255: #255 Hobbies featuring Mike James

Summary

The Nateland Podcast - Episode #255: Hobbies Featuring Mike James

Release Date: June 4, 2025

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Introduction

In Episode #255 of The Nateland Podcast, hosts Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, and Aaron Weber welcome the returning guest, comedian Mike James, bringing a lively and optimistic energy to the show.

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Welcoming Mike James

Aaron Weber kicks off the episode by introducing Mike James as a "very funny comic from Nashville," a staple of the local comedy scene, and a longtime friend of both Brian and Aaron. The hosts engage in playful banter, joking about forming a basketball team from the show’s regulars, highlighting Mike's impressive height.

Brian Bates [02:01]: "All three of you basically around the same time."

Mike James [04:04]: "I'm just curious."

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Discussion on Hobbies

The core of the episode revolves around the importance and variety of hobbies. The hosts explore the Five Hobby Rule, a personal development strategy that suggests cultivating five different types of hobbies to achieve a well-rounded and fulfilling life. These categories include:

1. Make Money: Turning a hobby into a source of income.
2. Keep Physically Healthy: Engaging in activities that promote physical well-being.
3. Foster Creativity: Pursuing creative endeavors to stimulate the mind.
4. Expand Knowledge: Learning new skills or information to broaden one's horizons.
5. Build Social Connections: Participating in activities that enhance social interactions and relationships.

Mike James shares his lifelong passion for journaling, maintaining a daily journal for over 30 years. He emphasizes the value of reflecting on personal growth and changes over time.

Mike James [106:29]: "And I write in every day and... I go back five-year intervals and look at what I was doing."

Brian Bates discusses his hobby of building LEGO cars, a pursuit that started as a bonding activity with his son and evolved into an addictive pastime. His detailed LEGO collections are proudly displayed at home.

Brian Bates [107:40]: "I got started doing this with my son... Now I'm, like, addicted to it."

Aaron Weber mentions auctioneering as a hobby he once considered, intrigued by the dynamic nature of the craft and its potential for incorporating into his comedic acts.

The conversation delves into other hobbies such as model trains, pickleball, and collecting sports memorabilia, highlighting how each hobby contributes uniquely to personal fulfillment and social connections.

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Comedy Shows and Promotions

The hosts briefly discuss upcoming comedy shows and tours, promoting events like Nateland Presents the Showcase and Greg Warren's new special. They encourage listeners to attend these events and check out their merchandise.

Aaron Weber [07:35]: "We got other great Nateland specials... All on the Nateland YouTube channel."

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Listener Comments and Discussions

The episode features listener interactions, addressing topics like organ donation myths and the use of hazard lights as a gesture of thanks while driving. The hosts share personal anecdotes and clarify misconceptions, fostering a sense of community and awareness among listeners.

Brian Bates [39:15]: "It is absolutely false that hospitals withhold treatment from patients who are listed as organ donors."

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Balancing Hobbies and Lifestyle

The hosts discuss the challenges of maintaining hobbies amidst busy schedules, work commitments, and family life. They emphasize the importance of integrating hobbies into daily routines for mental and physical well-being.

Mike James [68:57]: "It's a relatively new thing as far as... people have been around since throughout most of history, you couldn't have the luxury of having a hobby."

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Humor and Personal Stories

Throughout the episode, humor intertwines with personal stories, such as Mike's experiences with typewriters and beard myths in comedy, showcasing the hosts' camaraderie and comedic flair.

Brian Bates [65:50]: "Population per capita... That's like saying they have less people per people."

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Conclusion

As the episode wraps up, the hosts promote their upcoming shows and encourage listeners to engage with them at events. They leave the audience with a mix of laughter, insightful discussions on hobbies, and anticipation for future episodes.

Aaron Weber [122:58]: "We love you. Check out Mike James. He's the best. Go see him on the road with Nate."

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Key Takeaways:

• Hobbies are essential for a balanced and fulfilling life, contributing to financial stability, physical health, creativity, knowledge, and social connections.
• Personal stories and humor enrich the discussion, making the topic relatable and engaging.
• Community engagement through listener comments fosters a supportive and informed audience.

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Transcript

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Sure.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you think?

[Mike James]

Sure.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm Aaron Weber alongside Brian Bates.

[Mike James]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

And Dusty's gone, Nate's gone. We had to get somebody tall enough to fill their shoes. We got the very funny Mike James in the studio today. Mike, welcome back, buddy.

[Brian Bates]

Appreciate you having me.

[Aaron Weber]

You're a longtime friend of Brian and of me and Brian.

[Brian Bates]

And, yeah, I was about to say. Hey, you. You gonna say just Brian?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You and Brian go way back. We just met before the episode, but excited to have you on here, man. Very funny comic here from Nashville. He's been on the road with Nate. He's been doing stand up forever. He's a staple of the Nashville comedy scene and a returning guest of the Nate Land podcast. So this. This will be a lot of fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, man. I appreciate you having me.

[Mike James]

You know, if the N Land tour put together a basketball team.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You think Mike makes it?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I would hope so. No, I'm. I'm not gonna play, but yeah, no.

[Mike James]

I think Mike could be third pick.

[Brian Bates]

Yes. So then you got what? Nick. Nick is. Nick Thune is.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I was like Nick Noviki.

[Mike James]

I got Nick Novicki running point.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, perfect.

[Mike James]

You, Nick Thune, Lachlan Patterson.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Johnny W. That's four tall guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Pretty tall guys.

[Brian Bates]

What, six four?

[Aaron Weber]

Taller than you think he is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's six three. Six four.

[Aaron Weber]

He's disappointingly tall.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what I mean? He walks in, you're like, yeah, for what?

[Brian Bates]

That's what you get if you're not playing ball.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You're just that tall for no reason.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You're not gonna do. You're not gonna do nothing with that height, man.

[Aaron Weber]

You're already on a stage, Johnny. You don't need to be 6:3 to play guitar.

[Mike James]

How much attention do you need?

[Brian Bates]

That's so wild.

[Mike James]

How Often do you get asked where you played in college?

[Brian Bates]

Man, every day. Literally every day. Unless I don't leave the house. I'm gonna get it from somebody.

[Aaron Weber]

And did you play collegiate basketball?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I played D3 at Fisk University. Shout out to Fisk and Vaughn State. Okay, you know what's funny? Vaughn State. You know, Nate went there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then Billy Wayne Davis. Billy Wayne Davis went there and he. Like, we didn't even realize it, but he was playing baseball at the same time I was playing basketball. And then we started thinking about it. We started talking about. I was like, I do remember him. Really? Yeah, yeah, he was a catcher.

[Mike James]

It's like a theater school for standup comics.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's pretty crazy. The three of you basically around the same time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

What about Hunter's Lane?

[Brian Bates]

Same thing with Hunter's Lane.

[Aaron Weber]

High school here in Nashville, right? Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Renard Hirsch, Brian Covington, myself, Rah Ron movie.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy, huh?

[Mike James]

So people ask you every day, but they're correct. So they're not even, you know, they're stereotypes.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, but it's just like, you know, I'm not playing now. Yeah, yeah. So I don't want to. I don't want to get into all that. Like, well, why aren't you still playing?

[Mike James]

I know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike James]

But I. I feel like I'll be walking to the airport and I'll see a 6 foot 10 black dude and I want to say to him, come on, where'd you play?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. That's understandable.

[Mike James]

I'm just curious.

[Brian Bates]

That's understandable.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you doing with that height?

[Mike James]

Come on now.

[Brian Bates]

Six, ten. Come on, man. Yeah, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine. You can do that or you scared, too?

[Mike James]

Yeah, because it. It doesn't come off as something you should. I'm like, I really want to know if I'm being honest.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, if he's. Now, if he's 5 11, then you're like, okay, yeah, like, did you play basketball somewhere?

[Mike James]

I assume you play Stanley for the office.

[Brian Bates]

Come on now. 16. I get that, though.

[Mike James]

Okay, so what's the cutoff for allowable height? Six, two and up.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I think if you notice it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, yeah, you're like. This guy's like, if he's nail. If he has to duck down and walk in the rooms. Yeah, it's okay.

[Mike James]

Not going up to Johnny Depp and say, where'd you play?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he's just tall enough where it's Like, I mean, six three is kind of. Yeah, that's like average tall. Yeah. If that makes sense.

[Aaron Weber]

63 is average. Average tall among tall people. Average.

[Mike James]

Yeah. I would say that's true.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Like, if you're walking through the airport, you're not going to notice a six three guy, most likely.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. But six five and above, you're like.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, six five is.

[Aaron Weber]

Where are you going?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Especially like, I was in Utah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, the only black person. The only black person. And everybody was like, what are you doing here?

[Aaron Weber]

It was like, I went to Alaska with Jay Flake, who's a black comic here in Nashville. Only black person we saw the whole time. And then we walked.

[Mike James]

He didn't even get to see him. He's just the only black person we saw the whole time. He didn't even get to Poor Jay to go to a mirror.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't see any black people. We were walking around downtown Ketchikan, Alaska, and we're walking past the store. It's like a jewelry store, and there's a black guy running it. And Jay walks by, and he looks. And the store owner looks at him, and they just point at each other.

[Brian Bates]

Hilarious.

[Aaron Weber]

Nothing else needed to be said.

[Brian Bates]

No, that's it.

[Aaron Weber]

It was just an acknowledgment of, like, we're out here, dude. We're doing it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, man. Be safe. That's all it is.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, listen, we're holding it down here in the studio. Nate, as you know, is on. He's on his big dumb eyes tour. Huge shows. Have you been doing some with him?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Recently. Yeah. We did Dayton. The Ozarks. Yeah, yeah. Ozarks.

[Aaron Weber]

The Walmart amphitheater.

[Brian Bates]

Right. And then. Yeah. And Rogers.

[Aaron Weber]

I heard John Chris bombed on that show. Is that true?

[Brian Bates]

No, it was. It was. It was. It was nuts when he came out.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sure they just wrapped up shows in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Chattanooga, Tennessee.

[Mike James]

I was on those shows.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you were on the shows. How'd they go? Full disclosure. The reason it's the three of us here is we're doing this during Memorial Day week. The schedules. Everybody's schedules are crazy. Brian and I don't have a lot going on, so we hopped in here. Mike was nice enough, but I was.

[Mike James]

On the shows with Nate and Fayetteville and Chattanooga State. Elevation for me when I came out.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

But not when you.

[Brian Bates]

Not when you left. They're like, we stood up once for him.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no.

[Mike James]

But then when Nate was Done. They started chanting, Brian.

[Brian Bates]

Brian. Really?

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

I don't think Nate liked it, but, you know, do what the people ask.

[Aaron Weber]

So that was your last weekend with Nate?

[Brian Bates]

Probably. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Check out Nateland.com. he's coming to a city near you. The tour is. It's crazy, man. It's a. The hour is unbelievable, but just the. The size of the show and the production and everything, it's a. It's a spectacle.

[Brian Bates]

It is.

[Aaron Weber]

Hope you can see it. Also, Greg Warren's new special, the Champ is out now. It's getting great, great reviews. It just had a write up in the New York Times. Comments are great. It's just Brian and I were talking last weekend. We were both watching it. So funny, man. Dude, Greg is inspirational. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The substitute. Not the substitute. The assistant fishing coach.

[Mike James]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Like, he didn't even like the act out of. That was so perfect.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because everybody knows assistant coach that acts just like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Like they're too important. Like, oh my gosh, dude.

[Mike James]

And then the cheer that he put with it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Oh, he kept going with, dude. That was. That is so funny.

[Aaron Weber]

We got other great Nateland specials from Aaron Weber, Nick Thune, Steven Rogers, all on the Nateland YouTube channel. Don't forget to check out the consumers every Tuesday. Don't maybe come back there every Thursday. And Trey Kennedy's podcast, which is not on here, but it is happening. It's today. It's on Wednesday.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I like that. I think we. We gotta take Wednesday back.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Not like we just gotta reassert dominance.

[Mike James]

Yeah. Let's give him Sunday morning or something.

[Aaron Weber]

And then we got a very special season three of Nateland presents the showcase. That's June 22nd through the 24th. We're gonna be hosting those. We got great lineups. I was just looking at the lineups today. A lot of really funny comment comics on there. I'm excited to see what they're gonna do. Check out the merchant, natebargetzi.com check out the site for new drops. If you're coming to a show, come find us at the merch table. We are out here. Nateland's cooking. And this episode is no exception, man. It's. We are rolling. If you say it's going well enough times, it starts to happen. Manifesting.

[Brian Bates]

We're getting there.

[Mike James]

What Dusty says.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike James]

Now this comes out next week, June 4th. But I know you were on the road this past weekend with Godfrey.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

How are those shows, man?

[Brian Bates]

Amazing. Raleigh Improv. Like, that was my first time ever in Raleigh, so I didn't know what to expect, but it was a. Like, I love that club. Have you worked that club?

[Mike James]

I've done good nights in Raleigh. I've been Raleigh improv.

[Aaron Weber]

It's huge.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it is.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never done it where they haven't curtained off right in the middle of the roof.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's massive.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah, it was great. Godfrey was. You know, he's taping his special in June, so he's getting that hour ready. It's hilarious. So, yeah, awesome. Good stuff, man.

[Mike James]

I saw him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. This is great, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. No follow up. That was it.

[Mike James]

Well, I was gonna say I saw Godfrey.

[Aaron Weber]

That's all I have to say about that.

[Mike James]

I guess the first and only time I've seen Godfrey live was at the comedy seller in New York.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, did he kill it?

[Mike James]

I didn't know he was at the time. This was like, 15 years ago, maybe. And I'm like, this guy is unbelievable. And then, of course, I've just heard about him over the years, and then you've been working with him for a few years now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. About, like, right before the pandemic started.

[Aaron Weber]

Working with him, I opened for Godfrey Valentine's Day at Zany's. Mike featured. I hosted. And the sound guy came back and was like, what kind of music do you want? And I jokingly was like, maybe some classical. And then Godfrey named classical composers.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

For maybe 10 minutes straight, he just kept naming them. And I was trying to jump in. I thought it was like a let's both do it kind of thing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a him doing it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So I just sat back and let him go. He kept naming composers.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, dude. Yeah. This dude knows a lot of stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Learned, I think, would be the word.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, he's learned.

[Mike James]

Is that a real word?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, learned.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he's learned stuff.

[Mike James]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Learned.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Educated.

[Brian Bates]

So is the past tense of learned. Wait, hold on. Did you know that?

[Mike James]

I guess we're not learning.

[Brian Bates]

I think you just.

[Aaron Weber]

I. Neither of you are learned, I guess.

[Brian Bates]

Learned. Learned, yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Learned. How about that? Having much knowledge acquired by study. Learned.

[Brian Bates]

Clearly, I haven't learned it.

[Mike James]

It's funny that it kind of defines what's going on right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, well, it's kind of a. It's a pretentious way to say it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, so now I'm learned. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, now you're learned. You've been.

[Brian Bates]

I don't like that. I just don't if somebody ever said that to me. Like, if I. If I knew that. If I knew that was a word before you said it, I would have been so mad at you just for saying it. Just because it just learned.

