The Nateland Podcast - 214: #214 The Senses Part 2 - Taste featuring Greg Warren

Episode Date: August 21, 2024

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Today's episode of the Nate Land podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp Pesty, Game Time and Rocket Money. Hello folks and hey there, welcome to and hey, bear. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm neighbor Getzee, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. All right. And sitting in today, your least favorite, we did a vote, and it's the person you don't want on. Man.

You still force them on. Yeah. Your boy, Greg Warren. All right. All right, guys. Dump Greg. Hashtag dump on. Man. We still force them on. Yeah. Your boy, Greg Warren. All right. All right, guys. Dump Greg. Hashtag dump Greg. Yeah.

We got dump Dusty. We're trying to get. There's no dump Greg guy. Everybody likes Greg. So there is no. That's the thing. Even dump Dusty guy who likes to dump people is like, come on, dude. Greg's the man.

I know. He wants to dump Dusty to get Greg. Yeah. Yeah. Which a lot of people dude. Greg's the man. I know. He wants to dump Dusty to get Greg. Yeah. Yeah. Which a lot of people feel. He's got poor judgment. Yeah. There'll be a dump Greg guy now.

He'll be one of my friends. It's going to be someone that you know. Yeah. We should say, last time we mentioned Greg on the podcast, we were like, it's crazy he hasn't done the Grand Ole Opry. And now, in a couple weeks. These guys got some juice, man. Oh, you're done the grand old opry and now in a couple weeks these guys got some juice man oh you're on the grand oh i got i got it i got an email like two days later oh man is that crazy because you grew up listening to that radio station are you blown away by it yeah well

me and junior sample came up together and uh and i always felt like he you know like his career took off, where mine just never. Let's sell it out. Let's sell it out for you. Yeah, man. Mike's on the show with you. When are you doing it? Two weeks. Wednesday, September 4th.

Oh. All right. I'll see who you got. And the way they book these shows is this will fill up in the next week or so. But yeah, Greg's on here, man. It's awesome, dude. With Chase Matthew and then Justin Moore. Justin Moore. Greg Warren. Big time. Yeah. Simple name night. or so but yeah greg's on here man it's awesome dude with chase matthew and then justin more more greg warren big time yeah yeah my dad's i'm flying my dad and his wife in for the uh show

real excited about yeah yeah he doesn't really want to come to a whole lot of shows and that was the road but he was all about that one feel free to talk in your microphone oh and i've never done this before. They're not going to have these at the Opry, are they? No. All acoustics in there. Okay, good.

You ever see an interview with someone and they don't? Oh, yeah. Like they don't understand it. They're like, what's that? You're like,

I don't know if this person gets it. Aaron's old podcast that he did, he interviewed Brad Sativa, and I thought he had the microphone in the other room half the time. Come on, dude. I was enjoying it, and I was like, Brad, pick it up. I couldn't see him, but he gets so far away. Greg, isn't this your first time in here? Yeah, this is amazing.

So it's harder now because we're beside you. You're not used to this. You're used to where we would be straight on. Yeah, I'm also – I don't know why you put me in the middle. I feel a lot of pressure almost on this deal. No, it's where we can cut the most. Okay. Yeah.

Now I get it. The way the cameras are, you're going to be – there's going to be a line in between you and us. Is there a chance that I'm not even on this podcast? Oh, huge. I mean, that's the main reason. Okay. We're doing it

just for spacing on the cameras. We go, what if you had like a Greg Warren body? Yeah. And they go, I think we could get him.

Just get him. I think we could actually get Greg Warren. That's just, they go, no, we just need a body like Greg.

I'm cheaper. Greg? Yeah. Cheaper than renting a dummy. Yes. It was his. Yeah, mannequins are tough to get.

Oh, yeah, man. We weren't having to have to go through so much. So, welcome. We're glad to have you, Greg, and everybody listening at home. We're pumped. Quick thing about the Nateland entertainment aspect of what we're doing. I think we're doing some great things with Nate Land Entertainment. The idea of it is to make Nate Land good, clean, funny.

This is all kind of new that we're starting this. But Nate Land Entertainment, we have the showcase. So we started taping the showcases again. You might have seen it. Last week we had Michael Palisak. His came out. Great, super funny. We shot them all here.

This week we have Mia Jackson jackson all right mia jackson both great people great both funny for both of them back in the day yeah yeah yeah very funny they're both hilarious yeah i hosted that showcase it was so great all the comics did really well so the sets came out really well so go watch them they're like short 10 minute easily digestible go in and and these are some of the best comics in the country that are coming here to do this so yeah it's uh it's really cool that we that we got all of them yeah it's uh yeah this is social is nate land entertainment so you can see all this i think it's nate land entertainment you can figure that out also not a very good company when good company. We rely on you guys to tell us what it is. But it's stuff you see with this podcast.

But I think we're really trying to build out something. And this showcase is a big part of it and all that. So go watch it and follow these guys, all these comics. Michael Powell's Psych was last week. His is still up. mia jackson just came out this week uh yeah what you did you did a show with her mia and i were on uh uh a bet show yeah it was called coming to the stage yeah and it was like a it was like a contest yeah um like almost like last comic standing but on bet did you do every channel's Last Comic Standing?

Yeah. Yeah. I think I did. I thought of that joke when you talked it up. So here's the back story of that joke. I was going to say it earlier because we were talking about this. And then I was like, well, I'll save it. Yeah.

And then I was like, well, now I got to get him to save the exact same thing. So you didn't really care whether I did a show with Mia. You were just trying to get me to, yeah. No, Mia, I don't think Mia cares. Yeah. But it's. If you'd have just given me the lines, I'd have read them. You read the top of your paper there.

I mean, it was, I was pretty excited about it. Who won that contest? Joe Recca. Oh, yeah. Extremely funny guy. I made the finals. I think I was in the top Four or five

Yeah and then Lil Duval Was in the He was probably the guy He probably popped The biggest out of that Yeah he's popped He's big

He's big And then a guy named Spank Horton Who's You guys don't know Spank? Spank's one of Kevin Hart's guys I think Okay think philly guy and then um yeah it was and bruce bruce was the was the host yeah oh that's awesome yeah i uh and uh yeah there was

a lot of different celebrity judges and uh paul mooney was one of the judges at the time and everybody was telling me yeah paul mooney hates white people man that's his whole act is he hates white people yeah and uh so i had to go up in front of him and uh i was like terrified he goes you uh you white but i like my white people white so you okay was like, that's as good as it gets. Oh, he liked that. You did. You weren't trying to be something that.

Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And I, and I wasn't, but then I listened like, you know, this was,

this was 2004 or something. So I was a little bit less experienced and I watched some of it. And there is a certain affectation in my voice. I'm like, Oh God, what are you doing we're like one of these politicians here goes greg now he's in uh alaska's last comic stand oh boy he goes you're like oh man greg can't that's all he does

they have their own okay i can get in on that not a lot of people in it and i did the i did the regular last comic standing with palace yeah that's funny about that was yeah that's the whole point is like i like the idea of like as comics we're all like we've all tried everybody's last comic oh yeah like if anybody's like hey we're trying to there you're like yeah you can't. We would do – I never made it to any of them, but I wasn't sad. Did you try out? Yeah, I tried out. Really? It's the one thing –

Craig. He loves it. I feel like you're the reason I didn't make it. He probably said, don't take him. Not him, man. Not him, man. This guy's going nowhere fast. Yeah.

He said, don't take him. Not him, man. Not him, man. This guy's going nowhere fast. Yeah. It was the only thing that I didn't get that hurt me the most. Really? It was in New York. Because I was clean.

I might have talked about this before. I don't know. But Letterman was a tough one for me. Yeah. And Last Comic Standing. Because I was clean. I was like, I'm doing everything you're asking us to do i'm doing it yeah and then i did it and i never got never got through and i was

like i couldn't understand it because i was like i'm the only one that's even built for the like i mean not you're built for everybody who won the year you were trying to get in might have been liza schlesinger but then amy schumer i try to get in a few i went every year i went so i waited in line in chicago when i first started you know i wasn't upset about all the ones leading up i wait in line in front of caroline to spend the night on the sidewalk and i did all the stuff i was out there at four in the morning it's freezing and all this stuff i did all of that but by the time i got to because because like a lot of these shows people don't have to wait there's people that are waiting in line and then you get

to a point where you're slotted yeah so you kind of get past the waiting in line so then i got slotted for one at carolines and then it was at gotham was like all right right, now I was getting slotted and I was going to be looked at by the judges. So I was at least making it to that level. And they just said no on it. And I mean, that one, because it was like, everything was leading up to like, all right, now. Aaron likes it too. It's just funny that you do a set and they just go, now.

I don't see it I think I remember some of your notes nothing else just now it was I did a homeless I had a joke about

the monkey DNA about saying like if evolution is real or saying like I don't believe in evolution it's a

I got we have the same DNA as a monkey 98% well that 2% is very important you know so that was the idea of that joke It's a, I got, uh, we have the same DNA as a monkey, 98%. Well, that 2% is very important, you know? So that was the idea of that joke. And then I joke about a homeless guy. Like, uh, we see a guy homeless sleep on the ground.

It looks like he's having the best sleep of his life. And you're like, he has better sleep than I do in my bed. That's actually totally true. That's a good joke. But Geraldo told me, which I love Geraldo, but he was just like, he goes, in my head, I'm going, I'm giving you a, A, I'm the only person that's giving you a joke where I'm saying I do not believe in evolution. So that's my, that's the point.

The whole point of it is that i no one everybody else is going to tell you everything else i'm at least coming from a place that's a different place and then uh but he said that between that and the homeless joke he's like they didn't as a set they didn't mold together which i when i think back on it it makes sense man because then you have three minutes so you're like you need it would have been better to do three minutes on my wife than it would be yeah in my head i thought i'll do two jokes that are the the you know the uh homeless ones like my new york edgy joke where it's like I'm not dirty, but that's my kind of – it's like, well, homeless people sleep good on the street.

And then the other one, which would be kind of like I thought of like the edgy joke of that. So I think I'm giving them what they want. I wasn't. And I did learn from it. Yeah. But it hurt. It hurt. One of them hurt me bad, man. Well, Dusty did his whole Last Comic Standing set on one topic, right?

In the same way. Yeah, I made it to what they called the final 100. So I don't know how many were involved. I don't know if there's 100 comedians. But I made it. I auditioned here in Nashville, and then I got flown to New York, auditioned again, and then I got flown to LA for that and that was TV so you're on TV then yeah now they never showed my clips you can see you you can see you

yeah I was in the background and stuff but the um you know I did it all I did all fish jokes and Roseanne kind of gave me a similar note but she was like you had a good middle no beginning no end yeah and then Keenan Ivory Wayans told me it was too many jokes on one subject. Yeah. And I told him, yes, three is a lot. And then – Did you say that to him? I did say that.

And then Norm MacDonald was the third judge, and he said very nice things. Me too, man. He told me I was going to be a – well, he's wrong, but he said I was – He said I was going to be like a sitcom star or something, man. You were older than him. I know. And then Kenan, I think, yeah, I got to where I was on TV or whatever. And Norman, I had a thing that was really cool.

And then Kenan, I think for the second set I did on TV or whatever. And Norman, I had a thing that was really cool. And then Keenan, I think for the second set I did on TV, Keenan was like, man, it felt like you just like had these three jokes about one thing that were all fit together. And he just threw this other joke in there that just didn't even fit. And I was like, man,

that is right. Dead on. And that is exactly what I did. That is a, what I, what you did learn, what I learned is a, you got to look at everything. yeah. What you did learn, what I learned, is, hey, you got to look at everything as like,

all right, what set do I need, what do I need to do for this situation? And in our heads, because we're younger comics at this point, I'm not in front of you, but you were a younger comic. We're all younger comics. And, is that your ride?

