266: #266 The Generations ft. Ryan Hamilton

Summary

The Nateland Podcast #266: "The Generations" ft. Ryan Hamilton

Date: August 20, 2025
Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Guest: Ryan Hamilton

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Episode Overview

This episode is all about generational divides, nostalgia, and how our experiences shape who we are. The crew welcomes comedian Ryan Hamilton as they discuss the origins and stereotypes of different American generations, reminisce about their childhoods in the context of rapidly changing technology, share road stories, and debate the best (and worst) ways to leave your mark as a comic. The conversation is equal parts insightful and hilarious, packed with personal anecdotes, spirited teasing, and a deep dive into what it means to be a part of a "generation".

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Ryan Hamilton Joins: Comedy, Specials, and Suits

• Ryan is taping his first Netflix special at the Neptune Theater in Seattle on October 4th – a milestone for both him and the Nateland crew.
• The group discusses the growing size and professionalism of modern comedy shows, which has led Nate and Ryan to start wearing suits on stage.
• The pros and cons of wearing a suit: confidence, professionalism, performance impact, and a comedic anecdote about Jerry Seinfeld calling club comic attire “raking leaves jackets.”
  • Ryan quoting Seinfeld on Nate’s fans:
    • “Nate’s shows are amazing, these guys out there – they’re all wearing their raking leaves jackets.” (16:10)

2. On The Road: Stories from Gigs and Travel Dangers

• Brian shares the saga of his adopted dog Philly, training mishaps, and plans to have her as a road dog. The group jokes about dogs (and comics) all probably having "worms" from being on the road.
• The hosts each recount recent gigs, from Brian’s first pitches at baseball games in Jacksonville to corporate shows in Salina, Kansas (Brian’s “Salina’s favorite comic”), Dusty’s adventures in Cracker Barrel and Boot Barn corporate gigs, and rough travel memories—including sketchy hotels and the club comedian condo horror stories.

3. Comedy Club “Wall of Fame”: Who Gets to Sign It?

• The group debates the value and protocol of signing club walls—who is worthy, whether open mic’ers should count, and whether every club should have templates or criteria.
  • “Maybe you should have to headline… some people write their whole… they’ll cover up the whole…” (30:31)

4. Generational Definitions and Stereotypes

a. Naming the Generations (63:05+)

• Tom Brokaw’s book "The Greatest Generation" is credited for coining the term.
• The hosts riff on how generations get named ("Lost," "Greatest," "Silent," etc.), noting the arbitrariness:
  • Ryan: “And who–where does Tom Brokaw get off?” (63:32)
  • Dusty: "If you know who Tom Brokaw is, it's a real room divider. Because nobody knows, or you really know." (64:00)
• The progression discussed is:
  • Lost Generation (WWI)
  • Greatest Generation (WWII)
  • Silent Generation
  • Baby Boomers
  • Generation X
  • Millennials
  • Generation Z
  • Generation Alpha
  • Generation Beta (2025+)

b. What Makes a Generation?

• Much of it is hindsight: generations are labeled later by pop culture, books, or demographers; there's no formal body that decides.
• Early generations weren’t aware of being one:
  • Ryan: "I don't remember being called Generation X until we were like grown... Now we're labeling them before they're even born." (103:08)

c. Experience of Change Across Generations

• Discussion about which generation saw the most change:
  • Technological leaps: from horses to planes, black-and-white to color TV, to handheld devices.
  • The acceleration since the 2000s: "It feels like yesterday I bought a flip phone…" (96:58)
  • The 'Lucky Ones': born on the analog-digital cusp — "Oregon Trail Generation" or "Xennials."
    • Nate: "We got to experience the old school way and the new school way… real memories in both." (87:16)
    • Aaron: "They're benefiting from the technology now but weren't corrupted by it." (87:29)

5. Generational Nostalgia

• Gen Z is more nostalgic for the 80s (think: "Stranger Things") but the crew thinks the 90s are truly the “peak America” (96:23).
• Lack of distinct culture for the 2000s (“the aughts”) due to rapid change and the invasion of the internet.

6. Comments and Listener Interaction

• Shoutouts to fans, teachers using “Hello folks” and “Hey bear” as classroom routines, musicians-turned-teachers (“Mr. Holland’s Opus”), and a math teacher comparing the iterative process of lesson-planning to developing comedy sets.
• Aaron receives praise for introducing a listener to the "yard ball".

7. Food Allergies in Generation Alpha (and Zalphas)

• The rise in allergies—possibly due to over-cleanliness or food quality—and Amish children as an outlier (only 7% with allergies compared to 36% average).
  • Dusty: "That doesn't sound very Alpha at all. Yeah, we're allergic to everything." (99:17)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments with Timestamps

• Ryan (on generational naming):
  “Tom Brokaw wrote a book called the Greatest Generation… and it stuck. That’s where it came from.” (63:29)
• Nate (on performing in a suit):
  “These shows are getting so big. I’m trying to meet them with the professionalism that I think they meet me… it just doesn’t feel right” (15:05)
• Ryan (on club wall signatures):
  “I was just at Chattanooga and they said, sign the wall. But we only let people who sell out a show sign.” (31:04)
• Aaron (nostalgia):
  "Why do you think the 2000s doesn’t have as distinctive a thing as the 90s?" (96:39)
• Dusty (on allergies):
  “Now there’s too much glyphosate in the soils… It ain’t these kids’ fault.” (100:13)
• The Group (teasing Dusty about being on a club mural):
  “That’s four comics and one other guy… I don’t know who that other guy is.” (59:27)
• Ryan (reflecting on generational unity):
  “I specifically know, spending time with my grandparents, it felt like they were kind of all united… a similar mindset, which I don’t know if that’s existed like that ever since.” (105:01)
• Aaron (on generational titles):
  “You think the world ended in 2012 — we’re just kind of hanging around…” (97:31)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [01:01] – Ryan Hamilton’s welcome; Netflix special announcement
• [10:08] – Brian’s Jacksonville and Universal Studios stories
• [14:46] – New suits and stage attire discussion
• [19:36] – “Raking leaves jackets” and club comic fashion
• [25:38] – Brian’s Salina, Kansas gig disaster and traveling for corporates
• [30:45] – Comedy club wall signing debate
• [46:03] – Listener comments and teacher shoutouts
• [63:05] – Start of main generations discussion
• [87:16] – “The Lucky Ones” / Oregon Trail generation
• [92:57] – Gen Z’s media consumption and nostalgia
• [98:43] – Generation Alpha and allergies
• [105:01] – Reflection on the Greatest Generation’s unity

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Recurring Bits & In-Jokes

• Dusty’s “allergic to everything” riff on kids today
• Light-hearted jabs at each other’s age and club success (“I never played Acme!”)
• Old club horror stories (bad condos, wet sheets, “get my stash” encounters)
• Ongoing banter about food, allergies, and American cities fallen on hard times

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Final Thoughts

The hosts and Ryan agree that labels, nostalgia, and perceived differences between generations often tell us as much about the culture doing the labeling as it does the people being labeled. Technology has accelerated change to a dizzying pace, but some things—like commemorating a gig with your signature or commiserating about bad travel—never change.

The episode wraps with a look forward: Netflix specials, upcoming gigs, and the eternally debatable question of which generation is truly the “greatest.” The hosts have fun, stay reflective, and keep it light—true to Nateland tradition.

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For more:

• Ryan Hamilton’s Netflix special tapes Oct 4 at The Neptune, Seattle
• All hosts’ show dates announced at the episode’s close

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Transcript

[A]

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[B]

Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. I am Nate Bargetsy, sitting here with Brian Bates. Hello, Aaron Weber. What's up? Dusty Slay.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

And sitting in with us is our lovely friend, Ryan Hamilton.

[D]

Thanks, Nate.

[B]

Welcome back. Thanks, buddy.

[C]

It's a whole council here. We look like we're gonna make decisions.

[B]

This is it.

[D]

Very serious.

[B]

We're the judges of the next comedy. They come up the opposite of Kill Tony. Yeah, we just go. Yeah, yeah. Now you. Come on. You can still do it.

[D]

That's good.

[B]

Yeah. No, that was great. That was great.

[A]

It's called Help Nate.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Cpr.

[B]

Well, just want to remind you guys, Native presents showcase season three is here. Tuning in the Nateland. Nateland YouTube channel for the premiere of Nathan McIntosh.

[A]

So funny. Very funny, dude.

[B]

Showcase premieres this Friday night. Also, we are taping Ryan Hamilton's Netflix special, two shows Oct. 4 at the Neptune Theater in Seattle. Great theater.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

It's a very cool spot.

[D]

Yeah, we chose it for that reason. It's a nice one.

[B]

A few tickets left for the 7pm and tickets still available for the second show at 9:30, so make sure you go do that. It's a big one. It's a big one for us.

[A]

First, Netflix.

[B]

This is Nateland's first Netflix, so this is a big.

[D]

Well, I'm honored.

[B]

You better not bring this whole thing down, Ryan. Oh, boy. It better be good now. We're very, very pumped. I can't wait, buddy.

[D]

I'm honored. Thank you.

[B]

All right, well, we've been. I don't know what I was doing. We got Philly back today.

[E]

Where'd she be?

[B]

Dog. Adopted a dog.

[D]

I saw that on Instagram.

[B]

Named it Philly.

[E]

Yeah, that's her water.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Great.

[E]

We may have washed that.

[B]

I think we washed it. Drink out of it last week, but we washed it.

[E]

Maybe.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I'll take my chances.

[C]

That's the guest cup. The guests always drink out of that. Oh, we don't know if it gets washed in between.

[D]

Oh, I see. I see. I see. Well, yeah, we didn't. Now people are going to be watching if I. If I actually take a drink.

[C]

And then for weeks after, I guess.

[D]

We'Ll see how thirsty I get.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Better keep it. Your voice starts going, you. You need to drink again. I think I'm fine.

[D]

I'm okay.

[B]

I think it's the humidity.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

So, yeah, we got. Got. Just got her back. I let her go and see if she came back, see if she really wanted it.

[D]

Did you.

[B]

No, no. That would be. Could you do that with a dog? You just go. You open the door and go, do you really. Do you really love me?

[C]

That's how I.

[B]

We took her to get her trained. She's got worms. So it's fun. Oh, yeah.

[E]

Take a drink, right?

[B]

Yeah, yeah. But no, she's, uh. Yeah, she got trained. Uh, and so we got her back and, uh, she was excited to come back and. Yeah.

[D]

Wow, that's exciting.

[C]

That's all pet Philly there, huh?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Now, I heard you say something like, you would. You kind of wanted a road dog. Is that the idea? So you're gonna.

[B]

The idea of it is to kind of have a dog to kind of come out with me on the road.

[D]

That's.

[B]

It's gonna be. My daughter is very excited, too, so it's. It's gonna be some balance with that.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, Philly wants to. Gonna. She wants to. She's always wanted a dog to sleep with. With her in her bed.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And our other dog just doesn't want to go up there.

[D]

Right.

[B]

And this one seems to like it, so.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

So we're gonna see.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Either Philly or Holly. Some dog I will occasionally be bringing on the road.

[D]

That's nice.

[B]

I'm gonna let Philly get a little bit. She needs to. She's been on such a whirlwind because she, you know, she was in Philadelphia and then traveled with me. Then she just went to training, and then. So this week, I. She's not going to come. And then next week, I think we're doing a little more training because with. She had the worms, it was like. That was the reason her. She was kind of, like, chilled out. It's very. I was like. We were like, man, this dog's pretty chilled out. He goes, yeah, it's got worms. Yeah. Oh, that's okay.

[C]

A real road dog should have a few worms, though.

