227: #227 Hats

Summary

The Nateland Podcast - Episode #227: #227 Hats

Release Date: November 20, 2024
Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Produced by: Audioboom Studios

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Introduction & Host Absence

In this episode, the Nateland Podcast kicks off with Aaron Weber reporting live from the studio alongside Brian Bates and Dusty Slay. They begin by addressing the absence of host Nate Bargatze, humorously speculating about his return:

Aaron Weber [00:00]: "Nate is not here. He'll be back next week, right?"

Brian Bates [01:10]: "I have no idea."

Manifestation and Positive Thinking

The conversation quickly shifts to the concept of manifesting and positive thinking. Nate introduces the idea of "putting things out into the world" to make them happen, sparking a discussion about popular self-help books:

Nate Bargatze [01:20]: "Do you believe in manifesting things, Brian? Because I think put it out in the world, Put it out in the world and then it just kind of happens."

Brian Bates [01:31]: "I think it's the power of positive thinking."

They touch upon books like "The Secret" and "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," delving into the influence of positive affirmations on personal goals and self-perception.

Impact of Wealth and Personal Growth

Brian shares a personal revelation about how sudden wealth could have adversely affected his life, particularly referencing his past struggles with alcohol:

Brian Bates [02:28]: "I like to think to myself, I like to pray that the Lord's Will be done. If I'm going, I want a million dollars. But God's like, I know if I give you a million dollars, it's going to ruin your life. Then I don't want the money."

This candid admission underscores the theme of personal growth and the challenges that come with change.

Friendship Evolution

Aaron reflects on the longevity of their friendships, emphasizing how they've evolved over the years:

Aaron Weber [03:14]: "But now we all have a lot in common. We're all fathers and..."

The hosts reminisce about their younger days, highlighting how their paths diverged and converged, ultimately strengthening their bonds.

Podcast as an Ever-Continuing Show

The hosts humorously compare their podcast to an endless TV show, touching on the challenges of maintaining fresh content:

Brian Bates [04:21]: "We do never ending podcast. That's what I'm referring to as podcasts in general. Now it's like a TV show that never ends."

Television Discussions: "Heroes" and Superman Movies

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing the evolution of superhero narratives, particularly focusing on the TV show "Heroes" and the Superman film franchise.

"Heroes" Season Two Decline

They critique the sophomore season of "Heroes," attributing its decline to a loss of original narrative momentum:

Brian Bates [05:01]: "And then season two, they were like, oh, we didn't know it was going to do so well. So they like scrambled to write season two. And it was not as a Superhero show, right?"

Superman Movie Evolution

The conversation shifts to the Superman movies, contrasting the beloved Christopher Reeve era with the more recent "Man of Steel" portrayal:

Brian Bates [06:01]: "This is what I think we need is a Superman movie where he just is rescuing people the whole time."

They express a longing for the traditional heroism embodied by earlier Superman films, critiquing the darker and more conflicted representations in contemporary iterations.

Upcoming Shows and Specials by Hosts

The hosts take turns announcing their recent and upcoming performances, showcasing their active roles in the comedy circuit.

Aaron Weber's Tour

Aaron details his recent shows across Alabama, Kentucky, and London, highlighting the positive reception and the enjoyable company he keeps with fellow comedians Paula Kaczynski and John Detoy.

Brian Bates' Special

Brian announces his upcoming special at the Walker Theater in Chattanooga on February 28th, promoting ticket sales with enthusiasm:

Brian Bates [17:34]: "So that's out there."

Nate Bargatze's CBS Holiday Special

Nate shares exciting news about his upcoming CBS holiday special, co-produced by Lorne Michaels, scheduled for December 19th:

Nate Bargatze [22:18]: "Church got rid of. Yeah, it was a disappointing sequel, some would say. But I heard like my grandmother would tell me before that if you forget like you're a little girl and you forget your head covering to mass, the girls would just put like a Kleenex on their head."

Listener Comments and Interactions

Interacting with their audience, the hosts read and respond to various listener comments, adding a personal touch to the episode.

Positive Feedback from Cole Slaw

Nate Bargatze [31:18]: "I think his real name's Cole, not Sloan."

Brian Bates [31:20]: "Yeah."

They appreciate high praise from listeners like Cole Slaw, who lauds the consistency and enjoyment of the podcast.

Discussion on Doves and Misidentification

Erica Zachary's comment about mistaking doves for owls leads to an engaging discussion about bird sounds and perceptions:

Erica Zachary [32:18]: "When Dusty said he thought the dove was an owl because of the sound it made, no one at the table laughed. I laughed out loud."

Debate on Skin-to-Skin Contact for Newborns

JB DDS raises a scientific topic about skin-to-skin contact in newborns, prompting a lively debate:

JB DDS [38:52]: "Think about all the millions of babies that now get immediate skin to skin after birth because of that study."

Brian Bates [39:46]: "I think that's an obvious."

The hosts discuss the benefits and reasoning behind immediate skin-to-skin contact, reflecting differing viewpoints on the study's implications.

Comments on Hat Resemblances and Pop Culture

Lindsey Blair comments on Dusty's resemblance to a movie character, sparking lighthearted banter about appearances:

Lindsey Blair [50:27]: "Dusty is the real life version of Bill Hader's character Dave from Hot Rod. And I cannot unsee it."

The hosts joke about their appearances and the challenges of sounding funny without visual cues.

Discussion on Hats: Types, Preferences, Collections

A central theme of this episode revolves around hats. The hosts delve into various aspects of hat culture, their personal preferences, and anecdotal stories related to hats.

Hat Collections and Trends

Brian Bates shares anecdotes about his extensive hat collection, including vintage and trucker hats, and discusses the cultural significance of different hat styles.

Brian Bates [76:14]: "I think we all need to get more of? We need to get off our butts and get into some action."

Types of Hats and Their Origins

The discussion expands to cover different hat types, their origins, and how they fit into various subcultures and professions. They explore historical hats like the tricorn and modern styles like the trucker hat.

Aaron Weber [68:05]: "And all of a sudden you start shaking around convulsing." (Referencing historical use of hats and associated myths)

Hat Culture and History

The hosts provide historical context about hats, touching on their evolution and societal roles. They mention phenomena like the "Mad Hatter" disease stemming from historical hat-making practices involving mercury.

Aaron Weber [81:03]: "Chris Ladue is a great cowboy country singer."

They delve into the implications of hat styles in different eras and their representation in media and folklore.

Brian's Top Five Country Songs about Hats

Brian Bates presents a top five list of country songs centered around hats, adding his personal insights and humorous takes on the selections.

1. "Under This Old Hat" by Chris Ledoux
2. "All Hat, No Cattle" by Gene Watson
3. "Don't Touch My Hat" by Lyle Lovett
4. "Cowboy Hat in Dallas" by The Charlie Daniels Band
5. "My Girl Don't Like My Cowboy Hat" by Hank Williams Jr.

He includes honorable mentions, broadening the conversation to include a variety of songs that celebrate or humorously depict hat culture in country music.

Conclusion & Final Thoughts

As the episode draws to a close, the hosts recap the enjoyable and lively discussion about hats, reinforcing the camaraderie and shared interests that bind them. They encourage listeners to attend their upcoming shows and special events, emphasizing the community aspect of their podcast.

Brian Bates [105:20]: "It's a great episode. We got a hot cast, hot crew of people that run this podcast."

They extend gratitude to their production team and listeners, wrapping up the episode on a high note.

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Transcript

[Nate Bargetzi]

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[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Nate is not here. He'll be back. He's back next week, right?

[Aaron Weber]

I have no idea.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay, well, I'm pretty sure he is just putting that out there in the world. I think it's going to happen.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he is back next week.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Do you believe in manifesting things, Brian? Because I think put it out in the world, Put it out in the world and then it just kind of happens.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's the power of positive thinking.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, that's another way of saying, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, but manifesting seems like it's witchcraft. But the secret. Right, but you're just saying this is going to happen and you're building it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Up positively for yourself, setting a goal and achieving it.

[Brian Bates]

Words have power. And if you, if you're negative about yourself, then it'll start to. Well, it'll start to manifest in you.

[Aaron Weber]

Now there's. There were two books a decade or so ago, I might be getting mixed up. The secret.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, there's more than two books, period. And then the Prayer of Jabez. Was that it?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Never heard of that.

[Brian Bates]

Never heard. I didn't read any of that, though.

[Nate Bargetzi]

The Prayer of Jabez.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And it's been so long. But I think it's Old Testament, Dusty, so you might be into it. But I think he. Basically, the point is, I think it's okay to ask God to reward you bountiful in finances and wealth.

[Brian Bates]

Sure, why not?

[Aaron Weber]

And whatever.

[Nate Bargetzi]

The book has been highly criticized and compared to Prosperity Gospel.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think there's anything wrong with asking for those things. But I like to myself, I like to pray that the Lord's Will be done. If I'm going, I want a million dollars. But God's like, I know if I give you a million dollars, it's going to ruin your life. Then I don't want the money.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You think it could ruin your life with a million dollars?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think so now, but there's a time in my life where it would have ruined my life.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, three years ago. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, at least, I would say at least 14 years ago before I quit drinking. If you had given me, I don't know, it wouldn't even have to be a million dollars. You could have given me ten grand. Ten grand and I could have ruined my life.

[Aaron Weber]

But I was just thinking, you guys, I consider two of my closest friends, but this is the only time in our life where we could have. Fifteen years ago we couldn't have been friends because you were a totally different person. And it would have been creepy for us to be friends.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Where else would we have hung out, you know? Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

15 years ago you would have been.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, 15 years ago I would have been 18. Yeah, 16. Just turned 17.

[Aaron Weber]

Uh, so that would been a little weird for me to be a 30 something.

[Brian Bates]

You would had a great time hanging out with me though. I mean, it would have been a. He'd be drinking more.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You would have been a horrible influence on him.

[Brian Bates]

We would had a great time.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think I would ever have allowed it. But you didn't even like yourself then.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I like. No, I mean, I myself now wouldn't like myself then.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, but you were having a good time in the moment.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. My health. I just got, I got. I started feeling too bad problem. I could have kept going if I exercised a little.

[Aaron Weber]

But now we all have a lot in common. We're all fathers and.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's right. Comedians, podcasters. Podcasters.

[Brian Bates]

We do never ending podcast. That's what I'm referring to as podcasts in general. Now it's like a TV show that never ends.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, sounds great. I never want my favorite TV shows to end. Dude, just keep making.

[Brian Bates]

But sometimes with TV shows, specifically podcasts, generally speaking, we're just talking from the beginning. But a TV show, you know, let's start like, let's use the TV show Heroes. Did you ever watch that one? Season one of Heroes. Unbelievable. Because it was based on this graphic novel, Right. And then season two, they were like, oh, we didn't know it was going to do so well. So they like scrambled to write season two. And it was not as a Superhero show, right? Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Don't you feel like that a big part of that was. That was before the Soup, where everything was a superhero movie and everything was a superhero show?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Didn't it kind of. It was before all that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay. Well, then. Yeah. I mean, I imagine trying to do a show like Heroes now you're like.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, no, but I'm saying these. But even by season two, it had already lost steam because their main story was gone.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just rewatched. When I was a kid, I loved the Superman movies with Christopher Reeve. And then these. These.

[Nate Bargetzi]

What's he been up to?

[Brian Bates]

I just rewatched them.

[Aaron Weber]

You did?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did they hold up?

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they did.

[Brian Bates]

There's one of the four that was pretty weak.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, the three and four I'm not even talking about because they really went down even then. I didn't like those two.

[Brian Bates]

What was the one where he fought himself as bad?

[Aaron Weber]

Superman, I think that's three.

[Brian Bates]

That was pretty awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

That's one Richard Pryor, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, anyway, I just rewatched one and two.

[Brian Bates]

Four is where it really dipped. Anyway.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Anyway. These more current.

[Brian Bates]

Disagree.

[Aaron Weber]

These more current ones, the man of Steel ones.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That have come out recently. I'm like, ah, they're so dark. And why can't they be more like, whatever? But then I just watched the first two, Superman. The special effects are so bad. I'm like, all right, this meets somewhere in the middle.

[Brian Bates]

This is what I think what we need is a Superman movie where he just is rescuing people the whole time.

[Aaron Weber]

That's started man of Steel right out of the gate. There's just problems. He never got to be a hero at all.