[Mike James]

The fact that we're both just hearing for the first time means no one's ever said it to us.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, like, ugh, how dare you learn it.

[Mike James]

It sounds like you're saying it incorrectly.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it does.

[Mike James]

Like some forced up.

[Aaron Weber]

You say it that way, hoping somebody tries to correct you.

[Brian Bates]

So here's the ridiculous. Oh, okay, so it's learned. Yes, but it's spelled learned.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. So, okay, now, if you're saying I learned a new word today, you wouldn't say, I learned a new word. But learned is an adjective to describe a person.

[Brian Bates]

Why don't you spell it different? See, I don't want to start doing all this like it's the same word. It's the same word. That little dot is not gonna be in there, right?

[Mike James]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Right, so it's the same word.

[Aaron Weber]

That's to separate the syllable.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, no, but you know what I'm talking about. When they put.

[Aaron Weber]

They don't put a dot in the middle of the word. Maybe a hyphen.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe they should.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, a dash or something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, why not a dash if it's a different word? It's a whole nother word. You can't just do that when we start. You know what I'm saying?

[Mike James]

Yeah, but you know what? There's a lot of words when we were kids that spelled the same way, and you just figure it out.

[Brian Bates]

We gotta stop this, man.

[Mike James]

But when you become an adult and learned a new one like this, you're like, what are we doing?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I just hate that I did this. I just learned a word on here because I just.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we are an educational podcast. That's what people say.

[Brian Bates]

Really? No, no, no. That's interesting.

[Mike James]

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[Aaron Weber]

I want to hear the full list later, but yeah, let's hear about the stink bugs.

[Mike James]

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[Aaron Weber]

Well, I had a good weekend too. I won't get into it now because it hasn't happened yet.

[Brian Bates]

I'm sorry. Yeah. Hey, man, how was your weekend? Yeah, that was rude. Thanks.

[Aaron Weber]

I had a fun one. South Bend, Indiana. Fort Wayne, Indiana. Big weekend for me. And then Brian and I just taped our.

[Mike James]

Are we telling that?

[Aaron Weber]

Can we. All right, let's just leave it there then.

[Brian Bates]

Let's leave it there.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's leave it there. A little teaser. We don't know. We don't know what we're talking about.

[Brian Bates]

And I don't even know what they're.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know what we're talking about.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. I mean, that was a good.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's move on. Yeah, let's move on. That's why I don't run the show most of the time, because I'll just get into it. You know what I mean? What about you, Brian? Where were you? What were you doing?

[Mike James]

I was out with Nate. I got a standing ovation when I walked out.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

We thought you were playing. Yeah, because you got one on the way up. That's gotta feel good.

[Mike James]

I got enduring and.

[Brian Bates]

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Mike James]

I'm joking. I haven't actually done the shows yet. Oh, see, we're taping this for next week.

[Brian Bates]

Now I'm learning.

[Mike James]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So. Because I thought you were serious this whole time.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm a little confused at the moment.

[Brian Bates]

Right. What are we doing?

[Aaron Weber]

Why don't we get into these comments, see where that takes us. Right.

[Mike James]

I'll say one last thing about.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, that.

[Mike James]

So I. I'm doing Chattanooga.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Mike James]

The ring. I was talking to Henry Cho today. He said you should get a date.

[Aaron Weber]

At the comedy catch 100%.

[Mike James]

I said, I already have. And he said, you should mention that first thing when you walk up there. I was like, well, I was going to mention at the end. He's like, I would do both. And in the middle of your set.

[Aaron Weber]

That's amazing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it is.

[Aaron Weber]

What's going on? Happy to be here. I'm going to be the comedy catch in a few weeks.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. How do you even get into.

[Aaron Weber]

Guys do it.

[Brian Bates]

Because you don't have that long anyway.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, maybe if you want to do that, maybe have Julian bring you up that way.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah. That's.

[Aaron Weber]

His next comic is actually going to be at the. Yeah, I'd rather that happen than you said.

[Mike James]

I know. So it's funny to think three times in the show. Maybe by the third time I said it, people be laughing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Henry hosted years ago now. He hosted a stand up showcase that aired on the Opry's Circle network where Brian and I famously made our television debut. Channel.

[Brian Bates]

You did it too.

[Aaron Weber]

Channel 4.5. Henry hosted it and he said, welcome back to Zany's Comedy Club. He got a note from one of the producers. Hey, say Zany's Comedy Club and be more specific of where we are. So every time Henry said it, he would get increasingly specific about where he was, where he goes, welcome back to Zany's Comedy Nightclub, Nashville, Tennessee. By the end of it, it was Zany's comedy show place 8th Avenue. He just kept saying it. So professional. But also like, you know, maybe hold back on the notes. Yeah, I've been doing this a while.

[Mike James]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We get these comments.

[Aaron Weber]

Comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast reviews, and Nate [e-mail] First comment today, Cameron Green, everything. Everyone was on fire today with jokes. But Aaron, skunk comment. Like, racism is the best thing I've heard in a long time. Thank you very much. That's fun. We really. We tackled some stuff.

[Mike James]

Racism's a joke.

[Brian Bates]

But let's get. Let's talk about that.

[Aaron Weber]

The title.

[Brian Bates]

Like, that's why I'm here. I feel like I was brought here just to talk about this. Comment.

[Aaron Weber]

Episode 255, Racism, featuring Mike James. We're gonna hash some things out here, clear our schedule. Well, Brian found. They found a baby skunk in Brian's four.

[Mike James]

Actually four babies not in it, but underneath the H Vac.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow, mama. And.

[Aaron Weber]

But they've been in there, you know, they didn't play in what's in my refrigerator. They're checking it out.

[Mike James]

They're there right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I asked if baby Skunks knew how to spray yet.

[Brian Bates]

This feels like a long way to get to racism.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's the thing about racism, is that.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man, don't do that. If you gonna do some kind of inspirational, don't do it.

[Mike James]

It's a long road, my son.

[Aaron Weber]

The beautiful thing about a skunk is the black and the white fur works together. And then we've all learned something we've all been learned by the end of.

[Brian Bates]

I knew you were gonna do that.

[Mike James]

Racism stinks, but.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, so racism stinks like a skunk.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, is that what you did?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I was about to say, oh, that's even worse.

[Mike James]

There was a picture of a guy who removed it holding the baby skunk. And Aaron said, can they spray you? And I said, the guy said that they can't because they don't know how to yet. They haven't learned how to spray yet.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, right, yeah, yeah.

[Mike James]

And then Aaron said, oh, so it's.

[Aaron Weber]

Like racism where you have to be taught it. Yeah, I mean, I think that's pretty profound.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it's profound, but I'm trying.

[Aaron Weber]

To get a write up in the New York Times. You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Aaron and Cameron Green liked it, but.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, a lot of people liked it. Shout out Cameron Green. I mean, I get it. You're against it. I'm against it too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Cameron blacked it, like.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Mason Welsh, I have to correct Aaron about Nebraska. I'm gonna stop you right there. Don't even remember what you're talking about, but let's find out why I was wrong. It isn't flat, though. That's a common misconception. Nebraska actually has one of the largest rockless hill ranges in America, which covers over one third of the state and even large rock formations to the west. I did not know that. You guys need to work on your pr, you know what I mean? You need to really get that out there because I don't think most of the country knows about that, about rockless hills, that there's hills at all in Nebraska. I mean, it's like the running joke about Nebraska and Kansas is that it's just flat, flat, flat.

[Brian Bates]

You got these diet hills now. We supposed to go see those Sam's Choice heels? Yeah, it's because it's that. I mean, it's not a real hill. It doesn't have rocks in it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, just a little incline.

[Mike James]

Yeah, I did a little run all the way across Nebraska from you flying to Wichita, and then I went all the way. I mean, it Goes. It butts up with Colorado so you can. It makes sense that there's going to be some hills.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you're getting out there towards the Rockies.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's nice. Sorry about that, Mason. I'm going to be at the Lincoln. Come see me Lincoln in December, the Bourbon Theater.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Tell me all about it. That's on the other side of the state. But Kyle, TRACY Aaron is 100% on point. Thank you, Kyle. Next comment. Jake Steele. Aaron's 100% on point with using hazard lights for thank you flashlights to let someone over and then they hit the hazards to say thank you once in the lane. Thank you. It's common sense. It's intuitive.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

If somebody lets you merge in front of them, you give them a little wave as a thank you. What if it's nighttime?

[Brian Bates]

I hope they can see. I don't know what to tell you. I'm not doing anything. Actually.

[Aaron Weber]

You're waving in the dark.

[Mike James]

I turn my little light off up there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you put the dome light on.

[Brian Bates]

I don't do it. I just hope they can see. See a shadow just doing that. I'm not. It's just too much.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw a video of an American driving in Japan and everybody in Japan was doing that. And I, you. You flash the hazards to say thank you.

[Brian Bates]

But they bow in there. There too. So they don't bow in the car. I mean, I'm just saying though, that's what they. If you, if you have to bow every somebody then you gonna have to figure out something to do in the car like. Yeah, we're not bowing over here, Aaron, if you didn't know. So. No, just.

[Mike James]

Maybe we should. I had one today. I don't expect in this day and age everyone to give you a wave when traffic's merging.

[Brian Bates]

Sure.

[Mike James]

But I had one today just on the way here where the guy ran out of options and he's coming up the side and it's. If I don't let him over, he's in trouble and I let him squeeze in. Don't get away that I feel like, well, so frustrating.

[Brian Bates]

That's tough though because he could have been kind of been a little frazzled cuz it was he. You let him in at the last minute.

[Aaron Weber]

It's no excuse.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, well listen, you want people to use hazards to get over now. I don't know what else.

[Aaron Weber]

No, not to get over just to say than it's just an indication of.

[Mike James]

But I told him if I see that I think this guy's got car trouble now, and I'm stuck behind him. Your hazard lights up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's all fun to talk about, but, Brian, you're smart enough to know that if you do something for somebody and they flash the hazard lights three times, you would clearly go, we go, well, that's obviously a response to what I just did.

[Brian Bates]

I think you want me to pull over. Yeah, I might think you want me to pull over. Like, you. This. Is this common knowledge for real? Like, no.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I thought it was. No, I didn't know. I didn't think it was commonly done.

[Mike James]

In America, but I think it's what I was thinking.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's obvious what I'm doing when I throw the hazards on to say thank you. I think people get it. I don't think they go, well, what's happening now?

[Brian Bates]

If you do that to me, I'm like, that's weird. Yeah, that's exactly what I would say.

[Mike James]

I'm like, this guy's drunk.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, clearly fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Waving in the dark.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I don't care. I'm just throwing it up, hoping you see it. If you don't, I don't care.

[Aaron Weber]

Jake Stevens. If we don't leave bad reviews, then the quality of things, slash places, goes down. If they want to be in line of work, they need to do it well. It's like kids in school who can't read but still get passed on to the next grade. If it's a bad business, they need to go or learn to do it better.

[Mike James]

Yeah, look, I don't give a bad Uber review.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay. I was about to say, I feel like I just walked in a conversation in the middle of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's what a lot of this podcast is. It's like you just in the middle of a conversation, you're like, I don't even care what they're talking about.

[Brian Bates]

Wait. Whatever.

[Aaron Weber]

You just wait for it to end. I was saying, I don't. I don't think I've ever left a bad review for. I just. I leave five stars for everybody, regardless of experience, because I know it actually affects people's lives and affects their ability to make money. And, I don't know, I just feel kind of bad doing. Unless they're. They were, like, truly malicious behavior, then I would go, oh, yeah, I'll leave a bad review. But if we're talking about an Uber driver that just smelled bad.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Really bad.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not gonna leave a one star. Like, hey, you stink. I'll Leave you five stars.

[Brian Bates]

You may not understand what you're saying when you're like, well, I drive pretty good.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know, I just. I mean, I. Jake, I. I agree with you in principle. I guess I just don't have it in me. I don't have it in me to.

[Brian Bates]

To write a bad review to.

[Aaron Weber]

To tell a guy he stinks.

[Mike James]

What about tipping? Do you guys. If you get bad service, do you tip less?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah. If it's. If it's bad service, definitely. But I over. I always over tip anyways.

[Aaron Weber]

But how often do you get bad service or just like, I don't know, somebody's overwhelmed and they're trying, you know? Do you ever have, like, a mean server that's, like, deliberately not very.

[Brian Bates]

No. No, it's not.

[Aaron Weber]

No, that's what I'm. So it's just. You know what? Let's just be nice to people.

[Brian Bates]

But no, I mean, I wouldn't leave a bad review. Somebody stinks. This is. You just got to take that. Who's doing that?

[Aaron Weber]

You should smell this guy, right?

[Brian Bates]

Who's doing it?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not gonna do it, but I get it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm just complaining about it, but I'm not gonna actually write a review about it with psychos out there doing that.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, man, some people stink out here.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I get that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Macy Bane. Why are comedy club names so goofy? I know comedians aren't supposed to be hacky, and yet many of the club names are exactly that. Is it supposed to be tongue in cheek or is there another origin story you could share? Yeah, they are silly. Some of them are so just baked into our lives. I don't think about it.

[Mike James]

Like Zany's.

[Aaron Weber]

Zany's is a crazy name for a business. Oh, it's like Wackies. Imagine if this was called Wacky's Comedy Club.

[Brian Bates]

I never thought about that.

[Aaron Weber]

But it's Zany's.

[Mike James]

I agree, because we've known it. We grew up here, so we've known it our whole life. I think these comedy clubs, most of them have been around for 40 years or more.

[Aaron Weber]

And 40 years ago, the ones with the crazy names.

[Mike James]

Yeah, 40 years ago, I think that wasn't Hacky like Zanies. Oh, that's funny. Or the loony bin.

[Aaron Weber]

Chuckle Hut.

[Mike James]

Chuckle Hut. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I have a T shirt that from the Little Rock Looney Bin that says, I've been lobotomized at the Little Rock Loony Bin.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I didn't even think the Loony bin is like a mental asylum.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't even think about the looney bin. Yeah. I just thought it was because of the drink, the lobotomy. You know they had that drink, right? Did you know that?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. But that's. It's all played into the, the theme.

[Brian Bates]

I never even put two and two together.

[Aaron Weber]

It's an insane asylum.

[Brian Bates]

I just thought it was just. I was like, this is probably the craziest drink ever. That's the only one. You know what? I didn't even. That was a good one. Yeah, I never even put that together.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm trying to think of other Goonies. Crackers, Goonies, Snickers.

[Brian Bates]

Snickers.

[Mike James]

Where's Goonies?

[Aaron Weber]

Goonies. There's one in Rochester, Minnesota.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Goonies Comedy club. There's a Loonies in Colorado. They're all kind of silly, but I'm just so used to saying them now I don't think about the words anymore.

[Mike James]

Yeah, I feel like, yeah, I'm forgetting some. But even like off the hook.

[Brian Bates]

Oh yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Off the hook is crazy. But then the ones that go the other way are weird to Levity live.

