236: #236 Gravity, Weight Loss & A Dash of High School

Summary

The Nateland Podcast - Episode #236: Gravity, Weight Loss & A Dash of High School

Release Date: January 22, 2025

Hosted by Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay, Episode 236 of The Nateland Podcast delves into a mix of personal challenges, high school nostalgia, and behind-the-scenes updates from the hosts' professional lives. Below is a comprehensive summary capturing the key discussions, insights, and humorous exchanges from the episode.

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1. Weight Loss Challenge: Brian Bates' Ambitious Bet

Initiating the Challenge: Brian Bates kicks off the episode by unveiling a personal challenge centered around weight loss. At [12:39], Brian shares his intention to reduce his body fat percentage from 36% to 20% within six months. This significant goal not only aims to improve his health and confidence but also to ensure he looks fit for upcoming performances and potential movie roles.

The Stakes: The bet introduces a playful yet high-stakes consequence. If Brian fails to meet his target, he commits to eating 100 donuts. The humorous nature of the bet is highlighted at [15:29] when Brian explains, "If I can get to 20%, the bet was then Eric has to eat 36 donuts in 24 hours." This sets the stage for engaging interactions and potential comedic scenarios as the hosts discuss strategies and support mechanisms to help Brian achieve his goal.

Listener Involvement: Brian encourages listener participation, suggesting that fans can help Brian by "taking donuts off Eric's plate." This interactive element aims to foster community engagement and adds an amusing layer to the challenge.

Notable Quotes:

• Brian Bates [15:10]: "My goal for the new year is to take better care of myself and do it and do that. I just keep using my AG1."
• Dusty Slay [16:01]: "Yeah, 50 donuts. It's like, five a day. That's a pretty good week, I think."

2. High School Memories and Reunions

Reflecting on High School: The conversation shifts to high school experiences, reunions, and associated anecdotes. Brian reminisces about his alma mater, Donaldson Christian Academy (DCA), and shares stories of being perpetually cut from the basketball team, leading to a humorous discussion about his athletic prowess and determination.

Mascot Discussions: A recurring humorous theme involves high school mascots. The hosts debate the popularity of mascots like Bulldogs and Knights, leading to light-hearted banter about school spirit and the uniqueness of their respective schools.

Reunion Plans: Dusty Slay brings up high school reunions, highlighting the upcoming 30-year reunion and the challenges of maintaining connections over decades. The discussion underscores the nostalgic value of these gatherings and the humorous contrasts between high school and adult life.

Notable Quotes:

• Brian Bates [06:05]: "They're building a new facility. I loved my high school, Donaldson Christian Academy."
• Dusty Slay [30:02]: "I love that we have a plaque for."

3. Personal Updates and Professional Highlights

Brian's UFC Experience: Brian shares his exhilarating experience attending a UFC fight, where he sat next to none other than Mel Gibson and Kevin Costner. This encounter provided memorable moments and added a touch of celebrity flair to the episode.

Nate's Television Ventures: Nate Bargatze updates listeners on his multiple appearances on The Tonight Show. He reflects on his performances, noting improvements and the satisfaction of making audiences laugh consistently. At [42:54], Nate mentions, "I did not feel good about it and I was not pumped about it. But it went fine."

Aaron's Tour and Special: Aaron Weber discusses his upcoming tour dates and special filmed at the Walker Theater in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He emphasizes the excitement surrounding his "Signature Dish" special, which premieres on [01:27] January 31st on the Nateland YouTube channel.

Dusty's Show Calendar: Dusty Slay provides a rundown of his show schedule, including performances at venues like Zany's and the Comedy Attic in Bloomington, Indiana. He highlights the positive feedback and support he receives from audiences, fueling his comedic endeavors.

Notable Quotes:

• Brian Bates [39:12]: "I just sat next to Mel Gibson. So it was like Julian with me and then Mel."
• Aaron Weber [12:08]: "Mud water gives you a smooth energy boost without the heart racing. Jitters."

4. Pop Culture and Personal Anecdotes

Typing Classes and Technology Evolution: The hosts engage in a nostalgic discussion about typing classes from their high school days, sharing amusing memories of early computer interfaces and the challenges of mastering touch typing. This segment highlights the rapid evolution of technology and its impact on daily life.

Favorite Movies and Songs: Personal preferences in movies and music are explored, with favorites like "The Breakfast Club", "Friday Night Lights", and iconic songs like "Candle in the Wind" being mentioned. These discussions offer listeners a glimpse into the hosts' formative influences and their continued appreciation for classic media.

Notable Quotes:

• Dusty Slay [94:58]: "I saw it seven times in the theaters."
• Nate Bargatzi [114:51]: "I don't know. I like Breakfast Club."

5. Humorous Banter and Light-Hearted Topics

Throughout the episode, the hosts engage in spirited and humorous exchanges, ranging from jokes about body fat percentages and donut consumption to playful teasing about each other's high school experiences and professional lives. Topics like the challenges of maintaining fitness, quirky high school traditions, and the quirks of living in different cities add layers of humor and relatability to the conversation.

Notable Quotes:

• Brian Bates [12:35]: "If I can get to 20%, the bet was then Eric has to eat 36 donuts in 24 hours."
• Dusty Slay [16:20]: "It might take more than a day to do that, but that's a good start."

6. Listener Interaction and Community Engagement

Towards the end of the episode, the hosts address listener comments and feedback, discussing topics like favorite venue types and the feasibility of stadium shows for comedy. This segment underscores the podcast's commitment to fostering a strong community and valuing listener input.

Notable Quotes:

• Brian Bates [73:58]: "Oliver, there's a discussion around favorite venue types."
• Aaron Weber [74:19]: "Has the date ever considered a stadium show or do you think audio would be too difficult to master for comedy?"

Conclusion

Episode #236 of The Nateland Podcast masterfully blends personal challenges, nostalgic reflections, and engaging professional updates with the trademark humor and camaraderie of its hosts. From Brian Bates' weight loss bet to high school reunion stories and memorable encounters with celebrities, the episode offers a rich tapestry of conversations that resonate with both long-time listeners and newcomers alike.

Highlights:

• Weight Loss Challenge: Brian Bates' ambitious goal to reduce body fat with a humorous high-stakes bet.
• High School Nostalgia: Recollections of mascots, reunions, and school spirit.
• Celebrity Encounters: Brian's UFC experience alongside Mel Gibson and Kevin Costner.
• Professional Milestones: Nate's Tonight Show appearances and Aaron's upcoming specials.
• Humorous Exchanges: Playful teasing and light-hearted debates on various topics.

For those who haven't tuned in, Episode #236 provides an entertaining and insightful journey through the lives of four comedians navigating personal growth, professional aspirations, and cherished memories, all while delivering laughs and fostering a sense of community.

Transcript

[Nate Bargetti]

Foreign.

[Brian Bates]

Folks and hey, Bear. Welcome to the N Land podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi. Brian Bates. Aaron Weber. Dusty Slay.

[Nate Bargetti]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

They'Re excited. Real quick, we have just Nateland presents DC Improv. Sunday, January 26th. One show, 7pm Julian, Derek Stroop and Joe Zimmerman, they will be with me at the DC Improv that week, but they are going to stay Sunday and do a show the commanders play that night. So that's it. But I understand that it'll be over, though. Oh, it will be.

[Aaron Weber]

They're the early game.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, great. So it'll be over. So go to that. Perfect.

[Dusty Slay]

Go to the game. Go get the win.

[Aaron Weber]

Go celebrate.

[Dusty Slay]

And that's a really Good show. Those three.

[Brian Bates]

It's a good show, Dusty. Our special being filmed February 28th at the Walker Theater in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Late show. I mean, it's getting. There's not much, much left.

[Nate Bargetti]

It's getting there.

[Brian Bates]

It's getting there. Go get the tickets to that. Be a part of that. That's going to be awesome. Next hour special, my book, Big Dumb Eyes World tour shows are being added, so make sure you go look at it. We've added a bunch of shows. You can also pre order the book there. And other big, big news. Oh, boy, it's coming. Nateland presents Aaron Weber Special.

[Aaron Weber]

Boom.

[Brian Bates]

Signature dish.

[Nate Bargetti]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

That's the name we went with. I'm joking. It's a good name. It's a great name. I. We talked about the name last week, so I thought that was fun to make fun of.

[Aaron Weber]

It look like Post Malone there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What is that?

[Dusty Slay]

Thanks.

[Brian Bates]

What is that? Oh, that's just.

[Dusty Slay]

That was the cursor.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh. It Premieres next Friday, January 31st on the Nateland YouTube channel. Very excited. What a great. That looks.

[Dusty Slay]

That looks awesome, man. It looks like a real thing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it is a real thing.

[Dusty Slay]

I know, but until you see something like this, you're like, oh, I know.

[Brian Bates]

Until you always worry until it. It. It. It's. But we shot it. It's announced. It's next Friday. That's. You look good.

[Aaron Weber]

Amen.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you. Did Eric do you upright or no?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Eric got me upright. Christy Johnson got me those clothes. I mean, I never looked better.

[Brian Bates]

Never.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, she hooks it up. You know, that's the shirt she gave me, the shirt I wore on the Tonight Show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Christy Johnson hooks the whole thing, man. Signature. It really does look correct. Like the. Yeah, the, the. The cursive of the name of the special.

[Nate Bargetti]

The two different fonts of the a. It Looks good.

[Aaron Weber]

The watch. You can see the watch is expensive, but yet you can't quite tell what it is.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just underneath.

[Nate Bargetti]

Have smashed that other a.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a $30 Casio watch.

[Brian Bates]

But, yeah, the people don't know. They don't know because he hides it.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just appreciate you believing what we're doing here with Nate Land.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Nate and Dusty, they. They take their specials in Netflix. But you said. No, I believe in what we're doing.

[Dusty Slay]

Here at N. Like, I turn Netflix down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's what we like.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you, Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, of course. We're building. We're building Aaron.

[Dusty Slay]

It's big.

[Brian Bates]

We got. We got. We got the exclusive on Aaron, and you basically got to come through me. I will murder Aaron if he goes to anybody else. Basically. That's how it goes with Aaron. Yeah. I will be furious if he. So you come through us.

[Nate Bargetti]

We're.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, we'll go to Netflix. We'll go. We're gonna go to all that stuff. Are you gonna come to us? To the. The. The Nateland?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm happy to.

[Brian Bates]

We want Aaron to do whatever he wants to do, but it will be. We will put a pretty big stop to it. If I'm not. I'm just laying claim on air and that just. I will. I'll be pretty upset.

[Nate Bargetti]

YouTube's a hot spot, though. It is.

[Brian Bates]

It's great.

[Nate Bargetti]

It is a hot.

[Brian Bates]

YouTube is. We can do this with Nateland, where we are going to build this up into this stuff being on the way the old system was where we did, you know, we have the showcase. We got Aaron special, and then. And then we're gonna have. We have, you know, Vecchions, and we have all that kind of stuff. And then. So we're going to continue to be in that world, you know, and so. Yeah, it's. I'm. It's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

It's exciting, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it looks great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. January 31st, you already got a new hour, Aaron.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm working on it, man. I'm trying.

[Nate Bargetti]

Dude, you got sweet 11 days.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's a half hour special.

[Brian Bates]

That's good.

[Dusty Slay]

That helps a lot.

[Brian Bates]

So you have a half?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I got a half.

[Brian Bates]

Do you have 30 new.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah. So since I record. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So you're good.

[Nate Bargetti]

So they'll be able to come and see a show with none of these.

[Brian Bates]

Jokes on it, but you might say, great. Yeah, he could. He might throw in a greatest hit.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I'll feel it out. Have y'all seen the special? And then they go, no. And then I go, all right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank God. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, then tonight y'all can watch a full hour of my comedy.

[Aaron Weber]

You're about to see it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you're about to see it.

[Nate Bargetti]

And then no need to watch the special after.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

No, please don't.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's very, very fun. It's exciting. I love that. It's all. It's all coming together.

[Dusty Slay]

Coming together.

[Brian Bates]

We. I don't know. I was. This week, I was talking. We. Oh, are we talking about this?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we can. Oh, you got the hat on.

[Brian Bates]

I got the DCA hat on. Yeah. The. My high school gym. The court has got my name on it, and the gym will be named after us. They're building a new facility. I loved my high school, Donaldson Christian Academy. You know, it's a very blue collar kind of private school, and it's, you know, just good people. And I've always been around those people. I did get cut every year from their basketball team, so I'll be honestly not, you know, but they can't cut me now.

[Nate Bargetti]

I like that. I like that. Yeah, that's the ultimate. I'm on the team.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. They got. I got a jersey. I finally got a jersey. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's really a story about revenge.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

When you think about it.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I don't like to think of it as a revenge story.

[Aaron Weber]

Came off.

[Brian Bates]

It does come off. I can see how.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it does.

[Nate Bargetti]

It's your Michael Jordan story. You know, I was cut from this.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's what I want to tell all the. That's the kids.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So you're not going to get everything you want, but you can eventually.

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh, it's on the court like that.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh, that's what I'm talking.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Dude, that's what I'm talking about. You really took over that court.

[Aaron Weber]

What you think it was like a newspaper article?

[Brian Bates]

I don't.

[Nate Bargetti]

I mean, I don't. Plaque. I mean, that's what I'm talking about.

[Brian Bates]

I would like to say I, I do let things go. I know this doesn't look like that, but it.

[Aaron Weber]

I. Oh, it's everywhere.

[Brian Bates]

The building's going to be called. Nae land's going to be in there. In the new facility we have, Nateland will be on the field. We will. Yeah, Nateland is. We're. We're. We're a part of it. We're proud. We're going to really. Dca. Look, I, I love dca and I'm still close to most of my almost. I mean, I'm still close to all the friends there, and a lot of them came, which is very nice for that night. You know, it was. I knew we were doing something and that we had, like, a little gathering afterwards, and Derek Mason came. Yeah, Andy, that was the. So nice man I got. Because when he first came to Vanderbilt to coach Vanderbilt, I got to know him then, and that was kind of like. I was kind of starting to do stuff, but he was just always very nice to me, and I did some shows from his team, and so that was actually very, very. That was. Jody Jones is my dentist also. I've known his family forever. We grew up with his family. But it was. It was. That was like a very nice. It was a. It meant more to me than I probably would have realized.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just because it's like. For the fact that he came out was very, very nice. And he's at MTSU now, and so. Yeah, it was very cool to get to be a part of that and.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's awesome, man. What a cool full circle moment.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, it really was. And they were nice, the kids. I mean, they were chanting, like, it was really cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they're chanting Nate. Nate.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I kind of saw your, like, I'm telling them.

[Brian Bates]

I'm going, come on, come on, a little louder. I. I walked in first and they booed, and I go, this is the opposite energy. We need, guys, I need you to chant Nate.

[Nate Bargetti]

And they passed you a ball. You took a shot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they still won't let me play there. Yeah, that's why he was cut. Yeah, that's why. That's why he was cut.

