The Nateland Podcast - 229: #229 Acting featuring Jon Reep

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

This week, comedian and actor Jon Reep joins the guys to talk about acting. Brian and Aaron revisit their TV acting debuts, Jon discusses the acting roles he was most disappointed not to get, and Nate shares a story about an audition so bad he had to issue an apology. Rocket Money- RocketMoney.com/NATE Stop wasting money on things you don’t use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/NATE This episode is sponsored by Better Help- betterhelp.com/Nate Find comfort this December, with Betterhelp.  Visit BetterHelp.com/Nate to get 10% off your first month. 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.  AG1- DrinkAG1.com/nate Try AG1 for yourself – it’s the perfect time to start a new healthy habit. AG1 is offering new subscribers a FREE $76 gift when you sign up. You’ll get a Welcome Kit, a bottle of D3K2 AND 5 free travel packs in your first box. So make sure to check out DrinkAG1.com/nate to get this offer!

Hello folks and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Bargetti, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber here. Dusty's not here, so we got basically the exact same. All right. Yeah. I'm having a great time. John Reap. Oh, take another notch. I'm taking it up. I'm having a great time. Oh, take another notch. I'm taking it up.

I'm having a great time. Yeah. It was a equal trade. Yeah. No team got better. It's a lateral move. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. No, it's, we're excited as always to have our boy John Reeb with us. Dusty was out last week because he wanted to see Wicked. Yeah. Liked it so much he's there again today. That's right. Really? Really?

The movie? No, I was like. No, no, no, no. Yeah. Yeah, he's not on board. Yeah. No. So let me just get the Nate Land news kind of out.

My tour is announced. Dates are announced for 2025. Go to natebargetzi.com and sign up for updates. Pre-sale for shows is today at 10 a.m. local time with code EYES, E-Y-E-S. All shows go on sale to the public December 6th. Get in early with that pre-sale code. I'm gonna be coming there's more you know so the shows that you see or what's for 25 and then we'll have 26 to to come out so if you don't see your town I just it will be 26 also record Mike Vecchione's next hour special in Nashville December 28th tickets available for that Dustin Chaffin will be here on December 8th.

And then, you know, the consumers every Tuesday podcast and don't make me come back there every Thursday. All right, so. You didn't even say the name of your tour. Big Dumb Eyes. Big Dumb Eyes. Oh, yeah. I love the name.

Yeah. What's that about? Like all caps, the letter I just all caps. Yeah. Yeah. You'd like the lowercase I better. Yeah. Big dumb I was the title of my book and then it's the title of that of the tour. So, and having to come up with their tour name. That's like, it was like, when it's like time, it's like we need another tour name. And you're like, I don't know, man. You just saw the book. Yeah. I go, what's this book? I didn't know. I go, what's this book? I keep getting shown. No, I've been doing it. I've been doing the book. The past couple, I wrote yesterday, 12 to 9 PM. Wow. Wow. On the laptop. Nothing ain't doing nothing. I was on the phone with part

script, a script, and then the book. So you're writing a book right now? Yeah. Big dumb eyes. Big dumb eyes. And then that's also going to be the name of the tour? Yeah. Got it. Was football on at all? Yeah, yeah. I just had the games on. Unbelievable weekend of football. I mean, it was so great. What a great time of year. College or pro or both? Both. It's all great.

Yeah. It was fun. Yeah. I watched Titans. I kind of want to watch their whole game. You know, I've built after a while and went to the Red Zone channel. And then I did a little bit of the three screens, like the YouTube TV. You have the two games, three games.

I did, I did a little bit of that because of the, your Carolina game was good. Yeah. The chiefs. Uh, yeah. Yeah. The chief, uh, well, not the chiefs. Oh, well that was last week. I'm sure they were playing at the same time.

It was like Caroline and then the Rams and, uh, Eagles Ravens. And they were playing at the same time. It was like Caroline and them, the Rams and Eagles Ravens. And so YouTube TV is the real deal. This is, we went to the Vandy game. Nice. My brother was also there. We don't know where he was at in this photo. Brian looks very excited. I was.

Oh yeah, he loves it, man. And so he sent it out, I think to his Facebook group. I did. Yeah, he sent it out, I think to his Facebook group. I did. Yeah, Mel, he sends a Mel-er out. Look at this guys. It's a pre-sale code of you gotta be over 50. It's actual Mel on there. Yeah, it's a Mel-er too.

It's physical Mel, you get this picture. From 12 to 90 yesterday, looking stamps the whole time. So Michael Clay, John Chris, me, Bates, the vein tennis game. Started off hot. Sure did. Started off, we were very excited, but Tennessee- You got that other photo, Aaron? Tennessee does feel like-

I do, yeah, the other one. Yeah. Tennessee feels like they're peeking at the, they're peeking at a good time. Yeah, so this is fun. This is the opening kickoff. Opening kickoff. We are in the top. There's like a balcony above that 40 clock. Can you spot us here? You can't zoom in. You gotta zoom all the way back out. Yeah. We're at the very top. Oh, at the very top? Yeah. Oh man. Yeah. Yes. There we are. So that's

Michael all the way to the left. That's me and Bates. Our hands are up. John, Chris, Felix, neighbor Felix, and Derek. Derek's not even looking at the play. Yeah. Derek was looking at us. He's like, why are you all laughing at me? Was this a kickoff return for touchdown? First opening kickoff. Oh, man. Yeah.

That's the best. So you got a real opening kickoff. Then we get a turnover, get a field goal. Yeah. And I'm thinking we were at 17 to nothing. It was 14 nothing. It was 14 nothing, then we got, yeah. 14 nothing, like within the first eight, five minutes. Five minutes.

14 nothing. And we're like, here we go. And, but I mean, yeah, Tennessee just really looks like they're kind of all coming together. They're the real deal. They're coming, yeah. I actually, yeah, Tennessee just really looks like they're kind of all coming together. They're coming. Yeah. I actually thought that because the way they just kind of came back was like, all right, this is they're they're a very, very good team. Obviously. So didn't Vanderbilt just upset somebody not long ago? Alabama. Alabama. That's OK. That's what I was thinking. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that was great. Yeah, I was great. Just we had been nice, but no, no. He was busy in New York hosting SNL. Oh, that's true.

He was a hostess. Well, probably. I have to tell, you know, I get asked that all the time. And I had, and like, you know, I've stopped. Sometimes I will say just, no, I wasn't at the game. But I mean, so many times I was like, did you go to the Vandy Alabama game? And I was like, I was doing SNL that night.

And you're like, whoa. You're like, yeah, but you're making me answer. Right. Like, I will start going. I'll just be like, no, I didn't get to go. Yeah. I didn't get a chance. I was watching it though. Yeah. I watched it. I don't go to all of them guys. I don't go all to them. Yeah. Yeah. I can't go to every game. Yeah. Sometimes you got to host SNL. Yeah. That's what I tell them. That's right. Sometimes you got a quarterback at American institution. Yeah. But yeah, I wish I could be there.

I wish I had the free downtime like you did. That's what I say to the person. Right. It was very, very busy and has- Must be nice. Nah, I wished. I wish. I was working.

Yeah. But you went to what? Four out of the six home games? I went to four out of the six home games. Oh, that's good. So I don't ever really get to go to games, but this was a year that I got to go and what a year to go to open it up the Virginia Tech South Carolina Texas and Tennessee saw the other three losses but big big games what was the final score of this

game it doesn't matter started off good it 36 to 23? Yeah, yeah. 36 to 23. No, no, no. No. What clothes? No. And he's not getting blown out anymore, man. They're a different Vanderbilt.

Yeah. I think there are people having to come and be ready to place. You know? Right. And that's what it was. Is this guy wearing a half shirt? Yep. Yep.

Okay. They used to be the move, dude. We're bringing it back. I know that was an 80s thing. It was cold too. It wasn't cold. It got, we got cold here in Nashville. If I had abs, I would wear every shirt like that. Yeah. You do have abs.

I'm just saying. If you can see your abs. Yeah. You're right. I understand. Let's move the goalposts a bit. I'd be like, I've got a garage, I can park it. Well, you just got stuff in the garage.

You do have a garage. It's just, you have all your stuff in it. That's why your car is just parked in the driveway because your garage is full of stuff. You can pull that car in the garage. Yeah. Is he the only one wearing the half shirt? I saw another guy. Oh, okay. Oh, okay.

Well, okay. That was a big eighties move and they had back when they had the, the, the jerseys that were like the mesh, the holes were bigger. Yeah. Yeah. And now I'm noticing the, uh, the new trend of like not wearing any kind of, uh, pads on your knees, on your knees. Yeah. Like they're pulling them up all the way up. Yeah. They pull them up and then they, I mean, on your knees on your knees. Yeah.

Like they're pulling them up all the way. Yeah. They pull them up and then they, I mean, they do them on their thighs, but yeah, that that's kind of gone away too. Cause you see, I mean, quarterbacks and I mean, yeah, it's, it's kind of a free for all out there now and do whatever you want. And they're getting hurt left and right. Yeah.

And they go down, they go down like flies out here. Would you wear one of those things on your helmet? Helmet like that little. Oh yeah. I probably would. Yeah. Oh yeah. It looks so bad. It does look bad. Yeah. There's a guy that game last night for the 49ers. Yeah. Office of alignment. It looks like they're wearing a do rag on their helmet. Yeah. Yeah. I can't imagine what that really does. Right. It can't do that. Like there's a- I bet the first guy to wear a face mask felt like that too.

You know what I mean? No, you at least know what that does. This is an added on. Maybe the first guy that did double face mask. Or a visor. Yeah. Or a visor. But it's, you know,

cause it's like, man, football, they go down. Every game someone goes down and they don't move. Right. cause it's like, man, football, they go down every game. Someone goes down and they don't move. Right. Yeah. And it's like before, I don't remember them not moving like that. I don't know if it was just, you're not aware of it. But now Trevor Lawrence did the, the fencers pose with the arm out and everything. Yeah.

It's terrifying. Yeah. Why not add a little extra cushion, a little, little piece of a mattress. I know, but I, it's me. It's also like, I was like thinking about this weekend, what if you had something that was connected, because it feels like it's when your head goes down. So if you had something like it went from your helmet down to your shoulders and you wore it around your neck. Which just locked your head in place like NASCAR. Yeah, and then it just

doesn't, like your neck can't really give in. There just needs to be some, like I don't, if you're just an outsider be some, like, I don't, I don't, if you're just an outsider, it looks like they're going backwards. It looks like, well, we had a problem. How are we going to fix it? More people are going to go down. More people don't know where they're at.

And, you know. They need the whole cage. They need the whole cage. Like a roll bar like NASCAR does. Isn't the solution to take, you take away all the helmets. That's, I think- That seems to be the only solution, but then it feels like a different game, doesn't it? It would be a bad one or two years for sure.

You wouldn't want to be in those. There's a learning curve. Yeah. You want to come in three, year three. I'll tell you what, if they're going to take the helmets away, yeah. You want to be about four years old right now so you can dig into it. Maybe not born. You might not want to be born yet.

They should take the helmets away. I would love to see it. They already have a throwback weekend where they wear old uniforms. They should play with no helmets and see what. Just do the old equipment as well. Yeah. You know, the rig leather helmets. Yeah. I'd love to see that. Yeah. Just something. Yeah. Or do no helmets. You get to see your face now. Yeah. And you get beat up. I mean, you get like. You would learn how to tackle differently. Yeah. That's the whole point. Yeah. It's much you get to see your face now. Yeah. And you get beat up. I mean, you get like, you would learn how to tackle differently. Yeah. That's the point.

Yeah. It's like, you have to tackle like rugby players. I mean, some, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You just get your ears ripped off. It looks like Greg Warren. Yeah.

That's what it would be. Yeah. That's true. Well, maybe that's what they need to wear is just the wrestlers outfits, you know, come out there with those little earpieces on. Yeah. Just that. Yeah. Singles.

You want less clothes. And singlets. Yeah. I want like the lingerie bowl. Yeah. Why they all bundled up like that out there? Cool off a bit. I can't see nothing.

Yeah. I want to know who these boys are. No, the name looks good. That's where we were. Yeah. No, the name looks real good. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's where we were. Yeah. The name looks real good. Mm hmm. Yeah. It's gonna be their year. Can't wait to lose. What was the. First round of playoffs. What's the. Are they done? Indiana. Maybe. Is this.

Uh now we go to a bowl game. Now we have a bowl game. They have a bowl game. Okay. Six is six and six. Nice. Yeah, I think uh my NC State Wolf Pack ended up around there. Meet Carolina. You got a big fight this weekend. I saw that. About seven different fights this weekend. There was a lot of them. That was a good one.

Michigan had one, right? Highest state Michigan. Yeah. Yep. It's a big rivalry, uh, Carolina and state. And so, you know, that's going to happen. It seems like it was the last game of the year. Both teams were kind of exact same record. Yeah. And they, you know, Oh, so, oh, that seems like. It was the last game of the year. Both teams were kind of exact

same record. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And they, you know. Oh, so, oh, that's interesting. It was, whoever went to a bowl maybe? I think, I'm not sure. I think, I think there might be a bowl game for one of those guys. Okay. Yeah. North Carolina has fired their coach. That's right. Mac Brown. Well, I think he, did he get fired or did he just say like,

I'm done? Well, I thought they, did he get fired? Did he just say like, I'm done. Well, I thought they fired him. Yeah. He's old enough that the, that line's kind of blurred. He's out. Yeah. We don't have to go into specifics, but he's gone. Uh, all right.

I feel we should, you know, I'm thinking about the people that don't watch football and we keep going more. We'll market football and then they can skip. And they can skip. Yeah. We didn't do it. I don't know. Yeah, we didn't do it. We didn't do it. I don't know.

Yeah. We have, we market, always remembering skip forward on YouTube. We're the only podcast that promotes skipping parts of it. Get ahead. Yeah. Do the best you can. Can you name every single subscription you have? I know I can't name all of mine and I'm not alone. I just learned that over 74% of people have subscriptions they've forgotten about. With Rocket Money,

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Great time. John Chris came, did a set. It was a lot of fun. And then spent Thanksgiving with my family and then- Oh yeah, we had Thanksgiving. You hosted at your place? yeah, we had Thanksgiving. You hosted at your place? No, we've already moved on.

Yeah. Back to me. Oh, we went to Alabama and Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Oh, you did both. Oh, you did both. Easier to drive tour. Easy to, yeah, I was on Bates. You were on my tour.

