244: #244 Friendship

Summary

Episode Summary: The Nateland Podcast #244 – Friendship

Podcast Information:

• Title: The Nateland Podcast
• Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
• Episode: #244 Friendship
• Release Date: March 19, 2025

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1. Introduction to Friendship

The episode begins with the hosts engaging in light-hearted banter, setting a relaxed and humorous tone. The conversation quickly shifts to the central theme of the episode: friendship.

• Brian Bates: Introduces the podcast and initiates discussions about their personal friendships and comedic experiences.

2. Aristotle’s Three Types of Friendship

The hosts delve into Aristotle’s classification of friendships, exploring the depth and quality of their own relationships.

• Nate Bargatze ([62:10]): "Only men are capable of true friendship. But what’s aged horribly." This highlights Aristotle’s outdated views and sparks a discussion on how friendship has evolved.

• Aaron Weber ([62:41]): "Friendship of utility, friendship of pleasure, and true friendship."

3. Modern Perspectives on Friendship

The conversation transitions to contemporary theories and observations about friendship dynamics.

• Dunbar’s Number: Aaron Weber introduces the concept proposed by anthropologist Robin Dunbar, suggesting that humans can comfortably maintain around 150 stable relationships.

  • Aaron Weber ([81:53]): "Individuals are 1½ to 2% more attractive in a group than when alone."

• Friendship Paradox: Scott Field’s observation that an individual's friends tend to have more friends than the individual themselves is discussed, emphasizing social dynamics and sampling biases in friendships.

  • Dusty Sleigh ([82:00]): "If you do have a lot of friends, it can be explained as a former sampling bias."

4. Personal Anecdotes and Experiences

The hosts share personal stories that illustrate the complexities and joys of maintaining friendships.

• Brian Bates ([66:07]): Recounts a near-miss motorcycle accident and emphasizes the comforting role of friendships during tough times.

• Dusty Slay ([40:15]): Shares an experience of being kicked out of a Waffle House due to a personal altercation, highlighting the challenges in friendships and social interactions.

5. Friendship Across Different Contexts

The discussion broadens to include friendships in varied settings, including professional environments and through shared interests.

• Workplace Friendships: They explore how friendships form and sustain in professional settings, balancing utility and genuine connection.

• Animal Friendships:

  • Aaron Weber ([83:56]): "Researchers at Northampton University studied cows to see if they have best friends."

  • Dusty Slay ([84:15]): Differentiates between perceived friendships and familiarity among animals, arguing that genuine friendship is distinct.

6. The Impact of Technology and Social Media

The hosts examine how modern technology influences the formation and maintenance of friendships.

• Social Media’s Role: They discuss the challenges posed by constant connectivity and the superficial nature of some online relationships.

  • Nate Bargatze ([108:52]): "The idea of even caring about what thousands of people think about you is so alien."

7. The Importance of Close Friendships

Emphasizing quality over quantity, the hosts stress the significance of having a close-knit group of friends.

• Inner Circle vs. Acquaintances: Differentiating between deep, meaningful friendships and casual acquaintances.

  • Aaron Weber ([82:50]): Breaks down relationships into inner circles and broader acquaintances, highlighting the limited number of truly close friends one can maintain.

8. Overcoming Challenges in Friendships

The conversation addresses common obstacles in friendships, such as misunderstandings, differing life paths, and external pressures.

• Maintaining Bonds: Strategies for preserving friendships despite geographical distances and life changes.

  • Brian Bates ([43:22]): "We all text. We text. Yeah."

9. Conclusion: The Value of Friendship

The episode concludes with heartfelt reflections on the enduring value of friendship, celebrating the bonds that the hosts share both personally and professionally.

• Brian Bates ([112:01]): "We consider you all very close friends. I confide in you guys as I think you guys as well."

• Nate Bargatze ([111:58]): "Friendships are good. I recommend it."

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Notable Quotes:

• Nate Bargatze ([62:10]): "Only men are capable of true friendship. But what’s aged horribly."

• Aaron Weber ([81:53]): "Individuals are 1½ to 2% more attractive in a group than when alone."

• Dusty Slay ([82:00]): "If you do have a lot of friends, it can be explained as a former sampling bias."

• Brian Bates ([112:01]): "We consider you all very close friends. I confide in you guys as I think you guys as well."

• Nate Bargatze ([111:58]): "Friendships are good. I recommend it."

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Final Thoughts:

Episode #244 of The Nateland Podcast offers a deep dive into the multifaceted nature of friendship, blending academic theories with personal anecdotes. The hosts provide insightful perspectives on how friendships form, sustain, and sometimes falter in an ever-connected world, ultimately underscoring the profound impact that genuine friendships have on our lives.

Transcript

[Nate Bargettze]

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[Brian Bates]

Hello, folks and hey Bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi. Brian Bates. Aaron A. A. Ron. I just saw that thing again this week. It's just so funny that clips.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, it's an all time great sketch. Ruined my life.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But man, it's good. It's so good. And dusty sleigh.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

They should have thrown you in there.

[Dusty Sleigh]

They should have for that sketch.

[Brian Bates]

And then yours. They just say correctly. Yeah, yeah, Dusty.

[Dusty Sleigh]

My best friend growing up, his dad was Greek and he would call me Doosty.

[Brian Bates]

Doosty slug.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where was he in the trailer?

[Dusty Sleigh]

No, no, no. Actually, my best friend had a two story brick house. Yeah, it was big time. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Real boy meets world.

[Nate Bargettze]

Would you say you were Sean Hunter? He was Cory.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's funny. Yeah, that's funny that you say the word brick.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like it was.

[Nate Bargettze]

I would never even think to well say that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And to me at that time, it was very noticeable that it was like, oh, that's a nice brick house. It's a brick.

[Aaron Weber]

The tornadoes are coming. You want a friend. Yeah, it's got a brick house.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

You would say, can I go to your upstairs during tornado? And he goes, I don't think you're supposed to go. It's better than where I'm at.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Upstairs of a brick house is better than main floor of what I'm in.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah. Main floor. That's the only floor.

[Brian Bates]

That's the only floor. Yeah, it is the floor.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. And it's. Yeah. I mean, you're scared in any kind of storm. In a tornado.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Except an earthquake. An earthquake's the one you're not worried about.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

You weren't around earthquakes girl.

[Dusty Sleigh]

No, no.

[Nate Bargettze]

When I was in Seattle a couple weeks ago, there was an earthquake at night. Slept right through it and I woke up and everybody was like, do you feel the earthquake? I was like, nah, I wish I had because I've never felt one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I had her. There was an earthquake when I was.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, I Fell out of bed about that time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. He just shook normal. I couldn't hear it over my sleep apnea Darth Vader mask. He goes, my bed already. Already shakes.

[Nate Bargettze]

The room's loud already.

[Brian Bates]

It just sounds like the vacuum's running. They walk by your room and they go, clean. Ladies getting after tonight, who's vacuuming at.

[Aaron Weber]

3 in the morning?

[Brian Bates]

It's 3. How long are they vacuuming? How much. How much carpet could there be in that room? I think there was an earthquake, they said. When me and Nick were at the. In LA for the Vanity Fair thing, someone. I got texts that were like, hey, did you feel that? And I didn't feel an earthquake. I think I've talked about it before. It's wild.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's the most uncontrollable feeling, I think maybe because, again, we're not used to it, but it's just. It's everywhere. Like a tornado or tornado or a hot or a hurricane. Like, you're like, all right, you can go somewhere. You can't if you're in it, obviously. But, like, you're. It's not everywhere. And when you're in an earthquake, it doesn't matter. Go, run. It doesn't stop.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I think having vertigo is like just an earthquake for you. It's a personal earthquake.

[Brian Bates]

That is true.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Like, you're like, oh, but nobody else is like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So if you've had vertigo.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

You might be ready for an earthquake.

[Brian Bates]

At least an earthquake. You're like. You're all going down with.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But vertigo, you're just.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Nobody can walk. They're all a little dizzy.

[Brian Bates]

That's very true.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I think it was wireless headphones that gave me vertigo. I stopped using them.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'm wired now. I'm all wired again. They say wireless headphones, if you wear them both, they communicate with each other through your brain.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Who's they?

[Aaron Weber]

That's always the question.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Now we know who they is.

[Brian Bates]

I like that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

In the 90s, who is they? Was a real question. We know who they is now. And that's, you know, they. As many people, but we know they are.

[Nate Bargettze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I do, but you know they are.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know more than you know, Aaron Rodgers does.

[Aaron Weber]

Still does the wires for that reason.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Sansa with a picture of him at the ocean with the blanket around him. No, no, really, I just saw something like that. Like, I guess because he still hasn't told people where he's always hiding out, where he's going. Where he's going.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, oh. Football wise.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I went from. I.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Let's go, Titans.

[Brian Bates]

I bet if I met Eric. Let's see that picture.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Like him just hanging Lowered expectations video.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he did that. I'm a shia. What's that thing they all do now.

[Aaron Weber]

Where they go in the dark and.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Ayahuasca.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's one that I'm like, you're hearing people talk about that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're like. And they just tell people to do it. Someone's got three kids.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Barely survivingly, check by check. Oh, do you want me to go on a magic ride? And you think that's going to fix everything? Yeah. Maybe I should give it a go. These lunatics.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That tell people to go do stuff. Makes me so mad. It's just like, what planet are you on? Do you not remember? I think about. All I think about is growing up where you're like, it's check by check, food by food.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Can you imagine when you're growing up and someone tells your parents, go, why don't you take a.

[Nate Bargettze]

Go in the woods and take peyote?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. For a month. What are you out of your mind?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, Yeah. I couldn't imagine my parents doing something like that. Growing up.

[Brian Bates]

You either had parents that were doing it or they weren't. They can't. Like, it was. Either way, it was bad. You're either like, no, that's all my parents do. And I live on my own.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But yeah, the audacity. I always think when you hear someone to say go do something like that is insane. Absolutely insane. And then they go and just talk about it as if we. Oh, if we all did it, we would be better.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Are you. What? I mean, do you not remember anything?

[Nate Bargettze]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Do they not remember, like, not being a pick your kids up? Like just the chaos?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I've had people do that, tell me they did it and then describe it to me and I'm like, oh, no, no. I never want to do that.

[Nate Bargettze]

I look God in the eyes.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. I don't think that was God. And that sounds terrifying.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, make sure you can do it. If you can go.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, sure.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody's got the time. Nate Land. Just a couple little Nate and lose. Nick Thune has a brand new half hour special. Born Young Nick's. He's the best. It premiered this weekend. It's very funny. Check it out on YouTube under Nateland Entertainment. It's a great, great special. And I know we got some people got Max. We. I Think he accidentally cursed in it, but it's out now. I will. We. But we did get. We did not catch it, and I don't think he realized he said it. We're not perfect here at Nateland. I'm telling you, we're going to fix it. We're going to fix everything. But I want to be upfront about the mistake. It's not, you know, it was just an, you know, we're not, you know, as Nateland. We're not. I'm not, we're not perfect. I'm not perfect. Brian's perfect. But the rest of us are not.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'm definitely not.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We're none of us. Huge. Yeah. Not perfect at all. So. But we're, you know, we're all going to get better. So there you go.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Nate Bargettze]

Characters in the trying.

[Brian Bates]

Also, there's a Nateland present show, Good Clean Funny at the Ryman in Nashville on April 8th. It is featuring Ryan Hamilton, Dustin Nickerson, Derek Stroop, Lacy Laraby, Mia Jackson, Paula Kozinski, and special host Aaron Webb.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, wow.

[Dusty Sleigh]

How about that?

[Brian Bates]

That's good.

[Nate Bargettze]

Rhyming Auditorium, big time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's a big one. Look, this is this kind of things. If you guys come support this kind of stuff, that's what Nayland's about.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And just so she doesn't get upset about her. Her name being mispronounced, it's just Lace Larrabee.

[Brian Bates]

Lace, Larry.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I said Lacey.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I, I, it's like shoelace. Yeah, I, I grew up with Lacy.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that's. I know. Lace. Yeah, I'm sorry, Lace. Lace Larry. But great show. And this is the type of stuff that we're going to be doing. It's stuff like, I'm not going to be at this stuff. And this is the stuff that helps, you know, drive everything that we're doing. So the more you guys support that kind of stuff, the better, I think, in the long run. First standup comedy for what we're trying to do here. So it's an amazing show. Ryan Hamilton's got. I mean, he's got a Netflix special. Dustin's Office got a special with us. Derek Stroop. Very funny. Lace Me. They were all on. They were all on.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's a podcast with us. Yeah, Dustin.

[Brian Bates]

Dustin Nickerson does our. Yes, he does the podcast. Don't maybe come back there every Thursday also. Greg Warren's the Consumer every Tuesday. But those are the two podcasts. But Dustin's there. And then Lace, me and Paula were all on the showcase Series. So. Yeah, make sure the Ryman's the best. It's. It's something that's very helpful to what we are trying to do.

[Nate Bargettze]

Are you worried the show is going to start off too hot? That's kind of the only thing I'm worried about.

[Brian Bates]

In that or with you. Oh, you're talking about like because the host will be hot because of his size. We have no.

[Dusty Sleigh]

The Ryman's big.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we are. We know. We read Aaron's web. We read his rider. He asked for a walk in cooler access. He doesn't. He's not a creeper crazy person. He doesn't ask for the walking.

[Nate Bargettze]

Just let me walk in the kitchen.

[Brian Bates]

What his writer says is, come on, I know you got one.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I need a stool on the stage and in the cooler.

[Brian Bates]

Do you have one? I need access. I need the key. I need the key to the walk in cooler.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So we do. We will have that for Aaron. But yes, it will start off hot.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You coming in, buddy with your. I mean, man, you fired up?

[Nate Bargettze]

I'm excited. Yeah, it's gonna be great.

[Brian Bates]

Got shorts on today, I hope I do.

[Nate Bargettze]

I'm going home right after this. I don't have to wear stage pants. It's pretty nice.

[Aaron Weber]

You would be just wore pants if.

[Brian Bates]

You'Re a guy on the news. I mean, you shorts all day, right?

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, I mean, maybe short. I mean.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Maybe. Like what would you. Otherwise, what would you.

