253: #253 Vermont

Summary

The Nateland Podcast – Episode #253: Vermont

Release Date: May 21, 2025

Hosted by Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay, The Nateland Podcast dives into a myriad of topics each episode, blending humor, personal anecdotes, and insightful discussions. In Episode #253, the focus shifts to the picturesque state of Vermont, exploring its unique culture, landmarks, and the hosts' personal experiences related to the state. Below is a comprehensive summary capturing the essence of the conversation.

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1. Introduction and Nate’s Upcoming Movie

The episode kicks off with Brian Bates expressing excitement about Nate Bargatze’s latest venture into filmmaking.

• Brian Bates [00:47]: "Nate's shooting a major movie."

Nate elaborates on the film’s lineup, mentioning notable cast members such as Mandy Moore, Colin Jost, Will Forte, and Kail Cam.

• Nate Bargatze [01:05]: "And the cast just got leaked. It was announced. Yeah. And it's crazy lineup."

2. Comedy and Personal Work Styles

Dusty Slay brings a humorous perspective on why he entered comedy, contrasting his approach with Nate's busy schedule.

• Dusty Slay [01:31]: "I got into comedy to work the least possible. It's like if I can make money by barely working, that's where I'm at."

The hosts exchange jokes about working hard versus working smart, highlighting their differing motivations and work ethics.

3. Hand Dryers and Airport Bathrooms

A segment unfolds discussing the frustrations with hand dryers, particularly at the Nashville airport.

• Dusty Slay [03:35]: "The hand dryers are the weakest hand dryers I've ever seen."

• Nate Bargatze [04:13]: "Or just give it one of these. You know what I mean? Kind of flick it at the mirror."

The conversation touches on the inefficiency of current hand drying systems and the desire for improvements, such as the addition of hand towels.

4. Expanding the Podcast Network with Trey Kennedy

The hosts warmly welcome Trey Kennedy to the Nateland Podcast network, expressing enthusiasm for the collaboration.

• Brian Bates [14:57]: "Welcome, everybody. Just Trey Kennedy, Correct Opinions with Trey Kennedy is now a part of the Nateland Podcast network."

5. Highlighting Other Comedic Specials and Performances

Brian and Dusty update listeners on various comedic specials and performances, including Greg Warren’s new hour-long special and Aaron Weber’s approaching 500th episode.

• Brian Bates [18:10]: "Greg Warren's brand new hour special, the Champ is out. Everyone's loving it."

6. Recent Performances and Audience Interactions

The hosts share anecdotes from recent shows, including ticket-selling adventures, audience reactions, and memorable moments from performances.

• Brian Bates [21:10]: "This was the perfect weekend where, I mean, everything's hitting. I get to the airport, I look up on the board and the status for my flight."

• Nate Bargatze [27:04]: "So I buy my last ticket just so it could say sold out."

7. Sleep Apnea and CPAP Discussions

A heartfelt segment addresses sleep apnea, with Brian Bates sharing his recent diagnosis and experiences with CPAP machines.

• Brian Bates [65:41]: "I got a CPAP today...It's so hard to get diagnosed with sleep apnea because I'm healthy and in shape."

• Nate Bargatze [66:08]: "Develop a nighttime routine, put it on when you want to go to bed."

8. Deep Dive into Vermont

The core of the episode revolves around Vermont, exploring its demographics, attractions, and cultural nuances.

a. Vermont’s Demographics and Attractions

• Brian Bates [73:01]: "The population of Davidson County, Nashville. 715,000. The whole state of Vermont. 642,000."

• Nate Bargatze [72:04]: "What's the nickname of the state? Vermont translates to green mountain in French."

Vermont’s low population density is highlighted, emphasizing its scenic beauty, fall foliage, and iconic products like maple syrup.

• Brian Bates [74:00]: "All half of the maple syrup in the United States is produced in Vermont."

b. Cultural and Economic Aspects

The discussion touches upon Vermont’s preference for local businesses over large chains, maintaining its rural charm.

• Dusty Slay [74:37]: "People move to the south and they think we're all idiots, but... we've created this really great place to live."

c. Famous Vermonters and Historical Tidbits

The hosts mention notable individuals from Vermont, including Presidents Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge, and delve into historical anecdotes like the Green Mountain Boys militia group.

• Brian Bates [90:56]: "Two presidents were born in Vermont. President Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge."

9. Upcoming Shows and Events

Plans for future performances are discussed, with Dusty Slay detailing his multiple shows in Vermont and Brian Bates outlining his schedule in Raleigh and Chattanooga.

• Dusty Slay [107:36]: "I'm excited to go to Vermont for many reasons. One, I think it's a very nice state."

10. Closing Remarks

The episode wraps up with a humorous exchange about the podcast’s progress through various states and final thoughts on Vermont’s enduring appeal.

• Dusty Slay [112:22]: "Vermont's very. A very small state."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Dusty Slay [01:31]: "I got into comedy to work the least possible. It's like if I can make money by barely working, that's where I'm at."

• Brian Bates [14:57]: "Trey Kennedy is now a part of the Nateland Podcast network."

• Brian Bates [90:56]: "Two presidents were born in Vermont. President Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge."

• Nate Bargatze [72:04]: "What's the nickname of the state? Vermont translates to green mountain in French."

• Dusty Slay [74:37]: "But we just gotta get... fight back about it."

Conclusion

Episode #253 of The Nateland Podcast offers listeners an engaging exploration of Vermont, enriched by the hosts' personal insights and humorous banter. From discussing the state’s low population and natural beauty to sharing personal anecdotes from their comedic careers, Nate, Brian, Aaron, and Dusty provide a multifaceted look at what makes Vermont unique. Whether you’re a long-time listener or new to the podcast, this episode serves as a delightful blend of information and entertainment, embodying the essence of The Nateland Podcast.

Transcript

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

Hello, folks. And hey, Bear. Good to be here as always. I'm Brian Bates along with my co host Aaron Weber.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hello.

[Brian Bates]

And Dusty Slay.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

We're excited to be here. Nate's shooting a movie. It's very exciting.

[Nate Bargatze]

Shooting a major movie.

[Brian Bates]

Major, major movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

And the cast just got leaked. Yeah, I don't know about leaked, but it's out there now.

[Brian Bates]

It was announced. Yeah. And it's crazy lineup. Mandy Moore, Colin Jost, Will forte, Kail Cam. Yep. More to come. I guess. Nate's still doing shows on the weekends. Yeah, I see. They were all over the country, so I don't think he has a day off for a while.

[Dusty Slay]

But who gets into comedy to do that to themselves? I got into comedy to work the least possible. It's like if I can make money by barely working, that's where I'm at.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I think Nate's making money, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he is.

[Brian Bates]

You should call your next special the Barely Working Man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, no, he Barely hardly working.

[Dusty Slay]

He is. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's like. Yeah, I mean, he's. He's already done it and it's. Wow, it's so hard. It's just, he's just. Work, work.

[Nate Bargatze]

You gotta strike while the iron's hot, you know?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but how much do you need to strike? That's what I always ask myself.

[Nate Bargatze]

How many yachts can you strike it?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I admire it, I get it. But I'm saying that's not in me.

[Brian Bates]

I agree, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

That's not in me.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I thought about doing a major motion picture myself, but I'm like, nah, it's just too much work. I was going to do a big arena tour, but why the hassle, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't want to have to move my funny.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the arena tour is just shows. Yeah, right. I mean, obviously. Very good. But I'm saying that's what we love. That's the part we love.

[Brian Bates]

Your special is called Working man. And now you're saying how you.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's about, you know, how hard I used to work at other jobs I had before comedy. At the beginning of the special, I'm like, this is the best job I've ever had.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Former work.

[Dusty Slay]

And I'll quit this one if I find a better one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I say at the beginning of that special.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I make no secret about how I work hard at trying to not work that hard.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I think you. No, that's your hand washing. I was about to say. You even say it would be easier just to do it, but hand washing, you said you go out of your way to make people think you wash your hands. You should have just washed your hands.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you don't want, you know, you just don't want the people seeing you not wash your hands and then, you know, start talking about you and pointing. But I am at a place now where I don't care about that anymore. The airport in Nashville. Especially if I gotta go, if I got to do anything other than peeing in there, I wash my hands, obviously. But there's no hand towels.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

And the hand dryers are the weakest hand dryers I've ever seen.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is frustrating. And I don't know if I've ever seen a hand dryer that I thought got the job done the way I'd like it.

[Dusty Slay]

No, but that one at the Nashville airport is especially bad. One of the worst. No, it's now you got, like, a sink with three.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So I always choose the wrong one. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I always think that's the water, and it starts blowing air.

[Dusty Slay]

One's the soap, one's the water. It's. So I've stood there for a really long time and then still have to wipe my hands on my pants. And I'm like, I don't want to go through that. If you want me to have cleaner hands at the Nashville airport, you got to get some hand towels.

[Nate Bargatze]

I agree.

[Brian Bates]

I. I totally agree. Sometimes if I'm on the fence about it, if they don't have hand towels, I'm like, I'm out of here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or just give it one of these.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what I mean? Kind of flick it at the mirror.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly. But, you know, I do. I have the Admiral's Lounge for American Airlines.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Which is something you can earn. Admirals Lounge, you can. You can earn by flying a lot.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I'm sure you can.

[Dusty Slay]

Southwest doesn't have one.

[Nate Bargatze]

No. We have a smoking room.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I got the Smoking room.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now that's the Southwest lounge.

[Dusty Slay]

And then the smoking room's real bad, though.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I always want to enjoy it, but.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm like, oh, it's like a break room at the dmv. Yeah, it's, like, depressing. They can't even get work done because there's smoke. So.

[Dusty Slay]

No, the WI fi is not good. The plugs don't work.

[Nate Bargatze]

People just look sad. Yeah, it's not good.

[Dusty Slay]

But you know in there, in the Admiral's Lounge bathroom, they have hand towels. And I had that thought. Why you really gotta. You really got to be upper class to get some hand towels.

[Nate Bargatze]

They have a bathroom attendant in there too. No.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank goodness.

[Nate Bargatze]

You don't like that.

[Dusty Slay]

No. I can't stand somebody that's always in the bathroom with me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's probably tough for them too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's the Lose, lose.

[Dusty Slay]

I hate when people are even cleaning the bathroom. It's like, I know it's got to be done, but when you're shutting down the whole thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

To clean, it's like, let's go one at a time here. I understand. You don't want to be cleaning one stall and somebody's blowing up the other. I totally get it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

But I just gotta pee. I just won't pop in there real quick and pee. That's all I gotta do. It's got pop in there real quick, but I got to be real bad. And you put me in a spot now. Yeah, I'm. I'm going to go sit back down, come back and check it in five seconds. Go. Ah, still closed. Meanwhile, it's like an older lady cleaning it.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's like, I know.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's have dudes clean. Clean the men's restroom. That way I can just get in there. Get in there with him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Get in the stall.

[Dusty Slay]

Not the stall, but the bathroom, you know?

[Brian Bates]

You think he appreciates it more than she does?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think it's inappropri. It's a lady.

[Nate Bargatze]

I get it.

[Dusty Slay]

Mind if I just pee in here while you're cleaning these urinals? But if it's a guy, you're.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I thought you were talking about blowing up the. The stall.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not really a blow it up kind of guy. That doesn't. That's not really what I do.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's good. Yeah, but I don't think being a blow it up guys a. A choice.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe not.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's not like. Yeah, that's what I do. I just blow it up everywhere I go.

[Brian Bates]

That's my thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's just. It happens to you, man. Sometimes life happens and you're like, this.

[Brian Bates]

Is how it happened to you at a coffee shop in Portland, Maine.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, no, I've. But overall, I mean, I feel like there are guys, I don't think guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wake up and go, you know what I'm doing today? I'm going to destroy somebody.

[Dusty Slay]

Feels like they do destroy it over and over again.

[Nate Bargatze]

How do you know it's the same guy?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. It just feels like if you're a blow it up guy, you're eating habits. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I didn't go to the same place that I went. I went last time I was in Portland, Maine. I went to two restaurants and. And then on a Saturday I almost had a real incident out on the street. That never happens to me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

But so I went back to one of those places in the same order that I would have done it the last time and I didn't because. I wonder because I had some kimchi which has a lot of probiotics in it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

And I had kimchi again. Just. I was just kind of testing it and nothing happened.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But I didn't go back to the other place. And I don't want to say the other place. I probably said it before, but I don't want to say it. I think it's very popular. A lot of people go there, they recommend it. Arby and yeah, and I, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the way it tasted. But I, you know, later.

[Nate Bargatze]

You paid for it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Or a, you know, coffee shop there paid for it. And typically I buy something. If I go in and use your bathroom, I will shut that one down. But that day I was like, I'm a little embarrassed here. I'm just going to go ahead and.

[Nate Bargatze]

Get out of here. You know how many times I walk into somewhere. What's the cheapest thing on your menu? Give me one of those to go. I'll see you in a few minutes.

[Dusty Slay]

I think that I. They should have public restrooms. I think we should put them in all cities they have to pay for public restroom. You can scan your card. You can get. And I think we could have. You could have free one and it doesn't get cleaned very often. Okay. You have the $1 one that gets cleaned pretty regular. And then you could have a five dollar one with a little room to move.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let me tell you something. There's times, I mean, if there was something in the $50 range, I would consider that.

