, right? You do, because it's like yeah it's like you started calling dorks i don't know what else to call yeah they're literally giants

if you're just in for lack of a better term if you're just in the city and just hanging out with people all the time only socializing then you're you're not getting uh any time to recharge but if you're only recharging all the time, then what are you even recharging for? People recharge differently, though. Some people recharge in social situations.

Introverts and extroverts. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. But I do think you should get some solitude. And away from your phone. Right, of course. A time to not

just take things in. Process the things that you're taking in be alone with your thoughts i don't think we spend enough time now processing that's why i keep referencing before the internet it's really not the internet it's before the smartphone um when you know like like before the smartphone you would go like i would go to the beach i would get off work and i would go down to the beach by myself and I would just sit there. And I lived two or three blocks from the ocean. I would just walk down there, be in the sun, be grounding.

I didn't even know about grounding and I didn't even really care about being in the sun, but I just knew it felt good. And I would just sit there and think about stuff. Wasn't that like the lowest time of your life though? In some ways. Yeah. But it was also the big, in some ways it was, yeah. But I was also thinking and processing things. Right, right, right.

Being very creative. Yeah. Getting bored, being sad. That was interesting what you said about boredom earlier and just, I bet there are a lot fewer poets today than there were back in these times. You know? Yeah. poets today than there were back in these times you know yeah i can't i see kids now that are 10 and 12 in that age and i can't imagine they're writing poetry you know yeah they're just do you come up with creative ideas in the shower or on a walk or cutting the grass in the car usually when you're you allow your brain a little bit time to yeah where you're just alone with yourself yeah you're not looking at a phone.

You're right. Do you, Dusty? I'm looking at the windshield. The car used to be huge for me. When I would drive to do gigs, especially doing these comedies on gigs, a lot of them would be so bad that I would end up, my A jokes were not working and I would start riffing. And I would riff on stage and then I would get in the car on Sunday driving home thinking about these riffs. And then I would think about new jokes to add on to them. And I wrote a lot of jokes.

The Mobile Homeowners Association, I remember writing, this wasn't a comedy zone. It was in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. There was a club called The Laughing Gas. And I remember going home and that whole mobile homeowners association, I kind of came up with it that weekend. And I thought about a lot more stuff in the car and it was just like, it was great. There were other things I would do, but not for this podcast, but my mind would be stimulated and, uh, um, and I just would think of a lot of stuff. Not all of it was good,

but I would think about a lot of stuff. Um, that other Robert Frost poem that poem that I can't say it, that we referenced, uh, stopping by the woods on a snowy evening. I forgot what the title is. I'll look it up. Um,

after apple picking? Sorry. War thoughts at home? I'll look it up. Anyway, I read somewhere that some people think he was referencing Santa Claus. Interesting. And if you read it, there's some little clues that would make you maybe thinking do i think that's what it was no but uh you had it up there right here yeah uh stopping by woods

should we do a dramatic poetry reading yeah do it i think i'd like you to do it dusty i didn't read through this one time before. Well, whose woods these are, I think I know. His house is in the village, though. He will not see me stopping there to watch his woods fill up with snow. And so on and so forth. My little horse must. How about I highlight the part. The parts that they think reference it

His horse thinks it's odd That they're stopping by a farmhouse Without a farmhouse near Does he think it's odd? He thinks it's queer There you go To stop without a farmhouse near As they like to say

Santa, why are you stopping here? He gives his harness bells a shake That could be, you know, whatever And then at the end uh the woods are lovely but i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep as if to say he's got a busy night he can't be stopped look at it wow well i'll never be able to read this another way you're reading it a lot? Every night. Yeah. Every snowy evening. I sit down and I read. I'm a big poetry head. I read a lot of poetry.

Are you serious? I hate prose. Yeah. Do you know, listen to the song by Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue? Sure. That's a great one. Is that about the Easter Bunny? Yeah.

But, you know, real poetry kind of song. And Hootie and the Blowfish has the song, I Only Want to Be With You. Yeah. But, you know, real poetry kind of song. And Hootie and the Blowfish has the song, I Only Want to Be With You. And they take like basically a whole verse from Tangled Up in Blue and put it right in that song. Yeah, they even say Tangled Up in Blue, don't they? Yeah. But they just take straight up like a whole verse. I don't mind it. I think it's great. But aren't they almost just referencing Bob Dylan? I think they are referencing it, but they still use a whole verse. I don't mind it. I think it's great. But aren't they almost just referencing Bob Dylan? I think they are referencing it, but they still use a whole verse.