[B]

Yeah. I think a lot of them do on the road.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

I think everybody's got worms.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. We probably all do. Parasites. They say we all have parasites of some sort. Yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

But, you know, that's.

[A]

They say the most common cell in your body is foreign. It's not your own cells. The most common type of cell in your body is bacteria and other stuff.

[B]

Who's they?

[E]

Dusty.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Aaron doesn't listen.

[B]

See, it goes other ways, too. Aaron.

[C]

If I told Aaron that, he would say, that's not true.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So I like that you brought that to. I'd like that you brought that in today.

[A]

I'm trying to think if I would believe you.

[C]

I believe you, but I like that you brought that in.

[E]

I don't think I believe you.

[A]

More common than red blood cells, white blood cells.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I don't.

[B]

That doesn't make sense. Other people's cells.

[A]

Not other people's, but, like, bacteria and stuff like that.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

There's a lot of red blood cells. Yeah.

[C]

Bacteria has a lot of cells in it. So you're really multiplying it.

[A]

One bacteria. Hold on, I gotta find this. This is saying something different. I gotta find it. I played a trivia game this weekend. That was one of them.

[D]

Every time I come on this podcast, we get deep into science.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

We really go.

[B]

That's what we do. Try to step it up when you come here. Right.

[A]

I like to try to show off a little bit.

[B]

We just heard as Aaron looked this up. He just goes, hold on. It's not giving me the answer. Let me fix that.

[E]

Keep trying.

[B]

I'll fix it. Hold on, hold on.

[A]

Somebody lied to me this week.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Look at that. What's that?

[A]

Sorry. I like Dusty.

[D]

He's like, I still believe you.

[A]

I believe you more now.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the best. Dusty. Yeah. All his. He's like, yeah. Then my dancers never show up. Yeah, they don't.

[E]

They don't want him to tell you the truth.

[C]

They don't.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

They don't want you to know.

[B]

You might want to go try Duck. Duck Go. If you want to see the real. Maybe type it in there.

[C]

I think Duck Duck goes compromised now, too.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Once they start advertising it. Like I was seeing it in LaGuardia, they were like, oh, get on Duck. Duck. You've lost it.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah. But I guess they. Because, I mean, they. They have to probably because they're not making any money.

[C]

I don't know how that works.

[B]

Yeah. Because of your Google. You make. How does Google make their money?

[D]

Ads. Ads. A lot of it, I think.

[E]

How else would it be?

[D]

But DuckDuckGo doesn't have ads.

[C]

I guess they do.

[D]

It's just there's not a lot of people on DuckDuckGo.

[C]

I think there is quite a bit now because they think they're not being tracked.

[D]

Right.

[C]

But you.

[D]

Oh, maybe.

[C]

I mean, there's no escape, I would think.

[B]

If you're on Duck to Go, is it because you're. Don't get, like, cookies and stuff? Like, you can just accept everything? Because when you're done, it's done.

[C]

I think it's like if you use Google Maps, like, Google can go in. They can see everywhere you go. Everywhere. Like, they can see where you live, where you work, everywhere you go. When DuckDuckGo is supposed to not be tracking supposedly. Yeah.

[D]

But now you feel that Duck Duck Go is tracking.

[C]

I don't think there's anything not tracking.

[D]

You now that they're advertising.

[B]

Duck. Duck Go is talking to good.

[C]

I mean, we're not talking in middle of nowhere.

[B]

So Google goes up. Yeah, so Google goes up to Duck, Duck Go and goes, hey, where's Dusty? And you go, I can't. You know, I can't tell you where he's at. We know. And they go, we know where he's at. And you go, come on. And he's like, look, I'm not. I'm not gonna tell you. And then they go, we're gonna go this way. And he goes, I wouldn't go that way. I wouldn't. And that's what DuckDuckGo is now. He goes, I wouldn't head that way. The other way.

[C]

It's like the game.

[D]

Duck.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

We were on the Duck Duck for a little bit, but now we're on the go.

[C]

Yes, yes, exactly.

[B]

Okay. Exactly.

[D]

I knew it as Duck, Duck, Goose.

[C]

Yeah. Duck, Duck, Goose.

[B]

Yeah, Yeah, I did. I knew it as that, too. I don't know why we said that, but I knew it.

[C]

Goose is just go. That kept going.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

You know.

[B]

Right, right, right, right. Go.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Here's an article from the BBC. More than half your body is not human. Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists, which includes bacteria, viruses, fungi, and archaea.

[B]

All right?

[C]

And it's the BBC, so you know it's real.

[B]

Let's put that.

[D]

The BBC.

[B]

We can file that in the. I quit, Karen. The longer it took you to find the answer.

[A]

I just had to wrap it up. Had to put a button on it, you know, now we're ready to move on.

[B]

Yeah, but we don't even know if it's true.

[A]

I found what I was looking for, so.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

It's funny, you standing that way. I guess, if you have a lot of bacteria.

[C]

Yeah. James Gallagher, a presenter.

[B]

All right, so, yeah, I got Philly back. I was in.

[E]

You're on my side.

[C]

I am.

[B]

I am.

[D]

Florida.

[B]

Florida. I was in Florida. Yeah. Jacksonville. Great, great shows. Jacksonville's unblue. Orlando or somewhere else. Right.

[A]

You threw out the first pitch at the Jacksonville.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Game.

[A]

Jumbo shrimp.

[B]

Oh, Columbia, South Carolina. Very. Yeah. Columbia, South Carolina. Awesome. I did. It was cool because there's. So Jacksonville. Their whole setup is they got. The arena and the baseball stadium are next door to each other, and then across the parking lot is where the Jacks play. So it's all right there.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

And the. So they asked me to throw the first pitch out, and I was very intrigued because they go. The show was at. The show's at 7pm and the first pitch was 6:52. And then I'm like, well, I'd like to try that. Yeah. Like to see how that goes. So we ran over there and did it. And it was really, really close. And so we were. But how was your pitch? The pitch was good. I threw hard this time.

[A]

I like that you have the confidence to throw from the rubber now.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

It's like you're never going in front of the mound ever again.

[B]

No, I mean, this one, the guy was, like, making all the. He was fixing the mound. I would have. If it was like a, you know, a guy trying to make the mound. If I go stand on it, he's like, I gotta go do that again. I would go in front of it. But no, I went to. They were like, go to the mound. And then, uh, I. And that. But I committed to a hard throw. So I threw some heat, which was good, but it was a little. I still dragged it over to the left. I was throwing nice heat in the pitching, warming up.

[C]

And then.

[B]

You know what? I think it is the mound, because you just got to get used to. Oh, you're throwing down how high the mound is.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

And. But I, I. But I threw it hard. And then we went into this show. So, yeah, it was super fun. Shows are awesome, man. It's the best, dude.

[D]

That's amazing.

[B]

It's the best. Went to Universal and Disney this weekend. My family came down. That's what I was like, yeah, well, you're in Orlando. I go, they ain't coming to Reading PA next week. No offense. Ready? But. But there yeah, they came down. So we went to Universal and saw the new Epic. The Universal has a new theme park called Epic. Oh, pretty intense. And they're going on in there a lot of stuff. Mario World, how to train your dragon. It's a brand new part. They haven't had a new park in 26 years.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

And so it's. The Nintendo World was very cool and, like, a lot of fun rides.

[C]

And they have, like, a Mario Go Kart thing. You would think they would have that.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, they had a. They had a. The train that was. Yeah. I mean, a roller coaster that was Mario Kart.

[A]

That's cool.

[B]

And so it was. Yeah, it was a super awesome park. They had this one roller coaster called the Star Duster, and it's this. It was enormous, and it was intense. I haven't rode a roller coaster that intense in a while.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

And, yeah, like, when you got off, you're like. I mean, it's a lot.

[D]

What kind of stuff? Like, upside down or, like, really only one?

[B]

Upside down, but a lot of, like, up and down and just so fast.

[D]

So fast.

[B]

So fast.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

And so it was.

[C]

This is what I'd like to see at a Mario Kart. I'd like to see. You're going along, and then there's a banana pit on the track. You hit it, and then all the carts spin. Right.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And then later, this green shell that chases you, a red shell that chases you. Yeah, I think that would be fun.

[B]

Yeah. Maybe I wouldn't go there then, so.

[C]

But it would be. No, you know, it's built into the ride.

[B]

Yeah. Right. They actually had a roller coaster that does spin.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But it wasn't that one. But the one. The one that we did, it had, like, track is broke. And so it's crazy because the way the roller coaster is, is it's attached on the bottom, so you're really not. It looks like you're on this track that's completely broken in a bunch of different spots.

[A]

That's cool.

[B]

And I mean, it gets you every single time because you just turn a corner and the tracks broke, and then.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

I mean, so you just have, like, a moment of, like. And then you just go over it. And so it was done. Yeah. It's unbelievable. They had power blocks that you could go run around and jump up and hit. Oh, that's fine. Yeah. Really cool part.

[D]

Wow. Making a roller coaster seem like it's broken. That's the scariest thing you could do.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, yeah. And it would get you It'd get you. Cuz you just be. You think you about to go over it, so.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Hey, you're wearing a suit there. Is this new?

[B]

This is new.

[D]

I noticed that online and I thought, this is new. Yeah.

[A]

How did it feel, Nate? How did it feel?

[B]

I think it felt great.

[D]

It looks good.

[B]

I mean, you always worry about, like your material and stuff and like, you know, you don't want to be too good or too whatever. Yeah, as a comic cinemas, you do worry about the suit.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

But these shows are getting so big. It just doesn't feel right, to be honest. Like, it's like it's, you know, these people are coming out, they're very, very excited. I'm trying to meet them with the professionalism that I think they meet me and so, you know, I don't have a tie on or anything, but got.

[A]

A fun shirt underneath.

[B]

Got a fun shirt underneath it. It makes you feel good.

[C]

Is that the shirt you're wearing now?

[B]

It is. No, it's not. It's another one. But yeah, it looks like it. But it's. If I still had it on, I got to wear it all week.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. So I started wearing that more at shows and, you know, you still got some stuff that's maybe. But it's just a kind of an elevated look. Just, you know, I mean, the shows are just so big, man. They're so big that you're, you know, feel like it's the right thing to do. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it is nice. You're. You're a suit guy.

[D]

I wear a suit a lot. I'm trying to decide what to wear for the special. That's why I was kind of suit. You think suit?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I was thinking about doing casual. I've been talking with Seinfeld about this and he.

[B]

He wants you to do.

[D]

He doesn't. He's a. He's all about. Oh, sorry.

[A]

Chatting with Jer Bear over here.

[D]

No, because he's. We're always talking about what to wear and. And he said something very funny. He said, nate's shows are amazing. These guys out there and they're all wearing their raking leaves jackets. That's what he called it, the rake and leaves jacket. I said, I think I might wear.

[B]

A rake and leaves jacket.

[D]

He likes it.

[C]

I don't think he's ever raked leaves.

[D]

That's why he calls it a raking leaves jacket.

[B]

Yeah, he.

[D]

We were laughing about that, but I think. I don't know. In a stadium, it feels like you can do a Lot of looks. I feel like.

[B]

Yes. I think, I think with clubs and I think again, it's a buildup in the way you do. I mean, especially when he came up suits and that stuff was more popular.

[D]

Right.