[Nate Bargettze]

There's underwear.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Depending on who's next to me on the desk.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But you're. I want it to be weird, but you're. You're on Channel 5 in your anchor by yourself. Could he sit with just underwear? There would be someone. Would everybody have to leave?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I don't think that'd be appropriate.

[Brian Bates]

They wouldn't. Did they not do that in the 90s even? It wasn't appropriate.

[Aaron Weber]

Then wear your underwear.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just on stage.

[Brian Bates]

No suit and tie up. Suit and tie up top. Could they go shorts below? Yeah, shorts they would do. And they would do that occasionally.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I've seen it.

[Brian Bates]

But Aaron's doing it. But for Aaron, they would. You think he would do it?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think he would definitely do.

[Brian Bates]

It all year round. Probably wouldn't even. You don't think you would ever.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's probably the first time I've ever worn shorts on the podcast. I don't think I'll ever do it again.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It's the most of your legs I've ever seen.

[Nate Bargettze]

All right. Thank God.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's kind of chilly in this room.

[Nate Bargettze]

But it feels weird if you see more.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'm saying. Yeah, well, yeah, it would be, because these are pretty small, but I'm saying this is Smallest shorts I've ever seen you wear.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you want to stand up so everyone can see?

[Nate Bargettze]

I don't, actually. That's the whole point of this desk.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're hoping no one is going to say something.

[Nate Bargettze]

I'm wearing Crocs, too. I'm a mess.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man. I didn't know that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

You always work with socks.

[Brian Bates]

With socks. Yeah, but he always does that. He's been.

[Nate Bargettze]

But. But if I were doing the show after this, I'd wear shoes and pants because I don't want to disrespect us.

[Brian Bates]

So the day. The day. Fun story about when I. So when I met Fallon the first time, I think I've probably talked about it. When he came into the comedy club, the Stand came downstairs. Me, Giannis Papus, Chris Laker, we were ending a podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

N Land. Oh, no, no, it could be better.

[Brian Bates]

It could be better. Don't. I don't. Yeah, it was horribly run. It was 10 years ago.

[Dusty Sleigh]

The name was it could be Better.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And then it was horribly run.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that was the point of. I came up with a name. It could be better. Because I wanted anybody that listened to it, if they go, this should be better. I go, no, no, we agree.

[Dusty Sleigh]

We.

[Brian Bates]

We are calling it could be Better. We're starting out with. We know It Could Be better.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys wrote a sitcom for you called Nate Land. Yeah, that's what I was thinking about.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we did. We did that during that time as we're just learning how to do everything. And then. So we did all that. Anyway, so we get done with the podcast. Giannis shows up dressed like you. He has Crocs on shorts. Like, you know, clearly not. He was not going on stage. Me and Laker both dressed as if we were. I think we were going on. And then Fallon comes down. So then. And so Giannis was managed by the. The guys that ran that club. So then everybody's like, where. Everybody needs to go up because Fallon staying for the show. So then Giannis has to go up and he's in a situation just like this. Like, if Fallon came into this show tonight and, like, it's like, no, you get. You need to go up. It's like, I mean, how. What are you gonna do?

[Aaron Weber]

You'd be like, I've already done Fallon, guys.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but if someone. If someone comes in and they. Chuck Lorre walks in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, and goes, I'm looking to make a sitcom.

[Nate Bargettze]

You know, for years, I would just have a pair of jeans in my car for that very reason. Even. I would go to, like, a show where I go, I'm just gonna watch. In the back of your head, there's always, like, they're going to come out and go, we can't find an opening cup.

[Brian Bates]

Are you? Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

I want to always be able to. This is one of the rare times.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'd let you wear my pants.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. We could find someone's. You know, I think if a couple of us threw in some pants.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is there a seamstress here?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Would you bring this desk out and go. Your next comic will be.

[Nate Bargettze]

The podium or something.

[Brian Bates]

But you. If it was like, you got to go up, you just do it, right.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah. I think now I'd find a way to just. I'd make a comment.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very funny.

[Dusty Sleigh]

We love talking about our Helix mattresses.

[Nate Bargettze]

You do?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I have had my Helix mattress almost three years now. Can you believe that?

[Nate Bargettze]

It's been a good three years for you, too.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, it has been a good.

[Nate Bargettze]

A lot has to do with the mattress.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'm sure you sleep good.

[Aaron Weber]

Good night's rest.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Feel good. You do Good.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Look at this. Nate's parents just got one, and they love it. All right, so been a good three years for, you know, that Bargazzi family, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they just got it.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. Well, they love it, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Look how good that kind of offsets the whole point.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Well, I bet things are not going to start going bad.

[Nate Bargettze]

That's true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Things are already going good. They'll keep going.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, here's Nate's dad. Said it helps with his sleep apnea. So he's not snoring at all now. Got rid of his cpap. We all have a Helix mattress, and we all love it. It improves how I sleep. Everyone knows I love their pillows, especially you guys. I do love their pillows. Let me tell you this. We have a lot of pillows on our bed, and these are not decorative pillows. They're just a lot. We don't throw away pillows once we get new ones. We just keep putting pillowcases on them. And so they're stacked in a way that is not how I'm going to use them when I sleep.

[Nate Bargettze]

Of course.

[Dusty Sleigh]

So I have to throw the first one on the floor, then I have to put the second, and then I have to move the last one and then put the second one back down because that's the Helix pillow. That's the one I sleep on.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It's a good pillow and it has helped with my sleep. I'm getting better sleep. Aaron's getting better sleep.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Brian's getting better sleep. Look at these guys. My old mattress was one of those old springs, and I finally realized how bad that is for my sleep. I have a video on YouTube about my old mattress. Yeah, I mean, I don't say in there, but I had a mattress that was so bad, I took it in the middle of the night and threw it in a dumpster. And the mattress was able to fold over onto itself. That's how disgusting it was. I fell asleep eating a burrito on that mattress one time.

[Aaron Weber]

Good times.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Helix fixes that issue and so many more. It's great for hot sleepers, people with back pain, snores, sleep apnea. It's for everyone. Go to helix.com go to helixsleep.com Nate for their 20 off site wide for March Madness. That's helixsleep.com Nate for 20 off their their site wide for March madness. Sale ends on March 27th. Helix sleep.com Nate all right, well, we're back.

[Brian Bates]

Where were you guys at?

[Aaron Weber]

I was in Beverly, Massachusetts, just outside Boston at off Cabot comedy club Friday and Saturday.

[Brian Bates]

Keep those cities. No one's heard of a log.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Beverly, Massachusetts.

[Aaron Weber]

Somebody said my tour should be called the just outside of tour.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, just outside of. That's a good one, too.

[Dusty Sleigh]

That is a good tour.

[Brian Bates]

That is a good tour. Just outside of.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Anyway, great shows. A lot of Nateland folks came out, had a great time and, yeah, it was just a lot of fun.

[Brian Bates]

Flew there?

[Aaron Weber]

Yep, yep.

[Nate Bargettze]

Big time.

[Aaron Weber]

Flew home at 5am yesterday morning.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. What time did you. Where'd you fly to? Boston.

[Aaron Weber]

And, you know, hit dusty up, go get some coffee. But he blew me off.

[Brian Bates]

So you're in Boston, too?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yes. Well, I don't. By the time you got there, I had already ate and now I'm sitting back in my hotel and I'm like, I don't. I'm not into.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, I'll see Brian in two days.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. And I invited Brian out for cigars and he said no. So.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's true.

[Brian Bates]

Well, did you stay in Boston?

[Aaron Weber]

No. Beverly's like that cigar shop you sent me was like 36 minutes away.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It was pretty far from you.

[Nate Bargettze]

That's a hike after a show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

I'm not trying to drive.

[Brian Bates]

And again, you will see each other yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Here we are.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but I mean, I wanted to go to a coffee shop because I got berated all week from last week's episode because I criticized Dusty's top five Nashville coffee shops and all the Dusty heads came out and attacked me all week.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, well, got death threats. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I wanted to show people that look. So anyway, it was a big deal.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

I edited so that I feel like you look.

[Brian Bates]

You look like a big kid wearing that Vanderbilt T shirt.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like a big kid.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You just feel like you're. Your dad brought you to the Vandy game today. I don't know why. It's short sleeve, I think and I think that's why. Yeah, it's like it just. Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

You're typically a collared shirt guy.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, that is true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like Aaron now the shorts.

[Nate Bargettze]

I know.

[Aaron Weber]

A little inappropriate.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah. It's a little vulnerable.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm excited about Vanderbilt.

[Brian Bates]

I'm excited about Vanderbilt too. I. I am too. It looks like you're waiting in line to meet Will Perdue at this age. Yeah, yeah. Not. And I'm not talking about 1990. I'm talking about 2025.

[Aaron Weber]

He follow best.

[Brian Bates]

He's the best. He is. He's our. He's our. He's our goat. Well, Darius Garland might be our.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but he played what, four games?

[Brian Bates]

That's true. But he was there. That's right. Will Purdue played. So he would initially. He would be out more. He's got championship. But Darius Garland's. It is crazy how close we were to have a star Vanderbilt March Madness.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's exciting.

[Aaron Weber]

We're very excited.

[Brian Bates]

215, I think on Friday against St. Mary's wow. Can't wait. We can't wait.

[Aaron Weber]

But anyway. Excuse me. Last week Dusty gave us top five coffee shops in Nashville hot list. And I just question who would care about this. And the people let me know.

[Nate Bargettze]

Well, I, I did not do you any favors editing that clip because in reality, Dusty did his entire list. It took a long time. And then Brian was like, well, who's going to care about that?

[Dusty Sleigh]

It only took a long time. I made it look like a lot. I was getting a lot of negative feedback from you guys the whole time.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you had honorable mentions. He did his wife's top three coffee shops in Donaldson.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

So, I mean, it kept getting more and more specific.

[Dusty Sleigh]

We did seven coffee shops.

[Brian Bates]

I, I didn't even know. I couldn't name seven coffee shops.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Well, you know, we live in Nashville. I think we should really put some, you know, pride into putting our stuff.

[Brian Bates]

You can, off the top of your.

[Nate Bargettze]

Head, name seven work into this.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, I mean, I could name many more, I think, but.

[Aaron Weber]

And he did.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Dusty Sleigh]

But I put seven together and some for his wife. Well, one of the seven was for her.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Crema.

[Brian Bates]

How many do you go to?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Well, you know, over. You know, I go to a lot. You know, just depending on where I'm at. There's some good spots.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think if you were going around the country. These are my favorite coffee shops around the country.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, but Starbucks and Donuts drive through. Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

But I think that because we live here, we should give a shout out to some of our, you know, our local. Local.

[Brian Bates]

I agree. How I look to go take the dusty coffee shop tour.

[Dusty Sleigh]

That's what I'm saying.

[Aaron Weber]

Everyone said that. I just went on the record. I think his list was stupid and so is he. So.

[Brian Bates]

All right, let's move on.

[Nate Bargettze]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There was no coffee shops back in his day.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

He doesn't come from coffee shop soldiers.

[Dusty Sleigh]

They had to grow their own beans back then.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He goes, gets out of a can, he'd go, my mom's house, my mom's house. My mom's house.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's his three favorite coffee.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, you used to get that, remember getting that freeze dried, like block of coffee. We used to get that at the grocery. Like a Folgers. It was like freeze dried, just.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I remember that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think we ever had it.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Never heard of that.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron.

[Nate Bargettze]

Where was I?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where were you wearing shorts this weekend?

[Nate Bargettze]

I was, I was with Kathleen Madigan this weekend. Macon, Georgia. Charleston, South Carolina. Actually went to the, the coffee shop he recommended in Charleston. I went there.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Coffee. It's great recommendation.

[Nate Bargettze]

I was trashing the list too. And then I was like, I'm in Charleston. I'd like to find a piece.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, Kudu is a hot spot.

[Nate Bargettze]

Is a good spot.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It is a good spot.

[Nate Bargettze]

Broke my toe this week. That's the big news. Stubbed it real hard. It completely broke and it hurts and I can feel it right now. It's part of the reason I'm wearing Crocs because they hurt in tennis shoes right now.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow. There's nothing to do about a broken toe.

[Nate Bargettze]

There's nothing. My pinky toe. So they're like, they're like, yeah, he's got it.

[Aaron Weber]

How'd you do it?

[Nate Bargettze]

I stubbed it on.

[Brian Bates]

You stepped on it on your other foot.

[Aaron Weber]

Crushed it with your own weight.

[Brian Bates]

He crisscrossed. He goes doing crisscross. I was trying to do the break, then break dance.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah. You stepped on your own foot, huh?

[Brian Bates]

And it broke his own. He doesn't want to say it, but that's.

[Nate Bargettze]

No, I stubbed it on. Yeah. On some furniture at the hotel. Yeah. At the house.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah, you did break it.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, it's definitely broken. I'll show you a picture.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Having a lot of trouble.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's still bad. It's. Yeah, it hurts.

[Brian Bates]

You are going through it right now. Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's just one. You know, it's just not my. I think next year is going to be. Be great.

[Brian Bates]

This is a tough year, I think.

[Nate Bargettze]

I think.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

I'm buckling in for a tough year, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, ma'am, it is March 17th and you're already just like knock, you.

[Aaron Weber]

Know, but you've already been on Fallon. Your Special has over 300, 000 views.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But I think that now you broke your toe.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He's been out. It's over. That was it. It was too uploaded.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

The year was. That's true. I should have spread all that stuff out.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Started too hot.

[Brian Bates]

Started off too hot.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Too hot.

[Brian Bates]

And so now you're.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Now what do you do?

[Nate Bargettze]

There's nowhere to go but down. You keep breaking bones.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Going to the hospital.

[Brian Bates]

You got to just get through the year. This is into the next year.

[Dusty Sleigh]

We're man 2026 next January, February, March is going to be hot.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's going to be great. Next year.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How's your year going?

[Brian Bates]

How's your year going? Yeah. Yeah. That answer right now. How's your year going? Great.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's going great. It's starting to go bad, but it's going.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Asking two months.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. You got sick in a hotel and now you're breaking your toes.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah. But shows were good. Kathleen's the best.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

And I'm. It's just so far. I'm in Boston this weekend and you.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Were at the Charles Music hall, which is, you know, my friend Charles Carmody is the director there. Great place.

