The Nateland Podcast - 206: #206 Idols & Heroes feat. Steven Rogers

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

Dusty is out this week so the guys are joined by fellow comedian Steven Rogers. Nate recaps stories from their fun weekend, Brian breaks the news that he's taking swimming lessons, and Steven shares his love for Alice Cooper. Then the guys talk about some of their idols and heroes growing up and today.  Chubbies: chubbies.com/NATE Whether you’re getting dressed for your workday, a workout, or a weekend getaway, Chubbies has you covered. For a limited time, Chubbies is giving our viewers 20% off your order with our code NATE at chubbiesshorts.com. That’s code NATE at chubbiesshorts.com. Support our show and tell them we sent you! Don't blend in with the crowd—stand out with Chubbies! Gametime-  Gametime.co Take the guesswork out of buying concert tickets with Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account and use code NATE for $20 off your first purchase. Terms Apply. Download Gametime today. Last minute tickets, Lowest Price Guaranteed. Helix- Helixsleep.com/Nate Helix is offering up to 30% off  all mattress orders AND two free pillows for our listener! Go to Helixsleep.com/Nate.  With Helix, better sleep starts now. ButcherBox- Butcherbox.com/nate Sign up for ButcherBox today by going to Butcherbox.com/nate and use code NATE at checkout and enjoy your choice of bone-in chicken thighs, top sirloins, or salmon in every box for an entire year, plus get $20 off!Don't forget to Subscribe and Like to see more - https://bit.ly/NateYTSubscribe

uh hello folks and hey bear welcome to the nateland podcast brought to you by uh i don't know uh no i already did that brought you by to you by Nate Bargetzi. I'm Nate. Aaron Brian Bates. Your boy, Aaron Weber. And filling in for Dusty, a cleaned up Dusty. Yeah. Steven Rogers.

I love that every guest is just a different version of Dusty. We got the handsome Dusty. We got cleaned up Dusty. This is a cleaned up Dusty. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. You wouldn't have been out spraying pesticide long. They would have brought you into the office. Yeah.

Yeah. I would have stayed in the store. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Easily. Steven, very funny comedian. He's with me. You come out and rode with me a bunch.

You're in New York. So you were out this weekend. So, yeah. Thanks for having me. Yeah, we're glad to have you, bud. Yeah. You're in New York. So you're out this weekend. So yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah, we're glad to have you, bud. It's a fun time. This is a very fun time. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You know what Nate always says about you? For the first time, I never even met you. I think the first time you ever worked together, he said, Steven is a great hang. And he said that multiple times, including, I think, last weekend on the pod. He's never said you're funny, but you're always a great hang.

He said the best hang, actually. The best hang. The best hang. No, Stephen. So. All right. It's a big speech coming. Listen up, everyone.

The hang for comedians, the hang is so much. It's so important. The hang is a lot. Your act and being funny is like, in the grand scheme of things, you should be funny. So we're not, we wouldn't even be really in the conversation of the act. The hang is everything. And if you can't do that, then you're, I mean, it's really, I don't care how good a comic

you are, you'd be like, well, then you're not worth bringing out on the road. Yeah, I agree 100%. Yeah. Because it's only 90 minutes of a show. Yeah. And the 23 hours left in the day. I didn't do the math right, but I'm not a great math hang. But there's so much more

time, like driving, flights, airports, meals. Yeah. And that's, I mean, that's the, that's our, that's the whole job. That's the fun part too. Like that's the part that's like, you know, you come up with jokes sometimes and you do this and you're willing, you know, you go do whatever and you're like, Hey, we're going to go do this. You're like, yeah, yeah.

All right, let's go. Like, it's the best. Yeah. It's the best. We had fun this weekend. lot of fun when it did i don't know if we did anything though well st louis we did uh what did we do we didn't really go do anything crazy yeah you broke the attendance record at one of the country's most historic theaters well besides that it was a lot of meals a lot of meals like uh hangs at the table basically yeah you had 3 p.m shows saturday and sunday so that kind of that makes it hard prevents you from doing a lot during the day yeah yeah you know you wake up and you're like well i want to be getting into show mode

around noon or something so it's tough to you got a couple hours to play around with yeah yeah it was a great time yeah a lot of good comedy talk. Yes. Yeah. There would be, you know, people always talk about comedy talk, but no one likes it. And we love it so much.

It's all we do. It's all. Yeah. It's all I'm good for. I feel like at times. Yeah. Like. Yeah.

We've established that. We've made that clear right off the top. Once we get into the other stuff, I'm going to be pretty quiet. Yeah, but if you could have a... This podcast is just comedy talk. It would be like we're going out for a small audience. Because it's not going to be a big audience. Right.

People are annoyed by it. We're going to whittle it down to just. You could do it on Rogan now. I think Rogan, like, he has a comic on. I think they're just like. I get disappointed when I go to a Rogan episode and it's not even touched upon. But they are listening to the rest of the audience by not doing it. Yeah.

But I want every nugget I can get from comics talking so much. I know a guy who sat behind Kirk Herbstreet and I think Rhys Davis, the rest of the college game day crew at a restaurant. Like the back of his booth touched theirs. Yeah. And he heard them and they were just arguing about college football. The whole meal. Yeah. Well, this is just what they, that's what you want that's what you just love it you know yeah yeah yeah anytime when

someone says that thing i don't want to talk about work you're like it's kind of well in in an elected like not elected but uh in a chosen field of this stand-up or like announcers if someone's like well i don't want to talk about work you're like well then you're not you're not going to make it and you're actually kind of pointless to talk to well then it's definitely if you're talking to someone that has made it it's like well we can't even really have a conversation it's like talking to when you talk to a comic that's uh you know that kind of dabbles in it i mean you're it's like talking to and you think like oh we're about to have like real comedy talk. And then it's just like very base comedy talk.

And then you're like, this is, it's not even enjoyable. Now I don't want to talk about work. Yeah. You've made it worse. You've made it work. Now I could really bond with that guy. Yeah. Oh, Brian, come on. But there are different levels.

In all seriousness, you really can't, people can't fully experience and understand what you go through unless they really are selling out big venues. Yeah. But I don't know.

I'm just talking about, in general, talking comedy, talking shop jokes. Jokes like, this guy did this we were talking a lot about specials this weekend yeah yeah uh you know it's like that kind of stuff getting in the weeds of it yeah inside baseball man i love it i love it so much uh well we were in st louis we had a blast. We had shows were awesome.

You know, really can't thank everybody enough to come out. That was a rescheduled date from Saturday Night Live. So, it was, I mean, just really was the best weekend. And, yeah, Fox Theater is beautiful. It's awesome. Yeah, the whole nine. It was, you know. Yeah.

It was great. Saw Sonny Gray. Boy, Sonny had a great game nine. It was, you know. Yeah. It was great. Saw Sonny Gray. Boy, Sonny had a great game yesterday. Perfect through six innings. Yeah. And then came to Nate's show after. Yeah. And was recounting it pitch by pitch, basically.

Wow. That's something I've noticed these athletes. They can recall, like, details of a game. He was like, yeah, it was 2-1. I threw a slider. And then, yeah. At first, I thought you were saying he was perfectly through six and pulled himself out

to go to the show. I was like, what? He's not going to miss nature. He's on the mound. I go, Sonny, come on now. You told me you were going to be there. We'll start late. Everybody throws the perfect game, Sonny.

It was a 1 p.m. game. 7 p.m. show. So the game was over by the time he got there. We couldn't even – because then the night – yeah, we had Mike Yashimski, Kurt from the Giants. Giants, yeah. And then – because everybody played at Vandy. And then Sonny.

And so they're all buddies, but they were competing against each other thatny. And so they're all buddies but they were competing against each other that day. And so, yeah. And I mean, Aaron's a giant baseball fan so it was fun to hear because you got to hear They were talking about everything. Yeah, I was just a fly on the wall.

This is awesome. Yeah, they talk about it too. We talk about it. Fly ball on the wall. Oh, yeah. It's the kind of stuff I bring to a hang. Good times. He throws it out there, boys.

This guy is a great hang. This is it. That's what Steven does bring. And you go, it's not material. It's just that he shows up. And that's what you like. i swing i i'm i'm constantly swinging constantly swinging that's true i like it yeah baseball humor uh yeah what were you where were you at i um i did a show in my hometown of lebanon with our buddy Derek Stroop. And man, I have imposter syndrome before every show, but something about being in my hometown.

Yeah. I got there early and I'm watching people going in. And I was like, what in the world am I going to say that's going to be any different than what they could, you know what I mean? And I mean, I really almost just psyched myself out. It ended up being a great show. There were a great crowd. I really do think anybody could have got up there and gotten a few laughs.

This crowd was so good. But it was an awesome show. Derek destroyed, of course. It was in the round, right? It was in the round. Yeah. That's awesome. So the arena tour.

But you had a little experience doing shows in the round. I said, let me show you how to do this, buddy. No stage, but it was in the round. Oh, that's so fun. And then I did my first official don't tell comedy show this week. I say official because I've had plenty of don't tells unofficially. But this was an official. Have we ever talked about what don't tell comedy is?

I don't think so. It's basically, you probably can explain it better than i can but you know that uh it's going to be in your town right probably you're part of town right so like in this case it was in brentwood people know ahead of time it's shown where they buy tickets the day of the show that morning they get an email where the venue is going to be. It's usually like, in my case, it was at a barbershop. Something like that. And then they show up that night.

Secret lineup. Yep. The idea is it's like a fun, exclusive thing that's all secretive. And you're going to be in a cool venue that you've never been to. Yeah, it's never a venue that is built for what you're seeing. Right. Which is cool. And then and then yeah the lineup's always a secret and then it's always packed i've never been to a don't tell that's yeah like what is this i did one at a lingerie store once man talking about yeah my kind of place for a show

just like you know my kind of people in there. Yeah, there's a lot of fun. But they're really exploding across the country. I think that's like, you know, over 100 cities just in the U.S. They're everywhere, man. Yeah. And, but I've never done one. I mean, some comics have blown up from videos. Yeah.

From those, don't tell. Yeah. Stroop had one, right? He just had one. Yeah. He really, really well. Ralph Barbosa. Ralph Barbosa. Barbosa. Yeah. Catherine Bladford He just had one. Yeah. Do really, really well. Ralph Barbosa. Ralph Barbosa.

Yeah. Catherine Bladford. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I did one. So did I. That's okay. Steve and Aaron. Go check out Steve and Aaron. Don't tell. Yeah, we didn't blow up. Huh? We didn't blow up, but

you know, I can do the lingerie one if the book is listening. You didn't tell anybody. We had good reliable sets yes it was they're super fun you're the great you know you're the grease that keeps everything rolling that's right yeah we make sure that there's videos on the side yeah yeah uh all right we can just start comments right that right? Yeah, kind of quick into it. Leslie Kooner. I think that's it.