[B]

And I think as stand up became, you know, it was conversational and all this stuff. So it's. And as these. I mean, if you look at the picture, it's such a big room and these things, these rooms, they're getting so, so big and.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, you see people dressed up and you. People go out. I know they, you, you just. I. I want to do everything to show them the. That I'm giving it my all.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Just because I know that they got babies. It's a whole, whole thing to go out. So. Yeah. That's when I. I started doing it. And really the past few weeks I've tried it sometimes. You know what helped was when I did that, the Christmas special, I wore tuxedo. You kind of want to. Because when you put on a suit, it's just not that much to think about.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

As you're putting everything else on.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, I have some other stuff that's. That's a jacket and looks. It's not all just a suit. There's some other things that are different looks.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

But it's. When you put on a suit, man, you just like, you put a jacket, pants on and you use that shirt and those shoes and then you're. You're not thinking about anything. It's amazing.

[D]

Yeah. Now, do you feel it changes your performance a bit when you're in a suit?

[B]

I. I don't know. I think my performance is just changing with just where it's at.

[D]

Right.

[B]

So I think I do feel more. You can feel a little bit more confident. And I'm dressing to the occasion that we're at.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

If I go up at Zany's here, like, I'm not necessarily going to wear a suit or for a club weekend. You're not gonna. Yeah, I'm not gonna do it. But for that. Where that is and how we're in the round and I'm moving a lot, lot more now. Oh, I really played to the cameras. Yeah. So it's, you know, like I know where they're at and I'm hidden them and, you know, facial express. So it's a. It's a. It's very fun. It's a performance.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. You get to use all the tools. Yes. That you want to use as a comedian at the beginning when you could do facial expressions because everybody's so up close. And now with screen and how big it's gotten, I can go back to using those tools. And I'm more comfortable using them than I was when I first started.

[D]

Right.

[B]

Cause, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's great.

[D]

It looks good.

[B]

It's great.

[E]

What about you? Do you. When you do spots around New York, do you feel different than.

[D]

Yeah, sometimes I feel different when I put a suit on on stage. You know, I don't do it that often anymore. I mean, when I'm doing a theater show, sometimes I'll wear a full suit or like a casual jeans with a suit jacket or something. But when I'm on the road with Seinfeld, we wear suits and I feel leaf raking jackets. Are you offended?

[A]

I don't even really know what he means.

[C]

I've never heard that term. I just think that's so funny.

[D]

I thought it was so funny because.

[B]

I wear a leaf rake.

[D]

I wear a leaf raking jacket. It's like we're always looking for, like.

[C]

Raking a lot of leaves.

[D]

Well, not these days.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

I had leave breaking days in my life. I just feel like it's really hard for comedians to dress because you got a suit or then like, you kind of need some jacket.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

You know, it's like if you're just in a T shirt and it's hard to find that jacket and you want something that looks good but is not distracting.

[B]

Well, your Persona is kind of built into that.

[D]

Right?

[B]

Not distracting is a big one.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So sometimes the suit is the least distracting thing that you can wear because everybody can, like, see it. And then they go, all right, he's wearing a suit. And then they move on.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Where if you have letters on it or if you have like, like logos or a lot of stuff crazy on it, I'll get a lot of like, like the Orlando Magic gave me an awesome Orlando Magic jacket. And I used to wear. I would wear it, try to wear something like that. But it was like, it's very busy. And so you're like, it's fun to walk out there at the beginning with it.

[D]

Right.

[B]

But if someone's trying to watch an hour, you don't. I don't. I don't need you to focus it on the jacket or being so busy or you. I'm trying to make you, like, leave. You know, in a sense, reality. Not reality, but I'm trying to get you on a. A ride.

[A]

But if I'm doing eight minutes, I.

[B]

Can wear it, right? Yeah, of course. I mean, yeah, they're in the bathroom anyway, so. Yeah, it doesn't matter. You should dress like them that are in the bathroom. It's. You can wear your raking leaves jacket. I get the raking leaves. He's talking about, like, you know, magazines like, you, they show people, but it.

[A]

Is like a rich guy trying to describe, like, I like that you're also.

[C]

Like, you know, in magazines when people are wrecking leaves.

[B]

I think it was just making a joke. It sounds like you are taking it crazy serious.

[A]

No, it's just funny to now.

[C]

It's. It's a term that I don't think anyone's ever used, and I think that's funny.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay. All right.

[B]

Yeah, as long as you think it's funny, it's okay.

[C]

Funny. But he's. Yeah, he's like, oh, yeah, Nate's guys, he's. They're just wearing leaf.

[B]

Specifically.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, I'm making a joke, too.

[D]

He said he's talking about.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Are we.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[E]

Every time. Every time I'm around Ryan, I start picking his brain about Seinfeld.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

And don't act like you don't know that, because.

[D]

Yeah, that's true. Oh, yeah. We went to lunch. That's all we.

[E]

We went to lunch a couple months ago. Yeah, sorry, I forgot my wallet.

[B]

But.

[E]

He said, I had breakfast yesterday morning with Seinfeld. That's all I want to talk about was the rest of the time.

[D]

I like talking about it, too, because he's always, you know, it's just like talking about comedy.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Because every conversation is about comedy. So it's. Think it's fun to talk to comedians about it.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I Always having conversations with them going, I want to tell my friends about what we're talking about. So it's, like, nice to talk about it.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, I agree.

[D]

Yeah. Dusty doesn't agree.

[C]

No, I do agree.

[B]

Hung up on the.

[C]

No, I think it's funny. Guys, guys, I'm making a joke here. I'm not friends with Seinfeld, so I get to. Seinfeld's still a celebrity to me, so I get to make fun of him. You guys are like, oh, this is my friend.

[B]

I would make fun of him, too. No, I agree with him. I'd make them do. I just didn't. I thought it was, like, taken. Like, I think Simon's just making a joke. I don't see, like, a comedian making.

[C]

A joke is gonna call me and go, oh, I heard you talking about my leaf.

[E]

Well, you don't even wear a jacket on stage.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

So you're a step below leaf rack.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You wear a shirt, though. You wear a button down sometimes.

[C]

That's basically kind of going the other way to dress down. Yeah. I'm almost doing what Bert Kreischer does.

[D]

You're so close. Really?

[E]

It's coming halfway up.

[A]

Christ.

[C]

Yeah, I start just. Just a jacket, no shirt underneath. Oh, I may bring a rake out with me. I may rake leaves on stage.

[B]

Well, you do like collecting leaves.

[C]

Yeah, that is true. Never wear a jacket when I do.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[C]

I wreck leaves.

[B]

What if it's cold?

[C]

You get hot raking.

[D]

That's true.

[A]

Raking's hard work.

[D]

That's true.

[C]

You may start with a jacket, but it comes off.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

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[A]

Chamomile. Okay, how do you say it?

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[A]

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[C]

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[E]

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[E]

Yeah, I was in. I had a corporate in Salina, Kansas and salon is a small town but my very first out of town corporate.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

In 2008 was in Salina, Kansas and I didn't even know.

[B]

Now your second was too. Well yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, his first was 2008 and his second was now also in sling. He hasn't had one for almost 20 years. I mean golly. Well, it's not right. It's not leaf jacket funny but it's decent.

[E]

I must I treat you like a celebrity. I'm a fan of yours still, so.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[E]

But I didn't even know what to ask money wise in 2008. And I think I priced myself so low that word got around the town. And this was a Christmas party. I got booked for four Christmas parties in two days in Solana, Kansas in 2008. None of them went well. They were all terrible. There was one that was so bad that the lady, she's like I want to surprise our staff. Middle of the day lunch. And on the way there she said we got another party coming up in spring. Let me get your number, we head back. You know, I'd like you for that one too. It was so bad that we just sat in silence the whole time.

[D]

Really.

[E]

On the way back.

[B]

Oh, in the car driving back.

[E]

Yeah, she picked me up.

[C]

And how long was the drive?

[D]

It's a good question.

[E]

I don't know, 30 minutes.

[C]

Was it a 10 minute ride or two hours? I mean. Yeah, it's like.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[E]

It was just for blue collar. It was just a bunch of gals.

[C]

Did you put headphones in?

[B]

I don't know.

[E]

Anyway, this time Bo's headphones.

[B]

2008, he's just going over a set.

[D]

List again in the car he goes.

[B]

I got my calendar open if you're good and tell me that spring date.

[E]

I never heard from her again. But this time it went much better. No one seemed to remember me. It went great. It was fun. Stayed in Witchita. I think it's the first time ever been to witch.

[B]

You did for the same People?

[E]

No, but it's such a small town. Like, I really thought somebody might.

[C]

That's your spot, Sal.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Five corporate things you've done in Salina.

[B]

They were overwhelmed when you walked in. You're like, tommy, you know, the whole. T Dog, T Dog, what's up, up? Remember me? And they're like, I don't know. I bet you do.

[E]

2008.

[B]

2008. Comfortable night.

[C]

In 2008, you did four gigs, and then now you did one this year.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

So you've done five gigs in Salina?

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

That's a lot in Salina. You've done all the gigs in Salina?

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

I'm known as Salina's favorite comic.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

But anyway, it was fun. I stayed in Witchita, and there was the arena across from a hotel. And I'm like, I wonder who plays there. And I look out the window and it just says, Nate Bargazzi, Big Dumb Eyes tour. It was almost like Seinfeld with Kenny Rogers roasters.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

I just see blue and yellow lights coming through my window. It's just your big eyes.

[B]

Yeah. But.

[E]

Yeah. And then last night, I was in Huntsville at Levity Live. First time I'd been there since. It's Levity. I used to be stand up live. Levity Live. A lot of folks came out, had a great time. Thank you for everyone who came.

[B]

There we go.

[C]

How was the club? How was it different than when it was stand up Live?

[E]

Just the backdrop is.

[C]

But still the same green room.

[B]

Same and everything.

[C]

Drinks are cheap.

[E]

They've redecorated the green room a little bit, but it's the same green room.

[C]

They get rid of all the signatures on the wall.

[E]

No, they're still there.

[C]

Okay.

[E]

Yeah, it's just covered.

[D]

Your name's still on the wall.

[E]

Well, I saw your name on there.

[C]

I feel like that, you know, a lot of clubs, they. They limit who can do it. And I feel like with that one, they let it just go to anyone who ever even walked in the room.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And it got pretty out of hand.

[D]

Yeah. That's interesting.

[E]

You don't like that I'm up there, do you?

[C]

No, no, it's not you. It's. But you see people that, like, they don't even do comedy anymore. They maybe did an open mic there.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

They've taken up a lot of space on the wall. And it's like, if you go to a place where it's like only the headliners can sign the wall, you read and you go, oh, that guy. That's you Know, I like them. I like them. But when it's everybody it a bunch of mess.

[E]

Yeah, it is a mess.

[B]

It's. It's not as, you know, when you go, yeah, the Commie Magic Club, and they have this on the wall, and you're like, it's cool because you're like, oh, wow.

[C]

Yeah, you recognize.

[B]

You recognize the names. And then it makes you, like, feel like you've accomplished something where.

[D]

Yeah, that's true.

[B]

Yeah. If you go there and it's just.

[C]

You're like, you know anybody that, like, friends of the comic are on the wall?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You know.

[D]

Right, right. This guy was hanging out.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Maybe you should be like, you should headline. Should have to headline. I think so tonight or a whole weekend.

[C]

I guess you can for my sake. Yeah.

[B]

What do you want to say?

[C]

I guess you got to give them one night, but.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, you have. You have a. You do have a lot of one night. Guys come through, though.

[C]

I think they should give them a template and it's like a thing and it's go. If you do one night, you get. You can put it in this. And then if you headline, bigger template. Some people write their. Their whole. They'll cover up the whole.

[D]

I know.

[C]

And I'm like, come on, guys.

[D]

Yeah, come on.

[E]

I saw yours. It was pretty big.

[C]

I don't think so.

[E]

You put individual dates for every time.

[C]

Yeah. Each time I go back, I sold out.

[E]

Sold out.