[Nate Bargettze]

Great spot. Great.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Charleston Music Hall. Used to let me do shows there. It's a 900 seat venue. They used to let me do shows there when I was selling 50 tickets.

[Nate Bargettze]

Wow.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And it's fun.

[Brian Bates]

And you agreed to that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, well, he was.

[Nate Bargettze]

The.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Charles was my friend. He was like. Yeah, we're just the, the, the, the. The.

[Brian Bates]

I would think you'd go for a smaller. Like. I would.

[Dusty Sleigh]

No. When there's no yeah when you, like.

[Brian Bates]

First off, stadium will let me do yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I mean, it doesn't mean when.

[Dusty Sleigh]

You don't know anything about comedy. When you don't know anything about anything, and then there's no comedy club in your town.

[Nate Bargettze]

That's true.

[Dusty Sleigh]

He's like, you want to do the music hall? I'm like, yeah, that sounds great. Let's do it.

[Nate Bargettze]

So I would have done it too.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, of course.

[Aaron Weber]

But anyway, I did it with Nate.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, it's great. It's a great spot.

[Brian Bates]

You know?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Guys know Charles.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Nice guy. But I'm gonna be in Boston this weekend, pick up where you two guys left off. Real takeover Boston.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

This month.

[Aaron Weber]

By the way, the kudu coffee shop you said was a goat.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Well, I said it's goat like. Or deer like.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, apparently it's its own thing.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. Yeah. People are like, I bet kudu's a kudu. And it's like, yeah, sure. I mean, but it's deer.

[Nate Bargettze]

Like, what is a kudu?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I've never heard of deer.

[Nate Bargettze]

Antelope.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, it's a deer.

[Nate Bargettze]

Like, it's an African antelope.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. I mean, come on, guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Kudu is a kudu.

[Nate Bargettze]

I had never heard of this animal.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, me either.

[Brian Bates]

I think I've seen it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Just out and about on stuff. Okay.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I mean, those horns are real demonic looking, you know, so you gotta know it's.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, that's an awesome looking animal.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, sure is.

[Brian Bates]

Like, that's. It is. That's a cool animal.

[Aaron Weber]

If it's real.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. You make some kind of shofar out of those horns, you know?

[Aaron Weber]

What's that?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Blow the shofar. It's like a. It's like a, you know, religious. You know, like you do. You blow in that. You do blow the shofar for religious holidays.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Are you into that?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

First, and I read it says conservation status. I think I read it as con. Conservative. I go, oh, it's Republican. They just know the animals. They go, all right, it looks like that, but they got a stance like that.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You go, I could see that. Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

This is the least concern. So they're. They're not endangered at all.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow. Oh, they give it a. Yeah, they get what's nt mean? Not time.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Endangered.

[Nate Bargettze]

Not that.

[Brian Bates]

Not that the least concern is nt. Oh, ex is extinct. So is nt. No trouble.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Vu is very, very unstable, underwhelming, vulnerable.

[Nate Bargettze]

Ew. Extinct in the wild. That's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Animals that are just in zoos oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

Critically. Some of those endangered.

[Dusty Sleigh]

We got them all locked up. Let them out.

[Brian Bates]

Let them out.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. Anyway, coffee spot. One time they got mad at me because they serve beer there, and my buddy was taking too long to drink his beer, so I was like, let's go, dude. And so I went and got him a to go cup. And then they knew what we were doing, and then they came out and.

[Brian Bates]

Yelled at me at the coffee place.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I was like, okay, guys, whatever.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, whatever. You go.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. But I was in Boston this weekend. I. Did I forget the name of the theater, but it was a nice theater.

[Aaron Weber]

Schubert.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Schubert, yes. Very nice. Fun show. Great show. I did about an hour and 10 minutes there at that show, and then the next night I went to Toronto, Canada. Hour 21 minutes. I think a new personal record.

[Brian Bates]

I think we got. We all. We got it on the thread. No, like, no context to it. I mean, it's. It would really, honestly be only people that listen to this podcast and us four, if we were all on a text thread, we would only be the only ones that would know what that meant.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, man, I was pumped.

[Brian Bates]

But we got it. We got it. Then got one from Bates. Very good.

[Aaron Weber]

Mine was a joke. Yeah. As soon as I saw that, I thought, I'm starting my clock. Oh, I had to wait 43 minutes to do the joke.

[Brian Bates]

But you should. 39 would have been funny.

[Aaron Weber]

I was trying to think, what. How far should I go to make it seem realistic?

[Nate Bargettze]

That was the most realistic. 43 is. The 43 was.

[Brian Bates]

I thought it was real.

[Nate Bargettze]

Where you go, like, I have to do 45. But yeah, it's a slog.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I do an hour.

[Brian Bates]

39 is. It would be the funniest joke, I think, because it's. You couldn't even get, like, it shouldn't even feature. Yeah. Yeah. It's like an. It's like the feature. Could argue that he should have kept going to 39. Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

But they were both great shows in Toronto, my buddy Derek Humphrey opened for me. And in Toronto, my wife came because she lived in Toronto for a long time. And then about 15 of her family members.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, man.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Came and. And then she did the announcement. She brought Derek on stage from off stage.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, that's fun.

[Dusty Sleigh]

She used to do comedy, so for her to do a little thing like that was pretty exciting.

[Nate Bargettze]

Is that the first step she's going to be opening?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I don't think she wants to do it, but it was exciting and fun and it's a great show.

[Aaron Weber]

I was thinking for the Nateland Cruise, Lachlan Patterson, Graham K. Hannah. Do a oh Canada show. How about that?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Brian's already booking the cruise.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I got a lot more ideas.

[Aaron Weber]

That's just one that came to mind.

[Brian Bates]

There's your, your cruise director.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Brian Bates.

[Aaron Weber]

I've got some more ideas, but that's all I'll share right now.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, but it was great. Boston's great, Toronto's great. It was awesome. Had sushi in both places. It was delicious.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I loved it. I. We were on spring break where it was last week. I went skiing. I've never skied before. It was good. No, I never got. I mean I was like fine. I never got down a big. I never left like the bunny slope, bunny mountain.

[Nate Bargettze]

Are there people snowboarding on the same.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Now why did you go? You strike me as more of a snowboard.

[Brian Bates]

I, I've said I want to go snowboarding and everybody says it's much harder to really snowboard than is to ski. And so that you get kind of talked into it. Harper, I mean, picked it up. She was gone. They. She skied a ton. I really enjoyed it. It was nice to. When you're up there because you're having to like focus so much on what you're doing. So it felt like a break. Yeah. Because your mind just is like, you know, you're trying to stay up and fell down a few times and you fall down, you're just helpless. You just go, just flip over.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But it was like perfect. We were in Colorado and it was like where it's like hot, you know, it's like 40 degrees or 39 degrees but it's, it's like almost hot. Like you feel you could ski and. Have you ever skied?

[Nate Bargettze]

No, never have.

[Aaron Weber]

One time really like when I was 25.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, where at?

[Nate Bargettze]

How'd it go?

[Brian Bates]

Japan or something. You always have some weird. Didn't you go to Japan?

[Aaron Weber]

I did go to Japan, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Some weird.

[Nate Bargettze]

I can't think.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

What'd you do in Japan?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargettze]

He had just, just a vacation.

[Aaron Weber]

Visited a friend of mine who was there teaching English.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The second language. Got a weird. He had a, about a two year window of his life where he was out there. He's went to some places.

[Aaron Weber]

I've been to Australia.

[Brian Bates]

Oh yeah? Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

I've heard. Yeah, you have a bit about that.

[Brian Bates]

Italy. Nettles.

[Nate Bargettze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then said that's why it just.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Drives everywhere now because he's like, I've seen it.

[Brian Bates]

He's seen the world, guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Come on. I'm happy for you guys.

[Brian Bates]

He doesn't fly because he's like, I don't eat this. So much smoke on a plane.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No, it was like Cherokee, North Carolina or something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Smoky Mountains.

[Brian Bates]

How'd you do?

[Aaron Weber]

I couldn't get on the ski lift.

[Brian Bates]

It is tough.

[Aaron Weber]

I kept.

[Nate Bargettze]

What's tough about it?

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, imbalance.

[Brian Bates]

You got it. It's hard to.

[Nate Bargettze]

So it comes up from behind you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. But you just. You just sit down as it.

[Nate Bargettze]

It almost like tabletops you.

[Brian Bates]

If you put a bag of sand there, I think it'd pick it up.

[Aaron Weber]

You just said it was hard.

[Brian Bates]

It's. You stand there, it knocks your feet out from under you. You're sitting down.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that was my hardest part. I had to walk up the hill each time to go back down.

[Brian Bates]

Dude. I tried walking up with skis on or. It's crazy. It was. It was very. Yeah, skiing was very funny. Tell me this is it. I don't. This. This might be. Might rub people the wrong way. I wonder. But guys from the south that have never skied. Is there. Do you think people from the south skiing Southern people. Does it feel kind of high end to you?

[Nate Bargettze]

Of course.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Like, so when you. There's something to it that. Because even when I was there, I could feel myself being, like, annoyed at the people that said they grew up skiing.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, yes. It's the most pretentious vacation activity you can do.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel that way about golf.

[Brian Bates]

I. I think I've gotten better. I mean, obviously, I play so much golf. I do, too. There's so many courses that are just nothing, dude. I mean, it's a goat track.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It's. Probably ski like that too, huh?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I bet there's. So, you know, if someone's from the north. I don't. I don't think that at all. I would never think they go. We grew up skiing. I'd be like, I figured they did because they're just snow up there. But if you're from the south and you grew up, you're like, yeah, we used to always go skiing on vacation. I mean, I'm borderline. We didn't really do vacation.

[Nate Bargettze]

We didn't even take a trip far enough to get the snow ever.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

So like, just the trip in and of itself.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

You went to Colorado.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Trips were always to the beach. Always to the beach or Gatlinburg. That was all of my vacations.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

I don't even remember if we went to the beach. We just didn't do trips.

[Aaron Weber]

We did Gatlinburg, Chattanooga.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah. Panama City Beach.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And Dolphin Island. Well, here one time.

[Brian Bates]

Pretty fancy.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We know where y'all spent your money. Not at the home.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Where'd your dad meet us?

[Brian Bates]

Y'all were one. Y'all had nice cars. Yeah, Nice cars. Went on good trips.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. But slept in a. Yeah, Slept in a trailer. Yeah. Let's spend it on, you know, having a good time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a good philosophy.

[Brian Bates]

Having a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Daylight savings time just happened. It's the perfect time to optimize your morning routine now that more sunlight is greeting you throughout the day. It's actually darker in the mornings now, but more daylight later in the day.

[Nate Bargettze]

So I get more done in the dark anyway.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there you go.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It's like sun. No sun. Don't focus on it. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Even if there is no sun, it's hard to get going sometimes in the morning. But if you have AG1, that's the perfect thing. You need to kind of get your.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Energy going if the sun's not going to help you. At least the AG One.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly. Dusty loves coffee, but I love Ag one in the mornings. I think we can all agree that we're happy it's back and we have longer days again. Oh, that's still about the sun. But we also all agree on how AG1 helps us shake off any lingering grogginess.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It helps us fully embrace those brighter mornings again. It's darker now in the mornings, but anyway, six months ago, switch it to afternoon. This would have been great. Taking it every morning just sets the tone for a good day. I know I'll be more productive and overall more energized throughout the day. We're proud to call AG1 our sponsor of this podcast. It's been with us since the beginning, guys.

[Nate Bargettze]

I call him a friend at this point.

[Aaron Weber]

It's been with us longer than Dusty.

[Nate Bargettze]

That's true.

[Brian Bates]

That is true.

[Aaron Weber]

I think most people are happy about that.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Unlike other supplements that makes big claims without the research, AG1 is formulated based on the latest science, nutrition, and wellness. Abby, who's talking about how her nutritionist said it's the. It's the one to go with.

[Dusty Sleigh]

They did say that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep. That's why we've been partnering with AG1 for so long. And AG1 is offering new subscribers a free $76 gift when you sign up wow.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Very specific.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

All right, start with you guys. Comments. Anthony, cheese them chesam. You don't think it's cheese?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I think. Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Pro tip on episode. Nate isn't on Listening to your car with ways on. And voila. Nate is now on the episode. Look at that.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I guess it jumps in. It cuts in.

[Nate Bargettze]

It'll cut you off.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty funny. Wow. Good to know.

[Nate Bargettze]

It'd be like a real episode. We're having fun and then Nate just jumps in with something.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot of people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Not fun. Bring me to a halt.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Jacob Wilson Dusty is the voice of reason and is held back by Briskin.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, jeez.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I will not stand for the slander that occurs on Reddit or other places. Let the man tell the truth.

[Dusty Sleigh]

This guy gets it. And it's also not the first time that briskets held me back. You know.

[Brian Bates]

I can't go get stuff like that anywhere else. Shelly Young. A year ago, I visited. I visited Nashville. I would have liked to have known the top five coffee shops. However, my bucket list item was to eat at a Waffle House. We don't have them in California and they often make the news. For various strange reasons, I didn't experience anything out of the ordinary. Ordinary. But my question is, my question is, have any of you ever had a weird experience? Weird experience At a Waffle House.

[Nate Bargettze]

At a Waffle House this weekend?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

At like noon.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think you had to set it.

[Aaron Weber]

Just assumed.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. They go, breaking news.

[Aaron Weber]

Tell us when you didn't.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, I become a big Waffle House during the day. I like it in there. Yeah, it's a totally different place during the day. Yeah, it's nice. There's usually like the 40 year vet waitress, you know, and she's winding down in her life and her career and she's, you know, just a good energy in there. You go late at night, it's like. Yeah, it's like.

[Brian Bates]

It's a zoo.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's a zoo.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I got kicked out of a Waffle House before I.

[Aaron Weber]

Here we go.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I went with my buddy. We both were pretty drunk. We'd gone to the bar and then we got into a fight with each other in the Waffle House. This Was before Uber. He called a cab to come get him. And then I'm just sitting there now, waiting on my food.

