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The Nateland Podcast - Episode #229: Acting featuring Jon Reep

Release Date: December 4, 2024

Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay
Guest: Jon Reep

I. Introduction and Tour Announcements

The episode kicks off with Brian Bates enthusiastically announcing his upcoming tour titled "Big Dumb Eyes." ([02:30]) The name stems from his recently published book of the same title. Bates emphasizes the unique branding by highlighting the book's influence on the tour's name, noting, "The big Big dumb was the title of my book and then it's the title of that of the tour" ([02:34]). Aaron Weber and Jon Reep express their excitement, with Weber adding, "You're writing a book right now? Yeah, Big Dumb Eyes" ([03:29]).

Notable Quote:

Brian Bates ([02:34]): "The big Big dumb was the title of my book and then it's the title of that of the tour."

II. Football Game Highlights

The conversation transitions to a recap of a recent football game between Vanderbilt and Tennessee. Brian Bates shares his experience attending the game, mentioning, "I went to four out of the six home games. So I don't ever really get to go to games. But this was a year that I got to go" ([07:36]). The hosts discuss key moments, including Vanderbilt's early lead and Tennessee's impressive comeback.

Notable Quotes:

Brian Bates ([07:52]): "I went to four out of the six home games. So I don't ever really get to go to games. But this was a year that I got to go."
Jon Reap ([08:00]): "It wasn't close."

III. Player Uniforms and Game Comments

The hosts delve into the aesthetics of football uniforms, questioning trends like half shirts and the absence of knee pads. They humorously critique a player's attire, with Nate Bargatze quipping, "If I had abs, I would wear every shirt like that" ([08:27]). The discussion highlights the evolving nature of player gear and its impact on the game's dynamics.

Notable Quote:

Nate Bargatze ([08:27]): "If I had abs, I would wear every shirt like that."

IV. Thanksgiving Stories and Personal Life Updates

Post-game discussions segue into personal anecdotes about Thanksgiving celebrations. John Reap shares his experience hosting a show with friends and spending time with family, stating, "And then spent Thanksgiving with my family" ([15:58]). Nate Bargatze reflects on hosting Thanksgiving at his home, emphasizing the rarity and significance of bringing together different family factions.

Notable Quotes:

John Reap ([15:58]): "And then spent Thanksgiving with my family."
Nate Bargatze ([23:43]): "I hosted Thanksgiving at my house this week."

V. Aaron Weber's Barbecue Sauce Project

Aaron Weber introduces his entrepreneurial venture into the culinary world with his barbecue sauce brand, "South in Your Mouth." ([21:28]). Collaborating with a local restaurant, Hickory Smokehouse, Weber details the creation process, blending three distinct Carolina barbecue styles. He humorously remarks on the product's naming inspiration and its intended use, particularly on pulled pork.

Notable Quotes:

Aaron Weber ([21:28]): "It's a mix of three different Carolina styles of barbecue sauce. Mustard, vinegar, tomato base. It's really good."
Aaron Weber ([22:17]): "Do the whole thing takes about an hour."

VI. DoorDash and Food Management

The discussion shifts to the challenges of managing food orders, especially around holidays. Brian Bates shares his struggles with overordering, leading to excess food in the freezer, while Nate Bargatze humorously recounts his adventures with DoorDash, including unexpected deliveries and interactions with drivers.

Notable Quotes:

Brian Bates ([25:42]): "You need to get Laura to take a look. Laura Williams. Not order anything more."
Nate Bargatze ([30:21]): "I'm waiting till they leave."

VII. Acting Insights and Audition Stories

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to insights about acting, the audition process, and personal experiences within the entertainment industry. Jon Reep and Aaron Weber share their journeys, discussing the challenges of memorizing scripts, improvisation, and handling setbacks like being cut from roles.

Notable Quotes:

Aaron Weber ([117:30]): "It is admirable. I think it's awesome."
Brian Bates ([125:02]): "I have to go. I have to watch that."

Brian Bates candidly talks about a particularly bad audition where his car was broken into, emphasizing the emotional toll of such experiences. Similarly, Aaron Weber shares his audition tales, including interactions with notable figures like Ashton Kutcher and improvisational moments during auditions.

Notable Quotes:

Brian Bates ([100:28]): "Car was broken into when I walked out to the car talk about it today."
Aaron Weber ([104:11]): "That's probably why I didn't get it. Because they go, he's not doing all the lines."

VIII. Upcoming Tour Dates

As the episode nears its conclusion, the hosts circle back to Brian Bates' tour details. Bates shares specific dates and locations, encouraging listeners to purchase tickets early using the pre-sale code "Eyes." He mentions performances at prominent venues like Madison Square Garden and various locations across North Carolina and Florida.

Notable Quotes:

Brian Bates ([127:18]): "Pre sale starts today. Eyes. Eyes is the code. Go get that."
Nate Bargatze ([129:37]): "I'm done with private shows next year."

Conclusion

Episode #229 of The Nateland Podcast offers a blend of personal anecdotes, professional insights, and humorous exchanges centered around acting and the entertainment industry. With guest Jon Reep, the hosts delve deep into the nuances of auditions, the unpredictability of acting careers, and the importance of perseverance. Brian Bates' entrepreneurial spirit with his barbecue sauce project adds a unique flavor to the episode, while personal stories about Thanksgiving and DoorDash experiences humanize the conversation, making it relatable for listeners.

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For more insights and entertaining discussions, tune into The Nateland Podcast, produced by Nateland Productions and Nate Bargatze, hosted on the AudioBoom platform.