[C]

I didn't do that.

[E]

Okay.

[C]

I don't think I did that.

[B]

All right.

[C]

I don't think I've ever seen what you're talking about.

[D]

I was just at Chattanooga and they said, sign the wall. And I said, okay, I'll sign the wall. But they said, we only let people who sell out a show sign the wall. So they actually have criteria there. I didn't know that.

[B]

There you go.

[D]

And I signed by, found your name, and I signed.

[C]

Okay. I have sold out in Chattanooga.

[D]

Yeah. Apparently you're on the wall there.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

And I said, the whole weekend or just one show? And they go, just one show. I go, okay, I guess. I guess I'm able to sign the wall.

[B]

You were close enough. We mind. I like that. If they let you. I've had it where you sign, but we've had it, like, where you're. I remember Chris Rock. I did open for him at D Pack in Durham.

[D]

Huh.

[B]

And they let all of us sign the wall with him.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I thought that was a little. Because I was an opener. And you're like, you know, they Want.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Just him to sign it. But I think they kind of were like, no, everybody can sign it.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And you're kind of. That's a little loosey goosey. You're like. You almost want to go. I think you should probably keep it to just. I mean, I signed it.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm not one to tell you, but.

[D]

Right.

[B]

You kind of want to go. Yeah.

[D]

The arenas are cool because they're, like, very individual and you get to see everybody.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Cool.

[C]

With clubs, I like putting the date each time because then when you go back, you can really track. You can go, oh, yeah, I was here. These times you don't have to re. Sign the wall.

[D]

Right.

[C]

But you write your date in there and you go, yeah, you can see when you were there.

[D]

I'm just thinking of this now. Acme in Minneapolis. Have you ever been there?

[C]

They have it for an open mic.

[D]

Oh, yeah. They have a grid system, so you get like. This is where you sign your name.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

And then every year, they have every week, so you can see who was at what week.

[B]

Yeah. That's awesome.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

You know what? I was the same way with acme. Weirdly, it's funny that you've only been there once for an open mic. I never went there until the very end when I was going to theaters and I requested Acme because I just never got to play it. I don't wonder, though. It's like. I don't know if it's like. If you're. It just like, it's weirdly if some people's schedule. Some people's.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

As they come up, it fits, like where they're in it all the time.

[D]

Right.

[B]

And then it's funny that you say that because I also was the same and that it wasn't any. It just for whatever reason, I think I might have done Mall of America, whatever. It's. You just end up not getting in whatever. And that was like such a famous club.

[D]

Right.

[B]

And so I remember right before I was going to theaters, I was like, well, I want to do that.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Club. And I remember they had that. Yeah. Seeing that. That thought that was awesome.

[D]

It's great.

[B]

You can go through. You see how long people have been headlining at that club. And it's very cool for us comedians.

[C]

I did an open mic, five minutes. It was great. I loved it. I would love to go there. But yeah, I mean, one other thing.

[E]

Lev Levity Live has now is a clock in the back of the room, which is great.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

So, you know Been up there?

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Count up. Count down or just count up? Yeah, yeah, I like to count up. Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

Then you know how long you went over?

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Where were you? Where were you at? You were in Chattanooga. Yeah.

[D]

And then Sunday, I did a pop up show here at the Lab, which was really fun. Yeah, that was great. We did 4:00pm on Sunday, which made me feel like I should do all my shows at 4. It was great.

[C]

That's what I've always said.

[B]

It's great.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

4Pm Only.

[D]

Really?

[C]

Not 4pm and then a later show, 4pm Only. I could do three. And then let's call it a day.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah, that's great.

[B]

We do three.

[D]

You do three o'. Clock.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

When you're doing three in a day, you do three.

[B]

Two in a day.

[D]

Two in a day.

[B]

Yeah, we can't. We've never done.

[D]

Never. You can't do three.

[B]

Can't do three arenas in a day.

[D]

Come on, Nate, you've tried.

[B]

Yeah, no, we. You do two, you do a three and a seven.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

And then if we have a third.

[E]

Turn the room around.

[B]

Yeah, we have a third. You just do the next day.

[D]

Right.

[B]

But yeah, if it's. You can only do three and a seven on Saturday and Sunday. So a lot of like. Yeah, a lot of times you have to just go like one Wednesday, one Thursday, and then you might go somewhere else.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

These past few days, we spent two nights in Orlando.

[D]

And rather than doing two shows in one day. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, I don't. We were just there Saturday and Sunday. Yeah. I don't. I mean, some might not just do it for whatever reason or.

[D]

Right.

[B]

It's a lot to do it. So if, you know, if they can't do it, they're just have it go those two days.

[A]

But.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, but 3pm shows are great and I think people love them because they, you know, it's like. I mean, it's 5:00pm yeah, you're. It's great. Go eat. Yeah.

[C]

Depending on the city, they can get out of there before it gets dark.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

There's no risk, right?

[D]

Yeah. I loved it.

[B]

Yeah, it's nice.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Aaron, where'd you go right now?

[D]

Right. Right now.

[A]

Not gonna lie to you guys. That was a close one.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I'm sorry I wasn't out of the way.

[A]

That's all right.

[C]

I didn't realize. I thought you would have.

[A]

You were dialed in, man.

[C]

Sorry.

[A]

You were dialed into the podcast.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Where were you this weekend?

[B]

You went in there and sang. What song do you Sing. That's a. If people at home, they're like, do you hear Horse with no name in the distance? In the distance.

[A]

I was at home this weekend with a grand old Opry shows there.

[D]

It was great.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Hitting the road again this weekend.

[B]

But I've been.

[A]

I've been taking it easy.

[C]

All right. I did a Cracker Barrel corporate gig down in Orlando. A lot of fun.

[B]

I was in Orlando.

[C]

Yeah, I did.

[D]

Oh, wow.

[B]

Yeah. What night were you there?

[C]

Thursday night.

[B]

Okay. I wasn't there to say.

[C]

Yeah, I did.

[D]

For like the corporate.

[C]

For the manager. Yeah.

[B]

More.

[C]

Yeah. All the big time. All I met. Yeah. I mean, I know everybody in Cracker Barrel.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. It's a big deal. And.

[D]

Okay. That's kind of nice. You can walk any Cracker Barrel and go. The manager knows me.

[C]

Yeah. I, you know, Boot Barn. I've done the Boot Barn one for the managers, too. So I feel like Barn and Cracker Barrel. I got, you know, I got the hookup.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

At least with saying hey to people. Right. Give me anything free, but I'll be.

[B]

Able to say, hey, any boo born. You walk in. Everybody's kind of like, hey, yeah, look who's here. I know.

[C]

That's what I'm saying. And then I did Madison, Wisconsin at the Overture Theater, which was very nice. Madison is such a great city.

[D]

It really.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I hung out after a little bit downtown. Really great. See Dustin Nickerson, I know he was doing the club. We text. But yeah, it didn't work out. And then I did Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Paps. Really great theater. It's a great theater, Milwaukee. I've had a. You know, I went. Went to an old. I went by an old club I used to do with the Comedy Zone called. It was called Jokers. It's closed now. Now it's a place called Silk.

[A]

Was it underneath?

[C]

Yeah, it was underneath.

[B]

And.

[C]

And then I went by the hotel that I used to stay at. And it's all so run down over there now. It was run down then, but it's so sketchy now that I'm like, I cannot believe that's where I was staying. And it was. I went to Milwaukee for the first time. I had not even been out of the south that much at that time. And I drove to Milwaukee. It was raining. I went to my hotel. There's a bunch of homeless looking people in the lobby. And then I kind of checked into my.

[E]

You're a homeless looking person.

[C]

Yeah, well, I wasn't back then. And I checked into my hotel Room which was. Looked like it had been broken into in the past. And I got in my sleeping bag and laid on the bed and wondered how I would stay there that night.

[D]

Wow.

[C]

And then went to the club, and it was not good. So it felt good to be at the paps. It felt good to be at a theater and go, look how far I've come in 10 years. Yeah, it felt very good.

[D]

And is that why you went there, to have that experience?

[C]

That is why.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

That is why I drove up there to those places. I had a little extra time, but it was pretty shocking to see. It was worse now than it used to be. But it was.

[B]

Gosh.

[C]

I was like, man, there's no way I would check in there now.

[D]

Wow.

[C]

Every car in the parking lot looked like it had been involved in a destruction derby race.

[B]

No headlights.

[C]

No headlights. The people getting out of their cars looked like they were just going in there for a few hours. It was a disaster. And I was like, this is great. Go downtown Milwaukee and, you know, get a little scared there, too. Downtown Milwaukee is so beautiful. But it looks like that not a lot has been going on in the last few years, which is too bad. It's a. They're beautiful buildings.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But just doesn't seem like a lot's happening.

[B]

See the fawn statue?

[C]

I did see the fawn statue. Yeah. And I really like it. But I was like, we could use an industry of some sort. You know, it feels like it used to be, like, they would probably do a lot of manufacturing. It's where Harley Davidson was started.

[D]

Oh. But I like Milwaukee. I always have good shows there.

[C]

I had a great show.

[D]

Like, it's kind of underrated.

[C]

Yeah, the show was great. The hotel I was in was like. I mean, it was so beautiful, but just seemed dated.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

You know?

[D]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

It's one of those where it's like.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Just bums me out a little bit because I'm like, it. It, like, seems like it could be doing better.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Do you know what I mean?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I feel like a lot of cities are like that now, where you go there and you see how Cleveland is like that for me in a way, where the cities are beautiful. I'm like, this is.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Some work really went into this.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You know?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Makes me sad sometimes.

[D]

All right, well.

[B]

Well, thanks for coming out in Milwaukee, but I had it.

[C]

Well, no, I had a great time and the shows were great, and I do appreciate the people coming out, But I'm just saying, I think that you know, even in. In your own hometown, wherever. Wherever you might be, you couldn't look around and go, there was a time when this was going better than it is.

[D]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[C]

So you know what I mean?

[D]

You're helping. You're helping.

[C]

No, I'm not trapped, but I'm just observing, you know.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

You're traveling.

[C]

I got threat. You know, a guy, like, basically threatened to kill me on the street.

[E]

Well, now we're just getting to the bottom. Just start with that.

[D]

Yeah, that's what this is about.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

What happened just. Just was crazy.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

You know?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I had one of the worst accommodations ever in Milwaukee, too. I went to the condo, and it was under a dance club. And you were sleeping, like, in a speaker.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

And I got in bed, and the sheets were all wet.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

They had not put. They had not dried the sheets.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh.

[D]

So.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

That's what I told myself. So I got. If I put the sheets in the dryer, I'm standing there, and then somebody I didn't know walked into the condo.

[C]

Oh, this must be the comedy Cafe.

[D]

When that was around that place. And he was digging up in the kitchen counters.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

And he goes. And I go, hello? He goes, yeah, I just got to get my stash. And then he grabbed whatever it was and left. And I was just standing there.

[E]

Were you there the same weekend?

[D]

Isn't that crazy?

[C]

No, I.

[D]

Crazy.

[C]

I actually did an open mic. Well, comedy condos are crazy.

[B]

Like.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a crazy one. And there was a. There was a door leaning against the wall that. It was just a door, and there was a new door. And I asked the guy what happened, and he goes, oh, somebody got angry at the comedian, and they kicked the door in last week, so we had to put a new door on.

[B]

Wow. So is the show downstairs?

[D]

No, it was like, they owned the club also. Yeah, they owned this, like, nightclub dance club, and so they just put the comedians at the top of this dance club. Yeah, it was bad. It was the. One of the worst in Milwaukee.

[E]

Not Milwaukee's best.

[D]

Yeah, those stories are. We all got one of those stories.

