The Nateland Podcast - 233: #233 The New Year

Episode Date: January 1, 2025

Brian, Aaron, and Dusty ring in 2025 by looking back at highlights of the past year, discussing events scheduled for 2025, and predicting what the new year will bring for each of their comedy careers. 

Hello folks and hey bear. Happy new year. Happy new year. As always. 2025. I'm with Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. Okay. It's a new year so we thought we'd mix it up a little bit.

Seating. Yeah, yeah, I'd moved around. I'm in the middle now. We all. I get a good angle on you. How does it feel? Do you feel like you're taking control of things now in the middle?

He's been trying for some time. You know, to be honest with you, it's a little confusing. I'm not used to looking at everyone, you know, like here. I sit off to the side. Oh, all the crew and everybody. And I look at you guys. Yeah. You made that same complaint when you sat in my seat

in the old set. Yeah. And then you went back. I know. Well, it's a new year. We're all hung over. We had a wild night. Yeah, crazy.

Dusty fell off the wagon, it got wild. Wouldn't that be something? This is a prerecorded episode, but wouldn't that be something if that did happen? I had a dream. I have dreams sometimes that I'm secretly drinking. And that no one, I had a dream that I was drinking at the airport and I was like, no one's gonna know

cause I'm just doing this on my own. You start to get recognized left and right. Hey, you're having a good time. You're just hammering at Applebee's at 11 a.m. DFW. Do you guys celebrate New Year? I know you don't, Dusty, but Aaron? As much as you can, I don't know. I'm aware of it and kind of watch it as it's happening.

I don't really do anything though. Yeah, you don't go out. Like, even if you didn't have a gig. Like the last probably six or seven years, I've worked on New Year's. So I've had zero fun on New Year's. That's one of my least favorite days of the year. Yeah. It's New Year's so I've had zero fun on New Year's. It's one of my least favorite days of the year. Yeah. It's New Year's Eve because those shows have been, I've had tough shows there

for the longest time. I'm off. Pre-recorded? Oh okay I was about to ask you what are you Dusty? In 1999 I was 17 and I went to a college party and they were playing you know Prince's Tonight I'm Gonna Party like it's 1999 and it was this guy I danced with this college girl for a while And it was like the best New Year's and I've been chasing that Because you thought it was your last day on earth at that point Yeah, and I don't know it could have been I would have been fine with it. It was a It was a hot party. I was at in Auburn Auburn University. You've been chasing ever since yeah, it's had to know this I Think so. Yeah, Has had to know this. Uh, I think so.

I'm pretty sure I told her. Yeah. None of them have ever lived up to it. Aaron party's like 1999 cause he was eight. He goes to bed at seven 30. Uh, well anyway, happy new year, everyone. Um, yeah, it's pre-recorded. I, unless something comes up between, I didn't have any gigs.

Yeah. It's still-recorded. I, unless something comes up, I didn't have any gigs. Yeah, it's still very early December, so it is weird to do, um, happy New Year stuff. You know, Dusty, when you were on the road with Burt Kreischer, I think this was years ago now, I saw an Instagram story, I think it was on Burt's Instagram, of you taking a shot. Yeah. And I remember thinking, oh man, Burt corrupted Dusty. Yeah. And I remember thinking, oh man, Burt corrupted Dusty. He's been sober this long.

He goes out on the road with Burt, day one, night one, he's taking shots at the bar. Yeah, it was my first show with Burt in Toronto and everybody kept trying to get me to drink. So I just got a shot glass and I kept filling it up with water. And then whenever people would come over, I would go, yeah. And then I would do shots.

Dusty's just struck me as a vodka guy. I guess that's all he's into. Yeah, it was good. Have you ever been a vodka guy? Yeah, I drink vodka. I mean, I drink it all. You know? Yeah, I have drank gas too.

Yeah. Vodka is good though. I do like it. I feel like it gave me a little like what they call gut rot. You know? Oh yeah. Never heard that. But you never heard that? It's like I gave me a little like what they call gut rot, you know? Oh yeah. I've never heard that, but. You never heard that? It's like I can shoot liquor, gut rot.

But I, yeah, I like vodka sodas, vodka tonic. My old boss, I used to, when he retired, I would go drink with him on my lunch break at the TGI Fridays and we would have vodka tonics. It was a great time. Then I'd go back to work. That's awesome. Is this Stu? Yeah. Yeah. We had a great time. Yeah. Stu was, you know, he was, I know his old bosses. Stu was retired, you know, so he was having a good time and I was like, Hey, I'm an alcoholic. So this is,

I know Dusty so well. I know about his old bosses. Is this the one with the play for the bills? Yeah. Wait for the bills in the, uh, sixties or seventies, I think. Uh, maybe sixties. Well, on the easier to drive tour, I listened to Dusty's podcast a lot. He stopped doing it now, but I'm just on a break. I'm on a break. I didn't quit it, but you know, I, you know, it's like, I come on here on a Monday and I talk about a bunch of stuff. And then I'm like, what do I got left to talk about on my own podcast now? Yeah. Well, thanks for prioritizing this one. Yeah. That's good. You could do yours on Sunday. And then by the time you get here, you got nothing. That's actually a good idea. When I start back, maybe I will do that.

Yeah. Just release on a Tuesday. Yeah. And then, well, I didn't. Yeah. I will do that. Yeah. Just release it on a Tuesday. Yeah. And then, well, I didn't. Yeah. I could do that too. Yeah. That's a good idea. I appreciate this guys.

Yeah. Maybe I get you guys to co-host with me on the podcast. And we'll just do it in this studio. Take down some of this Nate stuff. Yeah. Keep the same production crew. Yeah. I like that.

Works for me. Well, anyway, Nate's sleeping went off and you know, we drug ourselves here, hung over, but Nate is still... No, Nate's... I don't know where Nate is, but... His special's out, he's taking over the world. Yeah. You know, he's doing well. His holiday special and his Netflix special. It all came out. Last week. Everything's doing well. Yep. Yep, yep, Yep. Uh, well, I guess, well, we assume, you know, I mean, again, this is early December, so don't get ahead of yourselves. You don't know, man. We hope we'll stay in this pretend like it's January. I know.

I get it. Worst case scenario for what happens in the next month. Uh, so many, but, uh, maybe, maybe Dusty is the wrong person to ask about that, but Brian, what do you think worst case scenario for Nate, as far as those specials for all of us? Like it could be ridiculous that we're sitting here and having a good time talking. I don't even want to get into the worst case. I could get pretty dark even for bad news baits. What about slightly bad case scenario? Yes. I die.

Well, I can't. Let's talk comedy. Let's just keep it a comedy. I don't want to. I could die in a funny way. Well, I'll say this. Tangled up in a treadmill or something. January 1st was the deadline for my curse to be broken.

Sorry, Dusty, about, but about curses, but Jackie Robinson's widow, which I mentioned, and you guys like, oh, you killed another one. And Nate said, if she's alive by, she's got to make it to the new year. Okay. So we'll be praying for her. Rachel Robinson. How old is she? Rachel Robinson. She's 102. So I don't know how that's blamed on me. Yeah. I mean, I would say at that point, I mean, that's, that's a long good life. I mean, those other guys were in their late nineties and you guys. Right. But it's the track record of you killing people. So yeah, I got some stats on the 2024. I did not look up how many people I killed in 2024, but we know Willie Mays, Bob Newhart. I think that might be Bob Barker.

There's been a bunch Bob Barker. We need a Brian Bates kill count in the comments right now. Let us know. Bob Barker. That's not correct though. Body count baits Brian Bates body count.com. Bob Barker did die in 2024, I believe, but we had previously talked about him. You guys all said he was dead when he was actually alive.

And I said, no, he's still alive. Okay. And then that killed him. He was, this is our podcast. And then he died just to spite me. Uh, we want to get in these comments. Let's do it. Uh, who's reading?

Uh, yeah, you're reading. Oh. Good job leading things. All right, comments come from Twitter. I'm excited to see you guys, man. I'm excited to see you guys. Yeah, I haven't seen you all in a while. Feels like a lifetime. Yeah, been a long time. Anyway. Last week, but. I wasn't here last week though, so you didn't see me. Maybe that's what it was. Oh yeah, you weren't, were you? No. Yeah. No. Yeah. In the real timeline, not this timeline we're creating here, this multiverse. Yeah. Dusty had a lot of bags in the back of his truck. I'm like, what's going on with all these bags? I picked up leaves this morning. It was all leaves. Well, I was driving down the road and I saw this guy with his house had a bunch of leaves in their yard and bags. So I stopped and I knocked on the door and asked, could I have the leaves?

Are you serious? Yeah. I rang the guy's doorbell. He came out. He came on out of the house. I think he thought maybe something was going on. Well, yeah. And I was like, can I have those leaves?

He goes, yeah, take those. I thought you were going to steal others. What do you mean on out of the house? Like he walked onto the doorstep, like the doorbell and then he opened the door, came out, closed the door behind him. I never do that. Yeah, I think it was cold. Probably just trying to keep it.

I'll stand behind the door, I opened it a crack and then I yell around the corner. But he probably thought it was some type of scam. Yeah, he'll take the leaves and then he'll take something else. So he's probably watching you. Well, I hope so. I mean, I hope he is watching it.

Did you take anything else? No, just the leaves. And what are you gonna do with those leaves? Well, you. Well, I hope so. I mean, I hope he is watching it. But did you take anything else? No, just the leaves. And what are you gonna do with those leaves? Well, you know, I got some land. So I got these swales that I built. I have a whole YouTube series on it. You can go to my YouTube, the land series. And I built these swales.

So now I wanna put the leaves in there to start to compost. As the leaves break down, the water comes in, goes into the soil, feeds the trees. It's organic fertilizer. Right. That makes sense. I also want to mention Notre Dame's playing in the college of playoffs right now.

That's right. January 1st. All right. It's exciting. Who's they playing? Oh, Boise state, somebody like that. Should be a great game. Yeah.

Um, so we'll wrap this up. That was so funny. I was so curious whether we were even going to address that this is in in advance. That's I feel like that's all we've talked about It's the altered timeline now. Well, it wasn't fact that it's New Year's Day. I probably wouldn't I watched a movie I'd seen it as a kid, but I watched the movie called the one with Jet Li you ever see that no I feel like this was late 90s and I feel like this really started the whole Multiverse thing that it's almost like a bit of a multiverse from the marvel series and the matrix That it feels like jet lee and and the movie the one feels like they really kicked that off. That was the one. Yeah got it going

Because there was multiple him well, you know, it's a multiverse in the in the movie. All right. Because there's been. Yeah, I haven't seen that. There's a lot of time travel movies, but I guess that's a little. Yeah. In this one, there's like so many parallel universes and there's one of each of us and all those universes. And they had figured out how to travel in between. So this Jet Li character was traveling in between

and then killing the other Jet Li's and then the power, the energy from them would come into the other. So as each Jet Li died, the other Jet Li's got stronger. So this guy was traveling, killing all the Jet Li's until they got down to just two. Sounds pretty fun. It is pretty fun.

All right. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews and naitlan at natebargatze.com. At Brian Bates comic on Twitter. Incorrect. You got to follow him and then you can ask a question. That's how you should be working it. I don't even know if that's worth it. It is worth it. And you don't, well you don't have many followers I have, Desti. I got a lot. I don't need know if that's worth it. It is worth it. And you don't, well you don't have many followers I have Desti, I got a lot.

I don't need anymore. I'm trying to get rid of some. Maxed out. Yeah. I hit my limit. Marshall Hoibook. Hoibook? A book.

NateLine has figured out the perfect format for a podcast. Even when one of the guys is unavailable, the consistency sets you apart from other podcasts. Does Nate have any rules that the guys have to follow during each podcast taping in order to keep the content entertaining? What rules has the four of you discussed behind the scenes or do you just go for it and hope for the best? All right. Well, we're all professional comedians.

So we just come on here and talk. And then by virtue of just being funny people, we make this a funny podcast. Hopefully, but to answer your question, I don't even think Nate knows we're doing this right now. Yeah. Just kidding. Yeah.

No, we don't have any, I mean, I think the one thing that people think is, oh, do you have to keep it clean? But we're clean. It's to me at least least it's not forced. There's things I'd like to say. Dusty has a couple rules. I think Aaron and I- Dusty's got one hand tied behind his back. I think that's fair to say.

And that's what he talks about on his podcast. That's right. But no, thank you for that. I mean, I agree that we keep rolling no matter who's here. The show goes on. Except if I'm not here. Well, that's what I'm saying. This is, you know, this is a complete podcast here. We can, we got, we're interchangeable characters here.

