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Nate Bargetti
Lights are going up.
Brian Bates
Snow is falling down.
Aaron Weber
There's a feeling of goodwill around town.
Nate Bargetti
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 at participating McDonald's for a limited time. Hello, folks. And hey, bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. Merry Christmas. Today's a Christmas day. I'm Nate Bargetzi. Brian Bates. Aaron Weber. Dusty's out. We brought in much louder. Dusty at Alabama. Yeah.
Dusty
Oh, yeah.
Aaron Weber
Dusty. Yeah.
Brian Bates
Hey, thanks.
Nate Bargetti
It's fun. Do you know what? They would have seen you on the Christmas special now.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
That's why he's here.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, that's right. That's why Derek's here. That's how he got the gig.
Aaron Weber
We got some good. Good and some bad, but we'll get to you in a minute.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Merry Christmas. We hope you guys are having a wonderful either. Had a wonderful Christmas. Whenever you're watching us, Hope you're unwrapping presents and having a wonderful time. All this stuff. You got your first Christmas with a kid.
Dusty
Yeah. She's not quite old enough. I mean, next year will be the first real one.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
Where she's, like, aware. Well, she's a. More aware of it.
Nate Bargetti
It's. It's going to be, like, later.
Dusty
Yeah. Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Well, it just depends on what you mean by where.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
I don't even know. She knows. I mean, she can only see, like, a foot in front of her.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Yeah.
Aaron Weber
I don't. So I don't think next Christmas she's going to be doing a.
Nate Bargetti
Like a deer because she crossed the. She'd have trouble crossing the street.
Dusty
She would.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, she would. Right now. Yeah. I understand that this is Eleanor's first.
Aaron Weber
Christmas knowing who Santa really is.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah.
Aaron Weber
So much fun.
Nate Bargetti
Does she know that you're older than Santa?
Brian Bates
He's talking to you for sure.
Nate Bargetti
Details. Do you show pictures of you and Santa in high school together?
Aaron Weber
That short beard.
Nate Bargetti
He's got. Short beard. It's brown. Yeah. Like, he goes. Yeah, well, he looked good.
Aaron Weber
We called him Chris.
Nate Bargetti
He goes. I didn't think. None of us thought he was going to make it like he made it.
Aaron Weber
The Kringles weren't a great family, but he really.
Brian Bates
He wasn't always into just milk. You know what I mean? He was young at one time.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, well. Yeah. This will be a fun thing. I think we're supposed to. So if you're watching it, the Christmas special would have aired. I've seen a cut of the Christmas. There's no reason to even it. I. It looks awesome, but I've seen a cut. You could be watching this now and my. I should be like, guys, I want to apologize for what happened on cbs. There's a chance we'll record both just in case. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Hey, I didn't know what was going to happen on that day. And I'm sorry about everything that aired on CBS on December 19th. I apologize does not represent my family. I stand alone in this. So either way, we're play both. Yeah. No matter what, you know, Perfect. Yeah.
Aaron Weber
But it's been out now almost a week.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. So I probably already made a statement. Yeah. So listen, coming back, this is your first public appearance. This is my. Oh, yeah.
Aaron Weber
Since it happened.
Nate Bargetti
Hey. Hey, everybody. Those reindeer, I didn't know they were real. No one told us that.
Dusty
Well, also, your special came out last night.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah.
Dusty
You got a lot going on at the moment.
Nate Bargetti
Once again, I want to apologize.
Brian Bates
She said, oh, yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah. I apologize for the special. Right now. I am at the Christmas. I'm at the game Steelers. If you're watching this on December 25th, I'm at the. At 1:00. I'm at the. I'm going to the Chiefs Steelers game.
Brian Bates
Oh, wow.
Aaron Weber
Okay. We just talked about them on DraftKings.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. So I'll be going there and doing stuff. Yeah, we're recording stories. I guess there's no real point to talk about all this stuff, but. Yeah, but again, I apologize for what happened. I do not know Travis Kelsey and what he did was awful. So I'm sorry. I don't stand for it. I pray for his family, his brother Jason just start going through, I don't know what the.
Aaron Weber
Every scenario.
Brian Bates
Taylor feels safe.
Nate Bargetti
I don't think Jason knew about it either. But you know, it's all Patrick's fault.
Aaron Weber
Yeah, just.
Nate Bargetti
I don't know. Just, you know, Eric Stone Street, I don't know Russell Wilson, I do the Steelers, whatever. Bert Kreischer will be there. I definitely did not. Yeah, I don't approve. What? Bert? No. Yeah, Bert. I have another thing coming out with Bert this same day is like a. Something burning. Oh yeah. Me and Dusty are on it.
Dusty
Oh, really?
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
I think it comes out on the day that you're watching this.
Dusty
That's exciting.
Nate Bargetti
That one Bert, you know, was. Tried to. He tried to calm it down with the language intentionally on that day. He did very good.
Dusty
It was really Nice.
Nate Bargetti
It's not perfect.
Dusty
Kept the shirt on.
Nate Bargetti
Keep a night.
Brian Bates
Yes.
Aaron Weber
Cooking. Seems like you need a shirt on.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. You don't want this to bouncing back that grease, so. All right. Yeah. So that's where I was.
Aaron Weber
And this is our last episode of the year.
Nate Bargetti
Last episode of the year. Yeah. Last one I'll ever do.
Aaron Weber
How's your year been?
Nate Bargetti
Huh? My year? I'm joking with that. I know I haven't been on. Everyone. The year's been very good. It's been a very good year.
Aaron Weber
That's how you suggested you should greet people.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah. How's your year going? It's going great. Tell you that. Yeah. Yeah, it's going great. Pretty good here for you. Yeah. Pretty good year.
Aaron Weber
This time last year, you're doing the Manning cast, which was my favorite moment of 2023.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
I thought your career was over, but kept going.
Nate Bargetti
You showed me plugged along. Yeah. Kept plugging along. That's all I gotta do is keep showing up. Keep showing up.
Brian Bates
Are y'all serious about asking people about their year?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Cuz instead of like, saying, how's your day going? Which is. Everybody's day is always good. No one's going to be like, really? No one really tells you how their day was going. If you ask someone, how's your year been going? It's a little more of a inquiring question.
Brian Bates
That seems terrifying. That seems like it could be way more loaded. I feel like I have a better chance to escape if you just give me the next 24 hours. I think 12 months. I could be here for a minute, but.
Nate Bargetti
I know. But if I'm just in generalities. Okay. How's your year going, man? And you're like, oh, it's going great. I did this. You would have more to say if I say, how's your day?
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
I clearly don't even. None of us care.
Brian Bates
True, true. And you feel like that you could break down a day in conversation. A year is too much. So you just go one word, good, bad, and different.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. He goes, great.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
And I mean, I could be miserable.
Brian Bates
Okay. All right.
Nate Bargetti
And I'm gonna go, great.
Aaron Weber
Don't ask me. I'll have some health issues.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah. Well, went to the doctor.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
I just got a new one.
Brian Bates
It's like the gal.
Aaron Weber
No, but you know, on my.
Nate Bargetti
You see your doctor more than you don't.
Aaron Weber
I don't have to explain that one. I have a parking spot.
Nate Bargetti
Do you have a plaque?
Brian Bates
You have a plaque?
Aaron Weber
Like employee patient of the month?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Now, you know when. Three years ago, when I thought I was having a stroke.
Dusty
Right. Right.
Aaron Weber
I just had to go do a three year follow up where they did another image scale.
Nate Bargetti
Three year follow up. I never heard of that. Yeah. I don't know.
Aaron Weber
I don't know.
Nate Bargetti
Your doctor is really.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Should we do it?
Dusty
Come back in three years?
Nate Bargetti
Because I don't know. I think it's like an Apple.
Brian Bates
Come back three years, 36 months. Nothing bad could happen for sure.
Aaron Weber
And he's like, everything looks good, but you have. He said you have a couple nodules on your. On your lung. He said, but it's nothing to worry about. He said most people in this part of the country have this. It's called hypothesis or something. It's basically. He says, bat poop.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Bat dung guano creates fungus that we in this part of the country get on our hands, especially as kids, get in our mouth and it gets in our lungs and wow. Never goes away. So I have. I have bat poop lungs.
Nate Bargetti
That's coven.
Aaron Weber
Yeah, that's covet.
Nate Bargetti
Well, Covid was from bats.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
I don't know.
Brian Bates
Sounds like it was described to you, like, by a gypsy doctor, like.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
You got bat poop in your lungs.
Nate Bargetti
This is the new dog.
Brian Bates
Yes. Covid, 14. It's different, but the same one of them.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Keep. Could you look up bat poop and lungs?
Dusty
Yeah, I mean, I'd be happy to type this in and see what.
Brian Bates
That'll pop right up.
Dusty
It's acute pulmonary histoplasmosis.
Aaron Weber
There you go.
Dusty
A flu like illness characterized by respiratory symptoms, general malaise. That fits you.
Aaron Weber
Yep.
Dusty
Fever, chest pains, doing down here.
Nate Bargetti
Down. Yeah.
Dusty
You inhaled fungal spores from bat droppings.
Nate Bargetti
Wow.
Dusty
Absolutely crazy. I never heard of. Can't hear anything.
Aaron Weber
Now I can.
Dusty
All right, we got it. Perfect.
Aaron Weber
Nate's playing God over here.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, I just had to. Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Anyway, I have hip histoplasmosis, so I've.
Brian Bates
Never heard of that.
Dusty
Plasmosis.
Brian Bates
You start calling Nashville Gotham City.
Nate Bargetti
You need to turn it up more now.
Aaron Weber
It's too loud. Why are you messing with mine?
Dusty
Anyway, so, elevated risk of exposure to histoplasmosis fungus include workers who perform demolition. That's not you. Gardeners who. Who use bird or bat droppings as fertilizer. Excavation workers who uproot trees or persons cleaning fireplaces. How did you get this? Brian?
Nate Bargetti
Look.
Aaron Weber
Look at Tennessee. I mean, I'm right in the heart of it. I'm a blue collar guy out there doing the thing.
Dusty
It's Highly endemic, central Tennessee.
Aaron Weber
Where's Dusty at? I mean, Dusty would be all over this.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
Yeah. Wild stuff. Well, are you feeling okay?
Aaron Weber
Well, I thought I was. Yeah.
Dusty
Yeah. Okay.
Aaron Weber
But I mean, all those animals I've been around.
Dusty
Dogs, cats, rats, skunks, possums, foxes. You've been around fox?
Aaron Weber
There's foxes in my neighborhood now.
Dusty
Okay. Okay.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, but are you around them? Well, not really around.
Dusty
I mean, a fox doesn't hang out.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. I don't think any of those things. You're hanging out. The squirrels are the only ones that you get. They're. They're on. They're amongst your things.
Aaron Weber
My dog. I think I've told this story. My dog got sprayed by skunk. And I put it in my car to drive. We weren't at home and drove it home.
Nate Bargetti
We drove the skunk home.
Aaron Weber
And I was just so. Like. My mom spent all night, like, spraying and doing all this stuff, and.
Brian Bates
And.
Aaron Weber
And I had a. I had a summer job, and I thought it was passed, and I went to work that day. As soon as I walk in, this woman's like, somebody smells like skunk.
Dusty
He just reads for days.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Did you check out on that story?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, I checked it.
Dusty
I was with you.
Nate Bargetti
You said you might have told it before, so I figured I'm like, I'm.
Dusty
Gonna assume that he did.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. I'm gonna. Like, the listener is. I just thought. All right, I'll just check. I'll use this time for me.
Brian Bates
Yeah. And I just use this time for me.
Aaron Weber
Well, I have histoplasmosis, guys.
Dusty
Yeah.
Brian Bates
All right.
Dusty
Oh, keep an eye on it for us.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
What, is there a cure?
Aaron Weber
Doctor didn't say. I didn't think to ask.
Nate Bargetti
No. How's it treated?
Dusty
Mild disease resolves without treatment.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Oh, I'm going to call the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Nate Bargetti
How do you know this is even a disease? There's. There's no disease. It's a mild disease. It usually fixes itself. You're like, well, now I believe you're making this up.
Aaron Weber
I've got it.
Nate Bargetti
How much stuff. But this is probably made up because someone. Someone kept coming in because they just go, like. I feel like something's not up in there, like.
Dusty
Yeah, you have histoplasmosis.
Nate Bargetti
Golly. Does it. How do I kind of take something not. It eventually just works itself out.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, do you not want me to come here anymore, is what you're saying? That's what I think that is.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Is that not crazy? If you were a doctor you go, it's a mild disease usually. How many times would a doctor probably use a disease like that just to get out of the situation?
Dusty
A few.
Brian Bates
Yeah. I mean if you didn't have any answers.
Nate Bargetti
He's a regular person.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Our doctor's busy. He has stuff going on back. I mean he gets this guy walking.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Brian Bates
I was about to say you got to read your patient and you go, this guy's going to believe bat poop. It is in his lung to send it.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, yeah. I mean because he gave you something that you're. There's no way. It only affects.
Aaron Weber
No, it doesn't say only.
Nate Bargetti
It doesn't say extremes of age, the ones that get it the most. Infants and the elderly.
Aaron Weber
It doesn't say.
