261: #261 Memory

Summary

The Nateland Podcast - Episode 261: #261 Memory

Release Date: July 16, 2025
Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Produced by: Audioboom Studios

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1. Welcome and Catching Up (01:12 - 04:29)

The hosts kick off the episode with enthusiastic greetings, expressing their excitement about returning to the podcast after a hiatus.

• Brian Bates: "Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast."
• Aaron Weber: "I'm pumped. Dude, it's been a while, man."

They discuss their recent activities, including vacations and personal updates, setting a friendly and relaxed tone for the episode.

2. Announcements and Upcoming Events (04:29 - 16:40)

The conversation transitions to various announcements related to the hosts' projects and upcoming events.

• Brian Bates: "Ryan Hamilton's next Netflix special, filming at the Neptune Theater in Seattle on October 4th. Get your tickets for that."
• Brian Bates: "My dad will be performing at Levity Live in Huntsville, Alabama on August 24th."

They highlight the launch of Naelyland Presents the Showcase Season Three, introducing new comedians like AJ Lydig from Chicago, and celebrate Dusty Slay's upcoming Netflix special, "Wet Heat," premiering on July 29th.

3. Stand-Up Comedy and the Importance of Memory (16:40 - 33:39)

The hosts delve into the intricacies of stand-up comedy, emphasizing how crucial memory is for performers.

• Brian Bates: "If you're a stand-up comic, I think you can transition to more things than if you're anything else."
• Nate Bargatze: "Because you're up there with nothing."

They discuss the challenges comedians face on stage, such as handling silence and maintaining consistency in their acts. Brian shares his journey in refining his material, illustrating the interplay between memory and performance.

4. Personal Anecdotes: Golfing with Celebrities (33:39 - 46:12)

Brian recounts his experience joining a golf tournament with notable personalities like Charles Barkley and Larry the Cable Guy.

• Brian Bates: "I played with Charles Barkley where he shot his best round he's ever shot. He's really worked on his swing."

The story highlights the unexpected moments on the golf course, including a surprising bear sighting, adding humor and relatability to the conversation.

5. Debating Ice Cream Free Samples (46:12 - 53:24)

A lighthearted debate ensues about the appropriateness of free samples in ice cream shops versus other restaurants.

• Aaron Weber: "I just don't know why we do it at ice cream places, but nowhere else."
• Nate Bargatze: "I say you get two samples. That's it."

The hosts explore differing perspectives, balancing customer experience with business practicality, ultimately agreeing on limited samples as a fair middle ground.

6. Memory: Personal Memories and Scientific Insights (53:24 - 116:50)

The core theme of the episode revolves around memory, blending personal stories with scientific concepts.

a. Earliest Memories

• Aaron Weber: "I was on my dad's shoulder. We at a Lowe's or a Home Depot. I remember I spit up on my dad's shoulder. I was probably between one and two."

• Nate Bargatze: "I was hanging on a towel rack in the bathroom, and it broke and I cut my finger."

b. Infantile Amnesia and Memory Development

• Dusty Slay: "It's called infantile amnesia. Their brains haven't developed fully formed yet. They don't understand language."

• Aaron Weber: "My generation... We're becoming worse at remembering events from our own lives because in our brain we think we can just go look it up."

c. Enhancing Memory Skills

• Brian Bates: "I've started telling myself I won't remember something tomorrow, and then I don't even put any weight into it."

• Dusty Slay: "Hypersensitive autobiographical memory... there's only about a hundred people in the world maybe that."

d. False Memories and the Mandela Effect

• Nate Bargatze: "I've had memories that I thought were true, but then I found out they were wrong. That's the Mandela effect."

The hosts discuss how memories can be unreliable, influenced by wording, experiences, and even psychological experiments. They emphasize the importance of journaling and active memory exercises to enhance recall.

7. Upcoming Shows and Tours (116:50 - 124:55)

The conversation shifts back to personal updates, with each host sharing their tour schedules and upcoming performances.

• Dusty Slay: "This Friday, Saturday, I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the Loony Bin."
• Aaron Weber: "This weekend, Aaron Weber will be in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the Comedy Catch."

They promote each other's shows, encouraging listeners to attend and support their comedic endeavors.

8. Final Bits and Closing Remarks (124:55 - 127:00)

As the episode nears its end, the hosts engage in playful banter about memory-related topics and share humorous anecdotes.

• Brian Bates: "How do you think memory can be something you work on? Can you work it like a muscle?"
• Dusty Slay: "Everyone wants meaning and purpose."

They wrap up the episode by reaffirming their camaraderie and teasing future discussions on memory, leaving listeners with a blend of humor and thoughtful insights.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Brian Bates [01:57]: "Ryan Hamilton's next Netflix special, filming at the Neptune Theater in Seattle on October 4th."
• Nate Bargatze [10:01]: "If you can be a stand-up comedian, then you can really fit into almost anything else."
• Dusty Slay [11:30]: "If it's quiet and then at the end, people politely clap. You go, that didn't go."
• Aaron Weber [53:24]: "Why do you get to try a little bit out?"
• Brian Bates [85:42]: "If you can remember it, you're a superpower to me."

Key Insights and Conclusions

• Memory's Role in Comedy: The discussion underscores how essential memory is for comedians to maintain consistency and engage effectively with their audience. Personal anecdotes illustrate the struggles and triumphs associated with memorizing and delivering comedic material.

• Scientific Perspectives on Memory: The hosts explore various aspects of memory, including infantile amnesia, false memories, and the Mandela effect, blending scientific facts with personal reflections to deepen the conversation.

• Enhancing and Maintaining Memory: Practical strategies such as journaling and conscious memory exercises are highlighted as ways to improve memory retention and recall, both in professional and personal contexts.

• Interpersonal Dynamics and Memory: The episode touches on how memories shape relationships and individual identities, emphasizing the balance between retaining valuable memories and letting go of less important ones.

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Transcript

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetsy. Brian Bates. Aaron Weber. All right, Dusty Slay.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

There we go.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. Look at this.

[Brian Bates]

We're back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are going to be so pumped.

[Brian Bates]

I know.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm pumped. Dude, it's been a while, man.

[Brian Bates]

It's been a minute.

[Aaron Weber]

I haven't seen you.

[Brian Bates]

It's been a minute. I've been on vacation.

[Aaron Weber]

Just taking it easy.

[Brian Bates]

Taking it easy.

[Aaron Weber]

No traveling or anything like that.

[Brian Bates]

No traveling? Yeah. I lived in Georgia for a month and a half, two months, whatever it was. So. Yeah. Am I supposed to say this stuff now?

[Aaron Weber]

You say whenever you want. It's your podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't have to say it if you don't want.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Hey, I got. Yeah, I'm getting back into it, so. Yeah. Mike Becky owns Low Income White Special is on Nately YouTube channel. You know, we got our other specials that have all been up there. Greg's, Aaron's Thune and Stephen Rogers, other podcasts. Remember that we're consumers. Correct opinions with Trey Kennedy. Don't make me come back there with Dustin Nickerson. Uh, Nateland is producing Ryan Hamilton's next Netflix special, filming at the Neptune Theater in Seattle on October 4th. Get your tickets for that. That's very, very funny. Ryan Hamilton's been doing. He's been around as long as I have, and he has a Netflix special. He's amazing. Very pumped about that. Also, my dad will be performing at Levity live in Huntsville, Alabama on August 24th. So go get your chickens out. He's doing it to prepare for his. Have we. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Even now.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, we announced it. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Sold out immediately.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. So he said Ms. Special. So if you want to. He's getting ready for that. And then. Yeah, we got food and drinks are cheaper there now. We got merch. Oh, yeah, yeah, we got merch there also. Nayland presents the Showcase. Season three is here. Our first set premieres this Friday morning from a comic named.

[Aaron Weber]

It's AJ Lydig.

[Brian Bates]

AJ Lydig.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a Chicago guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Very funny.

[Aaron Weber]

He's open for me before. He's done shows with you.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's done my show.

[Aaron Weber]

A couple open for Chris for a lot. Dude, younger guy, super funny. And I was here for a set and it was great. So I'm excited for people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You. You texted me. Aaron told me. He's like, text me pretty, like, right after. He's like, dude, showcase was awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was really great.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've worked with him twice and didn't know how to pronounce his name. Lideg. I've been calling him La Dig.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Aj. La Dig.

[Brian Bates]

AJ Lit Digg.

[Nate Bargatze]

Also, last one, just want to put. I got a Netflix coming out July.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't even see that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I just don't want to leave that one off there.

[Brian Bates]

And last but not least. Oh, yeah. Well, that's. Yeah. Dusty Netflix special premieres July 29th. Wet heat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's coming up. Couple weeks.

[Brian Bates]

It's coming up super quick.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, we.

[Brian Bates]

We would. We were going to do a. It's good that we set it there, but we will have a much Dusty focus.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. We'll do it up.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's going to be right.

[Dusty Slay]

It's going to be done the last two months.

[Brian Bates]

Huh? What?

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty focus. That's been the last two months.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I left you alone. I give you two months.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know.

[Brian Bates]

Every day to go promote this special.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know. And we've been doing it.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

We've been doing it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Did. Did everybody at home just mouth along with that also? But last, not least, Dusty Netflix special.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Premieres on July 29th.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm excited for it, buddy. So. Yeah. I didn't mean to.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no. I just.

[Brian Bates]

Don't forget about the merch we got. All right. And more importantly, Nae Land merch. That's the most important.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. Last. Last but not least.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

After that.

[Brian Bates]

And last but not least, Nateland merch also. Dusty, this has got something coming out someday and. All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian's wrapping a little of his own merch here today. If you know, look at that.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's not my merch, but.

[Aaron Weber]

But you're wearing.

[Dusty Slay]

It's all my people. Nate. Brian Bates Fan Club Batesville it kind of came back last week after a three month hiatus. Got some free time, so she brought it back.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's.

[Dusty Slay]

It's still mostly just stuff about you, but you got to start somewhere.

[Brian Bates]

You got to start somewhere. Yep, I like it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Nville podcast is back and rolling now.

[Dusty Slay]

I wore this because. Your first time back in a while. I wanted you to think that all I'm doing is promoting my stuff on here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, no, I think it's good. I think it's good.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you assume that the last thing said is the least important?

[Brian Bates]

And like, if that weren't there, do.

[Aaron Weber]

You think you'd think, well, this is.

[Dusty Slay]

Just an afterthought when I watch your set.

[Brian Bates]

Why do they say that?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think it seems like that. What does it mean?

[Brian Bates]

It's, it's. It's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So the last thing I'll say, but it's not the least important.

[Brian Bates]

Oh yeah. So this is last but not the least important. So it's the most important but not necessarily.

[Aaron Weber]

But not the least. Which means one of the things is the least important in the list.

[Brian Bates]

So you got to figure out which one is it. Mike Vachy owner Is it my dad? That's a tough one.

[Nate Bargatze]

He goes, I think your dad is right in the middle. It sounds like the.

[Brian Bates]

My dad's in the middle.

[Nate Bargatze]

The middle. Cuz usually they do.

[Brian Bates]

Like we're saying veone maybe is. Well, first you look right here you got a. We also got a handful of great specials from Greg Warren, Aaron Weber, Nick Th and Steven Rogers. That's got to be that. You guys are the. You guys are barely hanging on all four of those. They're like, by the way, if you get a chance, don't even try. Don't go out of your way. But we got Greg Warren, Weber, Nick Thune, Steve Rogers have specials out, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Do not now if you see it, click on it.

[Brian Bates]

But you know that's still going out of your way. If you walk in a room and they're playing it, stay in the room. Yeah, I think that's fair.

[Nate Bargatze]

If it's already on, is that fair.

[Brian Bates]

For your special Aaron to say that? If someone's playing it right and you walk in that room, we'd appreciate if.

[Aaron Weber]

You stayed at Least a minute.

[Brian Bates]

At least a minute.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you start your closer with. And last but not least.

[Aaron Weber]

Last but not least, but no. To stand up, set it. It's the, it's last but most.

[Brian Bates]

But most. Tr.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah, the showcase stuff, I, Everybody wants to check that out. I, I'm, I'm, I, I'm excited about the showcase because we're getting a lot of comics and a lot of new comics and I, I think we want to, you know, hopefully be able to find a lot of comics through this system. It's the kind of the system. I came through Comedy Central and you. Dusty little Comedy Central.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I did a little Comedy Central.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you were, you saw it, you were a part of it. Yeah, it was such a great. That kind of thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it was the first big thing for me. Yeah, that really got some heat.

[Brian Bates]

So let's get some people watching those. So I did this next wave of coming. What'd you do?

[Aaron Weber]

I did a Comedy Central.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What digital short?

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Or something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They really started doing more stuff with YouTube. Yeah, well, that's what YouTube actually came.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Great. Did you do no TV comments?

[Nate Bargatze]

No TV Comedy Center. I did. Well, I did.

[Aaron Weber]

You go, I did what too? And you go, yeah. They're really opening it up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, I think they, yeah. Ran out of ideas and the Internet came along. Yeah, they were like.

[Nate Bargatze]

The network collapsed. Yeah, the Internet's a thing.

[Brian Bates]

The Internet's a thing. So they go, who doesn't want to do it? That would be easier. No, they're, they're, they actually, their Comedy Central Specials on YouTube did great because that was like Norman Samuel, Joe List. Like, those were like, those guys started really selling tickets from the Comedy Central. YouTube stuff. Yeah, but it's like when, when I came up, it was, it was on tv, was Comedy Central was this thing. And now, you know, with Showcase, we're on YouTube. But it's, it's like I want to, that's what we want to create with that is to have this place where guys are trying to get sets on Showcase and then hopefully we can generate and make specials out of that and have some kind of system start selling tickets for some of these comics and big time people go see them and, you know, comics have a great place. I love stand up comedy so much, man. And they might want it. Like, I, it's. If you're young and get an entertainment, I would tell you to figure. You're not saying everybody can do stand up comedy. I, It's a standard because I think things very, very hard to do. But that's why I love it. Because the ones that can do it, it's the hardest to do.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you think you just finished up a movie? You wrapped on breadwinner, Right.

