260: #260 Inventions 2.0 feat. Greg Warren (Peanut Butter Boy)

Summary

The Nateland Podcast - Episode 260: Inventions 2.0 feat. Greg Warren (Peanut Butter Boy)

Release Date: July 9, 2025
Hosts: Dusty Slay, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber
Special Guest: Greg Warren

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1. Warm Welcome and Host Introductions

The episode kicks off with Dusty Slay introducing himself alongside his co-hosts, Brian Bates and Aaron Weber. Special guest Greg Warren joins them, setting the stage for an engaging discussion centered around inventions and personal anecdotes.

Dusty Slay ([02:18]):
"All right, guys. Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Dusty Slay here for the Nateland podcast. And I'm here with my favorite co-host, Brian Bates. All right, Aaron Weber. And everybody's favorite special guest, Greg Warren."

2. Reflecting on Previous Episodes and Guest Interactions

The hosts reminisce about their recent episode featuring Yakov Smirnoff, highlighting the memorable moments and light-hearted interactions, particularly focusing on the amusing hat that Greg brought for them.

Dusty Slay ([02:27]):
"He brought in hats for us to wear and I've seen all the videos and I look terrible in that hat."

Brian Bates ([02:55]):
"I thought you look good at it."

This segment underscores the camaraderie among the hosts and the playful dynamic that characterizes their interactions.

3. Navigating Perceptions and Miscommunications

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around how their banter, especially Greg's playful teasing, has been misconstrued by listeners as being rude or dismissive. Greg shares his perspective on these misunderstandings, emphasizing the genuine nature of their camaraderie.

Greg Warren ([06:09]):
"I feel like I do you a disservice because when I make a snarky, snide comment to you, you laugh. You have a great laugh. But when you do it to me, I play the straight man and act like... and people take it serious, like, oh, man, this guy's being a jerk."

Dusty Slay ([06:36]):
"They really think we're hurting your feelings all the time."

4. Greg’s Airport Dining Misadventure

Greg recounts an incident at an airport restaurant where a payment glitch led him to inadvertently dine and dash. This story highlights the pitfalls of relying solely on technology and the lengths Greg went to rectify the situation.

Greg Warren ([14:09]):
"I made an executive decision to get on my plane because my payment was still processing, and there was nobody to assist me. So, I just boarded the plane without settling the bill."

Brian Bates ([15:17]):
"I respect it. I feel like you went above and beyond, trying to make it right."

This anecdote serves as a humorous yet insightful commentary on technology's limitations and human error.

5. Upcoming Shows and Personal Updates

The conversation shifts to Greg's recent performances and upcoming shows in various locations, including Raleigh, North Carolina, Nashville, and Myrtle Beach. The hosts share their excitement and encourage listeners to attend these events.

Greg Warren ([12:35]):
"I did another show at Good Nights. It was great! I also have a special set coming up next weekend."

Dusty Slay ([27:44]):
"I'm going to Gulf Shores, Alabama, for the week."

6. The Myrtle Beach Experience

A substantial portion of the episode delves into the hosts' experiences and opinions about Myrtle Beach. They discuss the area's culinary scene, particularly focusing on barbecue establishments like Chuck's Barbecue and Jim Bob's Chicken Fingers. The conversation highlights differences between North and South Myrtle Beach, touching on family-friendly areas versus more "trashy" locales.

Aaron Weber ([08:08]):
"I did go jet skiing in the ocean. You guys ever done that?"

Dusty Slay ([08:26]):
"I don’t think Myrtle Beach is known for cuisine."

Greg Warren ([08:37]):
"They have some really crab in there, by the way."

7. Barbecue Adventures and Culinary Insights

The hosts share personal stories about their favorite barbecue places, emphasizing quality, unique offerings, and family-owned establishments. Dusty reminisces about his favorite dishes and the welcoming atmosphere of these eateries.

Dusty Slay ([07:43]):
"Chucks doesn't do that. Chuck's is a good Christian organization and they're very nice people. And they just serve barbecue."

Aaron Weber ([08:21]):
"I hit three in Myrtle Beach last weekend and I have to tell you, I struck out on two."

8. Jet Skiing and Outdoor Fun

Greg narrates an adventurous tale about jet skiing in Myrtle Beach, including a humorous yet harrowing experience with a friend who couldn't handle the waves. This story adds a layer of excitement and showcases the hosts' willingness to engage in thrilling activities.

Greg Warren ([17:58]):
"I took Will out jet skiing, and it was a thrill."

Dusty Slay ([18:16]):
"There's a great story that you tell about Will and I think Sean."

9. Final Thoughts and Reflections

As the episode nears its end, the hosts reflect on the balance between enjoying technological advancements and maintaining genuine human interactions. They emphasize the importance of storytelling, shared experiences, and the evolving nature of their podcast.

Greg Warren ([35:28]):
"It's awesome. Let's do it. Let's do it."

Dusty Slay ([35:46]):
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's keep this going."

10. Listener Engagement and Community Building

Throughout the episode, the hosts encourage listener interaction, responding to comments, and fostering a sense of community within the Nateland audience. They acknowledge feedback and express appreciation for their listeners' support.

Dusty Slay ([35:03]):
"Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and [e-mail]."

Key Takeaways:

• Camaraderie and Humor: The hosts maintain a playful and friendly dynamic, creating an engaging and entertaining atmosphere for listeners.

• Personal Anecdotes: Sharing personal experiences, such as Greg's dining mishap and jet skiing adventures, adds authenticity and relatability to the podcast.

• Culinary Focus: A significant emphasis on barbecue places in Myrtle Beach highlights the hosts' passion for good food and their desire to share recommendations with listeners.

• Technology and Human Interaction: Discussions on technological flaws and their impact on human interactions provide insightful commentary on modern conveniences and their limitations.

• Community Engagement: Encouraging listener participation through comments and feedback fosters a strong and connected Nateland community.

Notable Quotes:

• Greg Warren ([06:10]):
  "I feel like I do you a disservice because when I make a snarky, snide comment to you, you laugh. You have a great laugh. But when you do it to me, I play the straight man and act like... and people take it serious, like, oh, man, this guy's being a jerk."

• Dusty Slay ([07:43]):
  "Chucks doesn't do that. Chuck's is a good Christian organization and they're very nice people. And they just serve barbecue."

• Greg Warren ([17:58]):
  "I took Will out jet skiing, and it was a thrill."

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Conclusion:

Episode 260 of The Nateland Podcast offers a blend of humor, personal stories, and insightful discussions, all anchored by the engaging presence of special guest Greg Warren. The hosts' authentic interactions and shared experiences provide listeners with an entertaining and relatable episode that underscores the essence of the Nateland community.

Transcript

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

Hi, guys.

[Dusty Slay]

The champ.

[Brian Bates]

Welcome back.

[Dusty Slay]

Salesman. He's here.

[Aaron Weber]

It's good to be here, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Thanks for having me back. Yeah, always love it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, we're pumped you're here. Last week we had Yakov Smirnoff on the podcast and people love the episode.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet. Man, he's a legend. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Two weeks ago.

[Dusty Slay]

Two weeks ago. Yeah. Last week we did a best job.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I. I will say if I. He brought in hats for us to wear and I've saw all the videos and I look terrible in that hat. So if you ever see me put on a hat like that, I want you guys to give me a heads up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's kind of these guys, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I thought you look good at it.

[Dusty Slay]

There's no mirror in here, so I had no idea. But I. Every clip I was like, oh, gosh, no.

[Aaron Weber]

Did. Did they look better?

[Dusty Slay]

They looked better. There's certain things I. I can't do ironic redneck looking stuff. Like if I like I have this NASCAR shirt that I wear. It's your whole life, I'm saying. But it's not ironic, is the point. If I wear a NASCAR shirt, thinking I'm being ironic, people go, this guy loves nascar.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

They don't see it as irony. That's the point. So this was an American. And not that the American flag is redneck, but when the American flag is made into a hat, it starts to become a little redneck.

[Brian Bates]

Man. I don't know. I don't see that hat that way at all. I saw it as. This is just like Yakov's merch. I don't think it's hokey or anything like that. It's just kind of just Yakov's hat. It says Yakov on it, says what a country on it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but I just think in a, you know, an American flag hat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Not a hat with a flag on it, but a hat that's completely an American is. Is, you know, a bit redneck.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

You're not gonna see a lot of.

[Greg Warren]

Well, we're proud where we're from, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

If you're not, that's fine.

[Brian Bates]

That's. That's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm proud too. But that's the point, right? It's like now it's like everybody wears all these. They go, America. And then they think. And it's like, that seems, like disrespectful to the country.

[Aaron Weber]

I had some American flag shorts at one point that are. Some of the guys on the cross country team got. And then I remember I. I was wearing them, I think, at a wrestling match one time. My dad was my coach, and he was like, no, no, no, no.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm like, I don't have any other shorts. He's like, well, then you're not gonna be wearing shorts. He's like, no, no, no.

[Dusty Slay]

Get that off. See, it's like. Yeah. It feels like a respect disrespect.

[Greg Warren]

When he took them off, would you fold it like the flag?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. In a corner. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Right? Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Didn't let it touch the.

[Dusty Slay]

Think of this.

[Greg Warren]

You burn them when you're done.

[Dusty Slay]

We're at one place where you're not allowed to let the flag touch the ground, Right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

A level of respect. And then we're like, let's put it on a hat and throw the hat around.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I understand. So it. The whole hat was the flag.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And I'm not making fun of his merch.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

What I'm saying, he can do it. When I wear looks, I look Like a hillbilly.

[Greg Warren]

I'd hate to see that.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, fair enough. Okay. We're having a good time.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I. Aaron took some heat that episode. People were saying he was being, I think, rude.

[Brian Bates]

And to wait to Yakov or to Dusty.

[Greg Warren]

Well, it was very. It was very vague.

[Dusty Slay]

I think that was just what I was saying to you.

[Aaron Weber]

By people.

[Greg Warren]

But I think. I think they were talking about when the episode started and I started it. And you're like, oh, I guess you're just taking over or whatever.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I feel like I do you a disservice because when I make a snarky, snide comment to you, you laugh. You have a great laugh. But when you do it to me, I play the straight man and act like. And people take it serious, like, oh, man, this guy's being a jerk.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, people really.

[Greg Warren]

Truth is, I'm the real jerk.

[Dusty Slay]

They really think we're hurting your feelings all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

People say that about me. I go, I'm always so nice to Brian. I make one joke and they go, oh, all he does is trash Brian the whole time.

[Brian Bates]

We've also been sitting here for a minute before the podcast starts now. So it's not like, you know what I mean? You're jumping in the middle of us having interacted with each other.

[Aaron Weber]

You've already insulted him, like, seven times.

[Brian Bates]

100 times off camera. I mean, you wouldn't believe.

[Dusty Slay]

That's why he responds so snarky.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Nate, at this point, he's tired of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

What's going on over here?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, my. My mic keeps going down.

[Greg Warren]

Well, that doesn't look redneck at all.

[Dusty Slay]

So I'm trying to prop it up. I've tried to tighten it, but it doesn't.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, just doesn't want to.

[Dusty Slay]

There it is. Look at that.

[Greg Warren]

Tristan's on every episode now.

[Dusty Slay]

He's always trying to work his way.

[Greg Warren]

Does that on purpose.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I saw him loosen in that mic stand before that.

[Dusty Slay]

I appreciate that shirt you're wearing there. Chuck's Barbecue from Opalike, Alabama. My hometown barbecue place. I used to go to quite a bit. Still go sometimes.

[Aaron Weber]

They got that white sauce down in Alabama, don't they?

[Dusty Slay]

They don't. Well, I don't know. Maybe they do it Chucks. I don't know. I don't know what kind of sauce, Chuck. I always got back in the. I always get chipped pork sandwich where it's already, like, kind of mixed up in the pot.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they scoop it out and put it on the Thing. And now I get, you know, chip chicken, but. Because I stopped eating pork. But it's so I never see them put the sauce on it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, man. I am all in on barbecue. I mean, I. My. Most of my adult life, I try to go to a barbecue place every city I go to, but I've been doubling down and going even more. Wow. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Twice in the same day, breakfast and lunch.

[Aaron Weber]

I've done twice in the same day, but more lunch and dinner, you know, but. But I, I hit, I hit. I hit three in Myrtle beach last weekend and I gotta tell you, I struck out on two.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, and. But the third one was a place called Brisket in Myrtle Beach.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think Myrtle beach is known for cuisine.

[Aaron Weber]

It's. Well, they. I mean, what are you talking about, Dusty? They got a restaurant with a giant crab outside of it. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They have some really crab in there, by the way. Yeah. They have some really filthy named restaurants in. In it's names. I can't even say on the podcast. I can't even say the name of the restaurant. And it's like just family's going in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. Barbecue places tend to get a little like, they, they kind of get a little naughty with the language and. But they just sort of get a little naughty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Your buddy Will o' Donnell is a comedian friend of mine. We went to a place and we thought it'd be funny if there was one guy that like didn't understand that, that you were supposed to just get a little naughty and just went over the top on it. Whoa, whoa. What are you doing here? I thought that's what we did, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, me and Will love to complain about those sorts of things. We go to places and it's just like constant innuendo the whole time. And it's just teenagers working there and there's families in there. And I'm like, tone it down.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Even at Hattie B's, a place that I love. I love Hattie B's, but they're hottest is like, you know, me and Brian went there and it's like, you know, it's like. I don't even want to say it, but it's just like a cuss word where they just changed a couple of letters.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's not a cuss word, but in the way you use it, it still is.

[Brian Bates]

It's like there's a cluck involved.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

How about this? The Rocket City Trash Pandas recently rebranded temporarily to the Alabama white sauce.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Love that.

[Brian Bates]

And the mascot is a little sauce bottle.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, man. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, why not, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just lean into it.

[Dusty Slay]

I got the, you know, I went to.

[Aaron Weber]

I got what they were doing in a heavy base. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's subtle. Yeah, it's subtle.

[Dusty Slay]

I went to. Yeah, shut the blank up is what it is. But it's cluck in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Nope, that wasn't where I was going.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, after he showed that and then you said, I got it, I thought, well, let me clear it up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I was going a different direction.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But, you know, but Chuck's doesn't do that. Chuck's is a good Christian organization and they're very nice people. And they, they just serve barbecue. They used to do buy one, get one free chip sandwiches on Saturday.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And the, you know, the consumer products business. I think I've told you guys I was involved in that. We call that a bogo.

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, yes. Buy one, get one.

[Brian Bates]

We know about bogos on this podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

A couple of us are bogo comedians.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm the top bogo comedian.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

We joked about that for five minutes one time on this podcast. And then. And Nate laughed the whole time. And then about five minutes in, he said, no, what is bogo?

[Brian Bates]

Bo.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I will say the last thing about Chucks. I put Jim Bob's chicken fingers is owned by the same family that owns Chucks. I talked about Jim Bobs on my Netflix special. And then I always wearing a Chuck's barbecue shirt.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I never get any love from that. Not that they owe me anything, but I, I would think that what they.

[Aaron Weber]

Might shoot me getting plenty of love.

[Dusty Slay]

I just would think that they would shoot me message and go, hey, thanks for all the free ads. That's all I want.

[Aaron Weber]

I know, man. You're. You're a Cracker Barrel spokesperson.

[Brian Bates]

I know.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, cracker stuff from Quick Trip.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Cracker Barrel said thank you. Quick Trip said thank you. That's exactly right.

[Brian Bates]

I think they saw you in that Chuck's barbecue shirt and they go, ah, he's wearing it ironically. He's a hillbilly. That's what happened.

[Greg Warren]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

You want to get in there?

