The Nateland Podcast - 226: #226 Birds featuring Joe Zimmerman

Episode Date: November 13, 2024

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I'm Nate Barghetti, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. Okay. And we have a guest here with us. Very, very, you can check his YouTube special out, Colt Classic. It was a big one we shot in Asheville. Joe Zimmerman, is this, is where we shot it? Were they okay with the hurricane? Yeah, was just there, did a show. They are okay. They- Yeah. So you have a lot of ties to Asheville. I do. I lived there for three years before moving to New York 12 years ago. Yeah. So a lot of friends down there. And then did you go down that? Is it like crazy?

Just, it's definitely recovering. All the trees have been knocked over. The River Arts District is covered in mud and all those places are closed. But everything's opening, starting to open back up and it's mostly just that you can't drink the water. So there's just a lot of people with bottled water. So are you saying you think it was overblown the coverage? We're telling us before this podcast started, uh, my buddy, Joe goes, no, it was, I think it rained a little hard.

I don't know where they got that footage from. The people that live there can confirm that there's been a lot of like false things that have been happening about over Twitter that have been driving them nuts. I can't, I can't. It's been pretty devastating though. Like Asheville is one thing, but there's a lot of surrounding areas that didn't get a lot of coverage. That's been really devastating. Yeah, it's very sad

Oh, yeah, very sad. Well, don't make us feel bad Trying to make a joke over here. I know but I can't joke about it. It's so sad Yeah, it is the saddest thing but yeah, we're gonna have fun. What was Yeah, the dry I'll did a show We raised money. Yeah. We did. We all, you know, so yeah. What was the drive-in on I-40 like? They just detoured me for the first 50 miles or so on I-25. You said they, like specifically, they picked you out.

They, yeah. Yeah. Google Maps. Google Maps. Detoured me the first. That was the they. Yeah, they. Was Google Maps. Bigoured me the first. That was the they. Yeah, they. Was Google Maps. Big tech.

Yeah. Google is a they a lot of times. When you go, who is they? You could easily say Google a lot of times. They told me that's just the search engine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So a little, you know, back roads the first 40 miles and then you get on I-40 just like you normally would. Yeah. Do you rent a car? I rent a car. It's a bright neon yellow Hyundai Kona. Highly recommend neon yellow if you get a chance. Sounds hot.

Because you can see it in any parking lot without looking around. Yeah. It's perfect for me. Yeah. Yeah, it's easy to find. And you can start a cab company. You look like the guy that goes into,

gets in that yeah, yeah It's like Lamborghini yellow. Yeah, it's a Hyundai. I call Joe today and News drive it in about that and I'm like, sorry to me. Yeah, baits not supposed to reach out to the talent I tell him I go don't I go don't call him on their personal line It just said me your number just said unknown number. Yeah You need to let me need to delete me. I hope this isn't Bates. Hello?

Hey Joe, figured you want to talk next four hours on your drive. I'm wide open. There's some truth to that. Um, that is true, but I talked to Bates last night on his drive home. Yeah. I got him home. He was not happy about it, but no, we kept calling. Yeah. Bates has a big problem with his Bluetooth. His Bluetooth to your phone, like it never... I feel like there's always something there. Last night there was something. There was something last night, but I think it was just the place I was at on the drive. But then I feel like I remember your, maybe it was your

other car. Brian doesn't use technology seamlessly. Is that what you're saying? No, I think it would switch, you know, there'd be like when someone's going, that's about to switch over and it's a switch and you're like, yeah, and the wheels fall off. Whatever happens in that switch, it doesn't make it. That might be true. My car was one of the first models for Bluetooth. I mean, I've owned my car for, say, 12 years now. Yeah. Okay. I bought it on my- I remember when you bought it.

Was it brand new or? Yeah. Yeah. It's the only new car I've ever owned. I bought it on my birthday, my 41st birthday. I just turned 53. It was the day of the, uh, election. Yeah. And, uh, that's why you bought it.

Um, so anyway, I still own that car, but, uh, but it had Bluetooth. It was one of the first cars that Bluetooth and 12 years later, maybe it's a little bit too state of the art back then. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I called Joe. He wasn't happy about it, but I could tell he wasn't driving in the moment. I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, well,

I've stopped off the side of the road to check out some birds. I was on state park. Oh yeah. And I mean, I don't want to get ahead of us today, but, uh, but, uh, no, I just do this thing. I wanted to walk around a little bit, you know, midpoint, you walk around and I found a little state park to you You add that time into your drive. I do, yeah. Extra hour. Do you? Yeah, you gotta get there. About an hour.

Gotta shake those legs out. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I walked around this park and there was beautiful, beautiful lake, good birds. Brian heard them in the background. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Talk to him during your- Isn't that the most- I know.

How frustrating is it when you get a call and you're like, this is the 30 minutes I need to just get like, I'm going inside to eat or something or whatever it is. And then someone's like, ah, you know what, I'll call him. And you're like, are they, are that's when someone calls you and you're like 10 minutes from the house. I've been driving for eight hours and then they start getting a conversation. Well, neither of you had an answer. So that's on y'all. It was a wonderful call, Brian. Thank you. I got no complaints about it. I talked to Brian the other day, sitting in the sauna.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I did not know this when I was talking to him. Oh, this sweat and we're at my house. Oh, you have a sauna? Yeah, I was just sweating away. And then all of a sudden it just dies. Yeah, my phone got too hot. I called him back and he went straight. His phone got too hot. Sauna probably is a good place because you just got to sit there. Yeah, it was great. And let the time go by. Yeah, I was just sweating away in there. I was into it. Yeah. All right. I don't even know where to go. I don't think we're all confused. Do you have a sauna? I love the sauna though. I'm a big fan. I just also ordered a sauna bag that you can, it's not come yet, but you can like get in it and it just comes up to your head and just saunas your body. I'm going to try to take it with me on the road. How long have you had a sauna? A couple of years.

That's crazy. I mean, I say this all the time. It's crazy that they don't know you have a sauna. I know. Yeah, you would think we would know. I think we would know. Yeah. You can't get a beat on him.

He's tough. Saunas are where it's at though. Do you lay down on a sofa when you use this or what do you, what do you stand straight up? I would think I would lay down on the floor. On the floor, okay. Laying on the floor on your back can be uncomfortable at first, but it really feels good.

You know, not good to lay on your stomach, but on your back. But I feel like in that, then you get out of it's all wet and then like, it's just gonna be gross. Yeah, it may not be ideal, but I wanna give it a try and I wanna see what it's just gonna be gross. Yeah it may not be ideal but I want to give it a try and I want to see what it's all about. Do you have a cold plunge to go with it? No I don't do cold. Okay yeah. He's not insane. I do get in the shower and afterwards and you know I don't make it hot it's like lukewarm to

a little cold but I don't believe cold plunge is good for you. I know a lot of people are into it I don't believe it plunge is good for you. I know a lot of people are into it. I don't believe it. So I had someone say today that they brought up a cold plunge and it was just like as you get older, it's like your joints. Like it makes you, you're, it just, you don't like have pain like when you're walking. Like so if you do get an exercise and you don't wake up like the sore, it's almost like the soreness of it, I feel like is what helps.

Yeah, yeah. So as you get older, I think it does that, where then you see the benefit, because you're like, all right, I feel good every day. But what do you think the soreness is? Is the soreness your body being like, hey, you did pretty hard yesterday, don't do that again today?

Well, yes, but then you do the cold, not what I mean? Yeah, but you do the cold, not to do it again the next day, but you do the cold just so you're not walking around. Oh yeah. Like, you know, an old football player. Yeah. Uh, I guess I could see it after a workout. That's what the football players always used to do, right? Probably still, but it just seems like everybody's doing it. I, I look, I agree. It's annoying that everybody does it and everybody says you, you've done it. I've done it. Yeah. How long did you last? Well, we did it. Yeah. We did it at a thing. Well, yeah, there's, there's the hardcore 48 degree ones and then there's the 60 degree ones.

But yeah, we did a 50 degree one that was very cold. And I think Nate lasted a full minute. Wow. Yeah. Joe did three minutes. I got up pretty high. He was like three. I'm into the cold plunge because not just your joints. I can attest. It does make your joints feel good and give you good energy, but also your mood, incredible mood. Yeah. Because your energy is crazy. Because your body feels like it's dying, right? Your body thinks you're going to die. So then

when you get out, you're happy. You're like, I'm alive. Right? Yeah. It's also go, you can go stand on one of those glass bridges. Jump up and down. And you get off that and you're like, whoo. Yeah. Yeah.

Skydive. Yeah. Bungie jump. No, but it does get you, you, you could do it. If you did it in the morning, it's like, yeah, there's no need for coffee or any, you're like, oh, that's it. You're like, where are we going? You know? Uh, and I think it, you did it in the morning it's like yeah there's no need for coffee or any you're like oh that's you're like where are we going you know uh yeah and i think it i get the idea is you get older because it's like eric does it my barber trainer and he's like i don't think it because i don't think there's any benefits but eric's 35 which is he's getting older but you're like

it's not 45 yeah where it's like you know as you get older i think you're like, it's not 45. Where it's like, you know, as you get older, I think you're like, you need to, you want to, you know. You think that's a big gap, 35, 45? A lot happens in that 10 years. I mean, I had a joke about it. Like it's the day you turn 40, it all starts to hurt. And it really, I remember it being the day, like it's like right when you hit 40, it's like, golly,

like you just start feeling stuff a little bit more. Not that it's, I can't do anything, but it's like, golly, like you just start feeling stuff a little bit more. Not that it's, I can't do anything, but it's, you just start, you know, you just kind of always hurt. You just feel like you're always hurt. A birthday boy right here. Yeah. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Yeah. Oh yeah. 40 years old. 40, turn at 40. Is that right? Feels like it. No. Scorpio? No, 33. Life, yeah. But he's lived a 40 year old life. That's a big, it was a big year for Jesus. 33, that's the last one, right?

Well, no, not forever. Just got started. Yeah. Oh, okay. Looks like you could use a cold plunge. Good zing, right? Yeah. Joe Zimmerman.

Scorpio. Classic Scorp, Aaron. Oh yeah. He just knew that. He just know what everybody is. That's cool Zimmerman. Scorpio. Classic Scorp. Aaron. Oh yeah? You just knew that. You just know what everybody is. That's cool, man. What does May?

You know all the astrological signs? May's splitting. May's splitting half. He just had a birthday. That's how he knows. No, he knows them just because of who he, because he's a guy that knows that stuff. Yeah. I think there's two kinds of people.

People that love horoscopes and people that secretly love horoscopes. Yeah. What is it? I'm March 25th. You know what that is? You know what it is. I know, but you know. It sounds like Taurus-ish. No. Pisces-ish. Aries. Aries. I was going to say you're right. Powerful. Nice. What's Aries? Aries is what, I think it's Kim Jong-un's dad. Oh yeah. This joke's in the cult classic, right? So we're not giving it up. Yeah. Yeah. He's got a great joke if you want to get on the cult classic. Oh, now I remember it. Yeah. Bronze was last week, November 3rd. November 3rd, Scorpio.

Yep. Um, uh, Charles Manson. Watch out for brands. Dusty. May 18th is my birthday. And as a, uh, a Taurus. Taurus is Hitler. And George Strait. That is true.

The big three right there. You pick who you want to pick. Yeah. That's fun. Look at us. Yeah. Yeah. You have very...

I have a very dynamic day ahead of me. You may feel the need to put all my energy into a group project, the podcast, but I want to roll up my sleeves and get to work. You are doing that. I'm usually a meditative, pensive person. What? I don't know what... That's not true at all. I'm not even sure what pensive means. I don't think you're pensive. What's pensive? You're like a thoughtful guy. Oh, thoughtful? But today I'm not even sure what pensive means. Pensive, I don't think you're pensive. What's pensive? He doesn't sound like a thoughtful guy. Like thoughtful. Oh, thoughtful?

But today I'm looking for... Meditative is, or, or... Meditative, I can't say it. Meditative, oh yeah, if I do it like that. Meditative, that's not you. You don't medi-, like you're a, you're, you're gonna run through a wall and it's gotta get done now. That's probably true.

I probably could afford to be a little more meditative. Speaking of walls, concrete results. Wow. That's Joe Zimmerman. I'll be quiet. It's hard work. Well, we got, oh, and what do you gotta do tomorrow? Well, tomorrow I got, well,

I have a very dynamic day ahead of me, tomorrow. Tomorrow, yeah. Same date. I have a very dynamic day ahead of me tomorrow. Tomorrow. Yeah. Same date. I have some fascinating conversations with friends, relatives, and others close to me. That could take place. I have that to look forward to tomorrow. My dad's birthday. Could take place.

Happy birthday to my dad. Would you have been, you would have been, November 12th. Oh yeah. Yeah, November 12th. My dad's birthday. Happy birthday, Steven. Uh. Yeah, this is fun.

Yeah. Yeah, see? Everybody loves him. Yeah. I'm not into him. This is fun. Yeah. Yeah, see, everybody loves him. I'm not into him. Everybody loves him. I did used to be into him, but I'm not out now. Oh, you used to be into him. Well, I was, you know,

I've been down all kinds of roads. And yeah, I mean, I was into some new agey stuff. Wow. But I'm out now. Tarot cards and that kind of stuff. No, no, never that I mean, I was into some new agey stuff. And I'm out, I'm out now. Territ cards and that kind of stuff. No, no, never that far. Never a Satanist. But.

So y'all can say where y'all were. I don't know where I was at this one. You were at the Vanderbilt game. I was at the Vanderbilt game. Oh yeah. South Carolina dropped the anchor. Yeah. I saw a video of that.

Yeah. Very cool. Got to do that. They lost. Is that a new thing? No, they've been, I think. video of that. Yeah, very cool. Gotta do that. They lost. Is that a new thing? No, they've been, I think they've been doing it. South Carolina beat Vanderbilt? Yeah.