[Mike James]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like you got Looney Ben or Levity.

[Mike James]

Yeah, it's just.

[Aaron Weber]

Just a nice little reprieve. And then you got literal crazy.

[Mike James]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I love Levity Life as just. I'm just giving a shout out to levity Life.

[Aaron Weber]

Want to plug a date there? It's like every time Brian finds a way to comp compliment the Church of Latter Day Saints and then he plugs a date at Wise Guys Jordan Cortijo. Cortijo. I'm about the same level of shoe connoisseur as Mike James. Not a sneaker head, but I like myself a pair of Jordans. But I like Mike, have a shoe availability issue because I wear size 14. I refuse to buy resale prices on stockx or other resellers because a size 10 shoe would be $200 and the size 14 would be $400 or more. So I've started buying replica shoes. I'd be interested to hear what Mike thinks about replicas and if he ever dabbed. Dabbled or dabbed. Yeah. What do you think?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it sucks. Like, I tried to get some Jordans that came out Saturday and it was like as soon as I clicked it. Because they go on sale at 10:00. Yeah, as soon as I clicked it at 10 o' clock. Sold out.

[Aaron Weber]

Just for your size.

[Brian Bates]

Just for my size.

[Aaron Weber]

Where is it?

[Brian Bates]

Why? I don't know.

[Mike James]

You said what well, like, when you click, where is it?

[Brian Bates]

You're purchasing sneakers, the Sneakers app. And it's just, you know, they only make so many 14s. That's not a common size.

[Aaron Weber]

But do you think a disproportionate amount of size 14s care about shoes? I bet if your feet are that big, you have to think about shoes more than, like, me or Brian.

[Brian Bates]

I don't think it. I don't think that. I remember when I. When I used to. I used to work at finish line, so when we get shipments in, it'll be like, you'll have. In size nine, you may have, like, five or six pair, but in size 14, you may have one or two.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So it's. It's. It's. It's a. A size that not a lot of people have. So that's why they don't. They don't care. A big stock.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Is that tough for you, man?

[Brian Bates]

Sometimes it makes me mad. Like, Saturday, my. My day was ruined. I didn't get my shoe. I was so mad. I was so mad.

[Mike James]

Later.

[Brian Bates]

What was the shoe? The. The LeBron.

[Aaron Weber]

You got the new LeBron's, man.

[Brian Bates]

If you don't stop the. The. The Jordan Four Cements. The White Cements. LeBron's, man. I'm talking about a goat here, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Get the Aisha Curry's.

[Brian Bates]

I got thrown off. What was the question?

[Mike James]

He just wants to know if you ever dabbled in replicas, if you've ever.

[Aaron Weber]

Dabbed in replicas before.

[Brian Bates]

Replicas?

[Aaron Weber]

He's saying he's buying. Look, he can't get the real stockx, so let's just buy some fake ones. Might as well.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, no, I'm. No, no, no, no, sir. Don't do that. Don't do it, Jordan. Don't you do it. Don't you do it. Don. You get in.

[Aaron Weber]

One of the hardest verbal beatings I've ever been a part of in my life was this kid in middle school showed up with Jordans, and somebody looked at the Jordans and the Michael Jordan silhouette had shoelaces on.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man.

[Aaron Weber]

And this kid never heard the end of it.

[Brian Bates]

Dude.

[Aaron Weber]

You show up with some fake Jordans.

[Brian Bates]

No, don't do that. Dude, don't. I'm just warning Jordan, man. Like, I don't know how old you are. I don't know who your friends are, but if they tell you anything other than what I'm saying, they're not your friend. Don't do this. Now you learned it.

[Aaron Weber]

You're gonna use that all the Time.

[Brian Bates]

I am.

[Mike James]

Dude, what do you think about my jersey?

[Aaron Weber]

That's a fun jersey. I haven't seen that in a while, man. Breakfast on the back, 99 cents. How about that? We got those. We got. Somebody sent those. That's hanging up in my closet somewhere.

[Mike James]

We got it a while ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Break that jersey out again. Let me know next time I'll wear, too.

[Mike James]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

If you ever want to coordinate outfits on the podcast, let me know. We'll make it happen. There's a kid. There's a comic at Drew Harrison. Nashville Comic. Yeah, we look alike. Same build.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Beard. You know, I had long hair at one point. He's got long hair. We looked too similar. And then one time in an open mic, we both showed up. Braves hat, Hawaiian shirt, both wearing it. And I grabbed him. I go, look, we gotta. We gotta coordinate this dude. If you're wearing a Hawaiian to the mic, let me know. I won't wear one.

[Brian Bates]

Because he'll get off stage and they'll be like, man, this dude just. He just got this guy.

[Aaron Weber]

They put him up again.

[Brian Bates]

That's so weird. I've never seen that in the comedy show before.

[Mike James]

Do you remember Scott Nese?

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Mike James]

People specifically Nate, used to say we looked alike. And we were at. Not the bar. Car. What's the one that came after bar?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Spankies.

[Mike James]

Spankies.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

When I. Nate was there.

[Aaron Weber]

That's another name you don't think about. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, we did comedy at Spanky's, and.

[Mike James]

Nate was like, that. That guy looks like you. He was kind of teasing me or whatever, and I was like, no, we don't look that much alike. I ordered some food. They brought my food out and took it to his table and set it down.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, my God.

[Mike James]

Nate thought it was the funniest thing. He saw all.

[Brian Bates]

Dude, I guess I could see that. Like, I get Kev on stage all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I can see that.

[Brian Bates]

Like, literally today, my daughter saw something and thought it was me.

[Mike James]

Whoa.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Yeah, I don't feel so bad now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, if he, like. If he had a hat on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I get it.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, similar facial hair, too, though.

[Brian Bates]

Like, you thought about mixing it up? What?

[Aaron Weber]

Just, like, looking different so that doesn't happen.

[Brian Bates]

I'm older.

[Mike James]

Yeah. He should change.

[Brian Bates]

He has to change.

[Aaron Weber]

He's doing pretty well.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's fine. It sucks, though, man. Cause it's like when you.

[Mike James]

Yeah, maybe you should change, Mike.

[Brian Bates]

I'm at home on a Friday night, and then I look on Facebook. And I'll see. Like yourself. It'll be a tag, and Facebook will say, tag yourself on a flyer with Kev on stage.

[Mike James]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

And it's like, he's doing, like, a big show, and it's like, tag yourself in this. I'm like, no, I'm fine. I'm at home.

[Aaron Weber]

He's got the shoes that you wanted to buy on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, dude, that would make me so mad.

[Mike James]

What's funny is there's another comedian named Mike James.

[Brian Bates]

There are two comedians named Mike James.

[Mike James]

Okay. I know one of them.

[Brian Bates]

One is. You know him? Yeah, the one in Virginia.

[Mike James]

No, I know the one in, like, Phoenix.

[Brian Bates]

It's one in Phoenix, too.

[Aaron Weber]

He's trying to dry bar this guy. Do you ever get confused with that? Him? He looks.

[Brian Bates]

That's the one I was talking about.

[Mike James]

Okay, maybe he's moved. But I met him in Phoenix.

[Brian Bates]

What did I say? Virginia. I think you might be right.

[Mike James]

They're similar.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But there's similar kind of vibes.

[Brian Bates]

I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

You both have dry bars, too?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we both have dry bars. And then there's another guy, I think, in California named Mike James. Because I'll get like. I remember one day I got a text from Craig Robinson, and he was like, hey, man, you here? I was like, what are you talking about? Then he sends me a lineup at the Comedy Store. I'm like, was I supposed to be.

[Aaron Weber]

I unknowingly looked at the Comedy Store.

[Brian Bates]

Did I forget that it was another Mike James? Dude, wow. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's also former NFL running back and opioid. What's the opposite of advocate? Mike James. There's another guy. I've never heard of this guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Former NFL player. There's a guy named Aaron Weber who I think invented the. The video game Sonic.

[Mike James]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

So every now and then, you know, you look up your own name, you see what's going on. It's just a bunch of Sonic stuff all the time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was a basketball player named Mike James, too.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a common name.

[Brian Bates]

There's two. There's a little ball player.

[Mike James]

LeBron James, I think.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's. That's close.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Mike James]

This is from Dusty. You could probably guess.

[Brian Bates]

But yeah, I was about to say this doesn't sound.

[Mike James]

Dusty has a friend who said that if you're an organ donor there's. They may pull the plug quicker.

[Aaron Weber]

They have less incentive to keep you alive.

[Mike James]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they want those organs. So when Dusty's not here, we like to correct some information. And by brand, I mean tick tock.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's crazy. Dave, I hope your wife's doing well. Double lung transplant.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why both of them. That's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But I'm an organ donor so like. Yeah. So if you're an organ donor you just show up and they're like oh, like we really need that heart. Really?

[Aaron Weber]

I have the flu.

[Brian Bates]

That's wild too.

[Aaron Weber]

Who knows but man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Be an organ donor. I think it's great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Justin Fletcher. Ahoy folks. Are we sure a cruise ship generates enough power for all the CPAP machines that'll be on board? Better make sure Aaron and Big Boat baits aren't sharing a circuit. That's a good point. Well, we Got. I mean, I don't know if you talk about it in your act. We got another CPAP user here on the podcast. Yeah, the three of us hooked up.

[Brian Bates]

Definitely have to bring mine.

[Mike James]

Are you going on the cruise? Yeah, yeah, we got three CPAPs.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that? You want to share a hose?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, my gosh.

[Mike James]

The power's gonna go out of the ship because we're gonna blow the breaker.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll bring the distilled water. Boys, let's party.

[Brian Bates]

Do you use distilled water?

[Aaron Weber]

You know what? Depending on the season, I'm a dry. I'm a dry sleeper most of the time.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Nothing in the humidif. I turn the humidifier off.

[Mike James]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm a man. I powered through it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Mike James]

I haven't always been good about that, but lately I've been buying this distilled water. Sometimes I'll just fill it up from the sink.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

If I'm on the road, you can use bottled water, but, like, I think long term tap water, it messes everything up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I never use tap water. I use bottled water, but yeah, we.

[Mike James]

Should have done an episode of cpaps. I guess we could pivot, but yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That'S a hobby.

[Mike James]

We should bring all of ours and compare them on the ship. Is that a 5000?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm trying to get the AirSense 11.

[Brian Bates]

Dude, I just want them to stop the. They gotta change the bag, though. Like, that's so embarrassing. The bag?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

That you carry on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's why I put it in my backpack. I don't even have it out on its own because I don't want to be carrying it.

[Brian Bates]

I look old. I just walk through there.

[Aaron Weber]

I think we also, now that you.

[Brian Bates]

Know what you play, you're like, oh, never mind.

[Mike James]

I'm sorry, grandpa. Didn't see your bag there.

[Brian Bates]

Didn't see your breathing machine there.

[Aaron Weber]

Justin Schultz, a question for the four of you. Do you find dirty comedy funny? I ask because you're all clean comedians. Is there a limit for you when you're listening to someone else? I can't listen to F bombs every other word. So I was curious. I remember Nate saying, if you're going to be a clean comedian, you need to keep your everyday speech clean as well. I'll answer for me first. Yeah. Some of my favorite comedians are unbelievably filthy, and I love it. And I like. I really like all kinds of comedy. Just because I do a particular kind doesn't mean I can't like the other stuff. I mean, some of My best friends and in comedy or stuff they say on stage is insane. Yeah. And I hear it every night, and I'm desensitized to it now. You just like, until you have like. I remember at a. My dad, I opened for somebody who was not clean comic, and my dad wanted to come to the show, and I was like, just a heads up, you've only. You've only seen me open for Henry Cho and Emo Philip.

[Brian Bates]

That's gonna be a little different.

[Aaron Weber]

This show is going to be a little different. And I didn't even notice how dirty this guy was till I'm watching.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And I was like, oh, my gosh.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But no, I love it. I love that comic. It's just. It's just not what I do. But it doesn't mean everybody has to do it, you know? What do you think?

[Mike James]

Yeah, I agree. I mean, my favorite comics are mostly clean comics because you kind of tend to gravitate for the people that are doing what you want them to do. But in saying that, yeah, some of the funniest comics I know are. Are dirty comics. And I certainly find that offstage, there's no correlation between a being a better person and being a clean comic.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Some of the. The best people I know are filthy on stage.

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly.

[Mike James]

Vice versa.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm. What. What would I consider myself?

[Aaron Weber]

You're who you need to be.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm who I need to be.

[Aaron Weber]

No, you're just. It's. It's a. It's a good example of, like, you don't. You don't think much about it. You're just kind of yourself.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, right. I think Richard. I mean, Richard Pryor is my favorite comedian.

[Aaron Weber]

So he was clean.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, it was at one point, but that went. It went kind of low.

[Mike James]

Is your act much different with Godfrey than it is, say, with Nate?

[Brian Bates]

Depends.

[Aaron Weber]

You use different words.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Sometimes you say sit. Now, some finna talk like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway, you say fix them too, on Nate shows, but.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, let me enunciate a little.

[Mike James]

I say learning.

[Brian Bates]

I'm a little learned. I'll show you guys I've been learned.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, man. It's. I think comedy is comedy. If you're just being funny, I really don't care as long as the. You know, what you're doing.

[Mike James]

It's creative.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's creative. You're not just, you know, saying stuff to say it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. I remember at one point, my two favorite comics were Dave Attell. And Brian Regan, they just could not be more opposite.

[Brian Bates]

Polar opposites.

[Mike James]

So, Aaron, we did that Zany's All Star show here last weekend and then you stuck around for the Dark and Dirty show.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Mike James]

How different was your act?

[Aaron Weber]

I did the same act. I just had a little bit different energy because that crowd was rowdy and it took me back. I, you know, I used to do shows like that all the time where you're kind of fighting for your life and I don't know, I've gotten spoiled lately where the crowds have been good. Most places that it kind of took me back, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah. I don't care that I'm up here. I gotta, really gotta work for it.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Now you can do. I can do shows like that. We can all do shows like that. And they don't even notice.

[Mike James]

Yeah, it's funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Comedy's comedy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

Todd Wine Berg, can you all give some advice on wedding speeches? Oh, I love this. My brother is hopefully getting married soon and I want to give a speech at the wedding that has a bit of humor in it, but I have no idea what I'm doing. Probably a five to eight minute speech, if that helps. You have a few things. I used to work at a country club here in the Nashville area. I've seen a lot of wedding speeches and then the weddings that I've been in. So I've seen, I've seen a lot of this. I think a pet peeve of mine. And I wonder if you all have noticed this. People tend to talk about writing the speech in the speech. Oh, yeah, that happens all. When I sat down to write this, I didn't know when to.

[Mike James]

I think it's always.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they talk about. Yeah, just kind of don't do that. You're doing the speech. You don't need to tell the story about the speech. Just kind of get into it. I'll say. My instinct is five to eight minutes is super long.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that is long.

[Aaron Weber]

That is a long, long time. Longer than you probably think it's is.

[Brian Bates]

Especially if you don't normally get in front of people and talk.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Nobody ever is going to say, man, that speech was too short. Say what you want to say. Say something. I would say a funny story and then something sincere.

