19: #19 | What Happened in the Year 2002?

Summary

Public Figures Podcast Episode 19 Summary

Episode Title: #19 | What Happened in the Year 2002?

Date: June 10, 2026
Hosts: Brian Bates (A), Aaron Weber (B), Dusty Slay (C)
Podcast Theme: A nostalgic and comedic deep-dive into the hosts’ lives and major pop culture events of the year 2002.

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Overview

This episode focuses on personal stories, cultural milestones, and historical events from 2002, weaving together the hosts’ reflections on their own lives with the year’s music, movies, technology, sports, and more. The conversation is warm, playful, and often self-deprecating, reflecting on simpler times (or in Dusty's case, "empty times") with humor and a hint of wistfulness.

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Host Catch-Ups & Personal Updates

From 01:00–13:50

• Tour Updates:

  • Brian: Playing shows in Topeka, Kansas and Lowell, Arkansas (“Take my buddy Adam Bush with me”).
  • Aaron: Headlining in Hattiesburg, MS, with Lee Kimbrell.
  • Dusty: West Palm Beach at the “It’s Five O'Clock Somewhere festival.”

• Comedy Club Banter:

  • Recurring jokes about comedy club owners, particularly "Bill" in Arkansas.
  • Dusty: “Terrible owner. You know Bill. What a wreck of a guy.” (01:54)

• Personal Anecdotes:

  • Brian shares about his first trip with his wife without their baby, attending a Catholic wedding:
    “The priest is up there, and people are answering him… were we supposed to come to rehearsal? How does everybody know what to say except me?” (06:49)
  • Catholic traditions and confusion over rituals become a recurring bit, with playful misunderstandings about the “sign of peace.”

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Comedic Health Debacles & Relatability

From 15:02–23:00

• Brian’s Popcorn Saga:

  • An eight-year callback to a popcorn kernel suctioned to his tongue, reoccurring in 2022:
    “Twice a popcorn kernel is somehow suctioned on my tongue.” (16:55)
  • Efforts to dislodge it include peanut butter and saltwater gargles:
    “I'm just downing peanut butter… it finally came off.” (18:25)
  • The story escalates to embarrassing tongue selfies with playful shaming:
    “Posting pictures of your tongue… people go, let’s mute this.” (21:27)

• Shared Health Tales:

  • Dusty discusses panic over dip-induced “dip spots”:
    “Every time I do the joke, my dip spot hurts.” (23:58)
  • Aaron recoils at stories involving eye injuries:
    “Eye injuries make me uncomfortable. I feel like it hurts.” (25:16)

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Listener Comments & Theories

From 26:25–36:00

• Aliens, Time Travel, and Conspiracy Theories:
  • The hosts discuss fan-submitted ideas about ancient aliens and time travel:
    • “There’s a theory that what we think of as aliens might actually be future humans returning to study or visit their own past.” (29:15, Paul Goodness)
  • Dusty considers time-travel and how he’d “abuse it so fast,” connecting the bit to existential musings about personal change:
    “Younger me probably wouldn’t even listen to me.” (30:46)
  • On time travel destinations (prompted by Brian):
    • Brian: Woodstock ’99 and visiting dinosaurs (31:33)
    • Dusty: “All of mine are bad, I can’t even say it on the podcast.” (32:20)
    • Aaron: The time of Christ or Moses for historical validation (32:29)

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Cultural & Technological Touchstones of 2002

Music [100:26–104:20]

• Top Songs:
  • “How You Remind Me” by Nickelback (100:29)
  • Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” and “Dilemma,” both acclaimed and nostalgically discussed.
  • “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton, “In the End” by Linkin Park, “You Got It Bad” by Usher.
• Country: Alan Jackson’s “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” (105:01)
• Best-selling Album: Eminem’s The Eminem Show (107:17)

Movies [107:35–110:07]

• Box Office:
  • Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) leads the year’s grosses (107:48)
  • Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; My Big Fat Greek Wedding—praised for its underdog rise.
• Sequels & Quality:
  • Discussion of rare sequels that are better than originals, e.g., Godfather II, Empire Strikes Back.

Sports [110:27–117:38]

• Super Bowl:
  • First played in February, due to post-9/11 delays; Patriots’ Tom Brady’s breakout (“the underdog Patriots, led by new quarterback Tom Brady, newcomer, won the Super Bowl”). (111:29)
• MLB: Angels beat Giants in 7 (“That was Dusty Baker’s three-year-old son who was the bat boy… almost got crushed.” (113:03))
• NBA: Lakers' third straight title with Shaq and Kobe (115:24)
• Boxing: Lennox Lewis beats Mike Tyson (115:37)
• Tennis: Serena Williams dominates Grand Slams

Technology & Lifestyle [87:17–94:51]

• Cell Phones:
  • Introduction of camera phones and discussion of BlackBerry and Palm Pilot nostalgia.
  • National gas prices: $1.36/gallon (82:21), minimum wage at $5.15/hr (82:51), and stories of frugal living.
• Smoking Ban: Delaware bans smoking in public spaces, marking a cultural shift (93:59).
• Meetup.com launches to connect communities post-9/11 (93:17).

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Personal Snapshots: Where Were the Hosts in 2002?

From 63:01–77:00

• Dusty:
  • 20 years old, “goalless,” working at Office Depot, living in a trailer, attending community college briefly, and buying black market Girls Gone Wild tapes that overdraft his bank account.
    • “Life was fairly empty, but I was having a good time. No Internet, no smartphones.” (66:48)
• Aaron:
  • 10 going on 11, “proud of my life,” suffering a sports injury:
    • “I broke my back this year. I had to wear a back brace for about six months.” (73:30)
• Brian:
  • Bought a house in Donaldson, experiencing his first serious relationship and still checking in on the ex on social media:
    • “This morning, I’ve checked since this podcast.” (79:22)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Old Technology:

  • “These things were indestructible.” – Aaron, on early Nokia phones (67:49)

• Nostalgia for Simple Times:

  • “My bank account was also empty. I overdrafted on my account during that time.” – Dusty (85:11)

• Candy Bar Debate:

  • “Milky Way is probably my top candy bar.” – Brian (45:32)
  • “Snickers is the Coca-Cola of candy bars. But every now and then, I want a Dr. Pepper.” – Aaron (46:24)

• On High Fives:

  • “Dusty Baker invented the high five.” – Brian (113:39)
  • “Imagine that, though. You list off, you've been in baseball that long... and then you go, ‘and I also invented the high five.’ That’s crazy.” – Aaron (115:15)

• On Theories of Aliens and Humanity’s Future:

  • “They think it’s just us from the future, that’s where we’re headed toward. And maybe there’s some type of reproducing issue in the future, so that’s why they come back and do kind of crazy things to us.” – Brian (37:41)

• On DC Sniper (Ending on a High Note):

  • “Let's end on a high note. The DC sniper… I was pretty sure my buddy was the one doing it… every time you go to D.C., one of these things happened.” – Brian (121:44)
  • “Montgomery, Alabama, helped solve that case. …They robbed an ABC store in Montgomery and were caught on camera, and that’s how they were tracked down.” – Aaron (122:31)

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Cultural Ephemera & Fun Facts

• 2002 gas: $1.36/gallon; min wage: $5.15/hr
• First camera phone launched; Palm Pilots in business settings.
• American Idol debuts (Kelly Clarkson wins)
• Smoking bans begin in public spaces.
• Alan Jackson’s 9/11 song, Nelly’s “Hot in Herre,” and Spider-Man’s box office run defined media.
• The world’s “funniest joke” (per UK’s LaughLab): “Two hunters are out in the woods. When one collapses…” (97:26)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:00 – Introductions, banter, comedy club schedules
• 06:49 – Brian’s experience at a Catholic wedding
• 15:02 – Brian’s popcorn tongue saga
• 26:25 – Listener theories: aliens, time travel, and “extra tempestrial hypothesis”
• 36:00 – Personal snapshots: where the hosts were in 2002
• 63:01 – Dusty’s Office Depot days and struggles
• 87:17 – 2002 technology: cell phones, gas prices, and living costs
• 100:26 – Top songs of 2002, country hits
• 107:35 – Box office leaders, on My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• 110:27 – Sports in 2002: Super Bowl, World Series, etc.
• 121:44 – DC Sniper case and surprising Montgomery connection

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Tone and Style

The episode maintains a loose, improvisational, and comedically honest tone, moving easily between nostalgic reflection, personal stories, absurd trivia, and audience engagement. The hosts savor the humor in their own hardships, keep debates lighthearted (candy bars, sequels, alien invasions), and tie most segments back to their core friendship and experiences as working comedians.

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Final Thoughts

2002 emerges as a touchstone year for the hosts: a time of “empty,” simple, or formative living; a year that saw pivotal technology, music, and sports moments; and a launchpad for much of today’s cultural and personal milestones. From tongue blisters caused by popcorn to the invention of the high five, the hosts recall a world both familiar and very different—and have a lot of laughs looking back.

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Memorable Outro:

• “Thanks for tuning in. God bless. Be safe and send us a BlackBerry. Yeah.” (125:56)

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For next time, keep an eye out for stories of 2003—and maybe that long-lost Palm Pilot.

Transcript

[A]

What's up, y'?

[B]

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[C]

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[A]

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[B]

Welcome in, ladies and gentlemen, to another edition of the Public Figures podcast. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night. Whenever you're listening in, we're happy you're here. We've got another fantastic episode right ahead of us. But before we get into it, I'd like you to introduce to you to my co hosts here right at the table to my right is Brian Bates.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

And then I got Dusty Slay to my left here.

[C]

All right, and we are the public figures.

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3 Nashville based professional standup comedians. Getting into it. The nitty gritty, tackling the world's important issues, solving things one step at a time. It's good to see you guys.

[A]

Thank you.

[B]

Been a while.

[A]

I'm going to be in Topeka, Kansas this Thursday.

[B]

Topeka, huh?

[A]

At the Beacon. And then Friday and Saturday I'm going to be in Lowell, Arkansas. First time ever at the Grove Comedy Club.

[B]

That's a big one.

[A]

Very excited. Take my buddy Adam Bush with me.

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All the club. Terrible owner. You know Bill. What a wreck of a guy.

[A]

A lot about Bill.

[B]

We were texting Bill this weekend and he said anytime he's mentioned on the podcast, somebody will send it to him. So Dusty said, I'll be sure to talk a little trash about you.

[C]

Terrible guy. And I'm sorry you're doing that club.

[B]

Yeah. Hopefully you get to avoid him most of the time you're there and you don't have to deal with him.

[A]

Well, buddy, buddy. Adam Bush is opening for me and he says they're these are the biggest shows he's ever done.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

All right, that's.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So.

[C]

No, it's great. The Grove is great. Bill's great.

[A]

Yeah. I can't wait. Bill and Rhonda, please come to these shows.

[C]

Do come.

[B]

Yeah, I've got a big show coming up in about a couple weeks. I'm gonna be in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the Sanger Theater. That's June 20th. I'll have Lee Kimbrell with me, who's one of the co hosts of the New Life of dad podcast here on the NA Land Network. Lee's very funny. He'll be with me coming out in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, June 20 at the Sanger Theater. What about you, Dustin?

[C]

I'm gonna be in West Palm beach at the it's five o' Clock Somewhere festival.

[A]

So do you know how Jackson's gonna be there?

[C]

No, I. I don't know, and I don't know if they know. But, you know, John Anderson will be there. Yeah, I'm very excited about.

[B]

That's more important.

[C]

Shenandoah. I mean, I'd love to meet Alan Jackson, I'm not gonna lie. But I love John Anderson. Shenandoah. Ella Langley.

[B]

Okay. Are you an Ella fella? That's what they're called.

[C]

Oh, no, I would not say that I am.

[B]

But you like her music?

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Say Shenandoah. I always said it more Shenandoah.

[C]

I say Shenandoah.

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Yeah, you know, it's the. Like the national park. Shenandoah.

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I don't really know the difference in between.

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It's a real. It's a real place. It's a thing.

[A]

Okay, well, I'm just letting you know, I guess, then. Let me rephrase. I've been saying it wrong this whole time. Not that I say their name a lot.

[B]

You might be saying it correctly. I don't know. I've just never heard it.

[C]

They're great. You know that song, it was a

[B]

real Two Dozen Roses, A real joke

[C]

on the Internet for Two Dozen Roses. But they have so many good ones.

[B]

Yeah, but that's.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

That's a hot song.

[C]

Well, it was just audio. People were playing, and they would just. If I had Two Dozen roses.

[A]

Sorry, Kathy.

[C]

And an old bottle jumping right into it.

[B]

It is raining here in Nashville as we're recording this. And Zany's Comedy Club, which is where the studio is located, is one of the best comedy clubs in the country. That being said, it's not perfect. And I would say one of the major flaws in this building is that when it rains, it takes over whatever's happening in this building. Have y' all been on stage when it's raining here at the club?

[C]

I like to hear the rain, but

[B]

not when you're performing.

[C]

I like it. I feel like it really chills the audience.

[A]

That's not what I mean. They're already chill.

[C]

I like them to settle down.

[A]

Chill's not my issue.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Did you see the Trump interview on Meet the Press?

[B]

No, I missed it.

[A]

He was in a barn, and it started pouring down rain, and they had to keep stopping the interview because it was like tin roof, and it was so loud they couldn't hear.

[C]

And people just, like, all of the. All of our politicians are so old that I thought that if they heard the tin roof, they would just fall. Right.

[B]

It would just lull them into it.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

It's just. It was just very interesting. They're having to, like, yell at each other, and I finally said, we got to stop.

[B]

That's so funny. I've seen comics bench basically do that here, where they're like, what do you want me to do when comics who haven't been here before it starts raining? I've seen comics go, like, what is happening right now? It's just. I don't know. We've got. I don't know what materials on the roof here. Doesn't sound as nice as, like, a tin roof. It sounds like something's happening, but I

[C]

can sleep with this. I like when an old politician glitches out. You ever see those?

[B]

Yeah, like Mitch McConnell.

[C]

Wind him up. Wind him up. His battery's dead.

[B]

There you go. Grab him, take him back to his lair for a little bit until. Until it comes back to life. They are old, but.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, what have you guys been up to? Do you have a good weekend? I haven't seen you in a while.

[A]

Yeah, you know, you always say that, and we see each other every week, but, I mean, I just wish you would acknowledge that we see each other all the time.

[B]

I can still be interested in what you're doing. Well, do you want to scale back the amount of podcasts we do? I'm happy to do that, Brian.

[A]

No, I just.

[C]

We. You want to go to monthly?

[A]

Let's do four. Four in a day, once a month.

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Yeah.

[A]

And then I get you guys out of my life.

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I.

[A]

My wife and I took our first trip since our daughter's been born, just the two of us.

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Wow.

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Out of town. We went to a wedding in Colorado Springs.

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Okay.

[A]

And we had a great time. It was one of her close friends,

[B]

and it's a big Catholic wedding, right?

[A]

It was a Catholic wedding.

[B]

Your first Catholic wedding you've been to?

[A]

No, but it's. First one of what? Like, I got there, and, like, the priest is up there, and people are Answering him. He's, like, saying stuff, and everybody's chanting. I'm like, were we supposed to come to rehearsal? Like, how does everybody know what to say except me?

[B]

Right?

[A]

And then they do. Well, they did a lot of things. They. They at one time. I just want to go sit, get out of there.

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Right.

[C]

Let's get a pimento cheese sandwich.

[A]

Let's greet everybody. Juice say, peace be with you.

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Yeah.

[A]

So we had to, like, turn to everybody.

[B]

And that's pretty late in the master. That is, like, 45 minutes.

[C]

Turn to everybody.

[A]

Well, just people around you.

