247: #247 Coffee featuring Steven Rogers

Summary

The Nateland Podcast Episode #247: Coffee Featuring Steven Rogers

Release Date: April 9, 2025

Hosts:

• Dusty Slay
• Brian Bates
• Aaron Weber

Special Guest:

• Stephen Rogers

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1. Introduction and Welcome

Timestamp: [00:42] - [01:05]

Dusty Slay opens the episode by welcoming listeners to The Nateland Podcast, introducing his co-hosts Brian Bates and Aaron Weber. He also presents the special guest, Stephen Rogers, who is both a renowned comedian and Dusty's best friend.

Notable Quote:

Dusty Slay: "Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. I'm here with my renowned co-host, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and our special guest, Stephen Rogers."
[00:42]

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2. Upcoming Comedy Specials and Events

Timestamp: [02:32] - [06:37]

The hosts discuss their excitement for the Nashville Comedy Fest, highlighting changes in their personal gear and the podcast studio being utilized by other major podcasts. Stephen Rogers announces his upcoming comedy special, "Half of We Yet," set to release on April 11th. The conversation shifts to their recent performances, including Aaron Weber's standing ovation at the Ryman Show and Brian Bates' experiences with staged "standing ovations."

Notable Quote:

Stephen Rogers: "My special comes out this Friday, April 11th. Get in there early."
[03:05]

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3. Health, Stress, and Contagion Discussions

Timestamp: [06:37] - [12:28]

Dusty Slay shares his recent bout with what he suspects was the flu or COVID, expressing skepticism about contagion and the effectiveness of testing. The hosts engage in a light-hearted debate about the nature of illnesses and stress, with Stephen and Aaron providing their perspectives on health and wellness amidst a busy comedic schedule.

Notable Quote:

Dusty Slay: "I don't know if I believe in the whole contagion thing anymore."
[11:57]

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4. Stand-Up Experiences and Audience Interactions

Timestamp: [12:28] - [21:47]

The conversation moves to stand-up comedy dynamics, including the challenges of hosting shows, handling audience reactions, and the intricacies of opening for other comedians. Brian Bates recounts a sold-out show during a tornado threat, highlighting the unpredictability of live performances. Stephen Rogers shares his experiences opening for Brian Regan and navigating audience expectations.

Notable Quote:

Aaron Weber: "A lot of people left after Aaron hosted, and they just left."
[05:45]

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5. Listener Comments and Scientific Insights

Timestamp: [33:07] - [51:12]

The hosts read and respond to listener comments collected from various platforms. A standout comment by Dr. Jason Hunnell discusses the mental fatigue associated with public speaking, likening it to an eight-hour workday. Dusty elaborates on the cognitive demands of performing comedy, reinforcing the comment's validity.

Notable Quote:

Dusty Slay: "Public speaking demands significant cognitive resources, including language processing, emotional regulation, and quick decision making."
[34:00]

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6. Baseball Umpiring Controversies

Timestamp: [51:12] - [62:34]

A deep dive into a historical baseball controversy involving umpire James Joyce, who erroneously called a batter safe during Dennis Martínez's perfect game in 1995. The hosts discuss the emotional aftermath for both the umpire and the pitcher, debating the introduction of technology in officiating to prevent such mistakes. Dusty expresses frustration over the irreversible impact of human error in pivotal game moments.

Notable Quote:

Aaron Weber: "He cried. And the next game, they had a moment of forgiveness."
[45:43]

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7. Coffee Culture and Preferences

Timestamp: [62:34] - [88:38]

The episode's primary focus centers on coffee—its history, brewing methods, and personal preferences among the hosts. They explore various coffee types like Americano, espresso, and cold brew, sharing anecdotes about their coffee experiences. Dusty reminisces about his attempts to make quality coffee on the road, while Brian Bates provides a historical recount of coffee's introduction to America post-Boston Tea Party.

Notable Quote:

Brian Bates: "During World War I, the Secretary of Navy, Joe Daniels banned alcohol on Navy ships, which meant the strongest drink available was black coffee. So sailors began referring to coffee as a cup of joe."
[106:28]

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8. Sustainability and Agricultural Practices

Timestamp: [88:38] - [118:54]

The discussion shifts to sustainable farming practices, specifically the cultivation of coffee beans. The hosts debate the feasibility of growing coffee in non-traditional regions like America or Mexico, considering climate and environmental challenges. They touch upon the importance of raising seedlings and the environmental impact of agricultural methods, reflecting on the broader theme of self-sufficiency.

Notable Quote:

Dusty Slay: "I'm gonna have to agree with this. My dad was up. I cut. I got rid of cable. My dad came up. My dad's a huge Braves fan."
[40:10]

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9. Promotional Segment and Listener Engagement

Timestamp: [118:54] - [121:02]

As the episode nears its end, the hosts promote their upcoming shows and specials, encouraging listeners to attend live events. They share details about locations, dates, and the unique aspects of each performance, fostering a sense of community and anticipation among their audience.

Notable Quote:

Stephen Rogers: "My special comes out here on Nateland April 11th. Half of Weeds. Please check it out. It's very funny."
[116:32]

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10. Conclusion and Final Remarks

Timestamp: [121:02] - End

The episode wraps up with a brief outro, reiterating sponsor messages and reminding listeners of ongoing promotions. The hosts thank their audience for tuning in and tease the content of future episodes, maintaining engagement and interest.

Notable Quote:

Dusty Slay: "Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nate Land podcast."
[121:10]

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Key Takeaways:

• Upcoming Content: Stephen Rogers' comedy special, "Half of We Yet," releasing April 11th.
• Health Insights: The cognitive demands of stand-up comedy can rival an eight-hour workday.
• Sports Commentary: The human element in baseball umpiring can have lasting impacts on players' careers and game outcomes.
• Coffee Culture: Diverse brewing methods and historical contexts shape personal coffee preferences.
• Community Engagement: Listener interactions and promotional segments strengthen the podcast's community bonds.

Final Note: Episode #247 of The Nateland Podcast offers a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and insightful discussions, making it a valuable listen for comedy enthusiasts and casual listeners alike.

Transcript

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

Restrictions apply.

[Aaron Weber]

Visit albertsons or safeway.com for more details. Foreign.

[Dusty Slay]

Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. My name is Dusty Slay and I'm here with my renowned co host, Brian Bates.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron Weber. All right. And special guest and best. Best friend, Stephen Rogers.

[Stephen Rogers]

I didn't know you guys used all of them. I didn't know what I. I. The obvious one I didn't want to do.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm having a good time.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. I felt like that wasn't mine to tell.

[Aaron Weber]

Throw it in.

[Dusty Slay]

It was awesome.

[Brian Bates]

People get mad that I do Dusty's.

[Stephen Rogers]

I want to.

[Dusty Slay]

He's done it for so long that people are like, you're just doing this thing now? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They don't like it.

[Dusty Slay]

No. I had to switch words.

[Stephen Rogers]

What do you say?

[Dusty Slay]

I say, okay, because he started doing all right just then.

[Brian Bates]

You started off all right. So I go, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

When I get to command the beginning, I go, I. I take my word back.

[Aaron Weber]

You keep trademarking routine phrases. I'm not going to be able to say anything. Any.

[Dusty Slay]

You're not allowed to wave. You're not allowed to say, we're having a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

Look, dude. And I can't. I can't stand. I can't put a hand behind my back. I can't wave. I can't. I can't do anything.

[Dusty Slay]

You're like a little teapot when you.

[Stephen Rogers]

I used to say, get her done all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Before Larry.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. We all did. Just common. You know this. Common phrases. That's what I like to do. I like to take all the regular things.

[Stephen Rogers]

I heard you. You started saying, have a nice day.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I did. I. I actually told the first person that said, we're having a nice day to say, we're having a nice day.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Well, listen, this is going to be a hot podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Nate is in Europe.

[Dusty Slay]

Nate is in Europe. So they say. And we're not sure.

[Stephen Rogers]

We're not sure.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And we're all excited to be here. The Nashville Comedy Fest is going on. I'm wearing that last year's hat. Aaron has the updated version 2025. We're very excited about it. It's in full swing as this podcast is coming out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a lot going on. A lot of big podcasts have been using this studio.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And. And Steven Rogers, our guest, has a new special out on Nateland called Stephen Rogers, Half of we yet. It's not out yet.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it out? When's it come out, Steve?

[Stephen Rogers]

It comes out this Friday.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's all right.

[Stephen Rogers]

April 11th.

[Aaron Weber]

But get in there early.

[Stephen Rogers]

It'll be in full swing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Stephen Rogers]

I want to say it. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That is a thing I say.

[Stephen Rogers]

All right. I can't say it anymore. You're taking all the, like, bumper stickers.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

You know. Yeah. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Save up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, there we go.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there's that. So tell us about the special. You taped it where?

[Stephen Rogers]

I taped it at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado. Really fun club. Good time.

[Dusty Slay]

I've never been, but David Rodriguez, friend of mine. Yes, yes.

[Stephen Rogers]

Runs an amazing room. Yes. Any room that's, like, created by comics or people that know comedy really well. Just. It's one of those.

[Aaron Weber]

It's either the worst or it's great.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's true. Yeah, it's one of the good ones. It's a beautiful room. They. They have this stool that is like, from like a chopped down tree. So it's like this thick.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, it's like a stump.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, it's like a stump stool.

[Dusty Slay]

Like. Like a thick stool.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, like the Giving Tree stool.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

I can't say that anymore. That's another thing.

[Aaron Weber]

You ever read the Giving Tree? Remember that book?

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, I know about it.

[Aaron Weber]

And then at the end, he's, okay.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know it, so I don't get the joke.

[Stephen Rogers]

This guy knows about a lot of books.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's Shel Silverstein. I mean, this book has maybe 18 words total in it.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, maybe I have read it, but it's about.

[Aaron Weber]

You probably read it to your kids.

[Brian Bates]

I bet you didn't finish it.

[Stephen Rogers]

You're like, there's more than nine.

[Dusty Slay]

Shel Silverstein's great, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It's about a tree and he. And he just gives everything to this kid. He's like, take. Take the apples from the tree. Eat. And then the. The kid's like, I need shelter. He's like, take my leaves. And then he needs a boat. So he's like, cut me down and make a boat. And then at the end, he's Just a stump.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And by now the boy's an old man.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And he comes to the tree and the tree says, well, I got somewhere for you to sit. So he just sits on the stump of this tree.

[Brian Bates]

That's beautiful.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think my leaves are a good.

[Stephen Rogers]

Would you say I'm the giving tree with my ex? Gave her everything. Anyways, half a week.

[Dusty Slay]

Listen, I. Yeah, I mean, I'm with you. I'm with you.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot happening with Nate Land. A lot happening. We had the. We had the Ryman show last night that I did. It went great. I got a standing O. Wow. It was awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

And they were a lot of the.

[Brian Bates]

Bathroom after Aaron hosted, and they still said more.

[Dusty Slay]

More.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot of them left after. They're like, oh, he's done. And they just left.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They didn't want to see Ryan Hamilton. They didn't want to see Derek str.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay. I get what you're saying now. We're talking about a show that has happened as of this past yet to.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I got a stand ovation on Dusty show Tuesday night.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we all know that's not true. Let's get into the comments.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I guess you're right. I took that too far.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, too.

[Brian Bates]

Have you ever got to have some greater belief?

[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever got a standing of. I don't know if I've ever had a st. I got a partial one at the Opry once. And by partial, I mean, like, people.

[Brian Bates]

Get up to leave.

[Aaron Weber]

You can't make. He already made the joke. Brian. Come on now. Dude, it was like 30. I say like, 30. People stood up and I was like, that counts as standing.

[Dusty Slay]

This is what I say about standing ovations. I feel like that you people that are getting a lot of standing ovations, they say, all right, thank you. Have a good night. And then they keep standing there.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, that's the key.

[Dusty Slay]

See, I don't do that.

[Stephen Rogers]

Right?

[Dusty Slay]

The moment I say, thank you, have a good night. I'm out of there. I'm not looking. I don't want a standing ovation. I'm not trying to get them. Okay. But people that get a lot of them, yeah. They go, thank you. And then they just. Oh, they bow and they just keep going and they go, oh, I've had such a great time. Thank you, Cleveland. Yes, yes.

[Stephen Rogers]

When I. When I get one, I'm going like, thank you, everybody.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

And then I peek out until they all get up.

[Aaron Weber]

I opened for a Comedian who you've all heard of once, and they were talking about all the standing ovations that they'd been getting, and then it was exactly like you described. They just stood up there and waited, and then they came back to the green room like another standing. Okay, well, you stayed out there for five minutes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How long was Nate up there? Come on, he's in Europe. Just tell us. Yeah, well, I got a fake standing O, as I shared on this podcast. Then I got multiple fake Sandy nos after that, after sharing the story.

[Dusty Slay]

That's great.

[Stephen Rogers]

The ones after are real in a way.

[Dusty Slay]

I just think laughter is enough. I've asked enough of the audience. They bought a ticket. They've come to the show. Now they're laughing at the jokes. Do they really have to stand up for me in the end?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, now they're gonna. No at the beginning. Now they're gonna start standing up for you. That's fun.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Just you walking out.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll accept. I'll accept the coming out, standing out. That one's not cool. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Every now and then you'll see, like, a crazy pop in at the club, and that will get something like a.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's.

[Aaron Weber]

And you're like, well, this is awesome.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did you get a sanding? Oh, when you're special.

[Stephen Rogers]

No, No. I don't think I've ever gotten anything close. The only, the only thing I've gotten close to standing ovation is when I come out as the opener to. For them to do the encore, and they're already standing for that. It happens with Brian all the time.

[Dusty Slay]

You do a lot of encores.

[Stephen Rogers]

Brian Regan doesn't encore. So I'll come out and, like, so he can grab, like, water or whatever.

[Dusty Slay]

Was he do, like, his old jokes in the encore?

[Stephen Rogers]

Sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes people yell classics.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

The names of old jokes and stuff. But I'll come out and they'll be standing up there, and I'll be like, sometimes I'm standing there going, this is the closest I'll get. So I'm going to.

[Aaron Weber]

This is. Just enjoy it.

[Brian Bates]

You did a, you did a dry bar, though, right?

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did you get one for that?

[Stephen Rogers]

No, no. I, I, I told them ahead of time to stay seated. Just wow. To prevent it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the humble, professional thing to do.

[Dusty Slay]

I think they deliberately told you that everybody gets standing ovations just to hurt your feelings.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wait, is that a watch? No, that. Not everyone gets one.

[Brian Bates]

They used to. I think I maybe stopped.

[Dusty Slay]

Got watered down over time.

[Stephen Rogers]

I did mine right in the pandemic.

[Dusty Slay]

Even the dry bar people were like, all right, we can't keep standing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Ryan'.

[Brian Bates]

I just went back out there after the show and stood and had them. I mean, seriously, I've shared that story.

[Dusty Slay]

They're like, we're nice Mormon people here, but we can only take so much.

