225: #225 The Senses Part 5: Touch

Summary

The Nateland Podcast - Episode 225: #225 The Senses Part 5: Touch

Release Date: November 6, 2024
Hosted by Aaron Weber, Brian Bates, and Dusty Slay
Recording Location: Zany's Comedy Club, Nashville, Tennessee

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1. Introduction and Host Updates

The episode begins with host Aaron Weber welcoming listeners and providing updates on Nate Bargatze's numerous ongoing projects. The absence of Nate is noted humorously, highlighting his busy schedule with a Nashville Christmas special airing on CBS and a Netflix special titled "Your Friend Nate Bargatze," set to release on Christmas Eve (00:00).

Notable Quote:

• Aaron Weber ([01:36]): "His special is coming out Christmas Eve on Netflix. Dusty and I are going to watch it together."

2. Listener Comments

The hosts engage with listener feedback, reading and responding to comments submitted via various platforms. These interactions add a personal and communal feel to the podcast, strengthening the connection between the hosts and their audience.

Notable Quote:

• Brian Bates ([22:59]): "While I've enjoyed all the episodes for the past month, it's also... Nate Land is not the same without Aaron and his laugh. That's very nice."

3. Main Discussion: The Sense of Touch

a. Understanding Touch

The trio delves into the multifaceted nature of touch, distinguishing between its physical and emotional components. They explore how the brain perceives touch, processing both the tactile sensation and the intent behind it.

Notable Quotes:

• Brian Bates ([45:52]): "There's the factual part, like how hard I just got hit, the pressure, all that stuff. And then there's the emotional part. What does this mean?"
• Brian Bates ([60:00]): "Researchers have found that when people hold a hot drink for even a short amount of time, they're more likely to judge others as having a warm character."

b. Scientific Insights and Studies

Brian shares insights from an audiobook recommendation, discussing evolutionary reasons behind our cravings for sweet, salty, and fatty foods. This segues into a discussion about how holding warm or cold objects can subconsciously influence our perceptions of others' warmth and kindness.

Notable Quotes:

• Brian Bates ([09:53]): "The part of our brain where we form judgments of others and where our bodies homeostasis is regulated."
• Brian Bates ([60:00]): "If you're holding a warm cup and then you meet someone, you're going to perceive them as warmer."

c. Emotional and Physical Pain

The hosts share personal experiences related to physical pain, comparing different types of pain and their impacts. Dusty recounts a painful experience with surgery-related gas pain, while Brian discusses the notion of the worst pain experienced, referencing kidney stones and other ailments.

Notable Quotes:

• Dusty Slay ([69:07]): "Gas pain is some of the worst pain to me."
• Brian Bates ([71:43]): "Have you read the original Pinocchio? Turns out, his nose grows on two occasions."

4. Philosophical Discussion: Pinocchio's Nose Paradox

A lighthearted yet intellectually stimulating segment emerges as the hosts tackle the classic Pinocchio paradox: "If Pinocchio says, 'My nose grows,' what happens?" They debate the logical implications of this statement, blending humor with philosophical inquiry.

Notable Quotes:

• Brian Bates ([75:26]): "If he's telling the truth, it shouldn't grow. But if he's lying, then it should."
• Dusty Slay ([79:47]): "That's the paradox."

5. Personal Anecdotes and Humor

Throughout the episode, the hosts intersperse scientific discussions with personal stories and humorous exchanges. From experiences with Waffle House and dealing with rodents to anecdotes about hosting game shows and managing live performances, the conversation remains lively and relatable.

Notable Quotes:

• Aaron Weber ([04:54]): "I've been soaking up these first few months being a dad, sitting around watching football, doing nothing."
• Dusty Slay ([16:39]): "You do two hours?"
  Aaron Weber ([16:44]): "That's nice."

6. Conclusion and Upcoming Shows

As the discussion winds down, the hosts announce their upcoming shows and tours, encouraging listeners to attend live performances. They also reflect on the absence of Nate Bargatze, expressing anticipation for his return in future episodes.

Notable Quotes:

• Brian Bates ([99:54]): "Lucy and baby Olive are home and healthy, but please don't ever leave for that long again."
• Dusty Slay ([104:30]): "I'm glad to get together and just catch up. Touch up with you guys."

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Key Insights and Takeaways

• Dual Processing of Touch: Touch is not only a physical sensation but also carries emotional weight, influencing our perceptions and interactions.
• Evolutionary Basis of Cravings: Our innate preferences for certain tastes have deep-rooted evolutionary purposes related to calorie intake and survival.
• Impact of Touch on Social Judgments: Simple acts like holding a warm or cold beverage can subconsciously affect how we perceive others' personalities and warmth.
• Philosophical Puzzles Enhance Understanding: Engaging with paradoxes like Pinocchio's nose challenges our logical frameworks and adds depth to seemingly simple topics.

Conclusion

Episode 225 of The Nateland Podcast offers a rich exploration of the sense of touch, seamlessly blending scientific discussion with personal anecdotes and humor. The hosts provide valuable insights into how touch influences our daily lives and perceptions, all while maintaining an engaging and entertaining dialogue. Whether delving into evolutionary biology or pondering philosophical paradoxes, Aaron Weber, Brian Bates, and Dusty Slay deliver a comprehensive and enjoyable discussion on the multifaceted nature of touch.

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This summary captures the essence of Episode 225, focusing on the meaningful discussions and excluding promotional segments to provide a comprehensive overview for those who haven't listened.

Transcript

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Last week.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I was excited to break news on here.

[Dusty Slay]

Santa Claus come early.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. It's called your friend Nate bar gets a. It's coming out Christmas Eve on Netflix. Dusty and I are going to watch it together. So Dusty can see Nate do comedy. I've been telling her for a long time, this kid's pretty good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's funny, Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he's got some jokes.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what? I listened to.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't care for his attitude a lot of times, but on stage, he's okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I listen to yelled at by a clown a long time ago. Big fan of that album.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a great album.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a great album.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. I think that was his first one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He's got a lot. He's done a lot more. We're working our way through the discography. He's also got a book, big dumb eyes. You can pre order that. Now Nate's got a million things. He's going to be back soon. I'm excited to see him. But for now, let's do the episode with just us. What do you say?

[Brian Bates]

It's been a while since you want to mention that.

[Aaron Weber]

Four, three. Oh, we don't want to talk about that yet. Do we?

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, we can. I got it pulled up here. Nate Bargetzi to star in. It's so funny. There's so many things going on with Nate. It's like any one of these things, we would have done a whole week of programming about four years ago. Now it's like, oh, yeah, big deadline article.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He's starring in a comedy called the breadwinner for TriStar Pictures. He sold a movie. There's a major, big production movie that Nate wrote in and is going to star in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's exciting. I think this came out yesterday, so. Or today. A few hours ago.

[Brian Bates]

A couple hours ago. Yeah. How about that one? 11:00pm I do get to break a.

[Aaron Weber]

Little news on the podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

The movie. The movie came out.

[Brian Bates]

I already watched it. What's the matinee?

[Aaron Weber]

The movie's not out. I don't even know if they started doing it. I mean, they've written it. It got greenlit, it got bought, Whatever.

[Brian Bates]

The scripts, under wraps. But I'll. I'll tell you guys if you want to know.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It's about me quitting my job.

[Dusty Slay]

A contest that you won one time where the prize was bread.

[Brian Bates]

I was, like, quitting my job and then having to get married so my wife can be the breadwinner.

[Aaron Weber]

And breadwinner is one of your nicknames, so it all makes sense, right?

[Brian Bates]

No, I have no idea what it's about.

[Dusty Slay]

But breadwinner Bates is not a nickname I've heard before, and I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

It's too complimentary. I think that's a good.

[Dusty Slay]

Good one.

[Brian Bates]

I get it. That'd be for my wife. That's what we call her.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Breadwinner baits.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The opposite is bread eater baits.

[Brian Bates]

Opposite would be bread loser.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you don't really. You're not. Yeah. You don't lose the bread, though. You just, you know, it's like you. You make money like you're not really losing the money, you're just not making it. So I would say you're eating the bread. That's losing it too, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Funny thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

My wife makes more than me. I'm the bread loser. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know. Yeah. I don't think you. I don't think you would call yourself a bread loser.

[Brian Bates]

Well, the opposite of winner is loser. Just the only point.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but in this context, though, you know, you'd be the. Your wife's making the money. And then you'd be, she's making that fudge. Did you get a fudge Eater that she's the fudge winner. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you get trick or treaters in your neighborhood, Halloween, Brian?

[Brian Bates]

No, I mean, we don't ever get many, but it rained, unfortunately.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Halloween, only day in October. It rained last day of the month here.

[Dusty Slay]

God was washing all the sins away.

[Aaron Weber]

I was excited because this is the first time I've ever lived in a neighborhood where people would trick or treat. So I was like, I'm about to be the star of this neighborhood, dude. I got full size candy bars. I got them in a big bucket by the door. I'm ready to go. We got maybe three trick or treaters. Three or four, like little groups of.

[Dusty Slay]

And they were 15, one group.

[Aaron Weber]

They were a little old, but there's. If you like, trick or treating is interesting. It's really cool and fun to do as a young kid. And then as you get older, it gets less cool. And then at some point it's cool to do it ironically again and just get free candy. Yeah. 14, 15, maybe like mid 8th grade, 9th grade. It's like, oh, let's. Wouldn't it be fun if we went trick or treating? And then it gets lame again. So I caught a couple kids on those waves.

[Dusty Slay]

What full size candy bars did you have?

[Aaron Weber]

I went all, dude, we got a Costco membership. I had never really giving Costco a shot. I was a Sam's Club kid growing up, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Really branching out there.

[Aaron Weber]

Lucy got a Costco membership for the family and I went. And it's pretty amazing in there. I got all kinds of.

[Dusty Slay]

I just went to Costco for not the first time, but the first time in a long time the other day.

[Aaron Weber]

It's fun, right?

[Dusty Slay]

It is fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah, I got a lot of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Brian Bates]

Weren't you kind of a little happy that nobody showed up?

[Dusty Slay]

Because now you get to eat the.

[Brian Bates]

Candy was left over. Did you have mixed feelings is what I'm asking.

[Aaron Weber]

Look, I've been taking care of the problem.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The last couple days I've been knocking some of that candy out. But I know it's fun to. The kids will go, oh, they've got king. They got full size. I was like, yeah, dude, tell the neighbors.

[Dusty Slay]

This is what you do when they do that. You go, oh, this. Oh, I'm sorry, this is the full size. Let me switch it out. I didn't mean to have the full size out here.

[Aaron Weber]

This was for me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, this was my bucket. What, What's. See, I was saying to you before that the Snickers bar, I think is the superior candy bar.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And you disagreed, but you didn't really give a.

[Brian Bates]

Well, we've had this discussion.

[Aaron Weber]

Surprisingly unnuanced, kind of cookie cutter lame take from you.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a super. It doesn't have to be exciting. It's just the truth. It's an superior candy bar.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but I would have thought just you being you, you would have. You'd be like, man, a Charleston Chew is number one. I would have thought you'd had some crazy take. You showing up with Snickers as number one is just. It's so disappointed.

[Dusty Slay]

Charleston shoe. I mean, I like a Butterfinger. I'm into a Butterfinger, but it's not the superior.

[Aaron Weber]

We like them. All right.

[Brian Bates]

No, I think Aaron makes a valid point. Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you guys.

[Brian Bates]

You going mainstream here?

[Dusty Slay]

What do you guys. Well, yeah, Dusty comes in.

[Aaron Weber]

The Dallas Cowboys are the best football team. Coca Cola is the best drink. Don't you know?

[Dusty Slay]

Snickers is not the Dallas Cowboys of candy bars.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure is. It's America's candy.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what they say.

[Aaron Weber]

America's team. America's candy.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'm saying mainstream candy is what I'm talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

Mainstream candy.

[Brian Bates]

You know, Aaron shared his love on the candy episode for Milky Way and got a lot of traction. And I can Milky Way. I kept quiet. But I'm.

[Dusty Slay]

Milky Way is a snake.

[Brian Bates]

I left you off the hang. But Milky Way is my mine as well.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys hate peanuts.

[Aaron Weber]

Hold on. This is big news here. You've been letting me take the heat for the Milky Way.

[Brian Bates]

I get enough heat as it is.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, people have been trashing. People will bring me Milky Ways after the show.

[Brian Bates]

I know. That's why maybe you should get on board with.

[Dusty Slay]

George Washington Carver is rolling in his grave right now. Is that you guys hate peanuts.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I was listening. I'm impressed.

[Aaron Weber]

Washington Carver cares what I'm doing right now. You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

It's peanut, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I. In the. My long car ride home yesterday, 300.