[Dusty Slay]

You know how like people like for a little while, like, I don't even know if hipster is really a term anymore, but you know how hipster people would wear like cut off jeans.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And it was like, you know, kind of ironic thing, but I do it and I look like the non ironic version of the Guy wearing the cut off jeans.

[Brian Bates]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

No one thinks this guy's a hipster. They go, this guy doing in here? Okay, all right, so we got some Nate. Oh, were you guys. Have you guys been places?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Question.

[Greg Warren]

This weekend, Saturday night, while weekend I was in Raleigh, North Carolina. Saturday, I did a show at a local Christian bookstore. The owner, big fans of Nateland. Okay, you guys want to laugh or something?

[Dusty Slay]

No. No, I did because you both smiled.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot when I said it.

[Dusty Slay]

You just kept it going. You got a local Christian bookstore? It was a bookstore that did it at the end.

[Greg Warren]

Well, they serve coffee.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Do you sell merch after you got.

[Brian Bates]

A pick between a Bible and a Bates T shirt.

[Greg Warren]

And then went over to Good Nights. Our friend Catherine Blandford was there and she let me do a guest set on her.

[Brian Bates]

The opposite of a Christian book.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

And then last night I had my own show at Good Nights. All right, Nice folks came out, had a great time.

[Dusty Slay]

How's I not been to the new club? I did old good nights, but I not been to the new club's.

[Aaron Weber]

Great.

[Greg Warren]

You know, it's funny, it's my second time there. The last time I did the small room, about 90 seater. This time I did the main room.

[Aaron Weber]

And I'm you man.

[Greg Warren]

I'm driving, you know, from the airport in my car, thinking, man, I'm. I'm a big time now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

And I passed the hockey arena where the Canes play, and I see a sign lit up outside and it says, nate Bargazi here. And it just helps butcher. He's about to do 19,000 or whatever. A few days. But anyway, great time last night. Thanks for everybody. Came out, flew home this morning. I gotta tell you guys, I. At the airport this morning, I kind of skipped out on my bill.

[Aaron Weber]

What?

[Greg Warren]

And I didn't mean to, but yet I didn't fix it either.

[Brian Bates]

So what happened? You dined and dashed?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, well, kinda. It was one of those where you scan the QR code, which I kind of hate, but whatever, you know, nobody wants to serve you anymore. So you do the thing, you place your order. Then at the end, so I sit there, I have my food, and.

[Aaron Weber]

You.

[Greg Warren]

Know, it's time to go. It's time for our plane to start boarding. So I go in there to pay. There's some error. It says, see your server, it won't accept it. There is no server. But I finally find a lady that's coming through and I was like, hey, it's saying this, Whatever, she's all right. Do Me a favor, get out of it, scan it again and see if it worked this time. If not, let me know and we'll bring you a receipt. I get out of a scan it, it works. Enter my information, hit pay. I thought it said thank you or success or whatever. I'm like, I'm good. Okay. And I walk out, and then I'm walking in my gate and I look at my phone and it's still spinning. Saying, processing, processing, processing, processing. And I go back and there's nobody there. Yeah, well, my plane's starting to board now. It's Southwest. It's not like they're going to save me a seat.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So I made an executive to get on my plane.

[Brian Bates]

I respect it. I feel like you went above and beyond. Way trying to. Yeah. Tried to make it right. I mean, going back to the restaurant from the gate is. That's a step further than I would have gone.

[Dusty Slay]

And this is a flaw of technology. It's like, hey, don't get above your pay grade with the technology.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, no, I mean, you should get back on a flight tomorrow and get over there and take care of it.

[Greg Warren]

Well, I'm glad you brought that up. Aren't you going to be in Raleigh next week?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah, I'll give you 30 bucks. I'll just pay it.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, no, I'll give you the money. Yeah, drop it off. Her name's. Yeah, Charlene.

[Aaron Weber]

Going to Raleigh to pay for your. To pay for your meal is going less far out of the way than I did when I had to pick you up from. For lunch in Orlando. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is shorter trip, so I've been training for this. Yeah, happy to do it. You need me to swing by Southern California? Do anything for you there too.

[Greg Warren]

I know, and I always offer to take him to lunch when he's in town. Town, he always is busy.

[Aaron Weber]

So.

[Greg Warren]

I got Dusty on my podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

Free meal, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey. Yeah, Free meal. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Can I just give you the money and you go eat by yourself? Would that.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I'm not like you, man. Like, I'm fine getting. I'm gonna get some barbecue when I'm in town.

[Greg Warren]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, all right.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Greg Warren]

So anyway, I did that this morning. I dined and dashed.

[Dusty Slay]

That was this morning?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Greg Warren]

My show was last night and flew home today. Yeah. Airplanes are crazy, man. I know. You drive all your shows.

[Aaron Weber]

I fly.

[Greg Warren]

So that's what. That's what I did. What about you, Greg?

[Aaron Weber]

I was in Myrtle Beach.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, you should hit some barbecue there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Brisket. Outstanding. Place there. It was, it was a lot of fun. I, I did go jet skiing in the ocean. You guys ever done that?

[Brian Bates]

Not in the ocean, the ocean. I love a lake jet ski.

[Aaron Weber]

It is a, like you're hitting the waves. Like you hit the waves every three seconds and it sounds like the, the jet ski is gonna break. Yeah, it's, it's pretty awesome fun though.

[Brian Bates]

Are you a beach guy, Greg?

[Aaron Weber]

No, but I mean I, I, I, I've been going to that club in Myrtle beach, the Comedy Cabana for years. Yeah. And I, I go, it's a full week, like seven days. And I usually take the feature act, jet skiing in the ocean. And Will o' Donnell's done this, right? O' Donnell did it with me. Yeah, yeah. And it is, man, it's crazy. I recommend it, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. There's a great story that you tell about Will and I think Sean, Sean.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys met, went jet skiing with me one year and freaked out, like, just couldn't handle it. You go on sort of the calm water for a good 20 minutes before you get out there and you're going like 45 and it's fine.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, so you get way out offshore.

[Aaron Weber]

Then you go, then you turn left and go into the ocean. Yeah. And your whole world changes. And Sean wasn't prepared for it and he, I, he started, you know, he just had a rough time with it and I, and I didn't know that was going on and I can't, Brendan Ayer, who, you know, and my brother came back and Sean was like next to the guide, the 16 year old guide on the shore and just, and I just, all I did was I slightly smiled and he just started screaming and cursing at me. I almost drowned. I almost drowned. I go, did you fall off? He goes, no. I go, well and then, and then like he was so freaked out. At one point the guide, you know, the 16 year old was protecting him or whatever and then he, Sean asked the guy, he goes, hey, when we go back, do we have to go the same way? Like, what's the ocean, Sean? I mean we could go around South America and, but it's going to take a while, you know, like it's the ocean. And so he freaked out and, and then he spent the next three days researching on the Internet how bad the weather was that day. It's like, guys, that was, that was probably one of the worst days. We shouldn't even, we should not have been out there. People are saying this is the worst has ever been. So, so the, so he's freaked out. So then like two years later I take Will, okay. And, and we go out and Sean knows I'm taking Will out and he calls me. Couldn't have been happy. He couldn't, he's like, he goes how do we'll do? How do we do? Yeah. And he wanted me to say I was worse than you, buddy. He was scared. You have every, every right to be scared like that. I said sean, Will was in the marines. I, I, I, I, I think he can handle a jet skiing.

[Brian Bates]

I think you can handle the most.

[Aaron Weber]

He thought in his mind the ex marine was just going to get freaked out by being on that jet ski. Yeah, I, but I, I win in that man. I recommend it. It's, it's, it's a, it's a thrill.

[Brian Bates]

What do you think's more fun, a jet ski or four wheeler?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I've never really been on a jet ski but I do love a four wheeler.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean they're basically the same. It's the same kind of.

[Dusty Slay]

I do love a four wheeler.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you. What were you about to say?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I was just gonna talk about the comedy Cabana that you went to.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know that's the first ever club I did way back probably 2010 or so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

My friend Mike Fubu Clark got me. He's die, he's died. And he got me into the club.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I did about five minutes there and bombed real bad. And have always been afraid of.

[Aaron Weber]

Really Anna? Yeah, I think you do real well.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd like to go, I'd like to do it now.

[Brian Bates]

I think you'd figure it out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, I think, yeah, I think you owe it to Fubu. Get back out there and conquer your fears.

[Dusty Slay]

F O O B O O oh yeah. And actually you know Fubu, I always really liked him but he, he went to jail for a while.

[Brian Bates]

Did he wear a lot of fubu?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I think I met him after maybe that time but he, he made some, a couple of rap songs and he had a, they were comedy rap songs. One was Mini Turd song that he had is what he would call it. He said I, I thought I had to fart. It was a mini turd and uh, that was his rap song. And uh, is that right there with.

[Aaron Weber]

Uh, some of those barbecue restaurant. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then he uh, got out of prison and reached out to me. He out when he would always try to get me on gigs like that and then went, and then he went to prison and by the Time he got out, I was successful at comedy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And he started reaching a long time. Yeah, he was.

[Greg Warren]

Life sentence.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. He was in a long.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like those movies. You think he, like, was, like, just got out and just was. Everything seemed different. The culture seemed different. And then he, you know, turned on, turned on the radio and he heard a dusty sleigh play. What is going on? She's Dusty on the Tonight Show. He's like, I, I don't understand this world. I don't. That guy was at the. Eating it at Comedy Cabana.

[Dusty Slay]

And then, and then he died. So he was reaching out to me, and I don't know what happened, but I know he died.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, you were in Charleston for. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So. Because I love Myrtle beach, but it's. It's got a sort of a trashy feel to some of it. There's beautiful areas, but. And I noticed, like, the, the Charleston people sort of turn their nose up at Myrtle Beach. Yeah, don't they?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, Charleston's so nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's beautiful that when you live there, you really think that you're better.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And you think every Charleston is better than every place. And food. There's no place to get better food. There's no better. There's no just. There's no better nothing.

[Brian Bates]

When I grew up in the shadow of the Ravenol Bridge.

[Greg Warren]

It'S that elite.

[Brian Bates]

No better city in America.

[Dusty Slay]

I, I really can't imagine what it'd be like if you grew up there. I lived there for 10 years, and I, it was hard. I mean, I was just like everything. Nothing felt better than Charleston.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Myrtle Beach. And you guys kind of. You look down on a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And then when I sold pesticides, my head, my route took me to Myrtle Beach. So I had a bunch of low Home Depots in Myrtle Beach. I used to go up there all the time, and then I would drink and I would go to Broadway at the beach and party a little bit. And I think I fit in fairly well. But it was, you know, it's, you know, it's pretty trash.

[Aaron Weber]

You drive. You drive up and down the main drag in Myrtle beach, you're gonna know you're on vacation.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know how they. You ever heard somebody say, like, I, I, I, this, this island is completely untouched? Well, Myrtle beach, they touched it.

[Dusty Slay]

It's been touched.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They touched it hard.

[Dusty Slay]

Now there's like, the south part, like Merle's Inlet.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Very nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Myrtle beach is where they, that the heat is. That's where it's all going.

[Aaron Weber]

And I love it. I like that. I liked it. 80, 000 mini golf courses. Yeah, yeah. You know the giant crab and the.

[Brian Bates]

Jet skis, rentals and all that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, man.

[Dusty Slay]

North Myrtle feels a little more like family stuff. Like. Yeah, there's the, like almost like older people stuff. There's theaters and, and, and you know, different things.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But still that's where the, you know, the, the foul mouthed restaurants are at.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there's some of that. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And that's where Vanna White's from is north.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you stay in a touch and stuff too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, she is. Yeah. And if you stay in. Well back then, if you stayed in a hotel Myrtle, the TV would let you know that Vanna White was from.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, oh yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They really like to let you know that.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

Oh yeah, to name a couple.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

So what about you? Where are you at?

[Brian Bates]

I was just doing spots in town. Nothing exciting. What about you, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I was off. I. I just hung out. I didn't even do comedy. I. I've had most every worry.

[Brian Bates]

You lost it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you lost it. I have been doing spots. It's Amy's here and there.

[Greg Warren]

Because in two weeks since we've had a show, though, I think. Have you not done anything since then?

[Dusty Slay]

I did LA Monday. I did. Yeah. Monday. I did new material Monday, and I hosted. Oh, we do. We just did the regular Nateland Live.

[Brian Bates]

That's three months ago, though.

[Dusty Slay]

You did a Dusty show over two weeks ago? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, I've been staying at it.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But I am taking a break. And then tomorrow, you know, as of this coming out, I'll already be there. But we're taping Monday. Tomorrow I'm going to Gulf Shores, Alabama, for. For the week.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, nice.

[Brian Bates]

I wish you'd really grind it out one of these days.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I mean, just be a working man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Ye.

[Greg Warren]

Stand there in that wet heat.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's right. Going to the wet heat. That's right. July 29th. Don't forget.

[Aaron Weber]

That's big. Huge.

[Greg Warren]

Can I say one more thing about my night? Good nights.

[Brian Bates]

I forgot. I'd love to hear it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I finally retired all my dry bar special material.

[Brian Bates]

That's a great feeling, right?

[Greg Warren]

It's. Well, not really last night, but. But I did it. I did it and it was hard because those are. Are some of my best jokes, but it's been two years, I think, and just trying to get them out of there. So last night was the first set. I did all new material, and I usually do an hour. Last night was 53 minutes. That's okay. That's okay.

[Aaron Weber]

53 with nothing on dry bar.

[Brian Bates]

Three is incredible. Just.

[Greg Warren]

I had one old joke off the top just because it kind of worked with.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Where I was at.

[Brian Bates]

How many times did you thank the troops? Was that four? Four to five minutes of that?

[Aaron Weber]

I know what's going on.

[Greg Warren]

15 minutes was me doing impressions.

[Dusty Slay]

So did you do impressions?

[Aaron Weber]

Did you get into what the left side of the room thought about the right side of the room?

[Dusty Slay]

I do that.

[Brian Bates]

Y' all are great. Y' all gotta pick it up a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

Teaching's hard, huh? Teaching's hard.

[Brian Bates]

Give it up for the Teach makes noise. Of your teacher out there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know what I'd love to do is just you go, all right, I'm about to do a joke about going to the store. Make some noise if you've heard my joke about going to the store.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.

[Brian Bates]

I would love to be able to go, all right, I'm gonna do it real quick and then just do every bit like, you know, that'd be.

[Greg Warren]

They asked me to do an impression of Dusty, which I did.

[Brian Bates]

Can you do one? Can you do a Dusty impression?

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Was that. That what you did last night?

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Greg Warren]

Standing ovation.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Greg Warren]

You can't tell the difference, can you? Can't tell the difference. He's a hipster redneck. But I'm authentic.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you're the real deal. Chuck's barbecue.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You're not afraid to wear American flag. No, no.

[Brian Bates]

You're Chuck's Barbecue guy through and through. You never sell out to a major. Like a major store, like cracker Barrels like that?

[Aaron Weber]

No, we're gonna get any.

[Dusty Slay]

Cracker Barrel is a mom and pop turned big time. Okay. They did it.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they joke about Walmart and then.

[Dusty Slay]

It just took off. Off, you know? Okay, we got some Nateland news, guys. Oh, let's get serious.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Is there a lot going on in Nateland?

[Dusty Slay]

Nateland. Mike Vecchione special is doing great.

[Brian Bates]

It is doing great.

[Dusty Slay]

Go check that out on a. On. On our YouTube channel.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Land Entertainment.

[Aaron Weber]

It's hilarious, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's so good.

[Aaron Weber]

It's really, really.

