262: #262 The Moon feat. Greg Garcia & Julian McCullough

Summary

The Nateland Podcast – Episode 262: "The Moon" feat. Greg Garcia & Julian McCullough

Release Date: July 23, 2025
Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber
Guests: Greg Garcia, Julian McCullough

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Introduction and Upcoming Events

The episode kicks off with Nate Bargatze welcoming listeners to The Nateland Podcast, introducing Brian Bates and Aaron Weber as co-hosts. Julian McCullough steps in to fill for Dusty Slay, who is absent due to health reasons. Nate shares exciting news about upcoming comedy events:

• Graham K.'s Show "Pete and Me"
  "It's getting excellent reviews. It's about Graham, his autistic brother, and their family. It's got a lot of heart. It's very funny." (Timestamp: [01:28])

• Ryan Hamilton's Netflix Special
  "We're filming two shows at Seattle's Neptune Theater on October 4th. There's still a couple tickets left." (Timestamp: [02:31])

• Dusty Slay's Upcoming Special "Wet Heat"
  "We want to congratulate him on his upcoming Netflix special, Wet Heat that premieres on July 29th." (Timestamp: [02:43])

Emmy Awards Celebration

Brian Bates proudly announces his recent achievement:

• Brian's Mid-South Regional Emmy Award
  "I won an Emmy for TV news at the Mid-South Regional Emmy Awards in Tennessee." (Timestamp: [04:28])

Greg Garcia is also recognized for his Emmy win, adding to the hosts' accolades.

Discussion on the Oscar Statue

A lively segment unfolds as the hosts delve into the details of the Oscar statue:

• Material and Value Debate
  Aaron Weber initiates the conversation questioning the misconception that Oscars are made of solid gold.
  "An Oscar is actually made of gold-plated Britannia metal, estimated to be worth around $400." (Timestamp: [08:04])

• Fiction vs. Fact
  The group humorously debates the feasibility and value if Oscars were indeed solid gold.
  "8.5 pounds of gold is currently worth between $200,000 and $240,000." (Timestamp: [08:07])
  "Rocket Money might help you manage your subscriptions, but life still doesn't offer free Oscars." (Timestamp: [10:10])

Recent Comedy Shows and Tours

The hosts share their experiences from recent tours:

• Nate's Tour Highlights
  "We did six shows this week. They were all amazing. Tallahassee was super fun." (Timestamp: [11:23])

• Brian in Tulsa, Oklahoma
  "I was in Tulsa at the Looney Bin. Nice bunch of great shows. A lot of folks came out." (Timestamp: [14:05])

• Julian's Golf Tournament Stories
  Julian recounts entertaining anecdotes from a golf tournament at Calabasas Country Club, including humorous interactions with fellow players and mishaps with golf equipment.
  "People were very interested in hearing stories about caddying for you." (Timestamp: [14:35])

• Aaron's Airbnb Adventure
  Aaron shares his chaotic experience staying at an Airbnb with cats, leading to unexpected cleanliness issues:
  "One of these cats has just destroyed the living room downstairs." (Timestamp: [20:30])

Listener Comments and Discussions

The hosts engage with listener comments, focusing on memory and relatable experiences:

• Memory as Puzzle Pieces
  Nate, drawing from a listener's experience as a high school AP Psychology teacher, discusses how memories are not stored like movies but as fragmented pieces, leading to variations each time they're recalled.
  "Memories are stored in your brain like puzzle pieces and not like a movie. Because of this, you never remember something the same way twice." (Timestamp: [24:28])

Moon Landing Anniversary Celebration

As the episode coincides with the 56th anniversary of the first moon landing, the conversation shifts to Apollo missions and their cultural impact:

• Revisiting Apollo Missions
  The hosts reminisce about the Apollo 11 mission, including anecdotes about Baby Jessica, a young girl trapped in a well, and the heroism of first responders:
  "Growing up, we heard all about the heroism of the first responders who assisted in rescuing Baby Jessica." (Timestamp: [35:01])

• Thought Experiments: Folding Paper to the Moon
  Aaron Weber presents a fun math problem:
  "How many times would you have to fold a piece of paper in half for it to reach the moon?"
  The group humorously debates the theoretical possibility, concluding it as a fascinating yet physically impossible thought experiment.
  "Fold that piece of paper 42 times in half. It will be as thick as from here to the moon." (Timestamp: [67:06])

• Comparing Fame: Michael Jackson vs. Taylor Swift
  A spirited debate ensues about the enduring legacy of Michael Jackson compared to contemporary stars like Taylor Swift:
  "Michael Jackson is by far the most famous person that's ever lived." (Timestamp: [93:28])
  "He was more famous than Elvis." (Timestamp: [96:26])

• Future Moon Missions and Cultural Reflections
  Discussion extends to upcoming NASA missions aiming to return to the moon and speculations on public interest in future space endeavors:
  "NASA's going to go around the moon, send astronauts around the moon in 2026, and then land on the moon in 2027." (Timestamp: [64:33])

Closing Remarks and Upcoming Shows

As the episode nears its end, the hosts promote their ongoing tours and upcoming performances:

• Tour Dates and Locations
  "We're in Milwaukee, Minnesota, and Saginaw Wednesday. Join us there on tour." (Timestamp: [102:32])

• Dusty's "Wet Heat" Special Premiere
  "Wet Heat premieres on July 29th on Netflix." (Timestamp: [104:29])

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Notable Quotes

• Greg on Folding Paper:
  "42 times in half gets you from here to the moon." (Timestamp: [67:06])

• Brian on Emmy:
  "It's the Mid-South Regional Emmy Award for TV news in Tennessee. I brought it to the podcast once." (Timestamp: [04:28])

• Julian on Mousewalk:
  "People were falling off their couches. They couldn't believe it because it's such a smooth move." (Timestamp: [94:05])

Conclusion

Episode 262 of The Nateland Podcast offers a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and thoughtful discussions, anchored around the theme of the moon and its place in both history and pop culture. From celebrating Emmy wins and sharing tour stories to engaging in deep dives on memory and space exploration, Nate Bargatze and his co-hosts deliver an entertaining and insightful episode for both regular listeners and newcomers alike.

Transcript

[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetze. Brian Bates. Aaron Weber. All right, Dusty Slay's gone, and we had to get two other people to fill in for him because. Because he's. That's how good he is. The young Greg Garcia.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

My caddy.

[Julian McCullough]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

And Julian McColla, who's been running all the shows. Been going, been on the road. We've been everywhere. We've been everywhere. So, yeah, everybody knows them. We've all been back. You know, sounds started. Exciting. I think this episode's gonna be good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But it's. It's gonna get good. It's just. We're started. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's gonna take some time.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're just easing into it.

[Julian McCullough]

Pace yourselves. You gotta pace yourself.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You don't want to do too much. Quick Nateland news. Graham K. Has a show called Pete and Me. It's this weekend at the Soho Playhouse in New York City. We're going to be producing that special. It's getting excellent reviews. It's about Graham, his autistic brother, and their family. It's got a lot of heart. It's very funny. So go get tickets for that. We're excited to be doing that. Also, Ryan Hamilton's the new Next. Next Netflix special. We're filming two shows at Seattle's neptune theater on October 4th. There's still a couple ticks left. Also, my dad is performing at Levity Live in Huntsville, Alabama, on Aug. 24 to run for his special taping. So if you can't do that. And our boy Dusty, who's not here, but we want to congratulate him on his upcoming Netflix special, Wet Heat that premieres on July 9th. July 29th. Sorry I said it all weekend, though, in. In Charleston.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I told all the Charleston people, he's one of them. He's one of them. I know we reminded that. So, yeah. Yeah. So that's fun. That's good stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot going on.

[Nate Bargatze]

A lot going on. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

For the weight of the world burned out. We're a minute and a half in, dude. It's gonna be. It's gonna get good.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, I think it's gonna be fun. I just feel like there's a lot of pressure on me right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, yeah, yeah. Kind of comes with the name and, well, the podcast.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm not feeling it from the audience. I'm feeling it from.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't want to give a shout.

[Nate Bargatze]

Out from you for that.

[Brian Bates]

Andy Forster.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah. This Friday, it's Andy Forrester from Raleigh, North Carolina. He's did the showcase. Season three is here. AJ Lee. Dig. Premiered last week. And Lie. Dig. Sorry. Andy Forrester from Raleigh, North Carolina. Yeah, he's. Andy's great. And so. Yeah, make sure you check his out. It's on the YouTube channel. Yeah, all that. And I just did a bunch of. We did a bunch of Grammy stuff or Emmys. Emmys, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you're Emmy nominated, by the way. Has that come up on the podcast?

[Nate Bargatze]

Probably not, because, you know, bad news over here doesn't care. He's already got an Emmy, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Who wrote.

[Brian Bates]

Who writes?

[Nate Bargatze]

He won an Emmy.

[Julian McCullough]

I know, I know. But that was like a plastic one, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he's like, we won. There's two Emmy award winners here.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's right. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Nate Bargatze]

Greg won.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. My name is Earl.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's real.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ask him about it. He'll tell you.

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, boy. He got an hour and a half.

[Brian Bates]

In the 20th century.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And then Brian Bates won, you know, the Emmys that they show on pbs.

[Brian Bates]

That is correct.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's the one they. Yeah, they do show it during commercials.

[Julian McCullough]

What was yours.

[Brian Bates]

Right. The first time. It's on pbs.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is it on pbs?

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What are we talking about? What did you win when I was.

[Brian Bates]

In TV news, The Mid South Regional Emmy Awards. I won an Emmy for.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. It's Mid South Regional.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's specifically. It's Tennessee.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that. Is that a hot bracket.

[Aaron Weber]

Regions. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's his biggest market right now. And stand up. Go ahead.

[Brian Bates]

It's the Mid south region.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, are you. Are you Brian? Mid South Regional Bates?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, if you'd like to call me that, sure. It's TV stations in Tennessee, North Carolina and Bowling Green, Kentucky and Huntsville, Alabama.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. They. He's not all over Kentucky, but he's in the.

[Brian Bates]

There's some tough stations in North Carolina.

[Nate Bargatze]

So are you all of North Carolina? Was it all of North Carolina or just the part that touches Tennessee. Did they do you go? Did you beat Charlotte?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, wow.

[Dusty Slay]

North Carolina goes to the water. It goes all the way to the water.

[Brian Bates]

Raleigh, W. They're tough station.

[Julian McCullough]

That's fantastic. Where do you display your Emmy?

[Brian Bates]

Well, I brought it in here once when Nate did not win an Emmy. I brought it to the podcast that day. Just put it on the desk.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But now it's just on my bookcase at home.

[Julian McCullough]

Okay, fantastic.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nice place to put it.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is it heavy? It's heavy, right? I held an image today because we did the photos or I was like, you know, a little picture.

[Brian Bates]

Mine's not too heavy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Are they different? The mid south ones are different.

[Brian Bates]

At the time, they looked just like what the current Emmys do, but now the current Emmys, the base is round, and at that time, the base was rectangular.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I had a friend once, comedy writer friend, that thought the Oscar statue was solid gold. Every single one that they gave to people. And I was like, is this a real thing, you think? And he was like, yeah. And that was one of the most satisfying look it ups I've ever done, because I go, how much do you think that would be worth it if they were giving away a solid go? 40 Oscars a night or. I don't even know how many Oscars there are.

[Julian McCullough]

How much?

[Nate Bargatze]

Millions. It wouldn't be millions. Oh, you talk about the whole thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, the whole thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

How much would 1.

[Aaron Weber]

How much does an Oscar weigh? I mean.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, is it solid gold, then it weighs a lot more.

[Aaron Weber]

It might be hollow. Might be hollow gold. At least 10 pounds.

[Dusty Slay]

I looked it up, and it was something like $180,000 a statue.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think that would be awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

And Oscar weighs 8.5 pounds. The going rate of 8.5 pounds of gold is.

[Dusty Slay]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you talking?

[Brian Bates]

Or odd fold?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm saying the size. It's not eight and a half pounds of gold. It's what the size of the Oscar in gold would weigh. It would not be eight and a half pounds.

[Aaron Weber]

That's exactly what I'm looking up. If it's. If it's the same weight, if that's actually gold. 8.5 pounds of gold.

[Dusty Slay]

I think we're doing one of those things where we're talking about different things, but it would take so long to fix it that we just. Let's just keep going. So eight and a half pounds is how much?

[Aaron Weber]

Why don't you do us the pleasure of reframing what you're trying to say?

[Julian McCullough]

Okay, so I speak Julian. He's saying the current weight is what you just looked up. And he's saying if it's made of gold, it weighs more. So he thinks it's worth more.

[Nate Bargatze]

More.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know what the statue is actually made out of.

[Julian McCullough]

You said this was the most satisfying lookup you've ever done. It's turning into the most dissatisfying.