[Dusty Slay]

Different uses for the peanut he came up with.

[Aaron Weber]

He did. He saved the crops in Alabama, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he did.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. The locusts were coming in, eating all the cotton. He said we need to grow peanuts.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it was the bow weevil.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. That's a locust.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they hang out.

[Brian Bates]

Was this a history podcast now? What's going on over here? Dusty? Spouting facts. Dusty, we don't know anything really happened beyond 1982 when you.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm going to be honest. So I just want to say this, though, you guys are really trashing me about the Snickers. And then your hot take is Milky Way is the best, but we're more mainstream.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you'd expect that for me and Brian, right?

[Dusty Slay]

We're not, but I'm talking amongst mainstream candy bars.

[Brian Bates]

Figured you made your own candy.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, I do try to make stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you're backpedaling a little bit, but.

[Brian Bates]

I'm saying I was listening.

[Aaron Weber]

By the end of this podcast, Snickers won't exist if you just let Dusty marinate on this for a while. You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Snickers is the mask.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I was listening my car ride home yesterday to this audio book called Atomic Habits. And Nate's barber trainer recommended this as a way to make good habits get rid of bad habits. And he said that the reason we crave sweet and salty and fatty foods is it's an evolutionary thing, because our ancestors, those have more calories and food was hard to come by. So therefore evolutionary, it made us realize those have more calories, so they're better to eat.

[Aaron Weber]

Interesting. Interesting lot packed into that. I don't know if we have time to dig into that today.

[Dusty Slay]

We evolved right into candy bars. Peak humanity here.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I wasn't looking at you, Dusty, because I know your take, but I thought Aaron might find it interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that. I like that we instinctively, we crave the higher fatty calories. Yeah, yeah, because back in the day, you needed those calories. I'm trying to avoid them.

[Brian Bates]

You never knew when you'd get your next meal.

[Aaron Weber]

Where were you this weekend, Brian?

[Brian Bates]

Well, let's see here. I was Wednesday, I'm a walking billboard. Today, I was in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Of course you were.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know why it's funny.

[Brian Bates]

I don't.

[Dusty Slay]

Even started laughing, and it just made me laugh.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you said that like it's Kansas City. We've all heard of Bartles.

[Brian Bates]

Well, to me, it is.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. What happened in Bartlesville?

[Brian Bates]

It's a lovely town.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'm sure it is. Established in 1924.

[Brian Bates]

Well, this church was. It's. I was at Spirit Church.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And had a great time. Met a lot of nice folks in Bartlesville. You fly into Tulsa, if anybody wondered. There's no direct flights, but I was there. And then.

[Dusty Slay]

Hot Show.

[Brian Bates]

Hot Show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I love it.

[Brian Bates]

And then Saturday. Excuse me. I was in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Hot Springs, I hear, is fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Childhood home of Bill Clinton.

[Aaron Weber]

Really? Did you go by and visit?

[Brian Bates]

Nope. But Billy Bob Thornton Was born there.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

The two people I know from Arkansas.

[Aaron Weber]

Whose childhood home would you rather go see? Billy Bob Thornton's or Bill Clinton's?

[Dusty Slay]

Billy Bob Thornton, for sure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, probably. But anyway, it was for organization called For King and Kingdom. It's a men's Christian organization. Helps men get on the straight and narrow. I signed both you guys up.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you really?

[Brian Bates]

So you'll be getting some stuff in the mail.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a kid. I probably need it.

[Brian Bates]

And they gave me this hat and I had a great time, so.

[Dusty Slay]

And apparently they gave me this hat.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they sent you that hat.

[Aaron Weber]

You've got a Tennessee Pride, Real country sausage hat.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like that.

[Brian Bates]

Growing up. Tennessee Pride. I mean, I don't know how it's doing now, but it was big as a kid here. Tennessee Pride Sausage. Yeah, that was a pride thing. So anyway, I was in again. I don't know what's going on, Tennessee.

[Dusty Slay]

Brad Sausage has a different. Different thing now, though.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. Anyway, yesterday was my birthday and I was driving home from Hot Springs, Arkansas.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So anyway.

[Aaron Weber]

That's nice, man. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

When was your birthday?

[Brian Bates]

Yesterday.

[Aaron Weber]

Yesterday is his birthday.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Happy birthday.

[Aaron Weber]

You didn't. You didn't say happy birthday, too.

[Dusty Slay]

No. I'm sorry about that.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you into birthdays? Do you.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I try to not be, but I feel like I can't lose all the holidays. Yeah, I feel like you keep the.

[Aaron Weber]

One that's all about you.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I find that my wife's not going to go for the birthdays.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I find not celebrating my own birthday.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, one year I took my birthday off of Facebook. The amount of people that said happy birthday to me, pretty slim. Not many. Yeah, not many.

[Brian Bates]

So you put it back?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What's the point of Facebook?

[Aaron Weber]

I think I still kept it off, but my. You know, my wife loves birthdays and things like that, so she'll post about it so the word will get out.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you know, I don't. I mean, I always get picked on for being the old guy, but there's 10 years apart between each of us. But now I have to go first. So right now I'm 11 and 21 years until next week.

[Dusty Slay]

Some people think that the Happy Birthday song is an aging spell that we're casting on each other.

[Brian Bates]

Of course they do. Of course they do. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And when we sing that song to each other and then we make a wish and then blow out the candle and then the smoke rises.

[Aaron Weber]

Aging spell.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's great. I guess. Yeah. Because you sing It. And then, like, they do get a.

[Dusty Slay]

Year older after that, but it's like.

[Aaron Weber]

Sing it the next year. Constant getting older.

[Dusty Slay]

The constant acknowledgement of the year older. You know, you go, oh, I'm going to be 30 next year. And then you're like, oh, I'm going to be 40. And you just. You just put that weight on yourself.

[Aaron Weber]

What about the black Happy Birthday song? Same spell.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know that song.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a lot more fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it?

[Aaron Weber]

Doesn't feel like a spell.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That was a good time.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

I. I turned 53, and then at midnight, then the time changed and I went back to 52.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Pretty crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So a lot of people congratulated me on another trip around the sun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Another year of not stepping off too far.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Falling off the edge.

[Aaron Weber]

I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing this weekend.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Just sat around.

[Dusty Slay]

How do you feel?

[Aaron Weber]

Felt all right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I'm gonna be back out on the road pretty soon, so I'm. I'm soaking up these. These first few months being a dad, sitting around watching football, doing nothing. So.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I went to Albany, New York, to the Funny Bone, the last comedy club that I have on. Last comedy club weekend that I have on my calendar.

[Aaron Weber]

Ever.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I. Obviously not ever. But currently for weekends, I only have theaters.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

And all the way, you know, And I still like doing clubs, but it's pretty weird in a way to be like, this is the last comedy club weekend I have on my calendar.

[Aaron Weber]

So what's next? What's next after theaters? I've known you long enough. I've watched your goals and comedy change. Dusty, I remember being on the road with you and you said, all I want to do is just keep doing full time comedy.

[Dusty Slay]

Right, Right.

[Aaron Weber]

And then it was, I just want to keep doing weekends at clubs. I never want to do anything else.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to sell tickets. I want to sell out these club weekends. And now look at your whole calendar is theaters.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, I will say I believe that about clubs. And then I did a theater weekend and I was like, oh, this is really fun.

[Brian Bates]

The one with us.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if that was the first one or not, but yeah, I mean, it was, it was, you know, roundabout.

[Brian Bates]

One of the first ones.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Roundabout. That time where I was just like, wow. Because I did a rock club and it was kind of like positioned itself as a theater and I didn't really like it. And I was like, I don't Think I want to do theaters.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I did, like, a real theater.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I was like, oh, this is really fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

And so. Yeah. I mean, but, you know, I had a great time at the club. This is what I like about the club. I did three shows, and then my third show was my lightliest attended show. I don't know if that's the way to say it, but it was least attended. Yeah. And I just got in there and I got loose and I riffed a bunch. I feel like I wrote new jokes during that show because I was just playing around.

[Aaron Weber]

And you're already pretty loose.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or at least the illusion of looseness.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And it felt good. And I'm like, you know, I kind of missed that in the theaters. But you know what? Having a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

You do two hours?

[Dusty Slay]

No, not in the club. In the club. I try to keep it at an hour.

[Aaron Weber]

That's nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. For the staff and everything.

[Brian Bates]

Do you think you'll change as a theater act, as a person?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Brian Bates]

We'll see.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you have this conversation with Nate at some point?

[Brian Bates]

Well, we saw what happened to him, so I'm just trying not let it happen again. I'm getting that. But if it does, Dusty, you may need better help.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's true. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Thanksgiving is here, and this month is all about gratitude. So let's take a moment to say thank you to someone in your life. Personally, I always think of my wife, Hannah. But along with her, there's a person in. In our lives we never thank enough, and that is ourselves.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, all right. Yeah. Sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

So here's the reminder to send some thanks to the people in your life, including yourself. By the way, I do thank my wife. My wife does a lot. My wife, you know, is raising our kids, keeping our whole household going. It's really amazing. She's the best. But it's. Sometimes I just want to say that he's go.

[Aaron Weber]

But.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, because I did put this in here. It's written, but I did put this in here. So I'm reading what was written, but. But I just felt like we're really grazed over thanking my wife, Hannah, so I wanted to just reemphasize.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, right.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

Wow, that's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Let the gratitude flow with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.comnate today to get 10% off your first month. That's better help. H e l p.com Nate if you can't spell help, you do need somehow.

[Brian Bates]

Well, yeah, I want to get you guys opinion on something on the way home. Yesterday I stopped at Waffle House, celebrate my birthday.

[Aaron Weber]

You ate a Waffle House alone?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I love to eat at Waffle House alone, though.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it's. That's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Especially when you could smoke cigarettes inside Waffle House. It's really fun to eat and then smoke alone.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's been a while since you've done that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, it was pretty busy in there. People weren't waiting, but it was full. And when I walked in, a family just got up from a booth and let. I mean, their stuff was still there on the table and then there was. The bar was full except one seat right in the middle.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I had a choice of squeezing in between some strangers or taking a booth to myself. What would you do?

[Dusty Slay]

Booth every time.

[Aaron Weber]

Was there a line of people behind you waiting to get seated as well? How big were the two people at the bar? Were they biggins?

[Brian Bates]

No, they were normal size, but it.

[Aaron Weber]

Was, you know, for a Waffle House or normal size for. Were they human body?

[Dusty Slay]

Were the people you needed to squeeze into extremely attractive women?

[Brian Bates]

No, it was all men.

[Aaron Weber]

Both bigger or smaller than me.

[Brian Bates]

Smaller.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, you can find room in there. I would take the. I would take the both. No, I would take the bar.

[Dusty Slay]

I would take the bar. I would take the booth and then tip better. Then I would imagine the next people taking up that booth would.

[Aaron Weber]

You'd have to tip better than four people would tip in that booth because four people fit in those. That's the dilemma here is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but you don't know that it'll be four. Could be two.

[Aaron Weber]

That's fair. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I was thinking not even so much in that term, but if I sit down in this booth and right after that a family walks in and they're waiting Because I'm there, invited to come sit with you. Well, I wasn't going to do that. That wasn't an option. I'm going to feel guilty sitting there, taking up a booth to myself. So I sit at the bar. And then the whole time I sat at the bar, that booth never. I kept looking over at it, and it was. It was.

[Dusty Slay]

That's why you just take the booth. You take the booth and you take the booth with the mindset of, I'm just going to tip really well so that it makes sense that I'm here.

[Brian Bates]

I think I got there on the tail end of it being really busy, and then it kind of died down after I got there.

[Aaron Weber]

But he's saying the concern isn't the server getting less tips.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The concern is the family behind him. Hypothetical family going, we can't sit together.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but I got a family. We go out to eat. You can wait.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. And you complain every week on your podcast about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but we do it, though.

[Brian Bates]

If I did it, you would be complaining next week about, this guy sits. Takes a whole booth. Dude, just sit at the bar.

[Aaron Weber]

But I'm in Bartlesville taking up half.

[Dusty Slay]

I need material, you know, so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Me complaining about it doesn't mean that it shouldn't happen.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I did, you know, I did a long ranting complaint about a restaurant experience I had, and then it ended with, you know, it was a pretty good place. You know, we had a good time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This was the Reuben sandwich, right? That whole dilemma.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, no. I've complained about many restaurants since then.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

This is one that makes.

[Aaron Weber]

Not that long ago.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, now, the Reuben was particularly disappointed.

[Aaron Weber]

I was with you when he got the original Reuben. I remember the sandwich. I remember thinking, I should have gotten that, too. Yeah, good.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a particularly disappointing thing that not only did they not have it, but they didn't remember it. And then their attempt to recreate it was about the worst attempt I had ever seen.

