The Nateland Podcast - 197: #197 Nebraska

Episode Date: April 24, 2024

Nate is still on the road so this week Brian, Dusty, and Aaron hold down the fort while he's gone.  Aaron visits the Omaha Zoo, Brian shares some facts about Earth Day, and Dusty shares a photo of hi...m and his mom celebrating an Auburn victory. Then the guys delve into a discussion about Nebraska and learn all about the history, movies, sports, and celebrities from the Cornhusker state. Aura Frames- AuraFrames.com Right now, Aura has a great deal for Mother’s Day. Listeners can save on the perfect gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $30-off plus free shipping on their best selling frame. Use code NATE at checkout to save. Terms and conditions apply. Draft Kings- Draftkings.com Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use code NATELAND. New customers can bet 5 bucks and get $200 in bonus bets instantly. The crown is yours! Butcher Box- butcherbox.com/nate Today ButcherBox is giving our listeners a special offer! Use my link Butcherbox.com/nate and use code NATE to get $20 off your first order. Delete Me- JoinDeleteMe.com/NATE Today get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/NATE and use promo code NATE at checkout.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Today's episode of the Nate Land podcast is brought to you by Aura Frames, DraftKings, ButcherBox, and Delete Me. All right. Hello, folks. And hey, bear. My name is Dusty Slay, and I'm the host of this podcast. All right. And I'm here with my good buddies, Brian Bates. All right. And Aaron Weber.
Starting point is 00:00:44 Good to be here, man. We should say Nate was planning on being here this week, but the kid is just selling too many tickets. He added a show in Austin, so he's doing a show tonight. That was not the plan originally, but pretty crazy. Monday night. Pretty crazy to be adding a Monday night show at an arena. Yeah. He's doing all right.
Starting point is 00:01:04 But he'll be back. He'll be back soon. We didn't kick him out of here. We didn't squat in his house and take it over. No. Although, as squatters, we do have some rights now. I'm going to start getting my phone bill sent here. That's right.
Starting point is 00:01:18 So that I will have it in my name. There you go. That's all you need. Yep. So I have some proof of what's going on around here. Yeah. But I feel great. We miss Nate, but
Starting point is 00:01:31 I feel great. I think he'll be back next week. I said that last week, but he added this show. So unless he had some more shows, he should be back next week. Yeah. I want to hear about his special. I've yet to even talk to him about it. Oh yeah, I haven't seen him since then. The Dusty Land podcast has taken off, and I'm running this show, and it feels good. Well, I listen to We're Having a Good Time podcast.
Starting point is 00:01:54 My other podcast, the We're Having a Good Time podcast. I get a little mad and a little jealous on some of this stuff because you guys have two kids, but somehow y'all manage to do so many. Usually, you're out at the cabin doing all this work. I'm like, man, how do they have time to do all this? And then this week they're like, we've watched so many movies lately. Well, we put the kids to bed
Starting point is 00:02:14 and then we have a little time. I mean, I feel like with us, by the time we get one to bed, and then Ruth does all this stuff around the house or whatever, it's like time to go to bed. Yeah, you're ready to go to bed by 630 anyway, right? Yeah, I'd like to. These long days are killing me.
Starting point is 00:02:29 Yeah. Yeah, we put the kids to bed. And then some nights we watch a movie. Some nights we just veg out with some fun YouTube videos. I watch a YouTube channel called Zeducation. Tyler Zed does that. And he gave my special, my Netflix special, a shout out on his channel. Wow.
Starting point is 00:02:47 He wrote a book called A Trailer Park Parable. And this show is mostly light stuff. But the book, Hannah read it. I don't read books. But Hannah read it, and it was very serious. But she really liked it. So we vegged out to several episodes of that. He mainly just shows memes and then makes jokes about them.
Starting point is 00:03:06 That's fun. And I'm into it. Yeah. I love a meme. Even if it's about trailer parks? Well, when I first saw his, because we had communicated a little bit. So when I first saw his book, I was like, this dude's ripping me off. And then.
Starting point is 00:03:22 We're doing okay. Yeah. we're doing okay yeah yeah but the book was uh you know a pretty like serious book nothing to do with you know it's you know smoking cigarettes in the back seat with the windows up or whatever right right i mean that sort of thing have you ever met trailer park tammy is that her name i did meet trailer park tammy you know uh trailer trash oh trailer trash i have a hard time calling her Have you ever met Trailer Park Tammy? Is that her name? I did meet Trailer Park Tammy. You know. Trailer Trash Tammy. Oh, Trailer Trash Tammy. I have a hard time calling her that. Chelsea Lynn.
Starting point is 00:03:48 Her name's Chelsea. Well, yeah. We did the hot ones, whatever it's called, Nashville Hot that we've done. She did one with me last week. Did you really? Yeah. Oh, I bet that one's great. So the new episode.
Starting point is 00:04:01 And I got to tell you, I'm getting better at eating the hot stuff. We went hottest of the hot at this place called Lily's in the farmer's market. And I think they were like watching us when we ate the hottest of the hot. And I think they thought we were about to lose our minds. And I was like, this is good. Did you handle it better than her? A little bit. She drank her whole glass of milk.
Starting point is 00:04:26 I'll say that. I didn't touch the milk. Wow. But I don't know. I almost felt bad for them. The food was very good. Lily's in the farmer's market downtown. Really good.
Starting point is 00:04:39 The chicken is great. But I was like, the hottest of the hot, I was like, I'm okay. I kept eating it. You're building up a tolerance now. I mean, I'm sure if any hot chicken place is listening, they're like, oh, we'll get it. Yeah, we'll destroy it next time you come here. Yeah. But I'm just saying I liked it.
Starting point is 00:04:55 But I don't know. I felt all right. So I'm still the worst so far of the three episodes. No question. I thought I, I mean, I really struggled. Yeah, but I think Partyfowl, the hottest of the hot at Partyfowl, is not meant to be eaten. I feel like it's just a gimmick. Yeah, not for human consumption.
Starting point is 00:05:17 Yeah, like at Lily's, it's like it was very hot, but it had a good flavor. Hattie B's too. Partyfowl was delicious, but that hottest of the hot was like, that ain't. That's just a joke. That's meant for you to, like, ruin your vacation. Well, they did declare bankruptcy not long after we recorded that. Yeah. Maybe that's why.
Starting point is 00:05:39 Yeah. Maybe so. And they're my neighbors, those people. Their kids play in my cul-de-sac. Oh, I'm sorry. And that's fine. And I saw they don't communicate with me, but I saw the oldest daughter. I'm friends with all the kids out there.
Starting point is 00:05:50 And I told her about it and I said, show this to your parents. And I thought they would become my friends or whatever, but they didn't. It's just you going, this chicken's not made for humans to eat it's just trash but i think we did say good things all the way up it's just the hottest of the hot we were like that ain't it's too much yeah but i did hang out with uh chelsea lynn and it's great we have a lot of you know i think her childhood was like rougher than mine but we have a lot of like similarities and i think that's fun i really liked her i watched dusty and her do stand up on the spot at zany's as part of the nashville comedy festival which
Starting point is 00:06:32 is a show where you just walk out there and the audience yells at you what they want you to talk about and i'd never seen dusty in that kind of environment i've seen you do some shows where people were yelling stuff out oh yeah when they weren't supposed to be but this is this is what the show is and you were it was very funny watching you handle that man how do you do he did great i thought you had the set of the night honestly yeah i mean it's like you just gotta like my you know i used to do improv i know that everybody think that's funny to think about me doing improv but it's like that's what you do in improv you take suggestions from the audience and then you just kind of go, all right, what does that make me think of?
Starting point is 00:07:09 And then you just tell a story. And it's like, I just feel like, you know, if we're comics, like we're all funny people. So if you get a story and you just start telling it, eventually something funny is going to come out. You're going to find a laugh. Yeah. Especially when they know you're making it up. So they yelled out dirty diapers and I was like, oh, I got two kids. This is perfect. Did you hear the story? So the owner, Zaney, showed up late while you were on
Starting point is 00:07:36 stage, had no idea what the show was. He walked in, the crowd is yelling stuff at you he went kind of berserk he was like what is going on he went and found the staff he's like why are y'all letting them like dusty's on stage like and then they had to be like no this is the show this is the show and i was like i love that that's your instinct though i do too just to freak out and i love that he was like i know people are not normally yelling at dusty well i was gonna say the only part I don't like about that is Dusty's on stage. Like, if it was me, you're like, just let it ride. No, well, that's just who he walked in on. And he was like, well, I'm familiar with Dusty's act.
Starting point is 00:08:13 This is not how it usually goes down. I agree with Brian, though. Brian were on stage. He'd be like, ah. He'd be like, ah. He's probably hanging him on somehow. He probably deserves it. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:08:22 Just get him off. Brian needs a few prompts every now and then. But I do think he was looking out for me. And I'm like, I'm on. Yes probably deserves it. Yeah, exactly. Just get him off. Brian needs a few prompts every now and then. But I do think he was looking out for me, and I'm like, I'm on. Yes, he was. I was like, alright, that's what I'm talking about. He was ready to fire the staff. Kick people out of the club. He was. Good times. Yeah. Where were you guys this weekend?
Starting point is 00:08:40 Well, where were you this weekend? I was in Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville. First, I did my show at Zany's on Wednesday. Really great. Such a hot show. It was on it. The Lab is coming. I don't know if it's open yet, but the second.
Starting point is 00:08:54 Yeah, if you're in Nashville, Zany's Comedy Club, which is a big, almost 300-seat room, they're opening another room right next door. This is about a 100-seat room called The Lab, and that's going to be a lot of fun. Going to have some kind of weird experimental shows, some smaller shows, people that couldn't sell out the big room like me. I'm doing a weekend in The Lab in September, so it's very exciting to have that around. I'm trying to get on there. You trying to get on that show? No, just trying to get booked at The Lab.
Starting point is 00:09:23 You'll get booked. They're like, if we make a smaller room, maybe. Yeah, they're like, we're thinking about doing a 25-seater. The lab's going to open up a lab. The lab of the lab is 80s. We'll consider you. But I did that show. Who was on it?
Starting point is 00:09:38 Who was on it? Patrick Keene. Right. Oh, Aaron Webber. I was waiting how long it took. I was on the show, yeah. And Brian Covington, B-Cub. B-Cub, yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:49 Out of Nashville. Where's he at? Oh, okay. And it was fun. His wife showed up. Toya. Yeah, and my wife got to come. And so they had a few drinks, and they were dressed alike.
Starting point is 00:10:01 They had tank tops and hats on, and it was fun. You know, Hannah's been at the house. She don don't drink very much so it's fun to see hannah like let loose yeah yeah and her husband sold out show yeah it's fun and then i i was in louisville at uh i don't know at a theater i don't care of him yeah yeah the kentucky center for the performing arts or something like that okay great show alex beluto uh a nateland alum was on the show yeah he did great and then i did cleveland at the agora theater wow which is a which is a bit wild of a show but really fun and i know i always talk about how much time I do on stage, but this show, I did 90 minutes. I did an hour and a half. Yeah. Alex did five. I'm trying to think if I could physically stand for 90 minutes, let alone talk the whole time. It was 420 and a lady yelled out
Starting point is 00:10:59 about some material related to that holiday that I have and asked me to do. And I don't really even remember those jokes right now. I'm not done them in a while. So I just, it made me think of some other stuff and I was like, all right. So I talked about that and I think that took about 10 minutes and then I had, you know, my hour 20 that I've been doing. So I was like, so I did an hour and a half and it was awesome. Wow.
Starting point is 00:11:21 Yeah. That's great. Big time, man. Yeah. It's fun. And it's other than one joke that I did on that show, it was all wow yeah that's great big time yeah it's fun and it's other than one joke that i did on that show it was all new stuff so i'm pumped yeah that's impressive yeah all new stuff just for that crowd from the special all right yeah that's awesome yeah thank you um i was for friday night i was in bowling green k Kentucky, opening for Henry Cho, a theater there.
Starting point is 00:11:48 That was great. Oh, yeah. What is that theater? I forgot the name of it. It's a big place. This one might be, are you talking about the Sky Pack? Yeah. I don't think, no, it wasn't that.
Starting point is 00:12:02 This wasn't that. It was right next door to the minor league. They have a minor league baseball team there. Bowling Green does? Yeah. I don't think. No, it wasn't that. This wasn't that. It was right next door to the minor league. They have a minor league baseball team there. Bowling Green does? Yeah. All right. They're high A. I looked them up.
Starting point is 00:12:10 Okay. Just barely. Just barely got a team. Yeah. Yeah. But the Rays. I was thinking high A was their mascot. I didn't know.
Starting point is 00:12:20 Bowling Green high A's. Yeah. It's 420. Yeah. But they shut off fireworks while Henry was on stage. Really? So he had a little bit of a Nate experience with the fireworks. But anyway, that was a great show.
Starting point is 00:12:32 Some folks came out. And then Saturday, I was in Moberly, Missouri at the Fourth Street Theater. A lot of folks came out. It was really fun. Worked with your buddy, Will. Yeah. My buddy now. You got to stop just calling him your buddy.
Starting point is 00:12:46 So it was a great time. All right. Moberly. Yeah. Not that anybody cares, but it's between St. Louis and Kansas City. Okay. Kind of near Columbia, Missouri. Well, the people that live in Moberly care.
Starting point is 00:12:59 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they probably care. Yeah. I was in Omaha, Nebraska. All right. The Omaha Funny Bone.
Starting point is 00:13:09 Great club. What a great club. One of the best clubs in the country, I think, at least that I've done. It's kind of perfect. The room's great. The staff is great. They get it. The crowds are good.
Starting point is 00:13:19 They police the room. It's like, what more could you ask for? The crowds are great. I did probably 2021, I did a bunch of COVID jokes there. And I put them on YouTube. And it was great. Because the crowd was into it. Yeah, they get what you're doing.