[Brian Bates]

Get out of there.

[Aaron Weber]

Get out of there. It's not about you, it's about. It's about your brother. And no matter how well the speech goes, you're not going to be the star of the show. And I know you're not trying to be. I know you're just trying to give a good speech to support and honor your brother and everything, but I say the shorter the better. One funny story, one sincere statement. Get on out of there. Cut the cake.

[Brian Bates]

Don't do. Do not do. 5 to 8. Don't try to do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't try to light me at eight. Light me at eight.

[Mike James]

Three to five.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Not even.

[Mike James]

I would say two to four.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Two to a good.

[Mike James]

Yeah, you're probably.

[Brian Bates]

That's the kind of pocket you want to be in on that. Yeah. Two to four minutes.

[Mike James]

Because when you and I started here at Zany's, three minutes was what you got?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike James]

Oh, I started out and you hear.

[Brian Bates]

That at first you're like. Like three minutes. That's it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's not even enough to say my name. I've seen some long.

[Mike James]

I've gotten off early.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen some.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen some 45 minute, three minute sets. I'll tell you that. That felt like a long time.

[Mike James]

Did you ever see the three minute set where I got up early?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, my gosh.

[Mike James]

They even gave me the light yet. Three minute set, light at one and I get off. They light you one minute.

[Brian Bates]

As soon as he walked up there, he's like, how's everybody doing? Give him the light. We know where this is going. Darn. Dude, you got a light in a minute.

[Mike James]

I don't know. That's. We did three minutes since. I don't think they gave us a light at three. Do you remember?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I don't know, dude. It used to. That used to be terrible.

[Mike James]

I feel like it used to be three minute sets and seven minute sets.

[Brian Bates]

No, I don't know if you remembered it, but it was 90. 90 second sets. Three minutes, five then seven.

[Mike James]

Okay. I don't remember the 90 seconds.

[Brian Bates]

I remember the 90 seconds. I didn't. I. I didn't do the 90 seconds room, but yeah, three where you get.

[Mike James]

A lot at 90 seconds.

[Brian Bates]

I don't even. That's crazy.

[Mike James]

You come out of the green room.

[Aaron Weber]

I did a 92nd set. Auditioning for America's Got Talent. Huge ballroom one. British guy at a table.

[Brian Bates]

How'd it go?

[Aaron Weber]

It was horrible. 90 seconds.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He's British, you know, I mean, I didn't know what I was talking about.

[Brian Bates]

He's just looking at you.

[Mike James]

He goes, his fault.

[Aaron Weber]

He goes, that was great. That was great. And then never heard from him again. And I shouldn't have been heard. It was terrible.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. I don't care for those kind of auditions.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever given a best man speech or a speech at a wedding or anything like that?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How'd it go? What advice do you have for Todd Weinberg?

[Brian Bates]

Like, I think you hit on every point. Make it a funny story. One funny story. Don't keep going. Don't try to top yourself if it doesn't. If the story you tell doesn't get any laughs. Don't worry about that.

[Aaron Weber]

If it doesn't get laughs. Hey, it wasn't meant to be funny.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, don't try to.

[Mike James]

As long as it's not offensive.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly.

[Mike James]

Don't see something the bride's gonna be upset about.

[Brian Bates]

Right, right, right. And just if it's not funny, that's fine. Just keep going and don't. It's not expected for you to be funny, so just do it. And then say something sincere. Get out of there.

[Aaron Weber]

I think ideal structure for it. You tell one quick story about your relationship with that person from, you know, that tells something about them, and then tie it in with a story about their relationship with the bride or whoever, you know, and you were. You were crazy, whatever. But I've. I've seen her kind of. I don't know, something about her.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then you get out of there, and then you end with a toast.

[Brian Bates]

What if he hasn't met her, though?

[Aaron Weber]

What's that?

[Brian Bates]

What if he's never met her?

[Aaron Weber]

The. The groom? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he's never met the bride.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh. They said, what if the grooms never met the bride? Okay, well, then I don't know why they're doing speeches.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Mike James]

Different kind of wedding.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, he can talk about maybe how his friend has changed or he's seen how she's benefited him.

[Mike James]

Yeah. It's hard to imagine if you also.

[Aaron Weber]

Can just lie if you're close enough.

[Mike James]

For the relationship to do a speech at a wedding that you would have never met a bride.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's possible.

[Mike James]

I got one I just wrote for John. Christ, if he ever. He has to marry Lydia.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it's not gonna work.

[Mike James]

Yeah, I guess I could just insert another girl, but. No, it's specifically about him and Lydia.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. That you want to say it now or you keep it in your pocket?

[Mike James]

I'll keep it in my pocket. Not that John's going to probably allow me get close enough at his wedding to give us.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, after the way you handled him at the roast, I don't think you're speaking at his eventual wedding.

[Mike James]

Probably not. Probably not. But Aaron, you. You're getting ready to already happen when this comes out, but South Bend?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Are you nervous about going back to your old college?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, a little bit. I'm less nervous. I'm doing the Notre Dame reunion this year, but I did it last year for my class.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's scary.

[Aaron Weber]

So this year it's different graduating classes.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Then. So I'm not going to know these people. I might know a couple from the class of 2015, but everybody else, it's a whole new crop of people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Doing it last year was like, these are all people I went to. Like, I know these people. And then I'm bombing, and they're like, this is what you're doing. I'm a doctor. I'm a lawyer.

[Brian Bates]

Do you feel like you were bombing or do you just. It's. It's because we have a different perception.

[Aaron Weber]

It was. It was a tough setup in the room, so it was kind of an impossible situation for it to be like a great show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But they were fine. It wasn't. I wasn't, like, embarrassing myself.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just wish the setup was better. And now it is going to be better this year, so I'm way less concerned about it.

[Mike James]

Did you write specific jokes about Notre Dame?

[Aaron Weber]

I'd make a couple comments here and there, but I'm just gonna do my act.

[Mike James]

You ever done shows, like, your church or.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I just. I host for the marriage conference.

[Mike James]

At your church?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I've been doing it for, like, the last two years.

[Aaron Weber]

That's cool.

[Brian Bates]

At. Yeah, yeah. Mount Zion.

[Mike James]

Is that scary?

[Brian Bates]

Yes, because Mount Zion is like the. That's, like, the biggest church. Biggest black church in. In Nashville.

[Aaron Weber]

Dude, I did a show at Mount Church, period.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, really?

[Aaron Weber]

With. Did Ron. Ron run a show there?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. He may have run a show. Church. He may have.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

So tickets.

[Aaron Weber]

Does Ron. Ron go to your church?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. Like.

[Mike James]

Like, there's so many campuses.

[Aaron Weber]

How big is this church?

[Brian Bates]

There are four. Four different campuses.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

There's one in Brentwood.

[Aaron Weber]

It was not that one.

[Brian Bates]

One in Antioch.

[Aaron Weber]

This was in Antioch.

[Brian Bates]

This one? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Mike James]

Oh, well, actually, yeah, I forgot what I was looking for. Funeral that you and I were both at.

[Brian Bates]

10. Oh. Oh, yeah, yeah. For Chris Taylor.

[Mike James]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was an Antioch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

But Bishop Walker is, like, a star.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike James]

You know Bishop Walker.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I did Chuckles at the chapel one year that I think. I think he was a part of.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

B cup. B Cub. Go to Your church?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Do all black people go to the same church?

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Or do you have different.

[Brian Bates]

We have different churches.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Y' all are.

[Aaron Weber]

Y' all are different.

[Brian Bates]

We kind of. Yeah, we spread out. I know it's a shocking.

[Mike James]

But when you get drafted, will your pastor be there behind you when you say what? On the couch. When you get drafted for whatever sport.

[Brian Bates]

See, this is why I have to be here, you guys, so I can make. Now, you guys can be learned as well on culture. So it's four different campuses, which is crazy when you think about. He does four services.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, he's at all of them.

[Brian Bates]

All of them.

[Mike James]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you take a helicopter between every Sunday?

[Brian Bates]

He does.

[Aaron Weber]

How does he do that?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. Dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Four.

[Brian Bates]

Four different services.

[Mike James]

The original ones on Jefferson street, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He does that one too. Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I did. Ron. Ron booked me on a show at Mount Zion Church. I made a mistake. I showed up on time. Huge mistake. So I stood there for a while. I watched almost all of the service. So it was a service followed by a show. Oh, so I'm only white guy in the room.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They start the comedy show. A couple people.

[Brian Bates]

Did they ask you what you were doing there?

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, people were cool. No, I think they. I think I told him, like, get him. But right before.

[Brian Bates]

Right before, I went up, like, he's inspecting.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'm here. Shut this place down. Y' all are above fire code right now. Right before I went up, they. They brought people on stage to do. I think they called it a step off where they were dancing, and it was like a competition between like, four of them.

[Brian Bates]

Step show.

[Aaron Weber]

Step show. But it was worship.

[Mike James]

They asked you to step off?

[Aaron Weber]

It was worship. It was like. They played like a hymn and they were up there dancing.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And they called me up.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, what?

[Aaron Weber]

And I gotta go next.

[Brian Bates]

So I had a step.

[Aaron Weber]

I did a step off at the. At this all black church. I danced.

[Brian Bates]

You did a step?

[Mike James]

Is there a video?

[Brian Bates]

They probably went crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

I remember thinking, I've got two options here. Do I kind of play it cool.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And, like, not dance, or do I just go all out? And that's. And that's what I did. I did. I went all out dancing. The most out of my comfort zone I've ever been.

[Brian Bates]

Good for you.

[Aaron Weber]

And it. It was murder.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then I immediately went from that. They just handed me the mic and I started myself.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, good.

[Aaron Weber]

So I was like, y' all Take notes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just went. Y' all see that?

[Brian Bates]

That's perfect. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And it was great. But I. I never. You know, I'm Catholic. We're doing the opposite of that.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We're taking a knee and chanting Latin and, you know, being sad.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I'm just kidding about the last part about being sad.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it's just a Catholic Mass is solemn, I guess, is the right word. Oh, solemn. And this was not solemn. This was people literally dancing.

[Brian Bates]

So excited.

[Aaron Weber]

It was. It was an experience. Still one of the most fun shows I've ever done.

[Brian Bates]

I told John he's gonna. Hey, he needs to come to John Chris. To come to my. My church and bring him.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, and do and perform.

[Brian Bates]

No, I'm just gonna bring him just to service.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, just.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you guys. Y' all should all come to me.

[Mike James]

I would love it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it should come to service.

[Aaron Weber]

Yo, Mount Zion, we out here.

[Mike James]

You want him with us?

[Aaron Weber]

What up?

[Mike James]

Yeah, he takes his phone in the church service and he's making videos while it's going on.

[Brian Bates]

Yo, that is the funniest John Chris impression.

[Aaron Weber]

What up, Mount Zion? We are rolling into town.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey. Check your heart, dude.

[Brian Bates]

Do you.

[Aaron Weber]

What's that?

[Brian Bates]

You do some pretty good impressions, dude. That's funny.

[Mike James]

Aaron legitimately does.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he does.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's true.

[Mike James]

I have a running joke where I do impressions. They're terrible.

[Aaron Weber]

But no, Brian can actually do. Have you heard Brian do impressions?

[Brian Bates]

I mean. Yeah, I've heard them. I mean, I didn't. I wasn't sure they were doing it.

[Aaron Weber]

Sneaky. Sneaky good, like, name. Like, give him one. Lawrence Fishburne, maybe, something like that.

[Brian Bates]

Do Lawrence Fishburne.

[Mike James]

Okay. This is Laurence Fish.

[Brian Bates]

Fern.

[Mike James]

Fern. Boys in the hood.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man. You don't want to mess this one.

[Mike James]

I need those.

[Brian Bates]

Don't mess this one up. I want to know where this is going. You did what?

[Mike James]

Most of those standardized tests are biased except the math portion. The math is universal.

[Brian Bates]

Is this. Are you doing the impression now? Yeah.

[Mike James]

Oh, you couldn't tell?

[Brian Bates]

No, I was nailing it. I thought you were doing you. No, just saying this. What you were going.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought that was a disclaimer before, right?

[Brian Bates]

I thought he was doing Bates telling us what he was about to say. Like this. These are the words I'm going to use. That was as Laurence Fishburne. Go ahead. All right, well, dude, okay.

[Mike James]

Should I do Lawrence Fishburne from the Matrix?

[Brian Bates]

No, no. I think. I think I know how you're Laurence Fishburne. Do you have any other impression? Impressions?

[Mike James]

Do anybody.

[Aaron Weber]

Denzel, Don Cheadle, and Crash. Let's hear.

[Brian Bates]

Let's hear that.

[Mike James]

I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm just kidding.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, can you do Denzel?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Brian Bates]

I saw Denzel act in person, by the way.

[Aaron Weber]

Wait, where?

[Brian Bates]

Jake Gyllenhaal, too. What? Othello. In. In New York City. What? What?

[Aaron Weber]

I thought you were gonna say you're an extra in John Q or something. To see Othello.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It was Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal. Why wouldn't I? Me and my wife went, how was it? Oh, it was amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I bet.

[Brian Bates]

Chae Gyllenhaal. It was like Zoe Zaldana. She was there. She was, like, two rows ahead.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why you went.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't even know she was going. I was with my wife guy. So. Yeah. No, it was.

[Aaron Weber]

A drum line. Or is that just Renard?

[Brian Bates]

That was Renard.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, she was in that, too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. But where were you going?

[Mike James]

This is Denzel Washington from Training Day.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Training Day. Okay, Wait, what scene? What scene?

[Mike James]

At the very end.

[Brian Bates]

The very end where he's going crazy. Where?

[Mike James]

In this scene. Because I want to set you guys up. His partner, Jake has taken the money.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Mike James]

And he's leaving with it now. And he's. He's out of options.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Mike James]

And the people in this neighborhood have turned on it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we get it. Ready?

[Mike James]

Oh, I'm putting probation out in all you.

[Brian Bates]

All right, good. Let me tell you, I'm not done. I know, I know. But I'm gonna just give you some notes. Okay. Like. Cause it sounds.

[Mike James]

I don't have a pen, but go ahead.

[Brian Bates]

Tell me if I'm wrong, but this sounds exactly like the way you just described the scene. Like it was right. It was the same voice.

[Mike James]

I'm a nuanced actor, but I wasn't done.

[Brian Bates]

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

[Mike James]

King Kong on me.

[Brian Bates]

Come on.

[Mike James]

What are you talking about?

[Brian Bates]

That was even worse.

[Mike James]

What are you talking about? I feel like Denzel's in the room.

[Brian Bates]

No. Hey, man.

[Mike James]

What are you talking about?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, my gosh.

[Mike James]

I don't even.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that was awesome.

[Mike James]

Prove my point.

[Brian Bates]

That was awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

We could do that. Let's make that a weekly segment.

[Brian Bates]

Moving on.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you for that.

[Brian Bates]

Brian's impressions. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, honestly, Todd Weinberg, just do that during your wedding.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, just do.