[Brian Bates]

Let's just see you, you know, popping around town, rescuing people. You're not. Maybe you're not even Superman yet. You're just the guy that everybody knows that can rescue you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Or maybe leave all this IP alone for 20 years and we'll come back. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Do we need a superhero Superman movie?

[Brian Bates]

No, I.

[Aaron Weber]

What's ip?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Intellectual property. All this built in. Sorry. Killed the conversation.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I just didn't know what it meant. But, yeah, I would agree. Take some time off. They've. I mean, they.

[Brian Bates]

They milked it.

[Aaron Weber]

They did one with the guy. I can't think of his name, where he had a son. Remember that? No, no, there was a Superman movie 15 years ago, okay. Where there was only one with this guy, but he had a son with Lois Lane.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay. And did he have superpowers?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they didn't. She didn't realize it. It was his son. And then Lex Luthor's played by Kevin Spacey.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember that one. Yeah, that one was good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I think you have lower standards than I do, Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you know, I just take the movie for what it is. It's a Superman movie. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I mean, the opening scene of that movie, there's a plane crashing, and he catches a plane.

[Aaron Weber]

Now that is good.

[Brian Bates]

And the Superman return. Return. His return to the world was coming down on a baseball field and lowering a passenger jet in the middle of the baseball field. That's. And they'd not seen him for 20 years, and here he is. He's back.

[Aaron Weber]

Now that is pretty good.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's. How is he doing that? What. What is. What is he using.

[Aaron Weber]

Superpowers?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, he just.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you familiar with Superman?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he just.

[Nate Bargetzi]

From a planet, Kind of like magic.

[Brian Bates]

He's from a planet where magic.

[Aaron Weber]

The sun.

[Brian Bates]

Well, yeah, I guess. I mean, I'm not saying I want to be friends with the gu. You know.

[Aaron Weber]

No, it's our. It's our yellow sun that does it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, he. He's from a planet where everybody's like that.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but they're. They're not as powerful on Krypton as they are here.

[Brian Bates]

Right, but everybody's like that, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then he's just compared to us.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Much stronger. There's probably a lot of, you know, Antichrist symbolism in there, I'm sure. I mean, if you want to dig.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That wasn't quite where I was going.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, Well, I felt like you were trying to take some magic digs at me, so I was a little bit.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, you'd have to make it that real.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Happy to be here, huh? We're back at Nateland. Nateland Studios. What's been going on, man? I hate to jump into it too quickly, but I haven't seen you guys in a while. I want to know what you've been up to. I know you were on the road, Brian.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Thursday I did. I was in Gadsden, Alabama.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Gadson. I got family from there.

[Aaron Weber]

Good.

[Nate Bargetzi]

What's a funeral in Gadston?

[Aaron Weber]

So did I. My show? No, no, no, no. I did a show for Young Life.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It was very funny, they said. Yeah. We had. Nate spoke at our national convention in LA earlier this year, and I'm doing the Alabama. The Gats to Alabama chapter of Young Life, which is. That's where it is.

[Brian Bates]

Again, LA to Al.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. But I'll tell you what, I did not feel like I was doing well. I only had to do 30 minutes, and I'm like, I don't feel like I'm doing good.

[Nate Bargetzi]

What's the setup? Are you going up cold? Are you following somebody?

[Aaron Weber]

No, totally cold.

[Nate Bargetzi]

And do they know it's comedy?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm still not sure they know it's comedy.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I mean, are they coming to a comedy event? Like, what's the setup?

[Brian Bates]

Young Life is supposed to be pretty hip. I mean, that's the idea. That's probably my first problem is they want, you know, they want to appeal to young people. So they want things to be Christian and hip. I remember with Campus Life, which is sort of a young life thing that we went to, we had, like, a Christian heavy metal thing. We went to one too. I thought it was pretty cool. I never followed up with those bands, but in the moment, I was like, this is pretty cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I feel like I was struggling to the finish line, so I, like, I gotta do something. I gave basically Henry Cho's testimony. I mean, I didn't say it was mine, but I'd never heard A Young Life growing up. But Henry Cho told me how that's how he got involved in church was through Young Life.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So I shared Henry stuff like, you guys know Henry show? No. Well, I'm gonna tell you his testimony anyway. And I shared about Henry. I shared someone else's testimony closer. Yeah. Just to finish it out.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so it's going well, then.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. Yep. That was Thursday. Great time.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Was it, like, teenagers in the crowd?

[Aaron Weber]

No, this was for, like, volunteers and adults just to raise money and things like that. There were some of the kids there, but this was for Adult Friday. I did one of those don't tell Nashville shows in town. Everybody in the audience and on the show besides me were, like, 23. But I did great.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I feel old.

[Brian Bates]

You're a great comic.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You are a professional comedian.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

As much as we joke about you not being like, you are a professional comic, you've done it a long time. You can figure out how to do well in any room. Those don't tell shows, I don't know if you're listening. They have these don't tell shows all over the country in different cities. And the way it works is you sign up and then they, you know, it's like a hidden location, hidden lineup. They send you the info morning of after you buy a ticket, and then you never know who's going to pop in, but they're. They are usually young. Like date nights.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I feel like an old man at a lot of them. Dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That was Friday. Saturday I was in Litchfield, Kentucky, the Alice Theater. I took my friends Paula Kaczynski and John Detoy with me. They did great, great comics. They're great comics. They're such a great couple. They're so positive.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That they are.

[Aaron Weber]

I found us saying just positive things about comics the whole time of the trip, which is weird.

[Brian Bates]

They're very nice people.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Two nice.

[Brian Bates]

Very nice people. Very funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they're great.

[Nate Bargetzi]

John. We talked about John on the podcast before. He's the guy that plays Yo Yos. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Plays real asset to the Nashville comedy.

[Nate Bargetzi]

They both are. They both are, for sure.

[Brian Bates]

They really bring a positive vibe to the Nashville comedy.

[Aaron Weber]

They do.

[Brian Bates]

I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

I do.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I'd like them to get jaded a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I just want to trash some comics, but they're so positive.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. You got to be able to trash some people.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I was trying to trash you, too, but they really love that.

[Brian Bates]

You got it. Yeah. You got to do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's plenty to talk about with me.

[Aaron Weber]

But a lot of folks came out. That was a great show Saturday night in Litchfield. And then last night, I was in London, Kentucky, doing a show for. It's called Laugh All Night. It's for new missions, which does a lot of things, but sponsors. This particular. Sponsors some orphans in Haiti. And it was at a church there in London, and. And did it with a few other comics.

[Brian Bates]

And did you eat at the restaurant?

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't. The guy who Dusty was telling me about, a steakhouse.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

There in London, Kentucky.

[Brian Bates]

Shiloh.

[Aaron Weber]

But the organizer, he wanted to take us out, but we went where he wanted to take us. I wasn't going to say. No, I don't want to go there.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So great time last night in London, Kentucky.

[Brian Bates]

How. How late was the show? Like, how late did it go to?

[Aaron Weber]

Not late at all.

[Brian Bates]

Give me a time.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it was over by 8. 8:30.

[Brian Bates]

Laugh all night is what it's called.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I pointed that out last week.

[Brian Bates]

I know, but he it out. I just wanted specifically to know what time. What. What time it went to.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there was about a.60 to 75.

[Brian Bates]

Minutes, and people are like, that's. We gonna be here all night or what?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not even laughing. No, it was great.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It was.

[Brian Bates]

It's awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

Good time. Your buddy Bob Smiley was On the show and.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And Rick Roberts and Sean Reynolds and Michelle McNair Miller, I think.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Who I never met, but they were all very funny. Fun lineup and yeah, great night. And that was it.

[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargetzi]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

Are we skipping Aaron or is he already said.

[Brian Bates]

I thought he's hosting the show so he would go last.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

I would think that.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I don't mind it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, go boom, boom. It's like a rotation here. Think of us like a circle. You go this way, then you go here.

[Aaron Weber]

You can also go this way in a circle.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but he started it. He passed it to you first, so now you're passing it back to him.

[Nate Bargetzi]

We're going counterclockwise.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You don't pass it back. You pass it around.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, you can. If you go north long enough, you'll eventually be going south. But if you go east or west, you're always either going that direction. Oh, isn't that interesting?

[Nate Bargetzi]

That is fun. I like that. Latitude and longitude.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

So where were you?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Well, I just want to say I went to McMinnville. We hung out a little bit and a lot of fun. Had a lot of fun. Went to Tammy's, had some burgers.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Tammy's is still the best restaurant in McMinnville. Shout out. But I want to make an announcement. I'm recording another special. Yes. February 28th at the Walker Theater in Chattanooga.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Beautiful theater. Beautiful theater.

[Brian Bates]

My last special I filmed in Knoxville. Now I'm filming in Chattanooga. I think I'm going to do all my specials in Cities of Tennessee.

[Nate Bargetzi]

McMinnville next.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, maybe. So they got a beautiful theater. Well, Next is Chattanooga, February 28th. And today is pre sale tickets. So today, Wednesday you can get pre sale. I got two things here. I got artists. Pre sale is on Wednesday. I don't know what that means really, but the code is slay. The pre sale code is slay. And then Thursday is local pre sales and I don't know what that means. But then official on sale is Friday. But get tickets. Two shows. February 28th, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Walker Theater. It's going to be great. I'm filming another special and it's going to be.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Give me two hours. How long is it going to be?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. Well, I have been working to try to narrow, you know, I want an only an hour long special. I think anything longer than an hour is too long. My last one was, you know, an hour, five, six, seven, eight. I don't know how long, but it's.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's with the credits.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No, for most people I'd say yeah, but for you, I'd say at least an hour 20.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, I think when you go to a live show, you, you know, get, get your money's worth. Yeah. You know, but if you're watching at home, an hour is what you want. All right, that's what I think. Like, if there were more hour long movies, I would watch more movies. But like when I, when I go, how long is this movie of an hour 50? Nah, I'll just watch YouTube again.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I watch three hours of YouTube videos.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly.

[Nate Bargetzi]

This two hour movie.

[Brian Bates]

You know what I have been doing though, real fast? I've been taking DVDs, not Blu Ray DVDs, and burning them onto my Computer and having the digital copy, it's very low. It's not low resolution necessarily, but it's a low memory file. I can easily airdrop it to my phone and watch movies on the plane. And then I can watch all of these great old movies on. On my phone.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You're airdropping the movie?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

To your phone. So how far. How small is the file?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Is this like 4?

[Brian Bates]

4. But I mean, when you're looking on your phone, it still looks good.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Does it really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean, I'm not. It's not like pixelated.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay. From a dvd.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Blu Ray is different.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Brian Bates]

Blu Ray is harder to do, but that's exciting.

[Nate Bargetzi]

What are you watching?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I've been Superman.

[Brian Bates]

I've only done one trip with it, but I watched. I think I taught Lords of Flatbush was one of them. And then Run, Ronnie Run, which I haven't finished.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

But Run, Ronnie Run is really funny. David Cross, it really seems like the inspiration for Joe Dirt, which is. Joe Dirt's one of my favorite movies of all time.

[Aaron Weber]

People say you look like a crosswind. David Cross and Joe Dirt.

[Brian Bates]

But Run, Ronnie Run is really funny.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

I thought it would be.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Airdrop it to me later. Why not, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, why not?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, I got space.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All right. Make it happen. Anyway, where were you at? Yeah, no, hold on. Well, you interrupted something to say that you're special. You're talking about your special.

[Brian Bates]

I already pitched it, though. I did the whole pitch.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All right. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Nothing else to February 28th.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Do you know what you're going to do with it? What's it. What's it going to be?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know where it'll end up. There's no. You know, last time I filmed a special, I didn't know where it was going to end up. I just filmed it. I just filmed a high quality, top of the line special.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

With A plus jokes and visual quality. And then Netflix was like, we gotta have it. And so that's what I want to do with this one. I want to. I want to. I'm just gonna. I got. Some people have said they like this hour better than my last special. So I'm. I'm looking forward to this hour. And plus, I'm ready to move on to some other jokes, so I need to get them down.

[Aaron Weber]

And you got this new hour quick. Yeah, I was really impressed. It. I mean, your special hadn't even come out yet and you had it already out there.

[Brian Bates]

Going, Yeah, I don't know that I'll be able to do that this next time. But I. I feel good, though. I was digging through some old notebooks today, and there's a lot of stuff that I wrote down in the past that I was like, these are good ideas. I just wasn't good enough to make them jokes.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

So I'm excited to kind of dig into some of that.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You gotta do that smoking in the rental car a bit.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, I do have.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That would fit in your act pretty easily.

