The Nateland Podcast - 200: #200 Milestone Moments

Episode Date: May 15, 2024

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Today's episode of the Nateland podcast is brought to you by ZocDoc, BetterHelp, Viorey Clothing, and Delete.me. Hello folks and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate, Brian Bay, Taren Weber, Dusty Slay. We're all back. We're all back. My voice is hoping it's better. This is episode 200.

200. Yeah. Who would have thunk it? Not me. Yeah? Yeah. What did you feel, 60? I thought we were going to get to the end of 2020 and you would go, all right. Yeah. The world's back to normal. Yeah? Yeah. What did you feel, 60? I thought we were going to get to the end of 2020, and you would go, all right. Yeah.

The world's back to normal. Yeah. See you guys later. Yeah, but it wasn't back to normal at the end of 2020, though. No. But he's asking when we started what we thought. When we started. Oh, yeah.

I thought it was two weeks. You were way off on a lot of stuff. I was, too. I was, too, yeah. Two weeks, and then we go. Once we get past these two weeks everything will be back to normal nate will be back on the road and it'll be a fun memory yeah here we are 200 episodes later i thought we'd never get back to normal so you got you guys are right right more

right than me i guess yeah you're not back to'm- I think it sent you down a different path. To some degree, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I saw that how quick it can go downhill. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean- I think it changed a lot of people, especially, yeah, I think it did change you. Yeah.

And then, you know. Well, now I know how fast- Yeah. That it would be. It verified some beliefs you had. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. 100%.

Strengthens some stuff, yeah. Yeah. That is what I've been talking about for years. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Is it hard not to say I told you so? Yeah, a lot of times it is. But some people still don't even, they're not even awake to it.

They don't have any idea. Yeah. They don't know what's happening. They don't know. They go, that was crazy, huh? Yeah. Fun time. Yeah.

Well, we're here, all here. I'm i've been sorry i've been gone i've been gone one month it's crazy one month from uh home i did see lauren i did see lauren harper during that i wasn't just gone but it was yeah one i mean i was gone, but I had them come out a month. Yeah. A month without sleeping in your own bed, you know? I mean, it was a whirlwind. I knew this was coming. So it's like, you know, I'll be done in July with the big bulk of the touring like this.

So I knew it was coming. So it was, you know, it was like I knew this was going to be a crazy run and there's a lot of stuff it's like that's the stuff that it just stuff random stuff kind of happens where you have to it's like i would have been going home but then we had that seinfeld sebastian show and then it's like the next week i get asked to do this letterman and mulaney thing would you saw that i did an interview with letterman it was not filmed though so a lot of people thought because he does a thing that's filmed on Netflix. This wasn't. It was just a live show. And so it was like, you just had that kind of stuff.

And it was like, I couldn't really get home in between. And, you know, you just get stuck out. Last night I did a charity event, the Robin Hood event. That's what shirt I'm wearing in New York. They do it with poverty in new york city and uh you guys went around and stole from rich people and gave it to the poor people yep it is well it's rich people giving to the poor people they raised 68 million dollars a little bit different than ours last night yeah yeah we raised six thousand raised $6,000. Yeah.

Even our charity work is different. Y'all have... Aaron and I were so proud we were petting each other on the back. We did it. We beat the $5,000 goal. Yeah.

That is... That is... Y'all beat us by $67 million whatever the rest of it is. It's funny... Basically $68 million. Yeah.

Just to say $68 million. By $68 million. Yeah. Just to say $68 million. About $68 million. Yeah. Yeah, that's a rounding error. Yeah. Yeah. That is very funny. Well, they had probably, who's on y'all's show?

I'll tell you who's on our show. Me, Brian, John Chris. All right. Who's the poor people getting the money, though? Huh? Can we sign up people to get money? I got some poor people that I would like to sign up. Yeah.

I don't know if you're allowed to just put names in a hat. Yeah, I mean, who's getting it? Yeah, it's a big thing they've done. It's like the biggest charity event that they do in New York, and they've done it for years. Everybody's done it. Last night, it went Mumford & Sons, then me, then Post Malone. Wow.

Dude, how great would it have been if I was like, what did y'all raise? We go, seven grand. I was like, so we beat you still, but it's, you know. It was tight. We're trying to fix one family a little bit. Yeah, a little bit. Not even the whole.

In New York, maybe just pay their rent for a month. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, it's, yeah, I met Post Malone. His tour manager, his in-law is a girl that I graduated with in high school. Really? Yeah.

So last night in the Javits Center is where we did the show. You know, and again, it's like, it's just, I think it's all Wall Street people. Like, I don't, you know, I'm asked to perform. And so that's a big, big event. And I think every comics ever, you know, Seinfeld, Gaffigan, Up the Line, every artist, you know, Paul McCartney's done, like,

it's just a big, big, one of their big charity events. And so some of this said the Post Malone's tour manager wanted to say hi to us. And then it was like he went to high school or something like that. So then we get there and we realize he tells us who it is. And it's a girl, Angela, that I graduated with. She was in our class. So it was crazy to be like, he's DCA. I graduated with 56 people.

He's there. Travis, who graduated, my tour member, we graduated together, and then me and DCA. It's crazy to be like out of 56 people, you're like, there's two people from the class and one that's an in-law of someone from our class, and we're all in the same javits. I feel like I meet so many people on the road that went to high school with you. Maybe not in your class, but at least with DCA. It's a small school. It's a small school.

Yeah, guys. The Hermitage Lowe's kept talking to me about you the other day. I went to school with you. Yeah. That's great. We're all over the place. Yeah. And we're not a lot, but we are loud.

Yeah. And we will tell you where we went to school. Yeah. Yeah, it was super. Yeah, I love that stuff. And so, yeah, the whole, I met Post Malone, very nice. He was cool. Everybody says he's great.

He's really nice. Yeah. Really, really, really nice. When we were at the comedy store at the festival, he showed up when we were there, but I didn't even see him. It was just a swarm around him. Yeah. Moving around.

Then I was like, it's probably time for me to get out of here. Yeah, it's hard. Yeah. Did you leave leave oh yeah wait did you no but you stayed till i stayed for a bit like one o'clock yeah we were there we left right after you okay yeah okay good he was with us aaron aaron we had the naitland i have to naitland crew in the comedy store yeah and we were mixing it up about hanging in a corner uh we're more of a corner people yeah i love a corner we love a nice corner out of the way yeah talk about the people around you try to have no one come up to you uh-huh you know it's easier for me yeah that's for nate yeah aaron was in the middle and people just walked around and they were more frustrated that he went moved out of the way.

That's why I left. It's so packed. You're like, I'm contributing nothing, taking up space. It is. We were, at one point, we were hanging out, and it was like me, you, Nikki Glaser, and it's like, but it's also, I mean, you're younger, but it's not like you're a big drinker. It's a big drinking thing, and i don't you know it's a big drinking thing and

you know we don't drink and we're older and so you're just kind of like you realize like you're old uh soda and i talked to soda last night and him and jay were talking you're like yeah you don't you just don't you know unless you're a big big partier still in your in your 40s there's only so long you're going to hang out with the younger. Because even though they're your buddies, it's like once you have fun, and then they flip to turn it on, and then you're kind of like, all right, well, I don't want to do this. I get there quick.

Yeah. There we are. Look at us. Annie Letterman. As soon as that picture got taken, I was like, all right. That's a good picture. Wow, you look so tall there. Yeah. Hey, God. Doesn't know how. That's a good picture. Wow, you look so tall there. Yeah, hey, God.

Doesn't know how to look at the right camera. Yeah, exactly. I was looking at the flash. I'm new to all this. I'm new to Hollywood. How tall is that flash? You have the exact

same outfit on. I do. Yeah. Same jeans. Isn't it crazy that you can tell even though it's a black and white photo?

Yeah, it's so funny. Your outfit still is like, you could lie and you're like, no, I think that's it. Isn't it crazy that you can tell even though it's a black and white photo? Yeah, it's so funny. Your outfit still is like, you could lie and you're like, no, I think that's it. And I can't even tell the color. It's the same white t-shirt. White t-shirt. Wow. Dang, dude.

He's got a uniform. Yeah, it was a good, it was right after Nikki on the roast. She destroyed the roast. On your hand? Where? Oh, on me? I don't know. I don't know what's going on. I think it is. What is that behind Andy there? i don't know what's going on i think it is i don't know what's going on i think it is aaron's hand and i felt there's post malone henchcliffe see

that was in the other room that was the nucleus that just moved around yeah yeah and that's like well unless you're doing that you know you're kind of like all right uh even though it's fun i we were with shane earlier and then it's like he kind of got in his element with this and you're kind of like, all right. Even though it's fun, we were with Shane earlier, and then it's like he kind of got in his element with this, and then you kind of go, all right. I love that he's trying to do this, like, I'm just a good old boy that likes fishing look now. Post-mortem? Oh, post-mortem.

He's a, I don't, yeah, I don't know what his, he's a very, very nice person. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah, he might fish. He's into Joe Diffie stuff now. Yeah, man. He's doing country now. Yeah, yeah. He's making good stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. He might fish. He's into Joe Diffie stuff now. Yeah.

He's doing country now. Yeah. He's making good stuff. Yeah. Yeah. You imagine that all those tattoos, fishing. That's what I'm saying.

You go, maybe you just put his face in the water and then fish. Yeah. It's like lures. Yeah. Yeah. And then.

It's a new type of fish. You just put your face in there. Yeah. And then you just put your face in there yeah and you just bite the fish you ever do that fish where you noodling I've never done that

would you do it I don't know no I don't think so no you do it once man if you were in a group you can get peer pressured into that I'm not really into that

huh letting the fish like you mean the fish comes up and bites yeah do you think those people are too far for even you yeah

you're in the middle in that area yeah but if you were with four of them and they were calling you a Do you think those people are too far for even you? Yeah. You're in the middle. In that area. Yeah. But if you were with four of them and they were calling you a coward, you wouldn't jump down there and do it? No, no.

That's all it would take for me. I would be like, if I were on their boat, I'd be like, go ahead and take me back. But if I were still drinking, maybe. I think you do it from the bank.

Yeah, maybe. I just don't want, I don't like, you know, I don't want the fish. You 15 years ago, you'd have been all over this. Yeah, yeah. Oh, for sure.

Okay. But now I'd be, they'd say, oh, you're a coward. I'd be like, I'm going to go on back and then I'll probably not talk to you guys. I'm very good. Yeah. I think 15 years ago, you would have had a tent setting up selling. Hey, do you want to go noodling? People would have bought it as family groups.

Yeah. If I could have some money and still be a drinker, yeah, I would have done a lot more. Yeah. I would have a lot of things. Go back to your picture of us. Okay. Because I do believe that's Aaron's hand

because I think I remember thinking, why is Aaron touching this high on my shoulder? Oh, yeah. And I do remember that. It looks like a- And it fell down right there. I don't think that's Nicky's hand. No. Maybe maybe it's nikki's hand looks like a werewolf i thought i remember filling aaron's hand higher than i aaron doesn't feel like a guy that aaron doesn't want to hug you

even though he's a very huggable he looks huggable yeah it's aaron doesn't want it's more like a bear where you're like just back you know know, you're back off it. Like sometimes you get to play with it, but then a lot of times if his family's near, it's back away. Give him some space. Give him some space. Yeah, I agree with that. He looks like a guy you want to give a hug to, but he doesn't want to do it. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. But you're like, I mean, after you walk in going like, I guess I have to hug this guy because that's what he looks like. Yeah. He's like, I'm not a shaker. I'm a hugger. Yeah, yeah. A bear hugger. Yeah.

So, yeah, the Netflix joke, the whole festival was very fun. I mean, it was crazy. Seinfeld show was crazy. Now, last time you were here, I guess two weeks ago, you talked about the order. And we all said, you know, we all agree you should probably go you, Sebastian, Gaffigan, Seinfeld. And then I saw a video of you guys drawing balls, and it almost was that exact order.

Yeah. We had ping pong balls and a hat with a number on them. I feel like it was rigged for Seinfeld to go. So everybody thinks it's rigged. I mean, if it's rigged, I don't know that as one of the people grabbing it. I agree that it did, but we drew them out. So we did like a fake one right when we got there. And Gaffigan was one and Seinfeld was like two.