[Dusty Slay]

But can you imagine though downt change, there's a hundred downtown Broadway. You got a. You got a free a dollar and a five dollar one. And if you get caught holding the door for someone else and them not paying. 50 ticket.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay, who's policing this?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, we're gonna have to have.

[Nate Bargatze]

You don't like a bathroom attendant. You want a police officer in the bathroom at all?

[Dusty Slay]

I want outside of it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

To make sure. Because like, hey guys, it's like you would like to believe that we live in the kind of country where you could have some sort of honor system to where it's like, hey, we're providing a service for you here. It's not very expensive. Just pay it. But you know, people would just hold it for each other and then you would. Now we don't have the money to clean it.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got to put a credit card in. It'll hold like a deposit.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And if you let somebody else in, it charges you. Maybe it's motion or maybe you get.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like a library card. But for the bathroom, like a bathroom card.

[Brian Bates]

A punch card.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but then that's extra steps where it's like in a tight. You might not be subscribed.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, you got to think, yeah, you gotta get ready. It's like pre check. You gotta get it and then you have access to it.

[Dusty Slay]

But I feel like the moment you realize you need that, you're already in a spot.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, you gotta get it ahead of time.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I think it's just like a Netflix subscription. If your friend wants to do it, let them do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

There's not going to be a long line all the time where people next person holds the next person holds it. But if you're with a friend, yeah, they gotta pay.

[Nate Bargatze]

There was one time in Atlanta I was walking around. What's the five points, I think the area is called, where there's a lot going on. And it just jumped up and hit me. I was like, something's about to happen, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I start frantically looking for a place and I walked into a. Try to tell the story on stage. At one point I walked into a tattoo parlor and I was like, can I please use the bathroom? And the guy goes, it's for customers only. And it was.

[Brian Bates]

Show it to us.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was so bad. It was so bad. I was like, where is it, your back? I considered getting the tattoo just to use the bathroom. Like you can get me on the way out.

[Dusty Slay]

Just like you got a little heart on Your ankle?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I was like, what's the smallest tattoo I can get? Little freckle.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Give me a little freckle and it'll be worth it.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

What you do, they just let me. They could see it in my eyes that I needed it and they let me in there. So if I do, if I ever get a tattoo, I never will, but if I ever do, that's where I'm going.

[Dusty Slay]

That's the hard part too though, because when you can see somebody really needs it and it's for a number two, you're like, you about to mess up my bathroom. Right, Right. Literally, if it's a P, you're like, that's okay. I just.

[Nate Bargatze]

There are ways to handle it, you know, you can get creative. You can walk behind somewhere.

[Dusty Slay]

I got a joke I've been working on now about the airport bathrooms. Not the hand washing bed I just did, but the airport. But I don't want to do it. But it's like, it's just. There's so many. Like the bat having to use the bathroom is like. It's so weird. When you're in a city. Now, I understand they got all these homeless situations going on, so they can't have wide open bathrooms, but we. When you're in a city, wide open bath and they're just like, just like.

[Nate Bargatze]

A fountain in the middle of the courtyard.

[Dusty Slay]

They're just not letting you use the bathroom anywhere. It's like, you know, we all have to do this.

[Nate Bargatze]

You need a code.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we all have to do this.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Have you seen the progressive commercial where the guy, the guy, he's like, the code for the bathrooms. Seven, four, whatever.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, it's.

[Brian Bates]

It's the one of the ones where can't make you become more like your parent or whatever it is they say, okay. And it's the guy.

[Dusty Slay]

I like those.

[Brian Bates]

He's pumping gas. And hey, the code for the bathroom. And you know, it's supposed to make fun of him. Like, it's like your dad. But I was like, I would love that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that guy's a hero.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Those commercials, I do find them funny. But it's also like encouraging people to not be friendly with other people because the older folks are the friendly, small talking ones. But they're like, hey, don't do this. Don't try to help other people or we'll make fun of you.

[Brian Bates]

I was on a. Since we're sharing bathroom stories.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Flight to Japan.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, boy.

[Brian Bates]

And something hit me. And it was one of those big jumbo jets. And there's two bathrooms in the back, like, one down each aisle. That's. It was one of those two aisle wow ones. And I went to one, and I was in there. So people kept knocking on the door, and when I finally came out, the line was halfway up the aisle. It was almost first class. Just the line of little Asian people waiting to use the bathroom.

[Dusty Slay]

Jeez.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And they're all, like, disgusting American.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. And they were right.

[Dusty Slay]

Eating their burger King and McDonald's.

[Brian Bates]

They were right. They were correct.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That was fun talk.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I was in the airport this weekend, and I walked past the bookstore, and I saw on the bestseller. They had a little bestseller shelf. Big Dumb Eyes, Nate's book. Number one. Number one New York Times bestseller.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow, look at that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at that.

[Dusty Slay]

Big time.

[Nate Bargatze]

The guy. The guy's got the Midas touch.

[Brian Bates]

I think he's gonna make it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think he's gonna do all right.

[Brian Bates]

Thanks for bringing that up, Aaron.

[Nate Bargatze]

That was a good segue.

[Brian Bates]

That was a great segue. The breadwinner Nate's filming this week already mentioned that. Mentioned. He had shows sold out shows this week in Missouri, Arkansas, and Colorado. Couple of them outdoors. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

If people just tuned into this podcast right now, never watched any episode, they would just think that this is a Nate fan podcast. We're just huge fans. We're like, oh, yeah, he's got a movie. He's got a book. He's selling out all his shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

Welcome, everybody. Just Trey Kennedy, Correct opinions with Trey Kennedy is now a part of the Nateland Podcast network. We appreciate that, dude. You're helping us.

[Brian Bates]

No, man, I. We're bringing you down. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

My whole family's relying on you carrying.

[Nate Bargatze]

This, Nate, because you better. I swear to you, Trey, this better be unbelievable.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, I hope it is.

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

I'm honored, man. I'm really, really excited. I've been doing this podcast for years, and it's. It's grown, it's changed, and this is.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, definitely the next great step for.

[Brian Bates]

For me and for us.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I'm. I'm really pumped.

[Dusty Slay]

I've been a fan for a long time, and I know you do this podcast.

[Brian Bates]

You have Jake, triplet, and your wife Katie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep, yep. So we got the crew here.

[Dusty Slay]

Your wife is.

[Brian Bates]

She was a scientist. Yeah, kind of. She breastfeeds. I feel like that's got to be science.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is science.

[Brian Bates]

She thinks she's better than us, but that's okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

She's kind of like our Brian. She's Yeah, it's a great, nice person kind of keeping us on track, but we just.

[Nate Bargatze]

People love how she shuts me down. Anybody that could is hurt, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, it's brutal too. She.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if you run jokes.

[Nate Bargatze]

By your wife ever, or something, and.

[Brian Bates]

She'Ll be like, that's just not funny at all. And I'll be like, yeah, I didn't really want. I want you to just say you like.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's because they don't get it, dude.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

What do you know?

[Brian Bates]

Why don't you even ask you.

[Nate Bargatze]

What do you do all day? You know? Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But. Yeah, so with this.

[Nate Bargatze]

With your podcast yard just. Is it.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

What are you talking about on it?

[Brian Bates]

Like, correct opinions. So, yeah, I was born out of. You know, I like to think I. I have all the right takes.

[Nate Bargatze]

So it's.

[Brian Bates]

We got my co host, Jake.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're that age that probably.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, right. It's kind of. It was very correct opinions, and now it's like, well, maybe I'm not that correct, but now I'm almost coming.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's great, man. We do it. Yeah. Every.

[Brian Bates]

Every week. It's good clean. Yeah. Yeah. I totally get what you and you guys are trying to do, so I'm. I'm really pumped to be a part.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, dude, we're pumped. I. I'm.

[Brian Bates]

I'm honestly pumped to have you.

[Nate Bargatze]

And it's, you know, it's not easy to find funny people that can fit in this world.

[Brian Bates]

And so to get one and you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Willing to come help us and be.

[Dusty Slay]

A part of this network is.

[Brian Bates]

We appreciate it, man. Well, thank you so much, Nate. I really, truly, like, so excited and. Yeah, I agree. I mean, I obviously look up to you and all. All your crew.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, I'd known Aaron for years.

[Brian Bates]

And Dustin I met a while back. You guys are just great guys and hilarious and.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Glad to be a part, man. Let's do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Awesome, brother. All right, well, everybody check out correct opinions. It's here.

[Brian Bates]

It's very fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's with Jake Triplett and Katie Kennedy. Check it out. Y' all have done 297 episode in 2019 CR. You're in a groove.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what's even great. Oh, that's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. We will be highlighting correct opinions each Week on Nateland YouTube channel.

[Dusty Slay]

Go and listen wherever you enjoy your podcast, Trey. Glad to have you, buddy. Yeah, we'll see you soon, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Perfect.

[Brian Bates]

Thanks again, man. Well, if you're tuning in, that's what. Yeah. Okay. Greg Warren's brand new hour special, the Champ is out. Everyone's loving it. It's doing great so far. I talked to Greg on the way here and he said to thank everyone who's watched it. If you haven't, please go watch it. It's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Big time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Aaron's got a special that's pushing 500.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes, sir.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, check it out.

[Nate Bargatze]

We got some good content on the Nateland YouTube.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. Nick Th. Steve Rogers.

[Dusty Slay]

I've not watched Greg Warrens yet. You guys watched it?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Greg is so funny. I've not wanted. I've seen that clip, the fishing clip. It's. He's so funny.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. June 22nd, 23rd and 24th. We're back for season three of Nateland Presents the showcase. Tickets are on sale now. If you want to be part of the taping right here at the lab at Zany's. Nateland merch is dropped. Go to natebargetzi.com for that. And if you're coming out to a show, come find us at the merch.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I guess it's designs we came up with for our favorite comedian, Nate.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so let's get into this weekend.

[Dusty Slay]

But imagine though, you never watch the podcast. You click on it today, it's just three guys and that you and you read Nateland News. That would. You would be like, oh, this is a. They're big fans.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I am, so.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

Oh, man, I love them.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

Let's get into this weekend. I had. You know how some weekends, nothing goes right? Most weekends for me. But I mean, just like, there's just one problem after another.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

This was the perfect weekend where, I mean, everything's hitting. I get to the airport, I look up on the board and the status for my flight. I'm like, oh, no, it's delayed. It's early. I didn't even know that was possible. Scheduled for 7:30 now says departing is 7:25, which I'd be annoyed about if I was late for my plane. Yeah, I don't know how you can do that. We leave early. I get the airport. Walk up to the baggage, the luggage thing. Right. When my bags didn't even have to wait.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's one of the best feelings.

[Brian Bates]

Walk out to my Uber. Don't even have to wait. Time it perfectly. I'm nailing it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

My hotel. I called the day before. See, I get early, check in. They said they would try. Usually they don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

I get there at 10:30 in the morning. They got me a hotel room.

[Nate Bargatze]

10:30.

[Brian Bates]

I'm killing it.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's coming up. All Brian so far.

[Brian Bates]

All Brian, Salt Lake City. Met a friend for lunch. The weather's beautiful. The shows were great. Sold out Saturday night.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

I know this because I bought the last ticket.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you really? That's the move, dude. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you know, you go online to see if you can buy the maximum amount of tickets and you hope you can't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right?

[Brian Bates]

So it's 15. Was the maximum allowed when I went to bed the night before. Said only 13 tickets remaining.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm like, oh, yeah, here we go.

[Brian Bates]

I get up the next morning, five tickets remaining.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

I'm like, it's gonna be sold out by lunchtime. I check at lunchtime. Seven tickets remaining. Two people return. Theirs apparent.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

So then I'm checking. It gets to one by early, after one ticket left, I'm like, boom. And then I keep checking. I keep checking because I wanted to say sold out. Now it's 5:30. The show's at 7. I get a small bonus, by the way, if I have a sellout.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I'm like, I'm buying this last ticket. I went online. It was a little too high if you ask me. But for not a fan, G is as expensive. Yeah. But I bought my last ticket just so it could say sold out.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then it did on the website. Yep.

[Brian Bates]

It immediately said.

[Dusty Slay]

And you did get the bonus.

[Brian Bates]

I did get the bonus.

[Dusty Slay]

Because if you go through all that and then they go, oh, no. Sometimes the website says sold out.

[Brian Bates]

And I think Keith, who we all know, would have given me the bonus even if there was just one ticket left. But it was just one. And I immediately sent the screenshot to Nate and said, hey, man, I'm trying to push people to your show to try to help you out.

[Nate Bargatze]

I worked with a comic once who, by the way, who bought over 50 tickets of their own.

[Dusty Slay]

We know you. Don't talk to me.

[Brian Bates]

Just. What? Funny. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

At a theater, they bought like 50 tickets to hit their bonus.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it makes sense.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then. And they ended up fighting with the manager of the theater.

[Brian Bates]

How big was the theater?

[Nate Bargatze]

Close to a thousand.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thousand seats.

[Brian Bates]

I could see if it was like a 250 seat theater.

[Nate Bargatze]

And he bought.

[Brian Bates]

Wouldn't be smart for him or the theater. But yeah, I think that's a good.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I think they just did the math and were like, yeah, this makes sense. I'll just buy 50 tickets, hit the bonus, and then I'll end up in the black.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, one ticket is hard. You know, you're saying you keep looking at it, but it's like you're counting on one. One person going, oh, I hope I can go see this show.

[Nate Bargatze]

But that's you probably.

