The Nateland Podcast - #9 Television

Episode Date: August 26, 2020

What’s your favorite TV show of all time? This episode, we talk about television. The guys discuss the history of television, memorable moments in television history, their favorite shows and so much more.    Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail]

what's up everybody this is nate bargetzi at the nate land podcast thank you for listening thank you for tuning in all the stuff all the stuff you're doing you're doing it it's going great with Aaron Weber and Bryce I don't know oh boy Brian Bates already started two very funny local comedians

no does that get old that's always we're all local comedians it's fun to say it every time thank you guys you guys have been awesome everybody's been very very nice

everybody's you know as usual we appreciate it. You know, we're plugging along. I think we're figuring it out, keeping it going. I start everything the same way. Just doing that. So, you know, I guess we dive in, right?

Yeah. To some comments. As usual, we want to start with your comments. If you're not a fan of this part, fast forward. I mean, it's, you know, on YouTube, it shows, it breaks down everything. What do you mean? They put the timestamps up. They put the timestamps up.

I mean, you could. Oh, yeah. You go to YouTube and you could just. One click, you're past it. You're past it. Yeah. You know, and that's what we're here for. Just easy moving along.

Nate says everyone's been very nice. Now let's read the comments. Let's read the comments. This paper says I begged a different... Probably said that. Whole sauce. Nate somehow managed to twist the phrase contrary to popular belief to popular to disbelief.

And I'm not sure you can ever recover from that. I said popular to disbelief? Yeah. A few people pointed that out. A few people pointed that out. Yeah? A few people pointed that out. Yeah, but you know what? I think I saw one. Someone was like, it's the same thing. Is it not?

Contrary to popular belief, this is popular to disbelief. Is that not the same thing? I need to diagram it, dude. I can't. There's a lot going on there. But does it mean the same thing? Let me think about this. Contrary to popular belief.

So popular belief, the opposite of popular belief, right? Right. Popular to disbelief. So if you don't believe, it's getting right to the point. It's actually better. It's actually better. Popular to disbelief. This next one, I don't know how you're going to defend this one.

Tuna85. Nate, I don't know how you're going to defend this one. Tuna 85. Nate, I don't have many things with sentimental value either. Sentimental. What is it? Sentimental? Yeah. Sentimental. It's cinnamon things.

Someone also pointed out you mentioned Holly first, then your wife and child. For what? You were like, you know, I lost something. My dog, my wife, my child. In that order. In that order. Whoever I can get to, they're all very sentimental.

Sentimental. A lot of bumper stickers. We'll be a sell them. Sentimental value bumper sticker. I don't know. We're not. Based Nate Knight so fellow Nate

don't throw me under the bus buddy. Based on the difficulty with the vocabulary in the comments I think Aaron hides his intelligence to make Nate

feel more at ease. Aaron is that true? Absolutely not. Aaron but I I'm bored I think you're you're sort of are you a prodigy of something? Aaron, is that true? Absolutely not. I'm bored of it. I think you're sort of... Are you a prodigy of something? At what?

I don't know. You play the piano really well. I think you're smarter than you're letting on. Oh. Did you pretend not to know? If I'm doing that, I'm not doing it to make you feel at ease. Yeah. That's kind of...

Well, I don't want that. But if you are super smart and you're holding back i feel like i'm decent at a lot of things at a lot and i'm not a prodigy at any one thing but you're you could be in the room you would be with the prodigies you would be able to you'd be the interviewer of the prodigies oh yeah that's because you could be like i can talk about all of your things that you guys do i I could be like inside the actor studio. Yes. I could do that.

Yes. Okay. Are you dumbing it down for Nate? No. Okay. Are you pretending not to know portend? Are you portending? I forgot about that.

Are you portending? I hadn't seen that word in a while. You know what word, what's the and symbol? Ampersand. Ampersand. My neighbor, Felix, who listens to every other episode of this podcast, and he said ampersand this morning. And I was like, come on.

Right when he said it, he was like spelling something. He's like, ampersand. And I go, well, don't. You're being ridiculous. I go, what is that? And he goes, the and symbol. I was like, just say that. There's never any reason to say ampersand.

Nobody says ampersand. Just say N. That's what it is. Look, I don't know. I didn't know when he said that. I wasn't like,

oh, that's what that is. But my popular disbelief was just saying, I forget. You know, sometimes it means

something different than N though. Like I know for like a TV show, if it's written by yeah the ampersand will mean something different than if it says just and written and if it's if it's the and symbol then it's like the two of them together and if it's the word and assistant to the regional yeah it's the i mean it's more equal i don't know if that's true well i remember all the

scripts i've done that have gone nowhere uh but it's the credits are like in some of that stuff the way stuff gets worded in that is a big deal yeah story by first if you get story by written by if you get written if you can get written by and have the two people on it then you can get a chance to get created by because if you look at everybody loves raymond he wasn't created by oh that's interesting he was uh based on the comedy of of everybody loves raymond even but uh it was phil rosenthal was the show. And some of that, it's because he would have been, when he made that show, he was nobody. So, I mean, he doesn't get whatever he wants.

Now, if he made a show, he's going to get whatever he wants. Yeah. But it's big fights when that stuff goes down. And it's weird because in TV, they make you go through the entire contract for the first season and this is before and then they just say afterwards you should we shot the pilot and they're like no show but i mean you have to go through and they're like here's how much money you would make here's i mean it's like lawyers get super involved it's all this big fight to then shoot the pilot and then be told no. It doesn't make sense. You're like, well, I don't want to,

why tell me all this stuff? You know? Just for fun, 1978, 1900. My dad is a pastor who has performed a lot of weddings over the years, and he frequently uses the line during the ceremony to much laughter. Marriage is two people working together

to solve problems that never would have had if they had just stayed single. Love the show. That's funny. That's funny. Yeah. It's a funny thing for a pastor to say. Yeah, it's a good icebreaker.

Henry Smith, Aaron looks like every D-line coach ever. He wishes. Yeah. Coach Witt was my D-line coach ever yeah I mean that's he wishes yeah yeah Coach Witt was my D-line coach in high school I'm starting to look

a little bit more like him every day like you just would be what would you be shorts guy would you wear flip-flops or would you oh basketball shorts

t-shirt whistle yeah hat yeah flip-flops I could see my whole look no not flip-flops

really yeah tennis shoes did you go barefoot no I never had a coach go barefoot I know Yeah. Hat. Yeah. Flip-flops? I could see my whole look. No, not flip-flops. Really? Yeah. Tennis shoes. New balances. Did you go barefoot? No, I never had a coach go barefoot. I know. Well, that's why you should do it.

That could be my thing. That could be your thing. Okay. Do you think you could coach football? No. No. I got my wife. I thought.

No way. I went through a lot of thoughts there very quickly. I don't think so. My wife was supposed to – my daughter wants to play basketball so she was like oh coach i could coach now especially because no touring uh and i play basketball i know basketball and i guess i could coach it for eight-year-olds but it's a lot of pressure like his parents get mad if you're not playing the kids yeah oh yeah all that stuff i'd be like one of those parents that in probably heart like don't let my daughter play as much just so people don't think i'm fair you know yes uh michael ellis the

look on brian's face when you guys said you love the idea of calling them different names is so funny true unapproval and disappointment i am so happy to see the number of subscribers has gone up so fast. I remember when it was only 300 or so. Great work, everyone. Last month. Yeah, 300 is back down. I do remember. Because subscribers on YouTube, it was not. When I started on touring, we were filming all this road life stuff.

And I remember it got up to like a it was it was a i had nothing because all my youtube videos are spread out they're from like stand up and they're put up from different people so it wasn't you know and so yeah we've jumped a ton we're doing good it's the podcast all right all right that is my favorite running joke is just calling brian everybody they all do it even in these comments some of the names they call you are it's wonderful dude yeah it's very funny yeah uh mary elastila hey guys love the podcast nate i'm a huge fan but i don't know why you pick on brian so much he contributes a lot to the podcast.

He also has a very soothing voice, and I think he should record audio books. Yes. Maybe since Nate has such a hard time reading the comments, he should let Brian take over. All right. See, Brian's mom apparently got a YouTube account. Thank you, Mary. I mean. There were a few comments like that, but they would call me by the wrong name,

so I didn't think they had the real spirit of it. Even when they're complimenting you, they still call you Bryce. Even when they're defending me, they're like, Nate, you're a little too hard on Darren. I'm like, I don't know if you're being sincere or not. They get off the Bs. Thank you, Mary. They're just on B names right now. They're out of B names by now.

Yeah. All right. We go go you know he does Brian does very good Brian does a lot of work Brian puts all this stuff together

we talk about no one's not acknowledging Brian gets paid appropriately for that which is zero we're all getting zero but one day

Brian will get a little more than zero just a handshake. That's eventually what we'll go to. Go to the Ellen show. You can go to the Ellen show. Treat it better there. Treat it better at the Ellen show.

I have a statement I'd like to read. Nate Bargetzi is a good person. He did not make me say this. All right, everybody. Thank you, Bryce, for the... Anyway. All right. You know what? I'm gonna be always read the comments i will always the comments are not gonna be taken from me but what i will you will have to what is pride of my dead hand what is michael scott he goes

i will not leave this office you have to burn this building down. When he does the, you have 24 hours. Why'd you say that? They're like, I don't know. They always say that. They always say that. I always read the comments. But we did think of something. When we go through the other things, I will read it until I mess up.

And then I get it taken from me. Until Brian messes up. You got a short leash. And then it comes back. It goes around until someone messes up. That got a short leash. And then it comes back. It goes around until someone messes up. That's what I think should happen. Robbie G. Guys, you have great chemistry and balance.

I'm sure most realize the heckling of one another is the stuff we did sitting around in our basements in high school, which is part of what makes the show killer. Brendan, you are... Brendan, you are... Oh, man. Integral. The Brendan threw me off. What's that?

How do you say – Integral. Integral. You got it right the first time. I know. The Brendan messed me up. Brendan, you are integral. I can't say it.

Integral. It's all right. I think integral is right too. Integral. I pronounce both ways. Oh, thanks, Aaron. I say integral is right, too. Integral? I pronounce both ways. Oh, thanks, Aaron. I say integral. That felt like a dumbed down.

He goes, hey, you said it right. You're doing great, man. Keep going. You're totally dumbing it down now for him. Brendan, you're integral, Brendan. Yes, Nate, real word that means necessary to the show. They're dumbing it down for him now. It wouldn't be the same without all of you that you know talk about a guy that gets it

and and don't think i know y'all are throwing words in y'all won't be using all these words nobody you don't use those words in youtube comments dude there i see them chris cho i think what aaron was going to say before Nate was set off was that some people argue that having children is selfish because of the idea that a person thinks that the world needs another version of them. Someone with their DNA mini-me. When there are children in orphanages around the world that need loving parents. It's not that the world doesn't need children, but the world need their children. Yeah. Yeah.

Or adopting is huge. My sister does the fostering and it's wonderful. And fostering, I mean, it's, you know, it's an amazing, amazing thing. And they get called in the middle of the night and it's just like, you got to take a kid now, you know? Yeah, I mean, 11 o'clock at night. It's like we have...

Your whole family has helped out. I mean, I've met, was it Jasmine? Jasmine was there. Yeah, we bring them in. We're a big, our family's, yeah, if someone comes in, we're like, you're part of our family now and then you're just in uh yeah we're good yeah we're on the same page about that you don't like it okay uh i mean no you're not again you're against adoption no that's not what i'm saying go ahead

i'll say the comment i was like we're we're all on the same page here among the three of us, I feel like. Yes. I think adopting should be way more, you know, it should be more talked about. And I think easy, I mean, it can't be easier. It's definitely got to be harder. You know, it's a weird

thing that you can't, but it seems like it's a long system. It's hard for people to get, but it's when someone does adopt, as my mom always said, it's the most selfless thing you can but it seems like it's a long system it's hard for people to get but it's when someone does adopt as my mom always said it's the most selfless thing you can do yeah uh and it's truly wonderful mark archer my wife and i are listening to this episode as we struggle to get our six-month-old twin boys to sleep high-fiving each other as nate goes off on his rant about people who deem themselves too worthy to have kids my wife said those are the same people that ask to use your restroom and they don't flush the toilet because they're saving the oceans see they get it too they go uh i don't know if i've even not flushed it like uh but i know people that yeah when they if it's you you know they say don't flush it i i flush yeah i flush that'd be

another advantage of getting a urinal right yeah yeah that's a good point that's what they need yeah a urinal in every house yeah hannah paulson nate says people who don't want kids are doing it because they're selfish but then three seconds later he says, what to put down and tell people it's selfish to have kids. Don't tell me what to do. That's so pompous. People shouldn't say things that make people feel bad. Do you see how you're contradictory and offensive here? Not really,

but you know, I'm, I'm sure you're right. Like, you know, like I think I say a lot of things that sound like I'm arguing, like two people arguing. Yeah.

And it's just coming out of the same mouth. And, yeah, I'm pretty. That's just a big thing, you know. But you just do it. Just let them write it out. Yeah. That's the point. I think most people do that.

I don't know if they do that. Maybe you shouldn't do that. Maybe you shouldn't do that. Maybe you shouldn't. All right. Matt Carter, I love the full-on Nate rant. I love the passion. It would be so easy to label Nate as just this simple guy who doesn't care. Thanks for saying what you really think.

All right. Now we're starting to get some traction here. This is – we're going to start picking up. Thanks, Matt. Jake Peterson, when we say you dress like it's fall it's not because you're wearing a hoodie it's because aaron is wearing flannels like he just left a pumpkin patch amen well he wore a flower hat to counteract that today that's right uh don thompson nate right on the money when he said laura earned everything that he has how about more

on how you three met do wives and fiancés hang out? My wife suspects that Laura made all the arrangements for Brian Bart's reception. We do. We do hang out. I mean, me and Bates have been pretty close friends for 10 years. And so we've, Aaron and I met second episode of this podcast. Apparently, I feel like I'm just meeting you now. You're the smartest human being that's ever existed.

Goes down there and just plays our piano like a maniac. And like, oh, it's not a big deal. Just gets in his van and drives home. No, we all hang out. We go out with your wife, now and uh we've been there and uh not crazy we've never been out together we did the predators thing we went together uh the thing you performed it yeah yeah we all came as went as a fan but i mean your ruth comes because most things that we were doing were work related. So Ruth has been on the bus.

She's been on, you know, she's hung out. She's been with us. It's not like I don't know who she is. Yep. And Laura, yeah, Laura did handle the reception, the arrangements. Yes. Yeah. And your mom. That was obvious.

