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The Nateland Podcast - Episode 241 Summary: "Sandwiches Featuring Ben Roethlisberger"

Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Dusty Slay
Guest: Ben Roethlisberger
Release Date: February 26, 2025
Duration: Approximately 93 minutes

1. Introduction and Guest Appearance (00:42 - 00:57)

The episode kicks off with Nate Bargatze welcoming listeners to the Nateland Podcast, alongside co-hosts Brian Bates and Dusty Slay. Dusty fills in for Aaron Weber, who amusingly likens his appearance to that of Ben Roethlisberger. Shortly after, Ben Roethlisberger joins the conversation, expressing his gratitude for being on the show.

Notable Quote:

Nate Bargatze (00:42): "Welcome to the Nateland Podcast."

2. High School and Football Anecdotes (00:57 - 07:30)

The hosts dive into discussions about high school experiences, focusing on football. They reminisce about high school photographs, with Ben sharing insights about his time at Finley High School in Ohio. The conversation shifts to Ben's role as a quarterback, initially serving as a backup until his senior year, and the dynamics with the coach's son, who played wide receiver.

Notable Quotes:

Ben Roethlisberger (02:19): "I think if I would have played quarterback for two years, I would have a chance to go to Vandy."
Brian Bates (05:00): "I am a bigger fan [of the coach's son]."

3. Quarterback Skills and Career Discussions (07:30 - 12:00)

Ben elaborates on his transition from wide receiver to quarterback in his senior year, highlighting his physical attributes and the challenges he faced. The hosts discuss the importance of coaching and personal determination in shaping a quarterback's career. Ben reflects on his decision to remain loyal to a single team, emphasizing the value of stability and fan support.

Notable Quotes:

Ben Roethlisberger (04:14): "I was 6, 5, 185 pounds."
Nate Bargatze (04:28): "He asked Jay Cutler, you ever...?"

4. Super Bowl Memories and Highlights (12:00 - 16:00)

The conversation shifts to memorable moments from the Super Bowl, with Ben recounting a pivotal play involving a 71-yard Hail Mary pass to Santana Holmes. The hosts discuss the intricacies of NFL rules, particularly the differences between college and professional football, and the emotional highs and lows experienced during such high-stakes games.

Notable Quotes:

Ben Roethlisberger (11:23): "It's the only time I've ever eaten this sandwich."
Nate Bargatze (12:00): "Which team were you on, Ben?"

5. Sandwiches: Definitions, Debates, and Favorites (26:28 - 56:00)

Ben steers the conversation towards the main topic: sandwiches. He introduces sandwiches named after him, notably the "Roethlisberger," which he humorously claims received no royalties. This segues into a broader debate on what constitutes a sandwich, sparking discussions on whether items like hot dogs, tacos, and calzones fit the definition.

Key Points:

Definition Debates: The hosts debate whether a hot dog qualifies as a sandwich, referencing court cases that have addressed similar questions.
Historical Insights: They explore the origins of sandwiches, touching upon the legend of John, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, and the evolution of bread slicing.
Personal Preferences: Each host shares their favorite sandwiches, including Reubens, sloppy joes, and Philly cheesesteaks, while expressing dislikes for certain condiments like onions on sandwiches.

Notable Quotes:

Ben Roethlisberger (32:12): "I do not believe it is [a hot dog a sandwich]."
Brian Bates (33:57): "The FDA in the USDA says a sandwich definition is at least 35% cooked meat..."

6. Ben's Other Podcast and Future Plans (56:00 - 65:00)

Ben mentions his own podcast, encouraging listeners to tune in. The hosts discuss their own performances and tours, sharing anecdotes from their recent shows across various states. Dusty Slay highlights his upcoming special and the challenges of maintaining comedic momentum, while Ben reflects on his football career's demands, both physically and mentally.

Notable Quotes:

Ben Roethlisberger (61:00): "You have to go learn. So it would have been like, hey, give me a month..."
Dusty Slay (63:38): "Salt Lake City, which I've been to many times. Love Salt Lake City."

7. Funny Stories and Audience Q&A (65:00 - 83:00)

The podcast transitions into lighter banter and listener comments. Topics range from securing tickets for exclusive events to humorous takes on after-party mishaps, such as celebrities being turned away. The hosts engage in playful debates about classic TV show characters and share personal experiences related to comedy performances.

Notable Quotes:

Nate Bargatze (70:18): "You just were calling it sliced."
Brian Bates (82:42): "The Miami river, which was named after the Miami people who live nearby."

8. Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts (83:00 - 93:28)

As the episode nears its end, the hosts reflect on their travels and upcoming shows. Dusty shares his excitement about sold-out shows and his feature in Time magazine. Ben emphasizes his loyalty to the Pittsburgh Steelers, rejecting offers to join other teams even post-retirement. The hosts conclude with shout-outs to sponsors and a friendly farewell, teasing future episodes and endeavors.

Notable Quotes:

Ben Roethlisberger (65:42): "Never went anywhere else. Never put another jersey on."
Dusty Slay (86:56): "Yeah, I got swindled into a bunch of magazine subscriptions..."

Conclusion

Episode 241 of The Nateland Podcast offers a blend of heartfelt football stories, spirited debates on sandwich definitions, and light-hearted humor. Featuring NFL legend Ben Roethlisberger, the episode provides listeners with an engaging mix of personal anecdotes, expert insights, and entertaining banter, making it a worthwhile listen even for those unfamiliar with the show's dynamics.

Final Notable Quote:

Nate Bargatze (68:20): "Go, Vandy."

Note: The transcript includes multiple advertisements and sponsor messages interspersed throughout the conversation, which have been excluded from this summary to focus solely on the main content.