[C]

You greet them. They go greet a. Greet a neighbor.

[A]

My wife got mad because I greet the lady behind me with a holy kiss. And I just said, peace be with you. My wife, like, Judas.

[B]

There's a part in a Catholic mass where the priest says, peace be with you. And we say, I'm with your spirit. And then he says, now share the sign of peace with those around you. What you're kind of supposed to do, shake the hand of the person in front of you, the person behind you to the left and to the right. And then kind of.

[C]

Isn't that sign of peace?

[B]

I guess it could be. You know what? During COVID a lot of people are doing that.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

You're sharing peace, and they're just kind of looking around like that. But you hug. You shake hands.

[A]

Yeah, exactly. I'm glad you said that. You hug.

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Yeah.

[A]

You know the lady. Bonnie again. And then I'm like, all right, finally. Are we done? He's like, nope, Come up for communion. He's like, if you're not Catholic, you come up and then you do this.

[B]

Right, Right.

[A]

So I went up there and said, wakanda forever.

[C]

All right.

[A]

Cycle mad a little bit. Yeah. So I did it.

[B]

That's awesome.

[A]

Yeah. My first wedding I'd been to since yours.

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Wow.

[C]

Wow.

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It's been five years.

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Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Most of my friends have been married for 30 years.

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Well, you gotta turn down a lot of weddings as a comedian.

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Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, I've got a couple coming up that I felt like I couldn't get out of. But it's been a lot of, like, college friends and stuff where you go like, yeah, I can't lose a Saturday for your stupid wedding.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, I don't even know the girl you're marrying.

[C]

Yeah, I mean. Yeah. I mean, well, it is like. Yeah. I mean, Saturdays are tough.

[B]

Saturdays are tough.

[A]

You guys go to John Chris wedding?

[C]

Honestly, I was booked long in advance, and I got the invitation, and I looked at my calendar, and I go, I can't. Yeah, I can't cancel again.

[B]

Well, this is why you weren't invited to his roast. Well, you know, because you don't prioritize.

[C]

This is my protest of not being invited. You don't want me to come to the roast, don't ask me to come to the wedding.

[B]

Are you going to his wedding now?

[A]

I found a gig.

[C]

I mean, I hate that.

[A]

I was wide open. I found something. Not even getting paid.

[C]

We. We were excited. I mean, I. I had an idea in mind. I thought, will be a lot of comics in town. Maybe we should try to do something at the Grove, since it's in there. And then I looked at my calendar and I go, oh, I can't even go. I mean, Hannah was excited to go. I mean, we were pumped about it, but I can't. I want to say, it's even military gigs where I have three in a row and they're okay. I saw. I can't. I can't call my job right and be like, hey, guys, sorry, I can't do this.

[B]

I have a gotta go to John Chris wedding.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

In Arkansas.

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A guy that doesn't even invite me to other things.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Doesn't really care for you.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Are you going, Aaron?

[B]

I think we're going. Yeah, we're gonna go. I. I didn't book anything that weekend.

[C]

You know, my calendar gets booked, you know, way in advance, and so does mine.

[B]

Where are you booked up to? Where's your last name?

[C]

I got some 20, 27 days.

[B]

Yeah, so do I. Yeah, I'm through February of next year.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

It's not bad.

[A]

I got some August eights. My summer's filling up. Guys, if you want broadband this summer, you better get on it because it is almost full.

[B]

That's awesome. Well, being away from the baby, just you and your wife. That's great, man.

[A]

It was great. It's a fun time. Had some people recognize me at the wedding.

[C]

That's always fun from the movie. They go, it's Trash man number two.

[A]

I don't think it was the movie.

[C]

Yeah, that's cool.

[A]

I think it was the podcast.

[C]

That's cool.

[B]

Yeah, but you.

[C]

I went to Irvine, California, at the Improv. Me and Adam Bush, and.

[A]

Oh, this is awkward.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And this is the Adam Bush episode.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Keeps getting talked about.

[C]

Yeah. And, yeah, it was great. We had a great time. And shows were fun.

[B]

Just in and out at a club.

[C]

Yeah. I did four shows. My. And I, you know, I was doing an hour five, almost you know, I had to really scale it back, but I gotta tell you, that hour's hot.

[A]

That's good.

[C]

I'm into it. Yeah, that hour's hot.

[A]

That's great.

[B]

So you're just gonna do an hour from now on?

[C]

No, no, I can't wait.

[B]

I mean, you're gonna do a less hot hour?

[C]

Well, I got, you know, I got the five o' clock Somewhere festival come. So I probably won't even get to do an hour next weekend. I'm in Austin at the, at the Mothership. So I'm back in a club, but then at the end of the month I'm at a casino. So I'm gon do three hours. I might. I gotta let it rip.

[A]

You're gonna get to that festival they're gonna like. No, no, no. We just wanted you to tell that one joke.

[C]

I know, and I don't want to tell that joke anymore, so I don't

[A]

think you're gonna have to.

[C]

I just think that sometimes I think people think like, well, it's country music. This is a country music joke. They're really going to be into it. But really it's an long indepth joke. Right to where people that come to see music probably don't want that.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

What about you, Aaron?

[B]

I. I did a show at the, I was at Notre Dame this weekend. I did a show at the reunion. It wasn't my class, but this is the, the third year in a row that I've done a show there at this old historic theater right there on campus. I think it was built in the 1880s and it was packed in there. It was just really fun. Connor Larson was with me. I got to show him Notre Dame a little bit. We got to see the stadium at the end.

[C]

Your dad was there.

[B]

My dad got to come. My dad graduated Notre Dame in 84 and 85, so it, you know, it was his 42 year.

[A]

I graduated high school in 90. Her dad's just. We could almost went to high school together. Oh, that was college though. Okay.

[B]

That was college. Yeah.

[A]

All right.

[B]

Yeah. My dad's 10 years older than you.

[A]

Okay, let me. Sweet.

[C]

10 years. So 10 years. So the gap between us all

[B]

just

[C]

another 10 years as your dad and

[A]

then Harper's 10 years younger than you are.

[B]

That's right. So if we had, we had five, five people on here, we could do it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So it was cool to, to bring him. He had never been in the stadium before and he hadn't really been back to campus in A while.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Since. Since he graduated. So it was just a fun. Fun weekend, man. Fun weekend. And. But now we're back. Now we're back to the real world.

[C]

Here's an idea, though. If Alan Jackson were at the festival and he would sing the lines as I Broke it down, then that would be a good breakdown.

[B]

That would be great. I think it's tough to do.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm gonna be tough getting Jimmy Buffett.

[C]

I'm gonna put. Well, Jimmy Buffett comes in at the end, and it's a little weird of a joke because I say, has Jimmy Buffett been here the whole time? Right. And he. He's dead.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You can get one of those holograms, Right.

[C]

And then he could just pop up. Because I say, then Jimmy Buffett just pops up. So that'd be great to have him just pop up like that.

[B]

I think this festival is, like. This is a little more than we budgeted for for your set. See, we get a hologram.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Of Jimmy.

[C]

Maybe I get a guy. I bet there's a guy in Palm beach that looks like Jimmy Buffett.

[B]

I'm sure you can find there's gonna be 100 at the show.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

It's true.

[C]

Well, anyway, you ever listen to old Jimmy Buffett, like, the A1A album?

[B]

That's what he's like, I think I'm like most people. I've heard. I've heard the hits. I've heard the ones we all know.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And I never thought. Let me dig in a little deeper.

[C]

That one's a good one. It's a little more country and, you know, so he's not total beach vibes yet. That's good, though. Jimmy Buffett's good.

[A]

I. I'm gonna tell you guys this. Last week, I had a. Something come up on the back of my tongue.

[C]

On the back of it.

[A]

The back of my. I could barely see it when I shine a light back there or if I take pictures of it.

[C]

How did you know to be looking for it?

[A]

I felt I could feel something back there.

[B]

Is it a salivary stone? What was it?

[C]

Is it a little piece of popcorn?

[A]

So. Well, you're getting ahead of me.

[C]

Okay. Sorry, Sorry. All right.

[A]

I didn't even know how to tell the story. Let me back up then. About eight years ago.

[B]

Oh, geez.

[A]

Same thing happened to me.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I went a few days. It was like a holiday weekend. I'm like, oh, gosh, I got cancer or whatever. I go to the doctor. I went to the Dentist, actually. And he shined his light back there. He's like, man, what is going. And he takes a thing and goes, pop. It was a popcorn kernel that had got suctioned somehow on my tongue.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

And wouldn't come off for days.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

This time I'm like, man, it looks. It looks a lot like the same thing, but, like, it does not look like a popcorn kernel. There's no way that had.

[B]

You had popcorn recently?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay. Yeah.

[A]

I just got done eating some popcorn.

[C]

I would think you would have popcorn daily.

[A]

What does that mean?

[B]

I don't know, but I can see it old school on the skillet.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So I'm not quite as freaked out this time as last time, but I'm still thinking, there's no way this can be a piece of popcorn. And I'm reading online about it, and, you know, stuff to do and nothing will come. It won't come off. And I finally called the dentist and said, I got something in the back of my tongue. I got to. They said, we can get you in tomorrow. I said, okay. And then that night, I'm eating and I'm like. I'm drinking. I feel like. I feel like I felt something move back there. And I go, look in the mirror. Gone.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

You got it out. Yeah. Flush.

[A]

So twice a popcorn kernel is somehow suctioned on my tongue.

[C]

Four days, you don't reach a finger back there.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

How aggressively are you eating? You're just getting after it with this popcorn.

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

You know, I have a joke about eating popcorn and, like, how get. Get something stuck in the back of your throat like a little popcorn kernel, and you gotta kind of scrape it out with the roof of your mouth. And then you go.

[B]

But it was. I felt that in the headphones, man. Yeah, but it was, like, embedded in there. In the back of your tongue?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Just a kernel.

[A]

Let me see if I. You want to see a picture of it?

[B]

Maybe. What is it a picture of? Just what came. What came out, or is this a picture of your tongue?

[A]

It's a picture of my tongue.

[B]

Does it have the little punching bag in the back? You know what I'm talking about?

[C]

Tonsils.

[B]

No. What is that called? Little punching bag in the back, in the cartoon, there's. It's always a punching bag.

[C]

I thought that was.

[B]

Oh, man.

[C]

I don't think I want to see it.

[A]

I mean, it's just more.

[B]

It's more tongue than you think it's gonna be.

[C]

That looks.

[B]

It looks like another tooth cracking up.

[C]

It Looks like a blister. Like your shoes. You got new shoes?

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. An ankle blister doesn't look good.

[C]

Doesn't it?

[B]

No. And you try to get it out with like a toothpick or something.

[A]

With a toothbrush. It's way back there.

[B]

Yeah, way back.

[A]

And I could not get it.

[C]

You gotta get a good fingernail on it.

[A]

I couldn't reach it. I couldn't reach it with my. I was reading online, it said to eat pop. Not eat pop, worry.

[B]

Fight fire with fire.

[A]

Eat. Eat. Peanut butter. Peanut butter sticky.

[B]

Oh, it'll grab it.

[A]

So I'm just downing peanut. Peanut butter won't do it, but it finally came off.

[C]

Did you gargle with the warm salt water?

[A]

I did, yeah.

[B]

That didn't do anything, huh? It was just living life. And it caught it.

[A]

It was for a few days. So I have some weird thing. My tongue is some weird thing where popcorn just gets stuck to it.

[B]

I thought you're about to say gargle peanut butter. Oh, that would. That'd be pretty tough, man.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah, you gotta get that.

[B]

You're gonna die if you try that.

[C]

You gotta get that peanut oil off the top of organic peanut butter. The kind that Greg Warren really speaks out against.

[B]

This episode is sponsored by Better Help. You know, summer can go one of two ways, Dusty. For some people, it's about vacation, sunshine and making memories. For others, it can feel like a constant juggling act. You got kids home from school, your schedules are packed, travel plans, trying to keep up with everything. Personally, I found that summer is a lot more enjoyable when you make time for yourself instead of saying yes to every single thing. That's one reason I like BetterHelp. Therapy can help better understand. It can help you better understand your needs, feel more confident setting boundaries, and create a version of summer that actually feels good for you. BetterHelp is the world's largest online therapy platform with more than 30,000 licensed therapists and over 6 million people served globally. Plus, they make getting started easy. It's just a short questionnaire. It'll help you match with the therapist based on your needs. And if it's not the right fit, you can switch at any time. With over 30,000 therapists, BetterHelp is the world's largest online therapy platform. And it works with an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 for a live session based on over 1.7 million client reviews. Pretty good sample size right there. You don't have to say yes to everything this summer. Find support and therapy. Sign up and get 10% [e-mail] public figures. That's better. H E L P.com public figures. Well, I'm glad you're okay, man.

[A]

Well, thank you. Yeah, thank you. It was a. I can tell you guys were concerned about me.

[B]

Well, I figured you're fine now if you're telling us the story.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

But if you would have texted us this morning. Hey, man, I got something. A lump in the back of my tongue.

[A]

Do you remember when it happened last time? Or you just guessed?

[C]

No, I mean, I'm saying I've had something similar. I didn't take a picture and it. But I've had. I could tell I had a little piece of pot. I mean, I. I think I broke a tooth on this podcast because I thought I had popcorn stuck between my

[A]

teeth when it happened last time.

[C]

Still broken.

[A]

About eight years ago, I think I posted a picture of it on Instagram on my stories.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I did, like, three different stories. And I noticed that even my friends, you can see how many people view your story. And I haven't revealed what it is yet. It just looks like I have some. Some terrible thing. They stopped watching. It's just kind of funny. Like, before I even reveal what it. They're like, I'm out. We'll find out eventually.

[C]

Your picture posting pictures of your tongue.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, that's. You probably got, you know, you probably got, like, flagged. Probably got hidden a lot. People go, let's mute this. I didn't know Brian was going to be showing his pictures of his tongue.

[A]

Well, that's true.

[C]

Go ahead and mute this.

[A]

Well, that is true. I noticed you never look at any of my stuff, so maybe that answers that.

[B]

Are you looking for that? You're looking for who's not looking at your stories?

[C]

I think your stories have just fallen out of my algorithm.

[A]

You like? Well, you'll like some of my stuff and.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Okay. Nate like stuff. Dusty's never even seen any of my stuff.

[B]

Whoever's running Nate's Instagram's, like, Valerie likes

[A]

some of my stuff.

[B]

I doubt Nate is like, let me check in on what Brian's doing on Instagram right now.

[C]

Well, I feel like I like your stuff.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But I remember when it happened the last time you.

[C]

You talk to your dog a lot on there.

[B]

And you do the daily videos, which was your idea to start doing those. Right.

[C]

That's why I muted you.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense.

[C]

No, I. I do like that. Breakfast bites.

[A]

When it happened last time, you said, before he Knew what It was you. You told me, don't go to a traditional doctor. Don't go do that. I've got a guy that'll, you know, hook you up. Yeah, luckily, he didn't have to come to that. But I remember we had that discussion.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Then you got a tongue guy.

[C]

Well, I mean, you. Yeah, I mean, don't.

[A]

Don't go to traditional medicine.

[C]

They'll find something. Yeah, they'll go, oh, well, this is just popcorn. But turns out underneath was hanging on to.

[A]

I don't even know who to go to. Like, who would you think to go to if you had something?

[B]

Probably just call my mom. You know what I mean?

[A]

Well, medical professional. Is that a doctor?

[B]

I can't imagine a popcorn kernel elevating to the point of. Or escalating to like, I need to get a doctor involved.

[A]

But I didn't know what it was.

[B]

How many days. How many days was it a problem before it came out?

[A]

Three or four.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And you're thinking about it all day.

