218: #218 The Senses Part 4: Smell

Summary

The Nateland Podcast - Episode 218: The Senses Part 4: Smell

Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Release Date: September 18, 2024
Produced By: Audioboom Studios

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1. Introduction

In the fourth installment of their series on the senses, The Nateland Podcast dives deep into the world of smell. Building upon their previous explorations of sight, hearing, and taste, hosts Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay engage in a lively and insightful discussion about how our sense of smell influences our emotions, memories, and daily experiences.

2. Recent Events and Highlights

A. Aaron Weber's Golf Adventure at Pebble Beach [03:00 - 10:00]

Aaron kicks off the episode by sharing his exhilarating experience playing golf at Pebble Beach during the Crew Cup. He highlights the remarkable lineup of participants, including celebrities like Tyler from Dude Perfect, Ray Allen, Jason Kidd, Ben Roethlisberger, Seth Curry, Danny Ainge, Larry Fitzgerald, and Ryan Smith, the owner of the Utah Jazz.

• Notable Quote:
  Aaron Weber [06:31]: "I played golf at Pebble Beach with some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment. It was surreal."

While recounting the event, Aaron humorously describes his stand-up comedy performance amidst the high-profile crowd, leading to him receiving the infamous "grenade award" for being the most disruptive team member.

• Notable Quote:
  Aaron Weber [09:22]: "They gave me a grenade award. It means I blew up the team the most. And yeah, I'll take it from Seth."

B. Brian Bates' Recent Shows and Experiences [11:00 - 25:00]

Brian updates listeners on his recent stand-up gigs, including performances at Desert Ridge and The Improv in Phoenix. He shares a particularly amusing story about performing on short notice after arriving directly from the airport.

• Notable Quote:
  Brian Bates [13:02]: "I rolled into the Desert Ridge Improv at 4:40 AM, and by 6:00 AM, I was on stage delivering eight minutes of comedy."

Brian also ventures into the realm of technology by recounting his first ride in a driverless Uber, detailing the experience of interacting with an autonomous vehicle.

• Notable Quote:
  Brian Bates [15:58]: "Taking a driverless Uber was like something out of a sci-fi movie. I kept talking to it, trying to make sense of the turns it took."

C. Dusty Slay's Twitter Controversy and Public Reaction [25:00 - 35:00]

Dusty addresses the recent backlash he faced after openly criticizing Post Malone's integration of country music into his albums. This sparked a heated debate on Twitter, drawing significant media attention and polarizing opinions among fans and fellow comedians.

• Notable Quote:
  Dusty Slay [30:09]: "I just don't think Post Malone's blending country with his usual genres is authentic. It sparked quite the debate online."

The hosts discuss the implications of being a public figure and how Dusty's comments have positioned him as a cultural tastemaker within the comedy and music communities.

• Notable Quote:
  Nate Bargatze [30:31]: "Dusty, you've always been a straightforward guy. It's interesting to see how your honest opinions are stirring things up."

3. Deep Dive into the Sense of Smell

A. Understanding the Mechanics of Smell [81:48 - 85:27]

The conversation shifts to the science behind smell. The hosts explore how olfactory receptors in our noses detect scent particles and how these smells are processed by the brain, influencing our emotions and memories before we're even consciously aware of them.

• Notable Quote:
  Brian Bates [86:06]: "With our sense of smell, emotions kick in before we even identify the scent. It's like an immediate emotional response."

B. Personal Anecdotes and Comedic Insights [85:28 - 100:00]

The hosts share personal stories and humorous takes on various smells they encounter daily. From the delightful aroma of fresh pizza to the less pleasant odors of hand dryers in public restrooms, they highlight how smell can be both a source of joy and discomfort.

• Notable Quote:
  Nate Bargatze [85:27]: "Fresh pizza out of the oven – that's a top five smell for me. It's unmistakable and always makes me hungry."

• Notable Quote:
  Dusty Slay [85:15]: "I love the smell of secondhand smoke. There's something old-school about it."

C. Scientific Discoveries and Implications [100:00 - 110:00]

The hosts delve into recent scientific studies that showcase the extraordinary capabilities of smell. They discuss how ants have been trained to detect cancer through scent, highlighting the potential for non-invasive diagnostic methods.

• Notable Quote:
  Brian Bates [101:43]: "How do ants tell you that you have a tumor? It's fascinating how they're associating specific smells with cancer."

They also touch upon the concept of pheromones and their role in human attraction and social interactions, pondering the biological underpinnings of why certain scents are universally appealing.

• Notable Quote:
  Nate Bargatze [87:16]: "Smelling someone when you kiss them – it's like a biological dance, an instinctual thing that goes beyond just the scent itself."

4. Best and Worst Smells: A Collaborative List

The hosts attempt to compile their personal lists of favorite and least favorite smells, leading to a mix of agreement and playful disagreements.

• Notable Quote:
  Brian Bates [85:50]: "Everyone pretty much likes the same smells, like gasoline or freshly cut grass."

• Notable Quote:
  Dusty Slay [85:42]: "Lavender is one of my top smells. It's calming and reminds me of spring."

They also joke about unconventional and humorous smells, such as the scent of a "Viking toilet" or the overpowering odor of porta-potties at festivals.

• Notable Quote:
  Nate Bargatze [106:04]: "There's a movie called Stop and Smell the Roses, but I think they meant something a little more glamorous."

5. Audience Interaction and Comedic Bits

Interspersed throughout the episode are interactive segments where the hosts respond to listener comments and share improvisational jokes related to smell. These segments add a layer of humor and relatability, making the scientific discussion more engaging.

• Notable Quote:
  Aaron Weber [112:14]: "There's a Bath and Body Works lotion that smells like orange, and I loved it. It’s a fun way to accessorize your morning shower."

6. Upcoming Events and Announcements [115:00 - End]

As the episode draws to a close, the hosts announce their upcoming shows and tours, detailing dates and locations across the country. They also tease future podcast topics, keeping listeners excited for continued explorations of the senses.

• Notable Quote:
  Dusty Slay [115:25]: "I'm in Austin, Texas this weekend with sold-out shows at the Mothership. Can't wait to see everyone there!"

• Notable Quote:
  Aaron Weber [116:00]: "I'll be performing at Foxwoods this weekend in Connecticut. If you're in the area, come join the fun!"

7. Conclusion

Wrapping up the episode, the hosts express their gratitude to listeners and encourage them to tune in for the next installment focused on the sense of touch. They reiterate the importance of understanding how each sense shapes our perception and interactions with the world.

• Notable Quote:
  Nate Bargatze [116:46]: "Thanks for tuning in to our deep dive into smell. Next week, we'll be getting tactile with the sense of touch. Don't miss it!"

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Notable Quotes Summary:

• Aaron Weber [06:31]: "I played golf at Pebble Beach with some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment. It was surreal."
• Brian Bates [13:02]: "I rolled into the Desert Ridge Improv at 4:40 AM, and by 6:00 AM, I was on stage delivering eight minutes of comedy."
• Dusty Slay [30:09]: "I just don't think Post Malone's blending country with his usual genres is authentic. It sparked quite the debate online."
• Brian Bates [86:06]: "With our sense of smell, emotions kick in before we even identify the scent. It's like an immediate emotional response."
• Nate Bargatze [85:27]: "Fresh pizza out of the oven – that's a top five smell for me. It's unmistakable and always makes me hungry."
• Dusty Slay [85:15]: "I love the smell of secondhand smoke. There's something old-school about it."
• Brian Bates [101:43]: "How do ants tell you that you have a tumor? It's fascinating how they're associating specific smells with cancer."
• Nate Bargatze [87:16]: "Smelling someone when you kiss them – it's like a biological dance, an instinctual thing that goes beyond just the scent itself."
• Brian Bates [85:50]: "Everyone pretty much likes the same smells, like gasoline or freshly cut grass."
• Dusty Slay [85:42]: "Lavender is one of my top smells. It's calming and reminds me of spring."
• Nate Bargatze [106:04]: "There's a movie called Stop and Smell the Roses, but I think they meant something a little more glamorous."
• Aaron Weber [112:14]: "There's a Bath and Body Works lotion that smells like orange, and I loved it. It’s a fun way to accessorize your morning shower."
• Dusty Slay [115:25]: "I'm in Austin, Texas this weekend with sold-out shows at the Mothership. Can't wait to see everyone there!"
• Aaron Weber [116:00]: "I'll be performing at Foxwoods this weekend in Connecticut. If you're in the area, come join the fun!"
• Nate Bargatze [116:46]: "Thanks for tuning in to our deep dive into smell. Next week, we'll be getting tactile with the sense of touch. Don't miss it!"

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The Nateland Podcast continues to blend humor with insightful discussions, making complex topics like the sense of smell both entertaining and educational for their audience. Whether sharing personal stories, engaging in debates, or exploring scientific discoveries, the hosts maintain a dynamic and relatable conversation that resonates with listeners who seek both laughter and knowledge.

Transcript

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Aaron Weber]

Today's episode of the Nate Land Podcast is brought to you by Zach Doc, Delete Me Viori Clothing and Trafficking. Hello, folks in. Hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. Some neighbor gets the Aaron Weber. Brian Bates Dusty Sleigh. All right, maybe that was a different order.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I've been fired. I thought for a second I was.

[Aaron Weber]

Trying to see what it sounds like.

[Nate Bargatze]

How'd it feel?

[Brian Bates]

Just a dream.

[Aaron Weber]

It felt. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It felt good.

[Aaron Weber]

It was. Yeah. What do you do when you just say something and you mean the truth, but you don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

40 and slip.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. No, we'd always mention your name. Even if you got let go, we'd still laugh about it. I think we would.

[Dusty Slay]

Spirit.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, It'd be like Aaron Webber, Dusty Slade. Remember we used to have Brian Bates? We're the podcast that used to have Brian Bates.

[Brian Bates]

It's the first time you ever mentioned my real name is. After I'm gone, I don't even think my mic's on.

[Aaron Weber]

Guess what we got rid of? We got rid of breakfast. Everybody agreed breakfast is pointless. We go right to lunch, and then we have a guy lunch that sits there now. And he's so fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Name's Larry.

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody gives him everybody's name. He mentions they don't die. They actually do better in life, you know, Unlike you. Would you bring. Is yours on?

[Brian Bates]

I can hear everyone except myself.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe it's your headphones.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You sound great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Pray, turn your thing up underneath, maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I'll turn my thing up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. All right. A couple of some Nateland news. We're gonna start each podcast with some Nateland news that we have because we're doing a lot of Nateland stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

We need a breaking news. Yeah, you remember that?

[Nate Bargatze]

We need some kind of bumper.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. All right. There's a lot of Nate. Yeah. I mean, look, we're building Nate. Nateland Entertainment is going to be built as a company. That is the goal of this. We're doing stuff with this Nateland stuff. And we, you know, it was. This is the ground floor. Nayland's going to be. That's the CBS show that I'm doing the Christmas special with Lorne Michaels. Nate Land Productions is also a producer on that. So we're, we're, we're getting in some real deal things.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nateland partnering with Lorne Michaels.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's big time.

[Aaron Weber]

It's big time. So this week on the showcase released Chastity Washington's full set on Monday. We released it on Monday. Dusty hosted Dale Jones was last week. So got Chassis Washington. Her full set will be on the YouTube. If you're in Nashville, tickets on sale for next showcases October 1st and November 4th at the Labor. So if you want to come be a part of those tapings, please do that also. Show alert. Beginning on Monday, September 23rd, we will be. They're going to be at the live every Monday with Nate Land live. I don't say necessary that one of us will. I don't know if we'll be there. Try to be there for there, but I don't, I don't know. I think I'm gone a lot.

[Dusty Slay]

Hot shows either way.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'll be hosted by one of you guys. Good clean funny sets. The idea is just to have a Nate Land show and like have guys come in and you know, if you want to come see the comics, you know, the comics will. It's, you know, comics that you're going to, you know, that we're having that you've seen on the showcase that, that kind of thing and have guys comics locally and you know, do good, clean funny sets. So September 23rd is the first of that. That will be, I think every Monday kind of a Nate Land live stand up. Then Nate Land is recording Steven Rogers Special 10-12-Comedy Fort Fort Collins, Colorado. So go to that. And also Nate Land, we're courting another Greg Warren Special November 23rd.

[Nate Bargatze]

Whoa.

[Aaron Weber]

Funny Bone, Columbus, Ohio.

[Nate Bargatze]

Awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

This guy's cranking out material, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Greg Warren.

[Nate Bargatze]

Greg Warren, the real deal.

[Aaron Weber]

Real deal.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's an awesome club to tape something into.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Funny Bone, Columbus. Yeah, that is a great club.

[Dusty Slay]

Hotspot.

[Aaron Weber]

That was the one you had always had to go to to get when.

[Nate Bargatze]

You first started for the Funny Bones there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. It's the, it's the headquarters and got.

[Dusty Slay]

Passed right before COVID My last show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Before COVID was passed. I thought, oh, man, this year is going to be great. I'm about to get so much work, dude. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then I Didn't in Covid. And then don't forget on the Nate Land, the podcast network check out don't make me come back there with Dustin and Melissa Nickerson. Episodes drop on Thursdays, so make sure you go subscribe to that. Subscribe to the Nate Land Entertainment. YouTube. You know, you could get all this image. Sign up for the email, all the stuff. This is the beginning stages of Nate Land Entertainment. So get in on the ground floor meetings today.

[Nate Bargatze]

Get in while you still can.