Starting point is 00:13:35 Yeah. Omaha people, man. But I did everything people suggested I do. I did. I went to the Omaha Zoo, which is consistently rated the number one zoo in the country they say i had no idea walked around that for a while saw some gorillas saw some gorillas come right up to everyone's around this glass right right and this gorilla walked right up took some feces smeared it all over the glass in front of all these people it's a lot of fun
Starting point is 00:14:04 yeah he's just reminding them like you're in my territory and i'm trapped i'm in jail and it's very sad on a certain level wasn't that the zoo where a gorilla like ran up and crashed into the glass and shattered the glass oh i don't know i think there's video if so they've repaired that glass pretty well because nobody ever felt in danger yeah this is years ago but i feel like there was a viral video of a he just got mad and charged the glass and rammed it and shattered it it didn't escape but it shattered the glass enough to scare you you're always kind of hoping for that to happen yeah you know i'm sure the person filming it was like this is awesome right uh went to the zoo went to this place place. Everyone recommended this place. It's called the Alpine Inn in Omaha. And it's a fried chicken place.
Starting point is 00:14:49 But you show up. And what makes it unique is they seat you in front of this big glass window. And they have all these raccoons right outside the glass. And they just sit the leftovers out right outside. And they just come up. And you just watch them tear apart these leftovers. The fattest raccoons you've ever seen in your life, dude. They're living on Easy Street, man. They just post up right outside this chicken restaurant.
Starting point is 00:15:15 They're eating onion rings and fried chicken. Yeah, they're going to have heart disease like the rest of America. Oh, yeah, exactly. They're the most American raccoons of all time. There's stray cats out there that are super fat. I mean, imagine being a wild animal and you stumble across this restaurant. Get those raccoons some seed oil. But that's part of the restaurant's...
Starting point is 00:15:35 That's the appeal of it. There's raccoons everywhere. Feeding wild animals. And families will come. You can imagine that's great for a kid. A kid gets to sit there and you get to watch these animals eat this food. It's fun. So you walk into your car and they attack you? No, they're kind of kept
Starting point is 00:15:50 out back. Okay. So you didn't see any until you were in the restaurant and looking out. So it was kind of fun. They got their own little zoo. Raccoons are taking Prilosec. They're throwing it out there. Throwing a Zipikippic yeah it was awesome the people of omaha are so great this guy i wish i remembered his name but he brought buffett go ahead i'm sorry uh no it was a fan that came to the show and brought uh a box of crispy cream donuts for me and they gave it to came to the show and brought a box of Krispy Kreme donuts for me.
Starting point is 00:16:25 And they gave it to somebody in the staff. And so the staff brings it back to the green room. And you're like, what am I, a raccoon? No. I got excited. The staff brought it in. And I was like, oh, dude, somebody brought me donuts. Let's go.
Starting point is 00:16:38 We're all so excited. And we opened it up. And inside the box are a bunch of diapers. It was a no, no, no. It was a nice gift. No, it wasn't. You were mad. It was a nice gift, a thoughtful gift for an expectant father.
Starting point is 00:16:55 There's a note written inside the box. I saw them after the show and I go, that's very kind and thoughtful and meaningful, but we were all so upset that there weren't donuts in that box. It set you up. Yeah. When you see a Krispy Kreme box come back to the green room, you get a little excited. Just a religious pamphlet in there.
Starting point is 00:17:12 Disappointed? No, it was nice, though. Of course, it's nice that somebody's even thinking about you to give you those diapers. Yeah, I had people bring me baby gifts for you this weekend. That's right. And I just see a gift. I'm like, all right, here we go. And then it's from Baby Webber.
Starting point is 00:17:30 I'm like, come on. Yeah. I'm not doing this for nine months. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. But great crowds. Thank you to everybody that came. Sold out a show, which is pretty fun.
Starting point is 00:17:40 It's pretty fun to do. That's a big room. Yeah, it was great. So can't wait to come back. Zach Townsend was with me. All right. Zach Townsend and then a couple local people. I wish I could remember.
Starting point is 00:17:50 Ethan was his name. He was very funny. Ethan is funny. Just like you go away on a club weekend, you kind of hope, at least for me, deep down I'm hoping something goes bad so I have something interesting to talk about. But it was just kind of a perfect weekend at a club. Everybody there is so great. Talk about a humble brag.
Starting point is 00:18:07 It's all seamless. No, I'm not saying my sets were perfect. I'm saying the club is so great. Well, you got to see a gorilla smear feces, though. That's right. That's pretty cool. That is fun. His own little protest.
Starting point is 00:18:17 I have video of the aftermath I might post at some point. Yeah, I'd like to let that gorilla out. Well, he's got a friend in there. They hang out. Just let him out in Omaha? Yeah. Yeah, I'd like to let that gorilla out. Well, he's got a friend in there. They hang out, you know. Just let him out in Omaha? Yeah. But you got to think that this is the number one zoo in America.
Starting point is 00:18:34 It's getting treated better there than it would at almost any other zoo, right? You would think so, yeah. Like this is best case scenario. Yeah, yeah. If he's got to be in a zoo, let it be that way. That's the one you want it in. Yeah. And if you don't want people looking at you, that's a good way to just block it block it out smear some feces on the glass and it's a way to do it yeah well that's it for me should we get he's like are you not entertained
Starting point is 00:18:55 okay i've got oh we all got comments okay great so i read last week so you did yeah i think it's your turn, Aaron. All right. I'm sorry. I said it on the podcast a couple weeks ago. I said people are probably sick of my voice, and somebody commented, we're not sick of your voice. We're sick of your attitude.
Starting point is 00:19:15 I'll try to dial it back a little bit today, but I will be reading through these. Is that Brian's burner account? The Dump Dusty guy is getting it. Yeah. He's hopping on the meat. Speaking of that guy, that guy came on to another Tom Papa podcast that I did. He's following you. I've done a lot of podcasts lately.
Starting point is 00:19:34 I did the Tom Papa podcast, and I saw this guy at the bottom, Dump Dusty. I'm like, this guy... He's following you around. This guy thinks he's got a good bit going now. It's kind of funny now. Yeah, it kind of is. This guy thinks he's got a good bit going now. It's kind of funny. Yeah, it kind of is. It's decent. To put Dump Dusty on a podcast you're not on. Yeah, I'm a guest on this.
Starting point is 00:19:52 They asked me to do it. The comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Views, and if you see Brian at one of his shows, you can just pass him a note and he'll give it to all of us. Also, nateland at natebargetze.com. First comment comes from Kevin Thompson. Great topic for today. Wow, thanks. I am passionate about how people are as, quote, fans. When I was 10 years old, I picked my teams and have stuck with them through thick and thin for 40 years now. I'm a Mets and
Starting point is 00:20:22 49ers fan and have never been to either of those states. The best rule for being a fan is to be a true fan no matter what. Also, one of my top rules is to never boo your team. You can be disappointed, but if you can't get out there and do better, then you have no reason to boo them.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Interesting. I'm going to disagree with that. I disagree too. Yeah. I disagree too because if if you're paying money to support them and if there's no effort or if you feel like they're not giving back what you've given them i think you can boo a professional athlete you know i agree it's one thing if you if you're in a slump or you mess up, but you're given 100%.
Starting point is 00:21:05 It's the effort that deserves booing, I think. Not that I boo often. Yeah, but let's say, you know, a guy on your team doesn't run it out through first base. You can boo him a little bit. And your Philadelphia fans will boo you for anything. So Kevin became a Mets and 49ers fan in the 80s. Wow, that was tough. When they were dominating. No, I'm kidding. It's tough to be a Mets fan these days fan in the 80s. Wow, that was tough when they were dominating.
Starting point is 00:21:26 No, I'm kidding. It's tough to be a Mets fan these days, though. I'll tell you that. Next comment comes from OrangeBlue37. Orange and blue. I wonder what school that's talking about. As an Auburn fan in Alabama, I could not love Reap's fandom rules more. It was good to hear some common sense after Aaron's unhinged anti-Auburn rant
Starting point is 00:21:46 a few months back. The big state schools always have the rudest, craziest fans. Also, the worst ones tend to be those with no affiliation. Just ask our trees. Wow. Yeah, I mean, that's true. That is true. You know, I don't think Auburn fans are always, I mean, because, you know, the guy poisoned the trees, right?
Starting point is 00:22:06 And not that the- Harvey Updike is his name. Put some respect on him. I was listening to Paul Feinbaum the day that guy called in. Were you? Really? Yeah. I used to listen to Paul Feinbaum all the time.
Starting point is 00:22:18 When I sold pesticides, I'd be driving around, listening to him all the time on SiriusXM. Did you ever call in and yell about something? No. I think I tried calling in. That would be so awesome. I tried calling in a couple of times, but it was always so – You got dusty from Opelika. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:32 Tell you what, Paul. Paul. But he was saying that some Auburn fans had put a Cam Newton – Last year, I went to the Iron Bowl. I saw when they put a Scam Newton jersey on Paul Bear Bryant's statue. Right. So obviously, that is nowhere close to poisoning the trees. And believe me, I'm from Opelika, right?
Starting point is 00:22:54 I got a picture of me and my mom. I'm on my mom's shoulders. I'm probably maybe a year old, maybe two. I got a little toilet paper in my hair from where they've rolled Tumor's Corner. I got a lot of history with Tumor's Corner. It was devastating when they killed the trees. If you're not from our corner of the country, the background for this is Auburn and Alabama, probably the most intense rivalry in college sports, I would argue. Auburn has a corner on their campus, Toomer's Corner, with some trees. And traditionally, after a big win or any kind of meaningful event in
Starting point is 00:23:24 Auburn's history, they go and they roll the trees at Toomer's Corner with toilet paper. An Alabama fan, an unhinged, now infamous Alabama fan, I think he died. He did. Harvey Updike. He named his kid Ali-Bama. That's how crazy of a fan this guy is. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:40 He said he had too much Bama in him. He went and poisoned those trees, and they died. And it was kind of a dark chapter in the Alabama-Auburn rivalry. So that was the reference there, just ask our trees. I got to say, in my experience, I understand Alabama fans are arrogant about the football team, but my experience is the Auburn people are condescending about everything else. They think the Alabama fans are stupid. They think they're the smart section of the state.
Starting point is 00:24:10 They think they're successful. They look down on Alabama people in a way that Alabama people don't do to Auburn fans. That's my experience. Alabama fans talk a lot of trash about the football, but they're never condescending to the people of Auburn. That's my experience. Feel free to disagree. Feel free to call in 1-800-Paul-Feinbaum. If you do have a note.
Starting point is 00:24:32 I tried to send you that picture. I texted to you, but I don't know how to hear it. You texted to me. I got it right here. I'll pull it up. Yeah. Don't show any of this. I got my whole text message just pulled up here.
Starting point is 00:24:42 But yeah, there it is. I'm reading this text right now. Where is it? Right there. Image 2914. All right. There we go. Yeah, I just wanted to – yeah, so it's like – but you're right, though.
Starting point is 00:24:57 Auburn fans, they all think they're the smartest. And they may be the smartest, but they all – I just saw one labeled Bates 103 mile per hour pitch. That's when you made that video of me. That's so funny. Here's a picture of Young Dusty. Look at that. Apparently, Alabama.
Starting point is 00:25:15 I wish I had that hat my mom's wearing. Yeah. But this is apparently. Alabama had beaten Auburn like, I don't know, close to 10 years in a row. And this was the first year they won. And my mom didn't even have tickets. But Auburn like, I don't know, close to 10 years in a row. And this was the first year they won. And my mom didn't even have tickets, but Auburn won. And she went down to the Tumor's Corner just to celebrate. Exciting.
Starting point is 00:25:34 So what a great picture. How old are you there? Probably like two? Maybe two, yeah. Look at the little cute Dusty with that bullet paper in his hair. And there we are, Tumor's Corner. So it's like, yeah, the trees have been around, you know,
Starting point is 00:25:46 I was probably 25 when that happened. So, you know, at least, you know, 23 years. Yeah. I'd have been around those trees.
Starting point is 00:25:54 And it's like, well, they're growing back now, right? No, they had to completely replace them. Well, I guess,
Starting point is 00:25:59 I mean, they replaced them. So now they're, yeah, they replaced them. And then somebody rolled them and I got, and after a win and a guy comes by with a lighter and lights the toilet paper and catches one of the trees on
Starting point is 00:26:10 fire. So I think it died. Yeah. I mean, I don't know why that's funny. Oh, that's awesome. It was an Auburn fan doing it.
Starting point is 00:26:22 I probably, probably was just some drunk person walking home. Right. That's good. Matt Graves. But I love Auburn. The Auburn campus is so nice. My mom went to Auburn.
Starting point is 00:26:35 I'm not trying to trash it too much. It is fun. Matt Graves. The moment John Reap said, what team is in Tuscaloosa? The credibility of his dumb rules went up in flames. I'm 100% with bathroom break on this one. Well, I agree. I mean, I was like, come on, John.
Starting point is 00:26:52 Yeah, that was. Yeah. When that happened, you're kind of like, the charade is up, buddy. Yeah. I get it, though. There's a lot of cities out there. You lose track sometimes. Yeah. I get it, though. There's a lot of cities out there. Sometimes you lose track sometimes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:09 I mean, there's some major sports college teams. I don't know if I could say right off hand. Clemson. Where does Clemson play? See, I couldn't tell you right off hand. Oh, Clemson. That is Clemson. Yeah, it was a trick question.
Starting point is 00:27:19 Notre Dame. Where does Notre Dame play? South Bend. I was thinking about Michigan. South Bend. South Bend. It's actually Notre Dame, Indiana. Bend. I was thinking about Michigan. South Bend. It's actually Notre Dame, Indiana. We're incorporated as a city. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I just may think.
Starting point is 00:27:31 The NFL draft is this Thursday. Where my Titans care. It's one of my favorite nights. Most people think they're going to take a Notre Dame guy. Who? Joe Walt. That would be huge if you are. Oh, look.