[C]

All for you, just rubbing back there.

[A]

Just awkward. Yeah, awkward's not the right word. Just annoying.

[B]

It's tough when you have a thing going on that's not obvious, but you still have to live life, right? So you're out there talking to people. The whole time, you're thinking about. I got this weird lump of the back of my tongue.

[A]

It could be anything, you know? Now it was popcorn, but if you didn't know what it was, where would you start? After your mom. Like, I really didn't know even who to go to.

[C]

I got a joke about losing your job, maybe losing your jaw to dip.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And every time I do the joke, my dip spot hurts.

[B]

Oh, it.

[C]

I think I'm. I think I go, dip spot. Where I used to dip, I go.

[B]

You put in the same spot every time.

[C]

I used to. Yeah.

[B]

Oh, well, that was your issue. You got to mix it up. You got to go up. You gotta go upper deck every now and then.

[C]

You can't, because you know it's not worth it.

[B]

What are you talking.

[C]

You don't want to waste it.

[B]

What are you talking about?

[C]

It's not good. In another spot. I got one spot.

[B]

It's not like breaking in a glove, man.

[A]

You can.

[B]

You can absorb any part of your.

[C]

But it's like there's only one place where it feels.

[B]

It fits nice. Yeah. Yeah, but you gotta. There's a trade off.

[C]

I would just, you know, smoke while I needed to rehab the gums.

[A]

Yeah, right here.

[C]

Right here.

[B]

Oh, right There on the side. Yeah. It's tough to do it right where

[C]

I have, you know, a broken and decaying tooth in my mouth. I don't know if it's decay. It is broken.

[A]

Well, it's a good joke. I heard it last week.

[C]

Yeah, thank you.

[B]

I haven't heard it.

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

Where are you hearing him do comedy? New material right here.

[A]

No, not new material. Monday.

[C]

It doesn't hurt when I do it, but it is like there's something about talking about this whole thing and then while I'm doing it subconsciously, I'm going, well, that's good to happen to you.

[B]

It's weird.

[A]

There are

[B]

like eye injuries. Somebody tells you about an eye injury, it makes me uncomfortable. I feel like it hurts. Yeah, it makes me uncomfortable to hear.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

There's a kid, my elementary school, threw a screwdriver up in the air and it landed on his eye. Yeah. Doesn't that make your eye hurt a little bit? It feels, it's tough to hear about it.

[C]

Just, you know, with a guy like that, you go, it was gonna happen eventually.

[B]

It's better to happen in sixth grade than as an adult.

[C]

Yeah, it was gonn. Uh huh.

[B]

But I think about that all the time. Anytime I have a screwdriver, it's not that often. Yeah. When I'm holding one, I go, man, if I threw this up in the air and it landed in my eye, that would hurt real bad.

[A]

I'm there. And look straight up.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And it landed straight on. Like you were planting a flag in your eye.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

How's that?

[B]

I. I think he's doing fine.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

But it, I won't go into detail, but it was bad.

[C]

I've lost contacts in the back of my eye and I have to like really like look to the side and like drag it across. Yeah, yeah. God, that's why my glasses guy.

[B]

You got to go to Warby Parker.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Anyway, yeah, you wanna get these.

[B]

Let's get in the start off with these comments here, huh? Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple, podcast reviews. Are we looking at Spotify comments? We haven't looked. You're not looking at those.

[A]

What's Spotify? Wow.

[C]

Does Spotify have comments?

[B]

Oh, yeah. You can comment on individual episodes.

[C]

Oh, good.

[B]

Us. Yeah. It's a new rabbit hole for you to go down.

[C]

But can you comment? Yeah. Can you comment on those comments?

[B]

I don't know if you can reply to individual.

[C]

If I can't reply, I don't want to read them.

[B]

Okay. You know, I'll have to look into that. Monique Housden. Dusty was very all caps, cool this episode. I don't know about anyone else, but this was one of my favorites. So many times I laughed out loud.

[C]

Thank you, Monique.

[B]

Thank you, Monique. I felt like it was one of our worst episodes when we ended. It feels good to hear.

[C]

Oh, I thought it was very fun.

[A]

I tried to be tired and checked out, but. Go ahead.

[C]

But I was cool, though, and that's why they liked it. They were like, Aaron was asleep and Dusty was cool.

[A]

Yeah, Yeah. I deleted the part where she said Aaron.

[C]

Yeah, checked out.

[B]

Well, thank you, Monique. I appreciate that. Erica Wolfert or Wolf Air. I have a theory that we, the human race, were originally aliens. Our ancestors came to Earth so long ago that the origins of our inhabitants have been lost in time. It's no crazier than the theory of evolution and doesn't take away from anyone's theological beliefs. That's fun.

[C]

Well, it takes away from mine, but. But I like that. You know, there is a theory that this is like the Anunnaki. You ever hear that? Like. Like that they think that dish. Yeah, that they were like that. It used to be only like a hominoid type. Like, hominoids are like Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman.

[B]

Right.

[C]

And that was what lived here. And the Anunnaki needed something from this planet, but the sun was too close. They couldn't survive, so they mated with the hominoids and created us.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Homo sapiens.

[C]

Yeah. I don't believe that. But I. I like. I think that's a fun theory that I don't believe.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Erica, you might get into that, though. I like that. Erica's, you know, on board with that.

[B]

Yeah. I like thinking outside the box.

[C]

Yeah. It does take away from my theological beliefs, though.

[A]

But, yeah, I'm trying to think about it. But if she said God created the

[C]

aliens, it still would take away. If the beginning of the Bible was. And then Adam stepped off the ship, then I would go, you know, that doesn't take away.

[B]

Spaceship.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Paul Goodness. What a great name. My goodness. Paul Goodness. There's a speculative theory often called the existence Extra tempestrial hypothesis.

[C]

That's very good.

[B]

I'll tell you what needs a better name. This theory is going to take off. It suggests that what we think of as aliens might actually be future humans returning to study or visit their own past. So who knows? Maybe Dustin Richard Slay the 38th will be back to study his super duper great grandpa.

[C]

Well, that'd be cool.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, I like that.

[A]

So you're on board with this? You think that's what it is?

[B]

Yeah, but we talked about it before. Time travel, theoretically, is only possible. Moving forward in time. It's only possible to go forward in time. It's not possible to go back in time.

[C]

If I could go back in time, it'd be nothing but bad news, I'll tell you that.

[B]

What do you mean?

[C]

I would abuse it so fast.

[B]

What would you do?

[C]

I can't even say. But it's like, just how far back

[B]

are you going to your own life? Life?

[C]

Yeah. Oh, my own life only.

[B]

Okay. But you're. You watching younger you.

[C]

Yeah. And you would influence the situation talking to younger man.

[B]

I'm gonna come to your bedroom at night, Dylan.

[C]

Younger me, how to do it, and then we can move this along a little faster. If they don't have to wait so long to figure out life out here.

[A]

Yeah. You're clearly a different person than you were when you're younger.

[C]

Yeah. Younger me probably wouldn't even listen to me.

[B]

Yeah. But you go, man, what did I take?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So it's possible that 20 years from now, you. If you had a good psychiatrist, you could be totally different, too.

[C]

That's true.

[A]

Yeah, that's true.

[C]

I mean.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, if we're, you know, if we're always changing, always learning, always growing.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, evolving,

[C]

theoretically.

[B]

Goodness.

[C]

Mentally.

[A]

If you could go back in time, we'll give you three places in time you can go. Okay, where would they be?

[B]

2009, I'm buying a bunch of bitcoin. Right. Do I get to come back as me now?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And. And you can observe and there's no but.

[B]

I can't influence the past at all.

[A]

And there's no risk of danger. You can go watch whatever you want to watch.

[B]

Oh, man. Dude, so many fun things. I'm going Back to Woodstock 99. I'm watching limp Bizkit live. I'm surfing on a. A piece of plywood. In that crowd. I'm going nuts. Okay, so that's one. I'll go back 2009, buy Bitcoin, put it in my. Put in my daughter's name.

[A]

So two of your three.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Or in the last 15 years, what

[B]

are you, the Battle of Hastings? What do you want me to say?

[A]

Well, all right. Maybe I should go first.

[B]

Hold on. Well, am I just here? Am I in Nashville, Tennessee?

[A]

Anywhere you want.

[B]

I can go anywhere.

[A]

Anywhere.

[B]

Oh, maybe I'll Go, I would like to see some dinosaurs. Maybe I'll go back to that.

[A]

Okay, so 65 million years ago. 99 and 2009.

[C]

That's right.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

All right, well, you, dusty.

[C]

All of mine are bad. I can't even say it on the podcast.

[B]

Well, think of. Think of three ones that you can say.

[A]

I would go back to the time of Christ.

[B]

Okay. And do what? Just ruin the good times?

[A]

Just observe. You can't interfere. What.

[B]

What would you observe? Sermon on the mountain.

[C]

Okay, so I just go.

[B]

Be specific.

[C]

Going to watch things.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

You can't influence the watch.

[C]

I just pass. I go past.

[B]

You don't want to go check anything out, man. You don't want to go see Leonard Skinner before the plane crash.

[C]

Ah, that could be cool.

[B]

Anything like that.

[C]

That could be cool.

[B]

Come on, dude.

[A]

We're choosing.

[B]

You don't go back to a grand old Opry show.

[C]

We're just watching, though. We can't just watch.

[B]

You can't influence the past or else it'll affect the future. And butterfly effect.

[C]

What if it's like the multiverse type thing where it's its own timeline?

[B]

Okay. So. Yeah. And then you come back to now like the. Like it never even happened.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

You wouldn't want to go back to, like, the time of Moses and be grumbling with other Israelites?

[C]

No, that seems. Yeah, it seems like I would be afraid that I would be complaining right along with them.

[A]

That's what I'm saying. You fit in perfectly.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You'd be like, God, we should have left us in Egypt.

[C]

The fear with that kind of time travel is that you go back too far, and then they're like, oh, we thought we could get you back, but

[B]

have you heard of iPhone Face? It's what they say. It's like, you ever watch a show that takes place in the past, but the actor or actress just looks like they're from modern times? And you're like, they don't look like they're from the past because they have iPhone face.

[A]

Huh?

[B]

Yeah. I think you got a little iPhone face.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

It's a good thing.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

It's not bad.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Can you. Can you think of an example?

[B]

No.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

But you know it when you see it.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Go watch a show. Go watch a movie about the past.

[A]

Wouldn't their hair be a big part of it?

[B]

The hair, too. But it's something in the face. Yeah, something in the face. It's like we look different now. You ever see those old videos of, like, Chimney sweep kids from like the 1910s in England. And God, I just look like they're from a different time. They don't look like the kids now. The fate. They don't have iPhone face because they

[C]

had to work really hard.

[B]

That's what I'm saying.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Why is it called iPhone face?

[B]

Because you feel like that face looks at an iPhone. All right. I don't know the. The whole etymology of it.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

What would you do?

[C]

Well, even if I look at pictures of my dad as a kid, he looks much older than me. Every. Like my dad in my house, there's like, he had all my pictures of every year that I was in school on the wall. And then he had a little wallet size of himself in those same years. He always looked older than me and better for that matter. But it just. I just felt like he was working. He had to farm.

[B]

Did you know I was playing video the first season of Sopranos that this guy's my age?

[C]

Wow.

[B]

James Gandolfini. Tony Sopranos, 35.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

When the show started. Do you know that, Brian?

[A]

No. I would have guessed. I mean, I knew he was in his 40s, but I would never guess him that young. He played.

[B]

Guessed even older than that.

[A]

I think he was playing a guy.

[B]

Yeah, he's 35.

[A]

Dude.

[B]

You think? I mean, I. In my head, I look younger than this guy.

[C]

Some people say time is sped up.

[A]

Yeah. When I watch.

[C]

Are actually younger than what we. That are. Than what our.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Age suggests.

[B]

So time is passing more quickly.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

But we don't notice because it's all just, you know.

[B]

Because it's happening to all of us.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I. When I watch old shows, it's hard for me to fathom those actors or maybe like in their 20s. Yeah. Because their styles and just because you think of how old they are now, it's hard to envision that that's what people look like.

[B]

I get that. Where would you go back in time? You said you go to Jesus. I'd go.

[A]

I just do.

[B]

But what specifically would you go to? You just go. Just visit him as a carpenter. Get a table made or something.

[A]

Maybe after his resurrection.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

I guess I'm not trying to poke holes in.

[C]

I'd go to 11th grade prom. I'd go to.

[A]

You want say anything historical. Yours are like back to the future. You're gonna go back and change some things. I don't know. Some. His historical stuff. Yeah. Like what? D Day, maybe Civil War.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I would like to save One of them, though, for my childhood, just to go, you know, some stuff that I grew up with, sentimental about.

[B]

Well, that's fun. Write in what you guys would know. I want to hear.

[A]

But there is this theory that whenever there's a historical event, people see more UFOs and that they think it's either people from the future coming back to watch it. I think when Obama was inaugurated, people said they saw UFOs and stuff like that. And some people think they're coming back us from the future because apparently our heads are getting bigger and we're getting tested egotistically,

[B]

Physically. Right.

[A]

Physically. Testosterone in men is at all time low. And people always say these creatures from the future almost seem non binary, non gender specific, whatever.

[B]

And they think it's just androgynous.

[A]

Us, I guess that's the correct word. Us from the future. That's where we're headed toward. And maybe there's some type of reproducing issue in the future. So that's why they come back and do kind of crazy things to us.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I'm not saying I believe any of this.

[C]

I believe it.

[A]

It's what they say.

[C]

It's really going to mess up my time travel plans.

[A]

You can go in the past and do some similar things. Okay.

[B]

B.J. maxwell, if, as Aaron insists, there's quote, no question, extraterrestrial life forms exist, why do we assume them hostile?

[A]

Well, I agree.

[B]

Well, I think if they're here and they're interfering with us, they probably need resources. I don't think they're psychopathic and just want to kill us for no reason. But I think if they made it all the way here and are revealing themselves to us, there's probably a reason. And they need our resources. That's what I would guess.

[A]

But if we had the ability to travel to another planet to visit that, we would. And I don't think our mission would be to wipe them out.

[B]

Well, right. I don't know if I'm as optimistic as you.

[A]

Like, if we found out there was.

[B]

I think if we send people off into space. Yeah. And we freeze them and wake them up, you know, millions of years from now when, when they land somewhere, I don't think they're going to get out and just go, hey, you know, we need resources, but just want to see what y' all are up to, you know, I think we're taking over wherever we go.

[A]

Yeah. I guess I'm just saying if it was right now, we wouldn't be going out in space for resources. We'd just be going for human exploration.

[B]

I'm saying by the time you get all the way out to something, you would need resources. You need fuel, you need water, you need food, you need everything.

[A]

Say, hey, I need a. Yeah, I need a ride back.

[B]

I need you to turn the ship around. Send us back to Earth.

[A]

Yeah. Dusty.

[C]

Well, listen, I.

[A]

Be cool.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, I think if you got some really far away, you just try to join up with them. You go, that was a long trip.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I don't want to do it again.

[B]

Just try to put. Just put us up for a night. Can you just a meal or something.

[C]

Let us live here now. We want to live here with these big headed, androgynous people.

[B]

Steve, Ron, haven't you guys considered the possibility that if aliens arrive, they could be a lot dumber than us? They're just better at making spaceships than we are.

[C]

That's what I always say. I mean, I brought this up before, the last time we talked about aliens, that we always assumed they're just so smart because they made it here. But what if they made a wrong turn, you know, got caught in some black hole and it dumped them out on us? They show up and they're like, we think they're so smart.