[Aaron Weber]

At least they did something for you. They did. You want to get into the comments here, Brian?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Aaron Weber]

The comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and Nate Land at Nate Bar gets. Com. Let us know your thoughts. Let us know your comments. Let us know your questions. We're going to dig into it right here for the next few minutes on the podcast. First one comes from Edna.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I like to see the name Edna. That's my mom's name. You don't see Edna a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

You think there's Been a new Edna in 10 years? Probably. Probably not.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Is Edna short for Edna? Something like that?

[Dusty Slay]

Actually, my mom's middle name is Louise.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice. Edna O. Curry. While I've enjoyed all the episodes for the past month, it's also. I've also been going through old ones, and I have to say, Nate Land is not the same without Aaron and his laugh. That's very nice. It is such an important part of the show, and I rarely rewatch episodes that I know he's not in. All right, thanks, Edna. Aaron, I'm so happy for you. Lucy and baby Olive are home and healthy, but please don't ever leave for that long again. That's very nice, but I want to jump right into the next comment from music fanatic 82, who says, I'm going to say this again. This podcast will be just fine with just Nate and Brian.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

I've been saying that for some time.

[Dusty Slay]

I want to just say. I want to stop even Nate. Edna's comment, though, real quick, before we address Music Fanatic. That she's right. We missed you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, thanks.

[Dusty Slay]

We miss you.

[Aaron Weber]

I appreciate it.

[Dusty Slay]

Even the moment of you laughing at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was a fun moment that we've not had.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't miss that.

[Dusty Slay]

But because it's either me just accepting that he went to this town called Bottlesville, which is just probably a normal town in the. In the country, or it's Nate harshly criticizing him about going to this town. We don't get just a good laugh.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks, man. Yeah, I appreciate it. That's very nice.

[Dusty Slay]

And then Music Fanatic, let me ask you this. Music Fanatic, without, you know, say, me and Aaron, it would have just been Brian for the last two months.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly. I think that's what we want.

[Dusty Slay]

So that's what Music Fanatic 82 wants.

[Aaron Weber]

I would like. And it would just one episode, just you and Nate. Brian, like. Like Crossfire. Just like two of you on either. Either side of this table. Just Nate getting increasingly annoyed with you throughout the episode.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it wouldn't go well.

[Aaron Weber]

That'd be fun. Be fun to watch.

[Dusty Slay]

Music Fanatic should, you know, maybe stick to being a fanatic about music fanatic 82.

[Aaron Weber]

Probably born in 82, so they grew up music from the 90s. That's probably what they're just like you, Dusty, most fanatical about. Yeah, 90s country, probably Christy Belleville. I think Brian may not be as popular as the other three. Next comments from Andrew. Chrissy says, I think Brian may not be as popular as the other three. But to me, he is the man behind the podcast. The guy who sits right in the middle is the man behind the podcast. Of course, it's Nate's podcast, but he seems to keep it together. I think that's very. That's. That's. That's apt.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a fair analysis.

[Aaron Weber]

I think so, too.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I don't agree with the first part, but the second part, I do.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah, it's. You need the whole thing.

[Brian Bates]

This comment was very funny to me because this was in a thread. There's. Everyone's out there trying to pit us against each other, like, who's better, who and. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, I work with you guys. I don't necessarily care for you guys outside of here.

[Aaron Weber]

My mom's in one of those groups, and she'll be like, are you. She's like, you and Brian fighting? I was like, brian's at my house holding my daughter right now. No, I don't think we're fighting.

[Dusty Slay]

But, you know, interesting thing, you know, who knows?

[Aaron Weber]

The.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, the. This is. We're recording this on a Monday, right? The elections on a Tuesday. This comes out on Wednesday. This could be the last podcast ever to be released.

[Brian Bates]

That's beautiful, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

The world could be burning right now as we're. As this is being released.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, let's get. You know, let's take their mind off of things.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know why people say you're negative. I don't. I don't know why. I just thought it was very funny. Christy was defending me in this thread in her. Her way to start is, look, I don't think he's as popular as the other guys, but, you know, he helps out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we should keep.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that. She says, may not be. Well, it's like, are you even paying attention, Chris?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, she was being kind, wasn't she?

[Aaron Weber]

Andrew Nicotera met Dusty this weekend in Albany when I finally got to a show. When he says it was a hot show, he's absolutely correct, as he is with most things. It seems you're all great.

[Brian Bates]

Boom.

[Dusty Slay]

Andrew gets it. I'm putting on hot shows out here, guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Hot show is one of those, you know, you pick up things your friends say and you. At least for me, I start saying them ironically, like, I'm obviously quoting you. Like, I do.

[Dusty Slay]

All right?

[Aaron Weber]

And the joke is, I'm doing you. And then about a week later, I'm doing it for me.

[Dusty Slay]

All right? It's fun to say.

[Aaron Weber]

And I'm Saying hot show. And I'm saying, all right, these are.

[Dusty Slay]

Fun things to say.

[Aaron Weber]

We're having a good time. And I wave at people awkwardly and I do three hours on stage. I'm slowly becoming you.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

It is fun being. Yeah, it does look like a good time.

[Dusty Slay]

Get into the negativity.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian, what about you?

[Dusty Slay]

No, he does my thing every opening to this podcast.

[Brian Bates]

You didn't even do it today.

[Dusty Slay]

I know, because I was like, well, I gotta find a new thing.

[Aaron Weber]

What's your thing?

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, but mocking Dusty. Not mocking, but.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, in the beginning, but now he does it every episode.

[Aaron Weber]

Now you don't even think about Dusty when you do it.

[Brian Bates]

Right now, today, he said, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

So I do. Okay, I'm taking over.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

I started saying low key ironically. Like, low key.

[Dusty Slay]

You're saying. You're saying low key?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, like, yo, low key from the Avengers. Low key. Really good. You say that ironically. And then before I know it, I'm talking, like the person I was making fun of. And I've got all these little phrases and terms that I'm embarrassed that I.

[Dusty Slay]

Use, you know, I had a waffle house waitress one time. She was kind of young, hippie. She kept saying cool beans. And this was in 2016, 17. Cool beans.

[Aaron Weber]

Cool beans.

[Dusty Slay]

Cool beans. A lot. She was. She said it so many times like, what do you. What do you want? You got some hash browns? Cool beans.

[Aaron Weber]

And you know, she's spelling it K, E, W, L in her head.

[Dusty Slay]

She just kept saying cool beans.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I was like, what are we in night 2004 here? Cool beans.

[Aaron Weber]

Cool beans. Julio.

[Brian Bates]

Teacher at my daughter's preschool, a new teacher. She says, this your daughter? And I said, yeah. She said, she's a trip. And she kept saying, she's a trip. And I thought, that's a weird way to describe a two year old.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a trip.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I'd have to hear what her voice sounds like if she's got the accent. I think she does. I. I wouldn't think anything of it. You know what I mean? She's a trip, you know?

[Brian Bates]

No, it wasn't really, like a Southern accent.

[Aaron Weber]

Interesting. I like it. Things come back. Things are cyclical, you know? I mean, you've seen this a dozen times. Things, they go away and they come back. Erica. Erica Z.

[Dusty Slay]

Do it.

[Aaron Weber]

You want to take a shot at that name? Erica Zakreski. Zach Reski.

[Dusty Slay]

Zakreski.

[Aaron Weber]

Zakreski. Erica Zakah. Nicu. Babies are some of the Toughest kids. All three of mine are NICU graduates, and we are lucky. They are healthy and thriving. She will be a fighter for sure. Congratulations on baby Olive. Thank you, Erica. It's very nice. Olive's doing great. It's been nothing but good news for. For us since we've got her home. All the stuff we've been waiting to hear back about, it's all been good news. We're loving it. We had our first. Dude, I had our first. Like, we had a night the other night. The first, like, tough night, you know what I mean, where I knew that this was coming, but it was the first night where I'm holding the baby and I'm like, what's it gonna take? Yeah. You know, I mean, you're trying to, like, reason with it like an adult. I'm like, what. What do I have to do to get you to just Daisy eventually.

[Dusty Slay]

Daisy was a lot more so than Sam like that, but, man, I used to. I used to put her in a stroller inside the house and would just push her around the room.

[Brian Bates]

That's a good idea.

[Dusty Slay]

She would be pretty cool in the stroller. And I would put on a podcast on the YouTube that I liked, and that was just audio. And I would just walk her around the room and just listen to this.

[Aaron Weber]

Just lapse around the house.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. Was it your podcast?

[Brian Bates]

No, just put on my favorite podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

I never listened to any podcast I ever do.

[Brian Bates]

It was. Somebody stopped me.

[Dusty Slay]

I did listen to all those episodes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm bringing it back. When I got fired from Nate Land, I'm bringing back. Somebody stopped me.

[Brian Bates]

Next comment is from January 2025, folks.

[Aaron Weber]

Bob Culver, founder of Culver's. Oh, yeah, Bob. Yeah, Bob, You've been a Culver's.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Bob Culver. I think there's a good chance Bates was at the hospital for his own procedures and just ran into Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

That's very funny. No, Aaron knew I was coming.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah, I did. It was a nice thing that he came. Yeah, he went out of his way to come. That's very funny.

[Brian Bates]

But that's funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Just to run. Indian Brian.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I'm here every week.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Just having a spot removed just in case.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Next comment.

[Dusty Slay]

Spot removed. That's really funny. You hear old people.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just get a little spot removed.

[Aaron Weber]

I put spot remover on my dog. Now he's going on. Stephen Wright. Lois. Phillip. One of the best ways to be a great dad is to be the kind of husband you want your daughter to have. Okay. She's Watching you, dad. Just some unsolicited advice which you probably already know from a longtime listener.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, this. This name, Lois, Phillip. It sounds like if there were a hierarchy of Phillips, she would be the lowest one.

[Brian Bates]

She's not even a Phillips. She's just a Philip.

[Dusty Slay]

Lowest. Philip.

[Aaron Weber]

That's my husband. Highest. And that's so funny. It took me a while to get the wording of, be the kind of husband that you want your daughter to have eventually one day.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think that's great advice.

[Aaron Weber]

Fathers, be good to your daughters. Daughters will love, like.

[Dusty Slay]

And also be good to your wives so your daughter sees how you treat your wife.

[Aaron Weber]

Girls become lovers who turn into mothers. So mothers, be good to your daughters, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. It's a song.

[Aaron Weber]

John Mayer.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, right there.

[Aaron Weber]

Next comment from Hunter Ballou. Sounds like an old Civil War name to me.

[Dusty Slay]

E's in that last name.

[Aaron Weber]

Baloo. Hunter. It should be blue. Yeah, it's Balooey. Vandy isn't going to beat Auburn. And Jordan hair. Get real.

[Dusty Slay]

I saw this. I saw this comment and I, you know, I don't want Auburn to lose, but when they did, I thought about this comment. I'm glad you included that. I loved it because the guy goes, get real. Like, you get real. Have you watched Auburn this year, dude?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, like, like such a crazy take. I was surprised. Auburn was actually like a 7, 8 point favorite.

[Aaron Weber]

Were they really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's because they're still Vanderbilt at the end of the day. They're still Vanderbilt.

[Brian Bates]

I guess so.

[Dusty Slay]

I guess they got to finish strong and then they'll get some respect.

[Aaron Weber]

It's gonna be a while before they shake just the name Vanderbilt.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, but Auburn, it looks so bad that, I mean, I. Everybody I went to high school with is an Auburn fan just about. And I. I read it on Facebook every week and I mean, I see what's going on.

[Aaron Weber]

At least they got a really likable head coach. Next comment comes from Kelsey Kirkwood. Great name, alliterative, a strong name. Kelsey Kirkwood rolls off the tongue. Aaron's Thanksgiving comment about the turkey vulture had me laughing so hard and the rest of the guys just breezed on past it. Brian, this happens to you ten times an episode. What do you think about that?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I didn't know in that case if you were joking or being serious.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it was. My guess is if you're. If I were to guess what my headspace was in that moment is I tried to make a joke. It wasn't as funny as I Thought it would be. And I was pretty glad we all moved on, you know what I mean? Because sometimes you'll throw that out there and Nate will catch it and just pounce on you for a while. So I was glad we moved on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So you knew that a turkey vulture is not what we have.

[Dusty Slay]

And you don't want to eat a turkey 36 years old anyway, it's going to be real tough meat.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I'm saying he. The. Yeah, that's probably true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wait, so you eat like, young turkeys? Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You want to eat young chickens? Young turkeys.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I don't. I. I think so. I mean, because the. The older the animal, the tougher the meat.

[Aaron Weber]

Interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Cows, too. You want young gals?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's. What. What is that? There's a term for like, a half. No, no, like the meat.