There's a siren outside. That was just to be clear. That was an ambulance joke, not a police car joke. That was because I'm old and probably have a heart condition. Am I right? Yeah. I think everybody got that. I think everybody knew that.

I wasn't sure. So. But like, so we're all new. We're all young. Everybody's a young comic. So you're thinking like, I'm just trying to do my best three jokes. And so you're not even remote.

We're not at this point. I mean, I've never headlined or you've never molded a set together. But I should have thought you got to think of the set as the, for this situation, the thing is you just don't have enough material and stuff yeah i didn't want to burn up i didn't want to burn up a little i had it yes he had six albums i was completely i was so i let him talk i went up like you know and i did well in the first round

like real well and then the second round was a semi-finals and i was like last out of like 30 people and i earlier they had like a coaching session with wanda and the producers and i let him talk me out of material that what i went in i was like the last guy and the crowd was dead and i tried to like do what i thought was a late night tv set and i should have just gone in the room and kill like just do what we know how to do, which is like be a road guy and just kill. But I went with sort of their recommendations. It was stupid. And it wasn't that good.

That's true. Well, no, I see that. You know, the hard part with that stuff is, is you're being judged by people that also have a job and don't want to be kicked off the show. Like in a way they're kicking people off the show, but they're also, if they're not good, then NBC is going to be like, we don't want kicking people off the show but they're also if they're not good then nbc's gonna be like we don't want you on the they need this show also it's not like

they don't they don't take it because it's like i'm retired and i don't need it so it's a it's a weird you're basically the the whole world's watching no one's comfortable judges aren't comfortable the you know and they're having to judge people they know you know it's their friends i mean you know so it's like such a weird kind of thing yeah oh the first time i did it i made the semi-finals too and i had to follow lavelle crawford who did real well and he killed and amy schumer did real well that year and i met her on that thing and then we actually sort of kind of dated a little bit after that briefly dropping a bomb yeah Dropping a bomb. Yeah, and then she, you know, so I didn't make the last comic stand,

and then she broke up with me and his. Yeah. Well, what happened to her? Where is she at? How's she doing? Oh, is she? Didn't she date a professional wrestler? And you're just an amateur wrestler,

so I guess I could see the difference. Yeah. Yeah, now that you mention it, it on, Brian. It's not real. I remember when you, when that last comic standing happened and you were pretty upset and you called me, tell me about it.

And what you should have done if you had it was call Better Help. Oh. This episode. You called Brian to feel better about something? I called,

I called to talk to him different times. You were just saying, what's been going on in your day? And then you're like, oh, no, I feel better about this. Exactly. Well, yeah, we would always talk. How is it different?

Brian, I would call. I know. Multiple times a day. I need to pick me up. Let me call Bates real quick. Let me see what Bates' day has been like. And then he tells you what he's been doing and you feel better about it. Oh, yeah.

It's not so bad for me. Yeah. I don't deny that. That's absolutely true. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Everyone needs self-care. It's not so bad for me. I don't deny that. That's absolutely true. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Everyone needs self-care. It is non-negotiable. With yourself.

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There's only so long you beat on this drum. That's a good way to put it. Yeah, you need to go actually talk to someone. As we were trying to build Nate Land, I got to sometimes talk to someone even outside of this space because everybody's in this space. And so I need to get stuff off my chest. Uh, if you're thinking of starting therapy, give BetterHelp a try. It is entirely online designed to be convenient, flexible, and suited to your schedule. It really is. Look, honestly, I don't even try to

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Oh, really? And that it was very helpful. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. It is a thing that I don't like to, you know, a lot of people talk about therapy. I don't like, it's annoying because I think people do it in a self i want to do it just for the jokes yeah it but you should do it it's uh you know i was like yeah it's just a it's just the world is crazy dude and it's you just have a name the world it's just you might have

a lot on your mind you don't need to go dump that on the people you love yeah i just want to be able to start my job going i was talking to my therapist the other day. Yeah. But you might have a thing in your head that you think is just you. And you're like, I'm crazy. And then you talk to the therapist and they're like, oh, no, that's this thing that a lot of people have. Yeah, there's a name for that.

There's a name for it. I guess the fear is that they go, you are crazy. Yeah. Right? That's where you don't want confirmation. They go, wait, you're thinking what? Hold on, let me call some people. Y'all got to hear this.

Y'all got to call the cops. Joe, we got a maniac over here. One more housekeeping thing we should get into before we get into the podcast. Nick Thune, friend of the pod. Yes. And who does shows with Nate all over. He's recording a special here September 8th. Yeah.

Here in Nashville at the Lab. Oh, wow. I'm recording the night before, so that's a fun Nateland weekend. Yeah, great Nateland weekend. Sold out, right? Nick Newton's special at Nateland. A Nateland thing.

Yep, yep. All right. Yeah, so it's exciting, man. Nick Newton's so funny. Very funny. I had to follow him on a couple of Nate shows, and he's just great, man. So come on shows and it's he's he's very he's he's just great man so come on out and check those out nick's been around nick was probably did last

comic scene too nick's been around for as long as we have like it's uh real different yeah different cat yeah we've been around a long when did you i'd make fun of but, but I started in 03. When did you start? I quit my day job in 01. But I've been doing it like, you know, hosting and stuff in different cities. So what do you say when someone says, when did you start comedy? I tell them, I hate that question. I usually, for some reason, I just say. He makes it way more difficult than it should be. They ask you, well, I say I had a lot of false starts, you know.

And they say like, how long have you been doing it? And they just want to walk away. No, they go, they're like, well, I say I had a lot of false starts, you know, and they say like, how long you been doing it? And they just want to walk away. No, they're like, they're like, Greg, I didn't even want to talk to you. I'm just trying to just say a number so I can leave. And you're like, ah, well, you know, I started 1985. I got up and I thought about doing it, but I was 35 years old. I had a family and I thought i can't leave my family some of this is not all that far from the truth i mean because i'll ask you they'll be like uh

what you know hey man how long you've been doing it yeah you know and sometimes it's like ah it's i read too much into it but i know sometimes it's if it's in an open mic or something it's a guy that's starting i'll be like i gotta i gotta be able to chart where i'm at yeah and you know and i'm just like i always just go long time dude and they see it in your eyes and then a couple of them will try one more time but i mean when'd you start i'd be like long time dude you're like you remember 9-11? Yeah, that year. I got on stage in college in 1991. I know that. Wow. Yeah.

You were in college in 91? Yeah, man. I was a senior. That's because you don't want to say that you've been doing it for 35, 40 years. Nate, I mean, but I quit. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's part of it. Honestly, I'm probably like, well, you should be way better.

You got the Seinfeld open for you. The longer it goes, the more I do want to shorten it, though, when I tell people things. Didn't Seinfeld, because we saw Yakov in a show that I did with you, and didn't he say he opened for Yakov? That's crazy, man. Crazy, it's wild, man. Yakov was huge. He was doing 3,000 seat theaters. Wow. No one was even doing that. doing 3 000 seat theaters wow no one was even doing that like that was back when no one did theaters seinfeld said he's like i'd known him

he's like i've never even seen anything like it we were it was like this is nuts yeah uh no i know what you mean i'm joking it's the it's yeah you i i say oh three is when i moved to chicago so i just say oh three and then uh so I've been doing it 21 years. But you've been on stage before that. No. Never? No, I went on stage the first time in 03. So I'm counting the – I almost, if I can find it,

there is a clip of me online. One of your – I think your third ever set is on YouTube. Somebody sent it to me. Really? You see a little bit of you in there, it it's a third it's a third ever set you know look you see a little bit where you're like oh there's a that's a thing i didn't watch it i don't know if i could yeah oh it's hard old old this like that is hard terrible yeah it's terrible do you even remember the jokes you have a whole bit about y'all use the compass a lot

up here yeah and then they say well well, the river's always east. And you're like, well, I can't see the river. Yeah, the lake. The lake, yeah. That was the first joke that murdered. That was the first kind of relatable joke I had because it was in Chicago. And they would go, I'd use that joke a lot later. I might use the compass joke on something on TV.

It's coming back next special. On CMT. I think I did on CMT. So some of these jokes held on. It's coming back next special. On CMT. I think I did on CMT. So some of these jokes held on. But the lake one was, because in Chicago they'd go,

remember the lake is east. That's how they told you to get around. So if you were like, come, go walk north. You're like, well, the lake's east. Well, I can't see the lake. And that's it. And I mean, it was Chicago, dude. It was like, come on. They loved it. And I mean, it was Chicago, dude. It was like, come on.

They loved it. And so that was the first kind of relatable. And then that with the compass, and you do that, and then our compass. Compass, yeah. Compass, my bad. See, you would have said compass, and then everybody's like, what?

And then it's a whole. They would have just been like, this guy's not from around here. It would have taken them a second to get it they go what is this guy talking about that's a pretty good joke to have though as one of your first jokes well i had like child prodigy red fox impressions i'm a child i'm a child prodigy that took uh all the times of the child years it's the opposite of a chopper yeah yeah. Yeah. No one knew I was a chopper. I was trying to tell them I'm a chop prodigy.

They didn't understand it. They go, I don't know. I don't know. Word, do you want to say where y'all are at? I don't know where I was at. I was home. You were at the Wilson County Fair. I was at the Wilson County Fair.

Oh. Yeah, I went to the Wilson County Fair. Funny enough, Saturday Night Live aired that night where I talk at the Wilson County Fair. I was at the Wilson County Fair. Oh. Yeah, I went to the Wilson County Fair. Funny enough, Saturday Night Live aired that night where I talk about the Wilson County Fair. It re-aired. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, crazy. And I did not realize that until we were talking.

And so Wilson County Fair was great, fun. Glad we went. It rained. It was a zoo because we were there the first Saturday. But it was like the only day I could go. And i was like well let's just go and then uh but it was fun uh why am i nate i'm not like i don't it's basically nate land uh my brian bates and friends show here last week all right how was it sold out it was great two in a row row, back to back. Back to back. Back to back baits. 100%.

Nate came in a set. Yeah. It was great. Last night, I was in Smithville, Tennessee. That's DeKalb County, of course. At Smithville First Baptist Church. Shout out to them. That's pretty close to McMinnville.

You should have went out and stayed at the cabin. Yeah. That's back where it really helped. Yeah. Yeah. Had a good time. It was one of those where they just have the potluck meal and there's nowhere else to go. So you just get your food, sit down at a table with them, just wait until you go and stay.

I can't believe you do that. I never, I can't sit with the audience. I try to avoid it. Sometimes you can't. I'll wait in my car. Me too. Text me when you need me. Me too. Let me get a bowl of chili audience. I try to avoid it. Sometimes you can't. I'll wait in my car. Me too. Text me when you need me. Me too.

Let me get a bowl of chili first. I try not to, but a couple times when I have, it's turned out pretty well. Has it? You probably end up getting some. Yes. You get like something. So you can kind of like be like,

you start off with just like, you know, you're like, oh, look, I've been watching y'all eat. And it's like relatable. And then you probably have a better set. Yes. I think you do. I would feel very uncomfortable. All right.

Well, I'm going to start showing up to corporate events early then. I mean, let me get in on this because I could use a better start. Yeah, this is a good. Don't do this at the clubs. Don't do it at the clubs. Don't go eat with them in the comedy club. At the club. Dude, I've had late shows at the club.

