The Nateland Podcast - 228: #228 Road Trips with the Nickersons

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

This week, Dusty is missing and Nate is late but the guys are joined by Dustin and Melissa Nickerson of the Don't Make Me Come Back There Podcast. They debate whether Aaron is like a wine, whether Dustin looks like the Green River Killer, and most importantly whether the SEC or Big Ten is the superior conference. Then they eventually get into this week's topic of Road Trips by sharing tips, tools, and stories from the road. Mountain Dew: https://lets.shop/2141/dothedew/ The Mountain is calling, you should answer.. Grab your friends, grab an ice-cold Mountain Dew wherever refreshing beverages are sold, and DO THE DEW.  Aura Frames: AuraFrames.com For a limited time, visit AuraFrames.com and get $45 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames by using promo code NATE at checkout. This exclusive Black Friday Cyber Monday deal is their best of the year, so don’t miss out! Terms and conditions apply. DraftKings: https://sportsbook.draftkings.com/sportsbook-app Grab some TDs with DraftKings Sportsbook – they’re on sale from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday! Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use code NATELAND to opt in.  The Crown Is Yours. Chime: http://chime.com/NATE Turn your holiday purchases into steps toward your financial goals with Chime’s secure credit card. Get started today at chime.com/NATE. Chime. Feels like Progress.

Today's episode of the Nightline podcast is brought to you by Mountain Dew, Aura Frames, Draft Kings, and Chime. Hello folks and hey bear. I don't know why the tone of your voice. I don't know. Like, do you want to be here? I I'm happier here. I'm trying to bring Nate and I'm hello folks.

Hey there. I'm just doing my dream job. I'm excited to be here. Hello, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber. Now you're overdoing it. Dustin Nickerson, who was just maybe the quickest returning guest we've ever had. People said we want Dustin back. I don't think they said that. Some of them might have. Just here last month. Someone said the complete opposite.

Yeah, yeah, we'll get to those in the comments. And returning Melissa Nickerson. Hey there. That one they're happy about. They are happy about that. They're very happy to see you, Mel. You know, you guys were our first guest on this table. In the new space? Yeah, in the new space. Broken in, nice. Even though that kinda aired as a

don't make me come back there episode. Yeah. This was, you guys broke it in. We did both. It was a Nate Land 2. It was, it was a crossover, but they. We hosted a bit, yeah. Yeah, they made it a.

Little cross-pollination. I worked in a corporate setting. Yeah. I mean, I might be the first six syllable word ever used on this pocket. I think it's technically a hyphenated word. So does it count as the one? Ah, I think you still add up the syllables. Yeah. Listen, I'm just trying to impress Notre Dame right here.

Oh, stop that. You're making me blush. I can't believe, I mean, I'll do respect to Bates, but your ads are so good. That ad read was phenomenal. Thanks, man. Really strong. Hey, man.

It feels good. It feels good to hit it. You know what I mean? What do you mean? We haven't done them yet. Oh, yeah. Sorry. I just get a sense.

I come out later in the show. I just get a sense that this son of an an educator and I'll do respect to middle Tennessee university, middle Tennessee state university. Thank you very much. Yeah, sorry. You got to qualify even more. MTSU. I'm the middle Tennessee's kid.

Uh, Nate is on. I'm sorry that I missed that. Is that a joke? You guys, the middle Tennessee kid is. Is that a joke you guys? The middle Tennessee kid is so funny. Oh, that's fantastic. That's the middle Tennessee kid. The new running joke on the podcast now is all that Brian's tour is called the easier to drive tour.

Because all his gigs, it's just like you should just drive there. Yeah. Like it's all within a four hour driving. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. One tank of gas tour. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. I also call it sometimes the Dustin Nickerson five years ago tour.

I do like that. God willing. Dustin's down here. Uh, very well be the Dustin Nickerson five years from now to her. You never know. Life comes at you fast. Nate is on his way. He wants people know he's on his way.

He'll get here. So don't stop watching just because these people are here. Uh, Nate and I will run this podcast. We'll do a great job. People know he's on his way, he'll get here. So don't stop watching just because these people are here. Nate and I will run this podcast. We'll do a great job. He'll get here when he gets here. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yep. That is true, Melissa. That is such a mom.

No, I think it's from a movie or something. I'll get here when I get there. It's actually, I mean, that's a good tease for what this episode is gonna be about later. Oh, that's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, road trips. We'll get there when I get there. It's actually, I mean, that's a good tease for what this episode is gonna be about later. Oh, that's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, road trips, we'll get there when we get there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you're screaming at your kids.

Yeah. Yeah. Syllogisms. Yeah. Whoa. Whoa. Syllogism. We don't know what a syllogism is, parents. Hold on, not a syllogism. Simile? I know that one.

Totology maybe? Yeah, that sounds like totology to me. There's one term that's just like a self-evident statement, like the subject in the... Soliloquy. I'm just saying big words that I know.

Yeah, where it's like the color red is red, where it's just a self-evident statement. It's one of those, there's this term for it. I can't remember, I'm sorry. Sorry I brought it up, everybody. This is the kind of stuff Nate shuts down quick. This is like the philosophy 101 nature is like, ah! That's true, yeah.

That's true, and I was a philosophy student. I have a philosophy question for you. Yes, go ahead. No, no, no, later when we get in the topic, I have a philosophy question for you. No, no, no, later when we get in the topic. I have a philosophy question for you. Dusty. Actually, this opened with a philosophy issue of Brian going, why am I here?

That's right. We've already dabbled with issues of existential dread on the podcast. It usually takes about 15 minutes to get into that. We're off to the races today. Dusty is not here. He could be. He just he does his care for Melissa.

He does. Yeah. He always skips my episode. Yeah. He doesn't think Wayman should host podcast. Or be guest on podcast. Me neither. Honestly.

Yeah. So funny. He does a podcast with his wife. Yeah. Make that clear for people. Hop in the comments. All right. So let's talk about where we were this weekend. Let's get into it, man.

Where were you, Brian? I haven't seen you in a while, man. I was in Huntington, Tennessee. Middle Tennessee kid. I ventured to West Tennessee, though. Oh, wow. Getting out there, man. Where's Huntington?

It's about two hours west of here. Is there like a reference city that that kind of north of Jackson a little bit? I like when you do Memphis. I don't know. I'm kidding. I like when you do cities that are so small that it's not the first one you think of when you say that. Like when you say honey, I'm like California, California. Like Huntington Beach, California. Oh, I didn't. I'm from West Virginia.

Oh, even more the point. We thought of two more before we thought of the state you live in. Is there Huntington, West Virginia or am I crazy? Yeah, it's where Marshall is, right? Okay, maybe. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny. I didn't even know there was California.

Yeah. But you're in Huntington, Tennessee. Yeah. What did I do last week that y'all were making fun of me of? I mean, dude, where you did West Chester's Bakersville, Oklahoma or something. That was Bartlesville. Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Bartlesville. I did somewhere last week. Bartlesville is a drug store, I think. That would be funny in a second. Yeah. Oh, it was- You did the Chuckle Hut in Applesford, Kentucky.

Yeah. London, it was, um, you did the Chuckle Hut and Applesford, Kentucky, London, Kentucky. They said, they said, okay, their thing was it's the fourth largest London in the United States. And this week I'm playing a New York city, Louisiana. I mean, he's from Lebanon, Tennessee. Yeah. Lebanon. That's Tennessee. Yeah. It's just Lebanon. Is that one? That's it. Yeah.

There you go. Huntington, Tennessee. I was at the Dixie Carter Performing Arts Center. Oh, my god. Dixie Carter for Designing Women. Oh, that's awesome. OK. You guys know Designing Women?

No. Oh. I'm sorry. I know Henry Cho was on it. Yep. And I was there with Henry. I wasn't even headlining. I was there with opening for Henry Cho.

Well, that's awesome. That's awesome. It's a great theater, and we had a great time. Met a lot of folks. So that's all I did this weekend. It's a really cool theater. Some of those theaters in small towns like that are pretty great. I was in St. Louis yesterday at the Helium Comedy Club. My scheduled show. Oh, they rescheduled one, right? Yeah, shows that are rescheduled because of the baby. They moved them.

Almost everybody transferred their tickets. A lot of, a lot of people, uh, did not, but the shows were both sold out and then the transfer, they moved the date and they were both pretty packed. They were both great. I mean a 4pm show and they were like hot. They had electricity to them. It was just fun. What a great town. A lot of great podcast listeners came out. Just a good time. People give gifts for the baby now.

So cool. It's really great. And like after the show, Lucy will text me like, what did, did we get it? Like, what did we get? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I had a fan last night at my show

ask if I was gonna get to see your baby. They're like, are you guys going to Nashville? Are you gonna see all of them? Like, I don't, I'm not sure. We were going to. We were gonna like bring you guys lunch today. Oh, that would've been great. I know, but the flight.

It didn't, we had time. We thought we were recording at six, but with four, we just, we couldn't do it today. Well, we used to live, I used to live right by the airport. Five minutes from the airport, which I'm learning, trying to sell the house. Other people aren't as thrilled about it. I thought I was like, well, this is going to go off the market quick, dude. It's right by the airport. And the planes get so low. They get it'll shock you how low they get.

But was it very loud? Yeah. Okay. Because I used to live. It'll shake the how low they get. But was it very loud? Yeah. Okay. It'll shake the house, honestly. I used to live very close to there and I didn't really notice it. And they don't have, you had the joke, right? Or the, that you talked about Orange County, they have the regulation, right?

Of when planes can land, but national doesn't have that. Well, I didn't live in that kind of neighborhood where we have any influence over the sky. They go around gate houses. My neighborhood, we're still working on the ground, but once we get that taken care of, we start working on the sky. Well, that's awesome. Yeah. Well, the shows went great. Thank you to everybody that came. That was like my last show

Shows went great, thank you to everybody that came. That was like my last show that got messed up. Messed up's the wrong word. That got adjusted because of the baby. I don't regret having a child. Rescheduled. There you go. Siliquid. I'm not sad about things.

I wanna make that very clear. I'm happy they worked out the way they did. Is that enough? Okay. We don't, we understand. I rescheduled. Yeah, no. So I'm kidding, everything's great. Everything's great.

What have you all been up to, man? I haven't seen you all forever. I'm gonna go. Yeah, when was your weekend? I was trying to see Wicked with my teen and tween daughters. I wanted to kind of do something before I left for a day. And then they were like, we already planned it. We just need rides. between daughters, I wanted to kind of do something before I left for a day. And then they were like, we already planned it,

we just need rides. Whoa. Welcome to parenting older children. So the 10 year olds went to one theater with one mom, and then the three 15 year olds I took to another theater, and then they were like, you can go now, but I need money for dinner. And then I went home and cleaned.

So you thought this would be a fun like mother, children outing. Yeah, I wanna see it. It's two hours and 40 minutes. That's pretty long. Super long movie. Wow. And it's only the first half. It's a super long movie. Wow. And it's only the first half. There's a part two in a year. Spoiler alert.

Oh man. That's common knowledge on the internet. Is the part two just the Wizard of Oz? No, no, no, no. It's the Wiz. That's the part three. Part three is the Wizard of Oz. This is the backstory.

So wicked. It's just like Star Wars. Star Wars started in three. Right? Exactly. Oh, that's true. No, Star Wars started in four. So is it canon though?

Is it like considered, right? Is it authorized by whoever wrote Wizard of Oz, the book? Well, I'm thinking they're probably not alive anymore. That's probably true. But I know the Wicked, the Broadway musical has been popular for like 20 years-ish. So it was originally a book. Why don't they call the movie Wicked One?

Just let everybody know there's another one coming. Or just Wick. And then Id. Id. I know, I wonder what they'll call the second one. Wicked Two? It's gotta be Wicked Two. Yeah. Yeah. Wicked. It's's gotta be Wicked 2. Yeah.

Yeah. Wicked. It's kind of frustrating. Yeah, it's not Rocky 1. Is that the way they do the broad? I guess that's the way they do it. Do they do the Broadway musical in two parts too? Well, just the intermission.

Like Friday night is Wicked and then. No, so they did the whole musical in about that, like under three hours, and then they made the movie, you know, super long. So they added a lot. They added a lot. Yeah, according to my daughters, I haven't seen it. Okay.

Is it getting good? I mean, I've heard a lot of hype about this. I go to Target, they got displays up everywhere. Yeah, my daughters enjoyed it. Okay. They did say it was long though. Yeah. It's a long movie.

It sounds like they're doing what they did like with The Hobbit, where they're like, this is three movies, and you're like, is it? Cause it wasn't, it was actually the shortest of the books. And those were each one movie. I remember thinking like when they announced they were gonna split the last Harry Potter movie up into two movies, I was like, awesome.

Take your time with it. So if you like Wicked, if you like this stuff, it's like, yeah, make it 10 movies. Right, they did the same thing with Avengers, right? Well, no, no, the actual finale, because Endgame and- Infinity War. Infinity War are considered one piece.

And Dusty's not here, because he's at Wicked right now. Yeah. It's a long movie. By himself. In costume, cosplay. He took off, yep, yep. Then he's gonna go home and watch The Hobbit and Harry Potter. That's right. He's gonna get into it today.

Seems like a lot of things Dusty would love. Yeah, yeah. His three favorite. So that's awesome. Yeah. That's what I have to look forward to. Yeah. You do, and you know, you just take what you can get.

Yeah. You just wanted to see Wicked. You just wanna go to a movie. They had a blast and I'm happy for them. Do you have rivalries with other parents? Like that mom that got to go with the kids? I do like that. That was the funny thing is,

what happens is the kids plan it all. So I'm just the ride and the, you know, the financier. Financier. Yeah. So I was like, man, I really want to see this movie. And my 10 year old will allow me in the theater. But then the other mom, she sat in the lobby of the theater like listening to an audio book.

And I was like, so like, I could have gone, but it was the kids planned it. They're like, you're taking us and she's taking them. And I was like, all right. You know, when I was a small kid, there was no PG-13. It was just PG and R. Really? So there were some PG movies that were pretty,

and my sister's five years older than me, and sometimes my mom would take her, and then I would tag along, and it was some awkward stuff for an eight-year-old. Hey, sis. We saw the movie. You didn't have any websites to kind of preview? Gosh, no. We saw nine to five.

The Dolly Parton thing? Yeah. Yeah. That was PG. I think it was. There was some stuff in that movie that I heard. I was like, oh my, this is the worst thing I've ever heard. But did it go over your head? Well, the language didn't. Some of the jokes. Some of the innuendo went over my head, yeah, for sure. But I just knew enough to know that I was a little embarrassed. Yeah. Yeah. I get that.

