The Nateland Podcast - 222: #222 Cultural Differences featuring Dustin Nickerson

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Nate and Aaron are still out so this week Brian and Dusty are joined by comedian and podcaster Dustin Nickerson to discuss cultural differences. Brian and Dusty have only lived in the South and Dustin has only lived on the West Coast so the guys debate church attire, freeway vs. interstate, and the significance of In-N-Out Burger. DeleteMe – joindeleteme.com/NATE Go to joindeleteme.com/NATE and use promo code NATE for 20% off.  ZocDoc- Zocdoc.com/NATE I use ZocDoc to find my doctors and you should too! So stop putting off those doctors appointments and go to Zocdoc.com/NATE to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. Helix- Helixsleep.com/Nate Helix is offering 20% off all mattresses for the month of October. Go to Helixsleep.com/NATE. With Helix, better sleep starts now. Vuori – Vuori.com/nate Vuori is an investment in your happiness. For our listeners, they are offering 20% off your FIRST purchase. Not only will you receive 20% off your first purchase but enjoy free shipping on any U.S. orders over $75 and free returns. Go to vuori.com/nate and discover the versatility of Vuori Clothing. Exclusions apply.

Today's episode of the Nate Land podcast is brought to you by DeleteMe, ZocDoc, Helix, and Viori. Hello folks and hey bear, as always, Brian Bates, Dusty Slay, and filling in today for Nate and Aaron, the great Dustin Nickerson. Alright. Thanks guys. Thanks for having me. Do you think people are disappointed when they turn on the podcast and they hear you doing the intro as opposed to Nate? Yes. Every week they go, ah Nate's not there. If they're watching it, they already see the thumbnail. They're already disappointed. That's good. Aaron was going to be here today. I feel like every week I'm teasing he's back

next week. He was going to be here. His baby had a doctor's appointment. He didn't want to miss as a new dad, which I respect. So I really think he'll be back next week, but who knows? Nate will never be back. Nate's gone. Now, Nate will be back. Nate's out there doing great things. Has he been busy? What's he been up to?

What's Nate been up to? Like he's just doing like entertainment things. Not great things, like he's not doing charity. It's not. He's not making positive contributions, is what you're saying. Well, he donated a lot of money to uh his high school's uh athletic uh facility. Oh and didn't he raise some money for the hurricane? I'm not saying

yeah. I'm sure. I mean, you're really undermining Nate. I know. I know. I'm sorry. Yeah. But the way you said it though, he's out there doing great things. Well, comics are pretty selfish people. Right. And that's. And I'm the most selfish. So if I was doing the things Nate was doing, I would be saying I was doing great things. Yeah. Do you know the Salvation Army's slogan?

It's doing the most good. I saw that this week. Yeah. Wow, that's bold. Yeah, that's what I thought too. Like, it's weird to make charity competitive. Yeah, that's bold. Yeah, that's what I thought too. Like it's weird to make charity competitive. Yeah, the most good. Yeah, you're doing some stuff,

but we're doing the most good. Yeah. It's a weird choice that they were like, no, we need to communicate this. And I liked the Salvation Army. I worked for the Salvation Army for a while, but. You did? Yeah, that the Rex and I worked at.

That was, yeah. But I always remember thinking that was a, it was a pretty, but. You did? Yeah, that the Rex and I worked at. Oh yeah, yeah. But I always remember thinking that was a pretty bold statement. And also again, the idea that you're like, I just want to let everyone know, no one does as much good as we do. Like we're first place in doing good. They're like, you doing good?

Yeah, well we're doing the most good. Oh, that's nice, the little good that you're doing. Yeah. Oh, good, goodwill? Oh, well we do the most. It is. It's like a shot right at goodwill. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no, no. They, they do a good amount of good. Yeah, they're good, but. We got some Nate Land news here.

Great. This week on the Showcase, Nate Land Showcase, my Goodwin set came out last Monday. Very funny. We all know Mike, right? Yeah, super, super funny. I hosted that round. He killed it. This week we have Simon Fraser.

That guy just yawned, sorry. Sorry. What? Sorry, one of the guys just yawned. Just mid-episode. We've lost him four minutes in, man. 319 actually. Yeah.

We didn't even hit the four minute mark before we got a big, really a comical yawn. Wow. We didn't even really try and hide it. I didn't even notice that guy before. I mean it was just short of like making the noise too. So I'll try and pep it up. I don't feel like, I don't like seeing a yawn. He's not a fan of the night light years. Is that caffeinated tea? Yeah, yeah, I'll fall on this one. That better not be a chamomile. No, this is a throat coat.

Okay. Yeah. I like a throat coat. Yeah. Chamomile really can slow you down. All right, keep going. All right, this week on the Showcase, Simon Frazier, he, Adrian and I were here, he killed it.

I mean, just blew the roof off and he's so funny. And yeah, I guess that came out actually today, Monday. over here that he killed it. I mean, just blew the roof off and he's so funny. And, um, yeah, I guess that came out actually today, Monday. Uh, so check that out. If you're in Nashville tickets on sale for the last showcase of the season, uh, that will be November 4th at the lab, the day before the election. Dusty says it might be the last show ever. Yeah, that's true. So that's incentive to come, right? Yeah, it is. Get your laughs while you can. November 4th at the Lab, the I Showcase,

another great group of comics. If you're in Nashville, come join us every Monday night for Nate Land Live at the Lab. Tickets are on sale, hosted by members of Nate Land. I'm hosting tonight. Dustin's going to be on it. I am on the show tonight yeah John Chris is on it Stephen Barghetti it's gonna be a hot show every week come out every Monday great comics on it I like that when we do it like this we talk about the show

that's gonna be tonight but it when the podcast comes out it's two days ago yeah it's like this is what you missed yeah Yeah. This is what you miss, guys. Don't miss it. Yeah. And even if it went bad, we made it sound like it was going to be great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you really missed out. Yeah. The most fun. Doing the most fun. Nateland recorded Steven Rogers special over the weekend.

Fort Collins, Colorado. There they are. Get Brian Regan back there in the back. He did a guest set. And Peter Wong. It went great. Shout out to the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins. And the owner, David Rodriguez and his staff. David's the best.

The whole weekend was awesome. So yeah, so Steven did that. My phone rang today. It was Dustin. I got all excited. I answered, hey buddy. And he's like, oh, sorry. I was trying to call Steven Rogers. So Steven got a call from Dustin today.

That was great. You gotta know when you accidentally call someone, you just roll with it. Hey, we're gonna be at the Saturdays today. But I didn't wanna talk to him. He did not. Yeah. I mean, when I hung up,

it showed the length of the call, four seconds, four seconds. And I yawned in that four seconds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh gosh, no, it was, I did what it was. So I talked to you earlier that day, today. Yep. And I was calling Stephen to talk about the special, and I just did like the, Hey Siri call.

And your name came in. So if anything, oh, my phone heard me say Hey Siri. It's gonna call Stephen now. No, if anything, it's a compliment to you that I meant to call Stephen Rogers, but my brain said, no, you wanna call Brian. But then I heard your voice and I changed my mind. Okay, well. Sorry.

I took a turn. I needed to save any stories that we had to save for the podcast. You gotta get content out of it. This is not necessarily Nate Land news, but could I give a shout out to a show that's happening? I can't even finish the Nate Land news before your- Well, I thought you were getting into some other things

and we were on shows. Well, this show is a show for a benefit for hurricane- That's Nate Land news. Hurricane victims. Okay. You know, of Helene, North Carolina, know of Helene North Carolina East Tennessee Western North Carolina so it's at the Ryman on Monday the 21st at 7 p.m. Leanne Morgan John Chris Charlie Barron's me it's gonna be great it's a

hot show all proceeds go to Mountain Ways which support relief and recovery for East Tennessee Western North Carolina and I've been told that's a good charity. Who told you that? Well, they told me it was properly vetted. Who's that? People on my team. Because I don't trust any of these. I don't trust any of these people out here. Do you think a hurricane really happened?

Well, yeah. And I'm very sad for them. It's very sad. All right. So that's Monday right. That's Monday the government make Yeah, it happened It's not a matter oh last week I had human John Chris so it was two against one and thoughts like that Oh great. I have no comment on it But please go to the show at the Ryman. Yes. Mm-hmm. Either way they need help Nate I feel uncomfortable right now. I don't Nate land is recording Greg Warren's special November 23rd at the funny bone in Columbus, Ohio

It makes me mad that he's already putting out another special because he's that good. He's a machine. Yes. Tickets are on sale now. So come on out and join us. The 23rd. It's what protein does. He's eating all that peanut butter. He's a writing machine.

Nate Lynn is also recording Mike Vecchione's special here at the lab, December 28th. Another comic that put out two specials before you put out one. You took that, you made that very specific about me. Well, you said it about yourself. Another comic that put out two specials before you put out one You made that very specific about me. Well, you said it about yourself I just thought in general guys we all would agree that that's a lot. Oh, I mean Dustin have been putting out specials Yeah, I'm ready to go again. Yeah Anyway

We have two shows for the special taping We have two shows for the special taping night available now. Get them before they're gone. Nate Land podcast network update. The Consumers with Greg Warren, Tim Convy and Sean O'Brien drops every Tuesday. Then Nate Land every Wednesday with Brian Bates and Dusty Slay. Occasionally Nate Bargatze, Aaron Weber. And don't make me come back there every Thursday with Melissa Nickerson and her husband Dustin. Yeah. All right. Check it out. I wonder where the Dump Dusty guy's at right now though. It's like you know if I had not been

around what would be happening this last couple weeks? You know what I mean? It's a good point. We'd have made it. Yeah. You would have made it. There have been a couple of solo Brian episodes. I would love that. That's what I want. Yeah. I want a solo Brian episode. You think you would thrive or would it be like Garth and... Yeah, I was going to say like Wayne's world. Wayne's world. I think Brian would finally get to talk about what he wants to talk about.

Yeah, exactly. What do you want to talk about? Kim Trails. You can do that with me. I just said that because we just saw some outside. Yeah. Yeah. It's been very clear for weeks.

What's going on today? Clouds are covered. Sky's covered. I don't know what it is, but I don't like it. That's all I'm saying. I don't like it. Beautiful blue sky, and then the airplanes start going over, and there's a checkerboard on the sky,

and it's just like, what is that? I like a good conspiracy theory. I can't go down the road with you on that one but I don't mind it. I find that a lot people go I like conspiracies and then I start naming some and they go well not those. Mine are, this is not what we're here to talk about, but the one that I will most sign off in there because it's been largely proven is sports being fixed. Oh yeah. And largely enlarged, even not entirely fixed from the top end, but largely influenced and bought off refs and players.

I mean, it's been proven. I mean, the world guy. Well, no, first off the white socks world series over a hundred years ago. Did that, does that mean it didn't happen? It means they're better at it now. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. over 100 years ago. Did that, does that mean it didn't happen? Means they're better at it now. Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. And-

The refs are taking it off. And an actual ref went to jail for it. Like, I know you're like, ah, just one guy. Well, tell that to all the players who played for the Kings that year, you know? And like the targeting rules, sometimes it's like, you go, oh, that wasn't really targeting, and then that guy gets ejected.

Yeah. And then the next time they like, take the guy's head off and they go, they don't even call it. And then the next time they like take the guy's head off and they go, they don't even call it. And I just think now with like so much money being in sports, like so much gambling, you're like, I mean, there's no way, right? Draft Kings.

I agree with you. I'm just bitter about a Super Bowl loss. It's ruined football for me. Really? Yeah, I like it, but I'm like, I'll be watching a game and I'm like, oh, this is really great. And then like one bad call changes the whole momentum of the game. And then I'm like, oh, this is- So you think Pete Carroll called a bad play because he was-

No, no, not that Super Bowl. I'm not mad about that one. The Seahawks lost to the Steelers in what was that? 07, something like that. Oh, no, I don't even remember what year it was. Oh yeah. Lot of bad calls in that game, something like that, 09. I don't even remember what year it was. Lot of bad calls in that game. Lot like three or four.

And I think our tight end might've been paid off to drop a pass on the one. I don't know about that one, but I like to think about it. I was drinking a lot in 06. I remember about that. That is funny that everyone says, you know, I like conspiracy theories. I don't believe them. I would never. Oh yeah. Well, that's I like conspiracy theories. I don't believe them.

