10: #10 | Babies

Summary

Public Figures Podcast - Episode 10: “Babies”

Date: April 8, 2026
Hosts: Brian Bates (A), Aaron Weber (C), Dusty Slay (B)

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Overview:

This episode of Public Figures takes on the wobbly, wonderful topic of babies! Brian, Aaron, and Dusty riff on new arrivals (including Dusty's new baby), wild baby trivia, childhood memories, generational baby name trends, and the staggering realities of population shifts. With their signature blend of southern wit, personal anecdotes, and spontaneous comic tangents, the hosts mix in genuine warmth with the laughs. Listeners get a hilarious and occasionally heartfelt look at what changes (and doesn’t) when babies arrive, along with the group’s observations on everything from recording TV on VHS to the mysteries of baby animal names.

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Main Segments and Discussion Points

1. Life Events One-Upping (02:51–05:00)

• Specials vs. Books vs. Babies:
  The episode opens with a classic round of friendly ribbing about major life announcements. Brian taped a comedy special, and almost immediately Dusty "one-upped" him by announcing the birth of his new baby.
  • "So what did he do? This week, this…couldn’t wait 24 hours, he has to have a kid!" (03:21, Brian)
  • Dusty jokes, “By the time your special comes out, the book will already be announced and everything will be clear. The runway will be clear.” (03:28)
• Book Signings and Parenting Logistics:
  Discussion of whether to bring your kids to a local book signing:
  • “You can't do something that close to home and not bring your kids.” (04:51, Dusty)

2. Comedy Career Updates (05:29–06:59)

• Brian gives appreciation for his comedy special taping at Zanies.
• A brief digression into “Breakfast at Zany’s” jokes and ‘90s earworm “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
• The group juggles personal milestones, reflecting on how their work and lives interweave.

3. Baby Arrivals & Parenting (09:55–12:27; 65:02–66:53)

• Dusty’s New Baby:
  Dusty introduces his six-day-old son, Sonny Ray Slay, named in part for his father-in-law and inspired by a Robert Redford film.
  • “We got Daisy, Sammy, and Sonny. I like that. We call him Sam Sammy.” (10:50, Dusty)
  • The group reflects on siblings becoming big kids once a new baby arrives:
    • “I just think of him like a little baby until I brought a...baby, an actual baby. And I’m like, well, you’re a little kid.” (65:42, Dusty)
• Babysitting & Childhood Freedoms:
  They recall their first times left alone as kids and how norms have changed.
  • "Back then there was no crime, really. And—yeah, life was good." (12:22, Dusty, tongue firmly in cheek)
• On Gender and Toddler Terminology:
  The hosts joke about how kids get misgendered if not dressed overtly and on being startled when “buddy” is used for a daughter.

4. Hotel Hijinks on the Road (07:07–09:51)

• Aaron describes a fraught experience at the Drury Inn in Gainesville, FL:
  • Fridge fails, baby medicine emergency, and a fruitless negotiation with staff.
  • “You ever stay at the Melancholy Inn? That’s what it sounds like, the Drury.” (07:49, Aaron)

5. VHS Nostalgia and Family Work Stories (15:07–18:00)

• The crew reminisces about growing up with VHS tapes, including Dusty’s mom working third shift in an Ampex factory.
  • Discussion on the legality of taping TV shows (Betamax Supreme Court case reference).
  • “Remember when there was a VHS rewinder, a separate thing just for rewinding tapes?” (17:26, Dusty)

6. Listener Comments & Running Gags (18:07–61:26)

• Baby Names, Catchphrases & Signature Moves:
  • Listeners’ comments trigger playful discussion about appropriating Dusty’s “having a good time!” line and Aaron’s “This is Aaron Weber” intro.
  • “You gotta find another way to say it. ‘I’m enjoying myself.’ That sounds weird.” (21:12, Aaron)
• Artemis 2 and Moon Talk:
  • Extended riffing on the Artemis 2 mission, moon photos, and hypothetical first words on the dark side of the Moon.
  • “I just envisioned Nate doing arenas on the moon and I’m over there performing on the dark side.” (23:45, Brian)
• Famous Audience Members:
  They swap stories on notable folks who have seen their sets, including Tom Hanks, Kid Rock, Gene Simmons, and Nicole Kidman/Keith Urban.
• Dental & Doctor Trips with Kids: (68:00–72:00)
  • Pediatric check-ups, shots, and kid dentist visits—real parental pain points get a comic airing.
  • "I call it Bad Friday. I'm like, another holiday for this guy. Come on..." (67:51, Brian, on preschool closures)

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Deep Dives & Fun Facts (77:43–107:10)

Baby Biology Trivia

• Babies are “super strong” in their legs relative to weight.
• No kneecaps at birth—cartilage hardens later.
• 30,000 taste buds (triple the adults), covering more of the mouth.
• Babies see black/white, then red, then colors—why kids’ books are so color-blocked.
• Newborns can breathe and swallow at the same time (until ~7 months).
• Babies double weight by 6 months, triple by a year.

Names Across Generations (82:02–94:00)

• 2020s Girl Names: Olivia, Emma, Amelia, Charlotte, Mia.
• 2020s Boy Names: Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore, James.
• 1970s–90s: Brian, Michael, Christopher, Jason, etc.—and the outliers.
• Notable for both “old-fashioned” name revivals and comic riffs on regional names (e.g., Jim Bob Cooter, Mr. Simpson).
• Discussion: “Gertrude” and “Myrtle” now only seen as “old” names.

Baby Animal Names Game (94:09–97:17)

• Baby goat = kid; kangaroo = joey; pig = piglet; rabbit = bunny or kit; alligator = hatchling.
• “Caterpillar? I didn’t know a caterpillar was just the baby [butterfly]. I just thought, that’s just some life change.” (96:25, Brian)

World Babies & Population Changes

• Fertility rates now below replacement in nearly all continents.
• Discussion on China’s one-child policy, and current reverse incentives.
• “China…direct subsidies of about $500 per child each year until age 3…” (105:21, Brian)
• 1963: Worldwide average was 5.3 births/woman; now ~2.2.
• Riff: Poorer/less educated countries have higher birth rates.

Record-Holding Babies

• The heaviest baby ever born: ~22 lbs, to the tallest couple in history (both ~8 ft).
• Photo described as “one of the least flattering pictures of a woman I’ve ever seen.” (108:30, Aaron; comic exaggeration)
• First IVF Baby: Born 1978; oldest frozen embryo birth was 31 years frozen (born ~2025).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Announcements:
  “I was gonna tell something funny, but that's fine. Okay.” (02:15, Brian—classic dry delivery)
• Naming the New Baby:
  “Well, my wife’s dad’s name’s Raymond and he goes by Ray, so we named him Ray after that. And we just like the name Sonny.” (10:29, Dusty)
• Babysitting by Siblings:
  “My mom worked third shift and my sister, we lived in a trailer park and my sister lived next door to us in a trailer, so she was always close by.” (11:34, Dusty)
• On Baby Names:
  “I think there is a real comeback of the older names, but not too old…Not a lot of Ediths and Myrtles.” (83:00, Dusty)
• On Parenting Paranoia:
  “Apparently there’s a thing newborns do where now and then, their heart rate will just kind of dip out of nowhere…most babies aren’t hooked up to these monitors 24/7.” (98:43, Aaron)
• On the Past:
  “The 70s felt free. I mean, I wasn’t alive then, but in hindsight, it seems like a free time.” (90:35, Dusty)
• On Podcast Chemistry:
  “Aaron and Dusty, I consider two of my best friends. We text every day. I’m not saying it goes the other way…” (47:47, Brian)
• On Bird Poop:
  “Her mind's gonna be blown.” (102:14, Brian, after discovering bird poop is white due to uric acid)
• Final Self-Knock:
  “Nate would probably say, ‘Nah, they're friends of each other. And I...I just...They work for me.’” (118:18, Brian)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Life Announcements & Comedy Special: 02:51–06:59
• Parenthood Milestones: 09:55–12:27; 65:02–66:53
• Road/Hotel Stories: 07:07–09:51
• VHS/Family History: 15:07–18:00
• Listener Comments & Artemis Moon Riffing: 18:07–24:09
• Famous Audience Stories: 43:47–46:31
• Dentist for Kids: 68:00–72:00
• Baby Facts & Trivia: 77:41–81:00
• Generational Name Trends: 82:02–94:00
• Baby Animal Names Game: 94:09–97:17
• Population Decline and IVF facts: 103:04–107:10
• Record-breaking Babies: 108:02–110:44
• Baby Monitors & Modern Paranoia: 113:35–114:09

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Tone & Style

The episode is heavy on camaraderie, comic tangents, and good-natured teasing. While the topic is “Babies,” the real theme is about change: in life, in family, in culture, and how the little things (and the little people) can make everything different. The humor is sharp but affectionate, rich in southern flavor and real-life observations.

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Useful for New Listeners

If you missed the episode, you’ll get:

• Behind-the-scenes glimpses of the comics’ offstage lives
• Laughs about growing up then vs. now, and how fragile/crazy memory can be
• Unexpected knowledge on baby animals, world fertility trends, and why babies are “stronger than oxen”
• Candid admissions about jealousy, friendship, and showbiz
• The comfort that no matter how wild your week is, you’re not the only one feeling outnumbered by babies (or podcast hosts).

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For tour dates, book info, and recommended children’s books like “The Wonky Donkey,” visit the hosts’ pages or social media links as plugged throughout the show!

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End of Summary.

Transcript

[A]

This week on a special episode of WebMD's Health Discovered podcast, we're taking a

[B]

closer look at a common form of

[A]

lung cancer that accounts for 85% of all cases.

[B]

When I first heard the words you have lung cancer, I was in shock.

[A]

It's a diagnosis that changes everything. So what does it really mean to advocate for yourself when you're living with non small cell lung cancer? Listen to Health discovered on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, common folks, and hey, unbearables. This is Brian Bates. Welcome to the Public Figures podcast. As always, I'm joined by Aaron Weber.

[C]

Hello, good evening.

[A]

Dusty Slay.

[B]

All right.

[A]

I'm Brian Bates, and it's good to have another see you guys again. It's good.

[B]

It is good to have another see you guys.

[A]

I didn't know where I was going with that. Yeah, but there's a lot to get to.

[B]

It's always good to have another see you guys again.

[A]

Well, one day we won't.

[B]

That's true.

[C]

One day we'll have seen you guys again the last time.

[B]

Well, that's true.

[C]

So it's just something to think about.

[A]

Well, I know you guys took April off, but you can see me this weekend in Rochester, New York, Comedy at the Carlson Two shows this Friday. So come check that out.

[C]

But they're both sold out, right?

[A]

They are just trying to make some content here.

[C]

I know, but you. You want people to go to the website to try to buy tickets and then they can't.

[A]

No, I'm just saying you can see me. I didn't say anything about going.

[C]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[A]

Those of you who bought a ticket, you know who you are. You can see me this Friday at Comedy at the Cars.

[C]

But don't you like the feeling of somebody trying to get taken. Ah, it's sold out. I do, yeah. It feel good, right?

[A]

I do. It's been sold out for a while. Because as I've mentioned, you don't got to say it.

[C]

Don't just take the win, just take the win.

[B]

It's sold out.

[C]

It's sold out. Dude, there's a line around the block.

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We're all doing it. You know what I mean? We're all doing it.

[A]

Okay. I was gonna tell something funny, but that's fine. Okay.

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You know, somebody commented. I don't know if you included it, but somebody included. They go, I don't need to hear your dates at the beginning. Just get right into it. And I go, well, this is a big help to us. So we're going to. Going to keep doing it.

[C]

And also, there's nothing to get into. It's not like there's something.

[A]

Well, this week there is, though.

[C]

This week there is.

[A]

Okay, now a few.

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What I mean is, we're not the evening news. It's not like we're. We're waiting to talk about ir. We are.

[A]

This week we are.

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I'm Tom Brool. You can see me this weekend in Rochester, New York, at the comedy off the Carlson. And now the news.

[A]

Few weeks ago, I announced that I was taping a special, and in less than 24 hours, Dusty has to come out and announce he's putting out a book.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

And took all the steam away from my big announcement.

[C]

That's right.

[A]

So that's what he does. This week, this.

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It's available. You can get it online right now. Amazon.com

[C]

Just get into it.

[A]

This past week I. This past Monday, I take my special, my half hour special.

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Boom.

[A]

And Dusty couldn't wait 24 hours. He has to have a kid.

[B]

That's true.

[A]

I mean, everybody's like, oh, way to go, Dusty.

[B]

You know what, though? By the time your special comes out, the book will already be announced and everything will be clear. The Runway will be clear.

[C]

There'll be nothing else for you to, to hijack. Now.

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I won't have any other announcements. I can only think of a couple of things I have coming up.

[C]

Your career's over at that.

[B]

I bet it won't be coming in during those times.

[A]

Okay, so you think your book will come out before my special does?

[B]

No, no, no. I think it's already announced is what I'm saying.

[A]

Oh, I see.

[B]

So now you're. The Runway is clear.

[A]

Yeah. Okay.

[B]

And the. And really, when it comes out, that's. I mean, selling out the show, that was no problem for you. So now the big announcement is when it comes out.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

I mean, it's sold out fast.

[A]

It's. It's coming out. We've already. November 10th.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

No, I'm joking. You had no idea. But I do.

[C]

Brian's like, you know that big press tour you're doing? You mind if I hop in on that with you? We'll just do a twofer, huh?

[B]

Yeah. I mean, I will be at bookstores and you're welcome to come.

[A]

Just tag along.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

If you want to help stack my

[B]

books and stuff for me, you can sell your merch.

[C]

Are you doing signings?

[B]

Yeah, when I sign it, you can write some of your dates in there.

[A]

I'm Gonna come to the books. A million in Mount Juliet. Providence. I bet you're doing one there.

[B]

I don't know.

[C]

That's the spot. Leanne did one.

[A]

That's right. That's where a lot of.

[C]

It's the one right by my house.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna come there.

[B]

Well, if I go there, I'll have to bring my kids, so. They should know that you can't do something that close to home and not bring your kids.

[A]

It's a rule.

[C]

Yeah, I thought the farther away it would be. Explain that to me.

[B]

Well, it's just a car drive away. I can put them all in the car seats and come on down. They're far away. That's plane tickets I gotta buy.