[Aaron Weber]

Get in while you still can. We will shut people off eventually. We're going to be the only entertainment Nateland that we end up going. That's enough. Yeah, we don't want anymore. So no. Yeah. So here we are. We had a good, good fun week. I had a crazy. I was in. I played golf at pebble beach, the Crew Cup. It was, it's. You can look at their Instagram crew design.

[Dusty Slay]

They would let you have a hat. Huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, so this was, this was my first year, so I did not have a hat for the picture. But the people there were. I mean, it's, you know, it's crazy. I mean, you're just seeing a few of the guys, but Tyler from Dude Perfect was on my team. Ray Allen, Jason Kidd, Ben Roethlisberger, Seth Curry, Danny Ainge, Larry Fitzgerald, the. The new coach for the Jazz. I'm blanking on his name right now. Del Curry, Ryan Smith, who owns the Jazz. And then we're there. Our captains were Tony Finau and Akshay Bhatia. I never said his last name, so I don't know if that's how you said it. I did get Akshay eventually. Right. But then I forgot about the last name.

[Nate Bargatze]

First name is probably enough, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but we did the whole thing and we played like kind of a Ryder cup style thing. I mean, just a great bunch of guys, to be honest. Michael Strahan was there. It just, it was, you know, I thought of it this weekend like guys that are, you know, in this world, they're kind of successful and that are known. It's. I can tell you, it's nice to find a group that is actually, these are really good people and I, you know, they, they were. I, I don't, I don't know. They just, they're. It's just good people. I don't know. It's like you think a lot of the entertainment or a lot of whatever. There's, there's a lot of bad side to a lot of things. But with this, there's a lot of good side. And these guys were great, great guys. Me and Ben Rothenberger hit it off. We became good buddies, really. We really hit it off. I mean, we were. We just, we just clicked and then just got together.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you do standup at this, Nate?

[Aaron Weber]

Is that what I did? Do some stand up? Yeah, they, they, they had a dinner and one of the nights. So then they asked me to get up and do some standup. So I got up and do some stand up and you see a lot of the guys there and some roast jokes.

[Dusty Slay]

What were you doing right there?

[Aaron Weber]

I did not. I think I made fun of like one little thing, but then I just kind of did my set. I didn't. I didn't know I was doing a set till kind of later and then. But it was. Yeah, the whole thing was. I mean, it was crazy, man. It was just Larry Fitzgerald. Me and Larry have played together. We played together a lot. He's beat me a bunch. I played terrible. You get a grenade. I meant to bring it. You get a grenade. They have a grenade award. So at the end of the tournament. So it's, it's. We. Our team lost and you get a grenade award. And that means you, you were the person that blew up the team the most. And they give you an actual grenade and blew it up.

[Dusty Slay]

Means. Means bad, not good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was not good. And they, they gave it to one guy, Todd. He's not on there. He was a business guy. They gave it to Seth Curry. Not to throw him in on this too. And me. Seth said it great though. And I'll take from. Seth said at least we left home with something.

[Nate Bargatze]

There you go.

[Aaron Weber]

Because we did leave. But I mean it was. I mean, dude, a lot of these guys are two, three handicaps.

[Dusty Slay]

A real grenade. You can pull a pen on the car on the way home, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh yeah. And it was. I mean, I got. I. I'll have it. I'll bring it in and put it somewhere.

[Nate Bargatze]

Didn't Seth Curry win a celebrity tournament recently? He's a very good golfer.

[Aaron Weber]

You're thinking Steph, his brother. Oh, Steph Curry won the thing. Seth is. Seth is a good golfer too. Seth is probably. He's better than me. But we're. I'm an eight handicap and pebble probably playing even more. And I just played bad. Where. And then the day I played against Larry Fitzgerald, I mean, he played out of his mind.

[Dusty Slay]

Seth is really too close of a name to Steph too. I thought you've been saying Steph.

[Aaron Weber]

Seth got. Seth played for the Charlotte. Steph Curry was a part of this last year. But. But Seth and Dell were there.

[Brian Bates]

He could hang out with Steph Curry.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like they were only dealing.

[Brian Bates]

He's doing well.

[Dusty Slay]

They're like. All we got is a few letters. Yeah, we gotta.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Talk to Dale about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But, yeah, a lot of these guys good. Tyler from Dude, Perfect is. I mean, he's great. Everybody on there is great. Really. Except me. And I'm not bad. Yeah. But that's how good these guys are.

[Brian Bates]

Tony Robbins in the middle there.

[Aaron Weber]

No. Ryan Smith. He owns the Jazz. He's unbelievable.

[Brian Bates]

Looks like Tony Robbins, but they do.

[Aaron Weber]

It was. It was a. It was a really cool group of guys and, you know, just. It was. It was fun. Fellowship and fun. Yeah, fun. Really? Yeah, really, really. Can't speak highly enough of this. Of the trip. And we gotta do. And they do a lot of good. And so. Yeah, there's lots. A lot of foundation. They give a lot of money to a lot of things and they get to everybody's foundations and so. Yeah, super cool. Four others is foundation here that I have been a part of. I've done shows with them and they do a lot for kids as when they get out of.

[Brian Bates]

Foster care.

[Aaron Weber]

Foster care. So, like, they're help. Helping them when. Because when the kids age out, you know, you kind of just. These kids are out. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, they just go, good luck.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they go, good luck. And so four others is a big group that. Chris Tomlin, Chad Spencer and they. They. I've done shows for them and they're. They do an amazing, amazing job. They raise tons of money too, which is great because those kids. So. Yeah, but I was at, like, it was. We're at Pebble Beach. Weather was great. We got lucky with that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Had you played pebble beach before?

[Aaron Weber]

I have, yeah. With 18 beach Monterey, kind of not too far from San Francisco in the grand, you know, but it's like. It's on the. Yeah, yeah, it's wild. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of pebbles there.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's where I was. But I'm sure big boy here was in some pretty fun stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you were at your Pebble Beach. Tempe Improv.

[Brian Bates]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was in Phoenix this weekend. Saturday night I did a show at the Desert Ridge. Improvised. Um. My flight landed at 4:40. The show was at 6.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Bates]

So I was. I was just on the show. Uh, it was a showcase show, but I went straight from the airport there. So it's just A bunch of comics, you know, doing eight minutes, and I roll in with my bags. It looks like I have tons and tons of merch. They're like, who is this guy coming.

[Nate Bargatze]

In with multiple bags, two suitcases, doing eight minutes up there?

[Brian Bates]

And then last night, I was at the TP Improv. It was great. A lot of folks came out. They brought us hats. This hat I'm wearing. Arizona is the 48th state.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And they said they'd already brought you guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've got one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I got one.

[Brian Bates]

They said Dusty does not do meet and greet, so they could not give it to him.

[Dusty Slay]

That's too bad.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dusty's always been the least accessible.

[Brian Bates]

I know they saw. They wanted to thank you guys.

[Dusty Slay]

But Dusty, how about, hey, I had a great time. I was just in Phoenix. Yeah, they told me we had a great time.

[Brian Bates]

They said they yelled, hit you. But you didn't.

[Aaron Weber]

You said you refused to meet him.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's what I do now. I completely refuse to meet people. No, I just. Yeah, I don't. I don't know how to do the meet and greet now, so I just don't do it. Yeah, no, yeah, sometimes I do it, but it's. It's pretty exhausting.

[Aaron Weber]

It is.

[Dusty Slay]

You do a show. I'm doing, you know, an hour, 20 minutes now. You're leaving it out.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw your picture this weekend of you on stage and on his. On, I think your Instagram or maybe someone posted it. Hold on. I want to see if we.

[Nate Bargatze]

Those theater pics that you just put the theater pics.

[Aaron Weber]

And I thought, did you.

[Dusty Slay]

I like this picture.

[Aaron Weber]

So for that picture.

[Dusty Slay]

No, the picture looks good, but I don't like the crowd shot.

[Aaron Weber]

So the. Yeah, yeah. I'm not a big fan of me, but. But is it. I thought. Did you do 8 hours and 56 minutes.

[Dusty Slay]

That's coming. That's coming, that's coming, that's coming.

[Aaron Weber]

You go. Is a little. That would be too much.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it would be.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it would be too much.

[Brian Bates]

Did the show start at seven?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, it did start at seven.

[Aaron Weber]

And only you went up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it probably started a little late. Yeah. Pushed at 7:15, but, yeah, I did. I bet I did an hour 20, 25 at that show. Yeah, it's hot.

[Brian Bates]

Somebody.

[Dusty Slay]

So that being said, after you do that, then you do a meet and greet. It's like, yeah, I got nothing left.

[Aaron Weber]

That's too much. It's a lot. It's a lot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Somebody who works at Ping brought us all Ping hats, so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Ping's great.

[Brian Bates]

Got those. Oh, you're wearing yours?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Aaron gets right to it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I have Ping golf clubs. I mean, that's not a good advertisement for them probably, but that's what I'm swinging out there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So then. But Saturday night, I took a driverless Uber.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So that was a lot of fun.

[Aaron Weber]

What was that? Did you ask for it?

[Brian Bates]

Well, it came up, and you have the. You have the option of opting out and get a driver, but I'm like, no, I want to experience this and see what it's like.

[Nate Bargatze]

So the audio on this, Brian, it doesn't matter.

[Dusty Slay]

I've seen these in Arizona, but I have.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen them in Phoenix, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Never been.

[Aaron Weber]

So you get into it.

[Brian Bates]

That's. That's it pulling up for me today.

[Aaron Weber]

Did it ask you to stop talking.

[Brian Bates]

Once I got in there? Yeah, it should have because I kept talking to it. And then it's giving you instructions, you know, just telling you, like, stay buckled up.

[Dusty Slay]

There's nobody driving this car, so buckle up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it crazy? Is it feel crazy?

[Brian Bates]

It's pretty crazy. I mean, we're just going down the road and, I mean, it's right there.

[Aaron Weber]

And it's just making it.

[Brian Bates]

Making turns and I'm talking to it.

[Aaron Weber]

And Would you say into it?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. What are you. Yeah, what are you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you didn't see the video? I was just doing funny stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

Asking how long it drove for Uber.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, okay. Oh, that's fun.

[Brian Bates]

You know, tell them about myself.

[Dusty Slay]

Is there any voice to answer you back?

[Brian Bates]

No. It did say if there's an emergency, they can. They're listening. So, like, if something happened, you could, I guess, yell and they would.

[Aaron Weber]

Could you jump in that front seat, though, if something happened?

[Brian Bates]

No, I don't think you can control that, Will. Now, yesterday when I was in Uber with the driver, one of them passed me, and their passengers was sitting up in the passenger seat up front. So I guess, you know, you can.

[Aaron Weber]

Sit up there, but I mean, how do it knows to stop at stop signs?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That'S great. How does it know a stop sign? I mean.

[Brian Bates]

All right, I guess in all honesty, we didn't do a stop sign, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you just went through a stop sign. We did, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Does it drive in the lanes? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[Brian Bates]

It made me realize, not that I hadn't already, but it's so much safer than humans. It already. My mind's already switched. Like, when I had a drive yesterday, I Was like, oh, my gosh, this lady.

[Aaron Weber]

But is it. Is it like. Did you have a light turn yellow or anything and it ran it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Go, go, go.

[Nate Bargatze]

Would you say it drives fairly conservatively or is it. Is it gun and it passing people?

[Brian Bates]

No, it was pretty conservative.

[Dusty Slay]

Could you get the Dusty mode? That's what you need.

[Nate Bargatze]

It starts honking at people.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's what I want.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's amazing, man.

[Brian Bates]

Just on your app, you know when it arrives, you push a button says unlock and then get in there. And then you saw me hit the thing to start. Start ride.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so this is a separate app. This is not just a regular Uber.

[Brian Bates]

No, it's just regular.

[Dusty Slay]

I like the idea that there's a. What level of aggressiveness can you have?

[Aaron Weber]

Did you also get the chip in your wrist? Yeah, he's going to be signed up for.

[Dusty Slay]

He can't wait.

[Aaron Weber]

He can. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because, I mean, I'm not three old men here who are scared of technology.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Brian's. I'd love to swap some DNA for you guys.

[Aaron Weber]

I think if they called it Mark of the Beast, he would still do it. If they were that on the nose.

[Dusty Slay]

What numbers?

[Aaron Weber]

That. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's cool. I do. I do want to try that. They don't have these in Nashville, so they're fun to see.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I've seen them pull. I've seen a lot of them pull up to. In Arizona. They just use a lot of them. It's. It's like I would definitely. Yeah, I would try it for sure. It's just so crazy, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Everyone commented like, there's no way I would do that.

[Aaron Weber]

But yeah, just like you have no. I don't know. So you got a stop sign right there. You're pulling up the stop sign.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I guess they never went through a stop sign. That was one where you come to a stop and make a turn.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that is that going through a stop sign.

[Brian Bates]

I guess I just thought it didn't like where it was crossing.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, there was like a new to stop.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. That's crazy. What do you know? Tipping, I guess.

[Brian Bates]

No tipping price.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why I did it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm into that.

[Aaron Weber]

They're going to ask for tipping, though. Yeah, you know, they're going to.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just for care of the vehicle.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Vehicle maintenance fee, you know, and then.

[Dusty Slay]

The machines will know that you didn't tip.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, you're going to get in that one. Like, everybody's going to Slowly accept this. And then one day you're going to get into it and be like, hey, you're not going where I want to go. Yeah, well, it's going.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the truck drivers will all be driverless trucks.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's happening.

[Dusty Slay]

And then nobody will have any jobs.

