The Nateland Podcast - 204: #204 Fathers

Episode Date: June 12, 2024

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uh hello folks and hey bear there it is we're having a good time and uh you can't shoot that in it's not this is not that podcast we are having a good time we are having a good time that's what i'm saying we're having a good time. We are having a good time. That's what I'm saying. We're having a good time here. We're pumped to be here. I don't want to get in too early on a viewer sponsorship, but I got a confession to make to you guys. I've been a big proponent of, oh, I'm here with Brian Bates and Aaron Weber.

We're having a good time. Yeah, and this and last weekend, this weekend and last weekend, I've been wearing Viore pants in the airport. Okay. Not jeans, like I say, that everybody should be wearing. But I have long pants by Viore and they have the pockets, both back pockets. I like to keep my wallet in my back left pocket. And a lot of gym shorts only want to give you the right pocket. Right.

So it's uncomfortable for me. But Viore gives you both. And I've been rocking it. And it feels good. I can't picture you not in denim. I know. I mean, Viore is a sponsor if you wanted to save that for. Well, I'm just, I mean, yeah.

But this is a bonus ad for them. This is a sponsor if you wanted to save that for. Well, I'm just, I mean, yeah, but this is a bonus ad for them. This is a bonus ad. I mean, Viore should be very happy about the bonus ad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Snuck one in that, you know, people aren't even going to skip. Yeah. And I just want to say, like, I was using delete me this weekend. But I Well alright so

Where's Nate? I have no idea Nate's not here Where is Nate? I know that He's still doing comedy right? Who knows Were you out with Nate this weekend?

No I was not He was Let's see who was I saw it was Justin Smith Keith Alberstadt Oh that's fun Mike Beckham

I've not seen Keith in a long time I love Keith I do love time. I haven't either. I do love Keith. No, I think Nate is out doing comedy and he'll be back next week. All right. Yeah, I don't know anything. I just come in and then people go, Nate's not here. And then we just get into it.

You didn't know until today that he wasn't here? No, I mean, you guys had said he's not going to be here. But I'm just saying, like, they don't need all those details when I found out. Point being, I don't, when they go, Nate's not here, I don't go, where's he going to be? Right. Yeah. You're on a need to know basis. You don't need to know. I don't get a lot of information. You guys get information. You guys take meetings I don't take. You guys get all sorts of different things that I don't get to take part of. Well, you got a lot going on. So I think we filter things out for your benefit.

Yeah. I mean, I'm okay with it. But yeah, you guys are, you know, you got a different connection. Well, I think they're looking at me and they're like, he ain't doing anything. Let's just start with him. He got nothing going on. And then they just save you for the important meetings. Yeah.

So far, I guess there have been no important meetings. There haven't been. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. But this weekend, I would like to mention last weekend, too, because I wasn't here. I did Cape Girardeau, a casino in Cape Girardeau. Awesome.

It's called Century Casino. They really hooked me up. They gave me – they comped all my meals. I was telling everybody it was a corporate gig. I thought it had been saved in my calendar as a corporate gig. And I found out that day it wasn't a corporate gig. And I made an announcement. They said it was a nice boost in ticket sales.

It was great. It was a hot show. That's happened a lot to you recently. Yeah. The casino hooked me up. Maybe the same gig. It was a college that you recently. Yeah. The casino hooked me up. Maybe the same gig. No, it was a college that you thought was a private gig. Well, I think that one, the college took their own initiative to make it not just a private gig.

Okay. They were like, we're going to lose money on this. And I'm like, yeah, that's what college gigs are. You lose money and you get some sort of tax write-off. Yeah. And the show's horrible. That's the trade-off. Yeah.

So for me, it would be the opposite. It would be a public. And the show's horrible. That's the trade-off. Yeah. So for me, it would be the opposite. Like, it would be a public, and they were like, is this a corporate? Because there's nobody here except immediate family.

But then I went to the factory in St. Louis, which is really awesome. A really great theater. Really awesome. A lot of fun there. Met some, you know,

some podcast people i don't know if they're just my podcast or this one too i'm sure it's both not folks though podcast people yeah podcast people yeah exactly is that that's what i got that's what they got upset with me about calling them podcast people instead of folks yeah yeah but it's like to me folks is vague i met some folks this week it's like yeah of course, folks is vague. I met some folks this week. It's like, yeah, of course you did. You were out doing comedy. Yeah, exactly. I met podcast people. I met some podcast folks. And then I went to Royal Oak, Michigan.

I did two shows there at a theater called the Royal Oak Theater, music theater. The Royal Oak Theater music theater. Yeah. And I met an internet guy that i really like i was going to give you guys this shirt because he gave me two and this one's a little bigger uh how big extra large yeah that's huge yeah it's what are you gonna do with an excel that's my guy named wayne county life it's clutch and if you uh if you never looked up wayne county life on like tiktok or uh instagram he's very funny if you look looked up Wayne County Life on TikTok or Instagram, he's very funny.

If you look up Wayne County Life Smash Mouth, it's so funny. I don't know if he's clean, but it's a very funny guy. Lives in Michigan. Came to the show. I'm a big fan. What are you going to do with that? I'm going to give it to you. Well, you could be a good sweat towel.

Well, I'll keep it if you guys are just going to dry your sweat with it. No, you understand what happens is you go, man, this shirt's huge, and it's an XL. Oh, it's too big. Did I say huge? Yeah. Oh, you made it seem like it was too big of a shirt. Yeah, it's too big for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. Yeah. But then this weekend, I got to get- Let me ask you though, what was the show where all the Dusty Slay impersonators were there? And y'all did a group photo. Oh, that was three weeks ago at the Brimstone Festival. It's an outdoor festival where there were a lot of side-by-sides. Have we not talked about that either on here?

I don't think so. How long has it been since I've been to the podcast? Years, I think. Oh, I guess we had Memorial Day where we missed- Right, right. Yeah, I did an outdoor festival where it was like all it was called like the white knuckle event where it was all side by sides and it was an outdoor show and i thought this is gonna be awful and it was great i mean it was it was great because i thought it was gonna be awful right wasn't this a lesson

in life i've thought about this recently if If you just assume everything's going to be bad, you can only be pleasantly surprised. Right. Right? Never expect anything will be good. I mean, I really thought this would be bad. It was outside and I was like, I just was preparing myself for just the worst show. And then a bunch of people showed up dressed like me and we took a group photo and like a bunch of people had came just to see me i thought i'm just entertaining people at this event there's a lot of my fans there it was really great i had a great time that's awesome this weekend i did two shows i did fargo north dakota nice uh i've been to fargo before but it's been a long time and was really great. Took Paula.

Paula Kaczynski. Kaczynski, yeah. Kaczynski? Yeah. Okay. She is the wife of John DeToy, who we've talked about on this podcast. Yeah. The world champion yo-yo.

Yeah. And they're from Fargo. That's right. It's their hometown. Yeah. So it was a big deal for them to get to come there and do the big theater with you. She crushed. And I also had my friend Paul Farvar there with me and they were a hot show. And I did Fargo and then Bismarck, North Dakota, which I've never been to. It's the capital, right? It is. And it was great. I loved it. Bismarck was a pretty rowdy show. Actually, I was walking to the grocery store before the show and this big suburban came barreling through the parking lot, yelling out the window.

And they were coming to the show and I guess they saw me walking. So they got out. We took a picture out there in the parking lot. It was great. How many groceries do you buy for one day in a town? Well, if they have some organic fruit, I'll buy a good bit of stuff. But there's not a lot of organic stuff going on in the Bismarck. You put this stuff on your rider now?

You can have this stuff at the theater. Yeah, but it sounds so pretentious to be like only organic fruit. And if it comes and it's not organic, I don't eat it. But that is where I'm at with fruit these days. And so I bought like a quarter of a watermelon which wasn't organic and i ate it i ate it in my hotel room with a plastic spoon at the office desk and uh i've not felt good since from watermelon i don't know if it was the watermelon i've not been sick but i've been i've been burping a lot right all the seeds you

probably eat the seeds i do eat the seeds but it's tough toping a lot. Right. All the seeds. You probably eat the seeds. I do eat the seeds, but it's tough to find a seeded watermelon out here. Actually, when I was driving through Missouri on the way from Cape Girardeau, oh, actually, on the way to Cape Girardeau, I stopped in an old fruit stand, and there was an old man out there selling fruit, and I bought

a seeded watermelon. Carried that into the casino with me, cut it up in the penthouse in there, and I ate watermelon all along the way.ried that into the casino with me. Cut it up in the penthouse in there. And I ate watermelon all along the way. You walked into a casino with a watermelon in your arms? Oh, yeah. They go, I like your watermelon. I go, I appreciate it.

It's seeded. It's a seeded watermelon. This is coveted. And most people go, oh, that stinks. And you go, no, I went out of my way to get this. That's what I want. I eat the watermelon. I chew them up.

You mean if I go to Kroger, buy a watermelon, I can't find one with seeds? You might be able to. Sometimes you can, but most of the time it's all seedless. Because Dusty comes in there and buys them out right when they get them. Me and my sister, my sister will buy like four or five watermelons if she finds seed. Where do you keep them? You keep them in the garage or whatever where it's like dark and a little cold. Oh, not in the fridge, huh?

Well, once you cut it, you put it in the fridge. Oh where it's like dark and a little cold and oh not in the fridge huh well once you cut it you put it in the fridge oh okay yeah yeah i used to i tried to joke about watermelons it didn't work this weekend no but just in the past i might as well what was it yeah i want to hear it they're just way overrated they you need two people to help you haul it into your house oh well that's that's where you're losing everybody. Watermelon is like the best fruit. You didn't even hear the punchline. Well, you lost everybody at the setup. You go, watermelon's overrated. You're like, oh, no, you're wrong.

I mean, it's like. You can't even let me hear him. Watermelon's the best. All right, I'll hear you. Yeah, yeah, let him hear that. Well, I mean, now I'm. Well, it's overrated. No, no, let's air that. Well, I mean, now I'm... Well, let's walk. You lost confidence.

It's overrated. No, no, let's air improvise. You got to find someone to help you haul it in. It takes up half your refrigerator. Right. You need a Ginzu knife just to get a piece. That's good. There's just a lot of work to put in for something you're going to be hungry again in 30 seconds

because it's just air and water. How much are you eating of it, though? I mean, I'll eat a half a watermelon. Can you imagine if there's a guy like this in the crowd every time you try to do a joke like this? Not true. Well, how much are you eating of it? I don't know, dude.

It's a joke. He's heckling me with watermelon facts. I love watermelon though. I, you know, so I'm like, watermelon's my favorite fruit and then grapes okay well i was wondering what's number two yeah we'll cover three and four next yeah yeah green grapes or uh i actually like the the darker grapes is that purple yeah all of them because i wasn't even sure well there's like real dark

and then there's kind of a purple, and then there's green. I'll eat any of them. Organic. But if it's not organic, don't even eat it. Yeah. But- I got to think non-organic fruit is better for you than 90% of the food we're eating out there. Maybe. Right?

I mean, if you can wash all the pesticides off. Yeah. And this is coming from a guy. That's what you used to do. Yeah. So you're just trying to overcompensate for all the damage you did to the world? Well, yeah, a bit. Yeah.

Yeah. How's the pesticides get in a watermelon? It seeps through? Watermelon, I think there are some fruits that are okay. Like, I think sweet potatoes. I know that's not a fruit, but I think there are some things that it doesn't matter. Like I think a sweet potato doesn't matter, organic or non-organic. There are some. Watermelon, yeah, I don't know. I just think you want to avoid that

GMO seedless watermelon. Okay. Okay. I'll try. You just want to avoid that. Yeah. We'll see. Yeah. And also when you buy, my understanding is if you go to the grocery store and buy the fruit that's already cut up inside the plastic containers, that's probably a fruit that something's gone wrong with it. It's been dropped or it's got something happened and they go, let's just cut it up. Put it in the container, mark up the price. There's a little mold on the corner of it.

