The Nateland Podcast - 198: #198 Hollywood

Episode Date: May 1, 2024

This week, Nate has a run in with a fly while on stage and the guys analyze and critique their recent 40 yard dash attempt. Then with Nate, Dusty, and Aaron preparing to head to Hollywood, they look at the history of Hollywood, how to get a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, and discuss whether the Hollywood movie and TV industry is dying. Factor: Factormeals.com/nate50 Factor is the perfect solution if you’re looking for fast, premium options with no cooking required. Head to Factormeals.com/nate50 and use code nate50 to get 50% off your first box plus get 20% off your next month while your subscription is active! 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.

Today's episode of the Nate Land podcast is brought to you by Factor and Aura Frames. Hello folks and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. Nate Bird gets him back. Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slate. The gang's all here. It's all here. Happy to be sitting next to you, Aaron. Yeah, I missed you guys. I've been across, Ryan.

Yeah, a good bit. Yeah. Yeah, you might be next week. Am I out next? Yeah, I'm out next week, too. But then after that, I think you're here for a while. Yeah, I think there's a good stretch after that. Yeah, I'm not trying to not be here.

I'm not sitting on a lake. I think people think I don't know what to tell you. You're allowed to sit on a lake, though, if you want. Yeah. We've just been on the road. It's doing shows. It's, you know, we've just been on the road. It's doing shows.

I've been, you know, it's, I'm usually doing shows. Last Monday, we were doing a Monday show in Austin, Texas. Yeah, we told people. So, yeah, they seem nice about it. So we're over here now. Specials taped. That went great. It fun as in phoenix again uh it was very cool uh i showed y'all the open we've seen the i've seen the first cut the opening looks awesome i mean it looks it's just it's super cool very cool it looks very very cool so uh

hopefully you know i love there was a kid sitting up front and i love that uh also guy fell asleep i don't think we should have even showed him kind of even yeah they cancel each other out you know you this guy was like i could see him and it's like one of those where you just go you know you're like i i mean we won't show him on the thing, but you could, he was probably a little too much and he would just be like, he was way on board. Then I would see him just, you know, did you see him while you were on stage during the shows?

Did you say anything in the moment? Would you have, if the show weren't being taped? No, I don't. I leave, I try to leave it. Usually I can't,

it's pretty hard for me to see. Yeah. But front row, I feel like, you know, that's one for a to see. Yeah, but front row, I feel like you notice. That's one for a taping. You're like, well, this is my best stuff. Yeah. Oh, it's a big thing. You know.

Yeah. You know. I mean, again, I don't like pointing. It's like usually I always think if someone's nodding off, if it's obvious, then I would say it. But halftime, if someone's nodding off like that because they've maybe exceeded their limit, I think it's better

for them to be asleep. I don't think I need to get them. It's like a kid. You're just going like, I'm going to take the least prop. You sleeping is better than me getting you riled up. And that has happened at shows where someone's real rowdy.

And then like towards the end of the show, they fall asleep. Yeah. And it's like, all right, good. Good. Yeah. Yeah. You just, you just look at like, you just evaluate the situation up there and just kind of go like, all right, do I need to address it? I don't want to address it.

I mean, I get like, like when i do stand up it's like i just want to do my act like it's like you know you work hard on this act so you just want to be like let me do this present you know it's kind of a show uh you know but i mean we had we i think we were posting a clip uh we had out of fly uh keep hitting me in Houston. So, I mean, I had to address that. We had fireworks. I had to address. Like, you do have to address stuff, you know,

especially in these arenas. Like, it's big. The fly, usually because the fly, you can kind of, when you don't have a screen, you can just kind of ignore it and just be like, hopefully no one can really see it. But with this screen, you're like, I mean, hey. Did it land on you? Oh, yeah. It was like on me and they kept, you know.

Flies are tough. It's tough. That's something that, you know, in arenas, it's like you can always see little stuff flying because all the light is there. And, you know, I don't know. Probably a lot going on in the arena, too. Yeah. Not just comedy. No.

I mean, some of these are rodeos. Yeah. You know, you're like, yeah, there's, so we could put fly things around the.

A mosquito net. A mosquito net or what's the zip that goes zip. Oh, a zapper, bug zapper. Bug zapper.

Yeah. That could be pretty fun. That would be fun. You just have, you know, it's like a front porch. It's like a front porch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. it's like a front porch. It's like a front porch. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Just get light up some of these bugs. Oh, but yeah, overall. So, yeah, the special was great. It was fun. My parents surprised me. They came out.

Derek and I would go over there. And obviously, Laura and Harper. And it was, yeah, it kind of hit the ground running. This was the first one you've done over two nights uh yeah that I did two separate nights I think most of this will be from the second from Sunday night I think there'll be a mix and I think most Sunday night it's like you just end up being Saturday night was was awesome too they can both come from me that I would be fine with either one, but it's, it's,

you know, after we do the first night of taping, the, the, even the camera guys get better at, you know, they see me and they see your rhythm and all that. So then, uh, Sunday, you're just kind of in a nice group. The crowd was so great. I mean, yeah, it's, it's fun. I'm excited. Is there more pressure to make sure your hair clothes everything looks exactly like uh yeah i mean you know it's like i was wearing black in this jacket like there's not a lot yeah that can mess up the hair you know i did i did we took pictures and made sure so uh but man it's done it is done so'm excited. I saw your dad the first, when you were Saturday, I went to see him in Lebanon. And it was like a big Nate Bargatze.

Your buddy Jeremy was there with his mom. Oh, yeah. I was there with my mom. Michael Clay. Yeah. A lot of your friends were there. Yeah, yeah. That's great.

Yeah, he sold out. Yeah. Yeah, I think he had a lot of fun. It was great. Yeah, it's fun yeah um it's nice that everybody came out uh is there a relief after recording a special do you feel like all right it's yeah now i can do whatever yeah yeah yeah you're but i mean it's it's funny it's like you're the relief but then you have the panic of like, well, man, what if this is the end?

What if I stink now? I can't come up. Like, what am I going to talk about? I'm having a hard time thinking about the new hour, like trying to. But I remember you doing the same thing after the last one. Yeah, I know. And I thought I'd be more confident after this one. And then you're still just like.

Just go sit out by the lake. You know what I mean? Just go sit out by the lake. Just go sit out by the lake. Come up and it'll come to you. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Go sit out. Yeah, it's, you know, this one I have the most time because I don't,

I'm guessing the special will come out in the fall. I bet, or not really fall. I bet it's Thanksgiving, Christmas-ish. So, but that could float around and change i'm not positive but so i'll have the most time before i need a new hour like i won't need one until you know then but you know it's like you don't want to jane you know that special comes out i'm like all right let's start working you know it's like need to – I want to have it at least the direction I'm heading. But it was a nice relief.

It was – I was ready to get it done. I was ready to tape it. So good to go. It's exciting, man. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Where were y'all? I don't forget where I was this weekend, but somewhere.

Houston you were? Yeah, it was Houston. Yeah where I was this weekend, but somewhere. Houston, you were? Yeah, it was Houston. Yeah, we had the fly. San Antonio and Houston. Yeah, the San Antonio shows looked fun. Yeah, they were great. It was a theater. So everybody wearing cowboy hats and everything.

Yeah, yeah. It was fun to go back to the theater. San Antonio's who's keeping that look alive. And that's what I like to say. Yeah, San Antonio's a fun spot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

What do you think that fly was thinking? What's going through his mind? 20,000 people. Well, I say it in the, I might say it in the clip, but I was like, what I said on stage was like, the fly just like, where's the horse at? Like, it's usually a horse there. And he's just confused.

Yeah, what if this fly passed out at the rodeo and woke up, and he's like, what's going on out here? Yeah, what is this? Yeah, what's this guy? Yeah. I mean, I would wonder. Those big flies, they're just tough. I mean, because they can land on your head.

They had that Mike Pence or something that had a fly on it. You can have all this stuff happen where it's like you're trying not to take anybody out of the situation. Every now and then you got to do like a, just do a swipe if I feel. It's not a good look if your whole hair is white. Like Mike Pence, it looked real bad. Yeah. Yeah, it looked real bad. Yeah.

Especially if you're a politician too, it seems like weird that flies are landing on you yeah it seems worse yeah and it's tough because it's like even though flies land on everybody yeah it's just that situation it was a it was a debate yeah that's not when you want to well and you don't feel it at all which is that's the scary part is are you going to feel it yeah you ever i get scared up there like what if i'm not I think I'm trying to be hyper aware about it. But then you're like, what if I'm, you know, what if I don't? You ever get attacked by horse flies? You ever see those?

Yeah. Like swimming in the creek and stuff, and they'll just come at you and they bite you a lot. Yeah. Oh, they're huge, right? Yeah, and they just, yeah, they just keep coming. They just, yeah. It's like, we swim in the creek, you have to go under the water just to get away from them for a minute. Yeah. Yeah. Just to get keep coming. They just, yeah. It's like we swim in the creek. You have to go under the water just to get away from them for a minute. Yeah.

Just to get a breath. Yeah. You got to go under, no breath, to get a breath. Horseflies are crazy. Yeah. It's better to not feel it than for it to be a horsefly on stage. A horsefly would be a problem. You'd have to bring a bat on stage.

I mean, yeah. A regular fly is be a problem. You'd have to bring a bat on stage. I mean, yeah. A regular fly is like one thing. Maybe people don't notice it, you know. But a horse, I mean, they're big, dude. I have a tennis racket at home, special one that's like, it's electrified in the middle. Yeah.

And it'll zap them as you hit them. Oh, really? It's a lot of fun. And you have to charge it? No, you just put AA batteries in there. And it's made for this? Yeah. You can buy this?

Yeah, Amazon. Oh, yeah. Like 20 bucks, dude. How hard is it if you touch it? I've shocked myself a few times. It gets you. It's enough that you're like, God, it's not dangerous.

Yeah. Used to say you used to swat lightning bugs. Yeah, now I'm an adult and I'm doing it with electricity. All right. Would you put it in the bathtub with you?

No. No. I just see you saying it'll get you, but it's not enough to I know, but I mean, how much? I'm not trying to mess around

with it to find out. I wonder how much that would. Yeah. Is there, is it a certain amount of electricity that you can take a bath with? Let's see. Yeah. Is it a certain amount of electricity that you can take a bath with?

Let's see. Yeah. It's our next Krispy Kreme challenge. I'll find out tonight and I'll let y'all know. What's the limit? You know. It could be fun to have one of those, man. You just kind of have it.

Yeah. Sitting around. Just maybe when someone sits down, you put it right under them. Oh, yeah. This is the one I have right here. Oh, yeah. Battery powered bug zapping racket. A little Z right in the middle.

A little electric lightning bolt. It's a good time. Zap it. Why do they need the electricity? I mean, you're hitting it. I guess it's to make sure. No, it fries them up. Yeah.

No doubt. They don't even know what had them. Oh, you got a medium. There's actually a large, too. What's a large? That's if you got a real problem. That's a horsefly. Those are horseflies.

You need the XL model. Yeah. 3,500 volts. You'd think that'd be enough. Do you ever just let them land on it? No, I don't like to torture them. I want to put them out of their misery quick. It just seemed like swatting them, though, would do the job.

Is it just always on when the battery's in? I want to put them out of their misery quick. It just seemed like swatting them, though, would do the job. Is it just always on when the battery's in? It detects when something touches it and it zaps it. Oh, so it's always on. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Does it last a long time? I haven't had to replace the battery yet, but I think the fly's got the message right away. Zap it.

Yeah. I mean, it's fun. Can you smell the bugs when they burn? I mean, I don't know. You leave them on there that long. Oh, you take them off? Yeah, you kind of

shake them off. Yeah, if they get trapped in there, there's wiring and then they get fried up, probably, but I shake them off. Yeah. I thought,

I would think they would hit and go flying. No, they stay, they stay lodged in there. So even if you're swinging, they would stay lodged. Because it's all, it's all all this web of electrified metal. And then you just go hit it on the rail outside.

Shake it off. Shake it off. Leave the bodies out there for the other flies. Let them know. To let them know what's up. You ever have one get away? You ever hit one and then it still get away? Not yet.

Like a wing. Just got a wing off. And you see him kind of spiraling. He's like, up, up, pull up. Like a wing. Just got a wing off. And you see him kind of spiraling. He's like, up, up, pull up. Like a plane going down. Yeah, not yet. I was in Fairfield, Connecticut. How many flies you got in your house?

It was a problem for a while. Oh, this is in the house? In the house, right outside the house. You have several cats, too. He has a dad raccoon on his porch. I've got some animal problems at the place currently, but I went to Target, Dollar General, and I just bought all the fly stuff that I could find. I was throwing the kitchen sink at them for a minute. They seem to be under control.

Spectracide made a good fly thing to get rid of. Oh, did it? Yeah. You hang those little sticky traps. Well, this is by Hot Shop, but it's a Spectracide brand, but it doesn't stick to it. They apparently take from it

and then it goes and then it kills them. Oh. So you don't have flies just sticking. It kind of looks like an air freshener. Yeah.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to hang up a few of those. Yeah. And then they fly off and then...

Yeah. And then they die later. I mean, you put those around the stage and just on screen, you're just seeing just flies are just dropping just dropping hard yeah i mean i bet they have those at the rodeo i mean a rodeo it's wild that they'll have a rodeo and then clean it up and like let's do some comedy how about a hockey hockey match? You know, it's like, I mean, just bring in a lot of dirt and then they get it out of there.

Yeah. Yeah. The production of those arenas is crazy. Yeah. How they switch it up so quickly. I wonder, I thought about a fan. I was like, if you could get some kind of fan up there just around you, like blowing a little bit, because doesn't that usually stop them?

They can't fly on a fan. Maybe you just have a guy with a zap at racket. Yeah. That's ready. Just like one of those guys that get the tennis balls. Yeah. That runs across. Chase could do it.

Yeah. He just stands there and just waits. And I go, look, he'll be coming up quite often. I don't like to address it. You'll hear it too. When it zaps, it sounds like a gun going off. Yeah. What a fun special that will be.