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[00:02]
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Ben Roethlisberger
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Dusty Slay
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[00:43]
Nate Bargatze
Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. I'm Nate Rgetze. Brian Bates. Dusty Slay filling in for Aaron Weber when Aaron Weber thinks he looks like Ben Roethlisberger.
[00:58]
Ben Roethlisberger
All right, thanks for having me.
[00:59]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, that's pretty good. Aaron. You've seen Aaron, like, online. Yeah. And it's like you.
[01:05]
Brian Bates
If it squished a little bit.
[01:06]
Dusty Slay
And he wears a lot of hoodies.
[01:08]
Ben Roethlisberger
That's what I was told to do this for.
[01:10]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[01:10]
Brian Bates
Yep.
[01:11]
Nate Bargatze
Could that be your high school picture? That top right one.
[01:18]
Dusty Slay
That looks like elementary school, doesn't it? I always think it does.
[01:22]
Ben Roethlisberger
High school picture.
[01:22]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. That's a senior.
[01:23]
Nate Bargatze
Senior year.
[01:25]
Dusty Slay
I'm not saying we all look good over there, but I'm saying, can you imagine?
[01:30]
Nate Bargatze
Look at dusty tuxes.
[01:32]
Ben Roethlisberger
But you had to do that.
[01:33]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. For a picture. What did y'all do? You didn't do whatever you wanted to wear. What'd you do? Like, no shirt? Your school? Yeah.
[01:40]
Brian Bates
Dustin Nickerson said the same thing. They never heard of tuxes for high school photos.
[01:45]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, that's.
[01:45]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, we had two. We had the regular clothes picture and then the tux picture.
[01:50]
Ben Roethlisberger
Were you guys, like all boys school?
[01:52]
Nate Bargatze
No, no, no, no. We. My school would call Donaldson tuxedos, and it was sponsored by Donaldson, so we had to wear them. No, it's. I thought everybody wore tuxes, too, for the picture, but. Yeah. You don't have any, like, good. Like a picture of you in, like, Sunday clothes?
[02:12]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, probably like confirmation or something at church.
[02:15]
Nate Bargatze
Confirmation that you never wore tux.
[02:19]
Dusty Slay
Where did you grow up to go to? Where'd you go to high school?
[02:22]
Ben Roethlisberger
Finley High School. Finley, Ohio. Big school. But it was just a public school that we didn't.
[02:27]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. Seattle public school, too, in Alabama. And we were. We were tuxing it up.
[02:32]
Ben Roethlisberger
I think that's the even more surprising part that it was. I didn't think it was Alabama. Like, I would expect that. And I don't mean this in any disrespect, like I would expect tuxedo T shirts in Tennessee.
[02:42]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Y'all didn't even wear in Ohio. You go, well, Dusty's looks like he's from Panama City.
[02:49]
Dusty Slay
And I had. Yeah, I mean I've been to Panama City.
[02:52]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Yeah. I mean that. Yours does look like it like if you went to Panama City. Pensacola High. Yeah, that's. But yeah, it's. How big was your school?
[03:03]
Ben Roethlisberger
It was, it was big. I graduated like 6 700.
[03:06]
Nate Bargatze
And you were second string quarterback?
[03:09]
Ben Roethlisberger
I was until my senior year.
[03:11]
Nate Bargatze
Really? Oh really?
[03:13]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[03:13]
Nate Bargatze
Who was the.
[03:14]
Ben Roethlisberger
The coach's son?
[03:15]
Nate Bargatze
Oh yeah, yeah, I was, I was.
[03:19]
Ben Roethlisberger
I was the backup actually played.
[03:20]
Dusty Slay
Who'd he go on?
[03:21]
Nate Bargatze
Look at that. We have the footage.
[03:23]
Ben Roethlisberger
He actually went to Denison High School and played wide receiver. Interesting.
[03:28]
Nate Bargatze
And do you think his career panned out better? I'm more.
[03:32]
Ben Roethlisberger
He's a. I think he went into.
[03:33]
Nate Bargatze
Like Brian here's a bigger fan of him. Yeah.
[03:35]
Ben Roethlisberger
So yeah, he went on. I think he's like, might be a pastor now. So I can't really talk.
[03:39]
Brian Bates
I mean, yeah, I am a bigger fan.
[03:40]
Nate Bargatze
It's a good thing. Yeah.
[03:42]
Dusty Slay
But just as quarterbacks though, you crushed it.
[03:46]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[03:46]
Ben Roethlisberger
Were you. I think I did. Okay.
[03:48]
Brian Bates
What position did you play before quarterback?
[03:50]
Ben Roethlisberger
Wide receiver. So that's the unique thing. So he was a quarterback. He was a year older than me, so he played quarterback. My junior year I played receiver and then I went to play quarterback my senior year and he went to college to play receiver.
[04:01]
Dusty Slay
So more of a coaching issue, I would say.
[04:04]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[04:05]
Nate Bargatze
Is it.
[04:06]
Brian Bates
There's our sound bite.
[04:08]
Nate Bargatze
When you played receiver, like were you going to go play receiver at a college.
[04:15]
Ben Roethlisberger
No. So when I. Because I only played quarterback my senior year when I started getting looks, people were wanting me to maybe play tight end because I was, I was at that. In that. Those videos right there. I was 6, 5, 185 pounds.
[04:29]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[04:29]
Ben Roethlisberger
So I was tall and real skinny.
[04:30]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[04:31]
Ben Roethlisberger
And when you only play one year, people didn't know what to do. But I broke all kinds of like state records and stuff my last year. As you see, we threw the ball a lot. So like Ohio State wanted me to be a tight end. I'm like, I have no interest in playing tight end.
[04:42]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[04:43]
Ben Roethlisberger
So yeah, I wasn't gonna play receiver. I was, I was not fast. Still not fast.
[04:48]
Dusty Slay
How long did the coach coach after that season?
[04:51]
Ben Roethlisberger
Like two years.
[04:53]
Dusty Slay
I gotta think that everybody else was like, everybody was like, whoa, this guy was on the BE the whole time.
[05:00]
Nate Bargatze
That is your son was playing. That is so funny to think about. Yeah. That they go, he Goes, what's wrong? They go, I don't know. You know the kid, all the Super Bowls. Yeah. He was there the whole time.
[05:16]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[05:18]
Nate Bargatze
You didn't see that? He goes, I never saw a gun. I never saw.
[05:22]
Brian Bates
He was only 6, 5, 2, 40 when he's a sophomore.
[05:25]
Nate Bargatze
Because you didn't think to try me? Because I didn't. You know, I was like. He was lanky, tall. I was like, you know.
[05:31]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. He swears.
[05:32]
Nate Bargatze
I was like, this kid's gonna. He's gonna dream of going, he can't. Thinks. He can't. He can't get into Denison.
[05:37]
Ben Roethlisberger
No, I couldn't do that.
[05:38]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, he.
[05:38]
Ben Roethlisberger
He swore it made me a better quarterback because I could see both sides of the, you know, catching the ball and throwing it. But that was just his excuse.
[05:45]
Nate Bargatze
I agree. I'm actually back on his side now. And that is very funny, though, the thing to go.
[05:52]
Dusty Slay
That's very.
[05:53]
Nate Bargatze
At some point, you have to have a conversation. What. Where are you at your. Is it the first super bowl where someone just looks to him and goes, you had him all four years?
[06:03]
Dusty Slay
All four years. That's very management talk, though. Oh, it made you a better player. That's very management type talk.
[06:10]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[06:10]
Dusty Slay
Where they're like, it was my idea all along. You would have never been that good your senior year had it not been.
[06:16]
Nate Bargatze
Was he a coach there way before then, forever?
[06:18]
Ben Roethlisberger
No, he was. No, he was relatively new there, you know, four years. Like maybe my eight. Eighth grade year or freshman year was his first year coaching.
[06:26]
Dusty Slay
You got to know how the ball looks coming in to be able to throw.
[06:29]
Nate Bargatze
Funny. Dude. That's so funny that it's. He came in just to.
[06:35]
Dusty Slay
That's what my coach said. I want you to know what it looks like being off the field before we let you on, you know.
[06:41]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[06:42]
Dusty Slay
You'd be off for a while.
[06:43]
Nate Bargatze
Were you starting as a freshman?
[06:45]
Ben Roethlisberger
No, I played freshman football and actually only held fear. Extra points.
[06:49]
Nate Bargatze
Really? I love it. This is. I feel. Yeah. That this is where, you know, the chip on your shoulder would come. If you're just sitting there going. Because you were you thinking, you're like, all right, I at least should be a long snapper. That's what you were.
[07:04]
Ben Roethlisberger
Well, I just. No, I just wanted to play. And so I was. I. The first two games. Four games of the season, I just held extra points and. But everyone knew I could kind of throw like I just was. And. And the. The guy that was playing quarterback, it was not the coach's son. He was the Same grade as me. He was a great athlete. The. We were two and two through four games, and they're like, you know, we should try that guy at wide receiver and put Ben at quarterback.
[07:26]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[07:27]
Ben Roethlisberger
And we won the last six games in freshman. In freshman football.
[07:30]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[07:30]
Ben Roethlisberger
Which obviously, it's freshman football. And then my 10th grade year, we. Our class was like. Everyone knew it was gonna be a good class, so everyone played JV and we. We went like 10, 0. We just. We destroyed everybody because I was the quarterback and not because I was a quarterback, but it helped.
[07:47]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[07:48]
Ben Roethlisberger
And then. Then my junior year, it was like, you're not playing varsity. You're gonna. You know, I'm like, let me play receiver. Let me do something. And so.
[07:54]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, you're huge. And they're like, how about you hold the ball at kickoff?
[07:58]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. I think if I would have played quarterback for two years, I would have a chance to go to Vandy.
[08:03]
Nate Bargatze
There we go.
[08:04]
Ben Roethlisberger
You know, that would have been.
[08:04]
Nate Bargatze
I was gonna say that would have.
[08:05]
Dusty Slay
Been the national champions.
[08:07]
Brian Bates
We had Jay Cutler, so we're fine.
[08:08]
Nate Bargatze
We had Jay Cutler on. Also on this podcast. So you are the. If I rank best quarterback. Second Jay. So obviously Jay's number one.
[08:16]
Ben Roethlisberger
Right.
[08:16]
Nate Bargatze
Year two.
[08:17]
Ben Roethlisberger
I agree.
[08:18]
Nate Bargatze
Of where our rankings are of quarterback, and I'm talking about just Cutler's Miami years.
[08:25]
Ben Roethlisberger
He had a better arm than me for sure.
[08:27]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[08:27]
Brian Bates
How far can you throw a football?
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Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, you know, in. In my prime. Over the mountain.
[08:33]
Dusty Slay
Yes.
[08:34]
Brian Bates
I need a number, though.
[08:35]
Nate Bargatze
That's what he just goes up and asks. He asked Jay Cutler, you ever. Is it hard to get asked by a guy in his mid-50s? How far can you throw a football? Is it uncomfortable or have you gotten used to it?
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Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, it's. It's not a big deal now.
[08:48]
Nate Bargatze
You've gotten used to it now. Yeah.
[08:50]
Brian Bates
There's a lot of us out there.
[08:51]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. He's gonna have you sign multiple things before you leave here. Yeah. Yeah.
[08:56]
Brian Bates
I brought you something. He goes, I watched last week's podcast. You ranked your top snacks. There you go.
[09:01]
Ben Roethlisberger
Number one snack. Is that a double stuffed? Yes. It's not. Thank you.
[09:05]
Brian Bates
Yeah. You want the regular? Just. That's nothing special.
[09:07]
Ben Roethlisberger
That. That will be gone before I get in the car back.
[09:10]
Brian Bates
You could sign that rapper for the.
[09:11]
Nate Bargatze
Airplane, if you could. If you don't mind me videoing you eating that and then sign that rapper. I'd be appreciated.
[09:17]
Ben Roethlisberger
I would appreciate you getting me an Oreo sponsorship, Nathan.
[09:20]
Nate Bargatze
All right, well, we. We'll work on that.
[09:22]
Ben Roethlisberger
Thank you.
[09:22]
Nate Bargatze
You should be An Oreo sponsor.
[09:27]
Brian Bates
So there was a video of you throwing from your knees, right. For like 65 yards or something.
[09:32]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, that was probably. So that would have been like a. Like a pro day. Like when you're preparing for the draft, they want you to do all kinds of we things. How far can you throw on one leg? How far can you throw on your knees? How far can you throw running left, right, forward, back. And so, yeah, that was a big one. I had, we had a. In college, I threw a 71 yard Hail Mary to win the game. But I think my max probably would have been like mid to high 70s, like if I was not in a game. Because you don't have time.
[09:56]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. I mean, is that as far as anybody's going to throw? Like, I mean, who much Jay color.
[10:00]
Brian Bates
Say you could throw 75 in his prime.
[10:02]
Ben Roethlisberger
That's it. I thought he'd go 80. No, she had a big arm.
[10:05]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, Jay had a big arm. Byron Leftwich, didn't he have a big arm? Yeah, big arm. Can anybody throw a hundred or no?
[10:12]
Ben Roethlisberger
Oh, I'm sure some guys probably think they can.
[10:14]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[10:15]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, I think I can.
[10:17]
Dusty Slay
Who throws the farthest? I mean, if we're asking that all that, I mean, who throws the farthest? Who's the.
[10:21]
Nate Bargatze
Who is that Josh Allen? Yeah.
[10:23]
Dusty Slay
Who's that?
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Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[10:25]
Nate Bargatze
Is it Dan Marino or something?
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Ben Roethlisberger
Like the best. Elway is considered the, the, the guy that had the best pro day that could throw. They, they used to joke that he could throw a ball through a car wash. It wouldn't get wet. Oh. So I mean, he just had a rocket of an arm.
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Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
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Ben Roethlisberger
Big guy, baseball player, almost played for the Yankees. So.
[10:39]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[10:40]
Ben Roethlisberger
That if I were to say, like, who's a guy? Like, like Marino was a pure passer, but in terms of just big arms, Elway would be the guy that I think most guys would probably go to right away.
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Nate Bargatze
Is there. But would it be like the farthest arm could be like a Byron left, which are like someone that no one really thinks of. It's just. What's the kick?
[10:56]
Brian Bates
Well, Joe Milton, jamarcus Russell.
[10:58]
Nate Bargatze
Jamarcus Russell.
[10:59]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
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Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[10:59]
Ben Roethlisberger
Like.
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Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Like it was a kid like that that you're like, this guy could throw at 100, but he just, you know.
[11:04]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, there probably is someone. Michael Vick had a huge arm. Those lefties have that tight spiral.
[11:09]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[11:09]
Ben Roethlisberger
And it just kind of goes forever. But yeah, there's someone out there that you wouldn't think of in terms of like a, you know, a starting quarterback that's going to have a huge arm.
[11:17]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
[11:18]
Brian Bates
You threw one of them. Maybe the greatest pass in super bowl history to win the game.
[11:23]
Ben Roethlisberger
Santana Holmes.
[11:24]
Brian Bates
Now, Nate says he was not in bounds, but I disagree.
[11:28]
Nate Bargatze
He says, I've always. Yeah, that's what I've always said.
[11:31]
Brian Bates
He really. He said he really only won one.
[11:33]
Nate Bargatze
Super bowl, but I go, I guess he won two. Yeah. So we're showing the play. Yeah, he is.
[11:41]
Brian Bates
That's unbelievable.
[11:42]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[11:43]
Ben Roethlisberger
