237: Nateland | Ep #237 Idaho featuring Ryan Hamilton

Summary

The Nateland Podcast - Episode 237: #237 Idaho Featuring Ryan Hamilton

Release Date: January 29, 2025
Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Guest: Ryan Hamilton

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Introduction to Ryan Hamilton

The Nateland Podcast kicks off with the hosts warmly welcoming Ryan Hamilton, a sought-after comedian known for his extensive touring and unique comedic style. Brian Bates expresses excitement, noting, "People have been asking for this for a long time," emphasizing Ryan's popularity among fans (00:26).

Ryan’s Upcoming Projects

Ryan shares insights into his bustling schedule, announcing two major projects:

• YouTube Special "Signature Dish": Set to release on Friday, January 31st, this special promises a fresh batch of Ryan's comedic observations.
• Tonight Show Appearance: Scheduled for the following Monday, Ryan is preparing for his debut on national television.

Aaron Weber humorously remarks, "He's just everywhere," comparing Ryan's frequent appearances to Snoop Dogg's ubiquitous presence, highlighting the comedian's rising visibility (02:08).

Insights on Performing and Handling Live Shows

The discussion delves into the nuances of live performances. Ryan talks about the importance of running his set multiple times to refine his material, stating, "I'm doing two more times a night and then all weekend" (03:33).

Brian Bates offers sage advice on managing performance anxiety, saying, "I always think it's never going to be as good as you think it's going to be. But I mean, just you do it" (04:06). This sentiment resonates with Ryan, who admits feeling overly confident at times but balances it by "walking back a little bit" (03:53).

Dealing with Bombing and Fan Interactions

The conversation shifts to the fear of bombing on stage. Dusty Slay suggests, "Yeah, try to bomb," encouraging Ryan to embrace the possibility of a tough crowd to build resilience (05:10). Ryan recounts a personal experience where he "bombed pretty bad" at The Dark and Dirty Showcase but managed to regain the audience's attention by the end (05:08).

Nate Bargatze shares a humorous anecdote about being recognized on the interstate, where a fan with a sign labeled "Dusty" attempted to catch his attention. This encounter underscores the unexpected ways fans interact with comedians (05:48).

Touring Stories and Recent Performances

Brian Bates updates listeners on his recent tour activities, including performances in Washington D.C. at venues like Soul Joel’s in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He reflects on the camaraderie among comedians, mentioning, "We all kind of were started by Soul Joel" (11:33). Dusty Slay echoes the enthusiasm, stating, "We had fun. It was great" (15:00).

Deep Dive into Idaho’s History and Culture

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to exploring Idaho's rich history and cultural landscape:

• Origin of the Name "Idaho": The hosts debate whether "Idaho" is genuinely a Native American term meaning "gem of the mountains" or a fabricated word coined by politician George Willing, who later admitted to making it up (63:00).

• State Nickname and Population Growth: Discussing Idaho's nickname, "The Gem State," Ryan highlights its extensive variety of gemstones and rapid population growth, noting, "They just hit 2 million" compared to 1 million in 1990 (74:46).

• Wildlife and Natural Beauty: Dusty Slay shares personal stories about encountering bears, mountain lions, and moose, painting a vivid picture of Idaho's diverse and often remote wilderness areas (83:52).

Famous Idahoans and Pop Culture References

The hosts engage in a lighthearted discussion about notable individuals from Idaho and cultural landmarks:

• Ryan Hamilton and Aaron Paul: Mentioned as prominent figures hailing from Idaho, adding to the state's growing list of famous personalities.

• "Napoleon Dynamite" and Other Films: Dusty reminisces about attending the premiere of "Napoleon Dynamite," marveling at its authentic portrayal of Idaho life (45:10).

Local Businesses and Economic Insights

Brian Bates highlights Idaho-based companies like Albertsons Grocery Store and Buck Knives, discussing their origins and impact. The conversation touches on how these businesses contribute to Idaho's economy and cultural identity (104:00).

Closing Remarks and Upcoming Shows

As the episode wraps up, the hosts promote their upcoming shows and projects:

• Brian Bates: Announces a book pre-order and upcoming performances in Las Vegas.
• Aaron Weber: Promotes his shows at venues like Stardome in Hoover, Alabama, and The Honest Fox Comedy Fest in Marietta, Georgia.
• Dusty Slay: Expresses gratitude for being part of the podcast and looks forward to future engagements.
• Nate Bargatze: Shares plans for performances in Red Bank, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, urging listeners to attend live shows for a unique experience.

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Notable Quotes

• Brian Bates (00:26): "People have been asking for this for a long time."
• Aaron Weber (02:08): "He's just everywhere."
• Ryan Hamilton (03:53): "I hate the set, but I feel all right about it."
• Brian Bates (04:06): "I always think it's never going to be as good as you think it's going to be. But I mean, just you do it."
• Dusty Slay (05:10): "Yeah, try to bomb."

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Conclusion

Episode #237 of The Nateland Podcast offers an engaging blend of comedic insights, personal anecdotes, and an in-depth exploration of Idaho's cultural and historical significance. Ryan Hamilton's participation adds a fresh perspective, making it a compelling listen for both longtime fans and newcomers alike.

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Note: Advertisements and sponsorship segments have been excluded to focus solely on the core content and discussions of the episode.

Transcript

[Nate Bargetze]

Foreign.

[Brian Bates]

Folks and. Hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi. Brian Bates. Aaron Weber. Dusty Slay.

[Nate Bargetze]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

And we have sitting in with us today. It's a big one. It's a big one.

[Aaron Weber]

People have been asking for this for a long time.

[Brian Bates]

Our boy, Ryan Hamilton.

[Nate Bargetze]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Thanks, fellas. Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Very exciting.

[Brian Bates]

It is exciting.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm excited.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we're glad to have you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Thank you, pal. Yeah, I appreciate it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we've been. I've been around Ryan for.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, my God, you come to New York 2008.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He was the first person I knew who actually personally knew Jerry Seinfeld. And you've opened for him for many years on the road.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, for a while.

[Aaron Weber]

When I open for you, I just, like, just sit there the whole time just listening to stories about being on the road with him, going to movies with him.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. Everybody loves to hear about the routine. Yeah, yeah, Everybody loves that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. A routine is good. I have no routine.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't?

[Brian Bates]

No. I'm trying to get a routine in my life. It's all falling apart, Ryan, so. Well, we will get into that one announcement. Aaron, you see the screaming? It's happening.

[Ryan Hamilton]

There it is.

[Dusty Slay]

There it is.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Ryan Hamilton]

This Friday, Nateland YouTube. Where you're watching this right now. Maybe just scroll on over.

[Nate Bargetze]

Loves food so much. Put it right in the title of his album.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargetze]

This special.

[Dusty Slay]

Jeez.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Took the wind out of my sails there.

[Nate Bargetze]

Sorry, I didn't know. I thought you were done.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, not only are you doing that this Friday, you got a. Another big thing coming up this Monday.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Tonight show on Monday.

[Nate Bargetze]

Look at that.

[Brian Bates]

It's almost too much stuff.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Feels like a lot.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I like it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like overexposure.

[Brian Bates]

Overexposure. I go. Let's comment back.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron will be off the podcast two months just to give you guys a break.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like Snoop Dogg. He's just everywhere.

[Brian Bates]

He's everywhere. So, yeah, this Friday, January 31st, Nate Land YouTube channel. Aaron Weber special signature dish. Very, very pumped about it. Tonight show on Monday, making moves. This is it. This is your first kind of big yes out in the world.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And if you solve Chappelle's last SNL monologue, very similar. He comes out with a cigarette, sits down on a chair still.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Immediately, they told me I couldn't smoke, but I will be sitting down my whole set and just pontificating about the world.

[Aaron Weber]

Turn the monitor.

[Nate Bargetze]

You got A Zen in, though.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, for sure.

[Dusty Slay]

I always have one now.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I'm pumped, man. It's exciting.

[Dusty Slay]

It'd be nice if you just had your signature dish that you could just eat out.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I should bring out a signature dish. Just eat throughout my set.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Just any advice for all. All y'all that have done all these late night sets and Nate's done it 50 times, Ryan's done it a bunch.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll take this, guys.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Brian's gone up late, but I don't know if he's done it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's funny.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't. You. How many times have you run the set?

[Ryan Hamilton]

A bunch. Running it two more times a night and then all weekend. I feel good about the set. I mean, I'm. They might make some changes last minute, but I feel. I feel all right about it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

So you feel all right or you feel good? You said, I feel good, and then I feel all right.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Well, I was worried I came across a little too confident.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. You never.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I walked it back a little bit.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I hate the set, but.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, my.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't hate it too.

[Brian Bates]

I always think it's never going to be as good as you think it's going to be. When you do it in the room, does that make sense?

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like you're. You're going to murder more in clubs.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And so when you do it in the room, you gotta know, just. It's not. I mean, the crowd's great, they're laughing. It's awesome. But it. You build it up and you think, oh, boy. You think it's like it gonna be. It's almost every special I've taped. Either everything you take never is as good as. Because there's just too much pressure on it.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

I think for the audience, for you, for everything, that it just can never live up to what you think it's going to be, you know, and then. So. But I mean, just. Yeah, just you do it. You just go. And everybody's watching on tv and.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, it's fun.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah. And I would say it'd be good to get a set where you don't get the reaction that you think it deserves before doing it that way. You know what that feels like?

[Aaron Weber]

That should be hard.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Because you don't want to, like, have it just bang, bang, bang. And then you go on the Tonight show, you do one of the jokes and it doesn't work. You're like, why didn't it work? It's been working every Time I did it.

[Brian Bates]

Go bomb with it.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, try to, try to bomb.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You have any experience what I can do?

[Nate Bargetze]

See if Birmingham has any, has any spots.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, Come on down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. There's got to be a weird room that you go do it in. Are you going to run it in New York?

[Ryan Hamilton]

I. Yeah, I am. I kind of bombed with it the other night here at the, the Dark and Dirty Showcase.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, there you go.

[Ryan Hamilton]

And it was, it was pretty rowdy and I got them by the end, but I, but it was.

[Dusty Slay]

Is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Tough sledding up top.

[Brian Bates]

That's good.

[Nate Bargetze]

Do you add cuss words in between?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

That's how you got to get them.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah. Start screaming at them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. If you bomb. Yeah. As long as you've bombed with it. I was always thinking, you gotta get bomb with it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It just happens. Right.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you go run it.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Village lantern.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Some weird spot and then next thing you know you're just in the. Your five minutes is two minutes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty does and run in front of the stagehands before.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He does this. Brian, you do that when you run.

[Dusty Slay]

Your whole set in front of the stage hands.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's a good.

[Nate Bargetze]

Like when they let you go out in rehearsal.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I've never done that.

[Nate Bargetze]

I've always done the full set.

[Dusty Slay]

What made you do that?

[Nate Bargetze]

I don't know. I just.

[Brian Bates]

Ego.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He does extra time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

I just, I want to feel what it feels like to do it out there.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Nate Bargetze]

And I also feel like, yes. The worst reaction you're going to get.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. What does that time out to? Like a minute and a half. Yes.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, it's pretty. It's pretty cool.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Do they get nervous? Like, are they like, hey, it's gonna be, you know, Z may ever said like, it's gonna be better than that, right?

[Nate Bargetze]

No, I mean I, maybe they thought it, but they never said it to me. Actually this last time I was there, they actually laughed, which threw me because they've never laughed at my pre show performance.

[Dusty Slay]

You're finally getting to them.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

You almost be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're not supposed to laugh.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, they really threw me when they lag out.

[Brian Bates]

Whoa, whoa.

[Nate Bargetze]

I even said I wasn't expecting that.

[Dusty Slay]

Are you going to do that, Aaron?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Probably not, man. I mean, probably not.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I wouldn't either.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I bet it is freeing to think like this will not be like my actual tape set. It cannot be the worst Set I've done on this stage today.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, right.

[Nate Bargetze]

Do you think I'm the only person that does that?

[Brian Bates]

Maybe the way they're reacting, I mean, I don't know. I'm trying to think now. I'm sure someone does, but I remember they always said to do it and I was like, yeah, I don't want to do this. Right. I feel like too weird. And then, I mean, I maybe have said, like, I want to say this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Or they'd say say your highs or your lows and mine.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

I'm gonna be right in the pocket the whole time. We ain't going that high.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's funny that you pause like where you think standing ovation is going to happen or something.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Silent.

[Nate Bargetze]

You're just waiting for it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, good for you. Thanks. Maybe. Yeah. That's fantastic.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I'm pumped.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's going to be a fun, fun week.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Coming up.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like you can stay on them too, a little bit. Like, you don't have to let them like the applause or something. Like, feel free to kind of get it. Cut it off.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, step on it a little.

[Brian Bates]

Step on it a little bit. Not crazy, but step on it enough to be like, hey. And then I went to. And then I went to the store. You know, don't bow or anything if I get a no. Well, it's just like sometimes I feel like applause breaks don't play always as good as they feel in the room as on they do at tv. Okay, but.

[Nate Bargetze]

And you may not have.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He goes, that's a. I hope to.

[Ryan Hamilton]

God this comes up.

[Brian Bates]

It's a best case scenario. I can't imagine that will happen. But if it does, worst case, they.

[Aaron Weber]

Do that wide shot you were talking about last week of see foul in the background. And he's just doing this.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Worst case is we just don't hear about this anymore. And I'm not on the show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You know, I think if you bomb that. I mean, I imagine if you bomb.

[Brian Bates]

Horrifically, they go, well, there's been cases.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, I know. I know of a couple.

[Nate Bargetze]

It's got to be real bad. I mean, it would be hard to.

[Brian Bates]

I think they even showed them. I mean, I don't know if they're ever not aired one. I know there was. There was one that they aired, but they've made it where you can't find it.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

It was on Jimmy Kimmel.

[Ryan Hamilton]

But there's a. Like, Sebastian has gone back and talked about one where he bombed pretty bad on there, like years later on the.

[Nate Bargetze]

Tonight show, they air it just so they don't. If you never come back. They want people to know why.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I was saying I could Bob, so bad. They never mentioned that I was supposed to be there.

[Brian Bates]

You don't want them when you get done, then Jimmy goes out, has to start doing his act to fill in for times. They go, can we get the roots? Could y'all do a. I don't know, a five minute number in case we cut some stuff?

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, it's gonna be great.

[Brian Bates]

It's gonna be great. Jimmy's the best. It's the.

[Dusty Slay]

It's.