Cut the rest off. I've done that. I'm so lazy about watermelon. I'll do it too. I'll buy the slices. Yeah. Buy the fruit salad. It's all that. I'm so lazy about watermelon. I'll do it too. I'll buy the slices. Yeah. Buy the fruit salad. It's all mixed up, ready to go.

Yeah. I mean, I have some of that in my fridge right now. The moldy thing doesn't bother me. You don't like a little mold? You don't mind a little mold? No, no. It helps you, right? When I was growing up, bread used to get mold on it.

It feels like bread never gets mold now. No, it gets mold. Does it? Oh, yeah. Okay. But when I was growing up, it would get moldy pretty quick. And me and my mom would just pick the mold off and eat the bread. We got a bread.

Probably what's wrong with my stomach. Yeah. We just go move on for that. Yeah. We'll move on. Where were you? Where were you? You guys were not poor though.

Now, I mean. None of us grew up in mansions. You had silver spoons under the couch though well that's true we did yeah my mom started putting the bread i guess she still does in the refrigerator oh yeah to try to preserve it longer um then you gotta like put in the microwave for five seconds to knock them you gotta thaw it out. For all stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you know what? Oh. This is the last thing. Yeah. Take your time.

In Bismarck, I went to the airport. I was the only, I was about the only person in that entire airport. And I was definitely the only person in the security checkout and check-in line. And I got randomly selected. How do you get randomly selected? They even said it. Oh, you've been randomly selected. I'm like i'm

the only one in here do you go through clear i don't think they had clear it's all clear so you're the only person going through security at that time yeah and the guy was like checking my id was like really looking hard at it and me i'm like dude okay you think i'm trying to take down the bismarck airport jeez dude these people at tsa they take the job so serious right it's like you're not doing anything they probably got a certain quota they got a hit there's six people coming through all day you're just there to make the weak people feel safe that's all they're there to do and to violate our rights yeah you know i mean That's all they're there to do. Yeah.

I was off this weekend, but I wanted to mention, like Dusty, I'm going to go back a little bit. Two weeks ago, I was at Stand Up Live in Huntsville, headline down there. Great club.

Yeah. About halfway through my set, power goes out. They said, cut the breaker. Like Nate said over here. He's usually a little more supportive. How far into your set were you? Halfway through.

So I got about 30 minutes left. Wow. And it goes dark and the mic goes out. And one of the nice things about not having a lot of people at a show, you can still do a show without a mic. It's really convenient. They were talking about how a bigger name comic, I won't say their name,

walked off stage when this happened once before. But I'm like, well, yeah, they got a full house. For me, no problem. So I did the last half hour. I'd walk off stage. I really didn't know what to do. I wouldn't be mad about it, but I'm like, I can't do a show with no one. Well, you don't know if it's just the building.

You don't know the situation at all, right? The whole club is out. It's not just the stage lights, right? The whole club is out. Now, the auxiliary lights came on. So now I can see the audience much better. I don't have the spotlights in my face. I can see them. It made. I don't have the spotlights in my face and I can see them.

It made for a much better show. Wow. Because now everyone realizes I can see them. So they're much more attentive. They're all invested in the show. They're all kind of like, wow, something's happening here. It's an event now. It's an event.

And I may start doing this on my shows. I think if you got dirty and started having a real attitude, that would be a lot of fun. I'd like to see that. That's what I want. I want you to flip it up big time. Start wearing a bandana on stage. So if I flew in some expletives with the watermelon material. You couldn't even say expletives without struggling.

I know, I know. I was correct. Expletives. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'd love to do, I'd love to do your joke with cuss words. Yeah. That's what I...

So if I show up and I cuss, do you... I was thinking a lot, is that a bad word? Expletives. Yeah. That's what I,

we should do a secret show where we do all our same jokes with a lot of cuss words in it. No recording. I would do that. Yeah. Same jokes. Just,

yeah. Just a little angry. Yeah. A little bit. So how was it overall? Was it, it was a good show. Yeah.

It was, it was, uh, yeah, it was, it was, uh, it was really fun.

And, um, the power came back on probably five minutes after i got off stage really so did you find out what it was yes they said the power went off from the whole block i don't know what caused it they're trying to launch a spaceship down there maybe huntsville yeah they use a lot of power and yeah maybe but it was uh you know i felt good that I was accomplished. Totally. To like recover through a situation like that. Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. I texted you guys about it as soon as I got off stage. Neither of you replied. A little bit more to me than it did you guys, I guess. What did you say? Well, Aaron sent out some funny video and Nate immediately replied to it with a funny quip. And then I said, guys, I just had a show where power went out. I did the last half hour in the dark.

Silence. Not one, nothing. I'm like, okay. So I just moved on. But anyway. Well, we wanted to save it for the podcast. Yeah. Three weeks later.

That's right. And then, so that was on a Sunday night. And then the following Sunday, I'm back in Huntsville with Nate, now in an arena. And when the host is on stage, right before I go up, power goes out. Well, I guess it was not a power going out. It was a fire alarm, and the power comes on. All the lights in the arena come on. So two straight weeks in Huntsville.

Breaker box baits up in here. People are calling me blackout baits. Yeah, blackout baits. I like that too. That's when you're drinking a lot. That's what you should do. I think you should start drinking more and do shows like that. You should. It would be really funny if you ruined your life. I'm not breaking

you down. Bring me down. I'll bring you down. Yeah, I'm saying. Bring down Bates. Get some eggs. All the stuff that you did 20 years ago. That's right. Now's your time. Yeah.

Yeah, go backwards. Because you're doing, in your 20s, you did what Dusty's doing now. Yeah. Y'all just got backwards lives. Mm-hmm. Converse lives. But you want me to go to what Dusty was doing? I want you to ruin your life.

I was having a lot of fun back then. You got to start smoking. Do it all. That's what I'd like to see. Just you coming in here, packing a pack of cigarettes. Can't wait to get out of here to fire it up. Cowboy killers.

Yeah. Nate puts these like, what happened to the podcast when I was gone? We got cigarettes. You got some scruff going. You're Nate puts, he's like, what happened to the podcast? When I was gone, we're cussing, we got cigarettes, some scruff going. You're just like, ah,

passion on the table. Yeah. That sounds great. Honestly, we'll save that for the Patriot. I do want a podcast where I can smoke cigars on the podcast. That's what I'd like to people get mad when I stack the papers. I'm sorry about that.

That's okay. Um, where were you Aaron? Last week I did, uh, I did stand up at my 10-year college reunion in South Bend, Indiana. Wow. It was good. It was fun to be at the reunion. Got to see some old friends.

How much time did you do? I did. Well, they had me scheduled for 45. Ended up doing about 40, and it was time to get out of there. But everyone there was great. Leave them wanting more. Nobody wanted more. That's what you wanted to do.

That sounds so tough. It was an impossible situation. I was saying it's like I made a list of everything that I think would make a bad show and they found it and they were like all right let's do all of this that's what it felt like i think number one on that list is uh being in front of everyone that you know well that's well that's my first question that's what's interesting i knew maybe 15 20 people a lot of people you kind of recognize you remember how many people were there about 600 i guess college is different than high school yeah yeah yeah high school a little bit different yeah a few hundreds

yeah like a little under 600 i think were there um but the crowd was actually great it was just technically the setup was a disaster it was in the old hockey arena so it's already in an arena and they have it walled off halfway with a mosquito net and i show up for sound check and they got a little stage with a podium and the only speakers there's no monitors the speakers are hanging they're 30 feet from the ground hanging and i did a sound check and it just sounds you can't even tell what i'm saying it's so bad so i told the sound guys like we got a lot of work to do dude and he goes i didn't i didn't even know this was a stand-up show till right now so i was like okay we're a little like we're all being thrown into this kind of last second but i just made some jokes about it up top and then uh then i

basically yelled off mike in a half an arena for 40 minutes wow until my voice was gone and then we got out of there and you were like 10 years later this is what i'm up to i made a bunch of jobs like yeah look at they're all doctors but they're going this is it this is a dream this is what notre d Dame gets you. They were great, though. It's fun to be on campus. But then I was in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend. Wanted to hike out there.

Got there. They go, it's too hot to hike. It's illegal to hike right now. There was an advisory to. The government. You can't be outside. I don't know if it was a law, but everywhere it was like heat advisory, stay inside. 110 degrees. Take your shirt off.

Everywhere. I did have my shirt off for most of the weekend. I had an Airbnb with a pool out there. I was in that pool a lot. Here's how hot it was, dude. I left my wallet in the car on the dashboard overnight. I get out the next day, open my wallet. Everything in my wallet's melted.

All the plastic credit cards. I tried to pull my credit card out. It was like an airhead. It was completely misshapen. First off, I'd just like to say, are you just the most trustworthy person on the planet? It's like you're trusting. You're like, I'll just leave my wallet on the dash all night. I locked the car.

We were in a nice neighborhood and I forgot that it was out there. So this wasn't intentional. You've done that before though, when we've been in a green room together. You'll just leave your wallet on the table. And I'm like- Well, a green room should be a place of safety. It should be. But I'm like. Dusty's the only one in there. He's like, I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Dusty brings his suitcase on stage with him. Chain to his arm. I don't trust anybody out here. He's got nuclear codes. But Desert Ridge Improv is an awesome, awesome club. Oh, it is awesome. I've been there. Yeah.

Did four shows. One of them sold out. It was great, dude. It is really fun. Awesome. Yeah. Everybody asked me about you, Brian. They said they've been there, yeah. Did four shows. One of them sold out. It was great, dude. It is really fun. The crowds were awesome. Yeah. Everybody asked me about you, Brian. They said they've seen everybody except you because you haven't done something in Phoenix.

They've seen the end. They want you out there. I got told that a lot this weekend. They go, we just need to see Brian. People always think it's my decision where I go. The Desert Ridge Improv is the one that needs to want to see me there. It's not me yeah so i hope i can yeah back to your car credit cards i don't know if you ever saw plane trains and automobiles

but there's a scene where their car catches on fire and his wallet is in the glove compartment he has to pull out all this plastic and it's half burned up it sounds like yeah i mean it was bizarre and then i told somebody that, and they go, oh yeah, that happens. What you got to do, put it back in your car with a book on top of it and let it melt back to reshape all the cards. So I didn't do that. So now my credit cards just look all wavy and... They still work? They still work. The chip part still works. I would think you would just go in and put it in the refrigerator. But it's all misshapen.

So it's just going to, I want it to be flat again. Can you, do you have any of those cards on you? Yeah. The downstairs. Not on me. I wish you'd have brought that up.

Yeah. I don't want to wave my credit card around. That's true. That's a good point. That is a good point. Anyway. So. All right.

When we get these comments. Baby's the size of a coconut today. Oh yeah. Got a little app that tells you what, what fruit it is. So. All right. We're going to get these comments. Baby's the size of a coconut today. Oh, yeah. Got a little app that tells you what fruit it is. Okay. Coconut a fruit. Yeah. Is it organic?

When does it get to? That matters. Seedless. Yeah, man. Dusty would be looking at the app like, I wouldn't do that if I was you. I want. Tell that baby to keep moving. i want to let baby keep moving i want to do a dirty show and i want you to write down the watermelon joke for me and i'd like to do it

uh sure just a dirt the dirty watermelon joke and you would switch it to pro watermelon or you're gonna be i'll be i'll be anti-watermelon okay you're just gonna throw in some expletives yeah i got a couple of dirty jokes that i did in the past i'd like to record them but i would never be able to share them but uh the difference between you and me though dusty is i'm being clean because that's me yeah and you're doing that just to make money no i mean as soon as this podcast stops recording we're gonna hear it no it's me too it is me too

but uh it is but um yeah but I do gotta I got some stuff in shaking around in the head that I like to get out that's okay yeah there's nothing wrong with that I get fired up sometimes yeah have you ever cursed on stage Brian um yeah but it was uh it was just for effect to

like kind of what does he say like maybe like a one-off i said something just to make the back of the room laugh or something that's cool i was making some jokes at zany's about some children's i did a new material monday about children books, about a particular word they seem to use a lot in the old school children's books. I obviously won't say, but it's harmless in the old school, but language has changed. And now the word kind of has a different thing going on with it. And I just think it's funny how often it's said. And so I was making the jokes at Zany's during New Material Monday, but I was saying the word.