Thank you. It was a great. It was a great catch and probably the second best play in that Super Bowl. Look, guy almost. Guy should intercepted it, but he got turned around. Oh, yeah. That's two feet and so on the pros, you need the two. It's not college. We only have to have one.
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Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
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Ben Roethlisberger
So. Okay. I wasn't sure if you were aware.
[12:01]
Nate Bargatze
Of the rules, because I don't know the basic rules, I guess. Which team were you on, Ben? What color were your J.
[12:08]
Brian Bates
Are you the yellow te?
[12:09]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[12:10]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. James Harrison makes a play in that super bowl, the interception goes 90, you know, 99 yards, whatever is. Which was. Will go down as I was actually just with him not long ago. And I said, james, do you realize if you get tackled on the one yard line and don't score nobody, that play goes from being one of the greatest plays in all of super bowl history.
[12:29]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[12:29]
Ben Roethlisberger
To just a. Like a good play. Good hustle by Lar.
[12:34]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[12:34]
Brian Bates
The guy who tackled.
[12:35]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. Larry Ice. Larry. What it was like to make that play. And he goes, have you ever jumped or tried to do anything with a refrigerator?
[12:42]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[12:42]
Ben Roethlisberger
He goes, I, like jumped on a refrigerator and that's what I was trying to get to the ground.
[12:46]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. That's funny. It's. I bet he too. Because didn't he get blocked too, like, because he was running out of bounds.
[12:51]
Ben Roethlisberger
And he ran into his own team.
[12:53]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[12:53]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. And so if he doesn't run into guys and. And has to make it around, he probably. James swears. But of course, James thinks he can do everything. He swears that even if Larry wouldn't have ran into somebody, he would have made the tackle or he wouldn't have made the tackle. He goes, no, he wasn't going to get me. I was. It was. He was not tackling me. And I'm like, james, be honest.
[13:13]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[13:14]
Ben Roethlisberger
Like he would have had you. Yeah, No, I had too much momentum. I'm too big. I'm too strong. You're right.
[13:18]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[13:19]
Ben Roethlisberger
And I don't argue with James because he's a. An animal.
[13:21]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[13:22]
Ben Roethlisberger
His nickname's Debo.
[13:23]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That mean. I mean, yeah. I. I remember watching this.
[13:27]
Ben Roethlisberger
If he gives the ball to somebody fast, it happens so much quicker.
[13:30]
Brian Bates
What was a flag on the plug?
[13:31]
Ben Roethlisberger
And he's like, get out of the way. But see, look at Larry down here. So he runs into intro roll.
[13:36]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[13:37]
Ben Roethlisberger
And then he jumps on his back and.
[13:38]
Nate Bargatze
And even right there pushed him like that kind of tackle there. Slide it. Just. Larry never got a. A straight up angle.
[13:47]
Ben Roethlisberger
Right.
[13:47]
Nate Bargatze
But I mean, you think, like. Because I remember this happening in your. Yeah. I mean, it's when you go in the locker room, is it. It's just like. You're like, what happened?
[13:58]
Ben Roethlisberger
What just happened? Because they're going to score, and instead, look. So he's laying there on the ground and he tells the story. Coach Tomlin comes over like, james, are you okay? Because I'm tired, boss. Like, just laying there like. Like on death's doorstep.
[14:13]
Brian Bates
He can't breathe.
[14:15]
Ben Roethlisberger
But, yeah, I mean. I mean, a huge play they go from. I mean, even if they score three points, it's a tie game.
[14:20]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[14:21]
Ben Roethlisberger
Instead we. You know, it's.
[14:22]
Nate Bargatze
You're up big.
[14:23]
Ben Roethlisberger
Huge. Yeah. He was supposed to rush, too, and he didn't. He chose not to. So he did the wrong thing.
[14:30]
Nate Bargatze
But again, when he's doing that, are you. Are you, like, give it to someone else?
[14:34]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yes. Get rid of the ball. James, stop it. Yeah, because you're on the side. You're like, oh, my goodness. He might. Because at first you're just happy he intercepts it, right?
[14:41]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[14:41]
Ben Roethlisberger
And then you're like, oh, my goodness. Like, he might go, yeah, but look at Larry jumps. He's like this. He was like a refrigerator right here, man. Crazy.
[14:51]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[14:52]
Nate Bargatze
So you know when they go this. I mean, where. When they. They get, like, halftime adjustments sometimes, like. And then, like, you see a team come out and they're terrible, and they come back and you're like, well, what was. Is the halftime adjustment? Like, get worse, different players. Like, it's. It's so crazy because it can be. You see it in college a lot where you could see, like, say, Georgia is, you know, playing Ball State in the. It's. They're only up by four or something. Crazy. Then they go math in the halftime. Then they're up by 80. It's like, what is happening at these halftime adjustments?
[15:29]
Ben Roethlisberger
Was that a knock on the Mac Ball State?
[15:31]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, no, that's your Miami Ohio.
[15:35]
Ben Roethlisberger
That's right. The real Miami.
[15:37]
Nate Bargatze
The real man.
[15:37]
Ben Roethlisberger
Do you want to tell everybody why it's the real Miami.
[15:39]
Nate Bargatze
It's. He told me the other day it was. Did you know it's the first Miami?
[15:42]
Brian Bates
I did not know that.
[15:43]
Ben Roethlisberger
Apparently the real Miami.
[15:45]
Dusty Slay
What's. What's Miami? Is it like a Stanford? It's like a. Does it mean something like the name Miami? Does it mean something like.
[15:56]
Nate Bargatze
That's the college you went to?
[15:57]
Dusty Slay
No, no, no. I mean, like for them to make.
[15:59]
Brian Bates
A second one because the town's not Miami. Right.
[16:02]
Ben Roethlisberger
It's Oxford.
[16:03]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[16:03]
Ben Roethlisberger
It's named after the Miami Indian tribe.
[16:05]
Dusty Slay
Okay.
[16:06]
Ben Roethlisberger
Was the original.
[16:06]
Dusty Slay
Okay.
[16:07]
Ben Roethlisberger
But we used to be. They used to be the Red Skins, and then they changed the Red Hawks when I was there. But the reason it's the real Miami is. Why, Nate?
[16:15]
Nate Bargatze
Because it was the first. It was there before Florida was even a state.
[16:19]
Ben Roethlisberger
We were a school before Florida's estate.
[16:21]
Dusty Slay
But were the.
[16:22]
Ben Roethlisberger
Enough said.
[16:23]
Dusty Slay
Were the. The Miami tribe in where Florida was at?
[16:28]
Ben Roethlisberger
No, they were where Miami of Ohio.
[16:30]
Dusty Slay
So what?
[16:31]
Ben Roethlisberger
It's not like they like, made them all go up to.
[16:33]
Dusty Slay
But like the Seminoles would have been in Florida, right? That tribe.
[16:36]
Brian Bates
The Hurricanes.
[16:38]
Nate Bargatze
The hurricane trap. Yeah.
[16:40]
Ben Roethlisberger
Boy, this one off the rails quick. Well, you know, there's.
[16:45]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, but the Seminole tribe would have been in Florida is what I mean.
[16:49]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yes, and, and, And I think we. I hope we realize that. And I'm not. I don't mean this in this disrespectful way. There are multiple Indian tribes around the country.
[16:57]
Dusty Slay
Well, yes, but I'm saying, though.
[16:59]
Nate Bargatze
Why would you agree to disagree? Go ahead.
[17:01]
Dusty Slay
Why would you end up with a Miami in Florida? Is my. My point. When. When you already. You have the Seminoles there. You had. You had Cherokee.
[17:11]
Ben Roethlisberger
You know, great question for someone that. Like a.
[17:14]
Nate Bargatze
A governor or a computer governor.
[17:16]
Ben Roethlisberger
Someone.
[17:17]
Dusty Slay
Well, we're talking about real Miami versus the. And I just wonder.
[17:20]
Nate Bargatze
I think these are the questions. That governor's field, too. Well, it's the governor. The governor's office. Hey, were there Indians down there with you guys? That's what they. Guess. Hold on, I gotta. You gotta deal with that call. Imagine a governor having to. Really? Yeah, you get it. All right.
[17:37]
Brian Bates
Well, the Miami river, which was named after the Mamia people who live nearby.
[17:45]
Nate Bargatze
All right, that makes sense.
[17:46]
Dusty Slay
So.
[17:47]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[17:48]
Dusty Slay
So still confusing. This is AI clearing it up for us.
[17:52]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, yeah.
[17:53]
Dusty Slay
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[18:03]
Ben Roethlisberger
Them.
[18:04]
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[20:52]
Brian Bates
Now, a lot of people think you only played for one team, the Steelers. But I know that you actually play for the Gotham.
[20:58]
Ben Roethlisberger
Oh, the Gotham City.
[21:00]
Brian Bates
I forgot their name.
[21:02]
Dusty Slay
Oh, yeah.
[21:03]
Brian Bates
The Dark Knight Rises.
[21:05]
Ben Roethlisberger
Gotham. I don't remember their name. Yeah, I don't remember what their team name was. Yeah. That was crazy that they made the stadium blow up right after that.
[21:10]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[21:11]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[21:11]
Brian Bates
Was that fun?
[21:12]
Ben Roethlisberger
It was cool.
[21:13]
Nate Bargatze
Was it. Were you on the stadium there? Were you. Is a green screen?
[21:16]
Ben Roethlisberger
No, that was. We were at the stadium. They had the fans in there.
[21:19]
Nate Bargatze
They had the fans like that. That's real fans. Oh, really?
[21:23]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, it was just behind us.
[21:24]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[21:25]
Ben Roethlisberger
But then they. Obviously, when they showed the whole stadium, it wasn't. But yeah, there was. There was a bunch of fans in there.
[21:30]
Nate Bargatze
And. And so, like, you're in. You saw Bane come out.
[21:35]
Ben Roethlisberger
No. So after. So they had us because this is actually during training camp. And so the owner, the guy that. And actually, if that was a clip, like you'd see as it scrolls, you see like Coach Cower. You see a bunch of the people there. And the guy that. It's the best way to say it, owns the movie, owns the studio that did the movie. He's also an owner of the Steelers.
[21:54]
Nate Bargatze
Okay.
[21:54]
Ben Roethlisberger
And so he was like, hey, we're going to do this. This clip in Hines Field. You know, some of the guys come. And so there were a handful of the guys that got to get out of. Not out of practice, but during that time we jumped on and went into the stadium. So we were only there for maybe an hour.
[22:07]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[22:08]
Ben Roethlisberger
And then Heinz Ward actually stayed because he catches a kickoff.
[22:12]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[22:12]
Ben Roethlisberger
And does. So he stayed because he did a little bit more. But we were just there for this, the national anthem and hearing this kid, the person sing. So we were there for an hour, but we didn't get to see the stadium actually blow up.
[22:22]
Nate Bargatze
I. Yeah, I always loved Heinz Ward. And that's him right there with the jacket on. And that's pretty unboy.
[22:33]
Ben Roethlisberger
That's actually, you know, that's actually the GM of the Steelers right now.
[22:35]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, really?
[22:36]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[22:36]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, wow.
[22:36]
Ben Roethlisberger
How about that Omar Khan.
[22:38]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, I did always love Heinz Ward. Yeah, I love. He's at Georgia. I loved him At Georgia. I. When he went to Pittsburgh, I just was always a big, big fan.
[22:51]
Ben Roethlisberger
Good player.
[22:52]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. All right. Well, we just kind of dived in.
[22:59]
Brian Bates
I know. Well, we didn't talk about our weekend.
[23:01]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, well, we can just do it.
[23:03]
Brian Bates
We don't have to talk about it again. But Dusty. Dusty got an accolade, though.
[23:06]
Nate Bargatze
Oh. Oh, yes. Let's do. Well, I mean, I think we would talk about our weekend. We could do it. I'm saying after.
[23:12]
Brian Bates
Okay. All right.
[23:13]
Nate Bargatze
Like, we're just do it after.
[23:14]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, yeah.
[23:15]
Nate Bargatze
So let's get into the topic to.
[23:17]
Ben Roethlisberger
Get to hear about your weekend.
[23:18]
Dusty Slay
That's okay. I mean, you can just, you know, you can listen to the podcast.
[23:21]
Brian Bates
Well, I want to say. I want to say one more thing, though, about Ben, because I did all this research.
[23:26]
Ben Roethlisberger
You don't need.
[23:26]
Nate Bargatze
No, we can do all the. We can talk about. We don't got to get in this.
[23:30]
Ben Roethlisberger
I'm just saying we're talking about me.
[23:31]
Brian Bates
Okay.
[23:31]
Ben Roethlisberger
But if you want to, you can.
[23:32]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[23:33]
Brian Bates
Before we get into the serious subject.
[23:35]
Nate Bargatze
Of sandwich, this is stuff that Ben sent in. Make sure. Make sure Brian hits this.
[23:41]
Brian Bates
This is more for Dusty, because, you know, Dusty thinks NFL football is rigged, but he loves professional wrestling, so. Dusty, look at his. Look at Ben.
[23:49]
Ben Roethlisberger
Oh, gosh.
[23:50]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, wow.
[23:52]
Dusty Slay
That's what I'm talking about.
[23:53]
Ben Roethlisberger
A long time ago.
[23:55]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[23:55]
Brian Bates
You hosted Monday Night Raw.
[23:56]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yes. They asked me if I would do it because I was. I became friendly with Triple H. Real.
[24:01]
Dusty Slay
Sport with a real country musician shirt on.
[24:03]
Ben Roethlisberger
And I said, the only way I'm gonna do it is if I can bring my boys with me. And so I had all my linemen come, and they got to come out there. It was pretty fun. I mean, they were just. It was. Look at them. They got to bring them all out.
[24:16]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[24:16]
Dusty Slay
I think Mingshell's pretty out of shape there, huh?
[24:18]
Nate Bargatze
Look at those baggy jeans, boy.
[24:20]
Ben Roethlisberger
That's how long ago. Yeah, yeah, that tells you how long ago that is. Look. Oh, yeah, I got them all out there.
[24:27]
Nate Bargatze
How. I mean, how is the. The Big show, Right? That's the name.
[24:30]
Brian Bates
Yeah, the big Show.
[24:31]
Nate Bargatze
I mean, how big is this thing? Because y'all are all so big.
[24:35]
Ben Roethlisberger
He's very big.
[24:36]
Nate Bargatze
He's very big.
[24:37]
Ben Roethlisberger
He's the very big show.
[24:39]
Dusty Slay
Anybody get choke slammed?
[24:42]
Ben Roethlisberger
No, I don't. Gosh, it's so long, I don't even remember what happened.
[24:45]
Brian Bates
So in this right here, just because I watched it last night, he's saying that he could run through the offensive line to get to you. Okay, so you guys challenge him to see if he could get. I think that's what Chris Jericho saying right there. And there he is lining up. Yeah, but.
[25:01]
Nate Bargatze
And then can you just say what happens?
[25:04]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[25:06]
Nate Bargatze
Well, you're back. And it's like we're having to watch the whole beginning of wwe.
[25:09]
Brian Bates
Like, well, he chickens out scared.
[25:12]
Dusty Slay
Do you think? I know. You don't want to say. You think he could, though?
[25:16]
Ben Roethlisberger
No, not with all. Not all of them. No.
[25:18]
Nate Bargatze
But.
[25:18]
Ben Roethlisberger
But like, if he technique will out. Will outdo size.
[25:23]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, but if you. Because did you ever. Did you have guys. Did anybody linemen were as big as him? Or is that like too big almost?
[25:31]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, he's too big.
[25:33]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[25:33]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. Then we had some help come out and bx. Yeah, boy.
[25:38]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. How fun. This was in Pittsburgh.
[25:41]
Ben Roethlisberger
No.
[25:41]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, man. Oh, no, it was.
[25:42]
Ben Roethlisberger
I. It was in Pennsylvania. I forget exactly where it was. So we all went there for the day. It was pretty fun. They. They enjoyed the heck out of it.