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, congratulations, Dusty.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yep. Big time.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Big time.

[Brian Bates]

I appreciate you.

[Aaron Weber]

And it's called what?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know what it's going to be called yet. The last one's called Working man, which is still available on Netflix, by the way. I got another hour that's on YouTube. It's at 3 million views. Hit 3 million views. So I don't know what the next one's going to be called. But the. You know, we go Working man and then what we don't want to do, I feel like we don't even want to do in the same realm.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Lounging man or something like that, or.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, something, you know, that's fun.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It's fun to think about. I'm excited. I'm excited. It's going to be fun.

[Aaron Weber]

What are. You heard?

[Nate Bargetzi]

I'm recording special at the Ryman.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Nate Bargetzi]

For Netflix. No, I'm not. I did just perform at the Ryman. I forgot to mention it last week, but I opened for Kathleen Madigan at the Ryman here in town.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I opened for her last year there.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's a lot of fun.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, it's a good time. Beautiful theater. It's like the best. It might be the best.

[Brian Bates]

It's so fun.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It might be the best theater in the country. I don't know what else would be better. It's. Y'all have done a lot of the. Right. I mean, it's like. Sounds perfect. Feels good. It feels like a club, as dumb as that sounds. But they're kind of right on top of you. And. Yeah, you say it does sound dumb.

[Brian Bates]

And. No, no, it sounds like a club. It sounds intimate.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

You can't do two questions back to back like that.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's true.

[Brian Bates]

I do that to my daughter. My daughter will answer the second question. I said, do you want to go here? Do you want to go there? And she'll say yes. It's like. It's the second one she wants anyway.

[Aaron Weber]

And Nate's CBS holiday Special is filming this week, I think Thursday at the Grand Ole Opry house. That's where he is today. He's getting ready for that. That's going to be super exciting. I think that comes out. Was it December 19th?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, December 19th. Co produced by Lorne Michaels.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Pretty exciting stuff. Keep an eye out for that. A lot happening at Nate Land. I mentioned a couple things very quickly, and then I'll. We'll talk more about it later. But Greg Warren, friend of the show, one of the best. He's recording his next hour special in Columbus, Ohio, November 23rd. First show sold out. There are tickets available to the second show. And then Mike Vecchione, old friend of the show, he's recording an hour Special in Nashville, December 28th. Tickets available for both shows. So if you want to check out a couple specials of go to see Dusty's in February. But if you want to see some other Nate Land friends, we got a couple options there for you in the coming months.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

I do want to say we've all performed in Chattanooga a lot over the years at the Comedy Catch, and Chattanooga has always been a great comedy place. I like it. That's why I'm excited to do the special there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And they've got a couple of theaters, Walker being one of them, that are really nice.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I miss the Comedy ca.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Catch.

[Brian Bates]

I do miss them.

[Nate Bargetzi]

The Comedy Catch is like, that's a mainstream room, dude. That's like trying to figure out the way to describe it. I remember being very young in comedy, and I went to Chattanooga and did the Comedy Catch and I was like, oh, this is real people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

So different from, you know, where you perform as an open micer. Where?

[Brian Bates]

JJ's Bohemia.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Places like that. JJ's is great. JJ's is fun.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargetzi]

But it's just totally different.

[Brian Bates]

But it's. Yeah, it's more of a. It sounds bad to say, but it's like more of a hip scene. Right. If you go. Once you go to an actual mainstream club, it is regular people.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So you're like, oh, I got to, like. My hip cultural references may not get me.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. They don't know what you're talking about.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

People have jobs. They don't know. Like the new snarky thing to talk about on Twitter.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You know, and I remember being like, oh, man, I. I need to. I need to figure it out, because these are the crowds that you need to be able to perform in front of these crowds.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that. That's how it was for me in Charleston. Charleston was, like, a real, like, hip, artsy city. And I was, like, doing really well there. And then when I left and started working the road, I was like, oh, man, this is a different thing out here.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, last time we talked about comedy catch, was it there? Like, didn't Danielle, the owner, challenge you, Dusty, to a swimming race to build a. But it was a green room was on the line, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So nothing ever came with that.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'm ready.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You know, here's what came of it. Dusty's coming back to the city and recording a special at a different venue. So there you go. Well, let's switch in the end.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, if there's an indoor pool in Chattanooga, let's do it. Let's do it after the special.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

So that I don't get hurt. Because I was. When I was in Canada, I talked about this on my own podcast, but I. When I was in Canada, I swam in a lake up there, and I was swimming, and I was like, man, my shoulders are older now, and it is not as easy.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, swimming uses muscles you don't use.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

In everyday life.

[Brian Bates]

So I admitted on my own podcast that I may not be as fast as I. I once was, but you know what? Just like that old Toby Keith song, I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was. That's what I think. Give me one. One straight shot. Yeah, I think I can.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you guys watch the Mike Tyson fight?

[Nate Bargetzi]

I did, man. Exciting, thrilling. Down to the last round. It was really close. The fight right before, it was unbelievable. Yeah, I forget their names.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It was unbelievable. Fight. And then the Mike Tyson fight was, like. It was, like, sad. It was, like, depressing. I got mad that I watched it.

[Brian Bates]

I do think that's part of it, though. You have these big headlining things just to get people to watch these other, you know, really good fighters that otherwise nobody will be watching people saying the.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Fight, the fight itself was rigged.

[Brian Bates]

That probably is the Tyson fight.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

For what reason?

[Nate Bargetzi]

To make tens of millions of dollars.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You don't want to make.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they're going to make that anyway, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But I think Jake Paul might be kind of the future of. Of boxing for. For at least entertainment purposes. So if he wins, it looks good. And if Mike Tyson knocks him out at 60 years old, which he probably could have. I think if he knocks him out at 60 years old. That's not looking too good for Jake.

[Aaron Weber]

I see. So you think, y'all think Tyson could have won?

[Brian Bates]

No, I think so.

[Nate Bargetzi]

No, I mean, dude, I mean, he's 60. I remember like when it happened, I was like, I feel dumb forever thinking this could have been close.

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody thought Tyson was going to kill him. Yeah, well, because that was nostalgia, I shouldn't say everyone.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Sure, sure, you remember, you remember Mike Tyson when he was, you know, still got that strength. 18 years old, 19 years old, knocking everybody out.

[Brian Bates]

Right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, I grew up.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, this is a 27 year old kid who's a good boxer, who's, who's knocked people out before.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Versus a 60 year old man.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, 50.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I mean, even if the greatest of all time. He was the greatest of all time 40 years ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

So I felt dumb for even thinking this could have been close. I should have bet a lot of money on what is now the obvious. Yeah, in hindsight it's obvious.

[Aaron Weber]

Not to Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't, you know, I don't think if, you know, I think if Mike Tyson really got some licks on him, I think he could have knocked him out. I mean, Mike Tyson still super sure.

[Aaron Weber]

He could have, but he didn't. Right.

[Brian Bates]

But he did. Mike Tyson, I think it's, I think boxing is easy to rig and I think that's why it went down in popularity, because people caught on to it. So I think it's easier to rig than you said.

[Nate Bargetzi]

If Mike Tyson landed more punches, he could have not. He could have won.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't watch the fights to be fair, but I do think the New.

[Nate Bargetzi]

York jets could score more points. They could have won the game. It's like. Yeah, that's how it works.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, of course. But I'm saying though, I, I think he could have done it, I mean, and was deliberately. Yeah, I saw a couple highlights on the Internet where he like lit him up a couple of times and I'm like, yeah, he could have kept that going and, and he would have been out.

[Aaron Weber]

I think he just, he was out of, out of energy by that third round. And if he hadn't done it by then, he was just holding on, he.

[Brian Bates]

Looked wiped and maybe. Yeah, that's, I didn't watch.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's where the age sets in. Yeah, well, you missed. I mean, Netflix really handled all the traffic really well. I mean, it was a, Was it a nightmare for you too? You cutting out every two seconds?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I mean, there was a few times where it never even buffered on me a couple of times. It wasn't clear.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It would, like, got pixelated.

[Aaron Weber]

Pixelated.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Resolution dropped.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

But it's a mess for me. But as one of those, I mean, kudos to them. They pulled off. They made tens of millions, man.

[Brian Bates]

Tyson got to make a little money here at the end.

[Aaron Weber]

And 20 million, right?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, they made a ton of money.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

And we all watched a big nothing.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like that's so many of Mike Tyson's fights over the last several years. Like. Well, I remember watching a Lennox Lewis fight way back.

[Aaron Weber]

That was his last real big one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And it was like he just got punched in the face a ton of times.

[Aaron Weber]

That was. People still holding on to Tyson, still had something. Lennox Lewis was the champion.

[Brian Bates]

And then he was so big.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

People's champion. Do you want to get into some comments?

[Aaron Weber]

Let's do it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and at Brian Bates comic on Instagram. No Cole slaw.

[Aaron Weber]

Nate [e-mail] okay.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Natelandaborgetsi.com first comment comes from Cole slaw.

[Brian Bates]

I love coleslaw.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I love. Coleslaw is great. But do you think his first name is actually Cole and his slaw is a nickname, or do you think that that's a real name?

[Brian Bates]

I think his real name's Cole, not Sloan.

[Nate Bargetzi]

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

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Cole slaw. I don't think there's ever been a bad episode of Nate Land. I'll challenge you on that. But this one was particularly enjoyable. The combination of the subject, the fact that all the hosts were there, and Joe Zimmerman was such a fun guest. He's been catapulted onto my Mount Rushmore of Nate Lane guests, along with War Dog and Vecchione.

[Brian Bates]

Who's War Dog?

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's Greg Warren.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Warren.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That was his old nickname back in the wrestling day. War Dog. All right, that's a high compliment. That's high praise for a Nate Land fan right there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

For a barbecue side, you know, to give us this compliment. Getting compliments from sides.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Next comment. Potato salad. Just now it's Erica Zachary. Erica Zakoreski. Erica Z. Just wanted to acknowledge Blackbird Bates saying who? When Dusty said he thought the dove was an owl because of the sound it made, no one at the table laughed. I laughed out loud. You're welcome.

[Aaron Weber]

Boom. Thank you. Erica.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think Brian was making a joke. I think that you just. Erica, you caught it. You're like, that's a good joke. But I don't think he was making a joke.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I think he was, but I think it got what it deserved.

[Aaron Weber]

Not only did I make it, I even looked at the camera and kind of like.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, you gym them. Yeah, you gymmed a little bit. That's fun to do on an audio podcast.

[Brian Bates]

You heard.

[Aaron Weber]

What do we know about it now?

[Brian Bates]

A dove, though. Like, I used to think that there was an owl outside my house, and then one day I saw a dove sitting on my back deck and.

[Aaron Weber]

You told us this last week.

[Brian Bates]

I don't. I didn't get into the details. And then I saw it making the sound.

[Aaron Weber]

Who?

[Brian Bates]

And, no, but it's like, ooh. Like, I can't do it, but it's like, you could play a dove sound. But.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, well, thank you, Erica. I'm playing chess. These guys are playing checkers. Let's move on.

[Nate Bargetzi]

There's a great. You ever watch old Steve Harvey stand up?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

One of the best of all time. One of my favorite. He's got a story about going to his niece's wedding in Cleveland, and it's just sort of like. He keeps calling it a raggedy wedding. It's just like. Anyway, he takes us through the whole story, but the end, he's like, they go out for the releasing of the doves at this wedding with no budget. All this. He said they opened the dove cage. All kinds of birds was in. It wasn't a dove in the bunch.

[Aaron Weber]

They had.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Pigeons came out, black crows, chickens came. I think about that every time I see the word dove.

[Aaron Weber]

That's funny.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Go check that out. It's called Ghetto Wedding or something like that. But it's Steve Harvey. So good. Kristen Wood. I'm pretty sure Aaron mentioned he was going to see Creed in a previous episode. All of this could have been avoided. I don't remember doing that, but I.

[Aaron Weber]

Thought there was an episode a few months ago where you said you were going to see them at Ascend Amphitheater.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's right. I had the. I had a lot of the details mixed up.