Nate Bargetti
It just means anyone gets it in the middle. That's word quote from the doctor. No one gets it in the middle. Yeah, it's. You have a weekend immune system.
Aaron Weber
Probably a weekend. I mean.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. You don't do it during the week.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
On the weekends you're only. Yours only works on the weekend.
Aaron Weber
I'm immune from weekend shows. Somebody's looking at my calendar.
Nate Bargetti
Easy to drive tour. See you on Wednesday.
Dusty
Let's call it weekday warriors.
Aaron Weber
Yeah, that's right.
Nate Bargetti
That's right. Yeah. Brian's only comedian that works a 9 to 5 doing stand up. As a stand up comedian. He's really. Monday to Friday MF 9 to 5. What do you do? I'm a stand up comedian. Wow. You really work in the regular hours.
Brian Bates
That's it.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
With my family every night.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
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Brian Bates
Big game.
Aaron Weber
You're a Jacksonville State guy.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I went to school.
Aaron Weber
Yeah, that's what I thought. Cureball. Ohio's currently a 2 1/2 point favorite. So you take. You take Jacksonville State, buddy.
Brian Bates
I will.
Aaron Weber
Notre Dame college football playoffs. Do you know the line?
Dusty
No, I don't. I don't think. I don't think it matters.
Aaron Weber
Seven and a half. It doesn't matter.
Dusty
I think we're going to underperform.
Aaron Weber
So you're going to take.
Dusty
I'm just kidding. Indiana.
Aaron Weber
Bottom line is you can do all this on DraftKings sportsbook Vandy Georgia Tech. Georgia Techs 2 1/2 point favorite. Sorry, John, Chris, you're. You guys are going down. And today, Christmas day, there's an NFL. Christmas is. Usually you think about NBA basketball, but this year we got NFL football.
Dusty
Amazing.
Aaron Weber
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Aaron Weber
I just got my driver's license renewed. And you go in there. Went in there. And she's like. She pointed me. She's like, you just go to this kiosk?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
So I'm at the kiosk and I'm doing it, and it doesn't give you. I mean, it kind of gives you a heads up, but then next thing you know, it's time for the picture. And there's an oval that you have to put your face in. And it's like 8, 7, 6. And I'm trying to get lined up. And when it gets about three, she comes out of nowhere behind me. She goes, look up. Look, look up. And I'm like, what? What? She's like, look up. And I think she meant, like, lift my whole chin to fit in the thing. But I thought it was like, like at the eye doctor. So I just do this. And it snaps.
Nate Bargetti
He looks up with his eyes and snaps.
Aaron Weber
Yeah, so. So my. She wouldn't let me do it again.
Dusty
So do you have your driver's license?
Nate Bargetti
Why wouldn't she let you do it again?
Aaron Weber
She said that I got to move it along.
Nate Bargetti
It looks like. Like an old forest gump when he got.
Brian Bates
Oh, my gosh.
Dusty
Zoom on that.
Brian Bates
Oh, my goodness.
Aaron Weber
Maybe we could do it in post, Aaron, or not at all.
Nate Bargetti
Okay. With the short hair. Gosh, that picture, it goes. What? Hey.
Brian Bates
Unbelievable.
Nate Bargetti
We got another movie because. What was it? We had to move. Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown. Forrest Gump. Where has he been? Yeah, right there.
Dusty
Right?
Nate Bargetti
Nate's plays the forest. Come now. Pretty solid.
Aaron Weber
So that was my week. Merry Christmas, everyone.
Dusty
Good to see you, man.
Nate Bargetti
And this all happened on Christmas Day.
Brian Bates
You're gonna get pulled over, and a cop's gonna look at your license and go, are you driving alone?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Like there's nobody in there with you. You're doing pretty good. I'm gonna let you go.
Nate Bargetti
Look at me, son.
Aaron Weber
Yeah, it's like Kevin from the office.
Brian Bates
Oh, gosh.
Dusty
All right, I'm trying. Somebody said this guy. This guy GS Artworks who draws. Draws pictures of episodes every now and then. Does he Drew Bates as Charlie Brown?
Aaron Weber
Well, Aaron, you're Lucy, so.
Brian Bates
Well, yeah, but you look funnier. It kind of looks like the license.
Nate Bargetti
Kind of does. It sticks out.
Aaron Weber
Look at Dusty back there.
Nate Bargetti
Aaron looks like Captain Cook.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
Captain Hook.
Nate Bargetti
Hook.
Brian Bates
I was like, who's Captain Cook? I was trying to think about who that was.
Nate Bargetti
I think there was Captain Cook.
Brian Bates
I don't think so.
Nate Bargetti
I think there was.
Aaron Weber
I don't think it was a comic in the 80s.
Nate Bargetti
I'm pretty sure it was Captain Cook. I pretty. I'm almost positive we'll never know a.
Brian Bates
Guy on Tik Tok that does grilled chicken videos.
Nate Bargetti
James, that's no way.
Aaron Weber
You were thinking.
Nate Bargetti
That's what I'm talking about. James Cook, you could put in anybody.
Dusty
There's somebody Nate was thinking about. British explorer and cartographer Captain James Cook.
Nate Bargetti
Captain. And we'd all called him Captain Captain James Cook is what it says. I know.
Brian Bates
I know.
Nate Bargetti
That was exact. Man. It was. I know a lot about that guy. He did. He found Hawaii. First one to find it.
Dusty
There's Captain Cook, an episode of the British. Okay.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, there's a lot of Captain Cook.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Samuel H. Cook.
Dusty
I mean, Captain Cook was Jesse Pinkman's alias and Breaking Bad.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Maybe that's that.
Aaron Weber
I could see you. Maybe.
Dusty
I have a feeling you were thinking about that and not the British cartographer from the 18th century.
Brian Bates
I don't think Nate was thinking about. I think he said it wrong. Yes. I think Captain Cook, and he meant Captain Hook.
Nate Bargetti
I don't know whose podcast this is, Derek, but.
Dusty
Derek Land.
Nate Bargetti
Derek Land.
Brian Bates
Oh, gosh.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. All right. Well, that's fun.
Aaron Weber
Yeah. So Merry Christmas.
Dusty
Merry Christmas, everybody.
Nate Bargetti
Are you. If this is Christmas Day, where are you at on Christmas Day?
Brian Bates
On Christmas Day? I'm home. But the next day I'm in Tampa at side splitters for the weekend.
Dusty
Right back into it.
Brian Bates
Right back into it.
Nate Bargetti
That would be a big night. I think a lot of people go out on the 26th.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. That weekend after Christmas is usually a pretty decent weekend.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Aaron Weber
I had a show here on the 26th, and Zany's canceled it.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
Is that real?
Aaron Weber
They said they wanted to spend time with their families.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Did you? What's the show?
Brian Bates
That's the only time Zany's has ever done.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Doorfins are like, we're really into Christmas.
Nate Bargetti
Now, so they're Jewish.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Aaron Weber
It was December 26th, and that was foul. And she said, would you be okay if we cancel the show so we can just have spend time with our family? Yeah. I was like, what about all the tickets sold? She's like, don't worry about that.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Oh, man. They usually do that in an email. They. They went right to your face with it. Yeah. Do you care we're gonna cancel?
Aaron Weber
Yeah. I don't think it mattered if I cared, but yeah, anyway.
Nate Bargetti
Well, usually it's a good. I think in Tampa, it's a better day for comedy.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
They don't have families in town.
Nate Bargetti
They don't have families in Tampa. Aaron, your first Christmas.
Dusty
First Christmas with a baby. We're going to Atlanta. I'm in Atlanta right now.
Brian Bates
Oh, nice.
Dusty
Checking it out, just for fun. First little road trip. Lucy's brother moved out there, his wife, so we're at their place. First road trip with the. With the baby.
Brian Bates
That's exciting.
Nate Bargetti
How'd that go?
Dusty
Yeah, how's that?
Brian Bates
How'd that go?
Dusty
Hopefully okay. Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah. I guess I should say it'd be my first Christmas in New York City.
Dusty
Oh, my.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah. My first. My first one.
Nate Bargetti
But you won't be there.
Brian Bates
I'll. I'll be there on Christmas day. I won't be there on the 26th.
Nate Bargetti
I thought you said I'll be home. I thought you meant home. Like, home's Alabama.
Brian Bates
Yeah, home is Alabama.
Aaron Weber
You celebrate Christmas?
Brian Bates
Yeah, I do. I. I enjoy. I'm a long time fan of Christmas now.
Dusty
You're a big. You. You decorate where you live. I've heard you talk about this.
Brian Bates
Yes, Yes. I love Halloween.
Dusty
You put pumpkins in the apartment.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. I love decorating for seasons. Like our house. Like Christmas. There's all kinds of candles. There's a tree. There's. I mean, there's Christmas stuff. Wall to wall. And I. I like it.
Aaron Weber
But do you go home earlier? You told me earlier how in Denver you'd go to Waffle House on Christmas day.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We go to Waffle House on Christmas day and listen to Alabama Christmas in Dixie. But, you know, in New York, there is.
Aaron Weber
But why are you never home for Christmas?
Brian Bates
Oh, well, I just. I mean, I'll go back sometimes, but a lot of times, you know, when you travel so much and, you know, you live so far from home, sometimes it's better just to stay at your own place and take it in. A lot of times on Thanksgiving, I'll go to my folks or to Alyssa's folks, but on Christmas, I'll usually hang around the house. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Just have a lone, sad Christmas.
Brian Bates
No, man. Try to get Alyssa under some mistletoe. You know what I mean?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
You know, this is a clean podcast.
Brian Bates
My fiance. I was just talking about Kissinger.
Aaron Weber
You know, that's why John Chris kicks.
Nate Bargetti
So you make her not. So she's someone that doesn't travel. And you say you can't visit your family either.
Brian Bates
No, she can. She can. It's just.
Nate Bargetti
You go, I'm not coming with. Yeah. He goes, yeah, honey, what are we gonna do this Christmas? You know, go sit here alone, stare at each other?
Brian Bates
Yeah, exactly. And we're gon.
Nate Bargetti
Your boy's been traveling. That's how you talk to her about you. You go. Your boy has been traveling.
Brian Bates
Yeah. So tonight we're going to sit right here.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. And those dogs are barking.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
So I'm going to.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. So we're going to sit right here.
Dusty
Can we put some on tv? No, no. Going to sit here quiet.
Brian Bates
We're going to look at each other.
Nate Bargetti
We're going to decorate for just me and you. No one sees it.
Brian Bates
Well, in New York, that's pretty true.
Dusty
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Nobody is gonna see it, but it feels good. I like to. Y'all don't like to sit around, you know, a lit Christmas tree and, like, have some coffee and, like, you know, listen to some.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, but I gotta. Yeah, we got. Yeah. Family. Just on Christmas.
Brian Bates
We have families. We have family. Listen, this guy gets a kid at 52, and now he's like, I live a different life, Eric.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Thank you very much.
Nate Bargetti
Excuse me.
Brian Bates
I've got a whole decade to catch up.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, let's start. We're kind of in it quick, right? Is there anything else that we know?
Aaron Weber
Well, no.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, no. Start, you guys. This is your first time on the first time Here.
Dusty
Welcome.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Well, thanks for having me.
Dusty
Feels like you.
Aaron Weber
Maybe we should learn a little bit about you.
Brian Bates
Maybe. Maybe.
Nate Bargetti
From Alabama.
Brian Bates
Yeah, from Harvest Alabama. Right outside of Huntsville.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
All right, let's get into the comments.
Nate Bargetti
Played football. Football, obviously.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. See, a big boy like that, obviously.
Nate Bargetti
I think on nowhere.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
I think the line was included.
Brian Bates
Okay.
Aaron Weber
Right next to Aaron.
Nate Bargetti
Wait, Sorry. Where did you play?
Brian Bates
I was a tight end.
Nate Bargetti
Oh. Oh, yeah. That's a little movement.
Brian Bates
Yeah, I got. I had some, you know, hands, some feet.
Dusty
Yeah, they were in the wing tea, though. You weren't running around.
Brian Bates
Come on. No, man, look. Quick little dump pass right there.
Aaron Weber
You're playing a little fullback.
Brian Bates
I did. I did my sophomore year. I played fullback on varsity for five games until they realized that I was not blocking anybody. And then I. I didn't. Film sessions are tough because it is the reality of the game.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
But, yeah, I played full back. Fullback's pretty wild position.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, that is the worst. Yeah.
Dusty
When you mess up in the game and you're thinking about, I gotta watch that tomorrow.
Brian Bates
Exactly.
Dusty
In front of the whole team.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
The accountability for during a football game is 10. Because you're going to watch it. You're going. Like you said, you're going to watch it with your buddies, and your coach is going to pause it and he's going to single you out. He's going to, hey, hey, Stroop. Everybody in this room seems like they care except for you. Can you tell us why you don't care? And then he'll just keep running. Tell us why you don't care. No, right here.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
No, no. We all. We show up every day. We got coaches that their jobs depend on you just caring a little bit. So show us why you don't care. And then. And then you learn, you know, to care or quit.
Dusty
But, yeah, I got blocked so bad by this kid from Endsworth. I made his highlight. He played at Tennessee. I was like the star of his highlight reel. It was embarrassing looking. I had two sprained ankles. I was outmatched.
Nate Bargetti
Pancaked.