Yeah. I would never. Oh yeah. Well, that's what I say too. I don't, I don't believe them. I just like to talk about them. They're fun to think about. I think I, I don't know if there's any, like I'm, I just feel like the easiest answer is

probably the correct one. Oh, wow. I was trying to think of like JFK assassination. Wouldn't it be a conspiracy theory? Because over half of America thinks it's not what they say it is. So wouldn't it, if you think it did happen that way, wouldn't that make you a conspiracy theorist? Man, I thought we were going to talk about the difference between the South and the West Coast this episode. We really are diving into it. Well, no, we're, we're just getting started. Yeah, we're just getting into it. I like it. Everyone loves to pen it on me, that I'm the conspiracy guy, but Brian loves it.

Secretly Brian loves it. I love bringing it up, you're right about that. Yeah, he loves it. I love to get Dusty going, that's for sure. He loves it. That is for sure. According to one of the X-Men movies, it was Magneto. So don't rule that out.

Magneto did what? He was- Cuban Miss did what? He was... Cuban Missile Crosses? He moved the bullet curved and that's what got... Oh, that's right. That's right. And then they killed JFK's brother. I feel like people often leave that one out.

Yeah. And JFK's brother's wife just died. And I had nothing to do with it because I didn't mention her. Oh yeah, we should name some people. Ethel Kennedy. She was 96. Yeah, she's old.

Well, I get accused for everybody else that's 112 when they die. So I would have mentioned her, by the way, if I had known she was still alive, because that does seem like such a bygone era. Kennedy, like Robert F. Kennedy's mom was still alive. That's pretty crazy. That is crazy. All right. Let's talk about where we were this weekend. Okay. I'll go first. F Kennedy's mom right was still alive that's pretty crazy that is crazy all right uh let's talk about where we were this weekend okay I'll go first all

right mine's probably the quickest dusty yeah Friday night I want you to get into it really elaborate all right I will Friday night I was at the beautiful Fisher Center performing arts center in at Belmont University here in Nashville with Jeff Allen, Steven Bargatze and Patricia Heaton. That looked like a fun show. It was a fun show.

I did not expect that last name to come out there. She and I did a little skit together. That was fun. That's awesome. Were you Raymond? Did you guys do it? Well, in my mind I was. That's what I was thinking while I was out there. She did a thing where she pretended like she thought she was introducing Nate Bargatze.

And then I have to go out there and whisper to her, it's actually Steven Bargatze. She's like, who's Steven Bargatze? But I brought up the point when we were discussing this backstage before the show. Some people are going to think Nate's really here and they're gonna get excited. And everybody was like, I don't care. She introduces Nate, she doesn't introduce me, she says, he's honored to welcome Nate Bargantzi and the crowd gasp.

One woman goes, what? And then I walk out and the faces just drop. Oh my gosh. I don't know why people think that's a good idea. It was still fun. Yeah. It was fun. I don't even want people if they intro me at Zany's to mention that I do the podcast

because I'm afraid. Like if you say one of the co-hosts of Nate Land. I go the opposite as you know. Yeah. I lean in. I have them introduce me as the star of the Nate Land podcast. I like to dig myself in a hole. I'm going to get there anyway. I lean in, I have them introduce me as the star of the Nate Land Park. I like to dig myself in a hole. I'm gonna get there anyway.

I might as well go ahead and start there. I was thinking that Stephen could get out of that hole though based on what he does. Oh yeah. Like I couldn't, oh man, a yawn, sneeze. Bro, you gotta get out of here, man. You gotta not look, you gotta just look at us, Dustin. You gotta just, you know.

I know, I did. You gotta just live in this world. He can't help us sneeze, Dustin. I know, it's just, you know. You're asking too much. A lot of king trails out there. Yeah. That, uh, Stephen being a magician

and what he doesn't mean so funny could get, I, if someone thought Nate was coming to the stage and I watched the stage, I would bomb. Because you just got to get into your life. I'm a dad, not the dad you hoped. Yeah. Yeah. But that was fun. Then last night I was in Huntsville, Alabama doing a show for Mayfair, Church of Christ.

Great time. They sent us some trash panda shirts. Yeah, thank you. You're wearing one there. Probably sweating through it. That was for Nate, but it's yours now. Yeah, thanks. I renamed my tour on the way home from Huntsville.

It was the easier to drive to tour. Now it's the Dustin Nickerson five years ago tour. Okay. Just a random club, a church. Yeah. String them together. Yeah. Yeah. And they had had Dustin before. I'm sure they had. I didn't ask but it's just kind of a given. Did the Braun Braun Center with Taylor Tomlinson then he ran over and did a church. You actually do have my old agent too so there is a good chance that it was exactly the gig that I did.

I hope it went well though. It was great, it was a lot of fun. A lot of fun. Where were you this weekend? I was in Austin. I did Cap City Comedy Club, which is really a great club. Yeah, it's new, huh? Yeah, because it was an old road room for a long time

and then Helium bought it out and they built it in, have you guys been, have you been to the Cap City? Not the new one. Yeah, it's at the Domain. It's like a- Oh wait, how new is it? I was there last year. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. Yeah, and this is the mall area. Yeah. It's great. It's a little outside of the town and I have like a lot of middle-aged parent fans and they like love a show at a mall. Oh yeah.

They like it. Yeah, get there early, do a little shopping. Yeah. Come see the show. Yeah, it's just, there's good parking, you know, that matters to like adults and like, ah, do we do mothership downtown? Ah, who wants to go downtown?

Right. Such a hassle. Right. So yeah, that was really great. And I was also there during Austin City Limits, which as far as selling tickets go was probably not a great idea, but I did catch a couple of shows and that was fun.

So yeah, I had a great time. Who'd you see? I saw, so I actually had a friend who was performing in it. And so a guy named Dustin Kensuru who was- A lot of Dustin's on there. A lot of Dustin's on there. He's the lead singer of a punk band named Thrice. And he did like a country Western album, solo one.

It's really good. And so he was performing. So I saw him and then right after that was a band named Medium Build, who's very good. And then I caught the tail end. And then I went and did my show, but it was like a six o'clock show, which I love a six o'clock show.

It was great. And then I caught the end of Red Clay Strayz, and then I saw Sturgell. So it was a full day. Nice. That's a big day. It was a great day. And I don't tend to love a music festival,

but I did like this one. People are saying Sturgell's the best. Sturgell's great. I mean, I like his music, but they're like really saying his live shows are really. It really, it's very like jam band. Are you talking about Sturgill Simpson? Yeah. Yeah. Does he just go by Sturgill?

Well, him and I, I text him as Sturgill. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's Sturgi. Sturgi did too. Stu. Wow. I don't know, is there another Sturgill? Yeah, I don't know any other Sturgills. Okay. Well, I mean, there's no. I mean, in the context of music,

I was talking about a music festival in Austin, I feel like Sturgill was self-explanatory. Even if I just said I was listening to Sturgill today, I don't think you would think of any podcast or comedians. Yeah. I guess you're right. So I saw Sturgill Simpson, that's what you prefer. I was listening to Elton on the way home. Elton I guess you're right. So I saw Sturgill Simpson. Yeah. That's what you prefer.

I was listening to Elton on the way home. Elton, see that works. And I know who you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you wouldn't say Elton, would you? No, you wouldn't. I don't know. I don't know.

I would know who you were talking about, but you wouldn't. Who would be another Elton? I would know it was Elton John, but I don't know that you would. I'm into it though. I think fans of Sturgill Simpson refer to him as Sturgill. That wasn't meant for me to be like a name-droppy thing

because I did not. I can't even remember Elton's last name now. I've already forgotten. I think his real name is Reginald, right? I don't know. Yeah, I'm pretty sure about that one actually. Sturgill Simpson was great live. It's very like Skinner, Allman Brothers,

like here's the song and here's a five minute solo in every song. Like I think he did like an hour, 10 set and I don't know that he played eight songs. They were long, jam-based. I'm into a jam now. I've not always been, but I am into jam now. Yeah, I respect it. Cause I like it cause I'm like, they're. I've not always been, but I am into jam now. Yeah, I respect it.

Cause I like it cause I'm like, they're doing what they wanna do. I still can't do fish, but Grateful Dead I've gotten into. I love it. You've been a dead head. You got into the dead a bit? Yeah, I'm into it now, yeah. Really?

Yeah. I don't know what happened to me, but I like it. That's a new page for somebody. I feel like the Grateful Dead's a little country. Yeah. A little folky, a little country, and then a jam. Yeah, I can see that. Such a unique place in the entertainment world.

Yeah. Just to be not like a radio band, but to have the best fans. Like, you know, name another band where you can tell by the fans who's in town. Yeah. Like you just, your city, like I did Boston last year, and you're like, oh, the Grateful Dead's in town. Kiss is another band like, your city, like I did Boston last year and you're like,

oh, the Grateful Dead's in town. Kiss is another band like that. Yeah, that's true. When they're in town, you know it. Also, I never really been that into the Allman Brothers. I like them, I don't dislike them, but I'm not crazy about them. Is that you being?

Dwayne Allman, Dwayne Allman and Eric Clapton had Derek and the Dominoes, great album. Yeah. Is that like, I feel like that's almost you being like a little contrarian. Like everyone would expect you to be into the Allman. Yeah, I think so. And I like some of their songs,

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that I should read it, get familiar with the ad, prepare beforehand if I wanna be a good ad reader. But I want you to know, straight off the cuff. And then you did delete that comment, delete me? Well, I've stopped commenting so that Brian can use more comments. I have that comment. I was gonna have it in today, but I think they also referenced Aaron.

Oh, yeah. So I'll wait till Aaron's back. Every once in a while in my Twitter feed, I'll see this where I keep track of Dusty because Dusty and I, I think this is the third time I've ever seen you in person. Yeah, probably so. But I feel like I know you fairly well because of what's your specials and we are kind of connected through this

and we text here and there and stuff like that. And, but I'll just, I see the new algorithm on Twitter likes to show me what Dusty's doing. Yeah, yeah. I've been getting into it. He's doing a lot. He really gets in. Yeah.

Twitter's my new favorite thing, I think. I don't know, I've just gotten into it. Yeah? Yeah. What do you like about it? It's just interactive. It's more interactive. It's my favorite too.

It is the one that I open the most. I like to write jokes. I like to just post stuff. Not do specials, but you look for it. Sorry, it's terrible. Dry bar special come out last year. Yeah. Yeah, your Twitter's good. I like it. You bar special come out last year. Yeah. Yeah, your Twitter's good.

I like it. You actually are a very good Twitter. I would say, I also see yours a lot too. Like just jokes alone, very, very strong. Thank you. But I see what he's getting into. Yeah, Dustin said. I like to quote tweet people.

I think that's really fun. Yeah. I see Dustin getting worked up. Well, sometimes I tweet something and then I just go on about my day and then I open it up later and I go, what happened? People are freaking out.

No, I'll go into Dusty's comments sometimes when I'm bored. His tweets or see what like people are responding and you responding to them. Dusty has a good time on us. I don't know if you actually have a good time. No, I have a great time. I have a great time. I love commenting.

Yeah. You know, it took me a long time to get good at it. I used to get emotional with it, but now I'm a great time. Yeah. I have a great time. I love commenting. Yeah. It took me a long time to get good at it. I used to get emotional with it. But now I'm just having fun. I don't. Good. I just, you know, sometimes people get mad at me,

but I'm just, you know, I'm just having fun. Yeah. Where were you this weekend? I did two shows. I went to Fayetteville, Arkansas. Two cities. This is two cities that I've been going to for years and years and years and always done the club.

This is the first year I've been at a theater. Yeah. Normally I do the Grove, but now this time I was at the Walton Art Center downtown Fayetteville and it was great. Big crowd. I think both shows were basically sold out. Who are the Waltons? I don't know.

Some small family started a business. It's done Waltons? I don't know, some small family. They started a business. It's done pretty well, I think. Yeah, it was a great show. And then I did Springfield, Missouri, where I usually do the Blue Room. I did the Giloy's Theater. It was great. Really hot shows. Had a great time. Yakov Smirnoff did a set on my show. How was that? He did really great. He's such a nice guy. Yeah.

So fun. That's great. Yeah. That's awesome. Should we get in the comments? Yeah, we should. Dusty, you gonna read? These are great though.

People were very nice. I love those cities and yeah, it's been awesome. Did you drive from Fayetteville to Springfield? No, oh yes, yes I did. How long of a drive is that? Two and a half hours. Oh, that's not a lot of fun. Did you drive from Fayetteville to Springfield? No, oh yes, yes I did. How long of a drive is that? Two and a half hours. Oh, that's not bad at all. Yeah.

That's great. Yeah, great little drive. Yeah. Do you want to read the comments, Dusty? Yeah, I can. I got two other ads, so I'll be reading a lot. Oh, you mean read the comments? Yeah, you read the comments.