I think you're right. I like how you got into it. Such a fun and great show this weekend and the perfect way for my husband and I to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Thank you for rescheduling St. Louis after SNL and for adding the extra shows. Do you have to get into a different mindset to go back and

forth from stadiums to theaters? Thank you all and keep it up. Brian, you want to take this one? Sure. Yeah. Something about you, like, you know, when you go to Titans game or a play. That is true.

She didn't even say arenas. She said stadiums. Well, I'm in the back of the room for both, but at a theater, it's like you're sitting up close at a football game. It's different. Do you feel yourself wanting to spin around at a theater? No, it's funny to not hear people behind you laughing, though, after doing it so long where you're just swallowed in the laughs.

The arenas are, I mean, really just so crazy, man, because you're just surrounded by it, just laughter everywhere. It's just very fun. But a theater, I mean, theaters are, you know, that's the original. Like, that was the best thing for this specific theater. Yeah. Being Fox Theater is, like, very old. It looks beautiful.

It's a very, very special place. So to do that, yeah, we were – I don't know if you get a different mindset. It is a different thing. You know what? It's the pacing. I think I was not knowing how to stand was probably the – because I'm so used to kind of making a circle. Right.

And then now just going back to my old way. Yeah. Well, I love about the – in the round, and I've heard you say it before, is it does wake you up a little bit more because you have to – you want to make sure everyone's got a good view at some point. You're moving around. You know what? I could feel some jokes I thought I can tell that they hit harder in an arena because of the screen.

Yes. Interesting. Because of the facial expression. Like there's, yeah, there's just, and it's not that they don't hit hard in the theater, but like you just realize it's pretty interesting to see uh to go wow that joke in the arena because i was in the arena i'll time it out to the camera and so then i make the face to the camera and then that's just such a you can hear the extra where in a theater it's like you know i mean people can see your face but i farther back, I don't think they can see your face that much. Not to really get a facial expression.

So that aspect of it was, yeah, definitely pretty interesting. This joke, I'm telling where I'm bent down like that. Yeah, what's going on there? So that's one joke I tell. I wore that shirt. I didn't wear it again the second show. I liked it because you could zip it up. I want to be zipped up right now because of just my tubbo body.

Is that the sponsor? Yeah. Yeah, I got it. It is. Chubbies. Yeah, I mean, i'm right there so uh were you still doing keto i i kind of it can you turn the air yeah so fat i gotta go he's sweating yeah turn it down lauren turn it all the way down to 58. The AC up, actually. Turn it down.

Turn the temperature down, but turn the AC up. You want it to be colder? I say, can you cut it down? Cut it down. And then that's it. Okay. And then everybody does it. And it's just kind of understood in the house.

That's what it is. I think if I said that, you would get the vibe of that. You don't think it's like, was he cold? I mean, you got to be out of your mind right now i think it's about to get hotter in this room you're gonna wonder why i know but are you not of course i'm always yeah yeah yeah i'm happy you said that yeah i'm just i was just curious the way you said it uh so, yeah, that joke specifically was, that joke used to, would get a big laugh in the better, but then it got really good in the arenas because we got it good on the screen when I'm, the joke, what I'm doing in that moment. Uh, but yeah, it is interesting. It is interesting.

But yeah, I mean, dude, it was awesome. They were awesome. They were really great. You're back in the theater doing a Wired Mike. Yeah, haven't done a Wired Mike in a while. Had Greg Warren out. Greg Warren did, yeah. Dustin Nickerson, Greg Warren, Steven, Aaron, me.

Pretty great show. Really, really great. It was a good show. That show in the round I did was a Wired Mike. Wired Mike in the round I did was a wired mic. Wired mic in the round? After a few turns. Oh, yeah. I was like, I can't move. You were all bundled up.

I had to start going the other direction. You have to constantly shake it. Yeah. My last special had a wire. You got to just constantly kind of grab it and shake it so it kind of stays uh lego sunday masses look at that do you guys pick out the music that plays before your stand-up shows the music at the fox theater in st louis is great uh yeah we do uh i think uh tony uh our promoter is the one that put the he picks this together yeah yeah and i would tell

him the vibe the vibe always i want it to be just you know happy and people be like oh yeah this song's nice and yeah get everybody in a pleasant mood it's almost like wedding songs yeah just like everybody knows them everybody yeah we're not yeah no and everybody could be you know you're not mad that it's on you're like just having a good time. Yeah. I find it makes me like a little more energetic as I walk out because I was listening to the music. So it works for me as well. Yeah. Well, that's the main reason we're doing it.

I think it's Steven to get in the zone. I think the question was to Steven. It makes me finally want to be there. I misread the question. The question was to Stephen. It makes me finally want to be there. I misread the question. Stephen, do you pick out the music that plays before your stand-up show? No, I was saying what I thought you wanted to say.

Yeah. It gets me in the mood. It gets me excited. I thought the work was enough. I guess we got to fire him up. Yeah. Like, finally, the music. Steven's got a lot of demands.

You got to keep carrying the hang, you know? Want some music. There you go. Everybody at home is like, how good is this hang? I go, it's a good hang. There you go. Erica Zakzuski. That R is the one that's the problem. Yeah,ekzuski. Zach, that R is the one that's the problem.

Yeah, it's tough. Erica Zekruski. The second Z isn't easy either. Zekzuski. Erica Zekzuski. Bless you. Yeah. Yeah.

Can someone make a highlight video of Nate reading comments starting from the beginning, leading up to now? Such an improvement. Actually pretty cool to see. Educational podcast through and through. Clearly. Yeah. We are.

You have great strides. Being a better reader. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. Taylor not. I often have lucid dreams my most memorable one would have been when i dreamed jay leno and conan o'brien broke into my house are you laughing at me a little bit both both. My most memorable one would have to be when I dreamed Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien broke into my house and took my mother hostage.

Oh, my gosh. I felt very scared until I remembered I was in a dream. I quickly jumped straight in the air, traveled across the room, and kicked them both in the face to save my mom. They never stood a chance. Love the pod. Wow. That's a way more fun dream than I think the ones I'm having these days. But that's a real lucid dream.

Yeah. Like that's what those, like when P. Holmes and Barry Mono talk about, like they can do what you're, it's like a movie, you know. Jasmine Lozano. I've had a few lucid dreams. Oh. I was in school stressing out and looking for a class and looked down and saw my wedding ring.

I immediately knew I was dreaming, so I jumped in a school bus and crashed it on purpose. Oh, man. So they were in school stressing out and looking for a class and looking for a class and looked down and saw my wedding ring. I immediately knew. Oh. Yeah, I mean, that's like when you're in control of it you better really be sure you're in a dream well that's what they say you immediately go well let me go crash a school bus well that's like yeah man maybe confirm it a few different ways uh well that's what they do like they could either you could either you could jump

and see if you come down like if you you know then you're like oh i'm not this is but that's what they they have to figure out that they're in a you know in a dream yeah in the inception i think they'd have a token yeah yeah something spin it if it never go if you're not sure you're dreaming hijack a school bus drive it off a cliff yeah there's a song by alice cooper welcome to my nightmare whoa where he talks about his wife dying and uh he kills her and he thinks it's in his dream but he wakes up and he actually killed her real life my goodness his name's step. Oh, the guy did it. You're doing that

to mess with me? Why? That's the album I was named after. What? Yeah. I'm obsessed with Alice Cooper.

What? Yeah. I didn't know that. Oh, really? Everything I said was true. Yeah. Everything I said is true, but I brought it up

because he was named after the character. Yeah. You're named after your character. He was. I was named after the character. Yeah. You're named after your character. He was. I was named after the song Stephen by Alice Cooper. The guy I just referenced.

And what does Stephen do? The whole album is about a kid named Stephen who gets stuck in his own nightmare. Yeah. And it's like every song is something that's happening in the nightmare. It's like every song is something that's happening in the nightmare. And then he does have a... There's a song mentioning Crimson Dots. And he dreams that he killed someone. Then he wakes up and realizes that he did.

Oh, that he did. Yeah. So let's name our kid after him. Yeah. And then he messes with dead bodies and does some terrible, terrible things. Yeah, but it's all... The music's great. Yeah, yeah. The music's great. It's fun. Yeah. And then he messes with dead bodies and does some terrible, terrible things. Yeah, but it's all... The music's great. Yeah, yeah.

Music's great. It's fun. Yeah, it is really fun. It's actually kind of like the music where you don't... If you're not noticing... You're like, it's a pretty good time. You're like, these are great. And then you look at some of the words and you're like, oh, this is a different thing that I thought.

Is your parents into music like that yeah my well my uh dad's a big classic rock guy okay yeah and uh yeah he liked alice a lot and so and so he went with just the uh pretty common name steven his dad's name steven i don't think it's from Alice Cooper. Stephen from the Bible. It's funny. Yeah, it's funny. It's just a regular name. Yeah, I was named after the Beatles. She named John. All right.

Well, I mean, yeah. Not Walrus? Yeah. My brother's name is Pinball Wizard. Stephen from Alice Cooper. No one was going to guess that. No, no. And they never do.

Yeah, they never do. Yeah, that's crazy. So you're a big Alice Cooper. No one was going to guess that. No, no. And they never do. Yeah, they never do. Yeah, that's crazy. So you're a big Alice Cooper fan. Big Alice Cooper fan. You've been to his shows? I've seen him over 15 times. Wow. Are you the only one that looks like you?

I'm the only one that looks like me. I'm the only one in orange at the Alice Coopers. Yeah, you have to be. Have you met him? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've met him a couple times. I used to, I would do meet and greets and stuff, and he would pretend to choke me. You know, family stuff. And he, we got a picture of me being choked by him, and then I got a shirt of him

of that picture. And then every time I would see him, then i got a shirt of him of that picture and then every time i would see him i would get a picture of him choke me with uh the shirt on and then make a wormhole that's cool yeah yeah wow yeah i can tell you right now that's i'm a great hang yeah yeah i mean that's i mean for alice Alice Cooper, it's like, oh, good. Let me guess. I know what we're going to do. Yeah. You're like, with your parents, you're still there.

You're like, guys. Did you tell them? How old are you now, son? He's 32 years old. Still with your parents. Yeah. Just alone. I'm going with my dad this summer.

Yeah. They'll get mean grief. No, we didn't do it this summer. Yeah. Yeah. Now I learned from my research, Alice Cooper, that's the name of the band.

That's not him. He named the band Alice Cooper, but then they started calling him Alice Cooper. So he changed his name to Alice Cooper. Whoa. His real name is Vincent Frenier. Oh, wow.

But Steven's like his alter ego, right? Steven is just the character from Welcome to My Nightmare, but Steven comes up a lot in the albums. What's crazy about the song Steven is there's like his alter ego, right? Steven is just the character from Welcome to My Nightmare, but Steven comes up a lot in the albums. What's crazy about the song Steven is there's ghostly women whispering my name in it. So if I'm listening to it with headphones, it can creep you out a little bit.