That happens with younger siblings. You're just like, sorry. We're doing a family thing. We just cover their eyes for a sec. Each of our kids will get a phone much earlier than the oldest did. It's like a running joke. Yeah. Like, because I remember it used to be a point of pride with you.

I mean, we held off. How long? I mean, we held off until high school for Joel. How many kids do y'all have? Is that longer than most? I didn't get my first until 16. Well, I know it's a different world now. Totally different world.

Totally different world. I would say... I was 35. Yeah. Yeah. I know it's a different world now. Totally different world. It's a different world. Totally different world. I would say... 35. Yeah. Yeah. I would say about 30...

Is that a car phone? About 30% of fifth graders have phones. Yeah, a lot of, I would say it's higher than that. Yeah, maybe. Young kids have... Fifth graders. Yeah, because we have a fifth grader. I think it's where we live, you know,

you see them on their... After school. Oh yeah. Yeah. Cause we have a fifth grade. That's where we live. You know, you see them on their, their, After school. Particularly smartphones. Like there are other versions of phones that you can get where it's just texting and calling or location or some basic things, which is fine. Cause you, you don't mind.

It's, it's a tool as a parent. It's nice to be able to like look where your kids are. It saves your life. When you're like sitting in the, some line in a parking lot. Yeah. Where are you? You got location sharing turned on? I mean, how much time does that save?

And just like peace of mind. So much. Yeah. It's really great. That we like a lot. But yeah, Joel, our oldest, he got one freshman year and we held out and it was hard getting through the middle school year

when most of their friends have them. It's tough. Yeah. And then Gloria got one a year earlier and we've already been like Claire, who's in fifth grade. We keep joking. You're like, it would be easier if she's. We'll get you a 15.

Yeah. We're getting tired of this green bubble in the, in the group chat. What a loser. Get this, get an iPhone so I don't bully her. It's almost like you have to get all the parents of your kids' class and go, let's all make an agreement together. Yeah, you would think that would be possible.

They would never do it. I know that's fantasy land. It's like comedians, they would never unionize. We're too selfish. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they hand out the phones. They're like, get a line, here's the free phone.

I mean, they're trying to get everyone a phone, like Verizon, and so it's tough. Do your kids have one? Yeah. Olive's got one. Olive's got like a Twitter, and she's just off on it. Well, Lucy's gotta talk to her somehow.

If people wanna know this, Lucy's a big texture. She's going to love that. Yeah, she works on her phone. Let's be honest. She works on her phone. Yeah, I text Lucy a lot. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, they used to call smartphones smartphones. I think nobody now just call your phone. But I can remember when we still called them cell phones. I still say cell phone every now and then. Yeah, I don't know why. I guess it was just grandfathered in my head. Old school, yeah. Cellular device.

Now, in my mom's case, it matters because she still has a landline. Really? But for most of us, yeah. Do you have a landline? No. Okay. It's not a-

Why would I bring up my mom having one and then if I had one? I don't know, I feel like you just needed to be asked about it to admit it. You were trying to out me. Yeah. I feel like I would like to have one. I wouldn't. Yeah. It's nice. If you use a landline and a lot of y'all listening, you haven't used a landline in years. When you use one, you're like, I cannot believe how good it sounds.

Yeah. I mean, it's like the best phone you've ever used in your life. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah. What about you, Dustin? I was in Raleigh, technically Cary, at the Raleigh Improv. Great club.

Friday and Saturday, and then yesterday, Sunday, I was in Chattanooga at the Comedy Catch. Choo-choo. Choo-choo, which is why you invited me to come do the pod because you very nicely looked at the calendar and you're like, hey, you're in Chattanooga. So it's two years and one time zone away. How about that? Did you go in the train?

No. You didn't check it out? No. You don't have any kind of curiosity about that stuff now? Oh, no. You've been doing this too long to care about where you're at. No, no, I actually really liked it. No.

You keep it on a lot. I'm just kidding. Yeah, you had to keep going for me to realize how sarcastic you were being. No, I loved the town. I actually was very pleasantly surprised, especially because where the, like Raleigh is a great city, but when you do the Raleigh improv, you stay at Cary,

and that's just literally a strip mall that I've been to a lot of times. Yeah. That's what it's like as a road comedian. You're like, dude, I've stayed in thisrov, you stay Carrie, and that's just literally a strip mall that I've been to a lot of times. That's what it's like as a road comedian. You're like, dude, I've stayed in this courtyard, Marriott and Carrie, for like 13 nights. I've spent two weeks of my life in this specific courtyard. Like I was walking around and I was like, oh, they got a flying biscuit here now.

That wasn't here last summer. Like I know the neighborhood. You're watching the town build. Yeah, exactly. That's crazy. Oh, I put some new housing over there. I think I could vote there. I think I might have citizenship.

And so you didn't really see it, but Chattanooga with the comedy catches, it's like right in the downtown area. Very cute, very nice. Still kind of, it's very nice drive from Chattanooga to here. I really liked it. It's beautiful out there in the mountains, on the water. Yeah.

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He's a good golfer. I try to get out there and do what I can. You know, I'm trying not to be a liability on the golf course. You're good, really. It's about hang, right? It's about sitting on the golf cart and join a Mountain Dew with your friends. That's what it's all about. The Mountain is calling.

You should answer. Grab your friends, grab an ice cold Mountain Dew wherever refreshing beverages are sold and do the dew. We don't have like the fall changing leaves in San Diego. Like you have to go to the mountains, which are like two, three hours away. But even just flying in, I was like, orange leaves? How about that? Yellow leaves. On the ground, I assume. Or even there's some orange like- You got some color in the trees right now.

Just color, like we've got the ocean and palm trees and all that. We got our stuff. But we don't have like fall foliage, like just all around. It's nice. It's really nice. It's a nice time of year here.

And I'm such a big fan. I like the South a lot in general. And I'm a, but I'm a big fan of like a lot of mid-sized to smaller size cities in the Southeast that I don't know a lot about because I'm not from out here. Right. And Chattanooga is on there.

I love Raleigh. Asheville is fantastic. Like they're like brand new to me. Like the first time I went to Wilmington, I was like, what is this? This is unbelievable. You guys know about this? And you guys are all like, yeah, you idiot.

It's like, Charleston is great. Love Charleston. Huntington beach, California. Yeah, it's nice. It's pricey. Is it Huntington? Yeah, you know, it's a small town. I'm sorry, is it hunting or honey?

There is a T there, but we don't say it. Oh, it's hunting. Okay. Yeah. It's hunting. So it's also Huntington Beach. Yeah. I don't think people say that out there either. No, we just gotta say it faster.

Yeah. It's fine. We say it's the conservative beach because it is. We don't say honey. What's a conservative beach? No, politically, it's a very conservative area in Southern California. I would say the beach itself is a conservative beach. No, politically, it's a very conservative area in Southern California. I was thinking the beach itself is a conservative beach. All the sand's red.

Everybody wears wind pieces. No bikinis. Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. But anyway, Huntington, you know it's a small town when the point of reference I gave you is also a small, I said Jackson. Jackson, Tennessee.

Which no one knows where that is either. That's not the main Jackson either, right? I don't know anywhere it's the main. Jackson, Mississippi no one knows where that is either. That's not the main Jackson either. Yeah. I don't know anywhere which the main Jackson Mississippi. What's the song? What's Jackson is the? That's Mississippi. That's Mississippi, right?

OK, yeah. What song are you talking about? The Johnny Cash song. He probably means Mississippi, right? I would think. In the 60s, what was a desirable Jackson to go to when that song came out, or the 70s? Which Jackson would it have been?

I would think Mississippi's what he was referencing. Yeah, I don't know if he's singing about like I'm pumped to go there Well, it's no he is he's leaving a girl. Yeah, he's like he's more excited about that. Yeah where he's going Well, it's not about the destination. I think it's see I might disagree on this. He seems pretty excited I'm gonna mess around I'm gonna show these girls what they don't know how. It sounds like he's kind of going to a bit of a party scene. Now I say all that, let me clarify. I never thought about the lyrics of this song. So I'm just, I know the song.

I'm just doing just arguing. I'm gonna mess around. It's very low, yeah. And June sings it with him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, June's in it, yeah. Yeah, we got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout. Things are good.

We've been talking about Jackson ever since the fire went out. I'm going to Jackson, I'm gonna mess around. Yeah, I'm going to Jackson, look out, Jackson Town. I like how you read it like a poem. Look out, Jackson Town. This is poetry. Yeah.

I mean, let's be honest. And then June sings the second verse. Oh, does she? Go ahead and wreck your health. Oh, so it's a conversation between him and his... Yeah, no, they rushed into a relationship. Things are going bad. And he's like, I'm out of here.

And she's like, yeah, go do it. What do I care? They sing it in the movie Walk the Line. Reese Witherspoon. It's great. Joaquin. Okay. I'll dig into this.

Yeah. We'll back next week. I'll have some analysis. They'll lead you around town like a scaled hound. Scalded? Scalded? Scalded? Scalded.

Scalded? I don't know, I can't read. Scalded hound. With your tail tucked between your legs. I mean, this is good. You big tongue, that's great. I'm gonna mess around. Nate recorded his Christmas special.

Oh yeah. I didn't go, but you and I went down there for dress rehearsal. Yeah. And it looked amazing. It was what? It was. Oh my gosh, so cool.

You know when you have a friend that has like a project, when you see it, you're like, Oh, it's like a real thing. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's how I feel. Everybody's it's all these abstracts. I'm working on this and I got this, this iron and the fire. And then you see it and you're like, Oh God, this is real.

Yeah. Like with Taylor and her show, I'm sure the free you're like, Oh my God, they're a real TV show. Yeah. Yeah. Oh wow. You guys really put a little of these cameras. I know.

So we showed up to the grand old Opry just while everybody was getting set up. Oh my God, they're a real TV show. Yeah, yeah. Oh wow, you guys really put a little of these cameras. I know. So we showed up to the Grand Ole Opry just while everybody was getting set up. First of all, just celebrities just standing around. Mikey Day from SNL, Darius Rucker sitting on the stage, Carrie Underwood was singing on stage. I don't know, should we tell that? Yeah.

What, was that a surprise or something? Well, I mean, people haven't watched it yet. Yeah, I don't know what's been disclosed. I thought the lineup was... I don't, I don't, I don't... I haven't heard any... Cary was a surprise, I know. Yeah, maybe.

You better not leak that to the press over there, buddy. I'm tweeting it right now. Oh, the media's here. You know, I don't text Bezos. Oh, here it is, Washington Post. Aaron Weber breaks news. You guys want to stay alive and not be the failing New York Times. So, you would show up to the Grand Ole Opry

when I walked through. It was like the whole thing was done up. Nate Bargetzi's Christmas special. It was just very cool. I heard it went really well. I was not there. Are any of y'all there? Adrian, were you there? It went really good? Yeah. All right. That's awesome, dude. So I'm excited to see it. Keep an eye out for that.

That'll be on network television. Yeah. I bet they'll hear about it. And he'll probably tell us more about it when he arrives. Which he is coming. This is not a lie that we've made to keep you engaged with the podcast. He is on his way. We'll see.

And just, you can actually just fast forward and you'll see him and then come back to where you are. Well, he should be in the thumbnail of the podcast. He is on his way. We'll see. And just you can actually just fast forward and you'll see him and then come back to the thumbnail. Yeah. That's funny. Oh, he would know they'll be on the thumbnail. I mean, maybe. Well, usually I doubt it. We'll see. We'll see how they do. Yeah, I'll be honest. Y'all do have to pick it up a little bit, but there is a good chance. We're fast paced here. There's a good chance you'll be on the thumbnail.

Good chance. Yeah, when Destin was here last month, it was about the difference between the West Coast and the South. Oh yes. I should have picked foliage because Dusty shot me down on everything I said. Well, that's a Southern California thing we don't have.

A lot of it does. The Northwest has it. I mean, Idaho, if you count Montana as the Northwest, which it's kind of it. I mean, it's gorgeous. It's just the Southern California. Northwest has all trees, all the trees. The best trees.

But the funny thing about San Diego is like, things can bloom year round. And so like the tree in our yard, all the leaves fall in February. And you're like, huh. But that's kind of like when it rains in San Diego. So like for allergies, it's like really bad. Because.

So you have a rain season in San Diego? It rains. A little bit. A winter it rains. Yeah, that's our thing. A little bit in like January, February. It's hard to, the leaves falling in February are very confusing. Cause that's not when they. Right? It's kind of. That's yeah. A little bit in like January, February. It's hard to, the leaves falling in February are very confusing.

Cause that's not when they, it's kind of like, it's kind of like when you nap. It's when pictures and catchers report. And you're like, what time is it? You're like, that's when pictures and catches are, or the leaves are falling, baseball is starting. Yeah. Yeah.

But then our, when we do get rain, it's terrible because we have all this flooding. Yeah. Because our ground. We're not built for it ground can't absorb moisture. Happy Valentine's. Right by the ocean. Yep.

Want to get these comments? I say we get to it. Might we just skip the first one and come back when they get there? Yeah. Are you reading them? Uh, no, I think you, you did the intro. All right. I'll do it then.

Yeah. I was like, I want to hear you read. All right. That sounded mean. You're good. You actually read really well. I was just saying, I want to hear you read. All right. That sounded mean. You're good. You actually read really well. I was just saying, I want to hear you. People are sick of my voice.

Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcasts reviews, and naiteland at natebargatzee.com. You can also put a letter in the mail, Brian Bates, 243 Magnolia Avenue, Hermitage, Tennessee. Chris Langham. I'm realizing Aaron is like wine. At first, I didn't get the appeal. You and me both, Chris.

But after listening to him on this podcast for the past three years, I've started to relate to him a lot and realize he's actually pretty funny. Three years? I look forward to relate to him a lot and realize he's actually pretty funny three years Good for to go into a show It took a hundred and sixty episodes Slow burn before I thought this guy is pretty funny

Qualify it with a pretty yeah. Yeah That's one of those you ever get that. Hey, you're pretty funny. Yeah. Yeah. Why does that, I'd rather somebody say I, I hated you. Yeah. Then you're pretty funny. Yeah. Oh, oh, thanks. Oh, I'm sorry. I couldn't satisfy.

Yeah. Yeah. I've gotten funnier than I thought you would be. I get that though. Yeah. But do you like it? I don't like it. What do you mean?

Wine? No. Aaron. That comment. Yeah. The comment. Funnier than you thought, you said I get that, but you don't, you agree, you don't like it, right? No, I'm saying I get looking at Dustin and thinking, this is going to stink.