All right. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and naitlan at natebargetzi.com. Richie Hildebrand. That's a good name. Loving the NateLann universe that we are all creating together. Well, I don't know about that. I don't know what Richie's done.

I disagree, Richie. I'm on your side. I've also not- These guys think they're better than their fans. I've also not done a lot either with it, but- Caught up on the consumers and now catching up on Don't Make Me Come Back There. Also catching up on the unsupported Dusty Slaycast and loving that too.

Keep it coming folks. All right, I take it all back. Very good. Richie's the best. Yeah, yours just has some language and profanity. Yeah, not too bad though. I'm joking. Yeah.

We're gonna have, you know, you're gonna be a little different, you podcast, you know? Yeah, I like a little, you know, I like a little something in there. Yeah. You guys- As far as a woman, that's different. Yeah, that is different.

My wife used to do mine too. Yeah, yeah. She quit it, but she used to do it. She used to do it. Well, I was about to say Hannah was just taking a break from it, but bottom line is you guys both host podcasts

with your wife and that's gotta be fun, but also stressful. I actually love it. I don't find it stressful at all. And that's not to be mean or contrary to that. I like being creative with her. It's very fun. I also like when you're stand up or a podcast like this,

when there's a comic side of you, and then when you're just talking to your partner, your spouse, like it's like there's a total different, like what I think's funny, how she makes me laugh. And like the whole goal of the podcast is for me to make her laugh. I'm just spending an hour trying to get her to laugh. And so I actually really like that and it's fun.

Like I had someone tell me this like years ago, Tim Hawkins actually who you guys probably know what this people know on this podcast. He told me he's like, you know, as you get like bigger in your career, sometimes you're gonna have this temptation to like get your spouse less involved and be like, hey, you don't have to do as much as you used to.

And he's like, do the opposite, get them more involved. So it remains like us, it's an us thing. And that's been big for Melanie, because it's like, it's, I mean, she decorated our studio, she does all the scheduling with her and Andy, our producer, and you know, it's fun. It's fun to be creative together. So I thought that at first, that it would be that way.

And it does it sometimes, just as far as like, the details go. But no, for the most part I really like it. I think maybe my wife heard Tim Hawkins say that and she's like, you know what? That's a good idea. I want to be less. Well, I mean that the genuine answer is probably whatever they want. Some people want to be more involved and less involved. No, I have fun too. I what you're saying, I agree with all that. I have, I have fun too. What you're saying, I agree with all of that. I do say that we've had a few episodes. We're about halfway through.

We start to argue a little bit and we go, you know what, let's try this later. Let's just scrap it for now. We'll come back. You start all over? What's that? You start all over or do you not? Oh yeah, we start all over.

Yeah, we've had a couple episodes where we had to delay start time. We're like, hey, we are driving to the studio and we are just full fighting. Let's take a walk around the little village that we record in here, the downtown La Mesa village. Let's go breathe a little and see if we, you know, Andy, just be chill for a while,

cause we gotta... Well, that's what I was getting at, guys. Yeah, but it's pretty rare. Yeah. know, Andy, just be chill for a while. Cause we got to ask this out. That's what I was getting at guys. Yeah. But it's, it's pretty rare. Yeah. Yeah. I'd say mine's less rare, but now we have a, now we have a fun time. I listened to both of them on the way home last night. Yeah. A car ride home and Dustin's is, I think Nate even pointed this out when you were on here,

rapid fire, fast talking, right off the bat, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. It's California. It's West Coast. Yeah. Fast talkers. Then I listened to Dusty. All right.

I mean, it's like... Just be alone in a room. This hard pace is very... This pace is very challenging for me. What we're doing right here. This slow pace. This slower pace. I could slow it down. This is the fastest we've ever done. I know and I'm like sweating because I'm like we gotta get going guys.

Isn't everyone gonna get bored? I thought we were going too fast. No, I am. This is there's been a couple times. I'm like well, yeah, he's bored clearly. You've already pointed that out. I know he's on his phone now. We need to pick up the pace. Pick up the pace. It'll look like he's gonna be painting. It's a creative podcast. Yeah, we do a little slower around here. And it just takes a little getting used to, that's all. It's a different rhythm to settle into.

Yeah, just take it easy, you know. It's okay. David John. I've been a fan of Dustin's long before I discovered Nate. Yeah. Dustin was- Take that Nate. Dustin was a frequent guest on Tim Hawkins old podcast Potty Break and spoke very highly of Nate early on. I'm so glad Dustin and Mel are now part of the Nate Land podcast network.

All right. That's nice. Shout out from Elton's cousin. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm still thinking about that. Elton John is a household name. Cher. I mean, he goes by both names, but Cher, Madonna, whatever.

Sturgill is not. I just, I don't think we choose, you know, how people choose to identify their artists. It's, people say Sturgill, man. When I say Sturgill, I mean, name me all the Sturgills you know. I've never people say Sturgill, man. When I say Sturgill, I mean, name me all the Sturgills you know. I've never met another Sturgill, have you? That's the only one I know.

I haven't either. Yeah. But I don't think that's the point. A lot of Simpsons. Yeah, a lot of Simpsons. Yeah. Brian, OJ. The Simpsons.

Yeah, so many. The greats. I love that Brian was the first one you named. Brian was the first one. Brian's great. I started with Brian. We were open micers together. So he was, you know, he's one of the great Simpsons.

Yeah. I, yeah. What about Kyle Sprinkle? That's an unbelievable name. Did I say that right? What do you think the first name is? I don't know. I said Kyle.

Kyle Sprinkle. Kyle Sprinkle. I'm thinking Kai. Kai Cowie, cowie sprinkle. Cow sprinkle. I'm thinking Kai. Kai? Kai? Kai sprinkle. All right. Guy sprinkle sounds like a, like a,

like a mid card wrestler. You know what I mean? Like guy sprinkle. Yeah. Yeah. Kai sprinkle. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Or Kai sprinkle. Any guy in wrestling is like, yeah, that's.card. Yeah. He's not, he's never there. He's not, they're never putting him over. Never going to get it over. They were like, we just wanted to call you the guy. Yeah. Yeah. Your number 22 in the Royal rumble. Yes. Before when they do a documentary on some great wrestler, he got to start, you know, mid mid-south wrestling. Yes. It's Kai Sprinkle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jim Cornett has a great guy Sprinkle story. Yeah. Guy Sprinkle. I gave a speech in front of my church and started by saying, all right, just like Dusty. Thanks Dusty for helping me with the intro. It's a good way to start anything off. Yeah. Just go, all right, what's up guys?

I have a, can I tell a funny church speech story? We'll determine if it's funny. Okay, well, it's, I didn't, did I say funny or did I say good? I think you said funny. Oh, well, I don't know if it's funny, but it's, I don't even know if it's good. I certainly don't know if it's the most good,

but we'll see. When I was in eighth grade, we were at Sunday Youth Service. So, you know, I had youth group during the week and then you had Sunday, there was like, we called it like there was like big church where all the adults went and then there was like the youth service and I was like leading a Bible. I was going to go up and lead the little devotional. Eighth grade. Eighth grade.

So, in front of all middle schoolers And I was supposed to like take a verse and get my thoughts on it. And the opening statement I'd written down was, I was supposed to say, when I first started, and what I said instead is I merged those words, and the opening thing I said was when I farted. All right. And I never got a group of eighth graders back. I was about to say. You never, you start with when I farted. All right. And I never got a group of eighth graders back. I was never you start with when I farted and then and

then I tried to go serious. I was like guys, no, you got to roll with it. Yeah. No, guys. This is serious. I just made it. They probably still remember that they probably do. Like he's like a comedian. Yeah. Yeah. The when I farted guy. Yeah. Did he do that on purpose? Was that some Andy Kaufman thing? I may do that now.

When I farted. When all guys. I'm serious. You were going too fast. I was going too fast. You're right. Yeah, I went down a little bit. You know, we all learned something today.

Yeah. Connie Turbrock. Dusty seems to be getting bored of doing this podcast. And he is very mean to Brian. Thank you, Connie. Finally, someone said it. That is from Connie Bates. Connie Bates.

That's your burner account. I love Brian. Brian's one of my favorite people in the world. Um, and yeah, I'm having a great time. I just, you know what? I do a lot of podcasts. I do two podcasts a week myself. I don't, you know, and then people that listen

to this podcast always say, I say T at the end of every D word, and then they say I interrupt all the time. So, you know, I'm just trying to be chill. Just trying to be chill. Maybe if you talked a little faster, they wouldn't think you were bored. Maybe, maybe we needed to meet in the middle. Yeah, I'm trying to listen to what people are saying.

Yeah. And, you know, but Connie, Connie thinks I'm mean to you. Well, well, I mean, that's. I'm like the nicest person to you on this podcast. Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean, that's kind of the heartbeat of the Nate Land podcast is Bolin Bates. I'm the only one nicer Brian on this podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is actually true. Now, Dusty's always been

great to me. He had me on the Hot Chicken. Yeah, he does. He has me on his show. Yeah, come on, Connie. He's taking me on the road with him. It's great. I'll start being mean to you, Connie. You think that's an I or L? L3? I3? I think it's... Does it really matter? I think they're trying to say Bender. I3 and that's a, yeah, that's the username.

That's not a real name. That is a username. I3... That's a Roblox name. Ender 15. Does Brian know that the F in NFL football... Oh, I just did it right there. That's so funny. Does Brian know that the F in NFL football, oh, I just did it right there. That's so funny. Does Brian know that the F in NFL stands for football and that he doesn't always need to say NFL football? That's very funny that you did that. Yeah, I can't deny it now, can I? I support it now. That is very funny. I, it's like when

people... That's like you're Sturgill Simpson. Yeah. You got, you're like, no, I want to say the whole thing. People often will say around here, SEC conference. So they're basically saying the Southeastern Conference Conference. Yeah. Oh yeah, that is a bit redundant, isn't it? So I'm saying National Football League football. Yeah. But it is clarifying because if you say football, I mean, I guess you could just say the NFL.

Maybe you could be talking about the NFL Network That's a dress that you want you want people to know for sure. I'm talking about the actual football Give me an example of how you use NFL football Like I was watching NFL football on Sunday or how does it flow? Um, I I don't know I'd often do a DraftKings ad read. We don't have one today, but I probably say it on there and I'd say Dusty, are you a college football fan or NFL football fan? Or I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to get L3, Ender 15 to, although since I did it in the ad read,

it kind of proves the point that I do. So anyway, uh, Oscar, share it, share it. I think anyway, Oscar, share it? Share it? I think I'm going to share it. Share it. Let's share it. Yeah, you need to share it. My family recently got a new robot vacuum cleaner. We were trying to decide what to name it and I suggested Dusty Slayer in honor of Dusty Slay. Now every time we want something vacuumed we'll say start Dusty.

Well I don't support you getting a robot vacuum cleaner. I knew that was going to be your thing. I knew it before you said it. Well, he said, geez, while I was reading. It's not a giveaway. No, I didn't even hear that. But if you do get one, you might as well name it Dusty Slayer, because you are slaying the dust. Now, did you see where Elon Musk this week, I guess he unveiled some robots that he's putting out? Did you see this? The cars? Well more than the cars. Oh, our guy's eating now. I support you by the way. I didn't say I was against it. It's different every're too slow. That's all part of the show. Yeah, that's all part of the show. It's a new activity every time I look over.

Where did you get pottery from? We're doing the show while you're getting the show. Yeah, exactly, crazy. Yeah, I mean, this is pretty sketchy here, especially that he made them look like the Star Wars. I-Robot. No, I-Robot. Oh, okay. Yeah.

I don't know. That's Elon's on the right there, but. But it's the color of the storm troopers. Well, that's true. I could have, I immediately guessed where you were at with, you know, robot vacuums, but I would not know where you stand with Elon. I bet it's complicated.

Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, he wants to put Neuralink in all our brains and, uh, and, uh, you know, and connect us to the internet. And he, you know, uh, and he makes some really unattractive trucks. I'm okay with them. I'm sure they're powerful and everything, but it just doesn't look like a truck. No, it doesn't. It looks like it looks like a transformer in between transformation.

But Twitter or X is my favorite social media. I like it. It's loose there. I like it. You think X is ever gonna catch on? Not for a man. No, no. I think Twitter is Sturgill

and that's what it's gonna be called forever. You just can't change it. I like freedom of speech and I like that it's loose. I'm into it. Yeah. You know, I'm a big fan of it. But I don't think anyone will ever call it X. No.