That's what makes it good. I don't think I missed a show in 2024. An episode. Okay. Have you ever missed any? Perfect attendance. You missed one. I remember one sitting at your seat. I've missed the old studio. I think I've missed five.

But just to reiterate this, the year's not really over yet. So there is time for you to miss one. That is true. That is true. So don't get ahead of yourself. This multiverse is getting complicated. Two of those times we recorded two episodes in the same day. I've been gone three times but missed five episodes. I believe. You guys try to like, he's not here. Let's get as many as we can. But anyway. Anyway, thank you, Marshall.

I appreciate that. I think that's true. But no, he didn't have any rules that I know of. Alright. Chase Peeler. Anything else you want to say, Dusty? No, no. I feel good. Okay. Chase Peeler. There are so many things I love about this show, but one of my favorites is when someone makes an off-the-cuff joke and Aaron just loses it laughing. It's even better when he gets when he's laughing gets dusty laughing uncontrollably as well. That's fun. It's fun to laugh. You know if we

can just get Brian to mispronounce things, it'll happen. Then it'll happen. There's always gonna be something to laugh at. Chase Peeler is an interesting name. Peeler. Yeah. It must've come, you know, the last names come from what your ancestors did. Yeah. So Chase Peeler must've been worked in a kitchen. Oh, drop off fast. Speaking of Peeler, he drove off fast. Yeah. I read that if, if you buy garlic, that's peeled. A lot of times that's coming from China and they have these, these guys have to-

You read or you saw TikTok? I saw TikTok. I don't read anything. But the- He read the captions. Yeah. That they're in this factory peeling garlic by hand and they peel so much that their fingernails sometimes fall off. Wow. So they end up peeling it with their teeth. So if you're buying garlic that's already pre-peeled, it's a good chance it's been in somebody's mouth. Wow. Well, they do a good job. Yeah, I don't care. Obviously that's horrifying. Thanks for telling me. Yeah. But all the pesticides are putting on there, Dusty. Well, I think that's terrible too.

Yeah. Yeah. Those, I will defend myself though, Aaron. Those words I mispronounce like poem and what was the one I just missed? Mercury. Mercury. Both times.

It's like you're eating every time you say it. Mercury. Mercury. Mercury. Mercury. Mercury. Mercury. Mercury. Both times, Dusty, I don't think,

noticed anything wrong with it until you called it out and may have said it the same way, quite frankly. I don't know if I would have said it the same way, but I didn't notice until Aaron looks at me and then I go, oh yeah, I did catch that. Yeah. Dusty will let things slide too. Yeah. But we did call you out like Dusty when you said compass instead of compass. We talked about your mispronunciations. Yeah. Compass. Yeah. But I think I say it like Dusty says it. Compass? Yeah. That makes the most sense.

Okay. Tyler Flink, Aaron is a new dad. I hope you know about the real Hey Bear videos, the Dancing Fruit for kids. Your little girl will love them. What is that all about? Did you watch them? Nah. We did. Dancing Fruit. Yeah, it's, she's a little young still.

Do you do Baby Einstein or anything? She can't even like look at a screen. Yeah, at this point she should not be looking at screens. She's just starting to lock into the, we got a mobile above her crib, she's just starting to lock into that. Yeah. And she's like oh what's going on here? That's exciting. She's starting like look at stuff. Yeah but in a few months you know maybe I mean hey bear it's just it's pretty simple Fruit comes on and dances around and bounces around. And it's just a good way for them to kind of watch it.

And then put subliminal messages in their brains. Not much of a storyline though. There's no storyline. Just kind of dancing fruit. Yeah, see, I don't like Daisy watches. We let her watch videos, but I don't like, I want her to watch stuff with a story because I want her to learn to follow a story.

I banned Cocoa Melon pretty early. What do you mean? Well, Coco Mellon, there's no story. These kids are just coming out. Now there's a story. It's kind of, well, it's kind of bad animation and they're like, and then they're just saying, I don't know. There's no story really. I mean, it might be a little something going on with the song, but I don't like it. I want her to be able to follow a storyline. Okay. What does she watch? I like Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol. Matter of fact, this Saturday, I just took Daisy to live Paw Patrol. And I think I saw a video of that. It is the worst show that you could imagine. I saw a video of that. It is the worst show that you could imagine. I don't even know that she liked it.

I was so excited about it. And it's a Nickelodeon production, so they got high production value, but the costumes, you know, these are all dogs and I expected them to be like mascots, but you can see the person running it. They're like riding it like a horse almost. And I'm like, I expected it to be a full on costume and they're inside the costume. But it's like, even my daughter's not

fooled by it. It's like right away you could see the people controlling it. You know, when I went to see the Lion King on Broadway. In New York, the real Broadway. The touring Broadway show. Okay. At TPAC. Broadway, Lebanon. Okay. TPAC.

Okay, off Broadway. I'm like, how are they gonna do the Lion King with it's all animals? Yeah, how did they do it? It was basically that. They don't try to make you think, you know, it's just a person with a little bit of a costume. Were the kids into it? Like were the kids dancing and singing along and whatever?

Some of the kids were. Is it the Paw Patrol songs or is it just them talking? It's just more of a, you know, more, there is like a intro song or whatever, but it's more of a, you know, just an adventure thing. They're, they got a lot of technology to solve some pretty easy situations. They're bringing in a lot of technology to solve some pretty easy situations They're bringing in a lot of technology overfunded. Yes. Yes, exactly He's trying to get just trying to get the turtle across the road Are you bringing in four or five different dogs and SWAT vehicles? Yeah Yeah, yes

Eleanor's watched so much Peppa Pig. She started speaking with a British accent Oh yeah. Oh no. See I love that though. Get some class in here. Yeah she is really into... Peppa Pig's great. Bluey she's not really into but you know those shows I like. There's one like called Masha and the Bear. I think I've seen that. That's a pretty good one. Got a little bit of a story to it. Okay. She still watch miss Rachel? No, um, she's kind of beyond miss Rachel. I think I want Sam to watch a little miss Rachel cause she helps, uh, you know, teach it a talk.

Maybe you should do some of it, but anyway, yeah, just should I do my own Mr. Dusty. That's what you're saying. You start making kids videos. it but anyway yeah just I do my own mr. dusty kids video about subliminal message no it wouldn't be subliminal yeah in your face pretty blatant but yeah I think those hey bear Okay. Oh yeah. I'll try them out. Yeah. Uh JT Tay. JT Tay. JT Tay. Oh yeah. Gotta see Dusty at Hoyt Sherman in Des Moines. I assume that's the... Hoyt Sherman. Yeah, Hoyt, pretty hard. We won't do that again but that was funny how confidently. What? What Sherman? Uh, great show and we had a good time. Not a great time, but a good time.

Well, you know, good times, my thing. Oh, yeah, you're right. We've now completed three fourths of the Nate Land slam. Now just need to get get out to see breakfast bait sometime soon. Love the podcast. Yeah. Take your time with it. But that was a good show. I'd like to say, because I wasn't here last week and this is gonna be a month down the road but I did...

How was Wicked by the way? I didn't see Wicked. That's what I... I will talk to you about Wicked though but Des Moines, Iowa had a great time at Hort Sherman. Really good show. Really fun. I've always done the Des Moines Funny Bone and I like that club but this at the Hort Sherman was so fun. It's an awesome theater. And it was my, I think it's my best show ever in Des Moines and I like that club but this at the Hoit Sherman was so fun. It was my I think is my best show ever in Des Moines and I had such a great time and

then I went to St. Paul and did a show and it was really great too. It was a really good weekend. I missed last week so I didn't get to talk about it but really great shows. Really great. These are like some awesome theaters you're starting to do. Yeah. Like legit. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's really cool. That's awesome. Uh, Fancy Dog. Why is Aaron always complaining about DuckDuckGo? Why does he just use Google? Why I end up using Google. What happens is I use Brave.

That's the browser that I use. That's my default browser and the default search engine for Brave is DuckDuckGo or some variation of some iteration of Duck.go. I don't know. I end up using Google and then I could easily go in and change it and make Google my default search engine but I never do it because it's more fun to complain and deal with things on a daily basis. Complaints are fun. I agree but that's not really like,'s not an interesting complaint, but it's it's fun for me To have once a day be like God. Let me just go to Google real quick. Mm-hmm duck duck go horrible I like the idea of it

But what is the idea of it? It's like a It's like a privacy Anonymity centered it used to be but they kind of sold out now though. I think maybe I don't think so No, that's why people use over Google because- Yeah, they say they can't, they don't track you on DuckDuckGo. And that's what all Google does is track. That's like their business model is tracking you to sell ads to you and they do a good job. I don't mind. PadreUBU, you think that's right?

DadUBU. Pretty sure Dusty and I would disagree on most things, yet he's my favorite part of the podcast. There you go. Well, that's what it's all about. Yeah. Well, I appreciate that, Padre. And you know what? The second part.

You be you. You know what I mean? And, uh, but I don't know why you think we would disagree so much. I don't know what I've said that's so disagreeable, but. I can't imagine. What could that be? Yeah, I mean, you know, just step out a little bit, step out of your comfort zone, look into some things.

It's a disaster. Step out of your comfort zone and into dusty. Yeah. It's a disaster zone out here. The world is a complete disaster. How many times in 2024 did you predict the world would be in? I counted eight. I don't know.

I don't know that I predicted it. I just said, be aware, look out. It's always good to be vigilant. But you could be boy who cried wolf. If you, if I was saying it's going to end, but I'm just saying be vigilant. If the boy who cried wolf was like, Hey guys, uh, some stuff may happen soon. Just, you know, stock up, be prepared. Then people wouldn't.

And then when he finally goes, all right, it's happening. Everybody would go, well, thank you for getting us prepared. Because now that it is happening, we're ready to go. The supply chains have broke down, but thanks to you, we have a little food to sustain ourselves for a little while. We're not scrambling at the grocery store, fighting over a loaf of bread. Yeah, yeah.

You're kind of abandoning the analogy at this point. Let's get a little specific. There's nothing to do with the wolf anymore. You in hand, I believe. The wolf's out there. Yeah. Garen James. The way that Aaron announced the shows in 2025 was so cool and creative.

The only issue is he didn't include Charlotte, North Carolina. Well, thank you very much. This looks like a fake. My name's Aaron James and we got a comment from Garen James. I just want to say, this is not me. This is somebody with a remarkably similar name and his in-law, his in-laws love in Charlotte, he's trying to avoid it. This is you, a remarkably similar name. And his in-law, his in-law is loving Charlotte. He's trying to avoid it.

This is you, isn't it? No, I love going to Charlotte. I like the comedy zone out there. I'll probably be back in 2025. The dates I announced were only through, uh, early May. It was very creative. It was. I don't even know how you did it.

It has not, uh, David Copperfield over here. Oh, thanks man. Yeah. I did some, uh, check it out on my Instagram If I think it's the pin post right now, I put a lot of work into that. I was doing that while We see some labor dealing with it. Yeah a lot of it push push push Like some long nights at the hospital and stuff that I was kind of working on those It has not been tremendously successful selling tickets, but it was a fun

There's nothing like putting a lot of work into something and then it just not doing well. And then the next day you rattle something off into the camera on your phone and then it blows up 40 million views. It's crazy, but thank you. Yeah. I'll probably be back in Charlotte. Cool.

Good. The queen city. Did you know that? I didn't know that. Why is it called that? No idea. and nobody can give me a straight answer. Maybe Charlotte was a queen. Maybe that that go. Maybe there was a Queen Charlotte. There. Well, maybe it's that simple. Yeah. Is it Memphis? It's Memphis. Definitely not the Queen City. I think Memphis

is like an Egyptian city. Oh yeah. And they even have a pyramid. They have the largest pyramid in North America, I think. Yeah. All right. Well, we'll never know. But right in, let us know why Charlotte's called the Queen City, right? Yeah. At Brian Bates comic on Twitter. Follow him first. Go right to the source. Google could tell you, but Drew Burtsong. We know that Nate and Breadstick had Seinfeld as a, that's pretty good. Breadstick's a good one, yeah. We know that Nate and Breadstick had Seinfeld

as an inspiration early in their career. And I feel like Aaron has mentioned Brian Regan and Kevin James as comics he looked up to. Can Dusty share some of his favorite comics growing up? Yeah, Jeff Foxworthy, Nate Burke, or, no. I did like Nate. I still like Nate, but I did like Nate early on. The what is it? Full time? No, no yelled at by a clown. I love

that album. Mitch Hedberg. I really like Steve Martin has an album called Let's Get Small. Love that album. Love it. Mitch Hedberg strategic grillations. Check those albums out. Jeff Foxworthy's first two. Really great. We may have talked about this. We're into Jerry Clower. Yeah, a little bit. I like Jerry Clower stuff. But yeah, I feel like, I don't know, it's really hard to sit down and listen to a lot of Jerry Clower.