[Dusty Slay]

All I googled was if an Oscar statue was solid gold, what would it be worth? That's all I googled.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is what I was worried about when I started this podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

If anyone's interested. 8.5 pounds of gold is currently worth between 200 grand and 240 grand. There you go. Yeah, a lot of money.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a lot. It's more than they're giving away. But for. To everyone.

[Nate Bargatze]

And the statue would probably be smaller. Right, because if you had it. Gold for.

[Aaron Weber]

Right, for gold. It would be much smaller.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. Because. Because you. Eight and a half pounds of gold would have to be.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. Pretty small.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So now you're making my. This is. Do you. I know you're following all of this.

[Julian McCullough]

I'm going to leave.

[Dusty Slay]

I think I should leave.

[Brian Bates]

Can you imagine though, before Google, you would just have to agree to disagree.

[Dusty Slay]

This would end a French.

[Brian Bates]

How frustrating would that be?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. This would take weeks.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So, yeah, there we go.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's not. So I don't know what Oscar statues are actually made of, but it's not solid gold because they're not going to give a $250,000 statue to.

[Aaron Weber]

Is there gold in the paint or something? Is there anything?

[Dusty Slay]

I think so. I think it's like dipped in gold.

[Brian Bates]

Like Notre Dame's helmets.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

How much is an Oscar worth? Like if you can buy an Oscar.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go.

[Aaron Weber]

$1.

[Brian Bates]

Don't act like you can Google this.

[Julian McCullough]

Technically, I think it would depend on whose it was. Right. What kind of lineage it has.

[Aaron Weber]

They have a rule. The Academy has a rule that the winners cannot sell their Oscar without first offering it back to the academy for $1.

[Nate Bargatze]

What?

[Julian McCullough]

Well, that seems like a bad deal.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But it's made of gold plated Britannia metal. Estimated to be worth around 400.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm sure you can hear the rain.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We had this problem last week too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

Something about Zany's. When it.

[Dusty Slay]

When it rains, it's kind of nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If we were sitting on the porch talking, it'd be nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it kind of sounds. It's nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

People are at home trying to have a good time. They don't love it.

[Dusty Slay]

No. I mean if you're listening to it, it sounds like we're, you know, it's like we're, you know, hanging out in a, in a shack when it's raining. You know how people like to do.

[Nate Bargatze]

The Oscar's made of gold plated Britiania.

[Dusty Slay]

It's made of encyclopedias.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Brittania, Britannica.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Britannica metal.

[Dusty Slay]

It's worth around $400, not, may I remind you, $240,000.

[Aaron Weber]

Big difference.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but that's like the resale values, like due to the Academy's rule, the resale value is limited to $1. Like WHO. If you're reselling your Oscar, I'd imagine you're in your own kind of predicament.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You're not going back to the Academy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You're not worried about the Academy's rules. Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

You're not following rules at that point. No. You're at a pawn shop and you're taking what they give you for it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Which they know the rules and they go, what did they go? I'll give you $2 or I'll call the Academy. There you go and you get John, you're good. All right, all right.

[Brian Bates]

You guys are all over the place this weekend.

[Nate Bargatze]

We were all over the place. We were in.

[Brian Bates]

Orange Beach.

[Nate Bargatze]

Orange beach, the Wharf Amphitheater. Great show. Fun out, outdoor. That's a cool spot. Little weather delay, little weather delay, some lightning, rain. We got the show off. It was great. The. Then we were in Raleigh and Charleston and Tallahassee.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

We did six shows this week. They were all amazing. It was a fun. Yeah, fun. I mean fun, great shows. Yeah. Tallahassee was super fun. I mean they're all great, great, great, great crowds. Great crowds. Yeah, the crowds. I mean this tour started off hot.

[Dusty Slay]

It is. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

We've been saying like the 3pm shows are awesome. Like they've been, you know, not that they've never been great, but sometimes it could feel like it's 3pm and they just feel like they're. It's 8pm like it just. People are excited and we've enjoyed it and we look forward to keep going more and more. So that's great.

[Dusty Slay]

I saw today on the Internet that they saw right off the coast of. Or what's it called? Orange. Where were we?

[Nate Bargatze]

Orange Beach.

[Aaron Weber]

Orange Beach.

[Dusty Slay]

There was a, I want to say ten foot tiger shark, like right by the, right at the shore.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Like people are just like looking right at it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Oh, wow.

[Dusty Slay]

And those aren't the good ones. Tiger Sharks.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, so we had a. We had a. We had a fun, fun. Yeah, fun weekend. Like, you know, I don't know what, you know, it was great. The crowds are awesome. We're having a blast. So. But I think your weekend will be. I'll be more interested to hear about yours.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Can tell that was sincere. I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the loony bin. Nice bunch of great shows. A lot of folks came out. It's a great club. Tulsa has two good comedy clubs.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Bricktown and then the Looney bin.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. And great shows. Yeah, I mean, it was fun. Thanks to everybody who came out.

[Nate Bargatze]

There we go. Join. Was me. Greg, did you.

[Julian McCullough]

I was in a golf tournament.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

The Red, white and blue at Calabasas Country Club. I told a few jokes out there. People were. Yeah, I was entertaining as well. You know, I got some people laughing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You mean Just, like, socially.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, just socially.

[Dusty Slay]

That's great.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just at the bar.

[Julian McCullough]

Nah, I just wander around. I tell people stories. Yeah, I was. People were very interested in hearing stories about caddying for you. So I did give a few caddy and stories. They were all excited about that.

[Nate Bargatze]

So what was the. Yeah, what were some cad. The caddy and stories? Because I don't remember you doing much.

[Julian McCullough]

No, I didn't do much caddy, but I had a lot of other things that I was going on.

[Nate Bargatze]

At one point, I'm warming up, and you know when you pull your. You hit your. You pull all your clubs out of your bag and you're hitting. And then I would lay them. I just settle next to the bag because your caddy's supposed to kind of grab them and clean them off. And, I mean, I look over basically every bag. Every club is out of the bag, and none of them are getting clean. And then I just had to grab the stuff and go, all right, I think I'm going to go putt now.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah. Well, I got. I got approached by a guy. That's the announcer, Steve Sands, who I know. And so I was talking with him, and, yeah, by the time I turned around, all the clubs were basically on the ground. And Nate was like, you having fun? You having a good time?

[Brian Bates]

I was like, you were.

[Nate Bargatze]

He was having a good time. Yeah, but great.

[Julian McCullough]

I. I think my favorite story from it was when. Because a couple people had some pictures of my TV show. So as a caddy, I actually was signing some things, which was really weird, and I'm not used to signing anything. And a guy hands me a Sharpie, and I'm sitting there trying to get the top off, and I'm trying to get it off. I can't get the top off. I can't get the top off. And then I look at him, he's holding the top, and I look at my hand, and it's just completely black from all the lines from the thing I went back and showed Nate, I was like, I'm not good at this. I'm not good at it. But that was a great time. We had a fun time.

[Nate Bargatze]

We had a blast. It was super fun.

[Aaron Weber]

How the shows. You want to talk about how the shows have been for you, Julian?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Jump right into it.

[Dusty Slay]

It's. I mean, yeah, the crowds are. They're great. Right. When I get out there and I go first and I have to. What?

[Aaron Weber]

That kind of undersells the job that you do. It's like, you Are going up there cold and you do a great job. Well, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But Julian's kind of like the. I mean, the. What would it be? The ringmaster. The ringmaster, yeah, he's the ringmaster. But it is for these big arenas, the best thing that ever did. And it's because I have someone as good as Julian is to have that because the shows are so big that you do need someone that can go up there that the crowd loves and they can. There's a trust there and they. And kind of guides them with. We have a lot of people that have never been to stand up shows and just kind of guiding them to.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a good point to bring up is I always ask how many people. This is their first ever live comedy show and it's a huge number. I mean, you're getting a lot of people that have never been to a comedy show. And it's pretty funny coming from our careers and how. What we've known to be comedy for 20 years of like being in these clubs, like Brian this past weekend.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It'S so not like this. So to have this be your first comedy show is very funny to me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If you ask them if it's their.

[Dusty Slay]

Last one, well, I say it's all downhill from here. You know what I mean? But it's. Yeah. What I mean is they're very excited and yeah, you don't want to lose that energy. You don't want to send somebody up there who's not going to build on that. That's all. But I mean, I'm just saying they're very excited to be there and, you know, it's fun to be. I think it's great. Like a lot of these. The arenas are so big. People are like, well, does it work for comedy? I think it adds an element and I would have been skeptical five years ago. I would have been like, I don't know, that might be too big. They're really. They're feeding off each other like crazy. And it's a really fun atmosphere. So it's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

We have a great setup this year too. And the screens are awesome and the stage is round and it just feels. Yeah, it feels very. For as big as it is intimate as it can be. And it's. And you can feel it when they're all laughing. I mean, it's crazy to be telling a story and just can hear kind of silence when they're listening to the whole story and you can tell they're engaged and it's. I mean, I love it. I love it.

[Aaron Weber]

I had. Speaking of intimate, I was at the Comedy Catch in Chattanooga this weekend. Great shows. One of the nights after the shows, the staff brought in a poker dealer and we had, we played poker night with the staff. Texas Hold' Em it was. And they take it. Mike's are cutting in and out. I think there might be some power problems here.

[Brian Bates]

So fine to me.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I could hear you, but maybe I just heard it in my headphones. Yeah, it might be a headphones thing, but we played poker with the staff. They take it so seriously. It was so much fun just to be in the showroom playing, playing poker with everybody was awesome.

[Dusty Slay]

What's the buy in?

[Aaron Weber]

It was a $30 buy in, but people, people bought back in.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Weber]

People take it that seriously.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah. How, how'd you do?

[Aaron Weber]

I, I had to leave eventually. I was there at like midnight or 1am So I gave my chips to Danielle, the owner, and she ended up winning the whole thing.

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

With my chips. So we split the pot.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's good that you gave them to the owner. Not to.

[Dusty Slay]

Not somebody who needed a bus boy.

[Julian McCullough]

Making a bus boy or something.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

You go right to the top.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, he knows.

[Dusty Slay]

He knows where his bread is.

[Nate Bargatze]

Butter.

[Aaron Weber]

That's exactly what I was about to say, dummy.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, no dummy.

[Aaron Weber]

So get this. I, I, I, I stated a unbelievable Airbnb this weekend, right, Right on the Tennessee river, right by this place called the Suck. That's what they call that part of the river because I think it was just, I think it sucked to travel through it. That's why they call it the Suck. Beautiful view. But I get there and there's a little note that says, hey, by the way, we have two cats. Feed them a can of tuna every day.

[Dusty Slay]

Are you kidding?

[Aaron Weber]

Two cats in the house that are.

[Dusty Slay]

Just the owner and you find out when you get there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, no, I didn't read, I didn't read their baby description that well. There's probably, I'm sure they didn't mention there, but cats. There's two cats in the house. I have cats. I'm like, whatever. At one point, the owner, who was very nice, but he came to the house to like work on something. So I was like, oh, you live in town? Oh, just take, just take the cat. You know, have the cats at your place. Yeah, it's kind of crazy, but one night we're sitting there watching TV and we smell something and we're like, oh, no. And Connor Larson, who was with me. He gets up, he starts walking, he slips in. Cat fair to call it diarrhea. All over the floor of the living room, slips on it. We turn the lights on. It's everywhere. Dude. One of these cats has just. Dude. Destroyed the living room downstairs. So I. I messaged the Airbnb owner and I was like, hey, dude, we. We tried to clean up a little bit, but it smells horrific downstairs. We can't even be downstairs right now. They sent back this long apology. They were like, we just switched. Switched flea medication. One of the side effects is diarrhea.

[Dusty Slay]

Also not in the email.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Before you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they didn't include that for sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

But. But a lady came by at like seven in the morning the next day and did a deep clean of the downstairs and it was fine after that, but I had never heard of that first. Just animals in an Airbnb is pretty. Is pretty crazy. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's. Why would they not. That's crazy to. I guess they assume people want a.

[Julian McCullough]

Cat there and just to leave your pets with strangers as well.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

But I guess it was either that or fleas. You had to pick your poison, Right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's a good point. The house was worth it. I mean, it was that nice of a place. Like great view and everything, but it was just a weird thing to deal with.

[Dusty Slay]

Plus, that poor guy's probably so embarrassed. I'm sure he was so embarrassed because he's like, he doesn't know you.

[Aaron Weber]

He just met us. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He goes in there and just. Because I don't know what to tell you.

[Dusty Slay]

It's his medication.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Julian, are you choking? When Julian said that, I thought there was a fifth person here because his voice all of a sudden changed. It really freaked me out.

[Dusty Slay]

It freaked me out.

[Brian Bates]

Well, there's a.

[Julian McCullough]

You're gonna be all right.

