263: #263 Weather 2.0

Summary

The Nateland Podcast - Episode 263: Weather 2.0

Release Date: July 30, 2025
Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Provider: Audioboom Studios

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1. Introduction and Upcoming Events

The episode kicks off with Nate Bargatze welcoming listeners back to "The Nateland Podcast." He briefly highlights upcoming events, including the premiere of Season Three of "Nateland Presents: The Showcase" on the Nateland YouTube channel. The hosts express excitement about the showcased comedians, particularly praising Burpee from Charlotte, North Carolina.

• Nate Bargatze [02:00]: "Real quick, just. Nateland presents the showcase, season three. It's here this Friday. Tune into the Nateland YouTube channel for the premiere of Burpee from Charlotte, North Carolina."

2. Dusty Slay's "Wet Heat" Special

Dusty Slay enthusiastically discusses his new Netflix special, "Wet Heat," emphasizing its comedic approach and broad appeal. The hosts encourage listeners to watch and share their thoughts.

• Dusty Slay [03:02]: "Dusty Sleigh, Wet Heat. It's out now. I imagine it's doing very well and shockingly well. Yeah, so, you know, go check it out."

3. First Pitch at Brewers Game

The conversation transitions to an amusing anecdote about Nate's experience throwing the first pitch at a Brewers game alongside NFL star J.J. Watt. They humorously compare their pitches, with J.J. Watt's being more athletic and Nate's remaining safely "above the plate."

• Nate Bargatze [05:01]: "I golfed at Hazeltine, which is nice."

• Dusty Slay [05:15]: "Whose was better, yours or his?"

• Aaron Weber [07:00]: "Best of all, they don't just feel good, they do good. One purchase equals one donated."

4. Weather and Natural Disasters

A significant portion of the episode delves into various weather phenomena and natural disasters, blending humor with informative discussions.

a. Full Moon and Its Impact

Nate shares insights from his 13 years in law enforcement, suggesting that a full moon can influence behavior, particularly among individuals with mental health issues. The hosts debate the validity and origins of these beliefs.

• Nate Bargatze [24:41]: "I spent nearly 13 years in law enforcement, and I can attest to the truth of a full moon having profound effects on people with mental health issues."

b. Exponential Growth - Folding Paper to the Moon

Aaron Weber introduces the concept of exponential growth using the "folding paper to reach the moon" thought experiment. The hosts discuss the mathematical implications and practical limitations of such scenarios.

• Aaron Weber [29:22]: "The problem with the fact that Aaron gave about how many times you have to fold a piece of paper to get to the moon is that only Aaron and Julian understood what he was saying."

• Brian Bates [31:10]: "It's just exponential growth. Double something."

c. Earthquakes vs. Tornadoes - Which is Scarier?

The debate intensifies as the hosts weigh in on whether earthquakes or tornadoes pose a greater threat. Personal experiences and regional considerations shape their perspectives.

• Nate Bargatze [60:10]: "I would say earthquakes because it's really... You just can't operate at that high of a level."

• Dusty Slay [60:26]: "But earthquakes, you're in big buildings though, right?"

d. Volcanoes and Geoengineering

The discussion shifts to geoengineering efforts like dimming the sun to combat global warming. The hosts express skepticism and concern over unintended consequences, referencing historical volcanic eruptions like Mount Tambora.

• Aaron Weber [54:30]: "Now it's become a much more talked-about thing. Bill Gates is talking about it."

• Dusty Slay [55:00]: "But it seems scary to have any kind of weather control like that."

e. Local Weather Phenomena and Predictions

The hosts touch upon local weather events, such as recent storms in Minnesota, and discuss various weather prediction methods, including traditional farmer's almanacs and technological advancements.

• Brian Bates [75:01]: "How long can an earthquake last? They said it's directly related to the earthquake's magnitude."

• Dusty Slay [77:09]: "I'm going to be honest with you, 80% accurate. I believe it, but I have no idea."

5. Listener Interactions and Comments

Throughout the episode, the hosts engage with listener comments and share personal stories, enhancing the community feel of the podcast. They address humorous situations, such as multiple employees named Dusty in an office, and discuss the challenges of decision-making in high-pressure environments.

• Dusty Slay [23:41]: "I just don't think you can throw it that many times without your arm out."

• Nate Bargatze [71:27]: "Be looking around for October."

6. Closing Remarks and Upcoming Shows

As the episode nears its end, the hosts recap upcoming tour dates and specials, encouraging listeners to attend their shows across various locations. They share humorous interactions from recent performances and emphasize the importance of handling unexpected events gracefully.

• Brian Bates [111:35]: "August 22nd, 23rd, I'm in Lowell, Ark. ... Come check me out in Lowell, Arkansas."

• Dusty Slay [113:32]: "But we're in the thick of it. Yeah."

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Notable Quotes:

• Dusty Slay [03:02]: "Wet Heat. It's out now..."
• Nate Bargatze [60:10]: "I would say earthquakes because it's really..."
• Aaron Weber [29:22]: "It's just exponential growth. Double something."
• Brian Bates [75:02]: "They analyze the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun..."

Conclusion

Episode 263 of "The Nateland Podcast" seamlessly blends humor with insightful discussions on weather phenomena and natural disasters. The hosts' camaraderie and diverse perspectives provide listeners with both entertainment and knowledge, making complex topics accessible and engaging. Whether sharing personal anecdotes or debating scientific concepts, Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay deliver a memorable episode that resonates with both regular listeners and newcomers alike.

Transcript

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[Nate Bargatze]

Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Welcome to the Nateland podcast. I'm Nate Bragazi. Brian Bates. Hello. Aaron Weber. What's up, Dusty? Slick.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

So real quick, just. Nateland presents the showcase, season three. It's here this Friday. Tune into the Nateland YouTube channel for the premiere of Burpee from Charlotte, North Carolina.

[Brian Bates]

I love Burpee. I open for him, gosh, six or seven years ago. Greensboro, North Carolina. So funny. He's great. And he killed on that show.

[Dusty Slay]

He did.

[Aaron Weber]

I hosted that one. He murdered herpes.

[Dusty Slay]

Great. First. First I hosted when I won a competition at the Charlotte comedy zone about 10 years ago. Wow. He was the host.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, check him out. This Friday. That's fun. Don't forget Ryan Hamilton. We're taping his special. There's some still a few tickets left. Doing two shows at the Neptune theater in Seattle that's coming up. And then, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty Sleigh, Wet Heat. It's out now. I imagine it's doing very well and shockingly well. Yeah, so, you know, go check it out. Yeah, it's great. It's a hot show. I think it's better than Working man and, you know, and it's super hot right now, so. The wet heat is in full effect out here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Stay inside, watch the special.

[Brian Bates]

Right. Do you have plans for. For the watch party? What are you gon do the release date?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I gotta go. I'll be, you know, by the time this comes out, I'll be in New York City doing some promo.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

So I'll probably watch it alone somewhere. It'll be. It'd be a lot of fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

You won't, but you could. You have a watch party whenever you want?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, I could. I'll just watch it with my family. They may do something at Zany's, I think, after Brian's show.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, cool.

[Dusty Slay]

Which was. Already happened.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

By the time this comes out, but. So I just won't be here. My wife will be gonna be mad.

[Aaron Weber]

If I don't have a lot of people. And then there's a line out the door afterwards.

[Nate Bargatze]

For your watch party that you won't be at.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, Yeah. I don't think it'll be like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. It'll be just something for people to get together and.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Just hang out. My wife can come, you know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It'll be fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But it's out. I'm pumped about it. I love it. I think it's a great special. It's just good, funny, regular jokes. Nothing. Nothing wild. Nothing. You can. I don't. I, I, I always say it's not. I don't do comedy for kids, but, you know, you're. You can watch it with your aunt and you're not going to be worried. It's going to be great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

That's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wet Heat. It's out now. Netflix. All right. Yeah. This week, me and Aaron. Aaron were together. So we have some of our stuff I think fits in with our topic.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Today. Right. So we can. I don't. I mean, is anything. We had that stuck? I golfed at Hazeltine, which is nice.

[Brian Bates]

We talk about the first pitch.

[Nate Bargatze]

The brewers game through the first pitch out at the brewers game with J.J. watt as well. There's a lot of people out there.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you guys throw it out together?

[Nate Bargatze]

No. He was, you know, every first pitch, there's usually like four or five of them.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so it was. It went.

[Dusty Slay]

Me.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was a few other people than me, than J.J. watt.

[Dusty Slay]

Whose was better, yours or his?

[Aaron Weber]

His is.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, he, like, I would argue his, his, his. Hit the dirt. JJ was doing better than me in the warmup, but I think JJ threw a pitch that would get people to swing at And I think my pitch was a safe, safe pitch. Let's take a look at it right here. A little too low. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's high. Just hit a batter.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's a good.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was higher than I remember.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a brush back pitch.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's nothing embarrassing about that.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is high, but it's a pitch that no one, unless you see this video, you don't know. Everybody that's watching is like, oh, it was great. Everybody that's there live, of course, because you can't really see, but it's. Yeah. He doesn't have to get up. He doesn't have to do anything. It's. We're minding our own business there. Jj, I think, threw it and his hit the dirt and he got some groans.

[Brian Bates]

He did.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I think JJ's would have been a pitch that you could have.

[Brian Bates]

It got over the plate. It didn't hit the dirt. I don't know if it. Is it on this broadcast, Brian? I don't think so.

[Nate Bargatze]

It got over the plate, and I think it was a pitch that would make you swing. I think it was a pitch designed to make you swing. My pitch was a safe. You know, I'm a guy that gets brought out and you go, I'm not trying to. You know.

[Dusty Slay]

But he's an athlete, though. You want. I mean, when you're an athlete, you almost like, feel like, well, I got.

[Brian Bates]

There's an expectation.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And he's from Wisconsin.

[Brian Bates]

Exactly. This was a hometown thing for him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then. So he had a lot. A lot on the line.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I need to. You get. I do terrific leading up to it. And then the day when you go to practice, you get a little. I. A little nervous and I. And that's my pitches. The few that I've done, they all go left because I hold on to them too long.

[Brian Bates]

Right, Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so I need to gain some confidence, but it's above the plate.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not in the dirt.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I'm not gonna be there. It's not embarrassing.

[Dusty Slay]

It's.

[Nate Bargatze]

The guy doesn't have to move. It's a.

[Brian Bates]

Fun from the crowd, too. It was a cool. It was a special day with the brewers because it was like an alumni day. So all the great brewers of the recent past were there. They did a home Run Derby after the game. So, like, Prince Fielder was in the dugout and all these guys were just around. So there was like a fun energy in the ballpark.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you think if you threw heat, though, it might. It Might. Yeah. Yeah. That it might be better.

[Nate Bargatze]

It might be because you're trying to. When you're trying to steer something, it usually doesn't go good. And so it might be better to just, like, out of your head, try.

[Dusty Slay]

To light that guy up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Just, like, get it going.

[Dusty Slay]

But make him wish he had worn a face mask.

[Brian Bates]

You know what, dude? You threw from the rubber, and that's all that counts, man. You didn't throw from the front of the mound like a lot of people.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, we. Larry Fitzgerald, which I know seems like I'm throwing these crazy names, but they were just at the thing. But it's. He. He was telling me his first pitch, he. He doesn't even go to the. To the rubber.

[Aaron Weber]

Stands in front of.

[Brian Bates]

Just stands in front of the mouth.

[Nate Bargatze]

He was like, there's no re. Like, all. All you're doing is trying not to be a meme when you go do this. No one's gonna remember if you're on the rubber. No one's gonna remember if you do, like, you know. And once you've been to the rubber, you're like, it doesn't matter.

[Brian Bates]

He's like, I'm a Hall of Famer. I don't need. I got nothing. I can only lose.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can only lose.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He's probably throwing out so many pitches.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, you could argue. That's why maybe the next one I could. I might be doing one on a minor league team. So maybe I'll. I'll. That one I'll try to bring. I'll try to build some confidence.

[Dusty Slay]

I think you gotta, like. You gotta make the catcher go, all right. This guy, he tries to throw heat. Maybe put on a chest pad. Put on the mask. Just do it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just in case.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nervous.

[Dusty Slay]

Make him nervous. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

When I threw out mine at the Sounds game, Aaron was there. I pitched from the stretch. I went all in. But I got in my position a little too fast, if you remember. So I had to stand there with the ball behind my back, looking in for about 30 seconds.

[Brian Bates]

Because you didn't want to balk, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Exactly. I got a little too excited.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was fun. I think I'm trying not to do that because I.

[Aaron Weber]

It's because I'm fine.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're fun. You're definitely making it about you and not everybody else that's got jobs and running a thing. You definitely are slowing the process down. So I tend to go and figured they've seen it all. I bet they don't need me to go in and do a Show with lots of different.

[Brian Bates]

We're trying to become a meme. We're trying to.

[Aaron Weber]

I was throwing to a rooster, so that's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think he got the same rooster.

[Dusty Slay]

A curveball.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he dropped it there.