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[00:01]
Nate Bargatze
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[00:48]
Brian Bates
Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nateland podcast. I'm neighbor. I got to see Brian Bates. Aaron Weber here. Dusty's not here. So we got basically the exact same.
[00:59]
Aaron Weber
All right. Yeah, I'm having a great time. I'm having a great time.
[01:06]
Brian Bates
Yeah, it was equal trade.
[01:10]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[01:10]
Brian Bates
No team got better. They're just.
[01:13]
Aaron Weber
It's a lateral move.
[01:14]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's. We're excited as always to have our boy John Reed with us.
[01:22]
John Reap
Dusty was out last week because he wanted to see Wicked.
[01:25]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[01:25]
John Reap
Liked it so much. He's there again today.
[01:27]
Nate Bargatze
That's right.
[01:28]
Aaron Weber
Really?
[01:28]
Brian Bates
Really? The movie. No, no, he's not on board. Yeah, no. So let me just give the Nateland news kind of out. My tour is announced. Dates are announced for 2025. Go to natebargets.com and sign up for updates. Pre sell for shows is today at 10:00am local time with code. Eyes. Eyes. All shows go on sell to the public December 6th. Get in early with that pre sale code and I'm going to be coming. There's more, you know. So the shows that you see are what's for 25? And then we'll have 26. Two to come out. So if you don't see your town, I just. It will be 26. Also record Mike Vecchione's next hour special in Nashville, December 28th. Tickets available for that. Dustin Chaffin will be here on December 8th. And then, you know, the consumers every Tuesday podcast and don't make me come back there every Thursday. All right.
[02:30]
Nate Bargatze
So you didn't even say the name of your tour.
[02:33]
Brian Bates
Big Dumb Eyes.
[02:34]
Nate Bargatze
Big Dumb Eyes. Oh, I love the name.
[02:37]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[02:37]
John Reap
What's that about?
[02:39]
Aaron Weber
Like all caps, the letter. I just. All cap.
[02:42]
Brian Bates
Yes.
[02:43]
Aaron Weber
Like the lowercase eyes better.
[02:45]
Brian Bates
The big Big dumb was the title of my book and then it's the title of that of the tour. So, man, having come another tour name. That's like. It was like when it's like time, it's like, we need another tour name. You're Like I don't know, man.
[03:01]
John Reap
You just saw the book.
[03:02]
Brian Bates
You're like, yeah. I go, what's this book? I didn't know. I go, what's this book? I keep getting shown. No, I, I've been doing it. I've been doing the book past couple. I wrote yesterday, 12 to 9pm wow, wow, wow. On a laptop thing ain't doing nothing. I was on the phone with part script. A script and then the book.
[03:29]
Nate Bargatze
So this.
[03:29]
Aaron Weber
You're writing a book right now? Yeah, Big dumb eyes.
[03:33]
Brian Bates
Big dumb eyes.
[03:33]
Aaron Weber
And then that's also going to be the name of the tour.
[03:35]
Brian Bates
Yeah, got it.
[03:36]
John Reap
Was football on at all?
[03:38]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, I had, I just had. I had the games on.
[03:41]
Nate Bargatze
Unbelievable weekend of football. I mean it was so great. What a great time of year.
[03:45]
Aaron Weber
College or pro or both.
[03:46]
Brian Bates
Yeah, it's all great. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah. I had like. I watched Titans. I wanted to watch. I kind of want to watch their whole game, you know a build after a while. And went to the red zone channel.
[03:59]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[04:00]
Brian Bates
And then I did a little bit of the three screens. Like the YouTube TV. You have like the.
[04:06]
Aaron Weber
Yep.
[04:07]
Brian Bates
Two games, three games. I did. I did a little bit of that because the. Your Carolina game was good.
[04:11]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. The Chiefs. Yeah, yeah.
[04:13]
Brian Bates
The Chief. Well, not the Chiefs, the.
[04:15]
Aaron Weber
Oh, well, that was last week.
[04:17]
Brian Bates
I'm sure they're playing at the same time. It's like Caroline and then they're playing the Rams and Eagles, Ravens and so YouTube TV is the real deal. This. We went to the Vandy game.
[04:26]
Aaron Weber
Nice.
[04:27]
Brian Bates
My brother was also there. We don't know where he was at in this photo.
[04:32]
Aaron Weber
Brian looks very excited.
[04:33]
Brian Bates
Yeah, I was br. Yeah. Oh yeah. He loved it, man.
[04:36]
John Reap
Yeah.
[04:38]
Brian Bates
And so he sent it out, I think to his Facebook group. I did. Yeah. Mel. He sends a mailer out.
[04:45]
John Reap
Look at this, guys.
[04:47]
Brian Bates
It's a pre sale code of. You got to be over 50 and it's actual mail.
[04:52]
Aaron Weber
I mail it to you.
[04:53]
Brian Bates
Physical mail. It's physical mail.
[04:55]
John Reap
You get this picture from 12 to 9 yesterday. Looking stamps the whole time.
[04:59]
Nate Bargatze
Just.
[04:59]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[05:01]
Brian Bates
So Michael, Clay, John, Chris, me, Bates. The Van Den came started off hot.
[05:07]
Nate Bargatze
Sure did.
[05:08]
Brian Bates
Started off we were very excited. But Tennessee got that other photo.
[05:10]
John Reap
Aaron.
[05:11]
Brian Bates
Tennessee does feel like. Yeah, Tennessee feels like they're peeking at the. They're peeking at a good time. Yeah. So this is fun.
[05:20]
John Reap
This is the opening kickoff.
[05:20]
Brian Bates
Opening kickoff. We. We are in the top. There's like a balcony above that 40 clock.
[05:26]
John Reap
Can you spot us? Aaron? You can't zoop in. You got to zoom all the way back out.
[05:31]
Brian Bates
Yeah, we're at the very top.
[05:33]
Nate Bargatze
No, at the very top.
[05:34]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[05:34]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, man.
[05:35]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yes. There we are. So that's Michael all the way to the left. That's me and Bates. Our hands are up. John. Chris, Felix, neighbor Felix.
[05:45]
John Reap
And Derek's not even looking at the play.
[05:48]
Brian Bates
Yeah, Derek was looking at us.
[05:50]
John Reap
He's like, why are y'all laughing at it?
[05:52]
Aaron Weber
Was this a kickoff return for a touchdown?
[05:55]
Brian Bates
First opening kickoff.
[05:56]
Aaron Weber
Oh, man.
[05:57]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[05:57]
Aaron Weber
That's the best.
[05:58]
Brian Bates
So you got really. Opening kickoff, then we get a turnover, get a field goal. And I'm thinking we were a 17 to nothing.
[06:05]
John Reap
It was 14 nothing.
[06:05]
Brian Bates
It was 14 nothing. Then we got. Yeah, yeah. 14 nothing. Like within the first eight. Five minutes. Five minutes, 14 nothing. And we're like, here we. And. But I mean. Yeah, Tennessee just really looks like they're kind of all coming together. They're coming. Yeah. I actually thought that because the way they just kind of came back was like, all right, this is. They're. They're a very, very good team, obviously.
[06:29]
Aaron Weber
So didn't Vanderbilt just upset somebody not long ago?
[06:32]
Brian Bates
Alabama.
[06:33]
Aaron Weber
Alabama. That's okay. That's what I was thinking.
[06:35]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[06:35]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Well, that was great.
[06:37]
Brian Bates
Yeah, I was great.
[06:39]
John Reap
But no, he was busy in New York hosting snl.
[06:45]
Brian Bates
Well, priorities, I have to tell, you know, I get asked that all the time and I ha. And like, you know, I've styled. Sometimes I will say, just know I wasn't at the game, but, I mean, so many times. Did you go to Vandy Alabama game? I was like, I was doing SNL that night. They're like, whoa. You're like, yeah, yeah. But you're making me answer, right? Like, I will start going. I'll just be like, no, I didn't get to go.
[07:08]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, I didn't get a chance. I was watching it, though.
[07:10]
Brian Bates
Yeah, I watched it.
[07:11]
Aaron Weber
I don't go to all of them guys.
[07:12]
Brian Bates
I don't go all to them.
[07:13]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[07:13]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I can't go to every game.
[07:15]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[07:15]
Brian Bates
Sometimes you gotta host snl. Yeah. That's what I tell.
[07:20]
Aaron Weber
That's right.
[07:21]
Nate Bargatze
Sometimes you got a quarterback, an American institution.
[07:23]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[07:24]
Brian Bates
But, yeah, I wish I could be there. Wish I had the free downtime like you did. That's what I say to the person.
[07:29]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[07:30]
Brian Bates
Who's very, very busy and has.
[07:32]
Aaron Weber
Must be nice.
[07:32]
Nate Bargatze
No, I wished.
[07:33]
Brian Bates
I wish working. Yeah.
[07:35]
John Reap
But you went to what, four out of the six home games?
[07:37]
Brian Bates
I went to four out of the six home games. So I don't ever really get to go to games. But this was a year that I got to go. And what a year to go to open it up. The Virginia Tech, South Carolina, Texas and Tennessee saw the other three losses, but big, big games.
[07:52]
Aaron Weber
What was the final score of this game?
[07:54]
Brian Bates
It doesn't matter.
[07:57]
Aaron Weber
Started off good.
[07:58]
Brian Bates
31.
[07:59]
John Reap
36 to 23.
[08:00]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah. 36, 23. No, no, no, no.
[08:03]
John Reap
It wasn't close.
[08:04]
Brian Bates
No.
[08:04]
Nate Bargatze
And he's not getting blown out anymore, man. They're a different Vanderbilt.
[08:07]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I think, yeah. There people are having to come and be ready to place, you know.
[08:12]
Nate Bargatze
Right.
[08:12]
Brian Bates
And that's. And that's what it was.
[08:13]
Aaron Weber
Is this guy wearing a half shirt or is it. Yep, yep. Okay.
[08:16]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[08:17]
Aaron Weber
Bringing it back. I know. That was an 80s thing.
[08:20]
Brian Bates
It was cold too. It wasn't cold. It got. We got cold here in Nashville.
[08:25]
Nate Bargatze
If I had abs, I would wear every shirt like that.
[08:27]
Brian Bates
Yeah, you do have abs.
[08:31]
Aaron Weber
You're just saying if you can see. Yes, I understand.
[08:36]
Nate Bargatze
Let's move the goalpost a bit.
[08:37]
Brian Bates
Like if I. I found a garage, I can park it. Well, you just got stuff in the garage. You do have it.
[08:41]
Aaron Weber
It's there.
[08:42]
Brian Bates
It's just. You have all your stuff in it.
[08:45]
Aaron Weber
That's why Access.
[08:46]
Brian Bates
Your car is just parked in the driveway. Cuz your garage is full of stuff, right? You can pull that car in the garage.
[08:53]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Is he the only one wearing the half shirt?
[08:58]
John Reap
I saw another guy, cuz I'm noticing Tennessee right there.
[09:03]
Aaron Weber
Well, okay, that was a big 80s move. And they had. Back when they had the, the, the jerseys that were like the, the mesh, the holes were bigger.
[09:12]
Brian Bates
Remember that?
[09:13]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, yeah. And now I'm noticing the, the new trend of like not wearing any kind of pads on your knees. On your knees. Yeah, like they're pulling them up. All the way up.
[09:22]
Brian Bates
Yeah, they pull them up and then they. I mean they do them on their thighs. But yeah, that, that's kind of gone away too. Because you see, I mean, quarterbacks and I mean. Yeah, it's. It's kind of a free for all out there now. You do whatever you want.
[09:35]
Nate Bargatze
And they're getting hurt left and right.
[09:37]
Brian Bates
Yeah, they go down. They go down.
[09:39]
Nate Bargatze
They're dropping like flies out here.
[09:41]
Brian Bates
Would you wear one of those things on your helmet? Helmet like that little.
[09:44]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, I probably would.
[09:46]
Brian Bates
Yeah. It looks so bad.
[09:48]
Nate Bargatze
It does look bad.
[09:50]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[09:50]
John Reap
There's a guy in that game last night for the 49ers.
[09:52]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, it looks like they're wearing a durag on their helmet.
[09:57]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I can't imagine what that really Does.
[09:59]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[10:00]
Brian Bates
It can't do that. Like there's.
[10:02]
Nate Bargatze
I bet the first guy to wear face mask felt like that too. You know what I mean?
[10:06]
Brian Bates
No. You at least know what that does. This is an added on. Maybe the first guy that did double face mask or a visor. Yeah. Yeah. But it's, it's. I, you know, because it's like man football, they go down every game. Someone goes down and they don't move.
[10:22]
Nate Bargatze
Right.
[10:23]
Brian Bates
Yeah. And it's like before. I don't remember them not moving like that. I don't know if it was just. You're not aware of it, but now.
[10:28]
John Reap
I'm off the field.
[10:29]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[10:29]
Nate Bargatze
Trevor Lawrence did the fencers pose. Yeah. With the arm out and everything.
[10:33]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[10:33]
Nate Bargatze
It's terrifying.
[10:34]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[10:35]
Nate Bargatze
Why not add a little extra cushion, a little piece of a mattress.
[10:38]
Brian Bates
I know, but I. It's me. It's also like. I was like thinking about this weekend. What if you had something that was connected because it feels like it's when your head goes down. So if you had something like from your helmet down to your shoulders and you wore it around your neck which.
[10:51]
Nate Bargatze
Is locked your head in place like nascar.
[10:53]
Aaron Weber
Nascar. Yeah.
[10:55]
Brian Bates
And then it just doesn't like your neck can't really give in. There just needs to be some like. I don't, I don't. If you're just an outsider. Almost like Looks like they're going backwards.
[11:05]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[11:05]
Brian Bates
It looks like. Well, we had a problem.
[11:06]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[11:07]
Brian Bates
How are we going to fix it? More people are going to go down. More people don't know where they're at and you know, they need the whole cage.
[11:15]
Aaron Weber
They need a roll bar like NASCAR does.
[11:18]
Nate Bargatze
Well, isn't the solution to take you take away all the helmets?
[11:21]
Aaron Weber
That's.
[11:21]
Nate Bargatze
I think that seems to be the only solution. But then it feels like a different game, doesn't it?
[11:25]
Aaron Weber
It would be a bad one or two years for sure.
[11:28]
Brian Bates
You wouldn't want to be in those first two years. There's a learning curve. Yeah.
[11:31]
Aaron Weber
You want to come in year three?
[11:32]
Brian Bates
I'll tell you what. If you're going to take the helmets way. Yeah. You want to be about 4 years old right now so you can dig into it. Maybe not born. You might not want to be born yet. They should take the helmets away.
[11:42]
Aaron Weber
I would love to see it. They already have a throwback weekend where they wear old uniforms.
[11:46]
Brian Bates
They should play with no helmets and see what.
[11:47]
Aaron Weber
Just do the old equipment as well.
[11:50]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[11:50]
Aaron Weber
You know the rig, leather helmets. Yeah, I'd love to see that.
[11:54]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Just Something. Yeah. Or do no helmets. You get to see your face now.
[11:58]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[11:59]
Brian Bates
And you get beat up. I mean, you get like.
[12:01]
Aaron Weber
You would learn how to tackle differently. Yeah, that's. You have to.
[12:03]
Nate Bargatze
That's the whole point.
[12:04]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[12:04]
Nate Bargatze
It's like. You'd have to tackle like rugby players.
[12:06]
Brian Bates
I mean, some. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
[12:09]
Nate Bargatze
You just get your ears ripped off, look like Greg Warren. Yeah, that's what it would be.
[12:14]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, that's true. Well, maybe that's what they need to wear is just the. The wrestlers outfits. You know, come out there with those little earpieces on. Yes, that.
[12:24]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[12:24]
Nate Bargatze
Single.
[12:25]
Brian Bates
You want less clothes and singlets. Yeah, yeah.
[12:27]
Aaron Weber
I want like the lingerie bowl.
[12:29]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Why are they all bundled up like that out there?
[12:31]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[12:32]
Nate Bargatze
Cool.
[12:32]
Aaron Weber
I can't see nothing.
[12:33]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[12:35]
Aaron Weber
I want to know who these boys are. No, today looks good.
[12:40]
Brian Bates
That's where we were. Yeah.
[12:41]
Nate Bargatze
No, Dame looks real good. Yeah.
[12:43]
John Reap
It's gonna be their year.
[12:44]
Nate Bargatze
Wait to lose what was playoffs.
[12:47]
Aaron Weber
What's it. Are they done?
[12:48]
Nate Bargatze
Indiana, maybe.
[12:50]
Aaron Weber
Is this. Now we go to a bowl game. You have a bowl game. Okay. Six.
[12:54]
Brian Bates
Finish.
[12:54]
John Reap
Six and six.
[12:55]
Aaron Weber
Nice.
[12:55]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[12:56]
Aaron Weber
I think my NC State wolf pack ended up around there. Beat Carolina.
[13:00]
Nate Bargatze
You got a big fight this weekend.
[13:02]
Aaron Weber
I saw that.
[13:03]
Nate Bargatze
About seven different fights this weekend.
[13:05]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, there was a lot of.
[13:05]
Nate Bargatze
And that was a good one.
[13:06]
Aaron Weber
Michigan had one, right? Ohio State.
[13:08]
Brian Bates
Michigan.
[13:09]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Yeah. That's a big rivalry. Carolina and State. And so, you know that's gonna happen. It seems like it was the last game of the year. Both teams were kind of exact same record.
[13:22]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[13:22]
Aaron Weber
And. Oh, yeah, they, you know.
[13:24]
Brian Bates
Oh, so. Oh, that's interesting. Whoever won went to a bowl. Maybe.
[13:28]
Aaron Weber
I think. I'm not sure. I think.
[13:29]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[13:30]
Aaron Weber
I think there might be a bowl game for one of those guys.
[13:32]
Nate Bargatze
Okay.
[13:33]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[13:33]
John Reap
North Carolina has fired their coach.
[13:35]
Aaron Weber
That's right. Mack Brown. Well, I think he. Did he get fired? Did he just say, like, I'm done?
[13:40]
John Reap
I thought they fired him.
[13:41]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[13:42]
Nate Bargatze
He's old enough that. That line's kind of blurred. You know, they just go, he's out.
[13:46]
John Reap
Yeah.
[13:47]
Nate Bargatze
We don't have to go into specifics, but he's gone.
[13:49]
Brian Bates
All right. I feel we should. You know, I'm thinking about the people that don't watch football. Yeah.
[13:54]
Nate Bargatze
Just like, what?
[13:55]
Brian Bates
And we keep going more.
[13:56]
Nate Bargatze
We'll market football. And then they can skip.
[13:58]
Brian Bates
And they can skip last week.
[13:59]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[14:00]
Nate Bargatze
We didn't do it.
[14:00]
Brian Bates
We didn't do it.
[14:01]
Aaron Weber
I don't know.
[14:02]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. We market. Always remembering Skip forward on YouTube. We're the only podcast that promotes skipping parts of it. Get ahead.
[14:11]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[14:12]
Brian Bates
Do the best you can.
[14:14]
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[15:31]
Brian Bates
You were with me this weekend.
[15:33]
John Reap
Well, Saturday for a few hours.
[15:35]
Brian Bates
I can't imagine you had any other plans because when did you even. You get a Saturday?
[15:40]
Nate Bargatze
I ducked out for a few night, but I've been. What have you been up to?
[15:44]
John Reap
I was at home, but Thanksgiving eve, I did my Brian Bates and friends show here. Oh, Abyssinia sold out. Great time, John. Chris came, did a set. It was a lot of fun. And then spent Thanksgiving with my family.
[15:59]
Aaron Weber
And then.
[15:59]
Brian Bates
Oh yeah, we had Thanksgiving.
[16:01]
Nate Bargatze
You hosted at your place?
[16:02]
John Reap
No, no, I've already moved on.
[16:03]
Brian Bates
Yeah, back to me. Oh, we went to Alabama and Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Oh, you did easier to drive tour easy. Yeah, I was on.
[16:14]
John Reap
You're on my tour.
[16:15]
Nate Bargatze
You see Bates posters up?
[16:16]
Brian Bates
I saw Bates posters. I saw couple trucks with the, you know, just simp. They're regular trucks.
[16:23]
Aaron Weber
A lot of billboards.
[16:24]
Brian Bates
Bill bur. Billboards.
[16:25]
Aaron Weber
Billboards.
[16:26]
Brian Bates
His billboards are the ones. They're on the trees, you know, Jesus.
[16:33]
John Reap
Saves Brian Bates here. January14. Yeah.
[16:37]
Brian Bates
He puts them on the side of the interstate. You know, they. Where did someone.
[16:41]
Aaron Weber
10 more miles to Brian Bates.
[16:42]
John Reap
Where there was an accident.
[16:43]
Brian Bates
Where there's an accident. He's just a little. He goes a little bit past that.
[16:47]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[16:47]
Brian Bates
And then also goes, sorry if you're lost, but sorry for you. A horrible thing. But I will be here. Yeah. Probably on a Wednesday.
[16:59]
Aaron Weber
It's a good marketing strategy.
[17:00]
John Reap
Yeah, There's a good chance of that.
[17:02]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah.
[17:03]
John Reap
Which is bad because that's. Half my audience is go to church on Wednesday night.
[17:06]
Aaron Weber
So Wednesday night, supper is a big.
[17:08]
Brian Bates
And the other one's driving off the road.
[17:10]
John Reap
Yeah.
[17:10]
Brian Bates
So it's a mix.
[17:11]
John Reap
Okay. John, where were you?
[17:12]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, when? For Thanksgiving.
[17:15]
John Reap
This week or Thanksgiving.
[17:16]
Aaron Weber
I was in Nashville this weekend.
[17:18]
Brian Bates
Here.
[17:19]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[17:19]
Brian Bates
Zany.
[17:20]
Aaron Weber
Zany's Comedy Club. Love it. Did one show Friday, one show Saturday, one show Sunday. Zany's my favorite comedy club in the world.
[17:29]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[17:29]
Aaron Weber
And I. This whole lab thing is brand new to me. I didn't. That wasn't here last time I was here, so I love that they got that going on now.
[17:35]
Brian Bates
Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, it's nice.
[17:37]
Aaron Weber
Zany is great. It's just one of those rooms, you know, that's always electric. The crowds are always good. It's a good mix of different types of people.
[17:46]
Nate Bargatze
Were you performing here when it was still a smoking room?
[17:49]
Aaron Weber
Gosh, I don't think so.
[17:51]
Nate Bargatze
Okay.
[17:52]
Aaron Weber
That could have been, though.
[17:53]
Nate Bargatze
I was just curious how different it felt in there.
[17:55]
Brian Bates
I mean, it's probably too. I think I went up when it was still smoking.
[17:58]
Nate Bargatze
I want to say it was way.
[17:59]
Brian Bates
I don't think you would have. I wouldn't have been headlining, but it's. I don't think you would have been headlining.
[18:03]
Aaron Weber
Well, what if you would have been.
[18:05]
Nate Bargatze
Maybe featured way later than you think they did?
[18:08]
Brian Bates
Yeah. It'll be like 2007.
[18:09]
Aaron Weber
Oh, yes, definitely. Okay.
[18:11]
Brian Bates
I don't know if it's 2007 here, but it might be.
[18:14]
Aaron Weber
I just don't remember it being always smoky.
[18:16]
Brian Bates
Do you remember smoking?
[18:17]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[18:17]
Brian Bates
Doing shows.
[18:18]
Aaron Weber
Well, what comes out is the punchline in Atlanta, the one that was the barn.
[18:22]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[18:22]
Aaron Weber
I remember that. Being smoke friendly, you know, and it was just. It would billow up and, like to make a cloud because it was like a barn.
[18:29]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[18:29]
Aaron Weber
And everybody smoked. It wasn't like three guys. It was like 40 people smoking.
[18:35]
Brian Bates
And when everybody was smoking inside, I don't think you could ever imagine that they wouldn't smoke inside. You were just like, it's Just what it is. Yeah. And then it just went away. And you're like, oh, it can go away.
[18:48]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah.
[18:49]
Brian Bates
And it was. Yeah. I mean, you just do a show, I think I've talked about. You'd have to bring. You would just almost have a outfit for the stage because it would just be.
[18:57]
Aaron Weber
Oh, yeah, you'd come home, just smell like.
[18:59]
Brian Bates
Smell. Yeah. I would bring an outfit for. I'd have to bring. I'd pack. You'd have to pack more because I just didn't like that it smelled like cigarettes.
[19:09]
Nate Bargatze
Just secondhand, too.
[19:10]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[19:10]
Nate Bargatze
It's all over you.
[19:11]
Brian Bates
Yeah. It just gets all over you. Yeah. I don't care about anybody smoking. It's like, it's just like your clothes just. That's why cigars are, you know, it's like you're just. Clothes are going to smell like it.
