The Nateland Podcast - 232: #232 - Christmas Traditions feat. Derrick Stroup

Episode Date: December 25, 2024

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Merry Christmas. Today's a Christmas day. I'm Nate Barghatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber. Dusty's out. We brought in much louder Dusty at Alabama. Yeah. Yeah. Derek Stre Alabama. Yeah. Yeah. Dusty, you're up for this. Yeah.

Hey, thanks for having me. Well, it's fun. Do you know what? They would have seen you on the Christmas special now. Yeah. Cause that's why he's here. Yeah. Yeah.

That's right. That's why Derek's here. That's how he got the gig. We got some good, good and some bad, but we'll get to you in a minute. Yeah. Yeah. So Merry Christmas. We hope you guys are having a wonderful, you either had a wonderful Christmas

whenever you're watching this, I hope you're unwrapping presents and having a wonderful time. All this stuff. You got your first Christmas with a kid. Yeah. She's not quite old enough. I mean, next year will be the first real one. Yeah. Where she's like aware of it. She's more aware of it. It's going to be like a few. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it just depends on what you mean about aware.

I don't even know if she knows. I mean, she can only see like a foot in front of her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think Nick's Christmas, she's gonna be doing it. Like a deer. Cause she crossed the, she'd have trouble crossing the street.

She would. Yeah, she would. Right there. Yeah, I understand that. This is Eleanor's first Christmas knowing who Santa really is. Oh yeah. Okay. So much fun.

Does she know that you're older than Santa? He's talking to you. For sure. Do you show pictures of you and Santa in high school? You had that short beard then. He's got short beard, but It's brown. Yeah. He goes, yeah, well you look good. We called him Chris. He goes, I didn't think, none of us thought he was gonna make it like he made it. The Kringles weren't a great family,

but he really... He wasn't always into just milk, you know what I mean? He was young at one time. Yeah, well, yeah, this will be a fun thing. I think it was supposed to, so if you're watching it, the Christmas special would have aired, I've seen a cut of the Christmas, there's no reason to even, uh, it looks awesome, but I've seen a cut. You could be watching this now and my, I should be like, guys, don't want to apologize for what happened on CBS. There's a chance we'll record both just in case. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Hey, I didn't know what was going to happen on that day. And I'm sorry about everything that aired on CBS on December 19th. I apologize that I didn't represent my family. I stand alone in this. So either way we're play both. Yeah. No matter what. You know.

Perfect. Yeah. But it's been out now almost a week. Yeah. So I probably already made a statement. Yeah. No matter what. Perfect. Yeah. But it's been out now almost a week. Yeah. So I probably already made a statement. Yeah. So listen, coming back. This is your first public appearance.

This is my, oh yeah. Since it happened. Hey, hey everybody. Those reindeer, I didn't know they were real. No one told us that. Well, also your special came out last night. Yeah. Oh yeah.

I mean, it's got a lot going on at the moment. Once again, I want to apologize. He said, oh yeah. Oh yeah. I want to apologize for the special. Right now I am at the Christmas, I'm at the game. Steelers, if you're watching this on December 25th, I'm at the, at one o'clock. I'm at the, I'm going to the Chiefs Steelers game.

Oh wow. Okay. That's exciting. We just talked about them on DraftKings. Uh, yeah. So I'll be going there, uh, in doing stuff. Yeah. We're recording this sort of thing.

I guess there's no real point to talk about all this stuff, but, uh, yeah, but again, I'll apologize for what happened. Uh, I do not know Travis Kelsey and what he did was awful. So I'm sorry. I don't stand for it. I pray for his family, his brother, Jackson, just start going through all. I don't know what the scenario Taylor feels safe. I don't think Jason knew about it either, but you know, it's all Patrick's fault.

Uh, I don't know. Just, it either, but you know, it's all Patrick's fault I don't know. Just you know, it's all done. I don't know Russell Wilson. I do the Steelers Wherever Bert Kreischer will be there. I definitely did not I don't approve what Bert Bert I have another thing coming out of Bert, this same day is like something burning. Oh, wow. The cooking episode. Yeah, me and Dusty are on it. Oh, really? That's fun.

Yeah, and I think it comes out on the day that you're watching this. Wow. That's exciting. That one, Bert, you know, he tried to calm it down with the language intentionally on that day. He did very good. That's really nice.

It's not perfect. Kept the shirt on. Keep an eye. Yes. Wow. Cooking seems like you need a shirt on. Yeah, you don't want that. So, all right, yeah. So that's where I was. And this is our last episode of the year. Last episode of the year. Yeah, last one I'll ever do. How's your year been? Uh, my year, I'm joking with that. I'm joking. I'm not gonna say that.

I know I haven't been on every one. Uh, the year's been, uh, very good. It's been a very good year. That's how you suggest you should greet people. Oh yeah. How's your year going? It's going great. Tell you that.

Yeah. Yeah. It's going great. Pretty good year for you. Yeah. Pretty good year. Uh. This time last year going? It's going great. Tell you that. Yeah. It's going great. Pretty good year for you. Yeah. Pretty good year. This time last year, you're doing the Manning cast, which was my favorite moment of 2023.

Yeah. I thought your career was over, but. Kept going. You showed me? Plugged along. Yeah. Kept plugging along. That's all you gotta do is keep showing up.

Keep showing up. Are y'all serious about asking people about their year? Yeah, because instead of like saying, how's your day going? Which is everybody's day is always good. No one's gonna be like, really no one even really tells you how their day was going.

If you ask someone, how's your year been going? It's a little more of a inquiring question. That seems terrifying. That seems like it could be way more loaded. I feel like I have a better chance to escape if you just give me the next 24 hours. I think 12 months, I could be here for a minute. But I know, but if I'm just in generalities, okay, how's your year going, man? And you're like, ah, it's going great. I did this. You would have more to say. If I say, how's your day? Yeah, I clearly don't even, none of us care. True, true. And you, you feel like that you could break down a day in conversation.

A year is too much. So you just go one word, good, bad, and different. Yeah. He goes, great. Great. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I could be miserable.

Okay. All right. And I'm going to go great. That's me. I'll have some health issues. Well, what's the doctor? Yeah. I just got a new one.

It's like the gout is touching. No, but you know, on my- Do you see your doctor more than you don't? I don't have to explain that one. I have a parking spot. Do you have a plaque? Do you have a plaque? Employee, patient of the month.

Yeah. No, you know when, uh, three years ago, when I thought I was having a stroke, right. was having a stroke, I just had to go do a three-year follow-up where they did another image scan. No three-year follow-up? I never heard of that. Yeah, I don't know. Your doctor is really... Should we do it every year? Come back in three years. Because I don't know. It's like an apple. Come back in three years. 36 months, nothing bad could happen. For sure. And he's like an apple come back three years. 36 months, nothing bad could happen. For sure. He's like, everything looks good, but you have, he said, you have a couple nodules on your, on your lung. He said, but it's nothing to worry about. He said, most people in this part of the country have this it's called hypotheosis or something. It's basically, he says, bat poop. Yeah. Bat dung.

Guano. Creates fungus that we, in this part of the country, get on our hands, especially as kids, get in our mouth, and it gets in our lungs, and... Wow. ...it goes away. So I have bat poop lungs. That's COVID. Yeah. That's COVID?

Well, COVID was from bats. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't know. It sounds like it was described to you by a gypsy doctor. Like, you got bat poop in your lungs. This is the new doctor. It's COVID-14. It's different, but the same. It's one of them.

Yeah. Can you look up bat poop in lungs? Yeah. I'd be happy to type this in and see what comes out. Oh, that'll pop right up. Bat poop's lost mind. It's acute pulmonary histoplasmosis. There you go.

A flu-like illness characterized by respiratory symptoms, general malaise, that fits you. Yep. Fever, chest pains. What are you doing down here? Is yours down? Yeah. Oh. You inhaled fungal spores from bat droppings.

Wow. Absolutely crazy. I can't hear a thing now. I've never heard of this. You can't hear anything? Now I can. All right, we got it perfect now. I can never heard of this. Can't hear anything. Now I can. All right. We got it.

Perfect. Nate's playing God over here. I just had to. Yeah. Wait a minute. I have hip histoplasmosis. So I've never heard of that. Plasmosis.

You start calling Nashville, Gotham city. Can you hear it? You need to turn it up more. Now it's too loud. Why are you messing with mine anyway? So elevated risk of exposure to histoplasmosis fungus include workers who perform demolition. That's not you.

Gardeners who use bird or bat droppings as fertilizer, excavation workers who uproot trees or persons cleaning fireplaces. How did you get this Brian? Look, look at Tennessee. I mean, I'm right in the heart of it. I'm a blue collar guy out there doing the thing. It's highly endemic to central Tennessee. Where's Dusty at?

I mean, Dusty would be all over this. Yeah. Yeah. Wild stuff. Well, are you feeling okay? Well, I thought it was, yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean, all those animals, I thought it was. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But, uh, I mean, all those animals,

I've been around dogs, cats, rats, skunks, possums, foxes. You've been around fox. There's foxes in my neighborhood. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But are you around them? Well, they're around. I mean, a fox doesn't hang out. Yeah. I don't think any of those things you're hanging out. The squirrels are the only ones that you get there. They're on there amongst your things. My dog. I think I've told this story. My dog got sprayed by skunk and I put it in my car to drive. We weren't at home and drove it home. And I was just

so like my mom's been all night like spraying and doing all the stuff and, and, and I had a, I had a summer job and I thought it was passed. And I went to work that day. As soon as I walk in this woman's like, somebody smells like skunk. He just for days. Yeah. Did you check out on that story? Yeah, I checked it.

I was with you, Brian. You said you might've told it before. So I figured I'm like, I'm going to assume that he did. Yeah. I'm like the listener that just thought, all right, I'll just check. I'll use this time for me. Yeah. And I just got my-

I'll use this time for me. I got my thoughts. Well, I have histoplasmosis, guys. Yeah. All right. Oh, keep an eye on it for us. Yeah. What, is there a cure?

Doctor didn't say. I didn't think to ask. How's it treated? Mild disease. Resolves without treatment. Yeah. Oh. I'm going to call the Illinois Department of Public Health. Ah, how do you know this is even a disease?

There's, there's no disease. It's a mild disease. It usually fixes itself. You're like, well, now I believe you're making this up. Well, I've got it. How much stuff, but this is probably made up because someone kept coming in because they just go like, I feel like something's not up and they're like, hey. You have histoplasmosis.

Yeah, golly, does it, how about, can I take something? Nah, it eventually just works itself out. Yeah. Oh, do you not want me to come here anymore is what you're saying? That's what I think that is. Yeah. Oh, do you not want me to come here anymore is what you're saying? That's what I think that is. Yeah. Is that not crazy if you were a doctor, you go, it's a mild disease. How many times would a doctor probably use a disease like that just to get out of the situation?