[Brian Bates]

It's the best one to do.

[Dusty Slay]

It's so fun. It just makes you feel like you're in show business.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, that's.

[Ryan Hamilton]

That's what it. Yeah, it feels like. All right, I'm doing some stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's so fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Lucy going.

[Ryan Hamilton]

She is going.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. I'll go eat afterwards, you know.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Signature dish, man.

[Ryan Hamilton]

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[Brian Bates]

All right. This weekend I was in D.C. washington, D.C. working on the new hour. I'm trying to think, but I mean, I was at Soul Joel's. My buddy, Soul Joel in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Have you been?

[Dusty Slay]

I have. I know of the place. I've Never been there.

[Brian Bates]

It was great. He did. He runs a great room there. And it was. I started with Soul Joel. Like, we all kind of were started. He. When he was coming up and he was running shows and he would put a lot of us on a lot of his shows. Like, you know, Julian. Like, okay. Giannis. Like a bunch of us.

[Dusty Slay]

Huh.

[Brian Bates]

So we did. We went there on a Tuesday and it was great.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Super fun. Yeah. Drove back in a van, went to a sheets. I. I did not eat. Good.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm going there. But I'm start. Yeah, but I'm going to. But I didn't want to. It was Julian. They make milkshakes and it's like midnight and they're willing to make them at midnight, which is. That's not fair.

[Dusty Slay]

It should be illegal.

[Brian Bates]

Usually your people are pretty anti ice cream.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They don't want to give it to you at midnight.

[Dusty Slay]

Right? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And Sheets was like.

[Nate Bargetze]

Sheets is a great company.

[Brian Bates]

They are. And they go, look, we're doing. And then Julian got a peanut butter cup milkshake, which I don't even normally get. And then. But I saw him watching them make it and I'm like, golly, I wasn't getting anything. And then I was like that. I mean, look at. Look at that.

[Nate Bargetze]

Reese cup or p. Our Butterfinger milkshake.

[Brian Bates]

I don't like.

[Nate Bargetze]

Those are the best. Oh, you don't like a Butterfinger milkshake?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh, Butterfinger milkshake is.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I like Butterfinger as a candy. I don't know if I've really ever had one.

[Nate Bargetze]

It's pretty wild.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was good.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I, I. But, you know, so I drink some of that cookies cream. Good.

[Nate Bargetze]

That's a good milkshake.

[Brian Bates]

That's a good milkshake. And then. But I'm still gonna get down. I. I want to lose my.

[Aaron Weber]

Nate made a big proclamation last week.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I'm gonna lose my weight. It's not starting now.

[Dusty Slay]

I listened to that episode. I. I heard that's pretty exciting with the donuts. Well, everything.

[Brian Bates]

It's. Yeah, yeah. It's not, you know, hasn't started. We're going to start it next week.

[Aaron Weber]

Scott.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Starts Monday because I got. But it's going to go Monday. We're going to get out.

[Dusty Slay]

That's great.

[Nate Bargetze]

When is the dead.

[Brian Bates]

July 8th.

[Nate Bargetze]

July 8th.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

My daughter's birthday.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, perfect.

[Aaron Weber]

So Eric texted me a video of you ordering. Might have been there.

[Brian Bates]

It was there.

[Aaron Weber]

Tell everyone not to worry about me.

[Brian Bates]

I'm gonna be fine. No, yeah, he was. Yeah. Eric put a clip of it, or he cut a clip up like, of them talking about it because it was very funny. But yeah, we'll be all right. We'll be all right. We're gonna get there. Go hard. But DC was great. Thanks for everybody. Came out to the DC Improv. That's another great club. And Stroop, Joe Zimmerman, Julie McCollo, we all had fun. So, yeah, it was great.

[Aaron Weber]

Awesome. Wednesday night I did Aaron Weber and friends here at Saints.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Kind of bombed, but.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

No, he didn't bomb, but just up.

[Ryan Hamilton]

There a little too long.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Wore out your welcome.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Two minutes in.

[Ryan Hamilton]

We were five minutes set. It would have been great, but it was.

[Brian Bates]

They going. I thought this was his friends.

[Dusty Slay]

He did great.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It was a fun show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I was up there. Friends of Aaron's I thought would be friends of mine, but they are not.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

But Saturday I did the Honest Fox Comedy Fest in Marietta, Georgia. That's basically a Nate Land light comedy fest. I mean, it's Dustin Nickerson, Steve Rogers.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

Johnny W. I'm forgetting some people now, but just a lot of people that you've taken on the road with or have done the showcase here. And it was a lot of fun. Yeah. Did two shows down there Saturday night. Great crowds. A lot of Nateland folks came out. Nancy Johnson gave me this mug.

[Brian Bates]

Easier to drive tour.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Ryan. That's the tour he's on. Brian Bates Tour. It's easier to drive to than fly.

[Aaron Weber]

They proclaim that.

[Dusty Slay]

It's pretty good.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Did you drive or fly to Honest Fox?

[Aaron Weber]

I drove.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It's. He's. His tour is always like, you could, but it's always an awkward stop where you're like, you might as well just do this. Seven hours. Yeah. Yeah. Either way, it will be seven hours.

[Aaron Weber]

Right?

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Right. Security and everything.

[Brian Bates]

Security and everything.

[Dusty Slay]

Might as well.

[Brian Bates]

Easier to drive. Just might as well drive it.

[Dusty Slay]

If this tour takes off, you're going to be in a real pickle because you're going to have to go to places.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's the. They got to come to him.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I see. I see.

[Brian Bates]

That's deal, Right?

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

That's the whole point of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So there's going to be a circle. A Brian bait circle. That.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's the one in it that you gotta. You gotta. That's good.

[Aaron Weber]

You wish you were in it, right?

[Brian Bates]

He makes his audience fly.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I do. I wish I was in it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He's the only one that makes his audience fly in the show.

[Aaron Weber]

I want to drive alone.

[Brian Bates]

He's like. He's like, kind of Vegas, but it's just kind of the state surrounding. But it's a. He's got a residency in a circle of America.

[Dusty Slay]

Easier to drive harder for you.

[Brian Bates]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Put that disclaimer on there, Alex.

[Nate Bargetze]

It could be just kind of a shape of your head on a map.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

That's your rating.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Have you ever wanted to go visit downtown Demopolis? Come tie it up with Brian Bates. Easier to drive tours. Get a nice hotel. That's where Laura. Laura was born.

[Aaron Weber]

It's called Real America, guys. Just go to the elite cities. I get out there, he gets out.

[Brian Bates]

Mixes it up, Right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Thank you for moving. Yeah. By the way, he means, like, Madison, Wisconsin's an elite city. He's talking about even in from that.

[Dusty Slay]

Right, right, right, right. Yeah. Well, you know, you're. You're. You can move. Move around the country and do it in different places throughout your career. So right here, you're in Nashville.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We'll start in the Southeast.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Move for the first 20 years, uproot your family so that you can hit other areas.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Y. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.

[Brian Bates]

He's turning down gigs left and right. They. I mean, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I love my career, guys, and.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Apparently you guys have issues.

[Brian Bates]

I love it. I think it's great. They called him about North Dakota, and he goes, come on. He hung the phone up because you couldn't pay me enough. Come on. What, are you out of your mind? All right. Where were you at, Ryan?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I was in Huntsville. That's one here in Nashville. Huntsville. Yeah. My first time there, and it was great. It was, like, such a nice little weekend.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Did you know a lot about Huntsville going into it? It kind of surprises people if they're not familiar with it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, every time you tell somebody you're going to Huntsville, they go, oh, okay. Well, it's half rocket scientists, half Alabama.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And they go. And they're really smart, and it was fun. I had a good time, and I think I knocked off all 50 states this weekend.

[Nate Bargetze]

And. And to be honest.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Wow.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Alabama was the last one.

[Dusty Slay]

I think maybe Alabama was the last one I had. I had to. I knocked off Arkansas a while ago.

[Nate Bargetze]

And the Alabama side, we wish the rocket scientists would leave.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's kind of the vibe I get from them. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Like 50 states. Alabama was the last.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Wow. I think so. That's so fun.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Your last two states were the first two I could ever get booked. Alabama.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, really? Those were your first two?

[Nate Bargetze]

You went to Mississippi first?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

I mean, I love Mississippi, but I'm just saying.

[Brian Bates]

Hattiesburg.

[Dusty Slay]

I've been to Hattiesburg.

[Brian Bates]

There's a guy, you know, blank on.

[Aaron Weber]

The name Ken Oliver.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, well, him. But there. And there's another person that runs in Hattiesburg. They get a whole little run that they do. And you would do Louisiana. Hattiesburg.

[Nate Bargetze]

And I did Hattiesburg.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Hattiesburg. You knock off pretty.

[Nate Bargetze]

I got to hang out with the mayor of Hattiesburg while I was there. My friend Vince Fabra, he went to college in Hattiesburg.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

And his old college roommate is the now mayor of Hattiesburg.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Nate Bargetze]

We hung out in the mayor's office.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow, you got some pull.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I'm trying to imagine any of my old roommates being a mayor of a legitimate city.

[Nate Bargetze]

I just saw one of my old roommates got arrested for stealing 25, 000 worth of guns. He did live with me for a while.

[Brian Bates]

Y. Did it feel like it made sense?

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You weren't shocked when you saw it? Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

He didn't even look shocked in the mug shot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I did it.

[Brian Bates]

I got. I just have Montana lift.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

I've been to Montana. I've been to all 50 states. Montana is the last one I have performed.

[Dusty Slay]

You got it. Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

You talking about you done a show in every. Yeah, yeah, I got mon. I got Montana. That's funny. Mine is, and I'm hoping to get it. Yeah, I would add something this year.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, March 7th, I'll be in Montana. Boom, boom.

[Dusty Slay]

Whoa.

[Nate Bargetze]

So Montana's great.

[Dusty Slay]

You're not driving?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm hitting the road now.

[Dusty Slay]

You're flying to Montana?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he d. He. He drives to the layover, then gets on the plane.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm driving to Denver.

[Dusty Slay]

Easier to drive. Or. Or cities that actually people should drive to. Yeah, you're not. Nobody's flying there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Bozeman. Where are you going?

[Aaron Weber]

Last Best comedy club.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's a nice spot.

[Brian Bates]

Where did you do a show in Montana? Bozeman. Or.

[Dusty Slay]

I did Bozeman. I did Missoula. I did Helena, and I did mainly all your work.

[Brian Bates]

All your work was in my day.

[Dusty Slay]

I did do Billings. Yeah, Billings was Billings. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you've done Montana, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. I don't know.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Bozeman and Billings, Arkansas was One of.

[Brian Bates]

My last ones to knock off. Yeah, it took a while to knock. Arkansas.

[Dusty Slay]

Arkansas is hard. I did in college there a long time ago.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like that's. Yeah. It's not easy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron, you're running your set this week.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where were you?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, golly. I thought you wanted me to talk about Arkansas.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What do you think about.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I like it. There's a great club there, the Grove.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Up in.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Up in a local.

[Nate Bargetze]

Northwest Arkansas.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I was in town. I'm just. Where was I? In town? Yeah, I was here.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't tell.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I did a don't tell show. I did. I did my show. I did spots everywhere. Just bouncing around town. Nothing exciting.

[Nate Bargetze]

Working the set.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Working the set. Could be working, though.

[Nate Bargetze]

Could be working. Well, I did Evansville, Indiana. Did a theater in Evansville. Never been to Evansville's great hot show. After the show, a cigar bar called Cigar Cigar opened their doors to us. They were closed. Open their doors to us. Let us have cigars. Had a great hang. And then I went to Indianapolis. Another theater show. Great show. Hot show.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Is that the clothes or the clouds or.

[Nate Bargetze]

Clues is apparently how it's pronounced.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's not how it's.

[Nate Bargetze]

It looks like it's spelled close C, L, O W, E, S, but it's pronounced clues. I did Victory Theater in Evansville. Clues in Indianapolis. I've been going to Indianapolis for a long time. I love it there. It's such a great city. I had a great time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Hot show.

[Dusty Slay]

I've had good shows there. Yeah, it's fun.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, I love it. I used to do crackers back in the day.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah?

[Nate Bargetze]

Did helium a couple of times. And then this is my first theater show there.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, it's awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

It's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I've done.

[Dusty Slay]

That's great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I did crackers a bunch.

[Nate Bargetze]

Helium Crackers used to really be a great 2 club.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, 2 broad ripple was a good one. Good. Yeah. I did downtown too, but Broad Ripple was the one.

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh, Broad Ripple was so hot.

[Aaron Weber]

And you met an 8Land fan on your drive home?

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh, yeah, I did. On the way home, this car pulls up next to me and this lady staring at me, which is not really that strange for me. I. I get wild on the road. It's not that weird. And I gave her a wave, you know, I just go, okay, hey, lady. And then the. The back window lets down and the guy has a sign that says dusty. And then he flips it over and it says, hello, folks. Yeah, they recognize me on the interstate.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

So it was fun. We waved. We had a good time.

[Brian Bates]

How long did you have to stay with them?

[Nate Bargetze]

Long enough to scare my friend Vince. Yeah, Vince was like, maybe. Folks on the road, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

I got a little excited about it, and I kept staring at him. What's the sign say? Dr. Driving. But then they went. They went around me. But then it felt like, ah, they're not really going faster than I'd like to go. But I was like, I gotta.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You can't pass them.

[Nate Bargetze]

I'm not gonna go back by them.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

So I gotta.

[Dusty Slay]

You know. You know, you got a real distinct look when someone recognizes you flying by on the freeway.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[Nate Bargetze]

I mean, I was like, this is wild. I got recognized on the interstate. That's what I'm talking about.

[Brian Bates]

That's big time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you gotta. So you gotta decide, like, do I. You know, how long we all together? You think? A couple hours?

[Nate Bargetze]

No, no.

[Brian Bates]

You're on the Internet.

[Aaron Weber]

They live in hermitage.

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh, you mean. I mean, I saw them for a while in front of me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

But I stopped for coffee and bathroom breaks a lot. So, yeah, eventually I was. I was off. I was out of there. But it was fun. A little hand. I mean, I want.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know how they do a sign. They just had us just set a.

[Nate Bargetze]

Piece of paper, and they were. It was kind of floppy sign, and I wanted to, you know, have something back for them, but I'm like, well, I'm driving and I don't really have paper handy.

[Brian Bates]

Throw your merch. Tell them. Right on the window.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Coffee mug at them.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, that would be great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Just lean back. Just lean back. Lower your seat. I'm gonna.