[25:49]
Nate Bargatze
I think Brian wants to watch the rest. If you guys don't see what happens, if you don't mind, just.
[25:55]
Brian Bates
I'm gonna chill out.
[25:56]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, we're gonna stop talking and let Brian finish.
[25:59]
Brian Bates
Well, y'all can keep talking.
[26:00]
Nate Bargatze
I just want to watch wwf because that's. He still only refers to it as that.
[26:05]
Dusty Slay
That's how it should be.
[26:06]
Nate Bargatze
That's how it should be.
[26:07]
Dusty Slay
It's pretty bad that they lost it to the Wildlife Federation. I thought, like, you can't, like, let's do a wrestling match about it.
[26:17]
Brian Bates
But what if it was like, it's a grizzly bear.
[26:19]
Dusty Slay
Well, let's give it a try.
[26:21]
Brian Bates
Yeah. All right. Okay. Well, that derailed. Let's see what we got.
[26:28]
Nate Bargatze
It's an eight minute click, click. You clip you just. Eight minutes, 20 seconds.
[26:34]
Brian Bates
I know. Oh. All right. So this week's topic is sandwiches.
[26:39]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, yeah.
[26:39]
Brian Bates
And I picked it for a few reasons. One, because we like serious topics. And two, because Ben has a couple of sandwiches named after him.
[26:48]
Nate Bargatze
Do you know the sandwiches?
[26:50]
Ben Roethlisberger
Well, one's called a Roethlisberger.
[26:52]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[26:54]
Dusty Slay
Is that a hamburger?
[26:55]
Ben Roethlisberger
It's. I've only ever had.
[26:58]
Dusty Slay
You would think it would be.
[26:59]
Nate Bargatze
You would think it would be this.
[27:01]
Ben Roethlisberger
If this is the clip with Chris Berman. It's the only time I've ever eaten this sandwich. Pepe's made a sandwich and they kind of just did it. Not. I had nothing to do with it. Like, they just did it on their own. So it has it actually my name, but I don't. I Got. Not that I.
[27:16]
Nate Bargatze
You don't get like a dime. No.
[27:18]
Ben Roethlisberger
Real. No. And so they did this whole thing. I think Jerome eats the whole thing. The bus. So. Yeah, it's. It's. No, it's like a steak. It's got lettuce, cheese. I don't even know again, I've. I've eaten it one time. There you go. Look at it. No.
[27:32]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's unbelievable.
[27:34]
Brian Bates
It's got scrambled eggs because you like to scramble.
[27:36]
Ben Roethlisberger
There you go. Yes. Yeah, that's right.
[27:38]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[27:39]
Nate Bargatze
That's so good.
[27:40]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. This is ridiculous.
[27:42]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[27:43]
Dusty Slay
I like to think this is the first they've ever heard you say, I didn't get anything for this.
[27:48]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, they might.
[27:50]
Ben Roethlisberger
They might have given.
[27:51]
Nate Bargatze
What did they go? We've been paying.
[27:52]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[27:53]
Nate Bargatze
Something. Yeah.
[27:55]
Brian Bates
There's a guy who claims he works for you.
[27:56]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah, there's been some guy. Some money right now.
[28:00]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so. So then I know. And I found one in your hometown. Tony's.
[28:09]
Ben Roethlisberger
Oh, yeah, Great, Great barbecue.
[28:11]
Nate Bargatze
Got a 30 minute video. We're gonna. Ben, do you mind watching this little short doc?
[28:17]
Brian Bates
I do my research. Okay. Where's. Oh, yeah, the bin.
[28:20]
Ben Roethlisberger
Big.
[28:21]
Brian Bates
Big Ben burger again. Seems like it would just be the Rothless burger, but.
[28:24]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, that makes more sense if it's gonna be a hamburger. Because this they could be like. If they start to not like you, it could be like. No, this is the clock in London burger.
[28:35]
Ben Roethlisberger
Just keep it going. Right. Makes a lot of sense.
[28:37]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[28:38]
Ben Roethlisberger
It's good though.
[28:41]
Nate Bargatze
Did your feelings get hurt when you were called Big Ben by the whole state of Pennsylvania?
[28:47]
Ben Roethlisberger
My feelings get hurt.
[28:48]
Nate Bargatze
You know, everybody's kind of calling you fat. The whole state of Pennsylvania. Agreed.
[28:54]
Brian Bates
Is that where it started or was it in college?
[28:56]
Ben Roethlisberger
Started in college.
[28:57]
Nate Bargatze
So in your. Where you're from.
[28:58]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[28:59]
Nate Bargatze
So for your family. Started family when he was born. You were born.
[29:04]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. No, that. That Hail Mary I told you about against Akron, the 71 or 2 yard play was called Big Ben because everyone just goes deep, right. And we scored and won the game. And so they learned that that was the. What the play was called. So it's like big Ben strikes again or something. Something ridiculous.
[29:19]
Nate Bargatze
Did you get that started? Yeah, you go. They go, what a play. Yeah, it's crazy big. That place called Big Ben.
[29:26]
Ben Roethlisberger
Please call me that from now on.
[29:28]
Nate Bargatze
You guys would be crazy. What is Michael Scott in the office when he tries to give a nickname now? Is it him?
[29:34]
Brian Bates
What?
[29:34]
Nate Bargatze
I'm sure when he tries to give a nickname, Seinfeld Too. George tries to give the nickname of.
[29:41]
Brian Bates
Oh, his was T Bone.
[29:44]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, he wants to be called T Bone. They call him Coco the Monkey. And then I thought Michael Scott in the office also had a.
[29:51]
Brian Bates
Where he wanted to be a nickname.
[29:53]
Nate Bargatze
He wanted to be. He was, like, one of the people. He kept saying the name to try to get people to call him.
[29:57]
Brian Bates
He was Prison Mike. But that's not what you're thinking about.
[30:00]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.
[30:03]
Brian Bates
So sandwiches.
[30:06]
Dusty Slay
Primanis is a pretty hot, hot sandwich shop right there in Pittsburgh. Yeah. I feel like it's franchised out now, and there's, like, some locations that are okay, but I went to the first time I had it. Had the fries on the sandwich. Big fan. Yeah. Big fan. Big fan.
[30:22]
Nate Bargatze
I get no coleslaw.
[30:23]
Dusty Slay
I love a sandwich.
[30:25]
Nate Bargatze
I'm not a big coleslaw guy. And I think I would like it.
[30:28]
Dusty Slay
I like.
[30:29]
Nate Bargatze
But I think it makes me nervous because I like mayonnaise.
[30:32]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[30:33]
Ben Roethlisberger
So what, you don't like the. The healthy? Like the lettuce, the cabbage?
[30:36]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[30:36]
Ben Roethlisberger
Okay.
[30:37]
Dusty Slay
What about sour?
[30:38]
Nate Bargatze
You know what? I've had it. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I would rather not have it, but I've had it, and I don't think I mind it, but I prefer not to have it. If you. If it came on it and I use abuse, just surprised me. And that sauerkraut, I could. I could get it done.
[30:55]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[30:55]
Nate Bargatze
But I'd prefer. I prefer if you didn't put it on there.
[30:59]
Brian Bates
Mm.
[31:00]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[31:01]
Brian Bates
What's your favorite sandwich?
[31:02]
Dusty Slay
This I like. You know, I like Reuben's. I like. I like pastrami. I like corned beef. I like that kind of meat, and I like. I like coleslaw on the sandwich or sauerkraut. I want to put my own sauce on there, but I like those. Like a French dip.
[31:18]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[31:19]
Dusty Slay
I love sandwiches.
[31:20]
Nate Bargatze
I like sandwiches, too.
[31:21]
Brian Bates
Fresno burger.
[31:23]
Dusty Slay
Well, you know, I said that last week. I don't know if you were here when I did that, but I. I went to Fresno. I did a show, and I told them that when I was growing up at Hardee's, we used to have a Fresno burger. And I was like, have you guys ever heard of it? And nobody. And I kept talking about it over and all throughout the show. The next place I went, I kept talking about it, and then I talked about it on this podcast. Turns out it's a Frisco burger.
[31:48]
Brian Bates
Chastising Fresno. You people don't know it.
[31:53]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, it was a Frisco.
[31:55]
Dusty Slay
Thousands of people I've talked to this Fresno burger about.
[31:58]
Nate Bargatze
It was a Frisco burger.
[31:59]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, I do remember that.
[32:04]
Brian Bates
So there's social media debate over what exactly is a sandwich? Mainly. Is a hot dog a sandwich? Ben, you care to chime in on this?
[32:12]
Ben Roethlisberger
I do not believe it is.
[32:13]
Brian Bates
You do not believe it is?
[32:14]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, I think it's got to be sideways. It's got to be bread, meat, bread to be a sandwich.
[32:19]
Nate Bargatze
There's a hot dog is a hot dog's its own thing. It's like Dr. Pepper. Dr. Pepper is its own thing, you know.
[32:25]
Ben Roethlisberger
Delightful.
[32:25]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, but Dr. Pepper is like, you know, they're not Coke, they're not Pepsi.
[32:30]
Brian Bates
But that would be soda. Sandwich and soda.
[32:32]
Nate Bargatze
I know, but I'm saying you gotta look at, like, the hot dog is looked at like that. As far as the world that it's in, it's its own. It's doing its own thing.
[32:44]
Ben Roethlisberger
I agree.
[32:44]
Nate Bargatze
It's not like a part of the.
[32:46]
Ben Roethlisberger
What makes a sandwich a sandwich.
[32:48]
Dusty Slay
The bread's got to be separate from each other.
[32:50]
Brian Bates
Yep.
[32:51]
Ben Roethlisberger
Okay.
[32:51]
Dusty Slay
And then it's got. It's got to be a stack. You know, a hot dog is like a. It's a bread that you open up and then you drop meat in there.
[32:59]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[32:59]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[32:59]
Nate Bargatze
You don't like.
[33:00]
Ben Roethlisberger
So the bread has to be cut like it's. It's two slices of bread.
[33:03]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[33:03]
Ben Roethlisberger
I mean, but what about a sub?
[33:04]
Dusty Slay
I feel like, yeah, that could. You know, But I mean, I don't know.
[33:08]
Brian Bates
I think, well, that Roethlisberger.
[33:10]
Nate Bargatze
What about. Is it a hot dog's closer to a taco than it is a sandwich?
[33:15]
Brian Bates
I got that here, too.
[33:16]
Dusty Slay
That's true.
[33:17]
Nate Bargatze
Is that what people think?
[33:18]
Brian Bates
There's been a couple of court cases about this. What one of them was in 2006 in Boston, a restaurant sold burritos, and the shopping center had a no compete clause in its lease, prohibiting other sandwich shops. And that. So they were like, no, we're selling burritos. And in 2006, they went to court and they ruled that a sandwich has to be at least two slices of bread. And that the court finds the term sandwich is not commonly understood to include burritos, tacos, quesadilla.
[33:51]
Dusty Slay
I love that case. I love that that went to court, had to be settled that way, and that the taco place came out ahead.
[33:57]
Nate Bargatze
That's what the government should be working on, is that kind of stuff.
[34:02]
Brian Bates
Then there was another one, 2022 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Very similar taco restaurant. They complained and they're like, no. Tacos and burritos are Mexican style sandwiches. And the judge agreed with them, ruled in their favor.
[34:16]
Dusty Slay
Depends on the judge. Sometimes it can be a sandwich, sometimes it can't.
[34:20]
Nate Bargatze
Do judges take these cases just like, they don't have anything to do. Like, do they just go like lawyers? Almost like, they would just throw it in to go. You know, your day is probably like a lot. So whoever books the judges. Because someone book it probably for them and tells them. So whoever books it goes, let's throw a couple. Yeah, like his agent. Yeah, like, his agent goes, let's throw some hot sandwich stuff in there. Because it can't just all be like, murder. Murder.
[34:50]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. I like to think there's a lot of them. And it's like, all right, murder case solve. Next up are taco sandwiches.
[34:56]
Nate Bargatze
Like, he gets excited.
[34:58]
Brian Bates
He's like, have some fun.
[35:01]
Nate Bargatze
He's prepared. He's like, all right. He goes, I can't wait. He's there early because, I mean. Yeah. Otherwise it's like my property. I told him, get off my property. It's a lot of property stuff.
[35:11]
Ben Roethlisberger
Would any of you put tacos or burritos to the sandwich? I never would.
[35:15]
Nate Bargatze
No. No.
[35:15]
Ben Roethlisberger
Okay.
[35:16]
Nate Bargatze
I'm just making sure. No, no, no.
[35:18]
Ben Roethlisberger
Okay.
[35:19]
Nate Bargatze
The.
[35:19]
Dusty Slay
It's too thin of bread. It's still kind of bread, but it's their own thing. They have flour or corn or corn. Could be corn. If it's corn, definitely not a sandwich.
[35:30]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[35:30]
Dusty Slay
So the USD, it could be cornbread.
[35:35]
Nate Bargatze
Well, you can make.
[35:36]
Dusty Slay
You make a cornbread sandwich.
[35:38]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. I like the idea that a hot dog is a taco. It's American taco. What if that's it?
[35:43]
Dusty Slay
I like a piece of cornbread. Some. Some roast beef, gravy, cranberry sauce. Another piece of cornbread.
[35:49]
Ben Roethlisberger
Wow.
[35:50]
Nate Bargatze
Is a hot dog around before?
[35:52]
Dusty Slay
I'd like to see it.
[35:53]
Nate Bargatze
Tacos. Was it invented before tacos?
[35:55]
Brian Bates
I don't know.
[35:56]
Nate Bargatze
I'm gonna guess no.
[35:57]
Dusty Slay
No.
[35:57]
Ben Roethlisberger
I would say no.
[35:58]
Nate Bargatze
Really?
[35:59]
Dusty Slay
I mean, I don't know when the hot dog was invented, but it's been.
[36:03]
Brian Bates
Around longer than Taco Bell.
[36:05]
Ben Roethlisberger
But yeah, there's a way we could find that out quickly.
[36:08]
Nate Bargatze
It's hard. He does. We don't have the right person. The computer. Yeah. He's gonna do everything around Manti Brothers website.
[36:15]
Ben Roethlisberger
Well, I mean, is a calzone a sandwich? It's bread with.
[36:18]
Brian Bates
Good question.
[36:19]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, let me.
[36:20]
Dusty Slay
I would say no.
[36:21]
Ben Roethlisberger
I mean, I would say it's his own entity too.
[36:23]
Dusty Slay
I would say no. Yeah.
[36:23]
Ben Roethlisberger
I'm just asking him.
[36:24]
Dusty Slay
Just I mean, I'm, you know, I'm not the expert, but I would say no. Now if it were pizza and then you stack two pieces of pizza on.
[36:35]
Ben Roethlisberger
Top of it, which is what a calzone is.
[36:37]
Dusty Slay
But a Calhoun calzone's folded.
[36:41]
Ben Roethlisberger
So if you took a big slice of New York, isn't that how you're supposed to really, isn't that how you're supposed to eat pizza big piece and fold it?
[36:47]
Dusty Slay
People say that?
[36:49]
Nate Bargatze
I don't know.
[36:50]
Dusty Slay
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[39:12]
Brian Bates
Nice lost My computer privileges again?
[39:16]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[39:17]
Brian Bates
What was I doing?
[39:18]
Nate Bargatze
All right, I'm gonna see.
[39:20]
Brian Bates
There's your answer right there.
[39:21]
Nate Bargatze
I know. I like. I like that I can. I've never had a computer. When was a hot dog invented?
[39:31]
Ben Roethlisberger
You didn't take Boom. Typing class. He's a two.
[39:35]
Dusty Slay
In the 1800s, late 15th century. Wow.
[39:39]
Nate Bargatze
Though the exact time and place is debated. Oh, Frank Frankfurt. Yeah, that makes sense. That's not as fun of an answer as I was hoping.
[39:46]
Brian Bates
Or Vienna.
[39:48]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, they all make sense now. Vienna took a little while till we.
[39:51]
Dusty Slay
Got a hold of it and.
[39:52]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[39:52]
Dusty Slay
How can we do this a little faster?
[39:54]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah. I think. I wish there was an Internet. That would only be like, I just want to know America stuff.
[39:59]
Brian Bates
Do you think it was going to give you a different answer if you typed it?
[40:01]
Nate Bargatze
It just. No, I just think they should have an Internet. You go. Go back to as far as America sometimes. Don't you want to just say, when did America invent the hot dog? You suck the fun out of it when you're like, frankfurt. You're like. You know what I mean, though?
[40:20]
Dusty Slay
Now we know why it's called a friend.
[40:21]
Nate Bargatze
I want you to be like, Cincinnati. And you're like, all right. Yeah, yeah. When was a hot dog introduced to America? To the Indians? I don't know that you can. No to the. Oh, when it was just taking longer than that video. AI. Oh, 1860s, see.
[40:42]
Dusty Slay
By the Germans.
[40:43]
Nate Bargatze
But that's what you want to know is like. Yeah. So if I knew that the Germans came over and they imagine got a.
