243: #243 Folk Tales

Summary

The Nateland Podcast - Episode 243: #243 Folk Tales Released on March 12, 2025

Hosts:
Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay
Produced by Audioboom Studios

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1. Introduction and Announcements

The episode kicks off with the hosts catching up after a brief hiatus. Matt, Leah, Aaron, and Dusty share updates about their recent activities and upcoming events.

• Special Mention:
  Matt highlights comedian Nick Thune’s new half-hour special, Born Young, available on the Nateland YouTube channel. He states, “Nick is really, really, really funny. He's really good at what he does” (02:22).

• Upcoming Shows:

  • Nate the Nashville Comedy Festival:
    Nateland presents Good Clean Funny at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on April 8th. The lineup includes Ryan Hamilton, Dustin Nickerson, Derek Stroop, Lace Larrabee, Mia Jackson, and Paula Kaczynski. Aaron Weber is set to host, adding to the excitement (02:54).

  • Leah’s Shows:
    Leah announces her performances at various venues, including the Walker Theater in Chattanooga, the Schubert Theater in Boston, and international dates in Toronto (05:36).

2. Recent Experiences and Stand-Up Highlights

The hosts delve into their recent stand-up shows, sharing personal anecdotes and experiences from the road.

• Aaron Weber in Montana:
  Aaron recounts his first-time performances in Bozeman, Montana, where he sold out one show but not the late-night slot. He praises Hunter Lloyd, the clean opener, stating, “He took me around Bozeman, showed me the sights” (07:33).

• Matt's Kansas City Debut:
  Matt shares his excitement about headlining at the Kansas City Funny Bone, meeting fellow comedian John Crist, and navigating the challenges of traveling with a growing family. “[I] had three great shows. They were all packed,” he mentions (10:16).

• Leah's Special Recording:
  Leah talks about recording her special at the Walker Theater in Chattanooga, highlighting the positive reception and the supportive atmosphere. “The first show was just smooth. The audience was hot, high energy” (13:21).

3. Listener Engagement and Comments

The podcast incorporates listener feedback, featuring comments from various platforms like Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts.

• Positive Feedback:
  Matt reads a comment from Matt Adams praising the relatability and humor of the hosts, saying, “there's no one better or funnier than the very relatable content y'all share on stage” (32:32).

• Constructive Criticism:
  Leah addresses comments criticizing interactions among hosts, particularly Aaron and Dusty, comparing them humorously to “Beavis and Butthead” with Brian as the “substitute teacher” (23:00).

• Encouraging Newcomers:
  A listener named Tanner Gutensen shares his motivation to try stand-up comedy after being inspired by the podcast. “I thought I'd give it a shot. I didn't do bad, I didn't murder, but most important, I didn't flop” (42:34).

4. Discussions on Folktales

As the episode progresses, the hosts transition to the main topic: folktales. They explore the nuances between folk tales and fairy tales, delving into historical and modern examples.

• Defining Folktales vs. Fairy Tales:
  Aaron clarifies, “Fairy tales usually have a good versus evil narrative with magic and mythical creatures. Folk tales are based on something more real that gets embellished” (78:10).

• Historical Folktales:

  • Paul Bunyan:
    Discussed as a legendary lumberjack inspired by real individuals like Fabian, a lumberjack from the 1800s. Matt notes, “he was an infamous brawler, getting fights left and right” (78:28).

  • Johnny Appleseed:
    Leah emphasizes the real contributions of John Chapman in spreading apple orchards across America, contrasting the myth with factual achievements. “He planted orchards along with pioneers and stayed ahead of other horticulturists” (83:33).

  • John Henry:
    The tragic tale of John Henry, a railroad worker who raced against a steam-powered hammer and died after winning, symbolizing the human spirit against technological advancement. Leah reflects, “He'd rather die than lose out to the machine” (86:58).

• Modern Folktales and Legends:
  The hosts discuss contemporary figures like Bo Jackson, comparing his legendary status in sports to traditional folktales. “Bo Jackson's such a legendary athlete” Aaron states (83:50).

• Cultural Impact:
  Leah suggests initiatives inspired by folk tales, such as planting fruit trees in neighborhoods to honor figures like Johnny Appleseed. “Every household should have a fruit tree in their yard” (85:04).

5. Light-Hearted Banter and Shared Stories

Interspersed with the main discussions, the hosts engage in humorous exchanges and share personal stories, enhancing the podcast’s engaging and relatable atmosphere.

• Family Anecdotes:
  Matt shares a mishap with leaving car keys in his pocket, leading to humorous interactions about family life and travel (43:40).

• Comedy Insights:
  Leah discusses the challenges of writing and performing stand-up comedy, highlighting the importance of audience energy and personal growth through shows (14:07).

• Personal Health Stories:
  Matt recounts a severe illness during his travels, emphasizing the unpredictability of life on the road (26:55).

6. Sponsorships and Advertisements

The hosts integrate sponsorship segments seamlessly into the conversation, promoting services like Delete Me, Chime, BetterHelp, and Bombas with personalized discount codes.

• Delete Me:
  “Delete Me is a subscription service that removes your personal information from hundreds of data brokers” (20:36).

• Chime Credit Builder Card:
  Promoted as a way to build credit without the pitfalls of traditional credit cards (38:13).

• BetterHelp:
  Highlighted as an accessible online therapy platform to build a support system (58:31).

• Bombas:
  Featured as the perfect addition to spring cleaning routines, emphasizing comfort and charitable contributions (76:00).

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7. Conclusion and Upcoming Topics

As the episode wraps up, the hosts tease future content and invite listeners to engage with them through comments and social media.

• Next Episode Preview:
  The hosts express excitement for the next episode focused on folktales, noting, “this week we're talking about folktales” (77:39).

• Listener Interaction:
  Leah encourages listeners to share their favorite coffee shops in Nashville and beyond, fostering community engagement and content diversification (60:21).

• Final Remarks:
  Matt concludes with heartfelt thanks, stating, “We got into the weeds on a few things. We got into it. We learned a lot.”

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Notable Quotes:

• “Nick is really, really, really funny. He's really good at what he does.” - Matt on Nick Thune’s special (02:22).

• “The first show was just smooth. The audience was hot, high energy.” - Leah on her special recording (13:21).

• “Folk tales are based on something more real that gets embellished.” - Aaron Weber distinguishing folk tales from fairy tales (78:10).

• “He'd rather die than lose out to the machine.” - Leah on the story of John Henry (86:58).

• “Every household should have a fruit tree in their yard.” - Leah proposing a community initiative inspired by folktales (85:04).

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Final Thoughts:

Episode #243 of The Nateland Podcast offers a blend of personal anecdotes, listener interactions, and an in-depth discussion on folktales, all wrapped in the hosts' characteristic humor and camaraderie. Whether you're a longtime listener or new to the show, this episode provides engaging content that bridges the gap between traditional storytelling and modern-day experiences.

Transcript

[Matt]

Hi, I'm Matt. And I'm Leah and we're from the.

[Leah]

Grown Up Stuff podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

And just in time for tax season.

[Matt]

On this week's episode, we're chatting with CPA Lisa Green Lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using TurboTax Business. A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping.

[Leah]

93% of small businesses overpay their taxes.

[Matt]

And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense.

[Leah]

So can't blame them.

[Matt]

It's really important to do your taxes. Listen to Grown up stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you.

[Aaron Weber]

Get your favorite podcasts.

[Matt]

Welcome in, ladies and gentlemen, Cats and kittens, grab your mittens. And we are back. Another episode of the Nateland podcast. Hello, folks. And hey, bear. I'm sitting along. I forgot how to start this thing, but I'm happy to be here. This is Aaron Weber speaking. I'm alongside my good friends, my old pals, my compadres, Brian Bates.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Matt]

And Dusty Slay. Okay, Nate is not here.

[Leah]

I thought you did a good job.

[Matt]

Thanks, dude. I think it's good to mix it up every now and then. Get a little different energy to start things out. I like that, you know, but it's good to be back. I feel like I haven't seen you on forever. I know it's only been a week, but I've seen you in a long time.

[Leah]

Well, yeah, you missed a week last time. I missed a week.

[Matt]

Oh, it has been more than one. Yeah, how about that? You kind of sound like Nick Novicki. Have you been told that I similar voices?

[Leah]

I think so, yeah.

[Matt]

You've got a southern accent, but the, the tonality of it is the same.

[Leah]

He's got a good voice.

[Matt]

I mean, yeah, I'm not. It's not an insult.

[Leah]

No, no, he's a good. He's a got a good voice.

[Matt]

That's right.

[Leah]

I give it up to him.

[Matt]

We got let's couple announcements. These are. These are big things happening in the Nate land universe. I want to shout out before we get rolling on another killer episode here, Nick Thune, friend of the podcast, very funny comedian. He's been on the podcast before. He's been doing stand up forever. I'm a huge fan of him. Longtime friend of Nate. He has a brand new half hour special called Born Young on the Nateland YouTube. Check it out. Now, if you're watching this on YouTube, look back a couple videos and then you'll see it.

[Leah]

Oh, sorry.

[Matt]

Don't Go ahead.

[Leah]

I remember you guys losing it about how stylish you thought he was. You guys were. Couldn't control yourselves. Well, I don't know. I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I don't think that's accurate at all.

[Matt]

Losing it. We did a fashion episode.

[Leah]

Exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

What's really happened is Dusty got his feelings hurt because he thinks he's stylish. And we said a more stylish Dusty.

[Leah]

I don't think I'm stylish. But you guys were. You guys were really losing it over it.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

It was Nate losing that.

[Matt]

You think you're better dressed than Nick Thin.

[Leah]

No, no, I don't. I don't think that. But you guys were, you know.

[Matt]

All right.

[Leah]

You guys were really getting into it.

[Matt]

Well, check out the special Born Young. It premiered this weekend. It is so funny. Brian and I opened for that. We're listed at the end of the. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Matt]

Opening comics Aaron Weber and Brian Bates.

[Aaron Weber]

That's good to hear. Because I opened on your special and I did not get listed.

[Matt]

Well, that's because I. I wrote all those credits for my own. But I gave you a special thanks. I thought that would mean more than the.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd like both.

[Matt]

The thing I was contractually obligated to do.

[Leah]

Yeah. I was like, Nick opened and special thanks to Brian.

[Matt]

Exactly. It's like, what is this? Brian Bates a special? Is there Aaron Weber special?

[Aaron Weber]

I just told all family that be watching. And because I. And then I wasn't in the crowd, I was just.

[Leah]

How many times was Aaron thanked on the dry bar specials?

[Matt]

Yeah, that's a good question.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, the difference in is again, Aaron didn't open me for me.

[Matt]

Uhhuh.

[Aaron Weber]

In Salt Lake City.

[Matt]

So okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Or Provo. Excuse me.

[Matt]

So okay.

[Leah]

That's true.

[Matt]

I'm sorry about that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

But Born Young. Very funny. Nick is. I think if you've been following Nate Land for a while, it is definitely a little different than some of the Nateland stuff you've seen. Like, he's got a style all his own. But I think that's fun. I think it's cool to. To mix it up. And it's like there's all different kinds of comedy. Nick is really, really, really funny. He's really good at what he does. So check it out. I think you'll like it. Also fun announcement here. Nateland presents. We got a big show coming up as part of the Nate the Nashville Comedy Festival. Nateland presents Good Clean funny at the Ryman Auditorium here in Nashville. This is April 8th. It's a pretty amazing lineup. Friends of the podcast people you've seen before. Ryan Hamilton, Dustin Nickerson, Derek Stroop, Lace Larrabee, Mia Jackson, Paula Kaczynski. And I'm hosting special host. Special host Aaron Weber. That's fun. They put special in front of it, so it feels like. Feels like it's more than what it is. But I'm hosting that show at the Ryman Auditorium. Pretty cool. Nate Land doing a show at the Ryman. So come check that out. That's going to be a lot of fun. Part of the Nashville Comedy Festival. And as always, check out our other great podcast, the Consumers. Every Tuesday. Don't make me come back there every Thursday. Let's get rolling.

[Leah]

I got a show that night, too, at Zany's. I'll put you on it.

[Aaron Weber]

April 8th.

[Leah]

Yeah, well, thank you. I do have that. It's been on the. Yeah.

[Matt]

So that's probably sold out.

[Leah]

It will be.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Yeah, it's gonna be.

[Matt]

Yeah, it sells out every month.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

It's gonna be a hot show.

[Aaron Weber]

April 8th. I think that was.

[Leah]

I do think it's weird that we are on the same night. I didn't realize that. I'm not upset about it. Okay. But I want you to let you know that there's a show at Zany's on April 8, so you have a.

[Matt]

Lot of options for comment. Yeah.

[Leah]

You know what I mean? Yeah. Get out there. Get into it.

[Aaron Weber]

And Aaron, special signature disc. 290, 000 views.

[Matt]

Is that real climbing?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Whoa. I just checked that.

[Leah]

Huh? How about that?

[Matt]

Yeah. Mario Lopez shouted it out on Access Hollywood.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

I was like, all right. I like Mario Lopez.

[Aaron Weber]

Loved it.

[Matt]

Saved by the bell. Are you kidding me?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know who the female host was, but she said you were cute.

[Matt]

I don't know, but I'm into it.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

I didn't know who she was either, but I like what she's doing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

You know.

[Leah]

Wow. That's cool.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

All right. What'd they say?

[Matt]

She just goes, he's cute. And I was like, all right, I'll make that a clip.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Brad Pitt again.

[Leah]

Yeah. What. What did. What did Mario Lopez say, though?

[Matt]

He's very excited. He basically read my bio on air, but it's pretty nice.

[Leah]

Yeah, he said he liked the special.

[Aaron Weber]

He said he replaced Dusty Slays, the youngest comedian on the ground.

[Matt]

Anyway.

[Leah]

That's awesome.

[Matt]

It's been good. A lot of fun things happening at a fun weekend. Brian, what did you get into this weekend. Let's. Let's.

[Leah]

All right.

[Matt]

Catch up a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So Friday I was in Bozem, Montana.

[Leah]

Oh, yeah. I love Montana comedy clubs.

[Aaron Weber]

My first time there.

[Matt]

Was your first time doing comedy in Montana?

[Aaron Weber]

First time in Montana.

[Matt]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

So. Yes.

[Matt]

So how many states do you have left? Do you keep track of this? Like, I haven't looked lately.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I've got a few.

