The Nateland Podcast - 217: #217 California with Nick Thune

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

This week, Nick Thune returns to the podcast. Coming off recording their comedy specials, Aaron and Nick recount their weekend leading up to the tapings which included Aaron's wife almost going into labor and Nick sharing a hotel room with his dad. Then the guys get into the topic of California. As a California resident, Nick shares stories of experiencing an earthquake, visiting Joshua Tree National Forest, and escaping a wildfire just in time. DraftKings- https://sportsbook.draftkings.com/sportsbook-app Score big with DraftKings Sportsbook - the number ONE place to bet touchdowns. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use code NATELAND. That’s code NATELAND for new customers to get $250 in bonus bets when you bet just five bucks AND get one month of NFL+ Premium! Only on DraftKings - The Crown Is Yours. Rocket Money- Rocketmoney.com/Nate Stop wasting money on things you do not use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to Rocketmoney.com/Nate today. Factor:  http://factormeals.com/nate50 Head to Factormeals.com/nate50 and use code nate50 to get 50% off your first box plus get 20% off your next month while your subscription is active! Nateland is sponsor by BetterHelp. Betterhelp.com/Nate Rediscover your curiosity, with BetterHelp.  Visit BetterHelp.com/nate today to get 10% off your first month. 

Today's episode of the Nate Land Podcast is brought to you by DraftKings, Rocket Money, Factor, and BetterHelp. Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm sitting here with Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. All right. And we got with us this week, beautiful Nick Thune. Thune? How do you say it? Thune.

Thune. Yeah. I mean, I'll take anything, really. It's the way that your jacket is, so it's Thune. You think they would probably- This is like a French workwear jacket. So if someone saw you, everybody knows Nick Thun, everybody from the Nate Land podcast.

But if someone saw you with that jacket and they saw your name, they might say, is it Thuné? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Which is French slang for cash. Is it? Oh, Thuné. No, Thuné. Oh, really? Thuné's Canadian. Yeah it? Oh, Toonie. No, Thune.

Oh, really? Toonie's Canadian. Yeah, Toonie's Canadian. A loonie and a toonie. So Thune is, man, so if you go there, you'd probably have to be a rapper or something. Yeah. It really would change things. Well, at least your gold tooth helps. Is that linen?

This is horrible. I mean, you guys, this is hitting on everything over here how am i supposed to deal with this just move it to the side okay there you go it's like a seat belt that's uncomfortable this this is not yeah we're not about comfort here no it goes i hate everything about this but i do it i mean i'll show up you think i want i had to drive here this morning from la i want to be here alone but i gotta sit next to everybody every week and i do it i do it uh we had a lot of stuff uh from the nateland stuff uh the nateland aspect uh it was saturday we had aaron weber's special. Sold out. It was great.

Yeah, man. Hot shows. I've heard. Yeah. Yeah, it was a lot of stuff. Are you going to tell this? Yeah, we can talk about it a little bit. It was just a crazy couple days.

Yeah. We had a routine doctor's appointment on Friday, and the doctor told us, y'all are having this baby today, my wife and I. So we were like, oh, God. Did you guys already know she was pregnant? Yeah. It was a lot.

It was a lot of information. Aaron was like, what? What? Two what's? We did an ultrasound, routine ultrasound, and the kid wasn't moving, which is just like a terrifying 10 minutes trying to get the kid to move on the ultrasound. So she's like, we might have to deliver this baby so we headed to vanderbilt downtown i texted nate and everybody i was like i'm about to have the kid today we're pretty sure so we were all kind of scrambling last minute what

we're going to do with these we had five sold out shows at the club and the special was going to be recorded and everything and we got down there. Everything got figured out. The kid just decided, hey, I'm going to start moving all of a sudden. He was just chilling. Just chilling. That seems to be the medical diagnosis as far as I know. Yeah. The baby was just hanging out. It's a relaxed baby.

Relaxed. That's a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. So Lucy's at the hospital for two days. We didn't think she would be able to make the special taping but she got released at like 8 p.m.

Saturday night so she ran over still with the hospital socks on ran over at 8 p.m. and caught the second show. So everything worked out. It was just a crazy couple days. I got the worst night's sleep

of my life the night before the special at the hospital. Did she take the socks back or did she keep those? I mean, they're pretty good socks. I don't know if you've had hospital socks before. They have the grips on the bottom. Oh, take the socks back, or did she keep those? I mean, they're pretty good socks. I don't know if you've had hospitals. They have the grips on the bottom.

Oh, yeah, dude. They're the real deal. Yeah, I mean, they probably cost $500. I'm sure. They come from the hospital. Insurance does cover that. Yeah. So, yeah, it was just really funny the way it all worked out.

Everything seems to be good now. The kids come in any day now, but it did not come this weekend. So we got the special. Thank you, Nate, for everything. Thank you, everybody. It was awesome. It just came out really well. I thought the crowds were great.

I'm excited to see it. My wife went to the Thursday show. She loved it. Oh, good. That was great. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah, the one we didn't take.

I'm joking. She wanted it. It was a good day. Yeah, she's like, I don't know. The whole thing was great. Yeah. Yeah, it was awesome. Read our first ad.

Today's brought to you by Northern Illinois University. Oh, my God. This is the ad, Aaron. I don't know what to say. Northern Illinois, great place to go to school. Winning program of football. I'm just reading the ad. The winning program of football.

I think that's what it says. We're on a streak right now. This is a new ad. I didn't know we had – Edith Bates didn't even know about this new ad. They're top 25 now. Isn't that funny? We had to rank them to make us feel good.

It's pretty crazy. Yeah. So you had a whirlwind this week. Yeah, it was a lot of emotions. We were all rooting for Notre Dame, just mainly for your – because you were recording. You just had a lot Saturday. Yeah.

Saturday was a lot. So we were like, at least please win this game. Maybe you weren't giving Notre Dame the attention they needed this weekend. And that's why. That's true. I watched most of that game from a hospital room on a small TV. Yeah, you're like, this day gets sadder and sadder. Yeah, it did.

But who knows? Vanderbilt's on a streak, though, huh? Oh, buddy. We are just glad we're not Notre Dame. And going through what they're having to go through yeah uh we're top of the world yeah it's going great and then nfl on sunday yesterday i got on the plane uh uh the titans were up 17 to nothing i was like whoa look at this flew back from san diego landed in nashville and it was shocking what happened.

It was not good. No. Very frustrating. They crumbled. Yeah, yeah. Tough. What was the final score? Like 24-17.

Yeah, it was not good. Well, Sunday, speaking of Sunday, we also did Nick Thune. Thune. Nick Thune did his special. It was great. Sold out. Nick Thune did his special. It was great. Sold out. Nick had his dad here. His dad.

Yeah. That was fun. He introduced me. Yeah. He took a little liberty on it. He did get into it. It's funny. The second show, he got a little more into it.

He was talking to Nate's dad, and Nate's dad's talking about how he's doing all these shows. And my dad didn't know that Nate's dad had been doing that his whole life. He thought just because he worked with Nate on the road that he was now getting work. He was like, this is crazy. Shows? How?

Your girlfriend asked me what I do for a living. Oh, she did? She said it perfectly how I told her to yeah i think a lot of a lot of people listen to ask him after we all kind of want to know what brian we're like what brian what do you do she asked after you were on stage i misunderstood her she was talking about she's going sightseeing today in nashville and she thought you were she's like what do you do but i thought she was asking me what i do for a living so i was like i do stand-up comedy.

This is my job. So it was just a misunderstanding. Okay. Yeah, Brian hosted the shows all weekend. Did a great job. All weekend. Yeah, man. It was a whole big Nate Land.

It was really great. The lab's awesome. Y'all's specials look great. They really do look great. Yeah, Homeless Pimp directed them. Yeah. Nate's whole family came out. Oh, yeah. Everybody was here. It was a Nate Land affair. We missed you, Dust great. Yeah, Homeless Pimp directed them. Nate's whole family came out. Oh, yeah.

Everybody was here. It was a Nate Land affair. We missed you, Dusty. They were both so funny. Sorry about that, guys. And just silly, no message, no trying to tell you how to do anything in your life. I already had a message. Well, I think if you look at either one of them, you know.

He's making a message with that jacket. I was going to say. Both of them are know He's making a mess Of that jacket I was gonna say Yeah Both of them Are telling you how to vote In their own way Yeah I'm trying to counteract

Nick Funay over here So like tell you Without telling you Is what I'm saying This brand is Bottomland It's Carhartt But yeah

Bottomland It's like a brand of camouflage That's cool Are you hunting? Yeah I hunt all the time Yeah It's the name of our Next podcast Bottomland. It's like a brand of camouflage. That's cool. All your hunting? Yeah, I hunt all the time, dude. It's the name of our next podcast, Bottomland. Not mine. It was, yeah, the whole thing was great.

We can't wait for you guys to see those specials. This is a good, yeah, good weekend. Upcoming, we have Steven Rogers. We're going to tape his special. It's on sale. It's taping at Comedy Fort, Fort Collins, October 11th and 12th, 7 p.m. and 9. we have Steven Rogers. We're going to tape his special. It's on sale. It's taping at Comedy Fort Fort Collins, October 11th and 12th, 7pm and 9.30pm.

Nate Land, we will be recording October 12th. So, if you want to come check out Steven Rogers. Very funny. We got a lot of stuff. Last week, we recorded another showcase here at the lab. Dale Jones debuted this week.

Dale Jones is so funny. Very funny. So funny, man. Coming up, we have Chastity Washington, DJ Demers, and Nick Murphy. I mean, this lineup, they've all been great. The crowd was just on fire that week of the showcase. I hosted, too, so that probably got them real fired up. I think it was Dusty's tone.

Yeah. So every Monday, 4 p.m., a new set will come out. Check out the Nate Land Podcast Network because we added the show. Obviously, don't make me come back there

with Dustin and Melissa Nickerson. It's a family parenting comedy pod. It comes out Wednesday mornings. And then I also was announced I'm doing a holiday variety show on CBS. It's going to air December 19th. You're about to see why I've been busy. Why I've missed a lot of stuff.

It's about to come out. So there's going to be, if you're, are you going to wear that hoodie there you think seems like a mug shot it's a good look I didn't even know the camera was there you got arrested for wearing that sweatshirt

I've wore that on stage so many times and people don't care for it I know you've ran it by me multiple times and I've been like it's good if Nick's like that's pushing it then maybe that's pushing it, then maybe. Yeah, that's true.

Nick goes, I don't know. But yeah, so you're about to see. We got a few more announcements that are coming out of stuff that I'm doing. We're having Nate Land be a part of it. The production company, these guys, I will not have be set foot near this. Real Hollywood stuff. company these guys i will not have be set foot near this uh real hollywood stuff uh and you know don't worry these guys aren't coming guys don't yeah this is gonna be it's gonna be good yeah what you see here you will only see here and what you see there you will see there

you know yeah nick's hollywood though yeah nick's real holly very hollywood he's the most you're the most hollywood out of all of us well that's why we're doing the topic today because yeah mr hollywood's here yeah we're doing a talk yeah the california right yeah hollywood that's what i know about uh so yeah so that was i mean that was our weekend we were all we were kind of all here i mean us four were all here that was kind of I don't know if you had any special stories that we didn't know about this weekend. About being here this weekend? Yeah. Like, I mean, usually we just talk about where we've been,

but four of us were here. Yeah. Where were you? I was in Phoenix, Arizona. Was that another special? Should we promote those shows? Well, I was already there, but they were really great. Let people know you were working.