[Dusty Slay]

I think I'm all right. Okay, let me do it again. Must have been embarrassing for the cat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, big time. But the shows were great. Thank you to everybody. Came out in Chattanooga at the Comedy Catch. Danielle said there's been a long going feud between Dusty Slay and Danielle about who could swim faster. And Danielle said that when Dusty was there last, he said his shoulder was hurting so he wasn't able to.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So just throwing that out there. I think Dusty's ducking this a bit little.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that why he missed today?

[Aaron Weber]

Because.

[Julian McCullough]

Would they swim in a pool or in the. In the suck. Where do you. Where do you go do that race?

[Aaron Weber]

I think you got to do it in like an Olympic size Pool.

[Julian McCullough]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Danielle was a. She was a collegiate swimmer. I think she has a back, and she runs marathons now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Ironman. Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, I'm sure Dusty could beat her.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty's got a lot of. Dusty's got a lot of drag. You know what I mean? He's got the hair and the beard and the. You know what I mean? And he probably swims in the hat.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm guessing holding him back.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. All right, well, that. You know. All right, here we go. So we can start with the comments now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Look at that. Donna Worley. This memory episode was so much fun. We had the band together discussing a great topic. I was raised Catholic, and after confession, the priest would assign me a number of our Fathers and Hell Marys to pray to set things right. I lived in fear I would inevitably lose count and thereby not recite my quota of prayer reps. All right. Funny.

[Aaron Weber]

That is very funny.

[Nate Bargatze]

Eric Bowling. His last name is Bowling. I bet if it is, he has to go. Eric Bowling. Yes. Like Bowling.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, you have to say it every single time.

[Aaron Weber]

Every time.

[Nate Bargatze]

As a former high school AP Psychology teacher, I enjoyed the recent episode on memory. One interesting aspect of memories that is stored in your brain like puzzle pieces and not like a movie. Because of this, you never remember something the same way twice. As you retrieve a memory, you omit details or add in additional details that create new memories every time. Agree to disagree. No, I just. I thought that would be fun to say that I thought about that halfway in the middle of reading.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I understand that. So, like, the. Each memory is a one piece of the. The whole puzzle is your life.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. It's not like you remember the whole scenes. It's just like, you could go like, yeah, I get the idea. Like, if you saw a puzzle that. With stuff missing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You would be like, oh, yeah, that's a. You know, that's a donkey pulling a wagon. But you would be like, but there's a guy on it. You're like, well, I don't have the guy picture. But you're like, you get the idea.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Okay.

[Julian McCullough]

And it also seems like then we keep filling in the holes and changing it every time, too. So our memories are false in some. They can be.

[Aaron Weber]

But you got to get the edges first.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

You got to get the edges. As long as you get the edges, everything else can. Can change a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron's like, I got to keep this thing about puzzles or I'm going to lose track.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nathan Rogers. The fact that Nate instinctively chooses to bring Bates for nothing other than his great memory is not unlike having a CNI dog. Comedic gold. I must know. If you put a service vest on him while he's working. Don't. Don't touch him. He's remembering stuff for me right now. That's very funny.

[Dusty Slay]

That's very funny. That's almost irritating that a regular person wrote that.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's so funny. Yeah, yeah, it is. He is like a service dog.

[Dusty Slay]

Right before he said the vest, I was like, that was going to be my riff. And then he said it and I was like, who is this guy?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nathan, do you want to host the shows? You want to meet the. We bring him in. He then takes my spot. He's closing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And they go. It's a Nathan, so it doesn't matter. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, I would think I would. If he. If I haven't remembered stuff, I wouldn't want a lot of stuff going on around him.

[Dusty Slay]

No. You want to keep them sequestered.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wouldn't. If I saw too much commotion around him, I would. I would be like, whoa. And I would have to like if in snl, if I looked up in the bleachers and I'm. He's kind of, you know, people are asking him questions.

[Dusty Slay]

You want him in the back of your bus, floating in fluid, like a. Like a matrix kind of thing? He's like, that's my memory battery.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, I go, bates is on this weekend, but no one talked to him. I got some real important stuff I need.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm trying to remember.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And he's allowed to go anywhere you go, but you can't go where he goes. I could give you those rules. You would like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. They do not like me.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, what is the storm of the century?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's bad out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I don't know. I guess we've taken it out, but it's just bananas. Weather right now in Nashville. All right, Severe thunderstorm warning from now until the end of this podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought you say from now until the end of time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because things are getting rough.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. And we haven't even got the worst of it yet.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. Prana Mahan. No, Prasanna Mahajan. Mahajan. I've been waiting three weeks, hoping someone will say it, but here it goes buffet style. Places like Panda Express, Subway and Aaron Stopping ground. Chipotle offers free samples.

[Aaron Weber]

Insane.

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't know. I didn't know.

[Aaron Weber]

A free sample of Subway was the craziest thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think Panda Express made Subway seems insane. I don't even know what are they offering it?

[Dusty Slay]

Hey, can I. Can I try the Sweaty Turkey before you put it in my sandwich?

[Nate Bargatze]

No gloves. The Panda Express I've seen.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Chipotle. I don't think I've thought about asking.

[Dusty Slay]

That'd be so weird.

[Julian McCullough]

Well, it's such small. It's different ingredients. What are you gonna say? Let me try. Let me try that lettuce. Let me try a little of that corn.

[Dusty Slay]

Let me try a grain of grain of rice.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Give me a lick of that mayonnaise.

[Dusty Slay]

The Subway is too much, man. I can't. It would be good brown avocado.

[Nate Bargatze]

Can I try the mayonnaise? You lick it and you go, all right, I'm out.

[Aaron Weber]

If you want to be the most hated person in a Chipotle, ask for free samples and stuff when that line's moving.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're just clogging it up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Panda Express, though.

[Dusty Slay]

That makes sense.

[Nate Bargatze]

That makes sense. I've done that. If you're like, yeah, can I try the orange chicken? And that's like, a real try. That was a big one. I think in food courts, you could go in and just. You could go to different food courts and go, let me try this. And take one toothpick of whatever they would be offering it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. They're out there trying to. They're barking, essentially. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Grace Prizwara. Oh, man. Grace.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you got it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Prisoara Prizwara. There's actually a connection between the 30 minutes of Netflix browsing and ice cream samples. Studies show people are happier with less choices. There's decision paralyzed regret and always feeling like something better was out there. Man, I live this life every day. Decision fatigue is my nightmare. It is the most exhausting thing.

[Aaron Weber]

You've talked about this before, wanting to bring your wardrobe down to, like, just one shirt and one pair of pants.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you can't even do it because of the decisions it would take to do that. It's. I have major decision fatigue. I mean, that's why I try to have so much stuff being like, what is being asked? Yeah, because it's. You think, dude, you, like, where are you eating? What time are you eating? You know, what are you gonna wear today? What are you gonna wear? Like, it's. I mean, it's exhausting. And so, like, you. Do you want to go into something and just go, like, just tell me what you have, and I'll deal with it?

[Dusty Slay]

You need A memory baits, but for decisions.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. You name a decision bait, I was.

[Brian Bates]

Sitting here thinking, first time you told me your theory of wanting just to wear the same outfit. Yeah, we were. You had just watched the documentary about NWA and Dr. Dre.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wears the same thing every time. And we were hiking Mount Rainier.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And you told me, I don't know why Mount Rainier of all places. You were telling me this, but you were like, I just want to wear the same thing every time. And here we are eight years later, not doing it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not doing it, but I.

[Brian Bates]

Still talking about it. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, he is a doctor.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I do want to. I. I want to do it. It's some of it. The hard part of doing is sometimes people in your life don't let you really do it. Like, I'm not blaming them, but it's not like, does that make sense?

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

When you bring it up to your wife, your wife's not like, let's go for it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's kind of like, well, every and everything. And if you really got into it, you would be. Everybody be like, well, let's think about this. And so then once you get. You get talked out of it, you go, oh, that's happens with, I think, dieting or, you know, where you're like, what if I go on no carbs? It's like, that's good. No carbs is no good. But you do need some carbs. And you, like, can complicate it a little bit to. Then you go like, well, then. I don't know. Now I'm confused. And then I. Then you're frustrated and you make a decision to go eat bad food. When I, like, I. I mean, I do that a lot. Like, that had that with food where it's, you know, it's like, I get so worked up, and then I don't know what to go do. And all I know is McDonald's. And so then I'm like, just go there. I know what that's going to be.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so I don't want to have to decide.

[Aaron Weber]

But you have to decide at McDonald's, don't you? Or are you going to get the same.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know, number one, no onions. I mean, but. Yeah, but, like, even if you have to decide there, it's like, it's small decisions. But yeah, it's. Yeah, it would. I. I love.

[Dusty Slay]

It's also fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Fun decision.

[Julian McCullough]

And there's no bad decisions. There's no either.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what?

[Nate Bargatze]

I did it on the, on, on my bus now, I, I, they, I got very limited outfits, like for around their arena.

[Dusty Slay]

You could also get shirts that just, you know, do the. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. They just embroidered across the chest. Monday, Tuesday. And then, you know, they're different colors for your wife. But then they have the days of the week. And then when you talk to people now, they know what day of the week it is without having to ask.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, so you're helping people and avoiding small talk.

[Nate Bargatze]

Except.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because how many times people go, what do you know?

[Nate Bargatze]

Again. Again.

[Dusty Slay]

Just unzip your jacket.

[Nate Bargatze]

Typical Tuesday, getting pounded with days of the week. Robert Fowler. That reminds me of Seinfeld. Wasn't that guy's name something? Fowler.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Jim Fowler.

[Nate Bargatze]

Jim Fowler. Where are the cameras?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, the guy from the zoo that was on Johnny Carson all the time. You remember him?

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, yeah, I do not. I don't remember him.

[Brian Bates]

You remember.

[Julian McCullough]

Must be before my time.

[Brian Bates]

Our time is the same time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I grew up and still live in Midland, Texas, where the Baby Jessica incident took place. Do you remember Baby Jessica?

[Julian McCullough]

Of course.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Growing up, we heard all about the hero, the heroism, the heroine. Yeah, well, that's how you get down there. Growing up, we heard all about the heroism of this. That was like something got.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think we're supposed to talk about her.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are you supposed to be talking with electronics inside of.

[Aaron Weber]

We got surge protectors. We're fine.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. Are we. Because that, that.

[Julian McCullough]

Did you hear the crackling or was that in my head?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, the crackling.

[Dusty Slay]

The headline would be Nate Parsi and three others.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Die horribly. Or four.

[Brian Bates]

I don't even get. I don't even get mentioned.

[Aaron Weber]

You get left out of the count.

[Dusty Slay]

Nate Bargetti, three comedians and somebody else, and Brian Bates.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hold on. Is my car.

[Brian Bates]

Your windows are down.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, my top's down, though. He goes.

[Dusty Slay]

People don't know you drive around Nashville with a top down and sunglasses on. Everywhere now. Everywhere, Everywhere.

[Nate Bargatze]

No matter rain or shine.

[Dusty Slay]

And you got that personalized horn.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. All right. I think we're fine. It sounds fine. Let's see. Yeah. Sorry. If you're. I hope. Yeah. If, if some reason a. This gets taken out and you're confused. There's. There is a major thing. So I'll just start it again. Robert Fowler. I grew up and still live in Midland, Texas, where the Baby Jessica incident took place. Growing up, we heard all about the heroism. Heroism of the first responders and firemen who assisted in rescuing Baby Jessica. But never understood its impact on the country until later on. Nate and KB Bates recounting it and remembering details really puts into perspective just how big of an event it was and its significance to our community almost 40 years later. Yeah, she's March 26th birthday day after me. March 25th. She's 39. Yeah, she's out there. She's out there.

[Aaron Weber]

This was 1987. This.

[Nate Bargatze]

Man, I remember.

[Dusty Slay]

It was yesterday.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, man, I remember.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

I was looking out for wells left and right, and I lived in downtown San Francisco, and I was like, there's probably wells around every corner.

[Nate Bargatze]

Does this show me People, like, watched it or anything? Like, if you could see the numbers on that where it's.

[Dusty Slay]

It was all, like, local news stuff, so I guess it'd be hard to wow. Track that.

[Aaron Weber]

USA Today ranked. Ranked this girl as number 22 on its list of 25 lives of indelible impact. I mean, it was that big of a.

[Nate Bargatze]

What does indelible mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Can't be removed, like, permanently.

[Dusty Slay]

Like the sharpie on Greg's hand.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, like, like you just always remember. Yeah, I wonder what the. Yeah, that's in, like, balloon boy probably on there.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's do the whole list.

[Aaron Weber]

Was. Was Baby Jessica. Was it a story before they knew she was in a well? Was it like a search for her or was it.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, we know she's in a.

[Julian McCullough]

Do you know. You know how she fell in that well?

[Dusty Slay]

She.

[Aaron Weber]

Did somebody push her in or was she. It was an accident.

[Julian McCullough]

She didn't see that well.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nice.

[Aaron Weber]

Right?