[Brian Bates]

Piece of cake.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. No, but I'm saying it's that you do you come out of it with a kind of a newfound appreciation for stand up or like you're ready to get back into that.

[Brian Bates]

No, I can't wait to go back on the road. I mean, I just, it's all. I know. But with stand up is. It's just you can, you can. If you can be a stand up comedian, then you can really fit into almost anything else. Not saying you're gonna be better than a, like, you know, Daniel Day Lewis or, you know, someone that devotes their whole life to this acting. There are people that want to go do that. I understand, but with Comet, like, what I just love with stand up comedians is we kind of show up with like all the tools. You've written, you, you perform it and you've had to do it and you've added, edited it. You've. You're kind of directed your own thing. Like you've done a show and you've done it with, with the, the tension of. You need laughs.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So it's not like, it's not a play or it's not this other stuff where it's like you can go like people, if you're at something that doesn't need laughs, it's like, well, you, how do you really know? I mean, you can know it's moving or whatever.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But the pressure of laughs, dude, where you're straight up, like bombing, that's like, man, it's, it's, it's standup comics, dude. I. I love it so much.

[Dusty Slay]

I think about that with music, when you first start out and you go do some gig and nobody's paying attention because they don't even care. With music, they can just. When the music stops, they can politely clap and move on and no, it's no big deal. But for comedy, it's totally different. You have to like, be listening and people know if you're not doing well.

[Nate Bargatze]

If it's quiet and then at the end, people politely clap. You go, that didn't go.

[Brian Bates]

Didn't go good. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

One of the maddest I've ever gotten. In Nashville, we used to do an open mic after a writers round, and the writers round would always go super long. And they went really Long one night. And then the musicians were just sitting at the bar after during the open mic and my friend was up there bombing at the open mic and the musicians were sitting there and they were like, man, I feel like I could do better. Just off the dome. They started trash talking my friend. I was like, oh, man, I was so mad at those two guys, dude. Because it's just so much more than most people.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody look the. To really go there stand up is just like. Yeah, you gotta. I mean it's just beautiful, man. I love it. I love doing it. I love. I'm excited to get back on the road and like, I mean, I'm going. I'm gonna go up tonight on the Na Land show because I just want to. I'm working on this one little thing. I know I've talked about all this before, so. But I just, I. For all the. If comics are listening that are new and starting, it's awesome. Santa come is awesome. And I think you're. If you're a stand up comic, I think you can transition to more things than if you're anything else. If you're an actor, I don't think you can go to more things. But if you're a stand up comic.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They could grab you and just throw you into something and you can figure it out. Because you've had to figure it out the whole time. Not saying every stand comic can do it, but know I think you're for your best chance of survival in the entertainment industry. I think if, you know standup comedy, you're going to be.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Because you're up there with nothing.

[Brian Bates]

Nothing. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like the musician who's like, I think I could do better than that. Off the dome. Couldn't.

[Aaron Weber]

Of course.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's okay to think it, but you can't. You can't though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, with you. Yeah. There's no. It's, it's. It's either quiet or it's. Or people want to leave, you know, it's. Yeah, it's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Some rooms, apparently they shake their keys at you if it's not going well.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, well, have you ever seen that happen?

[Nate Bargatze]

I hear about it.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never seen that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's maybe like Atlanta has some of those rooms.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Shake the keys at you. I think Derek's been there in Brooklyn where there's some rooms where they shake the keys at you.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

What was that noise? I don't know. It wasn't me. Thought he had a ring. I thought it Sounded like a ring. All right. Anyway, that's beside the point.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

We're gonna do a podcast one day about stand up comedy that's just for stand up comics. Right. I want to do one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, it'd be great.

[Brian Bates]

I love it that much.

[Dusty Slay]

We did 15 years.

[Brian Bates]

So many opinions. I know, but I think I would do one. I would want to do one.

[Aaron Weber]

Like its own series of.

[Brian Bates]

I would want to do one. If we can figure it out, how can we do it where Like, I would like to. I don't. Not acting like. I know I give a lot of advice, stand up comedy. I don't mean to try to act like I know everything, but you're doing okay. Yeah, but it's not even about that. But the reason I give the advice is because I've done every gig. I've done everything that you could have done. I've done all the shows, I've done all the. I've been to every city. Like, you know, when I go back to the. When I go to these cities now, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I was at that bar and did a show. Then I did that. Then I got. Then finally got into that comedy club.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then finally got in. Or not finally, but then got into the theater.

[Nate Bargatze]

Then.

[Brian Bates]

Now I'm in the arena. Like, I've done. Even in your city, I've done your whole system in a way.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

And so it's like, you just know, you know, it's like, I don't know, I just, I just want, you know, a man. I don't know. I want stand up comedy too. I think we're in a great spot here. That's what we're doing with this showcase is, you know, it's. It's guys going up there doing sets, creating an act. Nothing. Get crowd work. You can do your crowd work, that's fine. But you don't. You don't want to be just hung up on that, you know, you're not, not everybody can be Matt Rife. It's only going to be like, I.

[Nate Bargatze]

Saw a guy, he goes, what do you do for money?

[Brian Bates]

Just, just.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's just a new way. Do you.

[Brian Bates]

It's the same old thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

What do you do for a. I like that.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a new spin on things.

[Brian Bates]

What do you do for money?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, someone told me that they. There's somebody in a lot. In the corporate world. A lot of stuff I think is a lot of people have side hustles. They, they could have a real Like a job they go to college for.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They can. Will have a. Also a side hustle. Isn't that crazy that that's the new world? Like you would go. Usually go to college to get the job and you work hard in that job, but now they're like, well then I also do this some other stuff on the side.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Which I mean some places you're going to get fired, you can't do that, right? Like, well, some. I think a real corporate. If you work for a real corporation.

[Dusty Slay]

Especially if it's a conflict of interest.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, they're going to be like, what are you doing? Like you're also like, I also, I don't even know what you're saying.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, Google, for a while they might have been one of the first big companies to do it, but they let their employees, I think it was 20 of their time, do whatever they want. I think they just carved out maybe 10 to 20% of your year. Do whatever you want just, just to let people explore their, their past.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's probably not going on now though, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

I think it still is. Gmail came from that. Just like a project that somebody did in their spare time. During that time, a bunch of the stuff Google has started from just letting their employees do whatever they want.

[Brian Bates]

I think when you're a trillion dollar company, you probably can do that.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, yeah, I don't know if they were, I don't think they were at the time. This was early on. It was kind of radical to do. But so I think you'll see companies start to do more stuff like that.

[Brian Bates]

Still got to be, you know, you'd have to, you could do it. You'd have to have the right people that can do it. Because I don't want to be like, you got real stuff on Google and then you got some guy going, well, I need off because I got in your like, no, no. If I'm paying. If you're, if I'm, if you're. Your whole livelihood is paid for by me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's almost like you can do it. I just don't know about it.

[Dusty Slay]

You need self motivated people.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You need, yeah. That are going to go, you know when to click it off and go like, yeah, I understand, this is mine.

[Aaron Weber]

But I think they found that the other four, four fifths of the time they were actually more productive because they let them do whatever they want for a certain amount.

[Brian Bates]

I think I strongly disagree with that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think that's your generation.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, but I think his generation is the first that did not. They're not great.

[Aaron Weber]

My and my generation, we got. Now we got nap pods in the office. We got all kinds. Yeah, y' all trying to optimize the human.

[Brian Bates]

And then y' all get into the analytics. All where you just. You get. You get our generation so confused with numbers. You're like, 1% worked a little bit, but 2% was un. And then you're like, next thing you know, you're the Oakland A's, and you're like, wait, did we not win a. So we didn't win the World Series, though. You go, no, no, we didn't. But we remember how fun it was. We changed the game. We changed the game. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But you're not winners. I'm not saying all of you. I think you. I think you. The year you were born was a tough one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I had a job. One of my first jobs after college, I had it said unlimited pto. That was a perk of the job.

[Brian Bates]

Paid time off.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Unlimited pto?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Whoa.

[Dusty Slay]

That's worse than Google, so.

[Aaron Weber]

Or better than Google. Well, that, I mean, I'm sure that's not true. I can't just take six months off, you know, but. And I got there and they were like, look, obviously don't try to do that right away, but at a certain point they're like, yeah, if you want to take a couple months off, you can just take a couple of.

[Nate Bargatze]

That company folded though, right?

[Aaron Weber]

I think they're still around.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't last long, but.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you get fired?

[Aaron Weber]

When I started there. Like, look, it is unlimited PTO technically, but it should probably only do two weeks a year.

[Nate Bargatze]

So it's kind of.

[Aaron Weber]

Kind of a lie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Normal.

[Brian Bates]

Then it's to get you in there.

[Aaron Weber]

But they bring a keg in every Friday.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, you can have a beer at 4pm on Friday.

[Nate Bargatze]

Abe, is there a limit on how many you can have beers? Yeah, when they bring the keg in.

[Aaron Weber]

I think if there's a conversation about it, that's the problem.

[Brian Bates]

I. I think. You know what's funny is I think there's that much stuff that no one cares about their jobs, no one cares about. Because you look at, you know, just shooting this movie, right? We had a lot of teamsters, the union working that these people were so great and they love what they do, and they work 12 hour days every day. You don't feel, you know, we didn't feel like. You feel like, you know, you're. They're. You're they're bothered by it or whatever. Their emotions are completely straight up out of it. It's, it was, I liked it because it was so. I mean you were very nice and we, you know, you, you, you talk to him and we all. But kind of it's like movie, this movie is like, it's like a summer camp and so you like go there and you become friends kind of with all this, the, the lighting person and this person and you're talking to them all day every day. But it was like kind of transactional, which was nice where you're like, yeah, we're all in there to do a job. So there's, there's, there's 15 people in.

[Nate Bargatze]

This room and nobody can ask them to stay late. Right. Because it's union. Right. So.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, they, no, no, they can. You just get. They, you get. They. It's called, I forget it's like called golden hour or something. Is some one of them or.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where you get like, you get overtime.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So. So they don't mind it because I mean. Yeah, some of it if you go into overtime, you're like, yeah, you're just paying them. They get paid.

[Nate Bargatze]

So they, they're like, oh yeah, that's straight up out loud like a salaried employee. They go, can you stay late? And, and you have to because you're a salaried employee but you don't get any extra money.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So would you rather like that where you show up, you work hard. It's very transactional like you said. Or a place where you're a family.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, I think transactional.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm saying it's the, what if it's the, it's the jobs that are being made now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's nothing to connect you to, to feel proud of. Where like when a guy used to work for Ford, those guys like would go fight to the death for Ford and they worked on the line at Ford and they go no, we built, we build nice trucks at Ford. And the Chevy guys like no, not what we do. And I feel like people were prideful in what whoever they worked for, they wore it with a badge and all. I worked for, you know, whatever Disney or this or that. Any. I worked for Walmart for 35 years and they were proud of, you know. And now these jobs are like pop up jobs that like it's something you can do now, then it's going to disappear and the whole industry will disappear in five years. Yeah, but, but back when you did it and that's what I'm saying. With the union, with the filmmakers. When we were making that movie down there, that was something that was so wonderful about it was everybody was showing up and they're making a movie and they're all, dude, this movie can't be made without all of them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because they're. The way the lighting and this and that and the camera and, and they're all working together and they're moving forward and everybody's got a job and everybody does their job. And I'm sure there's. We, we had a wonderful crew, but it was like, you know, it's like you could tell that they're. When they get done, they, they would tell you about other movies they made. They were on, they go, I was on that. That was a good one. Like. And they're, they love it. They're proud of the movie. The guy, this guy Frank, that was our photographer on the movie, he does all the rocks movies, you know, and he's like, oh, Moana, the live action. He said, it's great, it's going to be great. It's like, because he was, he like may. He was there. And it's like they're, they're excited for it and they're into the industry that they're doing and they see what other movies do and you can tell there's a love for what they do. And those people show up and put in the work and then they don't bring in your, their at home problems or. I remember Laura said once that someone, one of her jobs, they were like, here's your, you know, they held up their hand like a cup and said, here's your problems. You set them down outside the door and then you go inside and work. And then you go back outside and you pick your problems back, bring it.

[Aaron Weber]

Home to your family.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. And then take it out. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But reality, the work should be like you, here's your work. And then when you clock out, you put that down and then go home to your family.

[Aaron Weber]

For some, for some people.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but it should be. And you go, all right, I'm done with work. I'm gonna go home and be with my family. But instead now your boss is calling you going, what went on here today?

[Brian Bates]

Well, but I mean that was, that. This wasn't like a big job. I might have been like waiting tables. Like, it was like at, like it was a job like that. You're just telling people that you're hiring like that to be like, when you don't bring in all your non.

[Nate Bargatze]

Don't bring your drama in here.

[Brian Bates]

Don't bring your drama in here. You come in here, work, then go out, and then we don't care how.

[Nate Bargatze]

Many kids you have. Just wait the tables.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just fill the tea up. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But. I don't know. It's just. But I think that's the difference. And that's why you're h. They have to do stuff like, hey, we'll bring you a keg of beer. Cuz you have. Because I don't care about your thing. Your thing doesn't move me. I'm not a part of anything. Yeah. You know, does that make sense?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I think it also just keeps you in the office for longer, too. So there's a practice. There's a practical.

[Brian Bates]

But. But those.

[Aaron Weber]

But.

[Brian Bates]

But they work. The. The. The.

[Dusty Slay]

It's kind of the same thing, though. It has. They have to trick you into staying in the office because you don't love your job.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But if it's unlimited beer, I don't think it's unlimited bto and you.

[Aaron Weber]

Unlimited beer.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you and your job is able to get done drinking. I think there's a time more likely to stay at work a little longer. If you're letting me have a few beers, I'll stock pesticides all day. If you're letting me have a few drinks.

[Brian Bates]

I think people still want to. Even young people now. They want to work for something they can.

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody wants meaning.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Everybody wants a purpose and meaning.

[Brian Bates]

You want to know, like, oh, yeah, we're doing this. We're setting this stuff up behind and all this kind of. And you. There's. There's a stance behind it, like, you know, that you just feel proud of.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

And I think that's becoming less and less.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, that is. You know what?

[Brian Bates]

A lot of times.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because you're building something that you care about.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so you're dedicated to it.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

And you.