[Dusty Slay]

Mike Vecchion's really good. I've not watched it, but Mike Vecchion's very funny. I recommend everyone watch it.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Last time you were here, I was telling your special. So great.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks.

[Greg Warren]

I was kind of poking it, Aaron, because. Saying how great yours was. But then I saw Becky owns. I was like, now that's a great special.

[Brian Bates]

So now that guy does comedy.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, this time I'm serious.

[Dusty Slay]

See, these are the kind of comments that don't get picked up by people on the YouTube. Comments?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Shot that Brian just took at Greg. Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You think that. Do you think that makes them feel good?

[Aaron Weber]

No, it doesn't, man. I didn't come here for this, to be honest.

[Dusty Slay]

Does that make Greg feel good, you think?

[Aaron Weber]

Come on now.

[Greg Warren]

Your special is great. Aaron and I both talked about how you squeeze everything out of every joke, and it's kind of inspiring.

[Brian Bates]

It is. It's really good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I can show you some. Well, if you guys come out this weekend, I'll show you some unsqueezed topics.

[Dusty Slay]

Untouched.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't care that much.

[Greg Warren]

I'll take your word on it.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Nate Land has a handful of great specials from Greg Warren, Aaron Weber, Nick Thune, Steven Rogers, plus Nateland Podcast Network. Don't forget to catch the consumers with Greg Warren every Tuesday. Correct opinions with Trey Kennedy every Wednesday. Don't make me come back there with Dustin Nickerson every Thursday.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

So a lot going on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, man.

[Dusty Slay]

The we're having a good Time podcast is also back on Thursday.

[Brian Bates]

Not part of the Naelyn Network, but.

[Dusty Slay]

But it's on YouTube.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

On YouTube?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. Man.

[Brian Bates]

What an embarrassment of riches we have.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just so much content.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

To enjoy.

[Dusty Slay]

Nate Land is producing Ryan Hamilton's next Netflix special, filming at the Net Neptune Theater in Seattle on October 4th. Get your tickets for that. Ryan Hamilton's great. Ryan Hamilton was here one Monday when I was here. Went over, hung out with him a bit. Such a nice guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, such a great guy. And really, really funny. Funny. And I would imagine this special is based a lot on the accident that he had. Yeah, I think. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Is it?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he got hit by a bus.

[Dusty Slay]

I did know that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And. And I know he's doing. He has really, really incredible material about it, and I think that's what this is. Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Imagine hidden getting hit by a bus and not being able to make jokes about it. That'd be tough, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Stephen Bargazi is doing a show in Huntsville on August 24th at Levity Live. But Brian Bates does, too, on August 17th. You can. And then you can see Aaron there October 10th and 11th. All right, so that's all in Huntsville.

[Brian Bates]

But, you know, you're taking over Huntsville.

[Dusty Slay]

You know who also has a show in Huntsville? Dusty slay. All right, August 8th. So August 8th at. At. Not at Levity Life.

[Greg Warren]

Mark C. Smith.

[Dusty Slay]

Mark C. Smith Theater. Something like that. It's on my website. Check it out. Yeah, it's very good. Very fun. Levity Live. They're back. Levity. They haven't been gone anywhere, but they are lowering prices on food and drinks. I did hear that. So if you're in the Huntsville area and you've been saying, oh, gosh, the drinks are so expensive.

[Brian Bates]

They hear you.

[Dusty Slay]

So expensive. They hear you. They hear you. And now they're lowering them.

[Brian Bates]

That's it.

[Dusty Slay]

Also, Greg Warren is performing this Friday and Saturday, July 11th and 12th, at Zany's Nashville. And there are only a few tickets left.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Dusty Slay]

And that's as of this recording.

[Aaron Weber]

Recording. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

By the time this comes out, they're gonna be gone.

[Greg Warren]

Early shows sold out already?

[Aaron Weber]

I think early shows are sold out, but you gotta got a few left on the late.

[Brian Bates]

I love it.

[Aaron Weber]

I love. I love. Honestly, coming to Nashville. Playing on the weekend is one of the coolest things to do in Canada.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Can I do a guess that?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

See some of that unsqueezed material both nights? Oh, sure.

[Brian Bates]

Can you pick them up and give them a ride?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I knew, man. That's why I don't mind the guest set so much. I just know what's come. Yeah. What's it pay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's. Yeah, I know there's other things coming.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. And last. And I'm just reading this off here, last but not least, the great Dusty Sleigh hasn't. I'm just reading this.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Has a Netflix special coming out on crazy.

[Brian Bates]

He added the Great.

[Dusty Slay]

On July 29th called Wet Heat.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

So that's coming out.

[Aaron Weber]

That's great, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Also, Nateland Merch drop now available on nateborgazzi.com just click shop at the top. Check out these. You check out the site for new drops. And if you're coming out to a show, come find us at the merch table. Come. I don't know who us is. I'm not gonna be there.

[Brian Bates]

I won't be there either, but.

[Dusty Slay]

But somebody I might be.

[Greg Warren]

There's a 50, 50 chance I might be there.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll bet anything Bates is gonna sell merch when he does the guest.

[Greg Warren]

I'm gonna pitch it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. You might like to see. Pitch a couple of things.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Greg Warren]

You know, I think the breadwinner is wrapping this week.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it is.

[Aaron Weber]

So you guys are in it, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we are.

[Aaron Weber]

I listened to a lot of that episode.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was fun. We'll see if it makes a movie. But yeah, we filmed something.

[Aaron Weber]

That's so cool.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and [e-mail] Nate Bergetsetzi. Bergetzi. I've been saying bargazi my whole life.

[Brian Bates]

Most people do.

[Aaron Weber]

I switched over maybe three, four months ago to Bargetzi. To Bargetzi. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just because you hear him say it enough.

[Aaron Weber]

My dad, he, you know, he knows he's met Nate and he knows Nate's helped me out quite a bit. And he'll tell. Tell me every now and then, you know, I talk to my friends. And I know. I know he's a big deal, Greg, but they don't even know who he is. And I said, well, dad, it may be because, you know, you refer to him as Nate Bargozi. That might be why they don't know. Yeah. And that's probably the closest you've got to his name.

[Dusty Slay]

That is the beautiful thing about comedy. You can be an absolute superstar in the comedy world, but if people aren't into comedy, they have no idea. They have no idea who you are. I remember when I went on the road with Bert Kreischer. I was so excited. And I told my mom, I'm like. And she's had no idea. Yeah, no idea.

[Greg Warren]

But, I mean, you're. I'm assuming your dad's probably close to my mom's age. My mom's 80. Yeah, my mom's 81. And she. Her friends are gonna know. They don't follow the comedy scene. That. I mean, she knows Nate's a big deal, but I told her I was in his movie, and she's like, you might be in a real big movie someday.

[Brian Bates]

Who would be a celebrity that your parents would freak out about if you said, hey, I just met or I just worked with. With so and so for my mom.

[Greg Warren]

It'd probably be a country music singer.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, okay. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Country music singer.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. My dad. I mean, he's. They Foxworthy. Is a big guy, you know, Like. Yeah. I mean, you know, you haven't.

[Brian Bates]

Have you worked with him before?

[Aaron Weber]

I've met him. Yeah. He couldn't be nicer.

[Brian Bates]

Right?

[Aaron Weber]

One of the. Just nicest people you ever meet.

[Brian Bates]

Normal dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Funny guy. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. A gentleman.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay. This is from the Yak. I agree.

[Brian Bates]

Mine would be Bobby Fischer for your dad. Yeah, probably. If I were like, I hung out with Bobby Fischer this week.

[Aaron Weber]

Chess player. Yeah. Really alive.

[Brian Bates]

I think he might have died recently.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I think he died.

[Brian Bates]

I tell you what, the last few years were tough.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a cool dad, though, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He's in the chess.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

My dad went to New York. When he went to New York for the first time, he found the guys that used to play chess with Bobby Fischer when he was a kid and.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And they sit out there, you know, you pay them to play with them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Went out.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I've done it.

[Brian Bates]

Did all that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's pretty cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Is Kenny play?

[Brian Bates]

I have. He used to be really good. He doesn't play as much anymore, but it used to be.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

He used to Be, he wasn't a grandmaster, but he was like, just short of that.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

So he played competitively in high school and did a little bit in, in college and.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's, that's cool, man. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But none of the kids can play. I'm terrible at it.

[Aaron Weber]

Really? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't have the patience for it.

[Aaron Weber]

Neither do I. I, I tried to play with comics for a while and I, I, I got, you know, like average, but then I just was like, ah. I don't, I can't put it, I.

[Brian Bates]

Like the idea of it more than actually doing it.

[Dusty Slay]

I think the thing for me, and I used to, I know how to play, but I don't ever play. But I think chess with a time limit where you have like that little timer.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

We don't have to rush it. But I've played with people where they just sit there.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Sit there and sit there. And I'm like, let's, we can play another game. Let's move along a little action.

[Aaron Weber]

I used to play in Starbucks in my homet against this homeless guy, Leo. Yeah. And he was very good. And he, his thing was he would write down every move from every game he's ever played in his notebook. Like he has to write down every move.

[Dusty Slay]

That's kind of free time you have when you're home.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. Leo in a lot of pressing business. Yeah. Good chess player, though. Yeah, real good. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Greg Warren]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I just wear these.

[Greg Warren]

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[Dusty Slay]

These are, these are really old. I've been wearing these for a while. These are my first pair that I ever got.

[Brian Bates]

They don't look old, though.

[Dusty Slay]

They don't. And I have so many pair and I, I may wear a pair of Yori shorts all week. The same pair. And I'm not saying that's good, but I'm saying I may do it. And I just, I wear it outside. I go to the store. I was in Target yesterday and a guy recognized me and I took a picture. I was wearing a NASCAR shirt and camo Crocs and Vori shorts.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Greg Warren]

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[Brian Bates]

Let's get into these comments.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. This is from the Yakov Smirnoff episode Michelle, Elizabeth. Apologies to Greg Warren, but Yakov Smirnoff is the best guest you guys have had on the pod. Wow, I am so impressed. Please bring him back when Nate is there. I'd love to see them riff with each other.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I didn't know you were going to be on when.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I think that you did. I think you. You curate these comments.

[Brian Bates]

You don't have a catchphrase, Greg. That's your problem.

[Aaron Weber]

Problem?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you know what I mean.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Well, you know, Dusty's pointed this out before. I think last time you here we were saying Reno Collier was everyone's favorite and Dusty pointed out he's only been on one time. You've been multiple appearances.

[Brian Bates]

That's the thing. It's easy to pop in and kill once, right? Greg's popped in, I mean 14, 15 times now he's done.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, every time.

[Brian Bates]

That's the difference.

[Aaron Weber]

And I'm not competing. Competing with. This is Yakov Smirnoff we're talking about.

[Greg Warren]

I agree. I don't think it really matters, but I was just trying to be.

[Aaron Weber]

And here's the thing that. Here's the thing that hurts the most because I would imagine officially he's a Branson guy, right? I mean, his.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He's got a show in Branson. That's in Missouri.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

So I am the second favorite guest of Nateland in my state. In my. In my home state.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's tough.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's tough. I was trying to think, if Reno moves there, we got problems.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You know, I mean, we really like Tim and Sean.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, you can have them, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Justin Higgins. I got chills when Dusty announced his special and gave the title Wet Heat. Although it's entirely possible that the ch chills are just the onset of a heat stroke. We're having a good time and look forward to a hot show. Thank you, Justin. It's funny that you put Hot show in there. Hot show is almost what I named the.

[Aaron Weber]

The.

[Dusty Slay]

The special.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Hot Shell.

[Aaron Weber]

I can see that's a good Dusty Slay special name. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I ended up going with Wet Heat, though. I like.

[Brian Bates]

I'm warming up to Wet Heat, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Wet Heat was the title I wanted from the beginning, but I kind of walked it back a little bit. Went with Hot Shell, but I just feel like Wet Heat's the edge I need.

[Aaron Weber]

Does Netflix. Do they let you just name it whatever you want?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, they didn't give me any pushback.

[Brian Bates]

I'm.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm guessing I could come up with a name that they wouldn't approve of.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Greg Warren]

You kind of did the barbecue restaurant approach. Let's make it sound dirty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. See, I don't even think it sounds dirty, but people, you know, they like to make things.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, if I. If it were. If I, you know, there's things I could call it that would sound dirty, but. Yeah, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that guy at that barbecue restaurant, like, I know what he's talking about.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. He ain't talking about no dry rub.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I'll tell you what, I'm going to sit down for this special.

[Brian Bates]

That's a good name, though, though.

[Aaron Weber]

How? Put the kids to bed.

[Brian Bates]

How important do you think the name is for things? Like, can you think of a. A great movie with a terrible name?

[Greg Warren]

Shawn Redemption.

[Brian Bates]

Shaw. Redemption is a good example of.

[Dusty Slay]

You think that's a bad name?

[Brian Bates]

I think it's a bad name. I think it doesn't grab people. I think if it had a name, if it were called, like, Escape from Shawshank or something like that, it would have done a lot better in the box office first.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. I think now, 30 years later, we know it's a great movie, but when it first came out, I'm like, what is this Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if the name matters as much anymore.

[Greg Warren]

You know, Return of the Jedi was originally Revenge of the Jedi.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Even had trailers for it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Greg Warren]

And then I. Some focus group or something said Return.

[Brian Bates]

Of the Jedi Revenge sounds too dark or something.

[Dusty Slay]

I think the name does. I think it does. I think now especially you want to grab people. And that's why I like Wet Heat, because I feel like it's a name that's like. Is like, what? Yeah, that makes you want to kind.

[Brian Bates]

Of go watch, but it's also going to have your name, a description, and then it's going to be playing a video of you talking.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, that's true.

[Brian Bates]

So it'll be. It'll be the whole thing. I think the name's great. I was just. I was just curious.

[Aaron Weber]

Nate named the salesman and I.

[Brian Bates]

It's a great name.

[Aaron Weber]

And I was going to call it something stupid. And he. And Nate didn't. He only had, like, three things that he.

[Brian Bates]

What was the day of your Peanut.

[Aaron Weber]

Butter Boy or something like that?

[Dusty Slay]

Peanut Butter Boys.

[Aaron Weber]

Great.

[Dusty Slay]

Peanut Butter Boy. That's a good name.

[Aaron Weber]

I really. It was. I was gonna call it that with a cape on. Yeah. Nate didn't. Really. Nate didn't. He weighed in like three things on that special and he. And he weighed in hard. He's like, no, Peanut Butter Boy is a good name.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm gonna.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not gonna lie to you. I think it's fun. I think it's got some. I think it's fun. I could just see you eating peanut butter with just your hand.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, kind of. Nick Alexander.

[Brian Bates]

Sorry, I didn't go anywhere with that. It was the end.

[Dusty Slay]

No samples. Maybe the worst take of anything on this podcast. So disappointed in Aaron, who is supposed to be the logical one.

[Brian Bates]

Jeez.

[Dusty Slay]

I got to disagree with Nick here. I know I said I think two sample limit.

[Brian Bates]

You thought about it.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I still say two sample limit.

[Greg Warren]

About ice cream, but I got to.

[Dusty Slay]

Disagree that that's the worst take.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not a bad take. Not want to give away free samples at an ice cream place when people are just going through, oh, can I try the cookies and cream? I never tasted that before.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Can I try the.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, just get an ice cream.

[Dusty Slay]

Get an ice cream.

[Brian Bates]

It's the idea of samples in general. No other restaurant works that way. Why ice cream? Do you get to try a little bit before you get it?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I will say, man, we just recorded an episode on Trader Joe's for the consumers. Yeah. Aside from, I think, raw meat and alcohol, anything you want in there, you can go, hey, I want to try these peanut butter pretzels.