Phoenix, San Diego, two theater shows. Great time. Balboa. Balboa. And what was the other one? Orpheum. Yep. Heat wave going on out there. Very hot.

But I like the heat. So I was into it. It's a great time. But even hanging out late at night in Phoenix. You ever wear shorts on stage? Oh, no. Well, there was a time. There was a time.

I got a picture of myself in cargo shorts on stage. I'm wearing shorts right now, but yeah, I was wearing cargo shorts, and it's a bad look. It is. He used to do comedy barefoot, Nick. I started comedy barefoot. First time doing comedy, I wore overalls and was barefoot. And have a fishing pole? No, but if I had thought of it, that would have been good.

Huck Finn. John Doerr does that. Yeah. And you just talked about- Well, it was not the jokes. Like a character. Yeah, it was a character. The jokes weren't really bad.

I mean, they would be not good now. Like, I wouldn't do them now. But they're, yeah. But it was a good set. Yeah, but could you post a set? I could post some of it. That'd be great. You know, I've said this before, but your first album, for some reason,

every time I turn on my car, it starts playing your first album, Making That Fudge. Yeah. And I think it's still very funny. It's still good. I remember at the time being like, this is great. Yeah. But you're just so much better now than you were back then.

Yeah. It's like listening to a different guy. Yeah, my style was not really funny but just you know yeah genuine feeling i had yeah well i i talked slower i had a different thing going on i'm wide open it's frustrating though when it plays automatically i'm pretty sick of that album i love it i love that that's happening to you i don't really understand honey you know yeah we got plenty of food at home oh that's a bet that we got money to buy it it's not even like is there oh is it because his name starts with a d no it's the only thing i have downloaded on my it somehow knows what would

annoy you the most mine is mine is mine's brian for years it's just brian for years Brian's CD I have so much stuff on it easy actually yeah easy but it's funny is like you it never taken Brian out of it it's uh which I would like to know how if someone knows and uh it's but the uh it even picks songs that I wouldn't it's never picked something that I go, oh, that's cool. It's always like, what are the odds it picks something that you chose? No, I didn't. But I didn't. One of it's like L.A. Guns is on there.

I think that's Laura. I didn't pick up. Not that I have anything against L.A. Guns. I don't know. But it plays something. I'm like, what is this? It's crazy. All right.

So did you get to hang out with Bobby Kelly? I saw Bobby Kelly for a second. Yeah. Yeah, he had two shows. By the time he was out, I had already smoked two cigars. I mean, it was like 100 degrees at night. I was roasting.

I was smoked out. And I saw him for a second. He likes a cigar. Yeah. That's what I was trying to do. But he had two shows. But we got to see him for a second. Yeah.

I love Bobby Kelly. Bobby's the best. Yeah. Let me tell you a little bit about DraftKings. NFL started this week. If you took Chicago minus four and a half, you'd have still won against the Titans. But DraftKings is the place to go. We had

people here this weekend playing DraftKings. Some other comics, some of the staff hanging out. Everybody does DraftKings. It's just a fun way to, you know, you don't have to bet a lot of money. Some people are betting $5 just for fun. And it's a good time. Ready to place your first NFL bet?

Try betting on something simple like picking a player to score a touchdown. You can do that, Nick. Yeah. Do you know any NFL players? Yeah. Yeah, he's a big sports fan. Yeah. Yeah.

It doesn't look like it, but Nick's a big sports fan. Well, I knew he was a big baseball fan. DraftKings, this week Vanderbilt's favored by 10.5 over Georgia State. How do you feel about that? It's a big It's a big game this week Georgia State Favored ten and a half So

One of the best teams In the country Georgia State Yeah I know They'd give Notre Dame A hassle Notre Dame has trouble

Against just teams That are the state That are just The location of the state. That's who y'all don't want to play. You're like Western Arizona. You're like, oh boy, that's going to be a tough one. Once they tell us where they're at, we don't do well. Well, score big with DraftKings Sportsbooks, the number one place to bet in touchdowns. Download the DraftKings Sportsbooks app and use code NATELAND. That's code

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She's into it. She wants, yeah. What about, is that Tyrell Owens that got arrested? Lucy, by the way, came in on fire. She was, Lucy going through all she had to do, she just came in and was just boom, I mean, we all got roasted. Boom, roasted. Boom, roasted.

And she did one fantasy draft, I think, this weekend, right? Yeah, yeah. And then she just, when Aaron was on stage, she goes, I think we should do more of a fantasy. I was like, just because you did one good right? Yeah, yeah. And then she just – when Aaron was on stage, she goes, I think we should do more of a fantasy. I was like, just because you did one good one. Yeah, yeah. She's like, I want to take everybody's money. Yeah.

But she won week one, right? Yeah, against my mom. So I'm saying wait until week three when the season starts to settle in a bit. She might be less excited about it. This is my fantasy football league's 30th year. That's awesome, man. You've been doing fantasy football for 30 years was it always on the computer i didn't even know it was around you could almost track it down to the internet it's when the internet was invented i had no

idea it's been around that long yeah it's before the internet that's how crazy okay that's what people need to realize about the internet like that is crazy the internet is before the internet how did you you had to be in person to do the draft, I guess, everybody. And then do you just keep in touch via fax machine? These were my coworkers, so we'd see each other at work. Okay. We would look through the newspaper, the box scores to – And manually total up your scores.

Yeah. I always said fantasy football ruined the NFL. I guess it was just something else that did it. I think the NFL's doing great. Well, you remember last year when the Super Bowl went to overtime and Dusty was like, golly, the Super Bowl was just so boring. You remember that? It literally was an overtime.

It was boring just because it went to overtime. I mean, what if it was 0-0? I mean, that's a great day. I think that's boring. Super Bowl's always boring to me get there yeah i think that's boring yeah super bowl is always boring to me it's overhyped i like the season but the super bowl itself is always really boring yeah well there's like the the getting in the weeds of it yeah you don't like to pay off yeah you're like week nine yeah yeah nice week nine nothing's happening yeah no you don't have like a lot of

like real old uh musicians coming out to do the halftime show and i hate i hate the two week break it's like you get so excited and then they're like all right we're gonna take a week off all the players get kind of messed up they're not used to that much time off and they do all the press it's like just have it now yeah that's what i love about baseball it's like boom boom boom yeah nba too yeah yeah no losing of momentum nothing i agree yeah i agree too we'll probably look into that maybe i'll check it out i'll be on since i'll be on cbs i'll ask i think i have a i have an easy way to get into you know i was on cbs too i did uh two episodes of hollywood squares recently that'll

be coming out in January. So I'm on CBS too. Oh, wow. This is a lot of CBS. Look at Nate Land taking over the network. I was on the, what was the Taylor Tomlinson show after midnight, at midnight or after midnight. That's CBS as well. CBS, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, we're taking over CBS. Yeah, that's crazy. CBS is invested. Yeah. All right, let's start with some of you guys' comments. Christy Crawford. I feel like Nick is a perfect cross of Dusty and Aaron.

It's not bad. How do you feel about that, Nick? It would be brains and then the look, probably. So who's... He doesn't look like Aaron, though. So the brains are him? Yeah, he's Notre Dame. Yeah.

Okay. And then you got a kind of dusty look. That's why I never wear a hat on here last time because I was like... I don't wear a hat today. I think I'm more of a cross of Nick and Aaron. Yeah. You know what?

That does make sense. That makes sense. Christy, you're dumb. Come on, Christy. Yeah, talk to us when you have your sister Cindy there. Exactly. It's probably a pretty common name.

I'm joking. I just wanted to be. Or your brother Lavelle, huh? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Lauren M. Swaller Watson. lauren m swaller watson she put her social security number down there as well two yeah uh manners tip from spinning i don't even know how i'm getting

this manners tip from spending a lifetime in a family in politics. Never say nice to meet you. Always say nice to see you. I agree with that. I agree with that. I figured that out on my own in L.A. Well, not figured out. I forget to do it. But I kept seeing because I kept going nice to meet you.

And I kept having people come up and they go, hey, good to see you. Good to see you. And they would always say like something like that. And I was like, I don't I've never met this person. And I was like people come up and they go, Hey, good to see you. Good to see you. And they would always say like something like that. And I was like, I don't, I've never met this person. And I was like, Oh,

I bet they're doing it. I was like, that is, that's a smart way to, I even will catch myself, go nice to meet you. And they're going, I see.

And I'm like, Oh man. Cause you're waiting for them to say again. Nice to see you again. Yeah. If you just cut it off. Nice to see you. It's like,

yeah, you saw me. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Even if it's the first time. Yeah. First time. Great to see you. Yeah's like, yeah, you saw me. Yeah, yeah. Right, even if it's the first time. First time, great to see you. I like to say great.

I like to go great. Yeah. Great to see you. Yeah. Yeah, that is a good move. Shake the hand, get close eye contact. Yeah. That's what I say to y'all every time before we start a podcast.

Yeah. Nice to see you. You don't even say that. I go, what was his name again? What's the old one's name? Oh, man. It feels like there should be a comma here, but I don't know punctuation really, but manners tip. I don't know.

It feels like that should be something. Yeah. No. Well, it might have been cut off. Was it? So, yeah. Manners tip from, yeah, I would think there should be something. It should be, here's a manners tip for spending a lifetime. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. It should yeah, I would think there's something. Here's a manners tip for spending a lifetime.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I knew there should be something. I mean, I didn't know what it was. Even in a here's, there's kind of a comma up in the air. She used all three names. Is her lifetime in politics an assassin? Yeah.

Maybe she ran out of character since she added her middle name she couldn't put here's m swaller has a lot of stuff in it uh carson meyer aaron when you go to breakfast at a hotel don't wear pajamas and slippers have some pride and self-respect and how you look in public. Let me tell you something. It really bugs me when I see anyone out in public dressed like they don't have self-respect. Aaron, what do you want to say from a guy that's dressed like that on television right now? Nate's going to be such a good reader.

He's just throwing in stuff and not even stopping. I got into that one. I mean, because you agree with the sentiment of it. I disagree with that person. You should be able to wear your bathrobe down there. It's a hotel. No, you are living there. Interesting.

Nick wears a bathrobe on stage. Nick is not a good. If it's at a hotel, then yes. But Nick's a guy, if he wears a bathrobe out, you're like, oh, he's supposed to be doing that. He just got something where you look like you know what you're doing it looks homeless my dad got to the hotel at midnight the other night and i went down on my bare feet to meet him in the lobby that's nick 101 i mean i'm like but there's a pool down there too so you're telling me that i can't go barefoot down to the

pool you're grounding i like it flip-flops yeah you're you just do you that's what you always do so you walk out and you're going to be barefoot in an elevator with Pete. You're just throwing a lot on other people. That if someone's like, I didn't really want to see another dude's foot today, and you're like, well, you're going to see. Then don't be near me. Should have stayed at a different hotel. Should have stayed at a different hotel.

They should know that you're there. And that's, yeah. You made your dad share rooms with you this week. Yeah. Yeah. That was nice. That was fun. Yeah, y with you this week. Yeah. Yeah. That was nice. It was fun. Yeah, y'all had fun.

