224: #224 Everyone's Back

Summary

The Nateland Podcast – Episode #224: "Everyone's Back"

Release Date: October 30, 2024
Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay

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1. Welcome Back and Reunion

The episode kicks off with the hosts excitedly reuniting after a period apart. Brian Bates opens the conversation, highlighting the collective return:

[00:35] Brian Bates: "Hello, folks. And hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. We're all back. Back at it."

Dusty Slay expresses his enthusiasm about everyone's return:

[01:15] Dusty Slay: "I'm pumped to be here. Yeah, I'm pumped to be here. Feels great."

The camaraderie is palpable as they reminisce about previous episodes and the dynamics of their podcast crew.

2. Preppers, Apocalypse, and Preparedness

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around the concept of being prepared for apocalyptic scenarios. Dusty Slay muses:

[04:16] Dusty Slay: "Well, if the world kind of ends and I'm ready, I'll be the star of the show all of a sudden."

Brian Bates contemplates the challenges preppers might face once they achieve success:

[07:05] Brian Bates: "I think if you go over there, they're like, you know, it's a lot of, like, oh, what's the... you're like, down there's the... underground thing."

The conversation delves into the balance between preparedness and maintaining the passion needed to stay ready, highlighting potential pitfalls when success leads to complacency.

3. Personal Updates: The Birth of Nate’s Child

A heartfelt segment unfolds as Nate Bargatze shares his recent experience of becoming a father:

[19:18] Nate Bargatze: "A month ago today. Our baby was born September 28th. We were in the NICU for three weeks."

Nate vividly describes the emotional rollercoaster of the first weeks with his newborn, emphasizing the challenges and the overwhelming joy:

[21:36] Nate Bargatze: "It's getting there, man. It's getting there. Things are good. Things get... not to get super serious right into it, but like, your suffering gets put into perspective pretty quickly."

The hosts offer support and share their own parenting anecdotes, fostering a sense of community and empathy.

4. Tours and Recent Performances

Dusty Slay updates the listeners on his recent tours and performances across Tennessee:

[16:13] Dusty Slay: "I did a corporate gig at the Grand Hyatt... Then I went to Memphis, Tennessee, Minglewood hall... And then I went to Knoxville..."

He recounts memorable moments from his shows, including interactions at bird sanctuaries and cultural events, showcasing his vibrant life on the road.

Nate Bargatze also touches upon his stand-up experiences post-paternity:

[30:07] Nate Bargatze: "I did the open mic last week and I had a corporate Thursday night."

The hosts discuss the nuances of performing while balancing new parental responsibilities, highlighting the dedication required in their craft.

5. SNL Experiences and Book Announcements

A nostalgic segment covers Nate Bargatze’s stint on Saturday Night Live:

[34:00] Nate Bargatze: "When I did the special, Lucy's at the hospital... It was like, we don't know where she's at."

The conversation shifts to upcoming projects, including Nate announcing his book:

[65:14] Brian Bates: "Brian Bates discusses writing a book with a ghostwriter, sharing insights into the collaborative process."

Brian Bates reflects on the challenges and triumphs of performing on SNL, sharing behind-the-scenes anecdotes and the creative process involved in sketch writing.

6. Halloween and Family Stories

As Halloween approaches, the hosts share their family traditions and costume ideas:

[41:07] Nate Bargatze: "Do you guys have costumes? Yeah, yeah. I'll be... a lion costume."

They delve into humorous anecdotes about dressing up with their children, navigating the festivities while managing new parenthood:

[43:00] Dusty Slay: "I'm letting you guys, you know, roll with it. The fans are excited. I mean, you guys are back. I really missed you guys."

The segment underscores the blend of personal life and podcasting, illustrating how family events intertwine with their professional personas.

7. Memes, Fan Interactions, and Inside Jokes

The hosts engage with listener comments, highlighting the strong community around the podcast:

[38:55] Brian Bates: "Look at that. We got Rob Lowe looking all serious, but he's just holding a dead bird from a pro-am golf tournament."

They joke about SNL sketches, meme formats, and fan-fueled content, emphasizing the playful and interactive nature of their show:

[60:35] Brian Bates: "Posted one. We'll call it the World Series because teams from around the world participate, sir."

8. Advertisements and Promotions

While the episode primarily focuses on content, the hosts incorporate seamless ad reads, maintaining engagement without disrupting the flow. Notable promotions include True Nutrition, Bombas, Chime, and Bartesian, each highlighted with personal endorsements and discount codes.

[10:52] Dusty Slay: "You haven't missed a step on those athletes, dude."

[55:50] Brian Bates: "Bombas offers amazingly comfortable socks, tees, and underwear, donating one item for every purchase to those in need. Use code 'nate' for 20% off your first purchase."

These integrations ensure listeners are informed about supportive products while maintaining the podcast’s conversational tone.

9. Closing Remarks and Future Plans

As the episode winds down, the hosts reflect on their journey, upcoming events, and express gratitude towards their listeners:

[87:00] Nate Bargatze: "Books 40 pages long. And that's just calories. You're choosing. You're choosing that."

They tease future episodes, specials, and new ventures, promising more engaging content in the weeks to come:

[88:07] Aaron Weber: "All right, y'all have both done the standups. Yeah."

[90:00] Brian Bates: "We have a bunch of Natland stuff, so make sure you go check that out."

Conclusion

Episode #224 of The Nateland Podcast, titled "Everyone's Back," is a rich tapestry of reunion, personal stories, professional insights, and community engagement. The hosts seamlessly blend humor with heartfelt moments, offering listeners a comprehensive glimpse into their lives while maintaining the entertaining and authentic spirit that defines the show. Whether discussing the intricacies of preparedness, sharing the joys and challenges of new parenthood, or reminiscing about SNL experiences, Nate, Brian, Aaron, and Dusty create an inclusive and engaging narrative that resonates with both long-time fans and newcomers alike.

Note: All quotes are accurately attributed to speakers with corresponding timestamps as per the transcript.

Transcript

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

Today's episode of the Nate Land Podcast is brought to you by True Nutrition. Mountain Dew Bombas and chime. Hello, folks. And hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. We're all back. Back at it. Everybody's pretty different about. Brian's the same. You think anything's changed?

[Aaron Weber]

No, not for some time.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's pretty crazy. I leave for a month. This is Aaron Weber, by the way. We got Mountain Dews on the. On the desk.

[Brian Bates]

I was blown away. Mountain Dew last week. Because I popped in last week and it was. I was like, good night, dude. I didn't even know Bombas. I mean, we're like. It's. It's like we're a TV show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's a real deal, man. Yeah, it's no joke. Dusty, thanks for coming in, being part of this.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm pumped to be here. Yeah, I'm pumped to be here. Feels great.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm so excited you're back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thanks, man. It's been a long time. I'm pumped to be back, too. Lots happening.

[Dusty Slay]

I have missed you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thanks, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm excited you're back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

I had a lot of jokes that bombed and I thought if Aaron was here, he would either laugh out of politeness or just laughing at how bad they were doing. Either way, there'd be a laugh.

[Nate Bargatze]

These guys aren't giving you nothing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we just.

[Brian Bates]

I wasn't here.

[Dusty Slay]

It's been me and Brian for a long time. Me and Brian have been running the podcast.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did y'all do one with just the two of you?

[Dusty Slay]

No, we never wish.

[Brian Bates]

No. I mean, they kept getting.

[Dusty Slay]

That would have been great. That would have been how to keep it going. But we kept bringing in gas, babysitters. Basically.

[Nate Bargatze]

One day, the camera cuts on us, just Brian in the middle of the table, finally.

[Brian Bates]

And I mean, everybody watching is like, ah, here we go. It gives. It's going to be like a news. It'll be like earth, earthquake or something happened. And Brian's just like, I'm going to steer this ship in, like, Wolf Blitzer. What's the election night? It's like the guy in. Oh, that movie John Cusack, where the whole world blows 2012. There's one guy on the radio that stays. Yeah. And it's like the whole world's one. They're like, come on. He goes now. And he's recording to the last second. It's Brian. He goes. Just me left.

[Aaron Weber]

What's been.

[Brian Bates]

He goes, hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Very serious. Not a fun one. Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. This is a Distraught podcast. Nateland podcasts.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nate's dead.

[Brian Bates]

You can see Dusty's dead. Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Now, Dusty. Dusty went up early. We don't know where Dusty's at. We got two thumps of a tree hump. We know he's nearby. He's a. He's a quarter acre near us, but we can't find him.

[Dusty Slay]

I lost you guys. I actually don't know what's going on.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty funny.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're talking about Bates doing the podcast during the apocalypse.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

That's where Dusty was. Hit the side of a gutter five.

[Dusty Slay]

Times now I'd be long gone, and if the Rapture's real, I'd be out of here. I don't know about you guys, but.

[Brian Bates]

Well, the Rapture. We're trying to have a fun time.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you said the apocalypse.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but I think the Rapture is like, we all would be gone.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we hope you're right. Yes, we'll see.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but the Rapture is like. Yes, but it's the. The pocket. It's just being a little bit funner.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Because if I say the Rapture, are you gonna have fun with it? Are you gonna go? No, I'd be gone. No fun at all.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I mean, fun for me.

[Brian Bates]

I understand.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot of fun for me.

[Brian Bates]

For the people that are living and probably listening. That's not going to make it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, then it would. You know, it'd be the same if it was the. Just the apocalypse for all of us.

[Brian Bates]

What if you.

[Aaron Weber]

The people who wore shorts to church.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly. God doesn't care what you wear. And he goes, well, what do you think now, buddy?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, go into our short section.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Into heaven.

[Aaron Weber]

Bottom line is, Dusty and I held down the fort, and now Dusty's taking a little bit break from his podcast, so will you be willing to fill in on his.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yes. On yours. With you and your wife.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, do mine. No, Just. No. Just me now. She already quit, too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did she really? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Why Just you.

[Dusty Slay]

She's quit several times.

[Brian Bates]

This is back. Yeah, I bet I could get her back. She probably a little fresh look, you know, like she be. Yeah, get someone else in there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, let's change it up.

[Brian Bates]

Talk about something different. Imagine, I feel like you and your wife's conversations are the same. Same, same podcast, still the same. Then get up. Same, same, same. Like there's no. There's just. The only difference is you go, hey, this is the dusty podcast. That's the only difference. The rest of the conversation is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's about right.

[Aaron Weber]

You press record. Yeah, keep going.

[Nate Bargatze]

You never go. Save it for the podcast. It's just. No, this is what we're doing.

[Brian Bates]

You go, we could do it now.

[Dusty Slay]

We'll say it again.