[Dusty Slay]

Your shoulder on the pitch. I'm going to get an injury.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Speaking of, did you guys do the golf ball?

[Brian Bates]

We didn't. We talked about it all weekend. Nate called me out on the air about it to the Brewers.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw it at the very end. Yeah, the guy said he can't.

[Brian Bates]

They shot it down pretty quick.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's bigger than you think.

[Brian Bates]

I know. We.

[Nate Bargatze]

I. I was trying to get it done there, but I think when we showed up, we ended up like, meet the other brewers were awesome. They're. They. It was. We had. They were great. Yeah, they were great. We got to talk to everybody. We could be in the locker room before. Like, it was very cool. J.J. watts. Awesome. Like, it was. And so it was. It was just a fun, like, hang. So we didn't get out there earlier. If we got out there earlier. But I. Yeah, I want to do it, but I was like, I don't want to. I gotta kind of protect it. It's like I'm protecting Aaron. I can't have him just. I. I. Because I want it to. When it happens. I need it to happen at that moment. It can't. You know, I don't want him to go throw a tennis ball. You know, I don't want to throw a baseball. I don't want to. I don't want him really doing any of it.

[Dusty Slay]

Because I. I think you can do it.

[Brian Bates]

Thanks, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

We need. The whole point of it is this a. You know, the. Yeah. That's the first time.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, what's to lose, though? You throw it. It. Let's say it doesn't make it. Everybody goes, told you. And you go, yeah, guys. Of course I can't do it.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's. If I barely miss it, that's one thing, but if I don't even get close, that's humiliating, because how I've been talking about it.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Aaron Weber]

We had a guy right in say that he and his co workers went out, tried it themselves. 60 to 70 yards is what they.

[Brian Bates]

Could get with a roll.

[Aaron Weber]

I think that's what he meant. Yeah, with the roll. And then he said, where do they work? Do you know how many yards a golf course.

[Nate Bargatze]

An average golf course is like 6500.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. That's what he says. 6500. So he said that would be at that yard. That'd be 93 strokes. Then if you two putt, that'd be a 129.

[Nate Bargatze]

So.

[Brian Bates]

So we're neck and neck at that point.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, it's closer than you. You're making a pretty good point, Aaron, But I just don't think you can throw it that many times without your arm out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but y'.

[Dusty Slay]

All.

[Nate Bargatze]

So that golf thing can happen. And we were just talking about that. Like, I'm going to get it put on the schedule.

[Brian Bates]

We'll make it happen.

[Nate Bargatze]

And we're gonna make it happen. We'll probably play nine holes.

[Brian Bates]

You down to put up or shut up? Brian?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Can you tell Micah I need some lessons before then?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, we can play. We can do. Yeah, I would say. I say we go do it. And that one will be. Yeah, we play nine holes. We don't need to be out there all day.

[Brian Bates]

We were throwing it around in the arenas this weekend, and I realized I have no internal instinct for how long. Like the yardage is. We were throwing across arenas. That's probably 140 yards. And then the crew is like, that was 40 yards. And you're like, oh. And then I got conflicting information. So we're going to have to go somewhere where it's all measured out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And. And we'll make it happen like a golf course, potentially.

[Dusty Slay]

Were you throwing a golf ball in this arena?

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no.

[Nate Bargatze]

We wouldn't let him. I don't want him to. I don't need him to getting any kind of ideas.

[Brian Bates]

They let me build confidence with a different kind of ball.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What. What you're throwing.

[Brian Bates]

Throwing a. Just like a. A leather ball to play catch.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, just a ball that a grown man carries everywhere.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. What?

[Nate Bargatze]

That grown man is Aaron. But.

[Dusty Slay]

But what do you mean?

[Nate Bargatze]

Just to be fair, we've all. We love it.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody loves that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Everybody loves it. But it's. Aaron walks around with the ball. We're not. We're not finding a ball. We go to the guy that carries a ball around.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's not a. Not a racket ball. Not a football. Not. It's just a.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's like a perfect ball. It's like a softball. Like a softer softball.

[Brian Bates]

It's halfway between a baseball and a softball. It's made out of leather. It's a slightly weighted. It's unbelievable. Best toss of your life.

[Dusty Slay]

How do I get one? Like, what would I type in?

[Brian Bates]

I got an extra one. I'll give it to you. It's called a yard ball.

[Dusty Slay]

Yard ball? Yeah. Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I'll give you my extra one.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

If you're really down to throw, it's nice to.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You just. Because it's. You have any downtime, you just kind of pop. And Aaron's always ready. Aaron's always. There's a nice. Yeah. If you have any moment of silence, there's Aaron and he just. Little point and you're. And you. You just know ball's about to come.

[Aaron Weber]

You're about to walk on stage and make eye contact.

[Nate Bargatze]

Make eye contact. He goes, you want it? You go, all right, I guess I'll take it.

[Brian Bates]

I played catch with the crowd a little bit last night.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really Great.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that.

[Brian Bates]

When everything was going on. We'll talk about it later.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really? Oh, yeah. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I love that. The yard ball going with the crowd. Try to get it going around the crowd, but then back to you like a beach ball.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Throw it around while the show's going.

[Brian Bates]

During my set.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right.

[Dusty Slay]

I had something one time, I had the audience pass around to look at collection plate. Forget what it was, but clock picture of something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wanted to see if they would do it. And they did.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That's what the whole special is, just following people around, passing the picture. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I was. Friday, I was in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, doing the Laugh for Life event at Sanger Theater with Derek Stroop and Andrew Stanley. Had a great time.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you see Toby?

[Aaron Weber]

I did see Toby.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He gave us. Gave us a gift and very nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you go to the mayor's office?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

No, he didn't invite us.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't show up.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's only so much to mayor. Yeah, but he's going to go in there and sit behind the desk and want to bang on the thing. Just like. Just like the first pitch goes, you mind if I do a whole thing? And they're like, all right, all right.

[Aaron Weber]

Man, take my picture while I'm doing it. But that was great. And then Saturday night, I was at the Grand Ole Opry.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

It's always such an honor get to do that.

[Dusty Slay]

So who are some people you were with?

[Aaron Weber]

Pete? Graham Brown.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. T. Graham Brown.

[Aaron Weber]

Connie Smith, Riders in the Sky.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's some classic Opry, people.

[Aaron Weber]

Classic. Classic. So it was a lot of fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. Wait. Yes. That's for you, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh. I went to Vegas. I was at the. The Venetian and I. It was great. Very nice. Great show. A lot of fun. I Took Vince Fabra, who went to college in Hattiesburg, was friends with the mayor. It was great. I did. I went to a magic show, which, you know, I don't necessarily support, but I.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was as my father.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we've talked about it a little bit, me and your dad. He's like, you know, he's like, I'm doing sleight of hand, you know, not doing magic. And this was Jy Jin Shin.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

He won the.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that dude's unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he won AGT a couple of times. And then we.

[Brian Bates]

I saw him on the full. The Penn and Teller show, and he fooled Pen and. Oh, yeah, that guy's unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

We did a little social media thing, and then I went to a show, and it is unbelievable. Yeah, it is. He's so good. Like, it doesn't even make sense. That's why I'm like. He kept saying it was sleight of hand. I'm like, it can't be. This guy is doing something interdimensional. It's just. No, like, the trick he did for me, which will be a social media clip, was he. You know, he gave me a deck of cards, and I fold. You know, I shuffled them up a bunch of times, and then he would go. He would go, all right, just name a color, and I'll flip that card over. And, like, I would go, like, black, red, black, red, red, red, red, black, black. And no matter what I did, that was the card he turned over.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's like. And then the last card was a card that I picked and looked at, and. And I can wrap my head around how he did that part. Yeah, but the other part. It doesn't make any sense. At some point, there would be more black than red or more. You know what I mean? Like, I would run out of. But the whole deck.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

So. But if you're talking about, like. Yeah, it's like the. The inter. What was that word? Inter.

[Brian Bates]

Interdimensional.

[Dusty Slay]

This guy's operating on a fourth dimension.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. But if you thought of that, like, against it, like, who's that on? You are the magician. Like, if you don't want to see magic because you're afraid they're doing that, but he's telling you he's not. Who's that?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not mad at the guy. I'm not blaming him. But I'm just saying if you don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like Matt, but if you don't like magic, I mean, is it. It's a year belief versus, like. Like, if versus the magician. Because you believe the magician has.

[Dusty Slay]

He has some special powers. Yes, yes. So.

[Nate Bargatze]

But that would be on.

[Brian Bates]

What a waste to only be a magician if you actually have special powers.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, let's only start. But he's making, you know, he's probably making a lot of money residency there. But it's. It's really.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, still make more money by being an alien.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, he may do that on the side. I mean, who knows? You know what I mean? Like where they're doing side hustle. Where like there was. Who was that guy? Chris Angel.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He would go like to, you know, he would. Somebody would hand him a stack of ones and he would do some, you know, thing and then it would all be hundreds. Yeah, I'm like, that sounds like the kind of magic to have.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Why would you do anything else but go to poor neighborhoods and give people hundreds?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, that's where I was. Think. Think about what you just said. Think about heart, you know, and be like.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'm just saying it feels like he's able to dip into an unseen dimension and do things with cards that we can't say. It's so wild how good he is. Yeah, it's so wild.

[Brian Bates]

That is the best review for a magician of all time. This dude operates on an interdimensional plane.

[Dusty Slay]

The other guy, he had an assistant and the assistant. I don't know if it was an assistant, but it was another magician that did some stuff in between and he had a voodoo doll and I.

[Brian Bates]

You don't like that?

[Dusty Slay]

I closed my eyes during those parts of the show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Were you on stage?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, I just didn't want to watch it.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't want to w. Want to listen to it. But now you don't want to see.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I didn't want to listen to it, but I can't rightly turn off my ears, but I could. I just didn't want. He had the doll and he was like stare deep into the doll's eyes and then he was doing stuff where he's lifting the doll's arm and then the guy's arm would lift.

[Brian Bates]

Did it look like you the voodoo doll? No. You'd be an easy guy to make a voodoo doll out of.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just cuz you.

[Nate Bargatze]

You could sell voodoo dolls.

[Brian Bates]

You could Dusty SC. Voodoo doll.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean I could wet. He gave me a toy made of me.

[Brian Bates]

Made of you?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah. Look at this.

[Brian Bates]

Made out of you.

[Dusty Slay]

Look at that.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's really cool. He had it actually printed out and made action figure. Oh, that's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Little toy there.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's really cool. Show the camera. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know how to show it, but you just turn it around. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You got an action figure.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you open it?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I didn't open it because my kids will just tear it up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think the packaging's part of it too.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's just. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I got to get a new one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Your kids? Yeah. Play with it. Be fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I got a couple of things and I did. I do let them play with it. And then they break it. Yeah, every time. They break it every time. So I'm like, guys, you got enough toys. You don't need to play with your dad toy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just. They'll pretend like you're yelling.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

There's no need to pretend. I am yelling.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Oh, don't get me started.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

The face looks good. It looks. It's a smooth shave. I noticed it when you walked in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

All right, with your. Starting with your comments here, Wilson Goings Goins Tough Last time, talking about the moon when Dusty isn't there is like having an episode on Golf without Nate. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think it's for the same reason you did Sandwiches without me. It's like you want people to be objective and not get too emotionally involved in it.

[Dusty Slay]

It was a good move. A lot of people in the comments kept saying that I don't believe that the moon exists. I do believe the moon's real. You can see it up there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we said that on the podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

I just don't think it's, you know, something you can.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I did it as a service. As a service to you. So you didn't have to spend two hours saying, well, that didn't happen.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. And that's what I would have did.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So it's best that you did it that way.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's like the magic thing.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, what's the point?

[Dusty Slay]

Right. You know, I mean, I went because the gala. He was very nice, and it's a good show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. People are nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Some of them. Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Michelle Ramos. Only on Nateland can we hear a spirited debate on the staying power of Taylor Swift versus Michael Jackson on an episode about the moon. Way to be consistent, guys, about the.

[Dusty Slay]

Guy that does the moon walk.

[Brian Bates]

I think that's how we got there, about the moon walk.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Rob. Mira. Miru. Sounds like an animal's name, you know, Mira. Yeah. Like, you see them at the. Where y' all at? We're at by the mirrors.

[Brian Bates]

Right? By the lemurs.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're by the mirror. They're over the ones. They're. You know. All right. I spent nearly 13 years in law enforcement, and I can attest to the truth of a full moon having profound effects on people with mental health issues. Essentially, we had a pool of people that we would routinely have encounters with when the moon was full.

[Brian Bates]

But why do you think that is? What do you think is happening?

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, originally, we go to Dust for that. Plato. Your guy. Plato.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Said that.

[Brian Bates]

Plato.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, it's not Plato. It's Plato.

[Aaron Weber]

It's, like, with a D. It's with.

[Brian Bates]

A T, but Plato.

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't. You know, I didn't even say.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't need to correct you at all.

[Nate Bargatze]

You say it quicker. I think Plato. Like, I think you went play toe.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. Like, there would be an E at the end. Plato.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Playdoh.