[C]

You know, I was walking down the street after being threatened to be killed, and Nateland listener Allison, and I think her husband Gio, came running out to greet me, and we took a picture on the street, and it was very nice. They were there for the show, and they're big fans of the podcast.

[D]

Nice.

[C]

So there was some positives, but that's. You know, but they were from Chicago I think so. They came in.

[A]

I'll tell you, that's a good ratio. One to one. People that want to kill you and people that are fans.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Did you do anything to prompt this guy?

[C]

No, actually. Well, Connor Larson was with me and he kept, like. The guy kept saying stuff like about mental health. And I kept walking and Connor kept being like, we can't understand you. You know, and the guy. I don't know why you're even doing that. And the guy goes, mental health. And I was like. Connor's like. And then he threatened to kill us.

[E]

Yeah, okay.

[B]

All right. Well, yeah, first comment from that guy. Dusty started it.

[C]

We love talking about our Helix mattresses. I have had my helix mattress almost 3 years now. Can you believe it? We all have a Helix mattress and we all love it. I got my sister one. She loves it, too. Being out on the road and getting to come back home and get back in my Helix mattress is the best feeling. It is the best feeling. I like the pillows. I like the mattress. It is a good mattress. You know, we do spend a lot of our time sleeping.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You want to feel good?

[E]

Third of our life.

[C]

Yeah, they say that. Is that true, you think?

[A]

If you're getting eight hours a night.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

So it's more for me, but yeah.

[C]

You sleep a lot.

[B]

Yeah. Too much.

[C]

Well, let me ask you this. Well, no, man, I'm not going to ask you. I'm going to tell you something. It improved how I sleep, this Helix mattress. Everyone knows I love their pillows. We talk about it all the time, but it really has helped me with my sleep. I'm getting better sleep. Aaron's getting better sleep, Brian's getting better sleep. Right?

[E]

Yes, absolutely.

[C]

It's great for hot sleepers, our people with back pain, snorers, people with sleep apnea. It's for everyone. Okay.

[A]

Or just regular people?

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone. I mean, I don't have any of those things. And I. I sleep great.

[E]

All four of those could apply to both of us.

[C]

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[B]

Nate start your comments. Sean Smith. I just want to say thank you to Nate and team for coming to what has been labeled as the most boring city in the country. Jacksonville has it.

[C]

I've never found Jacksonville.

[B]

We had the absolute best time. One thing that seemed to catch everyone off guard was the Duvall chant from the crowd, which sounds an awful, like booze. What's been the weirdest local tradition or chant from a crowd that any of you have experienced across the country? Yeah, they. So they go do fall, but they do the do. So I knew what it was. But the last time I was there, they did it right when I walked out. And I did think it was a. Oh, wow.

[C]

They do that at your show.

[B]

It's. They. It's like you bring up like, I don't, you know, it's not like the kind. It's like you bring up anything. Jacksonville. So in the Eagles, when I played Philadelphia, there was. Right when I got up, there's one. And I might have said something like. I think I made a joke about. I go, I'm here from the titans to get A.J. brown back. Like, you know, and then. And then that just is like E, A, G, L, Right? They do it.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And then I said, I was like, you gotta let them just do it. You gotta. It's like a. It's like a dog. You gotta let run.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Now just let them get it out. They'll fight it. Let them do it.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You get a lot of that in Alabama if you bring up college football. The roll tides just start to come out.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You're like, you gotta just get it out right now.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

But who's Duvall?

[B]

That's the county that they play in, so that's their champ. Yeah. Yeah. Jacksonville was awesome. Kelly Purdle. Thank you, Nate Land, for introducing me to Ryan Hamilton. I've been catching up on his shows. I freaking love Ryan as a comedian and a human being.

[D]

Well, that's nice. Thank you, Kelly.

[C]

Very nice.

[B]

Lydia P. Dusty with the new glasses. Those are new?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

They look awesome.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. Thanks, Lydia.

[D]

Yeah, that's a good notice.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Thank you, guys.

[B]

Yeah, a lot of people, I don't think I noticed.

[C]

That's okay. I don't expect, you know, other dudes to notice.

[E]

Any reason for the change.

[C]

I just, you know, I had to get, you know, a new prescription and you have to go see the eye doctor.

[B]

Need a new face.

[C]

And then, yeah, you get, you know, you get to choose some new glasses. And my others were pretty raggedy. I still wear. I still got a couple of pair that I wear.

[D]

Yeah, those look good.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Thank You.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Thank you.

[B]

Would you ever do Lasik? Are you.

[C]

No, I don't think so. I don't want people.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Digging around in my.

[B]

Anything. Yeah. Not even your eyes? Just in general.

[C]

Well, yeah, but I don't. Yeah. I mean, I feel like it's like, it's like one of those things where it almost feels greedy to me in a way. Right. Where you're like, you have vision, but you're like, you know what, it could be better. So you go in there and they start cutting on your eyes and then they go, oh, messed up. You're blind now.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And then you go, I could have settled for just.

[D]

Just glasses.

[C]

Yeah, just some glasses. But instead I had to go, no, put a laser in there.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And I know people do it and it probably. I did it probably would be successful.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I did it. I mean, a long time ago.

[A]

Does it wear out? They have to do it again at some point.

[C]

But now look what you're calling your eyes, you know?

[B]

Yeah. Big dumb eyes. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. I don't have no respect for them. I can feel mine starting to. I think. Yeah, I can. Just recently because I was. I went to the doctor and I was always like 2015 vision, which is insane. And then last time I did it earlier this year, I was 2025. So it's like it's starting to turn.

[A]

What's perfect? 2018.

[B]

20. 20.

[E]

2015 is better than 2015 is better.

[B]

Oh, wait, maybe. Yeah, I had one. Maybe I was 2015. Yeah. But then 2020 is per. Yeah, perfect. 2015 is like an eagle.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

You're unbelievable. Okay. Only doc said he's only seen a couple people with it. I swear that's me.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

Yes. The one eye doctor I went to.

[E]

I know he said it, but he's.

[C]

Just telling you that the one eye doctor I like. I like the idea that he's a one eye.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

One eyed eye doctor.

[B]

Yeah. I think there's only one eye that was 15.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But said maybe I wasn't 15, but I was pretty close. And he was like, I've only seen two people that are 2015.

[A]

My pediatrician told me I was the strongest boy in the planet too.

[D]

You know, give you a lollipop after.

[B]

Hey, this guy. This guy wouldn't have lied to me.

[E]

It's a one eyed doctor.

[B]

Yeah. S. Padget stuff. I started my 23, 23rd year of public school teaching today. Thank you for this week's podcast. My call to attention in class is. Hello, folks. My Students hear me say that their response is, hey, bear. Of course, I have to explain to them where this comes from. And they and have had to explain it to a few adults as well. So I'm slowly working on introducing the entire building to the Nate Lane universe. I love that. That's great.

[E]

That's awesome.

[B]

Yeah. Way to go. Trevor Burkett, 7th grade math teacher here. In a way, I feel like teachers are somewhat on the same level as comedians with trying out their lessons each class, and it evolving from class period to class period. I'll try different jokes or examples with different classes and see what works. So by that last class, I've perfected it. I could see that.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

We talked about teachers last week.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[C]

And if you get a heckler, you can send them to the office. Can't really kick them out of the show.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But just for a little while.

[D]

Yeah, that's nice. This kid wants to be a comedian.

[B]

Yeah, it's a teacher. Oh, grown man.

[C]

Oh, and you can't go.

[B]

So.

[D]

Seventh grade math teacher.

[C]

Yeah, and you can't go, but you drink it.

[B]

Guys, Trevor Burkett does sound like a little kid's name. That's what I. Yeah, Trevor, just keep plugging away, buddy. Brian Farr. I cannot believe that between five comics, not one person could recall the best movie about teachers ever made. Does no one recall Mr. Holland's opus?

[C]

We're not into Band Guy.

[B]

Yeah. It more than any other movie, follows a teacher's life across multiple decades.

[C]

You know, my. The. The, like, teacher we had at our school, whatever you would call this kind of guy, his name was Mr. Holland, too.

[D]

Oh, really?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Was his name.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, his name was. Yeah, whatever, Mr. Holland. And then Mr. Holland's opus came out. I remember that.

[D]

That had to be weird for him.

[C]

Yeah, I think so.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I don't know. I wasn't in his class, but I do remember.

[E]

Aaron, did you like Mr. Holland's opus?

[A]

It's okay. I haven't seen it a long time.

[D]

Why?

[E]

Just seemed like a kind of movie you'd like.

[A]

It is the kind of movie like a.

[E]

It is because it is banned. I mean, he's a music teacher.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. I don't know if. I don't think I saw it, so.

[C]

I would watch it just to make fun of him. I'd heckle Mr. Holland through the TV.

[B]

Yeah. What's his last name? Opus. What's Opus?

[A]

Opus is like your. Your masterpiece.

[B]

Oh, so this was his Opus.

[A]

This was. Yeah.

[B]

Mr. Holland.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I'd like to see it.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

So he was an aspiring musician, and then that didn't work out, so he became a teacher. So his opus was really his students. Is that right?

[B]

Well, yeah. Yeah.

[A]

I mean, I haven't seen it in a long.

[D]

I don't remember the plot.

[C]

Yeah, I don't think that really makes s pass 1995 or Trevor Burkett really happy. You're like, I wanted to be a musician. That didn't work out. So it became a teacher.

[B]

Yes.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Joseph, a point that I'm not sure the guy's grasp, but the paper folds. Is that with the 41st fold, you're only halfway to the moon. The 42nd fold is half the total distance all on its own.

[A]

That's exponential growth.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, we get it, Justin.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

The 43rd get you all the way back home.

[A]

43Rd gets you all the way back.

[E]

Orion.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

If you listen in the last year.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

You know this.

[D]

Well, I. No, I don't.

[B]

It doesn't matter.

[D]

I'm sorry.

[B]

Yeah, I won't worry about it, Will. From online. I've got to thank Aaron for mentioning the yard ball. I got so excited when he mentioned a small leather ball just for throwing and playing catch. I ordered two that day. My co workers know I'll always have it in my hand. And quick games of catch in the office has brought us together. Thank you, Aaron, for turning me into another ball guy.

[A]

How about that?

[B]

How about that?

[A]

I'm spreading the gospel of yard ball out. Sure.

[E]

His boss loves it.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Just throwing ball all day.

[A]

Well, you haven't worked in an office in a while. That's what they're doing in these offices now. There's very little work in these offices. Everybody's. They got Nerf guns.

[D]

They're.

[A]

You know, they're not even sitting in chairs. They're sitting on medicine balls. Corporate America is. This is what it is now.

[E]

Got a beer can?

[A]

You're going to be throwing a ball around. Yeah, that's all they're doing. I talked about the yard ball on the podcast, and, you know, we just talk on this podcast. I never think, as Nate used to always say, people are listening.

[D]

Right.

[A]

The. The guy who invented the yard ball DM'd me and said, heard you talked about the yard ball. He's sending us all custom yard balls.

[B]

Oh, good.

[C]

That's what I'm talking about. Because I heard they're pricey. I feel like this guy's bragging about it. Yeah.

[A]

It's worth it.

[C]

Somebody posted it and said they can be a little Pricey. And I'm sure it's a good ball, but I'm happy to be getting one is what I'm saying.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Thank you, Aaron.

[C]

Yeah. Quality's expensive.

[D]

That's right.

[C]

You know what I mean?

[B]

It's a great ball. Yeah. Is it that pricey? I mean.

[A]

Yeah, they're more than that.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. But it's like a hand stitch. Yeah.

[A]

It's like a nice leather awesome ball.