[Nate Bargettze]

You got the bar and a table at a table.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And then the lady was like, oh, you have to leave. And I was like, well, I'm waiting on my food and then this every night. And then they brought it to me in a to go box. And then they let me go get in my car and drive home. They just made me leave rather than letting me eat a little food. My friend was gone. The argument was over. He was being irrational, and I had to yell at him, and he left.

[Aaron Weber]

Was this in Charleston? Yeah, I went to Waffle House in Charleston, and they said, we're closing at midnight. And then after that, you have to order at a window.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh. So, yeah, Waffle House is not the same. This lady went a year ago. Waffle House has changed, you know, Some good, some bad. But it's. It used to be a real wild place.

[Brian Bates]

It's like the show Cops.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you wanted to go revisit that.

[Aaron Weber]

You have a joke about taking a friend to Waffle House.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, I used to go there a lot during the day when I sold pesticides. I've also been kicked out of a Huddle House, too, so. Which is like a Waffle House. Yeah, I've been kicked out of a lot of places.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, I went to a Waffle House in Charleston, actually, a couple, two, three years ago. Late night there is high school prom or homecoming. Oh, yeah, that went there. It's like 15 kids, they move tables together. Not a single one of them tipped.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. You gotta hate that.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, the server let me know about it. Yeah, man. When they left.

[Brian Bates]

That's frustrating. But that. It's one of those.

[Aaron Weber]

How do you push tables together at a Waffle House?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Aaron's a big tipper, though. I don't know.

[Nate Bargettze]

Push table. They just kind of like, we're a group.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I bet Aaron made up for it. Aaron's a great tipper. I'm not. And I'm not asking you to say yes or no, but I bet he made it.

[Nate Bargettze]

I did. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but that's like one of those tough. You know, I always like, kind of. You're like. It's like a kid doesn't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, you hope that you should teach them and let them know. And it's like they go there and I mean, you know, it's like you just think sometimes you're so young and you're like, I don't even understand the Concept.

[Nate Bargettze]

They haven't had a job yet, so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Like. But, you know, there's also. There's gonna be the varies that they do know and they're being mean and stuff. And there's the various that they don't know. And I, I remember getting both of those when I waited tables. You'd get, you know, I had someone give me a dollar once. They came over and gave me a dollar. That's how they go. You were great. And here's a dollar. And so it's like, I'm not gonna get mad at that person.

[Aaron Weber]

My parents go to tip a dollar.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I've waited tables at Western Sizzling. I mean, and you get sometimes change. Yeah. And. And I don't think people are trying to insult you.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Some. Some are. Some are.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Some are cheap. And then some are generally. Maybe they don't know. And you gotta just. That's what I always thought when you're waiting tables, you're like, yeah, I mean, I hope not to be here. Like, if you're taking it that serious, then it's like, well, then move up in the world of rain. Like, go get to fine dining.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where you're, you know, it's.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Aaron is a great tipper, by the way. You go to eat. Every time I go to eat with Aaron, I have to look at his receipt to see what he tipped just to make sure he's not making me look bad here. It costs a lot of money to eat if you don't want to look bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Y'all ask for separate checks.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Or do you give the credit card and go split it down the middle?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Now I go.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you looking at the percentage?

[Dusty Sleigh]

You know, I didn't eat that much.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. There you go. I'm not paying for your appetizer.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Are you looking at the percentage or the actual number? Because the actual number is going to be higher.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. Yes.

[Nate Bargettze]

Lower percentage, but five times as much.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Because those were his two appetizers.

[Nate Bargettze]

An appetizer at Waffle House is crazy. Bring me out a waffle to get started.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I'll take.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Get some hash browns to split.

[Brian Bates]

I would take three cups of butter. And then let us look at the menu.

[Nate Bargettze]

Let's get some toast for the table first. Yeah. Appreciate that, man.

[Brian Bates]

Travis Duff. This is my formal petition. My formal. This is my formal petition to call the Nateland Comments Folk tales.

[Aaron Weber]

Last week, our subject was folktales.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's a good.

[Brian Bates]

Folktales.

[Nate Bargettze]

I don't know if it'll catch you On.

[Brian Bates]

But we're gonna read the folk tales.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. Draw it up.

[Brian Bates]

Travis will sign it change.org Brian Blue. Dusty said he wanted to talk to his HOA about making everyone in his community plant fruit trees. That makes me think Dusty will consider Tom Brown a folk hero. He has spent 25 years researching and rescuing lost apple varieties. He has found and rescued 1200 varieties of apples. He interviewed people. He interviews people in rural parts of Appalachia to find defunct orcs. Orchards. Orchards. To find defunct orchards. This is a long. This was too long of a thing. That's not fair. Orchards to look for apple varieties. I'm not expected to ever read that long.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'm into that. Yeah. I mean, I think Tom Brown seems great. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I. I don't. I don't know if I said make, but maybe I did. But I just think that instead of just so, like, we have so many of these plum trees, these ornamental. What is it? Pear trees. These ornamental pears. There's not. There's not a real fruit on them. Everybody has them. It's like, why do we not have real fruit trees out here? I just don't understand why all of our neighborhoods are not filled with fruit trees that we can just go and pick fruit off of. I don't understand why we're not doing that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Like a neighborhood. You just go like, hey, hey, guys, let's plant apple trees, and we all eat our own.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe it's like you're just like, what if someone gets sick from that? You know, it's like it all ends up becoming insurance law. Like, that's what everything becomes. Because you always hear that the liability, the blah, blah, blah, all this kind of stuff where you're like, yeah, if you want apple trees, it's like, we'll just plant them in your. Your yard.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, but if we all did it, then every. There would be this abundance of fruit that we could all just exchange with each other. And everybody, instead of going to the store and spending, you know, 20 bucks on fruit, you just have.

[Nate Bargettze]

It is a lot of work to maintain a fruit tree or they just take care of themselves.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I mean, I think you probably got to prune them, but why don't you.

[Brian Bates]

Just do it for.

[Dusty Sleigh]

There's pruning? Well, I do do it for me, but I'm saying there's. There's pruning being done already saying, like.

[Nate Bargettze]

If there's a median in the neighborhood, throw some fruit trees on there. Why not? And then we got fruit for the whole neighborhood.

[Brian Bates]

Then what are you going to say? Everybody, you're allowed two apples a month.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Well, that's why I'm saying just every neighborhood, every yard, have one fruit tree.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And then you got your own fruit. But if you want to trade with some other people, you can.

[Brian Bates]

You want to live on a, in a comm.

[Aaron Weber]

I told him last week, he's like, Kramer. He's like Kramer. He has great ideas that are a little out there, but.

[Brian Bates]

I know, but I think everyone should.

[Aaron Weber]

Wear a name tag.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but it's like everybody.

[Dusty Sleigh]

No, no, I don't like that.

[Brian Bates]

I think people are just like working and living life, man. And I think it'd be a lot to have.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Well, that's why. Yeah, I mean, it's just like. All I'm saying is instead of the other trees that we already have, have fruit trees.

[Brian Bates]

But I don't cut down all the.

[Nate Bargettze]

Trees that we have right now in la.

[Brian Bates]

They have.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I would say my, my dad, I would say you. They do say you need to prune them. My dad has a pear tree. My dad's never pruned it. His dad planted it. His dad died in 1966.

[Nate Bargettze]

Still kicking out.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Still. It puts out so many pears that it breaks the limbs of the tree. It has so many pears.

[Nate Bargettze]

And one of them is going to fall and break a windshield and you'll get sued. You know what I mean?

[Dusty Sleigh]

But it'll be a pair. Your pear tree. So there's no one to sue. It's your pear tree.

[Aaron Weber]

When you run for mayor, McMinnville, that should be your platform.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You're gonna have to build your own city and get like minded people to move there. And then they all drink juice and you know, there you go. I mean, like, I think we've seen how we're talking about starts with. It all starts with why can't we have some fruit trees for our community? And then you end up watching a NETFLIX documentary about it and you go.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Huh, well, this is what I'm going to do. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

This slay.

[Dusty Sleigh]

This is the, this is the future.

[Brian Bates]

Bestie would look like someone today is.

[Nate Bargettze]

Admit for sure that either that linen shirt that you wear, you look like you're about. Look like you're about to talk about stuff.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah. Little man Bun going on and you.

[Brian Bates]

Got to see what people. He was nice. You could start. You could start something.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, I will.

[Brian Bates]

A comedian could easily be a cult.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because they're just so. We already know how to talk and like and then so you just kind of get some people into your vibes.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then that's what we're talking about.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. I mean, that's secretly what I've always wanted.

[Brian Bates]

I wish the best of luck to you.

[Dusty Sleigh]

The comedy thing just happened. I don't know how this happened.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

But, yeah, I've had other plans.

[Brian Bates]

Austin Meek. Austin Mike. Mike. Austin Meek. On February 24, I nearly died in a motorcycle accident. Motorcycle what? Sorry. Sorry. Austin, this is serious. On February 24, I nearly died in a motorcycle accident and spent a week in the icu. One of the first things I did when I had the energy was catch up on Nateland. There's something comforting about getting to spend a couple hours with y'all. Keep doing what you're doing. It's truly a blessing to the folks. We have tickets to see Dusty March 22nd in San Antonio. And my goal is to be held up enough to make the show.

[Nate Bargettze]

Wow.

[Dusty Sleigh]

All right, Austin, two shows this weekend.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

March 21st in Beaumont. March 22nd, San Antonio. It's going to be hot.

[Brian Bates]

Go out to that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'm glad that you survived, Austin.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah. You know, it's interesting. I just noticed.

[Brian Bates]

Take a car to the.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah. Bus. Say icu.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

But when it's nobody. Like, the NICU is the nicu, but nobody calls ICU the icky. Have you ever heard it called the icky?

[Brian Bates]

It's a good question.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's the icu.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'll be honest with you. I never heard it called the NICU until this year.

[Nate Bargettze]

What? What did you just.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Nicu.

[Brian Bates]

I've never heard that. I think I've heard nicu.

[Dusty Sleigh]

See, I'm not saying I'm right, but I'm just saying I don't think I've ever heard NICU until this year.

[Brian Bates]

Is it because your communities don't believe in medicine?

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe not formal medicine?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Traditional medicine.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Because you're. Because you only read it on protest posters that say nicu.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. It's all the. It's all hospital, right? They're in the hospital.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty Sleigh]

We don't get specific about what part.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Austin, heal up quick, buddy. Man.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, heal up quick.

[Brian Bates]

Go see Dusty and then go see Dusty.

[Nate Bargettze]

Be a hot show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

San Antonio is a underrated.

[Brian Bates]

You think you're gonna give him a heads up if you could do an hour 20? He's got a bad leg.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Well, I probably will. I'm trying. I gotta write new joke. I recorded a special. Now I gotta write new jokes.

[Brian Bates]

So sitting.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Get a little I mean, I wear 20. Could just be the beginning. I mean, on. In Boston, I did my old hat joke. Somebody yelled out, is your hair real? And I did my old hat joke and it felt good. That joke went so well. I was like, ah, that's the best joke I ever wrote. And I. And I even said, I'll never write a better joke.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you encourage people to yell out?

[Dusty Sleigh]

No, but they do.

[Brian Bates]

Just happens.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I don't really discourage it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What happens happens.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That'S great. Russell Young, the Vandy women's basketball coach, is our cousin and we go. We go to almost all the games. Can we get a little Vandy women's basketball love for the nationally ranked team and their superstar, freshman Michaela Blake's. I know. Makayla scored 50 points twice. Twice. I knew that. And they're. The women's team is doing great.

[Aaron Weber]

I think we're.

[Brian Bates]

I knew that. I was keeping an eye on them. I know. I don't think. Because I don't think they were ranked. But then we beat somebody. She had 53 or something.

[Aaron Weber]

53 against Florida. And then I think she had 55 against somebody else.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, she'd been killing it, dude. Like.

[Dusty Sleigh]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Fanny Women is the number seven seed in the tournament.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. There we go. Who we got first?

[Aaron Weber]

Oregon.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Something on the right there.

[Nate Bargettze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we got that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Okay. Then we got Duke women's basketball all the way.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's good. We've had a rough go with Vandy's women's basketball for a little bit, and so it's nice to see. And we got a star. 50 points, man.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And that's crazy.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Let's see. Michaela Blex.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, she's great. I mean, it's really. I don't. I guess if people scored 50 points, was she the first one to. I'm sure she's not. I think she's a freshman.

[Aaron Weber]

Freshman scoring record.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

That's nuts.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It was on 50.5, 55.5 barrage.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's crazy.

[Nate Bargettze]

That's crazy.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Is that a record?

[Brian Bates]

It should be in the rare. Instead records broken one year of the same player. Oh, no. Yes.

[Nate Bargettze]

She had a record at 53 earlier this season. 53 points. And then she broke her own record. 55.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. SEC freshman. Freshman single game scoring record.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Amazing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. She's the real deal, man. It's very, very fun. Yeah. Oh. It's the most points scored by a freshman in NCAA history, which it was 54. Now it's 55.

[Dusty Sleigh]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

And it's at 55.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's almost the most the whole team's ever scored in a game, too.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, there's no reason for that.

[Nate Bargettze]

I didn't.

[Brian Bates]

Well, what?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I think that game was overtime, so.

[Nate Bargettze]

Sorry. That's a joke.

[Brian Bates]

Well, why do y'all. The bear of bad news. That's how I know.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm just doing it for that reason.

[Brian Bates]

No, that's. She killed it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Laura Lee Parker Morton.

[Dusty Sleigh]

A lot of names. Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Laura Lee Parker Morton. I found a portrait of Nate at her local antique store.

[Dusty Sleigh]

That's you in the future. That is time traveling Nate.

[Aaron Weber]

How far?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, tomorrow, four or five.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, I mean, it looks like a guy started to paint Nate and then just got. He was over it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

He goes, I'm not finishing this dude.

[Brian Bates]

It was like he already had a picture of his grandfather and he was like. He's like. He reminded us of Nate. So he goes, all right, well, I'll just kind of go from there.