[Dusty Slay]

But he said play doh. Like it's P, L, A, Y. And then.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

The world. Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Like the Plato and Aristotle. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Imagine Plato knew. He becomes just what he became.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, that's what he's been reduced to. Children.

[Nate Bargatze]

Children.

[Brian Bates]

Just clay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, just clay. And he goes, well, I did a little more than that. You go, well, did you? You're half a tennis tube of clay.

[Dusty Slay]

But what did he really do, though?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, a lot like what, though? He's one of the foundational thinkers of the world. We're benefiting from a lot of the stuff that those guys thought and wrote about today without even really realizing it. So he was a pretty important guy. What did he say about the movie?

[Dusty Slay]

But no, nothing we could really pinpoint that he did.

[Brian Bates]

Nothing. It'd be fun to talk to you about, but a lot of. A lot of stuff. For sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I mean, one specific thing would be good, though, if you could just.

[Brian Bates]

We're talking about Plato's allegory of the cave and talking about forms and talking about. I mean, we could talk about metaphysics.

[Dusty Slay]

How about we talk about.

[Nate Bargatze]

The cave has nothing to do with the cave.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's an allegory. So. Yeah, it's. It's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I don't even know what allegory means. What's that mean?

[Brian Bates]

An allegory, like a metaphorical story? That. That it's. Yeah, it's a metaphor of a cave. It's about a cave. It's about guys chained up in a cave and they only see the shadows of things, but they never see the things causing the shadows behind them. And that's a metaphor for the forms of things on. On Earth, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's deep.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a good horror film. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he said that. I don't think it was him, actually.

[Nate Bargatze]

But.

[Dusty Slay]

He said it wasn't even him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I know.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm joking.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it was Steve Williams.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was my buddy.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was sorry. It was the Caddy for Tiger Woods.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He said, I read this on a play DOH package. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

He thought that, you know how the tides are affected by the moon. The brain is mostly water, so therefore, full moon. It's going to mess with your brain chemistry.

[Brian Bates]

Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

Which kind of makes sense.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean, I guess. I guess it tracks all right.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you think?

[Nate Bargatze]

I feel like that one. You kind of gave it out for free. That sounds like one that they go, but any stuff you want to say. And he goes.

[Aaron Weber]

Here'S one.

[Nate Bargatze]

The brain is water. The tides go, I appreciate it, man. It's like tmz when they capture someone, they just go, like, you want to say anything about that? He go, ah. He says one thing. That's what that feels like.

[Aaron Weber]

But numerous people who worked in mental health places, police force schools, said, no, the full moon thing is real.

[Brian Bates]

Wow. I always thought there was just a practical explanation, like there's more light, so people would commit more crimes with more light. But I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Could be. All right. And then that just. And then. Yeah, I don't know. All right. Mark Evans. This year, the year is determined by the time it takes to circle the sun, not the Earth spinning on its axis. So if the moon left and the Earth spun faster at eight hours per revolution, we'd have roughly triple the number of days in a year. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We got. So last week you made the point that we'd live a lot longer because it'd be spinning. But that's. Yeah, it's not the Earth spinning on its axis. That causes a year. It's the Earth going around the sun. So he's just saying that wouldn't. That wouldn't add up.

[Brian Bates]

It's a good point, Mark.

[Aaron Weber]

Unless.

[Nate Bargatze]

Triple the number of days in a.

[Aaron Weber]

Year, unless you agree that 365 days is a year, then it would.

[Nate Bargatze]

It would triple those days. Yeah, but it'd be. Essentially, you'd be living the same life. It just. The number would change.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Kevin McHenry. The problem with the fact that Aaron gave about how many times you have to fold a piece of paper to get to the moon is that only Aaron and Julian understood what he was saying. Folding any sized piece of paper of standard thickness only 42 times to make it to the moon is insane and a very entertaining mathematical fact. Good job on Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

Appreciate that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, yeah. I mean, that's the most excited I've been about a fun fact dropping on people all weekend.

[Dusty Slay]

I hate I missed it because I don't get it.

[Brian Bates]

If you fold that piece of paper in half 42 times, it'll be from here to the moon. That's just. It's just exponential growth. Double something. Yeah, you're. You're about to think the exact same way Nate did.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you can't, because you can't fold it 42 times. Right, of course.

[Brian Bates]

And you can't get to the moon just by jumping up somewhere. You know what I mean? It's a theoretical.

[Dusty Slay]

How many times can you fold the paper before it breaks?

[Aaron Weber]

We looked it up.

[Brian Bates]

It was like six or seven. You can usually get the world records 12, but that was with a 1.2 kilometer long piece of toilet Paper.

[Nate Bargatze]

And that would be halfway to the moon. That'd be bigger than any skyscraper.

[Brian Bates]

Halfway to the moon.

[Nate Bargatze]

What? Wait. Oh, 42. Yeah, but I mean, if you did 12.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but it doesn't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Third.

[Aaron Weber]

It doesn't work that way.

[Brian Bates]

And then that's still a point because it's exponential growth, because it's doubling each time. So if you folded it 42 times, the first, like, 30 are just gonna be. Yeah, they're pretty manageable. But then it just starts to double and double.

[Nate Bargatze]

So you're folding. So when you fold it 20 times, it's then folding that 20 times into another time. It's like, a lot of people, I think, like, it's like college is just, you know, they just kind of say they, like, complicate something. That the people that can't go to college just go, I. I can't do it. And they go, this guy's not ready for a real job. And then I'm out of a job because it's.

[Dusty Slay]

Meanwhile, there's no real practical use for that information.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, there's practical use for understanding exponential growth.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot of people. Things doubling pointed out, and we've talked about this in the podcast, if you started with a penny after the end of the month, after 30 days, you'd be a millionaire.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Aaron Weber]

After 40 days, you'd be the richest man.

[Dusty Slay]

Start out with a penny. Doing what?

[Brian Bates]

Double it every day. So the same.

[Dusty Slay]

By the end of the month, you'd be a millionaire.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You like that? But more than the folding paper to the moon.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Because I don't think you can fold the paper.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but nobody could double a penny.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you could if, you know, you had investors and everybody was doubling the penny every day, but folding the. This just like, there's not enough paper here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. You're going to take Play doh.

[Dusty Slay]

To make it to the moon. No, I can conceptualize that experiment, though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It's just about.

[Dusty Slay]

But you would have to add paper to the paper.

[Brian Bates]

What do you mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, it would have to be a.

[Brian Bates]

Big piece of paper, an impossibly large piece of paper. Yeah, that's for sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think it's like that. Yeah. If it's a thought experiment, though, what. What comes out of that?

[Brian Bates]

What do you mean?

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, so you're like, all right, let's use this thought experiment. Is it, like, what comes out? Like, it doesn't. Does someone get done with that? And they're like, all right, I know how to efficiently move cars through the intersections. Like, I don't know, maybe investing the. The. Not the. The paper.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the same principle?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. What would come at, like, what if someone can wrap their head around? They go, wow, that is crazy, and it's insane. What does that person bring to the table after learning that if they say.

[Brian Bates]

Something is growing exponentially, it's hard to. To understand right away what that means, but that folding the paper is a great example of exponential growth and how it can get out of control real quickly. So.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

It's just.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. All right. That makes sense.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Gina. Obi. I'm so glad Nate Cole. Oh, I'm so glad Nate called out how annoying the paper conversation is. It's one of those things when you hear it and wish you can get that time back.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, come on, Jenna.

[Nate Bargatze]

Jenna. That worked out perfect.

[Dusty Slay]

That's really some brilliant lining up of those comments.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The other way that I knew how this conversation was gonna go, so I flipped it.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is. That is unbelievable. That's. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I disagree with Jenna, but I think the idea that someone sat around and thought of that initially is too much.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know where you stand, but.

[Dusty Slay]

The fact that we're discussing it, that they thought about it, I think is okay. But the fact that they thought of it. Well, you could say if you just stacked, you know, you doubled the stack.

[Brian Bates]

Of the paper, the exact same thing. Double 42.

[Dusty Slay]

Now that I can wrap my head around.

[Brian Bates]

So it's the physical folding that's holding you back.

[Dusty Slay]

Can't. I mean, how.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can't fold stacked at 42 pieces of paper.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, but it would double each time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So it'd be one piece and then two, then four, then eight, then 16, then 32, and then 64.

[Nate Bargatze]

I really didn't think I can wrap my head around that more.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's the exact same thing.

[Dusty Slay]

It's not, but you don't.

[Brian Bates]

You can't fold it, because when you fold it in half, that's like two pieces of paper on top of each other.

[Dusty Slay]

But that's the whole point. Yeah, but the fold starts to get too. You're like. At some point.

[Nate Bargatze]

I agree.

[Dusty Slay]

At some point, you're folding it, and the fold becomes so big, you're actually losing pain.

[Brian Bates]

Also, at some point, the stack becomes so high, you don't have oxygen to breathe up there while you're folding the paper.

[Dusty Slay]

And the earth is spinning, you know, Allegedly. And so the paper's going everywhere.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why if you fold it instead of stack it, the Paper will stick together.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. But yeah. Well then luckily you'll be on top of your so called moon.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian Blue. When Nate said he has decision perilous would given too many choices.

[Aaron Weber]

Paralysis.

[Nate Bargatze]

Paralysis. When given too many choices. He may be in good company. The greatest football coach, college football coach of all time, Nick Saban eats the same breakfast and lunch every day, saying that is two less decisions he has to make every day.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

I agree.

[Dusty Slay]

And Nick Saban, when I look at that guy, I go, that's a happy guy. That's what.

[Nate Bargatze]

It'S a lot of decisions decision.

[Dusty Slay]

He can win a football game, that's for sure. But I bet he is not fun to have lunch with.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, he's gonna be the same thing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a simpleness of just like, just bring it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean I, I'm. I'm hitting into the world of this where you just gotta go. How many times I get asked where to go eat? It's all day every day. And it just adds into the all the other things.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you just want cold chicken and rice every day for lunch.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, it's tough. I mean, but it's like you realize you get more and more where you go. You start seeing wearing that same thing every day, just where you go. It's just something that's off your plate. There's no. You got. Even when you don't really care what you're wearing, there's still some thought into it. Like you put on that bucks thing. There is a part that you why did shows this weekend? I'll wear it on the podcast. There was eight decisions that went into you wearing that. Even though it looks like you just even say, well, I just threw this jacket.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, of course. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm glad you explained why he wore it. I was like, geez, yeah, you can.

[Brian Bates]

Sleep in your car. That takes away the decision of like, do you get in your car in the morning?

[Dusty Slay]

Just do I need to wash my sheets? Yeah, you don't need to. If you sleep, you don't need to.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, that's why you would make the decision to be food or right dressing. So it doesn't have to be. But you have one car, so you choose. You know, some decisions you don't mind making. Some are. Some you're. They're pointless. And you just get exhausted by it.

[Dusty Slay]

And at some point maybe you have. If you get to the place where you're like, I don't want to choose my breakfast. Maybe you have too many other decisions going on. I would think you'd want to scale some of those others back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, but then you can't operate at that high of a level.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So someone has to be. Then you're. But then it's. You're. Right. But then that person doesn't get to be Nick Saban.

[Dusty Slay]

That's why Auburn struggled. But I think some food. But look at all the coaches that made so much money for just losing. Right.

[Brian Bates]

True.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's true. But they're not sitting like Nick Saban. I mean, so you're saying if you don't. If you don't want to be Nick Saban. Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, Gus Malzon is gone, but he is choosing a good breakfast.

[Brian Bates]

Tommy Tuberville is having a buffet every lunch. Yeah, yeah, whatever.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. But they're not Nick Saban.

[Brian Bates]

Would you like a restaurant, Nate, that only had one thing on the menu and that was all you could order? You like the idea of that? Like, we do one thing really well.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Come get it. Or don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

There is a burger place that I went to in Denver and it was just the one. One burger.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, I like.

[Dusty Slay]

And then they had fries or you could get like something on the fries, but that was it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would almost be like. If you started a burger place, be like, almost like Fuddruckers was like that. Where you're like, we make. I think we make a plain burger. You. All the stuff is out there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You do what you want to do out there.

[Brian Bates]

I just love the idea of pulling up to like a drive thru and they're like, all right, how many?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And that's your only decision.

[Nate Bargatze]

That would be great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that'd be fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Like a plain hamburger. If you did it where you got a plain hamburger and you just had. Yeah. Just plain hamburgers. And then you just go up and you go, I'll take two. And it's like, I'm starving. I need to eat something. Yeah. It's like going to McDonald's, like, if you need it, you know, but you don't have to say anything. You.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll take two ballpark hamburgers. Like it. Like a softball field or something. They're so good.

[Brian Bates]

So good. Yeah. Wrapped in tinfoil.

[Aaron Weber]

Basic.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm trying to say, like, y'.

[Nate Bargatze]

All. Tinfoil.

[Brian Bates]

Tinfoil.

[Nate Bargatze]

What would you say?

[Brian Bates]

Tinfoil, Foil.

[Nate Bargatze]

Tinfoil.