Yeah. He got that CPAP machine. Yeah. Pretty quiet, though. The technology on those have gotten a lot better. Yeah, they got it figured out. We've come a long way. Yeah.

Kathy Colcord. Colcord. Colcord. Continental breakfast is not cooked. It's like cereal, maybe. Danish fruit. The other is called a hot breakfast. I'm a fan of the hot breakfast.

Thank you, Kathy. I think that's what I said. I agree with Kathy. Continental breakfast is not cooked. No? No, I just love this comment. I love that Kathy was like, you know what? I got something to say about that. Well, I think I said comment. I love that Kathy was like, you know what? I got something to say about this.

Well, I think I said it. I agree with Kathy. I could see them having one of those pancake machines at a continental breakfast, though. My whole career is based off of him and a pancake machine. Waffle. Waffle. Danish seems fancy for a continental breakfast. I don't even, I mean, it's like.

I think they have Danish because I think they got a, you know, it's like they got. If they didn't have if one person dresses up they're like throw some Danish out there if everybody walks down like Aaron and Nick they're going to be like don't waste the Danish this morning you know what I mean we got a bunch of you who's

walking around it looks like people are serving them food I think I told did I tell a story about when I slept walk at a hotel You know, people are in there serving them food. I think I told this. Did I tell a story about when I slept walk at a hotel last time I was on this? No. I woke up and I was in Arizona doing a show with Rory. And we were on like a level of the hotel where you needed a key to get just into the level of the hotel in Anchorage. And I woke up on the outside exit stairwell,

just locked off my floor in my underwear at 7 a.m., peeing off the... And I was like, oh my God, I couldn't get back in my floor. So I just had to go all the way down 14 flights of stairs and I get to the bottom and there's a door. I'm just in my whitey tighties and there's a door and i go i don't know where this is going but here we go and i open it up into the continental breakfast it was just all these older people hey well went up to the front desk they're like you have an id it's like come on man

are you joking yeah i wonder what carson meyer felt about that you know what i mean you're like i'm gonna get a couple of things let me get some danishes on my way back again you could pull it off you could pull it off you'd be the only person to go do that that would look like you're the confident one in the room yeah i mean you were comfortable with it just casually walk through yeah but i like people say stuff where people no no they were scared probably. Did they let you in the room? The guy went back up to the room with me. Oh, wow.

And then I had to go in and get my ID. Because I was going to say, that's a good way to get into a room. I should have gone in and shut the door and been like, gotcha. And then just start a chainsaw. Oh, no. Where did he get the chainsaw? You already had it in that room? I guess he already had it in the room.

Do you sleepwalk often? Did you know that that was even on the table? I have. Yeah, I've done it. Okay. Man. NP. That's the thing.

It's like, because, you know, when you stay in hotels so often, bathrooms are in different places than, you know, like if you're getting up to go to the bathroom, you know. mean i've used a few closets in the past yeah drinking like a year that's back drinking yeah yeah that's i'm peed in some closets drinking yeah for sure those are my old days yeah yeah i peed in a dryer once oh yeah yeah opened up the door, closed it after. Easy to clean, I guess. You just turn it on. Drives it right out. Christopher Walker. Why do I love this podcast?

Dusty wants to abandon almost an abdomen. Dusty wants to abandon space exploration and instead discover what cool and interesting things are beneath the ocean. However, we discover possibly the coolest animal of all time in the narwhal, and he immediately dismisses it as a hoax. That's pretty funny.

Well, it is funny. But that animal's not even cool. It's like a seal with a weird thing sticking out of its head. It's more of an inconvenience. And it's like, we're not going down deep. I want to go down deep. If you found the narwhal, if you were like, we're not going to the moon anymore. We're going to the bottom of the ocean. We've been all the way down.

Did you hear about- We've been in Mariana's Trench. Yeah. Were you guys talking about- What do you mean? The people that were stuck in space right now? Yeah. Oh, okay.

That's what got us into it. Yeah, yeah. And then you found the narwhal down there. I might buy it. I don't buy the narwhal. James Cameron went to Mariana's Trench in a submarine. That was Leo.

That was a movie. So someone brought me at a show, their child's narwhal in reading class. They had to learn about the narwhal and answer some questions here. That's the kind of stuff you get at shows. For this podcast, yeah. I thought it would be perfect for nate to be able to read and understand so there's just a few questions and answers there where all right where do you know narwhals live

and no in alaska the arctic is it like in a certain level of the ocean oh it's a newfoundland locations oh location newfoundland oh okay the. Oh. Location. Newfoundland. Oh, okay. The Atlantic Ocean. The Arctic waters of Canada. Greenland, Norway, and Russia. Okay. That's where Norway is. Arctic regions of Canada is Newfoundland, I think.

What do scientists believe is the purpose of their long tooth? Hunting. I think they think it's like an antenna. Oh, yeah? You want to go with that, too? Yeah, I'll go with that. I can tell you that's like an antenna. Oh, yeah. You're going to go with that too? I can tell you that's wrong. According to this middle schooler.

Why do they have the long tooth? Third or fourth. So they can sleep. They probably use it to jab it into the ground. Like a flagpole so they don't blow away. It's very windy up there. It's like an anchor.

Yeah. Something to do with attracting female narwhals. I like that Allison, she did write something to do with. That's how I would have answered it. I know. Something to do with, you know. Why is the narwhal a threatened species? I will say though, when I was looking up to see if the narwhal was real,

the thing that they were talking about was they're recently discovering that it may have something to do with hunting and not stabbing things but they they can kind of sonar yeah and kind of swat animals with it and kind of knock them out and then eat them yeah that's cool yeah so allison may need to get they eat them with the same tooth it's just uh it... Do you know what a narwhal is? It's a fake animal. Yeah. So it's not real.

I don't think so. No, I mean, it is a real animal. It just looks kind of... It looks crazy. Yeah, I mean, it's... Yeah, it ain't real. Look at that thing. No, I mean, those are obviously drawings.

How does echolocation help the narwhal? It allows them to hunt for food more easily because sound waves bounce off their prey. So I think that is. Yeah. That's the thing that you're talking about. Yeah. All right, Alice.

You got 100%. Yeah. Star. So yeah, this is what women throw me on stage. Narwhal, baby! It's my son's test. That's for you. I appreciate that.

So, Kevin Daly. I spit out my water when Aaron asked Nate, did you ever use a McFlurry spoon in a Chipotle bowl? Chipotle bowl. That's pretty funny.

That was a good joke. Yeah. I read that, and I thought that was funny. It was a joke. Okay. Yeah. You're talking about using a straw from a different fast food place in a McDonald's cup. That's what got into it.

Oh, yeah. I used to do that when a place gave you paper straws. I'd be like, eh, go next door and steal a plastic straw. Yeah, I have some Starbucks plastic straws that I just kind of keep for that situation. I'll bring my own straw somewhere. Yeah. Jared Shaverman. I don't know.

Abigail wrote it. I think that's a U. Sharman. I like Shaverman. Shaverman. Jared Shaverman. Showerman. What would it be? Shower U. Sharman. I like Shaverman. Shaverman. Jared Shaverman. Showerman. What would it be?

Showerman? Sharman. Sharman. Sharman. Sharman. Jared Sharman. Shoreman. I teach U.S. history, and one of my favorite fun facts is that John Tyler, the 10th president,

who was born in 1790, has a grandson who is still alive today. None of my students who were all born in the 2000s can process this information i think we talked about that a little bit on the president's episode yeah he was very old when he had his kid and then his kid was very old when he had this guy and then this guy's like 95 wow yeah that's crazy did he ever meet him i guess he never would have even met him right no? No, he died like... Kids grew up without grandpas. 1862.

So does this guy not have kids? I guess that wouldn't matter, right? We want to keep it as close to him as possible. Apparently, you made fun of her asking questions on this podcast. Once he dies, the new trivia will be, his great-grandson's still alive. Still impressive. It is.

I'll tell you one thing. I'm more invested in Rachel Robinson now. Oh, yeah. Jackie Robinson's wife. I check on her every day. I know. Just to see.

I Google to see if there's anything new. There's nothing out there new, which is what I like. I just want her to keep doing good. Do good. Yeah.

Sharon Volp. Vol good. Sharon Volpe. Sharon Volpe. Volpe. Volpe. She married into that name. Thune. Volpe. I think she married into that name.

Yeah. You think so? Yeah. I don't think a Sharon would be born with a Volpe. Well, what's a good first name for a Volpe? Eric. Eric Volpe. Well, what's a good first name for a Volpe? Eric. Eric Volpe. Wade.

Wade Volpe. Wade. Yeah, Sharon Volpe. I have this weird hearing issue called Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome. What is that? Dehince? I have no idea. Dehensi syndrome. What is that? Dehensi? I have no idea.

De-Hessines. De-Hessines. Yeah. Superior canal de-Hessines syndrome. Man. Sorry, guys. Yeah. We're falling apart.

I think I might have that same hearing. Oh, wow. I hear myself blink. I think I might have that same hearing. Oh, wow. I hear myself blink. I mean, that would have been, she's heard all that with me. So she knows when she loses a staring contest. She knows right away. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I hear my heart beating all the time. I hear my blood flowing. Breathing is always just so loud. I just wiggled my toes and I could hear it. The weirdest thing that I have to do is sleep with the television on all night night it helps to block out some of the sounds so that all of my loud body noises like my fingers moving can uh can't be heard man that's crazy i think that's called anxiety no you can hear your blood flowing yeah well yeah when you're having like uh when you're getting a little anxious i mean you can hear a lot of things yeah it's like a yeah i wonder if sounds like a river i bet there are these i want to know can she hear other people's toes move

uh i bet if you go to like no or something like in hotel lobbies no i bet she just hears her own so i think it's an in you're hearing inward yeah those rooms that are the quietest rooms in the world you could hear your blood flowing and stuff, and people go crazy in there, right? Yeah. So this must be. That's crazy. I guess you're used to it by now, but all day. The good news is if you have a clot, you'll probably know pretty quickly. Yeah.

Yeah. She'll get a good night's sleep for once. What is that? Yeah. Oh, I have a clot. Yeah, that's crazy. Callie Gunn. That's a great last name.

That is a great last name and a good first name to go with it. Callie. Kaylee, probably. Kaylee Gunn. My dad had a horrific, my dad had horrific vertigo a few years back. Yeah. And the Gunn family, of course. A physical therapist friend from church did a house call.

He moved my dad's head into a couple positions to roll the ear crystal back into place. As soon as he was done, my dad's vertigo was completely gone. Ear crystals are the real power crystals. Yeah. It's the Epley maneuver. That's what you got to do when you got vertigo. Oh, yeah, the Epley maneuver. You had bad vertigo recently, right? Yeah. Well, it was about a year ago now. But, yeah, it's the Epley maneuver. That's what you got to do when you got vertigo. Oh yeah, the Epley maneuver. You had bad vertigo recently, right? Yeah. Well, it was about a year ago now. But yeah,

it's the Epley maneuver. Can you show us? Can you do it on air? Do they roll your head around? I don't have vertigo. Well, what you got to do is you sit. I do when I stand up. You're like, I don't know exactly. You would look it up. You sit on the bed and you want to hold your head like a certain way. I think you'd go this way and then you go back and you want your head

to hang off a little bit. So you drop it back and then it stays that way you hold it that way for a while you have to have somebody else do it and then you roll and then you spin the head to the other side something like that it would look it up hannah feel good hannah's done it for me a couple of times i mean when you do it and you don't know which ear is making you dizzy right so winch ear is making you dizzy, right? Winch? Winch, yeah. You don't know a winch. I think you got a little bit of it now. So you have to, if you do it the wrong ear, it can make you dizzier, make you throw up.