You see Bates posters up there. I saw Bates posters. I saw a couple of trucks with the, you know, just, they were regular trucks. A lot of billboards too. A lot of billboards. His billboards are the ones, they're on the trees, you know. Jesus saves Brian Bates here, January 14th. Yeah. He puts them on the side of the interstate, you know, where there's someone. Ten more miles to Brian Bates. Where there was an accident. Where there was an accident.

He just a little, he goes a little bit past that. Yeah. And then also goes Brian Bates. Sorry for your loss, but Brian Bates. Yeah. Sorry for you. A horrible thing, but I will be here. Yeah.

Uh, probably on a Wednesday. Uh. That's a good marketing strategy. Yeah. There's a good chance of that. Yeah. Yeah. Which is bad because that's half of my audience is go to church on Wednesday night. So yeah. Wednesday night supper is a big deal. And the other one's driving off the road. Yeah. So it's a mix. Okay, John, where were you? When? For Thanksgiving? This week? Or Thanksgiving? Oh, I was in Nashville

this weekend. Here? Yes. Zanies. Zanies comedy club. Love it. Did a one show Friday, one show Saturday, one show Sunday. Zanies, my favorite comedy club in the world. And this whole lab thing is brand new to me. I didn't, I wasn't here last time I was here. So I love that they got that going on now. Yeah. It's nice.

Yeah. It's nice. Zanies is great. It's just one of those rooms, you know, that's always electric. The crowds are always good. It's a good mix of different types of people. Were you performing here when it was still a smoking room? Gosh, I don't think so. Okay. That could have been though. I was just curious how different it felt in there. I mean, it's probably too tight. I think I went up when it was still smoking. I want to say it was way later.

I don't think you would have, I wouldn't have been headlining, but it's, I don't think you would have been headlining. You would have been maybe featured. Way later than you think they did. Yeah. It'll be like 2007. Oh, then yes. Definitely. Okay. I don't know if it's 2007 here, but it might be. I just don't remember it being always smoky. Do you remember smoking? Yeah. Doing shows and smoking. Well, what comes out is the punchline

in Atlanta, the one that was the barn. I remember that being smoke friendly and being, you know, and it was just, it would billow up and like to make a cloud because it was like a barn. And everybody smoked. It wasn't like three guys. It was like 40 people smoking. When everybody was smoking inside, I don't think you could ever imagine that they wouldn't smoke inside.

You were just like, it's just what it is. And then it just went away and you're like, oh it can go away. Yeah. Yeah. And it was, yeah. I mean you just do a shot. I think I've talked about it. You'd have to bring, you would just almost have a outfit for the stage because it would just be... Oh yeah, you'd come home and just smell like smoke. Oh yeah. I would bring an outfit for, I'd have to bring, I'd pack, you'd have to pack more because I just didn't like that it smelled like a cigarette. Just secondhand too. Yeah.

It just gets all over you. Yeah, it just gets all over you. Yeah, I don't care about anybody smoking. It's like, it's just like your clothes, just, that's why cigars are, you know, it's like your just clothes are going to smell like it. Yeah. They call it third hand smoke. You got your first hand smoke, second hand just in the room, third hand in the clothes.

Oh, really? Yeah. Are they really called that? In curtains and stuff. How deep does it go? I think it goes to seven. Yeah. Like if you blow it in water and it bulls up, that's the fourth one.

Yeah. Wow. There's's the fourth one. Yeah. And there's also like a mist. Yeah. But no, I think three is as high as it goes. If you're next to, if you're on a plane where they just got done smoking. Right. Yeah. If you sit next to someone that smoked on a plane, that would be one.

That's one. Yeah. Is that four or five? That's probably a little deeper. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think if it's in the air, it's going to be one.

Cause I've been on airplanes that still have a place for the ashtray. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen those? It's like they've welded it down, but it's like still there. Can't believe you could smoke on an airplane plane. Yeah. I'm glad those days are over. You guys don't smoke? We do some, no. Wait till this camera's turned off.

I used to smoke cigarettes here and there. I'm from North Carolina. It's a tobacco state. It helps their economy. Exactly. Our state bird is a little tumor, but it's great. I, so I don't do it anymore. And now when I see people smoking, I just, you know, it's like, why are you, why are you doing that? We have, what is it this? So we have your hot sauce. That is my barbecue sauce.

Barbecue sauce, south in your mouth. John Reap, south in your mouth. Hickory's Smokehouse barbecue sauce. So good. It'll make your head shake. And it's a mix of three different Carolina styles of barbecue sauce, so good it'll make your head shake. And it's a mix of three different Carolina styles of barbecue sauce, mustard, vinegar, tomato base. It's really good.

The guy, when I moved back home to Hickory about six years ago, there's this guy who has his own restaurant called Hickory Smokehouse. And he said, you need your own barbecue sauce. You talk about Hickory, I got the restaurant, Hickory Smokehouse, let's work on something. So I bought a bottle for everybody. Oh, nice. Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good stocking stuffers. Yeah. What do you recommend we put this on? I like that best on pulled pork. Amazing. Cause it's not the thick sweet kind like Texas. It's a little bit more runny.

That's the vinegar part and it soaks up real good in pulled pork. Are you, when you make a barbecue sauce, like are you, how involved are you? I just tasted it. Yeah. So he called me up, he goes come over to the house, he had all these different flavors and we just tasted different ones and this, there's not one like this because it's a blend of three different ones. I like to picture you mixing the cauldron. I need to do that. I need to make some photos where I'm in the lab. So the, that's very cool, man. Yeah. It's really good. Are there, are there plans for other, other things in this line?

Yeah, they've got different ones already. If you go to the website, South in ya mouth.com, that was Lauren's idea. I said, that's fine. South in your mouth. I want to be the Paul Newman of barbecue sauce. Oh yeah. Paul Newman was known for one thing and all of a sudden, salad dressing. I want to ease into this. Yeah, killed it with the salad dressing. Yeah. You give 100% of the proceeds to charity? 100% goes to me. No, actually I don't even get 100%. I get maybe 30% because it's Lauren's thing. He spends all the money. I just said you can use my face. Yeah. But it is really good. And there's different ones. We have a hot sauce too. So you want to be the Aunt Jemima of barbecue sauce? Yeah, we could go that way. Yeah, sure. But I want to stay on the bottle.

Okay. They took her face off. I want mine to stay on the bottle. Yeah. One might come back around though where they- Mm-hmm. Could be. You know, you'd be long gone, but they might be one day like, Yeah. Reap? You can't have his face on. Yeah. Well, it might come back around though, where they could be, you know, you'd be long gone, but they might be one day like, yeah, Reap, you can't have his face on. Yeah. And it'll be like, well, you know, it's, uh, here's a video of him saying, please leave it on.

No matter where, uh, if there's, if you, no matter where cancel culture goes to Reap would like to stay on. He wants to stay on. Yeah. that's going to be in my will. And I'll also like a little hologram. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, I can't imagine any scenario why I would want my face off this barbecue sauce. I would like to say that now. It says it right here. So good. It'll make your head shake. My head needs to be on here. Your head. Yeah. Otherwise it doesn't make sense. Doesn't make sense. I like it.

But it's really good. Yeah. Congratulations. Thanks. Yeah, that's awesome. I'm loving it. Yeah, Aaron I hosted Thanksgiving at my house this week. Oh really? Had my family and Lucy's family both there. Oh, yeah, and I was thinking that does not happen very often. Yeah, it's like the wedding. It's the baby. I was trying it's the baby brought everybody together. We just couldn't travel this year. So don't get high on yourself. No, no, no.

You know where it's coming from. A hundred percent. You know who's selling the tickets, but she was the star of the show. That's for sure. But I was just thinking growing up, I was like, my mom's family and my dad's family were never in the same place.

Yeah. So it felt, it was like since the wedding, like, like my father-in-law and my brother had never. Did they like each other? They'd get along great. Yeah. I thought about that this weekend. Like my father-in-law and my brother had never hung out. Did they like each other? They'd get along great. I thought about that this weekend. I thought I would like to do it and just be like,

there is no more, we're going everywhere. It's like everybody comes. You're the episode. Yeah. Come to me. Everybody come here. I mean, yes, hey, it's nice to everybody come here. But it's also just to be like, yeah,

just have more people around and like we're all everybody's essentially Yeah all around the old Nate land set We just did that my house too, so I Want to be the epicenter so I had people come to my house as well for the second time Yeah in a row because I just bought this house and it's you know, it's the better house for everyone to come That's a thing. You got to have you have have to, it has to be like, obviously we need to go. Yes. It's an obvious choice. There's more room for people, you know? And, uh, did you, did you cook at your? No, I outsourced. So my, my mom, my mother-in-law, they brought food and they were like, you're responsible for the meat. So I got Martin's barbecue here in Nashville.

I got so much stuff and it like, I thought it was the right amount. And then when it's right in front of you, you're like, this is absurd how much I got. Half of it's in our freezer. We're just going to get Laura and you get Laura to take a look. Laura will not order anything more. So the right amount. She would go order like you, but then you need to get her to go just tell her how many people are coming and she's going to order just, she is actually very good at

ordering the exact amount. I don't like it because I want it to be extra. I don't want to worry about it. Yes. She's, I will say, I would never say this to her, but she is right usually. Uh, but she nails it. That's just efficiency. That's good. It is, but it's the, it's the, I'm like, just order the most. That's what I do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't have too much of that enough. We cut the brisket in half. That's in

the freezer. All the ribs are in the freezer. We got pulled pork in the freezer. It's now you got some, I'm good for, I I got some barbecue sauce. Spice it up a little. 100% It's crazy. Just dip those ribs right in that bottle. We did a cracker barrel Thanksgiving this year. Oh, you were there? Yeah. You just, no, you just call them up or go on the website and you order a Thanksgiving feast. Yeah. And they'll have it ready. You can just drive up and text them you're there and they'll come out and put it in your car and you just basically reheat all the stuff for about an hour.

Awesome. So an hour. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the Turkey, you get these two gigantic Turkey breasts. So it's not even a full Turkey, just two gigantic breasts and whatever sides that you want, and it tells you how long to heat which thing, but the whole thing takes about an hour.

Yeah. Why did you, why did that number hit you weird? It seems I'm walking a long time. I like to, if you bought it at the store, like I thought you just went and picked it up and came home and ate it. Yeah. Well, you pick it up and then you tell your family an hour from now. I think you probably could do that if you, you know. There's probably that as well.

Yeah. Yeah. This makes me feel like I'm actually cooking though. Just go to the cracker. Look like I'm doing stuff. Yeah. Don't weigh all the crack Cracker Barrel bags and just have it out. Yeah. No one knows. No one. Wow. This is delicious. You got it. Like cooking, it is, I wonder if cooking, it does, I need to, I should learn because it's, I wonder if it does go away. You know, it's like, you can see as older people, we, you know, our family, there's a lot of, Laura's family, a lot of, a lot of, everybody's getting a little bit older. And it's just like, as people get older, it's, you know, it's just a whole thing to cook. And so you can see that. And then the younger,

go to your house, you're going to Cracker Barrel. If I had to do it, I would have to go somewhere. And you would, you know, and so it's like, we're eating out. Like everybody eats out more now. Yeah. Yeah. Be door dashing Thanksgiving. Yeah, man. I was this weekend, dude, on door dash.

I love it. I love it. I got whatever my SNL set where I have a door dash stuff. I got a few more minutes added is, I mean, that's why I'm talking to someone. Better help. I've admitted, but yeah, I've mentioned in the better, if you don't know the better help ad, but I'm talking to someone about food because it's a problem. Oh, wow. It's a big, I have, yeah, I can't, you know, it's like frustrating because it's like,

I can't figure it out. Like it's, it's the one thing that I can't, I like trying to solve something. So like even the career wise is like, I love the idea of like, all right, let's solve this thing. And with your food, it's the the career wise is like, I love the idea of like, all right, let's solve this thing and, uh, with your food, it's the one that I'm like, why can't I not, you know, I had a slushie from Sonic last night. I'm having stuff that people don't even know is around. Right. It's like, somebody's gotta save the slushie.

Yeah. Is it the slushie with like nerds in it? No, they didn't have that. I would have. That's what I wanted. They didn't have it. I had a, I mean, I mean, I'm just Dora yesterday was like three meals. Yeah.

Cause Laura's gone. I was sitting there working. It's so convenient. Just, yeah. And you do it and you're just like, it's probably embarrassing. Do you like, is one of the problems eating at night or? Yeah. Yeah.

Eating at night. But then it's just, you know, I'm not going to, I don't go there and you're not re I'm not reasonable on the door dash. Yeah. Have you ever looked at this, the history on the app and you can see like the pictures that they've taken the driver, I look at it because I saw something online about it. I looked through and there's like three pictures where they've taken, they're taking, and you see me behind the door just like wait. Oh, wait, I'm waiting till they leave. So I get it. Oh, that's funny. That's a good series. You're standing that close to

the door. Oh yeah. Just waiting. How? Because you're tracking them, right? Because you can see. I've got, well, there's one where we'll go through the blinds and then there's one where I, you gotta post these pictures. I posted one of them at one point where I actually opened the door and the guy was like, I got to take a picture. So the picture is like him handing it to me and he took the picture. They have to take a picture.

To confirm that it got to live. So you're basically photobombing all your door dashers. Pictures. That's great. That's awesome. Well, the one where they see you through the blinds. I mean, those are- I go on and post it because I have it somewhere. I was just looking. I got to find it. Try and scare them. Get in the blind. I mean, that's, you got to, those are, I have it somewhere.

I was just looking, I got to, yeah. Try and scare him. Get the bushes out of nowhere. I mean, just to say, they know you're there. They're like, sir, just come grab it. No, no one's home. I'll did my wife order this again. Uh, I've door dashed on Lucy.

Thank God. We just got my baby a phone and she's already doing this? Alright. I'll take it into her. So you travel all the time. Do you door dash like everywhere you go? Different hotels? Not in the hotel.

I won't do it. If I did it in a hotel, I would have Travis go pick it up because I would be too embarrassed. Okay. I would. A hotel is. I do it in hotels all the time. No, I, I know Travis, Travis will go get it. Travis does it chase.

