The Nateland Podcast - 213: #213 Senses Part I - Vision
Episode Date: August 14, 2024This week, the guys learn about the five senses (specifically vision) while also straying off topic enough for Dusty to question the existence of outer space, Narwhals, and Helen Keller. ...
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Today's episode of the Nateland podcast, I think it said prodcast, Nateland podcast.
That's a different show, isn't it?
It is.
It is brought to you by Delete Me, Viore, Chime, and Zoc Doc. Hello folks and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast.
I'm Nate Bargetti, I'm Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and your boy.
Alright.
Dusty Slay.
He's back.
He's back.
I think I was here last week
Oh yeah
Yeah
Felt like you were
Yeah
He was one of the few that was here for the whole episode
I was not here for the whole episode
That's true
That was
Some in and outs
Yeah the first really kind of changing episode we've had like that I think
Where people are kind of coming and going
Yeah
Yeah it was one of those.
But, I mean, this one will be all.
Everybody stays right where they're at.
Hopefully.
Until this thing runs into the ground.
It's kind of the goal, you know?
Just ride the wave until it collapses.
Overstay your welcome.
It's a good career.
And just personal. Just personal. Yeah until it collapses. Overstay your welcome. It's a good career. And just personal.
Just personal.
Yeah, good drive.
Just go until people are like, I can't do this anymore,
and then do it two more years past that.
Right.
Be the last one at a house party.
Oh, yeah.
And make it weird.
Oh, yeah.
For your first and last at a house party.
You're like in the office when he shows up to her.
She's getting out of the shower.
You're wearing what the workers are wearing.
Yeah.
Would you show up?
I'd bring a potato salad or whatever it was he had.
How long do you have to drive?
When someone tells you to be there at 6 p.m.,
do you have to drive around the neighborhood around 5.45 p.m.
just so you're like...
Not too early.
Not too early?
Yeah.
I try to decide, like, it's 5.55 now.
How am I getting my car?
You know, it takes me a little bit.
Maybe it's not too rude now.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's like, what would be...
Yeah.
People say 6.
It's like, should it be 6?
The first ever podcast we did at your house, I think we were supposed to get there at noon,
and I got there at like 11, and I didn't want to.
We started at 2.30?
Yeah, I didn't want to show up an hour early to your house.
I didn't know you that well,
and I didn't want to park in front of your house,
so I drove to a random part of your neighborhood
and just sat in my car for an hour.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Till the cops came.
Yeah.
I would have done that too, though.
I appreciate it.
I would have just said, you know, just where you go.
I've done it before.
You go to someone and you're too early and you go, I'll just park in a random parking
lot and just sit some alone time and wait till it's appropriate to show up.
Show up like, oh, sorry, I'm late.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's how you could have showed up like that.
Because otherwise it's just like, he's like, yeah, I got nothing going on.
You're like, I'm wide open.
Yeah, what do you want?
He's, what time do you want to start?
Be there.
You want to spend the night?
Yeah.
Your life at that point was you could spend the night at someone's house without talking to someone.
Oh, of course.
Mm-hmm.
That really goes away, spending the night.
Yeah.
It starts, and then it just really kind of...
But I still got buddies that are not married and stuff, so they can...
You're like, just spend the night.
I'm trying to remember the last time I did that. It's been're like i just spent the night like uh i'm trying to
remember the last time i did that it's been a while spent the night yeah does like doing that
for comedy count um i guess if you arrange it ahead of time it doesn't really yeah right i don't
think it no yeah i don't think it counts in comedy because i think it's that would be you know it's
like that just makes
i mean yeah you definitely have a lot of 30 40 something year old people spending the night
but it's that's you know you're working you're kind of stuck out like wherever but just like
someone being like yeah come over just spend the night yeah it feels i find most adults want to
drive home yeah be in your own bed yeah well it just doesn't make sense. Yeah, and I think there's a part.
You just, you know.
As a kid, if you knew that spending the night
was going to go away like it does,
it really goes away, you know?
How were you when you spent the night
at people's house?
Was it you just sit up with the parents all night?
There you go.
The kid's like, I barely saw him.
We watched 60 Minutes.
He goes, Brian came over last night
and went to bed at 7 p.m. with my parents.
I got to get up and watch CBS Sunday Morning.
Have a cup of coffee and read the newspaper.
The dad comes down and I've already went
to the driveway to get the paper.
Yeah.
I got it.
I got it, Art.
Because you won't believe it.
Yeah.
I'm looking at the Wall Street.
Did you spend the night a lot?
I mean,
once I got in high school,
yeah, I would spend the night
with my buddies some,
but not a ton.
I never did it a whole lot. I lived out in the middle of nowhere, so nobody wanted to come spend the night with my buddies But not a ton I never did it a whole lot
I lived out in the middle of nowhere
So nobody wanted to come spend the night with me
Too much gas
In the middle of nowhere of Lebanon?
Yeah, I lived out in the country
But Lebanon was not
You know, this is the 40s
But that's what I mean
For it to be the middle of nowhere
Even there feels like deep out there.
Right.
It was pre-interstate, right?
No, but...
Taking a train to your house.
I think people were still scared of the interstate.
Yeah.
Definitely.
The interstate actually, I-40 split our land in half.
Did it really?
Yeah.
When they built it?
Mm-hmm.
They give you a big money for it?
Well, that was before my time, but it was like 1960, I think.
Did they have to, did your family, did they have to give your money, family?
I think so, yeah.
I think they, you know, it's, what's that, what's the term?
Eminent domain.
Eminent domain, yeah.
But I assume that, you know, hopefully you got paid nicely.
That's what we don't know.
No one realizes that Brian is like worth $80 million. And like, it's just. I know he's big money don't know. No one realizes that Brian is worth $80 million.
I know he's big money banks.
I just do this for fun.
He's like, is that why you've never given it your all in your career?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I just thought.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean it.
That's funny.
Just a funny joke.
I don't get it, but it's funny.
But it was like, yeah, I didn't want to say it.
I didn't even care to say it.
I thought, don't say it.
It hurt you to say it.
It did hurt me to say it, but it was, what do you want me to do?
I had no choice.
What's even worse is I probably have given it my all.
That's a compliment, really.
I'd be killing it if I tried.
Thank you.
That's the nicest thing you've ever to me that's it's a big hey you got a big head that's the nicest thing anybody's ever said it's
a compliment yeah um yeah i was the only one like at my high school, that had my home phone number prefix was different than everyone else's.
Because I lived...
Under the interstate.
Yeah, basically.
I had a Watertown prefix.
Okay.
What's prefix?
The area code?
No, back then we didn't even need area codes.
Was it like the letter K or something?
Was your phone number KKL5532.
But you're old enough to remember when you didn't have to put in the area code, right?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
You just call Trudy and ask for the bait, and then she connects you.
Like Mayberry.
Sarah, get me the post office.
And then when you answer the phone, you just hear,
like the interstate car is going over.
Hello.
There's traffic up there.
You got to talk louder.
The prefix is the first three numbers.
Oh, I didn't know there was a system to that.
I thought it was just seven random numbers.
But the first three are location specific. Yeah, Opelika
was 749.
Old Hickory was 847.
Oh my gosh. You learn something new
every day.
Yeah, then it goes...
He probably just grew up with cell phones.
Did you even have a home phone?
Yeah, I didn't get a cell phone
until junior year of high school.
Did y'all have a home phone?
Good parents.
We had a home phone, yeah.
Would you call your friend's home phone?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
But you didn't have to put in the area code, right?
No, you never had to.
Yeah.
334, though.
Yeah.
We were 205 back in the day.
I would call my friend Kevin's house and go,
Hi, Mrs. Taylor, may I please speak to Kevin?
And then she'd go run and get him.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's how it'd go. Thanks, Mrs. Taylor, may I please speak to Kevin? And then she'd go run and get him. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's how it'd go.
Thanks for breaking that down.
I like to know that she ran.
I'm just saying we didn't have cell phones.
I like to know that his mom hustled it, though.
I mean, you asked if I called the family phone of a friend.
I did not expect an act out of boring.
Yeah, we did it.
I'd go, hey, Mrs. Taylor, is is kevin there yeah he's there it's like yeah
that's what i figured i thought you were going to the story i thought that was very interesting
bates and i'll finish that on our side podcast that we do later just boring stuff that got cut
off during nateland yeah everybody go watch that. It's just three hours long.
Yeah.
You know, you rip this label off, you can't really tell.
It's, yeah, we, well, the area code thing, when I moved to New York,
why I had a New York number was because of the area code.
When I started comedy in 2003 and 2004, area codes still really mattered.
Like, you still put in people's area codes.
So I was like, well, I've got to have a New York area code
or they're going to think I don't live.
Someone said that to me, and I was like, oh, yeah,
they're going to think I don't live here.
Because it wasn't – now people just have the same number.
We don't even know what their number is.
You don't even know.
So your area codes are pointless but even when i started comedy it was like well you need a
you need a like an area code from where you're at so then they know if i want to do shows in
new york i thought i need to have new york so they know hey he lives here would you not have
credibility like if you had a ring it was on the verge of where it was just weirder to call someone's.
It was just kind of a weird thing to be like, what?
My area code is like, you know, it was just not as accepted, right?
Do you remember that?
Yeah.
I mean, there's an episode of Seinfeld where Elaine gets the new area code and she's upset about it.
646.
Yeah.
And then, which was my area code.
And she's upset about it. 646.
Yeah.
And then, which was my area code.
And so when they would do that, it's, yeah, it was like, yeah, Seinfeld episodes, exactly.
It was just enough to be like, what, you know, where you're like, I got to press like one.
Like when you did it then, you would have had to go one blank, you know, whatever your area code was.
One, six, one, five, and then dial the number.
And so that was enough that you could see a comedian.
I mean, absolutely.
You wouldn't get booked for a show out of pure,
you think I'm dialing your,
you think you're good enough that I got to remember your area code?
There's not a comic on earth that would book you for a show.
That would be enough to be like, he's out.
You give them an extension, too.
Wow.
Oh, yeah.
You're done.
I think any comic, comics don't want to go through any work.
So if they have to go, you're not talking to professionals.
Especially if you have a rotary phone.
Yeah.
A bit extra work there.
It's a lot. Yeah. Yeah, extra work there. It's a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah, you get charged.
Any nines in the number are real tough on a rotary.
My friend's family had a rotary phone.
There wasn't a need for it.
We had regular phones, but if you had to call at his house, it's really a lot of work.
911 is probably pretty tough.
Well, the nine is tough, but the 1s are tough. Oh, yeah.
It's real quick. You better
hope that 9 spins fast.
You might want to help the 9
get back to 9. Yeah.
You do 9, then you go back, and you go,
one more. Do you think we'll...
Are we going to eventually run out of phone numbers?
Probably can't.
Probably every number could be...
Nah. Nah, I don't think so.
They'll be more mass casualty.
They say that with cards.
What do you mean?
What cards?
With poker, there's a trillion different hands that can be played.
So I would imagine with phone numbers, it's even more than that.
There are billions of potential digit combinations so it's possible eventually that we'll have used up every number but it's like when people die and get new numbers i don't think yeah can you
imagine though it's like i can't get a number until someone dies you're on a waiting list? Yeah. Checking the obituaries.
Can I get Susan's number?
Will we ever not
use numbers?
Yeah.
We'll get somebody's
best guess here. Yeah.
Yeah, by the... Okay.
Some say by the time we start running out of standard
10 numbers that we have today,
we will have found new ways to talk using internet technology,
and we won't need traditional.
Your AI thing that they just force upon us now.
Oh, I just, I didn't even notice that.