[Julian McCullough]

I'm doing comedy now, if you're listening.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's great.

[Brian Bates]

Garcia.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Garcia, doing stand up.

[Dusty Slay]

You were being so quiet. And now I know why you were. You were waiting, setting it up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Time. Yeah, you go. I hope they get into some Baby Jessica stuff.

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, I wrote that comment. This has been three months in the Long in the making. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Robert Fowler, did we ever read any of your comments?

[Julian McCullough]

No, you didn't. I would send in some comments debates just to see if he would read them, but I don't even remember. I think my name was Clem Dickleberry or something like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

That.

[Julian McCullough]

But you never. You never read them.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Julian McCullough]

You never read them.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's a good test of the memory thing that we were talking about before. The way I remember it is that Jessica. There wasn't a search before that. They found that she was in there, and then the extraction took so long for some reason that it was news for a couple of days. That's how I remember it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if that's really how they got her, like, because memory is a puzzle.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. Yeah, they. Yeah, she was down there. Yeah. I mean, it's.

[Dusty Slay]

And she was the missing.

[Aaron Weber]

How did she survive the fall? And then why did it take so long to just go down there and get her?

[Dusty Slay]

It was the 80s.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'll tell you what, if you read this one thing, it goes. A roofing contractor, Ron Short, volunteered to go down the shaft. He had been born without collarbones and could collapse his shoulders to work in tight confines. The team considered his offer, but ultimately said, we can't have you do it.

[Dusty Slay]

I think I'm gonna get sick.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, that's not funny. But it is funny. Like, it's just like. I mean, just a guy. He goes, this is why I was put on.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. And they're like, no. And he's like. But he raised.

[Nate Bargatze]

He raises his hand. Can he even raise his hand? He doesn't have collarbones.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. He's got.

[Nate Bargatze]

Someone else has got his hand up. Someone else holds his hand up, and they go, you, sir, in the back.

[Dusty Slay]

They go, is that Joe derosa?

[Nate Bargatze]

There you go. Yes, sir, in the back. Yeah. I have no collarbones, and I could go down there pretty easy and come right back up. And they go, all right, well, that's another. All right, now losing some of the cameras on to that guy who wants to interview him about no collarbones.

[Dusty Slay]

Does anybody have no collarbones and no ribs? Some guys, like, I do. Dang it.

[Julian McCullough]

He's been wearing the same sweater his whole life. He just can't get it off.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy. I had never heard of this before it was brought up on the podcast.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's a big deal.

[Brian Bates]

Geez, Aaron.

[Nate Bargatze]

Stuff happened before you, Aaron. Four years before you, Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Kyle Gray. Does being, does being a stand up comic help with the mental part of golf? Being solo on a course with thousands of people, thousands of people staring at you versus the other athletes who have people watching them all the time. But play a team sport. Yeah. I think it helps with like when you do it and you hit like, I mean, I'm sure I'm, I would imagine I'm not as nervous. I mean, you're still nervous, but not as nervous as someone that, like, you know, even if you're in movies and tv, that you don't play in front of people. I'd imagine because we. Every night you're in front of a lot of people. Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

I would think that especially with you and golf. I mean, I think there's a certain amount of nerves just hitting the golf ball anyway of just wanting to do it well. And I can't see you being extra nervous or worried that people are watching.

[Dusty Slay]

No, but you noticed this weekend that it's very easy to get in my head. All he had to say was like, this one's for birdie. And then I was a wreck and I missed like two footers.

[Aaron Weber]

Actually. I get nerves of the group behind me is a little too close. I can feel them watching me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, I used to be very. Yeah. Nervous about that.

[Brian Bates]

Like I don't even want my group to watch.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, the, the. We played at Florida State's course this weekend and the guy was trying to. Said he wanted to invite you down. Have you come play it really well, I mean, kind of. Nah. He, but he did mention you he sent hats. Yeah, he said he sent hats. That's what it was. He's like, he's sending it to Bates even. And then I was like, you don't want Bates down here playing. I go, you know. But no, they were all. He was an awesome. Dude. But they're. Yeah. I don't think the first tee year is really the one that day with Barkley. And then. Because there's a lot of people watching that. That first tee is like. Yeah, you're a little.

[Dusty Slay]

You're feeling it.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're feeling it.

[Julian McCullough]

No, there was a big load off once you got. Once you were out there in the fairway and stuff. Because we saw some people just.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

That last day.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Colin Joseph. I mean. Yeah. Yeah. He hit one. I mean. And you just hit it. He had it as bad as you could. It just goes straight into, like. Yeah. Just.

[Julian McCullough]

Just rough, rough, rough. And everybody's watching.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's rough. It's crazy. I mean, it is truly embarrassing to just be just.

[Dusty Slay]

And then he had to. That poor guy had to go home to Scarlett Johansson.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know.

[Dusty Slay]

I hope he's okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

You just can't win.

[Brian Bates]

I was thinking about Aaron and I's competition. Some of these nice courses, like where you play. You couldn't just throw it and get it over. There's rough in front before you get to the fairway.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd get it over.

[Nate Bargatze]

He thinks he can throw it the full. A golf ball full length of a baseball field.

[Julian McCullough]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. On a roll. Not carry, but 350ft. Yeah, but it could. It would roll.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I could see you doing that.

[Aaron Weber]

Acuna had an unbelievable throw that went viral this weekend.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And it was the longest recorded throw of the year, I think. And it was 100 yards.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So people were tweeting at me going, you still think you can throw it 100 yards? But I'm saying not carry. But I. I could get a roll going, and I can get it 100 yards.

[Julian McCullough]

So the competition is, you play golf, and he just throws the ball.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

And you play 18 holes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, that'd be fun to watch.

[Nate Bargatze]

That would be fun to watch.

[Aaron Weber]

We gotta figure it out.

[Julian McCullough]

And then who pays for your rotator cuff surgery afterwards?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think we could get this set up easily. Maybe do nine holes. And we shoot it and edit it down to about a minute. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But out at Legends, there's, like, some par threes that. It's 150 yards to the. Clear the rough.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. There. Yeah. There's one that. Yeah. You'd be in big trouble. There's a. There's a hole that's 160. And it's straight over, like, all this tall grass.

[Aaron Weber]

We playing from the women's tease.

[Brian Bates]

You'd have to lay up and.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, but there is really no place to lay up is the problem.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

You would almost have to throw it in the water on purpose. Take the penalty to get to the spot. Okay, then throw it. So right there, you're at like, three. Like, that's going to be tough because it's 100, but that means 160 yards and there's nowhere to throw it.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, so Brian's got his driver out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The good news is I'm going to go in the water as well. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It would almost be a. It's a whole. That we could go see if you could throw. If you could, though, you could literally throw it to. Oh, we're going to the. You know what? Yeah, I wonder if we can get. We're going to the brewers game.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dude. We might be able to do it this weekend.

[Aaron Weber]

Should I bring a golf ball with us?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. I think we have.

[Dusty Slay]

You gotta bring one. You gotta bring one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I bet.

[Aaron Weber]

To the game.

[Nate Bargatze]

So. Yeah, we're. I'm in Milwaukee. I'm in. We're in second awe. Milwaukee.

[Aaron Weber]

St. Paul.

[Nate Bargatze]

Saint in. Yeah. Minneapolis St. Paul and his Sunday were somewhere right there. Is it Sunday, too?

[Aaron Weber]

You're in Milwaukee today. St. Paul. Two days.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But this is St. Paul Sunday. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Very pumped about these shows and. Yes, that's right. But we're going to the game in Milwaukee on Friday. It's a 3pm game.

[Dusty Slay]

Are you proposing that he throws a golf ball from home plate?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think he can.

[Julian McCullough]

I think it would be more interesting if you sat in the outfield in the first row of the seats, and during the game tried to throw it to home plate.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Just at some point, you know what?

[Dusty Slay]

You pick.

[Julian McCullough]

You're gonna get more coverage that way.

[Dusty Slay]

You're the one that's out of your mind that thinks they can do this.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll feel it out.

[Nate Bargatze]

You better warm your arm up, because I. I think we're going to get there early enough that we go like, hey, do you mind if my buddy sees if he can throw a golf ball all the way to the fence?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think it's that crazy if it.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm talking.

[Aaron Weber]

Including the role.

[Dusty Slay]

Whatever, Right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are you gonna do it?

[Aaron Weber]

100. Do it right now, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, take it easy. But there's that one where you can race that guy to freeze or whatever. And so this could be like that. You could. You should do it against one of the players.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes. Now, I do think the freeze could beat me in a race. I want to Put that out there. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. Yeah. Ellen Mitchell. Nate's pronunciation is so much better when reading comments. I missed the inaccuracies because they were laugh out loud funny. I'm guessing you've been working on it and good for you. I've done nothing for it.

[Julian McCullough]

No. As a guy who sat next to you at a restaurant and watched you try to pronounce charcuterie board, I can promise you that's 10 minutes I won't get back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I'll take the char tutor. Oh, I said, like, Chartudi. Yeah, it was very funny, too, because I was like, you know, we just got done golfing all day, and we were. They had a. The menu was like, all, like, burgers and fries. All stuff I like, but it was like, it's. It's hot, you know? And I was like, I just didn't want that. And all they had was, like, a char tutor Chartute board.

[Dusty Slay]

Anyway, they brought out a cranberry sauce.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So they brought. So I go, you know what? I'll just take the jar. Judy board.

[Aaron Weber]

And if I say it fast enough, please.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is the same place the year before.

[Julian McCullough]

The year before where? The year before, we were there. He was ordering. And he's talked about this on snl.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he.

[Julian McCullough]

He was. I ordered a pizza. Oh, no. I ordered a burger. And then he ordered pizza. But he said, hey, I'm gonna get the pepperoni pizza, but I don't want a lot of olive oil on it. And the guy's like, what? He's like, if you're gonna put a lot of olive oil, I just. And he goes, do you want no olive oil? And he goes, if the choice is a lot or none, I will take none. Guys, like, fine. And then I looked at the menu, and I looked over. I said, hey, did you think it's a lot because it says extra virgin olive oil? He's like, yeah, extra. It says it right there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Extra. I thought, why would they put extra? It didn't make sense that at that moment, I truly. In that moment, I thought, why would you even. Why would you.

[Dusty Slay]

You wanted regular virgin. Regular amount of virgin.

[Nate Bargatze]

You should be at regular, and I shouldn't even have to do your job, but you're starting at extra.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's crazy. Which I don't even know if want any. And so I think I asked for a little. I got to get a little virgin olive oil. Not. You know.

[Julian McCullough]

And then to your. And then to your credit, you just kind of smirked and said, that's going in the Act.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

And so they bring out this charcuterie board.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

And it's giant.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's giant, dude. It's, it's for obviously what they're for.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like a conference room.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like he's hosted a party.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. It's the biggest thing you've ever seen. Everybody's got burgers and fries and it's.

[Julian McCullough]

On, it's on a tree trunk. Yeah, it's on like a cut tree trunk.

[Dusty Slay]

He goes to put it in the middle and go, oh, no, that's his.

[Nate Bargatze]

It looked insane, but I enjoyed it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Martha McDevitt McDavid. I've heard of other comics that start off very funny, where I've heard other comics that start off very funny where audiences can relate because it's a shared experience, etc, but as they become more successful slash famous, their material is less relatable. Is it harder to find everyday stories?

[Brian Bates]

I'll take this one. No, it's not, Martha.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, there you go.

[Nate Bargatze]

There you go. That's the answer.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm very self conscious about it. So this the hour I'm doing now. I actually wrote it because I'm. You kind of guess weird. But I think about it this much. I, I actually kind of made sure I wrote it because I figured I would be shooting a movie. I just felt like my life was going to get very busy and there's gonna be a lot of stuff. And so I kind of made sure I had it ready before the movie or any of that stuff because I don't want to just be up. I don't want to up there talking about.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys know how when you're on a movie set.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Things can get crazy, right? Yeah. They don't have the water you want sometimes, you know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I, I'm very, very conscious of this and I don't ever want to go do it. And the other thing is I talk about my family and I talk about my kind of stuff. I, I end up talking more about my family because that's going to be stuff that everybody can relate to and.

[Dusty Slay]

They'Re not doing better.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So they're still relatable.

[Brian Bates]

Good point.

[Nate Bargatze]

My relatable fan.

[Dusty Slay]

You're the one getting somewhere.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So it is. But it's very true. It's something that you have to be aware of and I'm very aware I'm scared of it. Tony Herman here, man. There is a major league baseball player named Greg Garcia who looks like he could be Nate's doppelganger.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's too weird.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is weird.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah. I'm Greg Garcia. I'm very aware of this guy because as my career slowed down and his picked up, my mother's Google alerts for Greg Garcia were just this guy and she does not like him.

[Dusty Slay]

She knows all his stats. You know, he went three for four today.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, he's just like, enough. Enough with this baseball player.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

I think he's doing well out there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But how many Emmys has he won?