If I have someone on the road, they can use to go pick it up and they're go grab it down there. Cause I would be just meeting the guy down. Like it's just, it's I, I'm too, and I get him, you know, cause you're just like, I look like an animal. Well, they're supposed to bring it door dash to your door, you know, cause you're just like, I look like an animal. Well, they're supposed to bring it door dash to your door, you know, but that some of them don't like getting out of the car, getting on an elevator, going to, you know, the fifth

floor to go to your room. That's where I, for some reason, I draw the line there. That feels like a little extra work. But if you add a little extra tip, no, no, no, but that feels like across the line, how lazy am I to bring it to my hotel? That's like bringing it to your bedroom in your house. The whole deal. I'll go down to the lobby and get it. They bring it to you. I know. If I want to put clothes on. Do you wait in the lobby or are you trying to meet them out front? I'll wait in the lobby. I'll be there. Oh, you just sit there and let them come in. I'll wait in the lobby and come in and I go, Aaron? Yeah. And they know.

I'll go to the lobby if I have to, but if I don't have to, I'd rather you just bring it on up. This is the whole idea of DoorDash. You don't have to leave this room. You say the door's open. Door's open. Yeah. Come on in, man. Get your plate.

Yeah. He goes, I'm down the lobby. That seems like a you problem. Cause I'm in my room. This says DoorDash, not Lobby Dash. Lobby Dash is a different service. Lobby is a different service. Yeah.

I mean, I feel like is DoorD Dash swallowing up Uber Eats too? Like Uber Eats is... I still primarily use Uber Eats. Oh really? Yeah. Oh wow. I don't think I've ever... It's just a function of what you have in your area. Yeah.

Yeah. I've done it before because you travel to different hotels. I forgot to switch the address. Yeah. And I've ordered some stuff. I go, well, they got sushi here? Yeah. You know, you're in Omaha. And then it doesn't even go to the right place. I'm like, oh, they got sushi here? Yeah. Yeah. You know, you're in Omaha. Yeah. And then it doesn't even go to the right place. I'm like, oh, I forgot to put the...

And so the sushi just gets delivered to me. Somebody else gets sushi. You're home? In California, I guess. Yeah. The last hotel was. Yeah, you just said they just get, is there a John Reap standing?

I bet. I'm looking, I take a picture. I see the picture. This does not look like the hotel I'm in. I'm like, oh, that's right. So probably don't take Ambien before you door dash. Oh yeah. That's the problem. I've done that. When you're taking Ambien, 5 PM? You just go ahead and get it in? Well, see, that's one of my problems. I eat late at night.

I do too. Yeah. So it's around 9 or 10 PM where I'm Ambien. You want to start sleeping before you. Yeah. Well, the Ambien gets you in the mood to eat. Yeah. Makes you more hungry. My, my body wouldn't even know what it's like to sleep on an empty stomach. I mean, it would, it helps you sleep.

Yeah. I mean, I go, my, my body during bed is it's all hands are on deck. Yeah. When I lay in that bed, there's no resting. There's, I mean, my brain's going cause I just had a slushy on the couch and now I'm in bed. And I can go to sleep sometimes. See, that's what's crazy.

You get used to it. So you're saying you like to eat before you go to bed to help put you to sleep? I will sometimes, yes, but I'll eat dessert. I'll eat like all kinds. I mean, it's just like absurd, dude. But I'm trying to now write down, like before like today, I already wrote down what I'm gonna eat and where. So I'm not surprised by anything.

Because when I get surprised is when, you know, or if I'm like, well, I don't know what I'm gonna do tonight, and I start panicking, then I'm like, well, then I'm gonna go to Burger King right here. And so if I write down like Laura's cooking something tonight, I'm like, all right, I wrote down what I had for breakfast. And if I can plan it, then I can be kind of okay. I can wrap my head around, all right. Do you try to like, after you eat, like, I don't know, five or six, do you like, okay,

well, I'm going to try and be in bed by this time? No, not that far. This far. Then this is day one. Still journaling. Check back in a week. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's there. I do know how my night will end.

I'll have Laurel make something. And then I have the Yasi yogurt things. I think they're called the Yasi. I don't remember, but it's like a yogurt ice cream kind of thing. And so I'm gonna have that. And so I'm just wrapping my head around it. That's what I'm having. I won't have two of them.

I won't have, I just, you're gonna have one. I can decide when I want that one. As long as I feel like there's an outlet where it doesn't feel like it's shut down. So I will know, and I'll put it all in my fitness pile. Okay. Would you try to go to bed at a certain time though? Like it's always different, right? No, I mean it's too sporadic, but I'm trying to get on a routine to wake up earlier. Today, like I want to start waking up at like eight would be nice. I get up at like nine. I'll

kind of wake up at nine, kind of get slow to get moving. But as I can see is where stuff is all going, like if you shoot a movie, I think it's, you got to get up early. Yeah. So it's like everything will be flipped. So I need to just get on some kind of, you get more stuff done in the morning. Like you're, if I can look at everything and kind of go through everything and before you really get brought in and talk to. It's nice to ease into the day and not feel like, oh, I got up late. Now I'm going to rush to do all this other stuff. And then you're just getting asked questions and then it's like the day's already kind of going.

Yeah. I have a problem like going to sleep. Like I don't like going to sleep. I don't like the nighttime. I don't go brush your teeth, go pee first. And then I don't like that whole thing. I feel like my mom and dad still yelling at me in my head. So I don't like planning to sleep.

I just want to go to sleep when I'm tired. It's hard to do. I'm not always tired. And so that's where the ambient kicks in. And that helps me get out of sleep. But then also, in the morning, I hate getting up. So I don't like going to sleep. I don't like getting out of sleep.

I want to stay in both states as long as possible. Well, you're so warm in the morning. But it's like you got to just get up. This morning I laid in bed for, I'm actually there for an hour. Like I might like do some stuff on my phone or whatever. But yeah, it's like you're kind of just, it's so nice and comfortable when you get in there. I'm trying to get better at wanting to go to sleep. So, you know, being excited about, right, Laura, my wife loves going to sleep. Loves, can't wait till they go to sleep.

I'm always like, I want to be like, ah, I still got stuff to do. Yeah, I like to watch, you know, watch documentaries and series. Yeah, I watched Charlie Chaplin movie last night. Which one? Robert Downey Jr.? Yeah, Robert Downey Jr. Oh yeah, yeah, wow. They meant A. Charlie, like a silent film. No, I was trying to get into... Charlie Chaplin, you know, he started his own studio. We should do an episode on Charlie Chaplin. Or the silent...

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Yeah. Yeah. No. Jason White, Heisman Trophy winner. Oh. Remember him? Oklahoma. Could be him.

Could be him. Oh wow. Was it Oklahoma? Jason White, yeah. Oklahoma. Yeah. Hmm. One of the lesser known Heisman winners I feel like. I'd say, yeah. He was like 38 when he won or something. He was old looking.

Oh yeah. Yeah, he's one of those. won or something. He was old-looking. No, yeah Yeah, what year was that? 2002 yeah, he's a guy that could come out like you could meet him and he's like they're like could you surprise me and he's like I could surprise ya and then he shows you a Heisman you're like get out You won the Heisman. He's been in the National Championship No, nothing you're the key they got blown out by USC or... Okay. You played for the Giants?

I don't think... I played a little bit. Maybe. He didn't do much in the NFL. Paul Goodness. That's a good last name. I was listening to the latest episode about road trips as I was on a road trip. I'd used the bathroom just as I was struggling on a rural New York

route. They talked about that app, Flush Toilet Finder. At the next stoplight, I downloaded the app and took a right to stop at a convenience store that was listed on the app. I love this podcast. Incredible. Wow. Is that a real thing? I got to get that. Yeah. Yeah. And I love that it worked out for Paul like that. That's why I even would do a podcast is for just for him to work out that perfectly for someone. I like that. That's, that's why I even would do a podcast is for just for him to work out that perfectly for someone. I love that.

That is amazing. I didn't even know that existed. Yeah. We found out last week or whenever we did it. Yeah. Goodness is an all time last name. Paul goodness. Mr. Goodness. And a great first name.

The goodness family, Paul goodness. Paul goodness. Does it have that name? The first name shouldn't be too complicated because it's the last name. So good. Yeah. It's like, I'll let the last name, you know, and Paul's already a solid name. So it's Paul Goodness. I mean, it's, yeah, Paul Goodness. Wow. I mean, if it was like Jerry Goodness, that's not even this fun. A little too much. Paul Goodness. It needs to be one syllable. Yeah. Paul, Paul. Maybe a Bob, but like Paul's perfect. Bob goodness would be good, but Paul goodness is, I think, the best of the goodnesses.

So I would be curious to see what other goodness is their first names. Brian goodness is not bad. Yeah, one syllable name, John. Aaron goodness. Nate goodness. Nate goodness. Nate goodness.

What about Dusty goodness? Because he says good time a lot. Yeah, Dusty goodness. I mean, he was. Nate goodness. Nate goodness. Yeah. What about dusty goodness? Cause he says good time a lot. Yeah. Dusty goodness. I mean, he was having a good. His wife, uh, his wife's Asian. My goodness. He can't be doing stuff like that.

It goes, uh, wait, he's, I liked it. Yeah. I know. I liked it too. Yeah. Is there a name? My is an, I liked it. Yeah. I know. I like it too. Is there a name my, is an Asian named my? Yeah, sure. I don't know. I bet we can find one. Yeah, we would find one. A lot of Asians. My goodness. That would be great. Married into that. They would have fun with that. Paul, Mike, I hope his wife's name, that would be great. What about my goodness? And then someone else named great gracious, named gracious, goodness gracious. Goodness gracious.

Henry chose a bit about the father of one of his daughter's friends. His name is me. Whose on first kind of situation. Yeah. Who's that? Me. Who's him? Him. Yes. That's great. That's what I'm trying to say. David Womack. My wife and I are road tripping from middle Tennessee to the far side of North Carolina. This was the perfect topic. When we finished the episode, my wife said, I think I'm dumber now than when we started. That's her way of saying great job, keep up the good, the great work.

Yeah, that's her goal. Hope you be, you just got more information that doesn't really matter, but it will come. There are plenty, if you're looking to learn, there are plenty of other options. We tell you to go, go to them. Yeah, go check them out. Carolina Reaper. You'll be back. Yeah, go to Carolina Reaper. That's a good one. There you go. Well, I have another one called AI where we talk about artificial intelligence. See, because I feel like I have artificial

intelligence. Like that's what I have. My intelligence is not real. It's artificial. I think a lot of people have artificial intelligence. So my podcast is called AI Absolute Ignorance. And yeah, we troll chat GPT and stuff like that. So this would be good for that guy. Yeah. Aaron Ward Mahajan. Mahajan. Aaron sounds like that family didn't approve of that marriage. That's right. Well, we'll just have to settle for both of them. She hyphenated it out of spite. Yeah. Uh, I don't even know. I think I even meant the other way. The Mahajan family was like, you're marrying Aaron Ward?

You're like, yeah, come on. My husband and I just moved from South Carolina to Asheville, North Carolina. Uh, it took us, uh, four days to travel 2300 miles with an old and loud 15 foot U-Haul. We practically had to yell over the noise and talk to each other. So for long stretches, we opted for relistening to Nate Land from the first episode as we entered the Nashville traffic, my husband yelled out, hello folks and goodbye folks as we left the city. I love it.

All right. That's great. That's great. Stop by and say hi next time. Yeah. Yeah. At your house. Where are you going to go meet them? Bates will meet. We would have the wards, not the Mahajans. Yeah. Paul goodness. We have the wards for Thanksgiving. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Jake McCleary. My dad once picked up a hitchhiker on the way home from work. The hitchhiker asked my dad to drop her off at a Denny's that was close to her house. Later that night, my dad got a knock on his door from the police. Apparently this girl had just caused an accident, was fleeing the scene of the crime. The police thought my dad was an accomplice who helped her escape. Which he technically was. He was. He did.

Without knowing. A fugitive. Without knowing. Uh, you picked up a... Hey, Chucker. No, but I've seen them and I thought about it. Is it because you look like one? Yes. That guy needs to pick me up. I'm the one that needs help. Because while, sir, you can't pick yourself up.

I pulled over one time and I rolled the window down to help a guy and I was going to ask him if he needed a ride and he just yelled at me, thank God a hammy. And then I got mad and left. Oh really? Yeah. He's like, he was waiting for you to come. He saw me coming. Yeah.

He's like, John Reed, he goes, I heard John Reed use this road all the time. I go, it'll work out. Yeah. He's been sitting there for, I know his routine. Yeah. He's been sitting there for, I know his routine. Yeah. He's been following. Uh, yeah.

I mean, I bet a lot of comics, Southern comics would have picked up because they just drive back in the day, like they would have picked up a ton of hitchhikers. They end up opening for them. Yeah. You want to come to the show? Kim Berg, as a kid, our family traveled from Southeast Kansas to Denver. It was a 12-hour drive with us kids in the bed of a pickup with a topper on it in July. Wow. It was a 12-hour drive with us kids in the bed of a pickup with a topper on it. Man. My dad did that. Really? I talk about this. Yeah. It snowed real bad one year in Hickory, half an inch.

And dad was like, let's go sledding. But he wanted to drive us to the Appalachian mountains. That's like an hour. Driving us in the snow, in the back of a, in the bed of a truck, four kids up a windy hill. But it had the shell on it, like she was like a little camper shell. And to keep us warm, and he did this. It was a kerosene heater back there. Oh, so we had a kerosene heater.

These four kids sitting around this, going up the mountains on a snowy road. And, uh, was it awesome though? It was awesome. Yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah. It was great.

And the kerosene heater was probably moving all over. Yeah, it was. It was. Put your foot and kind of push it back the other side Yeah, it was. It was. It was. You had to put your foot and kind of push it back to the other side. But it was a great time. Yeah. When I remember of it, I was kind of high a little bit. Yeah.

Yeah. A lot of kerosene. Yeah. Locked in with kerosene. Yeah. I mean, I love kerosene now. Yeah. But no, it's a, yeah.

You could not get away with stuff like that today. You know, putting kids in the back of a truck and just riding around. Someone would call the cops and go, there's, well, if you have the thing closed, is it street legal in Tennessee to ride with somebody in the bed of your pickup truck? I don't know. I don't know. Cause it used to happen all the time and no one thought twice.

Oh yeah. I mean, it used to be, yeah, you would sit on the tire, you know, like in the thing that goes on the tire. Yeah. Which is kind of crazy. You're sitting halfway up, you're going 45, 50 down the road and you're not like all the way down. You're halfway, you're like sitting halfway where if it's a big, but, you know, people didn't fall out. It's like you just have them going and you just slide and all over. Yeah, I've rode in a lot of back of trucks. I mean, it wasn't, it was like, can we ride in the back? That's where you wanted to be. Yes. Yeah. The weird one was like, I think kids still want to be.