But when you do it the right way, it's like, you're like, oh gosh. Did that happen to you? Yeah. She turned you the wrong way? Well, I was so bad. Go back, go back. I was so bad. Yeah, I go back. I was so bad. Yeah, I mean, every time she would do it, I would throw up.

And no matter what side, I mean, it was like, you're just so dizzy and you cannot stop being dizzy. It's like you close your eyes and you're still dizzy. Open, you're like, it almost like your vision is moving to a side and then it readjusts and then it just keeps doing that. And it's the most insane thing. There's nothing you can do. It's called the Edley Maneuver?

Epley. Epley. It's on YouTube. That's a person? I assume. Yeah. Maybe the first person to have vertigo. Boy, when he figured that out.

I mean, that probably was a great day. Adam Diaz. Big time correction needed here light travels in a vacuum at 186 000 miles per second not per hour a dyson vacuum yeah we weren't talking about a vacuum we're talking about light outside yeah I don't care how fast it goes in a vacuum I don't think it makes sense is the vacuum on?

well yeah the vacuum's on it goes faster yeah so that's how fast the dirt goes up yeah that is seven half times around the earth in one second

when lightning strikes we basically see it immediately and have to wait for the sound waves to travel. So, yeah, I did misspeak. I meant to say per second. I said per hour. Big time correction to you. Per hour is still pretty fast, though.

Yeah. That's what's crazy about it. But per second is insane. It's the closest thing we think we got to getting something right. It's probably way more faster. Obviously. Yeah. Is that why the thunder hits later and you can –

you count it out, like how far away it is. It sounds so slow compared to the light. If you get a vacuum on, it's hard to hear. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. That is true. You don't even know if the thunder ever comes.

You're like, wow, that was far away. Usually when I turn the vacuum on, it takes maybe 20 seconds to hear it. Yeah. Hmm. You can see it start working before you hear it. Vacuums are quick. You're that tall. Yeah.

To get up there. William Galeano. Galeano. Galeano. Why does A.A. Ron hate California has he ever lived here he has fans

on this side of the country but yet he makes so many negative comments about California in almost every

pod California that's what I always say anti-Aaron anti-California Aaron that's what I

call him yeah out of everybody on this podcast I'm definitely the most anti-California I I don't know what he's talking about have I made negative comments Brian I mean California Aaron, that's what I call him. Yeah, out of everybody on this podcast, I'm definitely the most anti-California.

I don't know what he's talking about. Have I made negative comments, Brian? I mean, we've had that. Is it because you never made it there? Got turned away. I like California fine. I don't know. I think it's just an easy joke to make. It's like what the rest of the country does with Florida.

Yeah. You just say California. That comment was a while ago. I'll put it in today because that's our topic. But I think there was two or three weeks there where, you know, just something fun about it. It's California and Michigan State. Yeah.

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This is pretty comfortable. Yeah. i don't have much so this could be a short one i love california though i can talk a lot about it oh yeah ride the fence i've lived there 20 years i'm a big fan yeah you just got back from there i love to ride the fence most states that we've talked about yeah take a stand on something dusty i don't know don't know. I like Alabama and Auburn. Everybody's great. Listen, there's some stuff I don't like. God forbid I alienate a single human being on this earth.

What if he's got so much other stuff that he's against that he's like, I need to give him something. He's like, I got to give. I got to compromise on something. Well, it's a beautiful state. It is. I mean, it's everything. It's awesome.

LA is a little much for me but uh when i go to la once i get into like a studio or something it's always fun it's always a lot of fun the food's good i hate the traffic you know just like if you're doing tv or whatever you're doing once you get in there you're like oh this is great the problem is is everyone that comes there i believe goes to the wrong area like you go to a place that i don't think is convenient to live and doesn't have the best food like because where do you stay when you go well i usually try to stay near the airport so in the morning i can leave but uh compton when i when i stayed there for the netflix festival i stayed in hermosa beach and i loved it i had a great time that's a good experience yeah yeah if you're gonna live in if you're gonna be in la though the east side is the most beautiful

that's like where it was like old hollywood back in the day where like the old disney studios were and silver lake and echo park and pasadena i stayed in silver lake before yeah out there a bit because you're 20 minutes away from snow or 40 40 minutes away from snow, I guess, in the winter. 60. I thought we were bidding. All right, we'll do 60. Draft kings. Most states, from our research,

named either a Native American word or named after a king or something like that. California, anybody know i got his name gold uh connection but i'm just guys surfing from that tv show with um david ducubny yeah yeah um it was from a book a book from 1510 a mythical island of California. And Queen Califia lived there. And one of the Spanish explorers that were one of the first people there named it California. Yeah. It's funny.

That's interesting. There was a city named Nevada that's in California. And then when they made the line between Nevada and California, they had to name their city Nevada City. And since they were angry about it, so they drew up their county line in the shape of John Dillinger's revolver, which is touching, the point of it's touching Nevada. Really?

That's awesome. Can you see that? Yeah. Is it like... What's the county? You can see it, Nevada City. Yeah, I was like, are we about to prove that it's not true?

I mean, let's see the county line there. Type in. Yeah, Nevada City County. Type in Nevada City Revolver County line or something. Well, I mean, I guess if you. There we go. Type it out. Yeah.

Oh, geez. We don't know if this is true. Yeah, yeah. Give me a minute. Or if't know if this is true. Yeah, yeah. Give me a minute. Or if they just go to images there. There you go. That's very real. You didn't get the fingers on it.

But that's what the shape of the county looks like. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, you can see it over there, the old map. Yeah. This old map. There you go. Yeah.

I mean. Yeah. A little passive aggressive. It's a beautiful area. who told you that uh i've been there a couple times i have a snake and you drove around the county no but they all know it you have a friend that lives in nevada city but they have they have a hotel there um that is the oldest hotel that's been running since uh west of the mississippi so it's like one of those like old old hotel i think it's called the national the national hotel um and it's got a lot of history but it's it's really like a weird it's like kind of a hippie city kind of not you know a lot of gold mining it's on the river it's beautiful they still gold mine today oh yeah it's the most my son's class went gold

mining really like they went looking for gold in a river they get it as like a field trip yeah they got like little specs yeah i keep doing this yeah yeah it's like a teacher yeah need to kill some time to substitute let's go on that river look for some gold it's the most populated state in the country 40 million people um the population has been declining but um 2021 2020 2021 2022 the population went down 2023 started going back up i wonder is that cost of living yeah yeah it's like i think crazy expensive oh it's yeah uh dusty near the capital of california i have no idea uh sacramento no yeah something like that is it sacramento it is okay yeah good job what it's the most patronizing yeah good work nate no i was impressed you really did good it's not one of the i I'm surprised by it.

Of all the major cities in California, that wouldn't be your first choice. I never think of the capital of California. Sacramento's awesome. Sacramento's a town that I tell people, what's a city you like that people don't think? And I'd say Sacramento. Well, how often is the capital the first city you think of in a state? Not that often. I guess not.

You really get down to it. Like Washington. Do you know? It's not Seattle. Olympia? Yeah. Yeah. Why would they do that?

It's the ones that were centrally located. Most of them are in the center of the state. Yeah, like New York. I bet if you're the governor of New York, because you got to go live in Albany. Yeah. And I bet it's frustrating because you're just like out of, you're like, well, I got to go up there. And you're like, just out of the loop. You know, I bet you would be like, just let me go.

Let me go be down there. Let me go where the action is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I bet they're hanging in the city though quite a bit. I bet they do too. Kathy Hochul, she's down there kicking it. Yeah. Who?

Kathy Hochul. That's the governor kicking it. Yeah. Who? Kathy Hochul. That's the governor of New York. Oh, okay. I thought it was that bald guy with the, he dyes his hair in it. Rudy Giuliani. Oh, yeah. It's the last time you check. But like California is so big.

San Diego to San Francisco. How how long would that be that's oh san diego to san francisco that would be seven to eight hours yeah i mean that's like from here to canada five hours from la and and it's about an hour and a half two hours to get down to san diego so san diego is really great i was just there i've been there a few times i love did you see dustin i know his wife came to my show though melissa came um he was somewhere else but the uh i love it there yeah it's so nice well the weather isn't at the best weather that's what they say the weather it was great the whole time they said it was a heat wave but i was like this feels great speaking of that dustin told me his house

they don't have air conditioning or heating oh that's how perfect the weather is yeah wow and i was like do you ever have to do any goes out once a year maybe you wear a sweatshirt in the house yeah and it goes the cold way yeah exactly doesn't go the hot it goes the nice way that you can easily fix yeah clothing wise is frustrating because you're you're ready to start wearing jackets and it's like you can't you can't wear jackets until december january yeah you know you better get comfortable with your body in a t-shirt. But in LA, you can wear a jacket all the time because if you're near the ocean on that side of it,

there's a breeze. I mean... The temperature difference from the ocean to where I live is pretty crazy for just being six, seven miles. Yeah. San Diego does have the wildest homeless people, though. They are like... I got yelled at a couple of times you're talking about the padre fans you have a couple story i mean a couple of

the stories from your act yeah i was from san diego but even walking from my hotel to the theater which was like four blocks was like i walked by it feels safer in san diego at night and then it did in the daytime world but it was like people were yelling at me. Yeah, downtown is not. Yeah. You know, the Gaslamp District, I think, is what they call that area down there. But at night, it was great. I found a cigar, a lot of hookah bars in San Diego.

I had a cigar outdoors, hung out. It was great. I was just there on Thursday. When were you there? Saturday. Oh. Look at you. Yeah. Passed in at you. Yeah.

Passed in the night. Two-thirds of the nation's earthquakes are in California. Yeah, there was just one the other day that was so crazy. It wasn't a huge, on the Richter scale, Andy Richter. They check in with him. But it was so close to my house. And it was like shook it really shook yeah felt crazy yeah earthquakes feel very helpless yeah what can if you want to be humbled

an earthquake is where you need to go i started second guessing myself i like got up and i was like okay go under a door yeah i do my so i just ended up going to go under close to a window and hoping yeah yeah thank you guys i don't think you did the opposite. I think get on the roof. Higher ground? Sounds like vertigo. Is it crazier if higher ground is where to go? That sounds like vertigo.

Yeah. Earthquake every day. Yeah. In your head. Yeah. Do you think California is going to fall in the ocean? Oh. I'm joking.

No. Yeah. They say LA is going is gonna crack off right yeah there's a certain amount of of land we're losing every year right it's kind of going up going up that that's having a house on the ocean has got to be pretty disconcerting like you know is that the right word to use there i have no idea yeah yeah for sure i think you could just say concerning though yeah it's got to be concerning to have a i think it's disconcerting not disconcerting right well i think either one yeah if you're not concerned you're disconcerting yeah yeah causing one to feel unsettled disconcerting disconcerting i know concerning

though it would be concerning as a synonym see this is what reading does this my girlfriend Causing one to feel unsettled. Disconcerting. Oh, wow. Disconcerting. I know that. What would you say about concerning, though? It would be concerning as a synonym. See, this is what reading does. My girlfriend told me that I've been using a lot of better words from how much I read. Oh, yeah. He reads. Yeah. He just reads.