[Aaron Weber]

Veal.

[Dusty Slay]

Veal. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Veal's like lamb.

[Dusty Slay]

Young lamb.

[Aaron Weber]

Young lamb.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So I think there's some.

[Aaron Weber]

So whatever the veal of beef is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's what you.

[Brian Bates]

Young. Pig.

[Dusty Slay]

Pig meat. Something. No matter what.

[Aaron Weber]

Jeff Mazone. Jeff Mazzoni, maybe Leo Mazzoni, Remember pitching coach, Atlanta Braves.

[Brian Bates]

Always rocks.

[Aaron Weber]

Were sat there and rocked.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Jeff Mazzoni. Capital T, tradition. I love it when Aaron drops a deep Catholic reference. Meatless Fridays is certainly a lowercase T tradition, though. That is true. Didn't realize I did that. But that is a. That is a Catholic reference. That's what, you know, that's what 20 plus years of Catholic education will get you.

[Dusty Slay]

Seems worth it.

[Aaron Weber]

A missed reference. What does that mean on a comedy podcast? Well, it's a difference between capital T traditions, like the big ones, the ones that are central to the faith, and one lowercase T, which is, like, things that we do.

[Brian Bates]

But, see, I usually think of tradition as in a negative sense when it comes to church stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, see, that's the Protestant in you right there, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, we love tradition.

[Brian Bates]

Like, why do you guys celebrate Christmas at church? Well, it's just traditional. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We're talking about, like. Yeah, 2, 000 years of stuff, though. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Okay, we can get in.

[Brian Bates]

But is this Meatless Friday? That's not something that's been around a while.

[Aaron Weber]

No, it's not. It's not all. It's not just about how long they've been doing it. It's about, like, whether that's central. Like a central tradition. I got to the. To the faith. Yeah. They got rid of Meatless Fridays. I don't think Anybody would care.

[Brian Bates]

I gotcha. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Especially since you're. You just don't count fish as meat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I think it's just, you know, warm blooded animals is what we're talking about. Just warm blood.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. That's the distinction.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I looked that up. That is what it said.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Land animals, water.

[Aaron Weber]

The apostles were fishermen, a lot of them. You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

So they can't. Yeah. I don't want to hurt the fishing business.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Carpentry or fishing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Steve, Kelly. Hey, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Hey.

[Aaron Weber]

Your family needs to get a bread maker. We got a really good one and it's amazing. You throw it all in it mixes it, proofs it, bakes it. The house smells amazing. There's no junk in the bread. And the bread does go bad, unlike supermarkets. It's been great.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so. I think you're right, Steve. I want to make sourdough. My understanding is you can't make sourdough in a bread maker. So that's what's held me back from doing it. So now as for now, I'm just not making bread at all. Mm.

[Brian Bates]

You should do. You should write a movie called the Bread Maker.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. What's the opposite of that? The bread destroyer?

[Brian Bates]

I guess so.

[Aaron Weber]

Sourdough. A lot of people do it. I know people are into it. Making sourdough bread, it almost becomes a full time job the more you stand about.

[Dusty Slay]

It seems very difficult.

[Aaron Weber]

You gotta put this in a jar for 36 hours and then over the course of eight hours, you need to mold it with, you know, and put yeast. I don't even know what you're doing with it. It's a lot of work.

[Dusty Slay]

I watched a guy, he was like, I'm going to show you a really easy way to make sourdough. And he took the bread out of the oven about 10 times to keep folding the dough over. I was like, if this is the easy way, I'll never make it.

[Aaron Weber]

This is the hack, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or you can go to the store and there are companies that really do great job.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, there's a place in Hermitage called Flower your dreams bakery. I go there a lot. On Wednesdays they sell loaves of fresh sourdough.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it good?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, delicious.

[Aaron Weber]

We had a bread maker at the house growing up. We called it R2D2. It just looked like it all was beat up. My mom held together with duct tape. She used that thing for 15 years. Made bread all the time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

Good stuff. Carson Meyer, Aaron Olive is a very pretty name. Congratulations to you and your wife. Thank you. The best part about being a dad is when you go out to eat and they can't finish their plate of food and you get to finish it for them. Don't worry, the calories don't count against you because it wasn't your food to begin with. That's great. Looking forward to that. My daughter is mostly eating breast milk right now, so I will not be. I will not be doing that for a while.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I do that though. Eat the rest of the food off my kids plates.

[Aaron Weber]

You do a little dad like. Let me make sure it's not poisoned.

[Brian Bates]

Let me make sure it's cool enough.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Dusty's doing that for real.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, yeah, that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

It is though. Especially if you go to a restaurant. I'm like, I already know it's poison.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Aaron, you want to tell us about Delete Me?

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Boom.

[Aaron Weber]

Good read. It's exciting. It's exciting.

[Brian Bates]

You're the best.

[Aaron Weber]

It's exciting.

[Brian Bates]

We got through those comments pretty quick. I think because you are a good reader. Oh, we didn't dilly dial.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that a bad.

[Brian Bates]

Well, let's just be.

[Aaron Weber]

Usually by the end of the comments, we've done an hour and a half.

[Dusty Slay]

Usually.

[Brian Bates]

I know. We're usually wrapping up at that point.

[Aaron Weber]

That's okay. One time, I hosted our friend Ben Sawyer, who's a good dude, good comic. He ran. He runs a show called Perfect Timing, a comedy game show. And they used to do it in the main room at Zany's. They did for a while, and one time he was out of town and he asked me to host game show. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You and I were partners one time.

[Aaron Weber]

We were partners as, like, panelists on it, right? Yeah, the one time I.

[Brian Bates]

We were a team.

[Aaron Weber]

The host.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah, I got you.

[Aaron Weber]

It's supposed to be an hour and a half show.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

And we're about 35 minutes in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And Lucy runs up to the stage and is like, you need to. The show's almost over. Like, you're like an hour short of where. Because I was just blazing through stuff like an idiot. I don't even know what we did. I think the show just ended super early.

[Dusty Slay]

And you did a little stand. You should just did a little stand up at the end.

[Aaron Weber]

I think we did stand up at the beginning, too. So I think we had already done stand up, but we could have just gone back out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You could have been like, this show. We're gonna have a host and a headliner, and then your feature will be a game show.

[Aaron Weber]

And the headliner is me.

[Brian Bates]

You know, there's only been one of our 225. Whatever this is.

[Aaron Weber]

225, I believe.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. There's only been one where I was starting to sweat about not having enough, and it was because it was in front of the live audience here at Zany's.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

And it was the one with me, you, Nate and Mike Vecchione.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes. Yes.

[Brian Bates]

And I just didn't take into account how much tighter we are in front of a live audience.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Than, you know, on here. Or. We're clearly not tight. So I was running out of stuff, and we weren't even going to hit our time at Zany's. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What were you going to do?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I was running out and I. You saved me at the end. I said. And I just heard you. I don't even know where I heard you talk about this, but I just remembered there was something about getting hit up for a credit card.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And the guy on the street hit you up and all that, and I just kind of threw that out. And you told the story, and it got a lot of interest from Nate, and it helped fill the rest.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, great.

[Brian Bates]

Of the show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, man, I wish I could do that more.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I think now that we have Dusty, I wouldn't worry about it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

But, you know, is it. Dusty checked out, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. No. Yeah, you did.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I wasn't. Yeah. I wasn't at the. At the show that you guys. And you guys are kind of talking to each other.

[Brian Bates]

Well, if it's not about you, you do not care.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I don't have it.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it's just a function of how we're sitting, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If I lean to talk to Brian, it does feel like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what I mean? We're in a circle.

[Dusty Slay]

And, you know, you. You were sweating it, and then Aaron saved you.

[Brian Bates]

And Mike is not the type. That's just riff Ray. Mean, he's funny, sharp to the point. He's not going to just share some long, pointless story, which I really needed at that time. So thanks, buddy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, absolutely, man. How about that?

[Dusty Slay]

I've been with you the whole time here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right, so this week. This week, we are finishing up the senses. I know it's going to kill Nate that he wasn't here for the last one.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

We'll just catch him up when he's back. So to recount, we've done hearing, hearing, ears.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we've done ears, eyes, nose.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. Smell.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Taste, mouth. And now we're doing fingers or whatever you touch with. Yeah, that is true. Yeah, that is true. Primarily fingers. But you get creative.

[Brian Bates]

You can get creative. I gotta think if you told someone to list the senses, touch is almost gonna be the last one they mentioned.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true.

[Brian Bates]

All of the rest of them are all around here.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true. It's all face stuff. Until touch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You don't seem like it's his own category.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. That's right. Well, let's get into it, man. I'm excited to learn about touch.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so there's. There's.

[Aaron Weber]

That sounded so sarcastic.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it did. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I am.

[Brian Bates]

There's. There's two. Two parts to touch.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

There's the factual part, like how hard I just got hit.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The pressure, all that stuff. And then there's the emotional part. What does this mean? So if I slapped you on the back, your brain would process how hard it hit You. And also, was that a love?

[Dusty Slay]

Was it a anger?

[Brian Bates]

What?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Intent. There you go. Okay, so there's. The brain's doing two things, and I'm.

[Aaron Weber]

Making these calculations very quick.

[Brian Bates]

Milliseconds.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Almost instantaneously.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And if you. Yeah, if you slap me on the back already, I'm like, I don't care for it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But will the intent change how I feel about the physical reality of it?

[Brian Bates]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

Every time. Okay, of course every time.

[Aaron Weber]

But not retroactively. Only if you know the intent while it's happening.

[Brian Bates]

You slapped me on the back when I announced I was having a baby. Nate gave you a hard time about it? Because it was kind of hard.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I knew it was from love, so.

[Aaron Weber]

But if you hadn't have known that, it would have hurt.

[Dusty Slay]

You would have been like, what. What's going on here, dude?

[Brian Bates]

I think the pain receptors have been the same, but I've probably been like, what are you doing?

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Isn't it funny, though, how. I mean, I guess this is obvious, but you got to know a person to a certain level before you can do certain types of touch. I mean, if you went in for a job interview, you're not gonna.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't give them a hug when.

[Brian Bates]

You go, yeah, you're not gonna give him a hug at the end, but you're not gonna get the job if.

[Dusty Slay]

You didn't know how well it goes, I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

I did a job interview for this advertising internship in Dallas when I was in college, and I was so nervous. Why? I. The morning of I woke up, I put on the suit. I'm using air quotes. The suit that I had, could not get it. I mean, I had gained so much weight since I wore a suit last. Could not even fit. My sister drove me to Target, where I bought the. Whatever. I bought what could pass as a suit at Target. I was so nervous. I get the job interview, and I walk up. I stick my hand out for the handshake so far in advance. We're, like, 20 yards away from each other. And so I'm, like, walking for 20 yards, holding a hand out, and I just said, like, thank you so much for meeting with me. She goes, oh, yeah. Anyway, you want to come here? I go, yeah. I really. I appreciate it. Thanks. And, like, walk in the other room, and I go, thanks for. I said thanks, like, nine times in her to. After the third time, I was like, why am I thanking her? This is her job is to. Anyway. And then, like, I remember, like, a week later, I read like, this guide on how to conduct yourself in an interview. And it was like, the first thing was like, don't say thank you too often. I was like, that's all.

[Dusty Slay]

I told them I like an all the way across the room handshake, though. I like the person to know what they're in for.

[Brian Bates]

Here. I come to the point where your arms tired. You had to put it down for a while before you got there and.

[Aaron Weber]

Go back all the way.

[Dusty Slay]

Dude, you open the door. I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

You know how if.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know how you didn't get the job if you're nervous and ready for a handshake?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Under qualified, lazy, all that kind of other stuff too. But you know how if you get nervous on stage, I'll, like, I'll watch myself. I'm doing things physically I would never do. I don't even. I'm like, what am I doing? I'm, like, leaning weird and, like, grabbing, like, what am I doing? The job interview, I remember, I was like, I've never done that with a handshake before. I've never thanked somebody profusely like that.

[Dusty Slay]

What was the job?

[Aaron Weber]

It was for an internship for an advertising company.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, so you lucked out out.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I liked advertising at the time. I wanted it to be like Mad Men. It's pretty. Not like Mad Men. Yeah, it's a lot of guys, like, with, like, Nerf guns, sitting on medicine balls with graphic tees. You think it's gonna be cool? Dudes smoking cigarettes?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, those. Those dudes are gone.

[Aaron Weber]

Drinking bourbon. It's not happening anymore, man. They're drinking kombucha and. And all that kind of stuff now.

[Brian Bates]

When was Olive was born, I know she'd go to the nicu, but did. Was there time for some skin to skin contact?