Yes. They beat Alabama and Auburn. Yeah. South Carolina's a pretty good team. Vandy did. They're a better team than- They are good. Yeah, they beat A&M last week.

Yeah, yeah. So, but we have LSU and Tennessee left. We got a bowl, we're in a bowl. We got LSU and Tennessee left. We're in it. We got a bowl. We're in a bowl We got LSU and Tennessee left so I I think we still got one win in this is what I think. I'm wearing the same jacket. Okay. Yeah Yeah, yeah LSU their jackets a cool jacket Like who else if they had do it this year? Uh, I don't know. They've had, I don't know.

I don't know. I didn't know. It's a big honor. Have you gotten to do something like that before? Uh, no, no, that was the first. I saw a comment on Twitter. They go, I'm so sick of these bandwagon fans coming on pretending to be Vanderbilt fans because we're good.

And there were a couple of people started defending you. They're like, this guy's been a Vanny fan. Oh, he said about me? Yes. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Somebody on Twitter was like sick of these bandwagon fans. Also, are there a lot of bandwagon fans right now? Bandwagon Vanderbilt fans? You guys get six wins. People start coming out the woodwork, man. They go. I mean, yeah, dude, I'm starting to get on board guys. We would love to have you.

I'm fine with everybody. Everybody, everybody's rooting for Vanderbilt. Yeah, that's it for him. You've been a Vanderbilt fan. There's been absolutely no benefit to you your entire life. Not even like enjoyment from watching it. Comments like that are so frustrating because they do zero research and just assume their first thought.

Exactly. And you wanna go, you're not picking a team that's like, why would I, Vanderbilt beat Taliban, and I go, you know what, I'm gonna buy a jacket and get on that field. Like what planet would that happen? Like it just doesn't, yeah. Comments are, you know, you always see comments,

it is, they're so, you know, they don't, none of them, it doesn't matter, but some of them they are, they're frustrating. Cause you're just like, what are you talking about? And it might just be a troll. It might be a troll that knows that. It might be, and it works. I don't see how, yeah.

I don't see how that's fun. Maybe they were talking about one of these ladies holding the anchor. Maybe it was them they were talking about. Yeah. Maybe they're the bandwagon these ladies holding the anchor. Maybe it was them they were talking about. Yeah. Maybe they're the bandwagon fans. There's definitely Nate. Yeah.

Yeah, it's always, yeah. Somebody called you Mr. Jinx. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's funny. Jinx, Mr. Jinx. I know. That was, yeah, that was a tough one for them to lose on that one. But you were also at the Virginia Tech game. I was at that game, too.

I was not on the field, but I was at that game. So I started off good. College football is fun this year, dude. I don't know who's good. Yeah, I don't know who's bad. It feels like anything can happen. It doesn't feel like there's one team that's that much better than everybody. It's like Vanderbilt's exciting to watch.

It's just, it's a fun year for college football. I'm pulling for Notre Dame. Thanks, dude. Uh, thanks dude. I mean, I have a second, these bandwagon Notre Dame. That would be a more of a accurate statement. Like people would become band or Braves fans or, you know, like, like you have something that's like that.

What was the community name of the community college you attended? Volunteer State. Volunteer State. Be funny, you're wearing that shirt, they're like bandwagon. Yeah. They had a good baseball team when I was there. Cause my buddies played for it in high school.

Went there and played. They were like, they might've been number one Juco or one of the top Juco. See? Didn't Billy Wayne Davis play baseball there? Palo Sispi State. And this is 100 years ago. Didn't Billy Wayne Davis play baseball there? Palo Sispi State. And this is 100 years ago. Didn't Billy Wayne Davis play baseball there?

He played at Western Kentucky. He might have played at Ball State and Western Kentucky actually. Yeah, Billy Wayne Davis. College athlete. Nice, I didn't know that about Billy. Yeah, he's like, he runs triathlons or something, marathon, like he's like a real deal yeah. He's like a real deal athlete.

Okay. He's looking pretty shredded. Born in a bush in the middle of wherever. Where is he from? He's from Crossville. Crossville. Yeah. He goes Crossville a long time ago.

So I mean, that's where you got some property, isn't it? My time shared. Yeah. Yeah. I'll tell BW and come out. Yeah. You got money. It goes, yeah, you can go visit BW's parents and you're out there, uh, you know,

three weekends a year. When I was a kid, timeshares were a big thing and most people would buy them on the coast, Florida, whatever we bought. We bought a horse in Crossville, Tennessee, about two hours from where we lived. That's where we would go to vacation. Are you one of those families where the lawyers come on the radio and they're like, if you're trying to get out of your timeshare, contact Johnson Miller and Rush.

I think about it when I hear those ads. We finally got out. He's all, yeah, you see him, he stays up late just to get all the information. Yeah. Because I think I did get that too. Did the hospital put something weird in your body? Yeah, they put something weird in your body? Put something in there. You got to, what's that for when you get a sponge in your, they left a sponge in there. Yeah, on a surgery or something.

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Just closed them up. I bet that happens. Cause it does. Probably all the time.

Oh yeah. Then someone goes, where's your ring at? And you're like, and then you're like, nah, Lee, that guy, it's just floating around that guy's body. Hospital probably has it in their contract now. They go, you knew there was a risk. Yeah. And you go, well, why'd you wear a ring?

Over the glove. Over the glove. Because that's what I don't understand. I understand there's a risk, but it seemed crazy that you had him put the glove, you did the thing where you hold your hands up, they put the gloves on and then you ring. He goes, well, I want everybody to know I was married. Yeah. Surgeons looking for his wallet.

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That's code nate50 at factor mills.com slash Nate 50 to get 50% off your first box plus 20% off your next month while your subscription is active. Crossville during COVID, I did a gig in Crossville at a bar. I got paid $250 in cash, bombed. And then I went to the bathroom and somebody took the cash off. I was an idiot. I just left it out with my stuff. And I spent an hour walking around the bar looking for that $250.

I dug through trash cans. You just abandon all like, I'm just gonna look like an idiot here. I don't care. I'm just gonna look, because I'm not gonna drive back to Nashville with nothing, which is what I did. I could not find the cash. Aaron's pretty well known for leaving his wallet just sitting in. Many times I've handed him his wallet. They're like, don't leave this out like this. I like to trust people. I like I'll leave some stuff out but yeah cash is.

Watts was like, just give me a check next time. That way you can just cut me another one. Watts was like, give me a check next time. That way you can just cut me another one. Cash is like intimidating to have on you. No, you don't want, you want cash at a gig like that. You don't want to, you don't want to be tracking. But that's exhibit A why a check is, you prefer that. Well, no one, you have pockets. Why would you not put the cash in your pockets? I think I thought I did at some point. I don't know. Yeah, you just left it.

Just making it rain in there. Yeah. I've lost that. I lost 500 bucks. Uh, but you still would prefer cash, especially when you're getting that 200 bucks, a hundred bucks, you just want cash. Cause it's like, you gotta go cash a $250 check. You're like, it's annoying.

Like, uh, IRS is Nate saying under the table without saying it. But I always pay taxes on mine. That's right. I always called them, let them know. I go, IRS, 1-800-IRS. I just did a one-nighter last night in Bowlin Alley. They gave me an extra 50 bucks cash, so you see check, but I also got extra 50 at the end of the

night. I remember I opened for Dusty at a theater in Cary, North Carolina. The theater took 10% of your merch sales. Do you remember this? Yeah. Dusty sold one CD for $10 and the guy from theater came up and goes, all right let me get my cut and Dusty was like, well I only made $10 so it would be $1. He goes, all right, let me get my cut. And Dusty was like, well, I only made $10. So it would be $1. He goes, all right, I'll wait here. And you had to go and get a single dollar bill to give this guy.

Do you remember that? It was so weird because I was like, yeah, yeah, I only sold like a CD. And the guy, we both thought the guy was gonna be like, I don't worry about it. He was like, all right, so just, I guess like a dollar. Yeah. It was like, it was like, are you serious? I gotta go get you a dollar now. You need to go like dig through your car seats for change to give the theater guy.

I'd rather give the guy the whole $10. Yeah. I think you said that at one point, just when you just keep 100% up. Yeah. Yeah. The $1. It's crazy. It's such a weird slap in the face when those venues ask for 10% cut. It's just like, it's like they don't want you to be there again. Yeah. It's like, all right, I'll just not come back next time because you want my $1. You're going to hold me up over a dollar. You know, it's like that. Well, yeah. I was selling the merch.

Like, why does it matter? It's because someone was so good at merch at that venue and they made. I thought it was state laws some places like, depending on what state you live in. Is it? Uh, yeah, no, I think it's venue. Like it's the venue's decision, but it's, uh, yeah, like maybe someone's done so great on merch and then the, you know, like, there's like, we had to, you know, get people in here to this show and we used all our money to promote it. So we'll go take some of that maybe.

Yeah. And at some point you just block it out, right? It's like, kind of like out of, you know, but it's like when I'm selling it myself in a situation like that, I'm like, oh, I just, here's the money I made, here's, you know, like now it's not like that. I kind of just get, you know, my portion. Or you would be like, if you wanted to 10%, go sell it. Yeah, right, exactly. That's what I should have done, had them sell it,

go if you get, you know, but. Kind of crossed the point. All right. This weekend, Friday, I was doing the Kiteche Comedy Festival in Paducah, Kentucky. A lot of folks came out. All right. That's where you filmed the eclipse.

I'd forgot about that. And somebody there said, man, I can't believe you guys were here. And, uh, you know, we would have loved to come if we don't y'all were here to watch the, watch the thing. Tell them to stay up to date with the podcast and then they would have known. We didn't, I don't know if we didn't say, because we didn't know for sure if it was happening. Yeah, I met, uh, show last month, a woman came.

She said, my son was on that football field and he met you guys. Oh yeah. She said, he texted me and said, uh, the naitland podcast is here And she said I didn't believe him and then he sent me a picture with nate and oh nate's dad. Yeah Uh, so that was friday night saturday. I was in rutlands, georgia at uh, I'm looking at you erin anything funny at camp twin lakes,, doing a show for... Bartlesville. That was last week.

I was doing a show for Hope Heals, which is a wonderful organization that helps out people with disabilities and their caregivers. This is a retreat for their caregivers. So it's a wonderful thing that was in Georgia. And then last night, Sunday night, I was in Franklin, Tennessee at the Franklin Theater with Stephen Barghatze and Caleb Elliott doing a show for Agape Nashville. And that's another wonderful

organization that helps out with adoption and foster care for children. And of course, the Barghatzees are very involved with fostering. And so Stephen was great. He shared his story and it was a fun night. Everyone was super nice. Those caregivers, I bet if anybody deserves a vacation retreat is a caregiver. I mean, that's gotta be just, yeah, it's not gonna have a special heart to give them a time share in Crossville or something like that weekend. You want to go spend eight hours in Crossville?

Because I got a time chair and, uh, does it have a view? Does your time have a view? Yeah, it's just like in you go get in Crossville traffic and you're like, I'm just stuck in dirt traffic now. Looking out at a cracker. Crossville was a, was. Cross was a big city. Kind of, I mean, it's in the middle.

Isn't it halfway? Nobody knew that. Halfway what? Between there and Knoxville. Yeah, that's pretty close. That's where you get off the X and all the stuff is. Pretty close. It's not a big city, but it's, it would be, it's, but I mean, it's a big golf town.

It's a big retirement town. Yeah. Fairfield Glades town. Yeah. Yeah. Fairfield Glades there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to show their January 10th with Henry Cho. So easy to drive. What is it?

Yeah. What'd you call it? Easy, easier to drive. Easier to drive to her. Yep. And you've been fulfilling that. Oh yeah. Every week.

Like I was in Schmecklesburg, Kentucky. You're like, what? It's called real America guys. These could be made up. These are coastal elites. Yeah. Big time. We're having fun.

Thanks for performing for the people. You know where things shows like where a hurricane is going to hit. It's like, that would be his tour. Like he goes, Bates will only hit in this circle of the America. And it's just like, how far out does it go from Nashville? And you go, we're just right outside of the baits hurricane.

We ain't going to see them. I'm not going to see them this year. He goes, yeah. I'm in Gadsden, Alabama this Thursday. Oh, that's a family in Gadsden. I have family in Gadsden too. Yeah. I've never even heard of Gadsden.

Top Northeast corner of Alabama, right? No, it's, I mean, it is, yeah, it's a little ways down there though. Could we at the, could we at some point, could you go through your schedule of this year and then without telling us just what you drove through, what you flew to? Yeah.

I think most of them would be obvious. I think there's a couple that would stump you. I mean, how many, yeah, if you were like, I wonder if we could guess. Feel like I did a hundred shows. Or just give us a number like. But do I give you the name of the city and then you guess? No, I think it would be. Or you just guess.

Tell us the name of the venue. Yeah. Yeah. Well, out of my heart venues you're going to. Tell us who it was for. Oh, was it Camp Twin Lakes? Yeah. Sorry, I hope it out real people. I'll be Hollywood celebrities.

Gadsden, Alabama. I did Hot Springs, Arkansas last week. Oh yeah. Is that a fly or drive? I would think it's a drive. I think a drive. Yeah. Yeah.

Because that's a weird fly. Yeah. There's no direct flights to Little Rock. Yeah. But it's a pretty easy drive. Yeah. Yeah. Because that's a weird drive. Yeah. There's no direct flights to Little Rock. Yeah. But it's a pretty easy drive. Yeah. It's eight hours, nine. It's not that bad.