[Dusty Slay]

The funniest part of that, you getting cut, is that your dad was the coach.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, the first. My freshman year. He was the assistant coach.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

He got the ball started. It was the head coach and the assistant coach. Then they got a new head coach for the last three years, and I imagine she never really stood a chance. And I, you know, when I look back, I was. I. I, you know, I can see you got to be obsessed. I don't think I was obsessed, even though I love basketball. It's like, you know, you're just being goofy and, you know, you should name.

[Aaron Weber]

The toilets after the former coach cut you every year.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Pay to do that.

[Dusty Slay]

Spiteful.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. To really go. He come. He cut me in golf, too. I was cut in every sport. I ran track my senior year. That was the only thing that they allowed me to do. I did play basketball at Tulip Grove Baptist Church, though. We did on carpet. We did pretty good. Ours was actually. It was hardwood, but I played carpet when I practiced on.

[Nate Bargetti]

I played carpet basketball at a church one time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. It's nice.

[Nate Bargetti]

My dad actually told me not to try out for basketball, so.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Nate Bargetti]

That makes you feel better why? I said don't. Don't worry about it.

[Brian Bates]

You may put your name. You want your name on there too, buddy?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, same reason.

[Brian Bates]

You tell me where you want your name and I'll go.

[Nate Bargetti]

All right, I like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Tell me the name of your high school. Nate will buy it real quick.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Shove it to your dad.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. This wasn't even about my high school, though. My dad was just like, you ain't.

[Brian Bates]

Gonna get it in general.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's good though. You got to manage your kids expectations.

[Nate Bargetti]

I mean, he was right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. He also tells you not to read.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, so he got it figured out.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Most resolutions are hard to maintain, but AG1 is one of the easiest things you can do for your health. That is true. You can make this the one habit you will actually stick with. I've already given up on most of my new year's resolutions, but I'm still doing AG1. My goal for the new year is to take better care of myself and do it and do that. I just keep using my AG1. I've been drinking it daily for over a year now. AG1 is what helps you be ready to take on what 202025 has in store for you. That's why we're sponsored by AG1. I can feel the difference. It supports my energy, digestive regularity, immune support, and even a healthy mood. It's so easy with just one scoop in the morning. You can put it in a smoothie or even just some water and drink that. I love the taste of it. And if I miss one, I just feel off. And you guys know I hate to.

[Dusty Slay]

See your mood if you didn't take AG1. Yeah, that's why this is the good mood, Brian.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargetti]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

So I was another one that we talked about this weekend. So Eric, everybody knows my barber, trainer. I was like, all right, I'm getting. This is the year, right? Every year's the year that I'm going to get in shape. This is the year. If I start making movies, if I start getting into this thing, I got to look the part. I got to. And I've realized if I want to be Nateland, to be as big as it is, I need to be able to get as big as I can be to then be able to do this kind of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

This is what my belief. I have to, like, have control over this food. I can't do this stuff. And so I. We did a body scan. I'm glad. And I'm gonna tell you, my body fabric. I don't want to. I wants to be. It's embarrassing, but it's. So I was talking to Eric about it, and, like, you've heard that 75 hard.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, I have. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So 75 hard is 75 straight days. You do. You got to work out twice a day. 45 minutes outside. 45 minutes inside. And one has to be outside. You got to read 10 pages of book. You got to do a diet plan that you have.

[Dusty Slay]

And water, too, in that part.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you gotta drink a gallon of water a day. So I've looked at the same Heart's gonna be. It's gonna be hard for me to always work out two times a day because with my schedule. But I want to do a version of this. So I made a. I was making a bet with Eric, and so my body percentage fat was 36%, which I would have guessed. Would you have. If you look at. So we put on the mail. That sounds. If you look at these, 40 is banana, like 35 to 40.

[Dusty Slay]

40 looks good. He's got stuff going on.

[Brian Bates]

40 is like, look, you're telling me I'm worse than 35. I mean, like, I'm a percentage above 35, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot happens in that. 35 to 40.

[Brian Bates]

35 to 40, dude, is nuts. I mean, 40%. I mean, I think you look at, like, it's crazy. Look at the other one. Yeah, look at the. There's another one that even looks worse. Look at 40. How come 30 looks worse than 35? How come?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Brian Bates]

That doesn't make sense. If you're by this thing, you're like, well, I'd prefer to be 35 at least so I can be normal. And you look like a wreck. If you put a shirt on a guy that's at 30. That 30% is what I feel like I look like.

[Nate Bargetti]

Look underneath the chest of that 35, though. It looks like he just straightened up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, he just. Yeah, exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. He'd been sitting down for hours.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He stood. He stood taller again. 40. This 40 looks better than the other 40.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, 40.

[Brian Bates]

The other 40 looks. You know, the other 40. That's like, heavyweight, where you go, you can just weigh whatever you want to weigh, and we're just gonna put you in this right thing.

[Dusty Slay]

You trying to get down to here, Nate? This 3 to 4% looks terrible.

[Brian Bates]

I said, I bet him in two months, I can get down to 3 to 4%. Gonna be. I. I'm gonna have 24 injections a day. No. So the bet was with him If I'm at 36, if I can get to 20%.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So 20%, because. It's. Because we're gonna do weight, but weight could be. If I started working out and if I started really, you know, I'm not trying to be jacked. Like, I'm just trying to. It's like, I needed to look and feel good and be a confident person. I've lived like this long enough. I'm exhausted of living like this. It's. So if I can get to 20%, the bet was then Eric has to eat 36 donuts in 24 hours.

[Nate Bargetti]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

So ruin his life. Yeah. Yeah, we're good. The idea. Eric is probably 15. He's in probably 14% is what his body fat is. So if we can get eric up to 35%, it's the opposite. It's a bet that's the opposite.

[Dusty Slay]

It might take more than a day to do that, but that's a good start.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it was at first. We told him. We're like, you got to. If I can lose. If I can get down to this, you got to eat 50 donuts in a week is what we told him. And it really made Eric did not want to do.

[Dusty Slay]

Just the idea of that would make him upset. Yeah, 50 in a week is. It's like, yeah, seven a day. It's a pretty good week, I think.

[Brian Bates]

36, we said in a week. So it's five a day. Yes. To eat five a day.

[Nate Bargetti]

And you know the kind of donut like a Krispy Kreme.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And so he does not want to do this at all. And that's kind of what makes it fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because it was like, if we go bet money, it's like, I mean, that's not as fun. I like betting something that I'm going to get to laugh at. Him feeling sick from eating all of these donuts.

[Dusty Slay]

From living how you've been living.

[Brian Bates]

Living how I've been living. It. It doesn't. It's really actually kind of mean.

[Nate Bargetti]

What if it really wrecks this whole thing? And now from then on, he's the opposite.

[Brian Bates]

I become his trainer. The student becomes the teacher.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then rolls flip.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that's the ultimate goal is his hair. I'm cutting his hair. He does. Going on stage and on stage. And I am. I have taken over Eric's existence, and now Eric is me. So I would say, if you want, but we could throw in. What if y'all want to be involved in this at all.

[Nate Bargetti]

25 looks really good.

[Brian Bates]

25 looks good. It's a strong guy. It's a strong man right there. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

30 looks like a good. He's a nice guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. 30s. Like his 30s. Like, he takes his shirt off at the pool for sure.

[Dusty Slay]

100.

[Brian Bates]

But it's like he just got fat. 30 just got fat.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

He used to be pretty awesome. And now he's probably 30.

[Dusty Slay]

Former athlete. Yeah, he's kind of.

[Brian Bates]

Now he's like that 40%.

[Dusty Slay]

This has been his whole life.

[Brian Bates]

40. I mean, this is what he does. He has a. He's never not worn a belt.

[Nate Bargetti]

Also, he takes his shirt off at the pool, though. He doesn't care.

[Brian Bates]

He's at a belt. He's had the belt his whole life. He it. The new trend of not wearing belts. He's not even having a conversation with. You can't even. He's like, are you out of your mind? He goes, this is. He goes, we gotta have a belt. And then maybe he's done suspenders.

[Nate Bargetti]

He will be.

[Brian Bates]

Something's gonna be holding that up.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. But yeah, Shoulder problems from the suspender.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's. Yeah, he's a belt all day long. I mean, because you look up there to the 10%. I mean, you don't need a belt.

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Brian Bates]

30%. You know, I wear. Always have a belt. I don't like no belt. I like. You know, but so basically, I got to get down to 20. And by when. It's no time. Set six. I mean, yeah, we're six months. Maybe six months. So I got to go pretty hard. There has to be some version. So what I was going to say, if you take the donuts up to 50. 50 donuts. Y'all. Y'all can. Y'all are allowed to take donuts off Eric's plate. So you can. You can.

[Dusty Slay]

You want me involved in this?

[Brian Bates]

You can come take donuts off.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Ideally, I would say we do.

[Aaron Weber]

He could wipe out Eric's debt one fell swoop.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You go a hundred. Ideally, you say. Say we go 100 donuts.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But you're allowed. We're allowed to. Anybody else can come take donuts off Eric's plate.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And we can extend it to the N Land world, the Nateland. I mean, I'm not saying, like, anybody, like, listen, like, I don't. I don't know when we're going to do this or stop. Yeah. But you know, in a. You can go to Abigail. Like, you can. You know, Michael, our buddy Michael's comment is here. It's a good. Adrian, Felix, like all the Nateland team, all the comics and the nailing, everybody can come help Eric out to get rid of these hundred donut problems.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I love that.

[Brian Bates]

That's fun, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's very fun.

[Brian Bates]

And so because Eric can't. He's going to die. He was like, it adds. He goes, it's my life expectancy. You start bringing that up, life expectancy, you're not fun. And then. And because Julian, Nicole, we're all last. Yesterday I was shooting something that's going to be very pretty cool. I can't talk about it yet, but it will be soon. You're going to see it just. But it was in between. This is all we talked about. And, you know, he's like, let's just do it. Eric's like, let's do it some other way. And we're. And we were like, eric, but it's. It's how sad you are that you have to eat these donuts is what fuels me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

To go that you're. Be that you're. That. He's like, I can't do this.

[Dusty Slay]

See, this bet wouldn't be fun with me.

[Brian Bates]

What am I gonna do? Like, hey, add four to your day. It's like, that's not take. That's getting off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta subtract.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was like, I mean, we're all like five donuts a day. You're like, yeah, dude, this is nothing for me. This is what I do.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, but what's the challenge?

[Dusty Slay]

What's the catch?

[Brian Bates]

So the fun part, buying these donuts? Yeah. The fun part is to make Eric who? And Eric was like. He goes, people are going to be mad at you because you're trying to make someone to eat. And I was like, they. I don't think they will. Eric.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no.

[Brian Bates]

I go, the fun part is making you eat. Now, I think the other fun part will be Eric has to convince you guys. I mean, look, y'all could all go 25 each with Eric, and you're at $100, and you'd be done.

[Aaron Weber]

But can I, like, reach out, say, hey, Eric, a three day on your behalf?

[Brian Bates]

I'm. When we do it, I'll film it. I think I have 100 donuts here.

[Dusty Slay]

I think we gotta do it. We gotta do it.

[Brian Bates]

It's gotta be in the day. And so it's got. Eric's gotta. Gotta reach out to everybody, and everybody's gotta come help Eric out, because Eric's gonna be.

[Aaron Weber]

What if you don't win?

[Brian Bates]

So that I don't know. Yeah, that. That's the only thing. I don't know what happens if I don't win? Because, you know, it's. Do I have to eat 100 donuts?

[Aaron Weber]

It's a win win.

[Brian Bates]

It's a. Yeah. If I don't win, I'm. I mean, I'm in the Don't I mean donuts.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I haven't got out of it. If I don't win, Nate Land will crumble. So that's the. That's the other side of it.

[Nate Bargetti]

Maybe there's a certain place that you get to. To where it's like, all right, he's not punished, but you're not. Like, it was like, you made enough progress.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Nate Bargetti]

To where he doesn't have to do.

[Brian Bates]

A punishment, but I would say, say six months for every. If I'm at 36% body fat and I got to be at 20% in six months, is that possible? Yes. Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So I want to go to the one person that's in shape but no answer to this. Is that possible? I go, yeah, Just pointless to talk to anybody else. All right, so if I can get to 20 from 36, if. Whatever number I'm at. So if I'm at 36 now and so say I end up in six months, I'm at 20, 24. Right. So that's 12. That means I've lost 12%. It's out of a hundred. It's like, do you take 12, you just take the donuts off? I mean, you know, it's like. I don't know about. It's so 36 and 20. So I gotta lose 20. I gotta lose 16. Body 16. So could we. We could say it's each. What is 16? What does each one equal to be? A hundred. So, you know, like, 10 would be 160 donuts if each one. If 1% equals 10 donuts, that's not a good number.

[Dusty Slay]

6.2 5.25.

[Brian Bates]

So we're say each percentage equals six.

[Dusty Slay]

And a quarter donuts.

[Brian Bates]

Six and a quarter donuts. Yeah. Six. Three. Just six. We're gonna be really doing the quarter stuff. Are you gonna keep up with that?

[Aaron Weber]

It's a donut hole.

[Brian Bates]

That's a. That's a. Yeah. You're gonna keep up with the quarter stuff?

[Dusty Slay]

I guess so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, you have to. You're notary. You went to college. They weren't even doing fractions. And Bates went. So I don't think they got to it yet. Right.

[Nate Bargetti]

No.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if cursive was even started. So.

[Aaron Weber]

No, that's all we did.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, the quill.

[Nate Bargetti]

We're trying to get print.

[Brian Bates]

I'm trying to get print. Me and Dusty did not go. So we obviously only do big numbers. We don't understand.

[Nate Bargetti]

I wouldn't even know how to put that in the calculator.

[Brian Bates]

I wouldn't have even known what to do either.

[Nate Bargetti]

I still don't know what this means. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So y'all. So then even say this question you're.

[Nate Bargetti]

Trying to figure out. I'm like, I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

So six donut equals 1%. So whatever. So if I get to the 16%, that's 100 donuts.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, yeah, 96.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So if I get to 10%, that would be 60 donuts, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So we'll do it that way.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And, yeah, let's not thrilled about this. And I told him he will find out about it when he listens to the podcast. So this is Eric finding out about it. Yeah, Eric will get very sick. There's a. There's a little chance Eric is allergic to dairy. It's not. Not a little chance. He is, but we looked up Krispy Kreme donuts do not have dairy in them. That's what they said on the Internet.

[Dusty Slay]

But I imagine if you are dairy intolerant, a Krispy Kreme Donut's still gonna mess you up a little.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. But yeah, he could. He could. Huh?

[Nate Bargetti]

There's probably no real food.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's real sugar.

[Brian Bates]

Look and see. Look up and see. Is there dairy in a Krispy Kreme donut? We can get. We can get.

[Nate Bargetti]

It's probably all.

[Brian Bates]

But I think we can get.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. Most Krispy Kreme donuts contain dairy. They contain dairy products like milk, butter, yogurt.

[Brian Bates]

But does a glazed say a glazed Krispy Kreme donut, does it have dairy in it? Dairy free? Yeah, I believe so. Are they. It's kosher.