[Stephen Rogers]

If you look close enough at my standing ovations, it's actually just me edited in at every seat, standing.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, what were y'all doing? What were y'all doing? You know what?

[Dusty Slay]

This weekend, I'll talk about last weekend, too, because I was gone. I went to Virginia beach to the funny bum. Great shows. A lot of fun. Me and my buddy Derek Humphrey. A lot of fun. I got sick, and just a regular cold.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It was fine. I feel like every time you get sick, people think now that you have coveted. But it was. It was nice because I feel like that's done in my life. And I got sick, and I didn't have a fear of death. I just said, you know what I have. My throat hurts.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then that passed. And then I felt like I had a fever one night. And then I took some mulen extract or mullen, depending on how you pronounce it. And it's supposed to help get. Detox your lungs.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Then I started coughing. Start coughing up a lot of stuff. And now I feel like I'm mostly well, and it feels good. I'm no longer contagious.

[Brian Bates]

Did you take a COVID test?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't believe in contagion now.

[Brian Bates]

Well, then I knew the answer. But then you probably had Covid.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, how can you prove you didn't? Listen, they're selling flute. They test out, says flu and COVID test, proving they never knew the difference. They never knew the difference.

[Aaron Weber]

It doesn't tell you which one it is if it's bad.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Stephen Rogers]

Guess he doesn't even use a Q tip on his ears.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. The machine's like, how do you feel?

[Brian Bates]

I'm just glad I'm sitting on the opposite.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Now I feel good about.

[Dusty Slay]

This is the direction I'm going.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, that's true.

[Brian Bates]

I asked for Steven to come on just to have some more.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's right. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I get into stuff. I don't even know if I believe in the whole contagion thing anymore. I mean, I feel like movie. Well, yeah. I mean, just in general, I don't know that I believe that. If you're sick and you're hanging out with someone else, you can get them sick.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't believe that things are contagious?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if I believe it. I'm not saying I believe in germs. I don't know if. I don't know if I do.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

What about when you're hanging out with someone that had the same thing that you feel later?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I think it's cool.

[Brian Bates]

Coincidence. Yeah. Ceci's going the wrong direction.

[Aaron Weber]

Kid gets sick at school, comes home, the whole family gets sick. Coincidence.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't know. I'd have to see it. These are hypothetical.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Okay. But they're. They're really real.

[Stephen Rogers]

There are things that happen a lot.

[Dusty Slay]

Because, you know, you're already living with that person. So we're assuming the kid got sick at school.

[Stephen Rogers]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

But it may be. It was in the house. We're already.

[Stephen Rogers]

It could be in the house. Yeah, right.

[Dusty Slay]

It could be the. Your diet, your bad air in the house.

[Stephen Rogers]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You're. You're. You're showering in a lot of chlorinated water. Water. You know, our water has all this.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Our water is simply everything that we do, everything that we use water for goes into this thing, and then it goes into this water filtration plant. So all our water, our toilet water, our sink water, our dishwasher water, our. Our. Our washing machine, rain water, it all goes to this thing, and then we filter it out and then put it back in, and now we're drinking that, and it's. That's gross.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And so that's probably.

[Stephen Rogers]

If you have a British.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think Brita's, you know, does something, but I think it's one of the weaker ones. What you want is like a Berkey.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, how do you think you got sick this weekend other than being exposed to it?

[Dusty Slay]

Probably bodily abuse. You know, travel a lot of, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

So your body just.

[Dusty Slay]

My body's like, you need to take.

[Aaron Weber]

Created a virus.

[Dusty Slay]

My body's like, you need to take a break. You need to detox a little bit. So I gotta. I'm. Work some of these things.

[Aaron Weber]

Just a message from your body.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Your body is saying, hey, enough is enough.

[Stephen Rogers]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna. You're gonna take a week off, and I'm gonna extract some of these things.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That is fun to think about, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you picked up a disease and that's how you got.

[Brian Bates]

Not a disease, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, not necessarily disease, but you Picked up something.

[Stephen Rogers]

Stress is a big one, too. Just a random stress.

[Brian Bates]

You don't get stressed a virus?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm stressed. I'm constantly stressed.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

I believe that.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't imagine you pacing.

[Dusty Slay]

I. Well, I don't pay. I don't handle it that way. I don't think.

[Aaron Weber]

Just fetal position on the ground in.

[Dusty Slay]

My stomach and in my shoulder.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay. If you're talking gut health, that's where it all lives.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I have two small kids and I travel for work and, you know, I got a lot of things going on. I get stressed. I believe.

[Stephen Rogers]

I believe it's a. I. I could see you getting stress, sick a lot.

[Dusty Slay]

And people. I get. I get emails for my ticket sales for upcoming shows, which is. I don't need this. No, I don't need this info. You know, and, like, I've already done radio. I do a pretty popular podcast. I'm doing other podcasts. I'm making Facebook posts. I'm paying a social media team. A lot goes on. There's nothing more I can do about the sales.

[Stephen Rogers]

I don't see how we get sick.

[Aaron Weber]

I told him, stop including the walkout potential on these advances.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't need to see it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's only making me feel better.

[Stephen Rogers]

I agree.

[Brian Bates]

I was about to check a bag recently just so I could load my merch, and then they sent me the ticket count. I'm like, you know what? I do a carry on.

[Stephen Rogers]

I don't even need to go.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't need that much merch. Three shirts.

[Stephen Rogers]

You're wearing one of them.

[Dusty Slay]

And I, you know, I do a podcast with a guy that can't stop selling out shows no matter how big the venue gets.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

So you're like, okay, well, you just.

[Aaron Weber]

Added a ninth show at Madison Square Garden.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So that's.

[Brian Bates]

Are you serious?

[Aaron Weber]

No. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I think he's doing a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

I think he's doing two or three.

[Brian Bates]

Three?

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, I think three.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

It is.

[Aaron Weber]

That's good writing. I have been wearing the original stretch shorts. They fit me great. I don't know about that, but they went with the F. I went with the 5.5-inch length. I got some. I got some growing in to do.

[Dusty Slay]

It's 5.5 shorter. Long is that.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

This weekend I did the Grand Old Opry two times. I was at home.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But I did two sets at the Grand Old Opry.

[Aaron Weber]

Ticket sales good?

[Dusty Slay]

They were very good this weekend had, you know, nothing to do with me because the Opry, they. I love them and I think they love me, but they never put me on the sign out there. And so I. So I didn't have any.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you never been on the sign?

[Dusty Slay]

I was on the sign once, but I asked about it. They put me on the side.

[Brian Bates]

He was getting stressed.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian's first time to put him on the side.

[Brian Bates]

I know it was the first time, but I've been on this.

[Aaron Weber]

I've been on the sign too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

I haven't done it. They put me up as I was.

[Dusty Slay]

As I was leaving the Opry. I saw John Christus on the sign for his coming up show.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, John's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So.

[Brian Bates]

I saw a picture of you at the Opry.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, Yeah. I don't know if you have that. I don't know. You just mentioned showing it on there, but I wanted to demonstrate for. I do. My face gets red. Okay. We all know that my face probably red right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you post this on Instagram, this picture?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That we're talking about?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it gets red. But it's my latest post there.

[Aaron Weber]

I can tell you the Internet at Zany's is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Atrocious.

[Dusty Slay]

But I wanted to, because, you know, we. We used to. We had that video. Look at this, though.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

See on the screen versus my body down here. See, it looks like I'm on the face of the sun.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I see. I think this is one of those optical illusions where it's actually the same color.

[Stephen Rogers]

I thought it was a Cheetos ad.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's not the same color.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I don't think it's as drastic as you'd like.

[Dusty Slay]

It's pretty drastic.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, you look pretty. You're talking about the bottom right where you look really red.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay. This is another stress for me. But look at that. I mean, you can see a stark difference. Difference.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that there's like a maybe a half second delay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I would have guessed his hand's going down, but it's apparently going up.

[Aaron Weber]

Caught you mid wave.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's you saying, have a nice day.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Be safe.

[Dusty Slay]

So. But that was good. They were fun shows. I love the opera.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's great.

[Dusty Slay]

I love doing the opera. I had hot shows.

[Aaron Weber]

Had the family come out. That's awesome. They have to sit on the stage there for a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't have to, but you get to. Yeah, yeah. That's my daughter pointing.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

See, I'm out there. You can see me out there.

[Brian Bates]

Her face was red, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Going. Dad's bombing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That'S great.

[Dusty Slay]

That was good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

What about you, Brian? What'd you get into?

[Brian Bates]

You skipping yourself?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, don't we usually go?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but he started it, so. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but he's running the.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, fair enough. But he should have asked me.

[Aaron Weber]

If you don't want to talk about your weekend, you don't have to pass.

[Dusty Slay]

It to the left here. Pass it to the left.

[Brian Bates]

He shouldn't have even brought up his. That's what I'm saying. It starts here.

[Aaron Weber]

This is just what he does.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, you're right.

[Aaron Weber]

You're right.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm running the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

He Is, you know, the national car.

[Dusty Slay]

Whatever I want to do.

[Brian Bates]

Shut up, Dusty. The National Comedy Festival is going on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, sir.

[Dusty Slay]

In full swing, some might say.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I get frustrated with all the industry types, you know, hanging out.

[Aaron Weber]

Why they're great backstage.

[Brian Bates]

So I decided to do a show in Columbia, Tennessee, at the Packard Playhouse, just to get away from it all. For the people, for the people. For the real people out there. Get away from the festival for night. And as you guys know, there's been like tornado threats every day the last week.

[Dusty Slay]

I feel like flash floods.

[Brian Bates]

I was texting both of you guys in the middle of the night other.

[Dusty Slay]

Night, But I got 14 texts in two days about a flash flood. It's like, take it easy, guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Not all from Brian. From other people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, from the National Weather Service.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, you got it from the news.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

No, not the news. Probably. Probably metro government.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Mount Juliet police will text us every now and then. Yeah, that is true.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, I'm supposed to head down a tornado Saturday afternoon around 5:00. Tornado Warner comes right through Nashville and it was pouring down the whole way down there. I'm like, why did I agree to take this stupid show? Nobody's going to be there. And I get there and it was sold out. Oh, packed out. Great show.

[Stephen Rogers]

Because it was a shelter.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, the giving trick.

[Brian Bates]

People from off the street were coming in there just for safety. I'm doing stand up. They're like, I'd rather risk the storm. No, it was a great show. A lot of folks came and just had a great time. So thanks for everybody who came.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's.

[Brian Bates]

All right, Stephen, you're up.

[Stephen Rogers]

I this past weekend, I opened for Brian Regan in Charleston, Norfolk and Charlestown, West Virginia.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's where the camp.

[Dusty Slay]

Not Charleston, South Carolina.

[Stephen Rogers]

Charleston, South Carolina. Then Norfolk and then Charles Town.

[Dusty Slay]

Where? In Charleston, S.C. @ the Music hall. Okay. You mean Charles Carmody?

[Stephen Rogers]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. Guys, you guys are meeting Charles? Come on.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty gets real specific.

[Stephen Rogers]

It was a name I've never heard in my life.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Are you saying Charles Charles? I know that. I know that. West Virginia. There's a Charleston and a Charlestown.

[Stephen Rogers]

There's a. Apparently there's a Charleston, West Virginia, and a Charlestown, West Virginia.

[Brian Bates]

You were in Charlestown?

[Stephen Rogers]

I was in Charlestown.

[Brian Bates]

Not the capital of West.

[Stephen Rogers]

Not the capital of West Virginia. This is where a camp. What's the. The track. The horse track. It's in the Camptown. Ladies sing this song.

[Brian Bates]

Camptown races.

[Aaron Weber]

You know that one? This. Charlestown.

[Stephen Rogers]

Two words.

[Aaron Weber]

Charlestown. Space town.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

West Virginia. Population 6,500, dude.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

He had the whole town at the show.

[Aaron Weber]

Pretty much probably had a third of the town.

[Stephen Rogers]

Whole town was at the show. Yeah. Really fun shows. I had. My hotel room was facing the. The racetrack, so I just watched horses race all day.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Stephen Rogers]

It was great.

[Dusty Slay]

That's awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

That's cool.

[Stephen Rogers]

Living the life.

[Brian Bates]

How did they get Brian Regan?

[Stephen Rogers]

It's a great question. It was easy to get me.

[Dusty Slay]

I do like that. That was the question, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. Really, really fun. Good shows. And went to this really great steakhouse place in Charleston, South Carolina. And at one point. You ever been to one of those steakhouses where, like, they're the. The service is like its own show?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

They came out with, like, the meat. Like, they show you what it's gonna look like. Was it cut oak? It was. No, I think it was all beef.

[Dusty Slay]

No, the name of it. The restaurant.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, was your meat oak?

[Aaron Weber]

Longhorn. What was it called?

[Brian Bates]

They have a little barky taste to it.

[Stephen Rogers]

They had an onion that, like, bloomed. It was.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't remember any of the names of any of these places?

[Stephen Rogers]

I have it in my phone, but I don't remember it. It's the big one.

[Aaron Weber]

Charles Grill.

[Stephen Rogers]

Charles and seafood. I think it's Halls or Paul's.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Hall Steakhouse. Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Paul's Steakhouse.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that? We're talking about white gloves. Like, that fancy of a place.

[Stephen Rogers]

Very nice. And then at one point, they all come at once when, like, you're, like, your entrees are ready. They all come as a team, like Paul's Chop House. Paul's Chop House.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Well, it's slowly gonna get longer.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

But they all come at once and serve you all at once. Like Navy seals.

[Aaron Weber]

They place the plate over your. Your left, to your left. They come in from the left.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

When I worked at the country club, that was one of the things that ingrained in us.

[Stephen Rogers]

And Brian. Brian's sitting next to me where you are. And Brian looks at me, goes, they have a team.

[Dusty Slay]

You should tell him what you used to do at the country club when you worked there.

[Aaron Weber]

I was the buff. I was the buffet guy.

[Dusty Slay]

What about with the fries?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, no, that was at the nursing house.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Even worse.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wait, I want to pretend it's at a country club.

[Aaron Weber]

Why would he.

[Dusty Slay]

One of the. My favorite.

[Aaron Weber]

I want. After school. In. In high school, I worked at a volunteer. I had to volunteer, like, 80 hours at this nursing home. And I would.

[Brian Bates]

You could do ice.

[Aaron Weber]

I would do.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I'd do that part. Community service.

[Aaron Weber]

My high school, you had to. You had to have 80 service hours to go to the next grade to graduate. So I had.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's what they told you.

[Aaron Weber]

So me and a couple other guys from the high school, we worked at a nursing home. And I was. You know, you. You work. Help out how you can. I would do dishes.

[Stephen Rogers]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And it was after school, I was hungry. I would eat food off the plate all the time.