13 hours, you know, to get in the car. It's like tell us a comic that really drives. Justin Smith's like that. I mean, Justin Smith will tell you, nothing's bad. He's like, I'm going there. It's like, it's not that bad. It's like 16 hours. And he's like, ah, it's bad. I'm going there, it's like, it's not that bad, it's like 16 hours. And he's like, ah, it's easy. He goes, you go pop it in, you come back, what is it? He goes, a couple podcasts,

four movies, and he goes, what do you have in your mind? You're there. He goes, I don't know, it's not really worth it to fly. Joe, do you have any fun? Where were you? I was just in Asheville, North Carolina and I was in Chapel Hill, North Carolina before that. Played golf with my dad in Virginia the day before that and now I'm here. Been driving that neon yellow Hyundai for five days. You could have said no, and we could have moved on to Aaron. Yeah, you don't have to answer, Joe. Yeah, I'm gonna remember that for the next time. Yeah.

Yeah. I got out of the house for the first time. Joe lets us know. I'm doing golfing with my dad. Couple, you know, I got a nice little dinner with my mom. Nine birdies and 36 holes, that's something worth mentioning. Ooh.

That is nice. I forgot you're a really good golfer. He's a very good golfer. Yeah,ies and 36 holes, that's not worth mentioning. Ooh. That is nice. I forgot you're a really good golfer. He's a very good golfer. Okay. All right, sorry, Aaron. Aaron got out of the house. I got out of the house, and I saw Creed at Bridgestone.

I did too. All right. You were there? Yeah, I was there. That was him on stage. Yeah, I asked you to come back, you told me, because I texted you about coming out to something else,

and you said, well, I can't get out. And then, what was it for, I tell you, come by, you told me, because I texted you about coming out to something else and you said, well, I can't get out. And then, what was it for? I tell you, it's something about, oh, we're watching, I don't know, hanging out or something. How about the Vanderbilt game? Vanderbilt game, I said, do you want to come to the Vanderbilt game? Said, no, I can't get out, I got like too much.

And then, I mean, he's, I don't know if he's even been home. And then I just slowly get stuff, like Laura's going, Aaron's here, we're at Creed, and Laura goes, Aaron's here. I go, I mean then I just slowly get stuff like Laura's going, Aaron's here. We're at Creed and Laura goes, Aaron's here. I go, I mean, I just, I was like, Hey, you want to go to the Vandy game? He's like, Oh, you know how it is. He's already like a real parent lying.

Oh, you know, I'm in, I'm stuck in it right now. And then everything I went to this weekend, Aaron has been there longer than I have. Why didn't you want to go, Aaron? I would love to have gone. It's just, we're trapped where my wife and I are taking shifts. We had the weekend. Why is your shift to leave the house? She can leave the house too. I mean, yeah, but she probably doesn't. She doesn't. It's funny though that you go,

let's do it in shifts. You agree. And you go, she goes, all right, for my shift, I'm going to go sleep. And then you're like, all right, my shift, I'm going to go to Creed. And he's like, well, that isn't, I didn't know that's what we were doing. I thought you'd still be home. And he goes, oh no, I thought we're doing shifts. You can leave. And you throw make or leave. No, Lucy leave.

And Lucy's like, I don't want to leave. I'm tired. All right, well, I'm going to go to everything else. There's a lot of stuff. You read the Nashville scene, see what's going on. Every just randomly picked stuff. I got tickets through, through my agent. I've been a Creed fan for a long time. I used to run a Creed fan website when I was like nine.

So this is a full circle moment for me to see the band back together. We could have, if you would let me know, you could have met him. Did you go back and meet? Yeah. I've met him. I know him. Didn't you message Scott Stapp? I did message him. John Chris said you're a great guy? You know that I have a not a history but a future with him. With Scott Stapp. Yeah. But you insulted him. I didn't insult him at all. What are you talking about? He's like, John Chris said you're a good guy or whatever.

That's an insult. But your future with him? I'm just saying, I said, not a history, but like I have a fan of him. I'll be seeing him soon. That's what I mean. Yeah. Yeah. But this is your fault for making me feel dumb.

I texted you to see if you wanna come to the Vanny game and you gave me the like, I'm an idiot answer. I gotta set a baby, I gotta, it's crazy. I didn't, you maybe. Yeah, you should've said, I gotta be home today cause I'm going to see Creed tonight. And then you would've said, oh, you wanna meet him. You go, no, I'm going to see Creed tonight.

So I didn't wanna stay home tomorrow during the day cause then I also have a show tomorrow night. It's gonna be a little too much. You should've had arms wide open. You just lay out the facts for me. Give some details. And then I go, okay, and then I know what I'm dealing with. Instead of Laura in the middle of the concert.

By the way, you could have sat with us. Dude, they set it up. We had an unbelievable, I mean, you were in a suite. We were just in this one section, because it was sold out, and it was like just this one section that was closed off. And so they let us just sit there. So I mean, I was like in, like no one's around us.

Okay. That's awesome. It's anything and everything you would have wanted. And I'll tell you what, the only thing that makes me feel good is that I did go talk to them and you didn't. So that makes me a little happier that you did not get something.

I'm sorry. How was the show? Well, I didn't need you to go to the Vandy game. I don't, then I wanted to go. I wanted to go. The show was great. Three Doors Down, Creed. I loved Creed too.

Creed was me and Laura's first concert together. Oh really? Yeah. That's cool. So we, so 24 years ago, it was like concert together. Oh really? Yeah. That's cool. So we, so 24 years ago, it was like, we looked it up. Yeah. And so that was our first concert in Knoxville. We saw them and then drove back right after.

But so yeah, so we were like, Laura playing it. I didn't even know, I didn't know they were here. I just haven't been able to see it. And then, so I didn't know they were here. And then haven't been able to see it. And then, so I didn't know they were here. And then Laura had a plan. I was like, I would love to go. And so, yeah, it was awesome. It was awesome.

Watched a little side stage too. Could watch side stage. You should have been there, Aaron. Yeah. You would have. I thought I was. Should have been there. Yeah.

Oh man. Well, regardless. What was it? What was it? What did the guy from, what did the Creed people say to you? Scott's tap. Yeah. Oh man. Well, regardless, what was it? What was it? What did the guy from what did the Creed people say to you? Scott's tap? Yeah. What did he say so that we can filter it through to? Oh, he goes, no, no. He goes, I've watched your podcast. You don't care for the big one. I go, that's crazy. I go, oh, Jesus, I go, Scott.

Yeah. I go, Scott, what are you talking about? Yeah, he used to run a fan website. I go, he's a big fan. He's pretty intense on stage. Some of the talking between songs is pretty intense, too. Yeah. Like what?

What would he do? He said, are you guys ready to go on a journey that teeters between the physical and the spiritual? Oh, it's like, I don't know. No, no, no, you let me. I'd like to hear the song. It's, it's, he does it. It's a, they give a, a real testimonial kind of thing, three doors down and them very Christian

oriented, very, I've always liked both of them. So it's, but you know, it's funny to see is like as, as, I mean, I think they've always been like that, but as they get older too to see is like, I mean, I think they've always been like that, but as they get older too, you can see some bands, like I feel like they're just, they just were like, look, I'm getting back in front of people. And like, it's just, you're seeing someone get older that goes, I want to, you know what?

This needs to be different. I know when I was 20, I was not doing what I should have been doing. And then you see some get older, it is interesting to see them like, you know what? And I mean, everybody in the crowd was like on board with everything that they... 100%. It wasn't like it was like, it felt like some weird kind of messaging. It was like, yeah, yeah, everybody like listened and so they were both like that.

Three doors down I think did it up top. He said one thing kind of in the middle I had no idea they were like that at all. He just was like I just got a I don't usually talk I just want to say one thing and then yeah about the poison in our foods Is that what he said? Just trying to get dusty on board with it. Well, I am on board Would love I've always liked Creed. I've always liked three doors down. I think they're great I think that's a great name for a band three Three Doors Down. Yeah. Rows off the dance. Some hits too.

I forgot how many big songs they had. Anyway, that's what I did. That was my one like thing. I got out of the house and the rest has been working. Didn't you open for Kathleen Madigan? Everybody remembers the whole thing was I ain't working for the next. I'm off till next year. I'm off on the road, but I'm doing stuff in town. You know what I mean? Well, You make me feel like some deadbeat dad over here. I went and saw Creed for a couple of hours.

Yeah. Got out of the house, had a couple of drinks. Yeah. It was like, ah, you're going to take me on a spiritual journey. I just go back to the house. He had a full weekend. I want to hear somebody up here cry. And I'll just go see my daughter.

You might've drove more than Brian did. We can see with the mileage on your car versus this car. What about you, Dusty? Okay. I went to Portland, Oregon, and I went to Seattle, Washington. Two favorite cities. college on your car versus his good. This time, it was like complete turnaround. I love Portland again. I'm back on board. People told me there that they've been really working to clean it up, do some improvements over the last year. And it was great. I walked around and went to some art stores. You know, I did the I

went to a bookstore, art store, the real artsy stuff that you expect in Portland had some coffee. And it was great. The show I did two shows. They were great. Revolution Hall. Yeah, you sold out a theater too, so that probably makes the whole- Revolution Hall is an old high school.

High school. It's a really cool gym. Really cool. And no, but I, you know, I sold really well at Helium last year. I just felt like the city felt different. And it feels better. Portland's Portland's back and it feels good. And then I went to Seattle, to Neptune,

to the Neptune theater. Nice. It was great, very nice. Two shows. Seattle was great. I went downtown, didn't need to, took a wrong turn. Drove through downtown, but I got to see a lot of it. It was very nice.

Had a great time. Our friends in Tacoma, Christie from Purpose Men came and brought a crew and it's great. I saw some old friends. Loved it. Had a great time. Revolution Hall was the first time I ever tried an encore. Was in that. Oh yeah. Yeah, my manager was there, Alex, and he. Five years ago. Was it five years ago?

Yeah. And then. Were you there, Brian? No, I just know it. He just knows. That's why he's always around, dude. Five years ago. Everybody thinks I don't, I go hard on Brian.

Brian's around a lot. Yeah. I wasn't at that, but I but I know five years ago last week, it's when we went to, uh, DC and we went to PTI. Oh yeah. That was only five years ago. Yeah. Well, we went to watch PTI a little, so I surprised him. You're gonna tell me I don't do anything right for your old boy here. Brian likes to play the victim. He plays the victim. But I got Brian. Brian goes, aw, everybody's so mean to me. Yeah. Tony Kornheiser, you got to meet him. Yeah, I say that all the time. But yeah. I got it. I surprised him. Exactly. Don't say it. You

sit there and you sulk. You don't. You sit there and you do it. But I took him because I'm a thoughtful person. Pensive. I'm pensive. Now here's how we got to PTI. We rented bird scooters, which I'd never done before. Yeah, that was very fun. And no, it was terrifying. I remember this. And I think I posted it. I was covered in sweat because I was so nervous and scared and Nate's filming me. And by the time I got to PTI, like I'm just drenching because I'm nervous riding the scooter. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, so it's, he goes, uh, so it's my fault. Yeah. That's what it's like my wife. Yeah. It's like a husband, wife relationship. You go, oh, it's my fault then. Yeah. Because I didn't want to do it, but you were like, no, this is going to be good content. We, we did it for two

seconds. I'd love to see the video. And you, yeah, it looked like me trying to get someone out of unicycle. Like, you know, where they were like, I don't know if I can get up. And it's a scooter. You stand there and just your, your life, just living life can make you stand straight on it. Just the fact that you've walked around earth, you go like, oh, okay, I got it. The star that he was. Go ahead.

Sorry. Huh? Sorry. No, go ahead. I don't care. I thought, yeah, you know, uh, anyway, Portland and Seattle were great though. I had such a great time.

I've always loved going there. And, uh, I just was sad about the way it seemed like Portland had gone. And it seems like it's, it's great now. And I'm excited. All right. I'm wondering if the last time I went, if my hotel was just not in a bad part of town and the club was in a bad part of town,

because that was all I really saw. The club's kind of downtown. But I was downtown, I stayed downtown. And it was great, I loved it. That's good. I mean, there's still some tents about. Yeah, there's still some things going on, but yeah. People love to camp and you know what I mean?

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apply. Visit the website for full terms and conditions. All right, let's start with you guys' comments. Logan Stigow, Stigel, Stigow, Stigow. The news of Nate's special filled me with so much joy. I'm 31, I've been going through cancer treatments since August. I have my 15th round of chemotherapy schedule for Christmas Eve, which I've been immensely through cancer treatments since August. I have about 15th round of chemotherapy schedule for Christmas Eve, which I've been immensely

bummed out about. Hearing that, I'll have Nate's special to watch during that round was the best news I could have asked for. Love the podcast. I save it for my weekly chemo rounds and it helps me show up each week. Logan, it is actually going to come out on the 26th now. And that's, I have to break this news to you. Uh, it's sorry, buddy.

Now we, Logan, that means the world to me, buddy. And, uh, we're with you. Keep pounding. Sorry. You gotta go through that. Yeah, that's crazy. Uh, Brian Springham. I was at church on Sunday and noticed that the drummer was

wearing a dusty sleigh hat. I'm curious how that makes Dusty feel. Does he believe hats are okay in church? What about his hats? I mean, I don't even know if I believe drums are okay in church, but yeah, I'm okay with it. I mean, well, there's no way he wouldn't have a hat in your church because he wouldn't be there to play the drums. Yeah. But, you know, I guess if you're gonna be in a band in church and you're wearing a hat, might as well be

mine. Yeah. I mean, I'm into it. I think you would allow people to wear your merch to your church. Yeah. Wolf t-shirt or a... It's nice stuff.. It's nice. It is high quality material. Yeah. Made in Honduras. I used to be my pitch. I used to, I used to really, like I was going to say, made in America, made in Honduras. I used to play drums at church.