[Nate Bargatze]

No. That's a fun spin. Thanks, Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, Brian started it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, blame it on me.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is what Brian does.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian's the beta the better. Is it the beta test?

[Brian Bates]

Beta?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, beta. Beta baits. People say he just goes, who? He's. He's the one that he's not going to be here. And we're about to fight robots because. Got a bunch of beta baits that just went and got everything fine tuned for them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you're not going to have to deal with this stuff, Brian.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I'll be negative for calling it out.

[Brian Bates]

But no, y'all blame everything on me. I'm the one having fun being you guys. Go negative.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you're having fun. We're going to have to bite them off. Yeah, because you fine tune, you sharpen their knives.

[Dusty Slay]

You're embracing the enemy.

[Aaron Weber]

This one little ride, set the future backwards, Ton. No one's gonna be able to do anything.

[Brian Bates]

I love it. I'll do it again.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Yeah, I think you should. I mean, you'll have fun.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, neuralink. I want, I want to get that.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, I think you'd sign up for you. I mean the getting your pain with your Palm. How much would you, would you do that? What is it paying with your Palm?

[Dusty Slay]

Paying with them like at the airport in Nashville and they got that Amazon account or not maybe. I don't know what it is where.

[Nate Bargatze]

You just grab your stuff and walk out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you see the story that broke of how those worked? Now you're led to believe. At least I feel like I was led to believe there's some kind of technology in there keeping track of everything. Right. What really is happening in those stores at the airport, you walk in and grab whatever you want. You leave. If you look up at the ceiling, hundreds of cameras. Yeah, there's just like warehouses in India and overseas where they, they're just watch. A guy's just watching you grab stuff and then he totals it up for you.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you know that's how I saw all the cameras? I. I think I thought that's what, like somehow it like scanned it or something or.

[Dusty Slay]

How are you paying, though?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, you scan your card when you walk in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So you just do it in reverse. You still scanning the card? I'm gonna do this first.

[Brian Bates]

Let me pay up front.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you scan your card and then it opens the gates, and then you walk in. You're like, oh, I can grab whatever, but it's just a guy watching you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Totaling up. And then he charges your car.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like, that's what I'm doing in every store, except I'm just giving them the card on the way out.

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

Baby good?

[Nate Bargatze]

The baby's good. Yeah, yeah. Any day now. This kid. They keep telling us we go to the doctor again tomorrow, but we're keep still real small. It's like under five pounds still. So they're trying. Trying to let her cook a little bit before we take her out, but it's all good. Thanks. Thanks for everybody who's said stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But that's what I did. I didn't do anything all weekend.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a nephew that was born less than £2.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And so. And he's doing fine.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. Still not ideal, though.

[Dusty Slay]

No. Everybody's terrified.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but he's fine, though.

[Brian Bates]

Eleanor is 5 pounds, 2 ounces.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, there you go. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. That makes me feel better.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Babies. Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, he's your first kid. You think everything's. Everything's wrong.

[Aaron Weber]

We Had.

[Dusty Slay]

I want him to come in overweight.

[Aaron Weber]

Got a little.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Let her at least have a moment, Aaron.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You might want to.

[Brian Bates]

Let me airdrop you this.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Got a little.

[Nate Bargatze]

See me come up on air drop.

[Aaron Weber]

Got a little tmz.

[Nate Bargatze]

Tmz.

[Aaron Weber]

Little tmz.

[Nate Bargatze]

What do we got here? All right, well, hold on.

[Dusty Slay]

Wait to get your dates.

[Aaron Weber]

What is this?

[Nate Bargatze]

Dude?

[Aaron Weber]

What is this?

[Nate Bargatze]

Where is. Is this me walking?

[Aaron Weber]

You remember it?

[Nate Bargatze]

This is me in the Chipotle parking lot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Don't act like you don't remember who took this picture. Maybe you don't remember it because it was. You go. What day was this?

[Nate Bargatze]

This could have been four days last week.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, who took. Did you take this, Brian?

[Aaron Weber]

I did not. Michael Clay, my buddy Michael, I started comedy with. He was. He was out. He said he saw you, and then he sent it. He texted me and Bates the picture, and we thought we could put TMZ on it. And got a little. We thought he was supposed to be losing weight. Turns out.

[Dusty Slay]

Look at this. He got caught. Look at those.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was gonna say, look at those calf muscles.

[Aaron Weber]

Calves look great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Impressive, dude. Dude.

[Brian Bates]

Getting food for your wife.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're always getting food for my wife.

[Aaron Weber]

We're all. Yeah, we're just let you know. We're always watching. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Never seen any. Just zoned in on the phone, no one looking. Your. Your legs are crazy strong. Why are they. That's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Those are fat guy calves, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Find any fat guy? He's got amazing calves.

[Dusty Slay]

He got Carry around the box.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Our calves are working.

[Aaron Weber]

Carry around. Yep. And then you. The pounds of food. What do you. When you go to Chipotle, you order by the pound. How do you do it? When you go in there, you go.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, let me get a meat bowl. Did you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Bowl of meat and a bowl of rice. I'll figure it out.

[Brian Bates]

Now, did you point at all when you were ordering?

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't, man. I didn't.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've gotten very good at that. I don't like to point at stuff. Now, somebody told me that it's disrespectful.

[Aaron Weber]

I try to do. I always do, like, the political thing where they. You don't point. You just.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, you just. You just kind of. You go, well, yeah, that a Chipotle white rice.

[Aaron Weber]

I go. I'll take. I point the. The lesser fingers, the other three. I go. And then.

[Dusty Slay]

Because these are not pointers. That's not what I'm doing.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll take that. And then they. Yeah. With the bottom three.

[Dusty Slay]

It's disrespectful at. No, no, not Chipotle.

[Aaron Weber]

To point.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, not disrespectful. I saw somebody talking about, you don't need to point at. Like, I know where it is. And then it's just a fun challenge. It's like in Curb youb Enthusiasm when Larry David tries to back up without using his mirrors. It's the same kind of thing. Challenge yourself to order without pointing at stuff or motioning to it in any way.

[Dusty Slay]

What if you don't know what the things are? You're like, I'll take some of that chopped up tomatoes with other stuff in it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, you can also chipotle.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is not like, you know what everything is.

[Aaron Weber]

You can also live a life and be busy and not do this kind of stuff. That's the other. But that's two ways to do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You could go have all the time in the world.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

To go try every little thing. Or you could.

[Nate Bargatze]

But that's the genius of this is it takes no more time than it. Than the way you order.

[Aaron Weber]

What if a doctor knows that's the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Difference between me and you. I'm trying to make the most out of the time I have. So I'll try to, if I can, you know, go through a mental exercise while ordering.

[Dusty Slay]

Does this kind of make you think that the people in the Mustang are also taking pictures of you now?

[Aaron Weber]

Red Mustang out of nowhere.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's the last time I leave the house in Crocs, I'll tell you that much.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Crocs and socks.

[Nate Bargatze]

Show Michael to come say hi. I've never met him before. I'd like to say hi to him next time he sees.

[Aaron Weber]

He said you were in the zone and then you went back in and got another baggage.

[Dusty Slay]

He said, you ate that one in the car.

[Brian Bates]

That's you going back in.

[Aaron Weber]

He had that one in the car. He goes, well, he was going to knock on the window because you were sitting in your car for 30 minutes eating those. But. But he felt uncomfortable.

[Dusty Slay]

Windows were steamy.

[Aaron Weber]

You were parked like that Mustang parked away from everybody eating fast food.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've done that before.

[Aaron Weber]

I've done it too.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got to park out in the distance.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

And when a car comes next to you, I furious.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah. Next to you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You're like, what are we doing, dude? Like, I'm eating. I mean, we're eating Taco Bell.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Out in the middle of nowhere.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

It's pretty fun to get parked in a parking lot alone.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A.C. it's nice. Yeah. Yeah. Taryn Weber and Bizarre Dusty. Dusty's. You're kind of a Our bad boy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Now I'm. I'm getting a lot of controversy.

[Aaron Weber]

You are. I mean, I. You know what I saw? I saw it pop up. Just. Yeah. I mean, Dusty making the round of.

[Brian Bates]

All the things you've said on this podcast. I know that's what people jumped on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at. If you search Dusty Slay on Google News right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Comedian Dusty Slay sets off Firestorm with comments on post Malone's F1 trillion album.

[Dusty Slay]

It's the most press I've ever had.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, comedian Dusty Slice slams current state of country music after new Post Malone album.

[Dusty Slay]

I had no idea.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, I joked about you being a cultural tastemaker on this podcast before, but you clearly are. I mean, this is public figure stuff, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, this is public figure stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

I told you that I was a public figure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you are. You got to watch what you say.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Because your. Your influence is too much.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Look at that.

[Aaron Weber]

Look at that. Side by side, Malone.

[Dusty Slay]

Side by side. Look at that.

[Aaron Weber]

Side by side, who's arguing for. And I think they know.

[Dusty Slay]

I think I'm gonna get the glasses tattooed on my face.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And we're mentioned. Not here. I mean, I forgot that we had talked about it on the podcast because I just saw you were going off on Twitter.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, a guy mentioned it on Twitter saying that it wasn't. That I was wrong for saying it's not country. And I admitted later, I only listened to the first. There's two disc. I only listened to the first disc with all the other country singers, and it's not country at all. But then someone sent me a song.

[Aaron Weber]

You listen to the whole album?

[Dusty Slay]

Just disc one.

[Aaron Weber]

You bought the cd?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I mean, spot on spot or whatever.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Nate Bargatze]

But it was a double album. So the first. First album was their features with other country music.

[Aaron Weber]

But I would think that still isn't that considered. He wants it to be country. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

It was country singers, but it wasn't country music.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was like, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then so someone sent me a song, and it was off disc two. And I listened to it and I was like, actually, that is country. I still am not into it, but it. I can't argue it's not country. So I listened to disc two, and I'm like, all right. I got to admit, there is. It is country, but it's not mine. It's not my thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is so bizarre to see some of the podcast other co hosts then argued that the singer was pushing the genre forward, to which Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just to see us written about, like, this is like serious discussion.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is insane.

[Dusty Slay]

I am serious.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I'm going back and forth, kind of friendly with Dusty. And then. So some guy tweets, aaron Webber's a bleeding heart liberal, knows nothing about country music.

[Aaron Weber]

Tell us where he's wrong.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dusty responds, I've always said this. And then Larry the Cable Guy responds, I've heard you say it. Now he's responding to another tweet, but I look like I got Larry the Cable Guy pilot on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I like it.

[Brian Bates]

Truth hurts. Aaron.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, man, they came for me.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it is so funny. It's like, it's not that big of a deal. Like, I just don't think it's country. I'm not against Post Malone and I don't think that he's, you know, bad. I just am like, you know, I like old school country music and I'm like, I think just because people are like, well, this is country. It's like, well, where's the country in it, though? You know? But this too does have a few. Actually, there is one song on there that. And this is the one that people sent me. I actually do like this one. It's a good. It's good. I'm gonna, I'm gonna pull it up here just.

[Brian Bates]

So where's that truck?

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, that's the COVID photo you gotta have.

[Dusty Slay]

If it's gonna be country, you gotta have a truck in there. It's called. Well, where is it Now? I don't even know. It doesn't even seem like there's two disks now. I don't know what happened.

[Nate Bargatze]

But this is fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, so what's your long bed? Yeah, yeah, it's called Back to Texas. Great song. Okay, great. Yeah, country song.

[Nate Bargatze]

So what's your next crusade that you're going to take? This seems to be the new you, right? Well, you start firestorms on the Internet, what's the next.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I think that's it. I like, you know what? I like a chill Twitter. I like no controversy. But I do like, you know, I'm into country music. I like country music. And so, you know, I just. Me and Aaron had privately argued about this for a while, and then it got brought up on the podcast. And I, you know, I stand by it. But I also didn't do comedy this weekend. I was at home answering emails.

[Aaron Weber]

Is there someone that you think is country or that's new?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, there are some. I mean, there's some out there, but.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, you think in general country music's taking a turn from whatever.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The guy who did your song for your.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Special.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Jesse Daniel. Really good. But it's like, you know, the country that I like that's new is not really being played so much on country radio. Chris Stapleton still keeps it, you know, country, you know, and there's others. But yeah, Jesse Daniel's really great. There's Colby Acuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Very good.

[Nate Bargatze]

I won't argue with you because we've argued enough. But do you think that Post Malone's album being this successful, this talked about, clearly a hot button issue. You had articles written about it. Do you think that takes away from those people you just named or do you think it elevates everybody?

[Dusty Slay]

I think. I don't think it elevates everyone. I don't know that it takes away from them, but I don't think it elevates everyone.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. It doesn't take away from them. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

There's an argument to be made that it doesn't. I guess.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I just think that it's like, what is the point of even having genres of music.

[Nate Bargatze]

Exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

If they're. Well, you say there shouldn't be, but I think, you know, you don't just turn on the radio and go, let's hear some music. And then it's show tunes.

[Nate Bargatze]

You turn on the radio a lot. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I'm saying?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then it's just show tunes the whole time.

[Aaron Weber]

I've been listening to radio, actually.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So you want there. You know, like, I do have serious.

[Nate Bargatze]

Me this article on the.

[Aaron Weber]

Earlier today, I was in the Y107 here in 107.5 the river.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah, I've heard the river.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I don't think it's Y 107 anymore.

[Brian Bates]

That's what it was.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what it was.

[Brian Bates]

80S and 90s.