Starting point is 00:27:43 I'm wearing some Titans gear, too. It starts Thursday. I've wore this shirt on here before, but it's an Oilers gear. That's a great shirt. That's a good shirt. Joe Alt would be huge if the Titans got him. He's going to have a long career in the NFL, I think. Is he in that photo of you in the offensive lineman?
Starting point is 00:27:59 No. He's not in there? No, he wasn't in that group. I've never met him, but he's one of the best offensive linemen that Notre Dame's had in a long time. We've had a bunch of good ones. Quentin Nelson, the Martin brothers. He's right up there. We'll see.
Starting point is 00:28:14 I'd love it. You don't like that phrase? I have no idea. Yeah, we'll see. That was a dumb comment. No, no. I'm just making fun of Notre Dame. We'll see like that was a dumb comment no no i'm just making fun of notre dame oh yeah we'll see yeah mainly because aaron threw that we're incorporated thing at us oh i was just trying to make a joke yeah it's your high horse it's in south bend you think dude you think i'm bragging
Starting point is 00:28:39 about being in south bend one of the worst most dying towns in America. I remember my first weekend there, I got the South Bend Tribune, and the headline was South Bend, top five dying cities in America. What's his name? I forgot his name. The transportation secretary. Buttigieg. Yeah. He was running for mayor when I was there, and he got elected and really turned things around.
Starting point is 00:29:02 It's really a great place now. And he's been doing a good job. I mean, there's no train wrecks or bridges collapsing or anything like that he's been really doing a good job country's on the up and up if he can do for america what he did for south bend i i'll vote for him any day of the week yeah just kidding everyone's great jane jaworski oh no and it's thaddeus stewart what a name thaddeus is you think you'd go by thad probably so thad slay yeah that's a crazy name dude it's a blue mountain state character can we please add a tear for fans from canada no next comment
Starting point is 00:29:41 jane jaworski just kidding thaddeus says perhaps a maple denim elite i grew up across the border from michigan and have been a quote walmart wolverine for almost the entirety of my fan life didn't attend the school but still have all the swag from walmart well aaron hates michigan so um um i think it's let me think about how I want to frame that. I don't know if I hate them. They definitely hate me, and they have a hatred in their hearts that I haven't seen in any other fan base. Those Grand Rapids crowds hated you. No, they were great.
Starting point is 00:30:17 You can take the nicest person ever, but if you drop them in that situation, I saw behavior in Ann Arbor that I've never seen anywhere else. Just the aggressiveness. Were you in college then? When was this? I was there. At a Michigan game?
Starting point is 00:30:32 Yeah. Notre Dame, Michigan. Denard Robinson. Do you remember him? Couldn't tie his shoes. That was the whole thing is he wore Velcro shoes. Oh, I didn't know that. And not making fun of him.
Starting point is 00:30:43 He wouldn't make a big deal of it. He wouldn't tie his shoes. And he was so good. And he won last second. But, I didn't know that. And not making fun of him. He wouldn't make a big deal. He wouldn't tie his shoes. And he was so good. And he won last second. But God, those fans were, they get right up in your face, dude. Yeah. Right up in your face and yell stuff at you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:55 Sometimes. The water's not good right around Flint. Well, that's true. My brother-in-law went to University of Michigan at Flint. Oh, okay. I was about to say, you went a different direction there, but. Yeah. Brought-in-law went to University of Michigan at Flint. Oh, okay. I was about to say, you went a different direction there, but brought it back a little bit. Yeah. But sometimes people are like, I went to such and such game.
Starting point is 00:31:13 The fans were the worst. Well, there might be 100,000 people there, and you're in your one section. I don't know if that's a good, you know, sample size. Yeah, I'm basically more about just walking around all day. Yeah. And experiencing that. Places have surprised me. I went to Florida State, and I expected to hate those guys. And everybody was great.
Starting point is 00:31:33 In Tallahassee. I like Michigan, too, though, a lot. I want to say, I do go to Michigan all the time. And I've been all over Michigan. I love Michigan. And I also grew up a Michigan fan. Yeah, I like the state. I want to make that very clear.
Starting point is 00:31:49 Yeah. I just don't like the university. And you guys act like you didn't know anything about the Flint water situation. No, we were just talking about Michigan football. And then you say, yeah, the water's bad. Well, he was saying they were real mad. And I'm like, well, they're drinking some bad water. I don't know what you're talking about. Doesn't have anything to do with me.
Starting point is 00:32:06 Buddha judges on it, though, so don't worry. Jane Jaworski. Regarding the fan episode, I'm from Michigan, and my husband is from Boston. We live in Indiana now. He is a fan of all Boston slash New England teams. I consider myself a Boston New England fan by marriage. I have to keep peace in our house. I truly believe that spouses get a free pass to which teams they support.
Starting point is 00:32:29 Do you all agree? As long as you're not loud about it, I'm into it. You know, it's like just because Boston New England teams, they've been doing, you know, I know the Patriots have had a rough go the last few years, but they've been good for a long time. They have a legitimate dynasty for a while. So you can't move and be like, I'm a Patriots fan, and then you're up in everybody's face all the time. Yeah. I agree, though.
Starting point is 00:32:54 Did Hannah pick up any of your teams? Is she an Alabama fan? I don't think Hannah cares at all. Yeah. Hannah, I can't get her to watch a game. She doesn't care. She might be a little busy. Yeah, she got stuff to do.
Starting point is 00:33:06 I'm like, watch the kids. I got football. But I agree with Jane Jaworski. Jane Jaworski, what a great name. Yeah. Jaws. Didn't he die? Jaws?
Starting point is 00:33:20 The big tall guy? Who, Ron Jaworski? Yeah. No. Who was it that died recently? Chris Mortensen? Yeah, that's who it was.. Who was it that died recently? Chris Mortensen? Yeah, that's who it was. Sorry about that, Jaws.
Starting point is 00:33:28 What if that's his wife? Maybe. You're talking about the guy from 007, from James Bond. Jaws? Yeah, he did die. Big tall guy? Yeah. Long time ago.
Starting point is 00:33:40 We all die eventually. Leslie Kuhner. I was at a Nickel Creek concert. Great band. Great band, Nickel Creek concert. Great band. Great band. Nickel Creek is Chris Thiele. Got a poster of Chris Thiele right behind you, Dusty. He hosted a Prairie Home Companion that Nate did.
Starting point is 00:33:55 But Nickel Creek is great. And the band wanted to create an intimate no camera slash no phone moment during a song. A girl in front of us wouldn't put her iPad down as she recorded. One of the band members singled her out and sternly gestured for her to take her device off, which the girl wouldn't. Turn her device off. That was. You thought that was assumed?
Starting point is 00:34:18 No. Was that worth stopping the sentence to correct? No, that doesn't change anything. You know what I mean? To take your device off? Yeah. They get what I'm trying to say. All right.
Starting point is 00:34:27 I apologize. I got to take it. You think that drastically changes? You think that changes the whole comment? I think people are like, take your device off. Yeah, I do. What does that mean? Well, you're going to have to agree to disagree.
Starting point is 00:34:42 I don't think that affected the comment at all. All right. I apologize. But God knows if I get't think that affected the comment at all. God knows if I get any of these syllables wrong, please stop. We're having a good time, guys. My bad. I'll dial back the attitude, man. I'm bringing it today.
Starting point is 00:34:58 One of the band members singled her out and sternly gestured for her to turn her device off, which the girl wouldn't do. So I guess she has footage of the band being annoyed with her to this day. I'd like to see that. I'd like to see it.
Starting point is 00:35:14 She probably posted it on her TikTok. She's like, look how irritated Nickel Creek is. She probably got a lot of views. Yeah. You know, when you're at a concert and you see somebody filming, there's part of you that's like, why? Just enjoy the moment, right? Yeah, why don't you go home?
Starting point is 00:35:26 But I watch a lot of videos of concerts recorded by people at the concert. So, yeah, a TikTok clip or something. Oh, yeah. So I'm grateful somebody's doing it. Yeah. But don't do it right in front of my face. Right. But also, you're just annoyed for them.
Starting point is 00:35:39 It's like, why don't you just enjoy the show? Maybe they are enjoying it in their own way. Yeah, maybe so. I'll be watching a movie with Lucy, and she's just on her phone. And I go, do you want to watch this together? And she's like, let me watch it the way I want to watch it. Which is not at all. Not that she hates not watching it.
Starting point is 00:35:57 Yeah. Yeah, you want to experience it together. If somebody's on their phone, you're like, you're not getting it. I know. And she's like, this show stinks. And I'm like, it's actually great. You just got to tune into it. Yeah, you got to know what they're doing here.
Starting point is 00:36:11 You know, I've watched a couple of movies lately, and I've slightly changed my opinion on them a little bit. Okay. One of my all-time favorites, just because it came out when I was a teen, it was The Breakfast Club. Yeah. I still love that movie. But I watched it the other night. Ruth and I watched it. And, you know, it's not quite as great as I maybe remember.
Starting point is 00:36:34 There's a quick turn at the end where they're hating each other more than ever. And then, now they do a little, you know, smoke a little weed. And then I guess that helps them come around. I'm looking at Dusty as I say that. But I mean, it goes. They lighten up a little bit. They lighten up a lot. And they go from hating each other so much to, you know, falling for each other.
Starting point is 00:36:57 Right. It just seemed kind of drastic there at the end. Yeah. It happens quicker than you remember. All of a sudden, they're friends. Yeah. there at the end yeah it happens quicker than you remember all of a sudden they're friends yeah it kind of there's a there's a fan theory that the one girl the weird girl yeah um is actually the only one in detention and she's making up all of this other stuff in her mind
Starting point is 00:37:18 because she just kind of has every like stereotype in. The bad boy, the jock, the popular girl, the nerdy guy. Yeah. And so she just makes it all. And that's her way of processing the social reality of high school. Yeah. Is to put all these stereotypes of people in a room together. Yeah. I mean, I used to have a joke about The Breakfast Club, how that was my big diversity movie as a kid.
Starting point is 00:37:44 Five straight white teenagers forced to spend a day together. We're like, whoa, they're so different. Well, they are different, though. Well, they are. But nowadays, if that movie was made, it would be a little bit different as far as the five kids forced to spend a day together. Right. And then the other movie. They'd all be vaping and beating each other up.
Starting point is 00:38:06 Maybe. It would end not so good. They beat up the teacher that's got them in the chair. Yeah. So, in our sports movies episode, I said Hoosiers was my favorite sports movie. You kind of laughed at that a little bit because it seemed like an old person. I'm just trying to be funny on the podcast. It seemed sincere.
Starting point is 00:38:30 And I do, I still do love Hoosiers. I rewatched it recently and I still still one of my top movies, but I also recently rewatched Rudy, which is my second favorite sports movie and Moneyball, which is one of my favorite sports movies. There was a period favorite sports movie, and Moneyball, which is one of my favorite sports movies,
Starting point is 00:38:47 there was a period where sports movies, the actual sports scenes weren't that good, the action. And what Moneyball does better than any sports movie, I think, is makes the baseball scenes seem so legit. Yeah, well, they integrate a lot of real footage into the movie. Even the actors, it's so good. Chris Pratt does a good job with it. Yep. And even Rudy, which is now over 30 years old, still does a very good job, I think, for sports movies.
Starting point is 00:39:15 All the practice scenes look legit. They do look legit. Hoosiers still had some of that little bit of, oh, these are actors out there in a uniform. If Rudy were made today, though, they'd put him on some kind of medication. They'd be like, there's something wrong with this guy. They probably should have. This boy's too wired up. He's like running and telling the security guard, I'm going to Notre Dame.
Starting point is 00:39:40 And they're like, I don't know. We're going to send you to the counselor's office. Yeah, you're right. You're probably right about that. That's very funny. There probably is truth to that. Yeah. For sure.
Starting point is 00:40:01 Next comment comes from a relative of Dusty, John Slade. All right, John. Is this your buddy, relative? I don't know that I know John, but. Well, he says, I completely disagree with you all. Oh, geez. Saying that it is okay to wear the shirt of the band you are going to see. Jeremy Piven, in one of my all-time favorite movies, PCU, stated to his friend that he was not allowed to wear the T-shirt of the band he was going to see. His classic line was, don't be that guy.
Starting point is 00:40:24 I quote that line all the time to this day and could not agree more well pcu is great really fun movie but i mean you know i don't know if you've heard a lot about jeremy piven but uh i don't yeah i don't know i just i don't understand that logic like you think the band is upset that you're wearing their gear no it's not the band being upset about it the fans right i don't i don't even know what it's just a form of gatekeeping that diehard fans do about everything yeah i just don't understand it's like i'm go like i got a band's t-shirt i'm going to see the band why would i not wear the shirt to the concert i'm a fan people wear my shirts to my shows and i love it i'm like this is great why why wouldn't you do it well you're wearing it
Starting point is 00:41:13 on stage so they're like if he can do it i guess i can you're wearing your own merch yeah it's just i don't get it i mean i hate to disagree to disagree with maybe one of the handful of sleighs in the world here. Let me ask you this. I know you don't do most holidays. Mother's Day? I mean, I feel like you're kind of forced into it because you just seem disrespectful to your mom or your mother of your children if you don't celebrate it. But I don't understand it. I don't know why we have to. We honor our moms year-round right every day yeah your
Starting point is 00:41:49 mom took you to that auburn game that's a great yeah tyler conklin what a name conklin it's a good name this happens there's a conklin we gotta cut the tension between the two of us brian i'm happy to be here but i feel like there's still a cloud over us no i didn't feel it until right then and if there's any tension dude let me tell you the the nateland fans they come to your defense dude as they should yeah yeah they do tyler conklin which is brian we can agree he's a great name yeah i think a titan uh jake jake conklin well that's probably what i was thinking of. Yeah. And I think he's, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:42:28 I think he was the Browns now, maybe. I don't know. Anyway, yeah, shut up for a minute. I don't care. This episode about fandom hits a little harder for me today as it comes out that the same day that my favorite team, the Arizona Coyotes, are playing their last game in Arizona before reportedly moving to Utah. To me, fandom is all about the experiences and memories. And I'll remember a lot of great moments from going to games as a kid with my dad to taking my daughter to games.