Oh, man, that's a great call. It was my idea. It was your idea to have her handle it? It was my idea for the reception. Oh. But I don't, but she my idea. It was your idea to have her handle it. It was my idea for the reception. Oh, but I don't, but she does the, okay.

I mean, she has to do the work. I'm the idea, man. I come in with the ideas. Yeah. And then you're in your fiance was, we were around her a lot.

Lucy. Yeah. Uh, at Zany. It's a small world that we're in. It is. Yeah. No one's on. Yeah. It's we're all world that we're in. It is.

We're all very close. It wouldn't be weird if the wives walked in right now. No one would be like, why did you bring your girl? Did we answer all that? How about more on... We all met doing comedy. That's how we all met.

Torin Shanta. I'm teaching AP European History this fall fall my current plan is just to show them the clip of nate aaron and brian trying to figure out what the middle ages is and assume that we will prepare them for the test i like that we're still going to do an episode on middle ages that's someone emailed me about that knows a lot about middle age oh really he's from the middle ages i said how did you get an email he's like well it was difficult but i got it uh i like that we're gonna be this will be the first ap class i'll ever be a part of is that it's the idea that that will inspire

them to take their studies more seriously it could be yeah it's because you want to do this is this where you want to end up? They just show this is me just being integral. And they go, do you even know what he's trying to say? And they're like, I don't even know. I want to know how accurate we were. How accurate were we? With the Middle Ages? Yeah.

Well, we'll find out. I mean, what claims did we make? I can't even remember. Well, I said it was from like 500s to the 1500s based on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is usually pretty good. There's still people out there who think we know what we're talking about. Unfortunately.

We look it up. We try to give it a go. But that's about all we can do. Morgan Coistra. Coistra. Morgan Coistra. Wait, so Brian sleeps with a CPAP machine but takes off his wedding ring at night because it's uncomfortable? That's a good point.

That's a fair point. But the wedding ring doesn't help you breathe. Well, I wouldn't wear a CPAP if I didn't have to. Yeah. I think, but it's like, you know, I mean, he's getting so locked and loaded when he goes to bed. I mean, it's like. Like, what's one more thing? Just keep the ring on?

Yeah, it's like, is the ring really going to bother you? You should put your belt on, too. You have a helmet and a mask on your face. I mean... Yeah, just wear your clothes to bed. Shoes. Shoes, everything. It's a fair point, Morgan.

You'll wake up ready to go, man. Yeah. I feel like Morgan is Ruth in disguise. wake up ready to go man yeah i feel like morgan is ruth in disguise kyler pool that remedial math class really stuck for old nate 41 divided by 2 is 22 book it 41 divided by 2 is 22 when was that few people pointed that out i guess i didn't catch it but the last week when we were doing half your age plus seven apparently you said 41 41. I'm 41 divided by two, so that's 22. It's not far off. It's not far off.

I would be, yeah, 20 and a half. It's close enough we didn't feel like we needed to correct him. It's just like, just stick with the main stuff. As I've learned, if you can say stuff with a little confidence, nobody, and you're close enough, you're to get by that's that's the advice cj brian has resting confused face that good that makes it is that is that is true well let me say first of all when nate's talking it's not resting yeah uh but i've had this before when i was a senior in high school, we went on our senior trip to Panama City. It was my first time away from my parents.

I was so excited. My friends down there. And we met these girls. I was trying to be so cool just hanging out. And out of nowhere, one of these girls just goes, this guy looks worried. And they all start dying laughing. And they're like, look, he's worried. And the rest of the trip, they called me worried.

That was my nickname was worried. Worried is such a good word to use. Like if they would have said, this guy looks confused. Worried. I mean, they labeled me that. Worried is such a good word. Yeah. For that situation.

Women know how to cut to your heart, don't they? She could have said confused. She could have said. That would have ruined the whole trip for me. I mean, I still remember it to this day. You're just trying to hang out. I was trying to be so cool by not talking. This guy looks worried.

And then she, I mean, I hadn't said a word. And his bum over here looks worried. Who's he with? You two? And then for them just to call you worried. God, that's so funny, dude. I still remember it. I mean, that's like professional stand-up.

You would try different words. Right. You would be scared. You would try everything. Yeah. And worried. If anybody's like like think about comedy worried is just a very funny word and it's a it's just such a description that it's not a strong person and it's a i mean it hurts like you know you don't say worried about he man is not worried no he's like like there's you know soldiers are not worried like they're

you know they're confused they're they could be scared scared is okay yeah worried also not worried about anything in particular just worried in general general look and it's coming from like guys you maybe could see that but from a girl oh yeah and they. And they all laughed. I mean, I was mortified. Yeah. Got more worried. She got super worried. Self-fulfilling, yeah. Yeah, it is self-fulfilling.

A couple more. Steven Bauer, I walked into a public restroom at a grocery store to an old man completely naked washing his underwear in the sink. Looks at me directly in my eyes and says,

I just didn't make it, you know? I just had to turn around and walk straight out. That's insane, dude. I mean, yeah, we talked about that, right? I think there's two. That's not normal. You can't just be like, guy code, right?

You cool? I love it. I love it. Well, there's some guys that would be like, your secret's safe. They, I think, do like that. But that's crazy. That's crazy. I, I think, do like that. But that's crazy. That's crazy. I just didn't make it.

Just throw your underwear away. Well, this guy's having a bad day. Yeah. Somebody walks in on him and he plays. I kind of respect how he played it off like that. I do too. I don't. You know what?

It happened. I can't change it. I'm trying to fix it. Sometimes you don't make it. I'm not playing into it. I don't think he's's just like, you know what? It happened. I can't change it. I'm trying to fix it. Sometimes you don't make it. I'm not playing into it. I don't think he's, just throw him away. I think old people have limited number underwear. That's right.

Make them ride. Those said Wednesday and you can't get more. Because these are my, it says Wednesday on the back of them. Everybody has a favorite pair, right? Do you have a favorite pair of underwear? That'll change your whole day? Oh man, I have a couple of that. I buy the same kind that I like.

Okay. And then so they're all the same. Okay. Same kind. Yeah. Do you all have... I feel like you want to tell us about yours. No.

Yeah. I feel like that's like an old man. That's like... All mine. I have all MeU have all me undies, but there's the, some of the design will give me a little extra confidence. If I know that I'm wearing it.

Yeah. I'll just feel good. I, mine are, mine are just regular colors. Mine are Lululemon. Oh, man.

Makes sense. They, they're women's. Uh, uh, I, I, I started giving giving not getting the design because i wear shorts and so i wear like the like the short ones that kind of go down yeah when i sit down like my regular shorts will show them and it was embarrassing yeah if it's like camouflage and you're like i'm sorry yeah someone's I'm 40. Two pair of shorts and camouflage underwear. Almond milk.

Last one. Eight episodes in and I just noticed Nate, Aaron, and Dave don't say any swear words ever. I never knew it was so possible to smile from ear to ear for an hour without any F-bombs. New favorite podcast. That is true. We try to keep Dave calmed down.

He would let it rip. Yeah, you know, if you know my comedy my comedy's clean and so that's the general you know i don't want my parents to get mad at me uh so we've we just and we're all clean comedians and so we just stayed being a clean comedian it's not like we're letting it rip off camera yeah i mean yeah uh it's yeah this is how we are and uh yeah we don't make it try to make a big deal about it you know i think as a clean comedian you always your best compliment as a clean comedian is when people are like oh i didn't realize you were clean yeah that's that's what you're trying to go for and so that's this podcast is kind of the same thing

we want it to be like that where you maybe don't notice and you know there's plenty of there's plenty of cursing in podcasts so you can find you can find it if you want it but uh here one day we will uh just turn i told i did an interview with With Not to be name dropping But With Jeff Foxworthy That has a show on Sirius And I did one An interview with him Or we just talked

He does like an hour thing And he was talking about Being clean And I was like You know It's just how I started clean And when you start clean

I mean now it's been 17 years of writing jokes Clean So I'm trained that way I don't really think of any sex jokes i don't not saying i ever wouldn't or something doesn't come up i but i i just don't kind of my brain doesn't kind of go to there anymore uh but i was talking to uh foxwood about it it's like you know as like it's not i was like i'm just clean you know i was like i don't it's

like i'm gonna be like but once my parents die i'm gonna let it rip you know I'm just clean. I'm going to be like, but once my parents die, I'm going to let it rip. I'm just waiting them out. All right. Here we go. We're on to the topic today. I'm not a good transition guy. That's what I've just realized. Yeah.

Into the comments, I think I start weird. I'm going to get better at that. Well, this one's going pretty good. I don't know. People would argue that it's not. I've heard people are. weird i'm gonna get better at that well this one's going pretty good i don't know people would argue that it's not uh i've heard i've heard people are uh so uh we're doing something different we're actually having uh our first guest today we got it we got a guest we got someone sitting in and uh we're very excited to have him this episode uh just so you know we're

gonna talk about tv a lot of tv episodes something we're all excited about have him. This episode, just so you know, we're going to talk about TV, a lot of TV episodes, something we're all excited about. This guest was an easy get. Wasn't tough to get him. Too easy, to be honest. This guy I've become very good friends with. And you can come on in. Please welcome John Augustine. Everybody, look at this.

The big no one cares, John. Aaron clapped a little bit. A little delayed. Vandy fight song. All right. You might. That's about how Vandy starts her fight. It's always late a little bit.

John Augustine is a golfer at Vanderbilt. Me and John have become friends. He's in his fifth year now at Vanderbilt. Sometimes, hey, not everybody graduates in four. Sometimes it takes people longer. He's going to try to tell you it's because of COVID. Not true at all. Just couldn't cut it.

Because I don't know. Me and John, we've got to golf a lot i'm at where i play is where vanderbilt's golf team is at and so uh me and john have hit it off and been fun and john is playing in the u.s open in the masters this year as an amateur uh so we want everybody to watch that we'll call all rooting for John big deal, I mean, John, you think you can win? yeah that's the attitude you gotta have going to the tournament to play well you should be in contention

just, yeah talking, yeah so there'll be no fans there, right? yeah, they're not gonna have fans they haven't exactly stated yet whether they're not gonna have fans they haven't exactly stated yet where they're gonna allow like you know family yeah family maybe 10 people per group or something like that but it's certainly gonna be different i would imagine yeah but well that's how you play golf most of the

time right yeah it may be easier yeah there's uh we have a pretty big group that walks behind us every time we play yeah just, just your regular normal round. We just got some guys behind us. John, when I played the club championship, John showed up. We did it. So I was playing in our club championship, and it was my first kind of real competition I've played in in golf. Very excited.

You know, I kind of go crazy in golf, especially in these times. I just went nuts. And so I get playing in it. First day, I shoot a 73. One over. Everybody was shocked. Huh?

Everybody was shocked. Everybody was shocked. I mean, I was in the final group. So then you get paired, you just three days. And so I shoot a 73 in tournament play. Probably the best. It's the best I've ever played because this is you got to put everything in. There's no gimmies.

There's no nothing. So I get in that final group. And that second day, it just the wheels come off. And I ended up shooting an 83 that second day. But I had on back-to-back holes, I had eight. And, I mean, one one of them i hit a ball it went in some high grass uh they actually found it but i thought i was playing a different ball i go back hit another ball and then it comes out and i was like oh no that was my ball and you

can't hit it and so now i've already taken the stroke so i get an eight and then that's john kind of shows up because he's gonna ride around for for a few holes. And so he shows up and sees that. And I'm just driving next to him. I was like, I just got an eight on that hole. And then I just, next one, I just hook on the left out of bounds. So I have to hit a provisional. Well, yeah, that's right. Yep, you're right.

It wasn't out of bounds. You just couldn't find it. Just couldn't find it. And then, yeah, not out of bounds. And then the other one goes left again. And I look at John, and John just goes, we'll find one of those. And then we went, and I was in a bunker. And for some reason, I tried to hit a seven iron.

It was just a mess. And I mean, John was like, he goes, look, you got to just get a triple bogey. At this point, just triple bogey it and i get an eight after trying to get it out of the sand on your what probably what fifth shot now yeah i looked at you like what are you doing what do you do what is this i mean and the first time we played together i putted and i missed the putt putt went too long he just goes your speed is awful and then just kept walking like my speed y'all know you get nervous playing golf around I putted and I missed the putt. Putt went too long. He just goes, your speed is awful. And then just kept walking.

Like my speed. Do you get nervous playing golf around people that are really good at golf? Is there part of you that you get more nerves? I don't think so. I mean, now me and him have played so much, so I don't. I played with Jason Day a few times and I don't. I mean, you want to play good. I don't think I – I weirdly don't get nervous in that kind of scenario. I would get nervous.

I mean, you don't – I know I'm now good enough to – the ball is going to go out there. Like, I'm going to hit it. I mean, now I've got a topping. I was topping the ball recently. I got embarrassed when I was playing with these guys, and I had hit five provisional balls on a hole and i shot an 82 so that means i had five double bogeys and i still shot an 80 like i would have shot even par yeah yeah and they but i kept

topping them and then they would like hit and then they'd go 10 yards and that was i was playing two guys that were like scratch and And that was kind of embarrassing because it just kept happening over and over again. I mean, one of them, it happened like three times, three tee boxes in a row.

And that was like, and I didn't really know these guys. And they were like, they were like, oh, that's all right. You know, they're just kind of like,

and I mean, I'm just constantly having to throw another ball down. So, yeah, it's, but it's gotten better in which the games were you know putting yeah yeah i mean with how much you've been playing i'd say that there's nowhere else to go

it was it had to get better it had to get better you know it's uh what's the best score you've ever i don't know why we're talking about nate's golf game i've got a professional golfer i've shot even par once thank you brian uh and 73 in the club. Oh, John's here. Sorry. Go ahead, John. I've shot 60 a few times. Never shot 59. Shot 60 actually at Vanderbilt Legends.

On the south course, I shot 60 at my home course in Owensboro, Kentucky. That's where I'm from. You should try Riverside and Hermitage. Yeah, I've heard everybody's talking about it. I know. We're going to take them. Well, you've got to go with us there. I want you to go with me

To Just Riverside I grew up playing I think it's Not It's gotten better But it's It's just a

Public course That's been around forever Yeah I'm so curious to see Y'all playing Cause you could drive Every green Yeah

Have you shot a 60 Brian? Yeah On the front yeah brian is 60. uh is that what you meant how old is brian are you 60 now uh i uh brian's gotten a lot better yeah brian's got a lot a lot better we played with uh my buddy michael and michael hasn't played forever and michael hits it michael can hit it but he was just kind of really off and so we had We played with my buddy Michael, and Michael hasn't played in forever. And if Michael hits it, Michael can hit it, but he was just kind of really off. And so we had them play the last three holes. I was like, all right, y'all two got to go at it.

