231: #231 Fairy Tales

Summary

The Nateland Podcast Summary: Episode #231 "Fairy Tales"

Released on December 18, 2024

Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay
Produced by: Audioboom Studios

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1. Festive Beginnings and Holiday Banter

The episode kicks off with the hosts immersing themselves in holiday cheer, reflecting on seasonal traditions and family interactions.

• Nate Bargatze [00:00]: Opens with a humorous take on the McRib's seasonal return, setting a lighthearted tone for the episode.

• Brian Bates [01:07]: Shares excitement about the impending snowfall in Nashville, expressing hope for a "magical snowfall" during the Christmas season.

• Nate Bargatze [01:24]: Engages in a charming conversation with his daughter about her favorite song, humorously highlighting her affection for "Let It Go" from Frozen.

  "She says, because of Elsa. That's some real circular reasoning."
  — Nate Bargatze [02:11]

2. Behind the Scenes: Las Vegas Adventures

The conversation shifts to personal anecdotes from the hosts' recent trips, particularly Nate's experience in Las Vegas.

• Nate Bargatze [03:39]: Describes spending a night in Las Vegas with fellow hosts, enjoying cigars and socializing at the Wynn casino.

• Brian Bates [04:10]: Promotes Nate's "Big Dumb Eyes World Tour," highlighting the camaraderie and support among the hosts.

• Nate Bargatze [04:51]: Discusses his aversion to gambling, sharing a personal fear of developing an addictive personality despite enjoying the social aspects of the trip.

  "If I gamble and win, I'll be chasing that."
  — Nate Bargatze [05:08]

3. Promoting Upcoming Specials and Shows

The hosts take turns promoting their upcoming comedy specials and shows, maintaining an engaging and organic flow.

• Brian Bates [09:27]: Announces a special taping at the Walker Theater in Chattanooga, Tennessee, directing listeners to purchase tickets at DustySlay.com.

• Nate Bargatze [10:48]: Continues to support fellow hosts by sharing positive experiences and encouraging attendance at their shows.

• Aaron Weber [12:07]: Highlights Dusty Slay's appearance on The Tonight Show and Today Show, emphasizing his widespread recognition.

  "And you'll see Nate on The Tonight Show tonight."
  — Brian Bates [09:03]

4. Engaging with Listener Feedback

Transitioning from promotions, the hosts delve into listener comments, fostering a community-driven atmosphere.

• Brian Bates [14:32]: Introduces listener comments collected from various platforms, inviting Dusty to address them.

• Nate Bargatze [30:08]: Reads a heartfelt comment from Donna Whirly, praising the synergy between rock music and comedy on the podcast.

  "Bonding with people over your shared love of rock and comedy... Long live rock and Nateland."
  — Nate Bargatze [32:13]

• Carrie Mueller [33:03]: Expresses disappointment in a previous episode's focus on Southern and classic rock, suggesting inclusion of bands like Aerosmith and Metallica.

  "There are so many amazing rock bands you didn't mention like Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Metallica..."
  — Carrie Mueller [33:03]

  The hosts humorously defend their choices while acknowledging the breadth of rock music.

5. Deep Dive into Fairy Tales

The heart of the episode revolves around an in-depth discussion of fairy tales, exploring their origins, morals, and modern interpretations.

• Aaron Weber [69:47]: Begins defining fairy tales, distinguishing them from folk tales and fables.

  "Fables generally have a message... like the tortoise and the hare."
  — Aaron Weber [70:09]

• Brian Bates [75:17]: Shares a detailed critique of "Flora's Magic Flute," highlighting inconsistencies and the transformative power of music within the story.

  "For as long as the fairies could remember, every day had been clear and sunny... Flora's music made the other fairies remember."
  — Nate Bargatze [75:58]

• Discussion Highlights:

  • Origins and Evolution: The hosts trace fairy tales back to oral traditions, noting how stories like "Hansel and Gretel" and "The Three Little Pigs" have darker original versions that were later sanitized for children.

  • Moral Lessons: Emphasis on how fairy tales impart lessons, such as not succumbing to greed ("The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg") or the virtues of perseverance ("The Tortoise and the Hare").

  • Modern Adaptations: Analysis of contemporary interpretations and how they differ from classic narratives, often incorporating modern morals and societal norms.

  • Listener Stories: Dusty Slay shares an anecdote about "The Grateful Dead," connecting it to personal experiences and the influence of music on life trajectories.

    "This could be a story about art and how art gives us perspective in life."
    — Brian Bates [78:53]

6. Concluding Remarks and Future Plans

As the episode wraps up, the hosts summarize their discussions and preview upcoming content.

• Brian Bates [113:35]: Outlines his schedule for upcoming shows in Detroit, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio, directing listeners to AaronWeberCompany.com for details.

• Nate Bargatze [115:30]: Mentions his final show of the year at a casino in Grant, Oklahoma, and encourages military personnel to attend his performances at various Air Force bases.

• Final Thoughts: The hosts reflect on the episode's themes, blending humor with insightful commentary on storytelling and cultural narratives.

  "This has been a really good podcast. A bit of a Cinderella story, this podcast."
  — Nate Bargatze [116:49]

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Notable Quotes

• Nate Bargatze [05:08]: "If I gamble and win, I'll be chasing that."

• Brian Bates [09:03]: "And you'll see Nate on The Tonight Show tonight."

• Nate Bargatze [30:17]: "Rock music was a great episode."

• Carrie Mueller [33:03]: "There are so many amazing rock bands you didn't mention like Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Metallica..."

• Nate Bargatze [75:58]: "Flora's music made the other fairies remember."

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Conclusion

Episode #231 of The Nateland Podcast masterfully blends humor with thoughtful discussions, centering around the timeless allure of fairy tales. The hosts engage listeners with personal stories, interactive feedback, and insightful analyses, all while maintaining their signature comedic flair. Whether reminiscing about Las Vegas escapades or dissecting the morals of classic stories, Nate, Brian, Aaron, and Dusty create an enriching and entertaining experience for both long-time fans and new listeners alike.

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Note: All promotional segments, advertisements, and non-content sections have been excluded to focus solely on the episode's substantive discussions.

Transcript

[Nate Bargatze]

Lights are going up. Snow is falling down. There's a feeling of goodwill around town. It could only mean one thing. McRib is here. People throwing parties. Ugly sweaters everywhere. Stockings hung up by the chimney with care. It could only mean one thing. McRib is here.

[Brian Bates]

Participate at McDonald's for a limited time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Nateland Podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Hello, folks.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, Bear.

[Nate Bargatze]

Boom. We're having a good time here. It's a. It's a. I'm here with Brian Bates, as always. We've been having a good time. We do the ad reads before now, and we've been having a lot of fun. I'm here with Aaron Weber as well.

[Brian Bates]

I like that because we're already kind of rocking and rolling. Yeah, it feels good.

[Nate Bargatze]

These guys are two of my best friends, and I'm just happy to be here with them.

[Brian Bates]

It's the most wonderful time of year, too, and I can feel it. There's a magic in the air. It's gross weather in Nashville right now. We're on the cusp of a good snow. Can't you feel it? It's just kind of gross rain right now, but something's going to turn. Something's going to happen. We're going to get a magical snowfall here in the Christmas season.

[Nate Bargatze]

My daughter, earlier, I asked her what her favorite song. I'm trying to have conversation with her. She says, the snow. The Elsa song.

[Brian Bates]

Let it snow, Let it, Let It Go.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I'm not a big fan of it, but I can recognize that. Let It Go. It is a good song.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's catchy.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a good song. And the girl that sings it really does a good job.

[Brian Bates]

Adena Manzel.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, she really.

[Brian Bates]

Broadway legend, John Travolta.

[Nate Bargatze]

She really belts it out.

[Aaron Weber]

Your guy, John Travolta. Remember when he butchered her name?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I have seen that clip. But Adele something. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I asked her what was her favorite song? She said, that. And I said, why is that your favorite song? She said, because of the snow. And then I go, you do love the snow. I go, why do you love the snow? And she said, because of Elsa. That's some real circular reasoning.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's smart.

[Brian Bates]

Your daughter's trapped in a loop.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

She likes to eat snow.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, country singer Zach Bryan asked people what's their favorite Christmas movie? And Dusty commented, yeah, Mr. Non Christmas.

[Brian Bates]

But you said you can still enjoy a Christmas movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Home Alone.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

National Lampoon. Christmas Vacation.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Not a Christmas movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

How is it not?

[Aaron Weber]

That's a Thanksgiving movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is it?

[Aaron Weber]

They're trying to get home for Thanksgiving.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's been a while since I seen it.

[Brian Bates]

That's how little Dusty celebrates the holiday.

[Nate Bargatze]

Think about this, though. Think about this. John Candy's got nowhere to go, right? He's there for Thanksgiving. He's going to be there for Christmas, probably. So come on, you're not getting rid of that guy.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a fair point.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's funny, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was wondering why no one said it. I was like, this is such a good movie. Why are you not saying it?

[Aaron Weber]

I almost replied. Zach, don't listen to Dusty. That's a Thanksgiving movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, it's embarrassing. Been embarrassed on Twitter and now publicly.

[Brian Bates]

On this podcast about Groundhog's Day. Is that a good Christmas movie?

[Nate Bargatze]

Born on the 4th of July, but. Well, I'm, you know, officially embarrassed now. And. Yeah, thank you for that.

[Brian Bates]

Well, we're learning. It's an exciting time here at Nateland. A lot going on. This is a busy time of year. Nate's not here. But you know what Nate's got going on? He's got the big Dumb Eyes World Tour that's on sale now.

[Nate Bargatze]

I just saw Nate.

[Brian Bates]

You did see him in Vegas, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

I was in Las Vegas this past week. It's a great time. And Nate was there for a night.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And we hung out.

[Brian Bates]

How was that?

[Nate Bargatze]

We hung. It was great. He had his crew there. I had my crew there. And we hung out at the the Win.

[Brian Bates]

The Win.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a very nice casino.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I had about 14 cigars. And because I don't gamble, I don't drink, there's nothing for me to do, so I'm just carrying around an ashtray in one of the nicest hotels I've ever been in.

[Brian Bates]

You got to have one vice.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you're there smoking a cigar, I love it. And it was great. Nick Novaki was there having a cigar and a couple of glasses of wine, and Nick was pretty lit up. It's a good time, and it was fun. We all hung, and Nate was very nice to my openers. Vince Fabra, Connor Larson, very nice to those guys and took care of them, and it was a good time.

[Brian Bates]

That's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was like. I was very thankful for it because I was like, oh, good, Nate. Shown him a good time. Now I don't have to, because I hate fun. Everybody knows that about me. I hate fun. Right. People think when I'm having fun, it's a good time, but I'm like, no, I hate this.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, how do you show them a good time? Like, what are y'all doing?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, they gambled, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

They did a little craps and a game called Baccarat, maybe. And I sat down, one of the guys tried to coax me into playing, offered me money. I turned it down.

[Brian Bates]

The nerve.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I know.

[Brian Bates]

The audacity.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, it was nice of him.

[Brian Bates]

It was a nice job.

[Nate Bargatze]

All of his crew was very nice to me. And they're fans of this podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

And they were all very nice and. But. And they were having fun. But I'm not into. This is one. There is a moral thing that I. That I'm against gambling. But also, this is my fear. I feel like I got a little addictive personality.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

To a degree. If I do something and I like it, it's hard for me not to do it again.

[Brian Bates]

So if you play one hand of craps, you're going to do whatever the gambling equivalent of 34 cigars is.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. If. Well, if I gamble and win, if I lose, well, I'll be like, oh, that sucks. I never want to lose my money again. My fear is that I will win, and then I'll be chasing that. Remember? I don't know if that podcast has actually come out yet. We recorded one a while back, and I told you that it was a New Year's, 1999. I think maybe it was 98 going into 99 that I danced with this. I was in high school, and I danced with this college girl at a party, and it was a lot of fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I chased that New Year's until I quit drinking.

[Brian Bates]

And you never got there?

[Nate Bargatze]

I never got there again. Now, I had some girlfriends over New Year's, but never to say it won't still happen. Well, I think my wife is to say. But. But, yeah. So it's like I am afraid that I'll win and I'll. And what? Because obviously gambling has a grip on people now.

[Brian Bates]

It does. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm not saying everybody that gambles has a problem.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I'm saying there's an allure to it.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

That I don't want to be enticed by. I'm sure you guys do a little sports gambling, but I don't think you're addicts out here.

[Brian Bates]

No, no. I'll go big swaths of time without even thinking about it. And then you're like, well, I want to watch this game. I want to make it a little fun. Yeah, let's have a little Investment in this game.

[Nate Bargatze]

I can't even get you guys to buy into sports being rigged yesterday. And I watched a lot of football this year turn on the Titans game. Yeah, I'm watching it almost immediately. There's the. One of the worst calls I've ever seen. Hurts the Titans momentum. And I'm like, I text you guys about it and you're both like, ah, it's part of the game.

[Brian Bates]

It is part of the game. But Brian brought up a good point. There are still bad calls. Obviously. That's just part of it. That's part of. Humans are fallible, right? That's part of it. But there are fewer bad calls because of the instant replay, because of the review process.

[Nate Bargatze]

I just think that went in. Everybody seemed upset by it. The announcers seemed upset by it. Obviously the Titans coach, I watched enough football.

[Brian Bates]

You just. There's so many.

[Nate Bargatze]

But then I.

[Brian Bates]

Bad calls. It's part of the game.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's why. And then I, As I watch later, I keep watching the Titans play and I go, oh, it don't matter. They got. They ain't gonna do nothing.

[Aaron Weber]

Even when the play happened, I'm like, it matter. It does not matter.

[Brian Bates]

If the season were on the line or something, it'd be a bigger deal.

[Nate Bargatze]

They looked really bad. I mean, I didn't watch for very long. I have kids. It is hard to watch now. But, you know, I watched long enough to see a Bengals player. I don't know if he intercepted or he just almost ran a touchdown and then just dropped the ball about the one yard line.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I'm like, so much.