[Aaron Weber]

Incoming.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, but. Yeah, that was fun.

[Dusty Slay]

That's amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. All right, we're good. We can start with the comments now. We're gonna read some comments.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, people.

[Brian Bates]

Last week. You can. All right, chime in. None of them about you.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, that's good.

[Brian Bates]

You could not be here, to be honest. But you're here. We do want you to be a part of it.

[Nate Bargetze]

You can make fun of people, too. Well, in the comments.

[Brian Bates]

Katie Shea, this is the funny episode in a long time.

[Aaron Weber]

Funniest.

[Brian Bates]

Funniest What? I say.

[Ryan Hamilton]

This is the funny episode.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, they're always funny, but this one had me in tears. The pressure Nate put on Aaron to explain gravity was incredible. Good one, guys. All right, a little gravity talk.

[Ryan Hamilton]

How do you feel about gravity, Ryan? Well, let's See how you fit in.

[Dusty Slay]

It's all present. Is there a debate on gravity? What's the debate?

[Ryan Hamilton]

I think there isn't.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

But turns out there's a huge debate.

[Nate Bargetze]

Well, we were wondering about the space station and we're just trying to get Aaron to explain to us, you know.

[Brian Bates]

How come you're not floating? Why are you. Right. Why were you floating?

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah. You're like inside the space.

[Brian Bates]

Inside the space. If you sunk. If you sunk a. A metal ball.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

And you were laying in the metal ball in the ocean, you would just lay flat on the metal ball. But when you go up into space, you float.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

So why come that.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

So why. Whatever that is. Why is that not in there in the ocean? But it does seep through somehow. It seeps through.

[Nate Bargetze]

Obviously. We all believe.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

We just wanted Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

So it's. Yeah. How's it getting through? But it's not getting through under there.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Boy. I mean, you got me.

[Nate Bargetze]

I don't know exactly.

[Brian Bates]

That's what we're saying. No one knows.

[Nate Bargetze]

But Aaron wants to answer.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's a frustrating thing because I can't. When you're in. Or when you're orbiting the Earth, you're in a freefall technique technically, but you're moving at such a speed that you're. You're. You're in orbit because you're free falling. But you're also. You have speed.

[Dusty Slay]

This.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I mean, I need to diagram it out.

[Brian Bates]

So. But if everything stopped, you would fall.

[Ryan Hamilton]

To the ground if you stop moving.

[Brian Bates]

So if you were up there and everything. So it's just like a wind that. It's like that machine that at the carnival. That's.

[Nate Bargetze]

The people in the space station would always be like.

[Aaron Weber]

They got it.

[Ryan Hamilton]

There's no air. So there's no air resistance.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

That's. That's.

[Aaron Weber]

The space station is going.

[Brian Bates]

But like if you. So like when they're always outside the thing. But they always got to be attached to it. But you would think like if they got attached to the thing, it would be like.

[Ryan Hamilton]

No, because they're already moving. They're moving that speed too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

So the.

[Brian Bates]

The international space all really works out.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah. I guess at the end of the day that's all you need.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Everything works.

[Aaron Weber]

Whatever calibrate it.

[Nate Bargetze]

When George Clooney floated away in gravity.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Is that. That's pretty accurate. You think? He just never. You never see that guy.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I know a lot of people have picked apart the physics of that where a lot of it doesn't make any sense, but I know that we got it pulled up right here. The International Space Station orbits the Earth at 4.76 miles a second. So that means the people inside of it are also moving that fast, too. So if they step out of the space station and, you know, stop touching it, they're still moving at that speed. It's not like they're no longer moving that fast.

[Brian Bates]

And they fly back and what makes like. Yeah, and they're just going in a circle.

[Dusty Slay]

They're orbit.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but these are all words. I know they're words. You go exactly.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You know, you move until something slows you down. So there's no air resistance in space. So once you get going, you're just going. Yeah, so they're, they're being tugged down by the Earth's gravity and moving super fast that way. So what it does is it just.

[Brian Bates]

Caught in a perfect, like, you really. You kind of caught, like.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, yeah, it has, it has to be.

[Brian Bates]

So if you went up a couple, you'd be like, well, now we're going slower.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I think it would be different. Right. I think it has to be that calibrated just right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Okay.

[Ryan Hamilton]

There's a lot of moving pieces. Smart people doing this stuff.

[Nate Bargetze]

How many people ever get lost in space?

[Ryan Hamilton]

We haven't lost anybody.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, not a lot of people get up.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, not that we know.

[Nate Bargetze]

Whatever happened to John, maybe the people up there right now are lost.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, they might be. You know, they, they do it in the movie Apollo 13, but I guess it's based in truth where at one point they just, they had to just look at the Earth and just head towards it because they, they had to shut off the navigation system for power. So they were just like going off eyesight. So that's pretty crazy. That's probably as close as we've gotten. We lost a bunch of people on the way up. You know, they die in a fire. Yeah. There's nothing to do with space.

[Dusty Slay]

But there's those people who were. I don't know if they're still in the space station, but they, they, they got left up there.

[Ryan Hamilton]

We've been covering it pretty close here. One of them is from Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Oh, really close by. Old friends with Brian.

[Nate Bargetze]

And they delivered them some, some Santa hats. So I think we were wondering, you know, probably instead of getting the Santa hats, they were like, maybe just get us out of here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They go, but why don't you use the thing that you use to bring the Santa hats? Yeah, take us Back, and they go, no, it just fits. Santa hats.

[Aaron Weber]

I think they have an attic of the space station. They go up there every Christmas, and.

[Brian Bates]

They go get the tree down, the lights up, 4th of July and all that stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We want to have him on the podcast once he gets.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, cool. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Or at least I do.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, well, I'm telling you guys, stuff. You.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Cherry. Cherry. Cheery cherry. Allen. Dusty. Just continue to read the ingredients list at a quiet volume. Had me dying. Just mumbling about how there's no reason there should be that many ingredients was hilarious.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

I mean, we were talking about Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and Aaron pulled it up and some wild ingredients in there. It doesn't make any sense to me. I thought it would just be wheat.

[Brian Bates]

I think what makes it good, that's like, you know, that's like gravity in orbit. You know, it's like, perfect. No one knows what it ends.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

You know, you start. You start naming what is right in it. You're like, no one knows.

[Aaron Weber]

Nate looks at gravity like a gas leak. Like, you know, there's a hole somewhere, and gravity got in.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's what I figured. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

So which of these ingredients do you.

[Nate Bargetze]

I don't think this was the list that we had.

[Ryan Hamilton]

No, it was a different one.

[Nate Bargetze]

This is Krispy Kreme being like, let us put our spin on it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I recognize all that little castor sugar.

[Nate Bargetze]

I know we're having a lot of that little. Little glaze. Stabilizer waters listed more than once. Tapioca starch.

[Aaron Weber]

They're so desperate, they put water on there twice.

[Nate Bargetze]

Little emulsifier.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, you can never have too much.

[Aaron Weber]

Water or vegetable shortening.

[Nate Bargetze]

What's a yeast dough concentrate? You know those sorts of things, right? What. What makes up a yeast dough concentrate?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Probably yeast.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys ever had a stabilized glaze? You don't want to get it.

[Nate Bargetze]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what.

[Nate Bargetze]

Dunkin donuts. Unstabilized glass. That's voodoo donuts.

[Brian Bates]

John Clark. I think Brian is too smart at times, and his clever lines go unnoticed by the others.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, that's what's happening.

[Brian Bates]

Love the podcast. Looking forward to seeing Nate when he comes to Charleston, South Carolina, this summer. What's he talking about?

[Aaron Weber]

Like, the last 240 episodes.

[Brian Bates]

How many episodes have we done? Two. Huh? This is 237.

[Ryan Hamilton]

237.

[Brian Bates]

We've done that many episodes?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Many, dude.

[Brian Bates]

Golly.

[Aaron Weber]

For 237 episodes, we try to get.

[Dusty Slay]

You on Ryan, you made it happen. Is that right? Well, I'm happy to be here. Sorry it took me so long.

[Brian Bates]

That's all right. So there's not even an example. That was just you putting something in.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he commented this week. I took out the one specific because when we were talking about Greg Warren eating some donuts, and I said, yeah, he's a consumer.

[Nate Bargetze]

And I. I noticed that actually we made eye contact.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I actually think that got more than it deserved.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's why I took it out.

[Ryan Hamilton]

My bad.

[Nate Bargetze]

Maybe John Clark's not all that smart.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or maybe that's just me.

[Brian Bates]

John Clark sounds like a name Brian Bates would make up.

[Aaron Weber]

I put in the thing about Charleston just to make it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. I'm not even going to Charleston. I'm going.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Well, do you want us to bring the podcast to a screeching halt and give Brian his flowers every time he makes a joke?

[Nate Bargetze]

Applause brags every time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Maybe. Once again, 240 episodes.

[Nate Bargetze]

Good joke, Brian.

[Brian Bates]

Jensen, Thomas, Nate. Being able to do math.

[Nate Bargetze]

Sorry?

[Brian Bates]

Jensen, Thomas, Nate. Being able to do math in relation to donuts is like Kevin from the Office only being able to do math in relation to pies.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I don't even know if you realize you were doing it at the time, but you were just flying through.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You're doing algebra.

[Aaron Weber]

Carry the one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't. I don't know. I think I have. I can do math. I just do it my own way. You know, honestly, I made fun of Common Core, but I bet I. Common Core is probably kind of how I think about math.

[Ryan Hamilton]

No, you're who it's built for.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They. They didn't have it. I was ahead of the game.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

I could have started it.

[Dusty Slay]

You were doing Common Core before it was cool.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Before it was common.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Uncommon Core.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Christa. NER neer. Krista Nieberger. Go, Nate. I live in Idaho and did 75 hard in the winter through many blizzards. If I can do it, anyone can. You will love how you. You will love how you feel. I promise. That's a tough one for me to do.

[Nate Bargetze]

What's 75 hard?

[Brian Bates]

I'm gonna do it. I'm back to 75 hard. Was not gonna do it.

[Aaron Weber]

I talked about last.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Oh, so you gotta. Do you know what it is?

[Dusty Slay]

I've heard about it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You can work out twice a day and then be on a diet. Read 10 books. No, read 10 pages.

[Aaron Weber]

That'll be the hard part.

[Ryan Hamilton]

That's pretty different.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty different. And then the water. But I think we're back on it starting Monday. So if you've seen this now, we'll start Monday. So starting now, now, that'll be like February 3rd. We'll see what we can get out of it.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Krista says if she can do it, anyone can. I. I do think I need to know a little more about her before.

[Aaron Weber]

I believe that she said she was my age.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, and she did it recently.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, I believe her.

[Brian Bates]

In the winter, through many blizzards, that's what, 75.

[Nate Bargetze]

Hard is white.

[Brian Bates]

Ho. So your winter up there is like. You can't go outside.

[Dusty Slay]

Where I'm from in Idaho, it's. It's rough. It was 40 below last week.

[Brian Bates]

40 below?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Up in the mountains, it gets cold. But I don't know where she's from. There's a lot of different places in Idaho.

[Brian Bates]

Is there? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Learning a lot.

[Brian Bates]

40 below.

[Nate Bargetze]

40 below is insane.

[Brian Bates]

What do you.

[Dusty Slay]

That was uncommon?

[Brian Bates]

Was. Is school canceled? Just because it's like, come on.

[Dusty Slay]

Where. Where my family's living now. It was 40 below where I grew up. We would get out of school 20 below.

[Brian Bates]

20 below.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So y'all had to wear, like, special coats.

[Dusty Slay]

You got to wear a coat. Yeah, good one. The best coat you got. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

This isn't trying to coat out weather. This is going to bring the he.

[Aaron Weber]

The most coat.

[Dusty Slay]

The one. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I would think you have to wear, like, you know, when you see. When you buy a winter coat, it's like, it's good up to whatever degrees.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

That doesn't really matter here, but there it's like. No, it's serious.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. To be cool.

[Nate Bargetze]

Would you try to. Would people try to wear less coats?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, people don't. I mean. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

It's not even got cold out here.

[Dusty Slay]

I remember going skiing and wearing a ball cap because I wanted to be cool.

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

And that was a bad idea. I think I got frostbite on my ear, actually. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, that's. Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah. They cancel the schools here if it's windy, so.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I can't IM. I mean, -20 seems like a crazy place to draw the line, but I guess y'all live.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't. I mean, I guess I didn't realize even Idaho got that Cole. But I guess up in the mountains.

[Ryan Hamilton]

We don't think about Idaho a ton.

[Dusty Slay]

Nobody does, really. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

What do you think February 21st in Boise is going to be like?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Boise's a lot more temperate.

[Nate Bargetze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm from Right in the corner of like Wyoming, Montana and Idaho up in.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Really clever way to plug your dates.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, is that what you're doing?

[Nate Bargetze]

I mean, I'll be there February 21st and boy. Yeah, I didn't really want to find out how cold.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's 33 degrees there right now.

[Brian Bates]

33?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, it's above freezing.

[Dusty Slay]

No, you're going to be fine. It's a good time to go because people want to be outside in the summer.

[Brian Bates]

Now is the summer. And fall is unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

Really? Yes. Amazing.

[Brian Bates]

That's where it's all for.

[Dusty Slay]

You gotta. It gets like jacket weather every night and it never gets above like 90, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Really nice. For about a week and a half.

[Brian Bates]

And then. How many people grew up in your town?

[Dusty Slay]

A thousand.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Dusty Slay]

Thousand people.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep. Tiny little town.

[Brian Bates]

Still talk to them all.

[Dusty Slay]

All of them? Every one of them.

[Brian Bates]

Everyone. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

We just had a high school reunion actually. I had like 60 people in my class. I know. You had a small.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, a small class too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And so I kind of feel like they're like cousins almost or second cousins. I kind of know what they're all doing because I talked to their parents and their parents talked to my parents. Yeah, whatever. So.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but I mean, thousand people's like java.

[Aaron Weber]

Thousand people. And 60 were in your graduating class?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, 62. We had one of the best. Biggest ever. Best ever.

[Brian Bates]

One of the biggest ever is a big deal.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I think Idaho is really underrated. Are you pretty happy with what's the.

[Brian Bates]

Name of your town?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Ashton.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Ashton.

[Nate Bargetze]

It sounds fancy.

[Brian Bates]

So what do you gotta do to fly? How do you get there to fly? Like, what do you do?