Sure. Yeah. That's great. You call him Vinny by now? You're on a first-name basis with him? He's met him over 15 times yeah you've met him a bunch

yeah he's a big golfer he's a huge golfer yeah there's a book about how it saved his life yeah yeah

so if you met him in like outside of meet and greet that'd be fun yeah I would lose my mind yeah

figure a way to meet Alice Cooper if you ever golf with him I would lose it does he live here? he lives in Arizona I think I bet he would remember you too I don't know I don't think so

I mean you're a weirdo that's taking the same picture and wearing this wormhole how many times did you do that? I did it at probably five come on you don't forget that. Yeah, my dad once made... This is embarrassing.

My dad got a tape of my stand-up and gave it to... Hope it wasn't from this weekend. He gave it to Alice Cooper? It said what? Like, this is what you did? Yeah, and I was real bad. I was real bad. It was early on? You gave it to Alice Cooper? It said what? Like, this is what you did? Yeah. Yeah.

And I was real bad. I was real bad. It was early on? It was early. It was too early. That doesn't even work when you do that to late night shows. No. So I haven't heard back? Yeah.

I think I've met Alice Cooper at a golf thing. I want to go now. We're going to find him, Stephen. Get you and your dad. Are your mom a fan? No. Just you and your dad? Yeah. We got to do it. That's fun. That'd be awesome. Here's Alice Cooper listening to Stephen stand up.

What is this? That's your dad handing it to him. Can you imagine? Can you turn the AC up even more? I just got real hot on that one. Can you imagine Oh man Like say

We're at Say the We're at My show Yeah And then Alice Cooper came back St. Louis

No one would even Remotely And then like Seeing Steven like Starting to like Get nervous Sweating Freaking out

And you're like You're like What is wrong with you Or Alice is meeting you And he goes Steven What are you doing here The The thing freaking out and you're like you're like what is wrong or alice is making you and he goes steven what are you doing here the the thing is like that when you're around the people that you like like look you guys would do better around him than i would and it would mean more to me

sure yeah yes of course that's that's what stinks about that stuff yes but it's it but i mean i would i i never in a million years would have thought that you would be that oh love it like you know like that starstruck it's very uh he's very funny and it's and it's really it's just really great. I love it. Michael Campton. Campton. I've had a lot of lucid dreams, and one thing about them is they're fragile. When you first realize you're in one, you want to go crazy and fly, but you wake up. Once I learned more, I would tell myself in the dream to take it easy and go slow and they will last longer.

Okay. Makes sense. It's going to be hard to do. Mm-hmm. To do. Restraint. To be like, all right, I can do anything. Well, the fact that you can do it. I'm still going to put on my seatbelt.

Yeah. I can do it. Yeah. The fact that you could do it that much that you learn to go, all right, well, don't do this and don't do that. How much are y'all sleeping? I've had plenty of dreams where like that one previously, it doesn't make sense,

but I just, I don't think, oh, this is a dream. I just think, boy, it makes no sense, but I keep going.

Yeah. Yeah. Dan Coolbeth. Coolbeth. That's his last name or like his internet thing Cool Beth nah Cool Beth probably

you think it's his last name I think that's Cool Beth cause Dan why would he go by Cool Beth if his name's Dan and his wife that's a weird thing to do

well you know they make you do weird things could be in love Brian Cool Ruth that'd be crazy. She is the cool one. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It'd be accurate.

She's going to do Ruth, cool Brian. I'll do that. You guys missed an opportunity to talk about the best ending of a sitcom ever. The ending of Bob Newhart's show where he wakes up next to his wife from a previous show and says i just had the weirdest dream that's great you remember that brian i did i mentioned that last week then and get to it's very funny because he had two successful sitcoms and at the end of the second one his wife from the first one is in bed i mean basically just what this person said. It's a very funny scene. Yeah. I mean, out of nowhere. Yeah, I knew it. It's really awesome. So you go do this whole other series.

It's its own different completely thing. And just imagine when everybody's watching that for the first, I mean, there's no, they don't, you know, it's like, again, like this stuff is so new that it's like, they're not doing stuff like this. And then at the end of it, he just, out of nowhere... A reunion and a finale. Yeah. And before spoilers were a thing. No one saw that coming.

Yeah. Amazing. Was the show kind of slapstick where that made sense in the world of the show? Or was it totally... He's like a very dry... Okay, it was like just a family sitcom kind of just a multi-cam and wow yeah and he explains the basically explains the premise uh-huh of the show that is wrapping up to his wife from the previous show and it's murdering because like it's stuff that

it's like a crazy he's saying it's like it's a crazy dream so it's all punch lines wow that's like a jerry stiller and cam queens woke up and he was yes yeah in back in seinfeld yeah oh that's awesome yeah yeah yeah that's exactly yeah like if uh if estelle from seinfeld was the one in bed yes yeah exactly he woke up as george's dad because yeah yeah he wakes up first he like sits up in bed and then his wife gets up and it gets like this huge reaction. If I remember. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Applause break. Yeah. Yeah. No one knows what's going on. Yeah. I love it. Another one I thought of on the show,

Dallas, uh, Patrick Duffy's character. He wanted to leave the show. I think he just wanted to pursue other stuff or had a contract dispute or something. So they kill him off at the end of the episode. Dies in a car accident. Was he JR?

No, it's his brother. This is Bobby Ewing, JR's brother. Over the summer, they work things out. He decides he wants to come back, but now he's been killed off. So episode one of the new season, his wife walks in and he's in the shower. She said, I just had the craziest dream. And they just wiped out the entire last season. Just pretend like it didn't happen. Oh, wow. Just to get him back on the show. Were people mad about that at the time?

They were. Including some of the actors because they had a storyline that they liked. Right. That was about to happen. And now that's just all gone. Wow. Because they were writing around a problem of him leaving. And then it's all undone.

Was Patrick Duffy a fan favorite? So people were happy to keep him around, the fans? I don't know. I mean, he was a big part of it. Who did you like? Because you were watching this as it was happening, right? I was a kid, so my parents were into it. But you were into it.

Yeah. I mean, Larry Hagman was one of the iconic characters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to really know the, yeah, Larry Hagman. J.R. Ewing is one of the all-time TV directors. Who shot J.R. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so people are just getting killed left and right on this show.

Well, he didn't die. Oh, I'm sorry. Spoiler. Yeah. But, yeah, spoiler. I remember Dallas. I remember the Who Shot J.R. I didn't watch it.

I just remember everybody talking about it. Mm-hmm. But you've met Patrick Duffy, haven't you? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I can't think of him right now. I think he auditioned to play your dad in your sitcom.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Step by step. Step by step. Yeah. Yeah, he's awesome. Yeah.

Yeah, so he would, yeah. Duffy the's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. So he would. Yeah. Duffy, the vampire slayer. Sorry about that. Everybody. Keep swinging.

How's your batting average so far, Steve? I'm having fun. Yeah. That's what his batting average is, Steve? I'm having fun. Yeah. That's what his batting average is. Yeah, I'm having fun. When he gives us a bat, they go, he's having fun. He's happy to be here.

Maria Burns. Has anyone else heard the stories about people dreaming whole lives and then waking up i just listened to one where the girl dreamed she was pregnant then had her son then watched him grow for 40 years before she woke up she lived 40 years in one night she said it felt so real she grieved for her son for years whoa yeah i looked this up she posted this on tiktok and it's pretty crazy assuming you believe her yeah was it um what what happened she said i mean basically that but she said she realized she was dreaming and then she thought okay this dream's going on the first day this dream is going on a really long time and then she thought i'll wake. And then it's got nighttime now. It's time to go to bed. And she's like, I haven't woken up yet. So I guess I'll wake up

while I go to sleep. Wakes up the next morning, still in this dream. Keeps going. After a while, she says she's missing her real family. I mean, she's not married. She's like a college student, but missing her real life. Eventually, after time, she's's like i guess this is my new life now and just starts living in this dream for 40 years and then on her son's surprise 40th birthday she wakes up whoa i have no way to prove it but that's what she says that's wild yeah i wonder what a scientist would say if that's even possible i watched one video and the guy said time distortion in dreams is crazy. That's why, you know. 40 years.

I know. I know. Man. I don't know. It's sad. What do you mean it's crazy? It's just like you don't. Well, like, you know, you might dream that something's going on for a couple hours.

In real life, it was only 30 seconds or something. Yeah. Something like that. But you guys could still just be a dream. I mean, you're under 40. I mean, you know, who knows? I hope not. We'll see.

Good luck. Good luck with that. uh good luck good luck with that if you found out if you found out right now that you're really a 10 year old who's been dreaming the everything after that in your life would you want to wake up or would you just go let me just finish this dream do over yeah i mean sorry ruth yeah Ruth sorry Eleanor I'm going back are you kidding me a second chance

no of course not of course not yeah he's like I don't know if he could you don't have to string everything that's gone for him

again yeah he was a tightrope act just to get him where he's at now he's like I don't know if I can do that again

what was George Costanza say when he was pretending like to be just moving there he's like if you take my whole life and put into one day it's not bad uh samantha broom grabber brun grabber brun grabber yeah broom grabber know. Yeah. Broom-grabber. Brun-grabber. She's a broom-grabber. Samantha. Hi. I saw Nate and Aaron in Green Bay, and the show was incredible.

I bought some friends who were not familiar with either of them, and they were so glad they came. Upon Aaron's reveal, my sister-in-law leaned over to me and said, he looks like Stephen Avery. To my horror, I realized she might have a point. Do you agree that you bear a striking resemblance to Wisconsin's most notorious

murder and subject of the popular Netflix documentary, Making a Murder? Um. No. I mean, maybe. The beard. Yeah. That's tough. Yeah, it's like, I mean, maybe. The beard. Yeah. Yeah.

That's tough. Yeah. It's like, I mean, I would kind of know him with his gray hair. Like, I don't think so. I mean, would I maybe. Look at him young right there, though, dude. Look at him young. Young Brad Pitt.

That was the first time he killed somebody. Yeah. He looks great. But he was acquitted of it. Or not. Yeah. Yeah. Like that one you do. Yeah. I look like wrongly he was acquitted of it. Or not. Yeah, like that one you do.

Yeah, but I look like wrongly accused Stephen Avery. I don't look like the actual murder he did. A lot of brave Stephen Avery. That's right. Yeah. But I definitely would use it as, I'd call you that. It was a fun. Yeah.

If I was with someone and saw you, I'd be like, look at that, Steven Avery up there. Have you ever been called that before? No. Yeah. Well, how about him getting fresh out of prison right there? Now that's the beard I'm going for, for sure. Are you going to try to do that?