Well, the fact you could still type in Twitter into the bar, it would still come up. Even he's like, yeah. I also like, regardless of anything, anybody's stance on Elon, I like the idea that a billionaire is like a little upset that we all call it Twitter still. Like there's a part of me that that kind of satisfies me. Yeah. Yeah.

I like the bird too, you know, the old icon. The bird was great. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Follow me at Dustin Nickerson. On Twitter. On Twitter, yeah. Yeah. Follow me at Dustin Nickerson. On Twitter, yeah. Yeah. Wade Allen.

I went to high school with Wade Allen, I think. What books are in the stack behind breakfast? Looks like a Seinfeld and John Chris book, but I cannot tell what the others are. The two goats. It looks like we got a Dustin Nickerson book back here. Oh yeah, How to Be Married to Melissa. Do I need to?

That's my wife. Move. You know what? I have that book. Is this anything by Jerry Seinfeld? And I got to say, no, it's not. That was a Seinfeld joke. Yeah.

I mean, no, it is not. It is not anything. It looks like we got Angela Johnson. I wish you'd have done it in Seinfeld. Yeah. I got this book. I'll tell you, it is not. I mean, it's like, yeah, I mean, it's like a book of premises

that if, you know, that if you read the book, you're like, well, I never can do any of these joke ideas. That's my how to be married. That's your copy of it. I will tell you, if any of you guys are. That's my how to be married. That's your copy of it? I will tell you if any of you guys are thinking about writing a book, and I know Nate's got one coming out, Leanne just had one.

I know comments on your posts feel a certain way. Reviews on your book hurt. Because it took so long, two years to write that. And mine is like a memoir. So bad reviews on your life hurt. Yeah. Like something like, yeah, good writing, but terrible story.

Like there was exactly, there was like, Boring. Yeah, like two star life. Someone reviewed. Oh no. Like there was one of the comments was like, this talks too much about their religion and faith. I was like, it's a memoir about our life and our story.

They're like, that's all they had to do. Ah, one star over that. So anyways. You're like, at least you didn't have to live it. Exactly, yeah. That was pretty funny. Better than the Seinfeld's apparently. Yeah. I mean, that book is that's weak. Our marriage is something.

My friend gave that book to me, but yeah. And so I don't think he read it. He didn't read it. I think I got that book for Christmas and I flipped through it. And yeah, I agree with you. Yeah. I love Seinfeld, but it, it wasn't a lot. Yeah. Recently, I saw a survey that asked men

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Yeah. You guys heard that? I have. Chicago is really called the Windy City. You guys heard that? No. I have. It's not that it's so windy. It's a shot at politicians for like being full of hot air.

Or whatever. A lot of hot air. A lot of hot air. Makes you like him more now. I do, yeah. Yeah. Whoa. Careful.

Heather Hellexon. The pressure of being a good parent is complicated by money. How do you know if your child has a gift or talent and how far do you extend yourself and finances? If I had to do it differently I would not have exerted myself and finances so extremely. Boredom and frustration are essential for creativity and confidence. Our society has created a false belief system that a parent should do everything possible for their children.

That sounds like an ad read. What you were setting up there, that was crazy. I gotta agree with Heather though. Yeah, I thought that was gonna pitch a product at the end of that. I know, now I think she is basing this off when you were here last time, Dustin. Yeah.

You were talking about how you have to buy your kids, all this athletic stuff is very expensive before they even know if they make the team. Yeah, yeah. Well, you agree with Heather, what are you going to say there? Yeah, I mean, when I grew up, I didn't have, you know, I was pretty bored. I mean, I had a lot, you know, I had things. Yeah.

I was spoiled in a lot of ways, but also I got bored a lot. There was not a lot. I would go to my grandmother's house. My grandmother had nothing. Yeah. There was no air conditioner. It was just hot. And I would draw pictures all grandmother's house. My grandmother had nothing. And there was no air conditioner. It was just hot. And I would draw pictures all the time.

And I ended up being very creative because I just had nothing to do. I think it's great what Heather's saying. I think it is true to an extent. I do think as your kids get older, you will see the extreme value in them having things to do because like the old idle hands makes the devil's work thing, like that is especially true of teenagers.

Like you do not want your teen to come home at two with nothing to do. Yeah, let's get them into some activities. Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. All these travel leagues now, I see, like I see them at hotels where I'm staying at doing comedy. Yeah. They're like there and all the parents are drunk out on the patio.

And I'm like, you guys are, they're like, we're broke because we're taking our kids to do travel baseball every week. And it's like, they just seem exhausted. It is, yeah. The travel sports are a totally different animal. I mean, we have not, we've kind of done like hybrid ones. Like there's like kind of, there's always rec leagues. There's always smaller versions of it. And then when you get into high school, you know, the high school like is kind of the,

they're not necessarily the highest level, but the high school, it's all built into the school, which is great. Cause then they, like the school happened, the sport happens right after school, which is fantastic. But yeah, I mean, overall, I certainly agree with the sentiment from Heather. It's like, it is a huge financial investment sometimes.

I tell about how my, I say the last time I heard, my dad just told me to quit, cause I wasn't good enough. I don't know. Yeah, I was like my sophomore year, I got hurt, and I was supposed to play like American Legion ball, which is like a travel baseball team, it's very high level of baseball. And I got hurt my sophomore year I got hurt and I was supposed to play like American Legion ball which is like a travel baseball team. It was very high level baseball.

Yeah. And I got hurt my sophomore year and my coach was like, hey man, like you can still be on the team but you're not going to play very much. Yeah. And I took that as like a motivational scene. I was like, oh, you know, I'm going to be like Rocky. I'm going to train. I'm going to show him. And then I told my dad, he was like, I mean, this league is pretty expensive, Dustin. I don't know if I want to pay for you to ride the bench. Yeah. And then I went and got a job at the movie theater. You know what I like?

When you first said that about your dad, I was like, I didn't like it. Yeah. But then when you said, you know, this is pretty expensive. Yeah, I actually I like it then. Well, you know, he's he wasn't like, you're not good enough. Yeah. It's like, I don't want to pay for you to ride the bench here. You're hurt. Yeah. In hindsight, it was a very, because now I look back and I was like, I was raised

by a single dad who was working overtime at the airport in the, in the union. You know, he's just throwing bags onto planes. He did that for 35 years and he's like, ha, I don't know, man. Is this, is this what's best? And then you got a job, you started making some money, probably started seeing a lot of movies. Yeah, yeah, free movies. Started bringing home free popcorn.

Expanding your artistic mind. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so in hindsight, as a dad, like in the moment I was pretty disappointed, but now as a dad, I'm like, I get it. I totally get it. So I feel for you, Heather, but also get your kids in activities.

Don't- Some activities, but don't run yourself ragged out here. I mean, I do see what she's saying. It's your Wayne, your child's, they could be the next LeBron, but they also could bankrupt us and we gotta decide. Yeah. And well, you'll notice too when they,

cause our kids are much older than your guys. It's like you'll notice too when they, because our kids are much older than your guys, it's like, it is like when they are in those activities, it's crazy. I can't see a Hellixson be in the next LeBron. I don't know what the last name is. What sport? Yeah. What sport do you see Hellixson thriving in? Tennis maybe. Yeah. Hellixson's a strong tennis thing. Yeah. Tennis maybe. Yeah, Hellexon's a strong tennis thing. Yeah, yeah. So you never know, maybe the next Pete Sampras, I don't know.

Yeah. Melissa Diaz, excuse me. That's he don't be mean. Connie will come after you. I know, I know. Connie Bates. Melissa Diaz, years ago after moving to a I know, I know. Connie. Connie Bates. Melissa Diaz. Years ago, after moving to a new house,

I introduced myself to my neighbor. The next time I saw her, she called me Michelle. The first time it happened, I politely corrected her, but she seemed preoccupied at the time, and I don't think she heard me. As time passed, the thought of correcting her again just felt too awkward. So for the next four years, I was Michelle. I love that. I think we've all been there to some degree.

Yeah. Yeah. With a name like Dusty or Dustin, as you know, it's like, yeah, I mean, people never get it right. I'm Justin to a few people. Justin, yeah. Yeah. I had a guy call me Chris at a Lowe's that I used to, and I was like, I don't even care. I'm not in this Lowe's every day. Not even every week. I don't care that he's calling me Chris. Yeah. I started a new thing recently where when a barista or somebody asks me the name, I'll say Dusty.

Cause I do find it, it is a little, and I never go by Dusty, but it is a little easier to hear than Dustin. And I like to feel what it feels like to be a Dusty. That's interesting because when I say Dusty, they almost always write down Dustin. Really? It's like they're like, I don't know if he said Dusty,

but I don't wanna accidentally call him Dusty. Oh, interesting. That's what I always think. When did you make the shift? I've always been Dusty. Yeah. My name is technically Dustin. Right.

But my parents called me Dusty. They even said they named me after characters that are Dusty. Oh. Like there was a Dusty on a soap opera. My dad says Dusty Rhodes. Yeah. And it's like, why did you name me Dusty then? Did they think it wasn't allowed?

I think they got to the hospital and they're like, we don't really want to write it on the birth certificate. We'll just call him that. James Brown. Nice. When making train noises for your kid, what is the right amount of chugga chuggas before you choo choo?

I think two. Yeah. Chugga chugga choo choo. Four. Chugga chugga choo choo. Four, right? chugga chugga chugga chugga. Four, right? Chugga chugga chugga chugga choo choo. I think it depends on how-

That's a good question. I'm not doing any of this. I think it's how far away the spoon is from the kid's mouth. You gotta time it, right? Chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga. Yeah, you're right. Six beat is too many. You guys are more in this world than me.

I'm not saying any chugga chuggas. I don't even know if that's how I make the train sound. How'm not saying any chugga chuggas. I don't even know if that's how I make the train sound. How do you make the train sound? I don't know. Maybe I just go choo choo right away. All aboard! Yeah, you're doing all aboard, yeah.

Nothing you gotta do, it's not. You gotta throw a chugga chugga in there. I don't know. Oh my God, this coal's ruining our, I don't know how strong I think it's gonna be. I don't know that we've been doing any of that at my house. No, just speaking full adult sentences. My kids have been like ready to go with the spoons right away.

Yeah. Yeah. You ever pretend to be a train or hop on the train and get your hands in the air? Not yet, no. No? Okay. Sorry, James. Yeah, sorry about that. Some questions can never be answered.

Yeah. Adam Reinking? We think Reinking? Nice. Maybe Reinking? Maybe. Like I'll be holding the Reins, right? Or is there a G in there? It's Kenny Croson. Well, there is a G in rain. Yeah, okay. Dusty's comments about leaf blowers being annoying were super interesting. I recently heard a whole podcast about leaf blower wars in Los Angeles. They've been fighting and making laws about the noise they make since the seventies.

This year, California banned the sale of all gas leaf blowers. I just wanted him to know he's not alone. Yeah, I mean, it's unbelievable, a leaf blers. I just wanted him to know he's not alone. Yeah, I mean it's unbelievable a leaf blower. It's like you're just trying to have... I'll be sitting in my house and I'm like how long... I'll go, how long are they gonna be cutting grass? And then I look out and it's just my neighbor leaf blowing. Like what are you even blowing out there? Some guy was doing it at a campsite. Yeah, somebody tweeted at me that he uses a leaf blower. He was camping and he used this leaf blower.

And I'm like, like, why even taking a leaf blower while camping? Just to put it onto somebody else's site? One guy said, it's super helpful at starting a fire. And I'm like, you guys gotta be better at starting fires. Fire, huh? Yeah, as someone who lives in California, I can tell you that they did not ban gas leaf blowers because of the noise.

Well, that, yeah, I mean, that sounds right. The key number is, the key word there is gas. Is gas, I don't think California cares about noise. They're about to ban gas cars, so. Yeah, it's gonna be. Well, that's a perfect segue into today's topic. Helped you out there, yeah. Yeah, no, I helped myself by putting that last. Uh, Dustin, I knew what

I was doing. Okay. All right. I'm sorry. Brian gets it. Brian, you know what? I, we don't need you here, Dustin. You're right. You don't, you don't. Solo podcasts. Brian Bates. BB1. Yeah. I run a tight ship. Yeah. Don't forget it. Uh, but no, we're talking about today, you grew up West Coast, Seattle, lived your adult life in Southern California. Lived my first 27 years in the Seattle region. I grew up in a city named Federal Way, Washington.

And it's like 30, 40 minutes south. It's actually closer to Tacoma, which you guys have, you've been to, I know, cause you had Tacoma Comedy Club. Yeah, Tacoma Comedy Club. Yeah, it's right there. It's actually closer to Tacoma, which you guys have, you've been to, I know, cause you had Tacoma Comedy Club. Yeah, Tacoma Comedy Club. Yeah, it's right there. It neighbors it. And so South Puget Sound area is what it's called.