[Dusty Slay]

I gotta fly either through Denver or Salt Lake into Idaho Falls and then drive an hour.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And as your family grew up there the whole time?

[Dusty Slay]

My mom's family's been there forever.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Oh, you got it there. 11:27.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's the world's largest seed potato growing area.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Ryan Hamilton]

That's pretty nice.

[Aaron Weber]

And the oldest dog race.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. You know about that?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, today's topic is Idaho, so.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, is that right?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I can wait.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, my bad.

[Brian Bates]

I'll wait. I'll.

[Dusty Slay]

Sorry.

[Brian Bates]

We're getting into it, so we're talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargetze]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Andy Wexler. Wixler. Not trying to feed into Dusty's conspiracies, but two seconds after Nate read the comment about the wicked movie and witches, the power went out.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, everybody keeps calling them conspiracies, but it keeps coming true.

[Brian Bates]

Hardware's the truth.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it'd be a better theory if it hadn't happened the last three weeks.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, that's true.

[Aaron Weber]

Happened once. It gets when I was announcing my shows, but who knows what.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, I mean, yeah. So anytime evil is about.

[Brian Bates]

Power goes out here a lot.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, that's what I just said.

[Brian Bates]

Fly going around.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, I'm trying to get it for you, Ryan, but that's all right. If I hit you by accident, I'm sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, at least I'll know.

[Nate Bargetze]

He's like, I'd almost rather you let the fly go around. Yeah, hit me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

My bad.

[Brian Bates]

Paul's getting on you. Ty Wimmer.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Ty Wimmer.

[Brian Bates]

My favorite part of this episode is when Aaron says a lot of the actors from the Friday Night Lights movie and TV show are the Same. But indeed not a single actor is on both the show and movie. Then that Notre Dame loss may have him out of sorts.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's calling out to do zero.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Research about it and then write in a comment where you're this wrong is crazy.

[Brian Bates]

So is it.

[Nate Bargetze]

Wow.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Connie Britton, who's the one or two lead actor on the series, is the coach's wife in the movie. And then there are a bunch of smaller characters. Buddy Garrity plays a booster in both movies. I think Brad Leland is the actor's name. And then Coach Mack in this. In the series, he's a ref in the state championship game. In the movie, there's a bunch.

[Nate Bargetze]

So, I mean, one of your best burns.

[Ryan Hamilton]

What do you mean?

[Nate Bargetze]

I mean, you're burning them.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, I'm destroying this guy. This guy has no clue. Do a little research, Ty, before you ride in, do a little research.

[Nate Bargetze]

You'll stop Ty and start winning. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Maybe he was thinking about his last name is Wimmer.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Winter.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah. It's that last sentence in that comment that got to me.

[Brian Bates]

I would have been that Notre Dame loss may have him out of sorts.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It did for a while. But I feel good about things now. Yeah, I feel good.

[Brian Bates]

Perry Jerry. Rick and Ater. Perry Jerry Reinatter. That's a great name. Perry Jerry is fun. I love the Breakfast Club. But how could they have forgotten Napoleon Dynamite as. What was it?

[Aaron Weber]

We didn't list a ton of high school movies.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Great movie, though. Napoleon Dynamite.

[Dusty Slay]

That's in Idaho too.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I was gonna say more of an Idaho movie than a high school movie.

[Dusty Slay]

I feel like that movie came out and I was at a premiere of it, and I could not. I mean, I was in shock at how accurate it was. It blew my mind.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It was so funny. But I couldn't believe that they captured it.

[Brian Bates]

You related to it.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

So much.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wow. Yeah. Like, I. I thought it was a documentary to Napoleon or just to the.

[Nate Bargetze]

Kind of to Napoleon, but to the farmer.

[Dusty Slay]

Just the whole thing. Oh, the farmer was like, that's a real guy. Yeah. You know that that's a guy that it's not an actor.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I think they actually just had that guy talk.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

That was not scripted.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet they.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Just a guy talking.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. That. That was crazy. I. I mean, I've. I've watched that and thought, well, I guess my career's over. These guys already did everything about my life.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

But they got like a proclamation from the state of Idaho for that movie.

[Dusty Slay]

What does that mean the.

[Ryan Hamilton]

The state legislature passed something acknowledging how nicely they portrayed the state and thanking them for portraying Idaho in such a favorable way?

[Nate Bargetze]

I love that seagull. Can't find my checkbook.

[Aaron Weber]

Hope.

[Nate Bargetze]

Don't mind a pay and change.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a great movie.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a great movie.

[Aaron Weber]

And Uncle Rico is a beloved character that. I mean, so many pop culture references, those guys.

[Brian Bates]

Did you go. How do you go to the premiere?

[Dusty Slay]

I went to some premiere because I knew somebody. I mean, that show was like. That movie was like an independent thing when it first came out. And those guys went to the same college I went to, but they were there a couple years after me, so I kind of knew people who knew them. I can't remember why I ended up there, but it was like a. It was. That movie. It wasn't a big release. It was like. It was. I think it was a Sundance thing maybe. And then it kind of like caught on. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What's the. Is there a town in it that they're. They.

[Dusty Slay]

They're in a town called. Oh, it's right over the Utah border. What is the name of that? I don't know if they name it in the movie, but I think that's where they shot it.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Okay. Franklin County, Idaho.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Filmed at Preston High School. Franklin County.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Preston.

[Aaron Weber]

I think the director.

[Brian Bates]

Do you know.

[Dusty Slay]

I know where Preston is. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How far away are you from Preston?

[Dusty Slay]

Like maybe two hour, two and a half hours.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean. I mean, Brian could get there on his tour. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Who books that?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I was the age of 13 when this came out. Like for a five year stretch. This was the most quoted thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

At all kids my age.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Mom goes to college, all that. We quoted this movie all the time.

[Dusty Slay]

Dude.

[Brian Bates]

We were asking because you have a movie like that was a big movie when you graduated high school that everyone watched or voted like old school or Napoleon, you know?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, that was a big one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Old school was.

[Aaron Weber]

What year did you graduate?

[Dusty Slay]

I graduated in 94, so this was after I graduated.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Unbelievable year for movies.

[Dusty Slay]

Really?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You remember a big movie from high school?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. No, I don't from high school.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Remember this movie coming?

[Brian Bates]

Shawshank.

[Ryan Hamilton]

This on the podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't watch Shawshank when it came out, actually.

[Brian Bates]

No, I still haven't.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I mean, Shawshank, Pulp Fiction, Forest, Mask.

[Brian Bates]

The Mask.

[Dusty Slay]

Forest.

[Brian Bates]

Straight to the Mask. Yeah, we're talking the Mask. Ron, you tell me you don't remember the Mask.

[Dusty Slay]

I remember them. I don't remember, like, in high school, I guess Forrest Gump was Big Dumb.

[Nate Bargetze]

And Leon the Professor Dumber.

[Brian Bates]

I've been debating watching that. Leon the Professional.

[Nate Bargetze]

It's so good.

[Brian Bates]

Is it?

[Nate Bargetze]

My mom used to say that you look like him.

[Brian Bates]

Because I look at the picture.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I always think, like, I don't know. I got to follow this little girl now. That's what I think's in my head.

[Nate Bargetze]

It's so good. It's very violent, but so good.

[Brian Bates]

Well, the thing I read the. The. When I read the thing, I'm like, it's exactly what I want. And then I see the picture and I'm like, I gotta follow somebody called Leon.

[Aaron Weber]

I just always heard it's the profession.

[Dusty Slay]

I remember a lot of movies. Right.

[Nate Bargetze]

So good.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Well, I mean, I'm not gonna do it tonight, but you got the same.

[Nate Bargetze]

Eyes as this guy.

[Brian Bates]

I do?

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

He's wearing sunglasses.

[Nate Bargetze]

No, but I know what he looks like.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. I think Pet Detective was around then. I think that was 95.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe we've already said the ones that were.

[Ryan Hamilton]

No, pet detective is 94.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, there we go.

[Ryan Hamilton]

What a year for Jim Carrey, huh?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Three movies in one year.

[Ryan Hamilton]

The Mask, Dumb and Dumber and come out in 94. Crazy.

[Brian Bates]

That's crazy.

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh, True Lies. That's a great one.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, these are some of these movies. Best year, best movie.

[Dusty Slay]

What about Tommy Boy? When was Tommy boy?

[Aaron Weber]

97.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that was later.

[Brian Bates]

That was mine. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Really?

[Brian Bates]

I graduated 97. Maybe it was Street Fight, Angels and Outfield. Great movie.

[Ryan Hamilton]

So did you just watch movies all the time when you're in high school?

[Dusty Slay]

That's always.

[Aaron Weber]

I worked at. I was working at a video store in 94, so I took almost all these home.

[Ryan Hamilton]

A Blockbuster or something else? No, Family Video.

[Aaron Weber]

Not a Mega Video.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We had a tanning bed.

[Nate Bargetze]

Mega Video.

[Brian Bates]

Blockbuster had benefits.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Ryan Hamilton]

What did it cost to run a movie? Do you remember?

[Brian Bates]

Dollar. I may be like 99 cents or 1.99. They had, like.

[Aaron Weber]

It was around. That was it.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Before credit cards.

[Brian Bates]

I think you do credit card. If you. Yeah, it was one of those where.

[Aaron Weber]

You had to get out that big thing.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It was a pain.

[Aaron Weber]

We would get so mad if somebody paid a credit card.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Really? Then how did you get people to return stuff? Do you have to pay charge?

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, he had the card. The venture, like the Mega.

[Brian Bates]

Technically, you really couldn't. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe we had their credit card on.

[Brian Bates]

File or their bank account or Something.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think we were that.

[Nate Bargetze]

I think they just had an account.

[Brian Bates]

They had account. You had to write it. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

They couldn't get another. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because then I think that would be the problem is like, what are they going to do? Like, how are.

[Aaron Weber]

They could steal once but then they couldn't and went again until they.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

We had a Dropbox with a camera on it.

[Brian Bates]

So.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, if they said I returned it, you know, we could prove if they could did or not.

[Ryan Hamilton]

That's cool. Did you ever have to do that?

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't. Maybe the manager did.

[Brian Bates]

I think I remember being $99.99 cents where like they had like a 99 cents bin.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where you could go and get some stuff. It was. You never rented anything. Are you DVDs.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I remember. Yeah. I remember renting a few DVD video games. We would rent.

[Brian Bates]

I think it was the most fun.

[Nate Bargetze]

It's the best.

[Brian Bates]

It was. It was. It was a great time. It was a great time.

[Nate Bargetze]

Physical media, it's where it's at.

[Aaron Weber]

You're much more invested if you rent something and take it home and it's this or nothing. You're gonna stick it out.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And it's more like you sit there and you go, are y'all ready? Like, we're.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's.

[Brian Bates]

It's more of a. It's little stuff that it adds to versus now. It's like you kind of take everything for granted now. Like maybe I take Leon professional for granted because it's there. Shawshank I take for granted. It's always on.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I'm like, well, I don't need to see it.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You should, though.

[Brian Bates]

Well, one day I got two now I have seen Mighty Ducks one and two. I'm trying to think what I watched the other night. I watched something. A movie that's.

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh, Maverick 94 Edwards.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Richie Rich, the Client.

[Ryan Hamilton]

There's an argument to be made. This is the best movie.

[Brian Bates]

You know what I started watching? Yeah. I tried to start Watch West Ring last night.

[Nate Bargetze]

Did you really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So I started.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I think this is your second or third try.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So I had started the first episode maybe eight months to a year ago, and then I just pressed it, said, resume play. I just went right back into it. And then I was like, kind of did it and I made it into the second episode. And I was like, I don't go. It was like I was signing my book. Well, I'll show you. So I have to sign. So I have signed copies of my book. This is the COVID of it.

[Ryan Hamilton]

There it is.

[Brian Bates]

There it is.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Big dumb eyes.

[Brian Bates]

Demise.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's what you've been saying.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought you were saying the big demise.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I know a lot of people, so. But I had to sign, so I gotta. I. I gotta do signed copies. And it's. And so I was like. Yeah, I think I just was, like, having to focus too much. And then I think I also got a little.

[Ryan Hamilton]

That's not a good zone out. And put on in the background show.

[Brian Bates]

Can I just skip to a season, or do I got to go through the whole thing?

[Aaron Weber]

You asked that three years ago on the pod.

[Ryan Hamilton]

There's episode crackpots and these women. That's. That's where I was like, this show's great.

[Brian Bates]

That might be the one I'm on. That's the second episode.

[Ryan Hamilton]

No, it's either the third or the fifth. And it ends with Martin Sheen gives the speech to the staff at the end where you're like, oh, this is as good as TV can be. That's. I remember feeling that.

[Brian Bates]

Can. I took a while.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You can go ahead and skip.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Mark, I don't know why y'all are laughing at me.

[Nate Bargetze]

You just said, you made such a big statement. This is as good as TV can be.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I said, I remember feeling.

[Nate Bargetze]

Okay. I just. That was just funny to me.

[Brian Bates]

How old were you?

[Nate Bargetze]

I'm not mad at you.

[Ryan Hamilton]

For me, maybe 13 or 14.

[Brian Bates]

You have those feelings at 13? I can't even imagine thinking about TV like that in depth.

[Nate Bargetze]

Great television, step by step.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think. Yeah, I was. Why? I've never was watching anything that. No, I didn't. He's. Yeah, you're intellectual.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I remember Incredible Hulk, and when there was a second Hulk, they had to fight each other. I thought, this is the best television's ever gonna get.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Was it like a gray Hulk?

[Brian Bates]

Television barely been around. Yeah. I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, everybody was great because it was black. And I didn't know Hulk was green till 94.

[Brian Bates]

At first, he didn't know it was two Hulks. He thought his TV was just skipping. And then he hit. He hit the side of it and he goes, wait a second. I think this is on purpose.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Stephen Bass. Just like Nate, I never made my high school basketball team and resorted to playing church league on carpet.

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron, I forward you a link to.

[Brian Bates]

This, but this made me eligible for a halftime contest. I got randomly selected to do at halftime of an Auburn game in college. I won five grand in dramatic fashion. I then also went on to walk onto the team my junior and play for coach Bruce Pearl.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's this kid.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Bargetze]

I know Stephen Bass.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you do. I think you play pickleball.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Now he's got to make a free throw.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's like a good.

[Nate Bargetze]

Stephen Bass. Hung out with me.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Three pointer. Now we got to make a half court shot here.

[Brian Bates]

No, that's the dramatic. I mean he air balled the three. Now he's got to go back said it. That's got to go in. Oh, man.