[Brian Bates]

And you. And you have to go get. When you have fans, you know, you've had to go get them one by one on your own.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Even if you get exposed to a new other fan base, you have to keep them. You can't let them go because they're leave. And that's what's wonderful about it. That's what's great. That's why, like, again, like, the showcase, like, is you're gonna go and watch. And then the ones that you feel compelled to, like, you'll be like, yeah, let me follow. I mean, I've had people Because I just did the Lake Tahoe golf thing and people coming up being like, I was, you know, bringing up my old cd or I've been following you since full time magic and, you know, whatever. And, you know, it's fun. That's fun. Because then people are like. They're like, oh, yeah. It's like, it's been a ride for them, in a sense, with that, you know, I'm not. Their whole world's not built around it like mine is, but it's like, it's nice to be like, oh, yeah, look, I. I found something. And look at it. Look where it's at now. That's pretty cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

We love talking about our Helix mattresses. I've had my Helix mattress almost three years now. Can you believe that? We all have Helix mattresses and we all love it. I got my sister one. She loves it, too. And she does love it. That is true. Being out on the road and getting to come back home and get back in my Helix mattress is the best feeling. It is the best feeling. You know, years ago, I lived in an attic apartment, and my apartment was so terrible that when I would go on the road, it was amazing because I got to sleep on these hotel beds. But now that I have a Helix mattress, I'm like, I don't even. I want to fly home after the show. If I'm doing a weekend of shows, I want to fly home every night just so I can sleep in my Helix mattress. It improved how I sleep. Everyone knows I love their pillows. We talk about it all the time, but it really has helped my sleep. Look at me.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

All right, that's it.

[Dusty Slay]

Any stories from Lake Tahoe you want to share?

[Brian Bates]

You saw a bear saw bear, saw bear up in a tree. Hey, bear. Oh, yeah, Ryan. Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah. I think he sent the pictures to Gray. Greg Garcia, caddy for me. He did great. Yeah, yeah. And. And Greg did great. It was very fun, but everybody was like, this is middle of play. This is how this is how much our score didn't matter is I. I literally walked over there, then came back and hit my shot. And then. But everybody was, like, looking up those trees, and I was like. I thought, like, I guess an eagle or something. And there I go, what is it? They're like a bear. I'm like, good night.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't even see it from this first picture.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was a big bear, man. It's. You can't see it. Nick was there, and Nick was like, I'm gonna go see it. Well, Nick's eyesight. You can't see 10ft. And I'm like, nick, I don't know if it's worth the danger.

[Aaron Weber]

You gotta get so close for you.

[Brian Bates]

To go over there. And I know you really can't see it. And he goes, ah. He goes, it doesn't matter. I'll just tell people I saw it. And so he went over there and he goes, yeah, we saw. Doesn't. No one knows if Nick saw it. Nick doesn't know if he saw it. Yeah, it's funny, but it was a big, big bear, man. And so, yeah, that's the kind of event that's American century. It is fun, but it is funny. You got people following you along, and they're looking up in tree, and then just the golfers standing next to you going, what's going on? Over, like. And we're all looking at this bear.

[Dusty Slay]

Does somebody, like, keep an eye on him while the tournament's going on?

[Brian Bates]

No, no, they just walk around. They're allowed to do whatever they can go. It's. It's a free country, Brian. They're allowed to go where they want to go. And now. Yeah, they just happen to see it. It was big, though. You know, I've seen. There was another one spotted out there too, on that. And I. I've seen one other one one time on this course. But, yeah, it was a very fun event. I played with Charles Barkley where he shot his best round he's ever shot.

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa.

[Brian Bates]

81. And if you're into golf, I mean, is what everybody was talking about. Yeah, it was me, Charles Barkley and Larry the Cable Guy. The first day he. Hold. He made an eagle putt. I mean, not eagle putt. I'm sorry. A shot from 100 yards out. Nailed it. Went in for an eagle. Everybody went crazy. It was very fun to be just a part of that group. And. And then to. Also, because Charles Barkley, notoriously, everybody talks about his swing and all this stuff like that, and his Swing was great and he played. And I mean, we're just. He was playing out of his mind, and it was very fun to watch.

[Nate Bargatze]

They talk about his swing as good or bad.

[Brian Bates]

Bad.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But his swing looks, it looks.

[Aaron Weber]

It's gotten way better.

[Brian Bates]

It's good he got in his head and stuff, but he's really, really worked on it. And he did not. He didn't have great days the next two days. But, I mean, it was fun to be because that's going to be. You know, Charles Barker is so associated with that vent and golfing and, and his swing and all this stuff. So it was, it was very cool to get to just be there with, you know, just. Just get to be there with this moment for this guy that, like, you know, trying to prove everybody's figured it out. Oh, gosh. Yeah, it got. It used to be real bad.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't even golf in that.

[Brian Bates]

That's bad. Or showing the Charles Barkley swing. The, the old version of the swing. If you haven't.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, what's happening right here? Yeah, that's still better than I can.

[Aaron Weber]

Do, but it's gotten remarkably better. It looks like.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, yeah. A lot, lot better.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you shoot? What did you score?

[Brian Bates]

I played terrible the first two days, but yesterday I shot an 80. Oh, nice. And I. It was a mess. I only had a couple mess ups. Mental mess ups. But where it was just. I mean, it's, it's. It is crazy when you're playing. There's so many people out there and you're taking pictures and saying hi and everybody. I mean, it's a wonderful, wonderful event. But they did. It was so many people. And I, I was. And I, I double bogeyed two holes yesterday. One was my last hole, or I Wish I was 78, but I shot an 80, which is the best I've ever shot out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I was playing. I played. Yeah. So yesterday I played really, really good. I played bad the other days, but yesterday I played good.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's. It's. It's awesome, man. It's. I'll mark it on my calendar. You know, unless some reason I, Some crazy reason, I can't be there, but it's like, it's an event that you're most everybody there. I mean, my movie was. I was not supposed to be there for my movie. And when we did it, we go, you have to. I mean, I showed up on that Friday. I showed up. I flew in Thursday night after we wrapped on the movie. But I mean, I made him rap on, like. We were like. Because it was going to rap that Friday and it was like, no.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, I'm making it.

[Brian Bates]

We got to go to this golf tournament, so.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, welcome back, man. We're happy to have you back.

[Brian Bates]

Thanks for having me back.

[Aaron Weber]

You're welcome anytime.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wednesday I had a show at the Comedy Catch and Chattanooga.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Great crowd came out. Dusty's family came.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. They loved it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did they yell?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, I take requests, so it was. It was perfect.

[Nate Bargatze]

They're good laughers. My family's good laughers. They get into it.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you take requests?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you know, I do impressions now and.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Somebody I'll do Dusty Slay.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, how about that?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm an impression comic now.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, a lot's changed since you've been gone.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian really found. I think.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. The new Frank Cali Endow.

[Aaron Weber]

He found the strength.

[Brian Bates]

Yes. You can do a Dusty impression.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

We're having a good time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, it's really something, isn't it?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, that's an easy one, but.

[Aaron Weber]

It'S less impressions and more just remembering quotations from people and saying them.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I mean, some of these impressions have really been mind blowing. It is. Sometimes I. He does it and I go, I don't know why you're here when you have this kind of talent.

[Dusty Slay]

But it was a great show.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody came out.

[Dusty Slay]

A Friday night, I came down to Greg Warren show, did a guest set on that. I think on my way on that. Yeah, that was fun.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Just hung around. Greg, full show tonight. What time's everybody going on? Is more than that.

[Dusty Slay]

I just asked him last week on the podcast if I could do a guest live, if I could sell my merch.

[Brian Bates]

You sold merch? No, nothing.

[Dusty Slay]

And then Saturday night, I had my 35 year class reunion.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

College or high school?

[Dusty Slay]

High school, but that's not that far. College has been 31.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So what you guys do? How many. How many y' all left?

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty made that joke last week.

[Aaron Weber]

Would you do bingo?

[Dusty Slay]

It's very nice to be around a group of people that are all the same age.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

There's not a lot of this going on. You know, we're just all in the same.

[Nate Bargatze]

But you did do some bingo.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it.

[Dusty Slay]

No, but it was great.

[Brian Bates]

It was great. Let's just say. Yeah. All the parking spots up front were.

[Dusty Slay]

Taken first because, I mean, there were. Yeah, that's probably true. It's. I've Been to a few classrooms, though, and this was the.

[Brian Bates]

To other people's. I imagine you go to other schools.

[Dusty Slay]

Carlos Groves.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

This one. You know, we're so old. Nobody. There's no pretentiousness. Nobody's trying to impress you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

My first class union went dressed up, you know, which is fine, but you're doing it to try to impress people.

[Aaron Weber]

What was the first one you went to? Like 10 years?

[Dusty Slay]

10?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And over time, people just dress more and more casually because they're not trying to impress you with what they're doing.

[Aaron Weber]

They've already lived. Yeah, you've lived a lot. You're living a life. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're not.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, come on. You're almost done.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. But you come in with a new baby. I mean, you're. Yeah. You're the hot top.

[Aaron Weber]

Bell of the ball.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep, yep. Everybody there? Somewhat. Yeah. Their kids are out of college, and then I have a three year old.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome, though, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was fun.

[Aaron Weber]

35 years. Did you do a set now? Where did people ask you to? Yeah, a little bit. And you said no?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I don't want to do that. Smart.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's the good call. That's the right call.

[Brian Bates]

How many people?

[Dusty Slay]

60 maybe.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, something like that. I was like, if you had, like 2500 or something.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, get a tape.

[Brian Bates]

Don't some schools have that many people?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe the whole school, but there's.

[Aaron Weber]

There's some real big.

[Nate Bargatze]

We had a big class. Not 2500. We had a really big class.

[Dusty Slay]

We had. I mean, we had 300 something people.

[Brian Bates]

When I made you in the whole. And when we graduate, three, three or four. Y' all went the same place, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Same year, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Did y' all go the same.

[Dusty Slay]

And talking to Chase went to Lebanon High School, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Nate's talking.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, the new one. Yeah, the new one. That was built in 2012.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Anyway, it was fun for a while.

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[Aaron Weber]

I. I hung out of Greg's show too.

[Brian Bates]

I did.

[Aaron Weber]

I did a little acting this weekend. I was in a project. Dramatic acting.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Trash collector number three.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, dude, I'm moving up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So hopefully say what it is or no.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, when it comes out, I'll say what it's. It's.

[Brian Bates]

I think everybody will know.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, no, I don't. It's like. It's not like a huge thing. It's just like a fun project that I got to do. So I was doing that this weekend and then back out on the road this weekend, but kind of took it easy. What about you, Dustin?

[Nate Bargatze]

I was in Gulf Shores with my family. We had a great time, Went on the beach, little swimming. My kids got in the water.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

Great. Me and my wife went to eat. Right. It turned out it was a rest. A restaurant right next to where I did a corporate gig in Gulf Shores one time. Yeah, I bombed at a corporate gig down there at that place. So it's fun to be back. It's great. It's a hot trip.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah, I've been off. I don't even know if I do comedy anymore.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's been off longer than you have.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've been off.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you going up tonight?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Are you doing tonight too? We're all on it. Oh, that'll be fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Hot show.

[Brian Bates]

I wasn't. I did shows.

[Dusty Slay]

I guess I just mean since you've been gone for this podcast. He hasn't done.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I was doing. I was working. Yeah. Doing shows. I did shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Working. Real working, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I don't even know if I know how to do comedy anymore.

[Brian Bates]

But find out tonight.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

When they get an hour 50 from you.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's right. Well, you know, I gotta work out the case.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Iron it out.

[Brian Bates]

All right, let's start it off. You guys. Comments. I'm gonna always say that, but you're in my head. And I know it now because it got brought up before I just said it. It was pure. Not really thinking about it, but it's.

[Aaron Weber]

Like when a host gets done and goes, you guys ready to start the show?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought it started 10 minutes ago.

[Brian Bates]

Adam P. Man, that's a tough one.

[Dusty Slay]

I can't be real. Right.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Fafman.

[Brian Bates]

Fafman. I almost always agree with Dusty, but choosing Myrtle beach for a week over going into space. I'm with Aaron this episode. I'll be back with you next week, Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'd like your input on that, Nate. We were talking about space exploration as a vacation activity. So you're given two options. One is all expenses paid. You're in space for, what, 20 minutes or something. You just go up, out. You get to see the Earth. You come back down. Right. Or a week in Myrtle beach, they give you a hotel.

[Nate Bargatze]

And Myrtle beach also. You got to think about it. Think about it from the perspective of you're. You're working. Yeah. This is your. You're working 40 hours a week, and this is your vacation. Do you want to go into space or you want to go for a week in Myrtle Beach?

[Aaron Weber]

You want to see something only 20 people have seen, or do you want to go to Myrtle Beach?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I would think you'd have to go take that. I mean, but I would say take out, like, fear and someone just being like, I don't want to be.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

In a closed space.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's scary than Myrtle Beach? You're going space.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I think you guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

I feel like you up the time on it because the Jeff Bezos thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Was talking about the Katy Perry all the way.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That was not quite 20 minutes.

[Brian Bates]

No, I mean, even. Yeah, but it's like, even. Even if it's for fight, it's to see that is like, no one's ever gonna. When someone asks you about your Myrtle beach vacation, no one really wants to hear about it, you know, like. No, they're just saying it because they just. What are we supposed to say? Came back from work and they go, how was Myrtle Beach? But then. And I love Myrtle. I'm not. This is nothing against Myrtle beach, but when you come back and you go, how was space? All anybody would talk about in your office was we got a guy from our office going to space.

[Nate Bargatze]

But with the Katy Perry thing, it's like they just went real high. It's like they were weightless. It's debatable if they really went to space.

[Aaron Weber]

682 people have reached the altitude of space in the history of mankind. Think about all the billions of people that have lived and, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, look how many.

[Aaron Weber]

30 million go to myrtle beach.

[Brian Bates]

How many people have been going to myrtle beach?

[Nate Bargatze]

Where. Where are you at with it, Brian? Your space.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You guys are all space.

[Dusty Slay]

That's how it started last week. I said, I hope this becomes a thing. Commercial space.