[Nate Bargatze]

They're like, they're giving it to the Titans and the Titans are like, now we don't want to, we don't want to mess with it. We're trying to get that draft.

[Aaron Weber]

You think he had money on the game and right when he got there, he's thinking about the points?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I don't think so. I think the. I think sports is rigged through the officials, not through the players.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now, there might be a player once in a while that. But I feel like it's too risky to get caught.

[Brian Bates]

Well, if the NFL is conspiring against the Tennessee Titans, they're doing a good job.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you're, if you're an NFL fan, if you want to learn more about this, Nate will be on the Netflix NFL Christmas game day as a special guest commentator. That's Christmas Day, 1pm Eastern only on Netflix. We hope we get. They get those streaming issues figured out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you mean to do you just read that. Do you want me to do this now?

[Brian Bates]

I'm just trying. I'm trying to weave these in.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like that.

[Brian Bates]

Organically.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like that.

[Brian Bates]

So you guys keep talking. I'm going to find a way.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, you've already done to.

[Brian Bates]

I've already worked through Nate's. Now I'm going to try to find a way to weave in that. You've got a low ticket alert for your special taping Feb. 28 at the Walker Theater in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And that's find a way to get that.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can get those tickets@dusty slay.com.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I've talked to Danielle Alfano at the Comedy Cat, right? And she messaged me and said so. So are we racing? She said the green room's almost done.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

We just need to name it. She wants to name the green room. And I think if I beat her.

[Brian Bates]

It'Ll be called the Dusty Sleigh Green.

[Nate Bargatze]

Room, which it should be called anyway. But if I beat her club, basically. Exactly. That's what I've always said. And. But you know, I, I'm, I'm into it. You know, since I went to Canada and I swam in the water and I realized that my shoulders are not as in good a shape as they used to be, I've been doing a few exercises to keep the shoulders just that, you know, various things. I'm not going to bust into full on exercise, but just some kind of stuff to keep it flowing.

[Aaron Weber]

Water aerobics.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I feel good. I mean, you give me. I'm. I'm. Again, long distance is never going to be my thing, but I'm, I'm in for a Short 1. Olympic siiz pool distance. Not back, not there and back. Not there and back.

[Brian Bates]

Just there. 100 meters.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, whatever.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, okay. All right. That's not nothing.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I mean.

[Brian Bates]

Long distance. Let me get a couple of things out of the way and then we can really get into what we want to talk about.

[Nate Bargatze]

But do buy some tickets to that.

[Brian Bates]

Do buy some tickets. Low ticket alert for Dusty's next special. We don't know where the special will be, but you saw the last one on Netflix and the next one's going to be just as good, if not better. This kid is getting good at comedy. Mike Vecchione, who's a friend of the podcast, he's been on a few times.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's not personally of ours, but of the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, how well do you know? I know Mike. I like him. Are you friends with him.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I do like him.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah. He's the man. He's being.

[Nate Bargatze]

We went to Hattie B's one time, and he ordered, like, a broiled chicken or something.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Nate Bargatze]

And it took a long time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because Hattie Beast was not ready for that. They were like, what? This guy's broiled? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he's very health conscious. I'm sure it was something to do with, you know, he takes cold showers. He's that kind of guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He stayed. But his next hour special right here in Nashville, December 28th. You can still get tickets at Nashville, zanies.com and of course, check out our sister podcast, the Consumers. Every Tuesday. Don't make me come back there. Every Thursday. A lot going on here at NA Land. A lot going on in Nashville. It's an exciting time.

[Nate Bargatze]

How do you think Greg Warren, get on board feels about you calling his podcast the System?

[Brian Bates]

I hope he. Honestly, it'd be nice for him to just feel something at his age, just to feel anything.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Geez.

[Brian Bates]

That was a lot.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

I like Craig a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm shout out to Dustin Nickerson, the Tonight Show. It would have been last night.

[Brian Bates]

Did he really? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you didn't know that?

[Brian Bates]

No, I didn't know that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's Nickerson did the Tonight show on Tuesday. If you're watching this when the show comes out. Nate's doing the Tonight show tonight.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Jimmy Fallon.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And I think he's doing the Today show. Also doing the Today show and the Tonight.

[Brian Bates]

It's everywhere.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And then.

[Brian Bates]

Except here.

[Nate Bargatze]

The tomorrow show. There should be a tomorrow show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

When would it air?

[Nate Bargatze]

Tomorrow.

[Aaron Weber]

And did you mention. Did you mention the Christmas special?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I did, but I think people are pretty sick.

[Nate Bargatze]

I thought you did, but no, it's tomorrow night.

[Brian Bates]

It airs on cbs.

[Nate Bargatze]

I hate that I'll be gone. I'm doing some military shows this weekend, and I'll be gone on Thursday.

[Brian Bates]

What does a military show mean?

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm doing Air Force bases. I'm doing Little Rock, Arkansas, Air Force Base, Columbus, Mississippi, and Shreveport, Louisiana.

[Brian Bates]

Are these private shows or just like uso? What is it?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think it's private for the military.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, right.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I still, you know, there may be people that are at that Air Force base list that listens to this podcast and has no idea.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Hop on in there.

[Nate Bargatze]

I want them to come.

[Brian Bates]

That's exciting.

[Aaron Weber]

And Nate's Netflix special comes out next Tuesday.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a big week for Nate, for everyone.

[Aaron Weber]

Not for me, it's a big week for a little Christmas shopping to finish.

[Nate Bargatze]

And, yeah, you gotta have a little positivity in your life. It's a big week. Listen, if we're all part of this podcast, if Nate's boats rising, we're all rising here.

[Aaron Weber]

Rising tide lifts all boats.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. If his boat's rising, our boats are rising. Unless it's sinking. Is your sinking?

[Aaron Weber]

Mine's taking on some water.

[Brian Bates]

But the analogy is Nate's the tide, not a boat. Not a boat.

[Nate Bargatze]

Maybe not my analogy. My analogy is that he's a boat. So we're all boats.

[Brian Bates]

So what's the tide rising? What is it?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's good fortune.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

His boat's rising, and so we're all in the ocean too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So our boats are rising, too.

[Brian Bates]

Has nothing to do with Nate.

[Nate Bargatze]

Tide is the success.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay. It's just wafted over all of us.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, we're all in a. We're all in the neat land universe. Is the water right? And we're boats in it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, that's beautiful.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Nate's a cruise ship.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm trying to bring you guys in here.

[Brian Bates]

I know. I appreciate it. I'm just trying to understand the analogy, guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

You guys want to be anchored down to the bottom of ocean while Nate's boat goes up? I'm saying we're all in this together.

[Brian Bates]

Let's plow ahead here.

[Nate Bargatze]

30 knots wants us all to succeed.

[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

So about a weekend.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Where were you, Brian? You were in Dallas Friday.

[Aaron Weber]

I was in Fort Worth at.

[Brian Bates]

Sorry, not Dallas. Fort Worth. Big difference, they say.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Especially for people who live there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I think Fort Worth is probably more particular about that than Dallas.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. Here's a great thing about Southwest for a short time, airlines.

[Nate Bargatze]

You say some good things, I'll say some bad things.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Southwest Airlines.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

What were you thinking?

[Brian Bates]

I think the Southwest, like the part of the country.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, right. Southwest Airlines. I get to my gate Friday, my buddy Rick Roberts on the same flight, going and coming back. We sit by each other on the flight, catch up the whole time. You can't do that on the other flight unless you happen to be. That's right beside him.

[Brian Bates]

So that's pretty nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you can't do it on southwest if he's a one and you're C15.

[Aaron Weber]

You can if he'll save you a middle seat.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So that was great. So anyway, I did hyenas Friday night. Fort Worth. Sold out, first show. So they said this at a second show.

[Nate Bargatze]

What'd you and Rick talk about?

[Aaron Weber]

We talked about you a little bit.

[Nate Bargatze]

What'd you say?

[Aaron Weber]

You know, just some.

[Brian Bates]

He's got some leaves he needs getting so big.

[Nate Bargatze]

I picked up leaves on the way to the show.

[Brian Bates]

He needs to get brought back down to earth somehow. I don't know what it's going to take, but he's just. The ego's out of control.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's what it was.

[Nate Bargatze]

Probably okay.

[Brian Bates]

Something like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

So you. Well, Rick would say that.

[Brian Bates]

No, he wouldn't.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm just kidding. I love Rick. So you sold out the first show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Boom Boom added a second show. Did not sell that one out. What's the opposite of a selling out?

[Nate Bargatze]

But there's nothing.

[Brian Bates]

You did it, though.

[Nate Bargatze]

This happens to me sometimes. And there's nothing more sad. You sell out a show and then they go, let's add another one. And then when you add that second one, you find out how many tickets you can sell in that City. And you're like, ugh, should have kept it at the 1.

[Brian Bates]

When you add a show, anything less than another sellout feels like a disappointment.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I could have just done one really great show. Yeah, but I did. Well, I don't know. Was the second one good? I mean, sometimes those shows can be the most fun.

[Aaron Weber]

It was fun. It was still fun. A lot fewer people, but fun. We just got. We got loose, had some fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Brian got weird and.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you get dirty?

[Aaron Weber]

A little dirty.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, I've been trying to get you to do it. I said last week on Nateland Live here, I said, they call him Breakfast Bates because he's the best meal of the day. Now, I. I know it's most important, but I said best meal. And. And I like that. And then I said, I want to be Brian's manager and I want him to get dirtier.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I got a little string of church shows I got to do first.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Get those out of the way.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm ready for Edgy Bates. I think a bandana. Not total bandana, but. But bandana. Like. Like Willie Nelson kind of bandana.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, no.

[Nate Bargatze]

Roll it up like an, you know, 80s biker gang, you know, maybe do the cut off gloves.

[Aaron Weber]

So you used to want me to do that thing to grow my hair.

[Nate Bargatze]

I still do.

[Aaron Weber]

Now you want me to cover it up. You just don't like.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, just this. Just this. Okay, so you still have the hair. I still want you to do the hair thing and. Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm talking about. Grow a mustache.

[Aaron Weber]

Is there anything about me you like?

[Brian Bates]

Dusty change everything.

[Nate Bargatze]

I love it all. But what I'm saying is your point of view.

[Brian Bates]

Get rid of it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like to see people switch it up. Aaron switches it up your stupid face.

[Brian Bates]

How do I switch it up?

[Nate Bargatze]

Aaron used to be clean shaven and only wear khakis.

[Brian Bates]

I had long hair, no beard, khakis. It was a wild look. Yeah, I thought I was crushing it at the time.

[Nate Bargatze]

You were, though.

[Brian Bates]

And then you go. Then you. I was not. That's very nice of you to say.

[Nate Bargatze]

But he's switching it up. I like to see him switching it up.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, thanks, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, do just shave a couple of lines in the side of your head.

[Aaron Weber]

Just something different.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. Get a gold tooth.

[Brian Bates]

Just one wear in the mouth.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right here.

[Brian Bates]

Right in the front.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Huh.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, again, Dusty, I like me for me. And if you don't like me for me, then that's your problem.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's not about not liking it.

[Brian Bates]

You.

[Nate Bargatze]

And it's not about you not liking yourself.

[Aaron Weber]

You would just like me more if I.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, it's like. It's like an adventure. Yeah, it's like an adventure. You come in, you give Ruth some attitude. Tell your kid to go to a room.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You wear a leather vest.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

Then I come in with bruises on my face.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but now it looks like you've been into a. You know, like a gang fight.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, why. While Aaron's working on whatever he's working on here. Where were you, Dusty?

[Nate Bargatze]

I was in Las Vegas. I did a show at the David Copperfield Theater at the MGM Grand. I was a lot of fun. Vegas is not for me, though, I'll tell you that. I. I talk about all the time how I miss being able to smoke cigarettes inside of places. But Vegas is the type of place where you go, I wish we couldn't do this because it's too much.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is just too much. It's too loud. I'm. I'm old, I guess. It's too loud. It's too. What do you call it when you get dirty? When there's just. Yeah, well, it's dirty. There's just too much light over stimulation.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. It is a lot of lights and colors.

[Nate Bargatze]

And this is what I noticed. I went. I was walking around with Connor. We got there early. I was going to do a daytime cigar because I had the. I had a free day. And all we wanted was two chairs sitting next to each other where we could just talk to each other.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Couldn't find it. No, couldn't find it. There's no chairs unless you're at a. A table or a slot machine.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And there's no. There's nowhere to set anything down.

[Brian Bates]

Once you go to bottle service at.

[Nate Bargatze]

A club somewhere, everything's got a little slant to it. In the casino, everywhere, you can't set anything down. I.

[Brian Bates]

You said all the tables are at an angle.

[Nate Bargatze]

Everything. There's nowhere to set anything down. Water. 750. I'm dehydrated.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

There was no desert. There was no coffee pot or tea kettle in the room. I'm a big tea guy. I asked for a tea. I had a hotel contact. In the end, the guy hooked me up.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I messaged him about 1pm and he goes, I get in at 3. I'm gonna try to take care of it for you. It wasn't until I got back to my hotel around midnight that the Tea kettle was finally there. I messaged him earlier. I go, do you think the tea kettle's gonna come?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And he goes, when I got in, there were 700 deliveries in front of you. And I'm thinking, well, I'm not trying to be, you know, whatever, a diva, but I am doing a show here.

[Brian Bates]

I am a public figure, and I'm.

[Nate Bargatze]

Asking you this because my voice is going out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's always on the sign out there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not a L market.

[Nate Bargatze]

I just need a tea kettle. I need to be able to heat some water.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

700. I don't believe that.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then it finally came, and they hooked it up. I mean, they brought me a gallon of water.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, there you go.