[C]

Oh, okay. Oh, okay. I get it. I get it. You know, I thought you meant far away versus, like, downtown Nashville.

[B]

Oh, oh, no, no. I mean far, far away.

[C]

Okay. Yeah. Other side of the country, places like that.

[B]

Okay, well, downtown Nashville they'll have to come to.

[A]

Okay, let's get back to me last Monday, take my half hour special. And I think it went well.

[B]

It did go well, and it was very good.

[A]

Thank you.

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And called Breaking Breakfast.

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I appreciate everyone who came to the show and I appreciate you guys being on the show.

[C]

Of course.

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I appreciate all these people. I got a lot of people to thank. So.

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Breakfast at Zany's.

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Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, it was a lot of fun.

[C]

Many of these stick.

[A]

So thank you for everyone who supported me in that. Thought that would go better, but no,

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it was a great show. You really. I mean, you got one take and you nailed it, so thank you. Yeah, thank you. It would have been a waste to have two. How good you did.

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Yeah.

[C]

And I said, what about Breakfast at Z? He said, I think I remember the sad. And as I recall, it went very well.

[A]

I just want my special. What? How's that song go?

[C]

Breakfast at Tiffany's.

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That's what he.

[C]

Deep blue something.

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No, the song where I just want to. I want my beer. What is it?

[B]

Baby back ribs.

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I just want. Watch my show, Laugh at my jokes, drink my beer.

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Crying. You don't have to. I just want to beat my dog. That's my thing.

[C]

I just want to beat my dog.

[B]

That's my favorite.

[C]

Cut my beard, drink my grass.

[A]

So did you guys do anything this weekend?

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No, I was off. I had a doctor's appointment with the baby in Florida. I was down in Florida for a couple days. Not the fun part of Florida. I was in landlocked Florida. Florida, no ocean, Just swampy pavements.

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God.

[C]

Out in Gainesville.

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Oh, I like Gainesville.

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It's all right. Yeah, but it's when you say I went to Florida for a few days, it's not what people are picturing. Yeah, they're picturing the beach.

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Sandy beach.

[C]

The beach. I was hopping around in a Drury Inn all weekend.

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You know Drury? I like a Drury in. But it's my opinion the worst name. Because it sounds dreary.

[C]

I mean, it does sounds like sad hotel.

[B]

I like. I've stayed at a few drearies and I like them.

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Yeah. You ever stay at the Melancholy Inn? That's what it sounds like. The dreary. I. I got there. We have some medicine that has to say refrigerated for the baby. So I get to the hotel, we get there late, take a late flight. It's an hour and a half drive from Jacksonville to Gainesville. I get there and the fridge is not working. So I go galley. So I gotta, I gotta see if they'll put this medicine like in their fridge back there or whatever.

[B]

Right.

[C]

So I go downstairs and I was like, can you. I have some medicine that needs to be refrigerated. Can you put it back there? And they go, oh, no. Oh no, we can't handle medicine. So I go, all right, boy, I'll tell you. Boy, I'll tell you. And then I go, well, I don't know what you want to do here. My fridge doesn't work. So they're like, all right, we'll send a guy up to come confirm that it doesn't. He had to go put another refrigerator in. It took like an hour and a half, two hours.

[A]

They couldn't just switch your rooms, you think?

[C]

Yeah, I mean, that maybe honestly would have been easier.

[B]

The Drury there already sad in retrospect.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

[B]

I got to clean too.

[C]

We had unpacked in there at everything. I mean, we've been there for a little bit. Yeah, but it's in retrospect, would have been quicker to just move to another

[B]

or just take the fridge out of that room. Was that a mini fridge? Just take the fridge. Oh, it's a full on fridge.

[C]

No, not a full fridge. It's not like a kitchenette. It's just one of those mini fridges. Yeah, but it was a whole thing. Unplugging it, taking it out, going to get a cart, putting it on the cart, and then, you know, 30 minutes later comes back with another.

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I don't even think you need a cart with a mini fridge.

[C]

Well, this Guy. I think this guy did okay. Yeah, this guy needed a little bit of help. Yeah, he needed something. But anyway.

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Drury worker.

[C]

Anyway, I'm back at it. I'm home all of April. I got a big, big weekend at Zany's coming up here in Nashville. If you're in the Nashville area. April 17th and 18th. I'm headlining the main room for my first full weekend there. I'm excited about that. And then things kick off again in May, Salt Lake City in D.C. but anyway. What about you, Dusty? Anything happen over.

[B]

Well, I had a baby and. But I had the baby last week, you know, on Tuesday, so. And that's going great. And.

[C]

Six days old.

[B]

Six days old. And it's already been to Target, so. But we. Yeah, no shows.

[A]

You want to tell us anything about him?

[B]

Name's Sonny Ray. Sonny Ray Slayer.

[C]

Oh, really?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And it's close to Sunny Gray. Yeah, but I like it.

[B]

Sunny Gray is.

[C]

But former Nateland guest.

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Okay.

[C]

Shouldn't have even mentioned it.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Because I like.

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Well, my wife's dad's name's Raymond and he goes by Ray, so we named him Ray after that. And we just like the name Sonny. Yeah. And then I watched the movie after we had already decided we were going to name him Sonny. I watched the movie Electric Horseman with Robert Redford. His name's Sonny in that movie. The. But. Yeah, it was great.

[C]

Sunny Sleigh.

[B]

Sunny sleigh. So we got Daisy, Sammy and Sunny. I like that we call him Sam Sammy.

[A]

What did he weigh?

[B]

He was small. He weighed 6.1.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah, but all our babies have been in the six pound range.

[A]

So everybody's good.

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Everybody's good home.

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Y.

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We're having a good time.

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What does Daisy and Sam think of him?

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Well, they love him. They can't get enough of him. They like to kiss him and poke his head and.

[C]

They babysitting him yet? Can you get out of the house, you name?

[B]

Well, yeah, I mean, I'm about ready for it. I think Daisy could do it. She's be five in May.

[C]

She's, you know, she can hold down the fort.

[B]

Yeah, they're already helping themselves to things in the house.

[C]

What's the earliest you got left alone at the house, do you think?

[B]

I don't know. It's hard to say, but.

[A]

Well, you're driving a car too.

[B]

Yeah, but I would say pretty young. I mean, my mom worked third shift and my sister, we lived in a trailer park and my sister lived next door to us in a trailer, so

[C]

she's Always close by.

[B]

Close by somebody.

[C]

Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So what, like seven or eight maybe?

[B]

I don't know. It's hard to say, but probably something like that.

[C]

Yeah.

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Pretty young.

[C]

What about you, Brian?

[B]

I don't know. That might be too early 1920.

[A]

Yeah. My sister's five years older than I

[C]

am, so it's a built in babysitter.

[A]

It was a built in babysitter because, you know. Yeah. I don't even know. I mean, time I was 7, she was 12. She was probably kind of watching, you know, so. It's hard to say.

[B]

Yeah. And back then there was no crime, really. And. Yeah, life was good.

[C]

It was like that heyday of serial killers and cults and everything.

[B]

Yeah, but serial killers are different than just mass crime.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Especially where I live.

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Yeah.

[C]

You have grew up in the summer of love. Son of Sam was going through.

[A]

No, I'm not that old. Are you middle child?

[C]

Middle. A third of four.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

So one of the middle children.

[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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Let's do it.

[A]

Who's reading them this week?

[B]

I think that you are.

[A]

Comments come from. You guys just take off this week?

[B]

Well, you're leading it. I mean, last week when I was leading it, you made me.

[C]

Let's have Hold. Let's stop. Let's. Let's regroup here. What do you. You. I feel like you expect more out of us this week.

[A]

I do. Well, we expect more of you guys every week.

[C]

Well, you should know by now. This is what you're getting.

[B]

We were off. I mean, what do you want?

[C]

Yeah, I got my laptop with me this week.

[A]

Well, that is.

[B]

I got a new hat. This impacts hat. This is where my mom used to work when I was growing up.

[C]

Is that a VHS manufacturer?

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Yeah.

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Speaking of third shift, this is where my mom worked third shift at the Ampex factory.

[A]

Did she lose her job when VHS just went away?

[B]

Well, sort of. I mean, the factory eventually closed down.

[C]

They didn't transition to DVDs. They were like, let's double down on VHS.

[B]

No, they just made the tape that goes inside of the VHS tape.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

So, you know, their factory closed and, you know, they all. You know, this is a big deal in Opelika. Yeah, it was. A. And a lot of people worked there, and a lot of people expected to retire from there.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And then you guys and your selfish DVDs came in.

[C]

Hey, listen, I'm a Blu Ray guy. Don't blame me. All right.

[B]

Anyway, just. Any other format than VHS ruined it, so.

[C]

Well, my uncle worked at an HD DVD factory. He went out of business.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So did you get free VHS tapes like Blake ones?

[B]

We did get some, yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Oh, Blake wants to record them.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. Yeah, I forgot you could do that.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, we had a VCR and we were recording all kinds of stuff and then labeling them illegally, I might add.

[B]

My mom used. They had a copy machine, wasn't it?

[C]

I mean, it's illegal to do that.

[B]

Wasn't it to tape off tv?

[C]

Yeah, I know every. I know everybody did it. We did, too. But wasn't it technically illegal?

[B]

I think you just can't be out selling them.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Oh, but for personal use.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. Okay.

[A]

I don't think they'd put a record button on the VCR if it was illegal.

[B]

Don't be running a black market on selling the. You know, you got to sit there and cut out the commercials. Dude, you do that. You said, oh, we used to do that. You sit and watch something, and then when the commercial came on, you would hit, like, pause on the recording and then wait. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

It wasn't advanced.

[B]

Yeah, we got into it. My mom, you know, if a tape of a dv, a vhs, broke, the tape broke. She could. She could patch it back together.

[A]

Really?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Recording TV shows on VHS was ruled legal in the US following the 1984 Supreme Court Betamax case. This went all the way to the Supreme Court. While unauthorized copying of rented movies was illegal, recording broadcast television for personal use was deemed fair use.

[B]

That makes sense.

[C]

Yeah. It's one of the rare times you go. I think they got it right on that, because it kind of makes sense.

[B]

Remember when there was a VHS rewinder, A separate thing just for rewinding tapes,

[C]

and it rerun it super quickly?

[B]

Yeah, we had one of those.

[C]

Be kind.

[B]

Be kind.

[A]

We had one at the video store that worked at.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Because people weren't being kind.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Remember when you found your dad's VHS tape? The vcr?

[B]

Yeah, that was a fun story. Yeah.

[A]

That's for Nateland After Dark. Not Nateland. Public Figures After Dark. Yeah. All right. Comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast reviews and [e-mail] first comment comes from Coleslaw. I think that's his real name.

[C]

There's no way. I bet his name's Cole.

[B]

Yeah. What if his last name's Slaw, though, and he. He added in the coal.

[A]

My guess is it's the.

[B]

Could be Doug Slaw, though.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Douglas Slaw.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It's close to Slay.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Slaw. Slay.

[B]

Very close.

[A]

Well, Cole says, I love what y' all are doing with the show. You three play off each other so well. And any episode with Greg is an instant classic. Happy New Year, Dusty.

[B]

Oh, yeah. We just had Passover on Wednesday.

[A]

Yeah. I wanted your baby to be a New Year's baby.

[B]

Yeah, me too.

[A]

New Year's Eve, right?

[B]

Yeah, we've been.

[A]

It would have been Passover, you know, I don't know.

[B]

I mean, you know, biblically speaking, I think Passover is on the 14th day of the year, so, you know, April. Well, April 1st is. You know, it's. It gets complicated because the calendars are all mixed up. It should be more an observation of the moon and stars instead of just a concrete calendar.

[A]

But how cool was it? He was born on New Year's Eve. Passover Eve and Artemis 2 launch.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. It's a big day in the Sleigh house.

[B]

It's a big day. Yeah. I love that. I'm so excited about Artemis, too.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, man, they're so far away.

[A]

They've been saying, further than anyone.

[B]

Anybody. They've been around Apollo 13.

[C]

They got some pictures of the other side of the moon that people have never seen before. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

[B]

It is cool. Looks wild.

[A]

Well, thank you. Coleslaw.

[C]

Remarkable human achievement.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I haven't seen those pictures. Can you pull them up?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I'd love to see the dark side of the moon here. See what Pink Floyd was raving about?

[C]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, they restricted NASA.gov on the zany's network. I guess they.

[A]

Somebody doesn't want us to get to the.

[C]

Somebody's trying to get on Dusty's good side here. Zany's they go, let's restrict NASA.gov.

[B]

i appreciate that. Well, they just probably have a blocker on, you know, trash websites, fake news. Yeah,

[C]

yeah, I'll find them on.

[B]

Okay. Look how epic they're trying to make these people look at them. Forging new frontiers.

[C]

It's just a picture. I mean, they're literally spacing explorers.

[B]

Yeah, you got to think, if you're the guy in the back, though, you're like, come on, guys, I'm going to the moon, too. Guys.

[A]

Yeah, you can barely see him. Huh? Gina. Kiso.

[C]

Kiso.

[A]

It's not the phrases themselves that Dusty trademarks. It's the way he says them.

[C]

Well, that's true for some things. The way you say.

[B]

All right, all right.

[C]

But the. We're having a good time.

[B]

We're having a good time.

[C]

Doesn't matter how it's said. It's you. Yeah, that's your thing.

[B]

I've taken it over. You're having a good time. You have people, if they wave on stage and get goth. They say they were channeling the Dusty Slug.

[C]

I've had to say it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Because guess what? I organically waved and commented that we were having a good time.

[B]

You're not allowed to do that.

[C]

I'm not allowed to. Dude, I gotta find another way to say it. I'm enjoying myself. That sounds weird.

[B]

Yeah. You know, we're enjoying ourselves.

[C]

We're all having a good evening.

[B]

Yeah. You can't say good.

[C]

No. You can't say good.

[B]

No.

[C]

I mean, I can't do any other words.

[B]

You know, you can do whatever.

[C]

Can I use the we pronoun?

[B]

You're going to be accused of stuff I think you can Use we.

[C]

This room is having a pleasant evening.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I could just say, yeah, I like that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And you do it with a thumbs up instead of a wave.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

This room's having a pleasant evening, huh?

[A]

That's not bad.