And then it was like, I had four. I think it was three, four was backwards. So when we did it in person, the first night, it was exactly, it was Sebastian, me, Gaffigan, Seinfeld. And then the next night, we even switched who could grab first. I think I grabbed first, and I grabbed one. And then it was Seinfeld got four, Gaffigan got three, and Sebastian got two.

And so it was, look, unless Gaffigan and Seinfeld knew something and they did something without us knowing, but I don't think they would. I just do think it's funny that it's like Seinfeld. The one guy you would, to me, I would think he would be like, nah, I want to headline this. And then he goes, oh, headlining. Look at this. I don't think it was a matter of him wanting to

we even we would tell him afterwards we're like you should be going last and he's like i i think he just wants to do a show and go up whenever he he is like someone that's like he doesn't have an ego he doesn't really have to have an ego because his career is ego. Like, the career is so big and he's so big that he doesn't have to be like, yeah, he can go up whenever he wants. I'm Jerry Seinfeld. Like, you know, and he doesn't act like that, but you're like, everybody knows. You're basically the reason all of us are doing comedy. So, I mean, dude, and he destroyed.

I'll tell you that. 70 years old, Went up, murdered. That whole line, it was just like a crazy. Wow. It looks good. Looks great. It's fun. We had a wonderful.

We all hung. We got a lot of video of it. We'll see if we ever get it out. But we had Mike Lavin, who's out with me, was out there filming. And it was, I mean, It was just this super fun. Sebastian's got a great, I mean, everybody's so funny. I'll tell you what, Gaffigan's very, very funny. And you always know he's funny, but Gaffigan's a very funny person.

And I know I'm saying this, like I've known him forever. I've been around him. But it's like we always get to hang out in very small parts. So we were around each other for a few hours each night. Gaffigan's very, he's just a, he's a funny, funny person. And then, and his act, he's got, he's got some great stuff, some new stuff that I've heard. And Sebastian was kind of back.

I felt like, not that he was not back, but he's like, he was, it was the Sebastian you wanted. Like, it was like, great. It was just him talking about going to Universal with his kids. And I mean, it was the Sebastian you wanted. Like, it was, like, great. It was just him talking about going to Universal with his kids. And, I mean, it was awesome. It was crazy because everybody just destroys. And, you know, it's like a crazy show to. How long was this show?

We each did, like, 25 minutes. Okay. So, you know, and then we went up top and did 10. So probably a two-hour show. But, you know, you don't start until – the show's supposed to start at 7, doesn't start until – I forget what it was, 7 – it might have been an hour late. I don't know. Because the way the bowl is set up, I think everybody that goes there,

it's like one of those, you know, you got to check your frustrations at the door. And, you know, it's probably – Red Rock's the same way. Just – this is your night. So get there. You're going to walk to your seat. It's a whole thing. But the crowd was awesome. And, yeah, it was a pretty, obviously, it's a very special night.

So, yeah. It's amazing. Yeah. But where'd this six grand go? It went to. Yeah, where does it go? Where does it go? Yeah. But where'd the six grand go? It went to... Yeah, where does it go? Where does it go? Yeah.

Very great research. We know where the 68 million's going. Yeah, yeah. It's where's the six grand going? Yeah. That's where they get you. It's called The Laundry Project, and it is a very good organization that help wash clothes for homeless...

Low-income families. Low-income families. Oh, it's great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And. Yeah. And I had a much smaller show at the Netflix's Joke Festival, but look at this lineup, huh? Greg Warren.

Wow. And then Nate popped in. Wow, look at that. How about that? Oh, yeah. Fun little show for 55 people. It was great. It was unreal.

It was unreal. Yeah. Sat and watched Aaron Toles' set. He didn't really give Laura Peek a lot of attention. Well, she hasn't been on Nate Land before, but Laura Peek was great. Yeah, Laura Peek was there. That's her friend. Did you watch Aaron's set?

All Nashville. I did. I sat in the back and watched. How was it? I had nowhere to go. Did you have a call to make or anything? It was late. The one time.

Our boy Greg Garcia came, which was cool. It was very fun to watch your set. Like I said, Aaron's great. It just reminded me a lot of when I was eight. What are you, eight years? Eight years, yeah. Yeah, it reminded me a lot when I was eight years in. It was nice to get to watch it and be like i really felt you know like i just i remember going

up and you know you would you're headlining rooms that are 55 people and that's normal and it's not crazy and you just it's and i mean it was and this was it was sold out for you know uh and i mean there's people not selling out even a 55 seat room and especially with everything that's going on uh so a lot of people there uh he wouldn't take his backpack off for this picture uh you got strapped in the front i always strap in the front okay yeah it takes pressure off the shoulders yeah if you what was in the backpack the c- CPAP yeah you bring it for the in case he falls asleep during a show

yeah in case I need to take a nap in the green room is he take one more one last hit before you go up it's not an oxygen tank yeah

I had a change of clothes in there I had my phone charger oh that's what I told him yeah he comes in wearing clothes, and then he goes, I got to get ready for the show, and just pulls out these same clothes and puts them on. He's got a uniform.

Yeah, it wasn't that different. It wasn't like he went from this thing to this other thing. It was basically the same clothes. And then so he changed into it. But, yeah, Aaron, he did great and uh it was super fun we went out some pizza afterwards uh a little fun hang afterwards yeah yeah great week great yeah la is awesome when it's like that it was uh yeah la is it was it was very fun itA. very fun because L.A. can be not as fun. You feel like you need to be doing something when you're in L.A.

or you feel like a loser if you don't live there. This festival went on forever, though. Two weeks. Last week, I talked about my time there. Yeah. And then yesterday, I saw somebody posting about the Netflix festival. I was like, is this thing still going? Yeah, it it's two weeks is this just from now on yeah yeah they do it every two weeks it's uh yeah it's a it's a fun you get to see people you don't get to see them as

like i would have but it was nice to be like every night you really could go see a friend was performing someone i would have known you know and it's where it's aaron i mean i wasn't there when you were there but like you were if i was there you would have been everybody kind of had a night where you're like every night you it wasn't like one night you'd be like well i don't know anybody it was always like someone and you could be like oh i'll go see what they're up to and uh so yeah it was a wonderful you know wonderful time yeah so good deal uh well i did not go to i was off this weekend i did not go to any parties like that but i did go to one of the hottest parties i've ever been to what daisy slay three-year-old birthday party oh wow it was a hot

party this saturday My daughter turned three. I got to tell you something, though. That ball pit was weak. Kids are getting hurt. There's like 20 balls in there. Well, we went to Academy Sports. We bought all the balls they had and three bags. Still not enough.

And so you like to have a ball pit where kids just are going to hit the ground. A kid got hurt. He twisted his ankle. yeah that's my that's my little cousin or my little nephew though he's got a little fun yeah he was fine and yeah it was good i built a tramp i put a trampoline together and it's like a full-size trampoline oh yeah oh amazing yeah it's like you let the kids only go swim on the ocean the part where it stops and then starts going back in. And there's a lot of rocks. And there's a lot of rocks. Yeah.

And you go, but can we go in a little deeper? You're like, no, no, no, no. You can do all full dives, but only at this level. Yes. Could you see the floor of the ball pit? I mean. Yeah. Well, there's a pit.

Oh, wow. I mean, that's Eleanor with Daisy. And I mean, they are sad. Well, of all the... Daisy's happy. Daisy loved it. Well, I mean, I'm joking.

It was a great party. That's probably a blast. We had a cake. We had all beef hot dogs. We had hamburgers. A keg? Cake. A cake.

I told you it was wild. Yeah. Yeah, we had... Yeah, we had an open bar. Daisy drinks. She started when you started. That's right. I've been trying to collect families with young kids. Yeah.

So I managed to wrangle up a few. So I'll get the invite next year, hopefully? Yeah. Yeah, next year to my son's birthday because my son will be about the age of your daughter. Yeah. So my son will be about the age of your daughter. Yeah. So my son will be a year next month, but they'll be close. Amazing. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, he hasn't had his baby yet. Yeah, but they'll be close. His baby's due in October. Next year. Yeah. Next year will be, yeah, close. Yeah, they'll be close this year. Well, we'll get some.

So I guess the thing is, Aaron, bring, if you don't mind bringing some other balls. Yeah, bring some balls. I mean, it wouldn't be bad if everybody brought some balls. I was at Academy Sports. I go, you got any more of those balls?

He goes, if they ain't on the shelf, we ain't got them. Well, at least look, though. You know what I mean? Did he have them? He didn't look. Oh.

I was like, you got no back stock here? You got nothing in the back? This is, everything's out here. I feel like stores leave stuff out more. Like now, there's not much. It used to be, you'd always be like, well, in the back? This is, everything's out here. I feel like stores leave stuff out more. Like now, there's not much.

It used to be, you'd always be like, well, check the back. And they're like, yeah, we're loaded in the back. But now, I think you ask, and they're like, there is no back. Are they putting more in the front now and less in the back? Yeah, it's like they're not stocking stuff, so they don't. It's like out there to be sold, and then it doesn't. Yeah. You know, they, but there's it's like out there to be sold and then it doesn't yeah you know they

but there's not an abundance of stuff anymore i can't believe you did me like this on the ball pit though well i mean people need to know you go to dusty's house that's a pretty funny picture though it is funny to have a ball pit where the kids just sitting on the floor the kids have a pretty tough time to sit on balls they had to get they had to kind of put them in a corner. I think some were knocked out for this picture. Yeah.

I think so too. I think so too. Yeah. And it does look like Daisy's like, I wish, if you go, you know her dad

grew up in a trailer park, you'd be like, yeah, of course, you know, I didn't, you'd be like, you wouldn't even

think about asking. You'd be like, no, I assumed that with the, but yeah, that's fun. yeah that's awesome it's great daisy had a good time it was a great hot party it was a hot party it was a hot party that's fun yeah yeah were you were you working this weekend or i was off too and uh i went out to mcminnville

and uh did some stuff out at the cabin and uh it was great move some rocks around rode the four-wheeler a little bit. It was a good time. You're moving them around for a purpose, right? Yeah, I got them. The way you say it, it sounds like you're just moving stuff. I ordered a pile of rocks one day. This guy came in with a dump truck.

And I didn't know where to put them. I didn't really know what I was doing with the rocks at the time. I just got some rocks. And now I'm building up a bit of a, on the side of the swales, I'm building up so that the dirt doesn't wash away. What's a swale? It's my, you know, my little ditches that I had built so I can plant my trees on top. My trees look great, by the way. But, so I have to put these rocks there to keep all the dirt from washing away.

But, you know, it's just me and my wife and my three-year-old daughter moving the rocks. So, Daisy's pretty good at moving the rocks and i got the yard glider so i just throw a bunch of rocks on that and then we drag it with the four-wheeler over to the oh that's cool yeah it's going it does sound like fun it is fun if i could get some more dudes to come out there with me at this or women it doesn't matter my wife probably would prefer that i bring dudes uh to go out to the cabin and help me move rocks. We could knock it out pretty quick. I'm available at any time.

All right. Do we all need to go out and help you move rocks? Yeah, as many as we could get, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Make a day of it. We'll go to McMinnville, go to the caverns. Do you think, what do you think, you know who?

Well, he did not even speak up at all during that. I mean, yeah. No, I want to be realistic. Do you think him or Daisy could carry more rocks? Daisy would be more. Well, you know, prior to the ball pit comment, I would say, you know, Brian for sure. But after that.

After I threw him under the bus. Yeah. Yeah. Who knows? Yeah. Yeah. All right. My mom had a giant tree fall in her yard during the storms last week.

And if it were just me, I would have, I've just paid somebody to come get it removed, but my family, they don't do that. So I've been out there helping my brother-in-law. He's got a chainsaw and I've been, yeah. So you got to like dismember it, right? Is it a big tree? Yeah, it's a big tree. You know, a B they don't give you a lot is big money baits. And that's what it sounds like.

You're like, if it's just me, I just pay. You just pay to throw cash around. Yeah. Don't call me again with this nonsense. Yeah. But if your mom were doing good, I can afford it. How much? Get 200 bucks?