[Dusty Sleigh]

You ever feel like you see, like, prototypes of people? I feel like I saw like a Nate prototype at the airport yesterday. But it was like a guy that looked like you, but things had not gone as well, you know, he looked like. He was like an aggressive kind of guy. And it just. I don't know, I feel like you see these prototypes, There's a few Aaron prototypes out there. Like, a Luke Combs is a bit of an Aaron prototype.

[Aaron Weber]

The football player that Kate, was it Cade Maze.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, that dude. I got t. I mean, I don't know if I've been tagged in anything more often. What was that dude on the. On the Panthers? Yeah, we signed a con. Yeah, this dude.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah. That is you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the one down there below it, right there.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, this. This is the one, bro.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's a good looking guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Looks like Red Pitt.

[Brian Bates]

He's a good looking guy. Football. Hey, first, anything wrong being compared to professional football?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I feel like one of those many, many JD Vance memes was of this guy, too.

[Nate Bargettze]

Those were everywhere.

[Brian Bates]

Ben. Cal. Hold on. Ben Calvert. Idaho wasn't the only state to come up with the crazy ways to deal with the problem with problem beavers. In the 1970s, wildlife officials in Huntsville released 50 alligators in the Tennessee river to stop beavers from damming up. They didn't think the alligators would survive our winners, but they did. And now people are running into them a little more often. That's crazy. Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

When this.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Huntsville, Alabama. Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron. When?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

The episode after the Idaho episode. Someone wrote in and said that beavers in Idaho were. Were causing damage, so they. They put them on a plane and parachuted them into another part of Idaho.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So this guy's just letting you know.

[Nate Bargettze]

That's crazy.

[Dusty Sleigh]

That was a huge alligator, by the way, on that video. And I like that it just passed by that bird. It's not even worried about that. You see that little bird?

[Nate Bargettze]

He's just trying to get in the shade.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Trying to easy start anything.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's crazy. You guys have alligators down in southern Alabama?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'm sure. I never was really that far down.

[Nate Bargettze]

I was never. You never, like, are thinking about it? Like, I might run into an alligator today.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

More snakes.

[Nate Bargettze]

Snakes was a big one. Yeah, Snakes. Fire ants.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, fire ants for sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Sorry, I just thought of a joke. Yeah. Getting into something. No, I'll. You know what? If y'all can remember to remind me if I get it. What's the deal with special? I'll let you know what I ended up. What part of wrote down.

[Nate Bargettze]

Okay.

[Dusty Sleigh]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

At some point, I mean, it'll about to be the specials out and stuff, but it. It's a little added in something. An added end part and little piece. A little piece of. You can do this into this and. All right. Thanks for carrying the weight, you guys. While I was running down that podcast, boom. Came to a halt. I was even kind of like.

[Nate Bargettze]

I mean, we were waiting with bated breath to hear.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. I mean, we really milked that alligator thing. Yeah. Now we're like, all right, let's see what Bethany Raymond has to say.

[Brian Bates]

Bethany Raymond. I was a weight guesser at Cedar Point Amusement park in the mid-90s. Oh, man, the hazards are real. My co workers had a guest come back later in the day and punch her because she had guessed him too old. He must have stewed over it all day to make a point to come back. Guessing is really about volume and not accuracy. Yeah, that's tough, dude. I mean, that's.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I mean, wait, so there was a weight guesser and an age guesser. I guess he's like, you guess me too old? It's like, I guess your weight, sir. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, I think in the 90s, there was just more money to go around.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, we were just gas.

[Brian Bates]

We were doing good stuff. No, but I think you had to do it all. But I could see that you could make someone. I mean, it would be, you know, and they they put. You put a kid in there that doesn't think about. They're not thinking about. Don't ask a woman's weight or ask a man's eight. Like you don't have any of these kind of.

[Dusty Sleigh]

There was an old Bill Engel joke where he's talking about going to a fair and I forget exactly how it started, but he's like, he goes, the weight guessing guy said, no, you don't want me yelling that number out.

[Nate Bargettze]

Every now and then, a television show comes along where you feel like you have to watch it. Feel like all week people are talking about it. And I have fomo, dude. I don't want to be the one gu who hasn't seen it. So what I've done over the years is I sign up for all these streaming services just for one show, and then I forget about it. And then I'm paying hundreds, thousands of dollars over the years.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Keeping up with the Joneses.

[Nate Bargettze]

Exactly. I mean, not anymore with Rocket Money. Rocket Money was a game changer for me. Rocket Money, as you know, is a personal finance app that helps you find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps you lower your bills so you can grow your savings. Yeah, it'll. It'll crawl through your accounts, let you know what you've been paying for, a lot of stuff you've forgotten about, a lot of stuff they try to sneak by you. Rocket Money goes in there and they'll even help you cancel it. If you don't want to call these companies. They go, we'll call on your behalf. We'll get it done. They have over 5 million users and have saved a total of 500 million in canceled subscriptions.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Wow.

[Nate Bargettze]

Saving members up to $740 a year when using all of the app's premium features. It's so easy to use. You make money using it. It's a no brainer, man. Rocket Money. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to RocketMoney.com Nate today. That's RocketMoney.com Nate one more time for the people in the back. RocketMoney.com Nate Drew Pritchett.

[Brian Bates]

So Brian, Aaron and Dusty have come to Comedy Off Broadway and killed it. I'm a door guy here. What are the chances we could get Nate to do a weekend in the future?

[Nate Bargettze]

Well, Drew, pretty low.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen Nate's new hour and I would say 2026.

[Brian Bates]

2026.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Thank you, Drew.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I've been to Comedy Off Broadway many times. Drew, you Might. I think you just weren't there. And I'm sorry about that, but. Yeah, I've been there a bunch. It's a great, great place.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Really great.

[Brian Bates]

No, maybe one day we will.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he'll be back.

[Brian Bates]

We'll be back. Kyle Sarno wondering if you guys can discuss how and when each of you guys met and how you guys decided to do a podcast together. I love how the chemistry on the pod is unlike any other I listen to.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that leads us into today's topic.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

Which is friendship.

[Nate Bargettze]

How about that, Brian? Good job.

[Aaron Weber]

We.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's the chemistry we're talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly. We started touching on just briefly, a couple weeks ago when Nick was here. Didn't really get into it.

[Nate Bargettze]

And little friendship Wasn't poking fun at Nick, or was that intentional? It was a little bit.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Huh.

[Aaron Weber]

I said to Tristan, I said, people are going to say that that was.

[Nate Bargettze]

It was a little friendship with Nick Novicki.

[Brian Bates]

Come on. Oh, that's what it said on the thing.

[Nate Bargettze]

That was the title of the episode.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a special night because that's. You talked about. And a little friendship because.

[Nate Bargettze]

With Nick Novak.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but. Yeah, I see. What?

[Nate Bargettze]

Come on, Brian. Yeah, come on.

[Brian Bates]

You're better than that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So I think we've known each other the longest. I looked up probably 17, 18 years, I think. It was that long.

[Brian Bates]

It feels like it.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe 16 or 17 years. I think I met you.

[Nate Bargettze]

You've lived a whole life to adulthood, knowing Bates.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. And I felt it, man. Yeah, I felt it. It's just on there. It's just there because I won't go away. He's gonna be there for. I'll have baits for the rest of my life.

[Nate Bargettze]

When did you start your. Your. Your daily journal?

[Aaron Weber]

January 1st, 1995.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Okay, so you have. Did you have. I met a guy named Nate Bargetzy today.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I wrote that down, but I. I think I may have told this.

[Brian Bates]

A lot of complaints, probably.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I mean, I've. No. I've known you 11 years at least. I met you 11 years ago.

[Brian Bates]

I think I'm in that journal bunch. And I bet it's not. It's not good.

[Aaron Weber]

I told my wife to burn.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Something happens. But I mentioned that I knew the name Bargazi because of Ron Bargazzi, your cousin who did Vanderbilt. So I knew the name and I'd heard of you, but then you came home, I think, for Thanksgiving, maybe Christmas, and I was just at Zany's hanging out, and you were on. It was like a showcase show and blew me away at how funny you were. You did the ninja joke. You did the. How video games are getting too realistic. Vince Young, all that stuff in the monkey DNA. And it was just so funny. I was like, golly, this guy's clean. And doing stuff that, you know, I've never heard before, so. And I think we all went out that night to Bosco's. Remember that place?

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, Bosco's.

[Aaron Weber]

It was there off West End. It's something else now, but I think it was called Bosco's. Me, you, Jesse Case, a few other guys went.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then, I mean, everybody, they think some great story, but we're both Vandy fans, clean comics. So whenever you'd come home to Nashville, we'd go to Mike's and stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's as simple as that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. And went on the road. Done. You could be the most person I've done shows with.

[Aaron Weber]

Does it feel like it?

[Brian Bates]

No, no. I'm being serious, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you've been there. Yeah. You've been there. The. The whole. I mean, I can't believe it's been that long.

[Nate Bargettze]

18 years.

[Brian Bates]

That's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Something like that. I mean, I used to go to New York, stay with you, so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

For all the stuff. People think that we're not friends.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We've been friends for a long time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron. Otherwise, I don't know. When I met. Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

I mean, I met you when you would come through and do the open mics.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

When you were, like, in town, but never, like. I mean, I started, you know, significantly younger and. Than all of y'all, so significantly.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true for me.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Because we're talking about outside or inside.

[Nate Bargettze]

I'm kidding. But I. But I. Yeah, I met all you guys just around. I remember. I don't remember. When did I meet you?

[Aaron Weber]

I was gonna say, I don't remember the first time I met you, but I feel like the first. I remember at that.

[Nate Bargettze]

I remember you bumped me off your show as one of the first shows ever got booked on. You bumped me off of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you serious?

[Nate Bargettze]

Brian Bates and friends at Zany's?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

My brother was in town and I was going to host for you.

[Aaron Weber]

What happened?

[Nate Bargettze]

And I think too many people got added to the show. So you. You sent me a very nice text.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Classic.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

You said the show got overcrowded. I Just for time, I got to cut you from the show. But you're a very funny young comic. You're going to get plenty of opportunities. And I'll. And I'll help you out however I can after that. And you've done nothing but that. But that was our first.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargettze]

You don't remember that at all?

[Aaron Weber]

I vaguely. Because I think Lucy suggested you.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I didn't know that there was something already going on there.

[Nate Bargettze]

I don't know if there was at the time. I think that was ear. That was early.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But I didn't mean it like. Like that. I just meant I think y'all were just starting to maybe date.

[Brian Bates]

Brian always had an eye for talent.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. I'd like to know who you put on the show. Who. Who crowded it up too much that Aaron couldn't be on it.

[Aaron Weber]

I think. I know. I think it was because I think you were on it. And Zany's. There was a guy coming through and.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Well, that's probably what happened. Nate probably bumped you came into town.

[Brian Bates]

It wasn't Nate bump you.

[Nate Bargettze]

Nate's go. I gotta do 40 on this show.

[Aaron Weber]

There was a guy coming through, and Zany's told me I had to put him. Add him to the show. I think. I think. But what's the place over in music row?

[Nate Bargettze]

Bobby's.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Bobby's idol.

[Aaron Weber]

Bobby's idolater. That's the first place I remember. One of your first jokes that I remember. It's very funny. Is you and your roommate ordered a pizza. The pizza delivery guy fell down the steps.

[Nate Bargettze]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

You had to call an ambulance.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I think the joke was that pizza's getting cold. How long do you have to wait?

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Before you can eat that pizza.

[Nate Bargettze]

Well, that was my roommate. We. I ordered Papa John's. And then he was in the other room and ordered Domino's. And we didn't. We didn't know.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Bargettze]

That. So two pizza guys came to the house at the same time.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, it's kind of like your job.

[Nate Bargettze]

But yeah. Kind of like.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

I'm quicker to get to some of the stuff Nate gets to.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Well, you're just. I mean, that's old school that you're observing. I wish I did that, because that would be. That's very funny.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's way more embarrassing than two DoorDash.

[Nate Bargettze]

It is. Yeah. There wasn't even a conversation in the house. Like, hey, maybe we can just get.

[Brian Bates]

It was. No. I wanted my own dudes in a house set at 58 degrees. Once those pizza door. Once that pizza door open that they go. They Go. All right, now this makes sense. Y'all showed up in shorts and got cut off. T shirt. It's cold there, boys, because. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it? Yeah. But wasn't there something about the lady fell down the steps or something?

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, one of the guys fell down the step. This is all true. I don't remember how I ended up changing it to make it like try to work it into a joke, but one of the guys tripped up the stairs and the other guy showed up. Like, the domino's guy showed up and the Papa John's guy's on the ground. And the domino's guy just stepped over him and delivered the pizza. And then. Okay, left and just left the Papa John's guy there.

[Dusty Sleigh]

The dominoes stepped over the guy, like.

[Nate Bargettze]

Broke his ankle or twisted his ankle bad where he was on the ground.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And the domino's guy stepped over him.

[Nate Bargettze]

The domino's guy had to deliver some pizzas.

[Brian Bates]

Did they know they were going, is it like an apartment? So they don't know that they're going to the same place?

[Nate Bargettze]

That's. That might have been. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they would probably think, what idiot would order two different pizza places?

[Brian Bates]

Well, you may say what if you. If you may ever wonders about stories being true. I just think this is an example. That's a story. If I. Like if you told that story, you would live in a house and you and your roommate would do it. So you'd cut out that it's an apartment.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

You would cut out that those guys didn't know that they were going to the same place. I. That might seem dumb, and I'm not trying to talk down to you. Very rare, but if anybody's a young comic or if anybody's ever curious about are these stories true? That's a perfect example of where you would go. What really happened was they didn't know. They would never have known that each of them doing it.

[Nate Bargettze]

You know, it's an interesting thing. Also, I think my roommate ordered jets pizza, but I just said Domino's just because it's. It's. People know what it is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. You. That. That's what you would do to streamline everything to be like, yes, it's all true. But I didn't, you know. And then you make up the part of, you know, them knowing it or them whatever or the other stuff, the context of them two together. You would have made that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And then at the end you go. And then that jets pizza delivery guy died.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And you go, well, you didn't even say jets at the beginning.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What's he talking about?