No. No, no, no. I got too many people in my life that wouldn't let me in my life anyway uh it's fun well i'm glad you enjoyed the show yeah uh aaron maul maul each of the comedians attract a certain attract a certain type of persona a person who likes their comedy and connects with it. I'm curious to hear how a Boston crowd differs from Dayton, Ohio. Two different geographies, cultures.

Do you find the best jokes land everywhere? Some land regardless of the location type of slash type of audience. Yeah, I mean, overall overall it's roughly the same, you know, that, and that, that's, that's the interesting part about, that's what, you know, and I've talked about making TV shows or movies and all this stuff for, uh, you know, the people that are, you know, Hollywood can, can be kind of out of touch with what's going on. Cause that's, what's going on because that's what's the most interesting thing to me is when we're going around to so many different places

even if you go to europe if you go to australia like wherever you're at everybody's a fan every you know everybody's got a mom dad like in the grand scheme of things everybody's got these same exact thing wives problems so you can say them anywhere. And then the only difference would be like some of the way we talk and they talk, just little things would be different. But that's what's, you know, I mean, I don't know. People are never as unique as they think they are. Yeah. And it's seriously true. As you think,

like, man, my life is so one of one. Yeah. No one's really original stuff. Yeah. Yeah. We're all seeing the same stuff.

We're all watching the same stuff. Same problem. We're all out here. You know, that's where, you know, what are the odds of me? Like if,

you know, I get an iced coffee with milk, I just say that. And then it's like everybody's like oh yeah i get still to this day i get tagged in that right seeing a horse lay down right or like you know it's like because they're like everybody sees we're all seeing the same stuff there's not that much stuff that's different right that's the thing with crowd work if it's a crowd work there's only so many people that's going to be in the crowd types of And actually, those are the ones you can make the most jokes about because you get to reuse those jokes in a way. Right.

Versus with someone out of nowhere is just like, I run a circus. And then you're like, that's kind of, that's like, all right, well, I got to figure this out because it's, you know, like a kind of a weird kind of thing. But I mean, overall, everybody's the same. I think it can be... They stayed up in a prison once. That was its own thing. That was its own thing.

They all had a lot in common with each other. Yeah, I think sometimes if I'm in the South, I feel like I can always see sometimes, I guess maybe some difference could be they're laughing. It could be laughing at me versus with me, maybe. maybe because if like if i'm talking about the south or uh they're picturing it more they might relate to that you know like uh you know some crazy story they might my cousin's wedding tuesday but even that everybody has cousins and they have crazy weddings and whatever uh but yeah maybe they like you know they could laugh more and not in a mean way at me but laughing like oh that's funny that he had to go through that.

Versus if I did it in Tennessee. I talk about Tennessee. People are like, yeah, I live this where I live. J. Walter Taylor. I love the movie Breakdown. Mostly because Kurt Russell's character's name is my name, Jeff Taylor. I was 14 when it came out and it blew my mind. Does anyone else share a name of the movie character?

Yes. Captain America. Oh, yeah. That's Captain America's real name, Stephen Rogers. Yeah. How did you feel about that? I know the comic's been around around forever but the movies really i remember in like middle school and like elementary school like it didn't uh whoa okay i come up

faster than i oh thank goodness you're moving up there oh you're not in the top row but you're all the second well there's all well you saved us some time they blocked off captain america is that john that's its own thing yeah I'm fine with not coming up when you search Captain America, but I'm glad my name is on there. It's heavy, heavy Stephen Rock. Yeah, when the movies came out,

I had like a couple, I've been a comic book person, but I had people being like, having me look at, they asked to see my id they couldn't believe i had the same name as captain america and stuff it was a big deal and then after every show for a long time was why isn't there any captain america jokes so i just ended up opening with one just to stop it from happening sure uh but yeah it was it was uh

it doesn't happen so much anymore but it was happening for the whole run of those movies. Have you thought about changing your name? No, I'll never do that. You wouldn't do that to Alice? Yeah. You wouldn't portray I mean, Stephen Cooper would be

a better name. Yeah, that would make me less weird around him. You show up to meet him for the 17th time my name is now stephen cooper i still got the same shirt but someone pointed out that if you go to the bands in town uh for the opry um and see some upcoming artists you'll see aaron on there yeah aaron's there tonight right right? Not tonight, tomorrow. Just Thursday. Oh, just Thursday.

Okay. But then if you scroll down to artists, upcoming concerts from similar artists, there's Brian Bates. Who is that? I think that's a singer named Brian Bates. Oh, is he going to? No, I'm there June 30th.

You just don't have a bands in town account set up. I do have a band in town. But it's just pulling the picture of probably a 14-year-old kid with an electric guitar taken from a webcam. I mean, I think that's the guy. I'm guessing when my sound exchange, I have a whole story about sound exchange where I owed them money because I was getting money from a musician named Brian Bates. I'm going to guess that's him. That guy looks young, though. Yeah.

It's an old picture. It's black and white. It just pulls the wrong picture sometimes. That's funny. Can you imagine when that guy probably gets your picture on his stuff, and he's like, why are tickets not moving? They're like, I don't know, because you're in a rock venue, and look at the poster.

It looks like a guy that came here to shut down this rock venue. It's like our band's account. I'm the pastor from Footloose. But how about Ben Rector? They think if you like Aaron, you're going to like Ben Rector. My close personal friend, Ben Rector. Yeah. He's a wonderful person.

He's very funny. Trying to think of a story like I had. I remember doing a news story once. It just, something reminded me of it. Of, I remember doing a news thing.

It was like, it was like promoting a show. This was very early on. And it was in, I think I want to say Syracuse, actually. Oh, wow. Because Dan Frigolette. Yes. I know Dan.

So Dan was in Syracuse. He's from Syracuse. And we were doing their local TV to promote. Probably Bridge Street was the name. It was was probably that we might have been doing like uh i think i was doing something it was like the italians of comedy something but it was funny as they promoted it like that and i was on it and i was i was like hey there's not gonna i was like i did i had like at that time i had the one italian job i'd be like a spaghetti or something you know whatever and then so i was like you're

gonna make people come and think this is like they're gonna you know this is like they're expecting a real italian show like you to be in a tank top yeah a guy and his wife was filling in for actually the girl that usually is there so his wife's just there and it was just such a funny thing so they they had before me they had someone come on and i just can't remember what say she was selling, you know, clips or say purses. It doesn't matter what she was selling. I don't remember what it was, but she's selling purses. And then, so then in the TV moment, she goes, huh? Like, maybe would you want one of these purses?

Where the person said, I would love one of those purses. Because you would just say that you're on TV. Why would you not? Of course. Yeah. And I remember she goes, nah, good we have and you're like all right and then he goes that lady goes well that's fine you know i just had to move on but i'll never and it was like his wife was filling in it just i wanted to know the whole dynamic of it to be why was she there anyway and why was she on

she's clearly not on TV, but then she just shot it down. This woman's trying to sell purses on the TV show. So just say it. Like, what do you, she goes, no, I don't want to buy anything. Like, well, lady, we're not going to, you know, they're not going to ask for money when you get off the air. I'd love one and move on. Yeah. Just go with it. So she can sell sell birds. And she was like, no, I don't. Nah, we're good. I just got a way better purse last week. Yeah, yeah, we don't. Peppers? I don't know what peppers.

Tim Wright, good day, folks. Good day. What was that saying with Australia? That if you say it one way, it sounds like you... Shrimp on the barbie. No, I thought some of the way someone said something what was it good day the australian show they said a way to say it yeah good day folks and hey koala i live in brisbane australia got to see nate last year and just got home from seeing jerry

seinfeld as has happened before he was asked who his favorite comedian was and he said nate bargetti so nate i hope you come again soon and get a bigger room wow uh that's very cool pretty cool uh funny enough i uh was texting with him that uh could you say my name yeah i texted i mean i that is very funny to even see that because I literally just text them. And we were texting because I was like, I just got home or something. And then he was like, oh, you guys, I just landed. And he's in Auckland now. And he said he did an arena. Wow.

Yeah. Well, no, I mean, Melbourne. When I talked to him, he was like, done Melbourne and Sydney, and I guess Brisbane. Well, maybe Brisbane. I don't know when he did Brisbane. But those two were like an arena. It was like 36,000-something tickets, dude. That's crazy.

Like, you know, I mean, Seinfeld's 70. Yeah. That's like insane to go over there and sell that many tickets. He had a, yeah, it was insane i mean you're texting them this morning yeah yeah it's i mean that's absurd brian and i texted this morning yeah he didn't take me back brian brian's my side he is your side uh but that's yeah that's so cool to hear. Yeah, I mean, dude, Seinfeld's just legit sneaky, just crushing. Yeah. I mean, to be like that many tickets is an arena.

Legend. Yeah. It's awesome. I thought it'd be a good segue into our topic today, which is idols and heroes. I mean, I know certainly you and i seinfeld's been yeah an idol for a long time and it must feel crazy to now be friends with him and he's telling everybody that you're his favorite comic yeah it's uh yeah it's it's it's insane and i also thought of it because i know you guys uh saw brian regan this i mean i

know you open for him a lot but you guys went to see him in nashville i know he's another one that you've always loved and your dad loved and you guys got to see him and what was that like yeah we got uh we went up i got to bring him up i posted the clip of me bringing him up and uh i mean everything i said in it is what it what it would mean i mean he he was definitely someone you know seinfeld's the guy that was like i was obsessed with but then regan was the first i heard that i just couldn't it like opened my mind to like oh like it's not just seinfeld yeah there's other people. Yeah. Seeing Regan come through, go through clubs. I saw him in three comedy clubs during his, like, come up.

Not his come up. He was already selling out the weekend. Was it when he was doing the two different hours? No, I think it was before. That's crazy. I think it was even before that. I saw him in, like, 2003, yeah, maybe three, four, and then probably like five and then like seven or something like that.

But I saw him in Chicago at a comedy club. Just ball ticket, went in there and sent him. I mean, it was. That's fantastic. Yeah, it was nuts. It was nuts. And just to be in there and watching it. So, yeah, Regan, getting, yeah, the fact that I know him and he knows me and, yeah, it never gets, you know, you know, it's just insane.

Yeah. He's he's he's so great and he's so kind. He is a great person. a great person he's uh obviously for me someone that and uh you know like meeting him he's as he's kinder than you imagine watching his stuff and he's so generous he goes and watches comedy he loves comedy he's he's just the best yeah what's the say don't meet your heroes is the saying right yeah um and and it's just it's just not true in a lot of cases. Yeah, we hung out with him. Yeah, we did in Atlanta. It was crazy.

Crazy. Steven was opening for him. Actually, that was a crazy week. Talk about, it was a crazy weekend in Atlanta County. Nate was at the Fox Theater. Regan was at the Buckhead Theater. That's right. And I was opening for Kathleen Madigan at the Cobb Energy Center.