I walked in. there's like eight people in the showroom so i just go what's up guys we're doing this i might as well like who am i pretending that i'm like hiding from there's like 10 people here yeah i might just let hi i'll see you in a couple minutes oh in between shows yeah if i'm walking out of the green room and i see there's nobody there shaking I might as well say hi. Thanks for being here. Wow. Yeah.

I mean, do they want that? You know, imagine there's only that many people. I don't know if any of them know you. So then they're like, I don't know, the help is out here. And they're almost like, he's already seen us now. We can't leave. That's why I'm trying to trap him in yeah there's some guy

that did the Tonight Show one time his first time on the Tonight Show and he had these pens like that had his name on them and before the show he was just giving everybody pens

as they walked into the studio he's like hey I'm doing the Tonight Show man I'm gonna be up here you gave out merch of the Tonight Show

yeah he was giving out that's awesome wow think about I think I got a funny new tour name for you Bates alright right let's hear it hang on uh i'm ready bates's tour is called easier to drive it's just a tour every gig you get you know you want to fly you got i think it's just easier if you drive it's never it's always in the city where there's going to be a layover. You're not writing it down.

You only take bookings. None of them are flights. They go, can I fly there? They go, you can't. To be honest, it's probably easier just to drive it. That's not what I was hoping for. It's good in the sense that you show

when you're getting to other parts of the country that maybe other comics aren't going to. That's right. You haven't gone full Hollywood like Nate. He's only doing shows in LA. You're reaching different parts of the country. You're going to real America. Different parts of the state. Different parts of the mid state

the middle Tennessee kid he goes you come to Arkansas he goes I've been down there he goes I'll go I'll dabble a little bit in there

I'll stay in Memphis but I'll drive over yeah yeah West Memphis he goes but I'll come over and see what's going on

yeah what Hot Springs no we can't have you down that far no what are we talking about I am doing Hot springs coming up. Yeah.

There you go. November 2nd. November 2nd, hot springs. That's going to be it. Come to Dallas. He goes, what are we doing? He goes, what? What are you doing?

He goes, Dallas. Are you out of your mind? I was booked for Dallas, and then I canceled for your SNL, and ticket sales weren't that great, so I can't convince them to bring me back. What did they advertise as? He went to Nate's SNL and ticket sales weren't that great, so I can't convince them to bring me back. But what if they advertised it as he went to Nate's SNL? This guy. You may see this guy

in the crowd at Nate's SNL. That's better than some of the credits I was using earlier. Yeah, you don't cancel. You reschedule. I agree, Dusty. I agree. Tell the owner of the club that. This guy could get Nate on the phone. That's not even really true.

In a couple of days. Not anymore. I could get his sister. Man, no. I texted you about going to the Wilson County Fair. I said, we're going. Yeah, you did.

I was going to text y'all, but you were gone. I was out of town, yeah. Or you were gone too, because we texted this weekend. Yeah, you did. I was going to text y'all, but you were gone. I was out of town, yeah. And then you were gone too because we texted this weekend. You were in Texas. So then I was like, I texted. Were you inviting me to go? Yeah, I said, we're going to the fair today.

Just telling you he was going. Yeah, he didn't say. But it's like a text that's like, hey, I'm going to golf at 9. Yeah. I'm not texting. It's like, I think it's right to the point the invitations are implied i thought you were wanting to know if i could get you free tickets to the wilson county yeah we had to pay we did not get free tickets but uh we paid no i was there as i told you earlier that day yeah michael clay

michael was there so i hung out with michael would you go by yourself no no no no we were just walking around i did meet someone there was someone i met and this lady's very nice but then i had to wait for her husband to get back she was like my husband i gotta you gotta meet my husband like and he wasn't there so she just had a hang. Yeah. She goes at one point, she walks over, and then they were very nice. And then I'm like, and then we start leaving because we're like, all right, well, I don't think I'm going to wait here. And then she's like, hold on. He's almost, he was like already in the car. Wow.

Came all the way back. Was he excited? Yeah. Oh, okay. He's something. I mean, he didn't know. I don't think she said who you're meeting, but then they were excited, and we took a picture,

and they're very nice. But it was just the moment, like, just give me two seconds. That would have been terrible if he wasn't excited. I've had that happen. He made me get out of the car. I've had it happen where it's, you know, they go, look who this is, and they go, I'm sorry, I don it's, you know, they go, look who this is. And they go, I don't, they go, I'm sorry, I don't know who you are.

And then you got to go, I'm a comedian. And they explain it and they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, oh, wow. Cool to meet you. And you're like, oh, and the person presents it to you as if you're about to meet your biggest fan on earth. Oh, yeah. And so you think it's about to be like a thing and then they're just like they're just not in the headspace to even yeah and they're like i don't yeah i guess that lady in springfield missouri when we were doing that gig i was we were

out riding scooters or something yeah and this lady came up it was you know five grown men riding scooters in the middle of the town she was like what are you what are you guys doing here she worked for the college and she was like what do you do are you oh you're here i bet you're here for the nate bargatzee show aren't you oh yeah and nate was right there anybody had sunglasses on and uh i just go are you a nate fan she's like i man i i love him he's my favorite comedian i love him i was like you know what he looks like and she was like yeah i know what he looks like? And she was like, yeah, I know what he looks like. And then she's like, take your sunglasses off. She freaked out.

We were just talking to her. It was great, man. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah. We were riding, what college was that? Missouri State. Missouri State. We were riding Missouri State on scooters.

I mean, oldest men possible. What's that city? Springfield, Missouri. Oh, Springfield, okay. Yeah, they got a comedy club. You probably played there. I did the college. Oh, did you?

That's where my dad went. Okay, yeah, I did a gig at the college. Greg wrestled there. I wrestled there, yeah. All right. Never lost down there, man. Greg was a little cocky. Well, we were the University of Missouri

if you had any of those directionals like southeast or central or Missouri State our coach was like you guys you got

you got a six point lead walking out on the mat just because of your singlet and that's how Greg took the stage with that attitude yeah

he walked out there. I got a six-point lead. They don't even know. Yeah. And there's early on. Still, today, I'm down 8-6. Two jokes in. It's the opposite.

I didn't see it coming. It's what happened. They're up by six. Wait, how do they have a lead? Where were you this weekend, Greg? Well, Nate's not the only arena act. I went to Mason City, Iowa, and they had a hockey arena there, and they sectioned off about 120 seats in that hockey arena

and had a comedy show, And it was really cool. They made like a little comedy club out of it. Yeah. Wow. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, it was really neat. I bet you there was 150 people there. Yeah.

What was going on the other side of the curtain? They were playing hockey. Full blown. Yeah, I guess they just wanted to utilize the space and they've been trying to get comedy going. So it was really fun. Some of those readings, it's good to do that. I guess they just wanted to utilize the space and they've been trying to get comedy going. So it was, it was really fun.

Some of those readings. It's good to do that. I mean, I did when I did them, cause I said they used to have the curtain. Yeah. And so they would, you would do them and depend on where that curtain was, depending on how good you sold.

So, I mean, I remember doing them where the curtain was having my stay. It's really, you're just like, I should be, the stage should be just against the wall and it'd be one section yeah or that one show who did we talk about that one show the guy was on

stage the we just did it on stage who did i was with that we talked about that uh did you ever brought that up we did a show not not on the podcast oh yeah yeah i did a show i forget who's with me so little people they just did it on the stage. You mean they sat everybody on the stage? Yeah. It was not enough people as a theater. And there's not enough people that they just said, you know what, let's just bring everybody on stage.

And then they sat and chatted on stage. Yeah, y'all use the green room bathroom if you want. I bet you it was good, though. Yeah, it was good. Because the acoustics in the theater. Yeah. You just had them all on stage. I just did. Yeah. You just had them all on stage. I just did a show. I just get them all on stage.

This one's for you, Marty. Yeah. There you go. I'm in section 3F. You're on stage. There is no 3F tonight. It's all chairs. What about you, Aaron?

I was in Alabama, Birmingham, Stardome. Two nights at the Stardome and then two nights in Huntsville at Levity Live. It's no longer Stand Up Live. It's called Levity Live. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. Yeah. So they're making the changes there.

And still the same great club from the comics perspective, at least. So it was a really great weekend to be back in Alabama. A lot of fame. I did. I was one of those huntsville shows the manager comes back goes there's a 38 a group of 38 here yeah it was my family oh wow but she was like is there like a church group coming or something no it's 38 it's my favorite 38 came to the late show saturday wow now they were pulling in friends and stuff, but yeah, yeah. They all came in, so that show was a lot of fun, and they thankfully didn't put them up front, but just a great weekend. Sold out the stardome.

Empty seats. You sold out the stardome? Oh, man. Sorry, sorry. No, I know, but now you're talking about something great. Now it sounds bad. That's okay. That's okay.

I was trying to say it's just empty seats and then the 38 people. And then they go, we don't got them up front. But then you got to, then you said, I have cancer. And you're like, oh. All right. Sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead, Aaron.

Sorry. Yeah. Stardome in second. Sold out the Stardome. Sold it out. Sold it out. That's so great. Added a show.

And the added show was like at 150. All right. So it was awesome. I've done the Stardome since I started, and I've never – I don't think I've ever had anybody there that knew that I was on the show. Yeah. Even the shows I headlined. Yeah.

Never felt like anybody was there for me. What do you think happened? Well, I did the arena in Birmingham with Nate. And I said, I'm coming there. And it happened quick. The Nate bump. It was awesome. Well, that's all him.

They watch. They don't have to come. Well, yeah. I mean, if you had really bombed and go, come see me at the Stardome, they'd have been like, nah, we saw what you did. We would just be hearing about Huntsville this week. That's true.

But if he'd have done really great, he would have sold out both. Let's just be honest. We're going to be honest. That is true. He's right in the middle. That is true. He's not showing off.

That is the interesting thing that I've learned about selling out a show and then them adding another is you go, oh, no, that sellout was about as many people that wanted to come see it. I'm not familiar with any of this. Let's keep it at the win. You want the victory. Yeah. And then they're like, no, we'll do another one.

You're like, yeah. Because I've done, I did, when you're doing theaters, sometimes you added a show and you're like, first show's packed out, second show's 200 people. And they're like, we got to push. We got to push. And I'm like, but I had a sold out show. And then you feel like you got to walk out there and you're like, hey, everybody in the crowd, I just want you to know the other show was sold out.

I do say that. You kind of feel like you have to because they're like, what is happening? I say we added this show just for you guys. And that is true. That's a good one. It is because you want to see, you know, you want to let everybody else come, but you didn't know it was only going to be 100 people.

How many more Dusty fans we got out there? Let's just leave it to the imagination. Yeah. But speaking of that, I did Houston,as this weekend state of texas the improv i sold out three of the five shows that's ridiculous it's a big club a big it's huge the number one grossing comedy club in the country i think oh i think so too yeah it's so great i had such a good time it's a it's an awesome weekend that's one of the places i started comedy is it yeah it's an interesting way to That's one of the places I started comedy at. Is it?

Yeah. It's an interesting way to word it. What does that mean? What? Is it the biggest club? No, it's the highest. Most tickets sold. Exactly what he said. Yeah, I think the dollars. Yeah. How big are they charged? It's an interesting way to word that because it's the correct way to word it. Yeah, I think so. So what you're saying is they charge more money for tickets than some other clubs? No, it's very big, too. It's 450 seats. And the acts sell well there. It's also a giant city.

Yeah, they don't charge. Fourth largest city in the country. Neck and neck with Chicago, though, the third largest. I thought it was third. They say it's neck and neck. You can be high-grossing and not charge a lot for tickets. Walmart is a very high-grossing place. They don't charge.