He doesn't watch TV. A guy that listens to this podcast commented that he loses brain cells every time I talk. Good. You lose the weak ones and you're left with the stronger ones so you're welcome i think he's talking about dusty no i think that's a compliment on us oh yeah i took it yeah he is talking about me yeah i agree with the guy either way i find it a little disconcerting so the usgs geographical who would that what about the senates there he had a disconcerting habit of offering jobs to people he met at dinner parties what a bad habit yeah he goes who does this guy think he is it just every dinner party he goes everybody just stops him every like they just he goes, everybody just stops him. Everybody gets quiet. You just hear him go, you know where you should work is with me.

And they're like, go get Billy. Ted, come it. And then they got to go over there, quit offering these jobs to everybody. It makes everybody uncomfortable. No one likes it. Don't invite him, dude. He'll just offer you a job, not a job. So we're going to bring out the second course.

And who, is anyone here looking for work that's an ai sentence i bet oh i'm sure it is yeah yeah that i bet that isn't it yes ai doesn't know that's what ai is like uh that's crazy. The USGS says that the tectonic plates are shifting. That in 15 million years, LA and San Francisco will be side by side. Wow. 15 million years. Hey, better go ahead and get ready for it. I'll tell you right now. That'll help comics out.

A lot of clubs close by. I think that'll be the place to go as a comic. There'll be more that'll go there. I love that scientists are like, we don't have any problems right now. What's happening in 15 million years, though? I don't think they're saying the first thing at all. But I think you can do two things at once, right? You've made that argument.

They're not fixing the problems, though. You made an argument when Tennessee signed a law about chemtrails. And you're like come on guys we can do two things at once so it's the same argument i don't know i don't think it is but i'm just saying but it is a it is a point i i get what he's saying is like what information what does that information do for us it doesn't do anything but if you're only looking it it makes me think well why are you even looking at that who cares if it's going to be in 15 million years and what are you going to do what's tell me let's look at uh one million years i wonder if that guy like let me well i think by looking at 15 million years ahead you do look at you are looking at the near future

too then so just tell us what in 100 years because i don't think the number is big enough i think john tyler's grandson will still be alive, yeah. But I also don't think they're saying that this is like something we need to stop. They're saying this is the inevitable reality of the way the earth works. It's just like, yeah, this is what it's going to look like. I feel like it's, I think it's that feeling of like, what does that do? Like there's a lot of talk or it feels like there's a lot of talk and like stuff gets brought up very far in the future. And you go,

okay, but right now we have these problems. So like what, let's solve these problems. Like, and they go, well, you know,

and it's this and that, and you know, we've got to prepare. It's like, well, just let's talk about right now. It's too bad. We won't be around to call them out.

You know, it'd be nice if you're like, no, I bought a house in LA thinking that in 15 million years i'd be right next to san francisco this was an investment i made yes and you messed me up yeah get frozen chronologically frozen come back come back ready for my property just the first thing i mean everybody's in space suits and everything but you just god like i started getting los angeles golden state bridge shirts yeah yeah yeah yeah you start selling them yeah get merch now it's probably cheaper now to do it yeah get the domain buy the domain yeah

do you know the state animal california bear it's on the state flag golden bear right yeah it's a grizzly bear but yeah they used to be the bear saying they haven't had a bear there's a bear problem well not grizzly bear they haven't had one since the 1920s there's a black bear problem that's happening well that's between you and yeah easy grizzly bears haven't been seen in since the 1920s grizzly bears yeah which is crazy and that's your state animal yeah but yeah that's embarrassing coyote egg on your face coyotes and bears are dangerous they're becoming more dangerous i saw a coyote in silver lake one time oh they're all i mean see them almost every day yeah yeah what do you are you allowed to shoot them in california that's the thing is that you're allowed to trap them like and kill them just like

a rat that's it's the same oh okay rat. It's the same. Oh, okay. They have the same legal rights as rats. Yeah. Is that what you do with all the shootings you already have going on? You just were like, hey, guys, if you're going to be shooting, might as well do us a favor. Yeah, there's a dad that attacked his daughter and he shot her. Man.

Oh, gosh. And that used to never happen. He daughter and he shot it. Man. Oh, God. And that used to never happen. He should have been a little quicker with the gun, though. Yeah. Why are they? Why is it getting worse? Yeah. Because people are feeding them.

Wildfires. And then also animal rights people are saying, they're safe. This is safe. We shouldn't be doing anything. And there's even talk about how there's this bear that people are concerned about that's like people are finding in their house like the bear is getting inside their house but all of the neighbors and all in this whole area have a text chain where they don't tell the authorities about the bear because they don't want them to do something and kill the bear yeah so they're keeping it all in house like hey i saw the bear

today just watch out. It's weird. That's crazy. Is it, Brian, you said wildfires? Are they getting displaced? I was just guessing. The wildfire thing is, I mean, I've been affected by that before. You have? Yeah, I was staying in a rehabilitation center that burned down while I was in it.

Was that a sign to go back? Yeah, I started drinking right after. I woke up. There was smoke. It was in Malibu. There was smoke the night before. And I go in the kitchen and I'm like making a water and everyone's kind of frantic, but I'm like, huh.

And I say, hey, is the fire going to affect us? They go, we're leaving right now. And I was the furthest room away. So they didn't even wake. Every morning they woke me me up they didn't wake me up in the morning thank god yeah oh my god i was on the last van out of there with the nurse it's crazy and then it like within two hours house gone that's crazy yeah did you get all your stuff out yeah yeah i pretty much just had one pair of clothes yeah they got an airbnb okay up in oxnard yeah went to some other place yeah yeah it was definitely it was funny because we got to the

airbnb and i got there first yeah and i just thought i go i know there's gonna be vodka in the freezer yeah and i go in the garage and there was just a full bottle of tito's in the freezer and i was like why why would they do this to me? I gave it to the nurse. She poured us two drinks. She goes, look, I think we all need a drink after that. California has the highest elevation and the lowest elevation in the lower 48 states. Death Valley is the lowest, right?

What's the highest? Mount Whitney. So wait, Death valley is lower than sea level yeah way lower that's why it's so hot oh crazy yeah yeah that's why it's so hot yeah it's hottest place on earth hottest place on earth why isn't oh is it earth or a little close to hell so just yeah the closer you are air just gets hotter the further it travels i I guess so, dude. It's a vacuum. You're closer to a vacuum. California has nine national parks

more than any other state. Yosemite's the most visited. Joshua Tree. Nick's probably visited. Didn't they just have Burning Man? Have you been to Joshua Tree? Yes. Sorry for assuming.

He's got a bungalow up there. I read somewhere they were going to get rid of a lot of those trees for solar panels. The Joshua Tree is a really weird tree, too. When people see what a Joshua Tree is, they're like, that whole area is named after that? Yeah. You think it's one singular tree,

but it's a bunch of them. No, it's just one. A Joshua tree? It's just like this really, it's not even a cactus. But I thought it was just one tree. Like one, only one. Oh, you thought there was just one tree? Yeah, the Joshua tree. Yeah, the Joshua tree. It's a type of tree. You just thought there was, yeah, and they all have different names.

That must be a big tree. That's an Eric tree. That's a Jason tree. I think I thought it might have been thought of as like one, like you go and you go, that's a Joshua. That's the Joshua tree. That's it. Is there one in particular that you go, that's the most memorable? Yeah.

No, there's nothing memorable about a Joshua tree. Why are people so into it? Oh, really? I thought they would have been like a move like no it's like it looks like a little j like a t or like a like they're just they're why are they so into why are people so into it uh they're not really into the trees but the thing is is that the national park is it's beautiful because it's so expansive but it has these huge rock piles that are just like boulders that go

so high that you can you know and you go there and you just you just drive in and you find a big rock pile you pull over and you just climb it and like my son it was the best thing in the world he loved it yeah and it's pretty fun you get up to the top and but other than that i don't know why people go there i guess i'm like you know on drugs yeah that's when you're a reclimate do you see anybody else out there yeah oh yeah yeah yeah have you been a burning man no no never would never go to that really it's not my thing oh i mean it just doesn't seem fun at all to me yeah yeah yeah i don't think I understand. I thought I read somewhere that there was, like, maybe I saw a video or something. Someone was saying, like, they flew out of there.

Like, to get out of there after you get in is, like, Well, last year, that was, like, Chris Rock and what's his name? Diplo. Had to, like, get taken out. I mean, the thing is, it's got really popular. And you know why they call it Burning man is they build this huge structure like out of two by fours or whatever like this huge man and then they burn it and they just all stand around it and who knows they don't wear deodorant and stuff and they all wear crazy clothes i mean it looks fun but it also just what we were thinking there are people that do it, very wealthy people.

That's the problem. The people that have been doing it forever now hate Brad Pitt goes, but has his own compound, and they pay for chefs and people. They're staying in basically a luxury hotel in Burning Man, which is just where people build their own structures. And so people are upset about that because they'd rather be like, you're supposed to be like living off the land kind of. It's kind of what ruined music festivals too.

Like, you know, VIP access to rich people. And it's like, we're all just, we're at a festival. Like, let's just enjoy it, you know? But now they have like roped off the front area of like every festival of, of every festival show where there's just like half the amount of people that could fit in that area. Oh yeah. Standing there just like, I remember like when we do like Bonnaroo and stuff,

there'd be like some guy backstage. I'm like, who's this guy? They're like, Oh, he has the extra VIP pass. He gets to like kiss the artists. Oh yeah.

So like, look at that. That's one of the things being burned. Yeah. Yeah. It seems dark it does that's in nevada right seems like some real negative uh no it's in california oh it is yeah didn't something happen at a recent one like a really bad thing happened no it just had it got

flooded oh yeah last year and then yeah because it's just moshe kasher goes every year he's been going every year for like 15 years or something. He used to work the gate. Because people also work jobs there. The people that go there, they like work a job. They have responsibilities. It's like a working community that they live in. You bring something to contribute to it, right?

Or something like that. Yeah. They do comedy there? I mean, I think the whole. Yeah, I'm sure they do. I mean, there's like a lot of weird sections of, you know. And they have like real bands perform there? They've had bands perform there, sure, yeah.

They have DJs, obviously. DJs and. How long is it, like a weekend or a week? I think it's like 10 days. Oh, wow. So it's like you go disconnect and you're just. Yeah, I think that's the point. You're gone or. Yeah. When you get disconnect and you're just yeah i think that's your honor yeah yeah yeah when you get back you're gonna need factor

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And never use the microwave, just in general. Okay. The largest trees in the world are in California? In the Redwood Park? Well, Burning Man, didn't they have the thing where the trash is a problem too? Yeah. People just leave stuff out there. So people bring bikes and they just desert their bike.

You would think they would just burn it in the man. Yeah. Yeah. And then kind of be like, we're done. Just burn everything and walk away. I think there's people that do kind of a cleanup thing. And in the end, there's just like all these bikes just piled up, you know? And then they maybe save them for the next year.