[Nate Bargatze]

Adam, I hope I get you back this week. But it feels like I'm.

[Dusty Slay]

Most of the commenters agreed with you, Dusty.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, take the vacation.

[Aaron Weber]

Myrtle beach gets 17 million visitors every year.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a good spot. People are choosing. People are choosing.

[Dusty Slay]

Nobody wants to go to space.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Only 700 people went to space. Come on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

I saw where the largest meteorite from mars ever is being put on auction this Wednesday.

[Aaron Weber]

How big is it?

[Dusty Slay]

54 pounds.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Okay. Is like with the size of a basketball, probably. Or a little bigger than that. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And they think you might go for $4 million.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron, would you rather have this space rock in your house? You can't sell it. You got to keep it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But you got. You can tell everybody that's from our or lifetime. Any cracker barrel for free. Which one?

[Brian Bates]

That's tough, man.

[Aaron Weber]

If you had that is tough, I would.

[Dusty Slay]

I appreciate you saying that.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good question.

[Brian Bates]

What about cracker barrel? Is a funny answer, but what about, like a one that, like free gas for the rest of your life?

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, gas. Easy, man.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that's. You want to talk about having people over to the house, you go, hey, dude, you want to get a little conversation started? How about this 54 pound meteorite?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but I'd come over, I go, you mean this rock?

[Dusty Slay]

The one like I saw on the way here?

[Brian Bates]

And then what do you do? You talk about that for two minutes and then you're back to nothing. How much is gas? You go, I used to. I almost got free gas. That's your other conversation part. You know what I turned down for this rock? Free gas.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man. I mean, that thing's pretty sweet. You get to eat. Touch it. That guy's got gloves on. Just out of respect for the buyer. But if that's at your house, man, you can touch it. Touch something no one's touched before.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, it's. It's one of those that it would be cool to have it, but it would be also like hard to wrap your head around it, you know, like you just got it in there and then you know you're gonna be in a fight with your wife. Just a normal. I ain't doing. I'm not doing the dishes tonight. You just next to. Yeah. That rocks from Mars.

[Nate Bargatze]

Then you get divorced and she takes the rock.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So you know, cut it down the middle. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now you're paying for gas to go see your kids.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How did we. How do we get that.

[Dusty Slay]

That they found it? I think in like the Indian Ocean. No, no, it was. It was in Africa somewhere. They found it.

[Nate Bargatze]

They just knew it was from Mars. Yeah, that's what this is. From Mars.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what the villagers told them when they sold it to them.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's from a volcanic eruption on Mars from.

[Dusty Slay]

They think asteroid hit Mars and it skipped off.

[Aaron Weber]

Skipped off of Mars.

[Dusty Slay]

And they don't. They said they don't think it's been here that long because there's no like growth and stuff on it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. And barnacles and stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

But they said it was. Had a reddish hue that was clearly from Mars.

[Brian Bates]

A red rock.

[Nate Bargatze]

You better take that gas. You better take that cracker. Take that free cracker.

[Brian Bates]

That's like the. When you win the lottery. When you win the lottery. They're like, do you want it lifetime or just did lump sum? You like take the lump sum? Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right now?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't want the lottery going bankrupt.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Pluto was a planet and now it's not. But this rocks from Mars.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You gotta hope they don't. I mean, what if they just come out of nowhere and go, you know what? That wasn't for Mars. You gotta try to sell it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It represents, it's so large. It represents approximately 6.5% of all Martian material ever found on Earth. So, I mean, that's almost 7% of Mars.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I would say. Why would they. If, if it's from Mars, why are they even selling it? Like, why don't you have it in a museum?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We need money, man.

[Brian Bates]

Who needs this money? Whoever found the Mars rock, do they not have money? How are they out that deep in the Indian Ocean and not doing well off.

[Dusty Slay]

I said Indian Ocean, but I forgot I watched Superman last night and that's where they found Kryptonite. It was in Africa.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was on land in a desert.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it was just a guy that found it and then he's using like in Africa.

[Nate Bargatze]

That guy is. Knows how to make money. It's like Joe Dirt out here. That's a space turd.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It was discovered by meteorite hunter in the remote Agadez region in the Sahara desert. So golly man, a meteorite hunter. What a job. Just walk through the Sahara desert.

[Dusty Slay]

He gives up. Be like, I found one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. 54.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm Joe Dirt. You're Joe Meteor.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

Thanks Adam.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron or oh, Geor Gerald Floyd.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

He'S back.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron referring to ice cream shops as restaurants. Just shows what his fine dining includes. Other restaurants don't offer free samples because they can't just keep endless amounts of pre made food. Fresh ice cream is frozen after all and able to remain fresh.

[Dusty Slay]

We've had a debate the last couple weeks about whether or not free samples.

[Brian Bates]

Last couple weeks. Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

This is, this is week three. Whether free samples should be allowed at ice cream shops.

[Nate Bargatze]

I say there, I say you get two samples. That's it. Aaron says no samples.

[Aaron Weber]

I just pass. And I don't know a term to that encompasses ice cream shops and regular restaurants. So I just said restaurants and I think you all know what I'm talking about. But no other place where you get food works like that. Why do you get to try a little bit out?

[Brian Bates]

Because it's like crazy. Because it's like cotton candy, vanilla. That's crazy, dude. I know, but they have cotton candy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but you know what cotton candy tastes like?

[Brian Bates]

Cotton candy ice cream. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, you have an idea, don't you think taken that just you take a shot. You like it or you don't. That's part of the experience.

[Brian Bates]

No, I, I think part of the experience is the free sample. That's also part of the show. That's part of the show that you go.

[Aaron Weber]

Your generation type stuff.

[Brian Bates]

No, I think but it's like it's a. Because it's an event. You don't come in event. Well, it's like human interaction. You don't. You want to go talk to a screen and have a robot hand hand the money over and then you get it and then you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You want to point at a guy making minimum wage and go give me a little spoonful of that. Little spoonful of that.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody makes minimum wage at some point. Yeah. It's a young kid that's making it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think two samples is Fair. You don't get to stand there all day sampling all the ice creams, but you do get a couple.

[Aaron Weber]

Look, I'm not mad. I'm not picketing outside of Baskin Robbins. I'm not that mad, though.

[Brian Bates]

You might actually be doing more damage. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I just don't know why we do it at ice cream places, but. No. Nowhere else.

[Dusty Slay]

You don't agree with.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

This answer. Because it's.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe people don't. Maybe not awesome people know what food tastes like on the top of their head.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I'm saying you can do that with ice cream, too.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm saying that I. I specifically.

[Aaron Weber]

I come in with a little more knowledge than the average customer. Yeah, that's probably.

[Brian Bates]

You're beyond an edgy. You're an educated guess where they go. Yeah, but other people don't have ice cream all day every day. And you go, so can they try the cotton candy ice. Can they try a little taste of that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

How do they gotta go?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a treat for them. They're not just going there and trying all the flavors.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they don't. Yeah. It's not a daily thing going. You were here yesterday. You gotta try something. Yeah. No, these people go once a year, I think, Katie, I would like if you had regular food, though, if you got your. Let me try some. That.

[Aaron Weber]

Try some fries before I get it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But I'm saying that it doesn't work like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

They might lay it.

[Aaron Weber]

They might. The customer's always right. They'll try it, but it's not part of the system. Can you imagine if everyone was doing that at the restaurant?

[Nate Bargatze]

What if they said, what side do you want? And you go, can I try the fries? Could you. Could you bring me a couple fries?

[Aaron Weber]

I want you to try it out. Yeah, try it out. Let me know what they say.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll tell you what I would have said as a waiter. I had to go. Yeah, we can order you some. Try it out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would. I would give them a couple of fries.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'd be upset about it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. How would you bring it out?

[Nate Bargatze]

You just put on a little plate.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

With two fries.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, Put up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Maybe put a little.

[Brian Bates]

A little.

[Nate Bargatze]

Put a little drink napkin on there. Just to give it a little thing. A little piece of parsley. Just to give it a. Yeah, nice little. Make it look good.

[Brian Bates]

There you go. Let me try two more.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, it tastes like every fry ever. All right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Katie, I think fries taste different. McDonald's, Burger King, fries. Very different.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree with you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Okay. Katie Alford. People often slept in shifts to prevent the village from becoming too vulnerable without. Without someone being on guard. Being a night owl or a morning person is genetic. And we evolved to be one or the other. So everyone wasn't asleep for the same eight to ten hours.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

So last week we talked about when the light bulb was invented. People could stay up later. We used to go to bed it soon as it got dark, but then they would sleep in shifts. And we weren't sure why that was.

[Brian Bates]

This is.

[Dusty Slay]

Katie says, because we gotta be dark.

[Aaron Weber]

So, you know, we're all. I'm guessing we're all night owls here on this podcast, right? I definitely am, Dusty. Are you?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think so. When I'm doing comedy, obviously I'm. I'm amped up, but if I don't have to do comedy early to bed earlier, I could go to bed. I Woke up at 5:30 today.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. So if we were.

[Brian Bates]

I'm starting to wake up earlier. I mean, I'm on a pretty early schedule now. Because in the movie you had to get going.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Call times every day for two months. 7:30, 6:50.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Like, but I. I think as I get older, I'm liking getting up earlier.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Like, and then at night you just realize there's not, like, as you get older, there's not. I mean, unless you're going to something or whatever, when you're at home, you're like, there's just not much to do.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what they used to say. Nothing good happens after 2am that's what they say.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I've heard midnight. Yeah, Yeah. I think 10pm I think 10pm don't.

[Aaron Weber]

You have shows after 10pm?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And nothing good comes out of that show.

[Aaron Weber]

Go to the early one, the Friday late show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Colin Kakit. That's a good last name. Colin Kak. That's a good whole name.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Colin Kakat. The Cacket family. I bet the whole town knows them.

[Nate Bargatze]

The Gackets.

[Brian Bates]

I think the last name like that. The Cackets. You don't. Everybody knows. Yeah, there's. That's not a name where you go like, no, we don't have that many friends. You go, no, you run the town. Yeah. Colin Kak.

[Aaron Weber]

Sheriff Kak.

[Brian Bates]

Shawshank Redemption. Being a bad name for a movie is a really bad take. Its writer was Stephen King.

[Dusty Slay]

Wait, what?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we knew that.

[Brian Bates]

I did not know that. It is based on a short story called Rita Hayworth. And the Shawshank Redemption. Having a movie based on the story of one of America's most famous writers should have been enough.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, then why wasn't it? Why was it a box office failure?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think it's a good name, but only because you know what it is now. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If you were just blindly looking through what's showing at the movie theater.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You would see Shawshank Redemption and think, oh, that looks.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't go. No.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, okay. I'm used to being.

[Nate Bargatze]

What movie? What title. But what title would get you to see it? See, you said Prison Break, but I saw.

[Aaron Weber]

No, but I don't want to. Nate hasn't seen it, so I don't want to give any.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't want to spoil it.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's why people didn't like that idea of a time. I've read another comment that said, well.

[Aaron Weber]

That it doesn't have to be that, but you don't have to spoil it, but it can be something. The Shawshank's a made up word. So the Shawshank and Redemption is like a complicated.

[Nate Bargatze]

What, what's on you for a. What's something you would call it?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. Red and Andy go to. Go to Shawshank.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

The adventures of the adventures. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The adventures of Red and Andy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But like, you know, from the same book of short stories.

[Dusty Slay]

Nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Was a story called the Body, which became the movie Stand By Me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

Now I think Stand By Me is a better, a better title than Shawshank Redemption.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's pouring rain outside. I don't know if you can hear it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it's raining.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's one of the weird things. Zany's Comedy Club. Great club. But when it rains, that's all you can talk or think about because it, it rocks the building here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that tin roof.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like to know what's going on outside. There's no windows in here. We can tell.

[Brian Bates]

I would say with Shawshank, because again, I did not watch it, but it is. Yeah. I don't like the name currently.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you were 15 or 16 when it came out. So it's not like something you would have gone and seen anyway. Probably.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But getting shanked, Getting shanked and then being redeemed from it, I, I, I.

[Brian Bates]

Think I get it in the Green Mile confused.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, they're both Stephen King.

[Brian Bates]

Both kind of the same. And then so I think it's going to be just sad and boring.

[Dusty Slay]

And Green Mouth filmed here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You've seen Green Movie, too?

[Brian Bates]

I think maybe I've seen parts of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Not really.

[Aaron Weber]

It's way longer than the Shawshank.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't love the Grimo.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Dusty Slay]

It's fine.

[Brian Bates]

But.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's good, though. I saw a meme and it was talking about the stove, and it was like, you got four burners, and it said that one front burner. And then it showed that guy, and he goes, I'm tired, boss. Good. If you. If you cook.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's a good one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Colin Kakat, I'd love to hear some. I guess you think Shawn Redemption is fine, but I'd like to hear some alternative titles because I think. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Comment.

[Aaron Weber]

I think if they went back and do it again, they. They changed the title.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think if you watch it on YouTube. Comment. Your. Your what? Your title would be Y.

[Brian Bates]

When did. Who did it come out with? Was it nominated for Oscars and stuff for.

[Aaron Weber]

It was. It didn't win anything, though, because Forrest Gump was out the same year. Forrest Gump just cleaned up. And Pulp Fiction was the same year, too, so it didn't win anything.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a hot year.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a good year for movies.

[Brian Bates]

The Oscars were. I mean, they were making.

[Aaron Weber]

They were cooking.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Theatrical. They was like, yeah, you're going to the movies. That's what we'll be doing. You'll be going to the movies March 13th.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Brian Bates]

Watch the breadwinner. Make movies that go to the movies to fight, you gotta fight.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You don't want to lose the movie theater.

[Brian Bates]

No, I'm not trying to. I mean, I. I don't. I can't promise that everything will be, you know, I don't know answers, but, I mean, right now I'm like, I want it to be theatrical.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you seen that video they play the movie theaters where Nicole Kidman walks out and is talking about the movie theater? Have you seen that at all?

[Brian Bates]

No. No.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd like you to shoot one of those yourself.

[Brian Bates]

Just.

[Aaron Weber]

Just telling people to get back out there, man.