And I borderline thought it was inappropriate that it was doing it. Catholics? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Typically like a Catholic church, there'll be like one mass a weekend where they kind of modernize it a little bit. Oh, especially in Tennessee, there'll be like a fiddle player, a lot of guitarists. You can play drums? Yeah. You play piano, drums, what else can you play? And a little guitar. Oh, that's great. Why did you learn all this? Just played it growing up. Yeah.

All Creed. All Creed. Creed got me into it for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you shouldn't wear a hat in church, Dusty. I'm sorry. Well, I agree.

But if you do make it a Dusty Slay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We're having a good time. Somebody was wearing your hat on a 60 days in. Oh yeah. You see that? Yeah. You ever seen 60 days in the show? It's where they embed people. It's like a reality show where they embed people into jail and see if they can

last 60 days. And one of them was just wearing a, we're having a good time hat. Do you have the pictures? I was going to see if I could find it. Yeah. Yeah. I saw it on Twitter. It's crazy. One of the actual prisoners. I know is one of the, was it one of the contestants? Yeah, I think they were from, are they being watched? Like, do they know if they're going to be like, someone's going to try to get them killed or something? What do you mean? Look at that. It sounds dangerous. That's crazy. Oh yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. Season seven, episode nine. That's what he's wearing in jail? No, that's probably they wear to jail and then... Yeah, that's your outfit. I don't think that's the

prison outfit. So where is it? What channel is this on? It's on Netflix. So it's, they literally put them in a jail. And then they... I don't know how real it is. I watched a season of this. I thought it was really entertaining, but they put people in a jail and just end in the film for 60 days. And I'll see if they last.

A lot of people tap out and I haven't watched it in a while. I didn't know there's seven seasons in. That's a good hat though. Yeah, it's a good hat. It's a sharp look. Yeah. All right, Peter Reese. I think the next episode should be about

how Aaron's harrowing experience with childbirth has turned him into an absolute savage in the best way possible. He's just calmly roasting people like it's his job. Oh, thanks Peter. Like you're just- Idiot. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Dude. Got him. Like you're just like, yeah, I feel it's cause you're out, you know, like you're, yeah, I mean, it turns out you've been out. Uh, I want to destroy this narrative that I've just been painting the town red. That was my one time out of the house, dude, all weekend, other than work. You know, I had to do a gig, you know, I had to go do a gig. You know. I mean, I was blown away. Laura goes, Aaron's here.

What? What? With this baby. It's a shift. It's a shift. He goes, can I take my baby shift out of the house? Yeah. Yeah.

Kristen Fox, you can bring your baby like at probably cookouts and like, you know, like a dude. Get the headphones for it. Yeah. For her. Yeah. You know, for it. For her.

Yeah. Kristen Fox, love the pod, but two burning questions. Why does Brian always seem annoyed when things go off topic? It's just his personality. Number two, what do y'all do at the end? It appears y'all get up and just abruptly leave. What really happens to have his camera rolled? That's kind of it. We do get up.

You've been sitting here for two hours. So you want to stand up. Yeah. What's left to say after two hours? Yeah. You just talk to you, you look at each other right in the face for two hours. I think she wants to visualize how quickly you get into your cars and drive away. Oh, it's not that quickly.

I mean, a lot of times if depends, I've usually usually have to go, but it's not too, too quick. I don't know if it's ever been like a really run out, but, you know, we there's shows here, too. So it's if there's a shows going on, you know, it's shows here too. So if there's a show's going on, you know, we could be staying here like tonight. I think we're all, I don't know if everybody is, but we're staying.

Are you doing this show? Yeah, I'm on it. How nice, I'm hosting it. Yeah, there's a Nate Land live show tonight. And then it's, yeah, so then we're gonna do this show and then new material is also going on, so, due to, so, and I'm gonna go up tonight. I wonder if they think that you're like the, or we're like the Mythbusters guys. You know those guys that do the show, but they're like, they don't like each other. Oh really? And

then like the camera stops rolling and they just, they just, but on the show they look like these are two best friends doing science experiments. But we know they're liars. Those guys are pretty well-known liars I think. Yeah. There's no one I, that you would see me on anything with that I wouldn't be hanging out with. I've been pretty fortunate to be like everybody that I've

have done anything with. I talk to them pretty regularly. You never faked it for an interview or something? Do you fake some chemistry with somebody? No, I mean maybe yeah, in an interview I'm not saying yeah, like but it's like you know like any a lot of times yeah when you do some interviews you don't know the person like but I mean in general like us doing this we all I talked to him yesterday, he was, you know, like any, a lot of times, yeah, when you do this, many of you, you don't know the person. Like, but I mean, in general, like us doing this, we all talk to him. He's texting you. You say, I don't talk to you much or a little bit dusty. We're here and there.

Yeah, we're here and there. He texts, he's on the road doing stuff. Uh, I don't require as much attention as these guys. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I'm very needy. Silky Joe will be a little bit. Maybe there's a group chat. Yeah. Uh, that's true. Yeah. I'm very needy. Silky Joe will be a little bit. Maybe there's a group chat. Yeah.

I'll write him a, I'll write a letter. Yeah. But, uh, yeah. So I think everybody kind of, everybody really hangs out. When we were on the road, you came, we came hung out in Michigan. Joe was there. Also you like, you sometimes pull up a show or a sporting event in the other room, don't you? Yeah. Yeah.

Not here. Yeah. I invite everybody. I like people. I like everybody connecting. That's what frustrates me with the Cree thing is you. It annoys me that we were all in the same. There's another guy there I knew that I was annoyed.

Yeah, Nate invites us over to his house and we go in the pool and you can't even tell him that you're going to see Cree. Yeah, I would have been like, I would like. Do you want me to just check whether you're, every time I'm somewhere, just check whether you're there or not? You're gonna, maybe. Maybe. In Bridgestone. Yeah. I mean, you here in Nashville, you're out at Bridgestone, you know Nate's there.

Yeah, you know I'm there. Oh, you feel like, I don't know. Get some backstage passes and. You're doing a million things. You're doing movies and stuff. I'm doing a lot of things. I don't wanna bog you down with the minutia of my life. You know what I mean?

You text my assistant. Nate going to Creed. Who'd you go to the Creed show with though? That's the real question. Uh, my buddy, comic friend of mine, Shane Willis. No. Who? I said Shane Willis. I don't know who that is. Shane Gillis. Oh, Shane Gillis.

Bradley Hersey. Hersey. Hersey. Hey Bear! Just saw Dusty last night at Revolution Hall in Portland. The New Hour 20 is hot! Boom! Boom! This is the same venue we saw Nate for the first time five years ago. So Dusty, we'll see you at the Moda Center where the Blazers play in five years ago. So Dusty, we'll see you at the Moda Center where the Blazers play in five years. All right. I guess you were at the second show. I did two shows, so I had to keep the first one tight. I didn't get to do that long. Hour 10.

Yeah, I had to get the first one tight. I did think it was an hour five, but... Yeah, there you go. You just tell the host, you know what? I'm just going to go up tonight. You're not going up. They go, we need to have the first show be tight. All right, so no host. I'll just walk out there. That's what you say. You will eventually get to it. I think so. That's what I want to do. I could see it. I could see it. A one-man show type thing? Yeah, just two hours, go out. Two hours. That's what I'd like to do. Yeah. Hour and a half, two hours, you know.

I could see it. It fits your personality to go out. Just walk out. Yeah, Colin Quinn does that. Colin Quinn goes out. James Gregory would kind of do that too. A lot of places. Just the one man show. Similar vibe. I could see that. Julian Turnwich. Yeah, Turnwich. Julian Turnitch. That sounds like a fancy name. You know? I think some money behind that. Yeah. A lot going on with it. Yeah. Although not an Atlanta Falcons fan, I was watching the Falcons-Saints game and found myself cheering for Atlanta after our boy Nate Landman made a huge stop I can't be sure but I read his lips and I think he screamed hey bear I can't

believe Nate Landman is not a is he not listen is he not reached out to the podcast he follows us oh does it yeah it's all we know okay yeah it's all we know yeah we need to have him on in the off season. Oh yeah. He's killing it. And there's a UFC fighter, Nate Landwehr or something like that. Ah, yeah. All right. Get them both on. Yeah.

Same time. Yeah. Trey Tryin'. He trying. Yeah, it's such as this, Trey Tryin'. He trying to do something. Yeah. Just saw where Nate, just saw where Nate is playing in the TNT golf match. Super excited to see Nate's golf game on display.

Tell us more. Yeah, we haven't talked about this. Yes, so November 21st 22nd TNT stream on max. Uh, I'm in the match superstars, uh, Kim Griffey, Michael Phelps, Wayne Gretzky, Blake Griffin, Charles Barkley, Walbert, Bill Murray, and myself. That's an insane group. It is an insane group of people. The only person I couldn't recognize just off their face was Blake Griffin. Uh, Everybody else, everybody else I could just name by looking at him. Yeah. Yeah. It was awesome. We already

shot it. I don't know if that's, I can't say anything about it. Who'd you play with? Can you say that? Yeah, me and Blake Griffin played together. Okay. And then, yeah. But it was, Blake Griffin played together. Okay. And then, then yeah. But it was, uh, it was a very fun. It was very, very fun. Very fun. I mean, dude, everybody's like awesome.

Blake's awesome. Like they're, I mean, everybody's awesome. Like, uh, Charles Barclays is just so funny. Uh, Blake's very funny too. Gretzky's fine. They're all, yeah. It was, it was, it was, uh, yeah, Phelps, Austin, Griffey, Wahlberg, Murray. Zimmerman, how would you describe Nate's golf game?

You play with him a lot? Uh, yeah. Okay. Excellent. Uh, uh, I would say Nate has a solid golf game, solid golf game. Good off the tee. He went from excellent to solid though. He's thinking about it more. I'm going to shoot at my course at home, I'm going to shoot at 83. I get stuck at 83. I'm going to shoot. I usually won't, I'll shoot in the 80s. Even if I go to somewhere we don't play, I'll shoot in the 80s. What's fun about Nate is around the third hole, he'll hit it in the trees,

and then on the fourth hole, he'll hit it in the fairway, and he'll be like, oh, you're in trouble now. I think I fixed it. And then the fifth hole, bunker, and then the sixth hole, he'll be like, I think I just dialed it in. I just figured something out. I think I just figured something out.

Just figured it out. Oh, that's his catchphrase. He's got a catchphrase on the golf course. I just figured it out. I just figured it out. He goes, that was it. I knew that was it. Oh boy, don't let me figured something out. Just figured it out. Oh, that's his catchphrase. He's got a catchphrase on the golf course. I just figured it out. I just figured it out. He goes, that was it. I knew that was it.

Oh boy. Don't let me figure this out. Yeah. It's not been, it's been hit and miss. Oh, that's solid. It's hard. It's mentally, it's been good. It's just, it's hard like mentally.

It's hard just to be, you got to be in it. No, he's a good golfer. We play with Tony Fina. I mean, he's playing with Tour pros and you got to be good to. I think I'm a better golfer than I think I am because I play with very good people. Joe's very good. Are you a better golfer than you are a hang on the golf course? Uh, well, I don't know.

That's, uh, I think I'm a good hang. No, no, no, I think you are too, but it's just some guys, they're like, he's bad, but you know, he's fun to have around. You're like, you are good enough a golf that it's like, you're good enough to just, you could be zero fun and it'd still be. Yeah. But I don't think you would, my golf game is a question like that should not be asked to me. It would be asked like you in your golf. I think about it with me all the time. My game's horrible. So I, so I- That would be the hang. But mine is good enough that like it would be.

But I'm saying to you with like a Tony Fina or somebody. Well, we are friends. But even I played with him. I regret asking the question, but it was a horribly worded question. Well, I can, I can say that. It's negative bad hang. Yes.

The way you worded it, it did seem like it was a bad. It did. It did come out that way. But I think, I think I've been given time to backtrack and explain it a little bit. Well, I can verify I don't play with them because of his personality. Yeah, that's for sure. Golf game. That's not what I meant. I'm okay. Yeah. No, the guy shoots an 83. Yeah. I don't know what that means, but it sounds good. Yeah. 83. I'm not even in the same universe as that. I'm saying my asset to a group is nothing to do with golf. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. But you're good. I was trying to compliment and it didn't come out that way. Yeah. This is my last

podcast. Yeah. It's been fun, dude. It's been a good four years. He's fun. He's fun. He gets gambling. He gets gambling. He gets conspiracy theories going. Ooh, fun stuff.

Yeah. Just talking about whatever. David Oakley, New York City is home to nearly 20 nesting pairs of peregrine falcons. Is that how you say it? Peregrine falcons. It is the largest population of urban peregrine falcon in the world. So there's a very good chance that as you are waiting in line for Hamilton tickets, the world's fastest bird is just overhead rocketing across the sky at 200 miles per hour. That's crazy. 20 nesting pairs?

Is that true, Joe? That gets us into our topic today. I just saw these birds. Oh yeah, fastest animal in the animal kingdom, the peregrine falcon. I just saw one of those. Goes over 200 miles an hour. Is there anything else other than animal kingdom? Why do they say that? Gatlinburn. Why would you not say fastest animal on earth? Well, I could have said that as well. Yeah, okay.

Because it sounds like there's something else, you know, you're like fastest animal in the animal kingdom. And then you're like, well, what else? You're like, well, we're not counting. Some of them aren't in the kingdom. I would think they're all in the kingdom. I mean, fastest animal on earth is what I mean. Okay, all right, that's a good way to get into it. What is a nesting pair? Just like a couple? Oh yeah, they animal on earth. That's what I mean. Yeah. All right. That's a good way to get into it. Yeah. Uh, what is a nesting pair?

Just like a couple? Oh yeah. They're, they're a couple. They're, they're. What is it about New York of all places that they like? Yeah. Never sleeps. He's got to defend the Falcon.