They don't just charge people more yeah so they're the big because they're the biggest company in america but you make it which is you're good at this make it sound just like the club is at fault yeah and you are you are the best at that yeah you think they're taking something shady going on. And take something positive and make it where that person, the club then has to go, I get, well, all right, man. I'm sorry. That's the way you present it. Well, I was just trying to get the bottom. Is it the biggest?

Or if it's not the biggest, then that means they're. It's one of the biggest. Okay. And there's a lot of tickets are being sold there. It's a big club. They got guys selling out three out of five shows. That's nuts. Significant that I had sold out. Well, big doesn't even. I mean, you It's a big club. They got guys selling out three out of five shows. That's nuts. Significant that I had sold out.

Well, big doesn't even, I mean, you can have a big club and they never. The other two are close to selling out. There's clubs that are bigger than Houston. Yeah, it's the big. And they don't make it. And they could not make more dollars. Yeah, stand up live in Phoenix. It's huge, right?

Almost 600 seats. It's that many people in that town, they want to go to that club. Yeah. And a lot of big acts go to that club. Big, big acts. So they would be able to get. Yeah, it lot of big acts go to that club big so they would be able to get yeah it's just there yeah they would get yeah they get big acts they do they get they get a lot of theater acts and guys that could go do other stuff but they go to houston go i'll just do the club because it's such a big club it's a good thing i think they also they have the um

such a big club it's a good thing i think they also they have the um there's a there's you know they have big acts and uh big white acts uh big urban acts but then they also there's probably i bet there's 10 latino acts that you can't that that don't sell well in certain parts of the country where they blow it out and that so they have 10 acts that some, some cities don't have in the country. They say Houston, the most diverse city in the country. That's interesting. I don't know if I believe that. I don't know if I believe that.

I mean, what about New York city? That's what they say. Most diverse city in the country. You didn't look up the stats. I didn't look up anything. People just told me that. Yeah.

I lived, I lived in Houston. I don't know if I buy it. Okay. I didn't look up anything. People just told me this. Yeah, I lived in Houston. I don't know if I buy it. I mean... 1984. He's 91. You don't even have to exaggerate. You can just say it. 91. You were a senior in college?

That's true. In Houston? You're saying 91 for everything. You know, Bates, again, this is just what Nate says. It's just what Nate says. You make it sound like there's something that I'm doing that is like I'm lying. I graduated college and then I moved to Houston

to get a job selling chips and peanut butter. Sounds like you're stuck in 91. Yeah. You put people on the defense. What happened in 91? I mean, your answer to everything is 1991.

What's going on? Cross-examined. Did you have some trauma in 91? No, man.'s 1991 what's going on cross-examined you have some do you have some trauma in 91 no it was a good year in some ways i was born in 91 yeah were you yeah yeah got married in 91 and uh had some kids and then became a grandparent in 91 too is that what is that what you're indicating there well Well, we're having a good time. Dusty, why don't you tell us about Pesty? Oh, yeah.

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Pretty plosive heavy, though. There was a lot of Ps. I don't think Dusty was here for the plos that. I felt like it was pretty good. It was pretty good. A lot of, pretty plosive heavy though. There was a lot of P's. I don't think Dusty was here for the plosive. I was. Oh, you were. Okay. That was actually me

that said it was, sounds like something the young kids would say. Oh, that's right. You're right. I coined the phrase, plosive. Starting with you guys' comments,

Jessica Quinn, probably the hardest I've ever laughed at a podcast episode. From the revelation that Homer was blind to watching Dusty shaking his head every time Aaron mentioned something related to evolution. Speaking of blind. Also love the out story from Bobby Sox.

If laughter is good medicine, I got a long life ahead. Thank you all. That's very nice. Cody. It's not medicine though. Laughter? Yeah. Don't count on it.

Yeah. You know, for medicine. Still do other stuff for your health what are you doing man I'm sorry this is what we sell Dusty the Bible

says a merry heart doeth good like medicine that's Old Testament so you should be all about that yeah but Dusty's all Big Pharma so yeah yeah yeah

we understand Big Pharma baits I mean he he'd probably love it I mean Big Pharma I mean he'll do what do they want what are they trying to give us he he goes and knocks on pfizer's door he goes what do y'all got today y'all got anything y'all trying out yeah i do i got one of those pill things that keeps up with it. Do you?

Yeah. Do you have one, Greg? I keep them in little sandwich bags. That's what I'm talking about. I like just keeping them in my pocket. Do you know which one to go to? What do you mean? Do you have a bunch of different pills to take? Do you have seven days a week?

No, I take a set of pills in the morning and a set of pills in the afternoon and a set of pills in the evening. That's of pills in the afternoon and a set of pills in the evening. That's how you get through the day? Yeah, yeah. And they're not drug pills. They're supplements. Yeah. Mine too.

And they're in those little snack bags. Snack bag is smaller than a sandwich bag. Yeah, I like snack bags. They're good. Cody Thomas, I had read that we call redheads redheads. Well, keep going. Yeah. Because even though it's more of an orange color, the word orange was not around, but

the word red was. That makes more sense to me than an evolution of the human eye. I think we talked about this on the podcast once that the orange the fruit was named that before the color was named orange yeah and that's that and then that's why we started calling that shade orange because it was the same color as the fruit but yeah there was just one all-encompassing word red that included orange and red for a long time. Fun stuff. We had this guy, redheaded guy, on our wrestling team in college, Darren Davis. We called him Ronald McDonald, and we'd call him up late at night.

He was the only one married on the team. In high school? No, in college. He was married in college, and we were all idiots out doing whatever. We'd be out late until like 2 in the morning. He'd answer the phone at like 2 in the morning and be like, I'll take a Big Mac, and we just order McDonald's. Ronald McDonald.

Yeah, he hated us for that. That's his fault for having red hair. For being married. Spencer Armaheim. Armheim. There's no chance that's what that is. You don't think it's Armheim? Armheim?

In middle school, I told everyone that I was colorblind for attention. When I got... I can't make it. He does that too. When I got tired of pretending I couldn't see colors I said the doctor gave me medicine That fixed it This guy's a sociopath

One lie leads to another lie To another lie And two other kids Who were actually colorblind Begged me to tell me What treatment it was I even talked to their parents Two other kids who were actually colorblind begged me to tell me what treatment it was. I even talked to their parents.

I lied to them all until they finally contacted my parents. And my folks had to tell them I was not a recurrent. This guy is a maniac. You took it so far. I talked to their parents he got his head above water what's the saying like that like he he got out of his hand he was in over his head he was in over his head yeah where he just thought yeah i'm just being funny and like i'll say I'm colorblind. And then it was like, all right, I'm tired of that.

And then it's like, then kids, you know. I mean, there's no way he thought, well, what if people. I know. What school was he going to where two other kids were colorblind? I'm colorblind. Is this a real common thing? I'm colorblind. My brother's colorblind.

It is in men, real men, I think. Type that in. Real men are colorblind? One in 12 men. Wow. And then one in 200 women. So it affects men. Wow.

One in 12? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 4.5% of the world's population. Who's doing these surveys? That's what I'm saying. 4.5% of the world's population.

Who's doing these surveys? That's what I'm saying. What advantage would there be to making up a- I agree. They say that about every survey ever. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's what we say. Oh, all right, man. I believe it.

Yeah, he's struggling today. I'm just kidding. I was colorblind in 1991. We're just kidding. I'm just kidding. It's a smart joke Smart people Dumb it down for these bonehead audience Sorry

Sorry man It's alright Hurt people hurt people Go ahead I've never heard that It's pretty good That's a good saying But I didn't mean to hurt you

Rachel Barrow Barrow My piano teacher She sounds like a piano teacher Rachel Barrow Doesn't that sound like a piano teacher's name? Miss Barrow My piano teacher would often talk about specific keys

Having colors to them C major was blue E flat was orange I understood on one level what she was saying but never had the experience of hearing colors that's synesthesia what we talked about a little bit last week yeah that was a i remember that yeah like there's some if this don't get into there's some more comments coming okay okay cool uh jeff matters meters matters i think it's i like matters matters yeah uh the lie about carrots improving vision originated from the british government

in world war ii fact check this greg uh the royal air force are you listening had a new radar technology that they wanted to keep secret. So to fool the Nazis, they launched a propaganda campaign that attributed the skill of their pilots to carrots. That's true. I heard that from a few places. That's great. So what did they do? I don't know if I understand what I read. I think you should eat the carrots. The British had a new radar system that could detect, I guess, Nazi planes.

And they didn't want them to know how they could do it. So they lied by saying the reason their pilots could see so well is because they eat carrots. Wow. And Hitler's telling you. You gotta eat these carrots. You gotta eat these carrots. Yeah. We did that. mean when i worked at

pringles no we um i don't believe that we had like uh our general manager the guy running pringles got interviewed by one of those advertising magazines and we were up a bunch of share points and he threw some misinformation out there he told them that it was because we sponsored the x games was why uh why we were doing so well just to sort of try to get frito-lay off their game oh wow oh really yeah oh that's i like that kind of stuff wait so wait why did he say it he's he your guy said it yeah our guy they were interviewing him to say hey why why is why is pringles experiencing so much growth yeah right now and it had to do with sort of i think it had a lot to do with walmart and targeting that customer and doing a lot of stuff with them but uh and and some of the club stores but he was like we're not

going to tell frito-lay why we're doing so well so he was like it's because we we're a big sponsor of the x games and that's why all of our businesses yeah yeah you don't want them yeah, you don't want them to know why. And did Free LA start sponsoring the X Games after that? I don't know if it worked or not. Oh, yeah. But they didn't know, you know. I'm just saying about this, I don't doubt, I just feel like we carried this lie all this time that carrots are good for your eyes

because of this. Yeah, it was a big war. I would say one of the biggest. But I just mean, though, we we're now like our parents are telling us to eat carrots because it's good for our eyes because of this yeah yeah maybe i just don't think that maybe the raf could have let us in on it we were out we were an ally yeah yeah yeah the whole world's eating carrots now it's good for their eyes because of this i think there's some other health benefits to yeah it's not like carrots are bad for you. Yeah. You know? You sound mad about it.

Well, I mean, I just... No, he was fooled. He'd been misled. Well, I saw his glasses. Yeah. It's not been helping. These people were lying like Spencer Amreim. Yeah, yeah. Exactly.

Scott Crawford. Did you compare Spencer to the Nazis? I did. I bet you Spencer was a more skilled liar. Sorry, Spencer. Yeah. All right, well, I compliment you now. Scott Crawford.

There is a condition called prosopanginosure. Whoa. Is that right? That sounded good. I actually think you got that. Prosopagnosia. Whoa. Is that right? That sounded good. I actually think you got that. Pagnosia. You went into it so confidently. I love it.

You're just like, let's just do it. We're doing it. Prosopagnosia. I can't think of more. I've done it a couple times. Also known as face blindness. Oh, I don't start with that. Which is a neurological disorder that makes it difficult to recognize faces.

That's just a person that's a bad person. I'm good with names. Yeah. Bad with faces. Yeah. That's just someone that's like, you go, I just don't have the time to, you know, it would be like, I meet a lot of people. I got faces.

Yeah. I meet a lot of people. Y' face blinders. Yeah. I meet a lot of people. Y'all look. Or it's a thing, and that's a terrible thing, where you're like, Ted, it's me. And you go, oh, I have prosopagnosia. Yeah. That's good.

Oh, geez. Yeah, that's a real thing. I know. I know. How many people have it? Do you know someone specifically? One in 12. No, but I saw a story of 60 Minutes about it.