[Julian McCullough]

He just lost to Brian for the regional Kentucky Mid South. Yeah. So none. So none really.

[Aaron Weber]

Great.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, he got him there.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

For the neighborhood Emmy.

[Brian Bates]

Looks like he's. He may be done playing.

[Julian McCullough]

I think he is done playing. He's played for the Cardinals and then some. Yeah, Padres.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, at least you don't know too much about him.

[Julian McCullough]

I know a lot about my mother. Fills me in, buddy. She lets me know what he's doing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Lance Dowdy. In the second season of Sprung, they should have breakfast. They should have breakfast. Escape at the beginning of the season. And they send Aaron to bring him back because they don't want anyone to find out and panic the public. They don't even have to have lines. You just see them in the background causing mayhem. How about that?

[Julian McCullough]

Well, a couple things. First of all, Lance, I mean, really should work in Hollywood knowing that they don't have to have lines. Like, he already picked up on that, which is good. Yeah, that would have been fantastic. If they would have let me do a second season of Sprung, I would have brought these guys back for sure. But unfortunately that. But perhaps now that we have this idea, I'll go back and re pitch it.

[Aaron Weber]

So get the ball around. Feel free to use our names, Greg, if you need.

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

What?

[Dusty Slay]

You had these guys on the show?

[Julian McCullough]

Well, thanks for watching my show. Yeah, they were in the pilot episode. They did. They did a fantastic job.

[Nate Bargatze]

Aaron was in the trailer.

[Aaron Weber]

I was in the trailer.

[Brian Bates]

I was in the season finale.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, you were. You were in the season finale.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I.

[Julian McCullough]

For that show. I hired everybody I've ever met that I thought was funny.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow, that's cool. That sounds like a. That sounds like a really funny show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Check it out. Thanks for the support.

[Dusty Slay]

It must still be on.

[Julian McCullough]

It's on Amazon Prime.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Julian McCullough]

Lives forever, right? Lives forever.

[Nate Bargatze]

Marshall Barker. Marshall Barker. I think we need a My name is Earl reboot called. My dad's name was Earl. And Dusty can be one of those boys that's Growing up in the trailer there with Earl's first wife in Crabman.

[Julian McCullough]

Great. Again, great idea. Let's do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Call a studio Marshall, get somebody to back this with some money. And we did just have a 20th year anniversary party for My name is Earl at my house like three weeks ago. Whole cast came, a lot of the side characters, all the writers, crew, everybody was. It was a lot of fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Still close with a lot of those guys.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, I keep in touch with most of them. I keep in touch with quite frequently. Ethan Suplee and Eddie Steeples, who played Crabman, I probably see them the most. But. But yeah, we all went to dinner the night before, just the cast and I, and we had a great time. It was a lot of fun. A lot of fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Just. Yeah, it's the best. Like you'd be. Because how long was it? Four years, right, or something.

[Julian McCullough]

Four years. We did the show for four years.

[Nate Bargatze]

You just would be. It's like, I mean, every hour of.

[Aaron Weber]

Every day for those four years basically.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

You're just with those people.

[Julian McCullough]

Exactly. Yeah. And the cast and crew and everybody becomes such, I mean, you know, from just doing a movie now and think of that for four years with those people. I mean, people become a family, you know, so it's great to catch up with people. Some people still work in the business, some people I have worked with, some people I haven't seen. Some people have just moved on to do other things. But it's great to catch up with everybody.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

Allegedly.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You'll fill in for Dusty today.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that is interesting. Yeah. When we picked. Yeah, I guess Dusty's not here because it's like, like, you know. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because of his shoulder.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, because of his shoulder.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's by design. Although I did read a poll that said about 10 of Americans agree with Dusty. So it's. It's gone up.

[Aaron Weber]

10% believe that we didn't land that.

[Nate Bargatze]

There is no moon.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, that's a different.

[Dusty Slay]

So what is it, a hole in the sky?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, he's joking about that. Okay.

[Julian McCullough]

I mean, you know, what percentage of Americans are in insane asylums? Like how close is that number?

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's funny you should ask that. That'll be my first moon tidbit. The word moon in. In Roman language. I forgot. What did Romans speak?

[Dusty Slay]

Latin.

[Brian Bates]

Latin.

[Nate Bargatze]

Excuse me, I would have never guessed that. I would have said Romanesque.

[Aaron Weber]

Roman numerals.

[Brian Bates]

Roman numerals is luna.

[Dusty Slay]

Luna lunatic.

[Nate Bargatze]

The.

[Brian Bates]

The. Wait, don't get ahead of me.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

The.

[Dusty Slay]

The moon's the lunar don't know stuff.

[Brian Bates]

But when there's a full moon, there's more crazy people. Yeah, supposedly. Okay, so that's where the word lunatic.

[Julian McCullough]

All right, There you go.

[Aaron Weber]

And to this day, crime rates go up when there's a full moon. There are all kinds of problems. Hospital admissions go up when there's a full moon.

[Brian Bates]

Allegedly. They say pull after poll shows. That's not true, but dang.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

You said it with some authority though.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah. I mean, I believed.

[Brian Bates]

You think crime would be down because it's less dark, but you got more light.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because it is less dark. Yeah, you got more. But you got just the perfect amount of light to commit crimes.

[Brian Bates]

Don't eat a flashlight.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, no, I think that, you know, if you saw someone in. In full moon, you'd be like, you couldn't really describe them. Like if you were eyewitness.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What do you look like.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a full moon.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was a full moon. So it wasn't. And you'd be like. Like, I kind of know. It's like seeing black and white. Like, you would just be like. And take the shape of them.

[Brian Bates]

I just watched.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'll draw a shape. That's what the.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll give you a silhouette.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It might help, though. Might have a unique shape.

[Dusty Slay]

And that kind of looks like a wolf. There you go. Maybe it was a.

[Brian Bates]

It was a werewolf, maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

And that's full moon. You can see all these things could happen. It's pretty obvious.

[Brian Bates]

I just watched that NETFLIX documentary about bin Laden.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But they waited to go in when there was no full moon or not, I guess the new moon. When there was.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. When there's almost no moon. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Why was that? Just for more darkness.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Just for more darkness.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

More cover. Yeah. So July 20th, which yesterday was when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon. 1916. You. And I just missed it.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah. Just missed it. Doggone it.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's crazy for y' all to be alive, and there's just, like. It is funny how it's like. How much did y' all miss it by?

[Julian McCullough]

I missed it by a year. I'm older than.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Brian. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

One year before you were born. They went to the moon, and you're here.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah. And I'm here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Alive.

[Julian McCullough]

Hanging on. Barely hanging on.

[Nate Bargatze]

But it's kind of crazy how, like, that was so recent ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

To. You know, and just to be, like, where we're at now.

[Brian Bates]

But you like to point out how old I am. But yet this greatest human achievement, as many people say, happened even before I was born.

[Nate Bargatze]

Born. Is he still. He died, Right? He died.

[Brian Bates]

But Buzz Aldrin, who was with him, is still alive.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That's crazy. That's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

I'm sure I just killed him off.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now, but, man, that's.

[Julian McCullough]

We should send flowers.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Someone get to Buzz and tell him the Pope.

[Brian Bates]

The Pope called him yesterday.

[Aaron Weber]

Called Buzz Aldrin yesterday just to say what's up.

[Brian Bates]

On the anniversary of them walking on the moon, he called him just to talk about how it was such an incredible thing. And I don't know what all they talked about, but imagine if Pope speaks English.

[Nate Bargatze]

Every year, the. He's got to get on the phone. Hello? How was the moon landing? It was great.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, I don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's been 80 years.

[Dusty Slay]

I've done a lot since then. Nobody wants to talk about the rest of It.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. He goes. I don't know. It was like. Felt like moonlight. And we bounced around and. Yeah. And it was cool. And everybody did it. And. No, I mean, every. Every pope, every president, every. You get. Hello. Hi. This is Ronald Reagan. How was the moon? It was good, man. You want to talk about something else? You know, I think it'd be frustrating.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you're Buzz Aldrin. Yesterday you had a good talk about the moon. You know, you have to.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you remember? Because when you were so. You missed it the first one by a year, but when you're a child, we were still going back to the moon.

[Nate Bargatze]

Moon for.

[Aaron Weber]

For a little bit. Right.

[Brian Bates]

Do you remember the Last one was 1972.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, they did all of those in three. In three years.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. They were going like three times a.

[Dusty Slay]

Year, and then they were like, we got it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Nothing more to see.

[Aaron Weber]

Never go back.

[Brian Bates]

Basically, it was a space race with Russia or Soviet Union, and they were winning everything ahead of us. But then we beat them to the moon. They never went.

[Aaron Weber]

We beat them to the moon, then we beat them in hockey, and then. Then they tore the wall down.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And we won.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we also beat him in boxing in 1984 with Rocky.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But do you remember learning about. Was it. Was it still a big deal? He was. It talked about.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think it was in their books yet.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

No, I think it was books they had.

[Nate Bargatze]

Didn't have the moon stuff in it. They just.

[Julian McCullough]

It just happened. We still had tablets, too. Most of it was just tablets and.

[Brian Bates]

It was an insert.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I don't.

[Brian Bates]

I think everything.

[Julian McCullough]

No, I mean, I was two when they stopped, so I don't know. I don't remember.

[Brian Bates]

By the time I was in school, I think they had all the facts down. I don't think it was like new stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Were you into space as a kid?

[Nate Bargatze]

Sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You wanted to be an astronaut.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is fun. They might have been. They were in one of the first. They would have read one of the first history books that had moon stuff in it, though.

[Brian Bates]

I guess that's true.

[Aaron Weber]

By the time you get to middle school. High school. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The equivalent for us, because we were born in 79, is disco. Disco was over right when we were born.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So we just started reading it in textbooks, like when we were young about disco.

[Brian Bates]

So which one's cooler?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Both kind of the same thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Disco ball.

[Dusty Slay]

They go together real good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So John F. Kennedy said in 1961 he wanted to land a man on the moon before the decade was over. And they did it. July 1969, they did it. Got in there.

[Aaron Weber]

How close were we when he said that? Like, were we even working on it? Or was he. Was NASA?

[Dusty Slay]

Are we like, right there?

[Aaron Weber]

You know, NASA's watching. Like, come on, dude, we're not even started yet.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think we're in Venus. We're like, we're in Venus.

[Julian McCullough]

Some guy, NASA is just eating a donut and he's just like, what did he say?

[Brian Bates]

What did he say?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, or, or he knew that they were almost all the way there. And then he was like, I say we should go to the moon.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that would.

[Brian Bates]

I looked up because we're going back next year to the moon.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Next year we're going now. They keep getting delayed, but NASA's going to go around the moon, send astronauts around the moon in 2026, and then land on the moon in 2027. That's the plan.

[Julian McCullough]

And we haven't landed since 1972.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Julian McCullough]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Have we landed other stuff? Do you know we sent like, rovers or anything up there?

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I think a lot of countries are. Have done that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it's a junkyard up there.

[Brian Bates]

It probably is.

[Aaron Weber]

It probably is, yeah. Because we just. We have to leave that stuff up there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I looked up some like, Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos thing where people go up. That's 62 miles up.

[Julian McCullough]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

To go is where the moon's at.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no, Blue Origin.

[Julian McCullough]

The moon's bezos.

[Aaron Weber]

A little farther than that.

[Julian McCullough]

Bezos.

[Aaron Weber]

240,000 miles.

[Brian Bates]

All right, you're killing my, my stories here.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, sorry, right.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Aaron gave the punchline.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

Anyway, 62 miles up in Blue Origin, it's 250 miles to the International Space Station. It's 240,000 miles to the moon.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, wow. So I didn't hear what Aaron said.

[Dusty Slay]

So do your joke.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, no, I think there was no. I don't know. He doesn't know what a punchline.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no. I ruined the reveal.

[Nate Bargatze]

The reveal.

[Aaron Weber]

I asked Brian this before the podcast. But if you had to guess, let's say we take a piece of paper, normal piece of paper. It's an infinitely large piece of paper that you can fold in half forever. How many times would you have to fold a piece of paper in half for it to get to the moon?

[Dusty Slay]

240,000.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, that's, I guess a trillion.

[Julian McCullough]

That's actually.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Is I don't care.

[Brian Bates]

This brings back old memories of podcasts back in the.

[Nate Bargatze]

That seems like why would anybody ever want to talk about this?

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's fascinating.

[Julian McCullough]

Also, I think the science behind it is no matter how big a piece of paper is or how little, you can only fold it in half so many times.

[Aaron Weber]

Right. But you also couldn't fold a piece of paper to the moon because it's like a theoretical.

[Julian McCullough]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, so it's 0 or 1 or infinity. Just which one is.

[Aaron Weber]

It doubles. It doubles in thickness every time you fold it in half. How many times would you have to do that before it goes from here to the moon?