[Brian Bates]

I. Yeah, I want to. Yeah. I mean, that's. That's what I kind of enjoyed about making this. This is theatrical. Obviously, it will go to something else eventually. Eventually. But, like, I think that's what it should be. And I actually. If I can. If y' all make this movie hit and, dude, if I can get it where I can, like, say more of exactly what I want, which I'm. Right now, I'm Able to kind of the fact that it's theatrical. I've already turned down stuff that, that would not be theatrical.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that.

[Brian Bates]

Because I'm, I want it to be theatrical. I want people to, I want their.

[Aaron Weber]

You want to be an event.

[Brian Bates]

I want it to be getting, I want your whole family, like, getting nice. I want your whole family to go to the movie, go get ice cream, go. Your friends, your date, your husband, your wife. It's like a fun thing to go do to kind of keep you insane and then, but if we could do, if I could do it, even the way I would want to do it is I'd want to do it where you, you don't. It goes away for six months.

[Aaron Weber]

Months.

[Brian Bates]

So you go like the old, the old days. You go to the theater, you can see it, and then you don't see it again for six months until it pops back up on something else.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So then there's, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

When I worked at the video store theater, six months later it come out on video, and then a year later it would be on like HBO or something.

[Aaron Weber]

Why. Why was that? What was the reasoning? Just to build mystique about it or.

[Brian Bates]

I think DVD sales. And it was like, you know, you had a lot more producing stuff. I think you had to make DVDs and you had to do all this stuff. So it was about your, I mean, because I think, I think it was said most people made a lot of their money on DVD sales, like versus box office or whatever. So now you get like one box office and then you only get this other way. You can go to the streamers. But I think there's a way, you know, I mean, look, could you go away where it's, you got to buy it online or you, you know, kind of got to go back to this old kind of way where you own this movie and versus not owning it. And when stuff's all there, I, I, we all want it all to be there. But it, weirdly enough, it's too much of a choice. It's, you know, we all sit and look at Netflix and click and we'll spend 30 minutes trying to find something.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just to go back to Seinfeld again, right? Yeah. And you're. Because it's, it's you, you kind of just want, you know, let's watch something hbo. When you're on in the Road and oh, movies on, you're just like, I'll just watch it. Because you just want it chosen for you. And you're like, let me just go I don't want to. Why am I having to work? Also, like, why? You know, entertainment should be just like, yeah, oh, yeah, I'll go to that. And you're excited about going that now you're like, well, I gotta. I gotta think about. All right, what movie am I in the mood for?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, what?

[Brian Bates]

I know this sounds stupid, but everybody's busy, man. Everybody's got lives. And you just want to decompress and just enjoy something. And now you're like, gotta sit there and be invested. And everything's a thriller. Like, if it's like. And I watch all this stuff, I'm not saying I would not create thrillers. I like that stuff. But it's like, oh, like the movies that I'm so excited about, this movie that we just did, I. I don't think. I think it'll feel different than anything else.

[Aaron Weber]

That's great.

[Brian Bates]

It's a thriller. It's not.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

All right.

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[Nate Bargatze]

That helps me grounding.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's a great way to.

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

Haley Hayes. Hallie Hayes. Probably love listening to the episodes of this episode and all of Dusty's specials that were uploaded to Apple Music this week. I also appreciate that Apple Music suggested both Aaron and Brian as my next listen.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

However, what is up with Brian's cover picture on Apple Music? Yeah, I don't know, there's the baseball field.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no. I don't know who this guy is, but people, it's not me you're wondering.

[Brian Bates]

And is it on every one? It's on every little thing.

[Aaron Weber]

So he's got album artwork, but if you just go to Brian Bates, the artist. That's the picture for Brian Bates.

[Nate Bargatze]

Imagine clicking on that guy and then hearing Brian's voice.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he got.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. That's not what I thought that guy sounded like at all.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

This guy's not good at baseball.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And you know what? We're. And we're not even going to describe it because I'd rather you if you're just listening. Yeah, yeah. Go look it up. Look at it yourself.

[Aaron Weber]

Look up Brian Bates on Apple Music.

[Dusty Slay]

That guy's named Brian Bates.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And all his stuff is kind of the same. Getting older, uber dating. Yeah. Gyms angels. Thank you. What's it. What's a thank you?

[Aaron Weber]

First five minutes, just thanking everybody.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thanks.

[Dusty Slay]

My closer than.

[Brian Bates]

What is thank you? Is it. You have a joke on thank you? I mean. Yeah. Thank you, Joe.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it might have been.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you, guys. I'm proud.

[Dusty Slay]

It might have been. When I told a story about holding the door for a soldier's fatigues.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I was like, no, sir. Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it's just awkward.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

I remember that one.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it's. Yeah. It's three minutes long.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Three minutes of you thinking.

[Brian Bates]

So many people to think.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, let's do it by name.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. He goes, I don't usually do this, but I'm Read everybody's name in this. In this building.

[Dusty Slay]

No, everybody go around. Go around and tell your name.

[Brian Bates]

That I'll.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I got to fill them more time.

[Brian Bates]

I think, you know?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, usually that's true. This is my dry bar.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But yeah, easy out. What you were part of. Yeah, I knew everybody.

[Brian Bates]

April born April Barnett Smith peed. That's a wow sentence.

[Aaron Weber]

I found out who it is, by the way. It's this Brian Killer B. Bates.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow. So that released his name.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That's Killa B. Bates, which I think will be a good stage name for.

[Brian Bates]

You, which is good because, I mean, I bet he knows about you. He gets Google alerts, too, of just the opposite life.

[Aaron Weber]

He's out and do a show at a Christian bookstore last week.

[Brian Bates]

Why? These people think I'm sad.

[Nate Bargatze]

Easier to drive. I got a private jet.

[Brian Bates]

Do you're getting older stuff. What?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm 28.

[Brian Bates]

28.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm kill a bee.

[Nate Bargatze]

Huh.

[Brian Bates]

Came for the thank you portion of the imagine. He's not going to say thank you. Do the gyms section. All right. April Burnett Smith peed. That sounds like April Burnett Smith. Yeah, she peed.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's a sentence.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well then that's what. Yeah, that, that's. That would be his exact sentence.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you said, where's April? April. What happened here? April Barnett Smith peed. Yeah, that's what you would say. My 77 year old mother got a notification that her Gmail account was full. As I was helping her clear out the inbox, I realized most of her largest files were where she had used her cell phone to record her TV screen in portrait mode during Nate's sketches on his first snl. I deleted them since she can find much better versions online and it freed up at least a couple of gigs of space.

[Aaron Weber]

That's really sweet.

[Brian Bates]

That is sweet. You know what? I always think that sometimes because I used to, you know, you'd always are. I think I still do because we have DirecTV. But you record, you record. If you're on late night, if you're on anything, you would record it. And I would always leave them on the dvr. And I still got some on the dvr. And even though you're like, I could. I can go watch this anywhere. But it's just something about it being on TV that you're like, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, it's different.

[Brian Bates]

It's different.

[Dusty Slay]

I want to see even the commercials coming in and out of it.

[Brian Bates]

All of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's crazy. Well, that's very sweet, Nick Nolli, almost. I just heard Nate for the first time over the announcements at the Nashville airport and it made my whole day. Also, they said someone left a CPAP machine at security. Just letting air in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thanks.

[Dusty Slay]

Could be me.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks. That could be either.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's a tough one to. You know, It's. Yeah. Someone leave a CPAP machine? Yeah. That's a big thing to leave behind.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. Is it just. Y' all have so much stuff to carry.

[Nate Bargatze]

Anyway, I heard someone left their cane one time. I think we talked about this years ago, but it's like you left your cane and I was, I was thinking, well, why don't you also explain to us why you don't need that cane?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like if you left your cane, do you really need the cane that much?

[Aaron Weber]

You use that to cut the security line and then you left the game there by accident.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it.

[Dusty Slay]

You're gonna need it to Board Southwest First.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly one time at bna, the announcer comes on and goes, somebody left a wedding ring at security. You better come get it. You know, your wife ain't gonna believe you. Everybody laughed. Big laugh in the concourse.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it did. Yeah. I bet they went. I bet he's not the one that found it, but I bet they. They went to him and said, you should do this one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right?

[Brian Bates]

And he's like, let me do it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like. Because that's not just. Anybody can do that.

[Dusty Slay]

I sound. That's. I thought that was a woman.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a woman.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. But yeah. Yeah. You're not an impressionist. Like.

[Dusty Slay]

What this one look like what?

[Brian Bates]

Travis Weber. I am a little worried that the entire Neyland crew will be on the same cruise. Should at least one person from Nateland stay behind? Oh, just in case. To carry on the Nateland legacy.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like the State of the Union.

[Brian Bates]

Very true.

[Aaron Weber]

You got to leave one person in the Oval Office in case they blow up Capitol Hill.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think if the cruise goes down, that's it. It should. It should go down with us.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Everything goes down. I wonder who they. Yeah. They're like, well, who should stay back? Because it's like, if they're like. If Dusty stays back, you're like, would you want the Nateland world to go with Dusty leading the dream? Like, captaining that ship?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, I'm already doing the we're having a good Time podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So it's like, that's already happening.

[Brian Bates]

Bates might. I mean, you would probably have to stay behind.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I do everything anyway.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, exactly. Michael Davis on a recent family trip. You are staying by. Too bad for. We could talk about that. We ran out of rooms. Michael Davis on a recent family trip. My wife remarked, since we are driving in that in the direction that the earth is spinning, does that mean we are going just a smidge faster than if we were going in the opposite direction? Direction. I want to get Yalls take on this because I legit did not have a good answer to that. Then it became a family discussion with no good explanation.

[Aaron Weber]

We came to the right podcast, Michael.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I would think the physics of it all.

[Brian Bates]

The win. Is it the wind? It's the. The. Yeah, the wind.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it's the wind. I don't think there's wind in space.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm saying we're spinning. You're just going to be. You know, it's like the fans, you know, just. It's all Going. It's like an airplane. When you get headwind or tailwind, you go faster with the tailwind.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's happening with the orbit around the sun generally, give or take it.

[Brian Bates]

You don't know you're going any faster?

[Aaron Weber]

I have no idea.

[Brian Bates]

I have no.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know what direction they're talking.

[Dusty Slay]

About Earth spinning on its axis, not orbiting around this.

[Aaron Weber]

I've made that mistake on here before. I'm sorry about that. I'll sit out for a little bit. I'll let y' all take this.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What a amateur night.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I'm sorry. You don't know. I'm sorry.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm gonna let you guys have. I have the answer, but I can't. I don't want to say.

[Aaron Weber]

We're not gonna.

[Brian Bates]

Like. I don't want to say. Aaron doesn't know how to talk to the common folk. And you'd be going a little bit faster. Okay. If you're going in that direction, why drive at all?

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. If you're going. If you're going. But if you're going faster, you would. You would be able to move without. You would be able to move without.

[Nate Bargatze]

Why not just jump and let the. You know, just jump and let. Let it spin around and you only.

[Brian Bates]

Smidge, Dusty. Yeah, because it's a smidge.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's how we should travel. Just hops.

[Brian Bates]

But you gotta. It'll take a while.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If you do hop, you could do. Move forward.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You think you're going any faster? You think it's the same thing?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, think about it like the walkway on at an airport, right. I think you're going faster if. If you're already. If it's moving in the direction you're.

[Brian Bates]

Going in, but, I mean, you don't even feel it, so it might not even be. So it's probably the answer is no, because I'm saying, like.

[Aaron Weber]

But also, if it's coming towards you, then. Then what you're driving to is also coming towards you as well.

[Brian Bates]

That's going slower.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's spinning.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thousand miles per hour. So is it.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think that's that fast. I think it's a thousand miles per hour.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but Earth's real. It's real big. It's a real big Earth.

[Dusty Slay]

So how many miles is it around the Earth?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know, 24,000. Because it's a day.

[Brian Bates]

That's how they did.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw this today. You know, if an atom were an atom, a single atom were the size of a tennis ball, how big do you think a penny would be?

[Dusty Slay]

Size of the Earth.

[Aaron Weber]

Size of the earth.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

Isn't it crazy? Yeah, I mean, that. That's how small an atom is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Isn't that fun?

[Nate Bargatze]

That is fun. That is fun. Why a penny, though? Why not like a rubber, Little rubber bouncy ball?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, if it atoms the size of a tennis ball, yeah, but then I know what a tennis ball.

[Nate Bargatze]

But then a rubber, Little rubber bouncy ball would be like a actual representation.

[Brian Bates]

He's just saying. Yeah, I think you're.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I get what you're saying. I'm just saying why use a flat penny?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I think we all know how big a tennis ball is. And we all know how big a penny is.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So I think it works pretty great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I don't think people are supposed to ask questions after they say that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then you do.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nah, you're right, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I watched the whole thing. I remembered one fact from it.

[Nate Bargatze]

That'll get. I'd let you all know that'll get some comments. Yeah, Dusty's stupid. He doesn't know anything.

[Brian Bates]

And then they'll.

[Nate Bargatze]

Then they'll say it to Aaron, too.

[Aaron Weber]

They'll say, Aaron had a real bad attitude today.

[Brian Bates]

He go, agree. I wouldn't. Knowing and believing are two different things. That is true. Craig 9. We've got a baby boy coming next year and a fun last name. Curious if y' all have any suggestions for us. Nine is a great last name.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I say first name. 7. Middle middle name. 8.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, 7. 9. Craig 9.

[Nate Bargatze]

How about 11?

[Brian Bates]

No, you know, 11.

[Aaron Weber]

11 for roll call, 9. 11.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

9, I think 9. I think. No, I think German when I hear it right away. I don't think the number right away, but that's just on me.

[Nate Bargatze]

That depends on how southern you are.

[Brian Bates]

Tommy nine.

[Dusty Slay]

Tommy nine.

[Brian Bates]

Tommy nine.

[Dusty Slay]

That's pretty good.

[Brian Bates]

Nine. Like if you go with a. Just a classic name with that last name. Like, don't try to, you know, Fancy. Fancy. Just.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just go like Daniel 9.

[Aaron Weber]

Johnny 9.

[Brian Bates]

Buck 9.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like Buck 9. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Maybe Glock is Buck 9 a real thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's a. I don't.