I think they do. But it's, yeah. You ever been like in a car trap behind the, um, the truck and there's a guy sitting, it's just one person in the back and they're like facing you. Yeah. And you're having to make this weird sort of like, I don't want to look at you, but I have to look ahead to drive. Yeah. Yeah. So you're having to make this weird sort of like, I don't want to look at you, but I have to look ahead to drive. And so you're kind of like, they don't want to do with your face. Yeah. Well, this person, so they, uh, their dad bought this thing called a boot that went between the topper and the cab of the truck to funnel AC to the back.

Oh, wow. A 12 hour drive is wild. I mean, I hope they put a mattress or something back there, at least, you know. The hard bed of- 12 hours is a very long time. A hard bed. 12 hours, dude. That's torture. That's, that's, yeah.

They do that in Guantanamo Bay, I think. They just put people in the back of a truck and drive around for 12 hours. In July, I mean, you know the bed of that truck is so hot. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, right in Kansas, I bet when you, yeah. And then you're ending in Denver. That's where you'd want to start because you'd at least be up in the, probably have some cool air.

Karen Kurth, I hitchhiked from a town in Romania. Was picked up by a couple. It seemed safe enough. Halfway in the middle of nowhere. Half, I mean, I, halfway in the middle of nowhere. I think I like that as a saying. Oh, you like it better the way you said it? Yeah. Halfway in the middle of nowhere.

You're fine. We're halfway in the middle of nowhere. Sounds like an eagle song. Yeah. Yeah. The driver screeched to a stop, hopped out of the car and began to beat up a man on the side of the road. When the beating was over, the driver returned and we continued to my town. I, a single older woman said nothing during the ride. Yeah. Maybe that was the point of it. And he goes, this, this lady's probably going to talk me up a storm. So beat that dude up. Then he goes, I could say I don't want to talk, but he's like, I don't like

confrontation, so I'll just beat up this man on the side of the road and I think that will set the tone for the rest. Yeah. That's crazy. I want to know why. I mean a story like that, that story, I'd be closing on that story for, you know, unbelievable. My dad, he said he was driving to Myrtle Beach. This is when he was a kid, like 19 or so. Him and his friends go into Myrtle Beach, spring break kind of a thing, and they're all drinking and driving. And they get pulled over by a cop. And my dad told his friends, I got it. Don't worry. I got this. My dad gets out, goes back to the squad car, starts cussing the cop out. And his friends were freaking out like,

what are you doing? And he got back in the car and they left and it was my dad's brother. Like he knew him. But you're sitting in the car and you see a guy just get out like, we're all going to jail. What are you doing? And he says, no, sorry, he's my brother. So I have to drive now because this guy's too drunk. Meanwhile, my dad, they were all drunk. So I have to drive now because this guy's too drunk. Meanwhile, my dad, they were all drunk. Yeah. Yeah. Those are some good days.

It's a good old day. It's a good old day. Yeah. Mo Afram. So not sure where I fall on the John Reap rules of fandom. I live in deep South Texas among a family of Dallas Cowboy fans. I jumped on the 85 Bears bandwagon, mainly because I was a huge Walter Payton fan. Almost 40 years later, I've never jumped off the

bandwagon and fully invested in all things Chicago Bears, cheering them on through the highs and mostly lows. So my entitle to carry the true fan label, having never lived in Illinois or had any other ties to Chicago. Right. This is a good question. In the NFL, I don't have rules for the NFL. It's just for college sports. So he can do what he wants there. But I would say he's probably grandfathered in. I'm not sure how old Mo Afram is, but it says here what he grew up in South Texas. So technically he should be a Cowboys fan. Technically for going, you know, location. Jumped on the 85. So right there, he's saying bandwagon. Yeah. He's using the word bandwagon. He's a huge Walter Payton fan. I'm guessing not Gen Z.

You know, this guy's a little older. He's probably Gen X or older. Almost 40 years later. So yeah. All right. There we go. Jump off the bandwagon fully in. Never jumped off. Yeah. Stayed with the bears. Yeah.

I guess, I guess I'm okay with that because he did it so early. Maybe if you're in South Texas and you hear a lot of cowboy guys all the time, yeah, Cowboys, cowboys get tired of it. Yeah. And he's trying to, you're trying to do something different. Yeah. And then you get locked in and you're like, well, I can't change now. Yeah. He pray roots for the Cowboys side. Like you want the Cowboys to do good,

but you're embarrassed. He was a Cowboys fan, Tom Landry. Right. And what? Yeah. We're trying to guess his age. You could have just said that I didn't think about it. You're speculating. Yeah. How do you think this guy is? He brings up Tom Landry? How much do you remember Walter Payton? Four years ago. He's old. Yeah, he's old. So maybe he is grandfathered in for real. Yeah. He's probably a mix of both. And then, yeah, probably different. You know, you hope he's like an SMU fan or something, you know, like some, well, I'll tell you what, those SMU people coming out, they're coming out of no word. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they've had to be quiet forever because they got, you what, those SMU people coming out, they're coming out of nowhere. Out of nowhere, dude.

Out of nowhere. Yeah. Well, they've had to be quiet forever because they got the death penalty, which was kind of crazy. Yeah. But I mean, you see them now. A lot of people are missing- You're missing a lot more of them.

A lot more SMU ties now. They got a lot of... They were essentially Alabama back in those days. 80s, right? Yeah. And then they got forced out. So now they're like, this is what we do pay players. Uh, the problem I have with this one, nobody paid players like we paid players. He goes, so now you say it's all legal.

Yeah. You are going to have. Pony up. Yeah. We're coming back. We're coming back. We're the pony express. Bringing it back. I think they're the pony express. Yeah. They're the, uh, Mustangs, right? So there's like a horse. Oh, we're coming back. We're the Pony Express. Bring it back. Yeah, they're the Mustangs, right? So, there's like a horse. Oh, yeah. You're talking about like a nickname they call it. I think it was. Yeah. I don't know.

Did they say Pony Up? Pony Express. I want to say that. Somebody was, I don't know. Something to do with that. I haven't seen that 30 for 30. Pony up top. SM don't know. The SMU pony is a beloved black Shetland pony and mascot for SMU. Their mascot's a pony. I could see being fun being an SMU fan. But I mean, that's like a school that you're like, you don't, people, it looks like, you know, like just some weird school getting in where you're like, what? And because if you're young, you're just like, Oh, I remember SMU. I kind of got on board with them.

You're like, no, they were the, they were the top of the top. And then they got knocked out. 2022, the pony delayed a game against Navy trotted onto the field, did its business right on the field. Interrupted the game. That's pretty great. You got to get that stuff under control, but obviously that's like the idea answering that in a real way.

You know what? Once you get to the bottom of that stuff and you can make that happen, I'll tell you guys go make that pony chain up. You get that pony where it ain't doing something like that. You guys are gonna get some good recruits down there. Hitch that horse up. Uh, Danny Rogers. Tony where it ain't doing something like that. You guys are going to get some good recruits down there. I hit that horse up. Danny Rogers.

I am in Arkansas and we do not have a pro team. The name Danny Rogers, I could have told you, is in Arkansas. It's actually Danner Rogers. Danner. Danner Rogers. Oh, wow. I'm sorry. Even more so. Yeah. Danner Rogers. He didn't even say where you're just obviously, you know know I'm in Arkansas. We do not have a pro team.

The Razorbacks are the closest thing we have. So if your state does not have a pro team, you should get to pull the largest school in the state without attending. That is in the rules and regulations, yes. Yeah, so about us being Vandy fans, we did not have a pro team growing up. That's right, your grandfather did. Yeah.

For that. But most people went to Tennessee. But you're like, you could choose any- Well, most people pulled for Tennessee. Yeah. But didn't go to Tennessee. Yeah. But do we have to pick Tennessee because of the largest school?

No, you don't have to. Where did you go to school? Middle Tennessee State University. That's who you should be pulling for. Well, I agree with that. He does. But he's a group of Andy fans. So they play on TV maybe once every 30 years.

Does it matter that he wasn't in college when he was growing up? Was a college, just not a university. No, I think that's fine. Yeah, it's a boarding school. Yeah, I mean if they have a football team. That's not true, Aaron. We play on Tuesday nights. Do you really? They schedule a lot of just to get on the ESPN. A lot of like Tuesday, Wednesday night. Yeah. You don't know. Yeah. I mean, he got to know where he's like, you got a home game tonight. Yeah. You'll just be, I'll be flipping around sometimes. I'm like, Tuesday night football.

Yeah. Are you ready? Yeah. On ESPN too. Or something like that. Derek Mason's our coach. Yep. All right. You ever give send them money? Yeah. All right. You ever give send them money? Yeah. She give them something. They got you pretty far. Yeah, they did. You know? 40 bucks, man. Why don't you drive down there? Drive down there and give 40 bucks to a teacher. Yeah, give them a Chick-fil-A card. Because walk in, give a hundo to the math teacher and get out of there. The math teacher. Because do the right thing, Brian. The math teacher. Where's the math teacher and get out of it. Because do the right thing. Where's the math teacher at? At the door. And tell them and go, I only do it with cash.

They go, we want you to give money. You go, I do cash. I come around December 20th. That's when I make my rounds. Walk in thousand bucks. I hand it out accordingly. How I see fit. You should be like that kind

of donor. Yeah. Yeah. Let's start that. That's a good idea. My brother-in-law, who's my age, he didn't graduate college. I think he went a little bit junior college and then dropped out, but he's not happier with his job and wants some type of career path change. So he enrolled at Nashville Tech college. And I'm like, what class are you taking? He said I just wanted to get my brain working so I took math and some type of humanities course like a philosophy. He said because I wanted both sides of my

brain to get a little. Yeah that's both sides. And he said the first day they're in there debating what is a person? What makes a person? He's like, oh my gosh, what have I got myself? And now it's just a math question. Yeah, I would enroll and I looked at really trying to enroll back into VAL State. You can do Vandy now. Well, I don't have the time. But I really did. You have the time for VAL State?

No, I didn't have the time for VAL State. If I could have enrolled, like when I was off, I was like, what if I go back to community college and I do a semester or something, you know, but I, it just, you know, I thought about that too. I think great content. You going back to school? Yeah. Well, I thought even just for my act and like just to learn and to learn something. You can do an online course. I just, I would like to do that too. Just learn more about, you know, social media and just the whole, you know, computer side of things. I need to feel like I need to refresh my skills on that. Yeah. I think there's YouTube classes you can take. Yeah. Yeah. It's okay. There's ways. You can take like entire Harvard classes online.

Yeah. Really? Completely for free. Yeah. They just upload all the lectures and you can see you just watch the lecture. Yeah. I would do it to even learn how to, I don't even know what to do in school. I don't know how to study. What do you mean? I don't understand what you would even do. What do you mean do? Like, I don't know if you go to a lecture, I've never been to a lecture.

You go to a class, you listen to it, you take notes and then you either. You take notes of the class, but do they teach you how to take notes? That's the whole thing. Uh, no, they don't, but they should. I don't know how to take notes and then you either you take notes of the class, but do they teach you how to take notes? That's the whole thing No, they don't what they should I don't know how to take no when I was when I was in high school I made had really bad grades and my mom made me watch this seminar called where there's a will there's an a I did Too did you Michael Landon used to there it is promote. Oh, yeah, and it teaches you how to learn Oh, I need to go that's what Everyone needs to be doing that. I mean,

it's so funny. I almost brought that up. That's so funny. I need to watch that. Yeah. Can I go do this? No, I mean, that might be it. But that's not, I mean, there's probably a lot of guys that do the same seminar, but it's called where there's a will, there's an A. And I remember this step by step, uh, how to, how to learn. Oh yeah. Ways of tricking your brain into memorizing things. Yeah. Like word association and that kind of stuff. Are these them right there? Do you remember this being a bell at all visually? All right.

Yeah. I've got cassette tapes. Yeah. You just order it. We didn't have a DVD. I sold millions of these. Yeah. Is it for a high?

I would start with that and then enroll into a class. Okay. Okay. But now it's like, you can just download all of it. But yeah, it did, it did help. But the problem with me was there was no will. John Ritter, not a will. There's a C.

The problem's in the title. Yeah. Where there was a will, there's a may. What if there's no will? Yeah. I don't grant your premise, buddy. Yeah. Whoopsies.

Heather Hellexon. That's not a bad last name. Hellexon. Oh, I. Yeah. Whoopsies. Uh, Heather Hellexon. That's not a bad last name. Hellexon. Oh, I like it. HH. Yeah. It's kind of a fun, uh, you know, it's like, and a first name Heather. I feel like anybody first name Heather is like, you're like, that's trouble.

That last name. Hellexon. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Heather Hellexon. Yeah. That's trouble coming away. What does she drive?

What kind of car does Heather Hellexon drive? What does she drive? Hellcat. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Heather Hellexon, that's trouble coming away. What does she drive? What kind of car does Heather Hellexon drive? What does she drive? Hellcat. Yeah. I mean, she's got to drive, you know, is it always different? It's always someone else's car. It's always, whose car is that?

Ah, there's, and there's a story behind it. Camry. Toyo Camry. You think that's what she's driving? The Camry? Statistically. No. Heather Helmsen. That's the most common car in America, right?

Toyota Camry. Yeah, but that name- That's the least fun way to answer the question. She's not driving that. Well, statistically, it's probably a Corolla or a Camry. Yeah. Heather Helmsen. I feel like she got a window that doesn't go down.

Are you thinking it's the worst car? I think it's, I think it's just, I think it's always changing. It's like, it's always like her boyfriend's car. Right. I think she has a plastic bag on their car. So yeah, my brain, it was one of those, uh, this is a car called a Brat. Do you guys remember this thing? I don't know. It's kind of like a Pinto.

Yeah. Yeah. Am I a Brat? No, BRAT, right? Yeah. BRAT car. A Brat car? Yeah. Think Subaru Br Yeah. Yeah. A brat. No, B-R-A-T, right? Yeah. B-R-A-T, brat car. A brat car? Yeah. I think so. Subaru brat? Yeah. That's what she drives. Oh yeah. This car looks unreal. Yeah. It's kind of like a Pinto. It's got the seats in the back! Yeah. Look at that.