[Brian Bates]

We could do it at any time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so. Sometimes my kid comes in, she gets on the podcast. Daisy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, that's fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Talk to her about paw patrol and stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you back to collecting leaves? Because I had some fans.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, leaves have just started to fall. I mean, I'll take them. I don't know that I'm going to go leaf crazy like last year, because my whole plan for the leaves last year didn't really pan out the way I wanted it to pan out. I'll still take leaves because I got some other ideas I could use them for, but I'm not gonna be raking other people's yards this year.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, last year was.

[Dusty Slay]

I went crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Your career's in a different place this year too, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Raking other people.

[Brian Bates]

Do you think that's what's hard is if you're a prepper, being successful probably hurts a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, I don't know. You make enough money, get somebody else to wreck the lifts, you know?

[Brian Bates]

I know, but I'm saying you don't have the oomph. I feel like, as a. As a prepper. I'm not saying. I'm not saying, but I would think if you're like the guys that sell a TV show about being preppers, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So they're. They're like legit, like, way into it. But then once you sell TV show and start making some money, I bet they. I bet if you went over there, they're like, you know, it's a lot of like, oh, what's the. You're like. Down there's the, you know, like, underground thing. It just got to. Clothes hanging down there. It's like a tread. Old treadmill. What do you got down There. Old treadmill clothes hanging on.

[Dusty Slay]

I think if you're not successful, like the idea of the apocalypse. No rapture is exciting. Right. Because you're like, nothing's going on. For me, if the world kind of ends and I'm ready, I'll be the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Star of the show all of a sudden.

[Dusty Slay]

But if you start being successful, you're like, well, I kind of want this to keep going here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now, I'm just the weirdest guy in the neighborhood right now.

[Brian Bates]

But no one goes to being the most prepared. They become lazy. Not lazy, but a little. Like that little extra. Something's kind of missing because you're like, yeah, you know, I got a tv. It's a little.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't have the passion for it.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So you're kind of. Which could be the downside. That's what's.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, success. Yeah. Makes you less prepared, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Makes. Makes people lazy. And then weakness comes in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You could be not. Yeah. Well, that's apocalypse, dude. You'll be.

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Aaron Weber]

You might take a step back in 20, 25.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You dig in the underground tunnel. You're like, let's do three stairs. 10. I don't want to go all the way down.

[Dusty Slay]

I still feel pretty strong about my. My preparation stuff, though. I feel good about what's going on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm ready to. I'm ready to really build some stuff. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I think I need a place to go.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't have a place to go.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's step one.

[Brian Bates]

Step one is.

[Nate Bargatze]

Step two is you start furnishing it, but we'll work on the place.

[Brian Bates]

Where to go.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And how to get there. You know, will you be able to get there in the case of an. I mean, if it. If it happens, are you going to be able to jump in your car and get there?

[Brian Bates]

You got a hope.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because. Well, it's electric or gas.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Or roadblocks or, who knows, chaos out in the streets.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

North Carolina. The roads just washed away.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Interstate 40's gone for a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

So you gotta have a helicopter.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You need something.

[Brian Bates]

Helicopter.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or maybe a little boat, donkey, something like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Donkey'd be good. Maybe a fan boat.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I think.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody hear you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But you'll be scooting right on by.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They'll hear you. But you'll be rolling out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's good to be back.

[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Dusty Slay]

You haven't missed a step on those athletes, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, real good.

[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Means something to you now because now that you know, now that money's being used.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true. Somebody depends on this.

[Brian Bates]

Someone depends on that.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's not just me out here in the world. I got somebody dependent on me. That is a crazy shift when you.

[Dusty Slay]

And if you're trying to prep, prep, prepare, you know, get a bunch of protein, stock up on protein.

[Nate Bargatze]

There you go.

[Brian Bates]

True Nutrition is so what. I know we have a lot to talk about. Is it going to just lead into. Start the comments or.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I want to talk about the. Our weekend, if that's okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, we're. Guess we're hold off on baby and.

[Dusty Slay]

Snl, but go ahead I had a hot weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I figured once we get into Baby and snl, it's going to go for a while.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So we do this all the time.

[Brian Bates]

No, no. Aaron hasn't been on here for six months. But go ahead, tell them where you're at.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a hot weekend. I went to it.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me ask you this, though. If V had beaten Texas.

[Dusty Slay]

They've come back to our podcast here, Brian, and look what they're doing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I didn't even know Aaron.

[Aaron Weber]

Was here till the ad re.

[Brian Bates]

But I did go. The Vandy game, if any would have beaten Texas, it would be today's episode.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, we would not have time to get to.

[Brian Bates]

I'll tell you what. It's. It's the episode of when. The fact that, like, you know, we lost by three. It's a tough loss, but it was just a. It was like a tough loss. You can say that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

It wasn't like, oh, man. It was just a tough, straight up tough loss. And I'm excited for the rest of our season. It was fun. You know, it's. It's crazy, man. I've just never seen anything.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just feels different, right? I mean, you're in the thick. I mean, you're in these games.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, we were. I went to the game. They have this new end zone level. It's really great at Vanderbilt. They're setting it up very nice. I told him I wanted. There's, you know, like, you know, like inner. Like the Virginia Tech Inner Sandman. When they play Inner Sandman, they walk out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was like, we need something like that at Van Di. I was like, you mind if I just poke around? They're like, yeah, just tell us. I don't know if they really want me to or not, but I'm gonna. I'm started thinking on it like a what? Like a tradition. Like a good.

[Nate Bargatze]

You've earned a seat at the table at this point.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Like, what's a. What's a good that we could come out. The Nate Land theme. Yeah, yeah, the Nate Land them, you know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's like, what's, you know, a good way for us to enter the stadium for Bandy and we have the walk, you know, cross. So it's like you could show that, you know, it's like, you know, we could do something.

[Nate Bargatze]

Put a couple guys on horses.

[Brian Bates]

Something like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Something like that. You're thinking outside the box at this point. Yeah, that would be fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Something. But it was. Yeah. Fun little day yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Fell out of the top 25.

[Brian Bates]

I figured that. I think if we were like 23, we would have stayed.

[Dusty Slay]

That's kind of.

[Brian Bates]

I think at 23, we would have stayed 25. I don't really feel you have a choice but to go out, I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

We fell to 26.

[Nate Bargatze]

Still got 41 votes. I mean.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's what I mean. I. 24. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And Texas fell one spot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but now we go to Auburn, where we should win.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Isn't that crazy?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I don't. I mean, I. You know, we should.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

You're right.

[Aaron Weber]

You're Auburn.

[Brian Bates]

Auburn looks good.

[Dusty Slay]

Looked decent this past week.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. I didn't.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't see how they did, but.

[Dusty Slay]

They lost really bad. Yeah, Things are down there. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's Opal, like. So where we at this week?

[Aaron Weber]

All right, so that. Well, I did the My Brian Bates and Friends show here. Dusty came and did that. Thank you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Hot show.

[Aaron Weber]

I've done it. You guys have done every one of them, so thank you. You've done one, you've done one, you've done two, so thank you very much.

[Brian Bates]

Boom.

[Aaron Weber]

For that.

[Dusty Slay]

There's always a baguazi on there, right? Bar got say on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Stephen Bargazzi was on the line.

[Brian Bates]

No, but I've done two personally.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he's. He's done as much as you guys combined. Get it together.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then Friday night, I was in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, at Lifeway Church. Shout out to Jesse Rothacker. You guys know Jesse podcast?

[Dusty Slay]

Jesse sent me some pics.

[Brian Bates]

He.

[Aaron Weber]

He picked me up at the Philadelphia.

[Dusty Slay]

Airport from the show.

[Brian Bates]

He lifted you in the air?

[Dusty Slay]

I said, he sent me some pics. And Aaron gave me some side eye over here.

[Nate Bargatze]

He sent you some pictures of Bates at the show?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, private pics. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I went to Jesse's house and you can. He runs a reptile show, so you can only imagine what his house is. Oh, yeah, just, you know, just iguana going off your leg while you're just sitting there. But he has a 75 pound python.

[Brian Bates]

Jeez. In his house.

[Aaron Weber]

Just crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just the yellow.

[Brian Bates]

Is it yellow? No, no, it's a different.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't worry, he won't squeeze you to death. I know.

[Aaron Weber]

I said, what did you tell your kids? And they're like, well, they can't come in here unsupervised.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, okay. So you got them contained to a.

[Aaron Weber]

Room at least they're in his garage and. But you know, he opens the cage just like your joke and the thing just kind of starts.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's coming out.

[Aaron Weber]

He just pushes. It's just. It's common for him. But I was like, that's wild. But the show was great. Thank you, Jesse, for, for hooking me up on that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, a lot of fun. Nice. Yeah. Dusty.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

I did a corporate gig at the Grand Hyatt on Thursday here in Nashville. It's hot. Bunch of financial guys. I came out, I go. I'm a bit of a financial guy myself. I just financed a couch. Hot job.

[Brian Bates]

That's a good one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And that was a hot show. Then I went to Memphis. Big Tennessee week for me. And I went to Memphis, Tennessee, Minglewood hall. Ten years ago. I featured for Todd Berry there. Now I'm headlining the Sun Hot show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Then I went to Knoxville, Tennessee, first time I've been there since I filmed my special and did the Knoxville Civic Center Auditorium. Hot show. Hot show. And then I hung out with Henry Cho and Alex Voluto and my feature for the weekend, Zach Townsend, it was great. Then I went over to Kodak, Tennessee to a bit of a bird sanctuary with Whitney Cummings and Zach Townsend and a musician named Gail. And we hung out, looked at some eagles and I threw a little basketballs to a raven and yeah, I saw that. We watched these birds eat a lot of rats. That's what they feed them. They have rats in a cup and they just throw little rats out and it's pretty, pretty disgusting. But a lot of fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's a lot.

[Dusty Slay]

Just wrapping it up quick for you.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I appreciate it. I mean that's exciting stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Call your tour. The easier to drive tour.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it would have been easier to fly if they would make a good route from Memphis to Knoxville.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, sure, that's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

With a bald eagle right there.

[Brian Bates]

Where was Whitney at?

[Dusty Slay]

She was in Nashville on Saturday.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, bald eagles are so much bigger than you think they're going to be. I mean they're massive.

[Dusty Slay]

Huge. Yeah, they had an owl out there that a bunch of vultures. I saw a 39 year old turkey vulture at the very end here.

[Nate Bargatze]

The last 39 years old.

[Dusty Slay]

39 years old. That thing is.

[Nate Bargatze]

It looks every bit of it, man. I think I do 39 Thanksgivings, but.

[Dusty Slay]

This is on Kodak, Tennessee. Just. Just north of Pigeon Forge.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's great. The hot spot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You and Whitney really bond over animals, don't you?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Birds.

[Dusty Slay]

We're into it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean I just happen to be in Knoxville. So it worked out great for me. 20 minute drive. I went over to.