It sounds like, yeah. Where do they get off Joe? I don't, I just feel like a wildlife migrating to New York City. Well, they like to be high up. So you get some tall buildings. That's as high as it gets. And then you can look down at the park. Um, but really they hunt, they often hunt other birds that are flying.

So they just get up super high. Sometimes they'll be on the Statue of Liberty and they just dive bomb other birds, knock basically, you know, basically knock a pigeon out midair and then catch the pigeon as the pigeon is falling to the ground. So they just eat the pigeon. So pigeons, yeah, probably a lot of pigeons. So will they go long periods of time without ever touching the ground? If you can just eat without touching the ground, you just camp out up high. I think they're usually very high. Okay. But they can fly as high as the highest skyscrapers can they? They can, they can, I believe, I believe they can fly that high.

They can get to the top, like the one world tracer? I believe so, yeah. Wow. Is there a limit to how high birds can fly? I know there is because I know there's a vulture in Africa that has the record for the highest altitude. And I know some high flying airplanes were shocked to run into

these vultures in Africa in the air yeah it's crazy they were at a such a crazy altitude yeah like 10 000 like they're 10 000 figures or something something crazy something crazy like 11 000 wow yeah the the griffins the rupels griffin vulture i believe yeah yeah african The Ruppel's Griffin Vulture, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, African. And you just saw one of these falcons? Yeah, in Kodak, Tennessee, there's a bird sanctuary that I went to and they have one. Nice. Yeah.

And I didn't get to see it fly. Have you seen one in New York, Joe? Yeah, there's a peregrine falcon that, there's a nesting pair that lives on the San Remo towers right outside of Central Park. And they just sit there and look at the park and wait to dive bomb. Like a squirrel or something?

Yeah, there's some at, and there was one that was hanging out on the Statue of Liberty for a while. And do they get kind of left alone? Like New York kind of likes it, like it's like. Oh yeah, people love them. People always root for them to- Who's filming this? Yeah. People root super hard for them to successfully lay their eggs.

And how can they go, so 200 miles an hour, is that because they're diving? Because they're diving. Yeah. So it's not even really a fair thing. It's like, I mean, a giraffe go to an hour if you drop them out of a plane. What's the, I don't know that. I mean, I think that's the same thing. What's the difference? If I do a shark out of a hot air balloon, it's going to hit 200 miles an hour. Hot air balloon, it's going to hit 200 miles an hour. I think the fact that it could also stop and control itself is part of it. I mean, it's like Superman.

Fun, fun. But it's still just fought. Well, any bird could go 200 miles. If they could go that high, can they not go that high? Not any bird can control themselves shooting down at that because they have to be aerodynamic. But I would say it's a loose, if I'm in the animal kingdom and someone goes they're the fastest I would be and you're like a cheetah you're like well because I think because I'm because they're the fastest like kind of like falling. On skates. He goes it's too

weird go 200 miles an hour you're like and I would say exactly what I said, because I go to a mouse or throw me out of an airport. And I would say it like off to the side. I go to a mouse and he goes, you're trying to run, run on the ground. That would be well, just to be fair, Peregrine Falcons aren't bragging to people about this. As far as you know. Yeah, sounds like they are. As far as you know. I think I did read- They go to the biggest city in America. Set up on top of the biggest- And go sit on top of all our fancy buildings.

And then they go, all birds are like, we're gonna go in the woods. Knocking out pigeons while they're flying. Pigeons just trying to eat the scraps. Just trying to survive out here. I think I did read that they're not the fastest bird flying horizontally. It is because of the dive. Oh, there we go, Joe. What's faster? Is it Golden Eagle? I can't remember. It was a bird I never heard of, but... Some sort of albatross? Golden Eagle? I really... I don't know, but I think I read that. So, there are 11,000

species of birds. One more. You got Joe? I got a fun fact about paragraph. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Two fun facts. Extra eyelid because they're flying so fast that if they blink, they'll they'll run into stuff. So they they have an extra eyelid that a membrane that blinks and they can still see through the membrane. What are they going to run into? Yeah, you find bugs and stuff. Well, it's like if you're racing an Indy 500

to go in 220 on the race track, you can't close your eyes for very long. Yeah, but what are you gonna run into in the sky? Yeah, what are you gonna run into in the sky? Like you're not- You're already running into pigeons. I think it involves controlling their direction when they're trying to hit a pigeon midair.

Yeah, to overkill. And can see a mouse on the ground from two miles away. Wow. Wow. Vision. Wow. Good vision. Two miles straight up. Two miles, yeah, away from a building. That's like vision that's like. Two miles away on the ground,

looking straight out or above looking down. During the subway. I think a little bit of a diagonal. I was thinking a combination of high and yeah. Yeah. Okay. Like not, they're not standing in the street. They would say like, could we see, what could I see two miles away?

A mountain. Well, a big hill, a bus school bus. You see school bus. Yeah. Yeah. So it's not that impressive for the size, I mean, because it's not. I mean, could you see a school bus from two miles away? Do it all the time.

Straight shot. Yeah. I don't think so. Because I'm only allowed to be two miles away from school bus. That was the joke. It's a joke that one of y'all should have done. But I guess I'll take it. Birds are in the dinosaur family. They're the only living known living dinosaurs.

Their closest living relatives are crocodiles. Dusty, do you want to say anything? Well, that's just ridiculous. I know that everybody says that, but that's just ridiculous. Anyway, Joe, Alligators look like dinosaurs. I would give the alligators. Yes. alligators look like dinosaurs. I would give alligators. Yes. Alligators. Yes. Birds. It's just ridiculous. Dinosaur's had feathers. They said that's what that came out of nowhere. That was like, it was like they didn't have feathers.

Then it was like one Jurassic Park movie. They go, I think they had feathers or like someone said, did they in the Jurassic Park movies have feathers? No, I think they had feathers or like someone said, then like, did they in the Jurassic park movies have feathers? No, I don't know. The guy did say that that was his, his expert had a hypothesis. But it's like, it just like, it feels like they go, what would they believe? Will they believe this? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tell them they had feathers. Yeah. I mean, out of nowhere, tell them they're related to birds.

It's like, it's funny to be like, you're just kind of going with what we have. And then it's just like that. It's like, well, you know, they have feathers. And you're like, are we just bored talking about dinosaurs? And we were dumb for not knowing that. Yeah, like I wondered if you get to a point where you go, all right, we've done dinosaurs. And they're like, how do we need to get them going again?

You're like, what if they had feathers? And you're like, ooh, throw that in. Now you're now like, so they all have feathers? Then so all our dinosaurs are all wrong. Well, the thing that bums me out is they say, we don't know the color of the dinosaurs at all. So they could have been like bright pinks and purples and reds for all we know.

I wish we knew that. You know, certain animals like Cardinals are bright red. Yeah, but I would think a big dinosaur needs to blend with the trees. Are there zebras? You know, I think that'd be the opposite. They're the ones that can dominate. They don't need a bullet depends on which one I think Trenosaurus Rex could have a tuxedo.

Maybe. Yeah. Maybe it was a mating advantage. Maybe it was a mating advantage to be bright, hot pink, you know? Yeah. Will they ever find out what color they are? I guess. I sure hope so. I would like to know. Yeah. Don't count on it.

I mean, they may tell you one day, but they're going to tell you. How would they know? You'd have to have actual skin. Oh, they're going to tell you, Joe. They're going to tell you. You know what we all need to get more of? Get off our butts and get into some action. And it's fun to do that with Mountain Dew with bold flavors and a refreshing citrus

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I have no idea. Hummingbird. Chicken. Hmm. Oh, I didn't even think of chicken. I didn't even think of chicken. Because that's not a wild bird. It's not a fun answer. That's a domestic bird. I guess you guys are just all done. Oh, it's not a wild bird. So there you go. I don't count domestic. There are wild chickens, right? But that. Called turkey. He's not talking about wild chickens. He's not talking about wild chickens. It's a bird. I just asked a bird. As a bird watcher, do you mark off chicken? No.

It's not even on the list. If you see it in the wild and it's running around, you might mark down chicken. Tampa, Florida? But it'll be listed as feral if it's a chicken in the wild because it's not a wild animal. Yeah. It'd be like a stray chicken.

So what's the most common bird outside of there? Pigeons? That would be my guess. Pigeons. Doves. They're in the pigeon family. But pigeon, yeah, or pigeons, you know, like they're in New York is where you see them in, I guess, cities. Well, what is just like a regular bird? Just like like a bird just a nothing whatever bird gray cat bird cat bird yeah that seems like a little bit more than what he's asking for a starling as a grackle they roll and roll in packs but his black bird is that just is that a type or is that just there's types of black bird there's a red-winged black bird you're thinking of a crow or a Raven I think hey I would think a crow or a star or you're a starling black bird. You're thinking of a crow or a raven, I think. Yeah, I would think a crow. Or a starling. That's what I would think of a crow. Starling's

a basic bird. Yeah, crow or raven. Sitting on the like telephone pole. That's a starling up there. Well, there's a lot of birds that sit on telephone poles. But you know what I mean? Like just looking for just the basic cookie cutter entry level bird. Maybe a mockingbird. You walk outside. Yeah. What's you walk outside? What's the first bird you're probably going to see Robin. Cardinal to Cardinals are all over.

Right. But you, I noticed when I see a Cardinal, you know what I mean? You go, that's red. Yeah. Robins are everywhere too. Robin, what are you seeing birds flying South and they're just tons of them. We'll fly. What are those?

Um, tons of birds flying south would just be whatever species is migrating. It could be anything. Do you have the answer? Of what? The most common, what's the most common bird? Chicken. Yeah. But you don't have the real one? He didn't look anything up, he just wrote questions down to ask Joe. But that's why Joe was here. I had the answer. Joe, you're the Wikipedia this week. The Passenger Pigeon was North America's most abundant bird from the 16th century until it went extinct around the turn of the 20th century. What happened to it?

Hunters killed them. Killed them all. The last Passenger Pigeon,, George and Martha died in the Cincinnati Zoo. I think it was probably people starving. I feel like when you say hunter, it makes it seem like they were just targeting. But I bet that people were starving today. There are so many that they were. But you know, even as a bird, there's so many of you.

We'll get together and make more of you. Yeah. I read online they're very cordial birds. They they're not more of you. Yeah, I read online they're very cordial birds. They're not afraid of you so they kind of blamed them for their dine-off because hunters were killing them but they kept coming around. You talking about the passenger pigeons? Yeah. That's also what happened with the dodo bird. Classic dodos. Dodos had no predators on their island so they just ran up to you real happy and then they tasted good. Adapt or die. So passenger pigeons were so plentiful that they would sometimes block out the sun

because they were so abundant. So we had to kill some of them. Yeah. Because that's crazy. Yeah. This is from AI. I thought it was very funny the way they wrote it. In 1855, a flock of passenger pigeons passed over Columbus, Ohio, casting a growing cloud that blocked out the sun.

The event caused panic in the city with children running for home, women seeking shelter, and horses bolting. There was a- Hey, that's kind of sexist. There was a, I just saw a tweet. I just saw a tweet about somebody recorded passenger pigeons flying overhead, blacking out the sky

for something like nine straight hours and they calculated that that was two billion birds. Wow. So where was that at? 1800s, like Columbus, Ohio or something. You watched it. Wait, is that not where you just said? I said Columbus, Ohio.

I didn't know. There was a tweet that was specific about the hours that it flew by. I know, but I think you're- Probably talking about the same one. Literally just talking about the same thing. I don't know if you listened to him. I was just giving a number, two billion. I was just adding on. No, but then you go, where was it?

You go, I think Columbus, Ohio. And you're like, well, that's funny. I think- The thing that Brian just read was a story about Columbus, Ohio. I think the women were seeking shelter. The, uh, the horses were bolting. You added some facts to it though. Two billion birds. If you have two billion birds, how are they are in what?

1855? Yeah. And they're already gone. When was the last one? Like 1900. That's come on. Two billion. They killed two billion birds.

That was one flock. Yeah. I know. So you, so two billion birds. That was one flock. Yeah. I know. So you, so two billion birds and by 1900, not even the great depression. Yeah. Nine gone before the day were gone before then two major causes commercial exploitation of pigeon meat

on a massive scale and loss of habitat. I'd say loss of habitat is the big one. Yeah. Yeah. But I still find that hard to two billion is a lot commercial. Pigeon. That's a lot of habitat. I'd say loss of habitat is the big one. Yeah. Yeah, but I still find that hard to, two billions is a lot. Commercial pigeon meat. That's a lot of birds. I think the world was a crazy different place.

Itself a pigeon burger. I know it was crazy different, but I mean, it wasn't as many people. So how could you, that's, everybody gets a bird that's alive. How could any, I don't know how you could kill off, in 50 years, I don't know how you could kill off in 50 years. I don't know how you could kill 2 billion birds. Can you Google that?

How do you kill off? Yeah. How do you kill 2 billion birds in 50 years? I think loss of habitat. I mean, they would, I would need, yeah. 1 billion of them like flew into a plane. Cats cause one in every 1.4 bird deaths. So I bet cats were involved.

Cats are involved in a lot of things. Wind turbines, alternative energy probably. Maybe it had to be like weather or like a virus or it had to be something. That's too many birds to go like we just shot them. Or maybe they just overestimated how many there were and the birds just flew to another place. Maybe the birds flew to Mexico or Canada.

And we're just like, they all died because they're not in America anymore. They might as well be dead. Yeah. Do you ever do quick bathroom breaks? Yeah, you can go. You can do it. Sleep.

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That is what, I would use that video to show, describe Joe Zimmerman. That's Joe Zimmerman in a nutshell. I've had a few, I can't remember the other one I had, but that's, that's a weak bladder. That's a good golfer, weak bladder. Joe will is fine being the one out of that's not in this group to go. Guys mind if I stop the thing that we got asked to be on?