[Brian Bates]

That's my audience.

[Nate Bargatze]

Single tickets.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Mike Terry came by himself.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Turns out he is the same guy that's on the opera. He just flies back and forth.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Did he bring that up, though?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he did. He's like, I'm the Mike Terry that, you know, gets. I'm not the guy on the operating.

[Dusty Slay]

Does he know Mike Terry? I wonder.

[Brian Bates]

Just from us talking about it, every.

[Dusty Slay]

Mike Terry he does on Sirius XM Prime Country. He does countdowns. Like, he'll do like on this day in 1980, this was what was, you know, charting in country.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, this guy's like your hero.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. He'll go through the whole thing of, like, on this day, and the year was 1989. Yeah. And he'll do what? Whatever. What everything was charting that day. It's really good. It's a great show.

[Brian Bates]

And he'll tell some news, facts and TV shows and stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Mike Terry's really great.

[Brian Bates]

Saturday, I went to. I got a tour of BYU's football facility. Look at me, I'm decked out here. So thank you to Ryan Watt, who's a fan, who set this up. And.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, he gave me a hat.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he wore his hat at my show. Your hat, which I appreciate. And then Coach Hamblin was the coach there who gave us the tour. BYU's got a. They got a Heisman Trophy. They got a national championship.

[Nate Bargatze]

Who won the Heisman Trophy again?

[Brian Bates]

Ty Detmer.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ty Detmer.

[Dusty Slay]

Then you also rode the comedy bus.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't ride it, but I went on there and signed it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And there's a comic In Salt Lake, J.D. i can't think his last name, but maybe that was him.

[Dusty Slay]

But anyway, what is his last name? J.D. dang. Maybe I just called him J.D.

[Nate Bargatze]

Billingsley.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, he drives a short bus.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

And he has all the comics come on and sign it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. He has a school bus that's like. That. He converted. It's pretty cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

That sounds awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's never hit me up when I've been there, but.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, a lot of people said, we've seen. Everybody know something. When's the last time you were there?

[Nate Bargatze]

I guess it's been. Oh, I was there during the October 7th attacks on Israel.

[Brian Bates]

Beautiful, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

How long ago was that? 50 years ago. I have no idea. Yeah. 2022, maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Probably be. Maybe. I was gonna say maybe it'll be.

[Nate Bargatze]

Two years or maybe 20, 23, but I remember it was during that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So October 7th.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Whatever year that took place. So it's been a while.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I'd love to come back.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, I had a great time in Salt Lake City. I always do. Wise Guys is such a great club.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's the best.

[Dusty Slay]

And Salt Lake City is a great city.

[Brian Bates]

It is.

[Dusty Slay]

I was just there not too long ago.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. They said they saw you in a theater there. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So that was all I was doing, Aaron.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Steel City.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Improv.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I was technically. I feel bad that I pitched it as Pittsburgh because I was in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, which is so far from Pittsburgh. I thought it was just a little around the corner. It's like an hour. It's like an hour drive outside of Pittsburgh, but at the live casino. It's one of those gigs. You show up, you walk in the room, and you go, this is going to be horrible. You can just kind of tell, right? I walked. It was in, like, a ballroom at. At the casino. It was set up just for the show, but it was like, this is just not going to be good. And so I had Lee Kimbrell with me. It was very funny. And we tried to, you know, we put a positive spin on it in our heads. We were, like, bracing for a bad show, but it was pretty full. And the show was electric, dude. Oh, yeah, it was great. You know, like, when you're backstage and you're listening, you're like, I just need to hear, like, the first big laugh. And that'll be the gauge. It came immediately, and it was a huge laugh. And I was like, oh, he's good. Let's go, dude. So I was very excited. The show went great. A lot of people drove a long way to come there. People gave me some stuff. Just a great, great show. Shout out to the live casino in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Then they, like, hooked us up after. They were like, do you want a VIP booth in the. The club? And we were like, we guess. Yeah, there's, like, a club in the casino, and they're like, you can get a VIP booth. I sit there for about 30 seconds.

[Brian Bates]

Like a dance club?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it was a nightclub. So you're in there like, 30 seconds. I was like, yeah, I'm not doing.

[Brian Bates]

This, but did anyone's phone go off during your show?

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah. Somebody write in.

[Brian Bates]

Multiple people wrote in and talked about how funny you were when the guy's phone went off twice.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was an old person ringtone. You know, you can just tell the age of somebody. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Or was it just an actual ring?

[Nate Bargatze]

It was just a ringtone. You can tell. They probably didn't go into the settings.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

And choose it. It was just kind of the way the phone came.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sounded like a Motorola razor. I said at one point, it was like an old phone. Anyway. Yeah, they were just. They were fun like that. We had fun with them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Everyone, very funny thing. So Lee Kimbrell's talking about something we did that day with Lee Kimbrell. And I go, lee, you know what I'm talking about? And he's not in the room, so he stepped out. So I go, the show's going well enough. I can kind of be fun with the crowd. I go, guys, If Lee comes back in, and I go, how'd you guys like Lee? Don't boo, but everyone be like, all right. So, yeah, so I kind of forgot that I did that. Like, 30 minutes later, Lee steps in the back, and he's, like, taking a picture of the show on his phone. And I go, no, Lee Kimber, everybody. How'd you guys like him? And the crowd went. And I see him.

[Brian Bates]

Now.

[Nate Bargatze]

I thought it would be obvious this was a joke, but apparently Lee, like, just. He's like, I'll just step in and take a quick picture. He goes, hey, Lee. The crowd booze him. He's like, oh, my God. So he goes back to the green room, has, like, a meltdown. He said he called his wife. It was like. I thought it went great. The crowd hated me. So then after the show, I go, that was funny, right? He goes, dude, they hated me. I got told him to do that. He was like, you're lying. He could not. But, I mean, it was. I could not believe how well it worked.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

I, I. I thought it would be obviously a joke, and we were just kind of messing around. But he thought the crowd booed him when I brought him up.

[Brian Bates]

Starts drinking, gambles all his money at the craps table. Like, it's over for me.

[Nate Bargatze]

He goes, dude, I feel like the weight of the world's off my shoulders now. I've been back here, like, I ruined the show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, I thought. I thought they liked me, but they hated me.

[Brian Bates]

But, oh, wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was just that kind of fun. Just a fun night. Fun night of fun for you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

We ended up having a good. He had a great set.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Anyway, just great time. Thank you to the live casino in Greensburg.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I went to Portland, Maine, on Friday. State theater. Very good. I like Portland a lot. It's always a little rainy. Great show. Tons of fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Heard that song Portland, Maine by Donovan.

[Dusty Slay]

I was wondering what you were doing it to me? Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You didn't like it?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I. I do like it. I didn't get much how it was about Portland. I mean, I think it was a little hard to understand. You sent it to me a couple years ago.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd give it a re. Listen.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that kind of music, though. A little sad.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that kind of stuff. But Portland was really good. I did radio in the morning. I went there on Thursday night, and I. I didn't realize I was going to be doing radio. And I was a little bummed about it when I found out, but I did this radio station. I don't know what they're. It's Blake and Kelly. Is the show in Portland. And it was so fun. I do a lot of call ins on radio and I have fun with people and most every in studio radio I do is a good time. But these guys were super fun and we had a great segment and I feel like we sold like a hundred tickets.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really? Yeah, it's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So it was really good. And then I went the next day to New York City and did a show at the town hall and I thought it was a great show. I had my buddy Derek Humphrey and Ian Phalanz on the show with me. Both very funny comics. And, you know, ticket sales never, never exploded.

[Nate Bargatze]

But it looks like you and Ian, like he took your pan.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is it a little.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Ian's hip. He's very hip.

[Nate Bargatze]

But it looks like the pants to your shirt.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Anyway, yeah, it does kind of like the out the kind of like, I don't know, inseam or whatever. I don't know what that's called.

[Nate Bargatze]

It looks like. Yeah. You just traded shirts before.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, but great show, though. Really fun. Really. For my. You know, it's like, it's a big theater, right.

[Brian Bates]

This was in Manhattan.

[Dusty Slay]

Manhattan. I sold 500 tickets.

[Nate Bargatze]

Amazing.

[Brian Bates]

It's amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's like. Yeah, I'm in New York City selling tickets to. And Ian ask who's from here. Tons of people cheered. Like they like live in the city.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

So, you know, and it's. There's a lot going on real right there in the Times Square area. And. And then, then we went to Bryant park and had cigars.

[Brian Bates]

That was awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a no smoking zone, but the security guard walked by a lot of times and never told us not to smoke.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they eventually shut down the park, though, and kicked everyone out, including y' all. Yeah. Which I thought was weird, but yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

City that never sleeps.

[Dusty Slay]

I know, that's what I said. But good weather. Weather was great. A little cold for me in Portland, but in New York. Beautiful, beautiful.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at these tickets. Got like real tickets.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I know. That's super fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Super, super cool.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And the show was great. I mean, I'm working, I'm doing. I did an hour and 22 minutes in Maine.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's the prize.

[Brian Bates]

You didn't send it to us.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is that the PR right now?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And then I. I don't know what a personal record. Yeah, I think it is. I was actually shooting for it in. In Portland in.

[Brian Bates]

He's dragging it out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, no, we're having a good.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no. I mean, I got so many new jokes that I'm doing, and then once I hit the hour, then I try to do about 20 minutes of jokes that are on the special that's coming out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, so they're still not. Not old to people. So it's a hot show. Felt real good. Both of them were great, and.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, everybody commented how great the show was.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was really fun.

[Brian Bates]

Derek left his zipper down.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, did he?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, no.

[Brian Bates]

The whole show.

[Dusty Slay]

That's too bad.

[Brian Bates]

But they said it was great.

[Dusty Slay]

You see that merch?

[Nate Bargatze]

That's cool merch. I see that. I like it. I like it.

[Dusty Slay]

What does that say? Oh, it's a good shirt.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it is a good shirt.

[Dusty Slay]

I fought for that shirt, actually. Yeah. Some people were worried that it. You know, because that's from the old special.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'm like, nah, that's funny.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's fun.

[Dusty Slay]

And everybody gets it. Everybody my age gets what's going on.

[Brian Bates]

You guys want to get in these comments?

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's do it. You have the lamp from the Christmas Story on stage?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Was that their ghost lamp?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was. Yeah. These theaters have a ghost lamp much to me, feels like you're encouraging them.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, they're keeping them at bay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I. Yeah. I mean, I. These theaters have such weird architecture sometimes.

[Brian Bates]

That every theater is supposedly haunted.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I've never been to one where they were like, nah.

[Dusty Slay]

Especially if they're really old. Who knows what they were doing back then?

[Nate Bargatze]

Every theater is like, it's haunted. And then they're like, Houdini, like, lit a bomb in here when he was here in the 20s. It's always something like, here's a trap door Houdini put in. That guy was a nightmare. But, yeah, we left it, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I'm always. I'm told the ghost lamp serves two purposes. One, it's for the ghost.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And two, it's for once, they turn all the lights off. It's pitch black in there. They put it there just so somebody doesn't accidentally walk off the stage.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's an old superstition that the show. The show always goes on. There's always a lot. There's something. Some kind of cheesy reason for it.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you. When you did the Tonight show, did Michael Cox show you that Jim Henson closet?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. There's, like, a closet in there where Jim Henson was doing the show. And Then for whatever reason he got, he kept getting delayed, he kept getting pushed back. So he ended up being in the room like, hours.

[Brian Bates]

Johnny Carson. No, he was in la.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. But ended up being like, hours. And he. And years later, they found this room where he had opened the door and there was, like, I don't know, electrical equipment in there or pipes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And he drew little characters all over it, and they didn't see it for years.

[Brian Bates]

That's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

He did all that. So now it's like there's glass over it and it's a little exhibit that you can see, but. Yeah. What a lunatic, huh?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Yeah, totally. But there was no smartphone back then. Right. So imagine this guy. This guy's just sitting there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. He already read the paper.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's like, what am I gonna do?

[Brian Bates]

Jim Henson was on the very first snl.

[Nate Bargatze]

Doing what?

[Brian Bates]

Doing some.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, he had some puppets back.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they weren't a cute Muppets. It was really weird. I forgot what they were called, but it was a weird thing. But, yeah, he was on there.

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

All right, let's give these comments. Stephanie Cerny, you think that's right? Yeah, Stephanie.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian is like the Grandma Stefani. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Brian is like the. The grandma. Just trying to have a nice Thanksgiving dinner. And dusty and Aaron, are the cousins that can't stop laughing at each other at the kids table. Well, that is true.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You remember the first time I always.

[Dusty Slay]

Said at the adult stable, old lady.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I say, too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I'm agreeing.

[Nate Bargatze]

What were you saying the first time you got to sit at the adult table at Thanksgiving?

[Brian Bates]

I do not. Not yet. That one. I had a kid, maybe. But yeah. Now. Yeah, it's a big deal.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's fun. And then you get there and you're like, well, it's kind of boring up here too.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it's more boring.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, for sure. Adult conversations.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Matt K. How did a podcast full of comedians talking about the army not mention one of the greatest movies of all time in the army now? Well, I don't know about that.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll be honest. I never saw that movie. I didn't feel like we got into a lot of comedy movies about the army, though. Like, Major Pain is a really good. I mean, I don't know what branch that is. That's like rotc, but, you know, I never saw in the army now. I do like some old school Pauly Shore movies.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I never saw that one.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if I did either.

