233: #233 The New Year

Summary

Summary of The Nateland Podcast Episode #233: "The New Year"

Release Date: January 1, 2025

Hosts:

• Nate Bargatze
• Brian Bates
• Aaron Weber
• Dusty Slay

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1. Introduction and New Studio Seating

The episode opens with the hosts celebrating the New Year amidst some playful banter about their new studio setup. Brian Bates greets the audience with a cheerful "Happy New Year" alongside Dusty Slay and Aaron Weber.

• Brian Bates [00:12]: "Folks. And. Hey, Bear. Happy New Year."
• Dusty Slay [00:19]: "Happy new year."

They discuss the rearranged seating arrangement, with Aaron now positioned in the middle, providing everyone a better view and angle for the conversation.

• Aaron Weber [00:23]: "You know, to be honest with you, it's a little confusing. I. I'm not used to looking at everyone, you know, like here I sit off to the side."
• Dusty Slay [00:45]: "How does it feel? Do you feel like you're taking control of things now in the middle?"

2. New Year's Celebrations and Past Experiences

The conversation shifts to how each host celebrates the New Year. Dusty Slay reveals his disinterest in festive celebrations, highlighting his busy schedule during this time.

• Dusty Slay [01:35]: "Like, the last probably six or seven years, I've worked on New Year's, so I've had zero fun on New Year. It's one of my least favorite days of the year."

In contrast, Aaron Weber shares a nostalgic memory from 1999, recalling a memorable college party at Auburn University where he danced to Prince's "1999."

• Aaron Weber [02:17]: "Brian, in 1999, I was 17, and I went to a college party, and they were playing, you know, Prince's 'Tonight, I'm gonna party like it's 1999.' And it was this... I danced with this college girl for a while, and it was like the best New Year's, and I've been chasing that ever since."

3. Reflections on Touring and Past Shows

The hosts reminisce about their touring experiences and challenges faced during performances. Dusty Slay recounts a notable incident while touring with Bert Kreischer, where he maintained his sobriety despite peer pressure to drink.

• Dusty Slay [03:00]: "And I remember thinking, oh, man, Bert corrupted Dustin. He's been sober this long. He goes out on the road with Bert. Day one, night one, he's taking shots at the bar."

Aaron Weber shares his strategy of discreetly handling drinks during shows to maintain his commitment to sobriety.

• Aaron Weber [03:11]: "I just got a shot glass and I kept filling it up with water. And then whenever people would come over, I would go, yeah, and then I would do shots."

4. Podcast Dynamics and Format

The discussion moves to the dynamics of their podcast, exploring the possibility of co-hosting and maintaining consistency despite individual schedules.

• Aaron Weber [05:15]: "Maybe I can get you guys to co-host with me on the podcast."
• Dusty Slay [05:19]: "There you go. And we'll just do it in this studio, take down some of this Nate stuff."

Brian Bates emphasizes the professionalism of the group, highlighting their ability to keep the podcast entertaining without strict rules.

• Brian Bates [12:01]: "Does Nate have any rules that the guys have to follow during each podcast taping in order to keep the content Kent entertaining? What rules has the four of you discussed behind the scenes, or do you just go for it and hope for the best?"
• Brian Bates [12:20]: "All right, well, we're all professional comedians, so we just come on here and talk, and then by virtue of just being funny people, we make this a funny podcast."

5. Personal Journeys and Achievements

The hosts share updates on their personal and professional lives. Dusty Slay discusses his upcoming comedy special and recent performances, while Aaron Weber talks about his experiences as a new father and balancing family with his comedy career.

• Dusty Slay [26:00]: "Oh, I did some. Check it out on my Instagram... It was so long already."
• Aaron Weber [70:27]: "In our defense, do we ever really help you out with it?"

Brian Bates provides a chronological overview of significant events from their past year, including special releases, tours, and personal milestones.

6. Music, Comedy, and Cultural References

The conversation delves into various cultural topics, including favorite comedians, music preferences, and thoughts on popular TV shows and movies. They discuss the impact of streaming services on entertainment consumption and share hilarious anecdotes about live performances and audience interactions.

• Aaron Weber [74:12]: "My friend Jamie Johnson, he just put out an album. He hasn't put out an album in, like, 14 years. And it's a really great album."
• Dusty Slay [92:38]: "And then I looked at the reviews. It's like 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. Universally acclaimed by audiences and critics alike."

7. Predictions and Future Plans

Looking ahead, the hosts make lighthearted predictions about each other's careers and the future of their podcast. Brian Bates humorously predicts that Dusty Slay will regularly sell out clubs and achieve significant acclaim.

• Brian Bates [64:00]: "And I made this prediction a few years ago, but I'm gonna double down on it and say it again. You're gonna do your first late night set."
• Dusty Slay [64:02]: "Man, that sounds good."

Aaron Weber shares his excitement for upcoming shows and special projects, highlighting his dedication to expanding his comedy reach while maintaining family time.

• Aaron Weber [68:00]: "I'm gonna be at the Lyric Theater in Birmingham, Alabama. And then Pensacola, Florida, doing another theater, and I'm pumped about it."

8. Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts

As the episode nears its end, the hosts reflect on their journey, express gratitude towards their listeners, and reiterate their optimism for the upcoming year.

• Brian Bates [116:20]: "We thank everyone who supported us in 2024. Thank you for sticking with us. It's going to be... Nate's gonna be shooting some movies in 2025."
• Dusty Slay [117:04]: "Nateland's experience. Yep, that's big."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Aaron Weber [02:27]: "None of them have ever lived up to it."
• Dusty Slay [04:15]: "Hand tied behind his back. I think that's fair to say."
• Brian Bates [06:25]: "Yeah, I could die in a funny way."
• Aaron Weber [09:28]: "I have these swales that I built. So now I want to put the leaves in there to start to compost."
• Dusty Slay [32:57]: "What genuinely is a comedian's comedian?"
• Brian Bates [51:00]: "It's a hot list. And now, listen, there's a lot of great songs that are not going to be on this list."

Conclusion

Episode #233 of The Nateland Podcast offers listeners an engaging and humorous journey through the hosts' personal experiences, professional endeavors, and lighthearted discussions about life, comedy, and the passage of time. With a blend of relatable anecdotes, insightful reflections, and comedic flair, the episode serves both as a nostalgic look back at the past year and an optimistic outlook for the adventures that lie ahead in 2025.

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Note: Advertisements, intros, outros, and non-content segments have been excluded from this summary to maintain focus on the core discussions and highlights of the episode.

Transcript

[Aaron Weber]

Foreign.

[Brian Bates]

Folks. And. Hey, Bear. Happy New Year.

[Dusty Slay]

Happy New year.

[Brian Bates]

As always.

[Dusty Slay]

25.

[Brian Bates]

I'm with Aaron Weber. Dusty Slay.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

The new year. So we thought we'd mix it up a little bit. Seating.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. I'd moved around. I'm in the middle now. We all get a good angle on.

[Dusty Slay]

How does it feel? Do you feel like you're taking control of things now in the middle?

[Brian Bates]

He's been trying for some time.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, to be honest with you, it's a little confusing. I. I'm not used to looking at everyone, you know, like, here I sit off to the side.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh. All the. The crew.

[Aaron Weber]

And I look at you guys. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You made that same complaint when you sit in my seat in the old set.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then you went back.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's a new year. We're all hungover. We had a wild night. Crazy Dusty fell off the wagon. It got wild.

[Aaron Weber]

Wouldn't that be something? This is a prerecorded episode, but wouldn't that be something if that did happen? I had a dream. I have dreams sometimes that I'm secretly drinking and. And that no one. I had a dream that I was drinking at the airport and I was like, no one's gonna know because I'm just doing this on my own.

[Dusty Slay]

You start to get recognized left and right. Hey. Having a good time? You're just hammered at Applebee's. Dfw.

[Brian Bates]

Do you guys celebrate New Year? I know you don't, Dusty, but.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron, as much as you can. I don't know. I'm aware of it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And kind of watch it as it's happening. I don't really do anything, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you don't go out. Like, even if you didn't have a gig.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, the last probably six or seven years, I've worked on New Year's, so I've had zero fun on New Year. It's one of my least favorite days of the year.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's New Year's Eve because those shows have been. I've had tough shows there for the longest time.

[Brian Bates]

I'm off pre recorded. Oh, okay. I was about to ask you, what are you.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty, in 1999, I was 17, and I went to a college party, and they were playing, you know, princes Tonight. I'm gonna party like it's 1999. And it was this. I danced with this college girl for a while, and it was like the best New Year's, and I've been chasing that ever since.

[Dusty Slay]

Because you thought it was your last day on Earth. At that point.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And I don't know, it could have been. I would have been fine with it. It was. It was a hot party I was at in Auburn. Auburn University.

[Brian Bates]

You've been chasing it ever since.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Does Hannah know this?

[Aaron Weber]

I think so. I'm pretty sure I told her.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

None of them have ever lived up to it.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron parties like 1999 because he was 8. He goes to bed at 7:30. Well, anyway, happy New Year, everyone. Yeah, this is pre recorded. I. Unless something comes up between. I didn't have any gigs.

[Aaron Weber]

It's still very early December, so it is weird to do Happy New Year stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, Dusty, when you were on the road with Bert Kreischer, I think this was years ago now. I saw an Instagram story, I think it was on Bert's Instagram, of you taking a shot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I remember thinking, oh, man, Bert corrupted Dustin.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He's been sober this long. He goes out on the road with Bert. Day one, night one, he's taking shots at the bar.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It was my first show with Bert in Toronto and everybody kept trying to get me to drink. So I just got a shot glass and I kept filling it up with water. And then whenever people would come over, I would go, yeah, and then I would do shots.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty's just didn't strike me as a vodka guy. I guess that's all he's into.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was good.

[Brian Bates]

Have you ever been a vodka guy?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I drink vodka. I mean, I drink it all.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know. Yeah. I have drank gas too. Yeah. Vodka is good though. I do like it. It felt like it gave me a little like what they call gu rot, you know?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, Never heard that. But.

[Aaron Weber]

You never heard that. It's like a cheap liquor gut rot. But I. Yeah, I like vodka sodas, vodka tonic. My old boss, I used to, when he retired, I would go drink with him on my lunch break at the TGI Fridays and we would have vodka tonics. It was a great time. Then I'd go back to work.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome. Is this stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, we had a great time. Yeah, Stu was, you know, he was.

[Brian Bates]

I know it's all bosses.

[Aaron Weber]

Stu was retired, you know, so he was having a good time. And I was like, hey, I'm an alcoholic, so this is.

[Brian Bates]

I know Dusty so well. I know about his old bosses. Is this the one with the Play for the Bills?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, played for the bills in the 60s or 70s, I think, maybe 60s.

[Brian Bates]

Well, on the Easier to Drive tour, I listen to Dusty's podcast a lot. He stopped doing it now.

[Aaron Weber]

But I'm just on a break.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm on a break. I didn't quit it. But, you know, I. You know, it's like I come on here on a Monday and I talk about a bunch of stuff, and then I'm like, what do I got left to talk about on my own podcast now?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, thanks for prioritizing this one. Yeah, yeah, that's good. You could do yours on Sunday, and then by the time you get here, you got nothing.

[Aaron Weber]

That's actually a good idea. When I start back, maybe I will do that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Just release it on a Tuesday.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I didn't. Yeah, I could do that too. Yeah, that's a good idea. I appreciate this, guys.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe I can get you guys to co host with me on the podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go. And we'll just do it in this studio, take down some of this Nate stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Keep the same production crew.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Works well.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, Nate sleeping went off and, you know, we drug ourself here hung over. But Nate is still. No, Nate's. I don't know where Nate is, but his specials out.

[Dusty Slay]

He's taking over the world.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, he's doing well.

[Brian Bates]

His holiday special and his Netflix special.

[Dusty Slay]

It all came out last week. Everything's doing well.

[Brian Bates]

Yep, Yep, yep, yep. Well, I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we assume, you know, I mean, again, this is early December, so don't get ahead of yourselves. You know what I mean? We hope we'll stay in.

[Brian Bates]

Just pretend like it's January.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Dusty Slay]

I get it. Worst case scenario for what happens in the next month?

[Aaron Weber]

So many. But I mean, maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe Dusty's the wrong person to ask about that. But, Brian, what do you think?

[Brian Bates]

Worst case scenario for Nate as far as those special for all of us?

[Dusty Slay]

Like, it could be ridiculous that we're sitting here having a good time, talking.

[Brian Bates]

I don't even want to get into the worst case.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

We could get pretty.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Dark, even for bad news baits.

[Aaron Weber]

What about slightly bad case scenario?

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, I die.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I can't. Let's don't. It's. Don't come. Let's just keep it a comment. I don't want to.

[Dusty Slay]

I could die in a funny way.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'll say this.

[Dusty Slay]

Tangled up in a treadmill or something.

[Brian Bates]

January 1st was the deadline for my curse to be broken. Sorry, Dusty, but. But about curses. But Jackie Robinson's widow, which I mentioned, and you guys like, oh, you killed another one. And Nate said if she's alive by. She's got to make it till the new year.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. So we'll be praying for her. Rachel Robinson.

[Aaron Weber]

How old is she?

[Brian Bates]

Rachel Rob. She's 102. So I don't know how that's blamed on me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I mean, I would say at that point, I mean, that's. That's a long, good life.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, those other guys were in their late 90s, and you guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. But it's a track record of.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You killing people. So.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I got some stats on the 2024. I did not look up how many people I killed in 2024, but we know Willie Mays, Bob Newhart.

[Dusty Slay]

I think that might be Bob Barker. There's been a bunch.

[Brian Bates]

Bob Barker.

[Dusty Slay]

We need a Brian Bates kill count in the comments right now. Let us know.

[Brian Bates]

Bob Barker. That's not correct, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Body count. Bates.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian Bates. Bodycount.com.

[Brian Bates]

Bob Barker did die in 2024, I believe. But we had previously talked about him. You guys all said he was dead when he was actually alive. And I said, no, he's still alive.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. And then that killed him. Yeah. Yeah, he was.

[Brian Bates]

This is our podcast. And then he died just to spite me. We want to get in these comments.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's do it.

[Brian Bates]

Who's reading?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you read A good job leading things.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Comments come from Twitch.

[Dusty Slay]

Excited to see you guys, man.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm excited to see you.

