223: #223 Ghosts featuring Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

Summary

The Nateland Podcast - Episode 223: Ghosts Featuring Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

Release Date: October 23, 2024
Hosted By: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay
Guest: Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

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Introduction

In Episode 223 of The Nateland Podcast, titled "#223 Ghosts," hosts Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay delve into the mysterious and often spine-chilling world of ghosts and the paranormal. The episode features a special guest, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, who shares her intriguing experiences and insights into ghostly phenomena. This Halloween-themed episode promises a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and thoughtful discussions about the supernatural.

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Guest Introduction

[01:08] Angela Johnson Reyes:
"Hello. Thank you so much. Should I have, like, an intro sound that I do, too or something?"

Anjelah Johnson-Reyes brings a fresh dynamic to the podcast, engaging in playful banter with the hosts as they establish her unique presence in the show. Her interaction sets the stage for an open and candid conversation about ghost stories and personal encounters.

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Personal Experiences with Ghosts

Throughout the episode, Anjelah shares a particularly eerie experience that led her to pause her own ghost story podcast:

[84:04] Angela Johnson Reyes:
"I was filming this particular episode here in Nashville...I just heard something in my headphone...I heard it. I definitely heard something."

She recounts how during a solo recording session, she and her dog were alone in a studio when mysterious noises and voices seemed to call her name. This unsettling event not only intensified her interest in the paranormal but also led to her putting her ghost story podcast on hold due to fear and uncertainty.

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Understanding Ghosts: Theories and Perspectives

The discussion shifts to the nature of ghosts and spirits, exploring various perspectives:

[93:11] Angela Johnson Reyes:
"Sometimes it could be demonic and I feel like gets full on something evil. I don't know. There's so much unknown."

[94:25] Nate Bargatze:
"I think darkness can mask itself as something that we are familiar with. And they know things about us."

The hosts and Anjelah contemplate whether ghosts are lingering spirits of the deceased, residual energy from past events, or even malevolent entities. They acknowledge the complexities and mysteries that surround paranormal phenomena, emphasizing that definitive answers remain elusive.

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Debate on the Validity of Ghostly Encounters

A lively debate unfolds regarding the authenticity of ghostly experiences and the influence of personal beliefs:

[91:48] Brian Bates:
"He was being lazy."

[94:46] Brian Bates:
"Are you really picking the room that the person's...You have complete control over it?"

The conversation delves into whether personal experiences with the paranormal are genuine or influenced by subconscious biases and expectations. Anjelah shares her skepticism about certain mediums and their methods, suggesting that some encounters might be more about entertainment or manipulation than actual supernatural events.

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Techniques for Dealing with Ghostly Encounters

The hosts discuss practical approaches to handling eerie experiences, especially from a faith-based perspective:

[92:57] Dusty Slay:
"I just rebuke you in Jesus name. Do not be around me."

[93:07] Angela Johnson Reyes:
"...emphasizing that once you die, you go to where you're supposed to go."

They explore methods of spiritual protection and the importance of personal faith in safeguarding against unwanted paranormal interactions. This segment offers listeners both comfort and actionable advice on maintaining control and peace when faced with inexplicable occurrences.

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Shared Stories and Listener Engagement

Anjelah invites listeners to share their own ghost stories, fostering a sense of community and shared curiosity:

[84:04] Angela Johnson Reyes:
"...people were in the comment section watching live and, like, you know, asking about their story."

The episode encourages audience participation, highlighting the universal fascination with the unknown and the desire to uncover the truths behind ghostly legends and personal hauntings.

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Conclusion and Final Thoughts

As the episode wraps up, the hosts reflect on the discussions and personal stories shared:

[95:22] Dusty Slay:
"So we gotta wrap. But did you ever do Bloody Mary in the bathroom as a kid?"

[97:34] Nate Bargatze:
"I think you're right. I think you're right."

The conversation concludes on a contemplative note, acknowledging the lingering mysteries of the paranormal while appreciating the blend of humor and seriousness that The Nateland Podcast brings to such topics.

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Notable Quotes

• Angela Johnson Reyes [84:04]:
  "I heard something in my headphone...I heard it. I definitely heard something."

• Nate Bargatze [94:25]:
  "I think darkness can mask itself as something that we are familiar with. And they know things about us."

• Dusty Slay [93:07]:
  "I just rebuke you in Jesus name. Do not be around me."

• Angela Johnson Reyes [85:44]:
  "I have a hard time believing it because I'm like, nobody knows exactly what it is."

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Key Takeaways

• Personal Anecdotes: Anjelah's own eerie experiences highlight the profound impact that ghostly encounters can have on individuals, influencing their professional and personal lives.

• Diverse Perspectives: The hosts and guest explore a range of theories about the existence and nature of ghosts, from residual energies to malevolent entities.

• Faith and Protection: Emphasizing the role of personal faith, the discussion provides listeners with spiritual strategies to handle and protect themselves from unwanted paranormal interactions.

• Community Engagement: By inviting listeners to share their stories, the episode fosters a sense of community and collective inquiry into the mysteries of the supernatural.

• Skepticism and Belief: The balance between skepticism and belief underscores the complexity of interpreting and validating paranormal experiences, encouraging listeners to seek their own understanding.

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For more insightful episodes and engaging discussions, tune into The Nateland Podcast every week.

Transcript

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[Brian Bates]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Angela Johnson Reyes]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Dusty Slay]

Today's episode of the Nateland Podcast is brought to you by Mountain Dew, pxg, Rocket Money, and Jack Black. Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. As always, Brian Bates, Dusty Slay.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

And today, doing the role of two hosts, Nate and Aaron, the wonderful Angela Johnson Reyes.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Hello. Thank you so much. Should I have, like, an intro sound that I do, too or something?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you gotta have your own thing.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

What should mine be? I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

You're like wrestling music.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, hey, I'll just do that because I do say, oh, hey a lot.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, hey is perfect.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I'll say, hey, girl. Hey.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's do it again.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Angela Johnson.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, hey. Hey. Hey, girl.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hey.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I'm gonna give you both. I decided on both. I was gonna pick, and then I said, you know what? I picked both. That's what happened. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

So Aaron. I talked to Aaron. I saw baby Olive.

[Nate Bargatze]

You saw it?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I was vip.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I saw baby Olive. I saw dad. Erin is a dad, and she's super cute.

[Nate Bargatze]

And home now.

[Dusty Slay]

And home.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, good. Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if we've even mentioned, but she's been in the hospital. That's one reason why Erin hasn't been here yet. But now she's home and just got home, so she's doing good. I say every week, I think Aaron's going to be back next week. I really do think he'll be back next week. But everything's going good. Nate will never be back. Gone, Nate. We don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is our podcast now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

No one's even talked to Nate, Brian and Dusty podcast. That's why. That's why Mountain Dews are sponsored. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They're, like, switching. Yeah, they're switching. So thank you for being here, Angela.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Hey, my pleasure. Thanks for having me.

[Dusty Slay]

I just got earlier this month. I got to do your podcast, Funula here live at Zany's, and that was so much fun.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That was fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And I bring this up all the time. Neither you or Dusty seem to care. I feel like I'M the only one that really cares. But you guys were born the same week, and you have children that were born the same week. I do believe.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I feel like I knew about our children. Did I know that about us, too?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know. I'm May 18th. And I'm May 14th, 1982.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

1982.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And your baby is born May 11th, not June. Oh, I have a son that born in June.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, June.

[Nate Bargatze]

June 19th.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And my daughter's June 14th.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Boom.

[Nate Bargatze]

Why are 2023.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Stop being each other. Stop. We need to. What?

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

I can't even tell the difference between.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

What am I thinking?

[Nate Bargatze]

You're thinking, man, I wish I had some of that Mountain Dew. Yeah, yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Same.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

We're the same person.

[Nate Bargatze]

Baja Blast.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys both think they're putting some ingredients in our food in America that they're not doing in Europe, so.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, you posted about that, too?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I talk about it every week.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, I posted about it, which. That's me talking about it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's not just that we think that that is happening.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'm just saying, you're both celebrities who like to tell us how to live our life, and this is true. Got some conspiracy theories going.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I have become more of a conspiracy theorist in my older years.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you're not, then you're not even paying attention.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

There it is.

[Nate Bargatze]

And that's what Brian's doing. Brian's head in the sand all day.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. I do feel bad for Dusty because I always bring up the conspiracy theories. I get them going.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm not even trying to talk about it.

[Dusty Slay]

I know you're not. And I'm always the one.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm just in here trying to drink my Mountain Dew and trying to mind a business.

[Dusty Slay]

I know, I know. I bring them up, then Dusty comments on them, and then he gets criticized in the comments like, oh, here we go with another conspiracy theory. So I apologize, Dusty.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what? I hate juice. And I've just noticed that mountain dew contains 0% juice. Another reason to drink it. I hate juice.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, save it for the bad read.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay, Juice. Just so we're clear, Juice is what I said. Sometimes juice can sound like other things.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Hilarious. Hilarious.

[Dusty Slay]

Before we get going, I got some. I got some Nateland news I want to share this week. The Nateland Showcase. Again. I'm hosting because Dusty refuses to and Aaron and Nate are mia.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I don't refuse to, but I, you know, I got a lot going on.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm joking. Tonight you're doing this. You're doing the Ryman.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You can't do it. You're doing the Ryman.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But anyway, I'm hosting. Oh, I'm sorry. That's Neat Land Live that I'm hosting every. Every Monday here at Zany's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And you're crushing it. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's so fun. We always have great comics. The showcase, which I did host last month, that's the monthly show we do here at Zany's. This week we debuted Liz Glaser. Liz was super funny. She won the Boston Comedy Festival. She came down and did it and crushed it, and so hers just came out. We have one more showcase this year, November 4th.

[Nate Bargatze]

The last comedy show on Earth.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we usually do them on Tuesdays, but this, the next month, Tuesday is election day. So Dusty says this will be the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Last comedy show before the country falls into complete chaos.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's already sold out. So people have gotten the word Dusty.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. They're like, get our laughs in while we can.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

[Dusty Slay]

But anyway, Nateland Live is every Monday here at the Lab. Good, clean, funny sets. Last week we had Dustin Nickerson, who was a guest on the pod, and he stuck around. John Chris dropped in. Stephen Bargazzi dropped in. Speaking of Stephen, he's got his own show coming up here in a couple of weeks. Stephen Bargazzi and friends here at Zany's on October 27th. Clean Magic show with Stephen and some of his closest magician friends.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

How fun.

[Dusty Slay]

And I have my show here at Zany's at the Lab. Brian Bates and Friends.

[Nate Bargatze]

Clean, as in no vulgarity or. It's just going to be like. Just clean, Clean tricks. Like, it's like. Like flawless.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Ah. And no slime. There's no slime.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. No sloppy tricks. No, just clean magic.

[Dusty Slay]

It doesn't say. Okay, we'll have to get a clarification on that, But I was talking about my show.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, right back.

[Dusty Slay]

My show. My Next1 is November 27th here at the Lab. Angela, you did last month.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Thank you.

[Dusty Slay]

Drop it in. It was all fun. November 27th. That's the night before Thanksgiving. That's a great night.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is a great night to go out.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You don't have to work the next day.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And usually families in town. Yeah, like family that comes in town, they don't come in the day of Thanksgiving. Usually, like the day before. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Laugh off some calories before you put them back on.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That's right. Make room. Make room. For the new calories.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And Angela's point, you're probably already annoyed with your family by Wednesday night.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

You might as well just arrived.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they just got here, but let's go see a comedy show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Take them out to see a comedy show.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, just a good old Brian Bates comedy show. What's the show called?

[Dusty Slay]

Brian Bates and Friends.

[Nate Bargatze]

We got to get you a name that makes sense.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought that was my name.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, we got to get you a name for your show, Brian Bates and Friends. I mean, that's a fine name, but let's get a. Let's give a spicy name.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. If you have any names, please write in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, let's get audience questions.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Angela did it because she's my friend. Dusty has not done it, and. Yeah. So I think the name fits. Oh, Dusty also refuses to do it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, if you change the name, then I'll do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't want to give off the impression that I'm your friend.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, the Dusty Sleighs doing this show. Brian Bates.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, I think you got to lean into the Brian Breakfast Bates. Breakfast Bates is a hot name.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I think I just call you Be Baits.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I feel like it gives you a little bit of street cred.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

She's always be.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, since day one. That's a day one.

[Dusty Slay]

Her name you really have. Yeah, right off.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

If you call yourself, you call it the Be B. Bates show, they're going to think it's, like, an edgy show. They're gonna be like, ooh, what's this? Not Brian Bates. It's B. Bates. Oh, what is that your rap name? Oh, my gosh. Maybe.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then instead of comedy, you rap.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Do it.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm thinking about.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'll write you. I'll help you write some lyrics.

[Dusty Slay]

I was texting with Angela and Danielle.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Danielle, pretty much that's what we've become. Dan Gel.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Her tour manager. And she caught. And Danielle was saying, ang, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then I replied something, and I said, ang. And then I was like, I've never called her Ang before. Do we have a relationship where I could call you Ang? I had to ask.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

We do. Well, here's the thing. He actually didn't ask. He assumed that we didn't have that relationship with. I was actually offended more by that. He was like, I'm sorry, we're not that close for me to call you Ang. And I was like, we're not. Oh, I Thought we were sure. I'm sorry. Apologies, sir.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian, she's been chopping letters off your name since you met day one. You can chop a few off her name.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

But we went learned last week's episode, west coast in the South. Different vibes. So, you know, we're more formal.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I gotta hear it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, we had some conflicting things because I think you changed the name on me. See, I was under the impression that it was like the south versus the west coast, and you changed it to, like, cultural differences. So people thought when you were. The clip that you shared, when you were like, oh, we wish we had the ocean. They thought you were talking about Tennessee, I think. And I thought we were talking about the South. And I'm like, well, we have the ocean. Right? And then you were like, I wish we had mountains. And I'm like, well, we have beautiful mountains. Right.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I hear what you're saying.