I misunderstood. I'm just kidding. Well, that I do get. Yeah. I say that, but also any compliment, you know, nobody means, nobody walks I'm just kidding. Well, that I do get. Yeah. I say that, but also Eddie compliment, you know, nobody means, nobody walks up, it doesn't mean to or tries to be, you know what I mean? You and I are at different shows.

Put that on your next poster. If you like wine, you'll like Aaron. Yeah. I like wine. You won't get the appeal based on this headshot, but give it three years. Three years. It's an acquired taste. Three years, one hour at a time over three years.

Chris looking forward to coming to the show. Yeah. Come to a show. Come to a show. I just announced all 2025 dates. I'm hitting the road. January breaking news, getting out of the house and, uh, the, in a mid January start. So hopefully you can come to a show.

I'm way better on stage than on the podcast. I'll say that. You agree? He is not good on this podcast. I don't know if we can agree or disagree with this. No. I mean, I think we all- I think you just got a Melissa burn.

No, you're like, yeah. You think that- You go away, it's an insult. I get what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is not the main thing we do. You're a comic. Yeah. Right? No. No, I get it. Well, you have it hard on here, too, because Nate Paint you is this elitist intellectual, which is not, you're not John Hodgman. Don't forget Rich. Yeah. And all the other things. You're not doing some character. That's not you on stage. Principal's son. Classic. Yeah. So yeah, podcast folks. Folks probably think you're something different. That's probably true. Yeah. I had a lot of people go, yeah, your voice sounded different. You got to, I never heard you talk that much. It's good. Stephie Berenger. Dustin Nickerson looks like he could be Macklemore's religious brother. Is Macklemore not religious? I think he is a

little religious. Yeah, I'm probably I'm not gonna speak to Macklemore's faith. Let's get into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I never met the guy. Trying to make the thumbnail? This is how you do it. Yeah, yeah. Particularly ha ha ha. V. Yeah, particularly pre-mustache. I used to get that one a lot. Oh, the mustache does change though. The mustache changes, cause it's a, but I mean, there was an era. Sometimes he has one.

Yeah, there was an era where I had the McLemore cut too. You know, the like real short sides. Yeah, I don't think you did. I'm joking. I don't remember. I don't think you did Did you dress alike to you're from the same part of the yeah country yeah, I mean we're both Seattle Area folk, you know, this is the one I get. Yeah, let's get to this one in the next comment. This one's unsettling Johnny Saskatoon great name Johnny Saskatoon? Great name. Johnny Saskatoon, pretty cool. You were able to get Gary Ridgway there in person.

Would have thought he'd been a little tied up. I did not know who Gary Ridgway was. I looked him up and I was like, oh man, this one's going in. If you look at more of his pictures. Yeah, look at his photos. He wore glasses in his trial, unfortunately for me. They're all over the internet. It's yeah, it's yeah.

I mean, that's Dustin. Just that Northwest icon. It is, a couple of Northwest icons. Yeah. I mean, it's like you went to Lenscrafters and said, give me the Green River kill. Give me the Ridgeway. Give me the Ridgeway. It's like the episode of The Office. Yeah. The

perp and yeah. It's unfortunate because you know Dusty had that joke right about or somebody I don't remember. He had a joke about having Jeffrey Dahmer glasses. Okay well someone when someone tells you who they think you look like, you look, I look at that and I go, ah, man, I hope at least I'm a better looking version of that. You're a better guy than him. Well, I love that you didn't let me off the hook.

You're like, no, I mean, looks wise, identical, but morally you were better than a serial killer. I wanna see his wife, and that's all that matters. Yeah, you know. I guarantee you got a wife and that's all that matters. Yeah. I guarantee you got a better looking wife than he does. Yeah, you know what he is older here too. So I don't know what young Gary, I mean, listen, he, He's looking rough these days.

No, he's, he's, I just thought he's 75. Oh, it looks good for 75. So that's why it looks like Destin. Yeah, it's tough. It's thankfully for me, he is a lesser known of the serial killers. Like I do dread a Netflix doc on him because then I might have to get rid of the stash.

But I think you can capitalize on that and turn this like, yeah, yeah. What's great. So I grew up 15 minutes away from him too. Like I'm not, it's not the- Oh, so y'all could be related. No, the Green River is in like, is by the airport in Auburn, like Green River Community College,

like it's all very, very close. Where is this? This is in the South Seattle area. It's not even between where Dustin lived in Seattle, it's just a little bit north. Like when I'm in Seattle, I mean, like I have to acknowledge it on stage because everybody knows that's our guy.

It's just in the news. You know how like, you know, like as in Chattanooga, they have Reg Because everybody knows that's our guy. It's just in the news. You know how like, you know, like as in Chattanooga, they have Reggie White, that's their guy. We've got the Green River Killer. We've got, that's our local celebrity. Seattle have the highest serial killers per capita of any city. Well, you know, is it counting the ones they've caught?

Cause they're my facilities. I don't know. I mean, I know Bundy spent some time there. Yeah, Bundy. And those are two pretty big ones. Yeah. Maybe that's why Ridgway just doesn't get the credit that he deserves.

He's like, you know, he's the New York Mets. He's the Clippers. Yeah. It's like, sorry, man, there's just bigger brand in town. Yeah. That's funny. That's great. Well, hopefully, this is just bigger brand in town. Yeah. That's funny. Oh, that's great. Well, hopefully for you it stays that way.

Well, a lot's been said about Gary Rudd. Well, you remember when nobody's ever said he's a bad looking guy, Dustin. Don't sweat it. Dustin, you remember when Matt Damon played you on SNL? Oh, the Weezer sketch. Yeah, I mean, that was pretty spot on too. Yeah, it is.

The internet loves to tell you who you look like at least me And I don't know if you guys get that too, but I get it a lot. I get gay Ridgeway a lot I like that you get it just straight up though. They don't have to Modify it at all. No, I get fat And then insert whatever Aaron Weber. Yeah You're like, geez, man. Yeah. No, I get like Leonardo DiCaprio, let himself go. I get that all over like Fat Brad Pitt. Yeah. I'm sure. Seen my

compliments. Yeah. Yeah. You just named the two hottest guys. You're like, guys, I get it too. I was like, man, this guy is like a chubby Bradley Cooper, dude. One time I got a, a tired Donnie Wahlberg. Tired. Like the adjective in the celebrity. All nighter. Tired Donnie Wahlberg from the Sixth Sense too. Donnie Wahlberg is in the Sixth Sense?

Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't seen it in a minute. What is he in Sixth Sense? Is that the twist? He's the guy at the beginningth Sense? Oh yeah. Yeah? I haven't seen it in a minute. What is he in the Sixth Sense? Is that the twist?

He's the guy at the beginning that visits Bruce Willis in his underwear in the bathroom. I don't even think I knew that. He lost a bunch of weight for us. Donnie Wahlberg. How about that? How about that? That was a good joke. People knew that it was him.

By the way, Gary Ridgway has been married three times. So Dustin, you're much better. Yeah. Stay on your toes, Mel. I might remarry, I might murder you. I can't believe Gary's not a good husband. Yeah. I'm not trying to like, because I wanted to say he was like popular among the ladies,

but I could not bring myself to say it. Yeah. Well, you said it now. Yeah. All right. I don't want to read this guy's. Melissa, do you think he looks like Gary Ridgway? I mean, you said it now. Yeah. All right. I don't want to read this guy's. Melissa, do you think he looks like Gary Whichway?

I mean, not that picture, but yeah. I see a little bit. Objectively. My sweet wife, cause people tell me I look like some awful people and she'll always be so, and I know I look like him, but she'll be like, oh no, no, you're much better looking. That's nice.

Mel gets really nice ones, like Anne Hathaway. Yeah. Oh. What are the other ones you did? I wasn't gonna, I wasn't gonna do it. She didn't chime in. You can tell me I look like famous actresses. Rachel McAdams.

Yeah, on her best day. I'll take it. Oh, all right. I'll take it. The best story about Celebrity Looks Alike is this Mike White, who's the comedy writer, he's acted in a bunch of stuff, he did the White Lotus. So looks a lot like Brian. Now Brian, what's the story with you and him?

We look so much alike, apparently, that a friend of mine's friend, who I've met a couple of times, moved to LA, saw Mike White at a restaurant, thought it was me, went up to the restaurant and was like, you live here now? Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, no, I see it. That guy looks like a really well-rested Brian Bates. That's funny. That's crazy to have celebrity look like that. They've been confused for you.

That's how close it is. That is Ned Sheebly. Do you think people go up to Ridgeway in prison? Like, do you ever seen this comedian? Is that your kid? He's all right. Some markets know him. Yeah. Yeah.

You heard about him on like Wednesday night. Yeah, yeah. Louisville, he struggles, but. We all struggle in Louisville. Joyce Newman, I love hearing all the dad's perspectives of being a parent, but I'd love to hear the perspective of a mom. Please have more women on the podcast.

No. Next comment. Yeah, let's move on. That was fun. This is like on our, that's one of the things I like about our pods because we do a weekend recap at the top. And I'm always like,

I was doing the same thing that you guys are talking about. I was like, what a bitch of laundry and drove everyone around quite a bit, and panically checked my son's location until he got home, and I was like, oh, pretty chill. I got to know a new city. I gotta pretend I wouldn't gotta pour over. I treated myself to a smoothie.

I'm like, it's about smoothie time for you, but meanwhile. You're like, oh's about smoothie time for you. Yeah. But meanwhile. Yeah. You're like, oh, you showered every day? Cool. Really happy for you. Well, now thank you for flying in to be here. Yeah, she's here just for this.

Just shows up. That's amazing. Appreciate it. Well, I had my first, last night was my first night away from the baby. How was it? Did you sleep well? I slept okay.

I slept okay. You feel, I woke up to it. woke up to guilty just a text from Lucy at like 317 a.m. That was like 3 a.m. Feed was brutal. That's a guilt. I was like, well, yeah, I'm heading so I left six. Yeah, you're like, no, I get it. I got up and ate at three to It's a great time. I'm at Denny's right now. 3am feeding. Yeah, get up and have some Fritos at 3. We got the in-laws are here with us. The Sin Simers. Thanksgiving, they're in town. So they're helping out. That's good. It's great. The grandparents are. What a cheat code. What a cheat code they are. Oh yeah. Yeah, awesome. The holidays are here and they are all about connecting with loved ones and there's no better way to do that than with a digital picture frame from Aura. Wirecutter called

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She said, I agree that you guys all work to lift other comedians up. Not true. Would you give someone- Except each other. An on air negative review or is it a matter of, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Certainly in text, we'll bash a lot of comedy.

Yeah. Yeah, I never, I just never want to do anything publicly. What's the point? Because I eat, cause there are people that I don't like their comedy, but I like them as a person. Fine. It's not a crime to be bad at comedy. Yeah.

Otherwise we'd all be. Thanks, Aaron. You know, we'd all, we're all start out bad. Everybody, you know what I mean? Exactly. So I don't know. I don't know. And I don't want to be, you don't need to pile on. Comedians take enough. You put your, you know, you put yourself out there on the internet, you take enough. You don't need other comics jumping in and trash what you do. Anybody who says the, you know, I'm my own worst critic does not have a public profile. I've got some pretty bad, pretty bad critics on there

that I would never say to myself. Yeah. And I'll say this, I don't know if y'all agree, you don't have to give examples, but for the most part, I was shocked. The comedians that I've met, the overwhelming majority are really good, really good people. Right.

Um, it, it, you think you're going to run into a lot of like headcases and people that are mean and bullies or whatever, but like most people just aren't like that. I feel like doing standup, it takes so long before people care that you do stand up that, uh, it's like impossible to have an ego. A lot of like a crazy ego because you've just been beaten down by the world for so long.

I think there's a camaraderie that so few people do what you do. It's like you immediately connect with them and give them the benefit of the doubt almost. It's like, yeah, we have so much in common. It's like such a tight kind of kinship. So, yeah. It's kind of like a club, like comedy.

That being said, I don't care for Brian's work. And that's fine. Is journalism like that, Brian? Will, okay, they kind of are protective of each other? Yeah. And same thing. You feel like you've, for lack of like a bit or been in the trenches, you know, so therefore There's a quick bonding when you're under a high stress situation, which is all we do high stress, you know You're gonna bond a lot quicker. Yeah

Yeah Yeah, sometimes I'll be me you and dusty will be texting and we'll get on a little riffing on some Yeah, and then I'll say something and you'll ghost me. And I'm like, did I go too far? I do the same thing. I'm sorry. Yeah. I texted, uh, so I left the podcast, maybe last week, two weeks ago, I drive home. It's usually a 25 minute drive from Zany's comedy club to my house.

It took me almost two hours to get back, the traffic was so bad. The traffic's usually bad in Nashville, but it was like abnormal, it was insane. They were siphoning down the interstate into one lane. And I was so mad, you know, you want to be mad you're alone in the car, you just want to tell somebody. So I text Brian and Dusty, like, I don't know if you all have left yet, but I just, I left and, you know, like, I don't know if y'all have left yet, but I just, I left and you know, I'm still on the interstate. And Brian goes, what happened? And I go, I don't know. And

he goes, oh, well, I don't care. Tell someone else. I said, I needed to tell somebody. He goes, oh, I don't care about this. So don't tell him. I was like, oh my God, sitting in my car. You were home? Oh yeah. I was having a great time. Yeah. I was like, oh my God, sitting in my car. Yeah. You were home? Oh yeah, I was having a great time. Yeah. Watching a movie. I'm gonna be bothered with this. Well, you, you know, you'll see this even more

as you get on the road now, you're like with the kiddo, your spouse who's at home with the child is not the person when you're on the road to text about your road struggles. You're like, this elevator sucks. Yeah. It's elevator sucks.

So slow. I was gonna say a bad show when you made it even more trivial. You're right and you're like, oh well, I'm cleaning up human and cat poop. Oh, okay. This room's drafty. Yeah, this room's drafty.

That baby just threw up on me. The room's kind of got an echo. I didn't love the way it felt on stage. Oh, that's great. That sounds awful though, the echo. Yeah, it is tough. The echo on stage is tough. Debra Elsner.

Debra. Debra. Didn't think as a guest host, Dustin should have made the jab about Aaron avoiding him because of bad blood for a long time. That is Aaron's home base. Hope it was a joke, but it didn't sound like it. I love that, Deborah. Thank you.

Circle the wagons. Yeah, Dustin, what's your deal? The web heads have arrived. The web heads. Yeah, the worldwide web is coming for you, Austin. What'd you say about me? I, you weren't on the episode, so I joked that we've had bad blood for a long time.