[Nate Bargatze]

Me either. I think we'd have talked about Saving Private Ryan before we talked about in the army now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What, are there other comedy army movies that you like?

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, there's Good Morning Vietnam.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good one, I guess.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. There's one with Goldie Hawn. It's very old Stripes now. That's Bill Murray.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, there's a good one. I'm sure there's a lot MASH could.

[Nate Bargatze]

Talk to a lot of mash.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Somebody said Pat Morito was in mash.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. Sorry, Matt.

[Dusty Slay]

Kiss. Sorry to let you down there, bud.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Justin Chambers. Can we please add 5 minutes of a segment called we're having a Bad Time to each Nateland episode? That recent episode of Dusty's podcast was absolutely fantastic.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I appreciate that. Yeah, I mean, I. Well, I think it's good. That's what happens to me when I get in a room alone. I just. I just.

[Brian Bates]

You don't have to be alone.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I just like complaining about stuff. It's. It's really. We're, We're. We're like a clown show out here now where everybody all come. Like, there's so many comics, there's so many podcasts, there's so many stand up clips. It's just like Funny, funny, funny, funny, funny. I'm like, hey, what about complaining a little bit? That's what I said.

[Brian Bates]

That's enough complaining in the world.

[Dusty Slay]

Nah, I don't think so. Not legit complaints. And that's what I'm bringing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You come see me do comedy, you get real jokes. Listen to my podcast, you get real complaints.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are you gonna write a book about gratitudes or something? Just kind of balance it out?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, I think that's. I'm almost rebelling.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are you writing a book? Are you gonna write a book?

[Dusty Slay]

I am. I am writing a book.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

I am almost rebelling.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're doing everything you were trashing Nate for doing, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'm not trashing him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah, you're writing a book.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not trashing. I know how much work goes into all these things, and I just. I mean, I feel like if I were selling out arenas, I'd be like, that's it. That's all I'm doing.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I don't know. I've seen you say that at every step of your career.

[Brian Bates]

I don't want to leave the clubs.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think you have a little more ambition than you're letting on. That's okay.

[Dusty Slay]

All. I mean, I've gone about as high as I want to go. That's what I said.

[Nate Bargatze]

You've said that before.

[Dusty Slay]

That's it. I feel very good about what's happening.

[Nate Bargatze]

Then why are you writing a book?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I got a book deal.

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't want to do arenas, but they offered me the date.

[Dusty Slay]

But, you know, congrats, by the way. But it. Thank you. But it is like, you know that the thing about complaining is if you complain, people think you're not grateful. Correct. And I'm. I do think that I'm rebelling against that notion because you can be grateful, and I'm very grateful for all the things that I have, but that doesn't mean I can't complain about stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sure. You know, just having fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, complaining's fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, it'd be fun to do in your book is have your doodles all throughout it.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

I would like to do that.

[Nate Bargatze]

That'd be kind of a fun little. Little Easter egg.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What's your book called?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. It doesn't have a name yet. It's.

[Brian Bates]

Is it a mystery novel?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's not a novel. I'm guessing.

[Dusty Slay]

No, It'll be a comedy book.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like Dan Brown.

[Dusty Slay]

I wanted Dave Barry. I actually want to Write a more serious book. But, you know, I'm a comedian, so I have to. So that's why I need to do, like you.

[Brian Bates]

Write some drama.

[Nate Bargatze]

Bogged down by the temptation to be funny. I'm sick of being funny.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I like it. I'm. I'm grateful that. But you know what else I found? I've really leaned into AI in a way that I'm a bit ashamed of.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But I found a song writing AI now. And so what I've been able to do is utilize it to help bring to life songs that I've written that I can't get other people to do for me. So I put the lyrics into this AI app, and then I go through and I list off how I want, you know, the song to sound.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then it. It pumps it out, turns it out.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's pretty cool, right?

[Dusty Slay]

I. I listen. Now this. I got stopped on this eventually. It caught on that I was using copyrighted lyrics, but I. But I'm only doing it to Savage. I was listening to a radio head song and I said, this would be a really great, like, folky country song.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And so I put it into AI, and it is a great folky country. Well, creep has been done a bunch, but you don't hear other Radiohead songs. And because there are a little weird. But the lyrics themselves, I was like, oh, this would be a good country song. But, yeah, so I'm just, you know, I'm just trying to express other creative things.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, but I'm all about comedy. What I want is a bunch of comedy albums. That's what I want. I want to look back and go look at all these albums I put on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's. That's.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what.

[Brian Bates]

But if they came to you said, we're doing a remake of Joe Dirt, we want you to play Joe. Would you do it?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, of course. Come on. Yeah. What. What is this fake hesitation?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly.

[Nate Bargatze]

What are you talking about?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, yeah, it's like, that'd be hard to turn down.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I'm saying.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think they're gonna do that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, if they did, it'd be awesome. You want to know something interesting? I read. And I'm not saying stop using it, and I'm definitely not gonna stop using it, but every chat GPT query, every query it processes, it uses one to three bottles of water to cool the servers. So every time you input anything in a chat GPT, one to three bottles of water. Now, I think They've got, they got a lot of water. They're doing it, but it's interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

That doesn't seem right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, they admit it. If you, if you. It's like it's something they put out because they're like, we're working to decrease the amount of water that we use. Too hot. It's real.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, they get.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, we're tagged. Those servers are every.

[Dusty Slay]

But you're like, worked if every. Everything we type in though, it's all right.

[Nate Bargatze]

That seems like one to three on average per. Per query. One to three things a query anytime you give it anything.

[Dusty Slay]

So any question I type in any.

[Nate Bargatze]

Even just saying thanks or something, that.

[Dusty Slay]

To me makes it sound like climate change people like, stop. Stop getting all this help. You're killing the planet.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, dude, now it's still. It's like, it's a really small percentage of water. Like, if you look at like how much water Google uses or Amazon uses to cool all their servers, it's a ton.

[Dusty Slay]

What kind of water are they using? Can they use ocean water?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's. No, I think it's fresh water that then just evaporates and then it doesn't reenter the. This. It's like it can't be reused. Goes outer space or just in the sky, I guess.

[Dusty Slay]

Why can't they use ocean water?

[Nate Bargatze]

A chat GPT uses roughly 519ml of water to write a 100 word email.

[Dusty Slay]

That's.

[Nate Bargatze]

So if you want a 100 word email, that's a little more than a bottle of water.

[Dusty Slay]

I feel like I just made this up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Why would I make this up about it itself?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I don't believe it though.

[Brian Bates]

I. I just saw a story where somehow I just. Elon Musk, whatever his AI company is, he's building the largest supercomputer maybe anywhere in Memphis. And it's already there, but it's putting out so much steam or whatever out in the environment that it's like making the, the air quality not good for the people who live around it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Jeez, it just keeps adding up. For Memphis.

[Brian Bates]

Yes. And the people they interviewed are in a very poor neighborhood and they're like, yeah, all these fumes and stuff coming from this gigantic plant, yet none of.

[Dusty Slay]

These people care about us.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's just interesting. I. I'm not saying don't use it, but it is interesting because I was using chat CPT and I was like about to hit enter and I was like, do I want to just pour three water, three bottles of water into the abyss. It better be a good, like a well worded question. Yeah. Then I hit enter.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll tell you. The last query that I sent to Chat GBT was, how would you describe the song Ugly by Bubba Sparks if you wanted to put that into an AI song creator? So I wasted three bottles. Three bottles of water on that, and they sent me a lot of info. I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't like a six bottle. I got dehydrated, but, man, hey, I was like, whoa. I wrote a rap song 20 years ago, and I have it written down. And I put that into the thing, and it is hot.

[Brian Bates]

You gonna release it?

[Dusty Slay]

I want to release a whole album. I'm gonna do a whole AI. I got so many poems I've written over the years.

[Brian Bates]

Why is Nate working so hard? As soon as my rap album comes out, I'm retiring.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'm saying this is stuff over the years that I've done that I can now bring to life.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, you told me about. I never even used ChatGPT. But you're making these really great posters for your shows.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, their posters are okay. I made a couple of really good ones, but they're okay.

[Brian Bates]

Well, for me, who knows how to do nothing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I went on and did it. Even I could do it.

[Dusty Slay]

It's. It's really. Yeah, it's really nice.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right. Oh, I want to also say happy birthday, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, thank you.

[Brian Bates]

We're all now 10 years apart again.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't believe in birthdays.

[Dusty Slay]

I. I don't really either.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Who knows? Your mom could be lying to you that that was the day.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, she could be.

[Brian Bates]

Nobody knows.

[Nate Bargatze]

The hospital's in on it, too.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like. I mean, we're all 10 years apart. Going from two to three, that's an easy one. Like, for me, I was 52. I was still in my early 50s. Go to 53. Still my early 50s.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

It's those other milestones a little bit harder. You guys agree or you may not care?

[Dusty Slay]

I've not reached a place where I care about age at all yet. I mean, maybe I'll get there, but I. You know, I noticed there are certain things because I hang out with a lot of comics, so I think hanging out with comics keeps you young because they're always, you know, new comics are always entering in, so there's always younger people that you're hanging around, but.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you hear all the references and stuff, and it's all different.

[Dusty Slay]

But I have Noticed, you know, a few things here and there where I'm like, oh, I'm. I'm much older than these guys.

[Brian Bates]

I was thinking, like, I consider Aaron a good friend, but we're 20 years apart in age. This is the only time in our life that it would even have been appropriate for us to be friends. I mean, when I was 33, your age, and you were 13.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think we would have crossed paths.

[Brian Bates]

We're not gonna hang out a lot. If we do, some people are gonna be concerned. You've been in comedy for 10 years.

[Nate Bargatze]

Almost 10 years. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So you were 23 when you started.

[Nate Bargatze]

23.

[Brian Bates]

And I was 43. Even then, it's a little weird.

[Dusty Slay]

You were 43 when you started comedy.

[Brian Bates]

No, I'm sorry. I was.

[Nate Bargatze]

When I started.

[Dusty Slay]

He was 44.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. But I never. I never thought of it as weird because it's like, they.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you're mature beyond your age. I would say I'm probably.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thanks.

[Brian Bates]

Immature. But it works out well. I mean, you know, I had a. Got married late in life, all that, so I'm living the life of a much younger person.

[Nate Bargatze]

There are a lot of comics that are like, they're in their 40s, and you're like, geez, dude, in your 40s?

[Dusty Slay]

I just want to. What do you mean?

[Brian Bates]

Like, what do you mean?

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, they seem so immature. Their life's not together at all.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, for sure. I mean, but. Yeah, yeah, you can find those people in every.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you can find them anywhere.

[Dusty Slay]

But, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's like.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not that I got everything figured out, but it's like, you know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

I do know what you mean. And it's like, I feel like, you know, I don't feel like I'm getting old. I do feel like I'm, like, growing up. You know, I have kids now and I'm. I. I have a house and I have other things I'm taking care of. Right. But it feels. Still feels, you know, cool to just hang out here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I got fun, you know, post show hangs that I'm doing all over the country, but also at Zany's every time I do my show. And it's. It's great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You know, I tried this as a joke. I feel like I'm at the age I can understand both sides. Like, I can understand why somebody might go out on a Tuesday night, you know, But I also understand I don't see that well at night.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I understand both sides. You know, when you're middle age. So anyway, yeah, that's about how that joke went when I tried it. But anyway, well, happy birthday.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Devin Lee Johnson. Aaron deserves a shout out from the ladies for not only without hesitation knowing the contents of the best day, but also for saying it's a great song on the pod. Give this man his props.

[Nate Bargatze]

I appreciate it, Devin Lee Johnson.

[Dusty Slay]

It is exactly the Taylor Swift song.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is. Yeah, it's an old. This from like old long time.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, so maybe it. Maybe it does have something that's good.

[Nate Bargatze]

About it, but it is, it's just, it's a. It's a reflection on her relationship with her mom and how her mom was, you know, she'd get in a fight with her friends at school and then her mom would, you know, take her out for like a girl's day. And then she got a couple lines about her dad and her brother in there too. It's just like, good song about her family. It's great. I don't know if it was ever like a big radio hit, but that, that was. It's one of my favorites of hers from way back in the day.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't. I don't know that all the ladies are giving you a shout out on it though. But you think.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think most are, yeah. It's a good song.

[Brian Bates]

Nikki Whitley in Illinois.

[Dusty Slay]

How many likes did this comment get from the ladies?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, what's the.

[Dusty Slay]

What's. I'm just making a joke.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's the implication?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, she says Aaron deserves a shout out from the ladies.

[Brian Bates]

So is Devin a she, you think?

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know. It could be either.

[Dusty Slay]

Devin Lee. I don't know the combination sounds, but. David Lee.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

David Lee Murphy, David Lee Roth. David Lee Nelson. I know a lot of David Lee's.

[Brian Bates]

Nikki Whitley in Illinois, if you live trap a skunk, you were supposed to destroy it since it's considered a nuisance animal. I've live trapped four in the last year, but I drive them far away and release them, which is how I got sprayed in the eye, no less, a couple of months ago. And for the record, they say the skunk spray has the same chemical makeup as pepper spray. And I believe it. It was excruciating. Wow, that's tough. Well, thank you for that, Nikki. They finished up today. We wrapped up the whole.

[Dusty Slay]

Just today just.