You don't know how long I held it for though. Why did you go before? He said he likes birds, but I think he's going into the woods to pee. And you got some candy, and now you're eating candy. You got another drink and candy, like, just let us know when you want to get started, Joe. We're here for you. A mounds bar? We're talking about birds because of you.

What a bad candy bar the mounds is. I agree. I agree. At least have the decency to eat something good. My blood sugar was dropping. Is it why you like mounds? I like the almond joy a lot more than this mound. There's almond joy in there too. I got the Almond Joy a lot more than this mound. There's Almond Joy in there too.

Yeah, just keep going. I got the Almond Joy and I just wanted to compare it. There's not enough, there's not enough almond really in the Almond Joy. Yeah, it's not a lot of joy. I would love more almond in the Almond Joy for sure, but the mound, not a fan. On Halloween, you were like a great kid to trade with

because like when some kids like, I don't want all these. You're like, well, those are my favorite are the ones you're throwing away yeah oh I'll trade you all my Snickers for your Bitto honeys yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's a fair trade for that guy all right I'll do it while you're eating can I ask you some questions about bird hunting mm-hmm I mean bird watching excuse me bird hunting how dare you you're eating, can I ask you some questions about bird hunting? I mean, bird watching, excuse me. Bird hunting. How dare you? You've been bird hunting?

Have you ever killed a bird? I have. Yeah. Oh, yes. I know you've killed dozens. You looked at me. Brian looked at me. I just figured Dusty would bone me one that maybe he's been bird hunting.

But I didn't know if this like a passion for birds started with you haunted them or... No, I don't think I've killed anything other than an Asian lanternfly bug. What is that? It's an invasive species in New York. Oh really? Yeah. Yeah. Invasive species. Falcons can't see those? We got a problem with the Asian lantern flies coming up the Northeast and they're ruining crops. And the headlines have said, please, when you see a lantern fly,

please stomp on it, please kill it. These spotted ones right here. Are they coming from California? Yeah, they came over on shipping containers from Asia. And they're all over the East Coast. Is that why you keep a rolled newspaper around your back pocket? Everywhere you go?

We've been stomping on them for four years now in New York City. These things are just calling it a spotted lanternfly. Well, they came from Asia. I shouldn't have said that they were called the Asian spotted lanternfly, but they did come over from Asia. I think I know a guy that got in pretty trouble for this. All right. Now, I've learned some terms from my research here. I want to ask you about there's bird watching and there's birding. What's the difference? Well, birders say birding.

So I think it means when you go out with your binoculars and specifically try to see wild birds and bird watching, I think could mean just watching from your window. So birders are more serious about it. Yeah, I'd say so. Would you call yourself a birder? Yeah, it doesn't mean you're super serious. It just means you're going out looking for birds.

Are you taking pictures or are you just trying to get a look at them? I think it means you're either retired or you haven't found your spouse. And I think if you're in between of those two things, it's like you're living a life, you know? And then so, but it's really, yeah. Yeah. I couldn't tell you that.

I would have guessed that there was no difference. Is there a difference that you found? Well, this just says a bird watching is a big term used to describe the person who watches birds for any reason at all. And birder is the acceptable term used to describe the person who seriously pursues the hobby of birding, maybe professional or amateur. I'd say a birder made up those two terms. I'm not getting paid for it that's for sure. I don't know who's doing it professionally. What about twitching?

Oh twitching. That's the itch. That's the itch when you got to feed that itch to see a new bird. Yeah it means, it's a British term, the pursuit of previously located rare bird. North America it's more often called chasing. Yeah. You go chasing? Oh, like when you're really going to look for something. It's like when you have this itch to see a new bird. Yeah. And you're like, I got to get a new bird on my list. Yeah.

I can tell you, I've never felt that. What does that feel like? Do you have that? Do you have an itch to see a new bird? You've never felt that for anything or birds? For birds specifically. I don't know if I've felt- Borderline the other thing too. Yeah. I don't know if I've felt- Borderline the other thing too. Yeah. I don't know if I've felt it for the other thing either. Scott Stapp.

I've had an itch to like change. I don't, uh, I've had an itch for food. Yeah. Yeah. Hunger. You know, but like, yeah, I don't know if I've had it like, God, I need to get another bird. Like if it was, I would think if it was a professional bird hunter, like I could, you could have and be like,

I gotta get more bird, but that would be, cause your career is gonna end. I don't know if I would call that, oh, you got to get the itch to kind of try to keep your livelihood going. The twitch. Well, if you've ever collected anything, Okay. It's like you get to see, when you see a new bird, you get to add it to your list.

So you feel that dopamine hit probably. And do you compare lists with other birders? I have a list on ebird.org. I'm happy to show it to you. Okay. And you like, are you, do you have... Can we pull it up? Yeah. I'd like to see it. I would be absolutely delighted to show you. you have? Can we pull it up? Yeah.

I'd like to see it. I would be absolutely delighted to show you. Oh yeah. Can we pull it up? Sure, I'll pull it up. Yeah, do it on your phone so no one can see it. You gotta give me a minute. Ebird.com?

Yeah, can he log into it? I have it logged. I can log in right here. I'm already logged in. But we wanna see it on the TV. Oh, well I'm gonna have to figure out my password. I saw it. Well, I saw on August 10th, 2023, you saw two different species in Auckland. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Wow. You found it.

That was one list. He saw the brown quail and the Australia's Asian guenette. This is Joe Zimmerman. For some reason, I'm public on two species. Yeah. You're on eBird. I went public on two species. Yeah, you're on eBird. I went public on two species. Joe Zimmerman relationship complicated. That's so strange. You've been using this for years here. That's strange that it's just two birds listed.

But yeah, TRI, I saw those with Nate. Nate was there. Nate was present. I saw him T.R.I. I saw those with Nate. Nate was there, Nate was present. I saw him too. Yeah, Nate said when he came back- Nate remembers the quails. You got into it as much as a person could get into it. It was first of-

I took Joe specifically because I knew this was the craziest place to go see- To go bird watching. To see birds. And you saw two. And we went out, we took them out. You saw two species. We saw, right off the plane, we saw, like, you know, there's a pigeon right there alone. Just, you knock off five birds at the airport. Is this a

count right here, Joe? So you saw 50 brown coils? Yeah, there were a bunch on the golf course. Like, I estimated 50. Probably more than that. Oh,'s not exact this is like this is an estimation? Yeah how many birds have you seen? About 230 total species and 70 of them were in Australia New Zealand. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. Can you plug it in? See here you go here's the total list. Can you plug that thing? Oh no yeah yeah. I can actually. Yeah, but we're not gonna get the recording. Yeah, oh yeah. But you see right there, you can see it. I can see it.

238 species observed. How many did we knock off on that trip? I believe 75 in Australia and New Zealand. So that's a big chunk of them. That's crazy. In two weeks. Wow. Yeah, so I would be starting at 75. But I don't remember them. You remember every chunk of them. I mean, that's crazy. In two weeks. Wow. Yeah. So I would be starting at 75.

And I don't remember them. You remember every one of them? That we saw all 75? No, I have, I listed them here. So it's easier for me to recall them. Do you have an app? Yeah, this is E-Bird. No, no, where you can like, you hold it up,

take a picture and it tells you what kind of bird it is. Oh, I don't have that. That'd be pretty nice. Like Shazam for birds. Plants have it. Yeah, how do you know? Well, we had a bird guide. We had a professional Australian bird guide

that told us what they were. That helps. So he could have told you anything. They had birds sitting, like we went out and there was like these, like places you would go sit inside that's like wood that's covered like a shed and you'd have a little slot and you go see some birds there. Yeah and some Australians. We did a specific day that

was just going to see birds. Are you trying to 100% the world? Is that like a goal or 100% a particular region? Well nobody's ever reached all 11,000 birds. Do you know what the record is? Around 10,300. I mean, that's so close to get to 11,000. And earlier this year, Peter Kastner became the first birder to log over 10,000 species. It's close, but it's still like a thousand, seven, no, 11, 700 birds away. Those, I mean, that's pretty close though. Is he,

can he just go knock on? Why can't you, but how long have you been doing it? I've been doing it four years. I only got four years only at 270. Yeah. 230. Yeah. But he's not doing this guy. Well, so the problem is every bird you see on your list, the next bird is probably more rare. So he's got the last 700 are like the rarest birds. There's probably two in the world or something. And they're on remote islands. That's why it's hard.

He's gotta take some fairy four hours to an island. If you hear a bird but don't see it, does that count? The hardcore bird professionals count it, but I don't count that. I just, I like to, I have to see it? Does that count? The hardcore bird professionals count it, but I don't count that. I just, I like to, I have to see it. Because he's a watcher, not a birder. Yeah. If you're a watcher, you gotta see it. I gotta see it. You think there's a lot of loose counting of birds, like where you go like, yeah, I saw it. Is this all just on the honor? Yeah, that's what I was about to ask. Like it is a hundred percent honor system. You've never challenged another bird on there. But the leader, that guy that's leading, they'll do official recordings.

Okay. He has to get a picture of them. No, like audio recordings. Oh, audio. Better than a picture? Or an alibi. He'll be with three people that can confirm as well. Oh, it's like a hole-in-one at a golf course. It's like a hole-in-one. It's exactly like a hole in one. Yeah. And I think they do the honor system

because they realized no one really cares. Yes. The craziest honor system is there's a 24 hour race where groups compete to see the most birds in 24 hours in the Northeast. And these groups fight for 24 hours to identify the most birds in 24 hours in the Northeast. And these groups fight for 24 hours to identify the most birds. And that is totally just them saying they saw the birds.

And they're competing. I couldn't do that one. I would just be like, you didn't see that. You'd be like, I didn't see that. Yeah, I don't believe that you saw it. Really? You saw that, huh? If I were trying to see the most birds in a 24 hour period,

where would I want to be in the world? Yeah, probably the rainforest in South America. Okay. Yeah. And just walk through there. A lot of different. It wasn't New Zealand and Australia? So yeah, Australia and New Zealand's another big one. Cause like I said, we saw 70 in a couple of hours.

So that's crazy to see 70. Yeah. Yeah. What's like the rare hours on the rarest bird that one day we saw like six. He, he counted like 65. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. In one little area. Is there one bird known as the rarest that it's the hardest to spot? The rarest bird. Well, there's a couple, Lazarus species where they thought they were endangered for 70 years and they found that they're still alive.

There's one in Australia, the something parrot that took a guy weeks camping out all night with audio equipment to prove that it was still there because it only comes out at night. And it's like a big foot of birds. Yeah, I like that. So that parrot in Australia, I forget what it's called,

but that was the one I would say. But Desi, you said birds migrate to hermitage. Well, you know, they said somebody, my neighbor told me that our area is a bird sanctuary. And I've seen a lot of birds just in my neighborhood that I don't see when I just go out and about. Like even in McMinnville, where we're at, it seems like there's less birds than in my neighborhood. So, I mean, I see a ton of birds.

Have you ever done bird watching? No, I mean, I sit in my backyard and I look at, I got a bird identifying book and I sit in the backyard and I look at them. And then I, you know, most of it was done. Get on with your life. Most of it was done during COVID when I didn't have kids or any gigs.

And I was just sitting there. It's kind of right where Joe's at. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly what I got into it was COVID. Yeah. It's kind of right where Joe's at. That's exactly what I got into.

Yeah. So I like it. I'm into birds. I got a bunch of bird feeders at my house. I like feeding them. I like when I see a bird back there that I don't see a lot. That's fun. But, you know, I'm not.

What's your coolest backyard bird, Dusty? I don't know. Is that kind of a bird? I don't know. Bats, does that count as a bird? Oh, I don't know. But the we got like a like a woodpecker, like a red red tailed woodpecker. Red belly. Yeah. Red belly, not bad.

That comes a lot. I you know, my favorite bird, I like the Eastern bluebird. We get a lot of those. I've watched an Eastern Bluebird fly and catch an insect midair in my backyard. Those are cool. There's the tufted titmouse is what it's called. And it's a good one. I like those. Doves, I have a doves that keep nesting out my front door. Oh yeah, I saw those when I was over there. Those are great.

I love the sound that doves make. I thought it was an owl. It's a real fun sound. Oh yeah. Who? I like an owl. I'd love to have an owl. Yeah, we had an owl.

Owls are the best. You had an owl? Are you in favor or are you indifferent to people having birds as pets? Has birding changed your opinion on that at all? I wouldn't say I have an opinion about parrots as pets. I haven't seen a lot of research on parrots as pets. But all birds, any birds?

It's always felt weird to me to just have it in a cage and where it can't fly. research on parrots as pets. But all birds, any birds? It's always felt weird to me to just have it in a cage and where it can't fly. Yeah, I mean, I'm a fan of birds in the wild. I don't know if it's a rescued bird that can't be in the wild. Oh, okay. Then that's different. I don't know the situation.

Okay. He wants to know, yeah. That is the reason why it's there, but it is funny to go, he just needs to know the situation. Because what's the situation? He goes, all right, this is a bird, healthy bird. This one got hit by a car. He goes, okay.

It's a strange, I know Bobcat Goldthwait has a couple of ducks. I don't know. I don't know how to find them. Oh, a duck. But that's a domestic bird. So ducks got to be up there on most common bird. I didn't look at the top 10. Yeah.

A chickadee is another one that I like. You have these little chickens, they're a little white and black birds. Little bitty. Chickadee titmouse? No, no, just yeah, like that. I love those. Those pop, those come around. A lot of Cardinals, a lot of Robins.