Yeah. Have you ever been to the Redwood Forest? Oh, yeah. Unbelievable. It's life-changing. It really is. When you see a tree as thick as this room, it's like, whoa. Like, how is that even?

Somebody told me that, like, you got to hug a tree, you know? Like, you just have to, like, and I got up to one of those huge trees and just put my arm around it, and it felt significant. It felt like, wow, this is big. Well, when you see something so much bigger than- Look at this. Yeah. I love trees.

Yeah, it's amazing. You should be an arborist. I should. I do love trees. Look at that thing. Because should. I do love trees. Look at that. Because they're like around for so long. And it's like plants are alive in a sense, but it's like, you know. Problem is you got to cut them open to see how old they are.

Yeah. Yeah. But it's like, you know, you see like a big tree in a neighborhood and you think that tree was here long before this neighborhood. And like, what did the area look like around the tree for as long as it's been here well and they're smart too like the there's a like if you have an avocado tree if you have an avocado tree in your yard there has to be another avocado tree close to you yeah they are connected and if you cut one down like somebody was telling me like their neighbor cut down an avocado tree and then there's just died wow because they're like there's like i don't know why or how but um how did it get started then it must have started with one yeah i'm sure they just

fell in love yeah you know like a lot of trees yeah some of these trees they say are 4 000 years old wow yeah can you imagine what that tree has seen not that the tree has eyes but what has it seen in all this time i mean that's amazing my uncle was a lumberjack in central oregon and that's like huge trees there you know and i mean just if you if you ever go back and watch like pictures or footage of like in the 70s like lumberjacks it's crazy oh yeah people are dying out there oh yeah just well trees are so heavy that people don't even think i mean i know i've known not personally but uh you know connected that have been killed by trees falling uh and the trees did they go did they get out free or what? Yeah. I mean, well, they're already dead.

You know, personally? They're like, I'm, well, my friend's uncle went out his back. He had some work being done around his house and they were cutting down trees. He went out his back door. One of the trees fell, killed the guy. I have a friend that that happened to their dad. Yeah. It's crazy.

That's crazy. Could this be the same guy? Is it Minnesota? No. that that happened to their dad yeah it's crazy that's crazy could this be the same guy is in minnesota no isn't it crazy to think with a tree though that you just throw that tree in the water it just floats that's what i was about to say yeah as heavy as it is when you see are you sure with the whole tree float i think it would it does no like if you if you see like they're they'll transport huge logs they'll just be towing them behind boats in the water. They're just like stacked.

It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, it's like that's unbelievable that you have a thing this big that you're like, well, what could we ever use it for? We can't move it. And it goes, well, here's water. Yep. Just floats it.

It's crazy. Push it on down. Yeah down yeah yeah like people do that where they were like trying to try and run on the log or whatever yeah the most uh famous tree in the biggest volume is called general sherman um but it's not quite the tallest though there's another one hyperion it's 380 feet tall they won't tell you where it's at um the tallest one it's probably not there then could you just get a helicopter and be like there it is um that's a biggie you could unless the floor you can't really they have it in this picture though they have that one you can drive under i think that's an organ though i mean it's obviously

big right but you can't i feel like if you were that lady standing right there, I mean, you get the. Right. They had to go point five. That lady weighs 500 pounds. But there was a like a chestnut tree of some sort. It's not a California tree, but we're just on trees. And that was supposedly big in the United States early on. was supposedly big in the united states early on but they there's some uh you know fungus from another country made it here and killed all these trees and these trees were like a big food source

for animals for people the wood burned really well uh and it was like i don't know i watched this little tree documentary and it was very sad yeah i saw a tree this tree documentary avatar where they all i mean they live in these trees yeah well the second lord of the rings where you have the tree kind of the tree people you know you guys ever seen the movie oh yeah they're like the the living trees that's why it's my favorite two's my favorite that's great that tree the biggest tree is as big as the statue of liberty yeah that's general sherman right there compared to the side that's 83.8 meters tall and then statue of liberty is 93 meters that would be more impressive than the statue of liberty oh yeah to see that totally they should throw it out there uproot it what's funny about bringing out to new york how far the roots could go you just

like you just yeah bring it to New York and just let it sit there and grow what's funny about the Statue of Liberty is it was just a gift that somebody

it's like I don't understand yeah we didn't really know where to put it just put it out in the ocean I won't put it here I guess

start charging people they go we want it but put it more in New Jersey. We don't want to deal with it. Deadliest earthquake in U.S. history. San Francisco, 1906. 3,000 people killed. 80% of the city destroyed.

I remember that World Series. Yeah, yeah. Earthquake was crazy. That's probably the first world series i remember yeah 87 89 yeah 89 i think yeah was during the game yeah yeah before it started and uh like but they were showing it like bridge collapsed i mean it was crazy yeah it was pre-game show and then like bob costas and starts shaking on the air did Did they? What did they do? Not play the game that day? I think it was delayed for a couple weeks.

Oh, yeah. Because there was. I say do it. Just go for it. First major earthquake in the U.S. to be broadcast on live television. That's pretty crazy. That's crazy. It was the two teams from it.

We've been trying to for years. I wonder if it got residuals. I'm trying to catch it. Yeah. Aftershocks. It was the A's and the Giants so the two teams that were both effective

they were like bridge collapse you guys will have trouble getting home let's cancel the game and the air of Roseanne just do the game let them try to sort out the bridge they're like man we already bought a ticket it's like now we gotta go home talk about the worst luck

just being right where the bridge goes oh oh yeah well and then just think uh it was the a's in oakland is the world series yeah i think it was the giants and the a's so they were both right there what happened it's not like you can go back to new york or something to play the game yeah that's great it's like yeah and you're like well every game is here yeah stevie wonder was doing that on his harmonica he could sense it he just felt it before it before it happened people can do it he's on his harmonica you know people speculate that stevie wonder's not really blind though so maybe he doesn't have those senses. Maybe. Yeah, maybe.

I BCC him on all my emails. Jose Canseco was spotted filling up his car at a self-serve gas station. It's funny they put that in there. Still in full uniform. Wow. That's so funny. So the California Gold Rush. that's so funny um so the california gold rush i did a movie stevie wonder had his daughter was like had a role in it i guess i didn't know this and um they had a premiere and afterwards stevie

wonder heard me talking and like walked over to me and was like you were great in the movie one of the best movie reviews I've ever had. Wow. That's awesome. Couldn't even see me. Yeah. He was with Jermaine Dupri. It was so weird.

All right. It was pretty wild. Doing a remix. I have a picture with him. I always think of Jermaine Dupri with remixes. He's the Atlanta guy, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Hotlanta. Was his name name was he the thong song i think that was the cisco oh cisco cisco something like that oh just cisco not the cisco that that that's such a good song you can't i mean hey it was spring break for me i mean when that came out yeah that was a big that came at the right time. Yeah. The California Gold Rush brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States. 1849, people who came were called 49ers. There you go. So again, the statement in this thing says, it's funny, with Seiko, that someone portrayed, because his wife was pumping the gas, and someone wrote an article saying he's chauvinistic because he forced his wife was pumping the gas and someone wrote an article saying he's chauvinistic because he forced his wife

to pump the gas. But she was like, look, you're in full uniform. Oh yeah. So like, that's going to be a whole thing. So I'll get out and pump them.

And people were just like this maniac, dude, like he sitting in the car. Now you would be chauvinistic if you wouldn't let her pump. Yeah. Yeah. This guy's a hero for doing that. Now he was doing it back thenistic if you wouldn't let her pump the gas. This guy's a hero for doing that now. He was doing it back then.

So he wasn't even at the field yet? I think he was getting out of town. They were returning him. You can read all about this in Jose Canseco's book, Juiced. Wild times, rampant roids, smash hits, and how baseball got big. I mean, those...

I bet it's... I bet it's got some good stuff in there, yeah. He's the only one that told the truth. The Bash Brothers. Man, I loved that era. It was so cool. I love that they replaced Stevie Wonder with the Gatlin Brothers

to sing the National Anthem. That's funny, too, because the Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla and Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire, both... I would have thought that Bobby Bonilla was going to be the best player and that Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire, I would have thought that Bobby Bonilla was going to be the best player and that Jose Canseco was going to be the best. To me, those are my favorite players, and then it came out the other time. Why would Stevie Wonder pull out of the –

they said – they were like, all right. Oh, they're on game three. Well, it didn't happen until a couple weeks later, so maybe he got an obligation or – Probably was that man. Oh, yeah're on game three as well. Well, it didn't happen until a couple weeks later, so maybe he had an obligation or... Probably was at a movie. Yeah, he probably had something else. I met Larry Gatlin, you know, so right here, we know all these guys.

I met Larry Gatlin. You just heard your voice. We could get to the bottom of this. Yeah. Yeah. You call Larry, you call Stevie. Call them up. You met Larry Gatlin too didn't you

I've done the opera with him yeah you go in there and meet those guys though yeah I talk to people all the time just go in their dressing room I feel weird

just going hey hey I'm the comedian on the show tonight I don't do it like that what's happening here bounce around a little bit you go hey

we got a party in here I just stay in my room well Dusty looks like everybody everybody pictures What's happening here? Bounce around a little bit. You go, hey, we got a party in here, huh? I just stay in my room. Well, Dusty looks like everybody, everybody pictures that talks on the Grand Ole Opry. That's true. They all just picture Dusty. Hey, oh, they got a mascot. Yeah, yeah.

I bounce around a bit. Yeah, these are people I've been listening to my whole life. I want to meet them. Yeah. Shout out to Greg Warren, by the way. He made his debut the other night. Yeah, yeah. Talked about Nate Land a bit at the end it was pretty nice yeah during the interview okay yeah

it's cool anyway um i'm still in this gold rush thing yes they're called the 49ers named after the team yeah maybe that's good i never knew what that was about and the guy who first found the gold proclaimed Eureka. Which is a great city, Eureka. In Arkansas. There's a Y-Reika and there's a Eureka in Northern California. Is that true? Yeah. Alright.

So the gold rush, they just went out there and... I wonder if that's maybe where he did it. Maybe so. Yeah, somebody found gold and then the word got out and everybody started going to california how's that word get out probably take some time does that take newspapers yeah somebody says to you like hey they're actually finding money in rivers yeah no they're not did you ever see that movie you would love this movie with tom hanks where with news of the world you've got mail oh yeah castaway you ever heard of the premise i

have i know the what the movie i don't know if i know the premise yeah it's just all these communities people that can't read yeah so he would just go to their town and read them the newspaper yeah and that was like his job and. Was it based on a real thing? Yeah, this was a real job back in the day. The whole town would gather around. They just want to hear what's going on in the world. Yeah. So he would come and read to them, and then he'd leave.

I love that. Isn't that fun? That's awesome. And then, is the movie good? No. I was like, it just does that. It's okay. It's okay.

I want to do that. That's a good job to fall back on. Yeah. To know it's there. Yeah, but you could just make up news. Well, yeah, you want to do that. That's a good job to fall back on. Yeah. To know it's there. Yeah. But you could just make up nudes. Well, yeah. You can.

Is that what the movie's about? Fake nudes. They would make it interesting. He'd really do it up. He'd put on a show for these people. Yeah. How long could that movie be? It's longer than you'd like it to be.