[Brian Bates]

Well, they, they came last week. They. They trapped the mother skunk. They pulled out four babies. There's a photo of one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at that thing, man.

[Brian Bates]

Very cute.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's the Baby.

[Brian Bates]

That's one of the babies. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now, do they have the ability to spray you at that age, or does that come at puberty?

[Brian Bates]

He said, I didn't get close to it, but just to be safe. But he said at that age, they don't know how to spray.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, they have to be taught how.

[Brian Bates]

Or they just.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's like racist.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe they just mature. That's deep, Aaron.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, isn't that what they always say, kids? I don't know why I jumped there.

[Brian Bates]

But that is beautiful.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Like anything you learn.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, exactly. Like the Alphabet. All right, all right.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, they removed four, five skunks, a mom, and four babies. And then today they finished up by sealing some stuff up so they can't get underneath there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So hopefully that problem resolved.

[Nate Bargatze]

That guy drove away and. And strangled that thing to death. You ever think about that? He killed that thing as soon as he left your property. Property.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know what he did with them.

[Nate Bargatze]

He didn't talk to you about it at all?

[Brian Bates]

I asked him, I said, what do you do now? He said, we take him far away, but we didn't say what he did.

[Dusty Slay]

Seems intense, I think. I don't think he actually, I think.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think they have a way to dispose of them humanely.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't. I mean, yeah, probably, but I like to think that, yeah, just take them out to the woods.

[Brian Bates]

I hope they did.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or they put them in another house to drum up business around the. Yeah, yeah, that's what I would do.

[Dusty Slay]

Like take them out to the woods, build them a little farm, little hut, and, you know, let them live out their days.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Jared Harris used to have a bit about. He owned a pressure washing company. He's like, it's hard work having the number one pressure washing company in Atlanta. You know, all day, pressure washing all night, spray painting.

[Brian Bates]

And scoose. You think?

[Dusty Slay]

And scoots.

[Brian Bates]

You guys. You guys skipped over the funniest line of the episode.

[Nate Bargatze]

I doubt it.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron, reading from the army application, asked, how long can you hold a plank? Dusty replied, how big's the plank?

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, that's pretty good.

[Brian Bates]

Now, that's funny. Some of the offhand comments made by all of you are often overlooked, but much appreciated. Love you guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, and that was even. Well, I don't want to ruin. I don't ruin. I feel like that I was even a bit of a Bible joke there, too, you know, that was talking about removing the plank from your own eye.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, okay, Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

See how long.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's why we brush over Stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Sorry.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good. It's a double.

[Brian Bates]

I retract my statement.

[Dusty Slay]

Nah. And Skills gets it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

She is ghosty.

[Brian Bates]

Let's skip ahead a little bit.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's the second time we've seen.

[Brian Bates]

I know. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. Travis White. Dusty's cracker barrel order is my exact cracker barrel order. We're having a good time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Your order in the commercial or in real life?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know what he's referring to.

[Brian Bates]

Last week said dumplings with hash.

[Dusty Slay]

Hash brown casserole.

[Brian Bates]

That's what he's talking about.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. That's a good order.

[Dusty Slay]

Good order.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron J. Thank you, Dusty, for speaking the truth about leaving reviews. I'm so confused. Every time Aaron says he doesn't leave an accurate review. Review of terrible experiences. That's what reviews are for.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm talking about. Aaron J. Yeah. You at least got to let the company know that the guy smells real bad.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Maybe. I just think if you. If you have a job like this, like, I. I'll never leave a bad review for a restaurant or something because I know I just won't leave a good review. But I think these people, their job depends on, like, the review is important. And I don't want to be the guy that actually affects somebody's.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Business and how they put food on their table and, you know, support their family or whatever. So this guy smells really bad, but I'm not trying to take money from the guy's pocket.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. But leave him five star review. Say, I really like this guy, but somebody needs to let him know that he smells bad.

[Nate Bargatze]

That. Yeah. Oh, I think I would have done that if I knew that was an option. I've never seen an option to leave a custom comment like that, you know, but next time I'll do that.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you have to.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm just not trying to bring somebody's rating down when it actually matters to their life. Unless they. I don't know. Unless they were.

[Brian Bates]

They're a reckless driver.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Or something.

[Dusty Slay]

Smelling bad is worse than being a reckless driver.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'd rather get to my destination alive. You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I don't mean wreck.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't mean wreck.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I.

[Dusty Slay]

But I. Reckless.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've been in a wreck.

[Dusty Slay]

To me, reckless driver says you're driving crazy, but you don't wreck. You're reckless. Right. You're wrecking.

[Nate Bargatze]

Reckless.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Without wreck.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Rec. Full driver.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You should Worry about.

[Dusty Slay]

You're. You're wild, but there's no wreck.

[Brian Bates]

Diana Williams. Someone tell Dusty that all trampolines are too dangerous, even those with fencing. Not worth the fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Tell Diana to loosen up a bit.

[Brian Bates]

I'm with you, Diana.

[Dusty Slay]

Not worth the fun. That is a reckless driver right there, isn't it, Diana? Come on. On.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've been injured on a. I chipped a tooth. I had to go to the dental emergency room.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I never thought, never did it once cross my mind that it wasn't worth it.

[Dusty Slay]

Diana's driving. Ten and two. Boy. Ten and two, five under.

[Nate Bargatze]

She does the turn signals with her hand out the window. Well, it sounds like Diana had a. Something happened to her.

[Dusty Slay]

Start sprinkling. She cuts the hazards on.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've been using the hazards to thank people.

[Dusty Slay]

Have you?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's fun.

[Brian Bates]

What do you mean?

[Nate Bargatze]

Somebody lets you in, throw the hazards on.

[Brian Bates]

That's why this. That's a thing.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm doing it the way that we.

[Nate Bargatze]

I hope they know it's what it.

[Dusty Slay]

We turn. How would they know we would turn the lights on and off?

[Brian Bates]

Like that's got car problems.

[Dusty Slay]

Like if you, if somebody let you in, you can turn the lights on your car on and off because it blinks the rear views.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I just go. They let me in. I merge in, hit it. One, two, three. Turn it off.

[Brian Bates]

How about just wave, say thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Maybe it's night time, Brian, you know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Now they're like, great, I let this guy in front of me, now he's got car problems.

[Dusty Slay]

The guy with an emergency.

[Nate Bargatze]

Come on.

[Brian Bates]

He's about to delay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you should know this. I think that that's common in Japan. I think that's how they do it in Japan. They're very differential.

[Dusty Slay]

I wouldn't know it meant thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because what would you think it meant? You do somebody a favor and then they flash the hazards for two seconds. What do you, what do you think they're trying to communicate?

[Dusty Slay]

I. I wouldn't know. Because truck drivers will blink their lights. That's what they do to say thank.

[Nate Bargatze]

You, to flash their light.

[Dusty Slay]

Like if, if you let them in, they turn their lights on and off because it lights up the back ones.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, how would you know what that meant?

[Dusty Slay]

I just think that is what people know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, then I feel like the hazard lights is the same thing. I feel like somebody does the hazards.

[Dusty Slay]

That would, you know, if somebody blinked their lights at you like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, he's not, he's not letting people in on the Road.

[Brian Bates]

No, I would never do that. I would think, oh, I better slow down. There's a cop ahead. If they're flashing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dude, I'm talking about, like, we're in traffic, you know, and the lanes are zippering down to one, and somebody lets in, I'll throw the hazards on for three seconds, give them three blinks. Thank you, buddy. And then I think horn.

[Brian Bates]

Horns should have different sounds for different occasions.

[Nate Bargatze]

Appreciate it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, appreciate it. Something like that. Yeah, something like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, like that.

[Brian Bates]

That. That was easy button, you know, that.

[Nate Bargatze]

They used to have.

[Brian Bates]

Should be one like that. Thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

What would you want? You get. You get three phrases that you can communicate through a horn. What do you want to say? You got to have one aggressive one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, one aggressive one. Like, go. Or.

[Dusty Slay]

Or all mine are aggressive. Go. Come on. What are you doing? That's what I want.

[Nate Bargatze]

What are you doing?

[Brian Bates]

It's like a radio preset.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can do it whatever you want. What are you doing?

[Brian Bates]

I would. One would say go, one would say, sorry.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'd have a sorry button.

[Brian Bates]

And one would say, thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

I. I don't think I'd use it that much, but there are times where I want to go, all right, that was my bad.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm sorry. I'd be at the.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know. You have.

[Dusty Slay]

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. As soon as it turns green, that. No, you know, my. Sorry is the wife. I go, that is my bad.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I wanted it.

[Dusty Slay]

But I wouldn't give it to him on a button.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I just had one where I'm in a parking lot. There's one space open beside me. I'm trying to get my daughter out of her car seat. She's not cooperating. So I'm standing there, lean over for a while. There's a car waiting to pull into that spot. I don't know how long we've been waiting, but time I get her out, you know, he's just sitting there waiting, and, you know, I was like, oh, sorry about that. But that's one where I don't. Guess I would have been honking. Maybe he should have honked at me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, excuse me. I'm just saying, it happens. Yeah, it happens. Coy Atkins.

[Nate Bargatze]

Coy.

[Brian Bates]

Y' all should do a Patreon where you only cover the stuff that Dusty says. If I. I have a theory. I'll tell you after the pod.

[Nate Bargatze]

We'd have to do a different service than Patreon.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Come on, Coy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that idea, though. I have My own podcast, though, Coy and I, I get into some stuff sometimes times I have a separate one.

[Brian Bates]

The Dusty Slay podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

We're Having a Good Time podcast. I kept that name.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

I said I was going to change it, but so far I'm still the We're Having a Good Time podcast. And now I finally am uploading video. I've talked about it for years.

[Brian Bates]

You considered the We're Having a Bad Time podcast, right?

[Dusty Slay]

I've considered a lot of names. Even the We're Having a Good Time question mark podcast.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're Having a Good time.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I like that, too. Nick Alexander. I got a CPAP today.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes, sir.

[Brian Bates]

I want to know if Aaron or Breakfast had any tips for me. I'm excited to get some restful sleep. It took a long time to get diagnosed with sleep apnea because I'm healthy and in shape. Well, whatever.

[Nate Bargatze]

Rub that in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't want to help you now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Sounds like you got it all figured out, Nick.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Good luck with your health.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, being in shape sounds like you should. Yeah. I mean, I, I.

[Brian Bates]

Here's one.

[Dusty Slay]

Breathe. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

One drawback for me wearing a cpap, and you can see it, I often have red right here because the mask, if I don't put on, like, lotion.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or something, it'll get in there, it'll irritate.

[Brian Bates]

It'll irritate the skin. And that's why I have redness there a lot of times. So there's one.

[Nate Bargatze]

I got a lot of, I got a lot of tips. You got to develop a nighttime routine, Put it on when you want to go to bed, and you can kind of train your body to be like. And you don't want it because I'll fall asleep. I'll forget about it and fall asleep without it, and then the whole day shot. So you need to just make sure you do it every time, use it every time. Take it on the road with you. Brian doesn't like to do that, but I think you got to use it all the time, anytime you sleep, or else it doesn't. You're not doing anything.

[Brian Bates]

So what Dusty says it's not even real. So I'm kind of just hedging my bets, playing the middle.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's fake air that it's shooting in.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty checked out there for a second.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, you guys are talking about CPAPs, and I, you know, I started.

[Brian Bates]

You can't be interested in anything unless it's about you for a second.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I stopped breathing while you were doing it.

[Brian Bates]

Do you change your parts? Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Imagine if I tapped out whenever I wasn't interested in something we were talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not about not being.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think I would have lasted our four hour gardening episode if I didn't pretend a little bit. You know what I mean? We're doing a collaborative podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah, but you're not.

[Nate Bargatze]

We got a faint interest.

[Dusty Slay]

We're not doing a podcast about CPAPs. The guy asked if you and Brian have advice, and then you were given your advice. I don't wear one.

[Nate Bargatze]

So then what's your role in that moment? Jump in with a little comedy.

[Dusty Slay]

Really improving their lives. I can see it. They come in and I can. I can always tell when they've not had their CPAPs in because they'll be a little crankier than normal.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, you don't have to lie.

[Dusty Slay]

I gotta tell you, I. I don't even have sleep apnea. And I've wanted a cpap.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is just not an ad read.

[Dusty Slay]

I just wanna say that is true. I just want to wear one in the car. I want a CPAP for the car.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you sleep in the car, you should wear it. That's all I'm saying.

[Dusty Slay]

I plug it into the old cigarette lighter and keep it going.

[Brian Bates]

Do you change your parts like you're supposed to? Like, they recommend.

[Nate Bargatze]

I never clean them. I never do anything.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, my favorite part about a CPAP is mold. I like to breathe in a little black mold. Well, black mold. Not just for the shower anymore.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm breathing in less mold than you, probably. Yeah, I got a. There's a filter on that thing. You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I built my bed frame out of mold. Old moldy wood.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Nick.

[Nate Bargatze]

Helix mattress.

[Brian Bates]

Good luck, Nick.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Nick. I mean, this is the. You know, this is the next step of the. A beautiful chapter in your life.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I'm happy for you.

[Dusty Slay]

Stop breathing. You know what I mean? Like, end it. Let it go.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I'll say, hey, don't expect a kind. And some people do. But don't expect immediate euphoria of like, oh, everything's different.

[Dusty Slay]

Different.

[Nate Bargatze]

That doesn't happen for everybody.