Dusty
No, he basically just, like, picked me up and ran 10 yards back. I mean, it's like, it's. It looks like I'm on roller skates. It's incredible.
Aaron Weber
You had the ball.
Dusty
I was the center, and he was lined up at nose guard and just. The ball snapped. He just, like, picked me up and it was toying with me.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
Anyway, I'm on his highlight reel. And then when that happened, I remember thinking, like, dude, I gotta watch that. In front of the whole team tomorrow. And it was just as bad as you expect. Like. Yeah. I thought the coach was going to move on. And he goes, oh, run that back.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Dusty
Hey, Weber.
Brian Bates
Exactly.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
Yeah. Yes. Humiliated.
Nate Bargetti
Who is.
Dusty
It was Anthony Richardson.
Aaron Weber
Jason played.
Dusty
Played tackle for Tennessee. I almost don't want to say, because people. People go find that. Oh, yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Well, we'd like to see that.
Dusty
Okay. All right.
Nate Bargetti
Did he make it a pros or anything or.
Dusty
I don't know. I haven't looked into him in a while. I'm gonna find that out.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Yeah. Big time. You know.
Dusty
Antonio Richardson.
Nate Bargetti
Antonio Richardson.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
Yeah. He played for the Vikings.
Nate Bargetti
Wow.
Brian Bates
My goodness. Six, six, three, 38. My goodness gracious.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Mount Pleasant, Tennessee.
Dusty
Antonio, Tiny Richardson.
Nate Bargetti
Golly. How long does he still play? Oh, he's. Is he still playing? He played college football.
Dusty
Former.
Nate Bargetti
Made it to the league, though. Dude, look at that. That's pretty good. You're on a. It's a something.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah. He.
Dusty
He.
Brian Bates
And he was humongous.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
Yes.
Brian Bates
Was your team any good in high school?
Dusty
No, my high school has gotten very good since I left. We were kind of the sacrificial lambs of our league. We had, like, the five or six best high school football teams in Tennessee. We had to play every year, and they would just. Just deny. Annihilate us. Yeah. But we play with a lot of grit.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Hey, I heard that.
Dusty
We had heart.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Played for the name on the front of your jersey. I heard that.
Dusty
Yeah.
Brian Bates
For about 15 minutes.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Brian Bates
And then I joined a fraternity. I was. I was not built for that. And I mean, our high school team was terrible. I mean, we were. I mean, absolutely. A lot of 1 and 9, 2 and 8. We went 5 and 5 my senior year, and I'm pretty sure we had a parade. Yeah, we were bad. We were real bad.
Nate Bargetti
What. What college you go to?
Brian Bates
I went to Jacksonville State.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah.
Brian Bates
Which is now Conference usa. When I was there, I mean, we were one level up from flag football, and now, I mean, they're. I mean, you got Rich Rodriguez there. We just won a conference championship.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
A lot's changed, but.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
They're in a bowl game.
Brian Bates
Yeah, they're in a bowl game. They're in a cure Bowl. Playing the Bobcats. Yeah. Playing Ohio.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
I mean, that's wild. Jacksonville. Such a quaint little town.
Nate Bargetti
Is this it? You find it?
Dusty
Let me tell you something. There's a lot of plays from this game. That's me 56.
Aaron Weber
Right there.
Dusty
Yeah. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
So is this it?
Dusty
No, this isn't the play I was thinking. I mean, he's just manhandling us.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
I'm trying to find that specific 50. I'm putting up a fight, dude. I'm putting up.
Nate Bargetti
Look at you.
Aaron Weber
Look at you.
Nate Bargetti
He just. Golly. He just.
Dusty
There it is.
Brian Bates
Oh, my God. Oh. Had your own roller skates look, right?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, they. They showed it from a different angle. That's the only highlight. Hold on. Let it play. Because they go back to this again, and they go, let's show it from a back.
Brian Bates
Oh, my.
Dusty
They didn't have to do both angles.
Brian Bates
Every play looks like a screenplay.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Even though it's a run.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah. That is wild.
Dusty
They were not screens. I'm trying to pass.
Brian Bates
Oh, my goodness.
Dusty
Yeah, dude.
Nate Bargetti
Because someone online goes scream. And he's like, nah, man. Nah, man. He's just got heron back. He goes, it's a screen for Aaron.
Brian Bates
Oh, my goodness.
Nate Bargetti
I mean, he got. When he got back. Right there is an insane one. He just goes through all of you.
Dusty
Yeah. I mean, like, five. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Right there.
Dusty
Right there.
Brian Bates
Dude, that is this.
Dusty
I remember this play being like, dude, I just felt myself. I go, I'm have to watch that. Well, this is one of those. Football's such an interesting thing. Right. Because there is something to be said about hard work, determination, all that kind of stuff, Right?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
But there's also a level of. That's an NFL line for sure. In front of me.
Brian Bates
Absolutely.
Dusty
There's basically zero chance I have of.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
Of stopping him at all.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
Could I have done better than that? Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Has done more with the degree. You or him.
Aaron Weber
That's.
Brian Bates
That's fair.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
That's a tie.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Tie goes to the runner. Brutal. Because you're running backwards. Yeah.
Aaron Weber
His education was free, but you're.
Nate Bargetti
You look. It was. You were annoying to him that you were there. Oh, yeah. He moved you like. He goes. If you. He's like, just don't be here. And let me just get the quarterback.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
Here's what happened. I think Emirates Endsworth was number one or two school in the state at this point. First quarter, we were beating them, and then they're like, okay. Then they just put him in a nose guard, and it was just like, game was over.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
What was he doing before?
Dusty
Yeah, they were, like, taking it easy. They go, let somebody else play defense.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, he was just out. Yeah.
Dusty
It's like the blind side just put him in.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
You can see who the guy Is that's the problem?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
I mean, it looks like a picture of Bigfoot. Like, it's like kind of blurry and he's like at mid stride.
Nate Bargetti
I mean, it's the fact that no one can, like, you can't. No one can tackle him, the person. And then he just always comes in and just pulls them down so big. Like he's so. He just kind of. There you go. That's a different. There's a. Flags all over. Yeah.
Dusty
It's good to see some other schools in this.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. I mean, that one, he just went through two people and it was. It was. Yeah.
Dusty
I mean, it looks like a man playing with kids.
Brian Bates
Wow. No, he.
Nate Bargetti
I mean, it looks like there's that video with the mascot running in football and hitting all those kids.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
You're seeing that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it looks like that. Like, it looks. That's what it looks. If you can't. If you're listening, picture that. And Aaron was the kid and that guy was the master.
Dusty
You know, you'll know this, Derek, you do have those little moments because you're so. When you line up in a three point stance, you are like this far from a dude's face. Right. So I do remember him lining up.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
And I. I remember going, what's up, man? He goes, I'm good.
Brian Bates
No, that's all I remember that.
Dusty
Thought I was gonna have a human moment.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
What did you weigh at this time?
Dusty
God, 215.
Brian Bates
I was about to say.
Dusty
Yeah, that was the best shape of my life. I didn't know it at the time. That's the best shape of my life.
Brian Bates
Yeah. You look. You look thin.
Dusty
I was way undersized for. He was. Yeah.
Brian Bates
And you also, you make some business decisions. In high school football, we're playing against these type of guys. I mean, I remember being on kickoff return and me and Ellis Burns had our hands locked and there was a guy from Minor High School who looked like one of the guys under the Under Armour commercial. And right when he got to us, we let go of each other and we watched him erase our teammate who had the ball. And Q got up and he had a concussion. And we had to watch on film. I mean, back to film, coach goes, hey, fellas, you want to see two guys who don't care about a teammate? Hey, watch Ellis Burns and Derek Strute make a business decision together. And I mean, right as he gets there we go, oh, God. And we just let him. And Q disappears and we just jog off the field, you know, And. But you had to make those, you know, I mean, high school football in Alabama, I really believe is a different breed.
Nate Bargetti
This is in Tennessee.
Dusty
Yeah, yeah.
Nate Bargetti
But.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, well, I was talking about Alabama. I don't care. This looks like all these people are terrible.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. He goes, what is this? They all look like 74 in Alabama.
Brian Bates
Yeah. No, but I do have a quick fun story about in high school, my senior year, I had a falling out with the coaches and I wasn't getting much playing time at the end of the season. And. And so we're playing Muscle shoals. We're up 48 to nothing. My best friend's the holder, Jeremy Williams, and I'm the wing guy on the field goal team. 48 Nothing against muscle Shoals. We go out there, I go, hey, Jeremy, give me a fire call. And a fire call means that's when you get a bad snap. The holder will roll out and he'll hit the guy in the end zone. And Jeremy's like, I'm not, I'm not giving you a fire call. And I've been. Jeremy's like, we've been best friends since we were like third grade. And I go, jeremy, you're going to give me a fire call and you're going to hit me in the end zone. And so it was a perfect snap. 48 nothing. We're beating this team. Jeremy takes it to the chest and he's like, fire, fire. And he just rolls out and hits me wide open in the end zone for a two point conversion to make it a clean 50 nothing. And the coach for Muscle Shoals had to be stopped because he was trying to cross the field to get to my head coach because he thought he called it. He didn't realize that I had called that in the huddle. And you should have seen everybody looking. I didn't care. I knew I was never going to, you know, this coach wasn't ever going to put me in again. And when I said, jeremy, give me. You know, the whole huddle looked around like, we're up 48 nothing. Yeah.
Dusty
What are you doing?
Brian Bates
And I'm like, no, we're going to get this two pointy. Yeah. And I mean, they had to hold back. Coach Henderson, you ever seen, you remember with the first time you saw a man really lose it?
Dusty
Yeah.
Brian Bates
I mean, he was, I mean, he was insane. I mean, he's like, oh, he, he wanted to kill me. And I was holding up the ball, you know, and I was jogging off the sideline. But we never really spoke a bunch after that. But, yeah, I wanted to be part of the game, and I'll never. That Muscle Shoals coach, I mean, could not believe it. I mean, couldn't believe it. I was wide open. They never saw it coming.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
They're down 48 off the line. I go, this is going to work perfect. I was like, they had. They didn't touch me. You know, they're like, well, they're obviously.
Dusty
Not going for two.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
Up 48, nothing.
Brian Bates
Jeremy threw a dime. I was like, goodness, Jeremy. Yeah. But that's what best. Best friends. I mean, it was just per. He's always been smaller and, like. I mean, he had no choice. I go, you're gonna throw me the. I was like, you're gonna throw me the ball. In the end. He goes, all right. And I'm fire. And we rolled out, yell fire.
Nate Bargetti
Right when it snapped.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah. So the fire call knows, like, say if I'm blocking and I hear fire, I know that there was a bobbled snap.
Dusty
Yeah.
Brian Bates
And so then I'll just release as the wing, and we'll all release into the end zone. So we just gave a fire call without a fire, you know, just a dry fire call. And. Yeah, Coach Anderson, I mean, the whole. Every coach was holding him back there, just snuff flying in there. He's like, I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna kill him. You know, and it worked out for me.
Nate Bargetti
That was the last game.
Brian Bates
That was the last game of the season. Yeah. We went to the playoffs. The next game we played, Tuscaloosa county, we lost. I mean, we got. We got the tape beat off our cleats. I mean, we were. We were terrible.
Nate Bargetti
Dude, you should have done another.
Brian Bates
Could you imagine?
Dusty
Down 48, nothing.
Nate Bargetti
Down he goes. He doesn't care. He's still going.
Brian Bates
I had the wildest career with this coach. When I was a freshman, I got moved up to JV because I was the freshman captain. We're playing Mountain Brook down in Mountain Brook. We played them all four years I was in high school, probably one of the best teams in the state.
Dusty
Outside of Birmingham.
Brian Bates
Outside of Birmingham. Yeah. We get. We get pounded. And after the. After the game, my buddy David Brown throws some Gatorade on me. Well, I go to retaliate on him, and I go to throw Gatorade on him.
Dusty
Yeah.
Brian Bates
And he. And he ducks. And I hit Coach Henderson's wife in the chest with red Gatorade. Lose my team captain position. And the whole way home, they talk about how I don't care about Anything. And so anyways, it was a long career of mishaps. Yeah.
Dusty
But fire, fire, fire, fire.
Nate Bargetti
I mean, if you had done to that next game. Dude, I know. Just to go, yeah, yeah. What did y'all lose? You remember the score?
Brian Bates
I don't. I don't remember the score.
Nate Bargetti
It had been, like, 48 to 12.
Brian Bates
Y'all aren't gonna. It sounds like I'm making this up. They put me in as, like, a double tight end. Jumbo set.
Dusty
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Third and goal jump offsides. I mean, they thought that I was trying to sabotage the team. Like, I was in for, like, one play against Tuscaloosa County. Jumbo said they're like, jumbo, Jumbo Stroop. I get in. Cost us the third. And, I mean, they're all, like, trying to figure out I was one of those guys. Is he. Does he not care? Is he dumb? Because we want to know how mad we should be.
Dusty
Right? Right.
Brian Bates
You know, that's.
Nate Bargetti
I think one of the more frustrating things is when you can't tell the reasoning behind it. You know what I mean? When you go, like, look, I'm fine either way. I just gotta know, where is this coming? Yeah.
Brian Bates
Exactly.