Stuff happens. There's a little girl. How do you even end a movie like that everyone learns how to read yeah yeah he's out of a job yeah

yeah he goes AI he reads that news that everyone's going to read wait what is this new article

he goes yeah he goes beat it buddy 98% of people can read he's talking to one person. Nick, are you familiar with the Bakersfield sound?

I got, no, I mean, I've got re-arranted in Bakersfield once, but I don't know what the Bakersfield sound is now. Is that their soccer team? Who's that? That's like Buck Owens. Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam. Oh, right, right. It's a type of country music.

Yeah. It's a real Post Malone type. Jeez. This guy's sweeping country music. He's taking country music by storm. Not even doing country. Is it like... And you like that.

I can't stand it. I don't have anything against Post Malone. Yeah, you do. But he's not doing country. None of his songs are country. None of the new ones. And then every country singer that I ever loved is posting pictures with him on social media.

He's probably a nice guy. It makes me sadder every day. He does seem like a real nice guy. He does seem nice. Every country song should sound like it came from the same studio in the same year. All I'm saying- You're not allowed to advance the genre. All I'm saying, what is the point of a genre if there's no boundaries?

Exactly. Who cares? Just let him make a song. But I care, though. But not everything has to be that. Right, but if you're going to call it country, you're making- Who's calling it country? Well, he's making a country album.

But it's not the first time this has happened. Ray Charles made a country album. But Ray Charles sounded very country on the album. Oh, yeah. But he's got like my friend Sierra. Y'all better get over here. Georgia? It's a country album.

Yeah. It's very good. They go just sound to sound. Ray Charles and Willie Nelson have the Seven Spanish Angels song, Very Country. Okay. Y'all better Spanish angels. It's a great song.

Yeah. Yeah. I know. Dusty, you may need better help. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. That's how Dusty looked for his paper. Yeah. Well, you should be.

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McDonald's Brothers in San Bernardino. Have you been there? Not to the main one. Is it still still open i figured there was a museum there or something yeah what's the documentary or not documentary but the movie with uh the founder the founder nick off so good it's a great movie yeah so good he's one of my favorites michael keaton oh he's the best so good the best his. The best. His role in Batman, the new Batman. Did you see that? No.

Oh. In The Flash? The new Batman? The new Flash? There was a, what was it? Was it Flash? Wasn't that where he went back in like the multiverse? Yes, yes.

Okay, that's what it was. Yeah. I didn't see it, but. Oh, check it out now. You like multiverses? No, I don't. But I just like Michael Keaton, though. This movie's good.

Yeah. Would you have watched Harry Potter if Michael Keaton was in it? It was a better chance. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. He started as a stand-up, you know?

Yeah. Because he was acting, and he was like, I can audition twice a week, and this sucks, but I could be going on stage every night and like getting better. And that's, and he did like one Letterman and then that's it. Why didn't he realize he ever did a Letterman? Yeah.

Yeah. And then he got night shift that movie with Henry Winkler. And then after that, it was just over. I just bought that DVD. I not watched it yet. Night shift. Yeah.

It's so good. Henry Winkler. It's funny. Now you know who Michael, Michael Sarah's doing. It's like that. Henry Winkler, it's funny. Now you know who Michael Cera is doing. It's like that young Henry Winkler. It's like what Michael Cera does now. Oh, wow.

Interesting. Not that he's stealing it. I just think it's a similar vibe. Yeah. I think Michael Cera is hilarious. Yeah, very funny. Denny's, IHOP, Taco Bell. All started in California.

Denny's, IHOP, Taco Bell. Holy Trinity. Yeah. The concept of that movie, too, by the way, Taco Bell. All started in California. And he's IHOP, Taco Bell. Holy Trinity. The concept of that movie too, by the way, is wild. That movie can never be made now. It's guys that work at a funeral home that start using the hearst and they become pimps.

At night time taking care of these prostitutes. Love that. So weird. Have you been to the Golden Gate Bridge? Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's pretty. No.

Have you been to San Francisco? One day. Yeah. What a setup. I just love, yeah. Yes, Dusty? I don't know. I just thought that was funny.

Have you been to the Golden Gate Bridge? It's like so pointed yeah oh yeah oh yeah well I was hoping he would say yeah let me tell you

when I almost jumped off woke up peeing here's the thing is that there's a lot of because of the bay there a lot of fog

gets caught in there a lot pretty often and so you drive over that bridge and sometimes it really does like it's so beautiful and crazy that you know but everyone's and sometimes it really does like it's so beautiful

and crazy that you know but everyone's driving over it for that it gets a little little hectic i think i think i was driving over it it's very it is nerve-wracking you're just so high yeah yeah i mean it's it's really crazy i walked to it one time in San Francisco. You walked over the bridge or to it? I went to it. It's so big that I thought it was a closer walk than it was. It was like the first time I went, you're like, all right, just right there.

And then the next thing you know, you're like, this is, it was not right there. And then I get up it and uh you can walk across it but it's so high i mean because there's like one you can get to a part where there's a tall fence then there's like a regular area where there's no like high fence and so i may i went out to like the first thing that went up those are crazy looking too yeah i went out to that and so i may i went out to like the first thing that went up those are crazy looking too yeah i went out to that and then i walked back i was alone i look i i actually you know what i remember the joke i actually did a joke on that san francisco when i did it because i was

like if you would have thought someone was going to jump it looked like i was going to jump because i went out then i walked back because i can't do it then and i'm alone and then i go you know what i'm gonna go out just a little bit farther and i just kept doing that going back and forth going a little bit farther and then but i mean it's so high it's i mean it's insane people yeah they get there there's people that won't drive over it because it's too high like they're you know do you ever go to alcatraz i did really yep you took Yep. You took the ferry over there? Yeah. Oh, man, I would love to do that. Yeah, it was cool. Yeah.

It was cool to just see it out there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's cool to see it. Yeah, it's cool to go to it. It's wild that things like that. They were like, that's a good idea. Put a jail on that island. Probably was a good idea.

I mean, it is. It's a good idea. No, it's a great idea. But they don't do it anymore. Yeah, I don't know why they got rid of, you know, maybe it was just. Rikers is still an island, right? Is it still a jail? Rikers Island.

Yeah, I think. So we're still doing jails on islands. Do people really escape from prisons though now? I think they got it pretty locked down. I think they get out. People still do. There's this one guy, he bought a poster that he put on the wall. Nate hasn't seen Shawshank Redemption.

Oh. No. Dude, you might have ruined it. Yeah. And he never will see it. We spent four years not ruining the ending of that. And there's a chance you just did? No, no, no.

No, the covering, like the cover of the book is like the picture of the poster. Yeah. And you've read the book yeah yeah yeah obviously i was telling him to read it i think he would like it because it's only 90 pages it was stephen king wrote it in a series of short stories that also the movie stand by me was in the same book that's right yeah and it was uh i think it's called rita hayworth it's called rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption yeah wow and it's almost word for word like the movie it's no no it's not because it's from the perspective of the morgan freeman character so is the movie but is it voiceover in the movie for me it's morgan freeman's voiceover yeah yeah yeah yeah he's a white guy in

the book though yeah yeah yeah but you still you know when you still read it you still hear morgan of course now you read the story in morgan freeman's voice which is cool we've got uh there are a lot of prison breaks this year already none in the u.s i see yeah the congo had a couple france haiti but all on like like the july of last year a a prison in Pennsylvania, a guy escaped. Dogs sniffed him out in the woods. I think I remember that one. It becomes big news. In this country.

Yeah. It becomes big news that they get out, though. Well, there was one recently, a few years ago, where the woman that became romantically involved, she helped him escape. Yeah. I think that's the way you got to go. Yeah. I think that's the only way you can. I'm going to be in trouble. Yeah. Nick, you'll get out pretty escape. Yeah. I think that's the way you got to go. Yeah. I think that's the only way you can. I'm going to be in trouble.

Yeah. Nick, you'll get out pretty quick. What's up? Yeah. Brian, she goes, you ain't getting out, sweetheart. I'll get more years. There they go. You think she's just using you and then tells you,

once you get in the trunk, she goes, he's in here. And then Thune shuts the other she goes he's in here and then thune shuts the other trunk and he's getting out like she gets him out because they never saw it coming they never saw it coming that would be be tough to i mean they who got out in alcatraz then they nick cage yeah yeah but they someone got out Someone got out. There was somebody who escaped. There's one that they think they never found the body, so they think he got out. But no one, because the water was so cold.

It's likely you just drown in the water outside of there because it's so cold and the water's so rough that it's. There's also a lot of sharks there in San Francisco. Even if you get off the island, it's not smooth sailing. Yeah, that was the whole main thing. But who was there? I mean, everybody was there, right? Al Capone.

Al Capone. Yeah. Yeah, I think I saw Al Capone's cell. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. I think so. I'm saying that.

Was it like a Motorola? Yep. Yep. He had it early. I go, whoa. Aaron, have you seen the movie The Rock? Yeah. No.

You've never seen the movie The Rock? No. What is that? Sean O'Connery. Nicholas Cage. Dwayne Johnson. No, I've never seen it. Is it about Alcatraz?

Ed Harris. I've never seen it. It's a great movie. I've seen Escape from Alcatraz, but I've never seen The Rock. The Rock is really great. Yeah. Ed Harris, too. All right.

I'll check it out. I'll check it out. Yeah. I'm a big Ed Harris fan, too. You guys The Rock is really great. Yeah, Ed Harris too. All right, I'll check it out. I'll check it out. Yeah. I'm a big Ed Harris fan too. You guys like that guy? Yeah. Yeah, he's great. Yeah, he's good.

Yeah. All right, sports teams. 19 professional sports teams in California. By far the most of any state. That's crazy, yeah. And they just keep moving it like that. Well, that's major professional. Not even minor leagues.

19. Yeah, so there's probably like 50 or 60 probably. And they just move them around. Like the San Diego Chargers, they're up in LA. That's true. You have season tickets to the Dodgers? Mm-hmm. All right.

What's crazy this year is, so I split it with four, it's four of us, me and three other guys. And each of us end up paying like 1,800 bucks. Yeah. But this year, we've made 1,500 bucks back, each of us, because of the Shohei Otani effect. Wow. And they upped the next year's tickets.

Because we sell just some of our tickets. Like the other night, Shohei, they did like a bobblehead. And we were like, yeah, you sell that. Yeah. And you make a lot of money. Wow. People line up early for those bobbleheads people stayed overnight yeah it's the same the first i think thousand people

got golden bobbleheads wow and it's like because you can't buy them i guess you could buy them but you have to buy them from one of these first exactly so they're gonna get they're only making them yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah the rose is the oldest bowl do we need bowl is the rose a big california uh flower is that why it's called the rose bowl i don't know it's their state flower maybe it might be is there to be a- The California wild rose. Rose Californica. There's a California king snake that is- It looks like a rattler, but it actually- It kills rattlers.

Yeah. It doesn't get affected by the poison, and there's nothing- It doesn't affect humans at all, but it- Or the venom, it doesn't, whatever. They've grown up to 78 inches long. Yeah, the king snake in general is always a good snake to have around because it does kill poisonous snakes, doesn't harm humans. Yeah.

Why does it want to kill poisonous snakes, I wonder? Like, is it just more fun? They're just good dudes. It's a good balance. Yeah. Good dudes. Good balance. Yeah, I wonder how they found out.