[Aaron Weber]

Do a Denzel impression.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, do it. Do. Do a Brian Bates doing a Denzel impression.

[Aaron Weber]

They'll know what it is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they'll get it.

[Aaron Weber]

They go, is that a Brian?

[Brian Bates]

Like, I think that was a. I think that was a B. Bait special.

[Aaron Weber]

Jordan Penley was listening to some Seinfeld commentary tonight and heard Jerry say it's very hard to have a beard and be funny.

[Brian Bates]

I feel like this is.

[Aaron Weber]

Agree or disagree?

[Mike James]

Agree.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you have opinion about that? Might want to try a beard.

[Brian Bates]

Honestly.

[Aaron Weber]

Switch it up.

[Mike James]

A little, dude called for.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. If nothing else, you can fall back on the impressions.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever had a beard? Have you ever tried to grow one?

[Mike James]

Now the only thing I did during.

[Aaron Weber]

COVID for like, all right, the mustache.

[Mike James]

Two or three weeks. Well, I had a goatee and then I shaved it off.

[Brian Bates]

Did you take a picture?

[Mike James]

I made a video.

[Aaron Weber]

Did a whole video online.

[Brian Bates]

I do, but I missed that one. Oh, I wish. Oh, I got to go back.

[Mike James]

I made a video of future me coming back telling, talking.

[Brian Bates]

Did you really?

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, do you. You still got it up?

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I gotta go. I gotta go look at it. Yeah, that's funny. You and you. That would be fun.

[Aaron Weber]

But that was.

[Mike James]

It didn't look good. I'll say that. Really totally gray.

[Aaron Weber]

That was the conventional thinking for a long time is that stand up comedians shouldn't have beards. They shouldn't, shouldn't wear hats, conceal anything about their face. The idea was for the same reason. I think J.D. vance is the first politician in like a hundred years that's had a beard. Because you're. Apparently there's science to back this up that you present as more honest and trustworthy the less you're concealing about your face. So the conventional thinking used to be no hat, no long hair, no big glasses, no beard, no eyebrows. And also Dusty's whole person. That's what I'm saying. That's the conventional. I think it's changed. I think like, I don't know, the world's just different. I don't think people care about that anymore. But, but there are some guys who, a lot of what makes them funny is like the facial expressions and stuff and the way they look. So you shouldn't cover that up if that's part of your, Part of your thing. There's a good argument. If you watch Louis CK and Seinfeld on Comedians and Cars getting coffee, they argue about this specifically because Louis has a beard and Seinfeld asked him about it.

[Brian Bates]

So that's interesting. I've never, I've never even considered that, like.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, there are some comics, you see them at like, Local shows. And they wear a hat, and it's casting a shadow on their face. You can't see their face at all.

[Brian Bates]

See, I wear a hat, but I. I wear mine up.

[Aaron Weber]

You got to wear it up so that they can see your face.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's. It's. It's like you might as well walk out there, like, with, like, a ski mask on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

At some point.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's weird.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I'm aware of it. So I usually have it set aside anyways, but, yeah, that's. That's interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

Mm. Garon Dombrowski. Garen Dombrowski. I lost it when Bates said that Alaska has a lower population per capita than Vermont. That's like saying they have less people per people.

[Brian Bates]

Wait, what?

[Aaron Weber]

I think he meant they have the lowest population per acre. Surprised Aaron didn't catch it. Love the podcast. Keep up the great work, guys. Yeah, that's very fluid. Population per capita.

[Mike James]

Yeah. Yeah. Garen is correct. What I was getting at. I think you knew that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

You meant in the moment.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Some things you just let slide.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Vermont is now Wyoming's the smallest or the least populous state, period. We learned this last week, but alas.

[Brian Bates]

You talking about what? Black people?

[Mike James]

No, people.

[Brian Bates]

People. Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

Hold on, hold on. Brian, back up.

[Brian Bates]

Wait, hold on. What you say? I just got to.

[Aaron Weber]

You talking about black people? Nah, nah, nah. Real people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Yeah. I didn't even catch that. What you mean? I'm like. And I'm just sitting there like, oh, yeah.

[Mike James]

All people matter.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. People, people.

[Mike James]

No, all people.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Just in general.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

But Alaska is so big that it's. It's. It's the fewest people accounting for how big the state is.

[Mike James]

They have one black person there is.

[Aaron Weber]

In the whole. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

In Vermont.

[Aaron Weber]

In Alaska. And he runs a jewelry store in Ketchikan.

[Brian Bates]

That's the only one y' all saw. That's why. Come on, Alaska.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Mike James]

All right, so this week we are talking about hobbies.

[Aaron Weber]

You gotta have a hobby, dude.

[Mike James]

Yeah, I. I did a little.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you think people should have hobbies? Yes, because I know a lot of people that don't. There are a lot of people that go to work. They go home. That's it, dude.

[Mike James]

What I learned was it's a relatively new thing as far as. Since people have been around, because throughout most of history, you couldn't.

[Aaron Weber]

You didn't have time to sit around and twiddle your thumb.

[Mike James]

White people have to do it for, like, the last couple hundred years. Mike's probably the first one.

[Brian Bates]

Wait, what am I missing here?

[Aaron Weber]

Back up, back up. Yeah, people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike James]

I'm just saying, throughout history, people have not been able to have the luxury of having a hobby.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

They're working or they're just trying to provide for their family.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The idea of having time to kill.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is a relatively new human experience.

[Mike James]

The word hobby came from hobby horse, which. You guys know what hobby horse is?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't.

[Brian Bates]

I never heard of it.

[Mike James]

It's. It's a little toy horse that.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, it's that hobby horse. And competition popped up automatically. People compete at this.

[Mike James]

You've seen a hobby horse, right?

[Aaron Weber]

I have seen this. It's like a little broom with a horse at the end of it.

[Mike James]

Right. And it was designed for a child to mimic riding a real horse. And then the word hobby kind of suggests anything. That's a childish pursuit. So if you're doing something that people think is, you know, what are you doing? They called it a hobby, like a hobby horse.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that makes sense. Yeah.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It does not have a good connotation.

[Mike James]

No, not originally, but then back 100. That was 17th century, 18th century. They said by then things had all of a sudden it starts becoming cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, Right. Yeah. And it's a, a luxury to have the time to do.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, whatever.

[Mike James]

So you asked if everyone should have a hobby.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think so.

[Mike James]

There's a. I'll jump ahead. This is a, I guess a tick tock things going on now. 5 the five hobby rule. It's a personal development strategy, suggests cultivating five different types of hobbies to achieve a well rounded and fulfilling life. These hobbies are categorized as one to make money, one to keep you physically healthy, one to foster creativity, one to expand your knowledge, and one to build social connections. So for me, yeah, I think one to make money. I don't think I have. I mean, I think when I first started stand up comedy, I probably thought of it as a hobby.

[Brian Bates]

Then of course, obviously you started as a hobby too.

[Aaron Weber]

I started with the intention of making it my job, but it wasn't. I had a full time job for, for years when I did.

[Brian Bates]

Right. But I mean, I mean, I'm saying though, when you started, you, you didn't look at it like, I'm gonna just do this just for fun. Like you had a.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I wanted to do it. Do it.

[Brian Bates]

So you looked at it like it was just a hobby though.

[Mike James]

I mean, I didn't believe in myself enough. I took a Rick Roberts stand up comedy class. I thought this is just something fun to do.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Mike James]

And then I enjoyed it and kept going and kept going. So I can't, I honestly say I thought when I started that, you know, I'd be doing it for a career. What about you?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean when I started doing stand up, when I realized I wanted to do it. Yeah. It was not a hobby. I was.

[Mike James]

But either you have a hobby that you've made money from.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, no.

[Mike James]

Well, I think that might be the hardest one.

[Aaron Weber]

That's the hardest one for sure on this list.

[Brian Bates]

From a hobby.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That sounds.

[Mike James]

Trying to think even what those are.

[Brian Bates]

Right. Because if you do art, it's not your hobby, right?

[Mike James]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we're lucky. Our job is also a free creative outlet.

[Mike James]

Yes, right.

[Aaron Weber]

In some ways. And so we're lucky in that way.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

You know, one to keep you physically healthy.

[Brian Bates]

Definitely.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd love to talk about that. I do a lot of that.

[Mike James]

But what they consider hobbies on some of these lists I saw, I'm like, is that a hobby?

[Brian Bates]

What's considered a hobby?

[Mike James]

Walking like pets.

[Brian Bates]

Having a pet is a hobby.

[Mike James]

That's some of these lists I saw. Like, one of the most popular hobbies is having pet. I'm like, that's just.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

That's just your wife. Right.

[Aaron Weber]

If you have a dog, you're not your life.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I say, did you think he said wife? I was like, wait, hold on, dude.

[Mike James]

Y' all trying to get me in some way.

[Brian Bates]

What are you doing here? I think you did say wife, because.

[Mike James]

I. I was doing my impression.

[Aaron Weber]

That's like having a wife just sits around the house, taking up a up space. Gotta let it out of the house every few hours. What a waste.

[Mike James]

I thought I got a lot of people to apologize, too, that we were a little more.

[Brian Bates]

I thought we were a little more progressive than this.

[Mike James]

Well, you thought wrong. People. People.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

And my wife.

[Aaron Weber]

I love no life. Yeah. It's just. I don't think of pets as a.

[Mike James]

But I think it's like a chore almost. Sports.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

That you don't play professionally can be considered a hobby.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Pick up basketball.

[Mike James]

So that's physical activity.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Walking, hiking, riding bikes, that kind of thing.

[Brian Bates]

I never considered that a hobby, though. Like working. I just like working out.

[Mike James]

Yeah. I didn't either.

[Brian Bates]

So I never considered that a hobby. Like, even if even playing basketball. I look at it like it's.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like just for me, it's like it's a way of life. Less of a hobby.

[Brian Bates]

Not now. I used to. And that was like so much is so physically taxing. It's like I'm literally just doing it for cardio.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. It's working out. Yeah, exactly. It's for. For health.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I guess.

[Brian Bates]

I guess I got it.

[Mike James]

You were into hiking for a while. I don't know. Maybe still are.

[Aaron Weber]

I've done it less since the baby, but I used to do it. Yeah. All the time.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Once or twice a week, I'd hike somewhere and on the road almost every weekend and I find a place to hike.

[Brian Bates]

Like. Like dusty. He. He bird watches. That would be. Wouldn't that be considered.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a hobby or.

[Brian Bates]

Joe Zimmerman.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a way to make money.

[Mike James]

Joe Zimmerman.

[Brian Bates]

He does it. Yeah.

[Mike James]

Ultimate. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So it's like.

[Mike James]

One to foster creativity.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Who made this? What is this list from? From.

[Mike James]

I think from Tick Tock. The five Hobby.

[Brian Bates]

Well, then it's. It's solid.

[Aaron Weber]

There's people making videos, what their hobbies are for those five.

[Mike James]

And some. I don't know who originally came up with this, but some psychologists or something said this is what you need for a well rounded life.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Mike James]

Wanted to expand your knowledge. That'd be like taking a foreign language or something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Mike James]

You were gonna do that?

[Aaron Weber]

I was. For a while.

[Brian Bates]

Really? Yeah, yeah, I do.

[Aaron Weber]

I really leaned into English.

[Mike James]

You do what?

[Brian Bates]

Duolingo.

[Mike James]

What's that?

[Brian Bates]

It's a.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like babble, but, you know, it's fun.

[Mike James]

What do you learn?

[Brian Bates]

Spanish.

[Mike James]

Really? Do you speak it fluently?

[Brian Bates]

No, I wouldn't say. I'm like.

[Mike James]

Yeah, I would say do Rosie Perez. Do Benicio del toro in sicario. Just say something in Spanish.

[Brian Bates]

In Spanish. I don't. I don't know.

[Mike James]

Kumusta.

[Brian Bates]

Kumusta.

[Mike James]

You need to.

[Brian Bates]

I'm just saying, get your money back.

[Aaron Weber]

Which is worse than his impression.

[Brian Bates]

I'm trying.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm trying to think like that to English. Imagine this is conversation. How are you?

[Brian Bates]

Listen, you know, it takes me a while now. Listen, I'm on day like 265 or something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

You've been doing this a year?

[Brian Bates]

No, 265.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, that's two thirds of a year.

[Brian Bates]

But you gotta understand, I only do, like one lesson a day.

[Aaron Weber]

You might need to up it to two. You can't answer. How are you doing?

[Brian Bates]

The simplest phrase is. It's not that I can't. It just takes me a second.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, I have to.

[Aaron Weber]

Donde estas?

[Brian Bates]

Donde estas? So donde. So this is how. So you know how I have to break this down in my head? Donde? I have to do it word by word. Where? Yeah, okay. And you said, donde esta?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where am I? Yeah, yeah. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, where are you from?

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah. Oh, you want me to answer?

[Mike James]

El Nashville.

[Aaron Weber]

I know what you mean.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I got. That's usually where it stops with me.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, I don't really say, I'm from Nashville, Tennessee. How'd you say I'm from Nashville, Tennessee?

[Brian Bates]

There you go. You just said it. Oh, here. I'd say soy. No, no. You know, it's too much stress. You guys are doing.

[Aaron Weber]

It is. We really put you on the spot.

[Brian Bates]

Guys, you can't bring up.

[Mike James]

I mean, I did a perfect Denzel, so.

[Brian Bates]

You. Yeah, you did that.

[Aaron Weber]

You can't just throw around, hey, I'm multilingual on the nat lamp.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, I said I'm doing duolingo.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, this is a hobby to enrich your. Your learn. You're trying to be learning.

[Brian Bates]

Well, yeah, I'm trying to be learned in an espanol.

[Mike James]

Now, Aaron, you were gonna Learn auctioneering at one time.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

I was trying to get the. I forgot about it. I need to go back.

[Brian Bates]

Why?

[Aaron Weber]

Because I love the way an auctioneer talks. Isn't it fun?

[Brian Bates]

You ever listen to.

[Aaron Weber]

And I wanted to learn how to do it. I thought that would be a fun thing to pull out. Also, if I could talk like an auctioneer, I would write a bit where I did that.

[Mike James]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just so I could use it. I actually met an auctioneer in Spokane, Washington, and I was like, hit me with a little. And she. I mean, it's. It's so.

[Mike James]

It was a woman.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You ever listen to Bone Thugs in Harmony?

[Mike James]

What do you think?

[Brian Bates]

Miss my Uncle Charles?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I watched the guy. He would go, you gotta go one, one and a quarter, one and a half one, one, one, one and a quarter one. I was. I forgot how it went, see? But I really worked on it for a while, see?

[Brian Bates]

And that's how I feel about Spanish.

[Aaron Weber]

Mm. Muy pequeno.

[Mike James]

I just watched, See?

[Brian Bates]

Like, you can always fall back on that. You just, like. If you don't understand what somebody's saying. That's what I do. You just look like you're really pondering it. Like.

[Mike James]

No, see?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

See, it's beautiful.

[Mike James]

We'll need translations. On the bottom of the screen.