Oh, okay. I'm tempted to double down on this, but I will take a moment to be sentimental here. Aaron is the first of the Nate Landers that I met, and because Aaron and I toured with John Crist 2017 to 2020? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 2019, yeah. We spent a lot of dates together. John Crist, 2017 to 2020? Yeah, yeah. 2019, yeah. We spent a lot of dates together.

Erin- On a bus. On a bus, yeah. Respect, yeah, Erin of the people on this podcast is the one I've spent the most time with. So no, I would consider Erin and Brian two of my closer friends in this industry. You also officiated my wedding.

I did, yeah. Yeah, that's why I hit Sincymer so well there. I practiced Sincymer. Yeah, I don't think I remember her name. We know you're in-laws so well. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, I've spent a lot of time with you.

They're great. With your family, I know your parents. I got a compliment from your grandma after officiating your wedding, which is high praise. That was. You made it in his book? Yeah, you're in the book. You're in the book.

Oh yeah, you know, my friend from college, Cole, his dad. Bought that book? His dad was reading your book, not knowing. Based on sales odds or no. No, no, he was just reading your book. It was at Goodwill. Yeah, and he texted. That means somebody bought it eventually.

He texted Cole and he was like, they're, I don't know, my name's in your book, I guess, at onewill. Yeah. And he checked. Somebody bought it eventually. He checked the call and he was like, there, I don't know, my name's in your book, I guess, at one point. Yeah. He like made the connection. He's like, I had no idea he knew you. Yeah. He was just a guy reading your book. That's great.

It's pretty crazy. No, Aaron's a good friend. I want to say this, Debra, I love the instinct though. Mm-hmm. I keep that energy. Yeah. People come for me at this table. I need your support.

Cause I don't get it from over here. So I need it energy. People come for me at this table. I need your support. Cause I don't get it from over here. So I need it from you. We have a hilarious pool story involving Aaron's wife, but we don't have to. No, you should tell that. You know the story? What story? This is great.

What story? You must have been, you were touring. You were on the road. Yeah. I was doing Xanis. I think you came in that night. So we've done a lot of Julys in Nashville, like family weekends when Dustin does Zany's.

And so we're like, Lucy, come on out. It's a nice hotel. It's a good pool. And it was, it was like a really nice pool with like a nice vibe and, you know, like food and bar and stuff. But we do have three kits. I don't think Lucy had ever been at a pool.

And it was like our third stop on our road trip, you know? So there, the little one was, you know, getting pretty tired of being on vacation. There was some splashing, you know, like, you know, and we just had like poolside lunches, pretty pretty chill. You know, overall for our kids and it was a pretty good day. Yeah. And then Dustin gets on his phone and Lucy has tweeted, spent the day at the pool with my friends kids. I am not ready for kids. Oh man, here we are. We laughed so hard. She tweeted it. She didn't say it to us. We just like died.

And I'm like, Lucy, I follow you. We were like, well, if anything, Lucy, we, you know, you got to know what three is like. And this is what it's like. Well, you thought it was a pretty normal day, right? It was actually a good day. No, that was a good day. Like you should have seen this back in the hotel room. And we sensed going to pool with her.

We got back to the hotel room and we didn't want to have kids. So then, yeah, we've done a lot of pool time with Lucy. That is funny. When was that? A few years ago? Two years ago. I think you showed up at the show that night.

I think she was pregnant at the time. I think she was about six months pregnant. No, that was the second. I know. Sorry. I'm being all practical. But yeah, it's fun. This next comment was a nice segue from the last one. I agree. I'm good.

And I want to hear you guys' thoughts on this. Chase Keough? Keough. The South doesn't get sarcasm, but it comes with a Pacific Northwest passive aggressive tent to everything which yeah I thought that was good coming off you do you guys think that's true that the south doesn't get sarcasm as if what we're so dumb that we can't understand irony I didn't say it man why you I don't know I'm not sarcasm just now I don't know I mean it attack me, I didn't have anything to do with this. I don't know. I mean, since I'm in the South, maybe I can't compare it, but I think I get sarcasm.

Do you find that the sense of humors around the country are that different? No, I do not. Maybe like New York, Boston, there's a little more like, yeah, like jabbing people, but like, it's not like we don't get what sarcasm is. Yeah. Um, sorry, Chase. We shut that down quick. Ladies and gentlemen, the namesake of the Nate Land podcasts and the host, Nate Barghetti is in the building. What's going on, Nate? Clamp.

I'll let you take it from here. Good to see you guys. Hey buddy. Uh, yeah, dude, he was like, there's traffic right in front. You've been there the whole time. I've been there for hours No, it's I'm gonna go down So make yourself at home No, it's I was I was running behind and

So there's traffic and it's right here like so right when you pull in so, you know when you get in traffic where there's just one car. If I was one car up, I could have parked. So it was an extra five minutes, because there's, whatever's going on in front of Zany's is the most traffic that's ever existed. And so no one's moving. And I'm just like, and that guy let a guy in, which was very nice, very frustrating.

It's like, if he knew my situation, I don't think he would have let that guy in. I could have got to the podcast five minutes ago. He should have known. He should have known. I could have rolled the windows to excuse me. I'm trying to get right there. I have a podcast.

Yeah. Which that's what everybody wants to hear. Do you know who I am? Did you point to the mural with your face? I go, when you get around, cause it was on the wrong side. Yeah. I go, when you get around, look at the face. Yeah.

I go, that guy has a podcast. That's John Crist. I could have just said I'm John Cris. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, look, that's me. That's right there. Yeah.

So. He flips you off. He's like, I love your videos. Mm-hmm. All right. Hunter Ballew. Dustin said the South doesn't really win championships anymore. The SEC has won 13 of the last 18 Natties.

Classic Californian thinking he knows everything. I love the energy to comment with today. I'll tell you, there are some Nate Landers that don't like me and that's okay. I wanted you to come back just so we could read this comment. Yeah. Cause I missed it when he said it in real time. What do you have to say for yourself? First off, I'm not a Californian. I wanted you to come back just so we could read this comment. Yeah. Because I missed it when he said it in real time.

What do you have to say for yourself? First off, I'm not a Californian. Classic Southerner to assume that I'm from California just because I live there. Classic Seattlean to think we care about the difference. Right. Classic Southerner to only care about the South. Yeah, yeah. There's the South and whatever the rest of it is.

It's the South and Yankees. That's true. Yeah. But y'all came on pretty late as America. We had a lot going on. Yeah. We were already moving. Yeah, that's true.

I mean, I have beef with Dustin in general about sports because he loves to complain on Twitter about his college football team that went undefeated last year in the national championship and his Seahawks, which are playoff bound every year. Right. Well, I'm a Vandy and a Titans fan. I think being in the South and being a Vandy fan is probably is pretty tough. Yeah, that's a tough, not this year. It's been

I mean, the Alabama is the best day in Vanderbilt history. Diego Pavia. Did you really? We're at the UFC fight. Amazing. John Jones, UFC fight. Amazing. John Jones UFC fight. Yeah.

He was there? Yeah. I had to go to New York that day. And so it just kind of worked out and I was like, oh man, this fight. So we went to the fight and he was, I was like just in like this hospitality suite and I was like staring at him and I was like, dude, is that, you know, cause you're like out of context, is that a 16 cuz you're like out of contact is that yeah 16 year old dude. I'm happy about

80 years older than he is But yeah, he was awesome Asked for a picture. I was like you asked him for a picture got his number told him I'll take him golfing Out of all the stuff, excuse me, mr. Of all the celebrities there. Out of all the celebrities. Excuse me Mr. Trump out of the way. Diego. Yeah. Once I got past everybody.

That's great. Well, makes you feel better. About three weeks ago, Hunter posted, Vandy will never beat Auburn in Jordan Hare Stadium. Hunter said that. Yeah. And we read his comment the week after. Well, I'll defend this comment. What I mean by this is as a huge sports fan and as somebody originally was on the path

of being a sports writer, big sports guy, love it, we talk about it, it's the stuff all the time. I particularly, the way that outsiders view the SEC is like, the SEC is clearly the best football conference and has been over the last 20 years, but it's not because of the SEC. It's because of Nick Saban. Like most, the majority of those championships were Nick Saban championships. Yeah, but if they weren't, there was LSU, there was Georgia. Right, right, right. But if there isn't Nick Saban in those, Ohio State wins some, Oregon wins wins some it's not an SEC dynasty

I don't know if Oregon wins any but I hope not. I hate Oregon But they did beat Oregon in a national champ like Oregon. Well, they lost Ohio State actually Yeah, Auburn be it would be Ohio State. Yeah be in Ohio State came in Yeah, but it would be just that but I think right. Yeah, it's Ohio State You know Michigan right and the SEC. Well, there were Oklahoma, would have won more. Clemson for a while. Clemson for a while.

But that's the South. Notre Dame lost a Washington, could have squeaked one win. We were in the national, we've been in the college football playoff twice. It wasn't, and we lost to Saban. We don't, as an outsider, who doesn't really care, I mean, we're the big 10 now. Conferences don't mean anything to us.

Like we don't view it like, dude, the SEC is so good. It's like Nick Saban is the greatest coach of all time. SEC is pretty. It is, but it's so top-heavy. What's the point of your argument? You're like going, the Lakers weren't that good. It was Kobe was good. That's basically what you're saying.

No, no, no. That's like saying the, like, AFC East is so dominant. You're like, no, no, no. The Patriots were so dominant. Like that's, it wasn't as an outsider. Again, it's the person who doesn't live in the South. The SEC is great. And I would say is the best football conference. I mean, it might be the big 10 now because they acquired all those schools, but like it's, we'll see, but we don't view it as like the big 10 now, because they acquired all those schools, but like, it's, we'll see. But we don't view it as like the SEC was so good. It's not the big 10, but it's the-

Well, the big 10 now. That's still not. And so it's- You think the SEC is? Yes. The SEC has like three, is very top heavy. The top heavy counts towards it. Yeah.

That's a good thing. If you're saying the AFC East would have been... I don't think the same would be they're good because of them. You would say they're bad and the reason this team's good is because they're in a bad conference. That's why the other ones are top-heavy because if you go... Oregon's in a conference that doesn't matter so they're the best. But if they had to go through the schedule of the SEC... I mean, currently three of the top four Big Ten schools. But if they had to go through the schedule of the three of the top four big ten schools but if they had to go through the

schedule the SEC what was the top four like the scheduling is always gonna be I mean they're crazy there's some bad there's some bad SEC schools we got an SEC likes the SEC like to do a real late season bad game too. Like you guys, there's always like someone where you guys play like in the middle of the like week. Let's say when Georgia played TSU, TCU, I was at the game, championship game, right? TSU gets through and they play Georgia.

Georgia beats them by 60. Right. It looked like they were playing Wichita or something. So, and that was the best, the thing that they could get out of the other thing was TCU. In Georgia, it looks like they shouldn't be allowed to play with each other.

So that's why people say the SEC. Like that's insane. Even when, if Oregon gets in, Ohio State can do it, but if like the Oregon's get in or some of these other schools, if they play TCU, it's gonna be a good game. But Georgia played them and it looked like it was a professional team playing a non-professional team. Right.

In the championship, they beat everybody to go through the top. Yeah, I get what you're saying. Again, I'm telling you, pure outsider perspective, not someone who lives in the South. Yeah, I get what you're saying. Again, I'm telling you pure outsider perspective, not someone who lives in the South. South Carolina always a problem. South Carolina. They are, I mean, South Carolina's really good.

South Carolina is a team that always goes to a decent. If you went through a strength of schedule though. But they're right above Arizona State. Who plays absolutely nobody. See, this is what the SEC does. I know. This is what they do. You just name big schools that you've heard of I get it. Let's look at who I get Arizona State's played

I mean they knocked I mean they just knocked out undefeated BYU at the time Oh, yeah, now go and tell me what BYU doesn't matter Doesn't matter one really good win they matter that's their game that matter I am in Utah I say games that matter the original acknowledgement of this was me saying the SEC is the best football conference. But what I'm saying, as an outsider and as someone who goes to, went to, and cheers for a very good football program, historically a great football program, we don't view the SEC as dominant. We view Alabama as dominant. Like Georgia made a run and just just like Clemson made a run and Ohio State

Georgia did way more than Clemson. I mean, I think they both won two national titles, right? Georgia is in the thick of a run. They're in the middle of it. I mean, Clemson's good too. No, no, no. Clemson's going to get in the playoff. But Clemson is completely fallen off. Georgia is not losing to... But if Clemson was in the SAC, he'd be like, dude, but they got to go through Clemson. This is what I'm saying. It's just based on association. But no one's scared of Clemson like the SEC.

I don't think that's true. Not like, you know... You think anyone's scared of Alabama this year? No, but I mean, people have down years. I understand Alabama was good for a very long time. They got a Washington coach and now they're bad. Even when, even when one of the, yeah, that is, that's funny. Even when the, uh, one of your other ones are up, it's like, then it's,

then it's Georgia's league or it's, it's the same teams. It's Ohio state. It's Alabama, Georgia. Tennessee hasn't been there for a while. Maybe they're gonna go up there and stay a little bit. And then, you know. Melissa, you care to count her? No, I got nothing.

Yeah, no, I'm looking at what is half the top 10, big 10 schools. Right? Yeah. Yeah, I think, yeah. We'll the top 10 big 10 schools. Right? Yeah. Yeah, I think, yeah. We'll see. We'll see how the playoffs shake out. Yeah. I'll say this to concede something.

Saban did feel like kind of a singularly dominant person. Yeah. That him leaving kind of feels like now there are all kinds of possibilities. Totally. A lot of stuff is over. Yeah. And it's very fun, so who knows what's going to happen. Yeah, so you don't know which SEC team will win this year.

Yeah. I don't think we're going to win this year. I mean, maybe Georgia. Listen, if an SEC, I mean, what does Georgia have? Two losses? Georgia got smoked by Alabama. Who lost to Vandy?