A few. Yeah. I mean, if you didn't have any answers. He's a regular person. Yeah. Our doctor's busy. He has stuff going on. Brian, you're back. I mean, he gets this guy walking in. I was about to say, you got to read your patient and you go, well, this

guy's going to believe bat poop. It is in his lungs. I'll, I'm going to say that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, cause he gave you something that you're, there's no way. It only affects.

No, it doesn't say only. It doesn't say only. It's just extremes. It does. Extremes of age. The ones that get it the most. Infants and the elderly. It doesn't say the most.

It just means anybody. No one gets it in the middle. That's where it's quote from the doctor. No one gets it in the middle. Yeah. It's, you have a weakened immune system, probably a weekend. I mean, yeah, you don't do it during the week. Yeah.

You're only yours only works on the weekend. I'm immune from weekend shows. I know that somebody's looking at my calendar. Yeah. Easy to drive to her. See you on Wednesday. Let's call it weekday warriors. Yeah, that's right.

That's right. Brian's the only comedian that works in nine to five. As a standup comedian, he's really Monday to Friday. MF nine to five. What do you do? I'm a standup comedian. Wow. You really, you only work in the regular hours.

Yeah. What's great. I'm a stand-up comedian. Wow, you really only work in the regular hours It's the most wonderful time of year for getting in on all the hoops football and hockey action at draft Kings sportsbooks It's the season of giving we've been gifted college football Basketball pro football pro basketball and pro hockey 24-7 bowl season is here. Derek, the Cure Bowl. Can't wait. Jacksonville State versus Ohio. Big game. You're a Jacksonville State guy? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I went to school. Yeah. So I thought Cure Bowl Ohio's currently a two and a half point favorite. So you take, you take Jacksonville State, buddy. I will. Notre Dame college football playoffs. Do you know the line?

No, I don't. I don't think it matters. Seven and a half. It doesn, buddy. I will. Notre Dame, college football playoffs. Do you know the line? No, I don't. Seven and a half. I don't think it matters. Seven and a half, it doesn't matter. I think we're gonna underperform. So you're gonna take- I'm just kidding. Indiana.

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And it doesn't give you, it kind of gives you a heads up but then next thing you know, it's time for the pitcher. And there's an oval that you have to put your face in. And it's like eight, seven, six. And I'm trying to get lined up and when it gets about three, she comes out of nowhere behind me and she goes, look up, look, look up. And I'm like, what? What?

She's like, look up. And I think she meant like lift my whole chin to fit in the thing. But I thought it was like, like at the eye doctor. So I just do this and it snaps. It looks up with his eyes and snaps. Yeah. So, so she wouldn't let me do it again. So do you have your driver's license?

Why wouldn't she let you do it again? She said that I got to move it along. It looks like, uh, like an old forest gum. When he got Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. Maybe we could do it in post-erran or not at all. Okay.

With the short hair. Gosh. That picture. It goes, hey, we got another movie. Cause what was it? We had a movie from last week. Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown.

Forrest Gump, where has he been? Yeah. Right there. Right. Bates plays the Forrest Gump now. It's pretty solid. So that was my week. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Good to see you, man. And this all happened on Christmas Day. You're going to get pulled over and a cop's going to look at your license and go, are you driving alone? Yeah. Like there's nobody in there with you? You're doing pretty good. I'm going to let you know.

Look at me, son. Yeah. It's like Kevin from The Office. Oh, gosh. All right. I'm trying to, you know. Look at me, son. Yeah. It's like Kevin from the office. All right. I'm trying to somebody said this guy, this guy, GS artworks who draws, draws pictures of episodes every now and then. Does he drew paints as Charlie Brown?

Well, Aaron, you're Lucy. So well, yeah, but you looked funny. It kind of looks like the license sticks out. We get dusty back there. It looks like captain cook. Yeah. Captain hook hook. I was like, who's Captain Cook? I was trying to think about who that was. I think there was Captain Cook.

I don't think so. I think there was. I thought I did a story. I think he was a comic in the 80s. I'm pretty sure it was Captain Cook. I'm pretty, I'm almost positive. That sounds like a guy on TikTok that does grilled chicken videos.

James Cook. That's no way you were thinking that. That's what I'm talking about, James Cook. No. Yeah, yeah. You could put it in anybody. There's somebody. You're right, Nate was thinking about British explorer and cartographer No way. James Cook. Nate was thinking about British explorer and cartographer, Captain James Cook. Captain.

And we'd all called him Captain. Captain James Cook is what it says. I know. Captain James Cook. That was exact. Man, I know a lot about that guy. He did, he found Hawaii. First one to find it.

There's Captain Cook, an episode of the British. Yeah, there's a lot of Captain Cook. Samuel H. Cook. I mean, Captain Cook was Jesse Pinkman's alias in Breaking Bad. Yeah, maybe that's right. Now that I could see you. I have a feeling you were thinking about that and not the British cartographer for the 18th century. Thinking about it.

I think he said it wrong. Yes. Captain Cook and he made Captain Hook. Well, whose podcast is Derek, but Derek land, Derek land. Oh gosh. Uh, yeah. All right. Well, that's fun.

Yeah. So Merrylan. Oh gosh. Yeah. All right. Well, that was fun. Yeah. So Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody. Merry Christmas. If this is Christmas Day, where are you at on Christmas Day? On Christmas Day, I'm home, but the next day I'm in Tampa at Side Splitters for the weekend.

Right back into it. Right back into it. That weekend. It'll be a big night. I think a lot of people go out on the 26th. Yeah, yeah. I think so too. Yeah, that weekend after Christmas is, is usually a pretty decent weekend. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had a show here on the 26th and Zanies canceled it. Yeah. Is that real? They said they wanted to spend time with their families. Yeah. Did you? I really did. What was the show?

That's the only time Zanies has ever done it. Yeah. The Dorfins are like, we're really into Christmas now. So. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're Jewish. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was December 26th and that was foul and she said, would you be okay if we cancel the show so we can just have- Spend time with our family. Yeah. And I was like, what about all the tickets? So she's like, don't worry about that. Yeah. Oh man. They usually do that in an email. They, they went right to your face with it.

Do you care? We're going to cancel. Yeah. I don't think it mattered if I cared, but, uh, yeah. Anyway. Well, usually it's a good day. I think in Tampa it's a better day for comedy. They don't have families in Tampa.

They don't have families in Tampa. Aaron, your first Christmas. First Christmas with a baby. We're going to Atlanta. I'm in Atlanta right now. Oh, nice. Checking it out. Just for fun.

First little road trip. Lucy's brother moved out there. His wife, so we're at their place. First road trip with the, with the baby. That's exciting. How'd that go? Yeah. How'd that go?

Hopefully okay. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I should say it'd be my first Christmas in New York City. Oh my goodness. Oh yeah, my first one. But you won't be there.

I'll be there on Christmas day. I won't be there on the 26th. Oh, I thought you said I'll be home. I thought you meant home like, Home's Alabama. Harvest Alabama. Yeah, home is Harvest Alabama. You celebrate Christmas?

Yeah, I do. I enjoy, I'm a long time fan of Christmas. Now you're a big, you decorate where you live. I've heard you talk about this. Yes, yes, I love- Halloween, you'll put pumpkins in the apartment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love decorating for seasons. Like our house, like Christmas,

there's all kinds of candles, there's a tree, I mean, there's Christmas stuff wall to wall. And I like it that way. But do you go home earlier? You told me earlier how in Denver, you'd go to Waffle House on Christmas Day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'd go to Waffle House on Christmas Day and listen to Alabama Christmas and Dixie. But you know, in New York, there is-

But why are you never home for Christmas? Oh, well, I just, I mean, I'll go back sometimes, but a lot of times, you know, when you travel so much and, you know, you live so far from home, sometimes it's better just to stay at your own place and take it in. A lot of times on Thanksgiving I'll go to my folks or to Alyssa's folks, but on Christmas I'll usually hang around the house. Yeah. Just have a lone sad Christmas.

No, man. Try to get Alyssa under some mistletoe. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, this is a clean podcast. My fiance, I was just talking about kissing her. You know, it's why John Chris kicks in. You make her not, so she's someone that doesn't travel and you say,

well, you can't visit your family either. No, she can. She can. It's just, you go, we can't visit your family either. No, she can. She can. It's just, I'm not coming with. Yeah. Yeah. Honey, what are we going to do this Christmas? You know, we'll sit here alone, stare at each other.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And we're going to learn boy has been traveling. That's how you talk to her about you. You go, your boy has been traveling. So tonight we're going to sit right here. Yeah. And those dogs are barking. Yeah. So I'm driving. Yeah. So tonight we're going to sit right here. Yeah. And those dogs are barking.

Yeah. So I'm going to, yeah. So we're going to sit right here. Can we put something on TV? No. No. We're going to sit here quietly. No, we're going to look at each other.

We're going to decorate. For just me and you, no one sees it. Well, in New York, that's pretty true. Yeah. Nobody is going to see it, but it feels good. I like to, y'all don't like to sit around, you know, lit Christmas tree and like have some coffee and like, you know, listen to some. Yeah.

But I got it. Yeah. We got, yeah, we have families. Just on Christmas. We have families. We have family. Listen, this guy gets a kid at 52 and now he's like, I live a different life. Yeah.

Yeah. Thank you very much. Excuse me. I've got a whole decade to catch up. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's start. We're kind of in it quick, right? Is there anything else that we? No. Well, no. Oh, no. Let me start with you guys. Is this your first time on the podcast? First time here. Wow. Welcome. Yeah. Well, thanks for having me. Feels like you've been in the report. Maybe we should learn a little about you. Maybe. Maybe. From Alabama. Yeah. From Harvest, Alabama, right outside of Huntsville.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's get into the comments. Played football. Yeah. Played football, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. See a big boy like that. Obviously. I think we all know where. Yeah. I think the line was included. Okay. Right next to Aaron. Wait, I'm sorry. Where, where, where'd you play? I was a tight end. Oh, oh yeah. That's a little movement. Yeah.

I got, I had some, you know, some hands and feet. Yeah. They were in the wing tee though. You weren't running around. Come on. No, man. A quick little dump pass. Your board was right there.

You were playing a little fullback? I did. I did. I, my sophomore year, I played fullback on varsity for five games until they realized that I was not blocking anybody. And then I didn't film sessions are tough because it is the reality of the game. Yeah. But yeah, I played fullback.