And then, but then when Mel and I got married, she went to Seattle Pacific University and I went to the University of Washington. And so we lived in Seattle proper and we lived on Nickerson Street right there in the Queen Anne area. You lived on your own last time? Yeah, our first house was 339 West Nickerson street.

We have an annoyingly romantic, lovely story that people get who like our single get frustrated by. I have to hide details of our story. Seems like married people would be frustrated by. Maybe, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I can see that too. But like there are, there are details sometimes of our story that I'll leave out because it's not that it's been perfect, but it is, it is, uh, there are,

there's a lot of like, Oh really? Like sometimes people don't like it. Yeah. But anyway, so yeah, we grew up in the Seattle area and then 12, 13 years ago, we moved to San Diego. So we've, and then most of my family is from Oregon and a little Alaska. So we've got a lot of that West Coast down.

That it covered. Yeah, my sister was born in Alaska, which is awesome. I wish I, that's so cool to say you were born in Alaska. That's like, wow. I think more than any other state, if you said you were born in Alaska, people got follow-up questions. You don't hear that one very often, right? Probably. Maybe Hawaii, but yeah.

Yeah, those are probably the two. Yeah. So anyways, yes, very West Coast. Only lived on the West Coast for 40 years. I've lived here all my life. Dusty, you grew up in Alabama. I grew up in Alabama. I lived in Charleston, South Carolina for 10 years and now Nashville for 10 years. So all the south So we thought it'd be what should we call this cultural differences cultural wars? Yeah Say wars. Yeah gang wars. Would you say coast? Cultural dust up there you go between Dustin

Dust yeah, yeah East Coast West Coast That's not right because you guys are south. It's of dust. Yeah, East Coast, West Coast. That's not right, because you guys are South. I did live on the East Coast for a long time. That's true. Ten years, Charleston, South Carolina. Yeah. Yeah, great.

Well, we'll figure the title out later, but. Like the weird spit ball in them. Brian's like, I didn't like any of those. We'll figure this one. Those were all terrible guys. Yeah. No. We'll call it from sea to shining sea.

Oh, that's good. Yeah. No, that's something I'm just spit balling here. If what's- The first one Brian liked. I like that that would be the full, like the podcast would say from sea to shining sea. Yeah.

And it would just be confusing. Yeah. I like it. Yeah. Adrian, what'd be confusing. I think. Yeah. I like it. Adrian, what'd you suggest we call it? We'll trade you something if you trade us something. Basically saying- The Louisiana Purchase?

What's something in the South that you wish you had and what's something in the West coast that we wish we had? Oh. I'll go first. I mean, the ocean and I guess that's two, ocean and the mountains. Yeah. Pretty nice to be.

We have beautiful mountains here in the south though. Okay. The ocean. And we have the ocean. You guys hash this out because I'm not. Yeah. I live in Nashville. Okay. All right. So Nashville. Yeah.

Okay. Anything. The majority of this big southern cities are not on the water though. I live in Nashville. Okay, all right. So Nashville. Yeah. Okay. Anything I- The majority of this big Southern cities are not on the water though, right? Nashville, Atlanta, like you're not, I mean- All right, I'll give you that. I'll give you guys that. You have coastal cities that people go to,

like a Wilmington or something like that. You're like, these are our coastal cities. But I- Merle Beach, Charleston- But your population is not- Panama City Beach. But your population is not, but your main population is not based in beach cities. Where in California they are, like San Francisco. Okay. Those aren't at the South though.

Yeah, do you, are we throwing- Miami? I loved Miami, I gotta tell you. But that's not what I asked. I mean it is. Cause you're at the South. But it's in the South though. It's the most Southern geographically,

but nobody thinks that Miami as the south. I think what you maybe, what you're saying is when you think of the south, you don't necessarily think of the coastal cities, like stereotypically, you think of more your like your Alabama's. I think about the SEC. The SEC. How many of the SEC schools are on the water? Um, uh, probably not a lot. I don't know. I think some close batteries. This is what I'd lot, I don't know. Some close batteries. This is what I'd like.

I'd like the... I like a defensiveness towards Brian out of the gate. I like this. I like the farming. That's what I, I mean, it's like, you can grow everything in California. We got farming here in the South. But they can grow.

We don't have farming, Charleston. But they can grow everything in California. What can we not grow? Almonds. How are your avocados out here? Almond brothers, They're from the south Just because you don't like them dusty Avocados, I don't think you guys have great avocados out here. Yeah avocado. Uh, yeah, I mean I was gonna say citrus lax

We have great oranges great lemons grit lime Florida. Florida has a lot. Oh, yeah, Florida I think we're gonna find is a wild card. Yeah, I think what we're gonna find is? Florida has a lot of... Oh yeah, Florida, of course. I think what we're gonna find... Florida's a wild card. I think what we're gonna find is there's actually a lot of similarities. Yeah. It's a pretty great country that we live in. Well, what's interesting though is so far, at least what we've said so far is everything you've said

has been the South versus California, which is kind of an argument for California. Now we're not even talking about Oregon and Washington. You know, like... But doesn't Washington have the ocean and mountains? Washington's absolutely, but everything like, the weather, the beach, the farming, that it does exist in Oregon and Washington as well.

The mountains, all of it is also just in the state of California. Because it is a fairly remarkable state, at least just geographically and, you know, like the stuff that it has to offer. I'll say this, you know, I took my sister and my niece to LA last year, and they're from Alabama, never been to California. My sister said they loved it so much.

Yeah. My sister said, if you told me that I that that I would love LA this much, she said, I never would have believed it. She said, I never would have vacationed much. She said, I never would have believed it. She said, I never would have vacationed here. She said, but I love it. She found people there to be very nice. She lives in a small town in Alabama. She was like, they were nicer in LA than they are in my small town.

That surprises me. Yeah, me too. But I was like, in a way, I think the Southern hospitality is not what it used to be, or, you know, it's just like, I find, I really like California. I think it's very nice and I have a fun time there. Yeah.

Well, Dustin, what's something in the South that you wish? I know this is like, maybe this isn't exactly where you're going for, but the first thing that jumps to mind is cost of living. Yeah, no, that's. Yeah, I mean it is. Of course. It is a very, some of the most expensive cities in America

and are Portland and Seattle and San Francisco and San Diego and LA, they're just very, very expensive. So that is the immediate, and it was, it's the real draw to the, you know, I think when you see how much the state of California takes from your. No income tax here. No income tax.

In Tennessee at least. Yeah. Or Florida. I also, I do. I'm just agreeing with you. Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. I agree with you.

I do, as a sports fan, I do appreciate the pageantry of college football out here a lot. I happen to go to a university that's very, like is a good college football school, but also we get a guy who goes to the national championship and then immediately leaves us for Alabama. So that's not- And then he lost to Vanderbilt.

I am, who is a college football fan right now, my rooting interests, because Washington is a rebuild. I'm just rooting against him and Oregon. Well, it's working. Yeah, cause he almost lost the South Carolina too. I also, I think I, you know, I have a unique relationship with the West Coast because the, and I've talked about this before, of my dad and my

uncle who were my primary caretakers growing up, they're from rural Oregon and like a city named Coos Bay, Oregon, which was very, for lack of a better term, rednecky. Like it was like we, Like we, you know, we drove, my uncle drove, lifted Chevy trucks and we watched NASCAR on Sundays and we listened to country music. So there is a familiarity to the South that I feel comfortable in as well, you know. So that's amongst other things.

I found a lot of my friends live in the South. Like you guys and Aaron Weber and John, like a lot of, there is a compatibility that I have with people from the South. So. I love living in the South. I really do love it. But there's some food stuff.

Like I know that like the South is like, you know, really like everybody talks about the food in the South and it is good. But you go to California and you can really find like good, healthy food. And just, it's like everything, I don't know, I feel like it became like a stereotype to just everything be fried. And then it just became that.

Fried food is delicious, but I'm dying out here. It is hard not to go to the South and not gain like eight pounds in a week. Everything is fried. There's a lot more like dessert at every meal than I'm used to, like a lunch dessert. Like that took some getting used to. Yeah. And now that's interesting because I don't.

Where are you going? Because I mean, mostly on tour with Nate. OK, well, that's a little different. Most restaurants I go to here, though, ask you, let me ask you, do you want? There's a lot of pie around. OK, a lot of pie in the South. And a pudding. If you go to a barbecue place,

yeah, banana pudding's delicious. Yeah. Peach cobbler, apple pie. That's what I mean. A lot of people in LA don't even, in California, don't even eat till after lunch. That's their first meal, period. And it's certainly not coming with a banana pudding.

Yeah. We're eating biscuits and they're delicious. They're so good. They're delicious. But I'm just saying it is nice to, when I'm in California or something like that, to go to a place and there be all these healthy options that are also tasty. I also think that when you, again,

I don't, I'm not like arguing on behalf of California because I'm not from there. It's not me. I live there, but I'm not from there. Whatever you want to eat in California, it is available. Like you may not have as good of barbecue there, but you'll find pretty good barbecue there. Like these are just big cities with a lot of,

say when you're in New York or something, you're like, I'm gonna find something, whatever type of food that I want, I'm gonna find. Which I probably is true in Nashville too. Like if you wanted some good Thai Nashville's great and and and Charleston had Charleston such a great I love Charles I gained so much weight when I moved to yeah so much weight it was unbelievable yeah this kid this kid put on some weight yeah that guy yeah well you should have used a Helix mattress

oh yeah you should have seen the mattress I had when I lived in Chelsea. Oh man. But I'll tell you, I love my Helix mattress and everyone knows I love my Helix pillows. That is true. They're the best pillows. A few weeks ago, we joked about what we would grab in a fire and a fun item was my Helix pillow, although I would also get another one if it didn't make it. That is true.

That's how good they are.'s just sleep I know I just sleep so much better when I have my helix mattress and pillow at home than I do anywhere else I've had my mattress a couple of years now and it's going strong and I you know used to be I had bad mattress I had bad apartment, bad pillows, and I would go on the road and I would stay in these hotels and I would be like, oh yeah. And I would love a hotel. I just would love a hotel.

But now I have good mattresses, I have good Helix pillows and Helix mattress, and they're so comfortable. And I go on the road and I don't sleep good. I never get good sleep now. And I feel like all these hotel rooms have demons in them. And it's just a real nightmare out here. Yeah.

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And that is true. That is true. Helix keeps the demons out. They're great, that's right. They're great mattresses. The hotel I was just at did not have a Helix mattress and I did not sleep good. And I think demons were trying to get me in that.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What was going on? I don't know. I felt like every time I was about to doze to sleep, I felt like something was trying to pull me to the other side. It was very scary.

I had to wake up, turn on all the lights. Yeah. Yeah. If only you had your Helix. I know exactly. Exactly. Mattresses and exorcisms by Helix, it's a good product. Dustin, I heard you say on one of your episodes,

the Southern mind can't comprehend in and out. Oh, I agree with that, yeah, I agree with that. In and out burger? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think, okay, I would love to hear your guys' take on it and then I will speak to it. Well, I heard your take on why you feel that way and I agree with you.

I think people just like to, well, there's two things that happen. Anything anyone has and they're part of the country that someone else doesn't, they like to build it up. Sure, this is how people justify Whataburger. Exactly. Which is not a good burger. It's not, I'm anti-Waterburger.

Yeah, yeah. I've been very public about it. Yeah, yeah. I think I've seen you. But people who live, I've done it, you live in the place that has it, you never go there in your own hometown, but if you go on the road or move somewhere,

and they have it, you tell everybody, this is what's good. This is what you do. And on the opposite end, people like to push back. They they just don't like it because they don't want you to think you're better than they yeah yeah so they're like in and out burger the point you were making was we're not talking about fine dining exactly we're talking about fast food yeah and for fast food it is good yeah I enjoyed it yeah this is the mistake I made I I didn't realize, I just got the regular burger and the patty was so thin that I actually doubled it up and then cut it in half and just ate half a burger.

It was too thin. But I thought it was good. I liked the fries. I liked it. I don't eat fast food, but I liked it. Well, that's the mistake of In-N-Out and that people get it really hyped and they think that they're going to have the best burger they've ever had.

And that's not what In-N-Out. In-N-Out is the best fast food option you can have. It tastes very good. It's very fresh. Like very high quality ingredients for fast food. You eat it and you go, this, no, I believe this was a cow and these are the vegetables that I can recognize as their, you know, sometimes at fast food, you eat it and you go, no, I believe this was a cow. And these are the vegetables that I can recognize as,

you know, sometimes at fast food, you're like, I think it was a tomato. I don't know that in its current form, it is still classified as a tomato. But that still is a tomato there. And, you know, California, SoCal's like all about vibes. And it is a vibe, the whole- You also said Southerners don't get vibes.