[Aaron Weber]

Put subtitles.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. For that being.

[Aaron Weber]

What is this, Narcos?

[Mike James]

I was watching Conan o' Brien.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I'm gonna watch.

[Mike James]

Conan o' Brien just received the Mark Twain Prize.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike James]

And I was watching it at the end. He had auctioneer come out. He had so many people who wanted to think he didn't have much time. So he had auctioneer read it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's funny.

[Aaron Weber]

That's really fun.

[Mike James]

Yeah. And then the last one is to build social connections. What would that be like joining a book club or something?

[Brian Bates]

That's what I did. Well, I mean, I ain't joined a book club. I'm saying. No, never do that.

[Aaron Weber]

You took duolingo with a class?

[Brian Bates]

No, actually, I started doing it because my son was doing it. And then. I mean, that's actually why I, like, I.

[Mike James]

So you could talk to him?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, no.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you could experience it together.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I'm like, okay, this is cool. Something we can. You know.

[Mike James]

I mean, dad, you never talked to me in English.

[Brian Bates]

Sure. Yeah, yeah. Because we were actually in Cancun last year and he started doing it, so that's when I started.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, a lot of these can overlap, right? Like I can say golf. You know, you got a group of guys you play golf with. That's the communal aspect of it.

[Brian Bates]

It.

[Aaron Weber]

And then, you know, maybe you're walking a lot, playing golf. That's the physical aspect of it.

[Brian Bates]

El golf.

[Aaron Weber]

And you're losing money from it.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm not sure that that was right.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you mean?

[Brian Bates]

I said el golf. I'm not sure that's the Spanish translation.

[Aaron Weber]

El golf.

[Brian Bates]

El golf golf. Oh, el golf.

[Mike James]

In high school, I took. I took Latin.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, me too.

[Mike James]

Two years of Latin. There's real. Especially for what I do. There's no real purpose.

[Brian Bates]

Why Latin?

[Mike James]

Just because my friends were. And it's supposed to. If you're going to be a lawyer or a doctor or something.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike James]

You know, so my friends were. So I'm like, I don't. But. But I never knew any Spanish. And so when I was an adult, I took adult classes to learn Spanish. And for a while I got into it. But that was 20 years ago, and I remember nothing now.

[Aaron Weber]

It doesn't.

[Mike James]

You gotta.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Mike James]

Get in it.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not like riding a bike.

[Brian Bates]

No, not at all.

[Aaron Weber]

Here's. It's L golf.

[Brian Bates]

L golf. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't hear how it's pronounced.

[Mike James]

Fluent.

[Aaron Weber]

How about this?

[Brian Bates]

How about this?

[Aaron Weber]

Golf.

[Mike James]

This guy's learned.

[Brian Bates]

Ill learned. Go. Oh, that's how you say.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. The first one I played was English. Here's. So it goes from golf to golf.

[Brian Bates]

Who? Golf. Golf.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you just gotta say it with.

[Mike James]

A little El golf.

[Brian Bates]

El golf.

[Aaron Weber]

A little pizzazz.

[Brian Bates]

El golf. Hooga. El golf. I just hit you, boy.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll apply.

[Brian Bates]

Hugar means to play.

[Mike James]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

How about that?

[Mike James]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

To play golf. Betcha if you talk like that.

[Brian Bates]

Hey.

[Aaron Weber]

To play golf.

[Brian Bates]

Just leave it there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, I am from Nashville. I am Aaron. To play golf.

[Brian Bates]

Hoogar. Huh? You want me to translate that?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I'm just saying if you talked in English the way you're talking in Spanish.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Sometimes it gets lost in translation. But you gotta learn, see, that's why you don't know Spanish. If you knew Spanish, you would know what I'm saying.

[Aaron Weber]

You're right, you're right, you're right.

[Mike James]

That's on you, Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Mike James]

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[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Mike James]

But it says that people have work commitments, busy family life, and lack of motivation is the primary reasons they stop doing whatever it is they're doing. Learning a musical instrument is one of the main ones or the top ones where someone starts and doesn't.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, golf could be considered one, right?

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, for sure.

[Mike James]

I know a lot of people that bought golf clubs thinking they're going to get into it and then. Yeah, to see how hard it is. And. Yeah, same with a musical instrument. I never learned an instrument as a kid. A few years ago, I was at Target. There was a little like Casio's keyboard for $80. And I thought, I'm gonna. Maybe I'm Mozart. Don't even know it, you know? Yeah, take it out. And I bought it. And I am not.

[Aaron Weber]

How hard did you try?

[Mike James]

I wanted to learn the Charlie Brown Christmas songs.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a pretty hard one.

[Mike James]

And so. But, you know, you can go on online and it'll show you all the keys. And so I did learn, like, I put little stickers on all the keys and Memorized it.

[Brian Bates]

What did you do with the.

[Mike James]

What you do with that?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You got rid of it?

[Mike James]

Oh, the keyboard itself. It's at my mom's house, so when my daughter goes there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's so funny though. Okay.

[Mike James]

Yeah, that's a keyboard.

[Aaron Weber]

I was gonna try to play the Charlie Brown thing.

[Brian Bates]

Do you know for real?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Well, I can't find one where you can play with the keyboard. Keyboard. I'll find it.

[Brian Bates]

That's interesting.

[Mike James]

So far, my impressions might have been bad. Your Spanish was worse. But that's the worst yet. You plan.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, what are you talking about?

[Brian Bates]

I thought my Spanish was okay. I told you. I'm telling you. Off top that. What did you just download? Yeah, no, my Spanish is. It's being.

[Mike James]

All right, let's. All right, here's some tv movie. TV and movie characters that have hobbies, famous hobbies and some TV shows.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Mike James]

This is from a movie. Andy from the 40 year old virgin, collecting vintage toys. You guys seen that movie?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's weird.

[Aaron Weber]

What?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, no, I'm just thinking about how his setup looked.

[Mike James]

His house.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's toys everywhere.

[Brian Bates]

Now I'm thinking about mine. Go ahead.

[Mike James]

And he had kept them in the boxes, so they're mint condition.

[Brian Bates]

You got to.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, he didn't start doing that with the intention to make money, but he ends up making a ton of money with it.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a store at the end. Yeah, right.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't even think about this. Good point.

[Mike James]

Did you guys watch the Sopranos?

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Mike James]

Bobby Bacala, he was into model trains.

[Brian Bates]

Bobby? Yeah. Oh, yeah, he was.

[Mike James]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I forgot about that.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You remember that?

[Aaron Weber]

I've never seen that. That's one of the. There's some hobbies that for some reason are seen as like, embarrassing.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Model trains. One of them. I don't find it embarrassing, but it's one that people make fun of.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Grown men that collect that do model train stuff. I'm trying to think of other ones that.

[Mike James]

What about collectibles like the one I just mentioned? Yeah, Star Wars.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, what are those? Little. Little. They're like bobbleheads, but they're. Oh, yeah, pop it.

[Brian Bates]

I got a buddy that. That has a whole room full of those.

[Aaron Weber]

What are they called? Pop. Tools. I don't know, something.

[Brian Bates]

Pop it. Yeah, something. Those pop heads or something. Yeah, pop heads. All these pop heads out here.

[Aaron Weber]

What are those called? You know what I'm talking about?

[Brian Bates]

Huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Plinka. Plinko is a game on the Price is Right. Oh, those. We like those things.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But thank you so much for sending this.

[Brian Bates]

While we're on the topic, those are.

[Aaron Weber]

That's very cool that they said. I was just trying to remember what they were called. He said Plinko.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, No, I have a buddy that has a whole room full of those.

[Mike James]

Of what? Those little characters that we don't know what they're called.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, there's a whole Funko Pop. Funko Pops, Yeah, that's what they're called. Yeah, I got a buddy. Got a whole.

[Aaron Weber]

So Plinko is actually not far off.

[Brian Bates]

Plinko. Yeah. You're close.

[Mike James]

You'll chase an apology. All right. I didn't watch Star Trek the Next Generation, but apparently Captain Picard was into building ships in a bottle.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Mike James]

Or at least as a kid he was.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Picard. Is that. Is that what the Professor.

[Aaron Weber]

That's Patrick Stewart.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Professor X. The Wire. Did you guys watch the Wire?

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Mike James]

We bay. He was really into fish.

[Brian Bates]

He was in the Fish?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, he's in the band Fish.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he loved them. His favorite. He loved playing it through Baltimore streets.

[Mike James]

Here's some like real life celebrities that have a hobby. Justin Bieber, the Rubik's Cube. Here's what, I didn't know this. And the Rubik's Cube has been around as long as I've been a kid. I call it Rubik's Cube.

[Aaron Weber]

Like it's a guy named Rubik and he has a cube.

[Mike James]

No, I call it a cube. That I call Rubik Rubik Cube.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it's the X. Rubik's Cube.

[Mike James]

It's possessive. There was a Rubik's.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a guy named Rubik.

[Mike James]

It's his cube.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Rubik's. The Cube of Rubik.

[Mike James]

I don't. I think I would just done it. R U B I K. I don't think I would have done a post.

[Aaron Weber]

Say something. I don't. I don't believe that Justin Bieber's sitting around doing the Rubik's Cube. I'm not saying I think. Well, that you're lying.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm saying you have bad information.

[Brian Bates]

I think the Rubik's excuse is. That's so narcissistic. Like why we have to call it like this for everybody? Like.

[Mike James]

Well, he invented it.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. I mean, but that's like what Lou Gehrig did with that disease, right?

[Brian Bates]

Like it's all about. You.

[Mike James]

Remember that drink they used to have here at Zany's called the Mike James oh, that's true, that's true.

[Aaron Weber]

There was a drink here at Zany's Comedy Club, Wonky's Comedy Club, named after Mike James.

[Mike James]

He insisted on it. He threw a fit until they put it on the menu.

[Aaron Weber]

They finally, Mike James grabbed. He grabbed the owner by the neck and he goes, listen, I don't know if you notice, I'm a bit of a thing around here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd like to walk in and go, I'll have the me.

[Brian Bates]

That's hilarious.

[Aaron Weber]

So they added. You were literally on the menu. Started a Mike James. What is it again? It's like a strawberry daiquiri or something.

[Brian Bates]

Yep, that's it. Precisely. No, what is it?

[Aaron Weber]

Grenadine.

[Brian Bates]

It's been so long since. I really don't even.

[Aaron Weber]

Rum, Rump something.

[Brian Bates]

It was so rock. Red berry.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Red Bull and cranberry juice. That's what it was.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. It's called the Mike James Now. If I go in there tonight, can I go in there and get a Mike James? You think what it is?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I don't know.

[Mike James]

Maybe Tiffany.

[Brian Bates]

Tiffany Wood.

[Aaron Weber]

Tiffany Wood, Yeah. She's made a bunch of Mike James.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If you go to 3rd Coast Comedy Club in Nashville, you can get the Aaron Weber special. What's that on the menu? Diet Coke and M M's.

[Brian Bates]

What?

[Aaron Weber]

It's on the menu.

[Brian Bates]

Diet Coke and M M's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's a package deal. It's the Aaron Weber special. Because I. Because I, you know, making waves out here.

[Brian Bates]

But you got the. The. You have the. The. The M M's. So what?

[Aaron Weber]

No, because you want to be like, I'll have the Aaron Weber, but you're.

[Brian Bates]

Like, I don't want. I don't want too much.

[Aaron Weber]

And there's no discount for it either. It's the same as if you just ordered a Diet Coke and M M's. But it's fun to order the Aaron Weber special.

[Brian Bates]

That is cool. Do they have it on the menu?

[Aaron Weber]

It's literally on the menu.

[Brian Bates]

That's dope. What about you?

[Mike James]

No, I've never had a drink named after me.

[Brian Bates]

We gotta change it. What would it be if we had a drink named after you?

[Mike James]

Warm plates of milk, like, served for the late show.

[Brian Bates]

It's like. It's like. It's warm and it's slightly expired. Like. Like two days expired. Like, I don't know.

[Mike James]

Come on, Mike.

[Brian Bates]

Be like. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Curdled milk.

[Mike James]

Come on.

[Aaron Weber]

There it is on the menu right there. Check that out.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

The Airwave special. Right under the popcorn.

[Mike James]

Simple, elegant.

[Aaron Weber]

Absolutely right.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Shout out to Luke and Scott.

[Brian Bates]

Simple comedy club.

[Aaron Weber]

Making it happen, man.

[Brian Bates]

That's a. I've never. That's a different type of description. I never thought. I never saw Eminem's and Diet Coke and thought, man, that is simple and elegant.

[Aaron Weber]

You haven't seen the way I eat it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, God, Just make it so creepy. It's just how you said it, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

That's like. You ever play basketball with Michael Jordan? That's what it is. What it's like eating M and M's with me.

[Mike James]

Oh, he's the top of his game. Yeah. Here's a few more celebrities.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah. These celebrities with hobbies.

[Mike James]

You are not a sloppy eater. I'll say that.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks, dude.

[Mike James]

Because quickly, you're a fast eater.

[Aaron Weber]

Very fast.

[Mike James]

But you're not sloppy. Like, I'll. Like, Whoa. I didn't even know it.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm trying to get it in before I get hungry.

[Mike James]

I'll still be on my first piece and pizza or whatever. And you'll be. But it's not like it's all over your face.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll tear through it. Thanks, man.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where'd that come from? Guys, Like, I'm confused on this. What is the conversation?

[Aaron Weber]

I think there's just a perception of me is like a sloppy. Embarrassed. Like I look embarrassing when I meet eating. Actually, I thought he was getting.

[Brian Bates]

Is that the perception of you?

[Aaron Weber]

I think if people had to.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I don't think people.

[Aaron Weber]

I think if they were to draw a picture of Aaron Weber eating something. Oh, there's food all over my face. I have a bib on.

[Brian Bates]

That's funny.

[Aaron Weber]

But I use knife and fork really well.

[Brian Bates]

Good for you.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks, man.

[Brian Bates]

You use it with M M's. Like. Like George.

[Mike James]

Yeah. That was a candy bar.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Aaron Weber]

Be tough to do with it.

[Brian Bates]

They just get a spoon or something.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. By the spoonful.

[Brian Bates]

It's elegant.

[Mike James]

Steve Martin plays the banjo. He's kind of.

[Brian Bates]

He made money off that.

[Mike James]

Well known for that.

[Aaron Weber]

That feels like less of a hobby. That's kind of what he's doing now. It feels like.

[Mike James]

Nick Offerman Woodworking.

[Brian Bates]

Who's Nick Offerman?

[Aaron Weber]

The guy from Parks and Rec.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Mike James]

Which his character on there was into woodworking.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike James]

Tom Hanks collects typewriters.

[Aaron Weber]

I've heard that.

[Mike James]

I think there's a guy here in Nashville that got a letter from Tom Hanks about a typewriter he bought from him or something.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Huh.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a fun thing to collect.

[Brian Bates]

Is it? Because I'm like, why? What do you do with it? Because you definitely don't type with it. Anybody still typing on typewriters? You know how frustrating that had to, like. Man, I don't think we give enough credit to, like, the news reporters back in the day that had to use typewriters. Like, I was watching Superman, and I was watching.