[Nate Bargatze]

And some. A bunch of honey. And I was, you know, I was all set. I was making teas for the crew, and. But it was a really fun show. I met Steve Trevino, comedian.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And was great. We hung out a little bit. It was a lot of fun.

[Aaron Weber]

You met Nate Bargazzi?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I already know Nate, but I did see him and hung out with him.

[Aaron Weber]

And we hung out other night, all of us, after the show we did.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I wasn't there, and Dusty said if ever. If all of us would smoke a cigar, they'd have to just let us do it in here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. If everybody just started smoking, restaurants would finally go, all right, you know what? Do it in here. Do it. We need the best business.

[Brian Bates]

But if the whole restaurant agreed, let's light up right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They're not gonna kick us all out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right. They need the business.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And. But nobody will do it. Everybody likes fresh, clean air. I do like fresh, clean air, except for smoke. I like there to be smoke in it, But I. I don't like a lot of chemicals in the air. But anyway, it was a lot of fun. What about you, Aaron? Where were you at?

[Brian Bates]

I had a show in Florence, Alabama, at the Scholes Theater. The show was canceled. I found out not a lot of people were notified that the show was canceled. And in fact, tickets were still being sold the day of to a show that had been canceled for over a week. So I want to apologize to. I had a few people reach out and say, came to the theater, saw your name was not on the marquee. I wonder what happened. I bought tickets an hour ago, and then they found out the show was canceled. The event was not taken down from the ticket service. So, as you can imagine, a little frustrating to me. I feel bad that people drove. That people basically Wasted a Friday night to come see a show that had been canceled. So I'm sorry about that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I feel bad about that.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry to all three of you. Go ahead, Aaron.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, there's nothing better than thinking you're gonna see an Aaron Weber show and then it not happen.

[Brian Bates]

Or. Yeah. Or just any show.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, nothing specifically do with me specifically in Aaron Weber. Especially if they thought they were seeing beardless, long hair, khaki Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Fresh off falling off the side of a mountain.

[Brian Bates]

I had a beard at that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, let me tell you something. I was not hiking during that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm gonna tell you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Two favorite stories of both of you. Brian. My favorite story from Brian is bombing at the event with his mom there. That outdoor event.

[Brian Bates]

So great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because what I like about it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's my pain.

[Nate Bargatze]

No. Because it's not a reflection on Brian's comedy. That is a no win situation. And the fact that you had to do it in front of your mom is really sad. And then you had to sit with her. I would have told my mom, I'll see you later. I'll be back to pick you up. And then they tried to auction off two CDs.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Great story.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

My favorite Aaron story is that he was hiking and fell down the side of a mountain into a creek and had to climb himself back. Oh.

[Brian Bates]

Just. It was like, it could have been in a movie, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, Chris Farley, Black Sheep.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then walk back to the car, all muddy and then, like, covered in mud.

[Brian Bates]

It was wet and cold.

[Nate Bargatze]

And somebody said, some walking.

[Brian Bates]

I walked past a father and a daughter, and he goes, oh, you had your little fun out here, huh? It's like, no, it's actually one of the worst days of my life so far.

[Nate Bargatze]

But that's really funny.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it was obvious I had fallen in something. And he's like, oh, you had your good time, huh? But that's the energy people have at national parks.

[Nate Bargatze]

These are great.

[Brian Bates]

This is the old Aaron look right here. I mean, this is me on the biggest night of my career at the time. That's me on stage with Brad Paisley. And I thought, biggest night of my career. What do I break out? Let's get the hair nice and long. Let's get a Notre Dame windbreaker and then an Alabama State University hat backwards.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And that's the look. And I thought, golly, dude, if I get a photograph of this, my life will change.

[Aaron Weber]

Rick diamond came through for you.

[Brian Bates]

Rick Diamond.

[Nate Bargatze]

Rick Diamond's great.

[Brian Bates]

Every now and then.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you want to pay $800 for a picture yourself? He's the guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You have three of these. You have one in every room your house.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you just go on Getty Images and it's like, oh, do you want a high quality picture for $600? It's like, no.

[Nate Bargatze]

I did this show too with you, this Brad Paisley show.

[Brian Bates]

You were on the show and actually, if you look up Aaron Webber, Brad Paisley, it's also pictures of you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Which I don't appreciate.

[Nate Bargatze]

Years later, I did another show with Brad Paisley, Same club. I look. Whereas. Whereas you look completely different. I look exactly the same. Brad Paisley had no idea he could have never met me before.

[Brian Bates]

You know who else is on that show? Greg Warren. Isn't that funny?

[Nate Bargatze]

That is funny.

[Brian Bates]

It was the three of us. Pretty hot show.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was a hot show. Brad Paisley acted like he had never met me in his whole life. And I'll never forgive him.

[Brian Bates]

But here's him with his best friend, Post Malone.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, exactly. And that's why it doesn't matter to me. Because obviously he's sold out country music and who cares, right?

[Brian Bates]

He could not have been nicer to us.

[Nate Bargatze]

To you.

[Aaron Weber]

Because you're mad at me.

[Brian Bates]

Super nice to you in the moment. I remember I bombed that interaction because he was like, you know, I watched your videos, I liked you. But maybe tell me something about yourselves that I didn't know from your set. And Dusty goes, well, you know, I just. I love comedy. I like to smoke cigars. And he's like, oh, yeah, that's great. And then he goes to me and he goes, what about you? And I go, same, because I couldn't take what to say. And he goes, oh, all right. And then that was our only interaction.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but Brad Paisley liked me so much. That first interaction, he told me that me and him should get cigars together.

[Brian Bates]

I remember that.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then next time I see him, he doesn't even know who I am.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he meets a lot of people.

[Nate Bargatze]

Me too. Me too. Me too.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet there's some people you don't remember.

[Brian Bates]

Nah, you remember everybody.

[Nate Bargatze]

I meet a lot of country singers. I remember them all.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he might be doing a little bit better than you, Dusty, so it might be a little bit easier for you to remember him. He asked you if he could do anything for you, to help you out.

[Nate Bargatze]

He did. Both times.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So there you go.

[Nate Bargatze]

Second time I go, just remember me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, that's all I need.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I did message him. I said, hey, you had said that you do you. If I needed anything, reach out. So I did. And he didn't do it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's all right. It happens.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, let's get to our comments.

[Brian Bates]

Let's get into it, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I will say this. I just watched a reaction video to the song I'm gonna miss her. You know, the fishing song.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Great song.

[Brian Bates]

Of course.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really great song.

[Brian Bates]

Brad Paisley's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really great song.

[Aaron Weber]

Joking around is our thing here. But what we do take seriously is our socks.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

You're getting really good at ad rates.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. Donna Whirly.

[Brian Bates]

Great name.

[Nate Bargatze]

Rock music was a great episode.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Bonding with people over your shared love of rock and comedy greats is fun to do and kind of magical to watch, too. Long live rock and Nateland.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you, Donna.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's Very nice, Donna. I appreciate that. It is. I agree. Music and comedy is fun. I feel like as a comic. Comic. I get asked what comedians do I like the most and I feel like that I'm. I'm really more interested in music than comedy. And I think a lot of musicians are very into comedy. I think it's something about being into the thing you can't do. I wanna, I. I don't know if this comment is in here, but I want to address it.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I think it is. I don't even know what you're about to say, but I think it is.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, well, I'll save it.

[Aaron Weber]

Save it for the end.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. We'll save the gripes for the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Don't let me forget.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Because not everyone's as open minded about hearing other people's musical tastes. We'll say that. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Carrie Mueller. Hey guys. Love you all and the podcast, but I was disappointed in the rock music episode. There are so many amazing rock bands you didn't mention like Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Metallica and a lot newer bands like Shinedown or Skillet and so many others. Oh, you mainly focused on Southern and classic rock.

[Brian Bates]

What a failure that we didn't get to skill it this. I mean, what an oversight in our research.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is what I'll say. It's so funny that you go amazing rock bands and then the first two you mentioned are Aerosmith and Bon Jo.

[Brian Bates]

I like Aerosmithing and Bon Jovi.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like them. Yeah, but let's not put Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and Metallica in the same.

[Brian Bates]

I don't dream the Rolling Stones got mentioned the whole podcast either.

[Nate Bargatze]

Metallica is amazing. They're really good. I mean, you're right. You. But it's like. Carrie, come on. Have you listened? Is that your first episode listening to the very Carey?

[Brian Bates]

Quite contrary. We come on.

[Nate Bargatze]

We rarely cover everything of a subject.

[Brian Bates]

That's right. And no shade to Shine down or Skillet. Those are just two. Very funny. I don't even mention Shined down or Skill.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know any Shinedown or Skillet song. I'm not saying I wouldn't like them.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, talk about cake erasure.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's a Shine down song?

[Brian Bates]

God, they had a. I think those are two Christian bands.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think Shine Down. I might have heard Skillet. I've never heard of Skillet has some stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Those are Christian bands.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Skill it is.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I don't really know Shined Down.

[Nate Bargatze]

I appreciate the recommendation, Carrie. I will check Them out.

[Aaron Weber]

Out. No, you won't.

[Nate Bargatze]

I will. But Aerosmith. Listen, I like Aerosmith, but I was having a conversation with a friend who's a musician, Paul. Paul Farvar, and he was not into Aerosmith, and he said he doesn't think they're one of the all time greats. They. They caught. They latched on to a. They found a way to make catchy songs, and then it really has affected the way I hear them in the same way the Big Lebowski affected the way I hear the Eagles.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah. Or like that SNL sketch affected cowbell. Yes. You can't even Fear the Reaper song without hearing the cowbell. Now that's all they talk about. Yep. It happens.

[Nate Bargatze]

Princess Summerland.

[Brian Bates]

Great name.

[Nate Bargatze]

I see her comment a lot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, she's very nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

She's very nice. Yeah. This was a great episode.

[Brian Bates]

Carrie. I think we came at Carrie pretty hard.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Carrie's my best friend.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, sorry. Carrie Mueller. The Mueller report. I'd like to read your report. Right. All right, let's move it along, huh?

[Nate Bargatze]

That seemed to have some different. Like.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know what I'm talking.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'd like to read your report.

[Brian Bates]

The Mueller. Is that the Mueller report?

[Aaron Weber]

Is that the only Mueller?

[Brian Bates]

You know, that's the only Mueller, and I can't think of another one. Is there an athlete or something named Mueller?

[Nate Bargatze]

I knew an Alice Mueller. I went to church with with her.

[Aaron Weber]

Bob Mueller, longtime news anchor here in Nashville.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay. Sorry, Bob.

[Nate Bargatze]

So this was a great episode. Can't believe you don't know. Greg Almond and Cher were married and had a son, Elijah Blue Almond, who is lead in the band Deady. That's why they made their album together. Oh, well, I had no idea.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I didn't.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know a lot about Greg Almond or Cherry. And that blows my mind. I will say in that picture, Cher was so hot. I can't get over it.

[Brian Bates]

The picture with her.

[Nate Bargatze]

And he looked photoshopped into that picture with a very hot share.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Dusty couldn't get over.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, I. I just. Look at that. I mean, I can't find it.

[Brian Bates]

Golly. Album cover.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, just pick any of. I mean, Cheers shares. Hot. And I had no idea.

[Brian Bates]

He looks not good.

[Nate Bargatze]

I only know Old Chair had no idea.

[Aaron Weber]

You didn't know that she was younger at one time?

[Nate Bargatze]

I knew she'd be younger, but I know she was hot. You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, yeah. Last week Dustin said she was probably about your age there, but I bet she's Younger than that, especially if she's having a baby.

[Brian Bates]

That's 1977. When was Cher born? She was born. The Goddess of Pop. She was born in. Jeez, 1946. So she's 31 in that picture?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So that's about 10 years younger than me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Not bad.

[Nate Bargatze]

Royale With Cheese. This guy came around to me. Royale with Cheese. I've seen him comment a lot, but he's. He's commented some nasty things towards Royal.

[Brian Bates]

Royal with Cheese.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think it's like Royale Witches. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like Pulp Fiction.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like Pulp Fiction.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I don't get it.

[Nate Bargatze]

He really came. I said AI was demonic, and he really came at me.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, is this guy working, AI?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know. I. I. At one point, I thought it was Roy AI With Cheese. But he's come around. We're friends now. Oh, snap. Well, we'll see after this. Oh, snap. That Dusty Sl. Breakfast tension was legit. They'll probably say it wasn't next week, but that was real. No, it was real.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I don't deny anything. I don't care for Dusty.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't like him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Never liked him, but I have to work with him.

[Aaron Weber]

No professional.

[Nate Bargatze]

I made a joke that Brian likes to give his whole schedule at the end when we're giving out dates for next week. And it seemed. It seemed heated.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it seemed heated. I just think it was because it's the end of the episode, and I didn't realize. They don't see us joking for the next.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I didn't mean it that way, but I was just. I was trying to be funny. And then, yeah, it. It came out snippy.

[Brian Bates]

I'll say is we're lucky the cameras turned off because things got heated after. Yeah, last week's episode.

[Nate Bargatze]

It did.

[Brian Bates]

Punches were thrown. A lot of bad names were used.

[Aaron Weber]

That Dirty Brian came out.

[Brian Bates]

That's right. Dirty Brian.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, we did a show right after that, you know, and I introduced Brian, and I think he should do this always. I introduced him as Brian Breakfast Bates, and I said they call him Breakfast because he's the best meal of the day. I know. That's the second time I've said it on this podcast.

[Brian Bates]

You're clearly really proud of that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I'm getting. I'm trying to. Brand. Brand.

[Aaron Weber]

Second time, the last 10 minutes.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm a brand guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm a brand guy. I think you should smash an egg on your head on stage.

[Aaron Weber]

Roy, I so agree with you.

[Brian Bates]

That's the new Gallagher. He smashes an egg over his head. Every set.

[Aaron Weber]

Any cat.