[B]

That will go saying, though.

[C]

But a ball, you know, you can get a couple of racket balls for, you know, you know, a few dollars.

[B]

Yeah, but there's no. There's not the same. You mean we got one this weekend because I was trying to get. We got like a little softball because I was having throw that first pitch. And it's like we all missed Aaron's yard and we missed the yard ball.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Because even this. This ball was like. It was hard. You would need a glove. Even though it was soft, it would just be a little bit hard to. If you just sit there, it would feel weird. It'd feel like you're throwing a baseball back and forth.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Where Aaron's is like a perfect mix. Like there's. So that's why there isn't really a ball. It's. It's like a softball.

[C]

But softer. Yes, but that's softer ball.

[B]

A softer ball. Exactly.

[D]

But it's got some heft to it.

[A]

So it's got half weighted.

[B]

It's weighted. You can throw it. You can throw it far. I mean, it's really unbelievable.

[D]

Yeah, that sounds cool.

[B]

So there's a lot. If it's, you know, there's a lot of stuff that goes into it.

[D]

Right.

[B]

It's not just like a racquetball, you know.

[C]

Yeah. It's a quality ball.

[B]

Yeah. Racquetball is very fun too.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But you can lose them. Those you're gonna lose.

[C]

I hit a guy in the eye one time with a racquetball. We were in a cabin and we were throwing it from wall to wall because they're so bouncy. It would bounce all over the walls. I hit the guy right in the eye on accident.

[D]

Off the wall or straight into the eye?

[C]

Straight from my hand. It was. I felt very bad.

[E]

Nate knows a guy if he needs some eye special.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Was that Nate's doctor?

[B]

Matthew Parish, the pre TR this past week said one of his favorite homework assignments he gives the couples during marriage counseling is to put the kids to bed and watch a Netflix comedy special. And said Nate and Dusty's Name specifically. Good clean comedy that couples can laugh and enjoy together. I was tempted to blurt out a hey bear or having a good time, but decided to just go with a good old fashioned amen. All right, that's cool.

[C]

All right. I appreciate that.

[B]

That's very cool church.

[C]

Yeah. I mean that's. That's a progressive church. Yeah, you're pushing it, but. Yeah, I'm into it though.

[B]

Yeah. On the church. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You're either they shouldn't be saying your name or you're leading that church. There's no in between.

[C]

Yeah. More for the office. These guys with the Nerf guns and stuff.

[E]

The yard balls.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

Chad Davis. Our family of six is looking forward to seeing Aaron this weekend in Laos, Arkansas. At our local club. Dusty is depicted in a huge mural on the outside of the building.

[C]

Yeah, I got. It's Lowell.

[B]

Yeah, Lowell.

[C]

If they're going to be bringing me up and being on the outside, I gotta know people. Got to know where to find it.

[B]

Lowell just reminded Aaron to qualify to be considered for the mural. You need us. Need a standing ovation from a sold out crowd. No pressure.

[D]

Whoa.

[C]

I don't know if I ever got that.

[A]

I think it's gonna be a while.

[D]

Have you seen your mural, Dusty?

[C]

I have seen it. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. It's pretty cool.

[C]

Yeah, There it is.

[B]

It goes back.

[A]

They put the hand up.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, wow.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That's a big mural.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

That's cool.

[B]

And how many do they do? They got a bunch of different ones.

[A]

Four or five.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

That's four comics and then one other guy that I don't know who that guy is.

[B]

Is it like a sold out thing or something?

[C]

I think he just. That's just who Bill likes. Yeah, Bill just likes us.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Dusty went there when the club opened and.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

A lot before.

[C]

The old club. I was the last comic to do the old club before it closed. He gave me a bunch of steaks out of the cooler.

[E]

Are any of the other comics up there on the wall here at Zany's?

[C]

I don't think so.

[E]

So you're only has two.

[C]

It's Greg Morton, Linda Stogner, and Stuart Huff.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, wow. That's an. That's a eclectic.

[B]

All right. It's all four people that have never played Acme.

[C]

That's true.

[D]

Yeah, that's true.

[C]

Greg. Maybe.

[B]

Maybe it'd be funny if you Cuz it. It would be funny if you go. And I've been on. I'm on this side of it too, that I never did. But it's like. Yeah, you can see a face that you're like, yeah, yeah. We're definitely not the ones that have. You're always at the other club.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Not saying that's the other club, but.

[C]

It'S, you know, that's the only one.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, that is the club.

[C]

That's the club. But yeah, I've. Yeah. When I go to Minneapolis, I play St. Paul.

[D]

Oh, dude.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So I'm across the river.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

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[A]

That's how long Dusty Special is. You can listen to it all the.

[D]

Way from Pensacola to Burbank.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Well, that's. He hadn't finished it yet. That's the idea.

[E]

Finished it on the way back.

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All right, this week we are talking about the generations. So, Ryan, I'll put you on the spot.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

Do you know how they came up with the term the Greatest Generation?

[D]

Yeah, I have that in my act. Is that why you're asking me?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Well, this is what I think. I mean, Tom Brokaw wrote a book called the Greatest Generation.

[E]

That is correct.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

And that's how it.

[D]

And it was his generation.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And who. Where does Tom Brokaw get off?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Is this a generation that they sent off to wars?

[D]

Yes, yes, yes.

[A]

It's the World War II.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

They're like, we gotta give you something.

[D]

Right.

[C]

You just ruined your lives.

[D]

Yes. Yeah, yeah. I say that. He was. You could read. He was a newscaster, which nobody. Nobody knows. You know, I go, if you know who Tone Brokaw is, it's a real room divider. Because nobody knows or you really know.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But there were just three of them. There was Tom and Dan and Peter, all disciples of Christ. Just three solid white men who would read you the news.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

And.

[D]

Yeah. Tom Brokaw, he wrote this book called the Greatest Generation, and it stuck. I really think that that's where it came from.

[E]

It is.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

It is.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Did nobody just refer to. Nobody referred to that generation as a group before that?

[B]

I don't think people were talking that much then. It's like, in a weird way, you're like, yeah, I don't. I don't think people talked about. Had enough. Probably enough information about just. Even the world.

[E]

And I think that's right.

[B]

And so it's. That's what's crazy when you think about how new we are as even a world in, like, communications and seeing other. Hearing about other countries flying, being able to get to these other countries and all this kind of stuff. It's very new. Very new.

[C]

And we probably shouldn't have that much information. It's probably not good to know everything bad going on around the world all the time.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, because it's like too much. If you do care. It's too much emotion.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, you're always got to be like, oh, I feel sad for people because there's always bad things going on.

[D]

Right.

[C]

And it's like, too. We should just be sad about, like, what's going on right around us. There's enough sadness usually in the general area.

[E]

I agree. I mean, it's like, even Social media. We know everyone knows everybody's political views now. Yeah, very often.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

You know, my parents. Generation didn't.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Didn't know anybody's political take.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

What do you call people older than greatest generation? Do we even go back that far?

[E]

I didn't. It's called the Lost generation.

[A]

Dang.

[E]

And that's people that fought in World War I.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Lost to the greatest, just like that.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

There's only like a couple hundred people left alive that were alive during World War I.

[D]

There are people alive.

[E]

There's still people alive. There's nobody who fought in it, but there are people who were at least alive during World War I.

[A]

The oldest person alive today was born in 1907.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

She's 117 years old.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

Wow.

[E]

So she.

[B]

I mean, they put her in a home. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, probably.

[A]

She currently resides in a nursing home in Spain.

[E]

The nerve of them.

[C]

Even in Spain, you expect it in America, but in Spain, you think, you know what, maybe they would keep them. Spain feels a little more family oriented.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I think even. I think there's a time limit. And she's. And they're probably like, all right, you've outlived your grandchildren.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So we're gonna.

[D]

Her children are probably in nursing homes.

[B]

Her children are maybe dead.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah, probably.

[B]

Yeah. I wonder if. Yeah. What is like. I mean. Yeah, she's like that old.

[C]

She probably had kids at 15, so they're 100. Yeah.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I bet her old.

[D]

I wonder if she outlived her children. All of her.

[B]

Oh, yeah, she's about to have.

[A]

Oh, she died.

[B]

Oh, oh, really?

[E]

Oh, you're gonna blame that on me?

[B]

Oh, it happened.

[A]

You're killing people retroactive in real time. She died last year.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

She was 100.

[E]

So. AI.

[B]

She had three children. And so, like, what does it say? Like, her, like, you know, what did she. Yeah. When did she have kids? Did they say when she had kids or.

[A]

Yeah, she got married in 1931, had three kids.

[B]

Yeah. So she died in 24. So, I mean. Yeah. I mean, her. What her children had to have.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

11 grandchildren. It doesn't have the. The dates of them here.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

To be that old, though, it really is a shame that there's not more than 11 grandkids. You would, you know, just think you lived a long time. You would think you'd have 11 kids.

[A]

I'm sure she has great grandkids too, though. Her husband died in 1976. And you think at the time, I mean, that was a 45 year marriage. That's a good long marriage.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then she's around another 38 years.

[E]

No, almost 50 years.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Well, 48 years.

[D]

48 years.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

Wow.

[E]

Yeah, she.

[C]

Yeah, she lived longer than the marriage, after the marriage. Right. 45 year marriage and then she lived for another 40 years.

[B]

I bet if you're like that, she.

[C]

Could have got remarried.

[B]

You probably don't even remember your life. Like, it just feels like a movie, you know, because it would be too hard to, you know, be like, you remember in 1940. You'd be like.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Like you, you almost can't tell if you've seen something in a movie or if it's your any.

[C]

You know, she actually looks pretty good for 117.

[B]

Yeah. It's crazy.

[C]

Do you know what I mean, though? Like, she looks like an old lady, but 116, 17 years old.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

I know people in their 80s who look like.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Still mission. They made her blow her candles out.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

She only got one.

[A]

She was my age when World War II started.

[D]

Wow, that's crazy. Did you guys know any of your great grandparents? How far back did you guys know any. I knew one of my great grandparents.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I barely knew my grandparents.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I had three. Three that I met.

[D]

Three great grandparents. Wow. That's a lot.

[A]

They died pretty young, but. But I remember, I remember meeting him.

[D]

Yeah. When you were.

[A]

When I was younger.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah, that makes more sense.

[B]

Yeah, I think so too. I don't. I am, I'm. I can't remember too. But I might have when I was. Yeah.

[D]

I knew my great grandmother pretty well until I was in my like mid teens, I think.

[E]

How long did she live?

[D]

She was born in 1901, I think, and I think she lived like 89 years or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. But it's amazing to talk to people. It's great to talk to people of an older generation, just to talk to them because you do realize how much happened in their lifetime. Like the people who are old now, I mean, they're like, the world's changed more than. I wonder if it's changed more than it will change in our lifetime, you know?

[B]

Oh, I. I think ours will because it's gonna. I mean, it's. Because you're just gonna. With the technology now, it's going to be just like keeps double fast. I mean like your life might like, you know, it's like the humans probably can't. They went through like so much like strain and.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Like wars and.

[D]

Right.

[B]

That Kind of stuff and you couldn't just access the stuff. But I mean we're, it's. I'd imagine with technology it's going to be.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Every, I mean, because you look every year think about like even how quick it's been from us just getting a video game. You know, like I had, I had a Sega Genesis and then you had a Super Nintendo and Super Nintendo and all these games came out and they were like, it was crazy that you could play these games. And then I remember the first like Xbox and you're like, look at this Madden and stuff to be. Now you have AI and you play a video game. It look, you can't even tell if it's a. A real game or it's not a real game.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And it's just going to get crazier and crazy crazier. And that's only been.