Yeah, it's a good song. Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize winner. So you mentioned a couple weeks ago, Buckets of Rain, also a good one. I mean, we could go all day. We could go all day with the hits, but there's some secrets in there. I don't know the hits.

I'm talking about some B-sides, as they say. Yeah. Meet me in the morning. That's what I'm talking about. I think that's what's going on. Mr. Tambourine Man. Shakespeare wrote a sonnet. It's a good one, though.

Called, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Day? You referenced it a couple weeks ago. Yeah, that's a hot one. I'm not into Shakespeare. Have you heard of this poem? Yeah. called Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Day? You referenced it a couple of times. Yeah, that's a hot one. I just always assume. Have you heard of this poem? Yeah. I always assumed it was about a man talking about a woman. Did you?

No one would I know now about Shakespeare. I don't know. It was a man talking about a man. Yeah. It's a good-looking dude, and I'm impressed by, you know, his physical nature. Now that makes me read that totally different. Of course. Not that I'm going around quoting this poem a lot.

Yeah. Don't be self-conscious about how you say poem. Well, it's kind of a little bit hard. Yeah, I'm sorry I did it. I'm sorry I did that. It was very funny. It was funny in the moment. Now it's gone.

Yeah. All right. So we're not even thinking about it anymore. We're not. we're not even thinking about the way you say it anymore is what i'm saying and i'm sorry if i made you self-conscious about it uh and i really value our friendship well that's gone um limericks have you heard of a limerick? Oh yeah, we referenced it earlier. It's got the traditional AABBA. AABBA. It's a hot structure. You know what that is? A lot of country songs are like that too.

Charlie Daniels has a song called Trudy. Call up Trudy on the telephone. Such a great song. Is that a limerick? I think they do AABBA. Interesting. I think so. Yeah.

But I could be wrong about that, too. Not the chorus. Call up Trudy on the telephone. Send her a letter. That song's got some interesting... Just got to town last Friday. Because there's one time where he fires up a motorcycle or something. He goes...

Or a car. He goes, boogie boogie. Oh, yeah. He just throws in some... Heard the buzz whining in the siren's wheel. Boogie boogie? Boogie. Oh, yeah. He just throws in some. Heard the buzz whine and then the sirens wail. Boogie, boogie. Boogie, boogie. Yeah.

I think that's what he did. Boogie, boogie. Yeah, something like that. It's just funny. He just kind of throws in. Yeah. That's a great song. Charlie Daniels was unbelievable.

Rest in peace. All right, I'll do a couple more. Ode. Ode. Ever heard of Ode? Ode to Joy? That's a song. Ode to Joy.

That's a hot song. Ode to Billy Joe. Okay. It's written to praise a person. You know that one? Ode to Joy? That's a song. Ode to Joy. That's a hot song. Ode to Billy Joe. Okay. It's written to praise a person. You know that one? Ode to Billy Joe? Do you know Ode to Joy? Oh, no. I don't know that one. It was a poem that Beethoven set to music.

Oh, okay. His Ninth and Last Symphony. You would know it if you heard it. You would recognize it. I do like classical music a lot. It's probably the most famous do like Baytown. I like classical music a lot. It's probably the most famous classical piece of music. I don't know a lot of the names, but I do love classical music. Yeah. Ballad.

What about The Raven? Oh, yeah. Edgar Allan Poe. Yeah. Yeah, I used to go down to Sullivan's Island. They had a bar called Poe's down there. Back when I was still eating shellfish, they had a hamburger with a crab cake on it. And it was unbelievable.

I'm trying to play Oats of Joy for you real quick. Okay. I was going to say, Dusty, if you want to tell us about AG1. Oh, yeah. Oh. Oh, you're actually playing this Just like I remember it You don't know that one? Nah

Wow Wow You know it? Yeah, I mean, I knew it before you played it Maybe if you heard it Maybe if you heard it Hey, I mean, I knew it before he played it. Maybe if you heard it... Maybe if you heard it... Hey, I'm Jillian. And I'm Patrick.

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We're True Crime Obsessed Podcast. Search for us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. That means to you. Now, let me ask you this. What about snapping? Because that's the trope, right? Is a guy reads a poem and the crowd snaps. What is that all about?