And I think the staff was really like, whoa, what's going on up there? Were the people laughing? Yeah. It was a great joke. Yeah. Just the staff wasn't on board. Well, no, they were on board, but they were like taken back by it. Yeah.

Yeah. I think they were into it. What's your hat there? It's Kansas City Monarchs. That's what I thought. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool.

It looks like the hat from the Major League where the guy starts to get real frustrated with the team and he turns it inside out and starts writing things on the hat. It does look like an inside out hat. Yeah. It looks like a rally cap. Yeah. Kansas City Monarchs is the famous Negro League team. Recently, they added all the stats to Major League Baseball. Aaron, you were telling me how you hated that.

Go ahead. Tell us about that. How they were an inferior league, I think you were saying. Well, seven different leagues. It wasn't just one league. You said they're all inferior. Brian, this stuff has to stay off the podcast okay that's not true no i'm joking yeah all right let's get into the comments let's do it all right this first one these

comments come from twitter instagram youtube apple podcast reviews nateland at natebargatze.com and brian's personal cell phone number which we will include in the episode description below. Here we go. Amy Holly. Holly. I was just in the hospital for an outpatient procedure and was thinking about the podcast so I could get through it. I kept thinking we're having a good time, and I would smile because I really wasn't,

but I could see Dusty say it, and it made it all better. You guys are hilarious. I'm so glad I found not only the podcast, but you guys in general, please keep it up. Wow. What a nice note by Amy. That means there's a mean comment coming up. I know how Brian does this, but that's a part of the philosophy of we're having a good time, right? You just lie to yourself. Yeah. When I was first starting to do it, it would be like during bad shows and I'd go, we're having a good time. And, uh, and so it would start to make the show better. Even if you're saying it sarcastically, you're tricking

your brain. Yes. And then eventually you are having a good time, whether you want to or not. And I'm telling the audience too, Hey, you might not be laughing, but I don't care. Don't forget. We're having a good time. Even if it don't care don't forget we're having a good we're having a good time even if it doesn't feel like it yeah we are having a good time i blame the audience every time sometimes i tell them i go i don't know what you're doing you know i mean i don't travel the country telling mediocre jokes okay get into it these are good jokes nick novelli you think that's it nick novelli yeah i think novelli yeah it seems a lot like i am continually impressed by bonnaroo's knowledge of marvel much love guys do you know a lot about

marvel well last yeah i don't know a lot about the comic books but i saw all the avengers movies and all those so last week we talked about Thor and well, the, the central part of the body was the Thor X, right? And we said, somebody said Thor had a hammer. He didn't have an ax.

I was like, well, he had both actually. Yeah. Stormbreaker was the ax. Yeah. So did you know that? Well,

I remember him having that in, in the movies and he got it in Ragnarok, I think. Right. Or he lost his hammer in Ragnarok and then he got it in uh ragnarok i think right or he lost his hammer in ragnarok and then he got it later to try to kill thanos yeah does it have any kind of special powers to it or anything yeah it was made by uh i don't know some planet it was made by oh that's cool kind of like a wand um and we go to the next you know well that's a good point he's pointing

out how you know they never really touch on this character, that's a good point. He's pointing out how. You know, they never really touch on this character, but there's a character named Beta Ray Bill. And he looks like Thor in the armor and everything. And he has the hammer, but he looks more like some kind of creature. And in that there's a cartoon called Planet Hulk. And that cartoon is, I think, where they based the movie Ragnarok on. And then in Planet Hulk, Beta Ray Bill fights Hulk in the arena.

In Ragnarok, Thor fights Hulk. But in the cartoon, Hulk is about to kill Beta Ray Bill when they stop the fight. And then it's the opposite in Ragnarok. So they really ruined Hulk in the Marvel movies. Okay. They ruined Hulk.

Hulk should have been the most powerful. They ruined Hulk. Oh, I'm sorry. I disagree with that a little bit. It's so bad how they treated Hulk. Now, he got stomped by Thanos. He got stomped by Thanos. He got stomped by Thor.

He got stomped by Iron Man. Well, I don't see Iron Man. We're getting way deep. No, I'd love it. Keep going. Iron Man created a suit called Hulk Buster. Right. Its whole purpose was to just defeat Hulk.

Right. But it shows that Iron Man is smart enough to be able to beat Hulk. I think the Hulk suit should have been designed to beat Hulk, but couldn't do it. And it was a knockout, knockdown, drag out fight. It wasn't like it was a quick fight,

but in the end, Iron Man wins. And then the Thor, I guess that's true. He punched him in the face. He was about to, yeah, he's about to kill him.

And then we're about to beat him in the ring, whatever he was about to do. Oh, you're talking about Thor and- And Ragnarok. And Hulk. Yeah. Again, I feel like they kind of fall to a draw. I guess he was about to bring some lightning on them. I thought a better ending to it all would have been to have the Hulk instead of morphing into this Hulk with intelligence, and he should have come back more powerful and beat Thanos.

I would have liked to have seen a rematch. Yeah. There still might be one at some point, right? I don't think so. Why not? I think they killed Thanos. He's dead now. I mean, they could always bring him back somehow.

Yeah. They killed him twice in those. Yeah. I just think, I don't know. That would have been a better ending. I dedicate 10 years of my life to these movies, and this is how they end for me. Okay. All right. Sorry about that. Chris Roberts, Dusty's joke about sliding over a tree root is the funniest joke I've ever heard. Thank you, Chris. I don't have that problem. I've had a show before where I've had a couple of shows here and there where people are not really laughing loud.

But I definitely don't need to use a laugh track on my comedy special. In fact, I went to a comedy special that was filmed one time. I won't say who. Nobody associated here years ago before I even knew you guys. I went to a comedy special and they did all these things where they would go, all right, guys, we need to get a couple of big laughs. Let's get a couple of big laughs from the audience. And then they recorded those laughs so they could use those at different times in the editing. And then they would go, all right, we need to get this sound or whatever. And then

with my comedy special, we didn't do any of that. So we just filmed a show and then we were like, look how good it was. So I've been a part of a couple tapings. And I think there's a misunderstanding about that. What I was told is when they do that before a taping, they're getting the levels of the crowd for the mic. So they go scream as loud as you can. They get the levels. They go. Then we'll know what a laugh is going to be at.

That's how they, that's why they do that. Well, we didn't need to do that at mine and it turned out very well. The sound was very good. Okay. Maybe yours are always on the same level. Yeah,

maybe, maybe, but yeah, I mean, I just, I'm just clarifying for Chris. I think when people say laugh track, they mean, yeah,

they do go in and there's post-production. They go in and turn the crowd up you know maybe no not not artificially to save jokes but they do edit the audio of the special well yeah you have to edit uh audio to make it crisp sure but i don't think they're using a laugh track but uh thank you for that compliment on that joke there chris yeah let's not forget the real point of this comment exactly yeah krista robinson you guys seem to be experts in flying and have a lot of missteps and foibles uh people make i don't know what that means aaron like uh shenanigans have a lot of missteps and foibles people make. Like faux paws.

Nah, not helping. I am looking for suggestions. I'm about to fly to South Korea with educators, not exactly seasoned travelers. It's about a 15-hour flight. Anything I should make sure I don't forget

or make sure I don't do. I'm worried about being stuck for 15 hours and getting some sleep. I want to be honest with you. I don't know nothing about a 15-hour flight or flying internationally, really. You ever flown internationally? I've flown to Canada, but. Yeah, it's barely internationally, right? Not until last year when we did the flight to south america i don't think it was

quite that long but um no it's just like any other flight just be prepared to sit there for a long time you know and the neck pillow is useless uh unless you have neck pillows is it's a it's a what a scam that is such a scam it does nothing i have four of them because i'm sometimes at the airport going i'd really like to get some sleep. I'm going to get one of these. It never works. I don't know why I keep being fooled by it. Right. Such a scam.

You know, Nate said when he flew to Australia, and I thought it was a good mindset. And kind of like what you just said about always expecting the worst. He said, you got to just set your mind and realize this is a really, really long trip. Don't be looking at your watch like, oh, man, whatever. Just accept this is my day. This is my work day. This is what I'm doing for the next 15 hours. Yeah.

I'm sitting down, you know, find a book to read or something. And bring a lot of snacks. They say don't eat on a plane because it's not good for you. But I find it's good to pass the time. Who says it's not good to eat on a plane? I've heard that. It's like digestion-wise, it's like you're you, but I find it's good to pass the time. Who says it's not good to eat? I've heard that. It's like digestion-wise, it's like you're- Because of the altitude?

Yeah. When you're up that high eating, you're not digesting well. Really? That's what I've been told. But it helps me pass the time to eat some snacks. Organic snacks. Yeah. It's a good way to pass time down here, too.

I hope you know that. And get up occasionally so you don't get blood clots. Yeah. I love to get up. You don't get bed sores on a flight. Yeah. And download more podcasts. And if you have YouTube, I have YouTube Premium.

That way you can download videos. You get whatever streaming platform you have. Download a bunch of videos, movies. And more than you think you'll need. Just download tons of it. Nate Whiskers McMallman. That sounds fake, doesn't it? Nate Whiskers McMallman. This guy played baseball in the 20s? Played in the old Negro League, which Aaron does not support.

I'd like to kill this bit before it goes any further. I moved to Atlanta not long ago and was excited when I saw Dusty was coming to town on my birthday. The only problem was that my wife was due with our new baby on the same day. The baby did not come and we went to the show. She laughed so hard it sent her into labor and we had our daughter the next day. The baby did not come and we went to the show. She laughed so hard it sent her into labor and we had our daughter the next day. Alright. I like Nate Whiskers McMallman. And I like

that, that you came to the show with the baby and you shook it right out of there. I love that. Is that the medical term? Beautiful way to put it. And if you're looking to delay birth for a while, come to one of me or Brian's shows. And maybe he'll be like, that's what's going on out there? And if you're looking to delay birth for a while, come to one of me or Brian's shows. Yeah.

Yeah. And maybe you'll be like, that's what's going on out there. I'm good here. Thanks. I'm chilling here for a bit. Hunter Wyatt. We need to put up a privacy fence in our backyard. We only need to put up the back wall as we share fences with our neighbors on the sides.

Our neighbor on one side is showing us the nice side while the other is showing us the ugly side. So which side do we show ourselves? No matter what, we'll have one side not matching. Well, coming from some experience here, if you have an HOA, you might want to read that to see what it says because you may have to face the

quote-unquote ugly side your way yeah now my sister has a philosophy that she likes to face the nice side towards the neighbor because the ugly side has two two by fours in it that you can crawl over uh and she says you know it's a provides a little more security to have the nice side facing out. That's right. Like if you're running from someone, you need to. Yeah. Or like somebody's trying to get into your yard. Makes it a little harder.

There you go. Oh, I see. Yeah. Yeah. You know. Don't make it easy for them to crawl over on your side. Okay. Or just make both sides nice.

You know what I mean? Yeah. That's a. I have the. I'm kidding's a – I have the – I'm kidding. Okay. I have the ugly side when I put up my fence facing my yard. And to be honest with you, I don't think it's ugly.

I like it. Yeah. I'm glad I did it that way. I wasn't going to do it that way until I got called out by my neighbor, and then I had to cuss him out, and the 70-year-old man out there. But – Like I said, he only does clean comedy for the money. and the 70-year-old man out there. Like I said, he only does clean comedy for the money.