You're just telling jokes. Here comes a guy. Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. Zap it. You could call it a special, though.

Zap it. Zap it. Yeah. I don't know if you do a full hour. You probably do a five-minute special. Something like that. This might be an Instagram reel. A tease.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It might need to be under 20 seconds. But it could be very funny. You're saying Connecticut, Brian? That's where you were? I was in Fairfield, Connecticut. My first time ever to Connecticut. I think even they were a little surprised I came.

Just because it's about an hour from New York. So most of the time they get comics from New York to come over. But I went and they even asked me when I said, I'll come. They said, are you going to be in the area? I'm like, no, but I'll come. So I was there for less than 12 hours. Oh, wow. I got there a little bit after five in the afternoon for a seven o'clock show.

It's not easy to get there. And then- It's not easy to get there. And then. It's not easy. What'd you fly in New York? White Plains. Oh yeah. And then my Uber picked me up at 4.30 in the morning. So I was there about 11 and a half hours. Wow.

But it was great. It's a show at a hotel. They set up chairs in the lobby. In the lobby. Uh-huh. Not even in a room. Like a conference room. Nope. It's in the lobby. In the lobby. It's in the lobby and in the lobby uh-huh not even in a room like a like a conference room nope it's in the lobby it's like people could be checking in while it's going on they were oh wow and did you stand behind the check-in desk and that's where the set was no i was kind of fate and they have

a curtain that kind of blocks it off a little bit not a little bit it does block it off but there's a fireplace, like a mantle. You stand in front of it. Oh yeah. I like that. There were three comics from New York that were on it. And then, then I was the headliner and it was a lot of fun. A lot of folks came out.

We had a good time. And you stayed at that hotel. Yes. Okay. Yep. How about that? It's kind of nice. Yeah.

Your hotel room. Oh yeah. Yeah. You get a gig in the there was a yeah i i remember just doing a show in a hotel there's a state the harrisburg comedy zone is right in the hotel the jacksonville comedy zone there's an old clip you ever see the one the old video of rory scoville doing a show in a hotel lobby and he's got a wireless mic and he goes up the elevator and he starts walking around yeah oh that's hilarious he starts knocking on people's doors and interviewing

them it's fun i've not seen that yeah i think dustin chafin just did it recently yeah um but yeah it was a lot of fun so thanks for everybody who came out yeah i think i remember doing one because it was crazy because it was like you just mean, you could go to the show could start and you could be up in your, you could be in your room. And then you could just go down. You wait to hear the feature go up. Yeah. Yeah. Walk downstairs.

Yeah. People see you come out your door and shut it. Make sure you lock it. Then you come down and walk right on stage. Yeah. Hello. The Wichita Looney Bin, the headliners bedroom in the condo shares a wall with the club oh really you can just lay i remember laying in bed and you can hear the feature get

brought up and you're like all right let's walk out and you're just in your room i was laying in bed laying in that bed fighting the depression that's right there's also no windows in that condo oh really you're just in a depressed state like I'm about to do comedy. I remember thinking, you know, I don't look out windows that often, but when you don't have a window, you'd like a window. Yeah. Yeah. I've not even told before.

I had a hotel in Austin, Texas, and the window, only window I had showed the inside of the lobby because it was like in, you know, it was. Like one of those embassy suites type. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean, I couldn't, I had to switch. I like got claustrophobic. I was like, I don't think I can do this.

Like, you know, just not having, not seeing the outside was like. Yeah, it's like solitary confinement. Yeah, I was like, I can't. I got to go to where I can see. Yeah, the sun's good for you. We need it. We need to see it. We need to see it. Yeah, I think it's kind of crazy when the hotels do like you should you know if you got rooms i guess some

you're betting that some people do not care or maybe you like looking inside because you like seeing people walk around and all that yeah i don't know if i've ever seen that a hotel like the abrilette hotel has that where you can look out in the. Your window. But they have another window to the world, right? This hotel is like you walk in. So there's rooms to your right. And in the middle, there's a square courtyard.

That's the lobby of the hotel. So the hotels in the middle, their window looked inside the hotel. And so you weren't, you know. But if you're on the other side, you would see outside. Yeah, I don't like that. Which is a prettier view. Honestly, I mean, like you kind of, the view is. A courtyard could be better than a parking lot. Yes.

Yeah, but I'd like to be able to tell what time of day it is. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I think you could do it if you were in like Florida where they had an open ceiling or something like that. But the Wichita Looney Man, the only view is the other comics that you're looking at. That's true.

You're not even looking at a lobby. And if one of them are bombing throughout the weekend, it's just an awkward hang all weekend. Yeah, it's tough. Yeah. Because you're all in the same room? Well, same condo. It's a three-bedroom condo. The headliner's room is huge.

Then the features room is a little smaller. And then the host room is a tiny, barely big enough for the bed to be in. Yeah, it's like a brick wall room. It's just dark and musty in there. Like a prison. Yeah. I like that they're different sizes. Yeah.

They let you know. There's something to work up to. There's a hierarchy to this. I did a they're different sizes. Yeah. They let you know. There's something to work up to. There's a hierarchy to this. I did a triple feature weekend there, and I showed up. I was the last one to get there, so I had a tiny room. And then the other, the guy who got the headliner room was bombing all weekend. I was really doing the best. You're like, we should switch.

And it was pretty awkward that it was like the guy bombing all weekend has got the big headliner room. Yeah. I'm having good shows and I'm in this tiny hole. Yeah. He's got the private bathroom. You got to share one with the other guy. Yeah. Well, I was in Atlanta this weekend at the Punchline.

Six shows. One of them sold out. Oh, look at that. Which was very fun. That's a real feat. I've never seen a sold-out show there. The other five were very much not. But that one show was great.

Honestly, all of them were fine, except one was very weird. It was barely a show. It was kind of me just, they go, just go talk to these people. That's what it felt like. Thank you. A lot of people came out. A lot of people gave gifts. I want to give a shout- to Nancy Samples Johnson brought a ton of stuff for all of us.

She was at the show. Nancy Johnson. Yeah. Yeah. She came to see to see you, I think. And she's she's great. And just and Reg Griffin came to see Reg Griffin did come. Yeah.

Yeah. We're starting to know all these people. Yeah. Which is which is fun. Crowds are great. Thank you to everybody that came. Yeah. Which is fun. The crowds were great. Thank you to everybody that came. Atlanta, what a town. We stayed right next to this Little League ballpark. So Matt Taylor, who I brought

with me, we got some gloves and we walked out there and just threw the ball around. We're two guys in our 30s. There's all these kids playing baseball. I sailed the ball over his head by accident and it rolled into some kids taking batting practice. The dad looked over and was like,

what are y'all doing? We got pretty embarrassed and just went home. Yeah, that's tough. Where were you at? You in the outfield? There was one field that wasn't being used, so we just walked out there in the outfield and we're throwing the ball around.

How did you throw it? You threw it into another field? I threw it over his head, out of the field. It rolled into the batting cages where the kids were taking BP. But where were y'all standing throwing? Why would you? Like pole to pole.

It was a small tee ball field. Oh, so you're throwing, like doing... We were doing long toss. Long toss. Doing too much. I don't like that the dad looked at you like that, though. It's like you are out there pitching the ball. It's not like you're out there causing trouble.

Well, I mean, we were throwing the ball into kids trying to practice. They're doing stuff that 18-year-olds do. Yeah. And it looks like he could have a kid out there. I should have a kid out there how old I am. Yeah. And so the dad's like are y'all like you know he's like come on guys yeah and we're like all right i mean i agree with you on

some level we're not really causing problems but it's weird that we're out there you're not causing problems no one notices but once the ball comes over because then you're like you know i'm good enough to keep it in the field yeah well you gotta blame matt how hard did you yeah i'm gonna blame matt you gotta you gotta run Should he have called it? I mean, he's a shorter guy. If he were the height he should be, he would have called it. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, good times. Thank you, Elena. I had a hot week. I went down to Florida. I got a picture taken of me out in the wild, and I was wearing a shirt, and people have been harassing me about it. But I was on my way to the show. But I went to Pensacola. Wait, what? Well, you're wearing a shirt. Oh, you're wearing a shirt and people have been harassing me about it but i was on my way to the show you know yeah but i went to pensacola wait what well you're wearing a shirt yeah because you say you like to go shirtless in florida it's you know i do but you know it's still you know it's april it's not we're not peak season yet it's not real hot what was it if you go inside a building you

have a shirt yeah but i was outside yeah but but i was going to the show, but I just want to address that. I do get shirtless out there, but not every second of the time I'm out. But I did a show in Pensacola, college gig. And I guess, I don't know, college students weren't showing up or whatever. So they just started selling tickets, which they're not really allowed to do with the deal, but they did. And so I found the link and I started sharing it. Turned out to be a good show. Then I did two shows, Thursday, Friday, Panama City Beach.

Beach is comedy club, a new club in town. And then the other one was Captain Anderson's Seafood Restaurant. I don't know. They have a performance space. Both sold out. Great, hot shows. I've not been to Panama City in like 20 years. My dad met his wife there when I was 15 at the Fontainebleau Hotel.

I drove by. It's still there. Still looks the same. You went up down the strip. I did, but it was- The Fontainebleau? Yeah. Is that how you say it?

I think so. Isn't it the Fountainbleau? I don't think so. You know what I'm talking about? It's like a nice hotel. I have no idea. It's spelled F-O-N-T-A-I-N-E. Yeah, it might be Fountain Blue.

I think it's like French or something. I doubt anybody's saying it right now. Yeah. There's one in Vegas that I think is like empty. It's supposed to be like a five-star hotel. It's supposed to be a big, big, nice hotel. The one in Miami, I think is, yeah, it's like a five. I think it's a real deal.

Is it spelled like that? Five-star hotel, yeah. Yeah, but like a space in between Fontaine and Blue. Oh, okay. You can look that hotel up too if you want, and then we can just go ahead and clear this whole thing. Sorry. Sorry to interrupt.

That's okay. I mean, I don't, Fontainebleau. Oh, maybe it is one word, but yeah, I'm sorry. But I would say it's still the Fontainebleau is what I would call it. But, you know, it could be wrong. Nobody was at the front desk back then correcting you. Right. Yeah.

But I wrote up down the strip a little bit, but this was a Thursday night. Nobody was at the front desk back then correcting you. Right. Yeah. And they made me. But I wrote up down the strip a little bit, but this was a Thursday night. It was not the same strip. I remember. I mean, when I was down there in like the late 90s, early 2000s, I mean, it was packed. I mean, cars both ways just were just riding, yelling at each other, the music blaring, people probably doing a lot of underage consumption and it's just a real party you know beads and it's like it was not like that it's

nice to see it's a little cleaned up and as a you know a sober married man I'm like happy to see that it was like a nice family beach down there now yeah and then I went to Tampa, Florida to the Tampa Theater. Sold out. It was great. It was hot. Very hot show. How much time did you do? I did about an hour and 20 minutes. Okay. That theater is awesome.

It is awesome. Very old theater. Yeah. Yeah. So awesome. And yeah, it was hot shows. I did the show of Fallon there. Oh, yeah?

Yeah. Yeah. It was sold out enough that before the show had sold out on the marquee out there. Yeah. Oh, that's Yeah. Yeah, it was sold out enough that before the show, it had sold out on the marquee out there. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, that's great. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a really cool theater. That's a good theater you could shoot a special in. Yeah. It's very old and very like got a lot of character. Like the ceiling is like that kind of light blue, like it's almost the sky. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah., like it's almost the sky. Oh, that's awesome.

Yeah. Yeah. That's an awesome one, dude. Yeah, it was good. It was a hot week. Yeah. It's like another kind of like- You had a very variety of places you did shows. Yeah, a triathlon of shows.

We did a college club. A beautiful theater, a college, and a seafood restaurant. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of you in a nutshell. But all great shows. I mean, the Beaches Comedy Club is like brand new, and a seafood restaurant. Yeah. That's kind of you in a nutshell. But all great. I mean, the Beaches Comedy Club is like brand new, like four weeks old. Like the stage looked like a deck.

It was like the front, like a built, like a deck. But it was hot. It was great. One of my old Spectracide bosses came out and we hung out. It was one I liked. And yeah, we hung out on some picnic tables. Is he still doing it? No, he works a similar job but uh different different company yeah oh and i ran into a scott's rep outside of the uh

tampa we took a picture outside of the tampa theater and uh i still felt a little hate for the guy you know i don't even know him but he worked for the competition just out of loyalty to spectra so yeah we joked about it a little bit but deep down i was like i'd like to tear down this guy's display yeah how do you know the display up no but i mean that's what i used to do he's got one somewhere and i wanted to go to tampa lowes and just tear down a scott's display just how do you know he was wearing a uniform he's wearing a scott shirt yeah did he did he come to your show he said he was i didn't see i actually saw him outside of my hotel. Yeah.

So. And Scott's was the number one. Is this a little bit like a David and Goliath situation? Yeah, for sure. Except in this, you know, David is not like a righteous man. You know, Spectre side being, it's still a bad company. You know, it's like almost like a Goliath and like a little Goliath. You root for the little Goliath.

You're like, yeah, the underdog. Because you're the David in this story, so it's okay. Yeah, to some degree, I guess. But they won, though. In this story, they won. I mean, in the end, Scott's wins. They actually, Bayer, which is the even bigger company, which owns like Bayer Aspirin, I think merged with Scott's. So they became like the ultimate, you know, company. They're doing stuff outside your body, inside your body.

Yeah. Yeah. They got all the money. Yeah. They got everything. Bayer seemed like a little company, even though their umbrella company was probably the biggest of all of us, but they were

a small company. That's funny if you went to their headquarter and you're like, I have a headache. They're like, that's what we do. You start talking about weeds, he's like, I'll get you. He goes two cubicles over and you're like, let's get some

weed stuff. We got the stuff Let's get some weed stuff. Yeah. We got the stuff that's probably causing that headache. That's toilet paper too, isn't it? I don't know about that. I don't think. No, I said. Oh, is this the same?