[A]

But I don't know if it'll get crazier from growing up to riding, from riding horses. When you're a kid right now you got. You can take a plane anywhere in the world. Like her life changed.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[C]

Driving those cars is pretty, pretty wild. Yeah, it's a pretty wild thing to say.

[A]

Do you think that's a crazier jump horse to plane, from car to driverless car?

[C]

No, but that's pretty wild.

[A]

It, it. I mean we're going to see some crazy stuff. But I just think like when this person was born, so much happened in.

[B]

The 1900s, you were maybe more prepared because like it's, you know, everybody talks about it so much.

[A]

That's true.

[B]

So you think like. Yeah, I mean, I figure one day you're going to be to get in a helicopter and fly to your workers. You know, I don't know. I'm open somewhere.

[D]

Huh.

[E]

You'll get like beam somewhere.

[B]

Yeah, I'm open to anything.

[C]

Kind of from hat like from when I was a kid. Like we like, you know, you had TV that was like just a few channels to basically carrying a TV in our pocket that has everything is pretty, pretty crazy, Joe.

[B]

Yeah, that is crazy. Black and white. I mean, yeah, black and white. Color was like what, the 60s or something?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And then it was like, it was like a big deal. They introduced the color and now you're so. In my parents life they went from black and white TV to they watched on their phone in bed.

[C]

I mean we actually got to that where the teachers would be like, you're not always gonna have a calculator in your pocket to where we do always have A calculator in our pocket.

[D]

Yeah, that's true. That's funny. Yeah.

[E]

So that greatest generation is roughly people born between 1901 and 1927. And there's no official body that determines these groups. Yeah, it's just kind of, you know, social science researchers that said Tom Brokaw. Just random people can kind of create this. But they went through World War II, the Spanish flu. One lady survived the Spanish Flu, and Covid.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[E]

The stock market crashing.

[B]

There we go again.

[E]

All right, so the next was the Silent Generation.

[D]

The Silent Generation.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So we go from the lost generation to the greatest.

[E]

Yep.

[A]

To the silent generation.

[B]

Yeah. Because the greatest is a little mouthy. And then so the greatest brought down their parents, who raised them and said, no, they're lost. And then their kids, they go, it's dumb kids.

[E]

This is kids born roughly between 1928, 1945. So they were born during World War II. Yeah, this is my parents, Joe Biden.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

Was Silent generation. They call it that.

[D]

The Silent Generation.

[C]

I would think he was in the Lost.

[E]

They call it that for a few reasons. There was. They also call them the lucky few because there were a lot more kids being born during this time because the war was going on.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

So they're a lot smaller group, but.

[A]

A lot fewer kids being born.

[E]

What did I say more?

[A]

Said more.

[E]

Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. A lot fewer kids being born.

[A]

I was like, what was happening back?

[B]

Yeah, I was trying to figure it out.

[E]

Yeah, I'm glad you corrected me. Then there was the baby boomers. This would be your parents. People born between 1946 and 1964.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

So the idea of the baby boomers is they come back from war. Boom, let's have some babies.

[E]

That's right. So the population doubled. United States during this period.

[A]

Wow.

[D]

Wow.

[E]

76 million babies born during this generation. President Clinton was the first baby boomer president.

[A]

But he waited a while to say president. I don't think he was the first one.

[D]

Yeah, President Clinton was the first baby boomer one.

[E]

And then it was Generation X, which is, I think, myself, Ryan.

[D]

That's me. I'm Gen X.

[C]

Well, what's those years?

[A]

Yeah. What are the years for Gen X.

[E]

Born? Roughly between 1965 and 1980.

[C]

Okay.

[E]

But now we're getting to some subgroups. So in between baby boomers, Generation X, there's a group called Generation Jones.

[D]

Really?

[E]

They were kind of on the front, people on the fringe, and that's where the phrase keep it up with the Joneses first started. These were people that started looking at what their neighbors had and, you know, started getting more materialistic.

[B]

What was. What. When was that?

[E]

That's in between baby boomers and Generation X. Yeah. Then we get into Generation X was 1965, 1980. They also called it the latchkey generation because that's when kids started coming home from school.

[D]

Right. I remember hearing a lot about that. Parents weren't around when I was a kid.

[E]

That's correct.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

They would call us when both parents started working.

[C]

Whole country started to slip away.

[B]

What's latchy latchkey?

[E]

Like you're latching the door with, like, come over the school bus and there's.

[D]

Nobody had your own key, like, to the house, they would call you because you had to come home.

[C]

All started to go down the drain.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah.

[E]

It's also called the mtv.

[C]

Milwaukee was doing great before the latch, right?

[B]

Yes.

[D]

That's where Milwaukee and everywhere went down.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

It was also called the MTV generation because kids grew up on mtv.

[A]

How big of a deal was MTV to you guys, your childhood?

[B]

It was big.

[D]

It was. I. We didn't have it. It's like, we didn't get cable.

[B]

I was allowed. I wouldn't be allowed to watch it, but, like, you would go to it if your parents weren't home. Yeah. It was big. Trl. It was. I mean, I was very.

[A]

Carson Daly. Trl.

[D]

That.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

MTV was everything.

[B]

When I first went to New York, I mean, I remember the first thing I did was would go look and see where they did trl.

[D]

Really?

[B]

Wow.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, I was like. Because in Times Square, they would show that window and all that MTV was.

[E]

What's trl?

[C]

Total Request Live.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[C]

I've never, like to. To know how big Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, and CMT and BET, all those Viacom, to know how big they were. I've never seen anything, like, be so big and then, like, basically irrelevant now. Yeah, it's, like, really wild to see.

[D]

Well, mtv, I think, was the first one, and it was by far the most revolutionary, I would say. Yeah. Because they.

[C]

I mean, those things were huge.

[D]

Music videos were really the beginning of it. And there used to be Friday Night Videos.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Did you ever hear about Friday Night Videos?

[E]

Well, I didn't have cable either, so that's what I would have to watch.

[C]

CMT was country music television. They had a lot of videos. Age 1 had a lot of videos.

[A]

Friday Night Videos. Didn't Henry Cho host them?

[E]

He hosted for a couple years.

[D]

Interesting.

[C]

BET had Comic View. I used to Watch a lot of.

[A]

That 106 and park I used to watch. They used to be free. They used to do rap battles.

[C]

Comedy Central had the Comedy Central Presents and a lot of. A lot of fun TV shows.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

So these things were all, like, culturally that really important.

[C]

It was so great.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[E]

This is when video games first became prevalent among kids.

[C]

Atari.

[E]

Right, Atari. That Mario Kart reference you made earlier, I didn't get it.

[C]

Well, you had Atari, Mario Kart.

[A]

I like the old school games, not this new stuff.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

From the early 90s.

[C]

Super Nintendo, I think, was the first Mario Kart. And it was unbelievable. Yeah.

[B]

I knew Mario. I never played it, so I don't have her. I don't have the same impact Mario Kart as I hear other people have it. It wasn't in my.

[C]

You're maybe three years older than me.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. I just never played.

[C]

So that's a big deal for, like, little kid ages. Yeah, yeah. I mean, Mario Kart was.

[B]

I remember it. I know. I know a lot of people played it, but it was. Yeah, I don't remember. It's huge.

[A]

I still play. I have an N64 at the house that I still play.

[C]

64. Stepped it up.

[A]

N64.

[C]

Yeah, stepped it up.

[A]

We had a PlayStation 1 that our aunt gave the family, and then my brother unilaterally traded it to a kid in this class for an N64 without consulting the family at all.

[B]

Wow. Oh, wow.

[A]

He was just like, I think this is the right move for the future of the family.

[B]

Yeah. And boy, did he nail it.

[A]

I mean, nobody plays PS1 anymore. But then N64 is timeless in a lot of.

[B]

But even then it was.

[A]

I don't know if it was a smart decision.

[C]

64 was.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Great. 64. I mean, it was really great. You had. I had friends that had it, and you had. You could have that. You had the four controllers that you could play with. You had Smash Brothers, goldeneye. Yeah.

[A]

Blitz.

[C]

Yeah. It was a WWF game where it was like you could do Royal Rumble and have four people operating wrestlers at the same time.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It's unbelievable. Unbelievable.

[B]

I think PlayStation 1 would have been the. Back then.

[A]

Well, those were the two kind of comparable things at the time.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So it made sense as a trade. I think it was like a one to one trade.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But the N64 aged way better.

[B]

Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah, absolutely. But PlayStation 1 was, like, crazy.

[A]

Agree with you.

[B]

When it came out.

[A]

We were furious when he did it.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

But he was a visionary.

[A]

He he was. He was smart about it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But it's pretty crazy to just do that without consulting any of the other. This is the family thing.

[C]

The PlayStation one seemed to get raggedy pretty fast because that's what I had. And over time, it really seemed to get ragged.

[A]

Well, the N64, the graphics were cartoonish, so they've aged much better, Right?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

All the PS1 games are realistic graphics. And they look. They look horrendous now I ever play them.

[C]

I had Tekken, though. Tekken was unbelievable. Tekken fighting game.

[D]

Street fighter was on N64, right?

[C]

Yeah. And Super Nintendo.

[D]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, and Super Superintendent.

[C]

Street Fighter 2 had so many variations. There was about 10. Street Fighter.

[D]

Right? Right.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

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[A]

Millennial. The next one.

[E]

Well, technically, no. There's these weirdos who are stuck in the middle. The Oregon Trail generation.

[B]

Yeah. I have a joke about it.

[C]

From what age? What year?

[E]

So this is the people in between Gen X and Millennials. They're also called the lucky ones.

[C]

But no, no years, though I had.

[B]

A joke about it.

[E]

It's. It's. It's right around 1980 okay.

[B]

Some people think this is a good joke. It was a good joke then. Still relevant now.

[D]

It works.

[B]

Yep. Yep. Yeah.

[D]

It'll always work.

[E]

And they're also called xenials.

[B]

Yep. And lucky ones is the good.

[E]

It's. They call that because they started with the analog childhood, but a digital young adulthood, it.

[B]

Oh, yeah. So it's.

[E]

You know what that means, Dusty?

[C]

Yeah. I mean. But I would say I. I mean, I'm born in 82. I would say I fit into that, too. I was born. Yeah.

[E]

Well, it's not a perfect science.

[B]

You're trying to. You're trying to get in.

[C]

It wasn't digital when we were around.

[B]

But it's. It's that three years matters a lot. As you just said.

[A]

A lot happens.

[B]

A lot happens. Three years as a kid. And it's. It was.

[C]

I mean, now I feel like it's more like two. You're born in 80. I'm 82.

[B]

You're. I was born in 79.

[C]

Oh, 79. Okay.

[A]

And a couple guys born in the 70s.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Graduated high school in the 90s. Yeah. Wow. Three of us still doing comedy in the 2000s. And then. Yeah. When were you 70?

[D]

76.

[B]

Yeah. Yikes.

[D]

I did not.

[B]

Did we even do that one? I don't know if we. Oh, no, I got it. Yeah. All right.

[D]

Okay. Yeah, it's in there. We're cataloged.

[B]

You're Catalog. You're in there.

[D]

I can't recall. I can't remember. My memory's going.

[B]

Yeah, so it's. But in ours was. You're. Yeah, you. Like, you grew up a good part of your remembering.

[C]

79 is different. That is a different day.

[B]

Well, my brother's 80. My brother's 82.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So it's 82. Yes. You still grew up with this old kind of thing. But you gotta think by the time you're born, I'm three. Like, I kind of start remembering stuff. So then you're like three more years. You're six, seven, eight. And then, you know, I can keep going. You tell me when this guy's good. You stop me when you want to stop.