[C]

That might be good. Yeah. Get some merch made.

[B]

I like that.

[A]

Just me.

[B]

You think that's their name?

[A]

Yeah. Aaron already has a catchphrase. This is Aaron, by the way. Just needs to incorporate that in his live act.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

You say Aaron Weber, though, right?

[C]

This is Aaron Weber speaking. Yeah, Weber, by the way.

[B]

Yeah, you could do that, you know, if you did the. What they. What people call the God Mike at a theater. You could. You could do that at the beginning and introduce the first car.

[C]

Oh, yeah, yeah, that'd be fun. I get to theaters and you do that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Tough to do that at a comedy club. Hey, everybody, welcome to Chuckle Huts. This is Aaron Weber. By the way, if you parked in front of the subway, you will get towed.

[B]

There's no subway now where they say Dunkin.

[C]

It's a Dunkin Donuts over there now. Yeah.

[B]

Dollar General's gone too. It's a guitar store over there.

[C]

It is a guitar store.

[B]

Neighborhood's really coming up.

[C]

The 3G tower still right there.

[B]

Is it? Yeah, yeah, you can feel it. It's probably what's blocking that website.

[C]

I think it's blocking NASA.gov.

[A]

is it 3G?

[B]

It's probably 4, 5G.

[A]

Yeah. At least 5G.

[B]

Unless it's old. Maybe it's an old one. Is that the moon?

[C]

This is the nearest. This is the side that we always see. This is just a good picture of it. Goodness. So we got a really good. Really good high quality photo of it.

[B]

Gosh.

[C]

Pretty cool.

[B]

Look at that thing.

[A]

You know they say we'll be living on the moon someday.

[B]

I hope so.

[C]

Who says that?

[A]

Everybody. That's cool. Nobody, you know?

[C]

I'm sorry, man.

[A]

Some cool people. Where are we?

[B]

Nobody you'd know.

[A]

I just envisioned Nate doing like, arenas on the moon and I'm over there performing on the dark side. Yeah.

[C]

Do you think he'll be the first comedian to perform at the Sphere? I don't think there's been a standup show in the sphere yet. And I'm trying to think of. I don't know if it would necessarily serve Nate's act in the way that it might other comedians, but I think he might be the first one to

[A]

do it in the round. In the sphere.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

He can't really do the round, and I don't Know what kind of visual. Imagine Nate up there talking about ketchup and there's like a galaxy behind him.

[B]

Or maybe it's just ketchup. It's just a lot of people pouring ketchup out of packets open and struggling to open packets.

[A]

Yeah, I don't know. Casey Carlson, Brian is like a comedy missionary spreading laughter to unreached people groups. Well, thank you, Case. That is true.

[B]

That is true. And their last name is Carlson and that's where you'll be this week. Comedy at the Carlson.

[A]

That's right.

[C]

You're like a missionary. Eventually you're going to go to a place that's not hospitable and they're going to kill you. Some uncontacted city show up with a microphone. They just beat you to death.

[B]

Hello, folks, folks, folks.

[A]

Lisa X. Dad. I enjoyed the meat episode today and especially the part about all the chicken in Auburn. Slash Opelika. I was waiting for you to mention Chicken Salad Chick, which was also started in Auburn. She started it at a catering as a catering business in her house and now it's very successful franchise. She and her husband also own a fabulous restaurant Opelika called Botanic.

[B]

Well, that's interesting. I did not know that.

[A]

I didn't either.

[B]

Botanic I've been to before. Not the restaurant. I've been there to get coffee and walked around a little bit. Very nice spot. Used to be another restaurant there and used to be another restaurant. It sounds dirty just to say the name and so I'm not going to say it, but it's not dirty, but it sounds dirty. It's a name of a chicken and male chicken and that my dad.

[C]

Roosters.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad said he called like the information like back in the day to try to find the number for that place and he asked for it and the lady said you should be ashamed of yourself and hung up on him.

[A]

You're told that on stage?

[B]

No, that's pretty good. Yeah, but thank you. But that's. I didn't know that about Chicken Salad Chick. That's interesting.

[A]

I love Chicken Salad Chick. I had no idea. Starting.

[B]

Yeah. Well, look at that.

[C]

It really is a good spot. There's one. Excuse me. There's one right next to the Stardome. I usually eat them.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[C]

When I go to start.

[B]

And you would think, you know, a lady whose last name starts with egg would know a lot about chickens. Yeah. Oh, eggs, Dad.

[A]

I guess you're right. And a few people wrote in, said the Ruth Chris story is not accurate.

[C]

It's not getting hung up in the who, what, when, where.

[A]

But if it makes you feel any better, the story you based that off was because Dusty was talking about how some business started, and they said that wasn't right either.

[B]

So what did I say?

[A]

I can't remember now what it was.

[B]

I don't. I've not said anything incorrect.

[A]

Well, my mistake.

[C]

Paris, the thought. Brian.

[A]

Is that the moon?

[C]

That's a picture of Earth taken from Artemis, too.

[B]

What's that behind Earth? What do you mean getting that light?

[C]

I don't think that that's something behind the earth. I think that's just the sunlight. See, like the northern lights right there.

[A]

Oh, wow.

[B]

What is that down there, though?

[A]

Southern lights?

[C]

I don't know exactly, but there is a massive sun out in the universe that's probably emitting a lot of light just under.

[A]

Not just in the universe, in our solar system.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Just underneath. Like that, though. How's it. Why do you think it's gathering like that?

[C]

What do you mean?

[B]

Gathering down at the bottom, making that kind of crescent.

[C]

I don't think the light is gathering like it's a. Like it's a beanbag chair and it's all falling to the one side.

[A]

Somebody's not good at Photoshop, looks like to me. Right.

[B]

Well, I don't. I just don't know what that is, but looks good. I mean, it's a good picture or a painting or whatever, but it's a photograph, but. Oh, hello.

[C]

There are two auroras. Big Nate fans, top right and bottom left, and zodiacal. Zodiacal light. Let's look up what zodiacal light is.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Zodiacal light is a faint triangular white glow caused by sunlight scattering off interplanetary dust particles in the solar system.

[B]

So it's kind of like a gathering?

[C]

Yep, I guess so. But you. Yeah, yeah, I guess so. I guess so. The way you said it confused me, but I guess you are right. It is a gathering of light.

[A]

Well, I think it's super cool. And I've been following it.

[B]

And

[A]

they come back. Today's the furthest they're out. Right. And then they start coming back around.

[B]

No, they have 40 minutes where we're not going to be in contact with them.

[C]

So when they. On the other side of the moon,

[B]

we don't know what happens.

[A]

Is that true?

[C]

I have no idea. Is. Is there a dark period?

[A]

40 minutes for this one?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Wow. You follow it close.

[B]

They're prepared for it.

[A]

How are they prepared? They say CB radio.

[B]

They say the. The spaceship is programmed to do Everything for them. Okay. But they're ready with manual controls if they have to.

[A]

Oh.

[C]

NASA is expecting a loose communication with the astronaut for about 40 minutes during a planned blackout period. The break will occur as the moon blocks signals between the spacecraft and the Earth. So yeah, while it's on the dark side of the moon.

[A]

It's pretty wild.

[C]

It's pretty cool.

[B]

What do you think they're going to be doing over there?

[C]

I mean, can you imagine? They can say whatever they want. Yeah, they can say whatever they want. And then all the windows down screen,

[B]

little black box in there, record.

[A]

Well, it probably is. You imagine me further out in space than anybody in human history, but you're still just trapped in there with three people you don't like. God, give me some space.

[C]

Do you think that they're friends by this point you think? Four days and I think they used to be friends. And now you think, yeah, they're not anymore?

[A]

No, I think they. When they know that they're so dependent on each other, I think they probably stay friends.

[B]

Do you think they make it back?

[C]

Yeah, I think they make it back. What do you think your first line is? You get to see the dark side of the movie because I think there's an opportunity for an iconic quote right here that's going to go down in history. Right.

[A]

But they're not the first people to see that.

[C]

But they're the first in what, 50 years. 50 years.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

First of my lifetime to be out there.

[A]

I turn a light on.

[C]

That would be funny. That would be. Yeah. Boy, dark over here. It's dark. Uhoh. Somebody turned the lights off.

[A]

Artemis 2 what are you saying? It's dark? It's very dark.

[B]

Do you think it's dark to them or just that side of the moon is dark and is that, you know. Yeah, I mean they're in a shadow, but maybe they could see light all around them.

[C]

Yeah, it might not necessarily be dark depending on where the sun is, but it's the dark side in, in so far as.

[B]

But if they're weak, sun was coming all around it like a spotlight, Like a dark spotlight.

[C]

Oh, maybe, maybe it depends on when they get there.

[B]

I think they crash into the moon when they're on that side.

[C]

That'd be, I mean, absolute worst case scenario at this point. Right. If they crashed into the moon, you're not even prepared to land on it.

[B]

Kind of shattered, kind of cracked the moon a little bit. Then it started to, then it started to kind of like pieces. Yeah, they hit it pretty hard and Then pieces start to fall down on the Earth, get sucked into the gravitational pull.

[C]

How big do you think the moon is and how big do you think Artemis 2 is?

[B]

It's hard to say.

[C]

It's going to crack a piece off. There are craters like 600 miles wide.

[B]

But you don't know what the moon's made of.

[C]

It could be glass, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It could be cheese, who knows?

[B]

You don't know what it's made of.

[C]

That's true. I don't know what it is.

[B]

Moon rock.

[A]

I think they're already around it though, now.

[C]

Did they already do the lap?

[B]

I don't.

[C]

And they're on their way back.

[A]

I mean, I think they're lapping it now. I think they're on the. You think they're gonna crash?

[B]

Time's different up there.

[A]

You may be right.

[B]

Dusty, you ever seen Intergalactic?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What is it? Is that the movie Interstellar? Interstellar, Great movie.

[A]

Yeah. It's funny how I said yeah until you asked if that. And I was like, yeah, maybe that's not it. Yeah, interstellar is great.

[C]

I don't know. That is. Pulled up a map. That only confused me. Let's just move on.

[A]

They're doing like an eight, right?

[C]

Like an, like. Yeah, I think so, yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Catherine Zechler. Back in the 90s, my husband waited tables and periodically a couple called ahead to order steaks. They requested the steaks be pulled from the fridge and brought to room temperature. When they arrived, they ate the steaks raw. No searing, no nothing, blood running. This wasn't a high end steakhouse. The wait staff refer to them as the vampire couple.

[B]

That's fine. Why do you think you do that? If you're gonna go through all that trouble, just maybe just buy the steaks and eat them at home.

[A]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[C]

Maybe because you just want to dine out and just like be around other people.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Get the full experience, just.

[B]

But to be so weird about it though. You want to be around other people but be so weird. Yeah, like so weird that other people called them the vampire couple.

[C]

Right, right.

[A]

And we're still talking about them.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

This was the night.

[B]

I wish we knew their names.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Eating raw steak is claimed by proponents to offer higher nutritional value, including increased bioavailability of B vitamins, iron, and beneficial enzymes destroyed by cooking.

[B]

Would you eat steak sushi?

[C]

I mean, I've had steak tartare.

[B]

I don't know if it's inside sushi, like in a. In a roll.

[C]

Oh, maybe. I Mean, yeah, if other people are doing it, I'll do it.

[B]

I may try it too.

[C]

Yeah, I would do it.

[A]

I don't know what that is.

[B]

You don't know what sushi is?

[A]

I don't know what steak sushi is.

[B]

Well, I'm just saying it'd just be sushi.

[A]

I really don't even know what sushi is. I'm gonna say I don't know what

[B]

state, but instead of fish, it would be pieces of raw steak.

[A]

Well, yeah. Yeah. Oh, raw steak. I think I'm about just piece of steak. I'm like, yeah, I'll eat a piece of steak.

[B]

Yeah. Like tartar is like kind of like mashed up or whatever. Right.

[A]

This seems like something you would be on board with.

[B]

No, I'm into it. I'm just saying I don't know why you're putting the restaurant through that.

[C]

Yeah, I. I agree.

[B]

And why you also trust that I agree.

[C]

If you're going to eat raw steak, I respect it. Do it at home. Yeah, do it at home. And don't do it in the middle of a crowded restaurant.

[B]

Like they said, this wasn't a high end steakhouse. We talking western sizzling. I watched a guy accidentally dump a bucket of chicken on the floor and scoop it back into the thing and keep boiling it.

[C]

Who was you? I watched a guy on security camera.

[A]

Later,

[C]

raw steak sushi, often called wagushi or beef, you know, not saying that. Features thinly sliced, high quality beef served over vinegared sushi rice.

[B]

Where's the word that you won't read? Oh, oh, yeah, yeah.

[C]

I don't know. I don't know.

[B]

Yeah, I get it.

[C]

Sometimes served entirely raw, it's also commonly lightly seared. It's often paired with soy sauce, wasabi, sesame oil, or spicy mayo. Gotta be honest. Sounds good.

[B]

It does sound.

[C]

I think you and I get some later.

[B]

We should get some.

[C]

Yeah, let's do it.

[A]

Lauren Grossman.

[B]

Great name to follow up the vampire couple. Grossman.

[C]

Gross.

[B]

Man.

[A]

I was on my first date ever in high school and ordered a burger. When the waiter asked me how I wanted it cooked, I confidently said, the stove is fine. Had no idea meat was cooked at different temperatures. Did not get asked on a second date. That's great.

[B]

That's fine.

[C]

Oh, the stove is cool. Don't worry about it. That's hilarious. That would be endearing to me if somebody did that.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You know what I mean?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

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[A]

Jesse Nava. Wish we had an Aaron cam that zooms in on his face whenever he's fighting against his intrusive thoughts. All right, well, let's do. Let's. Let's talk about the Artemis too.

[C]

No, let's not do. Let's not do that.

[A]

Dusty. Let's sing a duet.

[B]

We've not sang in a while. I guess it needs to come.

[C]

Sang a bunch last episode.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. I don't know if you did, but

[A]

I feel like we did with Greg and Meat.

[C]

Oh, maybe not Greg.

[B]

Greg doesn't strike me as a singer.

[C]

No, me either.

[B]

Like, not even. Like, I don't even picture Greg listening to music in the car.

[C]

Yeah, I just. Just deal with traffic. Come on, man. Oh, you gonna do that, man?