[Nate Bargatze]

Gerald Floyd. All right, guys. I have been y'all.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I think supposed to be with y'all.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. I have been with you. Edit that out just for.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think so. I don't think so.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, guys. I have been with y'all since episode one. If have and have enjoyed most of them. But Aaron's comment on no one saying they like Elvis's music crossed the line.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, my goodness. I got a lot of people fired up.

[Brian Bates]

All I'm saying, and I think a lot of people will agree with this. I've been around people my whole life. I used to play in a band. I have friends that were obsessed with music. I've listened to a lot of music. I've been in the car with people before long drives where you listen to hours and hours of music. Not once has somebody going, yo, throw on Hound Dog by Elvis. Nobody listens to his music anymore. I'm sure you listen to it. Like, let's. Let's take a trip down nostalgia lane and think about Elvis. But nobody's pulling up Elvis's music.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is true.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I pulled it up this morning.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's immensely popular and. But it's like I've never been in a car and go, what do you want to listen to? Elvis.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, obviously some Elvis music.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've not never even been on a date trying to impress a girl, and that's put on this Elvis love song.

[Brian Bates]

That's not me trashing Elvis.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's just.

[Brian Bates]

That's a reality.

[Nate Bargatze]

I used to make out to old Pink Floyd albums.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Comfortably Numb. I would get Departed.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would go even older where it gets a little weirder. Oh, that was my move.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, Elvis not quite weird enough.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Brian Bates]

But Elvis is. I just don't think people care about his music like I have. Like other people.

[Aaron Weber]

An Alexa. My house. Sorry, bestie. They're listening.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, you don't mind spying on you?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't mind. And it'll put up suggestions and put up on the screen.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got no secrets. That's what I'm trying to do. Get you some secrets.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Then I'll need some privacy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Trying to get some skeletons in the closet, Brian wide open right now.

[Aaron Weber]

It suggested Elvis's Blue Christmas. I thought I hadn't heard that song in a while.

[Brian Bates]

Christmas is different. You know what I mean? Christmas albums.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Throw on some Elvis. Let's light a light up like the fire. Hang some chestnuts and put on some Elvis, but just in the car driving to work. Nobody's throwing on Elvis.

[Nate Bargatze]

This guy's name's Gerald for the most part. Gerald is an old school name.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

I gotta think Gerald is an old school guy.

[Brian Bates]

Not even old, just old school.

[Nate Bargatze]

Old school.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I got a brother in law named Gerald. It's an O but you know, at this point, my brother in law's 50. I forget that we're like, you know, we're getting old. But it's an old school name. I bet. I bet Gerald, my brother in law knows who Shined down and Skillet is.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe.

[Nate Bargatze]

But he also may put on an Elvis Christmas album.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you know, thanks for writing in Gerald.

[Aaron Weber]

Why would he know who Shined down the Skillet are if they're newer bands?

[Nate Bargatze]

My brother in law. Well, my brother in law is a real heavy metal guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I just think Shinedown and Skillet are heavy metal bands.

[Aaron Weber]

Christian.

[Brian Bates]

More like. It's like. No, it's not heavy metal. It's like rock music though. It's not bad. I actually did a festival.

[Nate Bargatze]

My brother in law likes Five Finger Death Punch. I think is a band which seems really intense.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they get intense. I met the one of the. Either the guitarist or the bassist opened for Big J Okerson in Las Vegas and I met him. He's a very nice guy. Guy. He does a little stand up.

[Nate Bargatze]

The heavy metal guys are always the nicest guys, of course, aren't they? It's like they're so nice, but deep down they got a darkness.

[Brian Bates]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Just like old Breakfast over here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he is a heavy metal comic. That's how I think about.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian covered that last week.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, okay. Just Jordan.

[Brian Bates]

Just Jordan.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just Jordan. I'm a hip hop artist from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

[Brian Bates]

The birthplace of hip hop.

[Nate Bargatze]

Edmonton's great though. It is very good.

[Brian Bates]

I love it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Very good beef.

[Brian Bates]

I love Edmonton.

[Nate Bargatze]

When Aaron mentioned Corey Wong and Corey Henry, I was very impressed.

[Brian Bates]

I appreciate that. Thank you. Corey Wong and Corey Henry, both unbelievable musicians. Two of my favorites. Sorry I attacked where you're from.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can't see my hands right now. But we were all very impressed. No, this is the comment that I wanted to say.

[Brian Bates]

My only regret is that I don't think Robert Plant. I'm picking my all time favorite. Not all time favorite, but my all time group. I wouldn't have put Robert Plant. Now I have the benefit of hindsight now. I thought about a little.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, I just felt like we were all pretty loose with it and Aaron's like, I'm putting together a real band. I'm thinking about calling these guys and see if they'll get together.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, they could. Outside of Robert Plant, I think it's possible. Yeah, a couple of those guys have played together. No, he's still alive.

[Nate Bargatze]

He might do it, but he's just. Yeah, he did an album with Allison Kraus.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, did he really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but that was 20 years ago and really bad. No, I. I was impressed with Aaron because I'll be honest, sometimes, and I don't mean this in any way, but sometimes I think that you have a fairly basic music taste sometimes. And then when you came out with all these musicians that I had never heard of, I was like, oh, maybe I'm out of touch.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, I don't think things could be true.

[Brian Bates]

I'll give you my honest opinion because we're friends and all and we'll just get into it. Yeah, I think you have. Of all the people I've met and of all the people I've talked about music with, you have the most narrow taste of anybody I've ever met. It's like there's like a five year range and within one genre where if it's not that you think it's garbage. I think I. Yeah, so I don't think I have a basic. I think I can find. I really do listen to almost everything and even pop songs that aren't as musically interesting as other stuff. I can enjoy it. And I don't mind listening to stuff that you would call basic. It's not my favorite stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I'm not saying that you're basic. I'm saying. You're saying I have basic tape sometimes with music if, like, I'll share some. I mean, like one time you really trashed a Tom Petty song that I really liked.

[Brian Bates]

What are you talking about?

[Nate Bargatze]

It made me sad.

[Brian Bates]

To this day, I like Tom Petty.

[Nate Bargatze]

There a Tom Petty southern accent song. It wasn't one of his greatest hits, but it's a bside and you said it, you didn't like it and, and hurt my feelings and.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I didn't hurt my feelings, but I was disappointed by it. But when you pulled out all these artists the other day that I had never heard of, I was like, whoa, where's this coming from?

[Brian Bates]

These aren't super obscure guys, but they're, they're musicians that I like.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then I'm reading through the comments and everybody's impressed.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think dude, Dusty got a little Jealous because he thought he was the music guy. And clearly you are.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I didn't think that I was. I can put together a playlist, but when you start breaking down people in the band and their names, I get lost a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

But I used to be super into me. I used to play with a group. I used to think I wanted to be a musician.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you have a name?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What was your name?

[Brian Bates]

Well, they're now. A few of them are still playing together. They're the Alexander Lane Band. They're really great. I think my special is gonna have one of their songs as the intro song. Oh, pretty cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I used Greg Roush Experience. He was the. He was the. The guitarist. We were just named ourselves after him. We were never, like, dropping albums, but we would just hang out and play. And that was my life for a long.

[Aaron Weber]

There's three guys in the band. Greg Roush, Alexander Lane, and Aaron Alexander.

[Brian Bates]

Lane is the street that they've. They play.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

But anyway, you know, it makes me think this. This reminds me. I was. I hung out with my cousin the other day, and I've seen him in a long time, and he. He has an album out there.

[Brian Bates]

Music.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And I was listening to it. I was like, this is pretty good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And, well, now I can't find it.

[Brian Bates]

Do you think, well, I might be too basic to like it, but maybe share it with me and I'll listen to it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I will. I mean, listen, you're not basic. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I just. I really. I do like a lot of everything.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, it's called his. His thing's called Far Beyond Reason.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And when I went on there, I listened to the first one of the top five. I didn't like it. And then. No, but I didn't. I didn't. And I was like, you know. And then I was like, you know, but I'm going to listen to the others.

[Aaron Weber]

This country.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then 2, 3, 4, and 5. I was like, whoa, these are good songs.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What kind of music is it?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's hard to say. It seems like it's on Spotify. America one seemed a bit heavy for me. That's why I didn't like it. It's not country, but as I got into it. Yeah. On Spotify.

[Brian Bates]

What's his name?

[Nate Bargatze]

Far Beyond Reason.

[Brian Bates]

Far Beyond Reason.

[Nate Bargatze]

His name is Jonathan, but it's Shepherd.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I would love Far Beyond Reason.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Check it out on spot.

[Nate Bargatze]

And. And I liked it. And. And I thought, wow, this is good. And I was like, wow. But. But I would shepherd and I only. I want to be honest about it and say, you know, because if I just go, this is great. But I was listening to the first one and I was like, I'm not really into it. And. But that doesn't mean. Because people have different taste.

[Brian Bates]

Of course.

[Nate Bargatze]

I have a very narrow window with the most narrow. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The most narrow of anyone I've ever met.

[Aaron Weber]

90S country, 1990, 1994.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think I got a 30 year range in country music. And that's what I got. Got.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. And that's it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And then you can. Whatever other music that's kind of country.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's why I like classic rock, because it's all. A lot of it's kind of country.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Aaron Cornwell. Dusty would love country artist Drake White. His music is authentic and soulful. He is, hands down, my favorite musician. I don't know if I've listened to Drake White. I feel like I know that. You know what? Maybe I did. I talked about Drake White with somebody the other day and I said it's hard to be a musician named Drake when one of the most popular musicians alive is named Drake.

[Brian Bates]

At least it's Drake White, not Drake Black. Yeah, that would get confusing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. But I feel like I listened to. Somebody emailed me about Drake White the other day.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, maybe somebody I know is doing a. A documentary about him. Wow. And they asked me about him.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron Cornwell. Cornwell. Sounds like a. Like a Revolutionary War general, doesn't it?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Cornwell. General Cornwell.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Coming down the Potomac.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow, this name's tough. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. The next one does not sound like a Revolutionary War general.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sequoia Pelletier. That's what I think.

[Brian Bates]

You nailed it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sequoia Palatine.

[Brian Bates]

What a great name.

[Nate Bargatze]

The two L's could be confusing. It could be like a quesadilla type situation. Pelletia Pelletois. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no. I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm going with Sequoia Pelletier. And I'm sorry if I pronounced it wrong. Disneyland is not in la. If you want to reference the letters to remember where it's at, look at the A N instead because Disneyland is in Anaheim. How very southern of you to assume that all of California is Los Angeles.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, boom. Yeah. We got a bit of a Fort Worth, Dallas situation here where you think. How very California of you to think the rest of the country cares about these arbitrary distinctions. I know there's separates. I'm joking around. I know there's.

[Nate Bargatze]

But it Is pretty close.

[Brian Bates]

But also, the Los Angeles Angels are in Anaheim. They're not called the Anaheim Angels.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

Take it up with your own state. You're not making the distinction between these two cities. And I also did not know that it was an Anaheim. So I'm sorry. I made a mistake.

[Nate Bargatze]

But to be fair, though, in the end, an an is still in there. So your original point still holds up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it still works. The heuristic tool. Still.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is that a heuristic?

[Nate Bargatze]

Never heard that word.

[Brian Bates]

Never heard of heuristic. Something tool.

[Aaron Weber]

When Shohei Ohtani move from the Angels to the Dodgers, did he move houses?

[Brian Bates]

What do you mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Do you get to stay in the same house?

[Brian Bates]

I'm sure. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So, I mean, that kind of verifies your point as far as Anaheim in L. A.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think he maybe bought a much bigger house because of the deal that he signed.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So we did that, But I don't know if he had to relocate.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Mark Rockwell. A lot of wells out here. Mark Rockwell.

[Brian Bates]

Good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Aaron is right about the group Hanson. They have great new music.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't believe it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Who knew that Aaron was gonna rise as this great musical taste?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I have, like, unbelievable music taste or anything, but I. I listen to a lot of it, and I think that Hanson. What we all know about Hanson Bop. Right. Where the youngest guy. They were like, 15, 13, and 11 when they did it. I mean, what a shame if we were judged by our comedy at that age, you know?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I think you got to check out what they're doing as an adult. They have an album that's much older than I realized, I think came out in 2007 called the Walk. That is really genuinely good.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm gonna check.

[Brian Bates]

Go check it out. Hanson, the walk. Walk. The whole album's great.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a country song called the Walk.

[Brian Bates]

The. The walk the line. No, the boots are made for walking.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess there's a lot of walk. No, I think this is called the walk Took a walk with his old.

[Nate Bargatze]

Man by Sawyer Brown.

[Aaron Weber]

Saw your Brown. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because I took this walk. You're walking now, boy. I've been in your shoes. It was in the top five country songs about dads.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Nate Bargatze]

Also fits into the most narrow window.

[Aaron Weber]

Of taste that I have.

[Brian Bates]

This is one of those. I know. Dusty that you're gonna reference that a lot. This is like. This is like when I was in the car with Dusty.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And we almost got in a wreck, and I go. I snapped. And I said, you're driving like a maniac.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then it was quiet in the car for about an hour.

[Nate Bargatze]

I never forgot it.

[Brian Bates]

And then about an hour later, Dusty goes maniac. It was like something about the word hit him hard. I'm sorry. I was coming at you.

[Nate Bargatze]

That day was also the Tom Petty guy.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, was it really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I burned a lot of bridges that day. I'm sorry.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I had taken us to a great gig. We had a cabin that we stayed.

[Brian Bates]

In, but I can't get.

[Nate Bargatze]

You slept in the same bed.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that didn't happen.

[Aaron Weber]

That's how he knew how hot you were.

[Brian Bates]

I remember that cabin, actually.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it was a nice place.

[Brian Bates]

What was that? That was some theater in Georgia that you did.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it was a nice place.

[Brian Bates]

It was a really nice cabin. But I can't get you to, like, I've shown you. I think I've tried four or five different times to get you to listen to John Mayer, and you can't get on.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I have listened even some of.