[Brian Bates]

I don't hit it that hard. Foil. You know, I wasn't sure what to expect the first time I tried mud water. I remember when I got the bottle and the name's a little overwhelming. And you're like what is this stuff? Because I've been a coffee drinker for years. Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what I mean?

[Brian Bates]

But lately that crash and that jittery energy just wasn't working for me. So I gave Mud Water a shot. Honestly, it was a game changer. OG blend really stood out to me. It's got this warm, earthy vibe to it. It tastes like a spicy grown up hot chocolate. Because you love hot chocolate but you feel like a child drinking it. You need to drink Mud Water. That's for adults.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly.

[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Eric Smith I picked my daughter up from her first year of college. She was upset to be leaving all the close friends she's made over her first year. Fortunately, a certain audiobook called Big Dumb Eyes had just released to my audible account. Within minutes we were both laughing on the road, listening to the entire thing on the ten and a half hour drive home. Loved it and hilarious. Well, congratulations to your daughter. Finished her first Year of college.

[Brian Bates]

It's awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

Officially she's passed me. When she started, she passed me. She's now way ahead of me. She's almost to the moon.

[Dusty Slay]

She's folded the paper a couple of times. She's pulled it a couple of times. I don't know if she's near 42 yet, but.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep. Sharon Lloyd. I've actually had three employees named Dusty working in the small. In the same small. Six employee office at once. It was hard to know who was talking. So he nicknamed them he Dusty, She, Dusty and Sarge. As he's. As these former military. If your Dusty worked with us, what should we nickname him?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, people used to call me Slayer because of my last name. That's what we would do.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I would goth it up a bit. I'd go back to this guy, be Slayer. I'd come in with some heavy metal.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Slayer would be good.

[Dusty Slay]

Some skull T shirts.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Kick it back to high school.

[Nate Bargatze]

He Dusty, She Dusty and Sarge.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, and dump Dust.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean the band takes it a little far with it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they're pretty intense.

[Dusty Slay]

They're pretty extreme Train.

[Nate Bargatze]

But is there a name? Yes. I mean, I guess you would go Slayer.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I think so.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a lot to call someone.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but you want to keep cool though.

[Nate Bargatze]

A grown man in an office, you don't call him.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, listen, I don't know what's going on in that office, but they got three Dusties in there. Something going on. I don't know what.

[Aaron Weber]

Three out of six.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah. You got to talk to the person.

[Nate Bargatze]

Name doesn't matter because most of them are off the books. Yeah, yeah, that is true. That's the. You might have a company problem if you. If you can only find Dusties to work for you.

[Dusty Slay]

At that point, it feels like you should just go ahead and find other Dusties. Yeah, like we're looking for other Dusties.

[Nate Bargatze]

We only look for Dusties because even.

[Dusty Slay]

Dustin, Justin, Dusty in an office is confusing because when your name's Dusty, you're not used to hearing other people be called that name. So when and another one's around, you always think they're talking to you. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. They had six employees and three of them were named Dusty.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I mean you've got three in your orbit. When you think about it. Dustin Nickerson, Dustin Chafin, Dustin Slay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but they're Dustin's. I mean I'm a Dusty. Maybe Dustin by birth, but he's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Dusty by the grace of God.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a big difference.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it is a big difference.

[Brian Bates]

That.

[Nate Bargatze]

Linda Schaer, my buddy, used to.

[Brian Bates]

Have a belt buckle with that on. American by birth, Southern by the grace of God.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's Dustin by birth, my buddy.

[Brian Bates]

I love grits girls raised in the South. Yeah, that was a big one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Anyway, are you through? Yeah, yeah, I think that's.

[Dusty Slay]

I couldn't remember anything I said. Alabama stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Linda Schaefer, my hubby appreciates Nate, but isn't a huge fan like I am tonight. He put on signature dis dish, and I commented that he had already seen it. He said, I know, but I want to watch it again. That's a major.

[Dusty Slay]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Dusty Slay]

All right, Mr. Schaefer, this guy sounds.

[Brian Bates]

Like a real comedy fan. Good taste.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Why would you not just cut out the top part of that comment?

[Aaron Weber]

Because it makes it funnier.

[Nate Bargatze]

Does it?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think it emphasizes how big of a fan he is.

[Brian Bates]

Hey, guys. Nate stinks anyway. We watched Aaron special.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you're exactly right. Emphasizes.

[Dusty Slay]

But in the Shaffer family, you got a Nate fan, you got an Aaron fan. They're all in the Nateland family.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right.

[Dusty Slay]

They don't seem to be watching my special Wet Heat. That's out on Netflix now and it's not out yet or, you know, Brian's easy out. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

They might listen to it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that's true.

[Aaron Weber]

The cd.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good album.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

John Gibson. I was listening to Fly on the Wall with Dan Soder as a guest, and he was very complimentary of Nate's writing and success. He also mentioned that coming up in New York, they called Nate the basset hound of comedy. Is that only because of his style or is there more to the story? No, I think it's the style is why they. They were. Did that. Soders, one of my closest friends. So very nice to hear that.

[Dusty Slay]

Like the. Like the Warner Brothers basset Hound. Like in Looney Tunes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I think it's just like slow and.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Droopy eyes. Yeah, yeah, I'm that. That's what I am. I would be a driven basset hound. Yeah. Without a walk up. That's what you see.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But there's something else. But there's a lot more going on.

[Brian Bates]

He's actually the best hunter in the business. Yeah. Or something like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, it would be. I would be in it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He can actually get a tennis ball back faster than anybody.

[Dusty Slay]

But just one breakfast.

[Nate Bargatze]

Don't just One.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't straddle me with options.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, the dog doesn't need options. The basset hound would be best. Hounds are awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, they are cool.

[Aaron Weber]

I wanted one as a kid.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Duke's a Hazzard. Roscoe P. Coltrane had Flash. That was his.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was a Bassinhound.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just droopy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Alex Thomason. Christian Bell may be a fan, but yesterday I saw someone wearing a dusty sleigh shirt in a Lexington, South Carolina, Walmart. Now he can say he really made it.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah, I mean, South Carolina. I mean, that's my home state. And not my home state. My second home state. And, yeah, Walmart, that's my place. Yeah, they might have picked that up at Goodwill on the way in.

[Brian Bates]

I think they sell that shirt at the Walmart.

[Dusty Slay]

I hope so.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

Big things happening.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Thanks. Alex Thomason. You think that's John Gibson from Columbia. Remember that guy?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Probably not.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This week, the heat index in Nashville is supposed to hit110.100. And so I thought it'd be a good time to talk about some wet heat.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. You know, I have a joke on YouTube about the heat index, too.

[Brian Bates]

What exactly is the heat index? What does it mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Glad you asked.

[Brian Bates]

When it's up, when it's 95 degrees, but the heat index is 110, it feels like. Yeah, exactly. What does that mean?

[Aaron Weber]

It's the air temperature and the humidity in the air.

[Nate Bargatze]

Combine them, and.

[Aaron Weber]

So if it's really humid and there's.

[Brian Bates]

Some kind of formula to this, or is the guy just ballparking it?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I think there's a formula.

[Dusty Slay]

My question was always, like, isn't temperature what it feels like?

[Aaron Weber]

If there was no humidity, I think it would be.

[Dusty Slay]

But why? If the even. I mean, with the humidity, it's like. It feels like it's this temperature. Isn't that. Shouldn't that be what the temperature.

[Brian Bates]

Well, let me ask you this, Dusty. You ever take a warm shower and then jump in a pool?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's gonna feel like a real shock to your body, how cold it is, Right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So is that the actual temperature of the pool, or is it what it feels like to you in that moment?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I agree with you, but with the heat index, it feels like that to all of us.

[Brian Bates]

What I'm saying is it doesn't it? Like, I. All right.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm just saying.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, I think Aaron's doing. I think you're doing pretty good with some examples today. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not upset.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think you just got him.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm upset about the attack knocking everybody off.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not exact upset about the example at all, but I'm just saying I.

[Nate Bargatze]

Think the example's right.

[Dusty Slay]

But when it comes to temperature, it is what it feels like. So if we're all experiencing it so much that the weatherman will say, this is what it feels like, then to me, that always seems.

[Nate Bargatze]

But, but, but. But it's adding them together so it's like it, it's not the temperature because it's like the temperature. It's. They're two separate things. So they're not together. So it's like. It's just like gross and net. Yeah. Right. So it's, it's just. Right. And then it's. It's so. It's just like they're two different things. So they're. They just do the. Feels like they could if, you know. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

I know what you're saying. The temperature is the temperature if it feels like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but temperature is absolute. But then how, how, how it feels to us is something different. It's an incredibly complex formula that I've never looked at before. I mean, I'm not even going to read it out loud. This is like an insane equation to calculate the heat index. But there is a turns out there. Yeah, there is a formula for it.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Factors in the temperature and then in the relative humility, humidity. Crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

I looked up the most humid states in the US and it's pretty much Dusty's most popular states probably as far as. Yeah, his Netflix special is doing the best. There it is right there.

[Dusty Slay]

Alabama, where I'm from, seems like the most humid right there.

[Brian Bates]

Alabama is the most humid state in the country.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly. Wet heat, baby. Born and raised in it.

[Brian Bates]

Raised in the wet.

[Nate Bargatze]

Where are we? Tennessee.

[Aaron Weber]

Tennessee is way further down than I thought.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Goodness. We're super far. I mean, Pennsylvania is more humid than we are feel. You never get talked about New York.

[Nate Bargatze]

I could see New York. I mean, New York was so humid.

[Aaron Weber]

That's funny. I didn't think of the Northeast as.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but New York was just. Oh, you're right on that water, I bet. Yeah, that's the. But New York, I remember just being like, oh, my goodness. It would not. Yeah, it's like anybody. We're kind of protected in there. We. We got, we. We got it.

[Brian Bates]

Tennessee average humidity 69.4%. And compared to Phoenix, which is always talked about as it's a dry heat. Everybody says 30, so 30% difference. In what's average? You mean California is 61.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow, that's hot.

[Dusty Slay]

That's more than probably some Northern California.

[Brian Bates]

So diverse. It's like it should be like 4 or 5.

[Nate Bargatze]

And the most is 77.

[Brian Bates]

77. Alabama is in the lead with 77.1% average.

[Nate Bargatze]

So we're all kind of in there.

[Brian Bates]

We're all in the thick of it. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Louisiana. New Orleans, if it were broken down by city like that, New Orleans has got to be the most humid swamp. Unbelievable down there. Yeah, yeah, unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

Would you rather be here 100 feels like 110. Or in Phoenix where it is 110?

[Brian Bates]

You know what, man? I was just out in Phoenix and It was about 100, 809 degrees and I didn't mind it as much as here. It's like you don't really feel it affecting you. You're out there for a while, you start to feel yourself cooking from the inside. Like, you're in a.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't sweat as much.

[Brian Bates]

You're in a microwave. No, you don't sweat as much. And it's just. It just feels different.

[Nate Bargatze]

But that. The thing, that dry air, though, is hard. You would just get used to it if you live there. But it's like if you're there too long, it mess with your voice. Mess with.

[Dusty Slay]

It's hard on the sinuses, hard on the throat. I like a wet heat, guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Really driving it home.

[Aaron Weber]

Can we clip that out?

[Nate Bargatze]

I agree. Like, any time you go to Vegas, like, we're in Vegas for like, if I'm out there for a week, I mean by. You end up like, by the end of it, you're kind of like. You're like, I. I gotta get out here. But that's. I'm not used to that.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

So it's like, I think I would tend to go. I agree, though. Like, when I go golfing and I've golfed in 110 out in Phoenix, it's. It's. Honestly, you won't be sweating and you have to keep an eye on it. But that's what scares. Because you could be like, oh, I think I'm fine. And then just being big, you're overheating.

[Brian Bates]

And not even knowing it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So we. We did episode on Weather about five years ago. And the thing that I share a lot of same facts, but the thing that stood out the most to people that they remember is I told you guys that scientists were talking about dimming the sun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Remember this?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Putting particles in the air dusty to To. And this was.

[Dusty Slay]

And they're doing that now though.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, since then, in five years now it's become a very more talked about thing. Bill Gates is talking about it.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's a lot of geoengineering back then.

[Aaron Weber]

No, back then it was the, at least the story I read was about in.

[Dusty Slay]

Back then it was conspiracy theorists and they go, you guys are crazy, man.

[Aaron Weber]

And now it's Main Street.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If you're wrong, five years ago I'd have said you're crazy, Dusty. But now a lot of police are talking about it. In fact, they just had to shut one down because they were doing it without telling anybody about it.

[Brian Bates]

Can you dim the sun in just one part of the earth or does it have to be uniformly around the whole, the whole globe?

[Aaron Weber]

No, you can do it. One part. So they were, there was out in Northern California, Alameda, is that you say.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

There were some researchers and they were trying to create clouds.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

But then their second story.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

To cool things off. But then they were going to make it rain, dim the sun. They were going to try to do some. And the town found out about it and shut it down.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they did that in Dubai. I think they, they created exceeded the clouds to make them rain and then it flooded and I don't think it was. But it worked a secret.