They don't get, that's their thing. Out in SoCal is the vibes. You know, that's, you know, just vibes, baby. What does that mean? I don't think I get it. I don't, you know, I don't, I can't explain it. You gotta know what- I don't get the vibe you're putting down here.

Yeah, it's all about just the, no, those are bad vibes. It's about the energy. It's about the feel when you're in there. I think it just depends on the spot. I think I can agree with you in a lot of small towns that I think small, like, see, this is just my, I think it used to be like small towns, I really liked, right, you'd go to a small town, you'd go to a diner

and you're like, oh yeah, this is good like home cooking type stuff. But now it feels like the Cisco truck goes to every diner and they just drop off frozen food. And no matter where you're at, you're just eating frozen food. Yeah. And it's just deep fried and nobody cares. Yeah. No soul in it anymore. It just got there a day later than the other city. Right. Nobody cares anymore about anything. They don't even care about what they're eating.

They're just like, they just, I don't know. I just, it disappoints me so much all the time. This is an argument for In-N-Out. It's fresh. I like In-N-Out. I liked it, but I, you know, I'm not a fast food guy. I like Five Guys. Yeah.

But it's pretty expensive. I don five guys, but it's pretty expensive. I don't even know if it's fast food. It's pretty pricey. Now you said, again, I'm quoting your podcast, that In-N-Out is California's version of Buc-E's, but I might argue it's Chick-fil-A or Cracker Barrel. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, I think that Chick-fil-A is everywhere now.

Like everywhere. It went downhill too. Well, Chick-fil-A, I think the argument for Chick-fil-A is everywhere now. Like everywhere. It went downhill too. Well, Chick-fil-A, I think the argument for Chick-fil-A is the same argument for In-N-Out is that you can not like it, but it's expanding rapidly. So some people like it. It's a pretty popular. But I do think Buc-E's, the reason I said Buc-E's

is like when you explain Buc-E's to somebody, they go, I don't get it. Or if you go to In-N-Out for the first time, they go, I don't get it. Or if you go to In-N-Out for the first time, you go, I don't get it. It's just like a burger and the line was long. They're all wearing white. There's a Bible verse on the cup. I got mixed feelings about that, depending on who you are.

And- I support it. I support it too, you know? And that's church in California. We don't have as many churches out there, but if you count the In-N-Outs, but obviously, I mean, there's, you know, they're in Dallas, they're in Vegas, they're in Phoenix.

Is there, there's probably been an In-N-Out. They're coming East, baby. I would go there. They're coming to Nashville. I think that, yeah, that may, yeah, probably. And it'll be busy. I ate Water Burger, and I think it destroyed my insides. And I've never been the same.

I think we can all agree that Water Burger is just not good And I've never been the same. I think we can all agree that Whataburger's is not good. I've never been the same. And my wife recently had Whataburger. She's like, you know, Dusty's got a weird stomach anyway. And then it messed her up. Yeah. I got a weird stomach too. Is that just aging?

I think it's just that American food is killing us all. I thought it would be aging and that my stomach's just getting older, but you went a different route. Now I think your stomach just over the years is just exhausted from battling the poison that's in everything and your stomach can't handle it anymore. My wife... I thought it might be lactose intolerant. The milk is bad. My wife's Canadian. it might be lactose intolerant. My wife. Well, the milk is bad.

My wife's Canadian. It's not you. Canada doesn't allow a lot of the same bad things in the food that we allow. Right. And my wife for years has been, you know, feeling great. Yeah. But lately, she's like, I feel like it's starting to get me now. It's finally broken her down.

Yeah. Just like, I was just showing you the chips over there, the ingredients and chips. Why do we need all these oils in it? They don't even know what oil it is. They go vegetable oil. Could be soybean, could be palm, could be canola. We don't know what it is. We don't know where it came from.

Whoa. Well, they're coming to get you, don't they? You're getting a little too close. Drone strike. We don't know where it came from. Whoa. Well, they're coming to get you. You're getting a little too close. Drone strike. But I'm just saying, you know, there's an argument out right now about Kellogg's. Actually, a lot of celebrities have gotten involved too. There's a bad ingredient that's a poison in their Froot Loops that is not in the Canadian version loops that is not in the Canadian version.

It's not in the UK version, but it's in our, it's like you don't have to, you already know how to make the fruit loops without it. It's freedom oil. Yeah. That's what it is, but they won't put it in there. It's the cost of liberty. I don't like anything. I don't support, I almost don't like any restaurant now. But- Yeah, Tammy's. Tammy's, I feel like Tammy's in McMinnville is like one of the lie. And I don't know what they're doing. They could be, the buns are still bad, but they're- But I like it, the buns are bad.

But I feel like their meat's good. And I feel like, I don't know, you know, it's just a, I feel like they got good meat. Yeah. You know? You mentioned church. You know, it's just a, I feel like they got good meat. Yeah. You know? You mentioned church. You ever looked at ingredients on bones? Don't even do it to yourself if you're gonna eat a hamburger.

Yeah. Just go to the bread aisle and try to buy some bread. Go, this looks like healthy bread, and then pick it up and flip it over and look at the ingredients. Like, why do you need all that in there? And then when we were kids, they told us, this is literally the foundation of your health.

Yeah. The food pyramid. It starts with this bread. Yeah. Still tastes delicious though. Bread still tastes pretty good. Bread is, I mean. Bread is a dessert as an adult.

There's no question. I crave bread. All the food is delicious. Yeah. I mean, I love it all. Whatever they're doing, keep doing it. But, you know, try to take the poison out, is all I'm saying. If the poison makes it taste better, and I'm gonna die anyways, because here's the thing, we are living longer than we used to. This is the big

counter argument. I don't know. I feel like we're starting to, I mean, statistically, we're way up. Well, yeah, depends on, you know, what you believe. On stats? I mean, you can, we've always been- He's going to Old Testament. No, I know. Oh, we, yeah. But that's nothing to do, that's the floods fault. That was nothing to do with the food. There was a Bill Gates video out there.

Bill Gates owns a lot of farms now. And in the background, Bill Gates had his own stack of books like that. And one of the books was How to Lie with Statistics. Okay. So- We're gonna see how to be made to Melissa. Lie with Statistics. Okay, so. You're saying. I'm gonna see how to be made to Melissa. Right. It's like, whoa.

It seems that how to lie with statistics. I agree with you that information, cause whatever you want to be true is true, right? So that's the confirmation bias, right? I get that. And people will lie and stuff like that. But people are living longer. We can see that in our own lives.

Are we healthier though? Yeah, but if we're fair. But to my point, if I am living longer and even though I'm being poisoned, but the food tastes better, that's a real cost benefit analysis I gotta make here. Would you trade a shorter life? What if you could trade a shorter life

for feeling good the whole time? Like have you seen Jimmy Carter lately? I mean, he's still alive. That's an extra, don't say his name, Brian. Don't kill him. I mean, that guy's still alive. I think I would take the longer life with my gut hurting more

and more time with the people I love? I don't know. Your stomach's more important than your wife? I just think take. I don't understand your, I'm going to say his name Jimmy Carter. Oh no. Oh, not a precedent. We've talked about Jimmy Carter multiple times on here. Yeah.

But what are you saying? Have you just seen him lately? Yeah. He's a hundred. I know that's what I'm saying. He lived a long time, but he's not looking good. But he looked really good. But Dick Van Dyke looks great and he's very old too. And Jimmy Carter was doing great up until just a few.

He was still teaching Sunday Sue class in his mid 90s. Yeah. So, but to your point, he probably has lived a healthy lifestyle. Yeah. I'm guessing. He only got his food from Canada. He got it sent down.

I just think like, I've read that. Now I've not done it myself. I wanna do it. But people say they go to Europe, they go to Italy, they eat the same way they eat here, eat the same kinds of foods. All their stomach problems go away. They start to feel better.

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Yeah. If you've eaten today, it's seeping out of your pores. Is it in the coffee? That's all I've had today. You— Actually, they say—they say— It's a saccharide shirt. They say there's so much mold—I drink coffee all the time. Yeah.

So much mold and pesticides in coffee because it's just unbelievable. They, they, they, you want to try to get organic mold-free coffee. The one thing I'm very sure about that I drink that is very healthy and good and high quality is coffee. I love coffee. Yeah. I'm a big, big coffee guy.

Love coffee. Big coffee. You really only had coffee today? No, I also had some fruit. From 8th and Rose across the street. They got a big old fruit bowl thing. It's a good coffee spot. It is a good coffee spot.

I hate the idea that there's a Dunkin' Donuts coming over here and somehow Dunkin' Donuts is gonna affect their business. Yeah. I hate that. Yeah, it's unfortunate. America runs on Dunkin'. I've never gone to Duncan and wanted to run They have a good old-fashioned nap no what I yeah, yeah, America naps on Duncan

Yeah, yeah, I get that in me and I'm like, let's go sleep sleep. They do have a good old-fashioned donut Yeah, it's hard to mess the old-fashioned. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a Tim Hortons fan though. Yeah, Tim Hortons. Yeah, Canada Yeah, yeah, the little donut holes great. They got the 10 bits is what they call them. They have Sour cream glaze. Yeah, which sounds disgusting. Yeah, I think Tim Hortons is also coming here. I did I toured Canada with Chris two years ago and you remember he had his like little short a catchphrase, right? Yeah, he made a just a Canada shirt in the Tim Hortons font and it said like short a like has Canadians say Yeah, and it sold so poorly We all had a bunch of free that's handed them out to our kids after like this did not sell well

This was a miscalculation, but you know merch is hard He's doing just fine. Yeah John's doing alright. What was I talking about? Oh yeah church. So a little different out there. My wife grew up in California. Right. She's a Christian. She said church was definitely more laid back there. Yeah vibes. Vibes church. Some people got baptized in the ocean which sounds dangerous. I love that. No, baptizing the ocean is great. I mean, Jesus is baptized in a river. What's the difference? Well, you could be like getting ready to do it. Then a big wave comes in like, all right, I guess I'm baptized.

How often have you been to the beach? Not a lot because I'm in the south. When you go knee deep in the water, it's not, you're fine. You can wade out. There's a lot of little kids out there wakeboarding. Sharks? Yeah, not that close usually. You know, maybe. There is a formality to the South that I don't care for. Even looking at your guys' senior pictures. These ties and stuff. Mm-hmm. I don't, we didn't do that. It's not like, it's very formal. I feel't, we didn't do that. It's not like, uh, I don't know. It's very formal. Uh, I, I, I feel like

we're getting less formal and I don't like it. I do. I do enjoy format, especially in church. I like that you, like I never liked the whole, uh, non-denominational church thing where people are wearing, you know, shorts and jeans and it's like, yeah, let's like, let's have a little respect. You know what I mean? You don't have to wear a tuxedo, but let's have some respect.

You know what I mean? Yeah, I've just never bought into that. I don't think God cares. I don't know. Feels like he's happier there. Wouldn't God want you to be comfortable? I think God wants you to be the most comfortable in church. I don't think so.

Sweatpants church. Only pajamas church. I think that's what God would want. God doesn't care. Wait, God's like, oh, thank God. I think God wants you to put a little effort into it. I think so too. I don't think so. Pajamas.

You complain about pajamas at Walmart, but you're fine with church. God loves you just the way you are. He does, but he knows he's like, oh, you're going to dress up to go to the club, but not to visit me. I think he knows if you made it there, that was hard. If you got up on a Sunday morning and you made it to church period, I'm not saying unshowered sweatpants. Meet me in the middle, showered sweatpants, tennis shoes, no sandals. No? What about the athletic ones like uh... Viori? Viori. Viori sweat. Can you wear Viori to... I think Viori is nice. That's a nice...

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I get that. But I'll take it a step further. I want people to wear sweats to my funeral. Just be comfortable, man. I just don't even feel it. Maybe this is a primary difference of, this is a big difference between the south. People wear, like, football players wear suits to games

still, they still doing that? Yeah, I like that. Who's that for? You guys don't even win championships much anymore. And you- What level are you talking about? College. I mean, Alabama.