[Brian Bates]

It's hard to get used to wearing that thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

It might be a gradual thing, but you're going to get to a point where you can't sleep without it. But don't expect it to be like a. You'll wake up the first day like, oh, my goodness, I can see the world. Everything's in color. Yeah, that just doesn't happen for everybody. But God bless you. And that's all the comments today. What a journey it's been, huh? Smart money moves are all about getting more out of every dollar. With Rocket Money, you can easily find forgotten subscriptions and have them negotiate bills for you, putting money back in your pocket. With all those savings, Rocket Money practically pays for itself. Rocket Money, as you know, is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. See all of your subscriptions in one place and know exactly where all your money's going. It's a lot of stuff you've signed up where you've forgotten about. You know, you signed up for the free trial, you put your credit card in, you watch the one thing you wanted to watch, and you've been paying for it for five years. Not speaking personally, of course. I haven't done this 15 to 20 times. I would never do something that stupid, and now I never will. With Rocket Money, easily create a personalized budget with custom categories to keep track of your spending. See your monthly spending trends in each category to know where your money's going. It's the right move to you for you to manage all your finances. Rocket Money has over 5 million users and has saved a total of 500 million in canceled subscriptions, saving members up to $740 a year. When using all the app's premium features, cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster. With Rocket Money, go to RocketMoney.com Nate today. That's Rocket Money.com Nate Rocket Money.com/Nate.

[Brian Bates]

Well, this week, you know, we're doing all the states. We've been doing this for years now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So we tailored a topic that'll keep Dusty engaged for the staff.

[Brian Bates]

I look at Dusty schedule and see where he's going to be.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I'm like, well, what else are we going to talk about? Vermont.

[Nate Bargatze]

There you go.

[Dusty Slay]

Vermont. I'll be there this weekend, Burlington, Vermont, at four shows. The Burlington Comedy Club. Maybe the Vermont Comedy.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's the Vermont Comedy Club.

[Dusty Slay]

Never been to Vermont. Never been there. Never been to the club. Never been to the state.

[Brian Bates]

I've never been. Have you ever been?

[Nate Bargatze]

Never been. Know very little about it. What's.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I was gonna ask you, what do you guys think of? You think of Vermont.

[Nate Bargatze]

Think of Bernie Sanders.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, kind of the guy. I. People have emailed me a little bit. I like to think that it's very nice, very green, very pleasant. Yes, I look forward to it. I may buy property while I'm there and move there. I'm already considering. It really just sounds lovely.

[Nate Bargatze]

It does sound. I think of snow. I think of skiing mountains.

[Brian Bates]

I think of fall foliage.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I think of maple syrup.

[Nate Bargatze]

There you go. Maple syrup.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Vermont maple syrup.

[Brian Bates]

What Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

That is. That makes me. You know, I just wanna. Brian is like a grandma. Just trying to have a nice Thanksgiving dinner.

[Brian Bates]

The beautiful fall foliage.

[Dusty Slay]

I just think of the leaves changing and maple syrup.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Dusty. Get out. Experience nature sometimes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, man.

[Brian Bates]

Jeez.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Let's get into Vermont.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's do it. What is it called? What's the nickname of the state? Vermont.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I have that.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

I have. Well, I have it. What it. I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think I have the slogan the Green Mountain state.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, so the word Vermont translates to green mountain in French.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

It's beautiful.

[Nate Bargatze]

Le Monte versus so lives Les Months.

[Brian Bates]

The population of Davidson County, Nashville. 715, 000. The whole state of Vermont. 642, 000.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Brian Bates]

It's the next least populous state. Only less populous is Wyoming.

[Nate Bargatze]

Probably Alaska too, right?

[Brian Bates]

Well, Alaska probably per capita, maybe, but Alaska, I think so big. It's got more people.

[Dusty Slay]

People.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ah, let's look that up. 740, 000. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Vermont.

[Brian Bates]

Look it up.

[Dusty Slay]

Vermont.

[Brian Bates]

I think I just made it up.

[Dusty Slay]

Very small though, too, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I think so.

[Dusty Slay]

Vermont's very. A very small state.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So I'm not saying Pearl square mile or whatever, but just total people. The state capital. Anybody know Burlington?

[Dusty Slay]

I have no idea. I guess that's the only city.

[Brian Bates]

Can you name another city in Vermont?

[Nate Bargatze]

Vermont City. Is there a Vermont? There's probably a Springfield in there.

[Brian Bates]

Probably is. Montpelier. It's the smallest state capital in the u. S. 8, 000 people.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let me look that up real quick.

[Brian Bates]

Juneau or. What is it? Anchorage.

[Nate Bargatze]

Juno's there.

[Brian Bates]

It's the only state Capital doesn't have McDonald's.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, Vermont gets better and better all the time.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're gonna just stay.

[Brian Bates]

I also don't have a Starbucks, Burger King or Walmart.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. The whole state, they.

[Brian Bates]

Well, at least my pillar, they. They try to prioritize local businesses over large chains.

[Dusty Slay]

Man, I love this place.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Sometimes you just want a Walmart though, dude. Sometimes you need a Walmart.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm anti Walmart. These days I will go. Sometimes you have to go.

[Nate Bargatze]

But yeah, that's how principles work.

[Dusty Slay]

But I mean, you have them till you. No, I'm, I'm anti it, though. It's like you go to some state because that's the problem. Walmart moves into these small towns over time. All the other businesses shut down because Walmart prices them out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then you end up in that town and you're like, oh, well, I have to go to Walmart. That's the only place I can go to get these things.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look, I agree with you. Let me play devil's advocate here. If I, if you owned a Mom and pop that sold, I don't know, if you owned a store, what would you sell? Like gardening supplies, stuff like that, that. Okay, Walmart comes in, everything's cheaper, what would your competitive advantage be? How would you differentiate yourself?

[Dusty Slay]

I would try customer service. Customer service.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, there you go. But people try to compete.

[Dusty Slay]

But Michael Scott Paper company, you would try to compete.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I'm sure that I want to get more.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sure that people do try to compete. Right. I'm not saying, I'm not saying they're, they're good all the time. I, I complain all the time about mom and pop coffee shops on the road. I'll go there and then I go, you're not being very nice to me. Yeah, and at least they'll be nice to me at Starbucks, you know.

[Nate Bargatze]

But they're nice to you at Walmart.

[Dusty Slay]

It depends on where you're at. That's true. But yeah, it's like, it would just be nice if, you know, a lot of cities fight back about it. I mean, and when I lived in Charleston on James island, they had a regular Walmart, and Walmart wanted to build a super center, but they wanted to abandon the old Walmart and build a new one. And they signed a petition and we fought back against it so that, that they actually had to remodel the existing Walmart and make it a super Walmart rather than wasting more space.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is it by law these things aren't in there or they just. Why, why aren't they there?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think, yeah, I guess it's.

[Nate Bargatze]

By law because I don't know, could you just ban a company from coming to your city?

[Dusty Slay]

I think you can reject it. You also, they get like, well, a lot of the, A lot of places will give Walmart a bunch of tax credits to come in. So, like, say you want to open a business and you got to pay all these different fees. And then they'll, they'll cut the fees.

[Nate Bargatze]

For Walmart because they'll go, Walmart, Walmart goes, we'll come in, we'll give 3,000 jobs to the community. And they go, well, we'll waive, right? We'll weigh the registration fees.

[Dusty Slay]

Whereas other people trying to open a business that would give some jobs, they go, we're not going to. Yeah, yeah, you're going to, you're going to pay the full, the full fees. So if the government, if you have good government, if that exists, it would be nice if they go, hey, you know, we got a lot of local people here. We like them, we want them to be business owners and not just employees. We're not going to let you come here.

[Nate Bargatze]

So this is a policy decision by the state government that we're not going to give tax credits. We're not going to, we're not going to incentivize those big companies to come in and open up shop.

[Brian Bates]

Well, the ones I, the one I referenced was just from Mike Pillier. I don't know about the whole state, but that was just this. But that is the state capital and there is no billboards in the entire state.

[Nate Bargatze]

I do like that when, when you go to an area and there's an ordinance.

[Dusty Slay]

I never knew. I love Vermont so much. I hope it's good. I hope I enjoy.

[Brian Bates]

They banned billboards in 1968 to preserve its scenic beauty and rural character.

[Dusty Slay]

Cuz nothing these days says America like pulling off the interstate and just getting billboards all across the sky.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, free markets, jobs, opportunities, all that's pretty scary, huh?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you just said you didn't like you like that they just have billboards.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is what being engaged in a podcast sounds like. No, but it's like I'm just, I'm breeze.

[Brian Bates]

You play devil's advocate now.

[Dusty Slay]

About what?

[Brian Bates]

I just thought you wouldn't even get on board.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I just, I'm just saying it's, it's, it's beautiful when you get off somewhere and you can see trees and not just signs for McDonald's and Burger King.

[Nate Bargatze]

Absolutely.

[Dusty Slay]

It's, you know, for sure. It's so nice.

[Brian Bates]

It is.

[Nate Bargatze]

There are six Walmarts in Vermont, which that's so few. I feel like there's six in a two mile radius of my house here. So that's really six in the whole states.

[Dusty Slay]

That's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Burlington's the largest city. 45,000. It's the smallest, largest city of any state. Does that make sense?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So it became A state. I guess New York was a colony and they gave some land grants to New Hampshire, but then some other people came in to try to claim it. So the Green Mountain Boys militia group, they protected it and kept it.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that.

[Brian Bates]

And they were militia group and they. They fought to preserve it. And then it became a state. It was originally called the Republic of New Connecticut, and then they changed it to Vermont.

[Dusty Slay]

The hard part for me is when I see a beautiful place in the country, I just get overwhelming sadness because I know that they're going to ruin it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Who?

[Dusty Slay]

The people that ruin everything.

[Brian Bates]

Save that for we're having a bad time podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

You just go somewhere and you go, this is amazing. And then you go, but they haven't yet. The corporations are coming.

[Brian Bates]

They're coming, but they're fighting the good fight. It's the leader. Leading producer of maple syrup in the United. You laughed at me, but did you guys not know that or.

[Nate Bargatze]

No?

[Dusty Slay]

I. I love maple syrup and I like fall foliage.

[Brian Bates]

Over.

[Dusty Slay]

And I just think it's funny that you said it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Great cribbage there.

[Dusty Slay]

You know I love leaves.

[Brian Bates]

I know you do. You can bring some home. Over half of the maple syrup in the United States is produced in Vermont.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Wow.

[Brian Bates]

They also grow a lot of apples. Third largest contributor is apples. Macintosh. Apples in particular.

[Nate Bargatze]

Macintosh. You think you could pick out a Macintosh apple?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

Me either.

[Dusty Slay]

Not unless it has a bite taken out of it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't even get it. Ben and Jerry's started in Vermont. Burlington, Vermont, founded in 1978. Went from a single ice cream parlor to a multinational brand.

[Dusty Slay]

I think Ben and Jerry's has changed a little bit, but for a long time, Ben and Jerry's, I think, was one of the healthier ice creams there's.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, it's definitely not now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'm not saying any ice cream is healthy, but I'm saying they were using less harsh chemicals. Like, less like. I love bluebell. I would never trash bluebell, but they got some. They got a few ingredients that are. That I'm not into.

[Brian Bates]

All right, Dusty, I want you to do. You're there for two days.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I want you to go do one. I know you don't like to get. Get out and do much, but I want you to go do one of these things I'm going to talk about on today's podcast report back to us. Maybe go to Ben and Jerry's. That sounds like a pretty.

[Dusty Slay]

That. That sounds up my alley.

[Nate Bargatze]

So you Get a Ben and Jerry's flavor named after you.

[Dusty Slay]

That'd be. I mean, I do love Ben and Jerry's. I mean, ice cream is a real weakness for me. I love ice cream.

[Brian Bates]

Lake Champlain, I'm saying that right, has a lake monster called Champ or Champion. And it's kind of like the Loch Ness monster. And people have claimed to seen it. And they were filming a movie recently about the movie about the monster and drone footage. You could really see something following the boat.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow, look at this picture of it right there.

[Brian Bates]

That looks just like the Loch Ness, except maybe his head's turned and he's wearing a scarf. So maybe go to Lake Champlain, see if you see.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just take a look.

[Brian Bates]

Champion. What do you think that is, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, what is it? You know, in the Bible there's two animal behemoth. And what is the other that's described?

[Nate Bargatze]

Goliath. Over the years, there's been over 300 reporting sightings.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's whatever the sea monster one is.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

The original story is related to the Iroquois legends of giant snakes, which the Mohawk named something Anyarikoa.

[Dusty Slay]

So, yeah, I mean, see, the Native American people are always talking about seeing giants and things like this. And we, we, you know, we're all out here respecting the Native Americans, but when it comes to that, everybody goes, ah, no, they didn't see no giants. And I think they did.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty good photo right there.

[Dusty Slay]

You really can't trust any photos anymore. Well, yeah, unless you already had them prior to this AI stuff. It's like, like.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Photoshop's been around for a while.

[Dusty Slay]

Photoshop, yeah. But even then I feel like you could put Photoshop under some type of filter and could tell whether it was Photoshopped or not. With AI it's like there's things you can look for.

[Brian Bates]

It's getting harder and harder.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The largest professional sports team is the Vermont Lake Monsters, named after Champ there. Of a future, future collegiate baseball league based in Burlington. Yeah. Name and their mascot is Champ the Lake Monster.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Smuggler's Notch.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's Champ right there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Champ looks like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

That's a good looking mascot.