Female Cardinals, a lot of people, yeah, everybody always just counts the male Cardinal, which is the red, but female Cardinal, which is the red but female Cardinal gray bit of an orange beak Very nice Just everybody knows I prepared a game show for you of recognizing common bird calls. Oh, okay I'd like to play. Yeah, I thought you'd enjoy what's that for the end? Yeah, I just want you guys Okay, I just want to tease it. All right, so, you know, it's coming stick around everybody. How are we gonna play it? I got all the calls right. All right, so you know, it's coming stick around everybody How are we gonna play it? I

Got all the calls right here. Okay, and then you the winner gets 20 bucks Oh, yeah, and I got a little buzzers a little squeaky toy buzzers. Oh, can we he gets $2 back 10% here it though Yeah, the bird call you'll be able to hear it the podcast But the be know that we're not doing this just for us. There's actually like, there's real people on the other end. I'll play the bird call so that you can hear it and it'll be in the microphone. Wait, up to the microphone. Okay. All right. And you'll definitely hear the buzzers because they're squeaky.

Yeah, the game is for after the podcast. Okay. Yeah. I got a really funny story I'm gonna tell you guys right after this podcast. Yeah. Yeah. John James Audubon was one of the first people to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America.

Is that the Audubon, like the cult road? Isn't that called Audubon? In Germany? Yeah. No, this is the Audubon of society, which is the- That isn't the road, Audubon? In Germany? No, this is the Autobahn of society which is the... It isn't the road Autobahn? Maybe you can drive as fast as you can.

Made a bunch of money off the road. Autobahn. Oh, Autobahn. You're talking about the Autobahn. What's this dude's name? Autobahn. A-U-D-U-B-O-N. It's the same thing. Oh, auto O T T O. A U D. A U D U B O N. It's the same thing. It's just, same thing. Just spell it a little. No, he spells it. Oh yeah. Auto. I was like, oh,

wait a second. This is auto and yeah. Auto Bon. I bet that's, you know, I've heard people, I bet he gets that all the time, dude. Very similar. I guarantee you. He goes, I'm auto Bon. You go, oh wow, dude, that's your road. He goes, no, no, because he actually has something. Yeah. It's not the frustrating where he doesn't have anything. He's got nothing going on. He goes, no, no, I have a big thing going on. He goes, I was the family we first painted all the birds.

And you go, oh, that's cool, man. He goes, but have you ever been to the Autobahn where you can drive? He goes, do you know that guy? Cause I would like to meet that guy. You can't even go to Europe. You can drive as fast as a Peregrine Falcon on the autobahn. Yeah. I would love to go do the autobahn. Say it just like that.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it'd be pretty fun. I mean, you think you go 200 miles an hour. Yep. I think like, it's gotta be, I bet it's intense. Then you go right past the Swiss Alps. I bet when you're on it, it's like intense.

Cause you're like, you know. Yeah. It's beautiful. The Swiss Alps are, you can see them from two miles away. Like a school bus. Yeah. See a school bus. I bet you see a school bus two miles away.

It's like a bird. Like if you're up, you don't think you could see, think about being up. You don't think you can see, you might see a school bus two miles away. It's like a bird. Like if you're up, you don't think you could see, think about being up. You don't think you can see, you probably see a car. Oh, sure. Think about looking out of a plane to the ground. You can see cars from two miles. Yeah.

How high is the airplane? It goes pretty high, 35,000 feet. Yeah. I think I can see a bus from there. But you can't see a bus from there. When you're at 35,000 feet, you're not seeing the ground. You're not seeing it. I bet I could see a car from that high. No. Oh yeah. No. A big one. That's like seven miles. But you could see it on a clear day. You can see the squares. You can see

the circles. You can see the farmland, right? You can probably, if you look, you can probably see a car. You can see light. Will you Google highest vulture altitude? Cause I want to make sure I got it right. Cause I think it's crazy. 36,000 feet. Wow. The Rupel Griffin Vulture.

Wow. There it is. There it is. That's 37,000. Yeah, that's way. 37,000 feet. That's a, I mean, you're. That's Mount Everest.

Yeah. I mean, you, it would be a plane. Like you could hit it with a commercial. Some airplanes were shocked to see them up there. Yeah. What were they doing up there? You go, what are y'all doing? Yeah. The altitude they reach is the cruising range of commercial jets, which

requires six to 9,000 pounds of jet fuel to reach the same height. And they do it with zero jet fuel. They do have an oxygen tank. They poop up there so they do live some chemtrails. And eventually that poop gets over 200 miles an hour like a peregrine falcon on the way down. Terminal velocity? Yeah so they just regularly fly that high. They're regularly that high. They're regularly that high. Or now they're saying, yeah, it's the same like they're the highest out to ever was 37,000, but it seems like they do get up that high. Yeah. Quite often. They hang out up there. Do they live in the mountains?

They live along the coast of, I don't know where, but I know they live in Africa along. Yeah. I mean, how long, what are you doing up there? Yeah. You think the bear, the birds get tired flapping? Yeah. Do you think the birds get tired, flapping their wings? Oh yeah, so birds in migration, when they come through Central Park, some of them will just be like, laying there trying to regain some energy, just completely toast.

Just laying there trying to get it back. But yeah, they lay on the ground. I've seen a lot of people laying around central park like that. Yeah. You're talking about laying on the ground or what are you talking about? They'll just be laying on the ground because they flew however many miles over. Like your feet are sideways. That's what I'm picturing.

I picture they're on their side and their feet are going out that way. So tired. They got the bend going. They're on their side and their feet are going out that way. Yeah. So tired. They got the bend going. They're standing their heads down. Yeah. I think they tip over and they're laying on one of their wings and they're to their feet, orange feet stick out, stick out to the left. Yeah.

I don't know. I just mean, I just mean, I just like this. Yeah. Just stick out to the left. I just mean, I just mean they're just like this. Yeah. Just crumbled down. Just hoping they get a little water to keep get it going again. Are you a member of the Audubon Society? No, in fact, I thought you were gonna bring up

the problematic nature of the name. Ooh. Oh. Let's hear about it. They're changing, I thought you guys would be interested in this, they're changing the hundred birds in North America's names that were named after people because too many birds were named after problematic guys in the 1500s.

So it's like statues by birds. Yeah. Can you give me an example? Audubon Shearwater. Audubon apparently had some racy stuff happen in his time. Audubon Shearwater, Audubon apparently, you know, had some racy stuff happen in his time. Audubon Shearwater. Is it like probably? Audubon Shearwater.

Yeah, Himmler Parakeet. Yeah, yeah, it was crazy stuff. That seems like a good use of time. Wilson Snipe, that's gonna change. Kirtland Zorbert, that's gonna change. Cause he's in jail for IRS. One of them. It's like guys in the 1500s.

It's like guys in the 1500s who were like white men were smarter because they have bigger brains and then they're also like, also I discovered this bird. Yeah. They were like half scientists. But if we just, uh, stop talking about those guys, nobody would even remember them. And then the bird would just, um, we would go, we're just going to move on. Yeah. It's just this bird's name.

Yeah. Yeah. It's, yeah. I don't know who kept bringing up like, Hey, Kirtland is problematic and I don't want to keep thinking about this Kirtland's warbler associated with him. Here's, you don't want to reward the family, but I don't even like, like learning that this is the first I've heard of it. Like I don't even know these guys. Yeah. Yeah. Asperger's too. As I say, I asked her, it's a

problem. That's a problematic. That could change. That could be all right with that. Not because it's problematic. I think they're not. They're not using it anymore. Too weird of a word. Heimlich. Heimlich too, right? Yeah. Yeah. I have a joke about it. Yeah. Did you do it in Paducah? I did and it's lovely people. Again, the Hollywood elites that don't go to middle America. That's what's wrong with this country. Right here. You go to the middle of the middle of America. The middle Tennessee kid, right? The smartest birds, crows, and African gray parrots.

Crows we just talked about, they bring tools. Yeah, that's what I'm told. I like crows. I'm into it. Yeah, I like a crow. Yeah. Smart. How smart can they be if the scarecrow works?

You know what I mean? But does it though? In the movie Wizard of Oz, they're like, they know. It worked for him. Yeah, well there's a lot of- I think it works for like a day, then they go, that guy can't stay in there that long. Yeah, that's true. I don't know how scientifically accurate

the Wizard of Oz is though. A tin man does come to life and they dance around. The flamingos stay together for the rest of their lives. Some couples have been together for 50 years or more. Wow. That's why their heads under water. Cause they're like, yeah, at the zoo. What says get away.

What do you want? I'm fishing. Just let me, I'm going to go under water. Is she still here? Yeah. How long you down there for? You know, we're not supposed to stay on there too long. I'm just going under for a second.

I'm trying to give it, I'm helping evolution by staying longer. I wish I could fly. Can they fly? They can fly, I guess. Flamingos, yeah. Yeah. Probably awkward flying.

Yeah, they just don't like to do it that much, huh? Yeah, I bet. I mean, look at it. It's an awkward yeah. Yeah. Probably awkward flying. Yeah, they just don't like to do it that much, huh? Yeah, but I mean, look at it. It's an awkward fly. Yeah. I mean, you got those legs. It's like- Pull up the flamingo dancing though. The flamingo dancing is adorable.

The flamingo dance from Planet Earth 2. That's right here. That's the one. This is the flamenco? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Flamingo dance. You know, I've seen this from, I'll find it. I'll find it.

Right there. Right here. Oh, just delightful. Just wait for, just wait to soak this in. They cut a rug, huh? These are goofy looking birds, man. There's three Major League Baseball teams, three NBA teams, and five NFL teams named after birds.

So they're mascots. Can you name them? Hawks, Falcons, Orioles. Did you say NFL and baseball? What did you say? NBA. Ravens. There you go.

Nice. Yeah. Eagles. Blue Jays. Blue Jays. Yep. Can you name the Orioles? Cardinals. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. You name that. I mean, the Orioles Cardinals. Yeah. NBA Pelicans, Hawks, and the Raptors. Oh.

Well, so they're wrong about that. So not three birds then. NHL, Red Wings. Gosh, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. That's just the wings, right? Does that count as the whole bird? I didn't look up hockey. Oh, I thought the dumbest things I've ever heard that we're really hanging on to. What? That birds and rapt, like a raptor is a bird. Oh, we still know.

Oh. Yeah. You don't hear it often said the other way around, but you hear birds are dinosaurs. You know what I mean? Are you talking about Velociraptor? I am guessing so. Whatever the Toronto Raptors is, mean? Are you talking about Velociraptor? I am guessing so. Whatever the Tyrannoraptors is, I'm guessing it's a Velociraptor.

Cause Raptor is a type of bird of prey. Yeah. Oh, well maybe that's it. But that's not their thing. Tyrannoraptors, that's a dinosaur. It's a dinosaur. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's what I thought.

I thought the Tyrannoraptors were a dinosaur. Yeah. What do birds do during a hurricane? Joanne Weber wrote in for that. I would love to, I would love to know the answer to that. Oh, that's just a question for me. Yeah. Joanne Weber, Fairhope, Alabama.

Well, I can say that. That's a good question. I can say that is a great question. And there's certain bird species that are known for knowing, predicting hurricanes way before our, our, our meteorologists predict them. And certain birds... When do they tell you that after it came through? Certain birds...

A bird goes, I knew this was coming the whole time. You're like, give me a break. There's a certain bird species that will migrate a different direction. And every time they do that, there's a ton of hurricanes that come. So they know something. Are people keeping an eye on that then? People should. I don't know the dirty details on, but I think a lot of birds like other, I think a lot of

birds can detect the hurricanes way ahead of time and fly elsewhere. That's my best answer. They smell it. Tell your mom. They smell it, you know, something. They just go something's not right. It's a radar maybe. And a little. Yeah what seagulls they just I mean that's where they live the sea. Seagulls got to be one of the dumber they feel like one of the dumber breeds of birds. Do you feel that way? I don't know. Doesn't they feel like a dumb compared to some of these other birds we've been talking about?

That vulture bird doesn't know when to stop. That just keeps going. Well, a birder would take issue with you calling them seagulls. Oh, what should I call them? Well, there's a bunch of different species of gull. Okay. And I'm talking about just a straight up. I think that's like, I'm talking about, you know what I mean? that's like the- I'm talking about a, you know what I mean.

Yeah, I'm talking about- You talking about the Herring Goal or the California Goal? Not the California one. I'm talking about- Like Finding Nemo, was it? Where the bird kind of washes up and all the birds are like, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine. And I think that's where they seem dumb. Yeah. Oh, I hadn't seen that movie.

It's something though, where the goals are like goals are like mine, mine, mine, mine. I think it's a dumb and it's making it's made like a dumb bird and maybe it's a dumb noise they make. And they eat stuff that they're not supposed to eat and they can die real easily. Do we have you know, I mean, yeah, I was about to say, how long does it take you to set up your game? Oh, about one minute. Well, go ahead to sit up. We'll keep talking.

Let's clock it. One of the most famous moments in baseball history is when Randy Johnson killed that bird. Oh, yeah. At Spring Train. There was another one. Dave, Dave Winfield, back in my day, he was throwing a ball back in and hit a seagull and killed it. And they arrested him after the game. Really? Yeah.

I saw a video of Nate killing a bird. I killed a bird. Several birds. Didn't two birds with one stone, didn't you say there? Is that a joke or is that real? Yeah, it's a joke. But I mean, is it real that they're trying to change that? PETA released a statement

suggesting a bunch of changes to language. We have idioms like skin a cat, they wanna change to more than one way to pet a cat. There's lots of ways to pet a cat, but is there more than one way to skin a cat is the point. Yeah. Well, Peter's making these suggestions. That's a fair point.