[Dusty Slay]

Right, Right. Yeah. I was thinking more of specifically Nashville, where I live, where we have to.

[Nate Bargatze]

Drive to the ocean and then even farming. I was forgetting about Florida, but I think. I think only almonds grow in California.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Like when you just said the west coast and the south, immediately I went to Nashville and I forgot that there's other parts of the South.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Florida. I mean, there's a whole Florida and the whole east coast of South Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina. Beautiful beaches.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you're right about that. Now, Florida. You were claiming places in Florida that we don't claim. Dusty Miami. Nobody thinks about that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I used to think that about Miami, and then I went and I spent some time there. I like Miami.

[Dusty Slay]

I love.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I like Miami, but I don't consider it the South.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, there's two different things I did.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Miami's too spicy to be.

[Dusty Slay]

You like Canada. You consider Canada the south South.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I feel like if you get so north, like in Canada, you're almost back to the south.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's full circle.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Well, not above Toronto. Yeah, it gets very Southern up there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

Nate Land is recording Greg Warren Special Nov. 23 at the Funny Bone in Columbus, Ohio.

[Nate Bargatze]

Great club.

[Dusty Slay]

First show sold out, so you better get your tickets for the late show before it sells out. Nate lands also recording Mike Vecchione special here at the Lab on December 28th. Two shows for the special taping night available now. Get them before they're gone.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Is that a second special?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really been cranking it up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Nice, Mike.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And so we so just give you an update on the Nateland podcast network. Update consumers with Greg Warren, TIM Convey, Sean O'Brien. Every Tuesday. This week, they tackle Oreo. They have a product that they get into every week.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay, cool.

[Dusty Slay]

And then we're on Wednesday. And then don't make me come back there with Dustin. Melissa Nickerson every Thursday.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, Some hot news.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So let's talk about where we were this weekend. I'll go first.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Thursday I was in Arlington, Virginia, at the Arlington Drafthouse. Have you guys ever done that clap?

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

It was great. A lot of people came out. The staff was very nice. But when I got there, there was no openers.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

What?

[Dusty Slay]

And I said, is, you know the opener coming there? Like. Yeah, so. And so is coming. He'll be here about 7, 10. The show's supposed to start at 7. And he got there about 7. And he said, I'm going to do 10, 15 minutes, then I gotta go.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

What?

[Dusty Slay]

And he said, how much time are you gonna do? I was like, well, an hour.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's his name?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't want to say, but I said, he said that'd be a long enough show.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I mean, contractually it's fine.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So he. He did exactly 10 and got off.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, my God.

[Nate Bargatze]

And took off.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Was he funny?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll be honest with you, I didn't hear much of a set because now I'm thinking I gotta do some more jokes.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Sure, sure.

[Dusty Slay]

So I didn't really hear set, but he did 10, got off.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Start pulling out jokes from the vault. You're like, wait a minute.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I just wanted to make sure I at least hit an hour.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Sure, of course.

[Dusty Slay]

So I went, you know, intentionally.

[Nate Bargatze]

What were you planning on doing?

[Dusty Slay]

And I was planning on doing an hour. Unless they had like, some clubs, you know, we'll say so and so is doing a guest set, blah, blah, blah. And then I'll do like 50, maybe.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But an hour is usually the max for me.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I feel comfortable doing. So I went slow and took my time.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And when I got off, I'd done an hour 20.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, let's go.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Be B.

[Nate Bargatze]

Love an 80 minute show.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

So long enough to get breakfast after.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So, you know, should I be doing an hour, 20 minute show every time? No, I think so, but now I can do it. And it was a great time. Everyone was so nice and fun and proud of you. And then Saturday. Thank you. And then Saturday night, I did this new club in Clarksville called Clarksville, Tennessee, which is like an hour from here. Joker's Comedy House. It's an urban club. I love doing urban shows and urban. It's just a different vibe. Yeah, I really play up.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

How are you received?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I am received well, if I do say so myself. I play up the likeness.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't run from very good in those rooms.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you do a full show?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I was headliner.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But that one DJ on the show.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he hosted.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was a, you know, a white couple down front, so all the black comics messed with them. And then I messed with them, too, in a different way. Like, we got to stick together, so they were a big part of the show.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That sounds like it was fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was great. It was great. So that was my weekend.

[Brian Bates]

Good.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

All right, do I go next?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I don't want to. I don't want to.

[Dusty Slay]

Now we'll go around the room.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay. Okay. So I was in Philly and had a great time. I hadn't been in Philly in many, many years, and I didn't realize that Philly was a vibe. Like, it was so cute. We stayed in an Airbnb and there was all these cute little, like, restaurants, cafes to, like, walk to. Everybody's walking their dogs. There's Halloween decorations everywhere. And it was so fun. And I feel like that helps me creatively and in my mood, like, to just feel lighter and more fun than when you're staying in, like, a real corporate, like, hotel. Especially like, when you're in a hotel, like, right by the airport, and it's just like, business complex after business complex. It doesn't feel like life giving, and then you just gotta go on stage and, like, turn it on, you know? But when you're, like, surrounded by life, it just does something different to my spirit. It does something different to the way I communicate with an audience. And I really felt that on stage this weekend in Philly, and they were such great crowds. And then I felt like I was also giving them something special because I was in a different kind of, like, mood, and it was just a fun, fun weekend. I did some writing because I'm finishing up my new hour, and I did some tweaking. I had Joe Larson opening for me, and every time I work with Joe, he is so great at listening to my set and being like, did you ever think about trying it like this? And I'm like, oh, I didn't. I'm going to do that on the next show. And, like, it's just always so fun, especially when I get my hour to a certain place where I'm like, okay, I know I want to tweak it, but I'm, like, all out of ideas. And then I get fresh eyes on it, and I go, okay, what if you do it like this? What if you move this here and then do that and be like, oh, I didn't even think about that. Yes. That's so good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

So I did a lot of that playing around this weekend, which also felt good. So I feel like I'm leaving this weekend on a creative, like, boost. Like, okay, that feels good.

[Dusty Slay]

So that's the best feel in the world.

[Nate Bargatze]

What venue did you do?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Helium.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Never. I've never done.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I've done it. That's the original one.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, it is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. And it's such such a fun room. It's, like, super intimate. The. The audience is literally, like, right here. The ceiling is low. It feels like a basement. It feels like we're very close with each other, and they were just such a crowd.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like the Heliums. I've never done that one. But the ones I've done, I like. Yeah, they're all great.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's awesome.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Thank you.

[Dusty Slay]

What about you, Dusty?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, you know, I was off this weekend. I went out to McMinnville, to the cabin, and just hung out with my family. We had a great time. I went to a new restaurant. New restaurant in McMinnville. Very exciting.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Where is McMinnville?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's on a. On a map. If you're just looking at it, it's, like, halfway in between here and Chattanooga.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

But if you're actually driving, it's, you know, way off the interstate, kind of in the middle of nowhere.

[Dusty Slay]

It's hard to get to.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I went to this restaurant, and I'm gonna try to tell you this story rather quickly, but see if it makes sense to you. We went to this restaurant, me and my wife and two kids, and we show up, no reservation. But it's 5pm we thought, that's not a big deal. And they asked, do we have a. Well, we walk in, there's no sign to say, wait for the host. And there's no sign that says, seat yourself. So we just stand there, and I can see the hostess. She looks at us. She makes eye contact with us. I go, I know that's the hostess, but she doesn't come over. Then the phone starts ringing, and she comes over, she answers the phone. She says, hey to us, but then answers the phone, and then she takes a reservation, which we did not note at the time. But it came to us later. She took a reservation for a party of three at six, we're there at five. And then the. She seems confused about where to seat us. And then the server comes over and he goes, he goes, the table we're thinking about sitting you at is open. But you know, we got a reservation at 6, so we don't want you to feel rushed. And I'm kind of being sarcastic with the guy, but I'm like, if you don't want us to eat here, we won't eat here. And he goes, no, I want you to eat here. I just, I don't want you to feel rushed. And I go, okay, well that's making us feel rushed.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, by saying that.

[Nate Bargatze]

So we went somewhere else. They let us leave. If I owned a restaurant, if I even worked at a restaurant, I would have been like, nah, let's get you in and let's move it. We'll just make sure you. And so we walked to another restaurant that we've been to a bunch of times. Begonias. Very good restaurant. And we ate there and, and then I paid and my receipt said 5:59. That's when we were done. So we walked to another restaurant, ordered eight, paid by 559 and. And then we just realized later that we were like the 6pm reservation that you had that was rushing us, you just took. We were here before the phone call. Yeah, you took. I wish that I had noticed it while I was in the restaurant.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you should have walked back into that restaurant. Hey, it's 5:59. I'm done eating.

[Nate Bargatze]

We did walk back by it on the way back to our car and both the waiter and the hostess saw us because I looked the whole time.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

You did that icon, like when you drive past somebody who, who like really sped up and cut you off and you like look at him with eyes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, they saw us. So the next day we call to make a reservation for 6pm you're going back. Okay, this is a three day event for us. So we called and they, we tried to make a reservation at 6 and they were like, well, you know, we're all booked up at 6. We go, what about 5? And they go, yeah, no problem. So they got no problem making a reservation at 5 when they have reservations at 6. But just don't walk in at 5. I don't want you to feel rushed.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

So you took the five.

[Nate Bargatze]

We did. And then we canceled.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

We'll show them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, we canceled because we decided not to go out to eat.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then we went back on Sunday at 11am when they opened and we made a reservation.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Was it worth the hype?

[Nate Bargatze]

It was okay.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

In the end it was okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, at this point, I think you gave them more trouble than they gave you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, yeah, well, I. I'm diff. I can be difficult.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because I've waited tables a lot, so I don't like to. I can't handle when people aren't doing things the right way. Yeah, I can't handle it, you know?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Wait tables.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

For how long?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, eight years at one restaurant and then I'd say two at another.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, wow. That's a good chunk of time at one restaurant.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I did.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I waited tables as well. I bounced around.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I was at every kitchen in the town.

[Nate Bargatze]

I have a hard time getting a job, you know, so when I get it, I keep it. People don't want to hire me. Well, so when I get it, I'm. I keep it.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Well, you've kept this job for a long time.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know I can't give it up.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And real and.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't you have a joke where you say people ask you all the time, can we be in and out an hour?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, they say 30 minutes. I don't. I forget the joke. But yeah, at least under an hour.

[Dusty Slay]

You want to tell us about Mountain Dew?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I sure do. I can't wait. I've been waiting on this the whole time. You know what we all need to get more of? Get off our butts and get into some action. And it's fun to do that with Mountain Dew. With bold flavors and refreshing citrus kick. Mountain Dew will get you off the sofa and have you feeling like you're charging up the side of an actual mountain. A mountain where the weather is perfect, your friends are ready to hang, and a full day of epic games are happening. Can you imagine? Check out all these flavors. Original Baja Blast, Code Red Voltage, my personal favorite. Baja Blast. When I'm on tour, I love to get out on the town and explore. I don't like to just sit around all day waiting for my show. So I go explore what I can. Having the refreshing Mountain Dew is always the best part. Mountain Dew contains 0% juice and I hate juice. Mountain Dew is calling. You should answer. Grab your friends, grab an ice cold Mountain Dew wherever refreshing beverages are sold, and do the dog.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That's good.

[Dusty Slay]

Boom.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That was. I got, dare I say, flawless.

[Nate Bargatze]

I got tripped up a little bit.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

No, flawless felt good about it.

[Brian Bates]

Let's start with you guys. Comments? I Tell you what, I think it's crazy. I didn't know we had Mountain Dew.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know that's the real you. Been gone for three weeks in the podcast. Got rednecked up in here.

[Brian Bates]

I mean that's, that's the top. That's real deal right there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Vanderbilt kept Big deal, started beating Alabama and we had to get some Mountain Dew going on. You come in Vanderbilt heavy today.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of Vandy. What's up? Hello folks. Hey Bear.

[Nate Bargatze]

The listeners now don't know that he's so dressed up in Vanderbilt gear. I mean this is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I got all Vandy on. I think, I think we're going to talk a lot about Vandy and SNL next week.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. I was going to say definitely snl. I got a lot of questions and comments but since we play Texas this week. Yeah, maybe we should go ahead and mention them a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

We can talk about Vandy. It's a big deal. Do you know how big of a deal it is, Angela?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I mean I've seen you talking about it and giving them good shout outs at the end of Saturday Night Live and making sure everybody knows big, big deal.

[Brian Bates]

Didn't beat Kentucky, Ball State, but yeah, that win is the biggest win I think I've seen. Even College World Series was so big. And not to take anything from that, but even, I mean beating the Tennessee.

[Nate Bargatze]

It'S just like you've crushed Alabama.

[Brian Bates]

I tell you what, it made me think we can win a national championship.

[Nate Bargatze]

You've crushed their stuff.