[Matt]

Okay. Montana's a big one to check off, though, because it's just. Aren't a ton of places to go up there unless you're doing theaters and stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Two shows. First show, sold out. The late show. Did not. But, oh, Shout out to Hunter Lloyd, who opened for me. He picked me up at the airport. He took me around Bozeman, showed me the sights, took me to the airport the next morning at a very ridiculously early time. So thanks, Hunter. He was. And he did a great job on the show. So, yeah, you know, it was great.

[Leah]

When I was in Bozeman, there was an opener for me and they. We asked him to be clean and he was so filthy. And was that at last best and then left before the show was over? No, it was some other venue. I don't remember what it was. It was a great show, though.

[Aaron Weber]

So that was Friday.

[Leah]

Hunter Lloyd. I'm just saying they're not all that good. Yeah, they're not. Not all the openers are that good.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, he. He kept it clean.

[Leah]

I like this guy, though. I was fine with him. He was just insane.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I don't think Bozeman has a lot of clean comedians. Yeah, he's kind of the go to.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He opened for Ryan Hamilton. He said, and whenever they need a clean opener, he did my show too.

[Matt]

It was very funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And then flew home Saturday. Then Saturday night, our. Our pal Keith Albertat was here at the lab at Zany. I came down and did those shows. Two hot shows. Keith's so funny.

[Leah]

Keith's the best.

[Aaron Weber]

He is. He is. And then over in the main room, Joe List was over there. And I. And I said, I'm going to go over there and. And see Joe, because I know Joe through. Through Nate. I got over there, he's like, I've lost my voice. I mean, I could hear him say it. And he said, nate's on his way down to pinch hit for me. So Joe went up, did 20 minutes maybe, and then called Nate to the stage. And Nate did both shows.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Saturday night. So, you know, it's fun. Nate and Laura came down. It was Fun hanging out.

[Matt]

Nate Bomb.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

How many people do you think were disappointed?

[Aaron Weber]

None.

[Leah]

I mean, that's. It's got to hurt your feelings a little bit, though, huh?

[Matt]

But I think he still gave him a show, but it was just obvious my voice is gone. I can't speak as well as I'd like to, so I'm going to do what I can. But then here's a little added benefit of the biggest comic in America.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

You know, so I think that that's fair.

[Leah]

What happened to his voice?

[Aaron Weber]

He said he felt perfectly fine Friday night. He said he was fine. He woke up Saturday and it just went out on him.

[Leah]

Does he smoke?

[Matt]

I don't think so. I don't think. But that he doesn't smoke.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

What does that mean?

[Aaron Weber]

And then I did a local.

[Leah]

Who coughs the most on this podcast?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, me and Nate.

[Matt]

Yeah, me and Dusty sound great.

[Aaron Weber]

But I did a show. Local show last night. Renard Hirsch. His voice went out mid show. No, but I mean, just like a light switch. I know I did do that, but, like. Like, it happened.

[Leah]

Renard lost his voice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Gosh.

[Aaron Weber]

So his act out, you know, we're, you know, a little different. But. Yeah, no, he did great, but he's.

[Leah]

Got a great voice. Yeah, that's a good voice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So anyway, it was a fun weekend of shows in Montana and shows here at Zany's.

[Matt]

Big time. Dude. I got back yesterday. I was. Where was I? Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City Funny bone. I had three great shows. They were all packed. Very fun. I had never headlined in Kansas City before, so it was cool to, like, all right, here we go. And then look who was on the road at the theater. John Crist. The same night I was there. So we met up. Met up for lunch. I'm wearing the exact same thing I'm wearing in that picture right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Except your eyes are shut, which is pretty tough.

[Matt]

But that's how. That's how I look in most pictures.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Who was Lee and Zach with? You?

[Matt]

Lee and Stroop were with John. Zach was opening for me. And this is. Michael Blank is a very funny Kansas City comedian who hosted on my shows all weekends.

[Leah]

Blank's a tough name for when you're coming up and coming. You know what I mean? They're like, did they get that right or do they not?

[Matt]

Michael, fill in the blank. Yeah, yeah, I'll get raw. I'll pull it up. Yeah, it. It's spelled differently, but that's how it's pronounced. Is blank. So you're Right. That is tough. I didn't even think about that. But he's very funny. It was his first time getting to work the club and doing a weekend and stuff. So it was. It was awesome. And just a fun. Just a fun weekend. My streak at Southwest Airlines is over. I did 12 flights in a row, no seat next to me.

[Leah]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt]

And. And then it finally got broken. It got broken in in an annoying way where I was. I wanted to tell the woman, like.

[Aaron Weber]

It'S like a no hitter gets broken up on a blue pit.

[Matt]

Exactly. I was like, you have better options on this flight. Like, what are you doing here? I want to be like, come on, you could find it.

[Leah]

Maybe. She watched Access Hollywood, and they were like, he's cute.

[Matt]

Y. I doubt it.

[Aaron Weber]

I was three for four this weekend.

[Matt]

That's pretty good.

[Aaron Weber]

And the one that there was somebody was the short leg from Denver to Bozeman.

[Matt]

Okay. Yeah. So it's just like an hour, Right? It's not too bad, but it's just a cool thing when you're on the road and another comic, you know is there.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

And it's a more successful comic who can, like, take you out to lunch and stuff. So, yeah, it's pretty fun. We hung out on the tour bus for a while, and just a good weekend, man. Thank you to everybody who came out. I met a lot of people who were like, I'm going to see John tomorrow. And then I met a lot of people who said, you know, they're trying to see all of us. They saw you were at the club not too long ago. Yeah, I said, they saw that, and they said they're gonna go see Brian next time he's out there. So.

[Aaron Weber]

Awesome.

[Matt]

Good stuff. Thank you, Kansas City.

[Leah]

All right, well, I had no shows this weekend, but could have been working. Could have been working, obviously, but no, but last weekend, I recorded my special I did in Chattanooga at the Walker Theater, and it was great. Really good. Two shows sold out. I think, you know, you probably could have squeezed a person or two in.

[Matt]

Sold out, standing room.

[Leah]

Yeah. But it was great. Just really fun shows. It was so smooth that it was really like. We didn't even do that.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Leah]

The first one, the last time, I'd never really done a special like that before, so I just felt like there was a lot of pressure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

But this year, I've been doing theater, so I did this special. The first show was just smooth. The audience was hot, high energy. A lot of applause breaks. A lot of applause breaks where I'm not Normally getting applause breaks so was like, people were just excited. They were fired up.

[Matt]

That's fun.

[Leah]

And then. But it was good. It was good. I was like, I got it. I don't. And so the second show, I was more relaxed, which was good, because the energy was different. It was a different energy. Still very pumped. A lot of laughs, but, like, more like a regular show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Not an applause break after every joke.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

But it was still. So I got looser. I did some riffing. You know, I. I came up with a couple of jokes during the show that were good.

[Matt]

Okay. They'll probably keep in the final cut. Yeah, that's fun.

[Leah]

And then I had a good riff about a guy kind of wheezing in the audience. And, like, people thought. My friends thought I planted that guy for the joke.

[Aaron Weber]

I was like.

[Leah]

I don't know how that came to me. Like it. But it was good. We hung out. Hung out. The Comedy Catch. The afterparty at the comedy Catch.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

Hung out with Danielle. I signed the wall in the green room.

[Matt]

The Dusty Slave Memorial green room.

[Leah]

Yeah. So it was great. It was all really fun. Chattanooga's great. I love it. I got. Oh, you know, I meant to bring it. I got a letter from the mayor of Chattanooga.

[Matt]

Whoa.

[Leah]

And it was pretty funny. It was a. The mayor of Chattanooga's funny. He's got jokes.

[Matt]

All right.

[Leah]

And so I meant to bring that, but I forgot.

[Matt]

But just saying what, like, get out of town. Please leave? Or was it like a thank you for doing.

[Leah]

Yeah, thank you for doing in Chattanooga. I had a lot of, you know, a lot of gifts, like a hat and a shirt and a glass.

[Matt]

All right.

[Leah]

And then he was just being funny, like, you know, I know that, you know. You know, you'd rather be in a western s. On parking lot somewhere. Stuff like that.

[Matt]

Wow. He's a fan.

[Leah]

Yeah, he's very fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice.

[Matt]

That's awesome. So how long is the special gonna be? A couple hours?

[Leah]

Well, yeah, if I. If I. Because the first one was a little over an hour. Probably an hour five.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

And then the second one was definitely longer.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

And then I did riffs in the second one that I didn't do in the first one. So if I added those in, it would be pretty long, but I want to keep it. I'm trying to make it under an hour.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

I want it to be 59 minutes.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Leah]

Just so it won't be, but I want it to be.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Just so, like, when you're clicking around on. On whatever service, it ends up on. We don't know where it'll be.

[Matt]

We don't know.

[Leah]

But clicking around, I feel like you're more inclined to watch something that says 59 minutes than an hour 10.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

But it'll probably be an hour 10.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Matt]

With the credits and stuff. Yeah.

[Leah]

Yeah. I don't know what I'll do at the end. I really like the thing that we did at the end of the last one.

[Matt]

Showing the pictures.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the video.

[Leah]

Yeah. And then the video at the end. I got a video, a home video of myself as a kid telling some jokes. I think that might be fun. But I'm like, you know, you should.

[Aaron Weber]

Show that Gene Hackman video just in sadness, in peace.

[Matt]

Do you have any theories about his death? I mean, it's looking weird, huh?

[Leah]

Well, it looked weird, but then I. It looks weird no matter what. Yeah, but people were trying to debunk it. They were like, there's no conspiracies. They're like, his wife just died seven days before him. Well, this is what the final thought is from people, that his wife.

[Matt]

This is the mainstream accepted.

[Leah]

Yes.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

His wife got some disease that you get from rodents.

[Matt]

All right.

[Leah]

And it killed her, and she died in. In some room. And Gene Hagman had Alzheimer's, like, really far along Alzheimer's.

[Matt]

Okay. He's 95.

[Leah]

95.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

And they're one. They had three dogs. One of them was in a crate, and the other two were running free. So they think for a week, Gene Hackman didn't take his medicine that he was on because his wife was the one who administered him the medicine. He didn't know what was going on. So his wife just laid in there for a week. And then the dog was trapped in the crate, and probably he wasn't feeding it. And then he has a heart attack.

[Matt]

Wow. Well, this sounds like the most tragic death imaginable.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Well, if you have Alzheimer's, I don't. I think that you'd just.

[Matt]

Well, I meant for the family.

[Leah]

Yes.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah.

[Leah]

But it's like, if you have Alzheimer, the weirdest thing to me is, like, this guy, he's got to be very wealthy. You don't have anybody checking up on you and you have Alzheimer's.

[Matt]

Well, that's how big his house is that he didn't trip over in a week or something.

[Leah]

If he's like. If he's like, my grandmother had Alzheimer's, and my grandmother, we'd go visit her at the nursing home, and she wouldn't know certain people. She'd Be packing up. She's like, I'm about to go home. I mean, there's a possibility that he didn't even remember he had a wife.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

You know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Golly.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's very sad.

[Leah]

He was, for all we know, for a week he was like, wow, it sure is peaceful around here.

[Matt]

So once the episode's over, tell me what really happened. Okay. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You just told us what everyone knows, Dusty.

[Leah]

Well, but it's still that. It's just still sketchy to me that like you got nobody, no nurse, nobody.

[Matt]

Comes to a gardener or somebody. Like no family.

[Leah]

Like, because they said she might have been passed away for seven days before he passed away and then it was another seven days before they were found.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Leah]

So for two weeks nobody comes to check on. Check on you. That's sad to me. You could live a life like that. Like Gene Hackman live. I think he's like this well respected actor. Yeah, everybody loves Gene Hack. I don't know anybody that's like, I hate Gene Hack. Right. But you got nobody checking up on you.

[Matt]

You know, I remember years ago, sat in. I think we might have talked about it on the podcast, but there is a story that went viral of an old woman who ordered Domino's every day. Every day of her life. She ordered Domino's for lunch. And then one day she fell down and broke her hip. And Domino's was like Myrtle never called. And they went and checked on her and found. Wow. So there's value in that, you know, just get takeout every day.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

And that way.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

It's like having a nurse come to.

[Aaron Weber]

The built in support system.

[Leah]

Yeah. You know, you're not going to get that with, you know, with some of these other services, but an actual restaurant.

[Matt]

That's right. It's not going to happen with Factor as much as we love, but Domino's, they'll check on you.

[Leah]

Yeah. Anyway, I love that.

[Matt]

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[Leah]

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[Aaron Weber]

Dusty, did you want to share?

[Leah]

Well, I have a thing, but let's do it after the comments.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay?

[Matt]

Okay. All right. Okay.

[Leah]

It's not that important, but I just wanted to. I wanted to do a top five thing.

[Matt]

Oh, okay.

[Leah]

Maybe you'll be into it. Yeah, I want to do top five Nashville coffee shops. I got into it the other day.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

And give. It'll give you some time throughout the comments to think about your favorite coffee shop.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

And what. What makes a good coffee shop for you? Yeah, you know.

[Matt]

All right. Because I bet we have different things. We're looking.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

We may. You know, we're all married now and, you know, it's.

[Matt]

Oh, sure, sure.

[Leah]

Nowadays I think my wife goes to the coffee shop just to get out of the house for a while. While.

[Matt]

Yep.

[Leah]

You know.

[Matt]

Yep.

[Leah]

Okay.

[Matt]

I'll be thinking about that. That's fun. The comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and Nate land@nate bargetsy.com first comment comes from Mike Myers, fresh off of SNL 50 and the worst Elon Musk impression I've ever seen.

[Leah]

Was it bad?

[Matt]

I think it's terrible. But he's a legend. So what am I?

[Aaron Weber]

This is Mike Meyer.

[Matt]

So Mike Meyer.

[Leah]

Sorry, this is one of them.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not the Halloween.

[Matt]

Just one guy, Mike Meyer. I've really tried not to be too negative about Dusty and Aaron, but they're like Beavis and Butthead. Now it's like two middle schoolers with poor Brian as the substitute teacher trying to maintain control. Yes. Not to say they're not funny as stand ups and separately they're just fine. But they're a bad influence on each other. Now that is true. The last part, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Well, we're grown men.

[Aaron Weber]

But who's Beavis and who's Butthead in this situation?