Nate Bargetti
Are you. Yeah. Do you not get it? Are you. Do you hate it?
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
And then you're. And if they're dumb, you're going, I can't imagine you're dumb. So. Yeah, you're doing it on purpose.
Dusty
My line coach used to say, man, you're gonna. You keep that up, you're gonna run up hot dog stand at the Rivergate Mall. That's all he used to say. Run a hot dog stand at the Rivergate Mall.
Aaron Weber
Which you did for a short time.
Brian Bates
Offensive line coaches in the South, I think, could probably do comedy. They're all hilarious. I mean, they all have zingers. I mean, there was a. Like, a nerdy lineman. And I remember one of our coaches being like, I bet if it was on a floppy disc, you'd get it. You know, like, the whole team lost it.
Dusty
Weber, you're a steak eater and a bus rider. That's all you want to do. You just want to eat a steak and ride the bus to the game.
Nate Bargetti
Hysterical. You like riding the bus?
Dusty
Steak eater in a bus.
Nate Bargetti
Well, he just likes the bus part.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
Good times, man.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, that was fun. All right. I think everybody knows Derek now.
Aaron Weber
We'll mark that football.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, mark that football. Get to know Derek.
Brian Bates
Fire call.
Dusty
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Nate Bargetti
Comments Rachel Odom I traveled from Seattle to Nashville for the Christmas special taping for my 40th birthday. It was a blast. My question is, with all the ties to snl, why was the special on CBS and not NBC? I don't know what I can and can't say, but it's.
Aaron Weber
No, it's everything to do with Derek.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. I said I want Derek. And NBC goes, we've never got it. No, no, it just, it was, I think we were going to go to NBC and then it was. They were gonna put.
Dusty
Fallon did one with NBC too.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, Fallon did one with NBC. But I think they were going to talk about ours being on Peacock and we really were on radio, TV on, you know, and so it just ended up going to cbs. But NBC was cool and like let it all happen and, and they let us. NBC was cool. They let us. If you've already seen it, we had a little cameo with Fallon or we should have, hopefully.
Dusty
Is there bad blood between these networks?
Nate Bargetti
The way that we like it, I think they're, they don't, you know, they got to protect their talent.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
So like we, I was gonna. Fallon come down and it was like, you got to put a stop to like, you'd be like, we can't go do whatever. But I go and do. I mean, my whole career has actually been through NBC, so this is the first time I really wasn't on something. But I've done all Conan.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
So I. I'm. I'm. I'm all NBC. They're snl. Like, it's, you know, everything that's done anything for me has really been NBC. So. Yeah, that's what. Zach Bennett as a Nashville unicorn. The pre taped. Don't Move. The Nashville sketch holds a very special place in my heart. Yeah. So we. We. Who saw it? Did y'all?
Dusty
I didn't see it. I heard about this video, though. I can't wait to see it.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, very fun video. Just telling people not to move. You saw it? Yeah. And then.
Brian Bates
It's very funny.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, it's very funny. I think everybody's going through that. Like, I think every town outside of California, in New York is. Is. And I bet even the cities surrounding is. You know, it's like la, or it's like, whatever. People haven't. Don't move there. So that. That's one that I am curious. I'll be curious to see what the reaction is. So. But yes, it was a very fun sketch. Jelly Roll was awesome in it. And it was just like. I mean, man, people went crazy. Yeah. In the. In the Grand Opry. Yeah, they were. They were. You know, because they were just like, everybody lives there, but I. Look, if you move here, we're happy to have you just be normal.
Aaron Weber
So I saw you rehearsed the sketch for the nativity scene, which was very funny. And it's a kind of a play off George Washington. So that's.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, that was great. Your line of the children.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Got a huge laugh. It's in there.
Aaron Weber
Oh, it's in there.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, I put it in last minute.
Dusty
Wait, what line?
Nate Bargetti
Santa. Because he says, Santa is all, yeah, judging people. And I go, santa only judges children.
Aaron Weber
It was because they say, you know, he's the man up at the top of the world who judges people. And they're like, oh, Santa. He's like, no. They're like, what's the difference? He's like, well, this one only. I'm sorry, I said it wrong. God. And then he's like, no, Santa. And then the difference is he can only judge his children.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. But it was like he just. There wasn't a line or there was something.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
And then. But Bates was there doing children.
Dusty
Wow.
Nate Bargetti
And I ended up putting in. Got a.
Dusty
It's a writing credit, Brian. Yeah, it's a writing Credit.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Got a big pop.
Aaron Weber
All right.
Nate Bargetti
And.
Aaron Weber
And how did Derek do?
Nate Bargetti
Oh, Derek. Oh, yes. Derek crushed it. It was awesome. And, yeah, he did. He did what he was supposed to do, which is murder it.
Dusty
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Nate went to promote it on the TV station that I used to work at. And when it was over, the general manager was there, my old boss, and she said, I came to this taping, and that guy that did stand up comedy was so funny.
Brian Bates
Oh, well, I love hearing that. Yeah, it was a cool opportunity, Julian.
Aaron Weber
But no, she's talking about you talk about.
Nate Bargetti
Julian did.
Brian Bates
Oh, man.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, Julian did the, like, just keeping the crowd, like, engaged and during because there's a lot of set changes and stuff. I mean, everybody did love join. I got a lot of compliments.
Dusty
Lucy was texting me. I cannot believe how hard of a job this is. And he's doing really great.
Brian Bates
I was about to say he worked his butt off. I mean, he's on and off and on and off, and you'd get interrupted right in the middle of his. But I mean, Julian, he's got that gift. I mean, he's so good out there. Everybody always loves, loves Julian. He doesn't miss.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, it was. Yeah, he did wonderful. But, yes, Stroop did wonderful as well. It was great.
Aaron Weber
Noah Khan, Carrie Underwood.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Have you done the Grand Ole Opry before?
Brian Bates
I was about to say first time there's. And, I mean, I got done with my set. I'm not scared to say it. I was emotional. It's a. It's a religious experience in there. And I mean, I was wearing a bunch of denim and I had on some, you know, some cowboy boots. And I'm gonna tell you, it. It was something. I really enjoyed it. What a night. I mean, just the whole show. I can't wait for everybody to see it. Yeah, it's gonna be cool.
Nate Bargetti
They've already seen it. This comes out after.
Brian Bates
Yeah. So I'm glad everybody's seen it.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No one watched it.
Aaron Weber
This could be a Derek's done Christmas tradition. Families gather around to watch the Nate Bargetzi.
Nate Bargetti
I hope so. Yeah, I hope so. Kent Fairborn. Kent Fairburn. Fairburn everything.
Dusty
You're trying to say it like Melbourne.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, I'm sure.
Dusty
Born Fairborn.
Nate Bargetti
Fairborn. Will the Netflix special be a spoiler for jokes out here at the rescheduled Las Vegas shows in January? I hope. I, I. No, I hope not. I can't promise you it's not going to be 10 minutes, but I'm, I'm really Hoping not. I don't think you'll have to be there. Maybe if I do, it might be a couple greatest hits at the. But overall, I mean, I've done 45 minutes without anything from the special. Now you might hear the doordash joke. That doordash is only on snl. It was not on this special. So don't, don't, can't. That doesn't count.
Aaron Weber
Right.
Nate Bargetti
But yeah, overall, I don't. I mean, hopefully we'll see. We'll see how, like, you know, I got to see where it's at. But the plan will be that it's. It's all. It's a new hour, you know, but minus. Yeah, I don't think I. I could maybe see there's a chance maybe do 10 minutes if I have to close on something. I think I have my new closer, so.
Brian Bates
That's impressive, man. A lot of people have to wait quite some time to see new stuff from their favorite comedian. So. Yeah, I mean, that rollover is. Is quick.
Dusty
You're doing a lot of guitar stuff this hour.
Nate Bargetti
I heard. Yeah. This from guitar stuff. And I bring other comics out during myself. That's how I can write so much. I go, I actually only do three minutes.
Dusty
Yeah, but it's a 30 minute Q A. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nate Bargetti
A lot of Q A. We're starting. You know, I still haven't done any Q A because I tried it a long time ago. It didn't go good. Yeah, tried it twice. So I was like, no, but maybe I'll get the courage up to do another Q A. Micah Johnson. I recently found out that Derek Stroop and I are practically, practically related. I was talking to my wife's first cousin's husband, Corey Adams, at Thanksgiving. He told me that Stroop was his roommate for a while during college. Basically family, right?
Brian Bates
Yeah, I know Corey. Corey's great dude. He was a great slow pitch softball player too. He could really turn on the ball, but it's not really that much of a brag. I was in college. I was in that college town for about a decade. So I had a bunch of roommates, so a bunch of them. Got a roster of them. So it wasn't a unique experience. But yeah, Corey. Corey's a good dude and I remember him well. We were roommates for a year for sure.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
How about that? Yes.
Nate Bargetti
First cousins, husband.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
But that kind of shows you made it. When people are claiming you just obscurely, they want.
Brian Bates
Yeah, I get. I guess that's. That's one of the signs. I don't know.
Aaron Weber
Derek Stroop.
Brian Bates
I mean, you know. Yeah, that's. That, that's flattering.
Nate Bargetti
It's real cool, man. No, I think it's fun. Corey Adams, did you play slow softball?
Brian Bates
I loved it.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Yeah, I could see you playing. I mean, you played. That's probably what took you so long to get out of the town.
Brian Bates
Yeah. No, you're 100, right? And guess who's who was on the rival slow pitch softball team?
Nate Bargetti
Corey Adams.
Brian Bates
Riley Green.
Aaron Weber
I knew you were going to say.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, really?
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah. Actually, Riley, we knocked y'all out in the tournament, and then you came back and played for another team through a loophole. And then they beat us and knocked us out of the tournament. But anyways, I forgot about it, clearly. But yeah, we were the cheap seats after the Alabama song. Cheap seats, great baseball song.
Dusty
Okay.
Brian Bates
And yeah, I was. I was the coach and played first base. Time of my life.
Nate Bargetti
You couldn't have. If you ask someone to guess what you did on a softball team, I think they're gonna go coach.
Brian Bates
I loved it. I wish I had y'all. We'd have had a good time, Brian. But yeah, I wish I'd have had.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we saw Brian play.
Brian Bates
Oh, I did.
Nate Bargetti
Wait, did you play this in Demore?
Dusty
I did. And yeah. Yeah, I pulled a hamstring early on. Couldn't run.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
No, I mean, I did too. We both were severely injured.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah, it was a tough look.
Dusty
Feed up.
Aaron Weber
Yeah, but you and Riley Green have a long time rivalry, right?
Brian Bates
We do. Yeah. I've known Riley since. I mean, he was probably a freshman in college. And then all throughout our years at Jacksonville State, we were kind of rivals and went back and forth and as you clearly see, I won. Nice try, Rally. But yeah, we. We know each other very well. He's a great dude and I'm really proud of him. But yeah, we. It was a small town, a couple of egos running around.
Nate Bargetti
Only too many loud people can be near each other. Is he loud? I don't know.
Brian Bates
No, he's not at all.
Nate Bargetti
So you're just. Is really all you? Yeah, seems like it's. I would be on Riley's side, maybe.
Brian Bates
I mean, he used to try to. I would open for him before he would play music, and he hated to watch my comedy. And one time he would come in after he knew I was off stage. And one time I waited on stage for about 50 minutes until he walked in and we came to the door. I went, hey, everybody. Riley Green I go, I'm gonna go ahead and start my set, if you don't mind. I will never forget the look on his face. He was 10 out of 10 mad.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Like that, coach.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I waited for him, and he still didn't watch it, but, yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, he's just like, be done.
Brian Bates
Yes, for sure.
Nate Bargetti
Pretty crazy for y'all in that scenario, though, for y'all two to kind of be. That's always neat when, like, something like that happens where. Yeah, two people do.
Brian Bates
Small town. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Into a thing.
Aaron Weber
Does he live here now?
Brian Bates
Yeah, for sure. I mean. I mean, I know he's got, like, a bunch of land. He's from Jacksonville, and, like, his family has been in that area since the beginning of time, and I think he bounces in between Jacksonville and. And. And here. Yeah, he's a good dude.
Nate Bargetti
He's a country singer, right?
Brian Bates
He is a country.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a Raleigh grin. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at that. Six. Four.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
Big dude.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah.
Brian Bates
That's why.
Nate Bargetti
Two big dudes. Two big guys like that. That's too much. There's no.
Brian Bates
No. Well, he was skinny as a bean pole when he was in college, and then he caught. You know, he started working out, clearly.
Nate Bargetti
Is that what you think? You look like me?
Brian Bates
No, I don't. I don't, man. I don't at all.
Nate Bargetti
Because, man.
Brian Bates
No, he's. He's doing well for himself. We clearly eat different stuff.
Nate Bargetti
I eat different stuff, too. Yeah, we can tell. Riley Green got a girl's name? Yeah. Sorry, I was just trying.
Brian Bates
Yeah, you're just talking about how big he is.
Nate Bargetti
I know. I was just trying to defend. I appreciate our boy Stroop.
Brian Bates
I appreciate you.
Nate Bargetti
He's from Jacksonville.
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah. Do they. Yeah. Ooh.
Brian Bates
He's a couple years younger than me. He played. He played for Jacksonville State for, like, a year. He's a good. He's a good athlete. Oh.