[Ryan Hamilton]

He's got. I guess you get.

[Brian Bates]

What do you got, like 30 seconds?

[Aaron Weber]

I guess you got 30 seconds made that.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Now he's got to make the half. Three shot. No way. Oh, man.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah. Stephen Bass. I hung out with him at the parade. Yeah. This is amazing. I had no idea.

[Brian Bates]

Smart that you just go that other one.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Go to the other goal. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Look at this.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And then I think the other link I sent you. Yeah, it's just him on the Auburn basketball. He went from getting cut from his high school team to actually making it playing for Bruce Pearl.

[Nate Bargetze]

Scott crushes it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Six. Six. How are they cutting him from his high school team?

[Nate Bargetze]

Had cigars with that guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's a big guy about that.

[Nate Bargetze]

Incredible athlete.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You didn't know this at the time?

[Nate Bargetze]

No, I had no idea he was this.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a professional pickleball player, right?

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Nate Bargetze]

I think so.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

He's invited us to come play pickleball with him in Kid Rock.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

This is an interesting kid.

[Aaron Weber]

The most interesting man in the world.

[Brian Bates]

See, that's what happens. You cut us from the. You cut us from the high school basketball team. We're going to make you pay later in life because we're going to be killing it.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He's with Kid Rock. I'd like him to go play against my dad who plays pickle all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

That says hometown merchant.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Is he good?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, my dad is good. But I'd like to my dad him and they would. My buddy Adam son from high school. Him and my dad play together and they're on the same team a lot. So I just would be like. I would like my dad to see a professional. Yeah, he might have seen. I mean because all these old people that get into it. Adam son's not old. Adam Song. He might know Adam Son. Actually Adam son played basketball. This. He's probably young. Adam Song played. He graduated me. He played for Belmont.

[Aaron Weber]

This guy played 2013.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So you may forget. You're like maybe no Adam son. We graduated in 1973. Doug Destiny Farley. Dusty, you're coming to Boise, Idaho February 21st. Is the material you're going to be performing on the 21st. Your new special you're shooting on the 28th or you already trying out new material? Either way, I can't wait to see you.

[Nate Bargetze]

Well, I had no. I had no idea that was in there. I would not have slipped that plug in for my. But I probably be the exact material that I'll record on the special because that's very close. So it'll probably be the exact thing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So hold off, hold off for the special. Don't go out. I'd wait for this special.

[Nate Bargetze]

Come see it live.

[Brian Bates]

No, go see it live. You know, it's always, you want to see it live, Then you see it's always going to be a little different. Yeah, it always feels a little different.

[Nate Bargetze]

That is true.

[Aaron Weber]

Now I read that Idahoans. Is that.

[Dusty Slay]

What's that?

[Aaron Weber]

Idaho. Idahoans.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Idahoans. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How do you pronounce Boise? Boise, but less with a Z and more with the S?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Boise.

[Nate Bargetze]

Boise.

[Brian Bates]

Boise.

[Dusty Slay]

Boise. Boise. We say Boise, but yeah, there's always too much emphasis on the last syllable for some reason. People always Boise, Boise, Boise.

[Brian Bates]

And get out of it. Boys, boys.

[Ryan Hamilton]

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[Brian Bates]

Kyle J. Ferguson, boss is the current capital of Idaho, but Lewiston was the original capst. Southern Idaho residents wanted the capital further south. So the Idaho Secretary of State, Clinton D. Witt Smith, named himself governor while governor Caleb Lyon was out of state. Duck hunting. Essentially, the Boise folks were like, we are the capital now. And went and stole all the stuff that made them the capital.

[Ryan Hamilton]

That's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Gosh, I didn't know that.

[Brian Bates]

They don't teach that.

[Nate Bargetze]

I love boys.

[Aaron Weber]

No idea.

[Dusty Slay]

If it's true, I don't know. Why is this a comment? What? What?

[Aaron Weber]

I've been saving that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I don't understand.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a fair Question.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a fair question.

[Aaron Weber]

I have a running list of. Oh, we do every state.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, this is probably state 30. Maybe we're on.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And people will say, hey, when you do our state, here's a fun fact. And I save it. And today's that day, probably three years ago.

[Brian Bates]

We've been waiting for you, Ryan. Yeah, yeah, We've been holding off.

[Dusty Slay]

No idea.

[Brian Bates]

You are our Idaho. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

We could.

[Dusty Slay]

I had no idea what else. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you the only comic from Idaho?

[Dusty Slay]

Do you guys know Dan Cummins?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I know Dan.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Dan's from Idaho. There's a few. There's a few. Yeah. But I started in Utah, but I grew up in Idaho. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we've done a Utah episode, so.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, well, I won't talk about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you know how Idaho got its name?

[Dusty Slay]

No. It's an Idaho. It's a. It's an Idaho. It's an Indian word. A Native American word. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot of people think that was actually a woman there who got around named Ida.

[Dusty Slay]

No. I've had a lot of audience members tell me that, but I wasn't sure it was true.

[Aaron Weber]

It's supposedly a Native American word.

[Nate Bargetze]

She's still around, you think?

[Aaron Weber]

February 21st.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

She going to be in Boise.

[Aaron Weber]

A politician named George Willing came up with it. He said it meant a Native American word meaning gem of the mountains. But later, after being pressed on, he admitted he just made it up.

[Dusty Slay]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Just a made up word.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. These politicians in Idaho are ruthless.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I know. That's a good made up word.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, it is.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if I can make up a word like, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Your beat box is broke.

[Brian Bates]

Your beatbox. Yeah. I mean, but name a state. Idaho sounds perfect.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

You look at it, it should be called Idaho.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. I did not know that you can.

[Brian Bates]

Make up a state name.

[Ryan Hamilton]

No, but I think a lot of it is. You're familiar with it. I think if I. If you had never heard it and I said it, you'd be. You'd think that was weird, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I know, but I mean, for it to work out like that.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, it's worked out great.

[Brian Bates]

It's like gravity. It's the gravity of America. It is, but it's basically holding us back.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Keeping us down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's based off of a real girl, though, Ida.

[Aaron Weber]

They're not sure if even that's true.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay. But Ida sounds like a name.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Ida.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, It. I mean, when it comes down to this. And I don't know, maybe they didn't use the.

[Brian Bates]

The.

[Nate Bargetze]

The hoe term back then. You know what I mean? But it's like if there was a real girl named Ida, and then this guy's like, oh, I just made it up. Jim of the mountain. Now it sounds like it did kind of come as an insult to this poor girl named Ida that probably just rejected this guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Nate Bargetze]

And then instead of him just accepting the rejection, he's now name calling.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, all the stuff that happens. Sounds like y'all were. Y'all were founded in 1964. I mean, like, the. Even the. The capital things, like, he was the state duck hunter. You're like, is this. This. How recent was this?

[Dusty Slay]

We've kind of been the same place for a long time. And yeah, it's interesting he said gem because they call it the gem state.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You know that?

[Aaron Weber]

I do know that.

[Dusty Slay]

These guys.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Why do they call it that?

[Brian Bates]

A lot of gems, I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

The gem state. Yeah. I don't know why. Yeah, there's a lot of gems.

[Aaron Weber]

It has over 80 variety of gemstones.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Is that high? I mean, you could tell me that's the lowest, and I would have thought.

[Aaron Weber]

It must be high.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Something like that. It's got to be hot.

[Ryan Hamilton]

In the late 1800s, Ida was one of the top 10 most popular girls names in the u. S. It's now about 1200 in popularity.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay.

[Ryan Hamilton]

So it's dropped down significantly.

[Nate Bargetze]

Probably. The state name has probably hurt the overall name for a girl.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I mean, if you name your kid Ida, now you're just teeing her up.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's too bad.

[Nate Bargetze]

That's a shame.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Too bad.

[Nate Bargetze]

Either called, you know, Idaho, or you're called a potato. Or.

[Aaron Weber]

Or Ida.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah. Or ida. Just a bad name in general. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Isn't there a potato called or ida?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, there's a potato company.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He really hung about to dry. Just keep going. He's like, all right.

[Aaron Weber]

In 1990, there were 1 million people living in Idaho. They just hit 2 million.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

It's the fastest growing state over the last couple decades, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. They keep saying that. Yeah. That's what I hear. Everybody's moving there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Why is that?

[Dusty Slay]

I think, you know, people want to get out of certain places and they're looking for, you know, like, you guys are growing here. Everybody's just moving around.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody's moving around.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where do they move?

[Dusty Slay]

Boise.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. A lot of people moving to boy. But a lot of places.

[Brian Bates]

Where's the. Where's the best, best weather in Idaho?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, Boise is probably the most temperate. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Why they would want the capital to be there? Yeah, it makes sense.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I don't know how it. I mean, yeah, it makes sense if.

[Aaron Weber]

You live south, but they're like, we.

[Nate Bargetze]

Got to conduct a lot of business and it's pretty cold up here.

[Dusty Slay]

The northern part of Idaho is like, I mean, very sparsely populated. And you can't even get from southern Idaho to northern Idaho without leaving the state. Like, if you're going to drive, this would be terrible for your tour. But if you're going to drive, why is that?

[Brian Bates]

Well, he would do a stopover.

[Dusty Slay]

It's. It's very remote. It's like part of the most remote wilderness in the whole country is like in Northern Idaho.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Like, close to Spokane up there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but like between like, Spokane and Boise, it's. There's. It's all mountain.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Do you think it'll be bad near Spokane? February 23rd.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's there.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I think it'll be there the 23rd.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm there.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Spokane Comedy Club, February.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wait. Y'all gonna be kind of up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How far is boys?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, gotta go through the boys that coil.

[Brian Bates]

Go scroll back down to. No, no, the Spokane. That curta. What is it?

[Dusty Slay]

Coeur d'alene.

[Brian Bates]

Coeur d'alene. That place is crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's beautiful, right? Yeah, it's gorgeous. A lot.

[Brian Bates]

I've golfed there. I golf.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, it's a nice. Yeah, a lot of people love it. A lot of like, second homes and. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. My fourth home's there.

[Dusty Slay]

Your fourth?

[Brian Bates]

That's how far I've been.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't even. I don't even have a second or third. Yeah, I went to the fourth.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Second home's cliche. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a fun fact. I read you can get to Idaho by boat from the Pacific Ocean.

[Brian Bates]

No way.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay. Well, that's what Lewis and Clark did. They went all the way to the Pacific. Yeah, but through Idaho.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but they walked to. To the coast. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I think a lot of it was on boats.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I could be wrong.

[Aaron Weber]

There are rivers that run inland that you can.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, this was.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Take the risk.

[Brian Bates]

Brian used to be in when he did debates. This was one of the main debates. So I don't know if you want to go against it.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if I Wanted.

[Brian Bates]

This is a hot topic. Back when he was in high school.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Lewis Clark were there, but maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I don't know how much of it was in boats, but I thought. I thought they did that.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know, kind of Bigfoot sightings. You guys got up there lot.

[Dusty Slay]

I know people who swear that they've seen Bigfoot.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, so I know. How far are you from Boise?

[Dusty Slay]

Like, four and a half hours.

[Brian Bates]

So you're north?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm like, east and a little north.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And then. So, like. So like I said with the by Spokane, like, if you get up in that. Do people go up there and camp and stuff? Like, is that, like, known for hiking or is it, like, remote where, like, no one.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you can go up there. I mean, yeah, it's. It's beautiful, but it's very remote. I did, like a river trip, like, 10 days on the river and went to all these places. The only place you can get there. Only way you can get there is on the river or to fly, like, these little planes.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And you just feel you're in the middle of nowhere.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So, like, amazing.

[Nate Bargetze]

But hiking, though, like, people. Extreme hiking. They could.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

They would do over the mountain and stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Lots of that stuff up there. Yeah, A lot.

[Nate Bargetze]

A lot of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. It's beautiful.

[Brian Bates]

I think I could go do some extreme hiking.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it start out extreme. Do like three days.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I remember the last time you went on a big hike. You came back pretty excited about it.

[Brian Bates]

It's the best.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I like the feeling of. I feel like I'm in the middle of nowhere.

[Brian Bates]

It's the best.

[Ryan Hamilton]

And then. You haven't done it since we.

[Brian Bates]

Well, just. I mean, it got so hard, but it's like. Because I. I don't. We did it. We did it on the road, and we were up in Banff and we went and hiked and it was like 10, 11 hours.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And you're just like, going and going and it's awesome. And you're just like, out there. And Banff is popular, so you would see some people. But. Yeah, if you could go somewhere like that where you're like. You're almost guaranteed to not see anybody. Yeah, it's. It's like, you know, it's nice. You gotta have the right people to be with that are willing to, you know, that can do it and go.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, but it's. Yeah, it was. It was.

[Dusty Slay]

That was overnight, or you did one day.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, that was just One day.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I mean, when we came back to the hot. There's a hotel there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And we came back in there to go eat after with our buddies, and it felt weird because it was just. We've been alone for 11 hours. And then you just walk back into, like, normal restaurant, and you're like. You're just like, huh. It's like you got to reintroduce yourself to reality and, like, be like, huh. Because you walk in just feeling like a maniac.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because you've just been out.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, Bear.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, Bear. So, yeah, I would. Yeah. The idea of just going up there, you know.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Do you know the singer, musician Mike Posner, if you heard of him, he said a bunch of big songs. He walked across America a few years ago from, like, Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean. And he said in an interview. He said the weirdest thing. When you're walking, like, cities are so weird. You don't think about it, but cities are such a small little part of the country that you're just walking and walking and walking in. The city pops up and you're like, this is just so odd. It's like out of nowhere, and it's crazy, and you walk past it. But most of the country is just.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, the woods.

[Brian Bates]

The woods. Well, that. That was, like, a thing. I think I saw it on a video about someone being like, americans don't travel. And then it's like, well, you put America over where Europe is. You're like, yeah, we're traveling, dude. Like, it's.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Imagine these are all countries.

[Dusty Slay]

Right? Right.

[Brian Bates]

We're traveling just like you're traveling.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

It just doesn't feel like that because it's. Yeah, we came together, right? Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah. If they were just divided, like, if we had to show our passport to go into Alabama, it would be like, we're going to another.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. America fits over Europe by a little or a ton. I'm not positive. But, yeah, it's a good bit, I think. Oh, Europe is only slightly larger than I was. The exact opposite.

[Ryan Hamilton]

No, but if you look at them here, pretty amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's what you said.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I don't even. How does that. Oh, that's Europe. Underneath it, it's the green. So we're bigger, right?