[Matt]

I don't really know. That was not a show I was allowed to watch growing up.

[Leah]

I wasn't allowed to watch it either, strangely, because I was basically allowed to do whatever.

[Matt]

It's tough when Butthead's in the title. They're like, well, that's not what we're looking for.

[Leah]

It is a funny show though.

[Matt]

I've seen clips and I, I know what they look like. I don't think they look like either.

[Leah]

Of us, but I guess, I mean, I think this guy Mike Meyer is upset that me and you are enjoying ourselves and laughing and that's probably true. And Brian enjoys it too. I don't think Brian's to wrangle us. No, but. But then again, Brian does pick the comment.

[Matt]

That's true. And he let off with this one. Thank you, Brian.

[Aaron Weber]

I wanted to establish.

[Matt]

Set the tone.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, set the tone.

[Matt]

Up top. Elizabeth Bowerman. I feel 100 that an angel did pick up Aaron in Spokane. How awesome is that? I've heard similar testimonies. Yeah, I was talking to my sister about that.

[Leah]

I didn't. I don't know this well.

[Matt]

I got real sick in Spokane. I had to call 911 on myself. Took an ambulance to the ER and then on the way back to the hotel. 6am, no Ubers. So I start walking towards the hotel and then a lift shows up out of nowhere. A guy just picked me up. Was a two dollar, two dollar Lyft ride back to the hotel.

[Leah]

Wow.

[Matt]

And I said it felt like an angel just showing up. Give me a ride back.

[Leah]

Wow.

[Matt]

And I told my sister about that and she was like, did he talk to you at all? And I said he didn't say a word. And she goes, yeah, that's what angels do.

[Aaron Weber]

I was about to say talk about a startup business. Give you his business card at the end.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah. So who knows if it was. I appreciate it either way. Either way, I'm grateful.

[Leah]

That's very nice. I love that.

[Matt]

It was really, really nice. I want to thank that.

[Aaron Weber]

You should have tipped him.

[Leah]

Remember that song by.

[Matt]

I tipped him really well, actually.

[Leah]

Remember that song by Alabama Angels Among Us.

[Matt]

No Angels Nowfield now. Different.

[Leah]

Different thing, but great song.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Kids sing at the end.

[Leah]

Yeah. Yeah. I love it.

[Matt]

Mike Heath.

[Leah]

Oh, Mike Heath. I know, Mike.

[Matt]

Underrated candy bar.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't think I've ever had a Heath.

[Matt]

You've never bucked in a Heath bar. We have. Have you had it mixed into, like, a milkshake or something like that? I think that's where it shines on its own. It's okay. It's pretty good. It's like a toffee heart. It's got a little snap to it, but he mix it in with, like, a blizzard or something. Heath is.

[Aaron Weber]

I take your word on.

[Matt]

He's the real deal.

[Leah]

Well, Mike Keith. I know. Very nice guy.

[Matt]

How do you.

[Leah]

How do you know he's out of Seattle?

[Matt]

Oh, okay. My Keith says Aaron is in the first comic I've heard about getting sick while staying at that Spokane hotel. Did you eat at the hotel? There may have been a disgruntled employee who has a vendetta against comics. I've been investigating this for over a year. If there's something afoot, it'll be exposed for what it is.

[Aaron Weber]

I could see Dusty liking this guy.

[Matt]

Yeah, that would be fun.

[Leah]

I'll tell you this. This doesn't have. I didn't get any kind of food poisoning thing, but, you know, I. I did Tacoma Comedy Club, and then the next weekend, I was supposed to do Spokane, and I flew home and I got sick, and I was like, well, I don't want to fly. I was, like, starting to get sick, and I was like, I want to give the club a heads up, but I don't want to fly all the way to Spokane and then get sick and be sick all weekend. So I. We rescheduled the dates. We moved it. Right. And I don't get sick a lot. Right?

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

But we moved it. And then the date came to fly to Spokane, and I flew. I don't know. It's Spokane or Spokane.

[Matt]

Spokane.

[Leah]

Spokane. And I flew to Spokane, landed on a Thursday. I'm walking around on the streets, and I called my wife, and I go, I think I'm getting sick in Spokane. In Spokane. And I ended up getting sick. I did a show on Thursday, and I was like, I just need to get good sleep tonight.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

And then I'll be fine that night. Fire alarm goes off, wakes us all up. We have to go downstairs out of the hotel. And then Mike's onto something here. And then I got. I got. I did two shows sicker than Thursday. And then I was like, but I'll be fine on Saturday. Saturday I woke up, I was even sicker. I did the shows. I did all the shows sick. And by the end I was losing my voice. I had no voice basically on the last show. But I did five shows sick in Spokane and it was great. They were great shows. I think they were really good. But I don't think the hotel did it. But that's sketchy.

[Matt]

Yeah. I did not eat at the hotel, so I don't know. I don't know.

[Leah]

What, you got sick there in Spokane?

[Matt]

I got sick there, ma'am.

[Leah]

So you're throwing up.

[Matt]

Oh, so bad. The worst. The one of the sickest I've ever been in my life.

[Leah]

And you went to the hospital.

[Matt]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Leah]

I mean, so maybe I'll ask you this off the air.

[Matt]

No, they tested me. Yeah. Negative for flu, negative for COVID negative for rsv. I think it was just a, a kind of norovirus that they were like, it doesn't really make sense to test and find out specifically what it is. But they gave me fluids, they gave me anti nausea stuff and I'm all better now, but it was pretty brutal. So I'd appreciate if you look into it. Mike. I don't know what kind of investigative capabilities you have on the ground there, but you know, go take a look.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Figure out what the deal is.

[Leah]

You know, I've had a couple of cigars with Mike.

[Matt]

Oh, how about that? I bet he doesn't cough.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Next comment comes from SW Darby Swadarby. This is a rare occasion where I'm on Dusty side. Oh, geez. Aaron should re release his old album. I shared it with friends when he first put it on YouTube. Definitely some good bits in there. I was disappointed when I went to look for it again one day. Day and it was no longer there. That's very nice.

[Leah]

I like this person needed to. This whole comment is just basically I want Aaron to re release his thing, but they had to let him know that normally I don't agree with Dusty. Yeah.

[Matt]

Normally everything Dusty says is garbage. Yeah.

[Leah]

But here people say that a lot. People actually said that a lot about me. They go, normally I don't agree with him, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Leah]

So I always think maybe look into the things you don't agree with me on.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

And ask yourself why broken clock was.

[Matt]

Right twice a day. You know what they say?

[Leah]

Yeah, but, but, but with various things every, you know, people are, people are finding right times of the clock all the way around. You know, so maybe they should be looking into why they don't agree with me. Yeah, what's wrong with them?

[Matt]

That's right. They should look. Look at themselves.

[Aaron Weber]

Look inwards.

[Leah]

There was a Reddit thread I found recently about the podcast.

[Matt]

You shouldn't look at the first.

[Leah]

It was, you know, it was basic criticisms, and then it turned pretty anti Dusty pretty fast. And, man, I got pretty deep into it and. And then I was like, well, this is ridiculous. These people, it is ridiculous. They need to be off Reddit. They need to look into some of the things I'm saying and it will enhance their. It's mainly. They're mainly.

[Matt]

They can find a lot of stuff you're saying on Reddit, that's for sure. Just go to different subreddits.

[Leah]

They're just. A lot of them were anti Christian and they were real mad about my own personal podcast too. And I'm like, guys, we're just having a good time out here.

[Matt]

Yeah, this is one of the rare occasions I agree with you. Yeah, that was good, Eric. Thanks. David Hutchinson. I was on a flight from Cardagena, Columbia, back to Atlanta from a wedding. Before we left, I downloaded Dusty Special Working man to watch while the flight attendant was serving me a snack and a drink. She looked down and said, is that Dusty Sleigh? I said, yes. She said, I love him, he's really funny. I need to watch his new special. I told her it was really great so far.

[Leah]

Thanks, David Hutchinson.

[Matt]

That's really, really fun.

[Leah]

That's a rare occasion. I agree with David Hutchinson. Now, now. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thanks for downloading it and for sharing it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I agree with him. It was really great so far, the first five minutes, awesome.

[Leah]

Yeah. Well, that is what you worry about with the special, right? Because for me, doing a special, I'm, I'm, you know, it's like, like I'm recording an album, right? We're like musicians. Some of my favorite musicians are like, you listen to the whole album and it almost flows together right away, right? Not where you got one or two hits. So when I'm putting a special together, that's what I want. It's got a bit of a build to it. You're putting nuggets out there. So on the second half, you got callbacks coming in, right? I'm building this whole thing and it's like, but people's attention spans today. I mean, mine is no exception. If it's not just exactly what I want from the get go. I'm like, I'm out of here and. But I really like the new one that I just recorded. I'm very excited about it. I think it's better than Working man, and I love Working Man.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Leah]

I'm very excited about it.

[Matt]

It's a good feeling.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome. So you did one in Knoxville and this one in Chattanooga?

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Next one in Memphis, maybe.

[Leah]

Memphis, maybe Clarksville, maybe. I'm gonna. I'm gonna work my way around and then go and into Nashville.

[Matt]

The Anaconda Plan.

[Leah]

Yeah. There's also, you know, there's Johnson City. I had some good shows there. There's lots of great cities in Tennessee.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Matt Adams, he says, I went to Dusty show in Chattanooga, and my date night were an hour late. I was born and raised in Tennessee, but I now live in Huntsville, Alabama. Apparently, I missed Time Zone day in school and only saw, I think, supposedly last. I only saw the last 25 minutes of Dusty show, but it was stellar. I've now seen all four of you guys perform, and there's no one better or funnier than the very relatable content y'all share on stage.

[Leah]

That's really nice, Adams. You know what, Matt? Don't feel too bad about that. That happens to everyone. I've had people. Last time I was in Chattanooga, I had some friends come, and they almost missed it because they. The. The time change. I opened for Fortune Feimster in Chattanooga years ago, and she. She. They. They came to Chattanooga early to get dinner, but then had to skip dinner because they didn't know the time change. My buddy Vince Fabra, who opened for me on the special, the last time he did a show with me and Chattanooga, he was almost late to the.

[Matt]

Show for the time change.

[Leah]

It's happening to people out here.

[Matt]

I'm sorry. I'm texting. I just. I left. I had Lucy's car key in my pocket, and I drove here. So that's what. She's so blowing.

[Aaron Weber]

Go to the hospital with the baby. You got her car keys?

[Matt]

Yeah. Let's hope that doesn't happen in the next hour.

[Aaron Weber]

So how is somebody driving her the key?

[Matt]

I don't know what she's doing. I think she'll have to figure it out.

[Leah]

Yeah, maybe she. Yeah, it's like, figure it out.

[Matt]

I can't do anything right now.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

That's why Abigail stuck her head in the studio and said, where are Lucy's car keys? And I'm like, I left them at home. And I reached in there in my pocket, so that's on me. You Know that's on me. I messed up, dude. Next comment comes from Chris Wood. In order to get to the real truth regarding space. Here we go. What do you think about creating a GoFundMe to get dusty on board a Blue Origin flight? Maybe then we can really know if space travel is possible.

[Leah]

What's Blue Origin?

[Aaron Weber]

That's Jeff Bezos. That's the one that goes up on the edge of space. And your wait list for.

[Matt]

And you could pay a lot of money and do it.

[Leah]

I don't want to go to the edge. I want to go straight up in there.

[Matt]

Yeah, I think they go all the way.

[Leah]

I want to go in.

[Matt]

They. What do you mean?

[Leah]

I'm gonna do it. I want to go away from the Earth. I want to be able to look through the tube and. Or through a window and see the ball. That's what I think.

[Matt]

That's what this is.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You can at least see the curvature. They're high enough.

[Leah]

I want to see a full ball.

[Matt]

How far away do you want to go from the Earth?

[Leah]

Far enough away to see the full ball. However, that. However far that has to be.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think they can do that on the space station, can they?

[Leah]

Well, I want to go farther than that. Then the moon.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah. The passengers see views of Earth from large windows that make up one third of the capsule surface area. So you get a great view. Passengers pass the Carmen line, which is the international, internationally recognized boundary of space. So, yeah, a lot of famous people, rich people have done this. So, I mean, we can pool our money again and get started.

[Aaron Weber]

This is the one that William Shatner did.

[Matt]

Lasts about 11 minutes. You'll experience weightlessness. Be pretty fun. I think we'll make it happen.

[Aaron Weber]

You know those two astronauts supposed to come home soon.

[Matt]

Are they really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

How are they doing it?

[Aaron Weber]

SpaceX is sending rocket up and I.

[Leah]

Think seems like Blue Origin might be able to go up there and get them, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they don't go that high.

[Leah]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Apparently so. So sorry.

[Leah]

Maybe we save a little. Maybe we take Katy Perry and.

[Matt]

You know, Gayle King. Yeah, Lance. Lance.

[Leah]

Those are the only two names I actually know. Gayle King and Katie.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know they went.

[Leah]

Maybe take them out of there and bring the astronauts back.

[Matt]

I don't think it works quite like that, but it's good that we're getting them home.

[Leah]

But, but, but, you know, the point is though, if we're able to go this high, right. But we have, you know, we have these people, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world. And we got people stranded up in space. Let's go get them.

[Aaron Weber]

What's. What I just said we're doing?

[Leah]

Yeah, yeah. But why, but why is it taking this long though? That's what I'm saying.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it was prep here on the ground. Not that I think they're preparing these new astronauts to go and they couldn't go till they're ready.

[Leah]

I don't know why we don't have people ready though. I think we what space up to.

[Matt]

I'm sure I don't know what space force is doing.

[Leah]

I mean, you know what I mean? You got. You got to buy space Ra like.

[Aaron Weber]

The fire department rescues a cat from a tree. That's what.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah.

[Leah]

At least, you know, within weeks. Be ready.

[Aaron Weber]

I think if their life was in danger, we could have went immediately.

[Matt]

Yeah, that would have expedited things. But I think it's a little more complicated than just jumping up and grabbing them.

[Leah]

Yeah, they'll need better help when they.

[Matt]

Come down for sure.

[Leah]

I mean, trapped up there. Is it a man and a woman?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Well, at least they're, you know, they're getting together or whatever because.

[Aaron Weber]

And it's not just. It's not just them two up there.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There are other people.