[Brian Bates]

The door, the door is open. That's all we needed. Once I saw that, I go, we can. I mean we should beat Missouri, should have beat Georgia State. We, we could be top 10. We could be number one in the country right now if we don't want that.

[Dusty Slay]

We should have been. We should have been.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we should have been.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now Alabama can't beat a team from the state of Tennessee.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's right.

[Dusty Slay]

Now Dusty, I meant to mention this. Last week, two weeks ago you said on this podcast these guys go on these talk shows and make these sports predictions and get it wrong, they should be fired.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did I say fired or held accountable? I think, I think you maybe even said fire. I might have said fire. And then you said get fired once in a while.

[Dusty Slay]

Vanderbilt against Kentucky, there's no way Vanderbilt will beat Kentucky. Followed up with that. So.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I'm not a sports commentator, but yeah, I mean I listen.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

But if you were fired, I don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Know where Vanderbilt came from but nobody saw that. Coming. And I don't think it's fair to hold anybody to those standards.

[Brian Bates]

We all knew it was coming. Coach Lee. We're killing it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I walked by a TV and I saw Vanderbilt was beating Alabama and I thought, that's crazy. I mean, this will turn around, obviously, but that's crazy that they're even beating them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then they won.

[Dusty Slay]

And I think if Texas had beaten Georgia and stayed number one, college game day may have come to Nashville.

[Brian Bates]

I think so, too.

[Dusty Slay]

There was some talk of it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, there was. I thought, I thought they would, too, because we'd be, it'd be a big game. But then I saw they're going to Indiana. It's Corso's. It's Corso's old team. So I kind of figured, like, they're undefeated. They maybe were going there from the get go, go. Maybe so. But it's. Yeah, it's. I mean, look, as a V fan, it's crazy. I was watching it. I was doing dress rehearsal for Saturday Live. When it's on, I was watching on the phone. You know, no one at Saturday Live understood, but I was excited. No one. I walked out in the dress hustle and I go, I, I, I go. Vandy beat Alabama. Said it to the crowd and it got, it got nothing. So much that I was like, for the live, I go, well, I'm not going to say it now. And I said, I think I said a big day for Nashville.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I, it was, it was that, you know, you think you're like, I'm going to go out there. It's almost like you think people, you're like, everybody knows I'm a Vandy fan. Then you got there, you say, and everybody's like, I don't even know what any of that means.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's almost the biggest upset in college football that I can remember in my whole life. Alabama just beat Georgia, became number one and loses to Vanderbilt.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a perfect setup.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if it's. Appalachian State beat Michigan. Yeah, that was pretty wild. And that was at a time where that was the first one where nobody. No, they were Division two or they were one double A. One double A. Yeah. One double A. Beat Michigan at Michigan.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's pretty intense.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

But yeah, next week we'll do a lot of SNL talk.

[Brian Bates]

Next year or next week. Yeah, next year when I come back on the show. I wasn't supposed to be back today.

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

But I figured it out and I did miss coming Back here.

[Dusty Slay]

I had to change a lot of the comments because there were a lot of Brian. Heavy ones about how great a job I'm doing and.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, just holding this, switched it down, strapping it down. Yep. We got Mountain Dew. Now Fancy Nancy. Berg Bauer, Birch Bauer. Fancy Nancy.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Do I switch my page?

[Brian Bates]

You don't.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, it's right here. Yeah, I just saw you guys start riffling with your page.

[Dusty Slay]

I think I gave Nate.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

What page are we on? I missed.

[Nate Bargatze]

I shuffle around.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

All right. I'm here.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

This has been a hilarious episode. It's probably more obvious to me as a listener that the biggest difference in the cultures of California versus the south was the actual pace of the show. Dustin wanted to speed things up, while Brian and Dusty were fine with Laid back. Thank you all for making my birthday happier. Happy birthday, Fancy Nancy.

[Dusty Slay]

Angela, you'd be perfect for this.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Well, I was going to say. Can I comment to her? Comment?

[Brian Bates]

No. I'm sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

We got to move on. Talk about Vanderbilt.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. We're going back to the Vanderbilt beat Alabama. We wish we could help you. What are you going to do? No, you can go.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I would have to agree just with this. Just in this moment, how you guys are, like, super chill, and then it's like, long pause. My heart beats faster, and I'm like, somebody say a word. Somebody say a word.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what Dustin said, too.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. And it's so. I don't know. I think it's like this. But that's something I've always said about you. And your standup as well, is something that I've admired. And I'm like, oh, I could never do is you rest in those pauses, in those quiet moments. And, like, that's where I feel like you get more confident when it gets silent. And that's where I go say something.

[Brian Bates]

Like, it does build confidence. Yeah. But I don't think I rest as much as you think I do. My head, I'm. In my head, I'm not.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Like, you know how, like, in your. You know, like, the pauses, I'm gonna naturally just pause because I talk slower, but in my head, I feel a painting.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, interesting. I would never, ever imagine that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And so you just kind of like. I'm actually trying to get a little better at sitting in it a little bit more. Like letting a joke, like, really resonate. Because sometimes I can be. I'll stay on top of it too much, and it's a bunch. And I'm trying to, like, for this next Hour. Like, let it sit for. But it feels like, you know, when you're on stage, you feel like if you move, like, if you just wave your hand, it feels like you're up there going, you didn't act out. Yeah. And you're just waving your hand so everything's amplified. So no matter what, it's still going to probably feel crazy. But it's good to know that it looks like that.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

It totally does. And I think that's probably. You guys feel fine with, like, then it'll get quiet for a second, and I'm like, dead air. Dead air.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like a quiet podcast, you know, I like a lot.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even notice the dead air.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I think the fans like it. It. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You and Dustin can go on back.

[Brian Bates]

Where you came from.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Apparently. I will just.

[Brian Bates]

No, I'm saying they want. They don't want to hear from you.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, look who's back, baby. I just got through telling them I had to do an hour 20 Thursday night.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, they told you to do an hour?

[Dusty Slay]

All right, let me rephrase. I didn't have to do an hour 20. I felt like I had to. The host. They didn't have a host at first.

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't have anybody.

[Dusty Slay]

And they showed the guy.

[Brian Bates]

I know he did.

[Dusty Slay]

The guy showed up and he goes, yeah, I'm going to do 10 or 15. Then I got to go. And then he did 10, and I did hour 20.

[Brian Bates]

Why did you not just do an hour?

[Dusty Slay]

I was going to. My goal was just to make sure I did at least an hour, and.

[Brian Bates]

It just was good.

[Dusty Slay]

It just kept going. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And that's good.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I want to give them their money's worth.

[Nate Bargatze]

Give them their money's worth. That's what I'm saying.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Make them go, when is this gonna be over?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that was about 30 minutes in.

[Brian Bates]

I think $7 hour 20 minutes. You sound stupid if you add that together. I think they got more than they're worth. Made a little more. I think they might have got a $10, $15 show out of the old Brian Bakery.

[Dusty Slay]

They had their own door deal.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Because that's what you should tell them when you get done.

[Dusty Slay]

They hit their bonus.

[Brian Bates]

That was an $18 show. I gave it to you for eight.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How dare you come not laugh at all these jokes? Yeah, that's great. Hour 20 is great. I don't know if I've ever even done an hour 20. I think I did it one time at a lock in. You know, the Lock in things that they would do at schools. Like it was in Maine and they had like a.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Universities.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Like. Like bumper boats and they had all this stuff. So they had a lock in. So the high school kids could only stay in this thing. So they don't. So they have a party. They have to do it here.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I did a show there and I think I did like an hour 20 because it was just like.

[Nate Bargatze]

And they couldn't live.

[Brian Bates]

No, I. I couldn't leave. I was in the corner. There was really no, like, it was just like one of the things was a comedian was in this room. And so it was. I was young too. I was like, you know where. And it was the only time I did like an hour was up there for like an hour 20. Because it was just. But it was. I mean, story. No, no, no. No one was quiet. You. It would take you a second. I always say that you. If you walked in the room, it would take you a minute to find me. That's how much movement. I didn't have a stage. I didn't have. I was just in.

[Nate Bargatze]

You were like a comedy booth. You had to walk by and get some comedy.

[Brian Bates]

Some people would sit there and I would talk to them. You know, it's just where you're just kind of hanging out. So did you do hour 20? I mean, hour 20 scared. Like that scares me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, if they told me ahead of time, you're doing hour 20, I would have been scared.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I guess that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

I just went. That's why I was calling you.

[Brian Bates]

I've done 75. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Thursday night. Because I was about to say, guess what I just did.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is all. All came out. How old you go?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Material wise, it all came out. I did some of Dusty's.

[Brian Bates]

I go hourly. Yeah. You give me like that hour 20. Like you need to do a show and then you're like, I had to do it. And you kind of think, how far did you go? You're like 15 year.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Easy 15 year joke.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I did a Q and A.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you?

[Dusty Slay]

Some guy asked, does Dusty smell funny?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Did anybody ask how long is this show?

[Dusty Slay]

After that guy asked that question. I think that was the next question.

[Brian Bates]

How long are you going to keep going?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I hope you kicked that guy out of the show.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I loved it. I was trying to fill time.

[Brian Bates]

I think Dusty smells great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. What's the guy mean by funny?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

What kind of shampoo do you use?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, head and shoulders. Today. I switch it up, though.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Depends on, you know. Depends on the day.

[Dusty Slay]

Sure.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Do you and your wife do different shampoos or you just share a shampoo?

[Nate Bargatze]

We. We do. She doesn't do head and shoulders.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

She has her own, like, girly shampoo.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Do you ever use hers?

[Nate Bargatze]

Sometimes, yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

My husband has a lot of hair.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, look, that's another thing we have in common. You have a lot of hair. My husband has a lot of hair. So, like, your wife's husband has a lot of hair. So we're talking about the things we have in common earlier.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're born a week apart, and so.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Our kids are born same day. Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

We said same day about a week apart, too. 14th. 14th, 19th.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay. Okay. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And y'all are born a week apart?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Four days, right?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I'm four days.

[Brian Bates]

Are y'all the same age?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. 82.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm four days young.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. But my husband has a lot of hair, and when he uses my product, oh, I get mad because I'm like, bro, that's. That's like a dime. You only use a dime amount of this expensive product.

[Nate Bargatze]

And he'll be like, I use so much shampoo.

[Brian Bates]

I use a lot of shampoo. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Y'all need to come. Yeah, Me, I can go through one bottle a year.

[Brian Bates]

You just use the leftover we have in soap. You just go, all right, Just put it up there. I. Yeah, I. I mean, I took a shower today. I put it. I'll put a ton in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I love a lot of shampoo.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really loud.

[Brian Bates]

I never understood dying. You're like, what, are you out of your mind?

[Nate Bargatze]

I go, that's what I'm saying.

[Brian Bates]

He's half a toothpaste. But I think guys just. It's just. There's no. There's no touch.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Speaking of toothpaste.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Do you line your toothbrush like they do in the commercials, with the whole line of toothpaste, or do you give it, like. Just like, a dot?

[Brian Bates]

I think I line it.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I don't line.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm more like a dot.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, you just do a dot on it.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I'll probably. No, I do like a. I feel.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Like if it was too much toothpaste, I would feel like I'm at the dentist with that little tool. And then it's like, they have to. You start drooling, and it's gross. Like, it's too much. I feel like I would be, like, too much toothpaste in my Mouth. Yeah, but you line it, huh?

[Brian Bates]

I line it.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Interesting.

[Brian Bates]

Load it up. Arden G. Arden G. Cultural differences featuring three white guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's why we have Angela here today to.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hey.

[Dusty Slay]

But hey, we, you know, we all got cultural differences. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think we all, all are from different cultures. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty, certainly.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I mean, yeah, I mean I'm, I'm. I grew up in a trailer park in Alabama and Dustin Nickerson grew up in what, Washington state.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but he grew up pretty crazy too, right? Didn't he?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think Nickerson did too. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's when, you know, when your cultures it starts getting into because you as. As you know, it's not the 1600s.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

So it gets into like if you're in America, you're like, you could be suburb, you know, trailer park. The culture could be very different.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

It doesn't have to be ethnicity culture. I get the joke we're going for here. I get the joke. Art and I get it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Fun jail card.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They're eating different things, but none of them have money.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

We couldn't afford to get our almonds shipped across the country and he had them right there. Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of hot dogs. Peggy Carp laid back vibe on Nate Land is the main reason I tune into the podcast. It's an enjoyable change after all the rapid fire stuff you usually get.

[Nate Bargatze]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

This is what they look perfect. And for my money, Dusty is the most. Curtis. Courteous, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Courteous guy on the show in the least apt to interrupt. Oh, apsa word. I almost said appointment. At least appointment to interrupt.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh gosh, this company.

[Brian Bates]

And the funniest.

[Nate Bargatze]

Keep on getting better.

[Brian Bates]

Keeping.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Brian Bates]

Keep on keeping on Dusty.

[Nate Bargatze]

People say I interrupt all the time. I'm just trying to talk. I'm just. It's four people. I'm just trying to say things and so. Thanks, Peggy. I appreciate that.

[Brian Bates]

Wow, that's a big boost for you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Feel good.

[Nate Bargatze]

I feel good now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

After the guy wondered if I smelled funny.

[Brian Bates]

You know, it's funny. He. No reason for him to say that.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true. That is true. That is true. I could have stayed in Virginia.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You know, that was him. And yeah, some of his hour twenties leaking over into this.