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah. Why are we all out in the water like that? Let us all out in the water and then be like, you're not bigger.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So, like, they. Yeah, so they would say, like, oh, they go to a bunch of different. That's a little bit easier. Yeah. Dude, that's crazy. That's big.

[Ryan Hamilton]

So that's like. Ryan is from the uk, Right? And we're from Romania. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty crazy. Yeah. And. And that's what I think they. So they think like. Oh, yeah. We've never been to all these different cultures. Like, we, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We just came together as a group.

[Ryan Hamilton]

We're doing some stuff. Dude.

[Brian Bates]

We travel.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

38 of Idaho is owned by the US Forest Service.

[Brian Bates]

Forest.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Forest.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you think?

[Brian Bates]

I thought he said forced.

[Nate Bargetze]

Well, forced is right, too, though.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It is forced.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. 38. That's a lot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Who are they?

[Aaron Weber]

United States Forest Service.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like Smokey the Bear.

[Brian Bates]

Smokey the Bear owns most divido.

[Aaron Weber]

It's the only guy I know who works there.

[Brian Bates]

How do you even buy it?

[Aaron Weber]

It's just a government agency.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That handles it.

[Nate Bargetze]

I think in some ways it's good because they're, like, not letting people bulldoze it and.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Destroy the forest. But in other ways, it's. They're like, this is ours.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. It does feel like this. So they just said that's. Yeah, that's ours.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Nevada has 80%.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, I know. Top five.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's totally different than what I just said.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Well, I think this is. This is total federal.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Federal land.

[Dusty Slay]

So there's other stuff besides Forest service.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Right.

[Nate Bargetze]

Some military bases.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Nevada 84. That's so crazy. It's most of the state.

[Aaron Weber]

There is the Idaho National Laboratory. It's the country's largest department of energy facility.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That's from. That's near where I grew up. Okay.

[Ryan Hamilton]

What do they do there?

[Dusty Slay]

They used to make nuclear subs. In Idaho? Yeah. It's way out in the middle of nowhere. It's crazy. You drive around out there, there's all these fences and buildings. You don't know what's going on. But it's the Idaho National.

[Nate Bargetze]

Of course.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's going on there. Ufo Reverse engineering.

[Nate Bargetze]

Well, any of that stuff is always weird when you're, like, out in the middle of nowhere and you're like, oh, this is like some kind of military place.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

You're like, what's going on out here?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

And then you don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Nuclear. There's. We went out there in. On a field trip one months and saw this Nuclear.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Facility. It's pretty amazing.

[Nate Bargetze]

Next to it, they're probably grafting different species of animals together.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You saw what they wanted. You to see, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, it was a control.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I was about to say. Yeah. Yeah, you were. You didn't go see the real.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I don't think they showed it to us on the field trip. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So y'all. Yeah. Is it. So you grew up near nuclear stuff? Do you think that's why you are how you are?

[Dusty Slay]

Probably, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Get a little. Look like a little. Like you're into a little too close.

[Dusty Slay]

The. The first city that was ever powered by nuclear power is in Idaho, I believe. I think it's called Arco.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, Arco, Idaho. Small town, eastern Idaho, 1955. They were doing this in 1955, fully powered by nuclear energy, when the Borax 3 reactor turned on. It is now the site of the Idaho National Laboratory.

[Nate Bargetze]

Well, how's the city doing now?

[Dusty Slay]

It's not much is going on there. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

But it. Like nothing bad happened?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, It's a cool little town. I've driven through it. It's like a cool, tiny little town.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought they did have an accident there.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, did they? Maybe. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I think there was a nuclear reactor accident. I felt like somebody.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, maybe. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. It's before. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, they don't mention on their Wikipedia page. Well, blew right over it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I was looking for a section called like disasters or something, but there's not one.

[Nate Bargetze]

I say let's do it then. If they've been doing it since the.

[Brian Bates]

50S, are they still doing it or they stopped it?

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron, look up Atomic City, Idaho.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Okay.

[Nate Bargetze]

I mean, if it worked there, why.

[Brian Bates]

Would it not work?

[Nate Bargetze]

Let's do it here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

This is a. Atomic City is an unincorporated area in Bingham County. Population 41, up from 29. It's booming over the last 10 years. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Big influx in Idaho, you know.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Okay, so it's the halfway point between Blackfoot and Arco.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

What about it, Brian?

[Aaron Weber]

I think that's where they had the accident. Where? But I don't.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I gotta tell you, man.

[Brian Bates]

Still, they don't mention it.

[Ryan Hamilton]

The Idaho pr. They're scrubbing this stuff from Wikipedia, man. They don't want people.

[Nate Bargetze]

And the population is up. So there's been a population collapse.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. Big time. Yeah. Almost doubled.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's crazy. It's like you said, there's one store and one bar.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The store no longer sells gasoline.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Why don't they sell gasoline? New laws pertaining to its underground gas tank. So that's Interesting. Can't have gas underground.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Because of the nuclear stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I don't know.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know exactly. We have gas stations where I.

[Ryan Hamilton]

So you live in a real city?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Big city. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Banks? Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty, when was the last time you need to go to a doctor but you pushed it off today? Well, you probably made an excuse like you're too busy, it'll heal on its own. Or you just don't know which doctor to go to. Or sometimes you don't trust doctors.

[Nate Bargetze]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargetze]

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[Brian Bates]

Pretty big deal to you guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. We studied Lewis and Clark in fourth grade pretty extensively, I think. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Sacagawea was from Idaho.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Did you take like an Idaho history class in school growing up?

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Ryan Hamilton]

About specifically Idaho history.

[Dusty Slay]

If fourth grade was all about Idaho history, do you have that?

[Ryan Hamilton]

We have fourth grade with Alabama history, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I guess you just pick a. Yeah. Wherever you're living, the state.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think we're onto something here. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I didn't know if everywhere did that.

[Dusty Slay]

We had square dancing. Really? Yeah. We learned how to square dance in grade school. Yeah. It's very cultural.

[Nate Bargetze]

Do you keep up with it?

[Dusty Slay]

I haven't kept up with it. I've learned to call. I decided to learn to call square dancing.

[Aaron Weber]

The Idaho quarter features a peregrine falcon, which we learned from Joe Zimmerman's the fastest flying bird.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, of course. Joe knows about that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then the state. Idaho. And then the state motto, esto perpetua, which means let it be perpetual.

[Brian Bates]

What's perpetual mean?

[Nate Bargetze]

Just, I think, forever.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Let it be perpetual or it shall be perched. It's the state motto of Otto. This. We're just going to go on forever.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what kind of what it feels like when you're there.

[Brian Bates]

Now. We'll always be here.

[Aaron Weber]

It was the 43rd state, so one of the last ones.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Two time zones that I didn't.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Pacific, I guess so. Way up north. Yeah. Spokane is in Pacific.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Got a great seal.

[Dusty Slay]

I've always said that. Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Seal of the state of Idaho is awesome. There's a lot going on. You got a guy with the pickaxe. You got a deer.

[Nate Bargetze]

So great. They even call it a great seal.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a great seal.

[Brian Bates]

Great seal of the state of Idaho.

[Nate Bargetze]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I read they were the first to have a woman on their seal.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, never mind. Kidding.

[Nate Bargetze]

Very progressive.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They have more whitewater rivers than any state in the U.S. continental U. S. I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Would you have a lot of bears and stuff, like, growing up?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Be like, you have to keep an eye on.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we would get stuff. We. I was just home and saw. Went for a walk and saw a couple moose.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Deer.

[Nate Bargetze]

About wild cats, mountain lions.

[Dusty Slay]

Where my family lives now. We had a scare in the neighborhood where there was a. A mountain lion.

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And people were spotting it. You got to keep the kids in and stuff.

[Nate Bargetze]

Terrifying.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, those are scary. Yeah. We. My mom grew up seeing a lot of grizzly bears, but I haven't seen many grizzly bears. But I've seen bears like brown bears, black bears. I've seen a wolf one time out in the wild when we were out getting a Christmas tree, we would go cut our own Christmas trees up in the mountains, and I saw a wolf one time off in the distance. That was pretty wild. They're huge. You can't believe how big they are. But, yeah, we would get all sorts of stuff. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

How close were you to the wolf?

[Dusty Slay]

It was. It was. I didn't feel in danger, but it was like, wow, that's a big. Yeah, that's a big creature out there. Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

This is saying Idaho. There's about 80 to 100 grizzly bears in Idaho.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Imagine that having that kind of impact with that few people. They're just. Those are powerful creatures, man. How they know that?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they track them very clear, carefully. There used to be less, and then they've introduced more, I think. I don't know. Or, you know, we live close to Yellowstone park where they're protected, so they get out of the park often, and that's where we see them. Yeah. Because we live near the border.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Once they get out, you can just mow them down.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no. Federal offense. You go to jail.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Federal offense?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Killing a grizzly bear?

[Dusty Slay]

I think so. I mean, you'll get. You'll go to. Yeah, you'll. It's big. Big. It's a crime.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We had once. We went in Yellowstone hiking. We were walking, and this guy had a big shotgun with two dogs. Because people bring guns.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Like, right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, right.

[Brian Bates]

There we go. That's where the Travis goes. He goes, this guy's hunting bears. And I was like. I just. I go, I don't think he is. I think it's. And he go. He was like. He goes, no, I've seen hunting. And that guy's hunting bears. And we were on, like, a main trail.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And the dogs are just roaming. And I was like, travis, there's. He would be the worst hunter ever.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Like a state and a.

[Brian Bates]

It's a. It's against the law. So this guy's just like, I don't care, dude. I'll just go hunt. Not grizzly bears, but they. You have. You have to carry bear spray and all that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, we used to. Yeah. You got to be careful. I mean, maybe there are some very select bear hunts. I don't know. But you can't just. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

What about when you're.

[Brian Bates]

No, this is. There's no hunting season.

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Brian Bates]

In Idaho.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Intentionally shooting a grizzly bears affiliate. So if you do do it, do it actually, like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

No, just be like, the gun went off, though. Yeah. Throw your gun on the grizzly bear. Yeah, yeah. Throw. Get. You should carry drugs and a gun. You go, okay, try to sell me drugs.

[Aaron Weber]

Planted on the bear.

[Brian Bates]

Planted on the bear.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's just. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What. So can you imagine if they intentionally. How would they. They go. You go, no, no, the bear was coming at me, and they're like, let's see the claw. They go, yeah. They go, I don't know. It doesn't seem. How do. They could prove it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So if you shot one, you would just go no, no, he was coming.

[Dusty Slay]

At me, I guess. Yeah. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I guess they could tell by the bullet. So if it's a shotgun, it's like, well, then, yeah, obviously. Probably were close enough.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Maybe Sniper rifle.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. If they go, well, because it looks like this entered from two miles out, you go, hey, he was coming at me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How long?

[Aaron Weber]

Fast.

[Brian Bates]

They can move close.

[Nate Bargetze]

Do you want him to get.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Did you want him. He goes, well, next time I'll let him get on top of me and stab him with a knife. Like, Reverent. Is that the name of the movie?

[Dusty Slay]

Revenant?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Revenant.

[Dusty Slay]

I think that's it.

[Brian Bates]

Is reverent a word?

[Dusty Slay]

Reverence also a word? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Would you ask if he played in the woods?

[Nate Bargetze]

Well, I'm just saying, like, you know, as a kid growing up, you guys play up in. Play in the woods. And, like, if you did, like, did you have encounters with stuff as a kid? Like, we would see. I grew up in Alabama. We would see snakes and, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, where I grew up, you know, I grew up around a lot of potato fields.

[Nate Bargetze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

So we would get, you know, in the winter, we'd see foxes coming out, and we would see deer and stuff. We had a river like a. Like a mile behind her house, so there was wildlife back there. And then we would go fish on the river and we would see stuff. Like, I would see. I got real scared by a beaver one time fishing in the water.

[Ryan Hamilton]

They're pretty big.

[Brian Bates]

Slap.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's loud. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

I mean, they're chopping down trees with their teeth. Yeah, they're pretty scary.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

What about.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like a beaver. Do you think a beaver doesn't get the respect it probably thinks it deserves? Because it probably does need. Deserve more respect.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And a beaver's got a little chip on its shoulder.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Like, they're kind of treated as a joke. Like, cute little.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But you're like. He's like, do you know what I'm doing?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Vicious.

[Nate Bargetze]

He's like, I can rescape your whole landscape out here.

[Brian Bates]

I'm chewing down an entire tree.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Damming up a river.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah. They do look.

[Brian Bates]

Look at it.

[Ryan Hamilton]

They look fun, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they look fun. And they look like, get out of here, beaver. But this beaver's like, yo, dude, I will. I will destroy your world.

[Dusty Slay]

World.

[Nate Bargetze]

What about the. This is little animals. That kind of. Prairie dogs.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Those there?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. All sorts of little.

[Nate Bargetze]

I saw some of those in North Dakota, just in A little field out by the hotel.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Just prairie dog. I had never seen anything like they.

[Dusty Slay]

Just popped their heads. Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

All over the field.

[Brian Bates]

Were you in a neighborhood? Are you on land or.

[Dusty Slay]

When I was young, we lived in town, but we lived right on the edge of town. So it was like. We lived next to like a cow pasture, but it was in town.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And. And then we moved out of town when I was like, I don't know, 14. And we just lived out amongst potatoes.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if I know this, but you grew up. You have siblings?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I got a brother and a sister.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Are you. Where you.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm the oldest.

[Brian Bates]

The oldest?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm the oldest, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is your sister middle or. Youngest?

[Dusty Slay]

She's the youngest.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly like me.

[Dusty Slay]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Did you grow up in Idaho by chance? You did? Well, that'd be awesome. Yeah, we would get out of school. This is kind of interesting. We would get out of school for two weeks to harvest potatoes. They would let school out.

[Nate Bargetze]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Every year. So everybody. School shuts down the first two weeks of October.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Now, would you actually be working those two weeks?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I would go get a job. I mean, because, like, what else are you going to do? So that's. Yeah, I would go get a job and we would make our. We'd make money. I could make money, you know, I could be like a 14 year old kid and make like 600 bucks. I bought my first car off my spud money, we called it.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

I used to have a joke. I'd say that's. That's now my street name.

[Brian Bates]

Spud money. Yeah. That is a good street name. Spud money.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Do you hate potatoes now?

[Dusty Slay]

No. I don't know.