Did you? Yeah. Are they still doing 60 Minutes? In 91? Oh, yeah. They're doing better than ever. Now, you can have the opposite of that, too. You have superior face recognition ability.

They are called super recognizers. That's what I have. You're pretty good faces aren't aren't crows that way i'm not lying yeah there's a bird i think that can see your recognize humans recognize humans faces yeah i think it's crow yeah i think you're right yeah oh yeah crows can learn to recognize human faces and hold on to that memory for a long time sometimes even forming associations with the individual's behavior wow i did whitney cummings podcast and she talked about uh crows like that like she has some crow feeders i bought a crow feeder i still don't have any crows now but uh yeah she says they'll bring you tools and stuff you start leaving food out they'll bring little tools for you. As thank you gifts?

I guess, yeah. That I don't believe. We're into crows. That's how I bonded. We bonded over crows. Man, I sure could use a fence post digger. That might be a tough tool to bring. That'd be a whole murder of crows.

Here's your fence. Here's that corn on the cob. That's like gold in their language. Were you doing an impression of a crow? Breathing hard. Carrying a fence hole digger. Yeah. Not everybody does that, Greg it's like it's like a it's like a uh anti-evolution joke yeah i also do my that's was it was my

homeless man the evolution joke and then i did impression hard breather out of breath out of breath crow and then they got they go, I can't pinpoint it. Next time, next year, just all out of breath crow jokes. One set on out of breath crow jokes. Hannah Freidlund. Freidlund. There you go. Freidlund.

That sounds like a name that you, what's that, the Freud name or whatever? Sigmund Freud? Sigmund Freud. No, Freud Slip. Freudian Slip. Freudian Slip, yeah. Yeah, so that sounds like, you know, Freudian Slip. Like Hannah, that sounds like a name that you're like, if you dug into that, you're like,

Hannah, like her family, like, you know, comes from something. You know what I mean? Yeah. Hannah might not even know that i bet not but she might have you know she might be some she owns like half of ireland or something you know something i don't know i don't know that last name's from but but uh loved hearing synesthesia synesthesia synesthesia synesthesia loved hearing synesthesia getting brought up every color has a frequency and that's why being in painted rooms with different colors affects our mood so much also it's why white noise exact exist in a sound machine. It's a frequency. Oh. I'm into that. I could get into this.

The sound of... Colors having frequencies? Yeah. I want to dig into that. I want to change the colors in my house now. Well, there are some musicians that have just mastered the instrument so much that when they're soloing or something,

they're not even thinking about the mechanics of it. If they have synesthesia, they can just think like... Red, blue, green, red, white, blue. Yeah, just like in colors. Yellow, blue, orange. And just like the feel of it. I think that's so interesting.

That's what they think in their head while they sing the national anthem. Yeah. Black, blue, four. Black, blue, white, pink. Black, blue, white, pink. while they sing the national anthem yeah black blue four black blue white pink black blue white pink then they do that there's you're like what is that that was charlie daniel yeah but there's probably some guy it's just like comedy there's some guy that uh just wants to skip to doing just the colors and doesn't want to learn the basics. He goes, let's get to the color part. You got to kind of learn how to play the notes and all that stuff.

No, no, man. I'm just a color guy, man. Yeah, I like that. Kanye West apparently has synesthesia. How about that Billy Joel Billie Eilish bunch of composers

the drummer from the Grateful Dead but they see a lot of colors Lane Lane Lemmings I have synesthesia songs have taste. Most colors have numbers associated. What?

Songs have taste. Most colors have numbers associated. And certain words have a funny taste. It was a crazy day when my whole school found out. Everyone is asking me how they taste. They're losing me here. Certain words like banana. I'm down with frequency of it.

And you're losing me with taste. Oh, that's a taste that's yeah yeah i don't know songs have i guess you know if you if you mentioned food and said the word i could probably taste cheeseburger in paradise for instance yeah i could taste a burger when you say it lane would be like no actually that song uh tastes like a lemon it's uh yeah yeah that's hard for her to uh what do you think about that though a word having a taste i don't even think i understand what's going on so yeah it's probably it seems like you know i think it's like most colors have numbers songs have taste it's probably something that makes the most sense to her and then you know someone else is like well i don't even know what's going on i don't even know what you're talking about but aaron would two people with synesthesia have the same taste

or the same color oh i don't know i don't think so just whatever comes it's just how they process it in their brain well it's probably hard to find two people that can make up this. Oh, stop. I'm sure they talk beforehand, they do. Aaron, what about game time? I love game time, dude. Y'all know me. I love two things.

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The coolest part is I'm on the app right here, and I'm looking at a game that's coming up, and all the seats that are available, they have the seat view on here. So you can see exactly what that seat's going to look like. Oh, that's nice. So you're not going to walk into something and be like, ah, these are terrible seats. That's a good feature.

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I don't mess around. That's the best ad reader in town. I don't mess around. He's real good, man. Who's here you go out to? Tracy Nichols. I'm surprised no one brought up the dress controversy of 2015, where millions of people debated whether the dress in a social media pic

was black and blue or white and gold. I still only see white and gold, but apparently the true colors are black and blue. Well, it's like the one on the right looks black and blue, but then the one on the left looks white and gold. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah, you remember, that took the world by storm, though. This was kind of when social media was... Fun? Yeah. Fun and new and everybody's, you know, and it's kind of just, yeah. Now I think it's like, you know,

when you see something like this, you're like, I can't get involved in this. Yeah, it all feels like a trick now every time something like this is going it's like that is a trick there's something going on somewhere else and they're distracting me from it with this thing it's as a as a yeah as a plat like it's you get all these ideas and you're you're just it's it's it's so hard to follow people. Aaron, do you know the science behind it, why we see it differently? No. I mean, I wasn't really asking.

I saw the headline said. Oh, I thought about that. I always thought it was blue and black. Did you? You see blue and black right there? Yeah, I do too. This right here, do you see blue and black? I definitely see blue. Yeah, what do you see blue and black right there yeah i do too you this right here you see blue and definitely see blue yeah what do you see i see white and gold a hundred percent that's so funny

i see blue and black i think i see blue i see whoa yeah i see white and gold see it was fun yeah it is fun it's a good time uh wow i mean i see white and go 100 yeah i do now i saw i saw blue i don't even see blue i don't even know how you could get blue out of this maybe your eyes haven't developed to see blue yet maybe or maybe you know i'm just seeing better evolves sarah i 100 agree with Dusty about the elusive narwhals. I am 49 and never heard anything about these animals until about five years ago. All the video footage is the same set of clips over and over, but the craziest thing is that there has never been a narwhal that has been kept in captivity.

Sounds very suspicious to me. That's what I'm saying. I appreciate you, Sarah. I agree with that. There's none in captivity? I looked that up. That's true.'m saying. I appreciate you, Sarah. I agree with that. I appreciate you, Sarah. There's none in captivity. I looked that up. That's true.

We don't have a giant squid in captivity. You know? Those are real. But you've seen squids. And so you're just like, well, there's a big one. So some people think there aren't none. They don't have a blue whale. I just like, I was big into animals growing up.

And I had all these things. I was always looking up animals, and then I'm reading my daughter books, and they're just filled with this animal, the narwhal, and I'm like, what is this? My friend lives in Norwalk, which I think is in Ohio, and it's like, that's their- That's their thing, huh?

That's their city animal. That's what they made up. Yeah. Yeah. I get the point that it goes like every clip looks like this same clip so like we went this animal that's the craziest animal i've ever seen we went and filmed it for about two hours and we've never gone back like you never like that's the point that he's making is that it's i think we're keeping an eye on it yeah yeah but i mean that's a crazy thing.

It is wild. Somebody brought me a toy narwhal for the baby this weekend. Oh, yeah. I mean, like the day after the episode aired, so it was pretty quick. That's cool. Yeah, it was fun. Oh, look at that. Sounds safe for kids, big sharp horn on it.

Thank goodness, yeah. It's plush, but yeah. There's a steak knife going on here. Well, the plush does make more sense I thought the same thing I don't know how safe that is but yeah

I don't know I mean they're just lucky they're in the water because moving if they had to get around imagine a man

that was on a laying animal yeah it's like a dog trying to get a bone out of a door can't turn away in a dog trying to get a bone out of a door in a hallway a lot of stick to manslaughter a lot of stuck unintentionally killing other animals the males are the ones with the horns uh nate herson fellow nate it was glossed over pretty quickly but aaron

said that unicorns fly. My daughters were very quick to point out that unicorns do not fly. If a unicorn has wings, it's called an alicorn. I was probably thinking of a pegasus. I'm sorry about that. I get my fictional animals wrong. I think easily a unicorn could be a pegasus. It's the TSU Blue Raiders mascot. It's a winged horse, right?

They're the Pegasi? Or the Blue Raiders. Middle Tennessee State Pegasi. If the Norwalk's real, a horse with a horn could be real, too. Yeah, yeah. I think that's why I brought it up. But, I mean, there's no horse with a horn on Nat Geo. Exactly.

It's really defensive. There's no video of these girls that are just pointed out something. I'm more annoyed with Nate. You know, his daughters get a pass, but come on. No, his daughters was just making, but it's a good point. And you're like, well, I think I was talking about that. You said something that they didn't even say. No, no, no, no, no.

I was saying I agree with Dusty. That's why I brought it up. But I had it wrong. I had it wrong. I had it wrong. No, I agree with him too. I've never heard of Alicorn. Neither have I.

I never heard of alicorn either. I think that's made up. I was thinking of a pegasus. Me neither. You think those little girls made it up? Yeah. Yeah. Or their textbooks made it up.

I agree with them. They're like Spencer. Emily Osborne. Regular Skittles have five colors, but they all have the same taste formula. It's cheaper to add fragrance and colors to each candy than it is to add five different flavors. Your olfactory senses trick you into thinking you're tasting something, but you actually aren't. If you close your eyes and plug your nose, they all taste the same. The olfactory sense, also known as the sense of smell.

Is that how you eat Skittles? Close your eyes and plug your nose, take the fun out of it? He goes, look how much you like. I'm sorry, that was, can you imagine just eating Skittles? And you're like, man, enjoy them a little. He goes, nah, I just got to get them down. Man, back when I sold the... I did a bag.

Did you really? Oh, I love it. I love it. King size. Does anybody want to try? Share size. I'd like to see if I can tell the difference between two colors. Yeah.

Okay. Oh, yeah. Pick some colors out and don't tell Dusty what they are. All right. Well, that's a perfect segue in today's subject. We're doing the senses. Last week, Greg, we did vision. Are your eyes closed, Dusty?

Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to do this. Can we do this experiment real quick? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Today we're doing taste. See that on the camera? You see what color this is?

Dusty, you don't see what color. Sorry, did I say it? All right. There you go. Eat it. Let me know. Is this really a Sk real quick? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Today we're doing taste. See that on the camera? You see what color this is? Dusty, you don't see what color. Sorry, did I say it? All right, there you go. Eat it. Let me know. Is this really a Skittles? Yeah, yeah. It's a Skittles.

Is that poop? No. We pooped real fast. Yeah. Now, what do you think that is? I think it's yellow. Okay. Okay.

I'm going to show you. I'm going to do one more. Okay. See what color that is? All right. Try that out, Dusty. You probably got to take a swig of something no no cleanse the power reset the yeah it's like a wine taster how about that one this one's red no you gotta both wrong there's a green one and a yellow one the green i could see what i said was yellow i could see that being green but the other one

I couldn't see it being yellow now you're supposed to hold your nose to see if they all taste the same they didn't taste the same to me but you could smell them I'm saying like yellow could be lemon

green could be lime and they're still both citrusy that's a nice nice package of Skittles I think I should have yeah I go all out it is a good bag I should have known

what colors were in there going into it. Skittles are really good, man. Would you have acquired Skittles P&G? We weren't in the candy business. We had Hawaiian Punch, though. Oh, Hawaiian Punch was my favorite as a kid. That's good, man. I could have hooked you up back then.