Where you can look at the people behind, you know, behind you. Yeah, looks like a lot of fun. So she's got a brat and it's got a license plate, uh, that's yellow because of the amount of DUIs that she's had. So you have to have, you have to have a yellow license plate. Like six DUIs, they change your license plate. Really? In North Carolina? I think it's, uh, everywhere. Uh, definitely in Ohio. Everywhere he goes. They let you keep, but they go, you keep driving. Yeah. We just put, no, we know you're not, we know that you're not going to obey the law. Yeah. We're not going to try to to enforce anymore. Is that real or you making this up? I think it's real Yeah, I'm kind of going both on this. That's so I'm looking up. Look at your car. Yeah

Yeah, that's all that's my brat. Someone's got a yellow license plate and they just have the yellow license plates Do you eyes do that? Yeah. Oh Yeah, I look I feel like into this because it is a thing I don't know if it's a thing anymore, but I know at one point it was a thing. Yeah. And, um, in Alaska, their actual license plates were yellow anyway. Oh, so it just looked like, well, I bet Alaska's got the most DUIs. I think it, I think it's a lot of people escaping their own state and then they're up there just. Yeah, but I would just think in general, you just drive drunk because it's like, you're just kind of.

Yeah, that's the thing. I don't even know if there's even, it's almost like it's not roads. It's just like, you just, yeah, just, you just kind of, you kind of like, it's like you head off into like a empty parking lot. Right. You just start drifting. Yeah. You just go out and let the wind take you.

Yeah. I bet, I mean, I bet there's roads in that in North Carolina or in Alaska where you could, you know, you get pulled over and the cops like, you know, you're like in the, in a farm right now. You're like, I don't know where the road was. Okay. What does that say? North Carolina has proposed legislation that would require convicted DUI drivers to have special license plates, potentially including yellow plates. The plates have been, what had, so everybody knows. Yeah.

So states, if you have restricted driving privileges, they can change the color of the license plate. I've never seen that before. That's a good heads up for the people around you. Yeah, yeah. Stay with me. I bet now everybody's gonna start looking at license plates and you go start noticing. Yeah. You see a yellow one, you're like, oh boy. Yeah, they chose yellow because of jaundice. Yeah. If you have too much

alcohol, kidneys stop working, you go jaundice. Chad Kirk, two first names. I think Breakfast Bates looks like a live action version of Charlie Brown we never even read Heather's comment oh oh yeah we did not yeah Heather Hellexon Aaron's true destiny is in ad reads and voiceovers yeah not in comedy not in comedy well I think you're gonna both thank you you know thank you have Chad Chad Kirk, Bergface looks like a live action version of Trump, but you could probably like, where's Charlie Brown now? Oh, that'd be a great series.

That'd be a good one right there. A good YouTube series. That's pretty good. Yeah. Whatever happened. Yeah. Whatever happened. Like you can see Lucy still getting you.

Right, right. Yeah. She's still pouring the football out from me. Dude, I'll be pig-pig. I'll be Pig-Pin. Yeah. I'll be Pig-Pin. I'll be in it with you. Right. Right. Yeah. She's football out from me. Dude, I'll be, I'll be Pigpen. I'll be Pigpen. I'll be in it. We should shoot Adrian. Right. We're going to get it. Adrian. We're going to shoot, we're going to shoot a live action Charlie Brown sketch. Oh, that was starring Brian Bates. It's, it's, I mean, it's perfect. It's, it's, we should have a

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This is just, yeah. Just going to get the shirt and. Worried about everything. Does everything. Yeah. Wants a calm. Yeah. I mean, this is unbelievable.

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Multiple times a week and I just realized that John Reap was Revis yes, I play a Sort of a redneck tornado chaser in this thing. It's the comic relief part of the movie. It's not a comedy. It's like a disaster thing. Into the Storm, it was a big movie about tornado, whatever. And me and this guy, Kyle, we played the sort of redneck, the comic relief, the tornado

chasers that we wanted to be like the real tornado chasers, but we just had a four-wheeler. We just kind of followed those guys around. Is it a movie or documentary? Yeah, it's a movie. Yeah. It's a movie that's shot. I'm surprised I haven't seen it. I'm trying to think if I have seen it, because I love storm movies.

Oh, yeah. You'd like this one. It's a found footage type movie where the whole thing is shot as if it's found footage. I'd like this one. It's a found footage type movie where it's the whole thing is shot as if it's found footage. I'll watch it tonight. Which, um, right. And, um, yeah, who else is in that? I can't wait. Is this you at the premiere? Yeah, at the premiere.

But they gave us a camouflage, uh, tuxedos. And we gave them to you. You chose that. They, they let us choose them. Yeah. I don't still have it. I wish I did. That would be, yeah. And then I said, well, let's do the dumb and dumber thing, you know, so that was fun.

I worked a couple of weddings where the whole, everybody's wearing those. Yeah. Those camo tuxedos. Yeah. What were you doing at weddings? When I worked at the country club here in town. Oh yeah, that's right. I ran the buffets. Yeah, yeah, that's right. And ran the buffets. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

And then, uh, and they got married up there. Yeah. And you go down there and they go, man, find your shoes. It'd be perfect. You had camo crocs on probably. How's it work? I, this is a man. I think you wear that stuff all the time.

I don't think you. Camo anywhere. I think you tell them to go, well, my feet get big after a while. They can, you know, like you have... A feet swell up. A doctor. Yeah. You have the doctor's note that says, what do you want me to do?

They go, they go, well, that's very unprofessional. Well, his feet swell. And they go, can I talk to you? They don't want to see it in front of you. Come here. It goes, feet, his feet swell. His feet swell up. And they go, can I talk to you? They don't want to say it in front of you. Come here. He goes feet, his feet swell. His feet swell. And they go, okay.

And then they go back over to you and go, hey. Hey buddy. Hey buddy. Where have you been? You're okay. We're gonna keep you in the kitchen tonight. Yeah. So in this movie, Sarah Wayne Callies is in it.

She was in The Walking Dead. She's, she was in the walking dead. She's, uh, I don't know if you ever watched walking dead. I did not. Oh yeah. But she's a, she was kind of a big deal. And then Richard Armitage, uh, one of the guys he went on to play it, be a hobbit in the hobbit movies. Wow.

And then, uh, Nathan crest is it like, I'm seeing it like that. A lot of people, was it kind of like a cult classic type that people liked it like that? I wish. Oh, well, this guy it like I'm seeing like a lot of people was it kind of like a cult classic type like people liked it like that. I wish. Oh, this guy watches it multiple times a week. Yeah, some people love it. Yeah. It's fun. It was a good time. Well, that's

perfect segue because yes, this week, we're talking about acting. Oh, boom. Brian's playing Charlie Brown. Aaron's doing voiceover. How good is that? We brought? That's why that comment was, you know. That's what we do. It's the stuff. Nice segue, guys.

Nate's eventually maybe going to get a chance to do something. Yeah, we'll see. I'll be, you know. The plan is, but until I see it, I don't believe anything. I've tried to tell him. All the no's I've been told about any TV show of ever being me on anything. I couldn't have been told no more. So with the movie, I don't even understand what it would look like. I mean, we're writing it, but I don't know, like being on set, you know, all that's, I don't know any of that stuff. So yeah, I'll

be, you know all that, I don't know any of that stuff. So, yeah, I'll be, you know, I'll wait. But you're writing a film now? Yeah. Oh, nice. Yeah. So we'll see. But I don't, yeah, I don't believe. It's about a redneck storm chaser. If you need a, I was going to say, if you need a redneck storm chaser.

It's only, it's about you, actually. I know a guy. It's about your career. Well, let me check my schedule, but we'll see. So, John, you've been in multiple TV and movies. Yeah. You've done it all. I've done it all. I've done some yes I've been in movies, you got a real? Sitcoms, I have a real, commercials, voiceovers. Are you most known for the Hemi commercials? I would yeah probably so that or Harold and Kumar Escape from

Guantanamo Bay people like that one. That one comes up a lot. Yeah, probably Kirby enthusiasm. Kirby enthusiasm. I'm on that right now. Episode two of Kirby enthusiasm. Was that an old video that would get taken down? I watched it last night. It's just restricted here. This is the network we're on.

Oh, OK. Well, it was impressive. Real. Thank you. I watched it. You're in my favorite storyline of East Bounding Down, which is the sports talk show. Yeah, the SESH. And you get kicked off the show. That was, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was great. That was a dream come true because I was already Kenny Powers for Halloween like two years before that. And now here I am on this show, you know, doing scenes with the guy. And it was very intimidating because probably near your house, right? It was in, it was in North Carolina.

Yeah. Yeah. They filmed it in Wilmington. Um, I was living in California at the time. So, um, and I was getting divorced during that time. So I thought this is a great escape from that. Yeah. Yeah.

And I said, just keep me there the whole summer. And I was in four out of the last eight episodes and it was just a lot of fun. Those guys work hard, they play hard. And like I said, it was intimidating because I really respect these guys a lot and I just didn't want to do anything to screw it up. So I'm in the trailer, I'm trying to memorize everything back and forth. All these scenarios are played out in my head and I was ready to go in day one, take one, they start rolling. And the guy who was this guy right here, Jim, Jimmy Clay was doing a sit. Yeah.

He had a line before me. So I was waiting for him to be done with his line. And then I knew that it's my turn to say my line, but he started improvising. And I was like, Oh, I don't know. When you, when you're done, do I jump? And I just, I was like, Oh, I don't know. What are you done? Do I jump? And I just, I was like, oh, I didn't know we were doing that. So then I realized, oh, they're going to want to do a lot of improvising on this show. And it was great after that. But I think I'm better as an actor in things that I don't care about because this one I cared too much. And it kind of like-

I think you were good in this. I thought it was okay. You were great in it. No like I think you were good in this I thought was okay you're great no I thought you were great I thought it was great yeah I wouldn't have even thought anything really you could be good or bad I think you're good at everything because I just think you know what you're doing so it's you're you're you like in that you playing a three-time Winston Cup race was the plot line is wonderful like you had like an ugly wife or something and they all like didn't like yeah. Yeah. Well, she's a big woman. Yeah. She's a larger woman. Yeah. But you, but you thought she was beautiful, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was an accident. Honestly, they told me later.

They said when they cast her, they cast her on a headshot, not a body shot. Yeah. And so she's never pretty face when she showed up, but they wanted like a plain Jane. Okay. And she had a plain when she showed up, but they wanted like a plain Jane. Okay She had a plain Jane look and that's what they wanted and then you know, she got there and it was more than that Yeah, and so they had those they said but you know what it works They just want keep it the way it is and just play it that way and it still worked But yeah, I don't know. I just thank you for saying all that but I think Harold and Kumar escaped

Guantanamo Bay. I think I was more confident as an actor in that because I didn't really watch the first one. I didn't watch the first Harold and Kumar got a white cast because I'm like, okay, it's a modern day Cheech and Chong. I get it. But then when I auditioned for this and I got that part, I went and watched it and I go, I could do this. Who are these guys? I don't know who they are. I could go in there and do that. So I had like a, I don't know, like a chip on my shoulder. We're like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna steal this. You know, in a weird way. But on here, I'm like, no, no, no. Just let me, let me know when you want me to chime in. And I'll chime in as almost too respectful. I could see that. Yeah. I mean, but yeah, I think you did. I think, but that's almost kind of maybe how you should have played this even. Because you're

an announcer. So I don't know if you would have played it the other way. What do they say with acting? Because I did an audition once and they told me to listen. I don't listen. So what is it? That's what I've been trying to figure out as I head into. You just have to give the illusion of listening. Yeah, but it's like, are you thinking of your lines? I think you're supposed to, I'm sorry. No, go ahead. Oh, God, does one sprung episode because he was on sprung.

He goes, sorry gets sorry sorry John Greg Garcia brought him out now. He's got it. Oh man, and now got a big yeah, see my real He won't even probably do you have your real I said it there, and I don't know if you can see oh Oh, yeah, yeah, I think you could see it. I don't think it's taken down There's nothing on there. It's wide open you just have to get it it. It's all Greg Garcia. That's wrong. It's yeah. It's Greg Garcia. Is that what is this? Is this you? That's him.

Look at that. Look at that acting. This is excellent. Yeah. Yeah, this is yeah. Paintable leector mask. Yeah. Bates is real is just literally all the time he was on television.

It's the whole, they go, they go, is there other stuff? He goes, no, that's all of it. That's the only, that's every bit of it. Did you know you'd be wearing the mask when you auditioned for it? Oh dude. I was in two episodes. Thank you very much. Yeah wearing the mask when you auditioned for it? Oh, dude. I was in two episodes, think, everybody. Yeah, but yeah, Greg.

Aaron's in the trailer. Aaron made the trailer. I had one line that described the whole plot of the show. What is it? I don't know what the show is. Sprung, what's sprung? Greg Garcia, you know Greg Garcia? Comedian?

No, he's very funny. Greg created, yeah. Yeah, I know him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he created this show. Oh, wait. Yeah. You know what? I've seen this because I remember seeing you and I'm thinking, oh, that is my boy. They would advertise it during football games. Yeah. It was great. It's on free V right. Came out and shy. The, the whole script's great. Greg's yeah. I

mean, we, Greg is always Greg's's done the podcast. Greg is the best. He's done the podcast. Yeah. So I have authority to talk about this. Yes, you do. Yes, you do have. You have more authority than I do. 100%.

Yeah, exactly. To be honest. Now, if we're looking up stuff... As an actor. Can you look this one up? Yeah. One Mississippi, that was a sitcom that Tic Nataro had. Oh, yeah, I remember that.

And I was on her show, John Reap. I wonder if there's any clips of that. Yeah. Because that one was another one where I got, I'm just like, super confident. Because I know already know Tig and I like her. I think she's great. And I think she cast me just based on that as well. Yeah. How are you still like, is it? so this one you probably got just out. Oh, that's uh, Oliver Anthony. I did a tribute to Oliver Anthony song.

Poor is called Poor Men South. No, his is called Poor Men. No, his is Richmond, North of Richmond. Mine is Poor Men South of Portland. Yeah. Yeah. And I just basically did the reverse of what he did. You can play it if you want.

I'm not a great singer. A million views. That's all good. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's not one Mississippi, but it's good. It's hard to find that. I couldn't find a video clip of it. But go back to your listening question, right?