Starting point is 00:42:58 That is a little sad. Yeah. When you feel like the world's just moving on and doesn't care about you at all. You know? Yeah. I mean, if you guys are getting a new moving on and doesn't care about you at all. Yeah. I mean, if you guys are getting a new team, I don't know if you are, just start going to that one. I don't want to interrupt you again, Aaron, because the tension's still there, but it's coyotes? I was just, again, this is a comedy podcast, so I try to throw in a little. All right.
Starting point is 00:43:22 Try to be silly and goofy whenever I can. Well, with this group, you just never know what's legit, what's not. When I said poem, I wasn't trying to be funny. I know. I say coyotes, but it's fun to say coyotes now and then. Just mix it up. I think coyote is an acceptable pronunciation. There's a country singer, Jared Morris, that I like.
Starting point is 00:43:42 He has a song, Coyotes. That's how he says it in the song. Yeah. I was just coming to Tyler's defense. If it's his last time to remember his team, he probably wants to remember them the way they're pronounced. The Arizona Coyotes. Now Utah will not have Coyotes.
Starting point is 00:43:58 Yeah. Yeah, Utah's probably getting an MLB team too. Salt Lake is. Phoenix still has a lot going on. Phoenix is still a great city. It is a great city. I am sorry about that. I would be very bummed if I were a big fan of a team and they moved.
Starting point is 00:44:14 Probably because it's the only cold place to go in Phoenix. Maybe. It's the only ice. You'd think fans would go just to cool off. Just to cool off a bit. Jason Gamble. I liked Dusty's question about why he didn't see the moon before the eclipse happened. It would be cool to see the moon creeping up on the sun, but a solar eclipse only occurs when we are in the new moon phase.
Starting point is 00:44:37 Like Aaron said, from our perspective, the moon is in shadow during a solar eclipse. So the moon is not seen during this time. Sure, guys. What are you going to tell yourself? during a solar eclipse so the moon is not seen during this time sure guys what are you gonna tell yourself it's invisible to us until it gets in front of the sun i mean well certainly you believe in like it's the new rebuttal the new moon right yeah well yeah but i think the moon is goes phases. It's probably not a planet or whatever floating around out there, and it goes through its phases. So, you know, you should listen to the song by Soundgarden, Black Hole Sun. And that seems a little bit more like what we experienced.
Starting point is 00:45:18 I think it's the black sun coming in. And it's a i'm like oh yeah or maybe the uh you know our governments have figured out a way to make an artificial sun maybe so sometimes we're seeing two suns in the sky at the same time government that can't fill a pothole is building artificial sun well they they want you to believe they're stupid that's why they're like oh we can fix the roads. We just can't get around to it. But yet they're creating artificial suns and telling us to put on sunscreen. Yeah, I'm sure that's it. Could be. Hey, I'm just throwing out some possibilities.
Starting point is 00:45:55 I mean, you sent me into the conversation. Yeah, you sent me some photos, though, of two suns. I did. Out there. Two suns. Videos. People are capturing videos of two suns in the sky. Really?
Starting point is 00:46:05 Where? I don't know. Wherever Luke Skywalker lived. Tatooine? Tatooine, yeah. Andy Babos. I like that. Babos.
Starting point is 00:46:18 Andy Babos. Dusty is 100% correct. Well, there you go. That's your people. Yeah. Dusty is 100% correct about shredded cheese having additives to prevent clumping. This is why shredded cheese doesn't melt as well as other cheese and why it browns so quickly.
Starting point is 00:46:32 Shred at home for sure. Yeah. Don't be buying that shredded cheese. That's going to get you. That's going to get you. But I feel like that's shredding is such a... It's annoying. It's annoying enough that I'll take the additive just so I don't have to do it myself.
Starting point is 00:46:49 Eat a bunch of sawdust, be pooping out some wood. Yep. Sounds good to me. It sounds good to me too. It's worth it. Okay. Josh Stringer, former butcher here. Former.
Starting point is 00:47:06 Has he retired? He had to give it up. He had to give it up. He was in too deep. If it's labeled ground beef, it is a mix of different cuts and different fat ratios. It could be anything and usually very cheap. Look for ground chuck, round sirloin, et cetera. That tells you what cut of beef it's from and should come with a higher accuracy of lean to fat ratio. As far as what it's fed, most cattle are fed corn because it yields faster
Starting point is 00:47:32 growth and more fat, which Americans love. We do love fat. Grass-fed are leaner and sometimes more gamey tasting, which I like. Yeah, I think this is good information. I like this. I mean, I agree. I don't think that they should be eating corn. I think some fat is good for you. We're supposed to have fat. I think it's good for you. And I think we're told that all that stuff is bad for us. All the things they say is bad for you is probably good for you. And all the things they're telling you to eat is probably destroying your body. Yeah. By they, I mean, you know, the people, the officials who give us this information. The powers that be.
Starting point is 00:48:16 Yeah. I think you and the powers that be agree on most food-related issues. I defended you on the food episode because I feel like you were in agreement with most of them. Drink more water, less sodas, avoid fast food. Well, yeah. I mean, that sort of stuff is obvious.
Starting point is 00:48:34 Don't drink soda, drink water. Yeah. But don't drink tap water. Filter your water and then add back in your own minerals. Add back in minerals? Yeah, you got to get your minerals. You can do
Starting point is 00:48:45 like a uh a mineral salt or a celtic sea salt put a little bit a little pinch of that in your water mix that up but where do you get the minerals from well it'll be in that salt but where do you get the salt from you go out and get it yourself well you can buy it anywhere well why do you trust them to have good salt well i don't really trust anyone but there's some you know it's like we only we only have so many options you know yeah eventually you just got to give it a shot right and it's like i made a joke about flint right and it's like yeah i'm just kind of making a joke but it's like i don't i think people still talk about it that that problem is maybe not fixed so it's like if the water has gotten so bad there and they don't even
Starting point is 00:49:26 fix it well who's to say what's going on with our waters i mean maybe it you know hopefully it's not that bad but how old are the pipes what do the pipes look like that our water's coming through you know all corroded yeah gross so i would say filter that water but if you get it such a good filter you're filtering out all the bad stuff but you might also be filtering out the good stuff. So you got to add some good minerals back in. I have a sink downstairs in my house where if you turn the water on, it's brown for like two seconds and then it gets clear. Wow. What's that all about?
Starting point is 00:49:57 I don't know. I just ignore it. Yeah. I hope everything's okay. Well, just don't drink from that one. Yeah, just don't drink from that. I'll wash my hands. Well, I used't drink from that one. Yeah, just don't drink from that. I'll wash my hands. Well, I used to drink sink water all the time back in the day.
Starting point is 00:50:08 I remember a girl came over to my apartment one time, and she asked for some water, and I gave it to her out of the sink. And she goes, is this filtered? And I go, yeah. Yeah. And I'm just imagining a little, like, Dixie cup that you rinse your mouth out with from the sink. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it was not, I did not have the most sanitary place when I was a drinker.
Starting point is 00:50:33 I lived alone and like I used to, like I wouldn't buy paper towels. I would just have like hand towels that I would like use as napkins. And my buddy came over who was married with kids and he asked asked for a napkin, and I gave him one of these, and he goes, no, no. I use my sleeve. Yeah. Well, there is great. And I looked up that line on that game.
Starting point is 00:50:59 The Celtics are favored like 15, which seems like a ton for NBA playoff. But I guess the first round, there's some mismatches. Yes. A little bit of mismatches, I guess. Yeah. And when sports are rigged, you can kind of do whatever you want with it. Well, sports aren't rigged.
Starting point is 00:51:16 You know? Yeah. So you should use DraftKings. Is it ever hard just just get out there in life when everyone's, you know... Once you just know that it is, then you just exist out here in it.
Starting point is 00:51:34 And, you know, when you're a Christian, the Bible says you are in the world, not of the world. So that's what I'm out here doing. I'm just walking around in this place that's not my home. And, you know. Having a good time.
Starting point is 00:51:48 Having a good time out here. There you go. Well, there's a lot going on this week. Today, Monday, is Earth Day. Oh, good. Happy Earth Day, everybody. Yeah, I love Earth Day. I got a little bit about that I want to talk about.
Starting point is 00:52:02 Yes, sir. Passover starts at sundown. Well, as of today, but not when the podcast comes out. Yeah, I'm sorry. That's okay. I guess it technically starts Tuesday. Well, I think it starts today, Monday. Monday at sundown.
Starting point is 00:52:15 Okay. All right. Thursday, NFL draft. For cool people like myself. That's our Passover, right? Yeah, exactly. Friday's Arbor Day. Wow.
Starting point is 00:52:30 That list really dropped off quick, didn't it? What's Arbor Day like? That's like planting a tree? Trees. I'm all about that. I thought you'd be all about it. That's where I'm at these days. I'm not a global warming guy, but I am a let's protect the earth guy. Sure. You know
Starting point is 00:52:47 what I mean? So I look, I'm sorry, go ahead. No, I looked up earth day. I guess every year they have a, you know, a theme or something there. Let's focus on this this year. I think you're going to be on board with this dusty. Their goal is to reduce, uh, all plastics by 60% by 2040. I'm into that. And they said how microplastics is becoming a really big problem. Yeah. Which sounds like something you would agree with, right? I'm into that, yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:13 And they say consumer is not the problem. It's the plastic industry and manufacturers, which, again, I think you'd be on board with. Sort of. I think if we just as a whole decided that we were going to reject it and just buy glass or aluminum or whatever, then the industry itself would be forced to make changes. But how do you get people to do that? That's the question. Yeah. I've been hearing more and more about microplastics. I think it's becoming more mainstream. They're in you. You had a bunch in you right now.
Starting point is 00:53:41 Flowing through your blood. You had a bunch in you right now. Flowing through your blood. Like you can buy, I think I've talked about this before, but you can, on every plastic, it has a little triangle. And then it has a number in the triangle. Yeah, we talked about that. Okay. And it's like, I had a water bottle that I still use it because it's, for traveling, it's the most convenient thing. But the water bottle itself, the number on it said safe for humans to drink from
Starting point is 00:54:06 but the top said not safe for humans the thing i'm putting my mouth all over yeah it's like the plastic itself is like this is not safe right yeah but it's fun to live on the edge a little bit but yeah they're like the bottle so you know when you buy it, it says, this bottle is totally safe. Because they're not lying. The bottle is safe. So do you drink bottled water? Yeah, all the time. I don't want to.
Starting point is 00:54:33 Because of the plastics? Yeah, I'm on the road, and I'm like, this is my option. Yeah, and I load up my backpack every green room. Yeah. I put 40 bottles of water in there. Then you get to the airport and dump 40 bottles of water. I try to drink it all the morning. I mean, I drink tons of water.
Starting point is 00:54:50 I drink so much water. That's great. Yeah. But, you know, it's great if you're not taking in microplastics the whole time. You ever take something other than water with you on stage and try to drink it? I've never had that. You've never had coffee or tea or anything? I've done a tea but i was like
Starting point is 00:55:05 not feeling good uh-huh yeah i took a diet coke the other day big mistake was it yeah it was just warm diet coke oh yeah and you know your mouth starts getting dry and yeah then you look down all you got's a warm diet coke it's just not good i don't recommend it i if i took a coffee i'd burn myself it would be a big scene all over the stage. Totally. All that stuff seems fun. It seems like, oh, you know, I'm a pro with this. I'll take a coffee and just sip it while I'm doing comedy.
Starting point is 00:55:34 And then you get out there and you're like, I'm actually out here working. This is not a relaxed thing for me. My throat is dry. Yeah, I look like I'm relaxed, but I'm like, I'm in my head. I'm like focusing on my jokes. I'm doing a thing. It's work up there. People don't think it's work because you're just standing there.
Starting point is 00:55:50 But I come off stage and I'm like, dang, I'm tired. You just did an hour and a half. Yeah. For an hour, for 90 minutes, you stand there and you're like mentally focused and you're talking. Yeah. And being hilarious. focused and you're talking yeah and being hilarious for 45 minutes i'm standing up there talking and being so so funny occasionally same here dude now i usually do close to an hour i mean at a club i do about 50 in a theater i do
Starting point is 00:56:22 like an hour yeah i'm loving the theater thing. I mean, I kind of resisted it in a way. I remember. I remember you going like, I don't want to do theaters, man. I know. I really resisted it. But I'm like, once you're in there, it actually, it's bigger, but it kind of is more intimate. Like, you don't have the distraction of the server.
Starting point is 00:56:41 I love comedy club servers, but it's's like you don't have any of that you're like they're just sitting facing you yeah that's pretty great yeah no check drop none of that and no real pressure at least for now i mean some places i have started to add second shows because the first show it's sold out but it's like for now what i'm doing i'm doing one show a night so there's really no pressure to get out of there for the next show it's like for now what i'm doing i'm doing one show a night so there's really no pressure to get out of there for the next show it's like i can just go like when i'm starting doing two shows a night i imagine i can't do an hour you'll do an hour 20 yeah yeah yeah tighten it up a bit and you're doing theaters that they're used to performances there yes like most time when i do
Starting point is 00:57:22 a theater they're like they go out beforehand uh finding nemo 2 will be here friday yeah fourth grade production of the whiz is here next week yeah uh so the other thing i was walking the other day in my neighborhood i noticed man my neighbor has not cut their grass in a while yeah and i'm like and they had a sign in their yard apparently april is no mow month and the reason is i guess no mow month no mow month have you heard this dusty they're encouraging people not to mow their grass because people cut their grass too much they say and it helps the environment if you don't cut it so much it It helps groundwater absorb more if you don't. Well, I think, yeah, there's a lot of things going on with lawns that's too much. It's like, first off, everybody's spraying pesticides or herbicides in their lawns to get rid of all these other dandelions.