That's right. I had lunch with Graham, who was opening for Nate. That's right and i was opening for kathleen madigan at the cob energy center that's right so i had uh lunch with graham who was opening for that's right yeah so it was just this vortex of comedy yeah in the city but anyway you just look up and i'm with brian reagan hanging out it was just a crazy crazy weekend i had to i had uh his i had brian reagan live memorized word for word. I used to perform it at family. My dad would make me do it. Oh, man.

And I had it word for word. I didn't tell him that, thank God, when I met him. You know this story, but that weekend at Buckhead, at a certain point, I finally revealed to Regan how much I'm obsessed with this stuff and how much I love him and so he he'll before he'll tape a special

he'll watch all of them to make sure there's no accidental repeating of anything and at one point I had to call him out because he was about to tape a special. And I was like, that bits on this thing. And he goes, I disagree.

And I go, oh, you know, I'm sorry. And then I'm opening for him on the taping and he comes up to me and he goes, I owe you an apology. It's on the thing that you told me. You knew his material better than me. I did, yeah. So he knows that about me. So when we were doing Atlanta, he goes, I have a favor to ask you. A friend of mine is in the audience and requested the Say 8 bit,

and I don't remember it. Can you help me remember? So we did the bit together to each other in the green room and i just i was like this what is life i know this is so unreal that's insane and then he goes can you just be off stage right by the curtain when i do the bit in case i need you i was like sure and i pulled up the transcript because i'm like i'm not gonna let my like arrogance of being a regan fan take over sure so i have the transcript ready and without fail just goes up and kills it doesn't need me at all he's the best snap out that's so cool man i love him did you want him to need you or are you

kind of like steve come out here do the bit with me real quick the the moment the private moments enough yeah it's like sure sure i don't like he's the best he doesn't need anybody but like to do that together what i'll never forget that it's so cool yeah yeah when you said never meet your heroes um you know willie mays just passed away i know you killed off another one. Yep. Every time Brian talks about somebody on this podcast, they die within a week. Yeah. Most of my guys are in their 90s.

Sorry, Bob Newhart. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's legit worry. Yeah. I want to meet Bob Newhart. Yeah.

Yeah. Is he one of the few that you probably haven't met? Yeah. Dick Van Dyke. Yeah, I would love to meet him. Yeah. Have. Is he one of the few that you probably haven't met? Yeah. Dick Van Dyke. Yeah. I would love to meet him. Yeah.

Yeah. Steve, have you met Steve Martin? No. No. Martin. Stop. Stop naming people.

All right. Yeah. They're going to die. Tony Kornheiser. Jeez. Yeah. He said. Nate loves Tony Kornheiser.

We both met Tony Kornheiser. Yeah. He's a wonderful person, but he, Willie Mays was his favorite player. And he said, they said, you know,

never meet your heroes. And in my case, it was true. And he didn't seem put out by it, but he didn't even go on to what exactly happened, but I'm sure he was probably a young journalist. It's not like a fan, whatever.

And he was probably annoying him or whatever. And I think Willie Mays just blew him off. He didn't seem to take it personal. You know, he probably agreed with him to a certain extent it didn't change his fandom of him but he just said yeah in his case you know it wasn't the best first meeting i remember anyway and that's the only time they met he didn't say that but i kind of took it as that that can happen you catch people on a bad day or something you never never know. You never know what it is.

Do you kind of remember when you went from a fan of athletes as a kid to then you kind of start catching up with them in age? And then you pass them and how you're just, the way you think of them just changes. Completely. Yeah. Now they're all younger than me. That's crazy. Not professional athletes. Even professional now they're all younger than me. That's crazy. Not professional athletes. Even professional athletes.

A lot of them are. Most of them are younger than me. Yeah, I haven't had one. Baseball, there's a few that's, yeah, I'm trying to think who would even. For me, it's coaches now. It's about 50-50 on coaches. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you got like 10 years on J.J. Redick, the new Lakers coach, right? Oh, man. I mean, Sean McVay was like your age when he got the head coaching job. Yeah.

Right. Yeah, well, that was crazy even when he, I mean, he's so young. Yeah. Yeah. But I remember, you know,

because your kid, even like college football players, like, man, those are grown men. Yeah. You know, and I'm 32 and I watch college football and I'm like, dude, I you know and i'm 32 and i watched college

football i'm like dude i'm 10 years older than the oldest people playing i was fine with them being bigger than me because they were older but now they're younger and giant yeah it's so unfortunate yeah i mean some of these kids are huge yeah there's a kid the basketball kid that's eight i think almost seven nine yeah yeah for florida yes yeah yeah and then yeah and they're i mean it's just insane there's a that's one of my favorite pictures of this uh whoa uh this is from foley alabama this is dj fluker who played offensive line at Alabama for a while, but it's just like, yeah, at this age,

he's, I mean, he just looks like a different, just like a different thing than the rest of the guys. I mean, 71 is a big dude. My hairline's at his belt. And,

but he had to like DJ Fluker was just, my goodness. That's him in high school. That's a high school picture. 17 or 18. Yeah. That's pretty difficult. school? That's a high school picture. So he's 17 or 18? Yeah. That's pretty difficult. I think you could see that that's probably tough on those kids because it's hard to not talk to them like an adult so early.

Because you're looking at them and you think, and you want to go like, hey, that's a 16-year-old. That's a 14-year-old. Yeah. It's like it's a kid. Yeah. I know they're bigger than you hey, that's a 16-year-old. That's a 14-year-old. Yeah. Like, they're not, it's like, it's a kid. Yeah. I know they're bigger than you. I know it's, but it's hard, but it's a child. And like, you know, this kid that's eight feet was like, you know, when he was, I think when he was eight, he was six feet tall. And then it's like, when he's 11, he was like almost seven feet tall.

Crazy. Well, Harper's 11. Whoa. almost seven feet tall crazy well harper's 11 whoa so yeah so it would be like having to talk to him is like the like the way i the way i talk with harper and the way i can like still i could i could still harper still i can carry her you know like she like all these things she's still my little girl like right now but then if you're like well your kids eight feet he's seven foot tall at 11. man this doesn't even look like a real picture there that guy can't drive yeah yeah you can't do it yeah yeah i don't know what car he i mean it's like shack where you have

to take out like the back seat he's barely old enough to drive too yeah yeah nuts yeah again pti Yeah. Again, PTI, they were just talking about Shaq. And they said he's one of the few of those super tall athletes that's comfortable with his body. So many of these guys, understandably, you just think of them as just these behemoth giants that they're only out there because they're so tall. And they've lived an uncomfortable life their entire life. Shaq embraces it. He was obviously a great player, but just can have fun with it. But Shaq

is short compared to some of these guys we're talking about. Yeah, I mean, Wimby's 7'4". He's got five inches on. On Wimby. Yeah. I mean, that's... He's got a tall family, but he's still... He's a big guy, too.

It's not super lanky. He's not a stick, yeah. Not a big high recruit, I don't feel like. In my head, you just think those guys are going to be like... They're like, he's six stars. Yeah. Just because you're like, I don't know. What else do you want to...

Well, he's white. What? What? Can't cut. Well, he's white. What? What? Can't cut. Yeah, but. I literally did zone out for a second. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Don't even worry about it. But, I mean, that doesn't. Yeah. That's insane. Yeah, that's. I mean, you can't. What are you even wearing?

I mean, that's tough. Yeah, I bet that's. Get out of that bag. Yeah. Yeah, like that. I mean, you can't. What are you even wearing? I mean, that's tough. Yeah, I bet that's. Just put that guy out of that bag. Yeah. Yeah, like that. I mean, you know, his dad's got to. Is that his dad? No.

I hope his dad. I assume they're both very tall. Yeah, I think everybody's kind of tall. We just looked at a picture of his family together. Luke Cornett. You doing all right, Brian? I think I was thinking about the white reference. I was trying to think about what that.

Luke Cornett just won an NBA championship. Yeah. Played a van. He's 6'11", I think I was thinking about the white reference. I was trying to think about what that. Lou Cornette just won an NBA championship. Yeah. Played at Vandy. He's 6'11", I think. And I remember when his dad played at Vandy, who's obviously very tall. But his mom, who's a news anchor here in Nashville, just average height. Normal height. Yeah.

So I don't really have a point to that. But she's probably six feet tall. I mean, she might be taller than the average woman. Yeah. Do you remember anybody as a kid, probably an athlete, that you were like a fan of? Corey Chavis. Who's that?

Yeah. That's funny. Yeah. Cornerback for Vandy. He was my favorite. He was my favorite Vandy. He's my first favorite Vandy player was cory chavis i had a ball i think i still have it i don't know where it's at now but i had a ball that was used in the

tennessee vandy game because my mom worked for vandy and so they got the ball and signed by cory chavis wow the signature's coming off it actually is i think it's that ball that's right over there it's flat it's like i actually need to get corey chaves to sign it again actually yeah played in the nfl for 10 years yeah yeah yeah he was awesome he was an analyst funny thing is he's three years older than you yeah i met him at uh i met him at a game once uh but when he was playing for vandy and uh you know told him how much I liked him. Yeah, safety cornerback. Made Pro Bowl. Oh, yeah.

First team all SEC. Yeah, he was awesome, man. He was, you know, he was, I just, I don't know. I just, he was a defensive back. He was great cornerback. Like, he was just, you know, I just always liked him. He was my first. Why do you think it's athletes that we idolize a lot of us was it like that for you steven you're not a huge sports guy did you care about athletes growing up i uh i've always found it impressive but they were not

the the center of my focus who was it music i mean alice cooper alice cooper was it? Alice Cooper. Was it musicians? It was comedians. Really? Yeah. Who was it when you were a kid? I went through a lot of people, but Ellen and Ray Romano, and then eventually Regan were big ones growing up. Do you have an Ellen poster in your room? No, I don't think I had any comedy posters. I don't think they even have comedy posters. I don't think they have comedy posters.

I guess they sell. That's a funny question. I had sports posters all over my room. Well, you're in comedy. Yeah. You know, you think comedies. That's like a journalist question of someone that's not in comedy. How do you come up with ideas?

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, man. Yeah, you know, the Alan comedyen comedy post yeah you cut out the cover of time magazine and frame that on your wall no no yeah i don't think i had much on my wall you have a dane cook fathead or something and that would just what What'd you have? Just bare walls in your room? I think I had bare walls. Captain America?

I might have had comic book stuff. You had comic book stuff. Yeah, yeah. He was a swimmer. Probably a lot of swimming. He's Michael Phelps. Yeah, he's the real deal. Swimmed college.

I didn't swim in college. Could have. I could have. College wanted me, but I didn't want college. Whoa. He's better than that. You think you could beat Dusty in a swimming competition? Yes.

Who were the swimming? Mark Spitz? Greg Louganis. He was a diver, right? It's all pool stuff. I don't think you... You're probably young enough for Phelps. Phelps was going

down while I was in high school. Yeah. So Phelps was a big deal. Yeah. I mean, I think you're just

like it. Yeah. They're in the water. I love fish. Yeah. They're all the same thing.