[Dusty Slay]

I haven't seen you in a while. It feels like a lifetime.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's been a long time. Anyway, last week.

[Aaron Weber]

But I wasn't here last week, though, so. You didn't.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe that's what it was.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. You weren't, were you?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And in the real timeline, not this timeline we're creating here, this multiverse.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Dusty had a lot of bags in the back of his truck. I'm like, what's going on with all these?

[Aaron Weber]

I picked up leaves this morning. It was always my. Well, I was driving down the road, and I saw this guy. Where? This house had a bunch of leaves in their yard and bags. So I stopped, and I knocked on the door and asked, could I have the leaves?

[Brian Bates]

Are you serious?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I rang the guy's doorbell. He came out. He came on out of the house. I think he thought maybe something was going on.

[Brian Bates]

Well, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I was like, can I have those leaves?

[Brian Bates]

He goes, yeah, I thought you were gonna steal others.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you mean, on out of the house? Like, he walked onto the doorstep.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, I rang the doorbell, and then he Opened the door, came out, closed the door behind.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I never do that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think it was cold.

[Dusty Slay]

Probably just trying to stand behind the door. I opened it a crack, and then I yell around the corner.

[Brian Bates]

But he probably thought it's some type of scam. Yeah, he'll take your leaves and he'll take something else. Yeah, he's probably watching you.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I hope so. I mean, I hope he is watching it, but.

[Brian Bates]

Did you take anything else?

[Aaron Weber]

No, just the leaves.

[Brian Bates]

And what are you gonna do with those leaves?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you know, I got some land, so I got these swales that I built. I have a whole YouTube series on it. You go to my YouTube the Land series, and I built these swales. So now I want to put the leaves in there to start to compost. As the leaves break down, the water comes in and goes into the soil, feeds the trees. It's organic fertilizer.

[Brian Bates]

Right, that makes sense. Also want to mention Notre Dame's playing in the college playoffs right now.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

January 1st.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. It's exciting.

[Brian Bates]

Who they playing?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Boise State, somebody like that.

[Brian Bates]

Should be a great game.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So we'll wrap this up.

[Dusty Slay]

So funny. I was so curious whether we were even going to address that. This is in advance. That's feel like that's all we've talked about. It's the altered timeline now.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it wasn't the fact that it's new New Year's Day. I probably wouldn't.

[Aaron Weber]

I watched a movie. I'd seen it as a kid, but I watched the movie called the one with Jet Li. You ever see that?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like this was late 90s, and I feel like this really started the whole multiverse thing, that it's almost like a bit of a multiverse from the Marvel series and the Matrix that it feels like Jet Li and. And the movie, the One feels like they really kicked that off.

[Dusty Slay]

That was the one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Got it going because there was multiple hymn.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you know, it's a multiverse in the. In the movie, right.

[Brian Bates]

Because there's been. Yeah, okay. I haven't seen that. There's a lot of time travel movies, but I guess it's a little.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. In this one, there's like so many parallel universes, and there's one of each of us and all those universes, and they had figured out how to travel in between. So this Jet Li character was traveling in between and then killing the other jet lens, and then the power, the energy from them would come into the other. So as each Jet Li Died. The other Jet Lee's got stronger. So this guy was traveling, killing all the Jet Lees until they got down to just two.

[Dusty Slay]

Sounds pretty fun.

[Aaron Weber]

It is pretty fun.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and Nateland at Nate Bargadzi.com.

[Dusty Slay]

@Brian Bates comic on Twitter.

[Brian Bates]

Incorrect. Incorrect.

[Aaron Weber]

You got to follow him, and then you can ask a question. That's how you should be working it.

[Brian Bates]

I don't even know if that's worth it. It is worth it, and you don't. We don't have any followers. I have Dusty. I got a lot. I don't need any more.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I'm trying to get rid of Maxed out. Yeah. My limit. Marshall. Hoy. Book. Hoi.

[Dusty Slay]

Book a book.

[Brian Bates]

Nate Line has figured out the perfect format for a podcast. Even when one of the guys is unavailable, the consistency sets you apart from other podcasts. Does Nate have any rules that the guys have to follow during each podcast taping in order to keep the contact Kent entertaining? What rules has the four of you discussed behind the scenes, or do you just go for it and hope for the best?

[Aaron Weber]

All right, well, we're all professional comedians, so we just come on here and talk, and then by virtue of just being funny people, we make this a funny podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Hopefully. But to answer your question, I don't even think Nate knows we're doing this right now. Yeah, just kidding.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. No, we don't have any. I mean, I think the one thing that people think is, oh, do you have to keep it clean? But we're clean. It's. To me, at least it's not forced.

[Aaron Weber]

There's things I'd like to say.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty has a couple of rules. I think Aaron and I got one.

[Dusty Slay]

Hand tied behind his back. I think that's fair to say.

[Brian Bates]

And that's what he talks about on his podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

But no, thank you for that. I mean, I. I agree that we keep rolling no matter who's here, the show goes on. Except if I'm not here.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's what I'm saying. This is, you know, this is a complete podcast here. We can. We got. We're interchangeable characters here. That's what makes it good.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I missed a show in 2024. An episode.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Have you ever missed any perfect attendance?

[Dusty Slay]

You missed one. I remember one sitting at your seat at the old studio.

[Brian Bates]

I think I've missed five.

[Aaron Weber]

And just to reiterate this, the year's not really over yet, so there is time for you to Miss one.

[Brian Bates]

That is true. That is true.

[Aaron Weber]

So don't get ahead of yourself.

[Brian Bates]

This multiverse is getting complicated. Two of those times we recorded two episodes the same day. I've been gone three times but missed five episodes, I believe. Okay, you guys try to like he's not here. Let's get as many as we can. But anyway, anyway, thank you, Marshall. I appreciate that. I think that's true. But no, he didn't have any rules that I know of. All right. Chase Peeler. Anything else you want to say? Dusty?

[Aaron Weber]

No, no. I feel good.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Chase Peeler. There are so many things I love about this show, but one of my favorites is when someone makes an off the cuff joke and Aaron just loses it laughing. It's even better when he gets. When he's laughing. Gets Dusty laughing uncontrollably as well.

[Aaron Weber]

That's fun. It's fun to laugh.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, if we can just get Brian to mispronounce things, then it'll happen. Then it'll happen.

[Dusty Slay]

It will.

[Aaron Weber]

There's always going to be something to laugh at. Chase Peeler is an interesting name.

[Dusty Slay]

Peeler. Yeah. It must have come. You know the last names come from. Well, your ancestors did.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So Chase Peeler must have been worked in a kitchen.

[Brian Bates]

Drive off fast.

[Aaron Weber]

Speaking of peeler. Oh, he drove off fast. I read that if. If you buy garlic that's peeled a lot of times that's coming from China and they have these. These guys have to read or.

[Brian Bates]

You saw Tik Tok video.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw TikTok. I don't read anything. But the.

[Dusty Slay]

He read the captions.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That they're. They're in this factory peeling garlic by hand and they peel so much that their fingernails sometimes fall off so they end up peeling it with their teeth. So if you're buying garlic that's already pre peeled, it's a good chance it's been in somebody's mouth.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Well, they do a good job.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't care.

[Dusty Slay]

Obviously.

[Aaron Weber]

That's horrifying.

[Dusty Slay]

Thanks for telling me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But all the pesticides they're putting on there. Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I think that's terrible too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. Those. I will defend myself though. Aaron. Those words I mispronounced like poem and was the one I just missed.

[Dusty Slay]

Mercury.

[Brian Bates]

Mercury both times sound like you're eating.

[Aaron Weber]

Every time you say it.

[Dusty Slay]

Mercury.

[Brian Bates]

Both times. Dusty. I don't think noticed anything wrong with it until you called it out and may have said it the same way. Quite frankly, I don't know if I.

[Aaron Weber]

Would have said it the same way, but I didn't notice until Aaron looks at me and then I go, oh, yeah, I did. I did. Catch.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Dusty will let things slide, too. Yeah, but we did call you out, like, Dusty, when you said compass instead of compass, we talked about.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, compass.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, But I think I say it like Dusty says it.

[Aaron Weber]

Compass. Yeah, that makes the most sense.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Tyler Flink. Aaron, as a new dad, I hope you know about the real. Hey Bear videos, the Dancing Fruit for kids. Your little girl will love them.

[Dusty Slay]

What is that all about?

[Brian Bates]

Did you watch them? Nah, we did.

[Dusty Slay]

Dancing Fruit.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's. She's a little young still. Do you do Baby Einstein or anything?

[Dusty Slay]

She can't even, like, look at a screen.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, at this point, she should not be looking at screen.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, she's just starting to lock into the. We got a mobile above her crib. She's just starting to lock into that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And she's like, oh, what's going on here? So that's exciting. She's starting to, like, look at stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But in a few months, you know, maybe. I mean, not baby. Hey, bear. It's just. It's pretty simple. Fruit comes on and dances around and bounces around, and it's just a good way for them to kind of watch.

[Aaron Weber]

It and put subliminal messages in their brains.

[Dusty Slay]

Probably not much of a storyline, though.

[Brian Bates]

There's no story.

[Dusty Slay]

Dancing Fruit.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. See, I don't like. Daisy watches. We let her watch videos, but I don't, like. I want her to watch stuff with a story because I want her to learn to follow a story. I banned Coco Melon pretty early.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Coco Melon, there's no story. These kids are just coming out now.

[Brian Bates]

There's a story.

[Aaron Weber]

It's kind of. Well, it's kind of bad animation. And they're like. And then they're just saying, I don't know. There's no story, really. I mean, it might be a little something going on with the song, but I don't like it. I want her to be able to follow a storyline.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Which. What do you. What does she watch?

[Aaron Weber]

I like Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol. Matter of fact, this Saturday, I just took Daisy to Live Paw Patrol, and.

[Brian Bates]

I think I saw a video of that.

[Aaron Weber]

It is the worst show that you could imagine. I don't even know that she liked it. I was so excited about it. And it's a Nickelodeon production, so they got high production value. But the costumes, you know, these are all dogs, and I expected them to be, like, mascots yeah. But you can see the person running it. They're like riding it like a horse almost. And I'm like, I expected it to be a full on costume and they're inside the costume, but it's like, even my daughter's not fooled by it. It's like right away you could see the people controlling it.

[Brian Bates]

You know, when I went to see Lyme King on Broadway in new.

[Dusty Slay]

In New York. The real Broadway.

[Brian Bates]

The touring Broadway show.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. At tpac Broadway, Lebanon, Tennessee. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Tpac.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Off Broadway.

[Brian Bates]

I'm like, how are they going to do the Lion King with all animals?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. How did they do it?

[Brian Bates]

It was basically that they don't try to make you think, you know, it's just a person with a little bit of a costume.

[Dusty Slay]

Were the kids into it? Like, were the kids dancing and singing along and whatever?

[Aaron Weber]

Some of the kids were Paw Patrol.

[Dusty Slay]

Songs or is it just them talking?

[Aaron Weber]

It's just more of a, you know, more. There is like a intro song or whatever, but it's more of a, you know, just an adventure thing there. They got a lot of technology to solve some pretty easy situations. They're bringing in a lot of technology.

[Dusty Slay]

Overfunded.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly. Just trying to get them. Just trying to get the turtle across the road. Are you bringing in four or five different dogs?

[Dusty Slay]

SWAT vehicles? Yeah. They're over militarized.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Eleanor's watched so much Peppa Pig she started speaking with a British accent.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, no.

[Aaron Weber]

I love that, though. Get some class in here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

She is really into Peppa Pig's great Bluey. She's not really into. But you know those shows I like? There's one like, called Masha and the Bear. I think I've seen that one's a pretty good one. Got a little bit of a story to it.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. She still watch Ms. Rachel?

[Aaron Weber]

No, she's kind of beyond Ms. Rachel. I think I want Sam to watch a little Miss Rachel because she helps, you know, teach you to talk.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe you should do some of it. But anyway. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Should I do my own Mr. Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

You start making kids videos. Oh, gosh, talk about subliminal messages.

[Brian Bates]

No, it wouldn't be subliminal.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

In your face. Pretty blatant, but yeah, I think those Hay Bear videos in a few months, I can see.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, I'll try them out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. J.T. tay.

[Dusty Slay]

J.T.

[Brian Bates]

J today.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Gotta see Dusty at what? Sherman in Des Moines. I assume that's the Hoyt Sherman.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Hoyt Pretty hard. We won't do that. Again, but that was funny. How confidently. What?

[Brian Bates]

Sherman, Great show. And we had a good time. Not a great time, but a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you know, good times. My thing.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, you're right. We've now completed three fourths of the Nateland Slam. Now just need to get. Get out to see Breakfast Bait sometime soon. Love the podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Take your time with it. But that was a good show, I'd like to say, because I wasn't here last week and this is going to be a month down the road, but I did.

[Brian Bates]

How was Wicked, by the way?

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't see Wicked.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I. I will talk to.

[Aaron Weber]

You about Wicked, though. But Des Moines, Iowa, had a great time at Hort Sherman. A really good show, really fun. I've always done the Des Moines Funny Bone and I like that club. But this at the Hoyt Sherman was so fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

And it was my. I think it was my best show ever in Des Moines and I had such a great time. And then I went to St. Paul and did a show and it was really great, too. It was a really good weekend. I missed last week, so I didn't get to talk about it, but really great shows. Really great.

[Dusty Slay]

These are like some awesome theaters you're starting to do. Yeah, like legit.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That's really cool.

[Brian Bates]

Mm, that's awesome. Fancy dog. Why is Aaron always complaining about DuckDuckGo? Why does he just use Google?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I end up using Google. What happens is I use Brave. That's the browser that I use. That's my default browser. And the default search engine for brave is DuckDuckGo or some variation of. Of some iteration of DuckDuckGo. I don't know. I end up using Google and then I could easily go in and change it and make Google my default search engine. But I never do it because it's more fun to complain.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree.

[Dusty Slay]

And deal with things on a daily basis.

[Aaron Weber]

Complaints are fun.

[Dusty Slay]

I agree. But that's not really like. That's not an interesting complaint, but it's. It's fun for me to have once a day be like, God, let me just go to Google real quick. DuckDuckGo.

[Aaron Weber]

Horrible.

[Dusty Slay]

I like the idea of it, but.

[Brian Bates]

What is the idea of it?

[Dusty Slay]

It's like a. It's like a privacy anonymity centered.