Scott. Oh, okay. I thought you were talking about Bayer Toilet. Yeah, I thought you were. I've never heard of that. I've never heard of that either. Scott is. I'm taking it wrong.

It's like an old. They're tied in with Monsanto. Monsanto owns Roundup. And then the Scots reps repped Roundup. Monsanto's doing good stuff, right? I don't know. I mean, it's debatable. I was kidding. I don't think...

Somebody gave me this Western Sizzling hat, though, in Panama City Beach, too. That looks legit. Did they take it off their head? Maybe. No, it was in a little bag they uh yeah it was in a little little cellophane bag oh it looks a little used but it also looks good it's good yeah i think that's what it's supposed to be yeah yeah you don't want a fresh western yeah i'm wearing all masters i went to the masters just on the thursday i haven't been here since I've been back.

How was it? It was awesome. Yeah. And you walk around. I wanted to see the holes. So it was, I got to watch. I saw Tiger and he was playing with Jason Day. I went and saw some Scotty Scheffler. Scotty Scheffler, again.

No one cares about golf, but if you're into greatness, this guy's on, it's ridiculous right now. Quite a tear he's on right now. Yeah, I mean, it's tiger-like of just, I mean, this dude won like three in a row, or four out of five,

or, I mean, crazy. And so... Had you never been to Augusta no oh wow no Scott is a great I haven't met him but I mean he seems like a wonderful person too uh but uh no so I wanted to kind of see the holes because it was like well you see them on tv and so you're like let me go I want to kind of see what they look like in person amen Amen, corner and all that. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, it was awesome. I bought some sunglasses, and they were like special master sunglasses. Lost them within an hour. And man, that bummed me out.

They were. How'd you lose them? They were just, I had to buy like a hat. To be honest, I was getting, I get recognized a lot out there. Because I went out there first, I did not have a hat. I did not really think about it. It was a lot. And everybody was always nice.

Yeah. But it was, so it was like, all right, well, I need to, so I had to go. About like a Groucho Marx mask with the big nose. I had to do something. It was very funny. The cop, there's a cop that goes, he needs to, you need to get a hat if you want to walk. So I go. We were going to get stuff anyway.

So I bought a hat that covers your ears. And then I had these sunglasses. Like a hat with a little. Like a bucket hat. Oh, OK. You know, it was like. I don't know what that is. It's bucket season.

You know what a bucket hat is. You know what a bucket hat is. You know what a bucket hat is. It's like a Popeye. Oh! Yeah. You were like, Popeye wear a bucket hat? Kind of. But he wore just a sailor's hat.

But it's a little bucket-ish. Okay. And so something like that, you know. And I was like, I don't really wear those. But I was like, you know, the sun was out. It was very windy. And I had this thing that, I don't really wear those. But I was like, you know, it was, the sun was out. It was very windy. And then I had this thing that I had them sitting on top. And then they just must have fell somewhere.

Yeah. Yeah, it's tough. I was bummed out. I really like, they were numbered. It was the number 45. So they're, which is my age. And so you could buy certain,

you know, they only made like 200 of them. Oh, man. So if anybody's getting Masters sunglasses at number 45, you can have them. You can have them.

I don't need them back, but just let me know they're in good hands. Just know where they came from. Yeah. And don't mistreat them. I saw some people commenting on Jason Day's attire.

Yeah. Was that a thing? Yeah, the company, he's Malbon, or I have some shoes. But it's very loose-fitting kind of clothes. And so he was wearing that. And he had one that looked like Marlboro. It might have even said the name of the thing. And I think they told him not to wearing that. And he had one that looked like Marlboro. It might have even said the name of the thing. But I think they told him not to wear that.

They were like, you can't wear, you can't wear like, you know, with being Augusta, they don't want it to be that flashy. That Marlboro, that Malbo, it's Malbo. That one, they told him no. I think he had it on and they were like, you got to take it off. Yeah, I can see that. But it but it's yeah it's very loose close i i guess it's loose closer than in what's what's cool now i don't know yeah skinny jeans are out they're saying and now it's like you know you're back to looser jeans now yeah yeah i don Yeah. So that's what people are saying. I don't know. Uh, all right.

So you guys comments, uh, Alicia holder. I tried for a long time to get into podcasts, literally could not get into anything for very long. And I started binging Nate land after a tick tock had me dying. Now I'm hooked. I love each and every one of these guys.

From Nate's comedic genius, Brian's awkward sweetness, Aaron's quick wittiness to Dusty's conspiracy theories. Thank you for making our Wednesday much more fun. Keep it up, guys. You can appreciate my comedy some. Look at mine.

Comedic genius, awkward. Yeah. Sweetness. Yeah, sweetness is nice. Mine are not even real theories. I mean, come on, guys. It's something, though.

Something. It is. I appreciate you, Alicia. Thank you, Alicia. Thank you, Alicia. Matt K. I'm not even

30 seconds into the Eclipse episode and I just wanted to say thank you for the best Nate Land ever this is a heavy hitter episode it was a fun episode, just good chemistry with who was there nobody holding us back

it took us two to replace you well I did see that, I saw you say that, I appreciate that and I want to say I missed that I didn't get to race you guys I saw you guys that. I appreciate that. And I want to say I missed that I didn't get to race you guys. I saw you guys had a race, and I'm like, I mean, I at least could have got third place. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Okay. I think people would like to see you run. Yeah. I think we got a comment about that coming up. Derek Jones. Shout out to the video team. Great looking Eclipse episode. Yes, y'all did great.

Y'all did. It really looked awesome. Huh? I guess. Well, I mean, our backs were to the sun. We had to turn around and look at it every time in the Eclipse. Yeah. And then I texted.

I'm joking. But I texted with Tristan and I said, Tristan, now that I see how good it looks, I know why y'all did that with those bleachers behind us. Yeah. And he goes, actually, we thought the sun was going to go the other direction. Which is so funny. Yeah. But honestly, I'm kidding. It looked great.

Yeah. The lighting in it looked awesome. It did. I don't know what the sun's going to do during an eclipse. I don't know what that thing's going to do. I think that's the whole point is we know precisely what it's going to do. To the second, we know what it's going to do during the clips? You don't know what that thing's going to do. I think that's the whole point is we know precisely what it's going to do. To the second, we know what it's going to do. Yeah, it was very cool to see it get dark on the screen.

Yeah, that was fun. What were you doing? Hungered out? No, I was just living my life, and I did go away. And then I did go outside. At one point, I was know i i did go out at one point i was like it seems weird outside right now i was like what's going on out here you forget forgot the eclipse yeah and then i put on i had didn't have any kind of eclipse glasses so i put on two pair of sunglasses and looked up at the sun and i was like oh the eclipse is happening yeah and then i yeah i

kept i had to i was but why did you if you didn't know the eclipse was happening why did you put two sunglasses well once I saw how weird it was I was like oh maybe the eclipse is happening

yeah and then I looked at it and then I was like Hannah look at it and she's like I've already tried to look at it it hurts my eyes

and then we just went back to moving rocks yeah we were moving rocks yeah yeah no

yeah I didn't want to give you know at any any praise yeah right these saw it yeah i didn't see it yeah i did see it like the scots and it is pretty yeah exactly like the scots yeah like i know you're there i know you yeah yeah but i don't really want to acknowledge i don't want to acknowledge it. I don't want to acknowledge it. Yeah. I don't want to give you any praise. Yeah. Lance Wallace, great Eclipse episode. Warren and Chris are definitely top four guests.

What I appreciate most was the amount of awe and wonder directed at John's thumbs compared to the Eclipse. Love that you guys are keeping it real. Well, reading that, I appreciate that about you guys. You're like, you know, you don't care about the eclipse either. You're like, look at John's thumbs. Yeah, I'd never seen thumbs like that. Yeah, we've never seen them.

What did it do, bend back a lot? Yeah. Bend back at a 90 degree angle. Yeah, it took a hard turn. Wow. Yeah. What do you think that's all about? You know, probably the eclipse.

Yeah. Yeah, he was normal. Like he's some kind of shape shifter. know, probably the eclipse. Yeah. Yeah. He was normal. He's some kind of shape shifter. His thumbs followed the eclipse. I knew there was something about John. Probably reptilian. Yeah.

It's like how plants move with the sun. Yeah. Matthew Hawkins. I got an interview for a high school principal job. All right. My wife's first words were, that's going to be during the eclipse. Fast forward to the interview, we paused to go outside where I find myself staring at the sun

in a suit with seven strangers. At the end, the superintendent said, well, that was anticlimactic, to which I juggling implied, me or the eclipse. No one laughed, and I had to go back in and finish the interview. That's a good joke.

That should have gotten a laugh. That should have gotten a laugh. That is a good joke. That should have gotten a laugh. I don't know if you got the job, Matthew, but if you didn't, it's a blessing in disguise. Yeah, you don't want that. You want to be hanging around those people every day? I'd like an update though, Matthew. If you want to comment, let us know. Did you get that job? That's a solid joke.

And those high school principal, I know just because this is what my family does. Those job searches are like big endeavors. Sometimes they take a long time. Those job searches are like big endeavors. Sometimes they take a long time. A lot of people are being interviewed. So, yeah, keep us updated, man. That's big.

Because this is probably for the fall, I'm guessing. Yeah. Yeah. Or maybe even farther out. And also, what did that guy expect? What did the superintendent expect was going to happen? Has he ever seen an eclipse before? Well, it sounded like just how you described it for yourself.

Anticlimactic. I don't know what he wanted. He wanted probably more fire. Yeah. He thought it was going to fall out of the sky or something. He thought the earthquake was coming. That's why he was like, yeah, I'll do the job. Yeah, that is kind of.

That would be. But someone that would say that, I guess, wouldn't get a joke either. Yeah. Yeah. Because he's saying well that was anticlimactic you're like what do you you know is it something that doesn't happen every now and like you're like i don't know what else too much stuff's going on this world you should be impressed by something uh how old was the superintendent? Probably old.

Maybe he's been through a lot of them. Yeah. That could be. Yeah. And we also don't know where Matthew lives. It could have been just a very partial eclipse. Yeah, where it wasn't. Yeah, it weren't in totality.

Yeah. It's weird, though. It was like, I just remember the day I was just out there, and I'm like, it seems so weird out here. Like the light, I was like, it just seems weird. Did you hear bugs more? I didn't really, but I just was like, why is it so weird out here? You totally forgot about it? Well, I was doing stuff.

I got out there and I got to work. And for some reason, I thought since you guys were traveling to do it, then I wouldn't even see it. Because you were traveling, I thought you had to go to where you could see the eclipse. traveling to do it, then I wouldn't even see it. Like, you know, cause you were traveling. I thought you had to go to where you could see the eclipse. I think it was pretty cloudy here. Or was it,

could you, I saw it. I was able to look up. Yeah. Were you in McMinnville? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. I think if we would have stayed here, we wouldn't have really seen it. We went to a really good spot. Yeah. Okay. Uh, Nick, we wouldn't have really seen it. We went to a really good spot. Yeah. Nick Elizondo. Might be right.

Nate's saying he would be 65 at the next Eclipse and Aaron responded with, you'd be the same age as Brian now. Did not get the attention he deserved. Hilarious. That was a solid joke. Yeah. Thank you, Nick. Yeah.

Good job. Looks like Elizondo. This might sound crazy. Looks like a woman's last name. Yeah, it does. Maybe it's Nikki. Wouldn't it be Elizonda? Because of Alicia.

Yeah, Elizabeth. I'm just saying, for that last name, I think the women look better than the men. Maybe it is Nikki. Maybe it's Nikki. Maybe. Yeah, maybe it's her. I was driving back from Atlanta last night with my wife, and we drove past an Ambassador Inn, a big neon sign for the Ambassador Inn. And the R was out, and we're driving and lucy

goes the ambasado in that sounds so great ambasado what would it be ambassador oh ambassador yeah genuinely like yeah ambasado yeah yeah uh thanks for letting us get a taste of your life. A glimpse, I think. That's funny. No, I'm joking. It's funny. It's nice to everybody at home get to, you know, they go, what's a Lucy Aaron car? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was curious. That's the kind of hijinks we get into. The one time they talked the whole ride. Took their hair. It was one of three or four ride. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was curious. That's the kind of hijinks we get into. The one time they talked the whole ride. Took their hair. It was one of three or four times, yeah. You could ride quiet

in the car. Because you're watching West Wing, right? No, I mean, Matt Taylor, the other comic, was with me. So Lucy sat in the back

and kept to herself. Yeah. And she poked her head into, say, Ambasado and laughed and then she went back to her. Yeah, yeah. Heather B. I've just seen Bean Dip herself. She poked her head in to say ambasado and laughed and then she went back to it. Heather B.

I've just seen Bean Dip run the 40-yard dash. I think we may have to revisit the debate that he would blend in better on a soccer field than Dusty Wood in the pool. That's what I've been saying the whole time. It's insane that the argument even went this far.

No offense to Brian. No, no, no, no. Yeah, the majority of the comments, even though I didn't – Nate had a pretty good run, I'll say. I mean, you won, right? Nate did win. John would have beat me. John ran – yeah.

Brian's run is – you can really see him get going. That's I'm trying 110%. There is something going on with your shoes though. It feels like you're running on. I mean, it looks like his upper and lower body are not the same person. Yeah. And so he's, he's like, it looks like he's on a ride. He's trying to make you go, but the lower body won't go.

He looks like me cranking that thing. He's cranking it and he's like, why is mine not going as much? Everybody's like, I don't know, maybe it got stuck or something. You should have took your shoes off for the ride. A lot of people come in, I was wearing clown shoes. We're all wearing jeans too. Aaron looked good running out. Aaron pulled up

right there. He does a little ankle fold maybe or something something gave about two seconds in i thought i'm gonna fall and i just didn't want to fall yeah yeah greg warren's run scares me though he looks like i would not want to fight greg warren i mean look at that he runs on the wall yeah yeah i mean it's still what everyone say a d1 athlete that guy looks like he did i mean d1 yeah. It's not a pretty run, but he looks like he would...