[Aaron Weber]

But 107.5 the river. I don't know. I've been just turning. I think I've liked it because it's like I don't want to think about it. And I just go, but imagine you.

[Dusty Slay]

Put on a hip hop station and it's G. Brooks. You're like, well, this is not what I tuned in for here. You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

So Beyonce you thought was country?

[Dusty Slay]

I, you know, I, I would love to hear a Beyonce country album. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

She did.

[Dusty Slay]

Obviously a great singer, but I think she did. She did.

[Nate Bargatze]

His whole point is not.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not. I don't know. I don't. I mean, I'd love to hear it, you know, get some fiddles, some still guitar in there, let her really sing it out. So it's about the instruments.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's about the instruments.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And the. In the vibe of the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Determined by.

[Aaron Weber]

You like more folky music.

[Dusty Slay]

I like less production, more instruments.

[Nate Bargatze]

What?

[Dusty Slay]

Less. Just other stuff. I mean, I don't know you. We would have to play the songs for me to really show you. I don't know all the names of.

[Nate Bargatze]

Can't define it, but you know it when you hear it.

[Dusty Slay]

I can define it. But I. But I. But, yeah. I mean, you just. I'd want more live instruments and less people.

[Nate Bargatze]

Less sound, less things being recorded.

[Dusty Slay]

Less people pushing knobs up and down and less mixing. Just sitting in a room with instruments playing. And you got. You got the country instruments, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You just want to sit in the room while people play. You don't want it to be recorded at all.

[Dusty Slay]

You're. You're making it seem more complicated than it is. You have session musicians, they sit in the room and they're all playing the instruments. And it's like now everything is just like. There's a sound about it that is just like. Every music has the same thing now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It's too perfect.

[Dusty Slay]

All music. Well, too, too perfect, in a way. I guess that's a way you could say it, but it's not, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

107.5 the river is that I listen to is all but perfect music.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's.

[Aaron Weber]

It's none of that. It's all just cookie cutter pop music. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like once you figure out the formula, you're like, all right, so we need this here now and this here now. And I just feel like there is something more to a group of people just getting together in a room and being like, let's play this song that we wrote the other night.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right, right.

[Dusty Slay]

You know?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, I get that. We got Post Malone coming on next week to talk about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's also another thing, too.

[Aaron Weber]

The reason that sounded like it started.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nobody laughed. We don't have them coming on. Well, this open invite, though, this one.

[Dusty Slay]

In particular, though, it's like he's just in a picture with every country artist now. Yeah, right. That's why this one, it's like, is he taken over country music now? Like you didn't see Beyonce in a picture with every country musician ever. And it's like he. It's like, what's happened? Post Malone's, like, taking over country music. That's all I'm saying. It's like, what. What's going on here?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Where's Post Malone from? Is he, like, from the country?

[Aaron Weber]

I think he's from America.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think he's from not.

[Dusty Slay]

Not the country, like, of America.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, things from Opelika.

[Nate Bargatze]

He grew up in a trailer park here. From Lot 8, Morris Trailer Park. He's from Syracuse, New York, Birthplace of country music.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy. Syracuse. I don't think I would have ever guessed that that's where he's born.

[Nate Bargatze]

It does make a distinction. His hometown is Grapevine Vine, Texas.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so he's a Texan since.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, since when, though?

[Nate Bargatze]

Since. I don't know. When he moved there, you know?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, since he found out you're criticizing him.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Change that. On Wikipedia, Dusty slays on to me now.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not against him, but I. You know, and it was really not that serious. But I just think it's.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he does hip hop, pop, R and B. He also does trap pop, and now country. So he does do it. All right. He has country in there and. And it all sounds a pop rock, I would say. If you're doing all of the genres, I think there's a point where you go, okay, well, I guess we're all. You know, it's like if you're. If your music shouldn't be. You shouldn't be able to go, like, I'm doing all.

[Brian Bates]

It's like a restaurant that serves everything.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Cheese good at anything.

[Aaron Weber]

Cheesecake Factory is good. Yeah. If you look at Cheesecake Factory.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You go. You know, that's like their thing. You go in there and it's like, yeah. So someone like Dusty would not like Cheesecake Factory.

[Dusty Slay]

And I don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. Okay, that's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So he's the Cheesecake Factory of music.

[Brian Bates]

Golden Corral.

[Aaron Weber]

That sounds worse than it. No, it doesn't sound.

[Nate Bargatze]

That sounds majority. But that's a good thing.

[Aaron Weber]

But it could be a good thing in the fact that it's very mainstream. Is. I like mainstream.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So very mainstream things, I think are good, and I think they can be hard to do, right? To be mainstream, to be able to pull people from whatever. But he's got a Dale Earnhardt hat on. Right. So a guy like Dusty is not.

[Nate Bargatze]

He wants as little people to like what he likes as possible, which I actually kind of respect.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like the first Limp Bizkit album. Right? Really great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they come out with.

[Nate Bargatze]

What was the name of that album?

[Dusty Slay]

It's $3 bill, y'all. And then they come out with Nookie. And I liked it too, but everybody liked it. And I was like, oh, geez, here we go here. Now everybody's a Limp Bizkit fan. All of a sudden.

[Brian Bates]

You like Nate, didn't you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yelled at by a clown was great after that.

[Dusty Slay]

It is a great album.

[Brian Bates]

You lost your soul. This Cookie cutter, Comedy Central specials, But.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that is, though. But why would you think you would be upset?

[Dusty Slay]

When someone gets success, I want them to be successful.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But it just bothers you when other people are now like. Like, oh, yeah, I love that. Love that guy. And it's like, well, I've been. I've been liking that guy for a while.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but that's you. You essentially are that too, though. You're a person that people would have found early. And then now they could go, well, I don't like, you know, like. So it's interesting.

[Nate Bargatze]

You think there are some Dusty heads out there going, I've been following Dusty forever. Now he's on Netflix.

[Aaron Weber]

So why do you not tone it back in? Because that's what you would want Biscuit to do is to go, like, go back to clubs. Go. Yeah. Go back to get out a little.

[Dusty Slay]

Bit and then can rain.

[Aaron Weber]

But that's what they're doing. Yeah. Well, I'm.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm okay with the. The artist doing it, but it's like, you don't got to cross over into all the music. Make a country song, you know, you don't have to do a whole album and focus on it, like, and make it a good country song.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Where all of a sudden you got a double disc album out. You're like doing it with every country singer on the planet.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know how all of a sudden it was. There's probably a lot of work that went into it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he's. Austin Richard Post is his name. That's a. It's a good name.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, what's his.

[Aaron Weber]

Austin Richard Post. That's a very country name.

[Dusty Slay]

My middle name is Richard.

[Nate Bargatze]

You two are so alike.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even know my first name is. You know, I don't like to tell people this, but it's Dustin. What? Dustin Richard.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that, y'all? If y'all did an album together.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It would be very country. If he released albums. Austin, Rich Richard Post. Would you be happy? He's born on 4th of July. I mean, that's. Couldn't be more country and American. He also says stepmother. That's very country.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a stepmom, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And did he like her?

[Aaron Weber]

His father was a dj, so that's all right. Well, that's where. But that was, you know, is when he was 9, he moved to Texas.

[Brian Bates]

There you go.

[Nate Bargatze]

He auditioned for the American band Crown the empire in 2010, was rejected after his guitar strings broke during the audition. Come on, dude, this is Dusty. This is a kindred spirit.

[Dusty Slay]

If you moved at nine, though, you're already. That's your.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but his dead work.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're already indoctrinated to that. Syracuse, New York.

[Dusty Slay]

And I like Syracuse. I'm just saying, I don't think.

[Nate Bargatze]

First of all, I know that you don't.

[Dusty Slay]

I do like Syracuse.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Haven't we talked about Syracuse a lot? I feel like you're always going to Syracuse.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like Syracuse. Nobody comes to Syria.

[Brian Bates]

It goes four times a year.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay, that's what I meant.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like we're constantly.

[Brian Bates]

What's.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, I'll be at the Syracuse Funny Bone.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's a residency.

[Brian Bates]

I don't usually sell, though.

[Dusty Slay]

I like. They don't come see me there, but I like them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dusty said it's the only market where the crowds are smaller every time he comes there. And eventually it'll just be one table of die hard fans.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'm refining it.

[Nate Bargatze]

There you go.

[Brian Bates]

You think you'll always like my comedy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, you got the dry bars now. You get a little too.

[Aaron Weber]

He's getting a little too. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I love Easy Out. Easy out is an album.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like the old stuff, like your early stuff, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You sold out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I think with all the news. Good luck with anything that Dusty said there. I think he made it. I don't think they have anything to grab a hold of.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fresh articles coming out on Wednesday.

[Dusty Slay]

I had no idea there was. Was that four.

[Aaron Weber]

There was. It was. It got around. It was no idea. You definitely was.

[Dusty Slay]

I hope I'm still allowed to do the opera.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what was nice on Instagram? This is always the fear is if something's written or said about you, it's people going, who? I don't even know who that is now. One guy was like, who? A lot of people defending. Defending you going, you're dumb for not knowing who he is.

[Aaron Weber]

That's good.

[Nate Bargatze]

So that must be nice to see.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I actually tried to not read as many comments on those. I'm a comment guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I was gonna say this is the one time you don't go into the comments.

[Aaron Weber]

This is like your Super Bowl.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It wasn't the first one. It wouldn't. It limited comments. It wouldn't allow me to comment. So I was like, I'm not just gonna read.

[Nate Bargatze]

They had to shut them down. People were getting too intense.

[Dusty Slay]

If I can comment, then that's different. But if I'm just reading, yeah, I can't do it.

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[Aaron Weber]

Com cocktail how old is Post Malone? Oh, he's born 95.

[Brian Bates]

29.

[Nate Bargatze]

29. He's just a kid, dude. He's trying to figure himself out.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought he was older than that.

[Dusty Slay]

I did too.

[Aaron Weber]

And then. But also the. What's the band? He said he auditioned for a band, Crown Empire. Have you ever heard of that band? No, I haven't Crowned the Empire. That's kind of crazy. Audition for that as a guitarist and his guitar strings broke and so they're.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, this kid's a bomb dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. How crazy is that? And then he goes. I mean, I don't blame them. Like, you know, who. Who knows anything.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's hard to.

[Brian Bates]

I remember.

[Aaron Weber]

That's interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

I would never come after this guy, too, if he were, like, some struggling musician out here. Like, he's well established and the most popular guy. So.

[Brian Bates]

I remember you sharing a story on the podcast about using the GM right after him. Do you remember this?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

On your tour. I think we looked him up then. We were shocked. He's like 27.

[Aaron Weber]

We were like.

[Brian Bates]

I thought he was 40.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But have you ever met him?

[Aaron Weber]

I have. Yeah. I got his phone number, actually.

[Nate Bargatze]

Call him up. Let's do it. Can y'all hook a phone up? Let's make this happen.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. I've. I met him at the thing I did in New York. Lorne Michaels. Yeah, but the fundraiser. The Robin Hood found the show. He was on it. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was live.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Broadcast it. He was at the Comedy Store when we were there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

During the festival.

[Aaron Weber]

He's very cool. Yeah, he's very nice. Very.

[Nate Bargatze]

Comedians like. Yeah, everybody likes him.

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody does like him. But you know that you're not going off. You like him. You're not going off him as a person.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not against it.

[Aaron Weber]

You just said the country thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it's crazy to say that. Yeah, There you go. All right.

[Brian Bates]

Speaking of people that this is not an ad for. I know I started off that way. I was fooling myself that Dusty may question. There's a doctor from Vanderbilt. They got to go up in Jeff Bezos Blue Origin.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Got to go up into Edge of Space.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, God, that's cool.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Why him not quite in there, but just.

[Aaron Weber]

He can keep a secret.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just to the edge.

[Brian Bates]

But he got to do experience three minutes of weightlessness. Got to unbuckle and float.

[Dusty Slay]

So I would count that as they.

[Aaron Weber]

Were free falling down, they need to go take. They need to take Dusty. They're missing the boat on this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They need to go take. Quit taking these people that are locked and loaded in. But, like, you need to. I mean, how. If you're Elon Musk, you're like, grab eight conspiracy theorists, the big ones, and go. We're going to go up. That's what they need to do.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Take me up there to give some food to the people in the space station.

[Nate Bargatze]

Would you do it?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You were sending presidential ballots to the tube. Stranded.

[Aaron Weber]

I Thought they. I thought he was bringing them down.

[Brian Bates]

He is in February. But, you know, they thought they were going to be home in eight days.

[Aaron Weber]

So they're going to send them. Why would they not just call him and say, who do you want to vote for?

[Nate Bargatze]

Because there's a process.

[Brian Bates]

There's a process.

[Aaron Weber]

That's ridiculous. That's. That's going to cost. I mean, that's unbelievable.

[Nate Bargatze]

It'd be so funny. They just cancel each other out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They get a fight with each other because they can see who they voted for. Huge fight.

[Dusty Slay]

I just found out what state they live in and go, does it matter?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, they're both from Pennsylvania.

[Aaron Weber]

The other little fun thing we had Sister Wives. Oh, yeah, the new trailer for Sister Wives.

[Nate Bargatze]

Absolutely.

[Aaron Weber]

Mary's friend was wearing a Nate Land sweatshirt.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, about this. On reality tv.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Look at that.

[Nate Bargatze]

What a insane collision of things my wife cares about.

[Dusty Slay]

My wife loves the show, too. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So that's Brandy or Mary.