[40:50]
Dusty Slay
Hot dog a time when we wouldn't know that they were eating hot. I mean, they were invented in the 16th century. That's like 2000 years, 15th century. 200 years before we got a hold of it.
[41:02]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[41:03]
Dusty Slay
Even still, 200 years before we got. Nowadays, we'd been. We'd know right away somebody in Germany would be on the Internet with their hot dog.
[41:11]
Nate Bargatze
Can you imagine seeing a hot dog for the first time? You say it's 1865. You and your girl are out strolling this town.
[41:22]
Dusty Slay
Back then, you would get mad at her for liking hot dogs, I think. Oh, you're into that, huh?
[41:26]
Nate Bargatze
Yes. It's too messy.
[41:28]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, it's too messy.
[41:31]
Nate Bargatze
I'll tell you what, we really took over the hot dog, though.
[41:33]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, we did.
[41:34]
Nate Bargatze
As a food.
[41:35]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[41:35]
Nate Bargatze
I mean, it came from Europe, but it's. No one associates it with Europe anymore, I don't think. Bratwurst, maybe.
[41:42]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[41:42]
Nate Bargatze
But not a hot dog.
[41:44]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[41:45]
Ben Roethlisberger
We really wonder how long the original hot dog was. Was it the original a foot long?
[41:50]
Nate Bargatze
It doesn't say. I don't know if that's as fun to look up, Ben. So maybe true. I guess it became an American baseball snack and a staple at barbecue and Fourth of July celebrations.
[42:03]
Ben Roethlisberger
2000 on the Fourth of July.
[42:08]
Nate Bargatze
2000. Yeah.
[42:11]
Dusty Slay
Well, I don't know what a century is sometime. I don't know.
[42:17]
Nate Bargatze
The sandwich, is it one guy?
[42:18]
Dusty Slay
Because it says, doesn't 16th, 16,000 feel like 2,000 years ago, though? Yeah, I mean, the 1600,000.
[42:25]
Nate Bargatze
1600, yes.
[42:26]
Dusty Slay
And timelines are not my thing, guys. We don't even know what century it is.
[42:32]
Nate Bargatze
Really.
[42:32]
Ben Roethlisberger
That's why you guys wore tuxedos.
[42:34]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, that's right. We still got them on.
[42:39]
Dusty Slay
Always underneath.
[42:40]
Nate Bargatze
Always underneath. We got a two seat up, just in case. Just. We go. The Internet. I. We had only looked up our town's local history, and so we went by that 1860. But another story claims Charles Feltman was a German butcher in 1871. Served the sausages with milk rolls from a stand on Coney Island. So. So other people say it was this guy. And I bet the other people means it was Charles Feltman. He's the one that said, because it's. Everybody else is like, no, it's another way. And he goes, nah, but have you heard about that? Charles Feltman. What's your name? Charles Feltman. All right, all right.
[43:23]
Brian Bates
So the FDA in the USDA says a sandwich definition is at least 35% cooked meat, no more than 50% bread for closed sandwiches and at least 50% cooked meat for open sandwiches.
[43:37]
Nate Bargatze
Hold on. Let me tell you another little fun. Look at the question. Is human DNA found in hot dogs? AI says yes. He goes, but don't worry about it. It's just skin and hair and fingernails from other people. That's brutal, dude. I'm going to. You're going to. I'm ruined. Hot dogs. I love hot dogs. I didn't want to read it because I like hot.
[44:01]
Dusty Slay
You got to eat the Hebrew Nationals. That's the only way. The kosher hot dogs. That's the only way.
[44:06]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[44:08]
Dusty Slay
Don't do these ballpark franks.
[44:11]
Nate Bargatze
They got. Got a little fingernail in it. Yeah, you go, I don't worry about it because grow up. That's what they say is you swallow someone else's fingernail. From Germany. Grow up.
[44:25]
Brian Bates
The sandwich is named after John, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich.
[44:31]
Nate Bargatze
I'm not going to work here anymore.
[44:34]
Brian Bates
The fourth Earl of Sandwich. He was a British guy. Legend has it he ordered. It was called wart sandwich. And during long sessions of card games at gambling houses, he would order his valet to bring him roast beef between two pieces of bread because it allowed him to continue gambling while eating without the need for a fork and didn't get his cards greasy.
[44:56]
Dusty Slay
So it's a thick bread.
[44:57]
Nate Bargatze
So he invented this sandwich.
[45:01]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[45:02]
Nate Bargatze
Like, the whole idea of a sandwich.
[45:05]
Brian Bates
Meat between two pieces of bread. 1500s, probably.
[45:10]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[45:10]
Ben Roethlisberger
15,000 years.
[45:11]
Nate Bargatze
15,000.
[45:12]
Dusty Slay
Yes.
[45:12]
Brian Bates
No one knows.
[45:13]
Dusty Slay
A thousand years ago, guys.
[45:15]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[45:15]
Nate Bargatze
That's crazy.
[45:16]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[45:17]
Nate Bargatze
How does that get around? Like, you go, just add a. At a card game.
[45:21]
Brian Bates
Yeah. And then it was popularized. And then it just took off.
[45:24]
Nate Bargatze
It just took off because. No, he goes, that's like Seinfeld when they're eating the Snickers with their three Musketeers with a fork and knife. Like, it's like when he probably first tried it, they're like, what are you doing? And I bet everybody's like, yeah, dude, we all eat like that. And then he goes, because I. I bet people are putting stuff on bread.
[45:42]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. I would say they were probably doing that before people were using utensils.
[45:48]
Nate Bargatze
But did we have sliced bread?
[45:50]
Dusty Slay
I would think you would be able to cut it up, you know, at home.
[45:54]
Brian Bates
Yeah, well, he'd get his valet to do it.
[45:56]
Nate Bargatze
It's a little fire truck.
[45:58]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[45:58]
Dusty Slay
So you didn't have sliced bread, but you. You could slice it. Well, they like your.
[46:03]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. That'd be like someone. If you. When the bread was in. When bread was invented, and someone's like, I invented sliced bread. You're like, dude, we've been cutting bread forever.
[46:12]
Dusty Slay
Right.
[46:13]
Nate Bargatze
You just were calling it sliced.
[46:15]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. Now you're just doing it for other people.
[46:18]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, but sliced bread was invented. You were, wasn't it? Like, in the early 1900s, it was reasonable.
[46:27]
Dusty Slay
Those are the kind of ideas that you're like, oh, man, I've been doing this. I should have just packaged this.
[46:31]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[46:32]
Brian Bates
It's the greatest thing, sliced bread.
[46:33]
Dusty Slay
I bet the sliced bread guy got no money for it, though.
[46:36]
Nate Bargatze
No. I mean, unless he invented a machine.
[46:39]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, well, didn't he, Even then?
[46:41]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, I think he did.
[46:41]
Dusty Slay
It was probably stolen from him. Whoever. Whoever has the machine. It says this guy invented the Shane machine. He probably stole it from a guy.
[46:49]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. There isn't there saying. Someone told me that something. There's a saying like that in business.
[46:52]
Dusty Slay
No, real.
[46:53]
Nate Bargatze
You don't want to be first. You want to be second.
[46:56]
Brian Bates
Learn from their mistakes and then do it better.
[47:00]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. I thought it Just.
[47:01]
Dusty Slay
Hey, that's what they say. The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Right. Because the first one dies.
[47:10]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, but they're eating two different things. One's eating the worm and one's eating cheese. So I assume the cheese is better. The other one's like, well, I didn't know there was cheese.
[47:18]
Dusty Slay
Right. Well, the first.
[47:19]
Nate Bargatze
At the point.
[47:20]
Dusty Slay
The first one comes and takes the risk and gets caught. And the cheese trap left on the.
[47:25]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, the early bird.
[47:26]
Brian Bates
It's two different.
[47:27]
Nate Bargatze
It's two different sayings.
[47:29]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[47:29]
Nate Bargatze
So the early bird. Oh, you're saying it from the worm's perspective. That's where you're. I never thought about it from. But the worm should have a perspective.
[47:45]
Dusty Slay
I think the second mouse gets the cheese is more like the lazy man's thing where it's like, people will say, oh, the early bird gets the worm. And you're like, yeah, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
[47:54]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[47:55]
Dusty Slay
So you're saying, don't rush in too fast. Yeah.
[47:57]
Nate Bargatze
Sit behind a bit of. Bird wants the worm.
[48:02]
Dusty Slay
There's also a lot of.
[48:03]
Nate Bargatze
And a mouse wants cheese. So they're both getting exactly what they want.
[48:07]
Brian Bates
Not the first mouse.
[48:08]
Dusty Slay
First mouse gets killed by the trap.
[48:09]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, does it say, oh, the second mouse gets the cheese is what it says.
[48:14]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[48:14]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, so those things, do they not go together?
[48:16]
Dusty Slay
No, not technically.
[48:18]
Nate Bargatze
Okay. Okay.
[48:19]
Dusty Slay
There's a lot. One birds get. Get all time of day.
[48:23]
Nate Bargatze
I. So saying on its own is. Is the second mouse gets the cheese. Yeah, that's its own saying.
[48:31]
Dusty Slay
I would. I would think so.
[48:32]
Nate Bargatze
Okay.
[48:32]
Dusty Slay
Ben had not heard it.
[48:34]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, I don't think I've heard it either. But then I thought you just made it up.
[48:37]
Dusty Slay
No, no. I mean, maybe I made it up at some point, but it's good.
[48:41]
Nate Bargatze
It is good.
[48:41]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[48:42]
Ben Roethlisberger
I don't mean. I know. I don't mean to, like, bring it back to your sandwiching, but I have a question.
[48:46]
Brian Bates
Oh, finally. Yes. Thank you.
[48:48]
Nate Bargatze
Thanks for joining in.
[48:49]
Brian Bates
I've never had anyone interested.
[48:51]
Ben Roethlisberger
It's a kind of a two. A two. Sorry, did you want to say.
[48:53]
Dusty Slay
No, no.
[48:54]
Ben Roethlisberger
It's kind of a two part. You're talking about, like, the person.
[48:56]
Nate Bargatze
Let's do the first one first.
[48:57]
Ben Roethlisberger
I am doing the first one first, Nate.
[48:58]
Nate Bargatze
And then we're just.
[48:59]
Ben Roethlisberger
And then we're gonna go to the second one. Well, because you're talking about things that people invented and.
[49:03]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[49:03]
Ben Roethlisberger
Like. Like the uncrustable.
[49:05]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[49:05]
Ben Roethlisberger
Didn't like your grandma did that way before Smuckers. Did it. Right? So, like. Yeah, it was invented before Smuckers did it. So then at least my second is a peanut butter, because according to what you said, we need to have meat. Is it peanut butter and jelly or a grilled cheese sandwich? Peanut butter and jelly to what? Whoa.
[49:22]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah. Grilled cheese.
[49:24]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, I think. Well, peanut butter's got protein in it.
[49:28]
Dusty Slay
But this definition said meat.
[49:30]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[49:31]
Dusty Slay
I would say there's a lot of vegans and vegetarians that would argue that their meat. Meatless sandwiches.
[49:37]
Ben Roethlisberger
Ice cream sandwich.
[49:38]
Dusty Slay
Oh, yeah. Even this Oreo. I mean, it's a cookie, but it's two cookies stacked on top of each other.
[49:43]
Ben Roethlisberger
What's that say right there?
[49:44]
Dusty Slay
What? Oh, it says a chocolate sandwich cookie.
[49:48]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, really?
[49:49]
Ben Roethlisberger
Not just one, but two.
[49:50]
Nate Bargatze
Wow.
[49:51]
Ben Roethlisberger
Thank you.
[49:52]
Brian Bates
You're breaking.
[49:53]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, I mean, so sorry, I didn't mean to bring it back to your question, but.
[49:56]
Brian Bates
No, it's.
[49:57]
Nate Bargatze
I would think peanut butter and jelly is a sandwich. I love peanut butter and jelly. I do, too. And then the. I would say the. The Crustables, it's like they just packaged it. So it was like. It's one of those ideas that was out there. And, you know, they did it.
[50:10]
Brian Bates
We'll do it for you.
[50:11]
Nate Bargatze
And they go, we're gonna sell them. And then now Uncrustables are. They're making a big comeback right now.
[50:16]
Ben Roethlisberger
They left. I didn't know they left.
[50:18]
Brian Bates
I didn't either.
[50:18]
Nate Bargatze
No, they. I think they did good, but they. It's because of football. Because football players do with. What's the show? Hard Knocks. They were, like, talking to them.
[50:27]
Ben Roethlisberger
They're everywhere. On the field. Everywhere.
[50:29]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah. And so at Hard Knocks, they were saying, like, that these linemen are eating, like, 30 or something a day or whatever. Whatever. And so it brought back. Not that the Crustables was doing bad, but I don't think they were in anybody's mindset of, like, I think the football players did it. But in public, at home, you weren't buying these crustables. And then it was almost like a new group of people found out about Crustables, and they're like, oh, that's right.
[50:53]
Ben Roethlisberger
Are you saying crustable or uncrustable?
[50:55]
Nate Bargatze
Uncrustable. Yeah.
[50:56]
Ben Roethlisberger
Okay.
[50:56]
Nate Bargatze
I wasn't sure I was saying both.
[50:57]
Ben Roethlisberger
Okay.
[50:58]
Nate Bargatze
I go back.
[50:58]
Ben Roethlisberger
We just.
[50:59]
Brian Bates
We just go with it.
[51:00]
Ben Roethlisberger
I thought maybe there was a crustable out there, and I was interested.
[51:02]
Brian Bates
Now we've learned just to go with them.
[51:03]
Nate Bargatze
I've eaten Crustable Bowl. It's only the crust, and that's.
[51:07]
Ben Roethlisberger
Well Ben, thanks for not.
[51:08]
Brian Bates
Well, how do you eat a sandwich? Do you eat the crust all around?
[51:10]
Ben Roethlisberger
You take a bite and move to the next spot and take a bite. Yeah, just like a, Like a normal.
[51:15]
Nate Bargatze
Go watch his podcast. Like, watch his podcast. You can watch a meat every episode.
[51:19]
Dusty Slay
You do need the crust. It's. It helps add something to the bread. I mean, it's like if you're just eating the soft stuff.
[51:27]
Nate Bargatze
If you got any like the soft stuff.
[51:28]
Dusty Slay
Do you?
[51:29]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[51:29]
Dusty Slay
Just by itself though.
[51:31]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. An uncrustable is unbelievable. It's the best. It's the best thing ever. I think it's the best. There's nothing like it. Peanut butter and jelly is. There's nothing like.
[51:41]
Brian Bates
But is your second bite gonna be deeper into that first bite?
[51:45]
Ben Roethlisberger
I don't think, because then you get all on like your mouth. Like if you go into the deep bite, then it's.
[51:49]
Nate Bargatze
Then. Now you got it on your cheeks.
[51:53]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[51:53]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Eat it like a regular purse.
[51:58]
Brian Bates
I mean, he cuts his Doritos bag to not get his hands dirty.
[52:01]
Ben Roethlisberger
That's right. Smart.
[52:02]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, you do. What do you mean you cut it?
[52:04]
Ben Roethlisberger
Well, you know, if you get the jumbo.
[52:05]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[52:05]
Ben Roethlisberger
Bag of chips. If you're, if you've gotten to the bottom, you know, who wants to.
[52:09]
Nate Bargatze
I guess this is Big Ben talking. Go ahead. Go ahead, Big Ben.
[52:14]
Brian Bates
Big money.
[52:17]
Ben Roethlisberger
The little bags.
[52:18]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[52:19]
Ben Roethlisberger
Any chip. You don't want to reach all the way into the jumbo family size bag bag. So you cut it down so you just can reach in and not get off. Not get your sleeves off.
[52:27]
Nate Bargatze
But at the beginning, it's pretty. You cut it from the get go from. Right.
[52:33]
Ben Roethlisberger
Well, that would be silly.
[52:34]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. So you wait. The chips are spilling out. So when you eat chips, when you eat chips, you always have everyone say.
[52:44]
Brian Bates
That'S how he starts.
[52:46]
Nate Bargatze