But we had 1991. Out of the nine. You had 38-year-olds going, hey, little boy. but we had 1991 yeah 91 out of the nine nine was 38 year old going hey little boy I can give you some Hawaiian punch

nine was peak Hawaiian punch years for me yeah well I would have drank it from a 30 we got

we got whoops bad by Hi-C Hi-C just Hi-C dominated because Hi-C had all the flavors we only had red

so we decided We were going to come out With all these other It's called HP colors And we were going to have All these different We had like

Sounds like a printer Red Yeah And we had like We had like Five different colors But they were all Hawaiian Punch

Hawaiian Punch Was much Far superior to High C But Hawaiian Punch Should have probably Just stayed in their lane and said we just only do this one thing oh we got we got forced back on our lane real quick yeah and that and that's that's what you do and the thing is high c goes now we do everything you're like you're actually two different drinks yeah the problem is that when you walk to the shelf

high hawaiian punch gets lost you can't even find it basically because there's 80 different flavors of high c but you're but you be but you're really going after someone that wants the taste of hawaiian punch that's not that's not enough hawaiian punch and that was all i wanted and also high c man they were they were kind of dirtbag sales techniques like dusty like they like we've established earlier on the pike like they were doing all i would have hit the hawaiian punch yeah they did they did do that stuff yeah they pushed it back and then an extra face yeah dirtbag taxes yeah they weren't honorable listen to this hawaiian punch started as an ice cream topping and then customers discovered if you mixed it with water it tasted pretty good to drink so they they pivoted. Isn't that crazy?

Dr. Pepper is who owned it? Keurig Dr. Pepper owns it now. Does he own Keurig, too? Keurig Dr. Pepper, yeah. Does he own Keurig the coffee? Isn't that called Keurig? Who's he? Mr. Pepper? I thought that was a guy's name.

Doctor, I believe I've earned that title. I thought the guy's name was Keurig Dr. Pepper, and I was like, man, that worked out great. He's killing it. I honestly thought Mr. Keurig Dr. Pepper. I go, this guy's out of his mind. He goes, his name. He's like, I'll just call everything me.

If there's a drink called Nate, and then I have another Bargetzis, my other thing, that you're like, yeah, that's a dish. It was Dr. Pepper slash 7-Up and then they became Dr. Pepper Snapple and then Keurig merged

with Dr. Pepper Snapple. Now it's Keurig Dr. Pepper. You should keep the doctor first, though. Yeah, Dr. Pepper's what got you there. I think Keurig's better. But I'm just saying, just for the sake of the name, you're leading the doctor. Keurig is so big, man. They have over

125 beverages. And maybe Keurig Pepper MD. You know what I mean? That's what he puts on his business card. There you go, man. That is... That's stinking like a comedian right there. That'll sell out three shows at the

Houston Improv. That's Dr. Pepper. It is... They're their own company, right? Dr. Pepper, yeah. Yeah. When they merged

with 7-Up, that was a big deal. What about Mars buying... They were the first ones to have those uh those uh plastic you know what did you when you heard that news where were you at that day you heard the news that dr pepper i was working in texas 91 yeah it was uh it was around i know i was working for the company yeah uh do you remember the day? No. You remember when you got the news. You remember you got the news. Yeah.

But we were on the outside. Were you like, what? You know, are you? It's not as, I mean, we were not in the soda business. But were you someone that would act like you go, I saw this coming? Yeah. Yeah. And I didn't.

Yeah. I didn't. I tried to. I felt like. You you go they've been talking for years yeah because yeah it's the only way they can survive i mean you got big pepsi here big coke here we got to join forces yeah they're gonna put us both seven up was really kind of like going nowhere dude i mean people i was alive was alive when Sprite wasn't around. I remember when Sprite came out and I was like, this is better.

This is better than. Yeah. And Pepsi still has not come up with an answer to Sprite. They tried Slice. They tried, now it's Starry, I think. Starry, yeah. But what was the one in between? Sierra Mist.

Sierra Mist. Sierra Mist is good. It's not. It's Starry now. It became Starry. Yeah, But what was the one in between? Sierra Mist. Sierra Mist. Sierra Mist is good. It's not. It's Starry now. It became Starry. Yeah, but I don't think it's Sprite-like. It's pretty weak. It's pretty weak.

Starry is 7-Up, I guess. No, it's Pepsi. Oh, it's Pepsi. Pepsi. Yeah, so. Oh, 7-Up is still with Dr. Pepper? I think so. But 7-Up, I bet you, is way behind Sprite.

Heads up 7-Up? Oh, yeah. I would think so. Yeah behind Sprite Heads up 7up Oh yeah I would think so Yeah Sprite is everything Starry Wait Starry So Starry is

Sierra Miss became Starry And Sierra Miss was an answer To 7up Or It was an answer to Sprite From Pepsi But there was a slice

Before that Yeah That was pretty good Oh the orange Yeah was it orange They had orange slice But it was It started as just a yellow slice Yeah And it was The That was pretty good. Oh, the orange? Yeah, was it orange? They had orange slice, but it started as just a yellow

slice. Yeah. The slice was awful good. Yeah. Wow. 1984. I mean, tell me that's not going right at Sprite. It looks like a logo. That's a solid logo, though. It is a nice logo.

Slice of life. Yeah. That's what I'd call it. So we're doing taste? We're doing taste. It is a nice logo. Slice of life. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'd call it. So we're doing taste? We're doing taste. There's five different types of taste. Main ones.

Can you name them? Tongue. Let me get you started. Sweet. Well, now you gave it away. Well, that's one of them. I don't think I can get this one. Spicy. Sour. Tangy. S away. Well, that's one of, I don't think I get. Spicy.

Sour. Tangy. Sour. Oh, yeah. Chocolatey. I think sweet, spicy, sour for sure. Those three. That's what I'm.

Tart. Savory. Savory. Bitter. Bitter. Bitter. Oh. Sweet, salty, sour, bitter. what i'm tart savory savory bitter bitter bitter oh sweet salty sour bitter and umami that's savory that's the umami umami is savory the appetizer at a japanese restaurant yeah savory umami is the stuff that you're isn't it that monosuited monocludous set of msg Monosudic... Monoglutacetam... MSG.

MSG. I thought that was Madison Square Garden. I had not heard of that. So we got it then. I guess so. And then there's some other... Like the sixth one is pungency, which is hotness. Oh, okay. Okay.

Yeah. Like temperature or spice? I think spice. Okay. Yeah. Now, do you remember in school, Greg, but anybody, but mainly us, a map of the tongue and where the taste map? I didn't pay attention, but yeah. Yeah.

Turns out that was false. What? Wasn't accurate. They used to show, do you guys remember this? It was the best we knew. It seems like something we could have figured out pretty quickly on that one. The front of the tongue was supposed to be where sweetness is. Yeah.

Sour, different places like that. It's inaccurate. It was taught in schools for years, and finally somebody was like, you know what, I can taste anywhere in my mouth. It was a thing the RAF was doing to try to fool Hitler. Yeah. the raf was doing to try to fool hitler in 1974 virginia collings investigated the topic again confirmed it's so funny there's been all kinds of back and forth about this thing that means nothing to me

i would have thought that would mean the most to you not like you know where to you know where to put stuff i can't think of anything no matter more he goes i'll take this bubble gum you go what does it taste like well i need to know where to put it does it need to be in the back of my tongue where am i like to light my senses on fire eric you want to tell us about rocket Money? I do want to talk about Rocket Money. Most Americans think they spend $62 a month on subscriptions. Well, most Americans are morons because the real number is closer to $300. That's literally thousands of dollars a year,

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He's a big fan of the podcast. Hates my comedy. No, he loves your comedy too. He thinks you guys are all great, but I said something, I don't know. We were in the car going to gig. He knows a big fan of the podcast. He hates my comedy. No, he loves your comedy too. He thinks you guys are all great, but I said something. I don't know. We were in the car going to gig and he knows you're a comedian. I go, man, I go, Dusty's pretty

good when he reads those ads. He's like, Dusty's nothing, man. Aaron. That's what I'm talking about. That a boy, Sean. Let's start doing ad reads in your show. Like mid-show go. Yeah.

Just start an ad read. You might have just, I guarantee you there's some agent out there right now that's like, I think we just found a way to make some money off of this comedian. I do come up with ideas like that. You do mainly ad reads. You looking to get the word out to 75 people?

Yeah. I got you, dude. That's good now greg when they roll out new products new foods they want to test the taste yeah there's the test market capital of the united states used to be peoria okay now it's these iri there's a company called iri and they have these controlled test markets. Pittsfield Mass is one I know. What about $500 in Pittsfield Mass? Yeah. Casino? No, just in my pocket.

Addison, Texas was a – I've missed the first part of it. I figured – everything I read said Columbus, Ohio was the test market capital. For chain restaurants? No, for like new products. No, I know they've done that, but I think that's a misnomer. I mean, I've been out of the business for a while, but there's a company called IRI that all these companies subscribe to, and they have these tiny towns that they're very, very controlled.

Everything in the whole place is controlled. So the control test market is there. You've been out of the business for a while but why can't you let it go well i've explained this to you before nate yeah uh okay i um yeah i mean you ever heard somebody in the marines say once a marine yeah always that is true that guy fought the germans or whatever for four years i fought skippy for 10 yeah like so it's hard i'm just gonna put it away it's a part of my life it's who i am you know you have the scars you have the scars am i up to date on every little thing no but it's still part of me ballpark you get the magazine you flip through it yeah i mean if i want more importantly if i walk in the store i can kind

of read the shelf and tell you what's going on yeah i need to go i want to walk in the store yeah i'll tell you what's going yeah that'd be fun it's uh i don't i don't forget where where i was that's a good i just showed my wife some pesticide stuff yesterday in a lowe's so i get yeah yeah she's game changed she's well you know what some people walked up while we were on the island they recognized me uh from comedy yeah and then they were saying they were looking for some bug killer and i started telling them some stuff yeah and then they they weren't gonna buy what i was telling them and i started to get the old frustration that i used to get where it was like i wanted to be like well i just told you what's in this and i told you what you're looking for and now you're not gonna buy it but i had to walk away because i was like i don't do that anymore you know i don't do that job see

yeah you're not supposed to bully people man yeah i think that's a but i it's a bit how they want to meet dusty though it's like they want to meet oh yeah they want to they want to leave and he's pretty frustrated with you yeah all the interactions are with you that Yeah. That's how all the interactions are. That's what you pay for. You pay for to go like, that guy I think was upset. It's not even about you saying hi or anything. No, you gave him.

The only problem is they'll never buy a ticket to your show again because they'll be like, we got, it's nothing's going to be open. See, I disagree. I think they will. Oh, you think? Because I think that's what they want.

They want, the interaction is like, well, how did it end? But he's saying nothing will top it. I'm saying nothing, nothing will be as good as what they got at the show. Oh, okay. Like, man, he's just preparing. It's like if you run into Larry David arguing with the cashier, you're like, oh, this is it. This is what I wanted. I had a guy this weekend who worked for a pest control company.

He gave me a hat of his. Different company. He said, tell Dusty that stuff he used to peddle is garbage, dude. And he had me. You're not going to take that. I didn't like the company that I worked for, but the products were good. Yeah. Exactly.