[Dusty Slay]

That's Brandy, the one wearing the nail in.

[Aaron Weber]

She's Mary's friend.

[Brian Bates]

Who's who?

[Dusty Slay]

Mary's on the right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So right or my right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Brandy, Sophia. Shout out Brandy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Very cool. Yeah, I bet. I mean, it was Lucy, like.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, she's freaking out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because our. Our friend Katie sent this to her and she. I heard her downstairs react to it, so it was a big deal.

[Dusty Slay]

Mary was the first wife, and they're divorced now.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you know.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know.

[Dusty Slay]

You know the lore a little bit. My wife watched quite a bit of this. Mary was the first wife.

[Brian Bates]

I bet she came to my show at Wise Guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

She might have.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet she did.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that where you sold that merch?

[Brian Bates]

I was gonna say. Wait a second. No, I don't even sell that. So. Yeah, never mind.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sure she knows who you are.

[Brian Bates]

Is that Brandy or Mary? I'm still not clear on the left.

[Dusty Slay]

Brandy's wearing the show Brandy.

[Brian Bates]

If you listen to the podcast, let us know.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, she is the shirt.

[Brian Bates]

But don't you sell it at your shows?

[Aaron Weber]

We did sell it at our shows, so she probably bought it when I was in. I imagine this is Salt Lake. Is this Utah?

[Nate Bargatze]

Utah, yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So I imagine it's. Yeah. When I did Utah, she was there. She bought it there. But.

[Dusty Slay]

Or maybe dry bar taping. Who knows?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, could have been that. Could have been that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I doubt it. Probably the guy that sold a hundred thousand tickets there in a weekend.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

We don't know. We'll never know.

[Aaron Weber]

It'll be a mystery.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe they're talking about your dry bar.

[Brian Bates]

I should watch the show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I figured you already did.

[Brian Bates]

All three of y'all immediately texted, oh, yeah, I know this show. I'm like, I think y'all all watch it.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't say that.

[Dusty Slay]

A little bit of it.

[Brian Bates]

You said you knew about it.

[Aaron Weber]

I knew about the picture. I don't know about the show. But Laura watches it.

[Nate Bargatze]

We get together without you and watch it every week.

[Brian Bates]

I could see that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he got around. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You watching college football this weekend, Nick?

[Aaron Weber]

I did, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

AD for Georgia State. You want to read?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I would never sink that low, dude. But I just wanted to see how you were doing, check in with you.

[Aaron Weber]

They got an unbelievable quarterback. Man, Georgia State does. That was tough. That was a tough one. We came back and then showed a.

[Nate Bargatze]

Lot of grit in the fourth quarter there.

[Aaron Weber]

He came back, came back, and then they came back at the end, and that was. Yeah, but I feel like we're closer to our goal than you are yours.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is true. What's your goal? To become bowl eligible.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we don't. Yeah, we're building our way up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You are crumbling as a society.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, they destroyed Purdue.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, y'all did. That's cool, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

66 to 7.

[Aaron Weber]

Good.

[Dusty Slay]

You had to come back hot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You really beat them.

[Dusty Slay]

Alabama looks great. No, Nick Saban, they look great. I don't know if you guys care about that, but, yeah, they did.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, they destroyed. What's that?

[Brian Bates]

Your team now, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Always is my team. They're always my default team. Yeah, I'll venture off, but they're my.

[Nate Bargatze]

Default unless there's an Auburn fan in the room.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that is true.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's start with you guys comments. Let's start. I always think of it now that. Because someone said that. I didn't really think about it. Now I think about it, but I'll keep saying.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Someone pointed out.

[Nate Bargatze]

First comic.

[Brian Bates]

Someone pointed out. You always say y'all. Except for that one instance, you say, you guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I don't know what they want.

[Brian Bates]

They want to know why you do that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We'll never know.

[Aaron Weber]

Start with you guys. Comment. Jennifer, can I listen to your podcast on YouTube on my phone while I'm at work? Every time I see this shot of all you at the table out of the corner of my eye, it looks like the scene of the Last Supper. Especially when you have Nick Thune sitting in the middle. That is true.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You like that?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm into it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Finally talking about something you believe in.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right. Exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly. Guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Jake. Pru. Proud Pru. I just watched episode 100 where Dusty is announced as a full timer. Aaron said something along the lines of in full disclosure, I was vehemently against this.

[Brian Bates]

Sounds like Aaron.

[Aaron Weber]

And now with the public Twitter feud between the two, I'm curious if they like each other at all. Is Aaron mad that Dusty agrees with the cop with all the college knowledge? Disagrees. Is Aaron mad that Dusty disagrees with all the college knowledge he brings to the table? College knowledge is a tough.

[Nate Bargatze]

College knowledge.

[Aaron Weber]

College knowledge. Bit of a poem knowledge.

[Dusty Slay]

I. No, I love Aaron. I. He doesn't know anything about country music, but I a big fan.

[Brian Bates]

I think the question is, does Aaron love you?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dusty was a groomsman in my wedding.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So Aaron's like new Southern. He's the. He's the one that listens. He likes. Well, he's the reason the new country music exists.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. He can't wait for people like me to die so that.

[Aaron Weber]

So he can finally take over. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He wants Maroon 5 to be. They ask. Yeah. He goes. Who's your favorite country artist? Adam Devine.

[Nate Bargatze]

Levine.

[Aaron Weber]

Levine.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like Adam Devine.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. No, you like Adam. Adam Devine is a great country music artist.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron's probably my favorite person on this podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

No. There you go. Jacob Hoover. My wife and I had a house fire recently. We were woken up in the middle of the night by a neighbor and had to get out as quickly as we could. When we made it. When we made it outside, I looked to see what my wife grabbed and saw that she took a box of sentimental items from our relationship. She then looked to see what I grabbed and saw that I only had the Nate Land coffee mug. We ended up losing everything else, but at least I got my Nate Land mug. Oh, man, that's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, that's not great, but it's great. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That took a real turn.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But he knew the wife was going to get all the important stuff, so he's like, I might as well get a cup of coffee.

[Aaron Weber]

And he said, I got the most important.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's got an exclamation point at the end.

[Aaron Weber]

He's excited. He's got his Dayland mug. Start a new life with name. Sorry to hear about your house.

[Dusty Slay]

Makes me very sad.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, this is an interesting question. If your house is on fire, what do you grab? Have you thought about this at all?

[Aaron Weber]

My daughter yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're talking about no fun answer.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. No fun. No serious answer.

[Nate Bargatze]

Your kids.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are all out of the house.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Wife, dogs, all the. All this stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

All the living.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All the members of the family.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. Yeah. What are. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you grab your golf clubs or what Baseball cards.

[Brian Bates]

You're going to go to the bomb shelter.

[Aaron Weber]

They go.

[Brian Bates]

So it's not going to really affect you.

[Dusty Slay]

All my stuff's already in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty would have started the fire as a control burn so he would have known.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I had full knowledge.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. All your documents are purposefully in the fire.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I would have grabbed. Probably just something comfortable to wear.

[Brian Bates]

Viori. Oh, not yet.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what I mean.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you have like a photo album? Do people have photo albums still? We've got. We've got one but they're all. They were just printed from digital.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not a good sentimental person. Like I don't. Nothing would. I would move on.

[Dusty Slay]

You know in a way it could.

[Brian Bates]

Be free even if Laura didn't make it.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

I actually look at it as a lot free.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like I would be fine with just starting over right now. Be like I don't need any of this stuff because I think I'll. Because I'll forget about it all.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like the pictures of your daughter and stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't care about that now you're bringing back into. Well, you're. But no but I got all my phone picture. You got.

[Nate Bargatze]

So you have your phone on you in this scenario.

[Dusty Slay]

But even in.

[Aaron Weber]

Even if I didn't it's on the cloud. It's on everything. I would. Yeah. I mean I don't know if I. There's something that I would think to.

[Brian Bates]

Grand but you used delete me so you can't find any of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It'd be nice to get some hard drives of some. I mean some old stand up footage and I think that's fun. I mean I got a lot of pictures and stuff on some hard drives but even that it's like you're watching your house burn down and you got hard drives of your stand.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think I'd be trying to put the fire out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like I honestly I don't know if I would grab. What would you grab? There's nothing I would.

[Nate Bargatze]

I have a box of baseball cards that I would grab and then I have a folder with important documents and I think I'd grab those two things.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, I mean Laura would probably make me grab those Things, but I don't know to grab those things. But she would be like, go grab under, you know, so I'd grab whatever she's telling me to grab.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay, there you go.

[Aaron Weber]

But there's nothing that.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's nothing that you gotta run and save.

[Aaron Weber]

I would, yeah, I would be outside going, I think we're fine. And then she would be like, now we need the passport. You know, you'd have to maybe, I guess I would grab. You could grab stuff that would be annoying to have to go get again, right? License, passport, like that kind. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I. There's nothing, you know, in my head, I think I would just be like, yeah, we're starting new, we gotta start new. Start getting new stuff. New junk to keep.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, that is what it is. And you just. I. For years I was moving from apartment to apartment all the time. I barely had anything and now I have a house and I'm like, ah, all this stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, just all this stuff, man.

[Brian Bates]

It's all stuff you guys are doing.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't even mean. It's great stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody has stuff. You've seen Hoarders, the TV show. Yeah, they got plenty of stuff. They, you know, they're doing great. You, what would you grab?

[Brian Bates]

Maybe baseball cards.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you guys gotta move on from it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I agree.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, what's the answer then?

[Aaron Weber]

I think, yeah, make fun of any.

[Nate Bargatze]

You gotta move on from that. Maybe this fire is a way to grow up a bit.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I was, I would think, to grab something. I would grab clothes and stuff to wear because I would be like, we're about to go stay in a hotel or something. So if I could grab something, I'd want to grab. So I'm not just standing out there and shorts and no shirts.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's just interesting because if you'd asked me this question 10 years ago, I would have said, I don't know, my Xbox, my computer. And I just think differently now. That stuff is kind of.

[Aaron Weber]

Now I don't think I just don't need anything.

[Brian Bates]

I just grab my Post Malone cd.

[Nate Bargatze]

The double album.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. Katie. Visaggio. Visage. Visaggio. Thune's theory of avocado trees is true. Our neighbor has an avocado tree in his yard for 30 years and it only produced one avocado for all those years. We planted a little 4ft tall avocado tree in our yard in May 43 from 40ft from his tree. He has produced 10 avocados since then. Wow, that's crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's kind of sweet.

[Dusty Slay]

That's pretty awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

You need. You need somebody else down there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. He's like, what is the point if I'm just out here alone? What is even the point, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Hope. Oh, Hope. Oh, zero, Maybe. Yes. San Diego to San Francisco is seven hours, and then there's still another seven hours north to the Oregon border. Everyone forgets about the whole top half of the state. Actual Northern California where SoCal gets their water from. You did mention Eureka, but not where it is six hours north of San Francisco. So remember Sacramento, Sunnyvale, San Fran equals not Northern California. What? Well, I don't know what that means.

[Nate Bargatze]

She's just saying there's a bunch of cities north of those that are actual north.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I do think of San Francisco's Northern California, and I think most of the world does hopes let us know it's not really, I guess, more central.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they're the ones with the water. Yeah. There's a lot more up there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Reading and everything up here.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. Ready? I've been to reading. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Wow. I mean, there's a lot more than I. Than I thought it was a lot of going.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it's pretty crazy. Zoom out of that again. You would say San Francisco would almost be middle California. So I. I mean, you know, I understand. I get. I get. What? There's a lot above San Francisco. A lot.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Shout out. Hope. Zero.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, sorry. It's like Coke Zero.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Coke Zero.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. A little lighter.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, dude, I had the. Have you seen the Oreo Coke Zero?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

I had it.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

At Target.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man.

[Brian Bates]

He's much more excited than the driver.

[Aaron Weber]

I would. I would grab that out of the fire.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's worth trying. Yeah, it's worth trying.

[Dusty Slay]

Warm.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not very good. I gave a pretty negative review.

[Dusty Slay]

Warm.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because I didn't want to wait for it to get cold. And then that night, I had a cold one. It's all right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know if I would identify the flavor as Oreo if I didn't know that it was supposed to be Oreo. It just kind of tastes a little bit like the cream filling. There's a little cream filling.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you know the ice trick where you take some ice and then you. You just spin the can over the ice and as it goes over, it gets it colder faster?

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

So next time you got a hot drink, just put in a little thing of ice and spin it real fast. How long Colder? I don't know. A few minutes.

[Nate Bargatze]

It feels like half an hour?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So it gets cold.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like the can would be cold. I don't know if it's drinking.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I think. That's what you're moving that. You're getting that fluid moving around.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

We used to do that on the beach, you know. Smart.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've never heard of that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Why, What's. Why do you stop? Why'd you stop?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't drink anymore and I don't really. I never.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you talking about for alcohol?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That's what we would do. But I'm never really in that situation now, you know.

[Nate Bargatze]

But they have Coke flavored Oreos too. They partnered up. I don't know if you've seen this. No, I think the way my sister told me the Strat, she thinks the strategy is they put these ridiculous flavors out. You're gonna try them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But everyone's gonna hedge their bet and get regular Diet Coke too. If you go in there going, I want to get Diet Coke, you go, I'll try that, but I'll get the Diet Coke.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, so, yeah, I would do that. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I think they make a ton of money off this.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't think someone at the factory was just eating Oreos and there was like, oh, whoops and dropped it in there?