[Aaron Weber]

And then Nate did say, then I am, too.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And then three months later when you guys said you saw him at Bridgestone, like, Man Creek comes to Nashville a lot.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Jumping around venues, too. Rob White. Not Ron White. Rob White. With Dusty and his conspiracy theories, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the birds aren't real movement.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think that's kind of a hack conspiracy.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it's not even that. People, all people always say, I can't believe Dusty's not into it. That's making fun of conspiracy theories.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It is. Yeah. It's like an ironic. Some of the videos they make probably.

[Brian Bates]

Are some fake birds. Let's be honest. But birds are real. Come on, guys.

[Nate Bargetzi]

But what is the.

[Brian Bates]

We did a whole episode on, like, spy gear and how they. You know, it's like, at this point, I bet they got some pigeons in New York City that are.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I do think robots. Yeah. I don't know about New York, but I do think they've created spy gear. Yeah, Like, I do think that's true. Birds or humming bees or. I mean, that is a bird.

[Nate Bargetzi]

But humming bees.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, hummingbirds, honey.

[Brian Bates]

You think the hummingbirds are fake?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Could be. That'd be the easiest one to fake.

[Brian Bates]

See, I don't think so. I think that'd be a really hard one to make.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Why? Well, a pigeon looks like a drone almost.

[Brian Bates]

A pigeon in New York City, maybe. Maybe. But a pigeon in New York City just, you know, just walking around on the streets.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

You know what I mean?

[Nate Bargetzi]

What's it do? It. Spy it on people at the bus stop?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Who knows? Yeah, everybody's in New York, Maybe.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Maybe. So are, I guess, the. So some of them aren't real, but most of them are.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you know, I'm just saying the birds aren't real. Movement. So many of the conspiracy movements that are actually mainstream, I believe it's all.

[Aaron Weber]

Controlled opposition, but they're not claiming to really think that their whole thing is just to make fun of conspiracy theorists.

[Nate Bargetzi]

What does controlled opposition mean?

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's like, you know, you want to. You know, you want to create the other side. Like, you're like, oh, we're going to. We're going to say we support the conspiracy, but then they'll usually go so over the top and crazy with it that they actually become a joke.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Right, sure, sure, sure. To take credibility away from the other. Yes, the other side. That's perfectly fair. Justin Higgins. I use an app called Merlin that will listen to all the bird songs that are currently audible and then tell you which birds you're hearing. That's pretty amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, a few people told us that, Merlin.

[Nate Bargetzi]

But how would you even know if it's accurate?

[Aaron Weber]

Just like Shazam. I don't know.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I know, but you just have to trust it to know, because you can't confirm it. You can't ask it. Hey, what kind of bird are you?

[Brian Bates]

Merlin could tell me what they were saying. That would be.

[Aaron Weber]

It could tell you what they're saying.

[Nate Bargetzi]

If it could do that this would be the top comment of the podcast if there was an app that could translate bird language. Marcia Coke. Great name. Marcia Coke. And Coleslaw. I mean, we got unbelievable names today.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Marsha Koch. Autobahn versus Autobahn. Had me yelling at the tv. I don't know how the crew behind the camera keep from correcting him. Hilarious episode.

[Brian Bates]

I don't understand how Marcia Coke doesn't see how those two things aren't pretty similar.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It's hilarious. Of all the egregious errors we made on the podcast, that's. That's one where you're like, all right, I've had enough. Somebody correct him.

[Brian Bates]

She's yelling at the tv. You got to lay off the Cokes there, Marcia.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Marcia Coke. The Koch family. That's a great name.

[Aaron Weber]

I get it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. And Jim and John Coke.

[Aaron Weber]

I told Tristan, never opened his mouth, so better not say.

[Nate Bargetzi]

A lot of times the crew does try to speak up. Brian shuts him down real quick.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

He goes, I don't know who you think you're talking to.

[Aaron Weber]

Shut it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I'm Breakfast Bates.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Next comment comes from jb dds. Jb, dds. Jb. Damn Dusty. Think about all the millions of babies that now get immediate skin to skin after birth because of that study. Science is beautiful, man. The parents also consented to participate in the study. So the researchers weren't sick or evil or anything. They were just trying to figure out what is best for babies. And they debunked the opposing theory that NICU babies should be kept in incubators for fear of germs.

[Brian Bates]

Well, all right, buddy. But jb, dds, it's like, okay, so I mean, no one said science is not beautiful except you. Okay? That's the, that's the biggest common misconception is that people think that everything a scientist does is beautiful. And it's like, yeah, science is great. But just because you know, who doesn't know that when the baby is born that the baby who the mom has been carried this whole time should go right to its mom and let its mom hold them and then it's cold and the skin to skin warms them up. Who doesn't know that? Everyone knows that.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I'm going to push back on that. I don't think that that's intuitive and obvious. That of all the immediate concerns for a newborn baby that skin to skin contact should be a priority. I don't think you knew that. I don't think you would know that. I knew it if you got dropped if you got parachuted into a birth of a child knowing nothing, you would go, well, obviously, make sure the skin touches the mother immediately.

[Brian Bates]

Well, no, but you would go, all right, that baby just came out of the mom. Let the mom hold the baby.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, that's not what they're saying. They're saying that immediate medical benefit for the skins to be touching each other.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but, you know, such that it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Takes priority over other things that need to be done to a new.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think so. I think, you know, sometimes things need to be done. Sometimes immediate things need to be done. But I think the natural, immediate thing that needs to be done is that the mother and the child should bond and should hold close to each. And it's like. I think that's an obvious.

[Nate Bargetzi]

But why?

[Brian Bates]

Well, it doesn't matter why.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, it does.

[Brian Bates]

It. You know, it doesn't matter why. You just. You want to make sure that child is comforted by its mother and that it's. It's like the person that's been carrying me, the voice that I've heard, I now recognize the first person I see in this world is the mom that's carried me for nine months. And I think it's just obvious. And, you know, the why, I think is secondary to just knowing that it's obvious.

[Nate Bargetzi]

But your why is wrong. This isn't in the one you just stated is wrong. It's not like for the emotional benefit of the mother or for the baby. They're saying that there is a physical. A literal, physical thing happening.

[Brian Bates]

Well, sure, but that doesn't make me wrong. It means that, you know, because of this natural instinct that we have that the baby should be close to its mother, immediately results in this positive, scientific thing happening. All we've done here is we go, well, we know that this makes sense, but let's dig into it and let's find out what it really does. It doesn't make anybody wrong, but it's obvious that all of nature, the moment the baby is born, it needs to bond with its mother. I mean, all animals.

[Aaron Weber]

I could understand an argument, though, if it was a preemie, a baby, a sick baby. I can understand the thought, like, oh, the best thing we could do for it is to get it in the incubator where it doesn't give any germs to make it sick.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Just temperature regulation is a real problem.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, if there are problems, you know, it's like, all right, let's. Let's do some. You know, let's Take some precautions. But even then, I think there should be a moment. I personally believe that the first person the baby lays eyes on and makes eye contact with should be its mom. I think it's very important for eye contact for this baby to know, hey, here's my mom. This is what she sounds like. This is. I know what she sounds like. This is what she looks like. I think that's very important.

[Aaron Weber]

How would that work?

[Brian Bates]

What do you mean?

[Aaron Weber]

For her to be the first.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Why do you think that that's.

[Brian Bates]

Well, even if the baby sees other things, it's still handed to her and that they lock in that eye contact making. I think that's important. I think the eyes are the window to the soul, as it said. So it's like, let's make some eye contact with my mom, the one that's carried me. I wanted to make sure that happened with our babies. And I'm secondary. I'm next. But I wanted to make sure that Hannah and our kids had that real time together before I ever got involved.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Right, right.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I saw a picture of you holding baby Olive. Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

He came. He came by yesterday.

[Brian Bates]

Babies are the sweetest, most delicate things in the world. And it's like, we should. They that comfort of being like, all right, what's going on? I'm being. I'm being. I'm being. I've been in this. This womb for this amount of time, and now I'm coming out. And now all these doctors and all these people, they got lights and everywhere. Where's my mom? I think that. So the baby doesn't have some trauma right away. It's like, give me my mom. And then, you know, if there's. Is. If there's, you know, things that happen, you know, obviously we gotta, like, you know, we gotta take care of them. But I think it's important to have that mom. Baby connection.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

And all this guy's saying is that. Yeah, they confirm that with.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I don't remember all what we talked about, but he goes, the researchers weren't sick or evil or we were.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Joking about them being sick.

[Aaron Weber]

But I'm like, were we.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know what the. I don't remember what the study was we're talking about.

[Nate Bargetzi]

The study proved that skin to skin contact was. Was.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but what was the study?

[Nate Bargetzi]

And then we joked that it was like, what do they deprive some babies from skin to skin? That's kind of sick to do that, right?

[Brian Bates]

Well, it is.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Point is, we didn't. The study was Okay, I guess, you.

[Brian Bates]

Know, I mean, just think about it, though. This guy wants to believe that this is just some, you know, lovely scientists just having tea, going, oh, I can't wait till we find some research on babies and figure out what helps them when really some, you know, probably some sick people in a. In some, you know, sterile room somewhere going, all right, here's the baby. Get it out of here. Get it out of here. Real. And it's just like, they don't care. And that's my take. This guy's take is everything is roses and rainbows, and mine is a more realistic point of view and that the world is sick. We live in a sick world out here.

[Aaron Weber]

It could be the name of your next specialist.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, the world is sick out here.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, and it's like, we gotta do our best to make sure our babies get love because there are a lot of, you know, sickness out here. And I'm not saying I don't know these scientists, but I think a lot of these experiments are sick.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. Not necessarily this one.

[Brian Bates]

Who knows? But.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Which is trying to help a guy.

[Brian Bates]

That won't even put any of it. He won't even use any vowels in his name. JB coming at me. He's a dentist.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Is that what DDS means? Yeah, that's like MD but for dentists. So this is Dr. JB he's a dentist, I guess. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

He's doing a lot of root canals on people.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I know. He's doing root canals on babies. This guy's sick. This guy's sick, JB I mean, come on. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Brian Bates]

I just, you know, I don't know that these people were sick. Right. I'm just. But it's just like the idea that.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You knew that that meant Dennis the whole time. You're just gonna let us look like idiots?

[Aaron Weber]

I just assumed. He goes, you went to Notre Dame.

[Brian Bates]

Science is beautiful, man. The parents also consented to participate in the study. Did they? Did you talk to them?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, you're putting a lot of tone of voice into that. I'm gonna read the same comment, but in how I think he wrote, science is beautiful, man. The parents also consented to participate in the study.

[Brian Bates]

Did they, though?

[Nate Bargetzi]

I mean, yeah, but you read that as science is beautiful man.

[Brian Bates]

He had an exclamation point. He goes, skin after skin birth because of that study.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Is that how you read every sentence, with an exclamation?

[Brian Bates]

Yes, it is.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Exclamation point doesn't necessarily imply. Imply anger from whoever's Writing it.

[Brian Bates]

But I want to see the study that says how many babies got skin to skin contact before this study and then how many after? I want to see because he said millions of babies that now get immediate skin to skin birth because of that study. But maybe they were all doing skin to skin birth before that. And these doctors were like, do we really need this? Let's do a study to see if it even helps. Maybe that's what happened.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, you think now because I just went through this, it was like procedural. They. And they told us from. It's like right after the baby's born, they're the. One of the first thing they do is they're going to put her up for skin. Skin to skin. So it's just like part of the process now.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe it was before, though. That's all I'm saying.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I love this guy. Jbd, period.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I didn't know that met Dennis, but who puts that in there? Did he identify himself that way?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I don't. I don't know. I mean, I don't know why. It's capital D, little D, capital F.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I think it's like PhD. The little H is little.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's a lie.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All right, you know what we all need to get more of? We need to get off our butts and get into some action. And it's fun to do that with Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew has bold flavors and a refreshing citrus kick. It'll get you off the sofa and have you feeling like you're charging up the side of an actual mountain. You know, that kind of mountain where the weather's perfect, your friends are ready to hang, and a full day of epic games are happening. Can you imagine? I can check out all these amazing flavors. Original Baja Blast, Code red voltage. I mean, the Baja Blast is the best. I'll debate anybody on that when I get to go on tour. Especially with Nate. They love to play games. You've seen the pictures. We've talked about it. We're doing stuff all over the place. Basketball. The best part of that is relaxing afterwards, cooling off with a refreshing Mountain Dew. The mountain is calling. You should answer. Grab your friends, grab an ice cold Mountain Dew wherever refreshing beverages are sold, and do the Dew. And I just want to reiterate, it really is a great drink and you should drink it. Lindsey Blair. So next comment. Lindsey Blair. Dusty is the real life version of Bill Hader's character Dave from Hot Rod. And I cannot unsee it. I'm actually curious to hear Aaron's thoughts. On the movie, since we're around the same age. I'm 32. It's one of my favorite comedies, but it's definitely a love it or hate it movie. We're having some Internet connectivity problems here.