Yeah. The wet mammals. Yeah. I met Michael Phelps. You did? Yeah. I've wet mammals. Yeah. I met Michael Phelps. You did? Yeah. I've golfed. Yeah.

What? I did a golfing thing. The Justin Timberlake golfing thing I did a while ago. I got to get good at golf. You're meeting all these great people. Yeah. I think I could go play with him. Yeah.

I don't. Is he a good golfer? He's just a great athlete. I think he's a great athlete. But like, yeah, big, big golfer though. Like that crew in Arizona, like all of them that go play, like it's,

uh, and so I played with the met and then he did the stretch and the, you know, we clap like, yeah, his hands go all the way back. Yeah. Double joint.

Yeah. I've never told you guys this and haven't told anybody this. Cause I always been embarrassed about it, but I've never known how to swim. And I never took lessons. I could teach you. But my daughter, Eleanor, has been taking lessons since she's one. Over a year now, she's been taking swimming lessons.

And I'm like, I don't want to be embarrassed. And she has to rescue me from the deep end of the pool. So two weeks ago, I started taking swimming lessons. Oh's awesome how's it going good i've taken two lessons yeah and uh the first one i was so exhausted so quickly just my cardio yes women will do that and she was like um are you okay like she said did you injure the right side of your body because you're not moving your right side i'm like no i'm just out of shape she said, did you injure the right side of your body? Because you're not moving your right side. I'm like, no,

I'm just out of shape. She said I was the first adult she'd ever had in all her years of teaching. She was kind of like perplexed. Like, I don't even know how to. This is the same one that taught your daughter? No, it's a different one.

And I asked for, I almost asked for a public lesson just for the joke. Just whatever. But I was too embarrassed. So I did a private lesson, but but i think that joke's still laying down just the fact you're taking a swimming lesson yeah yeah that's one reason why i didn't even tell it at first because i wanted to get the beats of the joke down yeah yeah but what is does happen is the class right after me shows up so all the kids and their teachers just sit around the pool and watch me

trying to swim while I'm out there. That's a very vulnerable thing. But he could go teach you right now. I could. Would you take lessons from him? Well, sure. You should do it, and then you go back to her and you go, I got it.

He starts doing the Michael Phelps. How old is the teacher? Like 30? What has she taught you so far? I got it. He starts doing the Michael Phelps. How old is the teacher? Like 30? Yeah. What has she taught you so far? The first one was just kicking. Off the wall?

Like are you holding onto the wall? Treading water? She's like, I've got like a little thing. And then she put a little floaty around me. And then it was just kicking. And then week two, I thought, now we're going to do some arms. She's like, no, let's just keep working on kicking. She put fins on me just to work on my form. I was blown away at how much easier it is with fins.

Fins is unbelievable. But obviously, you can't use them. But yeah, once your arms are involved, kicking is important to learn. Because when I swam i would notice i would barely kick because my arms were like i was just way better with strokes so kicking is important to learn first because it is necessary but once your arms are involved you'll she was like where are these fans so you can just focus on your form and not on trying to stay alive yeah yeah yeah i think so well once arms are involved you're gonna have to learn how to breathe And so you can just focus on your form and not on trying to stay alive. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So once arms are involved, you're going to have to learn how to breathe, which is a whole other thing. Well, she keeps telling me, remember to breathe. Yeah. Because I'm so tense in the water. Yeah. So I'm not comfortable. Man.

So anyway. That's awesome. That's great. Thanks. Yeah. All right. I don't think I've been trying to think if I've ever seen you in a pool or. Probably just a shallow pool, I guess.

Yeah. I mean, really, there's not that many times where it even becomes a thing. At my age, most of our friends aren't, you know, trying to. People don't have deep ends in their pools. No, not as much. Not as much. Ours is, yeah. We have a pool.

But it's like six foot. Yeah. You'll tread water a little bit, but it's not like 10 feet. I didn't play basketball with you guys. Yeah. That time. Yeah. You'll tread water a little bit, but it's not like 10 feet. But I didn't play basketball with you guys. Yeah. Yeah. He would be in trouble. I mean,

growing up, nobody around me had a pool. Yeah. And my parents didn't know how to swim. Nobody in my family knew how to swim. And yeah, it just wasn't a thing. Yeah.

And then I just got, I got old. I got embarrassed about it. And then I just, you know, just never, I'm like like i'm too old to learn but now i admire you for that yeah i do too that's pretty cool yeah so you're just going yeah dude you're gonna be a better swimmer than all of us i'm gonna have my swim teachers poster

yeah she's my hero what would happen if you fell in water you think you got out or i only think i remember it's been years since I've even tried, but I remember my cousin, who I'd go visit occasionally, they had a swimming pool. And I remember one time we were playing a game in the water, like a basketball or something. And just because I wasn't thinking about it, I kind of started swimming.

Oh, yeah. I was exerting so much energy, though. That was the thing. Yeah. So I could kind of swim. Yeah, you're flailing, probably. Flailing, yeah. But that's where all the energy, though. That was the thing. Yeah. So I could kind of swim. Yeah. You're flailing, probably. Flailing. But that's where all the energy is going.

But yeah. So that's. I feel like it is an instinct that everyone can do. But to learn it. The proper way. Yeah. Don't they teach. Like, how do they teach a one-year-old?

Don't they just throw them in the pool? There's videos of that. I've seen that before, too. It's terrifying. Yeah. It's crazy. But we didn't do pool. There's videos of that. I've seen that before, too. It's terrifying. It's crazy. But we didn't do it. My buddy did it with his kids, and we didn't do it. Because it was like, I couldn't have done it.

No. I was like, I couldn't be. Which I think sometimes they would tell you, leave. They make you leave. Just to watch your kid just be tossed in the pool yeah they just throw them in the pool because the kids learning to get on their back so they can breathe and then just start kicking uh-huh yeah no yeah no yeah it'd be tough to do it's tough they throw it off the diving board you're like whoa yeah that's a little high

yeah she can eleanor she knows she can phone her back. And they work on things like getting out of the pool, like getting on your elbows and pulling yourself out and stuff like that. Playing sardines. Why don't you just kind of tag with her lessons? Just kind of listen in? Yeah.

She's got a wire. Yeah. Free lessons. Free lessons. I got a headphones on the corner. You're in a van. What did she say when you asked her to give lessons? Like the girl was like.

Well, when I called to schedule it, the guy was like, oh yeah. I told him it's for me. I'm 52. And he's like, oh yeah,

Bella. She's great for that. And then I got there and she had not, nobody told her that it was an adult. She was looking for my kid. Yeah. And then I'm like, no, yeah, Bella, she's great for that. And then I got there, and nobody told her that it was an adult. She was looking for my kid. And then I'm like, no, it's me. And she was so perplexed. She was in the water because she had just got done with a lesson with a four-year-old. And then next, and then I go over there, and she was like, all right.

She's like, this is an episode of What Would You Do? I'm getting talked. Vage has got, you know, you have a shirt on? No, I took my shirt off. You're wearing those old tank top, what's those old suits? The black and white stripes. It's like a one piece.

You have a cap? It's cold. Swimming cap. Floaties. That's cool. I need to go back and learn some stuff I never learned. I'm trying to do that. I'm thinking about doing golf lessons.

I take boxing lessons. Trying to do that. I'm thinking about doing golf lessons. I take boxing lessons. Trying to do stuff that makes me uncomfortable. Learning new stuff is the most vulnerable thing. I feel like. It's a lot. The older you get, the harder it is. Just step outside your comfort zone.

I imagine getting swimming lessons, not only the discomfort of being in the pool trying to swim, but calling somebody and getting the, that was probably a lot to do. It's like calling your first open mic and signing up. Yeah. Gosh. Yeah.

I got to do this now. Crazy. I think we're more shocked with the baby or the non-swimming lesson that he brought up. Like you guys? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those are two pretty big reveals on the podcast. No, no.

I would say definitely the baby. I would think the baby. I didn't even know you were married when you had the baby. So it was like, it was a lot being thrown. Well, that's why we got married. I figured you probably guys assumed I didn't know how to swim. Yeah. No, I would never.

I mean, no. No, I never thought about it. I mean, after week one, I really thought, what if some people just can't swim? Like, what if I'm too old to learn? Right. I don't know. But, like, I think I just swam my whole life.

So, it's hard to imagine not being able to. But, so, like, even that's something that's too when you see people that can't swim i always think well they could swim like if you fell into water your body would figure it out yeah your body's gonna you're gonna just be even when you're doing that panic it's like you're gonna be able to keep your head above water but i guess you get so tired so quick yeah really gotta yeah you gotta learn how to do it to sustain it yeah and to get to the side or to get to the whatever yeah this is gonna sound like a bit but they taught us what to do if you fall out of a boat or if you it while you're full like clothed is uh you take your pants

off or your shirt off. You need long sleeves. Yeah. And you tie them off, and then you bring it up over to catch air in it, and then you pull it under, and it will be a floaty for at least a little while. But, yeah, people should know how to do at least that stuff. But it's easy to say not panic, but that will burn so much of your energy. But like, when you do that and you take your pants off and the boat just turned

around and you're like, and they're like, all right, dude, I was wearing a regular boat. You really wanted to leave the horizon. Dude, stand up.

We just, we just got off the dock. We can still see you taking your pants off. That's so quick. Well, anyway, I'm going to embarrass my daughter enough. I didn't want to be the guy. I admire that you're doing it. That's great.

That's huge. I love it. Can you ride a bike? That's next. Do you ever know how to ride a bike? I mean, barely. Again. Yeah.

Barely. I mean, I know it sounds almost counterintuitive. I lived out in the country, which you kind of, I think, associate with Dusty's like that. He rode a bike everywhere and was swimming in the creek. But where I live, it wasn't that. There was nobody around close to us and uh so i mean just barely yeah that's next heck yeah dude same teacher you know the good thing with the bike the bike you get one of those ones without the pedals and like i think those are the coolest

thing ever i bought one for harper and she never even did it she can ride a bike now but we did it the old way but it's uh let's call it a motorcycle no no no it has no it's like the balance ones so you could probably get it even like just you could get any bike take the pedals off before your feet touch and then you just kind of you push and then lift your feet up and ride for a second but then you're you're only going with and then lift your feet up and ride for a second. But then you're only going with your feet. So your feet are what is what making you go. So you never, so your feet are just kind of dragging on the ground the whole time.

And then that's a great way for kids to like learn because you can catch yourself and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah. This is what you should do. We get that. We could take something, take some pedals off some bike. And then I would officially learn how to ride it just normal. We could take some pedals off some bike. And then I would officially learn how to ride it just normal.