[Brian Bates]

It worked. It made rain.

[Dusty Slay]

It worked. Yeah, but it, you know, sounds like.

[Brian Bates]

We just got to dial it in a little bit.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it seems scary to have any kind of weather control like that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, of course, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because who makes that decision?

[Brian Bates]

Who's the one controlling it?

[Aaron Weber]

The Stratospheric control Perturbation Experiment launched by Harvard University scientists aims examine the solution by spraying non toxic chemicals dust in the atmosphere.

[Dusty Slay]

Reflect the sun non toxic until they go whoops. Turned out it was toxic like they've done many, many times.

[Brian Bates]

You said reflect the sun like it shoots back at the sun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, aerosol that offsets the effects of global warming.

[Dusty Slay]

Sun reflect aerosol has never been an issue.

[Brian Bates]

No, it's been, it's been great.

[Aaron Weber]

So there was a volcano in 1815 that erupted in Indonesia.

[Brian Bates]

Krakatoa.

[Aaron Weber]

No, not that one. Okay, you talked about that one last time. This is a different one. It's the most. Mount Tambora volcano. It's the most powerful volcano ever. And the ashes was so powerful in this guide that the next year world over temperatures were lower. It was called the year without a summer.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And even in the United States like there was snow in New York and.

[Nate Bargatze]

Maine in June oh, wow.

[Dusty Slay]

I was in Winnipeg last week and they've been having fires up north and it was so smoky in Winnipeg. Yeah, it's wild.

[Aaron Weber]

But they use as an example of, of how you can put enough things in the air to affect the temperature.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they do it all the time. People do think it's like not real, but it's for sure.

[Brian Bates]

I think we're not, we don't talk about volcanoes enough. Like we should be terrified of them. There are all these volcanoes just laying dormant that are still technically active. Right. The big one in Yellowstone, the super volcano that would end the world if it went off. And it's due for one, they say, and we're just, we're just chilling.

[Nate Bargatze]

Everything's due for.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, like earthquakes.

[Dusty Slay]

I say bring it on. You know what I mean? I mean, let's get wet heat out there. Everybody watch it. Let's go out with a bang.

[Aaron Weber]

But I think you, you showed a map. I remember how it would come all the way to Tennessee. It's the, the volcano.

[Brian Bates]

Super volcano. Yeah. And it would do what this volcano did, which is, I mean, it would dim the sun too much and then all the crops would die and all the livestock would die and it would be, it'd be a tough, tough few years after that.

[Nate Bargatze]

California's gonna be getting much golfing.

[Dusty Slay]

Would you want to live? I think if that happened, I would want to die. You know what I mean? Like, would you want to live through it and like rebuild society or would you want to check out? Out?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think I would.

[Dusty Slay]

I say check out.

[Brian Bates]

You're saying you give up the opportunity to rebuild society on your terms?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not saying I would.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, watch your own.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not saying no. When he would be gone, all digital things would be gone. I, I'm not saying.

[Brian Bates]

You have your dvd. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I would nose dive into the volcano. But I'm saying I like people. There's people on the Internet that are like, this is how you survive a nuclear attack. And I go, nah, I want to just, I want to go, I want to go in the attack. I don't want to live in a post apocalyptic nuclear war world.

[Brian Bates]

We are living in one right now. We've used nuclear, we've used nukes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, but it's not really affected us here.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but Dusty, you've lived.

[Nate Bargatze]

You want to go up to the point where it starts becoming a hassle for you.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah, I mean, if what he's talking about, the livestock dies, the crops die.

[Brian Bates]

There's the map right there. If that volcano goes off, I mean, we're getting ash here in Nashville.

[Dusty Slay]

I could go back to Alabama. I could go back to Opelika and I bet I'd be okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Charleston, Charleston.

[Dusty Slay]

Everybody would go to Charleston, but I would go to Opelika and we probably.

[Nate Bargatze]

Might be okay in Nashville.

[Dusty Slay]

We got it. A little bit of that brown in there. The brown seems harsher than the. Than the green.

[Brian Bates]

The problem is this is where all these crops are farmed. Right. Then they're all dead.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So then we just got whatever.

[Dusty Slay]

My dad's got some cows and some blueberry bushes.

[Brian Bates]

The sleighs will be all right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

If you're gardening. Okay. We'll be fine.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We split a cucumber each day.

[Aaron Weber]

You've lived in Charleston where they have hurricanes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And you've Alabama to see tornadoes. You've lived where there's earthquakes. What natural disaster would you least want to be a regular thing in your life?

[Nate Bargatze]

Earthquakes.

[Dusty Slay]

I think tornadoes. Like a regular. Like how often or we talking?

[Nate Bargatze]

I would say earthquakes because it's really. Dude. When. When I. I've felt them in New York and California. It's. It's everything. There is no running to something else. Yeah. There is no outlet. There is no whatever. I mean like, you know, like I'm talking about. Yes. Like there's going to be more, you know, small earthquakes. Not going to do much in tornado. You know, all that stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

But tornado. You can see, there's tracking, there's all this kind of stuff. Earthquakes. I mean, dude, it's nuts. I guess everything moves if we're sitting here. That was when it happened. It's like a claustrophobic feeling. You can't go get away from it. Like at least not you can't with tornado coming on top of you. But at least in your head you know it's coming here. And like even if you can't really get away, it's like maybe your thing can't get away, but you can always move.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

And like try. Unless it pops up on you. So I understand that. But an earthquake, it was. It's. Do they give you like. Such is the most help helpless feeling I feel like I ever had.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. But you're in big buildings though, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Every everywhere shakes. But it doesn't matter if you're on the ground, the ground is shaking.

[Dusty Slay]

Right. But it's like. I feel like just. It depends on the question of how frequent. Right. What do you mean by regular occurrences.

[Brian Bates]

Every day at 1 o'.

[Nate Bargatze]

Clock.

[Aaron Weber]

It depends on how big it is.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so, but, but like so it would be. Yes, that, but. So say there's a tornado that comes every day at one o'.

[Brian Bates]

Clock.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's going to hit in a different spot every day. So you're like, hey, you never know what's going to hit. But earthquake is going to hit everywhere.

[Dusty Slay]

I still say tornado because then earthquake, earthquake.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm saying it's. You never. When I felt, not saying don't feel. It's for tornadoes. But it's like. And maybe I've just looked into tornadoes and you see them more. So we're just, I'm, I can wrap my head around a tornado more than I can an earthquake and that's probably part of it. But with an earthquake, I remember when it happened. I mean you just, it's. I just remember thinking like I can't do anything.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's nothing I could go do right now. I can't get out of this shaking. Yeah. I can't run 10 miles and get out of this shaking. It's all just shaking.

[Aaron Weber]

Are you supposed to go outside?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. What do they tell you to do in the event of an earthquake? Just kind of just wait it out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Staying in the middle of some door frame.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. See I think if your house was big or you lived in a big building, earthquake would be very scary. But if you lived out in the country in a small one story house, I don't think it's as scary.

[Nate Bargatze]

I could see that too. But I'm afraid that it's just the earth's gonna open. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh man.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's like if you're near the water.

[Dusty Slay]

It could be a tidal wave.

[Brian Bates]

That's true. Earthquakes do cause tidal waves.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And there's. They're truly unannounced. Right. Like you don't check the weather that morning and they're like, we got 10 chance of earthquakes.

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Brian Bates]

So it just happens.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So you don't know what's going to happen, where we're going to get to a point where they're, I mean they already, they're tracking tornadoes and hurricanes and.

[Dusty Slay]

But then again hurricanes are awful too though if it's coming on a regular.

[Nate Bargatze]

Basis, you can get away from it.

[Aaron Weber]

You have like a 10 day notice.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But there are plenty places in America that get hit routinely with earthquakes and people still live there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Well, a hurricane though, it's like, sure, you could get away but your house could get destroyed.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like it's like, but you like a Tornado is like, you know, it's tornado season. It's torn in this.

[Brian Bates]

It's that hurricane season, too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, hurricane season. I know.

[Brian Bates]

There's no earthquakes.

[Nate Bargatze]

What are you talking about? Yeah, there is no earthquakes. It's like. And it's just the ground. Yeah, it's like, it's nowhere. You know, if you can stay on the ground in a tornado and drive away, like, you can move away from things. I know if you're staying, like, besides the popup aspect of it. But the fear of an earthquake, to me is nowhere to go. If Nash, all of Nashville had an earthquake, right now, we can't get out. We can't get away from it. You can only go up in the air. Well, that can't last forever. So, like, earthquakes, you know, it depends on how big they are. But if there were a big, massive one. Man, it's like, everything's shaking.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Dude, I still go tornado.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's just so. And it's almost like a weird. You can't even go. What's causing. Like, why is the ground shaking? Yeah, like, it's. It. You just start, like, moving. It's. Have you ever felt one?

[Dusty Slay]

A little bit?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I've never felt one.

[Dusty Slay]

Never.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, like, it's. It's just the most helpless. There's just. Because you just think, like, like, what am I gonna go do? And you're like, well, that part's shaking. So is this part. So is that part.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. When they show earthquakes in, like, other countries where buildings fall, I mean, it's terrifying looking, you see? But it's like, that's why I think, like, if you're in these big buildings, I say, definitely earthquakes. I don't want to be around. But if you're in the country, small houses. I'm afraid of tornadoes.

[Brian Bates]

During an earthquake, the most important action is to drop, cover, and hold on.

[Aaron Weber]

On.

[Brian Bates]

So get under a sturdy desk or table and hold on to it. Move to an open area. If you're outdoors, move to an open area away from building space.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And just kind of be out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, this one seems like. Yeah, I. I see what you're saying. Because this one's like, if you're. I mean, if you're outside in a vehicle, it's like, enjoy the ride. It's like, pull over and have some fun.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you can't run when things are shaking like that. For sure. If the ground is moving below you, it's wild.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. Dude. It's just like. It's because it's the. It's two. When it's happening, you don't know when it's happening. And then you're. You just had that moment of, like. You have a moment of, like, am I crazy?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like you. I remember the one in New York where it was like, especially New York. I didn't really ever even think about filling one. And I just remember just everything shaking. And I thought it was a dump truck outside. I was like, is that truck that. You know it's a jackhammer? And then just a moment of you go. That's what I. I might have said it on this pocket, but I joke with it with ideas. This is how much. In our neighborhood in New York, we didn't talk to each other. Is the earthquake went on. We are standing on our porch, and no one said, like, no one talked. We all just went back inside.

[Brian Bates]

Not even a. Y' all okay?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It was just like, everybody's out for their own.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's crazy. We have some blasting in our neighborhood, but not close to our house.

[Brian Bates]

What do you mean, blast?

[Aaron Weber]

Like, they're.

[Brian Bates]

They're building a rock quarry.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, something like that.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

When I lived on the west side, there was a quarry there.

[Aaron Weber]

And, I mean, we're not even close to it, but when they do it, sometimes the whole house shakes, and you're.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, oh, yeah, that's crazy. You know? And if they build everything in Tennessee is, like, on limestone. So if you have to build anything, they blast a lot.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Tennessee has. You want to guess how many earthquakes?

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, 50,000, 15 a year. Thousand a year?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm going 10.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

10, 15, 50,000. Two to 300 a year.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

We had one yesterday.

[Brian Bates]

Still way more, though.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

Do we really wear. At the.

[Aaron Weber]

Usually East Tennessee around Knoxville? This one was just outside Knoxville.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do they even feel it?

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe if you're right on it. It was like a 2.3 or something like that.

[Brian Bates]

Just a big.

[Aaron Weber]

So it registers. But unless you're rhino, I don't think anybody even feels it. But the New Madrid fault, which is kind of West Tennessee border Missouri, they say it's overdue for a big one. That's how Real Foot Lake was formed, was from an earthquake.

[Brian Bates]

From an earthquake right there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I never even heard of this fault. I didn't know we were near one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. They were taught. People were talking about when the eclipse went over, they were saying the New Madrid fault line was gonna be set off. Huh. So we were on high alert.

[Aaron Weber]

Looks like we'd be right on the Edge of pop community.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. That's why I didn't want to go with you guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You guys went out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because. Yeah. I don't be stuck out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Earthquake comes Mississippi river floods.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nothing happened though.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. So it was good.

[Aaron Weber]

So there's a guy named.

[Nate Bargatze]

We took it over.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's the earthquake, seismic events, you know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Be funny is like, like your people like you. Y' all have holidays, but it's like this kind of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like where we.

[Dusty Slay]

We do have dates to look out for. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I know, but it's like you have dates that, that would be funny as you go if you went into like an office office and you said, I'm going to be here on Christmas. I'll be here on every of your American holidays. I have a list of dates that I would like to not be at.

[Dusty Slay]

And they change yearly.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That's like. I wonder if that you could really go. Look, I will. I'm here to tell you, you know, it's like someone comes in, he goes, I worship. I celebrate this day or I celebrate whatever. And you just go like fourth of July. I'm gonna show up. Yeah. I'm going to work that day. I'll work all of your holiday.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I ask you, I need November 12th off.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because there's. The moon is going to be near us and I just want to be bunkered down.