[Brian Bates]

I've never seen the movie.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Never heard of it.

[Brian Bates]

I like Bill Hader, though, so I'm into it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I like Bill Hader.

[Aaron Weber]

It's. I looked it up. I think it's the Andy Sandberg movie where they're, like, racing dirt bikes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I remember seeing previews for the movie, but I never saw the movie.

[Nate Bargetzi]

But, no, you do kind of look like him. He's got a wolf T shirt on.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I mean, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I'm into it. Thanks, Lindsay. I guess.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That'S a compliment, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I'm sorry, I haven't seen it. Lindsey. There's a lot of movies I haven't seen. I still haven't seen Snow Day with Josh Peck.

[Brian Bates]

I'll burn it and airdrop it to you, okay?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, please do. Please air drop it. Just start air dropping movies around the plane. Anybody trying to watch Limitless, just start air dropping it. Yeah, the hero of the plane, Susan.

[Brian Bates]

Especially if the Internet's not working on the plane. And I go, I got movies I can air drop.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Comedy, romance, drama.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Susan Gasman. That's a tough, tough name. Gas man. The gas man.

[Brian Bates]

How did they know I had gas?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Remember that, Susan Gasman? Veal is young beef, lamb is young sheep, and mutton is older sheep. Dusty is correct that if you want to eat younger animals as you want to eat younger animals, as older animals can be more tough. Also, a general rule of thumb is that you want to eat animals that eat grass or corn.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Come on, Susan. That's what I'm talking about. You know what I mean? Finally, a Dusty was right comment up in here.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Wait, I never thought about that. All the animals you eat eat grass or corn, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Not necessarily right. I mean.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I mean, what else?

[Brian Bates]

All the animals I eat, I don't even like fish. I don't even like corn, though, because, you know, we got a lot of GMO corn out here now.

[Aaron Weber]

But I heard that fattens them up, though. The only two edible foods that you don't have to kill something for is milk and honey.

[Nate Bargetzi]

How about that, though? I bet you kill some bees in the process of getting honey, don't you think? I mean, they're making the honey if.

[Brian Bates]

You'Re good at it, but they're making.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Honey for a reason, right?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. Why they make it. I guess it is for a reason.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. So you're taking it from.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe we should do a study. Maybe JBDDS knows about it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You don't think that's important to know? Like how we treat bees?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I do.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's what I'm saying. Let's get some studies.

[Brian Bates]

Let's do see if skin to skin matters to bees when they're born.

[Aaron Weber]

Fur to fur. That would hurt.

[Brian Bates]

Wing to wing. Does it matter?

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's good. I think, I think I mistakenly. I forgot what veal was.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

And I got some comments about, yeah, we're not happy.

[Brian Bates]

We messed up.

[Nate Bargetzi]

People went, oh, Mr. Name, Mr. Notre Dame doesn't know what veal is. As if that's like a course you take at Notre Dame.

[Brian Bates]

First thing they teach it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's right. I majored in cuts of meat, but it's in the arts and letters department.

[Brian Bates]

Butcher Brian.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

Butcher Bates.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Thank you, Susan Gasman. Sorry I harped on your name so much. Next comment comes from bren3669. I don't think the Pinocchio paradox is an actual paradox. Being wrong isn't the same as lying.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, in this made up scenario that.

[Brian Bates]

He misunderstands the paradox though.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I don't think so. I had the same. I asked the same question.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I just feel like for this made up pretend scenario, Pinocchio did know and was lying. You can make it either way. But for the paradox to work. Yeah. He would have to know that that's not true what I just said.

[Brian Bates]

I want him to ask, is Geppetto a good dad?

[Aaron Weber]

People loved your breakdown of Pinocchio. Then once you break down all the kids stories. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

We got to go through some old Disney movies and let's just dissect them together.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I agree. If Pinocchio was just mistaken, then that wouldn't be a paradox. Right.

[Nate Bargetzi]

So can we walk through it again very quickly? Pinocchio says my nose is about to grow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, My, my nose grows now.

[Nate Bargetzi]

My nose grows now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And in the way I took it, he's telling somebody that he knows that's not true, but he tells them that he lies to him on purpose. And then. But since he lied, that made his nose grow. But then since it grew, technically he was telling the truth, so it shouldn't have grown. Okay, well, you said you.

[Nate Bargetzi]

No, I mean, yeah. I'm getting a little trip.

[Brian Bates]

Brand 3669 brain right there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It's fun. It's a fun one. I just. I just lost my train of thought.

[Brian Bates]

We love you, Bren. Three six.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Thank you, brand 3669.

[Aaron Weber]

Next time.

[Brian Bates]

I love JB. DDS.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. I still like Cole Slaw.

[Brian Bates]

Cole.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Eric Bowling. Golly. The bowling family. What do y'all do on the weekends? Laser tag. Guy on stage wore a hat that said God is dope at church today. Not usually a fan of hats in church, but I do in fact believe that God is dope. So it's acceptable.

[Brian Bates]

Some people think heroin is dope.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Put that on the hat.

[Brian Bates]

So I don't know. What is this? I guess it depends on your definition of dope that day.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's true.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, I get it. I would never wear that hat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Or yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

There'S a lot I don't like about that. But people are different.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet that's not a Catholic church.

[Nate Bargetzi]

People are guaranteed. It's not a Catholic church. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What kind of church do you think it is?

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's one of those ripped genes.

[Brian Bates]

Non denominational, where everybody's ripped jeans in a strip mall.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Something like that. Yeah. And look different. You know, everybody's different. This is just a personal thing.

[Brian Bates]

We're not mad at you.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. I don't think that that person.

[Brian Bates]

We are mad. We are mad at the guy who wore that hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

No, I'm not even mad at him. It's just I personally wouldn't wear it.

[Brian Bates]

Extremely upsetting.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Mm. God is dope, yo. You know, if it were Catholic, it would have been the Virgin Mary's Lit.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Ashley Matthews. I think a hats episode could be interesting, as you were all clearly hat connoisseurs. Ashley, I think we're about to prove you wrong.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Let's get into it.

[Aaron Weber]

Correct.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Let's talk about hats. I noticed last week, bottom of the barrel, ladies and gentlemen. I'm kidding. I'm excited.

[Brian Bates]

I'm actually excited. I'm a big hat guy.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Of course.

[Aaron Weber]

I noticed last week's episode. This is very rare. Usually I'm the only one not wearing a hat. Last week, four out of the five of us were not wearing a hat. I think that's the first time it's ever been where the majority were not wearing hats.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Dusty was the only one. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

For whatever reason, you and Nate both weren't.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, I got called out on this podcast for wearing a Braves jersey and a Braves hat during the eclipse. During the eclipse.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

So I think I was leaving the house. I had a Braves pullover on I go, what's the move here?

[Brian Bates]

Let Me ask you this. Do you think that jinxed the Braves that you wore both of those on the eclipse day?

[Nate Bargetzi]

No.

[Brian Bates]

That's why they started to.

[Nate Bargetzi]

There was a lot. There were bad things happening to the Braves before that happened.

[Aaron Weber]

You mean you only have Braves hats?

[Nate Bargetzi]

No, but what do I. Would I wear a different team and wear two teams at once?

[Aaron Weber]

So all your hats are a team?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Most of them, yeah. Most of them are a team or like a brand or something? Or a nascar.

[Brian Bates]

You gotta be a real company man like Brian. That's right.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I would have wearing that hat.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

People. And by the way, people ask where they can buy this. I don't remember who sent us this hat, to be honest with you. This is not something that Nate sells. I think a fan sent this to us.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It's a nice hat, though.

[Aaron Weber]

It is a nice hat. So people always ask, how can we buy one? I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

You can buy this one. Put a price on it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Do you guys wear hats on stage? You do, Dusty?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. Do you ever wear hat on stage, Brian?

[Aaron Weber]

One time I did a show with Dusty at Stand Up Live in Huntsville and I had shingles on my face.

[Brian Bates]

Gotta put some cream on it.

[Aaron Weber]

And I think Dusty took me somewhere to, you know, the. Oh, yeah, the shingle ladies. I think about that. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that's. Besides maybe the open mic occasionally. It's the only time I've ever wore a hat on a Russian.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Did it hurt? Did it, like, hurt the whole show?

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't feel good.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

This was a corporate gig, right? That we both.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think so.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think so. I just remember saying to you, are you okay with me still going? Come on.

[Brian Bates]

I'm not afraid of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I've had skin stuff before.

[Aaron Weber]

So you own a ton of hats.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I do, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Des, you own a ton of trucker hats.

[Brian Bates]

I'd say two tons.

[Aaron Weber]

I was going to ask you, how.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Many hats do you think you own?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's what I was going to ask.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Have you counted it?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I did have to move some around the other day. I mean, I would say, I don't know, let's say 200 hats.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, that's about where I'm at, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

200. Where do you keep them?

[Brian Bates]

Well, on the. I moved them all to the top shelf of my closet. One that wasn't really being utilized and I bet. Yeah. I mean, it's so many hats.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I like to buy them as souvenirs if I Go to a ball game or if I go to a stadium or anything, I like to get a hat.

[Aaron Weber]

I've been with you before when you've done that.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's right. Yeah. It's just something. A fun thing to take away from it and then that just piles up over the years, dude. Then people start giving you hats and.

[Brian Bates]

Then, you know, I get so many hats, I. I just started buying them. I got a hat guy who knows how to find some old school trucker hats. But up until then, people had just been giving me hats.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

I still get hats. A lot of hats.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You got like an American pickers guy going out, finding your hats?

[Brian Bates]

Well, he. Yeah, we met at a show in, in Missouri and Cape Girardeau. He came and hung out and then he was like, oh, yeah. He's like, I sell hats. I get vintage hats and I sell them. And he sent me so many pictures of hats and I've been. This guy's really got my number.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Nice one he got on right now, Louisiana.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It's a good looking old vintage hat.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I'm jealous of that. My. And this is a. I have jokes about it in my act, but it is true. My head is so big that I can't wear most hats.

[Brian Bates]

You wouldn't be able to wear this.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Couldn't wear that.

[Brian Bates]

I'm on the last.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Couldn't wear that one for sure. This is a new era. 5950. I'm rocking one button and it's not as comfortable as I'd like it to be.

[Aaron Weber]

What does 5950 mean?

[Nate Bargetzi]

5950 is the 5950 is a description of the shape of the hat, like the structure of it and the side. So there's like a 49 and 29. It's all just different crown sizes. And you notice the difference just visually.

[Aaron Weber]

Where do you even see that as a list of the.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's all in the tag.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think I've ever bought a fitted hat. But that's basically all you try to do, right?

[Nate Bargetzi]

I don't like the way. I know for whatever reason, I'd rather wear a snapback with one button than wear the fitted hat. Okay. Fit hats feel weird to me.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I thought you love fitted.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Like, I'm Fred Durst.

[Brian Bates]

In high school, the fitted hat was. I mean, I'm, you know, I'm, I'm 10 years older. But when I was in high school, the fitted hat, that's what everybody wanted. I mean, that was. You get a fitted Hat. They didn't have them back.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I don't think. Been invented.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Back then you were top hats and stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you guys ever. Not for fun or ironically, you wear trucker hats. You wear baseball caps or either for work or some other style of your life and any other type of hat. Not trying to be funny, but, like, either you think it looks good or for your job.

[Brian Bates]

With my hair, if I wear a baseball cap, it really looks bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Why?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. It just does. I need a. I need a high riding hat. This is about as small as I can go.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, this is about the same crown size as that. It's pretty high.

[Brian Bates]

I don't. I'm not a. I like the design of this hat, but I'm not particularly fond of the shape.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I got to tell you, a different hat type would just immediately change your whole vibe. If you had a little train conductor hat on. Yeah. You'd be like, this guy runs a.

[Brian Bates]

Train.

[Aaron Weber]

He conducts it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. I'm saying the. The trucker hat gives shape to everything else about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It's the finishing piece where.