Or basically putting them through a triathlon. Yeah. I think the balance, it'd help you do the balance. In another way, you're just pedaling. But it's like the balance is the part that's the hardest. We're going to tie shoes after that. We're going to do it all.

We're going to do it all. Yeah, you blending in a sport, though, is running. I mean, I don't, you know. Yeah. I don't know if you could blend in a sport. No, you can only do so much. Yeah. Hmm.

Boom. All right. So, we were talking about posters on the wall. Mm-hmm. I had three baseball players that i remember having i had dell murphy pete rose and dwight gooden two of those three got in a little trouble pete rose dell murphy and dwight gooden dwight gooden just got in trouble for drugs yeah and stuff pete rose obviously got banned. Del Murphy.

I was a big Del Murphy fan. Yeah, you almost seem like you'd be too young for him. Because you've talked about, you did his batting stance? I did his batting stance, yeah. I love Del Murphy. Man. Del Murphy, Bob Horner. I was into baseball.

I was into the Braves. Yeah. I love the Braves. And then it's like, again, I said, I'm the strike. I was this, when the strike happened is I just like. Killed it. And then I just kind of quit playing baseball because there was like, it was good.

Like baseball was getting serious and I just don't think I was going to be as serious with it. I went to a baseball game with my niece and nephews and one of the players they saw made the sign of the cross yeah before they went to bat and my niece goes man they really care they care about baseball that much to pray before and at bat and i was like yeah well these are their jobs she's like these are their jobs she like could not wrap her head around so funny It's so funny. Stuff you don't even think about. Yeah.

I thought they were just playing with their friends. They were just watching. I mean. 16? Yeah. Seven or eight, I think. Yeah. Sweet.

Yeah. Adrian, who works with us now, he said on his post on the wall, Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens. Yeah. Three juicers, huh? Yeah. Adrian seems too old to have those guys on his post on the wall, Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens. Yeah, three juicers, huh? Yeah. Adrian seems too old to have those guys on his wall, if you ask me, but anyway. Do you remember as a kid

what you said you wanted to be growing up? I always said I wanted to play basketball. But I mean, weirdly, I do think I wanted to be a comedian quicker than I even think I did. But I think because I just always think, yeah, I never even thought about being a comedian. But then I'll think back on it. And then you're like, you do all these things. And you're like, maybe I was.

And I've publicly told in interviews, like, that's the crazy thing about when you get older. It's funny. You start just thinking about stuff and you see all the, that's the one, it's the interesting part of getting older is you just, all the stuff that you've said, you were like, no, I never thought about that. Then you just get older. You're like, yeah, I probably did think about that. I just don't remember, you know, thinking about it, but it was, you know, and I mean, high school, I wrote on my thing where I'll be in 10 years before I get zanies and my, you know, I told a joke with my dad or, you know, so it's like, and my dad was doing it.

So, I mean, I think I had, I don't know if I, in the sense of it, like, I wasn't like, I'm going to be a standup comedian, like those exact words. Right. But it was being funny. An entertainer. I liked it. Yeah. I liked that. Man.

But I mean, I liked, uh, but you know, yeah, I would always joke about the NBA. I loved basketball. I knew sports were out for me pretty quick cause I played them. But, uh, I think like a lot of kids, I want to be an astronaut. Yeah. Or Dusty would say an actor. Yeah. A zookeeper.

I had zookeepers. You were into zookeeping? I loved animals. I think a lot of kids. I think I had that too. I had work in a zoo. Yeah. Wow.

You want to work with animals? No. I never thought had that too. I had work in a zoo. Yeah. Wow. You want to work with animals? No, I never thought about that. Well, you were a college professor. I wanted to own the zoo. I'm just kidding. You're smart. Like, y'all come, you know, y'all are. Well, I liked animals too.

I just didn't even know that was a job. Oh, yeah. They did a poll recently of kids. That's what you'd say. Beneath him? Yeah, beneath him. And his family would go to the zoo and go, who works here? And then someone walks up and then goes.

These are animals too. Like your niece. Just like your niece that goes, it's a real job. There you go. We go to Notre Dame. These baboons. Uncle Aaron, why are these poor people playing this sport and

these uneducated people do they not know the future is at Notre Dame well they surveyed kids recently about what they want to be when they grow up

it's changed a little bit social media influencer yeah is youtuber oh there it is um this is a teen so professional athlete still first for boys but youtube streamer second professional gamer it's all entertainment for the most part for girls girls and boys yeah that's a good sign. That's an actual job. I mean, look, if I were...

Professional gamer is on here. Dude, if you would have told me as a kid that my job could be to play video games, that would have been one. That wasn't even an option when I was a kid. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't. We didn't even have borderline games.

I could play Oregon Trail for a living. But I mean, yeah. Me as a professional gamer on Atari? Yeah, professional pong player? Let's do it. Yeah. Yeah, that's YouTube streamer. Yeah, but everybody, I don't know.

How old were these kids kids i think you said teenagers of course i know 13 to 17 wow yeah i think early 20s start to give up on i think the problem is like now versus back then was like you could do that but it was like it didn't seem like attainable back when we were kids so if you wanted to be something like this it was like, it didn't seem like attainable back when we were kids. So if you wanted to be something like this, it was almost like you wouldn't have even said this because you were like, well, that's, you know, it's like, well, I mean, you just are like, you don't get to be, you know, I'm just trying to think of someone like Billy Idol. I don't know. I can't think of it, but I'm Billy Eilish.

No, Idol. Like the old Billy. Like I'm saying a long time of someone like Billy Idol. I don't know. I can't even think of it. But Billy Eilish? No, Idol. Like the old Billy. Like I'm saying a long time ago. Not that I would. But you don't get to be like, well, I want to be Guns N' Roses. Because you're like, they're just, you feel like they're, I want to be Tom Cruise. You're like, you feel like he's built in a lab somewhere. So you're like, they're just so famous that you're like, we don't even live on the same planet.

Sure. Right. So I can't be that. I feel like you can't, but now. Everybody feels accessible. Everybody feels accessible and everybody can kind of become famous. You can have anything go and then it catches on and then you kind of become famous. And even the smallest scale of it, you could be famous in your own community.

And the fact that you're just, for some reason you make the funny videos and it, you could be famous in your own community. And the fact that you're just, for some reason you make the funny videos and just say you're in your town. Everybody watches your videos. Well, you have a level of, everybody knows you in that town. So you have a level of fame. And then,

so you can have a niche now in a way that you can have niche. You can make a lot of money in some niches. I mean, professional gaming, these guys are right. Did someone kid get drafted? I saw a lot of money in some niches. I mean, professional gaming, these guys are great. Did some kid get drafted? I saw a clip for 2K, like NBA 2K. A kid got drafted.

Oh, wow. I don't understand if it was. I thought it was on Bleacher Report, but it was like he got the NBA 2K draft. It's like he's a player know like as a player i guess i have no i can't find anything they have leagues well there was that uh race car driver oh yeah that made a movie yeah so there's yeah there's a there's a 2k league yeah and they do a draft i guess so they pick this professional two game players wow

yeah that's pretty fun i work but i mean that's the stuff you know and they're covering it but it's like what is that what does that mean dude i don't know what it means this is where i i could go i don't i don't know where the money could come from i don't know where any i mean i know gaming is i guess it comes from gaming is a billion dollar industry so i guess it's something but it's like even when they're like people are watching it you're like well how many people can be watching this i just can't imagine a lot more than you think i know how a hundred thousand no millions didn't we talk about it was more popular in the super bowl one Can't imagine. A lot. More than you think. I know. 100,000? No.

Millions. Didn't we talk about it was more popular than the Super Bowl? One year. The League of Legends finale. Or the League of Legends championship match. More than the Super Bowl. It feels like now people are getting... You know.

It's like creators are going away. They're not a creator. I worked going away. They're not a creator. I worked in TV. You're not making something. You're just playing the game that's being laid out the best. You're making memories with your friends. Yeah, yeah.

But I'm saying, if someone's young, That's the best thing of all. If someone's young, listen to this, go be a creator of some sort. Be know-how to create out of nothing versus i don't you know that kind of stuff it's like it like a for you to get that good

is you're already that's probably about the same probably less odds than being a professional basketball player it's going to be harder because you're competing with, add the people that just physically, they're not going to make it to the NBA. So right there, you knock off all these people. Well, every human on earth can play NBA 2K. So to be the dude that's the best at this, even though it is an outlet, you're like,

well, the odds of that are insane. Which, all right, if you want to go for it, it's like, I guess go for it. But there's not like, creating is still, if you're a creator, that's what I always feel good with standup. Because I don't think you can, with my i've created stand-up created an act i have something from nothing from nothing and so you know how to you know that's like if you know how to build a house you're like yeah you're never not being a house because you're like i can build a house so i know how to do like it's you know and i feel like it's uh we have so many like just

weird jobs and then then it's like, these kids are making tons of money. And you're like, even it's when it's YouTube and you're like, well, it's like that person unwraps presents and they're worth, you know, they make $30 million a year. And you're like, okay, but that's still for some reason, they're doing something that makes you watch them. That does not mean that there's just 30 million dollars out there to me you have to work whatever they do what and what they have to do is they have to do it every single day even this kid that plays NBA 2k he has to play it honestly 12 probably 12 hours a day and you just got to sit there and think about it all day long so if you find yourself being even a little distracted it's like enjoy nba 2k but if you're even a little like oh

i didn't play for a month you will not be that kid yeah you just can't be yeah when i played world of warcraft when i moved to nashville in high school i moved in the summer i had no friends i did football workouts in the morning and then i've got all day right i'll play world of warcraft when i moved to nashville in high school i moved in the summer i had no friends i did football workouts in the morning and then i've got all day right i'll play world of warcraft and i got into it i would play it a lot that summer and in my guild was this guy named dadel that was his name uh doddle actually doddle was his name and he played all day people would log on and go what'd you guys do today meaning what did you do in the real world and this guy would go well i did uh did some uh herbing and then i uh he would talk about he's been on the game all day and i finally got to a

point where i was like how do you play this all day and he's like he told me he was a bus driver in canada and he got in an accident sued the city and now he just lives off a disability and he just plays world of warcraft all day and there was like maybe 10 minutes where i was like that's the life dude yeah and then and then it got real sad after that but yeah that guy would play i think about him sometimes he's probably still playing you Get back on. See if you can find him. That was different. He plays a different game. That was 16 years ago. He played 12-13 hours

a day minimum. That was his life on there. Me and Nick play NBA 2K all the time. It's fun. I love video games. Video games are great. They're a good distraction. They'll eat your life up.

I told a story downstairs before you were here about how I don't know how to play NBA2K. You and I played on the tour bus. I was the Lakers all-star team, which was – All-time Lakers. All-time Lakers. Magic, Kobe Kobe LeBron Kareem, Shaq Will Chamberlain

yeah you were like the 2012 Sacramento Kings yeah and it went to overtime yeah and they was playing but yeah

it was barely playing yeah yeah it was fun yeah LeBron on the bench yeah but if you go play with them is like

those kind of kids like I don't think it would be fun they would just destroy yeah yeah yeah and you go play with them, it's like those kind of kids, I don't think it would be fun. They would just destroy you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you go.