And Brian had to give Michael a stroke, which Brian has never given anybody a stroke ever, and he had to give him a stroke. And it was – I mean, we were doing triple bogey max and out of those three holes i think two of them they both got triple bogey maxes and then the last hole was a free-for-all you could score yeah and it was just it was so fun for me just to watch because they get both they both get themselves in just some brutal trouble. And I'm watching. Brian had to go look for his ball.

When he tees it off, goes and looks for it. Has to drop again. And he's basically by the tee box, back by the tee box where the group behind us is. Which is funny just to think you would have to go to talk to the guys behind us. Because you guys quiet down and trade my second shot, please. And then watching Brian go up. I mean, you got – you all both tied that hole, but Michael had a putt. And then we go play one playoff hole and Michael parsed –

I mean, just 250-yard drive. Right down the middle. On the green, parsed it, and it was like – Easy. Yeah, it was like nothing. Yeah. So you're – so John is – he finished – he was a finalist at the USAM last year, so he got to be – he would be done with school right now.

Yeah. He would have already graduated. He did graduate. He would already be done. We already played in the Masters in the Open. You'd already – you'd be on – Yeah. You never know for sure,

but I would likely have played the PGA Tour this summer with some sponsors' invites. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, it's all all good. All that happens, you know, for a reason. So we'll just kind of waiting it out. I'm going to play the US Open, the Masters this fall and then, you know, take some hopefully get some exemptions after that. And either next summer or if plans change and I leave after a first this first semester, I'm not sure yet. How nervous do you think you will be at Augusta? Like you've played Augusta. Yeah.

But I mean, right. When it's, I think, uh, what time do you think you're tee off? Super early. Y'all tee off.

Is he an amateur? 5, 6, 630. Um, you're out before they, before they announced. Yeah.

They're cutting, they're going to cut the first fairway while I'm teeing off. Just a heads up, guys. Don't catch the lawn crew, but they're about two holes ahead of you. I don't know when I'll tee off. Do the amateurs, when do they usually tee off the amateurs? It varies. Yeah, it varies.

So, you know, I don't know when I'll tee off. But, yeah, I mean, I'll be nervous. But, you know, I've luckily played in a PGA Tour event. I played in one last year. And so I didn't feel more nervous there than any other event. I'm always, you know, kind of anxious on the first tee shot. But once I can get it off the tee, we're just kind of competing. And then you're playing.

Yeah. I think it's going to help with no crowd. I mean, they talked about with – well jason day talked about you know with no crowd like it is you could see people like who's going to thrive in those crowd situations are going to be the guys that have been around for a long time so and the people that could get nervous i just i think that the people who you would think would thrive in the crowds are the new guys out on tour and then myself being an amateur, all those guys have been playing college golf, amateur golf, junior golf

for most of their lives where nobody shows up. Oh, yeah, so they're used to it. They're used to it. Like Colin Morikawa, I know well. He won the PGA three weeks ago or whatever. No, that's what I'm saying, that he would thrive in that. Yeah, he would. Yes.

You said guys that would be around forever. Well, I mean, clearly we know from the comments, I contradict popular disbelief. I mess up quite a bit. But that's what I mean. It's going to help. Like, I think that's what Jason was saying. Like, Tiger Woods, if it's crowded Sunday, Tiger's going to –

he thrives that crowd being around. Right, got used to it, yeah. Versus a newer Colin, you know, some of these younger kids. Like, they would – I mean, look, they have when Tiger won the Masters last year with seeing Koepka and all the – like, that had to play into it. Yeah, I don't know. I like crowds. I want, you know, in the, you know, whatever, probably 10 events that I've actually had big crowds.

Like, I think it's fun. I think it's, you know. Yeah, crowds are great. It's great. You know, you kind of feel off the energy. So I'm kind of conflicted on the subject. I think it could go both ways. Well, we need you to make a decision.

But make sure you go watch John at the, we're very excited at the US Open the Masters thank you I don't know what no none of us are doing

a bunch of losers here we started a podcast so John also one thing we've bonded over was Seinfeld big Seinfeld John is

22 yeah super young born the year i graduated high school i could be his father i think my parents would have been thrilled about it but i could the age fit it works out yeah you've been 20 19 yeah no i would have been 19 uh yeah just do that math again dude yeah here we go i would be exactly the divided by two plus seven uh almost uh so but he a big seinfeld fan which is not was was surprising yeah is someone your age you wouldn't think i think people are watching is with the friends office seinfeld think they're

getting an extra life with that and it's a a big extra life with the Netflix and Hulu. And they're showing these shows again. I mean, Friends. I mean, I think people are watching Friends. John and I are roughly the same age. There's a TBS block for a while. With that, it was like King of Queens, Seinfeld. What else was on there?

Yeah, yeah. All those shows were on there. So that's how I watched all of them. Yeah. But for you guys, you grew up with the internet. Like anybody born 1990 or later probably had the internet your whole life. Do you feel like you view TV different than,

than us in the sense that TV was. I don't like that me and him get, we're on this side. I knew it. I knew. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think. What is your thing? We before a couple guys us yeah that you always say about me

and you we're both two guys both in our 40s both born in the 70s and both graduate high school in the 90s i mean it's just facts yeah i don't know why that's funny about it um you know i think like for me going back to like what aaron said like i grew up because i think i liked seinfeld so much was i grew up when my my dad loved seinfeld and so every single night at five o'clock tbs showed five you know five to five thirty five thirty six two episodes of seinfeld every night and so i mean i did that for 17 years and you thought you thought it was on air because you were so young. I don't know what I thought.

I don't think, I mean, I think when I was probably 14, I was pretty aware that it was not on TV. Well, I thought, which we're talking about, I thought Andy Griffith was, I didn't know that it was not. And it was off air for 40 years. It was like off air before my parents were born. Why did you think it was in black and white? Nothing else on TV.

I mean, when I was a kid, dude, it's on TV. It's just an artistic decision? Yeah. No, I'm not even remotely. We had a black and white TV in our... Really? Yeah, in our kitchen. My parents brought a small black and white TV.

And then we didn't have HDTV, dude. It was on regular, you know... Sorry, dude. Not all of us grew up with money like you I thought as a kid watching sitcoms

I thought the actors just improvised it there on the spot like I didn't realize they were that's dumber than what I think well I was a kid

yeah and I remember watching an episode of something and one of them kind of started to laugh broke character a little bit and my mom's like

oh look they're about to laugh. And I thought, oh, okay. I'm shocked they don't laugh all the time because they don't know what's coming. Because I really just thought they were thinking of it there on the spot. But I was six. Yeah. I remember I used to think people really died in TV shows and movies.

I mean, y'all, what I did was nothing. Y'all maybe. We were very young. These are two of the dumbest comments I've ever heard in my life. You learned about Andy Griffith like six years ago. No, but for me to be a kid and think that it's currently being filmed now is not that insane. You think it's all made up. You think these people are truly dead.

That's wild. I remember watching Gunsmoke with my grandparents and people would die and i'd be like man they really gave it all for this show and it's like that's amazing they do that they're that committed you know they are did you think of any no i can't say i've ever thought of that yeah is that how you get into vanderbilt yeah stuff like that he went to notre dame that's not easy to get into but did you guys really write about this apparently it is yeah i had no internet so tv is all we had to watch did were you on your computers more or watching tv more tv i've never watched tv on

my computer i didn't have a like my i had a computer in my house like a family computer you know with desktop and yeah everything but like i didn't have like a laptop until i went to college and so but now do you watch so you watch everything on when you're at home are you watching on your phone are you watching on your ipad tv i would i would say i pretty much always watch it on tv yeah now it may be like a smart tv where you're connected to wi-fi you watch netflix or hulu or whatever but yeah it's like most of the stuff i'm watching if it's not seinfeld i'm watching sports yeah yeah you don't have cable no uh no i have youtube tv so i get the channels the live yeah that's that's the i mean it's such a crazy thing but that's you know we've talked about to look let's get into this tv so when So when was TV invented?

The world's first television was created in 1927 by a 21-year-old inventor named Philo Taylor. Or Philo or Philo. If it's Philo, then I get to take over reading. Well, we don't know. He forgot his last name. He's here. Farnsworth. Farnsworth.

Yeah, I missed that. Philo Taylor Farnsworth. All right, I think I get that. Philo Taylor Farnsworth. All right. I think I get that. A name like that, that doesn't count. What was on it? On the TV? Yeah.

Picture of him. He just has a TV. What's on it? Just his family. The VCR hasn't been invented. Just his family's on there? Just pictures. Yeah.

What was on? Well, what was the first TV show? America's first television program aired in 1928 and was called the queen's messenger it was a radio drama adapted for television the program was thought to be broadcast only to four television sets so 1927 the tv was invented nothing was on it yeah and in 1928 that show the queen's finally was like thank god you finally gave me something to put on this tv i've had it for a year yeah he just one night because i do this every night just seeing nothing nothing nothing just one day just queen's messenger what's this

back to nothing it's not good it's gotta be pretty weird though that it was a radio like if i'm thinking of this correctly it would be a radio show that they now are putting on tv yeah yeah it's it's uh you know i've done uh a show they do when i would do the prairie home companion which is on npr chris thiele uh they they do tom papa would write out like right this kind of stuff like a radio show where you're you're kind of like it's either being funny or it's like that kind of stuff it's pretty interesting i mean it's like people are listening to right i mean i think people used to sit around the radio it's interesting that we kind of come back to that now i mean we're doing a podcast right now. The idea of doing this 20 years ago would be insane.

You're going to do a radio show? Well, the same thing with The Herd. That's a radio show, but they put it on Fox Sports 1. Yeah. Do you listen to any regular radio? Do you listen to podcasts? I listen to some podcasts. They've got to be good.

I haven't listened to this one yet. Okay, that's fair. Yeah. But no, I listen to, the only radio I listen to is 104.5. Yeah. The Game. Yeah. I listen to that in the morning.

The Zone? That's it. The Zone. 104.5 The Game. I listen to 104.5. Midday 180. Yeah. Is that right?

Yeah. The Zone. All right. Yeah. The Zone. Clay Travis. Yeah.vis yeah morning so they they're doing uh i wonder if like now like radio is like because i mean there's gonna be people that are not listening to pod i mean all they're doing is listening to podcasts they're not yeah regular radio i think serious does good i listen to serious i like serious i like just how easy

that once it's all going to change once everything the thing with internet tv and internet all this stuff with the radio is you have to go to the you can't just flip and listen to what's on yeah so once that i feel like is on you know like with serious radio i can go you can go to news sports comedy you know and i get it kind of just flipping whichever thing i want to stop on but once you with uh internet radio you gotta like i feel like you gotta go like you know tv is yeah i gotta go to netflix i gotta come out of netflix gotta go to hulu it's these extra steps that i think is the only thing that's keeping it from just, you know, regular cables gone.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, my, my parents like two nights ago were like, asked me like, what am I paying for YouTube TV? And I told them, they're like, they're paying like four times that for cable. And so they're like, well, we're going to try YouTube TV. And so I gave them my account information. They signed in and, uh uh my mom immediately calls me and

was like why can't you switch between between channels and i was like what do you mean you just like go back and like scroll down she's like so i have to do that every time i want to switch the channel i was like yeah it's pretty simple though you know it's not very hard it's how you get into it though yeah it's i think for you i can't click 24 no well she wants to just turn it and it pops yes and you're kind of flipping through it yes yeah i mean that's kind of done yeah uh i mean i don't really flip now the guide i don't do it much right but sometimes it's nice to press down and it changes the channel yeah uh but we have my parents are on youtube tv now yeah they're done we still have direct tv

but i mean we're close it's close i mean because it just seems like everything's there and i don't know i don't understand like there's parts that we're not even i don't get to watch as much tv as i want to now and so it's just what's you know my daughter i think my daughter is not ever gonna she'll just be netflix like it's she's just used to well that's kids don't even think about tv in the same way that we do as as like a channel being something that's just going on yeah and then you just tune in and watch whatever's on it and then tune out it's like i start about it that way yeah that's how i watch tv yeah almost all my life until the last few years yeah now it's just you

have a show i'll just watch that show she will yeah so she'll be harper she's a she'll be that generation that is the show starts when i press play right yeah it's not just i didn't miss it yeah right watching something live i mean there's i mean that that's the well that's the thing too like with i like TV also went to like, I don't know, maybe eight years ago, whatever, around that time. It went to you want have i've watched espn or whatever i'm trying to watch and that's it it's a cable company let you pick individual channels that you wanted how many would you pick 20 yeah i think probably less than that if you really think what's one channel that you couldn't that if you could only pick one what would you pick espnPN. Yeah. PBS. Yeah.

There you go. I always thought about this. There was a while I thought I would almost take TBS. Yeah, TBS is good. Because for sports, even though I want sports. You still get a few games a year. You still get your Braves games. Yeah. You'll get the March Madness.

You'll get other stuff. And you're not going to want just sports. You want a mix. And I always thought TBS would be a good, you know, it's like reruns. Yeah. All that's March madness.

You'd get some of that. That's a good pick. TBS. Now that I think about it. Yeah, it is a good pick. Cause I'm smarter than all of y'all. Yeah.

What are you doing on PBS dude? Watching Ken Burns documentaries? Yes, I'm learning. 60 minutes. No, I watch 60 minutes, but that's CBS. Do you watch PBS? Yeah. Learning. Ken Burns documentary. Yes I'm learning. 60 minutes. No I watched 60 minutes but that's CBS.

Do you watch PBS? Yeah. I like Ken Burns. Austin City Limits. That's a good

show. I thought that was a music festival. No it's some. It's a show that they show

music. Yeah they show music on PBS. Do you know PBS? I've heard yeah I've heard of it. It has a little

icon. Yeah. Like a head. You're too young to watch yeah it's uh it's a this age group yeah it's this side of the but they have kids programming too sesame street yeah you know i never really watched so when grandparents are watching their grandchildren yeah they can bond over a channel yeah and then i don't know no pbs is good they have a lot of good stuff uh it's brought to you by pb uh viewers like you when did tv sets begin being sold uh it would take until 1938 before american television sets were produced and released commercially there was a their way they were an instant hit after release. Did that count?

That wasn't. I didn't even pick up on it. No. Yeah. See? That doesn't count. It's when I don't know a word. You didn't pick up on him stuttering and pausing uncontrollably? No.

1938. Yeah. I mean, they would have been out. How much were they? Did you see any of that? I mean, how much could a TV set have been? $500. I mean. What? i'm guessing back i'm guessing it was the equivalent of owning a boat for your family yeah like it was that sort of 15 grand like probably yeah five grand i don't think so maybe five grand i could be way off here

if you had a tv it would be yeah... Yeah, it was impressive, yeah. It looks like, depending on what size you got, it ranged from 125 to 250. A three-inch? A five-inch. A three-inch TV. Wow. Wow.