[Dusty Slay]

And plates that people bring back to the back.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That the nursing home residents are eating. And every night, like, French fries, you just go, obviously, I'm gonna grab a French fry. And one day, I was eating a french fry, and a nurse walked in and goes, oh, honey, no. And I said, what's wrong? She says, some of our residents will suck the salt off the french fry and put it back on the plate. And I'd eaten.

[Dusty Slay]

Dude.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd eaten maybe 500 french fries.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, my God.

[Aaron Weber]

I stopped eating those.

[Brian Bates]

He cut back at least.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, my God.

[Aaron Weber]

You see why it needs to be at a nursing home, not a country.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Much different. It's much different.

[Stephen Rogers]

How'd you hit him today?

[Aaron Weber]

We would get dudes the gentleman's card room downstairs where the. All these old men would play golf, and then they go. And they'd get a steak.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And they would eat the whole steak and then send it back and say it was cooked wrong.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, we do. The stuff that was said about these guys in the kitchen was so great.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, they're like, oh, he always does that. You know? And then.

[Stephen Rogers]

Does he get anything for doing that? Like, he gets money back.

[Aaron Weber]

You voided off their account.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And you go, well, you ate the whole thing.

[Stephen Rogers]

That happened at. I mean, this is much smaller scale, but I worked at a grocery store. I worked at the service desk, and people would return food, said they didn't like it, but they'd give me an empty wrapper to scan it to return their money. Money. I'm like, well, you ate it all. When did you realize you didn't like it? It's like you. You made a mistake.

[Dusty Slay]

And you also shouldn't get money back just because you didn't like it.

[Stephen Rogers]

No, you should.

[Dusty Slay]

Was it not good, or did you not like?

[Stephen Rogers]

I don't give audiences money back.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly. Because it's like. Yeah, there's preference. You know, you can not like it.

[Stephen Rogers]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

But was it not good. Exactly.

[Stephen Rogers]

It's two separate.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I did a weekend at the Huntsville Club where all weekend they advertised it as your laugh or your money back.

[Dusty Slay]

No. Oh, gosh.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was me. Dale Jones was the headliner and I hosted you. Talk about pressure, dude. Yeah. I'm like, well, even if Dale Jones does great, which you know he will, they could be like, well, the host stunk. Yeah, I want my money back. We did not get a single person request their money back.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, that's amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

It's pretty great.

[Brian Bates]

Look at this disclaimer at the bottom of the screen for the show I'm about to do.

[Aaron Weber]

This is give this context, Brian, for people listening. This is for the Ben Theater.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It's coming up April 26th at the Ben Theater.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a great theater. It's awesome. Yeah, you're going to love it.

[Brian Bates]

And then I see them post this.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And then I'm like, oh, what's that at the bottom with the aster? Comedy disclaimer. Comedy is subjective. All ticket sales are final. This show will have two feature openers before the headline comedian. They're like, don't try to get your money back.

[Aaron Weber]

We got to get out ahead of this one, boys.

[Dusty Slay]

They're like, we've seen the tape. And that should be the name of a tour.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's kind of subjective. The All Ticket Sales are final tour. Oh, that's so great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay. So what about you, Aaron?

[Aaron Weber]

I. I was off this weekend, but I filled in real quick. Mark Norman at the Ryman. I got to open for him.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

It was great, Norman.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Hey, so, yeah. Nice villain, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I mean, it just worked out. I was in town. I know Mark a little bit, but I got to go down there.

[Dusty Slay]

And that's the hard thing about being booked all the time, you know, you never get any of those fill ins.

[Aaron Weber]

I know, I know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they reached out to me and Dusty. Yeah, I was at the Packer Playhouse on Thursday.

[Dusty Slay]

I was open Thursday too.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I'm supposed to do something on CNN this weekend. They can't. They cancele.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Supposed to be on cnn.

[Brian Bates]

What are you going to do?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know what I.

[Dusty Slay]

Honestly, you're the victim of a crime.

[Aaron Weber]

Now they have. So they have a show like a panel show on cnn. It fell through, so I was in town and I got to open for Mark. Fiona Collie, who's a national comic, she did the show too. It's great, dude. That's like a perfect venue.

[Dusty Slay]

It's the. It's. I love it.

[Brian Bates]

Were you gonna go to Atlanta to do the CNN show?

[Aaron Weber]

New York City?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow. Excuse me. Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. The real cnn, dude.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, isn't it headquartered in Atlanta? I couldn't tell you. Anyway.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But yeah, I got to do that. And that's been pretty much it. Just been kicking it here at home, man. Excited to get into it. Get into these comments. What do you think?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm pumped.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, can I mention one more thing?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Well, two more things. You want to do the news now?

[Dusty Slay]

You go ahead and do the.

[Stephen Rogers]

I really like friends that go after each other, and they're not friends. I can't. I can't wait to have some one day.

[Brian Bates]

No, keep open. All right. See what I'm. My shirt here.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Merch has dropped. Now [e-mail]. just click shop at the top.

[Dusty Slay]

Turf Land.

[Brian Bates]

This. This awesome hoodie and a fun golf shirt. I don't have the golf shirt.

[Aaron Weber]

You have the golf shirt.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Pulled up right there. The neighbor Gutsy golf club.

[Stephen Rogers]

Nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's Nate there on the car. I think that's Nate.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it is.

[Brian Bates]

Other items will be getting dropped, so make sure to check that out. There's a Nate mustache.

[Aaron Weber]

He's just got kind of a five o'clock shadow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And he does have a mustache a.

[Brian Bates]

Little bit sometimes, so it's not a good shirt, but. I'm joking. I'm joking.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good looking shirt.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it looks good.

[Brian Bates]

And the Nateland hat right down here.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that?

[Brian Bates]

All that will be coming.

[Aaron Weber]

You get your merch.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

Oh, great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Great pods. Model episode. Who knows when it'll be out? But two fun podcast and.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh. Oh, boy. Brian's pulling something out from under the tip. Look at that.

[Stephen Rogers]

Whoa.

[Brian Bates]

Can you guys see this?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Describe it. Describe it for the listening audience.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I can't see it, so it's bedazzled.

[Aaron Weber]

It looks like bedazzled.

[Dusty Slay]

One person picture of the Nateland podcast. It's got our pictures on there. Did a very good job.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Made with beads.

[Dusty Slay]

Made with. Yeah. I don't know what it's made out of.

[Brian Bates]

So that. Well, all right. This is from Erica and Kathy Kessner. Yeah, the Kessner's. And they're huge dateland fans. They've seen us all in Columbus. Oh, wow. And she said our show has been blessings in our lives. Much laughter. Share with the family. This is a hobby of hers, diamond art. She had this custom design to do for us, and she hopes we enjoy.

[Dusty Slay]

Break that thing open. Let's split those diamonds.

[Brian Bates]

That's right. Nate will never know.

[Aaron Weber]

That's so cool.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome. That's awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

That really. I mean, we got to hang that up in here. Let's take down that Steven Rogers.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

No, no, no. There's other stuff you could, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. The Washington sketch is played out by this point. Like, we get it. Yeah. It's like. Yeah, the thing isn't what it is. Really great premise for.

[Brian Bates]

We get it. We get it.

[Aaron Weber]

You know? All right, thank you for that. The customers. That's really. It's really, really cool.

[Dusty Slay]

The Kessners.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Shout out.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, let's get into some comments.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and nateland@nate bargazi.com.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, most of them come from YouTube and natelandatebargetzi.com.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, Dr. Jason Hunnell.

[Aaron Weber]

Here we go.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron. Feeling exhausted from six shows in one weekend. Makes scientific sense.

[Aaron Weber]

What I'm talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm a neurologist.

[Aaron Weber]

Finally.

[Dusty Slay]

30 minutes of public speaking can be as mentally exhausting as an eight hour workday.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Dusty Slay]

And I do an hour 20 sometimes.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, my God. Yeah. You work a 40 hour workday.

[Dusty Slay]

Public speaking demands significant cognitive resources, including language processing, emotional regulation, and quick decision making. The mental fatigue that follows is similar to the exhaustion from a full workday.

[Stephen Rogers]

That is huge. I had no idea.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you like how I read that one? Do you guys like how I read that one?

[Stephen Rogers]

You. You read a doctor? Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. A hint of condescension.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You know, started off sarcastically. You're like, I kind of agree with this.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what, though? You're right about it. When this guy started off and he said, make scientific sense, I wanted to throw the papers. But as he went on, I go, you know what? This guy's making sense now. This is a doctor I can get on board with.

[Stephen Rogers]

This is something I would want hanging in, like my room and point to if anyone were like, you're not. What's with you today? You just pointed that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you got. I'm doing emotional regulation.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. Look at this.

[Dusty Slay]

Think about this, though. Think about this. If you do six one hour shows, let's just. Let's say five, make it easy. One hour shows, and each 30 minutes is an eight hour work day.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's 80 hour.

[Dusty Slay]

It's 10 days, two weeks.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

That you worked in a weekend.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But it is wild though after a show like they, you know, like thinking about meet and greets. It's like sometimes I come off stage and I'm just like I am so tired and it doesn't make sense that I'm so tired. But, but for sure, like you know, you do in an hour, hour 20 sometimes. And it's, it's a lot. Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

With the meet and greet being its own second show in a way because you're, you're non stop talking for the whole. They're fun to do but it is another.

[Dusty Slay]

It can be more work.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Sometimes.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

Rocket Money and the second Mouse also gets the rocket money. Okay. All right. Sean. Nielsen.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, Nielsen.

[Brian Bates]

Last week we talked about baseball, by the way.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Glad I missed that one.

[Brian Bates]

While we did it.

[Dusty Slay]

The biggest barrier to baseball reclaiming, retaining its crowning.

[Aaron Weber]

I was so curious how you were gonna address the slash there. And you just ignored.

[Dusty Slay]

The biggest barrier to baseball reclaiming, slash, retaining its crown as America's pastime is TV availability. The only big. Only the big, big teams are usually on ESPN or Fox or, you know, whatever. And even if you buy a season ticket on MLB TV or something, games can still be blacked out. Out. It's a real chore to watch baseball. I'm gonna have to agree with this. My dad was up. I cut. I got rid of cable. My dad came up. My dad's a huge Braves fan. And I was like, I'm gonna find you the Braves. I'll be able to find you the Braves. And I downloaded all of the. I was getting. I was getting different apps. This app, then this app, then this app. And you could not get the bra on all the apps. It would even show the Braves game and it would be blocked off.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's hard.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's. Yeah, it's like, come on, guys, let us watch the game.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

It's 182 of these things.

[Aaron Weber]

It is crazy. In Nashville, we're blacked out from the Cincinnati Reds and the Atlanta Braves, which is so frustrating. They do have. You can get FanDuel Sports Network. You can watch Braves games now, but that's another subscription fee. It's another add on that you have to do. It's like 20 bucks a month to watch it. But you can get the Braves games now. But it is incredibly frustrating. You go, imagine if Steven special coming out this week. He was like, well, you can't. You have to be in the Seattle area to watch it.

[Stephen Rogers]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Otherwise you have to come see him live. Yeah, you can watch it anywhere.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. April 11th.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm. I'm try to tie every comment into your special.

[Stephen Rogers]

Steven, Wouldn't it be great if each team had its own app?

[Dusty Slay]

It would be great. It would be great, actually. I think it would be great.

[Aaron Weber]

Or maybe just the MLB should have an app like they do and you can watch every game on.

[Stephen Rogers]

Right. That. Yeah, but obviously that's not.

[Brian Bates]

I assumed every team did have something.

[Stephen Rogers]

They'Re going to do.

[Dusty Slay]

I could not find the raves games. I mean, it was like. I was like, it's not easy. I can do this.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll show you how to set it Up. I mean, this has been a crusade of mine for a while, so I can. I'll let you know.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Anna Harvey. I can't believe you talked about baseball movies without mentioning angels in the outfield or sandlot.

[Stephen Rogers]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even know how baseball works, but I know that's from the heart. But I know those movies are essential to baseball movie conversations. But otherwise, great episode.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, I'm with Anna.

[Brian Bates]

Thought I mentioned the sandlot.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, you did.

[Aaron Weber]

We might have talked about it.

[Brian Bates]

I think I maybe said a little bit. Play like a girl or something.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you play ball like a girl.

[Dusty Slay]

We've talked about sandlot several times.

[Aaron Weber]

And they did the sandlot, too, that had girls on the team.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I do like baseball movies.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I mean, like, Kevin Costner has three movies, and one of them is where he throws the perfect game. That's a really good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Major League is my favorite comedy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Baseball movie.

[Stephen Rogers]

Major League Rules.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Rookie of the Year was a really good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Rookie of the Years on the Rookie. You watch the Rookie?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

With Dennis Quaid?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

I like actually a good. It's actually a good movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

You think it's gonna. I watched it recently. I thought it was gonna be like a kids movie where I go, it's kind of fun to revisit, but it stands alone. It's a good movie in and of itself. I think I'm just throwing it out there. That's my opinion.

[Stephen Rogers]

I haven't seen it.

[Brian Bates]

There was a scene in. You ever see trailers for movies and they'll have a funny scene and then it's not in the actual money.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Movie Major League, which came out when I think I was a senior in high school, there was a scene where somebody hits a home run off. I think Charlie Sheen. And then I think the catcher, Tom Behringer's character says, you know, that wouldn't. That ball wouldn't have been out of some parks. And he's like, name one. He says, yellowstone.

[Aaron Weber]

And good joke.

[Brian Bates]

You know, as kids, we thought, that's the funniest thing ever. And then you'll see the movie, and it's not in the movie. Movie.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow, that's a great joke.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I never seen that joke. I didn't see the trailer.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The flip side of that is you watch the trailer and it shows basically the whole movie, and you're like, I don't need to even watch the movie.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

See, that Too Used to be a.

[Aaron Weber]

Lot more of that there used to be, you know, the inner world.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, I missed that.

[Aaron Weber]

They haven't done that in forever. I can't remember the last time I saw Francisco.

[Dusty Slay]

Ruined that.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Little tortilla boy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, good. Thanks, dude.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's good.

[Aaron Weber]

Aaron Francisco. That's what they call me.

[Dusty Slay]

Mike Sellers. Mike Sellers seems like a relief pitcher. Mike Sellers.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. Left handed.

[Dusty Slay]

Bring in Sellers.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, I'm with you, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

After pitchers have made two pickoff attempts, they are still allowed to make a third attempt. But that third attempt must successfully get the runner out or he automatically advances to second base. But this option to throw a third time does keep the runner from taking as large of a lead as he wants. After two unsuccessful pickoff attempts.

[Brian Bates]

Let's get it out. We talked about this last week and I did not know that Henry said, well, after two pickoff attempts you can as far as you want. And I said, yeah, in the moment I thought that seems crazy, but that. But I'm glad to know this. I'm sure you probably did know that, didn't you?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I could have worded it that exact. You don't see that happen that often. So. Yeah, I don't know if I thought about it.

[Brian Bates]

That makes sense.