[Aaron Weber]

It used to be. But they kind of sold out now, though, I think.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, maybe. I don't think so. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, so that's why people use over Google, because.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they say they can't they don't track you on DuckDuckGo.

[Dusty Slay]

And that's what all Google does is that's like their business model is tracking you to sell ads to you. And they do a good job.

[Brian Bates]

I don't mind, Padre. Ubu.

[Dusty Slay]

You think that's right, dad. You be you.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty sure Dusty and I would disagree on most things, yet he's my favorite part of the podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go. Well, that's what it's all about.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, I appreciate that, Padre. And you know what? You be you. You know what I mean. But I don't know why you think we would disagree so much. I don't know what I've said that's so disagreeable, but can't imagine what could that be. Yeah, I mean, you know, just step out a little bit. Step out of your comfort zone. Look into some things. It's a disaster.

[Dusty Slay]

Step out of your comfort zone and into Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's a disaster zone out here. The world is a complete disaster.

[Brian Bates]

How many times 20, 24 did you predict the world would end? I counted eight.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I don't know that I predicted it. I just said, be aware, look out. It's always good to be vigilant.

[Brian Bates]

But you could be Boy who cried Wolf if you.

[Aaron Weber]

If I was saying it's going to end, but I'm just saying be vigilant. If the Boy who Cried Wolf was like, hey, guys, some stuff may happen soon. Just, you know, stock up, be prepared, then people wouldn't. And then when he finally goes, right, it's happening. Everybody would go, well, thank you for getting us prepared because now that it is happening, we're ready to go. The supply chains have broke down, but thanks to you, we have a little food to sustain ourselves for a little while. We're not scrambling at the grocery store fighting over a loaf of bread.

[Dusty Slay]

You're kind of abandoning the analogy at this point.

[Brian Bates]

Let's get a little specific.

[Dusty Slay]

There's nothing to do with the wolf anymore.

[Aaron Weber]

I believe the wolf's out there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Garen Janes. The way that Aaron announced shows in 2025 was so cool and creative. The only issue is he didn't include Charlotte, North Carolina.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, thank you very much. This looks like a fake. My name's Aaron James and we got a comment from Garen James. I just want to say this is not me. This is somebody with a remarkably similar.

[Aaron Weber]

Name and his in law, his in laws loving Charlotte. He's trying to avoid it. This issue, isn't it?

[Dusty Slay]

No. I love going To Charlotte. I like the comedy zone out there. I'll probably be back in 2025. The dates I announced were only through early May.

[Aaron Weber]

It was very creative.

[Brian Bates]

It was. I don't even know how you did it.

[Dusty Slay]

It has not.

[Brian Bates]

David Copperfield over here.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, thanks, man. Yeah, I did some. Check it out on my Instagram if I think it's the pin post right now. I put a lot of work into that. I was doing that while we're dealing with the. Yeah, a lot of it.

[Brian Bates]

Push, push.

[Dusty Slay]

Like some long nights at the hospital and stuff that I was kind of working on those. It has not been tremendously successful selling tickets, but it was a fun.

[Aaron Weber]

There's nothing like putting a lot of work into something and then it just not doing well. And then the next day you rattle something off into the camera on your phone and then it blows up.

[Dusty Slay]

40 million views. Yeah. It's crazy, but thank you. Yeah, I'll be back in Charlotte.

[Brian Bates]

Cool.

[Dusty Slay]

Good. The Queen City. Do you know that?

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know that.

[Brian Bates]

Why is it called that?

[Dusty Slay]

No idea. And nobody can give me a straight answer.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe Charlotte was a queen.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe Duck, duck, go.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe there was a Queen Charlotte.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, maybe it's that simple.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is it Memphis? It's Memphis.

[Dusty Slay]

Definitely not the Queens.

[Aaron Weber]

I think Memphis is like an Egyptian city.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And they even have a pyramid. They have the largest pyramid in North America, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right, well, we'll never know. But write in. Let us know why Charlotte's called the Queen City. Right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. At Brian Bates Comics on Twitter. Follow him.

[Dusty Slay]

Go right to the source.

[Brian Bates]

Google could tell you. But Drew Birdsong. We know that Nate and Breadstick had Seinfeld. Is it? That's pretty good.

[Aaron Weber]

Sticks a good one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We know Nate and Breadstick had Seinfeld as an inspiration early in their career. And I feel like Aaron has mentioned Brian Regan and Kevin James as comics he looked up to. Can Dusty share some of his favorite comics growing up?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Jeff Foxworthy, Nate Bark. I did like Nate. I still like Nate, but I. I did like Nate early on the. What is it full time? No, no. Yelled at by a clown. I love that album. Mitch Hedberg, I really like. Steve Martin has an album called let's Get Small. Love that album. Love it. Mitch Hedberg, Strategic Grill locations. Check those albums at Jeff Foxworthy's first two. Really great.

[Brian Bates]

We ever. We may have talked about this. We're even to Jerry Clower.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, a little bit. I like Jerry Clower stuff, but yeah, I feel like I don't know. It's really hard to sit down and listen to a lot of Jerry Clower.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, those are good ones.

[Aaron Weber]

They are good.

[Brian Bates]

Nathan Taylor on Dusty's Netflix special, when he does the Travis Tritt joke and somebody yells out, Dusty says, that might be Travis Trent. Was that Aaron they yelled out? Every time I watch it, I think it's Aaron probably.

[Aaron Weber]

So.

[Brian Bates]

Yes, it was.

[Aaron Weber]

Part of me thinks it was my neighbor. My neighbor did come to the show. My neighbor drinks a lot and. And he came to the afterparty and he was pretty hammered.

[Brian Bates]

What's his name?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, no, he's a fun guy, but I. Part of me thinks it was him, even though he's never owned up to it.

[Brian Bates]

Huh.

[Aaron Weber]

He actually yelled out three times. We edited the other two out.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

I wanted to keep them because I thought it was fun, but for time's sake, we went ahead and cut that out.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, so it was not Aaron.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. Aaron didn't come backstage.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't tell Dusty I was there at all, but I didn't show up and try to sabotage the taping.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. We'll never know, Gary.

[Aaron Weber]

By the way, I tweeted at Travis Dritt, though, and told him to watch my special. And then he did reply and said that he watched it and he said that was me that yelled out.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

Because on the special, I go, that might be Travis Tripp right there. He said, that was me.

[Dusty Slay]

That you said, watch the special.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You didn't isolate the. The one joke about him.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

And just send that. You said, watch this hour special way.

[Brian Bates]

See if he really watches.

[Dusty Slay]

Sift through this and find the one. Well, it's relevant.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it's a good special.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I agree with you.

[Aaron Weber]

It's Working man on Netflix.

[Dusty Slay]

Hey, I talked about you over the course of an hour. Here's the. Listen to the whole thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, go watch the special and enjoy yourself. And then you might, you know, you might get a reference, you know, but watch the special. Enjoy the special.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, Travis Drit, he enjoys good comedy too.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So, I mean, come on. It's called Working man on Netflix.

[Dusty Slay]

That's when somebody goes. When somebody sends me a link to, like, a three hour video, and they go, check it out. And you go, give me a timestamp.

[Brian Bates]

They mentioned you in this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I've done that a bunch. They go, you got mentioned on this podcast. And I go, I'm not combing through this whole thing. Well, I didn't timestamp.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think I reached out to Travis Tritt and said, hey, I talked about you in this comedy podcast. I don't think I said that or comedy special.

[Dusty Slay]

But that's why you reached out to him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but I wanted him to. You know, he. You know, he also. He's. He married a Hooters waitress, and I talk about Hooters a little bit in the special, so I talk about NASCAR a little bit. I got other country music.

[Dusty Slay]

He lives in a house. I talk about a house.

[Aaron Weber]

I got a lot of, you know, cigarette jokes. I bet he's gotten into nicotine a bit. And it's like, there's a lot that I bet Travis Trick could relate to.

[Dusty Slay]

It's called Working Man. He's had a job. I mean, this is.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet he's eating at a Western. Sizzling and a Cracker Barrel.

[Dusty Slay]

This special was made for Travis Trick.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

A woman. A woman. Warm and willing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's what I'm looking for.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. One time Clint Black tweeted, ask me anything over the next hour. And I tweeted back, just killing time, and he gave me a thumbs up.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a pretty weak response, to be honest. That's a fun thing that you tweeted at him, and that's a pretty weak response from him.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I thought you were talking about my response.

[Aaron Weber]

Your response was very good. And I'm disappointed in Clint Black and.

[Brian Bates]

Who you're friends with.

[Aaron Weber]

I met him.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. He shut that down.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'd be his friend. I'd be his friend, but, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm looking at him through the tail.

[Dusty Slay]

Lights, you know, I wish I knew some of his songs. I'd jump in on this. This is a fun riff I'm not a part of.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Gary Seinfeld.

[Dusty Slay]

These are fake names.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that one definitely.

[Dusty Slay]

Next, comics from Schmorgmarlon.

[Brian Bates]

Like what?

[Dusty Slay]

Gary Seinfeld.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty, I know you desire to be a great ad reader.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think he does.

[Brian Bates]

Here's my personal feedback. Aaron feels like he's talking to a friend and means what he's saying.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever heard Aaron talk to a friend?

[Dusty Slay]

What's that mean?

[Brian Bates]

That's a fair point.

[Dusty Slay]

What are you talking about? I'm a good friend.

[Brian Bates]

You are. You just don't talk to us like you are. As far as your ad reads, one, it feels like you're reading something someone else wrote.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, that's true.

[Brian Bates]

And two, it doesn't help that while reading, you say things like, yeah, that's actually true.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know how that doesn't help, Gary. It's.

[Dusty Slay]

That implies that everything else, it's all, you know. But I think everybody knows these are ad. I think people get it right. These are ad reads.

[Aaron Weber]

And I don't. Gary, I don't know that I desire to be a great ad reader. What I, What I desire to do is try to make each ad fun and to have you listen as though you're not listening to an ad. You're listening, going, what. What's going to happen here? Am I going to get a laugh out of this? Is this going to be fun? And then all the while, I'm feeding you an ad.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like putting medicine, crushing it up in a hot dog.

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly. You know, you put the little pill in a piece of bread when you give it to a dog, and the dog eats the bread, but he gets the medicine. That's what I'm doing, Gary Seinfeld.

[Dusty Slay]

But I mean, you're a big pharma. You're dishing out medicine.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I like it.

[Brian Bates]

Everyone compliments Aaron on his ad reading. And I think you've alluded to the fact you'd like some recognition.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I'll say, though, the reason I think Aaron gets so many compliments is because I, I praise him on his ad reading. And people go, you know what? He is a good.

[Brian Bates]

You're right.

[Aaron Weber]

Because I don't get the same backup here on the podcast for my ad reads. I think the listening audience is the.

[Dusty Slay]

Arrogance to go, anytime Aaron gets a comment, it's because I gave him the nod and I go, now trust me, guys, it's good. And then they go, oh, maybe like everybody looks to you. Yeah, see if it's good or not, that's okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And I don't write them, so I am reading something. Somebody else are up. Add some more to the list. Gary, can you. Only two, only two pieces of advice. Let's keep it going.

[Brian Bates]

Those are two good ones.

[Aaron Weber]

Get a three, four, and five in here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, let's get Jerry David to write in.

[Brian Bates]

And that was funny, Michael. I deserve more Jerry David.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, because that was from Gary Seinfeld.

[Aaron Weber]

Larry David.

[Brian Bates]

Michael Mitchell lost a lot of respect for Aaron after that last joke. Oh, sorry. For Aaron when he said he hadn't seen the Rock. I think we all did, Michael.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, that's weird that your respect was based on whether you thought I'd seen this movie. I've never heard of. I'm sorry, you're not. I Would watch it.

[Brian Bates]

You never even heard of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. The Rock. The actor who's everywhere. That's who I'm thinking of. I don't. I don't know. A movie called the Rock.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. With Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris. Ed Harris, Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a great cast. I'm not denying that. I've just never seen it.

[Aaron Weber]

Really great.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sorry about that, Michael.

[Brian Bates]

It's about Alcatraz. Well, Michael, we're with you on this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I lost a lot of respect for Michael after that comment. So we're back down to we're on a level playing field again.

[Aaron Weber]

Michael, give us a couple of reasons, couple of numbers. How Aaron could earn your respect back.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right. Give me. Yeah. Team up with Gary Seinfeld. Put together a list of how I could. I could improve what movies I need to watch.

[Brian Bates]

Muhammad Ali had a. Had a man. What qualities do you take into account when considering someone a comedian's comedian? Does beat bagel with his original bits like Shingle ladies count as one.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's like, does this comedian make comedians laugh and then not really the audience?

[Brian Bates]

That's. Yeah, I'd say that could be part of it. Although I can think of examples.

[Dusty Slay]

What's an example of a. A comedian like David Tell, I think is a good example of comedians. Comedian, but he's murdering with a regular audience too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I think it's often people who didn't get right out of the gate. Some huge. Like they started stand up, they've worked the road, they've done the steps to become a great comedian and they are a great comedian.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Whereas someone who maybe had a video that popped off or. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I think also they do stuff on stage or they do something in their act that like. That is so unique that comedians find it funny. Right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I guess that would be true.

[Dusty Slay]

You watch a tell, you're just like. This is just. It's just like on a different level.

[Brian Bates]

There's no tricks.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. It's just joke. Joke.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think so.

[Brian Bates]

Who would you consider a comedian's comedian besides yourself?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I'm. I mean, I think.

[Dusty Slay]

Call Travis Trent, see who he lists.

[Aaron Weber]

I think Mitch Hedberg is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. Yeah, for sure.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't watch a lot of comedians.

[Brian Bates]

Now, clearly you just said Mitch head.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that a new thing?

[Aaron Weber]

Comedians comedian?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no. You not listening to comedy?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think so. I mean, I've just. I do comedy And I'm always. I watch other comics, you know, a comic that you take on the road a lot. And he did a couple of shows with me, Zach Townsend, I think. Is. Is that in a way, because he really crushes in the green room.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

But does well on stage. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Terrible act, but he crushes in the green room.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You did great this weekend in the car on the way to the venue, I'll say that. No, Zach's great. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, thanks for those comments.

[Dusty Slay]

That's it. 2025 is going to be a heck of a year.