[Aaron Weber]

Skin to skin immediately. So we had a C section. The first thing they did, they took the baby out. They did like a couple. They wiped her off, whatever, and then they immediately bring her to the mom to do skin to skin.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's. They. They want to do that for, I don't know, maybe 15, 20 minutes. They did that. Like, so that's the first thing that she felt immediately. Yeah. What's the. What's. What's the deal with that?

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's just incredibly important. Just for bonding and for extra warmth. Their body's often cold, and that helps, but it helps with bonding. It's especially, you know, important for small babies. And I said, this is why nowadays, when premature infants are born and Put in isolators, they're taken out for a few hours a day and pressed against the parent's skin. Initially they thought they should be isolated to prevent infection, but then they started realizing that it's more important to get some skin to skin contact. They even did a research study in Sweden, which sounds terrible. They study 71 preterm babies who were born between 28 and 33 weeks. They were divided into two groups. Either received standard care in an incubator or rested on their mother or father's chest for the first six hours after birth and then they went back and checked on them. Researchers found that on a five point scale, infants with early skin to skin contact had an average score closer to 4 compared to just 3 for infants cared for an incubator.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it's tough. I know that's how you do a study, but it's tough to be like, all right, we're trying to prove skin to skin is good. Yeah, we'll neglect those kids and give the other one skin to skin. It's like, ah. Or we can just take a leap.

[Brian Bates]

Seemed like the parents. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

These are the people that you guys always trust all the time.

[Brian Bates]

I still trust it. I just don't think it's ethical.

[Aaron Weber]

We're trying to prove that water is good. So we're going to withhold water from 50 kids and give water to the other 50.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm saying. Anybody who is able to do that kind of experiment is sick.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I, I don't know when this took place. Maybe it was a long time ago.

[Dusty Slay]

You can call them, what a sicko. We're going to neglect these kids. We just want to see how it works out for them.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I don't think they're leaving them in the, the alleyway. I think they were still just sitting.

[Dusty Slay]

In an incubator though, Just alone and scared. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alleyway incubator makes no difference to this baby who knows nothing about the world.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe they weren't sure until they did this. And now we know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, now we know. And now we don't have to do that anymore.

[Brian Bates]

Have you. Did you do skin to skin?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we did. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I did too. You know, there was a picture of the rock with his little girl.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw you recreate that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fun. People couldn't tell the difference between me and the Rock.

[Dusty Slay]

But you're ripped.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You're real jacked.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

You lift weights.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, obviously Brie Chrysler and I have shared the same birthday You?

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Same year, too.

[Brian Bates]

He's one year younger than I am.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa. That's crazy. You live very similar lives, too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. We should do a tour together. We have a lot in common.

[Aaron Weber]

Bates and Bert.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Bates and bird. I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

The machine and the cog.

[Brian Bates]

That's funny. The touch of a woman is more impactful than a touch from a man.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, what is your. What is your Russian mafia story?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, he's still on Bert Kreischer.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Picture you on Bert's tour.

[Brian Bates]

Let me think what mine would be. Yeah, My church youth group.

[Dusty Slay]

Yours is.

[Aaron Weber]

When I was 22 years old, I got involved in local journalism.

[Dusty Slay]

Squirrels eating your wires out of your car.

[Brian Bates]

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

[Dusty Slay]

What are you into that?

[Brian Bates]

I would put another shirt on.

[Dusty Slay]

There was a guy who's.

[Brian Bates]

They put on a cardigan, go out.

[Aaron Weber]

There, and you put a jacket on, and they go crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I'm sorry, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It was a guy, and they killed a squirrel over the weekend. Did you see that?

[Aaron Weber]

I saw that. They euthanized him.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. This guy had a pet squirrel that he, you know, would make Internet videos with. And apparently, I don't know, the government of some sort broke into the guy's house and killed his squirrel.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Why?

[Aaron Weber]

I think. Was there an accusation that it gave somebody rabies or something?

[Dusty Slay]

They said they were trying to test the squirrel for rabies, and apparently you have to kill the squirrel to test for rabies. So I was just wondering if you read that story and if that made you a little bit happy, knowing the conflict you've had with squirrels.

[Brian Bates]

I did not read that story. Occasionally I'll see a dead one on our street and we're walking. My dog got hit by a car. I don't mind it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I caught a dead, dead mouse in my garage.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, you caught a dead mouse trap.

[Aaron Weber]

Dude, reach down.

[Dusty Slay]

You trapped a live mouse and then it died.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, it died of me immediately.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you got it with a. Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

I got it with a. Oh, yeah, yeah. Dude, I got some intense ones. I saw what I thought were rat droppings in my garage. I'll be honest with you. I didn't tell anybody. Didn't tell my wife. I'm not trying to make a big thing out of this, but I'm gonna get some traps, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So I got them months ago, completely forgot about them. And then I just hear from the graph across the house, just, like, huge, loud noise. I go out there. The trap, the force of the trap when it was used, it, it like went. It, it was like 10ft from where I put it on the ground and it was just a little baby.

[Dusty Slay]

Smash his head?

[Aaron Weber]

No, got him. Kind of got him on the side. It was intact.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just kind of opened it up, dropped it in the trash can. Yeah, but there's probably more in there, right? If there's a baby, I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd reset the traps. Yeah, it's a bit of satisfaction.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it felt pretty good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I felt bad for the. That I had to take out a kid.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But it might not have been a kid. It might have been a full grown mouse.

[Aaron Weber]

It was it. I looked up baby mice and that's what it was.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you went too far. You're like, I would try to get this guy's.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't set it up to go, let's get the babies. Right? I just said I gotta get something.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the babies turn into adults pretty fast.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true.

[Brian Bates]

They sent them out to you get out there and earn for yourself. That's right. That's what happened.

[Aaron Weber]

Gotta take them out early.

[Brian Bates]

As I've gotten older, more and more I hate killing anything animals wise, I mean, don't get me wrong, did as a kid. I tolerated it. I mean, Dusty, you did some pretty perverse things as a kid to animals. There's a lot of microwave I hated.

[Dusty Slay]

I hate killing stuff now too. But yeah, I microwaved a lot of insects.

[Brian Bates]

And don't get me wrong, I will put mousetraps in our attic. There's a bug. I'm not going to let it just live there in the house.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

But I try to go out of my way not to kill anything. And I kind of feel bad. I mean, he was here first, the mouse. Well, just these animals.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, we came in really though. I mean the m. You know that.

[Aaron Weber]

You live longer than like 50 generations of these.

[Brian Bates]

But, but his, his, his family probably has lived there for hundreds of years. And then I come in, build a house.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. You conquered it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think you should feel that way with mice, with deer. I feel that way with birds, you know, because they're, they're, they're, you know, they're just birds.

[Aaron Weber]

Got all the room in the world though. They can go.

[Dusty Slay]

Right? Right. I mean, yeah, but, but like the mice get into your house. You know, it feels like that, that like in hermitage where I live, somebody told me that it's a bird sanctuary that, that area. So it feels like birds kind of continuously go back to the same places year after year just because of a kind of a migration pattern.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You're trying to stop that.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, virtue of these houses. I feed the birds. I'm into it.

[Aaron Weber]

Bats and all that. Everything.

[Dusty Slay]

I try to feed it all. Yeah, but it feels like. Yeah, but I wouldn't feel that way about mice and rats.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They get in the house and they. They just destroy me and Hannah. You know, you might have heard it, but me and Hannah did a whole podcast on rats one time, and they. I mean, the rats are like. Like, they'll get into, say, like, a bag of potatoes, and rather than just eating a whole potato, they'll take little bites from every potato and just ruin your whole sack. They're like. They're the worst. And they spread disease and they're disgusting, and they.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, I get it. Don't get me wrong again. I'm not letting Bice just live in our house.

[Dusty Slay]

I had strawberries growing in my yard, and the rats got into the strawberry. I never seen rats. They got into strawberries. No, I watched them. I watched them.

[Aaron Weber]

Was that y'all Strawberries that Hannah brought over somebody, y'all.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, we didn't.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, no, Not. But those were strawberries that you grew.

[Dusty Slay]

Now, if she just brought them over to you. No.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you don't think.

[Dusty Slay]

No, because this year, we did not have strawberries at all, because I had.

[Aaron Weber]

They were. They're really good.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a weird sunlight issue, and I couldn't get sun to my strawberries.

[Brian Bates]

What happened?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the sun moved. Well, my grapes really grew. Ah.

[Brian Bates]

So they covered it up.

[Dusty Slay]

And they covered it up.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Sunlight issue.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a grape issue to me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Blocked the sun. The grapes did what Bill Gates wants to do to the rest of us.

[Brian Bates]

The touch of a woman is more impactful than a touch from a man.

[Aaron Weber]

Impactful to whom?

[Brian Bates]

Because we are cared for by our mothers when we were young, and the feeling is rather similar.

[Aaron Weber]

Interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if that's why.

[Brian Bates]

When I talk about that type of touch, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't go, oh, my mom used to touch her that way.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, I'll move on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Touch can change your impression of someone.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Researchers have found that when people hold a hot drink for even a short amount of time, they're more likely to judge others as having a warm character. Why? Because the part of our brain where we form both form judgments of others and where our bodies. Homostasius, whatever that Is. Is regulated. If you hold up. They did a test. People hold a hot cup of coffee. Then they was introduced to someone, they considered them warmer, like a nicer person. And then they gave cold to someone and they considered them colder people.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa. Okay, so wait, wait, wait.

[Dusty Slay]

Who's giving the drinks out?

[Aaron Weber]

So I'm holding a warm cup and then I meet you because I'm holding a warm cup. I'm going to perceive you as warmer than I would otherwise?

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, okay. What about if you're holding a cold cup, does it bounce? Does it cancel it out?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think so. They also did cold compresses.

[Dusty Slay]

But is it. Are you perceiving it? Because it's a. It's a warm. It's a hot cup and I'm holding it like this. And you're like, oh, that's a warm person.

[Brian Bates]

If you're listening, Dusty's mocking me right now.

[Aaron Weber]

You got a sweater pulled?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm trying to figure it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little light hoodie on and you're like, it's like one of those hippie hoodies. Yeah, you know, and you're like.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. Yeah, yeah, the hippie hoodies.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

I know exactly what you're talking. Yeah, I tried to pull one of those off once.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What do they call those? Like hemp? Kind of.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like them. I'm.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I like the way they look on other people. I bought one at a gas station once. I thought maybe I'll be this guy for a while.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Didn't last long. Didn't fit.

[Dusty Slay]

But I always wanted to be a real hippie looking dude.

[Brian Bates]

Well, congratulations. I mean, I'm not looking dictionary.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not mocking you though, by the way. About that. I'm saying is, is I'm holding the warm thing. So are you perceiving me because I'm holding it?

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, I'm holding perceiving other people as more warm because you're holding something warm.

[Dusty Slay]

By warm meaning they're nicer.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. I like this guy.

[Aaron Weber]

I like one of those.

[Dusty Slay]

I will say, me and my wife have coffee and the morning and if we have too much, we fight with each other. And we're both holding pretty warm cups.

[Brian Bates]

That's called caffeine.

[Dusty Slay]

We start fighting over nothing and then we go, what's going on here? Oh, we've had too much coffee.

[Aaron Weber]

Next time we do that, drop a couple ice cubes in this.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

See what happens.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, because like Lois said, your kids are watching how you Treat your wife and.

[Dusty Slay]

The lowest Phillips.

[Aaron Weber]

The lowest Philip.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Even clipboard weight. There's a study in where people evaluate others resumes on a clipboard. And if they were on a heavy clipboard rather than a light one, they were rated as having more gravitas, more authority.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Wow. They use thick cardstock then for a resume. Something like that. What?

[Dusty Slay]

Like a clipboard? Like a construction site clipboard where it's like you can open it up and have papers on the inside.

[Brian Bates]

It didn't say. I don't think so. I think it's just a regular clipboard.

[Aaron Weber]

Like it's construction dirt and everything all over it too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I think nowadays the perception is.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Why is this guy carrying a clipboard?

[Brian Bates]

I like a good clipboard.

[Dusty Slay]

Time traveler.

[Brian Bates]

Put a pencil in there. All right, so back to that study. I've skipped this part about the cold and the hot. So they gave the test subjects. They told them they were testing a product. Product. It was a cold pad or a hot pad. After rating the effectiveness of the pads, they were given a choice of reward for participating in the study. Either a snapple or a $1 gift certificate to a local ice cream shop. The reward was framed as either a gift to treat a friend and the other one was. Other one was as a personal reward. Those had the cold press were more likely to give the gift to themselves, while those with the warm one were more likely to do the one that was considered the gift for a friend.

[Dusty Slay]

How close was the ice cream shop?

[Brian Bates]

Does it say?