[Mike James]

Well, that's a true story.

[Brian Bates]

I was watching them, and I was just watching how, like, Lois Lane had to type, and I was like, oh.

[Mike James]

You talking about, like, the Christopher Reeve Superman? Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was like, dude, that would drive me insane. You gotta slide this thing back. Like, now I gotta do. Oh.

[Mike James]

Were you ever old enough to even use a typewriter?

[Brian Bates]

I don't remember. I mean, I think I remember one. In hindsight, I probably saw somebody using one, but I don't. I don't think they were doing it intentionally.

[Aaron Weber]

Typewriter feels good, though.

[Brian Bates]

It does. Tactically. It feels good.

[Aaron Weber]

I have a mechanical keyboard where the. The switches are. They feel like that. It's loud. It's. It's disruptive for other people, but.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's why it's like.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a good haptic feedback.

[Brian Bates]

Right, right, right.

[Aaron Weber]

You get. It's really fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike James]

That's.

[Aaron Weber]

Didn't make fun of you for it. I would keep that click on. On your phone, you know, the click that old people don't know how to turn off when they type. And it's just like, you know.

[Mike James]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd like to leave that on because it feels good when you. When you hear it.

[Brian Bates]

It does, it does. It gives you. Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like popping bubble wrap or something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, man.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a good feeling.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You need that?

[Aaron Weber]

That's my hobby. Bubble wrap. Just kind of twisting it up. Popping it, really? No.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I'm waiting on you to.

[Mike James]

I thought it would do it.

[Aaron Weber]

You do you have it enabled already?

[Mike James]

I thought you just put the ringer on. I thought it would do it.

[Aaron Weber]

No, you gotta disable it.

[Mike James]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sure you haven't disabled.

[Mike James]

Mike Tyson clicks pigeons.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's no way.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What does he do with them?

[Mike James]

Pigeon racing and doing things?

[Brian Bates]

He's just pigeon racing. Pigeon racing?

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I know. I didn't hear that.

[Mike James]

I actually had for pitch.

[Brian Bates]

I never heard that.

[Mike James]

I never heard that either.

[Brian Bates]

But how do you race a pigeon?

[Aaron Weber]

I think you just throw them in there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but I mean, they're not going I've never seen a pigeon fly straight.

[Mike James]

Google Mike Tyson pigeon racing.

[Aaron Weber]

Mike Tyson says he owns over a thousand pigeons.

[Brian Bates]

You never heard this?

[Aaron Weber]

I've never heard this at all. I knew he owned a tiger.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know he had pigeons.

[Brian Bates]

He loves pigeons.

[Aaron Weber]

Better keep the pigeons away from the tiger, huh?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I would. Yeah, man.

[Aaron Weber]

He had a reality TV show about pigeons.

[Mike James]

Oh, I don't remember.

[Brian Bates]

I can't believe you didn't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Why does he like pigeons so much?

[Brian Bates]

It was something about as a kid.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Danny, if you watch. Hey Arnold. Or is that after both yalls time? Hey, Arnold.

[Brian Bates]

Whoa. How do you think I am?

[Aaron Weber]

46?

[Brian Bates]

No, I'm not. No, I'm not. I don't even know why you went there.

[Aaron Weber]

I know, I know. You remember the show. Hey Arnold.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, I remember.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a character, the pigeon man.

[Brian Bates]

I don't remember watching it, but I remember the show.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. There's a character, the pigeon man. It's just like a sad guy that has been. Look at him.

[Brian Bates]

He used to be a fighter pilot.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I don't know. His whole background.

[Brian Bates]

I thought this Word. I thought you were gonna give me the story.

[Aaron Weber]

He's been outcast from society and his only friends are pigeons. And he just hangs out on rooftops taking care of pigeons.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he was a fighter.

[Aaron Weber]

Kind of a sad guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Aaron, answer me this. Tell me if this is true. Taylor Swift making snow globes. You've been to her house? Do you see snow globes everywhere?

[Brian Bates]

Been at her house last week.

[Aaron Weber]

Her family's house. Not her.

[Brian Bates]

That's.

[Aaron Weber]

Why not her play. I had no idea about the snow globes.

[Mike James]

I don't know how you know. Yeah, Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld. Cars, all kinds of cars.

[Aaron Weber]

Imagine that being your hobby. Well, collecting.

[Brian Bates]

Collecting cars. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like buying one car is like a life altering.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, man, I really have to think about this. Like you just buying it on a whim.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, by like I buy baseball cars.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Did you might as well pick some.

[Aaron Weber]

Up on the way home.

[Brian Bates]

You know, get a couple.

[Aaron Weber]

I was at Walmart. I grabbed a couple cars.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, dude, what's the name? To go back to what we were just talking about?

[Aaron Weber]

Racism.

[Mike James]

Hey, Arnold.

[Aaron Weber]

Or how far back do you want to go?

[Mike James]

No, Mike Tyson.

[Brian Bates]

The pigeons.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So you remember on Was it Home Alone 2? Y' all remember that when the pigeon laid.

[Aaron Weber]

I stopped on the first one.

[Brian Bates]

That's a mistake. Cause the second one gets better. I think the second one was Better.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Is there pigeons in.

[Mike James]

Yeah, a lot of pigeons in the park. There's a lady, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. She threw the pigeons on. Oh, such a funny scene. Sure. That you've seen?

[Aaron Weber]

Nah, I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

You've never seen.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it the same kid as the first one?

[Brian Bates]

I'm already not believing you. You've seen Everybody seen New York.

[Mike James]

Donald Trump's in Home Alone too.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen that clip of him.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah, I'm using it.

[Mike James]

All right, so I went through the. The Nate land guys, the guys who travel with Nate that are in our. In Kind of see if I could come up with a hobby for. For everybody. Some people, like John Detoy. He hasn't been on this podcast, but we know him. He's a best yo yoer in the world. Pretty much crazy. Yeah. Steven Rogers. Really into Alice Cooper. Like, I don't know if that would be a hobby, but he, like, follows him around. He buys all his albums named after him.

[Brian Bates]

Alice Cooper?

[Mike James]

Yeah, the singer.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Mike James]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

The boys are backing down.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. I know that song. Yeah, I do know that song.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It's my favorite Alice Cooper song.

[Brian Bates]

Start with that.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I'm buying a stairway to heaven. You never heard that song? Check. Alice Cooper's got some hits. Yeah, I believe yesterday.

[Brian Bates]

Cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Let it be. Let it be. You never heard it? Alice Cooper is after.

[Mike James]

Don't call it a comeback. I've been here for years. You don't know that. Alice Coupe.

[Brian Bates]

It doesn't sound like ll.

[Aaron Weber]

The joke is none of these are Alice Cooper songs.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, okay. Yeah, but the first one was, right?

[Aaron Weber]

No, that's Thin Lizzy. Alice Cooper has schools out for the summer. Never heard that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Is there a the in there for summer?

[Aaron Weber]

School's out for the summer.

[Mike James]

Well, it's just. School's out for summer.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it changes the song that much.

[Mike James]

I think it changes it totally differently. The. You putting articles in there?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Summer break. School's out for the summer.

[Mike James]

All right. Dustin Chaffin collects records. Whenever he's on the road, he goes to record stores or antique place.

[Brian Bates]

That's cool.

[Mike James]

Mike Vecchione really into the mafia. That's not a joke. I don't know if that's a hobby, but he knows everything about the mafia.

[Aaron Weber]

He extorts small businesses for fun. That's his hobby. He bribes local police departments.

[Brian Bates]

That dude is so funny, man.

[Mike James]

Yeah, he is so funny. All right. Stephen Bargetzi. Obviously, he's a magician. Right. But he's a big pickleball player.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. There you go.

[Brian Bates]

You guys. Have y' all done that? Play pickleball?

[Aaron Weber]

I played it once. It's very fun.

[Brian Bates]

Really? You like it only.

[Aaron Weber]

Not like it, only I haven't played it because it doesn't benefit. Because the only sport where you being tall doesn't matter at all.

[Brian Bates]

No, I just. I. It looks like a lot of cardio. More than I wanted to, less than basketball.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But at least I like basketball. I'm in the basketball, so I can kind of. I can kind of.

[Aaron Weber]

If you're competitive enough. You would. You would enjoy pickleball if you just play? Probably if I got with friends and you're talking trash.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

I think ping pong's too much cardio.

[Brian Bates]

Really? Do you. Have you played pickleball?

[Mike James]

Only on the road with Nate, not like in a real court, but we played once, you know, in a tennis.

[Aaron Weber]

Court at night in Johnson City and.

[Mike James]

Yeah. And then another time we taped off, like, you know, Nate as like a extra room or something. We just played, but not like on a real court with real equipment.

[Aaron Weber]

You didn't do a tournament or anything?

[Mike James]

Yeah, we just played each other, but it was double, so there wasn't a.

[Brian Bates]

Lot of running around. You played ball with bass before?

[Aaron Weber]

I have. Dude, isn't he annoyingly better than you think?

[Brian Bates]

What's so funny is like, he'll be like right up under the basket and he still does a fade away. I don't know why he fades away. It's like he. It's almost like his body doesn't want to be anywhere near anybody. So he just jumps away and it goes in.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. Well, that's very funny. I'm not going to laugh too much because Brian. I mean, I play Brian in some games of horse. Yeah. Demolished.

[Brian Bates]

It's a tough. It's a tough shot to demolishment. Yeah.

[Mike James]

My hobby used to be I'd hustle people.

[Brian Bates]

I could see that.

[Mike James]

Dude, I would show up, show up.

[Aaron Weber]

To the YMCA even after you shoot, park.

[Brian Bates]

Because even after you shoot, I'm still going to be like, yeah, yeah, get a run.

[Mike James]

No, the reason probably is because I'm always afraid I'm getting my shot blocked, so.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that. Yeah, you and I do very often. Well, you have to jump a little higher.

[Mike James]

As high as I can jump. You blocked my shot a couple of times.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, man, but it's fun going out there. But, man, I'm so nervous playing out there.

[Mike James]

Dusty gardening. We talked about bird Watching.

[Brian Bates]

But Dusty has a few.

[Mike James]

Yeah, he has a few.

[Brian Bates]

Garden watching.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty's a Renaissance man.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Mike James]

Joe Zimmerman. Bird watching. I couldn't think of one for Greg Warren. Oh, I don't know. He has a hobby or not.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. It's like being a sports fan. Being an engaged sports fan considered a hobby, too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You go to a lot of sporting events, things like that?

[Mike James]

I guess so.

[Aaron Weber]

So he. I know he follows, like, collegiate wrestling super closely and goes to a lot of events.

[Mike James]

And what about Dustin Nickerson? I couldn't think of one for him. He said he goes a lot of concerts.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like he goes to a lot of concerts. Yeah, he goes to sporting events, too, and doing stuff with his family and. I don't. I don't know. I mean, he collects stuff, I guess.

[Mike James]

All right, so then I got to us. I'll go first.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Mike James]

When I was a kid, I was really into the Muppets. I. I guess my parents bought. I didn't buy them.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Mike James]

Muppets. What are you shaking your head, Mike?

[Brian Bates]

I was just thinking about it.

[Mike James]

Open. This is an open.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Safe place.

[Mike James]

Safe place. Don't try to bring me down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. No, no, no.

[Mike James]

I collect Muppets. I was really the Muppets. And I joined the Muppet Fan Club. I brought in some of our newsletters here.

[Brian Bates]

I was wondering what that was.

[Mike James]

That's.

[Aaron Weber]

This is amazing. Yes. This is amazing. Put it on actual sheepskin. That's how old.

[Mike James]

The Muppet Fan Club. There.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. The Muppet, Volume 3, Number 3, 1981. The Great Muppet Caper. Facts for Fanatics. Dude, it's amazing.

[Brian Bates]

Dude, this is directly to you. This looks like when you were an adult.

[Mike James]

No, look at that address.

[Brian Bates]

Look at this. This Go. Didn't go to this. It went straight to him.

[Mike James]

Went to my work PO Box. All right. So I'm still a member.

[Aaron Weber]

Read that address. Man, that address is crazy. I know.

[Brian Bates]

That's wild.

[Mike James]

I know.

[Aaron Weber]

Read it. I mean, do you still live? You don't live.

[Brian Bates]

You don't live there.

[Mike James]

Route 1, Box 380.

[Brian Bates]

Route 1.

[Mike James]

I lived out in the country.

[Aaron Weber]

Route 1, Lebanon, Tennessee.

[Mike James]

There was no numerical, Eric. I mean, box 380 was. There's box.

[Aaron Weber]

But just round one.

[Brian Bates]

Lebanon has come up since then.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Thank goodness.

[Aaron Weber]

That's so cool, man. It's cool that you saved this kind.

[Brian Bates]

I don't even think you could put that in a gps.

[Mike James]

No, Dusty had something similar with. When he was in the trailer park.

[Aaron Weber]

I forgot what it was Trailer park, Lot A.

[Mike James]

Something like that. All right. So now as an adult, for the last 30 years, I've been keeping a journal.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Mike James]

And I write in every day and. And.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's. How long you been doing that?

[Mike James]

30 years.

[Brian Bates]

30 years.

[Mike James]

Started in 1995.

[Brian Bates]

You ever go back and read some of your.

[Aaron Weber]

I do it every day, every night.

[Mike James]

I go back five year intervals and look at what I was doing.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. On the same day. Wow.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's crazy.

[Mike James]

It's fun. It makes you realize how much your life changed, how stuff that you thought was so important at the time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

In a short amount of time. Doesn't matter.

[Brian Bates]

So what you're reading right now is during the pandemic.

[Mike James]

Yeah. Yep. But I also look back 10 years ago, 15 years ago. 20. 25 and 30.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Mike James]

So, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's really cool.

[Brian Bates]

What were you doing? What were you doing today?

[Mike James]

What was I doing? Which year?

[Brian Bates]

Five years ago.

[Mike James]

You know what? Five years ago. Because we couldn't do anything. I was playing a lot of golf.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Not good. But I would go out to these cheap courses and play nine holes at Shelby or something with some local comics.

[Brian Bates]

You go to McCabe?

[Mike James]

Yeah, yeah. Went to McCabe. Went to Riverside. These cheap places that, you know. Because you couldn't do anything else five years ago.

[Brian Bates]

That's true.

[Mike James]

It's kind of. Kind of sad.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Mike James]

All right. So that's my hobbies.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

What about you, Mike?

[Brian Bates]

I'm in the Legos.

[Mike James]

Like, in what way?

[Brian Bates]

Like building LEGO cars. Like the. The. The cars I brought.

[Mike James]

Okay, let's see them.

[Aaron Weber]

He's trying to tee you up to pull them up.

[Brian Bates]

I know he was, but I was like. It just felt too forced.

[Aaron Weber]

No drum roll.

[Brian Bates]

So I get.

[Aaron Weber]

I got into these, man.

[Brian Bates]

I got into these when I.

[Aaron Weber]

How would you describe this for the listeners, Mike?