How much would it be? 200? Yeah. Nah, it'd probably be a lot. But yeah. They charge a lot for that stuff. Yeah, yeah. Nah, it'd probably be a lot, but yeah. Yeah. They charge a lot for that stuff. Yeah, yeah.

Because they know you need it. Yeah. This, it's a good picture of you right there. Yeah. Oh, yeah, look at that. It could be an album. It looks like an old country. Yeah.

If you put that in a CD store and had that on there, you'd be like, oh. Someone would go, you remember him? You'd go, yeah, I remember him. And they would just think they remember him. My hands look a little like AI made it. Yeah, your face is red. Yeah, well, my face is always red. Yeah. Now, were you in the group photo of everyone?

Dusty? Oh, the Netflix? Yeah. No, yeah, people said we're like, because a lot of us weren't there. We left. We were somewhere. We were already gone. Asheville. Asheville.

So it's like, it's hard to be there because you're just, you're working. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, not everybody's got time just to hang around, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. I met Cat Williams. Really?

What was that like? Pretty fun. Pretty fun. I am jealous of that. Is he who you want him to be? Yeah, Yeah. I met Cat Williams. Really? What was that like? Pretty fun. Pretty fun. I am jealous of that. Is he who you want him to be? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love Cat Williams. I am jealous of that.

Yeah. Did he know you? Yeah, he did. I didn't know. I mean, I didn't assume he knew me, but I went up and I was like, hey, I'm a comedian in Nate Bargetti. He goes, yeah, I know. He goes, I know.

Everybody misses your last name. I'm going to go, yeah, I know. He goes, I know. Everybody misses your last name up. I'm going to go, yeah. And then he was very, very nice. Yeah. It was cool. That's cool. Yeah. I can't remember that high-resolution picture.

Well, Ian posted one. I don't know if it's. I don't think there was a high-resolution picture. I think there was at some point. But it was a crazy lineup of people. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you go to Ted Saranda's house in Netflix. I went to it the night after our thing with Sebastian Seinfeld.

They had pizza. John and Vinny's Pizza is a big popular kind of – or it's a big pizza place there. We went after – I think he invites – yeah. It's a cool thing. There's Sinbad right there. Yeah. Yeah. Let's start. All. There's Sinbad right there. Yeah. Yeah.

Let's start. All right. Let's start with you guys' comments. Juan Pina. Juan Pina. Right? Juan. Pina?

Pina. Pina. Juan Pina. Pina, maybe? Pina. Yeah, Pina. Juan Pina. Juan Pina.

Great name, either way. Juan Pina. It is a great name. It's a name that they're like's a name that their mom was like, we're going to make sure everybody knows what you are, though. Juan Pena. There's no confusion. I think they would agree with that.

It's a great name. Juan Pena. Pena. Dusty's saying the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is one of his favorite cartoons, then singing the jingle at the end was hilarious, especially since he just met Chuck Lorre. I wonder if Dusty realized that Chuck Lorre wrote the jingle for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and even sang on the jingle for the opening sequence of the cartoon.

This show was also my absolute favorite growing up. Keep up the good work, guys. I did not know that. I had no idea. That's crazy. Where'd you meet Chuck Lorre? In New York? At the Lee and Morgan show.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. At the Pantages Theater. Nice. Yeah. Very nice. Had a great time meeting him. And I had no idea.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Heroes in a half shell. Turtle power. That's crazy. Yeah, that is wild. That feels like an easy jingle to write, though, if I'm being honest. How do we write a jingle for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? But it's a longer song.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They're the world's most fearsome fight. Oh, there are other lyrics? Leonardo's. It dives into their whole background. Yeah. Raphael is cool, but rule. No, what does it say?

Oh, Michelangelo is a party dude. I used to love it. Because Raphael was my favorite, and I remember my stepbrother telling me that I'm rude too. Yeah. Oh. Because it said Raphael is cool but rude.

Raphael. I was a Michelangelo fan. What did he do? He was fun. Oh. He was just a fun guy. Was that your favorite cartoon as a kid?

Probably, yeah. It was a great one. Raphael had a real attitude. And they all ate pizza? Yeah. Okay. That's insane that Chuck Lorre did that.

Yeah, it is. I mean, really, really crazy. Yeah. Wow. Rachel Babery. Babery. Ria. Rachel, yeah.

Today, my husband and I were hiking in Shenandoah. Look at Shenandoah. Shenandoah? Shenandoah, the country group. Shenandoah. Shenandoah? Shenandoah, the country group. Shenandoah. Two Dozen Roses? Yeah. That's a hot song.

Two Dozen Roses. You know that one? Party Dude? Yeah. Chuck Loy wrote that too? Yeah, I think so. Cowabunga. Cowabunga too.

Cowabunga. Today, my husband and I were hiking in Shenandoah National Park, where four cubs ran across the trail with mom close behind. She gave us a very scary growl when she saw us. I immediately began saying, hey, bear, very loudly. They all ran off and would quickly but calmly walk right on the mound. So thanks, guys. Glad to be alive.

Thanks to what I learned for the podcast. That's true. Look at that. Sav saved a life save a family it's not really clear on the full details here but it seems like that they all all these bears just crossed the trail and then this person started yelling hey bear i feel like you just want to be chill in that moment don't you think yeah i think you want them to yell. I don't know what you think they're leaving out, but. They ran across the trail, mom close behind. Did the mom go straight across or did the mom stop and give the growl? Well, she's got a very scary growl, so I'm guessing she stopped.

Yeah, very scary, yeah. Okay. You're like a tough cop that goes, they go, I think I told you everything. And you're like, all right like alright well I don't know everything about the bear and you go alright I just feel like

how tall how much does a bear weigh how much does a bear weigh 5,000 pounds I don't who knows I just feel like if the bears

are going across the trail yeah you want to just be chill and then well they get if the bear if it gives you a growl they were

and then the bear saw them so then you gotta go hey bear hey bear hey bear hey bear yeah that's when you do it alright

alright I support it okay I just you know I'm just thinking if they're almost out of view and then you yell hey bear yeah it's like you're almost

calling them back yeah come on hey we're over here messing with your babies. Oh, yeah. No, I think you just make it loud. You know, from what I understand, I don't think they speak English, so I think you could also yell gibberish.

But it's just trying to be, you know, you're like, it's just an easy to yell hay bear. I have a wooden bench out at the cabin, like it's just an easy to go hay bear i have a wooden bench out at the cabin and these uh be carpenter beetles have bored up in the in the wood right and then something came up and like just tore into the wood i imagine eating those bees out of there uh and i just i don't know what that is do you have bears in the area i don't know it was pretty like it was there when we showed up could be a fox after not been there a little while but it's up on the porch so something went up on the porch clawed into the wood raccoons maybe see raccoon is what i was thinking but it's

pretty intense clawing oh raccoons are and they're eating the bees i think so because you can see where the bees have been born up in there. Yeah. So it's pretty wild. Yeah, what eats bees? You set up a camera. Do carpenter bees even do honey? I feel like they're more.

I don't think so. I think they're just eating the bees. Yeah. Bears, skunks. Could be some skunks getting in there. Ooh. That's not good to have around. Mice.

Maybe it's a bunch of mice. Yeah. And they work as a team. Hack them. Wasp eats bees? That seems a little. I think so. I think wasps are just.

They're pretty ruthless. They just eat whatever. The bees would be. They'll eat each other. They are the. What's the crazy dinosaur in Jurassic Park? Velociraptor? Yeah.

I think they're the Velociraptor. Of the flying insect community. Yeah, and they will fight a T-Rex. They will do whatever they have to do. Badgers. Wolverines. Probably don't have any wolverines in your area. Raccoons.

I just mean raccoons. I think you're probably at the same place. Yeah, that makes sense. I wish you luck, man. Thank you. You're trying to let them stay in there? I mean, it's outside of the house, you know,

so I don't mind. Yeah, you should kill them. Carpenter bees, I think, are pretty nice of the bees. I'm talking about the raccoons.

Oh, yeah, he doesn't like raccoons. I don't mind. He has 35 minutes of raccoons. He does have a lot. Yeah. It's a crazy, it's yeah it's a crazy

it's a the whole show was just he only did 45 he goes yeah he goes did you start with

the raccoon stuff or do you no the first 10 is just setting up he goes we're about to talk about an animal we're about to talk

about it a lot he won't tell you the animal and then you go what's this animal gonna be I hope it's not raccoons and then you go what's this animal gonna be I hope it's not raccoons

I say raccoon in my act right now too in one part gotta clean it up so I shouldn't do a bit on this raccoon thing no you can oh you can

we all try to get a raccoon we all get a raccoon raccoons are very funny yeah let's all get a raccoon it's a funny word to say do a raccoon tour together all get a raccoon. Raccoons are very funny. Yeah, let's all get a raccoon. It's a funny word to say. Do a raccoon tour together. Yeah, say whatever you want. Representative

Sarah Crawford. We've had her. Yeah, I met her. I met her, yeah. Made it to Nate's show in Greensboro after an inventful trip. Can't say if Barry Sanders can tackle a bear, but I have it on good authority that a Toyota Grand Highlander

traveling 75 miles an hour can definitely tackle a bear. Oh, man. Look at this, man. Oh, my gosh. I can't believe Representative Sarah Crawford just admitted to speeding. Well, I bet the speed limit's 70. Yeah. So five is...

I know, but I think everybody knows. But as a lawmaker, she should be... Yeah. Airbags deployed. I guess everybody's fine, right? Oh, they still made it to the show. Oh my gosh. She's a coma.

No. She said it was... Oh, there it is. 200 pound black bear. 200 pound black bear. Wow. I mean, to make it to the show. Did they kill the bear?

Are they going to get it? No, they said they found the body. Are they going to get a rug out of it? Man, I'd be at bits. Pete is going to protest her office. Yeah. Well, I mean, she didn't do it. Yeah.

You know. Well, if she wasn't speeding, maybe a bear would be alive right now. Maybe that bear was running out of the woods after Rachel yelled, hey, bear out. We could see if that's connected. Yeah. Might be the same. Is Shenandoah, is that in North Carolina?

It could be. Probably. More Virginia. We figured it out. Yeah, that's, man, that's crazy. On the way, and they still, I'm trying to think of what I would still go to if I hit a bear on the way. I think most things I'd go. Yeah.

I'm just going to chalk this day up as a loss, head back home. I hit a bear going 75 miles an hour. Man, I don't know. But if you're new to your home and you're like, we're fine, you're like, let's go. Yeah. And then you're, you know, then you take a picture and you're like, we still make it to the show. It's like, what are you going to do?

It's a Nate Bargatze show, too. Yeah. These tickets are hard to get these days. Yeah. I mean, come on. Aaron's on the show. You got to. Yeah.

Yeah. That was a fun show. Yeah, it was a good one. Man, that's crazy. Yeah. I mean, you think about that. The airbags come out, too. That's a whole thing.

Wow. That is something, because the airbag will really mess you up. They look good, too. They didn't look burned up. You can get burned up with the airbags. They can give you some kind of, like, I don't know, some kind of burn you could get from the airbags. I would say I bet her husband was like,

I wish you had taken that drink out of it before you took that picture. That's what I would have said to Laura. Is that McDonald's? Yeah. It's a red straw, so it is McDonald's. And yeah, I'd been like, could you fluff the airbag up a little bit

to not show the bucket of Diet Coke I had in the middle. That's what I would have said because I would have had that in there. I think in that moment I would have said, we'd taken a picture, I would have said, let me grab that Diet Coke under there. We don't need that in there. Let people see what's going on, you know? Yeah, I get it. Sam Yannick.

Yannick. Yannick. There's a chance I nailed that. Yeah. Can Dusty, when referring to listeners of the pod, stop calling us Nate Land people? And instead, call us by our Christian name, folks. I'll be honest with you. I don't, I mean, this may be offensive to everyone on this podcast, and I'm sorry in advance.

Well, that's never stopped you before, so keep going. I don't really like the word folks. Well, you weren't around when this was all decided anyway. Yeah. This was all, yeah, it was grandfathered in. I don't mind if other people use it, but I don't like to say folks. Hello, folks. You're offended by it.