[Dusty Slay]

Super blood, man. Venus, people get wild. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Neptune's in red.

[Nate Bargatze]

I wonder if you could really do that. Like if you could just go present.

[Dusty Slay]

I think so.

[Nate Bargatze]

A calendar.

[Dusty Slay]

Cool about it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. If you go, here's your calendar. Here's your dumb earthling calendar. Here's mine.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I would like these days off.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I mean it's, you know, it's 13 months in mind. You know what I mean? 28 days a month. No, it's 30 days a month.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You go, yeah. What's this other month? He goes, yeah, that's going to be a little harder to do. But I'll give me, give me two January's and we can. Yeah, I like that. I like that they present. But you go, I'm gonna be here like you know, Thanksgiving, I'll work when.

[Dusty Slay]

No one else wants to work.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're taking all the shifts of. Why don't work this Christma. Yeah. Guess what? I only want to work Christmas.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because I'm going to need September, Yom Kippur, 12 through the 15 off. Because that's when the bats migrate.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I.

[Dusty Slay]

And you want to be caught outside.

[Nate Bargatze]

You don't want to be caught outside with the bat movement because it's going to set off other.

[Dusty Slay]

They only see with radar and.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, I like this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like. Everybody should have a dusty calendar where. We know. Could we. Would you let people know the dates? Like, I would love.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, you let them know the dates, but you don't tell them why. You go, just. I'll tell my wife. I'll go, hey, just this date. Just. Let's just, you know, let's just be, you know, she don't even want to know why.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would like to. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Can we know, like, I'll let you guys know the next time. So then.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

May of 2027. Just make sure you have some ice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I'll just say that.

[Brian Bates]

Throwing that out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Some people are afraid of October. They said there's some stuff coming in.

[Brian Bates]

October of this year.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, that's a big month.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot of things come and go and nothing ever happens. So I don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would just say most come and go. Yeah, exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

I just stay alert.

[Brian Bates]

You never know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But you never know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You never know. I like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So everybody even listening should just know. October.

[Dusty Slay]

You should always be paying attention, told to be sober and vigilant. You know what I mean?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So be looking around.

[Nate Bargatze]

Be looking around for October.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Early October. Late October.

[Dusty Slay]

Just early October. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Early. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. He knows exactly.

[Dusty Slay]

Feast of Trumpets. Feast of Trumpets is coming up, too. And that's a, you know, that's. Oh, you never know. Something might happen.

[Nate Bargatze]

What is that?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, that's a biblical holiday, but it could, you know, some stuff could happen.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

Also do a little time travel in this thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Back to when you had hair.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There was a guy named Jim Birkeland, San Francisco geologist, made a name for himself by accurately predicting Northern California's 1989 earthquake. His forecast relied in part on. He went through the classified ads, local newspapers and he found that unusual number of household pets were listed as missing the week leading up to it. Oh, and his arguments, animals can sense when earthquakes coming. Oh, yeah, they ran away. And he was right.

[Dusty Slay]

People were saying that about Yosemite right now. I think that a lot of videos are going around like animals all running and herds. Like not necessarily. Yeah. But leaving. Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But they gave a week's notice. The animal.

[Brian Bates]

A week. An earthquake gets cooking that early.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I mean when was this?

[Aaron Weber]

1989.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I feel like dogs now are just. They lost that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Oh yeah, the dogs have lost it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean there's still dogs that do it. But a lot of the dogs people are buying. I mean these doodles, they walking right on into an earthquake. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. You can't. Yeah. You can't rely on a dog.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

They learn about it two minutes after you do.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like you can't.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

This ain't a basset hound that can smell fear.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or something.

[Brian Bates]

This says aftershocks can happen within days, weeks or even years after the main event.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's convenient.

[Brian Bates]

At what point is it not its own earthquake?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

A year later.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's someone that doesn't want to get into it. That's some of that's covering their bases. That's a scientist that Goes, I gotta get out of here. And he goes, I'll make up the word aftershocks. And then he wants to finish his like, what about one tomorrow? He goes, yeah, it's just like from the other one.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. A year later. Yeah, it's all, it's all part of it, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're all aftershock.

[Dusty Slay]

Do you name earthquakes?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, earthquake hyena earthquake's not really now think about even a weather phenomenon, is it?

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think so.

[Brian Bates]

They're not routinely named like hurricanes are, but they're often identified by combination of the date and the. The in the region. Like the, you know, the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah, like San Francisco earthquake.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I guess. I mean if we had.

[Nate Bargatze]

How long can an earthquake last?

[Brian Bates]

Great question.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, at least you're not looking stuff for us.

[Brian Bates]

A few seconds to several minutes. The duration is related to the earthquakes magnitude. So small ones might only last a few seconds, but like big ones small several minutes. Wow, that's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, there's like people. There's a video of like some earthquake that happened. People are in a pool. They were in an affinity pool on top of a building and you just see the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I think I've been on top of that building.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was in Singapore maybe.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think it's a hotel. I once I went to Singapore, I didn't stay at the hotel, but we. It's a. We went up to that like there's a restaurant. We just went up and bit. We were leaving, but we just wanted to go see that hotel.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, Dusty, I want to get your thoughts on this. Some people say farmers, other things. You can tell how many snows we're going to have by the amount of black on the. On a woolly worm. The longer the woolly worms, black bands, the longer, colder, snowier and more severe the winter will be be the wider the middle brown band associated with milder upcoming winter.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm going to be honest with you, 80% accurate. I believe it, but I have no idea. I do believe it though.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I believe the farmers can really tell things. You know, like if you've been farming for you know, your whole life and your father was a farmer and your grandfather was a farmer, I think they know things and that's why we have less family farms and people know less stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, but they're looking up stuff now. Like with science is like you don't have to because it's like all these methods were like, yeah, they're somewhat true, but Then they were like 80. True. Because you're gonna meet one worm that won't cooperate.

[Dusty Slay]

And I think sometimes, though, old school stuff like this is, you know, more accurate.

[Brian Bates]

Why would this predict the winner?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know what's.

[Brian Bates]

Is there scientific explanation?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's going to be called. So it needs to be.

[Brian Bates]

But how does it know?

[Dusty Slay]

Needs.

[Brian Bates]

How does a woolly worm.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know. Same way aftershock thing. Like no one knows. It's just fun to. You look at them. They're different.

[Brian Bates]

Just.

[Aaron Weber]

God.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Maybe the more black on the thing, it. It brings in more sunlight. Well, you know, everything's getting, like, stay warmer.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're supposed to use, like, everything organic, like food. Everything's not supposed to be messed with or touched with and processed and everything. And so, like. Yeah, I'm sure there's, you know, it's the way, like, everything kind of know perfectly works out. What was. Did it say a prediction for this year?

[Aaron Weber]

I did not look up, I think.

[Nate Bargatze]

When you backed out of that or. I don't know if you. Whatever you did.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Let's find out what's happening.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I thought a wet heat.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe we have a wet winter too, you know, a little wet.

[Aaron Weber]

Keep watching it. Yeah, the special this winter. Yeah, watch it again.

[Brian Bates]

This is the 2024, 2025. They predict slow news day here.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

WCIA.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But, yeah, I guess people are. I've never heard of this.

[Dusty Slay]

This is Nate.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Telling you what the weather was. I wonder. Yeah, it's like, what's their prediction?

[Aaron Weber]

I think Farmers Almond Almanack every year predicts the winter. How many snows are going to have? And you read the former Farmers Almanac?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I only bought it for that. For the plastics thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay. I thought you had a subscription.

[Dusty Slay]

Nah, it gets a little. It's a little.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a little much.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a little.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

New agy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm not so into all that, but I got it for the plastics.

[Nate Bargatze]

You want the Farmer Almanac?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You don't want the farmers?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You'd rather it come from a guy? Yeah, yeah, one farmer.

[Dusty Slay]

I'd like a guy to give me a call.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes, yes. You like a guy named Farmer Almanac. And he goes, dusty. You go, yeah, because we have four snows this year. And he hangs up.

[Dusty Slay]

Exactly.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then you just know.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I know and I. So when we get to the third one, I can go, well, there's going to be one more.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know when, but there will be one more.

[Nate Bargatze]

February 23rd.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Get underground. It's the farmer.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Then it's farmer. And that's his farmer Alma. Farmer almanac. Yeah. Yeah. January 4th. Get on the second floor of a building.

[Dusty Slay]

They. They build a lot of underground stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Don't go too hot.

[Brian Bates]

Don't go too hot.

[Dusty Slay]

Some people think that's the earthquakes. A lot of times it's blasting under the earth to build. To build. Like, Denver Airport has a huge underground bunker of several stories.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, they have a lot of underground highways. And, you know, even just, you know, building the interstate system, they had to blast a lot of mountains to. I mean, the interstate system through the mountains is unbelievable.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, like, bridge. There's a bridge, like you're almost out of Alabama into Tennessee. You go over this long bridge. There's no. Nobody talks about it. Nobody's like, it's a cool bridge. But it's truly remarkable how big the bridge is, how much ground it covers. And we just drive over it. We don't even think about it.

[Brian Bates]

Take it for granted every day.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

When the interstates were built, I read this, it was truly supposed to be like, for cross country travel in between states. They never suspected that people would just use it, like, to go to work, things like that.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was a Cold war thing, right. Do you remember the interstates being honest, Isn't it like a lot of them were built in the 870s and 80s, right?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I mean, maybe some. I think most were built in the 50s and 60s.

[Dusty Slay]

My uncle, who's in his late 70s, remembers it. Oh, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Remembers the blasting and.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

It was a Cold war thing, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Even my dad's cousin, my dad's cousin would, you know to come from South Carolina to Alabama. It was all back roads back in the day. No interstates.

[Aaron Weber]

I think Al Gore senior was the person who led the charge.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Like, when did Interstate 40 get built?

[Aaron Weber]

I think in 1960 because it went through our family farm.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

They stole your farm.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

And still my uncle's house is on one side and my grandparents.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

They stole your farm?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep. They get paid, but they probably don't.

[Aaron Weber]

Even need this job.

[Brian Bates]

I appreciate that road, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well, I do too. But like, every time I go to.

[Aaron Weber]

Knoxville, though, I can see our ho's over here and my uncle's house over here.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's unbelievable.

[Brian Bates]

The interstate system was designed primarily for national defense concerns during the Cold War. Now it's just used by civilians. But it was set up.

[Aaron Weber]

What does that mean?

[Brian Bates]

They go like, dude, push comes to shove, we got to be able to get around. Because there was, there was no. There's no way to quickly get from state to state if something went down.

[Aaron Weber]

So there's need to be.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's crazy is that it still can be approved upon. Because it's still very new.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean the Interstate Highway act of 1956, that's what authorized the interstate system, included defense in its name. The national system of interstate and defense highways. So I mean that was the goal when this was.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. My dad was born in 55. So it's. I mean it could still like that's what I mean is you. That's what I think. Sometimes when people complain about stuff and you want to go, hey, it's. It's still pretty new. We're kind of learning on the fly.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like it's that, you know, it's. Which I know you got to learn and improve, but sometimes it's like these interstates are terrible. I, I'll complain too, but it's like, yeah, man. Like picture you look at my dad dead. We're still working. Like it's. You know, he's 70.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So. Or about to. Or will be. But it's. You're. You look at someone born in 1955, you're like, that's when we started the interstate. And you want to go. And on top of that, population is exploding. And so you like. Everybody's like, yeah, we're keeping up with it and trying to go. But it's still a very new thing. That's when I, you know, when he thinks like everything's going to come to like it's like we're gonna get. All this stuff is going to get crazy. I think we're still pretty far away from like that. Not so far, but it's. I'd have a hard time for us to be like, we would see it and I think, you know, it's going to be a few hundred years where it's, it's just like taking over.

[Brian Bates]

I hope so.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. Because the stuff you read is once AI gets smart enough where they're making the decisions and it's going to be exponential growth.

[Brian Bates]

Exponential growth. Like folding a piece of paper to the moon thing. You know all about exponential growth now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Thanks.

[Dusty Slay]

Just like adding paper every time. Just adding.

[Brian Bates]

Folding it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Folding it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But a robot could fold it. Yeah. Little tiny Hand strong as.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, there are some robots now that running. They're doing pretty good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, they're running pretty good.

[Brian Bates]

That one running down the hill.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Dressed like Adam Sandler. Yeah, that was a fun one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I mean, they're. They're doing pretty good.

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Are you revealing this news too early?

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe we'll strike it.

[Dusty Slay]

From where? From downtown? Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm saying.

[Aaron Weber]

To the National Airport.

[Dusty Slay]

Underground tunnels Sounds like, oh, underground. But it's like they are. They do it all the time. There's underground tunnels everywhere. And it's like they blast and then it shakes and then they go, oh, it's an earthquake.