Alabama and Ole Miss. Ole Miss was old miss yeah miss was a good this is what they do the SC cannibalizes itself they don't and they be Clemson 34 to 3 but they do cannibalize yeah in a way like flash flash look how many people are ranked. That was like Tennessee's ranked, Ole Miss, one, two, three, four. So they played number four, number one, number 16, and number seven. That's four top 16 teams. Oh, and 14, five. They played five of their games games were teams in the top you know top 15 I don't what is Washington oh Washington's garbage this year but it's because we lost our Oregon number one okay what it's heated beat Ohio State okay but what's how many they've played in the if you went to the strength of

schedule so they have number two so 20 boys have two teams no no no Boise State is ranked that's wrong these are like 12 those that's their rank okay yeah they beat number they beat the number two team in the country yeah Ohio State insane yeah and then they boys estate now ranked and everybody would always say boys the state's obviously a top top team and so they have at the time that they sure that guy's gonna win the Heisman that's right they literally have the Heisman winner yeah you know but they're in the northwest and they're not cannibalizing themselves well if the

boys I mean they were in the end that were the anything Travis Hunter should when they could win the Heisman you think Colorado is is the SEC do you think they're no again you think Colorado is is the SEC. Do you think they're no again? You think Colorado could be Oregon? Could Colorado beat, Oregon? No, okay, I'm not arguing for Colorado But you're arguing for boys state cuz that guy's gonna win the high no no I'm arguing That they are a good program and have historically won bowl games And no one's arguing. I agree with that and they're so, but when you're saying that's a nothing win for Oregon,

I'm not here to defend Oregon. I hate Oregon. No, Oregon. I hate Oregon with everything in my soul. Oregon's stuck by that. And I think it's a big win because they weren't ranked at the time. So that's good.

You're saying, you're saying. This is, I'm talking positive about, I think. Oregon has beat the number two team. There's no such thing as a better win than that. It's crazy. Well, now Bandy beat the number one team. Yeah, Bandy beat number one. Listen, I'm rooting for Bandy. He takes a little bit to come around, but he's going to get one in on you. I already said you guys were the best. I'm just waiting for my chance.

It's like there has to be, that's what I don't, SEC is the only conference that cheers for itself. That's right. And that is hilarious. That's so funny don't, SEC is the only conference that cheers for itself. That's right. And that is hilarious. That's so funny to me. Like I, great. We're proud of. I love that. It just means more.

I think you're just happy to be at home, you know? You're like, do we like, you're just like, I don't know, you feel like in the South, I think you feel you were made fun of a lot. You've already made fun of us. How have I made fun of you? What did I say? No, even the joke already. You, already made fun of us. Even if you said- How have I made fun of you? What did I say? Even the joke already,

who just showed up in America three months ago. Washington? Yeah. So, your state's named after our first president. That's how late y'all were to the game. We're dumb. By the way, we're the only ones that did any of this. Nobody here said dumb.

We're talking about, in general. In general, that's what we're doing. But this is what you're doing, this is what the South does. And I love Southern Pride, but you're doing, you're pointed at me saying, you guys, you do this. You just said, dumb. I've never once called you dumb. I'm just saying.

No, no, no, I never said slavery. No, you said, what were you gonna do? The implication was slavery. Yeah, yeah, and the West, there's lots of terrible stuff going on in the West too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got our own problem. But no one here, but again, so your point in us saying you guys,

like I know when you're called, you dumb. When someone says, a comment goes, I told that joke in, they always say the South. I told that joke in Alabama, let me tell you what they did. And they say, do, do, do, do, do, do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's. Let me tell you what they did. I mean, what do we do when you remember your impersonation of me on here?

Yeah, I mean, I think you're getting a lot of it tonight. Yeah, this is my very favorite thing about the South is the Southern pride. And I love what I, really a lot of what the pride of the Southern football is, a lot of these cities don't have pro teams too. So that's the way it is. That's great. And we don't just give up. So then when the pro teams come, we don't just dwell on. Right, and when I like, listen,

like the first 10 minutes of this, I was gushing about cities I love in the South. Big fan. Yeah, yeah. Well, in the West Coast. I'll never listen to it. Well in the West Coast Well, the West Coast yeah, we're you know, we show up on time. Yeah things here, you know, that's crazy Now we were told 330 arrived for four o'clock here The best conference I know what if I told you I've been sitting in the car for an hour? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're like, have they left yet? No, I've been here. You're waiting to see us leave? I just wait. No, I just, at a move, at a big move, I just sit and wait in the car. The people who don't like me on this podcast, this will not make them like me more. Now they're going to hate me. I think they respect you for standing here.

Listen, we're joking. And I'll say this, you're all going to feel pretty silly when Notre Dame wins. There we go. I'm pulling for Notre Dame. Yeah. Talk about strength of conference. There you go. Yeah, yeah.

Guys really rolled Army. Mm-hmm. Army was undefeated. Yeah. Very good. Yeah, Army and Indiana got exposed a little bit this weekend. Yeah. Guys, college football's fun.

If you're not into it, sorry about the last five minutes, but get into it, because it's a good time. Five. Let's say college, on the YouTube, let's say college football, so you could just skip it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

This kills, this is like, as a Washington guy, it kills me that I have to kind of defend Oregon. I get that. Because I hate Oregon with everything that is in my guts. Yeah. But there is part of me that needs them to be... I'm like, at least I want you to lose the national championship by one point. That's what I need. So at least it's competitive.

They beat Boise by one point. Boise's good. Yeah. And they... You need that, but the reverse. I always liked Oregon. I always thought, like, you know, because sometimes as a Vandy fan you think, well if we ever quit football, who are we going to become a fan of?

And I always thought I don't, I mean I could maybe, Tennessee we just couldn't do. I was like Florida, I was like Florida a little bit. But I always liked Oregon. I know you don't like Oregon, but it's like I liked it. I liked the uniforms. I thought, I wish Vandy would don't like Oregon. But it's like I like the uniforms. I thought I wish Vandy would do stuff like that. Uniforms are cool. Uniforms are cool.

And now that you can pay players, Nike, I mean it's just an unlimited fun. And my dad is an Oregon fan. So I won't fully commiserate if they win. I'll be happy for him because I like my dad. And he loves football. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, believe it or not,

people outside of the South love their families. Hmm. That's crazy. We are learning a lot. I know that's your big thing. We're learning so much. Do y'all get together at every protest? Oh my gosh.

Do you want to take over? No, you just... Alright. You guys will see you at the rally. I love it. Two more. Malia Tate. I love Melissa and hearing her awesome laugh. I bet that's one of the reasons Destin fell in love with that girl.

Comedians love a good laugh. It's true. You're a good laugher. You're a good laugher. Well, thanks. Someone said you sound like Rachel McAdams. Really? Yeah. Nice. It'sher. Well, thanks. Someone said you sound like Rachel McAdams. Really? Yeah.

Oh, nice. It's fun. Look and sound, congrats. Nice. It's a lot nicer than the internet is to me. Let's get to a southerner, Mr. Arkansas. Dustin laughs like he left the cap locks on, and every ha is double spaced.

Double spaced? Now I'm going to be a little, yeah, I do a loud laugh. That's going to be sad. It's great Yeah, well people that is a funny comment when people don't like your laugh. Yeah, and you're like, all right It's a natural thing. Yeah, it's just me at my happiest. Yeah My stop experience enjoy. I'll push that down change your laugh Getting some holiday shopping done this weekend? Pick up some touchdowns. They're on sale at DraftKings Sportsbooks. DraftKings has doorbuster profit boost and bet one. Get one

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It's kind of an old school variety show. And so it's like, it's the neighbor gets the Nashville Christmas. I'm hosting it. We did some, uh, wrote a monologue, went out and did, you know, uh, it was a mix where it feels like it's stand up, but it's also hosty and it was the most fun I've ever had. Honestly. I cannot wait for it to come out. I think you will, I hope that you will see

what we're trying to do at Nate Land, why I'm always into being late and stuff like that. I'm trying, it's, but you can see that it is going to something, I think this is a show that comes out December 19th, CBS. You can sit there with your entire family. Y'all could go just enjoy this show. Noah Khan's on it. Daris Rucker, Carrie Underwood, cause I think it's going to be announced. She was a surprise that night,

but I believe we'll have her announce the commercials for it. So fun. But it's, it's Streeter and Mikey who wrote the Washington sketch. They wrote it and Lorne Michaels produced it. So it's got exactly what I want Nate Land to be, like with movies and with everything. And it was so fun. I got hit up so much afterwards, just the next day of people just like buzzing about it.

Like they just were like, they're like, I can't stop thinking about Leslie. Cause it was just something I don't think people seen. Probably a mix of people being in Nashville and like they were getting to see the production of kind of how SNL work where we, you know, the stuff's rolling in and out and all that kind of stuff. But it was just very special.

It was, I mean, I really, it was just kind of buzzing, just floating like the next day. I hope it comes off as what it came off in that room. Because it just, it was a magical thing. And so, yeah, December 19th. That can't come soon enough. I mean, I'm so cool. Yeah. It was, and for how long, it was like, we've been playing it for like six months. You know, when it comes out, you're like, I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't know all this stuff. But it was, I don't think there's anything like this on, well not in forever, anything like this on TV. You know, I mean SNL would be the closest, but this is the mix of live sketch and music and it's all Christmas themed.

I mean we have some sketches that I think are going to pop and be really, really good and you know, some nice sketches. Maybe have a sketch with the idea of Washington. Yeah. Idea, not Washington. Jefferson. Jefferson, yeah. I saw someone said it's crazy that I have that picture up.

They were like saying that I, it was crazy that I have a picture of myself. You're like, but it's someone, they... Well, this whole room is. Well, the whole room is that like but it's someone they well the whole room is that yeah but it's like that's called the Nate land podcast yeah yeah and it's but I'd like that's the that's what cinema over the edge I was like that's the least yeah that's like that's the least that was that's like a yeah that's super cool sketch yeah but I throwback. It's like yeah the old-school variety shows. It's so fun. Yeah

I'm very very yeah, very I can't wait. So then yes, so December 19th That and then yeah, I watched the match on TNT Oh, yeah, and I loved it. I thought it was so you know what, it was so funny. It was very funny. Don't say it in the microphone. You turned your head and you were off. Like I heard it. I mean, I would love the people at home to hear you once say something nice about him. It is Nate Land. Whole show. Yeah. Could you stare at the Washington painting while you-

Sorry, you gotta take it home tonight. I'm making a compliment again. Put it in the nursery. For those in here, it's so funny and I really enjoyed it. I appreciate it, man. You don't ever say stuff like that. So I know it's true. I've not watched it yet.

I was nervous to watch it. Yeah. Yeah. I saw a couple of clips that were like just popped up in my feed. Like the one of you guys making fun of Barclay for being all sweaty. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I need to see it. As a viewer, you guys came off, even though you and Blake got eliminated immediately, and by far had the worst day playing golf, you were very funny. Blake Griffin is very funny. I had no idea. Very funny. And then his relationship with Charles Barkley made the whole thing funny.

And then the next round, which I wasn't even going to watch it when you weren't on there, but when you were on there on the set for Bark for Barclays around and that was very funny. Yeah. Yeah. Blake's obviously close to Barclays, very close to Gretzky. And so it was, yeah, it was, they asked us, so we lost in that first one. It's hard. Golf is like, you got to be focused and it's, there was just so many, you're literally playing for a million dollars. like just add that's on the table but then you know it's like I'm trying to be funny like you know because you're thinking like people are watching this so if if we're all just serious but not everybody's serious but if you're all just serious no one wants to watch who

can shoot an 87 the best so it's like we need to be funny. So me and Blake just really hit it off and then we just played bad but I thought we did good with making jokes and then they then we went up and sat in the booth and then we were good and after that they were like hey we all do the next they kept asking us to stay. So we ended up staying up until the to stay. So we ended up staying up until the Greskie, if people watch, but like the finals, you know. With Phelps, right? Phelps, yeah. So we did not, we were not there for that. Just Michael Phelps and Wayne Greskie.

Yeah, yeah. Michael Phelps is the afterthought of the group. It wasn't after that. I was going to maybe not say it. I know. The names you just keep saying are crazy. I know, but I was maybe not going to say it because I thought maybe if someone's watching they could you know be excited We won't tell you who won. Did you already say who won Carrie Underwood? Yeah Yeah, we won't talk about a show that's already aired but Yeah, it already aired but he was yeah, it was Michael Phelps. I actually felt a little

Sorry for why? It's funny that the guy from Nate land who gets picked on, feels sorry for the greatest athlete of all time. He was a great golfer, but personality wise, that's not his thing. Is having a personality. Yeah. That was so subtly one of the meanest things. Yeah, personality is not his thing. I get what you mean. He's a quiet guy. He's quiet. He's reserved. Everyone else is riffing. Great athlete. He struggles with who he is as a person. No, but like Chuck is funny on TNT and Blake Griffin was like doing spots at the lab factory for a while. Yeah. I get what you're saying though. He's just quiet and reserved. I could tell

that's not his thing. Mark Wahlberg's funny because he kept saying, yeah, we want to show our personalities out here. Not just basically what you just said, but Mark Wahlberg wasn't joking. He was, he's just very intense. Like you think Mark Wahlberg. Yeah. No, that won't, the first match we played against Phelps and Wahlberg, it's like me and Blake. And then it's then they're very serious. Yeah. They went away. So, you know, and then when you could,

so we would talk in their ear. Well, Wahlberg was like, they keep talking to my ear when I'm swinging. So you would take the AirPods out and you're like, well, I think that's the point. You know, but it's like, you know, it's a weird balance to be like, well, they're also competing for a lot of money.

And these guys, they want to win. Not saying I wouldn't want to win, but I was just kind of like, I know why I'm here. So I need to try to be, I didn't want to come off like mean, you know, everybody thinks I'm mean here, but it was like trying to be ribbon. Like, you know, it's like, yeah, it's like dudes hanging out. Like that's what it felt like. It was just like trashing each other. But we hung out afterwards the whole time. I mean, dude, it was, yeah. Came close with Gretzky, Blake, Charles. Yeah, there it was.

If you heard of King Griffey Jr. Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't going to bring it up. It's too close to home. Yeah, King Griffey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone that you loved. Yeah. I mean, it to bring it up. It's too close to home. Yeah, Kim Griffey. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just everyone that you loved.

Yeah, I mean, it was, it was, yeah, I think, I mean, I've not watched yet, but I would have, I thought when we were there, I was like, I thought it felt fun because those things can, the problem with a lot of times when they do stuff like that, there's no personality. So when you have no personality in there and you're trying to make the first one with Tiger and Phil, well, Tiger doesn't have the greatest personality. Like as far as like, you know, he's the best and I love him, but he's not gonna be, I wanna go watch this guy be fun. He's not the most fun forever. Where Phil Mickelson was, he's a lot more fun.

So you gotta, Phil has to kind of carry that first one and you kind of need more than, you can't just throw it all on one dude. So if you would have had, you need a mix. And I think they did a good job. Yeah, yeah, you need a mix. And so once me and Blake lost, then we were just sitting up there with them.

And then it was, I think it was like an overrunning, like an overlaying of just some being funny and all that. I was just thinking about how the producers, like if you would have showed up, not funny, but wanting to win, they'd be like, dude, we did not cast this guy for that reason. Yeah, no, yeah.