[Brian Bates]

Well, let's get into it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Let's try to think how I want to start.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I would like to say that earlier you had said that this was going to be an episode about things happening, you know, entertainment that happened in the 2000s in this current decade.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it is.

[Aaron Weber]

We didn't give you a lot of response.

[Brian Bates]

Nope. You didn't give me. No.

[Aaron Weber]

You kind of switched it up on us. But I had put together a top five country songs that came out in 2020.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, well, let me. We'll start there then. I thought it was interesting that I guess as of January 1, 2025, day this comes out, the decade is exactly halfway over.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

Or the 2020theres are. I think the decade actually starts on the first. Right. I mean, 2021.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But 2020 to 2024 is done now. 2024 to 2025 to 2029.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's left.

[Brian Bates]

So we're halfway through. So I thought maybe we talk a little bit about the first half of the first half. Decade twenties.

[Dusty Slay]

I like this.

[Brian Bates]

But then I heard nothing from you guys, so I kind of moved on. I do have a little bit, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

In our defense, do we ever really help you out with it?

[Brian Bates]

No, but I occasionally.

[Dusty Slay]

Occasionally.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, occasionally.

[Dusty Slay]

I did the philosophy episode.

[Brian Bates]

You did?

[Dusty Slay]

Remember that A long time.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I was here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I don't know if we could do a Philosophy Part two with Dusty in the room. Things. When things would change.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I don't have a lot here.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I did look up who's somebody famous that I not have had. Never even heard of when 2020 started.

[Aaron Weber]

They. Tiger.

[Brian Bates]

Tiger Woods.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, no.

[Brian Bates]

Tiger King.

[Aaron Weber]

Tiger King.

[Brian Bates]

That's a good one.

[Dusty Slay]

Whoa. Yeah. That is a good one, Joe.

[Brian Bates]

Exotic. So you're talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I never watched it, but yeah. I mean, he. I read online he took over the world for a second.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

About the. There's a. There's a theory, like the 2012 theory that. No. A list celebrity that you've heard of. You hadn't heard of them before. Oh, 2020. That was the last year. Because it's the way celebrity works, and with the Internet and everything. It just. There. There are. There's not going to be another Leonardo DiCaprio, a guy who kind of lives in mystery and you don't know a lot about him and doesn't do interviews. Right. And he just hangs out on a yacht. Like, now. Celebrities all in your face.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So there's this theory that, like, it's. That 2012 is the last year where it's like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Also, movies are kind of dead now. It's like there was a real time where you're going to the movie theater a lot because it would be fresh movies coming out. There's no. There's never a movie coming out that I'm like, oh, I'm excited about it. You mentioned Wicked, by the way. It's like, there's a lot of reasons why I won't go see that, but one of them is that I saw Wicked on Broadway in, like, 2008. I'd never seen a Broadway play musical. I was in New York City and I went and saw that, and it blew my mind. I was like, this is amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I just feel like nothing being made now is good and they'll ruin that memory for me, this movie.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's an objection not specifically to Wicked, but to any film adaption of a Broadway musical.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that I saw.

[Brian Bates]

Which. That's the only one.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, Right. But no, I mean, it is specific to me why I won't see it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Because I'm like, I know the story and I really enjoyed it, and I just feel like it won't be good.

[Brian Bates]

What about the other way around, though, if a movie became a play?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I don't see a lot of plays. Right. So if a movie became a play, I definitely would not go see it.

[Brian Bates]

What about. And I think the play came music first. But what about Greece? You love Greece.

[Aaron Weber]

I do, but I'm so shocked every.

[Brian Bates]

Time I see Grease on that. Dusty is into this High School Musical.

[Dusty Slay]

I can't believe you that either.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a great movie.

[Brian Bates]

It is a great movie.

[Aaron Weber]

John Travolta is one of the best of all time.

[Brian Bates]

Tell me more.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Aaron Weber]

Tell me more. Tell me more. At what? Yeah, he's a great actor. I mean, you never saw Saturday Night Fever?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I've seen these movies.

[Aaron Weber]

Saturday Night Fever is unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Staying Alive, the sequel. One of the worst sequels in history.

[Brian Bates]

But at least those aren't musicals. You're. Grease is a musical about high school kids.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But there, it's cool now. I didn't just get into Greece the other day. You know what I mean? I was like, not even in high school when I saw it grandfathered in. Yeah. You know, it's like. But yeah, if Greece came out today or, or, or they made a play about. I'm like, no, they would ruin that. It would not be good.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. But the consensus is this Wicked movie, and I had family in town for Thanksgiving. A few of them went to go see it. Rave reviews from them. And then I looked at the reviews. It's like 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. Universally acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. So I just. It seems they've done a good job of adapting it to film.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, also, things have changed about me spiritually since that time, and I just can't go.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's the real reason.

[Aaron Weber]

Called Wicked.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

There's many reasons. But yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wicked Smat.

[Brian Bates]

What's that?

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Brian Bates]

Wicked Smat.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know what. What that is.

[Dusty Slay]

You ever see Goodwill hunting?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. My boy's wicked Smat.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay. I couldn't tell what you were saying.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. The Boston accent, the weird Boston accent.

[Brian Bates]

So good. That's that. Did you know what he was saying?

[Dusty Slay]

He was like, I was going to let Aaron sit.

[Brian Bates]

Move on.

[Dusty Slay]

My boy's wicked smack.

[Brian Bates]

All right, what about. What about this?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

See if you agree with this, Aaron or Dusty. I was looking up the top movies of the first half of the decade.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

And they're generally. And I'm talking about critic acclaim, critically acclaimed movies. They're generally movies that the general public, I think would not see because they feel like they're too artistic to whatever.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, and it's not a marvel. Whatever. There's no built in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm talking about like Oscar award winning type.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Real movies that critics love. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But then I look up the top show streaming and things like that. Same thing. Critic. The top critically acclaim. And they're TV shows that I think everybody generally thinks that watches it. Oh, that's really good. And I wonder why that is.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you mean? Like, give me an example.

[Brian Bates]

Ted Lasso. None of these had come out by 20. Ted Lasso, the bear Hacks. All those are really good.

[Dusty Slay]

But most people don't watch the bear or Hacks. Nobody watches Hacks.

[Aaron Weber]

Cobra Kai.

[Dusty Slay]

I know, but like in the grand scheme of things. Like, nobody watches those, and I've seen those shows, but they don't get the kind. Not like, not like. Not like Game of. Like, everybody watch Game of Thrones, right? I feel like everybody's watched. I didn't watch it either. I know you wouldn't, but this is.

[Aaron Weber]

Why I don't watch these TV shows. I'll say this because, right. It's like when you watch a TV show, you. You watch one episode, and then at the end of that episode, it's a huge cliffhanger into the next episode. So then you're like, well, I gotta watch the next episode. And then you make it all the way through the whole season. And then at the end of the season, another cliffhanger. And then you watch multiple seasons and very rarely, I feel like, do you get to the end of that show and you feel satisfied with the ending. Breaking Bad is a real good example.

[Dusty Slay]

A show that got out when it was. Got out on top.

[Aaron Weber]

It ended well. And I felt like it all wrapped up really great.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. Could have gone on another couple seasons.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But ended.

[Aaron Weber]

But you know, they go. And then it's like. So there's never any closure. I like a movie. I think the future. This is what I think. One hour movies. Give me a full. Our movie. It's a full story. It ends, no cliffhanger, and I don't have to sit here for three hours to watch it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I think. That's what I'm gonna do. Except I just gave it away. So that's what people will be doing now.

[Brian Bates]

Cobra Kai's. That Cobra Kai is always a cliffhanger.

[Aaron Weber]

It is. But there's just something about Cobra Kai that locked me in because I really liked the Karate Kid movies when I was a kid, and it just locked. The hook of Cobra Kai was now the bad guy is the good guy. And now you're rooting for him because you always viewed him as a bully in that. But you see his life was ruined and you're like, now you're kind of rooting for him.

[Brian Bates]

But each season is, to me has gotten progressively worse.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. After a while, you're like, I'm watching high school karate.

[Brian Bates]

It's so dumb. But yet I am going to finish it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

For the same reasons.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

High school karate.

[Brian Bates]

Intense. High school karate.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But there's a lot of great. Only murder in the. Murders in the building. I haven't actually seen that.

[Aaron Weber]

I've heard that's good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Abbott elementary, the marvelous Ms. Maisel. A lot of great. But I guess you're right. Those are still pretty niche, I guess, shows.

[Aaron Weber]

Abbott elementary, though. Is it just a sitcom? Right. It's not like a Netflix show, right? It's a sitcom.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's on ABC.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

30 minutes.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like sitcoms can. Can still be good in that way, you know, because it's. It's. What do they call it? Episodic? Is that word? It's.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's just a. You know, it's a show. And those are fun.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, someone who I had not heard of. I don't think when 2020 it started. Was Morgan Wallen? Oh, I don't think. Was he even on the scene?

[Aaron Weber]

Did you say your life's better or worse now?

[Brian Bates]

I still don't know anything.

[Dusty Slay]

Completely unchanged scene.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, unchanged.

[Dusty Slay]

So, like the first I had heard of him just because I had heard his music and I'd heard stuff that he. He. He'd done. But he. Like the first big news story about him was when he's supposed to host SNL and instead went to Alabama. The party. Alabama was like making out with a bunch of girls. And during the COVID everybody was mad at him about that. And then he couldn't do snl.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the only time I liked it.

[Dusty Slay]

So, Yeah, I say 2020 is.

[Brian Bates]

Is when he kind of broke.

[Dusty Slay]

That's when he broke into what he is now. Yeah. The biggest star in the genre.

[Brian Bates]

I was trying to think of an athlete. Shohei's been around longer than I thought. He's.

[Dusty Slay]

2018 was his rookie year, so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But he. Similarly, he didn't become like a phenomenon until later. And baseball fans knew about him. He didn't break. Yeah. But now he's the biggest star in the sport.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

One of the biggest athletes in the. On the planet. That happened later.

[Brian Bates]

Chuck Yeager.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Chuck Yeager. I mean, I found out about him after Covid, that's for sure. I'm an idiot.

[Brian Bates]

He's been dead for 50 years.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty. Anyway, and then I looked up. And then. We'll get to your songs. This is all I have about the 2000s. The top songs of the 2000s. The number one song came out this year. I've never heard of it. All right, let me tell you. Number three. Number three. This is from 2022. 15 weeks at number one. Harry Styles as it was.

[Aaron Weber]

Missed it.

[Dusty Slay]

You would know. You'd recognize it.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you would recognize it. You've. If you've been through a Kroger or walked through a mall or been anywhere in public. You've heard it.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. All right, number.

[Aaron Weber]

These are songs that you like, and they're on your personal playlist.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right, yeah. These are Bases of Bates curated Harry Sty.

[Brian Bates]

These are the songs that spent the most weeks at number one in so far this decade. Number two from 2023, Last Night by Morgan Wallace.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go. You know that one, right?

[Aaron Weber]

What's. How's that going?

[Dusty Slay]

Last night? We let the liquor talk. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Good song.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't listen. People like him. They love him, and that's fine. But I don't. I don't get it personally.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

16 non consecutive weeks at number one.

[Dusty Slay]

Crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Everybody's alcoholics now, and they're like. And they. They love that. Not you guys, but, you know, I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

The song number one came out this year. 19 weeks at number one, which tied. Old Town Road is the longest running number one song of all time, a bar song by Shabuzzi.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Huge.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that one.

[Dusty Slay]

Fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I heard of Shaboozi about just a few months ago when Nate hosted one of those award shows, and Shaboozi was the winner.

[Dusty Slay]

Nate presented the award to Shaboozi.

[Brian Bates]

That was the first time I even heard of him.

[Aaron Weber]

I had an Uber driver as an older Indian lady from India, a heavy accent, and she was telling me how much she loved country music. And she was listing off all these old country singers that she loved. And then before she dropped me off, she played Shaboozi, the bar song. And for me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I liked it. I was like, this is great.

[Dusty Slay]

It's catchy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's a fun song.

[Brian Bates]

Do you want to give us your five country songs of.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I do.

[Brian Bates]

The first of the 2000s.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a hot list. And now, listen, there's a lot of great songs that are not going to be on this list. But I put this together.

[Brian Bates]

We usually have an honorable mention that's.

[Aaron Weber]

Longer than the Dusty Slay's top five country songs since 2020. And there's, you know, there's. Yeah, there's several songs. Here's one. My friend Jamie Johnson, he just put out an album. He hasn't put out an album in, like, 14 years. And it's a really great album. One song he covered, Charlie Daniel song, Trudy. I don't know if you know that song. Really great. Zach Brian. I found out about Zach Brian in the 2000s. Really great. He's been taking some heat lately, but something in the orange. Really great song. This is not the top five yet.

[Dusty Slay]

These are honorable mentions.

[Aaron Weber]

This is Black on Black by Paul Caulfine. And I think this is the kind of song that. Who's our guy? Post Malone. I think this is the kind of song he wish he was doing. This is a great song.

[Dusty Slay]

Just listen to that song this morning.

[Aaron Weber]

Black on Black.

[Dusty Slay]

Really surprised me that you endorsed it so heavily.

[Aaron Weber]

I love it.

[Dusty Slay]

Trap drums. I mean, I'm not hip hop drums.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not saying. Well, I guess I am because it's.

[Dusty Slay]

Less country than last night. We let the liquor talk.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess I'm saying since it's on the list that it's country, but. Yeah, you're right. I like it, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, here we go. Now we're about to get into it. All American Singer by Zephaniah Ohora. Really, really great. That is a good country song. Okay, okay. So now we're into the top five.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Oh, we're not even there yet.

[Aaron Weber]

No, now we're.

[Brian Bates]

This last time. You just make a top 10 list.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I just want to just scroll.

[Dusty Slay]

Through his, like, songs on spot.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, here. Here we go. Number five. This is a really great one. Suburban Outlaw by Maggie Antone. Really great. Really great country song. Benjamin Todd. I just met Benjamin Todd here recently at Zany's. He did a couple of songs with Jesse Daniel called Shooting Star. That's number four. Number three, a classic. Country singer, John Anderson had a song called Years, which is really great.

[Dusty Slay]

Great song. You showed it to me.

[Brian Bates]

It came out in the 2000s.

[Aaron Weber]

It did. And there's a girl named Sierra Farrell who's really great. She does a cover of Years, which is also really good. Number two, Colby Acuff. If I Were the Devil. That's a really great song.