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I think Trader Joe's may change that policy after we put that on to the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if they want people to know that.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I mean, I. I found it.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, you can go in and eat a full meal there. Just walking around the aisles.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but that's what Costco's doing. Costco's giving out Costco.

[Brian Bates]

But there's, like, maybe six little people out there with free samples.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm with you on the ice cream restaurant.

[Brian Bates]

Any other restaurant, you go, let me try that. Try that. That'd be insane. But for ice cream, it's like, I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

See, I agree. I think you got to pay first, and then you can get two samples. You can try. But we got to know you're going to buy something.

[Aaron Weber]

I see. But you don't you think there's somebody going in there and being like that? That, that and leaving. I bet that's a real dirt b.

[Brian Bates]

I think people do that, but it also fogs up the line.

[Aaron Weber]

Line. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Cogs with the line. Takes a lot of time.

[Dusty Slay]

It is.

[Aaron Weber]

So I'd say in season.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You go from, From. From. From June, from Memorial Day to Labor Day. No samples. Yeah, no samples. Because you're going to clog the lineup. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. When I'm in an ice cream place and I know what I want, I can see it right there. Yet the person working there is just smiling. Given these people in front of me, just endless samples. I'm like, hey, I'm a paying customer. Customer, and I know what I want.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

One more free sample, I may walk out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I just thought part of the. Part of the experience of ordering food anywhere at a place is like, you just. You're rolling the dice.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, man.

[Brian Bates]

It might not be good. It might be good, but either way, I'm just gonna eat it.

[Aaron Weber]

Or, man.

[Brian Bates]

Or just try it.

[Aaron Weber]

You make a really good. I tell you what. A couple. Not brisket, but a couple of those barbecue places that I did go to, I'd have liked to. The brisket didn't look good, and I went with it. I would have, like, said, hey, let me try that brisket and. And save myself. But I, I.

[Greg Warren]

That's part of the game.

[Aaron Weber]

It's part of the game.

[Brian Bates]

It's part of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

How many times in your life have you Gotten ice cream and then been like, this is so gross. I can't eat it.

[Brian Bates]

Never.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna say never for me, too. Yeah, I did get custard from a.

[Brian Bates]

Place one time, Andes or something like that. Yeah. Frozen custard.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, and culverts. I ate some of it.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't like frozen custard?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I don't know if it was custard.

[Aaron Weber]

Mustard.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a spot on the way to McMinnville, on the way to Watertown. From the interstate to Watertown, there's a spot on the side of the road, and I don't want to. I don't want to slam the guy.

[Brian Bates]

On the back of his truck.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a business.

[Brian Bates]

It's a real restaurant.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I don't want to slam them because it may be delicious, but I got it, and I was just, like. It was just so thick, and I had a little bit of it, and I threw it out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But again, it's the. That's the game.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

I tried it. It. I didn't like it. I don't go back.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, and you learned.

[Greg Warren]

Now, won't they, like, pour you some wine, let you sip a little wine before, like, bring.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's the deal. You. You, You. You pour a little bit, and I think somebody tastes it, and then they go, okay, yeah, we'll take it. Yeah, you're right.

[Dusty Slay]

But at that point, you've already agreed to purchase wine.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I think that's probably a small percentage of people that go, I don't like it. Get it out of here.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, well, most. Same with ice cream.

[Dusty Slay]

Most people sipping it have no idea, if anything about wine. I mean, I worked. When I worked at a restaurant I.

[Aaron Weber]

Don'T know anything about. Yeah, absolutely.

[Dusty Slay]

People ordering it didn't know anything about it, and they're just like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Don't smell it.

[Aaron Weber]

Just.

[Dusty Slay]

Just drink the water. Okay. So, Nick, we didn't care for your comment.

[Brian Bates]

I'm one of the worst comments of anything. Any comment ever on the podcast.

[Greg Warren]

I'm with you, Nick.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, here we go. Worst comments ever.

[Dusty Slay]

Mo a fram. You preach the good word to Butkus and Dusty Brother Aaron. I, too, dislike the sampling at the ice cream shop.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Just comes off with an air of entitlement with a total lack of consideration of the people behind them, having to wait on them to find that perfect flavor.

[Aaron Weber]

Server.

[Dusty Slay]

Know what you want before you get to the server or get out of line.

[Brian Bates]

There you go.

[Dusty Slay]

I agree with that don't even get me started on the. Can I try X flavor one more time? Psycho.

[Aaron Weber]

They're going twice.

[Brian Bates]

That is crazy. Yeah, hold on. Let me try that vanilla again. I don't remember what that tastes like. Yeah, it's like, yeah, dude. Yeah, you do.

[Dusty Slay]

The thing about it is, when we get these comments is it's. One comment is coming from a person that goes in and gets the samples, and another is coming from a person that knows those.

[Brian Bates]

It's like.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like when you're waiting in line and say a fast food restaurant and there's a line and then there's a giant menu on the thing. People stand in line this whole time and then get to the register and don't know what they want. It's like, what were you doing in line? Why were you not looking up at that?

[Brian Bates]

Come on, come on. Be ready.

[Dusty Slay]

If you're not. If there's a line and you're not ready, get out of line.

[Brian Bates]

Look alive, look alive. Come on.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Hannah Shipley would.

[Brian Bates]

Each of Shipley's Donuts, maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe down there in Texas.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that.

[Brian Bates]

I think there's a Shipley's here.

[Aaron Weber]

Is there really? That's a good. That's a good donut, Isn't it sort of a Krispy Kreme model?

[Brian Bates]

It's more of a cake donut, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, is it?

[Brian Bates]

I think so. More of a. I don't really know. It's good, though. I don't ask.

[Greg Warren]

Free samples. Go ahead.

[Dusty Slay]

Would each of you like it. It if your fans came up to you in public and asked for a picture the day after. The day after seeing Greg Warren. I saw him in his car eating a Subway sandwich outside the restaurant.

[Aaron Weber]

What?

[Greg Warren]

I didn't know you were going to be here. I had no idea you were coming.

[Aaron Weber]

This is. You're stacking the deck, man.

[Greg Warren]

Hannah's got a decent question.

[Aaron Weber]

It. I don't. What. What is this, man? I. And here's it. This is not. I. I guarantee you I was eating outside a restaurant. I guarantee it. I do that in my car. And it was probably a bad moment. Okay, it was probably. But it wasn't Subway. I don't eat Subway. I don't like. It's not. I don't eat sub sandwiches. It wasn't. It might have been a meatball sub from somewhere else, but it wasn't Subway. I've. I've. I've have the saddest moments of my life if I'm judged by what I was doing. In a car.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

With food. It's. It's. It's terrible.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, she said, oh, you know, she's not lying.

[Aaron Weber]

I know I can. She's not lying.

[Dusty Slay]

I decided it was probably not an appropriate time.

[Aaron Weber]

Probably not.

[Dusty Slay]

She says, was this the right call?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Oh, wait for him to stop crying.

[Aaron Weber]

I wouldn't have been mean, but I would. It would have been sad. You would not have been a Greg Warren fan after that. Yeah. You just like, oh, my God.

[Brian Bates]

He goes, can I get a picture?

[Aaron Weber]

He goes, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Gets out of the car, dust off, dust shovels.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, I guarantee there's food all over my face. Yeah. I was crying. Yeah. I remember one time this happened because I've had some battles of food, dude. And it was like one night, I just. After show or something. Maybe it didn't go well. And I just went and got a bunch of cookies and I ate them. I ate about half the box on the way home, and they. And then the next morning, I was like, I'm turning over new leaf. I'm going to the gym. And. And I got back in the car, and those cookies were just sitting there. I was like, no, no, that's not me. I'm gonna do it. And I. And I did. I just got to the gym, and I just didn't want to go. I didn't want to go to the gym. And I remember somebody telling me something like, hey, if you don't want to go to the gym, you just go upstairs, go, go into the gym, sit down, start working out. If you don't want to go, then you can leave. Okay. Chances are, 99% of time, as soon as you start working out, you'd be like, well, I'll do it for a while and you'll get something out of it. Well, I went into the gym, I got into my workout clothes. I went up to the exercise bike, I got on the bike, and I said, nope. And I went back downstairs and I sat in the car and I finished that whole thing of cookies. And there were people walking by, looking at me in the car, shoving or double stuffed Oreos into my face. Yeah. Crying probably, or. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm. Please talk to me when I'm in public. But that might not be the best idea.

[Dusty Slay]

And a good call. Good call. You know, one night I pulled up to Zany's and I had this bag of popcorn, and I was just eating, and I got to the bottom, and I was really trying to get it out of the bottom, and. And then I. I Turned it up.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

KN hat off. Fell in the back seat. And I'm just getting every little piece of popcorn out, and then I look over, and in the car next to me is Chelsea Lynn and Libby Higgins.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And they're just looking right at me. And I was like, oh, man, you guys have seen this whole thing.

[Brian Bates]

They're doing the same thing.

[Aaron Weber]

They support. Yeah, they would totally support that. Yeah, that. Was it. Kettle corn. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It wasn't a tub.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, Was it kettle corn or.

[Dusty Slay]

Was it regular popcorn with just some sea salt on?

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Himalayan sea salt.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. The kettle corn, though, you can get through that pretty quick because it's just. There's not. There's just a little less sugar than you would want to be on it.

[Brian Bates]

And each bite is a little less than you want. So you keep trying.

[Aaron Weber]

You keep trying to get to the.

[Dusty Slay]

Treasure, and you never.

[Aaron Weber]

Every now and then, you'll get a good one. I mean, not a great one, but every now and you'll be like, well, y. This is what I've been, where a.

[Brian Bates]

Little bit more sugar gets calcified on it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there it. Yeah, I'll keep going. And then. Then you've eaten a whole bag of.

[Brian Bates]

It's like a Lacroix. It's the same feeling of just. It's never satisfying.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But it'll get you going back.

[Dusty Slay]

What about, like, Cracker Jacks? You remember those?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Get a little toy in it, eat.

[Dusty Slay]

Those, and every once in a while, there'd be a little peanut in there. A lot of. I love the peanut.

[Brian Bates]

I just like the. The. The popcorn in. That was good.

[Aaron Weber]

The thing is, and I don't know. I don't. I. For something. I love caramel corn, but I'm not sure I like Cracker Jacks.

[Dusty Slay]

I've not had Cracker Jacks in a long time. I just, you know, and there was the.

[Aaron Weber]

There's a couple other fiddle.

[Dusty Slay]

Faddle the tub. You ever get the tub with the caramel on one side and then the cheese, the butter? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, speaking of his last comment. So I. I got a. A Blackstone grill. I just got Flat top. Yeah. Flat top grill. It's the most excited I've been about something that I have at my house for a while. I got. I got it all going. I'm cooking on it. It's great. Right, right.

[Greg Warren]

He has a newborn daughter.

[Aaron Weber]

At his house.

[Brian Bates]

That is true. That's true. But I got it all set up, and I realized that didn't include the grease Trap on the back. When it got delivered from my house from Lowe's to my house from Lowe's, I didn't put the grease trap in it. So I got to go back to Lowe's. And so I had to, like, find a guy and explain to him him, hey, I ordered from Lowe's. You guys forgot they don't sell it individually, so I'd have to, like, steal it off a floor model. So I'm having this complicated conversation with a guy. Anyway, a guy comes around the corner, he goes, are you Aaron Weber? I heard you talking from across the Lowe's. And he said, I just saw Dusty slay in here last week buying rope. You go to that Lowe's in Mount Juliet there?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You buying rope?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know I'm buying rope, but. Yeah, I'm sure you did.

[Brian Bates]

I almost called and checked them.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, depends on the week. Yeah. I mean, I get sad, but I.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, That's. Yeah. Dude, that's Shaw Shank, isn't it? Oh, no. Yeah. Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty, come in. Ask for a rope six feet long. Jeez. Hey, Wood, why'd you do that?

[Greg Warren]

How am I supposed to know.

[Aaron Weber]

You would play that role, too, with that guy? That's. How's I supposed to know?

[Greg Warren]

You're right. I usually say I'm Brooks.

[Aaron Weber]

No, you would be that guy. Yeah. How's I supposed to know?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, and accurately. It would more likely Dusty's just prepared for his escape from society.

[Brian Bates]

So true. That's true. But yeah. Hannah, come say hi to any of us anytime.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. Knock on the window if I'm eating. Did it.

[Greg Warren]

Did he help you with your problem?

[Brian Bates]

They ended up getting. Yeah, they ended up. The guy. The guy. Work Mike at Lowe's. He hooked me up, dude. He goes, don't tell anybody. I just stole this off a floor. M. He gave it to me.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't tell anybody.

[Aaron Weber]

Obviously you think it's nice you're stealing stuff from restaurants.

[Greg Warren]

Again.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a walkout king over here. Yeah. D and dash.

[Aaron Weber]

Fingers, baits.

[Greg Warren]

It did feel good.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, this is from the Best of Nateland episode comments. Nikki Whitley. There's nothing better than Dusty not being able to stop laughing. The best one was over the way Worried Burger pronounces poem.

[Brian Bates]

Worried Burger.

[Dusty Slay]

I've listened from the very beginning. And what a great five years it's been. Cheers to the next five and beyond.

[Brian Bates]

All right, thank you, Nick. Nikki.

[Dusty Slay]

Nikki Whitley, relative of Keith Whitley. Potentially. You don't see, you don't hear a lot Of Whitley's.

[Aaron Weber]

No, that was the girl on A Different World.

[Greg Warren]

I think that was Whitney, wasn't it? Let me Right.

[Brian Bates]

Whitley Cummings. Eli Whitley.

[Aaron Weber]

Eli Whitley.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Ron. Chris. One name. Ron. Chris. Ron Chris. Aaron's excitement over Brian's pregnancy announcement always makes me smile. Great to see.

[Greg Warren]

Broke the news on Nateland.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that was fun. How about how old's your kid now?

[Dusty Slay]

3 or 15?

[Brian Bates]

3. That was that long ago, huh?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. So it was over four years ago when made the announcement.

[Brian Bates]

Jeez, time flies.

[Greg Warren]

And then Ron Chris, Nate got up and I thought, he's gonna give me a hug. And he went and got a sour Patch kid.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Monica. Kill Offer. Kill Hoffer. Killifer. That Brian baseball story about stealing second and running back. Maybe the funnest, funniest sports story I've ever heard. I was crying.

[Greg Warren]

Well, thank you, Mike. That is a. I'm not saying it's not a funny story, but Nate's what made that clip.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. To this day, I don't think I've ever seen Nate laugh that hard. I mean, he's crying, laughing.

[Greg Warren]

I mean, he. He could have been. He could have been a mood and shut that story down and nobody would have ever remembered it. But he lost it on that. And that was only, like, our fifth episode. We were very early in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So, yeah, people always remember that.

[Brian Bates]

I'd love to. I want to get that story animated by somebody. Oh, yeah, just with the audio of you telling it to Nate. Yeah, because that. It's just such a funny story. That'd be great. Our next sponsor, you know, we love Delete Me. Right now, the headlines are chock full of data breaches and regulatory rollbacks. Boy, I can't get away from it, making us all vulnerable. But you can do something about it. Delete Me is here to make it easy, quick, and safe to remove your personal data online. You want an easier way to deal with breaches? Get Delete Me. The fact is, we're all at risk. How many times have you got an email or a letter saying your data has been breached? It's unsettling. But the good news is Delete Me can help. You know, the. The new scam is they hit you up and they go, we want you to be on this podcast. And then they're just hacking into. Hacking into your Facebook. We'll talk more about it later. But I keep hearing about this stuff in the news. In a recent Coinbase data breach, a hacker obtained names, addresses, phone number numbers in the last four digits. Of user Social Security numbers. They're all out there. Thankfully, Delete me can help remove that stuff from sites and keep your info from falling into the wrong hands. Take control of your data and keep your private life private by signing up for delete me now at a special discount for our listeners. Get 20% off your delete me plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com Nate and use promo code NATE at checkout. The only way to get 20% off is to go to JoinDeleteMe.com Nate and enter code Nate at checkout.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

Jesse Rother. Jesse, did anyone else watch the best of episode and notice Aaron's physical transformation? I know, I know they all bust on him for being big, but that dude has come a long way from the early days.