[Leah]

Oh, okay. How many?

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe six, I think.

[Matt]

Okay. And they're only supposed to be up there eight days or something.

[Aaron Weber]

Something like that.

[Matt]

Yeah. Now it's been eight months, something like that. That's pretty crazy.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Yeah. So funny how fast life changes.

[Leah]

Real Gilligan's island up there, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, a little bit. A little bit.

[Matt]

An eight day tour. Oh, yeah. That was pretty good.

[Leah]

Yeah, it wasn't bad, Skipper.

[Matt]

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[Leah]

You don't even know what you do.

[Matt]

You did a ton of things right and it'll go up just a little bit. I mean, it's a, it's a terrible game.

[Leah]

I've had movements where they go, oh, you, you might have been charging too much or you might have been charging too little. Or they're like, well, let's be specific.

[Matt]

Or they go, hey, you looked at it. Let's lower the score a little bit. I mean, what kind of game is this? Listen, life gets easier with a good credit score.

[Leah]

Soft check, a hard check.

[Matt]

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[Leah]

That's a good story.

[Matt]

It's a really great story. I'm trying to think about how I would have.

[Aaron Weber]

I jokingly said when your baby was born that you were at a Braves playoff game and some people took it serious.

[Matt]

I got some nasty comments. I'm just trying to think of how I would have approached asking my wife, like, our babies in the hospital, but I dip out for a day, go watch the Braves game.

[Aaron Weber]

24 hours, honey.

[Matt]

That would have been. I mean, that have been tough, man. That's a tough ask, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

You should. You could say, I'm gonna go home and take a shower and then head to Atlanta, then drive back that night.

[Matt]

Yeah. Tell you what, I'm head back, grab a few things, maybe take a shower.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you, me, grab you anything.

[Matt]

I'll grab you lunch on the way back.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

And then, you know, traffic gets bad or something later that day. That's crazy, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

I admire your dude. I don't know how you figured out how to do that, but that's. That's a lot congratulations on. Good story on your boy doing well.

[Leah]

Good story.

[Matt]

That's awesome, man. That's awesome.

[Leah]

Is Miles, Braves baseball player. Can we link it?

[Matt]

Miles Hill.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I mean, Garrett, but he's a football player.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

David Brooks. I want to make a video compilation of all the amazing jokes that Dusty casually makes that gets completely swept under the rug. It's literally once an episode. He's got to be the best free agent signing in podcast history.

[Leah]

Yeah. Thank you. David. David, gosh, I would love for you to make that video.

[Matt]

Yeah, he's not gonna.

[Leah]

But that would be such a good video. I wish someone would make that video. I mean, I think it'd be a.

[Matt]

Lot shorter than you think.

[Leah]

I crush it on this podcast.

[Matt]

I think It'd be a 30 second video.

[Leah]

And then there's guys on Reddit going, yeah, he interrupts everybody. I can't watch it anymore because of him. Ah, he loves Jesus. Yeah, they hate it. Yeah, they hate it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's funny because every social media platform has it a different vibe. Facebook fan page is like, I wish they talk about God more. And Reddit's like, it's all they talk about.

[Matt]

They love me on Reddit.

[Leah]

As if there are not a lot of podcasts where people are not talking about that sort of stuff. I mean, it is practically all of them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

All right, next comment comes from Tanner Gutensen. This is one of.

[Aaron Weber]

The.

[Matt]

One of the Gutensen quintuplets. Oh, Goon son from Montgomery, Alabama. They are the first set of all male quintuplets born.

[Leah]

How many is Quinn? Eight?

[Matt]

Five.

[Leah]

Okay.

[Matt]

Yeah, that would be octuplets.

[Leah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matt]

Tanner Gutensen.

[Leah]

How is it Quinn, though? But how's it not pent? Like it's a pentagram. A five sided star.

[Matt]

Well, there's twins, triplets, and then what's the next one? Quad. Quadruplets, quintuplets, then sex tuplets, I think.

[Leah]

But why did we go Quinn with it and not pent?

[Matt]

I don't know.

[Leah]

Pentagon pentuplets.

[Matt]

I don't know why we didn't do that.

[Leah]

Why?

[Matt]

Quint not pent? Yeah, because it's from. Well, Reddit is blocked on this, but quint comes from the Latin word quinque, meaning five, rather than the Greek root for five, which is penta. So it's Latin versus Greek for some reason. For that stuff, we go Latin.

[Leah]

Yeah, I like it.

[Matt]

That's pretty fun.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Tanner Gutensen says, after being a longtime listener of the podcast, you guys really motivated me to try my hand at doing standup. Oh, God, I'm sorry about that, Tanner. There was going so well. Yeah. There was an open mic at a local bar slash cafe here in Montgomery, Alabama, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I didn't do bad, I didn't murder, but most important, I didn't flop. Got three or four good laughs out of the eight minutes I was given. Eight minutes. Crazy. Dude, that's so much time for an open mic.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Admire you for doing all eight. That's crazy. Thank you guys for being so informative on the podcast, and I look forward to many more episodes.

[Leah]

Well, congrats, Tanner.

[Matt]

Yeah, it's a big first step.

[Leah]

I've only done a couple of shows in Montgomery, and one of them was pretty good. Kind of a jazz bar downtown. Montgomery.

[Matt]

Downtown's really changed since I lived there.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

The fact that you would do anything downtown, it's changed.

[Leah]

I did get a hotel downtown one time, and I sat out on the some chairs and smoked a cigar, and it was pretty scary. It was mainly a city. Scary to me when it's just like empty. Like there's just no one outside. Just an occasional people walking. And you're like, is this okay?

[Matt]

Yeah. Am I supposed to be out here right now?

[Leah]

We were out there at midnight, probably pretty late. Yeah. Midnight at Montgomery. Ghost of Hank Williams.

[Matt]

Oh, I don't know that. Is that a song?

[Leah]

Yeah. Alan Jackson.

[Matt]

Oh, how about that?

[Leah]

It's a really good song.

[Matt]

Hank Williams from Montgomery, right?

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Big time.

[Aaron Weber]

Tanner. So Tanner has. What'd you say, four.

[Matt]

He's got four brothers.

[Leah]

That's good. That's good. Joke writing stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

I was about to say, he's up there. He's like, God, just don't have anything to talk about.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What makes me unique?

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just don't know.

[Leah]

And if you're not feeling well, one of your siblings can just fill in for you.

[Matt]

Yeah. They're not identical, though. Okay, but I think they. Look. I mean, I think they're pretty close, but I think it's only identical if it's two. Or can there be four? And is two sets of identical?

[Leah]

I don't know how triplets can be.

[Matt]

Triplets can't be identical.

[Aaron Weber]

They can't?

[Matt]

No, because the. The cell can only. The egg can only split in two.

[Aaron Weber]

That makes sense. I thought I'd seen triplets, all three.

[Matt]

Look, I don't think. I don't think there's. I mean, I could be completely wrong about this, and I'm sure I'll be corrected, but I think that. I think the triplets cannot be identical. Let me. Hold on, let me look this up. Okay. Yes. Triplets can't be.

[Leah]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Matt]

Why did I. Okay, here it is.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, here we go. Okay, he's backtracking, but he's going to.

[Matt]

Identical triplets occur when a single fertilized egg splits into three separate embryos. That means all babies will share the same genetic makeup. Blah, blah, blah. The probability of having identical triplets is extremely low, estimated at about 1 in 200 million. 1 in 200 million pregnancies.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I know a few.

[Matt]

So this is the least common identical triplets is. Okay, so, Aaron, just admit you're wrong. Geez. Look, I admit the. The way I said it was. I think it's. Look, I think I'd like to see.

[Leah]

It happen, but I'd like to see it happen.

[Matt]

I'd like to see it happen, too. All right. For some reason, I thought that that was. All right.

[Leah]

All right.

[Matt]

You know, you live and you learn. You live and you learn. That's how it works.

[Leah]

That is true.

[Matt]

But I don't think that they're all.

[Leah]

I don't think it's an educational podcast.

[Matt]

I don't think that these. The Guten Sons are identical. Are they?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think so.

[Matt]

Okay. Because I think if.

[Leah]

How did you know that. That he's part of that? I mean, they're just not a lot of Guten Stones out there. You think?

[Aaron Weber]

Are you a big Dylan Montgomery when you were a kid?

[Matt]

No, I hadn't heard of. Until they wrote into the podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Matt]

A couple years ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we talked about them and we.

[Matt]

Talked about them, and then I think Mason's one of their names. They were on the. They're on the Tonight show at one point.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Talk shows.

[Matt]

Because it was a big deal when they were. Were born, but I had. I hadn't heard of them.

[Leah]

Was this IVF or was this just natural that they just happened to be.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Matt]

I have no idea. Quintuplets occur naturally in 1 in 55 million births. How about that?

[Leah]

I mean, it's just wild. I mean, I can't imagine.

[Matt]

I think about everything with the one baby.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Then if we had just had. If I had four more, dude, that'd be a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

That would have been a really big deal. If I brought the car keys here by accident, left my wife 5 babies.

[Leah]

With 5 babies, you might not even be allowed to do the podcast.

[Matt]

No, I think I have to quit comedy. I don't know what I would do. I'd probably leave.

[Aaron Weber]

You'd have so much material, though.

[Matt]

Just leave?

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Just drive away and never drop.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Kidding.

[Leah]

I encourage my neighbor to do that. My neighbor.

[Matt]

You encourage your neighbor to leave his family?

[Leah]

I had a neighbor.

[Matt]

Honestly. Do you.

[Aaron Weber]

He's done that before.

[Matt]

You should.

[Leah]

They were already getting divorced. This. This couple. They got divorced and they moved out. And he. And he has two kids by two different women. They never been married. And now this is his third kid with this woman. And it seems like none of the women let him see his kids. Right? Not very much. Whether it's his fault or not, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know any of that. But he just never really gets to see the kids. And he. He repairs air conditioners. I told him. I said, man, he was all sad about it. And I go, man, you should just get out of here and go to Florida and just live out your life. I said, because he's. He's gonna run himself raggedy.

[Aaron Weber]

Where's the better help ad?

[Leah]

And they won't. All of the. They won't let him see his kids. And he's. He was so sad. I was like, dude, there are so many air conditioners that need to be repaired in Florida. I was like, you could get out of here and just be happy.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the worst advice.

[Leah]

It may be, but the guy was very sad.

[Matt]

How's he doing now?

[Leah]

He's gone.

[Aaron Weber]

He's just a sports. Oh, God.

[Leah]

He moved on. He moved away. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Because of your suggestion.

[Leah]

No, they were. He were getting divorced, and they had to move out of the house.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

So I know you say if you don't have kids, go ahead and get divorced, but in this case.

[Leah]

Well, his wife's leaving him.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

And they're gonna make it hard for him to see his kid. Yeah, really hard. And I Just think, well, he's making it easy. I would just think, you know, you just go ahead, take off, reconnect with the kid later in life and go. Your mom wouldn't let me see you. All right, that may be terrible.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that's terrible.

[Leah]

Do you. But what, what, what if, you know, your wife was leaving you and she would not. She. She made it very hard for you to see the kid and was making your life really miserable? Is it, Is it helpful for you to be trying to just keep trying because you don't know what's happening behind the scenes, men or women. This is not a comment on women, men or women. You don't know what's happening behind the scenes. And, and how are they talking about you when you're not around? They're painting a picture of you anyway. I just think.

[Matt]

I don't know.

[Leah]

I don't know if it's a cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Just take off. It's going to verify what the wife said.

[Leah]

But if it's a cool divorce where you're just like, hey, we're not getting along, but we still want to. You know, I know a guy, him and his. His ex wife live in the same house. They have, like a duplex sort of situation. They're divorced, but the kids are still right there in one house.

[Matt]

Wow, that's interesting. I've never heard of that.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Yeah. I don't know. I feel like I'd want to. I want to be there for my kid, but every situation is different. But I'm not trying to judge.

[Leah]

But listen to all the details, though. He's already got two.

[Matt]

I get it.

[Leah]

And the, and the women are not letting him see the kids for whatever reason. And maybe they're right for it. But I'm just saying. I'm not saying. I'm just making, you know, a comment.

[Aaron Weber]

He just wanted him out of the.

[Leah]

House because he, like, he's moving no matter what. But I saw the guy that was crying every day, and I just was like, you got to take care of yourself here.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, Matthew.

[Matt]

Matthew Pittman says, I got my tickets for Dusty this Friday and Saturday and Brian Saturday night.

[Leah]

I'm not encouraging people to leave their kids.

[Matt]

I know you're not.

[Aaron Weber]

I know you're all about this case.

[Leah]

I'm all about the family's.

[Matt]

All about family.

[Leah]

I'm all about the family unit, of course, but once the family unit's broken, the way things work, it's very hard. And if the two parties are not working together, then it's going to be disastrous.

[Matt]

Well, you can hear more about this dusty show this Friday night and the rebuttal Saturday night from Brian.

[Leah]

Are both going to be in Boston at the same time.

[Matt]

Oh, how about that?

[Leah]

Excited.

[Matt]

A couple Southern boys.

[Leah]

You got two shows. You got two nights, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'm there Friday, Saturday. Yeah, I got one show Friday. So, Aaron, let me ask you this. Dusty shows at seven. My show's at eight. Which one do you think will be over first? I think it'll be pretty close.

[Leah]

I got to work on new material, so I'll have to start working in new jokes to the old joke.

[Matt]

There you go.

[Leah]

Bound to expand.

[Matt]

Yeah, I think right around the same time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's what I think too. That's what I think.

[Leah]

It's bound to expand.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, there's a lunar eclipse that night, so we could hang out and see a lunar eclipse.

[Leah]

We should. We should do cigars.

[Matt]

Yeah, I wouldn't commit to any of this stuff. I think you're gonna end up picking up Brian from the airport.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I got a rental car.

[Matt]

Oh, did you.

[Leah]

Can you pick me up?

[Matt]

See how this feels? Because I don't know, man. I got a lot playing that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matt]

Boston's a fun city. I'm there. I'm there in a couple weeks.

[Leah]

All right.

[Matt]

So a lot of Nateland taking over Beantown.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me ask you this, Aaron.

[Matt]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

A lunar eclipse, that's when the earth is between the moon and the sun.

[Matt]

I can't remember which one's which.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I guess what I don't understand is. And I said this on the eclipse episode. I don't understand that happens every month. I feel like every day but one. There's at least a partial eclipse.