It's an intense run. He would beat you to death. He's running somewhere. John got off to such a slow start. When John started running, we all laughed because we thought he was jokingly running slow. He re-raced right after that. He raced his girlfriend, and it was like

5- five the second time now he would have yeah well he took off too slow yeah well john played sports in college too i think another yeah but not d1 well d6 or whatever yeah they're barely a college no i think sanford's are they d1 i don't know what they yeah i don't think they might be d1 yeah i mean it's tennis so they're probably they're on the back side of d1 but yeah it's not i think wrestling i think wrestling above is i think missouri d1 wrestling is above sanford tennis oh completely you know and greg was an all-american yeah and he excelled it's crazy yeah yeahy, where do you think you would fall in this? We were all between

six and seven seconds, which is... I think I can get below six. I think so, too. How far was it? 40 yards. It's what's called the 40. I have no idea, but I just saw this and I was like, I would have wanted to participate in this. So you just think, basically,

you just think you can beat me and Brian. Well, for sure. I think I could have beat Greg, too. In a race, not a fight. Okay. I just want to make that clear. Okay. As bad as I looked, I'm still happy.

I mean, I thought I might lose by two seconds to everybody. We were all within a half a second of each other. Yeah, I think when the four-year-old dad said a half second means a lot more than. I mean, there can't be. If you're two seconds behind, you're like – I mean, we're not. Now, if you – I don't know. If they showed up and Brian, he goes, you ran an eight. You're like, God.

You wouldn't even know. I mean, I didn't know. Until we did it, I was like – Because I haven't seen the scores. Yeah. I think Rich Eisen just did it this weekend. He did 6.25. Oh, really?

So he would have been right in there. Yeah, he would have been right in there. Greg would have beat him. The Rich Eisen run in the 40, that's my favorite. Oh, Greg beat John. I didn't see it. Oh, he runs at every NFL draft in a suit. His logo is my favorite logo of anybody

because it's him running the 40 in a suit with his tie, so it's his silhouette of him oh that's and he does it every nfl draft it's my favorite logo because i just like i love the idea i think i've been on a show i told him but i mean it's such a like oh that's great it's the best logo it's just perfect it's just him in a suit running a 40-yard dash. What kind of time does he get? Well, he just did 6.25. Yeah.

I thought he always did during the combine, but he did it this weekend. I thought he did during the combine, too. Maybe I'm wrong. What's the fastest 40? 4.2. Someone might just run a 4.2.1. Maybe a 4.1. Someone might just run a 4-2-1.

Maybe a 4-1. Supposedly, Bo Jackson, I think, could have ran a 4-1, something like that. 4-2-1 this year. 4-2-1. Man, broke the record 4-2-2 set by John Ross in 2017. Yeah, we had Chris Johnson. He came to the Titans 4-2-4. That's so fast, dude.

It's so fast. It will be fun to see if you see someone get under four in our lifetime. I mean, that's a lot of time to take off. So that's what I mean, those half seconds. To get to 4-0, I mean, that's crazy.

It probably will happen. I think it could happen. Don't you think Usain Bolt could have if he chose to? No, because I think he would have done it. I mean, it's just such a short amount of time to run that it's, you know, it's, man, it would be, that's so fast. Under four seconds, if someone is like a 3-9, I mean, can you? Yeah, that's so under four seconds he is if someone's like a three nine i mean yeah that's insane that i mean that's that's so much faster than four two one but i i remember reading about

the first guy to break the four minute mile it was like a lot roger badister once he did it like a ton of people did it jess you have his poster on your wall? I said Chuck Yeager. Yeah. So once somebody breaks four seconds. That's the famous story, though, of how it's a mental thing. And once somebody does it, then a lot of people can do it. Floodgates open. Yeah.

And we'll be running, you and I. We're in the five range. I mean, this brought back a lot of memories of on the playground at school when some kid's like, we're going to race. And I'm like, oh gosh, this is going to be embarrassing.

I'm sorry. No, it is what it is. No, you did. Your time, were you in last? No,

I was last. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's true. 20 years younger.

Yeah, yeah. That's true. That's pretty embarrassing. Yeah. This is the awkward sweetness we've been embarrassing. Yeah. This is the awkward sweetness we've been hearing. Yeah.

Mountain habit. MT habit. Brian ran like a kid on the pool deck who had been told that no running is allowed. There is something about the run that you're doing, and I just don't feel like you run that way. I've never seen you run. No, thank you. Okay, I mean, maybe, but.

Even if I didn't have the clown shoes on, that's basically the way I run. Yeah. No, I think, well, it's the genes, too, are constricting. It just feels like there's something going on, though. Yeah, that's, yeah. You're like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, like you're running. Floor is lava. I mean, he looks like he's in full pain.

Like the hot, the floor's hot. I mean, I haven't tried to run as fast as I could in, who knows, 30 years. Let me ask you, when's the last time you sprinted? Look at that face, dude. I know. You are feeling it. And were you sprinting for a reason? Like, were you running from something?

Once in a while, I'll run a little bit on the treadmill, but not very long. Not a sprint. Sprint those. As fast as you can. It's not a sprint. Sprint, though. As fast as you can. I've tried to run pretty fast on it before. Yeah. But a sprint is really on the ground. Yeah.

I mean, you're not running a sprint on a treadmill. I would say it's been 10 years since I've really done a sprint. About the same. Because I remember when I stopped drinking, I was riding my bike a lot, and I was running some. And I remember doing some full-on sprints. Sprinting's fun. Yeah, it was fun. Because there's a thing you could do, like a run,

where it's supposed to help lose weight, where you run as fast as you can and then walk for a little bit, and then run as fast as you can and then walk. It's supposed to get the heart rate up and then down, up and then down. It's supposed to burn fat. It's called interval training or something. I think anything on a treadmill will help. Well, this was on the ground.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, we can do another track and field competition or something and that's a shoot. Let's add the pool in. Add the pool in. Do a triathlon. Yeah, we'll do a whole.

Not a whole one, but like a short triathlon. Yeah, we'll do a whole. Not a whole one, but like a short triathlon. Yeah, we'll do it. You know what? I'm going to be off this summer or calm down. We'll find a good day to get a go. Yeah. Fun little thing for us. Adam Baltz.

Baltus. Baltz. Coming from track and field, Aaron had the best form off the line and getting up to speed. I agree with that. If he got down to Nate's BMI, he'd crush that competition. Thank you, Adam. I think you did.

You had that. If this were a 10-yard dash, I think I'd. No, the hiccup in the middle. That's what I'm saying. If it were shorter, you would have won. It's right there. Look how you go on your foot. Your foot turns right here

right here is your you go and that's once you do what you hit that yeah what do you think

happened I didn't want to fall down I thought I was about to fall right here he goes boom

and then once you go there I dip a little bit that was the point yeah I mean that's just it's that he's like it's like where you almost fall where you step yeah you step so low like you end up going your body just

sinks where you don't see a curb or something yeah that's what it is yeah you miss yeah that's you that's what happened to you so if you if you just listen to this podcast all this is on our social media yeah um right in the 40 you can go watch it uh alex r smith quick recap the pain and bubble in bumble had on his face was felt through the screen it is it's your your face was i mean yeah just like golly I'm trying so hard. Like, you know, your run is like in a movie when they show Godzilla, like you're the first person they show full on the screen that gets killed. Like it's that run and this like that. You know, to show you some bad, like you already see, because there's masses of people that are like, God, they get stepped on.

And you're the one that's like, you know, you got to pray a part in the movie. Right. You've been shown, but you're not a main part in the movie. And you're that face. And you're, you know,

like the lawyer in Jurassic Park. You know, the lawyer that gets eaten by the T-Rex pretty quick. They're trying to humanize this tragedy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

You're like, and that's the face that he's running. Ooh. Yeah. Aaron's hamstrings Looked like They betrayed him About 10 yards in

That's true John looks like He was out for a jog Nate had surprisingly Fast dead speed Appreciate that And Greg was moving Beautiful form

Smooth as jiff Alright Thank you That's a pretty good That was a good recap Chase Newman All right. Thank you. That was a good recap. Chase Newman. What are Aaron's thoughts on California's considering banning Clear in its airports?

Was it you that sent me this, Dusty? Yeah. I said, yeah, it's exciting. I'm sure they're doing it for the wrong reasons, but I'm glad that it's happening. You don't like it? No, I'm glad that it's happening. I don't like Clear. I don't like Clear. But I don't know why they're ban it for the wrong reasons, but I'm glad that it's happening. You don't like it? No, I'm glad that it's happening. You don't like Clear? I don't like Clear. But I don't know why they're banning it.

I find only once in a while is Clear actually helpful. I mean, like, so many airports... I thought they would, because PreCheck, they open PreCheck up while it's just open. Yeah. And so, like, they start letting people through, and that line can be pretty crazy so if you get pre-checked clear you just get to go boom i did it in uh where was that cleveland recently

where clear was pretty helpful but most like nashville airport clear slows me down i mean it's like pre-check's wide open my the biggest annoyance with pre-check in nashville is like the circus that they make you walk through to get there. Yeah. You would think lines would change. We haven't really had a line change. Like, you know, like, why are we not sitting some of these colleges on the line? Fix the line problem.

Fix the line problem and just life. Because it's always back and forth. Yeah. Why do they even do that though? Why is a snake more efficient than a straight line? Because it's always back and forth. Yeah. Why do they even do that, though? Why is a snake more efficient than a straight line? Well, because you can't have them standing all the way out. But it's like you need to have it be able to move and be, you know, I guess they just need to open it. Because when it's, you know, half the time, it's like, all right, dude, don't make us go through 15 things and there's no one there.

So, like, someone needs to be yeah and so maybe maybe a little more mechanical where you can open it up you know because i mean these people need to you know somebody that needs to go you know sometimes because they're they're pulled a strap over and then it's like yeah yeah in nashville they have the strap but they also have like these metal like metal ones so you can't really just kind of pop it out and move through. And it's almost double to where you can't duck under it. Yeah. It's a real contraption that they got.

Yeah. It's like, come on, guys. There's no one in this line. Yeah. Let us walk. Yeah. You got to just be kind of aware of the line. Like someone's kind of monitoring the, you know, it's just like, you know, with all the people,

you think you have like someone's job is like, hey, just kind of make this outside experience flow and be, you know, and just kind of be all right. Like I'm watching the lines. You know what? We don't need it. Maybe we do need it now. And then we lock it back up. And, you know, Nashville baggage claim is the worst. The airport.

It's like the check is especially bad. It's so slow. I go all over the country getting bad. It's so slow. I go all over the country getting bags. It's so slow. And then it comes out and like, I don't know where people are at to get their bags. They're not there. It's so slow and they're still not there. This time I was in there and the bags kept getting backed up and bags were being dumped off the side because they were getting clogged up. And like, I had to jump into the thing and pull some bags out because I'm like, I'm waiting on my bag.

And then you get these priority stickers on your bag and it's like, your bags are supposed to come out first. But in Nashville, they're like, who cares? And it's like, I got a priority thing and my bag's like last. And I'm like, what's going on here? Priorities. Never even heard of that. Well, if you-

Yeah. If you're like a status. Yeah. They were put... I don't do that on Southwest. We get to check them for free. That's the trade-off. I check free. Nothing with baggage.

I get two free check bags. With what airline? American Airlines. It comes with some status. You get status. You fly a lot. You get all that stuff. Did you remember Southwest is looking at not doing the random seats anymore? comes with some status. Yeah, you get status. You fly a lot, you get all that stuff. Did you remember Southwest is looking at not doing the random seats anymore?

No, what are they? Oh, really? Doing assigned seats. Oh, yeah. Oh, really? They're looking at it. If they'll do that, I'll start booking with Southwest.

Yeah. Because we got a hub here. That'd be great. Would they have first class? I don't know. They're looking first, too? I don't know. It's one of those things that I think you think you would want it,

and then I think there's part of me that thinks you could end up being like, man, I wish we did. I think they're doing it to raise profits. Yeah, but there's something. Maybe there's like half of it can be, then half of it can't. But there's something kind of – I bet it's one of those that you'd be like kind of miss it

you know because it was I'm so used to it now yeah it's the excitement of being like am I going to get this empty seat it's like gambling

yeah it's the same it's the same rush yeah and you know like alright if I can get up front if I can be one of the

first things I can get in you know if you're a high B you're like alright I'm good I'm going to get an aisle or window

I don't have to worry being a high a high a in there it's pretty it there is some power uh trip to it a little bit there's a it massages the ego a bit you're like oh are you what are you a2 oh i'm one yeah i'm one it's a certain age you don't get many wins in life too yeah and when you get the right seat the camaraderie that you the bond that you form with another human And when you get the right seat, the camaraderie that you, the bond that you form with another human being, when you realize nobody's sitting between you, is special, dude. Yeah. It's really special. Give them a nux. It is special. And when that happens and you look over and the person at the other seat has their headphones on and are not paying attention, you're like, come on, dude. I wanted to be like, oh,

we got an open seat. I wanted to do that. And you're not. When we get excited, I always say, I want to count my chickens. Yeah. What's the saying? Chickens before the hatch. Eggs before the hatch.

Count the eggs before the hatch. That's what I say. I nail it in the moment. Chickens before the hatch. I want to do that and go, let's talk about the seat, but then don't talk to me the rest of the time. Right. Once the plane takes off, put those headphones on.

Yeah. Yeah. We're separate people. yes yeah it is it is very stressful though like i mean that stress of like hoping it's gonna stay empty i mean that's like give me your heart rate would be up i had a words up i had a weird situation the other day where it was like just two seats on the side and uh you know i was there and then an empty seat and it was like just two seats on the side. And, uh, you know, I was there and then an empty seat and it was like towards the end. And they came up to me, I already had all my stuff in place and they go, Hey, you've been upgraded. Do you want to move up? And I go, well, this is this, is anybody going to sit here? I was like, cause if this seat's going to be

empty, then I'm fine just staying here. And they go, yeah, I don't think they're showing up. And I go, cool. And then, and then they showed up. And so I go up to, I get up and they go yeah i don't think they're showing up and i go cool and then and then they showed up and so i go up to i get up and i go hey somebody showed up can i get that upgrade now and they were like yeah we'll we'll we'll work it out so then like and then they so now it feels like because this girl has sat next to me that i'm like i want to move but i'm like, I want to move. But I'm like, I just want. Well, was she an undesirable? She was fine. Companion? Okay.