[Brian Bates]

All right, Jesse.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, it comes and goes.

[Brian Bates]

It comes and goes, dude. It comes and goes, ups and downs. It's like life, dude, you know, but thank you, Jesse.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

340 at my biggest. Some of those early.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

340. Some of them.

[Dusty Slay]

There he is.

[Brian Bates]

Tough to look at. There's a real sadness in my eyes too. It's not sadness, but it's like that on the part under my eyes.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think that's where he's going.

[Brian Bates]

All right, we'll move on now.

[Dusty Slay]

There are some stand up clips of you back in the day, you know, because you had a whole different look. I mean obviously we've all changed except for Brian but you know, Brian's looked the same forever. But yeah, we've all gone through a bit of a transformation.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

But you, you know, you were wearing like the khakis and bigger button up shirts. Short hair and no beard.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, or long hair and no beard. Yeah, I had a lot of tough looks.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I, you know, I'm not even saying anything bad about those looks but it's, it's a, it's a different look.

[Brian Bates]

It's evolved.

[Greg Warren]

I've never thought of you as big. Now I see some of those old videos and I'm like, oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

But in the time I wasn't.

[Dusty Slay]

I never think of that. Yeah. I only make the joke because it's already been made. So that's out there. That's how, how everything's presented. But yeah, I don't think of. Yeah, no, people go, people go. List off some fat people that you know, I don't put category conversation.

[Aaron Weber]

Who is saying that?

[Brian Bates]

Top 10 dumbest people you know, top 10, fattest. Get into it. You're like, I already have that typed out on my phone somewhere. I'll find it.

[Dusty Slay]

I got a top five. I got a list for it to.

[Aaron Weber]

List off some fat people that you know your favorites. Can I just put my order in first, ma'?

[Brian Bates]

Am?

[Aaron Weber]

I want a tall Emperor's cloud tea, but I guess I'll start out with Aaron Weber.

[Brian Bates]

You know him.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Eric Smith.

[Aaron Weber]

Smith.

[Dusty Slay]

I always tell people they should Listen to episode 99 with Greg Warren. That's the one that got me hooked.

[Brian Bates]

That's right. Things were good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I remember that. That was great.

[Greg Warren]

Then there was a heaviness that came over.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, the dark cloud moved in after that.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, that was a very fun episode.

[Brian Bates]

This is like Best of Nateland commenters, too. I mean, I'm recognizing all these names I definitely recognize. Coming up next, Cat. The Rockwell Cat. We know her.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. Cat Rockwell. Can't wait for the n land 10 year anniversary. Do y' all think the pod will last that long and just change cast members along the way, like SNL or Soap Operas?

[Greg Warren]

I think I'll be the Keenan Thompson of the group.

[Brian Bates]

Who does that make the rest of us?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I'm just Eddie Murphy. He'll be gone on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

N. Chevy Chase one season. He's out. No. I don't know, Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

You'll be retired.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I mean, it depends on who watches this Netflix special. And I mean, now. This is great. I have a fun time, and this is fun, you know?

[Greg Warren]

So it may not be Dusty's choice.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that could be true.

[Aaron Weber]

Listen, you guys got to keep this going. Going. I got nowhere else to go.

[Greg Warren]

As long as the. The network's still around. Greg, you'll be okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we'll be all right.

[Greg Warren]

I got nowhere else to go.

[Brian Bates]

Be all right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And Justine Richardson. I'm kind of wishing you guys could revisit some previous topics, but this time with dusty labeling them 2.0. I agree, Justine. I think you all nailed it. But it would be so interesting to see how different the conversations would be this time around with him adding his out of nowhere comment. Scary. You lost me, Justine. But out of nowhere. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How does left field.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Justine, this is your big day, because today we're doing inventions 2.0.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, that's cool.

[Brian Bates]

We did it about four years ago we did Inventions. I remember.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I don't think I saw that one.

[Greg Warren]

I think there were two moments that made the best of.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. What were they?

[Greg Warren]

I. I think when you talk about your iPhone. Gas.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Your iPhone.

[Aaron Weber]

What?

[Brian Bates]

I gasped when we saw the. The iPhone for the first time.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

When.

[Brian Bates]

When Steve Jobs scrolled on it, I gasped.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, and.

[Aaron Weber]

And wow.

[Greg Warren]

Nate made fun of him.

[Brian Bates]

You didn't gasp.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

When's the last time you gasped?

[Dusty Slay]

What would. What would you mean? What's a gasp? Oh, I don't know. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

When's the last time you were amazed by an invention? Attention. Like, something really blew your mind when it came out.

[Greg Warren]

Hannah Shipley's like, is that Greg Warren?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, she did. She didn't. Knocked on that window. You'd have seen a gas. Somebody's watching this.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. That really has. Yeah. Me thinking, like, what has made me gasp? Like, is that even.

[Brian Bates]

Even a metaphorical gasp? Like you're amazed by something and kind of taken aback by. Buy it.

[Aaron Weber]

We tried that cookie butter today on the consumers.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true.

[Aaron Weber]

And that was.

[Dusty Slay]

That's pretty amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

It's pretty amazing. And this is from somebody who's predisposed to not like another kind of butter.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's right.

[Aaron Weber]

You know. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Peanut butter, boy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It was cookie butter from Trader Joe's. Yeah. I mean, that was. I remember. I don't know if you'd call it an invention, but I remember the first time I had sweet potato fries.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. That was a real. As an innovation.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was. It was 90s, maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Sort of coming.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sure they were around before that, but they. They weren't in wrestling restaurants until the 90s. Yeah. Broad scale.

[Brian Bates]

Did a server pitch that to you or did you just see it on the menu?

[Aaron Weber]

Man. I don't know where that came from, but. But I. I was like, this is. This is unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, in about 2008, I think it was maybe two. No, 2010, I went to New York City for the first time.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I went to Cats Deli.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I asked for. I didn't know. I asked for a Bristol biscuit sandwich. And the guy goes, man, you gotta try the pastrami. And I'd never had pastrami before at that time. And he gave me a piece of a sample to try.

[Aaron Weber]

Wait. Wait a minute.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I know. And I was like, whoa.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It sent me on a journey. And I've been. I love pastrami.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And it. That really took me back. I don't think it's been 15 years since I've Been amazed. But that's a time I can get go.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Dusty Slay]

And that time we had that sandwich in Richmond, Virginia, I remember that I searched for and it doesn't even exist anymore. That had me go.

[Brian Bates]

You talked about it all weekend. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's gone. The sandwich is gone.

[Brian Bates]

What about outside of food? Are all of our favorite inventions innovations just food related?

[Greg Warren]

Well, I was going to say, have you interviewed Crystal Pepsi? Have any of you ever come up with an idea for an invention, thought about pursuing it, or wish somebody else would?

[Aaron Weber]

You know those, you know, you just go Cheesecake Factory and you get like a pager.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But you could only go like.

[Dusty Slay]

You.

[Aaron Weber]

Know, about 100ft away from that. Yeah, I'm gonna do one five mile radius.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Go wherever you want.

[Greg Warren]

It seems problematic.

[Dusty Slay]

A bigger range with a button, you could go, hey, I stepped a little far out, but I'll be back soon.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Hold the table.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's ready for Shark Tank.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm saying, I'm saying five mile radius.

[Greg Warren]

It's like in.

[Aaron Weber]

Go wherever you want.

[Greg Warren]

It's kind of like there's something about Mary when the guy had the seven minute abs.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Or eight. Is it?

[Aaron Weber]

Or seven.

[Greg Warren]

Whatever it was he had took a off of.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that Harlan Williams? Yeah, yeah, it's Harlan Williams. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Dusty, you had any inventions?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so. When I was a kid, I always, I would order these inventor packs. You could order them, you know, like they would, you know, like if you had an idea, you could send it to them. And I always wanted to invent something. I had the thing ready to go and I think I did have an invention as a kid, but nothing as an invitation adult.

[Greg Warren]

Do you have an idea for a show about inventions?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I wanted to do a show called Blue Collar Genius is what the idea name that we came up with. Where you go. Where you go around and you find these inventions that people have just made, you know, that they just use in everyday life. But you know, it's not mass produced.

[Aaron Weber]

Like you propping up that thing with the cell phone.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly, exactly. Or like, you know, you see these kind of memes on the Internet, but like a. Someone made a. Took a toilet, right. And the back of the toilet, they filled with ice and put beer in it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then the bowl, they had charcoal going in it and had a little grill over the top.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you seen that clip going around those guys with a smoker. That's a file cabinet.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Filing that.

[Aaron Weber]

Man, those guys, those guys are awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That would be good for your show, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it would.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You go to prisons and stuff too? Maybe they do a lot of that kind of stuff in prison.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd be in.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah. They can figure out how to do everything.

[Aaron Weber]

Guys are in innovative.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Yeah. I watch like prison cooking. Tick tocks. Like people that they make meals out of this stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, they're geniuses.

[Dusty Slay]

What are they making meals out of?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, just the stuff that they can get at commissary at prison. So like a lot of ramen noodle stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then they. The stuff they do with the seasoning is. I mean, it's out of this world. It's unbelievable.

[Greg Warren]

They have phones to film it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, some. Yes. Or a lot of them will do it. They got out and they go, I'll show you.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

I see.

[Brian Bates]

But somehow they do get phones in prison. There are videos of them in prison doing it. Make wine in the toilet a lot of times.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It sounds pretty disgusting.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's not ideal.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You wouldn't want a free sample.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I googled people's ideas of something they wish would be invented someday. See what you think about some of these. A washing machine that irons and folds your clothes.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man, that's a. Going to happen. My old company, I mean, Proctor and Gamble was. That's tied, man. That was. That's the big dog over there. They would be in. Well, I guess you'd still need detergent.

[Brian Bates]

You're saying big detergent would prevent that invention.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I'm. I got. I got that wrong. You're right. Yeah. I just not thinking straight. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The weird.

[Aaron Weber]

Anytime you start talking about laundry and changing the system, I get a little defensive.

[Dusty Slay]

The weird things where people are like, I wish somebody would invent this. It's like, yeah. I wish somebody would invent a teleport that I could just. From where I'm sitting, could just teleport into the city. I'm about to do comedy.

[Brian Bates]

Right. You know, you just need the money.

[Aaron Weber]

Some guy pitched a.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, but I mean, all right, maybe that's a little too far fetched for you. These are some stuff that doesn't seem so crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

Like that. But maybe that's a little bit out there. Anti fogging eyeglasses.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I could have used that today.

[Aaron Weber]

Me too. Man.

[Brian Bates]

What a giant step back from the.

[Greg Warren]

The washing machine.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Or the teleporter. I mean, it's. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

From a teleporter too. Anti fogging. They don't have that It'd be great.

[Aaron Weber]

If a guy got teleported and his glasses were still foggy. Like, man.

[Greg Warren]

The Dark Ages.

[Dusty Slay]

You know the movie the Fly, though, he invented a teleporter.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, he did.

[Dusty Slay]

And Jeff Goldblum. Yeah. What was happening is it would break down the molecules and then transport you to the other and then put it back together together. But there a fly got into the teleporter machine. So when it broke down all the molecules and sent it to the. Just put it back together with the fly, put the fly in him, so it started to turn into the fly.

[Brian Bates]

So this is another. This is a. Not a great name for the movie, in my opinion, the Fly. It should be a teleport or something. That should.

[Aaron Weber]

Should be. No, but I mean, most of the movies are him being a fly.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so. Yeah. About him slowly turning in. Into a fly.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

And it becoming just a horrific scene for him.

[Brian Bates]

What about this tagline? Be afraid, Be very afraid. Doesn't tell you much, does it?

[Dusty Slay]

No, it tells you it's not a comedy.

[Aaron Weber]

Get scary. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

They were the first. They were the first one to use that.

[Brian Bates]

Be afraid. Be very afraid. I mean, I don't know.

[Greg Warren]

Like, I've heard that in every horror movie.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe since then, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, maybe 1986 or.

[Greg Warren]

What was this a dreamer recorder. Record your dreams so you can remember them later.

[Dusty Slay]

I would never want that.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Why not?

[Dusty Slay]

If I don't remember it when I wake up, I don't want to watch some highlight reel of what I was thinking.

[Greg Warren]

I think it'd be fun play back.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't want any permanent record of what goes on in my head because I think there's some horrible things.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. If I'm ever held accountable for what I think, I'm going.

[Brian Bates]

It's just Greg eating Subway sandwiches and different rental cars. Across America.

[Dusty Slay]

America fans lined up to take a big. And he's just in there.

[Greg Warren]

But have you ever had an idea for a joke and then later you're like, I can't remember it.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Recurring dream that I. That I had this 10 minutes that was the greatest thing ever, but I forgot it. But I don't think I had it ever, you know?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I had a dream that I woke up and wrote down, and I tried to do it as a joke. I ended up keeping a little piece of it, but it was a much longer joke that eventually was like, oh, yeah, I'm just telling you this dream that I had.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

They sound. They feel good at the Time, don't they?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Never work out.

[Brian Bates]

Never that good.

[Greg Warren]

A real time universal language translator. So if you're talking. If someone speaks another language, there's no delay.

[Brian Bates]

I think we basically have that. If you see Google Translate and some of these other apps, they're unblocked. Unbelievable, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And you can actually use the camera with AR and it'll translate in real time. Like hold it up to a poster or a menu and stuff. It's unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

And I think sometimes when people are speaking, languages are different. Right. So it's like they might. The sentence structure is different. So real time. It might not make sense.

[Brian Bates]

You have to wait for the sentence.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

For it to.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that. Bates felt he had to explain that to us. It was real time.

[Brian Bates]

Real time.

[Aaron Weber]

Real time universal language trainer. So no delay.

[Greg Warren]

Well, I was doing that because I knew Aaron was going to make the point that they're already one. But it's got a slight delay. Don't you think in the future they'll just be like one language? I think we'll look back years like it's crazy people. World leaders couldn't understand each other.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I think of it, it'll probably be.

[Aaron Weber]

Or relief pitch pictures. Yeah. All right. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Relief pitchers were back in the day. Well, I don't know how many. How many the leading save leader get nowadays?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, per season. I have no idea.

[Greg Warren]

You and I kind of came up with the first. Dan Quizzenberry.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Quizzenberry. That guy from San Diego is the Trevor. Trevor.

[Greg Warren]

Trevor Hoffman.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. He's like the all time, isn't he?

[Brian Bates]

Or he's hall of Famer.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

A smart watch that can detect diseases.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, I don't want.

[Greg Warren]

No, you don't want to know if you're sick.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't trust.

[Brian Bates]

Why a watch though, you know, because.

[Aaron Weber]

It'S gonna mess up.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they just tell you you got a disease and then they go, oh, you better get down to the hospital or we'll put you in jail. And I don't. I don't need that.

[Aaron Weber]

How many times you think that. That you would check it in a day?

[Dusty Slay]

Anytime you felt a little ache in your body.

[Aaron Weber]

That's all I do. I'd be like, yeah, I don't have a disease.