[Brian Bates]

Like, he has legitimately. Country songs, Dead and Company.

[Nate Bargatze]

I listen to a lot with John Mayer.

[Brian Bates]

Well, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like John Mayer.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm a big fan.

[Brian Bates]

But are you a big fan?

[Nate Bargatze]

Because of you.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

I take back everything I said.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's the one outside of the narrow. No, I do like it. I think that John Mayer is similar with the situation, even though he's risen above it because everybody knows him as. I want to run through the halls of my high school.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Which is. Well, the problem with this comparison you're drawing is that first album, Room for Squares, is unbelievable. Holds up still great. Songwriting's great. It's not bop, you know.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no. But I'm saying, though, everybody remembers. I want to run through the halls. I want to scream at the top of my. Yeah. And it's like, that's where you're like, oh, that's John Mayer. But you're like, no, John Mayer is so much more.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's everything.

[Nate Bargatze]

The Chappelle show made John Mayer real with that episode where it was like guitar versus.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Was it versus drums?

[Brian Bates]

No, it was how white people react to guitar.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Versus how black people react to guitar. Yeah. And then Quest Loves in it. Yeah. It's all.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then it's drums at the end.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Quest Love comes out, starts playing and.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Amy. Genesis. There's a legend about Jimi Hendrix. There's an. Oh, gosh. There's a legend that Jimi Hendrix said the Best guitarist was Feel. Kiki Snopes disputes that. Well, Snopes we don't trust. Nobody trusts.

[Aaron Weber]

No. I've actually met Phil Keagi.

[Brian Bates]

Have you really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where?

[Aaron Weber]

There is a Christian comedian association.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That I'm a member of. And they haven't. This has been years ago, but they had an annual conference and he came and performed at the. At the event. And I just happened to be out in the parking lot and showed him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Where to park and he asked him to take a picture of him and Wayne Brady.

[Aaron Weber]

What?

[Nate Bargatze]

Remember when you did that on the Huckabee show? You ask Kevin SORBO jr. Oh, Cuba KUDDIG jr. You asked Kevin Sorbo to take a picture of you?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I do remember that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Good. Junior Wayne Brady would have been. Would have been you and Al Roker.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Wayne Brady. I mean, look, I would take a picture with Wayne Brady.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You wouldn't take one with Cuba.

[Brian Bates]

Cuba not as big a fan.

[Nate Bargatze]

Old Cuba. Good, Junior. Really great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Radio Cuba Gooden Jr.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like lightning Jack. Ever see that?

[Brian Bates]

No, I've never seen it.

[Nate Bargatze]

You've seen it?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really good. I. I've heard this a lot though. This Jimi Hendrix thing. People always say something like, what's it feel to be the greatest guitarist? And he says, I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

You have to ask Blank.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I hear it a lot. I heard it. They say it's the country guy, Roy Clark. Roy Clark. They say he said that about Roy Clark. But then I heard Eric. They ask Eric Clapton. Eric Clapton said, I don't know. You'll have to ask Prince. I saw that last night. Yeah, I watched. I watched a lot of Tick Tock at night and I watched some award show where Tom Petty is singing My Guitar Gently Weeps.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

By the Beatles.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then Prince plays the guitar solo on that. It's unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen that.

[Brian Bates]

Is.

[Aaron Weber]

There's other people in there too.

[Brian Bates]

Is that from the Kennedy center, one of those?

[Aaron Weber]

It might have been, yeah. It's on YouTube. You should check out YouTube sometime.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is unbelievable. I've. I've gone through YouTube already. He.

[Brian Bates]

I've gone through all of you.

[Nate Bargatze]

He finished it. He plays and then when he's done, throws the guitar in the air, walks off.

[Brian Bates]

How do you feel about smashing an instrument after a song? Do you think it's cool or do you think it's played out?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think it's played out now, but like, when the.

[Brian Bates]

Who did it back in the day.

[Nate Bargatze]

That'S probably pretty cool.

[Brian Bates]

It was probably awesome. The first time you saw it.

[Aaron Weber]

They were the first to do it, these guys.

[Brian Bates]

That's the first. To me, that's like the quintessential example of that, is them. Was it the Ed Sullivan show or. I don't know. But they smashed all their instruments at the end.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like, though, when someone genuinely destroys it and then he just throws the guitar. He doesn't smash it. Yeah, he just like, I'm done with it. Pops the collar, walks off. It doesn't get cooler than that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Jeff Jarrett used to do that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Jeff Jarrett.

[Brian Bates]

It's. It could be kind of cool. They smash the instrument. But then also, you'll see, like, musician who has the same guitar for, like, 20, 30 years. Yeah, that's kind of cool, too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Willie Nelson, Trigger. Trigger, yeah. His guitar is famous.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really? I didn't know that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's awesome. He's had it forever.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's his second guitar. Apparently his grandfather gave him one when he was real young, and it got broken and he bought Trigger, and that's been his guitar since then.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Stomach made a noise there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Joel Manwill, man, Unbelievable connection.

[Brian Bates]

Collection of names here. Rockwell, Genesis, Manwell, Cornwell. Cornwell, Dusty Pelletier.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dusty dropping The Grateful Dead. Cornell 77 reference made him the best comic on this podcast. Podcast. About time in these comments. Who's picking these?

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty? I got the best comic. My buddy texted me, listen to podcast Mike Rose. He said to tell you his first Grateful Dead. Oh, I'm sorry. He picked up some Deadheads whose microbus broke down on I65, the Tennessee Kentucky border. He was on his way to his first Grateful Dead concert in Louisville, 1990. In exchange for the ride, they handed him two cassette tapes with a copy of that show you're talking about.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And it completely changed his life's musical trajectory.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, yeah, I mean, it's really great. I mean, because this is what. This is what I'll say. I. I used to listen to a little Grateful Dead back in the day, but it was like Uncle Tom's band. It was Run It A Friend of the Devil, which I'm, you know. You know, obviously I'm not that big of a fan of, but at the time and. And then I found later, I forget it's probably the most popular one, but I never was into the jam of it. But then covet hit. I'm in my garage. I'm cleaning out the garage. I got Bluetooth speaker on the Grateful Dead. This Cornell album comes on. And I'm like. Like, whoa.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I listened to it for years.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Sometimes it just takes something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Over Covid. There was a period where we didn't have anything but over the air TV. So I was watching a lot of four. What is it, the channel?

[Brian Bates]

Circle 4.5.

[Aaron Weber]

4.5.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wait, what. What happened that you lost everything like that?

[Aaron Weber]

That was just a tough period.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, goodness.

[Brian Bates]

We're going through some stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, I wasn't. But anyway, for whatever reason, so I started watching more pbs.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

PBS is great.

[Brian Bates]

This is Brian's version of becoming a Deadhead. I got really into pbs.

[Aaron Weber]

Austin City Limits.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Oh, they got great stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

I tune in, there's this band playing, and they're not singing. And I'm like, okay. I guess it's in the middle. And they keep going, keep going for. And it was Snarky Puppy.

[Brian Bates]

Snarky Puppies. Unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

So there you go. I learned about them from Austin City Limits.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's awesome. Corey Henry, the musician. That's we've mentioned. That's how I learned about him was.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess he doesn't know Snarky Puppy because.

[Nate Bargatze]

Never heard of that in my life.

[Aaron Weber]

He's not as up on.

[Brian Bates]

So I'm at the Ryman. Unbelievable. There's like 35 people in the band. They're the best collection of musicians I've ever listened to. They're unbelievable. Just like jazz, contemporary, jazz, funky. They do some gospel stuff, world music. They're unbelievable.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like that.

[Brian Bates]

You ever watch the show Freaks and Geeks?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, the.

[Brian Bates]

They only did one season of that show, but Lindsay Weir, played by Linda Cardellini, who. I was just in love with her when I was younger.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just loved that character in the show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Me too.

[Brian Bates]

The whole plot of the show is her trying to find her identity, Right. She's like. She's a smart kid, but she hangs out with the burnouts and her brother's a geek and all. But there's not a spoiler. The show's been over for a while, but it ends with her essentially becoming a Deadhead. And she finds her identity through the Grateful Dead.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'll be honest with you. I like the show. Yeah, but not enough to finish it. Oh, man, I never finished it. You know, my first introduction to her because I didn't watch Freaks and Geeks when I was a kid. I was introduced to her through Grandma's Boy. The movie. Great movie.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know that movie. Movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really good.

[Brian Bates]

Nick Swartz.

[Nate Bargatze]

Pretty filthy, but it Is it is Good. Last comment. Amanda Boa. That's bright. That's not right. Amada Boa. I'm at a J. I'm thinking the J silent.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, the J is connected to the A at the end. Yeah. That makes it. Me think it's. That's given that A. And that's Linda Carlin.

[Brian Bates]

You recognize her?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

She's been a lot of stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't like her in the Avengers movies, though.

[Brian Bates]

I liked her and everything.

[Nate Bargatze]

I. I like her, but I just didn't feel like, oh, she was his.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I was like, she's barely in it, though.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's a boring move for her. I mean, she got to take it for the money. I get it, but it's a boring. It just feels like she's cooler than just being Hawkeye's wife. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

So the character had a name, though it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right? Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I mean, she's the wife of the guy with no superpowers.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw her in a series a year or two ago in Prime. She and the. The guy from Friday Night Lights. The main. The coach in it.

[Brian Bates]

Kyle Chandler.

[Aaron Weber]

Kyle Chandler. They're siblings and there's a one or two other in it, and there's some weird thing happened, and they live on this beach house.

[Brian Bates]

And it was Bloodline. Is it the show?

[Aaron Weber]

It might have been Bloodline.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. A Netflix show. I've heard that show's great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Maybe it was Netflix, but yeah, it was really. That's the first I knew of her.

[Brian Bates]

Very talented.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ahmada Boa. Ahmad Dodge Boa. For a hot second, I was banking on breakfast naming Lita Ford in his band.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I know Leader Ford. Kiss me once, kiss me twice, Kiss me Deadly.

[Brian Bates]

I hadn't heard of Lita for it. That's very funny, though. You know that lead guitarist for the all female rock band the Runaways?

[Nate Bargatze]

I just like that this person was banking on this for a hot second. Yeah. How old is a hot second, though?

[Brian Bates]

How old is Lita Ford? She was. She's 66.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. When I was young, she had a song called Kiss Me Deadly that was very hot.

[Nate Bargatze]

She looks good there. I don't know how she. Ochi is in that pick, but that's this last year.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, she's 65.

[Nate Bargatze]

65. She's looking good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think. I take it. I don't know if this was insult or a compliment, but I think it's a compliment.

[Nate Bargatze]

I take it. Yeah. I would take it. As a compliment, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. We love talking about our Helix mattresses, but not as much as we love sleeping on them. Am I right? Sometimes I go over to Aaron's house, just sleep on his mattress for a while while he's up with the baby. I go, you're gonna be up for a while. Let me nap here. I've had my mattress, my helix mattress for almost three years now. Nate's parents just got one. I go over there and sleep on there sometimes. They love it. They love when I come over. Three of us can go on the mattress. Not a big deal. We all love it. It improves how we sleep. Everyone knows I love their pillows. The pillows are the best pillows ever. When I don't, you know, sometimes I don't know if you know this, but I have two floors in my house and I don't know. I'm trying to brag here, but we know that.

[Aaron Weber]

We've been to your house.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know, but, you know, maybe the listeners don't know. They. A lot of these listeners think I live in a box out back. But I sometimes if I'm downstairs and there's no helix pillow on my bed, I go upstairs to get the helix pillow. I'm getting better sleep. Aaron's getting better sleep. Brian's getting better sleep. My old mattress was one of those with the old springs. And I finally realized how bad that is for sleep.

[Brian Bates]

It's bad.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's nothing like a spring digging in your back while you're trying to sleep. You know what I mean? Metal.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Who thought sleeping on metal was a good idea?

[Brian Bates]

Not some.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not helix. Helix fixes that issue. It's great for hot sleepers, right?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Aaron is a hot.

[Brian Bates]

Sure am. I like the fan on.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've shared a hotel room with him and I've been like, what is that heat coming off of that bed? I had to turn the AC on just cuz the. I was like, dang, we're not going to get our deposit back on this hotel.

[Brian Bates]

Radiating hot in it. Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got a microwave in bed.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

People with back pain, snores. Brian knows what we're talking about. Of course, Brian.

[Aaron Weber]

My wife knows what we're talking.

[Nate Bargatze]

Cuts timbers down in his sleep. I. I wake up and I go, brian, we're not even in the same hotel room. Keep it down.

[Brian Bates]

Different floors.

[Nate Bargatze]

These mattresses solve that problem. If hotels had helix mattresses in them, people would move out of their homes into a hotel. And it's for everyone. It would be a problem.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They're too Good.

[Nate Bargatze]

They're too good. Yeah. You wouldn't want to leave. You would. Go. Go checkouts at 12 ago. Can I get a late checkout? How about five? Right now you get 20% off, plus two free pillows for all mattress orders. Just go to helixsleep.com Nate. You can't beat this deal. That's helixsleep.com Nate. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. This week, you know, a few weeks ago, Dusty broke down Pinocchio and people loved it. So I'm like, let's expand a little bit. The top two movies right now, do you know what they are?

[Brian Bates]

No idea. I can see it on the sheet in front of you, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, Moana 2 and Wicked. Okay, Both, I would say, to some degree are fairy tales. Especially wicked. Right.

[Brian Bates]

Well, what is a fairy tale?

[Aaron Weber]

Fairy tale is. There's a broad definition, but generally there's fairy tales, there's folk tales, there's fables.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Fables generally have a message. It's usually an animal that has human characteristics and there's a lesson to be learned in it.

[Brian Bates]

Like a parable. Like where there's something you're supposed to take away from it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Like the. The tortoise and the hare.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a fable. Folk tales are stories that, while made up, there might be some truth to. To the point where Dusty probably believes them.