[Brian Bates]

I don't like.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, you'll like it, though. You'll like it. Number one, top five country songs come out in the 2020. Jesse Daniel, working hard day and night as features on the hit comedy special Working man by Dusty Slay. It's the only one I know available on Netflix.

[Dusty Slay]

That's nice.

[Brian Bates]

It's a great list.

[Aaron Weber]

A good list.

[Brian Bates]

Great list. I have to check those out.

[Aaron Weber]

Check those songs out.

[Brian Bates]

I will. I. I did look up. Now, this is just for the past year, 2024.

[Aaron Weber]

Some highlights, I will say. Can I say this, though? Paul Caine has. I don't know if that's how you say his name. He has other very country songs. And this is Kind of a newer thing. And I like it because he sounds like Johnny Cash in the beginning, and then, boom.

[Dusty Slay]

These beats, the worst drum sounds of all time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'm into it, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm into it.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

It's called Black on Black. Yeah, I'll have to check it out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like it, too. I'm just critiquing it because.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, no, you're fair to do it because you're fair.

[Dusty Slay]

So different from it. It's. It's almost like every argument you've made about music is out the window. No, it is, because, you know, I like this song.

[Aaron Weber]

You're right about it. You're all right to criticize me about it, but I like it, though.

[Brian Bates]

All right. I looked up some highlights. Nateland highlights from 2024. Just some or milestone moments.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

2024. January 16th. Right out of the gate.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, January 6th. That wasn't 2024.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

January 16th.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Working man released big time.

[Aaron Weber]

Boom. Great special.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we've heard about it. Came out right out of the new year.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Came out hot.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, when it came out, I was going through Twitter to look for people talking trash about it to try to get into some arguments. I only found, like, two, and you had already responded.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, I'm on it. I am on it.

[Brian Bates]

All right. That was January 16th. It was released the next day. January 17th. The first Nate Land we ever missed due to weather.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hey, what's up, everybody? This is, you know, the first episode we are not able to record because of weather.

[Aaron Weber]

Snow.

[Dusty Slay]

Hello, everybody. Aaron Weber here, host of the Aaron Land Podcast, reporting from a snowy Nashville, Tennessee, unfortunately.

[Brian Bates]

Hello, folks. And. Hey, Bear. Hope you guys are doing well. Well, sorry we didn't do an episode this week. We are stuck at home, as you can see. I think we could have done an episode. I just don't think those guys know how to drive in snow.

[Nate Bargatze]

We got a ton of it. We're not great at it in Nashville, so no one can get anywhere. So sorry to have to Navy to record during this week.

[Brian Bates]

We thought we could remember that.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

It was snow.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, snow day. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You were on a plane, I guess, to go promote.

[Aaron Weber]

I was trying to.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I got stalled out.

[Brian Bates]

We had to cancel because of all the snow on the ground.

[Aaron Weber]

I like to think that was God flooding the country with snow so that people would watch my special.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think it worked.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Little seed.

[Aaron Weber]

Cloud clown.

[Brian Bates]

Cloud seed.

[Aaron Weber]

God's allowed to cloud seed.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. He gave you a snowstorm he gave Taylor Tomlinson a fan pandemic.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go.

[Brian Bates]

These are fun. January. So January 24th, Nate announces the podcast is going to one hour.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just to get it out of the way. I know our last podcast was shorter. We are going to go a little bit shorter. I know. I did not realize this. I thought all podcasts were, like, had to be, like, two hours long. And it seems most of them are an hour or even less. And so I know some of you will be disappointed because you like the two hours. Some of you won't care, and some of you will be happy.

[Brian Bates]

February 7th, two weeks later, Nate announces podcast is going back to two hours after.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, getting yelled at by all of y'all. We were just go back to normal. We're gonna be like George Costanza that left his job, that got fired from his job, and we're showing up today as if nothing happened.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that was a fun time.

[Aaron Weber]

Fastest cave in all of history.

[Dusty Slay]

Bent the Knee so quick.

[Brian Bates]

April 8th, the eclipse.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I brought these two.

[Brian Bates]

This is another way to look at it. You're supposed to. All right, it's not working.

[Dusty Slay]

You hold. And you hold that up.

[Brian Bates]

It's got a pinhole in it. Right?

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And it said to. Maybe because it's two now, it's probably too. I'll have to wait till it gets more sunlight. Supposed to be able to see it through there.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's kind of cool. Ah, that is scary.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you for coming out tonight.

[Nate Bargatze]

You made it. Like you brought that. Like you.

[Brian Bates]

Like.

[Nate Bargatze]

I went to the eclipse storm, brought these.

[Brian Bates]

That's.

[Aaron Weber]

That was the first time the world was gonna end.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. We did a fun eclipse episode. And I think that's the hustle episode where you told people that you were having a baby.

[Dusty Slay]

Where I announced it. Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. During an ad read. Inadvertently.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because we did the ad reads later and put them back.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I referenced it.

[Brian Bates]

So you'd already posted social media, I.

[Dusty Slay]

Believe, but I think so at that point.

[Brian Bates]

But first, that get people listening at it.

[Dusty Slay]

Tore hamstring. Running the 40 too.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you?

[Dusty Slay]

That day? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Pulled the hamstring.

[Aaron Weber]

And you got last place too, huh?

[Dusty Slay]

I did.

[Brian Bates]

Did you really hurt yourself? Tweak something, you know, like for a long time.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a couple days, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You feel it?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. April 13th, Nate recorded his special, your friend, Nate Bargetti in Phoenix. Wow. All right, now, May the three of you all went to Hollywood. Dude, Netflix is a joke fest. Different venues. But y'all had great sets, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Hot shows.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

July 24, the first episode on our new set.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hello, folks. And hey, Barry. Welcome to Land Podcast. Sunday Bargettsy. Brian Bates.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

And surprise, boom, we are in a new studio here.

[Dusty Slay]

We are.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, this is. We. I don't think anybody knew this was happening.

[Aaron Weber]

Y'all knew, but even we kind of doubted it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, we had been seeing. You know, I had seen the room and it was. It was empty. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's been that long already?

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Time flies.

[Dusty Slay]

Five months.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you miss the old set?

[Brian Bates]

I do in some ways, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

In some ways I do too, but this is 20 minutes closer to my house.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I love the set.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's like an hour to Nate.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I do too. It just, you know, when you do something in some other space for so long, is it weird to change? Change right.

[Brian Bates]

Then the next day, July 25, Nateland announced. Don't make me come back there. We'll be joining the Nateland World Entertainment.

[Nate Bargatze]

Started a podcast network, the Nailing Podcast Network. And this is. You guys are. Our first podcast that we have have that we have on the network.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

And we're super pumped about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we're honored to be a part of it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, we're big fans, you know. Known you guys forever. And Dustin, you've been out with us and you guys are killing it. And you, I think you fit very well. You obviously fit very well into the world that we are doing.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

September 7th, Aaron Records. His special here at the lab is 80s.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. When's that coming? We got any announcement?

[Dusty Slay]

January.

[Aaron Weber]

January.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if we can. Yeah, it's good. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This month.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So you're kicking around the corner. Yeah, he released his in January. Now you're releasing yours. Yours.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

Come on. Snowstorm.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. September 28th, I think Oliver was born.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. 28th.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Man. Golly. It's been two months.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

It's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's been more than that. When this comes out. Multiverse. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw a video, by the way, and it was a side by side, a guy and it was this baby. And the baby, they had a. Like, like a cake for it. And it said one and they were blowing out the candle, and then it was two, and then it was three, but it stayed a baby. And this guy's like, I don't think this baby's aging right.

[Brian Bates]

That's funny.

[Aaron Weber]

And then it was a It was months. Oh.

[Brian Bates]

I thought he'd on purpose, like, try to be funny how his son wasn't.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no. He just.

[Dusty Slay]

For a month is crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. For 12 months. They did 12 months all the way through. Each. Each month they give him a new birthday video. I don't think this baby's aging.

[Dusty Slay]

Ready to up the formula at this point. Yeah, the baby's not getting older.

[Brian Bates]

October 1st, the consumers watched on the Nateland podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Nateland's experience.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. First episode came out yesterday. Yesterday. That episode was the Dunkin Donuts episode. We pick one brand every week and we do a deep dive on it.

[Aaron Weber]

We're about to get a Dunkin Donuts right across the street. No kidding.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's big, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Just Duncan now, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Just Duncan.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You can dunk anything you want now. Doesn't that just have to be donuts?

[Brian Bates]

Yep. Comes out every Tuesday. Every Tuesday. October 5th, Nate hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time. November, Dusty announced he's recording a new special.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true. Yeah. In February. February 29th or 28th. One of the two. There's still still time to get tickets. Yeah, potentially. Now, this is coming out January 1st. It could be sold out, so plenty of tickets.

[Brian Bates]

December. December 19th, Nate's Christmas special came out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep. Rave reviews, assume.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And rave reviews. And then December 24th is. Netflix special came out.

[Dusty Slay]

Bombed. Boom.

[Brian Bates]

That's a big year. There's a lot of milestone moments.

[Dusty Slay]

Huge year.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot going on.

[Dusty Slay]

Nateland's. It's big.

[Brian Bates]

I went back and looked at the first episode of 2024, and you said, it's going to be a big year.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I nailed it. Yeah. And this year is going to slow down a little bit. Just A heads up, 2025 is going to be.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think so. I think 2025 is going to be a big. It's gonna.

[Brian Bates]

I got some predictions.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, go ahead. I'd love to hear it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I'll go ahead and do them now.

[Dusty Slay]

So. Caught off guard.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd like to hear the thing you just introduced.

[Brian Bates]

I know, I know. I was gonna say before the end, but I'll tell him now. All right. Not that you're not already starting to sell out clubs, but you're gonna sell out clubs on a regular basis in 2025.

[Dusty Slay]

Man, that sounds good.

[Brian Bates]

And I made this prediction a few years ago, but I'm gonna double down on it and say it again. You're gonna do your first late night set.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Late night.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Oh, I like that too. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

For you. I feel like the wizard of Oz have now, Gibson, not that you're not already starting to sell out some theaters, but you're going to start regularly, everywhere selling out there.

[Aaron Weber]

And these shows are popping off, but yeah, I appreciate it.

[Brian Bates]

I gotta take it up a notch.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they are popping off.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, I'm doing quite well as.

[Aaron Weber]

It is, so that's what you got to know.

[Brian Bates]

And I think you're new special that you recorded February 28th is going to be acclaimed as one of the best specials of the year.

[Dusty Slay]

Catapult you. Catapult you into the stratosphere.

[Aaron Weber]

Boom.

[Dusty Slay]

That's exciting. Now, Brian, do you want predictions?

[Brian Bates]

Well, let me just say for Nate, Nate's the hardest, because what's left to do?

[Dusty Slay]

What is left to do? Nate runs for senator, host, host, award.

[Aaron Weber]

Show, maybe finally get some posters on the wall for him. What.

[Dusty Slay]

What if you get a photo shoot this year?

[Brian Bates]

What if he wins an Emmy for variety sketch for the Nateland Christmas special?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that would be that.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it a daytime show? I thought Emmys were like prime time Emmys.

[Dusty Slay]

And then there's the daytime.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Pride time. That's usually like SNL and those categories.

[Aaron Weber]

That'd be great.

[Brian Bates]

So he could win for that, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Could win a Grammy too. But that's the level we're at now. Like major awards is the only thing noteworthy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't know. I guess he can start doing stadiums. He's gonna start selling out stadium.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean.

[Brian Bates]

I know, I'm joking.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. But it's been done before. I mean, Kevin Hart did it in Philadelphia.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's been done occasionally.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But Nate's got different energy than Kevin Hart, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

To fill a stadium.

[Brian Bates]

But arenas, I didn't. I mean, I just thought, how's he gonna do that?

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

And they're great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just. Just announces a new tour. I mean, I guess it'll be a month old again when this comes out.

[Dusty Slay]

But big dumb eyes right behind you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So those are my predictions for you guys in 2025.

[Dusty Slay]

I appreciate it. Yeah. What about for you?

[Brian Bates]

The Easier to Drive tour will start getting a little harder.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that.

[Brian Bates]

The Harder to Drive tour.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You can still do it, but it's a little harder.

[Brian Bates]

My favorite. I was thinking about our favorite shows of the year. I think I didn't get to do any shows with you. 2024, Dusty. No, not on the road, at least.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we did shows here at Zany's.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But you know, Matt Price wasn't available, so. To go with us. So he always takes Matt with him whenever we do shows together so he can smoke cigars with him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But my. We got to do shows together in Tacoma. I think that might have been my favorite weekend.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that was fun.

[Brian Bates]

Tacoma. Those shows were great.

[Dusty Slay]

They were fun.

[Brian Bates]

We got new styles.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. Tacoma Comedy Club.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right. Yeah. Chrissy Johnson at Purpose Boutique hooked us up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

My car got towed.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That whole. There's. There's a lot ups and downs. It was a roller coaster of a week.

[Brian Bates]

It was a fun weekend. Then I drove down. After you flew home, I drove down to Portland, did a show down at Helium that went great. It was a fun. Yeah, it's a fun weekend.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a good time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Man, what a year.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you do your Dallas shows when.

[Brian Bates]

This has come out? I did, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I sold out every show.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Standing ovation.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I love it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. December.

[Dusty Slay]

Standing up. Standing O's at this.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I don't. I just say, do you stand out.

[Dusty Slay]

There until it happens?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I go, thank you. And then I run away way.

[Dusty Slay]

No, Dusty goes, thank you. He stands. He walks off, does one of these.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, I don't. I'm not. I don't know. Some people stand up sometimes, but I'm not. I'm not trying to get standing O's.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I just want people to be entertained by my show and then, you know, go on about their life.

[Dusty Slay]

For now, I think once you get the standing O, you're gonna go, this show's a failure if I don't get one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I don't need that for myself.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't need those. You know, I just.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't need theaters for yourself either. But it's nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. If they. Well, theaters. What is nice about a theater is that I'm able to do less shows and. And. And cover more ground. Right. Like, the amount of tickets I sold in Des Moines and the amount of tickets I sold in St. Paul would have been like, if I did five sold out shows. Sold out comedy club.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But that would take three nights. But instead I did it in one night and got to go to another city. So I'm doing in two in one weekend. I'm doing what would take me two weekends. So I'm able to do less shows and I'm able to be home with my family, and that's really great. I get to take my daughter to see live Paw Patrol and that's fun.