Fullback is a pretty wild position. Yeah. That is the worst. Yeah. When you mess up in the game and you're thinking about, I got to watch that tomorrow morning in front of the whole team. Yeah. The accountability for during a football game is 10 because you're going to

watch it, you're going, like he said, you're going to watch it with your buddies and your coach is going to pause it and he's going to single you out. And he's going to, Hey, hey, Strupp, everybody in this room seems like they care except for you, can you tell us why you don't care? And then he'll just keep running. Tell us why you don't care. No, right here. No, no, we all, we show up every day.

We got coaches that their jobs depend on you just caring a little bit. So show us why you don't care. And then, and then you learn, you know, to care, uh, or quit, but yeah. I got blocked so bad by this kid from ends worth. I made his highlight. He played at Tennessee. I made, I was like the star of his highlight reel. It was embarrassing looking. I had two sprained ankles. I was outmatched.

Did he get pancaked? No, he basically just like picked me up and ran 10 yards back. I mean, it's like, it's, it looks like I'm on roller skates. It's incredible. You had the ball? I was the center and he was lined up at nose guard and just the ball snapped. He just like picked me up and he was toying with me. Anyway, the ball snap. And he just like picked me up and it was a toy in with me. Anyway, I'm on his highlight reel. And then when that happened, I remember thinking like, dude, I got to watch

that in front of the whole team tomorrow. And it was just as bad as you expect. Like they, yeah, I thought the coach was going to move on and he goes, Oh, run that back. Hey, Weber. Exactly. Yeah. It's, it's humiliating.

Who is it? Uh, was Anthony Richards, Jason Kelsey played, played tackle for Tennessee. I almost don't want to say it because people, people go find that. Oh yeah. Well, we'd like to see. Yeah. Okay. All right. Uh, is he, is he making the pros or anything or? I don't know. I haven't looked into him in a while. I'm going to find that out. Yeah. Yeah. You're in a big time, you know, Antonio Richardson, Antonio Richardson played for the Vikings. Wow. My goodness.

Six, six, three 38. My goodness gracious. Yeah. Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, Antonio, tiny Richardson. How long is he still playing? Oh, he's, is he still playing? And I played college football. Former.

He's a former. Former. Made it to the league though. Yeah. Look at that. That's pretty good. You're on a, it's something. Yeah.

Yeah. He was, and he was humongous. Yeah. Yes. Was your team any good in high school? Um, no, my high school has gotten very good since I left, but we were kind of the sacrificial lambs of our league. We had like the five or six best high school football teams in Tennessee.

We had to play every year and they would just, just deny it, annihilate us. Yeah. But we played with a lot of grit. Yeah. Hey, I heard that we had hard. Yeah. Played for the name on the front of your Jersey. I heard that.

Yeah. Did you play in college? Like it for about 15 minutes. Yeah. And then I joined a fraternity. I was, I was not it for about 15 minutes. Yeah. And then I joined a fraternity. I was, I, I was not built for that. Uh, and I mean, our high school team was terrible. I mean, we were, I mean, absolutely a lot of one in nine, two and eight, we went

five and five my senior year, and I'm pretty sure we had a parade. We were bad. We were real bad. What, uh, what college did you go to? I went to Jacksonville state. Oh yeah. That's right. Yeah.

Uh, which is now conference USA. When I was there, I mean, we were one level up from flag football. And now, I mean, they're, I mean, you got Rich Rodriguez there. We just won a conference championship. Yeah. Um, a lot's changed, but yeah, they're in a bowl game. Yeah, they're in a bowl game. They're in the cure bowl playing the Bobcats.

Yeah. Playing Ohio. Yeah. I mean, that's wild. Jacksonville is such a qu game. Yeah. They're in a bowl game. They're in a cure bowl playing the Bobcats. Yeah. Playing Ohio. Yeah. I mean, that's wild. Jacksonville is such a quaint little town. Is this it? Do you find it? We taste something.

There's a lot of plays from this game. That's me. 52. That's me. 56 right there. Yeah. So is this it? No, this isn't the playoffs thing.

I mean, he's just manhandling us. Yeah. I'm trying to find that specific 57. I'm putting up a fight. Yeah. I'm putting up. Look at you. He just, golly, he's just manhandling us. Yeah. I'm trying to find that specific 50. So I'm putting up a fight. Yeah. I'm putting up, look at you, golly, he just, Oh, he had you on roller skates.

Look right. Yeah. They, they showed it from a different angle. That's the only highlight. Hold on. Let it play. Cause they go back to this again and they go, let's show it from a back. Oh my,

it has to do both angles. Every play looks like a screenplay. Even though it's a run. Yeah. We're not screams. Oh my goodness. Yeah, dude. Because someone online goes, scream!

And he's like, nah, man, nah, man. He just got Aaron back. He goes, it's a screen for Aaron. Oh my goodness. I mean, he got back, right there is an insane one. He just goes through all of you. Yeah, I mean like five of you. Right there.

That is the one. I remember this play being like, dude, I just felt myself. I go, I'm going to have to watch that. Well, this is one of those football such an interesting thing, right? Cause there is something to be said about hard work, determination, all that kind of stuff. Right. Yeah. But there's also a level of that's an NFL lineman in front of me.

Absolutely. There's basically zero chance I have of, of stopping him at all. Yeah. Could I have done better than that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just that position right there.

Has done more with the degree. You or him. That's a tie. Yeah. Tie goes to the runner. Brutal, man. Cause you were running backwards. Yeah. Ty goes to the runner. Brutal, man. Because you were running backwards. Yeah.

His education was free. But. You were annoying to him that you were there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He moved you like, ugh. Because he's like, just don't be here and let me just get the quarterback. Yeah.

Here's what happened. I think Ensworth was number one or two school in the state at this point. First quarter we were beating them and then they were like, okay. And then they just put him in a nose guard and it was just like, game was over. Yeah. What was he doing before? Yeah. They were like taking it easy. They go, let somebody else play defense.

Oh, he was just out. Yeah. It's like the blind side. They just put them in. Yeah. You can see who the guy is. That's the problem. Yeah.

I mean, it looks like a picture of Bigfoot. Like it's like kind of blurry and he's like a mid stride. I mean, it looks like a picture of Bigfoot. Like it's like kind of blurry and he's like mid-stride. I mean, it's the fact that no one can like, you can't, no one can tackle him, the person. And then he just always comes in and just pulls them down. Okay. So big. Like he's so, he just kind of, there you go. That's a different, there's the flags all over the place. It's good to see some other schools in this. Yeah. I mean, that one, he just went through two people and it was, it was as if it was. Yeah. I mean, it looks like a man playing with kids.

Wow. No, he, I mean. It looks like that video with the mascot running in football and hitting all those kids. Yeah. You ever seen that? Yeah, yeah. Exactly. It looks like that. Like it looks, that's what it looks. If you can't, if you're listening, picture that and Aaron was the kid and that guy was the mascot.

You'll know this, Derek, you do have those little moments. Cause you're so, when you light up in a three point stance, you are like this far from a dude's face. Absolutely. So I do remember him lining up and I remember going, what's up, man? He goes, I'm good. Yeah. No, that's all I remember. I thought I was going to have a human moment with him. What did you weigh at this time?

God, 2, 15. I was about to say, you look thin. Yeah, that was the best shape of my life. I didn't know it at the time. That's the best shape of my life. Yeah, you look thin. I was way undersized for, he was, yeah. And you also, you make some business decisions in way undersized for, he was, yeah.

And you also, you make some business decisions in high school football with playing against these types of guys. I mean, I can remember being on kickoff return and me and Ellis Burns had our hands locked and there was a guy from minor high school who looked like one of the guys under the underarmor commercial. And right when he got to us, we let go of each other and we watched him erase our teammate who had the ball. And Q got up and he had a concussion and we had to watch on film. I mean, back to film coach goes, hey, fellas,

you want to see two guys who don't care about a teammate? Hey, watch Ellis Burns and Derek Stroop make a business decision together. And I mean, right as he gets there, we go, God, and we just let him. And Q disappears and we just jog off the field, you know, and, and, but you had to make those, you know, I mean, high school football in Alabama, I really believe is a different breed. This was in Tennessee. It was in Tennessee.

Oh yeah. But yeah. Yeah. Well, I was talking about Alabama. I don't care. This looks like all these people are terrible. Yeah. He goes, they all look like 74 in Alabama.

Yeah. No, but I do have a quick, fun story about in high school, my senior year, I had a falling out with the coaches and I wasn't getting much playing time at the end of the season and, and, uh, so we're playing Muscle Shoals we're up 48 to nothing, my best friend's the holder, Jeremy Williams, and I'm the wing guy on the field goal team, 48, nothing against Muscle Shoals. We go out there. I go, Hey Jeremy, give me a fire call.

And a fire call means that's when you get a bad snap, the holder will roll out and he'll hit the guy in the end zone. And Jeremy's like, I'm not, I'm not giving you a fire call. And I've been, Jeremy's like, we've been best friends since we were like third grade and I go, Jeremy, you're going to give me a fire call and you're going to hit me in the end zone. And so it was a perfect snap. 48, nothing we're beating this team.

Jeremy takes it to the chest and he's like, fire, fire. And he just rolls out and hits me wide open in the end zone for a two point conversion to make it a clean 50, nothing. And the coach for Muscle Shoals had to be stopped because he was trying to cross the field to get to my head coach. Cause he thought he called it. He didn't realize that I had called that in the huddle and you should have seen everybody looking, I didn't care.

I knew I was never going to, you know, this coach wasn't ever going to put me in again. And when I said, Jeremy, give me, you know, the whole huddle looked around like. We're up 48. Nothing. Yeah. What do you do? And I'm like, no, we're going to get this two points. Yeah.

And I mean, they had to hold back coach Anderson. You ever see, you remember with the first time you saw a man really lose it? Yeah. I mean, he was, I mean, he was insane. I mean, he's like, he, he wanted to kill me and I was holding up the ball, you know, and I was jogging off the sideline, but, uh, we never really spoke a bunch after that, but, uh, yeah, I wanted to be part of the game and I'll never that muscle Scholes coach. I mean, could not believe it.

I mean, couldn't believe it. I was wide open. They never saw it coming. Yeah. There's no 48. Nothing. I go, this is going to work. I was like, they didn't touch me.

They're like, well, they're obviously not going for two up 48. Nothing. Jeremy threw a dime. Goodness, Jeremy. Yeah. But that's what best friends, I mean. I was like, my goodness, Jeremy. Yeah. But that's what best friends, I mean, it was just, he's always been smaller. And like, I mean, he had no choice. I go, you're going to throw me the ball.

I was like, you're going to throw me the ball in the end. He goes, all right. And I'm like, fire. And we rolled out. You hear fire right when it snapped? Yeah. Yeah. So the fire call knows like, say if I'm blocking and I hear fire, I know that there was a bobbled snap.

Yeah. And so then I'll just release as the wing guy and we'll all release into the end zone. So we just gave a fire call without a fire, just a dry fire call. And yeah, man, coach Anderson, I mean, every coach was holding him back. There was just snuff flying in there.