[Dusty Slay]

They are. There are kosher. That's good to know. Yeah, I think they all have dairy.

[Nate Bargetti]

There's no pork in there because it's.

[Dusty Slay]

All made from eggs.

[Aaron Weber]

You can have one.

[Dusty Slay]

It's all made from eggs and then they have use milk and butter in it too. So I think it's going to be tough to. So we might seem pretty essential.

[Brian Bates]

Eric. Well, that's really on you guys.

[Dusty Slay]

We got to step it up a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

That's not Eric's problem. That's yours problem. I think we can find enough people that will come take donuts off the plate. If. If we do find out that Eric will die from this. We will find him. You know, I think it says a.

[Nate Bargetti]

Lot that he's taken this challenge knowing it may kill him. I think he thinks you can't.

[Brian Bates]

Well, there's a big part of it. He has not really agreed to this.

[Nate Bargetti]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So that's the other side. I mean, he definitely was not completely agreeing to it last yesterday, but he was at. It was how nervous he was is what made it fun. You know, I mean, should we do. He can't eat meat either. He's. He got bit by a tick and so I suggest go get bit by another tick. Reverse it.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Do this challenge. Bring another tick back. Go back to your.

[Nate Bargetti]

Probably do some kind of Lyme disease detox, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, like what food could be the donuts or the like what food could be hot dogs. I don't know if he can eat hot dogs.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you want meat free and dairy free hot dogs?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't know if.

[Nate Bargetti]

So much worse.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Hot dogs would be.

[Nate Bargetti]

I like a hot dog once hot dogs.

[Brian Bates]

I think you're gonna have trouble finding people to take hot dogs off your plate. Yeah, yeah. Donuts. I think you can. I think he could get through. Look, if he's a good enough talker, maybe he can not eat any donuts. Everybody Helps him out.

[Aaron Weber]

He's also the one training you, right? So you can just do a bad job at that.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Nate Bargetti]

And he can also. And then when I lose you to eat the donuts.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that is. That's the fun part of this.

[Nate Bargetti]

Because I do to training.

[Brian Bates]

If I'm able to do this, I will then let him go because I will no longer need you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

No, I don't heal. I would never do that.

[Nate Bargetti]

He started adding it to your hair.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

He's like, I found out this is a superfood.

[Brian Bates]

And then I go, but I don't even need to have my beard done in a special way because my face looks so good.

[Dusty Slay]

So chiseled.

[Brian Bates]

Because I go, I'm actually shaving on my own now. Eric will always do. Do we do? We say we do donuts?

[Dusty Slay]

I say we do. Yeah. And if you have any other questions about the product, you can call 1-800-4-CRISPY and they'll answer all the questions.

[Nate Bargetti]

How many calls they get? 104 crisp. Hey, I'm wondering if a lot of.

[Brian Bates]

Crank calls probably should we call them right now?

[Aaron Weber]

Eric, if you're listening and worry, I'd say we've had numerous weight loss challenges. We've announced on this podcast that we've never brought up again.

[Brian Bates]

So this one's the real deal, dude. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

This is the year.

[Brian Bates]

I look forward to this us. I look forward to seeing who we can get to come take donuts off his. How many? Don't you think you take off his plate?

[Aaron Weber]

It'll be our anchor.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Would you take some?

[Nate Bargetti]

I'll do one because I like him.

[Brian Bates]

You would only want one.

[Aaron Weber]

He doesn't like him.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

You know what? I sometimes I had a couple of donuts the other day, and I feel like it wrecked my whole weekend.

[Brian Bates]

That's the point of this challenge.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, I get sick.

[Brian Bates]

That's not good for air. Yeah, he's got. Dusty's got one. I'll take Felt so good. Kids, would you let your kids maybe take some?

[Nate Bargetti]

Felt so good at the airport that I was like, you know what? I'm gonna get a couple of these donuts.

[Brian Bates]

I'll let Harper. I'll let Harper and her friends come. They can take some off. How many people can we get?

[Dusty Slay]

I'll get a dozen for them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's nice.

[Aaron Weber]

He's gonna be fine.

[Brian Bates]

You've done eight, so you can do eight.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're commit to eight.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, that's good. So we have enough People. Yeah. So right now we're looking at it. Still making two easy 12, 20, 21 donuts already taken off the plate.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, that's easy.

[Brian Bates]

21 donuts taken off the plate. He's already down to 79 donuts. It's almost not even a fun bet.

[Nate Bargetti]

I feel like Greg Warren and crush a bunch of donuts.

[Brian Bates]

Greg. Yeah, we'll get Greg down here. Greg will, you know, he's a consumer. Where we'll go. Yeah, you know what we could do if we get to this? Maybe we'll have a fun. We'll do a show like a. And make everybody can. We're just do a show at the lab and we all just do pop in sets and we start.

[Nate Bargetti]

You have to eat a donut if.

[Brian Bates]

You want to do that. Yeah, that's fun. But we could have Greg, we're have everybody come down. We're doing Nat Land shows so people can come to the show and then we'll park Eric in the lab thing and he'll have to eat these donuts. And then you know what? If people come to the show, they can also help Eric out too.

[Nate Bargetti]

Buy a ticket or eat five donuts.

[Brian Bates]

Yes. Yes. Yeah. And Eric has to talk you into eating this donut.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Why you cut your hair.

[Nate Bargetti]

It's like bring a canned food, but.

[Brian Bates]

Instead it's eat eat donuts.

[Dusty Slay]

It's the opposite of a canned food drink.

[Brian Bates]

It's the opposite of charity. Yeah, it's. There is no. There is no charity.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, but I, in fact, charities have to buy the donuts.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. But if you come down. Yeah, that would be good. If you come down and take some donut. You have to take at least five donuts off Eric's plate. And that's a ticket. Or you can just buy the ticket.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Ticket cost $7,000. That's Eric, change it because the ticket's $10,000. Or you could take five donuts and they're like, well, that makes. There's no reason I would pay that.

[Nate Bargetti]

We have to eat the donuts on stage. That should be part of the show.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, if we're having it, we're having it all before. The show will just be a fun celebration.

[Nate Bargetti]

They got. I got to know they're eating it though.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think we will. They'll be out in the. Yeah, they'll be out in the, the lobby.

[Nate Bargetti]

No. Throwing it away.

[Brian Bates]

No, they have to eat it.

[Nate Bargetti]

I got to see you eat it.

[Brian Bates]

I mean we're, we're like, we can. We're Film it. We're have a whole big fun. It'll be. It'd be a nice celebration. The date. So we'll be a good day. July. Is that like. Think that's two. What's like. You got to give me some, you know, three months. Three months. Not three months. No.

[Dusty Slay]

Four months.

[Brian Bates]

Four to six. Four to six. Give me six months. You need a little wiggle room because I'm probably gonna get a donut today. It's not fair that we weren't. We just talked about.

[Nate Bargetti]

Think about six months too, is it? It gives you time to start feeling really good and relapse. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So six months. What if I do? Yeah. The. The date is, you know.

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh, the ingredients list is.

[Brian Bates]

So what is it? January. What is January. Something 16 or something right now.

[Aaron Weber]

January.

[Nate Bargetti]

No reason why that many things should be in there.

[Brian Bates]

February, March, April, May, June, July, cellulose. July. Six months.

[Aaron Weber]

Harper's birthday.

[Brian Bates]

Harper's birthday. July 8th. What about by Harper's birthday? July.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, that's perfect.

[Nate Bargetti]

Sorbiton mono.

[Brian Bates]

And if I'm under 20, we add a hundred donuts for every percent I'm under 20.

[Nate Bargetti]

Toca fear rolls.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And if you don't.

[Brian Bates]

Desodium.

[Aaron Weber]

Do it.

[Brian Bates]

If I don't do it, just take.

[Aaron Weber]

On different movie roles.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. If I don't do it, I'll be.

[Aaron Weber]

Instead of a leading man, just be the.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I won't be able to be a leading man.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I love. Yeah. I don't. I guess there has to be. Yeah. I don't know if there's. There's something for me, my. I think my punishment is this won't happen. And that would make me sad.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's good.

[Brian Bates]

Because I think it'll be.

[Aaron Weber]

You want it to happen.

[Brian Bates]

I really want. All of y'all have to eat all these donuts off Eric's plate.

[Nate Bargetti]

Used to control corrosion and scaled inhibition.

[Brian Bates]

And Eric's really having to be on the line. He does not. I promise you he does not want to do this.

[Aaron Weber]

Put a picture Eric up on your mirror every day.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

With a donut.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, with a donut. He's. He's not happy. So. All right, 100 donuts. How many seats are here? 100 seats.

[Dusty Slay]

It's about 100.

[Brian Bates]

100 people.

[Dusty Slay]

95.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so, I mean. Yeah, everybody's. I mean, we could.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we could do this.

[Brian Bates]

He can get it where. And if we. Look if Eric can get it where. He's not even having to eat any donuts for him. That's the goal for him, and that's fine.

[Nate Bargetti]

And if you advertise that it has disodium phosphate in it, you could tell them that also, that ingredient is used for fireproofing materials. So stomach will be fireproof after. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The FDA says it's generally recognized as safe.

[Brian Bates]

That's nice. That's good.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's all good. Whatever they're doing, they're doing a great job. They're so good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, you could do, like, burger. I mean, donuts. Like McDonald's burgers or something. But that's not donuts.

[Dusty Slay]

Donuts are who we are as a podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. We are. We are donuts.

[Dusty Slay]

We are.

[Nate Bargetti]

I do, like, a burger competition.

[Aaron Weber]

How we started.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Burgers. Just getting too many ingredients and stuff. Just stick with the donut.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not burger people, dude. Come on. Don't be ridiculous.

[Brian Bates]

What if we did, like, two. If it was, like, cool hand. Look. If it was. Yeah. If we did it. If we did it here. And we did. You got an hour. And so now the crowd's got to be here so that whoever got the tickets and you got to do an hour. You have to eat 100 in an hour as a group.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. That's great.

[Aaron Weber]

Now you have to stand on stage with your shirt off so we can measure you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. To show you the 20.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I went in that body scan. It's like, they just scan your body. And she's. I've got. I'm gonna write some jokes on it so I don't give too much away. But, I mean, it's like. Yeah, it wasn't. I'm not even on the charts of, like, fat. Like, they're, like, in. I'm not even on the bad shape chart. Like, they were like. They didn't. My number's not even. She's like, well, are you looking at the age? I go. It's not on any. If I was a hundred. I'm not into where I should be for what you think obese is, like. Because I'm not even. It doesn't matter by age. It was. It's not. Yeah. It's a pretty tough one to do.

[Nate Bargetti]

Where do you go to do that?

[Brian Bates]

I forget where. What it was called. Dex's scan is the. What you're doing. And then I forget. It was, like, off Harding Road or something.

[Nate Bargetti]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But it was. I mean, it's kind of cool. Like, you go through it. Yeah. And it just shows you, you know, everything. Your bone. I have Good bones. I have good bones. All that dairy you got, you got big. They go, your bones are big. I go, it's a big bone, boy. It's a big bone. So, all right, so that was my. That's where I was at.

[Dusty Slay]

That's good.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty fun.

[Dusty Slay]

That is fun.

[Brian Bates]

It's fun.

[Nate Bargetti]

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[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Nate Bargetti]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Dusty Slay]

Boom.

[Aaron Weber]

Saw a video you posted on the UFC fight and you just see Mel Gibson stand up for a second. I'm like, was that Mel Gibson?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Kevin Costner was behind him, next to him.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. I went to the UFC fight Saturday and it was, it's the first time I got to go where I was on the front row. I just sat next to Mel Gibson. So it was, it was like Julian with me and then Mel. Get me Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson's buddy. Adam Corolla, Kevin Costner, Bill Simmons.

[Nate Bargetti]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And like, so we're all just on the front row and I talked to Mel the whole fight. Pretty awesome, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Talk to Mel.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they met a cool Catholic.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was cool, man. He was. It was, it was like, you know, just fun. You're, like, talking about the. We didn't talk about, like, Hollywood or anything like that. We're just talking, like, dudes, like, talk about the fight. Yeah, but the whole. It was awesome. I mean, you know, I obviously, I'm a fan of the ufc, so it worked out. And that new dome, that Inuit dome where the Clippers play is awesome. Awesome. It is awesome. It's. It's. It's the new level where domes are going to go. The screen stuff. But the fights were good.

[Aaron Weber]

And Nate's gonna be in Passion of the Christ, too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. I'm playing Joseph. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You gotta learn Aramaic.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's gonna be tough.

[Brian Bates]

I guess I'll go in the movie a little bit. They go, not that, you know, you're Joseph, so you'll be out pretty quick. Yeah, you're out pretty. He goes, we have you pop in, but you. Yeah, yeah. It's a cameo more. Yeah. But it'll be right there for the main part of the movie, so that's cool. So, yeah, so that's. That's where I was at.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome. I was home. I could have been working. It was our five year wedding anniversary, so.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, congrats.

[Brian Bates]

So that's great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So, yeah. All right.

[Nate Bargetti]

I love how we did this whole long diet thing. And you go, yeah. So that's where I was at.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I was excited to talk about it.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And so I was at a place where I was talking about this.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Diet. So that's why. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I could have asked y'all before where you were at.

[Aaron Weber]

Uhhuh.

[Nate Bargetti]

And being at ufc, seeing people in really good shape will make you go, I want to get in shape.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. These guys are all. These are all in shape.

[Dusty Slay]

Even in movies you watch, like, Meet the Parents, like, Ben Stiller is a goofy kind of dork. That's part of the plot, right. He's this, like, dorky male nurse, and then they're playing volleyball in the pool. He takes his shirt off, he's ripped.

[Brian Bates]

Steve Carell was. Is in very good shape on the Office. You don't want it to be. Comedy is like that interesting thing where you don't. It's almost. You don't want to be, like, too in shape or something. I'm not trying to get. I mean, I. I just. What I want to do. I. I can't live like this.

[Dusty Slay]

There's nothing funny about a physically fit man. That's a line. That's funny, people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

No one wants to see Lance Armstrong do comedy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, yeah. And I don't plan on. I, I just don't want to walk around looking like a problem.

[Dusty Slay]

36.

[Brian Bates]

36 is. Yeah, yeah. They don't, they don't even know what to tell me. You know, I mean, you're. When you get like that, you know, they're like, just walk for 10 minutes a day. Like that's the advice they give you. That's how big you are. Is they just go like do a 10 minute walk.

[Dusty Slay]

Try to get the blood flowing a bit.

[Brian Bates]

Something.

[Aaron Weber]

Take some off those joints.

[Brian Bates]

Do you get out of bed? Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Here are some aerobics you can do sitting down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, just a lot of, you know, I'm going to be in a pool with old women. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Water aerobics.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Dustin, did you do the Tonight show last week?

[Nate Bargetti]

I did last week. I did the Tonight show at a hot set. Super fun.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a good set.

[Nate Bargetti]

I did the comedy seller too, the night before. The last time I did the comedy seller, I did not feel good about it and I was not pumped about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Wait, it was before the Tonight show last time.