Well, how much is an iPhone? Well, it says down there, in 1938, a car cost $700. So that was not, you know... If you scale that out... How much was it for today? Oh, well, how much are cars now? A lot, right? 20 grand.

20 grand. Yeah. I mean, depending on what you want, but. Yeah. Yeah. 20, 30. Yeah. So it was 700.

That's a big difference. Yeah. I mean, they're biggest phones. They're smaller than phones um that tv is smaller than a phone yeah you gotta be sitting pretty close i mean what did that yeah guy comes over mounts it on his wall can you do uh can you look at an image of a five inch i just what i mean how thick does that have to be honestly they were watching it you know we're talking about kids now watching on phones they were already watching they were already watching on phone you could take it everywhere i mean that's such a you know because i don't think it was so compact

it's cheaper than i thought all right that's pretty expensive dude it was a yeah it was a big it's a big box but the screen yeah it's only five inches looks bigger than five inches but i don't know that one in the middle with the blue background looks about right yeah yeah i mean that's crazy dude i mean like yeah so you would just turn i mean you couldn't even look atms yes yeah they look like atms and it definitely looks like something that you're not comfortable you're not lounging and watching think about like tv now you can not comfortable, you're not lounging and watching. Think about like TV now, you can lay on the couch you can lay on the floor. That's one

that you're sitting upright someone's probably standing. Maybe two people are standing if you're trying to watch TV, you gotta go walk over to it. I can remember as a kid, we didn't have remote controls and I was the remote control changer.

Yeah, yeah. I remember not having remote control. I mean, the black and white TV was – I remember my family, my mom's, all her sisters, they all got it for Christmas one year, and it was to have a TV in the kitchen. It wasn't our main TV, but the one in the kitchen was 15 inches, and it was black and white, and you'd watch it.

But it wasn't crazy to have that black and white TV. It wasn't like, why are we buying this black and white TV? I don't know if you could buy one now. You'd have to go eBay or something. But it was just one that was made for us in the kitchen. And then we had TV, but I don't think we remember having a remote. I think I remember getting a remote I think I remember getting a remote

it was crazy that you could just yeah you know it's so funny you had like a your role in the family was you were the TV changer

yeah for my parents and grandparents so you just sit closest to the TV I'd be lying on the floor watching and my dad say change the channel and I'd get up

turn until he yeah that was like the old that's what you say about kids was yeah kids that's why you had them change the channel and then you got a remote what did you do after that you just lost your you just lost your purpose he was put up for adoption my dad said that when he was a kid and they were watching you know like kentucky basketball games

they would turn the sound off on the tv and turn it on on the radio with the screen on because he said it was a better like it was much better on the radio than it was on the tv but you could watch it and listen at the same time yeah yeah that's like when you listen to i've done that yeah where if i if i want to hear some of his i want to specifically hear about like vanderbilt so and i want to i want to hear our people talking about them versus and then there's a delay yeah you got to sink them that's what's hard uh when did commercials start the first american advertisement aired on july 1 1941 the ad was for belova watch and lasted for 10 seconds aired on nbc that watch has been around for a long time is it still

around uh yep yep uh first ad wow it's interesting it took that long for commercials to start how was all this being funded well the show's when was the first show was 28 but that was a radio program there was probably ads on that radio program okay but, okay. But they were just sad ads. Okay. And then the first like, oh, let's film a commercial. When did remote controls begin? When were you born, bro?

The first remote control was produced by Zenith and released in 1955. This remote control could turn the television on or off and change the channel it was completely wireless that's nuts i mean that's my mom my parents were born then uh took us a while to get it that's what i was about to say it took y'all 25 years to get that remote

i think it was expensive it was you know must have been hey did we ever yeah i don't know i mean what else was wireless at that time probably not a lot no maybe we yeah remote might not have been wireless it says it was wireless oh okay sorry when did yeah maybe maybe these are cold hard facts dude yeah you know you notice all the sources when did color tv start on june 21 1951 cbs broadcasted the first color program only 12 customers across america could see the first color TV broadcast. 12 million other TVs were blank for this program. Few people owned color TV sets between 51 and 65. Starting in 66, color TV programming was broadcast across America,

leading to a surge in sales of color television sets. I mean, think of like 12 people. What if you're one of those 12 people? I could see you being one of them. Yeah. I could see you being, I thought it would be you. Like it'd be like a weird group, but you wouldn't have the color. You'd be a part of like, you're always part of these weird things that i was one of the people they asked about uh but 12 man can you imagine

you're like only 12 of you there's 12 million tvs yeah it's not you know it's not like there was a thousand i bet the people on the show that were like guys there's 12 the rest of them can we just keep it black and white for a little bit longer so more people can see us yeah the actor is just

why didn't you make it he goes I don't know I was on for 12 TVs there's 12 houses I can't go to the bathroom in because I'm so famous but the other 12 million

I mean that's yeah then color TV sets started and then we were off and running i mean tv was probably people just wanted to get people needed stuff to do i mean can you imagine having to listen to radio just your whole yeah your your whole life and then you get tv and you're like i mean it'd be like be like a drug. You just, you're like, I want to see all this stuff. We're so bored. You can't do anything.

And then you're just like dying for it. Historical TV milestones in the last 40 years. We're just a few of the 79 ESPN, uh, debuted, uh, Ted Turner launches CNN 24 hour, 1980s, 24 hour a day news that was a big deal mtv 1980 1980 and pay-per-views began to leave its mark on the television reaching about 20

percent of all wired households 1992 infomercials explode with growth the national info infomercial marketing association estimates infomercials generate sales of 750 million double that of 1988 that's crazy so they're making that much money yeah you ever watch infomercials yeah yeah there's like a favorite one vc or something uh what yes yeah yeah now they're the whole channel qvc yeah yeah the uh what's the guy that was kind of crazy uh that i had a huge drug problem the sham wow sham wow yeah he had big problems he did and i that guy would just come on he was so good at selling stuff that i think he would like get off of it and then need money. And he could just, anybody would take him because he was so great. That's a whole system in itself.

That's a whole different level of like, oh, I can sell things. Yeah. Billy Mays. Yeah. Him too. Yeah.

Yeah. Magic bullet. You remember the magic bullet? Yeah. They had a great infomercial. Yeah. Check it out. Uh,

you know who has, uh, now it's like commercials like geico like the rat problem like the geico's killing it geico's always great espn always had great commercials they had awesome this is sports center commercials oh yeah those are the best yeah those new uh sports center commercials that was like they're acting like they're back in time like it's it's running like recently and they're like like they're back in time. It's running recently, and they're like farmer's insurance. Oh, yeah, yeah.

But those are good right now. 1993, 98% of American households owned at least one TV, 64% owning two or more. I mean, 93, I mean, it's in. 96, digital satelliteishes come around. And then 2000 DVDs, 2004 DVDs, Outsell VHS. I remember going to Blockbuster and getting VHSs. Do you remember VHSs? Yeah, I remember VHSs.

But I definitely remember going to Blockbuster. I did that my entire childhood. Yeah, I mean, you would have been 2004. I mean, yeah, you would have been seven. So you remember seeing VHSs? Oh, yeah. Did y'all have a VCR? Yeah.

I think they might still have it, honestly, at the house. Yeah, yeah. 2005 flat screen TVs and HD TVs are introduced. Is it that long ago? Yeah. That's a... I remember seeing HD TV for the first time. Me too. That, I mean, pretty amazing, dude.

Well, so it's like the color thing is like the 4k which i mean 2012 lg announced the world's first hd tv using the 4k system i got the the 4k i got it like when it came out but it was like they didn't have programming for it yeah like they're not shooting stuff in 4k i mean now it's a lot more the color tv i was one of the 12 people but yeah but with the 4k they were selling 4k tvs it's not like these tvs were extra more it was if you bought a new tv it was like 4k this is what we have and but they none of the shows were on 4k so there's only like and then direct tv even that's the other thing that hurts direct tv uh direct tv they would you'd have to have a channel for 4k so you're having to get an extra box and like pay extra for this 4k where you

where then you start going well i can watch youtube tv and it's just in 4k yeah yeah so i have to get a guy to come out like they're just you're literally like dragging along an old system really there's direct tv it's crazy i thought directv would never go down and you know you're like well this is what it is it's the best thing ever and it's it's got to be at the end right direct tv yeah i mean unless they reduce well didn't they partner with at&t yeah yeah that's what a lot so it's all a lot of times. They'll adjust. I know, but they're going to sell internet now? Well, there's... Well, it's all part of it.

As a cable, as watching stuff, you're watching stuff on YouTube TV. And you're not... What are you... I don't know. Cord cutting is a big thing now. Yeah. It's like if you cut cords, DirecTV is out. Unless they're like, oh, we're going to sell internet.

Now we do internet. They'll likely adjust to whatever's gonna happen. They're not just gonna like cease to exist, I wouldn't imagine. Or else they don't have It seems like you're

talking about Blockbuster. I mean, that's like, well, Blockbuster will be fine. I mean, they're just... 2007, Netflix started, offered streaming content to subscribers.

However, it could offer about a thousand movies and TV shows, just 1% compared to its more than 100,000 different DVD titles. That's when you would order it. I never really did Netflix that way. No. 2010 3D television started hitting the market. Yeah.

Now some TVs are in 3D. We had one, and they give you glasses. You don't use it. You're just not. It just never caught on, I think, for that reason. You don't want to put on a pair of glasses to watch. Yeah, what's the point? Well, you could do it if you were really, it's fun and stuff.

People still want to go out. We went to the movies. The movies opened back up here, and we went and saw greece this past weekend social distance was all the stuff everybody was pretty spread out it's really not full at all i mean it's actually great because no one's really in there and it was sold out but no one's in there uh but so we watched they're showing some old movies greece go Goonies, Star Wars. Pretty fun. It's fun to see Grease on the movie. What is that?

Have you ever heard of Grease? The country, yeah. Yes. No, the movie Grease with John Travolta. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're saying Grease. Grease.

Is that how you say it? It sounded like Grease, the country. I didn't catch that. The words sound the same. Grease. Like elbow grease. Yeah, all right. Yeah yeah i've seen that a lot yeah okay yeah uh i mean i'm not doing well so feeling me here viewers are going down this week i mean they don't you know you got people rooting against you

yeah uh uh but we went we went and watched that this weekend and you still want to go do stuff you still want to go to movies and that was the problem with the 3D and all that kind of stuff is you don't you know you're not gonna you're like at home you're like not everything can be at home but I bet

that changes when people don't want to longest running scripted TV show with a total run of 72 years. 15 on the radio and 57 on TV in a staggering 18,000 episodes. The Guiding Light is the longest running drama series of all time. The creators even received a Guinness World Record for that. It was canceled by CBS in 2009. I've never heard of it. Me neither. No, I'm joking. I have. What is it? I was that. It was canceled by CBS in 2009. I've never heard of it. Me neither.

No, I'm joking. I have. What is it? It's a soap opera. That was just funny to make the longest show. My joke was to say I've never heard of it just because it's been on for 72 years. I've never heard of it. Really? The Guiding Light. I've heard of many soap operas, but not that one. Wow. That surprises me.

I think it really tanked around year 50. Like the quality dropped a little bit. I mean, I never watched soap operas, but yeah. I mean, how do you cancel that show? It's just been on. Maybe the ratings are, you just go like, let's go to 100. It's enough. I know, but you might as well go to 100.

If you're at 72, just get to 100. This show was on for 100 years. You act like it was at 98. Yeah. It's 28. I mean, 2009, we'd be at 82

and now you're, I mean, who cares? Yeah. It's at this point. They haven't heard of it. Well, they're on their third generation

of viewers at this point. No, they kept the same actors. Go ahead. Viewers, dude. Oh. All the viewers. If you started watching it

at zero, you're dead, but it's still going on. Yeah. That would be funny to see you do it and just these real old women just in their whatever drama

soap operas do. I don't know what they do. Longest running primetime TV show, The Simpsons, with 31 seasons and 684 episodes and counting. 31 seasons, man. Simpsons.

It came out in 1989, and we had video yearbooks in high school. Did you guys ever have? No. Did you have that? I don't think so. It was a new thing for us where they sell you a VHS tape, and it was supposed to be like a video yearbook. But they would put historical milestones in there and on my i graduated high

school 30 years ago the simpsons is on my video yearbook is one of the top shows oh yeah it had just come out yeah and it was big for high school kids yeah yeah i remember thinking it wouldn't last because i wasn't allowed to watch it. Yeah, because Bart Simpson cussed, and there had never been a cartoon character who did that. He was defiant to his parents. Eat my shorts. That wasn't it. And I thought, this won't last.

My parents watch it. My sister could watch it. My parents are fine with it now, but I wasn't allowed to watch it. You never watched it. Obviously, I've seen it. You watch Family Guy? No.

You never watch any of those stuff? I'm a big cartoon guy. Longest running talk show, The Tonight Show, is the world's longest running talk show, having debuted in 1954. It continues to this day. Yeah, I've been on it a bunch. Out of the long time.

They made me put that in there. Yeah, I've done it. I don't know how many times. I've done 13 late nights. Enough that you you've lost count which is insane to me yeah i mean yeah doing the yeah doing the tonight show it is crazy like you know i don't completely remember watching carson and all that kind of stuff did you remember remember watching it? Oh, yeah. Like, I don't remember. Yeah. I've watched. I've gone back and watched old stuff.

I mean, it was. They did so much fun stuff. That one. You see the famous one. Don Rickles. Because Don Rickles is filming next to Johnny Carson. And do you know Tonight Show? Yeah.

The old Carson. You know, Don Rickles. All that stuff. Yeah. They. We're going to talk to you. Like, I mean, it's not dumb. It's just like, we don't know if you know any. know any you know no it's dumb yeah it's not dumb he might not know anything he didn't

know greece i do know greece apparently you don't in the country i thought this was like some old movie that like was a historical documentary that it is an old movie you think that's what i'm talking about an old like i'm gonna watch and just be like, did you guys watch the documentary on the country of Greece? Anybody catch that last night? Greece? Well, I've seen Greece. Assuming I'm never watching something that's making me smarter. So he, and it shows him like,

one night he guest hosts and he breaks his cigarette. I mean, it's so funny. He breaks his cigarette box I mean, it's so funny. He breaks his cigarette box and then Johnny Carson sees it. And then everybody's watching. They're like, uh-oh. Like he's now going back. And then Don Rickles is filming next, like the studio right next to it. And so he walks over during the show and they bring the cameras over.