[A]

Trying to think about his jokes. He's got that one joke about all I want for Christmas is a fish sandwich.

[C]

Yeah, that's a great joke. That's a great joke. And that was stuck in my head. For weeks.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You hear that joke?

[B]

No.

[C]

He's a homeless person on the subway. The homeless person just keeps going, all I want for Christmas is a fish sandwich. And he says it like 10 times. And it gets funnier every time.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

He's like, I know what I'm getting her for Christmas. It's just good stuff.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, we're having a pleasant evening.

[A]

Yeah. He had to be there. Jennifer Massard. Dusty was talking about Tom Hanks overplaying the hero roles in films. Robin Williams was also like that. Most roles were him being an unconventional, rebellious sort of savior character. Deadpool Society, Awakenings, Good Morning Vietnam, Patch Adams, etc.

[B]

I agree. But unless I'm wrong about this, those were all fictional characters.

[C]

No. Was Good Morning Vietnam based on a real guy?

[A]

I don't know about that one. But Dead Point Society is a role, right?

[C]

Loosely based, actually. Based on dead. What guy who went to NBA here in Nashville. Dead Poet Society.

[A]

Oh, that's what I say.

[C]

Put Dead Boy Society.

[A]

What Awakenings is a true story. And Patch Adam is this true story.

[B]

Right.

[C]

I didn't know that.

[B]

They may be true stories, but they're not famous people.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

That's what I'm saying. Like, Tom Hanks is like, it's you

[A]

all about Captain Phillips before the movie.

[B]

Yeah. I mean. I mean, I didn't know all about him, but that was a very well known story. And maybe these were well known.

[C]

I think it was fairly well known. I mean, you knew Sully was Sully.

[A]

Yeah, but I didn't know Phillips.

[C]

Abraham Lincoln. You knew about him.

[A]

Well, that movie hasn't come out yet.

[C]

Well, you knew. You knew about Walt Disney.

[B]

You know about Mr. Rogers.

[C]

Mr. Rogers.

[A]

I guess my argument would be I

[C]

agree with you about Forrest Gump before that came out.

[B]

I'm just saying, I don't even know. I mean, maybe these are. And maybe at the time these were well known stories. But I just feel like anytime a famous thing happens, I think Robin Williams

[A]

or Tom Hanks or anybody, they get cast in a role that they know they'd be good at. They don't write the movies and put themselves in it. Yeah.

[B]

I feel like they're also both the nice guy Personas.

[C]

That's true. But also, Robin Williams is dead, so let's not pile on his grave.

[B]

I haven't said anything bad about. He's a. He was.

[C]

Everybody chill out a little bit. The guy's dead.

[B]

He was a nice guy. Robin Williams. You know, at least I've heard that. To us. I don't know, maybe he wasn't. But you're looking at me.

[A]

I saw him here at Zany's.

[B]

Did you? Yeah, 1973.

[A]

Not performing. He shot a movie in Nashville.

[C]

He saw him audition for Mork. Sorry.

[A]

Sorry, Was that necessary? I'm sorry.

[C]

Is this the story? When he showed up at the bar, were you at that show?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I would like to hear it. Sorry, we're in the stippy here. Jeez. All right, Squidward, what do you got?

[A]

Now I forgot who was.

[C]

Was it a showcase or something?

[A]

No, no, I forgot who was headlining. But he just. He was shooting a movie in Nashville and he came afterwards to. Oh, it was Mike Rubiglia. Okay. Was headline. That's cool. And he just came and watched the show and sat at the bar. Zany.

[C]

I already came in incognito. Just bought a ticket and just sat at the bar and.

[A]

Yeah, but he wouldn't wear a fake mustache.

[C]

I know, but he didn't come in and go, I'm Robin Williams. Like, he just kind of showed up.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And sit at the bar and very quietly.

[A]

Yes, yes.

[C]

He didn't do a spot, did he?

[A]

No. And somebody didn't.

[C]

What was that a crazy question?

[A]

Well, incognito is a little bit of a stretch. Like, he had a wig, and I

[C]

think he had a full beard.

[B]

He was dressed like Mrs. Doubtfire.

[C]

Get the patch. Adam nose on.

[A]

And whoever was opening for Mike did not make it. And Bryce Damas. Do you guys remember Brian?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

He was just sitting in the audience watching the show, and they pulled him out to open for Mike Biglius. So Robin Williams watch Bryce Damon.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Do a set. Could have had Robin Williams go up.

[C]

Did he know at the time that Robin Williams was out there?

[A]

I don't know. I can't remember that.

[C]

I don't know if I'd want to know that.

[A]

But he said at the bar, right. Where the light kind of shines on sometimes it's like the only faces you can see is from the bar.

[C]

Who do you think the craziest person is that saw your set?

[A]

Tom Hanks.

[B]

Oh, Tom.

[C]

Tom Hanks has got to be up.

[B]

Jean Simmons saw me doing a little bit of.

[C]

Did he really?

[B]

Yeah, he was. I hosted for Jeff Ross.

[C]

Okay. He was here.

[B]

Simmons was here.

[A]

Nate. No, other than. Let me think. On my set.

[C]

Well, I mean, that was at the show.

[A]

Well, that Bridgestone show. I mean, who knows who all was that we did. There's a lot of. I hear, country stars.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Things like that may not made it in by the time I was on stage, but somebody that I know definitively there, I got. Well, who was yours?

[C]

I think Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. I knew you had a good one.

[A]

That's why you even asked the question.

[C]

It's not. I don't know if it's guys, do you?

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

That's not, like, an unbelievable Kidman. I didn't think I was great. No, she didn't, actually. She wore a mask the whole time and. And just left immediately.

[A]

Well, Nate. Well, he'll tease me because, you know, I. I'll get excited when I see Belmont basketball coach Rick Bird in the

[C]

audience or something like that.

[A]

I have to think about it.

[C]

Yeah. There are random people at Zany sometimes. Yeah.

[B]

There was Poppins, Trace Atkins.

[C]

Trace Atkins.

[A]

I did an Urban show here one time. John Rich and Martina McBride.

[C]

How do you drink your coffee? Urban?

[A]

Martina McBride and her husband were in the audience.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

At the Urban Show.

[B]

Yeah. I met Martina McBride.

[C]

The Keith Urban show or the Black Show?

[A]

The. The Black Show.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I forgot his name, but she's, like, a fan of his and interesting. It was me, T.C. and.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Who is it? It's his name.

[A]

Steve. No, Harvey should even plan it.

[C]

D.L. hughley.

[B]

No, I forget. But I've heard that that's their favorite comic. But I forget. I can't think of his name.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

You know, they say when you're. When like police, when they're asking somebody for details of a scene, don't ever plant seed, like what I just did, because that muddies the water of their memory.

[C]

Interesting.

[A]

You're supposed to just let them think.

[B]

It's not Steve, though.

[C]

It's.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Okay, but just. You're not supposed to, like, start doing that. Just let them think it out.

[C]

Just let them talk through.

[A]

Trying to help them.

[C]

Yeah. Makes perfect sense.

[A]

I want to say his last name is Wilson, but.

[B]

No, it's not that.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Okay. Well, I was the one that was here, and pretty sure it was Steve Wilson.

[C]

Yeah. It's not that your memory is bad,

[A]

Brian, but if I think of somebody better.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I will let you know.

[C]

I bet you have. I bet you have. There's. It'd be crazy.

[A]

Yeah. Jared Sanders. I love Aaron's Save it for the Topic comment. Every week, it seems as if you guys are waiting to have a big reveal on the chosen topic. While it's always posted in the title and not a secret. Love it. Keep the laughs coming. We're having a good time.

[B]

All right, Jared. He gets It.

[A]

Well, I think you say that.

[C]

I think I was saying don't spoil the topic.

[A]

I was saying, let's don't get in a long discussion.

[C]

Let's not get into meat until we get to the topic.

[A]

Until we get to the meat of the.

[C]

Till we get to the meat and potatoes of the meat episode.

[A]

Hannah Spinks, as someone who has seizures, I totally agree with Dusty about the medical emergencies during the show. Just swoop me up and take me in the next room to help me. No need to bother anyone else in the room. Just get me out of there before it's a whole scene.

[B]

Yeah. And, Hannah, I'm sure that if you're having a seizure, you don't want the comic to go get the house lights on over here. Where is this happening? Oh, there she is.

[C]

What do you do for a living, boss?

[B]

Seizing out.

[A]

Look at her.

[B]

Yeah, you want him to just get you out of there and deal with you? I don't know why people.

[A]

I think Vince was right, but if

[C]

you're around seizures a lot, this all feels probably very routine to you, right? Most people, you see a guy seizing on the ground, you don't go, ah, just get him out of here.

[B]

Fentanyl addicts are everywhere. That's the only people I ever see having seizures.

[C]

Did I ever tell you about that? That show? I opened for Henry Cho at some show Name drop. I don't.

[A]

Guys full of them.

[B]

Who you guys open for?

[A]

Steve Wilson. Henry Cho.

[B]

All right.

[C]

I was on stage at Sold Out Theater Henry. Anyway, I'm on stage and this guy just yells out, do you want a Whopper? I was like, nah, I'm good right now, man. I might take. I go, I might take one app just to, like, get a laugh. I might take one after, but I'm good. I keep talking. He goes, do you want a Whopper? I go, do you have a Whopper on you? He goes, yeah. He's sitting in the crowd and he's got a full Burger King bag, and he's just Whoppers. And I go, I'm really good, right? I appreciate it. You know, come see me after the show. Maybe we'll share a Whopper together. He kept asking me if I wanted a Whopper. I was like, what is happening right now?

[A]

What is happening?

[C]

So I get off stage and then the guy running the show comes back and he goes, hey, I saw you dealing with that Whopper guy, huh? I go, yeah, what was that about? He goes, oh, I should have told you. Yeah, that guy, he's slow. And he comes to the shows and he asked people if they want Whoppers. Wow.

[A]

I go, why would you not tell

[C]

me that ahead of time?

[A]

Yeah, I just dealt with it.

[C]

The whole set. This guy's asking me if I want burgers.

[A]

Did he yell at Sherry?

[C]

No, I think he shut down. I think he respected the headliner enough not to do that.

[B]

I feel like you just in that you just eventually go, yeah, yeah, I do want it.

[C]

I think maybe I did say. I don't remember, but it didn't go away.

[B]

Say, throw it up here and then you start eating it right there on the stage. That's what I think.

[A]

Were people laughing or kind of at first.

[C]

And then after a while it was like, that guy really wants to give him a Whopper.

[B]

Yeah, I wish you would have lost it on him enough.

[A]

That's just funny.

[C]

The guy was just laughing it off. He goes, oh, yeah, that's the guy. That guy's slow. He comes to the shows.

[B]

He's the Whopper guy.

[C]

He's the Whopper guy. Should have told you.

[A]

Where was this?

[C]

Some North Carolina somewhere.

[B]

Do you have a crown on

[C]

it? Might have been the king himself. It might have been.

[A]

This guy's like, if anybody was a Whopper, I found him. Eric Jr. 89. I feel like this podcast will end within a year. They're friends of Nate, and you can tell they wouldn't be friends if it wasn't for Nate. Nate was the glue.

[C]

Yeah, Nate really does bind the three of us together.

[B]

I never would have met you guys.

[C]

Guys, I don't even know what to talk to you all about if Nate's

[B]

not here, man, I never would have met you.

[A]

I'll address this. Every week someone says, oh, they're mad at each other. Aaron and Dusty, I consider two of my best friends. We text every day. I'm not saying it goes the other way. I'm just saying I consider you guys best friend. We text every day. We're in little group threads. You guys both did. You stuck around all day last week to do my show. Dusty went home to his nine month and pregnant wife and came back. You both on stage, encouraged the audience how to behave. You told them to stop. Enough, right?

[C]

Yeah. Yeah, I had to shut them down a couple of times.

[A]

And I saw you encourage the crowd on stage too. And you in the kitchen and told them to shut up.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Did you really?

[B]

I did.

[C]

No, I love.

[B]

I didn't say shut up, but I. I did ask them to.

[C]

You said hush it.

[B]

Yeah, I did. Well, I just. I could hear them.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And I just go, hey, guys, Brian's recording a thing.

[C]

You know how I did that to Andrew and Brian Dorfin one time? I told him, shut up in the Greener. Did I ever tell you that? Now it was like I. I was. So.

[A]

I was there.

[C]

You might. You were in the room when this happened.

[A]

A lot of comics, right?

[C]

It was one of those nights that are very fun nights where there's, like a great hang in the green room. There's a bunch of people, everybody's laughing. But when you're on stage, especially in the main room there, you can hear the green room.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Your whole set.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

And it's not like. It's just when you're bombing, it's just if you want quiet, like in middle age, you can just hear everybody laughing. So I. I don't know. I got. I got back in there, and I was just like, everybody needs to shut up back here. And it was the two owners of the club who were laughing the most. And I was like, sorry, like, it's your club. Anyway, it was a nice. Ended up being a nice moment. But. But what I'm saying is I've. I've had to be that guy. And you don't always get thanks that you deserve, but I appreciate.

[B]

It's hard for me to be an audience member because I'm on stage so much that when I'm in the audience, everything people do bothers me. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Now, in saying that about you guys being to my best friends, I do have a bone with. Pick with you, Dusty.

[C]

Okay. All right.

[A]

I'm into this because you text us the night. Hey, we're going to the hospital. Great. We had a baby. Great. Then the next day, Aaron and I are texting you. Hey, how's it going? Everything okay? And you're ghosting us. And you might be like, oh, well, I'm a little busy, guys. Just had a baby. But you're texting with everybody else in America. You're texting with the dump Dusty guy. You're making comments. You're posting. You're coming about the layout of our podcast in a separate thread. And I mean, like, what is going on here? I found out the name of your son from Adrian. It might as well have been a bum on the street. I mean, I was a little hurt.

[B]

Very highly of Adrian, I guess, but that's the point. Well. Well, I am sorry about that. I. You know, I get. You know, I get caught up in a, you know, a loop, an Internet loop. Sometimes I don't even know where I'm communicating with people at. Yeah.

[A]

I went online and started criticizing Dusty just to get a response.

[B]

I see, though. Sometimes I see comments and I go to comment and you've already commented on it.

[A]

Yeah. When I pull comments for the show, it's hard to find enough because Dusty's replied to most of them.