[Matt]

Yeah, well, it mean that it's right on. Right on us, though. Like, it's not gonna be a lunar eclipse here. Is it going to be one in Boston?

[Aaron Weber]

I think the whole us Experienced it. A lunar eclipse.

[Matt]

I don't know. I tapped out after that. We saw the eclipse.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Matt]

I wiped all eclipse information from my brain.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Matt]

After Nate asked if it's the sun coming between the moon and the earth. I hope to God that doesn't happen.

[Leah]

And if it does, hopefully the moon's really far away.

[Matt]

Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

We miscalculated the moon.

[Matt]

Either way, things are about to get different real quick. If the sun comes between the earth and the moon, there's a partial solar eclipse later this month coming through Nashville.

[Leah]

No, it seems like they happen all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Matt]

I do happen a ton.

[Aaron Weber]

It's I think only like maybe New England can see some of it. But if you're out in the ocean.

[Matt]

I think you could see full totality.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think so. And I read today cicadas are coming back.

[Matt]

Oh, man, oh man.

[Leah]

That's why it's always like, they're always like, oh, once in a lifetime thing. And then next year it's happening.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a different brew.

[Leah]

They're like, oh, these, these things are going extinct. And the next thing you know they're like, there's too many of them.

[Matt]

I don't know if anybody's claimed cicadas are extreme.

[Leah]

No, but they do say that. They said it about bees and then they were like, well, is it bees?

[Matt]

Isn't that a real problem?

[Leah]

But I think bees are. I mean, I think it is, yeah. Probably because of like a lot of like WI fi and stuff is what they say. And 5G is messing with the bees and pesticides.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah, things like that.

[Leah]

All that. Yeah. But it's like even all that 5G. Well, it's like it's a signal. Right. So it's out here. Okay, Right. Whether it's bad or not, we don't know, but it's out here. It's a signal. It's obviously shooting something into your computer somehow that you can magically pull up information. Right. So it's out there. Maybe the bees are sensitive to it, you know?

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

And they're messing up their migration, thrown.

[Matt]

Off, where to go and stuff.

[Leah]

Yeah. All bad things don't have to be intentional. That's what everybody think. If you go, oh, 5G is effect. And everybody goes, oh, you think everybody's trying to kill you with 5G? And I'm like, I just think there could be unintended consequences.

[Matt]

Some studies suggest that 5G technology could harm bees. The scientific consensus is that more research is needed. A bit of a cop out, right? It sounds like, why don't we keep looking at it?

[Leah]

Exactly, exactly.

[Matt]

Higher frequencies used in 5G can heat the insects bodies, affecting their health and behavior. Yeah.

[Leah]

When I was a kid, I was a little bit of a sicko. I put insects in the microwave and killed them. And they, it doesn't take very long at all. So.

[Matt]

So that's all the studies that need to be.

[Leah]

So I'm saying this 5G is a bit like microwaves. They, they do say, like our cell phones has a little bit of microwave, a little bit of radiation.

[Matt]

This is saying other factors such as habitat loss, PE disease and climate change have a greater Impact.

[Leah]

I would take climate change off the list. And then all the others are what's really affecting it.

[Matt]

Okay. Can't they all play a little bit of a role?

[Leah]

I don't really. I don't know. But I think we're. But you know, habitat loss and I think if we, you know, we're just building too fast. We're just bulldozing woods down all the time.

[Matt]

The study from Harvard. Right.

[Leah]

Building too many things.

[Matt]

I got a handset. Dusty. I didn't know this was. This was being taught. Talked about so much. We got a study from Harvard.

[Aaron Weber]

That's probably where you learned about it.

[Matt]

That's right. You check in regularly on Harvard.

[Leah]

What was the quote that I heard? This is a rare occasion when I'm on Dusty side. That was a quote that I heard earlier. But the problem is people are afraid to have speculation now. They don't want to speculate.

[Matt]

Yeah. I don't think you should speculate. Right.

[Leah]

To be speculate. Spec.

[Matt]

No, to be skeptical.

[Leah]

Skeptical. That's what I mean.

[Matt]

You don't want to speculate.

[Aaron Weber]

You're great at speculating.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

What's speculating?

[Matt]

Speculative means just. Just make a guess based on nothing.

[Leah]

Oh yeah. I think we should do that too.

[Aaron Weber]

That's your mantra?

[Leah]

Yeah. Yeah. For sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Do both. Be skeptical and speculate.

[Matt]

No. Make an educated guess. Research it. Figure out and have the guess based on.

[Leah]

I've always said don't just throw out wild accusations. Yes. First research.

[Matt]

Second research to back up your guests.

[Leah]

Guess. See who it lands with.

[Matt]

Yeah. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That's your people.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Throw out a guess. Test the waters a little bit. Yeah.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We all need a good support system. Am I right?

[Leah]

You do need a good support system.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys are my support system. And I appreciate it.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Who's yours?

[Leah]

My family. I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. Your wife. But when they fail us. It's good to have a therapist. A society that glorifies hyper independence. It's easy to forget that we're all better when we have a support system behind us. Therapy. Excuse me?

[Leah]

Support system. On that.

[Aaron Weber]

Cough therapy can be a source of support for any area of your life. It's time to focus. Shift the focus from doing it all to knowing that we're better when we ask for help. It's helpful to learn positive coping skills and how to. How to set boundaries. Empowers you to be the best version of yourself. We all want to be the best version of ourselves. Right.

[Matt]

You gotta be.

[Leah]

I don't even know what that is.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think we do either.

[Matt]

You gotta find out with better help.

[Aaron Weber]

It isn't just for those who've experienced major trauma. Therapy is for everyone. Life can be hard, and it's great knowing you're not alone. And you can have an amazing support system. Nate does therapy, but as I always say, don't hold that against better help. It works for most people. It's fully online, making therapy affordable and convenient, serving over 5 million people worldwide across a diverse network, more than 30,000 credentialed therapists, and a wide range of specialties. Build your support system with better help. Visit betterhelp.com nate to get 10% off your first month. That's betterhelp. H E-L-P.com nate, what coffee shops do you enjoy guessing the best at?

[Leah]

Oh, okay, here we go. This is me. You know what I got? This is what happened to me. I went to a coffee shop the other day and they said, thanks for the shout out on the podcast. And I. I had no idea, but apparently I had shouted them out. But they are good. I go there a lot. So I said to Hannah, let's do top five coffee shops in Nashville.

[Aaron Weber]

And then why don't you do this on your podcast?

[Leah]

Well, I've not been doing my podcast.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Now we have to sit more energy into this one.

[Leah]

So I thought, yeah, we could, you know.

[Matt]

Sure you don't want to save this to get Nate's thoughts when he's back next week?

[Leah]

You know, when Nate's not here, that's when I bring in different things because Nate, you know, he's got a lot to talk about.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

So I thought we get some feedback from people. There's a lot of people that live in Nashville.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Let's see. What are some of their favorites?

[Matt]

And even if you're not in Nashville, you can. Yeah, yeah.

[Leah]

Maybe comment on YouTube and tell us what your favorite coffee shop shops are. And also, if you're not in Nashville, you're in other cities. Tell us where the good coffee shops are. We're on our way there anyway.

[Matt]

Yeah, this is surprising because you don't. And I hope this doesn't come out wrong or mean. You don't seem like a coffee shop guy.

[Leah]

I love.

[Matt]

You seem like you get coffee from a gas station, you drink it black out of a styrofoam cup, and you know, it's a means to an end.

[Leah]

Well, that's the thing about me. I.

[Matt]

You're a man of complexity.

[Leah]

I do like black coffee.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

But I. I don't Drink out of Styrofoam or paper anymore. Sometimes you have to. But I take my. I like to get my own mug.

[Matt]

Bringing your own mug to a coffee.

[Leah]

Well, you know, a lot of times they don't like you to do that, so. So what I'll do, they pour it in the paper and then I pour it into my.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, these are Dusty's top five coffee shops. That lets him bring in his own.

[Leah]

Yeah, but, you know. But it has changed for me. What I used to, like when I lived in Charleston, I'd go to Kudu Coffee. Coffee shop downtown.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

And they had a lot of seating. And then you could, you know, you drink coffee, eat an oatmeal cookie. They had a great oatmeal cookie that I like. Oatmeal raisin cookie.

[Matt]

Oh, this was a bar too.

[Leah]

Well, they started coffee and craft beer, but.

[Matt]

So that's what got you in the door.

[Leah]

No, no. I was going there as a sober person.

[Matt]

Oh, okay.

[Leah]

And so I would walk down. I lived downtown. I'd walk down there, have some coffee. There was always attractive women in there. And it was just a good artsy spot to sit and write some jokes.

[Matt]

I wrote a little chess.

[Leah]

I wrote a lot of Making that Fudge that album at Kudu Coffee.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Leah]

So, okay.

[Matt]

Sort of a satanic logo there.

[Leah]

It is a goat. Because I had a problem with it too. But apparently it's a. But it's a goat. You know, like a deer slash goat.

[Matt]

Sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I laughed earlier when you knew five was. Was pit. And then you gave the example. Pentagram was like, oh, yeah, that's how he knows this.

[Matt]

Or the Pentagon. Either way. Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

Two things.

[Leah]

Weird that they have a similar name like that. Okay, all right.

[Matt]

So it should have been the Quintagon.

[Leah]

As with all of these, you know, I got a. I got a. I got a couple of extras. So I'm gonna go. This was Hannah's. She loves this place.

[Aaron Weber]

We have to hear Hannah's top five. I'm not a huge coffee shops.

[Leah]

This one is Nate's.

[Aaron Weber]

Back next week, folks.

[Leah]

This is Crema Coffee in Brentwood. Crema. I think it's a chain a bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Leah]

But apparently they have very good coffee. I'm not that into it. Okay, but shout out.

[Aaron Weber]

They made Hannah's list.

[Matt]

Yeah. Kramer, there's one one downtown.

[Aaron Weber]

You should take Lucy her key. Now. This might be a good time. I'm sorry.

[Leah]

Have some culture about yourself.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, you're right, you're right.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

All right, tell us about.

[Leah]

Okay, so and then there is. This is. This is going to be. This is going to be number five. All right, I'll have an honorable.

[Matt]

Here's the list.

[Leah]

I'll have an honorable mention. Barista parlor. I like the one in East Nashville. It's a good spot. It is pretty artsy. And you know, they. I wrote a joke about it one time because they gave me my black coffee in like a beaker. And then they give you a cup and then you go sit down and then you. But it's a nice spot and they have very good coffee. That's what I'm looking for, is good coffee.

[Aaron Weber]

Tom Hanks was spotted there once.

[Leah]

Was he?

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Matt]

Barista part or. They have one of these at the airport, by the way.

[Leah]

Yeah. That's a good one. Okay, then. I like that they have a lot of these. But I'm a big fan. The Frothy Monkey. I'm a big fan. I like the one on 12 South. It's a. It's always busy.

[Matt]

Surprised you like the vibe in there, man. Well, that Frothy Monkey is like the go to example of kind of like a. I'm trying to figure out the best way to say this.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, non. Dusty.

[Matt]

Yeah, kind of like the opposite of dusty. That's who would be.

[Leah]

But that's the thing. That's who's making the best coffee.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

If it's all a bunch of dudes that I really like, it's not going to be good coffee.

[Matt]

Coffee at autozone.

[Leah]

Yeah, yeah. No, I, you know, but they have an artistic vibe. I like a real artistic vibe. Okay. Number two, this is in Donaldson, the Sunshine Bakehouse.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

It's a vegan place, which I'm not vegan, but when there's a vegan vegetarian place.

[Matt]

I told you about this place.

[Leah]

Yeah. They're usually. Oh, it's Sunflower Bakehouse. We always get it. Sunflower Bakehouse, a vegan vegetarian place. They at least have. They do a good job with that stuff.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

I want to eat meat, but I don't need to eat it every meal.

[Matt]

Fun story about the Sunflower Bakehouse is a vegan bakery. And I went. I went there with Lucy and they have all these cupcakes that just look unreal. And I was like. And Lucy goes, you know, they're everything free, gluten free, whatever free. So I was like, sugar. I thought they were sugar free. So I bought. I bought like three huge cupcakes and I ate them over the course of two days. And I. And I was Like, I can't believe these are sugar free. And she's like, sugar might be the only thing still in there.

[Leah]

Yeah, yeah, they keep it. Sugar a lot.

[Matt]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're doing a lot of sugar.

[Leah]

But I like this spot. It's a fun spot.

[Matt]

They're good. They're good.

[Leah]

All right, here we go. Number two.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I thought that was two. Okay.

[Leah]

This is number two.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Leah]

Headquarters on Charlotte Avenue. This on the west side. Tiny little coffee shop. And very good coffee.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

Very good.

[Matt]

Downtown Nashville.

[Leah]

No, no, it's like on the west side, like on Charlotte Avenue.

[Matt]

That's downtown.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Charlotte pike, near where you used to live.

[Leah]

Yeah. Good. Really good spot, though.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

What they're showing you is not what it's going to look like when you go in there. It's all these pictures make it look really nice. It's pretty tiny place. All right. Honorable mention, McDonald's red bicycle in Germantown.

[Matt]

Okay. I've heard of red.

[Leah]

Very good, very good spot. All right, number one. This is my favorite spot. And. But you know, they're doing a little something there that really upset. They make a sourdough bread.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

I go there on Wednesdays and get sour. A loaf of sourdough bread.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Leah]

It's very good. And they have a lot of bakery things that are very good and they have good coffee. And this is going to be flower your dreams in Hermitage.

[Matt]

Flower your dreams.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Bakery and cafe.

[Leah]

Very good. We go there. We go there at least once a week. We get bread, we get coffee.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I was about to ask, how do you have time with two kids to go to all these coffee shops? But you're all go.

[Leah]

We will all go. Or we'll take turns.

[Matt]

You give your kids coffee yet?

[Leah]

No, no, no. But they do eat a lot of bread.

[Matt]

You'll see these kids, man, at the airport and stuff.

[Leah]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt]

Like a four or five year old with like one of those. I don't even know what you call them. I don't even know how to order one at Starbucks. But one of those, like, it's basically a milkshake with coffee in it. See this like four or five year old kids with it. It's crazy, dude. Yeah, my kids, I had coffee till.