[Brian Bates]

She was going over there to see them or she was in Knoxville, too?

[Dusty Slay]

No, she was going there to see that.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome. What about you, Aaron?

[Nate Bargatze]

I've been all over. Well, not really. I've been. Did you make a joke, Brian, that I went to the Braves game right after my kid was born? I got kind of a nasty message talking about how selfish I was to go.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I thought I clearly said. I'm sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was obviously a joke on the podcast. I have not been.

[Brian Bates]

I was a Reds game.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's right. I've been the opposite of a Braves game. We were A kid was born September 28th. We were in the NICU for three weeks. What's that?

[Aaron Weber]

A month ago today.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true. She's now. She's been home for a week now.

[Dusty Slay]

So you're missing the first birthday.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, not even a year.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's. Bates is like someone's mom. That just goes a month ago today. Yeah, yeah. I get. All right. Yeah, yeah. You know, you did your first SNL.

[Aaron Weber]

One year ago today.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, that is crazy.

[Brian Bates]

That was a fun one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like that one better.

[Brian Bates]

You go. You know what I was just thinking? My mom always does. She knows everybody's. Any day. She's like, that's a C kid. Six years ago today.

[Aaron Weber]

Yesterday.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, because of Facebook. You're seeing this on Facebook? Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I keep a journal.

[Brian Bates]

Tennessee kid was six years ago.

[Nate Bargatze]

Six years ago.

[Brian Bates]

I thought it was longer than that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I watched it on John Chris tour bus when it came out. Yeah, I remember that night.

[Brian Bates]

Six years ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Right before you turned 40. Because didn't it come out on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right around your 40th birthday?

[Aaron Weber]

I know, but didn't it come out on your 40th birthday?

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Right around then, maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, six years ago. I taped it six years ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, so then. And it came out in March, I believe. Yeah. Yeah. So right on my 40th. So I taped it at 39. Yeah. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I hear it's a great special.

[Brian Bates]

Thanks, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

This guy's got some stuff. Yeah, he's got some jokes.

[Dusty Slay]

People talk about it a lot. They love that special.

[Nate Bargatze]

Anyway, I'm sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

My wife went to your house on Saturday.

[Nate Bargatze]

She brought a chicken pot pie.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron looks exhausted.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's been a.

[Dusty Slay]

You look good here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thanks, dude. Yeah, it's been a pretty emotionally confusing three weeks. You know, obviously your kid's Born. You're super excited. And then right away they took her to the nicu where she was there for three weeks, hooked up to monitors and beeping and babies crying. And we basically lived there for three weeks nonstop. So we got her home, though. We got her home. She's been home for a week now. It was obviously terrifying. The first three weeks she's hooked up to these monitors and you know what her heart rate is at every given second. And then all of a sudden they go, all right, you're good. It's insane they let you just walk out with the kid. So she's been home for a week. Feel like it's less nerve wracking now. We're easing into it, but is there weight up?

[Brian Bates]

And she's.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's getting there, man. It's getting there. Things are good. Things get. Not to get super serious right into it, but like, your suffering gets put into perspective pretty quickly.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

In the nicu, like, we. We were so lucky in a lot of ways. We met families that had been there way longer than us that weren't able to hold their kid.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I saw a family who lost their kid there. And for whatever reason, we got to leave with our. I remember we got brought there. My first thought very selfishly was like, what did we do to deserve this?

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

You have thoughts like that. And then when we got to leave with her, like, I thought the same thing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Which is just crazy. But everybody's doing great now. Mom's doing great. Baby's doing great. We're excited. Things are awesome. I want to thank everybody. So many people reached out, especially to my wife. She wanted me to thank everybody. People were really great to her who had their own experiences at the hospital and stuff. So we're all good now. All we got to do is raise a kid.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, so we got through.

[Brian Bates]

That was the easy part.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

So I got to see baby Olive briefly.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian came by the hospital.

[Aaron Weber]

Got to see Aaron in action as a dad doing a great job.

[Nate Bargatze]

You were in our little FEMA tent. We got moved all around. Some rooms are pretty luxurious in there. Some rooms are. You're walled off with a shower curtain.

[Brian Bates]

I try to stay out of your way. But I'm glad. I'm glad a giant baby came down there to get more in the way.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't even have to go.

[Brian Bates]

Sir, he's in there. Sorry about. Sir, I think you're in the wrong building. Hey, buddy.

[Aaron Weber]

She's cute.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It'S. It was. It's Been pretty wild, man. So things seem to calm down a little bit, and we don't know the full big picture about her health yet. Like, it's possible she might have some, you know, some challenges getting back up to speed. But we can do it. We want to do it, and it's going to be great. It already is great. So thank you, everybody.

[Brian Bates]

It will be the strongest kid ever. Yeah, that's the wonderful thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, for sure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, for sure.

[Aaron Weber]

And what is she going as for Halloween?

[Nate Bargatze]

We got Lucy, got our little lion costume.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

She's just now, like, a borderline. She was born early and she was small, so she's just now getting into newborn sizes. So Lucy's pretty excited, putting all these costumes and stuff on. Yeah, but it's great, man. It's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, how great is newborn?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's the best.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You got to be easy with that beard.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't think about that.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, you didn't.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why she's in the nicu.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What do we do to deserve this?

[Brian Bates]

No, she. I don't. I think they, you know, they know how to do. I would. I would. I've rubbed on Harper's face where you. But I'm joking. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Anyway, it is wild that they go. They walk you down to make sure you have a car seat, and then they just let you go. You're just, like, driving away from the hospital for the first time with a baby. We're like, oh, man, we got a baby.

[Brian Bates]

Thing is, you're not buying it there. You brought it in there.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true.

[Brian Bates]

So they are. If you. I just thought of this right now because I. You think that, too. But then in their mentality, they're like, we're shocked you came in here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We just would like you to get out of here.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't want them to have any responsibility over my kid. As far as I'm concerned, you. You shouldn't even be able to tell me, I need a car seat.

[Brian Bates]

But. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you turn your car seat around as soon as you left?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I did. You know, is it.

[Brian Bates]

I think they should be allowed to tell your kid how to vote. Is that. Is that too much, though?

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, the weird thing is we looked it up, like, legally, at any given moment, I could have just grabbed my kid and ran out of hospital.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, legally, I'm allowed to do that now. I'd probably get a visit from child protective Services pretty quickly.

[Dusty Slay]

You would if you do that doesn't sound like you're legally allowed to live.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would have got a visit from them, but I'm saying it would have been insane for me to do that, obviously. But legally I was allowed to do that.

[Brian Bates]

But you know when you see someone get out of, like when they're. They rip all their stuff off their chest and they leave a hospital. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The other thing I guess you could do, you could do that. You could. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You could just grab your baby. So they brought the car seat up. I had to put. Put the baby in the car seat. She had to sit there for 90 minutes to pass the car seat test. Wow. They had all the monitors up, so they're like, we gotta get her in the car seat to make sure that the position of it, like, her heart rate won't drop or anything like that. Her breathing rate's gonna stay the same at like.

[Brian Bates]

Was this in the car?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, this is in. In our hospital room.

[Brian Bates]

I picture. They got to go. They got to go, where's your. The doctor goes, where's your car? He's got. He's got the baby and a couple of things. You're like, yeah, I got. Sit down that car for 90 minutes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nobody came out to the car. They were just like. It was last Saturday. We got in there at like nine and they're like, all right, around noon, you can probably. You can leave.

[Dusty Slay]

I guess if the car seats in the hospital, they know you have it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So they made her sit. She passed it. And then, man, I was. Some of these families, they're like, they'll get ready to leave and then they fail that car seat test and they have to stay in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Still gotta lock it into the base, though, once you get down to your car.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

But the technology is pretty good now. It just kind of pops in there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I think they just want. They're just like, we gotta make sure you have.

[Brian Bates]

How'd you drive home?

[Nate Bargatze]

Were you terrified the whole time that. Not that I would get in a wreck, but that the car seat was strangling?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what I mean? I have no idea. The kid can't communicate.

[Aaron Weber]

Chipotle.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Have you been through a drive thru with a baby in the back? No. You haven't?

[Nate Bargatze]

No. That baby has not. Not left the house since. Since we got her.

[Brian Bates]

I know. Was she on the drive home?

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you think I was trying to get her a home, man?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You didn't go, I'm getting nervous. Let's take a break.

[Dusty Slay]

Let me get a burrito Chipotle.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'll leave the AC on.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, let me get a burrito bowl.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, just do a drive through.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, go through Culver's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Something a little classier. Yeah, the Culver's at least.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, Culver's Drive, too. You gotta have a nice car to get to that drafting. Yeah, they don't let anybody through there. He gotta go through Martyr to get that, to get Culver's.

[Nate Bargatze]

There is one by my house, a Culver's. He's right there. Mount Juliet.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I've only ate there once. I didn't really know about it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Frozen custard, not ice cream. It's like a different. Different thing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Anyway, it's been a. It's been a. Yeah. Dude, I'm pretty tired. Yeah, I'm pretty tired.

[Aaron Weber]

How's the sleep schedule?

[Nate Bargatze]

We're. God. I mean, kids gotta be fed every three hours, so it's like we're trying to figure out a routine. And I'm. And you know, I don't get back on the road really full time till, like, January, so we've got a few months to. For Lucy to take over all the responsibilities, you know? I'm just kidding.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what it helped you late at night. Mountain Dew.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. That's crazy, Brian. You just interrupted such a serious moment.

[Brian Bates]

I'm sorry.

[Nate Bargatze]

To transition me to a Mountain Dew ad. That's what I love about Nate. Land right there. You know what we all need to get more of.

[Brian Bates]

You should drink some Mountain Dew, get.

[Nate Bargatze]

Off your butt to get into some action. And it's fun to do that with Mountain Dew. The drink with bold flavors and a refreshing citrus kick. You know about that kick, Dusty Mountain Dew will get you off the sofa and have you feeling you're charging up the side of an actual mountain. A mountain where the weather's perfect, your friends are ready to hang, and a full day of epic games are happening. Can you imagine?

[Dusty Slay]

I can't. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All these flavors. Original Baja Blast. I've got Baja Blast right here.

[Dusty Slay]

Code red.

[Nate Bargatze]

Voltage. My personal favorite is the Baja Blast. I remember this used to only be a Taco Bell.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

And look at. Look at the timeline we live in now. You can get Baja Blast out of a cane wherever you can get Mountain Dew. When we go on tour, especially with Nate, we love to play games. If we're performing in an arena, there's always a bat basketball goal around. Those games get pretty serious pretty fast. Having a refreshing Mountain Dew afterwards is always the best part. Look how excited Dusty got to drink that Mountain Dew. He spilled it all over his lap. The mountain is calling. You should answer. Grab your friends, grab an ice cold Mountain Dew wherever refreshing beverages are sold and do the Dew.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm sorry for calling you out, Brian. That was fun to read. We did need to get to that mountain. That's exciting stuff. That's exciting stuff, man. Sorry about that.