Yeah. Now, a couple examples of some taste testing that didn't work out they try all these test markets new coke yeah new coke everyone said this is great because it was sweeter but what they were only sipping once it went into the whole can it was too sweet people couldn't handle it that's why it backfired on them. Yeah, and that was in response to the Pepsi challenge, right? That's right. Because Pepsi is – they only give you this much soda, and when you would – I did the Pepsi challenge.

You know, they were at fairs and stuff. If you're only having this much, people almost always pick Pepsi. If you're having a lot more, they might might pick Coke and Coke kept losing the Pepsi challenge and we're going to go to new Coke and everybody's like what are you doing man that's funny I never even thought about that but that makes sense I like Pepsi

but I get it I've been drinking a lot of Coke Zeros which is a little more probably Pepsi-ish kind of direction. You don't think so? Why? I don't even know what that means. I think it's a little sweeter.

I think Coke Zero is in between Diet Coke's like, here's what we're doing. All right? They roll their sleeves up. Welcome to Diet Coke. Are you? And Diet Pepsi's like, we're fun and new and coke zero is kind of like all right what if we it's a new time yeah 2024 we're not acting like it's 1975 yeah here's in

the middle and i think coke zero is that it's a good compromise a good answer for yeah but i mean you can be i'll be in different moods i I want, sometimes you want, I want a nice, and I love soda. People don't want you to drink it. It's so good. But it's, I love it so much. There's nothing better than it's awesome. There's not, there's not, there isn't. There really isn't.

It's, it's, I mean, and I do pretty good with, I have, we have the miniature Diet Pepsis bottles at our house. miniature diet pepsis bottles at our house and i will when i eat like this morning i had eggs oh man for breakfast dude i love i love it eggs are delicious eggs are pepsi eggs i don't like scrambled eggs i like fried eggs i don't scrambled eggs i i don't like i like a fried egg uh but uh yeah but i had diapers but i'll drink i'll drink a little bit of it, just some swig, not pound it. And then I might have got the whole one today, though. It would be weird to take it like a shot. Well, I drink it like the first little half, then I leave it in the refrigerator.

And then, like, later on, I might drink it some more. Yeah, you savor it. Yeah, yeah. But the problem, too, is I, yeah, the thing that i mess up on is you just do on it like it's medicine yeah but i'll go when i leave go out like i had a diet coke and lunch today could you tell the difference between diet pepsi like in a bottle or a can or a fountain drink i think so yeah fountain drinks unless it mcdon McDonald's does their fountain drinks so well. McDonald's Coke is better than any Coke out there. Yeah.

Because they clean those machines. And I think they put a little more sugar in there. Yeah. No, they're Diet Coke. You think they're really getting in there cleaning them? Yes. They're known for that. Yeah.

And they spend a lot of money on the delivery system. And they have an exclusive deal with Coca-Cola. I just saw a video about this where they send the syrup in metal containers as opposed to plastic bags and they're the only place that does that really yeah because of the quantity that they order from coca-cola so that that probably plays it's got to make sense because because normally man i i try to ration my soda and and uh you know i'll go to the club sometimes and i go to the club sometimes, and I'll just be like, no, I'm going to get a bottle.

Because almost all the time at a bar or a comedy club, the fountain, the stuff out of the gun is not good. That's gross. I love a fountain soda. That's my favorite. You love it in theory, but it's awful. I think comedy clubs do not have great. No.

It tastes like soap But I like But that's because it's like I feel like some places Still use RC Or they do They have something weird Like that

But I I will take a fountain drink Over a bottle or can Every day of the week Movie theaters Seem to do a good job Movie theaters do Anywhere

Firehouse Subs They got the thing You get to pick Whatever you want Oh that thing That's a cool machine. Yeah, the Coke machine. You don't like a can.

I like a good can Coke. I like a good can Coke, too. 20-ounce bottle, and I drink, and I'm wasteful. I did it before I got here. I buy a 20-ounce bottle, have, like, drink to where the label is, and I'm like, I can't eat any more, and I usually wind up throwing it out. You know who David Spade brings his own bottle to a restaurant? Really?

Or they have a bottle of Diet Coke. A two-liter? No, they're just like, I think if he goes out to eat, he'll have a Diet Coke that's always in a bottle. I think it's like his local places that he goes 20 ounce yeah that that dr pepper was the first one to have they they own that um they had a patent on that package for a while where it's like if everything you used those 20 ounce things used to be glass and then dr pepper for a while had that pet plastic and everybody was like this is great

and then everybody i think the patent ran out or something yeah all right nate let's see if you can tell the difference between the different diet pepsis all right we've prepared here we've got a can two liter fountain and a small bottle of all diet pepsi I guess... A liter. Two liters. I love this. I wasn't getting a lot out of that. Can I push this all down? You probably should have tried this before. It's a long straw.

It's a long straw. If you're listening in the car, you should probably stop. It's a long straw. If you're listening in the car, you should probably stop. If you're listening, he's drinking through a straw for each one. Yeah, get down in there. I think four is fountain. What is it? Bottle, can, fountain?

A small bottle, like you have a two liter a can and then the fountain drink man the pressure on the left four is fountain okay bottle suspense is killing me this is like riveting television yeah so that's four is fountain one is bottle uh and then one's a 20 ounce bottle yeah one's a can i would say it's 12 yeah two two is the two uh can and three whatever uh well i have a view here do you want me to to reveal yeah uh i would you only got the fountain right yeah oh yeah that one you knew that right away, too. Yeah. It was right after you drank the fountain.

You were like, that's the fountain drink. I think I can tell from here. I don't think it's fair to have two bottles, though. I don't think the two liter and the small bottle are going to taste different. You almost said that. Three can? Yeah.

Yeah, three is a small, one of the small cans. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can see that. Mm-hmm. It's interesting. They just feel different, huh? One's not the big bottle? No.

No. It's a 20-ounce? It's not even a 20-ounce. It's a 12. It's a 12. I think it's a 12. Yeah, yeah. How about that?

You nailed the fountain drink right away. The fountain drink right away, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's the real takeaway here. The fountain drink is the superior one. It's distinct, yeah. It's probably the worst. It's probably the worst. It's probably the worst tasting Diet Pepsi. Which one was the worst tasting?

My least favorite of that would be the big bottle of Diet Pepsi. That's the one I don't want the most. The other ones I would like. But I would lean to fountain at a gas station. A gas station fountain drink is good.

It's good. Now we're putting Greg to the test here now? Yeah, because this was so riveting. You sure you want to do this, man? They put a lot of pressure on me. This is a little thing that you did. I based my whole comedy career on peanut butter. Yeah.

You spent a lot of money on a special, and if I blow this, then we're done. I mean, the special's... That is true. Yeah. Let's say if you get it wrong, we cut it. Yeah. We'll only hear this if you look good in the end.

Now, if you don't know, Greg is a famous Jif peanut butter salesman. Yeah. He does it. Probably the most famous. It would say Jif than you. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, for sure.

I can't name another. Yeah. And he stands behind his product. I do. We're about to find out if he can tell the difference. Do you think you can tell the difference? Yes. Yeah. Yes, but I don't even know what they are. Yeah. And he stands behind his product. I do. We're about to find out if he can tell the difference. Do you think you could tell the difference? Yes. Yeah.

Yes, but I don't even know what they are. Yeah, so what are the... Wait. Yeah, I think you have to tell them. Tell them the three. So it's got the three. What the three is? Yeah.

I mean, I saw something out of the corner of my eye when I walked in. Yeah. Abigail yelled at me. Yeah. You don't even have Jif. Hold on. All right. Yes.

So the three peanut butters. You have diabetes peanut butter. You have hippie peanut butter. And you have garbage. Yeah. Okay? That is... It is.

We don't have regular Jif. Sunflower butter. We have Simply Jif. What's Simply Jif? Garbage, you said? No. I did not say that at all. I said Peter Pan was garbage.

Oh, okay. It's a diabetic peanut butter. Creamy Peter Pan. Sunflower butter should be. Creamy sun butter. I've never even heard of sun butter. That should be easy to identify. Sunflower butter.

Do you know what sun butter is? It's sunflower seeds smashed up. I think I could do this. Do you know sun butter? You've heard of them? It's for kids with peanut allergies. Oh peanut butter peanut oh okay they have uh yeah i would these are this is my life i would this is my life this is a perfect that's that's probably i think you're gonna jiff simply jiff this is my someone this is how my life's not bad at home but i go i want

peanut butter and they come. Yeah. Like, you know, when someone, you're like, this is, they go, well, what's the difference?

Nate, it's not a bad product. I'm not, I'm saying I want Jif. I'm saying I ask for Jif and then what I give, what is giving to me, that this drives me nuts

is someone gives me simply Jif. What if you say to them, I didn't ask, I asked for Jif. This is what you do, you go, I just, you're like, me Simply Jif. What if you say to them? I didn't ask. I asked for Jif. This is what you do. You go, you're like, just Simply Jif, okay? Don't make it complicated. He said Simply Jif.

And they walk in the door and they go, well, I didn't know the difference. And then you're like. And they did, didn't they? They did. Well, that's when someone doesn't know products. Like I'll say it with Coke. If someone goes, do you have soda? And they go, didn't they? They did. Well, that's when someone doesn't know products. Like I'll say it with Coke. If someone goes, do you have soda? And they go, yeah.

And they're so removed from the soda world that they don't realize they don't. Like if you go to a restaurant that it's like, no, we have soda. And you're like, no, we make it ourself. You're like, then you don't have it. Yeah. So say I don't have it. Yeah. You know what I mean.

You know, don't. And so like this is like you go somewhere and you're like, hey, go get me some peanut butter. And they come back with Simply Jif and you're like, no, no, I said peanut butter. Like, so don't. Yeah, I don't have an issue. Yeah, I don't want, I want what you think peanut butter is. And I know you don't think it's Simply Jif.

It's not a bad product, man. It's not. It's a great product. I'm not talking about the product. I'm talking about the idea that, you know, when someone misbuys something. Yeah, yeah. But do you think they're misbuying it

or they're like, hey, Nate, you need to cut down on your sugar? I think a lot of times the main product will be sold out and so someone that does not know, you're sending someone that doesn't know. That just burns me up, man. Auto stocks are inexcusable, especially on something like an 18-ounce Jif.

That is inexcusable. Well, that's what happened. Shows us the best product, though. I did. Yeah. Or they got a bad rep. Where'd you go? Publix.

They got a bad rep. They had larger size. I was trying to, I didn't know how we were going to do it, so I thought if we take the labels off. Publix had a problem with Procter & Gamble a while ago, man. I don't think this is part of that. But you're stalling. Can you do this or not?

Yeah, no, I'll do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do we got? So this is number three that you're trying. That's not sun butter. I know that. Okay, so that's peanut butter. That's peanut butter.

Trying the second one here. I got one we got is just its own thing. You go, all right, so we got two peanut butters and grape jelly. Can you tell the difference? That's Peter Pan. That's Simply Jif. This is garbage. What's the number there? Two That's Simply Jif. This is garbage. Sunbutter. What's the number there?

Two is Simply Jif. Simply Jif. Three is Peter Pan. And one is Sunbutter. You're correct. All right. Zero hesitation on that. I like that.

This guy knows his stuff. Greg, let me ask you this, though, if you don't mind. You ever hear the Mandela effect? Yeah. Well, there's people out there that believe that Jif used to be Jiffy and through the Mandela effect was changed to Jif. Let me tell you something about Jiffy. Jiffy, and that bothers me as much as anybody, as anything,

is people calling Jif Jiffy. Yeah. And, you know, I heard you sold jiffy no i didn't you want jiffy you can um you that that's uh that's stovetop popcorn is what that is corn corn muffins and oil changes yeah yeah yeah yeah go get an oil yeah it's it's jiff so it never was jiffy it was never jiffy and matter of fact i remember you could just clear up some mandela effect for us. Yeah.