[Leah]

College, get all sorts of treats. But I try to. I try to keep it. I try to keep it back from them.

[Matt]

Yeah, just nicotine, like.

[Leah]

Yeah, I kind of like. Like yesterday I was eating ice cream in the kitchen while they were in the bath and I was like, I should like, you know, you would think, well, I should share with my kids.

[Matt]

Right.

[Leah]

But I'm like, I don't want to destroy their stomachs like, mine's destroyed. I'll just keep destroying mine, and I'll try to protect them some.

[Aaron Weber]

That's sweet.

[Matt]

You'll give them the gift of a cautionary tale.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

That's a good thing for a parent to give a kid.

[Leah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matt]

Why was that? I enjoyed that more than I thought I would.

[Leah]

That's a good list. You guys gotta let me run with things.

[Matt]

Okay. Yeah, we let you do it. Yeah, we let you do it. So, I mean, what's the next list? I'd like to maybe make my own next time.

[Leah]

Yeah. What? You know, because for me now, like I was saying before with the kudu, I used to go there and I'm looking to write jokes. I'm looking for some inspiration. I like when people are in there. That way you can see them and. And. And I don't know, it's just something to look at, something to write about.

[Matt]

Right.

[Leah]

But nowadays I'm looking for. Do you have some healthy bakery options?

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, but listening to this podcast. Excuse me. It's going to find this interesting.

[Leah]

So many people.

[Aaron Weber]

Why would they find your top five coffee shops in Nashville interesting?

[Leah]

Well, maybe they live in Nashville.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Leah]

And they're looking for a coffee shop. I mean, come on, guys. I mean, this. This whole podcast is just stuff like this.

[Matt]

That's true.

[Leah]

And somehow. But it's usually shops. You guys are like, no, it's not.

[Aaron Weber]

It's broad, where everybody can share.

[Matt]

It's not like we postponed a conversation about Congress to talk about this. We're talking about nonsense.

[Leah]

But coffee.

[Matt]

So I get that. I agree with both of you, somehow.

[Leah]

But Nashville is a. A tourist destination.

[Aaron Weber]

So now they'll know.

[Leah]

And people coming here are going to want to go to the good coffee shops. And then we also have a lot of Nashville listeners. So this. This app. Listen. There's more people going to Nashville coffee shops than there are, you know, that, you know, want to hear about, you know, some of the things we talk about. But I like the podcast, so I don't criticize the things we talk about.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Leah]

But I'm just saying let's not act like. Let's not act like this subject is. Coffee's important to people.

[Matt]

Yeah, I think so.

[Leah]

Coffee's a drug.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. We should. I wish. I know. We could have that episode on coffee.

[Matt]

We could have done a coffee episode.

[Leah]

We never done a coffee episode. No, I think we should get People to comment in, comment on YouTube. Tell us what your favorite coffee shops are and why, why you like them. And. And also I'll do this.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Do you agree with Brian? Do you think, do you think Mike Meyer does? Yeah, I mean, you know, but. But you know, and also I just want you to take note because everybody says how mean everyone is to Brian. Look how mean Brian's being to me.

[Matt]

That is true.

[Aaron Weber]

Trying to be nice to the listeners.

[Leah]

But I'm just saying everybody's always like, oh, everybody's so mean to Brian. But I'm just saying everybody can be mean sometimes.

[Aaron Weber]

When I was in.

[Matt]

I don't drink.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't drink coffee. Yeah, I mean, I do. With the curator.

[Matt]

Well, that's what this comes from. He doesn't drink.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I do drink coffee. I'm sorry, I don't go to coffee shops because I have a family that I love. But I'm glad you guys have time. But. Well, when I was, when I was in Winter Haven recently, that's what I.

[Leah]

Was trying to get to, though. There's different. There's things that are more important to me now, like good bakery items.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Leah]

Because that are healthy, that I can take to my kids.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Leah]

Anyway, when you were in winter.

[Aaron Weber]

When I was in Winter Haven, someone gave me some coffee.

[Leah]

Where's Winter Haven? New Jersey?

[Aaron Weber]

Florida.

[Leah]

Okay. Close. I'm thinking. Okay. I don't know what I'm thinking. Anyway.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you thinking?

[Leah]

I was thinking New Haven. But that's Connecticut, right?

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway, someone gave me some coffee called. I think it was called Haven. It was the best coffee, they said, in Winter Haven.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And I gave it to. I'm not a coffee connoisseur. My brother in law is and he texted me yesterday. He was like, it was great. He said it has Fruity Pebbles in it, has a fruity pebble taste.

[Matt]

Oh, he doesn't have actual chunks of Fruity Pebbles in the coffee. That'd be bizarre.

[Aaron Weber]

That would be bizarre.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Yeah. All soggy. And your filter up there, though, I.

[Matt]

Think Fruity Pebbles is when it gets a little soggy. That's when it's the best. Oh, I never wanted a little soggy.

[Leah]

I liked it. I like it crunchy.

[Matt]

I like it about.

[Leah]

I don't eat it anymore.

[Matt]

About 75 of the way through the bowl. That's when it's the best. When it's a little. A little bit of that worked its.

[Leah]

Way in when I used to eat Fruity Pebbles. You have the bowl, right? And you eat it from the side almost, and you work your way in. So as you get in, you do have a crunchy and a little bit of a soggy bite.

[Matt]

What I'm saying. Yeah, you got to get. You get the right consistency.

[Leah]

That is good.

[Matt]

It's pretty special.

[Leah]

The. You know, we went to that coffee place in Huntsville. I forget the name of that place.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. It's like German coffee.

[Leah]

Yeah. It's kind of a complicated name, but that. They sell a lot of coffee. They only have one thing brewed, but they sell a lot of coffee, and it's really good.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

I forget what it's called, but if you. If you look. Coffee in Huntsville, just look for the hardest. I was just telling people, look for the hardest one to spell. And then. And then you'll be like, okay, this is it.

[Matt]

Bus Stop. And harder than that. No, it's Beignets and Brew.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I thought it was a German name.

[Matt]

Was it not the Cozy Cow White.

[Leah]

But why is it not coming up?

[Matt]

Dosto Coffee House. It looks German. Man, I don't even think that looks German. All right, let's do. Hold on. I'm gonna do top five in Huntsville. Real quick.

[Aaron Weber]

Tell me Hannah's top five in Huntsville.

[Leah]

But also, you want to get honorable mention. You want to try to get organic coffee. Organics important. And then you want to try to get a mold free. Apparently, there's a lot of mold on coffee. And then Keurigs. This is the problem with Keurig that I found.

[Matt]

I met the guy who invented Keurig.

[Leah]

He's very wealthy.

[Matt]

Yeah, he's doing all right.

[Leah]

Yeah. But this.

[Matt]

Regrets doing it.

[Leah]

I bet he does. He's ruined coffee, but.

[Matt]

Well, I don't think. I think it's a pollution thing.

[Leah]

This is the. This is the problem with. If you get the. I probably talked about this before. The Farmer's Almanac will tell you what plastics are safe for human consumption. You know, like, safe to be used for food. And what you're not. If you get the. You know, you get Starbucks K cups, and they say they're safe for human consumption or whatever. Right. But they're not organic. You can't find any organic ones. Yeah, but if you buy the organic ones at the grocery store, which was what we were doing, I looked up that plastic. That plastic not safe for food, for humans. So you have this. You have this plastic cup that you're dropping down in hot water is pouring into this plastic, and then it's just spilling into your coffee, and then you're just drinking it.

[Matt]

Dang.

[Leah]

I'm out of here. I'm out on keurig.

[Aaron Weber]

Do a keurig here.

[Matt]

Yeah, I use it all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

So we just got rid of ours in our house. We're out on it now.

[Matt]

I don't know how to use a regular coffee maker, so the Keurig is pretty awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

And it works. And it works every time.

[Leah]

You have a little grinder. We put our beans in there. We grind the coffee each morning. Fresh ground, put it in the.

[Aaron Weber]

It definitely tastes better. Yeah, that's for sure.

[Matt]

Yeah, but I'm not. It's a means to an end to me. Yeah, it's like I'm just trying to down it.

[Leah]

Oh, see? I'm enjoying it.

[Matt]

Yeah, I'm not trying to enjoy things. I'm trying to be miserable.

[Leah]

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[Matt]

I wouldn't believe you.

[Leah]

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[Matt]

What?

[Leah]

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[Aaron Weber]

All right, this week. This week. That's important stuff to get to.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Talking about folktales.

[Matt]

There we go.

[Leah]

Here's what people are looking.

[Matt]

This is what they're waiting for.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you know, we did an episode recently on fairy tales, and people enjoyed it. People really enjoyed it. So I texted you guys. It's like, hey, what do you guys.

[Matt]

Think we talk about folktales and we didn't respond?

[Aaron Weber]

You guys, let me check. Dead silence as usual. So thanks, guys. Dusty was too busy making his honorable mention for his kids at a coffee shop. So this week we're talking about folk tales.

[Matt]

I love it. Let's get into it.

[Leah]

I love it too.

[Matt]

Are you going to talk about the difference between a folk tale and a fairy tale?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I mentioned that a little bit on the fairy tale episode. But fairy tales, usually it's more good versus evil narrative. There's usually some magic involved, some mythical. Mythical creatures. Folk tales are more based on something a little real that just gets embellished.

[Matt]

Or like Amelia Earhart like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I was thinking of trying to think of some modern day folktales.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Folk heroes and so like real historical.

[Matt]

Things that have been mythologized in some way.

[Aaron Weber]

Like some of them, like Paul Bunyan. There's nothing, you know, he didn't step and make the Grand Canyon.

[Matt]

There was never a giant guy who made the Finger Lakes, I bet, but.

[Leah]

Some of that stuff got exaggerated. But I bet there was a Paul Bunyan character.

[Matt]

Well, there was big dude.

[Aaron Weber]

There was. There was a guy, a lumberjack named Fabian for there. Paul Bunyan was his name Fridge, Canadian timberman. And it said that this is in the Caribbean.

[Matt]

Fournier, Fabian. Joe. His nickname was Joe.

[Aaron Weber]

That's like Nate's joke on bar.

[Matt]

Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

But it said in that time, Fabian.

[Matt]

I'm gonna call you Joe.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's see, years active.

[Matt]

So he immigrated to the United States, worked as a lumberjack in Michigan. He's the man who inspired Paul Bunyan at least some part. He was an infamous brawler, getting fights left and right.

[Aaron Weber]

Now this says. This is in the 1800s. It says he was 6ft tall, which at the time the average man barely cleared five feet.

[Matt]

Okay, so. So this is the equivalent of like seven foot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That's pretty crazy though, that we've grown a foot in the last.

[Leah]

I don't believe that people always say it and it's just something in me that I just don't believe that we were all just shorter people.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you think with all the steroids they're putting in our foods that that would make us. That you come on board with that, right?

[Leah]

Yeah, I mean, to some degree. But I just. I just don't know why we would be getting taller.

[Matt]

I don't know. Maybe because diarrhea doesn't wipe out like a whole town now.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

But like health has gotten better and you know, nutrition's way better and all that kind of stuff.

[Leah]

Well, I don't know if nutrition's better.

[Matt]

But I, I just, like one ibuprofen pill would have like started a war 200 years ago and now I have 5000 in my pantry. Like, like, I don't know, the world's gotten better.

[Leah]

I just don't know how it's making us get taller though, is what I'm saying. I mean, I agree that, that, that, you know, we don't have dysentery out here. Yeah. But. Yeah, I don't know, I just, you know, I'm just asking.

[Matt]

I have no idea. Don't we have the skeletons of people from back then and we can see.

[Leah]

But do we have them all?

[Matt]

No, but I don't.

[Leah]

Do we trust the researchers?

[Matt]

What possible motive could someone have to lie about the average height?

[Leah]

I don't know. I mean, there could be plenty of motives to. The motive could be to convince you that we're a healthier society now.

[Matt]

Interesting. Interesting. Okay.

[Leah]

Well anyway, you know, because they say that we evolved past using our wisdom teeth. That's what we say. Is that why. And that's why a lot of people say that and that's why we need to have them removed now. Now. But other people say it's because our diets have changed so much that we used to, you know, eat meat and we would all the time, we just tear meat with our mouth and jaws and we were taking in so much, you know, of that kind of stuff that we actually were developing more of our jaws. So our what it, it. A lot of people suggest that it's just our jaws aren't fully, fully developing like they used to and that's why we don't have room for our teeth. I don't know if it's true. Yeah, but I'm saying people suggest that.

[Matt]

Well, what about this kid? Does it have something about this guy's teeth in here?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Matt]

Okay. Yeah, it says he, it says he, he has supposed double row of teeth. Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

He was rumored to have two complete sets of teeth which he used to bite off hunks of wooden rails in his spare time while drinking and brawling. So that would help build your legend.

[Leah]

You know, that's pretty interesting because when they talk about folk, folk giants.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

They're like finding these, they say in America they had found all these like eight foot red headed giants and they all had two rows of teeth.

[Matt]

Yeah. His remains were allegedly hosted at the University of Michigan at some point, which he became an oddity in dental sciences known for his unusual jawbone.

[Leah]

Wow.

[Matt]

How about that, huh? How about. I never heard of this guy. So this. This is a good exit. This is a folk tale like this?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, some advertising companies kind of ran with it. And, you know, Paul Bunyan is also.

[Leah]

A redhead, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you still. Oh, is this the native.

[Leah]

I'm just saying.

[Aaron Weber]

Is this the Native American thing you're talking about?

[Leah]

Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of Native American folk tales, they talk of these redheaded giants.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway, that's one that is Paul Bunyan.

[Leah]

A redhead.

[Matt]

Not any of these depictions of.

[Leah]

Keith Albersad had a Paul Bunyan joke.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he did.

[Leah]

Yeah, he did.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. There's like. Yeah, he's. He's from here. The mythical ox and. Yeah. Johnny Appleseed. That's a real guy.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

John Chapman, he was a horticulturist, and he.

[Leah]

Are these potential Paul Bunyan people?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I've moved on.

[Matt]

Appleseed's its own thing.

[Leah]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

There were a couple of. Paul Bunny.

[Leah]

Johnny Appleseed was real. But what's the folktale around him that he discovered apple.

[Matt]

He's responsible for all the apple trees in America because he walked around and just threw seeds out all over the place.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. That's what a lot of people think.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Much harder to grow an apple tree than that.