Starting point is 00:58:19 Like my yard looks really bad compared to my neighbor's yard. It looks really bad compared to my neighbor's yard because my neighbor has a service and they come out and he just has fertilized, thick, green, lush, looks good. Mine's got dandelions and clover and all these things growing. Snakes. Yeah. But I'm like, that's what I want. I want this diversity. I want these flowers coming up so the bees can get at the flowers.
Starting point is 00:58:44 You want an ecosystem. Yeah. Yeah. An ecosystem. See, I want to kill all those things. bees can get at the flowers. You want an ecosystem. Yeah. Yeah. An ecosystem. Yeah. See, I want to kill all those things. Yeah, me too. Me too. I want my yard to look like a putting green.
Starting point is 00:58:51 Yeah. Nothing can live in there. And that is what people want. Mm-hmm. No. But I want light. I got rabbits. I got, right now, I had rabbits over the winter give birth in my yard.
Starting point is 00:59:03 I have some eastern bluebirds housing in one of my birdhouses. I have doves raising two baby doves on my flower bed by my house. I'm like, this is what I'm talking about. I'm trying to bring life out here. Can I ask you a question, see if I should be concerned about this? Mm-hmm. We just got, we're getting ready to sell sell our house so we're fixing up our deck and a couple other things before we sell our our current house and the other day i was getting
Starting point is 00:59:30 ready to leave for omaha i walked out on our back deck and there's half a raccoon just on the deck almost like it had been ripped in half it looked like a baby raccoon i won't pull the picture up on here but i took some pictures of it and uh and it's just laying there dead almost as if something ripped it apart yes you should be concerned i got i think i know what it is you do do you know well because i now i don't know but you said a baby raccoon i had it looked young it looks young. Out in McMinnville, I found basically like a rat or squirrel face. It was just the snout and the whiskers coming off. And I asked this on my podcast. And a lot of people said it's probably like an eagle or a hawk and had caught it and maybe dropped half of it or.
Starting point is 01:00:26 Wow. Interesting. That would explain it. Yeah. What were you thinking? A serial killer? I had no. The restaurant in Omaha.
Starting point is 01:00:35 Should I be concerned about this? Trying to send a message, dude. Yeah. Keep our names out your mouth. Yeah. I had no idea. I don't know if we've got another type of animal that just bites these things and just leaves them there. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:49 Coyote. There is foxes in Hermitage. I've seen a fox. Interesting. I only see possums and raccoons out there. But the one thing I do know about raccoons, and this is don't laugh at me if this sounds naive but i'm like i know raccoons can carry rabies so i go i don't want to pick up this raccoon body without finding out if i can and i googled it and they said call animal control and just check if it's okay to touch so i left this
Starting point is 01:01:18 voicemail maybe and like yeah there's like a dead raccoon i want to make sure it's okay to touch they called back and they're like this does not concern us at all. You should not have called us. And I was like, okay. Why don't we just take a shovel or something? Well, that's about the rudest thing. They could just go, yeah, it's all right. Well, I should say, I only read the transcript of it on the phone.
Starting point is 01:01:38 I haven't listened to the tone of voice of how they called back. You want to try it? Yeah, we can play it. I'll play it on here. We'll see how it sounds. Yeah, let's see what it sounds like. But it's still there. I came back from Omaha, and it's still just sitting on my deck.
Starting point is 01:01:51 And I could grab it. You got a compost? Throw it in there. Compost that bad boy. Can you do that with just a raccoon body? Yeah. What? That's just going to break down. know that's just gonna break down and give
Starting point is 01:02:08 you some good nutrients nate will be back next week you should bury it i watched a guy okay yeah here it is this is what this is what they said i haven't listened to this i'm calling you about that um dead rat cleaning your backyard. That would be considered a public works or another organization. We don't do dead animals or dead wildlife specifically. If you call public works, they should be able to help. So he was nice about it. Yeah, he was nice about it. I like that he said dead animals or dead wildlife.
Starting point is 01:02:48 Anything dead, honestly. Just give him a call. But I don't know. I wouldn't palm it, but I would pick a shovel or something. I don't want to get rabies, dude. I don't think you can get rabies that way. I think they have to bite you. I think that's what they tell you.
Starting point is 01:03:01 I think they have to bite your claw. They do have to bite you or saliva or any kind of liquid. Yeah. But all these flies were eating at it. And I was like, can they spread rabies? And I went down a rabbit hole. They can't. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:11 You're going to get, it's going to get some gross stuff out there. Because the flies have larvae that, you know. Send Lucy out there to get it. Lucy hasn't gone outside since I told her about it. But yeah, I mean. There it is. Oh, yeah. Oh, let me see.
Starting point is 01:03:30 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Grab that. That's pretty gnarly, isn't it? Oh, yeah. That's the face. Yeah, I don't want to pull it up on the podcast because it looks. It's kind of gross. Oh, that's awesome.
Starting point is 01:03:41 Brian, you want to look at it? So, this week. I mean, I'm sad about it, but that's awesome, though. Yeah, that's interesting. Anyway. Well, I was going to get into some cloud seeding stuff, but maybe we should just... I'll just say this. In Dubai, I guess it's very...
Starting point is 01:03:59 They have very little rain year-round. Yeah. So they do cloud seeding. Cloud seeding. They just had a... Well, I should say this. They just had a, well, I should say this. They just had a flood in Dubai and they think it's,
Starting point is 01:04:08 the article I read, they think it's because of cloud seeding where they put chemicals. That's a conspiracy guy. Well, I think cloud seeding is a real thing,
Starting point is 01:04:15 isn't it? Yeah. Where they put chemicals in the clouds to make it rain and they think it kind of overdid it. And they got a flood.
Starting point is 01:04:23 Did people get hurt by it? Well, I don't know, but it was flooding in Dubai. Yeah, it doesn't look good. Yeah. Sounds like a conspiracy to me. Well, Tennessee did just pass a law where you can't do that in Tennessee. Oh, that's good. They did pass it.
Starting point is 01:04:38 The governor signed it. Oh, I don't know. I guess the legislature. I called the governor. I asked him to sign sign it i should have known just let dusty take this well i called him i mean i saw this thing you called bill yeah and i said hey i was like dude i was like i don't know i said i don't know if this is real i don't know if chemtrails are real or not but if the bill is we are not gonna we don't want people to be able
Starting point is 01:05:02 to spray chemicals in the sky i'm like let's just go ahead and sign it. Yeah, that sounds good to me. Even if they want to do it in the future or something, you'd be like, well, we can't because we already outlawed it. I'm like, and that's how I tried to break it down to him. I'm like, dude, let's not worry about if this is real or not. Let's just go ahead and be like, we, you know, it'd be like, you know, I saw people on the internet trying to make fun. They're like, let's go ahead and pass the anti Bigfoot law or whatever, you know, trying to act like this is a conspiracy. I'm like, why not? You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:05:30 Why not? If somebody proposed a bill saying if Bigfoot's real and they want to hang out in our public parks, we're not going to allow that. I'm for it. I'm for it. Let's go ahead and sign it. And then if Bigfoot shows up, well, I don't really want you around my kids. Let's go ahead and sign it. And then if Bigfoot shows up, well, I don't really want you around my kids. Let's go ahead and sign it. Makes sense to me.
Starting point is 01:05:52 If aliens can't come to our church or whatever, whatever kind of thing you want to – if space aliens come down, I don't want them in the church. They need to know about Jesus just like everyone else does, Steve. They need to find Christ too. about jesus just like everyone else they need to find christ too yeah come on all right well i'm glad i brought that up i did watch an interesting i don't even want to talk about it yeah save it all right this week it's been a while since we talked about a state aaron just got back from Nebraska. So we should talk about Nebraska. Dusty was just there too. All right. Yeah, I've been there.
Starting point is 01:06:28 I've been to Nebraska a bunch of times. I like Nebraska. I was just there with Nate a couple months ago. Oh, nice. We did the arena there. He did the arena, and I was in Omaha. Oh, awesome. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:06:39 I did Lincoln. I did Omaha. Oh, yeah. I've done Omaha. First time I ever went to nebraska was uh in columbus nebraska i went to a bar called o'borny's husker bar and uh todd o'borny was the owner and he fed me steaks and uh me and hannah opened for me this was when hannah was still doing comedy we went there hannah opened for me and uh it was a hot show, two hot shows.
Starting point is 01:07:06 We did two nights in a row. Now they have some of the Omaha steaks, or was it Omaha steak? I guess it was coming from that area. It was a good steak, though. It was good, yeah. I mean, this guy, I mean, this was a bar, but he had a performance space,
Starting point is 01:07:22 and Todd ended up coming to see me in Omaha at another time. Great dude. I hope he listens to the podcast. Shout out. Todd O'Borny. Todd, what is the deal with Omaha Steaks? What is that all about? It's a company.
Starting point is 01:07:35 They're in Omaha, and I guess they just have some of the leading production of steaks anywhere in the country. They say the pastrami, the Reuben sandwich was invented in Omaha, Nebraska. It was invented in Nebraska. I don't know if it was Omaha. We've got the numbers. No, you're right. You're right. It was Omaha. I do have the numbers right here. By Reuben
Starting point is 01:07:58 Koloski. His name was Reuben? Yeah. Local grocer, they were having a late night poker game at a hotel, and they were hungry hungry and he whipped up a sandwich. This is 1925 in Omaha. And one of the players who owned the hotel loved it and started serving it there in his hotel restaurant. Wow. I love a Ruben.
Starting point is 01:08:16 I love pastrami in general. When I went to the Northeast, I was there four nights. I had pastrami four nights in a row. I mean, I love it. Sandwiches? Yeah. Yeah, it is great. All right, Nebraska.
Starting point is 01:08:30 I haven't, I didn't really think about this until we started doing these states up. So how many states, the origin of the word comes from, it's a Native American word. Most of them, right? Most of them. At least, I would guess 40. Yeah. If not, I mean, there's Washington. There's a few exceptions. Sure. Almost all of them are At least, I would guess, 40. Yeah. If not, I mean, there's Washington. There's a few exceptions.
Starting point is 01:08:45 Sure. Almost all of them are Native American words. This is a Native American word. It means flat water. Flat water. Yeah. So, like, not sparkling. Yeah, I guess so.
Starting point is 01:08:56 Tap water. Water always finds its level. No matter what it's in, it always finds its level. Sea level. Sea level, yeah. It's always flat. Well, liquid, by by definition takes the shape of whatever container it's in so that's what that's what's happening yeah flat water uh i
Starting point is 01:09:13 thought this is nebraska is the only triply landlocked u.s state meaning any uh if you want to get to a body of water you got to go through three states to get there. Oh, man. It is right in the middle. Talk about textbook middle America. It's right there in the center. It's the bullseye of America. I think Kansas is textbook middle America. Nah, dude.
Starting point is 01:09:37 Nebraska is what you think of. Okay. When I say body of water, I mean an ocean or a gulf. I'm sure they've had one that people care about. Yeah, exactly. I'm sure they got a few ponds out there in Nebraska. We're talking real. They had a lot of flooding out there a few years ago.
Starting point is 01:09:51 Did they? From what? All that flat water. Water tower tipped over. What happened? Some cloud seeding going on out there. It's capital is Lincoln. Most popular city, Omaha. Just real quick about the cloud seeding going on out there. It's capital is Lincoln. Most popular city, Omaha.
Starting point is 01:10:06 That is just real quick about the cloud seeding. And then I'll leave it alone. All right. I'm sorry. Whenever people talk about weather manipulation, they always go, that's ridiculous. And then we're like, oh, hey, we're cloud seeding. We're dropping stuff off in the clouds to cause rain.
Starting point is 01:10:19 And you're like, oh, is that weather manipulation? Yeah. I didn't even know this was a real thing. I've heard about ski resorts that can put chemicals to make it snow. Oh, I didn't know that. But I didn't know it was a common thing. Anyway. There's something about – now I'm going to get off on this.
Starting point is 01:10:40 There's something about nature, though. And I know weather can kill so many people. So I don't want to be flippant about this, but in the world where we can do everything, I don't know. There's something I like about the fact that nature can still – you can have rain outs. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I don't even know what I'm trying to say. When I watch a presidential inauguration and they're out there in the rain or whatever. There's only so much we can do as humans.
Starting point is 01:11:08 Yeah. I don't really have a point. You like the idea that ultimately we have to submit to a higher power. Yes. That's what I'm trying to say. There's something beautiful about that. And again, I don't want to be flippant. You walk out in the ocean and you feel the wave come at you and you're like,
Starting point is 01:11:22 this could overtake me at any time. It's a good feeling. Yeah. It's good to be reminded of that every now and then. Yeah. I walk back in pretty quick. Didn't you get injured on the ocean? Oh, I did, but with a drone.
Starting point is 01:11:36 Couldn't remember what it was. You also fell off a mountain. I did. Dude, I'm out here. I'm exploring the world and it's letting me know it's boss. The two favorite stories. Your story bombing at the farmer's market with your mom. So great. And you falling off the mountain are my two favorite stories.
Starting point is 01:11:54 I thought we were friends. No, I love those stories from you guys. It's so funny to me. That was in Kentucky. One of those great mountain estates. That's right. That's right. Not going to happen in Nebraska. Nope.
Starting point is 01:12:10 Nope. Flat water. All right. So Nebraska became a state in 1867. I'd heard of the Homestead Act. Didn't really know what it was. They offered families 160 acres of land if you would go out there and build and farm on it for five years. Wow.
Starting point is 01:12:27 Pretty good deal. Yeah. And it's probably worth more now. Flash forward, Bill Gates is buying up all that land. They used to give it to us. Go farm. Make a life for yourself. Now they're like, nah.