I just instinctively scroll past that now.
Oh, why?
You don't want to hear what that says?
No, well, it's just like, I don't know.
You love this stuff.
Telepathy.
Yeah, that's what I use.
Well, Neuralink.
Yeah, Neuralink.
Once that comes in.
Some say, some say, the sumink. Yeah, Neuralink. Once that comes in. Some say the phone numbers may become obsolete in the future due to new ways of...
That's what I mean.
No one even knows any numbers now.
So there's no point in knowing numbers.
So if you just had your phone be your name or be your... your i mean that's how it gets kind of wild yeah they
go well you don't you don't get a number you gotta your fingerprint is your phone so then
everybody goes is like call aaron weber and you're just like and you type in your name just like you
do now so the number doesn't even matter hopefully you never know two Aaron Webbers because then you'll be like, oh, dude, sorry, wrong Aaron Webber.
And he's all sad and he's like, oh, it happens.
Happens every day.
I keep getting calls for the wrong Aaron Webber.
Yeah.
You know what they can do?
Yeah, that's true.
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Yeah.
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Why'd you say privacy?
You just said it to me
It's just fun to throw it in there
Because they finally beat him down about the data data thing
And he had to give it up
So it's got to be a new thing now
Really sticking it to the man
You know the guy
Who has Neuralink
Says he's
He's unbelievable at
Video games now
He just plays with his mind
Because the quick reaction
Nobody can
Keep up with it
That's not fair
He said they may ban it in some of these
Video game competitions
if you have Neuralink because you're so much quicker.
There's only one guy that has it.
Yeah.
And so he could just – because you're just imagining it.
You're not going like A-A-X-X-X, right?
Yeah.
He's just playing it like it's a real person.
Yeah.
He's just looking.
He goes there, there, there, there.
I love that he's putting it to good use. First guy with
Neuralink's like a gamer.
Well, what games he playing, that matters.
I think he can't
move. Right. He's a paraplegic
and I don't know what you want him to be doing.
I thought you were talking about the guy
that invented it, put it in himself.
Let's lead with that, guys.
Make fun of the guy for a while
and then you're like, well, he's really handicapped.
Well, I thought you would have heard a news story about the only human on earth that can think with his brain and make stuff move.
Oh, no.
I didn't know you skimmed by that.
I've been trashing that guy for months.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You go, why don't you use your hands like everybody else?
Yeah.
I know, because that's the thing, is you think it's one of those weird where you're like i don't why would anybody do that and then you're like well then he does it you're like okay
well i like he can't move and then yeah so that's wild and so we've seen how it goes i don't i mean
that that's beyond i feel really bad for the guy now and i hate that it had to come to that for
him yeah he was a big fan of yours he He's the Dump Dusty guy. Yeah.
Yeah.
He just, he thinks about it.
Well, let's take that Neuralink out of his brain.
Yeah, that's why he's first, because he just thinks.
Yeah.
And everybody's like, I can't ever beat that guy.
Of course not.
Yeah.
He's in his head.
He's thinking Dump Dusty.
Yeah.
And then he just knows at 4 a.m. he's asleep.
Whenever this comes out.
And he just,
his brain goes,
Neuralink goes.
I had no idea
the Dump Dusty guy
was a paraplegic.
And now,
you know,
he's allowed to do it now.
Now I know
that that guy
who does that
is severely handicapped.
And I'm sorry for him.
I wonder, man,
you see,
like, yeah,
it's very confusing that, you you know so that guy can just
do he can move a computer cursor yeah it was a cursor with his yeah mind yeah you gotta be plugged
up is it Wi-Fi I got a joke about that. Maybe Bluetooth. Yeah.
I don't think there's a cord coming out of his ear, but yeah, he's connected.
Yeah, it's probably Bluetooth, I guess.
Bluetooth, yeah.
Sometimes Bluetooth won't connect right, and that could be a real pain.
You ever put a headphone in, and it won't connect, and it keeps saying, trying to connect.
What if that's going on in his brain?
It just connects to the car, and you're like, ah, no. He gets to reset it.
Like, he unhooks it, and then he goes finding, find.
You know, he searches for.
He's like, somebody push the button.
Maybe he's like, I got a lot to say.
They're like, well, just say it. He goes, I got to find.
Is anybody got a speaker?
That's kind of my joke.
He's got to connect his.
Oh, is it?
Yeah.
Oh, sorry.
About how I'll have, like, I don't know technology. I yeah oh sorry about how i i'll have like the
i don't know technology i'll be at a party i'm like what's the wi-fi in here everybody else be
talking with their brains and mine will be spinning i'll just be behind i'll have to run an ethernet
cord to my head oh oh that's funny yeah you just sitting there till you go where's brian well you
got to go over there if you want to talk to him because he's still attached into the house.
Yeah, likely.
He's very quick.
He's much quicker.
Hey, what's going on?
Likely it'll be like the movie Surrogates.
You ever seen that movie with Bruce Willis?
Yeah.
Where they're all kind of connected,
but they have these robot bodies that go out into the world.
That's what it'll be.
You looking forward to that?
Yeah, I think that'll be a lot of fun.
That's what it'll be.
You looking forward to that?
Yeah, I think that'll be a lot of fun.
All right, good to know.
Where were you this weekend?
I was at...
I would have been at home,
and my robot body would have went out to Canada.
But I did it the old-fashioned way and took everything out there, all of me.
Wow.
And I was in Canada this weekend.
The Great Outdoors Festival, they did an awesome job.
We were in Nova Scotia, Halifax.
Very cool.
I've never been to Halifax.
And then Ottawa.
Ottawa, both were unreal.
Super cool cities.
Rained on both shows.
I felt bad.
I mean, Canada is getting hit by a hurricane.
I didn't even know that a hurricane could get it.
They go, they're like, we're getting hit by a hurricane.
I go, what hurricane?
And they're like, Dabby.
And I go, where is it?
I mean, I was like, where is it at?
And they're like, Florida.
And you're like, well, how is that even remotely getting up this far?
But it makes it.
Debbie was.
It went all the way up the East Coast.
Yeah.
I mean, and so they had a lot of stuff, dude.
We had one of them get cancer in London, Ontario because of rain.
They just got killed with it.
And so the first night of the show in Halifax, it rained.
It was nice.
They're like, it's supposed to rain a little bit, not too much.
I mean, it just downpoured the whole time I was up, like loud.
They were so – these are two shows I remember more in my life than any show
because they just were loved.
They still loved it.
They just sat out there in the rain.
They were unbelievable.
And then the same thing in Ottawa.
Ottawa was beautiful.
It's like, all right, they're going to have...
The night before, they just canceled Segura's show because of the rain.
Wow.
And so they're like, but Right when we get there It's sunny
It's
Everything's great
And then when I go up
It's just
You see it
It just comes down
But they're like
They were
Great spirits
Loved it
You know
Awesome crowd
So yeah
It was a good time
Wow
That's awesome
What about you Brian
Where were you
I was home
I was off this weekend
Ruth did have a gig here
At Zaney's
This weekend
So I had to watch
The kid
While she was
Here
Look at this
Having some fun
Look at that
How about this
The wife sitting in
Yeah
That's good
That's fun
What do you think
They're talking about
On that podcast
A lot of nothing That's good That's fun What do you think they're talking about on that podcast?
A lot of nothing A lot of complaining
I don't know
Yeah, Lucy had her baby shower here this weekend
It's nice
I did
I spoke to a group of
Special needs adults
Who are going to do a comedy show here
At the Lab at Zany's
next week
called Jokeability.
They're a player on disability.
And he said,
just tell the guy
who asked me to,
just tell a little bit
about yourself
and do some jokes.
And I go,
hey guys,
I'm Brian,
I'm 52
and my wife is 48.
And one of the guys
in the audience goes,
ouch.
Wow.
And then Derek Tenney,
you guys know Derek,
but he's like,
Kenny,
or whatever,
that's not appropriate time to do that.
And then later,
when I'm telling my jokes,
I tell something about myself making fun
and the guy,
again,
he goes,
ouch.
And then Derek goes,
no,
Kenny,
no, that's appropriate That's
The first time was not
But
But I got heckled
It's like Kenny
Are you hurt out there
Or what buddy
Yeah
But no you roasted him back
Didn't you
I did
Well I did
Yeah I did
He has a
A bearded dragon
Is like a therapy
Yeah
Animal
And I was like
What is that your girlfriend
Yeah
That's what he did
I got a big laugh from everybody.
Yeah, you stuck it to him.
I'm doing it tomorrow night, I'm doing that.
Good, I hope you get roasted.
I probably will.
Fatty!
Where was I? Lexington, Kentucky.
Comedy Off-Broadway. What a great club.
Did the Bearded Dragon joke destroy?
Yeah, because I think
this guy, he really has a girlfriend that he talks about all the time.
So everybody else in the audience thought, this is great.
How did he take it?
It's hard to tell.
He said, ouch.
I mean, that's the honest answer.
I'm not sure.
Do you wish the camera was rolling?
That's a great clip if you would have got it.
It was rolling. They're shooting a documentary on it
Oh, that's cool
I hope they keep that part in
Oh, they were filming the whole thing?
Yeah
Oh, so you got that?
I guess, there's a film crew there
I hope that's what they use
I mean, I didn't ask for the footage afterwards
And then you get really roasted online for doing that to them
Yeah, the bearded dragon
Yeah
That's the only clip they show you go was a your girlfriend
you just better hope they think you were there you know like it just they go no i think he's
nobody complains no one can let it go no no i think he he he's one that lives yeah he lives there
yeah stay among yours you know yeah uh where were you, Aaron?
Comedy on Broadway, Lexington Great weekend
Great club
Really, really great club
A lot of fun
A lot of people came
A lot of people brought gifts
It was very, very cool, man
It was just a great weekend
Thank you to everybody that was there
I was in Kansas City, Missouri
At what used to be the Improv
Is now the Funny Bone
Great shows
People brought me gifts too.
One night I was on stage and I was riffing about dip for a while.
You know, Kodiak, Skull, Grizzly.
A lot of fun.
And then I made the motion like you do when you pack a can of dip.
Guy in the front row handed me a can.
I packed it right there on stage.
Crowd goes wild.
I'm like, that's what I'm talking about.
Do you throw one in? I wish that I there on stage. Crowd goes wild. I'm like, that's what I'm talking about.
Do you throw one in?
Prop cover.
I wish that I would like to.
I love dipping, but I'm afraid I'll get roped back in.
Yeah, that's what would happen.
Yeah, it's good.
Dip is really good.
Do you think you'll ever go back to material?
Not after that.
Not after that. It's dip. It's it's dip packing from here on out baby it's your calling card yeah i may pack a pack of cigarettes you just go around the
room and everybody brings in stuff they need kind of put together yeah start bringing black and
milds out working it freaking it you know I mean? That's what they call it.
And I can't wait.
I can't wait.
All right.
Well, that was fun.
All right, let's start off with you guys.
Michelle O'Connor.
Julian McCullough should be our New Jersey ambassador.
I'm proud to have him represent us this episode.
There we go.
Newest stuff.
New Jersey stuff.
I think he is the New Jersey ambassador.
He is.
I bet that that's a heavy weight to carry around because you feel like people always attack New Jersey.
But he did a good job of acknowledging we are what we are, but also there's some misconceptions, too.
Yeah.
We're also from Alabama.
Yeah.
We get a lot of-
That's what I'm saying.
We go through the same thing.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
The South is-
Yeah.
I mean, everybody's New Jersey.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, they're always hating on us.
Yeah, yeah.
New Jersey looks down on us.
Yeah.
They don't come to us and go,
look how good y'all are doing.