And he's like, he just, Don Rickles is filming. He goes, what happened to this? And I mean, it's unbelievable. It's like unreal TV. Yeah, it's great. I mean, it's bringing, it's just awesome. You know, it's funny watching Grease, the country now, and I was watching Grease wearing masks.

Like, it's insane. Yeah. You're just watching this old movie and you're like, where are we at? Yeah. I mean, I'm watching, you know, this is 1978 when this is made and you're just, and then you got a mat and like, can you feel like it's future? I mean, it's like a futuristic, like you just got this big mask on and then you're just sitting there watching this old movie. Do y'all find that it affects the way you watch everything? Like it is so distracting to me when I watch stuff and I see crowds.

That's all I think about. I was like, oh, this is insane that there are this many people in the same room. I do realize that. And then that can move on pretty quickly. I don't get hung up on it like some people. You get hung up like the whole show you can't no i we were talking about the last day i'm just thinking about it we watched the last dance and all those crowds oh yeah you think about it now yeah i'm not saying that yeah i think about it yeah you're

just saying you have the mental discipline to just put that thought aside yeah and move forward look i i don't yeah i mean look i can go down some thoughts i mean it can be a. Look, I don't, yeah. I mean, look, I can go down some thoughts. I mean, it can be a train wreck, but I don't, I realize I'm like, oh, that's crazy. Like there, you know,

I think that's gonna be like showing smoking in a movie. Yeah. Eventually just every, you know, um, long as you're in talk show tonight show, I've been on it multiple times. I just wanted to make sure we didn't skip over that.

what does jump in the shark mean? Jump the do you know jump in the shark i do now yeah you read it yeah you know uh had you heard that term never yeah had you heard i heard the term for a long time before i knew what it meant but yeah i don't know jump the shark is a phrase you describe a moment when a tv show that once was widely popular. Did you say popular? Popular. That has since grown less popular makes a desperate attempt at generating publicity by doing something outrageous. The phrase derives from an episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water skis. So in the episode, they literally, Fonzie jumps over a shark because they're trying to be,

you know. Trying to gain more. I mean, I literally remember this when it happened. The show had peaked and they're getting desperate and there's so many sitcoms

in the 70s and 80s like this. I feel like TV shows are better now about getting off. But back then, they would just ride them out. And they had so many crazy storylines. But there was one, the storyline was they go to, I think, Hawaii.

The whole gang goes there for some vacation for some reason. And somehow, Fonzie gets challenged, and he has to jump a shark on water skis. And they're all like, Fonzie, don't do it. It's so dangerous. But it was just... And he jumped over jump a shark on water skis. And they're all like, Fonzie, don't do it. It's so dangerous. But it was just... And he jumped over a real shark? In the story, yeah. In the story, it's a real shark.

Off a ramp, right? A ramp in the water? Yeah, a ramp. Yeah. Did it register to you at the time as, this is a ridiculous moment of television? No, because I was so small. I thought it was really, really cool.

Yeah, it is pretty cool. But my understanding is as always it's a show that's just was once grounded in reality and then it just becomes a parody of itself right yeah just like because they're trying so hard for relevance yeah well yeah it's crazy to me they they caught jumped i mean they are you know what is it jump the shark just i mean that's anything now phrase now anything yeah memorable TV movie moments that is one of them some other ones

let's see who shot J.R. do you remember that I do I remember that I remember my parents talking about it I wasn't watching it

but I remember it was a big deal if you ever heard of who shot J.R. Dallas yeah I mean it was I mean that was like crazy.

What TV moments... Do you remember a TV moment, a TV show that you had to be home to watch in real time? Have you had one? Because you've always had DVRs. I mean, think about... So Us was Soprano's finale. Yeah. Breaking Bad finale.

Breaking Bad finale, I went to someone's house. I was in Cincinnati at a comedy club, and I just went to some guy's house to watch it that night. I don't remember the guy. I don't remember. It was like one of the servers was like, I'm going to my buddy's house to watch it. That guy didn't even really know that I was coming.

I just come over and just watch it. I wanted to watch it so bad because I wasn't going to get home for like two more days. And I was like, I'm going to find out what happens. And I didn't want to find out what happens. And so I went and watched it at someone's house. Yeah. But do you have any?

The only thing I can think of like in terms of when I was younger would have to be American Idol. Yeah. Reality show. Yeah. I watched it like my family and i my sisters and my parents but not we all watch it like together yeah every night it came on yeah that was when i was younger not yeah forget how big that show was i mean that was the biggest show on tv for like four years right yeah yeah yeah wow yeah it did real but you don't remember there's no uh

i mean did you watch breaking bad on netflix yeah i actually didn't watch breaking bad until like sophomore year college two years ago yeah yeah i mean there's not did you have anything that you mad men and breaking bad i watched live live but but i i jumped in later like i caught up on netflix and then I caught up to where they were. Yeah, I did that with Breaking Bad. I didn't start at the beginning, and then I watched the, I want to say maybe the last season or two live. Live, yeah. I watched, last year I had caught up all the way to on Blacklist.

I love Blacklist, and so I watched that on TV for probably six weeks straight. And then also Prison Break. Yeah, it's fun to watch stuff as it airs. I mean, it's something that's doing something together as a group is a great thing. And everything is so just on your, everything's very individualized right now. Yeah, I mean, despite sporting events, there's not that many live events that we all experienced. What's your first golf moment you remember?

Tiger. Which year? 2005. Yeah, I don't know why I just said the name. Your points, man. When he won the Masters. 10 strokes? No, that was 98.

So in 2005, that was 98. In 2005, that was when he had that chip in over the back of the green on 16 against Chris DeMarco. My earliest sports memory, I think, was the Red Sox coming back from 3-0 against the Yankees in 2004.

I remember that. How old were you? I was 8, 7. No, I would have been eight. The bloody sock? Yeah, that was, yeah. But, um. Curt Schilling? I think so, it was Curt Schilling.

But that was like part of the reason I became like a Red Sox fan. I feel like that just happened. I mean, I've been through so many things when that happened. Life had just beat me down by the time that was going on. I think you're a wrestler. I mean, just to – Wow. It's very fun to talk to just a young person, just to be like,

I think my first memory in TV, just to be this thing, you're like, dude, I went to the game. And you just know. and TV just to be this thing. You're like, dude, I was, I went to the game. Like, you know, like, and you just know, I remember the, the tiger. We're watching that. Yeah. I think my first sports,

I remember a Miami, Alabama, uh, championship game, maybe 92, 92. I remember that. I remember like Greg,

the gain is, I remember him in his head on the diving board for sports. First NASCAR race I ever watched the whole thing through was the race Dale Earnhardt died. Oh, wow. That was your first. Wow. I just got to stop watching after that.

Yeah, I tuned in. I was like, someone dies every time I watch this. That's what Aaron was thinking. Yeah, that was the first one. Some big moments. I'd be curious to see who remembers what. Some of our listeners.

Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey. Obviously Bates. What was that? Was that crazy when you saw that on TV? Did you see it coming? That's one of the few on this list

I did not remember seeing. But that happened live. That's crazy. That was live. Can you imagine that? I did not know that happened live. Yeah. I've seen the pictures or, but that happened live. That's live. That was live. Can you imagine that? I did not know that happened live. Yeah. I've seen the pictures

or whatever, but I've never knew. Yeah. I mean, it's crazy. I mean, it's... Imagine just... He just killed him on TV. I mean, now you see people

get shot on TV, but I mean, can you imagine at that time? He was actually dying this time. He wasn't pretending like the other shows. Yeah. I mean, can you imagine at that time? He was actually dying this time. He wasn't pretending like the other shows. Yeah.

Man, he gave it his all. Walter Cronkite announcing President Kinney's death. Did you take that hard, Brian? Boy, we're going to really wear this in the ground. Charles and Diana, royal wedding.

I don't remember that. But Princess Di's funeral. Princess Di's funeral was my first big news thing that I remember. I remember when Princess Di died. It was actually i graduated or 98 but graduated high school i was maybe just right out of high school yeah and i remember i was over my friend's house so you don't remember like oklahoma city bobbing i do that was 93 right i think that was 95 uh yes i do remember that i do remember that but princess die i like was

i i don't know i hit you harder yeah yeah that affected me uh 95 i mean leave you you're there i'm talking about i'm 14 you know you're. Like, there's a difference between her 15 and then being like 18, you know. Like, I think I'd just take it. I'd take stuff in. I don't remember the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. That's my first, like, news event. Remember when it happened? I was six, I think.

85, right? I think it was 86. I was five or six. So, I bet I – and most people, they remember, they pulled everybody out of class. Like the shuttle exploded and they, and I, but I don't really remember. Yeah.

They, maybe they did. We were so young that. Most of my friends that in middle Tennessee, we all had a similar experience. We were out for a snow day. Yeah. And I was at my aunt and uncle's house playing with my cousin and my aunt called me and said, come in here. Yeah. And it just happened. And I was at my aunt and uncle's house playing with my cousin, and my aunt called me and said, come in here, and it just happened.

And see this. You know, we were talking about the Oakland City Bombing. The thing is, too, when you're that young, you're not watching the news. And so unless my parents are showing me the news, there's no social media. So I'm playing, and no one's talking to me. And Princess Di, it was at night. It was kind of late, middle of the night.

And that's what happened. My mom watches all that Royal Wedding stuff, every one of it. The MASH finale, do you remember that? I do. I never watched one episode of MASH. I didn't watch it either. It's a very adult comedy. Yeah.

My dad likes it. Yeah. Even the finale was very comedy. Yeah. My dad likes it. Yeah. Even the finale was very dark. Yeah. I have no idea what the finale was. Yeah.

OJ Simpson Chase. Would you remember that? When was that? 94? Oh, no. I wasn't even born. John, do you remember it? John, go ahead.

You don't remember that, Nate? I do. I do remember it. Okay. I remember watching, but again, I don't think I was, you know, I'm 13, like I'm doing my own thing. That was like the first years of Michael Jordan where, you know, I don't, I remember Jordan Moore, 95, 96. What year were you born?

79. So you'd have been 15. 15. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, but like, i just don't think i'm i'm in my own world clearly and 41 and 41 yeah uh

as big with omar's well tom cruise jumps on uh oprah's couch i remember that you remember that why was that a big deal? It was just, he was very, it was the most famous person in the world at this point. And he just did something so crazy on national television. He was talking about how in love he was with his wife and he, and he jumped on top of a couch and it was just this insanely famous person being crazy.

Everyone was like, what is going on? I thought he was having like a mental breakdown. Yeah. It's a weird phase of his life. The Wire one, you kind of skipped it. Well,

I didn't, that was like, someone hasn't watched The Wire. But isn't there a, yeah, Omar's death on The Wire. Your friend told me that while I was watching it.

Really? Yeah. We were, I was in the middle of watching it and we were at Zany's one night after a show and it was your buddy and he was like, we we were at Zany's one night after a show, and it was your buddy, and we were talking about the 11th,

and he's like, man, when Omar died and that kid killed him, and I was like, I haven't got there yet. Yeah. Yeah, you were standing there, but it was like, okay. Planes hitting the World Trade Center is obviously that. I remember extremely well. What's weird is i don't remember that at all like i feel like i should one no oh it's just yeah yeah 2001 so you shouldn't yeah but there's a lot there's some people maybe they just claim they know it but like i've heard people my age be like yeah i kind of remember that yeah i don't

remember it at all i think there's a lot of. I think there's a lot of people, I think there's a lot of times you think you remember it and you've just seen it so much that it just seeps in that you kind of go like, no, I remember it. And you're like, you don't really.

Yeah. I, yeah, I would, I mean, 9-11, I was, I was recycling tires.

It's crazy. All the, that's why I don't do, so my wife did i don't manual labor like i'm done i've done it all i've cut grass my whole life i've recycled tires out of caves i mean it was dude mosquitoes lay their eggs and because water sits in the bottom of a tire and mosquitoes lay their eggs so every single tire is tire is just – the job was on dirty jobs. Really? The job that you did?

I did the job that was on dirty jobs. Wow. This guy, one of them guy dumped all these tires in a cave. Because back – this was during the Ford recall where they took all the tires. Ford Explorers all had their tires taken. And so you recycle. When you recycle tires, you'd be like you'd work for a company they pay you to pick them up but then you have to pay to get them recycled and we would drive

the trucks and we this one guy took the money to get him pick them up and then he would just go dump them in a cave he wasn't going to spend the money recycling that guy and he got caught fraud but we had to go get those tires out of that cave. And, I mean, we just had to back our trucks back into this cave. And then just you would always, like, bounce it off your chest and then roll it to the – and then they would stack them. I mean, you can stack a lot of tires in a box truck because you're crisscrossing. And so you're just sitting there, like, just bouncing off your chest

and rolling them in there. Wow. I mean, it's the most just dumb person job. You know, just, like, can you bounce them off your chest and rolling them in there. Wow. I mean, it's the most just dumb person job. You know, just like, can you bounce them off your chest and send them to the back of that truck? I can do that. Like, it's just, there's no big words being thrown around there. Any of these other, we're going to get through some of these.

Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction. I remember that. You know that Super Bowl? Oh, yes, yes. Hugh Grant on Jay Leno after prostitution bust. That was a big deal. Yeah.

Because that was like an interview. That really helped Jay Leno in the ratings, I think. I feel like I've heard that kind of helped him jump past Letterman. Yeah. Moonman. Yeah. Moonlanding.

No. Don't remember that one. Brian, I'm going to let you take away here. Moonlanding. Newhart finale, where he wakes up from a dream. Remember that? Yeah. I don't think I was allowed to watch these shows

as much. But Bob Newhart, yeah, that was an amazing ending, right? I don't think I was allowed to watch these shows as much and that's you know but Bob Newhart yeah that was an amazing ending right very creative and it went into his other show yeah do you guys know this do you know who Bob Newhart is

no I was just kind of agreeing correct me if I'm wrong he had a show and then at, he wakes up, and the whole show had been a dream? Yeah. Okay. But more than that, he had a show previously that was pretty successful on TV with obviously a different TV wife. So when he wakes up from his dream, he looks over at his wife, and it's the other wife from the first show. Oh, wow.

So that's pretty creative. Yeah. And he goes, I just had this crazy dream. That's how they ended the second show. So the second show was a dream that the character in the first show had the whole time? Well, I mean, that's the funny play they put on the finale. You're saying that's amazing. Yeah.

Yeah, Bob Newhart had a pretty good career. Yeah. I mean, just two mega shows. He's from Elf. He's on the radio. He's Will Ferrell's dad. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Yeah, I know who that is. Talk to him. That's how I first knew him. Yeah. The guy from Elf. All right. I remember most of this. How are ratings calculated?