[Nate Bargetzi]

If you had any type of hat, I would go. That makes sense with the rest of them. One of those little bellhop hats.

[Brian Bates]

You can put it to the test. Today I got a hat I'm gonna wear for. I'm gonna do a short segment.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty was on Pete Holmes podcast, and he kept talking about how the hat changed his life and transformed it. And Pete was laughing so hard. He was like, you're saying it's like the mask where the character totally transformed when you put the hat on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

As far as comics that wear hats is part of what you think of them. I think you might be the top one. Drew Thomas we mentioned last week or the week before.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He'll always wear his hat and then take it off and put it on the mic stand.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Doesn't he have, like, a paper boy hat? What kind of hat? You know what I'm talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargetzi]

The Extra, extra. Read all about it. Hat. You know, I'm talking.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think you think about Drew Thomas, though, with a hat, though.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I don't. I don't. Larry the cable guy, I think of.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I guess I always noticed Drew Thomas because he hangs it on the.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe that's why I don't think of him, though, because he takes it off.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, the reason I asked about that up top is the conventional thinking with standup is at least I was taught early on, you're not supposed to wear a hat. Yeah, it's. It's the same things that make. I heard Seinfeld talk about this. The same things that make a politician trustworthy.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Nate Bargetzi]

No beard, no hats, nothing covering up your face, hiding your facial expressions. Those are the same things you should try to do as a comedian. There's a re. I think J.D. vance is the first vice president or president to have a beard since Abe Lincoln. Since. Not Abe Lincoln, but I think, like, it may be, I don't know, Grover Cleveland or one of those.

[Brian Bates]

He seems like he has a beard. Grover Cleveland. I don't know what he looks like.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, he was a fat guy. Right. So I think you gotta. You gotta have a beard.

[Aaron Weber]

Probably you might be thinking about Taft.

[Nate Bargetzi]

No, I think it was pretty fast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, probably right. Yeah. I think. I mean, Teddy Roosevelt had facial hair, so it's not since Lincoln, but it's probably been early.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Mustache is different.

[Brian Bates]

Doesn't even count as facial hair. Like, in the military, I think you're not allowed to have facial hair, but you can have a mustache. And in restaurant business, some you can only have the mustache, not a beard.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, there's some baseball teams can't have facial hair.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

The New York Yankees famously will make you shave your beard. When you have to have a clean face, you can have a mustache. A couple of guys on the teams have mustaches, but they will make you shave the beard. And I read on Twitter some baseball reporters talking about that rule alone has caused some people to be like, I don't want to go play for the Yankees. Not because of that specific rule, but you're like, if you're going to be that particular about something as unimportant as my facial hair, I don't want to play in that kind of culture. Isn't that crazy?

[Brian Bates]

And then they. So much money that you're like.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Then they go, do you want $680 million over four years?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I'll shave my head, shave my eyebrows.

[Nate Bargetzi]

See, gray. Grover Cleveland's pretty fat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

But a Taft. For some reason, Taft is the only guy that gets talked about as being fat. But I mean, let's be honest here. I mean, come on.

[Brian Bates]

Especially during that time.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. And if you're going to be. If your name is Grover, you got to stay in shape.

[Brian Bates]

This guy looks like everybody I know right now. But back then, that's big.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there's about like 100 comics I know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's athletic.

[Aaron Weber]

He's got that top hat. That's what they wore back then.

[Brian Bates]

That Guy's winning bare knuckle boxing matches out here.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. Lived in some triangular.

[Aaron Weber]

So you guys never wore like a beret? He had a beret face or coonskin hat. Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, as a kid for sure, I wanted to be Davy Crockett.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, what is the type of hat I was talking about? The extra. Extra.

[Brian Bates]

That's a. That's a newsboys hat.

[Aaron Weber]

Derby hat.

[Brian Bates]

The Irish hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

The Irish hat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This hat.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, is that what he wears?

[Nate Bargetzi]

No, I don't know. I don't know. I thought that's what he wear. What is that called A newsboy hat now, if you're listening, this is the.

[Brian Bates]

Hat that's also like a fedora.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's not a fedora. It's where like it's got a bill, like a baseball hat, but then it kind of droops over to the front of the bill where in my opinion, it looks ridiculous. But some people can pull it off.

[Brian Bates]

Older people pull it off.

[Nate Bargetzi]

If you are 1930s Brooklyn, you can.

[Brian Bates]

Wear that hat or Peaky Blinders as you see up there.

[Nate Bargetzi]

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[Aaron Weber]

Now do you know what hat. What the hat was called? That Walter White's alter ego Heisenberg War.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, man. What is that hat called?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I would have never got this pork pie hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Pork pie hat?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Pork pie.

[Nate Bargetzi]

What does that come from?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

It probably was made out of some kind of pork skin. I had kind of a hat like that that I was wearing for a little while. I like that hat. But I got made fun of online one time. Just a very slight remark.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I think that was enough to do it in for me.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, you wore a hat like this.

[Brian Bates]

I liked. I had a hat like that I was. I was wearing for a while. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why I was asking you guys.

[Brian Bates]

When have you ever forgot about it? Probably 2016 or something.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like there was a picture of you and Ed Wy.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Maybe. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And you look like. I'm. Yeah, you look like a little bit like a Amish missionary.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I was just, you know, I was messing around with hats. I found it in a store and it was a Stetson. I found it in a. And a store and.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you.

[Brian Bates]

More city and I liked it.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you ever have a phase where you wore a cowboy hat on a regular basis?

[Brian Bates]

No, I always wanted to.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Now I don't. Are you. Because I feel like we're both from basically the same part of Alabama. I did not have a lot of friends. Nobody wore cowboy hats. Did not have a lot of friends that wore cowboy boots either.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Same thing for you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

A lot of my roads were paved.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. Opelika is not a real cowboy hat place.

[Nate Bargetzi]

And get out to Texas. That's where you see more of that.

[Brian Bates]

Oklahoma. Texas.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I think people think Tennessee is like that. And I'm not saying I don't ever see it, but generally speaking, how often.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Do you see a guy unironically wearing a cowboy hat at the grocery store?

[Brian Bates]

Like never.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Very, very rarely.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I know I don't know the grocery store. I grew up in the country. There's guys I know out there.

[Brian Bates]

War.

[Aaron Weber]

Cowboy hats still do. They work on a farm.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh. While they're working on a farm.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But they would wear their nice cowboy hat out to a restaurant. They take it off and they're.

[Brian Bates]

I love to see a cowboy.

[Nate Bargetzi]

They're dying off, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Probably. Probably. That's a little sad. I love a cowboy hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Sorry. I like the idea of it. I just look ahead so big I look dumb.

[Aaron Weber]

And I mean, Yellowstone probably, maybe has helped it. The show. Yellowstone.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's probably true.

[Brian Bates]

I used to wear a duster, though, in school.

[Nate Bargetzi]

What's a duster?

[Brian Bates]

It's like a long leather coat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, my God. A columbine looking.

[Brian Bates]

No, I mean more like a.

[Aaron Weber]

Like a hip cowboy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Golly. Duck. Duck Go is not working today. What's it called? A duster. Yeah, I remember a duster jacket from Red Dead Redemption.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. These look sweet.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty wore duster.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

So you wore this with a pork pie hat?

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no.

[Nate Bargetzi]

And bleach blonde.

[Brian Bates]

These are all maybe with the bleach.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Blonde hair and those glasses.

[Brian Bates]

You're bringing all the styles in.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. There's over 100 types of hats. Baseball cap. Now, we had a big debate, Dusty, on this podcast before you joined us, I wore. I have a hat like it. It's not the one I wore, but.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay, let's see what he's got. Brian's pulling out a hat.

[Aaron Weber]

And Dusty, what would you call this?

[Brian Bates]

Well, that particular one, when I was a kid, we would have called that in Alabama, where I grew up. Maybe it was just my mom, but we would have called that a toboggan.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's what we would have called.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go. That's what started it. Nate said that and people lost their minds.

[Brian Bates]

But my wife is someone who loses her mind over that because she's from Canada. And a toboggan is a sled.

[Aaron Weber]

And she calls it a toque.

[Brian Bates]

Calls it a toque.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Toque.

[Brian Bates]

And then that. As I got older, I would have called it like a beanie.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I'll call it a beanie now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That was basically the three names.

[Brian Bates]

Most of winter hat.

[Aaron Weber]

Most of them or. Yeah, most of America, I think, calls it a beanie. People in the South. Go ahead.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You wear the no so hat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. What's the national Ocean and some ocean and space. Yeah, Ocean.

[Aaron Weber]

Space. Ocean, yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Ocean. Space.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Old episode. Were you on?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was big into that. He and Nate were hand in hand. Space is dumb. And we should explore ocean.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, sl. Some lakes and rivers stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All right. That's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Somebody made that. Who made that for us?

[Aaron Weber]

Somebody. I mean, by the next week. Yeah, they had it to us.

[Nate Bargetzi]

So cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Derby hats, coons, kid hat, cap, fedora. Indiana Jones wore fedora.

[Nate Bargetzi]

A coonskin cap.

[Brian Bates]

I used to wear that. I was a real country little kid and I used to wear that just. Just around my dad's place. We just wanted to be Daniel Boone.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. But you kind of knew it was a fun thing to wear.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

No. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know anyone who wears that legitimate.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I bet that there are parts of Kentucky, east Tennessee. Do you think there's. Where some guy 30 years ago. You think. I mean, there's one guy now just. Just drinking a Bush Light.

[Aaron Weber]

The Tennessee Vols mascot is, you know, the guy who brings out the dog. He wears a coonskin hat, but he's dressed like Davy Crockett.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Because it looks.

[Brian Bates]

Because there was a movie or something. Davey. Davy Crockett. I mean, man, we love David King of the wild frontier. We love Davy Crockett.

[Nate Bargetzi]

What did he do? He wasn't the Alamo, right?

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

He was the Alamo, but he did. I think he helped ex. I get him and Daniel Boone mixed up sometimes.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's where I'm.

[Aaron Weber]

And I think they helped settle this part of the country. I think they helped. Well, I think he was a great hunter, but I think he also helped surveyors or whatever.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I should know.

[Brian Bates]

All I knew was that he wore this hat. And I like the name Davey. Davy Crockett. I love that song.

[Aaron Weber]

What did he do on the show?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think he just gotten.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It's not even important.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know anything about him, but I remember he wore that hat, and I thought it was cool. I thought the hat was cool. But I was a little. Little kid.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I wasn't.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You were 16 or 17?

[Brian Bates]

Yes. I got my driver's license picture taken in that.

[Nate Bargetzi]

With a duster jacket.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever had a job where you had to wear a hard hat?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Nah, not the whole time. I've had jobs where you. I had to wear them for some.

[Aaron Weber]

On site somewhere.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. For you're doing a particular job?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You a hard hat guy?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

In general, like when I'm on stage, I don't know, people are throwing things at you.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Could be a hard start wearing a.

[Brian Bates]

Hard hat on stage.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You could be a Tim Allen.

[Brian Bates]

Carry your clipboard. Carry your jokes on a clipboard.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. You're a construction. You're like Tim Allen, but you're like the, the, the supervisor. The supervisor you're not actually doing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the guy who everyone hates.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You have a laptop?

[Aaron Weber]

I was thinking a clipboard and just.

[Brian Bates]

One of those metal clipboards with other papers inside.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Trucker hats are sometimes known as gimme hats or feed caps because they originated in the 1970s as a promotional giveaway from US Feed or Farming supply companies. They were given out to farmers, truck drivers, or other rural workers.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Now what makes. Dusty, I'm going to defer to the expert here. What makes a trucker hat a trucker hat? I'll tell you. My instinct is when I see trucker hat or when I hear it, I think the mesh back.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

See, I can only talk about what I think about them.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's all I'm asking.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't necessarily think the Met. It has to have the mesh because my first hat that I started wearing was from West Point. Pepperell was a mill near where I grew up. And my uncle was a truck driver and it was his hat and it had no mesh. I just think it needs to be high riding. Yeah, that you can.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Well, I hear.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, there it is. Yeah, I just think it needs to be high riding. And that's, that's. And you want to, you want kind of a billboard face. This one's too short. This would not be a trucker hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But you want a billboard face because, you know, you might want some jokes up there.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You know, it's some kind of functional benefit to that for truckers.