[Aaron Weber]

I bet they drink, yeah. Diet Coke with the Oreos and then.

[Dusty Slay]

They were like, oh, Oreo flavored.

[Aaron Weber]

Jordan Yosp. Yospi made me laugh when Brian talked about being frozen chronologically instead of cryogenically.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I didn't realize I said that, but a few people pointed that out. That'd be a different way to get frozen.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, it would.

[Nate Bargatze]

With the five dollar meal deal at McDonald's, you pick a McDouble, or a McChicken, then get a small fry, a.

[Dusty Slay]

Small drink, and a four piece McNuggets. That's a lot of McDonald's for not a lot of money.

[Nate Bargatze]

Price and participation may vary.

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[Aaron Weber]

Com cocktail j rinsing we saw Brian at the funny bone in St. Charles. There was this couple that was placed up front that didn't crack a smile the entire time. At one point, I think they were getting into a verbal argument. Brian played it very well. And when they finally left after paying the bill, Brian's crowd work with them was so funny. I wonder. After paying the bill, Brian's crowd work with him was so funny. I wonder if you can talk about how you handle distractions. Do you have stories about times when it didn't go so well?

[Nate Bargatze]

You did crowd with them after they left.

[Brian Bates]

That's my best.

[Nate Bargatze]

They're on their way out. Where y'all from?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You guys married?

[Brian Bates]

What do you do for a living?

[Aaron Weber]

Do you remember this table behind your back? Bates. Because he won't talk to you in front of you.

[Nate Bargatze]

You remember who she's talking about?

[Brian Bates]

I do. I do. Will O'Donnell sent me the video. I have to post it. It was just a couple that was in a fight. And then at one point, some of my new jokes were doing so badly that it got quiet enough.

[Aaron Weber]

What jokes?

[Nate Bargatze]

Your new jokes.

[Dusty Slay]

New jokes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian's unleashed out here on the.

[Brian Bates]

What I do.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you did say Charles. Yeah. And you go. They weren't going. I'd imagine they wouldn't be. The guy had a yarmulke on. You start going, yeah, dude. I mean, I'm on this guy's side now.

[Brian Bates]

I'm the Don Rickles once I get on the road.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

How mean was this crowd work?

[Brian Bates]

Well, if you can't handle it, don't sit up front. That's what I say. As far as bad, I mean, I've come close before. There's some crazy laugh and almost acknowledge it and then realizing there might be something wrong with that person. And then thankfully, I don't because they're, you know, you just never know because you can't see them out there a lot of times.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's okay, though, to make fun of the laugh a little bit. Just call it out in a way because you don't have to be in a playful way.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't have to be like, you're an idiot, and I wish you weren't at this show. But, like, you know, everybody hears the laugh.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And at a certain. Then it becomes distracting that you're not addressing it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, right.

[Nate Bargatze]

It becomes a thing, like. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But if you. But if you acknowledge it and then they. They kind of suppress it, and then you don't hear it, it's like a weird balance because you don't want to. You don't want to point it out. And then, like, every time they laugh, everybody hears it. And then if they don't let you know.

[Dusty Slay]

You could even say that too, though. Like, if they don't laugh, you go, oh, weird laugh. Didn't like that joke, huh?

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

But then you're so. The problem with that is, do you want to do that for an hour.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or hour and a half?

[Brian Bates]

That seems like I got time.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, you might do a set so long that people forget. That person probably tires out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

There was a woman at New Material Monday here at Zany's. This is maybe six months ago or so. The laugh was so loud and distracting, the whole show became about it. Every comic would go up there with the intention of, like, I'm just going to do whatever, but it was such a thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

The whole show was about that woman's laugh.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

She loved it. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It's tough if you have a crazy laugh like that. I mean, if you just kind of somewhat be aware, like, if it's overtaking the room. You know, you hate to tell someone not to laugh. It's like, if you can just kind of try to be. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's hard because everybody will listen to it and hear it. And it's hard for people to kind of focus, get back into the show.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like, you hear how everybody else is laughing. We try to do it like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I hosted an album recording years ago, and as I'm hosting, a guy laughs, a guy that we all know is a comic with a very loud laugh. And I had to tell him, like, you gotta. You gotta leave. Like, we're recording this. Sorry to be, but I could be mean so they don't have to. Like, you gotta.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You gotta go home.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially recording.

[Nate Bargatze]

Exactly. I go, the whole album's gonna be about this.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And you can't. And then you're. That's. Yeah, I agree with that. With. With the knee, Anderson Milligan, with The knee.

[Nate Bargatze]

With the knee.

[Aaron Weber]

With the knee. How do you spell that? With an E. Dang. That's what he would say. With an e. How do you spell that with an e for two weeks?

[Brian Bates]

I feel like we have now that.

[Aaron Weber]

You say that with the knee. Anderson, Milligan. Brian mentioned the highest and the lowest points in the lower 48, Mount Whitney and death Valley. My dad, Jim Anderson, everybody knows him, was the first person to ever make a documented walk from Mount Whit, Sydney to Death Valley in 1974 to try and get into the Guinness book of world Records. They never wrote him back or recreated his journey in 2017 to honor him. The trek was 131 miles, took us a week and was an absolute nightmare physically. Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Whoa.

[Brian Bates]

She wrote a book about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, got a book about it. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

This looks awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

131 miles and look at those backpacks that look like Jim Anderson had. Yeah, I mean that's a.

[Aaron Weber]

That's wild to walk, man.

[Brian Bates]

I mean that's a long walk. But think how crazy that close that is. The highest point and the lowest point in the U. S. Is only 130 miles.

[Dusty Slay]

Really focused on our knee during that thing, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Why wouldn't that be against book world records?

[Brian Bates]

I mean it sounds like they just didn't care or they didn't. Yeah, they just didn't reply to it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now you have to pay a lot of money to get. To get recognized by them officially. Right. That's how they work. So maybe they didn't want to do that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you would think. I mean that feels like a thing that, like if they. Yeah, if you walk from walk of age. I think they. Yeah. Maybe the title should have been more walk from the top to the lowest.

[Nate Bargatze]

Something a little more self descriptive or.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Time machine.

[Dusty Slay]

Absolute nightmare physically.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's really good title.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but that's pretty.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I think that's why Guinness didn't give it to him. Because her book, that came out 30 years later, 40 years later.

[Aaron Weber]

No, they should have got. They should have given to him. I mean, that's crazy to write. From the top to the highest point to the lowest point. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's insane.

[Brian Bates]

50 years later, I finally got it right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Do you remember when his dad did it? When her dad did it?

[Nate Bargatze]

Jim.

[Brian Bates]

Good old Jim.

[Aaron Weber]

Sarah Stevenson. My vertigo was cured by riding a roller coaster at Dollywood. I did not have vertigo or motion sickness again for years. I messed up the crystals in my ears again by riding another ride at a fair. I need to go back to Dollywood Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah. Vertigo's wild. And I would just. I would. To be honest with you, I would stay away from riding any rides on a fair, you know, anywhere that was set up that day by someone you should do on parole.

[Nate Bargatze]

You should do a bit about that. That's just a funny concept.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay. About the fair.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just about rides at the fair and stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

I feel like you're making fun of me.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, I'm serious. Nate has a.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What was it? What'd you say?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I just saying don't ride rides at the fair.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then he said I should do a bit about it, but it felt like he was making fun of me, so.

[Aaron Weber]

And yeah. Yeah, for these rides. They're on the interstate an hour ago.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, I've heard that joke.

[Aaron Weber]

Randy Reeves. Is this Nate's golf ball? My son found it while collecting balls at the West Haven golf course.

[Nate Bargatze]

You send me this, Brian?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, give me one second.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, sorry. Let's let Aaron go back. You're. You're. You really fell apart during the computer today.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you did. Oh, Tennessee Kid. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You're on board.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I think you were Justin Timberlake.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think I did get some golf balls that said Tennessee Kid on them. And I have played West Haven, so that is Mobile. Now, I don't have them, but someone gave them to me. Put Tennessee Kid. I have some right now. My name on them that I've gotten.

[Nate Bargatze]

Where was this ball found? In the water, probably.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I don't think he. Maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Parking lot.

[Aaron Weber]

Not everything goes great out there. Aaron found it in the fairway. I just left it. Didn't need it. I always leave my hole in one ball. I'll start over. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You want that back?

[Aaron Weber]

No. You know what? A kid can keep it, pay it forward. Pay it. Yeah. If I ever see you, I'll sign it and then you can go throw it back in the water.

[Nate Bargatze]

What a small world, though.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Isn't that crazy?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. You always put your to found John Crist. I get John Chris. Ever. Did I say that on here?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't. I don't talk about it on here. But you had balls with his phone number on it.

[Aaron Weber]

So. John Christ. I. For his 40th birthday, I believe. 35th birthday. Is he 40 now? Yeah, yeah, his 35th birthday, I gave him golf balls with his cell phone number on them. But then the fun part is I also gave them to Brian and Johnny W. Who are not good golfers but are into golfers and they golf at courses. I was like, you probably don't want those people calling you. So if you ever find those. There's some golf balls with John Chris's phone number out there that I was like, man, if you lose it. I was. Cause I just picture. Because I was like, all right, well, John could never just play with these balls.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

John would play with them because he's fun. But I was like, but if I can then put them in the hands of two people that are going to lose these balls real quick. I mean, fast.

[Nate Bargatze]

The front nine. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

On a putt. Putt course.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Guys, they're going to lose them and they're not going to go in the water. They're going to be just. They can't see them. Might be in the middle of the fairway. They're trouble seeing Bates kid. How far do you think you can see a golf ball when you hit it off a tee? You lose it pretty quick.

[Brian Bates]

Thankfully, I don't hit it too far.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So it kind of works out.

[Nate Bargatze]

I give up on a ball so quick. I'm not looking. I'm not. Just drop one. None of this matters.

[Aaron Weber]

Can't have money.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's not on.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what they say.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right. I'm playing with big time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Got your ping balls out there.

[Brian Bates]

I'm playing with John Chris balls.

[Aaron Weber]

You still have those balls?

[Brian Bates]

No, I lost.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty quick.

[Aaron Weber]

What golf course?

[Brian Bates]

Riverside.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I can't remember what's going on over here.

[Aaron Weber]

It'd be fun if y'all put some of this on the podcast.

[Nate Bargatze]

We'll tell you later.

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[Brian Bates]

All right, we've been talking about the senses. We've done site, hearing.

[Aaron Weber]

Touch.

[Brian Bates]

We haven't done touch yet.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I think we've only done two.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Sight and hearing.

[Brian Bates]

I thought we'd done three.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Figured out right now maybe you guys did one before. Maybe only.

[Aaron Weber]

Just be quiet, think about it. We did taste.

[Nate Bargatze]

We did do taste.

[Brian Bates]

We're all in this together. So today we're doing smell.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Now, smells different.

[Dusty Slay]

I often wonder even what a smell is. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Well, we'll find out today.

[Dusty Slay]

It's just out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I like that. I like the confidence.

[Brian Bates]

Philosophical.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's get into it. What is it?

[Dusty Slay]

It's just like, I don't know, but I've been saying, you know, like, if you smell something, you do like this, like, what is that?

[Aaron Weber]

Does it make it go away?

[Dusty Slay]

Does it disappear? Or they just need to be broken up? Are they, like, in a conflict and you gotta.

[Aaron Weber]

If you had a smell of a fruity smell and you did, and you did. Would make it go away.

[Nate Bargatze]

You waft it up to you.

[Aaron Weber]

I know, but I'm saying, what if you send it away? Like, you're like, I don't want to smell that.

[Nate Bargatze]

You could. Yeah. Because when you're smelling something, my understanding is it's actual. It's the particles of whatever you're smelling literally in your nose, Right?

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

So it's literally whatever you're smelling that's just, you know. So think about that next time you're in the bathroom. Remember, we had a. Need a bit about that because we talked about it. Of the hand dryers in the bathroom.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, the bit got worked out. But yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That there was. There's an argument to be made that all that's just doing is taking all the particles of the things you smell in a bathroom and just pushing.

[Dusty Slay]

Because there's a vent underneath those hand drives where it's sucking up air from the bathroom.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then it's just heating it up and dumping it on your hands. So you go in there, maybe you don't even touch yourself. Right. You just go in and then you're like, well, I got to do the societal thing. So you go ahead and wash up. And now your hands under the hand dryer. Your guy may be getting dirtier than if you'd just not done it.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right. Yeah. You can push it away.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because if you're in a laboratory, they tell you when you. If it smells something, like in a test tube, they say, don't put your nose right on top of it. You stay back and you just. And you waft it over like that with your hand. That's like lab safety protocol.

[Aaron Weber]

You're in the laboratory.

[Nate Bargatze]

High school chemistry or something. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't want that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Since then, what's that?

[Dusty Slay]

Mustard gas. You don't want that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah. We're not cooking up mustard gas. And freshman chemistry, good on accident. Yeah. I don't know how easily you can make mustard gas, but now when you.

[Brian Bates]

Played football, did you ever. They ever use smelling salts on you?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no. I've done them recreationally, but I never used them.

[Aaron Weber]

Why? Just.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just to try them out. Yeah. You see people. Have you ever done a smelling salts like that? I should have brought him in.

[Dusty Slay]

I think I messed around with it one time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it'll. It, it will shock you.

[Brian Bates]

That doesn't shock me.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, when would you do it? Like, if you got up in the morning and did it, you would be.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, yeah, guys will do it when they weight lift. Like, if you need a little. Yeah, if you're about to exercise, you just do.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, it'll. It will shock you. You've never really smelled something that intensely before. You realize the nose can do a lot. It's.