Justin Higgins.
Even though we're doing great. We're doing great.
We're having a great time. Justin Higgins.
Julian says, the fans
come to see Nate.
And then we cut to a silent three-second
shot of Nate's empty chair.
That was a genius and
hilarious editing move.
Good job, everybody.
We had a good editing team.
They'll do that every now and then, some little tongue-in-cheek editing.
I like it.
Best in the game out here.
John Whitebread.
Oh, dude.
I love that.
John Whitebread. John Whitebread.
John White.
That feels like if you get the, what's the thing, witness protection?
Yeah.
And then they put you somewhere else and they go, just make up a name.
And he goes, I don't, John Whitebread.
And they go, all right, that's fine.
And then you're like.
Give me a second.
Next thing you know, you're like four years later, you're like, God, what?
They rush you in these things.
They really rush you.
Just the first name they keep in my head.
John Whitebread.
Because I don't know.
There's a bag of bread.
He came home and told his wife the new name.
Yeah.
We're the Whitebread family.
212 episodes in, y'all decide not to wear headphones
for the first time and no one says a single word about it i thought we did i think we just had some
technical issues and so we didn't do it it's our terrible editors over there and i guess
trying to be super creative uh y'all didn't say anything about it at the beginning no it was a
last second we can't wear them but i like when we wear them because when we don't we talk over each other a lot i haven't noticed that aaron was
real concerned about it well i gotta edit the clips there's six different conversations happening at
once it's tough to you know what i'm saying yeah uh brad davis we definitely need licensed shirts that say, this is Nate land, not hate land.
Aaron brought some heat to this episode.
All right.
That's my heat.
A pretty basic rhyme.
That was right away in the podcast,
and it started to cool down,
and it cooled down so much that he left.
Yeah.
I'm out.
Yeah, it was like someone that knew they were leaving,
but they didn't tell everybody else.
So he's like, I'll just come out hard.
Yes.
Up top.
And then by the time he goes, I got to go,
everybody's like, well, finally.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're almost happy you're gone.
Mm-hmm.
Lionel.
Lionel.
Lionel.
Lionel Perez.
What are the chances that's a lot?
Lionel.
Lionel, yeah.
I bet it's Lionel.
That probably makes sense.
Leonel.
I like Leonel Perez, though.
Liano.
Liano.
Liano.
Lionel.
That makes way more sense.
Is that how you spell Lionel?
Usually with an I, I think.
Okay, that's what threw me off.
I smashed the like button because of Dusty.
All right.
Lino likes it.
Remember that?
We had a little riff about smashing the like button.
I was there for that.
And you guys really gave me like a look and then just went on about your business.
Yeah.
Lionel gets it.
Yeah, Lionel gets it.
Yeah.
No, I liked it.
Matt Schultz.
Was Dusty raised by humans?
Was he really pouring water into his cup with the lid on?
I get on board with his conspiracy theories, but this is another level.
I did notice that.
Well, I don't, yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't, I mean, it's like, I just was like looking and I was like, oh, there's just a hole right there and it's slanted.
Yeah.
I don't need to do it all fast.
Why take the lid off when I could just pull it right in?
I noticed you doing it, and I think I would have said something,
but someone was talking, and then it was just kind of like moved past the point.
I'm just innovative.
Is that the word?
Sure.
Innovative?
Mm-hmm.
Innovative?
Yeah.
You look like a guy that loves some gutter work.
Have you ever cleaned a gutter, though?
It's satisfying.
I know.
That's what I mean.
So I think this reminds you of gutter work because it's like the water comes down.
Yeah.
If you've got a gutter that's clogged and you get up there
and you pull the leaves away and then the water starts to flow down,
it's very satisfying.
You ever go down a rabbit hole on TikTok or something
of somebody just cleaning drains?
You know what I'm talking about?
No, but I'd like to.
Yeah, I'll send you some videos.
I've done watching people use a wood chipper.
Oh, that's great.
And watching people weed eat.
I got a weed removal tool that I saw on TikTok.
Yeah?
You stab it in the weed, twist it, and then pull it out.
Does it work?
Yeah.
All right.
It's awesome.
I love that.
I almost volunteered to do the whole neighborhood.
Wow.
Because it's so therapeutic.
Send me the link, though.
I'd like to get that.
I got some.
Yeah.
You come on Brian and i's podcast
and we'll talk more about it wild lilies you ever seen those in the spring they bloom up in your
yard and they're purple beautiful looking flower but in but then they stick around all year and
they have a root that's just like unbelievable so hard to get out oh no never never quite like this
maybe it's not even a lily It's some other kind of wild plant
Lionel's crabgrass
It's a lionel
It's never that beautiful
But beautiful might have been an overstatement
It's pretty
Abby Tilford
Twilight fans have only grown since it's come out
Especially since the films were on Netflix during the pandemic
They called it the Twilight Renaissance.
We still love them just as much and are able to make fun of them completely.
It's a comfort movie series that my friends and I watch multiple times a year.
I get that.
I don't remember what he said, but it was like something about.
Well, at least during that time you could hide your face behind a mask.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Your embarrassment from watching it. I think it julian fell asleep at a movie that was
twilight yeah and we're just talking about how that movie probably has not aged well yeah but i
get what they're saying like you go back and it reminds you of it would be like a song from high
school that you always go man when i hear that song reminds me of high school that's what this
does for abby and friends. And they go back
and during the pandemic, they did it.
What's the song that reminds you of high school?
Yeah, mine's where we were
merely freshmen. Out of all,
and I'm not a music guy, but that's the one.
Freshman? That's a great song.
The Verve Pipe.
The Verve Pipe, yep. I love that song.
That's like a tragic song, too.
I don't know what the words are, but
it reminds me of my senior year in high school.
Because it came out.
That was the song that was on.
Every time I hear that song, I think of my high school.
Such a great song.
And I think of my senior year in high school with my buddies.
I thought we talked about that on episode one.
We might have.
Right out of the gate.
Yeah.
I got to start talking about some of this stuff again.
Yeah.
It's a great song.
We're right out.
Yeah. Is it sad? I think it's about somebody dying. I got to start talking about some of this stuff again. Yeah. It's a great song. Yeah.
Is it sad?
I think it's about somebody dying.
I never got into it like that.
I'm guilt-stricken, sobbing with my head on the floor, stopping baby's breath.
I mean, it's...
Oh, dude, I've seen that stuff, and I don't have an ounce of emotion as I say those words.
Yeah, stopping baby's breath and a shoe full of rice, though.
It's like, what is that?
Can't be held responsible
Because she was touching her face
Yeah
I don't know, I mean it's not super clear
But there's definitely some death involved
It definitely seems tragic
I know this song and I could
I have no idea
What this song
Is even remotely about.
It's about freshmen.
I know, and I was in my senior year.
Maybe freshmen in college.
Oh, yeah.
Maybe right around your age.
Maybe around my age, yeah.
But it was – I remember that song, so every time I hear it –
Oh, jeez.
Oh. Yeah. Oh. Good night. But it was It was I remember that song So every time I hear it Oh jeez Oh
Yeah
Oh
Good night
I just kind of saw
What it was about
Yeah
Yeah you never
Really look up
What the song's about
Yeah I don't
That's how you ruin
Everything for yourself
Yeah I don't
You might have just
Yeah it's like
Well my go to song
Was Lightning Crashes
By Live
Oh that's a great one too
Oh yeah I like that song too That's a good one too too. Oh, yeah, I like that song, too.
That's a good one, too.
I don't know what that's about.
I was joking.
That's another horrificly graphic.
It is a great song.
That whole album by Live is really good.
Throwing Copper?
Oh, yeah.
Really good album.
These, I mean, really, I take in these words.
I mean, they do not go past the surface.
these words like uh i mean just they do not go past the surface they mean absolutely i don't even i couldn't even think of us like i just don't even it just doesn't make sense to me that it's
actually someone trying to say something yeah i don't even know what they're trying to say
who's trying to say anything you know get over yourself that's how i say it who are you i get it you know i used
to really think that these musicians like knew something you know and you listen to the lyrics
and you're like oh that's really profound and then you like meet a few music musicians and you're
like oh you're you're all alcoholics But they probably didn't write the songs.
Well, I guess it depends on the genre.
Yeah.
You ever have that moment where you're like,
all these great songs,
these songs we all consider to be the best songs ever,
they were all like 19 and 20 when they wrote them.
Yeah.
Most of these were kids.
And alcoholics.
Well, yeah, okay.
I don't know.
There seems to be a theme here that Dusty wants to get out.
I say a lot of great art, they're very young when they make it.
Yeah.
And then I'm not saying it's not great, but you get older,
and you're like, what were y'all even – what was that 19-year-old talking about?
I saw a Damien Rice concert at the Ryman one time.
I really liked this guy one time.
And he had a song called I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You,
and he was talking about the song. The Blower's Daughter. Yeah, and he's like, you he had a song called i can't take my eyes off of you and he's he was
talking about the blower's daughter yeah and he's like you write these songs and you go i can't take
my eyes off of you and he goes you know what i could take my eyes off her and i did
is that his wife or something i don't know i'm sure it was just uh you know these guys just go
what would be a beautiful thing to say and then they ruin it for the rest of us because women hear it and they go,
well, why isn't our relationship like this song?
And you're like, because that song's three minutes long.
We've been together for 10 years.
I feel like with now, if it's like there's songwriters too,
it's like all these songs are written by someone else, right?
A lot of them.
It's collaborative. Yeah. you know, they're written by someone else. Right? A lot of them. And then so then you're just...
It's collaborative.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So then it's just kind of like,
you know, in your head,
you think it's supposed to be that guy.
But it's no different than...
I'll play devil's advocate.
It's no different than a TV show
where you get a writer's room and you get together
and then like, you know,
maybe it's your vision, it's your show,
but you have writers that go in there and help shape it.
Yes.
So, yeah, okay, I see that.
But I think a song, when it has this kind of, they're trying,
they're playing on your emotion.
So they're playing on, they're really like,
they're trying to make you very vulnerable
or they're playing to you at a very vulnerable moment.
And, you know, and then you're and you're
doing it and when you really look at it to be like yeah man that might have been eight dudes
wrote that song and they're just and they just go i'm making a swift judgment that this large group
of people are going to be into this thing yeah and so they're going to just say now if it was that person and you're like all
right that's coming from that guy and that was maybe then i would you would be like it would
take you to that point but these dudes are all sad that's the thing too you can't be every song
is just the saddest song even the all the pop songs like it's these cute pretty little girls that are
just like i'm miserable and you're like it's sad a lot of great art comes from sadness man we see
it in comedy too right yeah you see it in comedy but it's it's yeah i mean all comedy is is kind
of this like but at least we're trying to uplift trying to spin it into something good
you're trying to be like hey let's have fun with it versus with music it's just like no no i'm
gonna i'm gonna take you there and i'm gonna keep you there it would be fun to just do a stand-up
show where it's just sad and there's no turn and it's just like yeah and that's what you know i
think that'd be comedy let me send you my dates.
Brian, what was your song from high school?
Good Vibrations?
Big Band?
Big Band stuff?
Good Vibrations.
Might have been.
What was that? When did that song come out?
I think the 60s.
There's a trend here.
You really want to associate it with the 60s.
The interstate coming through.
Was it?
I don't want to get my timeline right.
Yeah, go ahead.
I don't know if the Beatles, did they start yet when you graduated?
John hadn't met Yoko yet.
John Lennon was definitely alive during your high school.
Yeah.
I do remember when he died, though.
Your senior year in high school.
Do you want to say something, Dusty?
No, I'm listening.
I'm trying to find out what your high school song was.