She was fine. But it was just like. Maybe she thought she didn't want to sit next to this woman next to. Well, that's what I thought. And then I tried to like make a joke with her about it. Like I was like, oh, I may move and you may get this whole seat to yourself. But I don't know. Maybe she didn't speak English or whatever, but it seems like she like tried to shush me. And I was just like, ah, I'm about to get out of here then. And then that did get moved,

but it was like, just a weird, I was like, yeah, I want the upgrade if I'm not going to get the whole seat to myself. I don't want to share an armrest. Yeah. But it was just a weird situation where I was like, well, at the end of the day, I'm about to get out of here. Yeah. But it felt like because she sat down, I was like, all right, yeah, I don't want to sit next to this lady. Yeah. And I didn't though, but not, you know.

Was it upgraded to first class? Yeah. Yeah. And you didn't want to. Well, I was like, if this seat's going to be empty. You're good. Yeah. It's like, it's basically.

I feel like when you get settled in, you're settled in. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I get, I get a cup. I got a cup here. I got a mug and I got some snacks and I'm like, I got to take all this stuff out of here now. That's it. I could see that.

Cause you seem like a guy that like, you know, you hunker down. Yeah. I got a real plan. You're like a guy that pitches a tent. You do it fast. It's going to be a lot. I got a real plan. I get in there and I try to be out of everybody's way,

but I try to get all my things ready to go. Shoes off? Take your shoes off on the plane? I wish, but I don't do that. I've had them off under your seat or something like that. People always say the shoes off. I don't think it's insane. Just be aware. Do you think your feet

are awful? And then it's people that are putting them up everywhere. But if a guy slips his shoes off and has them just under the seat, no one can see that? I don't think that's a problem. I agree. It's like when people put them up and they got them everywhere. And I don't think people don't think it's a problem if it's a problem i agree okay no one that's not no one it's like when you when people put them up

and they got them everywhere and i don't think people don't think it's a problem if it's a woman's foot i think it's men's feet yeah for sure women's feet can smell yeah but the women's feet are just smaller and they're just like you know it's like a it's a man's foot it's like just you're like disgusting yeah you're like an animal like you're just an animal. But, I mean, you know, it's like when people put them up high, it's like you notice. I think you can take your shoes off. You know, you're like, no one's going to really notice you have your shoes off. Saw a guy at the Omaha Zoo walking around barefoot at the zoo.

That guy's grounded. Maybe he's going to live there. Maybe he escaped. Maybe he's looking for his own thing. I've been thinking about him for two weeks like what that guy's life is like who's cage

is this cage open maybe he wants to be in there do you think the wife pushes he was walking with his wife do you think she pushes

back on that at all or at this point it's like this is just what he does he walks around barefoot yeah I bet there's other things yeah

do you think this is a compromise between the two that's the least of her worries. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

he might be just an old, you know, how old was he? She made him go to the zoo. Early, early mid forties. Do you have dreads? No.

No, no, no. This was not a hippie looking guy. This was like corn fed Nebraska. Maybe there's a reason he doesn't have shoes. Yeah,

that is like, maybe he blew out a flip flop. Maybe. Yeah. reason he doesn't have shoes. Yeah, that is like... Maybe he blew out a flip-flop. Maybe. Yeah. I think he blew out one, so he just threw the other one out. Yeah, well, I mean... Let's go barefoot. Yeah, what are you going to do?

You got to... I would have it in my hand so I could... If people looked at me weird, I could explain it to them. Yeah, I can see that too. Put it in your back pocket. Was he wearing jeans? Jeans shorts. Okay. Jeans shorts. He did it in your back pocket. Was he wearing jeans? Jeans shorts. Okay.

He did it on purpose. Yeah. Yeah. The more you describe this guy, this guy's like, he's like, I don't care. I didn't even want to come

to the zoo today. Sounds like something Dusty would do. Yeah. Take your shirt off too. What zoo was it? The Omaha Zoo. Yeah.

I got a lot of sun while I was in Florida. I'm into it. Yeah. I love it. That's why you don't like it going away in the eclipse. Exactly. That's exactly right.

Tyler Lago. Tyler Lago. Lago. My wife is 39 weeks pregnant, and we went to Nate's special in Phoenix. Cut to three hours after the show, and we're at the hospital getting ready for a baby girl to come. If that ain't the most folks thing, I don't know what it is. Amazing special, Nate. So proud of you. I love that.

How about that? We always want to hopefully have that good of a show that you can get some stuff moving. You would do some pregnancy. That's a good set right there. Congratulations, Tyler. Tell us her name. Will you name your special after her?

Either that or the guy that was sleeping. Yeah. Yeah. Name it after him. If you were asleep at night show, let us know. Name it after him, but put description idiot in front of it. Like you're like idiot Fred Johnson. No offense if there's a Fred Johnson that listens to this podcast.

I think I have the name now. Well, last week. I'm not going to say it, but. Okay. Because I'm not completely positive. But I do like the name a lot. Hello, Moon. Hello, Moon.

It's hello. Yeah. Not world. It's more. Yeah. Goodbye, world. Goodbye, world. I think this is it.

Yeah. It's farewell tour. Yeah. Last week, we talked about Nebraska. I didn't have comments this week, but there's a few things everyone wants to know. I forgot to say Johnny Carson is from Nebraska. That's a big one. Oh, yeah.

Forgot to tell. We talked about Adam Devine. He's kind of our generation's Johnny Carson. Yeah. I forgot to mention the College World Series is in Omaha. Yeah, they used to do a comedy festival. Johnny Carson. Yeah.

I don't know how I missed that, but yeah, Johnny Carson's from there. And the thing I said about the government was wrong. Unicarmel, I said that means no political parties. It just means there's not two legislative bodies. So there's not a Congress and a Senate. There's just one. Just one. Okay.

So I got that wrong. But we read it as there's no Democrats or Republicans. Everybody's the same party. And I still don't 100% understand it because it says they're nonpartisan. And I guess I don't know what that means exactly. But apparently there's Democrats, Republicans. They're just nonpartisan. Sounds like a lie. Right? I mean, there's no such thing they're just non-partisan sounds like a lie

right I mean there's no such thing as non-partisan really I mean everybody's got their own thing and I said Western Nebraska

had some mountains and I guess I don't remember correctly do you even look up Nebraska it's got some hills yeah were you just going off yeah

just vibes just some hearsay you got a buddy that visited Nebraska yeah you looked up Washington State yeah I got it wrong just vibes. Just some hearsay. You got a buddy that visited Nebraska. Yeah, you looked up Washington State. Yeah,

I got it wrong. Anyway, let me All right. So this week, you guys are all headed off to Hollywood. I guess Nate and Dusty

this week and you're next week, right? Yep, next week. So when are you going? I'm going, well,

as the Wednesdaynesday the day the podcast comes out i'll be flying out i have a uh a podcast i'm doing a live podcast me and my wife at the comedy store on thursday and then i have my two shows on friday bring the kids up yeah yeah bringing the whole family my son's never flown oh yeah and then uh daisy's flown but daisy's already been to canada she's practically a. Oh, yeah. And then Daisy's flown. But Daisy's already been to Canada. She's practically world travel. Wow. Yeah. But yeah, we're going to stay in Hermosa Beach.

We're going to be out near the water. Yeah. Yeah, it's going to be great. Get some sun. Yeah. And how long are you there? Through the whole weekend? Five days, yeah.

I'm going to do some stuff. I'm going to do something with Leanne Morgan on Saturday. And then another late show with Steve Fury at the Comedy Store. Yeah, it's going to be fun. It's going to be some fun stuff. When is your show? Your show is that Wednesday? May 8th.

Yeah, the Hollywood Improv. Oh, yeah. So this is the Netflix is a joke festival that we're doing. Yeah, mine are May 2nd, May 3rd. I may even be early. I don't know. I feel like the festival really gets kicked off. No, mine are May 2nd, May 3rd. I may even be early. I don't know. I feel like the festival really gets kicked off. No, it's May 1st and 2nd.

I think our show is Seinfeld, Gaffigan, Sebastian, and Hollywood Bowl. And I want to say ours might be the first. It might be the kickoff. I think it's May 1st and 2nd. Okay. It's a decent lineup. Okay, good. Yeah. Yeah, I'm very excited, good. I might sell some tickets.

That is a good... I mean, that's great, though. Did you guys figure out the lineup? Not yet. We're seeing... Seinfeld has this unfrosted... It's about to come out. This weekend.

This weekend. I feel like it would be weird to put you first. You're like the hottest comic in the I feel like in the country. It would be weird to have you go first in my opinion. I get they're legends and all this and whatnot. I don't know. I think I should go first. I feel like they've been doing it longer.

You're the youngest, right? Yeah, I like I've always liked that. I think we might be drawing it out of a hat which there's a chance i don't know how they're going to do it but there's a there's a chance we're going to do it you know maybe on stage and you got two shows so you can mix it up yeah yeah but it'll be yeah i think i i like the idea of doing it kind of in front of everybody and you know uh yeah and are y'all doing the same amount of time yeah i think so i think I like the idea of doing it kind of in front of everybody. And are you all doing the same amount of time?

Yeah, I think so. I think it'll be like 25, 30 minutes. Yeah, do it and then throw the mic in the crowd after you're set. Go follow that, guys. Boom. Yeah. Today's Seinfeld's birthday. Oh, happy birthday.

Yeah. Yeah. I think I watched a thing. He doesn't care to be 70. He is 70 years old. He's turning 70? He turned 70 today. Yeah.

Oh, my God. It looks like it does. He's like my age in the show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got time. Time flies, dude. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, that show came out over 30 years ago. Oh, I guess so. Yeah. So, I read it. Well, first of all, you mentioned came out over 30 years ago. Oh, I guess so. Yeah. So I read it. Well, first of all, you mentioned Leigh-Anne Morgan. We should give her props because she just announced she's got a sitcom in the works. Very good.

Yeah. Chuck Lorre, Netflix. It's awesome. Yeah. It is awesome. Yeah. I was about to say, I read an article today from New York Times where Hollywood's dying. But that was mainly for movies.

Oh, really? Oh. Because Seinfeld said stuff about movies dying yeah yeah i already said tv shows too because they don't have there's nothing on tv yeah the article i read just said the pandemic obviously really hurt people never completely came back at least the theaters after that then top gun maverick kind of saved the day for a while and uh but then since then things have really suffered streaming's not quite for movies at least this is movies that we're talking about i disagree with all that you do i i look that's you know what i want to do is i think i know what

people want to see i'm not trying to be arrogant about it, but I'm just saying there's nothing for anybody to go out there. The people that are writing stuff do not live these normal lives. They have no touch with reality. A hundred percent. And so they're in Los Angeles. And like a lot of them are too. They're awesome, great writers,

but there's a mix of the guy, you know, a lot of the men and women that have been writing for a long time versus some of the younger men and women that are doing it that are young and they're trying to write a movie and they're 22 years old and they don't you know it's like your reality is just not it's no reality like you can't when you make a movie yeah i just watched anyone but you or something the one with sydney and that other guy i mean it's it's you know i don't want to trash movies but it's tough it's it's tough and it's like you know i'm watching it as i want to make i want to hopefully

one day get to make stuff and a rom-com something like that no i i want to make stuff. Like a rom-com, something like that? No, I want to make stuff. Look, this is, I want to bring, I think the movie theater still is a thing. I still think people want to go out to it. I still think people want to watch multicams on sitcoms. I don't think Hollywood is dead. I think Hollywood's not giving anybody anything to watch. I don't think they understand that.

I don't think, I think they're so out of touch. That's why I live here. There's all these things that I do to make sure you're around a normal existence, as normal as it can be, and be aware of it. That's why with stand-up is I try to make sure. It's like I talk about myself because I want it to be relatable. And you want it, that's the stuff that what everything used to be, people used to be able to relate to it. I mean, even whatever show you watch, someone could relate. You relate to that show. I don't think this stuff is dead. I want to go to the movie theater. I like going. I like taking my daughter. She likes going. There's nothing for us to see. There's nothing for us to see there's nothing for us to go do and there's nothing for me and laura to go to together so you're not only splitting stuff up where kids

can't go but there's nothing for a couple to really go to because they you know it's like godzilla or it's i don't even know like it could be some super girly movie or something there's just i don't know if they're having movies for women, to be honest. I can't even think. Women have housewives. They're watching reality shows. The reality shows are really what they're watching. They're not even making stuff.

You're not even making TV for a family. It's so directed to be like, someone's got to go get out of the room. Someone's having to sacrifice while the other one gets to enjoy and nothing is together. That's why Seinfeld just said it about multicams. There, you know, used to be to have all in the family.

You had all these sitcoms on Andy Griffith's show, Cosby's show, like whatever it was, you would have these people come home andy griffith show uh cosby show like whatever it was you would have these people come home and they could all watch it and you didn't have to get people out of the room you didn't have to and now it's so specific no one's making anything for broad do you think that the content is changing how people watch tv or is how people watch TV changing the content? I don't think so. Do you think families, do families behave that way anymore?

Like, do families sit down and watch stuff together? It's like the idea that when the cell phone was invented, you lost that. It's anybody answering the phone. Hello, who do you want to talk to? It's like that kind of resemblance

that's kind of gone. But I still think there's a giant market for that. I say that as someone that is on tour and I'm doing standup and I'm really seeing that there are children and grand, you know, and, uh, moms and, you know, I see a lot of grandparents that come out. So that's some of my favorite things to see is grand is a grandmother like you know or someone in their 50s 60s i don't know you might even be a grandma but an older lady like i love that so much because that person there is nothing on this planet for them i mean there's not their best bet is the only thing they can't watch is news because there would be into that there is

no entertainment that's going after them at all yeah that's why leon morgan's doing so well yeah yeah because there's there's something you're seeing that you know as as i travel you're like this tour is like i'm not an idiot so look i, I say this when I go, I, you know, I'm trying to do all, I'm trying to do a lot of stuff, but it's, it's, you know, not everybody gets it. They don't get it. They're not out there. No, they don't, you know, you weirdly have to go back to there to go, Hey, here's this. And I got to show you that this audience is there. So make stuff for them with them in mind. So that's, you know, with my, I try to do my standup. I'm making it for the audience.