NFL? You're like 50-50 anymore. In the NFL What level are you talking about? College. I mean, Alabama. NFL? You're like 50-50 anymore. In the NFL, I'll wear suits? No. No. They don't? No, they all dress like cool now. They wear like expensive, they wear less sweats. They- some of them do, but-

I want you to dress up at my funeral and I want people to be sad and cry. I don't want it to be a celebration of life. I want you to be sad that I'm gone. Yeah. Do you want to, do you hope you can watch your funeral? Like from above? No, I just want people to be sad. I want them to fast. No food.

I don't want you to bring any food. You want to fast. I want everybody to fast. It's poison. I want people to be sad. Yeah. And yeah, and get it out. I think that's good.

You go to a funeral, you cry, you get out your sadness. And then never think of you again? They just want it one and done? I don't expect people to think about me for a long time. We all hope that people will, but they won't. And so it's like... I bet you don't want to be cremated. I don't want to be cremated. Absolutely not. But I don't know that I want you to be looking at me in the casket either though. Oh, I don't open casket. That's a, yeah, that's a poof. Yeah. Just bury me.

Yeah. Just put you under. And a cheap box. I don't even want a nice casket. What do you want to wear? Yeah. Bury me in Viore. Yeah.

You want to be into, you want a nice outfit out of respect for your death? If it's all linen. Clothes casket, go totally nude. No. Well, if it's your death, if it's all linen clothes, casket go totally nude. No, yeah. Don't recycle the clothes. Yeah. Give them to Viori.

Yeah. Yeah. Great. All right. Some of these phrases, if you have any Southern phrases you don't understand, please let us know. I have some here for West coast. Great.

Well, the obvious, we call it interstate, you gotta say freeway. Yeah. Yeah. And we don't even refer to it as a freeway very often. We'll just say the freeway, the five. And you put the in front of it. Well, that depends where you're at on the West Coast. And see, in Washington, you would say I-5. You would say the I-10, the I-8, I- i35, i90, that kind of stuff. In California, we shifted. We used to say pop in Seattle too. So California is its own animal with it.

And then we switched to getting used to take the five, the 15. But you would say interstate 40, which is just... Or i40, i65. I really like to say out the whole word. Yeah, that's so cumbersome. I like, a girl commented, I was asking somebody at work one time, I go, what's your telephone number?

And she was like, why do you say all that stuff? Just say what's your number? I was like, I don't know. I don't know why I said that. Do you like someone giving you directions? No, not, no, I don't. Yeah, that time has passed. You ever have someone still give you directions? Yeah, I do no, I don't. Yeah, that time has passed. Yeah, that time.

Do you ever have someone still give you directions? Yeah, I do. And it's like, come on. Like you're telling me and I'm not even listening. He start, they'll start with saying like go west and I'm like, I'm out already. Yeah. I don't know which way is west.

Yeah. I don't wanna look for any of these things. Yeah. I have a phone. I don't need to know where the sun is so I can see what my first turn is. I recently did a gig in the mountains and they were like, there's no phone signal out here. So I did take some directions. Yeah. When I was in Tacoma actually, you had to drive to Portland, my charging port stopped working on my phone. It was about to die and I had to look up an Apple store in right down directions.

Yeah, old school. And drive to the Apple store in Tacoma. Yeah, thankfully that's one freeway, the whole way. That Tacoma, it's high five, right? High five, yeah. That, pretty dry. Tacoma Mall is, I mean, I got there right when it opened Sunday at 11.

Yeah. Dead, as you might expect when it first opens. Yeah. I'm like, this place is dead, like most malls. I go to that Apple store, packed. It's 1103, it's already packed. That's true everywhere. The Tacoma Mall has an Apple store?

That's come a long way. When I was growing up, the Tacoma Mall had a gorilla. You can Google it. It's a real, there was a gorilla at the- Like a real gorilla? A real gorilla. Wow. This was in my life. It was like, it wasn't even that long ago. Yeah. Uh, yep. There we go. The true story of Tacoma's Shopee Mall Gorilla. Not as rosy as Disney version. Oh boy. I may have to read this

off air. Yeah. So what I'm saying is they've come a long way to go from. Tacoma is pretty wild. Tacoma is one of the more wild cities I've ever been to and I've been there a lot. My wife went to high school in Tacoma. She went to Stadium High School, which if you've seen the movie 10 Things I Hate About You, is that high school. It's very... Yeah. Nice. Congrats on that. Yeah. I like that movie. It was a good movie. Early Heath Ledger. I just watched it recently on a plane. Yeah. Probably never would have watched it, but I was on a plane. I was like, you know what? I'll watch it. Yeah. I liked that movie. It was a good movie. Early Heath Ledger. I just watched it recently on a plane.

Yeah. I probably never would have watched it, but I was on a plane. I was like, you know what? I'll watch it. Yeah. It's great. Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Yeah. Larry Miller, right? The comedian, the dad. It's great. It's very funny. And the girl, the... Julia Stiles. Yeah.

Yeah, it's great. Yeah. For that era of movie, it's very fun. Really good. Yeah. I miss those kind of movies. Okay, here's one I didn't know. Uh Sig alert. Sig. Oh, that sounds like a kid thing. Like is this like is this come from Sigma? I thought it was like about traffic. Oh, Sig alert. No, I don't know Sig alert. What about Grom? I don't know that one. I'm also forty. So, I

don't. Yeah. There might be some. Is your son sort of know that one. I'm also 40, so I don't, there might be some- Is your son, sir? Just speaking about the Interstate, you remember Make Em Say Um by Master P? Yeah, I could say, uh. He hit Interstate 10 rolling to Texas. Yeah, it's a good rap lyric. But then-

It's a good lyric in a song. Also, there's a song, Riding Dirty on 85. Yeah. They don't say it. Yeah, you know, Interstate Highway love song, right? The Stone Temple Pilots song. That's better, because it's not just like I-5 love song. That's not as good. Interstate is a good word.

I'll give you that. We would say interstate. We would say interstate 85. And if you were to do it comedically, you would say that. You're like, now we're broke down on the interstate. Yeah, it's a funny word. Yeah.

Yeah, I'll allow it. What about you've driven a lot in the South, you've driven in California, I would assume. Yeah. Yeah. Drivers here too slow for you? I don't like driving in LA at all, but other places I've drove around California. It's great.

Yeah, California, there is an aggression to the driving that again, that's not California versus West Coast because even when I go back to Seattle, I'm like, get moving. Because I've been like 15 over, it's kind of like an opening bid, like on the freeways in California. Like that's, if you're going the speed limit,

you're going, you're the slowest car there. Yeah, I'm an aggressive driver. And so I like driving in aggressive places. Yeah, I like driving in aggressive places. I think it's fun. I like Atlanta. I mean, I don't like traffic. That's the problem with LA.

So much traffic, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it's like, there's no, there's no real driving. You just, you get on the interstate in LA and you're like, you think, all right, I'm hitting the interstate. And then it's like, stand still traffic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen to Nate Land.

Yeah. For your 20 minute, 20 mile drive. Yeah. Whole episode. Now in the West coast, if there's a funeral possession coming, you guys pull over? Yeah, yeah. Pull over, put their sweats on.

Yeah. I have not seen a lot in my life. A lot of funeral possessions? Yeah. Maybe there's more people dying here, life. A lot of funeral processions. Yeah. Maybe there's more people dying here, but- Well, back to the food. I'm still amazed that that is a thing that people do. I mean, I think it's great,

but when I see cars pulled over, I'm amazed that- I don't know that they do it like they used to though. Probably not, but I still see it. Used to be, when I was a kid, it was like a real respect thing. Every time you saw a hearse, and I mean, I don't even see those much anymore, but you would pull over and when there was not a lot

of cars, it made you sad for the person. There is a- You know what I mean? Yeah. Get in line just to get through traffic. There is, that kind of speaks to like the, just the general formality of the South that lacks on the West Coast.

And in large part, it's because the West Coast culture is much newer. Like we don't have as old of stuff. Like I had a teacher in college say like, you need to study, you need to go to the South because American history is real in the South. Because like where we live, like, you see like, I don't know, an outdated Mervins and that's like American history.

I don't even know what that is. Yeah, exactly. Is that a grocery store? Yeah, it's an old department store. Like that's, we don't have old stuff. I mean, we have like missions and stuff, but it's like tied a little more into like Mexican culture. And in the, in the Northwest,

there's a lot of native American culture, like, so, but as far as like, you know, the wars were fought out here. Right. And so there is a, there is a history and there's also, But as far as like, you know, the wars were fought out here. And so there is a history and there's also, yeah, that formality and respect like the, you know, yes sir, yes ma'am, which you can, we would, yeah. And where I live, you would just say, what would you like me to call you?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There are no assumptions of sirs and mans. Yeah, yeah, sir and ma' no assumptions of sirs and mans. Yeah. Yeah, sir and ma'am is such a nice respectful thing. I love it. Yeah. I'm a big fan. I am a huge fan and use regularly y'all.

Y'all is perfect. Y'all is good. No, it's better than good. The most good. Yeah, it is the most. Y'all is the best greeting of people there is. It's better than, cause it's not to get political in any way,

but it is gender neutral in the sense that it does cover the whole group. We're way ahead of our time. Yeah, we really were. Yeah, it's like, it covers the whole group. It's not clunky. It's very smooth. Y'all's very elegant.

I think y'all is the South's best export. And I'm for everybody adopting it. I write it, I type it. What do you say instead? Like you guys, hey everybody. What do you guys say? Yeah, I say y'all, I just adopted it. I think I'm all for y'all.

At some point I stopped saying y'all because I used to say it all the time and I was waiting tables. And I just found myself saying it like a million times to one table. Because you had to greet people so often. So I started like trying to mix it up and then y'all just kind of disappeared. Interesting. I started bringing it back a little bit.

Yeah. It's just very smooth. It's very, it's a, I like it. It's a hey everybody. How's everybody? I like you guys. Yeah. How you guys doing? I don't like you guys, but I am.

I don't like you guys. I, you guys should switch. I, I love the South and living in it, but I don't like in Gatlinburg and those areas, Pitch of Forge would like play up where all the words on the signs are spelled wrong on purpose. They'd probably spell y'all Y-A-W-L. And there's always some,

it's placed to the stereotype that I don't like. That's funny, because my, I have a lot of things that I don't like about the West Coast, and this is not unique to the West Coast, because I think it's true of the Northeast. One of my favorite, one of my least favorite things is a lot of their attitude towards the South.

Which is, you know, just dumb simpletons, you know, like that kind of, like, and it's like, it's just sort of that term like coastal elite comes from. And I hate that just because it's so naive and it's very ignorant. It is. You're like, guys, I mean, you come down here and you're like, you know, Vanderbilt's in the South, right?

You know, you got NASA in the South. There's some smart people. And also it's just very like, it's very dismissive. So I don't care for that, but it doesn't help when you do stuff like that. There are dumb people everywhere. There are so many dumb people. I mean, I live in San Diego.

Like there are a lot of dumb, dumbs. It's just there, the amount of lifeguards that we have. I love San Diego. I love San Diego. It's my favorite. It's my favorite city, but there's so many dumb people. San Diego reminds me a lot of Charleston, like a bigger version.

Yeah. I like Charleston. That makes sense of why I like Charleston so much. They just remind me a lot of Charleston, like a bigger version. Yeah, I like Charleston. That makes sense why I like Charleston so much. They just remind me a lot of each other. Yeah, San Diego's great. I really, it was our kids, you were in SD a couple months ago, weeks ago. My wife went to her show, she had a great time. And thank you for the tickets for her and her friends.

And you did a thing, cause we had like our big heat wave there. And I know you did a story about it. Like, I'm not really feeling this. Oh yeah. My Uber driver was like, yeah, we're in the middle of a heat wave right now. I'm like, well, I live in Tennessee.

This is fun. Which, so my kids, for the last three years, we go to Alabama every summer. Cause there's a camp that we serve at there. And that's what our kids were saying all week during the heat wave. They're like, we've been to Alabama in July. Oh yeah. This is nothing.

Yeah. I used to go to my grandmother's house in July in Alabama and she had no air conditioning. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have air conditioning now? So that's funny. Aaron, I think someone brought that up on the pod, right? We did not for a long time,

we didn't have heat or air conditioning because you didn't really need it. And now we do have it and it is nice. It's like a couple of weeks during the winter where it's nice because you wake up in the house in lower sixties, that's a cold house. And it does get, because San Diego is desert, like it's a desert on the ocean.

So it gets legitimately, it's not freezing, but it'll be in the 30s at night. That's cold, 30s is cold. So yeah, we do have heat and AC now, but we don't run it that often. And we're renters because we live in California. So when we do run it, it's on the landlord. Right.