Yeah. Not if other people do it, but I'm not offended by it, I guess. But I'm not a big fan of the word folks. Well, I think a lot of people don't consider you a part of this podcast anyway. Well, I think that's true. I think you can stay with Nate Land people. I think that's true. Yeah.

I think it's a fair trade. You're like, this guy guessed a lot. Yeah. It started with a joke. It was a very funny way we got into it. It took a while. It was gradual. Yeah.

It was gradual. I thought it was pretty fast. No. For it to become just accepted. Well, Haybear jumped in there, too. We had Let's Go, folks. I still get some of those. Yeah.

Let's Go, folks. I only knew that of those. Yeah. Let's Go, folks. I don't know if you liked that one. Huh? You picked that one. I don't know if you wanted that. Because it was a joke. But I think it's now in a perfect situation where it's used as a joke. Everybody that says Let's Go, folks, there's a joke.

So I like that. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody's in on it. Yeah. I was here for Hey Bear. I remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I remember that. I got to the ground level with Hey Bear. You feel better about that than the folks? Yeah. I was here for Hey Bear. I remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that. I got to the ground level with Hey Bear. You feel better about that than the folks? Yeah. Hey Bear still does, like when referring to a person, still feels like some sort of a like talk that you would have between couples. Like if you, like I was talking to my wife, like, Hey Bear. Oh, like Hey Honey, Hey Sugar.

Yeah. I bet you shouldn't call your wife a bear yeah no no yeah you're right about that yeah she would call me that yeah yeah yeah she's doing your wife starts backing up where's my little big yeah big yet. I'm married to a big woman. Roger King. Aaron was

great on A Comic Mind with Jeff Foxworthy. Who is Jeff Foxworthy? He's I didn't know that had come out. That's great. I would love to listen to that. You want to listen to yourself? I don't remember what we come out. That's great. I would love to listen to that. Yeah. You want to listen to yourself?

Well, I don't remember what we talked about, but it was a good- Well, tell us what that is. It's a cool thing to have. It's Jeff Foxworthy's show on Sirius. Dusty's done it. I'm sure Nate's done it. I've done it in some part. All right. I'm sorry I asked.

Yeah. I did it a couple of times. I interviewed- I think you've listened to it. Clearly not. I had to ask you when that yeah I interviewed

Jeff Foxworthy on it on his own show one time yeah oh that's cool yeah I've never heard him either

I don't even you have to have serious experience I was so nervous you know were you nervous to talk to him the first time

yeah for sure yeah some of the first comedy I ever heard was his yeah and I told him that i

made it kind of weird up top but he the most normal guy yeah and by the end of it i was like it's so cool to get to talk to you he's like dude i'm about to go cut my grass this is not you know yeah normal guy i feel like jeff fox really probably hears that especially from other southern comics yeah every time he talks to them yeah like oh so cool to talk to you because he was he is like the southern legend of of comics but he had looked me up and he had watched a few of my bits and yeah asking me about him and stuff he was awesome also speaking of that if you guys don't mind you know james gregory just passed away yeah sad yeah yeah i was about to say when he when jeff foxworthy was on mark maron's podcast and Mark asked him who were some of the comics you looked up to coming up in the South, he said,

James Gregory. Yeah. That was his legend. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very sad.

Like, uh, yeah, James, if you don't know, if you're not in the South, uh, but James Gregory was,

uh, just a giant, giant comic and, uh, really toured, uh, you know, until the end and uh was a true uh

club comedian in his own right he's doing it before clubs that's how long he's been yeah it's real road dog he didn't even like to fly would drive all the time i met him very briefly uh like last year and it's the only time i really ever saw him, which I was, I was very happy to meet him because I always wanted to meet him and I never got to. And until like last year. So, but yeah, yeah,

that was a tough loss. Yeah. Connor James. In my years as a singer, I've been hired to play some quite odd gigs. Like once I was hired to play in someone's living room for 10 people. I like to know the weirdest gigs you guys have ever been hired to do. Love the podcast.

I did one in the living room. Yeah, for probably the same thing, 10 people. And it was very weird. It was a New Year's Eve, and I went up. You stood in a hall. You stood in a doorway, like kind of the hallway. And I just went up you stood in a hall you stood in a doorway like kind of the hallway and uh i just went up and did my jokes no one was really laughing at all because it's awkward and everybody's spread out and like someone's in the kitchen getting food and uh and then there

was a kid and then uh i opened for kurt metzger and then then Kurt went up, and Kurt did better. I mean, but it was just a lose-lose situation. But, like, it was watching someone be able to handle the situation to be like, I went up there and just did my act, where you're like, yeah, yeah, that is not going to work in this situation. Like, even though they think they want your act, that's not happening. Even if you want to do your act, you better figure a different way to get into your act. You better involve them.

You got to be in the room. Yeah, yeah. I don't like crowd work, but it's like if you're performing in someone's living room, all bets are off. You're playing pure survival. So I went up and just bombed. And then Kurt went up, and he just started making fun of them more. And then their kid wanted to do standup or something. So he brought him up to do standup and let him do it.

And it was like, that's what needed to happen. And then, so it was like, you know, so Kurt did bad. They, you know, I think they had fun. And then we left and we were driving across the Queensborough bridge and it struck midnight. Just me and Kurt quiet and happy new year, buddy. Thank you. It's happening. And that was it. That me and Kurt, quiet. It's going to be Happy New Year, buddy. I think it's happening. And that was about it.

That was our New Year's Eve. That was a weird one. Wow. How long ago was that? Last year. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it was when I, yeah, I don't even remember the new year. So it would have, you know, probably 2006, 2007, something like that.

I performed at someone else's house too. I've performed in, but that one was great. I actually saw them. I saw them and their family. They were, they lived in San Jose at the time. And so I still see them, but they, they got their neighbors all together and that show was actually pretty good. And I went from that show, Someone's House, to I opened for Fallon when we did the Clean Cut Comedy Tour.

The next night, I was with Fallon in a 3,000-seat theater. That's crazy. And it was like that. And I remember. Yeah, yeah. That's what I remember. And that's what I remember. I loved that.

You're like, dude, I was in a house last night doing comedy. And now I'm in this perfect setting. And I just love the contrast. Yeah, I did that just similar. In LA just recently, I did the Pantages Theater with Leanne in front of 1,200 people. Great show. Awesome. Chuck Lorre in the audience.

And then the next show, I'm at the improv on a lineup. I don't think anyone knows who I am. And it went pretty mediocre. Yeah. Yeah. So it is fun the way comedy is like that. One moment you're like a star, and the next minute it's like, who is this guy? Yeah.

It's great. Yeah. You're always getting humbled in a way. Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. I did a living room. It's one a way. Absolutely. Yeah. I did a living room. It's one that you gave me.

Yeah. I did it with John Thornton Jr. Yeah. And it was, I think maybe they were friends of yours? Yes. It was a Christmas party. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And did it-

Was it fine, right? Yeah. Yeah, it was good. I mean, it was, you know, as good as it could be. And they were really nice. And then I did a prison. I've done a prison and i did your dad had done it i think i may even told the story on this podcast your dad had done it the day before and everybody loved it and then the next day i went back with jason michaels and they thought

it was gonna be your dad and everybody showed up to see your dad. And it was me. Yeah. I thought there was going to be a riot in the prison. Yeah. And you don't do magic. I do not. You wish you did that night, though. I did.

I wish I could have disappeared. Did they go, who's that lady up there? They just went back to their cell. They get one hour out free. Like, I'm going to head on back yeah uh let the guy in the white collar jail come over talk to him or is that what it's called the you know the the the what's the other jail there's like jail and then there's like the oh the white collar crimes white collar crime like the people like that are investment minimum security minimum security yeah you could have been that guy that's's what you should have come. You're like, I just came home from

minimum security. I had some banking stuff I did. You know, because they don't throw those guys in real jail. It's like an easier jail. Violent offenders. Yeah. That'd been a good opener. It would have been if I ever go back. I think you've done a bunch of

weird shows. Yeah, I actually did a living room gig about eight years ago in Nashville that was incredible. I thought it was going to be awful and it was so fun. But we've done some, I did one with you in Michigan.

I forget where, a little bit upstate on the coast and they had, instead of a brick wall, it was like a plastic painted brick wall and then the microphone didn't work and there was basically just one round table of people in a bowling alley and we just kind of talked to them and it was super weird because the booker of that gig came to meet us and then it was so bad um And she was so apologetic.

It just was like, you know, the lights didn't work. The microphone didn't work. You did the Tonight Show the next week. That's what I remember. You were here enough to do the Tonight Show. But I remember that gig in West Virginia we did where we had to wear a suit coat. Oh, yeah. And it was at a fancy resort. The Greenbrier in West Virginia. Very nice. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it was at a fancy resort. The Greenbrier in West Virginia.

Very nice. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I got there really early and I was just hanging out. And they kind of let me just hang out freely in there. They didn't like us walking around though. No, but after we were doing it and then there was a DJ and there was a dance floor and everybody was dancing and we said to the dj we go hey will you you know just let them know hey in 10 minutes or so we're gonna be doing comedy and he goes yeah no problem man this guy had been talking to us forever he's like i used to open for

carrot top we're buddies and he just kept talking and then so when we told him that he goes yeah no problem man and then instead of doing it he just goes up and goes all right we're about to do some comedy mid-song yeah and then the dance floor clears out everybody stands around the dance floor we're up i don't even know if we're on we're maybe on the dance floor aaron goes up does 10 minutes i think that's nice of you to say you told me to do seven i did about two and a half minutes and i go dusty i'm bringing you up buddy i go it's not getting better than this. And I think we only had to do 30 minutes, but I did the rest of the time. And it was really bad the whole time. And then afterwards, they walked us out.

They go, please leave now. They wouldn't let us hang out. They walked us right out. Yeah. There's no hotel. You get in those situations. I might have told that. I had a community college where I did a nooner is what they would call them. Because you do them at noon because no one's there at night. And I walked in, and it was just in those situations. I might have told that. I had a community college where I did a nooner is what they would call them

because you do them at noon because no one's there at night. And I walked in, and it was just in the cafeteria. There's no, like, hey, we're having a comedy show. And I walk in, the guy hands me the microphone. He goes, I'll be back in an hour. And then I just – and I had Ben. Oh, Ben Bergman. Ben Bergman came with me, and was, thankfully brought him to open.

He goes up and does a few minutes. It really just trying to be like, Hey, we're doing a comedy show, whatever. And then I go and then I go up and I mean, it's, yeah, it's, it's, it's, you really, you really learn a lot of stuff in those situations because you just end up having to like, make fun of yourself, make fun of the situation talk about like you're just trying to get through an hour uh of just it's crazy the problem with the greenbrier is and this is what i never like to talk to people from the audience before the show and because this was the problem is that we uh started talking to people hanging out there and we're like yeah we do comedy and

we got this and that going on and we're like making friends and then when uh while the comedies go and we've already made friends with these people they're already like pumped for us so then when it doesn't go well it feels like you lost a friend yeah they're like oh man i thought they were gonna to be funny. But it's like, these are great jokes, but you guys, you know, you got some fancy casino in like the poorest state in the country. Yeah. You don't have to drag West Virginia into this.

Well, I think West Virginia knows. I like West Virginia, but they are a poor state, and then they got this really big casino. I mean, I feel like they're probably sucking the rest of the money out of the state. Robert Burwell. Nate, my son and I listen to your podcast every week. We were wondering how you, Brian, Dustin, Aaron approach working with comedians that do more Baloo material. Is it ever awkward?