Starting point is 01:12:40 Take that back from you. Well, I didn't say that in the thing i read but i'm sure that's okay uh i didn't know this sorry guys it's okay the nebraska legislature is the only american legislature that's unicameral meaning they only have they have no political party affiliation like here in tennessee we Republican, Democrat, whatever. It's just one party. In Nebraska? Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 01:13:10 Really? Just for the state legislature. They still have Republican, Democrat. Sure. U.S. But if you're running for the state Senate, then you don't have a party affiliation in Nebraska? That's how I read it. I like that. Because you're like, maybe when you're voting for them, you've made a joke about this in the past, but maybe when you're voting for them, you actually look at what they're running on instead of the letter next to their name.
Starting point is 01:13:33 Interesting. But you could also, never mind. Yeah, it's the only state legislature in the U.S. that is officially nonpartisan. I like that. That's good. Good for Nebraska.S. that is officially nonpartisan. I like that. That's good. Good for Nebraska. Yeah. So when you think of famous people from Nebraska, who do you think of?
Starting point is 01:13:51 I only know, oh, Larry the Cable Guy. That's who I think of. Yeah. Yeah, he's probably up there for me, too. I think Warren Buffett. I think of Peyton Manning yelling Omaha. Those are the top three. I don't know if that's a famous person, Peyton Manning yelling. Well, I'm just saying, well, Peyton Manning yelling Omaha. Those are the top three. I don't know if that's a famous
Starting point is 01:14:05 person, Peyton Manning yelling. Well, I'm just saying, well, Peyton Manning. I think of Peyton Manning when I hear Nebraska because of that. But I imagine there's more than that. Do you know why he yells Omaha or why he did? No. Do you? I looked at a clip and it's something about just, it's a three syllable,llable, easy to – Easy to yell with a mouthpiece in, probably. Yeah, yeah. I don't think there was any great reason behind it. I don't think he had some affiliation with Omaha.
Starting point is 01:14:33 It sounds good, though. Yeah. It sounds good. I think Larry the Cable Guy, Warren Buffett, and I mean, this is kind of a given, but Tom Osborne, the longtime coach in Nebraska. Okay. I haven't heard of him. He was a legendary coach there. I like saying that sort of stuff because it is funny.
Starting point is 01:14:50 There's a little bit of age difference with us, but it's like a Chuck Yeager thing. Yeah. You said this Tom Osborne guy, you're like, it's a given. And I really have not ever heard of him, and maybe I should have. That's maybe my own failing. But I just think it's funny that you'll say something like, we all know this, and then I'll have no idea. I would admit that people of a certain age, unless you're a Nebraska fan, may not know Tom Osborne.
Starting point is 01:15:17 But he was the legendary coach there for years when they were so good. And then he was so popular, ran for for senate after he left and was a u.s senator from nebraska for many years so he's very well known in nebraska that's for sure you remember as most of your childhood nebraska was great at college football right yeah the black shirts all that they were like they were dominant yeah and then you know they've struggled a little bit last few years They won three national championships just in the 90s. Yeah, it's crazy.
Starting point is 01:15:47 It's crazy. Yeah. Now, just last year, so their football stadium holds 90-something thousand people. That's unreal. I know that a lot of these stadiums are like that or bigger,
Starting point is 01:15:58 but that's so unreal. I mean, think about that. 90,000 people gathered to watch a football game. It's unbelievable. It becomes the third largest city, in effect, every Saturday when they host a home game. The stadium does? Oh, that's awesome.
Starting point is 01:16:12 I like that. But last year, they did a Nebraska women's volleyball game there, and it set up, I guess, a world record for largest women's sporting event. 92,000 fans. Lincoln is great. This would be where all that's happening. Yeah. I just went to Lincoln. I'd never been to Lincoln, Nebraska. I really liked it. I thought it was a really cool city. I went to a cool coffee shop. Uh, I was only there for a day, so I didn't get to experience a lot, but I went to a cigar shop there that was open late at night. Really great. And a lot of cities don't have late night cigar bars. And this was really fun. And then they had a cool coffee shop that I went to
Starting point is 01:16:51 the next morning. And yeah, it was great. Yeah. I did some shows, Johnny W and I did some shows where we drove across Nebraska and Western Nebraska and Eastern Nebraska. It's a long state. They're like most places. They're pretty different. The terrain's Nebraska. It's a long state. They're like most places. They're pretty different. The terrain's different. It's much more mountainous and western part of the state. But yeah, we had a great time. Oh, Nebraska is once.
Starting point is 01:17:17 I haven't been to western Nebraska. I mean, the eastern half is pretty flat. And then as we drove further, I think it's bordering Colorado. Yeah, you're right out there. Oh, interesting. I've also been to Falls City, Nebraska. I did some shows there. My agent lives there.
Starting point is 01:17:33 It's a smaller city. A lot of corn, soybean farms out there. A couple of shows out there. Really great. Cool little town. What was the venue? Well, I did like a catholic school it was a charity for a catholic school yes sir and then both shows i did i went there two different times
Starting point is 01:17:52 and both of those were one was like a basketball arena uh and then the other was outside yeah it was great though my friend chris covey uh lives in nebraska and he opened for me both of those shows. Very nice guy. Comic. Out of Omaha, I believe is where he lives. Now, I'd never heard this. During World War II, Japan released a bunch of balloon bombs to fly over the United States. Whoa. And most of them never detonated, but some did.
Starting point is 01:18:24 And one detonated over Omaha. They made it that far inland, which is, like you said, about as middle America as you can get. There's a plaque there now in Omaha where it dropped. Did it kill anybody? No. Most of them never even made it. There was one in Oregon that hit the ground, and then a family found it in the woods, and it detonated and killed some people. Did they launch it out of Japan?
Starting point is 01:18:50 I'm guessing out maybe from out in sea. They launched it. I don't know where they launched it from, but their plan was just for it to take the jet stream and fly over. Wow. That's such a long way to get from Japan to to omaha i know maybe i don't know where they're watching a little bomb that somebody shot down yeah where they shot down i think most of them just didn't even make it to to land they probably landed in in the ocean okay few of them made it to land that's poor fish just getting lit up out of nowhere.
Starting point is 01:19:26 I think that one made it further inland maybe than any of them. That's pretty far. So you already mentioned the Reuben sandwich. I'm impressed, Dusty. You know your stuff. Well, I love
Starting point is 01:19:35 a Reuben sandwich. I mean, I'm all about it. Two years later, I've had a couple there in Omaha. You ever have an Arby's Reuben sandwich? I don't think so.
Starting point is 01:19:44 Give it a shot, too. Okay. It's way better than you arby's rubin sandwich i don't think so give it a shot too okay it's way better than you think okay because you don't think this is getting a great sandwich at arby's but it's it's good back in my fast food eating days i used to tear up some arby's they used to have that 99 cent menu i'd get a chicken chicken sandwich uh roast beef sandwich curly fries oh man three bucks beef and cheddar yeah yeah like three bucks jamocha shake dude you ever get a jamocha shake from there yeah good stuff now when you were there did you go to runza everyone kept telling us to go we to try a runza we did not we did not go to runza where runsza is a fast food chain native to Omaha, but also the name
Starting point is 01:20:27 of their signature dish. Now, I have a hat for the Omaha Storm Chasers, which is their minor league baseball team. And their alternate jersey is a Runza. And it looks like a burrito.
Starting point is 01:20:36 It's on the hat. I should have worn that today. I wasn't thinking too well. But no, I didn't try it. I got conflicting reviews. People said it's great. Some people said it's not worth going to get.
Starting point is 01:20:47 It's probably true with every place, their signature dish. People would probably say that about hot chicken in Nashville, too. They go, it's not worth it. Hot chicken here, though, it is really great. It's worth it. So what about the Runza? What's going on with that? Well, to be honest with you, I had not heard of it.
Starting point is 01:21:03 Had you heard of it? No. Dusty? There's 82 of them just in Nebraska. Wow. It's a chain, and that's what the dish is called. It's a hot stuff pastry that's beloved by Nebraskans, according to this. Oh, you know what? Maybe I did have this at the coffee shop I'm talking about in Lincoln.
Starting point is 01:21:24 I got a hot stuff pastry. I didn't know what it was called. Here's what a run. So it looks like, yeah, I did get something like that. It was delicious. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:21:34 it does look good. Yeah, it was very good. I think there was pork in mine and I, so I got probably, is it Polish or European? I didn't mean for there to be pork in there. I don't know. I don't know why they put pork in everything, but yeah, cause it's good European? I didn't mean for there to be pork in there. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:21:45 I don't know why they put pork in everything. Yeah, because it's good. But I get it. But it was like a lot of cheese in there and some. Cabbage. Yeah, I was into it. I like that concept. Now, Arbor Day is this Friday, as I mentioned before.
Starting point is 01:22:00 It started in Nebraska. There's a guy who proposed a prize for whoever could plant the most trees. I guess Nebraska needs some trees, or at least then they did. This is in the 1800s, and roughly 1 million trees were planted on the first Arbor Day, just in Nebraska. Wow. And it took off, and a few years later, it became a legal holiday in Nebraska, and then eventually, of course, it became a U.S. holiday. I like it.
Starting point is 01:22:27 I'm all about planting trees. I just planted – I got 40 trees I planted out in McMinnville, fruit trees and nut trees. And then I got two apricot trees I just planted in my backyard at home. How long do those take to grow to fruition? I don't know, but they're already – I mean, I planted them and already with the warm weather we've had, they got a little greenage on them. Really? Yeah. I got grapevines going.
Starting point is 01:22:52 I mean, that's what I'm talking about. We need a field trip to the cabin. One of these days, you're just not going to show up. Yeah. And you'll just be gone. We'll never hear from you. It'll be like Good Will Hunting. We show up to... And you'll just be gone. It'll be like Good Will Hunting. Like we show up to and you're just
Starting point is 01:23:08 gone and we smile. I'll do two or three of these arena shows Nate's done and then I'll never be seen again. But Nebraska with all the trees it used to be called the tree planter state. Wow. You know what it's called now?
Starting point is 01:23:23 Not that. The Cornhusker state. That's right. Wow. You know what it's called now? Not that. The Cornhusker State. That's right. Wow. Yeah. I guess they started getting more corn than trees, so they had to change the name. I had to bulldoze some of those trees and make room for that corn. That's right. A lot of companies headquartered in Nebraska. Warren Buffett's, Berkshire Hathaway was there in Omaha. Berkshire Hathaway.
Starting point is 01:23:47 It's one of my favorite names for you, Brian. That's right. You're right. Berkshire Hathaway. Somebody did call me that. I did a corporate gig for Berkshire Hathaway. Really? How much money did you make? It was okay.
Starting point is 01:23:58 It was pretty good. Yeah, I would say so. I did it in Maryville, Tennessee. I did it for them. I bombed for a while until they got on board with what I was doing. Oh, yeah, I heard about this. Word got around.
Starting point is 01:24:14 It wasn't that bad. I'm joking. It wasn't so bad people were talking about it, but it was fine. Union Pacific Railroads there. I think in Omaha. And you remember those i do here's just a small company here's what i do remember so mutual of omaha insurance is obviously
Starting point is 01:24:33 there yeah when i was a kid i loved this show called mutual of omaha's wild kingdom it was this tv show where a couple of zoo guys would just go out and talk about animals. And I think his name was Marlon Perkins. And as a kid, I loved watching the show. I like that guy. I remember that guy from something, I think. And I mean, I'd be so bored as a kid. I would just get our phone book and flip through the yellow pages.
Starting point is 01:25:01 I think he was in Ace Ventura when nature calls. He might have been um i don't know jim fowler that guy right there was on an episode of seinfeld so he was also a regular on johnny carson so anyway i used to love this but i would flip through our phone book and there would be an ad from mutual of omaha just the insurance company and i thought it was the wild kingdom show so i'd ask my mom to take me down there to see the chimpanzees to mutual they're in lebanon i thought they got elephants in the back they should though just to get people in there yeah it was a hot show back back in my day
Starting point is 01:25:37 oh i've got some famous people also from nebraska adam divine okay i've worked with adam and he's a huge Nebraska fan. Wait, who's Adam Devine? You watch Workaholics? Oh, yeah, okay. Adam Levine? I was thinking of a singer from Maroon 5. Adam Levine. And then you were like,
Starting point is 01:25:59 I've worked with him, and I was like, oh, that doesn't make sense. Yeah, he's mostly an actor. No, I mean, not that, but it just doesn't. it doesn't yeah yeah yeah yeah brian open for maroon five on tour that would be a hot show yeah i'm wearing their shirt on stage um malcolm x i think everybody would think he's from nebraska Is he really? Yeah. He was born in Omaha. No presidents have been from Nebraska, but Gerald Ford was born there.
Starting point is 01:26:32 I saw a sign this weekend, his birthplace. Well, that seems like he's from there. Well, he was born there, but he quickly moved to Michigan. I think Michigan. So Grand Rapids takes credit for him. I just went to the Gerald Ford Presidential Library there. Yeah. Right near Dr. Green's.
Starting point is 01:26:48 Gerald Ford Airport, too, I believe, in Grand Rapids. It is. Yeah. And Dick Cheney was born in Nebraska, but then quickly moved to Wyoming. Not quickly, like, let's get out of here. But he moved to Wyoming pretty young, I think. Like, let's beat it. He had to learn to shoot a gun.
Starting point is 01:27:05 That's right. Yeah. He left his heart in Omaha, though. Yeah. And Terrence Crawford is the pound-for-pound number one boxer in the world. Terrence Bud Crawford. And apparently, I don't follow boxing that closely, but he wears Omaha on his trunks, his boxing trunks, to kind of honor his hometown. Oh, that's cool.
Starting point is 01:27:22 Yeah. How about it? There's a few more. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. How about it? There's a few more. Yeah, I don't know him, but I don't know a lot about boxing, so it makes sense. Yeah, I don't either. Oh, some more here. Godfrey, comedian Godfrey was born. Really?