[Dusty Slay]

This is good. Mike Sellers, you know, obviously knows a lot about baseball. He very well may be a player.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, it was very informational. I had no idea.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, we got a comedian.

[Dusty Slay]

The next comment, Brian Hamilton.

[Brian Bates]

From Bridaho.

[Stephen Rogers]

Brappy face.

[Dusty Slay]

Talking about using robots for balls and strikes and okay, you gave.

[Aaron Weber]

It all for the first part of that. You realize you have a whole other.

[Stephen Rogers]

You would have thought that would have been bolded and underlined on Earth.

[Brian Bates]

Balance it out, Dusty.

[Stephen Rogers]

It's not in caps.

[Dusty Slay]

Talking about using robots for balls and strikes and all of you agreeing against it was surprising.

[Aaron Weber]

Agreeing against it, it's. That's an interesting word.

[Dusty Slay]

You gotta admit that's confusing. I would encourage you to look at game changing blown calls. While umps might be better all around calling balls and strikes, I believe those game changing calls are still wildly abundant. This guy, this guy worked hard on that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he sure did, dude. He probably somebody in his life. Hey, you mind reading through this real quick? I'm not sure it's saying what I wanted to say.

[Stephen Rogers]

I don't think when I have umps here that he's gonna really hit it. Right. He won't hit it.

[Aaron Weber]

I want him to really land on uncs. Give it A beat.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Oops. I like that.

[Brian Bates]

What's the worst call, Aaron, in baseball history?

[Aaron Weber]

It's gotta be James Joyce. It's the name of the. Calling the batter safe at first for Galarraga's perfect game. It's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Last out of the game.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys don't know. Perfect game. The last out. It would have been a perfect game, which is so rare. And he called him. Called him safe. And then it was the most. If you look at it, it's the most obvious out of all.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

The ump felt so bad about it, he cried.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And the next game, they had a moment of, like, forgiveness between the two of them at home plate. Oh, that's cool. It ended up being kind of a nice. Kind of a nice moment. Well, he felt horrible because he robbed. He robbed this kid of a once in a lifetime.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you just. But in that, you can't just. You don't get to just feel bad about that. You did. You robbed him of once in a lifetime thing.

[Aaron Weber]

But what else could he have done?

[Dusty Slay]

You lean. You lean to out. I say you lean to out. You don't make the call too quick, and you lean to out. If the stakes are I'm blowing this guy's perfect game or this guy on a team that couldn't get a hit, the whole game gets a hit.

[Aaron Weber]

Here's the play right here. Standing of it. Here's the routine play. He's good. He's at first.

[Stephen Rogers]

No way.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Look at the pitcher's reaction. He's like, you gotta be kidding me, dude. Everybody's. That was one out away from.

[Dusty Slay]

You just gotta go. You gotta go out. You better. Better off being wrong in that than, you know, it's like you just ought to retire.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Can they not switch it right here?

[Aaron Weber]

This is before. Before there was any kind of replay.

[Brian Bates]

Now they could. Right?

[Aaron Weber]

So now they could challenge it and this would get overturned.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's the best argument for doing it.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, he's so. Yeah, he's so out. And he's got a pretty great view of it right there. The fact that I even remember the ump's name is crazy. That's how. That's how big of a thing. That's. That's the biggest story I can remember of a loan call.

[Brian Bates]

Well, in Don Dinker in the World.

[Dusty Slay]

Series, that makes me. That makes up. I don't know if I can keep doing the.

[Stephen Rogers]

Why don't you like the. Why don't you like the moment of forgiveness?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, because you. You you just ruined this guy's once. This guy. This guy now would have gotten to say, I threw a perfect game one time, right. And said, he can't. And he goes, I almost had a perfect game, but this guy that I had to forgive the next day, ruined.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Here's the moment. We got the ump right here getting emotional. The crowd's booing him, but then the pitcher comes out, delivers the lineup card, and they have a. They have a moment.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I like that this guy forgave him.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He's a bigger man than you are.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

But now that guy should. It's just like, in that moment, you got to be better than that. You got to be like. Like, sure.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think anybody's.

[Dusty Slay]

You take a minute and you go, am I about to ruin a perfect game on a close call? Let me just call him out.

[Aaron Weber]

But you can't take a minute. That's the. It's. You got to make. He just made the wrong call. And he agrees with you. It was a mistake.

[Dusty Slay]

Call him out. Just call him out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I think he agrees that he should have done that.

[Dusty Slay]

Just call him out.

[Aaron Weber]

He just made.

[Dusty Slay]

That's unbelievable. I wish I had not. I wish I did not even know that happened. My life would be better off not knowing that.

[Aaron Weber]

But let me. Let me counter this interesting. Interesting thing to think about.

[Dusty Slay]

If.

[Aaron Weber]

If this guy Galarraga had thrown a perfect game. This is in 2010.

[Stephen Rogers]

Great name.

[Aaron Weber]

Thrown a perfect game. I don't know if I would have remembered that, but I remember this, and I remember him.

[Brian Bates]

It's a good point, Aaron.

[Aaron Weber]

And now he's in this great example of sportsmanship and forgiveness, and in a way that could be more meaningful than a. Than a perfect game.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, for you.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not actually for me, but.

[Dusty Slay]

But for the pitcher.

[Aaron Weber]

The pitcher, like that perfect game.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And the ump would not. Would like to not have that on his record, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Right. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They go, you a good. You a good ump? His grandkids, like, were you a good umpire?

[Stephen Rogers]

Don't Google me.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, for the most part. But I made, you know, maybe one of the worst calls. I made what Aaron Weber considers the worst blown call of all time.

[Aaron Weber]

That is true. That's true.

[Brian Bates]

But I like he feels all that.

[Aaron Weber]

I like this moment.

[Stephen Rogers]

I like this moment when people hear my name. They. They have reactions.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

So, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He's the only umpire anybody knows their name.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. He might be.

[Dusty Slay]

Cheers.

[Aaron Weber]

That's sad.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, there's. There's older him oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, reflecting on.

[Stephen Rogers]

And you can tell he's. He's over it.

[Dusty Slay]

He's still crying about it. Yeah, he should be.

[Stephen Rogers]

Man.

[Brian Bates]

I hope he doesn't listen to this podcast.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. Just another nice day to listen to Nateland.

[Brian Bates]

I love those guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Finally put all that behind me.

[Brian Bates]

I'm having a good time.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm all about forgiveness and stuff like that, but I just think in this moment, you're like. You're standing there, baseball. You're the umpire. You're one batter away from what's this guy's perfect game. And then the call is close. You know, the call's close.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You just go out.

[Aaron Weber]

You go out, and there have been 24 perfect.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

In the history of Major League Baseball, it is incredibly rare.

[Dusty Slay]

You just go out. Yeah, you go out.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a shame. I bet that guy.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't mean to ruin your day, too.

[Dusty Slay]

It's just I.

[Brian Bates]

You set the rest of this out.

[Dusty Slay]

I hate the whole. In sports, I hate bad calls.

[Brian Bates]

You'd rather robots just control us?

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, in sports. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And in life. That's how it starts.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd like the robots to just play the sports and be the umpires.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Joystick controller.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. Just run simulations of these games. We don't need to see humans.

[Stephen Rogers]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Austin Adams. One of my favorite Nateland Easter eggs is that Aaron had a We're having a good time sticker on his old laptop early on in the podcast. It was there all the way up until Dusty's first guest appearance.

[Aaron Weber]

You notice as I got to know Dusty more, that sticker is gone. Yeah, but I was repping early days.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you were. You know, you. You no longer needed it once I was on the pod.

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's fair. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We can't have. I mean, we already got so much Dusty stuff here in the studio.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's just flooded with dusty stuff.

[Brian Bates]

I can't add a dusty town.

[Aaron Weber]

I had a don't make me come back there sticker, too, before Nateland absorbed. Absorbed it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So how about that?

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if absorbs the right word.

[Brian Bates]

I think that's how Nate learned about both.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. I have stickers.

[Brian Bates]

He's looking.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me put one on. You got one on you right now?

[Stephen Rogers]

No, I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, there you go. That's the problem. These other guys are marketing themselves.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm gonna try the other half of weed, see if they got a sticker.

[Stephen Rogers]

They do. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Emily Hudson. That's an interesting way to Spell Emily. Do you see it?

[Aaron Weber]

Spell it out.

[Dusty Slay]

Emma. E, M, A, L, I, E. It's almost like Emily. Emily.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The Book of Emily. Something like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe that is Imola.

[Stephen Rogers]

I'm alive here for a minute. Can that be the.

[Dusty Slay]

My husband was born and raised in Oklahoma, not too far from Tulsa, and he's living on Tulsa time. And he and his family and everyone in that area pronounced Tulsa. More like Tulsa, Tulsa. So Alan Jackson might have actually been on to something when he rhymed salsa with Tulsa.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Where's Alan Jackson from? Is he from Oklahoma?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, he's from Georgia.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

Way down. Y on the Chattahoochee.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Where it gets.

[Dusty Slay]

Gets hot.

[Aaron Weber]

We don't need to specify how hot it gets. It gets hot, though. That's fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Well, that's interesting. Emily. Tulsa. Tulsa.

[Brian Bates]

Salsa. We learned something there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. All right. Thanks. Emily Jackson.

[Brian Bates]

Apologies.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Like Somali.

[Aaron Weber]

Somali. She could be from Somalia.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And that's an interesting pair. Oklahoma and Somalia.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. I was almost named Stu York.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron James. Yeah. Steven Rogers is not the only one who loves Alice Cooper.

[Aaron Weber]

Never said he was.

[Brian Bates]

I did, actually. It's a week you weren't here, and I'm like, you know, Stephen's the only person who likes Ellis.

[Aaron Weber]

The only fan out there.

[Stephen Rogers]

Ellis turns on Nateland, can't wait to listen to N Peaceful Ride.

[Brian Bates]

He's with James Joyce for some reason, hanging out.

[Dusty Slay]

When I first met my husband's family, he informed me that when his aunt had gotten divorced, rather than switch back to her maiden name, she legally changed her name to Debbie. Alice Cooper. She goes by Debbie. Alice.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Debbie went insane. Debbie divorce ruined Debbie.

[Aaron Weber]

It can do that, man.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Again, I imagine Stephen thanked Alice Cooper in his credits and special.

[Stephen Rogers]

It's the first person that's thanked. Yeah, it's an alphabetical, but, yeah. Alice is thanked.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you see who Nick Thune dedicated a special to at the end? No, it said dedicated to the guy at 7:11 by my house. And is that. This is gonna blow his mind. That's just so funny.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's great.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's really great.

[Dusty Slay]

Now he goes to that 711 every day. Hoping that guy watched it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

With the YouTube plan.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. Ye is Alice Cooper. Welcome to my nightmare.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

You like what he's doing?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I like some of his stuff. Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, he's great. Yeah, he's really good.

[Dusty Slay]

The missing link.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

This comment comes from the missing link.

[Aaron Weber]

We found it.

[Dusty Slay]

I Am furious that Brian didn't get swim lessons from Dusty. That would be unbelievably funny content. I mean, that could be an entire series on Nate Land. And the finale could be the legendary swim contest we've all been waiting there for. I started reading thanks before.

[Aaron Weber]

I wrote before.

[Dusty Slay]

Thanks for the laughs, fellas.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Last time you were on, Stephen, I think when I broke the news that I was taking swimming lessons. This guy's a former. What? College swimmer.

[Stephen Rogers]

I. I didn't go to swimming. I didn't go to college, but I was. Colleges wanted me to swim there. I didn't want to go to college.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't go to college.

[Brian Bates]

Me too. Me, too. Do. Yeah. They wanted me to play football in.

[Stephen Rogers]

College, but I'm like, oh, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, dude. Alabama was like, come play quarterback. I was like, I'm gonna do comedy instead.

[Brian Bates]

Well, the place I was taking swimming lessons made national news this week because people drown. They had flooding.

[Aaron Weber]

The pool.

[Brian Bates]

Flooded the whole point. Because of the storms here in Nashville. And Ruth said she was watching today's show, and they showed it like Boost Fitness Center. On today's show, like flooding, but the.

[Stephen Rogers]

Headline said, we opened a second pool.

[Brian Bates]

Now I can swim for free. Just stand outside the door. Yeah. So, yeah, I should have had Dusty do my swim lessons.

[Dusty Slay]

Still can.

[Aaron Weber]

Still.

[Dusty Slay]

Are you swimming now?

[Brian Bates]

Well, not at the moment, because they're flooded.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, are you.

[Stephen Rogers]

How far are you in?

[Brian Bates]

I took. So they closed for some renovations, and so I took some time off. I got to get back to it.

[Stephen Rogers]

Where. Where did we end?

[Brian Bates]

Me almost drowning.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's say right now you get thrown off a cruise ship. What are your chances?

[Stephen Rogers]

I think we know what are your chances.

[Brian Bates]

Not good.

[Dusty Slay]

We're all gonna die, though. If we do, we're gonna get eat by a lot of fish that follow the cruise ships around. Apparently, the cruise ships dump food and all their waste off the boats into the ocean. And so fish follow these cruise ships around.

[Brian Bates]

That's what Aaron was going with.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Brian's gonna get caught up and all that.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm not gonna make it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think, yeah. Just generally not being able to swim would. Even if there were no fish around, you would.

[Aaron Weber]

But, yeah, I think even if a. A good swimmer has no chance being thrown off a cruise ship.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But let's say you just jump off the. A dock into the lake.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Still gonna be all right.

[Dusty Slay]

Slip and fall in a puddle.

[Brian Bates]

Well, then I might break my hip, take a bath. Now, last week. Last week, Aaron proposed a. A golf competition to me and him where, yeah, I use clubs. He just throws the ball. I put some more thought into this.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I think On a regular 18 hole course, I think I would beat you because I think your arm would give out and I think those long par fives would get you.

[Aaron Weber]

But you're not hitting it straight. And how far are you hitting it?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I know it's true. I just think by the back nine, I would just beat you.

[Aaron Weber]

What's a good drive for you? Two. 200.

[Brian Bates]

That's a really good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. 200 straight.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's not happening every hole.

[Brian Bates]

No, but I.

[Aaron Weber]

But I feel like I can throw it straight every time. I'm not going to shank it in the woods.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if you could. That's multiple throws on 18 holes. You got to throw it as hard as you can.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, I think you're.

[Brian Bates]

I think you're probably right on a par three. I think you might get me because if you can throw it a hundred yards.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

So what you said.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, about a hundred yards. I mean, I'm crow hopping, but I can get it. I can get it there.

[Brian Bates]

Most par threes are about 150. Some of these small courses are 100 hundred.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You might be on the green every throw.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

I think you and I always. These two guys have checked out.

[Dusty Slay]

Nothing loses me. Like golf.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Baseball.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe golf isn't real.

[Stephen Rogers]

Crow hop brought me back.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

What's that?

[Brian Bates]

You don't know?

[Dusty Slay]

Wyatt. Wyatt Irwin.