Yeah. Those are good ones. They are good ones. They are good. Nathan Taylor, on Dusty's Netflix special, when he does the Travis Tritt joke and somebody yells out, Dusty says, "'That might be Travis Tritt. "'Was that Aaron?' They yelled out.

"'Every time I watch it, I think it's Aaron.'" Probably so. Yes, it was. Part of me thinks it was my neighbor. My neighbor did come to the show. My neighbor drinks a lot and And he came to the after party and he was pretty hammered and name well No, he's a fun guy, but I

Part of me thinks it was him even though he's never owned up to it. Huh? He actually yelled out three times. We edited the other two out. Wow. I wanted to keep them because I thought it was fun but for time's sake we went ahead and cut that out. Okay so it was not Aaron? I don't know. Aaron didn't come backstage. I didn't tell Tessie I was there at all. Yeah. But I didn't show up and try to sabotage the taping. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We'll never know. Gary. Oh, by the way, I tweeted at Travis Tritt though, and told him to watch my special. And then he did reply and said, uh, that he watched it. And he said, that was me that yelled out.

Oh, cause on the special, I go, that might be Travis Tritt. That was me that you said, watch the special. You didn't isolate the one joke about him. No. And just send him. You said, watch the special? Yeah. You didn't isolate the one joke about him? No. And just send that. You said, watch this hour special. What's a good way to see if he really watches? Sift through this and find the one bit where it's relevant.

Well, it's a good special. No, I agree with you. It's called Working Man on Netflix. Hey, I talked to you about you over the course of an hour. Here's the, listen to the whole thing. Well, go watch the special and enjoy yourself. And then you might get a reference, you know, but watch the special, enjoy the special. Okay. I mean, Travis Dritt, he enjoys good comedy too. Okay. You know what I mean? So, I mean, come on. It's called Working man on Netflix. That's when somebody goes, when somebody sends me a link to like a three hour video and they

go check it out and you go, give me a timestamp. They mentioned you in this. Yeah. I've done that a bunch. They go, you got mentioned on this podcast. And I go, I'm not combing through this whole thing. I didn't time stamp. I don't think I reached out to Travis Tritton said, Hey, I talked about you in this comedy

podcast. I don't think I said that or comedy special. But that's why you reached out to him. Yeah, but I wanted him to, you know, he, you know, he also, he's, he married a Hooters waitress. And I talk about Hooters a little bit in the special. So I talk about NASCAR a little bit. There's other-

He's gonna relate to all of it. I've got other country music jokes. He lives in a house. I talk about a house. I got a lot of, you know, cigarette jokes. I bet he's gotten into nicotine a bit. And it's like, there's a lot that I bet Travis Tritt could relate to. It's called working man. He's had a job before. I mean, this is, I bet he's eaten at a Western Sizzlin and a cracker barrel. This special was made for Travis

Tritt. Yeah. A woman, a woman warm and willing. Yeah. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah. A woman warm and willing. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Yeah. One time, Clint Black tweeted, ask me anything over the next hour. And I tweeted back, just killing time. And he gave me a thumbs up. That's a pretty weak response to be honest. That's a fun thing that you tweeted at him.

And that's a pretty weak response from him. Oh, I thought you were talking about my response. Your, no, your response is very good and I'm disappointed in Clint Black. And who are your friends with? I met him. Yeah. He shut that down. Well, I'd be his friend, I'd be his friend, but you know. Yeah. I'm looking at him through the tail lights, you know. I wish I knew some of the songs. I'd jump in on this. This is a fun riff I'm not a part of. Gary Seinfeld. These are fake names. Next comics from Schmord Schmarlund.

Gary Seinfeld. Dusty, I know you desire to be a great ad reader. Here's my personal feedback. Aaron feels like he's talking to a friend and means what he's saying. You ever heard Aaron talk to a friend? That's a fair point. You are, you just don't talk to us like you are. As far as your ad reads, one, it feels like you're reading something someone else wrote.

Yeah, well that's true. And two, it doesn't help that while reading you say things like, yeah, that's actually true. I don't know how that doesn't help, Gary. That implies that everything else is right. It's all, you know, but I think everybody knows these are ad. I think people get it. Right. These are ad reads.

And I don't Gary, I don't know that I desire to be a great ad reader. What I, what I desire to do is try to, uh, make each ad fun and to have you listen as though you're not listening to an ad, you're listening, going, what, what's going to happen here? Am I going to get a laugh out of this? Is this going to be fun? And then all the while I'm feeding you an ad. It's like medicine, crushing it up in a hot dog.

Exactly. You know, you put the little pill in a piece of bread when you give it to a dog and the dog eats the bread, but he gets the medicine. That's what I'm doing. Gary Seinfeld, but I mean, big pharma medicine. Yes. I like it. Everyone compliments Aaron on his ad reading.

I think you've alluded to the fact you'd like some recognition. I mean, I'll say though, the reason I think Aaron gets so many compliments is because I, I praise him on his ad reading and people go, you know what, He is a good, you're right. Because I don't get the same backup here on the podcast for my ad reads. I think the listening audiences, the error gets to go anytime. Aaron gets a comment. It's because I gave them the nod and I go now, trust me guys, it's good.

And then they go, Oh, maybe like everybody looks to you. Yeah. See if it's good or not. That's okay. And I don't write them. So I am reading something. Somebody else wrote, uh, add some more to the list. Gary, can you only to only two pieces of advice?

Let's keep it going. Those are two good ones. Let's get a three, four and five in here. Yeah. Let's get Jerry David to write in and, uh, uh, that was funny. Michael. I deserve more. Uh, Jerry David. Yeah. Cause that was from Gary Seinfeld. Larry David. Uh, Michael Mitchell lost a lot of respect for Aaron after that last joke. Oh, sorry. Uh, for Aaron, when he said he hadn't seen the Rock. I think we all did Michael.

All right. That's weird that your respect was based on whether you thought I'd seen this movie I've never heard of. I'm sorry. You've never even heard of it. Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage? I know The Rock, the actor who's everywhere. That's who I'm thinking of. I don't know a movie called The Rock. Yeah, with Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris. Ed Harris. Yeah. It's a great cast. I'm not denying that. I've just never seen it. Really great.

I'm sorry about that, Michael. It's about Alcatraz. Well, Michael, we're with you on this. Yeah, I lost a lot of respect for Michael after that comment. So we're back down to, we're on a level playing field again, Michael. Thanks for listening. Give us a couple of reasons, a couple of numbers, how Aaron could earn your respect back. That's right

Give me yeah team up with Gary Seinfeld put together a list of how I could I Could improve what movies I need to watch Mohammed Ali Had a man what qualities do you take into account? We're considering someone a comedian's comedian Does beat bagel with his original bits like Shingle Ladies count as one? Oh yeah. I think it's like does this comedian make comedians laugh and then not really the audience? Mm-hmm. I'd say that could be part of it, although I can think of examples. What's an example of a comedian like David Tell?

I think it's a good example of comedians, but he's murdering with a regular audience too. Yeah, I think it's often people who didn't get right out of the gates, huge, like they started stand up, they've worked the road, they've done the steps to become a great comedian, And they are a great comedian, right? Whereas someone who may be at a video that popped off or I don't know. Yeah, I think also they do stuff on stage or they do something

in their act that like, that is so unique that comedians find it funny. Right? Yeah, I guess that would be true. You watch it tell you just like this is just, it's just like on a different level. There's no tricks. Right. It's just joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke. Yeah, I think so. Who would you consider a comedian's comedian? Beside yourself? I don't know. I mean, I think- Call Travis Triton. I think Mitch Hedberg is. Yes. Yeah. For sure.

I don't watch a lot of comedians now. I think Mitch Hedberg is. Yes. Yeah. For sure. I don't watch a lot of comedians now. Clearly you just said Mitch Hedberg. Is that a new thing? Comedians, comedian? No, no, you not listening to comedy. Yeah, I think so. I mean, I've just, I do comedy and I'm always, I watch other comics. You know, a comic that you take on the road a lot, and he did a couple

of shows with Zach Townsend, Iend I think is that in a way because he really crushes in the green room. Oh yeah. You know what I mean? But does well on stage. Terrible act but he crushes in the green room. Yeah you did great this weekend in the car on the way to the venue. I'll say that. Yeah. No Zach's great. Yeah. All right well's great. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks for those comments. Hear the comments. That's it.

2025 is going to be a heck of a year. Well, let's get into it. Okay. Let's try to think how I want to start. Well, I would like to say that earlier, you had said that this was going to be an episode about things happening, you know, entertainment that happened in the 2020s. I would like to say that earlier you had said that this was going to be an episode about things happening, you know, entertainment that happened in the 2020s in this current

decade. Well, it is. We didn't give you a lot of response. No, you didn't give me. So you kind of switched it up on us. But I had put together a top five country songs that came out in 2020. Okay. Well, let me we'll start there that I thought it was interesting that I

Guess is of January 1st 2025. They this comes out. Mm-hmm. The decade is exactly halfway over Oh or the 2020s are I think the decade actually starts on? The first right I mean 2021. Yeah, but 2020 to 2024 is done now 2024 to 2025 to 2029 yeah, it's left. So we're halfway through so I thought maybe we talk a little bit about the first half of the first half That I like I like that. I heard nothing from you guys. So I kind of moved on I Do have a little bit though. Okay, but in our defense do we ever really help you out with it? No, but I asked multiple times. Occasionally.

Yeah, occasionally. I did the philosophy episode. You did. Remember that? It was a long time ago. I don't know if I was here. Yeah, I don't know if we could do a philosophy part two with Dusty in the room. Things would change.

Well, I don't have a lot here. I did look up who's somebody famous that I had never even heard of when 2020 started. Tiger Woods? No, no, no. Tiger King. Tiger King. That's a good one. Whoa. Yeah, that is a good one. Joe Exotic. So you're talking about Joe Exotic. I never watched it, but yeah, I mean, he, I read online. He took over the world for a second. Yeah, about the, there's a theory, like the 2012 theory that no A-list celebrity

that you've heard of, you hadn't heard of them before. Oh. 2020, that was the last year. Cause it's the way celebrity works and with the internet and everything, it just, there's not gonna be another Leonardo DiCaprio, guy who kind of lives in mystery and you don't know a lot about him and doesn't do interviews, right? And he just hangs out on a yacht. Like now celebrities all in your face. Yeah. So there's this theory that like it's that 2012 is the last year where it's, where it's like

that. Also movies are kind of dead now. It's like there was a real time where you're going to the movie theater a lot because there'd be fresh movies coming out. There's like there was a real time where you're going to the movie theater a lot because there'll be fresh movies coming out. There's no, there's never a movie coming out that I'm like, ooh, I'm excited about it. You mentioned Wicked by the way. It's like, there's a lot of reasons why I won't go see that. But one of them is that I saw Wicked on Broadway

in like 2008. I'd never seen a Broadway play musical. I was in New York City and I went and saw that and it blew my mind. I was like this is amazing. Yeah. And I just feel like nothing being made now is good and they'll ruin that memory for me. This movie. So it's an objection not specifically to Wicked but to any film adaption of a Broadway musical? Well that I saw. Which that's the only one right? Right but no I mean it is specific to me why I won't see it. Okay. Because I'm

like I know the story and I really enjoyed it and I just feel like it won't be good. What about the other way around though if a movie became a a play? Well, I don't see a lot of plays, right? So if a movie became a play, I definitely would not go see it. What about, and I think the play came, musical came first, but what about Grease? You love Grease. I do, but no, I wouldn't.

I'm so shocked. Every time I see Grease on, Dusty is into this high school musical. Yeah, I can't believe you're into that either. It's a great movie. It's a great movie. It is a great movie. John Travolta is one of the best of all time. Tell me more.

At what? Tell me more, tell me more. At what? Yeah. He's a great actor. I mean, you never saw Saturday Night Fever? Yeah, I've seen these movies. Saturday Night Fever is unbelievable.

Okay. Staying Alive, the sequel, one of the worst sequels in history. Um, but at least those aren't musicals. You're Greece is a musical about high school kids. Yeah, but there it's cool. Uh, now I didn't just get into Greece the other day. You know what I mean? I was like, not even in high school when I saw it. Okay.

Grandfathered in. Yeah. I, you know, it's like, but yeah, if Greece came out today or, or, or they made a play about it, I'm like, no, they would ruin that. It would not be good. Okay. But the consensus is this wicked movie and I had my family in town for Thanksgiving. A few of them went to go see it rave reviews from them. And then I looked at the reviews. It's like 99% of Rotten Tomatoes universally acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. So, uh, it seems they've done a good job of adapting it to film. Yeah.