My senior year, Milli Vanilli was really big.
And MC Hammer, You Can't Touch This.
I remember that was big. I remember that.
That's fun. I mean, that's a great song. I mean, You Can't Touch This. I remember that was big. I remember that. That's fun.
I mean, that's a great song.
I mean, it was at its time.
But that's funny to think about.
You hear MC Hammer and you think about high school.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
He had the praise.
I was in elementary school, I think, when that song came out.
He had the song Pray.
Yeah.
You got to pray just to make it.
That was a good song, too.
Mm-hmm.
Bon Jovi was big when I was in high school.
Living on Prayer. Shot to the Heart. Yeah. Yeah. Great song too mm-hmm fun jovi was big when i was in high school oh living on
prayer shot to the heart yeah yeah god great song mm-hmm uh all right uh carter heights
as a former college swimmer i can confirm that not all swimming races are created
equal things to consider are the depth, the walls, the blocks,
the kind of lane lines, the width of the lanes,
and just for the record, a cooler pool is preferred
because the hotter water will zap more energy.
Also, Dusty, you're too confident about you fitting in Olympic swimming.
Try the gun sports.
Working men like you do those.
That is the shooting the gun thing that this week
in the Olympics, you would be
that big. Well, this guy, he doesn't even know.
I never said Olympic swimmer.
And I've clarified many
times that I don't mean
the best swimmer in the world.
Dusty said he was better than Michael Phelps.
So Carter is not an Olympic
swimmer, so you definitely mean... Not an Olympic
thinker or listener.
But you think with Carter, but he's a college swimmer.
So you think you could blend in with him?
Yeah, I think so.
Here's a dumb question.
Maybe Carter or Dusty, maybe you can weigh in.
Why does the depth of the pool matter at all?
I imagine Carter dives too hard, I think.
There's more water.
Scrapes his chin on the bottom.
You're swimming at the same level.
Yeah, but there's just more water in there.
Some people commented that the ripples you make on the way down,
you want to try to avoid those on the way back.
How do you do that if you're in a lane?
Well, you go lower
or oh yeah higher or whatever oh okay maybe if you can stay under them a little bit more when
those guys can hold their breath a little longer and stay under them more yeah and then uh but he
is right though about the gun sports i think i'd be into that too i'm not really a handgun guy but
i'd like to get into some rifle competitions yeah i'm into that. Hook one up to Neuralink
and just have a good time. Yeah, I was a pretty good
shot. I was always a pretty good shot.
Enough that no one would notice.
Yeah. And you looked that part.
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Wow.
All right.
Jake Flackus.
I feel like I know that last name.
Flackus?
Sounds like a Seinfeld name.
Feels like, yeah.
I'm a high school physics teacher, and I teach about the speed of sound.
I don't think you teach about more than just that.
It's a small class.
All year he's just like
let me guess. Every day
let's take a shot in the
dark.
We don't do dark.
I felt Aaron's
pain when Nate mocked him about his fun
fact. As you can imagine, high
school students don't really care about sound
changing speed depending on temperature.
But here's another fun fact.
Sound travels 18 times faster in aluminum than it does in air.
Maybe a little off on the fun part of that fact.
Yeah.
High school students don't really care about sound changing speed depending on temperature.
Oh, yeah.
They're like, well, it's hotter or colder.
Yeah.
That's just one of those things you learn and you keep with you and you never do anything with it the rest of your life.
What could you do with it besides tell someone else?
I'd become a physicist and I don't know.
And do what?
Time your voice to someone else's head?
Maybe this aluminum thing is why.
How about we not worry about the why and let's just get to doing things.
Maybe this is why the police get called for people arguing in trailers,
because it really travels faster in aluminum.
That's a great point.
Maybe trailers are like, it's not as bad as it probably sounded.
Right.
It just seemed like you're really talking fast, but it's just because it's getting there quick.
And all the aluminum cans inside.
Yeah, yeah.
There's a lot of aluminum.
There's a lot of aluminum cans.
On the floor.
Yeah.
And then you got your truck that says Lumen Siding parked out front.
Yeah.
I mean, this is all.
You got 10 along the bottom.
10, yeah.
Yeah.
You call 911 a lot, right?
I've called it a few times.
Yeah, you've talked about that.
Yeah.
They show up fast.
Well, I don't know.
I mean, I don't, you know, I don't know.
But I don't know how fast they get there, but.
All right.
Well, I was just trying to be funny.
Oh, no.
You live in a little trailer.
Oh, no, I get it.
He doesn't believe in 9-1-1.
It's one of the ones.
It's the Dump Dusty thing.
Yeah.
That I get mad about.
Yeah.
And we go, you can call it.
And he goes, no one ever answers.
I did want to ask this, Dusty.
So there's a couple astronauts stranded in space.
Okay.
I think you see where this is going.
Where do you think they're hiding?
Are they not in a ship?
No, they are.
No, they are in a ship.
They're just not going to be able to land until next year.
Yeah, why?
They're supposed to be there for eight days,
and then they had some trouble with their ship.
Yeah, why was it?
Is it NASA?
Yeah, one of the astronauts is from Mount Juliet.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
What's he doing?
They're due back on Earth next February.
I've seen that guy a bunch.
That hair's fake.
You haven't seen that guy.
I know who you think that guy is.
I don't think you've seen that guy.
You're thinking of Mark Kelly.
Yeah, Mark Kelly's been everywhere.
Mark Kelly looks a lot like this guy.
He does.
Mark Kelly has a twin brother.
I think you're bloated because of space.
Yeah, that hair thing's fake, though.
You think that they're standing there and then she puts that on?
Yeah, that's hairspray.
Yeah, look at that lady.
Her hair ain't doing that.
They love to do that.
They love that feature.
That ain't happening, though.
Yeah.
What did the headline say the headline says that it's what to know about nasa stranded astronauts
are they married couple no no but they better get to like better become cool with each other
you imagine having a fight and you're just stuck on the space station yeah for several more months
i mean yeah sorry yeah a year. I mean, it's crazy.
The Starliner had a helium leak in one of its subsystems
that was noticed before liftoff but deemed a manageable problem.
But it also had thruster problems once in orbit,
and NASA scientists have not yet been able to diagnose exactly what went wrong,
how to fix them, or whether they pose a threat during a return to Earth.
So they're just in limbo. So your question is, where are they
hiding? Well, I was just joking with you.
As if to say they didn't really go, they're just
hiding somewhere. But that's the thing, is Elon Musk
not going up there? He's
going up and back all the time, right?
Elon Musk? Yeah.
Him personally? No. Or SpaceX?
Not all the time. I think
they're the next ones to go, but it's not till later.
They're not visiting the International Space Station.
They're not connecting with that or anything.
Is SpaceX doing better than NASA?
No.
Oh.
Well, they're inventing, like, the reusable rockets are insane.
Yeah.
But they're not doing everything NASA's doing.
But I think they're waiting on SpaceX to go bring them home.
So what's NASA doing?
Just leaving people up there?
Is that what's happening?
NASA's going to be an astronaut.
Go to space for an hour, five years.
You find out when you get there.
I think you either hitch a ride on a Russia space capsule
or you hitch a ride on a private company to get there.
Wow.
A private company.
Like SpaceX or Boeing or something like that.
I don't think there's just NASA rockets that take you there these days.
They have a four-month supply of food and oxygen,
so there's no danger of starving or running out of air.
Yeah, but if they don't come down...
Didn't you say they might be up there for a year?
That's a lot more than four months.
No, in February.
But that's still more than four months.
But they receive
regular resupply flights
and then they have just
back stock of four months worth.
I read that wrong.
Yeah, but when they come, they go,
well, you think they're not thinking
like, well, when we go give them food, let's just take them away.
Let's just grab them real quick.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah.
I'm sure somebody said that in a room.
It's like Uber Eats.
We don't do people.
That's where someone doesn't want to say it in the room, but then they go.
They go, I don't know if I should say this or not.
Somebody goes, I'll bite.
Yeah.
Can't they just hop on?
Yeah, yeah. And they laugh them out of there?
They go, stupid.
Yeah, that does sound pretty stupid, though.
You can get them food, but you can't get them out of there.
Maybe they don't want out of there.
Well, that could be it.
Maybe the Williams couple has been wanting this.
Well, that'd be like one of those automated little coolers that can deliver food now.
That's like if they drop something off and they're like, well, just hop in that and it'll take you back home.
It's like, well, maybe it's not designed for human transportation.
How big is the ship that's taking them up there?
I don't know.
Maybe modify it a little bit.
Well, thank God things are done a little more exact than...
We'll just throw a door on there and see what happens.
Apparently not.
I mean, plane went down the other day in some country.
These guys are stranded.
I don't think that had anything to do with NASA.
Yeah, but they're not...
Whoever's building flying stuff is slipping.
They're saying, like, when it comes...
That's what they're saying.
The SpaceX one is going up.
It's only going to take two.
It's going to bring them back.
And that looks like it's probably next February. going to take two. It's going to bring them back. Wow.
And that looks like it's probably next February.
Yeah, like two astronauts that were going to go and never have to stay home.
Yeah, yeah.
So now they're like, well, stay home.
And then they were going to be there, I guess, from September to February.
Man, I feel like if you're up there for that long, you're like, what is there to do up there?
Dude, nothing.
Nothing.
So you're like, I'm going to be there September to February.
Like, that Mark Kelly went there for a whole year, came back.
He's just like, it's what, I got all this the first day.
It never changed.
Never changed after that.
They go, you didn't see anything again?
Nothing else.
He's like, man, I wish I brought a book.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Bet that view doesn't get old.
You can't even work out, can you?
No, they have stuff there.
And I think you have to or else your muscles will deteriorate.
Atrophy.
Yeah.
Come back bigger than you went up there.
Jacked.
No, not jacked.
I mean, you go, you see him get off of it, and you're like,
what, are there restaurants up there?
Even eating.
This guy's got a lot of, I don't know, sodium traveled that well.
You have to give your weight before you leave,
and then you have to give it again.
You do come back taller.
It's pretty nice.
Yeah, that's fun.
That's another fun fact. Yeah, that's funner than the sound you go there's no sound in space something to think about mark kelly had a
has a twin brother and when he came back he was a little bit taller than his brother okay
this other guy's not related to the kelly brothers this other guy that looks just like him
This other guy's not related to the Kelly brothers?
This other guy that looks just like him?
I don't think, I don't know. I don't think he looks like him at all.
His name's Butch Wilmore.
Oh, I thought his name was Williams, too.
Yeah.
So, what, well, let's see Mark Kelly.
You say this guy, I mean, maybe we're, maybe, I didn't know the guy's name.
Maybe I'm not even talking about Mark Kelly.
I just guessed.
Astronaut. He's a senator. He's married to Gabby. to gabby married to gabby giffords internet's down yeah doesn't matter
uh he looks like just a typical nasa doesn't want us to dig into the facts we're getting
too close on some stuff yeah uh blake anthony hobo is short for hoover boy hold on i think i'm reading this no that's right
i know but i think i got amped up yeah it's a longer sentence pace himself yeah reset did
like running a marathon and i just like shut up and they were like get your heart right yeah
hobo is short for hoover boy because his presidency made a bunch of people homeless or something like that.
Just a random fact I learned in high school that never left.
Love the show.
It's the highlight of my week.
That's awesome.
That's interesting.
I think you'd already left last week when Dusty asked, did the word hobo come from hoboken?
Oh, that's a good question.
It is a good question, I felt like.
I didn't feel like it was treated very well
when I asked it, but...
It was good.
Yeah, I just didn't know.
And then we got the real answer.
Well...
We got an answer.