[Brian Bates]

I think for a giveaway though, I think you could put fun slogans on there.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, it's all about maximizing.

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But the mesh to me is more of a summer hat. That's just what you would call that.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, when you're in a truck stop, there's some funny stuff on those hats.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I mean, women want me, fish, fear me. That's my all time favorite. I wanted the hat so bad as a kid.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought this is true. And in many religions, I guess most women very often have to wear a head covering. But men, generally speaking, unless God's dope, do not wear a head covering. In church would be the opposite. You would take your hat off.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I think the Bible tells women to cover their heads when they pray and men to not cover their heads.

[Aaron Weber]

But even in. I mean, I know it's more than just when they're praying, but Muslim tradition. I mean, there's a lot of head covering, but it kind of depends on if you're A man or woman. But in Jewish you wear yarmulke, right?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. Vatican 2. It's like 60s and 70s. That's where they Catholic.

[Aaron Weber]

Not as good as the original Catholic.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Church got rid of. Yeah, it was a disappointing sequel, some would say. But I heard like my grandmother would tell me before that if you forget like you're a little girl and you forget your head covering to mass, the girls would just put like a Kleenex on their head. That would something just some. Some type of covering over it. But that as long as I've been alive that hasn't been a requirement.

[Aaron Weber]

Catholic Church. Do you know what the hat that the Pope wears is called? I mean I know he wears more than one, but the little one.

[Nate Bargetzi]

The papal cap.

[Aaron Weber]

Close.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The Zaccheto. I think that's what the cardinals wear red ones and bishops wear violet. Pope wears a white one. So do you know how hat sizes are determined? If you wear like a fitted hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

The size of your head?

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. But a little bit more than that.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Is it circumference?

[Aaron Weber]

Is it radius circumference of a person's head? About one centimeter above the ears.

[Brian Bates]

The amount of heat your head puts off too. You don't want to blow a gasket up there.

[Aaron Weber]

Felt hats can be stretched for custom fit.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Can you imagine going to lids and to go. I'm looking for a hat and to take out a thermometer. See how hot that head gets, brother.

[Aaron Weber]

The record for most hats according to guest book world records. Scott Lid he inherited his father's. I may have even emailed you this. Emailed his father's hat collection. He has over 115000 hats. He has John Deere hats from every state.

[Nate Bargetzi]

John Deere hats. Oh my goodness. Yes. This is awesome.

[Brian Bates]

This guy's really into it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I'm into it already. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You would like those, right?

[Nate Bargetzi]

I wear all these hats.

[Aaron Weber]

Those are trucker hats.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh my gosh.

[Brian Bates]

It's a real flat brand.

[Aaron Weber]

That guy looks like every man I knew growing up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's too big of a bill.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. I don't like that. That looks like smalls from the sandlot bill. Yeah. This guy's got an unbelievable collection.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Now how are you? Do you like to. Do you like to curve the bill at all Dusty?

[Brian Bates]

It just depends on the hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Depends on the hat.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean this got a little curve to it, which I don't mind. I like it to be slightly curved. I don't want it to be flat, but I don't I'm not doing that anymore. Remember people used to put a baseball in the bill and tie a rubber band around?

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's a bit too much. Yeah, that's a bit too much.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Could damage the bill that way too.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you know where the hat capital of the world is?

[Brian Bates]

I'm gonna say Oklahoma.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Is it in America? Yeah. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

[Aaron Weber]

Dansbury, Connecticut.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Dansbury. Why Dansbury?

[Aaron Weber]

They had a hat manufacturing company there. Started in 1780. By 1800 they were producing 20,000 hats. By 1859, they 101.5 million hats annually. That's a ton of hats by 1859. But you ever heard of Mad Hatter disease? Yeah, that came from that.

[Brian Bates]

From top hats. Because they were using some kind of mercury.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they were using mercury in the felt for these hats at the factory.

[Nate Bargetzi]

They're using what?

[Aaron Weber]

Here we go.

[Nate Bargetzi]

What were they?

[Aaron Weber]

Mercury.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay. Mercury. Is that how you're saying it?

[Aaron Weber]

Mercury. Well, now that one I messed up. Hang on. Mercury. Well, how do you say it then?

[Nate Bargetzi]

I'm overthinking. Mercury.

[Aaron Weber]

Mercury. Well, anyway.

[Nate Bargetzi]

They were using mercury on the hats.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Nate Bargetzi]

To do what?

[Aaron Weber]

In the felt.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And it was poisoning workers. And they started having slurred speech, tremors, stumbling, extreme cases, hallucinations. They called it the Danbury Shakespeare. The effect of mercury on the workers health.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That was nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Was first noted in the late 19th century.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I was telling you about. Mind control hats.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's not quite what I just.

[Brian Bates]

Said, but you know, you get it though.

[Aaron Weber]

And tell me.

[Brian Bates]

Wait, I don't know. I watched a video on it. I forgot all the details, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you texted us and you said sometimes top hats were used for mind control.

[Brian Bates]

I know, but you remember those guys where I showed you that video of the weird things under the cave? Cryptoids?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Those same guys made a video about mind control hats. I should have had the link ready.

[Nate Bargetzi]

And that had something to do with Mad Hatters. That was.

[Brian Bates]

I think. So that's what they were calling it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Wouldn't you think if you put on a hat and all of a sudden you start shaking around convulsing.

[Aaron Weber]

But I think.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Would you take the hat off?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but I don't think that's what was happening. I think they were making the hats.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, it was the guys who were.

[Aaron Weber]

Making people at the factory.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, okay. So they were around at wearing the hat by wearing the hat you contracted.

[Brian Bates]

I think you still can though too.

[Aaron Weber]

But these were factory workers. I think that were getting this. In fact, the guy who. This is interesting. I kind of forgotten about. So John Wilkes Booth, Right. Killed Abraham Lincoln.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But then, you know what happened to John Wilkes Booth?

[Nate Bargetzi]

He. He died right after that.

[Brian Bates]

He got killed too, didn't he?

[Aaron Weber]

He did. They tracked him down to James Earl Ray.

[Nate Bargetzi]

James Earl Jones.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks, guys.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't even notice, to be honest.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I know that the doctor who helped him got tried for treason, Right?

[Aaron Weber]

Who helped John Wilkes Booth. Yeah, I don't know about that. But they. After he shot Lincoln and ran off, they tracked him down, and I guess he held up in a barn, and one of the guys who was tracking him shot him without permission. Shot and killed him instead of taking him alive. That guy had Mad Hatter's disease.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

And they think he suffered mental illness and was thrown into an insane asylum because he. This Mad Hatter's disease, He was a hat maker and he had it. And they think that's why he went crazy and killed John Wilkes Booth without letting him.

[Brian Bates]

Sounds like a conspiracy to me.

[Aaron Weber]

It does sound like.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, the guy that killed the. He's crazy.

[Nate Bargetzi]

So somebody assassinates the President, there's a manhunt.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Nate Bargetzi]

And they go, let's call the local hat maker to come out and help us. I guess it was just different times, right, everybody?

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe that was a previous life. He was a Mad Hatter.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All hands on deck.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I guess all hands on deck. Let's go get this guy's. Like in the movies when there's like a posse, a mob, it's some crazy.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Guy who makes hats, runs out there, just blows him away.

[Aaron Weber]

He was considered mad as a hatter for going against orders when his unit had Booth surrounded in a barn in Virginia.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Sounds like he did what he was told to do.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, he was forgiven for his disobedience, but left the army and went back to hat making. So I guess he joined the army.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Like a lot of people, my family are not the most tech savvy, so it seems weird to get them a tech adjacent gift, But Aura's digital frame is actually perfect. That's because, yes, it's tech, but it's so easy, even for me, even for Brian.

[Aaron Weber]

I do it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we got this for my dad, not me and Brian, but I got. We got this for my dad. And now me and Hannah just upload pictures of our kids to this frame. That's true. I read it off this paper, but it is true. We can upload our pictures. That day we showed him how to do it. And he was surprisingly great at it. That's because it really is that easy. Seriously. It's so easy to get started. But then once you do, the tech is incredible. I can upload photos right from my phone in just a click. It'll even pair photos together for me. Like two pictures of the same person or from the same day. There's no memory cards or USBs required. There's a reason Wirecutter named it number one best digital photo frame. It is good. It is one of the best. This is what happens, right? You get these frames and then you load it onto a USB and then you put pictures in there. And then those same pictures stay for 30 years. Because you never want to redo that again, right? Aura, it's not like that. It's so easy. For a limited time. Limited time. Visit aura frames.com and get $45 off Aura's best selling carver matte frames by using promo code Nate at checkout. That's a U R A frames.com promo code Nate. This exclusive Black Friday Cyber Monday deal is their best of the year, so don't miss it. Terms and conditions apply.

[Aaron Weber]

Take a couple more and then we'll get to a little something dusty.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I'm into it. I'm into it.

[Aaron Weber]

This will be the last thing then. George Washington wore a tricorn hat. Triangle shaped hat with three turned up brim sides. Tricorn was popular in Europe. The first five US Presidents wore them. I don't think that's accurate. I think that is a bicorn.

[Brian Bates]

Looks like a bicorn to me.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Whoa.

[Aaron Weber]

So I think the whole.

[Brian Bates]

Well, maybe it wasn't the only hat. George Washington maybe had a couple hats. He was president.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but I'm saying the one that he's famously the one they're trying to portray here. I think this could be historically inaccurate. And I'm calling Nate. I was a fraud.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I love it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Not quite the same.

[Brian Bates]

The top right up there. Look at that one.

[Nate Bargetzi]

This one?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

From this painting.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't think we have any real photo.

[Aaron Weber]

It could be. It could be. Oh, a chef.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Let me look him up on YouTube real quick. See if I can find.

[Aaron Weber]

I do have a couple more little facts here. Yeah. People used to have to wear hats on Sundays and holidays. In 1571, Queen Elizabeth the First ruled that everyone had to wear a hat. On those days, the rules for anyone over the age of seven, they had.

[Nate Bargetzi]

To wear a hat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Just around in their house or I Guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Or at least out in public.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's ridiculous.

[Aaron Weber]

This would be the last one, because I can tell you guys are.

[Nate Bargetzi]

No, no. Just. Just. Let's end on a good one. I was trying to be Nate.

[Aaron Weber]

Chefs traditionally wear big white hats, which are known as toques or toques. They have 100 folds in them. The folds represent 100 different ways that you can cook an egg. I thought that was interesting.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. That is interesting.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Are there a hundred different ways to cook an egg?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I challenge you to name 10.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you can fry it, boil it, scramble it. You can.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm done.

[Brian Bates]

What do you poach it?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Okay, four.

[Brian Bates]

You can. Well, you make an omelet. You can make a quiche, Make a meringue, you can use. You can make mayonnaise.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's not preparing an egg. That's using eggs for other stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think that's what we're talking here, though.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, no. Well, if it's a hundred things that have egg as an ingredient.

[Brian Bates]

No. But a meringue, I think, is mostly egg.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I don't. But if you're.

[Brian Bates]

And mayonnaise is mostly egg.

[Nate Bargetzi]

If you're at a restaurant, how would you like your eggs? Can I get it? Mayonnaise?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. Try it. Let's try it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah, I'll do bacon. And can I get those eggs moraine, please?

[Aaron Weber]

And a hat trick is when in hockey someone has three goals, everyone throws their hat on the ice. Have you ever done that?

[Nate Bargetzi]

No. No, I've never done that. I. I didn't know that. I guess I've never seen it happen. All the mics just cut out. I don't know if it cut out for y'all.

[Brian Bates]

My.

[Aaron Weber]

I can hear Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Mine seems to be working just fine.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think we got it. Just like we like it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Finally got it. Oh, it's just me.

[Brian Bates]

Yours is just unplugged there. You've just done.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, just unplugged.

[Aaron Weber]

How we like it.

[Brian Bates]

He's just.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Look how quickly I blame.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you just. I think it. Yeah, you just unplugged.

[Aaron Weber]

So, Dusty, I'll end on this, then we'll turn over. You're at a predator's gate. You've done the thing. Your. Your face is red. You got them fired up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Guy scores three goals. You taking your hat off, throwing it on the ice?

[Brian Bates]

Depends on the hat.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so you would do it in some cases?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, if it were.