Well, also things have changed about me spiritually since that time. And I just can't go see it. That's the real reason. Called Wicked. Okay. There's many reasons, but that's what I meant. Wicked Smat. What's that?

What? Wicked Smat? Yeah. I don't know what that is. You know, is it Good Will Hunting? Yeah. I don't know what that is. You know, it's a goodwill hunting. Yeah. Yeah. My boy's wicked smat.

Oh, okay. I couldn't tell what you were saying. Okay. Your Boston accent is so good that, that did you know what he was saying? No. He was like, I'm just going to let Aaron sit in that. Just, just move on. My boy's wicked smat. All right. What about, what about this? Yep. He was like, I'm just going to let Aaron sit in that. This just move on. My boys wicked smart.

All right. What about, what about this? Yep. See if you agree with this, Aaron or dusty. I was looking up the top movies of the first half of the decade. Right. And they're generally, and I'm talking about critic acclaimed, critically acclaimed movies, they're generally movies that the general public, I I think would not see because they feel like they're too artistic to

whatever you know. And it's not a Marvel whatever there's no built-in. Yeah I'm talking about like the Oscar award-winning type. Yeah real movies. That critics love. Yeah. But then I look up the top show streaming and things like that same thing. Critic, the top critically acc. And there are TV shows that I think everybody generally thinks that watches it, oh, that's really good. And I wonder why that is. What do you mean? Like, give me an example.

Ted Lasso. None of these had come out by 2020. Ted Lasso, The Bear, Hacks, all those are really good shows. But most people don't watch The Bear or Hacks. What about Cobra Kai? Nobody watches Hacks. Cobra Kai? I know, but like in the grand scheme of things,

like nobody watches those. And I've seen those shows, but they don't get the kind, not like, not like, not like Game of, like everybody watched Game of Thrones, right? I feel like everybody's watched. I didn't watch it either. I know you wouldn't, but. This is why I don't watch these TV shows.

I'll say this, because right? It's like, when you watch a TV show, you watch one episode and then at the end of that episode, it's a huge cliffhanger into the next episode. So then you're like, well, I gotta watch the next episode. And then you make it all the way through the whole season. And then at the end of the season, another cliffhanger. And then you watch multiple seasons and very rarely,

I feel like do you get to the end of that show and you feel satisfied with the ending. Breaking Bad is a real... Good example of a show that got out when it was, got out on top. It ended well and I felt like it all wrapped up. It was really great. Right, could have gone on another couple seasons,

but ended. But you know, they go and then it's like, so there's never any closure. I like a movie. I think the future, this is what I think. One hour movies, give me a full hour movie. It's a full story. It ends, no cliffhanger.

And I don't have to sit here for three hours to watch it. Okay. That's what I think. That's what I'm going to do. Except I just gave it away. So that's what people will be doing now. Cobra Kai's that. Cobra Kai is that.

Cobra Kai is always a cliffhanger. It is, but there's just something about Cobra Kai that locked me in because I really liked the karate kid movies when I was a kid and it just locked the hook of Cobra Kai was now the bad guy is the good guy. And now you're rooting for him because you always viewed him as a bully in that, but you see his life was ruined and you're. And now you're rooting for him because you always viewed him as a

bully in that, but you see his life was ruined and you're like, now you're kind of rooting for him. But each season is to me has gotten progressively worse. Yeah. Yeah. After a while, you're like, I'm watching high school karate. It's so dumb. But yet I am going to finish it. For the same reasons. Yes. High school karate. Intense high school karate. Yeah.

But there's a lot of great only murder in the murders in the building. I haven't actually seen that. I've heard that's good. Yeah. Abbott Elementary, The Marvelous Miss Maisel. A lot of great, but I guess you're right. Those are still pretty niche, I guess, shows. Abbott Elementary though, is it just a sitcom, right? It's not like a Netflix show, right? It's a sitcom. Yeah. It's on ABC. Yeah.

30 minutes. I feel like sitcoms can still be good in that way. Cause it's, what do they call it? Episodic? Is that where it's at? So it's just, you know, it's a show and those are fun. Oh, someone who I had not heard of, I don't think when 2020 had started was Morgan Wallen.

I don't think, was he even on the scene? Did you say your life's better or worse now? I still don't know anything. Completely unchanged. Yeah, unchanged. So like the first, I had heard of him just because I had heard his music and I'd heard stuff that he done, but he, like the first big news story about him was when he's supposed to host SNL and instead went to Alabama, the party Alabama was like making out with a bunch of girls. And during the COVID, everybody was mad at him about that. And then he couldn't do SNL. That's the only time I liked him. So yeah, I'd say is when he kind of broke out.

That's when he broke into what he is now. Yeah. The biggest star in the genre. I was trying to think of an athlete. Shohei's been around longer than I thought. He's. 2018 was his rookie year. I think so.

Yeah. Yeah. But he, similarly, he didn't become like a phenomenon until later. And baseball fans knew about him. Yeah. He didn't break the year. Yeah. But now he's the biggest star in the sport. Yeah. One of the biggest athletes in the, on the planet that happened later. Chuck Yeager. Yeah. Chuck Yeager. I mean, I found out about him after COVID. That's for sure. I'm an idiot.

Dead for 50 years. Yeah. Dusty, you learned a lot. Anyway. Um, and then I looked up and then we'll get to your songs. This is all I have about the 2020s. The top songs of the 2020s. Um, the number one song came out this year. I've never heard of it. Um, all right, let me tell you, number three, number three, this is from 2022, 15 weeks at number one, Harry Styles, As It Was. Missed it.

You would recognize it. Okay. Yeah, you'd recognize it. If you've been through a Kroger or walked through a mall or been anywhere in public, you've heard it. Okay. All right. Number-

These are songs that you like and they're on your personal playlist. That's right. Okay. All right. Uh, number these are songs that you like and they're on your personal playlist. That's right. Yeah. These are business of baits curated. Yeah. They're right here. No, no, no. Harry style. These are the songs that spent the most weeks at number one in so far this decade. Number two from 2023 last night by Morgan Wallace. There you go. You know that one, right? What's how's that guy last night? We let the liquor talk. Yeah. Right. What's the, how's that guy? Last night we let the liquor talk. Yeah.

That's a good song. I don't listen. Uh, people like him. They love him and, uh, that's fine, but I don't, I don't get it. Okay. 16 non-consecutive weeks at number one. Crazy. Yeah.

Everybody's alcoholics now and they're like, and they, they love that. Not you guys, but you know, I don't know the song. Number one came out this year, 19 weeks at number one, which tied old town road is the longest running number one song of all time. A bar song by Shaboosie. I like that one. I like that one. I heard of Shaboosie about just a few months ago when Nate hosted one of those more shows and Shaboosie was the winner. Nate presented the award to Shibuzy. That was the

first time I even heard of him. I had an Uber driver as an older Indian lady from India, a heavy accent. And she was telling me how much she loved country music. And she was listening off all these old country singers that she loved. And then before she dropped me off, she played Shaboosie, the bar song and for me. Yeah. And I liked it. I was like, this is great. It's catchy.

Yeah. It's a fun song. Do you want to give us your five country songs of yeah, I do. The first of the 2020s. It's a hot list. And now listen, there's a lot of great songs that are not going to be on this list. But I put this

together. We usually have an honorable mention that's longer than the Dusty Slays top five country songs since 2020. And there's you know, there's yeah, there's several songs. Here's one my friend Jamie Johnson, he just put out an album he hasn't put out an album in like 14 years. It's a really great album. One song he covered Charlie Daniel song Trudy. I don't know if you know that song really great. Zach Brian, I found out about Zach Brian in the 2020s. Really great. He's been taking some heat lately. But something in

the orange really great song. This is not the top five yet. These are honorable mentions. Yeah, this is Black on Black by Paul Cawthin. And I think this is the kind of song that, who's our guy? Post Malone. I think this is the kind of song he wish he was doing. This is a great song. I just listened to that song this morning. Black on Black. Really surprised me that you endorsed it so heavily. I love it. Trap drums. I mean, legit hip hop drums. I'm not saying, well, I guess I am because it's less country

than last night. We let the liquor talk. I guess I'm saying since it's on the list and it's country, but yeah, you're right. I like it though. Okay. Okay, here we go. Now we're about to get into it. All American singer by Zephaniah Ohora. Really, really great. That is a good country song. Okay. Okay, so now we're into the top five. Okay.

Oh, we're not even there yet. No, now we're there. You did this last time. You just make a top 10 list. Well, I just wanna, you know. Let's just scroll it through his like songs on Spotify. All right, here we go. Number five, this is a really great one.

Suburban Outlaw by Maggie Anton. Really great, really great country song. Benjamin Todd, I just met Benjamin Todd here recently at Zany's, he did a couple of songs with Jesse Daniel called Shooting Star, that's number four. Number three, a classic country singer, John Anderson had a song called Years, which is really great.

Great song, you showed it to me. That came out in the 2020s? It did. And there's a girl named Sierra Farrell who's really great. She does a cover of years, which is also really good. Number two, Colby Acuff, If I Were the Devil. That's a really great song. I don't like devil songs.

No, no, you'll like it though. You'll like it. And then number one, top five country songs come out in the 2020. Jesse Daniel, Working Hard Day and Night as featured on the hit comedy special, Working Man by Dusty Slade. That's the only one I know that's available on Netflix. That's nice.

It's a great list. A good list. Great list. I'll have to check those out great list. It's a good list. Great list. I'll have to check those out. Check those songs out. I will. I did look up, now this is just for the past year 2024, some highlights.

I will say, can I say this though? Paul Cawthin has, I don't know if that's how you say his name, he has other very country songs. And this is kind of a newer thing. And I like it, cause he sounds like Johnny Cash in the beginning He does and then boom these beats. I'm like worst drum sounds of all time. Yeah, I'm into it though. Okay, I'm into it All right. It's called black on black. Yeah Yeah, I like it too. I'm just critiquing it because you know, you're fair to do it because it's so different from it

It's it's almost like every argument you made about music is out the window. Cause you got to like the song. You're right about it. You're all right to criticize me about it, but I like it though. All right. I looked up some highlights, nightland highlights from 2024, just some, or milestone moments across the 2024, January 16th, right of the game. Okay. Oh, January 6th. That wasn't 2024, Eric. Okay. January 16th, Working Man released. Big time. Boom. Great special. Yeah, we've heard about it. Came out right out of the new year. Yeah. Came out hot. You know, when it came out, I was going through Twitter to look for people talking trash about it

to try to get into some arguments. I only found like two and you had already responded to it. Oh yeah, I'm on it. I am on it. All right, that was January 16th. It was at least the next day, January 17th, the first Nate land we ever missed due to weather. Hey, what's up, everybody? Uh, this is, you know, the first episode we are not able to record because of weather.

No. Hello, everybody. Aaron Weber here, host of the Aaron Land podcast, reporting from a snowy Nashville, Tennessee, unfortunately. Hello folks and Hey Bear. Uh, hope you guys are doing well. Sorry, we didn't do an episode this week. We are stuck at home and as you can see, uh, I think we could have done the episode.

I just don't think those guys know how to drive in snow. We get a ton of it. We're not great at it in Nashville. So no one can get anywhere. Uh, so sorry to have to not be able to record on this week. We thought we could. Remember that? No, I don't.

Oh, it was snowing. Oh, snow day. Yeah. You were on a plane, I guess to go week. We thought we could. Remember that? No, I don't. Oh, it was snowing. Oh, that's snow day. Snow day, yeah. You were on a plane, I guess, to go promote. I was trying to. Okay. Yeah.

I got stalled out too. We had to cancel because of all the snow on the ground. I like to think that was God flooding the country with snow so that people would watch my special. Yeah, I think it worked. Yeah. Little seed cloud. Cloud seeding. God's allowed the cloud seed. Yeah. He gave you a

snowstorm. He gave Taylor Tomlinson a pandemic. Yeah. There you go. These are fun. January. So January 24th, Nate announces the podcast is going to one hour. Just to get it out of the way. I know our last podcast was shorter. We are going to go a little bit shorter. I know I did not realize this. I thought all podcasts were like, had to be like two hours long. And it seems most of them are an hour or even less. And so I know some of you will

be disappointed because you like the two hours. Some of you won't care and some of you will be happy. February 7th, two weeks later, Nate analysis podcast is going back to two hours. After, you know, getting yelled at by all of y'all, we were just go back to normal. We're going to be like George Costanza that left his job, that got fired from his job and we're showing up today as if nothing happened. That was a fun time. Fastest cave in all of history. as if nothing happened. That was a fun time. Fastest cave in all of history. He bent the knee so quick. April 8th, the eclipse. I brought these two. This is another way to look at it. You're supposed to, alright, it's not working. You hold a note card and you hold that up. It's got a pinhole in it.