[Dusty Slay]

I think Tristan's going to get something for me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Everything's fine, guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

This is not my first time. Thank you. It's not the first time I spilled something on myself.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is really good.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, have you done it? So when was the last time you went on stage?

[Nate Bargatze]

I did the open mic last week and I had a corporate Thursday night.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then I've got a corporate tonight, so I'm.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You're still raking in.

[Brian Bates]

How did it feel doing the corporate first 15 minutes?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, felt great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then I started to feel a little fatigued.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. That's what's crazy. There is a fatigue to it. Like when you don't go up and you can feel yourself, it's almost like mentally it's, you know, it's like. It's not like you're like standing and talking is to it, but it's having us remain focus that long is you feel yourself go like, man, I'm having to power through this.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. I felt it. I felt that I hadn't gone up. That was the longest I hadn't done stand up since I started. I looked it up. That was the longest I'd gone. Even Covid, we were back at it pretty.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you have a panic moment?

[Nate Bargatze]

What do you mean?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I feel like he'd not do stand up for a while. You can be up there and like, have like a quick moment of like, God, I'll be up here another 40 minutes and you have a little quick panic moment and then you just go get back in gear.

[Nate Bargatze]

Luckily, that was. That was such a. That gig was great. They were awesome. That was a good, like, first show back.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I've done some corporates where it's like they're not going well in the beginning. And you. I got 55 more minutes. You have a little, little like rush of anxiety real fast here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like now you're nervous about doing a set that short.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. I don't even get time to stretch out.

[Brian Bates]

You're like, I'm not even going to get into this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, we are, you know, look at that. Everybody's Got a baby.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, man. Everybody's got a girl.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I have a son, too.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That is kind of crazy. Everybody's Got a Girl started this podcast. I was the only one with a child.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy, man.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even think I joined with a kid, but.

[Brian Bates]

You joined with a kid? But I'm not the oldest, and I was the only one with the.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I started this podcast at 40. How old was it? 42, probably. Yeah, three.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We've been doing it four years, so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're probably 41.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Crazy that.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a. My daughter at 39, and then the next week I turned 40.

[Nate Bargatze]

I got after it earlier than y'all.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I announced it on my 50th birthday.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. You're not gonna.

[Aaron Weber]

Last time he wiped chiropractor.

[Brian Bates]

He gets a little nervous. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A little jumpy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. How was snl? I watched it. Watched it at the hospital.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's pretty awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

One of our nurses went to your high school.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And was like. Dropped your name.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because I. She said, what do y'all do? I said, she was like, this guy. Now, she was younger, like, 20 years old, but she's like this famous comedian. Nate Bargetzi. Went to. Went to my high school. I was like, I heard that guy stinks.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

She's like, he's all right. But, yeah, we watched. Yeah, we watched snl, and that was awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we had Summit Hospital.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. Vanderbilt.

[Brian Bates]

Vanderbilt.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, dude.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

The Real Deal.

[Brian Bates]

Where the Money Goes. I was born at Baptist Hospital.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Or were you? You were born two clicks over from where Jesus was born.

[Nate Bargatze]

Two clicks. Two clicks outside of Bethlehem.

[Aaron Weber]

There was no room in the end for Jesus, because I take it up.

[Brian Bates]

The whole floor because.

[Dusty Slay]

Bates Crew.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, you got to get there early.

[Brian Bates]

You gotta get there early.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, Joseph knew about the census. Why is he waiting last minute? I was born at McFarland Hospital in Lebanon. It's no longer there. I know that's a shocker, but, Crumble, man, your daughter was almost born in Lebanon. Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true. But then she had some complications at the end. They're like, we might need to put her in a real hospital. So we did it that manner.

[Aaron Weber]

They said that about me, too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It'll stay here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Which is like, a lot of things I don't know if you remember. Like, the day I did the special, like, Lucy's at the hospital, and because of that, they were like, we should have the baby at Vanderbilt. Which, thank God that happened, because then it would have had to have been an ambulance ride from Lebanon to Vanderbilt. Down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So a lot of, like, chips fell into place before all of this, where. Yeah, everything. Everything worked out as good as it could have.

[Aaron Weber]

You were going in at 11:30pm Yeah, I texted Lucy at 11:45. How's my ticket count?

[Nate Bargatze]

Does she respond?

[Aaron Weber]

That was a great joke. I hear nothing the next day. Because it was, what, three days before you guys delivered? Yeah, the next day, I still hear that. And I'm like, oh, man, that joke's really bombing. Everything's okay. And then, Yeah, I think we were all a little nervous for the three of us were texting, hey, anything from Aaron? And so we were all so relieved when we heard from. From you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, thanks, man. It was. It was. You ended up doing a C section, which is just. It was all. Birth is cra. Birth is wild.

[Brian Bates]

It's wild.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I did. You know, as the guy, you feel so helpless. You're just like, there's nothing you can do, and you're just standing around. So, like, I. I remember Lucy was. We were in, like, the. The thick of labor. Like, we're pushing, right. And I'm. I had nothing. I don't know what to say to Lucy, so I just go, like, lean in. I go, hey, I'm with you the whole time. That's what. She looks at me and goes, that's not moving the needle for me at all. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the least you expect.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's all I had. I'll just stand here.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's just in case you thought I was leaving early. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

She goes, it'd be insane if you left.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Obviously you're going to be here.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, I wanted to say it out loud. Yes, I will be here the whole time. Sometimes it's good to. You know. Yeah, it is. You know what? Yeah. You can't be like, all right, go get them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. There's nothing.

[Brian Bates]

It's like a spot. You're doing great. Like, at a weight. Like you're spotting someone at the. Wait at the gym. Yes. Come on, two more. Let's go.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can do it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's. Yeah. You just kind of go, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're like, I'm here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It's crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

You need some ice cubes. I'll run and get you some ice.

[Brian Bates]

Unbelievable. What's happening? I think it's that it's like, a lot of, like, this is on. This is insane. What's happening. Yeah, yeah, this is, you know. Yeah, it's. It's a miracle.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it really is. Really is. Yeah, it's awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we're glad you're back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Should we start with the comments? I'm kidding.

[Brian Bates]

Where have you started?

[Nate Bargatze]

Tell us about snl. Well, I want to hear.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think people wanted the. We went to the news of you. It's a baby. You will be gone next week. No joke.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm back for good now.

[Aaron Weber]

So he really likes Mountain Dew?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I was trying to.

[Brian Bates]

He really drank it. Yeah, yeah. No juice.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think anyone doubts that we. Anybody in this podcast would drink a Mountain Dew.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, I was just talking about that. We were talking about that, like, with politicians, like, because they're like. They do stuff sometimes, like. Or anybody. Even actors or anybody that could be high up, whatever, and they. They just can't ever say anything. Nor, like, if you, like, go to McDonald's, you're like, what's the number one? And they're like. They don't know how to do it. And you're like, you know, some people, you're like, where have you grown up?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Have you not, like, been around. Just basic stuff?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, a lot of the populations have really grown up in, like, these wealthy kind of thing, and they.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I guess.

[Nate Bargatze]

But it's okay if they did. Just don't pretend like you didn't. Don't pretend like you're all folksy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what's annoying.

[Brian Bates]

That's what be. Yeah. But I'm always blown away that sometimes I feel like they're. You're like, you don't know, Ian. Like, there's no. They don't know the language and they.

[Dusty Slay]

Don'T live in our reality.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. It's a complete.

[Dusty Slay]

We're a little science experiments for. For them. Yeah, they go, give them this. See what that does to them. Yeah, that's what. That's what we are to them.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Let them get it out a little bit. They go, walk the dog. We gotta walk the dog a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

Eat some of that. Yeah, eat some of that. Look at him.

[Brian Bates]

Look at him.

[Dusty Slay]

Look at him.

[Brian Bates]

He loves it.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, get back inside.

[Dusty Slay]

They're so sick. They're so sick. They're all so sick. Look at them.

[Brian Bates]

All right, let's start with you guys. Comments, kb I miss Nate, Brian, Aaron, and Dusty when they aren't there. But the Vibe carries the show. Oh, the Joe Rogan experience wouldn't work without Joe. But Nate's vision and selection of co host is a recipe for success. For success. But can we at least get a picture of Holly on the set? Oh, yeah, Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think Holly's been into the studio, Right?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

You don't take your dog's places around, like people. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

No K Bay right there.

[Brian Bates]

I would like. You know, it'd be fun to bring a dog.

[Nate Bargatze]

You don't go as a family, sit on a patio, bring the dog, eat. Eat lunch somewhere. You're not one of those families.

[Brian Bates]

No, I mean, I think you have to have a small dog. If you have a small dog, I.

[Nate Bargatze]

Feel like that doesn't stop people, man.

[Brian Bates]

No, I know. I agree. Yeah. People bring the dogs out every. I think if you're going to a restaurant, you're like, we're gonna go eat outside. Sometimes, like, you know, it's like, all right, maybe we'll go bring a dog. Like that.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what you meant, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. On a patio.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think sometimes that's. But it's like, sometimes people are gonna get ice cream. And the point is, you bring the dog and you sit out, as you know. But yes, people are. They bring the dog. Yeah. Everywhere. There you go. That was a good one. That led right into snl.

[Nate Bargatze]

We got to ease into Holly on the set of SNL or. Yeah, there you go.

[Brian Bates]

Tyler Flink. The past few weeks confirmed a theory of mine. The show isn't the same without Aaron. He's the glue guy that keeps the team together.

[Nate Bargatze]

The glue guy.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's just glue.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You're not the glue that keeps it together.

[Brian Bates]

You're the.

[Dusty Slay]

You're the guy that puts the glue on.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'll sell the glue.

[Dusty Slay]

The glue guy out of us.

[Brian Bates]

Your word. Glue would come from. What's that? Where did glue. Doesn't the glue come from horses? Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dead horse.

[Dusty Slay]

The old guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You're wearing a white sweater, too.

[Brian Bates]

They give him a red hat.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Like a little orange comb.

[Brian Bates]

You could do that as. That'd be a good Halloween.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Dress up a Yelmer, you're already the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Shape of a clue. Just put an orange hat on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. It's just a hat.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are y'all dressing up for Halloween? Do you guys have costumes?

[Brian Bates]

I'll be. This year. I'll be a Vanderbilt football coach as I always am. Our Titans head coach. I'll see on which one's warmer.

[Nate Bargatze]

You just dress like you're going to Kroger.

[Brian Bates]

I dress as if.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you're already.