They're telling you to listen. If you memorize the script and you're working with someone, see a lot of things that I've done, you get the part. You audition, you get the part, you show up, they give you a trailer or whatever. And no one says, Hey, let's run lines. Like no one, I was hoping they would, but I've always had to do it myself. Just going over it and tons in my brain. But if you, if it's you, you're going to, you're going to have many opportunities to run lines with whoever you cast on your show and, um, over, you know, doing it over and over and over again with someone, it will, it will come to a point where you actually are looking, look like you're listening and not

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Yeah. Yeah. I had the headshot. Yeah. I did that for standup too. Like before the internet, you know, like they do headshots still. I don't know. Oh, they have to do something.

You send out a headshot, just email, but yeah, yeah. If you, yeah, if you get booked on a show, then that's for a headshot. You get a look and you get a, I mean, I bet now you're almost like you get someone's personality because now there's so much video that you could be like, let me just see. You know, you could probably look someone up and be like, I want to hire this guy. And then you're like, well, let's go, you know, like if I want to hire you, John, it's like, but then I could go like, all right, well, I go watch some of your, I watch you on social media. Yep. Probably get a vibe, see if you're a good guy or not. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that happens a lot. And then be,

and then you kind of go from there. Like the idea of, like for the Christmas special, December 19th, CBS that we did, the idea was, or the idea that I would like to do in making anything is to be like, I want people that are good people and like, you know, as far as I know, you know, like, but it's people that you're like, yeah, I can hang out with these people. I could hang out with them off air. Yes. Essentially. Yeah. Essentially. Like, so that's, and I think if you bring that to the casting, to go like, we're all

going to get along, then you could, your casting should be like, I only cast people that, you can't just cast your friends because not, your friends can't do the things that you need people to do. But I need, I would only cast people that could be my friends. Right. Like, I wouldn't cast someone that, I can't be your friend, unless they're so specific of a thing that you're like, you know, this guy is like, are you friends with him?

You're like, he's just, look what he does. This is not gonna be a normal person. You know, like if you go, like if you're with, you know, Tom, you know, I don't know, Tom Hardy or something, or Daniel O'Dean Lewis, I don't know if that's going to be the most fun to be, because you're like, it's such a different thing that you're like, yeah, but I'm hiring top of the top, you know. It's like, that's the deal. Like, I'm hiring the best of the best. Yeah. And if you're hiring those guys, I think it's probably as hard to, like, you know.

You have, I mean, you killed on SNL many times and that's acting and that's live. Yeah, that's one of the highest stress things you could do That's the terms of that's the I mean, I love it though That's crazy. I love the the other live. I know it's it's interesting with the movie to be like could it be boring? No, we're so because we're, I only have done a live audience. Oh right. Even the Christmas special live audience, even though it's not taped live and you can redo things. You always have the pressure of a live audience. I think you're gonna like it better without the live audience.

Really? Yeah. Because you can get into it more. You're not, you don't feel like you're wasting other people's time. You don't feel like I got to get a laugh every seven seconds or whatever it is. You feel like I can just take my time. But you are and you should. Let's get it right. Well, we will all have a timer in our heads. Yeah, yeah, sure. Because we're comedians, that just happens. But maybe it'd be better. But I bet that first feeling of you worked on it for so long and the first time you're watching people watch it, I bet that's crazy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I bet that's nerve wracking. It's like, God, what if it just bombs? Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like a movie. Like, yeah. Even all the stuff that SNL was live in the

Christmas special, even though it's not out yet, there was an audience. So you get, you got the reaction. So yeah, I could see like a movie where you're, you know, is it like a movie when you have a movie come out? Are you like, Oh, I forgot. I even shot it. Or is it? No, I do. I do forget like the little nuances. Like when we did Kirby enthusiasm, um, that thing didn't come out till like two years later. Like I was at COVID something happened and it just delayed it for a whole year or two.

So it was a writer's strike. That's what it was. Yeah. It was a writer's strike. And so that delayed it for like a year. Sound like it was some serious. You go 9-11. Yeah, that's what it was.

Something happened. He goes, birth of your child. Yeah, I don't know. Ukraine war. All right. Now I'm back. OK, yeah, that's what took so long. Yeah, yeah. It was the writer strike.

And so when that thing came on, I was like, oh, I forgot about that part. But that was a lot of improvising. You said, right? That was a lot. That whole that whole thing was improvised between you and him. That's pretty nervous because you don't want to be. Yeah, because he's known for being sort of a curmudgeon anyway. And I'm this guy like, if I get the part, I'm not going to hassle anybody. I don't want to ask for anything. I'm just come, come in, do my job, and then go away

if that's what you want me to do. So I didn't try to bug anybody, but I'm there. The first scene we're in a jail and you don't know how we meet, me and Larry. But he notices I got stomach cramps. So the whole audition, when I got the audition, it was just emailed to me. And normally you get like sides, scripts and all this stuff. And this, it was just a scenario. So you are in jail with Larry David. He notices you have stomach cramps. You guys talk about that and then you exchange phone numbers at the end. Everything else in between, just figure out. And so we did that. But I, in my audition, I did that with a buddy of mine where I filmed my podcast. He's got like a little studio and stuff too. So we did it there, sent it in, and I guess they liked it enough to just give me the part. And now I got to do this with Larry, not my

friend. And Larry's like, kind of intimidating guy, but super nice. He was all business too. He came in and sat down and me, him and the director walked over. He goes, all right, guys, we're going to run it two or three times and then we'll wiggle it down and we'll get it right. And that was it. It was real simple. Yeah. And I was happy with that, the way that turned out.

I thought that was a pretty good episode. And there's a blooper that I want. I don't know. It didn't air, but I made him laugh out loud really hard one time. And I'm like, Oh, I want that. Cause when he laughs, it looks like his jaw comes out. It kind of comes forward too, like down and up like that. But yeah, I had him roll in one scene, but that was, that was a lot of fun. Definitely. Have you ever had like like a is there ever been a big part you really really wanted and just didn't work out? Yes. Well what comes to mind is the Duke's a Hazard movie. I mean it seems

like it goes. Just give that to me. The audience could have just guessed that. The one with oh gosh. Steve-O. Johnny Knoxville. Johnny Knoxville. That one. Jessica Simpson. Oh, yes. That's the one. I auditioned for that for the role of Cooter and David Keckner got it, which is obviously a better choice.

But I wanted that role. I had it memorized. I thought I killed it in the audition. I'm sure you did. And I was like, almost was mad that no, no. And I got another thing I got cut out of, not to cut out of, but not Talladega, which one was Ricky Bobby? Talladega Knights.

Talladega Knights. There was a scene where I was going to be like a NASCAR fan in the stands, kinda like Rob Schneider, you can do it! Kind of a thing. And that never came to fruition either, so. But you shot it and everything? No, they auditioned for it, and they said, you got the part, and then they said, nevermind, we're not even gonna do that at all now.

Yeah, that's probably for people that want to become actors. That's probably the part that you gotta, you're gonna get punched in the mouth. Yes. The point of being an actor, I believe is 95% to be punched in the mouth. That's the, can you take a punch over and over and over again? Cause you're going to shoot stuff. You're going to have things that you could think are going to change your life and they're not. Right. Cause it just doesn't happen. It just totally treated like a commodity, like dehumanize, too ugly, too fat, whatever.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not good. Yeah. That's tough. Yeah. But it's like, it is what it is. It's like, you got to do a part. So you're, you know, it's like, you just got to be this. Yeah. That's tough. Know that going in. I mean, the worst is if you're doing like, background acting. When I first moved to LA, I wanted to get into acting. I just didn the worst is if you're doing like background acting. When I first moved to LA, I wanted to get into acting. I just didn't know how. So this, my roommate at the time, this great actor named Joe Stevens, he said, you should just sign up for background actors. They always need people to just be in the background and you can work your way up and

get to know this guy. And, but they treat them like cattle. It's so bad. They're just really mean to them. Yeah. Yeah. We had, for those in the sketches week, cause we've had background actors, you know, you try to like say hi and stuff, but obviously, yeah, I can't go, you can't go sit and talk to everybody. And you, and I do get, if you were doing a lot of movies in our TV show of time, you, I do understand like you saying like the professional, like Larry Davis, like, look, I'm coming in to do this I'm not trying to become your best friend all this stuff I mean that's you're like everybody be professional me talking about I want to hire people that are friends You can't hire you got to do you got to be professional and you want people to be professional like let's come in

Let's do this kill this part. Mm-hmm And there's a weird thing with acting because I think with stand up is like, we're just involved in everybody's life so much that you're, you know, it's like, we go do a show, you're like, yeah, I'm going to be with every, you know, you're just know the other comics. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hanging out for a whole weekend together. Yeah. Yeah. More time or downtime. I think it was Tom Poppa that told you that, uh, like, uh, comedians, like if Matt Damon or somebody walks out, people are just going to be at all. But comedians, because of the nature of what we do, they feel like they know us better. So they, they just treat you not that comedian should be treated like Matt Damon said that

like, yeah, they just go Jerry. And there's been Matt Damon walked through like, yeah, it's like a different kind of thing. But I mean, all that's even kind of, because there's the star, the movie stardom is, I don't think it's gone away. I just don't think they do it anymore. And I think it's not on their, you know, like having a movie star, like who's come out, You get Timothy Chalamet. He would come out and he's probably the, he's a movie star, right? Like in the grand scheme of what we think. But it's still done in a different thing. Cause what is, is Dune, was Dune a TV show

or a movie? A movie. It was a movie. And it was just on streaming? It was in theaters. No, it was huge. Yeah. Oh, hundreds of millions. Yeah. So, but he, was he the main, so it's like he's become a movie star, Willy Wonka. Yeah. So like that's like a movie star that they're in the making. But I wonder if he's doing too much different kind of things where it's like, you know. He's playing Bob Dylan. Yeah, and he's playing Bob Dylan. Yeah. Yeah, I know what you're saying. With comedians, they don't get starstruck. You get starstruck with like big stars.

And I guess they see us as friends, like what you're saying. But I feel like they're not making movies. Like you go, you're not going to watch a Timothee Chalamet movie. You're going to watch, he's just the best. He's the best one for that part. So it's like, he's going to be in it. Where versus you go watch a Tom Cruise movie. You

go watch the Jason Statham movie. You watch a Denzel Washington movie. Tom Hanks movie. The Rock. Kevin Hart. Like some of the, I guess they have, but it's, yeah, it's like there is the stars, the movie. I mean, The Rock is one, and I think it's just like overkill too. They get like too much and then they're making, yeah. It's the industry just should go back the other way. You know, I was talking about Charlie Chaplin. Like watching that last night, because Charlie Chaplin was someone that he started like kind of Hollywood.

He was a, do you have Charlie Chaplin stuff? I think I have some stuff about improv and how his style kind of Well, it was, but he started a studio. So when He died in 1977. Yeah. He was after 1974 Oscars, I think, or 72 or 74 Oscars. You can watch a video, they bring him out because he thought everybody was going to boo him because he was kind of ran out of Hollywood. He's ran out of this country. And then so he was like

they wanted him to come back and he was very nervous about coming back. He did one talking movie. It was The Great Dictator which yeah which set out Adolf Hitler. He had a wild 1940s. Got accused of being a communist. So that's a, but I mean, that's not get all in a political, but there's an FBI investigated a lot of that stuff. If you watched a movie, it's, I look, I don't know the, not getting into it all, but it was, uh, you know, I, yeah, I don't know, man. I mean, it's, it's like one of those.

Yeah. On the face of it all, he was blamed for this thing. And then afterwards, I don't think he was, and people don't now. But he went against the grain, I guess, when he did that satire of Hitler. Like, not that I've seen it, I don't know. It's like, it was a long time ago, but he was like someone that was like, well, I'll just do it myself. So he started making, he was with someone that he's like, well, I'll just start making, he started a studio and to be making all his kind of silent movies. And then when they went to talking, he was just like, I'm not going to, he's like, it's

over. He was able to have that reasonableness that there was a mystique-ness that you needed to have. That's what's kind of gone. And that's what you got to have. That's what you have to be mysterious. You got to be like, I don't know what this guy's like in his real life. I don't know what, you know, where now you're, you know. Right. I think some of the best actors are the ones that can just disappear into a part and you don't even know them as a human. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Aaron said there's not been a, what, since 2012, a Hollywood star because of that? No, this is like a theory that every major star,

but Nate just gave one example that proves otherwise, but every major star you've you heard of before 2012. And then after that, just the way entertainment, it just changed so that there, there's not going to be another Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeah, that's what that, yes, that's true. So you got Timothy Chalamet, who could be, but it's like even they're almost overexposed and, uh, and the movies are not big enough in your third, they're overexposed in not big advertising things. So you got a Timothée Chalamet, but then he's kind of everywhere because it's just

him. So then it's almost like there's too much, because if you're like him, it's like you should be in more control of it to be like, you know what? I don't need to be overexposed. I try to do it. I can just speak of it for myself, but this December, I'm going to have a lot of, I'm going to be around a lot in December. It's a lot.

It's a lot. Too much. It's like Peyton Manning. Is that good? Yeah. Too much. But I try not to do, I've been asked to do commercials and do this stuff and I've intentionally not done them because it's like, I don't want to be around too much. I do this podcast, I try on social media

not to be me talking to the crowd too much, it's you only see me through my work. Yes. And you know in the podcast is, you don't want to be this available in a sense, but you know our podcast is like, it's going, it's still like, when you go to arena, most people don't. The vast majority are not there, the podcast fans. So the podcast, I feel like I got a, like a little window into like, people that are, it's not, it's not this, you know, this isn't the Joe Rogan podcast. Hard way. It's a fun little corner of your career. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the actors or whatever, biggest celebrities have really the least amount of social media presence. Yeah, and I think you

have to do that. I think that's a smart thing, is it's like a line that says, I'm not going to go over here because I'm so good over here, you don't get me over here. Whereas like some people have to go this way. I should get you in a presented way. And now as a comedian, we're kind of different just because we're naturally talkers and we get in situations. But it's like, yeah, as you do podcasts, you do interviews, it's like less and less to be like you get to where you go. Like we're doing, I'm doing way less interviews than I ever did before where I would do everything. And now I'm only doing, I'm not trying to be like I'm better than anybody. I don't think I'm better than anybody. But I'm just trying to make the experience for the person at home better with me. So I don't want to be everywhere for you. It's not because I don't want to always go do everything. I'm doing

it for you because I want you to be able to watch something and the mystique is not kind of taken away. And so you try to go like, I'll do what needs to be done to, you know, I mean, I'm doing Talk the Town. You are? Yeah. I was going to try to get you on, I thought I could pull some strings for you. Yeah.