[B]

I'll say it again. I think, because we know that the next closest planet where people could leave is so far away that for them to get all the way here, it means they have technology that we know nothing about, or it means they've evolved past a physical body and have downloaded their consciousness onto some kind of. Of machine or something that. That is immortal. So they're probably just more advanced than we are, that. That's my assumption. Could be wrong. But you ever find out, you ever

[C]

meet somebody, though, that's like, so smart that they're, like, dumb? Yeah, kind of dumb. Because they're like, they got no social skills.

[B]

They're just like idiot savants.

[C]

Yeah. So what if that. Like, they're great at building spaceships, but,

[B]

you know, they survive the entire trip.

[A]

They're autistic.

[C]

I mean, I'm not. I'm not saying that, but.

[B]

Janet Torok. Janet Turok, does the usa report more UFOs than other countries? While we are a great country, I find it hard that aliens would just focus on us. I always think it's our military testing new technologies.

[C]

I think Janet's right. But I also think the UFOs would be coming to America. They're like, we got to find out what's going on there.

[A]

Do you Think though, any of those videos that we've seen lately could just be some under cover. Not on cover, but maybe stuff that. Yeah, yeah, that's us.

[B]

I think that's a possibility for sure. But I think sometimes things, you know, the world, all the only country that really gets tornadoes. Do you ever think about that?

[C]

Oh, no, I didn't. I haven't thought about that.

[B]

There are some other places, but I think the majority of them, overwhelming majority, happen in America. It's just. It's just our geography and geoengineering and potentially. Yeah, potentially.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, I speculated they were going to release another batch of files this past Friday and they didn't. But now I'm reading that they may wait till this Friday, the movie disclosure day comes out and they may disclose this Friday that, you know, aliens are real.

[B]

It's pretty good marketing for the movie. They're saying it's his best film since Saving Private Ryan.

[C]

Oh, is this Steven Spielberg? Yeah, this is the one that I saw on Twitter today.

[B]

Big movie coming out.

[C]

It's going to have people doubting their religious beliefs.

[B]

Yeah. Go see Breadwinner instead. Don't cuss.

[C]

Yeah. Don't poison your mind.

[B]

Yeah, I'm gonna go see it now.

[A]

Someone said that because I said last week, why are all these spaceships crashing all the time if they're so advanced? And someone said that we started testing radar in the 40s and it somehow messed up with their anti gravity system in their ships. And that's why like two crash in Roswell.

[B]

Okay, that makes sense to me.

[A]

That's kind of fun, right?

[C]

That's 5G too.

[B]

5G.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

That'll do it.

[C]

I mean, you can't even turn your cell phone on on a plane there,

[A]

you know, so same thing.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Thomas Heath from the Heath Bar. Underrated candy bar, by the way, is it never gets talked about. You ever get into a Heath bar?

[C]

I'm sure that I've had one, but not a fan when I'm in that. What's in it?

[B]

Toffee. I think it's caramel and toffee.

[C]

That's where it's losing. It's good.

[B]

Well, that's the whole. It's the whole thing of it.

[C]

It's toffee, like coffee.

[B]

It's got a little crunch to it, you know, it's good in like a milkshake or. Or a blizzard or something.

[C]

Well, Heath, your favorite milkshake of all time though. Butterfinger milkshake.

[B]

A Butterfinger.

[C]

Hardee's used to have the Butterfinger milkshake.

[B]

Yeah, the Butterfinger Steak and Shake. Butterfinger.

[C]

I love Butterfinger. I think it's an underrated candy. I agree with you. I think it's kind of disgusting because it's like. What is that?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But the taste.

[B]

It's also an off putting name. I've never thought about it. Yeah, Butterfinger.

[C]

Bart Simpson used to do the commercials. No, better. Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger. All right.

[B]

What about you, Brian? What do you like?

[A]

Butterfinger?

[B]

What do you like a bit O Honey Werther's Original. Do you like a word strawberry candy with no label.

[C]

What about a Riesling? Remember those?

[B]

A Riesling. Isn't that a wine?

[C]

Yeah. JLO Riesling. I remember that Riesling. I feel like that was a candy. A Riesling. It was like a chocolate and caramel chewy candy. Yeah.

[B]

A reason.

[C]

Reason. Yeah. No l in there, but that looks good. Yeah, it's a good one.

[B]

Chocolate covered caramel covered in rich European. Oh, chewy chocolate caramel. Oh, that does sound good. 45.

[C]

Cacao. Yeah, I love a cacao.

[A]

Oh, great. Go ahead. I'm gonna say I didn't come to your defense many years ago. The Nateland Podcast. I think I've since told you, but when you defended Milky Way pretty strongly.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Milky Way is probably my top candy bar.

[B]

You let me. You left me hanging out there.

[A]

Well, it was.

[B]

If you would have defended me. People be giving you Milky Ways after every show like they are for me. You'd be about as big as I am.

[A]

I wanted you to have a mouth, but wouldn't.

[C]

Milky Way to me is just like a Snickers that they forgot to put the peanuts in.

[B]

Oh, my God. A brain dead take. That is.

[A]

Of all the dumb takes you've had, Dusty, that's the dumbest.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[C]

I mean, you don't think that.

[B]

Yeah. Guess what, dude? Sometimes I don't want to have a meal. I want to have a candy bar.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah. You know what I mean.

[A]

I could accept us falling off the edge of the earth and now you've gone too far.

[C]

I mean, Snickers is a supreme candy. Candy bar, though.

[B]

Okay. Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

It's so. Snickers is so well established that of

[B]

course it's the Coca Cola of candy bars.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, but every now and then I want a Dr. Pepper.

[C]

Hungry? Why wait?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Grab a snack Stickers.

[A]

By far the top candy bar.

[B]

It has to be. It has to be. Not even close. Really?

[C]

I would think so.

[B]

Yeah. Candy bar, market share top. Well, we got snickers is number one. This is by consumer preference. A Reese's is number two. KitKat. Three.

[C]

That sounds made up.

[B]

Twix for Hershey's milk chocolate.

[C]

Five. I don't know a single person buying KitKat out here.

[A]

Well, I love a Kit Kat.

[C]

Do you?

[B]

I dip into them every now and then.

[A]

Green river doesn't have any because I ate them all.

[C]

Do you break them or do you just bite it?

[B]

I just. I go for it.

[A]

I break.

[B]

I can't be wasting time.

[A]

Kit Kat, fast break.

[B]

The fast breaks. Unbelievable. You get the white chocolate Kit Kat. You ever mess around with that?

[A]

I'll go into a gas station, get some gas on the road, get a

[B]

white chocolate Kit Kat. Yeah, it's a good day right there.

[A]

Dusty always has to eat this European candy.

[B]

I have my Snickers and that's it. What about never branch out?

[C]

Twix. I like a Twix.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah, like a twist.

[B]

Do you break that? You eat one at a time?

[C]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

It'd be weird to eat two at a time. What about a payday? I like a payday.

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

I think payday has changed, dude, but.

[A]

Well, yeah, it has now it's more direct deposit.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

Okay, let me paint the scene here. Hunger strikes and you're exhausted. There's something healthy in the fridge that you should make, but you don't have it in you. For me, that problem no longer an issue. Eating healthy is not. Not just a willpower thing, it's a convenience thing. But with Factor they bring. The convenience factor has meals built around your goals, whether that's weight loss, overall nutrition, more protein, or GLP1 support for strength and workout recovery. Check out Factor's Muscle Pro collection. Every meal is crafted with functional ingredients. Lean proteins, colorful veggies, whole foods and healthy fats. They ban 175plus ingredients. No artificial colors or sweeteners, no high fructose corn syrup, refined seed oils, just nutrients. Dense, good food. The meals are always fresh, never frozen. Ready in just about two minutes. No prep, no stress. Honestly, this is something I'd recommend if you're trying to stay consistent with healthier eating. It just takes a lot of the. It's just so easy.

[A]

Dude.

[B]

I have used factor for years now, before they were a sponsor. I still do. I just had the Chicken Florentine. That's probably my favorite, like, reliable meal from them that I just can eat whenever. So good. Head to factor meals.com nate50off and use code nate50off to get 50% off and free daily greens per box with new subscription only while supplies last until 9. 27, 2026. See website for more details. Thomas Heath. That's how we got into all this candy bar talk. If you look at the map of national parks and the biggest cave systems in the US the maps are almost one to one. I think what he's talking about is a map of missing persons and the cave systems. Some people think either people explore the caves and go missing, or something is in the caves taking them. And that's why so many people go missing in the national park. So here are the two maps of cave systems and people vanishing without a trace. And they're basically identical. Well, we learned on our Tennessee episode we have more caves than any other state in the country. Is that correct?

[A]

Was that that or Kentucky?

[B]

No, no, no, no. We joke that Kentucky talks about caves more because they're embarrassed on what's above.

[A]

Okay, okay.

[B]

That was the joke. That.

[A]

Good memory.

[B]

But Tennessee has the most caves of any state.

[C]

Tennessee. Yeah. I mean, I think for sure people are taking people in caves. Yeah, I think so. There's something. There's a whole underground system going on.

[A]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, have you heard that theory that. That, that, you know, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are reptilian, obviously, and they live underground and they eat pizza. That's how they survive.

[A]

Wow. Let me stop right now. You're going to believe this story wholeheartedly. Go ahead.

[C]

And you know what pizza, you know, is like code for. Yes. So they think that they're stealing the pizza to give to the reptilians underground.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

That's got to be true, right?

[C]

Come on, guys.

[B]

Okay, I'm into it. I have to look into that. Off air. Yeah, but we. I mean, it's.

[A]

I'm gonna be honest. I'm not gonna look into it.

[C]

Okay, well, I've not been.

[A]

Trust Dusty.

[C]

I've not been looking into it either, but I believe it.

[A]

He's just been sharing it on his podcast.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Malachi Munn. What a name. Yeah, Malachi Munn. Who is Malachi? That's a biblical name, right?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

What did Malachi get into?

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

He's a prophet, I believe.

[C]

I think it was the last book of the Old Testament.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I think of Children of the Corn when I hear that name. You ever see that movie? You read that book?

[A]

That Stephen King?

[B]

Stephen King, yeah. Well, sorry.

[C]

I think they like to give horror movie characters biblical Names to make you a friend.

[B]

Afraid of them.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, I think this movie. They were kids that lived in a cornfield, so it was appropriate. But I know what you mean. Dusty said he liked the indoor aquarium more than the outdoor zoo. Aaron replied, he goes for the wet more than the heat. Seamlessly referencing Dusty's last special, wet Heat. I mean, come on, that's an all time great from Moses's brother. Thank you, Malachi. It was good. I would have liked a little love when I said it.

[C]

It was. It was a good line. I feel like we were in some type of flow and it got. It got overlooked.

[B]

Yeah, it can happen.

[A]

It was great.

[B]

Graham Matheson.

[C]

A lot of good names. Yeah.

[B]

Graham was a Graham cracker. Just named after a guy named Graham, I bet.

[A]

So, white guy.

[B]

What do you mean?

[C]

Well, Graham crackers. Light brown.

[B]

Yeah, but what do you mean? Graham crackers are named after Sylvester Graham, an eccentric 19th century American clergyman and health reformer. 1829, he.

[A]

Clergyman and health reformer. That's the idea.

[B]

I mean, this might be Dusty from the. This might be Dusty going back in time to the past to invent the Graham cracker.

[C]

Sylvester Graham, 1829.

[B]

He created an unsweetened coarse whole wheat biscuit as part of a strict meatless diet. He believed eating simple, bland and high fiber foods would curb carnal desires and promote moral purity. How about that? Fast forward to now. I'm making s' mores with these.

[C]

And they're also not unsweetened.

[B]

Yeah, now it's. Now it's half of its sugar.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Graham Matheson. I'm not shocked. That old Body Slam Bates favorite Hulk Hogan was the NWO version. Considering his heel turn since the switch to public figures.

[A]

Well, that is true. Yeah, but I was already turning heel on Nateland.

[B]

I think you turn heel pretty quick once Nate started leaving, you know, you were like, there's a void and there's a vacuum. I need to fill this.

[A]

Exactly.

[C]

Body Slam baits. I like that.

[B]

That's a good one. I haven't seen that one yet.

[C]

Rachel, they're starting to get positive.

[B]

They are?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

I don't like that. Let's switch that up.

[C]

Up.

[B]

Rachel Anderson. If the old cars before computers all, quote, disappear, then everyone has a car they can't fix on their own. It can be tracked and controlled. It just seems too convenient to be coincidence.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, Rachel gets it. I mean, it's.

[B]

They want to try break down what that comment means for me.

[C]

Well, they want to track you. Well, she's Saying that now we have all the cars now we can't work on the old ones. We could work on some people and they're. They're gone. Right. They're pushing those out. So all the new ones have tracking. Everything has tracking on it now and then they're one the newer they get, they want to do like biometric data on you and they got to connect

[B]

to the Internet to turn your car on, all that stuff.

[C]

I just worked with a comic and she told me that she has a driverless car, a car that can probably a Tesla. And she said she just got a report the other day that 87% of her driving was done driverless. Like she just gets in the car and lets it go.

[B]

So you're not into that at all.

[C]

I. I mean I love the convenience of that. But if they can let you know, if you can let the car drive on its own, then they can just probably hack it and drive it to the police station.

[B]

That's for sure.

[C]

You know. And then do what and arrest you if they need to.

[B]

Right?

[A]

Oh, I see.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

If you have a warrant out for your arrest, they just take take control of your car and drive.

[A]

A good thing.

[C]

It is a good thing. Until all the. Any crime, any.

[A]

You know, you're a murderer. And yeah, you guys are like.

[B]

Or they go, Brian's saying something we don't like.

[C]

Exactly.

[B]

Drum something up that's totally different.

[C]

A murderer, great. But yeah, if they go, he's saying

[B]

that's the next logical step to this is doing that.

[A]

Are there cars now that you could use a fingerprint rent to start your car?

[B]

Maybe. I'm sure you could set it up.

[A]

Not even with keys. I mean, if not that certainly will be there soon.

[C]

I would think maybe they listen to this podcast and they go, that is a good idea.

[B]

You know, I called my bank the

[C]

other day biometric baits and they told

[B]

me I verified my identity from my voice.

[A]

Oh, you're talking about AI.

[B]

They said just talk and we'll verify it's you from the sound of your. Your voice.

[C]

Cuz you've been saying this is Aaron Weber speaking.

[B]

Said, did you know that your voice is as unique as your fingerprint? Wow. At Chase bank we now blah, blah, blah. Verify your identity with your voice.

[A]

You should call next time. As Randy Newman.

[B]

I needed to posit.

[A]

Late payments are. Do you think the. I was thinking about this yesterday at the airport. The camera that you have to look in right. Go through tsa. Do you really think that like is it so good that they can just. Because sometimes I'll be wearing a hat, maybe glasses. Very different than my.

[B]

I'm not even framed correctly in the picture. Yeah. I don't care. Yeah. There's people behind me. I guess it must be good technology.

[C]

It is that.

[B]

I. Yeah. You believe it?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Shayla Scott. I love A League of Their Own, and I agree with Aaron and Dusty. Dottie was too good of a ballplayer to drop that ball. 100%. Dropped it for her sister on purpose. Kit was whining to her earlier, making her feel bad. So she gave her one to make her feel better.

[A]

I rewatched the scene last night.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

More than ever, I think she did not drop it on purpose.

[B]

She.

[A]

Kid comes to bat, she goes out to the pitcher's mountain and says, throw it high and outside. She can't lay off of it. She's trying to. Everything she can do to get her out. I just think it was a collision at the plate and she. She dropped it.

[B]

I think she made the decision during the play, though. You know what I mean?

[A]

Yeah. Now, I looked into.

[B]

This is apparently deliberately ambiguous. Yes.