[19:21]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. They call it third hand smoke. You got your first hand smoke secondhand just in the room. Third hand was in the clothes.
[19:29]
Brian Bates
Oh, really?
[19:30]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. In curtains and stuff.
[19:33]
Nate Bargatze
How deep does it go?
[19:34]
Aaron Weber
I think it goes to seven.
[19:35]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[19:37]
Aaron Weber
If you blow it in water and it boils up. That's the fourth one.
[19:40]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[19:41]
Aaron Weber
There's also like a mist.
[19:43]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[19:43]
Aaron Weber
But no, I think third three is as high as it goes.
[19:46]
Brian Bates
If you're next to. If you're on a plane where they just got done smoking.
[19:49]
Aaron Weber
Right, Right.
[19:50]
Brian Bates
Yeah. If you sit next to someone that smoked on a plane, that would be one.
[19:53]
Aaron Weber
That's one.
[19:54]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[19:54]
Aaron Weber
Is that four or five?
[19:56]
Brian Bates
That's probably a little deeper. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[20:01]
Aaron Weber
I think if it's in the air, it's got to be one because, I mean, I've been on airplanes that still have a place for the ashtray.
[20:07]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[20:08]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[20:09]
Aaron Weber
Have you seen those? You're just like. They've welded it down, but it's like still there. Can't believe you can smoke plane.
[20:16]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[20:18]
Aaron Weber
I'm glad those days are over.
[20:20]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[20:21]
Aaron Weber
You guys don't smoke?
[20:22]
Brian Bates
We do some. No. Yeah. I go, yeah.
[20:28]
Aaron Weber
I've doubt. I used to smoke cigarettes here and there.
[20:31]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[20:31]
Aaron Weber
I'm from North Carolina. It's a tobacco state. Yeah.
[20:33]
John Reap
Economy.
[20:34]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, exactly.
[20:35]
Brian Bates
Because.
[20:36]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Our state bird is a little tumor, but it's great. I. So I don't do it anymore. And now when I see people smoking, I just, you know.
[20:45]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[20:46]
Aaron Weber
It's like, why. Why are you doing that?
[20:47]
Brian Bates
We have. What is it? This. So we have your hot sauce.
[20:49]
Aaron Weber
That is my barbecue sauce.
[20:51]
Brian Bates
Barbecue sauce.
[20:52]
Aaron Weber
South in your mouth, John Reap. South in your mouth, Hickory smokehouse barbecue sauce. So good, it'll make your head shake. And it's a mix of three different Carolina styles of barbecue sauce. Mustard, vinegar, tomat base. It's really good. The guy. When I moved back home to Hickory about six years ago, there's this guy who has his own restaurant called Hickory Smokehouse. And he said, you need your own barbecue sauce. You talk about Hickory. I got the restaurant, Hickory Smokehouse. Let's. Let's work on something. So I bought a bottle for everybody.
[21:23]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, Merry Christmas.
[21:26]
Aaron Weber
Good stocking stuffers.
[21:28]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. What do you recommend? We put this on.
[21:30]
Aaron Weber
I like that best on pulled pork.
[21:32]
Nate Bargatze
Amazing.
[21:33]
Aaron Weber
Because it's not the thick, sweet kind like Texas. It's a little bit more runny. That's the vinegar part. It soaks up real good. And pulled pork.
[21:40]
Brian Bates
Are you making barbecue sauce? Like, are you? How involved are you?
[21:44]
Aaron Weber
I just tasted it.
[21:45]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[21:46]
Aaron Weber
So he called me up, he goes, come over to the house. He had all these different flavors, and we just tasted different ones. And this. There's not one like this because it's a blend of three different ones.
[21:55]
Nate Bargatze
I like to picture you.
[21:58]
Aaron Weber
I need to do that. I need to make some photos where I'm in the lab. So they.
[22:03]
Nate Bargatze
That's very cool, man.
[22:04]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, it's really good.
[22:07]
Nate Bargatze
Are there plans for other. Other things in this line?
[22:09]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, they've got different ones already. If you go to the website, south in yamauth.com. that was Lauren's idea. I said, that's fine.
[22:17]
Nate Bargatze
South in your mouth.
[22:18]
Aaron Weber
I want to be the Paul Newman of barbecue sauce.
[22:21]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah.
[22:21]
Aaron Weber
Remember, Paul Newman was known for one thing, and all of a sudden. Salad dressing. Yeah.
[22:25]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[22:25]
Aaron Weber
So I wanna. I want to ease into this.
[22:27]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Killed it with the salad dress.
[22:28]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[22:29]
Nate Bargatze
You give 100 of the proceeds to charity.
[22:31]
Aaron Weber
100 goes to me. No, actually, I don't even get 100. I get maybe 30 because it lore. It's Lauren's thing. He spends all the money. I just said, you can use my face. Yeah, but it is really good. And there's different ones. We have a hot sauce, too.
[22:45]
Nate Bargatze
So you want to be the angemima of barbecue sauce.
[22:48]
Aaron Weber
Then we could go that way.
[22:49]
Nate Bargatze
Yes.
[22:49]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, yeah, sure.
[22:50]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[22:51]
Aaron Weber
But I want to stay on the bottle.
[22:53]
Nate Bargatze
Okay.
[22:53]
Aaron Weber
They took her face off. I want mine to stay on the. Yeah, yeah.
[22:56]
Brian Bates
One might come back around, though, where they could be. You know, you'd be long gone, but they might be one day, like, yeah, reap. You can't have his face on.
[23:05]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. And it'll be like, well, you know.
[23:07]
Brian Bates
It'S Here's a video of him saying, please leave it on no matter work. If there's. If you. No matter where cancel culture goes to reap. Would like to. He wants to stay on.
[23:20]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. That's going to be in my will.
[23:21]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[23:22]
Aaron Weber
And I'll also like a little hologram.
[23:23]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. He's like, I can't imagine any scenario where I would want my face off this barbecue sauce. I would like to say that now.
[23:30]
Aaron Weber
It says it right here. So good. It'll make your head shake. My head needs to be on here.
[23:33]
Brian Bates
Your head. Yeah. Otherwise it doesn't make sense.
[23:35]
Aaron Weber
It doesn't make sense. I like it, but it's really good.
[23:38]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[23:39]
John Reap
Congratulations.
[23:40]
Aaron Weber
Thanks.
[23:40]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. That's awesome.
[23:41]
Aaron Weber
I'm loving it.
[23:42]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Aaron.
[23:43]
Nate Bargatze
I hosted Thanksgiving at my house this week.
[23:45]
Brian Bates
Oh, really?
[23:46]
Nate Bargatze
Had my, my family and Lucy's family there.
[23:50]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[23:51]
Nate Bargatze
And I was thinking that does not happen very often.
[23:53]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[23:53]
Nate Bargatze
It's like the wedding.
[23:55]
Brian Bates
It's the baby.
[23:55]
Nate Bargatze
I was trying. It's the baby brought everybody together. We just couldn't travel this year.
[23:59]
Brian Bates
So don't get high on yourself.
[24:00]
Nate Bargatze
No, no, no.
[24:01]
Brian Bates
You know where it's coming from 100%. You know who's selling the tickets.
[24:04]
Nate Bargatze
But she was the star of the show. That's for sure. But I was just thinking growing up, I was like my mom's family and my dad's family were never in the same place. So it. It felt. It was like since the wedding, like. Like my father in law and my brother had never did they like each other. They'd get along great.
[24:24]
Brian Bates
I thought about that this weekend. I thought I would like to do it at our. And just be like, there is no more. We're going everywhere. It's like everybody comes.
[24:31]
Nate Bargatze
You're the episode.
[24:32]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah.
[24:33]
Nate Bargatze
Come to me.
[24:34]
Brian Bates
Everybody come here. I mean. Yes. Hey. It's nice to everybody come here. But it's also just to be like. Yeah. Just have more people around. Be like we're all. Everybody's essentially.
[24:42]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[24:43]
John Reap
All around the old Nate Land set.
[24:48]
Aaron Weber
We just did that at my house too. So I. I want to be the epicenter. So I had people come to my house as well. For the second time.
[24:56]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[24:56]
Aaron Weber
In a row. Because I just bought this house and it's, you know, it's the better house for everyone to come.
[25:01]
Brian Bates
That's more room you gotta have.
[25:03]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[25:03]
Brian Bates
You have to. It has to be like, obviously we need to go.
[25:06]
Aaron Weber
Yes. It's an obvious choice. There's more room for people, you know. And did you, did you cook at.
[25:13]
Brian Bates
Your No, I outsourced.
[25:16]
Nate Bargatze
So my. My mom. My mother in law, they brought food.
[25:19]
Aaron Weber
Okay.
[25:20]
Nate Bargatze
And they're like, you're responsible for the meat. So I got Martin's Barbecue here in Nashville. I got so much stuff, and it, like, I thought it was the right amount. And then when it's right in front of you, you're like, this is absurd.
[25:31]
Brian Bates
How much?
[25:31]
Nate Bargatze
I got half of it's in our freezer.
[25:33]
Brian Bates
We're just gonna get Laura. You need to get Laura to take a look. Laura Williams. Not order anything more.
[25:41]
Nate Bargatze
So find the right amount.
[25:42]
Brian Bates
She would go order like you, but then you need to get her to go just tell her how many people are coming and she's going to order. Just. She is actually very good at ordering these exact amount. I don't like it.
[25:53]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[25:53]
Brian Bates
Because I want it to be extra. I don't want to worry about it.
[25:56]
Nate Bargatze
Yes.
[25:57]
Brian Bates
She's. I will say I would never say this to her, but she is right usually, but she nails it.
[26:04]
Aaron Weber
That's just efficiency. That's good.
[26:06]
Brian Bates
It is, but it's the. It's the. I'm like, just order the most.
[26:10]
Aaron Weber
That's what I do.
[26:11]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[26:12]
Aaron Weber
But I have too much and not enough.
[26:14]
Nate Bargatze
We cut the brisket in half. That's in the freezer. All the ribs are in the freezer. We got pulled pork in the freezer. It's great.
[26:20]
Brian Bates
You got some.
[26:20]
Nate Bargatze
I'm good for. I got some barbecue.
[26:23]
Aaron Weber
Spice it up a little pork.
[26:24]
Brian Bates
It's crazy. Just dip those ribs right in that bottle.
[26:27]
Aaron Weber
We did a cracker barrel Thanksgiving this year.
[26:30]
Brian Bates
Oh, you went there.
[26:31]
Aaron Weber
You just. No, you just call them up or go on the website and you order a Thanksgiving feast.
[26:36]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[26:36]
Aaron Weber
And they'll have it ready. You could easily just drive up and text them you're there and they'll come out and put it in your car and you just basically reheat all the stuff for about an hour.
[26:44]
Nate Bargatze
Awesome.
[26:45]
Aaron Weber
An hour. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the turkey. These two gigantic turkey breasts. So it's not even a full turkey. Just two gigantic breasts and whatever sides that you want.
[26:56]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[26:56]
Aaron Weber
And it tells you how long to heat which thing. But the whole thing takes about an hour.
[26:59]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Why did you. Why did that number hit you? Weird.
[27:02]
John Reap
It seems I like a long time. I like to.
[27:04]
Brian Bates
If you bought it at the store.
[27:06]
John Reap
Like, I thought you just went and picked it up and came home and ate it.
[27:09]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[27:09]
Aaron Weber
Well, you pick it up and then you tell your family an hour from now.
[27:12]
Brian Bates
I think you probably could.
[27:13]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[27:13]
Brian Bates
Do that.
[27:14]
Aaron Weber
If you, you know, there's probably that as well.
[27:16]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[27:17]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. This makes me feel like I'm actually cooking, though. Just go. To feel like I'm doing stuff.
[27:21]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[27:22]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[27:22]
Nate Bargatze
Throw away all the cracker barrel bags and just have it out.
[27:24]
Aaron Weber
No one knows.
[27:25]
Brian Bates
No one.
[27:26]
Aaron Weber
Wow. This is delicious.
[27:27]
Brian Bates
You got it. Like, cooking it is. I wonder if cooking it does. I need to. I should learn because it's one of. It does go away. You know, it's like, you can see as older people, we. You know, our family. There's a lot of. Laura's family, a lot of. A lot of. Everybody's getting a little bit older, and it's just like, as people get older, it's, you know, it's just a whole thing to cook, and so you can see that. And then the younger. Go to your house, you're going to crack a barrel. If I had to do it, I would have to go somewhere, and you would, you know, and so it's like, right over. We're eating out. Like, everybody eats out more now.
[28:03]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Be doordash and Thanksgiving.
[28:05]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Man. I was this weekend. Dude ON door.
[28:08]
Aaron Weber
Did you doordash?
[28:09]
Brian Bates
Oh, I love it.
[28:10]
Aaron Weber
I love it.
[28:11]
Brian Bates
I got whatever in my SNL set where I have a doordash stuff. I got a few more minutes added because, I mean, that's why I'm talking to someone. Better help. If you don't know the better help ad. But I'm talking to someone about food because it's a problem.
[28:25]
Aaron Weber
Oh, wow.
[28:26]
Brian Bates
It's a big. I have. Yeah. I can't. You know, it's, like, frustrating because it's like, I can't figure it out. Like, it's. It's the one thing that I can't. I like trying to solve something. So, like, even career wise is like, I love the idea of, like, all right, let's solve this thing. And with your food. It's the one that I'm like, why can I not? You know, I had a slushy from Sonic last night. I'm having stuff that people don't even know is around.
[28:52]
Aaron Weber
Like, it's like, somebody's got to save the slushy.
[28:54]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[28:55]
Nate Bargatze
Is it the slushy with, like, nerds in it?
[28:57]
Brian Bates
No, they didn't have.
[28:57]
Aaron Weber
That.
[28:58]
Brian Bates
I would have. That's what I wanted. They didn't have it. I. I had a. I mean. I mean, I'm just. Door. Yesterday was like, three meals.
[29:05]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[29:05]
Brian Bates
Because Laura's gone. I was sitting there working.
[29:07]
Aaron Weber
It's so confusing.
[29:08]
Brian Bates
Just. Yeah. And you do it and you're Just like, it's probably embarrassing.
[29:11]
Aaron Weber
Do you, like, is one of the problems eating at night or.
[29:15]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, eating at night. But then it's just, you know, I'm not gonna. I don't go there. And you're not. I'm not reasonable. On the doordash.
[29:22]
Aaron Weber
Right? Yeah.
[29:23]
Nate Bargatze
Have you ever looked at this? The history on the app, and you can see, like, the pictures that they've taken. The driver. I look, I saw something online about it. I looked through, and there's like, three pictures where they've. They're taking. And you see me behind the door.
[29:38]
Aaron Weber
Just like.
[29:41]
Brian Bates
Oh, just wait.
[29:42]
Nate Bargatze
I'm waiting till they leave.
[29:43]
Aaron Weber
Like, oh, that's funny.
[29:44]
Brian Bates
That's serious. You're standing that close to the door.
[29:48]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, yeah.
[29:48]
Aaron Weber
Just waiting.
[29:49]
Brian Bates
How?
[29:50]
Aaron Weber
Because you're tracking them, right? Because you can see.
[29:51]
Nate Bargatze
I've got. Well, there's one where we'll go through the blinds, and then there's one where I.
[29:56]
Aaron Weber
You gotta post these pictures.
[29:58]
Nate Bargatze
I posted one of them at one point where I actually opened the door, and the guy was like, I gotta take a picture. So the picture is like, him handing it to me, and he took the picture.
[30:06]
Aaron Weber
Because they have to take a picture.
[30:08]
Nate Bargatze
Right. To confirm that it got.
[30:09]
Aaron Weber
So you're basically photobombing all your doordashers.
[30:11]
Nate Bargatze
Yep.
[30:12]
Aaron Weber
Pictures.
[30:12]
Nate Bargatze
Inadvertently.
[30:13]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[30:13]
Aaron Weber
That's awesome.
[30:14]
Brian Bates
Well, the one through the blinds, I mean, that's. You got it. Those are.
[30:20]
Nate Bargatze
Because I have it somewhere. I was just looking.
[30:22]
Aaron Weber
I gotta find it, Try and scare him. Get in the bushes, come out of nowhere.
[30:25]
Brian Bates
I mean, just to. They know you're there. They're like, sir, just come grab it. Leave it at the door. No one's home. You go, oh, did my wife order this again? I've door dash on Lucy D. We just got my baby a phone, and she's already doing this. All right, I'll take it into her.
[30:46]
Aaron Weber
So you travel all the time. Do you door dash, like, everywhere you go? Different hotels.
[30:50]
Brian Bates
Not in the hotel. I won't do it. If I did it in a hotel, I would have Travis go pick it up. Because I would be. I'd be too embarrassed.
[30:57]
Aaron Weber
Okay.
[30:58]
Brian Bates
I. I would. Hotel is.
[31:01]
Aaron Weber
I do it hotels all the time.
[31:02]
Brian Bates
No, I know Travis. Travis will go get it. Travis does it chase. If I have someone on the road, they can usually go pick it up and they're go grab it down there. Because I would be just meeting the guy down. Like, it's just. It's. I. I'm too. And I get him, you know, because you're just like, I look like an animal.
[31:19]
Aaron Weber
Well, they're supposed to bring it door dash to your door, you know, but some of them don't like getting out of the car, getting on the elevator, going to, you know, the fifth floor to go to your room.
[31:28]
Nate Bargatze
That's where I.
[31:28]
Brian Bates
Well, they might need to be buzzed. You know, I draw the line there.
[31:32]
Nate Bargatze
That feels.
[31:33]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Like a little extra work. But if you add a little extra tip.
[31:37]
Nate Bargatze
No, no, no. But that feels like across the line. How lazy am I to bring it to my hotel? That's like bringing it to your bedroom, in your house, the whole deal. I'll go down to the lobby.
[31:47]
Aaron Weber
They bring it to you.
[31:48]
Brian Bates
I know you're trying to meet them out front.
[31:51]
Nate Bargatze
I'll wait in the lobby. I'll be there.
[31:52]
Brian Bates
Oh, you just sit there and let them.
[31:53]
Nate Bargatze
I'll wait in the lobby, come in. And I go, Aaron.
[31:55]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[31:55]
Nate Bargatze
And they know I'm gonna lobby if I have to.
[31:59]
Aaron Weber
But if I don't have to, I'd rather you just bring it on up. This is the whole idea of doordash. You don't have to leave this door's open doors. Yeah. Come on in, man. Get you a plate.
[32:08]
Brian Bates
Yeah. He goes, I'm down the lobby. That seems like a you problem because I'm in my room.
[32:13]
Aaron Weber
This says door dash, not lobby dash. Lobby dash is a different service.
[32:17]
Brian Bates
Lobby is a different service. Yeah. I mean, I feel like. Is doordash swallowing up Uber Eats, too? Like Uber eats is.
[32:24]
Nate Bargatze
I still primarily use Uber eats.
[32:25]
Brian Bates
Oh, really?
[32:26]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[32:26]
Brian Bates
Oh, wow.
[32:27]
Aaron Weber
I don't think I Just a function.
[32:28]
Nate Bargatze
Of what you have in your area.
[32:30]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, yeah, I've done it before. Where. Because, you know, you travel different hotels. I forgot to switch the address.
[32:35]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[32:36]
Aaron Weber
And I've ordered some stuff like. Well, they got sushi here.
[32:39]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah.
[32:40]
Aaron Weber
You know, you're in Omaha.
[32:42]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[32:42]
Aaron Weber
And then it doesn't even go to the right place. I'm like, oh, I forgot to put the.
[32:47]
Brian Bates
And so the sushi just delivered.
[32:48]
Aaron Weber
Somebody else gets sushi. California, I guess.
[32:51]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[32:52]
Aaron Weber
The last hotel was.
[32:54]
Brian Bates
Yeah. You said they just get. Is there a John Reeves thing? I bet.
[32:56]
Aaron Weber
I'm looking. I take a picture. I see the picture. This does not look like the hotel. I'm like, oh, that's right. So probably don't take Ambien before you doordash.
[33:05]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah, that's.
[33:06]
Aaron Weber
That's the problem.
[33:07]
Brian Bates
Take name 5pm go ahead and get it in.
[33:10]
Aaron Weber
Well, see, that's one of my problems. I eat late at night.
[33:12]
Brian Bates
I do too. Yeah.
[33:13]
Aaron Weber
So it's around 9 or 10pm Where I'm gonna start sleeping for you. Yeah, well, the ambient gets you in the mood to eat.
[33:21]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[33:22]
Aaron Weber
It makes you more hungry.
[33:23]
Brian Bates
My. My body wouldn't even know what it's like to sleep on an empty stomach. I mean, it would.
[33:28]
Aaron Weber
It helps you sleep.
[33:29]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I mean, I go. My. My body during bed is. It's all hands are on deck.
[33:37]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[33:38]
Brian Bates
When I lay in that bed, there's no resting. There's. I mean, my brain's going. Because I just had a slushie on the couch, and now I'm in bed. And I can go to sleep sometimes, too. That's what's crazy. You get used to it.
[33:52]
Aaron Weber
So you're saying you. You like to eat before you go to bed to help?
[33:55]
Brian Bates
I will sometimes, yes. But I'll eat dessert. I'll eat, like, all kinds. I mean, it's just, like, absurd, dude. But I'm trying to. Now write down, like, before I. Like, today, I already wrote down what I'm going to eat and where. So I'm not surprised by anything. Yeah, because when I get surprised is when, you know, when I'm. Or if I'm like, well, I don't know what I'm gonna do tonight, and I start panicking, then I'm like, well, then I'm gonna go to Burger King right here.
[34:18]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[34:18]
Brian Bates
And so if I write down, like, Laura's cooking some tonight, I'm like, all right, I got. I wrote down what I had for breakfast, and I kind of. If I can plan it, then I'm. I can be kind of. Okay. I can wrap my head around. All right.
[34:32]
Aaron Weber
Or do you try to, like. Like, after you eat, like, I don't know, five or six?
[34:35]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[34:35]
Aaron Weber
Do you, like. Okay, well, I'm going to try and be in bed by this time.
[34:39]
Brian Bates
No, not that. Yeah, not that far. Then this is day one.
[34:43]
Aaron Weber
Still journaling.
[34:44]
Nate Bargatze
Check back in a week.
[34:45]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's there. I do know how my night will end. I'll have Laurel makes something. And then I have the yassi yogurt things. I think they're called yassi. I don't remember, but it's like a yogurt ice cream kind of thing. And so I'm gonna have that. And so I'm just wrapping my head around. That's what I'm having. I won't have two of them. I won't have. I'm just. You're gonna have one. I can decide when I want that one.
[35:14]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[35:14]
Brian Bates
And as long as I feel like there's an outlet where it doesn't feel like it's shut down. So I will know and I'll put it all in my fitness pal.
[35:22]
Nate Bargatze
Okay.
[35:23]
Aaron Weber
Would you try to go to bed at a certain time, though?
[35:25]
Brian Bates
Like, no. I mean, it's too sporadic. But I'm trying to get. I'm trying to get on a routine to wake up earlier.
[35:31]
Aaron Weber
Okay.
[35:31]
Brian Bates
Today, like, I want to start waking up at, like, eight would be nice. I get up at, like, nine. I kind of wake up at nine. Kind of get slow to get moving, but I'm, as I can see, is where stuff is all going. Like, if you shoot a movie, I think it's. You got to get up early.
[35:46]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[35:47]
Brian Bates
So it's like everything will be flipped. So I need to just get on some kind of. You. You get more stuff done in the morning. Like, you're. If I can look at everything and kind of go through everything and before you really get brought in and talk to.
[36:00]
Aaron Weber