[Dusty Slay]

That sounds good.

[Brian Bates]

Buck 9 is awesome. Awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It was Buck short for something. Or is Buck an actual name?

[Brian Bates]

Uncle Buck. What was his name in that movie Barrels or something? Barley's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Buck is Buck Russell. I thought.

[Aaron Weber]

Is his name Buckley Buchanan or even Buckminster.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, Buckminster Buchanan. Yeah, Buchanan, but my friends call me Buck nine.

[Nate Bargatze]

Buck nine's good.

[Brian Bates]

Buck nine's good. Yeah, that's awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do that, Craig.

[Brian Bates]

Buck nine. You name your kid Buck nine. He's already gonna.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's gonna be wild.

[Brian Bates]

He's gonna be. But he's gonna. He's gonna crush it, dude. He's gonna be crushing. He's gonna be. He will be a.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I hear buck nine. I think of a McDouble.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It was on the dog venue.

[Brian Bates]

It was a Buck nine. I'll go. And tell you, the Cackett family's not going to love the Buck Nines running around.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I tell you that because they're gonna keep an eye on him. Jared Wolf. I'd be. I'd be willing to bet my professional golf career. Oh, I know. Oh, this is always a. Yeah, I know who this is.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I'd be willing to bet my professional golf career that a. A Ron cannot throw a golf ball a hundred yards. To put that in perspective, most baseball parks range from 110 to 130 yards from home plate to the wall. I'd give him 30 yard, 40 yards max, maybe 50 with rollout. It's as much as I want to see between Bates and Aaron. Maybe nine holes. Make it happen.

[Nate Bargatze]

I want to see it happen, too. I got faith.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it's a match. It's. I'm sorry. I said it's a much. Yeah, it's a match I want to see between Bates and Aaron, maybe nine holes. Let's go out. Let's take Jared out. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you can do it. Jared quits golf.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

30 to 40 yards max is.

[Dusty Slay]

So.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I could throw a football farther than that. You think I can throw a football farther than I can throw a golf ball?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think you can do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think you can do it.

[Brian Bates]

But you think. But you think you could hit the fence in a baseball from home plate in the. With a golf ball?

[Nate Bargatze]

That's 130. I mean.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What about a base? You can't throw a baseball. You couldn't throw a. I mean, like, you're on espn. If you can throw a baseball from home plate to.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I don't think I can, but I think I can throw a golf ball farther and I can throw a baseball.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Not that much farther.

[Aaron Weber]

Especially if.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If it gets a little. It's not just about the carry.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is one time I believe in you.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. The one time I'm. I'm with Jared. I want.

[Aaron Weber]

Was 100 yards generous to me. Of course. Of course.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. But I agree with him.

[Aaron Weber]

30 to 40 yards is like. I could do that left handed.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is this. Wow. In the direction of the earth spin.

[Brian Bates]

That's true.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good jump when you throw it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What if we let Jared pick which direction he wants you to throw the golf ball? We get Jared to decide. I want to see that. Jared, I want you to play nine holes with baits. Imagine playing, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I don't care for Jared.

[Brian Bates]

Jared Wolf. Why?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I'm joking.

[Aaron Weber]

He plays.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, man. Yeah, I. I think I told Aaron a par three course, he might get me. I think on a regular golf course, though, those par fours and par fives would. His arm would tire out.

[Aaron Weber]

But how far are you driving the ball?

[Dusty Slay]

Wait, I. I get to play with.

[Aaron Weber]

We're playing golf. Me and Brace playing against each other.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm throwing the ball. He's hitting it with the claw club.

[Brian Bates]

You think who would win with clubs, though?

[Dusty Slay]

I would have to close.

[Aaron Weber]

Bates would probably win at this point with clubs.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Right. Now if y' all both play.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but you can play longer. You're a little better golf.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But if I'm throw. I have much more control throwing it. Obviously anybody does.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So I'm saying if I were throwing it and he was hitting with the club. I'm never going to shank it in the woods. I'm never going to get it in the bunker.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, your arm is going to get tired. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why we'll play nine holes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. You. I mean, and I have to putt. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I get down on the ground.

[Nate Bargatze]

How far are you? How far from the tee to a hole?

[Aaron Weber]

Depends on the hole. You know, 400 yards. Sometimes way less than that, sometimes more than that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Pretty far.

[Nate Bargatze]

But with the bounce, how far do you think you could get it?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but it's not gonna. It's coming off 100 miles an hour. When it hits the club and you're throwing it, you're not throwing in 100 miles an hour.

[Aaron Weber]

But is Brian hitting it 200 yards off the tee?

[Brian Bates]

He's going to hit it.

[Aaron Weber]

Is he hitting the fairway?

[Brian Bates]

You can't. Yeah, but if. When Brian hits a golf ball, you can't throw it farther than he hit it by a long shot.

[Dusty Slay]

Thinking.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree with you, but we're talking about the consistency here is what's going to separate me over time because I'm never going to throw it in the woods. I'm never going to, you know, throw it and it just drops right back down where it was.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you're in the sand pit, easy to throw it out of there.

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

But if it, if it, if it makes you, you almost be like, take putting out of it. Be like, no matter what, when you get to the green, you both have.

[Aaron Weber]

To like, you play like you play on a.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, I both have to put on.

[Aaron Weber]

The green or just they assume a two putt from the, from the green or whatever like you do on a semi.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Or something.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'll take that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, I would say you'd almost just both. Both. Yeah. But if you both putt, then you.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, do you think you could roll with your hand better than you could putt with a club?

[Aaron Weber]

Probably.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. We'll figure it out one of these.

[Brian Bates]

One of these days we'll get. Jared will be here for it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

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[Dusty Slay]

What is it?

[Nate Bargatze]

They should have 50 in there a few more times and you can say 50. 50.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I think we're all going to remember that now.

[Brian Bates]

Lee Wilson. We visited New York City in 2008 while there were. While there we were searching for something to do on our last night and went to a comedy show at a random club after buying tickets on a wimp. One of the Comedians we saw was a guy from Tennessee. And the only thing I remember about him was he wore a Vanderbilt shirt. Was this likely, Nate? Could it have been someone else?

[Aaron Weber]

Did he have multiple shirts on, rubber bands, Puka shell necklace?

[Brian Bates]

He said he doesn't remember any of that. Yeah, it probably is me. 2008, when did Keith moved there? That's the only thing I would say is I don't know. Was Keith there in 2008? I don't know if he was there in 2008.

[Dusty Slay]

I think Keith was there in 2008.

[Aaron Weber]

But Keith is probably wearing a suit.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I bet it was you.

[Brian Bates]

You're. You're. This is one of those, like, 99, you know, buck nine. Yeah. This is a buck nine.

[Nate Bargatze]

He didn't. He didn't say. Well, he should have included if it. If it was good or not.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did he enjoy that guy?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Oh, I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

He left that out to be nice.

[Brian Bates]

That didn't matter.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it probably was. All right. Speaking of Remembering things from 2008, today we're talking about memory. Okay, Aaron, what's the earliest childhood memory you have?

[Aaron Weber]

I was on my dad's shoulder. We at a Lowe's or a Home Depot. And I remember I spit up on my dad's shoulder. I was probably between one and two.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

You remember one flashes of that?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Now, I don't remember anything before or after, but I vividly remember doing that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then, you know, a lot of times you'll see pictures of yourself as a child, and then I don't. I don't know if I actually remember that or if I just know from the picture. But I have other flashes. But it wasn't until way later that I can really remember things.

[Dusty Slay]

But, you know, it wasn't just them telling you the story that.

[Aaron Weber]

No, because I. Because I told my family that recently. They didn't remember that at all. But I remembered that doing that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Super young.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But that's just one little moment, you know?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Because you're throwing up food. You remember you were upset. Yeah. That's the first time you learned that it could. It could be taken from you.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think I was a. I feel like about the same age. I have a little scar on my knuckle right here, and I was hanging on a towel rack in the bathroom, and it was ceramic tile, and it broke and I cut my finger. And I only. I don't. I mean, I only remember like. Like you say, like a flash of it, but I feel like I remember falling. Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

You're doing pull ups.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, no. I was like standing on the. You're balancing and I was holding it.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Nate Bargatze]

And it broke. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Does your family remember that? You ever ask your mom or dad?

[Nate Bargatze]

My sister was in the bathtub with me.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is she remembers it?

[Nate Bargatze]

I. I think so. But I still have this scar. I mean, this is. I'm 43 and I still. You can't see it when it's like this. When I close it, you can still see the scar.

[Brian Bates]

Is your memory in black and white?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I'm seriously thinking about it. We had a black and white tv.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we had a black and white tv.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you remember getting color and do you remember that?

[Brian Bates]

No, we had color. No, I don't. No, we had a color tv. But your black and white TV was like the kitchen tv. Oh, okay. So it was a TV that you just plugged in antenna. And it was like, it was a small.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like that you were doing like that. Were you winding it up?

[Brian Bates]

No, I was like. You picked it up and carried it. Like, it almost like you carry like, like. Yeah, but the black and white. We had one in black and white tv. It is crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy to sit right here right now and just. We had a. We had a black and white TV that was just the kitchen tv. So it was just like. So you could have something on when you were cooking.

[Aaron Weber]

Just antennas.

[Brian Bates]

Just antennas. Like you just have something on. Yep. So you're cooking. And it was in the whole. And it was all in black and white.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I was like, do you think they sell cards still with no air conditioning? Like, my parents bought their first car. They bought was. Didn't have air conditioning because it was cheaper to buy it without air conditioning.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think China makes a truck that's like super, like has no frills, but you can't get it here.

[Dusty Slay]

That was like an accessory then.

[Brian Bates]

Yes, it was an add on.

[Nate Bargatze]

My 84 Bronco 2 had no air conditioner. It wasn't broken. It wasn't built with an air conditioner. 84, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

The last holdout to offer a car without air conditioning was the Jeep Wrangler. And then they made it standard in 2023.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

You can get a car that's pretty much 2022 car without. Without air conditioning.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. It's so my. I think I. I don't think my memory. I have. I remember I talked about in my act, but when my dad brought the Easter Bunny home. I think I was like five then. I kind of vague memories of that earlier than that. I do think I remember. I remember when being told I think that I was gonna have a brother, Derek.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

I. I think I remember. I remember that like. But it's like again, it's like little pieces and parts and some reason I can kind of picture where we were and I kind of remember that. But that's. That's.

[Dusty Slay]

And how much older are you that.

[Brian Bates]

Who? Three. Three years.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

So Derek's birthday just. Happy birthday, Derek. All right. Birthday there was July 9th, so he's 40.

[Aaron Weber]

He's been on the podcast.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Two minutes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was born 82.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, me too.

[Brian Bates]

43.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's called. The reason infants can't remember. You can't remember being an infant is. It's called infantile amnesia. Their brains haven't developed fully formed yet. They don't understand language. So you're not going to remember something maybe if you don't even understand what's being said. And they haven't even developed a sense of self. They don't even know. Like, you think Olive knows she's even a person yet?

[Aaron Weber]

I read that for. For. At first, the. The baby thinks the mom is part of it. Like it doesn't even understand that the mom is something separate from itself for a while. It understands the dad is something different.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you think you are?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I know. It's just a guy that things are wild.

[Brian Bates]

Bear. Hey, bear. A lot of hay bears from all of just hey, bear. Hey, bear. And then. Oh, I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

But that's. Yeah, I don't think. Yeah. A sense of self. When does that develop? Not till way later.

[Nate Bargatze]

The babies don't need to see their parents mentally breaking down at first.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good thing, isn't it?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It needs to be a haze at the beginning.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, my gosh. My dad's pretty young. Starts getting clearer. Maybe he's the one that's blurry.

[Dusty Slay]

It said three to three and a half is like when you first start developing.

[Aaron Weber]

That's late.

[Brian Bates]

Well, mine was three. My memory. Your memory is one and two. No one really believes that.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then I don't like a cool memory there. Yeah. I could be two. I could. I don't know exactly. My parents divorced when I was 2 or 3. It's. And my parents were married.

[Brian Bates]

And you remember that because they told them it was your fault.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually.

[Brian Bates]

That always stick with You.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I actually don't remember them divorcing at all. That's the only memory I have. When they were married. The towel rack breaking and me cutting my finger.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So. Wow. Yeah. My sister could have been trying to drown me. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The brain.

[Brian Bates]

Good thing to just throw an accusation.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's not flesh that out at all. Your sister went Ken, saw Dusty or saw Brian.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. She probably was trying to drive.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The brain storage capacity is 2.5 petabytes. That's two and a half million gigabytes or 300 years worth of TV.

[Brian Bates]

That's what your memory. That's what you can remember if your.

[Dusty Slay]

Brain was fully stored with information. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, so that's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot of data.

[Nate Bargatze]

Terabytes. I could use one of those.

[Aaron Weber]

You got one in your head.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So how. I wonder how big. Like that. These flashes, these memories we have. That's probably like a negligible amount of data.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

But like, that's like a Vine grade or whatever. That's a big. That's a fair amount of.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a gigabyte.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's a gigabyte or two, probably. And then when you.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you. How much of that's even accurate? Right. You kind of create a little bit. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then do you fill it up and then you have to get rid of stuff to get new memories? Is that how it works? Is I always assumed there was. Oh, if you infinite amount of. You could just learn an infinite amount.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, so far pretty much has been that.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, you think somebody's gotten close to filling up their brain?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I don't know. I don't know how big a single memory is. So I have no way to tell if this is like a crazy amount of space.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's fair. I don't think anybody's gotten close. Don't they say we only use like 10 of our brain?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but I don't. Well, you know, that's like saying I. That's like saying, you know, you only use 10 of the roads to get here from your house. You know what I mean? Do you think, like, all the other roads still work, you're just not using them all at one time?

[Dusty Slay]

You think you have good memories?

[Brian Bates]

I actually think I. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That a little different.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you're right.

[Brian Bates]

You're right.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, do you think you have a good memory?

[Nate Bargatze]

They're not all good. Bad.