Nate Bargetti
And so. Oh, so when he played that softball, he was.
Brian Bates
He was the stud. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
Yeah.
Brian Bates
And then he showed up on a team that he didn't start out with, and everybody acted like it was okay. And then he dropped, like, two bombs and they beat us. And, you know, I. I haven't drank in a long time, but that night, I did.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Oh, he's a quarterback.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, of course. And he plays the guitar. They don't. They're. You know, they're not slot receivers. They're. They're lead.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. All right.
Brian Bates
But, yeah, that's enough about Riley. So what else y'all got?
Nate Bargetti
Riley GRE wrote in.
Brian Bates
He walks in. We've got him as a guest.
Nate Bargetti
Where do you get off having stroop on? I go golly. Julian Turnwich dip has been mentioned a few times during the history of this podcast, and I now know you're referring to chewing tobacco, but as that is banned in Australia, I honestly thought you were talking about dip. You put out at a party on an early sod. Aaron said he knew a guy that part of his fraternity duties was always to have cigarettes and dip on him. And I imagine just walking around with salsa.
Dusty
What do you need? Marlboro Lights? Queso.
Nate Bargetti
I got you.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dusty
It's probably better for you.
Nate Bargetti
Matt McCraw. Last week, I was at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Anaheim, California. The urinals in the men's room and no dividers. And the line was ridiculous as we had over 11,000 people at the meeting. I will sometimes joke that men need to double up on urinals when the line is that long. On a scale of no big deal to worst day of my life life, how terrible would it be to double up on urinals? Oh, it'd be worst day of my life. Yeah. I couldn't do it.
Dusty
No.
Nate Bargetti
I would leave, so. I mean, it wouldn't be the worst day of my life because I would leave.
Aaron Weber
You could do it, right, Derek?
Brian Bates
Never.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
What kind of urinals are they? I'd like to know a little more.
Nate Bargetti
Well, it's just a matter.
Dusty
I can think of some setups where it'd be. You wouldn't even think about it. But, you know, I think of it.
Aaron Weber
As normal urinal, where your streams are meeting in the middle.
Brian Bates
Oh, no, that's a normal urinal to you. So what's an abnormal like. No, very normal. Where the streams intersect, you know, just like a ball game.
Aaron Weber
I thought that's how you're supposed to do it.
Nate Bargetti
It would be. I'll wait for. Could you pee in a trough? You know when a. I hate when.
Brian Bates
I walk in and there's a trough.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. I'm like, but you can pee with no problem.
Dusty
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's not my favorite time of the day, but I'll do it. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
No, I couldn't even be.
Brian Bates
No, I can't eat.
Dusty
Really.
Nate Bargetti
No.
Brian Bates
I'm just gonna stand there.
Dusty
What about where it's just a drain in the ground, like a shower? You ever seen those?
Nate Bargetti
I think so. It. If I can get up Against a wall or something.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
You go to a stall, right?
Nate Bargetti
I go. I'll go to a star. I go to urinal on the corner. And, you know, I can usually. Usually if no one's there, I'm like, if I can get started before anybody comes in.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Then I'll be all right.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Then I talk to you.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Tons of times I've had to fake it at security. Once I had a security guy with me once, and I didn't know he did that. He came into the bathroom when I went in there to go pee, but I. And I didn't. Yeah, because it's. I think it's.
Dusty
I'm good, man. I. I got.
Nate Bargetti
Well, I didn't realize it at first, and then I'm sitting there and I'm like. I could just, you know, he wasn't like, on top of me, but he's like kind of back there, and I'm like, what's going on? And. But you know, a security detail. I guess the job is to make sure bathrooms where it's going to happen.
Dusty
Oh, maybe.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. But you would just. They would go in before you clear the place first.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Make everybody get out. You think you have trouble peeing in, Aaron? In the middle of your peeing just here. Nate's got to go. Everybody's got to get up.
Aaron Weber
Wrap it up.
Nate Bargetti
Zip it up.
Dusty
Zip it.
Nate Bargetti
No washing hands. Zip it up. He'll do a picture afterwards. People are like, I don't even want a picture. Bry Goss. I like. I think I like this name. Bry Goss. Oh, gross. Oh, ghosts.
Dusty
Bragos.
Nate Bargetti
Bry Goss or Brag Ghost.
Brian Bates
Goss.
Nate Bargetti
I think Bright ghosts. And he has to explain it.
Dusty
I think you go by Brian Goss at that point. I'm guessing his name's Brian Bright and he goes by Bry.
Aaron Weber
I thought it might be a woman.
Dusty
Oh, then that would be Brie Briegoss.
Nate Bargetti
Well, she married into that. I definitely. She definitely married into that name.
Brian Bates
Bragos.
Nate Bargetti
Get on out of here, Brian. Gus. $200 for a flipper. We found a Larry Bird card that recently sold for $15,000. This. I think it's a dude. Apparently my stepmom. I just never heard a woman talk about Larry Bird. I don't think a woman's ever mentioned Larry Bird.
Brian Bates
No, no, no.
Nate Bargetti
Could that be one they've mentioned? Michael Jordan?
Dusty
Sure.
Nate Bargetti
They mentioned Steph Curry.
Dusty
Yeah, yeah.
Nate Bargetti
I don't think a woman's ever mentioned Larry.
Dusty
I'm talking about Larry Bird.
Nate Bargetti
No, they don't bring up Larry. Larry bird's not on top of mind when they talk about basketball.
Brian Bates
You're gonna get a spicy email from some lady in Indiana like, oh, yeah, we do.
Nate Bargetti
Well, Indiana.
Aaron Weber
That's a great.
Nate Bargetti
That's a caveat. We found a Larry bird card that recently sold $15,000. Apparently, my stepmom is a big Larry bird fan. That's a woman. And wanted to keep it, but my dad is trying to liquidate. She took it to work in her purse, photocopied it, and brought it home. That's all she wanted to do with the card. I was dumbfounded and angry all at the same time. There's a photocopied sheet of paper of Larry bird card taped to the wall at my stepmom's office. Office.
Dusty
So funny.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. She just wanted a picture of Larry bird.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
That's good. They both win.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, they won there.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Now they can sell it.
Nate Bargetti
It's funny I said no women's ever brought Larry bird. This whole thing is about a woman.
Brian Bates
Yeah, it is.
Nate Bargetti
And Larry bird. Jason stop.
Dusty
Stump the stop.
Nate Bargetti
Stump the stop. Stop. Family.
Dusty
He died.
Nate Bargetti
You see that?
Dusty
The schwab.
Brian Bates
I didn't see that.
Dusty
Schwab died. Do you ever watch that show?
Brian Bates
Absolutely.
Dusty
Stump the schwab.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
So good.
Nate Bargetti
Was he old or is he. He wasn't that old, right?
Dusty
I don't think he was that old. He had some health problems, but yeah.
Nate Bargetti
My family's going on vacation over Christmas break, and we're going to be in Alabama on the 27th. We decided it would be fun to see the birmingham bulls since it fit into the time and place where we were going to be. When I found out vandy was picked to play in the first games, Thing I said to my kids was Nate burgets. He might be there. We're excited for the game, but now more excited we might get to see Nate, probably Brian in person. There will be no go jackets from us. Well, I love that. I'm not positive I'm going, but I'm going. I'm going to. I got to look and see. I might try to go. I think I might try to go. You want to go?
Dusty
That's one of the hardest shows I ever did as I did.
Nate Bargetti
Let's make this about you, Aaron.
Dusty
Yeah, I will. They make. They do every year Birmingham bowl. They do a show at the stardome the night before.
Brian Bates
Oh, no.
Dusty
And I did the year before me is the raging cajun did it. And they said everybody loved him. He murdered. And then I Was the next year. And it was tough, dude. It was a tough gig. It was like. It was Cincinnati versus Boston College. All of Cincinnati on the left, all of Boston College on the right. I remember Boston College liked me way more than Cincinnati.
Aaron Weber
Oh. I thought it went really well. I thought. I remember it going really well.
Dusty
I had moments where I was. But it was tough, dude. I remember thinking, like, I'm. I'm old now because I was like 27. These kids are 18.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, it's for the kids.
Dusty
It's for the. For the players, the teams.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, yeah.
Dusty
And they're in the same.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, the team. Yeah.
Brian Bates
Either.
Dusty
Oh, my bad, my bad. It's for the two teams playing in the Birmingham Bowl. They do it every year.
Brian Bates
Got it.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
So it's all this 18 to 20 year old kids and Bruce, the owner of the Stardome. I. I got brought up cold. There's no. They're just there. They eat dinner. Then I get brought out and he goes, this guy, you know, he's gonna give you the energy that you give him. Gave him, like, that whole spiel. So as I got brought out, they're, like, pretending to give me a huge oath, like they've never heard of me. And then I had some good moments, but it was, like, tough. It's one of those gigs that's on your calendar. You like, like, worry about it. I was thinking about it for weeks, dude.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Wasn't there video during the bowl of the.
Dusty
I meant I'm on ESPN for like four seconds. They came and filmed it. They're like dinner and a show. And they showed me for like two seconds. Yeah. ESPN credit.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah. On espn, that's where people go, well, that's why I'm here. It's those credits when you use where you're just barely on something. Oh, yeah. I came because I saw that you were in the background.
Dusty
I'm on your tonight show for a split second. The one you did during COVID You remember, you taped it opening for Leanne Morgan.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
You see me come on the stage for It's Tonight.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Been on tonight.
Dusty
You know what we all need to get more of? Get off our butts and get into some action. And it's fun to do that with the Mountain Dew. Check that out, Derek. With bold flavors and a refreshing citrus kick. Mountain Dew will get you off the sofa and have you feeling like you're charging up the side of a mountain. A mountain where the weather's perfect, your friends are ready to hang, and a full day of epic games Are happening. Can you imagine, Derek, Check out all these flavors. Original. This is a Baja Blast right here. They also got cold. Code Red Voltage. I'm getting excited just talking about it. My first personal favorites right there. That Baja Blast. Nate is always playing golf. I like to play every now and then. I like to sit in the cart and do what I can. Contribute nothing to the day, but just hanging out. That's what it's all about. And the best thing about it, Having a delicious Mountain Dew while we're out there on the course. You know what I mean? The mountain is calling. You should answer. Grab your friends, grab an ice cold Mountain Dew wherever refreshing beverages are sold, and say it with me. Do the do.
Nate Bargetti
All right, Benjamin Royer. Royer. Got back in the car after driving to a destination to propose to my girlfriend. Turned on ways to head back home to hear Nate say, welcome back to your car. Hope not too much has changed. I said confidently, a lot has changed, Nate. She said, yes.
Dusty
Whoa.
Nate Bargetti
Oh.
Aaron Weber
We haven't talked about ways.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Congratulations. That is a lot to change. Yeah. Yeah. Doing ways, doing voice, always. You had a very funny Derek.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Was mean to me on Instagram.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
What was it?
Brian Bates
I said that I was using Nate's voice for my ways, and he talked so slow. I missed two X's.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
There's a lot of people commenting their car took them to McDonald's.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Oh, that's great. Yeah.
Aaron Weber
And one person pointed out how last week's episode about acting. You talked about how the important things. You just don't want to be everywhere.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
That's what you strive for. And then the next thing you know, you're announcing ways where you're literally everywhere with.
Nate Bargetti
So because I'm promoting stuff.
Dusty
That's right. That's right. That's part of.
Nate Bargetti
It's a lot coming out. You can be. You're everywhere when you're supposed to be everywhere, Then you go away.
Brian Bates
I wish it had, like, your dry sarcasm in it. Like, when you missed a turn, you'd be like, well, okay, just do whatever you want.
Nate Bargetti
Then there. There was. It was a little more fun.
Dusty
You're a little caddy.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, there was a little more fun.
Brian Bates
Okay, cool.
Nate Bargetti
Like, there could be. I mean, you end up going through a lot of things, but not as long as we did it in about two hours. Which, I mean, I thought, you know, when you. When someone's like, you're gonna do the voiceways, you're like, so I guess I move there.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
And do this for a month. Yeah. They had blocked out four hours. We did it in two hours. It was. It was. I thought it was going to be so much crazy. I really did, and it really wasn't. It was like, you say a lot of the things over, but they do really good. They're kind of telling you how to say it, and. And so I haven't heard it yet. I don't. It will be. I don't know if I think my parents have done it. Yeah. I don't know.
Brian Bates
I feel that's weird.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. But thank you for using it. I would like all of y'all to keep using it.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Cat Rockwell. Nate mentioned that Alan Carr's book. Tell him stop drinking. You might want to check out the author's book on eating and weight loss as well. Yeah.
Dusty
Dang.
Brian Bates
Okay.
Nate Bargetti
Well, I talk about it.
Dusty
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
About how he has real issues.
Nate Bargetti
Out of nowhere, crazy issues. Well, I had. You know, it's. Yeah. I was talking to a lady today about it. Said the store brought it up to a therapist. No, no, ma'am. I go, I want this. This kind of cereal. Yeah. No, I. I actually read his book about sugar. It was. I. You know, it's me. I have to want to stop eating this stuff.
Dusty
There you go.
Nate Bargetti
So I know that. And so I have to get it figured out. But I were, I think, doing better, but it's like. Yeah, but thank you, Cat. That was very.