[Brian Bates]

You just sit and watch it in real time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oop. Got cancer.

[Greg Warren]

I've never had a smartwatch. But doesn't it tell you like certain health things about you now?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It'll keep track of your, you know, how many calories you burn. How long you've been standing, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Your steps, your steps, you know that.

[Brian Bates]

All that kind of stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

I just learned that I've been doing it manually.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Greg Warren]

How about this one, Aaron?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

A printer that works when you need it to.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. I love to see that. They've yet to invent one. It's amazing that, like, Apple hasn't invented a printer. You think they've just. They've got everything else down where it's just so seamless.

[Dusty Slay]

You could just airdrop to them printer or just. Just airdrop to the printer would be.

[Brian Bates]

They got. Yeah, they don't want to dip their toe in the printer market because it's just too volatile. I think it's just such a. Like a flimsy. It's such a. So many moving pieces and stuff. I think it's just like. I don't know. I'm just. Just try not to print as much as you can. But if you want something printed, it's a nightmare, dude. And then that was my job in college. I would unjam printers for people.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

A little golf club cart. And then they'd be like, oh, the. The printer in Keenan hall got jammed and I'd have to ride over there and unjam it. No training, nothing. I just. They just go open it up and just try to find it. Yeah, I got pretty good at it.

[Greg Warren]

Sometimes it's really hard to find it.

[Brian Bates]

Every now and then you get a Phantom Jam. That's what we called it, where you. You had to take the whole thing apart to get it. Phantom Jam.

[Dusty Slay]

I never knew that about you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's pretty cool, man.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, dude, I got a lot good skill, a lot of layers, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I think we did an episode called Odd Jobs and you didn't mention that.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, man. Yeah, maybe not.

[Greg Warren]

Maybe you did.

[Brian Bates]

That's why we needed a 2.0.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Dive a little deeper into that.

[Greg Warren]

Guys, can I chime in for a minute?

[Brian Bates]

Yes, please.

[Greg Warren]

Tell you about Chime. I just assume wherever this ad's going to be in the show, you guys were the ones doing the talking. But fees are everywhere and they hurt the most when you're down. You can't even buy concert tickets, stay overnight, a hotel, or make a payment without some kind of processing fee. That's why Chime offers free fee. Free banking. That's hard to say fee, free banking. Which means no monthly fees, no overdraft fees.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

And no minimum balance fees. All those affect me a lot. So that's why you should Sign up [e-mail] Nate. Bank fees, they're a hurdle. You overdraft and then you got to end up paying even more after that.

[Aaron Weber]

Right?

[Greg Warren]

Make that make sense. It makes no sense whatsoever.

[Dusty Slay]

Make it make sense.

[Greg Warren]

It just.

[Brian Bates]

You can't.

[Dusty Slay]

You can't.

[Greg Warren]

That's why I choose Chime. It's the banking fee free that I love the most. With Chime, there are no monthly fees, no overdraft fees, no minimal balance requirements. And that's why we love to partner with Chime. Open your account in two [e-mail] Nate that's chime.com Nate. Chime feels like progress.

[Brian Bates]

Nice.

[Dusty Slay]

It does feel like that.

[Greg Warren]

Nice.

[Brian Bates]

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[Greg Warren]

Timing depends on submission.

[Brian Bates]

Payment file fees apply it out of network ATMs. Bank ranking and number of ATMs according to U.S. news and World Report 2023. Chime checking account required.

[Greg Warren]

Any of you have pets?

[Dusty Slay]

Nah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean my dad's got this dog. It's kind of like. Kind of like mine. Yeah. This.

[Brian Bates]

This is the new perspective. We're revisiting the topic for. I feel like you guys got any pets?

[Dusty Slay]

Nah, I feel like with me, I've feel like we did the episode with.

[Greg Warren]

M. We've probably done stuff similar, but no, this was from. We didn't call it inventions. An animal human language translator. So. Oh yeah, your pet can understand you. Your pet's making a sound.

[Aaron Weber]

Breaking it down for me again.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's a pretty self descriptive mix.

[Dusty Slay]

See, I think that's here.

[Brian Bates]

What about a flying car? It would be like a car. Wait a minute. That could fly in the air.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I see like normal cars on the.

[Aaron Weber]

Ground, not in the water.

[Brian Bates]

Kind of like a plane, but it's a car.

[Dusty Slay]

More like a bird.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Would it fly like a bird or like a plane? The. I think the animal translator sounds good. Yeah, but how could you trust it? How could you trust that the translator.

[Greg Warren]

You don't trust anything, so just have it.

[Dusty Slay]

But how could you trust that?

[Brian Bates]

You ask it is it translating it correctly and then it'll say yes and.

[Greg Warren]

Then it'll tell the dog. Nod if you can understand what I'm saying.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, all right. I'll give you that. What if it's given the correct thing to the dog, but not given what the dog's saying to you correctly?

[Greg Warren]

Well, he'll know. If he tells me to nod, and I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

How would he know, though? If he only speaks his language and he doesn't understand the language that it's translating to, how would he know if it's correct?

[Brian Bates]

That's a good point.

[Greg Warren]

If he barks into it to me to nod, if I can understand him and I nod, he'll know.

[Brian Bates]

How do we know Google Translate's doing it right?

[Dusty Slay]

We don't.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I'll tell you what, though. That. That animal to human translator. Big Meat's going to step in and stop that one from happening.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, yeah. They're going to.

[Brian Bates]

The whole world becomes vegans overnight.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I don't.

[Brian Bates]

If a cow can say, hey, please don't kill me, I.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty doubles down, you don't hook up the translator to the cow.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, add your solution.

[Greg Warren]

Any last words?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, dude. Cow comes on the news and goes, hey, I really appreciate if you guys would just stop. Like, I understand. And, you know, but like, it's a lot on us.

[Dusty Slay]

And then we have to get the. The plant to human translator. And then the plants are like, don't eat us. And then we starve to death.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then the cow goes, I don't care if you get the plant to animal translator. And the cow's like, I don't care.

[Aaron Weber]

Care.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna eat you because that's what I need to do. And that's what I'll say to the cow.

[Aaron Weber]

So then some point you'd be like, well, now that cow's a jerk.

[Brian Bates]

So, yeah, cow's got a bit of an attitude.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. Cows running his mouth. So he's getting it.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, the cows would team up and they would go, these are the bat. These are the cows you should eat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then the cows would know that we were eating them, and then they would start to eat bad things to make their meat taste bad.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's a movie I'd like to see. I don't know about an invention I'd like to see, but it'd be a fun movie.

[Greg Warren]

Here's one that I hope happens in my lifetime.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

Affordable space travel.

[Aaron Weber]

So what do you mean by that? Break that down.

[Brian Bates]

It's like travel and space, but you can afford.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, I see.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Greg, right now it's very expensive.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't want to spell it for you, but that's not gonna happen.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I don't think space is real. But.

[Greg Warren]

But right now, you know, Jeff Bezos.

[Brian Bates]

Sends some People, it's kind of a non starter for Dusty.

[Greg Warren]

I guess his are all guests, but I think there are ways if you're a billionaire, you can go to space.

[Brian Bates]

You're talking about kind of like. Well, you just saw it with all the, the women that went up, but.

[Greg Warren]

Those were all guests.

[Brian Bates]

But yeah, yeah, but eventually that would be affordable enough that you could just hop on and go. Instead of going into Myrtle beach for spring break, let's go up into space for a couple hours.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I mean that would be unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You would trade a week in Myrtle beach for a couple of hours. And I capsule in space 100%.

[Brian Bates]

And I think 99% of Americans would. Would all expenses, brisket place.

[Aaron Weber]

And then. And I want to one of those jet skis. Not in the bay, in the ocean.

[Dusty Slay]

Ocean.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. And then there's the, the Ferris wheel. And then they have the masters of mini golf up there. That.

[Brian Bates]

Look, I'm not, look, I'm not. I don't want to downplay. I'm hoping the joy of Myrtle Beach.

[Aaron Weber]

You're listening to his Charleston propaganda.

[Brian Bates]

Charleston of Thomas Robinhall Bridge.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm taking the vacation.

[Brian Bates]

We're playing on the Polo Grounds. North, south of the bridge.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm taking the full week.

[Brian Bates]

Taking the full week?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

For two hours instead of two hours.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, what if it was vacation, like 20 minutes that you go up there? I mean, if that's that, what do you.

[Dusty Slay]

What would you want to see up there? Well, well, I mean, there's nothing up there.

[Brian Bates]

There's a lot. Everything's out there. That's, that's the. You get to see the earth, you can see the moon, you get to see the stars. You get to see, you know, stars. You get to be weightless you can never see. Get to experience the miracle of, of flight and all kinds.

[Dusty Slay]

You get yourself a float and get out of the pool that's weightless, you know, do some grounding. Just got a couple of floaties. That's weightlessness.

[Aaron Weber]

I hear you, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Get a noodle.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What about, you know, you go to the moon or something like that for like a take a week.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Go to the moon, get to walk around on it for a little bit like a carnival cruise. But to the moon.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. If, if space travel was affordable and we could go to the moon eventually it would just be like any other place in Myrtle Beach. You fly there here, you get to the moon. There's a, there's a Ruby Tuesdays and there's a, like a beach store. But it's a moon store where you can buy a bunch of moon earrings.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

T shirt that says I went to the moon and it wasn't made of cheese.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We'll put a Myrtle beach on the moon.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Real quick.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you.

[Greg Warren]

I just joke like if I ever. We ever start living there, I know I'll be on the dark, dark side. I won't be able to afford the side.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

No, I think you're absolutely right, Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

That. That's really funny.

[Dusty Slay]

Be commercialized. It'd be a BUC EE's up there and it would just be.

[Greg Warren]

I'm still up there driving a car with a moon roof.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The dark side.

[Dusty Slay]

An Earth roof, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, how was the moon?

[Greg Warren]

Like, couldn't see a lot. Electric bill. Outrageous.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I just watched a scientifically accurate, accurate 3D rendering of if the moon collapsed into the earth. Would not be good.

[Aaron Weber]

We're all gone. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

There's a movie about that moonfall, right? Yeah. Watched it. This is pretty ridiculous.

[Brian Bates]

Two minute video on YouTube.

[Dusty Slay]

This one's pretty ridiculous. But moonfall is pretty entertaining.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Do they stop it from falling?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't want to give it away.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

Let's talk about some of the all time greatest inventions. What do you think's the first invention?

[Brian Bates]

Cotton gear in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

No, wait, wait, wait. The first invention on your list or.

[Greg Warren]

The first invention of all time you think came 200 years ago?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, definitely. First one.

[Greg Warren]

More fundamental Christian than you are.

[Brian Bates]

I thought you meant on the list. First adventure of all time.

[Greg Warren]

What you say?

[Aaron Weber]

The wheel.

[Greg Warren]

I got that. Number two.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I'm sure it's not the second invention.

[Brian Bates]

The oldest profession. Is that what you're getting a little bit older than?

[Aaron Weber]

No. Fire.

[Greg Warren]

Now fire is more of a discovery problem.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I think you gotta invent it. You gotta invent the idea of. I guess.

[Greg Warren]

But don't you think the first time it happened I was like, what is this?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

When fire just came out, I was.

[Greg Warren]

Just rubbing two sticks.

[Brian Bates]

I was just having a good time rubbing two sticks together.

[Greg Warren]

So I like to say fire, of course, changed everything. Gave us warmth.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Protection. Cook food which allowed our brains to grow. Grow and expand. When you.

[Brian Bates]

And light too. So you could. You didn't have to just go to bed when it's dark.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Changed. Everything's fine.

[Dusty Slay]

Everything's fine.

[Greg Warren]

Put your phone underneath there.

[Dusty Slay]

Everything's fine.

[Greg Warren]

The wheel was invented 3500 BC. Did I say that wrong?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Brian Bates]

I thought somebody else would pick up on it.

[Greg Warren]

But I saw you look at that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's all right. It was. Wasn't quite different enough to comment on the wheel. There you go.

[Greg Warren]

It changed everything. Humans were severely limited in moving stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

That were heavy.

[Brian Bates]

They were using triangles before.

[Aaron Weber]

Triangle bicycles.

[Brian Bates]

I have seen wheels.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They have tanks with weird shapes too. Right. Some of them kind of work.

[Greg Warren]

Now, last time, when I had you guys to get you and Nate with the first, I think you said the fulcrum, and Nate ridiculed you for.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, there's the simple machines. Right. A pulley, fulcrum.

[Dusty Slay]

But they don't know these.

[Brian Bates]

A ramp. A ramp would be an invention.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

These are some of the things that changed the world the most.

[Aaron Weber]

Once that ramp, man. That's when dirt bikes became popular.

[Brian Bates]

Once that's rampant, when it became ADA compliant, that's when the cavemen started.

[Dusty Slay]

Because in order for. For it to be recorded, the first invention would have to be like a rock and chisel. Right. To. To. To write it down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if that's an invention versus just a tool, but if you.

[Dusty Slay]

Don'T have it and then you have it, somebody's invented it.

[Aaron Weber]

You sure that came.

[Brian Bates]

No, because it's just a rock that's just there, and then you decide to use it as a tool.

[Dusty Slay]

That's not an invention you're inventing. Right. Writing, then. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Nails were invented about 2000 years ago by the Romans, and that changed everything building, because you didn't have to have.

[Brian Bates]

Blocks 2,000 years ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So the crucifixion, that was like a hot new invention at that point, the nail.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, that's a good point. According to this.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They were anxious to try it out.

[Brian Bates]

Jeez.

[Greg Warren]

Previously, wood structures had to be built by interlocking Viking adjacent boards.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. Okay.

[Greg Warren]

Now we're getting more up here. This is around 200 B.C. the compass.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, the compass. Compass. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Before then, the compass guys could navigate at night using the stars, but daytime was harder.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So that allowed them to travel further distances.

[Aaron Weber]

I still couldn't use a compass. There's no.

[Brian Bates]

It's points in the north. It's not that hard. Yeah, it does all the work for you.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

You don't have to do it. You just look at it.

[Aaron Weber]

Really? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It points north.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Magnetic north. So it always. So I. I was always confused by the compass, but apparently it's magnetic north. Right. So you just got to make sure the compass itself is Pointed north and then the thing lines up. So wherever it lines up, then you know that this is west, this is east, this is south.

[Brian Bates]

Never eat soggy waffles. That's how you know north, east, southwest.

[Dusty Slay]

But if you have though Right. Compass, it'll tell you unless it gets rubbed off.

[Brian Bates]

And the phone's doing great with all this stuff too, so you should just use that.

[Dusty Slay]

But if you're ever in a place where you really have to use a compass, phone's probably dead.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And you're probably be dead soon.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

The printing press.

[Brian Bates]

What Gutenberg.

[Dusty Slay]

Seems like we skipped a lot, though. When was the knife had come about in inventions?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know, 30 years ago.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, we haven't got there yet.

[Dusty Slay]

I would think a knife would come before the wheel.

[Brian Bates]

Well, he's not. This is not a comprehensive list of inventions.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, it's not.

[Brian Bates]

These are just some of the highlights.

[Greg Warren]

These are some of the things that have changed the world.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't think Bates is leaving stuff out?

[Brian Bates]

Nice try, Bates. You can't just slip.

[Aaron Weber]

Either do the research or don't do the research.

[Dusty Slay]

Brian, you don't think a knife changed the world?

[Greg Warren]

I'm sure it did.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I skipped gunpowder, too. Chinese invented gunpowder.

[Brian Bates]

Changed the world too. Fireworks and everything.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, fireworks. Yeah. They. That's. They invented that for the fourth of July. I think the Chinese.