[Nate Bargetti]

Just a. As a prep. I always do it as a prep for the show. And the last time, I mean, it went fine. I won him back by the end. But it was a. First half was not very good. And then this time it was super hot. Oh, that's like so hot. I was like, I could just go home now. I don't even need to do the Tonight Show. This.

[Brian Bates]

Did you go the seller or the Village Underground?

[Nate Bargetti]

Both.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Did the seller first. Then the Village Underground saw Derek Stroop. He was there doing some sets. Saw Ryan Hamilton there. He was doing some sets and. But yeah, Tonight show was great. Hot set. Feel good. Number five.

[Dusty Slay]

Five, dude. Five Timers Club.

[Brian Bates]

That's insane.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. I think they said Nate's done it 15 times now. Something like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But I think it's a. And it's a mix of just being on the show too. Like that Snead started doing panel counting panel as well. He goes. But yeah, I mean, I think I was like 3rd or 10, 11, 12, 13, something like that. But it is stand up.

[Nate Bargetti]

It is fun to do it multiple times because it's nice to, you know, because it's like, you know, you do it. But it's nice to be asked to come back and. And then to come back and you.

[Dusty Slay]

Know what's the cool part about those sets is where they have the wide shot and you see Fallon in the darkness. Like Keeling over his laughter.

[Nate Bargetti]

That's the best I could hear the band laughing this time. I really felt like this was one of my better.

[Dusty Slay]

And they're not your usual audience.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, I felt like. Yeah. I mean, well, yeah, they always laugh. They're always nice. But it's like I really could hear them.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, they're big comedy fans.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, yeah, I could hear when, like, I always like to do the set, you know, on the show, before the show, just so everybody.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, you do it.

[Nate Bargetti]

I always do it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Nate Bargetti]

Like kind of to the crew.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

And this time the crew actually was laughing and. And I was. You. I was expecting no one to laugh. So it actually threw me when they started laughing at my stuff and yeah, it was great. I mean, it was just fun all around. Yeah, I like to do it. I really like to kind of have a bad set before I. Before I go. Just so I.

[Brian Bates]

Because when you walk out for people that don't know when you do like you kind of go out to run through the show, you rehearse you as a standup, they go, if you want to do your whole set, like the musician might play their whole song.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And so you could do the set. I've. I always do. I would go out there and, you know, maybe I did one joke or something, but I didn't do the whole set. But that is interesting that you like to do it. That makes sense to go. And you. Because you get a rhythm of like, this is what it's going. You've already set it in the room and so you kind of know what to do.

[Nate Bargetti]

And it, you know, chances are it's gonna go worse for the crew than it will when you actually. So it's like. So, you know, I like to have a set where I'm like, I want to see how what jokes will work every time and what jokes potentially might not work. So that when they don't work as well as I. As they have other times, I'm prepared for that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

It's nothing like a joke working every time. And then you tell it and it doesn't work and you're like, whoa, what happened? It throws me. So I like to know all possible scenarios.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

And it was great. And then I went to Birmingham, Alabama, did a sold out show. A lot of friends and family, a lot of people I haven't seen in a long time came out. Matter of fact, we took this picture. This is me and I. I had some stepbrothers when I was growing up from. From the time I was like four to 13, about nine years. And this is when I. In 1986 on the right. And I've not seen the guy in the back in about 30 years.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargetti]

But he came to the show, we all hung out, and I made him recreate this photo here.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you recognize him from or had it been.

[Nate Bargetti]

Well, I had seen him on Facebook. He actually married a girl I went to high school with that I was already friends with. So I. I saw him on there, but physically seen him in 30 years, and it was great. We hung out, we had a good time, Talked about some old times. I got a joke where I talk about drinking gas, you know, kind of siphon out of a lawnmower. It's because we used to have a charge account at this old country store and where we go, oh, I want to get some gas. And he would just, you know, let us put it in. And my dad would pay the bill. But they jacked it up. They started buying cigarettes and beer. Jacked it up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

So we got cut off. So in order to ride the four wheeler, we needed gas. So he tried to siphon out of the lawnmower, and then I accidentally drank it. And it was a, you know, it was a fun time. Yeah. But a burped up gas for like a week. I mean, it is.

[Brian Bates]

It's something serious.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a real deal. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

But, yeah, it was great to see those guys. And they look good.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome.

[Nate Bargetti]

They, you know, they pointed out clearly these guys are biological brothers here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

And I'm the step, but yeah, that was nice.

[Dusty Slay]

That's awesome.

[Nate Bargetti]

Then I went to Pensacola, Florida, Another great show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Two theater shows, two hot weekend, one sold out, one very close to being sold out.

[Brian Bates]

And that's sold out. That counts because you only have single seats left.

[Nate Bargetti]

That's true. That's true.

[Brian Bates]

So they're. I mean, those are sold out.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, It's a great weekend.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Had a couple weekends off and it's nice to. Nice to be back.

[Brian Bates]

To get back in the groove.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, it is.

[Brian Bates]

Get back in the groove. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

On the subway and I've been on the subway in a while. That guy was just looking at his phone. It looks like he's passed out. But.

[Dusty Slay]

That'S great, man.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. You know, it's nice to be. Because I watch. I stay on the Internet a lot. Right. You know, the Internet is always making New York look like it's just completely collapsing and everything's awful and bad, and I had a great time. Nothing bad happened. Nothing Bad ever happens to me in New York City.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

When you're going there to perform on the Tonight Show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You stay in Dirty Rock. You're right, Rockefeller.

[Nate Bargetti]

Well, that's.

[Dusty Slay]

What's everybody complaining about. That is they treat you like royalty.

[Nate Bargetti]

That is.

[Brian Bates]

That's literally kind of the problem they have. Well, maybe that everybody just goes, I don't understand. My butler's cool, and he's never done anything to me. The point is, I rode the subway once in 1987, and it was fine.

[Nate Bargetti]

Even Birmingham, Alabama, everybody says it's dangerous. Had a great time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You're gonna. You tend to. Gonna have a great time when you don't have to grind it out. That looks like Judah Freelander.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, I had a hand on his hat.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he did.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

So I didn't see him get people.

[Dusty Slay]

Dressing up like you at the shows. Exciting times.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Nate Bargetti]

That was Jimmy in that video. That's Jimmy Fallon doing my wave.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's fun.

[Nate Bargetti]

Dusty Slug. Have a little wife.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Aaron, you were in Detroit. You skipped yourself, but you were in Detroit.

[Dusty Slay]

I was in Detroit. We mercifully canceled those shows that were during the game. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow.

[Dusty Slay]

It was the right move, dude.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Because that club before or like that day that.

[Dusty Slay]

Like two days before.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I go, why don't we call and float the idea?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they brought it up before we could even mention it. So we were like, yeah, we'll do it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The club is right next to the stadium. It was chaos. And I mean, it was like the super bowl there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So it would have been pointless to do the show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I was home by 7:30am Saturday. It was great.

[Nate Bargetti]

And then also, if the shows had been after, it'd be a little bit of sad.

[Dusty Slay]

And the Lions got. It was a bad loss.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So the mood would have been.

[Aaron Weber]

One guy emailed us that he went to both and Friday night was still worse, but.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm joking.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I heard your shows were great. I like.

[Dusty Slay]

They were fun. They were fun. Your old buddy Daniel Rucker was at it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Yes. He texted me and he said he loved talking with me.

[Dusty Slay]

He said he was a DCA guy. And then I said, remind me your name. He said, daniel Rucker. I was like, you've been name dropped. I mean, dozens of times on the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Good guy. Him and his wife were great. Anyway.

[Brian Bates]

Awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, let's get started with the comments.

[Brian Bates]

There we go. This doesn't start the. It doesn't start the engagement part.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

So now we're talking to you people. Yeah. Leon Wisewald married into that name. New favorite episode. Nate and Dusty were in rare form, especially during the back to back conversation of big guys on planes in Lebanon. Dmv. Boom.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, it was a hot. It was a hot.

[Brian Bates]

We brought it.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, he's saying rare form. So basically saying finally.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, yeah, very rare.

[Brian Bates]

We're in a good groove right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Me and Dusty, Aaron and Brian did what they did.

[Brian Bates]

But you do. We have a high. We have a high ceiling. Y'all just.

[Dusty Slay]

The bar is high.

[Brian Bates]

The bar is.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian and I have to show up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We've done our part.

[Brian Bates]

You've done. Yeah. Angie Sickler at the age of 14, 15, my son and daughter were vine stars. Chris, Is that a weed? And had a merch deal in the works with Vine. But I finalized the deal just as vine was going under. Fast forward to now. And a bunch of randos online are reposting his top videos and selling merch based on his videos.

[Dusty Slay]

That's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Do you have, like.

[Aaron Weber]

I looked it up. Do you know this?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Remember this?

[Dusty Slay]

No. Not by the name, at least.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, I like to think Angie was really dragging her feet on the deal. This is her regret.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Tick Tock's back for now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we'll see. That's what now. But your friend is online. Yeah, it's. I mean, that's the thing is the Internet, that kind of stuff. It's the Wild West. And so, you know, it's, it's, it's impossible to kind of say. But this is almost. Here's the example of what I believe if you want to do something like, Something like this means, all right, you had the idea. But that means you can't just look at it as like, well, now a bunch of people are taking money from us and we should have, we should have capitalized on that. You should create a new Chris. Is that a weed? Like, that's how you got to think of it.

[Nate Bargetti]

Should have kept it.

[Brian Bates]

You got to think of it and it's. And you might still be. I'm not even saying you did anything wrong or she might not be.

[Aaron Weber]

I looked him up. He's doing great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. You might not. Yeah, he's got it now. He's on.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, he's social media.

[Dusty Slay]

He's.

[Aaron Weber]

He's still got a presence. He.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's good.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm forgetting now exactly what he's doing. Now. But.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, yeah, so he's doing.

[Brian Bates]

So he's doing good. All right. Yeah, but that's it. But just this is more general advice. Someone talked about it. I was talking to someone about it. Where they. People think, well, like I'm about to. I need to capitalize now on something. And you're. If you're in that mindset of capitalizing out, then you just gotta be aware that, like, there is going to be no future then. So then go like, I'm capitalizing now. And then my plan will be something completely different. Otherwise, if something pops off and then you got, wow, everybody's looking at me now. Now you got to create. It's not about capitalizing on what that was at that moment. You got to go create the next thing.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because then once they keep it going because then once. Once they can rely to know I can come to this person and they're going to continue to bring me entertainment. That's. That's how you do it. I think too many people get like a viral thing and then they go, I got to make everything off of this right now. And then they focus on that. And then you're, you know, it's like just. It's like, all right, you. You figured something out. See if you can repeat that or just accept. Yeah, I'm trying to go get as much cash as I can just to duck out and then be like, you know, go. This is just. This was a fun moment in my life.

[Nate Bargetti]

Like the, like the girl. The hawk to a girl that seemingly is in trouble now. I don't know. But she really capitalized.

[Brian Bates]

She go, yeah. It's like they do something like that, you know, it's like, you don't. Because when you get something like that pops a viral, it's rarely. You've had enough time to really prepare.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So, yeah. You're then asked to like, whereby's watching. So there was like, all right, we'll come do a whole thing. You're like, oh, I can't do a whole thing Right.

[Nate Bargetti]

Especially like with her, where you didn't actually do anything creative. Something just happened to you. Yeah, that's cap. But if you do it, you could probably do it again, right? If. If you.

[Brian Bates]

If you're. Well, I don't know. I mean, it's. It. You know, that's. That's where it's tough because they want to. You got to go. You got to go grind it out.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's hard to make someone. Someone to go grind something out when you just have Immediately been giving a million dollars, basically.

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So, like, when you're, you know, it would take enough awareness. I mean, it's almost impossible to be honest. It's like you would have to get it in like a child star, like maybe, you know, because it's like when they go get that and they become famous so quick, it's. What are you going to tell that person? What are you going to tell them when they're the, you know. You know, to be like, well, what do you want to do now? And they're like, well, I want to do this other idea. This other crazy idea. They don't really know what they're building off of because they haven't had to go like through the entire ropes to earn it.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I look back at my career and I would have wanted all this success when I was just started, I was trying to get that it never happened. And I look back on it now, you know, I was blessed. Thank the Lord it didn't happen because it's. Now I'm in a much better position to be like, I can make decisions. My emotions are out of it. When you're younger, you're very emotional and you make very emote, you know, my emotions are out a lot of any decisions I make now, and they're just. And you got to kind of be like that. And it's hard when you're not this person. But, you know, in general, it's hard for someone to do that. Whatever you go, if you want to get into the comedy, if you want to get into music, just be prepared to be like, this is it. I'm grinding it out and I'm going to figure it out. And then, you know, and it works. You. You know, I see there's a lot of guys, comics we started with that are writers now and they maybe they're not doing stand up like they did when we first did it, but they're writers and they're creating shows and you learn a tool. Learn something. Learn a tool.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

An act. Have something you can sit on. Brooke McLeod Smith. Brooke McLeod Smith. She was like. She got married and kept the McLeod.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, she likes. That's a good name.

[Brian Bates]

That is a good name. The McLeod family is prevalent. Is that the word prominent? Prominent, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Prevalent too.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Prevalent feels like a lot. I don't know that there's a lot of McLeod's maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, prevalent means there's a lot of. So Smith is prevalent? Yes, McLeod is prominent.

[Dusty Slay]

You were trying to say they're like an important family.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So the Burke, McLeod. McLeod.

[Dusty Slay]

McLeod's get things done.

[Brian Bates]

The McLeod's get things done.

[Dusty Slay]

They run the city.

[Nate Bargetti]

Who's the McLeod's?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, everybody.

[Nate Bargetti]

You just Clouds. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody knows.

[Nate Bargetti]

Okay, okay. Strong name.

[Brian Bates]

The clouds run the town.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. It's so strong that you're like, I'm. I'm gonna. I'll take your. Take your name, but I'm not gonna drop the other.

[Brian Bates]

Let me do your name a favor.

[Dusty Slay]

It'd be insane to drop my name.

[Brian Bates]

The Smith.

[Nate Bargetti]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

The Smith family has never dealt with this type of publicity around their last name.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

But causes. The McLeod got attached to it. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

My dad had Prodigy. What? My dad had Prodigy.

[Nate Bargetti]

I think that's in the Internet in the 90s.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay. My dad had Prodigy in the early 90s. I mean, come on. This is a McLeod. They had Internet early 90s. My dad had Prodigy in the early 90s, which was an online service that had message boards. I was also the first in my county to get AOL. I mean, this is the McLeod family. When I searched for other people, there was nobody. Yeah. Because they're. You're one of one. Finally, a friend I knew also joined, but it took a while. Probably another McLeod. Yeah. This McLeod family, it's so wild just.

[Dusty Slay]

To be on the Internet alone.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And there's nobody else on there. That's how early it is. That's crazy. I'd never heard of Prodigy online service from 1984 to 2001. It's one of the major Internet service providers of the 1990s.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, I remember Prodigy.

[Brian Bates]

I don't remember. I don't think I remember Prodigy. Where are they AT now?