It's nice to ease into the day and not feel like, oh, I got up late, now I gotta rush to do all this other stuff.
[36:05]
Brian Bates
And then you're just getting asked questions, and then it's like the day's already.
[36:08]
Aaron Weber
Kind of going, yeah, yeah, I have a problem. Like, going to sleep. Like, I don't like going to sleep. I don't like the nighttime. Go brush your teeth. Go. Go pee first. And then I don't like that whole thing. I feel like my mom and dad's still yelling at me in my head. So I don't like planning the sleep. I just want to go to sleep when I'm tired, which is hard to do. I'm not always tired. And so that's where the ambient kicks in. That helps me go to sleep. But then also in the morning, I hate getting up. So I don't like going to sleep. I don't like getting out of sleep. I want to stay in both states as long as possible.
[36:42]
Brian Bates
Well, it's. You're so warm in the morning and. But it's like you got to just get up. I mean, I did this morning. I laid in bed for. I mean, I can lay there for an hour. Like, you know, I might, like, do some stuff on my phone or, you know, whatever. But yeah, it's like you're kind of just. It's not a. It's a. It's so nice and comfortable when you get in there. I'm trying to get better at wanting to go to sleep, so, you know, being excited about right. Laura, my wife, loves going to sleep. Loves it. Can't wait till they go to sleep. I'm always like, I want to be like, I still got stuff to do.
[37:13]
Aaron Weber
You know, I like to watch, you know, still watch, like, documentaries.
[37:17]
Brian Bates
Yeah, I watched Charlie Chaplin movie last night.
[37:21]
Aaron Weber
Which one?
[37:22]
John Reap
Robert Downey.
[37:23]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[37:24]
Nate Bargatze
They meant a Charlie. Like a silent.
[37:26]
Brian Bates
No, I was trying to get into. I don't. Charlie Chaplin, you know, he started his own studio. We should do an episode on Charlie Chaplin or the silent. Did we ever do one of those? Yeah, we're doing silent movies. I'll save it. Look at that.
[37:42]
Nate Bargatze
That's fun.
[37:43]
Brian Bates
That's fun. Won't talk during it.
[37:48]
Aaron Weber
Let's play one now.
[37:49]
Nate Bargatze
Do a silent podcast.
[37:50]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[37:51]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, right?
[37:52]
Brian Bates
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. The holidays are here. One of my favorite times of the year. Get a hot chocolate. Watching movies, saying, I love. I love all of it. I know it can come with a lot of stress, you know, for the moms, dads, you know, dads are putting this stuff together late at night. Moms are having to do. The whole. Whole month's probably a nightmare. It's a lot. It's a lot to do. Go to therapy. I, you know, I've done. I've actually been talking to someone about. Because of my. Because I have a food problem. I really have a big food problem. So I've really been talking to him and trying to journal. I gotta write down what my food is because I have a problem. So it's like, all right, well, how do you spell McDonald's? But I honestly have had, like, it's really. It has really helped because I just can write it down, talk it out. I. I'm not good with food, and I usually go to the worst thing and I want to eat it. So I've been talking to someone as well. It's. It's great to get that. You know, you got to get this stuff off your chest. If you're thinking of starting therapy, give BetterHelp a try. It is entirely online, so it's to your schedule. You can do it whenever you want. Find comfort this December with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.comnate today to get 10% off your first month. That's BetterHelp. H E L p.comnate comments from you guys. We'll start with. Start with you guys comments. Jason White. Great episode. I love the Nickersons and love when they join in with Nate Land. It's nice to hear different perspectives being debated with good humor and mutual respect from people who seem to actually enjoy each other's companies. Well, at least I'm glad it looks like that. Yep.
[39:44]
Nate Bargatze
Got pretty heated once the camera's turned off.
[39:46]
Brian Bates
Yeah. No.
[39:47]
Nate Bargatze
Jason White, Heisman Trophy winner. Remember him?
[39:50]
Brian Bates
Oklahoma.
[39:50]
Nate Bargatze
Could be him.
[39:51]
Brian Bates
Could be him.
[39:52]
Aaron Weber
Oh, wow.
[39:52]
Nate Bargatze
Was Oklahoma Jason White? Yeah, Oklahoma.
[39:55]
John Reap
One of the lesser known Heisman winners. I feel like.
[39:58]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, he was like 38 when he won or something. He was old looking.
[40:01]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah, he's one of those. Yeah.
[40:04]
Aaron Weber
What year was that?
[40:05]
Nate Bargatze
2002.
[40:06]
Brian Bates
Yeah, he's like a guy that could come out, like you could meet him. And he like, they're like, could you surprise me? And he's like, I could surprise you. And then he shows you a Heisman. You're like, get out. You won the Heisman.
[40:17]
John Reap
He's in the national championship.
[40:20]
Nate Bargatze
No. Isn't that the year that got blown out by us?
[40:24]
Brian Bates
He played for the Giants. I don't play a little bit.
[40:27]
John Reap
Maybe he didn't do much in the NFL.
[40:30]
Brian Bates
Paul Goodness. It's a good last name. I was listening to the latest episode about road trips. As I was on a road trip, I'd use the bathroom just as I was struggling on a rural New York route. They talked about that app, Flush Toilet Finder. At the next stoplight, I downloaded the app and took a right to stop at a convenience store that was listed on the app. I love this podcast.
[40:51]
Nate Bargatze
Incredible.
[40:52]
Aaron Weber
Wow. Is that a real thing?
[40:53]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[40:53]
Aaron Weber
I gotta get that.
[40:54]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah. And I love that it worked out for Paul like that. That's. That's why I even would do a podcast is for. Just for. To work out that perfectly for someone. I love that.
[41:05]
Aaron Weber
That is amazing. I didn't even know that existed.
[41:08]
Brian Bates
Yeah, we found out last week or whenever we did it. Yeah.
[41:11]
Nate Bargatze
Goodness is an all time last name.
[41:13]
Brian Bates
Paul Goodness. And a great first name.
[41:16]
Nate Bargatze
The Goodness family. Paul Goodness.
[41:17]
Brian Bates
Paul Goodness doesn't have that name. The first name shouldn't be too complicated because it's the last name. So good.
[41:23]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[41:23]
Brian Bates
It's like, I'll let the last name you know. And Paul's already a solid name, so it's Paul Goodness. I mean, it's. Yeah, Paul Goodness. Wow. I mean, if it was like Jerry Goodness. That's not even as fun.
[41:35]
Nate Bargatze
A little too much.
[41:36]
John Reap
Needs to be one syllable.
[41:37]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, yeah.
[41:38]
Brian Bates
Paul. Paul.
[41:39]
Nate Bargatze
Maybe a Bob, but like Paul's perfect.
[41:41]
Brian Bates
Bob Goodness would be good, but Paul Goodness is, I think, the best of the Goodnesses. So I would be curious to see what other Goodness is their first names. Brian Goodness. Is not bad, you know?
[41:54]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. One syllable named John Aaron.
[41:56]
Brian Bates
Goodness. Nate Goodness. Nate Goodness.
[41:59]
Aaron Weber
Nate Goodness. About Dusty goodness. Because he says good time a lot.
[42:03]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Dusty goodness. I mean, he having a Goodness.
[42:06]
John Reap
His wife. His wife's Asian. My goodness.
[42:13]
Brian Bates
It can't be doing stuff like that.
[42:17]
Aaron Weber
Wait, he's. I liked it.
[42:18]
Brian Bates
Yeah, I know. I liked it too. Yeah. Is there a name Mai. Is an Asian name Mai.
[42:24]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, sure.
[42:24]
Brian Bates
I don't know.
[42:26]
Aaron Weber
I bet we can find one.
[42:27]
Brian Bates
Yeah, we would find one. My goodness. That would be great. Married into that. They would have fun with that. Paul Mike, I hope his wife's name. That would be great. What about My goodness?
[42:39]
Aaron Weber
And then someone else named Gracious. Goodness.
[42:41]
Brian Bates
Gracious Goodness Gracious.
[42:43]
Nate Bargatze
Henry Cho is a bit about the father of one of his daughter's friends. His name is me.
[42:48]
John Reap
Another who's on first kind of situation.
[42:52]
Nate Bargatze
Who's that? Me. Who's him?
[42:54]
Aaron Weber
Yes. That's what I'm trying to say.
[42:58]
Brian Bates
David Womack. My wife and I are road tripping from Middle Tennessee to the far side of North Carolina. This was the perfect topic. When we finished the episode, my wife said, I think I'm dumber now than when we started. That's her way of saying, great job. Keep up the good. The great work. Yeah. That's our goal. Hopes you be. You just got more information that doesn't really matter, but it will come.
[43:23]
Nate Bargatze
There are plenty. If you're looking to learn, there are plenty of other options.
[43:26]
Brian Bates
We tell you to go. Go to them.
[43:28]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, Go check them out. Carolina, you'll be back.
[43:30]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, go to Carolina Reaper. That's a good one.
[43:32]
Brian Bates
There you go.
[43:33]
Aaron Weber
Well, I have another one called AI where we talk about artificial intelligence. See, because I feel like I have artificial intelligence.
[43:40]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[43:41]
Aaron Weber
Like that's what I have.
[43:42]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[43:42]
Aaron Weber
My intelligence is not real.
[43:44]
Brian Bates
Yeah. It's artificial.
[43:45]
Aaron Weber
I think a lot of people have artificial intelligence. So my podcast is called AI Absolute Ignorance.
[43:51]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[43:51]
Aaron Weber
And yeah, we troll chat, GPT and stuff like that. So this would be good for that guy.
[43:55]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[43:56]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah. Aaron Ward. Mahajan. Mahajan. Aaron. Sounds like that family didn't approve of that marriage.
[44:11]
Aaron Weber
That's right.
[44:12]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[44:13]
Aaron Weber
Well, we're just gonna have to settle for both.
[44:15]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[44:17]
Nate Bargatze
She hyphenated it out of spite.
[44:18]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, yeah.
[44:22]
Brian Bates
I don't even know. I think I even meant the other way. The Mahajan family was.
[44:26]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, didn't they?
[44:27]
Brian Bates
You're marrying Aaron Ward. You're like, come on. My husband and I just moved from South Carolina to Asheville, North Carolina. It took us four days to travel 2,300 miles with an old and loud 15 foot U haul. We practically had to yell over the noise to talk to each other. So for long stretches, we opted for re listening to Nate Land from the first episode. As we entered the Nashville traffic, my husband yelled out hello folks and goodbye folks as we left the city. I love it.
[44:56]
Nate Bargatze
That's great.
[44:57]
Brian Bates
That's great.
[44:57]
Nate Bargatze
Stop by and say hi next time.
[44:59]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, yeah.
[45:00]
Brian Bates
At your house. Where are you gonna. You go meet them. Bates will meet.
[45:04]
John Reap
We would have the Wards, not the Mahajans.
[45:06]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[45:08]
Aaron Weber
My Paul. Goodness.
[45:10]
John Reap
We have the Wards for Thanksgiving.
[45:11]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[45:14]
Brian Bates
Jake McCleary, my dad once picked up a hitchhiker on the way home from work. The hitchhiker asked my dad to drop her off at a Denny's that was close to her house. Later that night, my dad got a knock on his door from the police. Apparently, this girl had just caused an accident, was fleeing the scene in the crime. The police thought my dad was an accomplice who helped her escape, which he technically was. He was.
[45:35]
Nate Bargatze
He did.
[45:35]
Brian Bates
Without knowing. Without knowing. You picked up a hey. Trucker.
[45:43]
Aaron Weber
No, but I've seen them. And I thought about it.
[45:45]
Brian Bates
Is it because you look like one?
[45:46]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[45:47]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[45:47]
Aaron Weber
Like that. That guy needs to pick me up.
[45:50]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[45:51]
Aaron Weber
I'm the one that needs help.
[45:52]
Brian Bates
He goes, well, sir, you can't pick yourself up.
[45:56]
Aaron Weber
I tried. I pulled over one time to wrote the window down to help a guy and I was gonna ask him if you need a ride and he just yelled at me. That thing got a hemi. And then I got mad and left.
[46:04]
Brian Bates
Oh, really? Yeah.
[46:06]
Aaron Weber
He's trolling me.
[46:07]
Brian Bates
Yeah. He's like. He was waiting.
[46:10]
Aaron Weber
He saw me come.
[46:11]
Brian Bates
Yeah. John walking here, he goes, I heard John Reed uses this road all the time. I go, Ill work out.
[46:17]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[46:18]
Brian Bates
He's been sitting there for.
[46:19]
Aaron Weber
I know his routine.
[46:20]
Brian Bates
Yeah. He's been following. Yeah. I mean, I bet a lot of comics, Southern comics would have picked up because they just drive back in the day, like they would have picked up a ton of hitchhikers.
[46:33]
John Reap
They end up opening for him.
[46:34]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Don't come to show Kim Berg. As a kid, our family traveled from southeast Kansas to Denver. It was a 12 hour drive with us kids in the bed of a pickup with a topper on it in July. Wow. It was a 12 hour drive with us kids in the bed of a. With a topper on it. Man.
[46:53]
Aaron Weber
My dad did that.
[46:54]
Brian Bates
Really?
[46:55]
Aaron Weber
I talk about this.
[46:56]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[46:57]
Aaron Weber
It snowed real bad one year in Hickory. Half an inch and dad was like, let's go sledding. But he wanted to drive us to the Appalachian Mountains. It's like an hour.
[47:07]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[47:08]
Aaron Weber
Driving us in the snow in the back of. In the bed of a truck. Four kids up a windy hill. But it had the shell on it. Like she was like a little camper shell. And to keep us warm and he did this. It was a kerosene heater back there. Oh, so we had a kerosene heater.
[47:24]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[47:24]
Aaron Weber
These four kids sitting around this kerosene heater.
[47:26]
Brian Bates
Unbelievable.
[47:27]
Aaron Weber
Going up the mountains on a snowy road.
[47:30]
Brian Bates
And was it awesome, though?
[47:32]
Aaron Weber
It was awesome. 100%. Yeah. It was great.
[47:35]
Brian Bates
And the kids moving all over.
[47:37]
Aaron Weber
It was, it was.
[47:39]
Brian Bates
It was.
[47:40]
Aaron Weber
Put your foot and kind of push it back the other side. But it was a great time.
[47:44]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[47:44]
Aaron Weber
What I remember of it, I was kind of high a little bit.
[47:47]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[47:48]
John Reap
A lot of care.
[47:49]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Locked in with kerosene.
[47:51]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. I mean, I love kerosene now.
[47:53]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah.
[47:56]
Aaron Weber
But no, it's. Yeah. You could not get away with stuff like that today. You know, putting kids in the back of a truck and just riding around. Someone would call the cops and go, there's.
[48:05]
Brian Bates
Well, if you have the thing closed.
[48:07]
Nate Bargatze
Is it street legal in Tennessee to ride with somebody in your bed of your pickup truck?
[48:11]
Brian Bates
I don't know. I don't think.
[48:13]
Aaron Weber
It used to happen all the time and no one thought twice.
[48:16]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I mean. Yeah. You would sit on the. The tire, you know, like in the.
[48:21]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[48:21]
Brian Bates
Thing that goes on the tire.
[48:22]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[48:23]
Brian Bates
Which is kind of crazy. You're sitting halfway up. You're going 45, 50 down the road and you're not like all the way down. You're halfway. You're like sitting halfway where if it's a big. But you know, people didn't fall out.
[48:36]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[48:36]
Brian Bates
It's like you just have them going and he just sliding all over. Yeah. I've rode in a lot of back to trucks. I mean, it wasn't. It was like, can we ride in the back? That's where you wanted to be.
[48:43]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[48:44]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[48:44]
Aaron Weber
The weird.
[48:45]
Brian Bates
I think kids still want to be. I think they do, but it's. Yeah.
[48:48]
Aaron Weber
You ever been like in a car, trapped behind the. The truck and there's a guy sitting. There's just one person in the back and they're like facing you and you're having to make this weird sort of like, I don't want to look at you, but I have to look ahead. And so you're kind of like, they don't want to do with your face?
[49:04]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Well, this person. So they. Their dad bought this thing called a boot that went between the topper and the cab of the truck to funnel AC to the back.
[49:14]
Aaron Weber
Oh, wow.
[49:15]
Brian Bates
A 12 hour drive is wild. I mean, I hope they put a mattress or something back there at least. You know, the hard bed, of course.
[49:24]
Aaron Weber
Is a very long time.
[49:25]
Brian Bates
A hard bed, 12 hours.
[49:27]
Aaron Weber
Dude, that's torture.
[49:28]
Brian Bates
That's. That's.
[49:29]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, they do that in Guantanamo Bay, I think.
[49:31]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[49:31]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. They just put people in the back truck and drive around in July.
[49:35]
Nate Bargatze
I mean, you know, the bed of that truck is so hot.
[49:37]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, right. In Kansas. I bet when you. Yeah. And then you're ending in Denver, that's where you'd want to start because you'd least be up in the. Probably have some cool air. Karen Kurth. I hitchhike from a town in Romania, was picked up by a couple. It seemed safe enough. Halfway in the middle of nowhere. Half. I mean, I. Halfway in the middle of nowhere. I think I like that as a saying.
[50:02]
John Reap
Oh, you like it better the way you said it?
[50:04]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Halfway in the middle of nowhere, you find us. We're halfway in the middle of nowhere.
[50:08]
Aaron Weber
Sounds like an eagle song.
[50:09]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. The driver screeched to a stop, hopped out of the car, and began to beat up a man on the side of the road. When the beating was over, the driver returned and we continued to my town. I. A single older woman, said nothing during the ride. Yeah, I guess maybe that was the point of it. He goes, this. This lady's probably gonna talk me up a storm. Because I could say, I don't want to talk, but he's like, I don't like confrontation, so I'll just beat up this man on the side of the road. And I think that will set the tone for the rest. Yeah, that's crazy. I want to know why I'd be. I mean, a story like that. That story, like, I'd be closing on that story for, you know, unbelievable.
[50:58]
Aaron Weber
My dad, he said he was driving to Myrtle Beach. This is when he was a kid, like, you know, like 19 or so, him and his friends going to Myrtle beach, spring break kind of a thing. And they're all drinking and driving, and they get pulled over by a cop. And my dad told his friends, I got it. Don't worry, I got this. My dad gets out, goes back to the squad car, starts cussing the cop out. And his friends were freaking out, like, what. What are you. What are you doing? And he got Back in the car and they left. And it was my dad's brother. Like, he knew him.
[51:28]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[51:28]
Aaron Weber
Uh, but you're sitting in a car and you see a guy just get out like, we're all going to jail. What are you doing?
[51:34]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[51:34]
Aaron Weber
And he says, no, sorry, it's my brother. So I have to drive now because this guy's too drunk.
[51:39]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[51:39]
Aaron Weber
Meanwhile, my dad. They were all drunk.
[51:40]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are some good days.
[51:45]
Aaron Weber
The good old days.
[51:45]
Brian Bates
The good old days. Mo Aphram. So not sure where I fall in the John Reap rules of fandom. I live in deep South Texas among a family of Dallas Cowboy fans. I jumped on the 85 Bears bandwagon mainly because I was a huge Walter Payton fan. Almost 40 years later, I've never jumped off the bandwagon and fully invested in all things Chicago Bears, cheering them on through the highs and mostly lows. So my entitled to carry the true fan label, having never lived in Illinois or had any other ties to Chicago.
[52:20]
Aaron Weber
Right. This is a good question. In the NFL there, I don't have rules for the NFL. It's just for college sports. So he can do what he wants there. But I would say he's probably grandfathered in. I'm not sure how old Mo Ephraim is, but it says here. What? He grew up in South Texas, so technically he should be a Cowboys fan. Technically. For going, you know, location.
[52:46]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[52:47]
Aaron Weber
Jumped on the 85. So right there he's saying bandwagon. Yeah, he's using the word bandwagon.
[52:51]
Nate Bargatze
He says a huge Walter Payton fan. I'm guessing not Gen Z. You know, this guy's a little old.
[52:56]
Aaron Weber
He's probably Gen X or older. Almost 40 years later. So. Yeah. All right, there we go. Jumped off the bandwagon. Fully invested.
[53:06]
Brian Bates
Never jump.
[53:06]
Aaron Weber
Never jumped off.
[53:07]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[53:07]
Aaron Weber
Stayed with the Bears.
[53:08]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[53:10]
Aaron Weber
I guess I. I guess I'm okay with that because he. He did it so early. Maybe if you're in South Texas and you hear a lot of Cowboys guys all the time.
[53:18]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[53:18]
Aaron Weber
Cowboys cow. Getting tired of it.
[53:20]
Brian Bates
Yeah. And he's trying to do something different.
[53:23]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[53:23]
Brian Bates
And then you get locked in and you're like, well, I can't change now.
[53:26]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[53:26]
Brian Bates
He probably roots for the Cowboys side. Like, you want the Cowboys to do good, but you're embarrassed.
[53:30]
John Reap
I cut some of it out. He was a Cowboys fan. Tom Landry.
[53:33]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[53:34]
Brian Bates
We're trying to guess his age. You could have just said that.
[53:37]
John Reap
I didn't think about telling. Speculating.
[53:39]
Brian Bates
Yeah. How old do you think this guy is. He brings up Tom Landry.
[53:42]
John Reap
How much do you remember Tolter Payton, four years ago?
[53:45]
Brian Bates
He's old.
[53:46]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, he's old. So maybe he is grandfathered in. For real.
[53:49]
Brian Bates
Yeah. He's probably a mix of both, and then. Yeah. Probably different. You know, you hope he's like an SMU fan or something, you know, like some boy. I tell you what, those SMU people coming out, they're coming out of nowhere.
[54:01]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[54:01]
Nate Bargatze
I don't know.
[54:02]
Brian Bates
Yeah, well, they've had to be quiet forever because they got, you know, the death penalty. The death penalty, which was kind of crazy. Yeah. And then. But I mean, you see them now, A lot of people, a lot more of them, a lot more smuties now. They got a lot of. They. They. You know, they were essentially Alabama back in those days. 80s, right? Yeah. And then they got forced out. So now they're like, this is what we do, pay players.
[54:28]
Aaron Weber
The problem I have with this, you.
[54:30]
Brian Bates
Go, nobody paid players. Like, we played players. He goes, so now you're saying it's all legal? Yeah.
[54:35]
Nate Bargatze
Y'all gonna have pony up?
[54:37]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah.
[54:37]
Nate Bargatze
We're coming back.
[54:38]
Brian Bates
We're coming back. We're the Pony Express.
[54:40]
Aaron Weber
Bring it.
[54:41]
Brian Bates
I think. Are they the opponents?
[54:42]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, they're the Mustangs. Right. So there's like a horse.
[54:45]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah.
[54:46]
John Reap
You're talking about, like. Like a nickname they called.
[54:48]
Brian Bates
I think it was. Yeah. I don't know if that's. Do they say Pony Up Pony Express? I. I want to say that somebody was. I don't know, something to do with that.
[54:55]
John Reap
I haven't seen that. 30 for 30.
[54:56]
Brian Bates
Mm. Pony up top.
[54:59]
Nate Bargatze
SMU pony is a beloved black Shetland pony and mascot for smu. Their mascots. A ponytail.
[55:07]
Brian Bates