I did not know that. I don't know why you can't just clap. I've never been to a poetry reading. But you've never seen it depicted in a sitcom or something? No, I've been snapping. In Charleston, I would- You don't even know what I'm talking about? I mean, I can,

that's instead of clapping, they snap. A guy with a bongo and then everybody snaps. You never seen that? I don't think I have. You ever go to a poetry open mic to do comedy?

No, I never. I've done that a few times. Yeah. Did you do a little poetry while you were up there? No, but I have a way of doing comedy that the poetry readers appreciate.

And they were like, thanks for not coming in here and yelling and roasting the room. Yeah. You went to slam poetry. I had to follow a slam poet at a show at a barbershop in Milan, Tennessee. And he brought some real energy to it. He was, you know. What was your first words right when you took the stage? I said, keep it going for the poem guy.

And I said, I'd like to do a little. I said, I'd like to do a little poetry now. Quit. Brian, something. Keep it going for the point that you just heard you know uh russell simmons used to have deaf comedy jam i remember that and then he well yeah everybody remembers that but then he switched to that's not the exciting part he switched to remember what you're gonna deaf poetry slam probably didn't say it like that but yeah get a little deaf poetry.

I should host it. The Raven, as I mentioned before. The Raven. Never more, never more. Also one of my favorite wrestlers for a little while. You remember the Raven? Also one of my favorite football teams. I was going to say the Baltimore Ravens.

That's what that name is. He's a Baltimore guy, right? Edgar Allen Poe. Yeah, I think he lived there. He's buried there. Yeah, he died on the side of the street, married to his cousin. Wow.

Drunk. That's why he died? Urinated on himself. That's how he died. One of our greatest poets. That's how he died. So anyone out there thinking about getting into poetry, that's how it ends.

That is a Charles Bouchard. That was meant to poetry that's how it ends that is a charles that was that did not that was meant to be no that is i got no laughs well no is that true if there's if nobody at the table laughs it comes across much differently than i like yeah i think that is how he died but i don't want to discourage our younger listeners from getting into poetry you know sorry if i did that that was a a thing i did find uh like charles bukowski like advice to young men and it was like uh it was all about not getting into poetry and i don't know that sounds like some good advice well he was like his list of advice was like dude it was like things you would never do but he kept listing off those

any and then he's like basically like anything but poetry do you know oh captain my captain all right guys uh don't try to yeah i know it from dead poet society which we watched together yeah yeah that's one of my favorite movies i can't i just found out i've been pronouncing it wrong the whole time but but I love that movie. Wait, now what poem is that from? Is that from Walt Whitman? Walt Whitman. He wrote it about Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated.

Oh, wow. You know Walt Whitman? Barbaric Yop. I know the name. I don't know anything about him. He did some good stuff. Did you ever see Dead Poets Society? I don't think so.

God, it's a hot movie. He'd like it. Who's that? Sean Connery? That's Finding Forrester, but you might be thinking about it. A young Ethan Hawke. Okay. Isn't it?

Robin Williams. Robin Williams. I would be into that. Finding Forrester, I've talked about here before. One of my favorites. Such a great movie. I think I would be into Dead Poets Society. Yeah, you would.

I like boarding school movies. Yeah. School Ties. I don't know why that is. You gave me that movie. Yeah, School Ties is great. It's a good one. Well, you went to a boarding school.

I didn't. Basically. College. What's another? There's a bunch of them, I feel like. Yeah. School Ties is a good one. Yeah.

Okay. There is more of that. Son of a Woman. Oh, yeah. There is more of that. Scent of a Woman. Oh, yeah. There you go. That's a boarding school movie. They all came out about the same time.

This movie, The Holdovers, that just came out, which won a bunch of Oscars. I recommend that. That movie is great. I heard it's great. Do you know Acrostic?

You ever heard that? It's when the lines... Are you trying to say acoustic? Probably. It's when the lines are arranged. It's when a lines Are you trying to say acoustic? Probably. It's when the lines are arranged It's when a guitar is not plugged in.

It's when the lines are arranged so the first letter of each line helps to spell out a word. Oh, that's fun. I like that. Brian, Aaron,

Nate, Dusty, band. Yeah, wow. Yeah, we're learning some stuff here. But it would need to be a whole line, right?