Yeah, you're holding the beginning of your career. That's all year round. you're awkward. Yeah, your whole, the beginning of your career, that's all year round. And I would say most clean comedians, the idea is you're trying not to, you just want to blend in. You don't want anybody to realize that you're clean. And that's, I think that's the best way to, when you're starting out, if you're starting out clean, just try to do that. Don't make it a big deal. Don't act like, you know, you just you just do it so then you that's ingrained in you and then so as your career keeps going you just write that way and so this other stuff doesn't really dirty stuff doesn't pop in you know i don't have like dirty ideas and you know really

like i don't i would never you know because people i was like oh do you ever have some jokes that you thought of that you couldn't do and it's like i you know i now i i just wouldn't it just wouldn't even i'm not even having to fight that urge which is that's what's helpful because then you're not fighting you know like well i always have these one ideas you know it's like so just starting like that um it's never it's never awkward for us because clean can go on anywhere. I think when you first start going, Aaron, probably in this situation, Bates in this situation where you can't always bring your openers or whatever. So when you go to clubs and you see these guys,

you can't always be positive the openers will be clean. And some of it's you're in a in like so when you go it's a good thing when you go if you go watch aaron brian i think you're bringing everybody now yeah but uh when you go watch that they can't promise that everybody's going to be clean because you're not you're only allowed to take people certain places some places you're not going to be allowed to take someone you're just not you're not there in year wise as a comic or whatever it is. And, you know, and that's something that is fun to get to because that's, you can't, you always can't wait till you can get to the point where you can bring your own openers and stuff like that. So sometimes if you

go see them, just understand the whole show, you know, we, even you tell the club, even sometimes we tell the, I mean, there's so many shows i did it was like hey i'm clean there might be people coming out here because i'm clean and they'd be like yeah of course and then they would just put a dirty comic not saying that person's not funny and whatever and you could even tell them to be clean but some you know it's some comics can't be clean and uh so and in clubs too it's like even though I bring features on the club gigs I do, sometimes the club still books the host. Mm-hmm. Right.

And you'll be like, hey, can you be clean? And most of the time, they're able to do it because it's been communicated or they'll just be able to do it. But then sometimes even their clean stuff is like, ugh, that's not really clean. Yeah. Not everybody, yeah. like that's it's not really clean yeah not everybody yeah i mean my big one is uh no cursing and uh so it's it's like even on my shows but it's you know it's like again everybody's being clean not everybody is uh gonna talk about maybe everything that you think they should talk you know but it's i mean shows, everybody's clean though.

We don't ever have any really, no one complains. All the comics I've brought now, no, but they know how to be clean and they know how to do it. But yeah, when you're in clubs and sometimes, you know, just be aware, but that's why you got to be over 18 or 21 to get into these clubs and stuff like that. It's part of the journey. I had a girl on my, named Jean Whitney.

I really like her. I think she's very funny. She is funny. I had her on my Troubadour show and she did some jokes and I was like, okay, well, that's definitely not clean. I don't know why you thought that was clean. She goes, well, and what she was talking about, she goes, well, I'm saying I'm against that. Like, I'm not for it.

Yeah. And I'm like, well, I guess that's better. But you're still talking. It's still not clean. Yeah. You know? Yeah. And I still thought it was very funny, though.

I mean, I think she's very funny. But, yeah, it was a bit edgier than I was expecting. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think she's very funny, but yeah, it was a bit edgier than I was expecting. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Rachel Luke. Loke. I started listening to the podcast because I'm a huge Nate fan, but I stayed for my fellow domer, Aaron. All right. Go Irish. All right. Fun fact, I think Nate and I probably worked together at Opryland.

I was there the summer of 94 in the 50s area shops in the summer of 95 at the Mardi Gras Cafe. Opryland was the best, as is this podcast. Thanks for providing clean air entertainment for folks who want it. Wow. Yeah, we probably worked together. Fellow employee. You remember Rachel? There were probably a lot of people around.

Yeah, I mean, I was sweeping, so I don't think I was. I remember being in the there's yeah I mean I was you know I was sweeping so I don't think I was I remember being in the 50s area but I was you weren't looking up too much you're sleeping no you're sleeping were those the years uh I think so it is funny I probably was at Opryland just one time during that time you probably walked by I probably dropped some popcorn yeah hey boy oh i didn't sweep it up yeah we always knew the trailer park people were the toughest because they already throw their trash on the floor yeah so yeah to make them do it in a place you're like oh boy i know it's wild uh i feel like i just have a memory come back of some trash can. I had to throw something away. I remember I could not find a trash can.

I don't know. Let's see if it... Jacob Johnston. Hey, guys. Love the show. My wife and I are having our first child this summer, a girl. We can't decide on a name. How did you guys decide on your daughter's names?

Any suggestion? We just... We did the looked up names and stuff and all that and uh we liked harper harper is becoming as popular it's more popular now still not crazy but it wasn't as popular when it was you know but it was one of the cooler names and or felt different and uh so yeah i don't know feel southern names are yeah yeah and names are getting a little bit different so it's like just feel the vibe that you are as a family like are you more traditional or do you think you'd want like uh you know like what's a boy's is there a girl though like levi like you know make it easy

to spell levi's good yes i would say that make it easy to spell for the poor kid their whole life their whole life every time they go to a, they put their name in and they go, how do you spell it? And they're like, ah, well, my parents were weird. Well, maybe that forces the kid to have communication skills and forces them to be polite. And it keeps the humility down that they go, well, they spell it the way that it's supposed to be spelled.

And you're like, yeah, that's fine. I don't care. Because then you're just, you know. Yeah, so maybe go Jeffrey with a PH for a girl. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think we just looked it up. Yeah.

Found Bibles good. I mean, if you're into that. Semi-retired guy. Yeah, I mean, his name's Jacob, so. Oh, yeah. How about that? Johnston. Semi-retired guy yeah I mean his name's Jacob so oh yeah how about that Johnston that's in there

semi-retired guy now that Dusty's been on over half of the Nate Land episodes there needs to be a Dusty was right episode in addition to always bringing the funny

he drops lots of truth and wisdom on every show jeez that guy gets it semi-retired brain yeah that guy gets it yeah

I mean how many episodes would we have to do yeah I mean just skip to those well I think if we do that semi-retired brain. Yeah. That guy gets it. Yeah, that was all right. I mean, how many episodes would we have to do? just skip to those. Well, I think if we do that, we'd have to do some

Dusty Was Wrong episodes just to balance it out. Yeah, but that would be a short episode. We'll find out. I can do them. Be mostly ad reads that episode.

Yeah, yeah. Kevin Carr, congratulations on the 200th episode. I've been a loyal listener since episode one. I believe it was less than two years ago when Nate had not yet met his idol, Jerry Seinfeld, and now he has not only performed with him.

Jerry said in a recent interview Nate was one of his favorite comics. How does something like this affect him and his future goals and aspirations? Looking forward to the next 200 episodes. Yeah, I mean, I think I'm better than everybody at this table now. That's what it'll do to you. That's what people think. I got a big head

now. I don't think I do have a big head. It's insane. It's hard to wrap your head around. Jerry Seinfeld wanted to make sure that you can't say that he opened for you. He wanted to make sure that was. Oh, wow.

Because he rigged the thing. Oh, yeah, that's true. That's true. Yeah, yeah. It's insane. It's crazy. I mean, I was sitting there, even backstage, there's times he would just be behind you and I'd hear his voice,

and I'm like, Seinfeld? And then you forget forget and then you're like yeah he's here so i could not believe he was here there's so much stuff i do because of him on stage and uh you know like there's little weird rules and you know it's like you don't wear short sleeves on say you know all this kind of stuff uh and uh so it's yeah it's it's it's i don't know i don't know if it affects your future goals and aspirations it was uh you just want your your peers respect as a comic and so so that's something that you always want and you want i and fortunately it was able to get it in the way that I would have wanted it, where he saw it. It wasn't, you know, and he sent me a very nice voice text. I mean, one day, I think maybe one day we had to play it.

But, and it was, yeah, it's great. And it's, yeah. So my goals and aspirations and whatever i want to go do are still um they're all still there and uh you know it's like i'm not it's you know at the beginning you do it's like you want his career but i'm not i'm really now like you know i i want my own career and i have all my own desires so uh there's a line at the end of comedian when he meets cosby and he says i can't believe life is long enough that i even know you that is great yeah it's that same thing it's the exact same thing yes that's exactly what it's it is insane to be you know

because he's 70 and you're like i mean i was hung out with him we got and we were in like an awkward situation with talking to someone. And then he was like, he like pulled me over. He's like, just turn. And now see, look, now we're out of this awkward conversation. And it was like, just a, like something your buddy would do. It's like you're in the show for a second. Yeah. Yeah.

And it's, so it's, you know, I'm glad I met him when I met him too now. It's like, I'm able to meet him. And I think when we were doing the show, it's more, not that saying, not trying to say we're on level ground, but it's like we're, I'm, you know, in the comic 21 years. So it's like, you're not like a new comic. It's like you're, you guys. So yeah, it's a, it was a big deal.

I think it was like two years ago when I said, one of my predictions was you'll meet Seinfeld this year. And now y'all are like like you said pierce i haven't listened to fly on the wall podcast yet but i hear that he raves about you all through it yeah yeah uh yeah it's uh yeah i mean i i mean i could talk to him i feel comfortable i could call him i could talk him, like talk about comedy. And yeah, I like that stuff. I like being friends with people that are, especially in your business industry and all that.

That's crazy. I don't even feel that comfortable with Brian. Yeah. Well, he doesn't make anybody feel comfortable. Exact opposite. Yeah. I mean, it's like, you know. He would respect me

it doesn't he's like turn into the awkward conversation get in there can we get closer to this well he's the one that you're turning away

you know he's the Cole Dotson in honor of episode 200 I thought hold on okay that money

no I'm sorry I have a terrible splitting headache that's come on just since the podcast started Hold on. Okay. That money? No, I'm sorry. I have a terrible splitting headache that's gone just since the podcast started. I'm sorry, dude. I feel bad about what we just said. Yeah. Why don't you give us a heads up that you're weak? You all right? I will say good.

All right. It feels better. How long does that stuff take to work? I know. You need coffee? You does that take to work yeah I know you need coffee you need that caffeine I think I'm alright

yeah I'm gonna take this hat off take it off yeah take the hat off move the headphones off the ears

a little bit maybe there's something in that hat it's killing me do you wanna stop for one second no I'm alright

I'm alright yeah Cole Dotson in honor of episode 200, I thought I would ask if there is any particular episode that sticks out to each of you as your favorite. For instance, when I first found out about the Nate Land podcast, the first episode I ever listened to was about the royal family.

To this day, this is still my favorite and funniest episode I've heard, but I'm thinking it's because this is the episode that introduced me to the podcast. Yeah, I could see that, where you can do that. I think, what do we have? The President's one. I'm not really, I don't know if I would have a favorite one. I like the ones that people like.

Yeah. Like your, you know. John Crist episodes, the Greg Warren episodes. Yeah. Any of the ones where Dust's not here probably my favorite just the vibes are better you know i mean john yeah well chris is very uh i did like the eclipse episode well you guys are best friends with john and john hates me so yeah that sounds but that's just typical stuff yeah do you invite john to your daughter's birthday party no

if john had three kids the same age as my daughter, I would not have invited him. Wow. Yeah. I'm just kidding. What if he goes, I have 10 bags of bowls? I'd be like, are you going to leave them here when you leave? Yeah. Because if you're going to take them with you, nah.

Yeah. He might be – yeah, he could scoop them back up. But if he leaves them. I looked up the top episodes on YouTube. I don't know about downloads. But you want to – anybody want to guess the number one? I bet the wife is still number one. Yep.

The one with Laura. By far. I told you that was my favorite one. That was my favorite. Yep. That was – yeah. Can we edit that where we go? That's, yeah. Can we edit that where we go? That's yeah.

My favorite one was when, uh, the lady that lives in this home was on it. Yeah. And I think Harper was on that one too. She came in. That was a good one. Told a joke at the end.

Yeah. Yeah. That's, that was, yeah, you're right. That was my family fun. That was good family fun.

Yeah. Uh, standup comedy. That was episode 10. When we talk about standup comedy, that was episode 10 when we talked about stand-up comedy. That was second. Christian comedy with John Crist. Third.

Seinfeld featuring Mark Norman was fourth. And your Saturday Night Live episode after you got back from this. Oh, really? Recap. Recap. So Aaron wasn't on most of those. So I think I see a chance. I don't think I was on.