I've always wondered this. You can do this part. All right. So, well, I mean, you can... Let me just read it. Nielsen ratings are calculated based on a sample of 40,000 homes and about 100,000 people that demographically represent the population as a whole. It's a small fraction of the 120 million or so homes with TV,

but also a lot more than a typical political poll that surveys just a couple thousand people. So the Nielsen ratings, they're saying that it's i mean they're taking shots at the political like that's this article this art yeah so they're they're basically saying we're in more homes we're going to get more accurate readings yeah nelson's kind of like the standard rating system i think there are some other ones did you have a nelson box um i never did i wasn't i couldn't for almost 20 years because I worked at a TV station, so it wasn't allowed.

Oh, okay. Or my family wasn't allowed either because that was, you know. Biased. Yeah. But I certainly have known of people that have had it. Yeah. I've never, I don't know if I've known anybody that had a Nielsen box. They're still there now.

But now they're calculating ratings by so many other places, so many other things. How are DVRs factored into ratings? Yeah, I've always wondered that. So basically, Nielsen uses a Live Plus service where, according to this, it tracks three major categories, Live Plus Same Day, live plus three, and live plus seven. So if there was a big TV finale and the next day they had the ratings, that probably wouldn't be super accurate

because they haven't factored in DVRs yet. Football games, sporting events is probably accurate because most people watch that live. Not many people DVR in a football game to watch a week later. Right. But there is some delay now because so many people watch shows on DVRs. Yeah. I mean,

with streaming, like, you know, the stream ratings are like, it says they're, they're not really a thing. Like my Netflix, I've never known how good it does.

My Netflix special, never been told, never been there. They're coming up with systems now that they're trying to find because Netflix never gives out those numbers.

Netflix knows. Yeah, that's next on the list. Yeah. Netflix knows down to, that's what made me do it. Nelson, with streaming,

streaming ratings are not really a thing. Nelson measures the audience for streaming shows, but Netflix and other platforms have disputed the ratings service numbers as they don't count viewing on other devices. Netflix considers a piece of content as having been viewed when a member watches at least 70% of one episode of a series or 70% of a feature film.

It also counts subscribers around the world rather than just the domestic viewers that nelson measures the numbers can be useful in comparing comparing one netflix show to another but the service has thus far only publicly released highlights not a full tally so they've never really shown anything they you know besides like bird box or something they would say and then for my special i mean the only thing they ever told us once they go it did there was like they were like we're very happy and that's what they would that's all they would say yeah and now you can tell the only way i can tell is by you sell more tickets you people are coming to some of these shows and that's how the gauge i can get or if i get recognized more when i'm out there's that it's there's the only way i can get or if i get recognized more when i'm out there's

that it's there's the only way i can really know like how good this netflix and they probably have so much data more than anybody else right they could narrow it down they could tell you what's your worst joke of your special just how many people x out yeah during that joke right well i think i could do that i don't know taking he's taking shots. I mean, he's X-ing out because of one joke. That's his favorite joke. He goes, done, hated that joke, X out, start back. You're saying fast forward. You can see that, too. They can see it all.

They can see that. I'm saying they probably know more about your act than you do. Yeah. It's funny to get, because these ratings are such a, you know, you just wish you would know. But they did that with Stranger Things. So with Stranger Things, those kids, when they first tried to get money for the second season,

the agents were like, we want a ton of money. And they were like, the show didn't do that good. They're like, yeah, well, these kids can't walk outside. They're getting mobbed. So it did pretty good. But they're doing that so they can't you know gauge off that i also heard how netflix when they first made their shows how they made their show so good where uh they would just take uh like they could look at netflix when they made a show they're like all right what actor is does everybody like the most at this time was like

kevin spacey which obviously not now but whenever it was and then they go and who's the best director that everybody seems like the most it's i forget who the director was and then they did house of cards and whoever did that so they just were like what movies do the best oh everybody likes kevin spacey we'll get him director everybody seems like that guy we'll get him like build, everybody seems like that guy. We'll get him. It's like building a fantasy team, dude. Yeah, and you can just go look through it all. That's pretty cool. Top rated TV shows in the last 30 years. Cheers, 60 Minutes.

60 Minutes always just does good. Seinfeld, 94, 95. ER made a big run. I remember my mom loved ER. ER was big. ER was on a long time, 95 to 99. Seinfeld back to 97, 98.

Buddy Seinfeld, for how big that show was, it was only rated twice. I mean, you would think Seinfeld got way more respect afterwards. Yeah. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Survivor, Friends,

01, 02. Friends was in in 2001 i thought it was already done that was the tail end of it wasn't it yeah i think it ended in 03 or 04 csi oh two oh five so fun csi story that i've heard and again this all could be fake but so csi when they were on, are they on CBS, right? CBS, yeah. So I think ABC had them first. So ABC had CSI. Do you know CSI?

Yeah. ABC had CSI when they made the show. So they made the pilot and ABC was like, ABC Studios and ABC Network had it. They made the pilot and then ABC was like, we don't want it. And then CBS was like, well, we'll take it. And usually, like if you watch Modern Family, pilot and then abc was like we don't want it and then cbs was like well we're taking and usually like if you watch modern family modern family is 20th century fox but it's on abc so the studio is now that they try to keep that stuff kind of together like cbs studio is on cbs but it doesn't

always universal is nbc but sometimes they can have shows on fox because because when you do you try to make you make a show with a studio, and then you take it out with the studio to the networks. You try to get the networks to buy it. And so your first one is to try to stay in the family. And if it doesn't work, you can then go other places. So CSI, they make an ABC. ABC is like, we don't want it.

So then CBS is like, we'll take it. And then they're like, the show's not going to be anything. And they go, we're so it. And then they're like, the show's not going to be anything. And they go, we're so confident that we're also give it like, we won't even keep it as the studio. So CBS can have it as a studio, which never, they usually do.

And it becomes the biggest show in the world. And they lost billions, billions of dollars. And it was, I mean, a huge mistake that they did that. and then they started making all those other shows in cis all these spin-offs and it was when because of that happened they're now starting to but for a long time everybody was like when the show was done it was like you can't go anywhere

else and then no one was just giving up The studios weren't just giving that stuff up. Because you would have at least got some of that instead of you getting pretty crazy. American Idol, I mean, 05 to basically 2011. Why didn't you just put 05 to 11? Well, I think it just got... I think Laura shortened it maybe. Because I had every year just American Idol, American Idol, American Idol. I think laura shortened it maybe because i i had every year uh just american american

american idol and i think maybe she's short uh he's just he's doing the best he can uh you're asking john if he knows a show that's on right now so csi well he doesn't ever watch csi no i've seen it sunday night football ncisIS, Big Bang Theory. Big Bang Theory, 16 to 18. I mean, to have a show be... a sitcom be ranked that high is just now because it's just not happening. I found it interesting.

I mean, Emmy Awards, the Golden Globes, it's usually all won by either streaming shows now or HBO Showtime. All the top rated shows, though, are still on networks. either streaming shows now or you know like HBO Showtime. All the top rated shows though are still on networks. ABC, NBC, CBS.

Interesting. Or Fox. Highest rated TV episodes of all time. MASH. The Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen. That's crazy. Rating 60.2 shares 77. And you know what that stuff means. Yeah. From what I remember in my TV days, rating is the total number of TVs that are showing the episode.

Share is the total number of TVs that are on that are watching that episode. Does that make sense? Like, if you have... Does that make sense? Like, if you have... Oh, so the MASH finale, 70% of all TVs that were turned on were turned on to the MASH finale. Yeah, 77% of all TVs were turned on watching that. And 60% of all TVs, period, were watching the MASH finale. Wow.

Okay. That makes sense. Okay. So that had to be how many people? Yeah. 100 million or yeah basically uh i think i saw last i was 106 million tvs at that time no no no it was more than that i think 100 over 100 million people watched the mash finale that's crazy yeah crazy so we like super bowl and all that stuff that yeah super bowls now get around 100 million viewers. But it's still not as high as this.

Well, Super Bowls get more viewers now. Yeah. Total number of people. But actual ratings, percentage-wise, MASH still holds the record. Yeah. Just because there's so many more people now in the United States than there was in 1983. Right. Dallas is number two.

Roots, number three. Yeah. I don't know the Roots Roots was a miniseries O.J. Simpson what? he was in Roots O.J. was in Roots? I didn't even know that

come on dude he wasn't like the star of it no he wasn't Kunta Kinte Super Bowls all that money night at the Movies Gone with the Wind Part 2 was a big one Just kind of going through them quick So

What we wanted to do Is We're going to go through some of these To talk about our favorite shows And our favorite Stuff You know My parents favorite?

My parents' favorite TV show was, I mean, it was Andy Griffiths, probably Seinfeld now, but they love Big Bang Theory. They've loved a bunch. But Andy Griffith, I think, was what I remember. That was my favorite. I mean, Andy Griffith is one of my favorite shows ever. Super funny show. Yeah.

That was big in our house. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. super funny show yeah that was big in our house yeah for sure yeah yeah I mean from I mean I hope it's it's gonna be something Ed Sullivan show

no but it's I mean the Friday night block was big for me and my family on CBS because

on where? on CBS I can tell you any show in the 80s I can tell you what network it was on because I only had three channels

I didn't have cable until I got to college so George Costanza spelling everybody's name yeah that's my thing so

The Incredible Hulk came on Friday nights from 7 to 8 I was big into that then The Dukes of Hazzard from 8 to 9 followed it and me and my dad

love that and then Dallas came on from 9 to 10 and my dad love that. And then Dallas came on from 9 to 10 and my mom loved that. So I'd say Dallas is probably the show that my parents... That's a powerful block right there. Those are three big shows. Wow.

Wow. The first historic news we talked about that. What's the first show you remember watching regularly? For me, it was Law & Order SVU. Because USA, I don't know if they still do this, they used to just show Law & Order for like all day, it felt like. So we used to just sit and watch that.

That's a little much as a kid to watch a bunch of episodes of. It gets pretty dark on there but we'd watch that what about you seinfeld yeah i mean it might be seinfeld it could be you know like if i'm really dating back it could be like a disney channel maybe a nickelodeon type thing yeah but uh probably would be a disney uh we watched at nickelodeon i don't i don't remember watching disney growing up yeah nickelodeon uh yeah i mean i remember watching annie griffith that was the that was the big one that we were allowed to watch what how it's saturday morning cartoons were big yeah yeah i mean not counting like tom and jerry mr

rogers or captain kangaroo or something like that i mean if you're talking about prime for me probably still be duke's hazard like that i watched every week yeah yeah that you remember yeah yeah i remember watching duke's phasm uh uh favorite tv well i'm trying to go through let's just get into the final what are your do you have a favorite reality show do you watch any of them I don't like reality shows but I'd have to say

Hard Knocks yeah Hard Knocks is great that's good I forgot I like Hard Knocks it's more like a documentary yeah

I guess I guess that's what they want you to think reality shows are. I don't know. If that doesn't count, Last Comic Standing. No, it counts. Last Comic Standing. Yeah, Last Comic Standing. I'm watching 90 Day Fiance now.

It's a pretty good time. Yeah, it seems like everybody likes that. I've heard a lot about it. I don't know what it is. It can get sad real quick, but if you push past that, if you compartmentalize that sadness, it's a good time. What's your top favorite drama?

Mine is Breaking Bad. I think Breaking Bad's the best. I think it's the best show I've ever seen. I've watched it. I've went through it multiple times. I love Sopranos, but there's parts of Sopranos, but there was parts of Sopranos that have been being...

The Sopranos I'm saying is at the top. The Wire, too, by the way, I can't... I'm trying to go back to it. I'm not a giant Wire fan. I think it's very slow, and it's... I just...

I don't know. I don't think I... You know, you ever watch a TV show you can watch in just a weird time, and you're like, I'm not giving this show... It's probably fair shake. Yeah. And I i kind of went through the wire and i just think i i don't know i wasn't into it uh but break uh breaking bad sopranos i the the therapist stuff uh you know

it's like oh you can you can kind of tell when you go back and re-watch something what how much are you fast right are you really forwarding? Are you really... And Sopranos, when you really truthfully go back and I watch it, I'm fast forwarding a bit. Really? I mean, the therapist stuff,

you know, some white... You're kind of getting to the mob stuff is what you want to go see. When you get to go back and watch it, I think Sopranos is amazing. Unbelievable show. But I'm just saying... You're not doing that with Breaking Bad?

You don't skip episodes not much i mean maybe some some stuff with the it's like nothing i don't care it's like the family wife yeah shoplifting the fly yes yeah like any any of stuff with uh yeah with hank's wife yeah but she could shoplifting heard that whole storyline i don't care about and so like yeah i'm fast forwarding kind of stuff but i mean when she goes into those houses and like make stuff up that's kind of interesting that's pretty fun yeah but uh it's yeah i mean there's not there's not a ton of stuff i and i you know we talked about i think uh uh better call saul is amazing uh and it's it's it's yeah it can run up there.

I don't think it's better than Breaking Bad. I think Breaking Bad is the best show that's ever been made as far as drama. I love Breaking Bad, but I also love Blacklist. I really like Blacklist. My dad likes Blacklist. It's kept me coming back because I think the character Raymond Reddington is

flawless. He's phenomenal. That's James Spader, right? Yeah. I remember when it came out. It was on NBC, right? And then, yeah, I remember it took,

I need to watch it again. I never really watched it. I didn't care for that hat he wears. Yeah. That made me not watch it. Yeah. Is it worth

getting over the hat? A lot of people say the same thing about you. Yeah. It's very funny you have that hat on. He's a grown man wearing a Jason Mraz fedora going out solving crimes. I don hat on. Who's a grown man wearing a Jason Mraz fedora?

I don't understand. You're a grown man wearing a flowered Notre Dame. Like, what? I have no idea what, I mean, you're. What are you talking about? I think it's worth watching. I mean, it can be a little, like, there's just so much that goes on, like, later in the seasons.