[B]

You gotta just keep those. Just don't let that bother you.

[A]

Yeah. Well, the one we just read about, the guy saying, Nate's the one that held us together, you'd come in and

[B]

reply to him, what did I say?

[A]

You think you said, yeah, Nate's the one.

[B]

Some of these commenters, though, they're so. It's like. Like we've talked about it many times, that we've known each other for a long time.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, we met at open mics organically, like normal people.

[C]

Yeah. 10, 10 plus years ago.

[B]

Yeah. I met Brian at Keith Alberstadt show in 2013.

[C]

Really? Yeah. Here at Zany's.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

How about that? Look at us now.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

100 yards away from where that happened. I know.

[A]

Chad Ryden was on that show.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Cali. That was a long time ago.

[A]

So that's. Who's the most famous person that seen me? Probably Chad, right?

[C]

Maybe.

[A]

No. I don't know.

[C]

Think about it. What's yours? I mean, Tom Hanks is hard to beat.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, Gene Simmons is, like, a big one, too. I mean, I know he's faded out now, but, I mean, everybody knows Kiss

[C]

performed for the Governor once. The governor was at a fundraiser show.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

I don't remember which governor, but they said the governor was there.

[A]

Well, I was with Dusty when Christian Bell came up to him and said,

[C]

that's tough to beat.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I was in the green room at Zany's when Dusty got a little starstruck the first time he saw Kid Rock.

[C]

Maybe that'll do it.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, yeah.

[B]

I mean, you gotta understand. I was in 10th grade when BA with a bar came out. My name is Gosh, I'm not straight out of Compton. I'm straight out the trailer.

[C]

Yeah. It's just, like, written for you, the whole album. Gosh, that was a great album.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It was so much fun.

[B]

I don't like to say the name, but.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

And you guys got a lot of words you can't say. This episode, half the shows be redacted.

[B]

I've changed a lot of my ways since 10th grade.

[A]

Well, I'm just lost on all of it.

[C]

And that one was like down with the Devil.

[B]

It's called Devil Without a Call.

[C]

Devil Without a Cause. Oh yeah, you don't like James Dean either, huh?

[B]

No.

[A]

Can I share some Nateland news with you guys?

[C]

Give of a dirt devil vacuum.

[B]

No.

[A]

Can I share some Nateland news with you guys?

[C]

Yes, please.

[A]

While they're talking, Jody Carroll. Did you guys killed it?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

The showcase, season four. Well, this Thursday at 7:00pm Central we've got Elon Stribling.

[C]

I hosted that show. That dude is very funny, man. I'm excited to see how that set comes out because in the room it was hot.

[B]

Big fisherman.

[C]

I'm told it's a hot one. Big fisherman.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And comedian.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

First thing is eel, so.

[B]

Yeah. Deep sea fish.

[C]

Yeah. Eel land.

[A]

That's on the Nateland YouTube. YouTube channel. YouTube channel. New comic. Every week, Nateland presents Graham K's Pete and Me. That's non depressing. Look at family and autism. April is national Autism acceptance month and it premieres Friday, April 17th. So Pete is Graham's brother and it's like a one man show. Right. And it won all kinds of awards I think in New York. And I can't wait to see it.

[B]

I can't wait to see it too.

[A]

I've seen Graham's stand up comedy many times and it's great, hilarious. But I haven't seen this.

[C]

I haven't seen that either.

[A]

I'm looking forward to seeing it.

[C]

What do you think about Pete and I versus Pete and me? Which one would you do? I'm not saying it's wrong.

[B]

Pete and Me has a. Has a nice ring to Me and Pete. Me and.

[A]

Yeah, that is too.

[B]

The emphasis is on Pete.

[C]

If it's not too late, I would like to recommend some of these changes. Let's just, let's rename the whole.

[B]

Willie Nelson has a song called Me and Paul.

[C]

Me and Paul P. A W like dad or Paul Paul, like a guy's name. Like Paul McCartney? Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Is it about Paul McCartney?

[B]

I don't think so.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

You know, he doesn't say it's just

[C]

about a guy named Paul.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Me and Paul is the 32nd studio album by Willie Nelson. The. The titular. Is that how you say that? Titular?

[B]

I've never seen that in my life.

[C]

Is it titular seems like a little word.

[A]

Y' all could have skipped titular.

[C]

You got the little ch in there.

[B]

Oh. Refers to Nelson's long term drummer, Paul English. English, yeah. So kind of close to Paul McCartney. I guess he's English.

[C]

But look at that. Been to George on a Fast Train with Billy Joe Shavers on that album.

[B]

It's a good one.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Paul English.

[B]

You know, this guy was George On a Fast Train. That's my intro song.

[C]

When I. I know, I know.

[A]

Really?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

For years at the Opry and stuff, too, right?

[B]

At the Opry, we do Working Man's Blues by Merle Haggard. Just, you know, that was just the first one we picked. It's a good song, and I don't want to make the band learn a different song.

[A]

What about Wildfire?

[B]

I like Wildfire. That. But it's, you know, that was. You know, it's a different time.

[C]

Wildfire by John Mayer. Featuring Frank Ocean.

[A]

No.

[B]

By. Michael Martin Murphy.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. Mmm.

[A]

I think that's Steve Wilson. Okay. What do you come out to at the Opry?

[C]

I say whatever you feel. And, dude, just hit me with it. I think they do. Golly. What's it called? It's like the most famous country song of all time. Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire. Ring of Fire. There it is. I just blanked on. I'm familiar with the song. Yes. Hello, everybody.

[A]

Nate Land produced Derek Stroop's Netflix special, Nostalgic. It's out now.

[C]

Netflix?

[A]

Yep. And Dusty's book, We're Having a Good Time is on pre order. Grab a copy anywhere you buy your books. That looks like a good book.

[B]

It's gonna be so good.

[C]

Is that gonna be about the width of it or the length?

[B]

I hope it's thinner than that. I want people to be able to get through it.

[C]

You're trying to turn this into a brochure instead of a book.

[B]

Yeah, I'd love a. You remember when Reno Collier was on and he had the blank pages? He had it just. Just a book on one side of the page.

[A]

Well, didn't Nate do that?

[B]

Oh, I don't know.

[C]

He didn't.

[A]

Forgot him. His book was only.

[B]

Yeah, because he said he hates folding a book over.

[C]

He just couldn't figure out how to get the printer to print on both sides.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nate purposely put in Blake pages, but yeah, Reno, just for efficiency.

[C]

Because he said he hates reading on the left side.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And speaking of Nate, his Big Dumb Eyes tour comes to Las Vegas this weekend. He's gonna be at the Sphere now. He's gonna be at the win. April 8th through 12th, I'm calling it.

[C]

When that residency at the Win ends.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Did I say that right? The win ends. He'll be at the Sphere. Winnings at the Winnings.

[A]

This week. Seeing that I know nothing about Dusty's baby, the topic is babies. Yeah. So if we threw out a good name right now, would you consider changing?

[B]

What's better than Sunny Race line?

[A]

Nothing. Nothing.

[C]

But I'm just hoping he doesn't have a lisp growing up.

[B]

Why?

[C]

Sonny Slay is a tough name to say with a list.

[A]

Oh, will you. Will you use the Ray? Or it'll just be Sunny.

[B]

I think just Sonny.

[C]

You better fix that quick.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

You start going by Ray.

[B]

Yeah. Race like.

[C]

Race like either. I mean, it's a win. Win either way. Sunny Sleigh race.

[B]

Yeah. You know, we wanted to all sound Southern. All sound a little Westerny.

[C]

You know, the most Southern name I. My. My buddy in high school, his dad's name was Junior.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Like his actual name was J U N I O R. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, I'd never seen that.

[B]

Like Junior Brown.

[C]

Yeah, that's wild.

[B]

You know Junior Brown?

[A]

Yeah, I know of him.

[B]

Cause you're wanted by the police and my wife thinks you're dead.

[C]

There's a guy. There's a.

[B]

You don't know that one randomly.

[C]

There was a high school football player in the Cincinnati, Ohio area years ago, heavily recruited at a high school. His name was Mr. Simpson.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

First name Mister.

[B]

Mr. Mister.

[C]

Last name Simpson.

[B]

So if you want to call him Mr. Mr. Mister.

[A]

There was a guy here.

[C]

Yeah, he played. I guess he played at Michigan.

[A]

There was a guy here on the crew for the special whose name was St. Thomas. Yeah, like that's his actual name.

[C]

His name was Saint. Middle name Thomas or last name Thomas?

[B]

First name.

[C]

What's the middle name at that point? It's tough to have a middle name if Your name is St. Thomas.

[A]

What about Jim Bob Cooter?

[C]

What about him?

[A]

You guys know Jim Bob Cooter?

[B]

No, no, but Jim Bob Cooter, wow.

[A]

He's a football coach.

[C]

Football coach. Offensive coordinator. The Colts.

[B]

Old coach Cooter.

[C]

Jim Bob.

[A]

He's from Tennessee.

[C]

How about that?

[B]

Yeah, of course he is.

[A]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And he. I think he played at Tennessee. Right. And now he's been an NFL coach for years, and they're talking about him getting a head coaching position. I would love if there was a head coach named Jim Boss.

[C]

Coach Cooter.

[B]

Yeah.

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Yeah.

[A]

All right, so let's. Let's talk about some babies. Aaron, earlier you called your daughter the baby, but technically no longer a baby.

[C]

What is she now? An infant Toddler.

[A]

Toddler.

[C]

But that feels weird, doesn't. I gotta go pick up the toddler.

[A]

You could just say her name. But,

[C]

but if I'm, if I'm in mixed company and I don't, you know. Yeah.

[B]

I'll tell you what.

[C]

Toddler sounds crazy.

[B]

I tell you what makes you realize that your kids have grown is when you bring home a baby. Like my son is three.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Almost three. And I just think of him like a little baby until I brought a

[C]

baby, an actual baby.

[B]

And I'm like, well, you're a little kid.

[C]

Yeah. You're enormous compared to this.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Newborn.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, this said babies are technically just the first year and toddlers like one to three.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And then they're just a little girl, little boy.

[C]

So it's age based. It's not like motor skills based at all. I figure once you. I, I think toddler. I think you're toddling around. So once you're toddling, then you're a toddler.

[A]

That's what I thought, but usually by one you're toddling, Right?

[C]

I guess. Typically, I don't know.

[B]

I was at. I was at Aaron's house and I had not seen Olive in a long time and Olive was crawling on the floor. And Aaron goes, hey, buddy. Said buddy to Olive. And so then I go, and later there was a bunch of people there, a bunch of kids I didn't know. And then Aaron's holding Olive and I go, who's this guy? And he goes, this is Olive. It's like my most embarrassing moment of my life. I was like, you called her buddy.

[C]

I call her buddy.

[B]

And it just threw me off.

[C]

Call her big girl.

[B]

Big girl would not have thrown me off.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

But buddy.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Hey, pal, I just thought the way you said buddy, I thought it was like one of your friends, kids.

[C]

That would be what I said to a random kid.

[B]

Yeah. There's a bunch of kids running around

[C]

the top of your head. Yeah. Sometimes it's amazing. Like we, we don't. She gets misgendered all the time.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Because, you know, the hair is not long enough to really distinguish her.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And if we don't dress her in like some over the top girly outfit, people are like, your son or a boy?

[B]

For both of my kids.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Both of my Daisy and Sam was like that. Daisy did not have hair much at all for a long time.

[A]

We this weekend. Well, Eleanor's preschool was closed Friday for Good Friday, so

[B]

Good for you guys.

[A]

No, it was not. I call it Bad Friday. Yeah. I'm like another holiday for this guy. Come on.

[C]

Come on.

[A]

We just did Christmas.

[B]

He gets a whole weekend holiday for him. But you get the day off.

[A]

Huh. But anyway, we had her. She just turned four. Four year pediatric checkup when she was three. Her. Her three year old checkup. We. Oh, we're going to go to the doctor. And she was, we like tricked her in. She was excited. Look in your ears, look in your mouth, whatever. But the night before we went, I'm like, we're going to the doctor. It's going to be so much fun. She said, I'm not going to eat shots, am I?

[C]

And I'm like, that's the first time she knows what's coming.

[A]

She's like, I don't want any shots. And we're like, well. And we really didn't know if she would or not. But she got three. Yeah. For stuff you got to have before you can go to school.

[C]

Right, Right.

[A]

And.

[C]

And are they painful?

[A]

I mean, she was in such a great Mood until it just goes away. That happened and then she just. It's just so hard to witness.

[C]

I know.

[A]

And then today she had a dentist appointment and I don't know if you've taken your kid to a dentist yet.

[B]

My family doesn't even know what that is.

[A]

They do more than you would think for a, for a small child.

[C]

What do they, what do they do? We've taken her twice, but it was just like, just looking at it.

[A]

Yeah, they like put her link the chair back and there's a dental hygienist and she like goes through her teeth

[C]

and their flosses and everything.

[A]

No, she didn't floss. She didn't grind hard.

[B]

What was she doing in there?

[A]

Just a checkup.

[B]

I know. I mean, if she wasn't flossing, what was she doing? You're like, she's digging around in there.

[A]

She's scraping on her teeth. She's got that little sharp tool and scraping on it. And then she put. She got the like the other lighter you got.

[C]

You got the.

[B]

Yeah. Smoking after.

[C]

Do they do the.

[A]

Yes. And then that.

[C]

The open close thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Really? Yeah. They even did that for a four year old.

[A]

They sprayed water in.

[B]

They're like, I do love the dentist, but I used to go and get the. Yeah, I used to go get the. When I was a kid. I like them just fine. And I used to go. The fluoride that they had a mouth guard they used to do with the fluoride foam in there. And I always had so many cavities. So I'm like, I'm not buying it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What are we doing? If I'm still getting the cavities, let's not be doing.

[C]

Were you doing the work at home? Were you brushing your teeth every day using floss?

[B]

Yeah, you know, my parents were into. You know, I don't. Nobody's VHS tapes. Nobody's flossing out here. But. But we're brushing.

[C]

I feel so good when I floss, but it's so tough to do.

[B]

I do the, the little, the little picks.

[C]

I got the little things. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Little pre. Pre made things.

[B]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I got a, a cavity and a cracked tooth, but it's fine.

[C]

Yeah, I had a root canal a couple years ago. It was the worst.