Brian Bates
Right.
Nate Bargetti
Nick Holden. Just waiting for Aaron to start making fat jokes on Nate. That's the opposite of Cat. That is the opposite, Nick.
Brian Bates
Yeah. But could be as effective as that book.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, it could be. Yeah. That is.
Brian Bates
It could work.
Nate Bargetti
Aaron's gonna.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Aaron Tubs.
Nate Bargetti
Are you saying that I could have. I probably would have stopped that guy in that video.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
That big guy. No, the size I am.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Aaron just starts tying your shoes when they're untied. He doesn't want to see you turn red.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Let me just do it.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, I'll do it. I'm fine. I'm younger. Yeah, I'm younger. I can. Bradley Walters. Four years ago, my family and I went to a tree farm to cut down our tree. It was a fun experience until Christmas morning when a hundred little praying mantises hatched out of an egg sac we didn't know was in the tree. I proceeded to pick up the tree, lights, ornaments, and all in all, and threw it out the front door. Crazy. I wouldn't even know that could happen.
Aaron Weber
I didn't either.
Nate Bargetti
I didn't. Yeah. I mean, they're. Yeah.
Dusty
So, look, I don't like a praying mantis. I don't. I don't care for it.
Nate Bargetti
No.
Brian Bates
Big eyes.
Dusty
I don't like the way they look. Big, big, dumb eyes.
Nate Bargetti
Big, dumb eyes. And they're.
Brian Bates
Yeah, they can eat a hummingbird. Did y'all know that?
Nate Bargetti
No.
Brian Bates
Did you know that?
Nate Bargetti
They can't.
Brian Bates
Yes.
Dusty
They can't believe that.
Nate Bargetti
Maybe kill a hummingbird.
Brian Bates
Run it, Aaron.
Nate Bargetti
I'm looking it up.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Can attack and eat humming, though. It's rare.
Dusty
It's rare.
Brian Bates
The one I saw do it had a durag on. This thing was about that life. Yeah, but they'll do it, though.
Nate Bargetti
But its stomach would be huge.
Brian Bates
Yeah. I mean, you know. Oh, no, I don't see it.
Dusty
Oh, my God.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, but, like, let me see. I know, but it doesn't swallow it. It just eats.
Dusty
Well, it doesn't swallow the whole thing. That's when I pig chews it apart.
Brian Bates
There's just a mantis on its back.
Nate Bargetti
That's what I'm picturing. Like a snake.
Brian Bates
No. And then I think they just eat little bites.
Dusty
That's so crazy, dude. This other hummingbird isn't helping out at all.
Brian Bates
No.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
It's like Stroop watching.
Nate Bargetti
Are they. So I guess they're. Do they eat bugs? They're meat eaters. One gets a hummingbird. That's got to be a big day. I bet that goes around.
Dusty
Oh, dude, are you kidding? That guy's a legend. Immediately.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. I mean, I think everybody. I think hummingbirds are like, yeah, this neighborhood is not what I thought it was.
Dusty
Praying mantises eat insects, Moths, crickets, grasshoppers, flies, sometimes hummingbirds.
Brian Bates
How about that, y'all? Y'all.
Nate Bargetti
Tell you what. How do you get caught as a hummingbird by praying man?
Brian Bates
Because they look like sticks.
Nate Bargetti
No, I know, but you just. You just go like. You're. You're a lot bigger than it.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
So do something.
Dusty
I. I agree with you. I think there's just a lot of camouflage and they blend in.
Aaron Weber
But he's saying even though if they catch you, they shouldn't be able to hang on.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. I mean, do they have poison in them?
Dusty
No, I don't think they have poison.
Nate Bargetti
So once they bite you, I guess they can't let go. But you're like.
Dusty
I mean, look, the thing is terrifying.
Brian Bates
I cannot.
Dusty
That is terrifying.
Brian Bates
Oh, my goodness. That truly is tough.
Nate Bargetti
But, I mean, you could flick it and it. His head might fall off.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Saying if you're a hummingbird, you're gonna. You're buzzing real quick. You got a sword basically on the end of your.
Dusty
Yeah, a bayonet.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. You're like, just use that.
Brian Bates
You never know.
Aaron Weber
All right, well, it's Christmas, so we talked a little bit about some Christmas traditions. Derek, we know you like spending Christmas alone, but when you were a kid, were you guys Christmas morning. All the gifts opening on Christmas Eve?
Brian Bates
Oh, well, the. I think it's the classic tradition. You do one gift on Christmas Eve and then your parents choose it. And then you go, oh, it's a pack of boxers. Y'all are. Y'all really did it this time. And then you open.
Aaron Weber
Even as a kid, you were in the boxers.
Brian Bates
Hey, Brian, that's weird. Yeah, I wore boxers as a kid. But no, I. The one present on Christmas Eve and the rest of the presents on Christmas Day. And then we ate Christmas dinner at my grandparents on Christmas Eve. And then on Christmas Day, we had eggs Benedict every day for. Every. Every Christmas for breakfast. But we didn't have like a big meal.
Nate Bargetti
Is it to go with all the other days.
Dusty
You walked into that Because.
Nate Bargetti
Come on. Because y'all just also do it on.
Brian Bates
That's the only time. I'm not joking. The only time of the year my mother made eggs Benedict and still does is on Christmas morning.
Nate Bargetti
I feel like eggs bidding is hard to make. I don't know how to cook.
Brian Bates
Yeah. I mean she uses. The sauce she uses is like out of the. Out of the packet. Which she's not going to love me saying.
Nate Bargetti
But if a poach egg is. Yeah. Ham. I don't. Maybe it's not hard to eat.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
I poached eggs was going to throw me because the rest of stuff just comes in. Comes as it's already there. I didn't have an eggs been in it until way later in life.
Dusty
I don't know if I've ever had one.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, I had one within the past five years was the first time I ever had one.
Brian Bates
Yeah. And you gotta. It's a very unique taste. I remember one time me and John.
Nate Bargetti
Chris, y'all make it. Cuz your family comes from money.
Brian Bates
No.
Nate Bargetti
No. Apparently if you're eating eggs Benedict your whole life.
Brian Bates
No.
Nate Bargetti
I thought Aaron comes from money.
Brian Bates
No.
Nate Bargetti
The str family eats eggs Benedict their whole life once a year. I mean, this is big money. Yeah, right.
Brian Bates
No, no. You've never had. Is that why y'all go cigarette ashes on them. Y'all eat them poached eggs. I learned how to do them off YouTube.
Nate Bargetti
Eat them.
Brian Bates
It was not easy. My mother does not.
Nate Bargetti
I imagine just telling someone that at your school. What'd you eat for Christmas? Eggs Benedict. What?
Brian Bates
Yes.
Dusty
Benedict.
Nate Bargetti
What? I don't even know if I'd have known what that was.
Brian Bates
No, I'm from a. I feel like a normal family. All my best Christmas presents, my grandparents bought. You know, like, I was one of those families, like, if I really wanted something nice, you know, my mom would be like, well, you better go talk to grandma, see if we can get that figured out. Because, yeah, me and your dad ain't got it, you know? You know, I mean, I asked for. Go. I remember. I remember.
Nate Bargetti
I was like, you go, but we're eating eggs Benedict. I think we're doing fine. She goes, no, we go, yeah, it might look like it.
Brian Bates
We ponder Daddy's gun to eat this.
Nate Bargetti
All the money's being spent on eggs Benedict, on poach eggs. If we go back and look, you go, I could have had some pretty awesome stuff if we would have just waited.
Brian Bates
Yeah, no, we. I remember one Christmas, I asked for golf clubs. I wanted, like, a whole golf set. I was like a seventh or eighth grader, and my. My dad bought me golf balls and a golf bag and tees, and I'm not joking. And I ran out to. I'll never forget, I ran out to the garage because I was like, the clubs are out here somewhere. I go, he put him out here. He put him. He hit him. And I went back inside, and I was like, hey, where's the clubs at? And he's like, I figured I'd just get you kind of started and then you'd get the clubs. And I remember even being, like, an eighth grader thinking, no, we did this the wrong way. Like, you get me the clubs, and then I'll buy the bag and the tees and the balls. You put me in a position to wear. So for all of high school, I just had a bag. And, like, he bought me, like, 36 nitro balls. And I'm serious. One time I was so upset, I went to the range with Jeremy Williams, that buddy from the. From the football story. And I was just standing there on the range, and I threw a couple balls as far as I could, and I was like, is that what he wanted? Like, I mean, no clubs. And to my dad, that was kind of like, well, I figured I'd get you going in the right direction and. But anyways, great Christmases. Eggs Benedict really saved it. Who needs a pitching wedge when you've got poached eggs?
Nate Bargetti
That's. That's. That Is maybe the breakfast you eat when you want to look like you got it all together. Yeah, you go, no, we're fine.
Brian Bates
No, we're doing. We're doing.
Nate Bargetti
I bet. Yeah. Because you would go. If you saw a family eating that, and their life could be in shambles, but you walk by and they go, eggs Benedict. You definitely would go, they're fine.
Brian Bates
For sure.
Dusty
They'll figure it out.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, they'll figure it out.
Aaron Weber
Now, you and your. You got two siblings?
Brian Bates
Yeah, I got a younger brother and a younger sister.
Aaron Weber
Did y'all take turns opening gifts in the.
Brian Bates
Yeah, we. We take turns. And. I mean, just like the classic family. I mean, my. My dad's sitting there with a trash bag, and he doesn't really care about much except the. The stuff going in that bag immediately.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Did y'all ever do Joe. Take turns? You and Derek and Abby?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, I think.
Aaron Weber
Or did everybody just die?
Nate Bargetti
No, I think we take turns. We take. Yeah, we go off now. We take turns. Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Well, I know now maybe, but when you were.
Nate Bargetti
I know, but I'm trying to think. Then I. I blink when I think about. We were kids.
Aaron Weber
I don' what, 12 years old?
Nate Bargetti
Might know 10 years older than having.
Aaron Weber
So.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we would. Yeah, we took. Yeah, I think we took turns and. Yeah, we had. We always had a big breakfast. Woke up early. You know, we could always get up early and we play with Santa's toys. And then we had to wait to open the rest of the present. Presents.
Brian Bates
Yeah, that's. That's pretty much how it went for us, too.
Aaron Weber
Did y'all do anything Christmas Eve?
Nate Bargetti
We did. We could open one. It was usually a game. It was like you could open a family.
Brian Bates
See, that's way better. That night.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Brian Bates
That's the mood.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
I mean, they went ahead and gave you the big present the night before. The boxers.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Flannel pants. Yeah, they put them on and go, boy, I can't wait for.
Nate Bargetti
Well, this was the big one.
Brian Bates
Remember? Ex Benedict's tomorrow. Got you 36 golf balls.
Nate Bargetti
Just a bunch of stuff that goes with golf access. Yeah. Yeah.
Dusty
That's like buying you a PlayStation controller console, right?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
We'll get you started.
Brian Bates
Yeah. Next thing you know, you cut a few yards, you'll have the whole thing. Like, no, I won't, man. Clubs are the most expensive. It's like, that's what I need your help with. I'm 13, man. Anyways, I hope he watches this episode.
Aaron Weber
What about you, Aaron?
Dusty
We did a little. My Mom's family and my dad's family did it very differently. Mom's family. Santa Claus came Saturday night. Or not Saturday, the Christmas Eve night. And all the presents were open Christmas Eve night. And then Christmas Day was all about church.
Brian Bates
It was.
Dusty
The presents were all done the night before. I don't know why they did it that way, but that's how they did it. Still do it.
Nate Bargetti
I've never heard of that.
Dusty
Yeah, it was. Santa would come, they'd all go in a room, they'd hear Santa outside getting all the presents out, then they come out and open them all up.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
And then my dad's families just. We did the one present the night before, which I thought was just like. I didn't know other families. I thought that was just because we wouldn't shut up. They're like, all right, y'all get the open one, right?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
I don't even know if there's, like, a reason behind it.
Brian Bates
No, I don't think so. What about. What about you? Were you like that for Christmas Eve?
Nate Bargetti
One present Christmas Eve, we'd go to.
Aaron Weber
My mom's mom's house, and how long.
Brian Bates
Was the carriage ride? She's. Look at Brian. Brian's looking at me like, derek, you don't know me well enough.
Aaron Weber
Well, it's your first time on this podcast.
Nate Bargetti
You've really gotten comfortable, and it'll be your last.
Aaron Weber
Welcome.
Brian Bates
No, no, sorry.
Aaron Weber
We did go down some dirt roads, lived in the dead end, but. And then we'd open the gift from her as kids, and then Christmas Day, we would.
Dusty
Okay.
Aaron Weber
Do the rest.
Brian Bates
Oh, cool. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
But thank you for asking.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Dusty
Did y'all go to church? Christmas?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
At all?
Nate Bargetti
Not like Matt. Not like if it was Sunday.
Dusty
Okay. But not just on its own.
Nate Bargetti
We were Baptist. The Catholic, I think, goes midnight mass, right?
Dusty
Yeah. When I got older, we went to midnight mass, but either go, yeah, Christmas Eve or morning of.
Nate Bargetti
That's.
Dusty
So. Yeah. You say there's not just, like, a normal service on Christmas Day?