[Brian Bates]

It works opposite of the other senses with other senses, we identify and then have an emotional reaction. With our sense of smell, we have an emotional reaction before we identify the scent. You walk in, you smell something good. Pleasure boy.

[Aaron Weber]

Pizza.

[Brian Bates]

Pizza.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That one you can identify pretty quick.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I just like that. You pick. You just went right for it.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's a top five smell. That's a top five smell. Fresh pizza. Yeah, it's gotta be top five.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know why it's funny to me. No, I think it's like you walk in the house, you smell something good. Pizza, pizza.

[Aaron Weber]

Top five smell.

[Brian Bates]

You said it with such confidence.

[Aaron Weber]

Crazy to me at all like fried chicken.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Now that's what I'm talking about.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, pizza smells way better than that. Pizza, cookies, freshly cut grass. I mean, that's three of the top five right there.

[Aaron Weber]

Get emotional, buddy.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm getting an emotional reaction. That's what smells do.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Gasoline. I love the smell of gasoline. I love a gas station smell. Something about it. You feel that way. Mouth smell.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. New car smell.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I haven't had that much. I barely know what that smells like. It just smells. It's just leather, right.

[Aaron Weber]

There's no chemicals.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

One day you're gonna know it.

[Brian Bates]

One day Nate will give you a ride. We get a new bus. You can ride on it.

[Aaron Weber]

Your cars are all worked in that van you bought and drove around for a while. You're like. It had new car smell. And 30 years ago, you let me.

[Dusty Slay]

Smoke cigars in that van.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, dude. Yeah. We put some work in that car.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Lived in.

[Brian Bates]

Studies show that 75% of emotions are triggered by 70.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is that what she said?

[Aaron Weber]

I think he said it with a B. I usually say, yeah, 70.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you have any.

[Aaron Weber]

I think in that. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's a serious thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, they say. Don't they say that a lot of the joy or whatever of kissing somebody is smelling their face? That's where a lot of it comes from.

[Aaron Weber]

Who says that?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never heard that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think scientists say that.

[Dusty Slay]

That's not going in my top five.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, but I think that that's when you kiss somebody, you're smelling their face, and that's part of kissing. Got anything on that?

[Brian Bates]

Everyone has their own distinct smell.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I'm saying. Yeah. And you smell that when you kiss somebody.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I guess so. No, I mean, that's probably. I don't have any research on it. Twins.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You can smell your. Like I smell Laura. I can smell her. Like you smell her clothes. Or you can. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's a lot of Pharaoh.

[Aaron Weber]

I never thought of it with pheromones.

[Nate Bargatze]

Some findings show that. Oh, you sniff them. Kissing may have originally been an extension of smelling. Animals sniff each other to find a partner for mating. And so when you kiss somebody, you're doing the same thing. Essentially.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. According to this website that apparently, according to eye of love.com, it looks like it's selling something. It sells cologne. You're reading. You're getting your information off a website that sells cologne.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, they would know. They would know about fragrances, and they.

[Aaron Weber]

Wrote about it in 2019 is the last Time they updated it. They go and done put the date on there this last time we looked into it.

[Nate Bargatze]

What about Time magazine? Is that good enough for you?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, he trust the first one more.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But it's like a fingerprint. Everyone's smell is different.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And twins are essentially the same unless they have different diets.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, and their twins are typically going to have the same diet, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It'd be crazy to just.

[Brian Bates]

Once you become an adult, you just.

[Nate Bargatze]

Feed one like a. Like a.

[Aaron Weber]

You think you might as well get two. Might as well see how one goes one way and one goes the other way. You know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Give one a healthy diet, just force feed the other. Just to see.

[Dusty Slay]

You'd think if you're in the same house, though, all eating the same food, you all have different smells.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he and Laura have different smells.

[Aaron Weber]

Like. Oh, yeah, you smell us. Yeah, we would smell different. Your body would smell different.

[Dusty Slay]

But even in this situation. Right. Like, you're like.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you smell like Miller Light.

[Dusty Slay]

But you're on the road a lot. Right. So it's like, it's not the. The exact setup. Right. Because you're eating out all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So you guys are not at home every day eating the same meal.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

But if you are. If a family is at home every night eating the exact same meal, do they have different smells?

[Brian Bates]

I'd say yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I still think that different smells, their.

[Brian Bates]

Bodies, men and women.

[Dusty Slay]

If I smell like Miller Lite, that's a real issue. I've not drank in a long time.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a real issue for all of us. I just thought it was a funny thing to say.

[Nate Bargatze]

He smelled like a sticky floor.

[Dusty Slay]

I never was a Miller like guy, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Just was a. I just popped in my head, got a Del. You got Del. Del Earnhardt hat on. Like, totally.

[Nate Bargatze]

It worked.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It was just fun to say you don't smell like Miller Life. I would.

[Dusty Slay]

I like to. Coors Banquet beer. That's a good one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't even know. I don't even heard that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Old money over here.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that. That was. That was a.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not a pricey one, but it's just. It's like set of Coors Light. It's the Coors heavy.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh. And they called it a banquet.

[Dusty Slay]

It's the Banquet.

[Nate Bargatze]

The Banquet beer. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Smell is a lazy scent in the sense that if you walk into a bakery, you're going to smell fresh bread or Any room, you walk in, smell something. You in there a little while, you no longer notice it.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why people can work at, like, McDonald's and Krispy Kreme, because you'd always think, well, how could they eat? I mean, how could you work here and not. You just smell it all day. But I guess you're used to it now.

[Brian Bates]

I can work the opposite. We've had actually more than once, like, a skunk die under our house, and the whole house just smells like skunk.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then after a while, you're like, I think it's gone, the smell. And then I'll leave and I'll come back in. I'm like, oh, gosh, no, it's still here.

[Nate Bargatze]

You leave the house for a while, then you come back and like, God, yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even know if that skunk has died. It feels like it's living under there. Keep spraying.

[Brian Bates]

Well, maybe.

[Nate Bargatze]

What'd you do? Did you get. Did you fish it out or what did you do?

[Brian Bates]

Never found it, but, you know, just.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just moved on.

[Brian Bates]

You just do what you can.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Put out, like, baking powder, and I forgot what all we did, but just open all the windows and just hope it leaves. Eventually it will.

[Nate Bargatze]

He had a squirrel die in our wall once. Smelled real bad for a while.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you get it out?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Got some guy to go in and get it, and it was.

[Aaron Weber]

It was dusty.

[Nate Bargatze]

Was bad.

[Dusty Slay]

That can happen with rat poison, too. If you put out rat poison, the rats will die in your walls, and then it'll really smell it up.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's the solution?

[Dusty Slay]

You want to trap them?

[Brian Bates]

Okay, see, I always heard the opposite. If they die in a trap, they're going to die in your house. If. If the eat rat poison, they want water, so they're going to leave the house to try to get water.

[Dusty Slay]

If you know where you put the trap, just, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

But then you got to deal with it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Just get it and move it out of there. That is true. That is what they say about the. About the rat poison. But that's what they told us. As a pesticide salesman.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know if I forgot you were an industry inside.

[Aaron Weber]

This could be propaganda.

[Dusty Slay]

We had rodenticides too, but, yeah, it's like. It seemed like the most cruel way because they said the rat gets real thirsty but can't, like, drink water or something, or its thirst never gets quenched. And struggling with it, so it just seems like it, like, tortures it.

[Nate Bargatze]

So the most humane thing to do is just get a trap that just the most knocks it out.

[Dusty Slay]

The most, seemingly most inhumane one I think is the most.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is the most humane.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, the. Yeah. Like if you do the glue or something. That's.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's real.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You got really shoot that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Shoot it with a shotgun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You had to like, pound them.

[Dusty Slay]

I dropped a brick on a. Yeah. One time. Yeah. I didn't know what to do, but they were like, screaming.

[Aaron Weber]

Was a brick enough?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was a cement block.

[Nate Bargatze]

Cinder block. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. That got the job done.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ruin the system.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you see? Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I was living in an old house and I put out a bunch of glue traps and I caught. I think it was five and one night, maybe seven mice about midway.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. They weren't quite field rats or whatever, but they were.

[Aaron Weber]

They were on their way.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I put them in a trash bag and all the screaming stopped.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's good. You blinded it. You blinded.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It stopped right away. I was like, thank goodness. And then I threw him in the trash can. Yeah. I had to drive to Arkansas right.

[Nate Bargatze]

After with them in the car.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

No, just, you know, you wake up in the morning, kill a bunch of rats, get in the car, drive to Arkansas. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Go to Arkansas. Where you go do that.

[Brian Bates]

He took him with him.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Turn him loose.

[Brian Bates]

According to a study by university in Sweden, the most university love smell, regardless of cultural background is vanilla.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is a great smell.

[Dusty Slay]

Top five.

[Nate Bargatze]

Top ten.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think. Yeah, I don't think I've always liked vanilla, but I know it's to.

[Brian Bates]

Because I can.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you like it as a flavor?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

But I don't know if a smell. If I'm like, give me vanilla. I don't think if you told me, if you asked me to get five smells and you go pick your five smells. I don't know if I would say vanilla.

[Dusty Slay]

I like lavender.

[Brian Bates]

That was up there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But new car smell in China, they find it repugnant. They try to get it out of the car.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, that was it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I don't like this. The chemical smells. I like real smells, like essential oils like lavender, eucalyptus, patchouli, rosemary. All great smells.

[Brian Bates]

The major hotel chains all have you.

[Dusty Slay]

Guys on that, huh? Nate went to sleep.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I zoned out.

[Brian Bates]

The major hotel chains, they all have their own signature aroma in the lobby. Sheraton smell like fig clove and jasmine Weston, which I stayed at this weekend. Boom. They go for white tea now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you Walk in there and think wow, they got white tea brewing.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't. I couldn't identified it but I noticed it when I walked in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

You got any more of that white tea?

[Nate Bargatze]

A double tree. Smells like chocolate chip cookies.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah because that's what they make. They give it to you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they love to give you a warm cookie.

[Nate Bargatze]

They do. It's great saying this like it's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

I just. I think it's weird.

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron goes in and out. Hi, my name is Bob Smith. I'm checking into the hotel.

[Dusty Slay]

I forgot my id. Can I get a cookie though?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

God forbid a hotel tries to make you feel at home, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Hi, I'm John Jefferson. Still stick with John? No, the first time I said Bob.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do a woman's voice but still be a guy.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm John Jefferson. Well you look like you so they. And then you go I think I got a room here. Can I have the cookie while you wait to look it up? Because they're not going to find it. Can I go to have the cookie now? And then you look it up.

[Brian Bates]

Pregnant women are more sensitive to smells.

[Aaron Weber]

Because they have two noses. There been other nose in there.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's actually. It's a good point.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is it?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah it is. And what's the other reason you think because they're stronger because they're.

[Brian Bates]

I think their hormones are changing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Because they're. They got stronger and breathe underwater.

[Brian Bates]

Some animals can smell cancer.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Like dogs. I used to have a joke about that.

[Brian Bates]

You did?

[Aaron Weber]

What was the joke?

[Brian Bates]

It's a bad way to find out you have cancer.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Wait, yeah Did I ever do that joke somewhere?

[Brian Bates]

I think you said some people said it was too mean.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think I thought it was me. Yeah. Yeah. It was a bad way to find.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, you either got a steak in your pocket or. Yeah, cancer.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah that's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah but it was a mean. It's mean.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh you can make it less mean.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah but it's a funny joke. But it's like you'd be playing this dog. You're like this dog's into me and you're like oh boy, you gotta know what to tell you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Any joke about cancer out of all the. Yeah right.

[Aaron Weber]

Out of all the dogs you want into you that one you don't want into.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can make it skin cancer, then it's less.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Dog loves that mole on your arm.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not the skin cancer is not dangerous but it's way. Yeah like prostate's different yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Anyway, dog must think it's a treat.

[Aaron Weber]

See things.

[Dusty Slay]

A little chocolate chip on there.

[Aaron Weber]

Every time I walk in, he goes, look who's excited.

[Dusty Slay]

Right to that mole.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Ants can sniff out cancer.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's not true.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That they don't know ants and worms.

[Brian Bates]

I think I sent you article on that.

[Aaron Weber]

But why would they. Why are we not using this thing?

[Brian Bates]

They are trying to use it.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I believe ants. I don't think an ant has ever given any kind of motion to let you know, hey, something's going on over here. So I don't think they're even. They can even kind of do that. Like, an ant doesn't have anything on their body that they could go look over here.

[Nate Bargatze]

The first clause of the first sentence of this article is, ants don't have a nose.

[Aaron Weber]

Boom.

[Nate Bargatze]

But that doesn't stop them from sniffing out cancer. Thanks to an abundance of olfactory receptors on their antennae antennas, the insects have an incredible sense of smell. And they use it to detect tumors.

[Dusty Slay]

Wouldn't that be a.

[Aaron Weber]

How do they tell you you have a tumor?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think they tell you. I think they let the doctor do that part.

[Aaron Weber]

But how does. You gotta.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, I just got all these ants on me.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's something to do with. They put it in your urine and they react differently.

[Nate Bargatze]

So this team of scientists started by transplanting human breast cancer tumors into mice. So we gave breast cancer to mice.

[Aaron Weber]

Terrible.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a technique called xenografting. They then collected urine.

[Aaron Weber]

Sounds better than going, but if you ever say xenografting, you go, what's that? You go, I was hoping not to have to tell you.