[A]

It's been going on since the movie's been.

[B]

Been. Yeah.

[A]

Out. People have been debating it. They asked Gina Davis, and she says she knows the answer, but she'll take it to her grave. So it's kind of a fun thing. Now they. They want you to. They don't want to give you the answer.

[B]

I like that. They let the actor know, though. I like that. So they know how to play it.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, there's. Famously. In the Harry Potter movies, Alan Rickman plays Snape.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And the whole series, you're like, is he a good guy? Is he a bad guy? And nobody knew. But apparently J.K. rowling told the actor, hey, he's actually good the whole time. He was the only one in the world that knew. So that. Because he's like, I need to know. So I know how to play this character. Isn't that cool?

[C]

That is cool.

[B]

Good stuff.

[A]

Yeah. I did that with the breadwinner.

[C]

What was the question? People were asking, what is the controversy with it?

[A]

Do I like Nate or not?

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And they said, no, you don't. So I'm like, I'm going to laugh if he wipes out.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I need to know how to play this.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Charlie Bravanova. Bravo, Nova.

[C]

Yeah. That's powerful.

[B]

Dusty nailed the entire premise of 310 to Yuma. Brian can never be more wrong in the history of eternity.

[A]

Well, what that is what was The. The premise that you even nailed.

[C]

Well, that you said you knew right away that Christian Bale wasn't a hero. And I'm saying the whole premise, like. Like, we talked about it. I thought about this later because you referenced Unforgiven.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So Unforgiven, he was set up to be a hero. And then they. Throughout the movie, they kind of make you doubt whether he can actually pull it off anymore. And then he does 3:10 to Yuma. They don't set him up that way, but, you know, he's injured in war, and it kind of makes you feel like he's just trying to farm now. He just wants to be a farmer. And. But. But they keep pressing him. They just keep pressing him. They're trying to take his land, and he's got one opportunity, and he knows he can do this. So throughout the movie, the other guys trying to get this criminal to the train are dropping like flies. And it comes down to Christian Bale and Russell Crowe. And you go, this is where we're gonna see it.

[A]

Did you think he was gonna, like, shoot up the whole gang?

[C]

Yeah, I thought he. You know, it's like I just watched Quigley down under, which is, you know. Yeah, very fun movie, but not nearly as, you know, good as 310 to Yuma. But at the end of that one, there's a.

[B]

A.

[C]

He's a. Quigley is a rifleman, you know, and he says he doesn't prefer handguns. So at the end of the movie, there's a quick draw with Quigley down under, and I believe Alan Rickman. And then Quigley is able to, you know, he's. Turns out he's a very fast draw as well. So you. It's a. You know, it's this big reveal. Oh, he actually was amazing. Whereas Christian Bale is revealed at the end that he's actually. He's like, I ain't. He said he was. He's ain't. I ain't never been a hero. I. He said my. My war injury was friendly fire. He says, try telling that to your kid and keeping his respect. And it's just a big moment to where Russell Crowe, this awful human being, awful bad guy, sees this humanity now in Christian Bale, and he goes, you know what? I want you to have the respect of your son. I'm gonna make sure you get me to that train.

[A]

It's a great movie.

[C]

It's. It's so good.

[A]

I try to look up what Dusty's saying, and it just said, no one's that Dumb to think that besides Dusty

[B]

and Charlie, Google said, yeah, it's so. That felt like three hours and ten minutes, y' all talking about it.

[C]

It's. It's so good that it makes the whole movie.

[B]

I have to go watch this film.

[C]

That scene makes the whole movie.

[A]

You didn't think the movie was good until then?

[C]

No, I enjoyed the movie, but the part of the movie was this build up of, we're gonna see who Christian Bale really is. Yeah.

[B]

Let me ask you this. You ever watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding? I watched that this weekend. Great movie. Forgot how funny that movie was. Yeah. Cried a little bit.

[C]

Never seen it. You went to a wedding, you watched A Big Fat Greek Wedding.

[B]

You've never seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding?

[C]

No.

[B]

Oh, come on. It was a cultural phenomenon.

[A]

It's a great segue. Cultural phenomenon in what year?

[B]

2002, I believe.

[A]

So was it? I think it was.

[B]

All right, how about that?

[A]

I think it was one of the top movies of 2002. And that's what we're talking about this week. Great segue. Look at that

[B]

research.

[A]

All right, I want to ask you guys this.

[C]

So did you really bring that up like that, or did you just have to know when that movie comes out?

[A]

Well, because I do my research on 2002.

[B]

Wow. I think was, like, the fifth highest grossing movie of the year.

[A]

I think you're right. But it was the biggest surprise.

[B]

Yeah. Because it was an independent film.

[A]

Yeah. Was that the research you were doing for the pod, watching that movie?

[B]

Yeah, I was trying to help out Brian. Let me know if you need anything. I'm gonna watch the movies from 2002.

[A]

Okay. Dusty is 2002. You've been out of high school for two years. Are you starting to get a little, like, what am I doing with my life? I gotta figure stuff out?

[C]

Well, yeah, I mean, I, I, you know, I touched on this on 2001, I believe, but, you know, I'm rolling into 2002, I believe, with a suspended license and on probation.

[A]

And so, yeah, 2001 ended on a cliffhanger. So now you're suspended license, probation. What are you doing?

[C]

I work at Office Depot.

[B]

All right. Doing what?

[C]

Well, that's a good question.

[B]

Are you interacting with customers or. Okay.

[C]

Always a customer service guy. All right.

[B]

Right.

[C]

I started off as a stalker, and then the.

[B]

You drive a forklift?

[C]

Not yet.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

And then the.

[B]

Comes later.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

2003.

[C]

And then the furniture person got fired, so I became the stalker and the furniture person. No pay raise. And then I. And then the receiving manager position goes away and I get that job. I get. I'm the receiver now because I'm not a manager. No pay raise.

[B]

So now you're handling all the stuff that gets shipped to the store?

[C]

Yeah. So now I go in in the morning, unload the truck, check it all in, then put it on carts, then stock it.

[B]

Let me ask you this. When you were working this job, would you appreciated Memorial Day getting the day off?

[C]

No, I was hourly. I don't think that it would have made any difference in my life.

[A]

Hourly employees don't get.

[B]

Get paid.

[C]

I don't think so. In a retail situation where the stores open on Memorial Day.

[B]

Okay. Okay.

[C]

It's probably a Memorial Day sale. It's probably a busier day for us, huh? Probably. Go get some ink cartridges.

[A]

10% off holiday pay or something.

[C]

I don't recall. But you don't get a lot of raises. And how. I did get a raise after a year, I got a 10 cent raise. 10 cent an hour.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

And my manager shook my hand. Congratulations. You're getting a 10 cent raise, Chad Ryden. And I said, thank you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

$4 a week. Yeah. That's crazy.

[A]

Chad Riding used to have a joke that said he used to work at a TV station in Knoxville and his boss gave him a raise. And then that night on the news, they said, minimum wage has been raised.

[C]

Hilarious.

[A]

But had you considered stand up comedy yet?

[C]

Oh, no. I was still in Opelika. Never crossed my mind. I didn't know what my life was going to turn into.

[B]

Did you think at one point, maybe I'll move up at. At Office Depot here and maybe run the whole store? And then was that ever a goal?

[C]

I don't think so. At that point, I was fairly goalless.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You're 20 years old.

[C]

20?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, 20 years.

[C]

Pretty goalless. I can't even drink it. I was getting.

[A]

Not old enough to drink yet.

[C]

No. I was getting a ride to and from work. I had a roommate that would pick me up every day and he lived with me for free to be my chauffeur. And.

[B]

And that's not a bad gig.

[C]

It wasn't a bad gig. No. And, yeah, and I lived in a trailer and we, we were drinking. You know, we weren't legal, but we were doing it, of course. And, you know, life was fairly empty, but I was. But I was having a good time. It was. I mean, it was no Internet, no. No smartphones. It's like it didn't even, you know.

[B]

Did you Have a cell phone at this point? 2002.

[C]

2002. I was, it was during the time where you, you know, sometimes you had a cell phone, sometimes you didn't.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

It might have just been you.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, sometimes you pay the bill that month, sometimes you don't.

[C]

Well, that's exactly right. You'd go, you'd go, you know what, I want to get the cell phone back. So you go down to AT&T and get it turned back on. I think then it was Singular wireless.

[B]

I remember Singular wireless with the little orange X logo.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And then AT&T bought them out, I think. What did the cell phone of 2002 look like? Did you have one at this time, Brian?

[C]

2002, it was like a Nokia, like.

[B]

Oh, one of those brick phones.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So here we go. Here's, here's the Motorola 2002. I mean it looks like a house phone.

[C]

Yeah, I didn't have that one, but I probably had that in images up there. Probably that middle top one, I think I had.

[B]

Oh, like, okay, so this, it was a Nokia.

[C]

Yeah, I probably had the Nokia 3360.

[B]

These look crazy now. These look insane. But these things were indestructible, remember?

[C]

I bet I, I bet I had the 3360 there. Yeah, that was a good phone.

[B]

Just have Snake on it or anything like that.

[C]

I don't think there was a single thing on it. It was, I mean, it legitimately was a. I don't even think I was texting people. Have you ever had to wait around for a contractor to show up?

[A]

Yes.

[C]

They give you that 3 to 12 hour waiting period to. It's half the reason I would rather just do it myself. Then they finally get there, it's a complete stranger in your house while I'm just trying to enjoy my Saturday. I would watch them and think, yeah, I could do this better, faster and cheaper. And that is true. Yeah, that's why I use Pesty. It's the do it yourself affordable pest control. No more waiting for the bug dude to show up late. I can get it done in about 10 minutes. And I know I don't have to worry about bugs that I don't want in my house. You know what I mean? I don't want, I don't want any of them in there. There's no bug that I want in the house.

[A]

You probably do a sweep just to make sure the government does anybody.

[C]

That's true too. This. Yeah, like I said, there's no bug. I like in there, you get everything you need. The kit includes pro grade pesticide that's the same stuff the pros use. A sprayer, mixing bags, gloves, and instructions you can complete in less than 10 minutes. Plus, it's customizable for whatever season, location and weather you may deal with. Pesty gets rid of over a hundred types of bugs. I bet you didn't even know that was that many types, from spiders and ants to roaches and stink bugs. I hate a stink bug. Other pest control companies charge hundreds of dollars. With Pesty, you can get started at just $35 per treatment with a customized plan based on your region. Pesty is kid and pet friendly. The pesticides they ship are fully registered and have been used in hospitals and schools all over the country. Plus, they offer a 100 bug free guarantee or your money back. Wow. Can you believe that?

[B]

Tough to beat that.

[C]

What are you waiting for? Fix your bug problem before it gets worse. Go to pesky.com Nate for an extra 10 off your order or today. That's P-E-S-T-I-E.com Nate for an extra 10% off.

[A]

Yeah. Had you. Did you at all consider, like, going back to school, like community college or vocational?

[C]

No, I had done that in 2001. I went to English and math each. Each of those classes. That's what they were called one time.

[A]

It's like Nate's joke.

[C]

Yeah, it is similar to that. So I never talk about it, but it's like. Yeah, it was like. Yeah, like went and it was. There was one guy that I went to high school with, and then there was no women in there. And I was like, well, that was the whole point of this.

[B]

That was the whole point of college.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

What college was it?

[C]

Southern Union State. Well, there's got to be.

[A]

That's known for just hot women.

[C]

Well, I'm not saying it's known for it, but it's college. There's got to be a handful.

[B]

Sure.

[C]

And they weren't in my classes.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

If they were, they were like 55.

[C]

Right. Me and all the other people. You know.

[B]

Was this in Wadley, Alabama?

[C]

No, that's the other campus. There's one in Wadley and one in Opelika. Actually, Southern Union is right across the street from my high school and also right down the street from where my mom lives.

[A]

Is it still there?

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Still there. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Well, now you have a key to the city, so you can go wherever you want. That's right.

[C]

That's true. That is true.

[B]

Did you ever Think you would have the key to the city at this point? No.

[C]

In fact, when I got the key to the city. City. A girl that I used to party with a little bit said that to me. Did you ever think you. And she said it in a way that was like, oh, yeah, I should

[B]

have a key to the city?

[C]

Well, she said it in a way that was a little insulting. But I also. But I got it. I got what she was saying.

[B]

Oh, we were trying to do that too.

[C]

Yeah. That wasn't clear.

[A]

How about you, Aaron? You're 10 going on 11.

[B]

10 going on 11, man. Proud of my life, dude.

[A]

Learning cursive.

[B]

Learning crotchet. I. I've mastered cursive by now. 10 or 11. I'm doing, I'm doing, you know, I'm doing long geometry. I'm doing long division by this point.

[C]

Putting down the spatula, picking up the pen.

[A]

When did you make your video about the number 23?

[B]

That was. I was in high school at that point. So that's coming up.

[A]

When did. I'm sorry, when did Idiot boy. When did you make that?

[C]

Idiot boy was probably about the time he was mastering the 23 or whatever.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

So we got that later to come.

[C]

Oh, no, no. Idiot boy was probably 2005. All right.

[A]

You got something to look forward to.

[C]

That was a video I made.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

It's a good video.

[B]

I haven't seen it.

[C]

It's too, you know, I couldn't show it on here, but it's. It's a good. It's a good premise.

[B]

Well, post it on your YouTube. Everybody go look it up.

[C]

It could be cleaned up.

[B]

Okay. You could re edit it.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Do you remember Anything special about 2002?

[B]

2002. So I'm in sixth grade at this point. I'm playing all sports.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I'm playing football, baseball, basketball. That's all sports where I'm from.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Soccer was not. Nobody played soccer.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

If you did play soccer, you were called names. Yeah, Names that I don't like.

[C]

I got called those names by my dad,

[B]

Actually.

[C]

Broke.

[B]

Broke my back this year. I had to wear a back brace for about six months.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Wow. I think it's a football related injury.

[A]

I remember you saying you broke your back. I did not realize you were that young.

[B]

Yeah, I was that young. I'd wear metal back bracelets. I could only take it off to take showers and I had. I'd sleep in it.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

A full thing came around pretty uncomfortable. I remember I wore my school shirt over it. But you could See, you could see I had something on under it. Yeah, but did you go to a

[A]

different school in sixth grade?

[C]

No.

[B]

So I went to. In middle school, which is seven.

[C]

How long was the bus?

[B]

Sorry. I went to a good school. No buses. And I'm sure it was a joke. Yeah, I'm kidding. But I wore that back brace for about. For about six months. I've had some crap I totaled up. Because I was asking my mom the other day, I was like, if you list all the injuries that her kids had from sports, like, would you let us do this again? Me alone. I had a broken back in fifth grade. Next year we'll get to it. 2003, 2004, I had knee surgery when I was in middle school.

[A]

Stand by, everybody.

[B]

I broke in my wrist. I broke the growth plate in my arm. I've tore my rotator cuff. I've sprained both ankles. I broke another bone in my back in high school. And you told all this up and it was. It was all for football that I'm doing nothing with.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

I mean, I like. I like that it. But would you let your kid. If you would have told her your kid's going to suffer all these injuries playing a sport that he will not play at the next level, would you let him do it?

[A]

No.

[C]

You know, probably.

[B]

You know, probably have CTE on some level.

[C]

I've always had that.

[A]

You got CTE in college, right?

[B]

I got a bad concussion in college. I was hospitalized for two days.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

In college, he stopped thinking for himself. Isn't that weird?

[B]

Yeah. I had a bad concussion, and I still think I'm not quite as sharp as I was before that.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

I don't know if that's true or not, but I.

[A]

But, you know, it's fun to think

[B]

you could convince me I was a little bit sharp.