He's like, I'm gonna kill him, I'm gonna kill him. And it worked out for me. That was the last game. That was the last game of the season. Yeah. We went to the playoffs the next game. We played, uh, Tuscaloosa County. We lost.

I mean, we got, we got the tape beat off our cleats. I mean, we were, we were terrible. You should have done another fire. Could you imagine? Down 48, nothing. Down 48. He doesn't care. He's still going to do it.

I had the wildest career with this coach. When I was a freshman, I got moved up to JV because I was the freshman captain. We're playing Mountain Brook down in Mountain Brook. We played them all four years. I was in high school, probably one of the best teams in the state. Outside of Birmingham. Outside of Birmingham. Yeah.

We get, we get pounded. And after the, after the game, my buddy, David Brown throws some Gatorade on me. Well, I go to retaliate on him and I go to throw Gatorade on him. And he ducks and I hit coach Henderson's wife in the chest with red Gatorade. Lose my team captain position and the whole way home, they talk about how I don't care about anything. And so anyways, it was a long career of mishaps. Yeah, but.

Fire, fire, fire. Fire. I mean, if you had done it that next game, dude, that would have been, I know, I know. Just to go, yeah, what did y'all lose? You remember the score? That one? I don't remember the score.

It would have been like 48 to 12. Y'all aren't going to, it sounds like I'm making this up. They put me in as like a double tight end jumbo set. Yeah. Third and goal, jump offsides. I mean, they thought that I was trying to sabotage the team. Like I was in for like one play against Tuscaloosa County jumbo set. They're like, jumbo jumbo stoop.

I get in, cost us the third. And I mean, they're all like trying to figure out. I was one of those guys that is, is he, does he not care? Is he dumb? Because we want to know how mad we should be. Right. Right. You know?

That's, I think one of the more frustrating things is when you can't tell the reasoning behind it. You know what I mean? When you go like, look, I'm fine either way. I just got to know where is this coming from? Yeah, exactly. Are you, yeah. Do you not get it?

Are you, do you Do you not get it? Are you, you hate it? Yeah. And then you're, and if they're dumb, you're going, I can't imagine you're dumb. So you're doing it on purpose. I, my line coach used to say, man, you're going to keep that up. You run a hot dog stand at the Rivergate mall. That's all I used to say. Run a hot dog stand at the Rivergate mall.

What you did for a short time. Well, offensive line coaches in the South, I think, could probably do comedy. They're all hilarious. I mean, they all have zingers. I mean, there was a, like a nerdy lineman. And I remember one of our coaches being like, I bet if it was on a floppy disc, you'd get it, you know, like the whole team lost it. There you go. Weber, you're a steak eater and a bus rider.

So that's all you want to do. You just want to eat a steak eater and a bus rider. That's all you want to do. You just want to eat a steak and ride the bus to the game. He like riding a bus. Steak eater and a bus rider. He just likes the bus part. Yeah. Good times, man.

Uh, yeah, that was fun. All right. I think everybody knows Derek now. Mark that football. Yeah. Mark that football. Get to know Derek. Fire call.

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NBC goes we've never got it. No, no, it just, it was, I think we were going to go to NBC and then it was, uh, didn't Fallon did one with NBC too? Yeah, Fallon did one with NBC, but I didn't, I think they were going to talk about ours being on Peacock and we really weren't on radio TV on, you know, and so it just ended up going to CBS, But NBC was cool and like let it all happen. And they let us, NBC was cool, they let us, if you've already seen it, we had a little cameo with Fallon or we should have, hopefully.

Is there bad blood between these networks? The way that we like to think it is? I think they're all, I think they're, they don't, you know, they gotta protect their talent. So like we, I was gonna have Fallon come down and it was like you got to put a stop to like the bike We can't go do whatever but I go and do I mean my whole career has actually been through NBC So this is the first time I really wasn't on Something but I've done all my shows Conan. Yeah

So I'm I'm I'm all NBC Conan's. So I'm all NBC. SNL, like it's, you know, everything that's done anything for me has really been NBC. So yeah, that's what. Zach Bennett has a Nashville unicorn, the pre-taped, Don't Move the Nashville sketch holds a very special place in my heart. Yeah. So we, we, uh, who saw it? Did y'all? I didn't see it. I heard about this video though. I can't wait to see it. Yeah. Yeah. Very fun video. Just telling people not to move. You saw it, right? Yeah. And then, uh, it's very fun. Yeah. It's very funny. I think everybody's going through that. Like I think every town outside of California and New York is, is, and I bet even the cities surrounding,

you know, it's like LA or it's like whatever. People have and don't move there. So that's one that I am curious, I'll be curious to see what the reaction is. So but yes, it was a very fun sketch. Jelly Roll was awesome in it. And it was just like, I mean, man, people went crazy in the Grand Opry. Yeah. They were, you know, because they were just like, everybody lives there.

But I look, if you move here, we're happy to have you. Just be normal. So I saw you rehearsed the sketch for the Nativity scene, which was very funny. And it's a kind of a play off George Washington. So that's, yeah, that was great. Your line of the children. Yeah. Got a huge laugh.

It's in there. Yeah. I put it in last minute. Wait, what line? Uh, Santa, uh, cause he says Santa is, he's all judging people. And I go, Santa only judges children. It was, cause I was like, you know, he's the man up at the top of the world who judges people.

And they're like, oh, Santa is like, no. And they're like, what's the difference? He's like, well, this one only, I'm sorry, I said it wrong, God, what did they say? And then he's like, no, Santa. And then the difference is he only judges children. Yeah, but it was like, he just, there wasn't a line or there was something. And then, but Bates was only judges children. Yeah, but it was like, he just, there wasn't a line or there was something.

And then, but Bates was there doing children and I ended up putting in, got a big pop. It's a writing credit, Brian. Yeah. It's a writing credit. Yeah. Got a big pop. All right.

And, and how did Derek do? Oh, Derek, oh yes. Derek crushed it. It was awesome. And yeah, he did, he did what he was supposed to do, which is murder it. Nate went to promote it on the TV station that I used to work at.

And when it was over, the general manager was there, my old boss, and she said, "'I came to the taping and that guy "'that did stand up comedy was so funny.'" Oh, well, I love hearing that. Yeah, it was a cool opportunity. She was talking about Julian, but... No, she was talking about you.

Talking about Julian did... Oh, man. Yeah, Julian did the, like, just keeping the crowd, like, engaged. And, because there's a lot of set changes and stuff. I mean, everybody did love Julian. I got a lot of compliments about Julian. Lucy was texting me, I cannot believe how hard of a job this is and he's doing

really great. I was about to say he worked his butt off. I mean, he was on and off and on and off and you'd get interrupted right in the middle of his, but I mean, Julian, he's got that gift. I mean, he's so good out there. Everybody always loves, loves Julian. He doesn't miss. Yeah. It was, uh, yeah, he did wonderful, but yes, Stroop did wonderful as well. Uh, it was great. Noah Khan, Carrie Underwood. Yeah. Have you done the Grand Ole Opry before? I was about to say first time there. And, uh, I mean, I got done with my set. I'm not scared to say it. I was emotional. Uh, it's a, it's

a religious experience in there. And I mean, I was wearing a bunch of denim and I had on some, you know, some cowboy boots and I'm going to tell you, it was something. I really enjoyed it. What a night. I mean, just the whole show. I can't wait for everybody to see it. It's going to be cool. They've already seen it.

This comes out after. Yeah. Well, I'm glad everybody's seen it. Yeah. Yeah. No one watched it. This could be a Christmas tradition, families gathered around to watch the Nate Bargatze. I hope so. Yeah, I hope so. Kent Fairborn. Kent Fairburn. Fairburn. Everything is- You're trying to say it like Melbourne. Yeah. Fairborn. Fairborn. What? Kent Fairborn. Fairborn.

Everything is fair. You're trying to say it like Melbourne. Yeah. Fairborn. Fairborn. Fairborn. Will the Netflix special be a spoiler for jokes out here at the rescheduled Las Vegas shows in January?

I hope, I hope, no. I hope not. I can't promise you it's not gonna be 10 minutes, but I'm really hoping not. I don't think it'll have to be. Maybe if I do, it might be a couple of greatest hits at the end, but overall, I mean, I've done 45 minutes without anything from the special.

Now you might hear the Door Dash joke, that Door Dash is only on SNL. It was not on the special. Now you might hear the Door Dash joke, that Door Dash is only on SNL. It was not on the special. So don't, don't, that doesn't count. But yeah, overall, I don't, I mean, hopefully we'll see, we'll see how, like, you know, I got to see where it's at. But the plan will be that it's, it's all, it's a new hour. You know, but minus, yeah, I don't think, I could maybe see, there's a chance, maybe do 10 minutes if I have to close on something.

I think I have my new closer, so I'm all right. That's impressive, man. A lot of people have to wait quite some time to see new stuff from their favorite comedian, so. I mean, that rollover is, uh, is quick. You're doing a lot of guitar stuff this hour. Yeah, this from a guitar stuff. And I bring other comics out there myself.

Uh, that's how I can write so much. I go, I actually only do three minutes, but it's a 30 minute Q and a lot of Q and a we're starting, you know, I still haven't done it in a Q and a cause I tried it a long minute Q&A. Yeah, yeah. A lot of Q&A. We're starting, you know, I still haven't done it in a Q&A because I tried it a long time ago. Didn't go good. Yeah. Tried it twice. So I was like, no, but I maybe I'll get the courage up to do another Q&A. Micah Johnson, I recently found out that Derek Stroop and I are practically related. I was talking to my wife's first cousin's husband, Corey Adams, at Thanksgiving.

He told me that Strupp was his roommate for a while during college. Basically family, right? Yeah, I know Corey. Corey's a great dude. He was a great slow pitch softball player too. He could really turn on the ball. But it's not really that much of a brag. I was in college, I was in that college town for about a decade, so I had a bunch of roommates. Uh, but it's not really that much of a brag. I was in college. I was in that college town for about a decade. So I had a bunch of roommates. So a bunch of them got a roster of them. Uh, so it wasn't a unique experience, but yeah, Corey, Corey is a good dude. And I remember him well.

Uh, we were, we were roommates for a year for sure. Yeah. How about that? You like it? First cousins husband. Yeah. But that's kind of shows you made it when people are claiming you just obscurely. They want-

Yeah. I guess, I guess that's, that's one of the signs. I don't know. It's Derek Strupe- I mean, you know, yeah, that's, that's flattering. Mm-hmm. That'll be darn. Mm-hmm.

It's real cool, man. Nah, I think it's fun. Corey Adams. Uh, did you play slow softball pitch? Oh, I loved it. Yeah. Yeah. I could see you play.