[Aaron Weber]

I have to think. I always think if I knew that I was a participant in a scientific study like this, I don't know if my behavior would be off.

[Brian Bates]

They didn't know though.

[Aaron Weber]

They didn't know that anything was being observed.

[Brian Bates]

They were just testing these products. And what do you think of this cold press?

[Aaron Weber]

But even the. Even then I know I'm being observed. Yeah, something.

[Brian Bates]

But I thought it was just. I think they were just thinking we just want to give them our feedback if we like this or not. But I know what you're saying.

[Dusty Slay]

So the people who got the warm took the Snapple?

[Brian Bates]

No, I think the people. The warm was the one that did the ice cream with a friend.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. He read all this on the back of a Snapple cap, which is pretty crazy. That's where you got this info from.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know what is. It's not connecting with me on this. These stuff. Studies.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm trying to understand them. This is. This is, you know, pretty in depth.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a lot. It's a lot. You know, warm and cold. These are tough.

[Dusty Slay]

So the one who got the cold was like, give me a Snapple. And the one who got the warm was like, you know what? I'll take the $1 off ice cream for my friend.

[Brian Bates]

Seems like a pretty lame gift. I agree.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A $1 off coupon. Wow, thanks. Glad I drove down here for this. Got a $1 off.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I just paid $50 to park. Yeah, I just think the people are like, I'll just take this. I'm thirsty. I'll just take the Snapple. I gotta buy my friend an ice cream later.

[Brian Bates]

You buy a friend ice cream?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I ever bought ice cream for a friend.

[Brian Bates]

Well, maybe you should.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I bought ice cream for people. Yeah, because we had warm many a.

[Aaron Weber]

Times when you didn't have it yourself. You just show up and go, I got you some ice cream.

[Dusty Slay]

No, you know, you know, we go together and I buy. Buy the ice cream.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, Dusty, I just got this $1 off. You want to go get ice cream?

[Dusty Slay]

Ice cream with me? I must save a dollar.

[Aaron Weber]

The ice creams an impulse buy. Dude, you're walking by an ice cream place. Sometimes you don't plan a trip to the ice cream place with a friend.

[Brian Bates]

You do that.

[Aaron Weber]

When's the last time you and a friend went to go get a while.

[Dusty Slay]

But only a year or so. Who's the friend? I'd just be on the road with.

[Aaron Weber]

Be on the road with another. This is different situation.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, we went in Huntsville.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I don't think that's the last time.

[Brian Bates]

But we and Matt price $1 off coupon.

[Aaron Weber]

But you didn't go. You didn't go. Brian just got this coupon for ice cream. What do you say tomorrow too I take you to Ben and Jerry's?

[Dusty Slay]

I would never say it like that.

[Brian Bates]

But if he did, I would go. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But it'd be nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What about.

[Dusty Slay]

I also.

[Aaron Weber]

What about. AG1 never held a warm clipboard.

[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow, she's doing great. Basel toff.

[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

It's not really a Black Friday sale. That's all month, huh? Yeah, I'm like a November sale. Yeah, I heard on the news where.

[Brian Bates]

Like, stores are already starting Black Friday sales, which I agree doesn't make sense.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But call it a Christmas sale.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, there you go.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Dusty Slay]

It does taste good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So we're talking about touch. What's the worst pain you've ever felt?

[Aaron Weber]

Interesting. Interesting. And you're not talking about emotional pain?

[Brian Bates]

Well, we.

[Aaron Weber]

Or spiritual pain?

[Brian Bates]

I was thinking physical pain.

[Dusty Slay]

Physical.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Anytime you fall on concrete and scrape your skin up a real bad sunburn, those are really bad pains.

[Brian Bates]

A burn.

[Dusty Slay]

In general, burns are not.

[Aaron Weber]

Not good.

[Dusty Slay]

Burned with fire or any kind of oil. Or. Or those are. Those are painful.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, you've experienced those?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, to some degree.

[Aaron Weber]

You have like a third degree burn.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if I've ever had a third degree, but I.

[Aaron Weber]

You've been burned?

[Dusty Slay]

I've been burned and it hurts.

[Brian Bates]

Have either of you had kidney stones?

[Dusty Slay]

I never had a kidney stone.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the worst. Have you had a bad one?

[Brian Bates]

Amazingly, I haven't. But everyone says it's really painful.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, when I ruptured my appendix, I had to go to the hospital and I was in a lot of pain. And the guy gave me. He told me he gave me the strongest drugs he could give me, and I Felt really great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I was in there for so long that those wore off and the pain came back. And then I think I was going through some kind of withdrawal symptoms.

[Aaron Weber]

Was it the Loudon? Was it.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know, but it was pretty awful.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I got the Loudon once at the hospital.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Synthetic morphine.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I was in there so long that it wore off, and I. I just. That was some of the. Actually, you know what? This is the worst pain.

[Brian Bates]

Let's hear it.

[Dusty Slay]

When I had surgery, they pump you full of gas, and then. So that just. I don't know why exactly, but to have surgery, they pump you full of gas, and then that gas has to. It starts to move around and has to come out. And I had surgery on, like, my colon and small intestines, so gas was not moving well. And you. That gas pressure in your body is some of the most painful stuff I've ever experienced.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Dusty Slay]

It's really bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Was there a lot of relief when it came out, though?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it just. I don't know how it. I don't know what happened, but it was just one particular night. It just. I just was really feeling that pain while in the hospital, and it. I mean, it didn't really come out okay.

[Aaron Weber]

It just gradually got better.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I was picturing one big release.

[Dusty Slay]

That would have been amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

The most satisfying feeling of all time.

[Dusty Slay]

Gas pain is some of the worst pain to me. I mean, I've had, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I would never have guessed gas pain.

[Dusty Slay]

Gas pain.

[Aaron Weber]

Your appendix exploding inside.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like a bomb went off.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Gas pain. Wow. I've broken my back. When I broke my back, it hurt pretty bad.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I'd say so.

[Aaron Weber]

Pretty. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

According to Brian Regan's joke, they say a femur crack is the worst pain.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what they say, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just a straight break to the femur if it feels.

[Brian Bates]

It sounds painful.

[Aaron Weber]

And then he said childbirth is probably nine. Right. So that's a ten. Childbirth is nine. So the highest you can say is an eight. Right. Without. Without somebody calling you out on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. There are some people born without the ability to feel pain.

[Aaron Weber]

Episode of House about that. It's not as fun as you think it'd be.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Tony Dungey, son.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Has this condition.

[Aaron Weber]

He didn't play football, probably.

[Brian Bates]

No. He seemed like he'd be great, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Not afraid to go over the middle.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Just do whatever he. He said when he was a kid, like he enjoyed his son like cookies. So he thought, oh, if they're good on the plate, they're even better right in the oven. So he would just go right to the oven, reach in, take out the rack, take the pan out, burn his.

[Aaron Weber]

Hands and eat the cookies and not even know that.

[Brian Bates]

Never even feel it.

[Aaron Weber]

You can get all kinds of infections and your skin's all beat up and you have no idea.

[Dusty Slay]

But he tough, though.

[Brian Bates]

He tweeted. He tweeted. This is a few years ago, he said. We were told he wouldn't make it past early childhood and no chance to live a normal life. He's now 20 years old, in college, working to be a chef. I thought that would be inspirational. Not funny, but it's just fun.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought you just said the kitchen was the most dangerous place for this guy. Now he's trying to be a chef.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he turned it on his head.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe make this guy, you know, do spreadsheets in a padded room somewhere.

[Brian Bates]

He's living a normal life.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I think that's great.

[Dusty Slay]

I love it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, that's good.

[Brian Bates]

I find this even more interesting. Some people don't have emotional pain, so they feel the pain. It just doesn't bother sociopaths, I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that what sociopathy is?

[Brian Bates]

Maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you stick their hand in a bucket of ice water, they know it hurts, but they don't mind it.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Okay. That seems more useful.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

Than the other thing.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Except for personal relationships.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. I think you're gonna live alone.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I think you're gonna find out all this stuff alone, but be kind of fun.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

That's interesting though.

[Aaron Weber]

You get a whole section called Tony Dungey on look at.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I thought there would be more Tony Dungey talking.

[Dusty Slay]

I like Tony Dungey.

[Brian Bates]

I like him.

[Dusty Slay]

Very nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Art. We're touch. We got half a page on Tony Dungy, obviously.

[Dusty Slay]

Tony Dungy touches me right in the heart sometimes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Aaron, you're cold hearted.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

Always talking about your kid.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm holding the cold Mountain Dew.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, not yet.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a call back to.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Holding cold drinks. Remember that?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I do. Let me ask you this. If a blind person had a ball.

[Dusty Slay]

Just a joke.

[Brian Bates]

Blind man works on Denmark.

[Aaron Weber]

Blind man, a rabbi, a.

[Brian Bates]

If a blind person had a ball and a cube.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And felt them, then they got their eyesight back, their vision. Could they just look at them and tell which one's the cube and which one's the ball?

[Dusty Slay]

Sure. Yes, absolutely.

[Aaron Weber]

They would know the hard Corners of it. They would.

[Brian Bates]

The vertices, whatever they're called, but they don't know yet. They've never seen a corner. To even know that, that's what's hard.

[Aaron Weber]

So you're saying someone's blind from birth?

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

And then they gain eyesight.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Somehow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I think those two specific examples. I mean, I agree with you, but I do believe that you could go, well, based on what I felt.

[Aaron Weber]

That looks smooth.

[Brian Bates]

It's called the Molinox problem.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Is this a big problem? Do people gain their eyesight like that?

[Aaron Weber]

This is an epidemic.

[Brian Bates]

1688, Irish scientists and William Molyneux sent a letter to John Locke in which he posed that question.

[Aaron Weber]

This is philosophy.

[Brian Bates]

It is philosophy.

[Aaron Weber]

They just write letters to each other about stuff that'll never happen.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All of it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I looked it up, and it said that somehow they figured it out. That it. You wouldn't know. You wouldn't know unless you touched it after you saw it. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. With those two, I could see with some things, maybe those two specific examples. I think there's a pretty high probability you'd be able to.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

This has nothing to do with touch, but somehow. Made me think about. Do you know the pokey. Pinocchio Paradox?

[Dusty Slay]

I know a lot about Pinocchio.

[Brian Bates]

Do you know the Pinocchio Paradox?

[Aaron Weber]

Hold on. I want to get into that. I would like to hear about what you know about Pinocchio.

[Dusty Slay]

I try to write a joke about Pinocchio. Okay, but.

[Aaron Weber]

So you've done a lot of research on it?

[Dusty Slay]

A little bit, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. What about him?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you ever read the story of Pinocchio? I mean, it's like, basically, Geppetto is his dad. Geppetto is a puppet master.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

And Geppetto carves the pumpkin of Pinocchio. Or carves the puppet of Pinocchio.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And then, you know, you carve a pumpkin, too. And I bet he does Jack O Lantern. Yeah. And then. And then he goes, I wish he was a real boy. And then some kind of witch comes along. Oh, a witch does it and makes him kind of a real boy.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

He comes alive as a puppet.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then it says, the next day he was walking to school. So Geppetto was so lonely that he wanted a son. And then the very first day, he had him sent him to school. And then Pinocchio gets kidnapped by some kind of trafficker. Locked in a cage. Geppetto has to go get it. And then later, Geppetto sends him to school again. He gets kidnapped again by someone else. I don't think he was ready for a kid. I think there was a reason Geppetto didn't have kids.

[Brian Bates]

I've heard this joke before. The senate of the school on the first day is the funny part.

[Aaron Weber]

How old was Pinocchio?

[Dusty Slay]

It's hard to say.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but this is like kindergarten, high school, right?

[Brian Bates]

Young. I'm thinking you've never seen Pinocchio.

[Aaron Weber]

I. But I don't know if he's third grade, fourth grade.

[Dusty Slay]

I give him eight years old.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, me, too.

[Dusty Slay]

And then the witch, in the end, actually does turn him into a real boy. They call her, like, a fairy godmother or something, but she's a witch. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

This is the dusty version.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That is a lot weirder story than I remember.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. Those children's tales are.

[Aaron Weber]

They're all. They're all weird.

[Dusty Slay]

There's always a lot of death. Every time I try to read one of those Disney stories to my kid, I'm. They're like. Starts off with like, and then the mom died. And I'm like, I'm not reading any more of these. I don't read them.

[Brian Bates]

Some Old Testament Bible stories.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I. That's another thing. I try to read some of the Bible, and I'm like, oh, even, like, David and Goliath. I like the story, but I'm like, the guy kills a giant and then chops his head off. I'm like, that's a little much.