Yeah.
Parker Bear.
Parker Bear.
Parker Bear.
Parker Bear.
Park Bear.
That's a fun name. Parker Bear. That's a fun name.
Parker Bear.
I bet everybody says that name back to him.
Yeah.
How you doing?
I'm Parker Bear.
Parker Bear?
Parker Bear.
Well, hey, Parker Bear.
Parker Bear.
I know how to park a horse.
What?
Huh?
I'm just riffing out here, dude.
Are you? I'm just riffing out here, dude Are you?
I'm just riffing
You're supposed to be a professional
I was about to say that
Were you really?
I'm just trying to help you out here
No, thanks
He wasn't even going to say it
That's how bad it is
Even Brian
Nike
In ancient Greek culture was the goddess of victory.
In the earliest days of the Olympics,
athletes would make sacrifices to her in hopes of winning the games.
This is why the company was named after her,
so they could promote their shoes by saying they help athletes win.
All right.
I saw a couple of comments about this.
They made a joke about where does Nike come from, and I just felt couple of comments about this. They made a joke about
where does Nike come from? And I just felt
like it was a joke. I felt like everybody
knew, but it seemed like people were commenting
like, I can't believe you don't know who Nike is.
But I think everybody... I've never heard of that.
I've never heard of that either. I knew it.
In the Parthenon, the... Is that Nike?
Athena is holding
Nike in her hand.
Oh. And Nike is the Nike in her hand. Oh.
And Nike is, the thing in her hand is like six foot tall.
That's how big she is.
Oh, that's crazy.
I didn't know that.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't think I ever knew that either.
Okay.
I think Nike, the company's bigger than this thing now.
I think that's where it came from.
Yeah, but I'm saying it eclipsed it.
Over ancient Greek culture?
Yeah.
Who's doing
ancient Greek stuff now?
Yeah, but they're probably,
that would be in everything.
Ancient Greek culture
would be in everything
that you do now.
You see the Nike swoosh
everywhere, too.
I know,
but I'm saying that
anything you do
would be like,
well, that was from the Greeks.
Anything you do,
just do it.
Just do it.
There you go.
Yeah.
I think it could be, I wonder if it would be offensive.
I wonder if people in Greece don't care for it.
Oh, all right.
Maybe.
We get a comment from Mykonos next week.
We'll see.
Sorry.
He's back, baby.
Jake McCleary.
My wife and I were driving home from the hospital after our first baby girl was born a few days ago.
Congratulations.
My wife had a special song picked out to be the first thing our baby listened to,
but for some reason, none of the music was working over the Bluetooth,
and the only thing that would work was this episode of Nate Land.
Thank you for being my baby girl's first ever car ride listen.
It put her right to sleep. All right love it welcome to the world you know i wouldn't that was his first i love that
that i don't know how far the ride was but i love that the first car ride from the hospital they're
like let's put on some music you just had a baby put on some music well yeah if music's important
you know
they like to think like
oh this is the first song
yeah
we had
uh
yeah
I mean with our first baby
I was like
I can't believe they let us
leave the hospital
with this thing
yeah yeah
that's what I felt too
all they
all they
all they do
wanted to make sure
was that we had a car seat
it's like
you didn't trust me enough
you have to go to my car to make sure I have that.
You're like, no, we got to make sure you have that car seat.
But you don't know what else.
Like when I leave, you know,
I could have a plywood bed that the baby sleeps in, you know?
You want more government intervention.
I don't.
I don't.
Come to your house.
I don't.
You're right.
I mean, that's a good point, but I don't.
But I just think it's interesting that they're like, no, we have to come down and make sure you have a car seat.
Do they, like, look you in the eyes?
Yeah.
Okay.
Like, if you're a good dude.
I don't think they care about that.
We just got to make sure you got that car seat.
Okay.
Once you're off their property, then it's just their liabilities going.
Yeah, exactly.
Once you're off their property, then it's just their liabilities going. Yeah, exactly.
They want to make sure you didn't take any of their towels and that you have a car seat.
Well.
Hey, can I ask you guys a question, though, before we get – is the internet still down?
I'm curious about this.
Is that the question?
Yeah, what are you looking for?
There's an animal called a narwhal.
Yeah. I don't know if you guys are familiar with this. There's an animal called a narwhal. Yeah.
I don't know if you guys are familiar with this.
It's in my daughter's animal book.
Yeah, I got it, too, in some of my daughter's books.
And I'm like, I don't remember this animal as a kid.
I feel like a narwhal is the type of animal that a kid would be into.
Right?
I don't remember this.
I think I'd call it a swordfish. Yeah, I don't remember this i think i'd call it a swordfish yeah i don't
remember this growing up nobody ever talked about it yeah that's not swordfish and then
all of a sudden this animal's popping up everywhere and i'm like what is this where
did this come from if you're at home listen it looks like a whale got stuck in the head
someone stabbed it in the head with something.
It's like a unicorn of the sea.
Oh, my gosh.
Look at this, dude.
There you go.
National Geographic.
I'm never going to your website again.
That's a ticket to them, man.
I think they're going to fill that. And I'm just like, I don't think this is real.
I think that they're playing a game on us.
Now you're still National Geographic.
Oh, dang.
That's the same thing.
You went immediately.
You said, I'm never going to do it, to immediately I'm going, you know what?
I'm going to stay in the family.
I'm just not going to do the main one.
So all I'm trying to find out is-
You think this is made up?
Yeah, do you remember this as a kid?
This feels like it would be the first animal they teach you as a kid.
You hear about it.
You what?
And I don't remember it.
It makes me feel like I want to yank that horn out of that.
Yeah.
And he would just be relieved.
I think this is made up.
I think they're making this up to mess with us.
Yeah.
Those are the only pictures.
I guess.
Look at that.
Yeah, it does look like it's stuck in there.
Do we know what the purpose of this horn is?
I looked up some.
I don't think they know the purpose.
It's not for hunting.
Or they said, you know, that like they can swipe an animal with it.
Scientists don't know exactly why narwhals have tusks,
though they might be used to impress females or fight other males.
But they're more than battle swords.
They're packed with nerves and covered in tiny holes
that allow seawater to enter.
Interesting.
Yeah, I could see.
What if this is an animal that's like Bigfoot
that they're just like going with?
Yeah.
They're like, well, we'll just make some pictures up.
Yeah.
Where are they at?
And they're only where no one can go?
Had Hannah heard of these?
Because they're up near Canada.
I don't know.
I don't think so.
I remember, first of all, Elf.
There's one of the movie Elf.
Really?
Have you ever seen that?
I have seen it.
Bye, buddy.
Hope you find your dad.
That's a narwhal.
Oh, okay.
So I know it most recently from that.
Early 2000s.
But I want to say when I was a kid, I had a book where it was like,
you went through the alphabet
and there's an animal for every letter.
Yeah.
And Narwhal was one of them.
There's better N animals.
I'm trying to think of one.
Like what?
Is there any video of a...
Nighthawk?
I mean, that's crazy.
Is Narwhal spelled with a G or an N?
No, just an N.
Yeah, what would you... I spelled it with a G when an N? No, just an N.
What would you... I spelled it with a G when I Googled it, I'll admit.
What's another with an N?
What's an animal for an N?
And I immediately pull up a National Geographic YouTube video.
They control the information.
Yeah.
I mean, I agree with you, Dusty.
I'll be going through my daughter's...
It'll be the most Common animals you think of
Elephant, giraffe
Right
And then narwhal
Yeah
And I'm like
I don't even know what this is
Yeah
I'm like
I've never seen this
A unicorn doesn't seem so crazy now
Does it
Right
Well that's what I've always said
People always act like
That's so crazy
I'm like
There's lots of animals
Four legged animals
With horns
Yeah
But they also fly
And stuff too
Well
Yeah
I mean But that could be added on.
Yeah, that's so, man, that would be just so annoying to have.
I think every time it turns, it's like,
and nothing seems practical about it.
It always hits a wall.
It's like trying to move a bed.
Everywhere he goes, imagine Narwhal,
you invite him over to your house
he's like
he's got to come in
kind of at an angle
squeeze him through
and you're like
oh gosh
no one even wants him over there
excuse me
he goes
hey Narwhal's coming in
everybody's got to back up
you got to open
unlatch him
open both doors
and he kind of
comes in
and you're like
just stay there.
You have to give a designated area
because if he turns, if he says yes or no with his head,
your whole house gets...
No one yell his name, he'll turn his head.
Yeah.
Knock something over.
That's interesting, Destiny.
Wow, I typed in animals that start with
and it already had in pulled up for me.
I didn't even type that in
well maybe there are maybe that's true there's not a lot there's like they have like naked mole rat
yeah uh newt a newt newt oh a newt is weak i like a newt yeah a nightingale salamander at that point
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What video is this?
It's a Narwhal.
No, is it National Geographic?
No, I had to find something else. It was like something else.
This is real science.
Yeah, they put in some stuff that's like, come on.
Didn't they?
It looks like, does it echolocate in the water?
I don't know.
What happened there?
It just got sucked it up.
Yeah, these things are wild.
I don't think it's real.
Yeah, I don't know. It's kind of kind of the same i'd like to see one in person
i just think this kind of thing exists but like if you think there's a loch ness monster you're
an idiot right well the difference is there is a lot of video of narwhals
a lot of the same video it's easy to make video now, a lot of the same video. You tell me they can't CGI a horn on a seal?
Well, of course they could.
Oh, yeah.
Why can't they CGI a Loch Ness Monster?
Well, they don't want us to believe in that.
Well, that's because that's the whole,
we've talked about this, the whole town's economy.
Yeah.
What are you going to do?
Go, it's not here?
The whole town should stay.
And if you have it on video,
then people don't need to go visit to watch.
Wow.
All you need is like every 20 years just have a little pop-up.
Yeah.
Now these narwhals.
Look at these guys.
Yeah, what is it doing?
Is it getting radio signal?
They got to breathe.
They got to get their head out of the water.
Then I think we should know more about them.
Yeah.
It's not like they're, you know, this looks like an animal that we should. Animal fights. I think we should know more about them Yeah It's not like they're
You know this looks like an animal that we should
Animal fights
I think we know about them
I think it's just us that don't know them
You just try to look it up
And then they were like
I don't know
He's getting too close
It's like you know
God it's another Nat Geo
Oh yeah on our planet on Netflix
They had a whole Narwhal section here
Oh yeah
Pretty amazing
Look at all that CGI Yeah well yeah on our planet on Netflix. They had a whole narwhal section here. Oh, yeah. Pretty amazing.
Look at all that CGI.
Well, yeah.
It's easy to do, though.
Yeah.
Look at that.
That's totally CGI.
And some of them don't.
Some of them don't have horns.
Yeah.
The lucky ones.
Yeah. I bet if you're the only one that doesn't have one,
you're like, man, I wish I had a horn.
Yeah.
Until you get stuck in some ice
you're like oh that's really worked out
at least they have something to kind of hang their
something on
you gotta just
the one with the horns like will you carry the keys
I guess I have to
yeah it just feels like
there's a big push in the
children's book world
over the narwhal.
My daughter's like, what's that?
I'm like, I don't know.
I had a lot of animal stuff as a kid.
I got to go through and look through some animal stuff that I had.
I still have them.
I want to see it.
We might not have known about it.
When were they discovered?
Yeah, I'm about to look that up.
Like they, you know, could have been recently.
Three days ago.
There you go.
Just found out about it.
Wow.
Okay.
I bet they've been discovered for hundreds of years.
Yeah.
They discovered carcasses in 1914.
Yeah, we've known about them for a minute.