[Brian Bates]

Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, things like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

John Henry, that's probably true. Yeah, man. These. All these things are probably based in truth. I don't believe anybody. Any of these imaginations out here.

[Brian Bates]

You don't think anybody makes something up entirely?

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Brian Bates]

What do you think Lord of the Rings is based on?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I think it's, you know, they kind of loosely base it on Christianity in the Bible. Right. So it's like. Yeah, it's like, you know, you make up some stuff, but were there ogres? Probably, but you know what I mean.

[Aaron Weber]

John Henry. John Henry was a real person, most likely. But the story was, you know, that he was a steel driving man. He battled the machine to see who could be better. He won. He died in the process. None of that's probably true.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, probably is.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then Paul Bunyan was probably real, too. Lumberjack, probably.

[Aaron Weber]

Big blue ox.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So folk tales are exaggerated.

[Brian Bates]

Like George Washington cutting down a cherry tree. That never happened.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess that would be a folktale.

[Brian Bates]

But it's based on a real person.

[Nate Bargatze]

Why do we think it didn't happen?

[Brian Bates]

Because I think. Didn't we talk about this on the podcast? I don't think 36 years ago.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really that big?

[Brian Bates]

No, it was just. I think somebody admitted they made it up as just a device to prove the point.

[Aaron Weber]

I cannot tell a lie.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, to.

[Nate Bargatze]

So you would lie to the story about not lying. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But is that really lying or is that just. Is that lying?

[Nate Bargatze]

If you told me that George Washington cut down a cherry tree and he didn't.

[Brian Bates]

But what's the point of that story?

[Nate Bargatze]

That George Washington would always tell the truth.

[Brian Bates]

That George Washington was a virtuous man who prioritize telling the truth.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So that's the takeaway over eating cherries.

[Brian Bates]

Right. It's not about the cherries. It could be like a tree.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe it was during his campaign. They make this build this probably build his image.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Or something. You know, somebody trying. I think it's somebody trying to sell a biography about him after the fact.

[Aaron Weber]

To prove he never told a lie. We're going to tell a lie in his behalf.

[Brian Bates]

But is that really a lie? That's my point.

[D]

That's right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or what was the cherry tree an analogy for something else?

[Brian Bates]

I think it's just. Doesn't that have a little more than like apple tree?

[Aaron Weber]

Someone just said tree sound, you know, Nativity. Nativity scene.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Typical nativity scene. I made a point recently. The wise men were not there when Jesus was a baby.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It comes like a month later. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

It could have been years later.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But someone argues to me, the point of this painting that we were talking about is to show that everyone came to realize it's. Don't take it so literal is what the person was telling me.

[Nate Bargatze]

What if it was just. There was just three guys that happened to be there? And everybody's like, those are the wise men. And they're like, no, no, we're just three idiots. We're around, you know, there's a lot of hoopla. We wanted to see what's going on over here. We're not that smart, really. Don't call us wise.

[Brian Bates]

Check it out.

[Nate Bargatze]

But it's like, yeah, we're not the wise men, but we were there.

[Brian Bates]

And then the wise men come later.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then we're the wise men.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, they've already been.

[Brian Bates]

Nice try.

[Aaron Weber]

And then fairy tales generally very often have a fairy or a witch or some type of magic involved.

[Brian Bates]

Something supernatural.

[Aaron Weber]

Supernatural that's tricking you. There's usually the mom's gone dead. There's an evil stepmother. Very often they have a very similar fairy tales because very often there's fairies involved.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Lynch, some people believe are also Real.

[Aaron Weber]

At this table.

[Nate Bargatze]

Fairies.

[Aaron Weber]

So I don't know if we'll get in any that Dusty doesn't think actually happened, but.

[Nate Bargatze]

But anyway, I do. I did bring a story that I'd like to read.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, Do.

[Nate Bargatze]

You may do it now.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I don't know what it is.

[Brian Bates]

The right time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's called Flora's Magic Flute.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, let's get a shot of.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a story I read to my daughter, and I want to read it to you guys because there's a bit of a hole in the story here. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

How long is it?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's not very long. Okay, 14 pages. Now it's not very long. Long ago, deep in the woods, a tiny village of fairies lived in peace, including a fairy girl named Flora. I think we can all believe that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

For as long. Now, this is an important detail. For as long as the fairies could remember, every day had been clear and sunny. Okay. Flora played music on her magic flute, and all day the fairies danced and sang. But then one day, the sky grew dark, and it began to rain. Soon the fairy village was muddy and gray. Everyone in the village was sad. Would the sun ever return? They said. Then Flora remembered how happy everyone had been when she played her flute on sunny days. Could her music make them feel happy? Now she took out her flute and began to play. All right, here we go.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Flora's music made the other fairies remember. Now keep. Made the other fairies remember that after the last rain. Okay, let's go back. Let's go back. Here we go. Let's go back. For as long as the fairies could remember, every day had been clear and sunny. Here we go. And it made the fairies remember that after the last rain, the trees and flowers had become even prettier than before. So they all danced and splashed in the rain to celebrate the beauty that was to come. So this is talking about some kind of. Some kind of village where they forget everything they have? They can't remember anything. Because for as long as they could remember, every day had been clear and sunny.

[Brian Bates]

Right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Right. But then one day, darkness came. Flora played the flute.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now, there's no talk of the flute being magic. I mean, it's called magic, but it's just a flute. But somehow it's called the Magic flute.

[Brian Bates]

But they never mentioned it being magic.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, but they can't remember anything. Every day is bright and sunny. Then she plays the flute, and suddenly they're like, oh, we remember. After the last rain.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, every day had been clear and sunny. So what Last Rain.

[Brian Bates]

You don't think music can be.

[Aaron Weber]

Mic drop?

[Brian Bates]

Let's see that book. Okay. Flora's Magic Flute, Written by Stephen hall, illustrated by Jennifer Bartlett.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm trying to teach my kids to observe things.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I want to collect all four of these. Griff Learns to Fly, Auggie the Grump and Scuttles Diamonds.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

This is a.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you reading to your daughter?

[Brian Bates]

I'm reading just. Just black and white pictures at this point.

[Aaron Weber]

Philosophy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I'm not reading her Aristotle just yet, but it's just like a little book with a mirror in it and that kind of stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

She's just starting to smile, which is pretty fun. Pretty fun. That is pretty fun to get. Like a real. Not just I'm farting smile, but like a real, I'm looking at you and smiling. That's pretty fun. This book. You don't think music can be transformative like that? Dusty?

[Nate Bargatze]

I do, but my. My whole problem with it is fairies were like, it's never rained before. But then the moment Flora started playing the flute, they were like, oh, we remember the last rain.

[Brian Bates]

I think this is a story about art and how art gives us perspective in life. These people are tr. These fairies are just plowing through life, working hard, right. They're not looking up at all. And they're so bogged down with the minutiae and the reality of everyday life that they get depressed. Right? And then an artist comes along and goes, no, zoom out a little bit. There is beauty in the world.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Good things are coming. And they go, oh. And that's what art can do to people.

[Nate Bargatze]

And also, like, wake up. Don't you remember it? It's rained before.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think it has quite that energy. Yeah, wake up, you idiots.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you remember things. It rains sometimes. How do you think we're growing all these mushrooms? Mushrooms don't grow without moisture and a little bit of darkness.

[Aaron Weber]

This reminds me of a. When I was a kid. Looks like the Smurfs.

[Brian Bates]

They do.

[Aaron Weber]

When I was a kid, we read a book at school about a place where it rained every day. Essentially that.

[Brian Bates]

But Seattle.

[Aaron Weber]

The kids should never had seen a day where it hadn't rained. So they always had to be indoors. They locked one of their kids, they bullied him, put him in the closet just to mess with him one day. Well, I guess.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is this a folktale?

[Aaron Weber]

The same day? Same day.

[Brian Bates]

This is from Brian's journal.

[Aaron Weber]

Finally. I wrote it while I was in the closet. This could be. Yeah. Some truth to it. Finally, it stops raining, and the kids get to go out and enjoy the sunshine for the very first time in their life. When they finally come in at the end of the day, they realize, oh, yeah, we'd locked that kid in the closet and he didn't get to experience. It's kind of a dark.

[Brian Bates]

What's the.

[Nate Bargatze]

And what a loser he is. You didn't even see the sun.

[Brian Bates]

Is that the point of the story?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I just remember reading as a kid. It, like, haunted me.

[Brian Bates]

What's the turn at the end? Is there something. Does something happen?

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I think they felt maybe.

[Nate Bargatze]

A little bad, and then they found out that kid was blind.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe the turn is they all decide, let's not even tell him that we saw the sun, maybe. And then it's like he never missed out on it if he doesn't know that it happened. Could be something fun there.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm subjecting my daughter to Christmas shows that I watch as a kid. And I've made Bonanza. Bonanza Christmas. I do like bananas.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, me too.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a good show.

[Aaron Weber]

So watch my Grandpa Hoss, Little Joe. And Gunsmoke is good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's good. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, which I had her watch last night. It was a little much for her. They have an Abominable snowman.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, I remember.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that part's.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a little. It.

[Brian Bates]

Was she scary?

[Aaron Weber]

She kind of. She didn't like it. But then Frosty the Snowman, and she's really gotten into Frosty the Snowman. We. She wants to watch it over and over and over again. And I don't know if you remember.

[Nate Bargatze]

Particularly the part where he's in the greenhouse.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I'm getting at.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay, Sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know how much you remember it.

[Brian Bates]

I don't remember that.

[Aaron Weber]

Basically, there's an evil magician wants the hat back because that's what's making him come to life.

[Brian Bates]

So the hat is what animates Frosty the Snowman.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hat never belonged to Frosty, to be honest with you. I don't know if this magician was evil or not. He's like, I just want my hat back.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they try to make it clear that he threw the hat away and discarded it and that they claimed it. But to warm. They're out in the snow trying to get North Pole to warm the little girl up. They go into a greenhouse, and then the magician shuts the door and locks him in there.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, my gosh.

[Aaron Weber]

So then Santa Claus shows Up and goes in, and there's just that little girl in a puddle of water. And she's crying because Frosty is melted. And Santa's like, don't worry. It's Christmas snow. We'll bring it back to life. And they do, of course, bring it back to life.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

But the trauma went through. Watching her best friend slowly melt away. He's talking to her. You don't see that, of course, but I just like, that girl's gonna need some counseling.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. And all the kids watching it, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it was just. You mean watching the show?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You don't see him melt. You just see the total water.

[Nate Bargatze]

It can't be the same Frosty. You just can't make new snow and put it on his head and it'd be the same guy.

[Brian Bates]

They're just gonna have to refreeze the water that melted, which is what.

[Aaron Weber]

It's kind of what they did. It kind of like zipped out the door and spun and become Frosty again.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, with. Still with the hat.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they had to put the hat back on. The magician still was claiming it, but Santa told him he's not going to get any presents unless he.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if I know the story of Frosty the Snowman. This girl made a snowman, and then the hat got put on it.

[Nate Bargatze]

The one. When we put it on his head, he began to dance around Frosty the Snowman. You know the song?

[Brian Bates]

I know the song was a Jolly, jolly dude. Yeah. I don't know the lyrics that well.

[Aaron Weber]

The song came first.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Song came first.

[Brian Bates]

One of Elvis's songs.

[Aaron Weber]

Then they made an animated show. Same with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Gene Autry, like, sang them in there.

[Brian Bates]

Whoa.

[Aaron Weber]

They make.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't know that the song. Song came before the show. Did the song invent the entire. Or the first to tell the story?

[Aaron Weber]

I think so. Maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, there's a. A song where he says, what is it? Where he says, we'll pretend like, oh, dang. We'll. We'll talking about the snowman. And then they go, we'll pretend. They say, we'll pretend that he is parson Brown. Which is like a preacher or whatever or somebody that can marry you.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

And it says, we'll pretend that he is Parson Brown. He'll say, are you married? We'll say, no, man, but you can do the job when you're in town. You know that song? You guys know that song?

[Brian Bates]

What song is that?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think it's Frosty the Snowman.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's the first seven I've never heard. I've never gone that deep in the song.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you're right, but that's not. They don't do that part on the show.

[Nate Bargatze]

He does say that, but I thought. I didn't know what Parson Brown was. I thought they were saying marching proud. Proud. We'll pretend that he is marching proud. And he'll say, are you married? We'll say, no, man. I was like, are they gonna marry Frosty the Snowman?

[Brian Bates]

And I think this is actually from the song Winter Wonderland.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Frosty. Yeah, My bad. But they all blend together.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, we'll pretend. See the line, though.

[Brian Bates]

Parson is actually another word for a clergyman, especially a Protestant pastor. The word has gone largely unused since around 1980.

[Nate Bargatze]

But apparently he could marry people. But I just thought he said marching proud, not Parson brown. And then they said, we'll say are. He'll say, are you married? We'll say, no, man, but you can do the job when you're in town. I thought they were marrying the snowman.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I see. That's Walking in a Winter. Winterland. That's the song.

[Brian Bates]

Winter Wonderland.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if they're walking in it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Got him confused.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Is this a. This is a different guy than Jack Frost. Huh? Frosty Snowman is different guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Because we looked up last night. Because she's really into it. There is a Frosty two, and the global warming. The antagonist is Jack Frost.

[Nate Bargatze]

What about. What about the Santa Claus three? You know, that one? That's also Jack Frost. He's battling Martin Short as Jack Frost.

[Brian Bates]

They're battling.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So Jack Frost is a villain.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. In. In Santa Claus 3.

[Brian Bates]

No, I thought Jack Frost was a good guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

The Santa Claus.

[Aaron Weber]

I did, too.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's like. Like a.

[Brian Bates]

Like a C, L, a W, s.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, like a clause. Like a clause in a contract.

[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

My favorite thing about winter is being able to leave food in my car and know that it's staying refrigerated.

[Brian Bates]

To leave a drink in the cup holder, come back the next day, it's just as good as when you left off. And imagine doing that with an amazing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Fresh Mountain Dew, especially if it's just below freezing a little bit. So that little ice.