[Brian Bates]

Do you think after doing an hour and a half, they might just be standing to stretch their legs.

[Aaron Weber]

Could be. Sometimes I get standing out middle of the show.

[Brian Bates]

Jeez, dude, my back's hurt.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna go clap in the lobby.

[Brian Bates]

Cigarette break.

[Aaron Weber]

But yeah, I mean, I've been. I do about an hour 10. That's pretty. That's pretty much what I do. And it's tight. Sometimes I'll go hour 15, sometimes hour 20. But our 10 is what I like to do. And I'm trying to whittle it down now because I'm getting ready to do the special. So I got to take some stuff out.

[Dusty Slay]

That's fun, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I want to do a bit on dreams. You got to sell any comics that does stuff on dreams.

[Brian Bates]

There's one that does one about Larry Bird.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, that's me. And. But I kind of want to take that out of my current set and prepare a whole dream thing.

[Dusty Slay]

A whole dream hour?

[Aaron Weber]

Not a whole hour, but a bit.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

The last 10 minutes would be something else. Yeah, but why would you take it out if that's what you're building toward?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, because I, you know, I got the special coming up and I already got an hour without that.

[Dusty Slay]

And you could check that out and do more with it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, later. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, so you're not saying get rid of that joke?

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, I'm trying to get. I'm trying to get everything down to an hour.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then I want to, you know, next special, really build a. You guys, end of dreams.

[Dusty Slay]

I've been trying to lucid dream last few nights. I read. Saw a thing on Reddit. I had to do it. Can't do it, but it looks like fun. You ever try it?

[Brian Bates]

We did a dream episode.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you? I used to keep a dream journal.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Were you not here for that episode?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think so.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys did a lot. You guys did a lot of good topics before I joined. A lot of topics now. This was get in on 2024.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty sure.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess I missed it when I waited tables. I would have dreams about waiting tables, being real busy or real behind. And then over the years, it's less so now, but I've had dreams about selling pesticides, and I would have like. I had like 30 stores and the dream would be like, kind of like, oh, I've not been to this store in a long time. I gotta get to this store kind of thing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe I was asleep.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, maybe so. Hey, since it is new Year's I put together Brian Bates's top five country songs about new beginnings.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Number five.

[Aaron Weber]

You did a. A five. You did five?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I did not do honorable.

[Dusty Slay]

Tell us about 18 of them first and then do the top five.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Number five. Welcome to the future. Brad Paisley.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a fun one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I don't know it.

[Brian Bates]

All right, number four. Mine will go a little bit faster. This is my next 30 years. Tim McGrath.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that one. I like that one.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's about, you know, he's made some mistakes in life, but wink, wink, he's going to try to start eating better and do the stuff we always.

[Dusty Slay]

The next 30 years will be different.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then he's become an actor.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So he is a good actor.

[Brian Bates]

He is a good actor.

[Dusty Slay]

Friday Night Lights. You believe he's an abusive dad.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The Blind side.

[Dusty Slay]

You forget that? It's. I forgot he was in that, too. Yeah, he's good. Put him around the football field in a movie, he'll do a good job.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever see the movie Four Christmases?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

He's in that.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Pretty funny character in that, but also at the very beginning, Steve Byrne, comic Here and Nashville. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He and Vince Vaughn are big buddies.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It was fun, huh?

[Brian Bates]

I probably saw that when I didn't even know who Steve was.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Not a great movie, but Steve Burns.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Who's the best. Talking about Tim McGraw. Who's the best singer? That's at acting.

[Dusty Slay]

Gotta be Billy Bob Thornton, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but he was an actor first.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Sorry it's before my time. Old timers.

[Brian Bates]

I barely even knew he singed.

[Aaron Weber]

He has the box masters.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought he was a country singer. That turned whom. I think that's also in the movie with him.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Dwight Yocum.

[Aaron Weber]

Dwight Yoakum.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I like Dwight Yocum as a singer a lot. As an actor, I can only think of a couple of things that he's done that. But he did Sling Blade with Billy Bob Thor.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Character in that is really.

[Dusty Slay]

Wires got crossed.

[Brian Bates]

It was great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Mustard biscuits.

[Aaron Weber]

Who? You know, Kevin Costner also sings. He's also a country singer now, I think to some just.

[Brian Bates]

He's a singer to some degree. Yeah. Yeah. I just thought of one now. It's already escaped me anyway. But, yeah, I was thinking about John Travolta.

[Aaron Weber]

Singer and an actor.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Patrick Swayze also had a hit song, she's like the Wind.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, Eddie Murphy.

[Aaron Weber]

Eddie Murphy.

[Brian Bates]

My girl likes to party all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Billy Ray Cyrus, Hannah Montana's dad.

[Aaron Weber]

But never a great country singer though. Had a huge hit. Huge hit, but never a good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Dwight Yokum was in Wedding Crashers.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he was, yeah. Very beginning.

[Brian Bates]

All right, number three of Brian Bass's top five country songs about New Year's. Maybe next year. Corey Smith.

[Dusty Slay]

Great song. You were getting a Corey Smith, Great.

[Aaron Weber]

Wishing I was 21 stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. He had a song called 21.

[Aaron Weber]

21 is one of the best songs ever. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He is a 45 year old guy singing about high school a lot. But it. When you're in high school, it's pretty great.

[Brian Bates]

Nate would love it, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Maybe next year's a great song. It's the same. Same ideas that next 30 years. Yeah, maybe next year or so I'll act in my age, get a real job, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, but you know, I won't. Deep down, I'm the same old me.

[Brian Bates]

Number two, I've used this song on a previous list that we made, if we make it Through December by Merle Haggard.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a great song.

[Brian Bates]

It's a great song about he just got laid off the factory. Now here comes Christmas and he didn't know how he's going to be able to buy gifts for his little girl. But if we can just make it through December, things will be better.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. But they're not going to be. That's where it gets real hard.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you know, there are some lines that don't make sense. I think I said last time where he says something like, maybe we'll move to a warmer city come summertime. Or something like that. Like, well, every city's warmer. Summertime.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe that's what he means.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe so. But then the next line is maybe California. And I'm like, well, that's not a city.

[Aaron Weber]

But you know this guy that I mentioned, Zephaniah O'Hora I think is his name. He has a. He's very much like Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley at times. Really great country singer. I just found out about him.

[Brian Bates]

Number one song, Brian based Top five country songs about New Year's, New Year's Day by Charlie Robinson.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I like Charlie Robinson. I don't know that I've heard that.

[Brian Bates]

Song, but okay, that is it. I think there's no N in Robinson. Right? Robinson.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, maybe. Okay, I'm thinking about somebody else then.

[Brian Bates]

No, I don't know. All right, that was underwhelming but I'll do that. All right. I got some stuff about 20, 25 we're going into here. All right, so here's some New Year. Well, first of all, do you guys make New Year's resolutions?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't. Not anymore.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I never. I think I did. When you're in school and they make you, you know, write one down on a piece of construction paper. I'll be nicer to my sister. And then. Yeah, you know, maybe you aren't.

[Brian Bates]

What were your old ones? And why'd you stop?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I used to, you know, do the classic, like, I'm gonna quit smoking this year. And, you know, and he did it eventually. Yeah. But I. I quit. And, you know, like, January, at the end of January, one time, my final time.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I would. You know, I would buy in the new year. Yeah. I'd buy it. You know, I'd smoke a ton of them on New Year's, and I'd be like, I'm gonna smoke so much that I won't even be able to smoke tomorrow. And then I'll give it up. And then I would just dip January.

[Dusty Slay]

3Rd to get a cigarette.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think we mentioned this on our calendars episode. The reason January 1st is New Year's Day. It was declared that by Pope Gregory. He established January 1st as official New Year's Day in 1582. Before that, New Year was celebrated spring.

[Aaron Weber]

Very often, and that's the real New Year's. In spring, when. When things are in bloom and life is coming back around, that makes more sense to me.

[Brian Bates]

I agree. It does make more sense.

[Aaron Weber]

It's the. It's. It's a time of, you know, new growth, new birth.

[Dusty Slay]

How do you two visualize the year in your head? If you've got the year mapped out in your head, what does it look like to you?

[Aaron Weber]

I think April 1st is New Year's.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Okay. So yours is going to look a little different than mine.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't understand what you're asking.

[Dusty Slay]

But you don't visualize the year at all in your head as you. Like, as Brian just walked us through it? Like, what does that look like to you? Is it moving top to bottom, bottom to top, left to right? Are they broken into groups? Or do you think about the four seasons and quadrants? Like, how does it look in your head?

[Brian Bates]

I think it. My. My Google map. I mean, not map, Google Maps, but my. My calendar on my. If. If you do it, I do mine by month. So I think I think in months.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, maybe because of that, but the months in relation to each other, what does it look like? Is it like a 4 by 3 grid of months and you're snaking through it or what? Because I think everybody does it, but it's not like it's. Everybody does it a little differently in their head.

[Brian Bates]

I don't. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Mine's just straight. January on the left, December on the right. And I'm just moving left to right. And that's how I visualize the whole year. Like that. And maybe above that you can see the. The seasons, but that's how I visualize it. But not everybody does that.

[Brian Bates]

But you do a lot of editing on a line like that, right? Like I'm old school calendar. So I'm used to just flipping one month at a time.

[Dusty Slay]

Interesting. So you think of them like behind each other, like a calendar?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. See, that's fun. You don't think about this at all.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd never have thought about this at all. But I. I like it.

[Dusty Slay]

But access your brain right now. How are you visualizing?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. Now I can see both. Now I see what you're talking about, but I also see what you're talking about. I can visually see the. The. You know, you. It's like a calendar that you tear off. It doesn't flip. It tears.

[Dusty Slay]

Each day.

[Aaron Weber]

Each day falls. As you move through that day's gone. Burns up. There's no past.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I never thought of it that way, but that's how I see it. Music's playing. The things are tearing off.

[Dusty Slay]

Like post it notes, like getting pulled off day by day.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Like a calendar where it has two little things and. And those things are attached and it just tears off. We're zipping through the year.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Okay. So when you think about the future, you think about going through that deeper in the pile.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

And that life, your whole life, is just a giant pile. And then as you get towards the end, it just gets real thin. Like. Like an old person's skin just gets real thin. You can start to see the veins in there, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And then what do you do with it?

[Aaron Weber]

And then that last piece of paper tears off and it slowly drifts like a feather. And when it hits, you hope that it lifts up into the sky and not burns away.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Like the end of Forrest Gump. Just a feather blowing in the wind. Yeah, that's beautiful. Yeah, that's beautiful.

[Aaron Weber]

And you. And you ask your. You ask Your baby's mom. Is he's. Is he smart or is he like me?

[Dusty Slay]

He's very smart. He's top of his class.

[Aaron Weber]

And then you cry a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

I have a joke while I talk about my daughter didn't grow any hair for the long time. I frightened. I'm like, is she follically.

[Dusty Slay]

Is she going to have hair or is she. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I do set New Year's resolutions now.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I agree with you. Or anyway, if you got something you need to fix in your life, just go ahead and fix it. Don't wait till January 1st. I agree with that, of course. But I also do do the things where like, man, I shouldn't be eating all this, but New Year's is three weeks away. I'll just.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I do that, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you need benchmarks?

[Brian Bates]

Benchmarks. So I'll just. I do pink. So I break it down. Three categories for me. And I write this in my journal, which I do every day at the beginning. Personal journal.

[Aaron Weber]

Every day.

[Dusty Slay]

He does for years. He has. That's how he knows all these facts and stuff. I like down in his journal. Dusty's boss played for the Buffalo bills in the 60s. And Grissom, Sue Barber.

[Brian Bates]

Who's Stu Grissom? Comic.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. Marquis Grissom. Baseball player.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But that is. There is some true. Like, all of his birthday. I'm like. Because most of this I could just find by looking at. I'm like, I know it's late September. I looked at my journal.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Oh, that's great.

[Aaron Weber]

I wish that I had been doing that. I got old journals that I can dig through and it's really fun to read. Embarrassing, but really fun to read. And I got journals from when I used to drink. And it's like, you know, sometimes I would write in it when I was drunk. And you could really see when I was drunk based on the handwriting.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I bet. Because you would do it when you got home that night.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's fun. In fact, I started, Aaron. January 1st, 1995.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

So 30 years ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Today.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. It was a New Year's resolution to start journaling.

[Brian Bates]

I just thought, you know, what's a new year? That'd be a good time to start. And I started January 1st.

[Aaron Weber]

And how long do you write? What do you.

[Brian Bates]

Not. Not much. Just. I just write.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't talk about your feelings.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Just facts of the day.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Stuff that happened. It really helps me, like, come tax time. Different things that, you know, you're filling in the blanks on some stuff. But I write down for goals. I write down some personal goals, some professional goals, some spiritual goals.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And then I write down some things for each one. One. And problem is, I don't go back and revisit it as much as I should because they say you write it down, never look again, you're just going to forget it. But if it's in your face, you're more likely to maybe try to do it.

[Aaron Weber]

So maybe that's how you view your timeline, as your journal.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. There's probably some truth to that.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But that's always going in the past. I don't know. You might. You might be right. But anyway, so that's what I do with my goals.

[Dusty Slay]

I love it.

[Brian Bates]

All right. So the most common New Year's resolution, obviously, is eating better and exercising. Those kind of go hand in hand, but that's by far the most. Some other.

[Aaron Weber]

My, you know, my mom, they like to eat turnip greens and black eyed peas.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And they say, brings you good luck.

[Aaron Weber]

It's supposed to give you good luck and some wealth or whatever. And my mom was talking to me about it, and I wanted to make the joke. I wanted to go, how's that working out? But I didn't.

[Dusty Slay]

It's working out for you. Maybe that's what it is.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's about the next generation.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. She cares more about you than herself.

[Aaron Weber]

That's probably true.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So it is working out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's hard to ruin the good times.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. No, no.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They say we all say this. I think we feel it every year. The years go by faster and faster as you get older. I mean, you feel that way. Yeah, I think we all do.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. But.

[Brian Bates]

But there is some truth to that in the sense that my daughter, who's not quite three this last year, has been a third of her life, where it's been 1 53rd of my life.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

So when you look at it that way, your perspective on life. Yeah. It's going to fill it.