[Brian Bates]

I always think I don't. And then. But You. I think we do to because people always say remembering our, our acts like how to remember our standup. I think I've gotten a lot better is I, I can use my memory. I think I have a lot of good memory of stuff that's like for resourceful things that I will use I will hang on to little. I like, I always like love kind of seeing what. But I always, you know when someone tells you like, oh, bet you're going to get some material out of this or do you get a joke out of this thing and the answer that is like you're going, I don't know. I might. But it might be six months from now, it might be two years from now. I don't know for sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's not like unless like, you know, someone walks in and does something crazy. Like if it's obvious.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Overall you're like, maybe, maybe not. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I think of it like you're adding another little Lego to your set. You don't know what you're going to build with it, but it's another little Lego piece that you might use.

[Brian Bates]

And so you're like, I don't know. I can't tell you. Like I'm just taking. I don't know what I'm gonna. I almost just allow whatever stick sticks and you just go like I always, I, I kind of find it interesting to be like what's the things that stick with me? And then I go try to like for some reason even it's advice or it's you know, like the Bridgestone arena thing was like some reason that was always just stay with me. Like imagine selling that out. Like, so it's this running thing that wasn't a memory.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that made us a question. But my act, but I'm good at like when I once I'm done with my stand up act. I mean I like if you, if you asked me to go through my stand up special from last year, I don't even, I mean I, I would be able to be like, all right, did the water meter thing and then it's like what do you feel like.

[Aaron Weber]

If you got into it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You would find it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. But it would be. I've, I've shoved it out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

To do multiple hours though, you have to have a good memory. I think every successful comedian with multiple hours has a good memory. Like, like you might not be able to do the whole thing from, you know, full time magic or whatever, but you, you did it and then you did Another hour and then another hour and then another hour where it's like to remember all that and remember how you tell the joke from night to night going, this is now how it goes. You know, you don't. You don't go up and tell the joke. And it's different every night. There might be some variation, but you know exactly how it goes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but isn't it weird that you. You remember your first special? Like, I can remember jokes from my first special more than I can from Tennessee kid. Yeah, because you just like, you did it for so long, I guess.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I think so.

[Brian Bates]

And so you just. And then once it. Once you tape a special, it starts becoming like, you know, up until a special is like, you don't know where this material, no one's going to see it. You don't know where it's going to be. There's no reason to write new stuff. And then once you make a special, you're like, now it's survival. And you're like, oh, I got to come up with other ideas. And then so you just go.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it transitions somewhere in there from short term memory to long term memory. And I don't know if there's something in between short term memories, you know, stuff that you got to memorize for a while, but 10 years from now, you're not going to know your locker combination or. Or something like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you remember your phone number growing up? Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too. I don't know. Locker combination.

[Nate Bargatze]

But you had to remember the phone number for a much longer amount of time than your life.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we had a great phone number. What was it?

[Aaron Weber]

Or do you know?

[Brian Bates]

On us, I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it still your phone number?

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no, no. I wish it was. I would, yeah, If I could get it back, I would. 8 4, 7, 2500, 2500.

[Aaron Weber]

That sounds like a law firm, doesn't it? Call 8, 4, 7, 2500.

[Brian Bates]

Man, it was a great number.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

27708772. That's four sevens, dude. Yeah, that's a nice rhythm to it.

[Nate Bargatze]

749-8-262-8262. No, no.

[Aaron Weber]

This guy has no idea.

[Nate Bargatze]

Moore's Lane lot. My address was Lot 8, Morris Trailer Park. Now, my dad's phone number and address are the same, so I wouldn't say yet. Okay, but what was his Bates 8271? I don't know. I have no idea.

[Brian Bates]

Were you about to say K L? Yeah, yeah. Was there the letter, remember, on Seinfeld? They. That was a number you call Peggy.

[Nate Bargatze]

8271.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's 555, which is why I. Most TV shows use for a prefix, but I don't know why they chose to do it. KL 5.

[Brian Bates]

I thought someone used to say, you used to do it like that. I used to say their. The letter.

[Aaron Weber]

I've never heard of a letter in a phone.

[Brian Bates]

I just remember they do it on Seinfeld and I just don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I thought, well, you can if you like. If it spelled something right.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

8271. That was it. Sorry. Okay, now it's coming back to me. I gotta. I gotta. My first memory.

[Dusty Slay]

We don't attempt to store information in our own memory the same degree that we used to. Because of something called the Google effect. Our brains have learned that. Look, we can just Google it and we can get the answer so we don't have to memorize all this stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Whoa, you're not always going to have a calculator in your pocket.

[Aaron Weber]

They used to say that all the time.

[Dusty Slay]

So we pay less attention to life itself because. And become worse at remembering events from our own lives because in our brain we think we can just go look it up.

[Aaron Weber]

So a guy born in the 30s is going to have a way better memory than a guy born in the 90s. Just because I think I do.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Come on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, just because they. They know how to.

[Dusty Slay]

I do have a good memory.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you really?

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Brian Bates]

He's got an unbelievable memory.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you journal every night. That's kind of cheating.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that does help, I admit. And then I look back.

[Brian Bates]

So that's. That's so much discipline to do that.

[Aaron Weber]

I. Well, the discipline's a separate. Separate trait.

[Brian Bates]

But two. I know, but it's to add to it.

[Nate Bargatze]

But his memory, it's because Brian's never been an alcoholic.

[Dusty Slay]

True to that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's still time.

[Brian Bates]

But he's. Bates is like, like the best. I. I used his memory as is. It's a. Like a power to me. It's like a superpower to me. He remembers because we can. He'll remember where we were in what city. Like we were doing this and that and Bubba and all this.

[Aaron Weber]

You remember like old bits of his that he.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'm really good with association. Somehow I can.

[Nate Bargatze]

You have the Bates effect, not the Google effect. Yes.

[Brian Bates]

If.

[Dusty Slay]

If you give me like one detail about something I can usually remember. Oh, yeah, that's when I was doing this. And that was that. And I can put it all together.

[Aaron Weber]

So probably when you read through your journal and it's just a few facts about the day, you probably start to remember other things around those facts. Right. You can't. You can kind of remember more about the day. Is that true?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And usually, like on the radio when they. Have you ever seen the contest where they guess the year?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And they'll give you a song, a movie or whatever. I can usually do it just like that.

[Brian Bates]

Really.

[Aaron Weber]

So are you really good at trivia.

[Nate Bargatze]

Phenom on our hands here?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're being underutilized.

[Brian Bates]

I've, I've. I've always used it. Okay. You've exploited it. Yeah. I knew it was there. Okay. That's why I brought him to certain alive when we did it, I was like, that's.

[Aaron Weber]

I want somebody to remember this.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I knew that. I knew that I couldn't, like, I would forget stuff and. Because you're into whatever. And I knew the best person to bring was him.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'm not great with. Thank you. I'm not great with short term memory. Like names. I'm not great at remembering people's names or name.

[Aaron Weber]

I want you to. It'll test this, Right. I want you to name three names from the comments that we read earlier in the podcast today.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now, you just said he wasn't.

[Aaron Weber]

You compiled these. But I just want to test this.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Colin Kacket.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Craig.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nine.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

And Jared.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wolf Man.

[Aaron Weber]

That's pretty good.

[Brian Bates]

That's what we talked about. Can you name two more?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so because those are.

[Brian Bates]

The ones we kind of talked about.

[Nate Bargatze]

Come on.

[Dusty Slay]

There was. That first guy was Adam Fassman.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

And the second one was like, pretty close to like two famous people.

[Dusty Slay]

Nick Novelli.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that one's on there too.

[Dusty Slay]

But again, all that I'm based because he said it was almost like Nick Novicki and. But that's short.

[Aaron Weber]

It doesn't matter how you remembered it. You remembered it.

[Brian Bates]

Do you remember the guy's name for.

[Dusty Slay]

That Went to New York, the last one we read. I don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

This guy was a president and also just became iconic one year. Gerald Floyd.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I wouldn't have got that, I think.

[Nate Bargatze]

Come on.

[Dusty Slay]

Come on. George Floyd.

[Nate Bargatze]

George Floyd and Gerald Ford. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Two famous people. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, in my class.

[Brian Bates]

Lee Wilson.

[Dusty Slay]

At my class reunion this weekend, I had to dial it down a little bit, just not make myself creepy.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, sure.

[Dusty Slay]

When I know more about them than they do.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

Sort of stuff.

[Brian Bates]

I mean. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're like, I'm the famous guy here, and I know more about you guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He remembers when he recognized the person from the crowd. That's. That's. That's one of the more impressive things on earth.

[Aaron Weber]

You're good with faces, too. You remember people.

[Dusty Slay]

I used to be. I'm not as good as I used as I once was, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

But I'm. I'm pretty good at it.

[Brian Bates]

But, I mean, if I could pull. If I could bring him with me everywhere and have me in every meeting, it would be completely worth it. Yeah. Because he would remember every single.

[Aaron Weber]

You're a stenographer that just sits there in the corner.

[Dusty Slay]

I watch you on. I mean, this SNL was only, what, two years ago, your first one. So it's not like it's a long time ago. But on Dan Patrick, you were talking about the George Washington sketch.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

And I remember that day getting there, and you told us. You're like, we got this sketch about George Washington. I have to say so much.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, I have a lot to say.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's just funny how that.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Iconic thing.

[Brian Bates]

Crazy. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because you talk by far more than that one. Than any other sketch.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would. I. I would literally. That's the only reason. I mean, the only. But that was the reason I brought him to ser Alive was because I knew we'd want to talk about it, and I needed. And I was like, so who would be good? And he's.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm very impressed.

[Brian Bates]

I go back to him with, like, with jokes. I'll call him with that. Like, we're trying. Because now it's like, I've used stuff so many. Not saying it's just for me, but I. Maybe it's because I know that he. He's so good at this, and I need his help because we're having to create so much other stuff to be like, hey, did we do this, or did we talk about this on the. I mean, how many times do you go, do we talk about this podcast? And he says, yes, yes. It's every. It's. That's nuts. That. But if anything, go, have we talked. You know, we did talk about. We did it with that. That's. That alone. That's their. Your proof.

[Dusty Slay]

I do find now we're at episode, what, 261 or something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's getting more and more. It's getting harder. Like, because we do the episode.

[Aaron Weber]

You're running out of petabytes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Then I go watch it. So I basically see it Twice. But it is getting harder now. We've done so many episodes. If you said, hey, did we talk about this? Sometimes I'm like, I don't. I think we did, but have you.

[Aaron Weber]

Ever had a memory that you're convinced is true and then you find out that the memory's wrong?

[Nate Bargatze]

Mandela effect. That's what they call that.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sure I have.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, the Mandela effect is a collective of remembering something that wasn't true. Right.

[Brian Bates]

But, you know, I think so. I think you do. Like, I think there's. There's stuff here in general. Like, I think a story can get. Get in front of a memory.

[Aaron Weber]

I've had stuff. I go, I swear on my life that. And then, like, roll tape. And then it's the complete opposite.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man. How did I get that wrong?

[Brian Bates]

That's why eyewitness stuff is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I had a couple things here about false memories and how you can trick people into believing.

[Aaron Weber]

Trying to segue.

[Dusty Slay]

Good job.

[Brian Bates]

Up.

[Dusty Slay]

One of them is they convinced. Sounds mean. Kids from 11 to 14 that they committed a crime that they didn't do.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They asked their caregiver, their parent or whoever for one real childhood memory that was kind of maybe traumatic or something. They go in and talk to them about that. It builds trust. And then they're like. And then you remember you committed this crime and you did this, this, this. And many of them like, I guess I did. And they start thinking they really did do this.

[Aaron Weber]

Did that to Brendan Dassey and making a murderer, man. Yeah. Remember that?

[Brian Bates]

Huh?

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't watch it, but I did hear about it.

[Brian Bates]

What? But, yeah. Why would they do that?

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's just psychological torture. It's an experiment to show how we can be tricked into false memories.

[Brian Bates]

And you imagine they. You shouldn't do that to kids. Just to go, what is this for? The Nateland podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

We'Re trying to learn.

[Brian Bates]

About memory for Nateland so they can talk about it. And they might not get to it. It might or might not get to it.

[Dusty Slay]

Barely did get to it. This one's a little bit less mean. They ask participants, adults, I guess, to watch video of a car accident. And just the way they worded it, they asked some people, how fast was the car going when they smashed into each other? And then the other one, they said, how fast is the car going when they collided? And the people who the word smash was used said it was going faster. They were going faster than the word collide.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Can this be something that you. Can memory be something that you work on. Can you work it like a muscle?

[Brian Bates]

I think so. I. I've learned, you know, what I've been doing, what I've done for the past few years with my memory is because I can tend to get hung up on something, and where I'll be, you know, I could be either frustrated or I could be. It's on my mind, whatever it is, and I give myself, and I go, all right. I'll even tell myself, I go, you know what? This is something I won't even think about tomorrow. And then I just move on. And if I think about it, if it comes back to me, then I'll go solve what? Or do something. But I've started doing that so much that I. Now I can tell myself I won't remember this tomorrow. And then I don't even, like, even put any weight into it because I already. I've done it so much. Yeah, that I know you do it. I did it on stage when I would. I would catch myself back. I remember the show in Houston where I kept myself being on stage, like, all my minds wondering, wandering too much when I was on stage. So I started. That was the first time I learned that you could do it. It was almost. It was so crazy. Like, I was like, all right. Anytime my mind starts to wander on something else, I yank it back to the story that I'm telling. And then I get exact. So then I start picturing the story.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I see. I'm talking about a donkey jumping off a high dive. I'm picturing a donkey. I do it every single night. And so now when I'm doing these stories, when I'm telling this stuff, I'm kind of just do it without even thinking. Thinking about it, because I've worked on it. But that was something that I truly worked on to yank myself into. Like, this is the thing that I'm doing now with the acting stuff I kind of had because I was doing shows, and then I would come back and have to remember these lines. And so it's like you just kind of go like, all right, well, this is. This kind of thing now. It's like, almost like going like, all right, I can remember all this stuff, but how do I just, you know, I don't know, use it for that? Getting that mindset right Then I'm not. I still not. Like, it bleeds. It's not. I'm not great at all of it. But the. Yeah, the memory, you can. You can go. And some of you can go like, yeah, I'M gonna. I'm gonna see if I remember this. Yeah, that's fun. It's a fun. It's like a game.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You just go, like, I'll remember it if it's. If it. Like it matters to me. Not like it's important. Like saying remembering someone's name's not important. Like, all that stuff. But you're meeting so many people that, you know, you try to. Try to just put. You could. Because you can put it in there and then just shove it back in a weird way. You know, you can now. You know, you're like, all right, I'll just put it. Let me put this thing in. I remember that now. Let me shove it back. And I might need some help getting it started. Yeah, but once you get it started, you're like, well, I didn't lose it. I just kept it there. That's like listening to your old actual. And then being able to go do it like what you were saying. You could do that because you just learn to, like, shove stuff back to go like this. I don't need this right now. So this name or this. Whatever this restaurant reading at. I don't need to remember this right now because I. I have other stuff I'm trying to remember. But if you're a foodie, that is the thing that you're into. Yeah. So you won't remember. Like, someone tell you about a restaurant? I don't remember any restaurant ever. Someone's. What's the best dinner you've ever had? I have no idea. McDonald's. Like, it is. It is, but it's like, I don't. You know, but try like, Hot dog in Knoxville. It was Hot Dog. Knoxville was the best. But. And there was one time a pizza in Chicago. Once that.