Yeah, but 1914, for that to get in children's books,
if they discovered it in 1914, to get into a 1980 book,
I don't know if Narwhal is going to make it.
No internet, no anything.
Is it going to make its travels?
Where with the internet now, everybody's like, over.
They're like, we're going to turn Narwhal again?
I also don't trust Wikipedia, really.
I mean, it's like, don't I have a Wikipedia page now that people are just editing willy-nilly?
Yeah, it's true.
There are 170,000 of these things in the world.
The species is listed as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
So these are not like, you know, some of these killer whales or whatever else that we have to protect.
Oh, okay, I didn't know what they meant by least concern.
They're like, we don't care about them.
We worry about them.
I think that is what it means, right?
Say we're not worried about them becoming extinct.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what, yeah.
You said it was just like, we don't even talk about it that much.
We don't even care.
170,000 didn't even seem like that much to me, but I guess it.
I guess we don't need them for anything.
The narwhal has been hunted for thousands of years by inuit in northern canada and greenland for meat and ivory
so that's all it's been a part of their lifestyle for thousands of years meat and ivory
i don't know if they have to say that they're hunting for meat and ivory you're like what is
it what's that fish made out of meat and has an ivory horn coming out?
Oh, is that why they're going after it?
No.
It's their eyes.
They don't have anything else.
Yeah.
It's true.
It's a lot.
All right.
I would not have guessed that horn was ivory.
What would you have thought it was?
I don't know.
Just like a stick.
Save the elephants, kill the narwhal.
That's what I say.
If we need to make piano keys, let's get the narwhal.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I bet if you had narwhal ivory, that'd be pretty expensive.
Yeah.
You definitely tell people when they come over.
Yeah.
They go, is this elephant ivory?
No, this is narwhal.
Oh, elephant?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah. Well, this week, totally different subject
We're talking about the senses
That's not a total departure from what we're talking about
The senses?
The senses, yeah
I say it, not senses, like
Senses, taking
Like we want to know the population
Yeah, like the
Smelling
The five senses
Yeah, you know the five senses?
The five main ones?
Hearing, taste, smell.
Hearing, taste, smell.
You may only have three.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then...
A big one.
C.
Yeah.
That's how scientists describe it, C.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's it.
Yeah.
That's it. That's the most important one, I think
All right, podcast done
All right
So if you all had to give up one, what would it be?
Smell
Yeah
I don't know, I mean, smell
Can you give up smell without giving up taste?
They're so interconnected
I'll allow it
We could I mean, I have no game to have a conversation smell without giving up taste they're so interconnected i'll allow it i really could
i'm i mean i mean now again you have a conversation well what do you want me to just go yeah and then
we move on i'm trying to it's i would say they're two separate i know but then that would mean
they're one so then they're one sense no but i mean they they lend themselves to each other i mean i can get on board give up
yeah give up then give up taste because then you can like if you're eating it you're like well i'll
just smell it and i'll be like oh that smells good i love taste smell i can do without you
know what i mean covid got rid of smell for a lot of people. I know, but you don't taste stuff as well.
I know.
I had a friend growing up born without a nose on his face,
and he could smell through his mouth by tasting stuff.
You say it like that.
I don't know the name of the condition,
but you could hold food up to his mouth,
and he could breathe it in and taste it.
So it's like they're more connected than we think.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know the point of why I just said that.
Would you say see just because you want to make sure you can taste and smell food?
You don't want to give that up at all.
You go, I'll give up seeing and hearing.
Just to keep to it.
And they go, we don't got to give up too.
He goes, I don't care.
He goes, go ahead and take two.
I'm the Helen Keller of the food world.
Yeah, I would say smelling.
I think smell's the obvious one.
But to your point, I mean, if you can't lose smell without affecting your taste,
then that's a bigger issue.
Definitely be a bummer.
I think smell's the easiest one to go.
Yeah.
Aren't there conditions, you look up any of the conditions
where you don't have any sense of touch?
Yeah.
It's actually super dangerous for people to have?
Yeah.
Tony Junji's son has that condition.
Oh, really?
Really.
So he doesn't feel anything, feel pain or anything?
Yeah, and it's very dangerous that condition. Oh, really? What is it? So he doesn't feel anything, feel pain or anything? Yeah, and it's very dangerous.
Yeah.
You know what?
I remember a kid growing up, and he didn't feel pain.
And so you could do anything to him.
I mean, I don't remember.
Not me.
We used to beat him up all the time.
We used to take a bat to him.
And I tell you what, this kid this kid took him like a champ we would
throw him in front of cars and let him hit him and that was fun because then the car is like
really upset no it but i do remember a kid not feeling pain like he wouldn't we never did
anything but you could pinch him or punch it like he would never and he just wouldn't feel it i was
like that's crazy.
Was he diagnosed with this condition?
I don't know if we got into it.
We were eight years old.
I don't know if I asked him.
Tell me about the history of your doctor history.
It's a kid that said he can't feel pain, so we threw rocks at him,
and then I think we moved to another neighborhood because that's all.
I think he was just trying to fit in, and it hurt him.
Yeah, maybe. to another neighborhood because that's all i think he's just trying to fit in and it hurt him yeah
maybe but i remember him not being able to feel like say he couldn't feel pain one out of every
125 million people have this condition so maybe he's like i mean what are the odds that a parent
like well john and jane doe yeah yeah maybe this could be my john and Jane Doe too, is I go, I met a kid that didn't feel pain.
And it learns out, he goes, I find out he's like,
no, I just couldn't cry.
And you go, oh, that's very sad.
You couldn't cry?
Nate had a joke about John and Jane Doe.
Yeah, I do know that one.
Oh, do you?
Yeah.
I've been to a comedy for a while.
There's an episode of House about this,
about somebody that had a teenager that had this.
You ever watch a dumb show?
What do you mean, honestly?
What's the dumbest thing you've ever watched?
Below Deck?
All of my wife's shows, Below Deck, Real Housewives.
Yeah, besides those, you.
Have you ever, do you ever go watch,
or do you just memorize the crazy smartest shows on the planet i'm trying to think i mean uh i don't know like the law and order those are like kind of
that's still like that's like cases do you have nothing do you ever watch a show that
maybe the stakes aren't a human being? Life and death.
Oh, I get it.
Like, West Wing is...
Any comedy, The Office or something like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The British version, though.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just the British version.
It would be exactly that.
Did they have an American one?
There you go.
I had no idea.
Sports Nightmare in Jordan.
That's what I put in my thesis to get a Notre Dame.
I'm a big fan of The Office.
The British one, I think I have to say that.
I think there's an American one.
Oh, no.
My favorite comedian is Bill Hicks.
Just like every other.
Not to say Bill Hicks is not a great comic,
but that was the comic everybody said when I came up.
I'm a Bill Hicks fan.
Are you?
Is everybody a big?
Yeah.
It's like, I'm sure they were, but it was just the name that, you know.
It was the name for a long time.
I do love Bill Hicks, but yeah, everybody was saying that for a long time.
It was like the cool name.
You go, oh, that guy's an intelligent comedian.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He likes Bill Hicks.
All right.
Who would it be now?
Well, you know, went through Mitch Hedberg for a while.
I think it's still Hedberg's around a lot.
Stan Hope.
Stan Hope's a lot.
Stan Hope's a lot.
Hedberg is, I think, creeped into regular people's thing that they say.
To show that they're into comedy they go headberg's my
favorite oh yeah that's the name that's now like you know like i'm a fan of comedy are you
you're a headberg fan of course yeah like headberg's a you know that's the cool and
rightfully so but it's like you can see i hear a lot of people tell me their favorite comic was Hedberg. Yeah.
The most dominant sense for humans is vision.
What does that mean, most dominant?
Most of them, we do it the most.
It's the one you lean on the most to perceive your world.
Okay.
I think that's what it means.
But men are more visual creatures than women.
Yep.
They can't see well.
Women are like bats.
That's not quite what I...
They work on radar.
They go, what is it?
It's because their hips are too big?
And that affects their eyes?
I bet that's the case.
Women got these wide hips.
They can't see.
Because this is all science people
with a lower iq are more likely to be colorblind i'm colorblind and he's making this is awkward i
had no idea well that's why you said do men see better than women On average We see everything better
Are you crazy
It's not actual eyesight
It's more of
What you're interested in
If you were looking at a woman
You're more interested in her actual looks
Where a woman is more
Interested in
Your brain
Emotional and contextual factors such as touch,
intimacy, and emotional connection.
Thankfully for us.
I mean, that is the case.
Thankfully for us.
Men in general, I mean, yeah.
What do you mean?
Well, yeah, because I think we're thankful that women are looking at more than just looks.
Oh, right.
Just in general.
I'm very thankful for that.
Yeah.
Thank God every night. But no color blindness it is 95 of people are colorblind or male so what colors can you not see uh you could
though if you type in a colorblind test have we done this one here i think we have yeah yeah yeah
it's i mean i i think it's red and greens.
And so, I mean, there could be whatever the number would be.
I don't, you know.
But you start knowing.
I know that number seven.
I can see that.
And then keep going five.
I cannot see any number right there.
I see absolutely nothing.
I look like I see purples.
Are those purples?
Yeah, it was the number one in the middle in green.
Oh, yeah.
So I see four there.
Yeah, six.
Eight, maybe?
I don't know, maybe.
Close.
Three?
Yep.
Okay.
I didn't really see.
But would you know all your numbers if it was normal?
Yeah.
I think he can see that.
That one's tough, I gotta be honest.
That's tough to see.
Yeah.
That's not hard.
But I can kind of like, I always think I'm not bad at colors, but red and green, you
just kind of know, you know, more. It's funny I say, it's like, well, you still kind of know, you know. More.
It's funny I say this.
Like, well, I don't know our talks.
You said I'm not bad at colors.
I don't think I'm bad at colors.
But, I mean, yeah, red and orange can get a little, if you start getting too close.
Blue and purple, green, blue and green.
But you kind of just learn, you know, over years, you just kind of.
Like, is the B in that B funny, is that orange?
Yeah, it's orange.
Orange, yeah.
I can see that.
Now, Aaron, what do you think about this?
So I have to say our vision has evolved over time,
and there were a time many years ago where we couldn't see all the colors that we see now.
Yeah, I believe it.
Like the color blue, for example in in the odyssey written by homer described the ocean as wine dark
and they in other hues they think maybe at that time people couldn't perceive the color blue
what if he was that recently it's more likely that homer water was a different color thousands
of years ago i was thinking millions
or whatever but like now that's just he probably went at night probably wasn't as much fishing
and they were something was going on with the water yeah i bet if you could go back and talk
to the like homer homer was a guy that's a tough woman yeah name Yeah So there's Homer
Look at it
He can't even
This guy's out of his mind
And
So
He didn't have arms
He didn't have eyes
Yeah
So Homer
Smell of the ocean
Yeah
I mean
I
How much stuff would be
If you could go back
And talk to Homer
And go hey
Was it dark
He goes
I don't know
I don't know
It was like
It just sounded good
He goes that was like Isn't that a cool way to write it?
You go, I know, but people are doing science stuff based off that.
Yeah, almost 3,000 years later we're talking about it.
What I'm trying to say is, do I see better than you, Homer?
I think, if anything, we always are worse than.
I think we probably see less than Homer.
Opposite.
Yeah.
Because you needed your eyesight more.
Yeah.
Cause you had a hunt.
And so everything was better.
Yeah.
Some ancient accounts.
That's what I would have thought.
Listen to this.
Some ancient accounts about Homer were established early and repeated often.
They include that Homer was blind.
I mean.
Aaron,
you're upstaging my thoughts.