[Aaron Weber]

You gotta let people know. You couldn't post a. You couldn't tweet back then.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So you gotta carry the head around.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'm not against him cutting the head off, but it's tough to read to a kid.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Pinocchio. What he's most known for is if he tells a lie, his nose grows.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. Which is pretty unfortunate. That's how you get kidnapped a lot. Where you headed? To us going back to my dad's house. Did anybody know you're out here? Yeah, everyone.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so what if Pinocchio. Hang on. I want Aaron to hear this, so let me. Let me finish. What if Pinocchio were to say my nose grows?

[Aaron Weber]

Now, what would happen?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, what would happen?

[Dusty Slay]

Because it's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's only a lie if it doesn't grow. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's the paradox.

[Dusty Slay]

That's no reason for it to grow if he's not lying. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think he just dies when he says that.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. I thought you'd be More interested in this. No, I pulled a Nate on me.

[Aaron Weber]

I've heard this. I've heard this. I've heard this before. It is. It is an interesting. It is an interesting lie. Logical, Circular. Yeah. Paradox.

[Brian Bates]

If he's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because it only grows when he tells a lie, and that's not the way it works. But then since he did tell a lie, then it would grow, so therefore it's true. So then it shouldn't have grown.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, does it grow if it's an intentional lie, or would it grow if it's just like a mistake? Something wrong? Like a mistake.

[Dusty Slay]

But that wouldn't be a mistake.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd have to know more about the mechanics of it. Does he think it's going to grow? Does Pinocchio. Is Pinocchio aware of his situation?

[Dusty Slay]

How does it go back down?

[Aaron Weber]

I think you have to tell the truth. And then it comes back.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, does it cut it off?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I don't think.

[Dusty Slay]

A good way to get some firewood.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like. Like a mechanical pencil. You just have to keep coming out. I thought it was to tell the truth. It comes back. It comes back A knob.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron. I mean, Dusty, you know the story. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know all the details.

[Dusty Slay]

I gotta dig more into. I gotta get.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Because I want the. Joe, I want to do the joke.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So could you maybe research that?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. How does Pinocchio's nose go back, Dusty?

[Brian Bates]

Have you.

[Aaron Weber]

I did not think we'd be getting into this. In the Touch episode.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty, have you ever been tased?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I've been electrocuted by. Well, I've been. I've touched a. Like a cattle fence? Like electric fence.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I've also. In the shed we used to have, we had a light switch, but it didn't have a cover on it. So you go out there and try to reach for the light and sometimes stick your finger in there. And I've been shocked pretty good. But never taste.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go. In the Disney movie adaptation, Pinocchio's nose only grows once. And there's no explicit depiction of it growing. Back. In the original book, his nose grows on two occasions in response to lying. They never address whether it shrinks back or gets smaller again. Well, so we don't know. Unexplored terror.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you cut it out. You have to cut it off. It's very painful.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. It's tough to do when he becomes a real boy. Does this still happen with the nose?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I wouldn't think so. He's a real Boy, though.

[Aaron Weber]

But is he still made out of wood or is he just become a regular kid?

[Brian Bates]

I think he's a regular kid. How's he a real boy if he's still made out of wood?

[Aaron Weber]

I just thought he had a soul all of a sudden. I think he's like AI at first.

[Brian Bates]

Capital T. Tradition.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Then they give him consciousness. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's interesting. He is kind of AI he is like AI he's like a robot that a demonic soul has inhabited.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

And then that's beautiful.

[Aaron Weber]

And then he.

[Brian Bates]

So beautiful. These people who say Dusty's so negative. Where are they coming from?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

It's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like we're just having a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

What does Geppetto do for a living? He's a.

[Dusty Slay]

This is his job.

[Aaron Weber]

He makes puppets.

[Dusty Slay]

I think he's a named Geppetto.

[Brian Bates]

That's all you can do.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true.

[Dusty Slay]

He's a wood.

[Aaron Weber]

Does he do shows? Is he a performer as well? Or does he just make the puppets for people?

[Brian Bates]

It's been so long since I've.

[Dusty Slay]

And do you really want a puppet master to be given control of real kids? Because can he just make. Make puppets and then go, I wish it was a real boy? And it's like, that seems like that could get dark.

[Aaron Weber]

And how big is puppetry in this town that this guy can sustain a living making puppets?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I figure if you buy one puppet, you're probably good for a while.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Right.

[Aaron Weber]

You're not re buying puppets every year.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe he doesn't sell them. Maybe is putting on shows.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, that's what I thought. Maybe he's a performer.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I think of a puppet master.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The guy pulling the strings.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. See, a puppet master, not a puppet creator.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, you've been calling a puppet master, but I always thought he just made puppets.

[Aaron Weber]

He's the guy above him.

[Brian Bates]

That's some woodworking.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He carves it and he controls it.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it said that this is. This is all a metaphor for something like is. What's the. What's the moral of the story?

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's. If you nose cut off. Yeah, I mean, don't give Geppetto kids. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

It's really a cautionary tale about Geppetto.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

It's more about Geppetto, the local tale.

[Brian Bates]

That's the reason Geppetto wasn't married.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Well, anyway, Tased, I have one more question. Yeah, sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Did Geppetto design the mechanism for the nose growing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Was that Geppetto's design?

[Dusty Slay]

I think that was.

[Aaron Weber]

Or was it just sort of a unintended consequence?

[Dusty Slay]

I think it was the witch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, the witch added it in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's part of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Because he. Good boy. Then he could become real? Oh, I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And they needed to know if he was good or not, so they needed to know if he was actually lying.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

It was a test.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Brian Bates]

What was his one? What was his one lie?

[Dusty Slay]

Is Geppetto a good dad?

[Brian Bates]

Social services is there. We want to speak to Pinocchio in private.

[Aaron Weber]

Geppetto's got a saw against his neck. Oh, he's real. Wow. Good stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Who named him?

[Dusty Slay]

I guess Geppetto.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess Geppetto would have had to. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So he was.

[Dusty Slay]

He's like, what's a worse name than mine?

[Brian Bates]

Aaron, it's time for a refreshing drink of Mountain Dew.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what we all need this time of year? We all need to get more of. We need to get off our butts, get into some action. That's. It's fun to do that with. Mountain Dew Bold. You heard the noise. You heard a little Irish crickets right there. With bold flavors and a refreshing citrus kick. Mountain Dew will get you off the sofa and have you feeling like you're charging up the side of an actual mountain. A mountain where the weather's perfect, your friends are ready to hang, and a full day of epic games are happening. Can you imagine? Check out all these flavors. Original Baja Blast, Code Red Voltage. My personal favorites. The Baja Blast. I do like that. I had some. That's a mem.

[Brian Bates]

Middle school Taco Bell.

[Aaron Weber]

Me and Code Red got to know each other real well when we go on tour with Nate, he loves to play games. We'll play basketball or something like that. And then the games get pretty serious. You know how you wind down after that? A refreshing Mountain Dew. It's always the best part. The mountain is calling. You should answer. Grab your friends. Grab an ice cold Mountain Dew wherever refreshing beverages are sold. And do the.

[Brian Bates]

Do you mentioned playing games on the road with Nate? Mike Lavin will just sometimes randomly post photos from the tour.

[Aaron Weber]

Homeless pimp.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he posted a couple of. When we were playing basketball, and, boy, do I look ridiculous.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you mean?

[Dusty Slay]

What were you wearing?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'm not even just.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it was his outfit.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, let's wear the top hat. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We all play. This is where we're playing. We played knockout.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's Aaron, Kentucky basketball. I thought that was Kevin Smith.

[Aaron Weber]

The clerks guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it did look like him in that.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not wearing a hockey jersey. I'm wearing a.

[Dusty Slay]

Look at that. Come on, come on.

[Brian Bates]

That's Kevin. Kevin Smith.

[Aaron Weber]

Come on. I'm sure he's a nice guy. Is there a picture of you somewhere in here, Brian?

[Brian Bates]

There I am.

[Aaron Weber]

That's you and Greg Garcia.

[Brian Bates]

That's me guarding Greg. I sent it to Greg. I said, hey, why are you wearing a glove? Oh, wait, that's my defense.

[Dusty Slay]

That doesn't look bad.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I think it looks funny.

[Brian Bates]

They immediately made the two old guys guard each other.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it looks like the other guys aren't even playing well.

[Brian Bates]

Look, they're trying to get the ball. And my defense is allowing. Is stopping Greg from being able to pass it. Those tour buses back there.

[Aaron Weber]

Hands up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, if you're listening. It's very athletic stuff going on here.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true. I didn't even know it was Brian first.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And here's Brian trying to argue.

[Brian Bates]

We're all pointing different directions. I'm not sure what that's about.

[Dusty Slay]

Spider man pick.

[Brian Bates]

He kind of does look like a spider man pick. Except with three of them. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There was three.

[Aaron Weber]

You're all just thinking about where to have that Mountain Dew after this game is over.

[Brian Bates]

I guess so. Yeah, I guess so. I mentioned tasing. I wondered if you touch someone who is being tased, if you would get tased as well.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

While you're being tased, if you grab onto somebody else, you like transfer it over.

[Brian Bates]

Like if my friend was getting tased and I was trying to help them, like pull them away, would I get tased by like grabbing them?

[Dusty Slay]

I would think so. If you're touching skin to skin. I bet. I bet you would.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, see, we gotta try it now.

[Dusty Slay]

The electrical current I bet would travel to you.

[Aaron Weber]

This says no, hold my baby skin.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, it says, now tase me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. If you're touching a person who has the darts in them and is being shocked, you can't feel it at all.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's good. So if somebody. If you see your friend getting tased, it's okay to grab them and help them. Yeah, that's good to know.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. Better to not do it though.

[Brian Bates]

Better not to commit the crime that would require you.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I mean, if somebody is getting tased, why even try to try to tackle the person tasing?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, I guess so. I don't know if they're being tased. And they're on, like a bed of coal or something, hot coals. And you need to move them all. You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Seems like a violent situation.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I found this interesting. Online shopping as convenient as is. Only 9% of shopping is done online. The reason, partly, is because we want to touch the items before we buy it.

[Aaron Weber]

You do want to touch it.

[Brian Bates]

And I think you told me a little trick is don't make your merch table be too organized. Make it a little messy, and that makes people want to get in there, touch it more.

[Aaron Weber]

It was Rich Guzzi, comedy hypnotist.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Told me that he said, when you have a stack of. Have I told you about this before?

[Brian Bates]

Probably.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, his theory about merch is when you have a stack of shirts on a table, don't make the stack too neat because they're going to be resistant to kind of mess up the stack or they're going to be less likely to really comb through it and then really have. Have the pile messed up kind of. So that they're more willing to touch it and then they feel the quality of it right away. That only works if you have good quality. Sure. If you got dirt cheap, terrible shirts, you don't want them to individually wrap those. Exactly. But if it's good shirts, if you're proud of the material.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I used to, when I would pitch my shirts, I would tell people that they're very soft. And I would just say this as a joke. I would say, even if you don't want to buy it, just go, buy. Touch it. It's very soft.

[Aaron Weber]

And as soon as they touch it, they go.

[Dusty Slay]

They go, man, that is soft.

[Aaron Weber]

Does feel good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I read a long time ago about Apple. These Apple stores, you know, like the Genius bars.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They're. They have a laptop or something like this. They would deliberately leave the laptop a little bit, not fully open, so that when you go up to touch it, the first thing you have to do is immediately. You immediately feel the quality of the product.

[Dusty Slay]

A MacBook feels good.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I'm saying. And if. And if you. If you never touched a Mac book, walk into a Genius bar, just touch them a little bit. You're like, golly. I mean, so powerful.

[Dusty Slay]

I think that may be the downfall of mankind, Apple products. But I love the way it feels. I love the way it feels. An iPhone. You ever take the iPhone out of the case and just hold it? That feels good.

[Aaron Weber]

That feels amazing. Dude, I.

[Dusty Slay]

You got to put it back in the case. Like, it feels too good.

[Aaron Weber]

That feeling where, you know, it could break at any moment. That's a good feeling, too, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You're like, this is a delicate piece of equipment here.

[Aaron Weber]

And then you drop it between the seat or something.

[Dusty Slay]

And a MacBook is. MacBook. Feels good when you close it. It's just smooth. Yeah. The way that it closes is. It's almost like an airtight seal. Yeah. Oh, gosh, it feels so good.

[Aaron Weber]

That's amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Best feeling in the world.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Now, are you guys overly ticklish? Let's find out.

[Dusty Slay]

I wouldn't say overly, but, yeah, I can.

[Aaron Weber]

What is overly like? It's like, it's a problem.

[Brian Bates]

Are you sensitive to people touching you?

[Dusty Slay]

Depends on who it is. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it my mom or is it.

[Aaron Weber]

My hot or cold?