[Nate Bargetze]

I like, I just wonder if you ate them all the time as a kid.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

And I guess really eat potatoes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. Like right after potato harvest, you could just go out to the ends of the rows and there's always potatoes sitting around and, you know, just so. But that's only like a short time.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Can you just grab them and just eat them like an apple?

[Dusty Slay]

Do people do that? I guess you could, but I don't know.

[Nate Bargetze]

A little salt on there. I mean, a raw potato. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Really?

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. I never have eaten a raw potato.

[Brian Bates]

Do you think y'all talk about potatoes more than anywhere? Like just in general? Potatoes? Every day potato gets brought up.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, kind of. Because. Yeah, because you kind of. The whole community lives and dies by the economy of potatoes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is there something about the landscape that makes it best for potatoes.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know a lot about the science and stuff behind it, but yeah, the soil and the climate that we have.

[Nate Bargetze]

I think you want cold weather for potatoes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

They say Idaho's environment is the perfect combination for potato cultivation of rich volcanic soil.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Warm days, cool nights. So it's just like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

The perfect place.

[Brian Bates]

Gravity. It's just perfect.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Works out.

[Brian Bates]

It just works out.

[Nate Bargetze]

It's any way different be a disaster.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, just like Earth for that matter. It's 93 million miles from the sun. But if it was 91 million be too hot or 94 million too cold.

[Ryan Hamilton]

But that's a pretty big.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty big range. Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's a pretty good margin of error. A couple million miles, I think even.

[Brian Bates]

Just float in between.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Now not even a few miles because it varies. I mean we can't move at all the orbit around the sun where the distance from the sun varies a lot because it's not a perfect circle around the sun. That's why our seasons are. That's why we have cold seasons and hot seasons. They're distance from the sun, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean that make any sense.

[Brian Bates]

But like Hawaii is just in a. They're killing it. So they're just like perfect.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where they're at.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Their position on the Earth is near.

[Brian Bates]

The equator, like really worked out.

[Nate Bargetze]

See, and that's not. Yeah, I mean I. So that's what I'm saying. I think just a few shifts here like that would. Would be devastating.

[Ryan Hamilton]

What kind of shift are you talking about?

[Nate Bargetze]

I don't know. A few hundred miles of the Earth away from the sun. It could be devastating.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Maybe a few hundred. I don't know if we got a little wiggle room there.

[Brian Bates]

We do.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, I think so.

[Brian Bates]

Because we're moving a little bit.

[Nate Bargetze]

How much you think we're typing?

[Brian Bates]

How much wiggle room we got?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We'Re putting AI through.

[Ryan Hamilton]

So Earth's orbit around the sun has a wiggle room of 5,000 5 million kilometers, which is of course means nothing to this. It is. Yeah. 3. 3.1 million miles.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess that destroys my theory then.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's kind of exactly your. Well, 93 million. There's yours is dead on. Yeah, but I'm exactly right.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought it's. I thought if. I said if it was a million, if it was a million.

[Nate Bargetze]

Either direction.

[Ryan Hamilton]

This is why we don't say we. You know, with the one time we do stop and give you flowers. Brian, you're fight us back.

[Nate Bargetze]

No, no, No, I wasn't.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargetze]

I wasn't.

[Brian Bates]

Dude, that's. Take that boy. John Clark. We try to teach him.

[Ryan Hamilton]

John.

[Brian Bates]

John Clark. Yeah. But it's.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the most creative fake name I could think. John Clark.

[Brian Bates]

I like the Reddit question. There he goes. That was stupid question. But how much wiggle room do we. Because, yeah, I bet they say that in the science lab. They go, we got some wiggle room.

[Aaron Weber]

Go to like. So. Yeah. When they're looking for these exoplanets that might have signs of life, they're looking for planets in the go to like.

[Brian Bates]

Zone that have wiggle room.

[Nate Bargetze]

Have that much wiggle room. But then there is such a varying degree of temperature in between, you know, north Idaho and Tennessee or even southern Idaho. Yeah. Just say, but then we have 500 million miles.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It feels like we have tons of wiggle room. And I, I don't think that has been laid out to me appropriately. I thought we couldn't move at all. And it turns out, oh, why did. We're all willing. We're like a bowling ball going down there. We can hit everywhere.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Why did you think it's colder in the winter than it is in the summer?

[Brian Bates]

I never was asked that question. And so I never had to think about it.

[Nate Bargetze]

But why, why would that, why would there be so much difference in between Mexico and, you know, Idaho. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Alaska.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Shape of the Earth.

[Nate Bargetze]

That's a few thousand miles. But yet we have 500 million or 3.1 million.

[Brian Bates]

You keep changing the number. 10 trillion.

[Dusty Slay]

7 trillion miles.

[Nate Bargetze]

All right, so 3. Point point one million. Yeah, we have. Of wiggle room. You would think that.

[Brian Bates]

Just how many miles is America?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah. 3.

[Brian Bates]

You got a whole nother Earth.

[Nate Bargetze]

That's what I'm saying. 2800 miles. That's what I'm saying. That's all.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I still don't get what you're saying, but I'm glad we're talking.

[Nate Bargetze]

Look, look, look. You know, right here we got a little. We got a little space.

[Ryan Hamilton]

What do you mean a little space?

[Nate Bargetze]

Like from the distance from Idaho to Mexico.

[Aaron Weber]

Right?

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, that's, you know, a few thousand miles.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

But then you can move. We have a variance of the. The Earth can move, you know, 3.1 million miles away from the sun and it not affect us too much.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, it does affect us. Because the seasons change, Right. Because we're.

[Brian Bates]

Are we. So we're always kind of sliding.

[Nate Bargetze]

No, no, I understand the seasons.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

But I'm saying if, if we're in winter.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Our normal winter, but this time we've wiggled about 3.1 million miles away. That's going to be an extreme winter.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. We would wiggle towards the sun.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I think. I think we're all. My understanding is the wiggle room means it's not a perfectly circular orbit around the sun. It's elliptical.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Ryan Hamilton]

So the wiggle room means the distance between the closest point and the farthest point away from.

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh. See, my understanding of wiggle room is like we're on an axis. Always our spot going like that one day. That's not what. That's what women.

[Brian Bates]

I thought it would be like. Like you spin a top and right before it slows down now it starts moving like that. You spun a top on this table, it would go, yeah, it would be.

[Nate Bargetze]

You know, does a car fit in the parking lot? You're like, yeah, it does. You go, but how much wiggle room do I have?

[Brian Bates]

He goes, you got some wiggle.

[Nate Bargetze]

You get your door open, there's a spot. But do you have some wiggle?

[Ryan Hamilton]

People will go, look, the universe is so perfect. The sun. If the sun were an inch. If the. If earth were an inch closer to the sun, we'd burn up. Well, yeah, yeah. But I mean, we're 3 million miles closer to it in the summer than we are in the winter. According to this. According to my understanding of this, which might be wrong.

[Aaron Weber]

I think we also need the moon to be exactly where it's at.

[Ryan Hamilton]

The time helps a lot. Yeah, the moon's nice to have.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

I just think we're. I think our definitions of wiggle room are off. Off.

[Brian Bates]

We need the moon to keep the ocean back.

[Nate Bargetze]

You ever see the movie Moonfall? You ever see the movie.

[Brian Bates]

I think I have the moon.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You talked about Moonfall. You love.

[Nate Bargetze]

The moon's falling and so the oceans are like, suddenly, like, really? It's a. It's a good movie.

[Brian Bates]

I'll watch that tonight.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, it's the best.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's great.

[Aaron Weber]

Ron, are you familiar with Snake River Canyon?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So 1974. Evel Knievel.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is this a big thing?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I know about that. He jumped over it. That was like a huge deal.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So he. He had a rocket powered motorcycle.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Aaron Weber]

With a parachute.

[Brian Bates]

Wait, when was this?

[Aaron Weber]

1974. And they carried this. Were you there on Wild World of Sports?

[Brian Bates]

Do you remember watching it live?

[Aaron Weber]

When I was 2, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, y'all didn't have TV yet.

[Aaron Weber]

Why is that funny?

[Brian Bates]

Did they go, did he Just announce it on the rad and y'all go. Yeah, I bet he made it. And he's off. And he's on the other side. Thanks for tuning in, wsmv.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that it?

[Aaron Weber]

No, that is not it. That's.

[Dusty Slay]

He had a.

[Ryan Hamilton]

This is a guy doing it in his honor.

[Dusty Slay]

Whoa.

[Nate Bargetze]

He hit the different guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, what happened to Evil Knievel is his parachute opened too soon. He made it across, but then the wind slowly started drifting him back.

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh, no.

[Aaron Weber]

He crossed back over the river and landed, like, 10ft.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

From where he was?

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't know that.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, he went all the way back.

[Aaron Weber]

Slowly started going back.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow. So he went over.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then made it. The wind took him back, and it really was, like, 10ft.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it was something crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He said if he landed in the river, he would have died.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. I didn't know that part.

[Ryan Hamilton]

So this is a guy in 2016, more than 40 years later, who completed the jump in his honor.

[Dusty Slay]

So, 54 years old.

[Nate Bargetze]

Why would the. Why would he have died in the river? Really? Just a harsh river.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I think it's. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Probably very cold.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Nate Bargetze]

Rough and cold.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's a big, steep canyon.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You want to land if you're in a thing. You don't want to land in water.

[Nate Bargetze]

And a parachute tied up.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, you get all tangled up.

[Nate Bargetze]

Suit.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe he said that just to make it more.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, I bet he did.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is that. Is that the.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I think that's old Evil Knievel footage right there. The old one, and then this guy went back and just did it.

[Dusty Slay]

It.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You got to get when the wind's right.

[Brian Bates]

But he made it.

[Ryan Hamilton]

He made it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Whoa.

[Ryan Hamilton]

All right.

[Nate Bargetze]

Why is that guy hanging out with William Shat?

[Dusty Slay]

There it is. There's the canyon. I don't know.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah. God, it looks awesome. Some dude.

[Brian Bates]

Some places, like, they look very windy.

[Dusty Slay]

It's very windy where I grew up. Yeah, very windy. I know.

[Aaron Weber]

It's awesome.

[Nate Bargetze]

That's awesome. Yeah. Well, Grand Canyon.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. Snake river goes right through my town, too. That's a different part of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Snakes on through there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

How big is it? Is it, like, that big?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's big. Is that one of the ones you're supposed to acknowledge?

[Aaron Weber]

That's up to the viewers.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Snakes on through there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's up to you people to decide that.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah. Come on.

[Ryan Hamilton]

John Clark's screaming at his computer right now.

[Brian Bates]

Because we should. They should just mark where Bates does jokes.

[Aaron Weber]

The. The oldest Ski resort in North America, Sun Valley.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

Is the world's first chairlift was installed there.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. It's a cool place. A lot of Hollywood people used to.

[Aaron Weber]

It changed the skiing business because before, you just had to literally hike up.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, really?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Must have been, like, an extreme sport before that, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Like, I guess so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I guess. Probably didn't. People just didn't do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Or you do it once and then you're like, kind of.

[Nate Bargetze]

The skiers before were so mad. You gotta think they were like, oh, now everybody's out here, they gotta lift.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I bet they did before. They might have had, like, us, The. Like a wave runner. What do they call it? The snow.

[Nate Bargetze]

Snowmobile.

[Dusty Slay]

Snowmobile, though. Yeah. Maybe that.

[Brian Bates]

That's a wave runner for the stove.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, it's a perfect description.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you got it. Did you do a lot of snowmobiling?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we used to snowmobile.

[Brian Bates]

Is that pretty fun?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's fun.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Did you have a snowmobile or. Oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody have to have one?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we had to have one because we'd get snowed in and then school would be canceled, but my dad would have to have a way to get to work sometimes.

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Outside, like, just freezes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. A lot of snow. I mean, sometimes it's really.

[Nate Bargetze]

You guys have never snowmobiled? I snowmobile.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I have.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah. Canada.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

My wife.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm saying, like, your dad, like, has to, man. Just, like, no heat. You're just, like, sitting on a motorcycle.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And have to go drive to work.

[Nate Bargetze]

Seems cool.

[Dusty Slay]

It wasn't that far, you know, but.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was pretty easy for.

[Dusty Slay]

But there was no other way to get there.

[Nate Bargetze]

Snowmobile into work. Seems thing.

[Brian Bates]

I'm impressed by your dad. You're like, nah, it's pretty easy.

[Nate Bargetze]

He could have walked.

[Brian Bates]

He should have walked. Come on.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Random story. I was with Dusty. I think we're in the UP of Michigan. And this guy reached out to Dusty and he's like, I want to come talk to you about doing a show at my place. I don't know if you remember this. He goes, let's go. Come have lunch at the restaurant. And we come there, and he's like, dude, in the winter, it's great. We'll do a show here. Everybody will take their snowmobiles up, up. And we'll do the show. And Dusty's like, that's great. And then the guy goes, all right, it was good to meet you. And then leaves and didn't pay for Our lunch. Do you remember this?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

He made it sound like, I'm gonna buy you guys lunch and talk about this. And just stuck. Dust.

[Nate Bargetze]

I remember that guy not paying for my lunch. Seemed like he invited us to the restaurant.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I don't think he ever did a show there.

[Nate Bargetze]

No, no, I forgot about that. But I do remember a guy not paying for my lunch.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Snowmobiles made me think of that, so.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I was gonna say a.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's a weird tangent.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did you have to buy his lunch?

[Ryan Hamilton]

I think he.

[Nate Bargetze]

I mean, it just was. It. It wasn't like.

[Ryan Hamilton]

And it wasn't great food. It was, like, mad about.

[Nate Bargetze]

It was almost like his restaurant. Like, he really forced us to come there. He was like, do come here. Come here tomorrow, I'll get you guys some food. Sort of thing like that.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Dusty goes, I saw the Cisco truck in the back.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It was all just the same.

[Nate Bargetze]

Everything's the same. All food's the same.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A couple of companies that started in Idaho. Albertsons Grocery Store.

[Nate Bargetze]

Oh, I love Albertsons.

[Dusty Slay]

Keith. Yeah. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Keith Albertson.

[Nate Bargetze]

Stats for it.

[Aaron Weber]

Buck knives.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I didn't know that one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You got a Buck knife?

[Nate Bargetze]

Probably.

[Brian Bates]

I don't. Oh, like the knife? Yeah. Oh, I thought it was like a store.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it's a brand.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I thought it was a type of knife, but it's a brand. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They're in San Diego. No, it says found in San Diego. Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

Whenever.