[Brian Bates]

The Chinese got it.

[Greg Warren]

But the printing press allowed mass production of reading material.

[Brian Bates]

The Bible mostly. Right.

[Greg Warren]

The Bible And Gutenberg.

[Aaron Weber]

Right? Yeah, There we go.

[Dusty Slay]

Steve.

[Aaron Weber]

Steve Gutenberg. Yeah. From Three Men and a Baby in Academy. Yeah. Invented the printing.

[Brian Bates]

Was it Joseph? Johan? Well, that's the Joseph of Germany.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, Right.

[Greg Warren]

Is that like Johannes Gutenberg did the King James version? Yeah, but that. Yeah, that changed the world.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

And because you no longer had to like, say you're writing down scientific equations, you don't have to memorize it or. I think it was this. Is this. You've got it, you know, printed out.

[Aaron Weber]

You can. You get it. You get it.

[Brian Bates]

You also. You couldn't hoard information and hide information from people.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

You know, if you had. If you're the one guy in. In the village with the book. But now anybody can get it like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That changed the power dynamic between people. That changed the. To everything.

[Dusty Slay]

If you could read, you got to.

[Brian Bates]

Learn how to read. That's a big one. That's a big one. I guess you just not teach people how to read.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Now it's getting some stuff in Greg's lifetime, the telephone.

[Brian Bates]

Alexander Graham Bell first Words ever said on a telephone. Do you know?

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's Watson. Are you there?

[Dusty Slay]

Hello? Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? Pick up.

[Brian Bates]

Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You had the Watson. You got the Watson.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Called it an electrical speech machine.

[Brian Bates]

Esm.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, the second words. No, I do not want to change my long distance carry. It's good, Greg. Thanks, man. All right.

[Greg Warren]

It's getting hotter and hotter here. I really.

[Brian Bates]

It is kind of hot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The light bulb shows heat up.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's a wet heat.

[Greg Warren]

Some might say the light bulb allowed people to stay up past dark. I think it changed sleeping patterns too. People used to go to bed at dark.

[Dusty Slay]

It ruined everybody's circadian rhythm.

[Brian Bates]

But fire did that too, right? We had fire. We had a little torch, candle.

[Greg Warren]

But then you still got to keep it going.

[Brian Bates]

Light bulbs more convenient.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, People can work at night.

[Brian Bates]

It also killed a lot of people in house fires too. So you got to think about the bad with the good.

[Aaron Weber]

The fire.

[Dusty Slay]

That's how I like to see this.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, no light bulbs at all. All of it.

[Greg Warren]

Did this said before the light bulb, people would go to bed at nightfall and then sleep in segments throughout the night separated by periods of wakefulness. And now once the light bulb was made, people go to bed and sleep once all the time.

[Dusty Slay]

Why would they sleep in periods of wakefulness?

[Greg Warren]

I don't know. It doesn't say.

[Aaron Weber]

I sleep in periods of wakefulness.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

On this podcast.

[Brian Bates]

We talked about this on the podcast before, in Dickensian times in like England, they used to. Everybody just used to wake up at 2:30 in the morning, hang out for like an hour and then go back to bed.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's just what they did because their, their cycle or their whatever, their rhythm, they'd wake up at 2:30 and they go, let's just talk for a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

And that's just how they live life. Kind of a cool, crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. When you, when you don't have to work 9 to 5, when you just go. When you wake up on at sunrise and just start farming. Yeah, yeah. You just go to sleep when the sun goes down because there's no light. And you probably sleep for a longer period of time. So, yeah, you get up, have a.

[Brian Bates]

Little tea, put on your sleeping hat.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Drink a little tea, go back to bed.

[Aaron Weber]

I wonder. Like, the thing is, when they switched, there's probably a few stragglers, you know, like that still were getting up at 2:3, like.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you doing? Trying to Sleep, man. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Come on, dude.

[Brian Bates]

Sleeping through the night now.

[Dusty Slay]

2:30, let's talk.

[Aaron Weber]

We're not doing that anymore. We're not doing it.

[Dusty Slay]

I would think been over for four years would sleep better other than maybe, you know, in the winter it's just dark for too long, so it's too much sleep. And you know, maybe you had to get up and do watch for attackers, but I would think I. What people say is your circadian rhythm, you should go to sleep, sleep when the sun goes down and wake up when the sun comes up. But we're not able to do that because we have to have jobs. We have to keep schedules, shows. I know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was about to ask if they had pillows back then, but.

[Dusty Slay]

And even for us, like, we don't have a 9 to 5, but we go, we do a show, we're out by midnight, we're asleep at 3:00am we don't even, you know, I mean, sometimes.

[Greg Warren]

The winter time, the sun goes down like at 4:30.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I know.

[Brian Bates]

You want to guess when pillows were invented?

[Greg Warren]

Pennant.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd say 1984, 25, 7,000 B.C.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Ancient Mesopotamia. Early pillows were made of stone and were not designed for comfort, but just to elevate the head and keep insects away from the face while sleeping. Over time, they developed their own cultures, developed their own versions.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd say that's a good example of that not being an invention, just using a rock.

[Brian Bates]

Interesting. So you wouldn't consider, consider a pillow.

[Dusty Slay]

Only if a chisel, a rock and chisel would be considered. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But just to use a rock, as.

[Dusty Slay]

That'S just putting your head on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I would say that's a pillow.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You're like, get that rock in here.

[Brian Bates]

It's weird. We're the only, or the only thing that uses pillows to sleep.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like a gorilla doesn't use a pillow. Pillow doesn't need a pillow.

[Dusty Slay]

But that's why I think when you see all these things for new mattresses and, and they're like, you know, come.

[Aaron Weber]

To thinking, I've never seen a gorilla with a pillow.

[Greg Warren]

I never thought about it.

[Brian Bates]

But their, their body's basically built the same as ours.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Why don't they need a pillow?

[Greg Warren]

Don't they say it's better not to have a pillow?

[Dusty Slay]

But it's like, yeah. All these things designed for our sleep.

[Greg Warren]

I think it's. Our bodies are supposed to be like.

[Brian Bates]

Felix doesn't say that.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

They're always. I get the best sleep of your life. I'm. And it's like, so for majority of human existence, people weren't getting good sleep. I don't think so. I bet they were sleeping the best.

[Greg Warren]

But babies don't sleep with a pillow.

[Brian Bates]

Babies don't sleep with a pillow. In fact, you're told not to use a pillow.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I think sleeping on the ground is the way to go for our backs.

[Brian Bates]

Why don't you do.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know, man. I slept on the ground. It's not. It's your back does not feel good.

[Dusty Slay]

They say the first night he slept.

[Brian Bates]

On the ground in his car, eating Subways. Eating Subway.

[Dusty Slay]

They say the first night, first little while till you adjust is really, really hard, man.

[Aaron Weber]

That they sleep on the ground made my stomach hurt and got tomato sauce all over my face.

[Greg Warren]

Are you mean like on your floor or even.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean the floor. Because we have the floor now. But it's like if, if you had the grind, you had a hut.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Or whatever. And just left on the ground. You're grounding first off. So you probably have no inflammation. Inflammation on your body and your. I'm not saying it's optimal. I don't want to go back to that. But I'm saying I think there's probably something to it that is probably good for us.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, probably. But I'm not against. I'm just saying I love my Helix pillow.

[Dusty Slay]

Me too. Me too.

[Aaron Weber]

What's a Helix pillow?

[Brian Bates]

That's one of our sponsors.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Helix Mattress.

[Aaron Weber]

Can you explain it to me?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's just a good pillow.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I love pillows. I love good mattresses. I got, I got Helix Pack mattress. I got, I got other kinds, and I'm like, I love them.

[Aaron Weber]

I give them a shot, man.

[Brian Bates]

I, I, Yeah, you need a new mattress.

[Aaron Weber]

No, man. Maybe, maybe I, I definitely wouldn't mind trying a new pillow, but maybe there.

[Dusty Slay]

Is something to us having too much comfort is what we're just comforted to. We're getting free samples of ice cream. We're just laying in the newest technology of bed.

[Brian Bates]

We got too many inventions out here.

[Greg Warren]

Too much anything you wish hadn't been invented.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, so much social media. Yeah, that's what a lot of people say.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

People say social media, which is so.

[Aaron Weber]

Funny that they're saying it on red. Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because they're all. We're all addicted.

[Brian Bates]

I don't really think of Reddit as a social media, but I. But I guess it is.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

It's not one of the ones you.

[Aaron Weber]

Most think of, I think. Yeah. I'm glad we have social Media. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Look, I'm using it. It's here. I'm using it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. This is. This wouldn't be on, but I think.

[Brian Bates]

There'S an argument to be made. It's had a lot of bad effect.

[Aaron Weber]

Terrible. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's killing people.

[Greg Warren]

But here's some of the people listed the wish. Wishing every invented crypto say it takes a ton of energy to make it happen.

[Aaron Weber]

And. Oh, sure, it's also behind most of the scams. Crypto's got cryptos. Usually they would. The way they get every. Everybody's money is through crypto. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

For me, that has. I don't feel like it has any effect on my life, so I don't.

[Greg Warren]

Well, I mean, me either. Except they say it takes a ton of energy to.

[Brian Bates]

Energy and water to do it.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. So NFT is the same thing. Although I haven't heard about that.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll never understand what an NFT is.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's kind of already going non fungible token.

[Aaron Weber]

I hear you saying it.

[Brian Bates]

That didn't help at all.

[Aaron Weber]

No. And you're going to it. You could. You could even Bates, who we've learned is really good at breaking stuff down, could explain it to me. And. And I wouldn't get it.

[Dusty Slay]

Break it down.

[Aaron Weber]

I wouldn't get it.

[Brian Bates]

Break it down.

[Greg Warren]

All right, Dusty, here's some that you'll be on board with getting rid of or wish had never been invented. Keurig coffee machines.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Because they say the plastic bad for.

[Dusty Slay]

Just cheapens coffee. Yeah, Cheapens.

[Brian Bates]

So not even for the same reason.

[Dusty Slay]

You think plastic is bad.

[Brian Bates]

Bad too, but it cheapens coffee. Was that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's like, you know, there's something to getting your coffee beans out of the freezer, smelling them, grinding them in a quick grind and then brewing a pot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I don't even still do all that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you can still do all that for sure. Have at it. You know.

[Greg Warren]

So the same. The same with microwaves, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Microwave. No. Microwave.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. How about it?

[Greg Warren]

We should microwave it.

[Aaron Weber]

Microwave. Yeah. I don't. I try not to ever use one.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Greg Warren]

We got another win.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

It's not good for you, man.

[Greg Warren]

Freak show.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm saying. It's not good for you. Thank you, Greg. People think I'm insane.

[Greg Warren]

I do think that.

[Aaron Weber]

I think the food doesn't taste as good either. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did you get your Subway sandwich toasted when you ate it? Yeah, in a little microwave.

[Aaron Weber]

Listen, I Mean, we can all port point to certain moments of our life. We don't live by our principle.

[Brian Bates]

I've had a lot of meals in cars. I'm not proud of where I drive to an empty parking lot and park, park in the back facing the rest of it like Al Capone in a bar. I don't want to see somebody sneaking up on me.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Gas station TV's the ones.

[Dusty Slay]

On the worst invention of all time. It's like, at least show us something. If we pull up. If I pull up and there's a highlight reel up of. Of sports just giving me straight up Larry Bird shots, you know, g. Old.

[Greg Warren]

School Larry Bird highlights.

[Aaron Weber]

That would be great.

[Dusty Slay]

Any highlights of sports would be awesome. You pull up to the gas pump, there's no ads. It's just Larry Bird just.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, but the, the screen's there for advertisements so they could money from.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I get it. But I'm saying if you just give me sport, sports, something like that, highlights.

[Brian Bates]

Real quick, you pay more for gas.

[Dusty Slay]

No, but then why would they have.

[Brian Bates]

Any incentive to put.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not saying they would, but I'm just saying I don't want to be advertised to at the pump.

[Greg Warren]

You might stop there more often if that's the one that did it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they had something cool. Have stand up comedy, have reels.

[Aaron Weber]

I told somebody one time I was like being self deprecating and I told somebody, this is, I don't know, a few specials ago. Like, I'm like, I got a special coming out there. Like, where's it going to play? I'm like, well, right now we're looking at playing it on those gas station TVs. I was just being self deprecating. Really man, that's a good idea. Like, no, man, I'm not putting my special on the gas station tv.

[Dusty Slay]

That is a good idea.

[Brian Bates]

They're like, yeah, I was thinking about this. There's only two moments in modern American life where you're completely vulnerable and susceptible to advertisement. The first is when your bag's going through the TSA machine and you're just standing there, no phone on you, nothing. And you're just like, dude, you can't be distracted by anything. Yeah, you got nothing there. The second is at a urinal. And I think that that's why they have that advertisement right in front of you at a urinal.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't.

[Brian Bates]

The only time where your, your hands are like, you don't have a phone to distract you.

[Dusty Slay]

There's.

[Brian Bates]

You're focused on One thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that would be the time.

[Dusty Slay]

But what if you went up to the urinal and on that thing was the. The Sunday comic strip. You know, the Sunday.

[Aaron Weber]

I've seen.

[Brian Bates]

I've seen where they have Family Circus right there.

[Aaron Weber]

Sports bars will have like the front page of USA Today Sports or whatever.

[Greg Warren]

About a TV monitor.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Put a little TV Right.

[Dusty Slay]

As long as it's not ads. If it's something. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You know, Aaron, you're the one that told me that you can push with the second button and there is a.

[Brian Bates]

Button to mute those.

[Dusty Slay]

I've tried every button where usual on.

[Brian Bates]

Gas to gas pumps.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Dusty Slay]

You told me that it doesn't work.

[Brian Bates]

All the time, but it has worked for me before. Bottom right, second from the bottom.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Press that. It'll mute it.

[Aaron Weber]

They in like cabs in New York City.

[Dusty Slay]

There's like some Ubers have them too. They have little iPads on the back of the seats. Play games and you stop it. And I'm like, I just want this light to not be in my face. I want to look at my own light in my hand.

[Greg Warren]

Here's one I agree with 24 hour cable news. As someone who used to work in TV news, we don't need news.

[Aaron Weber]

No, that's it. That, that, that is at the. That is at the root of a lot of what's wrong.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I mean, to fill the time, then you just have to either do a bunch of stuff that doesn't even really need sports too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they're creating story lines for sports. That is like. Yeah, we don't need all this.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Just the game.

[Dusty Slay]

What happened with the game? Us. I don't need to know how the guy grew.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Up. Yeah, I agree.

[Brian Bates]

Unless it's a good story.

[Greg Warren]

Well, yeah, maybe that.

[Dusty Slay]

Give me a documentary. Yeah, I'll take a documentary, but yeah. It's like everything. Every game doesn't mean something to someone because of how they were raised.

[Brian Bates]

That's. That's well said.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I agree.

[Greg Warren]

What about this dusty land ownership?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, no, I. I fully believe in land ownership and I think. Yeah, I mean, I think we should have more rights as landowners.

[Greg Warren]

Okay. I thought you might be on board with the Native Americans who say it's all our land and we should.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So you glad we got rid of them?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm glad we have land ownership.

[Brian Bates]

So when God created the earth, he said, here it is. Take care of it. You know, conquer your own little patch of it. Protect it with the law. And then, you know, that's the way you'll do it.

[Aaron Weber]

It.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean, basically, that, that is what he said.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

That must be in King James.

[Aaron Weber]

We haven't exactly taken care of it though, right?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, well, that's the thing. But people that have, you know, it's like, Yeah. I mean, you know, it's like private land ownership. Like I own a piece of property and then I take care of my land. Corporations and mega rich people owning just giant plots of land that they do, whatever.