[Dusty Slay]

And the reason she's saying he's courteous is because last week someone commented that Dusty is mean to me.

[Nate Bargatze]

They think I'm mean to Brian. I like I'm the nicest guy to Brian on this podcast, that's for sure.

[Dusty Slay]

I think they thought you were Nate.

[Brian Bates]

No, I'm. My meanness is through love.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Mine is shown through love. You do not want to be near Brian.

[Nate Bargatze]

I hate him. Through kindness.

[Brian Bates]

Yes. Yeah. It's like the saying, bless your heart.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, it's a little bless your heart where you go, like. I don't know if he means that.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, that's true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Alexis. J. Alexis. Yeah. I appreciate the teamwork of everyone while Nate is out doing what we all need to make the entertainment world a cleaner and better world for family friendly comedy. Great work, Brian and Dusty. Thank you very much.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Your listeners are so supportive.

[Brian Bates]

They are.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I love that.

[Brian Bates]

I know. It's nice today. Yeah. We're out there. We got some stuff. We got. It's. It's moving. Well done, hopefully. And then I'll come crumbling on that. It's all stupid. So can you.

[Dusty Slay]

You want to talk about it next week or can you even talk about it?

[Brian Bates]

What I got going on? Yeah, no, we're taping CBS Christmas special stuff this week, so I'll be doing that all week. One thing is taped, but I can't announce it. Not. You know, I have a special come out Christmas Eve. I don't know if I've been here since special comes out Christmas Eve.

[Dusty Slay]

Book.

[Brian Bates]

The book. Hey, I got a book.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So the book.

[Dusty Slay]

But yeah, we got comments about all that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Next week.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Gosh, you're so boring.

[Brian Bates]

I know. We got a lot of stuff. It's like Nateland production is gonna be a part of a bunch of stuff.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Love that.

[Brian Bates]

So we're gonna be doing big things.

[Dusty Slay]

Alexis had a line where she said this podcast should be called Bait Land, and Abby took it out because she said I was getting the big head, I was getting arrogant. So.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I still want to get it out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Bait Land almost sounds like you're like catfishing, like you're bringing people in. You think you're getting Nate, but you get Brian.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think a lot of people felt that way. This guy again.

[Brian Bates]

He goes, he's on his way, folks. He should be here. Josh Horton. I've been married, my wife Courtney, for almost six years. Her sister's roommate does nails for a living. I have heard this nail salon bit many times, and I always thought it was hilarious inside joke that they came up with. Today I found out they've been quoting a 2006 Angela Johnson bit the whole time. My mind is blown and I Look forward to listening to more of Angela's material.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

All right, thank you, Josh.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, get caught up. Josh, where you been?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I mean, he's probably like, man, my wife is hilarious. Have you guys met my wife? She does.

[Dusty Slay]

I do comedy, babe.

[Brian Bates]

I go. It's just. The story's so tight. Just blown away.

[Dusty Slay]

You and your sister came up with this.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

It's really polished.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

No pun intended.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty good.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Carrie Knowlton. The south has soul, the west coast has vibes. I like that.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, I like it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I agree with that.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I'll take that.

[Brian Bates]

So you go to the west coast when you're young and then move here to die.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Here I am. And here I am.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

When you want to have fun out.

[Brian Bates]

There, Angela, because you're bringing it down, down here, you're going to sit with us and learn about Paul.

[Nate Bargatze]

Pause when you want to.

[Brian Bates]

Pausing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Slow it down, slow it down. Sit on the front porch in a rocking chair.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, that does sound amazing. I love that.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I love that slower paced life. I just have to learn how to like sit in it and okay with it.

[Nate Bargatze]

We would sit on the front porch of my dad's house. He would chew tobacco and spit off the side of the porch and we would just watch cars go by. A lot of fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

His house was also on wheels, so.

[Nate Bargatze]

So we could go, you know, we could get on the road too.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Garen James. Garen James.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a tough name.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's like. Sounds like if their name was Jaren Gaines.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, it sounds like you're saying it wrong.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Garen James. Yeah, I bet that happens. They go, hi, I'm Garen James. Everybody's like, what?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Are you sure?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. I wonder if they do.

[Nate Bargatze]

What?

[Brian Bates]

Are you sure? Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Garen. Your name's Garen.

[Brian Bates]

Garen. Dusty. I wear shorts to church just because people like you tell me not to. Do you dress up all the time? Because relationship with God should be more than just at church on Sunday.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, I say don't wear shorts at all.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Unless it's viori.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

There was some toot in that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I had to do this with my neck while I was listening to it because it was like, tootie Garen.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Angela, again, I want to ask you because we had a discussion last week, a little bit of debate how you should dress for church. Dustin. West coast said, come as you are.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Laid back. We were like, no. Act like you care to be there.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

No, I'm going to have to ride with Dustin on this one. And maybe that's the west coast cultural thing, but. Because then I feel like that's what happened. No. So just vibes come in. As long as you come in a vibe, then you're fine. What happens if you come in your Sunday's best, But your Sunday's best are like not that great, but it's what you can afford. And then somebody's going to be judging, like, can you show the Lord some respect? I'm sorry. These are the only shoes I have.

[Nate Bargatze]

Everybody always goes that angle, you know.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I bet Garen James. James has some pants.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

He probably has pants. He's done away.

[Brian Bates]

You don't know his bringing.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, he spend my not his pant money on a computer.

[Brian Bates]

He might not come from a family of doesn't have pants.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I mean, you know, I will say they're not even sponsoring this week, but Viori did change my whole opinion on wearing shorts. I'm not a. I'm not a shorts guy, but Vori shorts look good and they're comfortable.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but the ones with the liner.

[Nate Bargatze]

In it or I, I just think, I don't know. In church I just feel like you should wear some pants, you know, cover your legs up.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, I, I hear that. I will say the thing that bothered like there is a too casual to me in public. When I see people at the airport. You're not even church, you're not even a holy place. You're just at the airport, but you're in your pajamas and slippers. That blows my mind. Like a full grown adults.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Pajamas, slippers.

[Brian Bates]

I'm like, yeah, that's a generation thing they're getting. Because I agree our churches now too, they're a lot cooler than they were.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

When we grew up. So when we grew up, you did. You wore tie, you wore all the stuff. You dressed very nice. In the south, you wear your church. You'd wear your church clothes. That's what. It's the same.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then. But I would say even churches now a lot in the south, the newer ones are, you know, they can wear very athletic type stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Matter of fact, Sunday after that game, I bet there was a lot of Vanderbilt in church.

[Brian Bates]

Oh yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It was one of them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I, I think I do like the idea of. I like the. I always like the idea of dressing up more. I'm more of a pants guy too for. Because it is just at least a little more. It looks, I think it looks better. But yeah, I don't know. I wish. At the airport. I agree. It's like people are out of control. Like, it needs to like put some dress up, you feel better. That's like psychology. I think that's like get dressed. Yeah. They tell you to get dressed. You're just wearing stuff that you could go to bed, you could sleep in it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And I think that's what some of their mindset is. I'm just going to get on that plane. I'm just going to go to sleep. But it's like, just go to sleep in your jeans.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. And they make jeans that you can sleep in there. Yeah, It's. This isn't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like there's. There's a hundred different pairs of jeans you can buy or even just wear. I mean, you. I always say golf stuff was a big. Is wear. Golf stuff. You can wear golf stuff. You can look nice, you can athleisure wear. Athleisure wear. Yeah. Yep. I'm always looking to improve my golf game. Hit the ball straighter further, not having to worry about trying to hit everything perfect to make a good shot. All of it. So I headed over to for fitting a PXG and upgraded my clubs. PXG is great. I've used PXGS now for. I mean, like. And so they're gen. Gen Sevens. I got them the great. They got the back of them. But it's in the golf. They look very slick. They use usually pictures. You'd have like kind of a silver, then a black and these are all silver. And I just really like how they look. A thing that I just did. I used my PXGs. I can't say what it is, but there's a. I had them all there. They got a great new driver too. It really looks like the tailor made the SIM driver for this. For all the golfers out there. PhDs. It's. It's a great thing that they. 10 years in the makings. The Gen 7 irons are the greatest leap forward in technology and performance in pxg history. Pxg gen 7 irons are the first irons to push ball speed to the official USGA limit. It's. They're great. Their irons deliver groundbreaking new levels of feel, forgiveness, speed and distance. They have everything. I. Out of all, I get a lot of clubs, to be honest, and I. And I always use PXGs. That's what I. They're. They're just the ones that go that always. The irons are all in my bag and they're. I just I just feel the most comfortable with them. So upgrade your bag with PXG clubs and take your game to a whole new level. For a limited time, you can save $10 per club. Head over to pxg.com and use code NATE. That's PG. Pxg.com Code Nate to save $10 per club on your order. Pxg.com Code NATE and when you're out.

[Nate Bargatze]

There, have a Mountain Dew Baja Blast.

[Brian Bates]

Let's see. Rachel Dallas. That's a good name. Rachel Dallas.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Yeah. I like a Dallas as a last name.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's like a name she doesn't have to ever say anything. You know, you're just like, my name's Rachel Dallas. I bet you have to. She has trouble. Rachel some. But I just would think I would.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Question the Dallas immediately. I would go, what?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And then she'd have to go, Dallas, go.

[Brian Bates]

Where are you from?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

What if she introduced herself as Ms. Dallas? That would even be more cool.

[Brian Bates]

What year did you win it?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, you go.

[Brian Bates]

I guess it was during COVID.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I didn't hear about this one.

[Brian Bates]

I totally agree with Dusty on European versus American food. We visited Switzerland this summer, and that was one major thing we noticed. We ate all kinds of food, never felt bloated or had a stomach ache. We also. We have also heard of people who can't eat bread in the US but can eat it without problems in Europe.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I'm talking about, Angela.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, my gosh.

[Nate Bargatze]

We.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

When we went to Europe, my husband has really sensitive stomach issues. And so, like, if he eats, he won't travel anywhere. He has to stay close to a bathroom. Like, that's how sensitive his stomach is. And when we were in Europe, he didn't have to worry about any of that. We would eat and then just continue walking. He slept better. He actually, like, slept more than five hours. Their food, it was just different. We were like, wow. And then as soon as we got back, it was back to the same old thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

And they could do that here. They just have to stop putting poison in there.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, yeah. But not gonna happen unless me and Dusty keep talking about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Dusty is a combination of you and Manny, like you said. I mean, he's just both of y'all rolled into one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, I got. Yeah, yeah. I got stomach issues, but there's a whole thing out there.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty ain't going to Europe.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, probably not. There's a. A whole thing. Like, you know, there's, like, memes out there where it's like talking about, like, knowing this is gonna hurt my stomach but eating it anyway. That's me.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, I'm like, I know this is gonna. I'm eating fried chicken out here, and I know what it's gonna do to.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Me, but totally, like, I want them to get all the bad chemicals out of the foods, the processed foods. Start frying the chips with, like, actual, like, good oils that you can. Like, there's certain brands of chips that you can get a tortilla chip, but it's fried in beef tallow instead of one of these seed oils that can, you know, cause lots of harm and hormone disrupting and all of that. But they. They're like $35 for a bag of chips, and you're like, that's. Who can afford that? That's stupid. I will not buy that. Just in protest. I'm not gonna do that. But at the same time, within the same breath. Oh, I love me some flaming hot Cheetos. Like, don't come from a flame. Hot cheetos, but those have the most chemicals of any chemical ever. Like, they're just so poison. And they're delicious.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got to get Angela on the podcast more often.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, I'm just listening to Dusty 2.0 here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Back up around here.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Stephen Dillon. A taco truck in California is healthier than most restaurants you go to. All fresh ingredients typically purchased that morning.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Delicious.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I always think that. I think I did a joke once in port. Like, it's because the people are like, why are you going to Applebee's? And then you go eat at a food truck. Some guys that's been sitting in a Honda Accord for four days, and you're like, but Applebee's is bad. And you're like, I don't know. It depends on the food truck. Food truck. You're like, I don't know if they're getting all their stuff that morning.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. And then it's also like that thing where you know you're eating poison but you're going to do it anyway. Type of thing that's like coming out of a venue, an arena, a game or a concert, and they have the hot dogs on the little carts out there. I'm getting one bacon wrap hot dog. Believe it? Yes, please.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I have a big problem. I've done good today. Yeah, it's. Yeah, you gotta wrap your head around. I'm trying to wrap my head around, like, a. You know, it's the way alcohol Would make you feel where it makes you feel bad the night. Like, you, you can kind of see the poison in it.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And it's hard to do it with food because you gotta eat. And so now it's like trying to, like, wrap my head around, like, well, this does not make me feel good. I don't feel good quickly. I don't. You know, I feel bad the next day. It's. Yeah. It's like just trying to constantly. Anything you're about to eat, like, what is this? Almost looking at it, like, what is this going to make me feel like?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I try to ask myself, does this have nutritional value? You know, and if it doesn't, I try to not eat it. But that doesn't mean I don't always Cheetos have. Well, I don't eat Cheetos. I mean, that's.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I. That's my guilty pleasure. I haven't had them in a very long time. But that every now and then, like, if we're having a birthday party or it's game day, wrapping a bunch of people over, I'd be like, just in case anybody wants some, let me get it. And really it's just for me, so I can eat them.