[Aaron Weber]

I was having a. Yeah, but Brian.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, you were a guy. You. You definitely helped me out a lot and still do, but you definitely helped me out very early on, so I appreciate that.

[Brian Bates]

By cutting you from the show.

[Nate Bargettze]

No, no, no, I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

But, I mean, I did my Brian Bates and Friends this past week and.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And I got bumped from it.

[Aaron Weber]

No, you chose not to do it.

[Nate Bargettze]

Aaron got bumped by your family.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Aaron ghosted me. Then finally I was like, hey, are you in or out? He's like, oh, sorry, dude, let me check. And he goes, I'm out.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, yeah, you got back at me.

[Brian Bates]

I already got the shorts on.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's a whole thing.

[Brian Bates]

I ain't coming out.

[Nate Bargettze]

I met Dusty at Bobby's and actually recently at Bobby's.

[Aaron Weber]

Bobby's.

[Nate Bargettze]

Bobby's Idol hour.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargettze]

Which was. Yeah. At the time was the longest running open. I love that mic in Tennessee. It was on Music Row every Monday night. I did it. It every Monday. I used to love that mic and I actually found. I, I sent you a pretty embarrassing message. First time I saw you open mic. Yeah. And then you sent me a very nice message.

[Aaron Weber]

You stink.

[Brian Bates]

No, like a nice. You're so funny.

[Nate Bargettze]

And yeah, yeah, just like, like, yeah, just like a nice. I enjoyed your set. I thought you had good stuff. And yeah, you sent a nice message back. I remember you said, I was so young. You sent me back a message and said, don't worry, the jokes will come.

[Dusty Sleigh]

All right?

[Nate Bargettze]

Because you said, you, you told me you have stage presence, but the jokes will. Which is probably true because I think I could talk into a microphone and be on stage, but I didn't have.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It is true. I remember seeing, I mean, you see, you go to these open mics and you see so many people that you're like, what are you even doing here? I, I sometimes I watch people and I go, are you even funny for your friends? What makes you think that you can make strangers laugh?

[Aaron Weber]

Laugh?

[Dusty Sleigh]

And then you see people and you go, oh, this person's really good. You could really, you know, you're like, not, you know, there yet, but you're really good. Yeah, you know, I appreciate that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you always have a great. I mean, you do have a great voice that's comes off as, you know, you want to listen to what you're saying.

[Nate Bargettze]

I sound like I know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate it.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Like, the thing about comedy that I've seen over the years is, like, people Will have these very successful jobs, and then they'll start doing comedy, and then they're probably at their. In their day job, more successful than everybody else at the open mic. But at the open mic, they're really bad at comedy. So they, like.

[Nate Bargettze]

I was about to list an example until you said that last.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah. So then they feel bad about themselves in these comedy rooms. You can see that it eats away at them. And I just think, you know, if you would just quit this hobby of comedy, you could just go on feeling good about yourself in your successful day job.

[Nate Bargettze]

I remember the first time.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I mean, does that make sense?

[Nate Bargettze]

100. I remember the first time I got an applause break from a joke at Spring Water.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

And I didn't do this very often, but I recorded that set on my phone and I listen there is so embarrassing. I listen to that on a loop on the drive home. Like, I can't believe. All right, I got an applause break.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Do you remember the joke?

[Nate Bargettze]

No. Well, yeah, I do, but I'll tell you, it's not a good shit.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a clean podcast.

[Nate Bargettze]

No, it's nothing like that. It's just.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I don't.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, it's embarrassing.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I'm still thinking about that show.

[Brian Bates]

They clapped anything at Spring Water.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, see, that's the thing. That was a brutal mic.

[Brian Bates]

I know.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Spring Water is the first time I. The first day I moved to Nashville, I was like, I'm gonna go to a mic. And I went to Spring Water, and then you and Brian show showed up.

[Nate Bargettze]

Really?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. I was like, all right. That's what I'm talking about.

[Brian Bates]

This is scene here.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, I remember that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where was Spring Water?

[Nate Bargettze]

It's still around. The Spring Water supper club. It's right by the Parthenon.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Real smoky.

[Nate Bargettze]

Right next to McDonald's.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that show that you're talking about was when I recorded my album.

[Nate Bargettze]

No, I was. I. No, I don't think it was. I think that was your next time there.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargettze]

I'll go find the receipts later. It was net. But I. I didn't mean to come across like it was ever. You sent me a very nice message about it, and I was like, okay, easy. And I still. Me and my brother came and watched.

[Brian Bates]

Did I do that? Yeah, yeah, I did Easy Out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Nate Bargettze]

This was after Easy Out. This was like, okay, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I just didn't like you then.

[Brian Bates]

I can't believe he's doing Brian Bates and friends. That long. Hello.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I don't know if we called it that, then I think it.

[Nate Bargettze]

Was just Brian Bates. It was just appearance, no friends.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Ye was like Brian bait. Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It was just a period. It wasn't monthly. It was just a periodic every now and then.

[Aaron Weber]

Yearly.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. Year.

[Brian Bates]

Brian's bait. Brian Bates show for his friends.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Brian Bates and friends. But the friends are in the crowd.

[Aaron Weber]

That's exactly right.

[Dusty Sleigh]

A one man show set of. And it's four.

[Brian Bates]

It's four.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Brian Bates for friends and family. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Brian Bates for friends and family. And one guy who didn't know what he got into.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just wandering in off the street.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then Dusty, I met you. We were on a Keith Alberstadt show together.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And who else was on? Chad Ryan.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Chad ryden and case T.C. cope.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, man.

[Brian Bates]

What do you see?

[Nate Bargettze]

That's an old school Nashville lineup. That's big time.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

So it's like, I think Nashville comedy and all comedy is small enough. Like you're going to bump into. You just run into people.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Right.

[Nate Bargettze]

You just see, you just meet comics around.

[Dusty Sleigh]

This is how new I was at comedy then and how little I knew about comedy. I mean, I, I drove from Charleston to do that show. I mean, just to show. I mean. But I was like, Keith told me, you know, he's like, I'm doing a show in Nashville at this date, if you want to come do the show. And I was like, yeah, I do. So I drove from Charleston, which is, I don't know, eight hours.

[Aaron Weber]

And how did you know Keith?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I met Keith in New York City.

[Nate Bargettze]

Okay, okay.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Through a mutual. And, and, and so I met him and went to see him at the seller. And Keith really helped me out with a lot of stuff, gave me a lot of initial advice. So Keith is great. Keith Halberstad, really great. Really helped me a lot.

[Brian Bates]

We just saw him last week.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then as far as the podcast, five years ago this week is when the world shut down.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

Due to Covid.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Wow.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And then.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

A few months later, you like, I gotta do something. So you started the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Yes, I decided I need to start a podcast. I wanted to remain, to stay funny. And then I called you, I talked with you about it, you and Aaron. It was kind of just picking the people that were here.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And so it was like, you know, that could be clean and they're here. I mean, really, then nobody really narrowed.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It down pretty quick.

[Brian Bates]

It does. That's the Thing people don't realize shifted.

[Dusty Sleigh]

You go, oh, this is it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. When you go look for clean comedy, it's. It's not. It's not easy.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It is true.

[Brian Bates]

But that could talk that I'm not worried is going to just accidentally curse or something like that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. It's really hard to find clean people that can be clean, that sometimes super clean can turn out to be a little cheesy. And it's like, it is a fine line. And then people that are like, no, no, I can do clean. They go out and do some wild bit and you're like, you thought that was clean? Yeah, yeah, that was clean.

[Nate Bargettze]

Sometimes people will go like, what specific words? And I go, I just. I kind of want you to just get it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

You know what I mean? Just kind of get like. I mean, I could draw up like a list of stuff but like, just kind of just don't.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Make any sense.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

I want you to just get what you're not supposed to do.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's tough. I've tried a bunch of different protein products over the years.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Clearly. Meat, meat.

[Nate Bargettze]

Eggs, beans. Yeah. Listen, the protein product market can feel intimidated. I mean, I don't know what I'm looking at half the time. Then you grab something. Do you all try this? And it tastes horrible. And that's why I was excited about our new sponsor, orgain. Orgain believes real nutrition has the power to make a real difference in people's lives. You looking to fuel your personal best? You need muscle support, recovery or just looking to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Hey, how about all of the above or Gain's 30 gram protein shakes. Check all the boxes. They offer protein packed real nutrition that'll satisfy your cravings without any added sugar. That's big. No added sugar. Any of these. They're an excellent source of premium ultra filtered protein with all nine essential amino acids. And look, a lot of these terms, you don't know what it is, but orgain knows what it is. Okay. I had an organ shake this morning. Love how it tastes. Nate. Nate's dad, Steven is really loving them. Plays pickleball and his doctor was like, you got to up the protein. And Orgain helped him do that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Remember, Nate's dad's in on all these? Yeah, he's in on all these. He's using all these stuff.

[Nate Bargettze]

He's the vision.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Of all of this, I think. Remember, remember this. There are no. Hold on.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Sorry.

[Nate Bargettze]

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[Brian Bates]

When we were thinking about doing a podcast, me and Kathleen Madigan almost did it together.

[Nate Bargettze]

That'd have been fun, though.

[Brian Bates]

It would have been very fun. And I think it just wasn't really. It's like timing wise, it just didn't. Wasn't really working out. We were talking to Dorfman about it and me and Kathleen talked about it and then. But she has a great podcast now, so it's like, yeah, it ended up working out for both of us to, you know, kind of go the ways that we went.

[Aaron Weber]

But that's good.

[Nate Bargettze]

I mean, you do. You're definitely. You're different in a lot of ways.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

I think you have different interests, different stuff you want to talk about.

[Aaron Weber]

So.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean, it was at the time. I would have been lucky to do a podcast with her. No, I mean, even.

[Nate Bargettze]

Totally still now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What's some of the.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, so I looked up some stuff about friendship.

[Brian Bates]

Would you Google friendship? Does it pop up automatically for you when you go, what is it? Does it say what when you type in what is to Google, does it automatically go friendship before you even have to say it?

[Dusty Sleigh]

And then when you hit it and it goes. Did you mean how to make friends?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, like. Like for Aaron, it knows what is nil and college football. What is a red shirt? Freshman nil money. Like his is going to be corned beef. These are all these make sense because Aaron. So on your Google your computer and you type what is. Does it say friendship? A full room. Look like. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I. I've been. You could even Google an image or what.

[Aaron Weber]

A full room on a friendship episode.

[Brian Bates]

I know, I'm sorry. That was. I was trying to be the first thing that came to mind.

[Aaron Weber]

I would argue that Aaron already knows what all those are. So it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I think he does. But it's what is. You know, but yeah, I was just trying to. Sorry.

[Nate Bargettze]

That was awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

So there's something called Dunbar's number.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

And it. This guy basically came up. He's an anthropologist and he studied chimpanzees and he saw how many friends they could have and then he took their brain size and compared to a human's brain size and says that we can. Humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships. He said that?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you happen to bump into them in a bar.

[Nate Bargettze]

150. Does that include family? 150. Just relationships with people.

[Aaron Weber]

So he breaks it down even more. He's got. There's five people that are your inner circle loved ones. For me, it'd be you three. My wife and Ben Roethlisberger. Then there's ten and Eleanor. Yeah, Dusty, you're out. Eleanor. Then it's ten of your best friends. Your solid. Go to friends.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

50. Just friends. I sent you a link to this.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'm cutting all these numbers in half as you say them.

[Aaron Weber]

150 meaningful relationships. And that's. Those are acquaintances that we could invite to a massive party or greet without hesitation if you ran into them at the airport. And then 500 acquaintances. That's just people you know. If you had a massive party, you can invite them. And then 1500 people you could recognize. Like just, you know who they are. I think I would have more in all these.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, More.

[Nate Bargettze]

I can definitely recognize way more people than 1500 people. Totally. Think about everyone from my high school, Ton of people from growing up and.

[Brian Bates]

Think about a lot of people that. And you think you can do more? I don't.

[Nate Bargettze]

Fewer than some of these others. But I think people I recognize. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

More than 1500. Yeah, but I mean, is that. I don't know, man. That's a lot of people. 1500 people that you can look at.

[Nate Bargettze]

And know their name and know something about them.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'd like to know how many friends this anthropologist has.

[Brian Bates]

Zero, apparently. Chair by himself.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He's hanging out with monkeys. Yeah, zero.

[Aaron Weber]

Because he's turned around.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He said.

[Aaron Weber]

I think because I got married at 48, it allowed me to maintain more friendships and friends.

[Nate Bargettze]

It makes sense.

[Dusty Sleigh]

So did they also have to be your friends?

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, that's true. You got to compare their list.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And you go, that's funny. You say 1500. He says 30.

[Nate Bargettze]

You only appear on four.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm about to get to that too. But no, I think, I mean, most of my friends got married in their 20s. And understandably, you get married, you start having kids, you don't have time.

[Nate Bargettze]

You do kind of wall off from the world.

[Aaron Weber]

You have to, you have to, you have to. I got married at 48, so that's why Nate stuck with me, because I wouldn't leave. You know, I got all the time in the world.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He was always available, even when he.

[Nate Bargettze]

Didn'T want me to be real.

[Dusty Sleigh]

What about Bob Situation. What about Bates?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, it's a great movie.

[Aaron Weber]

So, I mean, I think it's pretty, you know, 10 good friends.

[Nate Bargettze]

So dusty, you think these are all way too high, I think.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I don't know. I mean, especially once you get two.

[Nate Bargettze]

And a half loved ones.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Once you get out there with, like. I think the. The five loved ones could be a larger thing. Yeah, but once you get out to 500 acquaintances, like, what is. What does that even mean, really? You got 500 people that you're like.

[Brian Bates]

You kind of know, like, you're, like, in the business.

[Dusty Sleigh]

But these are. I feel like once you get to.

[Brian Bates]

A number like the large, you know.

[Dusty Sleigh]

These are just people.

[Brian Bates]

You know, the guy that books the Tonight Show.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Or the guy that. You know him.

[Nate Bargettze]

He's a loved one.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah, he's.

[Brian Bates]

He is a loved one.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But, yeah, he's a loved one of you guys. I have no idea.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, the guys that used to book the Montreal Comedy Festival. Be acquaintances. Yeah, acquaintance, like, you know, business.