[B]

Dude.

[C]

It was the worst. I hate the dance. I had a friend, you know, my dad was my high school principal. One of my best friends. His dad was the dentist. He was a dentist?

[B]

Yeah, well, maybe for the town, for the team. Team dentist.

[C]

He Was just that we used to argue over who's who. Whose parent was more disliked by kids. Because nobody wants to go to the principal's office or the dentist.

[B]

I'm gonna go with principal.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Is the most disliked, I would think.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Depending on the age. But it was. It was it K through 12?

[C]

Just high school, nine through 12.

[B]

See, I would think that was the most disliked because when I was a

[A]

younger, I could avoid the dentist. I mean, I could avoid the principal. I couldn't avoid the dentist.

[B]

Yeah, I guess. But when I was little, you kind of. You kind of like the principal. That seemed cool. The principal seemed cool. But I guess as you got on.

[C]

I don't know if I ever did. Maybe it was just a function of.

[B]

I think the assistant principals are worse maybe than the principal because the principal gets to kind of. What do you call? Delegate? Yeah.

[A]

Oh, that's interesting. I would have thought the opposite.

[B]

He gets to play the nice guy. 60 assistants on.

[C]

You could do that. Yeah.

[B]

Is that what he did?

[C]

It's like the dentist gets the. The hygienist.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It's the same thing.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. The dentist did almost nothing. He just came in, looked her mouth for two seconds.

[C]

Looks good.

[A]

You're good. Yeah, yeah. And then they were showing a movie. They. They put a. They have a TV on the ceiling.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And she's showing a movie. It was a little bit too intense for what?

[C]

We show her Saving private Ryan, first 10.

[A]

Well, I do love Tom Hanks. I would not have a problem with that. The beaches of Normandy. It was. It was a. It was a kids movie. It was called Lucas.

[B]

Just a highlight.

[C]

Real Lucas.

[A]

Yeah. But it was just a little bit

[B]

more intense with Corey Haim and Charlie Shane.

[A]

I think it was called Lucas. It was a kids movie.

[C]

A 1986 romantic coming of age story that started.

[B]

All right. I don't know what it was called.

[C]

Lucas.

[A]

Is there another.

[C]

Was it mucus or something? Lucas. Maybe 2024.

[A]

Luca with no ass. Luca.

[B]

Maybe. Luca and Lucas was an intense movie.

[C]

Luca. Okay, this one.

[A]

That's it?

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. It looks pretty intense.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Probably the beginning. Well, all these Disney movies at the beginning, the parents die.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And it's like, I don't like my kids watching. Like, it's like. It's fun, but even, like a dinosaur movie I tried to watch with my kids. It's like the parents die at the beginning. Beginning.

[C]

Yeah. We got to introduce it. Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Or whatever. And then even finding Nemo. It's like the beginning of the movie. The parents and the. All their siblings die.

[C]

Well, there's got to be adversity for the story.

[B]

Yeah, but not for kids. I don't even know that you need a story.

[C]

I think you do need it. I think that's what makes these movies great. The writing is so good in these

[B]

for adults, but it's, like, for kids, I just think you just have fish swimming around and dory saying funny things.

[C]

But these kids, their parents are gonna die. Die. You got to prep them for him. You know what I mean? You got to let them know.

[A]

I didn't know Nemo's mom died until I was, like, 12 or 13. Never.

[C]

What did you think happened?

[B]

You never caught it or you didn't?

[A]

I mean, that kind of explains.

[B]

That makes sense. That's good parenting.

[A]

Explains a lot.

[B]

That's good parenting.

[C]

Yeah. Show you the movie in a way where it doesn't make any sense. What happened. You got to leave the plot.

[B]

Better to not know what happened than to know that the mom dies.

[A]

I mean, the Bambi.

[B]

Bambi is what they used to say was brutal.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Scariest movies for kids.

[A]

Yeah. Dumbo.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, it used to terrify me. There's a movie, Brave Little Toaster, growing up, used to petrify me as a child.

[B]

What happens in that?

[C]

It's all these appliances, and there's, like, evil appliances, and they're just evil.

[B]

Was the microwave one of the evil ones?

[C]

Might have been, actually. Have you never seen the Brave Little Toaster?

[B]

I don't think so.

[C]

It's 1987 film, so I guess it's. It's kind of.

[A]

I was in high school, so that

[B]

would have been my. I was five.

[C]

Yeah. So this would have been perfect for you. The toaster. Yeah, the toaster was the main guy.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then be weird if he wasn't.

[A]

Huh?

[C]

There's like, a electric blanket and a lamp and a vacuum.

[B]

I love an electric blanket.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, yeah, Look. Look how terrifying that is for kids.

[B]

And it's Crusty the Clown. Yeah.

[A]

You ever watched, like, what are you, tunes with your kids? No one. Violence.

[B]

It is. You know what? When I was a kid, I used to hear people talk about Looney Tunes being violent, and I thought, that's so ridiculous. And I bought a bunch of those DVDs, and I wanted to watch them with my kids. And I'm like, it is full on violence. The whole time.

[A]

Eleanor's trying to whack me with a frying pan.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Stars go around my head. It's crazy.

[B]

And Then they're so insulting and mean to each other. I'm like, I don't. We don't need this.

[A]

Yeah. That's what podcasts are for.

[B]

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[A]

Can I share some baby facts with you guys?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I love it.

[A]

Babies have super strength. Relative to their weight. Babies are stronger than an ox, particularly in their legs. Wow.

[C]

For what?

[B]

You know, they do say babies immediately have the strength to stand, but not the coordination.

[C]

Why?

[B]

And balance for why?

[C]

Yeah. What do they use that leg strength for? Do you need it for the birth itself?

[A]

I don't. I don't know.

[B]

There's pictures. My uncle.

[C]

Feel free to speculate.

[B]

My uncle was a chiropractor, and he used to do this thing with kids. I have a picture with him where he's. I'm a little kid, maybe a year old or whatever. I don't know, probably not that old. Very young. And he has me, both my feet in his hands and I'm standing up long before I could stand.

[C]

That's crazy.

[A]

Babies have no kneecaps.

[C]

I did know that. That's pretty wild.

[A]

I think you learned that on this podcast.

[C]

I think I did, yeah. Then I saw it play out in real time.

[A]

They're born without fully formed kneecaps. Patella. They have cartilage that hardens into bones between six months and three years. That's pretty wild.

[B]

That is wild.

[A]

That's why when my daughter gets to be down the floor with her to play, I'm like, like, got too much patella. The soft spot on the back of their head.

[C]

Yeah, I was just about to ask about that.

[A]

It allows the head to fit through the birth canal and accommodate rapid brain growth.

[C]

Was jarring. And for the soft spot on the head, it's around for a while. I mean, it doesn't close up for a while. Right. But I was like, man, I've googled so many times, like, should this still be on this head? I have no idea.

[B]

Because it feels. Imagine having a two year old son. Poke face.

[A]

Babies start seeing color in stages with limited color vision appearing around two to three, two weeks to three months, often starting with red. And then they can distinguish more colors by three to four months and have almost adult perception by five to six months.

[C]

So there's a stretch there where all they see is the color red.

[A]

Initially, newborns see in shades of black, white and gray, and then they can make out some red.

[C]

That's like, you know those early children's books that you get where it's just like shapes and like patterns where it's black and white and red. That makes sense if that's all they can see. Like an M. Night Shyamalan. Absolutely.

[B]

You ever hear that joke, what's black and white and red all over?

[C]

A newspaper.

[B]

Yeah. Or a zebra with a suntan. Yeah, yeah,

[A]

Heard it. I've told it. You can hear it tonight here.

[C]

It's on my special coming out.

[A]

That's probably the name of it. Babies have 30,000 taste buds, three times more than adults. Covering their tongues, tonsils, and roof of the mouth. So they'd be good wine connoisseurs.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I wonder why that is.

[B]

Probably because we burned all ours off with coffee and cigarettes.

[C]

That'll do it.

[A]

Yeah, that's what I did.

[C]

That will do it.

[A]

Newborns typically double their weight by six months and triple it by their first birthday. It's impressive works.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

So I wanted my daughter's shots was for a zic. Started early. You start early, then it's just part of life. Right. Infants can breathe and swallow simultaneously until about seven months of age.

[C]

That's wild.

[A]

Did you know that?

[C]

Yeah. So they couldn't breathe while they cry continuously. All right.

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

I mean, that would be the one benefit of it.

[A]

Benefit? Yeah. Not to us.

[C]

Right?

[A]

Yeah. While babies cry, they do not produce tears until they're about three weeks to four months old, when their tear ducts fully develop.

[B]

That's why when my baby cries, I go, show me the tears.

[C]

Yeah. It's not real until I see the tears, Buddy. Hey, guy.

[A]

Hey, guy.

[C]

Hey, bud. See the tears, Guy?

[A]

We looked up popular baby name. I looked up for the 70s, 80s and 90s. Boys name. I think I sent you a link.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

To each one, but the popular girl

[C]

to my email address.

[A]

Yes. Popular names. Now, Abigail looked up for our.

[B]

For.

[A]

For us. Right now, the most popular girl names.

[C]

Are you gonna have girl names first? 20, 25.

[A]

Yeah. These are the top girl names.

[C]

These are the top 1058. We're gonna go through all of them.

[A]

Yep. Started with 1058.

[C]

Started 1058. Oh, I don't believe any of these. Wait, that's fastest.

[A]

That's fastest rising.

[C]

Not the popular one, but. Renly. W R E N L E E. There's no way. Renly.

[A]

Renly.

[C]

Okay, respect. Where's the top list here? Top 1,000. Number one.

[A]

Olivia.

[C]

Olivia.

[B]

I think there is a real comeback of the older names, but not too old.

[C]

There's not a lot of Ediths and Myrtle names like that. Gertrude.

[A]

I've heard comics have jokes about that, but it's crazy how certain names have a connotation.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like Gertrude. You're Gertrude. You think an ugly woman.

[B]

Old.

[C]

I don't know about ugly.

[A]

Okay. Myrtle. Same thing.

[C]

Myrtle.

[B]

Old.

[C]

Old woman out there.

[A]

I apologize. Yeah.

[C]

Maybe a little port.

[A]

You're probably old and ugly.

[C]

Little. Yeah.

[A]

Let's just be honest. Joking. I'm joking.

[C]

Gretchen.

[A]

Gretchen.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You think that's old?

[C]

I think it's an old.

[B]

Gretchen's been on the comeback a little bit.

[C]

Has it really?

[B]

I think so.

[A]

That's funny because I think a Gretchen's like. There's also a hot girl name.

[C]

Is it really?

[B]

Gretchen Wilson.

[C]

Oh, Gretchen Wieners.

[B]

Ain't no high class, bro.

[C]

The top five most common baby girl names are Olivia, Emma, Amelia, Charlotte, and Mia. How about that?

[B]

How far is Daisy down?

[C]

Amelia Bedelia. Coming in at number three.

[A]

Popular.

[C]

It Is ending in.

[A]

When I was young, it was E. Girl's name. All in an E. Ginny, Cindy, Sally.

[B]

What?

[C]

Weren't the. Are those shorter names for a full name, though?

[A]

Stephanie? I don't think so.

[C]

Okay. But like Jenny, what do you think

[B]

Sally would be short for Salacious.

[C]

Something Latin. Salacious or something like that. Salberg.

[B]

We called her. We named her Salacious, but we call her Sally for sure. All right.

[A]

Should we do the boy name? Oh, yeah.

[C]

Honestly, what is Sally Is traditionally a nickname for the name Sarah.

[B]

Oh. It.

[C]

It originated in English speaking countries as a pet name for Sarah, substituting the R with an L. It's often used as a standalone given name today, derived from the Hebrew name meaning princess. Oh, how about that? Salome or Salome. All right, I didn't think. All right, now we got boy names.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. There's no way this is right either.

[B]

I have seen it. I do think there's a comeback.

[C]

The top five most popular boy names, Liam, with meanings.

[B]

Most popular.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense. That's not the fullest.

[C]

No. Is that the actual. No, no, no.

[A]

If I did that, then that's my mistake. I thought I saw one. Where was the actual names? Okay, here we go.

[C]

Well, it's basically the same list here.

[A]

That's a little.

[C]

This is, according to the Social Security Administration, those popular names for baby boys in the U.S. liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore, and James. And then it goes to Henry, Mato, Elijah, Lucas, and William. William's been a mainstay in the English language for centuries now. You got to respect William. William's not going away.

[B]

Henry's. Henry's strong.

[C]

Henry's up there too. Henry, Hank, James, Jim, Theodore, Ted, Teddy, whatever you got. No, no.

[A]

You consider Noah right for your.

[C]

Probably.

[B]

I'm sure we talked about it. No more Elijah, Noah, Elijah. Those are. I like the names, but it's, you know, it's Abednego. I don't want to say too biblical, but it's like that's a immediately what you think of. Like, Aaron's biblical, but you don't necessarily think of Aaron in the Bible.

[C]

When you hear James is my middle name too. That's also biblical.

[B]

Brian James. There's a singer named Aaron James in it.

[A]

Is there really?

[B]

I think so. All right.

[C]

I feel like a real hack now. The two. Two of the most common names. Oliver and Olivia. Our kid's name is Olive. It's like we tried to split the difference.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, that's pretty hacky.

[C]

I'm pretty in a Hack.

[B]

We've all been saying it, though. I had a joke now. Olive is. Yeah, I mean, that's. Yeah, it's different than.

[A]

It is different.

[C]

Different word.

[A]

My sister's name, it is a different, like. Yeah, it's not gonna be another Olive, probably in her class.

[C]

Maybe, maybe not.

[A]

My sister's name is Sonya and I think that's a good name because it's unusual enough. There's probably not another Sonia in the group, which son you're talking about. But it's not so unusual. You're like. How do you say it?

[C]

It.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

But you wouldn't think. People don't go, Sonia, that.

[A]

Yeah, I guess that's true. I used to have a joke where I'm like, parents, show Sonia. And I kind of explained why it's good. And then they're with me, they got tired. Like, what's the most popular name of the 1970s? I mean, there's always so many. Brian.

[B]

Is it J a or Y a?

[A]

Y a. Yeah.

[C]

S O, N Y a. Yeah. Okay. Sonia. Sonya.