[Nate Bargatze]

And there also is a thing too. I say that, but then there also is like, all right. I'm like, but this is a dessert. Right. So I'm, I'm. I've. I've decided that this is not okay. But I'm just going to enjoy this because it is dessert. So if it's food, I try to be like, does this have value to me?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know?

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not that I'm successful all the time. I'm just saying I do ask myself that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sometimes I say no, and then I. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I'm proud of you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Marshall Barker. Marshall Barker.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Another one sounds wrong.

[Brian Bates]

Marshall Barker.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Start to say. And it sounds wrong.

[Nate Bargatze]

Patrol.

[Brian Bates]

Once you start. Marshall. You already kind of said Barker. Yeah. It feels like you already. You're like Bart Marshall or. And you're done. It's almost the only last name it could have been. Marshall Barker. He couldn't have even been like a Marshall Jensen that like what? Marshall Barker? Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, yeah, he's fired up.

[Brian Bates]

It's the name that dusty. I wonder if there's a chance that your sister has wronged the people of her small town somehow. Maybe her towns folks are super nice to everybody with the exception of her.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, I don't think so. But because I will say some of the small, like small town Alabama, it's like sometimes, you know, you. You feel like you're gonna get this real Southern hospitality and it's just going to be real polite and nice, but it's not really always that way.

[Dusty Slay]

The backstory is his sister went with him to LA and she said everyone out there was so nice in la. Nicer than Alabama.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And she was shocked.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

By that.

[Nate Bargatze]

She really enjoyed it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I like Beverly Hills, though. We did.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Louis Vuitton, I tell you what, that's something. They offered me water.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, she did get a little better experience, I think, than just maybe just going out there, you know?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

On her own.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

She went to. We went to eat with my manager, I think your man and Judy and.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I. I was with you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. Yeah. And we went. And she loved Judy. She was like, she just, you know, I don't think my, my sister would consider herself a feminist, but she really loves seeing. Seeing a woman take control.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

She was like, I love this. Judy just makes it happen. She loves it.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That's cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

And yeah, she got into it.

[Dusty Slay]

That's the thing bothers you the most about Judy, so. Very interesting now.

[Nate Bargatze]

I love it too.

[Brian Bates]

But Dusty says, he goes, but what if you have to call a man?

[Nate Bargatze]

But now she loved it.

[Brian Bates]

That was a Dusty joke. Angela. I had nothing to do with it.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I assumed. I. Sometimes I just jump in knowing that I'm out of context, but I'm like, yep, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

We'Re having a good time, guys.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Jen John 4 I started Angela Johnson say I won't special while at Costco. Okay, that was a mistake. As I'm walking through laughing or looking at laundry soap, I'm busting out laughing. Those around were confused on why I was finding all these products so funny. I had to put my hair behind my ears so people could know I'm not crazy, just really listening something through the store. Her bid on how to text. The difference levels of funny was spot on.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Thank you, Jen JOHN 4 she might.

[Brian Bates]

Have seen you at Costco. Don't you go to Costco?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I love it. Yeah. I have a whole bit about Costco and my say I want special. And I, I absolutely love Costco. I think people have seen me at Costco, at Target, at other stores, at TJ Maxx, and then I'll see comments sometimes and people think I'm meant because I have rbf. My face just looks mean if I'm not actively smiling my resting face. I just look like I'm mad. And so people have, like, said that, like I saw her, but she didn't look very nice. Like, I don't want to say anything. I was like, oh, you should say hi, and then I'll put my smile on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

But until then, I'm.

[Nate Bargatze]

Then I'll phone reading a package to.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

See what chemicals are in it.

[Brian Bates]

Come say hi, because I'll phone it in right to your face. Hi, I'm Angela Johnson. Thanks for watching my special. Come say hi. Yeah. No, yeah, I could see. Yeah. Because you're. It's hard when you're. You're going out and you're like. You send your own zone.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, I'm in my own zone. I forget that people know who I am. I'm just minding my own business. And then, like. And if I'm frustrated, not at people, but just at whatever I'm going on in my own life, they're like, she looks like this or that. And I was like, oh, no. So I was just arguing with my husband right now. My bad.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I was just being a human.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Getting more shampoo because husband used it all.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Exactly. That's why we're arguing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Kelly Ray Russell. Hotel rooms have demons is the truest thing ever said on this podcast. Dusty does it again.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is dark in some of these hotels, that's for sure.

[Dusty Slay]

But you felt like maybe there were some actual demons coming at you. I mean, that's what you said last week.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Hotel room.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, I. You know, there is a certain brand of hotel that every time I stay there, it feels real weird in there.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

You don't want to say the brand?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, because I stay at some of their other hotel. They have a. You know, it's a big brand. It's just this one particular brand that.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Up by them is really weird. It's very nice. It's like. No, but interesting. I don't know. I don't know if I want to say.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, you don't say it. But I am curious.

[Brian Bates]

What?

[Nate Bargatze]

There's a hotel that just does. One particular chain now. There's an Umbrella, you know, and they have a bunch of different hotels. And not all of their hotels are like this.

[Brian Bates]

No. You think they're all haunted?

[Nate Bargatze]

The. The one brand. I don't know if it's haunted, but something. I never sleep good in there. I always feel like I get woke up.

[Brian Bates]

Why can't we. If we guess it. Can we?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, it would. Yeah. I mean, it'd be a. Probably take a lot of guessing.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it would.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would think. Because I don't mean, like, it's like.

[Dusty Slay]

He stays at fancy boutique hotels.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I have a theory.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

This is my theory on this limited context that you've given, but I still have formed a theory about it because I know, like, a big, like, conglomerate will have all these different ones. There's, like, you know, this, like, trendy one where you walk in and it's, like, super modern. And then there's. It is one of those a residence inn type, and they have a full kitchen, and then there's like, whatever, and there's all these different ones. So each one of those speaks to a different person who's going to want to stay there. Right. So the person who wants this modern, trendy vibe, it probably isn't going to want to want this other, like, corporate whatever. Whatever vibe. So whatever hotel you're talking about, I would think about, like, what kind of audience are they speaking to and bringing in here? Is it, like, the big party crowds? Maybe there's. You're walking into a room where there was just, like, some partying happening in there, and you're got that residual energy that you're walking into.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think you're right. I think you're right.

[Brian Bates]

Kimpton.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, no.

[Brian Bates]

It's not.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's not real obscure, but that's not.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, that's. That was perfectly obscure.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What's.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't even know. Kempton. You guys are fancy, though.

[Brian Bates]

Is Kimpton's. The. Isn't that this. The ones that are kind of like. They're kind of different.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

They're kind of their own thing, Kimpton. Their own thing?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Or are they bought by somebody now?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know, though.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Could we. Would we know what it is?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think you would. Yeah. For sure. I mean, they're out there, but I've stayed at three different ones.

[Brian Bates]

And can you say the cities ever?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I said one in Albany.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

One in Springfield, Missouri.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And one in, I believe, outside of Baltimore. More. What is that?

[Brian Bates]

All right, so three pretty big spots.

[Nate Bargatze]

What is that spot?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And it's a trendy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Modern one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not aloft. I mean, if we just.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

I should just say it. If we're gonna guess.

[Brian Bates]

Let's see if we can guess it. I think I know. Is it the.

[Dusty Slay]

What I'm about to say. People are listening to this.

[Brian Bates]

What is you. What are you gonna say?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I'm just saying.

[Nate Bargatze]

Guessing.

[Dusty Slay]

We've been doing guessing for a while.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. C. Is it something?

[Nate Bargatze]

C. It's not a seance.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

Cs at all, actually.

[Brian Bates]

No Cs at all.

[Nate Bargatze]

No Cs at all.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

But it's trendy.

[Brian Bates]

But it's.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would say it's a bit trendy, and it's a bigger chain, but this is kind of a. It's kind of a trendy version of it. They love to put up signage for the city that they're in. They love to really express it.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Angela Johnson Reyes]

No way.

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

Holiday Inn.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not a Holiday Inn, no.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's a perfect segue to what we're talking about today, which is Ghost.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, but we got to get the hotel.

[Dusty Slay]

He doesn't want to say.

[Brian Bates]

No, we got to say now. What does it start with?

[Nate Bargatze]

I would say it starts.

[Dusty Slay]

You would say it starts.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, you know, but depends on what.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay, give us clues, and we'll see who guesses it first.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. All right, let's see. It is the. The big chain starts with an H, but that's not.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Hilton.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, maybe, but. And another one.

[Brian Bates]

So what's the trendy brand of Hilton?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I'm Marriott. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Mm.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I think I'm gonna lose this game. Because I'm. I'm a Marriott Bonvoy member.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm a Marriott. I like Marriott too. That's what I do. I do Courtyard Marriott most of the time. I feel very safe in those from True Blue. Oh, very close.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I didn't even know that was a hotel.

[Nate Bargatze]

Very close.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. True Blue. But it's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

True by Hilton. True by Hilton. I like Hilton. True by Hilton. Something about it. I stay in there. I feel like my soul's being pulled.

[Brian Bates]

Away at this place.

[Nate Bargatze]

True by Hilton.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That's the one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's it.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You said True Blue.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't know if that was.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't know if that was.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I was still guessing in my head.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And I, you know, maybe, you know, maybe like I said in one in Springfield, brand new hotel, very nice. Everything was great. There was nothing they could have done to make it any better except a coffee pot in the room. But other than that, it was very good. Good. But something was happening to me in my sleep.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, they're a sponsor now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Interesting.

[Brian Bates]

True tre. I always think of True TV every time I see.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Moxie is a little.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Ah, that's the one I was thinking.

[Nate Bargatze]

Moxie's a little sketchy too, but I've. I've actually slept fine in the Moxie.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I like the Moxie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

The rooms are like as big as this coffee cup, but they're. Yeah, they're fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Micro Hotel can be a little straight. Speaking of small rooms, that can be a little shady. But that's mainly just the people outside of the hotel. Not really.

[Brian Bates]

There's a. I don't know if I know Micro Hotel.

[Nate Bargatze]

They're like, you know, it's like, it's. If you get a brand new one, they're pretty good, but they'll. They're just tiny. They're tiny, tiny rooms.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I think you're working the road.

[Nate Bargatze]

Trying to save a little money. Microtels a bit better than a Motel 6.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Mm. I grew up staying in Motel 6 with my dad when it was his weekend. Yeah, we would go to Motel 6. Or there was this other little one off motel called the Oasis Motel. We would say those ones, but yeah, Motel 6.

[Brian Bates]

So you get a lot of points for Motel 6.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I got. I got a lot of childhood trauma with Motel 6.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. No Motel 6, no Super Eights. If you're, you know, it's all right.

[Brian Bates]

I think I've stayed at a Super 8. That was very nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

I have stated a pretty Good one. But I don't like them.

[Brian Bates]

Red roof in. I said it. Red roof in. That was like, crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think those are.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Have you ever said it? A vagabond in.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Vagabond. Nasty.

[Nate Bargatze]

That sounds nasty.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I walked into the room, and there was a needle on the ground.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I said, yeah, I'm not. I'm not staying here.

[Brian Bates]

Switch rooms.

[Nate Bargatze]

They were.

[Brian Bates]

Did I get a room without a needle?

[Nate Bargatze]

And they were like, yeah, the room come with needles. I'm sorry. It wasn't on the desk.

[Brian Bates]

I can maybe tell this joke because I think I've tried to tell it. I've told it on stage. I don't know if I'll ever do it again, but if I do. But I stayed in. I remember staying at a casino hotel somewhere.

[Dusty Slay]

I was with you.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah? Where was that? Spring.

[Dusty Slay]

Iowa.

[Brian Bates]

Iowa. We were in Iowa, and I walked in my room, and there was a big stain on my bed. And so I called and I go, there's a stain on my bed. And they go, how big's the stain? And it made me rethink about the stain because I thought, am I going to talk myself into a room with a bigger stain? Because the way they said it, you know, like, well, how big's the stain? You're like, oh, you know, maybe when I was saying the joke, maybe it was, you know, maybe like, look, that stain used to be huge. It used to be the whole room. Now we've got it down to, like, a size of a. I would say 100 nickels. I think I would say, as a joke, I'd say, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or even if they're like.

[Brian Bates]

If you dropped a bunch of nickels.

[Nate Bargatze]

On there, that's the smallest stain we have here. Yeah, we gave you the. That's the primo room.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe they murder ladies.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. How big is this stain? Yeah. Great way to kind of make you just go, hey, I don't know if I want to gamble.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's about the size of a bottle.

[Brian Bates]

They go, please. Oh, that. Yeah. So that the joke is like, how big is the stain? I was like, I don't know if you dropped. I go, 100. 100 nickels worth. That's. That's how big this stain is. And then, you know. And they're like, you know, it's not that bad. All right, I'll stay.

[Nate Bargatze]

We can switch it, but we won't guarantee there's not bigger stains. Yeah, we don't even count stains anymore.

[Brian Bates]

The guy stains, and he hung up on me. He goes, call me when there's someone else in your room, I've done that. Walk in on you. Walk in, they give you a key and someone's already in your room.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's the worst I've had it done to me. Hello. Yeah, hello.

[Nate Bargatze]

And that guy gets your fault. Yeah, I just find your key on the ground. Yeah, they gave it to me.

[Dusty Slay]

You've had someone walk in on you?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I think I've had it both ways, too.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And they're like. Because then sometimes you can have the person be like. They're like, well, you're in my room. You're like, well, I'm here and I've been here. So I don't think me and you are supposed to figure it out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you need to go, I don't think that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't think check out. Or at the front desk, they go, there's another guy in this room. But I need y'all to try to figure it out. Who gets the room.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I was about to get in the shower and they opened the door and the bathroom's right here.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I just thought, I hope they're not coming to my show.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

You know, that's embarrassing.