You're eating a bag of chips. Big bag of chips. Do you always have scissors on the couch with you? Because you're expecting to make some? Like, does your wife see you grab the Doritos and then you stare at the scissors and you go and you grab them because she knows you're going to be getting in. You know, it's a, it's going to be a big bag. It's going to be a full bag. A Dorito day.
[53:07]
Ben Roethlisberger
I have three kids, so. Yes.
[53:08]
Nate Bargatze
I'm not talking about the kids. Talking about you.
[53:11]
Brian Bates
When they're out of town, they're out of town.
[53:13]
Nate Bargatze
You sitting alone with a bag of Doritos and scissors on the couch.
[53:18]
Ben Roethlisberger
No, the scissors aren't there. They may come out later, though.
[53:21]
Nate Bargatze
I know, but you ever grab them. You know, the way someone grabs a pint of ice cream and they eat it because they're sad? So you ever go grab. If you have a sad day, do you grab a full bag of Doritos and a pair of scissors and your wife just knows to leave you alone for the rest of the night because you're gonna.
[53:36]
Ben Roethlisberger
Maybe.
[53:37]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[53:39]
Ben Roethlisberger
Don't talk to me.
[53:41]
Brian Bates
What about a sloppy joe? That seems like a. A Midwestern sandwich.
[53:44]
Nate Bargatze
Sloppy Joe.
[53:45]
Ben Roethlisberger
Sloppy Joe's nice. I don't mind sloppy Joe.
[53:47]
Nate Bargatze
I like sloppy joe. Sloppy Joe is. Sometimes they put onions in it, and I don't love that. But when they don't have onions in it. Yeah, that much better.
[53:56]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. Don't mess with the recipe. It's just whatever sauce. And then ground beef.
[54:01]
Nate Bargatze
I can put stuff on it if I want.
[54:03]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, don't. I say, don't go putting other stuff in there.
[54:06]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[54:06]
Dusty Slay
Maybe some pimento cheese.
[54:08]
Nate Bargatze
Well, now you just put other stuff in there.
[54:09]
Dusty Slay
I know, but.
[54:11]
Nate Bargatze
And you put the craziest thing in the world. I mean, like pimento cheese. It was insane. That's pudding. He just made it, you know? Well, might as well have onions in it then. If you. Well, think. Put pimento cheese. Can I put my onions in it? I was gonna say pickles or something.
[54:30]
Dusty Slay
Oh, pickles too. That'd make it like a barbecue sandwich.
[54:32]
Nate Bargatze
Okay. He doesn't like pickles on a sandwich. Ben doesn't. We learned that yesterday.
[54:36]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, yeah. I'll eat a pickle on the side, but not on my sandwich.
[54:38]
Nate Bargatze
I don't like some stuff mixed. I don't. I never know why they give you a spear when a sandwich, but I guess for people like you, you like a spear pickle next to your sandwich and you eat it separately.
[54:51]
Dusty Slay
Like a deli.
[54:52]
Nate Bargatze
Like a deli.
[54:53]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[54:53]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, for sure. I like that, too. I like those pickles. That's not really dill. It's kind of the salt and pepper vinegar pickles. They're kind of just barely pickled. You get them at the Jewish deli. The.
[55:05]
Brian Bates
The Cat's.
[55:06]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. Or. Or. Or Atlanta has Bagel licious. Kind of a bad name. Really great deli.
[55:13]
Brian Bates
We have Nashville Deli here.
[55:14]
Dusty Slay
Oh, yeah, I've been there. Yeah, it's a good spot.
[55:17]
Brian Bates
Are you allowed to eat Philly cheesesteak?
[55:19]
Ben Roethlisberger
Oh, yeah. Philly cheese. That's a great sandwich. Yeah, it is, but there's, you know, there's two ways. There's one. One is the cheese whiz. Right. Old fashioned canned cheese whiz just fine. I'm fine with it. But I like, I like to put some. Melt some provolone on there or something.
[55:34]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, I like regular cheese too. I was just in Philly, I went to a place to get the sandwich and they had that cheese whizzer and I'd never heard that before, and I was like, no, thank you. I'd like some regular cheese.
[55:45]
Brian Bates
Yeah, I guess there's two in Philly, Pats and Geno's. Is that right, Adrian? And there's the big rivals.
[55:51]
Nate Bargatze
Would you, when you played football, would you eat like, would y'all eat this stuff four games or before a game?
[55:57]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, no, afterwards it's like, it's a free for all.
[55:59]
Brian Bates
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then what do you eat before a game?
[56:03]
Ben Roethlisberger
I wouldn't, I didn't eat anything.
[56:05]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, really?
[56:05]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. If it was a night game, it.
[56:07]
Nate Bargatze
Didn'T look like that.
[56:13]
Ben Roethlisberger
Ate a lot after. Yeah, yeah. But guys, they'll. They'll have all kinds of food that you can get a hold of, so.
[56:21]
Brian Bates
Huh.
[56:22]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, I can imagine. Just, I mean, playing NFL football seems like the most insane thing. I mean, I've been to a game and just the, Just the people screaming is crazy enough. Then you're on the field, people are trying to kill you out there. I imagine after the game you're like, let's eat.
[56:42]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, yeah, yeah. What about the Super Bowl? Is it hard to. That week? Because it's a. Every year around a party the whole week.
[56:49]
Ben Roethlisberger
You're not, you're.
[56:50]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[56:50]
Ben Roethlisberger
You're separated from the rest of the world.
[56:52]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[56:53]
Ben Roethlisberger
You know, you've got so many media obligations and we, you actually switch hotels night before the game and everything. Or we did at least. So. Yeah, you're. It's. It's not like that. You're. You're work. I mean, you're practicing, you're working, you're meeting, you're doing all that stuff.
[57:06]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[57:06]
Brian Bates
Why do y'all switch hotels?
[57:08]
Ben Roethlisberger
I don't know if it was. Because I don't know if everyone does it. I assume coach kind of wanted to get you into a. You know, because when you go to the, the hotel that you're at for a week, because you go to super bowl for a week, you're there, your families can all be there. And so I think he just wants you to get back to the most normal. What a normal pre game would be like when you're at a hotel, because families aren't at hotels. For normal games.
[57:30]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[57:30]
Ben Roethlisberger
So you just go and you're separating. You're kind of getting yourself back into a night before the game routine, which is much more normal. So I think that's why we did it.
[57:37]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, that makes sense. What would be like, in. What would be your routine before games? Like night before game. Are you like watching a movie then or something?
[57:45]
Ben Roethlisberger
So we would have a lot of meetings.
[57:47]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[57:47]
Ben Roethlisberger
You know, you meet as a, as a quarterbacks, then you meet as an offense, then you meet as a team. And then I would usually go home and, and spend time at home with the family and I would stay at home because I was going to get better sleep at home with them. And I, I was, I'm a little different than a lot of guys where if my family, usually because we had family, if it's a home game, we had family in town and everything. And so I'd go home and hang out with the family, you know, shoot pool, play ping pong, just kind of hang out, whatever. I just was, I wasn't the type that was like, I, you know, don't talk to me, I've got to go to bed. Like, I've got. I was really able to kind of compartmentalize what I was about to do. And I was like, listen, it's not till tomorrow. And then I get up and see everybody and you know, depending what time the game was, and then head to the stadium, I get there, you know, four hours early. So I'd have plenty of time to get myself ready.
[58:30]
Nate Bargatze
And would you not. Do you ever get like bad sleep or. You don't, can't. You're like, as you're about to start the game, you're like, man, I could sleep at all last night.
[58:38]
Ben Roethlisberger
Oh, yeah, for sure. There'd be times and it didn't necessarily mean like big games. Like, I slept just fine before. It just could be, you know, like, think about. Sometimes you just don't sleep well for whatever reason.
[58:48]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[58:48]
Ben Roethlisberger
You would wake up and you'd be like, I'm exhausted. And he just, it's like, okay, I just gotta find a way. And it was, it wasn't, it wasn't fun because you, you, when you woke up, you're like, I'm gonna have to fight through this even more because you got guys about to come want to destroy you.
[59:02]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[59:02]
Ben Roethlisberger
Especially being a quarterback. Like, yeah, you're just gonna get hit. And I'm like, man, man, kind of tired. I gotta go do this. But you know, it's like anything adrenaline kicks in and Gets you through it and then you, you'd really feel it after.
[59:12]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[59:12]
Ben Roethlisberger
After a game. I've told people before, like I've been. You get physically exhausted. But being a quarterback you have to. There's so much mental like I've. I've sat down after games and been like I am mentally drained.
[59:23]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[59:24]
Ben Roethlisberger
Like I just played chess against these guys and I'm doing this that. So I'm. I'm physically drained but I'm also mentally just exhausted because I was changing plays, calling plays, doing whatever it was. And so you'll just sit down afterwards. And then when those nights when you're tired too and you're done after the game, it's just like I'm. I'm ready for bed.
[59:39]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, I get that the mentally draining. I've.
[59:44]
Brian Bates
Yeah, we do sound similar.
[59:46]
Nate Bargatze
Well, it's. I'm not that just. It's not the same thing because you're getting both sides of it. But doing a show, when you're doing a show, it's like it can be mentally. Especially in the arenas it's. I mean you'd be an at. It's like an hour straight of no breaks, no. You know and you can get off especially you do a full weekend of it where you are just like, you're like I can't.
[60:05]
Ben Roethlisberger
When you guys would get done. This is a question. Because when I got done after games I'd be physically exhausted. I'm like, I'm just. I go sit down. I'm like I just want to. I'm ready to crash. But I couldn't because my adrenaline like it would take for you guys have the same thing where you come off stage and adrenaline still running in you for hours.
[60:20]
Nate Bargatze
I can sometimes feel like I want to crash. There's times I'll get off stage and I'm like I. It feels like I could go to sleep right now, but I don't think.
[60:28]
Dusty Slay
I could body wise it feels like that. But mentally. Yeah, it's hard to.
[60:33]
Nate Bargatze
Mentally you're hard to calm down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mentally it's like. Because it's, it's. That's what I've as. As it got bigger and you're coming up with this stuff when you're up there for the hour and you're doing so many shows. It's the, it's just the. Yeah. Because it. Even though it's an hour, it's just a straight hour of like there's no break, there's no. You know.
[60:54]
Ben Roethlisberger
And is it different if you're doing like a 10 or 15. I don't know. Yeah, those are a lot easier. You get off. You're not quite as bad.
[61:00]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, I mean, sometimes, and especially now I'm about to record a special on Friday and I'm like, I'm pretty, like, almost tired of the jokes that I'm doing. So I'll be 15 minutes in to, you know, an hour, hour 10. And I'm like, I. I'm about to have to do all these jokes and I just feel. I don't know, I just feel like that I'm like, mentally sometimes not that into it. But you're still like, I gotta. I still have to perform this. I mean, people still paid money to see whether I'm tired of the joke or not. They. They don't want to see me be tired of the joke. But you get into it. You know, the flow comes. But also sometimes if the audience is not that into it, I mean, it's like, you know, I don't feel like I have any bad shows anymore, but sometimes a show can be worse than others. Sometimes you go out and everything you say is hilarious and you're like, oh, man, I'm gonna crush this. And then other times you're like, I'm really gonna have to work it. I got to be on my. On my game here. Yeah, sometimes you got to pivot a little bit. You got to do something different.
[62:04]
Ben Roethlisberger
You need to go with a knock knock joke.
[62:06]
Brian Bates
Yeah, I won't be. What time you need a bounce?
[62:10]
Ben Roethlisberger
I mean, whenever I can.
[62:11]
Brian Bates
Well, we're both big Titans fans, so we desperately need a quarterback, so we need you. Would you be willing to come out of retirement?
[62:17]
Ben Roethlisberger
My arm works just fine and is better than a lot of guys. Perfect now.
[62:21]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[62:21]
Ben Roethlisberger
But everything from my waist down would not work. Knees, ankles, hips, that wouldn't work.
[62:28]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[62:28]
Ben Roethlisberger
So if you could. If you could. If I could put the Dan Marino high tops on, protect my ankles, give me a line that could not let anyone close to me. I could just throw it. Sure.
[62:37]
Dusty Slay
I don't think the Titans have that.
[62:38]
Brian Bates
But we got a new gm, so if we could get that for you.
[62:41]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[62:42]
Nate Bargatze
If we can make some calls.
[62:43]
Brian Bates
Write your number down just to.
[62:46]
Ben Roethlisberger
I think you guys should trade down and then, you know, build it back up a little bit.
[62:50]
Brian Bates
That's what I said. And he ridiculed me.
[62:52]
Nate Bargatze
I didn't say that. No, I did.
[62:53]
Ben Roethlisberger
But it's obvious that who at the table knows football. Well, I can tell just from being here for. For a little bit that you understand it?
[62:59]
Nate Bargatze
No, I didn't say. I did not tear you down for it.
[63:03]
Brian Bates
You want to draft with that first pick like one of the star.
[63:08]
Nate Bargatze
I think we need to splash you higher. I said Travis Hunter would be a very special.
[63:11]
Ben Roethlisberger
That's not a quarterback would be splashy. Let's trade back that he's going to play 30 but he is.
[63:16]
Nate Bargatze
He wants to trade back in general. He wants. He doesn't want the Titans to ever be that good. It's. I don't think that's unreasonable. Growing up with Vanny fans. He's a Vanny fan. There's a lot of older Vanny fans. I really don't think they want people to win. They want to be like anything.
[63:39]
Dusty Slay
It's like a band that only you like and if they get too popular, everybody will like.
[63:43]
Nate Bargatze
Everybody's gonna like.
[63:44]
Brian Bates
He just was a splashy hire. He's like not surprising like the billionaire owners the way he thinks. I think like a fan and the last time we traded back that first pick we got Derek Henry. Our team got better.
[63:54]
Nate Bargatze
The team got better. I agree. I. I think they could be trading back. I'm not against them trading back but I think also the Titans need to be talked about. Like.
[64:02]
Ben Roethlisberger
But then you're going against what you just said.
[64:05]
Nate Bargatze
Well I know but we've tried come every week.
[64:07]
Brian Bates
Please.
[64:07]
Nate Bargatze
I go but we. I know but we've done it that way for a long time. Is that way and we're still in the same spot that we're in. So we haven't gotten. We. It's not like we went up and got back. So we're still in the exact same spot. So why would you not then go like well maybe we need to change it up and go like let's get us. Let's get us just being talked about on espn.
[64:25]
Dusty Slay
I think we should change the name from the Titans to something else.
[64:27]
Nate Bargatze
I think it should go back to the Oilers.
[64:28]
Dusty Slay
Let's get a new mascot.
[64:30]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, I think it.
[64:31]
Dusty Slay
I like that too.
[64:31]
Nate Bargatze
I think they should do that.
[64:32]
Brian Bates
We debate this every. Whoever wins the Heisman's who we would have 10 quarterbacks on our team right now if he was the gm.
[64:37]
Ben Roethlisberger
Just splash.
[64:38]
Nate Bargatze
No no. I would be more reasonable. I. I would be able to handle it. He would. Brian would trade everything and hopefully just out of the draft he didn't have to make a pick. That's what Brian would trade so much that he's traded so much pass that he goes. They go well we don't got to pick until 2054. And he's like, well, I'll be long gone then, so that's great. And then he doesn't have to worry about it.
[65:03]
Brian Bates
But if we get a good offensive line, we now got a guy that's willing to come back.
[65:07]
Nate Bargatze
So we do have a guy that's willing to come back. Ben Rosberg will come and play for the Titans.
[65:13]
Brian Bates