Right. Okay. And it said to, maybe because it's two, now it's probably two. I'll have to wait till it gets more sunlight. Supposed to be able to see it through there. Oh, that's kind of cool. Nah, that is scary, man. Thank you for coming out tonight. Yeah.

Just made it like you brought that, like you were like, I went to the eclipse storm, brought these, you're like, the gnome part? That's, that was the first time the world was gonna end. Yeah, that's more of them. Uh, we did a fine eclipse episode, and I think that's the hustle episode where you told people that you were having a baby. Where I announced it, yeah. Yeah, you announced it.

I guess so. During an ad read, inadvertently. Yeah. Yeah. Because we did the ad reads later and put them back. Oh, yeah. And I referenced it, so. You'd already posted it to social media, I believe. I think so, at that point. But, uh, first, the people listening had it. Yeah you'd already posted to social media, I believe. But I think so at that, but, uh, first that people listening,

uh, tore a hamstring running the 40 too. Did you pull the hamstring and you got last place too? I did. Did you really tweak something, you know, like for a long time it was a couple of days. Okay. Okay. You feel it. Yeah. April 13th, Nate recorded his special, your friend Nate Barghetti in Phoenix. Wow. All right, now May, the three of you all went to Hollywood,

do Netflix as a joke fest, different venues, but y'all had great sets, right? Yeah, hot shells. Yeah. July 24th, the first episode on our new set. Hello folks and hey Barry, welcome to the Nail Land podcast. I'm Nate Barghetti, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. All right.

And surprise. Boom. We are in a new studio. Here we are. Boom. We are in a new studio. Here we are. Yeah. I mean, this is we, I don't think anybody knew this was happening. Uh, y'all knew, but even we kind of doubted it. Yeah.

You know, we had been seeing, you know, I had seen the room and it was, uh, it was empty. It's been that long already. Yep. Wow. Time flies. Five months. Yep.

Do you miss the old set? Um, I do in some ways. Yeah. In some ways I do too, but this is 20 minutes closer to my house. Yeah. I love the set. Yeah. It's like an hour to Nates.

No, I do too. It just, you know, when you do something in some other space for so long, it is weird to change. Right. Uh, then the next day, July 25th, uh, Nate land announced, don't make me come back there. We'll be joining the Nate land world entertainment. Started a podcast network, the Nail and Podcast Network. And this is

you guys are our first podcast uh that we have have that we have on the network. Thank you. And we're super pumped about it. Yeah, we're honored to be a part of it. Uh yeah, we're big fans. You know, knowing you guys forever and Dustin, you've

been out with us and uh you guys are killing it and uh you I think you fit very well. You obviously fit very well into the world that we are doing. September 7th, Aaron records his special here at the Lab is 80s. Alright. When's that coming? We got any announcements? January. January. I don't know if we can, yeah. This month. Oh, soon. Yeah, so you're kicking off the new year. Just around the corner. He released his in January, now you're releasing yours. Yeah. That's awesome. Come on Snowstorm.

Yeah. September 28th, I think, Olive was born. Oh yeah, 28th. Yeah. Man. Golly, it's been two months. Yep. It's crazy.

Well, it's been more than that when this comes out. Multi-verse, yeah. I saw a video the other day, by the way, and it was a side-by-side by the way, and it was a side by side, a guy and it was this baby and the baby they had a, like a cake for it and it said one and they were blowing out the candle and then it was two and then it was three but it stayed a baby and this guy's like, I don't think this baby's aging right. That's funny. And then it was months. Oh, okay. Oh, I thought he don't purpose like try to be funny how his son was it. No, no, he just.

A cake for a month is crazy. Yeah, for 12 months. They did 12 months all the way through. Each month they gave him a new birthday video. I was like, I don't think this baby's age. We need to up the formula. Yeah, that baby's not getting older. October 1st, the consumers launched on the Nate Land podcast. Nate Land's Expanded.

First episode came out yesterday. Yesterday, that episode was the Dunkin' Donuts episode. We pick one brand every week and we do a deep dive on it we're about to get a Dunkin Donuts right across the street no kidding yeah that's big really just Duncan now right just Duncan yeah anything you want now doesn't that just have to be yeah comes out every Tuesday every Tuesday October 5th Nate hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time. November, Dusty announced he's recording a new special. That's true. Yeah, in February, February 29th or 28th, one of the two. There's still time to get tickets.

Yeah. Potentially. Now this is coming out 19th, Nate's Christmas special came out. Yep. Rave reviews. We assume. Yeah. And rave reviews. And then December 24th is Netflix special came out. Bomb.

Boom. That's a big year. There's a lot of milestone moments there. Huge year. A lot going on. Nate Land's, it's big. I went back and looked at the first episode of 2024 and you said, it's going to be a big year.

Oh, I nailed it. Yeah. And this year is going to slow down a little bit. Just the heads up. 2025 is going to be, I don't think so. I think 2025 is going to be a big, it's going to be predictions. Yeah. I'd love to hear.

Uh, yeah, I'll go ahead and do them now. Um, so caught off guard. Oh yeah. I'd like ahead and do them now. Um, so caught off guard. I like to hear the thing you just introduced. I know, I know. I was going to save them for the end, but I'll tell them that. All right. Um, not that you're not already starting to sell out clubs, but you're going to

sell out clubs on a regular basis in 2025. Man, that sounds good. And I made this prediction a few years ago, but I'm going to double down on it and say it again. You're going to do your first late night set. Okay. Late night. Okay. I like that too. Okay. For you, I feel like the Wizard of Oz is having a hand out. Not that you're not already starting to sell out some theaters, but you're going to start regularly everywhere selling out theaters. Yeah, I mean these shows are popping off, but yeah, I appreciate it. I gotta take it up a notch. Yeah. They are popping off. Yeah, I mean I'm doing quite well as it is. So that's what you guys should know. And I think your new special that you recorded for 28th is going to be acclaimed as one of the best specials of the year. It's going to catapult you into the

stratosphere. Boom. That's exciting. Now, Brian, do you want predictions? Well, let me just say for Nate, Nate's the hardest because what's left to do. What is left to do? He runs for Senator. If you see host a word show, maybe finally get some posters on the wall for him. What, what if he's going to get a photo shoot this year? What if he wins an Emmy for variety sketch for the Nate Land Christmas Special? Oh, that would be... Is it a daytime show?

I thought Emmys were like a daytime show. Primetime Emmys and then there's the daytime Emmys. Okay. Yeah, primetime Emmys. That's usually like SNL and those categories. Okay, that'd be great. So he could win for that. Right?

Could win a Grammy too. But that's the level we're at now. Like major awards is the only thing noteworthy. Yeah. I don't know. I guess he started doing stadiums. He's going to start selling out stadiums. I mean, I know I'm joking. I know, but it's been done before. I mean, Kevin Hart did it in Philadelphia. Yeah. It's been done occasionally. Yeah. But Nate's got different energy than Kevin Hart though. Yeah It's a Phyllis Stadium, but arenas I didn't I mean I just thought how's he gonna do that? I know and they're great Yeah, just Just announces a new tour

I mean, I guess it'll be a month old again when this comes out but big dumb eyes. Yeah. Yeah. So those are my Predictions for you guys in 2025. I appreciate it. That's fine. What about for you? The easier to drive tour will start getting a little harder. Okay. I love that. The harder to drive tour. Yeah. I can still do it, but it's a little harder. My favorite, I was thinking about our favorite shows of the year.

I think I didn't get to do any shows with you 2024 Dusty. No. Not on the road at least. Um, Yeah, we did shows here at Zany's. Yeah, but you know, Matt Price wasn't available. So to go with this. So he always takes Matt with him whenever we do shows together. So he can smoke cigars with him.

Yeah. But my, uh, we got to do shows together in Tacoma. I think that might've been my favorite weekend. Yeah, that was fun. Tacoma. Those shows were great. It was fun. We got new styles. Oh yeah. Tacoma comedy club. That's right. Yeah. Chrissy Johnson at Purpose Boutique hooked us up. Yeah. My car got towed. Yeah. That whole, there's a lot. Ups and downs. It was a roller coaster of a weekend. It was got towed. Yeah. That whole, there's, there's a lot ups and downs. It was a roller coaster of a weekend. It was a fun weekend. Then I drove down after you flew, I drove down to Portland, did a show down at Helio. That went great. It was

a fun, it was a fun weekend. Yeah, it was a good time. Yeah. Man, what a year. Did you do, uh, your Dallas shows? When this has come out, I did. Yeah. Okay. I sold out every show. All right. Standing ovation. Yeah. Yeah. I sold out every show. Standing ovation. I love it. Yeah. Are you getting standing O's at these theater shows? I don't know. I just say-

Do you stand out there until it happens? No, I go, thank you. And then I run away. No, Dusty goes, thank you. He stands, he walks off, does one of these. No, I don't. I'm not a, I don't know. Some people stand up sometimes, but I'm not, I'm not trying to get standing O's.

I just want people to be entertained by my show and then, you know, going about their lives. For now. I think once you get the standing O, you're going to go. This show's a failure if I don't get one. Yeah. I don't need that for myself. Okay.

I don't need those. You know, I just. You don't need theaters for yourself either, but it's nice. Yeah. If they, well, theaters, what is nice about a theater is that I'm able to do less shows and and and cover more ground Right, like the amount of tickets I sold in Des Moines and the amount of tickets I sold in st Paul would have been like if I did five Sold out shows sold out comedy club. Uh, but that would take three nights, but instead I did it in one night and got to go to another city.

So I'm doing in two, in one weekend, I'm doing what would take me two weekends. So I'm able to do less shows and I'm able to be home with my family. And that's really great. I get to take my daughter to see live Paw Patrol and that's fun. You think after doing an hour and a half, they might just be standing to stretch their legs? Could be. Sometimes I get standing over middle of the shelf.

Jeez, my back's hurt. I'm gonna go clap in the lobby. Take a cigarette break. But yeah, I mean, I do about an hour 10. That's pretty much what I do. And then sometimes I'll go hour 15, sometimes hour 10. That's pretty, that's pretty much what I do. And it's tight. Sometimes I'll go hour 15, sometimes hour 20, but hour 10 is what I like to do. And I'm trying to whittle it down now because I'm getting ready to do the special. So I

got to take some stuff out. That's fun, though. Yeah. I want to do a bit on dreams. You got his own any comics that does stuff on dreams? There's one that does one about Larry Berg. Oh, yeah, that's man. And But I kind of want to take that out of my current set and prepare a whole dream thing. A whole dream hour? Not a whole hour, but a bit.

The last 10 minutes would be something else. Yeah. But why would you take it out if that's what you're building toward? Well because I got the special coming up and I already got an hour without that and you could take that out and do more with it Yeah, later. Yeah, okay. Oh, it's you're not saying get rid of that joke. No. No, I'm trying to build on trying to get everything down to an hour Yeah, and then I want to you know, next special really build a Yes into dreams. I've been trying to lucid dream last few nights. I read a saw thing on Reddit. I had to do it. Can't do it. But it looks like fun. Do you ever try to lose a dream episode?

Did you? Um, I used to keep a dream journal. Yeah. Were you not here for that episode? Okay. You guys did a lot. You guys did a lot of good topics before I joined. A lot of topics I'd like to get in on. In 2024, pretty sure. I guess I missed it. When I waited tables, I would have dreams about waiting tables, being real busy or real behind. And then over the years, it's less so now, but I've had dreams about selling pesticides.

And I would have, like I had like 30 stores and the dream would be like, kind of like, oh, I've not been to this store in a long time. I got to get to this store kind of thing. Yeah. Maybe I was asleep. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Maybe so. Hey. Since it is new years, I put together Brian Bates's top five country songs about new beginnings. All right. I like this. Okay. Number five.

You did a five, you did five. I did not do honorable mentions. Tell us about 18 of them first, and then do the top five. Yeah. Number five, Welcome to the Future, Brad Paisley. That's a fun one. Yeah. I don't know it. Number five. Welcome to the future. Brad Paisley. That's a fun one. Yeah, I don't know.

All right. Number four. Might go a little bit faster. My next 30 years. Tim McGraw. I like that one. I like that one. I don't know.