[Brian Bates]

It's kind of like a baseball.

[Aaron Weber]

It's when you run before you throw it and like jump a little bit and throw. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wyatt Irwin. The more Dusty says about the fruit trees, the better the idea sounds to me.

[Brian Bates]

This is why he checked out. I want to get to this.

[Dusty Slay]

I live in an hoa and while I have much of a yard, all of the fruit tree talk inspired me to plant some blueberry bushes in pots. And I'm trying to get my neighbors to do the same. Very good, Wyatt. I just planted some blueberry bushes too.

[Aaron Weber]

Why is he trying to get his neighbors to do it?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's what, that's what the whole thing is. We're all trying to get the neighbors to everybody to plant fruit.

[Aaron Weber]

Why?

[Dusty Slay]

Because then we can all. You know, we're creating a society where we have our own food out here, here, and we don't have to go to the grocery store.

[Aaron Weber]

Flip side of that is, grocery store shut down. You now you're the Only guy with blueberries. You got some bargaining chips, you got a better chance of surviving.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, potentially. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just think you need to take care of yourself before you worry about the neighborhood. You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, but what if the neighbor. The neighbor has some blueberries too. So now you can feed more people.

[Aaron Weber]

But they don't.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron just purposely shuts this idea down. He knows it's a good idea.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, people thought I was serious when I was like, I think one when we were arguing, talking about the fruit trees, I was like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. You're out your debt, buddy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And somebody was like the absolute audacity for Aaron to claim that. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I wasn't even. I agree though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

They're crow hopping to conclusions.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

I try to use the word immediately after learning it.

[Aaron Weber]

That was good. Is this the kind of razor sharp wit we can express?

[Stephen Rogers]

I saw you look at it and I was like, I'm about to get insulted.

[Brian Bates]

I have to keep looking back because I want to reference it every time you say a joke.

[Dusty Slay]

You know that logo is good. Who designed that half of WE logo?

[Stephen Rogers]

Nate Land.

[Brian Bates]

The other half, that's good.

[Dusty Slay]

No, Tim Cochran.

[Stephen Rogers]

I guess I'm done with whatever I was going to say.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Steven, honestly, let's just move on.

[Dusty Slay]

You can go though.

[Stephen Rogers]

No, no. Tim Cochran probably said what I was going to say. Go ahead.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. I think we should all allow farmers to utilize the interstate medians and off ramp, off, on ramp, off ramp. Areas of agriculture instead of just mowing them. Fruit trees, hay for cattle, grain, parsnips, rutabagas, etc. I like this guy's thinking, but this is what I've heard, that things grown on the side of the interstates will take in so much carbon monoxide, exhaust and stuff like that that it actually can make it really bad for you.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow, great point.

[Stephen Rogers]

It's a great idea.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I think we could use it for non edible things and we could do more beautification. Do more. Put more trees out there. Yeah, more. Grow some hemp makes necklaces, you know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

But not even hay for cattle.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think it's good for them to eat it.

[Aaron Weber]

What about parsnips?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I don't know anybody eating parsnips. So I say, why not?

[Stephen Rogers]

When the trees do good with all that stuff too.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Stephen Rogers]

I didn't know how the right way to say it, but you know what I mean by this.

[Dusty Slay]

Cycle it out, take in the car dioxide, put out the oxygen I think it would be good to have more trees out there. I support that.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm all about more trees everywhere. There's not stuff. Let's put more trees.

[Stephen Rogers]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Christmas trees.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, if you want evergreens, yeah, sure. Unchopped down evergreens. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What about chopped down in your leaves?

[Stephen Rogers]

Living room giving trees?

[Dusty Slay]

No, absolutely not.

[Aaron Weber]

To celebrate the birth of Christ.

[Dusty Slay]

No, that's. He never tells us to do that.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think anybody's claiming he is.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

There's value in tradition. You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's my bad on that one.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Dusty Slay]

Help me pronounce this last name. Damon.

[Aaron Weber]

Damon.

[Dusty Slay]

Damon. Vince Guerrero.

[Aaron Weber]

That's on.

[Stephen Rogers]

I think that was a good job.

[Aaron Weber]

He sounds like a pitcher, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah, he does sound like a pitcher, but Vince Guerrero sounds like the whole name. We don't need the Damon in there. You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you don't even need a first name.

[Brian Bates]

Damon Vincent Guerrero.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's a good name. We were at Steven Rogers special taping and had a blast. He was so good.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes, we were.

[Dusty Slay]

We were at the early show and he messed up the intro to his Coffee shop. He had to start the joke over, but the way he did it was so. Oh, funny.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think he was this sarcastic.

[Dusty Slay]

Would a comedian consider including that reset in a tape special, or do you always go for the smooth option? Do you want me to read it better?

[Stephen Rogers]

No, I liked how you read it, especially smooth.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. All right. I'll read it in a normal way. No, we were at Steven Rogers special tape.

[Stephen Rogers]

I don't like this one.

[Dusty Slay]

And we had a blast.

[Aaron Weber]

We were at Steven Rogers special taping, and we had a blast. He was so good. Do you remember this moment?

[Stephen Rogers]

I do. I have unfortunately done it in both recordings I've ever done, like, for an album. And I do think those are fun, like, real moments in. In our shows and stuff. Stuff. But then you're like, well, does it take away from the joke? Does it. Is that what makes this joke funny? You know, so it. I decided against it. But sometimes it's. It is, like, the best thing. I have it. I think I kept it in my first special before he was super, which is on YouTube, and I kept the messing up thing, but I like recovering from, like, flubs on stage and stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

It makes them feel like they're part of, like, a. A special moment. And it breaks.

[Stephen Rogers]

And it grounds you, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it breaks the fourth wall a little bit.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. It keeps me in the present moment.

[Dusty Slay]

Which I. I like it too, in reality. But once the. Once you're, like, actually, like, I'm about to put the special out, I always opt to go, nah, let's just do it the right way.

[Aaron Weber]

Because if you didn't, your special would be three hours.

[Dusty Slay]

Hours long. But, like, you know, season two.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's why your show's an hour 20.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I keep going. No, no, no. That's not how the joke goes. That's not how the joke goes. Every joke three times.

[Brian Bates]

Starts back at the beginning of his set.

[Stephen Rogers]

Full swing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. We're in full swing now, guys. Shows in full swing.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. I was glad to see this comment because. Yeah, coffee. Sh. A bit. Because today's topic is coffee.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, now, do you drink coffee, Steven?

[Stephen Rogers]

This was a big, big coffee.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Okay.

[Stephen Rogers]

Coffee guy. Black coffee.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. How do you guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Black coffee?

[Brian Bates]

Straight black?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, just black. I never put anything in it. Are you the only one that.

[Stephen Rogers]

What do you do?

[Brian Bates]

Apparently.

[Stephen Rogers]

What do you do?

[Brian Bates]

I do some cream of sh.

[Dusty Slay]

Sugar.

[Stephen Rogers]

How much cream? How much sugar?

[Brian Bates]

One little creamer packet and one packet of.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, that's great. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. You don't do like caramel drip or whatever?

[Dusty Slay]

No, a little packet of caramel.

[Aaron Weber]

Froth it up.

[Dusty Slay]

A little packet.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course. What is that? I always see, like it's a cup of coffee. Then they make a little heart foam art.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but what is that that they're putting in?

[Dusty Slay]

I think a latte.

[Aaron Weber]

They're not putting. What is it that they're putting into? Just foam. Foam.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe Foam of what? Maybe steamed milk, steamed milk, Hot milk. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Sound gross.

[Dusty Slay]

Hot milk is okay. It's room temp milk. You don't want.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you ever. Do you drink hot milk before you go to bed? Why is that a thing? I've always. Look at me.

[Brian Bates]

Because I'm a glass of warm milk, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It sounds like something you put on your sleeping hat.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Has this candle. Candle in one hand, milk in the other.

[Brian Bates]

In my gown.

[Dusty Slay]

Could I trouble you for a warm glass of milk? It helps put me to sleep. You guys know that reference. You could trouble me for a warm glass of.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, that's.

[Dusty Slay]

You will go to sleep or I will put you.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's been Stiller.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Check out the name, Jack. You're in my world now, grandma.

[Aaron Weber]

Happy Gilmore too. Coming out soon.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it on Nateland YouTube?

[Brian Bates]

I looked up how I've already forgotten now how people, Americans take their coffee. I think I sent you the link to that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And pull it up.

[Aaron Weber]

Stall for about five seconds.

[Brian Bates]

All right. All right. There's a bunch of different methods for brewing.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes. There's pour over drip French press.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know what any of these mean.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I know from Dusty special.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, this too. You know those two.

[Brian Bates]

Pour over.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a French press I used to travel with back in the day.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Because I had a little hot plate. So I would heat up water on the hot plate, pour it into the French fr. French. French press.

[Stephen Rogers]

They must have thought you were making drugs in your room.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. I actually would put a towel. I would put a towel under the door so they would know I was cooking steaks on the hot plate.

[Brian Bates]

So pour over is the one that takes so long, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's like if. Yeah, but like if you're in the. If you're on. On the road, you can go to the. A restaurant and get a hamburger for 10 bucks or you can go to the grocery store and get a steak for 10 bucks and cook it in your room. It's like, why do I want to eat this Whack hamburger. When I can eat a whack, I'll have it.

[Stephen Rogers]

Whack.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. So pour over. Yeah, pour over. Takes a while while.

[Brian Bates]

That's your joke.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he had joking his.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Special special called Working man, which I watch on Netflix.

[Brian Bates]

When I was putting this together, I watched that clip. Very funny.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Laughing in my hotel room.

[Stephen Rogers]

Great special there. Come in. Oh, sorry. I'm doing on there.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so there's pour over drip, French press. Anybody else want to guess? Any iced cold brew?

[Aaron Weber]

I guess frappe.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Frappuccino. Blended. Blended.

[Brian Bates]

I guess espresso is an espresso's one.

[Dusty Slay]

Espresso. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Chemx.

[Stephen Rogers]

Chemx. What is that? Isn't that what made them the Mutant Ninja Turtles?

[Brian Bates]

A beaker, maybe? Fully washed Ethiopian. That's really special. That is a real.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's a type of Ethiopian car coffee.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, it's.

[Dusty Slay]

I drink a lot of Ethiopian coffee.

[Stephen Rogers]

I do too. I don't know what fully washed means. Still.

[Brian Bates]

It's a funny line.

[Aaron Weber]

They wash the beans, I guess.

[Stephen Rogers]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

It would seem that way.

[Dusty Slay]

They say a lot of coffee has a lot of. I think they say fecal matter. Like.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. Well, there's the cat poo coffee.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What is that?

[Stephen Rogers]

There's coffee that they feed. Like, I think they feed the beans to cats or something. And then the cats poop it out.

[Aaron Weber]

Out.

[Stephen Rogers]

And then they.

[Aaron Weber]

They.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I'm not familiar with that.

[Brian Bates]

What's the purpose?

[Stephen Rogers]

I think we need to go to the Internet soon. You want on that or get.

[Dusty Slay]

You have to get organic coffee. Otherwise it's so much pesticides on it.

[Stephen Rogers]

I. I went to.

[Aaron Weber]

They get burned out of there when it heats up. It's like pasteurizing it. You get that coffee hot. Dude, you're burning out all those.

[Dusty Slay]

I hope so.

[Aaron Weber]

Burning out those bacteria.

[Dusty Slay]

I hope you're right.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, dude, you get like even like a Loves truck stop. They burn all those.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So hot.

[Dusty Slay]

Actually, you know what? I'm glad we're talking about coffee. I was driving from. I was in Texas. What was the town? It was a. It was a great town. Had a great time. Beaumont, Texas to San Antonio. And I stopped along the way. I. Me and Connor Larson, we stopped at like a. A cough. The first place we went was close. This is a Saturday. First place we went, close, closed. Next place was like a food truck for coffee. It took. It took 20 minutes to get the coffee.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It was so long. I mean, literally 20 minutes to get this coffee. It was insane. And we got it. And then we're driving down the road. We're like. I don't even feel like I had coffee. And then so we. We go into another small town in Texas. I'm hanging out out front. I go in, I go, oh, it wasn't a coffee either, by the way. It was an americano, which is okay in a penny inch. Not the same. Yeah. It's espresso with a lot of hot water. So then I go to another place, small town. We. I was just raving about how cool this place looked in this middle of this small town. We go in, I order a coffee. The guy goes, all I got. He couldn't even come up with a word. And I go. I go, you're. You're. You're breaking my heart right now. I go, you about to say Americano? He goes, yes, Americana. I'll go. I go, yeah, I'll take that. And then I go to the bathroom room, and the girl's making the Americano. And then I see her pour milk in there. And then she starts call. She goes, americano, Americano. And I go, I'm pretty sure that's mine, but I didn't ask for milk in there. And she goes. She goes, well, I can make you another one if you want. And I go, nah, that's okay. And then I just left it laying there. I had already paid for it.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you just left.

[Dusty Slay]

I just left it. I don't want it. And I was so. I was so beaten down at this point. And then I go outside, and this couple comes out. Out. And I got. I'm kind of, like, in their way, and I'm a little depressed now, and I'm kind of in their way. And I go, oh, sorry. And then the guy goes, hey, big fan. And I go, whoa. I'm, like, mad depressed. Yeah. And then I went to Love's truck stop, finally, in desperation, and it was. It hit the spot.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

What I needed.

[Aaron Weber]

It was right there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. All along.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't even know what americano means. At a love stop. Yeah. We got a big pot of coffee back there.

[Dusty Slay]

There.

[Aaron Weber]

Pour it in a styrofoam cup.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Went to cowgirl coffee.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Cowgirls. You know that.

[Brian Bates]

No, apparently, that's a. Like, there's multiple locations.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Cowgirls coffee is like a co.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like a Hooters, but coffee.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. You been there?

[Stephen Rogers]

I'm fine. No, I'm fine with a. A Coffee shop. Yeah, I don't need that.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what, though? We went to that cowgirl coffee, and it was a really good cup.

[Stephen Rogers]

The coffee's good.

[Dusty Slay]

It was very good.

[Stephen Rogers]

I. Good coffee over anything.

[Dusty Slay]

Because in my joke, I. You know the joke, and it is true. The idea is, like, I was like, I don't want this coffee. I don't. I was like, I wanted to get good coffee, and I don't want, you know, strip club coffee.

[Stephen Rogers]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

And then. And then we saw the girl inside, and I was like, well, I don't know. Let's get a little. Yeah, get a little cup of coffee.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then it was really good. It was a very good coffee. She was at the show when we pulled up. The girl goes, hey, there was two sides to this. Right? Right. And the other side, there was a guy in, like, a. A Trans Am. Basically, that's what I thought about. The guy was in a Trans Am. And then we pull up. It's me and Evan Burke and Chance Willie, and we're in this car, and we had just done a show at the Grove, and the girl has been talking to the Trans Am. We pull up, and she goes, oh, I was just talking about you guys. And she goes to the Trans Am. These are the guys I was telling you about. And then, I swear, this guy, like, got a wheel speeding out of the. There he was. So it was like. It was like we just blocked this guy. He was so mad. He, like, sped away. I think gravel hit the side of the building.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

It was great.