[Dusty Slay]

So how many times is it?

[Aaron Weber]

But just guess.

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, I see what you're saying.

[Aaron Weber]

To be blown away by the answer.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, sorry. So I guess what I said, my real guess is a hundred.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. A trillion and a hundred. We've got a pretty big range.

[Nate Bargatze]

Someone's going to be right. Someone's going to be wrong.

[Brian Bates]

This is the showcase showdown on Price is Right.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's known as the Bates McCullough window.

[Aaron Weber]

42.

[Dusty Slay]

I was a lot closer.

[Brian Bates]

But you still overbidden.

[Aaron Weber]

So fold that piece of paper 42 times in half. It will be as thick as from here to the moon. 240,000 miles. Because it doubles every time. 42 times.

[Nate Bargatze]

What paper? This regular piece of paper?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, this.

[Aaron Weber]

A regular 0.1 millimeter thick paper. If you were to fold that in half 42 times, fold it like this, it will get to the moon.

[Nate Bargatze]

So this folding, that's one fold.

[Dusty Slay]

That's one.

[Aaron Weber]

It's doubled in thickness.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So if you fold it again, it will double again. It will double all the way to the moon if you do it 42 times.

[Dusty Slay]

Let me give it to you in numbers so you understand how fast this happens. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 200. So within like five folds, you're already at 200 and something.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's annoying.

[Aaron Weber]

The math. 0.1 millimeters times 2 to the 42nd. That'll get 200. Actually, you're gonna overshoot them.

[Dusty Slay]

You're going too far.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Punch in the face for doing something like this to somebody. Yeah, but that's what it get you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

73 times will get you out of.

[Julian McCullough]

The Milky way somewhere around 30. You really. You really got to use your foot to.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

To get that molded. I mean, that's Bates.

[Dusty Slay]

What was the top miles to the moon?

[Brian Bates]

240,000.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. How crazy is that? That it's 240,000 miles to the moon and it's $240,000 for an Oscar full of gold.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that?

[Dusty Slay]

What is going on?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know if I believe this. This piece of hakuna Bata cannot be folded.

[Dusty Slay]

It's physically impossible, though. That's the problem.

[Brian Bates]

It was a big piece of paper.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's the. That's the part that convenient. It was really big.

[Brian Bates]

You could.

[Aaron Weber]

It's just a math problem that if.

[Dusty Slay]

You started, somebody's like, how are you getting to the moon rocket? How are you getting the moon? I'm folding a piece of paper.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Until I get there.

[Aaron Weber]

0.1 millimeters thick. That's an average thickness.

[Nate Bargatze]

Big and, like, long, infinite.

[Aaron Weber]

It would have to be infinitely big for you to be able to keep folding it in half, obviously. So it's a thought experiment, but it's a math problem.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's a dumb.

[Dusty Slay]

He's not a thought experiment kind of guy. He's like, well, what about this piece?

[Aaron Weber]

And it's like, here's the last problem.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm a solver.

[Aaron Weber]

To get to the end of the observable universe 103 times.

[Dusty Slay]

That's it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's all you have to do.

[Dusty Slay]

What was your guess? A trillion. A trillion. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, he said it, too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, I went with him.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, he's your. He's your math bates. He's. He does decisions, memory, and math.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't like. Why. What's the point of knowing that?

[Dusty Slay]

You know, that's fun. I think he read it.

[Nate Bargatze]

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

[Aaron Weber]

Trillion. And the correct answer is 42.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's pretty fun. That is fun. But it's.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, who's not having fun?

[Nate Bargatze]

But who. What's the. I just don't know the point of even knowing that as a thing. Who figures that out? Like, who does that and then goes.

[Dusty Slay]

People are going to want to know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is this what, like. Yeah, it's like I talked about. This is what college is.

[Dusty Slay]

This is what you missed out on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is it? Yeah, I think it is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Y' all are just like, there's some stuff like this. Yeah. You're just not. You're talking about nothing. And then you're. You know, and like. Well, can you even.

[Brian Bates]

I find it interesting.

[Nate Bargatze]

What?

[Dusty Slay]

I find it interesting on some level. It's the same conversation as who would win in a fight, Spider man or Batman.

[Julian McCullough]

You know, those are the conversations we had at my college. Frostburg State University. Yeah, well, you could major in that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's like the hundred men versus an ape or something. Like, you know, it's like, it's that. It's that. So. But like. But that's dumb. But this is. But this is smart. But how come that's 18? Ape thing is like a boneheads. You're like. You're like these idiots talking about these apes.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, is he not into that one?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, I'm just in general.

[Aaron Weber]

That one too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he loved it too. But I mean, that would. That one is considered. It's on social media. No one's really looking at it as like a smart question. But then this you could bring up in the. In a science and they would be like, professors go. They start applauding and you're like, well, there's no different difference between the guy that figured that out and the ape guy.

[Brian Bates]

But that's. You're just theorizing who would win this? He says it's fact.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's a math problem. There's a actual answer to it. But I just think it's. That's a crazy few amount of times to get to the moon. That's the whole.

[Nate Bargatze]

But. But if it's a paper that's infinite.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Then I could see it be 42. If it's so infinite. I can't imagine. Yeah. One time would be the size of Manhattan.

[Julian McCullough]

No, it'll just be that double the.

[Aaron Weber]

Same thickness as that.

[Julian McCullough]

The same thickness, but larger. But how many. Google, how many times you can fold a piece of paper in half?

[Dusty Slay]

There is an actual answer, which is.

[Julian McCullough]

Way less than 42. So it all falls apart.

[Dusty Slay]

Something crazy.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Seven or eight times.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's so close.

[Dusty Slay]

That's all you can do this.

[Aaron Weber]

The world record is 12.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

World record by Brittany Galavin.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah. That's where it all falls apart for me.

[Nate Bargatze]

She had toilet paper.

[Aaron Weber]

It was 2002. It was a 1.2 kilometer long piece of toilet paper.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I think I just. It. What? What? But I just like, if the. If the paper is any size ever, then. Yeah, 42 times.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, the idea is not to try this to get to the moon. It's just a fun math problem.

[Nate Bargatze]

But the. But, yeah, but it's just like, you know, it's like. Well, now picture if the paper was the size of Earth, like, okay, then look at this. If you'd have told me that I get 42 times, somebody probably said that.

[Dusty Slay]

Somebody said, well, what if the toilet paper is a mile long? And then a bunch of people are like, let's. Let's do it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't have people like that in my life. No one's like, yeah, let's do it.

[Aaron Weber]

But even they only got the 12. You just gotta do it. Yeah. I mean, 30 more times and you'll be at the moon. I didn't know it would upset everybody at the table. I'm sorry about that.

[Julian McCullough]

It really hit. You hit a lot of.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, we're out of time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It didn't. It didn't upset. I think it's.

[Dusty Slay]

Even the rain stopped.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Rain's like, I'm out of here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe if we were talking about paper and then we just said, how high would it be if we kept folding it and then you throw out that fact? Maybe it'd be more interesting.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, maybe.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Let's go back.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think it's plenty interesting, but we can move on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. All right. So do you know what Neil Armstrong said when he stepped foot on the moon?

[Julian McCullough]

One small step for mankind. One. One giant step for mankind. No.

[Nate Bargatze]

No. One small step up for man.

[Julian McCullough]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

One giant leap for man.

[Dusty Slay]

Are you walking right into this like it's not a trick question?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Oh, oh, is it, Buzz?

[Dusty Slay]

Because it's the other one.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's the other one.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no. It was Neil Armstrong that said it, but he was supposed to say, it's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. He swears he said a. And. And it just got cut out from the transmission, but obviously that's not how we.

[Julian McCullough]

And. And I'm guessing Dusty would say. Is that because the director and the sound stage told him that.

[Dusty Slay]

What do you mean?

[Julian McCullough]

He was supposed. So it is a script.

[Aaron Weber]

Because they did have conversations about it ahead of time, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He didn't just do it on. Off. Off the dome.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, dude, that's fine. That. You know what that would be like. That's exactly what it's like when someone tells you when you got to do, like, promo videos or you got to do something, they go like, you know, just talk about this, but make it fun. And you're like, what do you want me to say? I don't know. Because they think the comedian, if anything, they can just throw it out and be like, hey, tell them to come to the. I can't even think of a good example. But it's like, yeah, whatever it is, you're like, make it fun. And then you're like, so I got to come up with all this stuff?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then that's like that they go like. And right before you land on the moon, come up with a saying that we can use forever. All right, I'll see.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what would have been fun is if they hadn't planned it, what he would have said, you know, like, what do you. He was like, oh, it's like. It's like chalk.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Chalk something stupid.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're higher than I thought.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, let's go back.

[Brian Bates]

So he stepped out, then Buzz aldrin walked out 19 minutes later.

[Aaron Weber]

He let it. He let him have it.

[Dusty Slay]

He wanted to make sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

Why did they get a chew. Did they.

[Brian Bates]

Neil Armstrong was the commander. There was a third guy, Michael Collins, who went with him as well, who did not get to land.

[Aaron Weber]

He stayed. He stayed. Oh, he stayed.

[Brian Bates]

So there's.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's the rocket that gets them outer space, then there's the command module, and then there's a lunar module that comes down on the moon.

[Dusty Slay]

Nerd alert.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I only know this because I read it. But. But there was one guy that stayed up in the command module waiting for them to return.

[Aaron Weber]

He never even went down to. The. Right to the moon.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

You would think they would be like, let me. Come on.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm already down here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he. Okay. So he knew going into it, I'm not going to.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. They know their role.

[Aaron Weber]

They didn't rock, paper, scissors up there. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Golly.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's at least. So I guess you could be like. It's nice they let Buzz Aldrid out.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I mean, he was planned to go.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But it was also nice of Buzz to give Neil 20 minutes.

[Brian Bates]

Well, Buzz out there. Buzz was a Presbyterian elder and took communion before he went out in the module. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's pretty cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They landed on Sunday.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

We landed on the moon immediately. Performed a religious ceremony.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what? Didn't know it was Sunday, the moon.

[Brian Bates]

Because they think it's Monday Moon day. That's right. Do you know that's where they come from, really? Sun Sunday come from. Well, you can probably figure that out.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, I figured that part out.

[Nate Bargatze]

How about Tuesday? Well.

[Brian Bates]

After Monday, then things get tougher.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I looked up the other. They're all just, you know, some God.

[Aaron Weber]

Wednesday, it's windy out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Saturdays were Saturn.

[Julian McCullough]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But the rest of them are stuff I never heard of.

[Julian McCullough]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

But the word month comes from moon, because the moon cycle is 29 and a half days. And that's how they would treat a Month. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

That's pretty important.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's cool stuff, man.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm into it.

[Brian Bates]

650 million people watch the moon land ending. How many? 650 million.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Less than the MASH finale. Or was it more?

[Brian Bates]

I think it was probably more.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

This is worldwide 94 of U.S. households.

[Nate Bargatze]

How many watch it?

[Dusty Slay]

94. So 6% were like, I know watch.

[Brian Bates]

My Name is Earl.

[Aaron Weber]

Is there anything else that could get right now could get 94 of American households to watch the same thing? No, because even the super bowl is not getting. Not even close to 94.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, what we have to do.

[Aaron Weber]

If we land on Mars.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't even think 94 is going to watch Mars landing?

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Why not?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think they're going to. You're going to see it. When you go see it, you're going to. It doesn't matter. Like, you just see it in a clip or whatever. But like watch a live event like to go do it. I don't think the Mars. I mean, it would an alien if they said. But now you're in a world where no one's going to believe it. So even if they go, we got an alien. You're going to be like, I don't. I'm not watching.

[Julian McCullough]

That's A.I.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Like. Like A.I. i mean, you know, they. It was like that A.I. i thought was so crazy with. It's been everywhere with that. The Coldplay concert with that couple did that. And have you seen all the different AI Things where it shows them, like talking. It's. You're. We're seconds away from you just having no idea if something's real or not. So it's going to be hard to get anybody to I. Outer space. Definitely. Because it's like that could be completely fake. You might need a bait like you would need a baby Jessica type thing.

[Aaron Weber]

A girl trapped on a space.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, no, no, not in space.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's got to be.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Here. Like the balloon boy. Like, you're gonna have to have real O.J.

[Dusty Slay]

I was gonna say the O.J. verdict.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Verdict.

[Nate Bargatze]

A verdict. Yes. Maybe you could give it. I don't know if it's gonna be 90. The verdict would have to be the president is between. Like, the president's going to go to jail. Like literal President United States reading the.

[Dusty Slay]

Reading A verdict of. To the president would be something that might pull that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

If it was live.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. But I mean, I don't think now it's like no one cares.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah. You're still not going to get 94.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

No, people don't care. And like you said, you can just. They'll watch it later.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if we get the Sprung two reboot with me and Brian.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, you'll be in the 90s.

[Julian McCullough]

You'll definitely be in the 90s. As long as y' all don't talk.