But I mean, I don't want to say that guy did work hard. But it's like you got to, it seems in everybody's head, you go, well, that kid, he goes, he's playing video games. Like I could go do, everybody thinks they could go do that. And you're like, you can't. This kid did work. It was his whole life to get to this point. I think he just plays.

I don't think he works out of his thumbs. He just plays. He has to be thinking about it all day long. He did what OJ did in prison. Works out his hands a lot. Put your hands in sand. You do that. That's a good baseball.

Oh, really? Put your hands in sand and just kind of. Yeah. Yeah. It's nice. Wow. I asked our intern, Amelia, who's I think 16, who kids her age idolize. She said Taylor Swift.

Yeah. My own Taylor Swift. BTS, who I know of really behind those she said k-pop is popular among her friends and then i had never heard of them black pink oh yeah they're another k-pop they're like the female version of bts yeah black version of pink but you know is idolizing kind of the wrong word uh like it it's like you're, I don't know if people are, you're fans. Yeah, I mean, idolizing is. That's true.

But I don't know. Idolizing, I think, is who you're trying to be, like. Yeah. Probably, at 16, you're probably maybe growing out of that. But I don't know. You might still want to be like. It's an all-girl, South Korean girl group. Yeah.

Biggest girl group in the world. But, yeah, I don't know. Idolizing and... It's just different. Idolizing feels a little more serious. 100%. I guess would we idolize Seinfeld? I attribute him to that

because I'm trying to match his work ethic. I'm trying to learn from him and trying to adapt that stuff. Yeah. So I would, that's what I think idolizing is. Lionize. I'm trying to think of a better word for it.

Uh, it's good. Good that we're all swinging now. No, lionize is a word. What is it? Yeah. It's just to,

to, oh, I thought you were doing a bit to make a lion, to treat a person as if you were important or a word. What is it? Oh, I thought you were doing a bit. To make a lion. To treat a person as if he were important or a celebrity. They're saying lion eyes like the Eagle song. Yeah, like even a hero is... I do number three.

To behave as a lion. Dusty would point out, if you were here, we shouldn't idolize anyone. Idols are bad. Of course. I just want to throw that out there. Yeah, I mean, I don't think like

even idolizing Seinfeld, I don't know if I would say idolizing. You look up to him. Yeah, you look up. Yeah. He was a, yeah, an inspiration.

Maybe like worship. Is that the word? Yeah. Yeah. You want to be like, because I do, I do all the comedy stuff yeah you know yeah i yeah like we talked about this weekend i think it was uh bob newhart said that we're like magpies like comedians you see some like things that comedians you look up to do and you you try to learn from that and add that to your pile of like these things you believe or try you know and to become better if that makes sense yeah yeah we lionize them well it's funny the word lionize this is what

interesting is the guys that we're talking about it's because we're comedians but do these girls that look up to black pink do they want to be in a korean girl i think they're influenced by them right now influenced in what way though like are they trying to be musicians or no no they're trying to maybe dress like them yeah you know like there's kind of style and all that kind of stuff and it's like cool and they're so it's like they're probably very influenced by them like i don't know if they idolize i think taylor swift could probably have some real idolized people idolize her because you got some you know tom cruise does uh yeah tom cruise was at her concert this weekend. Did you see that? No. Dancing. Wow. Having a good time? Yeah.

That's fun. But it's, yeah, there's probably, you know, but idolizing is a tough work because it seems a little too much. I agree. To be like. Well, hero, I feel like, is the same thing. Yeah, I agree. Yeah.

I mean, there's some real heroes out there. Yeah. Yeah. Like who? Well, I had a list here. Captain America. Revere. Revere's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one. Reverence for them. Pothio size.

I like canonized. Hero worship. Canonized? I don't like canonized. It's like lionized, but you shoo. Canon? He's just been acting like a canon. It's bad now, but he's going up. You guys are great.

Admire. Oh, admire. That was right in front of us. Admire. Admire is Admire. Admire is good, but I think revere is, I was revere me. That means you respect them. To have reverence.

Two lanterns or one. Yeah. Yeah. What'd you say? One or two lanterns. Paul Revere. Paul Revere. All right.

Batten average is going down. Just looking at the comments. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Just looking at the comments. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, idolized. Fly ball on the wall. Yeah. Admire is probably a better word.

Admire. There's people we admire. I think revere is Seinfeld would be, I would revere Seinfeld. Because I think that gives him for what he meant to me. So that's a much more respectable word. I think so. Like it's a very, you know, I revere Seinfeld. Yeah.

You know, and it's like that's, you know, yeah. Yeah. I like listen to interviews of him. Admiring Adore, Phil. I think I'd feel weird saying that about a guy. Adore, definitely. yeah okay yeah I like listen to interviews of him admire and adore Phil I think I'd feel weird saying that about a guy adore definitely

but it's not weird to say you admire somebody you admire it feels somewhat romantic yeah I guess admire

yeah adore does seem romantic I don't think yeah you go hey what's up man just want to let you know I deify you

I deify you I venerate you hey man I've just been thinking about you yeah I just exalt I just think of you you're so exalted

bow down's better hey Jerry I bow down to you that's crazy I like to dote on you a little bit put on a pedestal's not bad put on a pedestal I thought that's discouraged implies like you're wrong to do so

I think so that's why it's a weak match down here. Anyway. Thesaurus. They're fun. I used to love Thesaurus. Dusty doesn't believe in those. He's back, baby! That was a pretty good one right there.

That was good. I listen. Yeah. All right. You want to wrap I listen. Yeah. All right. All right. You want to wrap it up? Yeah. Oh, man.

We're closing on that punchline. Yeah. Get it on top. Yeah. Just say thank you. Good night. Thank you, everybody. We've been almost two hours.

I mean, in the early days, it was all like aviators. It was Charles Lindbergh. It was a real thing. Chuck Yeager. Chuck Yeager. Neil Armstrong. People like that amelia airheart yeah amelia yeah they were like heroes right uh and now it's kind of celebrity ish much more celebrity ish uh always sports figures babe ruth muhammad ali that's always been a thing the biggest you know in the world we've talked about her like ronaldo and caitlin clark it's a big one now yeah for girls yeah yeah yeah i mean for everybody for everybody yeah some real tickets yeah uh that's what nate respects

i mean he's like you know how hard it is to sell that amount of tickets yeah i will say i idolize nate but we all need people who when you're starting out in comedy that uh you know are doing things like you want to do and yeah when in nashville the comedy scene when i started you know there wasn't a lot of guys that are really taking it serious nobody else was clean so i remember the first time i saw you at zany's i'm like man this guy's funny he's clean he's telling jokes i remember your whole set about stuff that i would talk about in a less funny way. You and Keith Alberstadt is another one.

Keith Alberstadt, whenever he would come to town, it was good to know that these guys are successful, and they're doing it the way I would like to do it. Yeah, that's cool. So it's important. It's good to have those guys around. Absolutely. And we all need people like that in our life.

Yeah. Every step of the way. Yeah. People to chase. What are you talking about? People to chase. Absolutely. And we all need people like that in our life. Yeah. Every step of the way. Yeah. People to chase. What are you talking about? People to chase. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's like there's competition, but then there's the people you're chasing because you admire what

they've done. They show you that you can be successful. Yeah. I adore them. I look at them longfully. Yeah. Yeah. I admire them. Yeah. You need people to show you can be successful doing it the way you would like to do it. Yeah.

And that like, I, you know, what I respect is that it's just the hard work. It's like, oh, just working. And yeah, I have tremendous. That's why I exalt you're not going to top the source set me up for that again

alright that was fun well that was good where are you guys at you want to say where you're at me Steven will be there are you guys at? You want to say where you're at? Me, Steven will be there. Are you there? No. We'll be hanging out.

Oh yeah, y'all coming to hang out. Greg Warren and Dustin Nickerson. Nickerson, okay. We are at Indianapolis. Speaking of Caitlin Clark Where Caitlin Clark

Caitlin Clark Play So Wednesday And Thursday There Springfield, Missouri Then Going back to Omaha

It was The other one Was an added show So this was the first Original show And then Rosemont, Illinois And then You know Then yeah that and that is

the kind of the end of the beef fun tour uh we go i'm there's a show uh you know like i'll have doing some festivals doing some festivals some fairs and some stuff and yeah i mean look i'm not gonna have i i don't this kind of stuff you've been to shows i mean we're i think we're going to cities that i haven't been to because i don't be coming thinking i have a new hour i do not have a new hour uh that's what i gotta figure out where are you going in connecticut uh i don't know oh oh fox Foxwoods Casino. No, no. The town, I mean. Mesh and Tucket. Mesh and Tucket.

Sounds like a cop buddy movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mesh and Tucket. Rocky and Boy. Yeah. Yeah, so. Yeah. Mesh and Tucket.

Casino. Then we'll go back to Vegas. Yeah, Minnesota State Fair. A lot of the Fargo Dome, which will be fun. And then, yeah. What is it? Oh, Highland. Yeah, another casino.

Yeah, it's like casinos, like all that kind of stuff. And then, yeah. So it's roughly, besides those cities, it's like this is the end of the big bulk of the Be Funny Tour. Then it'll be kind of sporadic kind of stuff until we get started on the next one. Special will come out this year. I will say probably later.

It's going to come out later in the year. There's a lot of some pretty fun stuff that should be figuring out at the end of this year. So this Sunday, I'm back at the Grand Ole Opry. That wasn't my poster that you saw,

but I will be there. It's the first time I've been there this year. It's been a while. So it's such an honor to get to do the Grand Ole Opry. So I'm excited to be back this Sunday. This weekend, I am in Stephen Rogers hometown, syracuse new york at the syracuse funny mode just saturday two shows saturday so come on to one of them or come to

i mean you're not going to want to go to both but one of them is going to be pretty good and you know i won't tell you which one but then one other thing I want to plug. July 13th, I'm in Lake Forest, Illinois, between Chicago and Milwaukee. I'm doing a theater there in Lake Forest, Illinois. So if you're in the Chicago, Milwaukee area, I'll be there July 13th. Someone edit a map over his hands. Yeah. Yeah. How about you, Steve?

You know, I'm out with nate yes this weekend can i plug my recording yeah yeah no uh all right well thanks for listening everybody uh october uh 11th and 12th i'll be recording my uh special at the fort uh the comedy fort in fort collins colorado awesome it's called thesaurus. It's called the source. Yeah. It's called the source. It's going to be great. Please come. Yeah.

Yeah. That's a great club. Yeah. That is a great club. Yeah. That is a great club. Uh, uh,

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