Yeah, that's not because it's just that's just what like an acronym or something. I guess that's true. But it would need to be a whole line. Yeah, that's not. Because that's just what, like an acronym or something. I guess that's true. So it would need to be like, you know, Brian went to the store. Aaron, you know, was like, get me some cheese. Nate said, what are you doing, dude? And Dusty said, more cheese, please. That's better than the red wheelbarrow.

Cheese and cheese rhymes in our thing here. It does. That was freestyle. If you give it some, you know. If I just let you do your thing. Yeah. You'll find the rhyme eventually. Yeah.

Do you know any modern day poets? No, I guess not. I wonder if I could. Poets? No, I guess not. Chance the Rapper did a poem on his NPR tiny desk. So I guess he's a poet. But I can't name one who's really kicking. Maya Angelou, is she still around?

I think she died, but she's the only one I can name in recent years. Shel Silverstein. Remember him? I know the name. He name in recent years. Shel Silverstein. Remember him? I know the name. He recently died too. With a sidewalk. Oh, I wanted to talk about Shel Silverstein because Shel Silverstein had these poetry books

where the sidewalk ends, Lighthouse in the Attic, but he also wrote a ton of country songs, like so many country songs. He wrote Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash. He wrote a lot. Shel Silverstein? Yeah, he wrote a lot. The Giving Tree guy?

Yeah, I don't know if he's the Giving Tree guy, but he wrote a lot of songs. Oh, it's a junior. Dang, what is the guy's name? Hank Williams. No. Bobby Bear Jr. He wrote a lot of songs by him.

He wrote so many. He wrote Put Another Log on the Fire. Bobby Bear Jr., when I was in college, would come play at little dive places. The Taker. Really? Chris Christopherson. Rosalie's Good Eats Cafe, that's a good one. The cover of A Rolling Stone, Sylvia's Mother.

I got a YouTube video where I did Dusty Slay's top five country songs written by Shel Silverstein. Now, after doing that, a lot of people commented and I learned a lot more. It's an old video. I learned a lot more songs that are written by Shel Silverstein, but it's like, it's pretty amazing the amount of really great country songs Shel Silverstein wrote. I had absolutely no idea. It is so wild. I'm glad you brought that up because I'm like, Bobby Bear Jr. has so many written by him. Bobby Bear Jr., very underrated. I mean, growing up, no one ever talked about him.

Now I'm starting to think I'm questioning. My buddy was in a fraternity at MTSU, and he came and played at the fraternity house. This was in the early 90s, but I think it was Bobby Bear Jr. Because I just thought his dad was big. I didn't know he had a lot of success. Now, yeah, I mean, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is Bobby Bear that i'm talking about in junior but i thought well that mentioned bobby bear jr under shell silver silverstein but but

bobby bear sings lullabies legends and lies that album is really great and i think quite a few of these songs is written by uh shell silverstein he's an interesting looking fellow um uh oh yeah 500 miles away from home great song do you know what a uh what dusty do you have like a favorite margie's at the lincoln park inn dang that's a good song i don't know it i was just gonna say you have like a favorite song or songwriter that you think is like poetry? Well, there's so many, and I don't know as many songwriters as I should, but Chris Christopherson is really great. Some of his songs are just, I don't know so they're all like poetry to me these old country uh writers yeah it's all like poetry sunday morning coming down by chris the chris christopherson version to me

is he wrote it it's better than the johnny cash version because chris christopherson sounds really run down and it's it sounds a little more raggedy and it's like that's what you want with that song wow do you know the song yeah yeah so good from the bottle to the bottom from the bot yeah from the bottle to the bottom by chris kershofferson so great i mean it's just like just a man taught he's like he's you he's like it's basically you ask me if i'm happy now that's good as any joke i've heard since it seems since i seen you last i done forgot the meaning of the word it's so good um you know that's great there's a songwriter laurie mckenna have you heard of her

she wrote a lot of big country song humble and kind by tim mcgraw she wrote that song which is a big song for us you're getting a buck but she has a song called people get old it's one of my favorite songs dude and that last it's just about about me it's about the passage of time through her dad she's like reflecting on her dad and she's saying like now i have all these memories and now i'm as old as you were in these memories now and then the last chorus she says houses need paint winters bring snow nothing says love like a band of gold babies grow up houses get sold that's how it goes time is a thief pain is a gift the past is the past it is what it is every line on your face tells a story somebody knows the people you love get old and

you're like dang i got chills saying that just now dude listen to that on the way home you know the uh john anderson song years that we talked about last last week or a couple weeks ago uh if you watch the video i feel like it's more impactful because he's talking about years and just how they go by. And it's like, but you see, you know, basically all these pictures going by of all the people he's worked with over the years. And it's just, it's such, it's such a powerful thing because it's like, you know, you see like this old man, but it's like, look, you know, at the career he's had. And it's like, in the way it's framed, though, it's like he's in pictures with people more famous with him. So he's paying homage.