[Nate Bargatze]

I just thought it'd be weird for all of us.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It didn't bother. Like, if they were just total strangers, I don't really care. But I'm like, ah, I hope you're not coming to the show later.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, I've been on that end where somebody's walked into my room. I've been the person that walked into somebody else's room. And. And I've also been the hotel employee that accidentally put someone in someone else's room and they came back and they go, somebody's in this room. And I go, oh, sorry. The housekeeping marked it as the Blame it on somebody else.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow. You worked at a hotel?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Which hotel?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

It was called the Wyndham Hotel at the time.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know Wendom.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. Now. Now it's a Holiday Inn, but the one I worked at was a Wyndham hotel.

[Brian Bates]

How do you know if the room's full or not?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

It's marked in the computer screen.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And then you assign him a number. So I honestly don't know how it's even possible. It happens all the time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

But I don't know how. There has to be some kind of glitch or it was, like, marked not in service or something, and then you missed it. And the way it looked in the computer screen and I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Are you really picking the room that the person's. You have complete control over it?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Kind of like, it'll, like, automatically assign you something, and then they'll go, can I get something on a high floor? And then you start looking in your high floors. And then can I get something close to the elevator? You start looking on the map and you start seeing what's available. Okay, well, I have by the elevator, but it's on the fourth floor. You know which. Pick which one you want. Yeah, yeah. And then sometimes somebody's in there and you didn't see that. Like, oh, how did this happen?

[Brian Bates]

You know, they always, like, if, like, do you try to keep people on the same floor? Like, say, if it's not busy or something? Are you trying to be like.

[Dusty Slay]

Like a restaurant where you try to put everyone in the same section?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

No, I do remember, like, going with whatever was, like, automatically, unless they start asking for things. And it's like, here you go. Fast as I can. Just to get you anything out there. So.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Huh.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I've had a lot of jobs.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I've always wondered that because you can see the whole. You could be. Because there's like a. I always thought there was a best room. Would you. Did you know if there was the best room?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

There was like, a suite. So they would tell us, like, not to put people in the suite. Like, you know, you can just assign people any room, but you can if, you know, there's no reservation there. So I know sometimes there'd be, like, nice people or they just had, like, an interesting story. I like to talk to people, and then I just upgrade them for fun because I want to do.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. That's nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is nice.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Thank you. I'm a nice person.

[Brian Bates]

Is there any. Is it. So the suite is. It's not advertised either.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

What do you mean?

[Brian Bates]

Like, do people know that there's suites?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I think you just assume every hotel has a suite.

[Brian Bates]

I assume it, but. But I never know because some, like, you always think some hotel. You're like, are you hiding something?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, we had the hotel in Omaha might talk about stay with Jeff Foxworthy. It's this hotel, and I wish I had a picture of it. I could see if I can find a picture at some point. But we in the hotel, it's. It's on the main floor. Right. So we're just staying. It's, like, not a crazy hotel. It was in, you know, like, North Dakota or South Dakota or something like that. And it's not anything crazy. It's like just their. That town's hotel. And so Fox, really Texas, he's got a. He's in a picture. And we're like. He's like, you got to come see my room. And you're like, that's not your room. And we walk in there. It's two floors.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

But I mean, nothing looks like it would have. Like, there's nothing that shows. Hey, this room might be. It looks like a regular door, like every other room. And you walk in and it's a kitchen, fireplace.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And upstairs with the bed and stuff, I mean, I was blown away.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Because I. It just didn't look like a hotel that would have any of that.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Wow. That's cool.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I always think there could be. Was a hotel. Does every hotel have one crazy room?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

We had just a basic suite.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Which means it's just bigger and it has like a little mini kitchen.

[Brian Bates]

Did you stay there?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I'm sure I have.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Growing up, it was right by my house. I was young.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. I was.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you have like, guys hit on you all the time, Brian?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll be in room six fourteen.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

No, we would have. We were right by the airport. So we had a lot of. Of flight crews come in. So there would be a lot of pilots trying to flirt and stuff like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I find flight crews are the rudest people outside of the plane. In the plane. So nice. You see them outside of the plane. Wow. They don't want to talk to you.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Really.

[Nate Bargatze]

I always find that maybe a hotel worker to airport worker, that you probably.

[Dusty Slay]

Want to talk to her, but maybe not you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, that's true too, but.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Huh.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I wonder if they're like, you know, they have like an attitude because when they are. When they're off, they're like. They walked in groups.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They always walk together and they just kind of like a lot of luggage. Like they are the Mickey Mouses of the airport.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah, they are. That's how I describe them too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I just had a airport shuttle, like very early, like six in the morning and to the hot. To the airport. And it was just me and all the flight crew riding together to the airport. And we bonded. Then we all get off.

[Brian Bates]

We're watching them stretch. You bonded?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, just.

[Nate Bargatze]

They talk to you.

[Dusty Slay]

They were nice. Yeah. And then we get off. We're all. It's the same flight. I'm on their flight, except they all get to just zip on through, you know, and then I have To.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

To go wait through tsa.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Get padded down.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And when you got on the plane, do they act like they knew you?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, no.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like, when you're back, I think.

[Brian Bates]

You'Re gonna get a different. You're like, maybe young. Do something.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, I'm gonna be on this fight. If you wanna.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you have any other seats, if you wanna switch me from a middle to a middle, because that's what I like.

[Dusty Slay]

I like a good middle seat.

[Brian Bates]

Like a good middle seat.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because I get to know two people.

[Brian Bates]

He doesn't pick a seat, Walks on last and goes, all right, who are we going to sit next to today? And everybody's just sweating.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I could get south, find the two biggest people and go get in between there.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of times he passes. He'll pass the seat exactly cozy. And he comes back and right when he. Right when he can tell you. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Gotcha, gotcha.

[Dusty Slay]

Can I get in there?

[Brian Bates]

Can I get in there? And I'm a talker.

[Dusty Slay]

I flew with you one time recently, and you almost didn't make the flight. Do you remember that?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

God, yes.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think that's how you say it. I flew one time recently.

[Dusty Slay]

I flew one time with you recently.

[Brian Bates]

And, you know, I think you'd say, I flew with you recently.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, well, there was only one time.

[Brian Bates]

Be one time farther away, far away. I flew one time. Me and you flew together the other day. Sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

Welcome back.

[Brian Bates]

Well, anyway, one time, long time ago, you guys flew together not too long ago.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

She barely made her flight.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Almost missed it.

[Dusty Slay]

End of the story.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but she made it.

[Brian Bates]

Barely.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

They had one middle seat left for me, and I always said I had a first class seat and they gave it to somebody else because I thought I wasn't coming. And I show up right before they close the doors, and they're like, we have one middle seat in the back for you. And then I was walking past Brian. He's all, what are you doing?

[Dusty Slay]

I just assume, because I didn't see her boarding. She's in seat 1A. Then I get on and I'm looking, I don't see her. And then I go back to my seat, and then I'm like, I don't know. She's on this flight. I think she punked me into going on this trip.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then you gotta do an hour.

[Dusty Slay]

20, and then she's like, the last one on.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yep. Barely made it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

They gave your seat away.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't like that they're giving away quick. I feel like they shouldn't give it away till the doors shut.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, yeah. And then upgrade somebody at that point.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but, yeah, but I guess they're trying to, you know, if they're, if they're standby, then sure, like, well, they're going to get someone else. You have to be there by a certain time.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. Imagine.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

Is that where you smell elite? So when you sit next to them in the middle seat, they go, this guy knows what he's doing.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

This smells so good.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Very good.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

This I, I, I co sign that ad read.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

You should get it dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

You should try deodorant.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I may try it.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if you had to know how to open it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's been a while.

[Brian Bates]

Screw.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is it screw. I ripped it off.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you just messed it up.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

How do you do it?

[Dusty Slay]

Does it go to your head? It trickles down.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think that's all right. I mean, yeah, it's good. Obviously, it's great.

[Brian Bates]

I like smell.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a really great smell.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

But it doesn't matter if you like it, if the ladies like it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And this lady, she like it.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet Hannah would like it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I bet she would.

[Brian Bates]

Smell like the woods.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Can I have that one, B. Manny, can I take it?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Brian used it this morning. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't tell Manny.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, don't tell Manny. But it's halfway done. Brian's been like Brian Bates. Yes, you do.

[Dusty Slay]

Why do I smell defeated?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, defeated. I don't know, babe. But I want a middle seat on this plane. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. This week we are talking about ghost.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

So I'm so excited.

[Dusty Slay]

It's our Halloween episode. We didn't do it next week because Nate's coming back next week. He's back this week. Now, Angela, you used to have a podcast.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Ghost Stories.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

So you know a lot about ghosts. I didn't enjoy it because it was too scary.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. And I'll tell you one thing. If your listeners or anything like some of mine, they're not gonna like this very much. You're gonna get a lot of you need to repents in the comment section. That's. I would get a lot of those, even. I just did a Instagram Live the other day, and people were asking for some ghost stories.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And I was given a couple stories, and then I got a lot of rebukes in the comment section. A lot of, you better bring this to the Lord.

[Nate Bargatze]

I may do it on the podcast.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they don't like your.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Don't talk about your con. Don't. The Bible says, don't mess with it. Like, it's a lot of that. It's a lot of. You know, I'm very interested in paranormal stuff. I've been that way since I was a kid. I love scary movies, scary TV shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

You should say it. True. By Hilton.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, apparently. Yeah. So I. I have. I had my po. My podcast called Ghost Stories with Angela, and it started as an Instagram live series during 2020. And I would go live with fans that had a ghost story, and they would come on and share their story, and I would have one celebrity guest each episode. And then I turned it into a podcast, and it was so fun. And we would have, like, three fans that would submit their ghost stories. We would pick them and they would share it, and then people would be in the comment section watching live and, like, you know, asking about their story. And I had to put that podcast on hold because a creepy thing happened, and I've been too scared to bring it back.

[Brian Bates]

Back. Oh, wow. Yeah. Can you say what happened or.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Do you want to hear?

[Brian Bates]

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

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Okay. So I was filming this particular episode here in Nashville, because I go back and forth from Nashville to la, and I had a studio in LA I was going to. And then here it was in the back of our house. We had a back studio. And Manny's typically home with me. He was out of town. It was just me home. So I had to do my episode by myself. But with the time difference, it was already gonna be dark here, right? So it was nighttime, and I'm by myself. It's just me and my dog, Bonzo. So I'm doing my episode. I'm live with my guest, and people are watching, leaving comments and stuff. And he's telling me the story about how these spirits have been, like, with him since his childhood. Like, they. He's had this woman one and this whatever one. And he's talking about it. And I start. It reminded me of a story of my friend who's a psychic medium. And I was like, oh, you know what? You should look up my friend. His name is AJ Barrera. As soon as I said his name, I heard something in my headphone, just like, right? And I was like, wait, did you just say something? And he was like, no. What? And I was like, you didn't. Did you just say something? Did you whisper something? And he's like, no. And then I was like, oh, my gosh. I just heard something. And then. So I'm like, was it just in my headphone? What did I hear? Then the comments start blowing up, up. I heard it. I definitely heard something. Everybody starts calling me. I definitely heard it. So I was like, okay, that was weird. That was creepy. And so I tell my producer, who's remote, he's in Arizona at the time. And I'm like, hey, mark this down, because I want to go back and listen to see if you can hear it. So then episode's done, and I have to close up by myself and walk in the dark from the back house to the front house. I'm already freaked out. I'm like, was creepy. Whatever. I get into my house. I'm like, I'm going straight to bed. And so I, like, get in my bed and My producer sends me the clip just of that piece, and he's like, you could definitely hear something. And I'm like, whoa, this is crazy. So I sent it to my brother, and then as I'm calling my brother, I'm like, hey, I'm sending you a video right now to look at. There was like some creepy thing that just happened on the podcast right as I'm saying this. My sound bar, in my room. I'm in the dark in my bed, under my blankets, because that's where you're safe from all the ghosts, right? So I'm under my blankets, and then the soundbar, our TV all of a sudden turns on. Bloop, bloop. Out of nowhere. And I was like, oh, oh, okay, I gotta call you back. Okay, bye. And at this point, I'm just like, I rebuke you in Jesus name. Do not be around me. And whatever. Now I'm freaked out. I'm like, I need to hurry up and just close my eyes and fall asleep, because this is freaking me out. I had sent the clip to my psychic medium friend, right? Next day, he finally calls me back and he was like, what? Give me a little bit of context. What? What? What happened here? What were you talking about? And I was telling him, and he listened to the slowed down version, and he was like, it's saying your name. And I was like, what do you mean? And he's like, I'm listening to the clip and my wife walks in, she doesn't know what I'm watching, and she goes, it sounds like it's saying Angela. And he goes, yeah, Angela's one who sent this to me. And he's like, no way. So then I send it back, listen to it slowed down. And when it slowed down, you definitely hear Angela.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And I was like, oh, my God. So then he's asking me questions about, like, do you have anyone who's passed recently? Are you coming up on the anniversary of anybody who's passed? He starts asking me all his questions and whatnot. That. And I'm like, okay, I don't know, maybe like, my grandma just passed away a month ago. And, you know, I was in this studio when I found out when I got the phone call. And then once I got the phone call, I started journaling about my grandma. I started, like, writing down memories about her. And, like, I did a lot of, like, thinking about my grandma and, like, processing her death, like, in this studio. And I was like, maybe that. I don't know. That's wild. So then I'M in the car later that day, and it's. It's sunny outside. It's not raining. It's not humid. It's not anything. It's just a nice, beautiful day. I'm driving. I'm on Bluetooth with my mom, and I'm telling her what happened. And I was like, yeah. And then it, like, whispered my name, like, I don't know it, like, what was happening? And all of a sudden, my windshield wipers go, and they just turn on by themselves. And I was like, oh, my God. I don't know what's happening. And then so I'm like, okay, if this is my grandma, give me a sign. Like, is this you? So then I start looking for billboard signs, like, something that would, like, mean something to us. I started looking for, like, license plates. I'm driving on the freeway, and I was like, okay, grandma, are you trying to talk to me? What is this? If you're not my grandma, I rebuke you again. Get out of here. And I'm, like, so confused. And it really freaked me out because I love to hear about paranormal stories.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ghost.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I love to hear about it. I just don't want it to happen to me. And so after that, I did two more episodes, But I made sure to have people with me. I didn't want to be by myself. Why did these episodes. But then I was just like, I can't guarantee that I'm always going to be around someone. And for these episodes, I don't want to be recording when I'm by myself. So I was like, let me just put it on pause. We're gonna go on a little hiatus until I figure out. Because I was just starting to move here, and I was going by, not on a regular schedule, and I was like, let me just not we'll it on pause. And then I just never brought it back because I was just like, I don't know. Like, I love to hear the stories. I love to talk about it. I see videos. People will send me video clips of, like, creepy things that have happened, and I really enjoy it. But the second it happens to me, I'm like, oh, I don't like it anymore. I don't want it. So I've just. I never brought it back. And people ask me all the time, just even today, they're like, hey, when are you bringing back your ghost stories with Angela? And I'm like, I want to, but at the same time, I'm like, I don't know. And then that's when everybody in the Comment section. Like, see, that's why we said the Bible says, don't open the door, don't mess with it, don't even. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So that's what used to happen to me too. When I was a kid. I loved Unsolved mysteries. I love all that stuff. I love to tell ghost stories. And then I started to get freaked out all the time and I was like, you know what? I don't need that in my life. And I. Let me ask you this, though. When you. The soundbar came on, I said it got jumbled up. I said, let me ask you this, though.