[Nate Bargatze]

But once you start to jog it at all. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It all starts. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But you just shove it back, and it's almost like it doesn't leave. It's just there.

[Aaron Weber]

And then if you're asked the right question, we can pull it out.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's like a filing cabinet. You start digging through it and you go, oh, here it is.

[Brian Bates]

That's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Find it.

[Brian Bates]

How do you think. Look at your act. How come in my 23 years of doing comedy, I just talked about on the last special of being a water meter reader. 23 years of comedy. I've not said I'm a water meter reader. And then I upon. I happen to. Upon on one of my. Is that how you say it happened to a pod?

[Aaron Weber]

Happened upon.

[Brian Bates]

I happened to pawn I happened upon. I happened upon memory.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You see, I happened upon.

[Brian Bates]

I happened to a pond.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm tracking. Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I smell what you're stepping in.

[Brian Bates]

Keep going. Yeah. To a memory. To go of the. The last real job I had before comp comedy. You would think that would be out of the gate. My first joke would have been, I'm a water meter reader.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But it's not. It takes 20 plus years for me to tell you my job. I had that. I left to go do comedy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Next special, you're gonna have a joke about what you look like.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, you're really digging in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we've done that. But it's. That's why most of it is that the beginning stuff is about you, what you look at.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Because that's all you can think of. Of my first jokes. I didn't. I didn't say my dad was a clown until I was five years into doing comedy. Six years doing. Or he's a magician or any of this stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, it just didn't occur to me. It was. It was just really physical, like, things. It was the only.

[Aaron Weber]

Because I know what you're thinking.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Yeah. Because it's the only thing you even really know.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Brian Bates]

Because you. You haven't even learned how to get back into your memory. But, like, with stand up, you go. All right. That's why, you know, you have it. Like, you have a joke that you maybe have never made it on a special. The joke. I had one special. The joke about the White House, or there should be a fence around the White House. That was a. That was a joke that I would do only when I was rebuilding new material. And I never really did it anywhere. And then. So it was like. It was like it never fit. And then one day it did. One day it fit. Where it became a special, which I always think is fun. I always look at that joke and I'm always like, look at you. I'm always proud of that joke. Like, I always think that joke, man. Just thought like, hey, I'm not a star. I'm just like, I'm on the bench. I'm here for when I'm needed. And then you find a place for it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Second string quarterback.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And you're like, I'm, like, proud of that job. Just hung around down. But yeah. Yeah, but it is crazy how you're, you know, how could you have. How could I be doing comedy 23 years and still have a joke about, like, something I did before?

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Like, it's insane. It should. That just shouldn't make sense. But it does, you know, it does make sense.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I did want to mention real fast one more fact. There's a. Something called hypers domestic syndrome or highly superior autobiography. Our autobiographical memory where people use. Name A date. August 14, 1994. They can tell you the day of the week, everything they were doing about that day.

[Aaron Weber]

They just remember everything.

[Dusty Slay]

And there's like a hundred people in the world maybe that. Yeah. One of them is Mary Lou Henner, the actress.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

She can tell you every day of her life.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then one of them. What she been in taxi and some other stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

I remember her. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I can't remember.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, yeah. Are you saying. Because she's my time.

[Aaron Weber]

Some other stuff. Oh, yeah, I remember.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I do now. Now I can. Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And there's a local kid who's come to some of my shows that has its name's H.K. derryberry. And he's. He's got a lot of. He's got some disabilities, he's blind. He's got some other stuff going on, but he could tell you any. He could. He could recite my whole act from 15 years ago.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, really?

[Dusty Slay]

He came to one of Henry shows that I was on and. And he's. He's amazing.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Sounds like a nightmare guy to have in the crowd, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, all truth is his laugh. I'm so glad I didn't say anything. No, it was. It was unusual.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

And I didn't know. And I almost come. I'm so glad I didn't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because I hadn't. I couldn't see. I just heard some usual laugh and it was him, but super sweet guy and he has a mentor who takes care of him.

[Aaron Weber]

But he remember, man. Blessing and a curse, huh?

[Dusty Slay]

I guess.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, remembering everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It would be. It would be hard. I. I do. I remember a lot of stuff because I think. Because I can. I can tell sometimes, like with business stuff, like, someone will be like, well, we're doing it this way. And I'm like, yeah, but you said we should never do it that way. And they're like, like, did I? And I'm like, yeah, yeah. I go. Because it. Because it stuck with me and I worked.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me call my friend Brian Bates real quick and he'll tell you.

[Brian Bates]

But in my head, what I think is it's hard. It's something I have to really deal with because I'll have a hard time letting that go.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, I had to, like, you know, where you could go. It's like something that could shape you. We're like, if. If me being clean, Right. It's like, we couldn't watch stuff, cursing and all. It was all very. And I took it all very, very serious. And then so, like, if my sister, younger, like, and she's like, oh, we watched this movie when I was a kid, and I'm like, well, we weren't. You're not allowed to watch it. And I would take it. Like, I've built my whole life around.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The fact of these rules.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And so then when your parents or any of them. And I'm not blaming my parents, but your parents can be like, well, you know, because life just changes and you become more relaxed. I sometimes have a hard time being like, yeah, yeah. But that. That's not. That's not fair, me. Laura can get in a fight and then later on and be like, remember? But you said this. Yeah. And then she's like, I know, but it's different. I go, I know, but I dwelled on that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And never forgot it. And I adjusted around that. And then I can get frustrated when later on, the person's like, yeah, man, but I wasn't really.

[Aaron Weber]

And I'm like, 10 years ago.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And you're like, well, I. You know, that was. You know, it was like. Like I had a joke about. My dad told me, don't sleep with socks on because my feet can't breathe. Yeah. Well, I don't. Because weirdly enough, like, why does that stick? Why does that stick with me?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know if you ate first. You're last. It's that whole thing. Yeah. It's like, my dad did stuff like that to me, too. The socks. No socks in bed. I remember that. No reason why. But, you know, my dad told me that. He said, well, you're going to be spending a night with the guys, you know, and you don't want. You know, you don't want to have your socks on in bed. Like. Like it's some kind of weak thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you remember you told me your dad told you that when you start your car, let it sit for a while before you drive?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then you found out he completely made that up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, he just. I think it's. I think it's a good practice, but my dad just doesn't. My dad cranks up, his car's not even running yet. He's already pulled out his. He. He told me that if the gas cap is not Attached to the car.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Then you should put it on top of the gas pump instead of putting it on your car. Because if you forget to put it back on, you can go, oh, I remember I put it on that at the gas pump. Okay. But if it's on your car, you drive off and it flies off. Yeah. And then we went. And he put it on top of the car one day, and I go, well, you told me to put it on the gas. He goes, ah, you'll be so far down the road, you won't even remember where you put it. And it's like, well, I built my life around.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's exactly it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's exactly. That's unbelievable. That feels. It feels good just to hear someone else say, to be honest, that's.

[Nate Bargatze]

So.

[Brian Bates]

That's. That. That is. Why is that? Because that's. It is like, it means. It means nothing to the older person, but it means everything to the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Person.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's because we think our parents are wise and really. And they may be, but really, they're just. They're just people.

[Dusty Slay]

Just how impressionable we are to our kids. Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

But you're like, oh, that was a core tenet of how I think about the world.

[Brian Bates]

It's weird that you would. Like, it's a throwaway for you. Yeah. The. The. And that's why it's almost unfair to. Even as a parent, like, you got to go, like, how am I supposed to know? You're gonna. For 46 years, you're gonna still be bringing up the socks thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Like, that was one night. And I'm like, I don't know. I don't know why.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All the other advice they give you. I forgot.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Some reason I don't sleep with socks on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's funny. The guy. Oh, that's so fun. All right. That's it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

I thought Mary Lou Henner was in Uncle Buck.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So it wasn't even who you're.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, when I saw her, I go, oh, she was in Uncle Buck. And I had to look it up, and she wasn't.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I just wanted you guys to know that.

[Brian Bates]

That.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I dipped away for a second because I needed to know if she was in Uncle Buck.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I. I remember my kindergarten class in alphabetical order.

[Brian Bates]

What?

[Nate Bargatze]

All the people. Like, now, how many people?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I haven't counted.

[Nate Bargatze]

Homeschool.

[Aaron Weber]

I can say it. No. Just by siblings, but, you know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

But I'll lose my kids.

[Nate Bargatze]

But we're saying Once a week, we're saying 20 people.

[Aaron Weber]

About 20 people.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Not first grade, but just kindergarten. I can do it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Memory's weird.

[Brian Bates]

I don't. I don't remember the space. The shuttle crash.

[Aaron Weber]

The Challenger.

[Brian Bates]

The Challenger. And I think I was in first grade.

[Aaron Weber]

And you're probably watching it live, right?

[Brian Bates]

I. I would think so, but a lot of people will remember that kind of stuff. And there'll be like. Like younger. Be like, 9, 11. I was in first grade. They wielded the TV in and all this. But, like, for my age, the space one was the. I was in first grade and. But I don't remember.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you remember Balloon Boy?

[Brian Bates]

I remember Balloon Boy. I remember. You know what I remember is in the. Well, I'm blanking.

[Aaron Weber]

Jonah.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

Baby Jessica.

[Brian Bates]

Baby Jessica. I just talked to someone about that. I think the girl that was doing my makeup on the movie, because she brought up Baby Jessica and Young. You're like, you don't remember. Baby Jessica is one of my. That's my first, like, memory of news story.

[Aaron Weber]

I never a.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, not a way. I'm just trying to think you should get eaten by a whale.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I thought. You're talking about like a. Yeah, like a blue.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay, all right.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, I get it. Well, I say it the same way, too, but I'm just trying. I was thinking a whale the whole time, and I was like, what happened? But now I remember the girl going down in the well.

[Brian Bates]

Do you remember it?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I don't. I probably remember it because people have.

[Brian Bates]

Talked about it since then, but Baby Jessica was.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Insane big. Like, I remember that it was a giant. Giant. I mean, it was the biggest story.

[Nate Bargatze]

I remember the Challenger because of the Garth Brooks song, the Dance.

[Dusty Slay]

So you don't remember?

[Brian Bates]

You don't remember?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, but I feel like I have a memory when it happened. Yeah. I feel like I have a memory because of that video.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That music video.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You want to tell where you're at this weekend?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we're going back out. We still. We've been big.

[Aaron Weber]

Dumb Eyes Tour.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we've been out and we're.

[Aaron Weber]

But now the shows are actually gonna be good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. This Wednesday, Orange Beach, Alabama. Yeah. The Wharf Amphitheater. Then Raleigh, North Carolina. You're gonna have your. Yeah. MSG is going to be September. Like, I mean, I don't be skipping over stuff like Saginaw. Like, you know, go to the. Go to my website. Check it all out. Out. We're having A blast out there on the road.

[Dusty Slay]

Good time this.

[Brian Bates]

I got some fun stories this time. I think I got one of. I mean, you always said I think I got one of my better stories.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

On this. Something new in this hour that I close on.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah. This weekend. This Friday, Saturday, I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the Loony bin. All right, two shows Friday, two shows Saturday. Love that club club. July 25th, I'm in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, July 29th, you see in Toby, Mayor Toby, I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm doing that with Derek Stroop, and.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm gonna tell him to come.

[Dusty Slay]

Andrew Stanley. July 29th, my show, Brian Bates and friends here at the Lab at Zany's. And August 1st and 2nd, I'm in Goshen, Indiana, at the funny Farm.

[Brian Bates]

Stroop is in Lebanon the night this comes out, the 16th. Yeah. I don't know if it's sold out or not, but just people know that.

[Dusty Slay]

At Cedar City Brewing Company, I will be.

[Aaron Weber]

Is Aaron Weber spoken? Hawkin. This weekend, Aaron Weber will be in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the comedy catch. July 17th, 18th, 19th. Five unbelievable hot shows. Come on out to the Comedy Catch in Chattanooga.

[Dusty Slay]

Good luck selling as many tickets as I did.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I need it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I got three dates that I'd like to share this weekend. July 20th, I'll be in Winnipeg at the Great outdoor comedy festival. July 22nd, I'm here at Zany's. And then July 25th, I'm in Las Vegas.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so where at in Vegas?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know. It's not in my calendar. And we've looked it up before, but I always forget.

[Aaron Weber]

Just walk around. You'll find. Find them.

[Brian Bates]

There you go.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's. It's on my website. Dusty Slay dot com.

[Brian Bates]

You guys do the work.

[Dusty Slay]

Find me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I'm out here. Yeah, Dusty Slay dot com. It's on there. Type it in.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

And it'll. That'll. That's where you got to go anyway, if you want to get some tickets, I'll be there. It's going to be fun. They're going to be hot, hot shows.

[Brian Bates]

Nice. All right. Glad to be back. Excited.

[Dusty Slay]

Wet heat July 29th.

[Brian Bates]

Wet heat July 29th. We'll be. We'll be talking about it more and more. Last but not least, Wet heat. Wet heat, July 29th. All right, we love you. Have a great week. See you.

[Nate Bargatze]

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