Then they were like, we can handle these guys yeah most people can't california is the only state to host a summer and winter olympics wow that's interesting what years summer 84 i remember it yeah and then the next one summer olympics is in la the next one yeah yeah where's the winner oh so not done it yet now they have the winner one was like 1960 i think somewhere around lake tahoe okay okay it makes sense yeah most most diverse naturally state it feels like there's a little bit of everything there yeah it's really cool yeah imagine when people discovered california they had to be like this is the whole country yeah here yeah i heard this comedian no bugs right is there really bugs there or yeah there's bugs yeah there's not like mosquitoes not like down here no this comedian that was on my show last week lucas hurl is his name he had a joke

where he's like i bet my favorite uh you know whatever and like what do they call the thing you do in the olympics like not a challenge but like uh whatever yeah my favorite competition will be watching the city get rid of the homeless people they'll do it quick and easily yeah are they building new stadiums just for it yeah there's gonna be i don't know what they're doing i mean there there used to be a whole thing how they were gonna build like a huge structure over the L.A. River. That was like a proposed plan at some point. I don't think they're doing that now, though.

I've never even heard of the L.A. River. You've never heard of it? No. Oh, my gosh. It's like in Terminator 2. Remember like in that movie where he's driving down that crazy concave cement? That's the L.A. River. Oh, yeah.

In Greece, too. That's in Greece, too. Yeah. Drive. The original. crazy concave yeah cement that's the la river oh yeah grease too that's in grace too yeah dry the original but anyway yeah sometimes it's the la river and sometimes it's not what do you mean they let water go down there sometimes sometimes yeah yeah it's also filthy yeah it's disgusting when did that water go down there where does it go no when do they let oh well when it's raining a ton there's some parts that always have some water in it okay and then there's some parts that are kind of back and forth but i mean it goes like rain yeah you just get no rain this last

year we had a ton of rain oh that's good this is like it broke a record oh yeah annoying probably annoying when you don't have to live with the rain. I'm from Seattle. Well, I know, but it's annoying. Because you think you've got a good deal where you're not getting rain. Yeah. It's annoying when I come home from other states, because that's the best part about living in California is coming home.

Yeah. You know, like you really, everywhere you go, you're like, oh, this is a fun experience. Now I'm just going to go back to the most comfortable place in the world. Yeah. You know, like you really, everywhere you go, you're like, oh, this is a fun experience. Now I'm just going to go back to the most comfortable place in the world. Yeah. California.

Well, I went to San Diego for the first time like two years ago. Everyone's always told me, sunny year round. And I get there in May and it's all overcast. They're like,

oh yeah, May gray. Yeah. Well, San Francisco, I think is. How's San Diego? You just bring that. Is it overcast a lot of places you go, Brian?

Yeah. That's what they do. You get to a lot of towns. June gloom. Yeah. They do call it June gloom. Every year in June, it's like for the first half of the day, you think, well, it's a jacket day. And then nope.

They just see Brian's face looking out the window of the plane. And then you just see a cloud behind it. Because I thought that might come. It just goes. And it goes. So the plane and you just see a cloud behind it because i thought that might come it just goes and it goes so plane looks worried it's interesting you say that about california i feel that way about here when i go away i i love to come back to tennessee i like uh no matter where i'm at i do love to come back here yeah he's saying i think the weather like it's the the la weather but i mean you know it's like especially uh i don't know just just being in the south sometimes you'll be up in northern states it's real cold or whatever you come back here and you're like oh yeah warm

again yeah warmth yeah i always feel that with uh florida like when you go like our california it is when you're when it's winter and you go out to one of those and you go like, or California it is when you're, when it's winter and you go out to one of those and you're like man this is nice do you have a show in like Florida in February and you're like alright, like you were just in Detroit

I remember I did a show in Calgary and it was so cold and I came from LA, the difference was, it was like negative and it was so cold like you know and I came from LA the the difference was it was like negative 50 it was insanity and have you ever gone outside when it's that cold it's almost feels like you're drowning like you can't be outside for very long I was like I was like trying to run into a bank or something I don't know I robbed it drowning it I just felt like I couldn't breathe anymore the the air was so cold and so thin, and it was just...

That's you. That's weird. I think that's... Were you dressed like that? I had a huge down jacket on. Yeah. It was a nice jacket. You got to layer up.

You got to layer up. Many layers. I bet you talked to everybody in that bank, didn't you? Did you? Hey! You did, yeah. Nick will talk... Did you talk to everybody in that bank didn't you did you hey you did yeah nickel taught did you talk to everybody yeah yeah you did nick will you walk into any bank that's the thing talking to everybody that's the thing is then when you're doing i was playing a festival in that city so

in canada they actually the cities pay to have a festival there like it's like government funded for like a music festival indoor festival yeah yeah but everyone in the bank's like going are you gonna be in the festival yeah i don't know we're all gonna see it they all come yeah they can just tell when you walk in that you're a part of the festival yeah yeah yeah yeah your room's right here sir it's cold uh silicon valley sunnyvale mountain view palo alto menlo park oh sunnyvale we got some we got rooster teeth feathers yeah why did they go out there just because it just worked out that way i think stanford's there and a lot of oh yeah that's why because all phones have cupertino time because it started there.

Oh, yeah. Aaron, what were your thoughts on iPhone 16? Yeah, it's funny to go there when you go there and stay and you're in Cupertino time. Yeah. It is funny because it sounds like a made-up place. Yeah. And then you're like there and you're like, I'm on Cupertino time. Cupertino.

What was the iPhone 16? I didn't see the keynote. Was there anything crazy in the new one? I think there's a new button and it's more AI. A new button? Oh, I didn't see the keynote. Was there anything crazy in the new one? I think there's a new button, and it's more AI. A new button? Oh, I didn't even know there was a new one. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, Nate just got excited. I can buy something? Yeah. CBS special. I didn't know there was a new phone. I think they announced some of the details today. Oh, look at that. Yeah, the keynote.

I saw people were mad. They were like, the headphones are going to be revamped, and it was just new colors. And just kind of, you know, just rinse and repeat what they've been doing. And they're doing all U2 album on it. No, now it's mine. Easy out. Easy out.

I might tank Apple for you. I think it'll be better. I think that would be better than that YouTube album. Thank you, Dusty. Hello, folks! Welcome to the new iPhone! Did you see Apple stock plunging like when Michael Scott spoke

at the shareholders meeting? One president from California. Only one? Yeah. Ronald Reagan. Nixon. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Correct.

I didn't say anything. Reagan wasn't from? My mistake. Where's Reagan from? Nixon's from like Chino, the Chino area. Somewhere around there. Reagan was governor of California, but he was born in Illinois. Oh.

And he was an actor too. It's crazy. That's wild. Arnold Schwarzenegger was a governor. I went, I watched Reagan, the movie.

Yeah. Yes, me and my parents' friends. And, because everybody knew he was pretty old. Yeah, yeah. It was a 3 p.m. show.

Yeah. Everybody there is like, voted for Reagan. Yeah. Yeah. The age group. But show yeah everybody everybody there is like voted for reagan yeah the age group but uh yeah one night uh we went i was just like i want to go see a movie and i don't you know it's like uh because reagan i know him obviously but we were it was a i was young and so it was like oh let me just go see what his well have. Well, have you met Dennis Quaid? I think I've met him briefly.

He lives here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, he lives here? Yeah. I love Dennis Quaid. Yeah. Yeah. He was, yeah.

I mean, I didn't know a ton about Ronald Reagan, so it's like pretty crazy. I mean, it's like that dude, like just what he did was, like not even talking about a president, but just him coming up and eventually becoming president. Pretty crazy. He won every state but- But Minnesota, right? Yeah.

I remember that. That's crazy. I literally remember it. Yeah. Were you covering it with the news? It was in 84, right? Yeah. So how old were you?

13. I was 171. I just turned 13. Yeah. Yeah. So how old were you? 13. I was 171. I just turned 13. Yeah. Yeah. You look at all those. Walter Mondale. Yo, mama.

Geraldine Farrar. Look at all those counties, Mr. Reagan won. Because that's how you don't look at anything as states. You look as America as counties. Tennessee counties. Yeah. Were they using blue and red? Yeah.

That's what they used in the movie. But it's like one thing is blue, it's where the other guy's from, and the rest of it's red. That's pretty crazy. Tim Russert invented that, right? Making it the kind of math thing. I didn't know if they were using it back then. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Pretty crazy. Yeah, it's wild. He had a lot of really funny lines. He was really funny. What was the thing. He was really funny. What was the line? So was George Bush.

He had some good ones. Yeah, when he got shot and he's like, you missed me. No, when a balloon popped. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He made a joke about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he had the line when they called him old. He said, I will not make age an issue in this campaign.

I will not exploit for my opponent's youth and inexperience. And it was like, alright, race is over at that point. Yeah, yeah, they won everything. Yeah, that's crazy. I think we have to wrap up. We're going to wrap it up? Yep. Was that a sign that said wrap it up? Wrap it up, they got a show.

I want to see that sign. He's over there. It just says wrap. He starts wrapping a present. Like, what I'm doing. All right. Yeah, I'll be in Foxwoods coming up. This weekend, I'm at Tempe Improv.

This Sunday, Tempe Improv. Oh, great spot. Yeah. The easier to drive tour goes to Tempe. So I'll be hitting the road since this podcast is over. Three days to get out there. Tuesday. Well, I guess this next coming Tuesday,

September 17th, my next Brian Bates and Friends here at the Lab at Zaney's. September 22nd. What's it called here? The Sanctuary? Commonwealth Sanctuary. Just outside Cincinnati. September 22nd.

September 26th at Louisville Comedy Club. October 4th. I'm back at Alley Rays. I shouldn't say even back. I'm doing Alley Rays in Knoxville. I was scheduled to be there in July, and I got sick and had to cancel. So we've rescheduled for October 4th. Good deal.

I will be in Plano, Texas September 19th through 21st Wenatchee, Washington September 28th and Eugene, Oregon October 10th and 12th Nickthune.com

or Arby's.com do you really have Arby's.com? yeah now that rules you do? no I believed you

I got excited my last remaining shows of the year were supposed to be this weekend, two sold-out shows in St. Louis at the Helium. We're rescheduling those. I'm going to announce this later, but we're going to have this kid any day now, so I don't want to miss that. So we rescheduled those two shows to November 24th. So hopefully, if you have tickets

to those shows, they're both sold out. Hopefully, you can make the new date. If you can't, I understand. But November 24th in St. Louis,

that's my only remaining headlining date this year. And by this kid, he means his beautiful and precious daughter. Yes. Yes. I'm off this weekend.

Could be working. But next weekend, I'm in Austin, could be working but next weekend I'm in Austin, Texas at the Mothership all sold out though and then I'm gonna the next weekend I'm in Lexington, Kentucky

Bristol, Tennessee then Macon, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina big kind of homecoming show for me yeah very exciting DustySlide.com. Weren't you just there?

I have not been there in quite a while. Wow. Charleston, South Carolina? Okay. I did Charleston. I thought you were there like two weeks ago. I was in Myrtle Beach. Yeah.

It's two hours away, though. All right. Sorry. Yeah, y'all probably figure this out later. What's that? Go check out Nate Land Entertainment. YouTube, we got a lot of great stuff on there. Got a lot of big things.

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