[Brian Bates]

You know, it's funny. My. My. My daughter loves. Like, she doesn't like it once you're doing it, but then she wants you to keep doing it.

[Dusty Slay]

Like tickle.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, she wants you to chase her and grab her and hold her down. Then she'll kind of stop you. But then again. Yeah, kids are funny like that. They like to be scared. But then do it over again.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd like to. I like a. I like scary movies, you know? Why is that?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Why is that something I like?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I don't wear them either.

[Aaron Weber]

I watched the creepiest movie I've ever seen the other night.

[Dusty Slay]

What was it?

[Aaron Weber]

Speak no Evil Sounds. They just did a remake of it in America.

[Dusty Slay]

That Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.

[Brian Bates]

Pryor. That's it is not.

[Aaron Weber]

That is no evil Speak.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

By the one where Richard Pryor's blind and cheat.

[Dusty Slay]

Wilder's dead.

[Aaron Weber]

No. There are a lot fewer hijinks than laughs. This is about speaking to people that it's a 2022 and then they remade it in America. And I. From my understanding is it's basically a shot for. Shot remake. They just remade it for America. But it's about a family. They meet another family on vacation, and then that family invites them to their house in the country. And then, you know, things happen. I'll leave it at that, but it made me uncomfortable.

[Brian Bates]

But you were still enjoying it.

[Aaron Weber]

I loved it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to watch it again with somebody else.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to watch it with somebody who hasn't seen it so I can experience it again for the first time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Through their eyes. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's interesting. I don't have that need to Be scared. I don't like it.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't have a need.

[Brian Bates]

Well, not need. I don't enjoy it. I don't enjoy it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. You don't like it at all?

[Brian Bates]

No, I don't think so. I don't. I mean, there's certainly intense movies I watch that are scary. Seven and Right, Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Thrillers. More.

[Brian Bates]

Six cents.

[Dusty Slay]

I like thrillers. The horror movies are. I'm not into it.

[Aaron Weber]

This is not a traditional horror movie. No jump scares, anything like that. It's just, like, dread. An hour and a half. Like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you're.

[Aaron Weber]

I sat weird on the couch watching it made me that uncomfortable. Dude. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

It was awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Sounds fun.

[Aaron Weber]

It was awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Did you watch it with Olive?

[Aaron Weber]

We did, actually. I was holding.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you watch this before or after the really miserable night they had?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, like three nights before. Before. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Before or after? The rat.

[Brian Bates]

Is.

[Aaron Weber]

After the rat.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think there's a problem at my house right now. Yeah, I mean, I'll look into it, but I don't think there's a problem.

[Brian Bates]

Favorite movie about touch.

[Aaron Weber]

Favorite movie about Touch is Shaw Shank Redemption.

[Dusty Slay]

Why would you say that?

[Aaron Weber]

Let me think about how I can spin this. I mean, there's a lot of, like, really bad touch.

[Brian Bates]

Touchy scenes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

With the sisters.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, with the sisters, exactly. It's a bad touch scene.

[Dusty Slay]

That's your favorite part about that movie. I just watched.

[Aaron Weber]

I cut the movie off after that. I gotta watch Shawshank just for bogs. That's what I watch. Touches your heart, dude. Tugs at your heart.

[Brian Bates]

There you go.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go. Touches you. Right? A movie about touch.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

That's just how we close.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Now I'm just doing it.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if they're. Yeah. I mean, I was just trying to think of what a movie about touch would be.

[Aaron Weber]

You'd have to be a 4D movie almost.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know.

[Brian Bates]

TV show Touched by an Angel.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go. Yeah, but that was about, like, angels, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Touching your.

[Dusty Slay]

What about the movie with Patrick's way? We talked about it when Angela Johnson.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, ghost.

[Aaron Weber]

Ghost.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Touching while making clay on the potter's wheel.

[Brian Bates]

I just rewatched that movie. That's a pretty weird scene at the end. I didn't feel that originally, but, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that the end of the movie? That scene with Patrick sweat making pottery?

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no. That. Not that scene. That's at the beginning.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the only scene I know from that movie.

[Brian Bates]

At the end of the movie.

[Aaron Weber]

And he's dead.

[Brian Bates]

He's dead. Whoopi Goldberg is a.

[Aaron Weber]

In real life, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he is now.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Not during the filming of it.

[Brian Bates]

In the movie, he's a ghost. Whoopi Goldberg is a medium who can talk to him. She has the ability to communicate with him. And it's shown in the movie that ghost can jump in her body to talk to the person directly.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, no.

[Brian Bates]

At the end of this movie, he has one more touching scene with his wife, Demi Moore, where he jumps into her body, into Whoopi Goldberg's body to have this romantic touching scene, but she still looks like Whoopi Goldberg to Demi Moore.

[Dusty Slay]

This is definitely about touch, though. That's a good call on my part.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it is a good call.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Good job, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And at first he can't go. He's scared to go through a door because he. He. You know, it seems so weird to not be able to touch it.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

And then finally he realizes, you know, he carefully jumps through it, so.

[Aaron Weber]

And then he died. Right.

[Brian Bates]

What?

[Aaron Weber]

Patrick Swayze.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I love Patrick Swayze.

[Brian Bates]

You guys know the song Human Touch by Bruce Springsteen?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

We all need the human touch.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not a. I'm not a huge Springsteen fan.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I'm sorry. I really blew that. Not Bruce Springsteen. Rick Springfield.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

That's like me and Bert Chrysler.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll be honest with you, I'm even less of a Rick Springfield.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's you and most of America, I bet.

[Aaron Weber]

Not the Eagles. Jackson 5, actually. My bad, my bad.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I just took America's favorite artist, Bruce Springsteen, and then Rick Springfield, who hasn't had a hit in 40 years. No.

[Dusty Slay]

Telling me he's the Snickers of music. You know what? I never have been a huge fan of his. I like the song Atlantic City. Big fan of that song.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a really great song.

[Aaron Weber]

A bunch of hits. Yeah, he's had a pretty successful.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he's got no. No denying, of course. And people love him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just saying. Personal preference. I've never been that huge of a fan.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I get that. That's totally fine.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's like Post Malone, Atlanta. Well, no, I. I would. I would take Bruce over post any time, but Atlantic City, so good. You know it.

[Brian Bates]

No, I don't think I do.

[Dusty Slay]

Give it a listen.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

By Bruce Springsteen.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I think I'm done.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. We're dying down. That was a fun one. It's good talking to you guys, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Hope you have a great rest of the week.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm glad to get together and just catch up. Touch up with you guys. Just touch. You guys talk about touch, get in.

[Brian Bates]

Touch with each other.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Stay in touch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, stay in touch, guys. Just don't drift apart.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. Where are you gonna be? Where can people come and touch you.

[Brian Bates]

If you want to touch me? This Friday, I will be in Paducah, Kentucky. There it is, part of the Kentucky.

[Aaron Weber]

Comedy Festival, one of the hottest, easier to drive tour.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. One of the hottest festivals in the country. Greg Warren did it this past weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

Amazing.

[Brian Bates]

I'll be doing it.

[Dusty Slay]

This Drew Harrison I saw was there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Drew Harrison. Drew Thomas.

[Dusty Slay]

Drew Thomas. Yeah. I saw pictures of him, too, and I saw Drew Thomas in a long time.

[Brian Bates]

Sunday, I'm back here in Franklin, Tennessee, at the Franklin Theater with Stephen Bargazzi and Caleb Elliot, two guys you've seen on this podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's a fundraiser show at the Franklin Theater for Agape Nashville, which is a foster care organization. Wonderful organization.

[Aaron Weber]

Awesome.

[Brian Bates]

So come support a good cause the next weekend. Back on my Kentucky tour, man. Litchfield, Kentucky, at the Alice Theater. I'm a theater comic now.

[Aaron Weber]

I love it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Litchfield, Kentucky, at the Elvis Theater on November 16th. November 17th. I'm in London, Kentucky. That's at a church. Creek church. But it's to. It's called Laugh All Night. We'll see about that.

[Aaron Weber]

But laugh for a good bit of the night.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, laugh some.

[Dusty Slay]

There'll be some laughs.

[Aaron Weber]

There'll be some. There will be laughs.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I'm just a few comics on the shows. It's not just me. That's where I'm at.

[Aaron Weber]

November 24th. That's a Sunday before Thanksgiving. This is Aaron Webber talking, by the way. I have two shows at the St. Louis Helium. They're both almost sold out. I'm in love with you. They were both sold out. Then I moved the date, and a lot of people thought, well, this is a good opportunity to refund my ticket, which I understand, but there's still some tickets available if you want to come see me November 24th in St. Louis at the Helium. And then January. I'm back at it, baby. I'm going hard, dude. Detroit. I'm going to San Antonio. Austin, Houston, Boston, Hartford. All the good places. Spokane, Tacoma. Keep an eye out for that 2025. I'm coming back at it, but come see me St. Louis, November 24th.

[Brian Bates]

Awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. This weekend, as I've stated earlier, I'm expecting by the time this Podcast comes out for our country to be in total chaos, and who knows if this weekend will even happen, but it'll happen. I am going to be. I have four shows this weekend. Two in Portland, Oregon, and two in Seattle, Washington. The both of the early shows sold out, so we added shows. The second show in Seattle is almost sold out.

[Brian Bates]

That's great.

[Dusty Slay]

The Portland show. We could use a little bump, but there. It's still. It's still enough tickets to be a great show, but, you know, it's going to be a great weekend. I love going to those cities. I always have really good shows when I'm there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's a lot of fun. I managed to find direct flights. There's an app on airlines. There's a. Yeah, there's an app on your phone called Skyscanner. It may not be on your phone, but you can get it on your phone and it will tell you all the flights. And I don't know how it took me this long to find it, but I finally found it, and now I'm getting direct flights. I've been an American Airlines loyalist for a long time, but they were not getting me a lot of direct flights loyalists. And now I. I'm going for direct flights.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I go for direct flights, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Alaskan Airline does operate with American Air Airlines, so they're still.

[Aaron Weber]

They're in conjunction.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron, let me ask you this. Do you have a Southwest credit card?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And what benefits does it give you?

[Aaron Weber]

You get an X amount of points per year. You get bonus points for every dollar spent on the card.

[Brian Bates]

And you can apply it toward flights.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yes.

[Dusty Slay]

The Companion Pass is almost enough to make me want to swap.

[Aaron Weber]

Literally changed my life. I've never had a company change my life more than Southwest Day with the Companion Pass because I can bring other comics with me on the road for free. I can fly people across the country for five dollars for the 911 tax. That's all you got to pay five bucks to take a friend to Seattle for five bucks? It's crazy. Crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

It is amazing.

[Brian Bates]

I may have to get one.

[Aaron Weber]

We'll get one. I mean, for you, I'll get the referral bonus.

[Brian Bates]

People have been telling me for years to get it. And in my mind, I'm like, this probably be the last flight I'll ever be on. And then I'm like, every week I'm on Southwest just stuck in there. I'm like, why don't I get crazy, dude?

[Aaron Weber]

I'll refer you. I'll get the points. You'll get the points. I'll see you in the A list. Dude, I'll see.

[Dusty Slay]

Does the credit card give you a bump up in the. In that area?

[Aaron Weber]

It makes it easier to get. I don't know the exact benefits, but it'll jettison you to the front of the line.

[Brian Bates]

Why did you have to take a Tums? Like, what happened during this podcast?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's just my. My entire life.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Just like that.

[Brian Bates]

You need to. You're eating poison over there and you need to.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't prefer Tums, but sometimes there, that is maximum comfort. I don't prefer it.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm a big fan.

[Dusty Slay]

I like papaya. Digestive enzymes.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't believe we're still going.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I thought we'd stop.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Yeah, I mean, I like that, but.

[Dusty Slay]

This is what I want to talk about.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he told me about papaya.

[Aaron Weber]

Finally. All right, let's get into it. All right.

[Brian Bates]

You want to wrap it up?

[Aaron Weber]

Yep, that's it. Thank you. We love you. None of us is lost on you. We miss you and we want to touch you. We want to touch your soul. So thank you for listening. Tune in. You tune in. Yeah. Tune in next week to the Nate Land podcast and Neil Nate will be back soon and we're excited to have him back. All right, y'all be safe. Y'all be safe out there. Dude, we got a Mountain Dew. The mountains are calling. Happy birthday to you? Happy birthday to you? Happy birthday, dear bright? Happy birthday to you. There he is. Yeah. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform.

[Dusty Slay]

Recording and editing for the show is.

[Aaron Weber]

Done by Genovations Media.

[Brian Bates]

Thanks. Thanks for tuning in.

[Aaron Weber]

Be sure to catch us next week on the Nate Land podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

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