I was only on one of those. I was only on one of them, too. I guess it's me. Yeah. Oh, really? Brian's the common denominator on. I was only on one of those. I was only on one of them, too. I guess it's me. Yeah. Oh, really? Brian's the common denominator here. I'm the draw. What were you?

You were on The Wife? Yeah, I was on The Wife. Mark Norman, I was gone. He was in my chair. He made a few jokes about. You weren't here for Norman either, right? It was just us three. Mm-hmm.

And then, yeah. Saturday Night Live, everybody was here. I was in South America still. Oh, yeah. So just us. I was here, yeah. Saturday Night Live, everybody was here. I was in South America still. Oh, yeah. So just us. I was here, yeah. Yeah. I looked up for our 200th episode, all of the guests that we've had on.

You want to guess who's been on the most? Well, me. I want to say. No, you're not. You're not counting Dusty. No. Yeah. You've guessed three times before you became him.

People say he sounds like Dusty, though. I kind of want to say Nick, but then I think it's like, then I feel Greg. Greg's close. Nick? Yeah. It is? Yeah. Nick's seven.

Seven times. Seven time club. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. What's Greg at? Greg's at six. Yeah. And Vecchione's at six. Okay. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that. Yeah. Yeah. What's Greg at? Greg's at six. Yeah.

And Vecchione's at six. Okay. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's good. Yeah. All right.

We've had some good guests. Some fun guests on it. Yeah. Look, we get asked to guess. Obviously, with us four, it's tough. Jay Cutler. I forgot about him. He beat up on me when he was on this show.

Yeah, I loved it. It was fun. That was a fun episode. It was fun, but he did not like the way i ran the computer yeah he kind of alpha'd me out he was like just pass me the computer i'll do it wow no he's always known such a nice guy yeah we you know the guest did his podcast one time oh really yeah the lot of the guests we have uh it's yeah it's i mean because we get asked about a lot of guests. John Reap's always great when he's on. John Reap, the last time I was here, his chair was real low.

Yeah. Like this. And he seems so small the whole podcast. Yeah, I didn't notice it in the moment, but as soon as I watched it, I was like, whoa, we should have told him to raise his chair. Yeah. Yeah, I think, yeah, you know, when we have everybody on, Garcia we'll have back down. He'll come on. But it's, you know, it's good.

It's like there's all these people I talk to. So that's what I like. It's like, you know, kind of we all basically know all these. There's some cameos too. We also know these people. Intern Cole, Eleanor Bates, Abigail, Derek, and Harper. Yeah. Look at that.

Yeah. Cole's in college at Auburn. Yeah. He made his announcement. He made his announcement on the podcast. Okay. Get him to stop by Opelika. Have some Jim Bob's chicken fingers.

First one. Augustine's about his tour. He's at the Corn Fairy. He's doing good. Starts up this week as their real heavy season. I just saw him at Rupp Arena. Met the coach. Mark, new coach of Kentucky.

Fun. All right. All right, yeah. A full cost little set for the 200th episode. Every B name that someone had called me. And it's a pretty crazy list. Give me a second. I'll pull it up here. I think it's slowed down some now.

People get tired. It's only so many bee words. How many? I think it's maybe 80-something. Did you add Big Money Baits to that list? 83. Bathroom Break. That's a good one.

Buckwheat, bologna, bran muffin. That's good. Worried Face Wednesday. I don't know how that works, but I like that one. Worried Face is a great one. It's a great. Buford Buttermilk Bread Toast. Bacon Breath.

BB Gun. A Buckethead. Buckethead. Buckethead. Bucket head. I got to tell you, as a kid, just calling somebody head was the funniest. Broccoli head or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like whatever.

Yeah. Yeah, that's great. Block head. Yeah. Waterhead. My dad had a friend called Waterhead. Just meaning there's no brain, it's just water in his skull. I think sometimes that maybe my dad called that guy Waterhead one time in front of me,

and I just thought that was his nickname, and I called him Waterhead as a kid from now on. Yeah. I think maybe my dad just liked that I kept calling him that, but it never was. Did you call it to him, his face? I would be like, there's Waterhead, I think. Yeah. Yeah. They got Bozo.

Bozo's a tough one. Bummer is. Yeah, bummer. Just old bummer bass. There he is. Yeah. That would be, that's a good name for your CD. That is a good name for a CD, matter of fact.

Bummer. Bummer. Bummer. Yeah. And just a normal picture of you. Yeah. Just staring at me. Just staring at you. Yeah. and just a normal picture of you just staring yeah so Edna

Edna Moe from Incredible Fix It Felix they called you Dusty I don't know how that makes sense Barbados oh this is fun y'all been very creative you sure when they called him Dusty they weren't just talking about me? I don't know.

Can you scroll? I want to give this guy credit. I forgot his name. I think it's in the email. It's Dion DeBeld. That sounds like a nickname too. Okay. Dion Doubled.

DeBeld. Yeah, Dion DeBeld. Thank you, Dion. Yeah. Bald Bronco. Yeah, Dion Debelled. Well, thank you, Dion. Bald Bronco. Yeah, Bald Bronco's good. Bald Bronco sound, that'd be a good name for a special too. That's your, you do a bummer one, but then your next one is very confident. Back with the midgets.

It's the Bald Bronco. High T-Band. Because I got a lot of problem with you people. And it's just Aaron of grievances. Yeah. By the bald Bronco. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. Yeah.

Bomb shelter. Something you're always looking for. I don't know. Just trying to have some fun. Yeah. Well, this week, in honor of our 200th episode, I thought we could talk about some milestone moments. I looked up how many podcasts there are in the world.

Hundreds, right? It's a range. I read anywhere from 3 million to 5 million. Wow. That's a lot, man. One place I read said the average podcast lasts three episodes. Yeah, those are the funniest ones to me. It is really funny to start an episode.

Me and Soder had a podcast, I think, and we were going to do, golly, it was like talking like it might be one or two episodes we did. And it was just, you know, it's like you start them in just different places you're like i think i just started going on the road and it was like you just you think you're gonna do it then it doesn't it was like a sports podcast uh i have to remember ah it was it you know i remember we talked about danny warfel in the first uh episode i won't get find it i don't know, that must have been. Was he still at Florida?

Still at Florida. He was at Florida in like 97. Okay, I thought it was early 2000s. Why are y'all talking about Danny Warfel? Well, because we were talking about sports. I mean, I still talk about Warren Moon doesn't mean I did comedy when he was rookie year. Warren Moon. That's I did comedy when he was rookie year. Warren Moon.

That's a good pull. Yeah. Talk about the Frigerator. I don't think he had the name yet, so we still called him William Perry. Did he have a GI gel? I think he had a GI gel. I think he did, 72. Yeah, he did have a GI gel.

Yeah. Is that the closest you were to sports growing up? Yeah. Well, that and WW did. 72. Yeah, he did have a GI job. Yeah. Is that the closest you were to sports growing up? Yeah. Well, that and WWF. Yeah. It was WWF back then. He was probably in WWF. Look at that.

Yeah. Look at that GI job. I had that GI job. Yeah. And he had a gap in his teeth like that. Yeah, and he had the football. I remember he had the football. Nunchucks.

Like grenades. Yeah, it's a cool. He had the football grenades too. It was cool. Yeah. I mentioned him a few episodes ago about how he was 300 pounds

and now that's just normal oh he was actually bigger than I realized um I think he actually weighed like 385 or something

how tall was he I don't know but I think he's still like one of the top 10 biggest players ever oh really I I don't know this is this really this is how big refrigerators are

yeah yeah uh yeah he was i mean kind of tough to find huh yeah it's a little tougher a little tougher than i'd like it to be yeah six foot two 335 oh 335 oh no he's there's still got to be bigger people. Oh, yeah, that certainly wouldn't make him one of the top ten. Oh, now, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, guys are 6'8". Yeah.

3'8". Like, they're, you know, just monsters out there. Remember the guy in Alabama, Mount Cody, Terrence Cody? I do remember that. Yeah, he blocked a couple of – blocked a Tennessee field goal, two in one game. I remember he was huge. He could dunk.

In the game. Yeah. He could dunk. He was like 400 pounds, wasn't he? Yeah, he was enormous. He went to – what did he go? I don't know. I think he did – I don't think he did.

I thought he went to the Lions, but maybe not. It looks like the Ravens. He did. He was just here. He just built different. Anyway. Well, we've all had some milestones in our career some of us more than others so i'll start um but um you know it's interesting you're i would say you're somewhat goal-oriented would you say that's true i'm not saying you write them down i don't write them down i haven't i have just the idea that where i want to be I don't write them down. I have just the idea of where I want to be.

I don't really talk about it. I don't really share it too much, but I know. On the Letterman interview you did, I think I read that you talked about it a little bit, where you want to be in your 40s and 50s. I always thought in my head was like, you know, I think when you start comedy, you're trying to make it at any point. Yeah.

And then the longer it goes, you just end up going like, all right, I feel like my 40s to 50s will be my big stand-up run of doing stand-up. So yeah, I think it's like that. And I'm having to figure out what the thing is. I think I always do stand-up, but it's like doing it at this level. The next tour will be giant because there's a lot of places we haven't gone to arenas. I mean, even though we're doing a lot of arenas now, it's all we're doing now. There's a lot of cities we haven't because we just started it this year.

So there's still a lot of stuff. But, yeah, it is funny. You got to think about what's know, it's the next or what's other stuff, you know, to add to it. It serves you very well. But now Dusty, you're doing great. And I just heard you say, you don't really think about the next step. No, I like to, uh, just go with the flow.

You know what I mean? Like, uh, I feel like that's been my kind of, you know, it's like you work hard, but my philosophy has always been to kind of go with the flow and it really is working out. So, you know, I, I feel good. Yeah. I mean, I'm, um, I'm doing theaters now. It feels good. I mean, there was not that long ago.

I was not selling many tickets at all and now I'm selling out theaters and it feels great, you know but i remember i remember talking to you years ago you're like man i don't even want to do theaters dude i just want to sell some tickets at the clubs and then that happens and then you know you start to build other goals well in a way you know i feel like i almost got pushed to theaters but it's like the moment i did uh you know a theater that was my own audience i'm like oh yeah this is awesome this rules yeah this is what am i talking about clubs this is great yeah yeah because you know you just feel like you know i i did clubs for 10 years and you're like you

know if i could just sell these out that's good enough me. And then you like do a theater and you're like, oh yeah, no, no, like, um, there's no table service. Yeah. No distractions. People are all sitting in chairs facing you. Uh, it's just set up. And then it's like, it's all your crowd. It's not a comedy club email that went out saying, Hey, come see this guy. And I don't know, just like it changed the game. It's like, you know, I still got some clubs, uh, that I out saying, hey, come see this guy. And I don't know, just like it changed the game. It's like, you know, I still got some clubs that I'm doing,

but less and less, you know? So it's awesome. So all three of you got invited to Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, New Faces. Yeah. Was that all,

would you say a milestone moment in your career? Absolutely. Oh, yeah. That led to good stuff? Yeah, it was just something you knew. It was like everybody, it was just, it's a big deal to go. New Faces.