[Nate Bargatze]

The little thing around his eyes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It's funny how they always wear shirts, never pants.

[Dusty Slay]

Leviathan.

[Nate Bargatze]

Leviathan. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, There you go. So in 1807, President Jefferson passed an embargo forbidding American trade with Great Britain and Canada. And it was really hard on people in Vermont because Montreal was closer to them than any US Market. So they continued to do it. And they went through Smuggler's Notch. It's a narrow pass through the green mountains. And they would keep doing, trading with Canada, herd cattle, and other things like that. And now it's a resort.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And a. And a lake.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's really cool.

[Brian Bates]

You can still get a state park. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's got ski resorts and everything around there. Yeah. That's awesome. Smuggler's Notch.

[Dusty Slay]

We love talking about our Helix mattresses. I've had my Helix mattress almost three years now. Nate's parents just got one, and they love it. Another one they. They just got. Yeah, they keep getting. They keep getting them. They love it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Why not? They're great.

[Dusty Slay]

He's a magician. He makes them disappear. Nate's dad said it helps with his sleep apnea. We all have a Helix mattress, and we all love it. We do love it. They're good mattresses, good pillows, fun to unbox. You know, it comes in a, you know, a little roll, and then you cut the wrapping off, and it just inflates like a life. That's pretty amazing. It improves how I sleep. Everyone knows I love their pillows. We talk about that all the time. But it has helped with my sleep. I'm getting better sleep. Aaron's getting better sleep, and Brian's getting better sleep. My old mattress was one of those springs. I finally realized how bad it was for sleep. My mattress was so bad and old that when I threw it away, I threw it away in a dumpster and it folded in half. I have a whole joke about that on my YouTube channel. Helix fixes that issue. It's called. I think it's called new mattress. Helix fixes that issue. It's great for hot sleepers, people with back pain, snores, and sleep apnea. It's for everyone. Go to helixsleep.comnate for their Memorial Day sale and get 2027 off. Statewide, 27 plus free bedding bundle, sheet set, and mattress protector with any luxe or elite mattresses. That's helixsleep.com nate27 off site, wide and free bedding bundle with any lux or elite mattress. The sale ends June 1, so don't mess around.

[Brian Bates]

Get a Helix. All right, Dusty. The world's tallest filing cabinet is in Burlington.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

38 drawers tall.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. That's the tallest, huh? Wow, look at that.

[Nate Bargatze]

What are they keeping there?

[Brian Bates]

Go check it out. I don't know. I think it was just an art sculpture, but yeah, it's at a Guinness world record. Some homeless guy left a Shopping cart there didn't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Didn't really give birth to a lot of other stuff around. It looks like.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty, I want you go to that filing cabinet and take a picture that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, I'm the most interested in going to that filing cabinet.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. All right, let's talk about some famous people from Vermont. Now, you've already named the only one that I could associate with Vermont.

[Nate Bargatze]

Bernie Sanders.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Could you name anybody else from there?

[Nate Bargatze]

Now, you know President Bartlett from the West Wing is from New Hampshire and they talk about Vermont a lot, but no, I can't think of anybody. I'm sure I've heard of people. I just don't know that they're from Vermont.

[Brian Bates]

The band Fish.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. That doesn't surprise me.

[Brian Bates]

Yep, yep. A lot of famous people were born in Vermont and then moved not long after that. Two presidents were born in Vermont. President Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge.

[Nate Bargatze]

Two of the big ones.

[Dusty Slay]

Calvin Coolidge, though. Very big. Pretty big.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm not kidding, Dusty. The world's tallest filing cabinet is 1.7 miles from the club.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Six minute drive. I feel like you gotta go check it out. All right, report back, let us know. Is it that tall?

[Dusty Slay]

How far is that lake?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Lake Champlain.

[Nate Bargatze]

Lake Champlain. That's going to be an hour and a half. And you got to go.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're going to have a car.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it not just that big lake right there?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I don't know why it's making you go all the way around here. On Google.

[Brian Bates]

I think you can see it out your window.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you'll see it from your.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's even closer. Yeah, you might see Champ.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you want to get a good view of it, I guess you got to go all the way around. You got to go across it first before you see it.

[Dusty Slay]

And what about Ben and Jerry's? Well, I guess I'll just look these things up.

[Brian Bates]

But yeah, look up. I mean, I guess there's multiple Ben.

[Dusty Slay]

Jerry's, but Ben and Jerry's.

[Brian Bates]

The original Ben and Jerry's.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe chocolate chip cookie dough and the peanut butter cup. Ben and Jerry's. Unbelievable. Yeah, Strawberry cheesecake.

[Brian Bates]

It's great. They probably just needed a point somewhere for people.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it actually sent us to New York across the lake. But if you want to stay on the Vermont side, you're pretty good in Burlington. That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, perfect.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can just check it out.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I want to see it. I want. I want to have a cigar. Out. See, I feel like Vermont's gonna That's where they're gonna. That's where they're gonna come down on me. I feel like they're gonna be like, no smoking here, buddy. But I'd like to go sit out by the lake and see if I can see.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you're gonna see the price of all these other things that you like about the state so much.

[Brian Bates]

You may have to go to New.

[Nate Bargatze]

York City if you want to smoke a cigar. Wherever you want. You gotta have a Burger King sign up there, you know, that's the give and take.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that is. Yeah. I mean, but I don't know. We'll see.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm kidding.

[Brian Bates]

You think they have a Cracker Barrel?

[Dusty Slay]

I. I don't know. I don't know why they wouldn't, but.

[Brian Bates]

Well, they don't.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, once you get too far north, it's hard to find a lot of Cracker barrels.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not a single location in Vermont.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet they've been seeing my commercial, though.

[Brian Bates]

I bet they're building one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, the. You know, Salt Lake City is not a very smoker friendly place. But I still sat out behind my hotel and had a cigar and no one bothered me.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's good.

[Dusty Slay]

You know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I like Salt Lake City because it's a big city, but yet it's not as congested and just.

[Dusty Slay]

Just very nice. And you're filled with good people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. So, all right. Some other famous people from Vermont. John Deere. Oh, he was born in Vermont. I think he quickly moved, but no.

[Nate Bargatze]

If I knew that was a real guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Nothing runs like a deer. That's what they say. Sounds like he got right up out of there.

[Brian Bates]

Carlton Fisk.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, I know. Wilson Fisk.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Wilson's the kingpin.

[Nate Bargatze]

You never seen the old clip? Baseball clip of the guy in the Red Sox, hits a home run and he's. He's doing this. He's trying to say. He's saying, stay fair. Stay fair. You've never seen that? Nah, That's Carlton Fisk. Pudge.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Pudge. Brigham Young and Joseph Smith, both born in Vermont. I'll be a wise guy. Is May 16th. Oh, too late for that. But that's kind of crazy, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Different cities, just both born there and wow. Move soon after. Damon Wayans Jr. Born in Vermont.

[Nate Bargatze]

The Wayans, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

At least he was. And then Bernie Sanders was not born in Vermont, but he spent most of his adult life there, which for him, that's a long time. He was mayor of Burlington, I think.

[Nate Bargatze]

I knew that eight Years. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But he's the only person I could have associated with Vermont.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't know Fish was from there.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's there. Dolly Parton. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm trying to think of the most signature person from each state, which we always. For better or worse, I think Dolly Parton is Tennessee.

[Brian Bates]

I think you're right. I know. I think. And we've talked about some of the podcasts. There's two things you have to distinguish. Is it the most famous person to those people who live there, or is it to the average person? Would they know they're from. You know what I mean? Like, Tom Cruise is from what, Syracuse.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But nobody knows that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right, right.

[Brian Bates]

So you got to like, associate.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Dolly Parton has Dollywood.

[Brian Bates]

Dolly Parton.

[Dusty Slay]

And Gatlinburg is a major Tennessee spot.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I would agree. Dolly Parton. The other two famous people from Tennessee are also claimed by other states. Oprah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And she's claimed by like three states. And Elvis.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Elvis. I think of him.

[Brian Bates]

He's born in Mississippi.

[Nate Bargatze]

Born in Mississippi.

[Brian Bates]

But Graceland's in Memphis.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, But Memphis is barely hanging on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what I mean? It's.

[Brian Bates]

But if you talk about famous Tennessee and people will often say Elvis.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And just kidding about that, by the way.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, because that supercomputer got no laugh when I said.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I was just thinking about the super computer being built there. And you said it. And I thought, well, that's going to.

[Nate Bargatze]

Be tough about all that fresh water being used.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, one other thing I thought of for Vermont, the TV show Newhart was based in Vermont.

[Nate Bargatze]

Bob Newhart.

[Brian Bates]

Bob Newhart. He had two shows. The Bob Newhart show, where he was.

[Nate Bargatze]

A psychiatrist and you could talk about him freely now because you've already killed him.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, I guess that's true. And then the show Newhart where he ran a bed and breakfast.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, I've never heard of this show.

[Brian Bates]

Are you serious?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I've never heard both this on up.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no. The. The first one wasn't, but the second one about the. The breakfast was sitting and it was. It's shot real life, Wayberry Inn, at.

[Nate Bargatze]

Least outside 1982 to 1990. Never heard of this.

[Brian Bates]

It was a great show. I thought we've talked about on the podcast. It has one of the best endings to any show ever. It was on for. Oh, have you ever heard. This is Daryl, my brother Daryl. My other brother Daryl. That's from Newhart.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But the ending is Bob Newhart waking up in bed. He's like, oh, my gosh, I just had the worst nightmare ever or worst dream. I dreamed I was, blah, blah, blah. And he turns to tell his wife and she turns the light on. It's his wife from his first show, his first sitcom. So the. The joke is, obviously, it was just all a dream.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, and he's still. That's a great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Was the whole show kind of slapstick like that? Like just kind of.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think so. But, I mean, New Heart was so funny. Dry.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what people thought would be a great ending to Breaking Bad. If he woke up as the Malcolm in the Middle dad.

[Brian Bates]

That would be a different take.

[Dusty Slay]

The weirdest dream.

[Brian Bates]

But, yeah, Newhart was great. Had Tom Poston, I think. I can't remember who else.

[Nate Bargatze]

Mary Fran, I've seen the.

[Dusty Slay]

The Bed and Breakfast one a bit. And, yeah, it's funny.

[Brian Bates]

Bob Newhart was very funny.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I remember on the.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a couple of Bob Newhart albums stand up.

[Brian Bates]

So funny. I remember one of the therapists at where the. The first one where he was a psychiatrist, I guess, and this patient leaves the office. He's like, remember, you just.

[Dusty Slay]

You.

[Brian Bates]

You've gotta be more decisive in your life. And then the elevator and two doors open at the same time, and the guy has to make a decision which one. It's just. It's a funny scene. Yeah, Bob Newhart was great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he was.

[Brian Bates]

I probably should have read that comment that I skipped because we went through Vermont a little faster than I thought.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's read it now.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's no disrespect to Vermont.

[Brian Bates]

There's a very popular podcast in Vermont called Rumble Strip. It focuses on society and culture.

[Nate Bargatze]

Rumple.

[Brian Bates]

Rumble Strip.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

And it covers true life. Road crew, workers, farmers.

[Dusty Slay]

I need to reach out to them. I got. Because I. My first two. My early shows in Vermont are sold out, but the late shows are not, so we gotta get.

[Brian Bates]

You think Rebel Strip would have a working man on?

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right. So, Dusty, what are you going to do when you're in Vermont?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, I just. When I go to a new city, I do like to, you know, explore. Especially if I'm downtown. I like to see, you know, the town. I mean, it's just.

[Brian Bates]

It seems all foliage, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Just beautiful. It seems like my kind of place. And I just. I like the heat. And that's what's hard for me about Moo. Because Montana I love. I'd love to move to Montana. But it's all very wintry vibes and I'm not so into the winter, but.

[Brian Bates]

What'S the weather going to be this weekend?

[Dusty Slay]

I haven't looked.

[Brian Bates]

I bet it's gonna be nice.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet it's going to be beautiful because I was just, you know, rainy and 50. It's gonna be beautiful, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

High of 55. Rainy Saturday, high of 55.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't trust this kind of predictive because I go the National Weather Service. Yeah. I mean, I. I look at it all the time. Like when considering going out to McMinnville. And then it'll be like, oh, it's going to rain all week. And then I find out it didn't rain at all.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I'm like, I could have been there, could have been there doing it. It. So temperatures are usually fairly close, but I have a feel. I just feel like they have no idea what's going to happen with the rain.

[Brian Bates]

That's true. So I'm going to see if I missed anything. Nothing really worth mentioning. I don't guess Vermont, it's a. You know, it's one of the tougher states to.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think the thing about a state like that. And I'm just. I'm just figuring. But the thing. Sometimes it's like there may not be a lot of details and people leave there to find other opportunities. But for just. And I'm just. I'm just guessing here. I have no idea. But for quality of life.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I got to think it's just amazing.

[Brian Bates]

I bet it's one of the highest ranked quality of life states.

[Dusty Slay]

I would think so. I bet it's pretty expensive.

[Brian Bates]

Probably one of the happiest.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, Portland I found to be. Portland, Maine, I found to be a very good city. I liked it. I've been there a couple of times now. I really like it. I like. Yeah, I just like a lot of those northeastern areas in that sense now, New England. I criticize Southern hospitality these days because I don't think it's what it used to be. But it is still. We do still have very friendly people. And I love the south, for what it's worth.