Well, they didn't even, we weren't even supposed to be in the booth. We were gonna maybe go up there for a second. And we just went up there and they liked us up there that they kept asking us to stay. We lost two of the funny ones. We need these guys to talk. Smart.

Because Walbert keeps taking his ear out. He won't listen. And Bill Murray, 74 years old, great golfer. Yeah. He has such a great sleep, but he's pretty reserved also. Yeah, he is. He is reserved. Felt like you were carrying a show out there.

Did they show any, did they show me saying something about like he didn't say my name or something like that? I don't think so. Okay. It's interesting. There was a thing I had with him where I asked him a question about Lost in Translation. So Lost in Translation, in that movie, it shows him doing a, he hits a golf ball, a drive.

So I always loved the way he warmed up that movie. He turns his back to the hole and he does his practice swing. And then he turns to the ball and then he hits like a perfect drive. And so I asked him about that. And then Trevor Illman is a golfer. So I asked Bill Murray that. I didn't say Bill Murray didn't know me.

And then I asked Bill Murray that. And then Bill goes, well, Trevor, and he answered it like Trevor asked it. And so then I was like joking, like, I was like, I was like, he won't acknowledge me. And like, cause there was like another thing where I didn't. And then, so I made a joke again later and he was like, Nate, Nate, you know, I think it was a frustrated.

And I was like, well, I mean, I was just joking. But it was like, it was just funny how like, you just wouldn mean, I was just joking. It was like, it was just funny how like you just wouldn't, I couldn't get him to acknowledge me. And you're like, out of all, I thought, you know, the other kind of comedian. Yeah, you're like Saturday Night Live, you were on it? I've done it? I met Steve Martin, I met, look, I've got, you know,

you go a little bit where you're like, all right, I'm excited to meet the old time guys seem to like me. And then I go, it built merges and he's doing his own thing, but he's a guy that does his own thing. Yeah. That's his existence is doing his own thing. About to ask a good question. Yeah. And then he gave his Trevor, he goes, it's great.

He goes, great question, Trevor. He goes, and then answered it. And I was like, all right. But he said that on that, if you've seen Lost Translation, when he hits that ball, that was the first shot. That was the first and only shot. Is what he said. The director goes, let's do one more.

He goes, you ain't getting better than that. And it was like a perfect shot. So that was fun. Can you imagine if I got cast in that movie? I just, no. Me too. Yeah, I think it's hard to imagine. Your weekend stories are wild. It's hard what?

To imagine. Just me in general? Getting even the possibility of talking about you being cast in it. So you're asking me to jump a lot of hoops, alright? Much less you golfing. What are you being cast as in this? In the match? Yeah.

They go, Brian, they go. I think you're talking about Lost in Translation. They, no. I was. I was. By the way, just as far away as him being cast in the match, both equally, equally. Are you writing this down? Uh, I want you to capture all this.

Nicest guy to stand up. It was a good, yeah. Are you writing this down? Uh, yeah. I want you to capture all this. Nicest guy to stand up. It was a good, yeah. Are you typing? Yeah, the Washington Post is doing the kind of a day in the life with me. And Travis, so they've been, this is the day in the life. I'm really glad we didn't do our weekend recaps close to yours.

Cause you're like, I was thinking about Bill Murray and then he did it and my story is just like, well, I had a late show when Raleigh where four tables tried not to pay. Oh, very good though. That's crazy. That's more fun though. That's fun to listen.

That's fun to talk about. Mine's not, you know. I liked it. Well, we enjoyed it. Yeah, yeah, I really enjoyed it. Yeah. Aaron Weber here. We recently moved and buying a house

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it's the busiest travel weekend of the year. So we thought it'd be a good time to talk about road trips. Yes. Thanksgiving. Yep. Over Christmas. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Why do you think more people travel? Cause you got to go to your family.

We've talked about this. Yeah. The secular holiday. Remember? Yeah. I still don't know what secular means. It was a big moment. Non-religious. Yeah.

Yeah. But Aaron said it's a secular holiday and Nate pounced the word secular and do you use that around the Thanksgiving table? I've heard it now being used but I think people do it because they know that I don't know what it is and they heard you do it. So even if it's someone that I think might have no connection of me and you, I bet they, Aaron got ahold of them. They're sticking it to his head. Hey, some reason start talking about secular a lot. Planning the Christmas special,

I bet that word was used a lot for stuff. I don't remember. I don't think so, you know. I'm surprised- On the Gregorian calendar. Yeah, I'm surprised you, and maybe this is a Southern thing versus where, like it was in our households growing up, not mine, because I didn't grow up in a Christian house,

but like when I started going to church, that's when it would come, we would, it would be, you would use it in culture. You'd be like, oh, is that Christian or is that secular? Is that like, and there you'd have switch foot where we're like, we don't know. Yeah, that's fun. John Chris. P-O-D, you're like, we don't know. That's fun. John Chris.

P-O-D, you're like, but it's like, it kinda is, but I think they might drink. No, John Chris is not even close. That's very much, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was in Texas in the 90s, North Texas, like Dallas, North of Dallas. Your first marriage. You're right.

Go ahead. Good southern girl here. What else was going on back then? It was 12. But we talked a lot in our Baptist church about secular music. Oh. It had a very negative connotation. Secular was a very bad word.

Yeah. You couldn't listen to it? No. No. You had to listen to Christian music. A lot of jars of clay. Yeah. Christian music. A lot of Jarz & Klay. Yeah, Christian concerts. I listened to Jarz & Klay.

Great. Yeah, no, I mean, it was, you know, Jarz & Klay was so big. Moment in time, you know, youth group in the 90s. Yeah. And when they got real big, like Jarz & Klay was a Christian band, but crossed over into the secular radio.

The mainstream. And you got like DC Talk. Like there was, the Christian music Definitely went to the Christian music in the 90s was actually pretty... Yeah. Reliant K came out early 2000s. Reliant K was fun. What does DC stand for? I forgot.

Something fun like... District Columbia. Don't Cuss Talk. That works. Don't Cuss Talk. Now I gotta know. Yeah. Formed at Liberty, it checks out. Liberty University?

Liberty University? Listen to us looking it up. Yeah. Well, he'll find it while we- I'm saying y'all talk about it. Yeah, I know, that's what they- Oh man. I caught the tail end of it

because when I started going to church was like 99, 2000. But like that was the peak of- Decent Christian talk. Oh. Okay, I knew it was something fun. Oh, decent Christian talk. Decent Christian talk. Oh, okay. I knew it was something fun. Oh, decent Christian talk. Decent Christian talk. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We had a lot of lock-ins when they were blasting DC Talk. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That'd be a funny special title. Decent Christian talk. Decent Christian talk. Yeah. Anyway, road trips.

So, about 72 million Americans are hitting the road this weekend. Gas prices in Nashville, $2.80, $2.80 average. San Diego, $4.56. Well, it just went down. Yeah, it's actually for us. Gotten cheaper, yeah. I saw it just went down. Yeah, it's actually. Yeah. For us. It's gotten cheaper. Yeah. I saw it on old numbers here.

That's an average one, which means they're always gonna. Yeah. It was $6. I saw it under, we saw it under four, I saw it under four last week for the first time in a minute. Yeah.

Yeah, nice. Yeah, $6. It's crazy. It's a lot. Yeah, it's insulting. Yeah. What's the longest road trip you guys have ever taken? We've taken a lot. Yeah's a lot. Yeah. It's insulting. Yeah. What's the longest road trip you guys have ever taken?

We've taken a lot. Yeah. I think it would be to Denver, San Diego to Denver. Yeah. I think that was- We did that with our family of five during the pandemic. I think we did it twice. It was either-

How long did that take? Well, we stretched it out like two and a half days out. Does that sound right? Yeah. We stopped in Utah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, no, cause San Diego, when we moved,

cause San Diego to Seattle is 1200 miles, I think. So we've done a couple about the same distance, a thousand plus. That's a gorgeous drive though. Like that's the best drive. Yeah. That is really, really nice. Cause you can go through Vegas and then hit Utah or you can go through Arizona.

So we did Vegas, Utah, and then we did Arizona on the way back. We spent the 4th of July in St. George, Utah. And it was like, you know that fireworks scene in the Sandlot? It was like that. There was like this country, like concert going at this, like this, it was like this country like concert going at this, like this like, it was like rodeo, rodeo into concert

and like then right into fireworks and we're at the park and we had ice cream. I was like, it was like the 60s. It was unbelievable. Yeah, Utah loves St. George. Yeah. So I think it's kind of Arizona's weather, right? Yeah.

It's not as. So yeah, that drive is gorgeous. Yeah, we've done that. And then we've done San Diego to Seattle, which is not a pretty drive. That's like, it's I-5 the whole way. No, that's just I-5, it's just flat. Yeah, just getting it done.

Yeah, it's fast. If you take the coast, it's lovely. It just takes a lot longer. Without you guys, I did Chicago to Seattle, which I think is the biggest one. That's a haul. That's a haul. But that's because-

Without you guys holding me back, I really cover some ground. Well, no, me and a friend did it. And yeah, that was the longest one. That was crazy. I paid 80 bucks for that gig. Yeah. No hotel.

I wish there was a gig attached to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's real. 30 hours. Mostly one freeway. Freeways in America are unbelievable. I love them. Yeah. It's crazy how easy it is to get- Should we say interesting? I was gonna say, I don't use freeway. I don't really know what you mean by freeway. Freeways in America are unbelievable. I love them. It's crazy how easy it is. So we say interstate. I don't use freeway. I don't really know what you mean by freeway.

It's just interstate? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Let's say highway too. Like, but we say interstate. Highway's a different thing to us. Highway's the smaller ones. Yeah. You know. I don't know if we care. And then we just say the five. We just say interstate. Yeah. I don't even know what you mean by small ones like 440 versus. Well the interstates to me are the are the they are called interstates, the blue signs, the federal ones, the national ones. These are the they go they're called interstate because they connect states right and so highways to me are like the more kind of like regional ones you know and they'll cross state. Brali Parkway. That's the highway. That's the highway. Okay. And it's actually called a parkway. So it might be a bookway. They would have called it Bradley Highway. Yeah. How I highway goes through a

lot of smaller towns, you know, might have a stoplight every once in a while. Route 40. No, no, no. Route 66. Route 66. There you go. The original highway. Yeah, where it's a mix of road and a little interstate. Yeah. The big one in California is 101. Yeah. The 101 highway all along the coast. It's gorgeous, but it takes forever. And the five is what we when we live in Seattle, you would call it I-5. But now in California, you just call it the five, the eight, the fifteen. It's more efficient. You can just knock out some time just. 440, 840, those are bypasses. If it goes north to south, it's an odd number,

east to west, even number. What do you do, so how do you entertain the family on a car ride that long? How much is planned out and how much is just, let's see what happens. It depends a lot. We've done it all, because we've been doing this with our kids

and we almost have an 18 year old, yeah. Sometimes we'll do like family playlists where everyone puts in music. And so it's like a soundtrack, so then you're not like fighting over the music. You pass the phone around and they just hit add to queue. So they have smart, they got a song coming up. And then you kind of have to listen

to each other's music a little bit. It's like collaborative, you know? And then also there's just that moment where you're like, everybody get on your own devices and put your headphones in because we all hate each other. Yeah. And headphones are, you know, like, I mean, it just cancels it all out.

Well, we've been through, we've been doing road trips with kids for almost 18 years, meaning we've seen the technology evolve. Like, it's like the stuff that we do now is older. Yeah, we used to have CDs and the DVD player. Yeah, the portable DVD player. You probably had that with Harper, like before the iPad was available.

There's, yeah, there's, now it's easier. We try and limit the screen, so on a long drive, you try and not give it to them right away. Yeah. Because you're like, you can't start here. Like maybe the last two hours when we need it. Yeah. Oh, that's interesting.

Yeah. Okay. Yep. That's all of parenting, Aaron, is just postponing the screen time. Yeah. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. Okay. Yep. That's all of parenting, Aaron. It's just postponing the screen time. Yeah. It is a large part of that, yeah. Our favorite hack that we did,

and we invented it on that Colorado trip, is a thing called Mom's Quiet Hour, which for the first hour of the drive, no one was allowed to say anything or ask for anything and no music could be played and mom would just sleep. Like that was like you, or I think we could play music. We could listen to music that I would play.

And, but the point was, yeah, the point was you couldn't, and anytime they talked the hour would restart. Because the point would be that like, I don't think we really restarted the art But well, I get really carsick. So I always drive he drives the whole time Which means I am like reaching back and giving them snacks and toys Yeah, you're curating the whole experience back there doing the tech support on their iPad. Throwing almonds at them. Carrying the Bluetooth. And so that was his thing was like, we get in the car, we're all fed, we're all packed.

And then I just get to take a little nap. Little nap. You would usually grab a stuffed animal. Yeah, I take a stuffed animal from the kids, lean against the window, check out for a little bit because inevitably the packing is stressful and exhausting and this guy's had a gig the night before. You know?

Yeah, we were eating at the con. There was a lot of like. I'm packing the car and like cleaning the house and getting the kids to bed and we gotta leave. Why are we going to Laughlin, dad? You know? That casino gig needs an opener. It's a free hotel room.

I brought my family for a lot of the early road, because you were just like, they're going to pay me a hundred dollars to go on the, and I get a hotel. I go right off the gas. And then you get to a hotel, you're like, I shouldn't take a kid here. No, yeah.

It's a motel. I shouldn't be here. Yeah, it's not safe. I love my family. Yeah. Now, how often do y'all stop in for snacks? You pop, you pack a cooler or? Yeah, I pack some stuff.

Like I, I mean, I'm not like making sandwiches in the car. Like people will do that. Like we'll stop for like a meal, but yeah, we always have snacks and it's amazing how many snacks children will eat. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

There's a tension between me and the rest of the family, which is kind of a trope, but I think that's good because if you had a driver who's willing to stop as much as the rest of the passengers, it would take so long. So you kind of like if- So like you're on a mission and we just don't want to stop. Yeah.

We're like, ah, why can't we stop? Meaning we stop every three to five hours, right? Depending on. Oh, that's pretty great. Yeah. Limit the fluids. I'm not gonna say every 45 minutes. But you want them to be a little afraid to ask you to stop. Not, not so much that they never do. Yeah. But you want them to like all hold it and then and then when it's a real problem. Yeah. Then I'll bring it up. We got a team that you got to time it out together.

I was just, I took a, I drove from St. Louis this morning with two other comics and after a while I was like, I'm gonna, does anybody need to use the bathroom? And they were both like, oh yeah. They were like waiting for me to bring it in. They didn't want to do it. That's a good opener to not tell though.