Like, you start. There's a lot of, like, cliffhangers at the ends of episodes okay yeah is it on somewhere yeah it's still on tv it's on netflix though that's what i meant okay cool yeah uh that's such a different way to say it right there because you know what is it on somewhere that was never when i was a kid i'm like what are you talking about somewhere easy for me to watch what's your uh what's your favorite drama mine's the west wing yeah i love the oh i love the west one yeah aaron zorkin was kicked off his own show after season four so the show really tanks in quality after that but those first four seasons it was like the most decorated tv show ever it won everything dude i've never watched awesome it's really good yeah it's it is a high effort

show to watch though yeah you can't be on your phone you gotta be driving watching driving watching well i drive and listen to it and and it's like my 15th time listening to it so i know what's happening yeah so you don't uh but you gotta like really pay attention martin sheen's great in that yeah martin sheen yeah so good phenomenal brian's good friends with him really yeah yeah why did you say that they have a picture together oh that's right oh I saw that yeah

yeah yeah it's 20 years ago yeah yeah what's your favorite drama I mean I think you've already named little

Sopranos Breaking Bad The Wire yeah you know what's frustrating you have a show you have a show that you really like

and you just don't know anybody else that watches it. And you try to get people to get into it, and you just can't. Breaking Bad was like that for me. Breaking Bad was, it took a long time for me to, everybody keeps talking about it, and you're like, okay, I'll watch it. Think about Breaking Bad.

I mean, I always think that when someone sells a TV show now, and you try to do that kind of thing, you can look at like, any network you could of thing, you can look at any network. You could go to any network because AMC was not a network that was desired to go to. And then Breaking Bad went there. It's harder to get on it, basically. Their quality is pretty high.

Yeah. So you can't just get stuff on, which is pretty interesting. I mean, what is The Walking Dead? Yeah. Mad Men was on there, too. I mean, crazy, dude. Those are three enormous shows. Enormous shows.

Yeah. And the AMC would show old movies. They're still feeding off that Walking Dead stuff. Are there spinoffs? Yeah, now it's called The Fear of the Walking Dead stuff. Are there spinoffs? Yeah, it's like, now it's called like The Fear of the Walking Dead

or something like that. It's nuts. It's still going on. I saw a commercial for it the other day. I think I watched the first season. I just don't care

about zombies. Right. And so, I didn't watch it. Yeah. That Game of Thrones. One of the things you didn't care about.

I don't care about Game of Thrones. Yeah. I of Thrones you didn't care about. I don't care about Game of Thrones. Yeah. I watched the first four episodes and it was really slow and I lost interest. I did too.

But one of the shows like you're saying that nobody watches that I really like is called Peaky Blinders. It's on Netflix. It is pretty dark, a lot of killing

but I love it. I think it's British, right? I think British. Yeah, yeah. It's the guy, what's the main actor? Benedict Cumberbatch? I thought it was British right I think British yeah yeah it's the guy what's the main actor Benedict Cumberbatch I thought it was

Julian Murphy no it's not him no he's a scarecrow in Batman yeah oh that

he looks a little bit like Benedict yeah yeah okay sure you can't just let it go all these British guys

look the same no I think they're friends they have the same agent I think yeah they I watched I think first season of that show too go all these british guys look the same no i think they're friends yeah they i i watched uh i think first season of that show too and i just but again that's one that i think i would like but then i get caught and so you know and it's foreign and then you're like i'm

joking like i wonder how many people don't watch something truly no matter what country you're from if the people are not talking like you you're like i can't i can't do this uh do you think a lot of people um no yes it's it's annoying me sometimes i'm saying i want to read the subtitles if someone's from an i'm someone from english yeah they're speaking english i know but if someone's from england i mean i bet there's times where they're like, I can't listen to this American. I don't want to watch Swap people and listen to these. And listen to these Americans talk the whole time.

I'm not saying it's not a bad thing. I'm just saying there's times where you could be like, all right, I don't know. Yeah. Maybe not. I don't know. Maybe not. Maybe you guys are better than me. You know what?

I've tried watching Fleabag, which is in the top comedy right now, and just just couldn't get into it and some of it was because of the accents and he really all went off on me and then we've all now listed examples recent examples not even you're going well you know what my uncle so let's just

do these top three our two favorite comedies in, uh, that we like, uh, are the office and Seinfeld. We're all huge fans of them.

Uh, which I found out to my buddy, uh, Greg Garcia. He created, uh, my name is Earl. Uh,

the guest book Miller's raising hope. Yes, dear. Unbelievable. Created all this stuff unbelievably funny guy and he uh he told me why his because they always say the office this is the people that were saying the 40 year old virgin the office did so good because the 40 40 year old virgin uh apparently but greg daniels has said is a big part of it was the lead-in for them that second season was My Name is Earl.

And My Name is Earl was doing great. And so that lead-in was the gigantic help. It wasn't that people were like, oh, that's the guy from the movie. Let's go watch his show. I think lead-ins really matter in TV. That's a huge, huge help. If any show that's getting a lot of viewers, if they want them to do good, they throw another show behind it because you're going to get people that will hang on

and be like, all right, what's this about? And so, yeah, that's all your answers to the four-year-old virgin. Well, they had a big – they followed the Super Bowl one year at The Office, and that was huge because it's the single highest viewed thing ever. huge because it's just it's the single highest you know yeah yeah ever yep uh so top three episodes uh of the office uh you know go ahead you want to all right um and i'll quickly explain each one uh booze cruise it's an early one i just really like it because um it's very funny that's when roy and Pam get engaged. Jim's very upset.

He breaks up with Amy Adams' character. Michael tells everyone the ship is sinking and gets tied to the ship rails. But I love the ending because I love the episodes where Michael, who's dumb, but he has a big heart. And he ends up saying something that kind of helps. And Jim goes out there, Jim's all down because Pam's engaged. And Michael says something that encourages him to don't give up and keep trying.

It's a very sweet scene. I think I just always liked it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and then I'll go quicker. Uh, business school,

um, which I know we both like that. You talk about that a little bit and, um, and dinner party, which is a lot of people's favorites, but I love it. It's so funny.

Yeah. Are y'all's different? One's the same for me. Business School, I think his presentation to the class is so funny. He's throwing the candy bars at him. And then there's also that emotional moment at the end where he and Pam, he shows up at Pam's art show. It's my favorite moment of the whole show.

When he shows up. Yeah. Is that. And he rips the guy's textbook. Yes. My favorite moment of the entire series is that... What's your other two? My other one is Stress Relief. I think it's part two

where he hosts a roast in the warehouse. That was so good. That was awesome. But that's part of what's the office is so good. It's so funny, but those emotional moments, they hit like they were for me. Yeah. You know, I didn't prepare very well for this one. Clearly.

But business school for sure was one of mine. I know we're all saying that, but I did write it down, so it's true. Yeah, there you go. And then I did Survivor Man when he goes out into the wild and is like cutting his – Dwight's like watching him the whole time. And then the merger is what I put down. Because the only thing I put the merger down for is because I really like at the beginning when he gathers them all in the conference room. That was my fourth one.

Oh, so I did pretty good. Yeah. And he gathers everyone in the conference room and just makes it – When he pushes Tony up on that to get the fat guy off. Oh, my gosh. That, man. Survivor Man, one of the hardest I've ever laughed on The Office was when he cuts his pants and he cuts his shirt off

because it's going to be hot, and then they just turn to him. They're all duct taped back on because he's got a little more chillier than I thought. That's one of the hardest I've watched, laughed on a show, just because it was so, it was, I don't know, it was just so crazy. The Office was one of the first,

maybe not, one of the first sitcoms for me to watch every week on TV. You know, because it's, I mean, I'm 41 now. It's been out for a long time. But when you're in your 20s, I'm doing comedy every night. I wasn't watching TV.

And The Office was one of the first. I was a little more in comedy. I'm not, you know, I would get home and I would watch it every night. And maybe I DVR'd that in Dirty Rock. DVR was there. I could go see it. So it wasn't, I was busy.

Office was one of the first ones that I was like, oh, we're watching this. I love the British version so much of The Office that when the American first started, it took me a little time to get used to the characters because I love the other characters so much. But then it became great itself. Yeah.

So when you talk minor, and it's true, I had another one too when Dwight sets everything on fire, when he sets the whole... Oh, yeah. I thought about that one. That's the one that aired

for the Super Bowl. That's right. That's right. It's one of the best when he goes, but today smoking is going to save lives. Yeah.

And then he just says... I mean, he was just shouting direction as everybody's losing their mind the fire is shooting at us yeah the same bandit right yeah the cat i mean unbelievable episode uh and then uh i was gonna say the job when when he goes because the pam jim and pam moments are enormous and so when he goes and takes that job, when he opens that door and she's doing that interview, and then he knocks on it and says like, hey, are you free for dinner tonight? It's a date.

I can watch that. I've watched that episode a few times for that moment. Just because it was so good about them getting together. You wanted them together so bad. And I thought they did pretty good keeping it up to that moment. Yeah, I think a good part of that episode. It was earned, dude. Very earned.

I felt that. You were excited for their wedding. Then they had a kid. And then, I mean, it was great. And seeing that moment. So the job, I would say the fire thing, whichever episode that one was, and then the business school, which I know I always say that I wrote a show with the guy that wrote that episode. I was doing all the stuff I did.

So Brent Forrester, and one of the shows I wrote, we wrote it together. And it was like when we talked about it, I didn't realize it. I was like, telling him my favorite episode was that episode on The Office. He worked on The Office. I worked with Halstead Sullivan, another writer for The Office that wrote another episode. He wrote the episode where

he falls into the koi pond. He wrote the koi pond episode. I think also the women's suit episode. The Koi pond. Koi pond, yeah. He wrote the Koi pond episode. Koi pond's good. And I think also the women's suit episode. But the Koi pond thing happened. Halstead that wrote it, it happened to one of his friends. Really? And so something happened, and that's how they got that idea,

which is very interesting to think about how they got these real ideas. Yeah. Business school, though, when he goes, when the whole thing is unbelievable, the whole episode, that's your favorite line. What's the best advice someone's ever given you? Don't be an idiot. Changed my life.

Changed my life. That's that episode. Yeah. And then him going in there and just, I hope he's saying some good things the failing company he's a good manager doesn't uh fire people he hires people that's uh and then when he goes to pam no one's going to pam's art show and when he goes to pam's art show that's maybe my favorite moment in the whole series and i told brent that and like before i realized he wrote that i was like it was such a big deal for him to come and everybody to be like who cares and he is truly blown away by her drawing

right and he's like this i mean this is unbelievable that you did this like yeah it's gonna be traces it's uh it's yeah it's just unbelievable how much you know like i don't see it i mean just how sweet that is that's the in in is you can really feel that it's coming it's his he means it you know he wrote two of my favorite there i'm looking at season three here which is my favorite season but if you look at the writers there's the best season i think i love the on the on the job one like i love the part where michael doesn't understand he's interviewing for jan's job yeah and so like when he tells him he's like let's just run away together you can pay off all my debts we can just get out of here. Yeah. Season three begins

with the merger and I mean, not totally, but that's all in there. It ends with Jim asking Pam on that date. Product recall is so funny when he holds that press conference

and it goes bad. Oh, yeah. We don't want your business. We don't want Jim. If you think I'm going to, that's what I was saying earlier. You think I'm going to quit over this? What did he say? Then he's like, well, you're going to, you think I'm gonna that's what i was saying earlier you think i'm gonna quit over this what did he say then he's he's like well you're gonna you think i'm gonna resign over this well you're gonna have to drag me out of this office because i will die like uh 2400 rolls or

six reams whatever comes first yeah yeah that's one of my favorite moments on the show where he says the headline will read local paper company says like a hundred words some companies still know how it's done uh all right let's talk about seinfeld uh seinfeld is our favorite show aaron are we are you how much of a seinfeld guy are you not as big as as you two and maybe you john yeah but i'm enough to yeah i'll hang your hey yeah That's all you want to be in golf. You're a guy in golf that you're like, I just don't want to be a problem out there. I want to hit the ball forward.

I just don't want to be a liability, dude. Right. Yeah. Yeah. We're still working on that with Nate, but. Yeah. Yeah. Very good.

So Seinfeld, we talked about Seinfeld. It's our favorite show. We watch it. I watch it every day. I watched it last night. I watch it while I eat. I mean, Seinfeld's my guy my it's my comedian when he documented about him starting to stand in comedy was a huge deal i moved to chicago first to start comedy and comedian i watched in the movie theater

and i was like by myself in this theater it's called comedian it's called comedian it's on netflix it's on netflix i saw it yeah it's about how it's a great if someone hasn't seen it shows you kind of how the New York comedy scene works and I remember seeing that and I remember being like that's where I have to be if I want to be doing stand up

the place to be and that's when I moved it's the place to be what do we call it it's the place to be and so I knew going there going to New York

was what I had to do for stand up Seinfeld is I've never met him but I mean he's but he's the guy. Everything he's done, his career has been basically perfect. There's nothing really he's done. The Marriage Ref, there are friends on Bob Boston.

It still was a great show. I just think he got caught. There's no way that he produced that, but it's the only thing that he did that wasn't basically a major hit. And he wasn't in it. Seinfeld wasn't. He just produced it. But he was on it.

Oh, Larry David did an episode. Yeah. Okay, I remember that. With Madonna. It was a pretty good. I actually think it was a great idea. But it was, I mean, look, Comedians in Cars. Unbelievable. I like that a lot. b movie unbelievable yeah and obviously seinfeld unbelievable i mean everything he's done in his

stand-up and his uh stand-up specials are great uh i mean it's pretty crazy i the last time i'm gonna tell you this is stand-up i mean i could say all the words to it. I could quote, like it was the first really stand up that I really dove in and listened to and like try to picture like why is he saying these words here

and this word here and like really like broke it down. So for Seinfeld, the episode, I mean, so the series, we always say the first,

probably first four seasons, three seasons. Definitely first three. Are tough to watch. But a big reason for that, A, the characters don't know, and it's just shot old. Yeah, they're not.

I wouldn't say they're tough to watch. I would just say they're not as good as the later seasons. But just like we were talking, I went back and watched part of the first and second season. And like you said, how they're shot is like, if they were at this table, like right now, if jerry was talking it would be on him and then it would be on like it wouldn't be a like a group shot where you could see everybody talking like it does in the later episodes it's very individualized yeah yeah i just uh ruth's never seen it and we just started

watching it this past weekend and Who's Ruth for everybody? That's my wife. That's a callback to the comments. First of all, she just finished The Office and she works for a paper company. That's unbelievable. That's kind of crazy. So now we're watching Seinfeld and we watched the Seinfeld Chronicles. Kramer is called Kessler.

In episode two or three, Jerry's dad's a different person. Yeah, he's got the very first one kramer's called kessler yeah the pilot is yeah yeah and the seinfeld chronicles yep he's called here's what's crazy when you think about these pilots and then changing that kind of stuff they change that at that moment they probably think that's that's insane people are going to know that forever. And nobody would. That would be a trivia question that most people would probably get wrong. Yeah. But they changed the dad. Yeah.