Yeah, it's about, you know, he's made some mistakes in life, but wink, wink. He's going to try to start eating better. Yeah. Do the stuff we always say. The next 30 years will be different. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he's gonna try to start eating better. Yeah do the stuff. We always the next 30 years. Yeah, be different Yeah, yeah, and then he's become an actor. Yeah, he's a good actor He is a good actor Friday Night Lights you believe he's an abusive dad Yeah, the blind side you forget that it's I forgot he was in that too. Yeah, he's good. I put him around the football

Field and a movie. Yeah, he'll do a good job. You ever see the movie Four Christmases? No. He's in that. Okay. Pretty funny character in that, but also at the very beginning, Steve Byrne. Comic here in Nashville. He's in it? Yeah. He and Vince Vaughn are big buddies. Yeah. Yeah, it was fun. Huh. I probably saw that when I didn't even know who Steve was. Yeah. Not a great movie, but Steve Burns. Steve was good at it. Yeah. Who's the best, talking about Tim McGraw, who's the best singer that's at acting?

Gotta be Billy Bob Thornton, right? Yeah, but he was an actor first. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, yeah.

Sorry, it's before my time, old timers. I barely even knew he sings. He has the box, box, bass, box masters. I thought he was a country singer that turned, who am I thinking? It's also in the movie with him. Oh, Dwight Yoakam. Dwight Yoakam. Okay. Yeah. I like Dwight Yoakam as a singer a lot. As an actor, I can only think of a couple of things that he's done that, but he did Sling Blade with Billy Bob Thornton. His character in that is really...

Wires got crossed. It was great. Yeah. Mustard biscuits. You know, Kevin Costner also sings. He's also a country singer now, I think. He's a singer to some degree. Yeah. Yeah, I just thought of one now that's already escaped me anyway. But yeah, I was thinking about- John Travolta, a singer and an actor. All right. Patrick Swayze also had a hit song.

She's Like the Wind. Yeah, well, Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy? My girl likes to party all the time. Wow. Billy Ray Cyrus, Hannahden Montana's dead. But never a great country singer though. Had a huge hit. Huge hit. But never a good. Yeah. Dwight Yoakam was in Wedding Crashers. Yeah he was. Yeah. Very beginning. Mm-hmm.

Alright number three. Brian Bates' top five country songs about New Year's. Maybe next year, Cory Smith. Great song. You were getting Corey Smith? Great. Wishing I was 21. Fun stuff. Yeah, he had a song called 21. 21 is one of the best songs ever. He is a 45 year old guy singing about high school a lot, but when you're in high school, it's pretty great. Nate would love him then. Maybe next year is a great song. It's the same same idea as that next 30 years. Yeah. Maybe next year is a great song. It's the same, same ideas that next 30 years. Yeah. Maybe next year or something, act in my age, get a real job, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Yeah. But you know, I won't deep down. I'm the same old me. Number two, I've used this song on a previous list that we made. If We Make It Through December by Merle Haggard. That's a great song. It's a great song about, he just got laid off the factory. Now here comes Christmas and he didn't know how he's going to be able to buy gifts for

his little girl. But if we can just make it through December, things will be better. Wow. But they're not going to be. That's where it gets real hard. Well, there are some lines that don't make sense. I think I said last time where he says something like, maybe we'll move to a warmer city come summertime or something like that.

I'm like, well, every city's warmer summertime. Maybe that's what he means. Maybe so, but then the next line is maybe California. And I'm like, well, that's not a city, but. You know, this guy that I mentioned, Zephaniah Ohura, I think is his name. He has a, he's very much like Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley at times.

Really great country singer. Keith Whitley. I just found out about him. Number one song, Brian Bay's top five country songs about New Year's. New Year's Day by Charlie Robinson. Yeah, I like Charlie Robinson. I don't know that I've heard that song, but.

Okay, that is it. I think there's no in in Robinson, right? Robinson. Oh, maybe. Okay. I'm thinking about somebody else then. No, I don't know. All right. That was underwhelming, but I'll do that. All right. I got some stuff about 2025. We're going into here. All right. So here's some New Year's. Okay, we're going into here. Um, all right, so here's some new year. Well, first of all, do you guys make new year's resolutions? I don't not anymore. No, I never I think I did when you're in school and they make you, you

know, write one down on a piece of construction paper. I'll be nicer to my sister and then you know, maybe you aren't. What were your old ones and why'd you stop? I don't know. I used to do the classic, like I'm gonna quit smoking this year and you know. And you did it. Eventually, yeah, but I quit in January,

at the end of January one time, my final time. Okay. I would buy it. You quit and then you. Yeah, I'd buy it. I'd smoke a ton of them on New Year's and I'd be like, I would buy it and then you, yeah, I'd buy it. You know, I'd smoke a ton of them on new years and I'll be like, I'm going to smoke so much that I won't even be able to smoke tomorrow and then I'll give it up and then I would just dip. January 30th, cigarette.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think we'd bitch this on our calendars episode. The reason January 1st is new year's Day, it was declared that by Pope Gregory, he established January 1st as official New Year's Day in 1582. Before that, New Year was celebrated, spring very often. And that's the real New Year's in spring when things are in bloom and life is coming back around. That makes more sense to me.

I agree, it does make more sense. It's a time of, you know, new growth, new birth. How do you two visualize the year in your head? If you've got the year mapped out in your head, what does it look like to you? I think April 1st is new years. Okay. Okay.

So yours is going to look a little different than mine. I don't understand what you're asking, but. You don't visualize the year at all in your head as you're like, as Brian just walked us through it. Like, what does that look like to you? Is it moving top to bottom, bottom to top, left to right? Are they broken into groups? Or do you think about the

four seasons and quadrants? Like how does it look in your head? I think it my my Google map, I mean not map Google maps, but my my calendar on my if you do it I do mine by month so I think I think in months. Okay. Maybe because of that. But the months in relation to each other what does it look like? Is it like a four by three grid of months and you're snaking through it or what? I think everybody does it, but it's not like it's everybody does it a little differently in their head. I don't know. Mine's just straight, January on the left, December on the right, and I'm just moving

left to right. And that's how I'm just moving left to right. And that's how I visualize the whole year like that. And maybe above that, you can see the seasons, but that's how I visualize it. But not everybody does that. But you do a lot of editing on a line like that, right? Like I'm old school calendar, so I'm used to just flipping one month at a time.

Interesting. So you think of them like behind each other, like a calendar. Wow. See, that's them like behind each other, like a calendar? Yeah. Wow. See, that's fun. You don't think about this at all? I'd never have thought about this at all,

but I like it. But access your brain right now. I've never really thought about it. How are you visualizing? I don't know, but now I can see both. Now I see what you're talking about, but I also see what you're talking about. I can visually see the, you know,

it's like a calendar that you tear off. It doesn't flip, it tears like a calendar that you tear off. It doesn't flip. It tears each day. Each day falls as you move through that day's gone burns up. There's no past. You know, I never thought of it that way, but that's how I see it. Music's playing. The things are tearing off. Like posted notes, like getting pulled off day by day. Yeah.

Like a calendar where it has two little things and, and those things are attached and it just tears off or zipping through the year. Okay. So when you think about the future, you think about going through that deeper in the pile. Yeah. Okay. Interesting.

And that life, your whole life is just a giant pile. And then as you get towards the end, it just gets real thin, like, like an old person's skin just gets real thin. You can start to see the veins in there. All right. Yeah. And then what do you do with it? And then that last piece of paper tears off and it slowly

drifts like a feather. last piece of paper tears off and it slowly drifts like a feather. And when it hits, you hope that it lifts up into the sky and not burns away. Wow. Like the end of Forrest Gump, just the feather blowing in the wind. Yeah. That's beautiful. Yeah. It's beautiful.

And you ask your, you ask your baby's mom, is he, is he smart or is he like me? He's very smart. He's top of his class. And then you cry a little bit. I have a joke where I talk about my daughter didn't grow any hair for the whole time I'm fried. I'm like, is she follicle? Is she going to have hair or is she?

I do set years resolutions. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I do set new year's resolutions. Now, I agree with you or anyway, if you've got something you need to fix in your life, just go ahead and fix it. Don't wait till January 1st. I agree with that, of course. But I also do do the things where like, man, I shouldn't be eating all this, but, uh, new year's is three weeks away. I'll just, you know, I do that too. Yeah, you need benchmarks. Benchmarks. So, I'll just, I do

pick. So, I break it down three categories for me and I write this in my journal, which I do every day at the beginning. Personal journal every day. He does for years. He has. Wow. That's amazing. That's how he knows all these facts and stuff. I like that. So, he writes down in his journal, Dusty's boss played for the Buffalo Bills in the sixties and then Barber. Sue Barber. Oh, who's to Grissom?

It's a comic. I don't know. Marquis Grissom baseball player. Yeah. But that is, there is some true, like all of his birthday. I'm like, because most of this, I could just find by looking at the time cover show, but I'm like, I know it's Lacey Tur find by looking at the timecode for a show. But I'm like, I know it's late September. I looked at my journal.

Wow. Oh, that's great. I wish that I had been doing that. I got old journals that I can dig through and it's really fun to read. Embarrassing, but really fun to read. And I got journals from when I used to drink. And it's like, you know, sometimes I would write in it when I was drunk. And you can really see when I was drunk based on the handwriting.

Yeah, I bet. Cause you would do it when you got home that night? Yeah. That's fun. In fact, I started, Aaron, January 1st, 1995. So 30 years ago today. Wow. It was a new year's resolution to start journaling?

I just thought, you know what? It's a new year. That'd be a good time to start. And I started January 1st. How long do you write? What do you? No, not much. Just I just write. I don't talk about your feelings. Yeah. Just facts of the day.

Yeah. Stuff that happened. It really helps me like come tax time. Different things that, you know, you're filling in the blanks on some stuff. But I write down for goals. I write down some personal goals some professional goals some spiritual goals okay and then I write down some things for each one and problem is I don't go back and revisit it as much as I should because they say you write it down never look again you're just gonna forget it but if it's in your face you're more likely to maybe try to do it.

So maybe that's how you view your timeline as your journal. Yeah, there's probably some truth to that. But that's always going in the past. I don't know, you might, you might be right. But anyway, so that's what I do with my goals. I love it. All right, so the most common New Year's resolution obviously is eating better and exercising. Those kind of go hand in hand, but that's by far the most. Some other. My mom, they like to eat turnip greens and black-eyed peas.

Yeah, brings you good luck. Supposed to give you good luck and some wealth or whatever. And my mom was talking to me about it and I wanted to make the joke. I wanted to go. How's that working out? But I did it's working out for you, maybe that's what it is. Yeah, it's about the next generation Yeah, right. She cares more about you than herself. I know that's probably true. Yeah, so it is working out Yeah, sorry ruin the good time. Yeah. No, no. Yeah. They say, we all say this, like we feel it, every year the years go by faster and faster as you get older. Does it, I mean you feel that way? Yeah. I think we all do. Yes. But there is some truth to that in the sense that my

daughter, who's not quite three, this last year has been a third of her life where it's been one fifty third of my life. Wow. So when you look at it that way, your perspective on life, yeah, it is going to fill out and there are also all these milestones that you're trying to get to. Right? Like when you're a kid, you're like, you're about to reach the double digits and age and then you're, you're like kindergarten and then every grade

distinguishes. Yeah. And then you're like a teenager and then you're like kindergarten and then double digits. Every grade distinguishes. Yeah. And then you're like a teenager and then you get your learner's permit, then your driver's license, then you're 18. You're able to be an adult and buy cigarettes in a lot of places except Alabama. And then you are 21. Now you can drink, and then you're 25 and you can rent a car. And then after that, that's it. You got your 30. You got 30, you got 40, you know, you got the decades. Yeah, I mean, every, when you're a kid,

it's broken up by school years, it's distinguished. And then you get a job, and this happened to me, a decade could just go by and you're like, what happened? When I turned 40, I made a goal to do something special each year for myself to kind of distinguish that year. Now I've kind of got a little wax in that. You know, I think about that too, and my 20s was really spent drinking. Yeah. And then my 30s, I quit drinking. And then, so I had a, you know, a decade of sobriety, like,

cause I quit drinking at 29 and then at 39, I had my daughter and then I was turned 40 a week later. So it's like my twenties, I was drinking all the time. My thirties, I was sober and building a comedy career and then my forties, I'm a parent. Yeah. You know? It's great. Yeah.