You don't need me. Are you going to go tomorrow? Oh, it's tomorrow? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah. So I'm doing Talk the Town, but I'm doing Talk the Town. I'm going to introduce you to Leland.

Yeah. I'd like, I've been to Talk, like I like going to the ones that, you know, that's the local. That's the local Nashville morning talk show. Nashville Talk of the ones that you know, that's the local that's the local Nashville Talk of the town. Oh, and so it's like the local one. I can't Well, I can't just get anybody so it's like you go do you know if I do podcasts like alright well Trying to be like, you know, I'll do my friends and you just try to kind of go like I don't need to be everywhere Yeah and you just try to kind of go like, I don't need to be everywhere. Yeah. If you had any, or you John, either one,

really bad auditions where you walked out, and like, there's no way I'm getting that. Yeah, mm-hmm, yeah. I mean, I wrote an email to, I think I've talked about it. Right, we'll move on then. Yeah, mine I might've talked about. I wrote, I did one, and it was so bad I emailed.

An apology? An apology. Really? Sorry about that. Oh, that's funny. It was, look up who cast the audition. and it was so bad I emailed an apology. I'm sorry about that. It was, look up who cast the office. Who did you apologize to? Allison. Allison Jones.

Yeah. Okay. Allison Jones. And I still to this day talk very highly of her. She was very, very nice to me and really tried to get me into stuff. And I just, and I, some I did well, but more than often I blew it and I was me into stuff. And I just, and I, some I did well, but more than often,

I blew it and I was so bad. And she would just, but she would always be nice. She always brought it back. And I emailed Alison Jones right after an email. And I said, you should email her and say, I'm so sorry for that. I was very uncomfortable in whatever it was. And I'm sorry that I wasted your, you know,

I just felt bad. I was sorry I wasted your time, that you had to sit through that because you shouldn't have had to, you're the real, you're professional. And that's not a career move. You legit felt bad that you wasted it. Oh, it wasn't even, I'd never gone back in front of it.

It wasn't, it wasn't because, when I lived in LA, so 2012, 14. I helped him audition a lot of these. Yeah, a lot of these I would do. I would do all of them. I might have sent in more auditions actually to her through a tape or something like that. But I could easily tell my route was going to have to be, I'm going to have to create what I'm going to be in. But I emailed her and that was out of a pure, just out of a human to

human. I'm just like, I'm sorry that- That's probably a good move though, because if you want to get back in, she'd be like, well, he does. I'll get a good email. He wasted our time last time. Yeah. He did apologize. But he did apologize. My car was broken into when I got a little walked out of the car.

Talk about a day. Yeah. Backpack store. Oh yeah. Now I do have to talk to that. Yeah. Cause all your insults are injury. Yeah.

So bad, horrible audition. And then I was recording my, uh, I was recording my, uh, submission for, uh, my hour on Comedy Central, I think, full-time magic. And so you had to record, you had to record the full hour to send to them to show them what you're doing. And so I had it on note cards and, uh, had all my note cards, had backpacks in the front row. So I get out of that audition, that's that bad. I feel sick to my stomach. I'm embarrassed and called my agent right at the time and said, email her and say, I'm sorry.

I called, I mean, as walking to my car, I go email to say, I'm sorry. I go, that was so bad. I just don't want to. She's always been so nice to me and I feel bad that I didn't do what I should have done in that kind of thing. And hung up and then got to my car. Car windows smatter, smash. Backpack with my set list. Gone. So my set list is gone. So now I've got to find some set list, maybe at home. I'm trying to find a set list to, you know, I kind of knew it,

but I was worried that I would forget. You called me to see what jokes I remember. Yeah. What, just trying to go through it to piece. That's at a funeral. Yeah. I mean, he's at, he's at a funeral. There's a decent chance.

There's a, there's a, yeah. You had a funeral. You called Brian, there's a decent chance he's at a funeral. At least a 50-50. Yeah. And then, and so then, yeah, and all my stuff was in the windows shattered. Oh man. That is a bad audition.

And I had that night, because it was that night was the, I had to do my set. So then I had to do the set. Yeah. I tanked an audition once for Punk'd, the show Punk'd. They were auditioning comedians to be on it. And so I did well in this first audition and they liked it. They said, well, Ashton wants to meet you. Can you come back on this day?

And I'd just gotten into the college market, like doing NACA gigs. And so I was just about to make some decent money, get out of debt. And I didn't want to cancel this college gig. I said, well, I can't, I mean, that's going to be a lot of money for me. Can we move it to this date? And they said, all right, well, Ashton likes you. So he said he'll meet you in his dressing room on the set of that 80s show. Yeah. 70s show. So now, yeah, 70s show. So now I show up.

That's right. Well, I'm 10 years too late. Yeah. Or too early. But I came, it was weird because there was no script again. It was like, well, I thought your audition was funny. On the show, we punk people. So we have to come up with something now. If you want to punk somebody, he wanted me to go to his castmate's dressing room and do a thing where we punk them. Yeah. And see how it goes. And so we had to come up with a scenario.

I'm like, what can we do? So he wants me to brainstorm with him. And I'm very nervous because this is Ashton Kutcher. And I'm like, I don't know. And we came up with this idea of like, I have an amazing, my relationship to Ashton is that we went to college together, but he barely knows me. He knows me enough to let me on the set and hang out with him. And I'm trying to sell him my idea for an app.

And my app is a crosswalk app. So when you're walking and you come up to a crosswalk, if you have the app, you can hit a button and it makes it walk for you. So you never have to stop walking. So you can just keep going like boom, it changes it. It changes it. So stupid. And he's like, all right, go sell that to my friends. And so now I'm in their dressing room, just hanging out. And Ashton wants me to like, just do some weird, awkward moments with these guys while I'm waiting for Ashton to show up. And I couldn't think of anything, you know, it's weird to say this

now, but Denny Masterson's was in there at the time. Just good night. This is all, by the way, John Reed talking to his friends. These are all John Reed's close friends. I had to come up with something to do weird and I'm like, uh, I don't know. It was Danny Masterson, Ashtagatrian, what's his wife's thing? Uh, Neela Cootis. They're all in trouble. And like you guys, I started the whole thing. You started the whole thing. That's what your punk should have been that. You go on there. That's my ultimate punk. It took a while for it to register. You go, ah, hey. Yeah. Surprise. Yeah. You know, all I know about Ashton Kutcher, he had the most brutal review written about, I think about it. Every time I hear his name, he did that first Steve Jobs movie and I was just reading the review. It got bad

reviews. It was not a very good movie, but I got, I saw one review that just said Ashton Kutcher's poverty of talent on full display. I remember like, Oh my God, poverty of talent. That's brutal. Yeah, that's brutal. Poverty on full display. I don't even know if reviews even affect anything anymore because the internet, everything's mean.

Yeah. Right. So it's like you, there's no one really that you go to. But they're like the cleverest. Well. I mean they are. I know. I'm saying you should have some trust to go to it.

I think you could build back up reviews because you should because now it's getting too wild Westy. So it's like, you're just like having to go like last night, I watched that Chapman movie and you just kind of got to look at like, you know, Amazon reviews are always going to be great. And I enjoyed it actually because I really was interested in learning about him. But it's like, yeah, the reviews are, you know, it's like a tough, you know, but you should be able to go. Yeah. I feel like you should, you know, we should do reviews. We should do review.

Maybe you do a movie. Nateland reviews. Yeah. Why don't you do a Nateland movie? Would you review movies? Well, 100% review into the storm. I think it's like to build the trust. I want you to do it.

Huh? People love your movie reviews. Oh, they do. Yeah. I'll do them. So I want to watch movies with, yeah, they loved your, a bunch of them. Well, I want to watch movies with you. I want to watch movies with you.

Watch movies with dusty and just have y'all talk about it. There you go. Yeah. I want to watch. I want you to watch. Do you ever see mystery science theater? Remember that show? Something like that.

Yeah. Remember salt the way the president ran and it took you out of the whole movie. Yeah. Just the way the president was running. Yeah. You went on for like 15 minutes. Yeah, that's funny. And so they liked their, oh, all right. Well, maybe we'll maybe do like 15 minutes. Yeah, that was fun. And so they liked their, oh. All right, well maybe we'll do a movie

review time. Yeah, that'd be great. Maybe we can do, I would do it on the podcast. Yeah. No, but I'll just do my movies that I watch random. Exactly. Yeah. That's the best. You ever see Shawshank Redemption? Oh yeah. Many, many, many. Good movie, right? Yeah, it's a great movie. It's really great. Never seen it. All right. You ever saw it? No. On purpose? At this point, yeah. No, it's still, I'm not, I will watch it when I'm in the mood to watch it. Sure. I would be forcing it right now. I've never been in the mood to watch it. Okay. I'm going to have to be- How do you know if you're in the mood, you don't even know what the movie is? I know when the mood would strike for me to get involved and I haven't been in the mood. Is there something about it? Last night I was in the mood for Chaplin.

And I watched Chaplin. That's what happened. And that's what happened. And I was in the mood for Salt. I was in the mood for Chaplin and I watched Chaplin. That's what happened. And that's what happened. Is there something? And I was in the mood for Salt. I was in the mood for a Sasshin Ninja. Yeah, if it was called something like that, you would have watched it. So much of this is the title. Yes.

I hate on this Salt. What's Salt? I don't even remember now. Angelie Jolie. Yeah. She's like an assassin or something. Yeah. And then they're trying to kill the president.

I watched some, yeah, crazy movies. Yeah. So you watch Yellowstone, I'm sorry. Do you watch Yellowstone? No. Okay. I started watching Land Man. Oh yeah. Yeah.

That was good. Yeah, Land Man's good. It's there, I'm telling you, man, it's- Billy Bob Thornton. Billy Bob Thornton. He's great in it and he's very funny in it, but I mean like the stuff with his daughter. Yes, thank you.

It's insane, dude. And it's like, it's almost like I enjoy it. Cause I love the idea of like kind of learning about this world. Cause I didn't watch Yellowstone. Cause I mean, I'm not a Western guy. But this I do like, but the stuff with his daughter. I mean, great cheesy moments. It's just insane, dude.

Like it's there, it's everything is daughter, I mean, it's just insane, dude. Like it's there, it's, everything is so, uh, you know, I don't know. It's, it's, it's insane. That's just the world that they're, that's the word. So it's a little bit, maybe I'm becoming, I don't know if I'm getting, like it's, I am, but it's getting older, but you're just like, good night, man. It's the stuff with his daughter. And she, you know, I just don't understand it. Like, yeah.

Well, his ex-wife too, his ex-wife. Yeah, it's crazy. When they were singing about the, hanging about the pool. Yeah, yeah. That was just so like one dimensional character. I mean, it was just so. Well, it's just so, yeah. It's, you, there's really, you want to go,

what's the point of the daughter being in the show? I don't know the point of it. It's it's it's it's everybody else has a point. And I would just say, I don't know the point of her being in it, except for what, if you watch it exactly what she's in it for. Yeah. Just to be a distraction.

And then you're just like, yeah, yeah. It's like painting his neck. Maybe I've only seen one scene, but it's the scene where he tells her how all is going to say that's not his daughter. That scene. That's that's a lawyer in that. Yeah, that scene. That scene is good. But this stuff, it's just like the yeah, it's it's just, you know, it's just what you think. It's the way they make stuff now. And they just, it's just too much. And I don't think it's uh like because i'm a christian or like some kind of thing like that i think most people would uh would agree to be like i always think about that girl having an audition for that why do you gotta make why do you do a girl as an audition everything you go do is going to be like well are you willing to wear nothing that's everything you're making them go i didn. I'm piecing together with. Yeah.

That's the, that's the idea of it. And that's like, you know, as we, as I make movies, if I, if I get to the fortune, I don't want to, I don't want to, you have to, women have to just be willing to take their clothes off now. Right. Like it's uncomfortable. And it's, I mean, getting old enough now that you want to go like, what's the, not even, we don't need this. You're making, Jennifer Lawrence has been naked. Yeah, what are you doing?

You got these people are two great actors. Maybe if they want to do it then go do it I don't I have no do whatever you want to go do but I just always feel like you're like golly Yeah, just this is is it not this movie's not movie's not intense enough. I guess they have some outlet, maybe they think it's an outlet, but it's... Seems like that's one producer who's really pushing hard for this one. Yeah. And it's like...

You gotta get rid of that guy. Yeah. And then everything else be fucked. Yeah, then everything else we can make it... Normal. Yeah, you make it just be normal. Be normal. Yeah, be normal.

It's so, it's enough that I want to watch it. I don't know if I will finish it just because I'm kind of a, it's, uh, that scene at the pool with us too, the pool and the football field, like all of it. It's just, it's, I mean, it's, uh, yeah, it's pornographic. That's why, I say it, but it's, it's that much where you want to go. This is Yeah. It's very Yellowstone in the sense that there are some really good acting scenes by some great actors. And then every now and then there's a scene that's just like straight out of a soap opera where it's like super dramatic or over done way over the top. And it's kind of funny. So now I end up laughing at it. So I'm watching it for two different reasons. Yeah. I think it's like the comedy and it is the reason that they're doing it.

But it's just so, you're like, is this the comedy? Like, is there not another? You could have her be something else. Like, you know, if you want to, if it's a wife that spends all your money, like that's fine, but don't, does she have to wear nothing? Take her dress off? Does she have to, like, just have her, just be fun

and have a wife that spends the money, like, that comes in or, you know, and dresses nicely. Like, you can dress her to go, she's very proud of the way she looks without having to be like, I mean, dude, it's, it's not, the daughter is the one that I had probably the most trouble with, but it was, uh, but yeah, I don't know. Don't listen, don't listen. Oh, uh, you know, stick to salt.

All right. Uh, so acting started in ancient Greece. Most of the, I didn't know what he did. Sorry. Taylor shared and he did great movies. Oh yeah. Obviously. Yeah.

Sicario is like, I mean, I love it. Scar is the most violence you could ever do. And I know that doesn't even make sense that some reason I'm okay with one versus the other. Yeah. But I think most people are. Yeah. I'm just guessing. I don't do whatever you want to go do, but the violent way is weirdly enough, the one that I think is kind of okay.

Like, it's like everybody's kind of fine with it. I don't think you got to show someone's head being sold off. Like it's, you know, there's ways to do it, but at some reason, yes, violence, that's just how the, that's just the way it works in my head is I'm okay with violence and I'm not okay with, uh, that other stuff. Yeah, that makes sense. So if you're a dad, that makes sense.