I mean, you played, that's probably what took you so long to get out of the town. Yeah. No, you're a hundred percent right. And guess who's, who was on the rival slow pitch softball team? Corey Adams. Riley Green. Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah. Actually Riley, we knocked y'all out in the tournament and then you came back and played for another team through a loophole and then they beat us and knocked us out of the tournament. But anyways, I've, I've forgot about it clearly, but, uh, yeah, we were the cheap seats after the Alabama song, cheap seats, great baseball song. And, uh, yeah, I was, uh, I was the coach and played first base time of my life. You couldn't have, if you asked someone to guess what you did on a softball team, Yeah, I was, uh, I was the coach and played first base time of my life.

You couldn't have, if you asked someone to guess what you did on a softball team, I think they're going to say, coach, first base coach. I loved it. I wish I'd had y'all. We'd had a good time, Brian, but yeah, I wish I'd had, uh, we saw Brian play. Oh, I did. Did you play this in Des Moines? No, no, no, I did. And, uh, yeah. Yeah. I pulled a hamstring early on. Couldn't run. Yeah. No, I mean, I did too. We both were severely injured. It was a tough look.

Feed up. Yeah. But you and Riley Green have a long time rival, right? We do. Yeah. I've known Riley since, I mean, he was probably a freshman in college. And then all throughout our years at Jacksonville state, we were kind of rivals and went back and forth. And as you clearly see, I won. Nice try, Riley. But yeah, we know each other very well. He's a great dude and I'm really proud of him. But yeah, we, it was a small town,

couple of egos running around. Only too many loud people can be near each other. Is he loud? I don't know. No, he's not at all. So you're just, uh, it was really all you. Yeah. Seems like it's, I would be on Riley's side. Maybe, I mean, he used to try to, I would open for him before he would play music

and he hated to watch my comedy. And one time, uh, he would come in after he knew I was off stage. And one time I waited on stage for about 50 minutes until he walked in and we came through the door, I went, Hey everybody, Raleigh Green. I go, I'm going to go ahead and start my set if you don't mind. And I will never forget the look on his face. He was 10 out of 10 mad. Yeah.

Like that coach. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I waited for him and he still didn't out of 10 mad. Yeah. Like that coach. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I waited for him and he still didn't watch it, but. Yeah. Oh, he's just like be done. Yes, for sure. Pretty crazy for y'all in that scenario though, for y'all two to kind of be, that's always neat when like, uh, something like that happens where two people do make it into a thing.

Does he live here now? Yeah, for sure. I mean, I know he's got a bunch of land. He's from Jacksonville and his family has been in that area since the beginning of time. And I think he bounces in between Jacksonville and here. Yeah, he's a good dude. He's a country singer, right? He is a country singer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a Raleigh Greenhaw. I was like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Look at that. Six, four. Yeah. Big dude. Oh, that's why. Two big dudes, two big guys like that. That's too much.

There's no. No. Well, he was skinny as a beanpole when he was in college and then, uh, he, you know, he started working out clearly. Is that what you think you look like? Me? No, no, I don't, I don't, man. I don't at all. Gives a man. No, he's, uh, he's doing well for himself. We clearly eat different stuff.

I eat different stuff too. Yeah. Uh, we can tell Riley Green. Got a girl's name. Yeah. Uh, sorry. I was just trying to, yeah, you just talking about how big he is. I know.

I was just trying to defend my, uh, our boys troop. He's from Jacksonville. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Do they, he's from Jacksonville. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Do they, uh, yeah. Ooh. He's a couple of years younger than me. He played, he played for Jacksonville state for like a year.

He's a good, he's a good athlete. Oh, and so, oh, so when he played that softball, he was, he was the stud. Yeah. Yeah. And then he showed up on the team that he didn't start out with and everybody acted like it was okay. And then he dropped like two bombs and they beat us. Yeah, and you know, I Haven't drank in a long time, but that night I did. Yeah Yeah

Quarterback yeah. Yeah, of course. He plays the guitar. They don't, they're, they're not slot receivers. They're, they're lead. Yeah. Uh, all right. But yeah, that's enough about Riley. So what else y'all got? Uh, Riley Green wrote in. He walks in.

We've got him as a guest. Where do you get off having Stroop on? I go, golly. Julian Turnwich. Dip has been mentioned a few times during the history of this podcast, and I now know you're referring to chewing tobacco. But as that is banned in Australia, I honestly thought you were talking about Dip you'd put out at a party. On an early sowed, Aaron said he knew a guy that part of his attorney duties was always to have cigarettes and dip on him.

And I imagined just walking down with salsa. What do you need? Marlboro lights, KSO? I got you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's probably better for you.

Yeah. Uh, Matt McCraw. Last week I was at the Southern Baptist convention annual meeting in Anaheim, California. The urinals in the men's room and no dividers in the line was ridiculous, as we had over 11,000 people at the meeting. I will sometimes joke that men need to double up on urinals when the line is that long.

On a scale of no big deal to worst day of my life, how terrible would it be to have to double up on urinals? Oh, it'd be worst day of my life. I couldn't do it. I would leave. So,inals? Oh, it'd be the worst day of my life. Yeah. I couldn't do it. No. I would leave. So, I mean, it wouldn't be the worst day of my life because I would leave. You can do it, right, Derek?

Never. Yeah. What kind of urinals are they? I'd like to know a little more. Well, it's just a matter of could you- I can think of some setups where it'd be, you wouldn't even think about it, but, you know. I think of it as a normal urinal where your streams are meeting in the middle.

Oh, no, that's a normal urinal to you. So what's an abnormal like, no, very normal. Where the streams, you know, just like a ball game. That's how you're supposed to do it. It would be, could you pee in a trough? You know, when I, I hate when I walk in and there's a trough. Yeah. I'm like, but you can pee with no problem.

Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's not my favorite time of the day, but I'll do it. Yeah. No, I couldn't even be. No, I can't either. Really? No, I'm just going to stand there. What about where it's just a drain in the ground, like a shower. You ever seen those? Uh, I think so. It, if I can get up against a wall or something. Yeah. You go to a stall, right? I go, I'll go to a star. I go to urinal on the corner and you know, I can usually, usually if no one's there, I'm like, if I can get started before anybody comes in, then I'll be all right. Yeah. Tons of times I've had, uh, uh, fake it. I had security once. I had a security guy with me once

and, uh, I didn't know he did that. He came into the bathroom when I went in there to go pee. But I, and I didn't, yeah, because it's, I think it's a security. I'm good man. I got it. Well, I didn't realize it at first and then I'm sitting there and I'm like, I could just, you know, he wasn't like on top of me, but he's like kind of back there and I'm like, what's going on? And, but you know, a security detail, I guess the job is to make sure, you know, back down to where it's going to happen. Oh, maybe. But you would just, they would need to go in before you. Clear the place first.

Yeah. Make everybody get out. You think you have trouble peeing in, Aaron? In the middle of your peeing? Just here. Nate's got to go, everybody's got to get up. Wrap it up. Zip it up.

No washing hands. Zip it up. Zip it up. No washing hands, zip it up. He'll do a picture afterwards. People are like, I don't even want a picture. Bry Goss. I like, I think I liked his name, Bry Goss. Oh, gross. Oh, ghost. Bry Goss.

Bry Goss or Bry Ghost? Goss,, ghost. Brygos. Brygos or Brygos? Gos, I think. Brygos. And he has to explain it every time. I think you go by Brian Gos at that point. I'm guessing his name's Brian. And he goes by Bry. I thought it might be a woman. Oh, then that would be Bree. Breegos. Breegos. Well, she married into that. I definitely, she definitely married into that name.

Uh huh. Brie Goss. Brie Goss. Brie Goss. Get on out of here. Brie Goss. Brie Goss. $200 for a flipper? We found a Larry Bird card that recently sold for $15,000. That ain't a dude. Apparently my stepmom, I just never heard a woman talk about Larry Bird card. I don't think a woman's ever mentioned Larry Bird. No, no, no. Could that be one they've mentioned Michael Jordan?

Sure. They mentioned Steph Curry. Yeah, yeah. I don't think a woman's ever mentioned Larry Bird. I'm talking about Larry Bird now. They don't bring up Larry. Larry Bird's not on top of mind when they talk about basketball. You're gonna get a spicy email from some lady in Indiana.

She's gonna be like, oh yeah we do. Well, Indiana. That's a great Indiana. We found a Larry Bird card that recently sold $15,000. Apparently my stepmom is a big Larry Bird fan. That's a woman. And wanted to keep it, but my dad is trying to liquidate. She took it to work in her purse, photocopied it, and brought it home. That's all she wanted to do with the card. I was dumbfounded and angry all at the same time.

There's a photocopied sheet of paper of Larry Bird card taped to the wall at my stepmom's office." That's so funny. Yeah. She just wanted a picture of Larry Bird. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. They both win. Yeah. They won. Yeah. She just wanted a picture of Larry Bird. Yeah. Yeah. That's good.

They both win. Yeah. They won. They, yeah. Yeah, they can sell it. It's funny. I said, no, women's are about Larry Bird. This whole thing is about a woman. Yeah, it is.

And Larry Bird. Jason Stobb. Stump the Stobb. Stump the Stobb. Stobb family. He died. Did you see that? The Schwab? Oh, I didn't see that. The Schwab died. You ever watch that show? Absolutely. Stump the Schwob. Stob family. He died. Did you see that? The Schwab? I didn't see that. The Schwab died.

You ever watch that show? Absolutely. Stump the Schwab. Yeah. So good. Was he old or is he... he wasn't that old, right? I don't think he was that old. He had some health problems, but yeah. My family's going on vacation over Christmas break and we were going to be in Alabama on the 27th. We decided it would be fun to see the Birmingham Bulls since it fit into the time and place where we were going to be. When I found out Vandy was picked to play in the first game, thing I said to my kids was Nate Bargetti might be there. We were excited for the game, but now more excited we might get to see Nate, probably Brian, in person. There will be no go jackets from us. Well, I love that.

I'm not positive I'm going, but I'm going to, I got to look and see, I might try to go. I think I might try to go. You want to go? That's one of the hardest shows I ever did as I did. Let's make this about you, Aaron. Yeah, I will. They do every year at Birmingham Bowl, they do a show at the Stardom the night before.

And I did, the year before me was the raging Cajun did it. And they said everybody loved him. He murdered. And then I was the next year. And it was tough, dude. It was a tough gig. It was like it was Cincinnati versus Boston College. All of Cincinnati on the left, all of Boston College on the right.