[Aaron Weber]

Can we name something? We're all in.

[Brian Bates]

Or they could be meaningful contacts.

[Dusty Sleigh]

The guy that takes tickets at the basketball game, Carlos Groves.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's a 15. And. Yeah, I actually like this number. I think there could be more than loved ones. I think there's definitely more than five.

[Nate Bargettze]

How many people would you take a bullet for?

[Brian Bates]

I take a bullet for a lot of people.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargettze]

Really hard.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

You take a bullet for Bates.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What do we mean?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. What do we mean?

[Brian Bates]

Here should be your life. Technically, your life should be of sacrifice. So it should be for a people. Someone I don't even know if I should be protecting.

[Nate Bargettze]

You don't believe him, huh, Brad?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I don't. I just don't believe in that mantra.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

What do you mean?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm in it for myself and.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Get out of the way.

[Dusty Sleigh]

What's the. What's the say, Like. Because it's like some people, it's like, you know, do they want you to. Like, if, like, let's say my wife. Someone. We're gonna shoot my wife. Right. And then I jumped in front of and took the bullet. And now my wife's like, oh, geez, now I gotta. You are making the money, and now I gotta do all this on my own. Let me take the bullet.

[Nate Bargettze]

And he's got another bullet in the gun. I guess it's like if somebody goes, oh, so you. Somebody needs both your kidneys. Let's think about it like that, like, to survive. How many people would you do that for?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'd give no one both my kidneys.

[Nate Bargettze]

Why not? Like, if you're.

[Dusty Sleigh]

That means I'm gonna die.

[Nate Bargettze]

That's the whole point of the.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I don't think I'd give away one.

[Brian Bates]

I would try to figure it out.

[Nate Bargettze]

If you're. If your daughter needed a kidney or a match.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And I'd go, I don't know what's happened to your kidney.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean.

[Brian Bates]

You go, you know, no one needs their kidneys.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's the. The government wants you to keep your kidneys. You don't need either one of them.

[Aaron Weber]

China's stealing them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He goes, trust me, you're better off without kidneys. They can't track you if you don't have. You know what I mean? Because they don't know where you're at when they do the kidney. That's how they keep track of everybody. These kidneys. Why do you think they won't let you get rid of both of them? Tell me that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So if one person. If a person needed one kidney and they posted on online, hey, I need a match. How many people do you think you might go get tested, see if you were a match and actually do it?

[Nate Bargettze]

A hundred.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a lot.

[Dusty Sleigh]

This is what I would do. I would share that on Facebook so that they could get. Reach a bigger audience.

[Nate Bargettze]

I did my part. I spread the word a little bit. You're not going to get tested. Said that. Right. I would. I would go give all y'all bone marrow. I would do that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I do think you need both kidneys. You can survive without one. But I do think you need.

[Aaron Weber]

You do need both.

[Nate Bargettze]

I think two is ideal. Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. And it's like. So when you get like, I know someone who gave theirs up to their dad, and then, you know, a couple years later, their dad dies. And I'm like, now you live the rest of your life with just that one kidney?

[Brian Bates]

Maybe get it back.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. I mean, I wonder if he's on his deathbed. He go, he was an organ donor.

[Brian Bates]

He just go grab it. He left in his will.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It goes, obviously, give my son his kid.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I looked.

[Brian Bates]

I'm an organ donor. Yeah, you do that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I took that off.

[Brian Bates]

You don't. Because you don't know what he's.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Well, my. My Friend that works at the hospital told me that if you have an organ donor on there and then you have like a car accident or something and you're, you're unconscious, they're quicker to pull the, pull the plug on you because they're like, we need these organs.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And if you're not an organ donor.

[Brian Bates]

They'Re like, well, let's give him a go.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

I read a story about a woman.

[Brian Bates]

Who wake him up and make him sign up to be an organ, go back to sleep, and then that's it.

[Nate Bargettze]

This grandmother, they, when she passed away, they donated her body to science to like a scientific organization. And they found out this is morbid. They found out that scientific organization sold her body to the military. Then they use that to test bombs.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, gosh, that's crazy.

[Nate Bargettze]

That's wild.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

And they were pretty upset about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'd say so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean you can't just trust.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Imagine you're in the military, grandma.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. T minus. Not me.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Mom, stop it.

[Aaron Weber]

Stop the clock. That's so funny. Yeah, this guy also, Dunbar here, he did a lot.

[Brian Bates]

What are you good? I bet you could ask for that though.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh yeah. Give my body to the army.

[Brian Bates]

They gotta want to go to the bomb stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it seems like you have to ask for it.

[Nate Bargettze]

I'll get mine to NASA, like shoot me up into space, see what happens to the body of radiation or something, you know?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They go, what's this? Eclipse.

[Aaron Weber]

We weren't expecting another one. Why is it so cold?

[Brian Bates]

The A Ron eclipse happens once every 48 hours and they have to go get you when they go get those.

[Nate Bargettze]

Every time I come around, you come around there.

[Brian Bates]

So then they got to go get you because you're just stuck in this cycle and they got to go. They get a big fishing net, grab your body back. They got to move you over to get. Boys, you got to get, get him behind the sun, get him behind it.

[Aaron Weber]

Push him.

[Brian Bates]

Those, they're pushing you like a, like a float that he's trying to grab a float.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Satellites are hitting. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Those astronauts scheduled to come back tonight, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, tonight, yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

SpaceX is going to get them, right?

[Aaron Weber]

They're there already.

[Nate Bargettze]

I watched the, the hugging each other.

[Dusty Sleigh]

How many of them is it?

[Aaron Weber]

Did you see the photo where they all did the dusty wave?

[Dusty Sleigh]

No, there was like, there was supposed to be two and then there was like, like last week you guys were like, oh, there's more, there's more guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Up there, but it's only two. That's been get stuck there that couldn't come back.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Why did that? Doesn't matter.

[Aaron Weber]

Some more. Some more went up, and if you can find the. I should have sent to you. The.

[Dusty Sleigh]

You gotta think that if you're up there and you're just the two and other people come, you're like, hey, guys, this has kind of been our space for a while.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, it'd be tough.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Don't. Don't. Yeah. Don't come in here.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah. You're probably territorial about it. The Internet. Some reason the Internet's bad here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

But it happened.

[Brian Bates]

Let's go.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So. So talk about them being friends. Yeah, exactly. That's friendship.

[Dusty Sleigh]

That is friendship. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They're gonna have a bond, you know, forever. There's only so much you can talk about.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, I bet they got into it, dude.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, there they are.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, they are. All right. They're all having a good time.

[Dusty Sleigh]

This guy's always up there. This guy's always involved.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the guy from here, Butch Wilmore.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Okay.

[Nate Bargettze]

That's that guy. Mark Kelly. Yeah. Maybe that's not Mark Kelly.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Okay. All right. We're having. That's. They're all up there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's the new crew members. And then the people already there. I think the four in blue just arrived.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Who's the two that have been stuck?

[Aaron Weber]

The guy that's not doing the dusty.

[Nate Bargettze]

Wave, I think that woman, right?

[Aaron Weber]

It looks like her. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

In the back. Yeah. Who's not doing the dusty wave?

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, the guy from Is, but.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, the Mount Joint guy's been up there the whole time. Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He and the. And the woman are the two that got stuck.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

They put this woman. The woman in the back is the one who's been up there the whole time. She should be front and center.

[Brian Bates]

She should be front.

[Dusty Sleigh]

That's ridiculous.

[Brian Bates]

Is.

[Aaron Weber]

It's probably an impromptu, you know, that's.

[Brian Bates]

Like one guy got shorts on.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, the guy in this corner. The guy in the far right. He's always up there.

[Brian Bates]

Shorts on.

[Dusty Sleigh]

That's Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

Space.

[Nate Bargettze]

Hey, bud, you go to space.

[Brian Bates]

Yo.

[Nate Bargettze]

Hey, pal, put some jeans on.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I want to be up a little bit.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Golly, I don't believe this.

[Brian Bates]

Were you at home this morning wearing cargo shorts up in space? We're taking a picture for the world.

[Dusty Sleigh]

What's his. What's on his leg? Why is that not floating away?

[Nate Bargettze]

It's wrapped around his leg. Yeah, yeah, I can see it's wrapped. It's like a blood pressure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Now, this is a picture of people hanging upside down. You could do this at any. They can do something like this.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Who's the guy in the top right? He's always in these things.

[Nate Bargettze]

I don't think you're seeing.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I don't think it's all. No, it's the same. The guy in the shorts, the guy in the top right, and the guy on the far left. They're in all this.

[Brian Bates]

They're in every one of them.

[Dusty Sleigh]

They're always in the space, though.

[Nate Bargettze]

They're character actors you're thinking of. You're thinking of a different.

[Brian Bates]

I know who he's thinking of.

[Nate Bargettze]

Thinking of the guy you said, Mark Kelly. You're thinking of this dude, and he.

[Aaron Weber]

Has a twin brother.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Nah. Yeah, they're both Maybe, actually. Maybe.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah. He's a senator now.

[Brian Bates]

You know what I am.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, you're thinking of the. And you probably have seen the. The brothers.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, that guy's up there right now. He's in that picture. He's still wearing the red. Just under the coat. Yeah, look at that. Why is he looking at a different camera? That guy down there, where's he putting his hands?

[Nate Bargettze]

Because there's another camera right there.

[Brian Bates]

The three guys in the red look like they run a morning show.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like they're up there from the buzz.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, that's great.

[Aaron Weber]

It was pretty cool watching, though, because the space station is going 17,500 miles an hour, and then the rocket is going the same speed and it has to, like, dock.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, it's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

It's pretty crazy.

[Brian Bates]

And you saw all that?

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I watched it. Yeah. The NASA showed it live. It looked like they weren't even moving because they were going. So they're both going the same speed.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go. There she is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's cool.

[Brian Bates]

What if you get over floating, you know, Alien mask. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, he's got to come in with his show.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. Where'd you get that? You had that up there the whole time, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he just got there.

[Dusty Sleigh]

He's like, I'm going up. I'm gonna take the mask. I'm gonna do the mask bet.

[Nate Bargettze]

And they go, please don't.

[Dusty Sleigh]

No, I'm gonna do the mask bet.

[Nate Bargettze]

Well, here's the moment where they show up. This will be fun. Look at that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, they take pictures.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Where you been? Why you up there?

[Brian Bates]

Whoa.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah. Look at this.

[Brian Bates]

Awesome. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

She's from the Boston area, so in the news this weekend, they're all There's a school named after.

[Dusty Sleigh]

She could have got back a week earlier. She could have come to my show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, she'll be there for Aaron's show.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, that's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

First. What do you think she does first thing she comes back?

[Aaron Weber]

It's got to be that.

[Nate Bargettze]

What'd you do, take a warm shower? Dude, I don't. They won't be able to walk for a while. I think you struggle to walk when you get back.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Especially been up there that long.

[Nate Bargettze]

You only been up there way longer than he thought. So I think you're gonna. It's gonna be a bit of a period.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know how you don't have claustrophobia.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Why are all these people hugging? I don't understand what's.

[Nate Bargettze]

Because they've been up here for eight months and they docked, and now they're gonna.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

When you be excited to see a.

[Dusty Sleigh]

New person who's rescuing the people. The people in blue.

[Nate Bargettze]

The people in blue just showed up.

[Dusty Sleigh]

The dark blue. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They're staying.

[Nate Bargettze]

And who are the red guys?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Because cosmonauts.

[Nate Bargettze]

They look like Russians, don't they?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I think they.

[Nate Bargettze]

No offense.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think there are some cosmonauts there, and their space agency is called something like Romulus. Romolus or something.

[Nate Bargettze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And then, I mean, imagine. Imagine what if you're not. Imagine Dillard's is like, those are our shorts.

[Dusty Sleigh]

They look really clean for. I've been up there for that long. I would like to think she looks clean. I would like to see them looking.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they have ways to clean themselves.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah. But they. They only prepared for a woman with.

[Brian Bates]

Her hair straight up right there. I mean, your hair is great. She looks like she's been up there for.

[Nate Bargettze]

And she didn't have gray hair when she.

[Dusty Sleigh]

No, I bet she looked rough. Yeah, she looked rough like that when she went.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Rough. Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Well, it's an exciting story. It's a fun one. Congratulations to those astronauts. Can't wait to see you back.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah. Welcome back.

[Nate Bargettze]

Back home on planet Big hug. They're not back yet.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Get on. Get on back here.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, they're coming. They're coming.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Get on back here. And then stop this space thing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then we'll have Butch on our podcast.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'd like to know what they accomplished while they were up there. Like, you know, you're, like, up there.

[Nate Bargettze]

For eight days on the International Space Station.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Right. But then you ended up getting a little extra time. So what'd you get done.

[Brian Bates]

They just got. Oh, they just got.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Aaron, like, what were you doing up there?

[Brian Bates]

Huh?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah. You know what?

[Aaron Weber]

I think a lot of stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I think pushing buttons and doing things, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Spacewalks. Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

They conduct research, maintain the station, perform spacewalks, and then they have daily routines of personal activities.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Okay.

[Nate Bargettze]

So collect data that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, so nothing really.

[Nate Bargettze]

They conduct a wide variety of experiments in microgravity, including studies in astrobiology, astronomy, physical sciences, material science, space, weather, meteorology, and human research. So they do a lot.

[Brian Bates]

I thought space didn't have weather.

[Nate Bargettze]

No, they could look at the weather.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Well, I'd like to know what. I'd like to know what they can.

[Brian Bates]

Let you know because we can't see down here.

[Nate Bargettze]

Well, they get a good view of it.

[Brian Bates]

You know, they get to see it coming.

[Nate Bargettze]

They get to really. And they'll be like, yo, you should see what's out over there.

[Dusty Sleigh]

They should have really been able to give us a heads up on some things.

[Nate Bargettze]

Well, I think they do. I don't know what a hurricane that's.

[Dusty Sleigh]

They should have been on Twitter and we should have been able to go to their Twitter account and go, what's the weather?

[Brian Bates]

Do you think they know about hurricane before?

[Dusty Sleigh]

You would, I guess. Yeah, right.