Right. They just changed the dad. If you told someone, they'd be like, did they? And I remember, it's like when we shot that pilot, it was like, if stuff ever changed, you're like, well, you can't ever change it. It's submitted. And then you really think back you're like dude no if you get a good run at a show nobody's gonna care you know fresh prints they just changed the mom in the middle of the show yeah yeah and the office pan's mom changed yeah yeah uh i looked at seinfeld there's a

one of the things there's a lot of people called double dippers they call them and it's how many people have appeared as two different people during this series oh wow yeah it's pretty crazy like and it's a lot you posted one about 30 matthew perry right didn't he do that on the west wing yeah matthew perry the act the actual person makes a cameo on the west wing and then six seasons later matthew perry shows up as a character as a character yeah so he played himself he was seen at they were at some hollywood party and like oh matthew perry's over yeah yeah yeah and then he shows up as yeah seinfeld has a bunch where they're they're the person uh one of them specifically was the woman with the voice i I just don't like your act, Jerry. I just watched that one. Yeah, an old one.

And then she's the waitress with the short hair. She looks completely different. That one, you could look at them side by side and you would probably not realize it. And they were so far apart. In the pilot, it lists, in the opening credits, Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, and Val, somebody, I think. it lists in the opening credits jerry seinfeld uh michael richards uh jason alexander and val somebody i think it's of course julie louis-dreyfus wasn't in it and the waitress was supposed to be

in the fourth character and then i saw where larry david and jerry seinfeld said i just don't think they'd be hanging out with a waitress that often so they changed the character yeah think about that poor woman yeah she was in the pilot think about the dad the dad's worse than the woman why she was gonna be a regular oh yeah that wasn't yeah i mean she was in the opening credits yeah yeah yeah i guess so yeah i mean morty i mean they're not on there that often like couple on there a lot though i mean you're gonna be you going to be in it. What, three episodes a season or something?

Yeah. Four episodes? Yeah, I mean, that's what's crazy is you have to, like, those decisions are, you know. I mean, you just, but it's like you just do it. I think, I wonder, too, if everybody knows to give a show a chance. Like, how much do you think when people watch a show, they're like, let me give this show a real shot. Like, you know, look, we think about about this podcast not every one of these episodes can be great nothing of anything can really be great all the time so this one we're these aren't even on

uh john we just let him sit in this is part of his vandy class uh my internship but it's you know like so do people really give it a go like in seinfeld seinfeld was almost canceled yeah and it i mean it really they i mean it was a fight to like get it and then it shows you that they don't do that stuff anymore as not as often where they give shows real chances yeah uh and really like be like now let them build an audience let them you know it's going to be there because now it's such like it's either got to be out the gate great think about pilots when you go look at pilots that are made the what's the most famous cosby show do you ever watch the cosby show ever seen yeah i've watched him maybe i don't know when he goes theo the real super famous scene that's the pilot it's the pilot theo when he breaks down money realize

that yeah breaks down money he goes you got this much money he's telling theo that's the pilot. Theo, when he breaks down money. I never realized that, yeah. He breaks down money. He goes, you got this much money. He's telling Theo, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. And he gives him a big speech. That's the pilot. That's probably one of the most famous scenes of the Cosby show. And that's the pilot, which is insane. But now-

That's how he says, I brought you into this world. And I'll take you out. Yeah. I mean, he's basically doing his act. Yeah. So he's doing, which is funny. Because that's what you end up doing his act yeah uh so he's doing which is funny is that because that's what you end up doing a lot you end up doing a lot of your stand-up in just

on a kitchen table he's doing like the pushing the baby out and he's a doctor and he's at uh he's at the hospital doing just his stand-up act but it was that's the pilot is you know i mean some of them are bad but that one is unbelievable how good is modern family's got a really good pilot too uh and then but now a lot of shows i mean you got to be good out the gate but they're making the whole series so i'm sure that helps and maybe in a way because you're writing eight scripts yeah or 10 scripts so you kind of have an i mean you're as you write this you're like okay we kind of got this. Sure, stuff's going to change, but your difference

of it being bad and good is not as drastic. You can go first since you're the level fan. Favorite episodes? I think the obvious ones, the contest,

all the iconic ones. I'd say one that I really like the most is The Opposites. Yeah, okay. Is that the one where they all do the opposite of what their instincts are? Mm-hmm. Yeah. That and the Bizarro World episode. Yeah.

It's one of my favorites. And then all the ones with Banya. He's like my favorite character on that show. He's only in a few episodes, episodes right I think he's in like four he recurs a decent bit but I think when you look back it's only like four or five episodes he's in I think so

he's in that's funny and he's a stand up comic you've worked with him I did work with him yeah Steve Heitner is his name really nice guy yeah alright what's the next sorry how's it good we've been like two hours and 15 minutes this is a long yeah uh i just realized how long it was i'll go quick i said uh the little kicks is one of the best ones in my

opinion because that's also jerry bootlegging the movie uh that's you know what i mean that's the bootleg movies uh yeah i mean that's unbelievable that that one uh we just talked about that's one of mine you're still in mind the where he goes the he goes you're doing feature films but he's talking about bootleg and he's like this isn't't... Yeah. Yeah, that one's an amazing one. That storyline, every storyline's good. What's the George storyline in that? He's the bad guy. He's the bad boy.

Oh, he's the bad boy. Yeah, yeah. Elaine does the dance. Yeah, Elaine's... And then Jerry and Kramer. That's a pretty unreal episode. Yeah. When did they start doing where there was multiple plots

and then they all connected at the end? Because that became like the signature thing for that show. Yeah, I just read. It was like season one was only like four or five episodes. It was like season two, maybe the third episode in. Yeah. Okay. And then I got the puffy shirt and the slicer.

Yeah. And so the puffy shirt, I just love that one because that's when George is moving back in to with his parents. And he's complaining to Jerry. And they're going back and forth on whose parents are worse. And George is like, my father wears sneakers in the pool. And then he's like, my mother's never smirked, never teehee, not a laugh.

And he's like, a giggle? He's like, maybe. teehee not a laugh and he's like a giggle maybe yeah um and then the slicer's great because you know they kramer's slicing all those meats and like he's like i haven't had a good sandwich in 13 years and like you know throws around jerry's sandwich like me either and the slicer's your third episode yeah yeah the slicer one's a pretty unbelievable episode it's better than you think yeah because all of the storylines are the kramer buys the slicer yeah elaine has a slicer breaks the slicer they gotta feed that cat next door uh and and then they go uh they do the and george takes the picture out yeah that's the

first that's the first kruger yes kruger is my favorite character is phenomenal as far as like not a part of the main kruger is unreal so that's the first kruger yeah kruger is my favorite character is phenomenal as far as like not a part of the main kruger is unreal so that's the first kruger yeah because look at this picture right here george yeah uh he goes that same thing they take that i mean uh when kramer goes in there and yeah it's unbelievable and he goes well i can go either way on you george but we need somebody so yeah you know whatever pimple yeah pimple popper md yeah yeah we've talked about we've like which character we most identify with and i don't know if you guys like but for you it's a lot jerry because getting annoyed with little things that other people don't notice there's a lot of kramer though because he's always got some new, I'll be like,

I'm going to try to do this. He's like, oh no, you don't need to do this diet. You need to do, he's got some crazy diet or some new product that you got to try. So there's a lot of,

you're a mix between Jerry and Kramer. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're Newman. Yeah, there's some there. Yeah. Another of my favorite, one of my favorite lines is the, so what's your episodes? your Newman. I mean, there's some there. Yeah. Another, my favorite,

one of my favorite lines is the, so what's your episodes? Because it might be one of your episodes. All right. I got, I want to mention

some honorable mentions here. Yeah. The Boyfriend, that's Keith Hernandez. Yeah. The Hamptons, the Puffy Shirt, Kiss Hello,

the Marble Rye. Yeah. The Jimmy, the Chicken Roaster. I've watched Marble Rye. Chicken Roaster. Yeah. The Marble R marble rose underrated i watched it last night because i wanted to kind of see about it those are my own so i got the soup nazi

because i feel like all the storylines are very funny with armoire and yeah and all that uh the little kicks which we've already talked about and the pool guy yeah because that's movie phone yeah yeah and that's ramon the pool guy that hangs out with jerry and that's the world's colliding with george and susan it's so great yeah yeah i mean i'm almost picking like from those would be i mean the yeah little kicks is unreal soup nazi uh you love andrea doria andrea doria is You love Andrea Doria. Andrea Doria is my favorite. Yeah. Yeah, Andrea Doria is my favorite. That's when the George...

Wait, what's the... Jerry... What's Jerry's storyline? He's delivering mail for Newman. Yes. Yeah, yeah. And then Elaine. Elaine is told her date won't be making it

because he's been stabbed. Yes, that's great. Kramer's caught. Andrea Doria. How's that not on your... I have it as my fourth right here, but I thought we were doing... I didn't give it the honorable mention. You don't think it's... I think it's great, but I think

all those I mentioned are great, too. Andrea Doria, dude, the storyline. I mean, you don't... He's going to the vet kramer to get done he goes he's i'd rather i take a vet over an md any day he's slowly turning into a dog he goes he's gotta he's gotta cure a chicken a frog a dog all in the same day smuckers smuck uh and then that oh he's got that cough find the dog with that cough yeah and then the tales of stanza oh yeah i mean when he goes and does all that he's just banging on the wall he's like he goes oh sorry go ahead and he sits down he's like come on he's that old man ahoy matey

oh dude he walks down that aisle and he's going in ahoy matey he just says that to the guy that uh and then in the beginning when she's like he was an andrea doria survivor and he goes oh it's quite some fire shipwreck i remember i remember yeah yeah i remember uh yeah i mean i would say andrea doria i mean i could be talked into a few uh yeah little kicks that's an unreal episode soup nazi would be in there yeah i just watched that one that's i mean such a legendary episode uh it's funny i'd never picked the contest contest is everybody's favorite episode but i think they like it for what they're talking about and not using the words i don't remember like it's never that to me is like you're picking it for that reason instead of like

really breaking down why you like the episode a good pick, Aaron. I think it's a great episode. It is iconic for that reason. It's for that reason. I'm not saying you. I actually kind of forgot what you picked, to be honest. I wasn't really saying that to you. I'm saying in general, the contest is always ranked as the number one episode for everybody.

What's the whole storyline of the contest? John F. Kennedy Jr. Yeah. And Jerry's dating a virgin. Yeah. And George goes to his mom in the hospital. There's a girl across the street.

Yeah. There's a girl across the street. In the window. Yeah, it's very sexualized. I just think they choose it. It is extremely, it's a remarkable, I'm not saying,

taking anything away from it but i always think that there's better episodes yeah as a whole than that uh the other one i would say marine biologist that's one here's the thing that's the one that everybody always says is it's always ranked as the top above andrea doria the whole series is not that the show is it's not one of their strongest this storyline with jerry the t-shirt and all that is like who cares the marine about george's storyline is unbelievable in that one but the rest of it's not that good but george's is the scene at the end in the diner where he's unbelievable it's one of the best scenes in the show the scene was angry that day

it's one of the best scenes in the show i'm completely the whole george him lying about i don't know why did you why could you say i was being an architect he's like i don't know where i'm at on galapagos islands sea turtles the what's the whale line it's a fish mammal mammal yeah what is it the as ge said, the blue whale is the largest animal in the sea, largest mammal in the sea, but as George always says, doesn't have to be. They have too much blubber. I studied blubber.

You got more blubber. That whole run is unbelievable. I don't think that whole episode's that good. I think people think about that, the sea was angry. Then that immediately is like, well whole episode's that good. And I think people, I think they think about that, the scene was angry. And so then that immediately is like, well, that's number one. But if you really look at it,

then that's where I think Andrea Doria is pretty flawless in the fact that everybody is, every storyline is like, that's what you got to go do. You got to really go through it and look at every storyline. I think the money is really good too, because I think it contains maybe the best scene in Seinfeld, uh, or not,

maybe not the best, but it has one of the better lines in Seinfeld when George is like him and Jared debating whose parents have more money. And, uh, he's like, you know, they,

he goes to his parents' house and starts asking about like basically his family. He's like, how old was Aunt Baby when she died? Can you tell me a little bit about Aunt Baby? Frank just looks at the ceiling and goes, she's deceased. They keep talking. He's like, how old would Aunt Baby have been today, Frank? She would have never made it.

Unbelievable line. She completely neglects the question, just the fact that she wouldn't have made it. But how old would she be? She never would have made it. Completely neglects whether, like the question, just the fact that she wouldn't have made it. But how would she be? She never would have made it. I mean, yeah. Festivus? No, Festivus might actually be up there for me. Yeah, it's got to be good. Festivus, you know, there's been some doll.

Oh, she was. Yeah. I mean, when Kramer takes that job, he puts his coat in the case that... The bagels go in. Yeah, the bagelsels like it's the showcase right when they walk in and he just jams his coat a very underrated

little thing that I don't think people really see because it's very quick but it's ridiculous that he put it there H&H bagels yeah

we might have to do a whole entire Seinfeld episode one time we're such big fans of it we can really break it down there's a podcast called Seincast.

I don't know anything. I just saw it on something. Never listened to it, but they break down every episode if you're a diehard Seinfeld fan. Maybe it's good. Maybe it's not. Let us know. I've never watched it or listened to it. Was there anything

else that we missed? No, you asked me to look up the most watched TV events in world history yes uh number one the 1996 olympics opening ceremonies where muhammad ali lit the the torch 3.6 billion people watched it worldwide a lot of them were olympics or world cups and stuff like that yeah yeah so the most ever is that yeah 3.6 that's nuts yeah and then youtube stuff like youtube is oh yeah Yeah. So the most ever is that. Yeah. 3.6 billion. That's nuts. Yeah. And then YouTube stuff, like YouTube has billions. Oh yeah,

YouTube, well the one thing that we looked up was the thing you mentioned either, that LOL tournament. Yeah. Yeah,

League of Legends. Yeah, it had over, well I mean, we've talked about that before in the sports episode. It had more viewers. It had 100 million viewers

in 2019. The Super Bowl had 98 million viewers. It was the most watched. There's a video, music video. I already forgot. Charlie Puth,

I Will See You Again. No, it's Despacito. I don't even know how to say it. Despacito. Is that right? It's got 7 billion views. It's the most viewed

on YouTube. 7 billion. 7 billion. How many people are on earth? 7 billion. Almost 8, I think. Yeah.

Really? I thought it was more than that huh I think it's 7 point something yeah that's crazy dude alright this one

was uh I mean way by far the longest yep uh I mean I don't even know 2 and a half

hours I don't know is it something is it 2 and a half 224 ugh too long uh that's way too long 224 well I hope you have a long day at work and this is Is it something? Is it two and a half? Two twenty-four. Ugh. Too long.

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