[A]

You and Nate both think that your lack of genius level, although you are Jace, is because of a concussion that you had as a kid.

[B]

I don't think mine was as drastic as his, but.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Before I found Warby Parker buying glasses, it honestly felt like a chore. It was either confusing, overpriced, or just not great styles. I'm just trying to buy glasses, not feel like I need a spreadsheet just to understand what's going on. You know what I'm talking about.

[C]

I do know.

[B]

I'm not the one doing it. Relax.

[A]

That's why we love Warby Parker. They just make the whole thing easy. Their virtual try on is insane. You just use your phone camera and can see the frames on your face in real time. It's not confusing. It's just easy and fun. Unlike others. Here's Abigail's virtual try on. And then what she got. The virtual process made it so easy. And she got exactly what she saw during the virtual try on. And the best part, their prescription glasses start at. You Want to guess? 95.

[C]

Wow, that's a good deal.

[A]

You were going to say 200,000.

[C]

I was.

[A]

Warby Parker also offers eye exams, sunglasses. Basically everything in one place. Super convenient. Especially this time of year when you're outside more. Plus they have over 300 retail stores. If you want to go in person right now, buy one pair of glasses and get 20% off any additional [e-mail] Nateland that's 20% off any additional pair when you purchase one pair at W A R B Y. Parker.com Nateland yeah, anyway, huh.

[B]

Yeah, it was a good sixth grade is a good year.

[A]

How many like you play baseball? Like how many games would y' all have?

[B]

Maybe like 15.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

If I had to guess, you just had games on the weekend. When you get older, I think you start to play games during the weeknights. But this is way before travel ball, anything like that. Like I just played. East Montgomery was the name of the league and not far from my house and we just play games there on the weekend.

[A]

I think we had like 10.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Maybe that fee, something like that. And now it's like a, a half a major league season.

[B]

It's a full time job for these families.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

We never had any of that.

[C]

It's such a. Yeah. They're even gambling on youth sports now.

[B]

I would love to do that. I would love to do that. I have a joke about it. But you know, I played YMCA football in Montgomery growing up. And when you play YMCA football, your team name. It worked this way in baseball too. But your team name was a company that sponsored the team. Right. A local business. And you could always tell looking at the schedule how good the team was based on which company wanted to sponsor it.

[C]

Oh yeah.

[B]

Like I don't even need to see the kids. If I could bet on youth football in Alabama, I'd be a trillionaire because I know you can just tell like my we were a double legal school uniforms.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

They're gonna be terrible.

[C]

Right.

[B]

And we're playing LW Tax services. You know, like, oh God, they're gonna be.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Or like there's a couple bail bond companies and stuff like that where you're like that team, those kids are going to destroy us. You know, you could just tell.

[A]

Huh. I guess I don't understand why those teams would be good.

[B]

I would just knew because you know what part of town they're in.

[A]

Oh, I see. I guess.

[B]

Okay. I guess that's what I'm saying.

[A]

I gotcha. Okay, now I got you.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I got a girlfriend in 2002.

[C]

Whoa.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And you're working full time at the, the, at the station.

[A]

First one. Most serious one.

[B]

Yeah, of course. Was it a co worker or.

[A]

No, girl from church.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

All right.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And be honest, you ever check in on what she's doing these days?

[A]

This morning, I've checked since this podcast.

[C]

How's it going?

[A]

She's doing all right. She's doing all right.

[B]

Good for her. Her.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I do have one ex girlfriend that I check out sometimes and she, like, is not active at all on social media. And I go, come on. Yeah, just give me something.

[B]

I want to know what you're doing.

[C]

Yeah. I want to know what's going on.

[B]

You can hire somebody to look into.

[A]

Whenever I do a show in northern Alabama, I'll say I used to date a girl from Killing Alabama. I'll say, you guys know where Killing is. And they'll be, yeah. I was like, will you tell me? Because she wouldn't. And that always gets a laugh. But that's where she was from Killing.

[B]

And you're also low key, hoping that she in the crowd.

[A]

No, because I just checked on her up before I went on stage. So no, she's not there.

[B]

But anyway, do you ever think about when you. I mean, Brian and I will get there at some point, but you ever think about girls like that from the past? Maybe they open up Netflix one day and they're like, Dusty Slay on the front page.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Toby Keith, how do you like me now?

[C]

Of course. Of course, course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, but I. Yeah, not even

[B]

girls, but anybody from your past that you know.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That's awesome.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, and they all. I. I picture them all like that girl who said that about the key to the city, everything. This would be you.

[B]

Dusty Slay. What is he, Comedy?

[A]

I'm getting that a little bit with the movie. I have friends that didn't even know I did stand up comedy who have reached out to me and said, I just saw the breadwinner. I'm like, is that Brian Bates?

[B]

How'd you swing that, Brian? Yeah, well, I've been doing the whole thing for 20 years now. Yeah. That's awesome.

[A]

Yeah. So, yeah, I was about to ask you. Oh, I was gonna say we have a mutual friend. Lori Hinkle.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And she was like, when I started doing stand up comedy or I'd. When I first met her, I'd already been doing it. She said I got afraid. I stand up comedy. And throughout the history of people telling me that they've, no one's ever told me about a friend of theirs that was actually good at stand up. It's always somebody you never heard of and you like, never will. She's like, my friend Dusty Slay does come. You know, like that sounds like the dumbest name I've ever.

[B]

Good luck in this business.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Dusty Slay.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Good luck with that character of a janitor on stage. What is that all about?

[A]

So that was the one time where, yeah, he was doing a lot better than I was.

[B]

Oh, that's awesome.

[C]

You know, I was probably hanging out with Lori and Tooth Hunter 2002 in Opelika. Yeah. She went to a different school, but we were friends in 2002.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Just because we're on that year.

[A]

Well, I looked up a couple of very random, but I looked up gas prices and movie prices.

[B]

Okay. Gas, $100,000.

[C]

Well, in 2002, I can tell you, I mean, it was probably just over a dollar.

[B]

I'm guessing you have the national average.

[A]

National average just a little bit higher than probably Alabama.

[B]

A buck 85, dollar 36.

[C]

Yeah. I remember in 99 I had a full size Ford Bronco and I remember it took 30 bucks to fill up from empty to full. And I think it was a huge tank.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And I just remember being like, that's crazy. So expensive. And now that truck would probably take 80 bucks to fill it. Lot.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

2002, the minimum wage was 515 an hour.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Just not much lower than it is.

[C]

And I made it. I made 515 a lot.

[B]

Well, that was before the raise.

[C]

Well, when I worked at Office depot, I made $7 an hour, so it was a big deal. So I got up to 710.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So gas prices now are like $4 a gallon on average. So it's basically triple.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Now, well, we, luckily we all have three times as much money.

[C]

Yeah. When I was working at Office Depot in 2002, I'd made $220 a week. That's what I would make at the end after taxes.

[B]

Yeah, it's not bad.

[C]

$220.

[B]

What. What was your rent back then, do you remember?

[C]

I. I Bought a trailer for a thousand dollars.

[B]

Just outright gas, Right.

[C]

Well, I got a loan, but what

[B]

were the property taxes on that?

[C]

I don't. I think there was some. You have to go get a tag for your. For your trailer.

[B]

Where'd you have it parked?

[C]

That a lot? Yeah, a lot. My lot rent was $120 a month, and that included water. So all I had to do was pay power. And I also had gas.

[B]

Septic tank, too?

[C]

No septic tank. Hooked up to the city.

[B]

Okay. Yeah, that's a house, basically.

[C]

And they wouldn't let me get a trash can because my sister lived in the trailer before me and didn't pay her trash bill. So they took the trash can. And when I called to try to get trash, they go, well, somebody still owes money on the trash can. And I go, but that was the last person that lived here. That's not me. And they wouldn't let me have a trash can. Wow. So the whole time I lived in the trailer, we would put the trash bags on the back of the porch, and then once in a while, my buddy with his truck would come and we would put it all in there and take it to the dump.

[B]

You run it up the Office Depot.

[C]

Fortunately, there was a dump right down the way from us. So we would go. Go down there and.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Throw all my trash. And I forgot about that.

[B]

What was your living situation 2002, Ryan?

[A]

Well, let me ask Dusty. You're working full time at Office Depot. That's 11,440 a year. That seems low even for 2002.

[C]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That is what I'm saying.

[B]

I don't think he's like, I was killing it back.

[A]

I mean, that's what I'm like, poverty level.

[C]

It's a very low amount of money.

[A]

Yeah. What was my living situation?

[B]

Glad we cleared that up up.

[C]

Yeah. I was not doing.

[B]

To make sure you're struggling a little bit. Huh.

[A]

Well, you just made the joke when luckily we're making triple now what we did then, he's making 100 times more.

[C]

Remember when I said it was. Was empty life? My bank account was also empty. I overdrafted on my account during that time. I was not living the best. And there were these videos that were popular in Florida thing. You know, women were going down to Florida and then they were selling these and I ordered one off TV one time. And then I. And then girls going wild. Yeah. And then I didn't. I didn't want to say, but I guess it's better than my attempt at a description.

[A]

I think it makes it better.

[B]

I thought it was perfect.

[C]

So I ordered, you know, a vhs. Just one. It was like Snoop Dogg was at it and we were, we all thought it was fun.

[B]

Yeah, it was for the music.

[C]

Yeah. But it was like, it did seem cool. And then so they, and then every month I would get like another one in the mail and I just thought, oh, you guys are just sending me free ones.

[A]

This is great. Mana from heaven.

[C]

And then one day my account overdrafted and I had to go down to the bank and a guy I was doing campus life with, which was a Christian youth organization, worked at the bank and he was helping me look it up and he was like, what's ggw? And I go, oh no, they're charging me for these gods.

[A]

Trying to think of something.

[B]

Yeah, God's great warrior.

[C]

Yeah. So they got me.

[A]

Oh, that's funny.

[C]

Yeah, so I was making, I was bringing home less money.

[B]

Yeah, I see what you mean about an empty life.

[A]

That's why you need delete me.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Wow, that's funny. I, I was, I bought a house in 2000, the house in Donaldson, and was living there.

[C]

So you're doing well. Bought a house.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

He's crushing it compared to me and you.

[A]

Yeah, you're 10.

[B]

I'm wearing a back brace. Trying to learn civics, you know.

[A]

Let's talk about some things on you guys level. Video games.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Sony and Microsoft introduced the PlayStation 2 and Xbox consoles. Critically acclaimed videos were Eternal Darkness, Grand Theft Auto, Vice City, Metroid Prime, Metroid Fusion. These spring a bell.

[B]

Well Grand Theft Auto obviously.

[C]

My Buddy had a PlayStation 2 that he brought over and we would just sit in there in that living room of that trailer and smoke cigarettes and play Tekken tag tournaments and it was great, man.

[B]

It was PS2 was awesome.

[C]

That was the real fulfillment I had in that year. Grand Theft Auto was fun too. Yeah, Grand Theft Auto 3 was what it was.

[B]

Still waiting on 6. Yeah, it's coming out. We'll get it.

[A]

The first camera phone. We're just talking about the Seno SCP5300. First cell phone to have a built in camera.

[B]

5300.

[C]

Yeah, that was.

[B]

Look at this. It's a flip phone.

[C]

Heavy mega picture.

[A]

I had that.

[B]

Yeah, you had this?

[A]

Yep.

[B]

And it was like the cool phone to have at the time.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

How about that?

[C]

I had a, I had a digital camera. I believe that was 2 megapixels. I believe.

[A]

I'm not Gonna swear I had that. But it looks. I had one looks very similar to that.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

For. I don't think. For reference. I don't think I get a cell phone for another six or seven years at this point.

[A]

Another teaser, people to stand by.

[B]

Stick around.

[A]

For 2008, he was in a full body cast. His parents got in the phone, just put it up to his ear.

[B]

There was a year. It might have been. I think it's. There's a year where all four of us were on crutches. All four kids were on crutches at the same time.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

All for different sports related injuries. And we went to a Chinese buffet once in Montgomery. We looked crazy.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

With two parents coming in. Four kids all on crutches. What are you all perfectly doing to that? Parents are fine. You know. Jeez. Yeah, we're all just chopped up. My sister had to get a metal plate put in her hip. And I don't remember what my brother did. I don't remember what the two brothers had. But I. I just had the knee surgery injury.

[C]

Wow. I've never broke a bone.

[B]

Now it's gonna happen. You've never had an injury like that, have you?

[C]

Torn.

[B]

Torn a muscle or anything?

[C]

I rolled my ankle.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Maybe in 2002, I was working at Office Depot, playing a little tackle football with my friends and rolled my ankle.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

But that's about. I mean, I've been, you know, I've been shot with a BB gun in the chest.

[B]

Okay. And you've been stabbed with a pencil.

[C]

Yeah, I got beat up.

[B]

Okay. It balances.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You read a black eye. Bloody, bloody lip.

[C]

I've had black eye. I've had, you know, both eyes swollen shut at the same time. And I had one eye swollen shut at a separate time. Yeah.

[A]

Also 2000.

[C]

That was more of a 2004 thing.

[B]

We'll get there.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. In 2002, BlackBerry launched the first BlackBerry 5810 that you could use as a phone and send emails.

[C]

Oh, yeah, I remember that.

[B]

Well, th. Well, this one that looks like an iPad almost.

[C]

That thing's huge. You know what they were doing in Office Depot during that time? They had these Palm Pilots.

[B]

I remember a Palm Pilot.

[C]

Yeah. You had the little stylus.

[B]

And did you ever have one?

[C]

No, but I wanted one because it looked so cool. But I was like, what kind of schedule am I keeping?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What are you going to be doing?

[A]

He just looks at his blank every day.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Play Xbox.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You ever wonder why they call it BlackBerry?

[B]

Is it a Guy's name?

[A]

No.

[B]

What is it?

[A]

I looked it up. The keys.

[B]

The blacker the berry, the sweeter the.

[A]

They think those keys look like the outside of a BlackBerry.

[C]

The fruit?

[A]

Yeah. What else?

[B]

What else?

[C]

I don't know, but I just not seeing it.

[B]

So you're saying the keyboard here would look. That looks like the outside of a BlackBerry?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Let me look that up. BlackBerry. I guess it's got some bumps. That's a terrible name if that's the reason.

[A]

That's what they say.

[B]

It caught on, but.

[A]

Well, not for long because they're gone now.

[C]

They are gone. You know, some people say Mandela effect. You ever get into that? But they say that, like, where things have changed. They say with the blackberries, you can look through the camera and it undoes the Mandela effect. I tried to get one. You can't find them. Like.

[B]

Like, if you, like, give me a specific scenario.

[A]

Like Shaq and Shazam.

[C]

Like the Berenstein Bears. Right. You know, it's like. Was more of a Berenstein is what we all believe. And now it's Berenstain. So they're saying you could take the Baron Stain Bears book and look through the camera of the BlackBerry and it would say Berenstein. Oh, it would. It undoes the Mandela effect.

[B]

So if you look through a BlackBerry. Nelson Mandela died 10 years before he actually did.

[C]

Yeah. Whoa. But I.

[B]

Why. Why a BlackBerry can.

[C]

I don't know specifically, but I tried to find one.

[B]

Well, let's get. Let's order one.

[C]

There was one guy selling one.

[A]

If we only still unbox things, man.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I bet Adrian could find it for us.

[B]

Yeah, let's find a BlackBerry.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

We're tough to find a charger.

[C]

If anybody could find it, it could be Adrian.

[B]

I believe it. You've got an old one.

[C]

I told you, I almost didn't. Bet he doesn't. But he knows he can find.

[A]

In the group text this morning, I almost said, said, if anyone has a BlackBerry, could you bring it in? But I didn't meet up. Social media platform Meetups.