That's our social media clip for this week.
[65:15]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. It's just that he's going to come back.
[65:18]
Brian Bates
No context.
[65:20]
Nate Bargatze
Did you almost go anywhere else to play, like you're just a Steeler after?
[65:24]
Ben Roethlisberger
No. I mean, I had a chance to, you know, potentially towards the end, like, I could have maybe explored some different things, but at the end of the day, I'm like, I get to play 18 years for one team. That was special to me.
[65:35]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[65:36]
Ben Roethlisberger
And that. That franchise, the fan base, are the best in the world. And so I could just say that that was it from start to finish.
[65:43]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[65:43]
Ben Roethlisberger
Never went anywhere else. Never put another jersey on. A lot of great quarterbacks went and did that. And it. Just to say that I didn't have to do that.
[65:51]
Nate Bargatze
It's nice.
[65:51]
Brian Bates
It's special.
[65:52]
Dusty Slay
Pittsburgh's a great city.
[65:54]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, it is.
[65:54]
Dusty Slay
I like it there.
[65:55]
Ben Roethlisberger
It's awesome.
[65:55]
Brian Bates
The great organization. What, three head coaches in 60 years.
[65:58]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[65:59]
Brian Bates
It's crazy.
[66:00]
Dusty Slay
That is crazy. I did not know that.
[66:01]
Ben Roethlisberger
Stability.
[66:02]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[66:02]
Nate Bargatze
If. When you get a call, like, so did you. You would get calls after you retired.
[66:09]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. When guys go down, your agents will get a call.
[66:11]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[66:11]
Ben Roethlisberger
You know when Aaron got hurt, Right. In New York with his Achilles.
[66:15]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[66:16]
Ben Roethlisberger
My agent would be like, hey, you know, any interest? I'm like, zero. I was actually at the Crew cup the first.
[66:21]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, really?
[66:21]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. When it happened, we're watching the game, all of us went down, and I was like, oh. And then sure enough, I get a text like, hey, any. Before I get these calls, any interest? I'm like, nope, I'm golfing. I'm good.
[66:31]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[66:32]
Ben Roethlisberger
So, yeah, it happens all the time. I mean.
[66:33]
Nate Bargatze
And could you go back how, like, if someone was retired, say, like that moment you were like, I was interested. Could you get in the shape to go? Or is it like, don't you. Is it.
[66:44]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah. I mean, you. Well, you. You wouldn't have gone like, you're not going to go play the next week.
[66:48]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[66:48]
Ben Roethlisberger
You've got to go learn. So it would have been like, hey, you know, give me a month, give me 30 days. You know, I'll come halfway through the season or something like that. It's probably what it would be. Some guys maybe would be ready to go right away.
[66:59]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[66:59]
Ben Roethlisberger
But even that, you couldn't. It'd be hard to play the next week unless you were familiar with an offense. Yeah, and I was. I was already a year removed, too. If you were. If you're a guy that maybe just.
[67:07]
Nate Bargatze
Retired, your vehicle was in the car. You already parked here.
[67:10]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[67:10]
Nate Bargatze
You were in the garage. Because. Yeah, if you're just retired, you're like, maybe still working out.
[67:15]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[67:16]
Nate Bargatze
You're like. You go, we're. You're in the middle of the lake. I might need two months because I'll come back next year. They go, well, that's not. The point is we need you now. Because. Yeah, that was when they said they just call the agents and. Yeah, just say, yeah.
[67:34]
Brian Bates
Even the 49ers express some interesting Garoppolo went down.
[67:37]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah, yeah, they. I mean, they contacted my agent as well, but again.
[67:42]
Nate Bargatze
So you're just saying you only do it for the Titans.
[67:44]
Brian Bates
Yeah. Again, just write your number down here.
[67:47]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. And you get a call from Brian Bates.
[67:51]
Brian Bates
Just sign your name right here, please.
[67:53]
Nate Bargatze
Go, Brian. Ben, this is Brian. Remember, we did a podcast together.
[67:58]
Brian Bates
That was 30 minutes ago.
[67:59]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, I gave you the Oreo.
[68:02]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, I gave you the Oreo.
[68:04]
Brian Bates
I'm still in the building.
[68:05]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, no, I think I remember that.
[68:07]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[68:09]
Nate Bargatze
All right. We can. Yeah, we're gonna let you get out of here.
[68:14]
Ben Roethlisberger
Well, thank you. It's very. Thanks for having me.
[68:17]
Nate Bargatze
Ben's got a podcast. Everybody go listen to it.
[68:20]
Ben Roethlisberger
You were just on it.
[68:21]
Nate Bargatze
I was just on it.
[68:22]
Ben Roethlisberger
Thank you.
[68:22]
Nate Bargatze
And then when does that come out? This comes out Wednesday.
[68:26]
Ben Roethlisberger
Oh, well, then let's make ours tomorrow.
[68:28]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, how did y'all do that?
[68:30]
Ben Roethlisberger
He goes, yeah, it's gonna be. We do ours on Tuesday, so we haven't decided yet if it's gonna be this Tuesday or next Tuesday.
[68:36]
Nate Bargatze
It'll be coming out footballing. Footballing with Ben Roethlisberg. Ben Roethlisberg. Awesome.
[68:42]
Ben Roethlisberger
Appreciate you.
[68:42]
Nate Bargatze
And, yeah, go check that out. I don't know where I'll be. Irvine.
[68:48]
Brian Bates
We're gonna keep going, right?
[68:49]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, we're gonna keep going. So. Yeah. Hey, but, yeah, dude, thanks for coming in. You're the best. Great meeting you.
[68:58]
Brian Bates
Yeah, we'll be in touch.
[68:59]
Ben Roethlisberger
Okay. Go, Vandy.
[69:01]
Nate Bargatze
Go, Vandy.
[69:02]
Brian Bates
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[69:12]
Dusty Slay
After a month I keep having fish come to my house because I don't even know where I ordered the fish.
[69:16]
Brian Bates
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[69:29]
Dusty Slay
I have several. I bet.
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Brian Bates
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Nate Bargatze
Wow.
[70:00]
Dusty Slay
I would have never guessed it.
[70:01]
Brian Bates
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[70:30]
Nate Bargatze
Little Ben Roethlisberger. I don't feel like if we. Us three been on the podcast alone.
[70:37]
Brian Bates
I don't think so.
[70:38]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, I guess not.
[70:39]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[70:39]
Dusty Slay
All right.
[70:40]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, it feels weird. I was hoping Ben could stay because it feels great. You're scooted over.
[70:47]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[70:47]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[70:47]
Nate Bargatze
So. Yeah.
[70:48]
Brian Bates
I've never been this close to.
[70:49]
Dusty Slay
You feel like I'm. Yeah. I feel weird being right here.
[70:52]
Nate Bargatze
What have we not had? Have we had. Well, I've had, you know, them three, obviously, but. Yeah.
[70:57]
Dusty Slay
This is the only time, I guess.
[70:58]
Nate Bargatze
We've never done just me and.
[71:01]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[71:01]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Just me and Dusty. You've never missed a podcast.
[71:04]
Brian Bates
No, I've missed one. It's been a while, but.
[71:06]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[71:06]
Brian Bates
When my daughter was born and.
[71:08]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
[71:09]
Brian Bates
But I haven't missed many.
[71:12]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, I've never done one. Just me and Aaron either.
[71:15]
Brian Bates
Well, we've never done.
[71:16]
Dusty Slay
I've done just you, me and you, I think.
[71:18]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[71:19]
Brian Bates
Did we.
[71:19]
Dusty Slay
I think so.
[71:20]
Nate Bargatze
With a guest, though.
[71:21]
Dusty Slay
With a guest.
[71:22]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[71:22]
Brian Bates
I don't think we've ever just did a two person.
[71:23]
Nate Bargatze
But y'all done. Y'all three. You do you, Dusty and Aaron. Yeah. And then. So I don't. Yeah. This is a. Yeah.
[71:32]
Brian Bates
Finally.
[71:32]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[71:33]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[71:33]
Dusty Slay
This is a special podcast.
[71:35]
Nate Bargatze
Special podcast.
[71:35]
Dusty Slay
You Know, I feel like three guys.
[71:37]
Brian Bates
Are just sell it out shows left and right.
[71:39]
Dusty Slay
I feel like we really were starting to catch a rhythm with the. With Ben in the. In the podcast and then he had to leave. But it was at the beginning I felt like it was a little shaky. And then we really got into it.
[71:49]
Nate Bargatze
Then we got rolling. We got the group. He's very funny. Yeah. Go check out his podcast. I just did it. But yeah, very fun to talk with. And yeah, he's a good. He's. And he's someone that like, he's funny and the more you hang out with him, the more he gets it. Like he is someone that could very easily fit in with us on this podcast. And once he got the more of us hanging out and got in the rhythm of all of us, like he would slide right in.
[72:15]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[72:15]
Nate Bargatze
Do it. But we didn't. This whole podcast kind of backwards.
[72:20]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[72:21]
Nate Bargatze
So. But I wanted to. We can talk about. Because we didn't really talk about our weekend.
[72:25]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[72:25]
Nate Bargatze
I forget what I. I did nothing. I was here or something. I did. I did pop down to All Stars show on Saturday night here at Zany's. Here at Zany's in the lab. I was like looking for something to go do. We're trying to find something to do, me and Laura and so we went and had dinner with Lucy came and then we came over here and they were doing a show and I was like, well, you know, I pop on and I wanted to try a couple things. And so I popped on and did that. So that was. It was awesome. But you had.
[72:54]
Dusty Slay
I. Well, I went to.
[72:56]
Brian Bates
Well, can I just mention real quick where I was? Oh, I guess we'll get to the main gun.
[73:01]
Nate Bargatze
You go. You met Ben Roth. Yeah.
[73:03]
Dusty Slay
I didn't know that there was any particular order.
[73:04]
Brian Bates
So we've always gone.
[73:06]
Dusty Slay
I never been right here, though.
[73:07]
Nate Bargatze
That is true.
[73:09]
Brian Bates
I mean, what you're done?
[73:10]
Nate Bargatze
I guess we moved him up. So it made it.
[73:13]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. I never been here.
[73:14]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Yeah. But let's see where we have a.
[73:17]
Dusty Slay
Huge table and we like there sitting real quick.
[73:19]
Nate Bargatze
It feels crazy that there's nothing over there. Yeah. We need to take this partition out. Yeah.
[73:26]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[73:27]
Brian Bates
No. Friday I was in Mars Hill, North Carolina, doing a show for Beach Glen Baptist Church, a fundraiser for their mission trip.
[73:35]
Nate Bargatze
Nice.
[73:35]
Brian Bates
And it's just outside Asheville. Stayed in Asheville. I40 is not open yet. I think it's supposed to open this weekend actually, and it takes a lot longer to get there.
[73:44]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, wow.
[73:45]
Brian Bates
It's a lot of Time to your trip. Get a go around. But anyway, great time. A lot of folks came out and. Yeah, thanks for having me.
[73:55]
Ben Roethlisberger
All right.
[73:55]
Dusty Slay
That's okay. Well, I did two shows. I went to Boise, Idaho. I never been to Idaho. Never been there at all.
[74:02]
Nate Bargatze
And how many more states do you have?
[74:04]
Dusty Slay
I think I have five left. I have Vermont, which I will go to this year.
[74:10]
Nate Bargatze
Yep.
[74:11]
Dusty Slay
I have New Hampshire, which is not on the list. And then, oh, South Dakota and then, you know, Australia. I mean, Alaska and Hawaii. Yeah. I really been. I said I was really struggling with those times. Years and numbers.
[74:30]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[74:30]
Nate Bargatze
But, you know, that would be a good goal to tell common comics. Young comics. Like your goal in comedy. You're like perform in every state.
[74:38]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[74:38]
Nate Bargatze
Like head. Your goal not to perform. Headline in every street. And I don't mean like there's a lot of people before or, you know, I guess perform. But like, you wanna. It's a good, like it's a good thing if you have done that as a comedian.
[74:53]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, that's a.
[74:53]
Nate Bargatze
That you're going to be a better comedian because you performed in every state than you would be if you did it.
[74:57]
Dusty Slay
And it's fun to go to different places. Boise is really nice. I went to a bar after and was hanging out. A lot of people coming up to that weren't at the show but recognized me and I was like, this is really fun.
[75:09]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. And they. And probably not a big drinking town, so it fits right in.
[75:12]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. And then I went to Salt Lake City, which I've been to many times. Love Salt Lake City. My first theater show. First time not doing Wise Guys. Oh, I walked by Wise Guys. I missed it, but it was very fun. Great theater show.
[75:28]
Nate Bargatze
What was the theater?
[75:30]
Dusty Slay
It was Capitol Theater.
[75:31]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Salt Lake City's unbelievable.
[75:34]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[75:35]
Dusty Slay
So grapes. My, my. I love Salt Lake so much. My one thing is they really don't like smoking there at all. There's no downtown smoking lounges. There's nowhere to go. I hate that. Other than that, it's the perfect place.
[75:49]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, cigars. There's not a cigar.
[75:52]
Dusty Slay
No lounge downtown.
[75:53]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah.
[75:54]
Dusty Slay
There's some cigar shops where you can go buy them. But no, nowhere to smoke. Smoke.
[75:58]
Nate Bargatze
You have to go outside. Did you go outside?
[76:00]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, I did go. But even they don't even really want you doing that.
[76:03]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[76:04]
Dusty Slay
You really have to like, you know, kind of just do it. They don't want it. There's signs everywhere telling you not to do it.
[76:10]
Nate Bargatze
Don't.
[76:11]
Dusty Slay
No smoking signs.
[76:12]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, really?
[76:12]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[76:13]
Nate Bargatze
Wow.
[76:14]
Dusty Slay
But I Did though. Yeah, and it was great. And then I got a nice. That I woke up Sunday morning and my manager had sent me this thing where I got mentioned and Time magazine, I've never had that before, but I got this mention. I mean I'm, you know, I'm pretty far down there, but.
[76:31]
Brian Bates
But it's not ranked in order, is it?
[76:33]
Nate Bargatze
I don't know, it's just like, what is it, the top 25 specials on Netflix?
[76:37]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, yeah. According to, you know, according to Time. I mean, it's fun. I had, I got, you know, I got swindled into a bunch of magazine subscriptions when I was 18 or 19 and time was one of those magazines, so I read it a bunch when I was younger, back before the Internet and I would read things. So yeah, it was fun. It was a nice write up.
[77:00]
Nate Bargatze
Dusty sl.
[77:01]
Dusty Slay
This picture of me though. I mean I really look like, I.
[77:03]
Nate Bargatze
Don'T know, it looks like.
[77:06]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, this is one of those where they, they like have you take a million photos and then they're like, oh, here's a different looking one. And then they use that one.
[77:14]
Nate Bargatze
Is this one's on Netflix or on General?
[77:17]
Dusty Slay
I think on Netflix.
[77:18]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[77:20]
Dusty Slay
So yeah, so that's fun.
[77:22]
Nate Bargatze
That's awesome.
[77:23]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[77:23]
Nate Bargatze
I didn't even get in. I didn't make the. No. So there you go. At least someone you were honorable. Was I on our room? There you go.
[77:32]
Brian Bates