[Matt]

You can't just throw a seed out and it's fine.

[Leah]

I've never had that kind of luck.

[Aaron Weber]

This was actually more true than I would have guessed. I mean, he did help with spreading, building, growing apple trees all over the Ohio Valley. I like that hat.

[Matt]

He's got a tough look.

[Leah]

Look at his chest, though. He looked rip.

[Aaron Weber]

But his success was centered not around fresh apples, but rather the cider they could create. Cider was essential, the American dinner table at that time. So most homes had their own small orchard. He planted orchards along with pioneers and stayed ahead of the other horticulturists because he was unmarried, had a lifestyle that allow him to cover more ground.

[Leah]

And this is what I've been proposing. I think we should all. I want to get my HOA involved, and I want to plant fruit trees in everybody's yard. I want everybody in the neighborhood to have a fruit tree. We should all have fruit trees in all our yards.

[Aaron Weber]

I say this a lot, and I mean this with. You're such the Kramer character. Because that was something Kramer would do on Seinfeld. Well, but Kramer was always ahead of the. He was. Yeah, he was always ahead of everybody.

[Leah]

Well, I mean, it's like we should all. Every household should have a fruit tree in their yard. I mean, why not?

[Matt]

What kind of fruit? Doesn't matter.

[Leah]

Doesn't matter. I mean, certain types, you're going to need a couple to pollinate.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

But an apple tree, pear tree.

[Aaron Weber]

My mom has a pear tree.

[Leah]

Yeah, we should all have fruit trees in our yard.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. Anyway, the Johnny Appleseed Museum is in Urbana, Ohio, if you guys wanted to go see it.

[Matt]

All right, I'll go check it out.

[Leah]

I'm just saying, you're talking about these people you're getting. You're just spurring ideas here. You're getting me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

I mean, Johnny Appleseed, I didn't. I didn't know he was doing all.

[Aaron Weber]

That, but he was onto something.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What about this John Henry?

[Leah]

John Henry. You know, I have a book, John Henry Paul Bunyan playing Baseball, that you do believe. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's 100 factual.

[Leah]

Well, John Henry, I love the story of John Henry. I mean, he was. He was. That. He was a railroad guy and the steam engine was coming in, and the steam engine was taking everybody's jobs on the railroad. And John Henry was like, I can beat the steam engine.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was a steam drill.

[Leah]

Yeah. And he beat it.

[Matt]

But then he died, right?

[Leah]

He died. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Died in the process.

[Matt]

Who wins it?

[Leah]

Well, that's, you know, obviously technology wins in the end. Yeah, but he was saying.

[Matt]

So is it a sad story?

[Leah]

I think so.

[Matt]

What's the moral of the John Henry story? That we will lose to technology in the end?

[Leah]

Yeah, I mean, AI will kill us.

[Matt]

I mean, is this supposed to be some kind of story about the human spirit?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think it was like.

[Matt]

But if he dies at the end and he barely beats the machine.

[Leah]

Yeah, but he'd rather die. I don't know if he barely beat it, but he.

[Matt]

It wasn't. He didn't dominate it.

[Leah]

He'd rather die than lose out to the machine.

[Matt]

Did he know I might die doing this when he started it, or did he just.

[Leah]

I don't think he cared.

[Aaron Weber]

But it.

[Matt]

That seems dumb, dude. He should have just find another job.

[Leah]

What's he gonna do, though? I mean, maybe jobs weren't readily available at that time.

[Matt]

Well, I think you figure it out. If. I don't think the only two options are die or.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, die.

[Matt]

I think he could have just kept living and, you know, went somewhere else.

[Leah]

I think you got pride in your. In your work. What if.

[Matt]

Yeah, pride to an extent.

[Leah]

What if AI, they were. They were suddenly AI, you know, terminator robots that were doing standup comedy now. And it was like, who can do standup comedy the longest? You were like, no, I can beat this guy.

[Matt]

No, I wouldn't go die on stage. Leave my family.

[Leah]

They were like, either you die on stage or you're working in. What's that?

[Aaron Weber]

I've died on stage. Well, AI. I mean, Deep Blue, that was kind of an early. You know, when it played chess against. Was it Gary Kasparov?

[Matt]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That was kind of like John Henry Gary. He eventually lost, right? Yeah, he did, but. Oh, well, never mind. But he lived, so.

[Matt]

Yeah, he did.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's the upside.

[Matt]

He did live.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Be tough to die from playing chess.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

I played chess on a plane. I know how to play chess. I never prided myself being very good, but I know how all the parts move.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

And I try to play chess against the computer on a plane the other day.

[Matt]

What difficulty level?

[Leah]

It's the easiest possible. Were you getting murdered every time? Not even clutch. Now I'm not. I'm more of a speed chess guy. I just want to play blitz. Yeah.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

I don't want. I don't want to sit around all day and think about it. I just want to play.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

But I was getting hammered.

[Matt]

Yeah. Yeah. It's a tough game, man.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Getting hammered. Like John Henry hammered.

[Leah]

That exactly.

[Matt]

Brought it back.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Leah]

Casey Jones, there's a good song. Justin Towns Earl has a good song about John Henry, and also Jillian Welch has a good John Henry. So.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

If you're into those.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Jesse Slay's top five John Henry song. Yeah. Honorable mention. Casey Jones. You guys heard of Casey Jones?

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

From a Grateful Dead song.

[Aaron Weber]

Is there. There was a Turtles Beast of Boys line about. Was it Casey Jones locker?

[Matt]

Oh, why don't. I think Casey Jones is.

[Aaron Weber]

You may be. I don't know. The Grateful Dead.

[Leah]

The Ninja Turtles had a Casey Jones case character.

[Matt]

Yeah. Casey Jones grateful, then.

[Leah]

Oh, yeah. Riding that train. Casey Jones. You better watch your speed.

[Aaron Weber]

So he was from Tennessee.

[Leah]

Trouble.

[Matt]

Okay. See? Bank robber or something?

[Aaron Weber]

No, he was a train engineer. Locomotive engineer.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And people look.

[Matt]

People just looked more intense back then, didn't they?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Look at this guy.

[Aaron Weber]

They didn't know they were about to take a picture. Probably.

[Matt]

Yeah. This is where you had to stand. He had. Probably had to pose for the picture for, like, 15 minutes for it to develop.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

So it's tough to maintain a smile that long. So you come out looking like this, and this is how the world remembers him. Just like, intense stare.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Anyway, his thing was, his train was about to collide with another train.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And he stayed on board, supposedly to try to slow the train and save his passengers. And he was the only person to die. According to legend, he had died with one hand on the train's whistle and the other hand on his break.

[Leah]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

So he became this legend of.

[Matt]

Did he do any. Did he do anything to actually save them or.

[Leah]

He saved the rest of the passengers, apparently.

[Matt]

But how did he say. How did.

[Leah]

He slowed it down enough to where. When it collided, it just killed him.

[Matt]

Oh, okay.

[Leah]

That's a hero.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

And when you clicked on Casey Jones on Google, it showed you the Casey Jones Ninja Turtles character.

[Matt]

Character.

[Leah]

Ah.

[Aaron Weber]

What was his character in Ninja Turtles?

[Leah]

He was. He wore this. He wore the hockey mask, and he had the hockey club.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. It's so funny because you and Nate are similar ages, and he was really into Ninja Turtles.

[Leah]

He would know Casey James and that, you know, it's.

[Aaron Weber]

That was at least in high school, if not college, when they were big.

[Leah]

Oh, that's interesting that the. The grateful dad, they said riding that train in the song riding that train. But then they go on to allude to him doing substances. All right, Jones, you better watch your speed. So that's right. That's it. He was flying on that train.

[Aaron Weber]

Who designed and sewed the first American flag?

[Matt]

Betsy Ross story is Betsy Ross. I've been to the Betsy Ross house, but I think probably it wasn't heard.

[Aaron Weber]

Probably not.

[Matt]

Okay, probably.

[Aaron Weber]

Probably not. But that is the story. Her grandson shared that like 100 years later that. But supposedly George Washington went to her. So we want to design this new flag with the stars being six, and she's six points. And he. She's like a pentagon would be five would be easier to sew. So that's why the star has five instead of six.

[Matt]

Why did they want six? Was there significance to that?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. Maybe that's just how they drew stars back then. And she was like, you know, a five. Five pointer. One would be easier for us to do. But most historians say most likely she was not the one who first did it.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

But they wanted to give a woman something, so it was probably done by a man. Much better, is what historians say. I'm joking. I'm just.

[Matt]

Yeah, but maybe.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Matt]

Yeah. Who knows?

[Aaron Weber]

I'll do a couple more.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

Why even do a. Why even call that a star? I always thought that's interesting. Like, stars don't look anything like that if you. You Know.

[Aaron Weber]

You mean actual stars in the sky? They twinkle.

[Matt]

They're just like dots that kind of twinkle a little bit.

[Leah]

So why. Why do we call these stars? You could just call them something else.

[Matt]

That I don't know star shape come from. We'll find out. The five pointed star. Oh, geez. Oh, boy. Okay, there's a. There's a history you're probably not going to be happy with Dusty.

[Leah]

No, I. I know about it.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, he's setting us up.

[Matt]

He goes. Find that out on your own time.

[Aaron Weber]

Pentagram, Pentagon. Betsy Ross flag. Pocahontas. The legend with her was that she saved John Smith's life.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, he got. He was an early colonist. He got captured by Native Americans. Her dad was the chief.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And they were about to smash his head with a rock, and she laid on top of him to save him. That story's almost certainly, they say, not true.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

How would they know if it was true or untrue?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, John Smith, who wrote this, that said this happened, also wrote numerous other stories, they say, about beautiful women coming to his rescue.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And he was a known liar and braggart. They said. Okay.

[Matt]

Yeah, it's tough. It's tough to make the case then.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

But Disney.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe they're lying.

[Matt]

Is this. Was that also the plot of the Disney.

[Leah]

Or maybe John Smith was really getting around doing well for himself, but also getting in a lot of trouble now.

[Aaron Weber]

She did.

[Leah]

Saved by a lot of beautiful women, maybe. So maybe it was a real hater who's like, you know, John Smith's a real liar.

[Aaron Weber]

She married a John, later John Rolfe. And it was a big deal that an American, or I guess wouldn't be American then, but a white settler was marrying a Native American woman. So anyway. But she certainly was real.

[Leah]

Okay, is there a real. I guess so. I guess there's a cartoon. I was gonna say, is there really a folk story around, like John Henry, Paul Bunyan. These are stories I was hearing all about all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

Folk tales.

[Leah]

Yeah, I guess you were hearing about.

[Matt]

Poke, but Pocahontas, Disney, I know the Pocahontas songs, dude.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Paint with all the colors of the wind, dude.

[Leah]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That's from the movie.

[Matt]

I think so. Isn't that a. Isn't that a big one?

[Aaron Weber]

You have that on DVD with all.

[Matt]

The colors of the wind.

[Aaron Weber]

Right again, crazy.

[Matt]

It's one of the biggest.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know that song.

[Matt]

It's a pretty big production.

[Leah]

No, I'm sure it is. I just. I never. I've only listened to a few Disney songs now that I have kids, and that's not made it to the mix yet.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Leah]

Not ringing any bells, but.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Matt]

Let me fast forward for a second.

[Leah]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yes.

[Leah]

Now I don't know it, but I. I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Now I know it.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Matt]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Robin Hood.

[Matt]

Robin Hood.

[Leah]

One of my favorites. I mean, when I was a kid. That's Kevin Costner. Robin Hood.

[Aaron Weber]

Not Robin Hood. Men in tights.

[Leah]

Minute was around too, but you had Morgan Freeman, Kevin Costner, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

And then the Maid Marion. She was in a few things. I don't remember her name outright, but very good that. I think his butler was a pretty famous actor too. Yeah.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Gosh, that was such a good movie. Robin Hood had a butler before, like, you know, he was like Robin of Locksley. Ah.

[Aaron Weber]

Before he, like.

[Leah]

And so the butler, his dad's butler was blind. He was the blind man.

[Matt]

So is it based on something real?

[Aaron Weber]

Probably not. It was probably more just like a symbol of rich people oppressing poor people.

[Matt]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

And Robin Hood. Robbers, you know, but probably not a.

[Leah]

Real person, but men in tights. Dave Chappelle, Early Dave Chappelle. I forget that guy's name, but the. The guy, he. Carrie Yules. Yeah. Yeah. He's so great. He's so great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I probably didn't say his name right, but something like that.

[Matt]

I just remember Dave Chappelle with the shoes that pumped up.

[Leah]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt]

Made me laugh so hard as a kid is pumping up shoes.

[Aaron Weber]

I think Richard Lewis was in that.

[Leah]

Yeah, Richard Lewis. He had the mole that would move around his face as they were talking. Like he would come back to him and it'd be in a different place.

[Aaron Weber]

And this Monday, St. Patrick's Day, you guys dress appropriately for it. Dusty always gets in the saints.

[Matt]

Patrick's Day.

[Leah]

Your green hat, it's a. It's a custom made hat here. Do you guys notice that?

[Aaron Weber]

I noticed it.

[Matt]

I didn't see that. Yeah, it looks like the Kodak tobacco.

[Leah]

Yeah, we had it made for the special. I wore this hat on the special.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Leah]

So he had it fashioned after my Kodiak. Wintergreen.

[Matt]

Kodiak. So. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So St. Patrick supposedly drove all the snakes out of Ireland.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know that story?

[Leah]

Yeah, I've heard it. Yeah, a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They say there weren't snakes in Ireland because it's a island where snakes couldn't have gotten to. But he was a Christian missionary and it was more symbolism Symbolism of driving out pagan beliefs like snakes. I love that represent, you know, evil. So.

[Matt]

Right. Get them out of there.

[Aaron Weber]

Driving out that.

[Matt]

So we sent them all to Australia.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. So I mentioned earlier, who are. You know, I was starting to think of some modern folk heroes in the last hundred years. I got a couple man, that are kind of one still alive.

[Matt]

We'll see how long that lasts once you mention them, Brian.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's a great point. That's a great point. Because the folk like to create folktales about us, okay? And now anytime I mention anybody, they're like, oh, that person's dead.

[Matt]

Yeah. Because it works out that way most of the time.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

No. Rachel Robinson broke that streak.

[Matt]

All right, let's see. We'll see. You just brought her up again. You restarted the film.