I remember Boston College liked me way more than Cincinnati. I thought it went really well. I thought I remember it going really well. I had moments where I was, but it was tough, dude. I remember thinking like, I'm, I'm old now because I was like 27. These kids are 18. Oh, it's for the kids. It's for the, for the teams. Yeah. And they're in the same room. Oh, the teams. Yeah. It's for the teams on that either. Oh, my bad. My bad. It's for the two teams playing in the Birmingham bowl.

They do it every year. Got it. Yeah. So it's all this 18 to 20 year old kids and Bruce, the owner of the Stardome, I got brought up cold. There's no, they're just there. They eat dinner. Then I get brought out and, uh, he goes, this guy, uh, you know, he's

going to give you the energy that you give him gave him like that whole spiel. So as I got brought out, they're like, pretending to give me a huge. Like they've never heard of me. And then, uh, I had some good moments, but it was like tough. It's one of those gigs that's on your calendar. You'd like worry about it. I was thinking about it for weeks. Wasn't there video during the bowl of the-

I mean, I'm on ESPN for like four seconds. Yeah. They came and filmed it. They're like dinner and a show. And they showed me for like two seconds. That's a credit. Yeah. ESPN credit.

Oh yeah. Yeah. I went on ESPN. That's where people go, well, that's why I'm here. It's those credits when you use, where you're just barely on something. Oh yeah. I came because I saw that you were in the background. I'm on your Tonight Show for a split second.

The one you did during COVID. Remember you taped it open for Leann Morgan. Yeah. You see me come on the stage for some, it's Tonight Show credit. Yeah. Been on Tonight Show. You know what we all need to get more of? Get off our butts and get into some action.

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to a destination to propose to my girlfriend. Turned on Waze to head back home to hear Nate say, welcome back to your car. Hope not too much has changed. I said confidently a lot has changed, Nate. She said yes. Oh. We haven't talked about ways. Yeah. Yeah. Congratulations. That is a lot to change. Uh yeah. Uh yeah. Doing ways. Doing voice on ways. You had a very funny uh Derek. Yeah. Was mean to me. On Instagram. Yeah. How was it? I said that uh I was using Nate's voice for my ways and he talks so slow. I missed two Xs. Yeah. There's a lot of people commenting their car took them to McDonald's. Yeah. Oh, that's great. Yeah. And a person pointed out how last week's

episode about acting, you talked about how the point things you just don't want to be everywhere. Yeah. That's what you strive for. And then the next thing you know, you're announcing ways where you're literally everywhere with them. Because I'm promoting stuff. That's right. That's right. There's a lot coming out. You can be, you're everywhere when you're supposed to be everywhere.

Then you go away. I wish it had like your dry sarcasm in it. Like when you missed a turn, you'd be like, well, okay, just do whatever you want then. There, there was, it was a little more fun. You're a little catty. Yeah. There was a little more fun. Okay, cool. Like there could be, I mean, you end up going through a lot of things, but not as long as we did it in about two hours.

Uh, which, I mean, I thought, you know, when someone's like, you're going to do the voice of ways, you're like, so I guess I moved there and do this for a month. They had blocked out four hours. We did it in two hours. It was, it was, I thought it was gonna be so much crazier. I really did and it really wasn't. It was like, you say a lot of the things over, but they do really good. They're kind of telling you how to say it and so I haven't heard it yet. I don't, it will be, I don't know if I don't know my parents have done it yeah I don't know I feel it's weird yeah but thank you for using it I would like all

of y'all to keep using it yeah Cat Rockwell they mentioned that Alan Carr's book tell them stop drinking you might want to check out the author's book on eating and weight loss as well yeah uh dang okay well I'll talk about it yeah about how he has real issues out of nowhere crazy issues well I had you know it's uh yeah I was talked to a lady today about it to the store I brought it up to her. Therapist? No, no, just said, your ma'am, I go, I want this, this kind of cereal. Uh, yeah, no, I actually read his book about sugar. It was, I, you know, it's, I have to want to stop eating this stuff.

There you go. So I know that. And so I have to, uh, get it figured out, but I were, I think doing better. But it's like, yeah. But thank you, Kat. That was very right. Nick Holden, just waiting for Aaron to start making fat jokes on Nate. That's the opposite of Kat. That is the opposite. Nick.

Yeah. But could be as effective as that book. Yeah. It could be. Yeah. It could work. Yeah. That is true. It could work similar. Aaron's gonna, Aaron? Tubbs? Are you saying that I could have, I probably would have stopped that guy in that video. Yeah. That big guy.

The size I am. Yeah. Aaron just starts tying your shoes when they're untied. He doesn't want to see you turn red. Yeah. He's like, no dude, let me just do it. Yeah. I'll do it.

I'll do it. I'm fine. I'm younger. Yeah, I'm younger. I can, it. Let me just do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'm younger. Yeah, I'm younger. Bradley Walters, four years ago, my family and I went to a tree farm to cut down our tree. It was a fun experience until Christmas morning when a hundred little praying manuses hatched out of an egg sack we didn't know was in the tree. I proceeded to pick up the tree, lights, ornaments, and all, and all, and threw it out the front door. Crazy, dude. I wouldn't even know that could happen.

I didn't either. I didn't. Yeah, I mean, they're, yeah. So look for- I don't like a praying mantis. I don't care for it. No, big eyes. I don't like the way they look. Big dumb eyes. Big dumb eyes. And they're, uh, yeah. They can eat a hummingbird. Did y'all know that? No, I don't know. They can't. Yes, they can. Eat a hummingbird. Maybe kill a hummingbird. Run it, Aaron. Run it, Aaron. Yeah. Can attack and eat hummingbird. Though it's rare. It's rare. The one I saw do it had a do rag on. This

thing was about that life. Yeah. Uh, but it, they'll do it though. But it's stomach would be huge. Yeah. I mean, you know, Oh no. I don't see it. Oh my.

Yeah. But like, you see, I know, but he doesn't swallow it. It just eats. Well, it doesn't swallow the whole thing. That's when I'm just choose it apart. It's eats. Well, it doesn't swallow the whole thing. That's what I'm picturing. It just chews it apart. There's just a mantis on its back. That's what I'm picturing. Like a snake. No, I think they just eat little bites.

That's so crazy, dude. And this other hummiburys aren't helping out at all. No. Yeah. It's like Stroop watching from. Are they eat? I saw, I guess they're, do they eat bugs? They're meat eaters. One gets a hummingbird. That's gotta be a big day.

I bet that goes around. Oh dude. Are you kidding me? That guy's a legend of meat eaters. Yeah. I mean, I think everybody, I think hummingbirds are like, yo, this neighborhood is not what I thought it was. Praying mantises eat insects, moths, crickets, grasshoppers, flies.

Sometimes hummingbirds. How about that? Y'all, y'all. I'll tell you what, how dopers, flies. Sometimes hummingbirds. How about that? Y'all, y'all. I'll tell you what, how do you get caught as a hummingbird by praying mantis? Because they look like sticks. No, I know, but you just, you just go like you're, you're a lot bigger than it. Yeah. So do something.

I agree with you. I think it's just a lot of, uh, camouflage and they blend in. But he's saying even if they catch you, they shouldn't be able to hang on. Yeah. I mean, once they a lot of, uh, camouflage and they blend in. But he's saying even if they catch you, they shouldn't be able to hang on. Yeah. I mean, once I, I mean, do they have poison in them? No, I don't think they have poison. So once they bite you, I guess they can't let go, but you're like,

I mean, look, the thing is terrifying. I cannot. That is terrifying. Oh my goodness. That truly is tough. But I mean, you could flick it and his head might fall off. Yeah. I'm saying if you're a hummingbird, you're flick it and his head might fall off. Yeah, or- So I'm saying if you're a hummingbird,

you're gonna be buzzing real quick. You got a sword basically on the end of your- Yeah. A bayonet. Yeah. You're like, just use that. You never know. Mm-hmm. All right, well it's Christmas. So we're talking about a little bit

about some Christmas traditions. Derek, we know you like spending Christmas alone, but when you were a kid, were you guys, uh, Christmas morning and all the gifts, Joe opening the on New Year on Christmas Eve? Oh, well, uh, I think it's the classic tradition. You do one gift on Christmas Eve and then your parents choose it. And then you go, Oh, it's a pack of boxers. Y'all are, y'all really did it this time. And then you open up, even as a kid it's a pack of boxers. Y'all are, y'all really did it this time.

And then you open up the rest of them. Even as a kid, you were in the boxers? Hey, Brian, that's weird. Yeah, I wore boxers as a kid. But no, I, the one present on Christmas Eve and the rest of the presents on Christmas Day. And then we ate Christmas dinner at my grandparents on Christmas Eve.

And then on Christmas day, we had eggs Benedict every day for every, every Christmas for breakfast, but we didn't have like a big meal. Is it to go with all the other days? He's pretty good. You walked into that. Come on. Y'all just also do it on. That's the only time I'm not joking.

The only time of the year my mother made eggs Benedict and still does is on Christmas morning I feel like eggs bitten is hard to make I don't know how to cook yeah I mean she uses the the the sauce she uses is like out of the out of the packet which she's not gonna love me saying but if a poached egg is yeah ham I don't maybe it's not hard to yeah I have poached eggs was gonna throw me because the rest of stuff just comes in comes as it's already there I didn't have an eggs benedict till way later in life I don't know if I've ever had one yeah I had one within the past five years was the first time I ever had

one yeah and you got it's a very unique taste I mean one time me and John Chris y'all make it cuz your family comes from money. No, no. Apparently if you're eating eggs Benedict, your whole life. No. I thought Aaron comes from money. No. The Struth family eats eggs Benedict, their whole life.

Once a year. I mean, this is big money. Once a year. Yeah, right. No, no, you've never had poached eggs and cigarette ashes on them. Y'all eat them poached eggs. I learned how to do them off YouTube.

Eat them. It was not easy. My mother does not tell me. I imagine you just telling someone that at, uh, your school, what'd you eat for Christmas? Eggs Benedict. What? Yeah.

Eggs Benedict. What? I don't even know if I'd have known what that was. No, I'm from a, I feel like a normal family. What did you eat for Christmas? Eggs Benedict. What? Eggs Benedict. What? I don't even know if I'd have known what that was. No, I'm from a, I feel like a normal family. All my best Christmas presents, my grandparents bought. You know, like I was one of those families, like if I really wanted something nice, you know,

my mom would be like, well, you better go talk to grandma and see if we can get that figured out. Because me and your dad ain't got it. You know? You know, I mean, I asked for, I remember, I remember I was like, you go, but we're eating eggs Benedict. I think we're doing fine. And she goes, no, we ain't.

It might look like it. We pawned your daddy's gun to eat this. All the money's been spent on eggs Benedict, on poached eggs. If we go back and look, you got some pretty awesome stuff. If we would have just swayed it. Yeah. No, I remember one Christmas I asked for golf clubs. I wanted like a whole golf set.