[Brian Bates]

Oh. I mean, I was like, I know. I was like, God, my hearing something, man. Like, it sounded like in tongues.

[Nate Bargatze]

I got. I got jumbled up.

[Brian Bates]

Golly. I go, it's. It's in.

[Nate Bargatze]

She's brought him in.

[Brian Bates]

With the broom.

[Nate Bargatze]

With the sound bar that night and you were under your covers and you rebuked it in the name of Jesus. Then it was gone.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I mean, yeah, nothing.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then you got peace and you went to sleep. Yeah, it's amazing.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. So I can still do my podcast and just rebuke it every time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I don't know, but I've done that in a lot of hotels. I've been in hotels and things get real creepy. I just, you know, I rebuke it all in the name of Jesus and then things get peaceful and I go to sleep.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, yeah, I've had many of.

[Brian Bates]

Except true hotels.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I do it in true hotel too. And then I get sleep. But I just like every time I'm in there, I'm like, I don't need this. I don't need this.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

What I need is sleep.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like a Hilton. I don't mind a Hilton, but not true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So what do you think ghost are?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I mean, it depends. I feel like a lot of times it could be the spirit of somebody who hasn't crossed over. Sometimes it's just energy left. Like, not necessarily this is my grandma in spirit form, but like, we're all energetic beings, so maybe it's energy left behind. Sometimes it could be demonic and I feel like gets full on something evil. I don't know. There's so much unknown. And that's a thing too, where I feel like anytime somebody comes with like an absolute answer, like, no, that's a this or it's not this, it's this. I don't. I have a hard time believing it because I'm like, nobody knows exactly what it is. So the more people are like, that's not. Like, if I. I remember I had a dream with my grandma, and it was a very peaceful dream, and I loved it. And I remember telling my cousin about it, and she was like, no, that can't happen, because in the Bible it says this and that. So that was a demon. And I'm like, I don't subscribe to that thought. I think my grandma visited me in my dream, But I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's see. What do you think?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I think there are angels, Right. So it could be good. But I. I don't think. I believe that we can be visited by relatives. Not that, you know, not that I know that for sure. I. I don't know about a dream. I mean, I. I guess there could be something in a dream, but if we're really experiencing it, I don't think our loved ones come. Cup their spirits come up on us like that, you know, like. Like, especially, like, your grandma, if you had, like, a good relationship with your grandma, like, why would she be trying to scare you like that? So I think. I think darkness can mask itself as something that we are familiar with.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And, you know, and they know things about us. I think demons know things about us.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so they know things about our loved ones so they can say those things to us. I don't like it. It's very dark. I'm not into it.

[Dusty Slay]

And when the spirit said Angela, was Angela with a J or with a G? If it's a J, I think they knew you.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, I. Shoot, I wish I should have put the captions on, but I didn't.

[Dusty Slay]

Was your grandmother allowed to drive when she growing up? Because maybe she was just practicing in the seat. Like, what does this do?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

No. Yeah, no, she. She used to drive, but it's. I'll show you the clip later if you want to see it.

[Brian Bates]

Why would she not be allowed to drive?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I was joking about that one. But back in the day, I'm a little bit older, but, you know, women. Women were allowed to drive, at least here in the South.

[Brian Bates]

I guess that's the soul of the South.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

We could get back to that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. There is a thing, like in. In the Bible where it talks about, like, I feel like not being able to cross over. And then there's also, like, Saul King. King Saul had a. Had a. I don't know, a magician of sorts.

[Dusty Slay]

It was the Witch of Endor. Yeah, it was a medium.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brings. Brings Samuel.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

This sounds like a Harry Potter character.

[Nate Bargatze]

Bring Saul, Samuel back from the dead, in a way that freaked out Samuel. Right. He was like, was it Samuel or was it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it freaked out the woman, even. And. And Samuel was like, why are you bothering me? I mean.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, don't you. I thought it was like, he was like, you. You can't do that. Don't do this. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

What are you doing?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I don't remember this story.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but, like, yeah, there is other parts where it says you can't cross over once you're like. Like, the guy. I don't know, one guy was like, I just want to tell my sons to do better, and I'm in a bad place. And they're like, well, you can't. You can't contact them.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, see, I think in that story.

[Nate Bargatze]

You'Re talking about being vague, but it's.

[Dusty Slay]

Kind of like the. The movie Ghost, where, you know, Whoopi Goldberg was a medium, but she was basically a con artist until Patrick Swayze showed up. She really could do it, so she freaked herself out at first. When she could first hear it in that story, the witch was like, what's going on here? She was surprised. So maybe God was messing with her or something.

[Nate Bargatze]

Maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

So I don't think I really believe in ghosts, but. But if there was a haunted house somewhere, and I've seen hotels are supposedly haunted, I could get freaked out really easy.

[Nate Bargatze]

You don't think there are ghosts at all?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, I do.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think they're all bad, but I do think they're out there.

[Dusty Slay]

I just think when you die, you go to where you're supposed to go.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think it's the spirit. The spirits of people, but I do think it's spiritual. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I just find it interesting. And you have a joke about this. All these ghosts are from the 1800s. Hundreds.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

There's no modern day ghost. So what's happening there?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I mean, do you. So you don't watch Unsolved Mysteries anymore?

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, no.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Really?

[Nate Bargatze]

I used to watch it all the time as a kid. I can't handle it. I don't. I don't like that stuff. Oh, I like to watch it.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But then later, I don't want to deal with the ramifications later.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm. I'm watching the new Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And I'm catching. And I'm watching it, like, in my green room. I'm getting ready, like, just. I have it on the background. Like, I don't know. I love it. I love to watch the creepy stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Is it all alien stuff?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And go, there's some alien stuff. There's ghost stuff. There's unsolved murders. There's all kinds of things. I love it.

[Brian Bates]

But then Unsolved Mysteries, and then at the end of. It's just like, you don't know what that's.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, that's the thing that's kind of infuriating is at least there's no resolve at the end.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

But this is what I'll do is I will Google if there's been any updates since then, because there have been updates on some. Now that a larger audience is getting eyes on it, then they get tips and things like that. So there's been updates on some of the cases, but not a lot of them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

We. I think it's maybe the second episode we did this podcast we all watched Unsolved Mystery about a ufo. Remember that? And they. The aliens put the people like they.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Removed them from their car.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, I saw that one.

[Dusty Slay]

And then when they got back in, they were in different seats.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, yeah, I thought I saw that one.

[Dusty Slay]

So Nate was pointing out they messed. These aliens messed up.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Put everything back where it's supposed to be, but they messed up.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. We would have never known.

[Nate Bargatze]

There are reports of people that they say they get abducted by aliens and then they do. They like. Like they rebuke it in the name of Jesus. And then the abduction, even the alien. Yeah. I think they're demonic.

[Dusty Slay]

Jesus can do everything.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

You think aliens are demonic?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. People get mad at me on this podcast when I say that, but I.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Did say it's funny. I've never heard that theory, but. Okay, I get it.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, not. Not here. But some people that listen.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because people like aliens. And so when you say something like that, I'm not saying I know that's what it is, but that's what I think it is. And people, you know, people like aliens, and I think people have a little bit of a fantasy that aliens are going to come to Earth one day and be our friends and we're going to live in harmony with the aliens. And, you know, I just don't believe that's ever going to happen.

[Dusty Slay]

Or just take over the world.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. Or we'll go to Mars and meet some aliens and just have a good time out there and hi.

[Brian Bates]

You can say hi to them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. Just be like, hey, we're from Earth.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And the aliens will be, you know, real pumped about it and just Hang out top.

[Dusty Slay]

Have you ever done, like, a medium, though?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I have, Yeah, I. I have.

[Dusty Slay]

It was convincing. Do they know stuff that there's no way they would know?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a couple of friends that are psychic mediums that I've spoken with and they've shared, and sometimes, like, they'll get, like, pictures in their mind that they're sharing. And I'm like, what are you. I don't know. I'm not following. And then all of a sudden, it clicks and you're like, oh, yeah, that's my uncle. Yeah. Everything you said now makes complete sense. But even that, like, I grew up very much, like, don't touch it. Don't. Like, there's a lot of don't do it. And then guilt and shame around it. And I remember people would tell me, be careful with you always watching them scary movies. And you better not play with that. Like, my whole life. Life, people have always, like, rebuked me for my. My interest in the paranormal and stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

And finally, they're coming for you.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I've even. Listen. I've even. Yeah, they're finally. After all these years, they're like, all right, now she's ready. I talked to an animal communicator.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Do you know about animal communicators like that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Like a medium for animal.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, like your dog could tell you what to think.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh. He says, well, your dog that's alive.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I thought it'd be like your dog from the past.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

No, no, no.

[Brian Bates]

That comes out and goes, still dog. Still thinking dog stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That's cool, man.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. I spoke with an animal communicator.

[Dusty Slay]

This is for Bonzo.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yep. So I. Again, somebody gifted me. Here's a session with an animal communicator. And what a Christmas gift, right? Yeah. And so she.

[Dusty Slay]

We get that for you.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty will speak to do it from the front yard.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

And basically she will. You can put your phone on speakerphone and have your pet next to you. She's like, if you have any other pets, make sure they're not around you, because I'm gonna get mixed signals and hear different things. And the one thing I'll say about this session that really resonated. I had had Bonzo for maybe like a year or two at this point. It was pretty early on in my relationship with my dog. And something about my dog is he's very soft. Like, all dogs can be soft. But he was, like, uniquely soft to where? Everywhere we went. Starbucks, airport venues, anywhere in public. Because I take my Dog with me everywhere, people would always pet him. Okay, Pet your dog, of course. Absolutely. And the first thing out of their mouth always, wow, he's so soft. Because he's, like, just super, super soft. Especially when he was a puppy, it was like new fur, and it was like, super, super soft. And, wow, he's so soft. Like, everyone always says that about him. And then we had a big backyard at the time, and he loved to go zoomy, zoomy. And we always go, wow, you're so fast. And, like, you know, just hype him up, right? So I get on this session with the animal communicator, and. And she's like, okay. You know, I have Bonzo laying right next to me, and he's just, like, relaxed. She's like, okay. I could totally feel he's in, like, a meditative state. He's just very chill. I'm like, okay, right? And she's like, I'm going to go silent for a minute. I'm going to talk to your dog. And I'm still here. I'm just listening to your dog right now. And then she goes, I'm asking him, what do people say about him? And so it gets quiet. And then she goes, wow, you're so soft. And I was like, huh, wow, you're so fast. And she starts repeating things that we say to him that people say to him. And I'm like, this is wild. And then everything else was just like. Like, could be true, could not be true. It's like, where did they come from? And I. I got him at a shelter. And the story they gave was like, somebody found these two dogs on the street and brought them in to the shelter. And then the story that she told, she's like, what he's showing me is that he actually lived with an old lady that couldn't take care of these dogs. So her adult son came and dropped them off at the shelter and pretended that he found them, but really they were his mom's dogs. And I was like, oh, that's interesting. So it's like, stuff like that that could be true, could not be true. No way to find out. But right out the gate, I was very impressed with what she was saying. I was like, whoa, Even my dog.