It's already. I mean, that's you're upstaging my thoughts. It's already.
I mean, that's, yeah.
Yeah, he thought it was that good.
So, all right, in that case, I guess our eyesight is better than Homer's.
Than Homer's, yeah.
What did Homer say?
I take it back.
He described the ocean as wine dark.
That's how everything looked.
Yeah, I know.
He goes, yeah, what'd your house look like? It was all wine dark. That's how everything looks. Yeah, I know. He goes,
what'd your house look like?
It was all wine dark.
He goes,
it had chairs in it.
I do remember there's chairs.
But they were wine dark too. They were wine dark too.
Surprisingly,
my hands were wine dark.
Yeah, he's blind.
I don't even know
what he's writing.
How could you write?
What'd you have to do?
Was it stone?
You got to just haul that in and you go.
You know, that's tough.
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That's a lot to say.
It is a lot to say.
I want to know
well
Nate's gone for now
let's get into it
let's get into it
see I told you
that you had said
this will be an episode
where everybody stays
the whole time
and I said
well we'll see
well he's coming right back
we'll see
we don't know where he went
that is true
yeah
shout out
where'd those donuts go
should we shout out
Krispy Kreme
yeah
not really a sponsor
but I did have a Krispy Kreme,
and I don't know if they're a sponsor or not, but I enjoyed them.
Well, we posted a video about Krispy Kreme donuts from the podcast.
Krispy Kreme shared it.
They posted it on their own social media.
Oh, yeah.
And then they sent us some donuts today.
Ooh, that's crisp.
I mean, that's about as good as it gets.
Krispy Clean is what I like to call it That's how good they are
And Nate's back
Apparently people were asking about the whole
Bring in the report card
And they still do that
And it seems like it's a case by case basis
For your particular store
So they said check with your Krispy Kreme to see if they do that.
Some do, some don't. Make sure you check in with your local
Krispy Kreme
listings. Yes.
I mean, with
Homer being blind,
how many people were probably blind back
then? Probably a good bit. I mean, you just probably
got your eye knocked out for anything.
Especially if the main
writer of your era
is blind it's like it's gotta be everybody's gotta be blind huh yeah i guess so what do you even
write i mean i'm not making fun of people that are blind but what do you even make what do you
even write about though if you're blind well what did you hear what what did homer smell taste what What did Homer do? Smell, taste. What did Homer what? Do. What was his job?
He was a poet and an author.
And so what did he, he wrote Odyssey?
Yeah, Iliad and the Odyssey.
And these are just books.
They're the most famous of all time.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're two epic poems. So they're like long. it's not written in prose like we would write a book now but it's like yeah they're essentially
stories written in amateur the opposite of poems you know how annoyed i would be back in the end
if he's like hey because you mind reading these poems? He goes, they're longer than my normal poem.
You're like, oh my gosh.
Because at this point, you're just used to finally read poems,
and then you're like, oh no.
He just kept going.
Kept going.
And the movie Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
was kind of loosely based on the Odyssey.
That's fun.
I thought that was like a submarine movie.
Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?
Or the Odyssey.
Ancient languages, including Greek.
Is there something underwater?
I think that the sirens are in the water.
Poseidon Adventure.
Maybe in any battles of Cyclops.
When did you read this?
Have you read both these books?
Long time ago in literature class.
I don't remember much.
In college.
In elementary school.
High school.
High school.
This and Beowulf were the two.
I remember Beowulf.
I don't remember what it's about, but I remember.
Not Baywatch, Beowulf.
I actually don't know.
I remember.
You got a young Aaron Weber over here.
Did y'all touch in this?
Seeped over into you?
I remember, I think I was supposed to read Baywolf.
I don't know if I did, but I remember it was like, you better read it.
I think there was like the movies, The of sinbad you remember those not the not the comic it was uh he was like
a pirate or whatever uh-huh it would have been pretty cool if it were the comic i was i was a
big sinbad fan live in aruba remember that one but it, sure. But it was really good. But the Adventures of Sinbad were really, I think they did an Odyssey.
And it was great. Really fun.
Yeah, this looks good.
Yeah, no, I mean, look, we're making jokes.
This guy is still talked about today, so who am I?
You know, he did a pretty good job.
I don't know if you agree with the ocean stuff,
but I don't know if we should be basing it off of,
you know, maybe it was a different color.
I don't know if whoever wrote that
is actually the one that's embarrassing.
I've seen some pretty dark water before in the ocean, too.
Yeah.
But deep, when you go to the deep,
the ocean is very dark.
Ancient languages, including Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and Hebrew,
all didn't have a word for blue.
Without a word for the color,
there's evidence that ancient humans may have not seen it at all.
This is...
Well, when would...
Then is there any theories about why it would have developed?
Was there some kind of evolutionary benefit to
seeing the color blue the sky's blue they never looked at the sky maybe they just didn't talk
about it no they didn't even this makes sense no the thinking here is that their their eyes just
didn't process the color blue back then in the same way that yours don't now and that blue developed over time
but this and so the sky is was it just it was always cloudy back then wind it was the same
color it is today their eyes just didn't see it so what did they see they just saw why dark how
you see colors incorrectly now i know but why would they why would blue not come into play? That's what I'm asking. The main thing is the sky.
That's blue.
The water's blue.
Everything is blue.
Well, if we started, the thinking is if we started in water,
our ancestors were water creatures,
it would almost benefit you to not see blue because you're in water.
It's just like too much.
It's Notre Dame stuff, right? That's what they teach over there? I'm just talking out of my head. It's just like too much. It's Notre Dame stuff, right?
That's what they teach over there?
No, I'm just talking out of my head.
It's supposed to be.
It's a Christian school, right?
Golly.
What's the matter with you, man?
Old Grandpa Fish.
Yeah.
If a fish saw blue, it'd probably be giving him a headache.
Yeah, because It's just like
Too much
Too much
And he goes
I'm gonna go up top
And then he goes
Damn sky's blue
He goes
He can't
Maybe that's why they follow boats
Cause they're just
They just wanna break
From all the blue
They like the red
They just wanna
They go
Oh my gosh
This is something
That's not
Just this Yeah You know But how We would get We see blue all the time Just want to say, oh, my gosh, this is something that's not just this.
Yeah.
You know?
But how would we get – we see blue all the time because of the sky.
So, I mean, we would – what, are we going to be annoyed by it?
I don't know.
There's a guy who lost vision in his right eye in World War II,
and doctors told him he should have it removed and but he kept it 64 years later he
was head butted by a horse and his vision came back wow gosh that's awesome yeah you gotta think
that's a little frustrating though to go all i needed was to be head butted this whole time
i've been walking around with an eye patch. He couldn't count to eight
after that,
but he goes,
but he goes,
but he goes,
throw a baseball at me
right now.
He goes,
I don't,
yeah.
Lost my hearing,
but I can,
I can see now.
Abraham Lincoln
was kicked in the head
by a horse.
Wow.
Became president.
So,
it does some good things.
Be around horses.
I've heard about two people being kicked by a horse. One of them fixed their vision, the other onecame president. It does some good things. Be around horses. I've heard about two people being kicked by a horse.
One of them fixed their vision, the other one became president.
So it turns out pretty good.
In Christmas Vacation, I think Cousin Eddie's daughter was cross-eyed,
and then she was no longer because she got kicked by a mule or something.
So there's three.
Sometimes I hit the dashboard really hard and it fixes stuff in the car.
I bet it's the same thing.
It needs to be reset every now and then.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Sometimes you just got to give it a little horse kick.
There's a woman named Veronica Cedar who has supervision.
She can distinguish and identify individuals from a mile away.
What?
Cedar.
Have you ever looked in her ears to see a microphone?
Seed her.
I seed her.
I seed her.
I feel like we would have heard about this woman.
What good uses would you have for this?
To see a mile away?
Yeah, we got all kinds of tools.
We got telescopes.
Yeah, but she doesn't have to have it.
Six million dollar man.
That's a pretty crazy thing.
They're like, Veronica, take these binoculars.
She's like, no, I'm good.
I mean, imagine she can...
Binoculars?
What is that, made out of ivory?
Imagine what she can see with binoculars.
Yeah.
So then, if she can see a mile on her own with binoculars, I mean, now she can see...
Yeah, the beginning of space.
Yeah.
She's a telescope.
I think that's good. I think that's a good thing
to have. You don't think that matters?
I would love that. We've got pretty good...
I read she couldn't watch TV, though,
because she can see all the colors.
Is this a made-up person?
No, look it up. Oh, she can't zoom out?
Veronica Cedar? Her eyesight's so good
that... Is it like Aaron's
high school photo? It's too zoomed in.
Is that how she would see Aaron?
The way his photo is.
She sees him so up close.
She's like, back up.
Get back.
Well, this isn't...
Yeah, she just needs to sit further back from the TV.
Does she watch it?
Does she watch from a mile away?
Yeah.
Is that her? No. Yeah yeah i don't know if yeah she's born in 1951 this person was yeah it's a paranormal human mystery it's considered
to be she wrote a 10 page letter on the back of a post wow her powerful eyesight enabled her to
write a 10 page letter on the back of a postage stamp. Her powerful eyesight enabled her to write a 10-page letter
on the back of a postage stamp and read
it clearly. I don't believe that.
He ain't got no pen.
Yeah, how are you going to write that?
She teared a piece of paper the precise
size of her fingernail. She then
carefully scribbled 20 verses of a poem
on it. Nah. She died in 2013.
And then what? She told you what she wrote?
She's like, I can read it.
You go, and he goes, all right.
She comes over here.
She writes the number five down.
She goes, take it across the street.
I can see through walls.
And you go, what's it say?
She goes, five.
They're like, are you kidding me right now?
Nate, if you had to guess what this woman, what her job was when she grew up,
what would you guess?
A watchman. A watchman?
A watchman.
That's the best job for her.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Despite possessing superhuman abilities,
Veronica pursued her ambition of becoming a dentist.
Oh, jeez.
That would be like, she's like too deep.
She's like, herrrr, like she's going in,
and you're like, back up, zoom it out a little bit.
And she's like, sorry. She didn't have to do x-rays. Yeah, she's going in and you're like back up zoom it out a little bit and she's like sorry she didn't have to do x-ray yeah she's doing your cab she goes but i see a cavity's coming you're like i
will let it come a little bit yeah next time you're in you'll have a cavity yeah i'll tell
you that i can see it but i think and brian let me know if you had anything on this all right i
think straight path total darkness we can see a match being lit from five miles away.
I did not read that.
Do you ever hear that before?
No.
If it's just on a straight cloudless day.
That's how sensitive the human eyes are.
The horizon you could see five miles?
Yeah.
Yeah, five miles.
Maybe 50 miles, too.
That's a big difference.
Well, actually, I remembered it being 50, but I didn't want to overstate it,
so I changed it to five.
I'll look this up.
Nobody cares, but I'll look it up later.
It looks like seeing a star.
The stamp thing.
Would it be like seeing a star?
You can see a star from maybe the same thing.
It's a little bigger than a match being lit, but yeah.
But where it's at, you light a match right here, it's a lot bigger.
I could light a match and cover a star.
The thing about her writing on a stamp, though, it's like you've got to have a pen that's really small.
It's just not about being able to see.
Well, we don't even know if that person's real.
Yeah, it's like how your pen has got to be so small to be able to do that.
And I just, I don't believe that.
Well, that's everything I had on vision.
All right.
Let's try to see how many I could get through before we had to move on to another one.
A candle flame can be seen from 15 to 30 miles away on a dark night.
That's crazy. Big candle, though. away on a dark night. That's crazy.
Big candle, though.
Not like a birthday candle.
Yeah, but you can't.