[Brian Bates]

I'm always dressed. We won't, we don't. It was never. I would draw. We dressed up when Harper was little. We'd go out, like, now Harper's. She got her friends, they take off and, you know, we sit at the stand, the cul de sac, and we just kind of sit there and, you know, we. We meet. So they don't come all the way up in this cul de sac. We put a table at the end of the cul de sac and everybody sits. We all sit up.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's fun.

[Brian Bates]

And then they come up and.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you don't want them in your cul de sac.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't come knocking on our doors.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Scratching up my cars.

[Brian Bates]

We all sit there. Yeah. Well, the first year we did do it, but it is like you're. You know, you kind of end up that way. We ended up walking around. We're gonna walk around a little bit. Like it's far. We got a really good neighborhood for it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It's very fun. I love Halloween.

[Nate Bargatze]

You dressing up, Brian, we did Trunk.

[Aaron Weber]

Or Treat yesterday with Eleanor.

[Brian Bates]

Is that where you go rummaging through people's trunks and see what they have?

[Dusty Slay]

That's what the church pretends to not celebrate Halloween.

[Brian Bates]

Is that you follow Trunk or trait, guys. You follow old ladies back to the car from the grocery store. And Ma'am. Ma'am.

[Nate Bargatze]

We were the only ones doing it.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm sorry I mentioned.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

What. Did you dress up? Did you dress up?

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay, but you dress your baby up. Dress your kid up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Sexy nurse.

[Brian Bates]

So, yeah, you win as a worried father.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that was true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No, she was a pirate. She was very cute.

[Brian Bates]

And that's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

We had a great time. Dusty. Halloween's what you make of it. I mean, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'll be praying that, you know, you guys get raptured out.

[Brian Bates]

Do kids dress up at all or they don't.

[Dusty Slay]

No, we don't. They don't even know about Halloween.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's great. That when, like, it is crazy thing you be kid. You're like, didn't have to know about.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. They get treats all the time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, they do get. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Until they inevitably find out that it exists.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You're tricking them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Why didn't I. Do you ever think about that?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Why.

[Dusty Slay]

Why didn't you do that? And I go, well, because we don't, you know, worship ghouls. And goblins and we don't dress up like.

[Brian Bates]

That'll be the first day Dusty fights his son.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because if you can wrestle me, you can. Yeah, go, Halloween.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, go. I'll go. I hope you get enough candy to live the rest of your life off.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It'S fun.

[Brian Bates]

John McDonald. Oh, McDonald. Is that John McDonald? John McDonald. I normally don't agree with Dusty's conspiracy and viewpoints, but I also stayed at the True By Hilton in Springfield, Missouri, and inexplicably could not sleep at all. Now I'm rethinking my stance on Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

That's all I'm saying. Guys, everybody. Everybody is like, oh, no, no. He doesn't know what he's talking about. But all it takes is a couple little things and then you're like.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's like. It could be like a blue light. It could be. It's too modern, too. Like, you just. There's some kind of feel to it where you. It's hard to really get some sleep, get comfortable.

[Aaron Weber]

All the commenters agreed with you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. There's a darkness in there.

[Nate Bargatze]

John McDonald had. That was my first joke that I did.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you, John, by the way.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, John.

[Nate Bargatze]

About the song, Old McDonald Had a Farm. It's the past tense. What happened to that farm?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I thought that was good stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What happened to his farm?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Why are we singing about Bingo was his name. It wasn't. Oh, McDonald had a farm. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then they start listing off everything he had.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, and Bingo was his name. There was a dog named. Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Something like that.

[Brian Bates]

What is it? Old McDonald's. Ei. Ei.

[Dusty Slay]

And on his farm he had a horse E, I, E. He had it with a neigh, neigh here and a neigh, neigh there Here a neigh, there a nay Everywhere a neigh Neighbor.

[Nate Bargatze]

He lost. I mean, we're losing family farms by the week.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that is.

[Nate Bargatze]

And that's what happened.

[Brian Bates]

But it could be. When they wrote this song, that guy would be gone. Maybe it is about one guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe he died a guy.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, so the song's about a person that's like. Yeah, he's no longer.

[Aaron Weber]

It's all past tense.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe the government wrote the song right after they took his farm.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. There we go. There you go. That's what you teach your daughter. Yeah, I like that. That's a great. That's probably what happened. Renee. Lear bag. Lear big. I wonder if you really. Lear bag. I don't know if you really hang on that bag part.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Renee Learbag. I like Learbig.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I like the last name.

[Dusty Slay]

Sounds like a bag you take on.

[Brian Bates]

Even if you say Lear big. Yeah. Even if you say Lear big, she has to go, Lear bag. Yeah, she has to say it like that. I recently had my second baby, and when the anesthesiologist came in to give me the dreaded epidural, I immediately asked him to hold on while I could put my earbuds in so I could tune into the Nate Land podcast. When my delivery doctor got wind. Got wind. I was like, wine damn. Wind. That's a sentence that. When I said wind, I go, well, she doesn't know how to finish this sentence. I blamed her.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Not me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Lear bag. You know? Come on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. When my delivery doctor got wind that I'm a Nate Land fan, we bonded. In fact, when he pulled my baby into the world after 20 hours of labor and emergency selection, he yelled, hello, folks. Which made me laugh through my tears. Look at that.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's really cool.

[Brian Bates]

That's very cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you do that? Say, hey, bear.

[Brian Bates]

Did you give this a nice hey, bear? When the baby.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe any one of these people should have been focused in on what was going on instead of listening to the podcast. And they might have 20 hours. I mean, I bet when you do.

[Brian Bates]

It was pretty. Dusty episode isn't like an epid girl, too. They would be like, we don't need you to move at all.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. They're shooting it into your spine.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe it's like the podcast. Not that funny.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

She's like, this is when I'm the most serious. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. I have no emotions when I listen to this showing. Listens after Dusty was an. Asked to be on.

[Dusty Slay]

I think there's fentanyl in there. In the. In the epidural.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, probably.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe I heard that.

[Brian Bates]

Is that how it's getting in this country?

[Dusty Slay]

Opioids.

[Nate Bargatze]

Amazing how.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Hannah did one on there first.

[Brian Bates]

Did you leave the. You have to leave the room.

[Nate Bargatze]

So they were like, we're doing a seat. They were like, we can't tell you to do a C section, but, you know, we should probably.

[Brian Bates]

But they go.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I go.

[Brian Bates]

We go, wink, wink, wink.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's do it. As soon as I said, let's do it, they're like, thank God. Okay. That's the right. Like we need. You've made no progress. You didn't consider. No. Lucy's.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. In two and a half hours. No Y'all gave it a good. You made no progress in 30 minutes. So let's.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was three hours of pushing, and then they're finally like, let's do it.

[Brian Bates]

It's getting nowhere.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I tucked her. They got her out of the room. Then I'm just standing in a room alone for, like, 15 minutes, and they came and got me.

[Brian Bates]

Did they think you were pregnant? Was there a moment where they were not looking up, they just were looking down?

[Aaron Weber]

Baby's coming.

[Nate Bargatze]

They walked into the go. Which one?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You never know.

[Brian Bates]

You never know now.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true.

[Brian Bates]

They go, we're Vanderbilt. Yeah. That's the doctors walking. Ribs down. They go, yeah. Who's pregnant?

[Nate Bargatze]

We don't want to assume any.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Who's pregnant?

[Nate Bargatze]

They. That's the most common surgery in America. C section is.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Nate Bargatze]

They said.

[Aaron Weber]

Did they ask you if you wanted to watch it?

[Nate Bargatze]

They didn't give me a choice. I would have turned it down if I. So I'm behind the curtain with her.

[Aaron Weber]

They gave me a choice, and I turned it down.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know why I would not want to see that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Especially because she's awake. Like, she's conscious. I'm not trying to see. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, then you know all her secrets.

[Dusty Slay]

Peel back the onion.

[Aaron Weber]

So it was in there. Lucy.

[Brian Bates]

Ryan Keen. Nate has a Harper. I have Harper. Breakfast has an Eleanor. I have an Eleanor Weber. Now has an olive. And I have an olive.

[Aaron Weber]

Oliver.

[Brian Bates]

Oliver. Congratulations. A.A. ron and Lucy. Love the podcast. Love the laughs. Tolerate the rants and conspiracies.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm glad you didn't name any of your kids after mine.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think she named her kids afterwards.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's a guy here.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think Ryan named his kid after. It's just a fun coincidence.

[Dusty Slay]

Tolerates the rants and conspiracies. I mean, it's like, man, okay, just.

[Aaron Weber]

Say you tolerate Nate and Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just say you like it. Just admit that you like it. Ryan King.

[Brian Bates]

He did.

[Dusty Slay]

You do like it.

[Brian Bates]

He loves the laughs.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Tolerate the rants and the conspiracies.

[Nate Bargatze]

I get it.

[Dusty Slay]

He likes it all. Yeah, he likes it all.

[Brian Bates]

He's missed it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He got a little bit today. Brandy Hubbard. Hubert.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ho, bear.

[Brian Bates]

Ho, Bear.

[Nate Bargatze]

High Bear.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, bear. This could be. This could be a Brandy. Hey, bear.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's pretty fun. Hey, bear. Brandy. Hey, bear. On Late Night with Seth Meyers. Nate. Nate mentioned a sketch that had to be cut for the first Time he did the show, but he hoped would make it this time. I was wondering if it did and which one it was. They were all great. I could watch water slide and George Washington on repeat. I, I, I, it was Coach Allen. It was that the one I talked about on Seth Myers was Coach Allen. And it didn't make it to, it was like a pitch. I don't remember if he even got written the first time when I did it, but I love the idea of it. And Coach Allen was the last sketch that we did. The only thing that was we were a little bit. If I, if I had to redo my set on snl, if I could have done it differently. It's funny, you start seeing like the monologue. The monologue is not as a standup. It's all about the monologue. And now like this one I've learned like, oh, it's, I wish I wouldn't have done any of the extra virgin olive oil and like some of that stuff. And I would have just told the doordash story if I could have, if I could go back now, I would have just told that doordash story because then even time wise it would have worked perfectly. Where we could have done Coach Allen, we, Coach Allen was like, Coach Allen was done great, but it was a little sped up. Like we were, it was like kind of like, you know, do it with purpose. You know, it wasn't like there's not, there wasn't a ton of. We didn't know if we were going to do it. Which I still, I mean, I loved, I loved, I thought it was very funny to have a Coach just wanting 20 for Jersey. But it's, we didn't know if we wanted, if we were even like, I was like, didn't know if I was getting ready to dress for the good nights or if we were like gonna go do the Coach Allen. I was hoping we tried and we were able to do the Coach Allen. But yeah, that, that's the one that I was like, that was very funny that I want to do. And yeah, and the water slide was, water slide was one. They said they try to do it. Michael Longfellow wrote it. He was the one standing next to me as an emt.