[Dusty Slay]

They're defunct. They're part of AT T now.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

Or they were. Became part of AT&T, got married and.

[Aaron Weber]

Got off of it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they closed. Do they always say it like that? Founded and then they say fate? With a company, if it's a company.

[Dusty Slay]

That no longer exists, that seems like it's like, what happened to it, but doesn't really seem.

[Nate Bargetti]

Maybe. I don't. Maybe I'm not clear on what defunct means, but it doesn't seem defunct if you're now a part of 18.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you, like, sold to 18.

[Nate Bargetti]

You joined up with them, you teamed up.

[Dusty Slay]

No longer in effect or use, not operating or functioning. I think they became part of AT&T and then AP T phased them out. That's what it feels like.

[Nate Bargetti]

It feels like that. You know, they still came in. They're part of AT T's strength Now.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Yeah, maybe I gotta read up on this. Never heard of it. We were just straight aol.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you were. Later. This was early.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Nate Bargetti]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

Madison Hill. When I was in middle school, AOL instant messenger was huge. And for me to be on it, I took up the one phone line we had in the house. My dad was a pastor and he would get to work the next morning, find out someone in the church had died and they couldn't get a hold of him all night because our line was always busy. He would be furious with me. Also that I could post a song lyric from Nerve. Oh all.

[Dusty Slay]

Also that.

[Brian Bates]

Also that I could could post a song lyric from Nirvana.

[Dusty Slay]

That was big. You had an away message.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

On aim.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And you put yeah. Lyrics to a song.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. It was huge.

[Nate Bargetti]

If someone would message you and you weren't there.

[Dusty Slay]

If you were afk, you put up an away message. Away from keyboard. You put up an away message and then, you know, your buddy list shows up.

[Nate Bargetti]

What would yours be?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, did I had all kinds of embarrassing stuff like Good Charlotte lyrics. All this.

[Nate Bargetti]

I was the worst embarrassing.

[Dusty Slay]

It was super embarrassing.

[Brian Bates]

Were you a teenage girl when you were in high school?

[Aaron Weber]

We're not judging.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it's fine. Yeah, we think it's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Good Charlotte, that first album was great. But you have an away message. So they go, oh, he's online, but he's afk. Let's see what he's up to. And then your way message would be, you know, just a way to express yourself.

[Brian Bates]

Would you sing the song or it's typed out.

[Dusty Slay]

It's just like text.

[Nate Bargetti]

Seems like people from Madison Hills Church should realize that they could have reached her on AOL and said if they couldn't get a hold of her dad, get her AOL handle, call Brooke McLeod.

[Aaron Weber]

Smith and say send her a message.

[Brian Bates]

And be honest with you, you might have a health problem if this many people were dying at your church. He's like, it's like every week 40 people did I. I show up to church and everybody's like, where it happened. We called you last night. He's like, madison, she was on the Internet. I had no idea.

[Aaron Weber]

The guy who last week we talked about Morse code, the guy who invented it, Morse. He did it because he was like in New York on Business or something. And his wife died and. And they had to send him a letter like saying she's sick, but by the time he got it and got home, she was already dead. And he was like, I want to invent.

[Nate Bargetti]

That's very sad.

[Aaron Weber]

A quicker way to get views.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Aaron. Funny. Gosh.

[Dusty Slay]

It's just funny. That's how they had to do it back. Somebody had to handwrite a letter. Your wife died.

[Nate Bargetti]

Your wife's sick.

[Brian Bates]

Your wife.

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh, that.

[Dusty Slay]

She.

[Brian Bates]

She died. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So wait, was he already home by the time the letter got there?

[Nate Bargetti]

No, he got the letter.

[Dusty Slay]

He got the letter and then goes, oh, I need to go home.

[Aaron Weber]

It took him like two weeks to get home.

[Brian Bates]

And then she's dead.

[Nate Bargetti]

And that's funny.

[Dusty Slay]

It's still kind of funny.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's how Elvis died, but I think that's how. I bet back then you knew, like you got a letter that she's sick, you're like, I don't know. Yeah. You almost got to assume the word.

[Dusty Slay]

You just basically just got to say goodbye every time you leave that.

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh, just speaking of. Speaking of Elvis, just real fast, I gotta send a Tick Tock video to them. Tick Tock was down for 12 hours. It was a sad time. Came back, I found a video, it says that Elvis is Donald Trump. So I said that to them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

And so that's got to be true, in case you were wondering where he.

[Brian Bates]

Is, something like that. Grace, Aaron doesn't even look overweight at all anymore.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

So it's funny that he is still worried about his plane seat. All the guys on the podcast just like the weight jokes, but he looks pretty normal sized to me. Granted, there is a big table in the way.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you, Grace.

[Brian Bates]

That's very nice.

[Dusty Slay]

35.

[Brian Bates]

She has a big. I think she has a big tv.

[Nate Bargetti]

And sounds like she's given a lot of grace.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. She's got one of those old, old big TVs. That's the box. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The rear projection TV.

[Brian Bates]

Where do you watch this from, Grace? With binoculars across the street. It's. Yeah, no, Aaron, you want to do your body skin. Will you say your body?

[Dusty Slay]

I already know I'm 35.

[Aaron Weber]

That would be great.

[Brian Bates]

If anybody else wants to be vulnerable, I'll do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Isn't it just a. It's. You can just calculate it, right? Based on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but if you want to get punched in the mouth, go do it for real. And then you watch some girl you never met tell you that's where it's the real deal just they, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

She comes in with a clipboard.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. She's like, out of college, and she's like, hi. It's the most. I've never seen someone like this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And you're like, oh. Oh, no. Anthony Goodwin. Dusty pitched an idea to Trey that he should have created a burner account to go against himself. Now I'm starting to believe that Dump Dusty might actually be Dusty. He is a genius.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. Oh, you know, the Dump Dusty guy has like an AI profile picture. It almost looks like me. The Dump Dusty guy is trying to be me.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they say you hate the things you see in yourself.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. You know this guy, he was.

[Brian Bates]

But they're saying you are. You are dumb Dusty.

[Nate Bargetti]

He was even on the. Even popped up on the Tonight show set to say Dust.

[Dusty Slay]

Did he really?

[Nate Bargetti]

This guy? There's no one more obsessed than this guy.

[Dusty Slay]

He's got Google alert set up for you.

[Nate Bargetti]

Even I. As if I were the burner account. I couldn't get on it that fast.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Becky Waller. My husband and I saw Greg Warren in Tacoma, and it was a riot. We also made some new friends. The woman sitting at her tables wearing a Nateland hoodie and her husband had on a we're having a good time T shirt.

[Nate Bargetti]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

When I told them we got to see tickets to see Aaron again when he comes back in February, they hopped on their phones and got tickets to the same show.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. I love that.

[Brian Bates]

That's what we love.

[Dusty Slay]

While Greg's on stage buying tickets to my show.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly right. Take that, Greg.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's when we want you guys to buy tickets during Greg set.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We've always said that. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. You're like, sure, this is a riot, but, yeah, we could do. We could do better.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

As you watch Greg, always remember, you should be thinking about us and where we are at.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

I think Greg come in. What do you think he's gonna come in with? Donuts? Like, he's old, so I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

If he can eat, but he's healthy like he is.

[Dusty Slay]

He's old, but he's an athlete, man. He's still got. He's still got it in him.

[Brian Bates]

You see? You think Greg's going to be able.

[Dusty Slay]

To knock out house a couple dozen? I think I really, really. I think it's going to put him out of commission for a long time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He needs to be off.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. We need to have, like, probably somebody on standby.

[Brian Bates]

Just like we're having ambulance. Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like in Fox Catcher.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you ever see that?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Channing Tatum, when he went off the wagon, just started eating cake and.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, then he had to lose.

[Aaron Weber]

12 pounds in 30 minutes to make weight.

[Brian Bates]

Good.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a true story.

[Brian Bates]

I've never watched that movie. Kaylee Kendrick. I'm currently listening to old episodes. I just listen to Nate talk about the time he visited Djibouti. I'm from the States, but have lived in Djibouti for a few years and got so excited to hear y'all talk about it. It. Nate mentioned that people work until noon and then everything's closed. That is true. It's so hot here that everyone in the country stops everything to rest midday. A countrywide nap time is one of my favorite things about living here.

[Nate Bargetti]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

It's true. That sounds fun. Yeah, it is. It is. It's. It's. It's crazy. It's all just shuts down.

[Nate Bargetti]

So how. How early do they start, though? It's a pretty early day. You think, or.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think they get started very early, and then they have. They have to just, you know, everybody lays low. And then you come back out during the night. Yes.

[Nate Bargetti]

How hot does it get?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it's gotta be.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it was like, 85 is considered cold to them or something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I Wish it was 85 degrees in this room. The room's freezing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I love it.

[Brian Bates]

This is what it is.

[Dusty Slay]

This is great.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

This feels like right when you get into a walk in grace.

[Nate Bargetti]

Freezer should hear that, right? It's like, that's. That's what we're talking about here. We're like, everybody's freezing, and Aaron's like, I love it.

[Dusty Slay]

I like my toes to be a little cold.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good feeling.

[Brian Bates]

This is right.

[Nate Bargetti]

Circulation getting there to those toes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Come on, man.

[Brian Bates]

That's too far.

[Aaron Weber]

Dustin, you may notice you have gout. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Sorry about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I got scraped out.

[Nate Bargetti]

I don't think of you as a really big guy either, to be honest. I just like making the jokes.

[Dusty Slay]

I love it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I love it.

[Nate Bargetti]

I don't think O'Brien is that old either. I just like making the jokes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, they get your glasses.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I don't have the one thing that, like, we tease you about reading.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wait, you guys can improve on that. There's something you could do. I'm just going to get older.

[Dusty Slay]

You're getting worse and worse.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but I'm getting older.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, all right, I'll start making fun of your age?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean, I mean you, I mean, it's hard because you're, you need them to make fun of my age. I don't think you're going to remember to do it.

[Aaron Weber]

But when I'm 88 and you're 81, you think you'll still be.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. A couple guys. What is it? Born in the 70s, graduated high school in the 90s.

[Nate Bargetti]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

That's right. I told someone that this weekend. They loved it because they were like a little older than Mel Gibson.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Mel Gibson. Yeah. He's older than you. He is, yeah. Devin Lee Johnson. I would say that. I would tell you you don't feel old. We make fun of it, but you don't.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Because I don't think I would make the jokes if I felt you felt old.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. Like if you were hobbling in here or whatever and had trouble getting down at the desk.

[Dusty Slay]

Right, right.

[Brian Bates]

No, yeah, we do help.

[Aaron Weber]

Say you have a two year old.

[Brian Bates]

Well, we have. We did build a ramp at this club.

[Nate Bargetti]

In, in anticipation because we know it's coming.

[Brian Bates]

It's coming.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well that is true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's true. Devin Lee Johnson. Dusty, I've seen Wicked on Broadway in New York twice and I can promise you the movie version is a thousand times more amazing. I know how you feel about witchcraft, but I promise the movie will bring you so much joy. They did not ruin it. They made it so much better. That's a rare thing to hear, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Nate Bargetti]

Well, that's interesting. I appreciate thing. I. Devin Lee Johnson.

[Brian Bates]

We're still going on camera.

[Dusty Slay]

You are?

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So we just record in the dark.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Devin Lee Johnson side recording in the dark.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I think it's kind of fun.

[Nate Bargetti]

This is the third podcast in a row with a power.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Do we show it?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, we have.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, then let's just keep going. Yeah, the discussion. Last one.

[Nate Bargetti]

Okay, here we go.

[Brian Bates]

Oliver, there's a discussion around favorite venue types was Kent. Oliver. The discussion around favorite favorite venue types was interesting. You mentioned clubs, theaters and arenas. Has the date ever considered a stadium show or do you think audio would be too difficult to master for comedy? You know, we'll see. We will see.

[Dusty Slay]

I. I'm thinking about stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Are you?

[Nate Bargetti]

I feel like I. And I don't know, maybe I'm wrong because I've never been to a stadium comedy, but I feel like it is more for the novelty to be like, look, I did a stadium because it can't be. You do it super good for comedy.

[Brian Bates]

Look, I, I can see I want to do some pretty big stuff. I, you know, Yeah, I do have, I don't know, I, I think you could do it. And I mean, look, with our arenas, I mean I really make sure I do the best I can to make it with audio. We're doing a show screens on this next tour. Like I, I do everything to make it where you can. I want you to have the best experience here. In here we have more trucks because of this. We're doing stuff to make it where you can do it. So I do like the challenge of doing it now. I, I, I would never plan on doing a big stadium tour like, you know, for doing like this, whatever. But if I could, if I, you know, I don't know if I, you know, Titan's got a new dome coming maybe.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, let's open the Titan show.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe there's a, you know, who knows, we'll see. I, you know, I don't know what we're all, you know. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

So we love talking about our Helix mattresses. I have had my Helix mattress for almost three years now. Nate's parents just got one and they love it. We all do. It improves how I sleep. Everyone knows I love their pillows. We talk about it all the time. But it has helped with my sleep. Brian and Aaron have sleep apnea, well documented.

[Dusty Slay]

And they throwing us under the bus here. Come on Helix.

[Nate Bargetti]

And they said this is an ad read that everybody gets every podcast it says Brian and Aaron that they'll put your last names in there. And they said their Helix mattresses has helped with it. Sleep apnea, that is that they have. I'm getting better sleep. Aaron's getting better sleep and Brian is getting better, better sleep. My old mattress was one of those old springs, you know, just a real wires coming through, stabbing me in the back. I had a lot of tetanus shots coming out cuz I kept getting stabbed by the springs.

[Dusty Slay]

But you wake up with smeared blood on the mattress and you're like, what happened?

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. But finally I realized how bad that sleep was for me, you know. And Helix fixed that issue. It's great for hot sleepers, people with back pain or snores. It's for everyone. Yeah, it's a good mattress. The pillows are great. It is a good mattress. They're really good. I like them. I do sleep good on my Helix mattress. My whole family does.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

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[Aaron Weber]

All right. This week, I thought since you had your big DCA weekend, we could talk about high school.

[Brian Bates]

There we go.

[Nate Bargetti]

All right. And I just saw a bunch of friends that I went to high school with this past weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like a reunion. Yeah. So we're all 10 years apart. We all have our. Do you do five year reunions.

[Dusty Slay]

For high school? Yeah, I don't. Maybe they do, but they're super casual. I feel like 10 years is the first kind of let's make a big.

[Aaron Weber]

Deal because your 15s this year.

[Dusty Slay]

I guess so.

[Nate Bargetti]

25, we did a 10 and then the 20 was during 2020. So it got canceled. So they are doing a five this year. 25.

[Brian Bates]

But is it hard to get canceled in high school? That definitely did not believe in the reason.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, well, I bet it was for me. I was like, let's get together.

[Brian Bates]

I wouldn't opalika. They just go, y'all just had it like normal. We didn't even realize what was going on.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So you're at 20, you're 25 is next.

[Nate Bargetti]

25 is this year. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. What?

[Aaron Weber]

You know, 35 for me.