[A]

Sonia. So I guess you're right. They messed up on her too.

[C]

But either way, you're not going to be that far away from. From it, you know?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

You're not going to be like Gertrude. It's.

[A]

I would say 1 out of 10 times when someone spells my name, like an email or something, they spell it B R A, I N. Brain.

[C]

Brain baits. Yeah, Brain baits.

[A]

Yeah. John. Chris. I would say, listen. That they spell his last name.

[C]

They. I think it used to be a real problem before he was more well known, you know, they think he made a typo. They go, you're some Christian comedian, you're going by John Christ.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, huh? All right. Did we look at popular names when we were kids?

[C]

Let's do it. Popular names of the 1970s.

[A]

The heyday.

[C]

The heyday. Someone say the peak.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

Of America. I would say that just watching a documentary about the Heaven's Gate. Cole.

[A]

Yeah, I remember them.

[C]

They had a real moment in the 70s.

[A]

In the 70s.

[C]

Started in the 70s.

[A]

But the 90s was when.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

The Hill Bop Comet.

[C]

Yeah. The 97 is when they. They. When they ended.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

But they started in the 70s.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Later a 20 year run.

[A]

You remember them?

[C]

Dowan t Heaven's Gate.

[B]

These are the guys that drank a

[C]

bunch of Kool Aid and they drank track. They wore tracksuits and drank koolaid.

[B]

Yeah, I remember it somewhat.

[A]

There was a comet. Hellbop Comet.

[B]

Right.

[C]

Fight. That was haven't gotten that far in the documentary.

[A]

Sorry, I don't want to ruin it

[C]

for you, but it's all about UFOs and space stuff and.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Anyway, right now you're just enjoying the cult now.

[C]

I'm just enjoying the camaraderie of these guys.

[B]

Yeah. I wonder why they broke up.

[C]

I was Kool Aid. There's a part. There's a guy. It was a sociology student at the University of Montana. And he read about them in the paper and he goes, I would love to just go undercover with this cult for a little bit. So he called a friend who went to another college and goes, do you want to drive out to California and join this cult with me and go undercover? And his friend was like, yeah. And at the drop of a hat, he left where he was. And they embedded in this cult for months and months and months and then went out and they wrote a paper about it. But do you have a friend like that who would drop their whole life to go join a cult with you?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You do?

[B]

Well, I got friends. Not probably not got much of a life.

[C]

Going

[A]

back to Opalika.

[C]

You'll pay for my bus ticket. I'll be out there tomorrow.

[B]

But, yeah, I mean, that's something. And that feels like the freedom of the 70s.

[A]

Just like Amen, brother.

[B]

When you're not just tied to your cell phone and to the Internet and being tracked everywhere you go.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

70s felt free.

[A]

It did.

[B]

I mean, I wasn't alive then, but it feel. Hindsight, it seems like a free time.

[A]

Yeah. You missed out.

[B]

I know.

[C]

Most common names of the 1970s. Michael, Christopher, Jason, David, James, John, Robert, Brian. Coming in at number eight, there are 322,000 baby boys born in the 70s named Brian.

[A]

Where does Bryn come in?

[C]

Brian's gotta. It's gotta be just way down.

[A]

That's interesting. I would have thought they were about even.

[C]

Brian's in at 46, so 71, 000.

[B]

Where's Dusty come in at?

[C]

Let's look up 103, Dustin. Okay, let's look up Dusty it is, but let's just say Dusty did not make the top 200. All right, but we're not. Not. We're not in your decade.

[A]

Yes. Let's get the 80s.

[C]

Got the 80s here. Baby names of the 1980s. Basically the same list here. Brian dropped down considerably.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

To 16. I think they had one too many. Brian peaked and they go, we gotta mix it up a little bit here. Let's see if Dusty is on here. Nope. Dustin went up to Goes up to

[B]

a 44 gained in popularity.

[C]

A hundred thousand people named Dustin from your decade. Yeah, it's pretty wild.

[A]

What about Tristan?

[C]

Let's see.

[A]

Tristan, you were born in the 80s, 90. Oh, never mind. Excuse me.

[C]

Tristan's not in the top 200 either. Wow, look at the 90s here. Some would say the best time to be alive.

[B]

I mean, I do think the 90s was a great decade. Incredible. The beginning of the downfall.

[C]

But in the 90s, Aaron was the 31st most popular. Boy, that's pretty good. That's right where you want to be. You don't want to be too common, but you don't want to be too rare.

[B]

Michael and Christopher still in the top two.

[C]

Chris were dominating Mike and Chris, I think, because they're so versatile. Versatile. Yeah, versatile.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, Mike, Mikey, you got it.

[B]

I like how you made the word versatile pretty versatile.

[C]

That's absolutely right. Christopher, you can do Chris. Chrissy, you can do Topher.

[A]

Christ.

[C]

Emo Christ.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And go. Risto. Stop her.

[B]

Risto is what I'd want. My name. They go, what's Aristo? And I go, oh, it's short for Christopher. This is right out of the middle. Yeah. Old Risto.

[C]

All the top names can be. I mean, Matthew, you got Matt and Maddie. Joshua. Josh.

[A]

All the guys are biblical names, no?

[C]

I guess so.

[A]

Most of them.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

There's not a lot of as many female biblical names.

[C]

Ruth, your wife.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Sarah.

[A]

I'm not saying there's none.

[C]

Mary.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Mary's the pop.

[B]

Hannah.

[A]

Yep. But there's a lot of, like, Jezebel. I mean, a lot of the women in the Bible.

[C]

Bathsheba.

[A]

Yeah, that's.

[B]

How popular was that?

[C]

Let's look at Bathsheba here in the 90s.

[A]

Oh, but it was big in the 90s.

[C]

Nothing then.

[B]

That's surprising.

[C]

Too bad.

[A]

I'm gonna name some animals, and you tell me if you can.

[C]

Sorry.

[B]

You okay?

[C]

Yeah, I'm all right. I feel perfectly fine.

[A]

I mean, I didn't even notice it.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Well, I cough so much, I was like, yeah, it's just what you do. I'm gonna name some animals, and you guys tell me what the baby is called.

[B]

Called.

[C]

Okay. Okay. I like this.

[A]

Well, these are all easy at the top, you know.

[C]

Poppy, kitten.

[B]

Cow's a calf.

[A]

All right, what's correct?

[C]

Kid.

[A]

All right, let's. Let me move down a little bit. Deer.

[B]

Fawn.

[C]

Fawn.

[A]

Goat. Kid. Horse.

[C]

Foal.

[A]

Did you say?

[C]

Nay. A foul foal.

[A]

Foal. Correct. Tomato, tomato, Kangaroo.

[B]

Kid. Oh, Joey, you're right. Yep.

[C]

What'd you say? What'd you say?

[B]

I said a kid. Give her. All right.

[A]

A pig.

[C]

Piglet.

[A]

A rabbit.

[B]

I'm gun shy now about it, but

[C]

I don't know what a.

[A]

Hold on.

[B]

Bunny.

[A]

Bunny? Yeah, Bunny. Or kit. Never heard of kit.

[C]

I thought a bunny was like a pony to her. Like a horse is to pony as rabbit is to bunny. But is a bunny just a baby rabbit? I guess you learn something every day.

[A]

It's getting harder now. Okay, alligator. Alligator or crocodile?

[C]

I don't think alligators have age.

[A]

Do they have age?

[C]

I just think. I don't even think of. I don't know. Do they like. Do they have like communities? Not communities.

[B]

Let's go.

[A]

They have retirement communities.

[B]

Alligator.

[C]

I. I feel like we never have to worry about the age.

[B]

Just go gay.

[C]

You see an alligator, you're. It's not good no matter how old they are.

[A]

Hatchling.

[B]

Hatchling.

[C]

I think hatchling's fresh. Hatchling's like newborn. I'm talking about a three year old alligator. What do you call that? Look that up.

[A]

Do a couple more here. Butterfly.

[B]

Caterpillar.

[C]

Caterpillar, Yeah.

[A]

I never knew that.

[C]

You didn't know a caterpillar became a butterfly.

[A]

I did. I didn't know that was just the baby. I just thought that's just some life changes. I thought he just went through a midlife crisis and they change.

[C]

I didn't know you thought the caterpillar was like 40 when it became a.

[A]

I didn't know it was just a baby. I thought he transitioned adulthood.

[B]

You guys never read the Very Hungry Caterpillar?

[A]

I raised my daughter, but I didn't have an age. All right.

[C]

Why do they want to call it

[B]

the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar and the Hungry Caterpillar?

[A]

The. The.

[B]

The book is about seven days.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Okay. Well, you're making some good points.

[C]

Is that how long it takes?

[B]

I don't know, but I know in that book it was seven days.

[A]

Okay. An eagle or owl.

[B]

A.

[C]

Chickling.

[A]

An eaglet or owlet. Let me do a couple more. You guys over this.

[C]

You ever use those, you know the owlette things that a lot of people use on their babies? Now you know what I'm talking about. They're called owlettes.

[A]

That name's familiar.

[C]

They're like the little sock that you put on your newborn and there's a baby. My. Have y' all seen that? You know what I'm talking about? It's a little sock that you put on your baby and then it gives you all, like, the data it gives. It's that little green sock you put on.

[A]

And we just put a chip in her when she was born.

[C]

It shows you, like, it's, like, quicker her heart rate and then, like, her oxygen level and all that stuff. So we were thinking about this because, you know, we are our baby, or our toddler was in the NICU for, like, a month. So we had never had her not hooked up to all this stuff. So I was so scared about, like, not knowing at any second what her heart rate was and all that stuff. So I. I remember I told the doctor, I was like, we're thinking about getting one of these owlettes. And she was like, don't. She goes, you don't need to. You don't need to know this every second.

[A]

We had the same discussion. I remember this now. And our pediatrician said, it just. It'll just make you worry.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Apparently there's a thing newborns do where it's scared. It scared us so bad where, like, every now and then, their heart rate will just kind of dip out of nowhere. And we just don't realize it because your baby. Most babies aren't hooked up to these monitors 24 7.

[B]

Right.

[C]

But every time that did that with ours, we were like, what is going on?

[B]

Yeah. I feel like they have too much info now, like, that we don't necessarily know what to do with yet. Like, we have more information than we know how to handle it. Obviously, a lot of it is very good, but I think, like, we have too much. Like, we can see too much, but we don't necessarily know what to do with that yet. Yeah.

[C]

And there are probably some babies where you might need to know information like this, but, like, most don't. And you're like, you don't need to sit there and stress out about, you know, her oxygen levels at 98. It was at 99 a second. You know, all that kind of stuff.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But anyway, that's the only time I didn't know owlette was an actual word either.

[B]

Well, you know what? I'm trying to think of this book. I have this children's book that I read, and it will go through that. A lot of the animals, I. I remember seeing Owl and Owlette, and also my daughter likes PJ Mask, and the girl in there is called Owlette.

[C]

You ever read the Wonky Donkey? Yeah, that's a hot book.

[B]

It's pretty good.

[C]

Cracks me up every time you read the Wonky Donkey.

[A]

I've not read the Wonky Donkey.

[C]

Give it a.

[B]

Give it a. Goo go, oxcart man.

[C]

Man, you know what? I actually bought that one on your recommendation, and I like it. I don't know if my toddler is old enough for it yet, but I

[B]

think I love that book.

[C]

And it's a. It's a good story. Yeah, it's a good story.

[B]

What about the little blue truck?

[C]

Okay, so I have the little blue truck.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Hong Kong.

[B]

Yeah, it's. It's a good one. It makes me tear up.

[C]

You should do book reviews.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Makes me tear up a little bit.

[C]

Bit like the way you dissect country songs. You got to start dissecting these children.

[B]

I have some children's books that came from a school that closed down where my stepmom used to work at. And I read, and they're like, books to help the kids learn to read.

[C]

Oh, how did it close down? Was it forced to close down? Okay.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And so I got the books, and I. I want to break those down. I think I brought. Now, I brought something in here one time, and people really made fun of me in the comments about it, but it was that. That book about the.

[C]

Oh, the music. That was fun.

[A]

That was fun.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Eleanor asked me today in the car, there was bird poop on my windshield. And she said, why is bird poop white? And I had no idea. I still don't know.

[C]

But I said, well, because they keep eating glue. He's got a lie like that.

[B]

You know, they say, like, birds only eat marshmallows. I have some mulberry trees that I'm growing, and they say that they get really big, have a lot of fruit, and birds eat them. Birds love them. And when birds eat them, they have huge, like, purple poops.

[C]

Bird poop is white because it's not complete. This is where we're coming to. Bird poop is white because it's not just feces. It's combination of. It's number one and number two together, which I gotta think is preferable.

[B]

I like how they put in parentheses,

[C]

get it over nice to. Just two birds in one stone.

[B]

You kind of do both when you go in. I mean, if you're doing one, you do the other. Yeah, but I mean.

[C]

But sometimes just one and not two.

[B]

If you're doing two, you're doing one.

[C]

Yeah, that's true.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's unavoidable, even if you don't want to.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. But I like how they put uric acid in the. Let you know what the urine is.

[C]

Huh? Yeah. Because Birds convert their waste into uric acid, which is a thick white paste. Instead of, like, their urine's not liquid.

[B]

So.

[C]

So just tell her that. Tell her it's about uric acid.

[B]

I will.

[A]

I can't wait to get home.

[B]

Go. That's not. That's pee and poop.

[A]

Her mind's gonna be blown. A couple more fish. What's a baby fish?

[B]

Eggs.

[C]

Hold on.

[A]

After they're born.

[C]

A school.

[B]

No. Minnow.

[C]

Pupil. Pupil people. Minnow.

[A]

A fry.

[B]

No.

[A]

Fish fry.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

I mean, these are from Abby. Yeah. So who knows?

[B]

Probably she fishes a lot.

[A]

That's true.

[C]

Baby fish are commonly called fry.

[A]

There.

[C]

After hatching, they are initially known as larvae. Larvae. Specifically sack fry. While absorbing their yolk. Sack. Oh, this is grosser than I thought it would be.

[A]

Be

[C]

sack talk.

[A]

So there's a real. Most of my life I feel like I've heard about when I was a kid. Overpopulation is. The world's in trouble. Overpopulation. There's not enough.

[C]

It's a huge problem. There's not enough resources. Yeah.