I don't think about Hollywood. I think about the audience. I'm trying to make them laugh. You think you make a movie that these people want for them and they have the option to stream it at their house or go to the movie theater. You think enough of them choose to go i think they would figure it out no matter what i think if you're if you can make it good enough they're going to watch it wherever they're going to watch it i don't know if it's

going to be a perfect you look stuff's going to come out on netflix stuff's about amazon stuff's going to be in a movie there's stuff there's gonna be 50 different ways stuff comes out yeah sometimes you got to go with what whoever's going to let you put the thing out. Yeah. So I think people will watch it no matter what. And if it gets enough buzz or people like it or they feel like it's good, you want it to be repeatable. It's something you can go watch.

I thought this movie, Anyone But You, I mean, it's rated R. It should not be a rated R movie. The trailer looked really dirty. Yeah. The trailer made it look really dirty. It's a movie that should have been PG, I guess PG-13, should have been just that and been more on the

cuter side. They were cursing for zero reason. It was out of content. It just felt like that kind of thing. It was like, well, we have this movie. We have to make a rated R. But nothing that they're doing is rated R. It's like a cute kind of thing. So it's like I'm trying to

watch this stuff now to be like, alright. Look, I don't want to trash the people that made it and wrote it and all this. I have no idea. I'm not trying to... I'm just saying I'll watch this one this weekend. But it wasn't like that. Some of those that were like

that you can go back and watch. Stuff from the 80s. Some of those movies that you could go watch growing up, like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Everybody could go watch that. You could go watch that right now. It still holds up. It's not for kids.

It's for everybody. It's just a fun family movie. That stuff is not being made. And so that's the point that i want to make is i see it with stand-up just because i've always thought you know i always thought entertainment doesn't have to be niche niche or whatever is that the word right like and so everybody thinks like well you don't want everybody liking your thing why would you not right why would you not try to make something that everybody can like that's the best part i love that i can try to make something that everybody will go to that's what i mean what

do you what else are you trying to do i'm you know it's i understand if someone's artistic and there's there could be stuff that's not for everybody but i mean and i guess if you and some people like that but to me why would you not want to make something that everybody can go to and everybody likes and yeah i'm not trying i'm not saying everything's going to be perfect or everything's gonna be great but you should be able to go and like know like you know what i'm not gonna be uncomfortable i'm not gonna have to be like like think i have to have these conversations in the car afterward like all these kind of things you just want to be entertainment but i don't i like that because i got a rant i like to see when like teenagers or like 20 year old kids are there

with their parents at the show yeah and you can see that the kids and the parents both had a good time at the show they can talk about your comedy with with their parents and with the kid it's something that they can all relate to i think that that's really cool. And I mean, I think you're right. I mean, I think people know what people want to see. They're just not making it. They want to force people to watch something. And it's like, because it's like a show or a movie will come out like Top Gun that will be like, oh, this is awesome. Everybody could go, okay, well, what did they do that made this so cool?

And then just start doing that. But it's like superhero movies, they've ruined those. They keep- Yeah. That's the only ones they make. Tom Cruise is the reason because Tom Cruise is that guy. Yeah. Tom Cruise is a guy that everybody goes and gets behind and they want to go watch anything that he does because he's a movie star and he's a star that the whole, everybody accepts and everybody likes him. And that still can exist. It's not because people don't want it. It's not at all. Like you can't, that's like blaming all the problems outwardly and never going inwardly and go like, well, maybe I'm the,

you know, if, if everybody around you is mean or something and and you got to go like, are you either picking, you're either have picked 12 people that are the most awful people in the world, or you could be the problem. So you look at things like that to go like, frustrated me like how can you know there's no way i'm the only one that's right no matter how much i think i could be the one that's right maybe not everybody maybe i need to adjust and they don't do that i think all this stuff is still people want to go see entertainment who doesn't want to be watching or there's nothing there's literally nothing to watch survivor laura watches that like that's on it's like 50th season or whatever i don't even know what it is it's insane there's nothing even coming in place to change it there's you know i mean game shows are the only game shows are doing really

good right now because an entire family can watch a game show that's why and you think people will pay with all the free content? They'll pay for stuff? Yes. People want to go do something. They want to go to a show. People are not, you spend money. People are not afraid to spend money. The free content is like, you want to go watch something professional. That's why when you go to a live show, it's like, you want to go and be like, oh, I bought tickets to this. I feel you want to be out and about. I mean, my goodness. It's depressing if you're just at home all day.

You want to have something to look forward to to go to. Yeah, dress nice, go out, do a thing, have some popcorn. We're all going to the movie. What are you doing this weekend? The kids, we're going to go watch this movie. Everybody's going, and it's going to everybody's going and it's gonna be fun and it's a night out about the movie after yeah yeah it's like that stuff is still exist people are not people have not changed there's still families there's still these these people don't

exist they're hollywood all that's making shows for this fake group that they think exists they don't exist they do not exist because i'm you know you don't exist. They do not exist. Because I'm, you know, you don't hear a ton. It might seem like if you're on this podcast that everybody knows about me and all this stuff. You don't hear a ton about me. You don't hear a lot about these shows that we're doing all these arenas. It's kind of quiet. I'm not, I don't want to say it's, I'm not trying to act like it's quiet, but it's,

you know, it's, you wouldn't hear it like chappelle you hear about chappelle sure at all but the people that have coming out to these shows is in it's insane dude it's in it's in it's it's unbelievable so every show i'm going out and seeing this insane amount of people that are coming to all this stuff. And then if I go try to make something else, it's like, well, I don't, you know,

it's like if, if to me, and it's starting to, we're hopefully starting to move forward. I'm, but that's the other part that I'm trying to do. It's like, if people just that come to your,

if only the people that come to your shows, watched your show that you built like TV show, it would still be very successful. It would be very, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's just those people. Yeah. Yeah. It's insane.

And you're seeing it going like, these people want to be out, dude. They're at the three o'clock show in Houston. I mean, they're there. I don't know. Like they want to do something and they want to go out as a family and there's nothing for them to go out to. They can't. No one can take their kid to anything. It's got to be a football game.

It's got to be a basketball. There's no entertainment. There's no like show. I did shows in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and both the areas seemed very sketchy. I was like, you guys risk your lives to be here. You know? And I do think that there's something to that.

I was like, they wanted entertainment. They were like, we're going to go. We'll park and we'll walk down the street and we'll risk it all. Yeah. I think that's why Dude Perfect does so well because it's the whole family can go. Dude Perfect. Harper, yeah. We went to Dude Perfect and it was great it was

great and dude perfect is a perfect example and that's the that's the whole point of nateland that i want it to end up being is this i want to be able to make movies and do all the stuff that everybody can go and you know be be be entertainment free andfree with the audience in mind. I think they used to make TV and movies for the audience. I don't think they do that now. I think they make it for them and what they watch. And that's why you don't see multicams, really. And that's why, you know, because the person that is deciding if it goes on does not watch

multicams. That person is, you know, they're all very nice people too. They're very wonderful people. But that person has not got their own laundry, has not done any, they had not done a normal thing really in years. They have a modal lawn. In years. Like just little kind of like stuff.

And that's okay. But just be aware. If you're not aware of that then you got to go so then they're watching housewives they're whatever they're watching they think like they watch a multicam and they go well like this doesn't look very fun you go all right well seinfeld and ray romano and king king queen like they're still doing better than your shows you're putting out and these are shows from 30 years ago yeah so they do do good but you don't watch that so that person that decides that doesn't watch that so they think well i don't i don't want to watch that you're like yeah you don't want to watch it because you don't you're not married right now and you don't have to be preached at either on on these shows there's so much of that too. Well, it's like, but it's because they're, if you don't, you know, you got to have, they got to be able to relate.

They want you to have a family and have like, that's the world. The whole world has families. Yeah. Their job, it's ridiculous to put, like, they're not thinking about, you know, who to vote for this or that or blah blah whatever just be entertainment yeah and just go try to be entertaining from that's your that's literally the job and you can have stuff that's like makes you think different and all that kind of stuff but you know there's plenty there's the most of that there's ever been when george carlin did it you needed it yeah now there's a ton of it everything is let me tell you what the you know and you're like dude people are just like have

two jobs and they are they have kids and their kids play sports all day like they don't they're not they don't they don't live in this existence that stuff's being made for now that i get yelled at for ranting i so i liked it we're happy you're back you know we love we love hearing around i haven't heard a good rant i know but that's like i'm actually people get mad and then all right but i feel like i agree with you i think about what you're saying all the time i'm into it i do too i don't i've never i don't think i've said that but i've always wanted like you know whenever i think i'm not doing if i'm not here i'm trying to i want to do this i want to

create a world that you can go to and and not have to and watch something and not have to feel gross or you know not have to be like because there's a place for that stuff yeah and i doesn't i don't think that that shouldn't exist. I think it should do whatever you want to go to be you. But I also think this other side, as I see this audience, I don't think you're getting the entertainment because I think you will go out to movies. Right. Well, that's the thing about comedy. It's like when you do clean comedy.

I always say I do relatively clean comedy. But it's like people think that if it's clean, then it's cheesy. That's why I never like to advertise it that way, you know, because that's what they think. But it's like, it's just regular stuff. Yeah. It's just, it's just like, I'm just talking about regular things. Yeah. Someone said it's like adult family friendly.

Yeah. And I didn't mind it, but I still don't love the way that is, but that's kind of a way to wrap your head. But it's like the idea of it is like, yeah, you're not doing anything to, I'm trying to, I'm trying not to deter everybody. It's comedy that's not trying to deter people.

I say, you're not going to, you're not going to, you can bring your aunt and you're not going to be embarrassed that you brought her to the common thinking is to have broad appeal. You have to compromise the art yeah in some way but your success is proof that that's not right you just gotta throw a better artist but i thought i always thought that yeah that was very much a thing that was said when i first started i argue about it

with my comic friends all the time and they go you're you have to you know like well you got to push the envelope so i remember and i always thought when i first started in my head well why do i have to do that so i should be able to any joke and again i've had some jokes i've seen some old stuff where i've said a bad word or i got a couple things that i heard recently that i'm you know annoyed that I said it. But I just, again, I've said it before. I was in the comic that I am now. I didn't know how not to, I didn't know what to do. But, and they're still not that bad.

Like, but it's, but it's, I remember just thinking like, well, why can't, like, cause everybody be like, well, you can't be this man. I'm not for everybody. Like, it was like, that was the cool thing to be like, not everybody's going to be able to handle what I'm. And it was like, well, why can't be this man. I'm not for everybody. It was like that was the cool thing to be like, not everybody's going to be able to handle what I'm doing. And it was like, well, why would you not? Why would I not want everybody to handle what I say? Why would I not want all the people?

You can't handle this. You're not ready for this. You shouldn't be. I don't think you have to sacrifice art. Too real for you? Yeah. I would argue you are pushing the envelope now because, I mean, nobody else is doing what you're doing.

Very few are. So in a way, you're the outlier. But that is not recognized. I don't see it. It's the – I hope for Hollywood to be like, I don't think they are something that could be out of it. They are seeing stuff so spread out. You got Dude Perfect. You got Mr. Beast. You got all these things that are not a part of

Hollywood and they're gigantic. you know, so you do have all these worlds where they, you know, you're like Hollywood is the movie theater is like we all still know what a movie theater is. So to switch stuff, I don't think people want to just sit in their house and watch screens. I don't.

You want to have experiences. You want to go out. You want to go out to eat. You got DoorDash now. People don't want to just sit at home. People are not, people are regular people, man. The whole world is regular people. They're not, you know know we're just right now

the top is making stuff that they think they want to see and then you know it's like not like you know rest of the development was like a show that's like so funny and like whatever not for everybody yeah it wasn't a show for everybody but the ones that were had that it was it was great and so there you can that can still be you can still do this stuff but then there's you have your ray romanos that are kind of for everybody so you can do that too so you don't have to be people you know i think sometimes people get it's like family friendly it does it's not cool they feel like it's not cool but it's like man it can be make how about you make something cool for so the whole family if they want to watch you're not making it for the kid you're

just making what you think is funny and what you do and i'm you know but the kid can sit there i watch kids and shows i can see them i know they're gonna like if i talk about the donkey if i whatever i know parts that they're really going to like. And I can see them kind of trail off in parts about my wife or whatever, but their parents are like, you know, it's like you can sometimes see that because a 12-year-old is not going to get every, they're not going to understand why everything's, but they are going to like some of the things. And so it's like, but they can be there and they do like being out, even if they get bored for a second or to get to kind of trail off, they're still like, they get to watch their parents laugh. And they also were able to go with their parents. Their parents didn't have to be like, nah, you can't see this guy. This guy's a little too adult.

So even if the kid's bored, the kid's still got to go with their parents. And if someone is too adult, it's rarely that a wife and a husband even want to go see that. Like one or the other will want to go see it. It's rare for them to both want to go together. And the comic's crowd working. Where's your husband at tonight? Yeah. But this whole thing's going to be, you know, I'll get just trashed for ranting. I don't think so.

I'll defend you in the comments. Thanks, bud. Yeah. trash for ranting. I don't think so. I'll defend you in the comments. Thanks, bud. Yeah.

Well, certainly now, I mean, everything's being shot in Hollywood. Atlanta does so many more and there's just Tyler Perry, man. I just heard him talk

and he did an interview and that I love Tyler Perry's way that he did it. And I feel like it's Tyler Perry has way that he did it. And I feel like it's... Tyler Perry has an...