[Brian Bates]

She'd seen you the night before at the show.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

This is in Arkansas.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, sweet. I'll go there then.

[Dusty Slay]

Fville.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then she said, I like living here in Fville. It's like the Portland of the South. That's what she said.

[Brian Bates]

I bet it is.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it is.

[Stephen Rogers]

I'm gonna go with no.

[Brian Bates]

All right. So coffee actually started in Ethiopia.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

It was used by nomadic tribes for thousands of years or hundreds, and wasn't until the 1400s that people figured out they could roast its seed. So the story is there was a goat herder name in Ethiopia named Kaldi. He noticed that his goats. Flock of goats nibbling on this bright red berry. And they seem to be more perky. So then he tried to eat some himself. Like, this is pretty good. So then he took it to a monk in a nearby monastery. The monk disapproved of their use. Disapproved the use, Threw them into the fire. Then an enticing aroma come out, causing the other monks to come in and investigate. The roasted beans were quickly raked from the embers, ground up, and dissolved in hot water. You'll building the world's first cup of coffee.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Stephen Rogers]

That's pretty awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

That was all in Ethiopia.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that. The monk. All it took was a good smell. He's like, you know what? Maybe this goat herder is onto something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, there's one better. There's one better. In Europe, coffee shows up, and it's essentially a real world metaphor for Islam because the Arabs drink coffee while the European Christians drink wine. So the Catholic officials and the. The Venanders, I guess that's the wine. People worried the beverage would catch on, so they went to Pope Clement VII to ban it. But unfortunately for the priests and winemakers, the Pope decided to try a cup of coffee before he made his decision.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

He was so taking with the drunk drink, he decided to embrace it. Said, why this Satan's drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels use it exclusively.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And then coffee was in Europe. You don't. All right, you're on board with that one?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know what went on there.

[Brian Bates]

Same thing. Same thing. Thing. They went to the Pope, like, you got to ban this. And then he tried it.

[Aaron Weber]

He tried it so good.

[Dusty Slay]

But why do you call it Satan's drink?

[Aaron Weber]

He was being sarcastic. He's like, okay. I think.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, because that's what the Arabs were drinking.

[Aaron Weber]

They were trying to pitch it to him as sex drinking. He's like, well, Satan, this. Satan's drink is too good. Let's all drink it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

A little sarcasm.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And then I'll keep going. In the United States now it's America, the Boston tea party happened 1773. You know, people in England drink tea. That was their big drink. And then they throw the tea over, and the Americans were like, we can't keep drinking tea. That's unpatriotic. So we started drinking coffee.

[Aaron Weber]

That's when coffee started being introduced, when.

[Brian Bates]

It became, like, the thing we drink more than tea.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

According to this.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's really cool.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And now we got Starbucks.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

On every corner.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Stephen Rogers]

I went to Costa Rica and did a coffee tour of, like, the. The bean plants or whatever. And I don't know what the bean farm and where.

[Brian Bates]

Costa Rica.

[Stephen Rogers]

In vineyard. La Fortuna.

[Dusty Slay]

The banyard.

[Stephen Rogers]

The beanyard.

[Aaron Weber]

The vineyard.

[Stephen Rogers]

And they were saying, like, places like your. Your Duncan and your Starbucks bucks. Those are bad beans.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

And they're like burnt and all that. You want a lighter bean, it's much stronger.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me guess. You want the beans that they had.

[Stephen Rogers]

Exactly. Yes, exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I agree. I talk about Starbucks being burned all the time, and so many people agree with me. And it. You can. You can get good. You can get really good coffee out there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's like Starbucks. I drink Starbucks a lot because it is caffeinated and it's dependable. But when you start drinking good coffee, it is not good. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, then it sounds like you shouldn't drink good coffee. All you've done is it just ruins other things for you.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I mean, you could say that about anything. Getting something nicer ruins the bad thing.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree. Yeah, I agree.

[Stephen Rogers]

Well, yeah, it. I mean, it's like you could have a really good. You're not going to be able to have a great.

[Dusty Slay]

That would be like you keeping your podcast going instead of doing this one.

[Aaron Weber]

How's your podcast doing, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

Not. We're great right now. Not been doing. Doing it for a while.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, you said Costa Rica. I would tell you about when I opened for Tony Tone, and I think about this all the time in Greensboro and somebody said something, he goes, where are you from? She said, costa Rica. And he goes, you from the coast of Puerto Rico? I was dying laughing. That's so funny.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's really good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but you were there.

[Stephen Rogers]

I was there. And then there's. I went to Merit Coffee in. In Texas. It's. I was with Dustin Nickerson and they.

[Aaron Weber]

Took us to Big Coffee Snob.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, Big Co.

[Brian Bates]

He's from Seattle. Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

And I. I'm blanking on where Merit Coffee's base, but we went to the Roastery or the Beanery and same thing. They showed us the. The beans and it was like, really good. The lighter the bean, the better the. The stronger the roast and all that. It's like become this thing that I really like learning.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. They do say that lighter coffee has more caffeine than dark coffee, which I wish that that weren't the case because I like a lighter roast, but I don't want to be so jacked up.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, I love it.

[Dusty Slay]

I make a fairly weak coffee at home because I don't want to be too jacked. I like. I like drinking coffee.

[Stephen Rogers]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I want to consume more of it.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's true.

[Dusty Slay]

And be less jacked up.

[Aaron Weber]

I like to have a headache and my eyelid twitches. That's what I try to go for. Before?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty, did you ever do decaf?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I was on the road with Henry last weekend. Henry Cho. And. And we both want to go take a nap in our hotel room, but we also both wanted a good cup of coffee, so we got decaf to tasted just as good.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, that's really great.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I can't support it.

[Brian Bates]

Why is that?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. There just something about it. It feels like Voodoo. Yeah. Mike, I don't. I don't know. I don't trust.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like a seedless water. Watermelon.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, seedless watermelon. Non alcoholic beer.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. All perfectly fine, but you don't like it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

When I worked, when I worked at the country club, when we would do big events like weddings and stuff, we would have, you know, you do coffee after dinner. And we had a big pot that said decaf and we had a big pot that was calf. And I'd walk around and go. And let me tell you something, dude, it was all caffeinated coffee. It just becomes. It becomes too difficult to keep them separate.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So we would just give everybody regular coffee.

[Dusty Slay]

You want to do in that situation is give them all decaf.

[Aaron Weber]

We want to keep the party going.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

You're right. That would make more sense because I think I. I remember I told my mom that. She was horrified.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You're gonna give somebody a hard.

[Aaron Weber]

Some old people.

[Stephen Rogers]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

In the restaurant we would do that sometimes be all D decaf.

[Stephen Rogers]

Well, that's probably why they were sucking on all the fries.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they need salt to keep hydrated or something.

[Brian Bates]

Do you know how they get the caffeine out?

[Aaron Weber]

How they get the what?

[Brian Bates]

The caffeine out of the coffee beans. Not like your fries. No.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you mean? How do they get the caffeine out? Are they fake beans?

[Brian Bates]

They soak the green seeds in hot water called Swiss water, process or steam them and then they use a solvent to dissolve the caffeine.

[Dusty Slay]

What's the solvent? Solvent.

[Brian Bates]

That's. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

So see, that's where they get you.

[Brian Bates]

It's.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's a trigger word for you.

[Brian Bates]

And the action extracted caffeine is usually sold to pharmaceutical industry.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that? Yeah. So they put caffeine in like goodies powder and stuff like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Probably.

[Aaron Weber]

So yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's.

[Aaron Weber]

Caffeine's good for a headache. That's why any BC powder, it's all got caffeine in it because that helps.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't know that also. Yeah. Just drinking water. Sometimes you just be dehydrated. Put a little salt in water. Not table salt, like sea salt in water. Drink it. It'll help your headache.

[Stephen Rogers]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or ibuprofen.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, yeah. You take the. Yeah. You take their drugs or you just have a little salt.

[Stephen Rogers]

There?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

Imagine. Yeah. Dusty walking through like. Like the ER of some hospital. Y'all just gotta use some salt.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. Anybody got any salt?

[Aaron Weber]

I got shot in the face last night. Well, have you tried a little.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I didn't say all pain, you know, it's like, you might.

[Aaron Weber]

I have a tumor in my head.

[Stephen Rogers]

Well, I heard that when my mom was giving.

[Aaron Weber]

You have a fruit tree in your yard?

[Stephen Rogers]

When my mom was giving birth to me, she asked for salt water.

[Aaron Weber]

You want an epidural? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Bring over some salt.

[Dusty Slay]

Make sure and take. You've heard about, like, they give birth in the bathtub.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Put some salt in there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Epsom salt. Get it going.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty, would you ever consider growing your own coffee beans?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I want to.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, that's a great idea.

[Brian Bates]

It wouldn't work because.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's what I think.

[Brian Bates]

That's the right environment.

[Dusty Slay]

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

[Stephen Rogers]

That was so great.

[Dusty Slay]

I want to, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you mean? Is that Tennessee specifically or all of them? America?

[Brian Bates]

Well, it has to. All of America. So, I mean, I think some in Cal. I think California. You got to have the right environment.

[Dusty Slay]

California is. It's like, man, I wish there were different. There were different things about California because it's so good for growing. It is the growing state. The coffee belt, but they ruined it.

[Brian Bates]

Is the coffee producing region where coffee can grow. It's located between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, basically around the equator. Equator?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's 50 countries. Africa, Asia, Central America and South America.

[Aaron Weber]

You hit the E hard.

[Dusty Slay]

That's why I want us to really like.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that how you say it? You hit the E hard? You read that like Dusty, One of Dusty's comments. Right in the equator.

[Dusty Slay]

That's why I'm like. The drug cartel situation in Mexico. That's why I'm like, why don't. How. How are we not just working that out so that we can just hang out in Mexico and grow? I'd love to buy a little land out in Mexico and I think you can. I know, but it's like, I don't know. They've scared you about it. Maybe it's super nice down there. Who knows? But the climate's great. We could grow a lot of things. NAFTA now.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think everything's yellow there.

[Stephen Rogers]

Have to do more research.

[Aaron Weber]

You watch Breaking Bad.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, second they go to Mexico, everything's just.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, the filter.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the filter is crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Sakario.

[Aaron Weber]

And then I. When I went there, I went to Mexico once and everything. Everything's the same color. The trees are green here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

You're driving across the border. You see the yellow. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just driving it. That's what I thought it would be, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Brazil is the most producer since 1852.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Brazil.

[Aaron Weber]

That's. That guy. What's the guy's name?

[Dusty Slay]

Juan. Juan Valdez.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is he Brazilian?

[Brian Bates]

He was Colombia.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, well, that would be different country.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

I think Brazil too, You know, I don't know. They say Brazil's dangerous, but I think that it'd be so great to be able to just own some land down there, have a. I'm about ready to make a bunch of money in comedy and then quit and move to a. A remote island place like that, just grow coffee.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Brazil's not an island like Mexico.

[Dusty Slay]

Like an island. Island place. Like. You know what I mean?

[Stephen Rogers]

Tropical.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Near the equator.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He's making fun of the way I said it, which he's.

[Aaron Weber]

Equator.

[Stephen Rogers]

When I went down to.

[Dusty Slay]

I say equator, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah, Like Ecuador. Down there.

[Dusty Slay]

You say equator.

[Aaron Weber]

Equator.

[Dusty Slay]

Equator.

[Aaron Weber]

How do you do? Okay, so like two plus two equals.

[Dusty Slay]

Equals.

[Aaron Weber]

But what do you call the whole thing?

[Dusty Slay]

The answer.

[Aaron Weber]

No, the.

[Brian Bates]

The sum.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, the equation.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the. Yeah, the equation. Equation.

[Dusty Slay]

Equation. Yeah, yeah, the equation.

[Aaron Weber]

But you do say equals. You're right.

[Dusty Slay]

Equals.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't say.

[Dusty Slay]

Equals. 2 plus 2 equals what? Draw that on somebody.

[Brian Bates]

The equator.

[Dusty Slay]

What's that equal to you?

[Stephen Rogers]

That would be a great way to have someone lose their mind.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, my God.

[Aaron Weber]

And everybody's saying it that way.

[Dusty Slay]

This is equal here. Is this equal?

[Brian Bates]

Do you say e? Commerce.

[Dusty Slay]

EchoCommerce.

[Stephen Rogers]

I've been working out at Equinox.

[Aaron Weber]

That's true. But E is a prefix for me.

[Brian Bates]

Also for equator.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So it's just quader. Electronic quader. That's the way you say it. The equator.

[Brian Bates]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Imessage. Imac. Equator.

[Brian Bates]

That's right. That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Email.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so the traditional method of.

[Dusty Slay]

Growing coffee, it's an electronic quote waiter.

[Brian Bates]

That's right. Traditional method. So what? We just.

[Aaron Weber]

One, two minutes.

[Brian Bates]

The traditional method of planting coffee is to place 20 seeds in each hole. The beginning of the rainy season. But this method loses about 50% of the seeds potential. It's about half fell to sprout. You would know this dusty. A more effective process of growing coffee used in Brazil is to raise seedlings in nurseries. They're then planted outside after six to 12 months.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Raising seedlings is always the way to go with anything.

[Aaron Weber]

What does it mean to don't walk.

[Stephen Rogers]

Out on your seedlings?

[Dusty Slay]

Well you get, you know, so you see you get a tray of like dead beat farmer like 10, 10 little seed pods.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And then you put your, you can put one seed per pod like a little beer flight. And then.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then whatever grows, you know, then you can go and plant that out. You don't have to waste so many.

[Aaron Weber]

Why don't they do coffee flights at coffee shops?

[Stephen Rogers]

I love that so much.

[Aaron Weber]

If you want to try a different. I want to try an Americano. I want to try what you're fr. I like try all that different roast. Just, just do it out and then I'll try a little bit of each.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet there is some place that does something like that. But it'd be hard to work a latte and an American and all that. That's.

[Stephen Rogers]

You just burn your mouth on each one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh. Because they're all pretty labor intensive to make. Why can't you have them all pre made?

[Dusty Slay]

And most people are not. And I'm not saying I, I can't either. But most people are not going to be able to taste the difference in like the roast.

[Aaron Weber]

But I could taste the difference in a cold brew versus a black coffee.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I want to try both.

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[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, when.

[Stephen Rogers]

When they tell you because you the three of us are black coffee drinkers. When they tell you like the different.

[Dusty Slay]

You're out of this one.

[Aaron Weber]

You're right.

[Brian Bates]

You said it.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian, take a laugh real quick.

[Stephen Rogers]

But like when they tell you the different notes, like this one's got a chocolate thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

All these other stuff stop you right there.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never been to a place like that. But really down to now I haven't.