I did cuss this man, and I did not mean to, but a lot went into it. We're friends, me and this guy, and him and his wife. I mean, we're all friends. You were. No, we still are, but he made me mad that day. It's okay to be mad every now and then. Yeah. It's okay to not be okay.

Somebody said something about me on this podcast or my own. It's okay to not be okay. Sometimes, somebody told, said something about me on this podcast or my own. It said, it sounds like he has anger issues and it's like, Oh,

that couldn't have been us. No, no. I don't think it was. No, no, a commenter. Oh,

okay. And I'm like, well, yeah, who doesn't have anger? Do you live in America? Who doesn't have anger issues?

Do you have a job? I mean, are you here? Do you have a job? I mean, are you out? Do you drive in traffic? You get angry at the comments saying you have anger issues. There you go. No, I get it. I get it.

There's such a thing as righteous anger. Yeah. Yeah. I get angry when if it's a mean comment about me, I think I just get my feelings hurt. But if it's about you guys

or any of my other friends, I get angry because I'm like, that's not fair. That's not true. I like a thing we have going on right now, where is if we see a bad comment about us in the Nateland comments, we all kind of go in on the guy. And I love that, that we recently did that. And a guy, I think he blocked us and then made his account private. Yeah, real cowards move. Yeah, it's like you come in all hot, and then you get a little heat. This dude, it was a pretty innocuous comment. This guy just commented, boy, I wish this was as funny as they're acting like it is.

And we kind of laid into the dude, right? And then he just made his account private. Well, you said something to him and then he goes, oh, you get butthurt or something like that. He said, oh, triggered. Oh, it was a different guy. Yeah. Okay. Oh, and that guy said triggered. I was like, oh, man.

I mean, it triggered me. Well, it's just so weak though. It's like you come in and you insult someone. Right. And then when they comment back, oh, you're triggered now. It's like, you're triggered. No someone. Right. And then when they comment back, oh, you're triggered now. It's like, you're triggered.

No, I responded. Yeah. I responded. Is that what being triggered is? Just responding to something. That's what people do though. They call you triggered the moment you respond.

Yeah. It's their way of being like, you're not supposed to respond. And then Dusty said weak response, which is all you can say. It is weak though. Yeah. It's super weak.

It's like, don't come in trying to harass people. And then when you, when you, you get say. It is weak, though. Yeah, it's super weak. Don't come in trying to harass people, and then when you get some heat back, you go, oh, you triggered now? At least have a little fun back. Exactly. Come up with a joke and get us back. Exactly. We're not trying to hunt you down. No. We just want to have a little fun in the comments.

Have a fun exchange. Yeah. I didn't know we had that going on, because sometimes there'll be comments about me and by the time I see them Dusty's already replied and agreed with them. No.

He's piled on me. No. There'll at least be a like by Dusty. Well, I might like it but I don't I don't I don't pile on.

There's been a couple where you've agreed with them in the comments. It's just somebody trying to be I'm going to need some examples. Somebody trying to be funny. I'm going to need an example. One time I texted you I was like don't add fuel in the comments. It's just somebody trying to be- I'm going to need some examples. It's just somebody trying to be funny.

I'm going to need an example. And one time I texted you, I was like, don't add fuel to the fire. Oh, yeah. I like to get in there. A guy, recently I had a comment exchange with a guy. I had in my email inbox, I had flagged a couple of emails and I was going through unflagging them. And this one was from like two years ago. So I was just unflagging them. But as I was doing it, I was looking at them to see what it was. And this was some comment,

some insulting comment a guy left me. And this is what it was. I was talking, I was reading water bottle ingredients. And the guy's like, he goes, I hate when comics do fake premises like this. He goes, it's like they're lying to your face. And apparently I had said something to him two years ago because there was a response from him. So I guess I deleted my

response. So I went and I commented back though on it and I go, have you, since then, have you found water with ingredients on it? And he was like, oh, I see here you deleted your rude comment to me. And I go, well, I don't remember what the rude comment was, but I'm just wondering, have you found water with ingredients on it? And then he goes into how I was real rude to him. And I'm like, well, maybe it started by you calling me a liar, basically. Maybe that's where the rudeness began. And then he never responded. What a ridiculous thing to have launched all of this

about water bottle ingredients. Right. It's like, clearly some water has ingredients on it. I didn't make it up. Dasani, definitely. Yeah. Dasani, I think Smart Water. They all have stuff on there.

Yeah. Aquafina's pretty good okay pretty clear okay alright so Sam Kosky

I don't understand oh I skipped I skipped Reed Jones Reed Jones sorry Sam we'll get back to you what's your opinion on comedian catchphrases

well it seems like a relic of the past with classics with classics like I don't get no respect I don't know if that's that's the I don't get I don't think he says I don't get classics like I don't get no respect. I don't know if that's the... I don't think he says I don't get no respect. I don't get no respect.

Get her done and somebody stop me. But somehow Dusty has pulled it off without being too hokey. Not too hokey. Also, Dusty, do you remember the first time you realized where having a good time would become a regular joke for you?

Yeah. First time I did it. What is this? Just like compliment Dusty Day on the podcast? Yeah. It's a hot day. It's a hot day. Yeah.

I mean, I don't think, to be honest with you, I don't think it's a relic of the past. I think people are not being clever enough to come up with them anymore. Hamburger Jones was just at Zany's this past weekend. Oh, really? Yeah, he's opening for- Adele Givens? Yeah, Adele Givens. Yeah, get her done.

I mean, you can call it hokey if you want, but that guy's made millions of dollars off that. He got her dead. Yeah, I don't know what Somebody Stopped Me is. Who's that? I don't know. And then No Respect. That's Aaron. Oh, that was your podcast. Somebody Stopped Me is. Who's that? I don't know. And in no respect. That's Aaron.

Oh, that was your podcast. Somebody Stopped Me. I liked your podcast. Me too. Thanks, man. I did enjoy that. I was sad that you didn't do that more. I wanted the Brad Sativa episode to be better,

but when you and him were doing the interview, Brad seemed like he was holding the microphone on the floor. I was like, where's the microphone? Like, Brad does comedy, but it seemed like he was doing like this the whole time. I was like, where's the microphone? Like Brad does comedy, but it seemed like he was doing like this the whole time. I'm like, come on. It's tough, man. We're figuring some stuff out.

But that was good. I liked those. But yeah, I don't know. I just kept doing, we're having a good time. And then eventually it just kind of became a thing for me. But I think a catchphrase is good. I think- Seriously, do you remember when you're like, oh man, I think this can kind of be my thing? Well, when I did Jimmy Kimmel, which came out in early 2018, I did it at the end of 2017. I remember telling my friend that I said, I want to come out right away and just go, we're having a good time. And then I remember us laughing about it, being like, oh, that'd be ridiculous. But I was like, I want to do it. I'd like to do that. That time and me being on The Tonight Show six months later is when it became my catchphrase. Because I did it once on Jimmy Kimmel, but it wasn't like I'm doing it now.

Before then, I was really starting to lean into the we're having a good time thing. And I liked it. But in that six months is when I made it my thing. So early 2018. Sam Kosky. I don't understand the hype around shawshank it's a really good movie but number one question mark question mark oh oh oh i see i thought he was gonna give us a list oh yeah but number one there you go people seem ready to defend it uh all the time but aren't ever actually able to give a good reason why it's better than others. It didn't bring anything new to the cinematic table that hadn't been done before.

Don't want to spoil it for Nate, but the ridiculousness of the whole plot brings it down a few notches for me. Maybe a top 30 movie. I'll let you guys go. That's fine if you think it's a top 30 movie. I'll let you guys go. That's fine if you think it's a top 30 movie. I don't know. What do you mean the ridiculous of the whole, ridiculousness of the whole plot? What's ridiculous? I don't think it's number one

for the record. That's fair. I love the movie. But do you think the plot's ridiculous? Not at all. Yeah. I would like to hear more what Sam thinks is ridiculous about the plot. It's my favorite movie. If I were to play devil's advocate, which I love to do. Yeah.

And they show it. Him dumping the stuff out in the yard. You know, the gravel. I mean, the wall. Right. Things like that. If you haven't listened, like Nate, spoiler alert for the next 90 seconds. To be honest with you, though, if you've not watched it, you don't deserve a spoiler alert.

I mean, it's a pretty old movie. I agree. Nate hasn't seen it. Well, Nate's never listened to this. That's for sure. I know that. I just think there might be other people that are holding out. I mean, maybe that he dug out that whole tunnel and no one ever saw any extra wall out in the yard.

Wow. So the mechanics of the escape is what – I could see the point there. If I had to take one thing and be nitpicky, yeah, that would be it. But I think the whole thing that makes it great, he says, we're never actually able to give a good reason why it's better than others. I mean, I think the whole thing of him befriending the warden, in a sense, and outsmarting everyone is what makes it really special. It's like he's really really been dealt a hand i mean he he did commit

uh the crime and he is in jail for it but um uh we didn't commit the crime did he not no he was innocent oh it's been a long time since i said so a murderer's on the loose oh okay so you didn't bother me if he got to that part doesn't bother me guilty orilty or innocent. I mean, it's like if he's smart enough to get out. Yeah. He was innocent. Okay. All right. Wow.

Morgan Freeman's character admits he committed murder when he was a young man. Yeah. Now he's an older man. I was thinking it was a crime of passion. Well, that's what they want you to think. That's what the prosecutor says in court at the beginning. Crime of passion could be at least understood, if not condoned. Well, if anything, that strengthens the argument that I'm making for the movie.

To learn this information, it now strengthens my argument. He was innocent, and they still had him in there, and he outsmarted everyone to get out. I agree. I think that's amazing. I mean, it's like, you know, there's,

there's escape from Alcatraz, you know, but I think those are a lot of similarities between those two movies. Yeah. Which is fine. I would like Sam right back in and go into detail of what is ridiculous about the plot. I'd love to hear more about this ridiculousness, you know?

Yeah. I mean, we're probably not going to read more about this ridiculousness, you know? Yeah. I mean, we're probably not going to read it again, but no, send it to me, send it to me. Yeah. I don't want to get Sam's hopes up.

Like, oh man, it's going to be a weekly thing. I do like this comment though. We'll do episode 205. Sam Kosky. That's what it's called. This is just us going at him.

See, this is what I like though. I like when people, you know, bring a little heat in the comments. But that's empty heat. There's no... Did you edit this at all, Brian? I don't think so.

No. You can't just go, the whole plot's ridiculous. The whole plot of this universally loved and acclaimed movie is ridiculous. A complaint I've never heard about this film. I'm just saying I like that he made the comment. I mean, he obviously... Totally. I'm into this.

Yeah. But I would like you to go into detail a little bit. If he says maybe top 30, he obviously thinks it's a really good movie. Right. Totally. Yeah. Totally. But you say nobody ever knows how to defend this movie.

And then you give a completely empty claim. And I'm supposed to defend against that. All hinging on you not wanting to spoil it for Nate. It's like, yeah, I get into some details. Right. Right. right. Yeah, I'm happy to defend the movie if you present a specific case against it. Yeah.

So that's my message to Sam. Sorry. Erica Pearson. I wanted to check in with Breakfast about his squirrel issue. We have an issue with squirrels and cardinals. The squirrels chewed through the wires on my husband's truck, leaving him with no taillights. And the cardinals were fighting with themselves every morning in the side mirrors of all our cars. Did I read that wrong?

No, you got it right. Okay. I looked it up, and I guess we are going to have to start covering our mirrors with towels every night now. Well, thankfully, I don't. Oh, they were seeing their reflection. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I was like, they're fighting in the mirrors?

Okay. Okay. Yeah. I thankfully have not had any cardinal issues. Thankfully, I haven't had any squirrel issues in some time now. The cicadas probably really helped this summer. The squirrels had other things to focus on. But it's been

a while, thankfully. I've had no new squirrel issues, and hopefully that stays the case. I mean, I didn't do a lot. I did move my car down the street. Now, I did park in a different spot in our yard.