When I was in San Diego, I said this recently on the podcast, I thought San Diego, everyone told me sunny year round, perfect weather. And I was there in May. They're like, yeah, May Gray. May Gray. June Gloom. June Gloom. I know I like to think that I'm a good person, but I know I got some bad in me because I

like seeing unhappy tourists in May and June. There's a little part of me that's like, yeah. I saw that twinkle in your eye when I told you that. Yeah, I don't know why. I'm not saying this in a way that I'm proud, but. Is there any stereotype about the South that you wanna ask us because I got one for you for Pacific Northwest?

Well, what is the general southern reputation towards the West Coast? Like, and I know that that's bragged because like I remember, you know, Aaron Weber, I was with Aaron Weber the first time he went to California and he was like, hey, you know, we were just told growing up, California is the land of fruits and nuts, you know?

Like, and I don't know if that's, that's got lots of meaning to it, right? Like, and I didn't say who said that to him. Those weren't his words. And so is there like, sometimes I feel like when people from the South are thinking of California, it's almost like they think of us like as aliens,

like as like a totally different group of people than them. But I don't know, what is the general? Well, I think, I mean, most people that I know just think kind of what you have just said, that they're just judgmental and they think everyone from the South is stupid. Yeah. That's funny, because then we're doing it

right back at you. Well, it's like, like I said though, my sister went there and loved it. Yeah. And we're talking like, like I said, though, my sister went there. Yeah. And loved it. Yeah. And we're talking LA. I mean, we're not talking.

No, that's the belly of the beast. I've been to many rural parts of California, which are no different than any other place in the country. Then I always like to point out, and you know, country folk will survive. He mentions California in that. Yeah, like from North California. Exactly.

You're like, yeah. But I've not even been that far in North California. I've been like to Modesta. Bakersfield. Yeah, not the- Merle Haggard is from California. That's kinda crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Jeff Gordon.

Yeah. Famous Jeff Gordon. Now that I can see. Yeah. Sorry, he was so good. What, he won four championships in a row? No, I'm saying that we just talked about last week, he was the pretty boy.

He wasn't the real, you know, guys hate everyone hated him because because he won. Yeah. They wouldn't have cared so much if he was 13th every year. He just well, that's true. Yeah. And he was on Hendrick. So but I think that's the thing that people say the most. And I do think it's true to an extent. But when I go to L.A. and I go to mean, it's like, everybody's so nice to me.

I don't, you know, I don't have any problems. I never had problems talking to people, right? In New York City, for that matter. I know we're not talking about New York City, but like I go to New York and like I'm Southern and I talk to people and I don't have any problems. Nobody, nobody is like, Oh, who's this hillbilly? I mean, everything's fine. Right, right. Probably helped for your sister that she probably had low standards, expectations for LA. Yes.

So it exceeded them. Yeah. Yeah, I think that it is unfortunate that a lot of, like a lot of the South think poorly of the cities and the West Coast, but it is in some ways earned by a lot of coastal elites who genuinely and I'm here to tell you as people who interact with Genuinely do think that they are better people than people of the South But I do think that people in the South have that too. I don't think that's a coast like a regional thing

That's a sure that's a person thing. They share my way of life is superior to your way of life. I found very few comedians who still think that way though, because like I heard Foxworthy say about this in an interview, it's like, I've traveled, I've done it all. And it's like, people are the same. They really, and I feel that same way too. Like it's just, I've been to every state,

most cities in America at this point, people are the same. Especially when you drive. I've drove so many places where you actually, on the way to cities, you drive through small towns. And it's like, yeah, you meet people and it's like, it really is. The accents change.

The names of the grocery stores change. But it's the same. But they're all serving you poison bread regardless. Exactly, 100%. But in California, you can actually, it feels like you could find local brand. I found a local brand. I don't remember what it was, but a local brand of wraps. And I was only in California for like four or five days. And before I left, they were already moldy. And I'm like, this is what I'm looking for. Yeah. I'm looking for food that goes bad.

Food that turns. Yeah. Well, you growing up, like, growing up, like, in the trailer, and I always grew up lower poverty. We weren't in the trailers, but like, we didn't have a lot of fresh food period. You have a lot of preserved food.

Yeah. And so, you know, you've been eating that your whole life too. Oh yeah. But you know, even back then though, our bread would get moldy. Yeah. And so you know, you've been eating that your whole life too. Oh yeah. But you know, even back then though, our bread would get moldy. Yeah. My bread almost never gets moldy now. Like I remember me and my mom would like pick the mold off the bread and just eat. That's good old fashioned poverty right there. Yeah. But it was like, it would go bad. It would go bad. Gosh, that's interesting. Remember when bread would go bad? It would go bad. Gosh, that's interesting. Remember when bread would go bad?

It never goes bad now. I never thought about it, but you're right. It does seem like it lasts a lot longer. Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna ask you for a, I don't even know if this is a stereotype of Pacific Northwest, but have you ever met anyone who's seen a Bigfoot?

My grandpa claimed to. All right, it's not a steal. It's real. Thank you, grandpa. Yeah. No, my grandpa, who just passed last year, he went to his grave swearing that he, I think, was on a fishing trip because he was an avid fisherman. He lived in Crescent City, California, which is the very Northern tip of California.

Like you leave the Redwoods and you're in on the 101 and it's pretty much Oregon, like what it's like up there. And he would lead like fishing trips and he would fish on the ocean. He was a crab. He was a great guy. He was a PE teacher for a long time. And like Return of the Jedi was filmed

in the Redwoods there. And he took like a fishing expedition with Harrison Ford. He was awesome. My grandpa ruled, great guy. But he went to his grave swearing one, I think the story was he came out of his tent one day and just saw some huge, crazy creature like scale up a wall with arms that a human never could.

And he was like, I know I saw a Sasquatch in the woods. Wow. Yeah, so it didn't, you know, I knew my grandpa pretty well. It didn't seem like a liar. I believe it. Yeah, I hope so. I want it to be true. I do too.

Yeah, I want that. I want most of the mythical creatures to be real. It'd be more fun if they were. It would be. Yeah, the giant squid versus sperm whale wars. I want that one to be true. I want them to go. Who knows what's going on in the depths of the ocean.

Literally, yeah, nothing. No, I got, yeah, nobody. All right, I guess we need to wrap this up. We got a show here in 53 minutes. This has been great. I've enjoyed doing this. Oh, yeah. So. Me too. This is the most we've ever talked.

I know. We had cigars one time and. Oh, yeah, that's right, with Alec. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Dusty and I, do we have most we've ever talked. I know. We had cigars one time and- Oh yeah, that's right. With Alec. Yeah. Yeah. Dusty and I, uh, one last story. Dusty, John and I were all in Phoenix in the same weekend and we were like texting about meeting up and Dusty was the first to articulate it.

And then we all agreed. Dusty's like, I think I'm good. Yeah. I mean, I'd love to see you guys, but it's, yeah, it's like a lot to try to meet up. Yeah, like I think I just wanna watch football and stay in my house. Yeah. It is funny how if you happen to be in the same town,

you just feel like, oh, well we should meet. Yeah. But then you're like, no. But then you wake up on Saturday and you're like, I don't know. But me and you and Willie Simon and Alec Parent had some bars in Brea. That's right ours in Brea in Brea. Yeah Fine American City. Yeah

In a row we did that's nice. Yeah, that was a nice time. I pulled it right after that And you and I just think of one more thing electric vehicles are just becoming the thing in California California made that you can't they were not gonna sell them after a certain year. I think it's still like 2030 or 2035. It's a ways out, which I don't mind an electric car. Why do I, I don't know. Electricity seems good. I'm not, I'm not.

Yeah, what do you not like about them? I don't know, I just don't like. You keep trying to end, I'm sorry. No, it's all right. I just, well, I think. I bet you don't like that. They're telling you you have well You know the to get electricity you still have to like burn coal, right? So it's like we're not really accomplished I don't know where how electricity works. So I think we're really accomplishing the thing we hope to accomplish

Is that true? Do you have to burn coal to get electricity? I think so. I think it's a lot It's a lot better for the environment to do electric cars. Is that true that you have to burn coal? Does anybody know? Except for the batteries, they say that you have to, in order to get the batteries, you actually ruin large chunks of land mining those lithium. Yeah, I don't believe you or not believe you. I don't, I, uh, turbine generator, Yeah. I don't believe you or not believe you. I don't. Turbine generator. Type of turbine used depends on the energy source. Yeah, this is... There might be some research to do.

We tried to... You tried to end this. You can just cut that all off. I was so interested. Fossil fuels. I'm still going nuclear, renewable wind. All right, Brian, why did you look so old senior year? And why did Aaron look so young? That's what I want to to me. Aaron's picture seems elementary. Yeah, yeah. It seems way too young and you seem too old.

Probably for the same reason. Aaron's was airbrushed because by then they could do things. Oh yeah, you look like the lead actor in Night Court. I was up to some stuff. Remember that movie? Harry Anderson. Harry Anderson, you look like Harry Anderson. I was into some things.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, at that time. Um. That is Harry Anderson. It took me a long time to get it together. Yeah, I'm talking about Brian. I don't know, you're, you're the, you are the hardest to identify in any picture. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, because you've got a lot of, you've had a lot of looks over the year. Yeah. But you found you. I do remember, he does look like that. At that age. You see that picture right there? Yeah.

That's crazy. Yeah. When I still had a full head of hair, yeah, people would say I look like Harry Anderson. Yeah. Over time that went away. But you look like 40 year old. Yeah. Well, of hair. Yeah, people would say I look like Harry Anderson. Over time that went away. But you look like 40 year old. Yeah.

Well, thank you. Yeah. All right. We could have wrapped that up a long time ago. Sorry. This week, this Thursday, I have an Arlington draft house in Arlington, Virginia. Why am I drawing a blank?

Oh, Saturday, I'm in Clarksville, Tennessee at this new comedy club, jokers comedy house. All right. DJ prior. That's right. Um, next, um, next Tuesday is my next Brian Bates and friends here at the lab at Zany's Tuesday, October 22nd. Last month we had Nate running his SNL monologue.

We had Angela Johnson doing new jokes for her upcoming special. You never know who you're gonna see here. We got another great lineup. So come to that Tuesday, October 25th. I'm at Lifeway Church in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. This is the Dustin Nickerson Five Year Ago Tour. All great shows, so come check me out. This coming weekend, I am in Louisville Comedy Club in Louisville, Kentucky.

I'm doing five shows there I think, the club weekend. And then the following weekend I'm at Wise Guys downtown Salt Lake. I was just at Louisville Comedy Club. Yeah, it's a good club. With Abe Auer. Oh yeah. Yeah. So I'm there and then Salt Lake and it's my birthday weekend.

Come turn 40 with me. All right. Yeah. Happy birthday. Thank you. Well, I'm off this weekend, but Monday I'll be at the Ryman. I've already talked about it. I'll be at the Ryman, a benefit to raise money

for hurricane victims and it'll be Leanne Morgan, John Chris, Charlie Barons and me. Gonna be a great lineup. It's a hot show. And then next, I'm gonna be doing my Tennessee run. I'll be in Memphis and in Knoxville. So it's bad routing. It is tougher routing than I think most people would know. And there's no direct flight from Nashville, Memphis,

no direct flight from Memphis to Knoxville. It's a, yeah it's a it's a rough run. You picked a good Saturday though because Tennessee's off that Saturday. It is. So yeah, so come out. It's a big theater. It's probably the in Knoxville, it's probably the biggest theater I've ever done. So come buy some tickets. Congrats. I filmed a special in Knoxville. This is not probably the only comedy special ever on Netflix to be filmed in Knoxville. So. I think Henry Cho's, well it wasn't Netflix though. Where'd Leanne film hers? Lexington.

Lexington Opera House. So come out, I'm putting Knoxville on the map out here. Yeah, Henry Cho did one. Yeah, what has Leanne done to help Knoxville? Come on. You know what I mean, come Cho did one. Yeah, what has Leanne done to help Knoxville? Come on. You know what I mean, come on. Yeah. Yeah.

I think, I say it every week, I think Aaron's gonna be back next week. I hope so, I'd love to hear him. I think he avoided me. I don't think he wanted to share his return with me, and that's fine. Yeah, and Nate. Aaron and I have had bad blood for a long time.

Nate certainly avoided you. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I think Nate's avoiding the Nate Land podcast. Yeah, no, he's in there in the other room right now. Okay. Waiting for you to leave. He's been texting Nate the whole time. Yeah, exactly.

But I think that's it. Dustin, great to see you. Thanks guys, thanks for having me. Super fun. All right. Super fun, thanks guys. Well, have a good time. Bye. Bye. Nate Land is produced by Nate Land Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife Laura

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