[Brian Bates]

What do you mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, some people just listen, it says.

[Mike James]

On the back what it is. I couldn't have told you.

[Brian Bates]

What is this?

[Mike James]

It's a 4 GT.

[Brian Bates]

A 4 GT. So actually, like, normally I build the ones that are smaller than this.

[Mike James]

Okay. I'm gonna show off, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Got a couple here.

[Mike James]

Fast and furious.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. So the thing is, though, I got started doing this with my son, Right.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like Spanish.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he got out of it, and then I couldn't stop doing it. Now I'm, like, addicted to it.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. So you just buy, like, the kit and then follow the instructions and build it from scratch?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, man.

[Mike James]

How long does this take?

[Brian Bates]

Like, it Depends on how. If I get into it. Like, I think this one took me, like, a day. Like, I can get into it, but I like to take them when I'm on the road.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

I do them. So you got your seat? Yeah, yeah. Like, I'm in. Like, if I'm. Yeah, I like to do it on the. You know, wherever I'm at.

[Mike James]

So if you say a day. Like a whole day, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, like 10 hours. No, no, no. It don't take nothing like that. I mean, you could take breaks.

[Aaron Weber]

Some of them take that long. You buy these huge.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Eiffel Tower and stuff. That's like.

[Mike James]

I don't. I mean, when I had Legos as a kid, they were just blocks and you could build buildings. But I don't even understand how this works.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, dude. Like, it's. It's all. I don't know. Like.

[Mike James]

But, like. Because, like, you can see through the steps.

[Brian Bates]

So, like, you can see the engine, like, how the engine works with these, which is crazy. Like.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, while the wheels are going, the engine's working. So it's like it. It. It shows you. Yeah.

[Mike James]

Like, if you. If I just walked in, I couldn't even tell you these are Legos.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Mike James]

I think I would just say model cars or something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

Because that's not even what I think of as Legos.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it. It gets. It gets fun. But, I mean.

[Mike James]

And you got little bitty parts in there. Like, how many parts are in these?

[Brian Bates]

These were like, 16, 1700 pieces.

[Mike James]

Yeah, 1700.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But normally I'll do, like, the kits I'll do is like 900, 9, 800 hundred pieces, something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I get the appeal of it. It's very fun. I've done a couple recently. I had my. We hosted my whole family for Thanksgiving last year, and I was like, I got all these nieces and nephews coming. I was. I'll buy some Lego Lego sets for them to play with. So I got. I bought, like, the Hogwarts castle from Harry Potter.

[Brian Bates]

I bought big one.

[Aaron Weber]

Not the huge one. That's like 600. There's one that's like a hundred bucks. And it's maybe like, like the size of, like, my laptop. It's like that big. And my nieces nephews did it with me for, I don't know, 20 minutes and then lost interest. And then I sat and did the rest of it myself. And it is very fun.

[Brian Bates]

It is.

[Aaron Weber]

It's therapeutic.

[Mike James]

It's very relaxing.

[Brian Bates]

I can write when I. When I'M doing it.

[Mike James]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

When you start to see it, because sometimes you'll be building it, and you're like, I don't even know what I'm doing right now. And then when you see it take shape.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

It's like a pottery class.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It's a lot of fun, dude. And the people that design these things are so smart. They're so well made.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't know how they do it.

[Mike James]

Do you know how we got one over there of us. Do you know how they do that?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Mike James]

Maybe a 3D printer or something.

[Brian Bates]

It would have to be. Because, I mean, the logistics of it is just what's crazy to me. I don't even know how you would put all that together.

[Mike James]

How many of these do you have?

[Brian Bates]

13. I think I'm building 14 now. I'm working on a Corvette.

[Mike James]

And are they displayed?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I got them up on my. My wall at home.

[Mike James]

How many Jordans do you have?

[Brian Bates]

How many Jordans? Yeah, man. Over 20. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of Jordans. I guess that would be a hobby, right?

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The shoe. The shoe collecting.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But I don't collect.

[Aaron Weber]

It's ruining your day when you don't get it. That's a hobby.

[Brian Bates]

But I don't. But I don't collect them, like, to. To just hold them, like, I like them.

[Aaron Weber]

You wear them?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I wear them.

[Mike James]

Keep them clean?

[Brian Bates]

I keep them clean. Yeah, I do keep them clean.

[Mike James]

I think this is. I mean, I could see. Get into this if there's something. Probably feels good when you feel it snap in there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike James]

It feels like you're accomplishing something.

[Aaron Weber]

It is fun. Next time you go to Target or something, go to the Lego aisle, and there's all the 18 and up. Like, adult.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like this, and there's. It's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

And it was weird because I was in one of the stores one day, and it was like, kids on the aisle. So I'm like, excuse me, like. And I'm trying to get past this little kid. And then the mom's, like, looking at me like, what are you doing? But I'm like, I'm trying to get to this. She's like, looking like, where's your kid with you? I'm like, this is for me.

[Mike James]

You could probably get the ones on the top shelf that they.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's the only ones I go for.

[Mike James]

Yeah. All right. Aaron, I came up with a few for you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Let's hear it.

[Mike James]

Then you can tell me if this is true. Or if there's other ones.

[Aaron Weber]

Weightlifting.

[Mike James]

Yeah. Baseball cards.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, for sure.

[Mike James]

Or I guess just more than just trading cards. Do you have other stuff?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Or just sports. Sports memorabilia, stuff like that? Yeah, I used to autograph.

[Mike James]

I used to collect baseball cards that I did too.

[Brian Bates]

Well, basketball. Basketball, Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I had a bas. Jeff Foxworthy would get people to autograph baseballs. Not just baseball players, but like, anybody celebrity. He'd get in the. Oh, a celebrity or somebody meaningful.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Give an autograph of baseball.

[Brian Bates]

Huh.

[Aaron Weber]

And he's got those displayed. And I kind of like. I like the idea of that.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Do something like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Cuz, dude, you know, you get. You want to. People want to sign a baseball. Especially people that aren't comics.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or that aren't baseball players. Like a comic. I get to sign a baseball.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like a fun. Different thing to sign.

[Brian Bates]

It is different.

[Aaron Weber]

So any. Any kind of memorabilia like that I collect.

[Mike James]

Yeah. Baseball's the only sport that you can bring a ball from that sport and can really. I mean, you can. People do sign footballs, but it's.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not as Travel with a bunch of balls.

[Mike James]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Key cards. You collect key cards?

[Aaron Weber]

Hotel key. Yeah. That's almost like journaling in the same way that you do.

[Brian Bates]

I do that too.

[Aaron Weber]

You keep the hotel keys?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How do you keep them?

[Brian Bates]

Like, I.

[Aaron Weber]

You got them a big pile. You write like, where you were at. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what I do.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It was a bag. I think my wife might have threw them away because she was so. Like, I used to collect those and I had them in the same bag with all, like, the lotions and stuff from that. From the same.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then she was just like, like, no more. And I was just like. But I. You don't understand what this means to me.

[Mike James]

Sounds like you got enough hobbies.

[Brian Bates]

I know, right? With her on this, she's just. She just tossed them. I think it might be at home. I'm gonna look, though.

[Mike James]

Did you yell at her in Spanish?

[Brian Bates]

Hey, listen, senorita, listen.

[Mike James]

Air in video games?

[Aaron Weber]

I think so. Yeah. In and out of it. I'm in. And I'll go through waves where I. Where I play them a lot.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That can make you money.

[Aaron Weber]

But the types of games are different. Now I can't play. I used to play games where you had to sit down and play for eight hours at a time.

[Mike James]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't play those games anymore. But I can play sports games especially. You can hop on and play for 15 minutes and actually enjoy it and get something done. So I'll still play a few games.

[Brian Bates]

What was your. Your favorite game?

[Aaron Weber]

I played World of Warcraft in high school. It's in a very serious guild. I would play for 10 hours a day. Yeah, about 10 hours a day. It was a real. It was a problem. It'll take over your life. It's that good of a game.

[Brian Bates]

I used to love Golden Eye on 64. Did you play that? Golden Eye, Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. N64 era.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I was even before that Nintendo's or Super Nintendo.

[Mike James]

I had a Atari as a kid.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Mike James]

So I would Pong the classics. I wasn't. I was after Pong, but I did do Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Frogger, all those. But then when I got to college, my roommate had a Nintendo take, Tecmo Bow.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man.

[Mike James]

Bo Jackson was unstoppable.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You'll be like, my roommate had this game called Space Invader. I was like, this is goofy.

[Brian Bates]

It's taking over the graphics, dude. What was I? Mike Tyson Punch out. I still remember the code to get to Mike Tyson.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

007373, 5963.

[Mike James]

That's so funny.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Mike Tyson punch out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Yeah. I never beat him. I never beat him.

[Aaron Weber]

And the whole time this guy was collecting pigeons.

[Brian Bates]

You know what's funny? You know the Thompson twins and Mary Kate and Ashley? Nah, nah, that's not him. The Thompson. Nah. They in the NBA.

[Mike James]

Oh, Klay Thompson.

[Brian Bates]

And. Nah, this is a guy named Amen Thompson.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know who I'm talking about?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Anyways, look him up. Look. Cause it's so weird. I wanna see if y' all see this, or am I just tripping?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, sure.

[Brian Bates]

So you know that, right? You see the twins, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Now look up Bruiser Brothers on. No, no, no, no. Not the Bruiser Brothers.

[Mike James]

I can go ahead and tell you. We're not gonna be able to say don't.

[Brian Bates]

That doesn't. Am I tripping?

[Aaron Weber]

These two guys?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but you gotta see them on how they look.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll do it side by side.

[Brian Bates]

Now, you got to see, like, them in the. Like the fight. Like.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, actually.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, yo, this is not. Not that one. Not that picture. That picture doesn't look anything like them. You got to go to the.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, here.

[Brian Bates]

Nah, nah, nah, nah. Like in the middle of a fight.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. I'm having trouble.

[Mike James]

I'M gonna take your word on that, Mike.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think you're gonna have to because. And now I'm starting to be like, what else I looking at?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

That's doomed.

[Mike James]

And what about this Aaron? Collecting movies.

[Aaron Weber]

I used to. I gave all my DVDs to Dusty. Yeah, I gave my.

[Mike James]

For the Apocalypse.

[Aaron Weber]

I liquidated my entire Dusty's about to go underground. I kept most of my Blue Funny, most of my Blu Rays, but I gave.

[Brian Bates]

You gave them all.

[Aaron Weber]

You gave all my DVDs to Dusty? He threw out the bad ones.

[Brian Bates]

What were the bad ones?

[Aaron Weber]

The ones that he didn't want in his house.

[Mike James]

And he kept like Harry Potter, all.

[Aaron Weber]

That kind of stuff. He got rid of Harry Potter.

[Brian Bates]

Dude, that was a great movie. That's a great movie. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike James]

What? I read where quad ball is a hobby now.

[Aaron Weber]

People do wheelchair basketball.

[Mike James]

No, it's from Quidditch. Or maybe. Maybe I'm saying her wrong.

[Aaron Weber]

Quidditch.

[Mike James]

But now they changed the name, they said to quad ball. I thought.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you mean?

[Mike James]

Not wheelchair basketball.

[Aaron Weber]

What's it called? Quad Golf.

[Mike James]

Quad Ball.

[Aaron Weber]

Quad ball. Oh, it's inspired by Quidditch but played on a field with brooms instead of flying. I figured. I figured this one did not involve.

[Mike James]

It's a little different.

[Aaron Weber]

Magic brooms.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What?

[Aaron Weber]

That's pretty cool. I mean, where is this taken off?

[Mike James]

I just assumed you knew about this and we're probably in a league.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I've never. I was never one of these guys. I was never lar. There were LARPers at. In college. I'd see them every now and then.

[Mike James]

Larpers? What's that?

[Aaron Weber]

Live action role play where people get out there and pretend to be like knights and wizards.

[Mike James]

Oh yeah, like the Renaissance.

[Aaron Weber]

And they do battles. Yeah, I was doing real. I would do like real stuff. Civil War reenactments, that kind of stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Who are you fighting for? Listen.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, Mike.

[Brian Bates]

Let's talk about that.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I think we all know.

[Brian Bates]

I got an idea.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's just say you'd be on the other team now. I've never. I would do. Would you go do a. Like a Revolutionary War reenactment?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I would.

[Aaron Weber]

Why not?

[Brian Bates]

I don't think I would want to be there.

[Aaron Weber]

A Revolutionary War.

[Mike James]

That's even worse.

[Aaron Weber]

Why?

[Mike James]

Because. Who's he playing?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, where am I in this?

[Aaron Weber]

You're a soldier fighting for. Fighting the Redcoats.

[Mike James]

Nah, I watch.

[Aaron Weber]

You want to go kill some British people?

[Brian Bates]

I'll just watch. I'll just watch. I'll just watch. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Reenactments. Doesn't. That doesn't sound fun to me.

[Mike James]

Could be a trap. Right?

[Brian Bates]

Like, really.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the earliest year you would want to do a reenactment?

[Brian Bates]

The earliest years.

[Mike James]

Iraq War.

[Brian Bates]

Right. No, no. When was I born? We'll stop at the 80s.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Mike James]

We should probably wrap up.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good one to wrap it up on. Thank you for coming by, Mike, man.

[Brian Bates]

Thanks.

[Aaron Weber]

You're the man. Anytime.

[Brian Bates]

I got.

[Aaron Weber]

Come back anytime, dude.

[Mike James]

Starting to get some shows to promote.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Comes out next week.

[Mike James]

Yeah. Coming up. June 4th, July 6th, I met Good Nights Comedy Club in Raleigh. July 9th, I met Comedy Catch in Chattanooga.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice, Mike. Anything you want.

[Brian Bates]

You want to plug June? No, no, I'm just playing. June 15th, the funny lane. Myself, Renard Hirsch, Brian Covington.

[Aaron Weber]

Three really great Nashville comedians that are friends of all of us. The show is so much fun. Go see him.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you. We'll be @ Zany's on June 15th.

[Mike James]

That's Father's Day.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Father's Day. So, yeah. Ain't got much going on.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I'm gonna come to that funny man, Mike James. Look him up. Yeah, I'm gonna be at the Comedy Catch Chattanooga the week after. Brian. So if you're like most people and you're like, listen, I can really only go to one show. I think you know what show to go to. I don't think I'm there the exact weekend, but I'm there in July.

[Mike James]

Yeah, you're there for, like, a few weeks, right? Like a few days a weekend.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Mike James]

How many shows?

[Aaron Weber]

Five, I think. Four or five.

[Mike James]

Yeah, they gave me one, so come to my show. Okay, that's fair, because I need it. I mean, I don't think this guy's five times better than I am, so.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. You guys are the best. Thanks for listening. This was a fun one.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

We love you.

[Mike James]

Check out Mike James.

[Aaron Weber]

Check out Mike James. He's the best. Go see him on the road with Nate. You'll probably see him. And we love you. None of us is lost on us. And wishing you all a pleasant evening. That's it. Goodbye, folks.

[Mike James]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

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