[Aaron Weber]

And there are also all these milestones that you're trying to get to. Right. Like when you're a kid, you're like, you're about to reach the double digits in age, and then you're. You're like kindergarten. And then every grade distinguishes. Yeah. And then you're like a teenager, and then you get your learner's permit, then your driver's license, and you're 18. You're a. You're able to, you know, be an adult and, you know, Buy cigarettes. And in. In a lot of places except Alabama. And then you are 21 now you can drink, and then you're 25, and you can rent a car. And then after that, that's it. You got your third RP. You got 30, you got 40. You know, you got the decades.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, every. When you're a kid, it's broken up by school years. It's distinguished, and then you get a job. And this happened to me. A decade could just go by. You're like, what happened?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

When I turned 40, I made a goal to do something special each year for myself, to kind of distinguish that year. Now I've kind of got a little wax in that.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I think about that too. And my 20s was really spent drinking.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then my 30s, I quit drinking. And then. So I had a, you know, a decade of sobriety, like, because I quit drinking at 29. And then at 39, I had my daughter. And then I was turned 40 a week later. So, know, it's like, my 20s, I was drinking all the time. My 30s, I was sober and building a comedy career. And then my 40s, I'm a parent.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, it's great. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I can't remember the specifics, but there is some. There is some science about. Your brain only processes time insofar as you're experiencing new things. So as you do get older, you're experiencing fewer and fewer new things. So things start to go. Start to go faster.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I have this spreadsheet of every show I've ever done. You know, I've done 103 shows with you, Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

103.

[Aaron Weber]

That's amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a lot, right?

[Brian Bates]

I thought you were about to say, I've done 103 shows. I would have guessed more. I've done with Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Scroll back up a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

This is booked shows. This is shows That's. That aren't open mics.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that. That.

[Dusty Slay]

So I've just.

[Aaron Weber]

Wahanigans in Tuscaloosa. You had a note in there, ended up not doing the show, got paid anyway. That was good.

[Dusty Slay]

You remember that?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. We left.

[Dusty Slay]

Best night of comedy of all time. We drove down there, show up to the venue, look around. We thought, this is gonna be a nightmare.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It was a really bad college bar.

[Dusty Slay]

Hundreds of kids in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, not even a stage.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they just. The owner comes out and goes, I don't really feel like doing the show. Paid us. We went and got sushi and then drove Home.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

We actually went to the Laughing Skull Festival the next day.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, my goodness. Okay. I think we drove back to Nashville.

[Aaron Weber]

Because it's like, that was. You know, I had a great time and I could care less, but in a lot of ways, a personal low when you show up to a venue and no one has showed, so they have to cancel the show. But then we went to Laughing Skull the next day, and that's where I met Jeff Singer, I met Michael Cox, and so I got JFL off the Laughing Skull and I got the Tonight show off of that, and that started a lot. So that that weekend began with no one showing to my show at all and ended with some really great things.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And 54 shows with you, Brian, if you're curious.

[Aaron Weber]

54, 103 shows. You're done with me. Amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I wonder who the most is. Probably.

[Brian Bates]

That's a very impressive spreadsheet.

[Dusty Slay]

163 with John Chris.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

So that's probably the most Nate I've done. 67.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

That includes just, like, Zany's where he shows up.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw another one on there, a couple of those. That Traverse City gig that we did, that was a particularly bad gig.

[Dusty Slay]

That was at a Louie Louie Kitchen and Bar.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, it was a bad one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So this is fun. This is almost like a journal.

[Aaron Weber]

But that. That run that we did there was really good. The Minong Comedy Club. That's where I made a video about that. There's a YouTube video of us doing.

[Dusty Slay]

All those gigs of that weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I forgot.

[Brian Bates]

There's some names on there I've not thought of in a while or seen in a while.

[Dusty Slay]

Like who?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I don't want them to know I haven't thought about them, so I'm not gonna say nays.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But that. That Dublin Irish pub is where that lady gave you the tag etiquette.

[Dusty Slay]

That's where etiquette comes from.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And that's where Minong was, where all.

[Dusty Slay]

My beef jerky stuff comes from. That. That minang gig, the Sault Ste.

[Aaron Weber]

Marie Cuba Den Casino. That's a really bad gig.

[Dusty Slay]

I've started saying when I tell that story, if. If there are enough natling people, I go, hey, fun fact. Dusty Slay was on that show too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Really derails the story. So I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna stop saying that.

[Aaron Weber]

But the. That. That Minong. I got my camera set up, and it's in the video. I have my camera set up filming you. Or maybe it's filming me. I don't know. But the lady comes and closes the door. Right. Right in between the camera and the sage.

[Dusty Slay]

That's great. So great.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that is fun. That's. Yeah, that's really cool that you have all that. Yeah, it's very.

[Dusty Slay]

I hid the useful. The pay column. But that's fun to look at too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I bet. All right. Some New Year's resolutions that listed drinking less alcohol. Dusty's already talked about that. Being a morning person, is that something you think you can do?

[Dusty Slay]

Isn't that like a personality trait or is that a choice?

[Brian Bates]

I always thought of it as personality trait, but I know people who've forced themselves. I don't know if they're morning people, but they at least have trained themselves to.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I guess it's a choice in that you can go to bed early and wake and then you're well rested and get up. Yeah, I choose to go to bed late every night. I'm staying up till three every night. But that's been my last.

[Aaron Weber]

Because of. Because of a baby. Your baby? Not just a baby. Your baby.

[Dusty Slay]

Just some random kid.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So I do the midnight feed and I do the 3am feed. Then I go to bed and then I wake up a little after nine. I'm getting six hours on and off. About six hours.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, let's talk about this Greenbrier show. You remember that we. Me and. I'm sorry, this list is just right in front of me and it's bringing back a. All these memories.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's what's fun about this. You forget about these shows.

[Aaron Weber]

The Greenbrier is in West Virginia. A really, really nice casino. Like really nice. And I got there super early in the day and I got. They took me. They let me hang out in the kitchen and they made me food.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm with Dusty this whole time, by the way.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Were you. Were you with me in the kitchen?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. We had to eat down with the.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought we drove separately and I got there a little before you.

[Dusty Slay]

No, we had to eat with the peons downstairs.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And then we. We. I watched a magic show. We watched that little bit of a magic show.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then they took us out and there was a DJ there and we were going to perform where the DJ booth is. And they had a. People were dancing out there and we asked the dj, we go, hey, do you mind, you know, doing a little announcement, like a five minute thing just to say, hey, we're gonna do some comedy here in a bit DJ comes.

[Dusty Slay]

Out, very buddy, buddy. He's like, yeah, we're gonna do. It's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. Don't worry about it. It. Dusty goes, all right, well, can you please just make an announcement? Because they're. It's like a nightclub.

[Aaron Weber]

They're really dancing in there, having a.

[Dusty Slay]

Really great time, and I'm opening for Dusty. So he goes, can you please just get. Hey, we're going to do a comedy show in about 10 minutes. He goes, I got you. I got you.

[Aaron Weber]

No problem. Yeah, we're going to do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Acted like this was absurd to even bring up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And then he didn't do it. There were people dancing on the floor. And he just goes, all right, now we're going to do some comedy. Let's get into the first comedy.

[Dusty Slay]

Fade the song out. Just stopped it and goes, we got a comedy show. Aaron Weber. And so then I got to walk out and explain to them I'm not the main guy.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, there was no intro. Worst way to be brought up.

[Aaron Weber]

We both bombed.

[Dusty Slay]

I bombed so bad.

[Aaron Weber]

We both bombed. And then immediately when the show was over, the guy who had been so nice to us the whole time very politely escorted us right out of the property.

[Dusty Slay]

He goes, give us those jackets back. Yeah, you got to get at it here, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was a very nice place. Yeah, we had to wear jackets, didn't we? Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So I'm wearing a jacket and a trucker hat. And. And then we got. And it was so cold, and we. They kicked us right out. And then we had to get in the car and drive to Charleston, West Virginia, to sleep.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Long weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Anyway, for that, we did the Cary Theater in downtown Cary, North Carolina, which was very nice, too. And that. Oh, that was the show where I sold the merch and I sold one CD and the guy wanted 10%. He took $1 from it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's such a great story.

[Dusty Slay]

So crazy.

[Brian Bates]

That's. That's good enough. You could. I feel like you could tell as a joke.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just tell that story.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I should. Yeah, it's a good idea.

[Dusty Slay]

Out of your merch bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Somebody write that down.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. So drinking more water, taking care of your teeth.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That's a choice. That's not a personality trait.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Going to the dentist when you're supposed to. That's kind of the same thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Supposed to. I guess people cancel every six months or something.

[Brian Bates]

Supposed to go every six months. I had a few years where I Didn't go.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I don't think I. I had to go because I need a root canal. But I haven't been just to go.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Dusty Slay]

Since I no longer live with my parents, I'm not doing that on my own.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The dentist is a bit of a scam. I believe that the dentist has a purpose, you know, but this whole. Twice a year, that's a business model, just.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, of course it is. Of course that. That's what it is. But they're not. It's not like they're pretending to operate on my teeth.

[Aaron Weber]

No, but I'm saying a bit of a scam. If you need dental work done. Yeah. I mean, they're there to help you. As a guy who's had a lot of dental work done, I can attest that you need it sometimes. But.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, cleaning every six months. I'm sure you go nine months, but.

[Aaron Weber]

I go six years or so. Well, clean my. I clean my own teeth.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I. I'm sure you don't clean them well enough.

[Dusty Slay]

You fill your own cavities, Put on your own crown.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I pack some stuff.

[Brian Bates]

But I was your age, Aaron.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I had a long period where I didn't go. And then when I went, man, it was tough, Right. Because they had a lot of.

[Dusty Slay]

Because you'd put it off for so long.

[Brian Bates]

And then after that, I'm like, I'm gonna stay regular so I don't have to do this again.

[Aaron Weber]

I like to get it all done at one time.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Fill all the cavities. Let's just do it. Let's make a day of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That's how they do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's don't come every six months.

[Dusty Slay]

That's how they do it.

[Brian Bates]

But if you go every six months, there's much better chance that cavities will come.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. See, that's what I'm saying. I don't trust. I don't think the dentist is keeping you from getting cavities.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, no, I don't think they are either, but they're identifying them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And treating them as quickly as possible.

[Brian Bates]

But you're right. I mean, that's the way we eat and do things and clean our own teeth are going to be the biggest factor.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. But Spike, cleaning your car, I'm not even sure what that means, but I.

[Aaron Weber]

Guess I think maybe a little bit at a time, instead of. Instead of filling up your floor, instead.

[Dusty Slay]

Of letting the trash pile up, instead of not going to the dentist for nine Years. You do it when there's a problem.

[Aaron Weber]

Each time I go to the gas station, that's what I do. I go to the Gap and I dump all the trash. And, you know, I try to do it more than that. I used to have a really filthy car. When I drank a lot, my car was really bad.

[Brian Bates]

That's funny. It's the one thing I keep clean is my car.

[Dusty Slay]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, my car's a. I had a. I made a tea, and I accidentally spilled it all in my car this morning, and it's a real mess.

[Brian Bates]

Well, since I've had a daughter, my back seat's pretty. Pretty bad. But as far as just random trash and stuff, I try to get it out every day, being kind on social media.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go, Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'm kind, but I'll come at you.

[Brian Bates]

But you don't start it.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I just, you know, I just. A lot of times I like to read comments on this podcast, and I just. I want to know what people are thinking about stuff. And then I. You know, and I go through. And I can, you know, I'll read something and I'll go, okay. And then all of a sudden, I come across something, and I'm like, whoa, buddy, take it easy. Yeah, it's a lot, you know, and then I have to come in on them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And then practicing breathing exercises.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I like to do that. I don't do that enough, but I don't think we focus on deep breaths enough. And you should do a lot of deep breaths in and out through your nose. Helps detox your body, they say. Okay, I don't think we. As. You know, I feel like as a society, we don't really breathe deep enough. You know? Like, you ever sit around and take a deep breath in through your nose and see how deep you can breathe in?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you should, though, because that. You gotta expand all the lungs.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You phrase that. You ever sit around like, all right, let's go into the living room to breathe.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then everybody walks in there and just does it together. It felt good.

[Aaron Weber]

It did.

[Dusty Slay]

It did feel good.

[Aaron Weber]

It does feel good. Yeah. Put a little eucalyptus right on your mustache. And then deep breathe. Oh, man. Yeah, it's like a real cool. It's a real cooling thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Feels good. You ever do that? You don't have a mustache.

[Brian Bates]

No, I did during COVID You did for a minute.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good look.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Then I got just a few things for 2025. Things are happening this year.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I argued again. I just saw the video, started 2024. I argued that more stuff happens during even month years than odd month years. You guys shut me down pretty quick. You pointed out 9, 11, and stuff like that. But Covid was 2020, right. There's always presidential elections on even years.

[Dusty Slay]

Olympics, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Cicadas. I don't know about that, but stuff like that. Odd years, not so much now.

[Aaron Weber]

You're probably right. We're just, you know, making fun of you. But, yeah, you know, probably make a great point.

[Brian Bates]

I really couldn't find a whole lot for 2025 that. I mean, this is space stuff, so Dusty's not even going to believe any of it, but January 22nd. So this is pretty soon Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn will all align in the sky.

[Dusty Slay]

Straight up. Like, behind each other?

[Brian Bates]

No, I think like a straight line across.

[Aaron Weber]

I believe that happens. Those are just called wandering stars, though. You know what I mean? They're. They're, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

But. Right. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

They're just kind of in the.

[Brian Bates]

But you think they can tell when those stars will wander?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think so. You know, they're like beings. They're entities.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That have, you know, disobeyed God.

[Dusty Slay]

How do we know when they're going to be?

[Brian Bates]

Are you serious?

[Dusty Slay]

How do we know when they're going to be, where they are? Because we can do it pretty accurately.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Thousands of years ahead of time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. We can know when the eclipse is coming. Like, how do we know all that? It's all based on, you know, geometry.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know how they know.

[Dusty Slay]

Trigonometry.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. That happens to line up.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe they have communication with, you know, satanic beings.

[Brian Bates]

Who, NASA?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's a great question, Aaron. Glad you brought that up. There's a subreddit starting right now, right now, on Reddit. Somebody's starting a new.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they scratch their neck beard. Then they yell up to their mom, I'm on Reddit all the time.