[Nate Bargatze]

And it was a stand up bit of his originally.

[Brian Bates]

Right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And so they, he, they said, I think they tried to do it a couple years ago and it's just a, it is a delicate one because it's like someone's dead. So you have to, you know, you got to be like, well, how do you ride that line and make it funny? But it was one that you're like, everybody wanted that to. Wanted to go. We all were like, man. I mean, when I went up to. When we went to Lauren's office, and we're kind of. After the dress rehearsal, I'm going to the. And we're picking what's going to be on the live show. You know, he's looking at you, and I'm like, kind of. You know, we're all kind of going over it. I remember I just going like, I kind of hope. Water slide. He goes, don't worry. Water slides in. And I was like, oh, okay. Because it was like every. Like, we all knew. Like, like, that's. If one. It's like, it just has to be. It's such a funny idea. But if it's not done right, it can be mean, it can be not fun. It can be a lot of things. So fortunately, that one, we were able to figure out how to do it in a way that was fun. But, yeah, Coach Allen was the one that. I was glad that that was back in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Didn't you? I think I heard you say on Fly the Wall podcast, it was like, 1256, and they're like, one more sketch. And the good nights.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they. One more stitching. Good nights. It's.

[Nate Bargatze]

You didn't know until then whether you're gonna do it.

[Brian Bates]

You're knowing it as. I mean, so I guess it's. Was there a sketch Coldplay, maybe. Coldplay was playing. And then it was.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it was the. What's his name? Just draw. Like the digital short.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was the digital short. And then we were sitting there waiting.

[Nate Bargatze]

Andy Sandberg, the Lonely Island.

[Brian Bates]

And then. So we were sitting there waiting, like, you know, what am I wearing? Am I getting what I'm wearing to good nights on? Or am I putting this costume playing a coach? And so we're just like. You just kind of sit there and you wait until it's. You just wait and you're like, I don't know. I don't know. And they go, all right, Coach Allen, Coach. See, I started getting more Coach Allen ready just because I think it was a little bit more to put on or, you know, it wasn't that much more to put on, but it was like you just had everything ready, and then you're, you know, we're able to go through it. I think if there was. If I didn't have. If I had too big of a costume Change. I don't. We couldn't have done it, but. Because it was just that.

[Aaron Weber]

Was it easier to get fitted this time? Not since you're your second time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Because they just have your sizes and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Everything was kind of like. Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Everything was like pretty much exact. Yeah. This. Yeah, it was. All this time was. Yeah, it was the second time. I mean. I mean, I just keep going. Comments and then.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What should you tell us about bombas?

[Brian Bates]

Bombas. I like bombas. I have bombas. Fall is here and everyone's getting back from vacation, headed back to school. And you know what that means. It's time to get back in bombas. The amazingly comfortable socks, tees and underwear they give back with every purchase. I've been buying bombas for a while, like way before this when they were an ad. They're soft. They fit great. The maroona wool socks like walking on pillows. Bomb is not just socks. They offer underwear and more, which they. I don't believe used to when I first sturgeon, but now they do. They have the best socks for fall. To start you off on the right foot, you're gonna. They're so comfortable. They even got a new sweat wicking sock to keep you energized for those fall workouts or just running after the kids as they head back to school. It seems small. Of course, the best thing about bombs is that for every item you purchase, they donate one to someone experiencing housing and housing insecurity. It seems small, but it adds up. In fact, with the help of bombas loyalists all over the world, they've now donated over 140 million essential clothing items to people who need them. That's a whole lot of good. I love like that kind of giving where it's, you know, like it's. It's not on the person. It's like we're just. Just buy the sock and we'll take.

[Aaron Weber]

Care of the rest.

[Brian Bates]

We take care of the rest. Yeah. That's the kind of giving I like where it's not. You're not asking something else to. You're not making it complicated. It's a very simplistic way.

[Dusty Slay]

No guilt trip at the register.

[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

Now with the George Washington sketch. Were you nervous about repeating it?

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Such a classic sketch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I was at me at first, I was like, I don't know. When they first brought it up, they. They already had the idea written. Streeter Mikey. And I was like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know if I want to do it. My buddy Shaquille was like, it's the only thing he said. He goes, don't do another George Washington. And so then I was thinking about that, and I was like, I don't know if I want to try to top it. And then when we read. They had one, and then when we read it. When I read it, I, like, I got a different vision of it, and I was like, oh, we can do it again. Because it's not. It's. The good thing about the first one is it wasn't. It's not about the. What George Washington is talking about. It's kind of George Washington. Like, that's the fun part is the George Washington character with his men. Like, the jokes are funny, which adds to it, but the George Washington's, like, kind of like a fun thing. And so then when I read the second one, I was like, oh, this is like. I was like, yeah, we could do this again. And this does feel very different. And so I thought it was great. I thought it was very different. I thought it was fun. And then it was like, yeah, it did great. And I think they even have, you know, I think they got ideas for other ones.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was fun watching it, because now you're in on the joke as a viewer, like, you understand the format.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was saying, nobody knows with you. I just felt it coming. So it was fun.

[Aaron Weber]

People applauded when it first started.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. When it first started, you got a big applause. Yeah. Saying nobody knows. It's, you know, I mean, that's what a character is. It feels like a real character, like. And so you. You know, it wasn't the formula, which is the good thing. It's like the. If their formula is so great, which would add everything to it, but it wouldn't have been able to work a second time if it wasn't for just. They made it very different. It felt different. Those guys are just so good. As we're doing this Christmas special, they're doing that with me. December 19th, CBS. And, like, they're just. They're writing sketches, and they're writing sketches. And this. We have some very funny sketches. We already pre taped some of them, but it's just very funny. And like, they're. They're just really great. And for. I mean, for me, that's. They're great at everything. But, I mean, they are. I.

[Aaron Weber]

They got your voice.

[Brian Bates]

They got my voice.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, I mean, it is. It is great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian sent me these. Have you seen that? This has become a pretty widespread meme all across Twitter. This is like a new format for a joke. They got a picture of you and George Washington. This is the Durham Bulls.

[Brian Bates]

Posted one.

[Nate Bargatze]

We'll call it the World Series because teams from around the world participate, sir. Actually, it's teams from just one country, except there's sometimes a Canadian team.

[Brian Bates]

That's funny.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then. Yeah, like, the Raleigh Airport posted a lot. JJ Watt just posted one.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, like a couple hours ago.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Right here?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's cool. It's become a popular meme format.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

His is not very funny, to be honest with you.

[Brian Bates]

Is it not? We call it rough, but isn't football rough sports, sir? Very.

[Dusty Slay]

I think that's great.

[Brian Bates]

But in this case, too high flag. Too. Wait. I think I'm reading. But it varied. But in this case, too high flag. Too low flag. Too late flag. So if they time it perfectly, they can hit it in the midsection. Depends if they do it softly, maybe too hard flag.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good joke. He's putting out to the other defensive guys, you know.

[Nate Bargatze]

And how about this? What is a catch? Nobody knows.

[Brian Bates]

What is the catch? Nobody knows. That's great. What is the catch? Nobody knows. Yeah. You don't like it as a fellow, do you think he made it farther than you and you're upset about that football.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do I think JJ Watt made it farther than me?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's debatable.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'd say it's a toss up, but I think.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Were you the J.J. watt of Hendersonville?

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Were you close?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I was.

[Brian Bates]

Could you be J.J. watt in the 40?

[Aaron Weber]

He couldn't beat me in the 40.

[Nate Bargatze]

How old is he now?

[Brian Bates]

He's. He's old. Old. He's an old man.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think he's that much older than me.

[Dusty Slay]

I think he'd still be.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, of course he would. I'm trying. I'm talking about how much in the future.

[Brian Bates]

Of course he would.

[Nate Bargatze]

How much in the future would he. Yeah, I could maybe beat him if he's 80 and I'm.

[Dusty Slay]

He has had some injuries.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I still like his chances, though.

[Brian Bates]

Hall of Fame.

[Nate Bargatze]

One of the best of all time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he could probably still Be playing in the NFL.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Comedy's not his thing, but I like what he's doing here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

No, football's out of control now.

[Nate Bargatze]

What do you mean?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even watch it now. The NFL.

[Nate Bargatze]

So many great games yesterday.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But you get red zone. It's like. It's crazy how all the games are good sometimes.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, if you're watching red zone, you're like. You're like. You're only seeing.

[Brian Bates]

You're only seeing the good stuff. Yeah. Why don't you go sit in the thick of it with the rest of us.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And watch all the nonsense. You're over there watching the fun part of the game.

[Nate Bargatze]

I watched every snap of Notre Dame Navy, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Man, Notre Dame.

[Dusty Slay]

College is still good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

College is unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

So when for that one screw up, they'd be what, top three?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, probably that one loss. Niu. We shut down those service academies, dude. The military, we got to put them.

[Brian Bates]

In their place because y'all are the captains. Kind of like. Is that what it looked at Notre Dame? You are the generals. Do they come from Notre Dame?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, they come from West Point in the Naval Academy.

[Brian Bates]

You know what is. Yeah. So what is Notre Dame yard? The.

[Dusty Slay]

That's where the Pope.

[Brian Bates]

You're the ones that get in the way of the military.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's right. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's where they pick the Pope.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Y'all do the Pope stuff. Warner McDonald, Nate, when you get back, please tell us what it was like hanging out with Coldplay. It was great. I am now 2 for 2 on both musical guests. Dave Grohl and Chris Martin said. They both told me separately. They both said, when I first met you, I thought, this episode's gonna be terrible. They both said that. And then with them and I saw you, I was like. They were like, you're my favorite.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

And then you were like, have you listened to your music?

[Brian Bates]

I listen to Cold Clay all the time. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He used to walk out the cold place.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's very funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Chris Martin said, I saw your first episode. I thought this was going to be.

[Brian Bates]

No, no. He met. And it was the same thing. Because it is. I think when you meet me, you're like, man, this is not going to be great. It's going to be this. Yeah. You know, and so you're not like a fun. You know, and then you're like, yeah, well, I'm saving it all for saving it up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

For all out there. I bring the heat when the heat needs to be brought.

[Dusty Slay]

And we were all Yellow. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He was that. I talked about Seth Myers too, because he told me after we did. The first time we met, we were doing. He was very, very nice first time we met. Like, super. We talked after. At the after party first. I mean, he was just like a very, like, inch. Like, just a very, really, really nice person. And like, kind of would be like, man, you did so good, and blah. Whatever. He wanted me to come out. He's like, because are they coming to Tennessee or something? They're, I guess when they come here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Doing Bridgestone, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Or not.

[Nate Bargatze]

Bridgestone. Nissan.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. It was like. They were like, do you want. He was like, you should come out and do, like, open. I was like, yeah. I go, absolutely not. I go, that would be. Because it'd be great. I go, it would be terrible. No one. Everybody wants to see you. Like, it's just not the environment for 15 minutes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Extra virgin olive oil.