[B]

Remember Meetup?

[A]

It's founded after 911 to help people meet up.

[B]

Because of 911 or just happened to

[A]

be after 911 because of 9 11. The guy said that, you know, different people in the community were looking for ways for things in common. I'm not describing it very well, but. But they wanted to meet up.

[B]

Okay, meet up.

[C]

I feel like I was having the same difficulty before 911 meeting up with people.

[A]

Well, I describe that very well. In 2002, Delaware made history by coming the first state to ban smoking across all restaurants, bars, and private workplaces.

[B]

Whoa. Okay.

[C]

That's when America started to go down. Yeah.

[B]

It would take many, many years before Tennessee followed suit. I know that.

[A]

Yeah. I think you could still smoke his amies.

[B]

In 2002, when I started comedy, I remember the open mics. You could smoke in most of the places we did open mics. Bobby's and Spring Water and all those places.

[C]

Spankies. Spank.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I only went to Spanky's once. Yeah. But it was definitely smoking. Oh, yeah, I remember that.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

I've told this before, I think. But when I the. My girlfriend, I got. We would come to Zany's just to watch. And one night we came. Usually it was somebody we knew of. We like clean comedians. So we saw Henry Cho. We saw, you know, I camera. But there was one night we're like. We just look at who.

[B]

Ever seen Nate before you knew him?

[A]

No, he was not. He wasn't even doing comedy in 2002 yet.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

But one night we came to see the Ragin Cajun.

[B]

John Morgan.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. And we didn't know he was. We just wanted something to do. And he made fun of me from the stage, Picked me out and said some awful things like making fun of me.

[B]

Is your girlfriend at the time that you're with?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. You break up right after she did on the car ride home.

[A]

I never saw her again. But I just remember how embarrassed I was.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I remember where I was sitting out there in the showroom.

[C]

Have you ever talked to Raging Cajun since then?

[A]

I've never worked with him.

[B]

I worked with him a couple times.

[C]

I worked with him, too. Will o', Donnell, my friend, works with him a lot. I'd like to.

[B]

I'd like to bring it up and

[C]

ask him about it. Me too.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And then he just go right back in.

[B]

Because I remember you from before. I remember this boy right here.

[C]

I'm sure that ruined it for you because. And that's too bad, because he is really funny. I'm sure it's tough to enjoy him after. I know I wouldn't be into it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Was it a predominantly black crowd? Do you remember?

[A]

Is his crowds predominantly black?

[C]

He's got a good black following.

[B]

Yeah. I don't work from. At the Stardome and it was virtually. Yeah, all black.

[A]

I mean, there's part of me now that questions if that's who you were

[B]

just the one white guy sitting.

[A]

No, no, it was all white people. I'M questioning whether I've got the right comic, but I'm pretty sure that's who it was.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

I bet it was.

[B]

I bet it was too.

[A]

Does he the type that he was killing that would.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Is he the type that would pick on somebody?

[B]

He does some crowd work. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

And right. I wonder now if, if you saw him do like it, would it even have the same impact or was it that 2002 that was like so wild to be talked about by the comedian?

[A]

Well, if I was an audience member now, I'd still be very embarrassed.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I mean, he was asking like, you know, dirty stuff, like, hey man, you ever do this? You know, and that kind of thing. I'm like, no. He's like, come on, man.

[C]

By the end, he's like, do you

[A]

know about meetup.com as my girlfriend leaves?

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

In 2002, a company called Launch. Launch, not Launch, Laugh Lab, created a website where people could rate and submit jokes. Their goal was to come up with the funniest joke. The world's funniest joke. They receive 40,000 entries from 70 countries and you guys want to hear that's not it. I saw that too. But that's not the joke that won.

[B]

Yeah, Okay. I want to hear the joke that won. Is it appropriate to say.

[A]

Yeah, it's appropriate.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Two hunters are out in the woods. When one of them collapses. It doesn't seem breathing. Seem to be breathing. His eyes are glazed. You know this joke?

[B]

I know it. Yeah. Calls 911.

[A]

Yeah. Calls 911. Operator says, calm down, I can help. First let's make sure he's dead. Dead. There's silence. Then a gunshot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says, okay, now what? Not bad.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That's apparently the world's funniest joke.

[C]

Wow. Which in 2002.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Even then it got ripped by by comics.

[C]

Yeah, I heard. Here's one of that last. That last I heard.

[B]

Here's the best joke. Joke. Submitted by a well known scientist. Category.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

A man walking down the street sees another man with a very big dog. The man says, does your dog bite? The other man replies, nah, my dog doesn't bite. The first man then pats the dog, has his hand bitten off and shouts, I thought you said your dog didn't bite. The other man replies, that's not my dog.

[C]

That's not bad.

[B]

That's terrible.

[C]

That's not my dog. He said, my dog doesn't bite, but this is not my dog.

[A]

Oh, I might do that. Tonight.

[C]

That's a good. That's a good joke.

[B]

Stinks.

[C]

That's a good joke.

[B]

What kind of murderer has fiber?

[A]

What kind?

[B]

A serial killer. Ah, jeez, I'm glad Laugh Lab died, huh?

[C]

These are good. You got. You see, I feel like you. I feel like you're 10 years. You missed the whole. The. You missed the whole era of street jokes.

[B]

Oh, I was. I was. I knew all these street jokes. There was a time you give me any category, I'd give you a street joke. I bet I can do that. Now. Give me a. Give me a topic. Give me something.

[A]

Sports.

[B]

Sports.

[A]

Religion.

[B]

You thought that'd be religion? There's a man hunting, and a bear comes up to him. And a bear's about to eat these people, right? So the man starts praying and he says, dear God, God, please just make this bear a Christian. And then the bear gets down on his knees and starts going, bless us the Lord for these thy guests, which I'm about through a city for the benefit. That's a good joke.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

This was one they used to tell. How do you tell them that?

[B]

You should have heard me tell that in 2002.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

They say, how do you keep a. How do you keep a Baptist from drinking all your beer on a fishing trip?

[B]

Invite another Baptist. Boom. Yeah. That's a good job, Doug. Yeah.

[A]

All right.

[B]

So why don't Unitarians sing at church? I don't know, because they're all reading ahead in the song to see if they agree with it. How do you. How do you. How do you annoy. How do you.

[A]

Unitarian. We apologize.

[B]

How do you harass a Unitarian?

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

What a question mark in his front yard.

[C]

I don't know what a Unitarian.

[B]

I don't know. For some reason, I know a lot of Unitarian jokes.

[A]

Do you know any Unitarians?

[C]

No.

[A]

Okay, well, if you're Unitarian listening, we apologize. Dusty, you want to get into some music?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Top songs of 2002.

[B]

Boys to Men. Are they up there? Mariah Carey.

[A]

No, no and no. Wow. Number one, how you remind me by Nickelback.

[C]

Wow, that was a good one.

[B]

They've been around that long.

[C]

Yeah, I remember that. That was hot.

[A]

Number two, Foolish by Ashanti.

[B]

Take I don't know. I don't know that one by name. I'm sure I've heard it.

[C]

I have to. But I don't know it by name.

[B]

Three or four, you know that, you know, Foolish.

[A]

Just a shanti.

[B]

Yeah, a shanti.

[A]

But, yeah,

[B]

I'm listen to it for a Few seconds here. Sorry. There's a movie before the song.

[A]

Terence Howard.

[B]

Oh, yeah, Know that?

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

That is awesome.

[C]

Yeah, I remember that video, too.

[A]

Three, three and four, both by Nelly. Hot in here, man.

[B]

This is Country Grammar era, right?

[A]

And Dilemma.

[C]

Oh, man, Nelly, gosh, In the early 2000s, I was jamming that. What was the.

[B]

Oh, Country Grammar came out in 2000, so maybe it was a different, different, different album.

[C]

Well, the Dilemma was the one that he did with the.

[A]

Kelly Rowland.

[C]

Yeah, but I don't know. 2002, we were. Nellyville came out in 2002, we were still jamming. Country Grammar. What was that? Must be the Money. Oh, sure, sure. Yeah, I used to tear that song up, man.

[A]

Making 220 a week.

[C]

Hey, must be the money. I used to know.

[B]

I'm a little kid singing that.

[C]

I used to know the whole album word for word. I mean, I. Gosh, I love that. Country Grammar was a hot album. The Dilemma was. Okay, it was Hot in here and the Dilemma. And that was it.

[A]

All right, I'll do a few more.

[B]

Then he had a resurgence almost 10 years later. Just a Dream by Nelly. It's great song. Did a resurgence.

[C]

I don't know if I know it.

[B]

All right.

[A]

Wherever you will go by the calling.

[B]

I don't know that.

[A]

I don't either. A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Cuz I would. That piano. Making my way downtown.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Gosh, that was a good song too. I can still see my buddy doing the. As he's driving. He used to do the piano thing.

[A]

Right Now Kathy's going skip, skip, skip in the end by Lincoln Park. Park.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Hybrid theory just come out.

[A]

Sure.

[B]

It's the name of the album. Lincoln Park.

[C]

Hey, must be the Money. I want to listen to that on the way home. Yeah, I not heard it in a long time.

[A]

What's Love by Fat Joe featuring Ashanti.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah, Ashanti.

[C]

That's not the.

[B]

You turn into French.

[C]

That's not that. I'm not a player. I'm not a player.

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

That's not. It is.

[B]

I don't know.

[C]

I love that. That's the only Fat Joe I know.

[B]

I think you know, lean back, probably. Lean back, lean back.

[C]

I don't know, but probably.

[B]

Come on, dude, You Got It Bad by Usher. I don't know.

[C]

I used to jam that too, man. I used to. I wasn't even in love with anyone. But I

[A]

see.

[C]

That's such a good song.

[B]

See if I know this one here.

[C]

So good. Yeah.

[B]

You got it bad. Okay. Oh, yeah. 16 years.

[A]

Bringing back some memories.

[C]

Ah, man, I used to jam that

[A]

hard and Blurry by Puddle of Mud.

[C]

Oh, yeah. That was a good one too.

[B]

That's a great song.

[C]

Gosh, music used to be really good.

[B]

Funny. Puddle of Mud, dude, these were the golden days, right?

[C]

Well, it was, you know, it was the beginning of the collapse of everything, but it used to. Used to be good.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Gosh, it used to be good.

[B]

All right. Now you remember Puddle Mud song that was Sheep Hates Me.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. I think I was already transitioning out of it by that time.

[B]

You missed it, man.

[A]

That was a good.

[C]

But I do remember that one at

[A]

the CMA Awards that year. Entertainer of the Year. Anybody want to guess?

[B]

In 2002, Entertainer of the Year. Was it maybe an early Brad. Was it Brad Paisley?

[C]

Carrie Underwood before Carrie Underwood.

[A]

Yeah. Carrie under hasn't quite come along yet.

[B]

It's Garth Brooks or Brad Paisley.

[C]

Toby Keith.

[A]

All good guess. Remember 9 11. It just happened.

[C]

Alan Jackson.

[B]

No, no, no. Oh, is it Alan Jackson?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, I would have guessed Lee Greenwood

[A]

or something like that.

[C]

No, Alan Jackson. Where were you?

[A]

Or do you remember the album was Drive?

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Oh, Drive though. He deserves it for that song.

[A]

Yes, yes. I'm just saying. Well, that is a great song, but where were you?

[C]

Was song of the year that same friend that I said did the. I remember him listening to Drive.

[B]

What is.

[C]

He was the guy that drove me around.

[B]

He wrote a whole. Was it a 911 album that you were.

[A]

No, but just that song. Where were you?

[B]

911 somewhere.

[C]

Where were you when the world stopped turning?

[B]

Okay, I've heard that.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Top selling country albums 2002. Top selling albums unleashed by Toby Keith.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Okay. What was on that?

[A]

How do you like me now?

[B]

I think.

[C]

Oh, how do you like me now?

[B]

That song is that old.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

What Was right after 911?

[C]

It's older than that.

[B]

How do you like me now?

[C]

Was this the one with the list?

[B]

That's courtesy the red, white and blue beer for my horses. What a great album.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It's not the list on there. I remember that.

[B]

No, I don't see that.

[C]

The same. I was hanging out with the same guy. All he's my roommate and my guy that drove me around, Tom. And he would. Yeah, I mean he. He would. He changed the. That's the next thing on my lid, you know what I take a walk. I don't know. He would insert, you know, drug references in the list and it was pretty fun. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

No Shoes, no Shirt, no Problem by K. CH yeah.

[C]

Listening to that a lot. Is that what your life motto for this year?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Is that was a. Would that have the. I want to know how Forever feels. Was that on that album, too?

[A]

I don't know. I know the song, but I don't know if that was.

[C]

I think it was on that one.

[A]

Obviously. There was a song we called no Shoes, no Shirt, no Problem.

[C]

Yeah, no shoes, no shirt, no problems.

[B]

I know. And I don't see that song you're talking about on here.

[C]

Oh, man. But Kenny Chesney was just pumping them out so fast back then that the

[A]

old Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, was that really?

[B]

It was up there.

[A]

Yeah. It's one of the top selling. And home by the Dixie Chicks.

[B]

All right.

[A]

But the best selling album of any genre was Eminem's the Eminem Show.

[B]

Eminem Show. It's one of his weaker albums.

[C]

I don't know. I mean, I. I don't remember, but I. I remember listening to a lot of them.

[B]

I'm not saying it's bad bad. I'm saying compared to Marshall Mathers LP or Slim Shady.

[A]

Lp, I think. I sent you a link to the top grossing movies. Okay, anybody want to guess Top gross movie, too.

[B]

That was it. A Star Wars. There's a Star wars movie that year, I believe. Right. Top movies is 2002. Wow.

[C]

I would think. Oh, brother. Weren't out.

[B]

Interesting.

[A]

This is domestic, not worldwide.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Spider man, you know, that was really the first, like, not the first superhero movie, but it's like the first one that they kind of.

[C]

I sided with Batman.

[A]

Well, yeah, that's true. Batman with Michael Keaton had already been out, but that was almost like a relaunch of the modern with good graphics.

[C]

I mean, he was really able.

[B]

This is the Tobey Maguire.

[A]

Tobey Maguire. It was before the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I mean, that is Marvel, but it's before that whole storyline.

[B]

You're saying it's the early wave of like treating a superhero movie and taking it seriously.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Not. Yes. I mean, not making it.

[C]

Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers below. My big fat.

[B]

Look at that. That number five, 2002. My big fat Greek Wedding. Made for, I think like $5 million. Made hundreds of millions.

[C]

Oh. But Two Towers was not at. Right, because. Because the first one is still number 12.

[B]

Right.

[C]

So two towers have been out for a minute.

[A]

December 18th is when it came out. So it was probably big the next year.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Okay.

[B]

Yeah. Those movies made billions. Just Give it up for My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

[C]

I mean, yeah. I mean, honestly, it makes me want to go watch it.

[B]

I listened to a podcast about how it was made. Very interesting. The girl who stars in the movie wrote was her idea. Couldn't get the movie made, turned it into a one woman show. Rita Wilson, who's Greek, went to see it with her family, loved it. Told her husband.

[C]

Tom Hanks.

[B]

Tom Hanks about it. He went to see it, loved it. He ended up producing the film.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

That's how it got made. They got taken to jf, she did JFL and did the one woman show there. And then the movie got movie made. Hundreds of millions of dollars. Isn't that cool?

[C]

I'm friends with Ray Wilson.

[A]

I never saw the.

[C]

I met her twice, but.

[B]

Well, ask her about it.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Did you ever see My Big Fat Greek Wedding too?

[B]

I never saw it. I heard it was terrible.

[A]

Yeah, I didn't see it either.