You would, you can't have no up and down.
You can't have no, like, hills.
Yeah.
And then.
Yeah, there can't be a tree in the way.
Well, all this matters.
And then, and you get no wind.
And your eyes can't be closed.
Yeah, if someone goes,
I know, but if someone goes, I lit a candle,
you'll find me. And you go,
you're going to tell me there was a,
you lived in the back of a cul-de-sac.
Couldn't see.
But look at this, Nate. You were right. A more recent
experiment found that a candle would appear as
bright as a magnitude 9.98 star at a distance of 10 miles and as bright as a star visible to the naked eye at a
distance of 1.6 miles i know so much man i just you know i know more than they know i agree yeah I agree Yeah
Now there are five main senses
But there are at least two more
Lesser senses
Oh what are those?
Now of course you say six sense
And the gut?
Yeah that's often
If you had a six sense it would be intuition right?
Yeah like when you're
Where you just feel like somebody's watching you That's a that's the six cents yeah that's what people say but
it's actually uh vespular oh what is that i was impressed that's balance where you can uh
hey stand upright keep your body balanced yeah and proprioception which is body awareness
and the example they gave is the ability to touch your nose without seeing it
you can't see your nose yeah but you know you know where it is
that's a oh i got really good that that's a sense. You can even do it with your eyes closed.
Well, that first one.
Vespular.
Sense involves movement and balance.
Isn't balance just your ears?
They say there's crystals in your ears.
When I had vertigo, I went to the doctor, and that's what they say.
There's crystals in your ears that keep you balanced. Did they put some back in?
They didn't.
No one's ever showed me these crystals, but I am told that.
Loop-shaped canals in your inner ear.
Fluid and fine hair-like sensors that keep you balanced.
Yeah.
Yeah, same thing.
Nothing about crystals, huh?
No.
But I mean, yeah.
Potato crystal.
So if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Yeah.
No, the answer's no.
Really?
Why?
Because you have to have eardrum.
You have to have sound comes from the vibration in your ear.
So if there was no one there to hear it, there'd be no sound.
It's kind of a catch-22.
Yeah.
Yeah, so the sound...
But I mean, it does make noise.
Does it even really fall?
Yeah.
That's the real question.
But it does make noise.
The noise doesn't exist?
I mean, noise technically comes from
the vibration in your ear.
But it comes from the something.
Yeah.
But it has to be transmitted
through the air in some way.
That's why there's no sound in space. Yeah. What is a tree? That's a the something. Yeah. But it has to be transmitted through the air in some way. That's why there's no sound in space.
Yeah.
What is a tree?
That's a great question.
Yeah.
What is tree-ness?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What does it mean to be a tree?
We should have done a philosophy episode with Dusty.
We could probably do it again.
We'll do a philosophy part two.
Yeah.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on some of this.
Yeah.
I'd like to get into it.
What is a tree?
Human eyes can detect 10 million different colors.
Just absurd.
That's crazy.
I don't think there's that many different colors.
We're looking at eight.
It's not just the wavelengths of the light rays.
It's the eight colors.
It's the context in which we perceive things, such as background color, lighting.
It really is just three colors, right?
And then the others are like mixing of the colors.
Three primary colors.
I think I have a – why do they always put numbers on everything?
Just say they can see a crazy amount of stuff.
They always throw a number on it.
And then you go like, what are you –
They like to go millions too.
Yeah.
And then it's just – I think I just want them to go like,
is it millions they go?
We're trying to say it looks more professional than going, you can see whatever you want.
A bucket load.
Yeah.
You can see whatever you want.
You can see whatever you want.
Yeah.
I think it sounds better to go like, there's a million this.
And you're like, is there?
You go, no one knows.
I mean, how would anyone on Earth could tell
if there was a million, ten million different colors?
That doesn't even make sense.
This is Nate outside.
Just eight colors.
That's what I see.
It's all the same.
Plus he's colorblind, so he can't even see all that.
Yeah, he only got seven.
It's the wine dark water out there.
The red eye in photos is due to blood vessels in the eye.
They illuminate the blood vessels, the flash, and that's what makes it show up.
I was thinking about that recently.
Red eye is pretty much gone.
We don't even think about red eye anymore, do we?
No.
With the digital photography.
I can't remember the last time I've seen a red eye photo.
But it used to be. When you get pictures developed, they were all red-eye.
And not taken well.
Yeah.
Blurry.
Yeah.
And a lot of space above the head, but you're down at the bottom of the picture.
Nobody knew what they were doing.
Yeah.
We blink between 20,000 and 30,000 times every day.
I bet I blink more. I'm a blinker. Yeah? Yeah, I really blink a lot. You're probably 40,000, 30,000 times every day. I bet I blink more.
I'm a blinker.
Yeah?
Yeah, I really blink a lot.
40,000, 50,000?
Yeah.
You think more than 30,000 times a day?
If that's the average, I think so.
You should count someday.
Just do it.
A day you're at home.
When I think about it, I blink more, though.
That's 1,250 times an hour.
When people take pictures of me,
there's a lot of closed-eye photos.
It's one every three seconds.
You think he'd blink every three seconds?
Yeah, but he's got a few rapid ones, and then it's a stall for five seconds,
and then it's back to rapid.
And maybe that's it.
I got an irregular eye blink.
Yeah, maybe because he holds it for a second then one gets gets going yeah i
got dry eyes i i doctor told me i had maybe chronic dry eyes do you think uh trying to sell
me eye drops yeah do you think helen keller was real i don't know you know for a long time i did
but i have tapped into the conspiracy lately that maybe she's not real. I've been seeing more about it. Because, yeah, you got this whole lady.
What is it?
That was her.
The helper?
Yeah.
It's like Helen Keller's writing all these books.
And it's like, again, I'm not criticizing people that are blind or deaf.
But it's like, what are you really writing about if you're blind and
deaf?
So what are they saying? Like, this lady just wrote a book
and is a fictional character as Helen Keller?
Yeah. I mean, I think she wrote about
I don't even know, but probably her
experiences overcoming
out of Helen Keller, Narwhals,
and Outer Space, which one's
most likely to be real? Helen Keller.
Okay.
Without a doubt.
I'll lean on. Which foods are good for your eye health?
Carrots. Blueberries.
Beets.
Cooked carrots. I'm sure those are good for you.
I always heard carrots.
Made of carotene.
Good for you.
Apple.
Oily fish.
Okay.
And green vegetables.
Oh, I take a fish oil, and I'm the only guy in here with glasses, so.
Yep.
Add LASIK.
Okay.
Most people will need glasses by the time they reach 40.
You don't have glasses?
Contacts.
Oh.
Oh, so I'm the only one that doesn't.
Do you take a lot of fish oil?
Oh, yeah.
I take good care of myself.
Yeah.
So that was one sense.
That was vision.
All right.
So if you're interested, we could do another one.
Maybe the episode could just be vision.
Yeah.
Maybe it would be just senses.
Yeah, we'll just make it vision.
Senses part one one and we'll do
five and we could do yeah we could do a festival it could be like an album yeah of the different
senses yeah release it as a five record yeah like what's up yeah yeah so if you like that you want
to hear about hearing next week when we knock it out of the park so hearing i hear is you can hear 10 million
colors and uh there's a lady who can hear a mile away we'll talk about synesthesia we'll talk about
that where you can hear colors and what is it synesthesia synesthesia oh you hear colors
you get college a lot of money and that's what they give you.
That's what they send you home with.
I'm glad it brings it to the table.
You got to sit there with your family.
I'm going to get a real job with this knowledge of hearing colors.
Where are you going to get that job at?
I'm going to get it.
I'm smarter than everybody else.
That's a great tease, though.
I can't wait to hear about it.
All right.
We'll get into it.
Next week.
Maybe not next week, but we'll see.
First week, Nate's not here.
Yeah.
All right.
I think I'm home this week.
Actually, I think I'm going to fully commit.
I think I'm going to come to your show.
I think I'm going to, if I can do a spot on your show
It's full
Maybe next month
Alright
Okay
This Wednesday
Yeah
Is your
Yeah
Tonight
It'll be
Tonight
If you're listening to this
Tonight
Brian Bates and Friends
Yeah
It's going to be a hot show
Yeah
Yeah
From what I hear
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah I got that
I got Fargo
Moline
Minnesota State Fair.
That might be it.
And then Foxwoods and a couple other casinos.
But basically, I'm basically done besides the last little bit.
Awesome.
But Wednesday, go to Brian Bates and Friends.
Thank you.
Brian's not going to be there.
I'll be hosting.
Well, besides that that I'm at
Is Brian B. Friends
Am I the first person
Booked on it?
Is the people show up
And they go
Where's the
Where's everybody
Where's your friends at?
He goes
Well
It's the show
I don't have any
Mike James told me
He goes
You guys are my friends
Yeah
The audience The audience
The audience is like
Oh man
They feel so much pressure
Gotcha
And then he just sits down
On the stool and talks
What do you want to talk about?
Let's all exchange numbers
And they were just like
I don't
There you go
Doors are locked
For an hour and a half
Mike James told me
I should do
Brian Bates and Black Friends
So he could be on the show
Every month
Thought that was very funny August 24th James told me I should do Brian Bates and Black Friends so he could be on the show every month.
Thought that was very funny.
August 24th, I'm at Vision Studios in Atlanta.
Speaking of Vision.
Yeah, perfect. Oh, look at that.
That's why he picked this topic.
You're the best. And The Sixth Sense came out
25 years ago this month.
Great movie.
August 29th through 31st
I am at
St. Charles Funny Bone.
In Missouri. Real deal.
Tonight I'm at the
Stardome. Aaron Weber speaking.
Aaron Weber, yeah, I should say. I'm in Alabama this
weekend. Tonight and tomorrow at the Stardome.
Thursday Stardome. Sold
out. Alright. Pretty great.
Big time. It's a big club. All right. Pretty great. Big time.
It's a big club.
Yeah, so that'll be really cool.
Then Huntsville this weekend.
And then I want to announce very quickly, the shows for the special taping here in September in this very building we're sitting in right now, three of them are sold out.
One of them's about to be sold out.
All right.
Awesome.
We're adding a show that Thursday, September 5th.
So if you couldn't get tickets to any of those,
I'm going to be Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Big time.
Here in Nashville, September 5th through the 7th.
Big time.
Thank you all.
It's the night of NFL kickoff, so I will not be here.
But have a good show.
Are the Titans playing?
Not on Thursday night.
I am going to be at the Houston Improv all weekend.
I got five shows there.
I think one is already sold out and some of the others are closed.
So get some tickets.
The Houston Improv is a hot club.
And I'm going to be in there rocking it out.
If you don't get tickets now, Houston, you'll have a problem.
Yeah, that's right.
You will have a problem.
If you're up in front row, bring your cans of dip and I'll pack them on stage. You don't get tickets now, Houston. You'll have a problem. Yeah, that's right. You will have a problem. Oh, my gosh.
And bring your, if you're up in front row, bring your cans of dip, and I'll pack them on stage.
Yeah.
Yeah, bring all your stuff.
All your belongings.
Yeah.
That's some groceries.
Would you repack groceries for people?
Yeah.
You're going, what are you doing? Well, you know, I never worked at a grocery store.
I couldn't get a job there.
Vaped?
Did you vape?
I never vaped.
Okay.
Bring in some Ikea furniture.
Dusty will build it for you on stage.
I only did cool tobacco.
I never vaped.
You would have if that were around back then.
Your high school photo would say different.
He looks like the guy who invented vaping.
Yeah.
All right.
We love you. We will see who invented baby. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We love you.
We will see you next week.
Bye.
Bye.
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