Starting point is 01:27:36 There, yep. I think of him as such a New York guy now. I think he- Yeah, I just saw him the other day, actually. Really? Well, when I was in LA.A., I ran into him. Very nice guy. He is nice.
Starting point is 01:27:48 L. Ron Hubbard. Really? Yeah. I'm sure everybody would think Nebraska. The most prolific author of all time. Is that right? Yeah. That's true.
Starting point is 01:28:01 What does that mean? What does that mean exactly? Prolific in terms of the amount of books that he wrote. Oh. Because he would get paid by the word for some of these book deals. So it was just all just so verbose. He wrote like dozens and dozens and dozens of novels, I think, before he got into the Scientology stuff. He was just a science fiction author.
Starting point is 01:28:21 I did not know that. Yeah. He's really done well for himself, that guy. Yeah. He's dead now, right? Well, he's... Debatable. He's left his earthly body, they say.
Starting point is 01:28:35 Okay. Are they preserving the body? I don't know what happened to the body, but he's gone. He's on a spaceship somewhere? He's gone. Hilary Swank is from Nebraska. Did you guys ever see the movie
Starting point is 01:28:48 Boys Don't Cry? I don't think I ever saw it. I think that's what kind of made her I think she maybe won an Academy Award for that movie and that was set in Nebraska. I think I remember her best for the movie Next Karate Kid. Yep, she was in that.
Starting point is 01:29:04 Million Dollar Baby. Oh, that's a good one. You know Hilary Swank, right? Yeah. Do you know Next Karate Kid? That was when it was no longer Ralph Macchio and it was one movie with Pat Morito. Still Pat Morito. And I liked it when I
Starting point is 01:29:20 was a kid. Yeah, so now I watch Cobra Kai and they have worn out every previous storyline except her i know i'm hoping next season she comes back that's all that's left that would be fun yeah yeah she's got to come back and help them defeat you know the other you know the bad guys the bad guys whoever's whoever the bad guys are at this point. It's a hot show, though. Yeah. I love Cobra Kai.
Starting point is 01:29:47 I'm into it. I'm like at home going binge watch. It's the only show I've binge watched in years. And I'm like, I can't get enough. And I'm like, I'm just watching high school karate here. Yeah. It doesn't make a lot of sense. The whole city, L.A., cares that much about high school karate.
Starting point is 01:30:03 I don't believe it. The fight scenes are pretty ridiculous. Yeah. Everybody would be in jail. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, they're really beating each other up. Yeah. This is the breakfast club I'm talking about.
Starting point is 01:30:13 Oh, yeah. It's hardcore fight scenes. Yeah. Some movies set in Nebraska. Well, I just mentioned Boys Don't Cry. Could you guys name a movie set in nebraska even partially cast away hold on the movie cast away that was the pacific ocean i know and i know he lives in memphis because he works for fedex right but at the end when he delivers
Starting point is 01:30:40 the package that he never opened isn't that in ne Nebraska? I think that's Texas. Oh, sorry. I was going to say Superman, but that's Kansas, right? It's Kansas. That's Kansas. I think it was Lori White was the woman. Did you know that? From Castaway? She's a country singer.
Starting point is 01:30:57 I think she's passed away, but she was the woman that he delivers that package to. And I think that's in Texas. I could be wrong, though. I got a copy of the movie from you the other day. I may watch it and check it out. Have you seen Castaway before? I've seen it, yeah.
Starting point is 01:31:11 Okay. What about the movie Frailty? I don't know that movie. Frailty is an interesting one. Matthew McConaughey. You think it's set in? Came out in 2001. It's an interesting one matthew mcconaughey you think it's set in came out in 2001 it's an interesting one yeah it's a psychological horror film directed by bill paxton yeah wow it's about two young brothers and their father who believes that god told them to kill demons disguised as
Starting point is 01:31:40 people so this is right up my alley He owns that on Blu-ray. This is Dusty's memoir. He watched it before he came today. I don't know where it is. It looks like it was set in Texas. Here's a few. One I knew, there's a movie called Nebraska. It's really good.
Starting point is 01:32:02 Will Forte came out a few years ago um bruce stern and his father thinks he won like a sweepstakes so they drive cross country to oh i've seen that did you like it yeah yeah i thought it was a fun movie bruce stern is great yeah nominated for six oscars bruce stern was in a movie called Diggstown that I'm a huge fan of. Yeah, this guy is. This is one of those guys I did not know this guy's
Starting point is 01:32:32 name, but I've seen this dude my whole life, I feel like. That's Laura Dern's dad, right? Whoa. I didn't know that. Starting to connect the dots there. I feel like there's three families in Hollywood and they all... I can't believe they don't even list Diggstown here.
Starting point is 01:32:46 Diggstown's so good. Such an underrated movie. It's ridiculous. Father of actress Laura Dern. Wow. What's Laura Dern in? Laura Dern's in everything.
Starting point is 01:32:56 Jurassic Park. Oh, Jurassic Park. Yeah. For sure. I saw her one day. I was at Hollywood 27, the movie theater
Starting point is 01:33:03 here in Nashville. It was a Sunday afternoon. I was going to 27, the movie theater here in Nashville. It was a Sunday afternoon. I was going to see who knows what. And have you guys ever been to Hollywood 27, the movie theater here? It was, you know, it's not a hot place. Well, no movie theater now, I guess, is a real hot place. But it was the biggest movie theater, supposedly, east of the Mississippi when it opened. 27 screens when it opened back in the mid 90s and it
Starting point is 01:33:26 it's huge and it was such a hot place and it has video games out in the lobby and stuff like that i guess they all do now and and i see laura dern playing pinball and i'm like well my friend was like i think that's laura darn but why would laura dern be here by herself she was with some guys but just random people. Yeah. And I'm like, maybe that just looks like her. And then I read later on,
Starting point is 01:33:49 she was in town. She was either dating a guy in a band or her friend's band was playing in Nashville. Whoa. And that was her. Wow. All right. Would you have gone up and,
Starting point is 01:34:00 oh, Ben Harper is who she was married to. Is he a, oh, well, maybe Ben Harper was playing in Nashville. Ben Harper was married to is he uh oh well maybe maybe ben harper was playing in nashville ben harper was married to laura dern for eight years that's interesting i love that ben harper's got great stuff and harper's great burn one down burn one down that album is really
Starting point is 01:34:16 good he's got a couple of religious tunes on there that i like power of the gospel there you go that's a good one you guys have great know, a lot of people talked about your Spotify playlist. Yeah. You have, I love your taste in music. Thank you. I think you have great, I think you do too. Dusty Slate's country music playlist on Spotify. Really great.
Starting point is 01:34:33 And I think you, with a couple exceptions to Dusty, I think you guys have great, I like your movies. I think you and I have a lot of the same favorite movies. You and I definitely like the same movies. Shawshank and- Dusty Slate's country radio is what it's called, just for the record, in case people want to go find it. Yeah and I definitely like the same movies. Shawshank and... Dusty Slate's Country Radio is what it's called, just for the record, in case people want to go find it.
Starting point is 01:34:47 Yeah, go check it out. Most music that you tell me about that I don't know about, I like it. I'm like, this is good. Especially country music. You know some artists that I don't know about.
Starting point is 01:34:58 All right. A few more movies. Election, Reese Witherspoon. Oh, that is in Nebraska. I've never seen it. I want to watch it. That's a great movie. I mean, it's dark. It's dark.
Starting point is 01:35:09 It's not like what he just talked about with Matthew McConaughey. No, it's not quite that dark. Reese Witherspoon, early Reese Witherspoon, she had a few kind of dark things. It's a comedy, though. It is a comedy, but compared to Mean Girls, which is also about high school girls, this one's about a teacher and a student having an inappropriate relationship.
Starting point is 01:35:28 And there's a lot of darker stuff in it. Maybe I don't remember it. I thought it was just he didn't like her because she was so popular and he was kind of a loser. Don't give it away. Okay. I don't want to spoil it. But yeah, Reese Witherspoon's character and the teacher. You don't remember that part of it?
Starting point is 01:35:44 You guys are ruining it for me. No, you don't even know who we're talking about, dude. I thought she was just running for class president, and he didn't want her to win, and I thought it was as simple as that. That's Matthew Broderick's character. I'm talking about his best friend, who's also a teacher. Oh, I don't remember that. Oh, wow. Interesting.
Starting point is 01:35:59 I mean, that movie came out, she was young. Yeah, it was a long time ago. Okay. Up in the Air with George Clooney. Oh, I've seen that. He lives in Omaha. I love that movie. I like that movie too.
Starting point is 01:36:12 That's a great movie. I watched it recently. It's funny because I think it came out like 15 years ago. And he's this experienced traveler who looks down on everyone. And it's so funny how things have changed. That's who I am now. He has a printed ticket. He's taking his shoes off. All this stuff now.
Starting point is 01:36:31 This is before PreCheck, huh? Yes, before PreCheck and obviously before smartphones. Clear and all that nonsense. So he looks like now the worst traveler ever. But the whole thing is about how smug he is, you know, as a professional traveler. When it shows a montage of him just walking through because he has status everywhere, I do feel like that sometimes. Yeah. Boarding early on Southwest. That's my little form of that.
Starting point is 01:36:54 What a great movie that is. George Clooney is awesome. He is awesome. He's from Omaha, too. No, he's not. Sorry. I was trying to tie it back in. I was like, whoa, how did I miss that?
Starting point is 01:37:04 I flew home yesterday on Southwest. There was like 40-something people on the entire not. Sorry. I was trying to tie it back in. I was like, whoa, how did I miss that? I flew home yesterday on Southwest. There was like 40 something people on the entire plane. Wow. Did you get a whole row? Yeah. Everybody got a whole. Well, let me ask you this though. Everybody could have gotten a whole row. Would you choose your own whole row or would you choose if someone's in the window seat and would you choose an aisle seat just to be further up or would you just choose to go back a little further now 40 people you're gonna deboard quickly anyway i'll take a whole row i'll sit in the middle i did that last week except in the
Starting point is 01:37:34 middle just spread out a little bit dude i think if it's that empty you're a weirdo for sitting next to someone if everybody can get their own row and you sit next to someone, even if there's a space in between, I think it's too much. Because I saw people do that. And I'm like, man, I think I would spread out a little bit more. Yeah. And if the lady, you know, I saw the lady in the window seat and then somebody sits down in the aisle seat and she kind of looked like, we got the whole plane here. What are you doing? At this point, you know, what are you going to do? And we got on and they announced the captain doesn't want anyone sitting in the first 20 rows to spread out.
Starting point is 01:38:08 And we'd already sat down and nobody moved. And then they never said anything again. Wait, wait, he's saying what? He doesn't want anybody in the first 20 rows to spread out? What does he mean? I'm sorry. I said that as two sentences into one. He wants this to spread out.
Starting point is 01:38:20 So he doesn't want anybody sitting in the front 20 rows. He wants to balance the plane. With the weight. With the weight. With the weight. So if you're in the first 20 rows, he wants you to move back? That's how I took it. Maybe he just meant everybody who's still getting on the plane. He was a really fat pilot. It's like, yeah, you're like, yeah, you want
Starting point is 01:38:37 that. But that ain't what you're going to get. But bottom line is they wanted everyone to spread out. But everybody still kind of congregated closer to the front. Of course. Yeah, you're going to. Yeah. And bottom line is they wanted everyone to spread out, but everybody still kind of congregated closer to the front. Of course. Yeah, you're going to. Yeah. And then they announced the A1 through 15.
Starting point is 01:38:52 There was nobody. Nobody bought the, you know. So the first number was A16 on the whole plane. Wow. I sat on the plane for an hour waiting to take off this weekend because they go, well, just letting everybody know we're waiting on maintenance to come up here. The pilot, my headphone jack doesn't work right here. So that's how we communicate with air traffic control.
Starting point is 01:39:17 So we're going to wait. Hopefully maintenance will come and help us out. So I'm going to sleep. So I go to sleep for like an hour and I wake up thinking i've slept through the whole flight we're still sitting there waiting for this headphone jack you stand up start walking off i go just put it on speakerphone dude we don't care back here and they eventually just go we'll just figure it out and they took off when you're like well if it wasn't that big of a deal why were we sitting on here for so long i got delayed so much yesterday i sat at the airport like four hours.
Starting point is 01:39:46 It just was like, no reason. They don't tell you. In Cleveland? No, in Charlotte. I flew from Cleveland to Charlotte, and then I just kept getting delayed. When it's that close, it's frustrating because you're like, I could have almost gotten here driving by now. A few more movies. Boys Town.
Starting point is 01:40:00 you know, a few more movies, Boys Town. Now I got, I got the, the, the backstory from, I should say, I should shout her out by name.
Starting point is 01:40:10 Colleen Quinn at the home off Honeybone. Great. One of the best. She is amazing. She was, she drove me to and from radio. We did Todd and Tyler in the morning. Zach and I had a great time,
Starting point is 01:40:22 but she, we drove through Boys Town and she gave the story of the area and what a cool thing that is. Is that what the movie's about, I'm guessing? Yeah, I think Mickey Rooney starred in it. It's an old movie, but I think it was about the real Boys Town. Yeah, it's a section of Omaha where they, I'm going to do a terrible job telling the story, but they take care of boys. Man, I feel like I've seen the movie.
Starting point is 01:40:47 That is powerful. They do a good job. They do a good job. About Schmidt. Did you ever see that movie? Oh, yeah. That's a great one. Jack Nicholson. It is a good movie. I love that one. He's a retired salesman, and
Starting point is 01:41:03 I think he's just having a hard time fitting into retirement life. Well, he retired. Yeah. They kind of forced him out, didn't they? Well, he retired, and then his wife dies right after that. And they had bought an RV, and they were going to travel all over. And then what's great is the beginning of the movie, he's talking about how much his wife irritates him and how he just hates her smell and this and that. And then his wife dies, and then he's real sad by it.