I don't think it's, you know, New Faces did a lot for me. Just Fives just stopped. I mean, you know, but the stuff you learn is, you know, the guy that used to book New Faces books, Netflix specials now, runs the stand-up department in Netflix. And so that stuff's

interesting to learn over a long career. So someone... I think that's one of the funner things. I think I've said that before. Whatever career you're in, what's fun is you're... Someone is going to be in 20 years like you're like i don't know that person's there i'm here like you're like in it that's just don't

burn bridges don't burn yeah you never yeah i mean just be a nice person if you're a nice person you will do whatever you want to go do because then everybody will want to work with you uh the you know for me with jfl it's like having never lived in one of these big comedy cities it was like uh it was the first time that a lot of industry people had been exposed to me so it was like really exciting i mean because i you know for i don't know at that time probably uh was i did in 2008 so four years i've been working the road all the time but 10 years kind of doing comedy all together and it was like boom here i am in front of all the industry in the country if not the world i don't know and uh it was like it was hot jfl was really

great for me yeah it was the same thing for me i was texting dusty this weekend where i'm not in la or new york always been a natural so you do feel like a bit of an outsider so it's the same thing for me i was texting dusty this weekend where i'm not in la or new york always been a natural so you do feel like a bit of an outsider so it's validating for the industry to be like hey come be a you know yeah yeah you're always gonna feel like an outsider i still to this day feel like an outsider and i was in new york for a long time and all my i thought about that but i think your group feels like an outsider. And so I thought this weekend I was with, because I had to go to New York for a day, and I saw my buddy Dan Shackey. And so we started together, and I was thinking, I feel like with Soder and all,

we all feel kind of outsider-ish in the fact that we would do the cool shows or do the clubs and be in all the stuff, but none of you really feel like you're, you know, you feel, I don't know, you don't feel like you're a part of it. But I bet everybody kind of feels like that, but especially living in Nashville. When I'm from Tennessee and I talk like this, I always felt like I don't belong here. And, you know, it's like you're trying to prove yourself, but I think you always do feel like that. I also take, you know it's like you're trying to prove yourself but i think you always do feel like that i also take you know i think somebody if i also take a lot of stuff very serious i'm very competitive i'm learning as i get older and i take it very serious i take comedy very serious i i i

love it and i you know so that means when i can talk about it i'm not always fun i would like people to know i'm i i'm not the most fun to sit and talk to. Like, I know it gets like intense, but I'm, I can't be intense. I think it requires intensity. And what I want to do is like,

yeah, it's serious. Last weekend when I was on the road with you, I was hanging out with Julian McCullough and he said, I said, who are some comics in New York back in the day that you thought would make it big and didn't or and who are some that you thought this guy has no chance and he surprised you how big they made it and you were one of the ones that surprised he said everyone

thought you were so funny but you were so quiet and just mild I guess compared to you know just being clean makes people feel that way. And they're like, this guy's so funny, but no one's ever going to hear him. And so you're one of the surprises. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of a bad take, though. Yeah.

No, well, it's like. It came out that way, but when he was telling it, I felt like he was complimenting you. Yeah. Well, sure. It was. I wasn't like, I wasn't getting when we – because Julian was there from the beginning. So, I mean, I moved to New York, and me and him are – and Julian got stuff. He got to the Comedy Cellar.

He got a lot of stuff very quickly. And, I mean, Julian's on the road with us now. He's hosting these shows. He's unreal. When you come to the show, a lot of people – I mean, you can see they love the host. Julian sets the tone for the show, gets what we're doing. And, but it's, yeah, when I first was in New York, I think it was like, I mean, I was,

I'm just, I'm already going to be quieter. I would just be, you know, the people that were close with me, I mean, the people that were close with me knew I was competitive or like, I mean, they just learn it over time. I think they learn it now more than they do. Yeah. I don't even know if I realized it as much or I think I did it, but I was just very quiet about it because I didn't want to be, you know, that's the problem with the podcast because you end up talking, but like I would not want to, I always said, if you want to complain, complain to your, a very tiny group to get it out. But then once you leave, you don't put that out in the world. You don't want to be like this.

But I think you should be competitive. And I think you should have this stuff where it drives you crazy. And, again, you don't want to tell anybody because you sound nuts. And that's just how – Better help. Huh? Yeah, you get better help huh that's what you get but yeah you get better help yeah and then uh yeah you talk to someone but it's like i think that yeah i was always that's why i was just kind of like you know just sitting there but i i had a lot of

you know the bridgestone thing was i did not say any of that then but when i handed out flyers and standing on a corner i would dream of playing Bridgestone and playing the Kenny Chesney song at the end of it. I was like, can you imagine? I use a lot of stuff like that. I would just see, you know, when I see someone, you know, they get to do something, and I'm like, how did they get to do it? Like, how are you in a place where you get to do that?

And then I just think, I want to be able to do that. Like, you know, seeing guys headline and you go, I remember seeing Bill Burr, no one knows him. Then I go watch him. They won't even let us in because everybody's there to watch him. And you're seeing it and you're like, man, how do you get to a point where you're like, you know, everybody's there to see it. Open for Chris Rock. And, you know, he's at, we're staying in this hotel. And I remember he had, his assistant would put all his luggage in his room and, like, had his room set up so he doesn't move his luggage. It's like he comes out, he goes up to his room.

And it seems, like, dumb, but it was, you know, it's like, yeah, if you're checking in, in, and out of blah, blah, blah, and all this stuff constantly, it's like you need help on the road to. But I remember seeing that and thinking, yeah, if you're checking in, in, and out of blah, blah, blah, on all this stuff constantly, it's like you need help on the road. But I remember seeing that and thinking, like, how big do you have to get to – like, you have an assistant that's, like, helping you. Like, oh, yeah, we got your key. I remember that, getting the key. I remember going on Practical Jokers, and I didn't know you could.

You could have someone hand you the key and you go straight to your room and so like that's that's the little stuff that i think about uh that gets me excited because that's an exciting thing i won't it won't necessarily be like uh i don't know it's not money related or it's not it's just these little little perks of all the things that are so draining as a comedian where you're just constantly in a hotel. You're constantly having to go get your key. There's constantly a problem. You're grabbing luggage here, and you're doing that for 10 years every day.

So then you see this little thing. You're like, did they just hand us our key? And you're like, I don't even have to go. I don't have to go show my ID. I don't have to go talk to them. You just get to go. You get your key. You get them handed to you. Then you't have to go show my ID. I don't have to go talk to them. You just get to go. You get your key. You get them handed to you.

Then you go up to your room. That's crazy. And so I would see that kind of stuff. And that's where I would just stick in my head and be like, yeah, how do you get to do that? And then you just know. And then I'm just trying to get to the point of doing that. And that way, it's not even't maybe it's not going to be uh it's you know it's not like you're like well i have to headline madison square garden to do that

it's not something exact it's like it doesn't matter i mean you could not headline madison garden but you could get to that point but how do you get to that point and it makes sense for you to do it too that's another one i always want it to make sense because yes, you could be obnoxious and go be like, you could probably go cause a scene. I want it to be, I want it to make sense. I don't stay in a hotel room under my name. And I did until I wanted it to be like, I realized I had to do it. And I had someone call the room. And so, and someone asked and they called the room. Yeah. But it's, and then the hotel called and was like, hey, I don't think, you know, this person's

saying that they want to talk to you, but they, the hotel knew. And so, yeah. And it was, but you learn to like, all right, well then I'll, I'll stay under a different name. But I waited. I didn't ever want to be too forward and go, I stay under my own. I wanted it to honestly be where you go, all right, well, I guess we're doing this now. With the check-in thing is weird, too, because it's like,

when you're talking about somebody else getting your key, it's like, in Tampa, I was checking into my hotel, and this couple was checking at the same time that was coming to my show. And they were excited. But it felt weird for me because I was like, did this just ruin it for them? Yeah. That they're coming to see me at my show. I agree.

But here I am check. It's like, I don't feel like I'm too good to check into my own hotel. No. But I don't want to ruin it for them. Like they think they're coming to see a celebrity and here i am just checking into my hotel yeah you know no and that and that makes it seems dumb but it's like it is it's uh what you're creating is a show i mean i don't you know i do not you don't hear on my show i don't you don't hear me or i don't bring anybody up i don't you you don't hear my voice or

see really anything you know and i and i always thought about doing that but it's better to be like you know what just it's it the anticipation of when you come out is better for just like come out when you're supposed to come out and i do agree if they see you doing that kind of stuff it's like i don't know it's like i and i don't think it affects them but maybe we are in our head about it and if you're in your head about it you're like then it does affect it affects you which could then affect the show later whatever so you're trying to it's not like you're trying to be i'm not you know i think you feel the same way i don't think i'm better than anybody and we great, old Hickory, that's our logos. We're not better than anybody.

And I, no one, no one feels, I don't feel this at all, but it's like to protect the show and what it is and to be able to do this tour, I'm going to end up doing over 200 shows. So to be able to do that,

there's going to be little things that you have to do and you protect and you got to go. Yeah. I can't be, you know, we stay on the bus a lot, you know, now. let me jump in here okay i'm sorry yeah yeah i want to say too it's like another one of those is like clubs that i would do where there's no back door right and it's like you only you have to come in the same door then people come into the show and it's like it's not like I'm too good to come in the same door, but it like,

it does ruin that thing where it's like, you got no back door. I can come in that way. I don't have to slip in, you know, real quick. Well, I'll take it a step further.

The bathroom, we have to share a bathroom and I'm in there doing some things and I flush. And then I come out of that stall and they're all like, yeah, boy. I mean, I did some shows recently and this and then I come out of that stall and they're all like, oh boy. I mean, I did some shows recently and this is a pretty nice place, but they didn't have a bathroom in the back. And I, you know, I utilize some solo cups back there because I'm like, I'm not about to be, I mean, you know, I was able to pour it out, but I'm like, I'm not, I'm not just gonna. It doesn't have a top on it, though.

Yeah, I poured it out. Where? Out back. You get off stage. Hey, where's my cup? It's dusty. Your feature is drinking a beer. It's easy to dump it out.

It's all dusty walking around with just a solo cup full of. Do you think that people probably, you know, people were like, man, that guy drinks a lot of beer at a solo cup. What was like Dumb and Dumber? I wasn't drinking it. Were you just not stopping? No, but you keep walking outside. Maybe like that guy wastes a lot of beer at a Solo Cup. What if it's like Dumb and Dumber? I wasn't drinking that. Where he's not stopping? No, but you keep walking outside. Maybe that guy wastes a lot of beer.

No, I know, but you walk out very, very softly with the red Solo Cup full of, I'd imagine, Mountain Dew yellow. I'm a real water guy. And then you come back with clear. And then. Yellow number five. Yeah. I got a clear kidney system. And then you come back with an empty cup from outside. Yeah. And then, yeah. Well, no one saw.

That's the whole thing. No one would even know if I didn't tell you guys. You should not have told us. Well, I just wanted you to know that. Yeah. I mean, I am who I am, but I don't, I don't need, you know, it is weird to share the bathroom and be like, yeah, I'm about to go do comedy for you. But right now I'm just peeing next to you in the urinal with no divider in between. I'm just huddled up next to this ceramic urinal all up in there.

Let's say you got to go to the stall. You got to time it out where you go. You can't, you got to go either in between shows or you go when the uh right where the host comes on like like the show's really already kind of going yeah and then you run in there and go there and if someone comes in and you hear them talking you got to wait till they leave and then you go because you can yeah that's your biggest fears because i've been there in that room and they're like ah they're just gonna to start trashing the show or they're going to say something. I heard this guy stinks.

Yeah, and you're like, oh, hey. And just in the bathroom, yeah. I'd come out. You confront them? Yeah. Yeah, my guy that pees in the Solo Cup pours it out on property. Yeah, I think he would.

I'd come out. I think he'd come out and say something. I don't think he's against it. He comes out of the bathroom with a Solo Cup and they go, you still use it even when you're in the bathroom and he goes yeah yeah i like to look at it first i'll take a good look make sure everything's all right that's right yeah you gotta check did you throw the solo cup away before you came back inside no no i put it back in the stack inside so one of the waste not one is dried at all yeah yeah you spray it off yeah you're opening those hose from the back of the house yeah yeah i wouldn't i don't i know people pee in bottles

i don't i don't feel comfortable doing that at all and And I will, I can't do that. So, you know, but that's just me. I do. Did you pee in a bottle? I have before in a car. Yeah.

You know, you don't, if I want, if I got to get somewhere, dude, I can't sit there knowing that the pee is there afterwards. Oh, I dump it out right away. You dump it out the window,

out the window. No, no, but you got to bottle it up. away. You dump it out the window. Out the window? No, I'm just kidding. No, but you got to bottle it up and then what do you do? Sit on the floor and you don't just think about that the whole time? I think as soon as you stop,

you throw it out. Use it as a spitter when you're dead. It's the most. I do remember one milestone. I remember, you probably don't even remember this, I remember you saying to me, when you got Bonnaroo, you told me you were excited about it because that's exactly where you need

to be at this point in your career. Do you remember that? I remember getting Bonnaroo. I think you were probably eight. Yeah, I remember talking to you after. This is just a very quick conversation. What do we meet after the show? I was like, this fan is asking a lot of questions.