Leave your car running all night. With my wallet on the street. Now, I did park in a different spot in our yard. Leave your car running all night. With my wallet on the dash? Yeah. My dad's first car, if he turned it off, it couldn't turn back on, so he had to leave it running 24-7. What? Wow. Yeah. What?

Are you serious? Sounds like he needed to visit the mechanic. Yeah, I know. What was the problem? I don't know the details. He just told me that his first car, people used to always come, knock on the door and go, you left your car running. And he would go, I know, I have to, or else it won't start again. Oh, this is long before you.

This is like his first car out of college, I think. He's a lot of gas. You should think Aaron's dad got a car for the first time. Well, I guess I wasn't listening closely. I'm thinking about the family car when you were a kid. I mean, he was a prince. No, that car was a piece that day. We had a 1991 Toyota Previo, white minivan, minivan with one sliding door.

Remember those? Yeah. Just on one side? Yeah. And we were at the ballpark one day, and that sliding door just slid right off the car into the parking lot. Huge scene. We had a bungee cord it was all four of us had to in the car had to hold the door to drive home we had a bungee corded uh yeah that car stunk dude we kind of loved it though yeah you know

jacob manning obviously you guys have to gain have to gain new material for your stand-up acts from the podcast. I don't think so. How do you determine who uses what? If there's a crazy funny topic on the podcast, do you guys discuss who can use that material on stage? I've been a cop for 20 years, and I listened to you guys for most of my 12 hour shifts and it never disappoints. Keep on doing your thing, guys. That's awesome. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Jacob. I don't, honestly, I don't think I've ever gotten a joke from the podcast. People think that I got

some jokes from here one time. They've commented, but I've never, I never have. I don't think. Maybe you guys have, but. I have a couple things i do in my act now that as they happened i told them on the podcast but it's not like i don't know it's not like we uh did a nebraska episode and then i'm like oh i got a good nebraska chunk out of that you know I got a couple stories now that I want to share with you guys on the podcast, but I'm still trying to work them out as jokes. I want to develop them first before I just throw them out and then everyone either destroys my premise or. Like the plant joke.

That'll happen. What's the plant joke? That plant joke that I tried to pitch on here and everybody said all terrible? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like the shingles joke, all the shingles ladies? Well, that one, that's different because

you brought that one back for me. Yeah. You've been doing it? No. Okay. But to answer this guy's question in a different way, I think sometimes when you're hanging out

with a group of people, group of comics, and something happens. Like the fish sleep. Yeah. yeah i mean that was a shared uh example uh me and aaron were in the aquarium together uh and we actually you know have both done the joke um so it's like you know you just talk about it you go hey what's going on with that joke yeah we had a conversation dusty goes you still doing that joke i go no, no, it's all yours. And then he did it on tonight's show. Yeah.

So he turned it into something good. Yeah, and it's like sometimes a joke may work for me and not for somebody else. And then the other way around, it's like that too. And it's like, so yeah, when that does happen, you just talk about it. And it's like, hopefully, like I had a buddy, we're still friends.

So I don't know if he listens or not. I don't want to offend him. But he was like, he had a couple of jokes that I really liked. And then he told me one day that he kind of announced he was retiring from comedy. And so I reached out to him and I go, hey, can I have these two jokes?

And then the next thing you know he's back doing comedy and i'm like he wanted we're having a good time back yeah no it wasn't though it wasn't jokes that i'm doing but it's a couple of jokes he has that i really like and that was the confidence boost he needed to get i know i think so he is very funny there's no reason for him to quit doing comedy. But he, yeah, he just was like,

I'm going to quit doing stand-up. And then I was like, well, you got a couple of jokes that I like. So, if you're hanging it up, let me have them. Right.

And I could just take them. But you won't. But I don't do it. Yeah. You have integrity. Yeah. You know, the me pouring syrup

in the waffle maker, Nate did that joke. And I think I tried it a time or two when it happened, and I could not make it work. Nate's such a good storyteller. I think maybe now if it happened to me, I'm a better comic, I can make it work. But then I couldn't get last with it. And Nate's such a good storyteller. I told him, do it. Well, he also framed it in this larger context about different generations and stuff where if you were just telling it, this happened to me, you couldn't do that.

Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. He's just so good at that. And pretty quickly, I knew he was going to have more success with it than I would. Oh, I know this guy. Last comment.

Chase Schubert. Our five-month-old son wakes us up throughout the nights about every two hours. As much as I wish I could say I was always willing to get out of bed to feed him a bottle and rock him to sleep, unfortunately, that's not always the case. However, around 4 a.m. on Wednesday mornings, he will wake us up per usual, and I will eagerly get out of bed to feed him and drive him around our neighborhood for two hours while he sleeps in the car so I can listen to Nate Land uninterrupted to start my day. Thank you, fellas, for making me a hero every Wednesday morning and buckle up Aaron. Well, I think that's great. I get that. But also it's like, that's what I like about, I joke around about being dirty and this and that, but it's like,

that's what I like about this podcast. There are some podcasts that me and my wife used to really like to listen to. And then when we started riding around with our kids in the car, listening to the podcast, we were like, oh no, like we realized how desensitized we were to everything. But now that our kids were in the car, we were like, oh, we can't keep listening to this. So I like that we have this podcast this way. Yeah. Chase is a very nice guy.

Well, I did put in Chase's comment at the end because this week we're talking about fathers because, well, this Sunday's Father's Day. It is. Happy Father's day to the two of you and to all the fathers listening and to all the fathers before us now well this most some of them i don't know i mean happy father's day to uh yeah to all the all the good dads all the good dads yeah there you go this will be your last father's day not to be a father that's right but

some people celebrate even when they're pregnant oh okay, okay. So you could. I wouldn't do that. Well, you wouldn't celebrate it either way. I don't really. I'm not into it. You wouldn't accept a gift for Father's Day? No, I will, and I always call my dad, but I think it's kind of a worthless holiday. Well, that's celebrating it. What else do you want?

I know, but this whole- I don't celebrate, but I call my dad and I accept a gift. You know what I mean? That's all it is. Well, I don't, you know, but I do think that it's like this whole, all of these commercially driven holidays are so we go and buy things for people. I agree. There was a TikTok that went viral, this woman going, you know, I'm Christian, so I don't celebrate Halloween, but we do like to dress up and have a little fun. Well, that's what.

That's all we're doing yeah yeah exactly anyway well anyway this sunday's father's day so i thought it'd be a good time talk about fathers all right the good the bad the ugly okay the ugly well i just got kind of rolling there is that you make a reference to each one of us? Yeah. We can decide. One's good. One's bad. One's ugly. Well, I guess last week you guys called Nick Thune a handsome Dusty.

That's what I heard. No. But if Nate says that, I'm not going to. I was like, he's not really that better looking than me. I wouldn't say he's better looking than me at all. You think that? I'd say you're better looking. I would say't say he's better looking than me at all you think that um so you're better looking i would say so too okay so if somebody comments on your appearance you want us to defend you nah okay no he's actually like if you look at him up close he looks good what do you want me to say i mean dusty's hot yeah he's a good-looking man.

Oh, whatever. Whenever somebody's in in your absence, you go, he's the fill-in-the-blank version of Dusty. I don't watch the podcast, but I do sometimes go in and read the comments. Okay. Especially when I'm not here. I like to see what people say. You like to see people go, I miss Dusty. Well, I like to see if people are like, oh, that's better. Why don't you try to get this Nick Mullen guy in here all the time?

Nick Mullen? Nick Thune? Nick Th oh, it's better. Why don't you try to get this Nick Mullen guy in here all the time? Nick Mullen? Nick Thune? Nick Thune, yeah. So it came- You got this Nick Nolte character. I know Nick Thune. He's very nice. He's great.

I like him a lot. He's great. And I mean, no offense, but you don't know as much about fashion. Well, you don't know. I mean, you know what I was going to do if I were able to come to that. I meant to bring it this week just to show you. Yeah. But my senior year in high school, I got voted one of the most fashionable people in my senior class.

Oh, man. How many were in your class and how many made the cut? Well, it was two of us, me and my friend Costa. Okay. Yeah, it was probably 500 of us. Oh, in your senior class? Yeah, something like that. Wow, that's a huge high school.

Maybe 200. I don't know. Okay. All right. 500, 200. That's a lot of people. That's a lot of people. Opelika has a lot of people.

What kind of stuff were you wearing in high school? I mean, I got voted that because I was dressing pretty wild okay it wasn't that i was like bowling shoes well i had flame shoes had shoes that had flames on it i wore a lot of skull t-shirts and i would do a lot of mix and matching of things i was wearing a lot i had a corduroy jacket i used to wear that's pretty cool wearing a lot of gloves with the fingers cut off in it. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it was super. I was really cool. Bleach blonde hair. Yeah, bleach blonde hair. You were a maniac.

I was totally a maniac. You know, I had a lot of problems, and they were all coming to a boil around senior year. Well, now I wish we did have you here. I know. Yeah, what a fun. I meant to bring the yearbook today. That's all right. I'll bring it next week when it's totally unrelated. Yeah, yeah would have been fun. I meant to bring the yearbook today. That's all right.

I'll bring it next week when it's totally unrelated. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll have moved on by then, but yes. Yeah. Well, I don't even know how to get into this. What makes a good dad and a bad dad, do you think? Well, I think we know the bad dad, but. Well, I think it could be more nuanced.

And I don't know. I mean, who knows how I'll end up being. But I think- What would you rate yourself right now? I think I'm a good dad. I mean, I think I spend a little too much time on my phone. But other than that, I think I'm a good dad. You're stepping on my- I mean, I give myself a B minus because I'm addicted to my phone.

And I should just be out there playing my daughter, not thinking. I'm always looking at my phone. Well, I'll play. I'll defend both of y'all since you're too humble to defend yourselves. First of all, the fact that you're even aware or thinking about this means you're a great dad. Second of all, both of you have careers where you need to be on your phone at least a little bit.

It's not like you're living on a self-sustainable farm and not having to interact with the world dusty you're managing that's true a huge comedy career at the moment brian you're doing the same thing so both of you need to be on your phone and i'd appreciate it if you get off your backs a little bit well thank you and just and just thank you and just accept that the two of your great fathers wow is that okay that's a clip okay i wrote that at 114. I will tell you that this week on Sunday when I landed, I deleted just off my homepage. I deleted my apps for the week just to kind of like, but of course I found back way to get back in there. They take two seconds to download. But I did delete them just to try to like, just do less time this week.

I don't need to. It's like, I do have a social media team to post for me, but it's still like I'm getting emails and I have things that I have to check and I have things that I have to do. So you are right. I do need to be on my phone. And the phone is designed to draw you in. So I get on there to do my business but then i'm like well let's check this and then let's check this and then somebody comments something and i go i gotta get

in there where's the kid yeah have you seen the movie crazy heart with uh jeff bridges yeah i have yeah it's a great movie i think but there's his addiction is alcohol, and he's at the mall or something with his girlfriend's son, and they stop off for a drink, and he looks away for a second, and the kid's gone. That would be me, something addicted to my phone. Oh, yeah. But we're in a business, not to get off topic, but our business is ourself. So it's hard not to, kind of like you said, but also we can be very selfish and self-absorbed by the nature of our business when it is ourself. I get that. Yeah, for sure.

And I notice it more with, do you agree? Yeah. I notice it just more with my child because I should be more focused on her, but I'm thinking about how many likes did this post get or just something ridiculous. Well, but should you be the ceo of a soup kitchen like what's the you know i mean well that is not every job is intrinsically good but you two are doing is you have a job that uh you know whatever job you do it enables you to uh take care of your family and then you know like a parking be charitable i had a security guard an old man in bismarck old man security guard told me that his second oldest son barely knew him growing up because he had to work such long hours at this job he had.