So, uh, acting started in ancient Greece. Most of the time people would just tell stories. They would orate stories. But then this one guy, Thespis, he started putting himself in the story. So he wasn't saying so and so did this. He would act like that person and he was like the first actor. And now people are called Thespians. Oh, I did not know that.

Oh, wow. So know that. Oh wow. So he just thought like, what if I just move a little bit? That's a move. He's like, why don't I just pretend like I'm this person instead of reading what this person is doing. So all actors slash thespians are just doing an impression of thespus. Yes. And I'm actually going back. Yeah. I'm going backwards because I'm just telling this story. Wait, am I? Yeah. So I disagree with them. Yeah, it's too much.

It's too much. But I guess he would be telling a story about someone else. I'm telling a story about myself. Yeah. But he would just act out the scenes. Imagine when he first did it, you're like, ugh. Did you see what Thespis did? Yeah, his buddy, he did it, you're like, Oh, did you see what this did?

Yeah. His buddy, he goes, do you think this will be good? And you're like, Oh my gosh. If I have to, it's like having to sit across from someone playing a guitar, I don't know, man. I don't know. He's really committed. Yeah. That's what I thought.

I, I might do it in a joke, but I thought about the idea of the joke is being, I can't handle commitment in a small area. That's the idea. So a guitar thing, like that's the problem. I don't have a problem with it in a big area, but I have a problem with commitment in a small area. Yes. And I think that's what hurts with auditions.

When you do auditions, it's the commitment in a small area. Commitment with intimacy and it's kind of weird. They're like full on be this person in this area and you wanna go, it's not really, I don't even know if you're gonna get the best thing out of it. Because you're, it's like, I don't know, there's not, they need to like, you need to, you need

to see them play, you know, otherwise you're kind of like in my head, I think if you do auditions, you would be, I know you got to do auditions, but it's almost like, I just need to hear the person. I just need to, you know, I would like to see them act in something. Yes. And then I just need to see them as a person. I think that should be the way it is. Auditions are like, I mean, what are we doing?

These guys have a great resume. Go look them up. You know what they're capable of. And now you're going to make them come in here. Yeah, you almost wouldn't even have the audition process. You would just go, you should, by the time you get to the level of like a movie, well, you should have enough work. So if you're young, you're like, well, then you got to go make stuff. Then you have to go audition. Then you got to go, boy, you either have to go audition, but yeah, it should be at a smaller scale. And then, uh, otherwise, yeah. Yeah. It is weird that like, you know, any other profession, it's like, all right.

So, you know, you were the CEO of this company. Um, and we were thinking about hiring you for this company, but I need to see you go delegate duties now Go over to this business and start bossing people around. Fire that guy. Yeah, and you go. All right, I'll do it Hey buddy, you're fired. I might not even be hired But you are definitely fired. But I can tell you one thing. We're both believing today. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, like I mean these big actors. I don't think they're auditioning, but it's, you know, that's what I've had,

the only last one I did was a movie I did not get. But it was, and I did it over Zoom. I think they want, mine, I think they always want it, in their head, they're like, I want this guy to get it. But then when they really, when they really deal with me, they go. He just, he just, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

What was the movie? Are you allowed to say? I don't know, maybe it was a Coen Brothers movie. Yeah. So that's where it was. I remember you talking about that. Yeah. It would be, like that's the only ones that you would do,

but then I also wouldn't curse. So I just, I make them, I mean, I'm just, you know, really you get back into a thing where I go, just make your own. Yeah. Because I've got so many, you know, I'm like, so they have cursing in it and I'm like, well, I'm not gonna, I've made it this long.

Now you're like, I'm not gonna do it. So they were like, we don't care. You don't have to curse. You know, I was like, the whole movie would have curse. I'm not saying I'm not gonna control the whole movie, but my part, that's the plan, you know, is to be like my stuff. I mean, I'm hoping if it's Nate laying on it, it's all of it's under the... Right, it's all implied.

Yeah. It's all implied. And that's the goal with the movies that I make, or if I get to make them. Because I think we can make this, Sicario. Yeah. Put Charlie Brown in there. I think we can make this. Sicario. Yeah. Put Charlie Brown in there. I think I can make Sicario. Bates.

You know what I, yeah. Well, what I say, my thing that I tell them at the, yeah, I go Bates could play all these parts. Put a mask on him. I'm Benicio del Toro's carry. Yeah. Just reenact that scene. He comes out with a cartel guy.

He comes out with a gun. Bates comes out with a gun. It's pointed towards him and then we get which how does this work yeah it's uh safety off yeah he keeps he's off on the safety at all times so when he wants to not fire he's always it's always off I kill multiple it's always on the wrong part. It's always going off in his holster accidentally. He gets, he would get every gunfight started, not on purpose, but we would all be in one.

Sorry. They go, that crew's the most gunfights. You're like, do they, why? And they go, because the one guy does not, he can't wrap his head around the safety and he doesn't know when's one's going one way and when's one's going the other way. And that's, yeah.

I always say, I can make movies now when I pitch movies, I go, I'm gonna start with the TBS version. So all these movies can air on TBS. I'm just gonna start with the TBS version. So I won't ever make the full, I'll just make the one that can already go on TV. With commercials. So it doesn't have to be with commercials.

So when you're out of movie theater. Get up, go get a drink. I'm going to have commercials in there. Yeah, that's great. You can get up, everybody can go pee. Yeah, come right back in. Might not be bad. That's not a bad idea, actually.

You go in there, right when you're in it, just go like, you have a long movie, be like, we're going to throw commercials in here. If you had the option to go like you have a long movie be like We're gonna talk a little commercial Yeah, if you had the option to go see a movie one of them you pay regular ticket price Oh, and it's as is and the other option is it has commercials like on television, but it's free What do you think people would definitely you know what people would maybe do that to go like? Yeah, I just don't know if it's going to really add up enough to be like, you're like, so 200 people have to go, you know, but it's, yeah, I think, they would have to sell a lot of concessions.

Right. But I think double or triple your concession sales. You had a break there. I think if you live in the PG, PG-13 world though, that's the, you know, that's what the other one I tell them, I go I'm probably go start a PG, you can talk me into PG-13. I just gotta know why are we PG-13. Yeah. I gotta know the reasons. I don't want it to be because of cursing. Yeah. Weirdly enough. I have a lot of crazy rules, but they're only my rules that I mix. I'm not trying to make anybody do anything. I want to see a movie like

Sicario where it's just like, dag gummit. Yeah. I think you could, but I think you could do that. This dag nebic gum. You could do. I think I could get away with it because it's not about that.

Right. I would not. And it's funnier. I'm just telling you now. Be a comedy. I'm talking about now. Now, when I made the movie, I would be, those would just quietly not be in the script.

Yeah. It wouldn't be a big deal. That's what I try to do with my act. You just quietly don't have this stuff in there. You're not trying to, yeah, I'm just, it's my, look, I know it's not easy and I'm a problem and that's why I've gone the long route of having to do it this way. I think it's admirable. I think it's awesome. Because, you know, I've had to do. And still nothing is gone. We have not shot anything. I'll tell you the opposite of that is when I auditioned for East Bound and Down, I happened to be visiting my mom at that time and I had to record the scene. Me is Jed Forney and

my mom off camera reading Kenny Powers lines that had cuss words in it. My mom, sweet Southern Baptist lady, never heard her cuss. I said, mom, I need to do this audition. Do you mind just reading this part and I'll do this part? And she was reading ahead. She goes, well, it's for my son. And she did it. I mean, there's a tape out there about a Betty Reap cussing like a saint.

As Danny McBride. If that just floated around her church, you would be… I know, she'd be camped. Caps communicated, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's tough when you got to get everybody to do it. I'm sure I'm thinking if I had cursing in all editions, that's probably why I didn't get it in. Because they go, he's not doing all the lines. Do I have to read these three words in a row?

I go, I just don't think, could I try something else? Yeah. And they're, yeah, that is a lot. That probably does hurt you on an audition. Yeah. I refuse to say some of your lines. I changed it. Yeah.

I changed it. I punched it up a little bit. This character you've been building. Yeah. Yeah. You have a picture for all this? Yeah. I go, hmm, I would like to, this character you've been building. Yeah. You have a picture for all this? I go, hmm, I would like to, oh dude, going through these scripts, because I get these scripts.

That's what I do, all the writing. Because I go through, I mean, there's one that I'm, it's a soft R that I mean, you've got to get it down to what I want it to be. You can imagine how far, I mean, I'm like, no, no, no. I mean, just gone. So I have to go, I will sit with the writer because I, I was like, I just, I'm trying, I don't want to be a bother to you. Like I really am not trying to, I'm not better than anybody.

I go, I watch the movies that are not this. I'm just trying to do what I'm saying. I don't want my parents to be mad at me. It's all That's all I'm trying to do right so I go I just sit there and I go I'll go I'll sit through the entire Script with you and we can go through it and I can tell you what I'm uncomfortable with and what I'm not You know like I'm not gonna act here right now. I'm not gonna say anything my side your side. Here's the words I I'm okay with right if I'm in charge of yeah, right? Yeah Oh, you've got to that point. Well, you can we're safe. We're not to that point. Yeah, it could all go they could go No, we have a movie greenlet

Still I think stuff can still not go. I don't think it I do have a green that there's there's look all Indications. Yeah, there should be a plan that we're trying to shoot a movie before I go out on this tour. It's looking like we, whether it's the one that's in the article or it's another one. And there's a chance it could be another one, not that article.

There's a chance. But, and not that the other one would be shot, it just, we're trying to do a, there's just a very tight window with the tour schedule. And so, yeah. I wonder if I'm supposed to talk about this stuff or not. You know? Not that I think about it.

But I don't, you know. Is it called Sicario 2? It's the third one. Third, yeah. Because there's already a second one. There's already a second one. So I'm doing a third one. And it's a laser tag.

The PG version. The PG version. Marlin's violence. So I'm doing a third one and it's a laser tag. The PG version. The PG version. Marlon's violence. It's laser tag and you get a lot of dead gum and rats. Cartel got me again. I might have to go back to Charlie Chaplin because I'm going to be so, well, these words are just so mean now. And so I go back, I'm bringing back silent movies where we can just be very nice to each other and just slap you on the head.

You've come a long way from words are all that matter. Now you're like, I'm doing silent. Now I'm doing no words. Let's just say I'm gonna have a lot of fun movies come out. All right, we're probably gonna be done. Yeah, probably. We probably didn't even get into all acting. No, no. Maybe one thing. Scratching the surface. Well, that'd be good. We'll do acting and throw in some Charlie Chaplin. Okay. Yeah. All right.

Yeah, Charlie Chaplin. Acting without acting. You got to imagine how great of a stunt guy that guy was. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just his charisma. He could have... He's like an athlete. Yes. A real athlete. Like he would be a stunt guy today. Yeah. I

Mean if he was you know, he was smooth the way good Building would fall down around him. Yeah. Yeah, that's insane. Yeah All right I've no idea where I'll be I think I'll just announce big dumb eyes tore out. I got a big tour. Yeah Yes, it is a pre-sale starts today eyes I think I'll be here. Well you just announced Big Dumb Eyes Tour out. I got a big tour. Yeah. So, yes. It is a pre-sale starts today. Eyes, E-Y-E-S is the code.

Go get that. If you don't see your city, your city will be added. I promise you. It's just what we have for the 25. So yeah. Go that. Yeah. Boom, look at all those dates, buddy.

Doing a little show in New York. Little New York, yeah. Madison Square. Little New York show. It's October 27th, Madison Square Boom. Look at doing a little show in New York. Little New York. Yeah. Madison Square. Little New York. It's a 10 or 27th. Madison Square Garden. Uh, yeah, that's crazy. You're doing Nashville, right? In Nashville. Yeah. Nashville Bridgestone. That's in December. So it's like a year from probably close to now. That's near you. Uh, yeah. Well, uh, December 13th. Just funny to swear it was December 13th. I'll be at hyenas comedy club. Oh, right. This is the one that got you back.

Yep. Yeah. Yep. Uh, we need some tickets. I mean, it's good. It's looking good. He goes, Hey, thank you. Yeah.

Where's your cam? We don't even give you a camera. He's kind of in the middle. Hey, he's doing all right. He's between two cameras. He's between two cameras. It was so funny though, because he was getting real, when he's at home. Then he felt bad. He's like, oh, he's doing good. He's doing good. You know what? We need people to sell their tickets.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's this weekend. Sell your tickets to Brian Drake's. Oh, sorry. December 30th, that's it. And then January 3rd and 4th I'm at Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky. Great way to start the new year. Yeah, I'm actually going to be there this coming weekend. All right. I'll be at Comedy Off Broadway, Lexington,

December 5th, 6th, and 7th. The best. And then I'm going to Florida, then Wilmington, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, Charlotte for the rest of the year. Oh, like you'd be at home kind of. Pretty much a little North Carolina run. Stay close to the family for the holidays. Easier to drive. Yeah. Yep. I got a private show this weekend.

Then I'm back doing public shows. Oh, you're going back to public. Back to public shows. You are going to allow the public to see your idea. That's right. December 13th, Florence, Alabama at the Scholes Theater. It's where Laura was born. In Florence. Beautiful town, beautiful theater. Come out and see me. And then 2025, I'm everywhere. Detroit, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Boston, Hartford, Connecticut.

All of them. Kansas City. Everywhere. So check it out. Aaron Webber. This is Aaron, by the way. Yeah. And that's all public. Next year's all public shows. Next year's public shows. I'm done with private shows next year. Yeah I bet there's still be. I got a few. He's got a few. He's not going to talk about it. I won't even mention them. You won't even know. I'm not you know I could be working. He could be working and I am working. It's just a private group hired him. Yeah. Private detective group. Yeah. Private detective group. All right. I think that's it. John, good to see you. Good to see you guys. Thanks for having me, man.

You just fit right in. You just really fit in with us. You don't even feel like a guest. Yeah. That's exactly what I want. You're kind of not a guest. You've been on enough. Like, you're in with us. I think you have the record now. I'll be the alternate. Dusty alternate. Yeah. Yeah. If he's, Greg's been on quite a few times. Yeah, Greg's been on there with him. John Reed, Greg Warren, like the guys that have come in and hung out with us. Yeah, you sit in for them. I'm honored to be a regular. Yeah. All right. We love you. See you next week. Bye. Nate Land is produced by Nate Land Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media.

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