I remember one time the grocery store actually wrote on the tag, you know, the little tags on there? They had Jiffy on the tag. And I could do nothing about it because that was a customer. Now, Pringles has 160 different- Where does this fall on the taste? We've talked about this. Pizza Pringles.

We talked about this. Came in at number five and nobody saw that coming except for my friend gene williams this came out with salt and vinegar okay and everybody's like this would be you know just probably be out of the game in in in three years and salt and vinegar that's a player quite the opposite this was a player right away this tastes like pizza yeah it's kids it was kids kids love it they still do my my nephews eat this stuff all the time man let me take one of those yeah man that's a that's good i'll tell you what man make this this simply

jeff is it's good man yeah it's it's it's again you're missing the point i'm not against this simply jif no i know man against the a lot of times that happens that's where i get a lot of times i can tell when someone just you weren't thinking about me or what this thing was at all yeah don't bring me the diet product yeah yeah like sometimes when someone's like i'll go like you'd be like well i'll just go get it let me like i'll just leave and go get it and that's no no i'll get it and you go are you gonna put any like are you aware that there's other kinds that's what and then you seem crazy then you're like well you're being difficult you're like no i just this isn't 1948 if you're trying to sell it if you're trying to sell you on it, get two cans. Get the regular Jif and the Simply Jif.

And then that way you can choose. Bates, when you said they're out of stock on regular Jif, were they out of stock on creamy and crunchy? I don't eat stuff like that, but that's delicious. No, but I was trying to get them all. Get them all creamy because it would have been easy for me to be like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have not had a Pringles in a long time. Yeah, man.

You got any bread? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have not had a Pringles in a long time. Yeah, man. You got any bread? Now, did you ever say another thing that went bad? Lay's Wow Chips? Okay, well, that was us, believe it or not.

Yeah. That was Olestra, okay, which was a fake fat. You got to talk in the microphone. Sorry, man. I'm eating peanut butter. Okay, so it was a product called Olestra. The name was elene it was it was a fake fat it was fake fat it was supposed to be the future of our company we bet big big money on it and it was such a big thing that we actually sold it to our competitor uh frito-lay so they could have fat free fat free lays and we had fat-free Pringles and it had some

negative effects. I think it was blown out of proportion but it had a little bit of negative effects on your gastroenteritis. Yeah. Gave people

colon cancer. That's a good chip right there. I don't think it's potatoes but that's good. There's potatoes. Yeah. Got some potatoes in there.

There's potato concentrate. There's as much potatoes in there Yeah. Got some potatoes in there. There's potato concentrate. There's as much potatoes in there as there are much pizzas in there. I told you guys the thing with that, right? It's called, if you notice, these are crisps, not chips. That's right. Because they're not the normal. Because we came out in 68, we were killing it, and the government said, hey, you guys are made up of corn and soy and

wheat and potatoes you can't call yourselves potato chips you have to call yourselves potato crisps actually i'm not sure it was the government i think it was the other chip companies whining and crisp doesn't really seem like the controversy there it's the potato part that really seems like there's potato in there dusty that's not there's that's that's just a fact yeah yeah it's just it's not all potato and there's not some in there but i'm just saying if there's a word to change it wouldn't be the chip or the when he was we changed it and people were like yeah well we still like them so yeah right well now it's your own thing my argument you go i want a pringle yeah i made this argument before i was, here, let me show you this.

You would go, I got chips and I got Pringles. That's how I would tell someone. Yeah, for sure. What do you want? The government was basically saying, you know they're not 100% potatoes. And my point was people were like, yeah, we kind of figured that when they were uniformly stacked on top of each other in the perfect shape of a horse saddle.

We got that there might be something else in there, and we still like them, so back off. I'm 100% against food like that, but I ate one of those chips, and I'm like, this is so good. I've eaten four or five of them now. You want some more? No, I'll regret it, but it's so good. You'll be fine, man.

These are so tasty. This is a great, and I'm telling you, you guys got kids. You got a kid coming. They're going to love this. I'm sure they will. Yeah, when they go off to college and experience it on their own. You don't want to have, you got to expose them. You've never seen a.

You expose them and they're going to go off. Kids don't even know what a satellite on their house would look like. They're going to get off to college. Remember that guy. What's DirecTV? Well, I'll tell you what it is. even know what a satellite on their house would look like they're gonna get off to college remember that guy uh what's direct tv well i'll tell you what it is they're not allowed on the top of this house that's right remember that guy for the raiders that whose dad never let him have a hamburger mcdonald's one are you trying to tell me a secret marinovich and not tell the audience oh uh i really didn't know what he meant yeah

i was like no man i'm saying out loud name sorry give two seconds greg wants to go talk privately i was doing well but the peanut butter threw me man yeah yeah remember that guy todd marinovich where yeah his dad would never let him have he he never even touched McDonald's until he became, I think, a pro quarterback. Yeah, and he was – well, that kid went – kind of spiraled out. Yeah, he went off the deep end. That's why I'm saying give your kid a couple of pizza prints. No, with drugs.

Oh, okay. But he was like an athlete that was like the top guy and all this kind of stuff. I like that, though, that we blame the dad for his dad kept him from eating McDonald's. And then he's like a drug addict. We're like, see, I don't let him have. No, I think there was probably there's probably some other strict behavior. Yeah. I'm telling you guys, this simply Jeff is good.

I'd like to try that sunflower butter there. You didn't touch that. You don't want to try that nonsense. Yeah. The soup. You got a little spoon there? You didn't try it. He didn't even try the sunflower butter.

I didn't touch it. Yeah, here you go, man. I didn't give that a try. Get in there. That is, I mean, out of us doing a taste test of peanut butters, this was not the best choices. The funniest. This is great.

Dang. It's a little soupy. Yeah. See, this is supposed to be hippie, but still it's got mono and diglycerides. And it's like... Yeah, those are preservatives so that it has a good shelf life. I don't know if that's true, but that's what they say. Oh, yeah, man.

When everything goes down, seriously. Yeah, you'll be glad those are in there. And we're in the bunker. Yeah. good shelf life yeah i don't know if that's true but that's what they say oh yeah man when when everything goes down seriously yeah you'll be glad that we're in the bunker yeah yeah you'll be happy that we have some jif with a little bit of preservatives in there yeah and pringles oh are you sad that there's too many preservatives? All your crops die in the nuclear winter. Starting to joke about it. Yeah, I've decided that if that happens, then I want to die in the bombs. You're not going to go down.

You don't want to go under? I don't want to go under. What happens if the- What if the bomb goes off in LA, right? So we're not affected initially by the bomb itself, but there's a nuclear winter and all the crops die. All our crops come from California. Yeah, but we started doing our own crops.

So you're not going to die from the bomb itself. So what would you do? No, I wouldn't want to die right away. Yeah, yeah. Of course. Dude, and you get down there in those bunkers for a while man they're gonna the they're gonna start booking comics right and left that's true that's true truly underground comedy yeah however you send your avails yeah i think you are there's no there

is no bunkers though i feel like you are talking like we're all gonna get sent out of bunkers. I think you have to have your own bunker. Yeah. So it's not a system. It goes, like everybody's being promised some bunker. You're like, yeah, where were we, Dan? We're just like, yeah, eventually. I pay my taxes. There's no bunker? Yeah. We'll all be the mole people.

We'll be underground. Yeah. I think you have to have your own bunker. I think rich people have them and dusty has it well i'll work on something yeah yeah where it goes you will you have you know where to go yeah i got a spot yeah dusty keeps alcohol in his house just to negotiate with people if if it ever goes down that's true now you're giving that away well i don't think those people are listening to this no that's true that's true but

you're saying yeah if you if they well you know i mean there's a lot of alcoholics out here so if suddenly the supply chain broke down and there was no liquor that'd be pretty valuable yeah that is true and he handed it out yeah do the Did a peanut butter. All right. Well, that was taste. All right. It was good. We solved some things today, boys. Man, I'm glad that worked out.

I felt like my whole career was on the line. Yeah. You really nailed it, though. You didn't even go for the, because you can tell this is a runny kind of. Well, we did your favors by just outlandish choices. Well, peanut butter? Outlandish.

Let me ask you, when you ate that peanut butter, did you like it? The peanut butter, did you like it? You know, for what it is, if you put the Jif, if you went regular to regular, I think that the Jif is going to have a little bit it's gonna be a slightly sweeter than that i think it's got um it's got a better peanut in it no it's uh not jelly but what's the other black thing blackberry no sticky molasses it's got a little molasses in it i think yeah and i and i think backstrap mol. Backstrap molasses. Blackstrap molasses.

I think it's backstrap. It's black. Is it black? Pretty sure. I thought it was back. Yeah. Backstrap. I'm going to say blackstrap.

It's got a yellow label on it. I know that. Blackstrap, you're right. That makes more sense. It's fun stuff, man. Sorry, man. We got off there a little bit. If you ever wanted to hear a conversation when two men should go to bed on a rocking chair on their porch and they should call it a night, that's about where he goes.

I think we got to get up in the morning. This podcast won't be to everyone's taste. Like that. Rocket money. All right. That's it. I'm in Moline this week. Moline, the Minnesota State Fair, and then Fargo.

Also, the Naland Aaron special shows might be all sold out all but one of them all the ones left and then uh nick thune two shows on sunday that's sunday so come to that also check out the showcase naitland we're doing we're gonna be doing some fun stuff in naitland entertainment so uh we'll keep you posted and keep you informed on what we're doing. All right. This Saturday, I'm in Atlanta at Vision Studios. Please, if you live in Atlanta, Georgia area, come to that. August 29th through 31st, I'm in St. Louis at the St. Charles Funny Bone.

All right. Yeah, man. You can see Greg. I'm out of town, but I'm trying to get him hooked up with a few things. Yeah. Yeah. That's Labor Day weekend, so come to that. September 15th, I'm in Tempe, Arizona at the Tempe Improv.

Hmm. And September 17th. It's a hot club. September 17th, my next show here, Brad Bates and friends at the Lab at Zaney's. This is a big club. Yeah, man. You're going to kill it in St. Charles. Thank you, Greg.

I'll be at Zaney's in Nashville tonight, and I'll be in Knoxville on Thursday, and I'll be in Birmingham Friday and Saturday. All right.

This weekend, Aaron Weber here. I'll be in Dallas, Texas, technically Plano, but we know it's Dallas. I'm at the House of Comedy, Plano. Five shows, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Come on out to Dallas. Okay. Dusty Slay here. And I will be this weekend.

I'm back in theaters, baby. I'll be. Yeah, man. Yeah. Raleigh, North Carolina. You've been slumming it, man. Yeah. Raleigh, North Carolina on Thursday.

No, Friday. Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday. And North Myrtle Beach. Oh, cool. On Sunday. You gotta ride jet skis, man. Oh, yeah. At the Greg Rolls Legacy. Greg Rolls is my friend. He used to be

the head guy at the Alabama Theater in Myrtle Beach and now he's left and opened his own theater. And it's very exciting. I think I'm his first comic. It's gonna be hot. Oh, nice. It it's very exciting. I think I'm his first comic. It's going to be hot. Oh, nice. It's amazing. All right.

All right. Well, have a good week. We love you. See you next week. Bye. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me,ate bargetzi and my wife laura on the audio boom platform recording and editing for the show is done by genovations media

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