He makes stuff for his audience, for a specific audience. And then Hollywood has to buy it and go like, we want that audience because his audience is so big. And when he makes stuff, he's a... Now, that dude's a billionaire. But Tyler Perry has... He's in atlanta he has you know a lot he's on there he's around a lot of people that are uh he hires like uh people out of prisons to work at his thing so he has a lot of normal people that he's around you know and i say

normal i don't mean it like condescending but it it's the way that, you know, when you get elevated to this spot, sometimes you're not around a normal person. So no one, you know, kid has a baseball game that they can't miss or all these. It's like you kind of really don't have problems and everybody's fine. Everybody can fly to the Bahamas at the drop of a hat. And you have no friends that have any conflicts. So you can do whatever you want whenever you want and but if you're if you're tyler perry guy that can do whatever and whenever he wants uh he's also a guy that is around you know you you do have to deal with normal someone being like well i can't

make that because i have you know whatever i have i got a ticket i go to traffic school tomorrow. I got a, you know, my mom, I'm quitting, you know, just normal existence. So you can, you know, just keep your, you know, keep your ear to the ground to be like, don't get so out of reach. You used to live, not in Hollywood, but LA for a couple of years, right? Yeah. Hollywood's just a neighborhood. I know so little. Hollywood is, yeah, I think it's just West Hollywood. Yeah, Hollywood, yeah.

So, I'm from Hollywood. It's my favorite. Oh, yeah. You're from, it's Andy Kaufman. Memphis, Tennessee. You're from Memphis, Tennessee. I'm from Hollywood. Like, that's the, you know, that was the joke.

And I don't think that's the joke anymore. I think it's serious. But that was comedy. You're from Memphis, Tennessee. I'm from Hollywood. He's in on the joke. Now it feels like it's, you're from Memphis, Tennessee. I'm from Hollywood.

And now it feels serious. Well, it's like when Hulk Hogan turned heel, he called himself Hollywood H Yeah. And now it feels serious. What's like when Hulk Hogan turned heel, he called himself Hollywood Hogan because, you know, he was supposed to be a bad guy that, uh, you don't know this. No, I didn't know that.

Yeah. He was, he was Hollywood Hogan for a while. No, come on, dude. Um, no,

we were, but that was too young for Hollywood Hogan. Cause he was in, we just read books and stuff. Yeah. Come on. Sorry. I thought that'd be funny after, after what we've been talking about.

That is funny. Why is he still the most famous person ever? You know what I mean? It's crazy. Oh, okay. Hollywood Hogan? I've never even heard of this. It was just like-

That's blowing my mind right now. He just turned heel all of a sudden? Yeah, and he started wearing the shoe polish on his beard, and yeah, he became Hollywood Hogan. He's a bad guy, and he was the NWO, the New World Order, which is also the bad guy. So he came back. He stopped being Hollywood Hogan.

Yeah, it was just a thing for a while. Okay, just the revolution of- I think you're seeing everything switch back, though. I think I feel good about it. I feel- Yeah, but like like i said your success is mark walberg i think he's starting a studio and i think people are i think i think stuff is heading back in that direction and people are uh they're understanding that there is an audience for this and uh you know and it would go back to just what it was people into movies i mean in stuff like i when i talk about trailer park stuff i mean it's like there's this

whole bunch of people that you know they never get trailer park stuff talked about in a positive way yeah whenever people talk about trailer parks they're always being made fun of and they're always idiots so when i'm talking about trailer parks and just like having a good time, they're like, yeah, me too. I had a great time. We were doing this and that. And it's like, it's just, it's a whole population of people there that, you know, people come up to me and they go, I grew up in a trailer park too. And it's like, they probably never been able to say that in a positive way. When you make fun of yourself in the trailer park, you're joking about yourself. That's what makes it. Yeah. People, it's not, make fun of yourself in the trailer park, you're joking about yourself. That's what makes it.

Yeah. People, it's not, hey, it's like a trailer park person. That's why the disconnect started getting too pointed at and it's like, well,

I'm right. You're like, no, no, I'll be the dumb. This is me being dumb and I'm an idiot. And I'm not ashamed of where I'm from.

Yeah. Yeah. I love where I'm from. I love when someone's happy where they're from. Yeah. Even if they're from California or Los Angeles, if someone's born and raised there, I love it. I want you to be – I mean, I enjoy when someone's happy to be where they're from. Nothing sadder to me than just seeing someone on stage just making fun of where they're from for a long time.

Yeah. I'm just like, man, you just kind of hate yourself, huh? Yeah. It's like, that sucks. Not just themselves. Their family and everybody from where they're from for a long time. Yeah. I'm just like, man, you just kind of hate yourself, huh? Yeah. It's like, that sucks. Not just themselves, their family and everybody from where they're from. The family members are still there. Yeah. That's too bad.

That's a tough Thanksgiving, huh? Yeah. They're like, well, we saw your show. Really hate us, huh? Yeah. Have you guys ever heard how they came up with the name Hollywood? No. I've heard some things. up with the name Hollywood? No. I've heard some things.

That's a much different podcast, but yeah. I read two or three different theories. One's, you know, just there was a Hollywood, Illinois, and the woman who donated 120 acres that is now present day Hollywood. The woman who donated 120 acres that is now present-day Hollywood liked that name because Holly, like the plant Holly, is supposed to bring you good luck. So she liked that. Now, that's the boring one. The one I read more was the guy who's known as the father of Hollywood. He was standing on the hills overlooking Hollywood Hills.

A Chinese man came along carrying wood in a wagon. He said, what are you doing there? the chinese guy replied i hollywood meaning i haul wood hauling wood and he's like i like the name and that's how it became with hollywood that's the one i read most prevalent i mean i think that's the one that's yeah that's crazy that's accurate but they kind of wow you know they don't mention that as much okay sorry to bog us down here. no, this is the info people come for. The Hollywood sign used to be say Hollywood land for many years because it

was just a, it was an advertisement for a development for real estate. And then after a while they just took the land off. I went and did a, uh, I did a hike up to it. When I did the Greek, and it was a lot more serious than I thought it would be. Oh, the hike?

Yeah. The Greek, what's that? The Greek theater. It's an outdoor theater. By the show I did in LA last year was at the Greek. But it was one of those was it was like one of those you're like oh yeah we'll go do it and then you're you know and it's one of those you see the sign and so you're like i mean it's right there yeah and it's like no it's way an hour later you're

still like it's still yeah it's up there yeah yeah yeah it always seems so hot too when i see people hiking on those mountains out there i'm always like nah it just seems so dry and hot yeah did you see the detroit sign that went viral for how lame it was it's it almost looks like they're trying to do their own version of the hollywood sign they threw this up and it just got roasted by the people of detroit dude oh is this for the draft It just got roasted by the people of Detroit, dude. Oh, is this for the draft? No.

I don't mind it. This was... Unrelated. Well, it's glow-in-the-dark now. Originally, there were not lights on it. It was just lame. Oh. Just Detroit. It looks like Helvetica.

It's not even like a cool font. Yeah. And it's just thrown up there. Like a local rapper did a diss track about it. It's so funny, dude. My only thing is that maybe it's just this picture but with the d being lower than the t it just there's something weird about it it feels like it you're meant to read it backwards i think it's just the angle of that maybe yeah threw this up to try to

mimic that you can see it oh yeah it's just boring looking i don don't mind it. Yeah, yeah. It was like someone goes, do a Detroit sign. You know what? It would be how kind of stuff is written nowadays. Yeah. Where someone goes, we need a Detroit sign. And someone goes, oh. And it's someone that doesn't realize that the world existed past them. And so they think, well, they go, I got a great idea.

It's like a lot of ideas end up becoming you know you're like yeah yeah but that idea was awesome back you know

but now it's not you know yeah that's funny I'm doing shows in Royal Oak soon so I don't want to criticize the sign but

no I don't think they like the sign so yeah you can make I mean Detroit did great with the draft set attendance record yeah

it looked awesome broke Nashville's record wow 750,000 people I like the sign. So, yeah, you can make fun of it. I mean, Detroit did great with the draft. Set attendance record. Yeah. Oh, wow. It looked awesome. Broke Nashville's record. Wow. 750,000 people or something. Yeah. Wow. Crazy.

A lot of gambling going on? I'm sure there is on the draft. On the draft. But, yeah, I think it's, yeah, it's just, the draft's fun. Now, have you guys ever been to the- And maybe that's another thing. That's still something families can do together. Families can still watch sports together.

Yeah, but I mean, look, you can still go to games and stuff. I mean, I think they are borderline having an alcohol problem in some of these things. You go, these, you know, and again, this is small groups of people getting in fights. And I think you're in certain sections and it depends on where you go. I'm sure you don't see it. Because of which cities, too. But I mean, I think people drink a lot more, and they drink a lot. Me and Aaron went to that Arizona Cardinals game,

and we were in the upper deck, and it was pretty wild up there. I was like, oh, jeez. Yeah, man. People were sitting in our seats, and we were like, no, we'll just find some other ones. But compare that. That's the NFL versus – I also went to an MLB game with you and that was way more relaxed.

It was so nice. Totally different vibe. NFL game, I mean, it was crazy. Yeah, it was. People screaming, fighting, everybody's hammered. You're like, this is crazy. In the middle of the day. Yeah, yeah.

A Sunday afternoon, a Lord's Day. And Dusty, you've seen a thing or two, so for you to say that. Yeah, it was wild. Yeah. We didn't stay there long. Yeah. But thank you, Lucy, for the tickets. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad I went, but it was intense. Have you guys ever been to the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Yeah. Yeah. So I was reading about how they do it. Not that hard.

I think I might get one here pretty soon. Oh, to qualify. Yeah. To have your name on there. Yeah. There's currently 2,700 and something stars on the Walk of Fame. Oh. And they have about 200 applications each year.

And then the committee selects 20 to 24 people each year. So, you know, it's not super expensive. Does it cost money to submit yourself? $75,000. And is it own? It's $75,000. That's to maintain it, build it, maintain it, keep it clean. Who owns the

is the city? I think the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, I think. Wait, so anybody can get, I mean, you have to be somewhat approved. Well, there's qualifications. You have to, there's five categories. And you meet some of these? I don't.

But one of them, you have to be five years doing whatever it is you do. So you can't be like a total one-hit wonder. You know what I mean? I think a one-hit wonder is going to get five years. I think any one-hit wonder is a to get five years. I think any one-hit wonder is a five-year. Easy five years. Yeah. That's almost, I mean, yeah.

I would say one-hit wonders, you would be 10. 10 minimum. Depending on the hit. I mean, Vanilla Ice has rode a one-hit. Yeah, depending on the hit. But even if you're a true one-hit wonder, you did the one hit, and then it disappeared, and now you're a true one-hit wonder, you did the one hit and then it disappeared. You could ride it for five.

And now you're nowhere. Yeah. I mean, I think. Chumbawamba. Five. Tub Thumpin'. Maybe ten. I still like that song.

That's a hot song. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, there's a committee that comes up with it and they submit 2024. But you've got to. I've kind of lost my place here, but you have to accept it. There's a Bruce Springsteen clause because a fan nominated him

and they said yes. And then they contacted Bruce Springsteen and he's like, I don't want it. So now you've got to, the artist has to obviously want it before you can do it. Did he say why he didn't want to do it? I don't know. There are some people that have turned it down. They just don't like the publicity. Prince didn't get one.

Whitney Houston, they didn't want it. I don't believe that these guys don't like the publicity. Yeah. I don't know. I think it's probably a scheduling. It's like you see stuff. So you've got to go there. They probably make you do all kinds of interviews.

Yeah, you've got to do a whole kind of thing, and then you're just like, I don't want to go do do all this stuff you would turn it down right now uh no i'm not i don't think i should have it i'm just kidding but it would i think it i think it's like a cool i think it's awesome yeah and so i do think it's kind of a cool thing and i think they should do it i think to bring back hollywood you should that's fun i think it's cool but like you'll be walking along and I feel like sometimes I'm way off the strip or whatever. I'll be like, oh, here's

a star. Oh, Andy Griffith. It'll be something like that. I'm like, oh, they're way out here. It's 15 blocks and it's growing, obviously. They're running out of space. I think you get two years. Once they nominate you, you have two years to schedule the ceremony. Because I know know people are busy but if you don't do it within

two years then you get disqualified they try to find a place for you somewhat related to what it is you've done like uh roger moore and daniel craig both were James Bond. They were on 007 Boulevard or something like that. Oh, that's cool. Ed O'Neill, married with children, was in front of a shoe store. Oh, that's fun. Jay Leno asked for a place where he was arrested twice for vagrancy, but they said no. Yeah. And George Carlin asked for a place outside a radio station that kind of helped him

get famous. Oh, that's awesome. Jay Leno got arrested twice in the same place? I guess so. Right on the side of the Comedy Store. Is Comedy Store ahead?

They should, I don't know if they go that, I guess probably not that far. That's pretty far. So, I don't, I don't know. Muhammad Ali is the only

star that's not on the ground. It's on the side of the Kodak Theater because he asked that Muhammad not be walked on. Makes sense. It's fair. Neil Armstrong and the Apollo astronauts have a moon set of stars.

You gotta be pretty big to take, be like, you know, to go like, well, I want it on the wall. And they're like, we've never done that. We got, I want it on the wall. And they're like, we've never done that.

We got 2,600 people. Yeah. Yeah. On the ground. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm Muhammad Ali.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You got it. Yeah. Two presidents. Neil Armstrong asked for a moon instead of a star. I don't know if he asked for it.

They just gave it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's pretty, you know, yeah, but you wouldn't think, why do they, yes.

Why would they? How does he get one? Does he have? Have you not had enough, Neil? Has he been in a lot of movies? Let me see. He's in Apollo 13. Well, his character is.

No, he plays himself. He does? Right. I didn't know that. Isn't he in it? I don't know. That's interesting that Neil Armstrong has a Hollywood. Yeah. I don't know that isn't he in it I don't know that's interesting that Neil Armstrong has a Hollywood yeah

I don't know why I think maybe because I was trying to find the qualifications but that landing on the moon was the most televised

you know what it was great acting yeah that's what I'm saying yeah it's interesting that they're like he's the best actor

of live performance is one of the categories. Oh, you're right. It was actors. Sorry. So he was original. What would you call that?

Reality TV. Yeah. Yeah. He was. Call it reality. He was. And that's the best. Yeah.