[Brian Bates]

September 2025. Yep, this has already been delayed. NASA is going to launch Artemis 2. First crew mission around the moon in a while. Then Artemis 3 is the one that's supposed to land on the moon.

[Dusty Slay]

Manned. It's a man mission around the moon. That's exciting.

[Aaron Weber]

Why do they always name the things after, like, these Greek gods?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, it's great, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Why do they do it, you think?

[Dusty Slay]

What are they supposed. What do you want them to call it, Ralph? I mean, it's got to have a Powerful name, dude. Apollo, Gemini. Right. Those are powerful names too. And all the planets are named after those things too.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. Why do you think that is?

[Dusty Slay]

Because that's just. That's just.

[Brian Bates]

That's because.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, what do you want them to be named? Because I worship 4, 3, 2, 1.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Like think about, like, they've been named that for a long time, right? So who, like, so they were naming the planets after these gods. Gods. Or were they naming these gods after the planets?

[Brian Bates]

No, I think the gods came first.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Gods came first. And the, and the constellations, they draw them up and, you know. Yeah, because that was the.

[Brian Bates]

In the days.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm just asking.

[Brian Bates]

Weeks, the months, the year. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But the, but the days and you know, like the days, I mean, they have pretty mundane names.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Monday, Tuesday, it's like they're not power, powerful names.

[Brian Bates]

Sundays for the sun, which you're all aboard. Mondays for the moon. And then the other ones I do think are like Saturdays for Saturn, Wednesdays for the wind. I don't know what wizzy is, but I think they're probably.

[Aaron Weber]

How do you think Wednesday spelled the way it is?

[Dusty Slay]

Wedness.

[Aaron Weber]

Wednes day.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I'm not happy about it. Yeah, I get mad every time I have to spell.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Dusty Slay]

I always spot wedness day in my head.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So anyway, Artemis, Artemis 2 is supposed to go later this year and then. I haven't even heard of this company. They're called Vast Vast space and they're American aerospace company in California. And their goal is to make a commercial space station. You know, the International Space Station is going away, but they're going to make this new space station where even private citizens could go.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay. Just anybody can hop in there.

[Brian Bates]

Well, if you're a billionaire or a scientist.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'll find a way up.

[Aaron Weber]

So. So still not open to the general public then?

[Brian Bates]

The rich general public? Probably at first.

[Dusty Slay]

But then in the same way that Mount Everest is not open to the general public, you know, take some resources to get there.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, I guess. I don't know. I'm not interested in mountain climbing, but I would like to, I would, you know, let's get a poor space station. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

But any, I guess, major invention at first, only the rich could do it.

[Dusty Slay]

What I'm saying is there's not. It's not a toll road to get to space, but there it does require resources.

[Aaron Weber]

How about we do an experiment where we say, hey, you know, we don't know how good this is going to work, but if you'd like to volunteer, we'll let you in this so you can see how it goes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Homeless in space.

[Dusty Slay]

And would it. Is there a person you would trust? What? They said that went up there, only you, or it would have to be you?

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, no. I wouldn't trust any of them, but I'd like to.

[Dusty Slay]

What's the point of the experience?

[Aaron Weber]

No, but I mean, you know, if you're homeless and you're like, man, I sure would like to get off this street. And they're like, hey, we got an experiment for you.

[Dusty Slay]

How'd you like to go the farthest away from the street?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think that that's. I think that's. I don't know the word, but I.

[Dusty Slay]

Don'T know if I get the point of this, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, why should only the rich get to go to space?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, they like what Jeff Bezos is doing now with Blue Origin, where he sends people up on the edge of space, you know, for your waitlist, whatever. There was a doctor. I mean, sure, I'm sure he's still wealthy, but from Vanderbilt. They got to go based on not just his money, but other qualifications.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you have to say about it?

[Brian Bates]

He loved it, so he had a great time.

[Aaron Weber]

What about those people that were trapped in the space station? Are they still up there? They get. Are they. They never got down.

[Brian Bates]

I think February's the target. Go.

[Aaron Weber]

Seems like we could.

[Brian Bates]

And then he's going to come on the podcast and tell you what's up.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't wait. Why. Why do you think they can't just go get them?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I think we talked about that.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that was a while back. I even forgot about them. Up.

[Dusty Slay]

Go get them. Go get them how, though?

[Brian Bates]

Send a rocket.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Lasso them down. I mean, they're hard to get.

[Brian Bates]

I think there are no more space shuttles, so we're using private companies.

[Aaron Weber]

Elon Musk, like, landing spaceship. Like he's.

[Brian Bates]

That's who. That's what we're taking to go get him, I believe. But he already had planned to go at a certain time, so I guess they're sticking to that plan. I don't know. I'm sure there's. Well, I don't know the reasons why they're waiting so long, but I hope. I don't think you can just go like that.

[Aaron Weber]

I hope when they do it, they'll put A camera on there and. And. Because what I'd like to see is a spaceship take off and then go into space. Like, I'd like to see it go through the atmosphere.

[Dusty Slay]

Right, right.

[Aaron Weber]

That'd be fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then, like, orbit the Earth and then we can get, like, cellular service from it.

[Aaron Weber]

How amazing would that be if it went out of the. Of this. Of the atmosphere and then, like, you can point the camera down and the Earth is just. That'd be wild, huh?

[Brian Bates]

That way, however. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Depending on what side you come out of, I guess.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It wouldn't be spitting like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Depending on what side. I mean, if you come out, like, right off Mexico, it would kind of be spinning like that. You know what I mean? If you come off in it.

[Dusty Slay]

I do know what you mean.

[Aaron Weber]

You come out of the. What if. What if you come out the Arctic, you know, I'd be spinning like this. But if you come out, you know, Mexico, depending on how you do it.

[Dusty Slay]

But you'd be spinning with it, you think?

[Aaron Weber]

Even just right. Like, how far do you have to get away before you can see it spin?

[Dusty Slay]

It's not a. It's not a. It's not a distance. It's. So there's trying to think of where.

[Aaron Weber]

To start so you never can see it spin.

[Dusty Slay]

If you stay there long enough. You can see it spin if you stay in one fixed point.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. But if you're orbiting the Earth. You're orbiting the Earth.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but we're not gonna. I'm not talking about orbiting, and I'm talking about coming out.

[Brian Bates]

Put on the mercy break.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Coming out and just stopping.

[Aaron Weber]

How far do you have to get before you can get out of the Earth's orbit?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, far. Right?

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I'm asking, you mean, if.

[Brian Bates]

You'Re on the moon, could you see it?

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe the moon's not even far enough.

[Brian Bates]

Well, the moon also.

[Dusty Slay]

The moon's locked. Tidally locked, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm saying I think that'd be fun to see, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it would be.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd like to see it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah, it would. It would be fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Just see it whipping around. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Satellites all out there. You're dodging. It's like a Star wars episode.

[Brian Bates]

Would you go to space if they offered it to you?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I hope that happens.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, me too.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm trying to go. I'm trying to talk about it so much that NASA goes, you know what? Let's just take this guy shut.

[Brian Bates]

This guy's a problem.

[Dusty Slay]

Send him up there.

[Aaron Weber]

Take him up there.

[Brian Bates]

You're playing the long game, and then.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to go. Oh, that's cool, man.

[Dusty Slay]

You want to go. I was wrong about everything.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Pretty great up there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I don't even. I mean, I believe it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm. I'm just, you know, I'm just joking around with you guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Of course. Of course. We're having fun. We're having fun. We're having fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I want to ride a star. I want to lasso a star.

[Dusty Slay]

Ride a star. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I wanted to end on those predictions for you guys, so it'd be something upbeat, but we already did.

[Dusty Slay]

No, this. I think it's very upbeat. I think it's going to be a great year.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel very positive.

[Brian Bates]

What show?

[Aaron Weber]

I do feel good. I'll be honest with you. I was. I thought the world might end during the eclipse, and I thought Covid would never go away.

[Brian Bates]

And the election.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And. Yeah, I thought it'd be mass riots out here, and it all feels good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm very positive.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

It feels good. You know what I mean? I feel good.

[Dusty Slay]

This year's about to be a train wreck.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel good. You know, we're a quarter of the way through the smash cut to chaos that it'd be. It would be funny, though, when this episode comes out, things have already fallen apart.

[Brian Bates]

Take some heat off me for killing people.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So you've got. I mean, every show you're looking forward to, but February 28th. Especially February 28th.

[Aaron Weber]

But, yeah, this is going to be coming out, and then my first show of the new year, I'm gonna. I. I got the first two weeks off, unless something comes up. But. But my first one. January 17th, Birmingham, Alabama. I've not performed in Birmingham in years and years, and I don't have the theater here in the Alabama Theater.

[Dusty Slay]

The Lyric.

[Aaron Weber]

The Lyric is unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

Great venue.

[Aaron Weber]

And then January 18th, I'm in Pensacola, Florida, doing another theater, and, you know, and I'm. I'm pumped about it.

[Dusty Slay]

That's awesome, man.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I'm not. I don't get to do a lot in Alabama, and so I'm hoping a lot of my, you know, Alabama friends are able to make it to the show.

[Brian Bates]

But do you have any shows that you want to mention that you're already pumped for, for 2025? I mean, I know you're excited about all of them.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, festivals or any. You might just want to wait until they get close.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, you know, February 28th, I'm very excited about. That's my special taping. It's going to be great. But I am excited about all them. I'm going to Fresno, California. I'm going to Boise, Idaho, February 21st. Never been to Idaho. There's only a few states that I've not been to in the lower 48. I mean, I guess you could. You know, I don't know that I'll be making it to Hawaii. But would you go? I would go, I think, but I don't know. There's been no offers for Hawaii.

[Brian Bates]

But if they offered, would you go?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, maybe.

[Brian Bates]

So what's the hesitancy?

[Aaron Weber]

I'd like my kids to be a little older because I'd like my whole family to go.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Okay. I was just making sure you didn't think that was some fake place.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, I. You know, I. I like Hawaii.

[Dusty Slay]

It's out there. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. But, you know, my dad has been married four times, Right. And my dad took his first three wives to Hawaii, and then they got divorced. So he refuses to take his current wife to Hawaii. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

John Reeb got.

[Dusty Slay]

What is he doing in Hawaii?

[Aaron Weber]

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

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's just all downhill from there. It's so beautiful. That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Come back to Alabama, maybe.

[Brian Bates]

So what about you, Aaron? Any, like. And I guess I'm asking, like, for 20, 25, anything big that you're looking forward to, the whole run.

[Dusty Slay]

Go to a lot of cities I've never gone to before. Detroit. I'm going back to Boston. I love Boston. Like, I got some cities lined up that, like, you look at the calendar. And I was like, man, this is. It's gonna be a fun, fun first few months. So not. Not one show in particular, but, like, the whole run of it. I'm pretty pumped about.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's how I feel, too. I am doing some Canadian shows. I've not done a lot in Canada. I'm going out to, like, the west coast of Canada, Vancouver and other place, and I'm doing Toronto.

[Brian Bates]

And so then your family can go to that, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Hopefully, you know, Hannah will be able to go and her family will be able to come down and see that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's exciting.

[Dusty Slay]

Good deal.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And Nate just announced his tour, and he's doing some European dates again.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Amsterdam, he's doing France.

[Dusty Slay]

What about you, Brian? You know, you ask all the questions. Yeah, I'd like to reciprocate a little bit. What are you excited about?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I got. I'm the same as you. I got a lot of shows that I've never been places ever been excited about that? They're a little bit more off the map than the average place. But I don't know. I'm excited about all of them.

[Aaron Weber]

But.

[Brian Bates]

But January 3rd and 4th this weekend I'm at Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky. I love Broadway. Go. Try to go to Kentucky. Basketball game.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I've never been to basketball game.

[Brian Bates]

Try to do that. That's January 3rd and 4th. Then January 11th, I'm at the workshop in Fort Myers, Florida.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Never heard of that. But Fort Myers is great.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. I think it might. I might be the first comedy show they've ever done.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So I'm gonna break that in February. See, I think I'm skipping one here.

[Aaron Weber]

I did a club called Belushi's in Fort Myers.

[Dusty Slay]

John.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Or Jim.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's Jim.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Jim.

[Aaron Weber]

It was above a restaurant called the Tilted Kilt. I know you know about that. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, sir.

[Brian Bates]

So anyway, that's January 11th. Skip back to me. January 11th at the workshop. And January 25th, I'm doing the Honest Fox Comedy Fest in Marietta, Georgia.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of fun comics on that.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that the social media company?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, cool.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Dustin Nickers is doing it. Stephen Rogers.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And then January 31st, I'm at Stardome in Hoover, Alabama.

[Dusty Slay]

I love it.

[Brian Bates]

Stardome.

[Aaron Weber]

When are you there?

[Brian Bates]

January 31st.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, just two weeks after I'm in Birmingham. That's exciting.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Birmingham Takeover.

[Brian Bates]

Well, if you could mention me while you're on stage, mention my show. I appreciate it. So all these shows in January, I'm excited about fun places, big time.

[Aaron Weber]

It is fun. Let me. I'd like to ask this to this guy about the ad reads. Yeah. When Gary Seinfeld, when Aaron asked Brian about his dates, did it feel like an ad read because he was talking to a friend?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

All right. So this weekend, you're aware.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, nowhere this weekend I'm off, I'm relaxing. But January 17th, be my first show of the new year. Unless something. Yeah. Things could get added in. But I'll be at the Lyric Theater in Birmingham, Alabama.

[Dusty Slay]

Beautiful.

[Aaron Weber]

And then Pensacola, Florida.

[Brian Bates]

And then. When does your start, Aaron?

[Dusty Slay]

January 17th and 18th, I'm in Detroit, Michigan, the House of Comedy. And then I got a Texas run at the end of the month. San Antonio Austin, Texas, doing the Creek in the Cave headline on all weekend. Rounding things off at Houston. Houston, Texas.

[Brian Bates]

Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Big month coming out.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. Yep. All right. That's it, Nate. I think we'll be back next week and big time, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Big time. Big time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, that'll be the second week of January, so I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'm going to guess Nate's going to be back next week and 2025 is going to be a great year.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

We thank everyone who supported us in 2024. Thank you for sticking with us. It's going to be. Nate's gonna be shooting some movies in 2025.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So things just keep getting bigger. All right, thanks so much, folks. We love you.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you. It's not lost on us.

[Aaron Weber]

We're having a good time.

[Dusty Slay]

Go Irish.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargett, 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.

[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

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