[Dusty Slay]

So also, I'm not available.

[Julian McCullough]

Good.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. It's fine.

[Brian Bates]

Sprung was streaming, but your other shows were on network tv, right?

[Julian McCullough]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

So you got ratings for them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Julian McCullough]

And it's crazy because you look back at, like, what your ratings were for, like, a show like yesterday that was on between King of Queens and Everybody Loves Raymond. And the ratings are so huge because there was four channels and that was it. And they're giant ratings. Well, it's probably like 19, 20 million.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

And then they were like, oh, we'll see if you come back next year.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's crazy.

[Julian McCullough]

It was insane. You get repeats that were getting, like, 14 million viewers. And it was just because, like I said, you didn't. You know, I think, you know, we had VCRs and stuff, but there wasn't TiVo. You couldn't, like, if you wanted to watch it sat down and you watched it when it was on tv. That's it.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's it.

[Julian McCullough]

So, yeah, the numbers are ridiculous when you go back and look at it.

[Aaron Weber]

So that's another part of it. You're like, back then, you go, if I miss the moon landing, I may never get to see this.

[Julian McCullough]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. I would never think about that. Because you're like, they obviously can't anticipate a YouTube and stuff like that.

[Julian McCullough]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

So you're like, I better see it when it happens.

[Nate Bargatze]

But maybe you would see the news, would probably reshow it, but not, you know, not in.

[Aaron Weber]

Whenever you want.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah. Maybe a sports. Something like, like an Olympic or like that kind of, like, thing. Maybe like if you have, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

A fight of a fight between, like, Messi and, like, you know, like two. If two of the biggest athletes.

[Nate Bargatze]

But the US Is not going to.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it have to be an America. So it have to be like, you know, Tiger woods or somebody fights Messi in a UFC, people would. That you're getting about in the 70s.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet if even, like, Trump and Putin did a boxing match, it wouldn't get 94%, though. The more I think about it, that's just so many people.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a lot of people.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that was the Apollo 11 crew. That. That first thing by Apollo 14, they were taking golf clubs and chipping golf balls.

[Aaron Weber]

They went from church to golf.

[Dusty Slay]

They got bored. They were bored that fast?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, that's how bored. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's a video of the guy doing it. He says, you. I can't put both hands on the club because of my suit. So I'm just going to try to do like a little of a sand trap. And then the first time it. He misses it. And then the second time, he says it goes for miles and miles. But I read that it went about 40ft. But in theory, we, with little gravity golf ball, could go almost as far as Aaron could throw it.

[Julian McCullough]

Almost.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. There he is, chipping.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So it's not the best footage, but.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Man, it looks so real.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah. You can't even see.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, he missed that one. I think he missed that one.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that a six iron?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

That's the important.

[Brian Bates]

The other guy back there doing work.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

There's.

[Aaron Weber]

There's.

[Dusty Slay]

There's Greg with all his other clubs on the ground.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, that's me.

[Brian Bates]

And by Apollo 15, 16, and 17, they taking a car up there. They're driving around.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Did they say what kind of car?

[Brian Bates]

Lunar roving vehicle.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Julian McCullough]

A little. Yeah. They didn't just take like, a pacer or something? No, I got you. That's what I was picturing for a second.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So there's a. There's a car.

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, there it is.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that real?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That looks fun.

[Aaron Weber]

It does look fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is funny because it just does look like.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dirt. It just.

[Dusty Slay]

It's funny that, like, within. Within 10 years, we were just hillbilly and on the moon.

[Julian McCullough]

Dune buggies.

[Dusty Slay]

He's got a catfish on his arm.

[Aaron Weber]

And that's just still up there.

[Dusty Slay]

That looks fun.

[Aaron Weber]

There's no way we pack that thing back up.

[Brian Bates]

No, they're all still. They're all still there.

[Aaron Weber]

And all the flags. Is it true that all the flags are white now?

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

Because they lost color with radiation and space. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We've planted six flags.

[Aaron Weber]

Six Flags.

[Brian Bates]

Five of them.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what Six Flags should be marketing themselves.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That's a huge loss. They're going with the Looney Tunes characters, right. And you're like, there's six flags on the moon. I don't want to do your job for you, but maybe lean into that a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

They think five of them are still standing. The first one, they think got knocked over when the. When they took off by the wind.

[Nate Bargatze]

How would it get knocked over by.

[Brian Bates]

The spaceship, taken off to go home.

[Nate Bargatze]

All the wind.

[Dusty Slay]

Teenagers, even up there.

[Brian Bates]

So they. They collected 270 moon rocks altogether. And President Nixon gave them out to whoever he like. Other countries, some states, things like that. 180 of them were still unaccounted for. People didn't know what to do with it. A lot of them just locked them away, Throw them away.

[Nate Bargatze]

Threw them away. How do you throw a moon rock?

[Dusty Slay]

You just throw it out the window.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Now it's a rock.

[Brian Bates]

But there's, like, enthusiasts that are out there now still trying to track down these moon rocks, but most of them are. They don't know where they're at.

[Aaron Weber]

So we plan on bringing some more back when we go to the moon in a couple years. Right. Right. We have to be. It'd be crazy to not.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe we should bring back something else that's not. So that doesn't blend in so much with other stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

I guess when you're holding it and you're like, you like, you know, it's going to feel like a rock pretty soon.

[Dusty Slay]

Just a. I had no idea we had footage like this. I've never seen this before.

[Brian Bates]

I haven't either.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. We don't know if this is. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It looks so good that it is that.

[Dusty Slay]

Arizona.

[Nate Bargatze]

So, Greg Umbrella up there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Greg and Julian asked this last week. There was a Mars rock that sold at auction this week for. I think it went for $5 million.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't know that they were worth so much.

[Brian Bates]

54 pound.

[Dusty Slay]

I had so many in high school, my mom just threw them away.

[Brian Bates]

Would you rather have a Mars rock in your home?

[Julian McCullough]

You can't.

[Brian Bates]

You can't sell it.

[Julian McCullough]

I can't sell it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or go to Myrtle beach.

[Dusty Slay]

Or fight 100 chimps.

[Brian Bates]

Well, we combine two different questions.

[Julian McCullough]

All right, so I got a. I got a Mars rock. It's worth a ton of money.

[Brian Bates]

You can't sell it.

[Julian McCullough]

But it's a top four pound.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody that comes over this rock, put.

[Julian McCullough]

It on a pedestal, Put it in my living room.

[Aaron Weber]

It's the law.

[Brian Bates]

You can show it to you.

[Aaron Weber]

It's the largest Mars rock ever found on earth. It represents 7% of all Martian material.

[Julian McCullough]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Ever found on.

[Julian McCullough]

Okay, so that's pretty cool.

[Brian Bates]

Or free gas for life.

[Julian McCullough]

Free or free gas?

[Brian Bates]

I said cracker barrel for life. But then Nate said, free gas for life.

[Nate Bargatze]

Life.

[Julian McCullough]

No, I'll take the. I'll take the Mars rock.

[Aaron Weber]

Ah. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. That's what it looks like, yeah, I want that.

[Julian McCullough]

I want that Mars rock for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll put that in the house. And people come by, I'll say, that's my Mars rock.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Julian McCullough]

And then I'll. They'll like, can. And then they'll be like, can I touch it? And I'll be like, if you fill up my car with gas, you can touch it.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go.

[Brian Bates]

There you go.

[Dusty Slay]

There you go.

[Julian McCullough]

So there you go.

[Brian Bates]

What about you, Julian?

[Dusty Slay]

I love when I love people. There's always someone when you do a thought experiment that has to cheat the thought experiment to get both things. And you're like, it's hypothetical. Why are you going into business on this? Is that it?

[Aaron Weber]

That's it right there.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, it's funny. That's $5 million if you did have it at your house. And you go, hey, that's a rock from Mars. I'd go, cool. And that's about.

[Brian Bates]

That's kind of what Nate said last week.

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly what Nate said.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then you're like, I need gas.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. What would I do? Would I want the rock or free gas?

[Nate Bargatze]

Free gas is going to be much more of a conversation starter.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm going to go, free gas.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is like the 94% watching. There's just too much stuff going on now that you would, you know, someone would be way more intrigued to hear.

[Dusty Slay]

You how you got free gas.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. They go. They go, let me see you get free gas. You go, I got a card.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. How'd you do that? You go, I didn't take a rock.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm really interested in the 6% that chose not to watch it. You think they just missed it? Or do you think they were like, I'm not interested in mankind's greatest achievement ever.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would say I'm talking about the Mars thing, though. Is this $4 million, though? Is it? You think someone's gonna spend. How much money you think you spend in gas? Your life is. It's not 4 million.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but you're not allowed to sell it, so.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know, but I'm saying. So. Oh, you're not allowed to sell it.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

No, it's just to have the cool thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, then, I mean, who's.

[Dusty Slay]

How much long.

[Nate Bargatze]

Who is alive that's making you. Watching you going, you can't sell this.

[Dusty Slay]

See, this is. Again, we're getting into. It's not real. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's not a paper.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I came up with this, but I just Thought if you could sell it, everybody would say, oh, I'll take the Mars where I can sell it.

[Julian McCullough]

Sure.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, right.

[Julian McCullough]

Just money wise, it makes a lot more sense.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, except for the person that bought it.

[Aaron Weber]

It.

[Dusty Slay]

They wouldn't sell it because they wanted it.

[Julian McCullough]

And I have an electric car, so that may have impacted my decision.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that was the thing that I didn't say because I didn't want to be a hypocrite. But it's like, how much longer are we going to have gas?

[Brian Bates]

That's a good point.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

I also have a free Burger King card, and I haven't used it in six years. So you work there. Yeah, so. So, you know, I don't know if I would use the gas card.

[Dusty Slay]

You have a what? You have a what?

[Aaron Weber]

You have a free Burger King for lifeguard.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Nate Bargatze]

What?

[Brian Bates]

There's one right next door.

[Aaron Weber]

There's one right next door.

[Dusty Slay]

How did you get that?

[Julian McCullough]

Whoppers on me, buddy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he want.

[Julian McCullough]

I told this. I told this on here before, but. Yeah, but I worked there. I worked there during the writer strike and then. Well, I worked there during the writer strike. I was doing My Name is Earl. And then they got a little press out of it. I won't tell the whole story, but they got some press out of it, and then they gave me a free Burger King card for the rest of my life.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah. But I haven't used it that much.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you can get it whatever you want.

[Julian McCullough]

Whatever you want.

[Aaron Weber]

You can have it your way on it.

[Julian McCullough]

I can have it my way? No, there's no picture. My name's on it.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's transfer.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or you could steal it from me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's gonna be confusing. They're gonna be like, what?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they don't. Do they even know what it looks like? I mean, if you show it to.

[Aaron Weber]

Burgundy, I doubt they've seen a car like that.

[Julian McCullough]

There's been some discussions. People get confused sometimes. It's not worth it. It's confusing. It's confusing. But it is fun when I. When I decide to buy stuff for everybody in line. Because then some people get confused, but everybody's usually pretty down with it.

[Dusty Slay]

This is gonna sound like I'm messing with you, but I genuinely mean this. I love. What I love about your look.

[Aaron Weber]

Look.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that you look like a guy who could either have gotten a real one by creating a show.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Or you are. You have a lab in your basement where you would make that card. You look equally like you Would do either thing.

[Julian McCullough]

That's great. I'm more impressed that you think I could make a plastic card in my basement than a TV show. So I take both of those as a compliment.

[Brian Bates]

The moon is moving away from us at about an inch and a half per year.

[Nate Bargatze]

Everybody is now.

[Brian Bates]

You know, it's about the same speed at which our fingernails grow.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, they grow pretty quick.

[Aaron Weber]

Are we worried about that?

[Brian Bates]

Yep. In billions of years, it's probably going to really mess us up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's act on it now.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's pull it back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Because the tides and things, you know, are affected by the moon.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh. So the water's just going to be out there.

[Dusty Slay]

It's going to go crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Where's the water going to go?

[Aaron Weber]

But if it happens that gradually be. We'll be all right. But eventually it's just, well, we won't be here.

[Dusty Slay]

But Earth will. Might be here.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. We'll be. We'll be somewhere else.

[Nate Bargatze]

We'll be. But the Earth, it'll be. It'll be gradually going back and then. So it'll be just like. Like interstellar. Just a big wave.

[Dusty Slay]

Is this. Is this because the universe is expanding? Is that why it's part of that. It's part of the Big Bang in the first place?

[Brian Bates]

Nope. I think it's just losing some.

[Dusty Slay]

Or it's emotional.

[Nate Bargatze]

It just wants to.

[Dusty Slay]

It just wants.

[Brian Bates]

Just wants to some of his gravitational pull.

[Julian McCullough]

It's time. It's time to go.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, we were friends. You just left a bunch of crap on me. And I haven't seen you guys in 40 years and now it's time to go.