[Brian Bates]

35 for you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And what is mine? So I'm 97.

[Aaron Weber]

You're be like 28.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, 28.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

So I'll be in 27. I'll be 30.

[Dusty Slay]

30 year reunion.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. And I saw a lot of them this past weekend. I see, and I see a good bit just traveling now, but yeah. 30 year. That's crazy.

[Nate Bargetti]

This would be college stuff.

[Brian Bates]

You talk to anybody from college?

[Aaron Weber]

Some, but a lot more high school.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Do you. Is. Is there college reunions or is that not a big thing?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I performed in my college reunion last year.

[Brian Bates]

Is that like, is that as big as high school or is high school more the known for reunions?

[Dusty Slay]

They're. I mean, I don't know. I care more about the high school one. I. I keep in touch more with college friends. We talk all the time. Especially with like football team doing as well as it's doing. We're talking all the time now, so.

[Nate Bargetti]

And you grew up with high school, like high school people like you grow up with your whole life, Kindergarten with them. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But college people tend to look down on anybody that does not go. Like, college people are elite.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That look down on people.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I would think once you go to college, you're like, obviously, I'm not gonna talk to anybody from high school, because I.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you keep them around to feel good about yourself. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You gotta know, like, what are the common folk think about.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, this going on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Like, you go to it and you go, hey, how much is milk?

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

And you find out all that kind of stuff. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

In case I want to run for president.

[Dusty Slay]

People still buying eggs.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They go, yes. Yeah, that's nice.

[Brian Bates]

That's cool, man.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Who's the president? Because it doesn't matter to us because we're above it.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Who? Well, that's cool, man. That's cool. Yeah, I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you know that. Do you ever watch your S.O. succession?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. It's a great show.

[Aaron Weber]

But this is an example of elite people watching it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's literally the whole. The whole point of it.

[Brian Bates]

We started. Me and Laura were going to try to start watching together, because we don't watch anything together, and I was going to start watching it. I know it's very much talked about, and it's a great show, but that's a show that I would use as an example in Hollywood. What I want to make is that you got a show like that, that they're making that kind of stuff where it is. I'm not saying it's not the best show ever made. I'm not saying any of that stuff. But it's not. You're. You're making it for each other and you're not making it for mass viewing. And so that's what.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a. It's pretty inaccessible. A lot of it.

[Brian Bates]

It's. Yes, it's. It's. I. And I. I think I could watch it. I think, like, it. I think it's. It's the idea of, like, it's Neiman Marcus, and you're like, well, but you're not making any more Walmarts.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're only making Neiman Marcus's.

[Dusty Slay]

But you could take the whole story of that show and bring it down, like, 10 income brackets and it would still be the same show. It's about the family dynamics and all that kind of stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But anyway. But in that show, it takes place during COVID and it's Never addressed on the show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And the creator of the show was like, well, it did not affect people this rich at all. So just never even address it at all.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They never wear a mask. They never do anything because, oh, wow, these are billionaires. They're doing whatever they want anyway.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good way of getting around having to write in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Covid. But it's also probably pretty accurate.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, again, don't. I don't want to be yelled at about success. I.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I know.

[Brian Bates]

I. I just say, like, as I just always think of it, I don't think anybody's making. You could make stuff that is, like I said, more accessible.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That would be more. But then that's the show, though. When every. It win. It wins every award and does everything because it's great, it deserves it. But you got to be like, you're killing yourself with these award shows. Then you're like, you know, you gotta have some big mood. You gotta have people. You know, the Oscars can't be. I get it. You're making, like, this perfect art.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But, like, I mean, dude, people have lives they need to go watch. And one Mission Impossible movie a year, and then. And then go back to their busy lives.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. I think we got to start selling DVDs again. You know, they do say that's what's killing comedies, right? Is it's like people. You would make a comedy, it would make a certain amount of money at the box office, but then you would make a ton of money off DVDs. Certain ones. Like, I saw a thing like Talking about Grandma's was not a very good box office success, but huge DVD money.

[Dusty Slay]

But they knew the whole time. Right. It's not going to make money.

[Nate Bargetti]

But nobody wants to do that now because you're not going to make the DVD money. I say we demand physical media.

[Dusty Slay]

But I think the reason they stopped making it is because people weren't buying it. It's not like they just decided to stop making them.

[Nate Bargetti]

We got to demand it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, if we did, they would make.

[Brian Bates]

You said, I'm not going to sell it to Netflix or to anybody. You have to buy a physical media. Yeah, but maybe not dvd, but you have to buy it on your.

[Dusty Slay]

And nobody would watch it.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, but maybe, maybe not.

[Dusty Slay]

Unless it was Good Night and somebody uploads it on. Somebody torn it online.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, that's. You know what that is tough is that a storyline in succession. That's. That's what I. That's What I always feel like you're. That was a West Wing episode. Yeah. Okay. West Wing was a mass hit, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

See, you make it. You can make stuff that's.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Won a ton of Emmys and everything else.

[Brian Bates]

I think that's when all that stuff was great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because it was like. It was. It was shows that people were watching now. It's. It's kind of the award shows are for each other. For them.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And it's like.

[Dusty Slay]

I know what you mean.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Like when you. You know, they even, like, they brought Vin Diesel out to do, like, the. They had to put in, I'm sure, the Golden Globes, like, all right. Box office hit.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And you're like, why are y'all?

[Dusty Slay]

Why do you hate the Slop for the Pigs Awards, basically. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Why, like, you're like, why do y'all hate the.

[Aaron Weber]

The guy who.

[Brian Bates]

You look down so much on anything that it can work for everybody. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The guy who went for baby reindeer. His acceptance speech was basically the opposite of what you're trying to do. He was like, finally, Hollywood, it's a complicated world out there, and we need to tell complicated stories. And thank you for taking a chance on this complicated story.

[Brian Bates]

They do need to do that. But you need to know that your Marvel movies are the only reason they're able to do that.

[Dusty Slay]

They subsidize.

[Nate Bargetti]

They can't.

[Brian Bates]

Like, so there has to be a realization to go, like, yeah, dude, everybody wants. I saw Baby Reindeer. It's great. The girl in that movie, in that show is. I met her. She's unbelievable. And she won everything. But so you can't do that. No one's against that. Everybody wants to do that. And, you know, and I'm not saying we need more Marvel movies, but you also have to go. There has to be a medium ground again. There's been, like, a middle class. There has to be a middle class of movies. It can't all be, like, nothing. And then the. A Marvel movie. There needs to be a business structure.

[Nate Bargetti]

Vin Diesel's the only name you guys have said in a while that I've recognized.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

I've not heard any of these movies. All right, High School Vin Diesel. Now we're talking. That's a movie I saw right after high school.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Nate Bargetti]

Fast and Furious.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that brought it back.

[Brian Bates]

I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

They're still coming out.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

25 years later. What was your high school mascot, Dusty?

[Nate Bargetti]

The Bulldogs. We had two, though.

[Dusty Slay]

It's original.

[Nate Bargetti]

We had two just like Auburn. Well, we know they were both bulldogs, but we had two live mascots. One was called Opie and Leica. We had a guy and a girl. Opie and Leica guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's fun.

[Brian Bates]

That's cool. He had a real.

[Dusty Slay]

They're bulldogs.

[Nate Bargetti]

Like, dressed up bulldogs. And then we had the live.

[Brian Bates]

Like. Are you saying, like, dogs?

[Nate Bargetti]

Like, mascot?

[Aaron Weber]

Like they were person in a costume?

[Nate Bargetti]

Yes, yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought you meant, like, actual dog.

[Nate Bargetti]

Then we had a bulldog named Otis.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, so you did have a. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

We had a real bulldog, too. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So a live mascot. I would. When you say that. I. I was thinking dog.

[Dusty Slay]

I was picturing the dog. Like, ugga.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargetti]

Well, we did have. Oh, Otis. And then Opie and Laika were the physical, like, in costume.

[Dusty Slay]

Did Otis live on campus or somebody's dog?

[Nate Bargetti]

I. I don't know where he lived. He wasn't, like, in a crate at. In the gym or anything. I don't know where he was. He wasn't running around.

[Brian Bates]

Y'all couldn't find him when the game started?

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Otis. Everybody, quiet down. Otis.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, but we were the Bulldogs.

[Dusty Slay]

That's fun. We were the Knights. Both my high schools were the Knights. Actually, I went to two different high schools. I moved to Tennessee between my sophomore and junior year to another high school called the Knights. Go Nats.

[Brian Bates]

Nuts.

[Nate Bargetti]

So, yeah, I like that you made fun of mine for being very original, and then you're like, yeah, every school I ever went to was the Knights.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, I think Bulldogs is a little more common than Knights, dude.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Bulldog has to be. I'm guessing. Do you have the most common high school mascot names? Do you have that on there?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, I'm guessing Wildcats, and I'm guessing Bulldogs is going to be a close number two.

[Brian Bates]

I was Wildcats. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty, would you go to a school if. Or send your kids to a school if their mascot was a Devil?

[Nate Bargetti]

Nah. No, I don't. I mean, yeah. I mean, you know, I don't know where I'll send them, but I. I don't like the way that starts off.

[Aaron Weber]

We were the Blue Devils.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really? That's funny that they would do that even there.

[Aaron Weber]

Brought my letterman jacket.

[Brian Bates]

You got a letterman jacket? District Champs, 1990. It's a pretty big jacket.

[Nate Bargetti]

Doesn't say your name, though, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it's got it.

[Brian Bates]

It's got his name.

[Nate Bargetti]

Whoa, look at that.

[Brian Bates]

Did you play? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They finally put me on the team my senior year. I tried that every year. Just for kind of like, comedic purposes.

[Brian Bates]

Are you talking about, like, for real?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, I mean, like.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. See, that's what I thought would happen to me, is they would finally just go, like, he's done it every year. Let's just let him have it.

[Aaron Weber]

I batted four times. I went for four.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, that's good batting.

[Nate Bargetti]

What was your hit, though? A single or.

[Aaron Weber]

It arguably could have been an error, but I'm calling it a hit.

[Nate Bargetti]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, check swing, kind of like. And then the shortstop got a glove on it. But he didn't. He didn't.

[Nate Bargetti]

Sounds like a hit.

[Dusty Slay]

Sounds like a hit.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that sounds like.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree.

[Brian Bates]

Where'd you get to as a single?

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

And then did you get a.

[Nate Bargetti]

Did you get a score?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think I did get picked off.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What time? I got to. We did have that happen last year. Versing.

[Brian Bates]

Your year, is it. When you start running, how long does it take you to get out of the batter's box?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Michael's daughter ran faster than any of us in that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That 40.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

Did you see that?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

He sent it to us.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

She ran.

[Brian Bates]

Moxie ran.

[Aaron Weber]

She ran faster than any of us in the 40.

[Brian Bates]

I'll be. Moxie's got long legs.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wait. Wait till he's down to 20%.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Be crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

What's a rematch?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Moxie has to eat 100 donuts if he wins.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get Moxie eating all these donuts.

[Dusty Slay]

It's unbelievable that you're wearing a jacket from high school and it fits like a glove.

[Brian Bates]

It almost looked big.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, you're in better shape now than you were in high school.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I've always been in great shape.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A natural athlete.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think if you looked at his, like, baits. I don't think anything's ever changed. It's been.

[Aaron Weber]

That is true.

[Brian Bates]

It's just my hairline. Yeah. It's like the straight. Like a doctor would be. Like, you're. It's. The chart is the same as when he was a baby. Yeah, it's the same. Everything's the same. Nothing's ever changed. There's no up and downs. It's just straight. Everything fits. When he was 2 to Fitz. Now it always.

[Nate Bargetti]

He's been Brian like he wasn't even really born.

[Brian Bates]

He's been this size.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

His whole life.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, I just went to get my real ID and they had my information in from when I was 16 and the lady behind the camera, she goes, you still weigh 140?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I was like, no, no, I don't.

[Nate Bargetti]

You got the real id, huh? You got to be fighting the power on that thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, everyone's gonna have to have it.

[Dusty Slay]

You're gonna have to do it to fly, though.

[Nate Bargetti]

But the less that's. The less of us sign up for it, the more they'll. Because they've already pushed it back one time.

[Brian Bates]

Oh. Because no one signed up, people weren't.

[Nate Bargetti]

Getting it, so they pushed it back. Oh, you gotta fight the power a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Is this you starting the movement right here?

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh, the movement has begun a little bit, but we should get it going.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll cut mine up.

[Nate Bargetti]

It's like, why do they need more ID for us to fly?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Like, I.

[Brian Bates]

You know what? It's like one that I never even thought of. I think I. I think when I got mine renewed, they did it. Don't you have to go get renewed? You can say, you know, renew, but.

[Dusty Slay]

You need extra stuff for it to be a real id. You need proof of Social Security number.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think.

[Dusty Slay]

And you need proof of residency.

[Nate Bargetti]

Why do they need all this? Why do they need all this stuff?

[Dusty Slay]

The one you have now is a fake id.

[Nate Bargetti]

But we've been. But we've been flying all this time now. They got to take pictures of us every time. It's like, you need more stuff every time. Just let me get on the plane.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

If you work here, an airline that's like, risk it. Airline. That's what I want. No security. We go, hey, this is the one airline where you just get right through.

[Brian Bates]

You figured out yourself. Yeah, Yeah, I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not involved.

[Nate Bargetti]

Well, I want the plane to be up to speed, but the security on.

[Brian Bates]

It, you don't know when we're taking off.

[Nate Bargetti]

I. I just want, you know, what.

[Brian Bates]

Time is the flight? Noonish.

[Nate Bargetti]

I want people to be maybe before. I want guns and knives on the plane.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Drinking. You could bring your own alcohol.

[Brian Bates]

Would your logo be a pirate?

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, Yeah, I like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Pirate on the thing.

[Nate Bargetti]

You could smoke in the bathroom.

[Brian Bates]

Smoke in the bathroom. If you seat. I like.

[Nate Bargetti]

I don't know if I like smoking in the seat.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargetti]

But you could smoke in the bathroom.

[Dusty Slay]

Smoking section in the bathroom.

[Brian Bates]

Have a smoking section.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry, I took it too far.

[Brian Bates]

That was ridiculous.

[Nate Bargetti]

Risk it Airlines.

[Dusty Slay]

Our buddy Ben Sawyer had the joke about a non smoking section in a restaurant is like the. A non peeing section in the pool. Yeah, same thing. If you are curious, Eagles. Most common high school mascot in America.

[Nate Bargetti]

How far is Bulldogs?

[Dusty Slay]

Bulldogs is number four. Wildcats is six.

[Nate Bargetti]

Where's the Knights at?

[Dusty Slay]

The Knights is. Oh, man. Pretty, pretty, pretty close. Seven, ten.

[Brian Bates]

Ten.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. So up there. Up there.

[Brian Bates]

What about. I thought it was Blue Devils.

[Dusty Slay]

The Blue Devils.

[Aaron Weber]

It's probably. There's different versions of Devils. The Red Devils.

[Dusty Slay]

Blue Devils. There's 183 in America. We're original 172 high schools.