I can't remember the specifics, but there is some, there is some science about your brain only processes time in so far as you're experiencing new things. So as you do get older, you're experiencing fewer and fewer new things. So things start to go, start to go faster. Right. I have this spreadsheet of every show I've ever done. You know, I've done

103 shows with you, Dusty. Wow. 103. That's amazing. That's a lot. Right. I thought you were about to say I've done 103 shows. I would have guessed more. I've done with Dusty. Whoa, whoa. Scroll back up a little bit. This is booked. This is book shows. This is shows that aren't open mics. Oh, that that So I've just done again in Tuscaloosa. You had a note in there ended up not doing the show got paid anyway That was good. Remember that we left best night of comedy of all time We love down there show up to the venue, look around. We thought, this is going to be a nightmare. Yeah, it was a really bad summer. College bar, hundreds of kids in there. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Not even a stage. And then they just, the owner comes out and goes, I don't really feel like doing the show. Paid us. We went and got sushi and then drove home. Yeah.

Unbelievable night of comedy. We actually went to the laughing skull festival the next day. Oh My goodness. Yeah, okay I think we drove back to Nashville because it's like that was you know I had a great time and I could care less but in a lot of ways a personal low When you show up to a venue and no one has showed so they have to cancel the show But then we went to laughing skull the next. And that's where I met Jeff Singer, I met Michael Cox, and so I got JFL off the Laughing Skull, and I got The Tonight Show off of that.

And that started a lot. So that weekend began with no one showing to my show at all and ended with some really great things. Yeah, I've done 54 shows with you, Brian, if you're curious, 54. 103 shows you've done with me. 103. That's amazing. Yeah.

I wonder who the most is probably. That's a very impressive spreadsheet. 163 with John Chris. Wow. So that's probably the most. Nate, I've done 67. Wow. And that includes just like Zany's where he shows up. I saw another one on there. A couple of those, uh,

that Traverse city gig that we did, that was a particularly bad gig. That was at a Louie Louie kitchen and bar. Yeah. Yeah. It was a bad one. Yeah. So this is fun. This is almost like a journal, but that, that run that we did there was really good. The Meinong comedy club. That's where, um, uh, I made a video about that. That run that we did there was really good. The Meinong Comedy Club, that's where, I made a video about that.

There's a YouTube video of us doing all those gigs. Of that weekend. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot what it was. There's some names on there I've not thought of in a while or seen in a while. Like who? Well, I don't want them to know I haven't thought about them.

So I'm not gonna say names. Yeah, yeah. But that Dublin Irish Pub is where that lady gave you the tag. Etiquette. That's where Etiquette comes from. And that's where all my beef jerky stuff comes from. That Lionong gig. The Sault Ste. Marie, Keywood Inn Casino. That's a really bad gig. I've started saying when I tell that story, if there are enough Natling people,

I go, hey, fun fact, Dusty Slay was on that show too. Yeah. Really derails the story so I'm gonna stop stop saying that. But the that that Minong I got my camera set up and it's in the video I have my camera set up filming you or maybe it's filming me I don't know but the lady comes and closes the door right in right in between the camera and the sage So that is fun, that's uh, yeah, that's really cool you have all that. Yeah, it's very I hid those for the pay column But that's fun to look at too. Yeah, I bet All right some New Year's resolutions that listed Yeah, I bet. All right, some New Year's resolutions that listed drinking less alcohol. Does he already talk about that? Being a morning person. Is that something you think you can do?

Isn't that like a personality trait or is that a choice? I always thought it was a personality trait, but I know people who've forced themselves. I don't know if they're morning people, but they at least have trained themselves to. Yeah, I guess it's, it's, it's a choice in that you can go to bed early and wake and then you're well rested. Yeah. I choose to go to bed late every night. I'm staying up till three every night, but that's been the last. Cause of, cause of a baby. Your baby, not just a baby, your baby, just some random kid. Yeah. So I do the midnight feed and I do the 3 a.m. feed and then I go to bed and then I wake up a little after nine. I'm getting six hours on and off about six hours.

Oh, let's talk about this Greenbrier show. You remember that? Okay. Me and, I'm sorry, this list is just right in front of me and it's bringing back all these memories. Well, that's what's fun about this. You forget about these shows. The Greenbrier is in West Virginia,

a really, really nice casino, like really nice. And I got there super early in the day and I got, they took me, they let me hang out in the kitchen and they made me food. I'm with Dusty this whole time, by the way. Yeah. Were you with me in the kitchen? Oh yeah, we had to eat down with the-

I thought we drove separately and I got there a little before you. No, we had to eat with the peons downstairs. Yeah, and then we, I watched a magic show we watched that little bit of a magic show and then they took us out and there was a DJ there and we were gonna perform where the DJ booth is and they had a people were dancing out there we asked the DJ we go hey do you mind you know doing a little announcement like a five-minute, just to say, Hey,

we're going to do some comedy here in a bit. DJ comes out very buddy buddies. Like, yeah, we're going to do, it's going to be good. It's going to be good. Don't worry about it. Dusty goes, all right, well, can you please just make an announcement? Because they're, it's like a nightclub. They're really dancing in there having a really great time.

And I'm opening for Dusty. So he goes, can you please just get, Hey, we're going to do a comedy show in about 10 minutes. He goes, I got you. I got you. No problem. Yeah. We're going to do it. Acted like this was absurd to even bring up. Yeah. And then he didn't do it. There were people dancing on the floor and he just goes, all right, now we're going to do some comedy. Let's see the first comment. Didn't even fade the song out. Yeah. Just stopped it and goes, we got a comedy show, Aaron Weber. So then I got to walk out and explain to them, I'm not the main guy.

Like there was no intro. Worst way to be brought up. We both bombed. I bombed so bad. We both bombed. And then immediately when the show was over, the guy who had been so nice to us the whole time, very politely escorted us

right out of the property. He goes, give us those jackets back. Yeah. You got to get out of here. Yeah. It was a very nice place. Yeah. We had to wear jackets, didn't we?

Yeah. Yeah. So I'm wearing a jacket and a trucker hat and, uh, and then we got, uh, and it was so cold and we, they kicked us right out. And then we had to get in the car and drive to Charleston, West Virginia to sleep. That's right. Yeah. Long weekend. Yeah. Anyway. For that we did the Cary Theater in downtown Cary North Carolina which is very nice too. And now that was the show where I sold the merch and I sold one CD and the guy wanted 10% he took one dollar from me. Yeah, that's such a great story.

That's so crazy. That's good enough. I feel like you could tell us a joke. Yeah. Just tell that story. Oh, I should, yeah. That's a good idea. Write it in your merch, bitch.

Somebody write that down. Yeah. All right, so drinking more water, taking care of your teeth. Yeah, that's a choice. That's not a personality trait. Yeah. Going to the dentist when you're supposed to,

that's kind of the same thing. Okay, supposed to. I guess people cancel or put it off. Every six months or something? Supposed to go every six months. I had a few years where I didn't go. Yeah, I don't think I had to go because I needed a root canal, but I haven't been just to go. Yeah, I don't think I had to go because I need a root canal, but

I haven't been just to go. Oh, really? Since I no longer live with my parents. I'm not doing that on my own. Yeah. The dentist is a bit of a scam. I believe that the dentist has a purpose, you know, but this whole twice a year, that's a business model. Just, oh, of course it is. Of course that that's what it is, but they're not, it's not like they're pretending to operate on my teeth. No, but I'm saying a bit of a scam. If you need dental work done.

Yeah. I mean, they're there to help you as a guy who's had a lot of dental work done. I can attest that you need it sometimes, but, uh, yeah, cleaning every six months. I'm sure you'd go nine months, but I go six years or so. Well, clean my, I clean my own teeth. Yeah. I, uh, I'm sure you don't clean them well enough. You fill your own cavities, put on your own crown. Yeah. I packed some stuff.

Uh, but I was your age, Aaron. I had a long period where I didn't go. And then when I went, man, it was tough. Right. Cause they had a lot of- Because you'd put it off for so long. And then after that, I'm like, I'm going to stay regular. So I don't have to do this again. I like to get it all done at one time.

What? Fill all the cavities. Let's just do it. Let's make a day of it. Yeah, that's how they do it. Unless it don't come every six months. Well, that's how they do it. But if you go every six months,

there's much better chance that cavities will come. I don't know. See, that's what I'm saying. I don't trust, I don't think the dentist is keeping you from getting cavities will come. I don't know see that's what I'm saying I don't trust I don't think the dentist is keeping you from getting cavities. Yeah. I don't think they are either but they're identifying them. Yeah. And treating them as quickly as possible. But you're right I mean that's the way we eat and do things and clean our own teeth is gonna be the biggest factor. Yeah. Yeah. All right but despite cleaning your car I'm not sure what that means, but I guess I think maybe a

little bit at a time. Set up instead of filling up your floor with trash pile up instead of not going to the dentist for nine years. You do it when there's a problem. Each time I go to the gas station. That's what I do. I go to the gap, put them up and I dump all the trash. And you know, I try to do it more than that. I used to have a really filthy car. When I drank a lot, my car was really bad. That's funny. That's the one thing I keep clean is my car. Really? Yeah. Yeah. My car's a, I had a, I made a tea and I accidentally spilled it all in my car

this morning and it's a real mess in there. Well, since I've had a daughter, my backseat's pretty, pretty bad. But as far as just random trash and stuff, I try to get it out every day. Being kind on social media. Very good, Dusty. Yeah. Yeah, I'm kind, but I'll come at you. But you don't start it.

No, I just, you know, I just, a lot of times I like to read comments on this podcast and I just, I want to know what people are thinking about Stuff and then I you know and I go through and I can you know I'll read something and I'll go okay, and then all of a sudden I come across something and I'm like whoa buddy You take it easy. Yeah, it's a lot. You know and then I have to come in on them. Yeah And then practicing breathing exercises. I like to do that. I And then practicing breathing exercises.

Oh, I like to do that. I don't do that enough, but I don't think we focus on deep breaths enough. And you should do a lot of deep breaths in and out through your nose. Helps detox your body. They say, okay. I don't think we, as a, you know, I feel like as a society, we don't really breathe deep enough. You know, like you ever sit around and take a deep breath in through your nose and see how deep you can breathe in?

No, I think you should know. Cause that you got to expand all the lungs. Yeah. We got some of those phrases that you ever sit around like, all right, let's go into the living room to breathe. Yeah. And then everybody walks in there and just does it together.

It felt good. It did. It did feel good. It does feel good. Yeah. Put a little eucalyptus right on your mustache It did. It does feel good. Yeah. Put a little eucalyptus right on your mustache and then deep breathe.

Oh man. Yeah. It's like a real cool, it's a real cooling thing. Okay. Feels good. You ever do that? You don't have a mustache. No, I did during COVID.

You did for a minute. Yeah. It's a good look. Yeah. Then I got just a few things for 2025, things that are happening this year. Okay. You know, I argued, again, I just saw the video, started 2024, I argued that more stuff happens during even month years than odd month years. You guys shut me down

pretty quick. You pointed out 9-11 and stuff like that, but COVID was 2020. There's always presidential elections on even years, Olympics, cicadas, I don't know about that, but stuff like that. Odd years, not so much. Now you're probably right. We're just making fun of you, but it'll probably make a great point. I really couldn't find a whole lot for 2025.

I mean, this is space stuff, so Desi's not even gonna believe any of it but January 22nd so this is pretty soon Venus Mars Jupiter Uranus Neptune and Saturn will all align in the sky straight up like behind each other no I think like a straight line across I believe that happens those are just called wandering stars though you know what I mean they're're, they're, you know, but they're just kind of in the... But you think they can tell when those stars will wander? Yeah, I think so. You know, they're like beings, they're entities that have, you know, disobeyed God. How do we know when they're going to be? Are you serious? How do we know when they're

going to be where they are? Because we can do it pretty accurately. Yeah. Thousands of years ahead of time. Yeah. We know when the eclipse is coming. It's like, how do we know all that? It's all based on geometry, math, trigonometry.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. OK. That happens to line up with. Maybe they have communication with, you know, satanic beings. I don't believe that. NASA?

Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's a great question, Aaron. Glad you brought that up. There's a sub Reddit starting right now. Right now in Reddit, somebody's starting a new. Yeah.

Uh, and then they scratch their neck beard and then they yell up to their mom. I'm on Reddit all the time. Uh, September, 2025. Yep. This has already been delayed. NASA is going to launch Artemis first crewed mission around the moon in a while. Then Artemis 3 is the one that's supposed to land on the moon. Manned? Yeah. It's a manned mission around the moon? Uh huh. That's exciting. Why do they always name the things after like these Greek gods? Oh, it's great though. Why do they do it, you think? What do they suppose, what do you want them to call it?

Ralph? I mean, it's got to have a powerful name, dude. Apollo, Gemini, right? Those are powerful names, dude. And all the planets are named after those things too. I know. Why do you think that is? Because that's just, that's just, that's just how you...