[Brian Bates]

Little bit of ice in there. The mountain is calling. I mean, you hear us talking about it, you should answer. Grab your friends, grab an ice cold Mountain Dew wherever refreshing beverages are sold, and say it with me. Audience. Do the do.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, so fairy tale started back even before people were writing. They were doing oral stories and passed it down. And then 1600s, Charles Peralt. Something funny, guys. Sometimes you got to clear your throat.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I don't know. I just caught Dusty's eye.

[Aaron Weber]

Charles Baralt wrote a Tales of Mother Goose. This is in 1697. Ahead, Little Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Puss in Boots, some classics.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

The way these old books, what they call cats is too much.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't like it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm trying to read these things and what they call chickens and even a horse. There's one nursery rhyme I'm reading with a. What they call a horse, basically a male rooster plus horse.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I'm like, to Banbury Bush riding the blank horse to Banbury Bush. I'm like, I don't think so. Not in this house we're not.

[Brian Bates]

That's crazy. Wait till you start reading Mark Twain.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot of the. These fairy tales are very dark. Many of the classic ones are incredibly dark. And they were written for. For adults.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And then later, they were kind of sanitized for children, right? To some degree. But some of these are incredibly. See Disney.

[Nate Bargatze]

So, man, he played two. He played knickknack. On a shoe. That's apparently about like the Irish potato.

[Brian Bates]

Knickknack patty, whack.

[Nate Bargatze]

Give a dog a bone, this old man came rolling.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that'd be a nursery rhyme.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's apparently. Is that not what we're doing? We are apparently.

[Aaron Weber]

We haven't gotten to nursery rhymes yet.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. But that's about the Irish famine, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Potato famine.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like people coming for food.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

But giving him a bone.

[Brian Bates]

The knocking on the door, give me a bone. And they go, we can't, because all we have is potatoes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. We're out of them. Something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So Aesop's Fables.

[Brian Bates]

Aesop.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Aesop did it, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. His collection of fables credit asap. A slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's some of his fables?

[Aaron Weber]

Boy who Cried wolf.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah, man.

[Brian Bates]

That stood the test of time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it did.

[Aaron Weber]

Tortoise in the hare.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, Tortoise in the hair. You know what bothers me about Tortoise in the hair? Is there they're constantly. All they ever talk about in every fairy tale is how slow the turtle is.

[Brian Bates]

Does.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's like, cut the guy some slack.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he wins in the end. That's the point.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but it's like they're always just, oh, he's so slow. And it's like the. The. The idea of that story is to tell us that the tortoise can beat the hair if he's slow and steady. But the reality is the hair's beating you every time. The hair's gonna beat you every time.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, clearly not.

[Nate Bargatze]

You find a different race. Don't try to race the hair. Race other tortoises, okay? Because you're never going to beat the hair.

[Aaron Weber]

This is you swimming. You're going to be ahead of Danielle, and then you're going to start feeling cocky and you're going to slow down. This is just like we saw it in the football game with the Titans. Leon Lett, famously, in the Super Bowl. Remember that? He slowed down. He was. He wasn't much of a hair. But Don Beebe snuck up behind him, knocked the ball loose.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm looking at a list of Aesop's Fables.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're never going to beat the hair.

[Brian Bates]

We know about tortoise and the hare, but. But a lot of these have been forgotten over time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's get a couple. The wolf and the.

[Brian Bates]

How about the monkey and the camel? What is that about?

[Aaron Weber]

Classic.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I would think the monkey thought he didn't need Water. And the camel was like, I have it in my back at all times.

[Brian Bates]

The moral of this is, do not try to ape your betters.

[Aaron Weber]

What does that mean?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. Well, what a reach that is.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, camel carries a lot of water in his back.

[Brian Bates]

There's a lot going on here at the club. I don't know if you hear that. I think there's some kind of theater troupe out there performing. It's a much different energy out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Than I tell you something about asop.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All except for the peacock. He loves a. The. And the. The.

[Brian Bates]

The blank and blank.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The wolf and his shadow. The travelers in the.

[Nate Bargatze]

The frogs who wished for a king.

[Brian Bates]

Let's get into that.

[Nate Bargatze]

What about the blank and the jewel?

[Brian Bates]

These are so much longer. But this one, they. They reduce it down to the. The moral.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Which is nice. So the frog who wish for a king. The moral of that is be sure to be sure you can better your condition before you seek to change. Geez. That doesn't.

[Aaron Weber]

Or how about. Here's some classics.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got to change the better your condition. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The goose that laid the golden egg. That's an ASAP fable.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you guys know that?

[Brian Bates]

Not really. Not the way.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, there was a goose.

[Brian Bates]

Kind of a clunky title.

[Nate Bargatze]

Couldn't lay any eggs. And then one day laid a golden egg. And then the king came along and wanted to eat the egg because he's like, I got a lot of gold. This doesn't really mean anything to me. What I need right now is an egg.

[Aaron Weber]

No, none of that's correct. I was buying it for a while.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was so convinced. I don't really know what the point of this is.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a man, his wife, they had a hand that laid a golden egg every day.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And they got actual gold. Yeah. The egg was made of gold.

[Brian Bates]

Not just the color gold. It's a egg of gold.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Chain.

[Aaron Weber]

It's an egg.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And they got greedy and said, well. Well, I mean, she must be full of gold inside. So they killed her to cut her open to get the gold.

[Nate Bargatze]

And this story is about the dumbest people that ever lived.

[Aaron Weber]

The point is not to be greedy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And use your brain a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dumbest people I've ever heard of.

[Brian Bates]

And for two years straight. This chicken is making us the best.

[Nate Bargatze]

You better kill.

[Brian Bates]

Let's cut it open.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's not even try.

[Aaron Weber]

Would be that a modern day equivalent.

[Nate Bargatze]

Of the dog and the killing? Nate yeah, exactly. Exactly. Trying to cut Nate open.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Be like, Nate's given a lot of opportunities. He must be full of opportunities.

[Brian Bates]

Let's cut him open.

[Aaron Weber]

We're still his wallet.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. Let's grab the. I think it would be similar to the. You know, the dog bone, where the dog's holding the bone and he's looking over the river.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

And the river he looks in and sees his reflection. And in that, the bone is much bigger. So he drops the bone to get the bigger bone, but it's actually just a reflection.

[Brian Bates]

That's. That's a dog. So you understand why he would think that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Except for the dog holding that bigger bone must be bigger, too. So it's like, you really think you better take it from.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. That I don't think it was bigger. Right. I just think he saw another bone. He's like, I want that one, too.

[Brian Bates]

And this one's moving a little bit, too, because it's in the river.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But this is a couple who owns a farm.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

I imagine they pay taxes. Like they. They run an operation. They're too smart to.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's no excuse, even. Just look at the mass. You're seeing this egg. How many eggs could possibly be inside the goose?

[Brian Bates]

I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Even if the goose was just full of the eggs, how many could possibly be in it?

[Brian Bates]

Just let it keep turning them out.

[Aaron Weber]

The line in the mouse.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know that one.

[Aaron Weber]

The.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's about a lion who got a new computer, and I'm in a lot of trouble with the mouth.

[Aaron Weber]

The lion gets mad at the mouse for waking him up. The mouse begs for forgiveness and basically says, it would be no honor for you to kill a little mouse like me. Maybe someday I could help you in return. And the lion's like, yeah, right, whatever. I'll let you go, though, out of mercy. And then the lion, I think there's different versions, gets caught in a rope, and the mouse bites the rope apart and saves the lion.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

So I guess I don't know what the message is that even little people.

[Nate Bargatze]

Even if somebody keeps waking you up, let them live.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the message.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that is the message.

[Brian Bates]

Way too specific.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Do not murder over small inconveniences.

[Brian Bates]

Don't kill a mouse. I mean, never know what they'll do for you in the end.

[Aaron Weber]

Hansel and Gretel. So dark.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What is that? So Hansel and Gretel, they're leaving bread in the forest or something. What is Hansel and Gretel all about.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think they find a house made of.

[Brian Bates]

So it's two little Germans walking through the forest.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And they're leaving bread behind them.

[Nate Bargatze]

They got lost and they.

[Brian Bates]

Why did.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I think a bird came along and was eating the bread they were dropping. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is that true?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I had to look the story up last night. The stepmom told the dad, get rid of these kids. So he took them out in the woods to get rid of them.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, my God.

[Aaron Weber]

But the dad.

[Brian Bates]

Wait, well, hold on. Don't breeze past that.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it gets much worse.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a story about a weak man. First off, you get rid of the stepmom. Just get rid of her.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he clearly doesn't care about the kids either. He goes, all right, I'll take him out to the woods.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And just leave them out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He didn't like it, but he had to do what his wife said.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, my God.

[Nate Bargatze]

He didn't have to. If he were a stronger man.

[Brian Bates]

Why did she. Why did she want the kids gone? Were the kids bad kids? Were they misbehaved, Leaving?

[Aaron Weber]

She wanted some peace and quiet.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, I love my wife, but if she were like, take the kids to the woods and leave them, I'd go, we're. How about we just. We're gonna leave.

[Brian Bates]

I'm calling immigration. Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

She's a citizen now.

[Brian Bates]

Sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

So the kids figured it out. They overhear the plan. So the first.

[Brian Bates]

The kids are old enough to understand. How old are they?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I mean, I don't know. They're old enough to understand.

[Nate Bargatze]

They're probably old enough to be out of the house.

[Aaron Weber]

They're 32 and 30.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's a. That's a thing. That Hanzo and Gretel gets left out a lot. That's the message they did need to get out of that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It was time you voted in four elections. Like, stepbrother. Okay. So I thought they were like toddlers.

[Nate Bargatze]

As it goes along, you start to side with the stepmom.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. They're probably nine or ten. Yes. And yeah. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And they get wind of it. So they have these pebbles that they drop along the way.

[Brian Bates]

And the kids are Hansel and Hansel and Gravel.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They drop along the way, and he drops them off. Then that helps them get back to the house because they follow the pebbles back. The stepmom says, do it again. And he's like, okay. And this time they take breadcrumbs. But the plan doesn't work because the birds come. Eat it so now they're out there in the woods. They find a house made of candy. Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Cake and stuff like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And they're like this. We've hit the jackpot. We're glad we're us. But it's really a evil witch who wants to eat them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sister to the stepmom wants to eat them.

[Aaron Weber]

Wants to eat them. She has to fatten Hansel up first. So she holds him hostage to fatten him up before she eats him.

[Brian Bates]

The girls are the girls. Gretel's already good to go.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, her name's Gretel.

[Aaron Weber]

You can imagine what she looks like.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. But she's fattening Hansel up. And then bottom line is, Gretel tricks the witch and like, hey, what's in the stove? Or something like that. And then she pushes her into the oven and kills her.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Gretel does. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then they head back to the house to the same. To the stepmom.

[Aaron Weber]

They escape with the witch's treasure, so.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, she had treasure there?

[Aaron Weber]

I guess. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Why don't they just stay in the candy house rather than go back to the family that just tried to murder?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I would think they would do. But maybe the, you know, maybe the cops will come around going, where's that witch? These fat kids are eating all the cake.

[Brian Bates]

Gingerbread.

[Nate Bargatze]

They got no roof on the house anymore because they're eating the cake. House is the golden goose, and they're up there eating it.

[Aaron Weber]

Gretel, I told you, don't eat the roof.

[Nate Bargatze]

We need that eating the support beams in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Sleeping. Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. I couldn't have told you the difference. Do you know? I mean, I know now because I looked, but I get those.

[Nate Bargatze]

They're very similar.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, is the dwarves. Is that the difference?

[Nate Bargatze]

That's Snow White.

[Aaron Weber]

Snow White.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I'm saying. Is that the difference? Sleeping Beauty is just. No dwarves, no comic relief.

[Aaron Weber]

Snow White, I mean, she was asleep, but she was poisoned, so they thought she was dead.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. And then she's poisoned by whom?

[Aaron Weber]

The wit. There's always a witch, okay? There's always an evil witch.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've been telling you guys that since I joined the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. There's always a way.

[Nate Bargatze]

Even before that. This is.

[Aaron Weber]

Finally I come around to, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But then at the end, now everybody's like, witches are good.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I guess it was a queen.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm a good witch.

[Aaron Weber]

In this case, it was a queen. And then once they find out what's going on, the prince who saves Snow White makes the queen wear red hot iron slippers and to dance at them until she drops dead.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. Well, that's insane.

[Aaron Weber]

She's Little Red Riding Hood. I mean, again, the wolf, you know, shows up, swallows grandma hole. Then Little Red Riding Hood shows up, swallows her hole.

[Brian Bates]

And then that's the end in the original version.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Then he takes a nap. Then they sanitize a little bit and they. The next best, better version is people come to save them, cut the wolf open. Grandma and Little Red Riding Hood are just. Are fine. They're just stuck in there, just hanging out. Yeah. Like a boa.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wolf's got poor digestion.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then they put rocks in the wolf so he can't move. And then there's much more sanitized versions. Okay, but these are so dark.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's the moral of the story when the wolf just eats them both?

[Brian Bates]

Keep an eye out for wolves.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

I do like that. I'll be honest with you, though. I like it. Let's put some fear into people because they need to be paying attention.

[Brian Bates]

I love a story that ends with the main character taking a nap. That's just good storytelling right there.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Disney kind of came and made these much more palatable. Palatable. But I think that probably was like the 90s on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So I was already in college and then working, so most of these stories. I don't really know that.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you never caught the modern version.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

I want to know what the Three Little Pigs. Pigs.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Nate Bargatze]

What I mean, or. No, no. What is it? The Three Little Bears. Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Goldilocks.

[Nate Bargatze]

What really happened there? What's the true story? That bear came back and she's dead and they tore her up.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, bear.