[Aaron Weber]

Guys just retread.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Why would that. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Why you're the DCA Blue Devils.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It's a wild name for Christian Donaldson.

[Dusty Slay]

Christian Blue Devils.

[Brian Bates]

I was the. My. We were the. Or our football team and was Old Hickory Bulldogs. And then I don't remember dupont. Would you. Did you have mascots as dupont elementary? Yeah. Dupont's mascot.

[Dusty Slay]

We were always the night.

[Nate Bargetti]

Why do you not hear a lot of other dogs? I wonder? There should be other Matt. Like dogs. You know, like the. Like the. You know like what? Like the Chows. The Chow Chow. And remember that dachshund? Chow Chow was the scary dog when I was a kid. That was the one in the trailer park. That would get you.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true. We got Bulldogs and then it's all cats after that. Cats. Even Rams.

[Brian Bates]

What was number one?

[Dusty Slay]

Number one is Eagles.

[Nate Bargetti]

I guess there's wolves and stuff. Timber Wolves and Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean even you got Cardinals, you got birds.

[Nate Bargetti]

What about rottweilers? Stuff like that. Doberman Pinchers, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it gets a little long.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it does. It does. Lancers 106 high schools.

[Aaron Weber]

The Lancers, they like mascot names are almost always two syllables. Occasionally one. Rarely more than that.

[Dusty Slay]

Whoa.

[Aaron Weber]

And that's why the commanders. Because, you know, if it is a longer that they'll shorten it. That's why when Washington, the commanders are like. Well, you can't shorten it to the commies.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know.

[Aaron Weber]

But anybody else like the Buccaneers or the Bucks.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you just need it to fit that chant. The let's go. Da da.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You just need to fit that commander. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What do they do? They just go Commanders? I guess so. I hate that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, they had it with the Washington football team, so.

[Nate Bargetti]

I like football.

[Brian Bates]

It was awesome.

[Nate Bargetti]

I like that.

[Brian Bates]

Let's go Washington. I bet they do that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Let's go.

[Nate Bargetti]

Just go.

[Brian Bates]

It does have to Football.

[Nate Bargetti]

Just make it generic. You're here for both teams.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Just for the sport.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's go football.

[Brian Bates]

Trojans, Mustangs.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's have a good game.

[Brian Bates]

Let's go, Lions.

[Nate Bargetti]

Let's go. Safety. You know, that sort of stuff, just keep it safe taught here. Guys take care of each other.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm gonna venture a guess that Nate and Dusty, you're the most famous graduates of your high school.

[Nate Bargetti]

I have a key to the city of my own. My own hometown.

[Brian Bates]

I don't have a key.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Dusty's high school is a guy, Roy Lee Jackson, who played for several years in the Major League Baseball and he's now a pastor in Auburn.

[Nate Bargetti]

Okay. We have a couple of football players. TJ Jackson went on the play.

[Dusty Slay]

TJ Jackson.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. We had NFL. We had Lady Annabellum. No, Hillary Scott, she went to dca. That's right. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Her.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. MJ Garrett, he played at Vandy. Receiver, Vandy, but he's also on Real World Road Rules.

[Aaron Weber]

When you were. When you were the angel in your special, somebody said MJ Garrett really let himself go, which I thought was. He had a big blind throw.

[Brian Bates]

Specific. Very funny, but very specific. But, yeah. So, yeah, I'm trying to think if we.

[Dusty Slay]

The woman that Ted Kennedy killed went to my high school.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

In Alabama.

[Dusty Slay]

Montgomery Catholic High School. Mary Jo Capetna or something. Her name. I think she's a teacher there.

[Brian Bates]

What was she doing?

[Dusty Slay]

Just hanging out with the Kennedys, man.

[Brian Bates]

But wasn't that up in Rhode Island?

[Nate Bargetti]

Risky.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Chappaquiddick.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Sleeping in the truck.

[Dusty Slay]

Seeing the country, you know?

[Brian Bates]

Man, that's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did y'all, like. What do you talk about it?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we have a plaque for.

[Brian Bates]

Did you.

[Dusty Slay]

Statue her in the courtyard?

[Aaron Weber]

Mary Jo?

[Dusty Slay]

Mary Joe.

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Nate Bargetti]

When that happened to Ted Kennedy, he lost his driver's license for 16 months is what that says.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, I'll be honest. I've never looked into this, but I've repeated this a lot. Lot.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, so it's not even true.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go. Moved to Montgomery, Alabama. Okay. Yeah, there you go right there. Taught business. She taught typing at Montgomery Catholic High School. As typing. That's how long ago this was. Typing.

[Brian Bates]

How did she get involved with him?

[Dusty Slay]

Ted Kennedy?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

By 1960, three years later, she moved to D.C. to work for a senator, and then, you know, then just got involved in that world. Next thing you know, you're driving in a convertible with Ted Kennedy. That's how it goes.

[Aaron Weber]

Typing. It's not taught anymore.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it's. I think it's like. Yeah, it's taught just by, like.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't think.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no.

[Nate Bargetti]

Ridiculous that you would even ask this.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it's a funny question. No, type. He's not taught anymore because you type for everything now. Kids. Kids learn how to type early.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he's. Typing could be taught in first grade.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, maybe. You know what? I'm sorry. I laughed at that. That's a pretty good question. I don't know if they teach it.

[Nate Bargetti]

Very sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

Shut up.

[Aaron Weber]

Put that out for me, if you don't mind. Post that on my socials. So. But was there anybody.

[Brian Bates]

I think I had a joke about that didn't make it an official, like, type. My daughter took typing or. I took typing in seventh grade. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was like, that's how late they were teaching it to where now my daughter has, like, been typing her whole life.

[Nate Bargetti]

I took it in ninth grade. Grade.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I took it.

[Nate Bargetti]

I almost failed it.

[Aaron Weber]

Typing I took in high school.

[Dusty Slay]

On what? On a typewriter. Yeah, like, you had to do the ch and bring. Are you serious?

[Nate Bargetti]

I was on a computer.

[Brian Bates]

Mine might have been on a computer, too. I don't know if it was a typewriter, but it was. They would put a box over your hands, and so you would have to be able to type without looking.

[Dusty Slay]

Now, I'll say the fact that y'all took classes for it. You probably have way better form than me. Because I never learned how to actually do it correctly.

[Nate Bargetti]

I didn't do well in the class.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargetti]

Mine was taught by a football coach who was probably hung over every day.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever been typing really fast and think about the fact that you can do this without really thinking?

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, I actually. To be able to do it.

[Brian Bates]

Those people that compute. Jury in the courtroom.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Oh, stenographers.

[Brian Bates]

That's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they're not using regular keyboards. They're using. Totally.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty easy. Okay. Sorry. It turns out everybody can do it. Why would we not all just use their computers?

[Dusty Slay]

No, they're still. But they're using. They look like this.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like shorthand.

[Nate Bargetti]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

They look like this. So they're kind of like. If you watch them, they kind of look like they're galloping on it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's because it's using these predictive algorithms to get the.

[Nate Bargetti]

It seems much harder, but I think.

[Dusty Slay]

Once you learn how it works, it's great.

[Brian Bates]

It's a pretty dumb job. Is that what you're getting at?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, not at all. I think it's. I think it's amazing. You watch them. They just fly on those things.

[Brian Bates]

But people that do this probably didn't go to Notre Dame. Shut up.

[Dusty Slay]

Come on.

[Aaron Weber]

Because you Guys like.

[Nate Bargetti]

Well, but you. You agree, though, you do agree that they.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

I mean, it's a ridiculous thing to say, but also probably true.

[Aaron Weber]

Paul State.

[Brian Bates]

Let me say me and Dusty Bird graduated with a lot of. Stenographer. I can't even say it.

[Aaron Weber]

Who was the most. Then you have to be a friend of yours. Most successful person from your high school, like, went on to some big thing.

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh, I have no idea about that. I mean.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you still friends with high school.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Guys in high school.

[Nate Bargetti]

I mean, I have some friends that, you know, married into some wealthy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. People didn't wear that. The one that was with Derek Mason. Jody Jones businesses. He runs a. A big dentist.

[Aaron Weber]

He went to dca, Jody.

[Brian Bates]

Yes, he went to. Ran a big dentist.

[Nate Bargetti]

My stepbrother told me he went to prison for two years. You know, so.

[Brian Bates]

But I mean, there had to be more even. Yeah. More than. I'm. I'm blanking on now that you know where people. I mean, a lot of people have done very, very good.

[Nate Bargetti]

I have a teacher that says there's anybody. Like one guy went. Worked for NASA. Maybe went to them. Maybe went to them, whatever, from my high school.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you'd know if he went to the moon. Yeah, they'd probably lead with that.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I think there's been like 12 people that have ever. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, that's pretty big.

[Nate Bargetti]

Hypothetically.

[Brian Bates]

He just gotta go. He goes, hey, that guy went to the moon. You go, we all been to the moon.

[Dusty Slay]

Hold on. Can you guess how many people have been to space? Shockingly low number. I just looked it up.

[Nate Bargetti]

I just. I just.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, of all time, you just would guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Zero.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, of course. I might have just seen it. I don't know. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What is it, 600. I mean, less than 700 people.

[Nate Bargetti]

I thought that was a 204 number.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I was thinking 10,000 by now.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, but they're not counting.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

You got to keep the secret pretty small. Yeah, exactly. You can't just let everybody.

[Nate Bargetti]

People you could trust went to space.

[Brian Bates]

10,000 people. You're like, it's gonna get out. Yeah, there's nothing up there. But it's.

[Aaron Weber]

That's not like Jeff Bezos.

[Nate Bargetti]

Did we ever talk about those astronauts that are supposedly in the space station that had their Christmas hats on?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, no, we didn't know about that.

[Nate Bargetti]

Like, they've been up there and they needed to get rescued, but somehow they posted pictures around Christmas with their Christmas hats on.

[Dusty Slay]

I think maybe they Brought them with them when they went up.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe they had them there.

[Nate Bargetti]

Maybe if I were trapped there, I'd go, hey, how about not worry about the Christmas decorations and get me out of here.

[Dusty Slay]

Are they still.

[Nate Bargetti]

Not really in the spirit of Christmas.

[Brian Bates]

Are they still up there?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Isn't Elon Musk gonna get him or something?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think it's been pushed to march now.

[Nate Bargetti]

It's like, how about get me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Hope they have their St. Patrick's Day.

[Aaron Weber]

It's. They're taking other astronauts up there with them when they go, and they're not ready yet.

[Nate Bargetti]

How about, like, save a seat?

[Brian Bates]

What do you mean they're not. They're. They're like, we still need more time up here.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, no.

[Dusty Slay]

So they're gonna sub them out with a new crew.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. The people on Earth that are preparing to go, they're not ready yet.

[Dusty Slay]

What do they got to do? They gotta get down their. Their. What do they do?

[Brian Bates]

Body fat.

[Dusty Slay]

20.

[Brian Bates]

They see them walk in. 36 body fat. They go, good.

[Aaron Weber]

It may not be the people themselves.

[Brian Bates]

Chairs you think we have.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think it's just the.

[Nate Bargetti]

Can you imagine moving into a space station that other two people had been trapped in for a year? You're like, oh, no, you gotta clean this place.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They made themselves at home, too.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You can't open the door just to, like. There's no airing out. But do you smell anything in space inside the.

[Dusty Slay]

The thing? There is. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But when you do. No gravity in there, and you're floating, Maybe. Is that how you kind of air it out?

[Nate Bargetti]

Could you take your helmet off for.

[Brian Bates]

A second in space, if you're floating in the thing. What do you mean, floating in the. Why am I question. If you're floating in the astronaut in the spaceship?

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Would that not take the air out? Because then you can also. Can you take it where you can then just stand and d. And put gravity inside that thing? But I guess once you get up there, there's no gravity.

[Dusty Slay]

They have gravity. They're just not.

[Nate Bargetti]

These are the questions NASA can't even.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't. I guess I don't understand the question.

[Brian Bates]

That's a. That's a good answer for someone that doesn't. So you got no gravity. So once you go to space, you're floating, Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You're just floating around. You're flying.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, they fly inside the spaceship.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But if they were on the ground, they. They don't. They stand in the spaceship. They sit. They don't float on Earth. On Earth.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So but when they get to the space.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Are you just. You're always having to float?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So you just, you never get. The gravity never comes into play. So I'm saying can you like do something where you press a button and you go, everything falls to the ground.

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Nate Bargetti]

Like add gravity to.

[Aaron Weber]

No, they can't if you're floating.

[Brian Bates]

But how does the air not. So then. Because air can't get in there, but gravity can get inside the ship.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, gravity is not like something that comes in through a leak in the space shuttle.

[Nate Bargetti]

It meant it's pretty finicky at times because balloons can float pretty good. But like, but leaves get pulled down. Gravity, you know, it hits. It's selective about what it gets to.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Who let the gravity in?

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Like, is it. Yeah. Like one day do they go. They see a pin fall and they go. Oh, no.

[Nate Bargetti]

Like sometimes a butterfly just goes like this and it's just making its way. But a rock, I mean a rock is just. It's just hard.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That's something with. Or at least zero air resistance. And then something with all the areas.

[Nate Bargetti]

Or like a small leaf.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Lays on the ground.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's all about air resistance.

[Nate Bargetti]

Gravity is. It is. It'll get you if it wants to.

[Dusty Slay]

Holding the universe together. But it's pretty.

[Nate Bargetti]

So I say.

[Dusty Slay]

But I think when they show spaceships in movies and stuff, like a lot of times they are just walking around. They explain it in the. Though they have gravity on this. I think that's just, that's like a workaround so they can shoot the movie.

[Brian Bates]

So like. Yeah, like the people in space now, they. They haven't touched the ground like with their full body weight in a year. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why they take workout stuff to keep your muscles.

[Brian Bates]

But how is no air? Well, they don't really, because you don't. So. Yeah. If you took your helmet off in space. Right. You're gone immediately.

[Nate Bargetti]

Are you gone immediately or could you hold your breath for a little?

[Brian Bates]

Is it like underwater?

[Dusty Slay]

A. The temperature. The temperature and the radiation are going to kill you pretty quickly.

[Brian Bates]

That'll be a fun answer. Is it. Could you hold your breath? Is it like water?

[Dusty Slay]

I guess. How cold is it?

[Nate Bargetti]

Is it real cold or is it real hot?

[Dusty Slay]

It. Well, it depends on if you're in the path of the sun or not, I think. But I think, I think it's cold.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's very cold.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

What if you're in between the sun and the Earth. You'd think it'd be real hot.

[Brian Bates]

So how's it warm in the spaceship if it's so cold outside? But air is not getting in. But gravity somehow does get in. Yeah, gravity doesn't. You know what I mean? Like, how does it. How do you go from sitting in a chair and you can't float.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

To when you go up now, you float. But no air from there is getting in. But it. Is it. Yeah, because you're floating. So something's got in. You're not closed off. Like, you know what I mean? Like, if you're in a metal ball that's completely closed and I put you. And you're like, all right. Your body is. Has full body weight on the floor. You're laying on the floor, and then when you go to space, I start floating. Well, that means something has to get inside that metal ball to make that air float, Right?