[Brian Bates]

They would know about it.

[Nate Bargettze]

I think we monitor all that from satellites and stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Keep track of them.

[Aaron Weber]

That way we know like two weeks ahead. All right. The friendship paradox was first observed by sociologist Scott Field. And he said an individual's friends have more friends than that individual. And it's just a basic math equation. I mean, basically, if you have a lot of friends, it can be explained as a former sampling bias in which people with more friends are more likely to be the. In the one's own friend group. In other words, one is less likely to be friends with someone who has very few friends. Does that make sense?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, I mean, I guess you're not a very nice person.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You're just not a person that has a lot of friends. You're not going to search out for more friends.

[Dusty Sleigh]

But if you do have a lot.

[Brian Bates]

Of friends, then you're a guy that is friends with a lot of people.

[Dusty Sleigh]

With a lot of friends.

[Aaron Weber]

The cheerleader effect is, says that some people tend to look more attractive in a group than they do individually. That's true, Aaron. Right. Cheerleader effect also.

[Dusty Sleigh]

He is a group.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I. I even think that was too far.

[Aaron Weber]

Come on, Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

I've always. I think that's too far. I tell you what, we're gonna.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It is Too far. And it's not true.

[Brian Bates]

That was cut.

[Dusty Sleigh]

We're gonna.

[Brian Bates]

We should cut that out. I'm sorry about that. You know what?

[Nate Bargettze]

Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Dump Dusty. That guy.

[Dusty Sleigh]

That guy. Yeah, that guy's good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you see. Did you see the Mario Lopez clip where they talked about his special?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Then the woman said, he's cute.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yes, sir.

[Aaron Weber]

And all these women wrote in this week saying they're. She's right.

[Brian Bates]

They love them.

[Nate Bargettze]

People are starting to figure it out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they are.

[Aaron Weber]

They say, look like Brad Pitt.

[Nate Bargettze]

I've gotten.

[Brian Bates]

You've gotten Brad Pitt.

[Nate Bargettze]

I got probably over a thousand comments calling me Brad Pitt with some modification. That hurts my feelings.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I'm familiar with those kind of comments.

[Nate Bargettze]

You know, like Brad Pitt, if.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

You know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Like I get like Walmart, Billy Ray Cyrus.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, right.

[Dusty Sleigh]

So I know what you mean.

[Nate Bargettze]

I get with the fat equivalent.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway.

[Nate Bargettze]

Not even that funny.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty good, though.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway, these. These scientists did, you know, research on this and said that individuals are 1 1/2 to 2% more attractive in a group than when alone seen alone.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, that's pretty good.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Because I guess the. Just the idea that you have for other people like you.

[Brian Bates]

What did they go, these scientists. What do you ever. They ever go, hey, what's the guys, let's do some cancer stuff. Like, point of this? Like, why would you even. I like.

[Nate Bargettze]

I don't you want sociologists working on cancer or do you want them doing stuff like.

[Brian Bates]

So that sociologist is a scientist?

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, yeah. Well, it's a type. It's a social science. I don't know if they're. They're not like, I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I just think you like. But if you have money splitting for both, then you just go, like, we're gonna just keep. We should do more cancer stuff and, and like stuff that's going to kill people versus a guy that just goes like, if you don't have a bunch of friends. I studied this for 40 years. If you got one friend, no other friends, you don't have friends. But if you're one. If a horse can jump over a donkey and you're like, what? And he spent 80 years doing that.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah. $40 million of funding.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And you go, what. What do you do? He goes, a guy that's not a nice guy doesn't have friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. How'd you study that? Because I wouldn't watch people.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And a guy that's sitting alone in a corner is less attractive than a guy With a bunch of friends.

[Aaron Weber]

I watched chimpanzees.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you'll like this one, Nate. Researchers at Northampton University studied cows to see if they have best friends. They pinned the cows up for 30 minutes. One with a preferred partner, a best friend, and once with a cow they did not know. And during that time, the heart rates of the cows were measured. And if they were with their best friend, they had lower heart rate than. And more stress. If they were with a cow, they didn't know.

[Brian Bates]

How do you even know if the cow knows or doesn't know the cow?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you watch them hang out.

[Nate Bargettze]

You ask them.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I think that it. That would. To me, that is not friendship. That's familiarity. Right. Where you're like, I'm used to this cow.

[Aaron Weber]

That's probably true.

[Brian Bates]

It also probably is. I'm getting. My heart rate goes up the. Because the first time you're with your friend is the first time you're being moved, you're not as nervous.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then 30 minutes later, you get moved again.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're just nervous about the situation.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think there's awareness of, like, that. I didn't. They. I mean, how on earth do you sit there and go, all right, well, them two are clearly buddies.

[Nate Bargettze]

I think if you see them hanging out, they're playing, you know?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I know, but. But, like, do cows play that?

[Dusty Sleigh]

I don't think cows really play. I think they have a good time, but not cows.

[Nate Bargettze]

I think they have a good time.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I've never seen a cow play.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think they have a good time. Yeah, I don't think they calves do.

[Nate Bargettze]

I believe.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I've never seen a cowboy.

[Aaron Weber]

Does. Does Holly recognize other dogs in the neighborhood?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, she gets excited about, like, Felix's dog. Yeah. The dogs that she knows.

[Nate Bargettze]

What do you think that they're friends, or do you think that she's just being nice to the other dogs?

[Brian Bates]

I would think that they're. I don't think there's any. I mean, I guess there is friendship, but it's like she's excited to see them to play with that dog. But, I mean, I think a dog is different than a cow.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, I don't think you're watching cows and just being like, all right, clearly them to get along. And then you put them in a. You know, the hard part of this is a lot of the. If you're on the heart rate, you're like, well, you're moving this cow around, so already it's going to be a Little stressed out.

[Aaron Weber]

All good points.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, so this is at the elephant sanctuary here in Tennessee. Hoen Wall, Tennessee. That is Tara the elephant, and Bella the dog. And they became best friends. And it's a very sweet story. They hung out with each other. Bella, the dog, got injured. They won't say how, but I think we maybe guess.

[Nate Bargettze]

Same way I stubbed my toe.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly. And she was hurt for a while, and they had to keep her indoors to heal. And the elephant hung out by the fence by the house every day, watching.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Going, when you get out of here, I'm gonna finish this job.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Then they reunited.

[Dusty Sleigh]

So that's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a very sweet story.

[Dusty Sleigh]

That is fun.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's nice. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's cool.

[Nate Bargettze]

Do you want to talk Aristotle before we get out of here, man? Aristotle, sure. That was the class I took. The friendship, the history. Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Friendship.

[Nate Bargettze]

History of friendship. From Aristotle to Facebook. Oh, that was the name of the class.

[Aaron Weber]

You should have been leading this. I forgot about that. What's the takeaway?

[Nate Bargettze]

I'll say the one thing what Aristotle said about friendship. And Aristotle believed, you know, we're all a function of our time. He said a lot of things that have aged horribly.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargettze]

Basically, he said, only men are capable of true friendship. But what's aged? But I think. I think that one of the main things. I remember three types of friendship. There's friendship of utility, where you're friends because you both use each other in some way. This is like if you're friends with your mechanic or somebody you're friends with, but there's a transaction between the two of you, right? And then there's friendship of pleasure, where you both derive some type of pleasure from the other person. And then there's what's called, like, perfect friendship or true friendship, where you get nothing out of it other than just the friendship. And he basically believed you can only really, truly have that with, like, two or three people. It's, like, impossible to have that depth, like, to have that deep of a friendship with a ton of different people. So he wrote.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I mean, I agree with that about this.

[Brian Bates]

I could see that because it's. It's You. Your. Your lives kind of have to be the same.

[Nate Bargettze]

He said you have to. The phrase he used is, I always remember you eat salt together. As in, like, if two people have gone through the same kind of traumatic experience, that can be the catalyst. It's the kind of stuff you read in college.

[Dusty Sleigh]

And I think we're only designed to, like, Live in smaller communities. This. This thing that's open to us now, I think is hard for us.

[Nate Bargettze]

Like.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Like the fact that we can see what's happening in the news in another country instantly, I think hurts us. We're not supposed to see all this traumatic stuff all the time. I don't think so.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, yeah, that's a good point. I was going to say the idea of, like, even caring about what thousands and thousands of people think about you is so alien.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

How humans have lived forever until, like, 15 years ago.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Which is pretty crazy when you think about it. It's such a new thing. But we're grateful you're here. Thanks for listening.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, actors used to, up until 15 years ago, just. You might get some hate mail, but that was it.

[Dusty Sleigh]

But now you post an advertisement on Facebook and people go, I don't like this guy. Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargettze]

Did I tell you a guy comment? I didn't. I can't remember if we talked about on the podcast, but I definitely told them I did an ad for a show. And so this guy just commented, pass. And so I go, let's see what's going on in this. Clicked on his profile. Terminally ill. And he's posting updates about it. Yeah, but he had to let me, you know, he's about to die. And he's like, pass.

[Aaron Weber]

He didn't have much time. Yeah, I ain't gonna do this.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He goes, yeah, I know what I like.

[Nate Bargettze]

I'm not gonna waste a day on this earth.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I had a.

[Brian Bates]

The.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I showed up at a theater one time, and they go, hey, we got. We. We heard about you. You were commenting on Facebook, and we got. We got some security for the guy. I was like, what? And they were like, yeah, some guy was, like, threatening to come down here or whatever. And I found it. And this guy was like, yeah, he said something like that. Pass. Or whatever. And I was like, yeah, I was really wondering if you were. You know, I'm just kind of commenting, just being fun. I was like, yeah, I was really worried about whether you were going to make it to the show or not. He. And then he comments, how about if I just show up down there? Shut your smart mouth. So now the theater's, like, on security watch for this guy. And I was like, yes. I didn't even say anything. Really? He's so mad. People are insane.

[Nate Bargettze]

How about I show up? Dusty goes, yeah, I'll see you there.

[Aaron Weber]

Come on down.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, tickets are still available.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah, yeah, get a ticket.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I would encourage That I did Dusty Slay's top five country songs about Friends.

[Dusty Sleigh]

All right. Did you?

[Aaron Weber]

Kinda. Some of these aren't country.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yes, just friends in Nashville.

[Dusty Sleigh]

I wish you told me you're gonna do a top five. I would have did one.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you can do one next week.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what friends are for. Dionne Warwick.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Okay.

[Nate Bargettze]

We're doing astronauts next week, so do your top five.

[Aaron Weber]

Friends by Michael W. Smith. You know, that's song Friends and Friends Forever.

[Nate Bargettze]

That's a hot one.

[Aaron Weber]

You've got a friend that's got to be out there. I know, I know. All right, now we're gonna get.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, we're trying to do number three.

[Aaron Weber]

Fun Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Not really about friends, though, is.

[Brian Bates]

It's got the word.

[Dusty Sleigh]

All right, all right.

[Aaron Weber]

Number two, All My Rowdy Friends have Settled down by Hank Williams Jr. A great song.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's an incredible number one. All my rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight, also by Hank Williams.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Both incredible songs.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Incredible songs.

[Aaron Weber]

You like those?

[Dusty Sleigh]

That. Those redeemed it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. All right.

[Nate Bargettze]

Well, you've Got a Friend by James Taylor. That's more of a romance.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought I said that.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It's a bit.

[Nate Bargettze]

You probably did. I wasn't.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It's a bit country. James Taylor's a bit country and I like it. Yeah, I'm. I'm a James Taylor guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he's great.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a folk.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

We did it.

[Nate Bargettze]

That was good.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Friendship.

[Nate Bargettze]

How about it? Friendship's good. I recommend it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys are my friends. We all like hanging out. Even when we do a podcast.

[Nate Bargettze]

True.

[Brian Bates]

We all text.

[Dusty Sleigh]

It is true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we do text. We text. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I would consider you all very close friends. I would con. I confide in you guys as think you guys as well. We talk about stuff that friends would talk about that we wouldn't share with other people.

[Nate Bargettze]

Yeah, we're.

[Brian Bates]

We're real friends.

[Nate Bargettze]

Remember, somebody commented on a special. It goes, you got a real Nate Bargetzi style too. But then somebody commented, well, yeah, they're close friends. And then she responded, well, I don't know about. They're more like work associates. I doubt they hang out.

[Brian Bates]

Like, who is this?

[Dusty Sleigh]

Abigail?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Going out. See everybody. I'll be in Vegas this week. Where are you guys?

[Aaron Weber]

April 5th, I'm in Columbia, Tennessee, getting the Easier to Drive tour back at Packard Playhouse. Then April 11th and 12th, Detroit House of Comedy.

[Nate Bargettze]

Nice, dude. It's a Great quote. This weekend, Thursday night, Hartford. Is Aaron Weber talking? I'm in Hartford, Connecticut on Thursday at the Hartford Funny Bone. Come on. See me Thursday and then Friday, Saturday, Boston, Massachusetts, all weekend. Laugh. Boston. Looks like the Saturday shows are going to sell out.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Nate Bargettze]

It's pretty close, so grab those tickets. Come see me this weekend. Hartford and Boston.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Okay. This weekend I'm in Beaumont, Texas on Friday and San Antonio on Saturday. San Antonio selling very well. But I've been told everyone's having a difficult time selling tickets in Beaumont. I've heard that too, but.

[Brian Bates]

But sounds like a place I would go.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Do come. It's gonna be very fun. It's gonna be a hot show. And then I've also requested to do a few clubs. I'm on a theater tour, but I've requested to do some clubs because I want the reps to write some new jokes. So the next weekend I'll be at the Virginia Beach Funny Bone.

[Nate Bargettze]

Oh, how about.

[Dusty Sleigh]

So come check me out.

[Nate Bargettze]

Not doing Kazis.

[Dusty Sleigh]

Not doing Kazis. I didn't reach out, though. I don't know if my agent reached out. I don't know. There might have been a bidding war. And then Virginia Beach Funny Bone one out. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Well, from my friends and you, we consider you all friends.

[Nate Bargettze]

We're all friends here.

[Brian Bates]

We love you. Have a great week and see you next week. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetze and my wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nate Land podcast.

[Dusty Sleigh]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Sleigh]

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[Brian Bates]

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