[Aaron Weber]

People who are 100 years old and then they're like, oh, wow, that's crazy. They died. There's a lot of folk tales about us. You have this image, people say, of you being rich because, you know, Nate kind of started that. Now everybody thinks you're, you know, you're super rich.

[Matt]

That's right. Yeah. I grew up in a mansion.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

All that kind of stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty, like, it's conspiracy theorist. And never once is dusty throwing out a conspiracy theory.

[Leah]

Not any untrue. And they're not even really theories exactly. They're certainly not conspiracy just because conspiracy, you know, is, you know. Yeah.

[Matt]

It's got a bad connotation.

[Leah]

Yeah. It was a. It was a term created to make anybody that questioned the mainstream dream seem crazy.

[Matt]

That's great to have a conspiracy theory about. The word conspiracy theory is pretty great.

[Leah]

I know, but it's like it cancels each other out. It's so easy for people. You can. I can hear their voice now. They go, oh, oh, you're into. Oh, buddy. You're into conspiracies, huh, buddy? Okay, buddy. Well, listen, okay? Sometimes things in life are just what they say, okay, buddy, not everybody is into conspiracies, okay? Just. Just trust the news, okay? Can you just chill out here, buddy, and just trust the news for a minute?

[Matt]

I've never heard you do a voice.

[Aaron Weber]

Character actor over here.

[Matt]

Sometimes things just are what they are.

[Aaron Weber]

His new hour is going to be wild.

[Matt]

I love it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's doing impressions.

[Matt]

I love it.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, we have a lot. I think I have more than anybody folk. I told a story once about how these girls said I look worried on my scene. And now anything that happened, anytime I post anything, like, this guy's worried I know.

[Leah]

You can't take a picture without people saying you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

You're more myth than man at this point.

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly.

[Leah]

Like the picture with Nate and Leanne talking to each other and you're in the background.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

I appreciate you. Yeah. They're like, oh, you look so worried. I'm like, it looks well composed back there. It looks like he's having a great time.

[Aaron Weber]

And I know there's trying to be funny, but read the comments. When eight other people made the same dumb joke, you know, Come on. Some original.

[Matt]

Yeah, I agree with you.

[Aaron Weber]

Go after these guys.

[Leah]

Well, do Aaron. A lot of people come at me.

[Matt]

Yeah, people come at me.

[Leah]

People do come at Aaron, too.

[Matt]

You know, the. I'm take some heat for saying triplets can't be identical earlier.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They come after you for anything. Like, you just act like you're the smartest guy on the planet.

[Matt]

Well, I do that. That sometimes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, they're right.

[Matt]

I look down on people, but down is where some people are.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Yeah, that's true. Sorkin quote.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. Yeah. Both of these are athletes.

[Matt]

Jackie Robinson.

[Aaron Weber]

I was gonna say Babe Ruth. Okay, Babe Ruth.

[Matt]

Of course you would.

[Leah]

Well, Babe Ruth.

[Matt]

Sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

Jackie Robson. You're saying he really didn't break the color barrier?

[Matt]

No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying he's a. Okay.

[Leah]

Dang.

[Matt]

He spun that on me quick. That's not what I'm saying.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you're coming after me for Babe.

[Matt]

He's legendary. He's mythologized in a lot of ways, just like Babe Ruth is.

[Leah]

Babe Ruth is like.

[Matt]

But you're right. Babe Ruth, a lot of. Like, the story of him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Matt]

Calling his shot, all that, kind of.

[Leah]

When I was a kid, Babe Ruth was, like, the only baseball player I'd ever heard of.

[Matt]

You hadn't heard of Hank Aaron or Mickey, man, not for a while.

[Leah]

Like, when the sandlot was out and they were talking about Babe Ruth, it was like. You would have thought he was the only big baseball player ever.

[Matt]

See, I've always thought that that was. I've heard somebody make this point. The sandlot takes place in the 60s, 50s or 60s. Don't you think those kids would have moved on to Mickey Mantle or somebody by then? But they still talk about Babe Ruth like he's. I don't know if a kid like Mickey Mantle's playing while they're playing. They would have moved on to him. Well, maybe in a guy from 30 years ago.

[Leah]

Maybe. It's the history, though. Mickey Mantle would have been the next Generation. They're like, remember that guy?

[Matt]

Maybe. But I feel like those kids would have been following.

[Aaron Weber]

I haven't seen that movie in a.

[Leah]

While, but maybe it was just because of the ball. Ball.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah. No, they. They talk about Babe Ruth before the ball is brought up.

[Leah]

Maybe it's the folklore. That's what we're talking about.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah, you're. You're right, Brian. Yeah, he's definitely the most.

[Leah]

Mickey Manel doesn't have it. Two M's. Mickey Mouse is what we're thinking now.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, there's some legendary home runs that you. What you went to the museum this weekend. What's it called?

[Matt]

He's trying to get me to say it. The Negro League Baseball Museum.

[Aaron Weber]

There's legends. I don't know if you saw it there.

[Leah]

There's a guy that got fired for going there one time. Right, that announcer.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Remember that?

[Aaron Weber]

And then he apologized. He apologized like two innings later. Like, that's not who I am. The guy was in the third inning. He's not who I am.

[Matt]

No, no. Different guy. Different.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway, there's legends about. That was a while Josh Gibson. Some of Those guys hit 700 foot home runs.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Probably not true, but there's legendary stories about.

[Matt]

There's something about. They say Mickey Mantle hit one like 650ft or something and they.

[Aaron Weber]

That's before they could measure.

[Matt]

No way to track that back then.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

It was just like, man, it went far.

[Aaron Weber]

But Babe Ruth conest shot is the one I was.

[Matt]

Yeah. I don't know if there's evidence of that. Right. If there's like a picture of it or anything, but it's a fun story.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And then the guy who's still alive, at least for now, who's kind of like this is Bo Jackson.

[Matt]

Yeah, you're right.

[Aaron Weber]

Bo Jackson's such a legendary athlete.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's stories on him as a kid.

[Leah]

And right where I grew up and yeah, I watched Bo Jackson documentary. I don't know, maybe it was a 30 for 30.

[Matt]

Yeah, it's called Bo. Bo knows.

[Leah]

But man, I did not real. I mean I screw up everybody talking about Bo Jackson, but I really didn't know the scope of how good he was.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he did some crazy stuff and.

[Leah]

How tragic him end his career ending was like. Like tragic in the sense of just seems like an injury.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. He just got injured, just a little hip injury.

[Matt]

But they made the point in that 30 for 30 that he's almost like the Beatles where you. You never saw him fade. He was just kind of taken from us.

[Leah]

Yes.

[Matt]

So there's never that. The inevitable. And LeBron might be the one exception, but every other great athlete in my lifetime, there's always that kind of period at the end of the career where you're like, golly, just kind of. You know, we're maybe in the middle of it with Aaron Rodgers right now where you're like, come on, dude, just tap out. Never had that with him. It was just taken from us. And in his prime, he's just gone. So. Yeah, it's a. It's a.

[Aaron Weber]

But I think crazy 30 for 30 even had some stories about him as a kid that were legendary.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That, you know, he did some crazy stuff or like.

[Matt]

Yeah. Just jumping out of a pool, way steep in water, all that kind of stuff. Stuff. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But he was a freak for sure.

[Matt]

Now, if he dies, this is on you. That is on you.

[Aaron Weber]

That'd be a fair one. How old is he?

[Matt]

Is he 60, 62?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that'd be fair. That happens.

[Matt]

I think he's. I think he's doing great.

[Aaron Weber]

And then I was thinking of other genres. Like, you know, there's some guys in. Well, like George Jones. I mean, a lot of it's true, but no Show Jones, he. You know, there were some drinking stories, Johnny Cash, a little bit like that.

[Leah]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, the. The Tales from the Tour Bus by Mike Judge stories on all those Country Singer Season one. It's very hard to find. You can't buy it on dvd. It's very hard to find. And it's definitely not clean, but it is, if you like those country music stories. Really good. Really good.

[Aaron Weber]

They used to do those, I guess, behind the Music on mtv. And these rock bands had some legendary stories, too. Ozzy Osbourne, you know, famously bit off a bat.

[Leah]

Yeah. They said he. Yeah. Bit off a bat's head.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he thought it was a fake. You know the story.

[Matt]

No. Yeah. I know that he bit a bat. That.

[Aaron Weber]

I really thought it was a fake rubber bat, but it was a real bad. So, I mean, I think that's true.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But there's probably some legendary stories about some of those guys.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah. And there's. I mean, we don't have to get into it now, but, you know, there's all kinds of comics where there's. There's a mythology about them of these crazy comics. Road guys and.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, stuff they do on the road.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah, there's a ton. There's a ton of that stuff. There's like a whole Whole world, let's get into it. We don't, you know, stuff I don't want to talk about on the podcast. But. Yeah, do.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you have something?

[Leah]

No, I was. I was going to say some of it would be hard to talk about on the podcast and it would con, you know, and just keep content, family friendly.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, right.

[Leah]

Because there are like, Rodney Dangerfield had some people tell me once in a while they used to drive Rodney Dangerfield around. And in Vegas, a guy was telling me that. And it's wild stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, here's one more. Plymouth Rock.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The Pilgrims landed at Pillar Rock. That Plymouth Rock. That probably didn't happen, but there is a real Plymouth Rock and you can go see it. And they were moving it and it broke in half. It fell off the wagon or something and split in half.

[Leah]

What was inside?

[Matt]

A key.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. A key to the new world.

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But people over time have chipped away at it and taken it for.

[Leah]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But probably was not the place where the Pilgrims actually landed.

[Matt]

I want to say this on Bo Jackson's Wikipedia. At the top it says not. Not to be confused with Boo Jackson. And this is a retired basketball player named Boo Jackson.

[Leah]

Wow.

[Matt]

Wouldn't that be tough?

[Leah]

Yeah.

[Matt]

You try to be an athlete named Boo Jackson and you're never going to be as good as. As Bo.

[Leah]

Well, at least if you get booed.

[Matt]

You play college basketball.

[Leah]

They're like, they're cheering for me.

[Matt]

There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you get booed. I'm not being booed. They say in my name.

[Leah]

You can never really be booed.

[Matt]

Yeah. How would you boo a guy named Boo?

[Aaron Weber]

That's a great point, Dusty.

[Matt]

Yeah. Middle name hits.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't usually agree with you on stuff, but. Yeah, that's a good point.

[Leah]

Yeah. Occasionally I come up with something good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's about all I have.

[Matt]

That's about it. Wow. Another fun episode of Natland podcast. It was fun talking to you. We got into the weeds on a few things. We got into it. We learned a lot. And you know what I think the real folk tales are the friends we made along the way. Brian Bates, where are you going to be this weekend or next? Let them know.

[Aaron Weber]

This weekend I'm going to tell more than that. Sit back.

[Matt]

Walk me through the year, brother.

[Aaron Weber]

This weekend I am in Beverly, Massachusetts, at Off Cabot Comedy Club.

[Leah]

I don't know why it's funny.

[Aaron Weber]

This is what Mike Meyer's talking about. Guys, what's. I'm sorry, I've never Heard of it. Oh, well, sorry that you didn't make it to this Mr. A room.

[Matt]

You're right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway, it's just outside Boston, off Cabot Comedy Club. I'm excited to be there. Three shows. One Friday, two Saturday, and then. Oh, well, I forgot to mention, if you're listening to this day of my show tonight at Zany's, Brian Bates and friends.

[Matt]

March 12th.

[Aaron Weber]

March 12th.

[Leah]

Okay, so that's.

[Aaron Weber]

That's tonight. Then I'm in Beverly, Massachusetts, this weekend. And then, see, April 5th, I'm in Columbia, Tennessee, back on the Easier to Drive tour at the Packer Playhouse. April 11th and 12th, Detroit, Detroit House of Comedy.

[Matt]

Nice, dude. So nice. You're gonna have fun there. That's a really cool room.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they said I could do two nights because I sell well.

[Matt]

But anyway, they took me down to one night last time. That's fun. This weekend I'm doing some stuff. Next weekend I am. I'm open for Kathleen Madden.

[Aaron Weber]

Go find him.

[Matt]

But I'm opening for in places where I want to sell my own tickets. Yeah, yeah, but those shows will be great. Kathleen's great. But next weekend, I'm in Hartford. Hartford, Connecticut, at the Hartford Funny Bone. And then immediately after that, Boston, Massachusetts, at Laugh Boston Comedy Club. But that's next week. All right, so. And then Chicago the week after that, and then then some other stuff. So coming out and see Mr.

[Aaron Weber]

Mainstream over here.

[Matt]

Mr. Mainstream in the city.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leah]

Okay, well, this weekend I'll be at the Schubert Theater in Boston, Massachusetts. And then I'll be at the Bluma Appel Theater in Toronto, Canada, on Saturday.

[Aaron Weber]

Is your family going with you?

[Leah]

Hannah is gonna go.

[Matt]

That's cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you're leaving the kids?

[Leah]

We're gonna leave my kids with my sister and my niece.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Leah]

We've never done that. But Hannah's gonna go up for a few days, and I'm just gonna go up for the day and come back. She's gonna stay for a few days, and she's not been away from the kids like that ever.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Leah]

But, yeah, I wanted her to have a little time in Toronto. I think that'd be fun for her.

[Matt]

Definitely.

[Leah]

March 21st, I'm in Beaumont, Texas, at the Jefferson Theater. And March 22nd, San Antonio, Texas, at the Charlene McComb's Empire Theater Theater.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice.

[Leah]

March 25th, I'm at Zany's.

[Matt]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

And April 8th, you're at Zanies.

[Leah]

April 8th, I'm @Zany's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'm on that show.

[Leah]

Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. All right.

[Matt]

Acting like I booked the other show. I did not.

[Leah]

Well, you know, we weren't on it, so I don't do our own show.

[Matt]

I know. Can I be the special host of yours?

[Aaron Weber]

That's probably what I am.

[Matt]

All right. Thank you. We love you. It's not lost on us. We'll be back next week with another another edition of the Nate Land Podcast. Thank you all for listening. Thank you for wishing you all a pleasant evening.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Leah]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and.

[Matt]

By me, Nate Bargetze and my wife wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform.

[Aaron Weber]

Recording and editing for the show is.

[Leah]

Done by Genovations Media.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week.

[Matt]

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