[Dusty Slay]

I have.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what I'm talking down to the tuna.

[Stephen Rogers]

Taste any of that?

[Dusty Slay]

It just depends. I mean sometimes you can, but sometimes it's like. Yeah, it's a little. A little much.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. That was.

[Brian Bates]

Face gets too red, you know, it's a little too much. That's how we tell. They tone it down.

[Stephen Rogers]

Boys, they'll tell you so much. And I'm like, just in the cup.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

I don't know. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean it's like that Beer, liquor, wines, all that can be like that where they get too into it. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I. Is. This is a good one. That's what I'm like, this is a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Beer before liquor, never been sicker.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know the second part?

[Dusty Slay]

Liquor after beer. Never fear.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, I heard you're in the clear.

[Aaron Weber]

In the clears.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. What's that?

[Stephen Rogers]

I said they kind of talk to each other.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This guy's quick.

[Stephen Rogers]

Dude, half of we April 11th, I keep looking at this like I have stuff on it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes. I had to put it away. I don't know what I'm doing.

[Brian Bates]

There are two main types of coffee beans. Arabica, which is generally more highly regarded, and robusta tends to be bitter and has less flavor but a better body than a rabico.

[Aaron Weber]

Better body.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So what does that mean, better looking? That means robusta went to the prom and arabica did not.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Ravica's got money, but robust is looking good.

[Brian Bates]

Robust is bitter and she has less flavor but a better body.

[Stephen Rogers]

So trying to set you up with Arabica. And she's sweet.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, she's a nice. But robust is where to go.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I've always said that more robust, lesser the better.

[Brian Bates]

So do you guys think coffee is good for you?

[Dusty Slay]

I think so. In moderation. Yes.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I don't believe whatever this paper says.

[Brian Bates]

2017 reviews said coffee is good for you in moderation.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

So you don't believe it. So, okay, it says, can cause harm.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. This is what I've been working on. That is. I'll. I'll hand it to you, Dusty. That's a more. Much more vibrant shade of red. Yes, but I think it's. I can't really tell where it starts and where it.

[Brian Bates]

You know, if you're listening, it's. Just watch it. I don't know how to explain.

[Aaron Weber]

He gave up trying. I took the red for the picture you talking about earlier. It is a. And he look. Does look more red in the.

[Stephen Rogers]

That was wonderful.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry about that. I got a little distracted. Sorry. He.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty had a legendary moment at the Predators game where he was kind of ringing the bell and got really red.

[Dusty Slay]

It's the thing where you wind up. It makes the sound. And I was winding and the lady told me, she goes, whichever way you wind it, it'll catch on and make sound. But I kept whining, kept whining, never caught on. So on my own, I flipped the other way. And then. And then I look up and my face is just like blood red.

[Brian Bates]

On the jumbotron.

[Dusty Slay]

On the Jumbotron. But, man, I worked that thing.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway. Three to four cups of coffee daily is okay. Anything.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, great.

[Aaron Weber]

Three to four.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot, huh?

[Stephen Rogers]

It feels like a lot when you're doing it. That's great.

[Brian Bates]

The coffee break originated in Stoughton.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I remember that little paper. Little pamphlet I used to read. The Coffee Break.

[Aaron Weber]

What is that?

[Brian Bates]

Is that a. Well, I mean, I guess it is a pamphlet. I don't. But it's. You never heard of coffee break? Like at work? Like.

[Aaron Weber]

Like a water coffee break?

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They used to be a little news magazine.

[Stephen Rogers]

I never knew about that.

[Aaron Weber]

Talk about a communist Reader's Digest.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. I don't know. The Coffee Break.

[Stephen Rogers]

Have you heard the good news?

[Brian Bates]

It originated in Stoughton, Wisconsin, when immigrant men became employed at this wagon factory. Agree. And they said, we'll agree to work there in the condition that we can go home early every morning and afternoon to tend to chores and Drink coffee.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Now the city of Stoughton celebrates the coffee break every summer with the Stouton Coffee Break Festival.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Dusty Slay]

Took away the break, but now we have a festival for it.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

No stout and coffee break festival.

[Aaron Weber]

What kind of hole do you think.

[Dusty Slay]

They took away the break?

[Stephen Rogers]

There's no more break during the day.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I got you.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you think, think if terrorist or terrorists come into America, obliterate our coffee supply? Do you think how much do you think that impacts American life?

[Stephen Rogers]

A huge amount.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I've taken breaks from coffee before, so I know that I would be fine. I would adjust and just not do it right. But there are people that I see at Starbucks really early in the morning getting giant espressos and things like that where it's like, like you would never make it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there's definitely a physical dependency on it. But I mean, even just how much is tied into the fabric of our lives? Like we've got our entire workday structured.

[Stephen Rogers]

Around the amount of people I see doing their job at the coffee at a coffee shop. Like I'll go in there and I'll write in the morning at my local coffee shop for maybe I'll be there for like an hour.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course you do.

[Stephen Rogers]

And I, I have, I have rules.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Stephen Rogers]

Because my rule is I have to have something in my cup. If my cup is empty, I have to reorder or I have to go. I, that's my rule. I'm very strict about it.

[Dusty Slay]

An hour's not bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you face the wall or do you face the whole Starbucks? So everybody unfortunately. Oh, I'm writing.

[Stephen Rogers]

Unfortunately mine. There is no wall to face. Yeah, that's why I picked it. You know, I also have my, my QR code on my table.

[Dusty Slay]

I support, I, I support coffee shop writing. I'm a bit. You know, when I used to go to Kudu Coffee, my friend Charles Cory would come in there. I'd be writing.

[Brian Bates]

Charles.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Now how many, like, what's the limit of someone allowed in a coffee shop for? Cuz I, I feel like it's a.

[Dusty Slay]

Very opinion, I think alone writing like that. If you're not ordering over and over again. I think an hour, I think an.

[Stephen Rogers]

Hour you have to be working if you can't be scrolling.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

If you're, if you're buying, hang out all day.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you feel it out if you're taking up like if they're trying to turn over tables, there's. Get out of there.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. There's like, I Think six to eight tables at my coffee shop.

[Dusty Slay]

If you have a server also, that's another thing.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You gotta. You gotta either tip in a way that they know you're gonna take care of them.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You're worth the turnover they're missing. Or you gotta get out of there.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw a thing about Eminem when he was a kid. He would go to Burger King. King. You buy one drink at the Burger King, and then that gave you license to just sit there all day.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So they would just sit all day at Burger King refilling the drink.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

So, you know, it's like a lower form of what you're doing.

[Stephen Rogers]

A lot of people have said I'm like, Eminem.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Where do you.

[Dusty Slay]

You explain that on half.

[Aaron Weber]

Eminem.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's good.

[Stephen Rogers]

Eminem, April 11th.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where do you guys. Guys mostly get your coffee? At home or at a coffee shop?

[Stephen Rogers]

Both. I order. Cough. I order from merit that I mentioned earlier. And then I go to my local coffee shop and. And so I'll make some at home, but I'll go start my morning in a local coffee shop.

[Dusty Slay]

I order most of mine.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But I do like to go to coffee shops. Yeah, we like to go get. You know, me and my wife would like to go get a strong coffee once in a while.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, I hear you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. Spice things up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I very much think of coffee as a means to an end. Unfortunately, I don't really enjoy coffee the way that you guys do. That's a shame. No, that doesn't make. That's just. I'm. I'm jealous of you guys. Yeah. It's. So I drink. They got a Keurig at my house. I put a little plastic pod in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Kroger brand donut shop coffee. Fills up a coffee. I mean, 10 ounces. I down it before it gets cold. Yeah, I love it.

[Stephen Rogers]

Great way to start your donut.

[Aaron Weber]

Great way to start it. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I got rid of my Keurig.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, why is that?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I buy coffee. I buy whole bean coffee. And then each morning I grind a little bit of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you love it.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I. It takes 10 seconds.

[Stephen Rogers]

No, it's. It's great.

[Aaron Weber]

It takes.

[Dusty Slay]

And then. And it's fresh. You can smell like. Much like the monk in Ethiopia. I can smell the aroma. And then I put it into my coffee pot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I use the brown filters. I like to use the brown filter.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like nine steps. I don't have to do. I just put it in and Press go.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. You have to get the thing out of the box. You have to put it in. You have to lift it up, and then you crush it down. And then it goes, oh, water's low. And then you got to go fill.

[Stephen Rogers]

The water and you got to reopen it. It goes. You didn't put the. You have to do it in the steps. So then you already have the pod in there. It releases the pod.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think it's way more intuitive plastic.

[Dusty Slay]

So you get a lot of microplastics.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go. That's what I'm talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All those microplastic is burned out from that.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

They get burned. They burn out the microplastic.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There was a tick tock reel that went viral. The guy basically saying that, that it. The microplastics are causing people to get sick. And anyway, more testing is required.

[Dusty Slay]

It says, I told you before, the Farmers Almanac has it in the back of the Farmers Almanac, it tells you what plastics are. Okay. And every. Everything.

[Aaron Weber]

Which. Which Farmers Almanac. This year?

[Dusty Slay]

Every year.

[Aaron Weber]

So in like the 1700s, they were talking about plastics.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I mean, you know, recent years.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, who's writing the Farmer's Almanac?

[Brian Bates]

Franklin.

[Aaron Weber]

Benjamin Franklin did originally. But who's writing it now?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

It's probably some scientists.

[Stephen Rogers]

Benjamin Franklin's ghostwriter.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think it's scientists.

[Aaron Weber]

Who do you think it is?

[Dusty Slay]

It's farmers.

[Aaron Weber]

Farmers Predicting the meteorology and talking about plastics and all that kind of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

They've evolved.

[Aaron Weber]

Why do you trust them?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I trust them because what they're saying is, hey, there's certain plastics. And right here, this is what I'm looking for. See this, this little triangle has a number in it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And that number in the Farmer's Almanac, it'll break down whether those numbers. What numbers are safe for 27. Yeah, I think yours is 27.

[Stephen Rogers]

27.

[Dusty Slay]

I think I just said seven.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, nope, that's a seven. I was looking at it weird.

[Dusty Slay]

So then it tells you call a doctor. Like, I have a shaker bottle. You know, one of those workout shaker bottles.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

And the BPA free. The bottom part of the bottle has a triangle and it has a number in it. And in that number it says, it is safe for food and human consumption. But then you take the lid off, inside the lid, different number. And that number says, not safe for food or human consumption.

[Stephen Rogers]

So inside the thing that you're drinking.

[Dusty Slay]

The lid why is. You're drinking it, you should not eat the lid, you should not drink, you should not put food in the lid.

[Stephen Rogers]

Okay, but it doesn't count if it's touching the lid on the way out.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it does. I stopped using the bottle.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

And then the Keurigs, like, you buy the Starbucks Keurigs. That number on the plastic actually says it's safe. Yeah, but I buy organic coffee Keer rigs Publix brand, which I love Publix, but I use that. And their Keurig cup says not safe, so don't do.

[Stephen Rogers]

What's the number? What's the safe number?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I have it at home. I don't have them memorized.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Most scientific analyses of the accuracy of Farmers Almanac forecasts have shown a 50% rate of accuracy. All.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm talking. I'm not talking about following the entire pharmac.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm just talking about stuff that agrees with you.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just talking about the plastic. It's not agreeing or disagreeing. Agreeing with me, because, you know, this is an entire book. I'm talking about one page. I'm not. I'm not getting into the astrology of the Farmer's Almanac.

[Brian Bates]

The only time I hear about it is when they predict how many snows we're gonna have.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'm not vouching for them, but I'm just saying they're giving us some information on the plastics, right? And they're saying this stuff is okay for you to use for food. This one's not. That's all I'm saying.

[Stephen Rogers]

So you grind your beans.

[Dusty Slay]

And I avoid the Plastics.

[Stephen Rogers]

I. Yeah, I. I didn't know any of that.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you learn a lot here for me on this.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I get a lot of crazy.

[Stephen Rogers]

You weren't here last time I did it. I didn't learn it as much.

[Dusty Slay]

I know you don't learn a lot without me around. You won't. You won't learn much.

[Brian Bates]

Do you read the Farmer's Almanac for other things?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I bought it, actually. I saw Tick Tock on this thing, so I bought a Farmer's Almanac just for the. That Plastics.

[Brian Bates]

Ah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't. Yeah, I mean, I don't care about. I'm not a farmer. I mean, I grow things, but I'm not a farmer. I don't care about that sort of stuff. And they do get into a lot of astrology and a lot of weird stuff that I'm also not Into.

[Stephen Rogers]

Sure. The Farmers Almanac gets into astrology.

[Dusty Slay]

They get into a lot of stuff.

[Brian Bates]

I would not have thought that.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But I mean, I think that to some degree, there's astronomy, there's astrology, there's somewhere you're like, you're trying to, oh, I was born on this day, so this is going to happen to me today. But there's also, you know, astrological signs of, you know, throughout our human history, these have been this way. And they've been able to predict certain things based on the Star 50°. Well, according to the. But listen, this is Wikipedia. They're going to slander the Farmers Almanac.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. Wikipedia has a financial incentive to slander the Farmers Almanac.

[Dusty Slay]

I agree. Yeah. I mean, astrology. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Most people know their. Their sign, but they don't know their blood type. Another joke from.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Cup of joe. You guys ever heard cup of Joe?

[Aaron Weber]

Cup of Joe?

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, I've heard of cup of Joe.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't ruin his whole special here, guys.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I guess I'm giving away too much.

[Stephen Rogers]

He didn't do any of the punch lines. I didn't either.

[Dusty Slay]

He never.

[Brian Bates]

I'm giving away too much. I'm sorry. It's sometimes called cup of Joe. There's three theories on what. Why it was called that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

During World War I, the Secretary of Navy, Joe Daniels banned alcohol Navy ships, which meant the strongest drink available was black coffee. So sailors began referring to coffee as a cup of joe.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that.

[Brian Bates]

That makes sense. Some think it just comes. Coffee means jamoke or mocha java, and they just shorten it to Joe.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't see mocha java turn into J. Go myself.

[Aaron Weber]

But what about jamoca? Like, you go to Arby's, you get a jamoka shake. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Jamoca comes from mocha job.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a coffee you never had A jamoka shake?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Stephen Rogers]

Sloppy jamoca.

[Brian Bates]

And just some say it's the drink of the average Joe.

[Aaron Weber]

Look at that, dude.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Joe mocha shake.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. I'm thinking Arby's.

[Aaron Weber]

I sure am.

[Dusty Slay]

Where's the meat? No, that's.

[Aaron Weber]

We have.

[Stephen Rogers]

We have the beats.

[Dusty Slay]

What was that?

[Aaron Weber]

Where's the beef?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's Wendy's.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

No, it's Wendy's.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wait, which one's Wendy's?

[Brian Bates]

Where's the beef?

[Aaron Weber]

Quiznos is good.