[B]

Still made a bunch of money, but.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, I think they rushed it, you know.

[C]

Yeah. Who's getting married shouldn't have got divorced.

[B]

It wasn't. It wasn't. She got divorced from the first guy

[C]

and I think that's what it should have been. My Big Fat Greek Divorce

[A]

sequels are rarely as good. Father the Bride was a great movie. Father Bride 2. Not bad, but a little.

[B]

They say Godfather 2 is the best one.

[C]

Right?

[B]

Right.

[A]

It's one of the few that's maybe the best sequel I can think of. Return of the Jedi. Excuse me. Empire Strikes Back is what I meant to say.

[B]

Okay. Yeah. That's the fifth, though, right?

[A]

Well, but the Empire Strikes the second. All right, let's talk a little sports.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Super Bowl. First super bowl ever played in February. Do you know why?

[B]

Because of 9 11.

[A]

Yeah. 911 backed everything up a week. And if I remember correctly, I want to say it was in Detroit and there was a big auto show going on and there was a battle because it was already scheduled. And like, you think the super bowl is going to just trump anything.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And it eventually did, but I remember it wasn't an easy thing. Like auto industry were like, we ain't moving our date for that weekend in February.

[B]

Wow. Okay.

[A]

I may be dreaming all this.

[B]

Some kind of Ford Expo or something that was taking up all the.

[A]

Taking up the Superdome or whatever it was they were playing in. I remember it was like a little bit of a. Was it just like a. You're out. They fought it a little bit and the NFL.

[C]

NFL eventually came in and like a Corrupt machine. And made them move their show. And then the auto industry in the country collapsed.

[B]

Yep. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

The underdog Patriots, led by new quarterback Tom Brady, newcomer won the super bowl

[B]

over the Rams after Drew Bledsoe got hurt in the playoffs. Right. Was in the playoffs or at the end of the regular season, I don't know. But he got hurt. And this kid Tom Brady comes out of nowhere.

[A]

He played all the playoffs because the Tuck Rule game also happened. All right, in the playoffs.

[B]

How about that? And then he played for another

[A]

20 something years.

[B]

Yeah, 22 years.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Or something. It's crazy.

[A]

U2 was the halftime performer.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

It's supposed to be somebody else, but they wanted a tribute to 9, 11 victims, so they switch it to YouTube.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Switch it to U2. Tragedy every time someone listens.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Talk about Sunday. Bloody Sunday, huh? Is this before or after Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson?

[A]

Before.

[C]

After.

[B]

War. Okay, so that hasn't happened.

[A]

No.

[B]

All right. All right.

[A]

World Series Angels beat the Giants in seven games.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Do you remember what happened in that game?

[B]

I don't remember. This is, this is kind of a. A blind spot for me.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

The next few years.

[A]

Oh, well, don't read it there.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Get a back brace on.

[B]

So I had a lot going on,

[C]

probably getting and messing up the signal at the house. They go, Aaron, go stand by the antenna.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Look at this.

[C]

Aaron.

[B]

Wow. What's happening here? Talk us through it, Brian.

[A]

That was Dusty Baker's three year old son who was the bat boy.

[C]

Whoa.

[B]

I've seen this before.

[A]

Ran out during the play and almost got crushed.

[B]

Wow, that's so crazy. I love that. You know, Dusty Baker, who's a manager, he was a player for a long time and he's been a coach forever. 3% of all major League baseball games he's been involved in. Isn't that a crazy stat?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

3% of all games he's been involved

[C]

in, he's everyone's second favorite. Dusty is what?

[A]

He also invented the high five.

[B]

No way. That's not true.

[A]

He did.

[B]

No. What are you talking about?

[A]

Back when I was a kid, it was just.

[C]

He invented the high five.

[B]

I'm serious.

[A]

You're like, give me five.

[B]

You went down low like that. No.

[C]

And I invented. I invented the wave.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And so we're both known for going up high with it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

For decades, the conventional, the conventional wisdom has been that the origin of the high five occurred between Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the LA Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on October 2, 1977. In the six inning, Baker hit a home run. It was his 30th home run. And then they gave a high five to each other. And it was the first time that's ever been done.

[C]

What I do remember the Lo Fi. Give me five.

[A]

Magic Johnson says he invented it.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

People say give me five.

[C]

Remember, Give me some skin. Yeah, yeah. Remember that one?

[B]

I remember giving some skin.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. But give me five.

[B]

I bought up high.

[C]

Down low.

[B]

Down low. Too slow. Yeah, it was good.

[C]

Good. Yeah.

[B]

How about this one? Here we go.

[A]

If you're listening, I don't know what Aaron just did.

[B]

He give him the snail.

[C]

Dude, that's a good one.

[B]

Yeah, that's fun. But.

[A]

And that, I mean, look, looks like there's a lot of different origin stories.

[B]

A lot of. Well, Magic Johnson says he did it, but he never gave it a name. I feel like you got to name it, right?

[A]

I'm going to give it to Dusty.

[B]

Dusty B. I mean, what a legacy. Legacy.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What a legacy.

[C]

Imagine that, though. You list off, you've been in baseball that long, you got all these credits and then you go, and I also invented the high five.

[B]

That's crazy.

[A]

I've been following 3% of all baseball games and I admitted the high five.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Wild.

[A]

The Lakers won their third straight NBA title.

[B]

Okay, this is Shaq and Kobe.

[A]

Shaq and Kobe. Shaq won his third straight mvp. Phil Jackson won his ninth title. That's why his third three peat. Lennox Lewis beat Mike Tyson in boxing.

[C]

I remember that.

[B]

It was it in Memphis, right?

[A]

It was in Memphis.

[B]

Pyramid now Bass Pro Shop.

[A]

That was like.

[C]

I remember watching that.

[A]

Yeah, my friends, we got it on pay per view is.

[B]

It's the first thing I ever torrented was a. That fight.

[A]

First thing you ever went where I.

[C]

That I.

[B]

That I bootlegged.

[A]

What was the word?

[B]

Torrented.

[A]

I've never even heard that one.

[C]

Torrent.

[B]

You don't know what a torrent is?

[A]

It's like a fulcrum.

[B]

So you're never elite,

[C]

do you say?

[B]

Yes. It's a folk. It's a folk group.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Arlo Guthrie, a copy of that fight, huh?

[A]

Okay, wait, wait. That was a. That was a big fight because there

[C]

was a Lennox pre fight.

[A]

Remember that?

[C]

Punched Mike Tyson in the face a bunch of times. That was what I remember.

[A]

I think Mike Tyson is kind of beloved now. Would you say that's true?

[C]

Yeah, for sure.

[A]

But back then he was a real villain. And yeah, you know, we all wonder.

[B]

He's coming out of prison at this Point, Right?

[A]

Yeah. He'd been in prison even. Yeah. Yeah. I guess he wasn't really hated before prison, but, you know, he was certainly not like, then Serena Williams beat her sister in three of four grand slams. That's crazy.

[B]

Crazy, crazy.

[A]

Miami won 34 straight games. Had a 34 game winning streak in college football. Lost to the national championship game to Ohio State. Ohio State.

[B]

I watched that game. Is that the game Willis McGahey got injured?

[A]

Yep.

[B]

That one of the. It's one of those injuries you can't watch. Whereas his leg bent the wrong way at the knee. Right. Wasn't that it?

[A]

I remember he got hurt.

[B]

I remember seeing it as a kid, being like, oh, my gosh. There's been a few of those. Yeah, there was. Who was the guy on UConn. What was his name? Had a terrible injury. A college basketball.

[A]

I remember the kid from Louisville. That had to happen. I don't. I don't know.

[B]

I mean, there's Paul George had a bad one. There's Joe Theisman going all the way back. That one was tough. Yeah.

[A]

SpaceX started in 2002.

[B]

What were they doing?

[A]

Just getting off the ground.

[B]

Just.

[A]

You like that?

[C]

That's good.

[A]

And then this Friday, they're going public, and Elon Musk is gonna be the first trillionaire, supposedly.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

Friends. One outstanding comedy series. The West Wing won again for the Emmys.

[B]

Yes, sir.

[A]

Beautiful Mind won four Academy Awards.

[B]

Wow. They win Best Picture. Yep. You ever see A Beautiful Mind?

[C]

No. I have. I almost watched it recently.

[B]

I recommend you watch it.

[C]

I will.

[B]

I recommend you don't look up the real story and watch the movie.

[A]

All right.

[C]

I like Russell Crowe.

[B]

It's one of those movies. Russell Crowe's unbelievable. And it's one of those movies that the real story will kind of ruin the film.

[C]

Okay. Wasn't there a Robert De Niro movie where he was like Godfather Now? He was kind of like that.

[B]

Kind of like a Robert De Niro,

[C]

kind of like a smart guy. And he carved his. I remember he carved his name in

[B]

a park bench on the flowers for Algernon.

[C]

Very well. Could be. I have no idea.

[A]

Trying to think. He's done so many movies.

[C]

I can't.

[A]

I can't think.

[B]

Did you ever read Flowers for Algernon in school?

[C]

No.

[B]

You read it?

[A]

I'm familiar with it. I never read it.

[B]

Oh, yeah. That book broke my heart, man.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Do you know what it's about?

[C]

No.

[B]

It's about a guy who's named Alon. Algernon is his pet. I Think.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I think it's his pet mouse. It's about a guy who's developmentally disabled, labeled, and they do a medical experiment. They turn him into a genius. The book is his diary. Slowly, slowly starts to become a genius. And he realizes, like, all the people in his life he thought were his friends were really just bullying him. And then it fades, and he becomes not smart again. And then his mouse dies.

[A]

All right, that's it, folks. Thanks for tuning in.

[B]

I think I hit all the key points of that story, but I think so. It's been a while since I've read it, but it broke my heart.

[A]

American idol started in 2002.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Do you know who won the first season?

[C]

Clay Aiken.

[B]

The first season was Kelly Clarkson.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Would you say she's the most successful, biggest name?

[B]

For me, it's got to be her or Carrie Underwood.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, Carrie Underwood.

[B]

And they're both pretty early on.

[A]

Yeah. Did you ever think about auditioning for it?

[B]

No. I had a buddy, that good friend of mine was the best man at my wedding.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

He went. He was on it. And went to Hollywood.

[A]

Really?

[B]

And was there a couple days.

[A]

He got on tv.

[B]

Barely. They never, like, focused on him. You could see him in the background.

[A]

Yeah, like you on Last Comic Stand.

[B]

Exactly like him on Last Comic Stand.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Except he doesn't still talk about it.

[A]

He doesn't have his own podcast where he brings it up. Some athletes born in 2002.

[B]

That's crazy. Yeah.

[A]

Caitlin Clark and Angel.

[C]

Really?

[A]

Y. Drake May, who's okay, you know, didn't win the super bowl, but went to the Super Bowl.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

This year. That's crazy. You know any of those people you've heard of Caitlin Clark Park?

[C]

Yeah, I know all those people.

[A]

You do?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Not Drake May.

[A]

Yeah. You know, two out of three.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

All right, we can wrap it up. I think we covered 2002.

[B]

I think it was. All in all, it was a good year.

[C]

I think so.

[B]

I think so.

[C]

I mean, I pulled through.

[B]

You pulled through, man.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

What would you say, just so I can anticipate, what would you say was your best year?

[C]

Well, again, I don't know, 2026 now, so far.

[A]

The world just keeps getting better. Does it?

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, 2003 is what I thought we were doing today for some reason, and we're skipping two. Well, I. I don't know. Yeah. So I. I need a Palm pilot. I think 2003 was a good year. Okay.

[A]

I can't wait to hear about it.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That's when the war in Iraq started.

[C]

Things started to turn around for me.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay, 2002. I didn't mention it, but let's end on a high note. The DC sniper.

[B]

Wow. 2002, this happened. Yeah, I remember that.

[A]

I was pretty sure my buddy was the one doing it. It?

[B]

Are you serious?

[A]

He would. He had a job like construction, and he would go up there D.C. like, once a. Every two or three weeks or whatever for the job. There was always a shooting. Then I'm like, I'm pretty sure it's him.

[B]

Are you being serious? Did you think it might be him?

[A]

I.

[B]

Or is it a joke that you're making?

[A]

I. It crossed my mind. I didn't know. I never really asked him. I never really thought it was him. But I. Like, I would joke with him like it's a crazy coincidence. Every time you go to D.C. one of these things happened and you come home.

[B]

Wow. But if. If it turned out it was him, you would have been like 98% surprised instead of 100.

[A]

No, I'd have been 100%.

[B]

Okay. You know, Montgomery, Alabama, helped solve that case. The D.C. snipers.

[C]

Whole city did.

[B]

We did. It's on the front page of our newspaper. Every advertiser, they were on their way up to D.C. the two D.C. snipers, and they robbed an ABC store in Montgomery and were caught on camera, and that's how they were tracked down. Isn't that crazy?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I didn't know is. I don't even know the story. But you're sniping people, but you're also robbing a liquor store.

[B]

You might as well.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

It's like you're a murderer. You might as well steal some stuff.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It's like if you're having pizza, you might as well drink, you know, Coke.

[A]

You know what I'm saying?

[C]

Yeah, I do know.

[B]

Kind of the same.

[C]

I get it.

[B]

Yeah. Why go Diet Coke? I'm already eating 10,000 calories.

[A]

Who's the Nateland showcase this week?

[B]

Lee Kimbrell. How about that? Check out Lee Kimbrell, our good buddy, part of the Nateland family. Check out his set on the Nateland YouTube, and then come see him live. June 20th in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the Sanger Theater. This is Aaron Bottom, by the way, I'm performing there June 20th as part of, you know, a festival, an arts festival there. Sanger Theater, June 20, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. What about you, Brian? Where can we find you?

[A]

Thursday in Topeka, Kansas. Friday, Saturday. I'm In Lowell, Arkansas, at the Grove. Then June 20th, I'm at the Palace Theater in Gallatin, Tennessee. Rob Wentz is opening for me there.

[B]

Awesome.

[A]

June 27th, I'm at the Packard Playhouse in Columbia, Tennessee. And July 3rd, I have my own show here at the Lab at Zany's. I'm sorry I'm boring you, Dusty. And July 9th, I'm at the Comedy Catch in Chattanooga. My buddy Vince Fabra is on that show.

[C]

All right.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Well, you know, in two weeks, I'm gonna be in Austin, Texas at the Mothership with Connor Larson. We're gonna weather and so that's gonna be fun.

[B]

Did you say your buddy Vince is. He's buddies with the mayor of Hattiesburg?

[C]

He is.

[B]

He shared my show. Show.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Instagram.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I was like, God, ticket sales are not good. If the mayor is like, please come.

[A]

You're crushing their economy.

[B]

Toby, he seems like cool guy.

[C]

He may listen to the podcast.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

I know he used to listen to Nateland. He may listen to us, but he's great. He was Vince's college roommate. Yeah, he had. I think you were at the mayor's office. I went to the mayor's office.

[A]

I didn't go to his office, but he came to my show.

[C]

Yeah, Toby's great.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay. We might need him to get a body in the seats.

[A]

Yeah, we may need Brett Favre to do an ad for you.

[B]

Yeah, I don't know about that, but awesome. Hey, thank you for listening to another edition of the public figures podcast. This was 2002. We got some crazy ideas in the. In the cooker here. Maybe 2003, maybe 2004. We're gonna take our time with it, though. We're gonna see what happens and we hope that you'll join us us along for the ride. On behalf of my co host here, Brian Bates, Dusty Slay, and all the Nateland family. Everybody behind the camera here, we're wishing you all a pleasant evening and a lovely rest of the week. Thanks for tuning in. God bless. Be safe and send us a BlackBerry. Yeah.

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