[Brian Bates]

Don't ask.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm a xenografter. Oh, what is that? I'm about to ruin this party. I give breast cancer to mice. Good night. That's all you do? That's all I do. And you're a xenografter. That sounds so good. It sounds like you went to school for that. You go, yeah. That's why we changed the name to xenograft. Because it sounds great. We hope we try to say it and walk away before you can ask, what do you do?

[Nate Bargatze]

So they took urine from the mice with the tumors, and from healthy ones, they placed a drop of sugar water in front of the urine from the animals with cancer. The researchers trained the ants to associate the smell of tumors with the reward. They then removed the sugar water, and then they were able to identify the cancer pee.

[Dusty Slay]

If your doctor's doing this. You better call ZOC doc.

[Brian Bates]

You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

I think. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I should have saved ZOG doc for that part.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It only took three training rounds. Around 10 minutes total. The lock in the ant smell association, how about that for comparison? It took dogs six months to learn.

[Aaron Weber]

Stupid dogs.

[Brian Bates]

I love the guy up at the right above there, a little bit above that article he started. Yeah. His qualifications. Where was it? There was something where he said he. He worked with experiment with cancer detecting locusts in Michigan State University. So this guy has.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's the kind of stuff Michigan State does.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's just give cancer to helpless animals.

[Brian Bates]

No, they're detecting the cancer.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. All right, well, it was locusts. Yeah. Yeah. The plague.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So. So there's different neurological disorders for people's smell. Pero. Doesn't matter. Is characterized by hero.

[Aaron Weber]

Not going to work here anymore.

[Brian Bates]

By the inability of the brain to correctly identify an odor's natural smell. So you. These people, no matter what they smell, it smells like something burning or rotting or chemical. Smell sounds horrible. Now there's an opposite where everything smells great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sounds awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's called you you ain't working. Yeah, there's phantom motors. That's a neurological where people think they smell something, but it's not there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are they good? Phantom motors? Yeah. Sound like could be a good thing.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I've heard about people who've had a. Like a loved one pass away and they say they still smell like, you know, them in the house.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, man, that's old clothes they gotta.

[Brian Bates]

Get rid of probably. Now this woman, this woman said her name's Joy Milany. She said her husband, all of a sudden he always had a pleasurable smell. And then all of a sudden he started reeking. He didn't smell good. And she could never figure out why. He would shower. Still had this weird smell. Then his mood and different things about him started changing. Finally realized still hadn't put it together. He was later diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. They go to a Parkinson's disease like. Like a place where a support group, I guess.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hospital.

[Brian Bates]

No, support group where there's a lot of Parkinson's people there. She walks in, the whole room is that same smell.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

And that's when she first realized what she was smelling was Parkinson's disease. She has such a good sense of smell that she can detect.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh my God. Is she using this power for good somewhere?

[Aaron Weber]

Right now they don't have a cure for Parkinson's. Right.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think so, but I guess early detection.

[Aaron Weber]

So it wouldn't be for you. Big. It'd be using it for bad news.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That doesn't.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just so you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You got Parkinson's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So I know there's nothing you can do about it, but just let that be a worry.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's not. Hey, you want to meet my wife? I don't know. I'd like to enjoy these last. This last little bit before she's about to drop a bomb on me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's a Viking museum where they pipe in the smells of what the Vikings would smell like.14 million visitors a year visit and experience smells such as Viking toilet and village.

[Nate Bargatze]

A Viking toilet.

[Brian Bates]

I'm guess that's just like a hole.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I don't know. If you have to smell that. That would be like. Just a good village.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I know what that smells like right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Like a locker room. Like a football locker room. Smells disgusting.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You ever been to a Porta potty?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Porta John. It smells so bad.

[Dusty Slay]

So bad.

[Nate Bargatze]

So bad. It.

[Dusty Slay]

It hits you especially at like a festival or something where people are just. It's like the. It's like a room where you just. You. You're getting rid of the worst stuff in your body and you don't care how it comes out or where it goes. It's like, why is everything all over the floor in there?

[Aaron Weber]

When they put the urinal in, that was huge.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

For me, urinal used to not be in there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I don't know if I've seen that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They used to.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not in a portage on.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's just a plastic trough.

[Aaron Weber]

But it's.

[Brian Bates]

At least you don't have to.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You don't have to lift the lid.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Dusty, what's your favorite song about? Smell.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you know what? There's a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Yeah, I knew you would think of it. Smell. Can't you smell that? Smell.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go.

[Brian Bates]

Smell like Teen Spirit.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah, That's a good one.

[Brian Bates]

We're wrapping up here. A couple of phrases.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, that took a good night. What happened with.

[Brian Bates]

I got some movies about smell.

[Aaron Weber]

And then you go into like. Yeah. What's everybody's favorite smell poster they had growing up? What?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Scratch and sniff cards. I love those.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Now we're talking.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

There you go.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that. A little Leonard Skyrim in there, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Could you. I think I could smell you were running out of stuff.

[Brian Bates]

That's A good segue.

[Nate Bargatze]

Parkinson's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Phrases.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Stop and smell the roses.

[Nate Bargatze]

Stop and smell the roses.

[Aaron Weber]

That's where it comes from.

[Brian Bates]

Wake up and smell the coffee.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's where. Wake up and smell the coffee. I've never heard that.

[Aaron Weber]

Wake up and smell the coffee. No. Think of it. Is it commercial?

[Brian Bates]

Never heard that.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, wait. Smell the roses.

[Dusty Slay]

Best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Stop and smell the roses. I mean, we know what it means to slow down, enjoy life. Don't just be going hectic.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ring around the rosie. Remember that pocket full of posies, Ashes. It's about the Black plague. They used to carry flowers in their pockets to smell them because the rotting bodies just smelled so bad everywhere.

[Dusty Slay]

What is ashes? Ashes. We all fall down.

[Nate Bargatze]

They burned all the bodies, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, my goodness.

[Nate Bargatze]

A horrifying song.

[Dusty Slay]

I just read that to myself.

[Aaron Weber]

Why would they even write a song about. About it?

[Nate Bargatze]

Because I think, like, I mean, it's a bubonic plague. You need to. You need to get some cheer and joy. You might as well write a song.

[Dusty Slay]

They say something like, this old man, he played too. He played Nick. Something about that is like. He's like, that's like, about poor Irishman and knickknack Patty White. Give a dog a bone. Like, this old man came rolling home. They said, that's like, about poor Irishman that didn't even have a bone to eat or something. And it's like. It's like. That's a nursery rhyme now. I saw it on TikTok. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

What's a movie Stop and Smell the Roses, though? I mean, not. I mean, wake up and smell the coffee. That means, like, you're not living reality. Like, oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wake up and smell.

[Nate Bargatze]

Snap out of your dream, buddy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got work to do.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So Laura may tell you sometime to stop smell the roses. Ruth tells me to wake up, smell the coffee.

[Aaron Weber]

Because you don't live in reality as.

[Brian Bates]

Far as comedy goes. Some movies, Sin of a Woman.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's a good one. I actually don't know if I've seen that.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think I know what it is.

[Dusty Slay]

Al Pacino.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've always thought that was a very bad title for that movie.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because it's not about smelling women really, is it?

[Aaron Weber]

Is.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's like one line that he has in the.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it like a romantic movie?

[Brian Bates]

No, it's a coming of age movie, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Not really. Dude. It's about. Al Pacino is going to kill Himself.

[Dusty Slay]

Is he the devil in that movie?

[Brian Bates]

No, I've seen it, but it's just been a long time.

[Nate Bargatze]

But he's blind and he's on a plane. He's talking about, man. He just talks about. There's a really creepy part of the movie. Talks about how good women smell. And then they named the movie Scent of a Woman. But it's not really about that.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll have to watch.

[Aaron Weber]

But the mike is the best name because they're. They really named it. You'd be like, oh, I watch this, you know, Hua. Is that where he says hua?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's like every impression that you've heard of Al Pacino, I think comes from, like, him in that movie. It's like the most Scarface, but all but that. That kind of who was from Son of a Woman.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But often people do impression of him from Scarface. Say hello to my little friend.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but the whoas. But all that kind of. Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All that yelling and stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What did that.

[Brian Bates]

That was Apocalypse Now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Smell what the rock is cooking.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. That's one of the best lines of all time. Can you smell what the rock is Good?

[Nate Bargatze]

You think that. I mean, it doesn't matter what you think.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Women smell better than men.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

According to him. I mean, I don't disagree.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree.

[Nate Bargatze]

What is that, like a scientific study or is that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I would think that living life smell better to women than other women.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I always think it's weird that I think men would smell good to men. Like. Or not. Not many a man smell would be good to a woman. Like, it seems crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Body spray or something?

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, just a real. Yeah, yeah. It's like, I'm like. I would think sometimes, like, man, that's crazy that. Yeah. I think if a woman smells a man is like.

[Dusty Slay]

I stopped wearing deodorant. And during that time, I did much better on the dating scene than I had ever done by wearing Old Spice or whatever. That's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

That was old. Musty slay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Musty slay.

[Dusty Slay]

It's working. I mean, I still don't wear it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm against it.

[Brian Bates]

Your sense of smell improves throughout the day.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Why life, man?

[Aaron Weber]

Probably just as you wake up, it probably wakes up more.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wake up. Smell the coffee.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Smell the roses.

[Brian Bates]

You smell better in spring and summer due to additional moisture in the air.

[Dusty Slay]

So you can't smell that good out in Phoenix.

[Brian Bates]

Then I could smell that Hotel dry heat.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You smell better or can smell more strongly after you exercise.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I'll take your word for it.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

That was good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Thank goodness we had fun earlier.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I knew we were going to have fun, so planned accordingly. I had some.

[Nate Bargatze]

Learned a lot. I mean, that was rapid fire facts there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You guys started checking out, so I was into it.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought it was a hot podcast.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'd like y'all to work on your list of top five smells. I feel like I'm the only one that really went out on a limb here and revealed something.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I. I started listing things that I smells I enjoyed, and you guys all went to sleep.

[Brian Bates]

Lavender.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You just started naming candle flavors.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm looking for real oils.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm looking for, like, things you encounter in the world.

[Aaron Weber]

There was a Bath and Body Works lotion that was like, smelled like orange. And I loved it. Oh, yeah?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Loved it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, you can probably get it in like a shampoo. Everything that same smell.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. And the candle I loved. It's a lot. Yeah, it was a lot of smell. But I love.

[Dusty Slay]

There's a line from Sunday Morning coming down where he says, I caught the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken. And so that's why you said that. It's like, I feel like old times. You can really. In the country, you can smell people frying chicken.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good smell.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's top five for a bonfire. That's top five, too, dude. When a bonfire gets going, that's a good smell, man.

[Aaron Weber]

I started thinking about you. Go smell like smoke. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Solo stove.

[Nate Bargatze]

I love that smell, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you like it the next day on your clothes?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

Love it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The next day.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because then it's memories, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I actually. Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I like the smell of cigarettes. I like secondhand smoke.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it's good for you. Yeah. I don't think I mind here smelling someone smoking.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Because it's like, I don't know, it's just an old school thing.

[Brian Bates]

Cigars. You like, smell cigars?

[Dusty Slay]

I like to smoke cigars. I'm not so into the smell of them, but I do like to smoke them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It does seem like smell those more universal. What we like and don't like than say taste or. I mean, all those you name.

[Nate Bargatze]

True.

[Brian Bates]

Everyone pretty much likes the same.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true. None of your top five flavors. I'm going to be like, ooh, that's gross.

[Brian Bates]

Right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's just whether we like it. That's interesting.

[Brian Bates]

But everything you name, I think we all feel that way. Like gasoline, it wouldn't seem like that would be something that would be pleasurable, but.

[Nate Bargatze]

But you kind of like it, right?

[Brian Bates]

Kind of.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if I get a gasoline candle in my house, but.

[Brian Bates]

And certainly the bad smells. We all agree.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true. That's true. Anyway, yeah. Interesting stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, Aaron.

[Nate Bargatze]

Tune in next week.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Post Malone, do a full episode on Postmortem.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Where are you guys gonna be?

[Brian Bates]

Friday I'm back at the Grand Ole Opry. Sunday, I am at Commonwealth Sanctuary just out Cincinnati. That is a all ages show. 4pm show. Sept. 26, Louisville Comedy Club. Oct. 4, Ali Ray's in Knoxville. All these on the easier to drive tour because I'll be driving all these.

[Nate Bargatze]

November 24th at St. Louis. Helium. Yeah. Come see you there. And then, I mean, I'm having a kid like next week probably, so I'm off the road for a while, but January, I'm gonna announce a bunch of we. I'm hitting the road heavy again end of January, so. Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. This weekend I'm in Austin, Texas, but all the shows are sold out out at the Mothership. Very exciting, Fat boy. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Fat man, I think is what the name is called. And. But I am, I want to say, and September 5th, I'm in Charleston, South Carolina, at the Gillyard. And you know, it's kind of a special show for me. It's, you know, Charleston's not my hometown, but I lived there for 10 years where I started doing comedy. So I'd like there to be enough people in there for that to look. Look good. So get some tickets.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's a big one.

[Dusty Slay]

It is a big one. It's a bigger theater than what I'm doing right now, but it is a big deal. So I'm very excited. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I'll be in Foxwoods this weekend.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, cool.

[Aaron Weber]

So boom. Yeah. Connecticut. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Casino, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. We love you. Hope you have a good week. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nateland podcast.

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