I could see being fun being an SMU fan, but, I mean, that's like a school that you're like, you don't. People. It looks like, you know, like just some weird school getting in where you're like, what? And because if you're young, you're just like, oh, I remember sm. And you. I kind of got on board with them. You're like, no, they were the. They were the top of the top.
[55:29]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[55:30]
Brian Bates
And then they got knocked out.
[55:31]
Nate Bargatze
20, 22. The pony delayed a game against Navy, trotted onto the field, did its business right on the field, interrupted the game. That's pretty great.
[55:41]
Brian Bates
You got to get that stuff under control. But other than that. No, I'm joking, obviously. I just like the idea of answering that in a real way. You know what? Once you get to the bottom of that stuff and you can make. Make that happen. I think you guys gonna make keep.
[55:55]
Nate Bargatze
That pony chained up.
[55:55]
Brian Bates
You get that pony where it ain't doing something like that. You guys will get some good recruits down there.
[56:00]
Nate Bargatze
Hitch that horse up.
[56:02]
Brian Bates
Danny Rogers. I am in Arkansas and we do not have a pro team. The name Danny Rogers, I could have told you. He's in Arkansas.
[56:10]
Nate Bargatze
It's actually Danner Rogers.
[56:12]
Aaron Weber
Danner.
[56:12]
Brian Bates
Danner Rogers.
[56:13]
Aaron Weber
Oh, wow.
[56:14]
Brian Bates
I'm sorry.
[56:15]
Nate Bargatze
Even more so.
[56:16]
Brian Bates
Danner Rogers. He didn't even just say where you're. You just obviously, you know, I'm in Arkansas. We do not have a protein. The razorbacks are the closest thing we have. So if your state does not have a protein, you should get to pull the largest school in the state without attending.
[56:31]
Aaron Weber
That is in the rules and regulations. Yes.
[56:33]
Brian Bates
Yeah. So about us being Vandy fans.
[56:36]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[56:36]
Brian Bates
We did not have a pro team growing up.
[56:39]
Aaron Weber
That's right. Your grandfathered in.
[56:40]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[56:41]
Aaron Weber
For that.
[56:41]
Brian Bates
But most people went to Tennessee. But you're like, you could choose.
[56:45]
Aaron Weber
Well, most people pull for Tennessee.
[56:47]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[56:47]
Aaron Weber
Didn't go to Tennessee.
[56:48]
John Reap
Yeah, but do we have to pick Tennessee because of the largest school?
[56:51]
Aaron Weber
No, you don't have to. Where did you go to school?
[56:53]
John Reap
Middle Tennessee State University.
[56:55]
Aaron Weber
That's who you should be pulling for.
[56:56]
Brian Bates
Well, I agree he does, but he grew up a Vandy fan.
[56:59]
Nate Bargatze
So they get. They play on TV maybe once every 30 years.
[57:03]
Brian Bates
It matter. The MCSU wasn't in college when he was growing up.
[57:06]
John Reap
It was a college, just not a university.
[57:09]
Aaron Weber
No, I think that's fine. Yeah.
[57:11]
John Reap
College boarding school.
[57:12]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. I mean, if they have a football team.
[57:14]
John Reap
That's not true, Aaron. We play on Tuesday nights.
[57:18]
Nate Bargatze
Do you really?
[57:19]
John Reap
There's. They schedule a lot of. Just to get on espn. A lot of like Tuesday, Wednesday night.
[57:23]
Brian Bates
Yeah. You don't know. Yeah, I mean, he got to know where he's like, got a home game tonight.
[57:27]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. You just before.
[57:28]
John Reap
I'll be flipping around sometimes I'm like, Tuesday Night Football. Yeah.
[57:31]
Nate Bargatze
Are you ready?
[57:32]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[57:33]
John Reap
On ESPN2 or.
[57:34]
Brian Bates
Yeah, like that.
[57:35]
John Reap
Derek Mason's our coach.
[57:36]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[57:38]
John Reap
All right.
[57:38]
Brian Bates
You ever give. Send them money?
[57:41]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[57:42]
Brian Bates
Should give them something. They got you pretty far.
[57:47]
John Reap
Yeah, they did.
[57:48]
Brian Bates
You know, 40 bucks, man. Why don't you drive down there, Drive down there, give 40 bucks to a teacher.
[57:55]
Aaron Weber
Chick fil A.
[57:55]
Brian Bates
He goes, walk in, give a hundo to the math teacher and get out of there. Do the right thing.
[58:03]
John Reap
Where's the math teacher?
[58:05]
Brian Bates
And tell them and go, I only do it with cat. They go, we Want you to give money, you go. I do cash. All right. I come around December 20th. That's when I make my rounds. Walk in. Thousand bucks. I hand it out accordingly how I see fit. You should be like that kind of donor.
[58:22]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, yeah, let's start that.
[58:25]
John Reap
That's a good idea. My brother in law who's my age, he didn't graduate college. I think he went a little bit junior college and then dropped out. But he's not happy with his job. He wants some type of career path change. So he enrolled at Nashville Tech College. And I'm like, what class are you taking? He said, I just wanted to get my brain working. So I took math and some type of humanities course, like a philosophy. He said, because I wanted both sides of my brain to get a little work.
[58:52]
Nate Bargatze
That's both sides.
[58:53]
John Reap
And he said the first day they're in there debating what is a person, what makes a person. He's like, gosh, what have I got myself?
[59:00]
Aaron Weber
Here we go.
[59:01]
Brian Bates
And that was just a math question. I would, Yeah, I would enroll in. I. I looked at really trying to enroll and back into Volstate.
[59:14]
Nate Bargatze
You do vandy now?
[59:16]
Brian Bates
Well, I don't have the time.
[59:17]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, but I really have the time for Volstead.
[59:20]
Brian Bates
No, I didn't have the time for Ball State. I was, if I could have enrolled, like when I was off, I was like, what if I go back to community college and I do a semester or something? You know, But I.
[59:30]
Nate Bargatze
It just, you know, be great, great content. You going back to school.
[59:34]
Brian Bates
Yeah, Well, I thought even just for my ACT and like, just to learn.
[59:38]
Aaron Weber
And to learn online course, I just, I would like to do that too. Just learn more about, you know, social media and, and just the whole, you know, computer side of things. I need to feel like I need to refresh my skills on that.
[59:49]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I think there's YouTube classes you can take.
[59:52]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, yeah, it's okay.
[59:54]
Nate Bargatze
There's ways you can take like entire Harvard classes online.
[59:57]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Really?
[59:58]
Nate Bargatze
Completely for free. Yeah, they just upload all the lectures and you can.
[60:01]
Brian Bates
So you just watch the lecture? Yeah, I would do it. To even learn how to. I don't even know what to do in school. I don't know how to study.
[60:08]
Nate Bargatze
What do you mean?
[60:08]
Brian Bates
I don't understand what you would even do.
[60:11]
Nate Bargatze
What do you mean do like.
[60:13]
Brian Bates
I don't. You go to a lecture, you listen.
[60:16]
Nate Bargatze
To it, you take notes, and then.
[60:17]
Brian Bates
You either you take notes of the class. But do they teach you how to take notes?
[60:21]
Aaron Weber
That's the whole thing. No, they Don't. But they should.
[60:24]
Brian Bates
I don't know how to take notes.
[60:25]
Aaron Weber
When I was. When I was in high school, I made. Had really bad grades and my mom made me watch this seminar called Where There's a Will, there's an A. I did too. Did you.
[60:32]
John Reap
Michael Landon used to.
[60:34]
Aaron Weber
There it is.
[60:35]
John Reap
Promoter.
[60:35]
Aaron Weber
Yep. And it teaches you how to learn.
[60:38]
Brian Bates
Oh, I need to go.
[60:39]
Aaron Weber
That's.
[60:39]
Brian Bates
Watch that.
[60:40]
Aaron Weber
Everyone needs to be doing that. I mean, it's so funny.
[60:42]
John Reap
I almost brought that up.
[60:43]
Aaron Weber
That's so funny.
[60:44]
Brian Bates
I need to watch that.
[60:45]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[60:46]
Brian Bates
Can I go do this?
[60:47]
John Reap
No. I mean, that might be it, but that's not.
[60:49]
Aaron Weber
I mean, there's probably a lot of guys that do the same seminar, but it's called Where There's a Will there's an A. Remember this? Step by step, how to. How to learn.
[60:57]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah.
[60:57]
Aaron Weber
Ways of tricking your brain into memorizing things.
[61:00]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[61:00]
Aaron Weber
Like word association and that kind of stuff.
[61:02]
Nate Bargatze
Are these them right there? Do you remember this ring about visually? All right.
[61:06]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[61:06]
John Reap
Cassette tapes.
[61:08]
Brian Bates
Yeah. We didn't order it.
[61:09]
John Reap
We didn't have a dvd.
[61:10]
Nate Bargatze
I sold millions of these.
[61:11]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Is this. I would say I would start with that.
[61:15]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[61:15]
Aaron Weber
And then. And then enroll into a class.
[61:17]
Brian Bates
Okay. Okay.
[61:19]
Aaron Weber
But now it's like you just download all of it. But yeah, it did. It did help. But the problem with me was there was no will.
[61:28]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, there's not a will.
[61:31]
Aaron Weber
The problems in the title.
[61:32]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[61:33]
Aaron Weber
Where there's a will, there's a name. What if there's no will?
[61:35]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. I don't grant your premise, buddy.
[61:37]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Yeah. Whoopsies.
[61:41]
Brian Bates
Heather Helixon. That's not a bad last name. Helixon.
[61:45]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, I like hh.
[61:46]
Brian Bates
Yeah, it's kind of a fun. You know, it's like in a first name Heather. I feel like anybody first name Heather is like. You're like, that's trouble. That last name.
[61:56]
Nate Bargatze
Helixon. Yeah.
[61:57]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I mean, Heather Helixon. Yeah, that's trouble.
[62:00]
Aaron Weber
What does she drive?
[62:01]
Brian Bates
What kind of car does helicopter Heather Helix.
[62:03]
Nate Bargatze
And drive Hellcat.
[62:05]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I mean, she's got to drive, you know, is it always different? It's always someone else's car. It's always. Whose car is that? There's. And there's a reason story behind it.
[62:18]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[62:19]
John Reap
Camry. Toyota Camry.
[62:21]
Brian Bates
You think that's what she's driving, the Camry?
[62:23]
Nate Bargatze
Statistically, Heather Elixir. That's the most common car in America. Toyota Camry.
[62:26]
Brian Bates
Yeah. But that's the least fun way to answer the question. She's not driving that well.
[62:32]
Nate Bargatze
Statistically, it's probably a Corolla or Camry.
[62:34]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I feel like she got a window that doesn't go down.
[62:39]
John Reap
Oh, you think it's a worse car?
[62:41]
Aaron Weber
I think it's.
[62:41]
Brian Bates
I think it's just that. I think it's always changing. It's. It's like. It's always like her boyfriend's car.
[62:45]
Nate Bargatze
Right. She has a plastic bag on their car.
[62:49]
Aaron Weber
So.
[62:49]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[62:50]
Aaron Weber
I can't. My brain. It was one of those. It's this car called a Brat. Do you guys remember this thing?
[62:55]
Brian Bates
I don't know.
[62:55]
Aaron Weber
It's kind of like a Pinto.
[62:57]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[62:57]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[62:58]
Aaron Weber
A Brat.
[62:59]
John Reap
No, B R, A T, right?
[63:00]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. B R. A Brat car.
[63:02]
Nate Bargatze
A Brat car.
[63:03]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[63:03]
Aaron Weber
I think Subaru Brat. Yeah. That's what she drives.
[63:06]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah.
[63:07]
Nate Bargatze
This car looks unreal.
[63:08]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, it's kind of like a Pinto. It's got the seats in the back.
[63:11]
Brian Bates
Yeah, look at that. Yeah.
[63:13]
Aaron Weber
Where you can look at the people behind, you know, behind you.
[63:15]
Brian Bates
That looks like a lot of.
[63:16]
Aaron Weber
So she's got a Brat, and it's got a license plate that's yellow because of the amount of DUIs that she's had. So you have to have.
[63:24]
Brian Bates
You have to have a yellow.
[63:25]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. If you get like six DUIs, they change your license plate. Really? In North Carolina, I think it's everywhere. Definitely in Ohio.
[63:33]
John Reap
Everywhere he goes, they let you keep.
[63:34]
Brian Bates
But they go. You keep driving. Yeah, we just put.
[63:37]
Aaron Weber
No, we know you're not. We know that you're not going to obey the law.
[63:40]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[63:40]
Aaron Weber
So we're not going to try to enforce it anymore.
[63:42]
Brian Bates
Is that real or you making this up?
[63:44]
Aaron Weber
I think it's real.
[63:45]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[63:45]
Aaron Weber
I'm kind of going both on this. Can somebody look it up? Look at your car out back. Yeah.
[63:49]
John Reap
Yeah, I saw.
[63:50]
Aaron Weber
That's my Brat.
[63:51]
Brian Bates
Someone's got a yellow license plate, and they just have them.
[63:54]
Aaron Weber
Something about yellow license plates. DUIs do that.
[63:57]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[63:58]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, yeah. I'll look. I have to look into this.
[64:00]
Aaron Weber
Because it is a thing. I don't know if it's a thing anymore, but I know at one point it was a thing.
[64:06]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[64:06]
Aaron Weber
And in Alaska, their actual license plates were yellow anyway.
[64:11]
Brian Bates
Oh. So it just looked like. I bet Alaska's got the most DUIs.
[64:17]
Nate Bargatze
I think it is. I think it's a lot of people escaping their own state and then they're up there just.
[64:21]
Brian Bates
Yeah, but I would just think, in general, you just drive drunk because it's like you're just kind of.
[64:26]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, that's the thing.
[64:27]
Brian Bates
I don't even Know if there's even. It's almost like it's not roads. It's just like I just. You just. Yeah, just. You just kind of. You kind of like. It's like you head off into like a empty parking lot, Right.
[64:36]
Aaron Weber
You just start drifting.
[64:37]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[64:38]
Aaron Weber
You just go out and let the wind take you.
[64:39]
Brian Bates
Yeah, I bet. I mean, I bet there's roads in that in North Carolina or in Alaska where you could. You like, you know, you get pulled over and the cops, like, you know, you're like in the. In a farm right now. You're like, I didn't know where the road was.
[64:53]
Aaron Weber
Okay. What does that say? North Carolina has proposed legislation that would require convicted DUI drivers to have special. Special license plates. Potentially include inquiry. Yeah. Including yellow plates. The plates have been what everybody knows. Yeah.
[65:12]
Nate Bargatze
So states, if you have restricted driving privileges, they can change the color of the license plate. I've never seen that.
[65:17]
Aaron Weber
That's a good heads up for the people around you.
[65:19]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah.
[65:19]
Aaron Weber
Stay away.
[65:20]
Brian Bates
I bet now everybody's gonna start looking at license plates and you go. Start noticing.
[65:23]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[65:24]
Brian Bates
You see a yellow and you're like, oh, boy.
[65:27]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, they. They chose yellow because of jaundice.
[65:30]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[65:31]
Aaron Weber
If you have too much alcohol, kidneys stop working. You go jaundice.
[65:37]
Brian Bates
Chad Kirk. Two first names. I think Breakfast Bates looks like a live action version of Charlie Brown.
[65:43]
Nate Bargatze
We never even read Heather's comment.
[65:46]
Brian Bates
Oh. Oh, yeah. We did not.
[65:48]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[65:49]
Brian Bates
Heather Helixon. Aaron's true destiny is in ad reads and voiceovers.
[65:53]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[65:53]
Nate Bargatze
Not in comedy.
[65:54]
Brian Bates
Not in comedy.
[65:55]
Aaron Weber
Well, I think you're good at both.
[65:57]
Nate Bargatze
Well, thank you.
[65:58]
Aaron Weber
You know.
[65:58]
Nate Bargatze
Thank you, Heather.
[65:59]
Brian Bates
Chad. Chad Kirk. Yeah. Breakfast looks like a live action version of Trumpet. You could probably like, Where's Charlie Brown now?
[66:08]
Aaron Weber
Oh, that'd be a great series. YouTube series.
[66:10]
Brian Bates
That's pretty good. Yeah.
[66:12]
Aaron Weber
Whatever happened.
[66:12]
Brian Bates
Where. Yeah, whatever happened. Like, you can see Lucy still getting you.
[66:17]
Aaron Weber
Right. Right.
[66:18]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[66:19]
John Reap
Football out from me, dude.
[66:21]
Aaron Weber
I'll be. You should do that. I'll be Pig pin. I'll be.
[66:24]
Brian Bates
We should shoot.
[66:26]
John Reap
Adrian, write it out.
[66:27]
Brian Bates
We're going to get it. Adrian. We're going to shoot. We're going to shoot a live action Charlie Brown sketch.
[66:32]
Aaron Weber
Oh.
[66:32]
Brian Bates
That was starring Brian Bates. It's. It's. I mean, it's perfect. It's. It's. We should have a series.
[66:39]
Nate Bargatze
Brian Bates Christmas.
[66:41]
Brian Bates
Brian Bates.
[66:41]
John Reap
Charlie Brown's Christmas is my favorite.
[66:43]
Brian Bates
Good grief. I mean, this is.
[66:45]
John Reap
I say that.
[66:46]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. This is just going to get the shirt and worried about everything. Does everything. Yeah. Once a Calm. Yeah. I mean, this is unbelievable. Yeah, we might even. There you go, Chad. You just parked about to see some broadbates acting chops.
[67:04]
John Reap
That's right.
[67:06]
Brian Bates
Play yourself.
[67:08]
Nate Bargatze
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[68:07]
Brian Bates
Jasmine Lozana. My son watches into this. My son watches into the storm multiple times a week. And I just realized that John Reap was reavis.
[68:17]
Aaron Weber
Yes. I play a sort of a redneck tornado chaser in this thing. It's the comic relief part of the movie. It's not a comedy. It's, you know, like a disaster thing. Into the storm. It was a big movie about tornado. Whatever.
[68:32]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[68:33]
Aaron Weber
And me and this guy Kyle, we played the sort of redneck, the comic relief, the tornado chasers that we wanted to be like the real tornado chasers. But we. We just had a four wheeler. We just kind of followed those guys around.
[68:45]
Brian Bates
Is it a movie or.
[68:48]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, it's a movie.
[68:48]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, it's a movie. That shot I'm surprised I haven't seen. I'm trying to think if I have seen it because I love storm movies.
[68:56]
Aaron Weber
Oh, yeah, you'd like this one. It's a found footage type movie where it's. The whole thing is shot as if it's found footage.
[69:03]
Brian Bates
I'll watch it tonight.
[69:06]
Aaron Weber
Right? And. Yeah. Who else is in that?
[69:10]
Brian Bates
I can't wait.
[69:11]
Nate Bargatze
Is this you at the premiere?
[69:13]
Aaron Weber
At the premiere, they give us camouflage tuxedos.
[69:16]
Brian Bates
They gave them to you. You chose that they.
[69:19]
Aaron Weber
They let us choose them.
[69:20]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. How's that?
[69:22]
Aaron Weber
I don't still have it. I wish I did.
[69:23]
Brian Bates
Yeah, that would be. Yeah.
[69:25]
Aaron Weber
And I said, well, let's do the dumb and dumber thing, you know?
[69:27]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[69:28]
Aaron Weber
So that was fun.
[69:28]
Nate Bargatze
I worked a couple of weddings where the whole. Everybody's wearing those.
[69:32]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[69:32]
Nate Bargatze
This camo. Yeah.
[69:35]
Brian Bates
What were you doing at weddings when.
[69:37]
Nate Bargatze
I worked at the country club here.
[69:39]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah.
[69:39]
Nate Bargatze
I ran the buffets.
[69:40]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah, that's right. And then. And they got married up there. Yeah.
[69:45]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[69:46]
Brian Bates
And you go down there and they go, man, if I had your shoes, it'd be perfect. You had camo Crocs on. Probably.
[69:54]
Nate Bargatze
How does it work?
[69:55]
Brian Bates
It is a man. I think you wear that stuff all the time.
[69:58]
Aaron Weber
I don't think camo anywhere.
[70:00]
Brian Bates
I think you tell them to go, well, my feet get big after a while. Like, you know, like, you have.
[70:07]
Nate Bargatze
Doctor.
[70:07]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[70:07]
Brian Bates
You have the doctors note that says, what do you want me to do? They go. They go, well, that's very unprofessional. Well, his feet swell and they go, can I talk to. They don't want to say it in front of you.
[70:19]
Aaron Weber
Come here.
[70:20]
Brian Bates
He goes, feet. His feet swell. His feet swell up and they go, okay. And then they go back over there and go, hey.
[70:29]
Aaron Weber
Hey, buddy.
[70:30]
Brian Bates
Hey, buddy.
[70:31]
Aaron Weber
Where you been?
[70:32]
John Reap
You're okay.
[70:33]
Nate Bargatze
We're gonna keep you in the kitchen tonight.
[70:35]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[70:37]
Aaron Weber
There's. So in this movie, Sarah, Wayne Calis is in it. She's. She was in the Walking Dead. She's. I don't know if you ever watched Walking Dead.
[70:45]
Brian Bates
I did not.
[70:46]
Aaron Weber
That's her.
[70:46]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah. But I didn't know.
[70:47]
Aaron Weber
She's a. She was kind of a big deal. And then Richard Armitage, one of the guys, he went on to play be a hobbit in the hobbit movies.
[70:54]
Nate Bargatze
Wow.
[70:55]
Aaron Weber
And then Nathan Crest.
[70:57]
Brian Bates
Is it like I'm seeing, like, did a lot of people. Was it kind of like a cult classic type? Like, people liked it like that?
[71:03]
Aaron Weber
I wish.
[71:04]
John Reap
Oh, this guy watches it multiple times a week.
[71:06]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Some people love it.
[71:08]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[71:09]
Aaron Weber
It's fun. It was a good time.
[71:12]
John Reap
Well, that's perfect segue, because.
[71:13]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[71:14]
John Reap
This week we're talking about acting.
[71:15]
Brian Bates
Oh, boom.
[71:16]
John Reap
Brian's playing Charlie Brown. Aaron's doing voiceover.
[71:19]
Brian Bates
What good is that? We brought it. That's why that comment was, you know. All right.
[71:23]
John Reap
That's what we do.
[71:24]
Brian Bates
It's the stuff.
[71:25]
Aaron Weber
Nice segue, guys.
[71:26]
John Reap
Nate's eventually maybe going to get a chance to do something.
[71:30]
Brian Bates
Yeah, we'll See, I'll be. You know, the plan is. But until I see it, I don't believe anything I've tried to sell. All the no's I've been told about any TV show of ever being me on anything. I've. I couldn't have been told no more.
[71:48]
Aaron Weber
Wow.
[71:49]
Brian Bates
So with the movie, I don't even understand what it would look like. What it. I mean, we're writing it, but I don't know, like.
[71:55]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[71:55]
Brian Bates
You know, being on set, you know, all that. I don't know any of that stuff. So. Yeah, I'll be. You know.
[72:02]
Aaron Weber
But you're writing a film now.
[72:04]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[72:04]
Aaron Weber
Oh, nice.
[72:05]
Brian Bates
Yeah, so we'll see. But I don't. Yeah.
[72:08]
Aaron Weber
I don't believe you need a. I was gonna say, if you need a redneck storm chaser, it's only.
[72:12]
Brian Bates
It's about you, actually. I know your career.
[72:15]
Aaron Weber
Well, let me check my schedule.
[72:16]
Brian Bates
But, yeah, we'll see.
[72:18]
John Reap
So, John, you've been in multiple TV and movies.
[72:21]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[72:21]
Brian Bates
You've done it all?
[72:22]
Aaron Weber
I've done some, yes. I've been in movies. Got a real sitcoms. I have a real commercials, voiceovers.
[72:30]
John Reap
Are you most known for the Hemi commercial?
[72:31]
Aaron Weber
I would. Yeah, probably. So that. Or Harold and Kumar. Escape from Guantanamo. Guantanamo Bay. People like that one. That one comes up a lot.
[72:42]
Brian Bates
Yeah, probably. Kirby Enthusiasm.
[72:45]
Aaron Weber
Kirby enthusiast. I'm on that right now. Episode two of Kirby Enthusiasm. Is that an old video that would get taken down?
[72:51]
John Reap
I mean, I watched it last.
[72:52]
Nate Bargatze
It's just restricted here. This is the network we're on.
[72:55]
John Reap
Okay. Well, it was impressive.
[72:56]
Aaron Weber
Real. Thank you.
[72:57]
John Reap
I watched it.
[72:58]
Nate Bargatze
You're in my favorite storyline of Eastbound and Down, which is the. The sports talk show.
[73:04]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. The Sesh.
[73:05]