They don't all make perfect sense. Right, right. But one of the suggestions was, instead of kill two birds with one stone would be to say. Achieve two things with one input. They got like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But they suggested feed two birds with one scone to make it more peaceful. But that's easy to do. You just break the scone apart and you give in. That's not even, it's not hard. I got a good, they suggest instead of beat a dead horse, violent, they want you to say, feed a fed horse. But it's already full. Exactly. That's one of the better, that's one of the better

words. I like that. Yeah. Feed a fed horse. I think it would still eat it. Yeah. Well, he jammed it in there. All right. If you ever want to commit a crime, you can carry this book around and they won't suspect you. Yeah. Bird songs. This is bird songs. 250 North American birds in song. Joe likes to sit on the plane listening to this with no headphones. This is a wonderful book. He just, everybody on the plane is going, I think there's a bird in here. Oh, this is my favorite book. Breaking Out of the Holidays. So. He's not to be looking. He doesn't, this is my favorite book, breaking out the holidays. So not to be looking, he doesn't, this is not to be.

I'm just giving you, I'm just doing a test of the volume here. Volume test. This is a, uh, one of the more haunting bird calls is the, uh, the common loon. Just doing a volume test, common loon. Sounds like that work in the mic. like you're good bad spirits. Yeah, it does. Okay. There's a murder on the bayou. So I like it. So I think I like bird sounds more than I do. Everything else about her. Yeah. Because it's kind of fun. And then you see it. You're like, oh, all right. So

here's your buzzers. You can buzz in. Man, this is awesome. There's squeaky squeaky birds. OK. And the first one to buzz in, we'll get a shot at answering. I like this. The pheasant. Yeah. So. So the pheasant. Yeah.

So. And then. Right. This sounds real. Like, like you ever hit it? You step on a cat or something? Yeah. That's what it sounds like.

Yeah. Well, you have to write our answers down? No, this is just for the final round. Just the final, final round. Okay. Yeah. So we'll do it. Should we have started this part, this up way earlier. Yeah. So we'll do it. Should we have started this up way earlier?

Yeah. So we'll do it. Hey, the guy that gets up to go to the bathroom and the guy that brings his own game to not his podcast. I mean, this is what I would show to people. Go, what's Joe Zimmerman like? You go, he's a great guy, but he will do his own thing. All right. Wait, don't look at the bookimba like? You go, he's a great guy, but he will do his own thing.

All right, wait, don't look at the book, Brian. Yeah, see, I knew that. You can't look. Brian will be cheating. All right, we'll do a test round. This is a test round. I'll play a call and the first person to buzz in will give a chance to answer in the test round. See how it goes.

That's Nate. Duck. That's not a duck. Wow. I'm going seagull of some sort. Oh yeah. That makes sense. This is going to be worse than I thought.

That's not a seagull. Turkey. Chicken. So it's a goose. It's a Canada goose. A goose. That makes sense. Well, come on.

That's Nate one night when he said duck, I said, this is water animals. And it was a good. It's basically the same. We're not so far off. Yeah. We knew it was water animals. You would have seen both of our animals right next to him. Yeah. The water bird. That was fun. Yeah.

Oh, we're more. Oh, yeah. I love it. I got some I got some common birds and then I got some pop culture birds. I think you'll know the pop culture. All right. That's a flack. That's the duck. You nailed it. Correct. Oh yeah.

So that's a hundred points for Aaron. That's a hundred. Thank you, Deon Sanders, Nick Saban. We don't even get 25. Oh, I forgot that the winner- His dad works for Aflac. That's true. Your dad sold it.

Okay. All right. That was before the duck probably. I forgot that the winner gets $20. I'm going to give the winner $20. You said that. You've already said that. Oh, great. Great. Okay. All right. That was before the duck probably. I forgot that the winner, the winner gets $20. I'm going to give you a winner $20. You said that. You've already said that. Oh, great. Yeah.

We're leaving all this in just so people can get the vibe of you. The losers owe me $20. Okay. Oh man. Yeah. That's not very funny. I only brought 10. Yeah. You can bend me. We'll just do a couple more common birds here. Don't look, don't look. I found 250 bucks the other day. Cross-filth, the bar. Turkey? Turkey? Oh wait. I just wondered this week once. Turkey? Oh wait. I just wanted to squeak once.

I think I know it. I do. You don't know it. No. Is that a toucan? It's not a toucan. Oh. Thank you for playing. If I read Malibu. I named that tune. I try to put myself in its place. Man, I want to say it's a small bird. Is it small? It's a laughing goal. I would have counted seagull.

Whoa. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, laughing goal. I would have counted seagull. Whoa. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, laughing goal. All right, this next one's very gettable. Okay. And bonus points if you can name the species. We'll see.

Ow. Nailed it. That's a hundred for Nate. Bonus 50 if you can get the species. Screech Ow. No. No, I didn't say that. That was dusty.

I'm trying for the bonus. Uh, Oh, any of us can get the bonus. Yeah. Uh, white owl, a night owl. I think white owls are cigar. It's the, uh, it's the famous barred owl call. It's a dog. Barn owl.

That's the only owl I know. You know, I was at- Barred, barred owl. Oh, I thought it was barred. I was at the bird sanctuary. They told me that the screech owl is not actually the loud screaming owl, that that's the barn owl, not barred, the barn owl.

So I was like, well, what sound does the screech owl make? That's why I went with that. Yeah, this is a good guess. Do you think when they named the barred owl, then they go, they found an owl and they go, oh, that's the barn, the guy names it. I'm gonna name that the barn owl. And the other guy found another one,

he was so frustrated, he goes, yeah, well, mine's the barred owl. And he goes, all right, dude, he goes, but do something different. And he goes, goes yeah well mine's the barred owl and he goes all right dude he goes but do something different and he goes it is different it's barred he goes and he goes he's so mad that he didn't get that because his was also near a barn so he was so frustrated he just goes well mine's the barred owl and you go well you're being ridiculous and it was two brothers and he goes well you're being ridiculous and now we have that problem. Very gettable. Oh, crow.

Close. Raven. Got it. Oh, Brian's on the board with a hundred. I think more and more. Brian cheated both times. I think so too. Why?

I don't. I think Aaron squeaked first. No, no, no. I didn't know. I didn't. Okay. I didn't know that. I don't know where the squeaks are coming from. I guess because I'm wearing a headsets. Yeah. They're coming from everywhere.

Yeah. Yeah. This might be the easiest one yet. We'll see. Um, very gettable, very gettable. Turkey. Nailed it. Cool.

That's a gobble. It basically says gobble. It's basically going gobble, gobble, gobble. That's true. Like, I mean, it can't help it. All right. We're going to move on to the computer birds. Okay. Okay.

These are worth 200 points. So these are harder. Move at a slow pace. Well, actually. We have all the time in the world. Don't look at my computer though. Okay. I won't. 200 points. So these are harder. Move at a slow pace. Well, actually we have all the time in the world.

Don't look at my computer though. Okay. Oh, so we'll do it. We'll go to pop culture birds. These, these are very gettable here. Very gettable. Angry birds. Close.

This one. Road runner. Got it. That's my, uh, you grew up on that. Yeah. Yeah. Saw the first episode. Yeah. We'll go rapid fire here. You guys know this one. Paul corn, like horn. Okay. Nice dusty. He didn't ring. Did you? You're not even buzzing. Nobody. No, nobody can tell. You're talking about? not even buzzing. Nobody can tell. Yeah, he can joke and tell. Okay, I'm going to pay close attention. I think I got a harder answer. You can't answer until he says your name.

I'll say it. Wait, sorry. You're not going to know this one, Dusty. Zero chance you know this one. E.T. Yeah. You're not going to know it. Headway. Headwick nailed it.

What is that? Harry Potter. Harry Potter. I heard a bird. Yeah. Well, it's coming. It's yeah. I think it's called Headwick's theme.

Actually, his name of the song. All right. You got to let me hear written by John Williams, who's won more Oscars than any human being on Earth. Really? I think so. You got to let me hear the bird, though. Okay.

This one gets a little tougher, but gettable. Is he the only one trying to win those Oscars? Probably. Have a good exam. You'll lose more than that when the king gets through with you. He's as mad as a hippo with a hernia. Can they hear this? I like that you surprised our production crew with stuff

that they could have put in. I'm coming back from lunch. Surprised our production crew with the stuff that they could have put in. You know, I can see it, but I'm going to say like a Toucan, like a parrot of some sort. Yeah. It's Zazu from Lion King. Yeah. I mean, I'm not like I can see it, but I'm also not going to lose the game because, yeah, because Joe's showing you Thank you. Yeah, Joe do one if you felt like it should end. All right. Yeah I'm gonna do the last two

These are for the pod these are for the pod these are for the 20 you should recognize you might recognize what's the score? No, it is well, you might recognize. What's the score? No, it doesn't. Well, we're figured out. It's a lot. It's a lot, yeah. Pig. No, this is an actual bird. It's come up on the podcast. Cassowary?

Dodo bird. Ostrich. No. Dodo bird's been dead since the 50s. Emu. It is an emu, correct. Oh, man. With a gun. I said lemur. Why'd you laugh though when I said ostrs. Emu. It is an emu. Correct. Oh man.

With a gun. Why'd you laugh though when I said ostrich? That's pretty close to an emu. I mean, they're friends, but let's not be crazy. Both little big. Ostrich is the biggest bird. And then, okay, so this is a special one. I prepared it just for you guys.

It's two bird calls and it's very gettable, but it's two different bird calls. We gotta wait for both of them? Or are they two combined? Wait for both of them. Here it comes. And here's the other one. Got that first one. Is that a bald eagle? Ooh, see that's where it's tricky.

An American bald eagle. It's a trick golden eagle. Yeah. And a chickadee. It's a Falcon. It's not, you know what? It's a peregrine falcon. I found something. It's something. The hint is it's a call in pop culture in movies. They play in movies, but they play the wrong bird in movies. The crow. So they play this call for bald eagles in movies, but I didn't know if you would know the answer.

They play this for bald eagles. Oh boy. Nevermind. So that was okay. Yeah. You're doing something that we should do off. The first call was, she goes, what do y'all do afterwards? This, we got to sit through Joe, the rest of Joe's ideas. We usually don't make y'all have to deal with them, but now you do too. I'm loving it. The first call was the red-tailed hawk, which they use in movies. Red-tailed hawk sitting on a limb. They use in movies. I just saw one of those recently.

When there's an eagle in the movie, they play the red-tailed hawk sound and it drives bird watchers crazy. Do you think you? The second one was an eagle. The little tweeting one was an eagle. Oh, that's the real eagle. The tweeting, the eagles have really little Twitter, Twitters. That is good to know.

Yeah. It was, cause I would have thought the eagle would have been the loud screeching. Yeah, that's what you wanted to make noise like that. That's actually is fun. Yeah, it is fun to know. That's why they did it. I was going to make fun of you, but that was actually fun to know. Yeah, that was, I'll remember that. Yeah, Yeah. I'll give you that. Yeah. All right.

Take my everything. I said, yeah, take back everything. All right. Well, who won? Yeah. Let me add up here. Nate, 200, Dusty, 200, Brian, 200, Aaron, 300. Wow. Close game. Harry Potter put me over the edge. What a race. You didn't even let the birds.

What a race. I gotta get you $20. I gotta get you $20. We can get it after Joe. Uh. Yes. Yes. Yes.

He's about to pull his. Joe's gonna make a birthday run, then come back and do it. He's about to pull his coin purse out. He's got $40 in there. One was because I was giving one away and one's in case of emergency. And Aaron will just leave this laying around. Yeah.

Yeah. And we can test your cash. See what it does. Gets to, gets to 20 or 250 back. Uh, appreciate it, man. That's fun. Where do you, uh, you want to say where you're at? This Thursday I'm in Gadsden, Alabama doing an event for Young Life. I don't even know

if that's open to the public, but I'll be there. Batten down the hatches. Yeah. Saturday, I'm at the Alice Theater in Litchfield, Kentucky. Tickets still available. Sunday I'm in doing an event called Laugh All Night in London, Kentucky. And November 27th, the night before Thanksgiving, my next Brian Bates and friends here at the Lab at Zany's. And just announced one month from today, December 13th, Hyenas Worth. Finally, let me come back. You know, I canceled when, uh, went to SNL. They're good. Let me come back, do one show in the red room, uh, December 13th. So buy your tickets for that.

Yes. Cause that was the one that they go. I don't remember what we said. Thanks, but no thanks. Basically he reached out and said, ticket sales are low. Um, We need to cancel some shows. I'm like well I'm not even coming. He goes and he heard an audible oh that was easier than I thought. He was relieved. But anyway, buy tickets in Fort Worth.

Yeah, show them that you know Bates is a draw now. So it's different. Now it's different. Joe, do you want to say? I'll be in Tuscaloosa Wednesday. All right, roll tide. And I'll be in Birmingham Thursday at Avondale Brewing. And tomorrow night, I'll be here. You guys should come out. I want to invite you guys.

Friday? It'll already be over, but I'm just inviting you guys. Oh, technically Tuesday. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And then. Yeah, November 24th, St. Louis, helium,. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And then. Yeah. November 24th, St. Louis, helium, two shows. Both are almost sold out. Couple tickets left. Come on out November 24th. I'm also going to see Hinder this

weekend. Oh, so is he. I'm kidding. Yeah. I don't even know what that is. It's a band. Lips of an angel. I'm, uh, I'm off this weekend, but next weekend, uh, Friday, November 22nd, I'm in Des Moines, Iowa. Saturday the 23rd, St. Paul, Minnesota. Two theater gigs, get some tickets, come see it. Great. Great comedy town. Yes. All right, we're going to leave. We got Aaron. Happy birthday, buddy. We have one cupcake. All right.

Abigail got it for you. All right. Let's sing the curse. Yeah, I get that. This is all I need to Happy birthday. Thank you Thank you couple more bird Sam I you. I got you covered. DJ, hit it. That's a whipper willow. Goodbye, everyone. We love ya. Nate Land is produced by Nate Land Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife Laura on the Audio Boom platform.

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