And they were the best. Yeah. Yeah. They really did it. They got up there and wrote a doom buggy around. Yeah. No, not them. That was later. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. They really did it. They got up there and wrote a doom buggy around. No, not them. That was later.

Okay. Yeah. Two presidents have stars, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Trump's has been vandalized numerous times, but they won't remove it. Julie Louis-Dreyfus, hers was misspelled, but she she thought it was great and said you should keep it

that's cool yeah you know uh on the uh the head they did cbs saturday morning yeah and i saw it on youtube so i don't know uh i didn't see but in when they showed the tennessee kid me showing something it says nick bargetzi at the top left i saw that you know and i actually wanted to open the podcast by by calling you Nick. Yeah. Because I saw that. I'm like, that's so ridiculous. Like, how do you, like, you're showing a thing.

About him. About him. And you call him Nick. Like, just, you know, do one little fact check here real quick. It was a great story. It was a very good story. Yeah. No, no.

It's like, I don't know where that Nick happened. Nick happens a lot. I think maybe people are so focused on the last name that they, but it is crazy to be like, you just go a complete, I've been called Nick. I get called Nick a lot more than. Yeah. That cracked article. Remember that?

Yeah. Yeah. Mark Maron. Mark Maron did. But it was, I was a young comic then, but yeah. Like when there's in the articles, it's yeah. Nick Clark at C2. Yeah. Mark Maron. Mark Maron did. But I was a young comic then. But yeah, like when there's in the articles, it's, yeah, people, it's crazy. I mean, they're, it's. Maybe they're such fans they're in on the joke now.

You never know. You never know. Yeah, yeah. I doubt it. Yeah. It's just so ridiculous. Like you're like a news organization and you're doing a story on a guy and you get his first name wrong. It's not like your first name's hard.

Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever heard the term Hollywood accounting? No. It's basically where almost every movie studio, well, I shouldn't say almost every, but a lot of movies, they make it look like they suffered a loss. Because as far as distribution rights,ry potter made like 900 million but the sheet showed it like 170 million yep they did a little wizardry yep on the balance sheet wait say that again so they this movie studio um it's called hollywood accounting and it's

basically where um they like fudge the books in a way to make it look like the movie was not profitable uh well maybe not fudge but they take a way to make it look like the movie was not profitable. Well, maybe not fudge, but they take advantage of every opportunity to deduct. I guess that's true. That's what I do try to do for taxes every year. It's not illegal, I guess,

but they'll open a separate account to try to make it look like you buy the books bonuses and stuff like that. Give the government everything, everything, everything they deserve. More than they asked for every time I go, you know what? I'm going to give me this,

throw a little extra on top. Appreciate you. Thanks for, thanks for. Every time. I go, you know what? I'm going to give you this. Throw a little extra on top. Appreciate you. Thanks for having my back. Yes, that's right. The Troubadour? Send this to somebody that needs it. You know what I mean? You ever done a show at the Troubadour?

Yep. It's a legendary club. Oh, I'm about to do two shows at the Troubadour. Oh, yeah, he is. Oh, you are? Yeah, they're sold out. But Friday, May 3rd. How about it?

And you're at the Hollywood Improv? I'm at the Hollywood Improv, May 8th, Wednesday night. I didn't even get into the handprints, but... Yeah, what's going on with those? Very similar. Not as many people get it. I think Jodie Foster just got one last week. But I think only like 200 handprints.

So you'd probably rather a handprint than a- Yeah. Isn't that like an Asian restaurant? It's a Chinese theater. Chinese theater. Cromister. Yeah. Well, that's right.

I think they serve food in there. Yeah, you didn't get the- I saw a movie there. It's a giant screen. Yeah. Wasn't it like the biggest IMAX anywhere? Yeah. It's crazy. It's awesome. But that's a giant screen yeah wasn't it like the biggest imax yeah yeah it's crazy it's awesome but that's a place it's so many seats so it's uh obviously it's hard to feel that stuff but that's a that's like an old theater that you go to it like you would you feel like it you know

what you do sometimes feel like you're like i should have dressed up like if you're wearing something like this and then you're like you feel like a bum like, I should have dressed up. Like if you're wearing something like this and then you're like, I feel like a bum. Like, you know, it's just what people wear, but it's like, you know, it's a very classic, nice kind of thing. Yeah, when you see old pictures, like at the Tampa Theater, they had like this, the theater was open in like the 20s, 1920s. And they had like people going to the theater, like a line out front.

They were all wearing hats and suits and everybody was so dressed up and so nice. A lot of people dressed up at my show. It looked good. They were. Yeah. Really? They looked nice. Overalls?

Yeah. Straw hats. They put shoes on? Yeah. That was great. Overalls with the tie. Yeah. Yeah.

You know what's cool in the Atlanta Punchline in the green room? Right above the couch, there's written, thanks for letting me bomb all weekend, Bill Burr. Oh, really? Yeah, from back in the day. That's pretty good. It's fun seeing stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially after you bombed.

Yeah. And then you go, oh, Bill Burr bombed. That's interesting because that location hasn't even been open that long. It's written there. Yeah. Maybe he was there during COVID. Maybe so. Yeah.

I was going to say there's some feral chickens, Dusty, you could check out when you're out there. Okay. On the Hollywood Freeway. I guess they live underneath the bridge and nobody knows how they got there. Rumor is a poultry truck overturned, but they've been there since the 70s. Oh, really? Wow. Do they attack people?

Didn't say that. A feral chicken makes it sound like they're a real problem. I don't know. Just wild chickens. Hollywood freeway chickens. But they've been there for a long time, and they've tried to remove them, but they can't completely do it.

So, Dusty? Let them roll. They're known as Minnie's chickens. I don't think they're really trying yeah i think how do you not it said 50 chickens i don't know about 50 is that what i said i thought that's what it started out maybe with 50 and now it's maybe more yeah but yeah it's like you would think you could you're like how are you if you really wanted to you could probably immediately i think you could yeah you could do something i you could have probably immediately. I think you could. Yeah.

You could do something. I don't. Yeah. Which I'm not saying they should, but. Let them do it. It seems like it's, you know, it's another one where someone's like, well, we're trying. We can't get them out. You're like, are you trying?

Yeah. The Hollywood Bowl, Dave Chappelle and Monty Python. That's a comedy troupe. Have the most performances by a comedian at the Hollywood Book. Oh, yeah. How many? It didn't say. It just said they were tied.

But the one, I think the one that Michelle, Michelle Chappelle got a tax, I think that was the one he tied it. Oh, really? Where the guy ran on stage. Yeah.

That was at the Hollywood Book. Maybe that guy was just a big Monty Python fan. Yeah, maybe. That one. That's true. Yeah. They don't say how many?

The article. Is it three or four? Is it. Yeah. They don't say how many? The article. Is it three or four? Is it like 12? I don't know. This was just the thing about the Hollywood Bowl and its history. So. Yeah. Hollywood is, you know, man, it's like Hollywood just needs to go back to be Hollywood, man.

It was, you know, it was fun. You had movie stars. That's what it was. And I think it can still be that. I think people still want that. And it made it, it was entertainment. It was cool. It was a break from your reality and it just got blended too much. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I think, I mean, I love movies. I mean, I've been watching, I like old movies. I watch a lot of like 70s movies. I mean, I'm all about it.

I love movies. It's so fun. Yeah. Yeah. Did you look through the rest of those DVDs, by the way? Yeah. I mean, I got, you know, I got them all up in a case now. And yeah.

I thought you were being ridiculous about keeping all these DVDs in case they're no longer out there on streaming or whatever I wanted to see Sling Blade, I haven't seen that in a really long time I said it's not out there anywhere you gotta own a copy of it I got a copy yeah, that's what I'm saying

I make things seem like it's a conspiracy I mean, I just I didn't do a deep dive but what i read was but it's like yeah if you want to watch something i want to be able to i want to be able to go pop it in there it's not prime no this video is currently unavailable to watch in your location i was gonna feel it's an oscar winner yeah so it's like yeah i just want to go oh there are reddit threads about this particular movie yeah I just want to be able

to go watch it yeah well now I can't yeah it's like it's not about you know the end of civilization but

if everything's streaming and you don't have a copy if suddenly they decide you can't watch it then you can't watch it mhm how about that

the only way to watch Slingblades currently is to purchase physical copy but even dvds and blu-rays are rare and expensive i got a copy boom don't tell people though i don't want people breaking in yeah that's fun well thanks to delete me they'll have no idea where you're at yeah yeah there is something nice about going to d. I mean, it's the, yeah. It feels good.

It feels good. People like, that stuff worked. It felt good for us. So I think it will always feel good for everybody. You know, even when the kids are looking at YouTube and they're just like, jeez, jeez, jeez, jeez, jeez, jeez. It's like it becomes mindless. So I think, you know, we have some DVDs there. It's like, yeah, yeah, go pick a DVD.

And you go, hmm, watch this. It is fun. Yeah, in the early 2000s, I moved into this apartment complex. And they had at the office, they had a few DVDs that you could go check out. And this was like, you know, I didn't have, it was back when Netflix was still like order by mail. And it was like, it was so fun. I'd just go down to the office. They'd let me get two or three movies for free.

I was like, this is so great. I was watching DVDs all the time. When you kind of are forced to watch something, when you're like, I still like going to look at HBO or all the movie channels and just kind of be like every night, just be like, maybe there'll be something there. I'll be like, this is the only thing on. I'll guess I'll watch this.

Yeah. You know, I felt like I enjoyed music more back when I had to buy it. Yeah. Yeah. To now Spotify, I have everything and I kind of don't, I mean,

I still listen to it. And that's, that's the, the qual, uh, quality can go down because it's like, you just got it. You need, you got it there. Like we need more because it's like, you just got it. You need, you got it there.

Like we need more because it's just getting devoured. Yeah. I would buy a CD back in the day for like 15, 20 bucks and like for one song. And then I'm like, even if I didn't like the rest of the album, I would listen to it a bunch of times. It was just in your car for a summer. And I would, you know, I bought the beatles

white album one time for like 30 bucks for one song and then i didn't even really like the beatles but i was like 30 bucks i kept listening to that thing i love it it's one of my favorite beatles albums jagged little pill alanis morissette remember we bought that on that road trip and we listened to it oh yeah yeah it's a good album yeah it's a good time yeah alright yeah well next week we'll be back to y'all so y'all be fun

so I had fun hope everybody's happy well next week Aaron will just attack Brian a lot and you know you know

that's what happens when you're gone God forbid you have any back and forth with Brian. The Bates heads will come out. He's a puppy. If the common problem is

we talked about this earlier. What's the common denominator here? Maybe think about that. You're the only one that can keep Aaron under control. When you're gone, he's a wild animal. Yeah. Well, listen, somebody's got to tell y'all what's what. Somebody's got to set the agenda.

People are listening to this. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. But they are, man. And they're showing up in real life. They are. You want to tell us where you're at this week? With Seinfeld, gaffigan sebastian i'm in

also loveland colorado and i think new mexico and probably somewhere else uh we're yeah the be funny tour is still out and about loving it still doing it it's great it's fun it's the best i love doing stand-up so be going till uh the end of uh yeah the end of j, I think, is kind of the end. I'll have my normal dates. A couple sporadic, but then we'll be on a little bit of a good little break. So I'm coming up with some new material.

Try to write something. I'll go sit at the lake. Yeah, that's fine. It's been a while since you did it. This weekend, I'm in Loveland, New Mexico. Oh, you'm in Loveland, New Mexico. Oh, you're in the Hollywood Bowl too? Can I?

Can I do the Hollywood Bowl too? We'll spike you in after Gaffigan. Just a guest set. I'm not saying the full. Just give them five. Just give them five. Yeah. We'll just do some crowd work. Yeah.

Go out there. You follow Seinfeld. Yeah. Close it out. By age? Yeah. May 10 Yeah. Go out there. You follow Seinfeld. Yeah. Close it out. By age? Yeah. May 10th, I'm in

Shehalis, Washington at McFiller's Theater. May 26th, I'm back in Huntsville at Stand Up Live. Come see me there. Come on out.

This weekend, I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Tulsa Looney Bin. The newly revamped, newly regenerated Tulsa Looney Bin.

I'll be out there. And then next week, Netflix is a joke festival. Hollywood Improv. Boom. Come on out. This Friday, I'm at the Troubadour in LA. And those shows are sold out, though. But if you want to see me Thursday, I'm going to be at the original room at the comedy store doing a podcast with my wife called the We're Having a Good Time podcast.

It's going to be very fun. And it's still even limited tickets on that. But come see that. Are you going to get into it, do you think? A fight? No, no. Like get into what's what? Some stuff?

Oh, I don't know. We'll see what's happening. Sometimes me and my wife do a podcast together and we will fight a little bit at the beginning and then we'll stop it and we'll go, let's just restart it. So we're not going to be able to do that here. So, uh, so you're in the fight. Yeah. The fight is just becomes the show, but we're really focusing on, um, not doing that. It's going to be, it's going to be a good one. We're going to have a lot of fun. Now, will this be released? It will be released. That's cool. We're going to get it. We're going to film it too, and I'll put the whole thing out on YouTube, provided that it goes well.

Yeah. But that's why we need people to come. Yeah. It'll be great, though. It's going to be so fun. Yeah. All right. Yeah.

Yeah, there's a lot of comics out there. Yeah. At the Netflix Joke Festival. Yeah. This week in Los Angeles, in Hollywood. Excited. All right. Well, that's it.

Thank you. We love you. Hope you have a wonderful week. And this is probably a more stressful podcast, not as fun. I thought it was great. I had a great time. I loved it. Yeah.

Well, I'm sure it'll be great. I think the people that listen to this podcast Will agree with you On that rant Yeah No I think they will But I just can't Ever talk I haven't ever

I don't think I've Addressed that kind of stuff Like but You know Whatever I'll be gone So enjoy Well you're gone too

Next week Or no you're back I fly back Monday morning Oh yeah yeah yeah Yeah So you'll be here Yeah Alright Alright See you next week They will Bye back Monday morning. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So you'll be here. Yeah.

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