Nate Bargatze
And you get kicked off the show.
[73:07]
Aaron Weber
That was.
[73:07]
Brian Bates
Yeah, that was great.
[73:09]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, I. That was a dream come true because I was already Kenny Powers for Halloween, like two years before that, and now here I am on this show, you know, doing scenes with the guy.
[73:19]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[73:19]
Aaron Weber
And it was very intimidating because.
[73:22]
Brian Bates
Probably near your house, right?
[73:23]
Aaron Weber
It was in. It was in North Carolina.
[73:25]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[73:25]
Aaron Weber
They filmed it in Wilmington. I was living in California at the time, so. And I was getting divorced during that time, so I thought, this is a great escape from that.
[73:35]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah.
[73:35]
Aaron Weber
And I said, just keep me there the whole summer. And I was in four out of the last eight episodes. And it was just a lot of fun. Those guys work hard, they play hard. And like I said, it was intimidating because I really respect these guys a lot.
[73:50]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[73:51]
Aaron Weber
And I just didn't want to do Anything to screw it up. So I'm in the trailer, I'm trying to memorize everything back and forth. All these scenarios are played out in my head. And I was ready to go in day one, take one, they start rolling. And the guy who was. This guy right here, Jim. Jimmy Clay, was doing a sit.
[74:08]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[74:08]
Aaron Weber
He had a line before me, so I was waiting for him to be done with his line. And then I knew that it's my turn to, to say my line. But he started improvising. I was like, oh, I don't. When you're done, do I jump? And I just, I was like, oh, I didn't know we were doing that. So then I realized, oh, they're gonna want to do a lot of improvising on this show.
[74:28]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[74:28]
Aaron Weber
And. And it was great after that. But I think I'm better as an actor in things that I like, I don't care about. Because this one, I cared too much. And it kind of like.
[74:41]
Brian Bates
I think you were good in this.
[74:42]
Aaron Weber
I thought it was. Okay, great.
[74:43]
Brian Bates
No, I thought you were great. I thought it was great. I wouldn't have even thought anything, really. You could be good or bad. I think you're good at everything because I just think you know what you're doing. So it's. You're, you're, you like in the. You playing a three time Winston Cup. Wasn't the plotline is wonderful?
[74:57]
Nate Bargatze
Like you had like an ugly wife or something. And they all like didn't like that.
[75:01]
John Reap
Well, she's a big woman.
[75:02]
Nate Bargatze
She's a larger woman.
[75:03]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[75:04]
John Reap
But you, but you thought she was beautiful, right?
[75:06]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[75:06]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[75:07]
Aaron Weber
That was accident. Honestly. They told me later, they said when they cast her, they cast her on a headshot, not a body shot.
[75:16]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[75:17]
John Reap
And so she have a pretty face.
[75:19]
Aaron Weber
When she showed up. But they wanted like a plain Jane.
[75:21]
John Reap
Okay.
[75:22]
Aaron Weber
And she had a plain Jane look, and that's what they wanted. And then, you know, she got there and it was more than that.
[75:27]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[75:28]
Aaron Weber
And so they had to. They said, but you know what? It works. They just keep it the way it is and just play it that way. And it still worked. But. Yeah, I don't know. I just. Thank you for saying all that. But I think Harold and Kumar escaped Guantanamo Bay. I think I was more confident as an actor in that because I didn't really watch the first one. I didn't watch the first Harold and Kumar get a White Castle because I'm like, okay, it's a modern day Cheech and Chong. I get it.
[75:52]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[75:53]
Aaron Weber
But then when I did audition for this and I got that part, I went and watched it, and I go, I could do this. Who were these guys? I don't know who they are. You know, I could go in there and do that. So I had, like, a. Like a chip on my shoulder. We're like, I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna steal this, you know, the weird way. But on here, I'm like, no, no, no. Just let me. Let me know when you chime in, and I'll chime in as almost too respectful.
[76:13]
Brian Bates
I could see that. Yeah. I mean, but. Yeah, I think you did. I think. But that's almost kind of maybe how you should have played this, even, right? Announcer.
[76:24]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[76:25]
Brian Bates
I don't know if you would have played it the other way.
[76:28]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[76:28]
Brian Bates
What is it? What do they say with acting? Because it's. I did an audition once, and they. And they were. They told me to listen.
[76:36]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[76:37]
Brian Bates
I don't listen.
[76:38]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[76:39]
Brian Bates
And so what is it? That's what I've been trying to figure out as I head into.
[76:45]
Nate Bargatze
A major.
[76:46]
Aaron Weber
Just have to give the illusion of listening. Yeah.
[76:48]
Brian Bates
But it's like. Are you thinking of your lines?
[76:51]
John Reap
I think you're supposed to. I'm sorry.
[76:52]
Brian Bates
No, go ahead. Oh, God. I just. One Sprung episode. Because he was on Sprung. He goes, sorry, Sorry, John. Greg Garcia brought him out. Now he's got.
[77:05]
Aaron Weber
Oh, man.
[77:05]
Brian Bates
And now got a big.
[77:06]
John Reap
You want to see my reel?
[77:07]
Brian Bates
He won't even. Probably restricted. Do you have your reel?
[77:10]
Aaron Weber
I said it.
[77:10]
John Reap
Darren, I don't know if you can see.
[77:11]
Brian Bates
Oh.
[77:12]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, yeah.
[77:12]
Brian Bates
Yeah, I think you could see it. I don't think it's taken down. There's nothing on there. It's wide open.
[77:18]
Aaron Weber
You just have to get.
[77:19]
Brian Bates
It's all Greg Garcia sprung.
[77:21]
Aaron Weber
It's.
[77:21]
Brian Bates
Yeah, it's Greg Garcia. Is that.
[77:23]
Aaron Weber
What is this?
[77:24]
John Reap
What are you talking about?
[77:25]
Aaron Weber
Is this you?
[77:26]
Brian Bates
That's him.
[77:27]
John Reap
Look at that.
[77:28]
Aaron Weber
Look at that acting. This is excellent.
[77:29]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[77:38]
John Reap
Brilliant.
[77:39]
Brian Bates
Yes. This is. Yeah.
[77:41]
Nate Bargatze
Hannibal Lecter mask.
[77:43]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Bates is real. Is just literally all the time he was on television. It's the whole. Is there other stuff? He goes, no, that's all of it. That's the only. That's every bit of it.
[77:58]
Aaron Weber
Did you know you'd be wearing the mask when you auditioned for it?
[78:00]
John Reap
Oh, dude, I was in two episodes. Thank you very much.
[78:02]
Brian Bates
Yeah. But, yeah, Greg, Aaron's in the trailer. Aaron made the trailer.
[78:06]
Nate Bargatze
I had one line that described the whole plot of the show.
[78:09]
Aaron Weber
So what is it? I don't know what the show is sprung. What's wrong?
[78:12]
Brian Bates
You Greg Garcia? You know Greg Garcia, comedian. No. EBay's very funny, Greg. Yeah, yeah, I know him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he created this show.
[78:24]
Aaron Weber
Oh, wait.
[78:26]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[78:27]
Aaron Weber
You know what? I've seen this because I remember seeing you, and I'm thinking, oh, they would.
[78:31]
John Reap
Advertise it during football games.
[78:33]
Brian Bates
Yeah, it was great. It was on freebie.
[78:35]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[78:35]
Brian Bates
Came out and shy. The. The whole script's great. Greg's. Yeah. I mean, we. Greg's always.
[78:39]
Nate Bargatze
Greg's done the.
[78:40]
Aaron Weber
Greg is.
[78:41]
Brian Bates
He's done the podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[78:43]
John Reap
So I have authority to talk about this.
[78:44]
Aaron Weber
Yes, you do.
[78:45]
Brian Bates
Yes, you do. Have. You. Do you have more authority than I do.
[78:48]
John Reap
Yeah, exactly.
[78:48]
Brian Bates
To be honest.
[78:49]
Aaron Weber
So now, for looking up stuff as an actor, can you look this one up? Yeah. One Mississippi. That was a sitcom that Tig Notaro had, and I was. I was on her show, John Reap. I wonder if there's any clips of that. Yeah, because that one was another one where I got. I'm just, like, super confident because I know. I already know Tig, and I like her, and I think she's great, and I think she cast me just based on that as well. Yeah.
[79:17]
Brian Bates
How are you still like. Is it. So this one you probably got just out. Oh, that's Oliver Anthony.
[79:24]
Aaron Weber
I did a tribute to Oliver Anthony.
[79:26]
Brian Bates
Song.
[79:27]
Aaron Weber
Poor. It's called Poor man south now. His is called Poor Man. No, his is Richmond, north of Richmond. Mine is Poor man south of Portland.
[79:33]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah.
[79:34]
Aaron Weber
And I just basically did the reverse of what he did. You can play it if you want. I'm not a great singer.
[79:55]
Nate Bargatze
Million views.
[79:56]
Aaron Weber
Oh, good. Yeah.
[79:58]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[79:58]
Aaron Weber
Well, yeah, it's not One Mississippi, but it's good. It's hard to find that video. But go back to your listening question. Right? So there. If you memorize the script and you're working with someone, see, a lot of things that I've done, like, you get the part. Like, you audition, you get the part. You show up, they give you a trailer or whatever, and no one says, hey, let's run lines. Like, no one. I was hoping they would, but I've always had to do it myself. Just going over it tons in my brain. But if you. If it's you, you're gonna. You're gonna have many opportunities to run lines with whoever you cast on your show. And over. You know, doing it over and over and over again with someone, it will. It will come to a point where you actually are looking. Look at, like, you're listening and not just waiting to do.
[80:49]
Brian Bates
Yeah, it's almost. Because ideally it should be what is said is almost kind of what the only answer would be.
[80:55]
John Reap
I was going to say, like, when you know your acts forward and backwards, you don't even have to think about. You can be thinking about other. Yeah, it's ahead to whatever. So therefore, in a way makes you more in the moment.
[81:05]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah.
[81:06]
Aaron Weber
And you can take risks. You know, when it's your project, you can say, well, we're gonna do this eight more times. You know, you're in charge. You can do what you want. So, yeah.
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[82:27]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had the headshot. Yeah, I did that for standup too. Like before the Internet, you know, like.
[82:34]
Brian Bates
They do headshots still?
[82:35]
Aaron Weber
I don't know. Oh, I bet they do.
[82:37]
Brian Bates
They have to do something. You send out a headshot. Just email.
[82:41]
Nate Bargatze
Email. But yeah, yeah, if you. Yeah, if you get booked on a.
[82:44]
Brian Bates
Show, I mean, I bet now you're almost like you get someone's personality because now there's so much video that you. You could be like, let Me just see, you know, you could probably look someone up and be like, I want to hire this guy. And then you're like, well, let's go. You know, like, if I wanted to hire you, John, it's like. But then I could go like, all right, well, I go watch some of your. I watch you on social media.
[83:07]
Aaron Weber
Yep.
[83:07]
Brian Bates
Probably get a vibe, see if you're a good guy or not.
[83:10]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[83:10]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Well, that happens.
[83:11]
Brian Bates
And then be. And then you kind of go from there. Like, the idea of, like for the Christmas special, December 19th, CBS that we did, the idea was. Or the idea that I would like to do in making anything is to be like, I want people that are good people and like, you know, as far as I know, you know, like. But it's people that you're like, yeah, I can hang out. I hang out with these people. I could hang out with them off air.
[83:39]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[83:40]
Brian Bates
Essentially. Like, so that's. And I think if you bring that to the casting.
[83:44]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[83:45]
Brian Bates
To go like, we're all going to get along. Then you could. Your casting should be like, I only cast people that. You can't just cast your friends because not your friends can't do the things that you need people to do. But I need. I would only cast people that could be my friends.
[83:59]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[84:00]
Brian Bates
Like, I wouldn't cast someone that. If I can't be your friend unless they're so specific of a thing.
[84:05]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[84:05]
Brian Bates
That you're like, yo, this guy is like, are you friends with me? You're like, he's just. Look what he does. This is not going to be a normal person. You know, like, if you go, like, if you're with, you know, Tom, you know, I don't know, Tom Hardy or something, or Daniel D. Lewis. I don't know if that. That's going to be the most fun to be. Because you're like, it's such a different thing that you're like, yeah, but I'm hiring Top of the Top. You know, it's like, that's the deal. Like, I'm hiring the best of the best.
[84:32]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[84:33]
Brian Bates
And if you're hiring those guys, I think it's probably is hard to like, you know, you have.
[84:38]
Aaron Weber
I mean, you. You killed on SNL many times, and that's acting and that's live. That's one of the highest stress things you could do.
[84:47]
Brian Bates
That's.
[84:47]
Aaron Weber
In terms of acting.
[84:48]
Brian Bates
I mean, I love it, though.
[84:50]
Aaron Weber
That's crazy.
[84:51]
Brian Bates
I love the. Yeah. The live. I know it's. It's interesting with the movie to be like, could it be boring because we're so. Because we're. I'm only have done a live audience. Audience.
[85:02]
Aaron Weber
Oh, right.
[85:04]
Brian Bates
Even the Christmas special. Live audience. Even though it's not taped live and you can redo things. Oh, you always have the pressure of a live audience.
[85:10]
Aaron Weber
I think you're gonna like it better without the live on.
[85:12]
Brian Bates
Really?
[85:12]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, because you can. You can get into it more. You're not. You don't feel like you're wasting other people's time.
[85:17]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[85:17]
Aaron Weber
You don't feel like I got to get a laugh every seven seconds, whatever it is.
[85:21]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[85:21]
Aaron Weber
You feel like I can just take my time.
[85:22]
Nate Bargatze
But you are. And you should be.
[85:23]
Aaron Weber
Let's get it right. Well, yeah. We will all have a timer in our heads.
[85:27]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[85:27]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, sure.
[85:28]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[85:28]
Aaron Weber
Because we're comedians. That just happened. Happens.
[85:30]
Brian Bates
But maybe it would be better.
[85:31]
Nate Bargatze
But I bet that first feeling of. You worked on it for so long and the first time you're watching people watch it, I bet that's crazy.
[85:37]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[85:38]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, I bet that's nerve wracking. You're like, God, what if it just bombs?
[85:41]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[85:42]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah.
[85:42]
Aaron Weber
Gigantic.
[85:43]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Like a movie. Like. Yeah. Even all the stuff that SNL was live in. The Christmas special, even though it's not out yet, there was an audience. So you get. You got the reaction. So. Yeah, I could see like a movie where you're. You know. Is it like a movie when you have a movie come out? Are you like, oh, I forgot I even shot it. Or is it.
[86:02]
Aaron Weber
No, I do. I do forget, like, the little nuances. Like when we did Curb youb Enthusiasm, that thing didn't come out till like two years later. Like, was it Covid. Something happened and it just delayed it for a whole year or two.
[86:16]
Nate Bargatze
So was there a writer strike?
[86:18]
Aaron Weber
That's what it was. Yeah, it was a writer strike. And so that delayed it for like a year.
[86:23]
Brian Bates
Sounds like it was some serious 9, 11. Yeah, that's what it was.
[86:28]
Aaron Weber
Something happened.
[86:28]
Brian Bates
He goes, both of your child.
[86:30]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. I don't know.
[86:30]
Brian Bates
Ukraine war. All right, now I'm back. Okay. Yeah. That's what took so long.
[86:35]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[86:35]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[86:36]
Aaron Weber
It was a writer's strike. And so when that thing came on, I was like, oh, I forgot about that part.
[86:41]
John Reap
But that was a lot of improvising you said. Right?
[86:44]
Aaron Weber
It was a lot. That whole. That whole thing was improvised between union.
[86:47]
Brian Bates
That's probably nervous because you don't want to be.
[86:49]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Because he's known for being sort of a curmudgeon anyway. And I'm this Guy, like, if I get the part, I'm not gonna hassle anybody. I don't. I'm gonna ask for anything. I'm just come. Come in, do my job, and then go away, if that's what you want me to do, you know, So I didn't. I didn't try to bug anybody, but, you know, I'm there. The first scene, we're in a jail, and you don't know how we meet, me and Larry, but he notices I got stomach. So the whole audition. When I got the audition, it was just emailed to me. And, you know, normally you get, like, sides scripts and all this stuff, and this. It was just a scenario. So you are in jail with Larry David. He notices you have stomach cramps. You guys talk about that, and then you exchange phone numbers at the end. Everything else in between, just figure out. Yeah, and so we did that, but I. In my audition, I did that with a buddy of mine where I filmed my. My. My podcast.
[87:42]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[87:42]
Aaron Weber
And he's got, like, a little studio and stuff, too. So we did it there, sent it in, and I guess they liked it enough to just give me the part. And now I got to do this with Larry, not my friend. And Larry's, like, you know, kind of intimidating guy.
[87:54]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[87:55]
Aaron Weber
But super nice. He was all business, too. You know, he came in and sat down me, him, and the director walked over. He goes, all right, guys, we're going to run it two or three times, and then we'll wiggle it down and we'll get it right. And that was it. It was real simple.
[88:07]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[88:08]
Aaron Weber
And I was happy with that, the way that turned out. I thought that was a pretty good episode. And I. There's a blooper that I want. I don't know. It didn't air, but I made him laugh out loud really hard one time, and I'm like, oh, I want that. Because when he laughs, it looks like his jaw comes out. Just look at you. It kind of. Kind of comes forward, too, like down and like that. But, yeah, I had him rolled in one scene, but that was. That was a lot of fun. Definitely.
[88:40]
John Reap
Ever had, like, a. Has there ever been a big part you really, really wanted and just didn't work out?
[88:46]
Aaron Weber
Yes. Well, what comes to mind is the Dukes of Hazzard movie.
[88:51]
John Reap
I mean, it seems like it goes. Just give that.
[88:53]
Brian Bates
The audience could have just guessed that.
[88:55]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, the one with. Oh, gosh.
[89:00]
Nate Bargatze
Steve O. Johnny Knoxville.
[89:01]
Brian Bates
Johnny Knoxville.
[89:02]
Aaron Weber
That one.
[89:03]
Nate Bargatze
Jessica Simpson.
[89:04]
Aaron Weber
Yes, that's the one. I auditioned for that. For the role of Cooter and David Koechner got it. Which is obviously a better choice. But I wanted that role. I had it memorized. I thought I killed it in the audition.
[89:19]
John Reap
I'm sure you did.
[89:20]
Aaron Weber
And were you in Mad that? No. No. And I got another thing I got cut out of. Not cut out of, but not telling which one was Ricky Bobby Tale Digging Nights. There was a. There was a scene where I was gonna be like a NASCAR fan in the stands, kind of like Rob Schneider. You can do it kind of a thing. And that. And that never. That never came to fruition either.
[89:46]
Brian Bates
So you shot it and everything?
[89:47]
Aaron Weber
No, that. They auditioned for it and they said, you got the part. And then they said, never mind, we're not even gonna do that at all now.
[89:53]
Brian Bates
Yeah. That's probably for people that want to become actors. That's probably the part that you gotta. You're gonna get punched in the mouth.
[90:00]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[90:02]
Brian Bates
90. The point of being an actor, I believe, is 95. To be punched in the mouth.
[90:07]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[90:08]
Brian Bates
That's the.
[90:08]
Aaron Weber
Can you take a punch over and over and over again?
[90:11]
Brian Bates
Because you're going to shoot stuff, you're going to have things that you could think are going to change your life and they're not.
[90:16]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[90:16]
Brian Bates
Because it just doesn't happen.
[90:17]
Nate Bargatze
And just totally treated like a commodity, like dehumanized.
[90:21]
Aaron Weber
Oh, yeah.
[90:21]
Nate Bargatze
Too ugly, too fat, whatever.
[90:23]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[90:23]
Nate Bargatze
You know.
[90:24]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[90:24]
Nate Bargatze
Don't need you.
[90:25]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[90:25]
Nate Bargatze
Not good.
[90:26]
Brian Bates
Yeah. That's tough. Yeah. But it's like. It is what it is. It's like you gotta do a part so you're. You know, it's like you just gotta be this.
[90:34]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, that's. Until that going in. I mean, the worst is if you're doing like background acting. When I first moved to la, I wanted to get into acting. I just didn't know how. So this, My roommate at the time, this great actor named Joe Stevens, he said you should just sign up for background actors. They always need people to just be in the background and you can work your way up and get to know this guy and. But they treat him like cattle. It's so bad. They're just really mean to him.
[91:01]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. We had for them the sketches weeks we've had background actors. You know, you try to, like, say hi and stuff, but obviously, yeah, I can't go. You can't go sit and talk to everybody. And you. And I do get. If you were doing a lot of movies in our TV show, every time you. I do understand, like you're saying, like, the professional, like, Larry David's like, look, I'm coming in to do this. I'm not trying to become your best friend.
[91:24]
Aaron Weber
Exactly.
[91:24]
Brian Bates
All this stuff, I mean, that's. You're like, everybody would be professional. Me talking about, I want to hire people that are friends. You can't hire. You got to do. You got to be professional. And you want people to be professional. Like, let's come in and let's do this. Kill this part. And there's a weird thing with acting because I think with standup is like, we're just involved in everybody's life so much that you're, you know, it's like we go to a show, you're like, yeah, I'm going to be with everybody. You know, yours know the other comics.
[91:49]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[91:50]
Aaron Weber
You say, yeah. Hanging out for a whole weekend together. A lot of times more time, more downtime.
[91:55]
John Reap
I think it was Tom Poppa that told you that like comedians, like if Matt Damon or somebody walks out, people are just going to be at all. But comedians, because of the nature of what we do, they feel like they know us better. So they just treat you. Not that comedians should be treated like Matt Damon.
[92:14]
Brian Bates
Peterfeld said that, like Seinfeld. Okay. Yeah. They just go, jerry, Matt Damon walked through like. Yeah. It's like a different kind of thing.
[92:23]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[92:24]
Brian Bates
But I mean, all that's even kind of. Because there's the star. The movie stardom is, is. I don't think it's gone away. I just don't think they've. They do it anymore. And I think it's not on their, you know, like having a movie star like, who's come out. You get Timothee Chalamet. He would come out. He's probably the. He's a movie star. Right. Like in the grand scheme of what we think. But it's still done in a different thing because what is. Is Dune? Was Dune a TV show or a movie?
[92:54]
Aaron Weber
Movie.
[92:54]
Brian Bates
A movie.
[92:55]
Nate Bargatze
That's a movie.
[92:56]
Brian Bates
And it was just on streaming. It was in theaters.
[92:58]
Nate Bargatze
No.
[92:58]
Brian Bates