[Brian Bates]

Tunnel stuff, underground stuff. Terrifies me, dude.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So I will be trapped in this circle of like. Like guys spelunking. Is that what it's called?

[Dusty Slay]

Spelunking? Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Spelunk. Whatever.

[Nate Bargatze]

Spelunking.

[Dusty Slay]

You mean where they're crawling through.

[Brian Bates]

Crawling through these tight fitting caves and stuffing.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's, I, that's shocking. You didn't know that. What is spelunking? I think. Yes, spelunking. I'm almost positive.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I, I, I believe you. I just watching you lose confidence in it, in real time is, well, because.

[Nate Bargatze]

You'Re, I'm like, you're so smart that I'm nervous that I don't know what it is.

[Brian Bates]

Spelunking.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I think it's crazy that you called it something, but there is.

[Brian Bates]

What did I call it? Sri Lanka.

[Aaron Weber]

You sound dumb, Aaron.

[Nate Bargatze]

You sounded.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but I, you watch videos.

[Nate Bargatze]

You don't, but you don't listen to anybody that would go underground. You think.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, I like guys that go in space.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not trying to get fictional stuff.

[Brian Bates]

These guys are the craziest. You watch these videos of them and.

[Dusty Slay]

It'S just like, like it, it is insane.

[Brian Bates]

It makes me sweat watching the video, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It doesn't make sense when they get so trapped in a thing where you're.

[Brian Bates]

Like, they get a rush from it. Yeah, I guess they're like. And I watched a video of a guy, he's talking about this in real time as he's like getting wedged in by this and he's like, if you have to ask why I like to do this, you're never going to get it. And I'm like, you're probably right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Get out of it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he gets out of it.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's the point of it? He's trying to get from one side to the. Or just explore caves.

[Brian Bates]

It's just like exploring the caves. It's the same as hiking through the forest.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, I like that idea, but yeah, when it gets too tight like that, that freaks me out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, me too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

What is, when is the, this guy in McMinnville? McMinnville has some of the biggest caverns in the, in the country, I think. And they, this guy was telling me that his uncle, he was a guy at a museum. I went in the museum and the guy would not let me leave. And he said like his great, great, great uncle or discovered the cave and he got his, he got in there and his flashlight went out and he was trapped in there for, you know, weeks. And when they found him, he was like, real messed up.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Because he had no light for a long time, man. And that's terrifying. And the guy telling me had a glass eye and I was like, Your family's been through a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but Aaron, if you're downtown Nashville, you gotta get to the airport. You're not, not taking this tunnel?

[Brian Bates]

I mean, I don't know. I have to.

[Dusty Slay]

If it's a subway system, I have.

[Brian Bates]

To hear more about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Deeper than subway.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And they're like just one lane and they're just.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it may.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't love it when I drive under, like you going to New York or driving under a tunnel. I don't, I, I, I, I try. If I get in it and I'm not thinking about it, I can mind my own business. But if not, if I start thinking about it, I don't love it.

[Brian Bates]

If I get in a wreck in.

[Dusty Slay]

Here, like, like, you ever see the Sylvester Stallone movie Daylight? That's where he goes under a tunnel and then an explosion happens and they get trapped under the tunnel, under the water.

[Aaron Weber]

See it?

[Nate Bargatze]

I might watch it tonight.

[Dusty Slay]

It's good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it's old, but it's good.

[Aaron Weber]

Would either. If you guys had a chance to go out with a storm chaser, would you guys do it?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Now? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We got, we got offered this at some point.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would love.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think we added, Asked someone to do it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I wanna, I wanna do it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Next time I'm in Oklahoma, I'm out there in November. Is that, is that tornado season? I don't know, but if it is.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I would like to go out.

[Aaron Weber]

You went dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, I don't need, I don't need adrenaline in my life.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got enough. Because every day you figure it out at the end anyway.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I don't. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm already on edge.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you ever have to evacuate in Charleston, Houston?

[Dusty Slay]

No. The whole time I was there, we never had a hurricane. We had some threats here and there, but never had a hurricane. Tropical storm, maybe they had a hurricane. Andrew maybe came before I got there and it really destroyed things and then nothing. The whole time I was there. We had some floods, I flooded a car, you know.

[Brian Bates]

You don't like a roller coaster or anything like that?

[Dusty Slay]

No, not anymore. I used to like them, but I get, I get vertigo now and I'm like, I, I tried to ride the carousel at the mall and I was.

[Brian Bates]

All dizzy and skydiving. Nothing like that interests you at all?

[Dusty Slay]

No, no, no.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Skateboarding.

[Dusty Slay]

Skateboarding. I wish I could do. I mean, I fell pretty early on in skateboarding. I was like, I don't think this is for me. I'm not into that. I feel like I got farmer jeans and we're like, you know, we're regular grounded people.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. All right. Literally, like, literally grounded.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I wish you had some farmer jeans right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I am rocking the vori shorts.

[Brian Bates]

Biker shorts on.

[Aaron Weber]

Hurricane Andrew hit southern Florida, the Florida Everglades, and destroyed a python place where they were keeping pythons. And they got loose, wreaked havoc. I think to this day, that's the.

[Brian Bates]

Reason why pythons are in invasive space.

[Aaron Weber]

900 pythons escaped, and it wiped out rabbits, foxes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Because they got no predator.

[Aaron Weber]

Raccoons, possums. And now I think they, like, pay people to.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's collect. I think it's open hunting season for pythons all year.

[Nate Bargatze]

I wonder if, like, when that happened, though, like, in the history of pythons that they're in school and they go, let me tell you about a time it was great to be alive. And, like, there's. There's a few pythons that just were like, dude, it was the day.

[Brian Bates]

Awesome. That was their roaring twenties. Yeah. The rolling early nineties.

[Nate Bargatze]

No one was bothering us. Us. No one. We were just killing.

[Brian Bates]

Dude, just imagine eating whatever you want.

[Nate Bargatze]

Whatever you want.

[Brian Bates]

Going wherever you want.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sleep in the middle of the road. You have no predators. Where do you want to sleep? That's my sleep. Wherever you want, you can actually get some sleep. We actually got sleep back then because nothing could come get us.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The Great Smog of London 1952 was so bad that blind people had to help people with psych get home because they need the extra senses just to be able to maneuver their way.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

I bet they had a real attitude about it too. Oh, look who needs help now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I told you guys this last time, but there's a firm in Abu Dhabi in the UAE that there's a freshwater shortage. So they want to take an iceberg From Antarctica and 20 billion gallon freshwater iceberg and push it to Abu Dhabi.

[Brian Bates]

All the way up to Abu Dhabi.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Do they have the legal right to do that? Can you just go grab an iceberg from Antarctica or do you need global approval?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. It talked about how the challenges of getting it there. It didn't mention if it's against the.

[Dusty Slay]

Law, and I support it.

[Brian Bates]

It's big enough that you just want to see what's going on in Antarctica?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, yeah. I mean, it's like, I'll go there. Everybody's always worried about sea levels rising. And it's like, take the icebergs put them in the desert, Give some people.

[Brian Bates]

Some water, and enough of it won't melt all the way. I wonder how long it would take to push it up there. That's quite a whole year.

[Aaron Weber]

I think so. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just a guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a boat.

[Brian Bates]

How big is a tugboat?

[Aaron Weber]

I was like, what? I just say 20 billion gallons.

[Nate Bargatze]

The size of, like, a mountain.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, it must be. It must be that big. This is.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, there it is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It's like, that big. So it's like the size of a. A few football fields, and then that's a city bite.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's not like it's. I feel like that's a waste. Because you're going to get it there, and you're like, how long will that water last?

[Brian Bates]

Every day you get to go grab a little handful from it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I would think you got to dig a lake and push that thing in there.

[Brian Bates]

I think so.

[Dusty Slay]

You could throw a golf ball over that thing A couple of times. Can you?

[Brian Bates]

But it's just going to waste in antarctica. Right. Let's go grab it. Yeah, let's go get it.

[Aaron Weber]

I think nate joked last time that by the time it got there, it would just be like a little cube of ice. Just put in your drink. Ah, that was refreshing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, what happened. We want to talk about what happened this weekend. Oh, yeah. With the weather. Sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

About it. Yeah. Well, I guess we really made. Set it up more than we had. There was just a crazy storm.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. We were in last night. Saginaw, michigan, and then Milwaukee. And then St. Paul, Minnesota, for the last two nights.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so we were in. So last night there was just a crazy storm that went through Minnesota. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minneapolis area, Twin cities area. And. Yeah, I didn't. It was in the news. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There was tons about it. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, wow. I didn't know that. Yeah. So, yeah, Sunday, storm calls. Delay of the concert at the show. Because we, like all the power. Like. Like, it was like the power went out when aaron was on stage. I don't know what happened when you went on st. When that happened on stage, I was in my bus.

[Brian Bates]

It was a. It was a normal show. We were watching golf, and they were talking about the local weather in St. Paul. And we were like, oh, there's a storm coming. But you figure we're in an arena. We're going to be fine. We're indoors. It's thundering. It's raining, but we're inside. Right. And then the show's going normally. I Walk on stage. Immediately the lights all flicker, but they come back to normal. And then I'm like, all right, I keep going. And then about a minute into my set, every light in the arena comes on completely. It was like, I don't know what's happening. And you don't realize how. I mean, how many lights were off until they're all back on and you're like, oh, it's a completely different. So I'm looking around, like, am I supposed to leave? Is there an emergency happening? I have no idea what's going on. I see Joe Zimmerman and Lockless off the side of the stage, and they're both giving me a thumbs up. So I thought. I thought at the moment they had some authority. Yeah, they had zero for. They were just going, you're doing great. But I thought, okay, I'll keep going. So I finished my set in broad daylight in the arena, commented on a little bit, a lot of thunder, a little bit of the mic cutting in and out or whatever. And then as soon as I got off stage, I was walking down the steps, announcement comes on and. And says that there's a weather delay, we have to postpone the show. But I don't know what was happening backstage while I was doing that. Like, what discussions were happening. Was it just like that?

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, it was. It was like they. Something fried the electric board or the emergency lights, and it was like that kind of thing. Like where it was like that article, I think. I don't know if I realized at the time, but there was like two and a half inches of rain fell. Like. I mean, it was insane. Aaron Weber, the fifth.

[Brian Bates]

Oh. Oh, that's cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The Minnesota Star Tribune. Yeah, they gotta hold out that. So that there's a. There's a show.

[Nate Bargatze]

We had to put that up.

[Brian Bates]

Sorry, folks. The show will resume shortly.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes, folks. Yeah, so it just. Yeah, yeah, about an hour. And it was like. We thought It'd be like 10 minutes, 15 minutes. And then it just kept they. It, you know, everybody out. Hey, shout out to all the people there. Because everybody handled it. It unbelievably well.

[Brian Bates]

They were having fun with it. They were doing the wave at one point.

[Dusty Slay]

No. Rioting, looting?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, they were doing. The.

[Aaron Weber]

People kept emailing minutes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Aaron. Aaron looted a little. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But people kept emailing saying Aaron sucked the energy out of the room. I'm like, yeah, get.

[Nate Bargatze]

Was. Yeah, it was crazy. It's like. And then to go do a show too, where it's like. Like they had to turn the lights off. But then there's one section that the lights. The emergency lights stayed on. They couldn't get them off because those were fried from whatever it was, the lightning and thunder. It was just an insane storm that came through. And it started hitting when Lachlan was on stage. Lachlan Patterson. And then it just. When Aaron, like, it's funny because I don't think I really noticed it. And then maybe I came back back and I was like, seeing when you're up there, I'm like, what's going on? Why are the lights on?

[Brian Bates]

I asked for it. Get those lights up. I want to see the people.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. When you start throwing the ball.

[Brian Bates]

That was during the delay. We were all just kind of hanging out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

People would recognize me in a. Yeah. It was not. Not during the show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Let's get it started.

[Dusty Slay]

You could be like the ball guy. That's what you do now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I've become the ball guy.

[Dusty Slay]

Unfortunately.

[Brian Bates]

I'd like a. A different name for it, but. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It ended up being like everybody handled it very well and it was. Everybody's so nice. And it was. Ended up being, you know, we ended up having a great show and all this. And. Yeah, we just went through the phases, you know, Went through the. Yeah. I mean, it was like, you know, I always picture, like, it's like one. They're trying to get the electrical stuff all working. It's like one guy. Guy that's like working on it. No one. No. Yeah. It's like he's doing like his bet, but, like, we don't have contact to the. You know, it's like, no one. You don't even. It's just such a big thing. And it was like the. But I mean, they.

[Brian Bates]

So we were just waiting back there for clearance from. From the arena to get the show started. Then the rest of the show was great. It was kind of fun because everybody's been through something. It was kind of like a fun moment. And then Julian was so great. He had to go. Julian, like restart the Show After a 30 minute, all the momentum dead, obviously. And then he had to go up and he did a great job re hosting.

[Nate Bargatze]

He brought up the. The guy. So the guy had sunglasses on and.

[Brian Bates]

The guy in the crowd.