Nate Bargetti
I think so. I mean, there might be. When's Christmas this year? Oh, it's Wednesday today, so. Yeah, I don't think there's a. I think it's. It'll be Sunday or, you know, they're doing a lot more services because of Christmas, but.
Dusty
Okay.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
Interesting.
Aaron Weber
What about Christmas tree? Real or fake?
Brian Bates
I grew up with a real tree. I prefer a real tree. I've got a fake tree right now, but I had a real tree. I mean, my mother was just talking about it the other Day. It's a big deal to her. She couldn't believe I didn't have a real tree. And you know what's interesting? In New York City, I don't know if you noticed this, Nate, but real trees are a big deal in New York City. It seems like a lot of people buy them off the street and take them back to their apartment. It's like, I guess being in that concrete jungle, having a real tree seems more important just for, you know, there's no nature or anything.
Dusty
Yeah.
Brian Bates
It seems like people go out of their way to have real trees in New York City. I mean, I'm not speaking for everybody, but. But that looks like the consensus, I think.
Nate Bargetti
We did not have a real tree, but we would also spend Christmas with our family at home. So. Yeah, that's the difference.
Brian Bates
That is. That is.
Nate Bargetti
We wouldn't buckle down.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
And go, I'm getting all out of New York. I'm gonna be here for everything.
Aaron Weber
Derek commits. He goes to New York City.
Nate Bargetti
He goes. You want to see all the everything? Yeah, I'll see. What's it like?
Brian Bates
I've been to two Christmas markets already.
Nate Bargetti
Study. Yeah. Are you gonna go to the Christmas Day lighting?
Brian Bates
No, I met the tree lighting. Yeah, I missed that. It's just too hectic, like, the amount of people that they said were around there. But, yeah, I mean, I'm all about the festivities. I mean, I love it. I'm down with hot chocolate walking around. I'll buy a nice wooden ornament. You know, I mean, I'm. Y'all are. I'm being dead serious.
Dusty
You like a candy cane? You do a candy cane?
Brian Bates
Oh, I love. There's a candy shop I follow on Instagram, and they've been making candy canes. Y'all need to watch them. They're unbelievable. They make them homemade. They make them, like, in shop in. In Los Angeles. I don't know. I've never been serious in my life. But, yeah, I'm a huge fan of the holiday season.
Nate Bargetti
And. Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah. I mean, my birthday's at the beginning of this month. My birthday is December 10th.
Dusty
That's why I get to get off. Right.
Nate Bargetti
Happy birthday. What is tomorrow? Tomorrow, did you say? No. Yeah, we're recording. Oh, yeah. How old?
Brian Bates
I said it correctly. I was saying it in the morning.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah. Yeah, you did say it. Right. But then. But then you said it. That you're making us acknowledge it because it's. It's like. I thought it was today. No, you did.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
We're recording this. The Day before your birthday. You could have not brought it up. There was no reason for you even bring it up because we go. We weren't even asking. You go. You just go. Yeah, Dude, I love. I love Christmas. My birthday's at the beginning.
Brian Bates
It is part of the reason why I love this month.
Aaron Weber
But most people don't like their birthday to be near Christmas.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Well, it makes the.
Nate Bargetti
Not that.
Brian Bates
Just fun.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
That's far enough away.
Nate Bargetti
That's far enough away. Makes it pretty awesome.
Brian Bates
It is awesome. Awesome. It is like, I look forward to this month, the whole year, because it's like. I mean, I've got my birthday at the beginning, and then there's a couple fun weeks, and then we do Christmas.
Nate Bargetti
Usually, as in a man, you don't look forward to your birthday as much as you do. I love.
Brian Bates
I'm excited. Yeah. I'm all about an ice cream cake. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
What are you doing? What do you do for your birthday? Home alone.
Brian Bates
Yeah. There's a Waffle House.
Nate Bargetti
You go sit in the closet.
Dusty
He travels a lot for work, so he just likes to sit.
Brian Bates
Yeah, no, we do. What. What everybody. You know, I mean, if I was not in New York City, I'd go to Texas Roadhouse and. And eat rolls until I fell asleep. But.
Dusty
But do you tell people at the restaurant it's your birthday?
Brian Bates
No.
Nate Bargetti
They can tell.
Brian Bates
No.
Nate Bargetti
Thank you. Just when he walks in, the vibe on him, they go, God, feels like that guy. Because I've never. I just feel like it's his birthday.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
And I. I don't know.
Brian Bates
And they're like, what makes you say.
Nate Bargetti
He's like.
Brian Bates
Well, he's got $1 bills pinned to his polo.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Look at him. Yeah. He comes in there pumped. He's excited. He's the only one that's excited to be here. He asked for extra rolls. You ask them before they even go. We take rolls. And I think, you know what?
Brian Bates
Yeah. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Go ahead and bring. Yeah, yeah.
Brian Bates
No, they do that. They bring. They. They definitely know.
Nate Bargetti
Would they go. They. Before they set the rolls down. Y'all go ahead and you go ahead and take that basket.
Aaron Weber
Give me this back.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. We don't need it. Oh, my God. I understand. The basket is just so we live in. Because we live in a society.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
But we don't even need the basket.
Brian Bates
It's uncalled for.
Aaron Weber
What's your go to Waffle House order?
Nate Bargetti
I mean, scared Chunk chick.
Brian Bates
Another cover slipped over. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
After the.
Brian Bates
Yeah. The night before. Yeah. Yeah.
Aaron Weber
How I was with you. You're About.
Nate Bargetti
No, it was me, Julian, and.
Aaron Weber
Oh, well, we went.
Dusty
They went again after you.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, we.
Aaron Weber
We stopped at a Waffle House on the way back in Biloxi from the casino, and.
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Brian Bates
That's when Nate couldn't figure out where the Waffle House was.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, yeah. Multiple walls. Yeah. We drove a crazy long. Yeah. Yeah.
Brian Bates
No, my. My Waffle House.
Nate Bargetti
And there was one across the street.
Brian Bates
Oh, there was. There was one that was.
Aaron Weber
We went over the river.
Brian Bates
We did go over the river several times. Yeah, that was. But, no, I'm a huge fan of Waffle House. I always have been. The All Star special would be my go to. And I'm gonna get a pecan waffle. I'm gonna do grits and hash brown smothered covered, chunked scrambled eggs. You know, I mean, Waffle House is such a. Such a. I have a framed picture of Waffle House in my dining room that I've had for several years. Yeah. Yeah.
Dusty
Picture you took?
Brian Bates
No, bought it online.
Aaron Weber
You have a dining room in New York City?
Nate Bargetti
Someone had to ship it to.
Brian Bates
I should say. No, no, it's no longer in my dining. I have a framed picture of Waffle House inside of my dwelling. Now there's just one wall in my home domicile.
Nate Bargetti
Is it so your lady knows what she's up against? You go. Yeah, you go. Don't forget. I got somewhere else I can go eat.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Don't get too comfortable.
Brian Bates
That's exactly right.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Does you cook? Do you cook or does she cook?
Brian Bates
I cook the most. I. I enjoy cooking. I mean, I really do. I use. I do a. You know, I have an old bit about using crock pots, and I really do use them a lot. But I. I love.
Nate Bargetti
I don't think anybody denies it. So I'm just. You just keep saying it like, yeah, now I really do cook. Yeah.
Brian Bates
Slow cooker. Fasting.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
What I. No, but I enjoy. I've always enjoyed cooking. I've done it since I was a little kid. But not like. Not like complicated recipes. I don't get online and try to test my skills. Just, like, regular stuff around the house. I'll throw together some BLTs or a casserole or something, but.
Dusty
Poached eggs.
Brian Bates
Poached eggs.
Nate Bargetti
I think I'm gonna cook soon. I've. I don't know how to cook at all.
Brian Bates
It's fun.
Nate Bargetti
You don't think I'm gonna cook?
Aaron Weber
No.
Nate Bargetti
What?
Dusty
You'll never do that.
Nate Bargetti
I'll cook a meal yeah.
Aaron Weber
Hello, fresh meal.
Nate Bargetti
I'm gonna not hello fresh, but I gotta, but you can go find a recipe.
Dusty
Yeah, right. What, like, what are you talking about?
Nate Bargetti
Like, is it recipes allowed to be found?
Dusty
Of course.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, not spaghetti. I think I'll do, I don't know, maybe, I don't know, I'll have to, you know, I'm gonna see. I, I, I, I would, you know, doing birch thing on the cooking. You're like, I do get that. It's like the, what is your baked A Jewish meal. So roasted corn hen.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
With a big onion in the middle of it. Like mashed potatoes with a bunch of onions.
Dusty
Latke.
Nate Bargetti
Latke.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah.
Nate Bargetti
And then I forget what else.
Aaron Weber
This seems right up Dusty's alley.
Nate Bargetti
Well, it was. Yeah. But it was funny because I was like right when you set it down, then I was like, well, I don't like onions. And it's all it is, it sounds like it's onions. Only onions.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
But I was like, but the Cornish gin was very good and I ate the other masteries with it because you fry them. Frying helps. So it wasn't, it wasn't bad. But I get the idea of cooking like you. I could see how you could kind of zone out and just like mind your own business and. Yeah, it'd be like comforting.
Brian Bates
It is, it is. I, I agree with that. Did you like, do you ever watch any chefs or do you ever like watching cooking shows or anything?
Nate Bargetti
No, we're, yeah. No, no. So I don't think cooking was big giant thing part of my family. So I don't, yeah, like we don't, I mean, yeah, like I said, Laura cooked, but I mean I, I don't, I haven't cooked. I've cooked one meal for her.
Dusty
Regan has a great bit about the cooking shows. He's like, yeah, everybody would like to cook if all the ingredients were in pre arranged glass bowls. Put a little bit of that.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, yeah.
Dusty
He's like the realistic cooking show. Come back after the break while I find out I don't have any eggs.
Nate Bargetti
Come back after the break.
Dusty
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Aaron Weber
Do you ever do Christmas movies?
Brian Bates
Like, oh, for sure.
Aaron Weber
Christmas night. Go see a movie?
Brian Bates
Yeah, I mean. I mean, no.
Nate Bargetti
The move. Theaters open Christmas night.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The last time we did that, I think it was like maybe like five or six years ago when we saw that movie where he's like, I'm the captain. What's that?
Aaron Weber
Captain Phil.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah. We went.
Nate Bargetti
I've never seen that.
Brian Bates
But I don't like going to the movies at all.
Dusty
Why not?
Brian Bates
I do not enjoy it. It feels like such a great waste of time to me. And like, I'm just so antsy. It's really hard for me to enjoy the movies. It's never been. I think I get it from my dad. I mean, I grew up with the man that raised me. We never went to the movies hardly. He'd go, it'll be out, out. You know, you'll see it on HBO in 11 years.
Aaron Weber
Practice with that golf swing.
Brian Bates
No, I mean, my dad. I mean, he walked in like 12 years later and he's like, have y'all seen this movie about this ship sinking? He's like, the Titanic's unreal. And I mean, and he was late. But yeah, I'm not a big movie guy. Yeah.
Dusty
Y'all had HBO growing up, huh?
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Y'all were like a motel.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Eggs Benedict and H free hbo.
Brian Bates
And it smelled like.
Aaron Weber
You watch movies at home?
Brian Bates
No, not really. I'm really not a. A movie guy. I mean, unfortunately, it's embarrassing how much I just watch sports.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Or the Weather Channel. I mean, like my list of favorite movies is about too long. I mean, I, I, you know, it's not very long, so. But, well, good fellas would be.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Would be number one for sure. And then after that, probably Forrest Gump.
Dusty
Okay.
Nate Bargetti
Well, I hope you check out my movie. I'll be making.
Dusty
The Breadwinner.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. The Breadwinner.
Dusty
Breadwinner. Bates.
Nate Bargetti
What if you get asked to make a movie? I mean, you go say, no, I don't really care for no.
Brian Bates
No. That sounds exciting. I mean, that doesn't. I wouldn't think that that would.
Nate Bargetti
So you're only be. In movies?
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah. I mean, I don't think. I mean, yeah. I'm just not a big movie guy. I would be more.
Aaron Weber
Can sit still your brain.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sit. I would be much more likely to watch something in, you know, a 25, 30 minute segment where I can get up the commitment to a two hour. If I look and see that a movie is over two hours, it can be the best movie. I'm discouraged before I get there.
Nate Bargetti
Have you seen Shawshank Redemption?
Brian Bates
Great movie.
Nate Bargetti
You've even seen it. Yeah, I've never seen it.
Brian Bates
That's ridiculous. Yeah, no, that's. You got. I mean, I'm not going to give you the spiel. Yeah, yeah.
Dusty
He knows. He knows.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Brian Bates
What's your favorite movie of all time?
Nate Bargetti
Scream.
Brian Bates
I wish I'd asked somebody else.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah, I think I know what you did last summer.
Aaron Weber
I think I remember us talking about this on the bus. Your favorite actor is Vince Vaugh.
Brian Bates
Yeah, I love Vince.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
I think he's the funniest guy ever. Yeah. I mean, his humor is just super relatable. He's, you know, real sarcastic real fast. I. I love to watch him.