[Brian Bates]

Their headquarters are in Post Falls, Idaho.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, this is founded in 1902 in Mountain Home, Idaho.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it says 1902, 123 years ago in San Diego. All right, so it has nothing to do.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that they put the math in there for us.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

120.

[Aaron Weber]

What does it say up there at the top?

[Ryan Hamilton]

So he made his first knife in Mountain Home, Idaho.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Then after World War II, he moved to San Diego and set up the shop.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Ryan Hamilton]

So.

[Brian Bates]

So it's a guy that had a knife in Idaho 150 years ago, and then he left. That's the. Basically, there's not a lot about Idaho.

[Nate Bargetze]

It feels like Idaho's trying to make a claim. I'm gonna put this on Idaho, Brian. This feels like Idaho's making a Columbia.

[Brian Bates]

Well, their head Go headquarters is in Post Falls, Idaho.

[Nate Bargetze]

They all make it back.

[Ryan Hamilton]

They all come back.

[Brian Bates]

Hoyt. Buck. Hoyt. That's a good name.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's a great.

[Brian Bates]

Hoyt. Buck. That's a great whole name. I mean, the whole thing. Hoyt.

[Dusty Slay]

Buck.

[Brian Bates]

Hoyt. Buck. That's A guy. You're. If you're born Hoy Buck, you're gonna do something.

[Nate Bargetze]

You're gonna make a knife better.

[Brian Bates]

You. You're not gonna.

[Dusty Slay]

Not.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You're gonna be in the mix of.

[Nate Bargetze]

If you don't have a knife, you'll make one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Dude, look at the. Chuck Buck.

[Brian Bates]

Chuck Buck.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Al Buck, former CEO. Chuck Buck, former chairman.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I'm Hoyt Buck. It's my son, Chuck Buck. I mean, that family revenue.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Number 320 employees.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah. Paul Boise.

[Brian Bates]

Paul Boise. Yeah. And they're. Yeah, look at that.

[Aaron Weber]

Some movie shot in Idaho. Bronco Billy.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Nate Bargetze]

Clint Eastwood.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't know what that movie was.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I've never heard of it.

[Brian Bates]

I've never heard of this wood.

[Aaron Weber]

Pale Rider. Also Clint Eastwood.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wow.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Whale Rider.

[Dusty Slay]

Pale Rider. That was a good movie, too.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Remember Whale Rider? That was Hawaii.

[Aaron Weber]

No, My Own Private Idaho.

[Dusty Slay]

That makes sense.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I feel that you're making.

[Ryan Hamilton]

These movies that's with, well, oh, River.

[Aaron Weber]

Phoenix and Keanu Reeves.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And the movie's called My Private Own Idaho.

[Aaron Weber]

My Private. My Own Private Idaho.

[Brian Bates]

That's what the movie's called.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Why is it called. What's it about? Just.

[Dusty Slay]

I've never seen it. You've never heard of it?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Movie.

[Brian Bates]

My Own Private Idaho, Nate.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry iv.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So.

[Brian Bates]

So you give me a break. I've never. Yeah, yeah. Who knows what that.

[Aaron Weber]

So Napoleon Dynamite, basically.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

Some famous people from Idaho. Aaron, Paul. Oh, that's a breaking bad.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, right.

[Aaron Weber]

Graduated 1997. High school.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Which high school?

[Aaron Weber]

Centennial High School in Boise.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. He really grew up there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Is he. Yeah, we're at. Where's that school? How far are you from that school?

[Dusty Slay]

Centennial.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's in Boise, so.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, so he's a ways. He's. Big city.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're a little more.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

You're the real deal. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're a real deal.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Hollywood, Idaho.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Ryan Appleton is pretty high on the list of famous people from.

[Ryan Hamilton]

All right.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, that's good.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I got the notary.

[Dusty Slay]

I think. You made this list yourself.

[Ryan Hamilton]

No. Look at the Wikipedia for Ashton.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Pretty cool.

[Nate Bargetze]

That's cool stuff.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I mean, that's the dream. To be the. The notable resident.

[Dusty Slay]

Ashton has a Wikipedia.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that dog sled race a big deal there?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, it was and it still exists, but I remember hearing about it all the time. There was a big inter. I think it was international or maybe just a Big national dog sledding race in the. Probably like the 40s, 50s.

[Nate Bargetze]

Do you refer to Ashton a lot on your act?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, my first special I talk about. I mean, I don't mention the town.

[Aaron Weber]

Still does that material.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I wonder if. Well, who's from. Who's made it big from that small of a town, like, you know, like you. You would have to be. He was from.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're pretty far behind. Right, Sorry, I didn't know Elvis was going to be. I thought we'd have fun jumping out of the gate.

[Nate Bargetze]

Is Tupelo smaller than Ashton though? Yeah, no, that's what I mean then.

[Brian Bates]

So I'm saying we'll see.

[Aaron Weber]

What it is, is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Tubalo is a population of 30, 37,000. I mean 30.

[Brian Bates]

Now there's probably 12. There's probably 12. Elvis is there. Yeah, but we're talking about. He had a thousand people.

[Nate Bargetze]

But Ashton is still a thousand.

[Brian Bates]

Ashton's a thousand people. So to make it from that small of a town.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oprah Winfrey, she's from a town.

[Ryan Hamilton]

6,000 still. I mean, still like New York compared to where Ryan. Taylor swift like what, 4,000 again, where.

[Brian Bates]

She'S from in Pennsylvania. But I mean, what's like West Reading, Pennsylvania. But that's not. That's probably Reading, Pennsylvania. What's Old Hickory? Because if you count.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, now I see where we're going with this.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no, I wasn't following. I wish.

[Ryan Hamilton]

23, 000.

[Brian Bates]

So all right, so. But Old Hickory. So we're 23, 000. But I wouldn't like Old Hickory is a. West Reading is like a server. You grew up in like a straight up.

[Dusty Slay]

There's no suburb, there's no suburb.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah, that's true.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I mean. Like, there's no suburb of Ash. So it's like a thousand. A thousand people.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Carrie Underwood, small family farm and.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's pretty cool.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oklahoma, 3,000 people.

[Brian Bates]

That's small still. But we're still not at a thousand. Still not at a thousand people's high schools. More than a thousand.

[Dusty Slay]

But you got to wait in how big the star is. You're talking about.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's what I think is. I think the. You're, you're. The number's helping you more the other one than the other. Okay, so we're, we're in a. Like, we're going against Taylor Swift because I'm having to bring in like. Yeah, yeah, but you were, you were near some cities. I'm talking about. I got A guy that was in.

[Nate Bargetze]

You know, his dad took a snowmobile to work.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, she. Even if you're one out of 3,000, you're one out of a thousand. It.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, pretty good.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, I'll take it.

[Nate Bargetze]

Maybe the most famous from the smallest place of all. Of all, we're saying.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, I've never thought about it like that before. Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's a weird thing to think about yourself, but it's fun when other people do it.

[Brian Bates]

Tina Turner.

[Aaron Weber]

Tina Turner's from Nutbush, Tennessee.

[Dusty Slay]

Nut Bush.

[Brian Bates]

What county's that?

[Ryan Hamilton]

Oh, that's probably, what, 10,000 McNary, maybe McNair.

[Aaron Weber]

It's West Tennessee.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Population. Let's see. This is the big. This is the big one. 259.

[Brian Bates]

Good night. Sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

259 people.

[Brian Bates]

That's crazy.

[Ryan Hamilton]

She's dead though, right?

[Brian Bates]

That means most of the people there made it famous.

[Dusty Slay]

You just have to keep adding things. No, that is alive. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. 2 Michael Jackson's probably from small or he was from Gary.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Gary was a big city. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Haywood County. I was wrong.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, anyway, famous people. Aaron Paul, WW hall of famer. Tori Wilson.

[Brian Bates]

I think I know her husband.

[Dusty Slay]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good way to.

[Brian Bates]

No, I do.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, okay. I do know her husband. I just met him.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Idaho.

[Dusty Slay]

That was Idaho. I don't know. Thank you. You did. You did all the work on that, as usual. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

John Clark gets it.

[Brian Bates]

Number one thing.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, dude, this week. Yeah. Shows this week. I'm Vegas. I'm in Las Vegas. So I'll be out there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Big dumb. But yeah. Big dumb eyes. Pre order the book. Go ahead and pre order it. That's always a great thing when they said when you pre order. So do that. Very fun. May 6th. So.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's exciting, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Pre orders have been going good.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Cover looks nice.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I haven't shown you see the back of it. But my alias that I checked my name check under. I don't use my name. Oh, don't say it. I got to change it because it's still this.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

But it's. It's about to be done.

[Dusty Slay]

Done. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

I'm giving it away. So we have a funny story about it. So I gotta change.

[Aaron Weber]

You do an alias at Starbucks?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

What is. Oh, is that someone who got it for you?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So, yeah, I'll sometimes do it like if someone else is there. But like, if I was With Ryan, I would go, Ryan. Just because it's like.

[Aaron Weber]

Because everybody knows him.

[Brian Bates]

Nate. Yeah. My alias now I use is Ryan Hamilton. That's my joke. That's.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't want to be bothered.

[Dusty Slay]

Nobody recognizes. That's it.

[Brian Bates]

No, but that's what I was telling Joe Zimmerman. I thought. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna use another alias, Joe Zimmerman. That's. It's gonna be a fun joke to always just say whoever you're with's name. So I plan on doing that quite a bit.

[Aaron Weber]

This Friday, I'm at Stardome in Hoover, Alabama. Just a few tickets left, so don't wait till. Till Friday. You might miss out.

[Dusty Slay]

That's not Birmingham. There's another one.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it's a suburb of.

[Brian Bates]

It's not like your town.

[Dusty Slay]

I see. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then Maran, Illinois. Quinton, Virginia.

[Brian Bates]

There we go. Easy, babe. Driving all winter.

[Aaron Weber]

Haven, Florida. Coco, Florida. Not Cocoa Beach, Florida. Cocoa, Florida.

[Brian Bates]

You a fly to that, though? I am.

[Aaron Weber]

And Mar. Mars Hill, North Carolina. That's what I got.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go. I get to plug my stuff. I'm gonna be on. Where am I? Oh, a. Kohler, Wisconsin.

[Brian Bates]

This week.

[Dusty Slay]

Next week.

[Brian Bates]

That's where the golf course is. Whisper.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. It's like a nice resort.

[Aaron Weber]

Whispering Oaks.

[Brian Bates]

No, Whistling Straits.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's like a crazy resort.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that's Kohler. It's. Yeah, we're. I'm almost positive. Yeah. Col, Wisconsin. American Club. It's. Is it a club or is it a. I'm.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a weird. It's a. It's a gig, but it's like a public gig.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, public gig. So. Yeah. They have a crazy hotel there in Kohler. I believe so. I had a joke about not being able to turn the light off in a hotel room, and it was in Kohler.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was. I'm pretty sure it was in Cola. It was the. Because I think that's where Whistling Straight is. It's there. There's a. There's a. Like a crazy nice hotel there because there's Black Wolf Run. There's like a bunch of very nice golf courses. And so it's an amazing place. And then they had. I did a corporate gig in that hotel, and I think it's like a really nice hotel.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And so I. And that was the one where I couldn't figure out how to turn the light off.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I keep hearing about it. I'm looking forward to it.

[Brian Bates]

It's cool.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's also connected to, like, the singing Sink people. Kohler.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Those are the people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I've stayed. They have a. They have a hotel in Green Bay, I think I've stayed at Kohler hotels. The same people. Yeah. West Palm Beach, The Villages, Florida. Newark, New Jersey. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Awesome. West Palm beach is great, too. That place is great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Cavity Kravis Center.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

All right. Aaron Weber here tonight. Wednesday the 29th, January 29th, Houston, Texas, at the Houston Improv. I mean, then San Antonio tomorrow night, Thursday. And then Austin at the Creek in the cave all weekend. And then Friday, signature dish. Check it out. Signature dish on YouTube.

[Brian Bates]

January 31st.

[Ryan Hamilton]

It's a half hour. You know, just knock it out, put it on. Doing the dishes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Check it out.

[Brian Bates]

It's a perfect amount of.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Aaron, it's a little more than you'd.

[Brian Bates]

Like, but I don't think so.

[Ryan Hamilton]

I don't over.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's a perfect amount.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Thanks, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Ryan Hamilton]

30 minutes on the.

[Brian Bates]

30 minutes.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Love it.

[Nate Bargetze]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And watch them on the Tonight Show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And the Tonight Show.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Shoot.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

So much. Forget how much you have to plug.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Nate Bargetze]

Okay. This weekend, Friday, I'm in Red Bank, New Jersey, and then Saturday, I'm in Philadelphia. Never been to Philly. Never been to Red Bank, New Jersey.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Nate Bargetze]

Two theater shows. Gonna be great. I saw you at the Villages on February 8th. I'm actually at the Villages on the February 25th.

[Dusty Slay]

I've never been there, but people keep messaging me like, you're going to the Villages. What are you doing? I guess it's a lot of. I don't know, good or bad. Yeah, they just. I think it's a lot of older people, so they're, like, shocked that I'm going.

[Nate Bargetze]

But it's kind of an area where the old. Know, it's like they've retired there, and now they're kind of partying with each other all the time.

[Ryan Hamilton]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

That's what. There's this. Yeah. But I'm excited about it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, me too.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah, it looks Florida.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

And Florida in February. Get out of the.

[Dusty Slay]

Absolutely.

[Nate Bargetze]

Get out of the cold.

[Dusty Slay]

Wait, we're not overlapping. When are you there?

[Brian Bates]

I'm there.

[Nate Bargetze]

The 25th.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargetze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

We did it.

[Brian Bates]

Brian. Thanks for coming in, buddy.

[Dusty Slay]

Thanks for having me, guys. I really mean it. This was so fun. I appreciate you having me. It's nice to see all you guys.

[Nate Bargetze]

And the Albany funny bone together.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Nate Bargetze]

I was headlining. I featured, and then he got a big corporate gig and bought me a stick. He said, I just got a big corporate gig and he took me out for a stick.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't remember that. That's great.

[Brian Bates]

Ryan is. Yeah.

[Nate Bargetze]

Very nice guy.

[Brian Bates]

You're the best. Oh, you guys, like, we love you. Everybody knows. Yeah. You're the funniest.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you guys are great. Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

All right, we love you guys and have a good week. See ya.

[Aaron Weber]

Foreign.

[Brian Bates]

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 Nateland podcast.