[Nate Bargatze]

Crowd had sunglasses on. Earlier in the show, says, why do you have sunglasses on? So then Julian very funnily goes, dude, it's great that you brought sunglasses because now it's a bright show.

[Brian Bates]

He's like, yeah, I want to apologize. You're the only Guy who came prepared and it's like it just tied in perfectly.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you hear who that guy was?

[Brian Bates]

That was the lead singer of REO Speedway.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. In the.

[Brian Bates]

In the front row.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Nobody recognized him.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

He's on the Jumbotron multiple times.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think they did. Then when they saw him in the jumping, like people.

[Brian Bates]

You think the crowd recognized?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't. Not in a big cheer. I mean, no one. Just the context of it, no one really did it. But what's funny is Julian went and talked to him because Julian is a giant music fan and all this. There's just no one. There's no reason you're going to think that's the lead singer of Aro Speedwagon in the front row. But he was. Yeah, he was awesome. Like, he put the sunglasses on, he gave big thumbs up and like it was. And then. Yeah. I mean, if Julian would have known that, Julian would have wore this guy down with questions.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But yeah, Julian killed it, dude. Like, I mean, he, you know, that many people and all this, it was just. It was handled very well by the. By the arena, by Julian, by everybody sitting in those seats having to wait around.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. It's a weird reminder, tying it back to weather. Like, this is this huge world class arena. It's the biggest comedy tour in the world. And then mother nature can just go, yep, yep, we're taking over.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's still in control. The weather is. You never know what's going to happen.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll throw out a few more little facts here. And a raindrop tops Terminal velocity 18 miles per hour.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, that's good. If it were any faster, it would start to hurt after a while, right?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. If you ever ride like a four wheeler or a motorcycle and it's raining and it starts hitting you really like. Yeah, it's like pins stabbing you. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I just saw a thing today. Do you remember hearing that you get less wet if you walk through the rain than if you run?

[Aaron Weber]

I have heard that.

[Brian Bates]

Apparently Mythbusters did that and they. And they confirmed that you. You. You're better off walking through the rain than running.

[Aaron Weber]

Why?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, they.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

There's no way. If it's like from your car to.

[Brian Bates]

The house, but then they went back and did an update years later and were like, we're actually wrong about that. You should run.

[Dusty Slay]

I love the Mythbusters being wrong. The arrogance of these guys to be like, oh, actually, guys, actually. Yeah, it's like now you don't know.

[Brian Bates]

What you're Talking about it's like trust your instincts a little bit. Obviously run if you. You're in the rain less, you know.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Like do you even know what the reasoning was, why people thought that was true?

[Brian Bates]

I don't, I don't know. I think you're just. You're hitting every raindrop if you're running.

[Aaron Weber]

So you'll miss some if you go slower maybe.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. Yeah. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

The air located around a lightning bolt is. Heats up to 54000 degrees. Five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Cook something quick then.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

How do people even survive that then?

[Brian Bates]

I think a lot of them don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think people do survive.

[Brian Bates]

I think it's just a dead on.

[Dusty Slay]

Hit from one sometimes. But I don't think very.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I think, I think it kills you pretty. I mean you can get like, like nicked by one. Yeah, but I think a dead on hit will kill you. Right? Probably 54, 000 degrees.

[Aaron Weber]

It's so fast if it's just for a second.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I guess so. That feels. That feels pretty lethal.

[Nate Bargatze]

You just feel a little toasty.

[Dusty Slay]

How do they know how hot it is?

[Aaron Weber]

How hot it doesn't.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

How hot it is on the sun. The heat index.

[Brian Bates]

There's a formula. Plato knew it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I think they're like. It's pretty hot.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd say it's 10,000 degrees.

[Brian Bates]

It's a. It's like, it's like they wrote this answer for Dusty to be skeptical of it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The sun's temperature is determined through a combination of theoretical models and observational data.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, well everyone should be skeptical of that.

[Brian Bates]

It's spec spectroscopy.

[Nate Bargatze]

They get it, they get into it after that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. They analyze the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun and then they can determine its effective temperature.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but, but that's. I mean that's something that you're not on board with to begin with. You're not going to get on board after you keep reading.

[Brian Bates]

You're stopping at theoretical. And you go, all right, nobody knows what this.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're stopping at the idea of that there even is a sun's temperature. So.

[Dusty Slay]

But theoretical should have us all going. All right, so you don't know then.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, yeah, I know what you mean.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean everybody should go. All right, well you got, you maybe you got an idea, but you don't know.

[Brian Bates]

You've got a theory.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What is the temperature of the sun?

[Brian Bates]

The temperature of the sun is the sun's surface typically measures around 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, not that bad.

[Brian Bates]

The core of the sun is going to be about 15 million degrees Celsius, which is 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. So that's a pretty big difference. Yeah, it gets pretty hot, 10,000 to 27.

[Dusty Slay]

Imagine the thermometer that it would take to get in here and measure that. You know how many paper folds? Yeah. I mean, that thermometer is heavy duty. I want some stuff built onto that thermometer there.

[Aaron Weber]

You can tell the temperature outside by counting the cricket's chirps. Count the number of chirps in 14 seconds and then add 40 to get the temperature.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow. Crickets.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think I've heard that that's how they.

[Dusty Slay]

That's how they tell what the sun's core is. They take some crickets up there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

See that. That, to me, I mean, that's a way less useful fact than folding paper to the moon. That's the kind of stuff for, like, what's the point of that? Well, imagine there's some crickets. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But you're outside. You have no. You have no electricity. All goes away, and you go, man.

[Brian Bates]

I'd love to know the exact temperature in Fahrenheit right now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then you just listen to a cricket before phones.

[Aaron Weber]

If you're out working, you're like, just count.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it too hot to be out here?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And then the cricket goes.

[Brian Bates]

It's ridiculous. What a waste of time.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What a waste of time.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's actually us. You actually solve it. So that's actually a solution. You get to the end of a solution. Yours is just like. You say it, and you go, what do you want to do now? And you go.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, that's. At least.

[Brian Bates]

That's fair.

[Nate Bargatze]

At least a guy goes, well, I've learned something. I've learned something. You have something. You're, you know, and then you're sitting, you know, eating grapes, going, oh, what if we folded all the bowls in the world and they reach to the. You know, Amber's like, you just come in. Nothing gets done. Do you want to go? He's like, we got a hold to dig. You go, well. Well, how deep stole we folded all the core of the earth is a memory.

[Brian Bates]

If the hole got twice as deep every day.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

How long before we get to the moon?

[Nate Bargatze]

How far do we get to the other side? Yeah, well, it's not going to get like that if you keep just bringing up these hypothetical. All right.

[Aaron Weber]

It takes a snowflake 45 minutes to an hour and hit the ground.

[Nate Bargatze]

Depends on where it starts from.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Depends on where the ground is.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Lightning strikes their power state.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm gonna be that 15 minutes off. Some, I guess, just come. Yeah. Some just go high.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe it has some aerodynamic differences or hits the.

[Brian Bates]

Hits a mountain.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Lightning strikes Empire state building around 25 times a year.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Does it hurt people? No, no, the building just. Just absorbs it.

[Dusty Slay]

It's got a rod up there, right? I wonder if they harness it. You think they can harness that electricity?

[Brian Bates]

Did the rod shoot it back and dim the sun?

[Aaron Weber]

You guys know the hottest and coldest place on Earth?

[Brian Bates]

Death Valley. Is it the hottest place, Dusty?

[Dusty Slay]

Hottest place is this counting the heat.

[Nate Bargatze]

Index, I think it's Death Valley, too, weirdly, because I think, for some reason, I think it's Death Valley. And then, I mean, the coldest is.

[Dusty Slay]

It's gotta be animals.

[Brian Bates]

Is it two different places? Places.

[Aaron Weber]

It is two different places.

[Dusty Slay]

Coldest place got to be Antarctica.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Guys are correct.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Antarctica's coldest. Death Valley is the hottest. It got up to 130 degrees there at one time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's crazy because Death Valley is here.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. That's what you would never think.

[Brian Bates]

Somewhere in the U.S. it's 110 degrees right there now. Zero. Yeah. 6% humidity. It's a dry.

[Dusty Slay]

Maybe some other countries lie about their temperature.

[Aaron Weber]

The hottest country in the world is Burkina Faso.

[Nate Bargatze]

I figured that.

[Dusty Slay]

Or maybe other countries are also telling their countries, their people, that they have the hottest place.

[Brian Bates]

All right. Is that really something to brag about, though? Do you think so? I mean, that being said, we were pretty proud of it, that it was the United States, that we had it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was excited.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Okay, so what's the country that's the hottest?

[Aaron Weber]

Burkina Faso.

[Brian Bates]

I've heard of it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's located in West Africa.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay, that makes sense.

[Brian Bates]

Well, we gotta give them something.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. It's hot. It's hot there.

[Brian Bates]

It's a wet heat.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a wet heat.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it a wet heat, you think?

[Aaron Weber]

I have no idea.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a wet heat everywhere right now. You have a Netflix account.

[Aaron Weber]

If you're in Burkina Faso, watch Dusty Special.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, please do. I think you're gonna enjoy it. I mean, it's, you know, universal appeal. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then Thursday, go watch Leanne Morgan's new show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Show. Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah. That's fun, man. Big week for Next.

[Nate Bargatze]

Big week for Netflix. Big week for Nateland. I mean, you know, the Nateland Universe. The Na Land universe. We got. There's a. Yeah, we got some.

[Dusty Slay]

Actually, I watched Happy Gilmore, too, and now I'm blanking on his name. But the guy that was on the podcast is in the movie. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. Yeah. Where are you gonna? I'm in Madison, Wisconsin, this weekend, so. Oh, awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

This Friday, Saturday. This is Brian Bates speaking. I am in Goshen, Indiana, at the Funny Farm Comedy Club. Driving, it's just easier to drive.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it is.

[Aaron Weber]

It is. The last two weeks that's been true. Hattiesburg, Stroop flew into New Orleans and caught a ride with somebody. And Andrew flew into Jackson and rented a car and I drove it.

[Brian Bates]

So.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's no easy way. But there's no easy way to get to Goshen either.

[Brian Bates]

You have to fly to South Bend or something. Yeah, it's easier to drive.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But even South Bend was like, layovers and. Yeah, there's nothing easy.

[Brian Bates]

Easier to drive.

[Aaron Weber]

Aug. 17, Levity live in Huntsville, Alabama. I hear they've lowered the price on the food there.

[Dusty Slay]

And drinks.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, and drinks. Okay. And August 31st, Zany's in Chicago.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

Come out for that. That six o' clock show. You'll be home before dark.

[Brian Bates]

Love it.

[Aaron Weber]

At 16 and up. I asked for 13 and up, and they're like, we can't do that, but we'll do.

[Dusty Slay]

And they were like, it sounds weird. They even asked that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I asked that for all my shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I'm like 16 and down. Well, you can't.

[Aaron Weber]

Greg Warren encouraged me to do that because he does a kid show.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And yes, I'm always pushing.

[Dusty Slay]

It's great.

[Brian Bates]

Just people, families coming out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So for some reason, and they said, we're usually 21 and up, but we'll do 16. I don't know what between 13 to 16 matters. But anyway, if you look close to 16, come.

[Brian Bates]

If you.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Because you have no ID.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. If you park a car.

[Dusty Slay]

16, you have a driver's house.

[Brian Bates]

If you can park a car in the parking lot, you can come on in.

[Aaron Weber]

Or if you look like you could park a car.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's just say they're gonna let you in.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm gonna ask that you be let in.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

August 22nd, 23rd, I'm in Lowell, Ark. This Aaron Weber. I'm in Lowell, Arkansas, at the Grove Comedy Club Club, throwing out the first pitch at the minor league baseball game there that Saturday.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I'M gonna. It's just a little warm up for the real. The real deal.

[Dusty Slay]

Do a golf ball.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I might.

[Brian Bates]

I might talk to him, see if I can.

[Aaron Weber]

Who's the team?

[Brian Bates]

It's the Northwest Arkansas. They're the Travelers.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's a good name.

[Brian Bates]

It's a minor league. Yeah, it's a good one. So come check me out in Lowell, Arkansas.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay. All right, well, a couple of things. Wet heats on Netflix right now, so go watch that. And then August, August 6th, I'm at the Comedy Store in LA. And then I think it's August 6th. It says August 6th on my calendar, but part of me wants to say it's August 5th, but go to my website, dustyslay.com I'll be at the Comedy Store. It's gonna be great. And then, let's see. Messed up my calendar here. August 8th, I'm in Huntsville, Alabama. August 9th, I'm in Atlanta. So I got three dates there for you. August 6th, La. August 8th, Huntsville. August 9th, Atlanta. It's going to be great. August 5th is what it is. See, on my calendar, six. So it is August 5th.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you for pulling that up.

[Brian Bates]

All right, big things happening.

[Nate Bargatze]

Big things happening. All right. We love you. Have a great week. See you.

[Brian Bates]

Sam.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Not all meals are created equal. For instance, breakfast has the spicy egg McMuffin for a limited time, and lunch does it. McDonald's breakfast.