There was 26 specials on Netflix.
[77:35]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, so yeah, but that was fun. So yeah, had those things. And yeah, two big shows. I mean, I sold out in, in Boise and then, you know, Salt Lake's a bigger theater. I didn't sell out there, but I sold more tickets in Salt Lake than Boise. But yeah, Boise. Sold out. It's great.
[77:53]
Nate Bargatze
Boise is great. It's a fun, fun town. Yeah, Salt Lake as well.
[77:59]
Brian Bates
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Dusty Slay
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[79:24]
Nate Bargatze
Let's we. It's just. Yeah, let's. We're going to do some of yalls comments just to. Yeah, it feels like we're all back.
[79:31]
Brian Bates
We are backwards.
[79:33]
Nate Bargatze
But I think it's fun. Is there any that you like? Is it.
[79:36]
Brian Bates
You know, let's just start at the top.
[79:39]
Nate Bargatze
Lee Yancey, my husband, currently works on the Price is Right and let's Make a Deal. That's fun. The reason you see the same car, slash washers and dryers, etc, is because they record multiple episodes a day. Two normally, but sometimes three. Then they air them out of order. So you don't see the same prizes in consecutive episodes. And no, there is no limiter in the will.
[80:05]
Dusty Slay
I'm gonna be honest, I don't trust Lee on that last one.
[80:08]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, yeah, fair enough.
[80:10]
Dusty Slay
I trust Lee everywhere else.
[80:12]
Brian Bates
But you think she's lying about that?
[80:14]
Dusty Slay
You know, I'm not. I'm not saying she's lying, but I just don't. Maybe they don't fill her in on.
[80:18]
Brian Bates
Everything or her husband in. Or maybe he doesn't fill her in.
[80:22]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, that was the fine. He goes, no, there's no limiter. Well, you'd probably have to sign an NDA for that.
[80:30]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[80:31]
Nate Bargatze
So there's really no way of Dusty believing there's no limiter except him getting to run the prices.
[80:37]
Dusty Slay
Right, right.
[80:38]
Nate Bargatze
Even then, even then there could be.
[80:40]
Dusty Slay
People in there that don't tell.
[80:42]
Nate Bargatze
It's under the cbs, isn't it? On cbs. Yeah, yeah. So you'd be like, you need to run cvs.
[80:48]
Dusty Slay
Yes, yes, exactly.
[80:50]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[80:51]
Dusty Slay
I need to know all the inner workings. I would need to probably go to some sort of mechanical school and then be able to examine the wheel.
[80:59]
Nate Bargatze
You could build your own.
[81:00]
Dusty Slay
I could build my own. Yeah.
[81:01]
Nate Bargatze
Only and they have to go to your house to do it.
[81:04]
Dusty Slay
Yes.
[81:04]
Nate Bargatze
And you're only.
[81:06]
Dusty Slay
Yes.
[81:06]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[81:07]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. That part of the show. They're at my house to spend the wheel. Yeah. Somebody commented that they feel like. Who was it? Bryce commented last week is my hat guy.
[81:21]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[81:22]
Dusty Slay
And he said that they here. He felt like that there was like a, a person there that felt like they gave a real weak spin and it. And it went around multiple times and then he really got at it.
[81:32]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[81:32]
Dusty Slay
And it felt like it was the same.
[81:34]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[81:35]
Brian Bates
I think that's what she's commenting on. Because he said they felt like there was a limiter because the 90 year old lady did just as well as he did. That sounds like Bryce just weak.
[81:43]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Maybe it's like you think you're going to spin it, but isn't there some stuff? Stuff. I bet it would be like there is no limiter. It's just the way it is. Like you can't spin it harder.
[81:54]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[81:55]
Nate Bargatze
You know, it's almost like it's going to go around.
[81:57]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[81:57]
Nate Bargatze
When it goes around, you know, like, like sometimes at a arcade, you know, there's, there's, you can do a spin thing, but they're not gonna. Look, you could try, but it's never gonna really let you spin it. So that technically is a limit. There's something on it.
[82:12]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. It's like my, my son has a toy truck and you push it and the wheels will make it go, but no matter how hard you push, it's gonna go that same speed.
[82:21]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[82:22]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. And that would be a limiter though, I would think.
[82:25]
Nate Bargatze
Restrictor plate. Yeah. Alan cup. Listening to your SNL 50th podcast and you mentioned the after parties. It reminded me of the time Paul McCartney, Taylor Hawkins and Beck got turned away from a Grammy. From a Grammy after party. Yeah. Yeah.
[82:42]
Brian Bates
This is on tmz.
[82:43]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. How. How exclusive a part is it it when they don't allow one of the Beatles inside? Yeah.
[82:48]
Brian Bates
That's pretty crazy.
[82:50]
Dusty Slay
It's because that's not the real Paul.
[82:51]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[82:52]
Brian Bates
Oh, that's the fake one. That's back right there, I believe.
[82:56]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[82:57]
Brian Bates
And then they eventually leave and go somewhere else.
[83:01]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. That's brutal. Woody Houston's with him too. I think. That's Woody.
[83:05]
Brian Bates
Looks like Woody, doesn't it?
[83:06]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's. That's tough stuff and. Yeah. That's like the word. That's like one of those situations where you, you want to go. It's, it's, it's. That stuff frustrates me because it's like someone whoever's running the party or whatever it is for whatever reason. Say a security guy did not know who Paul McCartney was. That's fine. I'm not saying he should like him. Beck, Woody here, you could have someone that just is like, yeah, I don't know who any of those people are. I. I agree that that can exist, but if you're doing that kind of party, that cannot exist. You cannot have them be turned away, because that's the whole point of your party, is to have those guys come to it. You're. You're in the world of that.
[83:55]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[83:56]
Nate Bargatze
They're not showing up to a Dunkin Donuts and they can't get in. They're showing up to the world of an. At Grammys after party. So you're all buying into this system that you have this cool. No one can come after party. Well, you don't get it to do that.
[84:08]
Dusty Slay
And no one at the party is glad that Paul McCartney, Beck and Woody Harrelson didn't get in.
[84:14]
Nate Bargatze
No.
[84:15]
Brian Bates
Right.
[84:15]
Nate Bargatze
No. And it's any. And if you say you have a security guy. That's why I didn't know who they were. Because sometimes you have that where they go, like was his responsibility to know everybody. If you take that job, it is.
[84:24]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[84:24]
Nate Bargatze
And so it is your job.
[84:26]
Brian Bates
I don't know who Taylor Hawkins is.
[84:28]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. And then if you go. If.
[84:30]
Dusty Slay
But like, when I would go security. Yeah, yeah.
[84:33]
Nate Bargatze
When like, going to the after parties that I went to is. Yeah. The year I. I was the most. Not scared of, but just the awkwardness you were going to have was to be like, oh, I'm gonna. Yeah, you know, I know who that is. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then Foo Fighters. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[84:51]
Dusty Slay
He died. Huh?
[84:52]
Nate Bargatze
Did he?
[84:53]
Brian Bates
Oh, yeah, yeah.
[84:54]
Nate Bargatze
He died on my birthday, actually. Wow. March 22nd. Let me bring that up. March 25th. March 25th. In 2022.
[85:01]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[85:02]
Nate Bargatze
As Bates, you can find death out of anything. Yeah. Yeah. But it's, you know, like, every party I would go up to, I was like, you're like, am I on the list? I don't want to go up there and stand. And they're like, no, you can't come in. Exactly what happened right there. You're just like, I don't want that to happen. Because you're going. I don't even. There's a unbelievable chance that Paul was invited to that. That whole group was probably told come to this. And you're like, all right, well, just make sure I'm on the list. So I Don't have to do this weird, embarrassing thing and then that happens. I don't. I don't know any backstory of that, but it's like, then that happens, and you're like, yeah, dude. Like, that was the whole point. I don't. I'd rather not come. It's right, you know.
[85:47]
Dusty Slay
Yes.
[85:47]
Nate Bargatze
Don't ask me to. Yeah. That's crazy. Caroline Gibson. Now that Nate and Martin, Shorter buddies, how can we orchestrate an interview between Nate and Jiminy Click Glick? Yeah. I don't know. I've never been. He's. You know, I'd never bring that up to him, but Jiminy Glick is the best.
[86:07]
Brian Bates
I guess the rumor is he and Meryl Streep are dating.
[86:10]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, I heard that. I just heard that with. I mean, it seems like people knew that. That.
[86:16]
Dusty Slay
I have no idea.
[86:17]
Nate Bargatze
They said.
[86:18]
Dusty Slay
I don't know who Jiminy Glick is.
[86:19]
Brian Bates
He's the character that Martin Short plays.
[86:21]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, it's the best. Dude. It's Jimmy Glick. You should go. It's. It. Is Jiminy where it is? Yeah, it's. Oh. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so funny.
[86:35]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, he is.
[86:37]
Nate Bargatze
Martin Short is just one of the most talented people ever. He's so great, and he still is. And he. He's so funny, and he's so, like, fun to talk with. And this.
[86:47]
Dusty Slay
He did the Santa Claus three.
[86:48]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[86:49]
Dusty Slay
The Escape Clause.
[86:50]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's just really good.
[86:53]
Dusty Slay
It's such a stupid movie, but Martin Short's so funny. Yeah.
[86:57]
Nate Bargatze
So it was. Yeah, it's all great. And then. So. Yeah. What was I gonna. I don't know.
[87:04]
Brian Bates
I thought Mel Streak.
[87:06]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, the Mel Streep. Yeah. So I didn't know. I did not know that. I still don't know that. Except. Except I've only heard from, like, Abigail and Lucy or Laura, you know, but it did make sense. They sit next to each other. I was on. I was in their row, so it was. I was. You know, it was them two together.
[87:24]
Dusty Slay
Good for him.
[87:26]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. Yeah.
[87:26]
Dusty Slay
Good for Martin Short.
[87:27]
Nate Bargatze
It's a real who's who. They should really. They should get them out in the pictures, like tmz, you know, they get, like, Car and Kim Kardashian. It'd be funny to be, like, smart. Short. Mill street, like, walking out, just all the flashes and they're like. And they're just like, get back, get back. And they're. We don't want. We want to live a private life.
[87:46]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[87:49]
Nate Bargatze
That's what they should. All right.
[87:50]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[87:52]
Nate Bargatze
Respect the Harvest. That's the name of the.
[87:56]
Dusty Slay
Wow.
[87:57]
Nate Bargatze
Dusty is like smoking. You don't have. You don't love it at first, but after a few more times, you can't live without them.
[88:02]
Dusty Slay
Yeah, I'll take it.
[88:04]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Co stanza. Yeah, yeah. See that?
[88:11]
Dusty Slay
Yeah. Thanks. Respect the Harvest.
[88:14]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[88:14]
Nate Bargatze
It's a great name for you, too.
[88:15]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[88:16]
Nate Bargatze
You would like that. That's what you believe. Respect the Harvest.
[88:20]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[88:20]
Nate Bargatze
Harvest.
[88:21]
Dusty Slay
I don't know. I was. I was thinking harvest, but as I was reading it, I was like, no, that says harvest.
[88:26]
Nate Bargatze
I was thinking harvest, too.
[88:27]
Brian Bates
Should we.
[88:28]
Nate Bargatze
Do we need to wrap it up? Yeah, about to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get to all this stuff. Yeah, Yeah.
[88:37]
Brian Bates
I think all these. I had a couple in here for. That would have been good for Ben. One of them was about the Steelers, but.
[88:44]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah. As a Steelers fan.
[88:45]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[88:46]
Nate Bargatze
Chad Stapleton. As a Steelers fan who grew up near Youngstown, I just want to say that Nate is not right about the personalities of fans. Browns fans have been historically one of the worst fan bases in football. Keep in mind, Browns fans are the reason the NFL will not allow alcohol to be served after the third quarter and the reason tailgating cannot start as early. Trust me, they are not a fan base to admire. Oh, I don't know if I. Did I say this is from three years ago. Oh, that's so funny.
[89:13]
Brian Bates
I dug it up on a Pennsylvania. So Mike Vacillon said he grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, which is halfway between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
[89:20]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[89:20]
Brian Bates
But everybody was a Steelers fan because they were good and the Browns weren't. And you said it takes more character.
[89:26]
Nate Bargatze
To be a van. Yeah, yeah.
[89:28]
Brian Bates
As a Vandy fan.
[89:29]
Nate Bargatze
Okay. And that makes sense.
[89:30]
Brian Bates
And Chad's saying, well, Browns fans are not to be admired.
[89:32]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, boy. You think Chad's even listening to this podcast still? He quit.
[89:36]
Brian Bates
He quit three years ago.
[89:38]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[89:38]
Dusty Slay
I don't know. He's a. He's a Browns fan, so if he can stick around and keep watching. Oh, he's just. Oh, yeah. Okay.
[89:45]
Nate Bargatze
So we might get him back. Yeah, we might have came back for this.
[89:47]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[89:48]
Nate Bargatze
Oh, wow.
[89:48]
Brian Bates
So here's the. That Ben Roethlisberger's on. He's gonna want to know.
[89:51]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah, he's gonna know what's going on. All right. Yeah. Thank you, everybody. Where are you guys at?
[89:59]
Brian Bates
March 7th. I am in Bozeman, Montana. My first time. Montana.
[90:03]
Dusty Slay
Montana.
[90:04]
Brian Bates
At last. Best comedy club. March 12th. I have my show here at Zany's. March 14th, 15th. I'm in Beverly, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. They will let me in Boston, but just outside of Boston. And you're there that Friday, the same night. So I don't like that. But if your shows don't sell well, it's because I'm in town.
[90:23]
Dusty Slay
Okay.
[90:24]
Nate Bargatze
Well, you're gonna feel it. Yep.
[90:25]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[90:26]
Nate Bargatze
The wrath.
[90:27]
Dusty Slay
Yeah.
[90:27]
Ben Roethlisberger
Yeah.
[90:27]
Brian Bates
The wrath of baits.
[90:29]
Dusty Slay
Well, tonight, as this podcast is coming out, I'll be at Zany's. I have a show at Zany's and it'll be my last time to run my special before I film Friday in Chattanooga. As we are talking, there are some tickets still available, but the shows have sold well enough that we can do it with these people.
[90:49]
Brian Bates
Nice.
[90:49]
Dusty Slay
It's great. We've sold out one show. There are a few tickets to the second one, but it's great. I feel good about it. I'm pumped.
[90:55]
Brian Bates
Awesome.
[90:56]
Nate Bargatze
Yeah.
[90:56]
Brian Bates
Awesome.
[90:56]
Dusty Slay
Walker Theater.
[90:57]
Brian Bates
And you may have noticed a new helmet over here. New football helmet. Nate Land helmet. It comes from Parker Fenton, who I.
[91:05]
Nate Bargatze
Guess maybe that's helmets. 731 custom helmets.
[91:08]
Brian Bates
Yep. So thank you, Parker.
[91:10]
Dusty Slay
Cool.
[91:10]
Nate Bargatze
Nate Lanhelmer helmet. Yeah, it's awesome. All right. All right. We'll go check everybody out. Aaron's probably somewhere, so go to see him. He was sick.
[91:21]
Brian Bates
Yeah.
[91:23]
Nate Bargatze
All right. It's Aaron. Is Kansas City. That's not until March.
[91:29]
Brian Bates
Well, all right. Not this weekend, but the following weekend.
[91:31]
Nate Bargatze
Following is in Kansas City. The funny bone.
[91:34]
Dusty Slay
He had a good time.
[91:35]
Nate Bargatze
He's going to Boston March 21st.
[91:37]
Brian Bates
Yep.
[91:38]
Nate Bargatze
Laugh. Boston. All right. A lot of Boston. Yep. All right. We love you. Have a great week. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nate Land podcast.
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