[Brian Bates]

Oil. Oil. Oil. Yeah. It's not. Well, it's like too. Like, no one's even there to see. Like, it's just a. Not a good. You know, musicians tend to think that, why don't you just come on up and do this? And you go, Cause it's. It's. We don't do the same thing. Yeah. You know, I could. You. You could go up. It would need to be like, I go up with someone else to introduce you, or it'd have to be something.

[Dusty Slay]

And you're like, also, all the people at your show are depressed. I'm trying to bring laughter to people.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that true?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I think it's Coldplay. Sad place.

[Nate Bargatze]

Got some inspirational stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Dude, I only listened to. I thought they were a happy band.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, they got some sad stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I think everything's happy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, the way I listen to it. Yeah. So it was. Yeah. They were. They were. They were. They were all. He. Oh, the right before first day we met, then he goes. He goes, do you need anything? He goes, hey, if you need stuff for your voice, we. We. He goes, we have everything that you'd ever need for your voice. And I was like, is my voice bad? And he's like, no, I'm just saying, if you need. So then all week I'm like, do I. Do I need stuff? Like, he heard my voice and he was like, you know, because you're always worried that your voice.

[Nate Bargatze]

That cough. You do sometimes maybe you thought, like, oh, he's coming down with something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're like, how I am?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You actually make a Living off of just talking.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys both have a good non smoker's cough.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't know what I do. Dusty.

[Nate Bargatze]

I keep forgetting your ears. I'm funny. Sorry. I'll open up.

[Brian Bates]

Reg Griffin. Help a non golfer out here. Was Brady Noel based on anyone in particular? It was not based on anyone in particular.

[Aaron Weber]

Some people thought it was me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Shout out to Reg Griffin.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Super fan, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Come to a lot of our shows. He's the best.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. No, it was just a. That was another one. They sent it to me and I was like, I just always get nervous when someone sends. It was a streeter and Mike is like when someone comes up with a sports one or a golf one, I'm like, I always think no one's going to know golf. Like, you know, like it's not going to be. But that one that went around. Look at that.

[Aaron Weber]

That's for the next comment.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's for the next comment.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that one went around. That one the mate. It's like. I mean, I had people at the golf course just be like, watch out for eagles, you know, so that'll be.

[Dusty Slay]

A joke you'll hear the rest of your life now when you're on the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Golf course covering up the Nike logo. Awful.

[Brian Bates]

That was very funny. He called.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Really? Yeah, that one was great. D hugs. I was a volunteer at the Des Moines Principal charity classic in June 2007. It's a PGA tournament sponsored that raises money for local children charities. Part of the annual event was a two day pro Am. On third hole, Rob Low obliterated a tiny goldfinch bird in flight. Dropped it right out of there. The goldfinch is our state bird. Rob actually held the dead bird for the photo I took below. Wow, that's crazy. So that. Really. So then I guess it was based off Rob Lowe. I guess so, yeah. Look at that. Yeah. What if he asked him that? You remember that? He's like, yeah, do it a lot. Forget it happens all the time. Yeah, it's a real thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Seems real proud in a way though, to be holding that bird.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Rob Lowe seems like a nice guy.

[Brian Bates]

Monica Ricks about. Sounds like John. What's John Wick? John Wick's wife. Yeah. She put the X. She still goes by the Wick. She goes, well, I spelled it a little different. He goes, baby, everybody. You're still getting, you know, like they got divorced. And she goes, well, and this is how she spelled her name. He goes, no, you guys spelled different. You can't be John Wick. Anymore. What's your maiden name? We, Rick, because. Well, that's the same thing, Monica. That's what John. He goes. That's basically the same thing. She was married to John Wick.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Do you get it?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I get it. I feel like John Wick's wife was killed, though, in the show. And it's like that.

[Brian Bates]

That's the truth. But the fun I was trying to.

[Dusty Slay]

Be, I just feel like they. The guy was, like, made making fun of John Wick's wife. And then John Wick went awol.

[Brian Bates]

Well, this was the one before, but when this was. He was married before that.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even want to be making fun of a fictional John Wick.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I mean? I guess.

[Brian Bates]

Monica, I am a paramedic. Your SNL skit with the water slide dead person made me and my colleagues laugh so hard. Last year, we did a cardiac arrest at the top of the water slide. Your SNL skit was exactly what we were thinking when we got to the top. For the record, we did not send them down the water slide. We carrying them down all the hundreds of steps.

[Aaron Weber]

About that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I wonder. Yeah. I mean, that's got to be a tough cardiac arrest. That means they got it or they did not get it.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, you see, you know, like this.

[Aaron Weber]

I took it. He didn't make it.

[Brian Bates]

He didn't make it. We did a cardiac arrest. Some reason I read that is like, that. That was a positive. Like, that's the positive way to do it. We. We got it. We did a cardiac arrest. You're like, oh, that's great. And then we did a cardiac. You'd be like, oh, I guess he could have.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Had a heart attack, but they carried him out.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like. I think you got a weak heart. I don't think the first thing they're going to do is shove you down.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. If I send you down, I think.

[Brian Bates]

It'D be more inappropriate then.

[Dusty Slay]

If he lives.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. If he dies, it's like.

[Dusty Slay]

But at the same time, the guy had a heart attack going up the steps. Let him enjoy the slide.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe get his heart going again.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, he's like, no, I had a heart attack coming up here. At least let me do the slide.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

If I tell you what this Rob Lowe picture, I'll be honest. I thought it was a woman at first. First time you popped it up there, like I pictured a woman in the ponytail.

[Dusty Slay]

Rob in love.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And then I see it now. It's the sad face. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Allison Sacala Sakala. I hope it's Calla.

[Dusty Slay]

I like Kakala.

[Brian Bates]

Kakala, Kakala, Kakala. On Seth Meyers, Nate revealed he is writing a book. I feel a bit sad to have learned about it through this, through a different avenue. As you know, I'm a longtime listener and I do love when we find out things first and get that insight info. Yeah. I just don't think I was here.

[Aaron Weber]

That's how I learned about it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, there you go. That's how I learned about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'll tell you this insider, it's because you don't know when you're going to announce this stuff. And so I've been working on it. There's been a lot of stuff. So it's not like, you know, I'm just like kind of going forward and trying to. I'm just trying to work, trying to get everything done. So I don't think to be like, oh, like. And then it was. I wasn't even really thinking we were going to be announcing the book. But then we just had so much press and then with snl, it's like a lot of stuff going on. It was kind of just like, all right, let's. Let's kind of put everything out. Like, let's start it, like announce, you know, kind of announce everything. And so that's when the book was announced. I. It's. Yeah, I'm excited. Big dumb eyes. Eyes. Eyes.

[Aaron Weber]

The thriller, romance.

[Brian Bates]

It's a little bit of everything. A little bit of sit back. No, it's. Yeah, it's kind of like, you know, it's. It's stories. You know, we try really not make it. That much of that was in stand up. If there is any stand up showings. I'm trying to think there would have been. It's there. You know, it's a different. Maybe it's. It's more in detail, but it's. It's. It's a lot of different stories. You know, about one's about my car, the first car I had, like, just talking about that and. Very funny. Working with a ghostwriter. It's pretty fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Can't even see him.

[Brian Bates]

Can't see him.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't even call him a ghost rider. No.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he's here right now.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a demon rider.

[Brian Bates]

He's here right now. Are you not. Why? Because you can't. Are you not supposed to. You're not supposed to say you work.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think definitionally, ghost riders are. They don't get credit for it. And you're not saying his name. I know.

[Brian Bates]

Or Chris Farah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think. Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

You'Re the ghostwriter.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You're not supposed to say it.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I don't think.

[Brian Bates]

There's no way. Here's the thing. You could never write a book if you didn't have a. I mean, it's impossible.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's abs. I have so much. I'm not. I'm just too busy. There's not a world. I'm having trouble. It's all my stories. It's just. You talk to him and then we just kind of go through it and talk and I tell stories. He came on the road to me, like, and then he kind of puts it in form and then I. Then I go back through the chapter and I kind of put everything exactly how I would say, you're writing a book. But it's. I mean, if it wasn't for them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, I don't think people think you sat down at a typewriter and wrote all this out.

[Brian Bates]

I think I would have Always thought. I think I would have always thought that really. I. I think I would have always just assumed. Well, if you think someone. You would just think. If someone wrote a book. I would have thought. Yeah. That they. I don't know. I just don't. Maybe I wouldn't have thought about it. Which is maybe how it should. Maybe it's how it should be. But, I mean, it's. They don't. They're not writing the book. It's like they're. You're writing the book. It's the stories. It's the. Yeah, but it's. Yeah. Getting it in any kind of a readable shape. I mean, it's. Yeah, it would be.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you wanted to have any punctuation whatsoever. It needs to run through.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. If you don't want to read the longest run on story sentence. Just go put a period in here somewhere. He go. Just take a breath. But it's. Yeah. So it's coming along. It's great. We. Yeah. It's moving. It's. Yeah. It'll be fun doing what's coming out. I believe the. You know, I don't know what I could say. I think it'll be like, you know, next year. May of next year. That's a little insider info. I don't think I can say that. But so don't. Chris Farah. May of next year. Everybody be cool about that. Do not say anything else.

[Aaron Weber]

Remember when Mr. Peterman had a buy.

[Brian Bates]

I did that one time, by the way. I said something and then we had to tell Abby. And then we go, you gotta take that out. I think when I said my Netflix special.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I said I would. Did like a. Hey, this is between us. And then I did get a call. They go, seriously, you got to take that out.

[Dusty Slay]

Right?

[Brian Bates]

And I go, okay. So I do try to sneak them out when I can. So maybe you don't hear that.

[Aaron Weber]

So I don't think we've talked about that since.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Christmas Eve. And it's called your friend Nate Borgetzi name.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like the title.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's good, right? Yeah, it is.

[Dusty Slay]

From the time you met Tiger Woods.

[Brian Bates]

Yes. Yes. It's all back to Tiger Woods. This was. It's. All of them are just. This one's more about Wayne Gretzky, who I did just meet was a very nice guy. But it was. Yeah, no, it was this one. I was trying to really kind of coming up with the title. And I like it to be a kind of a theme of the not so really about the joke but it's just kind of the vibe of what it is. And yeah, this one kind of came up with just like as a letter, like your friend, neighbor got to. It's awesome. This one looks. It looks great. Shot in an arena. And it. But it feels, I mean, you know, it just. It looks awesome. It's, it's. It does feel very big, but I think it's. But it's. They shot it in a way that it's still this intimate feeling and it just. Yeah, it's. It's fun. I'm excited for it to come out. Shot it in April. I've always wondered. They were going to maybe put it out in July, but we got it out in end up being Christmas Eve. I always wanted my specials to be out around Thanksgiving and Christmas because I thought just a lot of families together, it'd be a good time for a special for me to put a special out. And so this was the first one where we got to kind of do that. And so we've got to hold on to it. And so. Yeah, there's going to be a lot of. A lot of Nate. I apologize. And they're already, you know, Santa Claus this year.