[Brian Bates]

I read if we didn't have a moon, we could still survive. But the seasons would all be different and the Earth would spin faster because the moon's gravity. So a day would be like maybe eight hours.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, wow. So people would win. Yeah. Live to thousand years old.

[Dusty Slay]

That'd be pretty cool. Let's get that moon out of here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Right.

[Dusty Slay]

That's how that works.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

Time.

[Nate Bargatze]

If.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I guess a year would be different.

[Nate Bargatze]

Huh.

[Aaron Weber]

Or the length of a year would be.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. If days are eight hours, he's saying technically.

[Julian McCullough]

Technically you would live to thousands of years.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Like if. Well, that's a day.

[Brian Bates]

That's a third of what a day is now if it's eight hours.

[Nate Bargatze]

So. So if you live to 100.

[Julian McCullough]

So 300.

[Dusty Slay]

300.

[Julian McCullough]

Live to 300 years old.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

I think you're onto something. I think we blow up the moon.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

I mean, That's. That's a lot of work.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's a lot.

[Julian McCullough]

That's a lot more living we got. Yeah, I like this. Yeah. Makes sense to me.

[Brian Bates]

The moonwalk was perfected by Michael Jackson, the Motown 25 concert. You remember this?

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, I remember. People were blown away.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Julian McCullough]

I remember my neighbor coming over the next day. He was.

[Brian Bates]

He moonwalked over?

[Julian McCullough]

No, he didn't moonwalk over. He was the father of a kid that I hung out with, but he couldn't stop talking about it.

[Aaron Weber]

He.

[Julian McCullough]

That guy looked like he was going forwards and he was going backwards. He couldn't figure it out. Man, was he impressed.

[Dusty Slay]

It was awesome.

[Julian McCullough]

Craziest thing he's ever seen.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know who coined it.

[Julian McCullough]

The moonwalk.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I don't know who, like, who came up, because that's a great, great name for that. If you saw that dance and you were like, can you name this? I would not come up with up with Moonwalk. And it's perfect.

[Brian Bates]

It's kind of late in the performance area, if you're trying to find.

[Dusty Slay]

It is.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's.

[Dusty Slay]

It's towards the end because it's the, you know, it's basically the Closer.

[Julian McCullough]

I mean, people were falling off their couches.

[Dusty Slay]

They couldn't believe it.

[Julian McCullough]

They didn't know what was happening.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I tell you what. Taylor Swift, here we go. Yeah, I think this is it.

[Julian McCullough]

He's picking up the pants. There it is.

[Dusty Slay]

That's crazy.

[Julian McCullough]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's. Isn't it amazing how short it is? But in our. In our collective imaginations, it was like across the whole stage and took two minutes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did he announce that he was going to do it?

[Julian McCullough]

No, no, he just did it. And. And then I.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's how they knew. Just in that moment, they were like.

[Dusty Slay]

They go, did he just moonwalk?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. How did they. How did they call it? The moonwalk?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Julian McCullough]

And we all practiced it. I figured it out in about. About took me. It took me a couple of weeks.

[Brian Bates]

Show us.

[Aaron Weber]

Can you still do it? To this day?

[Julian McCullough]

I could probably try to do it. Yeah. Because I was a little bit of a break dancer at the age of 12 and 13. Yeah. I bought the Alphonso breaking board and. And had that. That you spin on your back and everything. Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Alfonso. The guy from Alfonso Romero.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, he was just at the golf tournament. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had his own breaking board that you. You would buy on tv. He'd come on tv and it was just this piece of cardboard with his face on it. And you'd put it down in your basement and then you could spin on your back on it.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Julian McCullough]

Do tricks. Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He does it one more time here. I'm pretty sure at the end. There you go.

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, there he is.

[Nate Bargatze]

He knows.

[Aaron Weber]

So people freaked out. I mean, they've never seen anything like this.

[Julian McCullough]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was gonna say, as big as Taylor Swift is now, or whoever's the biggest star, I feel like Michael Jackson was just on a whole other level.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, it's not even close. I've had this conversation a few times. Not that long ago. And Michael Jackson is by far the most famous person that's ever. Ever lived.

[Brian Bates]

More than Jesus.

[Aaron Weber]

About tickets. What about ticket sales?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, what about ticket sales?

[Aaron Weber]

Was Michael Jackson doing stadiums? Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Haven't you ever seen clips of him in, like, Rio or, like. See, the thing is, he was selling out stadiums in every country. He could go to any country and sell out a stadium.

[Nate Bargatze]

Taylor Swift is too.

[Dusty Slay]

Also. You could go, okay, but also you could go find someone remote, like in a. In a tribe somewhere.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And you'd go back then and you go, michael Jackson. And they go, yes, Moonwalk. But you. But if you did that today, there's plenty of people you could find find and go, taylor Swift. And they'd go. I don't know what that is. I'm not saying there's a ton, but I'm saying it wouldn't be that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Impossible to find somebody that doesn't know who Taylor Swift is. But in the 80s, you could not find someone that didn't know who Michael Jackson was.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I think he was more famous than Elvis.

[Nate Bargatze]

I. I think, I think I would agree with that.

[Dusty Slay]

Because Elvis didn't. He also never left the country, which was.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would agree with that.

[Aaron Weber]

They die around the same age.

[Nate Bargatze]

Age.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Michael Jackson's a little bit older.

[Aaron Weber]

He was. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I think Elvis was younger Elvis, like 45.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just saying, like, Elvis is the other one that you would think. Yeah, would be. And I think Michael Jackson was even more famous.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, it's interesting, though. It's like, it's hard for us to take ourself out of it because of my. But like, yeah, when we grew up, if you talk to people in 30 years and you go, michael Jackson was more famous than they would be. Like, no, it wasn't Taylor Swift. And then they go back and look at records, they're like, well, Taylor Swift's got broke all his records and all this kind of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

That stuff's too different, I think, in terms of like. But here, let's look at it this way. Also on the radio today, you still hear Michael Jackson four times a day.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And in. When, when. When did those songs came out? 84, 85 or whatever. Thriller was 83. Right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So that's 20. It's 40 years ago. Right. 40 years from today, do you think you're going to hear Taylor Swift four times on the radio? I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

I just said no. I don't know if you heard me, Aaron.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, it will be. I think you will with Taylor Swift. I think she's.

[Dusty Slay]

I hard disagree.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think there'll be a radio.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, I was about to say the same thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Principle of it.

[Nate Bargatze]

The. The song.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, whatever. We have. Yes. On your. On your brain. Radio. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Title.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I, I think it'll be titled.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's be honest.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think they're. I, I could see you saying like in sync. No one's going to hear. But I like. Not Taylor Swift. I mean, she. The. What. People are in their 40s going to Taylor Swift and they know all their songs. Those people are not going to not want to hear those songs.

[Dusty Slay]

Her fans are her fans. I agree. But I don't see two generations from now people handing down Taylor Swift the same way that Michael Jackson has never left. He's never left the airwaves, he's never left the public consciousness. He's never left culture. Michael Jackson has been famous since he came out. Since Thriller. He's been this famous. And his fame hasn't really gone down even after he's died many years ago ago. And I don't see Taylor Swift having that kind of staying power.

[Aaron Weber]

Interesting. We'll see. I'll talk to you.

[Dusty Slay]

There's never been a year where Michael Jackson wasn't everywhere.

[Julian McCullough]

I think he. But I think he stayed on your radar with this radio you listen to, like my kids. I don't think they could name a Michael Jackson song, but if they heard.

[Dusty Slay]

A Michael Jackson song, they go, I've heard that a million times because it's in every store. It's in every. Everywhere you go, you hear a Michael Jackson Jackson song.

[Nate Bargatze]

Chase Thriller. Huh?

[Dusty Slay]

Does this track for you?

[Julian McCullough]

Trace, do you understand he knows Thriller?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're the youngest guy in the room. You got to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. We'll see. I think Taylor Swift's already been handed down a generation from the Original.

[Nate Bargatze]

I agree. You're watching it in real time.

[Dusty Slay]

I agree, I agree with that. I just don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Moms brought all the daughters and they just went. Totally, totally.

[Dusty Slay]

But I also would argue that so. Well, okay. I mean, I'm not gonna, first of all, I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm just saying, I'm, I'm just arguing what's real and.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, you're on the side of truth.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm on the side of truth.

[Julian McCullough]

I get you.

[Dusty Slay]

And you guys are on the side of Swift and that's fine. Yeah, that's fine.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I, I see what you, I, I, I, I get like, what is Michael Jackson?

[Dusty Slay]

I kind of, I'll go, this is almost like faith. I think you're crazy. Crazy to think that they're even close. That's how much more I think Michael Jackson.

[Julian McCullough]

Now there's name calling.

[Dusty Slay]

Left an imprint.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's interesting.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This is what Michael fans.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I didn't, it wasn't a name calling. I, it was a description. Do you think name calling would be.

[Nate Bargatze]

What about Taylor Swift and Elton John?

[Dusty Slay]

That's closer. It's closer. But Elton John. You still hear Elton John songs and Elton John's. But I, I could see those being similar, but Elton John was nowhere near Michael Jackson.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I guess I would see the Michael Jackson aspect of, you know, it's like, it was almost like it's TV was around. So it's like a fame that just, you were just. It's the right time, right place, like in this kind of.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not saying it's because Michael Jackson necessarily or whatever deserved it, but it's the, the storm of the way media worked at that time. Plus him being who he was, came together and made what I think will be the most famous person.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I wonder if too, it plays into the fact that there's just so much overexposure now that the tale of like it's almost impossible not to because you're just around too much.

[Dusty Slay]

That's. I would argue that too. Remember, he was that famous when we had nothing. There wasn't a whole lot else.

[Aaron Weber]

94% of people watched the moon.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, right, exactly. And that that same similar effect happened with Michael Jackson in the 80s with Taylor Swift. I mean, you got so many people. There's so many avenues to go down. I mean, I know I can only name maybe three Taylor Swift songs by name. Right. And I'm not like against her or anything. I just don't know. But like, I feel like the average person when. Cause she's big right now. Right. The average person in the 80s, like could name every Michael Jackson hit. The average person on the street, if you stop him and you go name three Michael Jacksons songs. Everyone could do it in 1985. I don't think if we walk down the street right now, you would have the same experience or even close with Taylor Swift.

[Brian Bates]

I think Thriller's still the best selling album of all time. The Eagles greatest may have passed it, but I think it's been the best selling album of all time for like 40 years.

[Dusty Slay]

But even then with albums like how do you track this stuff anymore? Because of all the, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, right.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know how you do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Thrillers number one, 51.3 million certified copies.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, but that's like you see on YouTube where something's got like 800 billion views and then you're like, well, I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, what's. I mean, Gangnam Style, you know, I.

[Aaron Weber]

Remember when that got a billion views. First video got a billion views. I was like, that's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. And now we're like, only a billion.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Seriously.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, we gotta wrap it up. All right. To be continued.

[Dusty Slay]

No, Michael Jackson is the most fan.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sorry, we're done and need to come.

[Brian Bates]

Back next week so we can read comments.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. Yeah, yeah. So we're in Milwaukee. Aaron's with me. Milwaukee, Minnesota and Saginaw. Saginaw Wednesday. Join be there. Yeah, so I'll be there. We're on tour. We're in the thick of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So come out and see us.

[Brian Bates]

Uh, this Friday I'm in Hattiesburg, Mississippi at the Singer Theater with Derek Stroop and Andrew Stanley. August 1st and 2nd at the Funny Farm Comedy Club in Goshen, Indiana, and August 17th at Levity Live in Huntsville, Alabama.

[Nate Bargatze]

Andrew Stanley, very funny guy. I. There's a lot of times someone will need an open or something in Atlanta and I've like put them with people and they always like. Like they ask him to be more. Yeah, he just had it with Colin Jost. He was texting me and he's doing some more stuff with Colin Jost too.

[Aaron Weber]

Is Kathleen now too?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Spade.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Yeah. A lot, A lot of Andrew Stanley is very, very funny, funny guy in Atlanta. So everybody go check him out. Yep.

[Julian McCullough]

I'll be in Ireland.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, that's right.

[Julian McCullough]

Yeah, I'm going to Ireland for a couple weeks and then I'm going to come visit you in Baltimore.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh yeah, yeah. Nice Join your yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll be with you. Yeah, Wherever you're going.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm out with an eight this weekend, obviously, but next month, August 20th. This is Aaron Weber, August 22nd through the 23rd.

[Dusty Slay]

That's the longest people have been wondering for an hour and a half who you were.

[Aaron Weber]

Lowell, Arkansas at the Grove. Come see me doing shows out there at the end of August, but come see me with Nate this weekend.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. Dusty Special Yeah. Wet Heat, July 29th Netflix. All right. All right. We love you. Y' all have a great week. Bye. Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and Safeway now through August 12th. Get big savings on your favorite products for the little ones in the family.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

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