If a guy, if I've got a guy riding with me and I'm headlining, he'll never open for me to bring in. They didn't want to do it. That's a good opener to not tell though. Yeah, yeah. If a guy, if I've got a guy riding with me and I'm headlining, he'll never open for me again. If he tells me he needs to pee, you kidding me? You wait till I need to. Yeah, you need to get on my schedule. You figure it out. It's usually gotta be a prop. You're like, Yogi, it's about to, I don't know what to tell you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For the sake of your seat, we should stop. You ever do Side of the Road? No, cause, no, no we haven't. That's not, no. If I'm on like a nothing road. Yeah, parking. Not on a highway, not where like just back to the,

I would have to be to get into some woods. Yeah. Yeah, I'm talking about like a little, yeah, not on the interstate. Not like Tommy Boy, like the new Tommy Boy and like Chris Farley. Free cars going by. You're like, I couldn't do that. We did have a situation.

We were leaving Vegas over the summer. This is like 115 and and we were in traffic and we went. The bathroom line was like out the door. Yeah, they were out of ice. It was like the apocalypse. And we definitely had our little list one, like P in the parking lot. We found some bushes. Did you guys do any road trips on your potty training and stuff? It's like, it's a whole different... That's tough. Yeah. You're like, Oh man.

We should have stopped. Yeah. You said you did a arena in Huntsville and an hour later you're on the side of the road in a bush somewhere peeing. Remember this? Yeah. Kind of. Yeah.

I mean, it's just a few months ago. It was the end of the weekend. So you wanted to drive home by yourself. And you said, you pulled over, you were like, 45 minutes ago, I was in front of 20,000 people. Yeah, it was the last, when I did Huntsville was one of the last shows I did.

Yeah, it's just funny sometimes to think about that, where you could be, you know, that was at night and I got off on a road. And so I just found there was another road and you're like, there's, you know, that was at night and I got off on a road. And so I just found there was another road and you're like, there's, you know, it's like going a whole gas station thing. You're like, I was able, I'll do it like that. It's dark, no one can see, you know.

When you moved from New York to LA, did you drive cross country? I did. We left on the day Hurricane Sandy. Yeah. That's why I had to leave earlier. I think I've told this on there. You and Laura?

Oh, suspicious. That's why I had to leave earlier. I think I've told this on there. You and Laura? Oh, suspicious. Laura, I got a tip. Insider training. Insider, yeah. Training. Something's coming. No, we were supposed to leave. I was always going to drive our car. And Laura, so we

just had Harper. Harper's like two months old. So Laura's dad came up there and they were gonna fly home and fly to, Harper's born in Nashville. We went back up there to get, you know, to move out of the apartment and get our stuff, get our car. I was driving the car cross country with my buddy, Louis Katz.

And so we were gonna do, we had a couple, like we set up some one-nighters to kind of like piece this through. And then Hurricane Sandy came. So we had to leave a day earlier because we weren't going to get out. So then they went to the airport to try to go home. They couldn't get out.

So they had to go stay in a hotel. And so I was joked that, you know, the one thing they tell you to do with hurricanes is like, you know, take care of old people and babies. And I just left, and I left Laura with both of those things. She had an old person and a baby. And so Laura and them were in the hotel. It's when all of the lights went out in New York. They all went up to, I mean, you know, thankfully her street was the only street, it was like, that was lit. Her and above, it was about Grand Central Station or something. They ended up getting a hotel down there. Because we didn't have anything in the apartment. Everything

was gone. Everything was being moved. And so then we left and we went and did a show in, I think, Ohio. That's when I learned something. Louis Katz, he always said something that I always think about. Cause we were like, you know, it's three o'clock, four o'clock or something, and we have a show at seven. And he was like, all right, let's try to take a nap. And he's like, when I take naps, if I can't fall asleep in 20 minutes, I get up and I just go.

And so I always still think about this today. Like you give yourself, instead of just laying there and trying to force a nap, you go, all right, I'm going to try it. If it doesn't work, then I get back up and it's over. And I was, and I always still think about that now. So if you try to do it, if you can't do it, then get up and go. Uh, but yeah, then we drove.

So the whole thing was we went, so you could go two ways. You could go two ways. You could go New York to California, you could go Southern, or you could go through Pennsylvania and then come into that Denver and stuff. Now going through the Pennsylvania drive, Pennsylvania is a brutal state to drive through. I would imagine it can be like Tennessee for a lot of people, but it's so long, you don't ever think you're getting out of it. I mean, you're in it forever.

Yeah. And you're just, every time you think you're somewhere, you're like, am I close? You're not closer. You're never closer. You're going to just be more in Pennsylvania. Yeah. And you don't, like, you just feel like there's no,

you have to go across the whole thing. So we did the top. I think we did that. Yeah, we did the top, I think we did it, yeah, we did the top or something. And so then, but the whole point of the drive was to get to Colorado. Cause it's like, you basically have done the drive, the drive to Colorado is like, it's fine.

And then Colorado to LA was like, that's your reward for the top. And Louie was gonna do the whole thing with me and then Louie got a gig at San Francisco Punchline. So he left me in Denver. I was like the whole, I go this is the whole, the whole reason we're doing this was to, so I did that alone. Uh, and I remember as they were somewhere in Utah and they were, uh, cause you get into situations where you're like, all right, you have to ask people and they would tell you like, are you either got to go over this mountain tonight or there's going to be a storm and you're not getting over it maybe for a couple of

days or so I remember once where I was gonna stay in a hotel right before the mountain, they were like, you know, I just overheard people talking about it. You're like, well then I guess I need to, so I just had to drive through it and get over it. Was that like, I mean, you'd already done the big move to a city, like as a comic,

like the move to New York and stuff, but was there, I mean, an element where that was still kind of like, I don't know, kind of like a romantic drive for you of just being like, this is, here we go, going to LA, going like, you know, moving out West, like taking my shot. I mean, you were already pretty established as a comic. But I mean, when I got to LA, I mean, I would have been,

if I didn't grind it back out, I wouldn't be anywhere. I mean, it was like, I went backwards. I'm not, I didn't go it back out, I wouldn't be anywhere. I mean, it was like, I went, I went backwards. I'm not, I didn't go backwards, but it was like, you could tell you gotta keep your foot on the pedal. Cause when I went to LA, I think I felt like a breather. Like it wasn't the, the, the pressure of New York where you're going up every night, where you're like, you gotta be going up every night, every night, every night.

So like that pressure was gone. Cause LA just wasn't, I mean, you want to go up every night, every night, every night. So like that pressure was gone, cause LA just wasn't, I mean, you wanna go up every night, but it's just a different kind of thing. It's a, so since that pressure was gone, I felt great. And then, but then I was just, we were just talking about this today. But then when I had, I might've talked with, I was supposed to open for Burr at Largo. And so I remember I was like, oh, all right, I was supposed to open for Burr at Largo.

And so I remember I was like, oh, all right, I got that. And then Burr had to cancel. And so then I ended up doing an open mic that night. And I remember thinking like, I already have, I did a half hour on Common Central. I did late night appearances and I felt like a panic. I always judge everything by when I can, if I feel myself get a little flustered or worried or panicky, then it's like I was

like, oh I gotta, I was like, I'm, this is all gonna just disappear. It doesn't matter that I have these credits. Because when I go there, I mean, yeah, I got to go up on the open mic, they let me go up because I've done TV. Yeah, you didn't have to get your name drawn. Yeah, but it was like, it wasn't like, it was like, we can't believe you're in town. It was just like, almost I had to, someone had to talk, you know, introduce and say who I was.

And like, and they were like, oh yeah, we've, yeah, we know, like that kind of thing. So it was like, oh, so I'm like back to like, you know. But then when I was in LA, it just moved quicker because you're just been doing comedy longer and you had to do stuff. So then I just went out and did all the shows and just hung out.

I had to hang out a lot, had to not go up, but just let everybody know I'm in town. Cause you have a ego and arrogance to be like, I'm a New York comic, I'm in town, I've done TV and everybody will just figure that I'm in town and they're gonna come ask me to do this. But it turns out no one thinks of you. Yeah.

And they shouldn't. It's kind of like the SEC of the comedy scene. Yeah, yeah. They shouldn't think of you. It's not their job to think about you. Right. So you then gotta go, oh, I gotta go out and let them know that I'm out and let them know that I've moved here and like, and I got to go on stage and I got to do really good and murder and

all these shows. So I'm getting asked back and you got to just stay on top of it. And, uh, that's the part that can be, the ego part is the part that's hard, I think in comedy, because it's, you can think, well, I'll just make this, you know, this Christmas special. You could be like, well, I've done enough stuff. So they're going to watch the Christmas special because I've been around and said, no, they, no one, there's still, I mean, obviously still, but there's a lot of people that don't know me. Like they're going to see who is this guy that's hosting this Christmas special. So you just constantly reminding yourself anytime, you know, cause you do, you have it where, you know,

we're writing a movie and ooh, I'm going to do whatever I want. Well, this movie stinks, dude. They don't owe me this movie. Like it'll go away so fast. So if I want to, I always want to grow out of it. That would be the way I want to, I want to grow out of it to be like,

are you doing a movie? And you're like, I'm not doing that anymore. Cause I'm, you know, cause we're building a theme park. Or like something, like it's like, I like- I was gonna say what's left. Well, it's like there's ideas. Yeah. There's, but it's like, I like the idea of

when you get asked to go do something, you get to go like, I'm not doing it cause I think I'm better than it. You're just like, I just don't know if I really have the, I won't be able to give you the best thing for that because I'm actually really focused on this other kind of thing now. Yeah. And so that's, that's what I would always, you know, do. Has anyone ever picked up a hitchhiker?

No. Or considered it? Right here. You have? Right here. Really? I got one right here. Oh, he's the hitchhiker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He cannot get rid of me. 15 years and he still can't get rid of me. My dad used to. You're like, gosh, I wish you would have just killed me at this point. Your dad you speak? Yeah, Brian tries to leave. I'm the one that doesn't let Brian leave.

That's the twist at the end. That's the twist at the end. He goes, I've been wanting to leave. I'm the one that doesn't let Brian leave. It's the opposite. That's the twist at the end. That's the twist at the end. He goes, I've been wanting to leave. Well, you can't. Yeah. I feel like back then it was a common thing. It was legal. Yeah, my parents used to do it too. Wait, is it illegal to hitchhike?

Yes. I didn't know that. Why? Why is it illegal to ask for a ride? There's probably just too many bad stories. You know what? I don't know that it's illegal everywhere. But I do know there are signs that say no hitchhiking across the country. Yeah. It's legal and illegal.

So it depends where you are. Yeah. Yeah. Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wyoming, illegal. So if you're there and you see someone that needs help hitchhiking, you go, you're not even supposed to be asking. Yeah.

According to, hitchhiking is illegal on any property under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior specific, so you can't do it on national parks either. I think it's probably tough to be a hitchhiker nowadays. Yeah. Like, yeah, there was, I still see him occasionally.

In an app. Yeah, my wife's, my father-in-law, he would hitchhike to, like they would come to, he'd go to like the Grand Ole Opry to listen to the Opry. They would just, you'd be like, well, how'd you get up there? He goes, I ain't just hitchhiking. Yeah. Like it wasn't- Yeah.

My dad did it, your dad did it? Yeah. It was like- Or he picked them up. My dad would pick people up. He picked up my dad. Even with your dad, it was probably, this is, her parents are in the 80s. But back then, they would hitchhike. It was just like catching the bus. Yeah. Totally.

It was, the way they talk about it, there is no like, I don't know if I'm going to get home. It was like, yeah, we just hitchhike. Just get in the back of a truck. Yeah, they get back in the truck and they go hitchhike and pulls over and goes, where are you going? He goes, I'm going up here and you go, all right, you get back. Yeah.

There you go. What a, what a wonderful time to be alive. I know. Like where you could just. Yeah. But yes and no. The reason that I got illegal and it has a stigma now is because it did go wrong a lot of times, right? No, and they're not back. I don't think it did back then. I'm sure people yeah, there's bad people right there

I don't think it was go back to this It's unfortunate yeah, we've covered this in length unfortunately that guy was a hitchhiker no Hitchhiking involved. I'm sure yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and've covered this in length, unfortunately. Oh, that guy was a hitchhiker? No. No, but let's just hitchhiking involved, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Johnny Cash walked from Nashville to Hendersonville. Yeah. I've heard that, yeah, you think you told me that story. Yeah.

And you could, yeah, I mean, I think if the hitchhiker is cool, I think it can be okay. Yeah. I don't think you hear it the other way. You don't hear the hitchhiker go, I had this mule pick me up and it was a problem. It's always, if the hitchhiker is in control, if it's a good guy or a good girl hitchhiking, then I think it can go good. How do you assess that? You drive up, roll down the window, like what are you into? The way the dress is already tough. So, I would say if you're going to

hitchhike and become homeless, start off with a suit. So your last day of being homeless, or of being home, having a home, put it by a suit. That should be your last purchase for you to go homeless. Buy a suit. And then work your way back. Go work your way back. I bet there's a fun element to it, because you're like, yeah, if you're like a guy that wants to meet and talk to someone and hear their story and all that. Yeah, it sounds utopian.

It sounds like it's one of those things that on paper it sounds like beautiful, like communism, I don't know, this is a terrible example. Yeah. You know, in practice, it's much harder to execute. The philosophy thing I want to tell you, Aaron, was I read that the Iliad and the Odyssey was the first road story, road trip story.

Oh. I wonder what you thought of that. It's fun. That's great. Yeah, those are pretty old. Well, since you're the one that read them, I thought maybe you could. You read those in school. You had to read those in high school, didn't you? Not in Lebanon. I don't know if I read them. What were your favorite? Do you remember books you had to read in high school? The Bible. Oh, yeah. But the Bible, see, that's

the first road trip. Moses leading the Israelites out of it. That's the first road trip. Yeah. And Jesus' disciples was the first fun road trip. He read the one that... Just him and his boys. Yeah. What shape does this look like? That's right. Butterfly?

Yeah. We actually did... You writing this down? Are you getting this? He goes, he read Huck Finn, when it was, and then Huck Finn came and talked. At the school. It was actually just Orr reading. No, no, no. That's not okay.

For a second I was like, I did read that book. Yeah. You thought Huck Finn was? I was like, oh my gosh. No. King of my school. Ryan asked for his autograph. This was fiction. Well, I would. Yeah. He hitchhiked to the school. Mr. Finn, can you sign my book? Say hello to Tom Sawyer for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, here take a picture with me. Kshh. Yeah. Yeah.