It was huge.
[92:59]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[93:00]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah.
[93:01]
Nate Bargatze
Hundreds of millions.
[93:01]
Brian Bates
Yeah. So. But he was he the main. So it's like he's become a movie star. Willy Wonka.
[93:08]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[93:09]
Brian Bates
So like that's like a movie star that they're in the making. But I wonder if he's doing too much different kind of things where it's like, you know, playing Bob Dylan. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[93:21]
Aaron Weber
I know what you're saying. With comedians, they don't get star struck. You get starstruck with like big stars. And I guess they see Us as friends. Like what you're saying.
[93:31]
Brian Bates
I feel like they're not making movies. Like you go. You're not going to watch a Timothee Chalamet movie. You're going to watch. He's just the best.
[93:39]
Aaron Weber
He's the best one for.
[93:40]
Brian Bates
So it's like he's going to be in it where Versus. You go watch a Tom Cruise movie, you go watch a Jason Statham movie, you watch a Denzel Washington movie, Tom Hanks movie, the Rock, Kevin Hart. Like some of the. I guess they have. But it's. Yeah. It's like there is the stars. The movie. I mean the Rock is one. It's just like overkill too.
[94:00]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[94:00]
Brian Bates
They get like too much and then they're making. Yeah. It's. It's. The industry's just. Should go back the other way. You know, I was talking about Charlie Chaplin like watching that last night because Charlie Chapman was someone that he started like kind of Hollywood. He. He was. Do you have Charlie Japan stuff?
[94:19]
John Reap
I think I have some stuff about improv and how his style kind of.
[94:24]
Brian Bates
Well, it was. But he started a studio.
[94:26]
Nate Bargatze
So when he died in 1977.
[94:29]
Brian Bates
Yeah. He was at the 1974 Oscars, I think. Or 72 or 74 Oscars. You can watch a video. They bring him out because he thought everybody was going to boo him because he was kind of ran out of Hollywood. He's ran out of this country. Oh, I forgot about that. And then so he was like they wanted him to come back and he. He was very nervous about coming back. He did one talking movie. It was the Great Dictator which. Yeah. Which satired Adolf Hitler.
[94:57]
Nate Bargatze
He had a wild 1940s got accused of being a communist.
[95:01]
Brian Bates
So. Yeah, that's. But I mean that's not get all in a political. But there's an FBI investigated a lot of that stuff. If you watch the movie, it's. I look, I don't know the not getting into it all, but it was, you know. Yeah. I don't know, man. I mean it's. It's like one of those. Yeah. On the face of it all, he was blamed for this thing.
[95:23]
Nate Bargatze
Sure.
[95:24]
Brian Bates
And then afterwards I don't think he was and people don't now. But he went against the grain, I guess when he did that satire of Hitler. Like.
[95:36]
Aaron Weber
Okay.
[95:36]
Brian Bates
And not that I've seen it. I don't know. Yeah. It's like it was a long time ago, but he was. But he was like someone that was like, well, I'll just do it myself. Like so he Started making. He was with someone that he's like, well, I'll just start making. He started a studio and to be making all his kind of silent movies. And then when they went to talking, he was just like, I'm not gonna. He's like, it's over. Yeah. He was able to have that reasonableness that there was a mystiqueness that you needed to have. That's what's kind of gone. And that's what you gotta have. That's what you have to be mysterious. You gotta be like, I don't know what this guy's like.
[96:11]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[96:12]
Brian Bates
In his real life. I don't know what. You know where now you're. You know.
[96:18]
Aaron Weber
Right. I think some of the best actors are the ones that can just disappear into a part and you don't even know them as a human.
[96:23]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah.
[96:24]
John Reap
Aaron said there's not been a. What since 2012? A Hollywood star.
[96:28]
Nate Bargatze
Because this is like a theory that the. That every major star. But Nate just gave one example that proves otherwise. But every major star you've. You heard of before 2012 and then after that, just the way entertainment. It just changed so that there. There's not going to be another Leonardo DiCaprio who.
[96:48]
Brian Bates
Yeah, that's what. Yes, that's true. So you got Timothy Chalamet, who could be. But it's like even they're almost overexposed and. And the movies are not big enough in your third. They're overexposed in not big advertising things. So you got. You got a Timothee Chalamet, but then he's kind of everywhere because it's just him. So then it's like almost like there's too much like you because if you're like him, it's like you should be in more control of it to be like, you know what? I don't need to be over exposed. I try to do it. I can just speak of it for myself. But like this December with. I'm going to have a lot of. I'm going to be around a lot in December. It's a lot. It's a lot. I know. Too much.
[97:30]
John Reap
Like Peyton Manning.
[97:31]
Brian Bates
Yes. Too much. But I try not to do. I've been asked to do commercials and do this stuff and I've intentionally not done them because it's like I don't want to be around too much. I do this podcast. I try on social media not to be me talking to the crowd too much. It's. You only see me through my work.
[97:49]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[97:50]
Brian Bates
And you know, in the Podcast is. You want to be this available in a sense. Uh, but, you know, our podcast is like, it's going. It's still like, when you go to arena, most people don't. The vast majority are not there that are podcast fans. So the podcast, I feel like I got a. Like a little window into, like, people that are. It's not. It's not this. You know, this isn't the Joe Rogan podcast.
[98:17]
Nate Bargatze
It's a fun little corner of your career.
[98:19]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[98:20]
Aaron Weber
And the actors or whatever, biggest celebrities have really the least amount of social media presence.
[98:27]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Because you have to do that.
[98:28]
Aaron Weber
I think that's a smart thing, is it's like a line that says, I'm not going to go over here because I'm so good over here. You don't. You don't get me over here.
[98:36]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[98:36]
Aaron Weber
Whereas, like, some people have to go this way.
[98:38]
Brian Bates
I should get you in a presented way. And now as a comedian, we're kind of different just because we can. We're naturally talkers and we get. We get into situations, but it's like, yeah, as you do podcasts, you do interviews. It's like less and less to be like, you get to where you go. Like, we're doing. I'm doing way less interviews than. Than I ever did before, where I would do everything, and now I'm only doing. I'm choo. I'm not trying to be like, I'm better than anybody. I don't think I'm better than anybody, but I'm just trying to. I'm trying to make the experience for the person at home better with me than. So I don't want to be everywhere for you.
[99:10]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[99:11]
Brian Bates
It's not because I don't want to always go do everything. I'm doing it for you because I want you to be able to watch something and the mystique is not kind of taken away way. Right. And so you try to go like, I'll do what I. What needs to be done to, you know, I mean, I'm doing talk the town.
[99:26]
John Reap
You are?
[99:27]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[99:27]
John Reap
I was going to try to get you on. I thought I could pull some strings for you.
[99:29]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[99:30]
John Reap
You don't need me.
[99:30]
Brian Bates
Are you want to go tomorrow?
[99:32]
John Reap
It was tomorrow.
[99:32]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, I'll go. Yeah. So I'm doing talk, but I'm doing talk.
[99:35]
John Reap
Introduce you to Leland.
[99:36]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I like. I. But talk like, I like going to the ones that, you know. That's the local.
[99:40]
Nate Bargatze
That's the local Nashville morning.
[99:44]
Brian Bates
And so it's like the Local one.
[99:45]
John Reap
I can't get you on records. Well, I can't just get anybody.
[99:48]
Brian Bates
So it's like you go, do you know if I do podcasts? Like, all right, well, trying to be like, you know, and I'll do my friends and you just try to like, kind of go, like, I don't need to be everywhere.
[100:00]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[100:00]
John Reap
Have you had any. Or you, Johnny, the one really bad auditions where you, like, you walked out. Like, there's no way I'm getting that.
[100:07]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I wrote an email to. I think I've talked about it, but.
[100:13]
John Reap
We'Ll move on then.
[100:13]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I don't know mine. I might have talked about it. I wrote. I did one and it was so bad. I emailed an apology. An apology? Really? It was. Look up who cast you apologize to Allison. Allison Jones.
[100:29]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Okay.
[100:30]
Brian Bates
Allison Jones and I still to this day talk very highly. Her. She was very, very nice to me and really tried to get me into stuff. And I just. And I some. I did well and. But more than often I blew it and I was so bad. And she would just. But she would always be nice. She always wrote back. And I emailed Allison Jones right after email and I said, you should email her and say, I'm so sorry for that. I was very uncomfortable in whatever it was. And I'm sorry that I wasted your. You know, I just felt bad. I'm sorry I wasted your time that you had to sit through that because you shouldn't have had to. You're the real.
[101:04]
Nate Bargatze
You're professional and that's not a career move. You legit felt bad that you wasted.
[101:09]
Brian Bates
No, it wasn't even. I'd never gone back in front of you. It wasn't. It wasn't. Because when I lived in LA, so 2012, 14, I helped him audition a lot of these. Yeah, a lot of these. I would do so all of them. I might have sent in more auditions actually to her through a tape or something like that. But, yeah, I could easily tell my route was going to have to be. I'm going to have to create what I'm going to be in. But it's. Yeah, but I emailed her and that was out of a pure. Just out of a human to a human. I'm just like, I'm sorry.
[101:37]
Aaron Weber
That's probably good move, though, because if you want to get back in, she'll be like, well, I'll get a good email.
[101:44]
Nate Bargatze
He wasted our time last time.
[101:46]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[101:46]
Aaron Weber
But he did apologize.
[101:47]
Brian Bates
My car was broken into when I walked out to the car talk about it today. Yeah. Backpack stolen.
[101:53]
John Reap
Oh, yeah, yeah.
[101:56]
Brian Bates
Yeah. So bad. Horrible audition. And then I was recording my. I was recording my submission for an. My hour on Comedy Central, I think full time magic. And so you had to record that. You had to record the full hour to send to them to show them what you're doing. And so I had it on note cards and had all my note cards. Had backpacks in the front row. So I get out of that audition, that's that bad. I feel sick to my stomach. I'm. I'm embarrassed. And called my agent said email her and say I'm sorry I called. I mean, as walking to my car, I go, email to say I'm sorry. I go, that was so bad. I just don't want to. She's always been so nice to me and I feel bad that I didn't do what I should have done in that kind of thing and hung up and then got to my car. Car windows smatter, smashed backpack with my set list. So my set list is gone. So now I've got to find some set list. Maybe at home. I'm trying to find a set list to. You know, I kind of knew it, but I was worried that I would.
[103:04]
John Reap
Call me to see what jokes I remember.
[103:06]
Brian Bates
Yeah. What. Just trying to go through it.
[103:08]
Aaron Weber
The funeral.
[103:09]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I mean, he's a. He's at a. He's. There's a decent chance there's a. Yes, you call Brian. There's a decent chance he's at.
[103:16]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. At least 50.
[103:17]
John Reap
50 hobby.
[103:18]
Brian Bates
Yeah. And then. And so then. Yeah. And all my stuff was in the windows shattered and.
[103:23]
Aaron Weber
Oh, man, that is a bad audition.
[103:26]
Brian Bates
And I had. That night because it was. That night was the. I had to do my set. Oh, so then I had to do the set. Yeah.
[103:32]
Aaron Weber
I tanked an audition once for Punk'd. The show pumped. They were auditioning comedians to be on it. And so I did well in this first audition and they liked it. They said, well, Ashton wants to meet you. Can you come back on this day? And I just gotten into the college market, like doing NACA gigs. And so I was just about to make some decent money, get out of debt, and I. And I didn't want to cancel this college gig. I said, well, I can't. I mean, that's going to be a lot of money for me if. Can we move it to this date? And they said, all right, well, Ashton likes you. So he said he'll meet you in his dressing room on the set of that 80s show.
[104:11]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[104:12]
Aaron Weber
So now. Yeah. 70s show. So now I show.
[104:15]
Brian Bates
Good.
[104:17]
Aaron Weber
Well, I'm 10 years too late.
[104:19]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah.
[104:19]
Aaron Weber
Or too early. But I came. It was weird because there was no script again. It was like, well, I thought your audition was funny. On the show, we punk people, so we have to come up with something now if you want to punk somebody. He wanted me to go to this. His castmate's dressing room and do a thing where we punk them.
[104:39]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[104:40]
Aaron Weber
And see how it goes. And so we had to come up with a scenario. I'm like, he. What can we do? So he wants me to brainstorm with him.
[104:47]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[104:47]
Aaron Weber
And I'm very nervous. This is Ashton Kutcher. And I'm like, I don't know. I can. We came up with this idea of, like, I have an amazing. So I. My. My relationship to Ashton is that we went to college together, and he. But he barely knows me. He knows me enough to let me on the set and hang out with him. And I have a. And I'm trying to sell him my idea for an app. And my app is a crosswalk app. So when you're walking and you come up to a crosswalk, if you have the app, you can hit a button and it. It makes it walk for you. Do you never have to stop walking so you could just keep going?
[105:20]
Brian Bates
Oh, it's a boom.
[105:20]
Aaron Weber
It just. It changes.
[105:21]
Brian Bates
It changes. Yeah.
[105:23]
Aaron Weber
So stupid.
[105:24]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[105:24]
Aaron Weber
And he's like, I go sell that to my friends. And so now I'm in their dressing room just hanging out, and Ashton wants me to, like, just do some weird, awkward moments with these guys while I'm waiting for Ashton to show up. And I couldn't think of anything. You know, it's weird to say this now, but Denny Masterson's was in there at the time.
[105:42]
Brian Bates
This is all. By the way, it's John Reed talking. This is all his friends. These are all John Reed's close friends. Yeah.
[105:48]
Aaron Weber
I had to come up with something to do.
[105:50]
Brian Bates
Weird.
[105:50]
Aaron Weber
And I'm like, it was Danny Maston.
[105:52]
Brian Bates
Ashley, and what's his wife's name. They're all in trouble.
[105:57]
Aaron Weber
And like, you guys, I started the whole thing.
[106:00]
Brian Bates
You started the whole thing. That's why your punk should have been that. You go on there.
[106:03]
Aaron Weber
That's my ultimate punk. It took a while for it to register.
[106:06]
Brian Bates
Oh, hey. Yeah.
[106:08]
Aaron Weber
Surprise.
[106:09]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[106:10]
Nate Bargatze
You know, all I know about Ashton Kutcher, he had the most brutal review written about. I think about it every time I hear his name. He did that first Steve Jobs movie, and I was just reading the review. It got bad reviews. It was not a very good movie. But I got one review that just said, Ashton Kutcher's poverty of talent on full display. I remember, like, oh, my God. Poverty of talent.
[106:33]
Aaron Weber
That's brutal.
[106:34]
Brian Bates
Yeah, that's brutal.
[106:36]
Nate Bargatze
Poverty on full display for the world.
[106:39]
Brian Bates
I don't even know if reviews even affect anything anymore, because the Internet, everything's mean.
[106:45]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, right.
[106:45]
Brian Bates
So it's like you. There's no one really that you go.
[106:48]
Nate Bargatze
To, but they're like, the cleverest mean. They are.
[106:51]
Brian Bates
I know. I'm saying you should have some trust to go to it. I think you could build back up reviews because you should, because now it's getting too wild Westy. So it's like you're just, like, having to go. Like, last night I watched that chaplain movie, and you just kind of got to look at, like, you know, Amazon reviews are always going to be great. And I enjoyed it, actually, because I really was interested in learning about him. But it's like, yeah, the reviews are. You know, it's like a tough. You know, but you should be able to go, yeah, I feel like you should. You know, we should do reviews. We should do a review. Maybe you do a movie.
[107:26]
Nate Bargatze
Mainland reviews.
[107:27]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Why don't you do a Nate Land movie? Would you review movies?
[107:30]
Aaron Weber
Well, 100 review into the storm.
[107:32]
Brian Bates
I think it's like, to build the trust.
[107:33]
John Reap
They want you to do it, huh? People love your movie reviews.
[107:36]
Brian Bates
Oh, they do? Yeah. I'll do them.
[107:38]
Nate Bargatze
I want to watch movies with.
[107:39]
John Reap
Yeah, they loved your.
[107:40]
Brian Bates
Oh, really?
[107:41]
John Reap
A bunch of them.
[107:42]
Nate Bargatze
I want to watch movies with you. I want to watch movies. Do you watch movies with Dusty and just have y'all talk about it.
[107:45]
Aaron Weber
There you go.
[107:46]
Nate Bargatze
John, Want to watch movies?
[107:47]
Brian Bates
I want you to watch.
[107:48]
Aaron Weber
Ever see Mystery Science Theater? Remember that show? Something like that.
[107:51]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah.
[107:52]
John Reap
Mersault. The way the President ran and it took you out of the whole movie. Yeah, Just the way the president was running.
[107:57]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[107:58]
John Reap
You went on for, like, 15 minutes.
[108:00]
Brian Bates
And so they liked their. Oh, all right. Well, maybe. Maybe do a movie review.
[108:04]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, it'd be great.
[108:05]
Brian Bates
Maybe I would do it on the podcast. It's. Yeah, but I'll just do my movies that I watch random.
[108:11]
John Reap
Exactly.
[108:11]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[108:12]
John Reap
That's the best.
[108:13]
Nate Bargatze
Redemption.
[108:13]
Aaron Weber
Oh, yeah.
[108:14]
Nate Bargatze
Many, many, many good movie, right?
[108:15]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, it's a great movie.
[108:16]
Nate Bargatze
It's really great.
[108:17]
Brian Bates
Never seen it. All right.
[108:18]
Aaron Weber
You never saw it?
[108:19]
Brian Bates
No.
[108:20]
Aaron Weber
On purpose at this point?
[108:22]
Brian Bates
Yeah, no, it's still. I'm not. I will watch it when I'm in the mood to watch it.
[108:26]
Aaron Weber
Sure.
[108:26]
Brian Bates
I would be forcing it right now. I've never been in the mood to watch it.
[108:29]
Nate Bargatze
Okay.
[108:29]
Brian Bates
I'm gonna have.
[108:30]
Nate Bargatze
How do you know if you're in the mood? You don't even know what the movie is.
[108:32]
Brian Bates
I know when the mood would strike for me to get involved, and I haven't been in the mood. I was in the mood for Chaplin and I watched what Happened and that's what happened is there. And I was in the mood for salt. I was in the mood for Assassin. Ninja. Yeah.
[108:45]
John Reap
If it was called something like that, you would have watched it.
[108:48]
Nate Bargatze
So much of this is the title.
[108:50]
John Reap
Yes.
[108:50]
Brian Bates
I hate.
[108:51]
Aaron Weber
I miss salt. What Salt?
[108:52]
Brian Bates
I don't remember now.
[108:53]
John Reap
Angeli Jolie.
[108:54]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[108:54]
John Reap
She's like an assassin or something and they're trying to kill the president.
[108:58]
Brian Bates
I watch. Yeah. Crazy movies. Yeah.
[109:01]
John Reap
So I watch Yellowstone.
[109:02]
Aaron Weber
I'm sorry, do you watch Yellowstone?
[109:03]
Brian Bates
No.
[109:03]
Aaron Weber
Okay.
[109:04]
Brian Bates
I started watching Land Man.
[109:06]
Aaron Weber
Oh, yeah?
[109:07]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[109:07]
John Reap
That was good.
[109:08]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Land Man's good. It's there. I'm telling you, man. It's. It's Billy Bob Thornton. Billy Bob Thornton. He's great in. He's very funny in it. But I mean like the stuff with his daughter.
[109:19]
Aaron Weber
Yes. Thank you.
[109:20]
Brian Bates
It's insane, dude. And it's. It's. It's like. It's. It's almost like I enjoy it because I. I love the idea of like kind of learning about this world. Because I didn't watch Yellowstone because I. I mean, I'm not a western guy.
[109:34]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[109:34]
Brian Bates
But this. I do like. But the stuff with his daughter, I.
[109:38]
Aaron Weber
Mean, great cheesy moments.
[109:39]
Brian Bates
It's just insane, dude. Like, it's there. It's. Everything is so. You know, I don't. It. It's. It's. It's insane. That's just the world that they're. That's the word. So it's a little bit. Maybe I'm becoming. I don't know if I'm getting like. It's. I am, but it's getting older. But you're just like. Good night, man. They. It's the stuff with his daughter and stuff. You know, I just don't understand it. Like.
[110:04]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. With his ex wife too. His ex wife.
[110:07]
Brian Bates
Yeah. It's crazy.
[110:07]
Aaron Weber
When they were singing about hanging by the pool.
[110:09]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah.
[110:10]
Aaron Weber
That was just so like one dimensional character. I mean, it was just.
[110:13]
Brian Bates
Well, it's just so. Yeah. It's. It's. You. There's really. You want to go. What's the point of the daughter being in the show. I don't know the point of it. Yeah, it's, it's, it's. It's. Everybody else has a point. And I would just say I don't know the point of her being in it. Except for what if you watch it. Exactly what she's in it for.
[110:34]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Just to be a destroyer.
[110:36]
Brian Bates
Just like. Yeah, yeah.
[110:37]
Aaron Weber
It's like pain in his neck. Maybe.
[110:39]
John Reap
I've only seen one scene, but it's the scene where he tells her how.
[110:42]
Brian Bates
All'S going to say that's not his daughter. Oh, that scene. That's. That's a lawyer. And that. Yeah, that scene. That scene is good. But this stuff, it's just like the. Yeah, it's. It's just, you know, it's just what you think. It's the way they make stuff now and they just. It's just too much. And I don't think it's like because I'm a Christian or like some kind of thing like that. I think most people would. Would agree to be like. I always think about that girl having to audition for that. Why do you got to make. Why didn't do the girl as an audition? Everything you go do is going to be like, well, are you willing to wear nothing? That's everything. You're making them go.
[111:20]
Nate Bargatze
I didn't. Okay. I'm piecing together.
[111:22]
Brian Bates
Yeah, that's. That's the idea of it. And that's like, you know, as we. As I make movies, if I. If I get to the fortune. I don't want to do. I don't want to. You have to. Women have to just be willing to take their clothes off now.
[111:35]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[111:35]
Brian Bates
Like it's uncomfortable.
[111:36]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[111:37]
Brian Bates
And it's. I mean, getting old enough now that you want to go. Like, what's to. Not even.
[111:41]
Nate Bargatze
We don't need this.
[111:42]
Brian Bates
You're making. Jennifer Lawrence has been naked.
[111:44]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[111:45]
Brian Bates
What are you doing? You got. These people are the great actors. Maybe if they want to do it, then go do it. I don't. I have no, do whatever you want to go do, but I just always feel like you're like, golly, dude.
[111:56]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[111:57]
Brian Bates
Just this is. Is it not. This movie's not intense enough.
[112:00]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[112:00]
Brian Bates
I guess they have some outlet. Maybe they think it's an outlet, but.
[112:04]
Aaron Weber
It'S seems like that's one producer who's really pushing hard for this one.
[112:08]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[112:09]
Aaron Weber
And it's like, you gotta get rid of that guy. And then.
[112:11]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Then everything else. We can make it normal. Yeah, you make it just be normal. Be normal. Yeah. Be normal. It's so. It's enough that I want to watch it. I don't know if I will finish it just because I'm kind of a. It's that.