Sure. I think I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. No, I did it at Bonnaroo in 2010. Yeah. So you're how many years in? Seven years in. Yeah. Eight years in.

Yeah. I just remember you saying to me that this is a good step in your career because that's where you need to be at that time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was. I mean, I always like try to make sure I was moving forward.

You know, I get crushed though because people think I talk about too serious about comedy. And so this is not my fault. I would like to say that. Oh, yeah. You're asking these questions i'm not trying to talk about all right i'll talk about myself then here's one there you go here's one i mean look we all look at stuff that were goals at one time and you look back and a lot of times you're like oh that was kind of silly because it really didn't matter but still

it's important in the moment i remember one where for years when i first started doing comedy everybody was like do you know hen like, do you know Henry Cho? Do you know Henry Cho? Have you met Henry Cho? We had a lot of mutual friends for our church. He was clean comic and everybody. And I didn't know Henry. And I kept wanting to meet him and get to know him or whatever.

And finally, Zany's let me host for Henry one weekend. And the last night, you know, of the weekend, I guess, we all went out afterwards to eat. And he offered me some other dates. And I finally felt like I made that breakthrough where I'm in with this guy. And I just remember that was a milestone for me as a new comic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. What about you, Aaron? I remember an important one for me was um and i'm not totally there yet but i remember i showed up to a local show that i wasn't on and they're like do you want to go up yeah that was a big deal yeah for me that's a big one yeah i remember that that is a that is a big one i'm going to the Comedy Cellar now. And when I go there, I remember sitting at a table. And they go, so what? You want to go on?

It wasn't even like, yeah, just getting asked. And I could go on right then. If I was like, I need to go on now. They go, okay. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. You can't even do that at the East Room. No.

No. Doing it at Nashville was a big one because I did. There was times I'd come back to Nashville and I was in New York and they wouldn't let me. No, he didn't. I'd have to sit there and they wouldn't let me just go up. I had Conan. I was nowhere big at all, but I have done stuff.

Conan should at least get you on the open mic of that in nashville to any host that uh knows what they're doing should for sure be like yeah we got to get this guy who's been on late night uh up at the open mic yeah yeah yeah but when they don't you guys have no idea what you're doing they yeah they don't they're in their own world yeah yeah there's a because there's a difference i think comedy is a stand-up is either a you know there's the ones that are really trying to do it and then there's a ones that are it's a hobby and it's just fun to do and they end up you know they do some gigs here and there and they get some random blah, blah, blah, whatever. But there's a completely different kind of paths where it's like the ones that are very professional. Like professionalism is lost a lot in comedy because you don't have to be professional.

And you can't sometimes even have a career without being professional. But if you want to go, I'm noticing the longer you see him around these people and these big careers, the fact that they're still in any business is insane. It's insane that you're doing stand-up comedy after 15 years or 20 years or 30 years. That's insane. No one wants you to be that. No one wants you to be a stand-up comic. So if you're able to be a professional and keep working, it's insane.

No one does that. And I think that in any industry, in anything that you do, if you're doing something for 30 years, whatever it is, that's nuts, dude. That's nuts. You should not be doing that. Most people don't. It is wild. I've been doing comedy this year, 10 years full time.

And it's the longest that I've ever had a job. I was very close with pesticide sales, but it's the longest that I've ever had a job, one particular job. And I've been doing this for 10 years. And that is wild to me. You're having more fun doing this too? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's, but it is just, it's just wild to think that you're right. I mean, the fact that I've been able to go around and just tell jokes to people for 10 years. Crazy. I've woken up to an empty bank account before. It is not fun. It was my fault. I mean, we've done mostly just – there's other fields of milestones.

I did want to mention Seinfeld did mention the four levels milestones for comedy I think you've you've two made all four Aaron and I maybe the first three

boom first one is make your friends laugh okay everybody's in that second one I guess you're skipping so you made the next three

yeah all right fair enough fair enough all right so you guys you three have done this make your friends laugh You made the next three. All right. Fair enough. All right. So you three have done this. Make your friends laugh. Second, make strangers laugh.

Right. Huge difference. That's probably the biggest goal between one and two. Third is get paid to make strangers laugh. Okay. And the fourth is make people talk like you because it's so much fun. And out there on the road, I feel like you two probably have more people trying to be like you because it's so much fun. And out there on the road, I feel like you two probably have more people

trying to be like you than maybe any comics out there. I would say I did one and four before two and three. That's funny. My voice has always been in such a way that my friends have always made fun of the way I talk.

No, they don't make fun of it. They sound like you. All right. Yeah. It's hard not to do that. My friend one time called a girl and did my voice and she thought it was me well what happened she liked it they got married yeah yeah she was into it she was like oh you called me the other day and i go

but i see tons of comics out there that are trying to – you wear a – like, on the road with you, I find myself starting to try to write jokes like you. And so many people I work with, Dusty's their idol. They want to be like him. I don't get it, but – You just got to be aware of it. If you're a young comic, just keep an eye on it. You're always going to sound like someone at the beginning. It's easy to sound like people, especially your friends is usually who it's going to be.

Just keep a – you know, just have an eye on it. It's okay that you will, and you will be like, oh, I felt like that. to sound like people, especially your friends is usually who it's going to be. Just have an eye on it. It's okay that you will and you will be like, I felt like that. Then you just try to not do it. Almost like you're trying to hide it. Then that will be your own voice. I think a milestone

was... My first year of comedy, I was just like, yeah, that's what it is. I was just doing Bill Burr. I was like, my first year of comedy, I was just like, yeah, it is, that's what it is. I was just doing Bill Burr. Oh, yeah. I was like, so it's what it is.

I don't even know what I was talking about. Yeah, we're doing, you're doing pretty good. You're getting your voice down. Your voice was up. Now we're going. It's getting all the way back.

Now it's back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Get down to the dusty.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's pretty good, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty good, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, look. Yeah. This is the fact that you guys are listening to this. This milestone, 200 episodes. That's a big one. The majority is. I finished that podcast. Majority said never make it to 10.

The vast majority of podcasts, they start. They just don't keep going. I try to find how many have done 200, and I couldn't get the exact number, but not many of them. Oh, most don't make it to 10. Most podcasts don't keep going I try to find how many have done 200 and I couldn't get the exact number but not many of them oh most don't make it to 10 most podcasts don't make it to 10 are we in the 1% probably

probably yeah 1% yeah yeah I mean the fact that you guys listen to this

is a big milestone I thought maybe one of y'all would have said getting on this podcast would be a milestone but I guess not it's by far my biggest

yeah well thanks for bringing it up. It's not lost on us. You didn't bring it up at all. I'm sorry. But, you know, I guess this was your do this. Getting to do Dusty's podcast was a huge milestone for me. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. It was. Yeah. I mean, hey, listen. Not this one. These are both great. We're having a great time. No, no.

This is just getting together and being fun. Yeah. I mean, hey, listen. Not this one. These are both great. We're having a great time. No, no. We're having a good time. This is just getting together and being fun. It's a good time. We're all having a good time. Yeah. Yeah. Remember that. Remember, yeah, we're all having fun.

And I didn't want to talk serious about comedy, but don't get mad at me for talking about comedy or ranting I think people get mad I don't think you ranted today no I don't think you ranted but it's this is the 200th episode I do like saying

I take it I am very I am a I am a serious person I and I realize that as the older I get I take

I'm very serious and I take it serious I take comedy very serious I love it I think it's hard to do so I take it, you know. So, yeah,

I'm not the most fun. We're the best. Yeah, we are the best. Yeah. We are the best. So, but I think we were pretty fun for most of this podcast.

Us too? I don't know. I think you will be. I think one day you will be the best. But right now... Yeah, everybody be the best. But right now. Yeah, everybody's the best. Everybody's good.

Everybody's better than all of us. We all stink. I'm trying to come up with new jokes right now. I mean, I would right now, pound for pound, be the worst comic that exists on earth. If I had to tell you my jokes that I have come up with, I'm an open miker. Not the raccoon joke, though.

The raccoon joke is, I don't even need, the raccoon joke is actually, that joke is come up with. I'm an open miker. Not the raccoon joke, though. The raccoon joke is, I don't even need, the raccoon joke is actually, that joke is actually not bad. It's a DoorDash joke. It's pretty good. The front is pretty good. The raccoon is just a saver so I can get out and say good,

and so I can end the joke on a pop. And raccoon's a funny word. But I mean, it's, the end of it is, that's the only one that's like decent the rest raccoons are in other stuff is other stuff is tough it's tough and it's uh not good it's crazy i mean i'm yeah i would be right if you ranked me it would be like if you ranked out off my material that I have currently in the moment. You wouldn't even be able to find my name.

That's how low the bottom I would be right now. Pretty crazy. You didn't see me in Brian's sets last night. No, no. But it doesn't matter. I'm saying I've got to rebuild. I mean, I'm still doing my specials not out. So I'm still touring with my – if you're coming to the show, don't. It's not like so i'm still touring with my don't get if you're if you're coming to the show don't right yeah it's not like i'm saying i just don't have any uh brand new from taping this

special yeah and uh so i'm saying if you went off just that you're like all right you gotta go you can't do no taped stuff uh yeah so alright we yeah I'll be in South Dakota I think I'm here next to I think I'm back

I think you're here for a while I think I'm here for a while so yeah I yeah I'll be in South Dakota

I'm in a few a lot this weekend South Dakota Rockford Illinois Rockford you're coming with me this weekend Green Bay

I'm out this weekend back to back Aaron weekends. Aaron likes to get up and do stuff. Yeah. Huh? Probably goes, ugh. Yeah. Aaron, he wants to get up and do stuff.

He gets up early. He gets up. We ran around. What did we play? We played some stuff. Kickball, ultimate frisbee. Played kickball. Boy, I was beat up after kickball.

I'm sore. I'm sore, too. That was crazy. We all got sore immediately. Usually it's the next day you wake up. And, I mean, it was a perfect game of kickball where we made the rules up the whole game. They changed, yeah.

They changed all the time. Every 30 seconds. Yeah, but I think they ended up being really good. We ended up in a good spot. We ended up in a good spot. We ended up in a good spot. Aaron had some big kicks. He kicked it the farthest. He kicked it the farthest.

I put some hard falls, though, too. Tripped over third base. I left it all on the field. Just like my comedy, I leave it all on the stage. Leaves it all out there, yeah. And we got to fix it when they go up after. Yeah, a lot of soaked towels. Yeah, you're like,

oh, oh, yeah. It's just. Slip it on stage. We does, you know, he's doing eight minutes with us. We give him four towels. That's about right. That's about right.

And that's, you know. He's walking out with a towel. Yeah. He goes, they go, was he showering? Did he come from the shower? And they go,

yeah, we brought him out. Yeah. Yeah. All right. May 26, I'm at Stand Up Live in Huntsville. So please come to that. Awesome. I'm out with Nate.

This Friday, I'm in Lafayette, Louisiana at a club called Club 337. Two shows. Going to be hot. Been there before. Hot shows. Probably hot outside. And then I'm going to go on Saturday to Dallas, Texas to the Texas Theater.

First show sold out. Second show very close. So, get some tickets. It's gonna be hot. That theater's great. I'm pumped about it. Yeah. Pumped about it. You're gonna look into some JFK stuff. Well, you know, I feel like JFK's really like the original conspiracy theory, and it's been worked.

Okay. It's been worked. Have you ever been to the- Never been to that theater. I've been to that area. No, but have you been to the JFK? Oh, yeah. That's the theater he was founded.

The Texas Theater. Lee Harvey Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. At a movie. I don't know.

Yeah, I think he was hiding in a movie theater. Oh, okay. Yeah, a movie theater. And it was that one? The Texas Theater. The Texas Theater. Yeah. At a movie. I don't know. Yeah, I think it was a movie. He was hiding in a movie theater. Oh, okay. Yeah, a movie theater. And it was that one? The Texas Theater. Yeah, Texas Theater, yeah. Wow. It's pretty cool.

Yeah. I'm pumped about it. I love Dallas. Dallas, always got a lot of support in Dallas. I'm pumped. Dallas is a fun town. Yeah. All right.

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