And that his son was asleep when he left to go to work. And his son was asleep when he got home at night. Wow. And it's like, so I get to spend a lot of time at home and I'm very thankful for that. Yeah. Why didn't the kid just stay up a little later? I don't know. Kid.

Yeah. I don't know about the kid. The kid should have, why was he asleep when he's home but it's like but yeah i mean i think um i think uh positive uh reinforcement is big i think um i think creating a good like family vibe that's what i try to do where i'm like building up my kids i don't want to make everything so easy for them all the time, but I want to build them up. I want to support the things that they do. I think my dad was a good dad, but I use things that I didn't like that my dad did to go, all right, I want to do it a different way. I'm sure my kid will grow up and be like,

I didn't like my dad do this. I didn't like that my dad did this, but I'd like to minimize those as much as possible and build up and support my kid. If my kid is like, because I always felt like this, my dad was pretty athletic and I think my dad wanted a more like athletic son, but I was more like an artsy guy. So I always felt like that my son is probably, I'm like, I want him to be into artsy things and he's probably going to be very athletic. But right. So I'm like, so I want to support him in whatever it is that he wants to do. Sure. You let him play football? I don't know. I probably try to talk him out of football just for the health risk, but I think I would let him play little league and stuff like that.

I don't want him to. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Any sports. I think you're specifically about football. Yeah, just because the injuries. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, it'd be worse. I mean, maybe by the time he's even old enough to do it, it doesn't exist in that way. It will be radically different by the time your son's old enough. I remember i was six i wanted to play and my parents even then when was that that was 26 years ago yeah my parents were like i don't know it feels a little young so they waited till i was seven then i played

full pad football and then it was just a lifetime of injuries after then yeah i think i'll try to get him into baseball or soccer, something like that that's still very athletic but not so head injury oriented. I'm going to read you a quote by Mark Twain that I like about his father. When I was a boy at 14,

my father was so ignorant, I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to the B-21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. Yeah. It's funny how the older you get, the more you realize your parents know what's going on. Yeah. That's a great quote.

Mark Twain was good, huh? Yeah. First ever stand-up comedian. I feel like I was like, up until I was a teenager, my dad knew everything. And then my teenage years, he didn't know anything. And then in my 20s, I felt like my dad, I was like, oh, my dad was right about a lot of stuff. And in my 30s, I was back to thinking my dad was an idiot. That's funny.

But now- Took a turn. Yeah. Now in my 40s though, I'm back. I'm not always happy with the things my dad says, and I'm not always happy with the things my dad says and I'm not always happy with the things my dad does, but I am smart enough to realize that my dad knows a lot and he may not be the best teacher and the best at communicating what he knows, but he knows a lot of stuff. Sure. And he's like, he's usually right. Even when I'm dead set on that he's right. He's not always

right. But when I'm dead set that he's wrong's right. He's not always right. But when I'm dead set that he's wrong about something, I might. But you respect his point of view. Yeah. Right. And you have the perspective now to go, even if he wasn't exactly right, you know, he had lived more of a life than I had at that point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we got into a huge fight not long ago, but I still have a lot of respect for my dad. About a YouTube comedy left? I get my fire from my dad. I mean, my dad is quick to fly off the handle and we're both like that especially with each other. Do you think television has changed the perception of dads? Yeah, for sure.

Either good or bad? I think in a bad way. And I got into a bit of a discussion with a friend of mine. She saw some clip I shared about how dads are being portrayed, and I think negatively. And she was saying that, you know, I'm a feminist now. Welcome to being a feminist. Because she was saying that the TV shows were portraying how dads were. And so now you're seeing how men are. And that's where I disagreed with her. I'm like, no, I believe that men are being portrayed in this way. And that is pushing more men to be like that, rather than looking at these guys and going, this is how we're seeing guys be. So we're going to write a TV show about how these guys are. When I think it's more like we're going to write a loser character. And then I think it's

influencing more people to be kind of like that. And I don't think they know that they're being losers, but you look at a Peter Griffin, a Homer Simpson, an Al Bundy, and they're like just kind of these, you know, not Al Bundy, I guess, but they're just kind of like these alcoholic dudes that work all day and say mean things to their wives all the time. That's true. I don't think that's how most men are. Right. Yeah. They're also not animated. Right.

Yeah. The question is, is it a reflection of society or are they trying to influence society see i think they're trying to influence society i mean there could be an argument to be made for both and i'm not and i'm not saying i'm not a feminist in some way i mean i i do support uh women but i never in the great breaking news but podcast today. I know, but I never give, I would never give myself the feminist label. Sure, sure. I wouldn't either. But I'm like, but I'm like, yeah, of course.

I mean, I was raised by women and, you know, I said, I got a daughter, I got a wife. Yeah, yeah. I'm a big supporter of women. Right, right. You love women. Yeah. Tom Papa has a very funny joke about how when he was a kid, everyone was scared to death of dad. Don't talk to dad.

Don't, you know, whatever. Just don't even make eye contact. And now his kids are so unafraid of him. They'll come into his bedroom when he's still asleep and lift his eyelids to say, are you up? Oh, yeah. It's very funny because it has changed. And Jim Gaffigan has a joke about his dad would never even take the time to turn around his chair to see what was going on behind him. Really?

He'd just be like, what's going on back there? That is old school dads like that. Yeah. It's probably good that some of that's getting phased out, right? Yeah. Well, I've talked about it with family, and it's like this all gets pretty dark, but we would think about how we are, like I would talk to my sister and me and my sister have different dads. And we would talk about how we are with

our kids versus how our dads were with us. And then you take it a step further and what you know, and not my dad, I don't really actually know anything about his dad. He died in 1966, his dad. He died in 1966. But just some dads we know, we go, well, they're like my sister's dad and then how his dad actually treated him. And it's way worse. So it's like each generation, everybody's getting a little nicer and a little better. So I don't know what was going on back in the day, but these dads were not nice. Right. Two or three generations ago. Sure. For all I know about my granddad, he was, but he died in 1966.

I have no idea. Yeah, it's just a different world. Yeah. I mean, I've seen you. You are a great dad. Nate's a great dad very much, and I know you will be. Thank you. You have all the right qualities.

I assume. Maybe you go crazy. I don't know. You shouldn't see me at home right qualities. I assume maybe you go crazy. I don't know. You shouldn't see me at home, Brian. I'm a maniac. Well, that's true. I also have divorced parents, and I wonder sometimes how differently my life would have been if my parents had just stayed married to each other. Right. Because when you have divorced parents, you get your parents say negative things about the other

parent, where I think if they're married, they should at least be just supporting each other. Like a lot of these country songs that I have on a list that I won't be able to play any of them, but if you listen to them, you'll hear that theme where the dad will be like, call your mom, you know, but it's like my parents, it was more like, don't call your mom, come over here. You know what I mean? So I would hear my mom say bad things about my dad and my dad say bad things about my mom where it's like it does alter your perspective. That's so interesting. In my house, the capital offense was to disrespect mom in any way.

Yeah. That was the worst thing you could do. Right. Yeah. And you would do that out of respect for your mom but also out of fear of your dad yeah that oh man my if you rolled your eyes at my mom or something that was like that was it yeah you were done for a while yeah i get to a degree why in sitcoms the dad is often the doofus yeah the dad is traditionally the most powerful person in the house so it's it's you punch up right you're playing against

the norm and it would be great to have a sitcom where just the wife's just an idiot and then the husband's like a genius and it's just like i love my dumb wife over here is that what i love lucy was like yeah she was kind of the one that always get into hijinks okay but she wasn't like a moron in the show was he no but she would get into it is a different feel um if the show is the whole family making fun of mom yeah it is a different feel feel that's why when you see shows like like 30 rock where tina fey is kind of the one to me that's an advancement for women when they can be the one that's yeah the punchline so to speak. Like in Married with Children, it was like always like Al kind of making fun of the way Peggy looked.

I'm like, Peggy was hot. I mean, I'm like, what are we talking about here? All right, I want to ask you about some of these movie dads, if they're good or bad. Is that cool? Yeah, of course. Clark Griswold. Bad, bad dad bad bad dad really see i would say good he was trying to his family have memorable vacations i think it was all about him it was always about

him okay that's interesting he was very selfish i like both i like both of these i love the movie especially christmas vacation one of my, but it's all about him the whole time. Everything's about him. All right. That's an interesting point. Um, Atticus Fitch.

He's a great, he's a great dad. I think he's a great dad, yeah. I don't know the movie. He's a better lawyer than a dad. He was at work all the time,

you know, working on his trials, just spending time with his kids. Shut up. I don't know the movie that well. I haven't seen it

in a long time. That's true. Yeah, it started as a movie, right? movie that well. I haven't seen it in a long time. That's true. Yeah, it started as a movie, right? I mean, it's like the most famous book of all time. Yeah. To Kill a Mockingbird? Yeah, but I watched the movie. Yeah.

What movie? To Kill a Mockingbird. Okay, the one from like the 40s? Yeah, it had- Gregory Peck? Yeah. I think it had- Yeah, Gregory Peck.

Boo Radley was a famous act. Robert Duvall or something. He played him in that movie. Very young. Was that right? I think so. I don't know. Somebody like that.

Let's look it up. I thought Boo Radley was a girl. No. Boo Radley is the weird guy that lives on their street. I think it was Robert Duvall. Robert Duvall. Scouts the girl. How about that? I didn't know that.

He's not looking good these days. He's very old. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, that. Yeah. He's not looking good these days. He's very old. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, Rob. Yeah. He's 93. Come on, man. It's movies from the 60s, too. I apologize. Alright. Aaron Sorkin wrote a... There's a play on Broadway, To Kill Mockbird, written by Aaron Sorkin,

who wrote A Few Good Men, so you know he's good at courtroom stuff. Yeah, A Few good men is very good all right uh liam neeson's character in taken uh terrible dad but it it is uh why well because uh well you gotta go to taken too to really understand how ridiculous like they go to a foreign country and he leaves her alone in a hotel room. It's like, well, let's stick with the first one. The one that most people know. I mean, I think, you know, he's like this action guy who goes and rescues her.

So obviously that's very good, but. He's also the one that really encouraged her to be more careful. And the mom was the one like, come on. The mom was a mess. That's true. The mom was going behind the dad's back and letting her do stuff. That's true. Yeah.

Yeah, I would say he's a good dad. All right, I'll give it to him. I'll give him good dad. And he did kill about 50 people in that movie. Yeah, he's a violent murderer. To get his daughter back. And there's one thing I know about morals and ethics. It's that the ends justify the means.

Yes. All right, Robin Williams' character in Miss Doubtfire. To spend more time with his children, he dresses up as a woman. I think good dad. Yeah. I give him good dad. Yeah. Even though they're probably scarred for life when they find out that the nanny was their dad.

Yeah, but those kids were already going to be scarred for life. They were already screwed up. It's an impossible situation to begin with. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to give him good dad. Yeah, but those kids were already going to be scarred for life. They were already screwed up. It's an impossible situation to begin with. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to give them good data. We're judging a lot. This is an interesting moral question.

Are we judging these guys on their intent, or are we judging them on what they actually do? What they actually do. Okay. And intent doesn't matter at all to you? I don't think so. Okay. Darth Vader. I say good.

Wait, let me he wanted his son to go in the family business yeah to rule the galaxy together father son company and then he ends up saving him in the end

so how is he not a good guy I'll give you that I'd not seen it enough but I'll give you that I didn't know he saved him at the end

but yeah I mean I I saw him as a kid and I to be honest with you I can't sit through him. I've tried to watch him as an adult, and I just, I'm not into it. But I'm going to give you good dad on it. Good dad, bad guy.

Bad guy, but good dad. You could argue like the godfather is a good dad, bad guy. I don't know. He's working on the day of his daughter's wedding. I don't know. He seems a little bit of a workaholic, I say. I'll do a couple more here. Bruce Willis' character in Armageddon.