[Brian Bates]

Who decides who's mega rich?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's a thing, right? It all gets sticky with that. But it's like, but it's like, do we even have total land ownership when you have to pay property tax? If you don't pay your taxes, you lose your land. So do you really own it? If you could, it could be taken from you. That's another thing.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, is this our land or is this our lease?

[Dusty Slay]

Right, Exactly. You kind of leasing it. Welsh said so it's like. But there is, you know, different things, you know, But I, I, I agree with land ownership because I think that you should, everybody should be able to have their own little piece of land that they get to say, this is mine and I get to live here. And no one can take this.

[Brian Bates]

But only if you can afford to buy it at market value.

[Greg Warren]

Well, but if the government had no jurisdiction over it, then we just. It's all ours.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'm not. No, I mean, then you protect your own land.

[Brian Bates]

It's getting dicey.

[Dusty Slay]

You protect your own land then from who? From whoever would try to take it from whom.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, keep going.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you mean, from who?

[Greg Warren]

Aaron is a jerk. I take that back.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Because if there were no land ownership, then you have to have this agreement with everyone around. Shown you that, hey, we just all live here and everything's great and fun with that. It's just not realistic.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Social contract, that's what society's built.

[Greg Warren]

We all plant fruit trees and we just eat from them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. I wanted to bring this up. There's a neighbor in my, in my neighborhood, he has a pear tree, okay? Nobody's going and eating the pear trees out of the guys. Everybody always says, oh, everybody would just take the fruit. Nobody's eating the pears out of this guy's lawn, Okay? I walk by it all the time. Nobody's eating the pair.

[Brian Bates]

Have you tried a second?

[Dusty Slay]

It's his law.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. All right, man.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm, I, I think if I had a pear tree, it's Too late now. You know why I plant a pear tree.

[Brian Bates]

Take 30 years before that.

[Greg Warren]

Don't you have some growing on your land?

[Dusty Slay]

I have a couple of peaches that.

[Greg Warren]

I put years ago.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, that is something that I. That, you know, I've never lived anywhere but a condo. But I'm telling you now that I think if somebody have a fruit tree, yeah, that's something, man, that is like. I think that's. Yeah, that's better than getting, you know, hot tub. Really.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm saying.

[Aaron Weber]

I would rather have. I would rather have a fruit tree than a hot tub and a pool. If you live in a sauna, if.

[Dusty Slay]

You live in a neighborhood and everybody owns, everybody that lives there owns. And then they all take care that everybody would take. Everybody take care of their property a lot better when they own. And then you have. You all have fruit trees. You all have an agreement with each other, you know, that that agreement exists still, you know, And I just think. I think land ownership's good.

[Aaron Weber]

You think he's eating all those pears?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think anybody's eating them.

[Aaron Weber]

So they're just falling off the tree rotten.

[Dusty Slay]

And some comments would be, oh, everybody would just come and take all the fruit. And I just don't think.

[Greg Warren]

Because I think the comments were the opposite. I think they were saying that they'll just fall off, and then bugs and insects come, and it's a big problem.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know you could get this.

[Greg Warren]

Far north for putting yourself.

[Dusty Slay]

This guy, he doesn't let them fall and rot. I mean, my. My point is, he has pears on the tree, and they're just growing, and it's like. So I think instead of having ornamental trees in every yard, if everybody just had fruit trees.

[Aaron Weber]

They got to be hard to grow, though, right?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think they're any harder than any of the other trees.

[Greg Warren]

My mom has a pear tree.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Three to seven years, you can start bearing fruit on a pear tree. So if we all had plenty of time. Greg, plant a couple.

[Aaron Weber]

Couple.

[Dusty Slay]

If we had neighborhoods filled with fruit.

[Aaron Weber]

Trees, condo associations, they can live for.

[Brian Bates]

Over a hundred years.

[Dusty Slay]

Nutritious food every day.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Does your dad have a yard?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Flat one there.

[Dusty Slay]

My dad. I went to my dad's house. He had three blueberry bushes. I went out to the bushes with me, my wife and my two kids. We stood at those blueberry bushes. We ate our. We all ate our fill.

[Aaron Weber]

That's so great, man.

[Dusty Slay]

And left, and there were still blueberries.

[Aaron Weber]

That's amazing.

[Dusty Slay]

It is amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And we ate it right off the tree.

[Greg Warren]

I'll end on some movies about inventions. I always like to movies, by the way.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry to interrupt. Bates. No, that's all right. The book about the Wright brothers is the best book I've ever read. Really? Yeah, yeah, it's. It's. It's like.

[Brian Bates]

What's it called?

[Aaron Weber]

The Wright Brothers, David. That guy that writes all the cormic.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, sure, sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

What'd you say?

[Dusty Slay]

The right brother without a W. They're just.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the righteous.

[Dusty Slay]

They're a team.

[Aaron Weber]

It's. It's so great, man. Really. Yeah. It's. It's. Best book ever. Is it David McCormick by.

[Brian Bates]

Let me. Let me look it up. Yeah. Can't find it. Bad Googler, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Doesn't exist. I can't. No, no. This guy writes a biography.

[Brian Bates]

Well, is it called Wilbur and Orville?

[Aaron Weber]

No, it's called the Wright Brothers.

[Brian Bates]

It's called the Wright Brothers.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm almost positive. Okay, maybe, maybe not.

[Brian Bates]

I think it might be called Wilburn Orville.

[Aaron Weber]

Dude biography.

[Brian Bates]

Is that the COVID of it? Fred Howard.

[Aaron Weber]

No, it's not Fred Howard. This guy Howard.

[Brian Bates]

Fred Howard's a chump, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The Wright Brothers, right here. American Legends. Is that it? Charles River.

[Aaron Weber]

Nope, that's not it.

[Brian Bates]

Golly.

[Aaron Weber]

This guy. There's a book called Truman. He wrote Truman too. He. Oh, right here.

[Brian Bates]

David McCullough.

[Aaron Weber]

McCullough. Sorry. McCullough.

[Brian Bates]

Julian.

[Aaron Weber]

David McCullough's book on the Wright brothers is. Is. Is maybe. Maybe the. One of the best books I've ever written.

[Brian Bates]

Well, you know what the New York Times said about it? It soars. Ah, the. Right. So the Wright's brothers soars.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

You think the printing press for that?

[Brian Bates]

Sure can.

[Dusty Slay]

And the chisel? Probably. I mean, because that's how language is.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what the Wright brothers did before they invented flight? Right.

[Greg Warren]

Bicycle shop.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. Did you know they kept the bike shop open while they were inventing flight?

[Brian Bates]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

This is true. This is true. They did.

[Dusty Slay]

And to keep them funds coming in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And the point that I've made. I'm not gonna lie, I've made it on stage before, is that you gotta think they probably weren't paying as much attention to their bike customers as they were as. I mean, they're inventing flights. They probably were neglecting the bike part of the business where somebody like, hey, Orville, I brought my bike in six weeks ago. Yeah, yeah, we're working. Working on it. I Mean like I don't think you are because I'm pretty sure I saw my pedals attached to your flying machine in the front yard. Like it's.

[Greg Warren]

You know, like Stuart Huff used to have a very funny joke about the Wright brothers and that was pretty good.

[Aaron Weber]

No, Stuart Huff's hilarious.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, he. Do you remember his joke?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Greg Warren]

About how it kind of. They killed innovation because. And he does the act out of all the previous. Using the videos. The guy's trying to fly.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Ridiculous stuff. And then.

[Aaron Weber]

And.

[Greg Warren]

And it's. It's a very funny joke.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you know that? I do. I don't remember a lot of that book, but I do remember they started to make progress when they would just basically stand outside and stare at birds. Like that's when they started to figure it out.

[Brian Bates]

Just watching birds.

[Aaron Weber]

Just really, really watching birds. Cuz they were like. They said like they got the mechanics of it, but they didn't get the adjustment of it. And they started to learn the adjustment of it when they. When they just looked at birds.

[Brian Bates]

Whoa.

[Greg Warren]

Makes sense.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Great book.

[Greg Warren]

Real fast, Some movies about inventions. Oppenheimer.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Cali.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. Starting dark.

[Greg Warren]

I started with. I thought we wouldn't. Tesla, which I haven't seen, but I.

[Aaron Weber]

Haven'T seen it either.

[Greg Warren]

The Imitation Game. I've seen that.

[Aaron Weber]

That's code breaking.

[Brian Bates]

The Prestige.

[Greg Warren]

Sure.

[Brian Bates]

See that? Tesla's in the.

[Aaron Weber]

Than that.

[Greg Warren]

Is that the one with Christian Bale?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Christian Bale I haven't seen.

[Dusty Slay]

But I have heard that that's.

[Brian Bates]

You haven't seen the Prestige.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not sure I've heard. I've seen.

[Brian Bates]

Prestige is unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

Christian Bill guy. I know.

[Dusty Slay]

I may have it. Actually. I may have it from your dvd.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you gotta watch that tonight.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Flash of Genius.

[Aaron Weber]

I love that movie.

[Dusty Slay]

What about the Leonardo DiCaprio one where.

[Brian Bates]

He'S what's eating Gilbert? Great.

[Dusty Slay]

Out Basketball Diaries where he's.

[Aaron Weber]

Man, I don't think that's it either.

[Greg Warren]

Titanic.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, he's the Aviator. The Aviator.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a really good one.

[Greg Warren]

That's about Howard Hughes almost.

[Brian Bates]

I say Hugh Hauser.

[Greg Warren]

I see that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Flash of Genius.

[Aaron Weber]

Hugh Hefner, he was. Yeah. Flash of Genius is Greg Kin Greer Innovator.

[Greg Warren]

I've told you about this once before. He invented the Intermittent Smitten windshield wipers and then Ford stole his patent.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, man, that is a good movie.

[Dusty Slay]

I think about a lot of these famous inventors. I think a lot of them probably stole their ideas from people who, you know Invented it and didn't have the resources.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, right.

[Greg Warren]

The Social Network.

[Dusty Slay]

If it happened once, it probably happened many times.

[Aaron Weber]

That is. That is a fantastic. I just saw that on a list.

[Brian Bates]

Of like two top hundred top five movie this century. I'll say that.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Of the two, I think it's that good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And it's one of the most important things that's been invented in this century. I think it's. What is the Social Network?

[Aaron Weber]

Facebook.

[Greg Warren]

The movie's better than the actual story. Like.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it's so much better.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

The way it's written and everything.

[Brian Bates]

Steve Jobs, too. Doesn't get. Yeah. The Steve Jobs that Aaron Sorkin also wrote.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Really great movie. Doesn't get talked about a lot, but yeah. Anyway, that's it. Wrap it up.

[Greg Warren]

Should we talk about where we're gonna be?

[Aaron Weber]

This.

[Brian Bates]

Where. Where are we gonna be? Thank you for coming by, Greg.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man, I always love to hear you guys. Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

You're the man.

[Dusty Slay]

I did two podcasts with Greg today.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah? You sick of them yet?

[Dusty Slay]

No, we had a great time.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

How are you?

[Brian Bates]

Sick.

[Aaron Weber]

Wait. Wait till you see that. Trader Joe's.

[Brian Bates]

Was it good?

[Greg Warren]

Good luck getting me as many views as I got.

[Aaron Weber]

Bates killed it, I'm not gonna lie.

[Greg Warren]

One of the top viewed ones soon. This week. This weekend I'm doing some guest sets on Greg's shows, so. Come buy my merch. No, I'm off this weekend. I have my 35 year class reunion.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa. Oh, really? Yeah. All right, man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. So I'm looking forward to that.

[Aaron Weber]

They're not having you do standing.

[Brian Bates]

You're performing at it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. No, no.

[Brian Bates]

Would you.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

How many people are.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's see if we can. We can set that up.

[Brian Bates]

We can get that going for sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Just, just, just put it out there, man.

[Greg Warren]

Brian's been asking, did you hear what Dusty said? How many people are still alive?

[Brian Bates]

Dang Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You're so mean to me all the time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So mean. I'll be glad when Nate's back. So someone that cares.

[Dusty Slay]

Finally.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice guy that's not gonna take shots.

[Brian Bates]

Get mad at him because he finished high school.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So that's this weekend then. July 18th, 19th, I met. Oh, I forgot Wednesday, the day this comes out, I am at the Comedy Catch in Chattanooga.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's a great place. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Choo Choo, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I got one show. Danielle says I've sold more my one show than Aaron has for all five.

[Brian Bates]

But that's probably true.

[Dusty Slay]

My mom's coming to your show.

[Aaron Weber]

Boom.

[Greg Warren]

That's awesome. July 18th, 19th, I met the Looney Band in Tulsa, Oklahoma. July 25th, I met Hattiesburg. Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with Derek Stroop and Andrew Stanley. July 29, Brian Bates and friends here at the Lab.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Can I get a spot on that?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I'd love you for you, too. Oh, you know that's the same night as Dusty Special.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So I'd like everyone to stick around and do a little viewing party.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that would be cool.

[Aaron Weber]

That'd be great.

[Brian Bates]

But you have a little dry heat and then a little wet heat right after that.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Greg Warren]

What about you, Greg?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm gonna be at Zany's in Nashville.

[Brian Bates]

At the Last lab this weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

This weekend. And it's one of my favorite weekends of the year. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And 10ft from where we're recording this.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, right there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, right there.

[Aaron Weber]

And maybe doing some shows with Nate after that. And in Raleigh. Raleigh. I'll be there. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So if I give you some money, go out of that airport restaurant.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I'll square it up for you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. If there's not a warrant out. And I'll be at the Des Moines Funny Bone at the end of. End of July.

[Greg Warren]

Nice.

[Brian Bates]

All right, Aaron Weber here. Just one date. I'm gonna plug Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the Choo choo comedy catch. July 17th, 18th, 19th. Come on out Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Come out to one of those shows. Go see Brian and come see me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. I got a few things coming up. I'm off this weekend, as you know. But did we know that? Well, I did talk about it. I. I got three dates. I got. July 19th, I'm in Winnipeg, Canada. July 22nd, Zany's, Nashville. July 25th, Las Vegas, Nevada. And I'll be in those three places at the end of July. That rounds out my July. And then the second half of the year, I'm back in action.

[Aaron Weber]

So they're gonna put you in a suite or something in Las Vegas.

[Dusty Slay]

I hope so.

[Aaron Weber]

That's gonna be cool. Cool.

[Greg Warren]

We're already in the second half of the year.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the second part of the second half.

[Greg Warren]

That's awesome. You want to wrap it up, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. All right. Hey, thank you very much. Thanks for tuning in. We appreciate you guys, and we're having a good time. Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and Safeway Way.

[Aaron Weber]

It's Oral Care Month, which means you.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Greg Warren]

Like Colgate Toothpaste, Listerine Mouthwash, Crest Mouthwash or Toothpaste Sensodyne Toothpaste hello Toothpaste or.

[Brian Bates]

Gum Flossers and earn four times points. Points can be redeemed for future discounts on gas or groceries.

[Dusty Slay]

Offer ends July 15. Restrictions apply. Offers may vary.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

Lowe's knows July 4th savings are worth celebrating right now. Get up to 40% off, select major appliances and get an additional 10% off.

[Brian Bates]

Two or more select major appliances plus.

[Aaron Weber]

Get three Scott's Naturescapes 1.5 cubic foot mulch bags for just $10. These deals are coming in hot.

[Brian Bates]

Lowe's we help you save valid through 7 9.

[Greg Warren]

Selection varies by location while supplies last. Seelows.com for more details.

[Brian Bates]

Excludes Alaska and Hawaii.