[Dusty Slay]

I think Quiznos used to say, where's the beef?

[Aaron Weber]

Quiznos is tasty, right?

[Brian Bates]

Well, they stole it from Wendy's because.

[Dusty Slay]

They were saying they were. It was shots at Subway. They were saying Subway had just using a little bit of meat. But Quiznos was using a lot of meat, right? Yeah, yeah, but we have the meats. That's Bing Rhes.

[Aaron Weber]

That's Arby's. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

When I was a kid, there was a very famous commercial. Commercial for three old ladies looking at. I think it was supposed to be a McDonald's burger, which is very small patty. And the old lady goes, where's the beef? And that was a. Oh, a very popular.

[Aaron Weber]

That's good.

[Stephen Rogers]

Which one's dynamite?

[Brian Bates]

I've worked with Jimmy Walker. You did?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Here at Zany.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he was an open mic.

[Brian Bates]

He opened for me.

[Stephen Rogers]

Back then. He was saying tnt and you're like, what if you tried Dynamite?

[Brian Bates]

I gave him his lie. Some religions discourage drinking coffee. Mormons, I agree with, albeit wise guys. 5-16-17th. It's from the words of wisdom in the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saint. There's abstain from coffee, tea, as well as alcohol and tobacco. And studies have shown. UCLA did a study.

[Dusty Slay]

It lost me on that one right there. What I mean, coffee and tobacco. I mean, that's where it's at.

[Stephen Rogers]

You heard it here, folks.

[Aaron Weber]

That's where it's at.

[Brian Bates]

UCLA did a study and showed if you eliminated those four things, your life expectancy increases eight to 11 years longer.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

So maybe those are some words.

[Dusty Slay]

Wisdom again, wise guys, Alcohol, I've eliminated that. What was the other one?

[Brian Bates]

Tobacco.

[Stephen Rogers]

Tobacco, coffee and tea.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Well, I don't do a lot. Well, I do a lot of tea.

[Stephen Rogers]

Soda would be on there then.

[Aaron Weber]

Caffeine. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think tea is a problem. Tea has a lot of health benefits.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I've been in some dark spirals with tea.

[Dusty Slay]

Sweet tea. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I've had some real sweet tea.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think it's the caffeine.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought it was the caffeine was the, the problem.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think it's.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought it was a stimulant of coffee.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's what I thought too.

[Aaron Weber]

What is it the bean they don't like?

[Brian Bates]

It's. You say hot drinks, but then they made the ruling that iced coffee can also is also bad. You shouldn't drink that as well.

[Dusty Slay]

I think warm liquids, they say is better for your digestion than cold.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think these are health related. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Well, they're words of wisdom for your health 8 to 11 years long.

[Aaron Weber]

Your health of your soul or your body?

[Brian Bates]

Well, both I guess, but for your body.

[Dusty Slay]

Who wrote these?

[Aaron Weber]

Joseph Smith?

[Brian Bates]

Well, they were revealed to him, I think.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, they were getting into this. Of the nitty gritty with that.

[Brian Bates]

I think so, man.

[Aaron Weber]

They got into it, huh?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

I'm sure we'll find out if we're incorrect. If I'm incorrect.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we will. That's.

[Stephen Rogers]

Again, quiet.

[Brian Bates]

Let me know at Wise guys. We talked about this on the Utah episode. I think when Alex V. Was on.

[Aaron Weber]

Do they do dancing? Do you know? Do they dance?

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah. It was because he'll be in Utah.

[Dusty Slay]

He'll be in Utah soon. He's looking to do a little dance.

[Brian Bates]

This one getting darker, I feel like.

[Aaron Weber]

I know, but I remember because there's, like. Because there were high schools in Montgomery that were, like, Baptist schools where they wouldn't have dances. They would have, like, dinners. They wouldn't dance.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Do you think. Are you okay with coffee in church?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't like coffee shops in church, and I also don't really like when people bring their cups into the sanctuary.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah, I'm with you there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'm like, just drinking on the way.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then when you get to church, like, don't be bringing your beverages into the sanctuary.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never even heard of that. Bringing coffee to the church.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot of these new age churches.

[Brian Bates]

You buy coffee, they have coffee shops in the church.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen that, but I. Yeah, just.

[Stephen Rogers]

Bring in your own bottle openers on the pews.

[Brian Bates]

Well, yeah, a lot of churches have, like, coffee stands, like, you know, set up out in the. In the lobby.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't support it.

[Brian Bates]

What about if it was just like a Bible class?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. If you're just hanging out, talking.

[Aaron Weber]

If you're just hanging out, put it.

[Dusty Slay]

I think there's a thing about this. Yeah, yeah. At the sanctuary.

[Brian Bates]

Have a drink.

[Stephen Rogers]

Listen up astray.

[Dusty Slay]

Even when churches are doing comedy and stuff, like, I've done a couple, and I'm like, I don't. I don't want to do it in the sanctuary. I don't want to do it where you're preaching. I'm not into it.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not selling T shirts at the altar.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I know that you do it. I'm not saying it's wrong, but I'm saying I don't. I. I don't like it.

[Stephen Rogers]

I. I did it once. I did not feel comfortable.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever heard of cowboy church?

[Stephen Rogers]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

It's big.

[Aaron Weber]

I had a buddy show there. Have you done a cowboy church? I had a Buddy started going, and I was like, how is. He goes, it's great, dude. I just put a lip in. In. And everybody. Everybody's dipping in there. Yeah. That was like his whole selling point. But it's more than that. It's not just like a tobacco church.

[Brian Bates]

No. It's just guys who. That's kind of. Their lifestyle is farmers and cowboys and they also believe in God and. And there's a. They have a church.

[Dusty Slay]

It's.

[Brian Bates]

They're everywhere. I did one.

[Aaron Weber]

They're ripping cigarettes and stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Not at the show I did, but this was down in Alabama. Not surprising, but. But no, nobody was smoking while.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

We were in the thing, so.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But yeah, they were very nice and had fun down there.

[Dusty Slay]

I just did grow up. I mean, my parents didn't go to church with me a lot, but I did grow up fairly traditional. And I just think there is something about, you know, you go into the sanctuary.

[Brian Bates]

I agree.

[Dusty Slay]

You go in. We're. We're singing songs. We're, we're. We're praising and. And then we're, you know, it's a break. We're reading the Bible. We're in, you know, and it's like, we're not just in there engaging in our pleasures.

[Brian Bates]

I agree.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, yeah, it's like put the coffee in a thermos and leave it in the car.

[Stephen Rogers]

Have a straw that goes, see, I.

[Brian Bates]

Feel like a water bottle. That's a judgment called, okay, maybe got.

[Dusty Slay]

Some kids, but I don't even think no water. Let's just, Just going. It's just an hour. Some are just 45 minutes. We can handle not drinking something for 45.

[Aaron Weber]

Some of these churches are two and a half, three hours too. The whole day in there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Now, if that's going on.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Bring a picture. Got some sandwiches. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it's like you might, you know, I remember growing. You might slip a cracker or something going on, but, you know, if you get caught, your grandmother's mad at you, at you or whatever, you know, that sort of thing. And I used to draw a lot of pictures as a kid and. But now, kid, they're like giving them iPads. And I'm like, you gotta.

[Stephen Rogers]

No iPad.

[Dusty Slay]

I wanted to church. I wanted to go to this other church. Now, they did say it was okay, but they. On the church that said, you know, take the kids to this area. And I emailed them. I go, can I? I go, I. I want to visit your church, but I don't leave my kids with strangers. Can I Just bring. Are they welcome in the sanctuary? Sanctuary? And they were like, yes, you know, please bring them. But I just go, no, but I.

[Brian Bates]

You just wanted to mess with them.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I did want to go, but I just messed around and didn't go. Yeah, and I didn't go yesterday, and it's like I always wanted.

[Brian Bates]

Why do you even. Why are you even talking?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, because I want to go, but I'm not home a lot on Sundays. And then, you know, Sunday rolls around and I'm like, I'm out of the routine. I mess up, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Did the MLU back.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It'S a good way to end.

[Aaron Weber]

There you go. How about that?

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, guys, where you. Where you off to this weekend?

[Brian Bates]

Brian, did you have any top coffee shops, any lists that you wanted to do?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I've already done my top five coffee shops in Nashville.

[Brian Bates]

Top five worst.

[Dusty Slay]

No, there's no worst. I mean, I. I wouldn't do that. I like. I like to lift people up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. James Joyce for one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, listen, I want that guy to know, if he does. Listen, I'm not mad at you, but you. You ruined a guy's perfect game.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he knows, man. He knows.

[Brian Bates]

What if he didn't? Like, it was a perfect game? I just thought they were going to win.

[Dusty Slay]

Potentially ruining his life to some degree.

[Aaron Weber]

Nah, he's doing all right.

[Brian Bates]

Ruining the pitcher's life.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, some degree.

[Brian Bates]

All right, let's see. This weekend, I am in Detroit, gonna hang out at the Burger King with Eminem. I'm at the Detroit House of Comedy. One show Friday, two Saturday.

[Aaron Weber]

Are the Tigers in town?

[Brian Bates]

They are not.

[Aaron Weber]

Brutal.

[Brian Bates]

I know.

[Aaron Weber]

Stadium's right there, a block from the club.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, that would have been awesome. But they're not. They're away. April 26th, I'm in the Bend Theater, West Bend, Wisconsin. Non refundable tickets, folks, if you buy.

[Dusty Slay]

Comedy subjective.

[Brian Bates]

Comedy subjective.

[Dusty Slay]

Some people like what he does, some people don't.

[Brian Bates]

Most don't. But come to my show.

[Aaron Weber]

I guess.

[Brian Bates]

That'S all I want to promote right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Stephen Rogers]

I. My big promotion is my special comes out here on Nateland April 11th. Half of we. Please check it out. It's very funny.

[Brian Bates]

I seen it.

[Stephen Rogers]

Thank you. Yeah. Please watch it. For the love of God.

[Aaron Weber]

How you see it?

[Brian Bates]

I have a little insight.

[Stephen Rogers]

He was. He was referencing. I didn't. I didn't send it to him.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Special.

[Stephen Rogers]

But April 16th, I'll be at the mic drop in San Diego, and then April 27th, I'll be here at the lab in. In Zany's. So please come to that right there. Yeah, right there on the other side. Yeah, please. It sounds like there's people in there. Please come to that one. One. Yeah, that's it.

[Aaron Weber]

May 6th is Aaron Weber. May 16th, Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

[Brian Bates]

May 16th.

[Aaron Weber]

God.

[Brian Bates]

All right, Take a month off, why don't you?

[Aaron Weber]

I lost all my steam right there, Brian.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, you give me a hard.

[Aaron Weber]

Time about my poked my balloon right there.

[Brian Bates]

Guys, if you remember this, I'm opening.

[Aaron Weber]

For Kathleen Madigan in Orlando, Florida, and Tampa, Florida. Florida.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

See, these are the kind of stuff I don't plug on here because I'm trying to, you know, for my own.

[Dusty Slay]

Why help Kathleen?

[Stephen Rogers]

Right, right.

[Aaron Weber]

Because she's doing great on her own.

[Stephen Rogers]

I don't think she needs the promotion of her. Does not equal, like, the promotion you.

[Aaron Weber]

Could do for you. Really good. May 16, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, at the Live Casino right outside Pittsburgh. And then May 31, South Bend, Bend, Indiana, at the Stock Room East.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, real homecoming.

[Aaron Weber]

Homecoming for me, man, I'm excited. May 31st, South Bend, Indiana. I haven't been there since the drop. We did the drop together. So come on out. South Bend and Pittsburgh.

[Brian Bates]

It's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. This weekend, I'm doing one show in San Luis Obispo. They call it slow. That's what slow. And California. I'll be there on April 12th, 12th. That's what I'll be next weekend. I'm gonna give a couple here next weekend. Bricktown Comedy Club in Tulsa. Tulsa. I'll be there 18th and the 19th. And then the 1st of May, May 2nd and 3rd, I'm in Denver, Colorado and Colorado Springs. And then this Thursday tomorrow, I'll be doing a show for the Nashville Comedy Festival, a show with Goblet Con live podcast cast. Probably doing some evil stuff that I'm not on board.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, the Goblin guy.

[Dusty Slay]

The Goblin. Yeah, yeah. Oh, the goblin guy.

[Aaron Weber]

He's fine. He's just.

[Dusty Slay]

Goblin Con Live podcast. I'm excited about it, actually. It seems like it'd be fun to be me and Chelsea Lynn, trailer trash Tammy doing Gobblecon Pod.

[Stephen Rogers]

That's awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

At Zany's tomorrow night. April.

[Aaron Weber]

April. Just to April.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. April 11th. I think it'll be at the end.

[Stephen Rogers]

10 10th. April 11th is when half of we comes out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay. April 10th. Yeah. You got something to do already on the 11th.

[Brian Bates]

Come see me on the go watch half of Weeds. My favorite special in Nateland this year.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Steven Rogers is very funny. If you guys couldn't tell from the podcast. Very funny and great joke writer. He worked with me years ago at J Junior Juniors in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania.

[Stephen Rogers]

Favorite weekend at Junior.

[Dusty Slay]

It was very fun. It was a hot weekend. We didn't write together. We did eat at some diner that was like a garage.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes. Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Stephen Rogers]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

But it was very cold.

[Stephen Rogers]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Eerie, Pennsylvania.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But very fun.

[Stephen Rogers]

Very fun.

[Brian Bates]

Years less left.

[Dusty Slay]

It's one of my, you know, I'd not been headlining a lot at that point and you were crushing and I was like, wow, this is going to be hard. Hard for me.

[Stephen Rogers]

Oh, I felt the same watching you. I'm like, this is a headline. This is a headliner. Like, I want to get to where.

[Aaron Weber]

That's very sweet. Yeah, that's really sweet.

[Dusty Slay]

But it was great.

[Aaron Weber]

So look at here on equal footing now. All right, look at that. Look at that.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Be funny again.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you very much. We're having a good time.

[Stephen Rogers]

Full swing.

[Aaron Weber]

Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetze and my wife Laura on the AudioBoom platform.

[Dusty Slay]

Recording and editing for the show is.

[Aaron Weber]

Done by Genovations Media.

[Brian Bates]

Thanks for tuning in.

[Dusty Slay]

Be sure to catch us next week.

[Aaron Weber]

On the Nate Land podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and Safeway. Spring is in full swing, so take some time for self care this spring.

[Brian Bates]

Now through April 22.

[Dusty Slay]

Buy two self care items and save $2. Shop in store or online for self care essentials like Tom's Toothpaste Soft Soap, Liquid Hand Soap, Colgate Optic White Toothpaste and Colgate Total toothpaste.

[Brian Bates]

And save $2 when you buy two participating items.

[Dusty Slay]

Offer ends April 22.

[Brian Bates]

Promotions may vary.

[Dusty Slay]

Restrictions apply. Visit albertsons or safeway.com for more details.