[Dusty Slay]

He says, he's a good boy. Have you ever told him? All the time, do you think animals can be ghosts, too, though?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Like, there's a ghost dog? Yeah, I think so.

[Dusty Slay]

What did.

[Brian Bates]

But does it feel. Do you feel like. It feels like entertainment?

[Dusty Slay]

Is this the woman, by the way?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That's not her, but.

[Brian Bates]

But animal spirit talking. I would think it feels like entertainment.

[Nate Bargatze]

Looking at her, I would think that was your friend.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, well. But it was a gift, though. It's like you would. She would.

[Dusty Slay]

She didn't know the lady.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like you would do it and go, this is entertainment. And I'm enjoying that. She, you know, and.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

But I look at her face and I go, I trust her.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is that Bo's wife? Lynn Schuster, I don't think.

[Brian Bates]

Mo Schuster.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I mean, yeah, you're soft. She asked what kind of dog it was. Maybe she knows it's soft.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I don't remember.

[Brian Bates]

Do you. When you do it, are you trying to figure out, how does. Would she know this?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah. I mean, and there's that thing, too. You can think, like, oh, she saw my name, so she Googled me. She looked at my Instagram. It could be all of these things.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

But I mean, I don't know. I guess the way she.

[Brian Bates]

Like, how quick when you call and set it up, how quick are you talking to her from your appointment to you're on the phone with her and she's doing this.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Not. Not quick at all. Because it's like she's booked up. So I'm like, she's booked up.

[Brian Bates]

I'm booked. I'm moving. I just bought a house. It's weirdly next to you.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

So, yeah, I. I mean, she could have Googled everything.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I. I feel like they. But I mean, you know, but it. Like, how much could it cost? Couldn't cost that.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Like, I think like a hundred bucks.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So why would you do all that for a hundred bucks? But that's like crowd work. Crowd work.

[Dusty Slay]

And when you say that, you mean her, not Angela?

[Brian Bates]

No, not Angela. But I'm saying she couldn't go into all this. But, like, if you do enough of this crowd work, people think comics, crowd work, a lot of it you're coming up with for the first time. Well, maybe one time you came up with it for the first time, but overall, it's going to be the same crowd, the same people, the same everything. You're going to have. Someone's going to have a CNI dog in the audience. I've seen that if someone's got, you know, someone doing sign language or, you know, guy with his daughter up front or whatever. Like, it's all these things that someone's like, who would do that? You're like, everybody will do that because they all bring them. So then they think the crowd work. So the sort of. That's what I think with this stuff is like, they're just really good, good at marketing. Can be. Yeah, they can just. They know. Well, they just know how to make.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

You do a gift.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

People really want to communicate with their animals.

[Brian Bates]

If they know that you want to do. If you've gone to the step of them getting it, they've kind of got you hooked.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And so anything that you say, if they're even. Yeah. If they're somewhat good, then they, you know, and I guess if you feel happy with it and you, you know, then it's.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I have a question because I, I think everybody at this table comes from a faith background. What are your thoughts on prophetic. Prophetic gifts?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know what that word means. Prophecy.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, like people in the church that will prophesy, which is like, kind of like what a psychic does. But God is telling them what.

[Nate Bargatze]

I guess I'm into the idea of it. I am into the idea of it.

[Brian Bates]

But God's telling.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, but I don't know that I trust.

[Brian Bates]

But if you listen. Okay, so you're doing exactly this, except this lady's doing it on her website. But you go to church and someone's like, hey, God's telling me to, you know.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think you're supposed to try, you know, you're supposed to test them to see. I mean, does it come true? True.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But yeah, it's like, I mean, I, in principle I'm into the idea of prophecy, but I don't, I feel like.

[Brian Bates]

It'S all you, it's your relationship with God. So it's like, yeah, it's got to be.

[Nate Bargatze]

But people, it's.

[Brian Bates]

It may be a message gets delivered through someone else to you, but I think it's all your relationship. It's a one on one unique relationship that you have. That's.

[Nate Bargatze]

But people are forever on the Internet. Like, God told me this, I gotta tell it to you guys, and then it doesn't happen.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I have a lot of friends. So in the same way I have friends that are like psychic mediums. I come from the church as well. So I have a lot of prophetic friends that are wild. And in the same way, like my psychic medium friends will like tell you some stuff. You're like, whoa. I have some prophetic friends that like. I'm thinking about this one person in particular. I remember walking with him and he's like, not like he has to like have a session with you or anything. We'll just be walking somewhere like down the street. And I remember we were in Glendale, California. We're walking down the street and there was a girl trying to get signatures at the corner for like, I don't know, like save the whales or something like that, trying to get signatures. And she stopped to talk to us and ask us for signatures. And my friend's just like looking at her and he goes, what do horses mean to you? And she's like, what? And he goes, what do horses. I just see a bunch of horses running past you. And she's like, I grew up with horses. My grandpa taught me how to ride horses, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then he goes into this thing like, I think God wants you to know that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And just gives her like this word, right? And I think psychic mediums do the same thing. They get visuals and pictures. And I think one of my medium friend psychic friends could have done the same thing. Like, like, what do horses mean to. I keep seeing these horses and whatnot. And a lot of times what I hear from people in the church is like, well, that's different because this person's hearing from the Lord and this person could be hearing from demonic entities. So that's why it's different. But then I've also had where I've sat down with someone who's well known to prophesying over people and like, he's like, like, given words to all these different people and like, they've happened. And like, he's like, well known. And I was visiting this town one time and they're like, hey, so and so wants to meet you for coffee. And. Which basically means like, he. He has a word for you. Like, okay, great, I'll go sit down with him. And I remember sitting there with him and everything he was saying was not ringing true to me. And one thing in particular that my red flags went up was he's like, I feel like, who. Who are these two people to you? And he gives me these two names and he's like, these two people are going to be. They're going to usher you into your next season of life. They're going to be the ones that come alongside you and, and walk with you in your next season of life. And I was like, huh, that's interesting because the two people are named is an aunt and uncle of mine who I haven't seen in years. Years and years and years. But I just so happened to visit them last week and I posted a picture about it that I was so happy to see my aunt and my uncle, he cooked me menudo, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We had the best time. It was so great to have family time and connect and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, that's interesting, because I haven't seen them in years. I just posted about them. And since that day, I think about eight or nine years went by before I saw them again. So they definitely did not usher me into my next season of life.

[Brian Bates]

He was being lazy.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

He Googled me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He goes, this one's. This picture is from last week. You think she'll get it? He goes, yeah, I don't have time for this because just give me the names.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

So just in the same way, like, this lady could be googling the animal communicator I met with could have been googling. Everybody could be good.

[Nate Bargatze]

But what if. You know what.

[Brian Bates]

What's.

[Nate Bargatze]

As your. You know, what's a season really? Right. I'm not saying this guy's right or wrong, but, like, what's a season? Right? I mean, maybe your life has been on the same track, and then there's a new season on the.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Well, I got married and had a baby.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's a. Yeah, that's pretty big. And it wasn't your aunt and uncle that did it.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

Maybe it was the food they cooked you that ushered you into that. Maybe he was just a little behind on it. Maybe the food set you on a new season.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That's what. What it was. I was very inspired by that menudo. And I was like, you know, I should be.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like maybe you could be. You're lost a little bit questioning or you're lost. If you're. If this. If something like this can come in and you go, that means a lot. It's like you're already. Maybe you're already thinking about it. You're already. You're looking without you knowing you're looking for it. And so.

[Dusty Slay]

Confirmation bias.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And so. But. But it shouldn't be put in the person that says it, because then it's like, oh, then now you're like, that person's special. And this. It's got to be. It's. You know, you gotta. You. You gotta be comfortable because you're. If you are comfortable when someone does it, you're gonna be like that guy. You can confidently go, like, I'm not listening to what that person says. Like, you know, a lot of BS out here.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's right.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You gotta just trust your own.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

There's A lot of BS and then sometimes I subscribe to it where, like, I know it's BS and I'm like, yeah, you know, like, yeah, I'll do an animal communicator.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, professional wrestler.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I said. It's entertainment.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Entertainment. They sell shows to him. Like, if hypnotism is at comedy clubs.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, if it was this legit, if they could make someone snap, why would that not be in. Why would you not have it in college? Like, why would you not. It would be like a health. It'd be a health benefit. It'd be. You'd be using it for that scenario. Like.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Well, some people do use it to quit. Quit smoking and stuff like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But it's. But then again, that's all. They want to quit smoking. So if they do it, they quit when they. I think when the hymn says, when you get someone on stage, they know how to pick who wants to. Who believes in this, who wants to do this.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

They find the suckers.

[Brian Bates]

When they talk to that lady, I guarantee you can't talk to. I would bet she can't talk to just anybody and everybody. It's got to be like, I got to know that they want to hear this, and then I can make them hear what they want to hear. And then you're. And you know what, and you view and. And it's. Maybe you just. It is. It's entertainment. Like, it's kind of fun, and it's entertainment, but if you go live your life by it, like, then that. Then that would be probably.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

We gotta wrap. But did you ever do Bloody Mary in the bathroom as a kid?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, yeah, I. I would do that. Never worked, but I did it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I don't think for sure did it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but you knew about it, right?

[Brian Bates]

I knew about it. It was like, I would always stay just enough away from. You know, I'd be like, nah, I don't need to do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I agree. I agree.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Do you want to talk about where we're at this week?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, y'all go. I don't know where I'm at.

[Dusty Slay]

This Friday, I am in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, at, I think, keeping it in Lebanon. Yeah, I forgot the name of the church.

[Nate Bargatze]

Mayfair.

[Dusty Slay]

No, that was a couple weeks ago, but thank you. But I'm at a church in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. It's on my website. November 2nd. I'm in hot Springs, Arkansas, doing a. It's a benefit show for King. For Kings and Kingdom. November 8th. I'm in Paducah, Kentucky, at the theater there that's part of the Kentucky Comedy Festival. November 10th. I'm with your dad, Stephen Barghezi, and Caleb Elliott at the Franklin Theater here in Franklin, Tennessee. Part of fundraiser for Agape, which is a great mission work.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you know where you're at?

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

I'm hosting a charity event for an organization called Claris Health, and I'm actually hosting it with my husband. This is our first time. No, it's not our first time. We've hosted an event before, a long time ago, but it's been a while that we've joined forces, and we're going to be hosting an event for Claris Health.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. I'm gonna be on two coasts of Tennessee. I'm gonna go to Memphis and Knoxville this weekend. Friday, Memphis, Saturday, Knoxville.

[Dusty Slay]

Great routing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It seems good when you're like, yeah, they're both in Tennessee, but Tennessee's a long stay.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty nice drive, though.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Memphis on Friday, Knoxville on Saturday.

[Brian Bates]

You flying or driving?

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm driving.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

No good flights either.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I'm driving.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Where are you in Memphis at?

[Nate Bargatze]

Where am I at? I don't know. I had it.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Oh, sorry.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, it's okay. I forget what I'm at.

[Dusty Slay]

Lifeway Church. I looked that up just now.

[Nate Bargatze]

I can.

[Dusty Slay]

Not just any church Life Church.

[Nate Bargatze]

Minglewood Hall.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That sounds fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And then Knoxville, the Knoxville Civic Auditorium.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

So it's gonna be great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Gonna be two hot shows.

[Brian Bates]

Is that Saturday?

[Nate Bargatze]

Saturday. No game.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, no game.

[Brian Bates]

Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

But you got some competition Henry chose at the Bijou.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah. So dang.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is too bad. 2. Two Clean Comedy shows on Saturday.

[Dusty Slay]

That's his hometown.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's too bad.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Two guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, he probably power 40 each. Yeah, he probably planned it around no game.

[Dusty Slay]

And he does it every Saturday.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, every. Every year. Not every Saturday.

[Nate Bargatze]

Every year.

[Brian Bates]

On the by.

[Dusty Slay]

On the by week.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's too bad. I hate that.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's going to be great, though.

[Brian Bates]

It'll be.

[Nate Bargatze]

Come see us both at the same time.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

And you have a podcast, Funula comes out every Tuesday.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Yes. Every other Tuesday. We're. Right now we're every other Tuesday. We're going to move into weekly, but not yet. But we're every other Tuesday. It's called Funula. It's about gratitude. And we do one matitude. That's the thing that's pissing you off, making you mad lately. What? What's that thing. And we say it, we let it go, and then we move into gratitude. We talk about five things that we're grateful for. And the idea is that we put good vibes out there. When you practice gratitude, you're raising your vibration, you're raising your mood to be in a better mood when you think on those things that are pure, think on those things that are good. You know what I mean? Like, even they talk about it in the bee blay. And so that's what we do. We, we talk about good stuff and what we're grateful for. And it leads to a lot of fun conversations and stories about the things that you're grateful for, whether it be something from childhood or something that your partner said the day before or that.

[Nate Bargatze]

The ghost didn't get you.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

That's right. That was one of my gratitudes on my Halloween episode.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Was this the answer to the ghost talking to you?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Angela Johnson Reyes]

Exactly. I had to like balance it out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, get out there. Get some Mountain Dew.

[Brian Bates]

Get some Mountain Dew. All right. We love you. See you next week. Bye. Nate Land is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetti and my wife Laura on the audio boom 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 Nate Land podcast.

[Nate Bargatze]

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