I have a question for you guys, because one thing about the, like the South and like middle of the country comics is you guys do drive to more gigs than you can on the web. Like we have limited, San Francisco is eight hours away from where you're so spread out California so much traffic like you got the ocean to the west. Yeah. Mexico to the south. Realistically a drive for Southern California comic is Canada to the north.

Yeah. I don't know. We're doing. Yeah. But that makes no sense. The whole country to like the rest of the whole country to the right. Yeah. Yeah. To your right is the rest of the country. The whole country to the right. Yeah. To your right is the rest of the country. Space right up. Space, space.

Clouds. I think you guys get my point. You think you can't do the road because of the ocean, you are too close to the ocean? Go ahead Dustin, take that question. Is that why you think this doesn't mean road gigs, because of the ocean? I would say, go ahead Dustin.

There's only so much that we can get in a car reasonably. So you can get NorCal. My point exactly. And you can get Vegas, and you can get Phoenix. Not the best place to live as a comic. As a road comic. Yeah. Yeah.

The Nashville, what's so great about Nashville is in why the tour buses are here. Yeah. Why music, a big reason I think why music came here was because of how centrally located there's so many shows. There aren't many cities Brian could base the easier to drive tour out of. This is the biggest city to do it because you could think like Chicago's in the middle, but you're like, well, there's only so many gigs that are going to be north of you in Chicago. Where our north is Chicago. Our south is New Orleans and Alabama. That was his point about the water. Easy to drive to it.

Well you, when we did the- It is a good point. They take off half the country because of the ocean. But you do a lot of shows out in the ocean. What are you talking about? I didn't write. You do a lot of shows in Mexico. Yeah.

You done a show in Mexico? Have you done one? I did a corporate there. I did a corporate there too. Cancun. Yeah. Nice. That's bougie corporate work did a corporate there too. Cancun. Yeah. Nice. That's bougie corporate work. I could have probably guessed Cancun. It was awesome. I do my corporates in Nashville. That's true. I was here two weeks ago out here. Yeah. A lot of corporates in Nashville. There are a lot of corporates in Nashville. Oh, that's the best, man. When you

live in Nashville and you get a corporate gig here and you drive to it and then go home, it's bananas. That's what I always feel for you when I'm getting them. I've been to a bunch in San Diego. Because we have the same manager and I'm getting your corporates in your town. Yeah. We don't have the same manager. I mean, same company.

Oh, okay. Yeah, but I mean, that's not, you're not rivals. No, no, no, I have no, I don't, what I get, wait, you know where my actual ones are is people, because we have the same agency and management. Nate and Dustin. So they inquire about Nate and then they see the cost and they're like, who opens for him?

Who opens for his open? Let me get into that. Do we have any? But so you guys knock out, you guys do more driving in it, but my question is like, what are your, do you guys have certain stops that you're like, a loves, I mean a Buc-ee's is obviously the goal. There are certain ones that you're like Buc-E's was yeah loves. That one was a good loves guy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm still a lot of stuff that loves today

Yeah, still still love of loves. Yeah now if and they don't know when he goes in they're like truck driver regular car Yeah He blends in what he's wearing right now. He, you, the way you look, you blend in. I can blend in anyway. They're like, they're like, sir. They don't know. Your camo. He is wearing camo.

Like sir, your shower's ready. Yeah. If he walked in, they found out he went to Notre Dame, they would be shocked. Like they wouldn't, they, cause they would assume he just got out of a big truck. Yeah. And I do always use the other checkout area in the back with the truck. The line is shorter. That's the hack is to skip the line.

Yeah. You go where the truck is. So I'm ordering with the truckers. They might think I am. And do they, do they always go, uh, how much you got? Like, what are they saying? Fuel? Cause you get told where you headed to.

Yeah. I'll get 90. I get a, yeah. $900 on pump four. Yeah. Yeah. It's like 90. Yeah. Get a, yeah. $900 on pump four. Yeah. Yeah. It's like crazy. Yeah.

It's well, one of the worst parts about doing road trips in California is a lot of the gas stations and you know, this, cause you lived out there, don't have a bathroom you can use, which is very frustrating. So you don't even go in until you're like, do they have one? Okay. Well, it looks like we're going to the bathroom in LA. Yeah. It's too bad. There's an app called Flush Toilet Finder that helps you find the closest bathroom.

Oh really? Oh, really? Oh, that's pretty sweet. Wow. Yeah. Oh wow, that was in your notes for this? Yeah. Yeah.

And thorough, guys. That's really good. Prepare for it. I am what I am. Yeah, unfortunately in California, they do it on the street a lot. Flush Toilet, what's it called? Flush Toilet Finder? Flush toilet finder.

Flush toilet. It's right. Done a better name than that. Yeah. I was thinking like potty stop would be potty stop. Potty break, potty break, potty break app. Yeah. Yeah.

What's it called? Flush toilet. I got to say it duck, duck, go stinks dude. Flush go finder. Flush toilet. I mean flush finder. Flush public Go stinks dude. Yeah. Flush Go Finder. Flush toilet. I mean Flush Finder. Flush public toilet. Yeah, yeah.

Free app. Yeah. All right, how about that? It's a quick and simple. Oh that's a good little icon. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Again, unfortunately in parts of California

that's literally just the streets are on the app. Yeah. So we don't care. Have you guys ever on a road trip said, don't make me come back there? No, I don't think so. We're just lying. No. Sorry I asked.

You've expressed the sentiment. Oh yeah. I'll turn this car around. You ever said I'll turn this car around? You say I'll drive this car off this bridge right now? That's what you should say. Yeah. To really...

You go all in at all right now. I don't even care if we get there. Yeah. You're like, we're going to all die because you're screaming. I can't even focus. Make them feel bad. It's smart. Put it on them.

You trying to kill this whole family? You turned that light off. Be quiet. I can't even drive. The light is the funny thing is because you're, when you're young, you're like, what does this light matter to you? Yeah. And then when you drive and you start older, you're like, if you do not turn that light on, it's unbelievable.

Yeah. You're like, I can't, I don't know what's going on. As a kid, that's the worst thing you could do in the car was leave a light on. Yeah. Yeah. Harper wants to turn her light on. We could drive 10 minutes to the store that her light's gonna be on. And you're just, when you're driving at night, you're like, if you do not turn that light on.

And I remember as a kid, and my dad would, you better turn it off, and you'd be in trouble. And you're like, why would the light matter? And then you figure it out. You figure it out as you get older. Yeah, it off and you're in trouble. And you're like, why would the light matter? And then you figure it out. You figure it out as you get older. You go, it just, yeah. It is disorienting. Try having a night's harder as you get old too.

Go download Flush Toilet Finder. Matt, it's a... It has a 200,000 Luz all around the world. Yeah, this is, this must be a... It's pretty good. This must be a British app, British, uh, British app missing basic info. Oh man. This person has a chronic health issue that necessitates frequent bathroom trips.

Open this app would change my life, but, uh, oh man, it doesn't have the hours listed accurately, man. Oh yeah. That's a tough one. Bad about that. But that's like, you know, I do feel bad about that, but that's also like, all right, man, we're at least trying. You know, he's like, because I really hung my hat on this. And you go, well, I don't know

if you should be out that much. You're asking this. If you gotta go, if you're having to go, you should be the one that started this app. Yeah, yeah. You're asking this app to know the hours of every business in the world. And you wanna go, we're doing something that no one really cares about,

but we put in crazy effort for it. Yeah. Cause for the most people, people, for the most point, for people who've been able to find bathrooms for the most part. Yeah. But this can ask. Yeah. But this, you know, I mean, people, like when they leave a bad review on that,

like it is, you know, you like looking at reviews, but overall you want to go like I understand. This is not a Probably the most downloadable app Yeah, so, you know just leave it that don't like really go like, you know what? Yeah, this person recommends, you know having some sort of rating system for the toilets Yeah, and they go we're how about we're in the first stages of at least showing you where, like, what do they want it to say? Like, it'd be better to go outside. Oh, this guy says he wants to know whether it's a single person locked room or,

I think what happened is this app got flooded with people with real medical problems and they're like, we were just trying to like help a drunk guy walking home from the yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah at everything's giving. Is it your favorite movie? Yeah, it's my favorite movie. He said we're going the wrong way. How does he know where we're going? It's such a great movie. Yeah. Yeah, how does he know? He's the best. Love it. All right. All right. We did it. Uh, this week. Oh, if... Oh yeah. No. Go ahead. It was December 19th. December 19th. Christmas special. Christmas special. And then Christmas Eve. Yeah. Christmas Eve, Netflix special. A regular special. Pre-order the book.

May 6th. And the book. The big demise. Yeah. And there's, yeah, the movie. We're working on the movie. And Greg Warren's taping went well? Greg Warren's, yeah, crushed it. Vecchione's special, December 28th.

Here, right? Yeah. Here, then you got the consumers every Tuesday and then Don't Wain, we come back there with Melissa and Dustin every Thursday. Yeah. Sweet. Awesome. Are you anywhere this weekend? I do not know. Fannie plays Tennessee. I don't think I'm anywhere. Yeah. If you're listening to this Wednesday November 27th, theanny plays Tennessee. I don't think I'm anywhere. Yeah. If you're listening to this Wednesday, November 27th, the date comes out. I will be at Zany's tonight. The lab at Zany's for Brian Bates and friends. Come on out. Just a few tickets left, but we got a great lineup again. So come bring your family on Thanksgiving Eve for that. December 13th, I'm at Hyenas Comedy Club in Fort Worth, Texas. So please come to that as well. I'm at Hyenas Comedy Club in Fort Worth Texas so please come to

that as well. I'm gonna sell that out. The day before Thanksgiving was always good on shows in New York. That was it? It was always a good night to do shows because a lot of people would come in for fam they want to go out and it was always like that was a night that was always gonna be crowded. Yeah. How excited would you be? Vanderbilt beats Tennessee knocks him out of the playoff. I mean, it could happen. It'd be something. I have one more big public show this year, December 13th. We just added this.

Florence, Alabama, which is a beautiful underrated city. I've been to Florence. I'm headlining the Scholls Theater. My wife was born there. Really? I'm headlining the Scholls Theater in Florence. Muscle Scholls, right? All down there, yeah. December 13th. This is Aaron Weber speaking, by the way. I will be in Florence, Alabama. Scholls Theater. I've opened for people there for a while.

I've tried it so many times. Some reason I'm, I don't know. I'm headlining there. December 13th. Alex Valuto, who's done the podcast before, he's going to be with me. If you're in the Florence area, come on out. It's gonna be. It's your only public show. The rest of the year. And then January I'm back at it. I'm doing Corpus, I'm working, dude. Yeah.

I want everybody to know, I could be doing more. You could say, yeah. You're my only public. We made fun of Dusty saying the public figure. Yeah. That goes in with Wellgo. The only, like, I've, you know, hey, check me out next year,

we'll be doing a lot more public shows. it goes right in hell let me give you guys the is it public or not public let me guys give you some of the dates of a working comedian here all my dates and be like all those are private and here's the two that are yeah December 13th right December 13th public sure you want to see Aaron in public if you want to see yeah a public figure in public in his element in his element yeah that's gonna be where in Alabama floor is the most comfortable that's right yeah basically a hometown show hometown show if there are certain companies that you work for in the

greater southeast area you might also see him. You get some corporates going too. Yeah, I got some stuff. I'm working, I'm working, all right? Couple holiday parties. I regret the way I worded that, but that ticketed show. How about that, is that better? Just, none of it sounds good.

Just say his show. Ticketed doesn't sound good. But I don't want to say I have one more show this year because that's not, I mean, I'm working. Well, you did say that. I know, but you do. But one more pump, that's why I qualified it. It's very funny.

See what I'm saying? Yeah. I, Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, I'm at the historic Everett Theater in Everett, Washington. It's hometown for you. Yeah, a little north end, folks, yeah, which is nice. And then December 5th and 6th, I'm at Brick Town Comedy Club in Oklahoma City

and the 7th in Tulsa, 12th through 14th at Spokane, 27th through 29th in Phoenix. You go to Spokane and all that, that's probably pretty, I mean, Everett will be nice. Everett's great, yeah, Day Before Thanksgiving is a good. We've done Everett together. We haven't done Everett, but we've done Spokane back when we were, I- Yeah, you did Everett recently.. We've done Everett together. We haven't done Everett, but we've done Spokane back when we...

Yeah, you did Everett recently. A lot of our fans were there. I believe you did the Arena in Everett. Yeah. But I did the club with you in Spokane. I think I've done a theater in Everett, too. Yeah, maybe. I think you've always been with me in Washington.

I've done some of the Seattle stuff. I don't think I've done Everett with you, but we did Bellingham. I did Tacoma with you. Yeah. Tacoma. Mount Rainier. That's where the horse stories. Oh yeah.

That was a fun. So Melissa, where you got coming up now? Wicked? No, where are you? I got a lot of volleyball coming up. Bragg, Bragg, Kimelle, Bragg, where are you gonna be this weekend? On Saturday, our Sun Runs at the state cross country meet.

State championships. Fresno. D1 in the state of California, like the highest level that you can get. We're so excited. Yeah, we're so excited. He's so fast. What's he running? His mile's about like a 420, 425. Is he running the mile?

So it's a 5K, 3.12 miles. Yeah, he's cooking. Starting to get looks from the team. So he's got like, how does he, he looks like he's got a, it's gonna be a real fight. He won't win because California, like a Texas or a Florida, like they're so big. Like the kids who will win that are probably

the fastest runners in the nation. But he'll be probably somewhere in the middle of the pack. Hopefully he gets a great time. And it's huge because he's getting recruited for colleges and stuff. What's a great, like under 20 minutes? Oh, well, I mean, if he got... 15th is a really great time for three miles. No, you want to average about a 5, 520 mile at his pace.

For three miles. Up and down in the rain. What if he is like the Oregon runner? Prefontaine? Yeah. What if he goes to the Oregon runner? Prefontaine? Yeah, what if he goes to Oregon? Yeah. Prefontaine. It would be great for me because then I would have an excuse to root for Oregon

because they win a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad would be proud, but that is like the hard, that's the best track school and like one of the best tracks schools in America. Yeah, yeah. Dang.

That's cool. You all are the best. Thank you for coming. Thanks for having us. Yeah, it's been great. Thanks guys, it's been fun. All right, we'll see you next week. Thanks for having us. Thanks, guys. It's been great. All right.

We'll see you next week. I think I will be here next week. Could be late again. I don't know. Maybe I will. All right. We love you. Bye.

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