You guys remember that movie? I don't know if I'm familiar enough with it. I think I'm not as familiar, but I think good dad. He goes to I mean. He goes to an asteroid that's going to destroy Earth. Yeah, I mean, he's got a hard job anyway. He's already working on an oil rig, which is a very hard job. So it's like the guy's going to be rough around the edges.

And then he's been given the option to go save the world. And he sacrifices himself to make sure that it happens. I think good dad. Because if he doesn't do it, then his daughter dies. Along with everyone else. He's got a lot on his plate. But he left her with Ben Affleck. There's also an argument to be had.

If we're all about to die, what is really even the point? Just let it happen. You know what I mean? What difference does it make? If the whole world's about to be destroyed, it's like, what does it matter? There's no one to mourn the deaths. Wow. That's a good point. I'll do one more.

I saw this movie this weekend. Boys in the Hood. You know what? I've never seen Boys in the Hood. It's been a while since I've seen it. Who's the dad? Lawrence Fishburne. His name's Furious Stiles.

And Kubrick and Junior's character. I love Lawrence Fishburne. Yeah, he's so good. And he teaches him how to be a man and how to overcome the violence going on in South Central and all that. So it's hard to argue he's not a good dad. Sure. I think I like Lawrence Fishburne in every movie I've ever seen him in. I like his character, except for, I think, Kings of New York with Christopher Walken.

He plays kind of a young gangster. I don't like him so much in that one. A psychotic drug lord leaves prison, bent on sharing his profits with the poor but finds that the streets are tougher than when he left and there's no way of washing the blood from his dirty money yeah that's a nice tag it's a good movie yeah i mean i had some more but give us one more um did you ever see the movie life is beautiful no do you know that movie? No. I don't know it either. It's a- 1997 film. He won Best Actor. It's very dark, but it's a movie about a guy in the Holocaust, and he convinces his son, who's also in the Holocaust, that this is all just a big game that's being played.

So his young son never understands what's really going on. He just tricks him into thinking, this is all fun and whatever. Oh, my gosh. game that's being played so his young son never understands what's really going on he just like tricks him into thinking this is all fun and whatever gosh so it's very dark but in a way he's the ultimate good dad i think so too you're hopefully saving your son some psychological trauma wow i can't it's rated the number 26 movie of all time on imdb so just in front of where uh our boy thinks shawshank should be top 30 uh that's awesome i'll have to watch that sounds like a great movie yeah i think it's uh in italian oh never mind but uh i mean i think it has subtitles yeah i won three oscars how about it yeah and i don't know you know with, I don't know if we're allowed to talk about what

things cost and whatnot, but it's like, you know, if something is sometimes a little pricier, people don't want to get it because they're like, well, that's out of what I normally spend. But sometimes you gotta spend a little more to get some good quality stuff. It's not about a brand. It is about the way you feel wearing it. I bought some cotton boxer shorts unrelated to, you know, Viore. And they cost more than just going to Target and picking up a pack of underwear. But they changed the game. They feel good. It's the game. They feel good.

It's organic cotton. It feels good. Right, right. I love it. Yeah, underwear is nice. Yeah. Let's get to some songs about dads. This is what I got.

I put together a list of 15 songs that I like. And we don't have to spend any amount of time on them, but I'm going to try to rank them in the order. And I've been listening to them today and in the car, and I was tearing up several times. Okay. So I'm going to start with the first one. The first one, I'm only ranking number 15 because I don't think it's exclusively about dads. It's parenting.

But I'm going, Trace Adkins, you're going to miss this. You're going gonna miss this you're gonna miss it it's like when you have a kid i never necessarily cared for the song i like trace adkins i've hung out with trace adkins i like this guy but i never really cared about this song but now that i have kids it makes me tear up every time uh then i'm gonna to go. I got two George Strait songs. So I'm going to go. The next one is a George Strait. This is number 14.

Now I'm ranking them. This is Love Without End, Amen. I don't know that one. It's a love without end, amen. I don't know. That's a great one. Really good. One thing I've learned about this podcast is I will not be able to recognize these songs from the two of you singing.

Yeah, I had that on my list too. Okay. I think you would know it if you heard it. How many do you have on your list? Just like six or seven. Okay. I did top 35. Okay.

All right. Here's another one. Now, this is one I heard from you. I'm going to give it number 13 only because I think it's a great song, but I think she's painted too perfect of a picture and there's no conflict. I like a little conflict with it, but it's Ashley McBride, Bible and a 44. Oh man, that's a great song. It's a great song. It really is a good dad song, But I think she's just painting a perfect picture of a dad. And there's no conflict, really. But I like it.

Well, it's okay to romanticize your parents every now and then. It is. But it's really good. Here's number 12. This is a guy I like. He only had like one hit. And I never knew about this song. But I was listening to it.

And I'm like, this hits me in a way. Bucky Covington, A Father's the only way he knew how it's very good it's a long title yeah yeah it's in a lot of that's in parentheses uh okay next one uh just the two of us will smith well these are countries oh country okay okay, one of them could probably not be considered country. I'm going number 12, Gary Allen, Tough Little Boys. Tough Little Boys. Do you know him, boys? No.

That's a good one. That's a tearjerker if you're a parent. No. Gary Allen's going to be at Bridgestone Arena. He is, and I'm going to be opening for him in Alabama. Are you really? Yeah. When is that?

That's coming up. July? July. Wow. Yeah, Bridgestone Arena. That you really? Yeah. When is that? That's coming up July. July. Wow. Yeah, Bridgestone Arena. That's awesome, man. Yeah, it'll be my third time performing at Bridgestone Arena. I did a Charlie Daniels volunteer jam and then I did the show with you guys

and Nate. I actually performed for the Preds there too, so it'll be my fourth time doing a show at that thing. Alright, let's go number 12, I guess. I'm going to go Keep It Between the Lines, Ricky Van Shelton. Oh, I know that song.

That's a good one. I'm going to go number 11, Drive for Daddy Gene by Alan Jackson. I have that one. What is that? What is it about? He said, a piece of my childhood would never be forgotten. It was just an old plywood boat. 75 Johnson, electric choke. A young boy, two hands on the wheel.

You know that? So is it about a car? It's really about, he talks about the boat, but it's about his relationship with his dad. Through the boat. Yeah. Okay. Which then becomes his relationship with his daughter through a truck. It's a fun theme of country music is the singing about very specific concrete items instead of abstract ideas.

Well, Dusty has a joke. I'm sorry to interrupt. Dusty has a joke about. It's okay. I was on the verge of something really profound. Go yeah i'm sorry that's okay though it's over all right uh let's go i was kidding okay the joke about what about a good country song like going to the lake he's like i've never been to the lake but you hear a good song you're like oh i've done that yeah absolutely all right here we go number 10 10, The Best Day by George Stray. Oh, The Best Day by Taylor Swift is a good one too.

It's about her mom. This could be the best day of my life. I've been dreaming day and night about the fun we'll have. All right. Number nine. I'm going to go number nine. This is the one that might not be a country song, but it's very good, and it's definitely a dad song. It could be a country song if they just add different instruments.

I'm going Patches by Clarence Carter. Never heard. Patches, I'm depending on you, son. I don't know that one. Oh, gosh. That's such a good one. All right. All right.

Patches. Who's Clarence Carter? The saxophone player for Bruce Springsteen. He sang the songs. Well, I don't want to even say that. It's a famous song. I know what you're talking about. Yeah, this is a good one. All right, here we go. I feel like I'm off on my numbers. No, it's the one at the top right there. Let's go. Number eight, Daddy's Hands by Holly Dunn. That's a very good one.

Let's go. I feel like I have too many songs now. That's okay. We're almost done with this list. One, two, three, four, five, six. All right. So let's say we're down to five now. Okay.

Six. Okay. Let's say we're at top five. We're down to five now. Okay. Six. Okay. Let's say we're at top five. We're at number five now. Number five is Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind by Confederate Railroad. I think I know that song. I'm going to say this is six because I know the one I forgot. Okay. Okay.

Number five is The Walk by Sawyer Brown. Oh, that's a great forgot. Okay. Okay. Number five is The Walk by Sawyer Brown. Oh, that's a great song. Wow. Okay. Number four is Where Corn Don't Grow by Travis Tritt. Yeah. That's a really great one. Now, Waylon Jennings had a version of it, but Travis Tritt's the best.

Okay. I feel like I've only got two songs left. Yeah. So, number two, best songs about dads. Number two, Reba McEntire, the greatest man I never knew.

Not only do I think that's the number two overall song about dad, I think, oh, I do have three. How long is this list? It was 15 songs. Now we're up to 25. All right. But I still think this is number two, but I realized what my number three was.

Okay. But I think this is the number two dad song, but also the best Reba McEntire song. She has a huge list, and I don't even think this ever gets considered one of her best songs, but I think it is so good. Number three is Paul Overstreet Seeing My Father In Me. Really great song. Really great song.

Okay. Paul Overstreet. Yeah. I noticed I walk the way he walks. I noticed I talk the way he talks. I noticed I talk the way he talk. It's so good. And then number one, best song about dance. Can I guess?

Yes. Something by, nevermind. Go. Conway Twitty, That's My Job. That's my job. That's what I do. I relate to that song so much in a lot of ways. I don't know if Conway Twitty wrote it. I don't even know if he wrote songs. But it seems like it could be very well about his life. But also I can notice a lot of parallels in my own life. My dad has not died, but this song, just a lot of it seems to, a lot of these songs line up for me in a way. Where Corn Don't Grow by Travis Tritt lines up for me in a lot of ways. Yeah.

But That's My Job by Conway Twitty, number one, best song about dads. That's awesome. What was your list? Is there a lot of overlap with your list, Brian? I think, well, The Walk I forgot about. I would probably put that on my list. The Walk. I don't know how it didn't end up on my list, but I remember it.

The Walk is so good. The Walk to remember? No. Because I took this walk. What about Mandy Moore? Because I took this same walk with my old man, boy. I've been in your shoes. And he's singing to his kid.

He's singing to his kid and to his dad, I think. I mean, it's, yeah. My number one dad song is I'm Already There. Okay. Is that true?

No. Okay. It's a song Dusty has a bit about. Very funny bit. That's in your Netflix special, right? It is, yeah.

No, I didn't have it. Very good Netflix special called Working Man. It's available now for streaming. By Dusty Slay, hilarious comedian. Yeah. Well, I don't know if this is my list. I didn't rank them, but By Dusty Slay. Hilarious comedian. Well, I don't know if this is my list.

I didn't rank them, but it's a well-known song about a dad, a boy named Sue. Yeah, that's a great song. That's a good song, but I don't, yeah, I guess I went more in emotion. Yeah, yeah. All right, so the rest of these are emotional. He's not a very good dad in that song. No, no. I did have Alan Jackson Drive. That was one of my dad's favorite songs. My dad's passed away. I remember him listening to that song. It's a great song. No, no. I did have Alan Jackson Drive. That was one of my dad's favorite songs. My dad's

passed away. I remember him listening to that song. It's a great song. So now when I hear it, I think of him. It's a great song. And I do, you know, my friend and our friend, Travis Wolf, convinced me that that was a dad song. I had put it more of a song about trucks and about driving, but he's like, it's about a relationship with his dad and i and i do agree um rest of well one of these is still country the other ones aren't merle haggard if we make it through december okay i guess i've never really listened to that song that deeply it's a great song it's about he just got laid off and Christmas is coming up and it is tough for the family because he doesn't know what he's going to do to make ends meet. Now, there is a line in the song where he says, come summertime, we'll move to a warmer city.

And I'm like, well, yeah, every city is warmer in summertime. Yeah, why don't you go ahead and do it now? Yeah, exactly. He says, maybe California. I'm like, well, now would be a good time to go to California in December. That's also a state. Or maybe... Well, you're right. Can you look up the lyrics?