Starting point is 01:41:32 And then he tries to go back to his job, not to go back to work, but just to see if the new guy needs any help. And he's like, nope, I got it. Enjoy your retirement. So he just now is alone and feels useless. So he just kind of takes the RV on his own and it gets a little wild. He gets into some stuff. Kathy Bates is in it. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:41:53 Sounds like a fun ride. It's pretty fun. Alien versus Predator. Also based on a true story. I haven't seen Alien versus. Predator, but apparently it's set in Nebraska. It seems hard to believe, but I haven't seen it,
Starting point is 01:42:11 so I don't know. Aaron was playing footsie. I was supposed to say, you're washing your hands of that comment. I was like, I don't know what I said. Inappropriate.
Starting point is 01:42:22 Some other things invented in Nebraska. Kool-Aid. Oh, wow. That's where the kool-aid guys from it was invited by invented by a guy in hastings nebraska they did say there was a chef boyardee uh statue in omaha i guess oh i would have looked for that yeah that's what i looked at you like i'm sure you saw that i did go to shields when i was there yeah i went to shields it's pretty wild the the uh ferris wheels going off in there i had been to what the uh the outdoor store is that we talked
Starting point is 01:42:51 about that one time yeah and i had been to one in uh des moines i think but i hadn't been to the omaha one which feels like the flagship store it was packed in there and a ferris wheel going off and people eating and they got pets in there and it was crazy i don't think i've ever been you should check it out you should check it out it's fun i went twice wow oh we went i had to return something no you mentioned the omaha zoo it is like one of the top zoos they claim number one but i've heard a few places claim that columbus columbus and san diego what was the big is there a big display at the omaha zoo Number one, but I've heard a few places claim that. Columbus. Columbus and San Diego. What was the big?
Starting point is 01:43:26 Is there a big display at the Oma Zoo? Well, apparently the Asian Highlands is the signature exhibit for all the Asian stuff. Tigers and whatever else they got. I thought, I don't know what a highland is. They have a dome, the Desert Dome, dome it's called where it's closed in and they have all the desert stuff in there okay so that's kind of fun to walk through it though it's real humid and there's just dude i'm starting to think so many of these things it would be so much more fun if i was the only person there but like the zoo was so packed i mean that's the real zoo let
Starting point is 01:44:02 me tell you yeah there's just like maybe 100,000 people in there walking around. So packed. You can't walk anywhere. Well, there was a Instagram thing going on for a while where it was like what you see versus reality. It was kind of like that where it would show the zoo and then reality is like just people everywhere. Yes. Or like the Mona Lisa. And then you back up and it's a million people trying to look at it. That's what it felt like.
Starting point is 01:44:26 Yeah. You can't even walk quickly through it because it was so just like traffic jammed full of people. Were you there on a Saturday? We were there on probably the worst time to be there a Saturday when it was kind of warm outside. So it was just so packed. I went to the
Starting point is 01:44:42 San Diego Zoo when I was there last year and it was a weekday and I thought, man, I won't be too busy. Everybody is just packed. It's crazy, San Diego Zoo when I was there last year. It was a weekday. I thought, man, I won't be too busy. Everybody is just packed. It's crazy, right? Yeah. Nashville Zoo is like that. I'm like, how are all these kids out of school?
Starting point is 01:44:52 But they're field trips. I'm also just an adult without a kid going to these places. A lot of these places, if I had a kid with me, this would be unbelievable. I'm sure. Right? Which I will soon. Yeah, but I push Eleanor in a stroller and you can't get up close enough to the animals because there's so many people now when she gets older and can
Starting point is 01:45:11 walk on her own and i can hold her up but she was so young last time we went you know and the animals they don't cooperate they don't come over it's like animals don't do their part that's what i've always said about otters every every aquarium i'm at, there's like an otter tank. I've never seen an otter in there. The otters are never out. They're always resting. Yeah. See, I feel like the sea animals are usually easier because you're usually underground looking through the tank.
Starting point is 01:45:39 But the otter is one of those things where it's like, yeah, it's a water animal, but it doesn't have gills. Yeah. It's a mammal. Yeah. Most of the animals are sleeping in the back of the thing. And you're just looking at other people to try to figure out even. I do that. I walk up to exhibit and I'll just look to see where the other people are looking because I don't see anything in there.
Starting point is 01:45:59 And they're like, oh, there it is. I act like I'm there all the time. That's why I just go to the Bass Pro Shop here in Opry mills there's a few fish there that you can look at it's good enough for daisy she's like oh look at these fish good enough and uh we can be in and out it's like a zoo where they also sell guns yeah yeah get yourself one of these on your own yeah yeah here's some animals and here's the stuff to kill those animals. They sell fishing rods, too. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:46:26 I'm surprised no one's ever tried this to take one home. I bet they have. You know, there was an urban legend about the Opry Mills Mall that when the Nashville flood happened. Do you know this? No. That the- This was the Nashville flood of 2010? Yep, 2010.
Starting point is 01:46:45 When a lot of the city was underwater. Including Opry Mills Mall. And there was a restaurant there. I can't think of the name of it, but they had Piranha. Cheesecake Factory. I'm trying to think of what's right around there. There is like an Amazon restaurant.
Starting point is 01:46:59 Well, there's the Rainforest Cafe, but there was another one. I can't think of the name of it, but the... Imagine having a Rainforest Cafe, but another was another one. I can't think of the name of it. Imagine having a Rainforest Cafe, but another restaurant has piranha. I could be wrong, but I feel like it was another restaurant. It doesn't really matter, but the rumor was that these piranha got out during the flood and they were swimming around there in the mall
Starting point is 01:47:20 while it was underwater and while people were trying to get things sorted out. That's awesome. Yeah. If that's true, that's pretty good. I'm sure it's probably not true, but it's a fun thing to talk about. I don't know. Could they survive in freshwater? Piranhas are freshwater fish. I guess.
Starting point is 01:47:36 I think so. I think they're like, yeah, Amazon forest. So they could exist in the water from the Cumberland River, I'm guessing. Yeah. All right. Good for them. But not the tap water not the tap water no not without a filter no yeah yeah all right i feel like we need to cover nebraska very thoroughly all of nebraska covered we don't need to ever mention it again here on the podcast never no i would like to go check out western nebraska i feel like eastern nebraska gets all the love because it's got Omaha.
Starting point is 01:48:06 It's got Lincoln. Sioux City is up there. I'm going to give Western Nebraska a shot. If you live in Alliance or Scott's Bluff. Scott's Bluff is where I went. Yeah. If you live in one of those, I'd like to come visit. So, yeah.
Starting point is 01:48:19 Or Chadrome or Valentine. I'll see you there. I'm coming. Yeah. You got something you want to. Dusty's you there. I'm coming. Yeah. You got something you want to. Dusty's pulling up his calendar. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:48:29 What do you got going on this week? Where are you? Tonight? I think this is a college gig. So I don't think people are allowed to come there. But my friend was like, I got some buddies coming to see you. And I was like, I don't think they're allowed to come. And he goes, he told me that he goes, I heard they didn't sell enough tickets so they open it up to the public and i'm
Starting point is 01:48:48 like it's a college game i don't think they have tickets yeah but that's what he said it says free exclusivity for psc students so i'm guessing you can't come what is psc pensacola state college okay which is where i'll be tonight yeah uh so i don't know i've done college gigs where they've just opened up to the public okay so i don't know if you're allowed to come but i told my friend i mean this is how college gigs go they pay me a flat rate and then the students are allowed to come for free and then none of them come i mean that's that's how these gigs go and then i go on thursday and Friday, I'm in Panama City Beach. Both of those shows are sold out.
Starting point is 01:49:28 So people are trying to get tickets to see me in Panama City. Meanwhile, students for free in Pensacola won't come. Couldn't care less. And then Saturday, I'm at the Tampa Theater in Tampa, Florida. I don't think that's sold out yet, but it is getting close. It's going to be hot. I always have a good time in Tampa, so get I don't think that's sold out yet, but it is getting close. It's going to be hot. I always have a good time in Tampa, so get some tickets to that.
Starting point is 01:49:50 It's a great theater. It's going to be a lot of fun. Are you flying into Pensacola? Yeah, I am. Yeah, it's a fun little airport. Is it? I mean, I've been there twice recently, and it's small,
Starting point is 01:50:00 but it's just a nice, easy flight down there. I'm flying in, and I've i gotta tell you i've been renting cars lately yeah how's it been it's great but didn't you have a little dust up with enterprise well just at the nashville airport i i was so mad i tweeted about it and then i was like now i'm gonna take it down but i like i'm used to like i've been renting cars at the airport i check in ahead of time i just go up show, show my thing. They go, go down that section, get a car. So I show up on Friday to Nashville, and I waited in line, not at the counter.
Starting point is 01:50:32 I checked in, so I got past the counter, 20 minutes in line to get them to take me to a car. It's unbelievable. Oh, you drove to Louisville and Cleveland? I drove to Louisville, and then from Louisville flew to Cleveland. Oh, I see. So you rented a car. It was ridiculous to fly to Louisville and Cleveland? I drove to Louisville and then from Louisville flew to Cleveland. Oh, I see. So you rented a car. It was ridiculous to fly to Louisville. It was like leave at 5 a.m., get there at 12.
Starting point is 01:50:52 It was like I had to go all over the place when it's a two and a half hour drive. So I flew. I rented a car, drove to Louisville. It can be frustrating, but when it works, it's great. Yeah. I mean, the rest of the experience was great. I rented a car in cleveland had to take a shuttle out to a shuttle's the worst it's like that you go where's the rental car thing they go oh it's a shuttle 20 minute shuttle out to the out to the island yeah you're outside of cleveland you're in michigan yeah yeah that's
Starting point is 01:51:19 where the cars are yeah some of them are so far away you tweeted about that someplace you were like am i even in the same town yeah it's crazy um i'm in i'm sorry were you i think that's it i'm in and then you know next next week though i am in la and uh me and hannah are going to do our podcast so we're having a good time podcast at live at the comedy store it's awesome yeah uh so that's going to be great get some tickets to that friday la at the comedy store because That's awesome. That's going to be great. Get some tickets to that. Friday, LA at the Comedy Store. Because my shows, I'm doing two shows on Friday at the Troubadour,
Starting point is 01:51:51 are both sold out. Boom. If you want to see me, come see me at the Comedy Store on Friday. Me and Hannah. A little Bible talk. Yeah, well, I doubt it.
Starting point is 01:52:02 Probably leave that portion of the podcast out for us. There's a place that needs it, though. Yeah, that's true. I may do a little stand up on the show to open it. And then because I want there's some jokes that me and Hannah have both had a hand in writing for myself. So I thought it'd be fun to kind of do some of those jokes and then we can talk about. Is Hannah going to do a set? I doubt it.
Starting point is 01:52:20 Yeah. Yeah. We're pushing her. Hannah's very funny. So you should check her out. She has some very funny videos you should check her out she has some very funny videos on instagram and that's true yeah her instagram channel hannah slayish hannah underscore slayish has been doing very well she's had several videos she has a one video six
Starting point is 01:52:36 million views now it makes me jealous her latest one is almost at two million views and uh yeah i mean she it took me you know I can't tell you that much. I had to do a Tonight Show, a Comedy Central set. I was doing David Spade when Jimmy came alive. When I reached 10,000 followers on Instagram. She's at 12,000 now. Yeah. She's about to lap you quick.
Starting point is 01:52:59 Yeah. This Saturday, I'm in Fairfield, Connecticut. My first time ever to Connecticut. Yeah. You're going to want to leave quick. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. uh this saturday i'm in fairfield connecticut my first time ever to connecticut yeah and uh you're gonna want to leave quick i'm just kidding i'm just kidding well we'll see it's beautiful everyone's great we shall see i'm at uh in fairfield connecticut at fairfield comedy circle doing two shows there so please come to that if you're in the area please come because who knows when i'll be back um i don't mean that just means i don't know who will have me yeah yeah um and then uh may 10th i'm in uh shahalis washington
Starting point is 01:53:32 at mcfiller's theater fillers uh it's a mouthful yeah halos washington i know there's comedy i know it is but um washington is great though yeah it's about halfway between Tacoma and Portland, two places I've just been. Come in and split the difference. Yeah, if you're like, I don't want to drive an hour either of those directions, just come to this. Yeah. That's great. This weekend, this is Aaron Weber speaking, by the way, I'm in Atlanta, Georgia at the Punchline. All right.
Starting point is 01:54:04 All weekend, April 25th through the 28th. It's like 14 shows. It's like six, I think, but it's going to be a lot of fun. Are you doing a three-show Saturday? No, we're doing Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Well, maybe it's only five shows. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:54:19 Punchline used to do three shows on Saturday. Six, eight, and ten. Right. So come on out to see us in Atlanta. And then next week, I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the Looney Bin, the newly renovated Looney Bin that you've been to. Yeah, and I loved it. Yeah, I've heard nothing but great things about it. I'm throwing out the first pitch of the Tulsa Drillers game there. All right.
Starting point is 01:54:40 Really get some buzz going in the city. That's what I'm planning on. And then next week, after that, I'm doing the netflix as a joke festival too i'm doing a much smaller show than dusty's doing but i will be at the hollywood improv may 8th that's like a wednesday night so i'm trying to it's a small room i'm trying to sell it out but come come see me at the hollywood improv it's a great netflix as a joke festival you know the lab at the hollywood improv is what they modeled the lab at zany's right yeah same logo yeah i'm gonna become a lab guy i'm just gonna do the lab in every city i go to yeah awesome awesome thank you guys we love you all yeah i think nate's back next week yeah
Starting point is 01:55:21 it's all good vibes here yeah Yeah. Just good friends hanging out. We're having a good time. There it is. Dusty land. Yeah, this is great. Thank you, guys. Nate Land is produced by Nate Land Productions
Starting point is 01:55:44 and by me, Nate Bargetzi and my wife laura on the audio boom platform recording and editing for the show is done by genovations media thanks for tuning in be sure to catch us next week on the nateland podcast

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