[Brian Bates]

One of my favorite books as a kid was called. I think it's called, like, the True Story of the Three Little Pigs. And it was from the wolves perspective. It's like, sympathetic to him. Oh, yeah, it was great. The illustrations were great.

[Nate Bargatze]

I tried to make a joke one time about the Three Little Pigs. Was talking about, like, living in a trailer, you know, and it's like. And the wolf is a tornado. And if you. And if you huff and puff, spend your time playing around instead of getting a proper brick home, the tornado is going to get. You never really paid out. What about.

[Aaron Weber]

What about Humpty Dumpty?

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm still working on that. That joke. People say Humpty dumping was a cannon or whatever. And that kind of ruins the joke.

[Brian Bates]

Tommy dumping is a cannon.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Does that mean.

[Brian Bates]

I thought he was an egg?

[Nate Bargatze]

I know he's an egg in the thing, but every. I posted a clip of the video one time, and everybody's like, oh, he's a cannon. He was a cannon. I'm like, listen. Try to just hear the joke. I'm not really seeking answers.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That.

[Aaron Weber]

You shouldn't let that deter you. Everybody thinks he's an egg.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Look at him.

[Brian Bates]

And. Well, I'm starting to get why somebody pushed him off the brick wall.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, put some pants on.

[Aaron Weber]

That's not how normally dancing out there.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, can you quiet down for a little bit? And he's just twirling his baton.

[Nate Bargatze]

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall.

[Aaron Weber]

He's like, it's 20, 25, guys. Come on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. I will continue to dance up.

[Brian Bates]

And then they just kick them off. Yeah. I mean, that guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Send the horses.

[Brian Bates]

All the king's horses.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And all the king's men.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't even think the men got down from the horses. Can you do it now? Again?

[Brian Bates]

I can't reach.

[Nate Bargatze]

Beautiful legs, though, huh.

[Brian Bates]

Tone?

[Aaron Weber]

Jack and the Beanstalk.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, that's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is a true one. I do believe that. That there is another, you know, kind of layer above us where giants live and Jack.

[Aaron Weber]

Above us.

[Nate Bargatze]

Above us. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like where.

[Nate Bargatze]

Why can't we see past the firmament?

[Brian Bates]

Okay. And you get up there through a vegetable.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, however you can get there. And who are they, Jack? Well, they're, you know, they're giants. And giants. Cannibals.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Jack and the Beanstalk. Do you know the story, Aaron? Let's just move on. He buys some magic beans.

[Brian Bates]

Buy some magic beans.

[Nate Bargatze]

When he should have got food, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because. Because what? His mom was like, go get food for the family.

[Aaron Weber]

I think so.

[Brian Bates]

And he bought magic beans instead.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

A little bit on the mom for making the kid go buy the groceries.

[Nate Bargatze]

Clearly, Jack is not capable of just getting the groceries.

[Brian Bates]

This the same guy who jumped over a can. Candlestick.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think it's the same guy that killed the golden goose. Okay, so this guy, when he grew up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Gets around a lot of trouble.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He buys a magic. Magic bean.

[Nate Bargatze]

Jack be nimble.

[Brian Bates]

From a witch. Probably a witch probably sold it to him.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thank. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But they're real magic beans. They. They sprout a. An enormous beanstalk.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

Probably putting out lots of beans.

[Brian Bates]

Which Jack climbs, and it takes him.

[Nate Bargatze]

To he doesn't have to climb it.

[Brian Bates]

He doesn't have to.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just putting out a lot of beans.

[Brian Bates]

He's just got nothing to do, so he climbs it.

[Aaron Weber]

Wouldn't you want to climb it to see what's up there?

[Brian Bates]

And there's a castle up there. This is where fee fi, fo, fum comes from.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I smell the blood of an Englishman.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So that he's English.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

So, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Gets up there. That's where the giant lives, Right? Giant's not home. His wife's home. Jack's like, I'll stay for a minute.

[Brian Bates]

Is this real?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, this is real.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And he's like.

[Brian Bates]

He just hangs out. I'll hang out with the giant's wife.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm hungry, he said, and she gives him some food. And then the giant comes home. FIFA fo fum. He hides. And the wife's like, no, there's no. You're crazy. There's not here. And the giant's like, all right, whatever. I'll go to sleep. Jack leaves, goes home, comes back up the stalk later again to see his wife.

[Nate Bargatze]

I guess Jack's got a crush. You know what I mean? That's where the jack be nimble, jabby, quick. He's up there in the giant jumping over the candlestick. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And I think eventually the giant wakes up. This keeps happening. The giant wakes up, chases him down.

[Brian Bates]

Keeps smelling him the whole time. I smell the blood.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he smells him.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

But then he's like, I guess I'm crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Where's the giant going every day?

[Nate Bargatze]

Just to work.

[Brian Bates]

To work?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, just every day. Life up there. Yeah. In the sky realm.

[Brian Bates]

Long commute.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then eventually he chases him down, but Jack gets down, I think, and cuts down the beanstalk, kills the giant. I guess his wife, too.

[Brian Bates]

So the giant's on the beanstalk, and he cuts it down.

[Nate Bargatze]

He falls. But creating the Grand Canyon.

[Brian Bates]

The cloud realm is not held up by the beanstalk.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, no. Is just a pathway there.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, of course there's a cloud realm. Mario showed us that.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm just saying in this story.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

There's no cloud realm.

[Brian Bates]

Right, right, right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, what was up there then?

[Brian Bates]

Giant. Just a castle.

[Aaron Weber]

Just the top of the beanstalk. That's where he lived.

[Nate Bargatze]

But the.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it had to be more, I guess, if he's leaving, going.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, it had to be there.

[Brian Bates]

Before there's a whole economy up there.

[Nate Bargatze]

The beanstalk was just the way to get there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was just the portal.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was already there.

[Brian Bates]

It's the interstate.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I see. I envision him the top of the beanstalk was where the house was. It was on top of the beanstone.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, no. This was just a pathway there.

[Brian Bates]

The pathway.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a whole city there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, don't be silly. There's.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, we'll do a couple more.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. If you hear a fairy tale story, modern day fairy tale story, you know kind of what that means, right? You and Lucy, the power couple.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, a modern day fairy tale. Like a storybook.

[Aaron Weber]

Storybook.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, storybook romance, whatever. Something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

A Cinderella story. They're all kind of mean the same thing.

[Brian Bates]

Cinderella story. When. When Cinderella story is used in sports.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now it's the rags to riches.

[Brian Bates]

It's the team that has zero chance that everybody writes off.

[Aaron Weber]

Just like Cinderella.

[Brian Bates]

Is that really what's. I thought Cinderella was just like she.

[Nate Bargatze]

They lose a show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, she. What is. What is even Cinderella. But she was ugly or something.

[Aaron Weber]

She wasn't ugly.

[Brian Bates]

Put on a shoe and she became.

[Aaron Weber]

She became the princess. I guess she did get hotter.

[Nate Bargatze]

But did she have the stepsisters and they're real mean to her.

[Aaron Weber]

Evil step, evil stepsisters. And then they go to the ball and.

[Brian Bates]

But there's no beast. No, this is not Beauty and the Beast.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think the beast is the sisters.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then she gets the carriage made out of pumpkin. But then after midnight, things turn back and she. But she lost her slipper.

[Brian Bates]

There's a lesson in there that things, good things, don't typically happen after midnight.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right. And. But also, if you leave a little something behind with the person that you have an interest in, that's a reason to come back. They'll come find you. So if you're ever into a girl and you want to see her again, leave some stuff over there so you can call and go. I left my phone charger over there. I need to come get it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's what George Castanza Seinfeld, he says I always do a leave behind.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, leave behind.

[Aaron Weber]

Then he reason to go over there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ah. Thanks for holding on to this charger for me. Do you want to hook up while I'm here? You know what else needs charging my ego?

[Aaron Weber]

Three blind mice.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a good one. Cut off his tail with a carving knife. You ever see such a thing in your life?

[Brian Bates]

Two little mice are in a bucket of milk. What was that? Catch me if you can remember that there. Two little mice in a bucket of milk. And one of them turned so hard that he turned it into butter and got. You know what I'm talking about?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I have no idea you'll ever.

[Brian Bates]

See Catch me if you can.

[Aaron Weber]

The Leonardo DiCaprio.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. 20 years ago. There's two little blind mice stuck in a pile of milk. It's a good film.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like your Christopher Walken here. I had.

[Brian Bates]

It's a good.

[Aaron Weber]

That was good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's a little Sebastian.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's 69 variants to the Cinderella story. Let's go through all around the world, just letting you know there's a lot out there.

[Brian Bates]

Let's go to 68 and 69. Let's wrap it up. Up.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

I'm kidding.

[Aaron Weber]

We can wrap it up.

[Brian Bates]

No, I mean, I'm having a good time, but there is a. There's a show starting outside.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, okay.

[Brian Bates]

I can hear him out there. I'm not trying to.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought.

[Nate Bargatze]

This has been a really good podcast.

[Brian Bates]

It honestly has been good.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what I'd like to know, though? I'd like to know where you're at next week.

[Brian Bates]

Let's get into it.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm off for the rest of the year. I mean, I got a couple of local shows, but nothing public.

[Nate Bargatze]

What do you. Oh, nothing public. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm on a show here at Zany's.

[Nate Bargatze]

But why not pitch it?

[Aaron Weber]

Because I'm a headline it, so I don't care. Whoa, That's a. I think it's already sold out anyway.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nasty energy.

[Aaron Weber]

January.

[Brian Bates]

The tension here is real, folks. I don't know if you can feel it.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm nasty. That's the new bride, the new Persona. January 3rd. I'm gonna take a while on this. January 3rd and 4th.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, we got the. We got a new year.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Let's walk through all of 2020.

[Aaron Weber]

January 3rd and 4th, comedy off Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky.

[Brian Bates]

Let's go.

[Aaron Weber]

Four shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is a good club.

[Brian Bates]

Old school.

[Aaron Weber]

It is. It is. People always complain that we say every. Every club's great. And why do we do that?

[Brian Bates]

We're lying about a lot of them.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't say that. I don't say that.

[Brian Bates]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

You always say it's a hot show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, if I'm part of it. But once you leave, it's not. There's some clubs that are good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Comedy Off Broadway is one of them.

[Aaron Weber]

That's January 3rd and 4th. January 7th, my next Brian Bates and Friends show here at the Lab at Zany's. Now, I've done five so far here. I just want people to know it's not if. If you don't care for me, I want you to know who else you're going to get to see.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

The first one I did, Aaron, Mike, James, Alex, Voodle, all been on the podcast. Everybody on the show was on the podcast. That was my first one.

[Brian Bates]

Nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

You should just circle on the show. And Friends.

[Aaron Weber]

Never mentioned me.

[Brian Bates]

And Friends you're gonna see in Friends this weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

The second one, Nate's on it. How about that? The next one, Nate and Angela Johnson's on it. The next one, Dusty's on it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow, that was a hot show back, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. And then the last one, John Chris was on it. So I'm just saying you're going to see.

[Brian Bates]

You never know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, you do know. You're going to know. It's going to be a great comic. It's going to be great.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you know that, but you don't never know specifically. Exactly, so that's because Brian doesn't book till the morning of.

[Aaron Weber]

But people don't commit till that afternoon when they have zero else going on. That's January 7th, January 11th, I'm in Fort Myers, Florida at the Luminary Hotel. They're doing comedy for the first time. A space called the workshop. I'm doing two shows.

[Brian Bates]

Nice.

[Aaron Weber]

6 and 8 o'clock and January. I'll stop there. I'll stop.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no, no.

[Aaron Weber]

I was thinking. I forgot. I forgot where we're at.

[Nate Bargatze]

I want an image of a calendar and as you're going through it, I want to see the days being torn off.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't even know what you're talking about.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Aaron Weber here. We got a big 2025 coming up. Exciting things in the works. Detroit. I'm going to be in Detroit at the house of comedy January 17th and 18th. That's the first leg of the tour. And then I'll just say one more weekend after that. Doing a fun Texas run. Houston, Austin, San Antonio. I'm doing Creek in the Cave in Austin, which is fun. The Houston Improv LOL Comedy Club in San Antonio. That's the last weekend of January and then a lot of fun things after that. Go to aaron webercompany.com for all the tourist dates and information you can get right there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, all right. January, December 26th, that's be my last public show of the year. I don't know what else might pop up, but it'll be my last one on my calendar. I'm in Grant, Oklahoma, at a casino.

[Aaron Weber]

I've done that casino.

[Nate Bargatze]

Last year I opened for Larry the Cable guy there around the same time.

[Brian Bates]

Very cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

Actually, no, it was middle of the year, but this time it's me. It's gonna be me and a guy named Tyler Elliott and Adam Bush. We're all going to do the show together. Awesome. But like I say this next week, this week actually tonight as this podcast comes out, I'm in Little Rock, Arkansas Air Force Base and then Columbus, Mississippi and Shreveport, Louisiana. If you happen to be. I never done military shows. If you happen to be on the base, come see the shows.

[Brian Bates]

You bringing out the Dollar General joke.

[Nate Bargatze]

I may.

[Aaron Weber]

You can tell how you going to join the army and they got arrested.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I may. Yeah, yeah, may. I may get into that. And I did try that at a military show recently. I never done military. This was a. More of a veteran show. You, you know, at the corporate gig I talked to you about, man, I think it went okay. All right. And, but this is, this has been a great podcast. A bit of a Cinderella story, this podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Real storybook podcast.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Fairy tale ending, if you will.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I think the clock's about to strike midnight night, ladies and gentlemen.

[Nate Bargatze]

And. All right, well, thank you guys. Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay signing off. We're having a good time time and we love you.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, Bear.

[D]

Nat Land is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi and my.

[Brian Bates]

Wife Laura on the audio boom platform.

[D]

Record recording and editing for the show.

[Brian Bates]

Is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in.

[D]

Be sure to catch us next week.

[Brian Bates]

On the Naj Land podcast.

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