I was like a seventh or eighth grader. And my dad bought me golf balls and a golf bag and tees. And I'm not joking. And I ran out, I'll never forget. I ran out to the garage because I was like, the clubs are out here somewhere. I go, he put him out here. He put him, he hit him. And I went back inside and I was like, Hey, where's the clubs at?

And he's like, I figured I'd just get you kind of started and then you'd get the clubs and I remember even being like an eighth grader thinking, no, we did this the wrong way, like you get me the clubs and then I'll buy the bag and the tees and the balls. You put me in a position to wear. So for all of high school, I just had a bag and like, he bought me like 36 nitro balls and, uh, I'm serious. One time I was so upset. I went to the range with Jeremy Williams, a buddy from the, from the football story.

And I was just standing there in the range and I threw a couple balls as far as I could. And I was like, is that what he wanted? Like, no clubs. And to my dad, that was kind of like, wow, I figured I'd get you going in the right direction and, but anyways, great Christmases, uh, eggs Benedict really saved it. Who needs a pitching wedge when you've got poached eggs?

really saved it. Who needs a pitching wedge when you've got poached eggs? That's it. That's maybe the breakfast you eat when you want to look like you got it all together. Yeah. You go, no we're fine. No, we're doing, we're doing great. I bet it, yeah, because you would go, if you saw a family eating that and their life could be in shambles, but you walk by and they go, yeah, eggs, been in it. You definitely would go, they're fine. For sure. They'll figure it out. Yeah. They'll figure it out.

Now you and your, you got two siblings? Yeah, I got a younger brother and a younger sister. Did y'all take turns opening gifts and the such? Yeah, we take turns. And I mean, just like the classic family, I mean, my dad's sitting there with a trash bag and he doesn't really care about much except the stuff going in that bag.

Yeah. Did Joe ever do, did Joe take turns? You and Derek and Abby? Yeah, I think so. Or did everybody just die? No, I think we take turns. We take, yeah, we go off now. We take turns. Yeah. Well, I know now maybe, but when you were kids. I know, but I'm trying think then I, I blank when I think about when we were kids. I don't know. Well, you're what? 12 years old. I don't know. Uh, 10 years old. So, yeah, yeah. So we would, uh, yeah, we took, uh, yeah, I think we took turns and, uh, yeah, we had, we always had a big breakfast, woke up early, you know, we could always get up early and we play with Santa's toys and then we had to wait to open the rest of the presents. Yeah, that's, that's pretty much how it went for us too. Did y'all do anything Christmas Eve? We did, we could open one, but it was usually a game.

It was like, you could open a family. See that's way better. It is way better. That night. Yeah. Yeah. That's the mood. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, they went ahead and gave you the big present the night before the boxers. Yeah. Flannel pants. Yeah. They, I'd put them on and go, boy, I can't wait for tomorrow. Well, this was the big one. Remember eggs Benedict's tomorrow.

Gotcha. 36 golf balls. Just a bunch of stuff that goes with golf. Yeah. Yeah. That's like buying you a PlayStation controller. Yeah. Yeah. We'll get you started. Yeah. Next thing you know, you cut a few yards. You'll have the whole thing. No, I won't man. Clubs are the most expensive. It's like, that's what I need your help with. I'm 13, man. Anyways, I hope he watches this episode. What about you, Aaron? We did a little, my mom's family and my dad's family did it very differently.

Mom's family, Santa Claus came Saturday night or not Saturday, the Christmas Eve night and all the presents were open Christmas Eve night. And then Christmas day was all about church. It was the presents were all done the night before. I don't know why they did it that way, but that's how they did it. Still do it. I've never even heard of that. Yeah, it was Santa would come, they'd all go in a room, they'd hear Santa outside, getting all the presents out, then they'd come out and open them all up. Yeah.

Yeah. And then my dad's family's just, we did the one present the night before, which I thought was just like, I didn't know other families. I thought that was just because we wouldn't shut up. They're like, all right, y'all get the open one. I don't even know if there's like a reason behind it. No, I don't think so. What about you?

Were you like that for Christmas Eve, one present? Christmas Eve, we'd go to my mom's mom's house and- How long was the carriage ride? that for Christmas Eve, one present? Christmas Eve, we'd go to my mom's mom's house and, uh, how long was the carriage ride? Look at Brian. Brian's looking at me like, Derek, you don't know me well enough. Well, it's your first time on this podcast. You've really gotten comfortable.

And then be your last. Welcome. No, no, sorry. Um, we did go down some dirt roads. And then be your last. Welcome. No, no, sorry. We did go down some dirt roads. Oh, I'm sure. She lived in a dead end, but, and then we'd open the gift from her as kids. And then Christmas day, we would do the rest.

Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah. But thank you for asking. Yeah. Did y'all go to church Christmas at all? Not like Matt, not like, if it was Sunday. Oh, okay. But not just on its own.

We were Baptist. Yeah. I think I think goes. Midnight mass. Right. Yeah. We either, when I got older, we went to midnight mass, but we either go, yeah, Christmas Eve or morning of that's so, yeah, you say there's not just like a

normal service on Christmas day. I don't think so. I mean, there might be when's Christmas this year? Oh, Wednesday. It's Wednesday today. So, uh, yeah, I don't think there's a, I think it's, it'll be Sunday or something. You know, they're doing a lot more services because of Christmas, but yeah. Interesting. What about Christmas tree? Real or fake?

I grew up with a real tree. I prefer a real tree. I've got a fake tree right now, but I had a real tree. I mean, my mother was just talking about it the other day. It's a big deal to her. She couldn't believe I didn't have a real tree. And you know what's interesting in New York City, I don't know if you noticed this, Nate, but real trees are a big deal in New York City. It seems like a lot of people buy them off the street and take them back to their apartment. It's like, I guess being in that concrete jungle, having a real tree seems more important just for, you know, there's no nature or anything. It seems like people go out of their way to have real trees in New York City.

I mean, I'm not speaking for everybody, but that looks like the consensus. I think we did not have a real tree, but we would also spend Christmas with our family at home. So, that's the difference. That is. We wouldn't buckle down and go, I'm getting all out of New York. I'm going to be here for everything. There it commits.

He goes to New York City. He's going to be there. He goes, you want to see all this, everything? Yeah. I'll see what, what's it like? I've been to two Christmas markets already. Yeah. Are you going to go to the Christmas day lighting?

Uh, no, I meant the tree lighting. Yeah. I missed that. Um, it's just too hectic. The amount of people that they said were around there. But yeah, I mean, I'm all about the festivities. I mean, I love it. I'm down with hot chocolate walking around.

I'll buy a nice wooden ornament. You know, I mean, I'm serious. Y'all are, I'm being dead serious. You like candy cane? You do a candy cane? Oh, I love it. There's a candy shop I follow on Instagram and they've been making candy canes. Y'all need to watch them. They're unbelievable. They make them homemade. They make them like

in shop in Los Angeles. I don't know. I've never been so serious in my life. But yeah, I'm a huge fan of the holiday season. And yeah, yeah. I mean, my birthday is at the beginning of this month. My birthday is December 10th. That's why it gets kicked off. Oh, happy birthday. What is today? Happy birthday. It's tomorrow. Tomorrow? Just saying, oh, yeah, we're recording. Oh, yeah. I said it correctly. I was saying it in the moment.

I know. I know. Oh, yeah, yeah. You did it. You did it. You did say it right. But then, but then you said it, you making us acknowledge it because it's, it's like, I thought it was today. No, you did. We're recording this the day before your birthday. You could have not brought it up. There was no reason for you to even bring it up. Cause we go, we weren't even asking you go, you just go,

yeah, dude, I loved, I love Christmas. My birthday is at the beginning. It is part of the reason why I love this month. But most people don't like their birthday to be near Christmas. Yeah. Well, it makes the whole month just fun. Yeah. That's far enough away. That's far enough away.

Make it pretty awesome. It is awesome. It is like, I look forward to this month, the whole year, because it's like, I mean, I've got my birthday at the beginning and then there's a couple of fun weeks. And then we do Christmas. Usually as a man, you don't look forward to your birthday as much as you do. I love, I'm excited. Yeah.

I'm all about it. Ice cream cake. Yeah. I'm all about an ice cream cake. Yeah. What do you do? What do you do for your birthday? Just sit at home alone? Yeah. It was a wild wild house.

You go sit in the closet. He travels a lot for work. He just likes to sit at home. No, we do what everybody, you know, I mean, if I was not in New York City, I'd go to Texas Roadhouse and, and eat rolls until I fell asleep. But, uh, you tell people at the restaurant, is your birthday? Um, no, they can tell.

No, they can just, when he walks in the vibe on them, they go, gosh, it feels like that guy, I've never, I just feel like it's his birthday. Yeah. And I don't know. And they're like, what makes you say, he's like, well, he's got one dollar bills, his polo. Look at it. He comes in there pumped.

He's excited. He's the only one that's excited to be here. He asked for extra roles. You ask them before they even go, we'll take roles. And I think, you know, go ahead and bring. No, they do that. They bring, they, they definitely know where they go. Before they set the roles down, y'all go ahead and you go ahead and bring yeah. Yeah. No, they do that. They bring they they definitely know where they go They before they set the rolls down y'all go ahead and you go ahead and take that basket

This back yeah, we don't need They go. I understand the basket is just so we live in because we live in a society Yeah, but we don't even need the best. It's uncalled for. What's your go-to Waffle House order? I mean, don't. Just get your chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk, something like that. Mother cover, the chunks, leftover, I went to Waffle House with them.

Yeah, we did. After the, yeah. The night before. The night before. The night before. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I was with y'all. You know about?

No, it was me, Julian, and. Oh, we went to. They went again after you We we stopped at a Waffle House on the way back in Biloxi from the casino and oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's when they couldn't figure out where the Waffle House was Yeah, oh, yeah We drove a crazy long. Yeah. Yeah. No my waffle house. And there was one across the street. Oh, there was, there was one that was. We went over the river.

We did go over the river. Um, uh, several times. Yeah, that was a, but no, I'm a huge fan of Waffle House. I always have been, uh, the all-star special would be my go-to. Um, and I'm going to get a pecan waffle. I'm going to do grits and hash browns, smothered cover, chunked, uh, scrambled eggs, uh, you know, I mean, w waffle house is such a, as such as I have a framed picture of waffle house in my dining room, uh, that I've had for

several years. Yeah. Picture you took, no, bought it online. Dining room in New York city. Someone had to ship it to me. I should say, no, no, it's no longer in my dining. I have a framed picture of Waffle House inside of my dwelling.

Now there's just one wall in my home. Domicile. Is it so, uh, your lady knows what she's up against? You go, yeah, you go, don't forget. I got somewhere else I can go eat. Don't get too comfortable. That's exactly right. Yeah.