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's because you. You are moving.

[Brian Bates]

Like if I went. If you went underwater.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If. If you dropped a metal ball underwater, you wouldn't start. And you're in the metal ball. You wouldn't float. You would stay in the. Because the. The water. Even though the metal ball would float. Yeah, you are. You wouldn't start floating.

[Dusty Slay]

Sure, sure.

[Brian Bates]

You walk around.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because you're a submarine. Everybody's walking around. They don't. They're not floating.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

When they go to space, somehow that. Whatever that is gets inside the thing and everything inside.

[Dusty Slay]

I know what you're saying. That's such a funny way to think about it. I've never heard of it. Whereas the gravity gets into the. Maybe it's like a little bit of gravity got in. We left the window open and the gravity got it.

[Nate Bargetti]

Maybe gravity. It didn't get in. It's not being let in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Is the thing. They've kept gravity out.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what it is.

[Brian Bates]

Like a force. They go. I'm just getting word. My high school asked to get my name removed. Okay, fair enough. Fair enough.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah. Well, you didn't name the science.

[Brian Bates]

I just got word. Yeah. It's now called not the Nate Bargain. They still have my name, but it's now called Not.

[Nate Bargetti]

Okay, cheaper to say not than eraser.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. Just paint in.

[Dusty Slay]

Average temperature of deep space, negative 454 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Nate Bargetti]

What's deep?

[Dusty Slay]

So pretty cold.

[Brian Bates]

What do they do, shoot a thermostat just out in the thing and try to look at it with a binocular?

[Nate Bargetti]

What is deep space? We're Talking about just a little bit of space. What's shallow space?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What'd you say? How.

[Dusty Slay]

The space behind Earth.

[Brian Bates]

Minus 270 degrees.

[Dusty Slay]

The temperature of space behind Earth. So essentially the same as the average.

[Brian Bates]

Temperature all around Earth.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, so there's no air to transfer heat. That's why it's so cold. There's no atmosphere in space. That's what traps in the heat.

[Nate Bargetti]

So even you could be in between the Earth and the sun. And because of no atmosphere, it's still cold. Technically, closer to the sun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Is it windy? So it's not windy in space?

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's not windy. There's no wind in space, so also no sound in space. Something weird to think.

[Brian Bates]

So you couldn't talk to someone.

[Dusty Slay]

You could talk to them inside the space shuttle, where there's.

[Nate Bargetti]

What if you're oxygen in spacesuits with some type of Bluetooth connection?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Then you've got air in your. In your helmet, and that's what transmits the sound. But you can't just yell in open space. It would have nothing to move.

[Brian Bates]

Bounce off.

[Aaron Weber]

Bounce off.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's right.

[Brian Bates]

The sound. Okay.

[Nate Bargetti]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

The building's back. In your name.

[Brian Bates]

The buildings. Yeah, for that.

[Aaron Weber]

For that.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The temperature of space directly in front of the sun can reach temperatures around 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Brian Bates]

I bet you can find a middle ground.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Back up. Back up.

[Brian Bates]

Too fast.

[Dusty Slay]

I said you could find 72 degrees somewhere.

[Brian Bates]

You have to.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, really? Earth. Earth is in the perfect spot. I appreciate it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Good spot.

[Nate Bargetti]

To be in the entire universe. None of it worked out that way. Even just a. A little bit off, we would be decimated.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

Just a little bit off.

[Brian Bates]

It's all too perfect.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What's another high school thing? All right.

[Aaron Weber]

2% of high school sweethearts get married.

[Dusty Slay]

2%.

[Brian Bates]

A pretty high number.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Most of them don't last.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

Weren't your parents middle school?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's crazy. That's got to be less than 1%.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Willie Geist.

[Brian Bates]

Willie. Guys.

[Nate Bargetti]

You're like, what?

[Brian Bates]

A little bit less.

[Aaron Weber]

This surprised me.

[Nate Bargetti]

You said 2% of high school sweethearts. You go middle school. He goes, that's got to be less than 1%.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Quite a leap I took. Yeah, well, bold statement. I know.

[Aaron Weber]

The state with the highest graduation rate.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, girl, let's talk to you.

[Dusty Slay]

I was trying to talk. I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, sorry. 2%. It's gotta be less than 1.

[Nate Bargetti]

Just trying to hang out.

[Brian Bates]

The gravity of this moment. I don't know if that was a joke.

[Aaron Weber]

The state with the highest graduation rate. West Virginia.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Highest high school graduation.

[Brian Bates]

Is that. Because that's as far as they go?

[Aaron Weber]

Tennessee second.

[Nate Bargetti]

Maybe a lower age.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Tennessee second.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you sort this chart the correct way?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. Search it and see if you find the same thing. Now I'm questioning myself. I was like, wow, that's interesting.

[Brian Bates]

I like that.

[Nate Bargetti]

Maybe. Maybe in West Virginia, it's like, if you drop out of school, you got to go to.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. West Virginia.

[Brian Bates]

Number one.

[Dusty Slay]

That's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Tennessee's two.

[Dusty Slay]

Number 48 in education, but number one in high school graduation.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, we get it done. Well, look at Tennessee. We're 31. We get it done. We get out.

[Dusty Slay]

Tennessee, 27 in best states overall. I'll take that. Middle of the pack. We're not trying to stand out. We're not trying to fall back. We're trying to be in the middle. Wisconsin. I wonder why does this just mean. So how do you Square the number one high school graduation rate? But 48th in education?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think they teach everything.

[Nate Bargetti]

I think it's like, if you. If you drop, you go work in a factory.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. And they probably don't have all the classes, so they're. We just do some of them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then, you know, one. The ones that are harder, like the number one ones, like, maybe it's less people. Yeah. They're talking about everything, and you're like, you know. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Interesting. Yeah. 91. High graduation rate. That is so high.

[Brian Bates]

That's nice.

[Aaron Weber]

That's.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome. For West Virginia.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Good for them.

[Aaron Weber]

Some of the highest dropout rates. California, New York and New York.

[Dusty Slay]

Highest dropout rates.

[Aaron Weber]

Not. They're one of the two of the highest.

[Dusty Slay]

Whoa.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

So I looked up. Before we go, I looked up the top songs and movies from each of our graduation year. I think I sent those to you.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, what's the best high school movie or your favorite high school movie?

[Nate Bargetti]

I don't know. I. I like Breakfast Club.

[Aaron Weber]

Breakfast Club. Yeah. I like. I'll say that.

[Nate Bargetti]

And both are great, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Deadport Society.

[Dusty Slay]

That's great. Two very different high schools.

[Brian Bates]

Friday Night Lights. Be.

[Dusty Slay]

Friday Night's a high school movie. Yeah, for sure.

[Brian Bates]

What? I told you the movie. I don't. I've never seen the TV show.

[Dusty Slay]

TV shows haven't either.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I need to go.

[Dusty Slay]

Same actors are in it, too. It's kind of weird. My era. Super bad. I think Is like the.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The best high school movie holds up weirdly well. Like, nothing ages creepy about it. Like some of these other movies.

[Nate Bargetti]

His drawing habit.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

But I like. I like that movie, too, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargetti]

Because. But no, I just watched it recently and I was like, yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm talking about most of the stuff, like him with the girl at the party.

[Nate Bargetti]

And it's very good, though. It's a very good movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So 1990, number one song on Billboard. Hold on. By Wilson Phillips.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know Bridesmaids from Bridesmaid.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it's not from Bridesmaids, but at the end of Bridesmaids, they sing.

[Brian Bates]

At the end of the Bridesmaid.

[Nate Bargetti]

Can you sing a little bit of it?

[Brian Bates]

Hold on.

[Aaron Weber]

But hold on for one more day.

[Brian Bates]

Hold on. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Nate's. During Nate's graduation, it was Candle in the Wind.

[Brian Bates]

Something sad. Oh, that's because. Yeah, because that's a great song. Yeah, it's a great song. Elton John and then Jewel and then Puff Teddy.

[Dusty Slay]

How's he doing?

[Nate Bargetti]

Missing you was a good one.

[Brian Bates]

Where's he at now?

[Nate Bargetti]

You were. Oh, those are all hot, hot songs.

[Dusty Slay]

And Puff Daddy's on there twice. Daddy and R. Kelly. It was a tough time for you, Nate.

[Brian Bates]

Were they. Well, we don't know what they're doing now. Yeah. What is.

[Nate Bargetti]

I believe I can. Oh, that was a hot year.

[Dusty Slay]

2000. Can you guys.

[Brian Bates]

You know the number one song 2002?

[Dusty Slay]

There's no way.

[Brian Bates]

Faith Hill.

[Nate Bargetti]

Green Day.

[Dusty Slay]

It's Faith Hill. Do you know the song Breathe?

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh, Breathe.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Breathing is Smooth by Santana.

[Brian Bates]

Breathe.

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh, Santana had that. Yeah, that big album.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, dude. Vertical Horizon. Haven't heard that.

[Nate Bargetti]

2000 seems like such a terrible 2010.

[Brian Bates]

My song.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm guessing Taylor Swift.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Tick Tock by Kesha.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Was that before Tick Tock got started?

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, that was before the app.

[Nate Bargetti]

Ahead of our time.

[Brian Bates]

Lady Annabellum number two. She did. She went D.C. how about that?

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like that song just came out.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Aaron Weber]

It's 15 years old.

[Dusty Slay]

What song?

[Aaron Weber]

Need you Now.

[Nate Bargetti]

I do hate that song, though.

[Brian Bates]

Our song that we liked, that reminds me of my high school was We Were. For a freshman. We were every Forever. Oh, yeah. Whatever that song was, that was the verb pipe. The verb pipe. That's. And I. That's the. Whenever I hear that song, it takes me back to my senior year.

[Nate Bargetti]

I feel like Green Day. The graduation song was of my graduating.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Titanic.

[Dusty Slay]

Unbelievable year in movies for you, Nate. Goodwill hunting Titanic. I Mean, it drops off pretty good after that.

[Brian Bates]

Confidential, I hear, is really Men in Black. The. I would say Titanic was crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

It's about as I remember. Yeah, I can get.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that was like. People went to see that all the time. Like it was a whole big thing, so. All right, all right.

[Aaron Weber]

I was gonna say, when Hollywood 27 opened here, do you remember how that was a big deal?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like the biggest theater anywhere in the 2000. First movie. I think I went up to the weekend.

[Nate Bargetti]

Gladiator, Goodwill hunting.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, those are good.

[Dusty Slay]

Snatch. Reckon for a Dream, Cast Away. X Men, American Psycho. Man, great year, 2000. Another great year for movies.

[Brian Bates]

Are that when you graduated?

[Dusty Slay]

No, that's when he graduated.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, graduated.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I was eight.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you probably already watched all these movies. Like, you're like, oh, I remember watching Gladiator Day.

[Aaron Weber]

Frost, Nixon.

[Brian Bates]

Me and my family talked about it. And then. Frost, Nixon. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

All the President's Men.

[Aaron Weber]

Didn't you say you bought your dad Frost Nixon or something?

[Dusty Slay]

I did. I bought my dad Frost Nixon, a DV DVD for Christmas. And then, like, four years later on our bookshelf, it was. Still had the plastic. He told me he loved the movie.

[Nate Bargetti]

That's a good dad, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm not watching. Yeah, I appreciate it.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Nate Bargetti]

What's. What was yours?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, movie.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

2010. Oh, let's look real quick. Real quick. I know everybody's waiting. Inception. Unbelievable.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I saw it seven times in the theaters.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you serious?

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Seven times? Because I watched it myself, and then other people wanted to watch it, and I wanted to watch it again. And then I kept watching it with different groups.

[Nate Bargetti]

I'd never seen a movie.

[Brian Bates]

Yard money, right?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, tickets were $10, so I had $70. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What else was on that?

[Dusty Slay]

String it together.

[Brian Bates]

Big money right there. Big money. In high school, you got 70 bucks to go to the movies like that.

[Dusty Slay]

This was the summer after I graduated, so I had a job at this point.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's where it all went. Movies.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. Yeah. That's Fun. Toy Story 3, Social Network. All right. All right. That's. Yeah. I don't even know. We can barely call this episode High School.

[Nate Bargetti]

Yeah, well, we'll call it some for sure.

[Brian Bates]

Weight loss and we'll call it a lot of stuff. Gravity, Weight loss and a dash of high school.

[Dusty Slay]

Cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Dash.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetti]

This will give me a chance to bring my yearbook in, show some stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'll bring mine into.

[Brian Bates]

We can just bring yours next.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I messaged you Guys said bring anything.

[Dusty Slay]

I have you muted on it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I forgot I don't have your number. Safe. And it's all true. I. So, yeah. All right, well, I'll. I'll be at the DC Improv this week. Go to that Sunday show. Julian McColla, Derek Stroop, Joe Zimmerman. They're doing Sunday, but we will be there Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I'm doing some clubs, tours, announced all that.

[Aaron Weber]

This Saturday, I am in Marietta, Georgia at the Honest Fox Comedy Fest. All right, doing two shows on Saturday. Then the following weekend, January 31st, if you're not watching Aaron special, come to Stardome in Birmingham to see me there. And then I'm hitting all the big cities. Marion, Illinois, Quentin, Virginia. Winter Haven, Florida. Yeah, Cocoa, Florida. And just added. Just added Mars Hill, North Carolina.

[Brian Bates]

Is it. What is it the easier to drive tour? Yeah, it's still rolling.

[Nate Bargetti]

Cocoa beach is pretty far Wind, Virginia.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm not actually in Cocoa Beach. I'm just in Coco.

[Dusty Slay]

Not even the beach.

[Brian Bates]

He's not going down.

[Aaron Weber]

I tried the beach.

[Brian Bates]

He goes, well, let's see how it goes to Cocoa. And if it goes good, we're gonna let you come to the beach next time.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like going to Panama City but not going to Panama City Beach.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, tonight, January 22nd, headline in Zany's here in town. We're looking for a show tonight, the main room here at Zany's next weekend in Texas. And I just added this. I'm excited about it. Bloomington, Indiana, Comedy attic.

[Nate Bargetti]

Oh, yeah, great.

[Dusty Slay]

I've heard nothing but good things about since I started. I got a weekend there. I'm a fallout guy. I'll take it. Valentine's Day weekend. Come see me in Bloomington and watch the special Friday. Watch the special next Friday.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Signature dish on YouTube. Check it out.

[Nate Bargetti]

Okay, this Friday, Evansville, Indiana. This Saturday, Indianapolis, Indiana. Next Friday, Red Bank, New Jersey. Next Saturday, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You all theaters, all hot shows. It's going to be great.

[Dusty Slay]

Amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

Pat McAfee's coming.

[Nate Bargetti]

Well, I tweeted at him. I tried to get him to come.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargetti]

He ain't going to come, but I maybe where at?

[Brian Bates]

In Philly or Indy.

[Nate Bargetti]

Indy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. We love you. Hope you have a great week. See you next week.

[Dusty Slay]

Bye. Go Irish.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Go Irish. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetze 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.