Well, because, well... What do you want them to be named? Because they worship the gods. X, four, three, two, one. The gods. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, think about, like, they've been named that for a long time, right? Right. So who, like, so they were naming the planets after these gods, or were they naming these gods after the planets? No, I think the gods came first. Yeah, gods came first. And the constellations, they'd draw them up and, you know, yeah, because that was

the... And the days, the weeks, the months, the year. But the days, and you know, like the days, I mean, they have pretty mundane names. What do you mean? Monday, Tuesday, it's like they're not powerful names. Sundays for the Sun, which you're all aboard. Mondays for the moon. And then the other ones I do think are like Saturdays for Saturday. Wednesdays for the wind. I don't know what Wednesday is. Thursdays for... How do you think Wednesday spelled the way it is? Weddness? Weddnessday. I don't know. I'm not happy about it. I get mad every time I have to spell it.

I always spell it wed-ness-day in my head. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, Artemis, Artemis 2 is supposed to go later this year. And then I haven't even heard of this company. They're called Vast, Vast Space. And they're an American aerospace company in California. And their goal is to make a

commercial space station. You know, the International Space Station is going away, but they're going to make this new space station where even private citizens could go. Oh, okay. Just anybody can hop in there. Well, if you're a billionaire or a scientist, but- I'll find a way out. So still not open to the general public then? The rich general public probably. At first, but then-

In the same way that Mount Everest is not open to the general public, you know? Take some resources to get there. Right? I guess, I don't know. I'm not interested in mountain climbing, but I would like to, I would, you know, let's get a poor space station. You know what I mean?

But any, I guess, major invention at first, only the rich could do it. What I'm saying is there's not, it's not a toll road to get the space, but it does require resources. How about we do an experiment where we say, hey, you know, we don't know how good this is going to work, but if you'd like to volunteer, we'll let you in this so you can see how it goes.

Yeah, sure. Okay. Homeless in space. And would it, is there a person you would trust what they said that went up there? Only you. Or it would have to be you. No, no, no, I wouldn't trust any of them, but I'd

like to. What's the point of the experience? No, but I mean, you know, if you're homeless and you're like, man, I sure would like to get off this street and they're like, hey, we got an experiment for you. How'd you like to go the farthest away from the street? Yeah, yeah, I think that that's, I think that's, I don't know the word, but. I don't know if I get the point of this, but. Well, why should only the rich get to go to space? I mean, they like what Jeff Bezos is doing now with, uh, is it Blue Origin where he sends people up on the edge of space, you know, for your weightless, whatever there was a doctor.

I mean, sure. I'm sure he's still wealthy, but from Vanderbilt, they got to go based on not just his money, but other qualifications. What do you have to say about it? He loved it. So he had a great time. What about those people that were trapped in the space station?

Are they still up there? They get, they never got down? I think February's the target goal. Seems like we could. And then he's going to come on the podcast and tell you what's up. I can't wait. Why do you think they can't just go get them?

I mean, I think we talked about that. I think there- But that was a while back. I even forgot about them up't just go get them? I mean, I think we talked about that. I think that was a while back. I even forgot about them. Go get them. Go get them. How though? It's in a rocket. Yeah.

Blast on down. I mean, they're hard to get. I think, uh, there are no more space shuttles. So we're using private. It doesn't Elon Musk, like landing spaceship. Like he's, that's who, that's what we're taking private companies. But doesn't Elon Musk like landing spaceships? Like he's. That's what we're taking to go get them, I believe, but he already had planned to go at a certain time.

So I guess they're sticking to that plan. I don't know. I'm sure there's, well, I don't know the reasons why they're waiting so long, but. I hope when they do it. I don't think you can just go like that. I hope when they do it, they'll put a camera on there. And, and, cause what I'd like to see is a spaceship take off and then go into space. I'd like to see it go through the atmosphere.

Right. That'd be fun. Yeah. And then like orbit the earth and then we can get like a cellular service from it. How amazing would that be if it went out of the, of this of the atmosphere and then like you can point the camera down and the earth is just

that'd be wild huh that way however yeah yeah yeah yeah you know yeah depending on what side you come out of i guess yeah yeah you wouldn't be spinning like that depending on what side i mean if you come out like right off mexico it would kind of be spinning like that you know what i mean if you come off in it I do know what you mean you come out out of the whatever what if you come out the Arctic, you know, I'd be spending like this. But if you come out, you know, Mexico, and then how you do it, but you'd be spinning with it. You think even just right, like how far do you have to get away for you can see it spin?

It's not it's not a, it's not a distance. It's so, there's, I'm trying to think of where to start. So you never can see it spin. If you stay there long enough, you can see it spin. If you stay in one fixed point. Yeah. Right, but if you're orbiting the earth, you're orbiting the earth.

Yeah, but we're not gonna, I'm not talking orbiting, and I'm talking about coming out of it. Put on the mercy break. Yeah. Coming out and just stopping. How far do you have to get before you can get out of the Earth's orbit? I mean far, right? I mean, I'm asking. You mean if you're on the Moon, could you see it?

Maybe the Moon's not even far enough. Well, I'm asking. I'm sorry. You mean if you're on the moon, could you see it? Maybe the moon's not even far enough. Well, the moon also. The moon's locked, tidally locked, right? Yeah. I'm just saying, I think that'd be fun to see. Right. Mm-hmm, yeah, it would be. I'd like to see it.

Mm-hmm, yeah, it would. It would be fun. Just see it whipping around, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Satellites all out there. You're dodging. It's like a Star Wars episode. Would you go to space if they offered it to you? Yeah.

Okay. I hope that happens. Yeah. Me too. Me too. I mean. Awesome. I'm trying to go.

I'm trying to talk about it so much that NASA goes, you know what? Let's just take this guy Shut this guy up. Send him up there. Take him up there. You're playing the long game. And then I want to go Well, that's cool, man. You want to go I was wrong about everything? Yeah, pretty great up there. Yeah I mean I don't even I mean I believe it Okay, I'm just you know, I'm just joking around with you guys. Of course, of course, we're having fun. We're having fun. Well, I want to ride a star. I want to lasso a star. Ride a star? Yeah. Well, I wanted to end on those predictions for you guys so it'd be something upbeat, but we already did those. No, I think it's very upbeat. I think it's

gonna be a great year. I feel very positive. Mm-hmm. What show? I do feel good. I'll be honest with you. I was, I thought the world might end during the eclipse and I thought COVID would never go away and- The election. Yeah.

And yeah, I thought it would be mass riots out here and it all feels good. Yeah. I'm very positive about it. All right. I like that. It feels good. You know what I mean? I feel good. This year's about to be a train ride. I feel good. You know, we're a quarter of the way through.

Smash cut to chaos. That would be funny though, when this episode comes out, things have already fallen apart. Take some heat off me for killing people. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So you've got, uh, I mean, every show you're looking forward to, but February 28th, especially February 28th. But yeah, this is going to be coming out. And then my first show of the new year, um, I'm going to, I got,

I got the first two weeks off unless something comes up, but my first one, January 17th, Birmingham, Alabama. I've not performed in Birmingham in years and years. And I don't have the theater here. The Alabama theater or the Lyric? The Lyric as well. The Lyric, unbelievable, great venue. And then January 18th, I'm in Pensacola, Florida,

doing another theater. And you know, and I'm, I'm pumped about it. That's awesome, man. I mean, I not, I don't get to do a lot in Alabama. And so I'm hoping a lot of my, you know, Alabama friends are able to make it to the show. But do you have any shows that you want to mention that you're already pumped for, for 2025? I mean, I know you're excited about all of those too. Well, yeah, I mean, festivals or any, you might just wait until they get close. Yeah. Well, uh, you know, February 28th, uh, I'm very excited about, uh, that's my special taping. It's going to be great, but I am excited about all

them. I'm going to Fresno, California. I'm going to Boise, Idaho, February 21st. Never been to Idaho. There's only a few states that I've not been to in the lower 48. I mean, I guess you could, you know, I don't know that I'll be making it to Hawaii, but, um, um, would you go? I would go, I think. Um, but I don't know, there's been no offers for Hawaii, but if they offered, would you go? Yeah, maybe so.

What's the hesitancy? I'd like my kids to be a little older cause I'd like my whole family to go. Okay. I was just making sure you didn't think that was some fake place. No, no, I, you know, I, I like it's out family to go. Okay. I was just making sure you didn't think that was some fake place. No, no. I like Hawaii. It's out there. Yeah. Okay. But my dad has been married four times, right? And my dad took his first three wives to Hawaii

and then they got divorced. So he refuses to take his current wife to Hawaii. Wow. John, we've got- What is he doing in Hawaii? I don't know. I don't know. Well, it's just all downhill from there. It's so beautiful. That's right.

Come back to Alabama. Maybe so. Uh, what'd be your, any like, and I guess I'm asking like for 2025, anything big that you're looking forward to? The whole run, I'm going to a lot of cities I've never gone to before. Detroit, I'm going back to Boston, I love Boston. Like I got some cities lined up that like,

you look at the calendar and I was like, man, this is gonna be a fun, fun first few months. So not one show in particular, but like the whole run of it, I'm pretty pumped about. Yeah, that's how I feel too. I am doing some Canadian shows. I've not done a lot of them. Going out to, uh, like the west coast of

Canada, Vancouver and, uh, another place. And I'm doing, uh, Toronto and so. Then your family can go to that, right? Yeah, hopefully, you know, Hannah will be able to go and, uh, her family will be able to come down and see that. Yeah. So that's exciting. Good deal.

Yeah. And Nate just announced his tour and he's doing some European dates down and see that. Yeah. So that's exciting. Good deal. Yeah. And Nate just announced his tour and he's doing some European dates again. All right. Amsterdam, he's doing France. What about you, Brian? You know, you ask all the questions.

Yeah. I'd like to reciprocate a little bit. What are you excited about? I'm the same as you. I got a lot of shows that I've never been, places I've never been. I'm excited about that. They're a little bit more off the map than the average place, but I don't know. I'm excited about all of them. But January 3rd and 4th, this weekend, I'm at Comedy Off-Broadway in

Lexington, Kentucky. I love Comedy Off-Broadway. Go try to go to Kentucky basketball game. I've never been to a basketball game. Try to do that. That's January 3rd and 4th, then January 11th. I'm at the workshop in Fort Myers, Florida. Okay, never heard of that, but Fort Myers is great. Yep, I think it might be the first comedy show they've ever done there. So, I'm gonna break that in. February, let's see, I think I'm skipping one here.

I did a club called Belushi's in Fort Myers. John. Yeah. Or Jim. I think it's Jim. Yeah, Jim. It was above a restaurant called The Tilted Kilt. I know it's a little bit.

You know about that? Yeah. Yes, sir. So anyway, that's January 11th. Skip back to me. January 11th at the workshop. And January 25th, I'm doing the Honest Fox Comedy Fest in Marietta, Georgia. A lot of fun comics on that. Is that the social

media company? Yeah. Dustin Nickerson's doing it, Stephen Rogers. And then January 31st I'm at Stardome in Hoover, Alabama. I love it. Stardome. When are you there? January 31st. Oh just two weeks after I'm in Birmingham. That's exciting. Yeah. Yeah. Take a little Birmingham takeover. Well if you could mention me while you're on stage, mention my show. I appreciate it. So all these shows in January, I'm excited about fun places. Big time. It is fun. Let me, I'd like to ask this to this guy. About the ad reads. Yeah. When Gary Seinfeld, when Aaron asked Brian about his dates, did it feel like an ad read?

Because he was talking to a friend. No. Okay. All right. So this weekend you're aware? Well, nowhere this weekend off. I'm relaxing, but January 17th will be my first show of the new year, unless something, yeah, things could get added in, but I'll be at the Lyric Theater in Birmingham, Alabama. Beautiful. And then Pensacola, Florida. And then when did you start airing?

January 17th and 18th, I'm in Detroit, Michigan, the House of Comedy, and then I got a Texas run at the end of the month, St. Antonio, Austin, Texas, doing the Creek in the Cave, headlining on all weekend, rounding things off at Houston, Texas. Nice. Big month coming out. Yep, yep.

All right, that's it. Nate, I think we'll be back next week and- Big time. Big time, big time. Yeah, I mean, that'll be the second week of January. So I don't know. Well, I'm going to guess Nate's going to be back next week. And 2025 is going to be a great year. We thank everyone who supported us in 2024.

Thank you for sticking with us. Nate's going to be shooting some movies in 2025. So things just keep getting bigger. All right. Thanks so much, folks. We love you. Thank you. It's just keep getting bigger. All right. Thanks so much folks. We love you. Thank you. It's not lost on us. We're having a good time.

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