[A]

And then just like that, I'm hearing not enough babies being born. That's a Rick problem. Fertility rate is down in every continent on the planet.

[C]

Really?

[A]

They call it the rate of replacement rate. Replacement rate. Which is 2.1.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Why is it 2.1?

[C]

Because if you and another person. That's two. Two people.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So to replace yourself, it would be more than one. More than two.

[B]

You have three kids.

[C]

On average. More than two. Wait, wait.

[A]

Guess I don't understand why the number two wouldn't replace myself.

[C]

I'll be honest. I started answering it very confidently and I don't even know what I'm talking about.

[B]

I think they're just saying you want to have slightly more. That's why it's not 3.2.1. You want to have slightly more building. Yeah.

[A]

Not just breaking even.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And I don't.

[C]

Whoa.

[B]

Interesting. I never believed in over.

[A]

All right.

[C]

The Replacement rate is 2.1 children per woman because it ensures a population exactly replaces itself. Accounting for the reality that about 105 boys are born for every 100 girls and that not all children survived a reproductive age. So they've accounted for those two things. And they end at 2.1.

[A]

So there are more boys being born than girls.

[C]

105 to 100.

[A]

I always thought there were slightly more girls being born.

[C]

I always felt that way too.

[B]

Do.

[A]

And I didn't feel that way when

[B]

I was like, you have like, we

[C]

all number them 20 to 1.

[B]

We have, like, China, who also had the one child policy.

[A]

Yes, I was getting there.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

China had the one.

[C]

Obviously we were headed there.

[A]

China had the one child policy for a long time. Okay.

[B]

And that. And that resulted in a lot of girls, like they say, because they did, you know, they wanted a boy, so when they would have a girl, they would, you know, not have it anymore.

[A]

Since the end of its one child policy in 2016, China's government's been looking for ways to incentivize parenthood. Earlier this year, it announced a national plan that includes direct subsidies of about 500 per child each year until age 3. And local governments and state media also subsidized or promoted having children.

[C]

Children.

[A]

Everybody's trying to reverse it now.

[C]

That's these 500 bucks a year.

[B]

That's not a lot.

[C]

Yeah, no, it doesn't feel like enough, man.

[A]

Till 3.

[C]

Yeah. 500 bucks a month, maybe. Yeah, but 500 bucks a year?

[B]

Yeah. Well, free diapers or something. Newborns go through diapers like they tear through them.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It's crazy.

[A]

The. In 1963, it was 5.3 bursts per woman.

[C]

That was the average. International average.

[A]

Is that the U.S. or just.

[C]

There's no way that was the U.S.

[B]

i would think the U.S. and that in the 60s, I think the average

[C]

American family had over five kids.

[B]

I think so.

[C]

I don't think so, man. I'm thinking between two and three.

[A]

I don't know if that's us or I'm gonna say that's worldwide now. It's around. Yeah, it's worldwide because now it's around 2.2.

[C]

No, it's a pretty big drop, huh?

[A]

Yeah, pretty big drop.

[B]

Well, it's hard. I mean, it's like there's a lot that goes into having kids. I mean, it's not just.

[A]

Yeah. You know, that's why people say they're not having kids. They can't afford it.

[B]

It's very expensive and.

[C]

Yeah, but explain to me this. It's poorer people in poorer countries that have more kids.

[A]

Yeah. It's uneducated. Go to college, you're not going to have as many kids. Trailer parks are doing their part.

[B]

They're trying to give it a float out here.

[A]

The first IVF baby was born in 1978.

[C]

Wow. That long ago?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I don't know why I thought that was a. A recent 21st century thing. Since the 70s.

[B]

Huh. Wow.

[A]

The oldest frozen embryo baby was born last year. 31 years frozen.

[C]

So they were born in 2025, but conceived in 1994. In 1994. How about that? That's pretty wild. It's hard to even think about 94.

[A]

Yep. Where did I find.

[C]

How old do you say the baby is?

[A]

Well, Eleanor was frozen for three years, so. But I just say so she's seven. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I cannot find it. I had the largest baby ever born, which I thought was pretty fun. I can't find it.

[B]

How big were you guys?

[A]

I was 7 pounds something. I was average my whole life.

[C]

Yeah. 8 or 9 pounds.

[B]

I was 8 pounds 12 ounces.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Big baby. Big healthy boy right there.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

All right.

[A]

I found some it. According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest baby ever born was a £22.

[C]

Get out of here, boy.

[A]

Nicknamed Babe. Born to the Bates family. There was a.

[C]

They named it after a pig.

[A]

The tallest couple ever.

[B]

Babe Bates.

[A]

Tallest couple ever were. Had the biggest baby. Wow.

[C]

Wow. 22 pounds, 28 inches.

[A]

But they were both like 8ft tall.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

I'm gonna tell you, this is not a picture of the newborn babe. That's also one of the least flattering pictures of a woman I've ever seen.

[B]

That's Gertrude. Huh?

[A]

That's your opinion?

[C]

That is. That is tough, man.

[A]

I think she's.

[C]

But the pictures just take so long. You can't even go, can we take another. That took two hours.

[B]

She got that face after pushing out a 22 pound baby.

[C]

Look, I'm not saying she's not a trooper. I'm saying it's a brutal picture.

[B]

Picture.

[C]

If that's her.

[A]

I don't think that's him, though.

[C]

Oh, is this. If this is true, I'm. I feel bad we even brought it

[A]

up, but yeah, I don't think that's the picture of him, but look up that couple.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

They were also the tallest couple in history.

[C]

They're both almost eight feet tall.

[B]

That's insane.

[C]

You think that's how they met?

[B]

Tall, convention.

[C]

Like a convention circus?

[B]

Or maybe they were just at a busy. A busy place and they could only see each other.

[A]

Yeah, maybe so.

[C]

Martin Van Buren Bates, born in 1837. He died in 1919.

[B]

This could be some of your long

[A]

lost relatives on their Facebook page.

[C]

Could be.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah. The giants. Bates Giants of Kentucky or something.

[B]

This could be your long lost family.

[A]

Here, just read something.

[C]

I don't know, it's just funny what you just said. Fought in the Confederate Army.

[A]

Yeah, we did. I mean, sorry.

[B]

Imagine.

[C]

Imagine being a Union soldier. There's some eight foot Goliath and his wife's telling he is he Was imprisoned at Camp Chase in Ohio during the Civil War and he escaped.

[B]

Who arrested him?

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

Dude, that's like the photo of the. That shot right there. It's like the. When the Florida player got in the game. Did you see that?

[C]

Yeah, 7 foot 9 player, and the

[A]

guy's just looking up at him.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I saw that.

[A]

And he's like 6 foot 8.

[C]

I don't know if you. They did meet at a circus, by the way. I don't know if you meant that.

[A]

I did not mean that.

[C]

So after the war, he was a schoolteacher. And then the circus came into town and Anna Heining Swan visited. She was 7 foot 11. They got to know each other and they got married. It was a highly publicized wedding thing. I'm sure everybody was very nice about it. And. And they had that. Oh, I think.

[A]

Who's in that wedding party? The world's fattest man.

[C]

Two guys on the motorcycle.

[A]

Well, back then, 1800, the world's fattest man was like 310.

[C]

Yeah. Just the guy you see at Walmart.

[A]

Don't even think about it.

[C]

Yeah, that's wild, man. I hope this guy you feel for people like this because life could not have been easy.

[A]

No.

[B]

You know, I don't know. I mean, if you're just tall like that. Who was that guy? Robert Waldlow.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

If you're just tall, like, and you have like other physical problems, it's probably not easy. Yeah, but if you're like tall and you're able to fight in a war. Yeah. Like, I mean, it's got to be pretty. Be awesome, I would think, but 7

[C]

foot to be a 7 foot 11 woman.

[B]

Probably not easy for her.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, probably not easy for her.

[C]

Oh, man.

[A]

Yeah, it's gonna be tough.

[B]

And you know, not to make fun of her, but, you know, as you said, not the world's most attractive woman. So. Yeah, she's. And then she found love. The height highlights it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, you're like, I'm not making fun of her.

[C]

No, I know you're not. I know you're. Or not.

[A]

How old was she when she got married?

[C]

She was like 1872. She had her first kid. So like. Yeah, 26. 26 or something.

[A]

Almost 50. Do you guys know the most popular YouTube video of all time?

[C]

Charlie bit my finger. That's probably one of Gangam style.

[A]

That was one. One. Gangam style was number one for a

[C]

while, baby, by Justin Bieber.

[A]

You're on the right track,

[B]

baby.

[C]

Shark.

[B]

Shark. Baby shark. Wow, I love that.

[A]

And that leads into Dusty Slay's top five Country Songs about babies. All right, number one, Bab mom, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.

[B]

Well, I didn't prepare one. I didn't know that.

[C]

That Baby Shark almost. Almost twice as many views as the next highest viewed video.

[A]

That's wild.

[C]

16.7 billion views. Despacito, that huge song from few years ago. 8.95 billion.

[B]

Where's my stand up video?

[C]

I think let's look.

[A]

Well, you're on. You're on Netflix.

[B]

Well, I have a. You know, I have a special on YouTube too, if people don't know about it.

[C]

And there's another version of Baby shark that's at 23.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, there's so many versions of Baby Shark Shark.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

I didn't realize until I looked that up. Baby Shark is not a new song. The video obviously is, but. Yeah, the song had been around for a while.

[C]

Like, how long is a while? You didn't grow up with it.

[A]

No, but Was it late 20th century? It said. Okay, so it's not true. Did you have either. You have a baby monitor when you were a baby?

[B]

I lived in a trailer. We were right next to each other.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Now, when I was a baby, I lived in my dad's house. I doubt we had a monitor. We're pretty close.

[A]

You probably.

[C]

I think we might have had, you know, an audio one. Obviously the video ones now that, like, I have.

[A]

We didn't have baby monitors when I was a baby. My cousin. Younger cousin. Yeah, they had an audio and I thought, this is the craziest thing ever. You can hear them in the other room.

[C]

Yeah, it's wild.

[A]

And now, I mean, we have motion detection.

[B]

I know it's late in the podcast, but I got to go to the bathroom.

[C]

Yeah, that's. All right.

[A]

All right. Well, I was about to wrap it up.

[C]

Let's just wrap it up. I hope you make it back in time to plug your dates. Let's go. Let's go through quick.

[A]

All right. This weekend I am in Rochester, New York, comedy at the Carlson. Have you ever had the. You ever been to Rochester?

[C]

I have been to Rochester.

[A]

You ever had the garbage pit?

[C]

I have had a garbage plate. You got to go get garbage plate.

[A]

Excuse me.

[C]

Garbage plate. It's very good.

[A]

Good. Okay.

[C]

Don't let the name fool you. Don't like the way it looks for you.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Just enjoy it. It's a good thing.

[A]

All right, what you got coming up? Oh, wait, I got More dates.

[C]

Yeah, plug them all.

[A]

May 2, I am in Calhoun, Georgia, at the Gym Theater. Calhoun is north of Atlanta, a little bit kind of in between Chattanooga and Atlanta. So if you're in the northern Georgia area, come see me there. And I got some dates in Denver and Greeley, Colorado, and two nights in Casper, Wyoming, later in May.

[C]

Beautiful.

[A]

Never. I don't know. I don't know if I have any fans in Wyoming, but we're about to find out.

[C]

It's a great time of year to be out there, man. It's going to be beautiful in May. Are you kidding me?

[A]

Yes. Well, I'm excited about that. What you got?

[C]

I have a bunch of dates coming up. This is Aaron, where we're speaking, by the way. April. I'm home all of April. But that doesn't mean I can't do shows at my local club here in town in the very building. We're recording this podcast in Zany's Comedy Club April 17th and 18th as part of the Nashville Comedy Festival. Aaron Weber. I will be headlining the Big room over here April 17th and 18th. There's two shows coming out. And see me. And then may things pick up a bit. I'm going to be in Salt Lake City at Wise Guys. I'm going to be in Washington, D.C. i'm going to be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and then a bunch of shows coming up. I'm actually announcing a bunch of dates. They'll be out by the time this comes out, so. So come see me. It's gonna be a fun year.

[A]

All right, that is our show. So thanks, everyone.

[B]

All right, I'm back.

[A]

Oh, I didn't know you're back.

[C]

You're sweating a bit.

[B]

Yeah, I felt good, though. The. My tour is the. I've released new dates, the second half of the Neighborhood Guy tour. And what happened?

[C]

I was about to release a bunch of new dates. And you come out. I'm releasing new dates. Dates, bigger shows. I just had to move a club weekend because they got. They called and they go, hey, Dusty's gonna be at the theater that same night. I'm like, dang it. So I'm in Phoenix. You got a lot going on.

[B]

But listen, I d. My next upcoming dates, I'll be at Zany's on April 14th. April 14th. 14th. And then I'll be in Dallas May 1st, Houston, May 2nd. So those are the upcoming days dates. Some of these, though, on this that you got pulled up, some of those are getting moved. We're doing some shifting around.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

But May 4th, is that happening?

[B]

May 4th is happening, but that's sold out. Okay.

[C]

So not even worth your time.

[B]

Well, I'll be at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. But it is sold out, though. But how about that? It's gonna be a great show.

[A]

And.

[B]

But, yeah, I did New Neighborhood guy dates out now on my Instagram at Dusty Slay or Facebook. My Facebook is on fire. It's really growing, and I'm very excited about it. But, yeah, check that out.

[A]

Dustyslay.com Nashville Comedy Festival starts next week.

[B]

Yeah, it does. And, yeah, I gotta. Yeah, it's very, very fun.

[C]

You got some fun guests coming up here on the podcast.

[B]

Yes, we do.

[C]

Stick around, huh? It's gonna be a good time.

[B]

Yeah. As long as it lasts. You know what I mean? Because we're just, you know, we need

[C]

Nate to pop in every now and then just to keep us glued together

[B]

because, you know, Eric Jr. 89, it's going to end after a year because they're. They're friends of Nate.

[A]

I like Big Eric.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

His son.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Not a fan.

[B]

I think Nate would probably say, nah, they're friends of each other. And I. I just.

[A]

They work for me.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

All right. That is it. Thank you very much, everyone, for listening to the Public Figures podcast, a podcast worth Republic Figures. Talk about fun stuff and have a good time every week. See you next week.

[B]

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