Does you cook, do you cook or does she cook? Um, I cook the most. I, I enjoy cooking. I mean, I really do. I use, uh, I do, uh, you know, I have an old bit about using crock pots and I really do use them a lot, but I love to- I don't think anybody denies it. Uh, so I just keep saying it like, yeah, no, I really do cook.

Yeah. Yeah. Slow cooker, fast. Yeah. What? I, uh, no, but I, I enjoy, uh, I've always enjoyed cooking. I've done it since I was a little kid, but not like, not like complicated recipes, I don't get online and try to test my skills, just like regular stuff around the house. I'll throw together some BLTs or a casserole or something, but poached eggs, some poached eggs.

I think I'm going to cook soon. I've never, I don't know how to cook at all. It's poached eggs. I think I'm going to cook soon. I've never, I don't know how to cook at all. It's fun. You don't think I'm going to cook? No. What? You'll never do that. I'll cook a meal.

I'm going to not hello fresh, but I got to be, you can go find a recipe. Yeah. Right. What are you talking about? Like is a recipe is allowed to be found? Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, no, not spaghetti. I think I'llcipes allowed to be found. Of course. Yeah. Yeah.

Uh, no, not spaghetti. I think I'll do, I don't know. Maybe, I don't know. I'll have to, you know, uh, I'm going to see. I, I, I, I, you know, doing Birch thing on the cooking, you're like, I do get that it's like the- What does y'all make? Do you? Uh, a Jewish meal. So roasted corn hen. Yeah. Uh, with a big onion in the middle of it. Like mashed potatoes with a bunch of onions in it. Latke. Latke.

Yeah. And then, I forget what else. This seems right up Dusty's alley. Well, it was, yeah, but it was funny because I was like, right when he said it down, then I was like, well, I don't like onions. And it's all it is. It sounds like it's only onions. But I was like, but the corn tin was very good. And I ate the other Mastro's with it because you fry them, frying helps.

So it wasn't, it wasn't bad, but I get the idea of cooking. Like you, I could see how you could kind of zone out and just like mind your own business and go, it'd be like comforting. It is, I agree with that. Did you like, do you ever watch any chefs or do you ever like watching cooking shows or anything? No, we're, yeah, no, no. So I don't think cooking was a big giant thing

part of my family. So I don't, like we don't, I mean, yeah, like I said, Laura cooked, but I mean, I don't, I haven't cooked. I've cooked one meal for her. Regan has a great bit about the cooking shows. He's like, yeah, everybody would like to cook if all the ingredients were in pre-arranged glass bowls. Put a little bit of that. He's like the realistic cooking show. Come back after the break. Well, I find out I don't have any eggs. Aaron Weber here. I recently moved and buying a house is such a big purchase.

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Yeah, I mean, I mean no. The movie theater is open Christmas night. Yeah. Yeah. It was the biggest night of the year. no, the movie theater is open Christmas night. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A few years ago. Yeah. The last time we did that, I think it was like, uh, maybe like five or six years ago, when we saw, uh, that movie where he's like, uh, I'm the captain. What's that? Captain Phillips. Yeah. We went to never seen that, but I don't like going to the movies at all.

Why not? I do not enjoy it. It feels like such a waste of time to me. And like, I'm just so antsy. It's really hard for me to enjoy the movies. It's never been my, I think I get it from my dad. I mean, I grew up with the man that raised me. We never went to the movies hardly. He'd go, it'll be out. You know, you'll see it on HBO in 11 years. If you're patient. Go practice with that golf swing. No, I mean, my dad, I mean, he walked in like 12 years later and he's like, have you all

seen this movie about this ship sinking? He's like the Titanic's unreal. And I mean, and he was late, but yeah, I'm not a big movie guy. Yeah. Yeah. HBO growing up. Huh? Yeah.

Oh my gosh. Y'all are like a motel. Yeah. Eggs Benedict and H free HBO at the house. Watch movies at home. Um, no, not really. I'm, I'm really not a, a movie guy. I mean, it's embarrassing how much I just watch sports or the weather channel.

Uh, I mean, like my list of favorite movies is about too long. I mean, I, you know, it's not very long. So, well, uh, fellas would be, yeah, it'd be number one for sure. And then after that probably forced up. Okay. Well, I hope you check out my movie. I'll be making the breadwinner. Yeah.

The breadwinner breadwinner baits. What if, what if, what if you get asked to make a movie? Uh, I mean, you're gonna say no, I don't really care for them? No, no, that sounds exciting. I mean, that doesn't, I wouldn't think that that would affect. So you're only the in movies. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I mean, I don't think, I mean, yeah, I'm just not a big movie guy. I would be more- You can't sit still. Your brain's going. Yeah, sitcoms, I would be much more likely to watch. Something in a 25, 30 minute segment

where I can get up the commitment to a two hour. If I look and see that a movie is over two hours, it can be the best movie I'm discouraged before I get there. Have you seen Shawshank Redemption? Great movie. Yeah. You've even seen it? Yeah. I've never seen it. That's ridiculous. No, that's you got, I mean, I'm not going to give you the spill. Yeah. Yeah. He knows. He knows. Yeah. Uh, yeah. What's your favorite movie of all screen? I wish I'd have asked somebody else. Yeah, I think I know what you did last summer. I think I remember us talking about this on the bus. Your favorite actor is Vince Vaughn. Yeah, I love Vince.

I think he's the funniest guy ever. Yeah. I mean, his humor is just super relatable. He's, you know, real sarcastic, real fast. I love to watch him. You do have the same kind of cadence. Now, but like you talk about talk fatty and think about him talking fast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I'm a big fan of of Vince y'all do movies on Christmas night not go to them

I mean I don't think we even watch them but I would I went to one on Thanksgiving a Christmas story on loop on TBS yeah yeah yeah great movie that is a great movie mm-hmm yeah I mean I would yeah, I could watch. My parents always, The Wonderful Life. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. It's Wonderful Life is so good. It's almost, you don't even think of it as a Christmas movie. I don't. I mean I do, but it's like it's so good it can stand on its own. I had someone tell me they're like, maybe top ten all time. Of all movies. Of all movies. But they say every movie is just, it's a wonderful life.

Every movie is that. What do you mean? The structure of it and stuff? The structure of every movie. Every movie is, it's a wonderful life. It's a blueprint of- Yeah. It's a very long movie.

Is it a long movie? I think so. Oh. Time flies when you're having fun. Yeah. Christmas Vacation would be my number one holiday movie Yeah, you know just real bonehead stuff. Yeah, I mean cousin Eddie's real relatable. Yeah Golly never seen a character. I felt so close to him in my whole life

I hate that Aaron's laughing that hard at that I hate that Aaron's laughing that hard at that. We keep it, we keep it lot. We keep it lot. I remember at the, the John Chris Rose you hosted and when you introduced us three to come up, made a very funny joke about our podcast. Yeah. Just the formula for it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What was it? You said? I, I, I really, I, uh, I can't remember, but you know, Brian, it was basically like, don't talk about something. Then Nate makes fun of Brian. Yeah. And then they just rinse and repeat or something. You have a few things at Brian's expense. Yeah. Remember how you worded it. Yeah. No, and that's exactly what I'm doing. The recipe works. Yeah. I mean, I totally get it. I was making fun of it. Now I'm in, I mean, it works. It's hard to get out of it. Yeah. No, and that's exactly what I'm doing. The recipe works. I mean, I totally get it. I was making fun of it. Now I'm in, I mean, it works. It's hard to get out of it. Yeah. It feels good too. I'm still having the carrots joke. It's like crowd work. It's like you go, you know, you know, you shouldn't be doing it,

but you're like, it's just easy. And you get used to it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think we probably got to be wrapped it up. Yeah any New Year's resolutions you want to share? Mmm, I guess the food thing. Mm-hmm. Let's hope we get it that under control. I think I'll get it I did see one comment says someone said I had ADHD. Mm-hmm and like so I and I don't know that could be true I don't know if that's true But I do get the idea of it like being I'm bored if I get bored and then I just go I'll go to food because I'm bored like I need I like need stuff going on like I want like I want to be

doing a lot so I do you know I stored that in I was like that's kind of interesting like maybe I need to just find better things to do. But I, you know, I think I'll get it, I think I'll get it under control. I got all the brain power on it. Think about it every waking second. It's a good time. So hopefully, but that, yeah, that would be my, it's like, you know, it's always that.

So I guess it's a boring one. I hope we make, that'll be everything for Nate Land. I hope Nate Land makes a giant, giant leap. Outside of just me, but just all of us as a company. That Aaron Weber special comes out? Aaron Weber special comes out. I think that might take it to the next level. Aaron Weber special comes out. Nick Toon special comes out. We got a lot of, we got a great things. So I hope as Nate Land, as a group that I consider everybody is a part of the Nate Land family. as a group that I consider everybody is a part of the Nate Land family but I think we can make a hopefully a big big leap you know a big big leap forward we're doing great and I look forward to the new year yeah maybe make a movie or

maybe make a movie or two. I got Christmas presents for you guys all right you know I collect sports memorabilia stuff like that that. I got this for you, Derek. That's an old ticket. Look at that ticket. That is a ticket to a comedy show. That's Jeff Foxworthy and Jeff Dunham. Oh, wow. That's unbelievable. That's 1994.

1994. It's a $5 show. And that's in a four, look at that. Arizona state fair. No, that is cool. Yeah, it's cool. That's for you, Nate. That is a ticket.

Wow. 2014. Wow. The Tabernacle. That's Bill Burr's, the taping of his black and white Netflix special. Yeah. Where's the Tabernacle at? At Atlanta. Atlanta. Yeah. Uh, oh, that's- That's 10 years ago. You buy a ticket? Yeah, people collect that kind of stuff. So that's a ticket to that Netflix taping, which is one of the best specials ever, I think. And that's Brian, that's a baseball card for you. It's Julio Franco. Yeah.

Do you know a lot about Julio Franco? I mean, he played when I was really following it close. Yeah, he played when I was following it too. He is the oldest player in the history of baseball that had a home run. Oh wow. Well, he played until he was nearly 50. That's right, he played into his late 40s,

but that's a Julio Franco autograph. There was my favorite old players. Oh, that's awesome. I'm going to give Aaron what we kind of got him to do together. And this is from all of us. Yeah. It's from all of us. Oh, that's so nice. That was the second Baja blast.

Do the do. It's like I'm charging up a mountain. Thank you guys. Merry Christmas. Yeah. Thank you. Merry Christmas. Thank you.

That's very nice. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Happy you. Merry Christmas. Thank you. That's very nice. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays.

Merry Christmas. We will see you next year. Hope you had a wonderful year and yeah, right? We're done, right? Yep. Yep. All right. We love you.

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