I may have that wrong. Yeah, what's the name of the song? If We Make It Through December. Yeah. But that's just a funny line. I was like, well, yeah, you should go ahead and try to... Does Phoebe Bridgers cover this song? We're going on the Alan Jackson version, right? Well, I'm going with the Merle Haggard version.

Merle Haggard wrote the lyrics. Okay. A warmer town, one summertime, maybe even California. Yeah. Yeah. All right. It's a great song. Yeah.

Warmer town. You know, the town of California. My favorite small town. Yeah. These aren't country, but Mike and the Mechanics, The Living Years. You guys know that song? No. You know what I mean?

No. It's just basically about saying things to your dad while they're still alive because there's stuff you wish he could have said now that he's gone. Sure. And a little bit about, like we said earlier, once you get older, you realize some of the stuff you disagreed with your dad about. Right. You now see in his eyes. So it's a great great song it's a mark twain quote yeah um and then these last two

are from the perspective of the dad uh lullaby by billy joel that's a hot song i never heard it good night my angel yeah it's like a lullaby. And he basically sings to his daughter. Goodnight, my angel. I feel like you're mocking it. No, I mean, that did sound like I was mocking it. But my voice is just a little gone right now. I'm just trying to. Y'all been singing all episode. I'm just trying to hop in.

All right. Anyway. What's the last one? Well, I mean, have we done mocking lullaby? Yeah, I'm sorry sorry i wasn't mocking i said it was a hot song i know i'm the guy can't sing don't make fun of him um i just happen to hear a song i recognize yeah yeah yeah i think you'll know this one do you recognize any of those country songs i've never heard of half the artists you said but yeah yeah i'm a huge

paul overstreet fan i do know paul overstreet. But at the end of the lullaby, he says, well, now I'm kind of thrown off. He says, all right, guys. Patches, I'm depending. Patches, I'm depending. I can see him with a shovel in his hand. It's a great song. All right, so number one. Well, anyway, Stevie Wonder.

It's not number one because I didn't rank them, but Stevie Wonder, Isn't She Lovely. Yeah. That's a song to his daughter. See, I guess you kind of took it more of the dad looking at the kids. I was going more for the kids about the dads. Yeah. I mean, I did a little both, but. And that's okay.

You're free to do it as a dad of a daughter is it too lovely is uh i mean it's just such a sweet song yeah talking about how god well that's what tough little boys and gary allen is about too he's basically singing to his daughter and he's saying i was a tough little kid but i grew up to be a dad and he says when tough little boys grow up to be dads, they turn into be babies again. Yeah. That was a great lyric. Yeah.

Isn't She Lovely is probably, a lot of people don't know that's a song singing to the daughter. Just the way the song is. Yeah, you think it's about a romantic song. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You gonna sing that? Yeah. Isn't she lovely.

Something like that, right? I know it a little bit. Yeah, yeah. yeah isn't she love something like that right i know it a little bit yeah yeah you know what another one that i've been uh that i listened to is um and i've heard it a few times lately it's the uh uh what is he goes uh oh gosh um with arms wide open creed no it's an older song and he's singing it to his son and it's uh dang even though we ain't got money i'm so in love with you honey like originally it was to a woman i think and then he had his son and then his the last verse was written about his son so i think that's about his son the last verse was i think so oh yeah i

love that song even though we ain't got money I'm so in love with the honey. Why am I drawing a blank on who sings that? You know that song? No. Brian's Song, I think is what it's called. Brian's Song. Great movie. No, it's not called that.

Look up Even Though We Ain't Got Money song. Okay. Should I give my one? I have one that I'm sorry about. Go ahead. I like one of my favorite songs ever, Father and Son by Cat Stevens. Danny's song is what it's called. Okay.

Father and Son by Cat Stevens. Yeah, Cat Stevens. Can you sing a little bit of it? How can I try to explain when I do he turns away? You see, Mike, you can sing pretty good. But it's really cool. It's a conversation between father and son. And this song was released in, God, the 70s? Yeah, 1970.

Just recently, he recut this where he sings the father's part now. So there's a version where it's him singing it to himself 50 years ago. And it's just awesome. It's just a great song. Yeah. Anyway. is he the one that sings uh cats in the cradle and the sea no no commonly that's a common misconception but that's a good dad song yeah it is a good dad song it's not a good dad song no but it is like in the moment in the in the end the dad's realization my child my son was just like me

he is like it's like oh that hits you yeah yeah it's tough anyway i was gonna read these last slides but now i'm getting choked up reading them someday this is from lullaby it kind of seems someday we'll all be gone but lullabies go on and on they never never die. That's how you and I will be. It's very sweet. Yeah, that's great. Billy Joel's good. Yeah. He's a talented guy. Awesome.

All right. That's probably it. We ended on an emotional note. I think this was great. I mean, listen, there's nothing I like better than putting together a list of songs and ranking them. Okay? That's all I want to do. You did mention one dad, or you didn't mention him,

but you mentioned Will Smith. It made me think about Uncle Phil and how he was such a great dad. Right. Father figure. It's one of the best episodes in sitcom history is that one. I keep seeing that on TikTok. How come you don't want me, man? Yeah, it's such a good scene.

Him and Uncle Phil. Yeah. Such good acting in that, too. Yeah. Yeah, it's so good. Uncle Phil, also the episode where acting in that, too. Yeah. Yeah. It's so good. Uncle Phil. Also, the episode where he hustles the pool table, the pool game to get the money back for Will.

Yeah. He goes, Jeffrey, hand me Lucille. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's awesome. Yeah. Uncle Phil was great.

Yeah. You know, there was a good scene, Family Matters, where they work on this car together, him and his son. He's turned 16, and they bought him a car, and they work on this car. And then finally, the son, I forget his name, he's driving off, and he's like, I'm about to- Eddie Winslow? Eddie Winslow, yeah. Carl's a little bit ahead of the car. And then Eddie's like, I'm about to go pick up my best friend, and we're going to go for a ride.

And then he pulls up and stops right next to his dad and lets his dad in. It's a great emotional moment. Wow. Where he's like, my dad's my best friend. Wow. Yeah, it was a good one. That's good stuff. Yeah, these are good.

Family matters. See, these were shows where the dads weren't made to be stupid. Like Carl, they made fun of him a little bit, but he was still like, you know, he was still a respected family man. Sure. I feel like that maybe switched like in the 80s, there's obviously

the Cosby show. Mm-hmm. He was made fun of some, but the dad was still smarter than the kids. Right. Generally speaking. Yeah.

It was a doctor in the show. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And in the life lessons, it wasn't just the kids always teaching the parents some life lesson. Yeah. You know what I mean? Oh, it was the parents teaching the kids. Yeah. And then the life lessons, it wasn't just the kids always teaching the parents some life lesson. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Oh, it was the parents teaching the kids. Yeah. And then it kind of- I brought you into this world. I'll take you out. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And then it kind of switched a little bit somewhere along the way. Yeah. Yeah. A lot's changed about that show. Like what? All right. Anything else? No. Just we we love you all i don't think so i feel good and i um i like being a dad yeah i'm a big fan of it yeah and um it any advice

any advice for aaron uh no i don't think so but it it changed my life. Even though the whole time my wife was pregnant, it's like, I know this is real. I know this is happening. We're planning for it. I'm excited. But when my baby came and I saw her pop out, I didn't stand there. I stood over my wife's shoulder, but I still saw her come out. And then she was right there. And I was like, wow, there is a human being inside of her.

It changed my life. Yeah. It's beautiful. Yeah. You too, Brian. Not that big of a deal for you. Nah. Not really.

I wasn't there. I was doing a gig in Jackson, Mississippi. Poughkeepsie, New York. That's another dad song. John, the Florida guy. I love this guy. John Anderson? John Anderson.

He says, I wish I could have been there. My baby Kane was born. It was the biggest day of my life. Kate, I think. Standing there, little rose in her hair and the loving day of my life kate i think standing there little rose in her hair in the loving arm of my wife wow but i was on the road somewhere a thousand miles away i don't know if i could listen to that right now on the road i could have been there that sounds depressing wish i could have been there for that well where can people find you on the road this weekend dusty

this weekend i'm gonna be in Grand Rapids, Michigan. What a town. Dr. Grinz. Wow. I've been on a real theater run. This next two months, I'm going to take a little time off, but I'm also doing mainly clubs. Right. So I'll be doing a bunch of clubs in Grand Rapids.

I got five shows. Two are sold out. So let's go ahead and get the others sold out. I think I sold out them all last year. So let's not regress. I know it's the summertime in michigan last time i was there it was the dead of winter and that's where everybody goes inside to watch comedy but let's bring it on in oh i want to say this last thing yes when i was in north dakota i would go do my show my show would be over it will be 9 30 at night wow i would come outside

still daylight yeah it's crazy what's going on around here what's that all about i don't know yeah daylight savings dude we gotta figure it out they're really saving it up there but yeah grand rapids this weekend's gonna be really great pumped about it um july 3rd i am gonna be at the new lab at zany's awesome i've yet to even see it but i'm doing a brian bates and friends show there on july 3rd oh i want to do it you do yeah i think so if i'm a town all right yeah i'd like to do it dusty slay is going to be on it must be nice to get on shows like that you want to do it i'll do it i'll be here yeah all right yeah look at that all right aaron and dusty on it i Aaron? I'll do it. I'll be here, yeah. All right. Yeah, look at that.

All right. Aaron and Dusty on it. I got some other friends on it. You got to go check out the Shrine to Dusty Slay set up in the lab. Yeah. I mean, they're really milking this he's from here thing. It is hot, though. I was very excited to see it.

It is very nice what they did. I haven't seen it yet. It's very nice what they did there. Yeah. If you walk in there, it looks like Nate and Dusty have died. Jeez, guys, they're still here. Are you the only comic

in America who's on two walls? I don't know. Maybe. But, maybe. Zany's in the Grove. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah. Yeah. So July 3rd. That'll be awesome. Come to the lab at Zany's. The room is awesome. If you're in Nashville, go check out the lab.

It's a hundred seater, so tickets go fast. And it gets, it's fun in there. It is fun in there. This weekend, Aaron Weber speaking here. I'm going to be in Sunnyvale, California, the Bay Area at a club called Rooster Tee Feathers. I've never been. I've heard good things about it. I'm super excited.

Come on out and see me this weekend at Rooster T. Feathers Comedy Club, Sunnyvale, California, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. One more show I want to plug. July 13th, Lake Forest, Illinois. I think it's between Milwaukee and Chicago. I'm doing the Gorton Event Center. I'm doing a theater gig out there

between Milwaukee and Chicago. So if you're in the Chicago area, come on out July 13th. Thank you that's awesome yeah thanks man all right what yeah i'm not gonna i just ask him between chicago and milwaukee that is like that's the south side of chicago no it'd be the milwaukee's north of chicago oh okay all right okay good i don't know my i don't know my geography but i was like, I also don't know for sure that's where it is, but it's up there.

Okay. Lake Forest, Illinois. You find it. Yeah. Make them work. You look it up. You find where the tickets are. You come, you sit down.

I guess that makes sense. For some reason, I thought Chicago was above Milwaukee, but I guess that does. I have passed through Chicago every time to go to Milwaukee. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm an idiot. Yeah. You want to wrap it up? Yeah, I do want to wrap it up. Well, feel free to do it. All right. Here we go.

Listen, guys. We had a good time. Everything's great. Thank you to our sponsors, Chime Financial, Aura Frames, Delete Me, and Viore Clothing. And Nate's back next week. That's right. And I think he's back for the next few weeks. I don't think he's gone anytime soon after this weekend.

Good deal. All right. Happy Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to the two of you. Two good dads. Yeah. Thank you, Aaron. Two great dads.

Thank you, Aaron. Thank you. All right. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the Audioboom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nate Land Podcast.