He's not being like, look how big I am. He's like, look how fortunate I've been to be able to work with all these people. That's how I see it. But it's just similar to that. You got me into that. I've been listening to that song a lot. Don Williams is really great. Don Williams has a song called Good Old Boys Like Me,

and that song really paints a picture to me of my own childhood, even right up to the very – there's some details where he's talking about his dad reading the Bible to him while drunk. My dad was not an alcoholic, and my dad also doesn't read the Bible to him while drunk. My dad was not an alcoholic and my dad also doesn't read the Bible to me. But I can still see that sort of thing. But even right up to the end, like him leaving his hometown to go on and do other things, it's a powerful song. Yeah, Don Way. I was trying

to think, what's my favorite? I Believe in You. I Believe in You is great. Lord, I Hope This Day is Good. Yeah. I'm Feeling Empty and Misunderstood. I Should Be Thankful. Lord, I Know I Should. But Lord, I Hope This Day is Good. You should put a Spotify playlist together of all these songs you're talking about. Well, I do have a Spotify playlist called Dusty Slice Country Songs.

It's out there. Very good. I mean, it's so long. I should start a new playlist because it's too long now. Dusty Slay's country radio is what it's called, but it's, you know, 15 hours, 16 hours almost. Yeah. A little too long. Okay.

But it's, I mean, I got a lot of like new and old in there. It's some popular that you would recognize a lot of stuff you wouldn't recognize. It's very good. Probably a good place to wrap it up. Thanks for, uh, thanks for sticking with us.

If they did, probably not. I would think that. I thought, yeah, I thought, uh, Dusty,

you want to tell us where you're going to be? Yeah, this weekend, matter of fact, I'm off. And it feels good. I have been going at it. And it feels good to be off. But next week, if the world doesn't end after the eclipse, I'll be in Charleston, West Virginia on April 12th at a theater. And then on April-

You'll fly into the Chuck Yeager airport. Oh, yeah. Your big Chuck Yeager guy. Oh, yeah. One of our greatest heroes. Yeah, can't wait to meet him. You know what I mean? And then on April 13th, I'll be outside of Pittsburgh.

I guess it's Munhall, Pennsylvania. But right outside of Pittsburgh doing a theater show there Munhall, Pennsylvania. But right outside of Pittsburgh doing a theater show there. It's going to be great. I'm doing, I mean, I got, my schedule is lined up.

A lot of theaters coming up and I'm pumped about it. That's awesome. So it's going to be great. Come on out. We're having a good time. How about it?

I'm also a theater act now. We'll get to your little comedy shows later. That's crazy. Your little kill boxes. This Saturday, I am in Miamisburg, Ohio. That's just outside Dayton at the Plaza Theater. Ron Voorhees is on the show. Jesse Rothacker.

If you're a fan of the podcast, you can be on the show. Come on out. I'll put you on there. And it's going to be great. That's the Plaza Theater in Miamisburg. Then April 20th, I'm in Moberly, Missouri at the 4th Street Theater. Your friend Will O'Donnell. Oh, yeah.

Will's great. Yes. So I'm pumped about that show. Yeah. So I haven't met Will, but I'm looking forward to it. And then April 27th, I'm going to Connecticut for the first time in Fairfield, Connecticut at Fairfield Comedy Circle, April 27th. Boom. It's a fun month.

Yeah. I'll tell you my April. April 11th through the 13th grand rapids michigan dr grin dr grins for the first time in april and then uh at the end of the month april 25th to the 28th i'm in atlanta atl at the punchline comedy clubs grand rapids michigan atlanta georgia come see aaron this is aaron talking by the way. Are the Braves at home? The Braves are at home that weekend. I'm going Sunday. All right. Who do they play?

I don't know. Okay. Look forward to hearing about it. Yeah, for sure. All right. We love you all. Thank you to our sponsors. Delete Me, Butcher Box, Rocket Money, and AG1. There it is. Poetry. Poetry.

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