[Nate Bargatze]

U.S. news and World Report says Vermont is the number seven overall state in the union. It is number one in a metric they've called opportunity. I've yet to see what exactly that means, but it has been number one in opportunity. It's number four in crime. It's top 10 in infrastructure, natural environment. It's the number seven overall state to live in.

[Dusty Slay]

The United States hit us with this whole. Let's go through this whole list. Can you give us 6, 7.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's start at the top. I'm going to start. You have Utah, number one. I'm going to be a wise guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, you're gonna start with number one. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, right.

[Dusty Slay]

No build up.

[Nate Bargatze]

No. No buildup. The real. The real. We're gonna wait on who's number six.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Yeah, it's not about.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's number one. It's Utah. New Hampshire's number two.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Never been to New Hampshire.

[Nate Bargatze]

Idaho is number three.

[Dusty Slay]

Never been to. Oh, I have been to Idaho. Loved it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Boise. Just went there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Minnesota, four.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think that's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nebraska, five. And then number six is Florida.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Florida is number one in education. No. Number one in economy. Number two in education. I didn't know that.

[Dusty Slay]

Florida's great. I mean, that's why I've always said the people that criticize Florida have never been there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nebraska, number one in infrastructure. Well, that's because there's no bridges or hills in the whole. In the whole state.

[Dusty Slay]

I like Nebraska, but they did have a really big flood that knocked out a bunch of. Of roads.

[Brian Bates]

Was Vermont number one in anything?

[Nate Bargatze]

Vermont was number one in opportunity.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Which is Opportunity knocks. Yeah. Oh, jeez. Anyway, it's interesting. I've never seen the states ranked like this.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think I read it's one of the happiest states.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you want. Yeah, I think really, you want to be low on that list because being high on that list means more people. The people are coming, and the people that come are gonna ruin it. That's what they do. Everywhere they come in, they ruin what they go. We hated our last state and we want to move to this state. But when we get to the new place that's good that we like, we'd like to change it to be a little bit more like our old state that we hate. And then they. And then they just ruin everything.

[Brian Bates]

I agree.

[Dusty Slay]

People move to the south and they think we're all idiots, but. But somehow we've created this really great place to live.

[Brian Bates]

I wish anybody who moved to Nashville in the last 20 years would go back where they came from. So I agree with Dusty.

[Nate Bargatze]

The joke being that that includes me and Dusty. That's okay. I moved here before. It was.

[Dusty Slay]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty always complains about the people.

[Dusty Slay]

You moved here, here, here. Eleven years ago, though.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that counts. We were. It was Already a booming city.

[Dusty Slay]

But I, you know, I moved here from the south and I didn't try to change anything. I assimilated into Nashville culture.

[Brian Bates]

Post Malone.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, he came after me.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're the Post Malone of comedy.

[Brian Bates]

That's true. That's a fair point. That's a point. He needs to assimilate to you.

[Dusty Slay]

Now he See he's trying to change country music. Yeah, I'm just becoming a regular old Nashville.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you're right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just trying to change comedy.

[Brian Bates]

You're right. You're right.

[Dusty Slay]

Not even trying to change it. Just trying to have my own little spot. You gotta. If you move to a place, you gotta assimilate. And because they have a culture that they've already created, and if you like it, you shouldn't want to change it because you like it. Just be that. Start saying, y' all get into it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I checked a few different lists, and all of them have Vermont right about number 30.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I guess in terms of overall happiness. Score.

[Brian Bates]

So.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know what that's all about. Y' all gotta cheer up.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'll find out. I'll let you know the weather. I'll let you know what's going. It could be weather.

[Nate Bargatze]

Cheer up. Yeah, that's such.

[Brian Bates]

Y' all got great fall foliage.

[Dusty Slay]

That should be your. Your standup catchphrase. Cheer up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Cheer up.

[Dusty Slay]

Cheer up.

[Brian Bates]

All right, Dusty, I want you to go to this lake. I want you to go to that world's tallest filing cabinet. Go to Ben and Jerry's, Buy some maple syrup.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think you're gonna do it. I would actually be upset if you don't go see the filing cabinet. I mean, you can probably see it from your hotel. It's that close.

[Brian Bates]

We can see the lake from his hotel, probably.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know where my hotel is yet. I don't, but I'll.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I. I assume you're doing well enough now. It's probably close to the venue.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I would hope so.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're not doing Ignite hospitality rooms?

[Dusty Slay]

I wish.

[Nate Bargatze]

Staying an hour away from the hotel.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right. All right. Well, that's it.

[Dusty Slay]

Where are you guys going to be?

[Brian Bates]

I'm offer. I mean, I got some corporates and some stuff like. Next. Public shows, I think.

[Nate Bargatze]

Public show. Remember when I got a bunch of flack for saying that?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we know Brian is king of the private game.

[Brian Bates]

I got a bunch of fundraisers coming up. The next one you folks can come to July6. I'll be at Good Nights Comedy Club in Raleigh. North Carolina.

[Dusty Slay]

I hear it's great. I've not done the new Good night.

[Brian Bates]

Have you done it here?

[Dusty Slay]

It's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

I have. I did it the opening weekend. I did the small room the opening weekend.

[Brian Bates]

I was at the small room last time. This time I'm in the big room.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I wish I was in the small room.

[Nate Bargatze]

What I'm talking about. Nah, it'll be great. Great. Dude, I heard there's a barber chair in the green room.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Isn't that cool?

[Dusty Slay]

That is cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

Little fun stuff like that fall foliage there is great, too.

[Brian Bates]

So, July 6th, I'm at good Night's Comedy club in Raleigh. Guys, don't laugh while I'm giving.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

It's a serious time. I'll just wait until Dusty's done.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I'm good. I'm good. I'm.

[Brian Bates]

July 9th, I'm at the Comedy Catch in Chattanooga. I'm in the middle of my.

[Dusty Slay]

Sorry.

[Brian Bates]

July 9th, Comedy Catch, Chattanooga. I hear they have a green room now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dusty Slade Memorial Greenery.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So going back to Raleigh. Going back to Chattanooga. First time in a couple years. Don't know when I'll be back. So buy tickets now.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I'm talking about. Why will you not be back in a while?

[Brian Bates]

Because they don't want to have me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Usually.

[Dusty Slay]

They told him.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't want to say it's gonna.

[Dusty Slay]

Be the last time for a while.

[Nate Bargatze]

Better be good.

[Brian Bates]

What about you, Aaron?

[Nate Bargatze]

I got a couple things I'll plug next. I'm. I'm off this week. Could be working, but I'm off next week. I'm in Indiana. I'm in South Bend, Indiana. Two shows. First one sold out. It's a place called the Stock Room East. I'm doing two shows. Appreciate that. Still some tickets to the late show then. I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Sunday, June 1st. Summit City Comedy Club. I was just there with Nate at a slightly bigger venue, and so I'm coming back. There are right now at the time of recording this podcast, six tickets left. Just like you. No, no, six tickets left. I did exactly what you did, Brian. I typed in six tickets available. I'm hoping you know, by the time this podcast comes out, that show will be sold out.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

South Bend and Fort Wayne. And the one other thing I want to plug, I haven't talked about it yet on this podcast, but my wife put is putting on a big fundraiser show here at Zany's in Nashville for the Prader Willie Association. It's a. It's a genetic disorder that our daughter was recently diagnosed with. And Lucy's way of. In my way, our way of kind of getting involved with all this is trying to. And trying to give back a little bit. So we're putting on a great show. All the money goes to benefit but the Prader Willie association for the United States.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's. Yeah, it'll be really good. And so you can go to. It's called Prater Silly. You get it? Yeah, it's called Prader Willie. Yeah, Prader Silly. Because it's going to be a silly time.

[Dusty Slay]

Hot lineup. I understand.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's going to be an unbelievable lineup. If I told the lineup, it would sell out immediately, but I can't. But go to pradercily.com all the details on there. So that's in October. It's a ways out. Lucy's already raised 50 grand.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

It's awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

$50,000 already in less than a week. So it's going to be a big thing.

[Brian Bates]

Then Lucy just disappears. We never see her again.

[Nate Bargatze]

Where'd all that money go? Aaron and Lucy skipped town.

[Brian Bates]

Huh? They even have a kid.

[Nate Bargatze]

That would be. That would be crazy. No. So just keep an eye on that. I mean, that's a ways out, but just keep an eye on it. It's already cooking. Yeah, we did today in Nashville, Lucy and I. Yeah, it was great. It was. It's fun. It's a. It's a really great thing that Lucy's putting together. So.

[Brian Bates]

Just want to get my tickets. Appreciate it, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

I was hoping to get on the list. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

We'Ll see if there's room.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I'm in Vermont this weekend. Burlington, Vermont. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I had no idea.

[Dusty Slay]

Vermont Comedy Club for early shows are sold out. Late shows are not sold out.

[Brian Bates]

What does it hold, do you know?

[Dusty Slay]

Not enough for all four shows to not be sold out, I'll tell you that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But no, the. The early shows sold out, like almost immediately.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's cool.

[Dusty Slay]

To where I was like, okay, here we go. And then the late shows. And maybe it's just not, you know, I'd like to say maybe it's not a late show town, but who knows?

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you think you're a late show act? That's another consideration.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, it could be early.

[Brian Bates]

One problem. The show starts at 7:30. Your second show. It's not going to get started till at least 11.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, with clubs though, I do keep it about an hour.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a one man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I do. I do about an hour and.

[Brian Bates]

But that second show.

[Dusty Slay]

Second show could. Could go.

[Brian Bates]

It could go to midnight.

[Dusty Slay]

Could go to midnight night. Yeah. But yeah, it's.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like your new bio.

[Dusty Slay]

I never know what bios are circ.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, this is way better than your last one, you know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

What's it say? Long hair, tobacco, oversized glasses.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dusty Slay is the self effacing bourbon voice southern comedian next door with a knack for observational blue collar humor and the nerve to say what everyone else is thinking. I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You remember your old one was like, it's like cornbread telling you jokes.

[Brian Bates]

This is AI generated. No, the 40 year old Nashville Nate.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's got the heart and soul of a human being.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Three years off on that age.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, AI is not involved at all.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, you don't have to get specific with the age every time you don't go in. Well, just say 39, you know. Well, you know, I'm in my 40s. You don't want to go in every time and go, this 41, this 42, you know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, I love this dude. You've updated your Opry credit. Look at that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Making his grand old opry debut in 2019. The youngest at the time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I wonder who broke that record.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

A couple Months later, by 10 years.

[Dusty Slay]

Broke it. And then. And then you came later and broke his.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are you older than John, Chris?

[Dusty Slay]

I think so, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

John's 41.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Remember his 40th birthday party? That was so fun, wasn't it? One of the best nights of my life.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. I piece it all together. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Go see Dusty the Late Show.

[Dusty Slay]

So. And then the next weekend, I'm going to take time off in June, but the next weekend I'm going to do three California shows. I'm doing Modesto, California. I'm doing Bakersfield.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I'm doing San Jose. So I got a three show run out in California the last weekend of May.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's very exciting. Yeah. And it's great. I do have. I have started to put my, my solo podcast online on YouTube. I don't have a lot of stuff going on with it. It's a one camera shot straight on. But, you know, I'm just trying to, you know, just give the dump Dusty guy a little something else. I just, I don't. I. I blocked. I blocked him on all other social platforms and I feel bad about it, so I want him to be able to come there and. And dump Dusty from.

[Nate Bargatze]

I got my own little Dump Aaron guy. Now he's making waves too. He's commenting everywhere. I'm doing stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

The first comment on my Tom Papa episode.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was like, come on, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. Papa's great, huh?

[Nate Bargatze]

He's such a nice guy.

[Brian Bates]

Guy.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I ate that whole loaf of bread that night.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He gave me a cigarette when I was on his. And I didn't smoke it, you know, but I held it the whole time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you get it framed or anything?

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

It felt good, though, just to have it in your mouth.

[Dusty Slay]

I just. Holding it. My fingers.

[Nate Bargatze]

Bruce. Bruce did a whole special where he had a. He had a cigarette and he kept putting it to his mouth, never lit it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just the whole special.

[Dusty Slay]

Bruce. Bruce. So great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Well, that is it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't think we'd end the Vermont episode talking about Bruce Bruce. But I like it. I like it.

[Dusty Slay]

Bruce.

[Brian Bates]

Bruce. Famously from Vermont. That's it, guys. We did it. Vermont. We've done like 30 something states now that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow, we're knocking through them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Five years later, I am excited to go to Vermont for many reasons. One, I think it's a very nice state, but also I'm. I am trying to knock the whole lower 48 off the list. I think all I've got left is South Dakota and New Hampshire. After Vermont, I think that's it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I've got Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Hawaii.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the lower 48. I don't count Hawaii and I.

[Brian Bates]

What distinguishes them as the lower 48?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's just the ones.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or the continental.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, but if it's. I know, I'm digging it.

[Dusty Slay]

But the lower 40. Yeah, but that's the. Yeah. Not Alaska and Hawaii. We're counting.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

That is it. Thank you all so much as always. We love you. We know this is lost on us. Go ahead, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I got nothing.

[Brian Bates]

We'll see you next week. Bye.

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[Dusty Slay]

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