Dusty
Yeah, you do have the same kind of cadence. Nobody like you talking about. Talk fat. I didn't even think about him talking fast.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I. But yeah, I'm a big fan of Vince.
Aaron Weber
Y'all do movies on Christmas night?
Nate Bargetti
Not go to them. I mean, I don't think we even watch them, but I would. I went to one on Thanksgiving.
Dusty
A Christmas Story on loop on tbs. Great movie.
Brian Bates
That is a great movie.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. I mean, I would. Yeah. I could watch. They always. My parents. Always A Wonderful Life.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Yeah, it's wonderful.
Dusty
Life is so good. It's Almost. You don't even think of it as a Christmas movie. I don't. I mean, I do, but it's like, it's so good, it can stand on it.
Nate Bargetti
I had someone tell me they were.
Dusty
Like, maybe top 10 all time all movies of all movies.
Nate Bargetti
They. But to say every movie's just It's a Wonderful Life. Every movie's that.
Aaron Weber
What do you mean?
Dusty
The structure of the structure of the every movie.
Nate Bargetti
Every movie is. It's a wonderful blueprint of. Yeah.
Aaron Weber
It's a very long movie.
Dusty
Is it a long movie?
Aaron Weber
I think so.
Dusty
Oh, I think it time flies when you're having fun.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Brian Bates
Christmas Vacation would be my number one holiday movie.
Nate Bargetti
You know, just real bonehead stuff.
Dusty
Yeah.
Brian Bates
I mean, Cousin Eddie's real relatable. Yeah. Golly. Never seen a character I felt so close to him in my whole life.
Nate Bargetti
Just.
Brian Bates
I hate that Aaron's laughing that hard at that.
Nate Bargetti
We keep it. We keep it light. We keep it light.
Aaron Weber
I remember at the John Chris roast you hosted and when you introduced us three to come up, you made a very funny joke about our podcast.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Just the formula for it.
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Aaron Weber
What was it you said?
Brian Bates
I. I really. I. I can't remember.
Nate Bargetti
But you know Brian.
Aaron Weber
It was basically like, they'll talk about something, Then Nate makes fun of Brian.
Brian Bates
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
And then they just rinse and repeat or something.
Dusty
You have a few zings at Brian's expense.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Dusty
Remember how you worded it?
Brian Bates
Yeah. No, and that's exactly what I'm doing. The recipe works.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Yeah.
Brian Bates
I mean, I totally get it. I was making fun of it. Now I'm in. I mean, it works.
Nate Bargetti
It's hard to get out of it.
Brian Bates
It feels good, too. I'm the carriage joke.
Nate Bargetti
It's like crowd work. It's like you go, you know. You know, you shouldn't be doing it, but you're like, it's just easy and you get used to it.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Well, I think we probably got to be wrapped it up.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Any New Year's resolutions you want to share?
Nate Bargetti
I guess the food thing. Let's hope we get that under control. I think I'll get it. I did see one comment. Someone said I had adhd and, like, so I. And I don't know. That could be true. I don't know if that's true, but I do get the idea of it, like, being. I'm bored. If I get bored and then I just go, I'll go to food because I'm bored. Like, I need. I, like, need Stuff going on. Like, I want, like I want to be doing a lot, so I do that. You know, I stored that in. I was like, that's kind of interesting. Like, maybe I need to just find better things to do. But I, you know, I think I'll get it. I think I'll get it under control. I got all the brain power on it. I think about it every waking second.
Dusty
Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
It's a good time.
Dusty
Yeah. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
So hopefully. But that, yeah, that would be my. It's like every, you know, it's always that. So I guess it's a boring one. I hope we make. I hope everything for Nateland. I hope Na Land makes a giant, giant leap. Yeah. Outside of just me, but just all of us as a.
Dusty
That Aaron Weber special comes out, I think that might take it to the next level.
Nate Bargetti
Aaron comes out. Nick special comes out. We got a lot of. We got a great things.
Dusty
I.
Nate Bargetti
So I hope as Nateland, as a group that I consider everybody is a part of the Nateland family. But I think we can make a. Hopefully a big, big leap, you know, a big, big leap forward. We're doing great. And I look forward to the new year. Yeah.
Aaron Weber
Maybe make a movie or.
Nate Bargetti
Maybe make a movie or two.
Dusty
I got Christmas presents for you guys.
Nate Bargetti
All right.
Dusty
You know, I collect sports memorabilia, stuff like that. I got this for you, Derek. That's an old ticket. Look at that ticket. That is a ticket to a comedy show. That's Jeff Foxworthy and Jeff Dunham.
Brian Bates
Oh, wow. That's unbelievable. That's 1994.
Dusty
1994. It's a five dollar show in 1994. Look at that.
Brian Bates
Arizona State Fair. No, that is cool.
Dusty
Yeah, it's cool. That's for you, Nate. That is a ticket.
Brian Bates
Wow.
Dusty
2014.
Nate Bargetti
Wow.
Dusty
The tabernacle. That's Bill Burr's. The taping of his black and white Netflix special.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Where's the Tabernacle at?
Dusty
Atlanta.
Nate Bargetti
Atlanta. Yeah. Oh, that's 10 years ticket.
Dusty
Yeah. People collect that kind of stuff. So that's a ticket to that Netflix taping. Which one of the best specials ever, I think. And that's Brian. That's a baseball card for you. It's Julio Franco.
Aaron Weber
Yeah.
Dusty
Do you know a lot about Julio Franco?
Aaron Weber
I mean, he played when I was really following it close.
Dusty
Yeah, he played when I was following it too. He oldest player in the history of baseball. He had a home run.
Nate Bargetti
Oh, wow.
Aaron Weber
Well, he played till he was nearly 50.
Dusty
That's right. He played into his late 40s. But that's a Julio Franco autograph there was my favorite old players.
Aaron Weber
Oh, that's awesome.
Brian Bates
And I'm gonna give Aaron what we kind of got him today together.
Nate Bargetti
Thank you.
Brian Bates
And this is from all of us.
Nate Bargetti
It's from all mountain.
Brian Bates
That was the second Baja do the dude.
Dusty
It's like I'm charging up a mountain. Thank you. Merry Christmas. Yeah.
Nate Bargetti
Thank you very. Thank you.
Aaron Weber
That's very nice.
Nate Bargetti
Yeah. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays.
Brian Bates
Merry Christmas.
Nate Bargetti
We will see you next year. Hope you had a wonderful year and. Yeah, right. We're done, right?
Brian Bates
Yep.
Nate Bargetti
All right. We love you. See you. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nate Land podcast. When you think about businesses that are selling through the roof, Allbirds or Skims, sure, you think about a great product, a cool brand and brilliant marketing. But an often overlooked secret is actually the businesses behind the business making, selling and for the shoppers, buying. Simple. For millions of businesses, that business is Shopify. Nobody does selling better than Shopify, home of the number one checkout on the planet. And the not so secret secret with shop pay that boosts conversions up to 50%, meaning way less carts going abandoned and way more sales going. So if you're into growing your business, your commerce platform better be ready to sell wherever your customers are scrolling or strolling on the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere in between. Businesses that sell more sell on Shopify, upgrade your business and get the same checkout skims uses. Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at shopify.com audioboom all lowercase. Go to shopify.com audioboom to upgrade your selling today. Shopify.com audioboom hey, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and Safeway. This holiday season unwraps sweet savings on.
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The Nateland Podcast – Episode #232: Christmas Traditions feat. Derrick Stroup
Released on December 25, 2024 by Audioboom Studios
Introduction
In this festive episode of The Nateland Podcast, hosts Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay dive into the warmth and quirks of Christmas traditions. Featuring special guest Derrick Stroup, the episode weaves through personal anecdotes, holiday memories, and hearty laughs, all while celebrating the spirit of the season.
Welcoming Derrick Stroup
The episode kicks off with a cheerful welcome from Nate Bargatze at [00:59], introducing the dynamic hosts and their special guest, Derrick Stroup:
Nate Bargatze [00:59]: "Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. Merry Christmas... We brought in much louder. Dusty at Alabama."
Derrick joins the conversation, bringing his unique perspective to the mix. The hosts exchange warm greetings, setting a relaxed and jovial tone for the episode.
First Christmas with a Child
A significant portion of the discussion centers around Dusty's experience with his first Christmas celebration involving his newborn daughter, Eleanor. The conversation highlights the anticipation and adjustments that come with welcoming a new family member during the holidays.
Dusty [01:28]: "Yeah. She's not quite old enough. I mean, next year will be the first real one."
Nate Bargatze [01:33]: "Yeah. It's going to be, like, later."
Dusty shares the humorous challenge of celebrating Christmas with a baby, emphasizing how Eleanor is still too young to grasp the festivities:
Dusty [02:00]: "Well, she's like, more aware of it."
The hosts laugh and reflect on how traditions evolve with each passing year and growing family.
Apology for the Christmas Special Incident
Midway through the episode, Nate addresses a sensitive topic regarding a mishap with their Christmas special airing on CBS. He offers a heartfelt apology, acknowledging the unforeseen issues that arose with the broadcast:
Nate Bargatze [03:11]: "I want to apologize for what happened on CBS. There's a chance we'll record both just in case."
This segment showcases the hosts' candidness and their commitment to their audience, reinforcing the community feel of the podcast.
Sports Talk and DraftKings Promotions
As the conversation shifts, the hosts delve into their love for sports, particularly football. They discuss upcoming games, share personal stories from their athletic pasts, and engage in playful banter about sports betting with DraftKings.
Aaron Weber [04:04]: "Well, it just depends on what you mean by where."
Nate Bargatze [04:42]: "We got some good and some bad, but we'll get to you in a minute."
Brian Bates [14:00]: "With my family every night."
The hosts seamlessly integrate advertisements into their dialogue, maintaining the flow while promoting DraftKings:
Aaron Weber [14:04]: "But it's been out now almost a week."
High School Football Memories
A standout moment features Brian Bates recounting his intense high school football experiences. He shares vivid memories of tough games, team dynamics, and memorable plays that left lasting impressions.
Brian Bates [25:05]: "I got some, you know, hands, some feet."
Dusty [26:33]: "I was the center, and he was lined up at nose guard and just... ran 10 yards back."
These stories not only entertain but also highlight the camaraderie and competition that define youth sports.
Wedding and Birth Celebrations
As the episode progresses, the hosts touch upon significant life events, including marriage proposals and the joys of raising a family. Nate shares a touching story about proposing to his girlfriend, adding an emotional layer to the episode.
Nate Bargatze [63:58]: "Royer. Got back in the car after driving to a destination to propose to my girlfriend. Turned on ways to head back home to hear Nate say, welcome back to your car. Hope not too much has changed."
Christmas Traditions and Family Dynamics
In the latter half, the conversation returns to Christmas traditions. The hosts discuss varying family customs, such as gift opening rituals and festive meals, revealing the diversity of celebratory practices.
Brian Bates [71:01]: "We take turns. We take turns..."
Dusty [77:42]: "Santa Claus came Saturday night. Or not Saturday, the Christmas Eve night. And all the presents were open Christmas Eve night."
These exchanges underline the unique ways different families embrace the holiday season, fostering a sense of shared experience among listeners.
Comedy and Future Plans
Towards the end, the hosts reflect on their comedic journeys, upcoming projects, and aspirations for the future. They celebrate their collective achievements and express excitement for upcoming specials and collaborations.
Nate Bargatze [90:05]: "I was emotional. It's a religious experience in there."
Brian Bates [93:00]: "That is a lot to change. Yeah. Yeah."
The episode concludes with heartfelt holiday wishes and a glance towards new beginnings in the coming year.
Nate Bargatze [96:34]: "Hopefully, we can make a big leap forward. We're doing great. And I look forward to the new year."
Dusty [98:01]: "Happy holidays, everyone."
Closing Remarks
Produced by Nateland Productions and Nate Bargatze in collaboration with Audioboom Studios, this episode encapsulates the essence of holiday gatherings—filled with laughter, storytelling, and heartfelt moments. The Nateland Podcast Episode #232 offers listeners a blend of humor and warmth, making it a perfect listen for the holiday season.
Notable Quotes with Timestamps
Nate Bargatze [00:59]: "Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. Merry Christmas... We brought in much louder. Dusty at Alabama."
Dusty [01:28]: "Yeah. She's not quite old enough. I mean, next year will be the first real one."
Brian Bates [25:05]: "I got some, you know, hands, some feet."
Nate Bargatze [03:11]: "I want to apologize for what happened on CBS. There's a chance we'll record both just in case."
Aaron Weber [14:04]: "But it's been out now almost a week."
Dusty [26:33]: "I was the center, and he was lined up at nose guard and just... ran 10 yards back."
Nate Bargatze [63:58]: "Royer. Got back in the car after driving to a destination to propose to my girlfriend..."
Brian Bates [71:01]: "We take turns. We take turns..."
Dusty [77:42]: "Santa Claus came Saturday night. Or not Saturday, the Christmas Eve night..."
Nate Bargatze [96:34]: "Hopefully, we can make a big leap forward. We're doing great. And I look forward to the new year."
This comprehensive summary captures the essence of Episode #232, highlighting the hosts' camaraderie, personal stories, and the joyous spirit of Christmas. Whether you're a long-time listener or new to The Nateland Podcast, this episode promises laughter, heartfelt moments, and a celebration of cherished traditions.