[Dusty Slay]

He might have been watching Nate special.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good point.

[Brian Bates]

That is.

[Dusty Slay]

Hopefully he's not late to your house this year.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know why?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You like Santa Claus?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Big fan.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You feel like you're drunk.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I love a good B and E, you know?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Does it not feel like. Because I feel like we've. This has not been a. This is a lot because me and Aaron got back and then obviously been a lot of me. So you and Bates have had to sit back on this episode. Your vibe, Leah, like you've just been drinking wine over there, you know. I like it. It's coming off great. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm letting you guys, you know, roll with it. The fans are excited. I mean, you guys are back. I really missed you guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Mr. Peterman hired Elaine to be his ghostwriter.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But she had to buy stories from Kramer.

[Brian Bates]

Oh. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So Dusty's kind of our Kramer.

[Brian Bates]

So I could buy stories. Yeah, you can write a book. You probably would write a book.

[Nate Bargatze]

Maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like there's something.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you retire from.

[Brian Bates]

I honestly don't know either. If you're really wondering. I don't know what Dusty. He's doing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

In his life. No one did Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

No one does.

[Brian Bates]

He's gonna pop up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Good. That's intentional.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Jameson working I like that last night I'm working. I bet when twerking came around it was like tough. But yeah, it's.

[Dusty Slay]

His name's Jameson T. Working.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. If his middle name is Thomas. Jameson Thomas. I mean, I would. I bet he had to get rid of that real fast. Honestly, I think just watching Nate record his own audiobook. Audio book could be a podcast on its own. Oh, yeah, Yeah. I am doing my own audio book. It's one of those where they tell, you know, like. Yeah, but you can do. Because you can still say some stuff kind of different or this and you're like, you know where you want to go. Just tell me what I'm supposed to do.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's like I'll be reading it. So enjoyed this. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Take a long joint.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it's going to be like.

[Nate Bargatze]

A month off on the calendar.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Books 40 pages long.

[Brian Bates]

We already started it and wrote it.

[Nate Bargatze]

You just get through the title.

[Brian Bates]

We're just trying to get through the. What's that Big dumbass. And they go, demise. I go, no, Dumb eyes. Dumb eyes. Big dumb, big dumba eyes. Leanne Hamlet. Wonder if Nate is still on a strict diet. I recently lost 25 pounds eating in a calorie deficit. And I have a to give a huge shout out to the flail fish. And has anyone tried the chicken Big Mac? I think I'm a fan. I've not tried the chicken Big Mac, but I would like to. Yeah, good. That is a good shout out.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't understand what happened on this comment.

[Brian Bates]

What do you mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, she goes from how I've lost 25 pounds eating in a calorie deficiency deficit to loving filet officials. Chicken Big Mac.

[Brian Bates]

I think she ate a fillet of fish. She would just eat the sandwich because when you. When you're in, you know, you like you could have that. Is that one sandwich is 700 calories?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, 700 calories. So that.

[Brian Bates]

And that's all you get. You get that. That's it for the whole day.

[Nate Bargatze]

Maybe a protein bar later in the day or something. And that's under a thousand calories.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, but you're just calories. You're choosing. You're choosing that.

[Dusty Slay]

That looks like onion rings. I can. Onion ring sandwich.

[Nate Bargatze]

It does a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

I definitely do need to try it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Looks awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How many calories is the flow of fish?

[Nate Bargatze]

I've never had a fillet of fish.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you should do that now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You got a new. You got a baby, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

383. Oh, you can have four or five.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Look at the glue on that.

[Brian Bates]

You got it. You got to have a fillet of fish.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought you told me during lamp that's what y'all ate.

[Brian Bates]

Why don't you save it? And then that'll be you and your daughter's first McDonald's together. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And you only eat it with her, the glue guy. And she's like, you only eat it with me. Then he goes, I promise you. Go, dad, or don't. Promise you. I promise I'll only eat it with you. And then you're. And then you have to drive by a different car because we. It's hard to not eat them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You know, maybe I have had them during Lent, maybe.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I can't remember during that.

[Brian Bates]

It's very hard to keep count, huh? Keep track of everything that goes in there during Lent.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna give up burgers, so I'll swap to the filet effect.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, Len is no meat on Fridays.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So that's why people would eat fish.

[Dusty Slay]

Fish counts.

[Nate Bargatze]

Fish is not meat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we've had that discussion.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a vegetable. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Something with a p. Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Pescatarian.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't. I don't. I'm not. I'm in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, yeah. Most of the world considers it not meat, so. But it's protein, but it's not.

[Dusty Slay]

Where do you. Where are they getting that definition from, though?

[Nate Bargatze]

Capital T, Tradition.

[Brian Bates]

Poop.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, because I just think it's like, you know, the meat is muscles, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

No. Now you want to get scientific about.

[Dusty Slay]

When you eat an animal, the meats, the muscles. Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

You don't feel any gut. Just difference between fish and, like, a.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but I do. I feel Difference between chicken and beef, too. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

That's a good point.

[Dusty Slay]

For whatever reason, I never eat a turkey and dumplings.

[Nate Bargatze]

For whatever reason, we've carved out fish and we go. You're allowed to have that.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like when they were, you know, they probably were like, meat. And then someone did they go, oh, yeah, you know what? I forgot to say fish, though. And I go, just.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nobody will exploit that loophole for 2,000 years. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Already done it. Anita. Herbert.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, bear.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, bear. Hey, bear.

[Nate Bargatze]

Apologies, Anita. Hey, bear.

[Brian Bates]

I need a. Hey, bear. Yeah. Anita. Hey, bear. Apologies, Nate and Dusty, but all right. We're having a good time.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at this.

[Brian Bates]

Look at that.

[Nate Bargatze]

We got. They are dressed up as. I assume that's Nate.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

On the left, Dusty on the right.

[Dusty Slay]

That's the best I've ever looked up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Comedians.

[Brian Bates]

We look good right there.

[Nate Bargatze]

I love it. That's super cool.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome. That's cool.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, y'all have both done the standups. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah, awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

You think there's a couple live from Nashville dressed as me and you? Brian, channel 4.5.

[Aaron Weber]

Heads on the back. 4.5?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Just a regular car.

[Dusty Slay]

Where are they at, you think? Look at those leaves.

[Nate Bargatze]

Probably in a trunk or treat, if I had to guess.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll take those leaves.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe they'd get the. Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think they're set up for a trunk or treat. I think you open those curtains right there, and there's candy behind it.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you think his hair is white enough?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I hope I'm not that white. I don't think it's that as that white, but for the.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm kidding.

[Brian Bates]

But that's what people see. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah, this one was a little. A little bit of a shorter one. We're just getting back into it for us being Aaron.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, man. We're back at it. I'll be here next week.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah?

[Nate Bargatze]

You're gonna be around then?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I don't know where I'm at. I think so, but I see you. Yeah, I think I'm here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I think I'm here for a lot of the time, but, I mean, there is a lot of stuff I have to do.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So. But I. There is. But, yeah, we're here. But what is next week?

[Dusty Slay]

See if you can carve out some time for a chicken Big Mac, though.

[Brian Bates]

No, Nate, you're not here next week. Sorry.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or then.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, boy. Don't go through it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It's. Yeah, there is. Yeah, we'll see. I don't know what's going on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But. Yeah, if I'm. We is a lot of stuff. There's a lot of. Yeah, but we'll be here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look, Nateland's got a lot of moving pieces. Now.

[Dusty Slay]

If you do eat the chicken Big Mac, will you do a video of it? Will you show us you eating it?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I'll just eat it. I'll tell you. I'll eat it. I'm not gonna do it. I don't know if I want to do a video. Why don't you eat it?

[Dusty Slay]

All right, maybe I'll try it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, you do a video.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wash it down with a Mountain Dew.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Then I'll go to a water slot, have a cardiac arrest.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. All right. Were you say where you're.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. This. Oh, this Saturday I'm in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Then Paducah, Kentucky. The Franklin Theater here in Franklin. Litchfield, Kentucky and London, Kentucky.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is the. Easier to drive to work. I love it.

[Brian Bates]

London, Kentucky. Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's awesome. I only have one.

[Brian Bates]

This is when you go, I'm going to London. Everybody goes out. Kentucky. They don't even ask. They don't even go. What? They go, oh, Kentucky. Yeah. I have to.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

In his accent, you get the joke.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes, of course.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, I was seeing London. He could just say that and everybody would know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Paris.

[Brian Bates]

No, exactly. Everybody just knows. Yeah. They go, yeah, we know where he's going.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he's definitely not from Lebanon. The country. He's definitely from Lebanon. I'm gonna be. November 24th, St. Louis Helium. I sold out two shows there and then I had to move them cuz. Cuz the baby we thought might be born, so we moved it to November 24th. Some people have changed their mind since we moved the date. Hopefully you can make it to one of those two shows. November 24, St. Louis at the Helium Comedy Club. Those are my last dates this year. And then 2025, I hit the ground running, but if you want to catch me this year, November 24th, St. Louis.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. I've not done a club in a long time, but this weekend I'm gonna do the Albany Funny Bones.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Three shows at the Albany Funny Bones.

[Brian Bates]

I love some Upstate New York.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I do love it. And my buddy Derek Humphrey will be with me. It's gonna be a great time. I normally they put me at the True By Hilton, but I've got the buyout and I'm staying at a different hotel just because I want, you know, to not get attacked by the demons.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right. We have a bunch of Natlan stuff, so make sure you go check that out. All the stuff that we have, the book, cbs, the Christmas special, Nateland Live. We've done that. It's that they're sitting right now for that. We do that at the lab. Greg Warren's recording. Greg Warren special Funny bone, Columbus, Ohio. November 23rd. First show is sold out. Tickets to the late show. Mike Vecchione, we're doing a special with him at lab here at Nashville. December 28th. Two shows for the special taping night available right now. Also remember, we have two podcasts, the Consumers with Greg Warren. Greg Warren, Tim Convey and Sean O'Brien every Tuesday and also the this week they tackle on the oh, oh, I'm reading it wrong. This week they talk about the Cheesecake Factory on the Consumers and then also don't make me Come Back there with Dustin and Melissa Nickerson episodes drop every Thursday on that. So make sure you go check out all the Nate Land stuff. All right. We love you. Hope you have a great week. See you later. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Barghezi and my wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nateland podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

Hey.

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[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

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