[Nate Bargetzi]

If there were predators that they gave you that night?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. But no Likely not.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

I likely. I might be the only guy in the audience with this hat on. I'd be like, I'm not throwing this hat. And they're like, well, it's just a old Buick cat. And I'm like, this is my favorite hat.

[Aaron Weber]

I looked up at what they do with them because there's sometimes hundreds of hats, you know, at their last. Sometimes they just throw them away. Sometimes they donate them to some charity that can repurpose them, basically throwing them away. And then sometimes they give at least some of them to the guy who had the hat trick.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Which I don't know what he's gonna do with 100 hats, but I think.

[Nate Bargetzi]

They let whoever's cleaning up the arena that night. You take these off our hands.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, do whatever you want.

[Brian Bates]

Some.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Some 19 year old kid puts 500 hats in the back of his truck.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe, I think maybe. But I mean, most hats, you wouldn't worth the one of your hats on the ring?

[Nate Bargetzi]

No. It depends. I'm not. I don't care enough about the predators to do that. But if it were the team that I was super into, I think you go there hoping that you are faced with this dilemma.

[Brian Bates]

What team are you super into?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Notre Dame. The Braves? Something like that. Probably those two.

[Aaron Weber]

Notre Dame scores a touchdown, you just heave your hat on the.

[Nate Bargetzi]

We do marshmallows. You ever see that?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we talked about that a little bit.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I did it the senior Senior day was this past weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

Notre Dame's on a roll.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Marshmallow. We are man number six play what army this week. Army. Such a big game. Army is like as good as they've been since World War II.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

So it's pretty crazy. They could beat us.

[Brian Bates]

What about this? All right, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

If you're listening, just be glad.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, here we go. All right. I don't have my headphones on, so I can't hear you, but. But this is. We're doing hats. Look at Brian. Brian's got a hat. I've got a hat that fits you, actually. That looks good on you. It doesn't physically fit, but it looks good on you.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It does not.

[Brian Bates]

But this is.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Like Pinhead Larry.

[Brian Bates]

This is my segment here. Dusty's top five country song. Okay, okay. About hats. This is. Well, this is going to be my top five country songs about hats. Okay. And if you want to follow along, I got the playlist on Spotify. It's called Dusty Slay's top five country songs about Hats. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm excited.

[Brian Bates]

All Right. So what we're going to do, I'm going to. I'm going to read a couple that didn't make the list, and then I'll do the list. Honorable mentions we have under this Old Hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Can I say how impressive this is? I could not think of any song about a hat.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

And you're like, let's make a list, and let's include some honorable mentions, too.

[Brian Bates]

I got it. Under this Old Hat by Chris Ledoux. Great song. Chris Ladue is a great cowboy country singer. All Hat, no Cattle by Gene Watson. That's a great hat. Okay, so here we go. We're going to get into the list. I have one more honorable mention, but I'll do it in the honorable mention spot. Number five of top five country songs about hats. Don't Touch My Hat by Lyle Lovett.

[Aaron Weber]

He doesn't even wear a hat.

[Brian Bates]

And this song.

[Aaron Weber]

This would be.

[Nate Bargetzi]

If you go make up a country song about hats, Don't Touch My Hat.

[Brian Bates]

And this song, he's like, you can have my girl, but don't touch my hat. This guy's like, I've had a lot of girlfriends, but I've been through a lot with this hat. All right, number four, top five country songs about hats. Cowboy Hat in Dallas by the Charlie Daniels Band.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I don't know this song.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, that's a really good one. Number three, top five country songs about hats. Number three, My Girl Don't Like My Cowboy Hat by Hank Williams Jr. That's not real. This is. This. This is a great song because he's talking about he's dating a woman and she doesn't like his hat. And he's like. He's got some great lines in it. And then eventually breaks up with her, finds a girl that wears a cowboy hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Whoa. Same hat as him.

[Brian Bates]

Same kind of hat. Maybe not the same.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true love.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Is that what you want, though?

[Brian Bates]

Has some great lines in it.

[Nate Bargetzi]

You want a woman wearing the same hat as you.

[Brian Bates]

Hank Williams Jr. Also has a song called I Like to have Women I've Never Had. So, you know, he's got a lot of conflictions going on. Okay, here we go. Number two. This is a new song to me. But number two on the list of top five country songs about hats is Last Cowboy Hat in California by Robert Henry and the Repeaters. It's a great, very jam and country song.

[Aaron Weber]

This is new.

[Brian Bates]

I'd say it's pretty new. He's talking about how, you know, California, There just ain't no cowboy Hats left anymore. Yeah. And you know, it says so. They're all gone.

[Aaron Weber]

The repeaters. What they do just say whatever he says?

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Forgot you were wearing that.

[Brian Bates]

That's a good look for you.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree.

[Brian Bates]

I'm not gonna lie to you.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It should go down farther on his head.

[Aaron Weber]

It should.

[Brian Bates]

But it looks good, though. No, no, it looks good like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah, I think so, too.

[Nate Bargetzi]

All right. Cowboy hat that sits like a yarmulke.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm gonna start wearing this on stage.

[Brian Bates]

Honorable mention. Another honorable mention. Here we go.

[Nate Bargetzi]

My dog took my hat.

[Brian Bates]

Before we get to number one, this is called Girl in a Cowboy Hat by Brett Kissel.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I know that one.

[Brian Bates]

I'd never heard of Brett Kissel before. I just found this song. I think it's a great song.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That is a good song.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Number one. This song, number one. Not only is it number one on this list, but it's very high on my list of all time country songs. Such a great song. Here we go. Number one of top five country songs about hats. This Cowboys Hat by Chris Ledoux. Great song. This is. This song is all about a hat. A lot of these songs reference hats, but this song is about his hat. And it's a great song. Kind of a talk country song. Cowboys versus bikers. Recently, they just made a video for it. Chris Ledoux has passed, but his son made the video really good. So that's out there.

[Nate Bargetzi]

He's on this list a couple times, huh?

[Brian Bates]

He is. Chris Ledoux, also a couple others. Cowboy Hat by John Party is in there. I'm not a big fan of it. Under this Old Hat, right? A bit different than under this Old Hat by Sawyer Brown.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. And I Wear My Cowboy Hat Sideways by Post Malone.

[Brian Bates]

No, that's not real.

[Aaron Weber]

I wish it was.

[Brian Bates]

And then there was an alternative song I found called Cowboy Hat by a band called that Dog with a Period. I don't mind the song. It's not country, but I don't mind it. So that's it. Top five country songs about hats.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I appreciate.

[Brian Bates]

What do you guys think about that list?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that was fun. I wish I had known any of them. I didn't know any of them, so I couldn't really comment on them. Is there anything to say? What's so funny, Aaron?

[Nate Bargetzi]

You look funny in the hat, man.

[Brian Bates]

I think it is a good look for you. You look like you're out of a western.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know what's why everybody's laughing. If you're listening. I look good.

[Brian Bates]

You do look good. It matches your sweater.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. You look good, too, Dustin.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you. I bought this vest in Atlanta one time. I never really have a time to wear it.

[Aaron Weber]

You never have time to wear it. That's the problem.

[Brian Bates]

A time.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. Well, today's the time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Ashley Matthews, you were wrong. No, I'm joking.

[Nate Bargetzi]

No, I had a good time. Yeah, I had a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

This was fun.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Most famous hat of all time. It's got to be Abe Lincoln's, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's a good question. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is a veil. Would you consider a veil a hat?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Like a bridal veil?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. And because long black veil is a very famous country song, and I would think that would be a good one. And then Merle Haggard has a song called Red Bandana. Bandana. Sometimes a hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

It could be a hat, sometimes a mask. It could be a washcloth.

[Brian Bates]

And then. So.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Nate Bargetzi]

That's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I think we're good.

[Brian Bates]

That feels like a great episode.

[Nate Bargetzi]

I think we. I think we did it.

[Aaron Weber]

We did it. Should we talk about where we're at this week?

[Brian Bates]

Yes, we should.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we should. Oh, November 27th. I guess that's a week from today, the Thanksgiving Eve. I'm doing my next Brian Bates and friends here at the lab at Zany's. Look, you're already going to be sick of your family. Bring them out to Zany's. It'll be a clean show so you don't have to, you know, worry about grandma being offended. Bring your family. Come on out. Labizanies. November 27th. December 13th. I'm in Fort. I'm in Fort Worth, Texas. I always wear this cowboy hat because I love Texas. I'm going to be at Hyenas comedy club in Fort Worth on December 13th. Just one show. It's gonna. It's in the red room. Some people have messaged me. He's like, I can't find it listed. It's in the red room. But just go to my website. It's the best way to do it, to buy tickets.

[Brian Bates]

What's the website?

[Aaron Weber]

Brian Bates, comedy dot com. And come see me. I want to. I really want to sell out these two shows. Yeah, yeah, you can do Zany's in the red room at hyenas in Fort Worth on December 13th. Come on out for those shows. I'll wear my cowboy hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Awesome.

[Brian Bates]

It's a good hat.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Are you. You're not gonna wear that, are you?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Stretch.

[Aaron Weber]

What?

[Nate Bargetzi]

Aaron Weber here. Let me tell you. This weekend, Sunday, November 24th, I'm gonna be in St. Louis, Missouri, at the St. Louis Helium. I got two shows that are both almost sold out. They were sold out, and then we moved it, and then people said, nope, but we're almost sold out. Like a few ticks. There's still a few tickets available each show. There's a 4pm and I think a 7pm if you're in the St. Louis area. I got a couple buddies from Nashville coming out with me. It's going to be a fun, fun day. So coming out to St. Louis Helium Comedy Club.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. All right. This weekend, Friday night, I'm going to be in Des Moines, Iowa, at a theater. I don't know what theater it is, but I'll be there. Des Moines. Oh, the Hoyt Sherman place.

[Nate Bargetzi]

An awesome theater.

[Brian Bates]

Pumped to be going there. Shows almost sold out, so get some tickets. And then on Saturday, I'm going to be at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota.

[Aaron Weber]

Boom.

[Brian Bates]

And that show. That show is basically sold out, but there's some tickets, limited tickets, so they're both pretty close to being sold out. Those are going to be really great. So check those out. And then on Tuesday, I'll be at Zany's Dusty Slay, grand old comedy show here at Zany's in Nashville. So that is November 26, the day before your show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

So. So come to my show and then come to Brian's.

[Nate Bargetzi]

This is awesome. See, there's like. I'm looking at the seat map. There's, like, no tick.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's going to be hot.

[Nate Bargetzi]

There's just, like, single seats.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's what happens with theaters I've found, is that you get to a place where there's only single seats left, and then nobody wants those because they're not, you know, people are not trying to sit alone, but come to it alone. This is not the kind of show where I'll make fun of you for showing up by yourself.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Alone is so much fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, go alone. Then you can eat all the popcorn. You can do whatever you want. You can laugh at whatever jokes you want, and it doesn't matter.

[Aaron Weber]

And Nate will be back next week.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Nate will be back. It's going to be great.

[Brian Bates]

It's a great episode. We got a hot. We got a hot cast, hot crew of people that run this podcast. And what's nice is it's interchangeable. People can come and go, and the podcast remains the same. Yeah, that's what's amazing about it. We appreciate you guys.

[Nate Bargetzi]

But what is a constant throughout this podcast, at least, has been from Day one is the beautiful people of Genovations.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Who produce. One of the main compliments we get is not for the humor but for the production quality of this podcast. And I just want to give a big shout out Tristan, his birthday today.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Happy birthday.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Tristan keeps the ship running.

[Brian Bates]

Put the agent curse on him. Happy birthday to you.

[Nate Bargetzi]

No, no, no. No curses. No curses. But thank you, Tristan, for everything. Tristan's the man behind the sheet, the scenes keeping, keeping everything going. And check out our other podcast, the Consumers. Every Tuesday. Don't make me come back there every Thursday night. Land is rocking and rolling. Nate will be back next week. We love you all. None of this is lost on us. Have a great week.

[Brian Bates]

Have a happy February 28th, Chattanooga.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Yeah. Go to Dusty special. Come see me in St. Louis. Come see Brian here in Nashville and in Texas. We love you all. God bless. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi and my wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform.

[Brian Bates]

Recording and editing for the show is.

[Nate Bargetzi]

Done by Genovations Media.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week.

[Nate Bargetzi]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Does the pet needs something or feels something but can't say it?

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Learn your pet's behaviors and alert you to key changes that you can act on.

[Aaron Weber]

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