[112:28]
Aaron Weber
That scene at the pool with us too.
[112:30]
Brian Bates
The pool and the football field. Like in all of it. It's just, it's. I mean, it's. Yeah. That pornographic. That's not to say it, but it's. It's that much where you want to go. This is insane.
[112:40]
Aaron Weber
It's very Yellowstone in the sense that there are some really good acting scenes by some great actors. And then every now and then there's a scene that's just like straight out of a soap opera.
[112:49]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[112:49]
Aaron Weber
Where it's like super dramatic or over done away over the top and it's kind of funny. So now I end up laughing at it. So I'm watching it for two different reasons.
[112:59]
Brian Bates
Yeah. I think it's like the comedy in it is the reason that they're doing it. But it's. It's just so you're like, is this the comedy?
[113:07]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[113:07]
Brian Bates
Like, is there. You could have her be something else. Like I, you know, if you want to. If it's a wife that spends all your money, like that's fine, but don't. Does she have to wear nothing.
[113:20]
Aaron Weber
Dress off?
[113:20]
Brian Bates
Does she have to like just have her just be fun and have a wife that spends the money like that comes in or you know, and dresses nicely like I, you. You can dress her to go. She's very proud of the way she looks.
[113:33]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[113:33]
Brian Bates
Without having to be like. I mean, dude, it's.
[113:37]
Aaron Weber
It's.
[113:37]
Brian Bates
It's not. The daughter is the one that I had the. Probably the most trouble with. But it was. But yeah. I don't. Don't listen. Don't listen. Do whatever you want.
[113:45]
Aaron Weber
I don't stick to salt.
[113:48]
Brian Bates
All right.
[113:49]
John Reap
So acting started in ancient Greece.
[113:51]
Brian Bates
He did. I didn't know what he did. Sorry. Taylor Sheridan. He did great movies. Oh, yes. Sicario is like. I mean, I love it. Scar is the most violence you could ever do. And I know that doesn't even make sense that some reason I'm okay with one versus the other.
[114:05]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[114:06]
Brian Bates
But I think most people are.
[114:07]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[114:08]
Brian Bates
I'm just guessing. I don't do whatever you want to go do. But I. The violent way is weirdly enough, the one that I think is kind of okay. Like it's like everybody's kind of fine with. I don't think you got to show someone's head being sold off. Like it's you know, there's ways to do it. But some reason. Yes. Violence. That's just how the.
[114:27]
Aaron Weber
That's just how the way it works.
[114:29]
Brian Bates
In my head is. I'm okay with violence and I'm not okay with that other stuff.
[114:34]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, that makes sense. So if you're a dad, that makes sense. You know?
[114:39]
John Reap
So acting started in ancient Greece. Most of the time, people would just tell stories. They would orate stories. But then this one guy, Thespis, he started putting himself in the story. So he wasn't saying so. And so this. He would act like that person, and he was like, the first actor, and now people are called thespians.
[115:00]
Aaron Weber
Oh, I did not know that.
[115:01]
Brian Bates
Oh, wow. So he just thought, like, what if I just move a little bit?
[115:05]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, that's a movie.
[115:07]
John Reap
He's like, why don't I just pretend like I'm this person instead of reading what this person?
[115:11]
Aaron Weber
So all actors sl. Thespians are just doing an impression of Thespis.
[115:16]
Brian Bates
Yes, sure. And I'm actually going back. Yeah. I'm going backwards because I'm just telling this story. Wait, am I? Yeah. So I'm. I disagree with.
[115:25]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, it's too much.
[115:26]
Brian Bates
It's too much. But I guess he would be telling a story about someone else. I'm telling a story about myself.
[115:30]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[115:31]
Brian Bates
But I. Yeah, but he would just act out.
[115:35]
John Reap
Yeah.
[115:36]
Brian Bates
The scenes.
[115:36]
John Reap
Yeah.
[115:37]
Brian Bates
Imagine when he first did it. You're like, oh, yeah.
[115:41]
Aaron Weber
Did you see what Thespis did?
[115:42]
Brian Bates
Yeah. His buddy, he goes, do you think this will be good? And you're like, oh, my gosh. If I have to. It's like having to sit across from someone playing a guitar. I don't know, man. I don't know. He's really committed. Yeah, that's what I thought. I. I might do it in a joke, but I thought about the idea of the joke is being. I can't handle commitment in a small area. That's the idea. So a guitar. Oh, I think.
[116:09]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[116:09]
Brian Bates
Like, that's the problem. I don't have the. I don't have a problem with it in a big area, but I have a problem with commitment in a small area.
[116:15]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[116:15]
Brian Bates
And I think that's what hurts with auditions. When you do auditions. It's the commitment in a small area.
[116:22]
Aaron Weber
Commitment with intimacy. And it's.
[116:24]
Brian Bates
They're like, full on. Be this person in this area, and you want to go. It's not really. I don't even know if you're going to get the best thing out of It. Yeah, because you're. You know, it's like. I don't know. There's not. They need to, like, you need. I need to. You need to see them play. You know, Otherwise, you're kind of like. In my head, I think if you do auditions, you would be. I know you got to do auditions, but it's almost like I just need to hear the person. I just need to. You know, I would like to see them act in something.
[116:53]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[116:54]
Brian Bates
And then I just need to see them as a person.
[116:56]
Aaron Weber
I think that should be the way it is. Auditions are like, I mean, what are we doing? These guys have a great resume. Go look them up. You know what they're capable of. And they're gonna make them come in here.
[117:05]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah. You almost wouldn't even have the audition process. You would just go. You should. By the time you get to the level of, like, a movie, well, you should have enough work. So if you're young, you're like, well, then you gotta go make.
[117:18]
Aaron Weber
Then you have to go.
[117:19]
Brian Bates
Then you gotta go. Well, you either have to go audition, but, yeah, it should be at a smaller scale. And then. Otherwise. Yeah, yeah.
[117:29]
Aaron Weber
It is weird that, like, you know, any other profession, it's like, all right, so, you know, you were the CEO of this company, and we were thinking about hiring you for this company, but I need to see you go. Delegate duties now. Go over to this business and start bossing people around.
[117:45]
Brian Bates
Fire that guy.
[117:46]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[117:47]
Brian Bates
And you go, all right, I'll do it. Hey, buddy, you're fired. I might not even be hired, but you are definitely. I can tell you one thing we're both believing today. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Like, I mean, these big actors, I don't think they're auditioning, but it's, you know, that's what I've had. The only last one I did was a movie I did not get. But it was. And I did it over a zoom. I think they want mine. I think they always want it in their head. They're like, I want this guy to get it. But then when they really. When they really deal with me, they go.
[118:25]
Aaron Weber
What was the movie? Are you allowed to say.
[118:29]
Brian Bates
I don't. I don't know. Is Coen Brothers movie.
[118:31]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[118:31]
Brian Bates
So that's where it was.
[118:32]
Nate Bargatze
I remember you talking about that.
[118:33]
Brian Bates
Yeah. It would be like, that's the only ones that you would do. But then I also wouldn't curse. I make them. I mean, I'm just. I mean, you know, I really. You get back into a thing Where I go, just make your own.
[118:45]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[118:46]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[118:46]
Brian Bates
Because I got so many. You know, I'm like. So they have cursing in it. And I'm like, well, I'm not gonna. I've made it this long.
[118:52]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[118:53]
Brian Bates
Now you're like, I'm not gonna do it. So they were like, we don't care. You don't have to curse. You know, I was like, the whole movie would have curse. I'm not saying I'm not going to control the whole movie, but my partner. That's the plan, you know, is to be like, my stuff. I mean, I'm hoping if it's Nate land on it. It's all of. It's right under the. Yeah. It's all implied. And that's the goal with the movies that I make, or if I get to make them, because I think we can make this Sicario.
[119:21]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Put Charlie Brown in there.
[119:22]
Brian Bates
I think I can make Sicario Bates, you know. Yeah. Well, what I say. My thing that I tell him at the. Yeah. I go, bates could play all these parts.
[119:31]
Aaron Weber
Put a mask on him.
[119:32]
John Reap
I'm Benicio Del Toro's car.
[119:34]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[119:34]
Aaron Weber
Just reenact that cartel guy.
[119:37]
Brian Bates
He comes out with a gun. Bates comes out with the guns. It's pointed towards him. And then we get.
[119:44]
Aaron Weber
Which.
[119:45]
John Reap
How's this thing work?
[119:46]
Brian Bates
Yeah, it's safety off. He keeps. He's off on the safety at all times. So when he wants to not fire, he's always. It's always off.
[119:58]
John Reap
I kill multiple.
[119:59]
Brian Bates
Always on the wrong part.
[120:00]
Aaron Weber
It's always going off in his holster accidentally.
[120:02]
Brian Bates
He gets. He would get every gunfight started. Not on purpose, but we would all be in one.
[120:08]
John Reap
Sorry.
[120:09]
Brian Bates
They go. That crews the most gunfights. You're like, do they? Why? And they go. Because the one guy does not. He can't wrap his head around the safety, and he doesn't know wins. One's going one way and one's going the other way. And that's. Yeah. My. I always say I can make movies. Now when I pitch movies, I go, I'm gonna start with the TBS version so all these movies can air on tbs. I'm just gonna start with the TBS version. So I won't ever make the full. I'll just make the one that can already go on tv. Commercials, so it doesn't have to be with commercials. So when you're at a movie. Yeah. When you're at a movie theater, get.
[120:49]
Nate Bargatze
Up, go get drink.
[120:50]
Brian Bates
I'm gonna have commercials in there.
[120:52]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[120:53]
Brian Bates
Get up. Everybody go pee. Yeah.
[120:54]
Aaron Weber
Come Right back.
[120:55]
Brian Bates
Might not be bad idea. Actually go in there. Right. When you're in it, just go, like, if you have a long movie, be like, we're gonna throw a little commercial.
[121:02]
Nate Bargatze
If you had the option to go see a movie, one of them, you pay regular ticket price. Oh, and it's as is. And the other option is it has commercials like on television, but it's free. What do you.
[121:14]
Brian Bates
I think people would definitely. You know what. People would maybe do that to go like. And you could go, yeah. I just don't know if it's going to really add up enough to be like. You're like, so 200 people have to go, you know.
[121:27]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[121:28]
Brian Bates
But it's. Yeah, I think. Yeah.
[121:30]
Aaron Weber
They would have to sell a lot of concessions.
[121:32]
Nate Bargatze
Right.
[121:33]
Aaron Weber
Money back.
[121:34]
Nate Bargatze
Double or triple your concession sales if you had a break.
[121:36]
Brian Bates
I think if you live in the PG PG 13 world, though, that's the, you know, that's what the other one. I tell them. I go, I've got. I'm probably go start a PG. You can talk me into PG 13. I just got to know. I got to know, why are we PG 13?
[121:49]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah.
[121:50]
Brian Bates
If it's. I. I gotta know the reasons. I don't want it to be because of cursing.
[121:54]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, yeah.
[121:54]
Brian Bates
Weirdly enough, I have a lot of crazy rules, but they're only my rules that I'm. I'm not trying to make anybody do anything.
[122:00]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[122:00]
John Reap
I want to see a movie like Sicario where it's just like, dad gum it.
[122:02]
Brian Bates
Yeah, I think you could, but I think you could do this.
[122:05]
Aaron Weber
Dagnabbic.
[122:06]
Brian Bates
You could do. I think I could get. I could get away with it. Because it's not about that.
[122:09]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[122:10]
Brian Bates
I would not.
[122:11]
Aaron Weber
And it's funny.
[122:11]
Brian Bates
I'm just telling you now.
[122:13]
John Reap
Be a comedy.
[122:13]
Brian Bates
I'm talking about now. Now when I made the movie, it would be. Those would just quietly not be in the script.
[122:20]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[122:21]
Brian Bates
I wouldn't. It wouldn't be a big deal. That's what I try to do with my act. You just quietly don't have enough.
[122:25]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[122:26]
Brian Bates
You're not trying to. Yeah, I'm just. It's my. Look, I know I'm an. It's not easy and I'm a problem. And that's why I've gone the long route of having to do it this way.
[122:36]
Aaron Weber
I think it's admirable. I think it's awesome.
[122:38]
Brian Bates
You know, I've had to do it and still nothing is gone. We have not shot anything.
[122:43]
Aaron Weber
I'll tell you the opposite of that is when I auditioned for Eastbound and Down. I happened to be visiting my mom at that time, and I had to record the scene. Me as Jed Forney and my mom off camera reading Kenny Power's lines that had cuss words in it. My mom, sweet Southern Baptist lady, never heard her cuss. I said, mom, I need to do this audition. Do you mind just reading this part and I'll do this part? And she was beating her head. She goes, well, if it's for my son.
[123:13]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[123:14]
Aaron Weber
And she did it. There's a tape out there. A Betty Reap cousin, like I said, as Danny McBride.
[123:21]
Brian Bates
If that just floated around her church. Yeah.
[123:24]
Aaron Weber
Camps communicated. Yeah.
[123:25]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's tough. And you got to get everybody to do it. I shouldn't think if I had cursing in. Yeah. That's probably why I didn't get it. Because they go, he's not doing all the lines.
[123:42]
Aaron Weber
Do I have to read these three words in a row?
[123:44]
Brian Bates
I go, I just don't think. Could I try something else?
[123:46]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[123:47]
Brian Bates
And they're. Yeah. That is a lot. That probably does hurt you on an audition.
[123:51]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[123:52]
Nate Bargatze
I refuse to say something when you.
[123:53]
Brian Bates
Go, yeah, I changed.
[123:56]
Aaron Weber
I punched it up a little bit.
[123:57]
Nate Bargatze
This character you've been building.
[123:59]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. You have a picture for all this. Yeah. I go, I would like to. Oh, dude. Going through these scripts. Because I get these scripts. That's what I do. All the writing, because I go through. I mean, there's one that I'm. It's a soft R that. I mean, you got to get it down to what I want it to be. You can imagine how far. I mean, I'm like, no. I mean, just gone. So I. I have to go. I will sit with the writer.
[124:29]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[124:29]
Brian Bates
Because I. I was like, I. I just. I'm not trying. I don't want to be a bother, Teeny. Like, I really am not trying to. I am not better than anybody. I go. I watch the movies that are not this. I'm just trying to do what I'm saying.
[124:41]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[124:41]
Brian Bates
I don't want my parents to be mad at me. That's all I'm trying to do. That's all I'm trying to do.
[124:45]
Aaron Weber
Right.
[124:45]
Brian Bates
So I go. I just sit there and I go. I'll go. I'll sit through the entire script with you, and we can go through it, and I can tell you what I'm uncomfortable with and what I'm not. You know, Like, I'm not gonna. I can tell you right now, I'm not gonna Say anything. My side, your side. Here's the words I'm okay with.
[125:00]
Aaron Weber
Right, Right.
[125:02]
Brian Bates
If I'm in charge of.
[125:03]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, right.
[125:04]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[125:04]
Aaron Weber
Well, you got to that point where you can.
[125:07]
Brian Bates
We're.
[125:07]
Aaron Weber
See, we're not to that point yet.
[125:08]
Brian Bates
They could all go. They could go.
[125:10]
Nate Bargatze
No, we have a movie greenlit still.
[125:13]
Brian Bates
I think stuff can still not go.
[125:15]
Aaron Weber
Okay.
[125:15]
Brian Bates
I don't think I do have a green. But there's. There's. Look. All indications. Yeah. There should be a plan that we're trying to shoot a movie before I go out on this tour.
[125:25]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[125:25]
Brian Bates
It's looking like we were. We. Whether it's the one that's in the article or it's another one.
[125:30]
Aaron Weber
One.
[125:31]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[125:31]
Brian Bates
And there's a chance it could be another one. Not that article. There's. There's a chance. Yeah, but. And not that the other one would be shot. It just. We're trying to do a. There's just a very tight window with the tour schedule and so. Yeah. I wonder if I'm supposed to talk about this stuff or not, now that I think about it. But I don't know, you know.
[125:51]
Aaron Weber
Is it called Sicario 2?
[125:53]
Brian Bates
It's the third one.
[125:54]
Aaron Weber
Third, yeah.
[125:55]
Brian Bates
Because there's already a second.
[125:56]
Aaron Weber
There's already.
[125:56]
Brian Bates
So I'm doing a third one, and it's laser tag.
[126:02]
Aaron Weber
The PG version.
[126:03]
Brian Bates
The PG version.
[126:04]
John Reap
More or less violence.
[126:05]
Brian Bates
It's laser tag. And you get a lot of Ted Gummon.
[126:08]
Aaron Weber
Rats.
[126:09]
John Reap
You cartel.
[126:11]
Brian Bates
Got me again. I might have to go back to Charlie Chaplin. Cause I'm gonna be so. Well, these words are just so mean now. And so I go back, I'm bringing back silent movies where we can just be very nice to each other and just slap you on the head and do.
[126:25]
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
[126:26]
Nate Bargatze
You've come a long way from. Words are all that matters matter now.
[126:30]
Brian Bates
I do. One words. Yeah. Let's just say I'm gonna have a lot of fun movies come out. All right. We probably gotta be done.
[126:40]
John Reap
Yeah, probably.
[126:40]
Brian Bates
We probably didn't even get it into all acting.
[126:42]
Nate Bargatze
No.
[126:42]
Aaron Weber
Oh, no.
[126:43]
John Reap
Maybe one thing surface.
[126:44]
Brian Bates
Well, that'd be good. We're do acting and. And throw in some Charlie Chaplin.
[126:47]
John Reap
Okay.
[126:48]
Brian Bates
Yeah. All right.
[126:48]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. You gotta imagine how great of a stunt guy that guy was.
[126:54]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just his charisma, like, could have. He's like a athlete.
[126:58]
Aaron Weber
Yes.
[126:58]
Brian Bates
A real athlete.
[127:00]
Aaron Weber
Like, he. He would be a stunt guy today. Yeah. I mean, if he was, you know.
[127:04]
Brian Bates
He was smooth the way he could.
[127:06]
Aaron Weber
You know, a whole building would fall down around him.
[127:09]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah.
[127:10]
Aaron Weber
That's insane.
[127:10]
Brian Bates
Yeah. All right. I have no idea where I'll be. I think I'll just announce.
[127:17]
Nate Bargatze
Big dumb eyes tore out.
[127:18]
Brian Bates
I got a big tour.
[127:19]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[127:21]
Brian Bates
Yes, it is. Pre sale starts today. Eyes. Eyes is the code. Go get that. If you don't see your city, your city will be added, I promise you. It's just what we have for the 25. So. Yeah, go that. Yeah.
[127:37]
Aaron Weber
Boom. Look at that.
[127:38]
Nate Bargatze
Doing a little show in New York.
[127:40]
Brian Bates
Little New York. Yeah. Madison.
[127:41]
Nate Bargatze
Little New York.
[127:42]
Brian Bates
September 27th. Madison Square Garden. Yeah. That's crazy. You're doing Nashville, right? Yeah, Nashville, Bridgestone. That's in December. So it's like a year from probably close to now.
[127:53]
Aaron Weber
That's near you.
[127:54]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[127:56]
John Reap
Well, December 13th. Just funny. That's what it was. December 13th, I'll be at hyenas comedy club.
[128:02]
Brian Bates
All right. This is the one that got you back.
[128:04]
John Reap
Yep.
[128:05]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yep. We need some tickets. I mean, well, it's. It's looking good. He goes, hey, thank you. Yeah. Where's your cam? We don't even give you a camera. He's kind of in the middle. Hey, he's doing all right.
[128:22]
Nate Bargatze
He's between two cameras.
[128:23]
Brian Bates
He's between two cameras.
[128:24]
John Reap
It was so funny, though, because Nate was getting real. We need to talk. Then he felt bad. He's like, nah, he's doing good.
[128:30]
Brian Bates
He's doing good. You know what? We need people to sell their tickets. Hyenas this weekend. Sell your tickets. Brian Brace.
[128:39]
John Reap
December 13th.
[128:40]
Aaron Weber
That's it.
[128:40]
John Reap
And then January 3rd and 4th, I met Comedy off Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky. Great way to start the new year.
[128:46]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. I'm actually going to be there this coming weekend.
[128:48]
Brian Bates
All right.
[128:49]
Aaron Weber
I'll be at the comedy off Broadway, Lexington, December 5, 6, and 7.
[128:53]
Brian Bates
It's the best.
[128:53]
Aaron Weber
And then I'm going to Florida. Then Wilmington, North Carolina. Raleigh, North Carolina, Charlotte for the rest of the year.
[129:01]
Brian Bates
Oh, like you be at home. Kind of.
[129:04]
Aaron Weber
Pretty much a little North Carolina run. Stay close to the family for the holidays. Yeah.
[129:07]
John Reap
Easier to drive.
[129:08]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Yep.
[129:09]
Nate Bargatze
I got a private show this weekend. Then I'm back. I'm back doing public shows.
[129:14]
Brian Bates
Oh, you're going back to public. Back to public shows. You are going to allow the public to see.
[129:18]
Nate Bargatze
That's right.
[129:19]
Brian Bates
Your ideals.
[129:20]
Nate Bargatze
That's right. December 13th, Florence, Alabama, @ the shoals theater.
[129:24]
Brian Bates
For Laura was born in Florence.
[129:26]
Nate Bargatze
Beautiful town, Beautiful theater. Come out and see me. And then 2025, I'm everywhere. Detroit, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Boston, Hartford, Connecticut.
[129:36]
Brian Bates
All of it.
[129:36]
Nate Bargatze
Kansas City, everywhere.
[129:37]
Brian Bates
So check it out.
[129:38]
Nate Bargatze
Aaron Weber.
[129:39]
Brian Bates
I'm.
[129:39]
Nate Bargatze
This is Aaron.
[129:40]
Brian Bates
Yeah. And that's all public next year.
[129:41]
Nate Bargatze
Those are all public shows.
[129:42]
Brian Bates
Next year's public shows.
[129:43]
Nate Bargatze
I'm done with private shows next year.
[129:45]
Brian Bates
Yeah, I bet there's still be.
[129:46]
Nate Bargatze
I got a few.
[129:47]
Brian Bates
He's got a few. Yeah, he's got a few, but he's not going to talk about.
[129:49]
Nate Bargatze
I won't even mention them.
[129:50]
Brian Bates
Won't even. You won't need you to know.
[129:52]
Nate Bargatze
I'm not. You know, I could be working.
[129:54]
Brian Bates
He could be working. And I am working. It's just a private group hired him.
[129:58]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[129:58]
Aaron Weber
Private detective group.
[129:59]
Brian Bates
Yeah, Private detective group. All right, I think that's it. John, good to see you.
[130:05]
Aaron Weber
Good to see you guys. Thanks for having me.
[130:08]
Brian Bates
I mean, you just fit right in with us.
[130:10]
Nate Bargatze
You don't even feel like a guest.
[130:11]
Aaron Weber
Yeah, that's exactly what I want.
[130:13]
Brian Bates
You're kind of not a guest. You've been on like you're. You're in with us.
[130:16]
Nate Bargatze
I think you have the record now.
[130:18]
Aaron Weber
I'll be alternate. Dusty alternate. You know.
[130:20]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[130:21]
Aaron Weber
If he's been on quite a few times.
[130:23]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Greg's John Reed, Greg Warren. Like the guys that have come in and hung out.
[130:27]
Aaron Weber
Yeah. Honored to be a regular.
[130:30]
Brian Bates
Yeah. All right, we love you. See you next week. Bye. Nate Land is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nate Land podcast. Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest. Life comes at you fast, which is why it's important to find some time to relax a little you time. Enter Chumba Casino. With no download required, you can jump.
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So how about a Cosmopolitan or a Mistletoe margarita? I'm thirsty.
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