[E]

He's in the pocket.

[B]

Yeah, but you're just like, you. You grew up. You. Like, you really grew up in the old school kind of way when you were born. And, like, there was nothing kind of this newer.

[C]

Like, I was born into Atari. Atari already existed.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

My first system as a kid was regular Nintendo.

[B]

Did you find we hadn't. I remember getting it.

[C]

I didn't. I think. Oregon Trail Was around. But I never really played it.

[D]

That's the difference.

[C]

Yeah. I never really played it.

[B]

Yeah. Oregon Trail was everything.

[A]

I was watching Shark tank this weekend. Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O'. Leary. He claims he's the guy that got Oregon Trail into all the schools. So he made a lot of his money. Was he just get on out there. Because we all played. I played it.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Growing up.

[C]

She remembers the actual Oregon Trail.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

She was on the Oregon Trail.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Did you.

[A]

She's from Spain, but yeah.

[E]

I think it. I was probably in high school.

[C]

That's where she lives now.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You remember it came out.

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

I certainly remember when your buddy. Your buddy went over your buddy's house. His kids were on it. Well, your boy's getting into. Yeah. So we're. It's. It's very fun because I mean that's. I. I got. I remember. I. The reason that when I wrote the joke about it, I went to some. It was like a, you know, like general meeting in Hollywood where you just go meet some producer. Nothing. But is this lady. We started talking. We were the same age. And she goes. And she's the one that. There was an article called the Lucky Ones. And then. And then I looked it up and then I started thinking about it and then that's. And I end up having a joke. I kind of really forgot what the joke was.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Joke.

[D]

What is it? What. Why is it. I still don't understand why they call them the Lucky Ones.

[B]

Because we got to experience the old school way and the new school way.

[D]

Oh.

[B]

And so. But we grew up with memories in both.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[B]

Like real memories.

[D]

They're the last ask people to have.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They're benefiting from the technology now, but weren't corrupted by it.

[B]

So we're. Yeah. It's like a little bit. It's almost a weird way. You're. You can maybe. Yeah. You're not like so ant. Like, you know, you're the older. Before us is so like. Well, when we did it, we did.

[D]

We're not adaptable.

[B]

Yes. Yeah. I think we're very adaptable in the fact that we were. You know, when I was in high school, my senior, like we had aol.

[D]

Right.

[B]

Like that kind of stuff happened at the very end. So we were really the first people trying like getting into this stuff.

[D]

Got it. Okay.

[E]

Also called the Star Wars Generation. Oh, generation.

[C]

That's what I call them because they.

[E]

Grew up on Star Wars.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Generation Catalano. Do you ever hear this?

[B]

No, never heard of that.

[E]

For its reference to character Jordan Catalano, played by Jared Leto from the teen drama My so Called Life.

[B]

I have heard this. I did not see that, but actually, now I remember My so Called Life. Yeah, I don't think I watched it.

[D]

So, I mean, I remember about it. I never watched. It was one of those things where I was like, man, we didn't have any of that cool stuff. But I remember hearing about My so Called Life and the Simpsons and mtv.

[B]

I was allowed to watch Simpsons or me either. I wouldn't be allowed to watch MTV either. You'd watch it when your parents weren't home?

[D]

Yeah, we just couldn't get it.

[E]

You couldn't get Fox?

[D]

No, we lived out that. We had a. An antenna that would go up in the sky, and it got NBC, CBS.

[B]

And PBS and, like a tornado channel.

[E]

Not even abc.

[B]

Like a mudslide channel.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[E]

I forgot to mention Generation X was called that because Billy Idol, it was the name of his punk rock band, Generation X.

[D]

Is that where it came from?

[E]

Yeah, that's.

[B]

That's the one theory on where is he that age?

[D]

Older than that.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

He'd probably be a baby boomer, I would think, but his band was popular then, and so they called it Generation X.

[A]

Why isn't my generation called Generation Y? Then? We go from X.

[E]

We're getting to you, Aaron.

[B]

Yeah. This is a millennial, dude.

[A]

It's all about.

[B]

Well, that's probably. Yeah, it is.

[E]

It is known as generation this. People born roughly between 81 to 96. So this would be dusty.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[E]

And, Aaron, 91, called millennials because these are the group that at least the early ones became an adulthood during the millennium. So you were how old when? 2000?

[C]

18.

[E]

Yeah. So you fit it perfectly.

[C]

Graduated high school year 2000 looking like that. That's what was going on in 2000.

[D]

Oh, man.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I never noticed those before.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

When I pointed at it, I was like, who? Which one? I can't tell which one is dusty.

[C]

I was dressing like I only got.

[D]

Dusty by the process of elimination.

[E]

Exactly.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

The only way you can get dusty, you got to eliminate everybody. Wow.

[E]

They were called the unluckiest generation, as the average millennial has experienced slower economic growth and more recessions since entering the work force than any other generation in history.

[A]

It's the world you guys left for us.

[E]

They're weighed down by student debt and child care cost.

[B]

Oh, us. I didn't go to college. I don't think I matter.

[C]

Yeah, me either. So I got no student debt, so I didn't you know, Nate didn't leave it for us, and I didn't pick it up.

[E]

Then. Oh, and millennials. Oh, yeah. I already told you how they got his name. 2016 was the first year any millennial was eligible to run for president.

[A]

Do we have one?

[E]

We've had some. That.

[A]

A couple.

[E]

Some young guys that have ran.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

For president.

[B]

Yeah. They go, oh, J.D. vance. Is he.

[A]

He's the first millennial vice president.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Is that right?

[A]

Yeah, Technically, he's on the cusp.

[B]

Yeah. Well. And he probably did. He. He ran for president.

[E]

No, he didn't.

[B]

Oh, Vivek.

[A]

Vivek ran for.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

So he's Pete Buttigieg.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

I guess he is too.

[E]

Yeah. Then we're getting into Generation Z. Born roughly between 1997, 2012. So Harper.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Is on the cusp.

[B]

That's a big thing. That's crazy. 1997, 2012. Like, that's graduated. That's when I graduated high school.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

In the year she was born.

[A]

They don't remember 9, 11.

[E]

That's. No, no, before, if you were there.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[E]

Oldest one.

[B]

I bet if you're four, you could maybe I just actually read something with. Funny enough that you said it, a little thing about Scotty Scheffler. He was born in. The golfer. Scotty shifter was born in New Jersey, and they moved to Dallas, Texas, and they lived in New Jersey and they left after 9 11. I think he was 6 years old. And so then he grew up the rest of his life in Dallas, Texas.

[A]

They left because of 9 11.

[B]

I don't know if it's because. Or what it was, but it was. It was when it maybe. I don't know, like it was, but it was when that kind of. That was like, whenever that happened. Yeah, I mean, when it happened, that's when they moved. So, I mean, he would have, you know, he's. It's funny to a real example of that. Like, I mean, I bet he would remember it.

[A]

Probably remember everything. Or you remember something happening.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

They're the first group to get their news mainly from social media networks.

[B]

Oh, generation.

[E]

Generation Z. Yeah. Like, I know everybody did, but when.

[D]

They became the only way they have ever known.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, so y' all would have to either read the paper.

[E]

Yes.

[A]

Or just watch. Like, just watch the. To know that anything's happening.

[D]

I talk about that. I go, you. Newspapers are hard to describe. They were like huge books published every morning for yesterday's news. If you wanted to be informed on the past, you Know, we can scroll the day, but you had to carry everything. It would cover, like two thirds of your body. Just to be informed, you know, yesterday on yesterday.

[B]

Yeah, they. Yeah, I mean, I remember. I still have it. I have the newspaper from 9 11.

[D]

Oh, wow.

[B]

All right. When? The next day. I. I remember buying it.

[E]

That'd be funny. That day you read out and bought it.

[B]

Yeah, Well, I just remember buying it. It was like, oh, it's not in here. Yeah, it was just such a crazy thing. So I went and.

[D]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You want September 12th paper.

[B]

Right? Right.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

Right. Yeah.

[D]

Right.

[C]

September 11th paper is probably pretty normal.

[B]

Yeah, it's just normal. Yankee. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I remember. Yeah, I bought it and I was like, oh, you better go back. I think I gotta find it. But it's. Yeah, I thought it'd be pretty cool to go back. But that was. I mean, that was 2001. You buy and it was like, you know, that's it.

[A]

Do you remember a TV show we were talking about? Just a great premise for a show? I think it was called Early Edition. It was about a guy who got tomorrow's paper every day.

[E]

Oh, that is a show. Yeah, it was the guy from Friday.

[A]

Out Lights, Kyle Chandler.

[B]

Right.

[A]

He was the star of it. And you just think, like, what would you do if you got tomorrow's newspaper? And I. I think a few.

[C]

In the.

[A]

In this world, a few people got this newspaper and some of them would do good and try to help people. And then some would just, like, go to the horse races and gamble.

[C]

Yeah, that's what I do. I just get lotto tickets. Because at the point you're not gambling, you're just winning money.

[E]

You're investing.

[D]

Oh, so it's okay.

[C]

I would think you would know then you're not gambling.

[B]

Yeah, I would think you would do both. Both.

[D]

You could do both.

[B]

And you would go, yeah, I'm gonna use a van of this. And then let's go help. Because you need the. The resources to go home.

[E]

That's true.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

What did he do?

[A]

He tried to help people.

[B]

Every day.

[A]

He would find somebody, you know, gets trapped in a house fire, and he would go, try to save.

[C]

But if he's not winning a little money at the horse race, it's not a realistic show. Yeah, it's not realistic. You don't win the lottery every time, but you do win. And then you get your friends.

[B]

Yeah. You go find the lottery. That's going to be st. Yeah, yeah. And then you go buy it. And then you.

[E]

You're done.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Spotify consumer data suggests that Gen Z is more nostalgic for the 80s. Stranger Things is really popular among Gen Z.

[B]

What is Gen z?

[E]

Oh, that's 1997 to 2012.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

So this is these guys over here.

[B]

So wait, they're. They're more what, nostalgic for the 80s? Oh, they just. Like the 80s.

[A]

Yeah, I like the 80s.

[C]

I think. I feel like 90s is overwhelming what people miss. I feel like that's funny because I.

[E]

Grew up in the 80s and I think it's the 80s.

[B]

I think it's. I think it's 90s too.

[C]

Yeah, I think 90s, everybody thinks that's when the country was the best.

[B]

I think 80s probably feels like the 70s to them. Like it would have us or something. Like where it feels. It feels so far removed that it's like cool.

[C]

90S feels like peak America to me.

[A]

Why do you think the OTS doesn't have as distinctive a thing as 90s.

[B]

Or 80s, early 2000s? Because things just going so quickly. You don't ever have anything to really hold on to. Yeah. So, like before all the technology, before we could get to the technology, it was. Everything was a slower move.

[A]

It's all pre Internet, mostly.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And then once the Internet came and then access came, it's like, what are you going to do? I mean, you have, you. I mean, it feels like yesterday I. I bought a flip phone, you know, and that was. That was like a picture.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And then now you would be. You get punched in the face. You have a flip phone. Like it's there, but I mean, it goes that quick.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

To where it's insane.

[A]

Remember the Sidekick?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

We saw somebody with a Sidekick.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Open it up and it's a camera.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I was. I never got a BlackBerry. I always wanted a BlackBerry.

[D]

Oh, yeah. I never had one either.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Some people think the world ended in 2012 when the Mayans predicted that it would. And now we're just kind of hanging around, just kind of existing. It's all.

[B]

Oh, really?

[C]

They think it's all over and that's why nothing.

[A]

Like there was a rapture, but nobody got taken.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

Like no one.

[C]

We didn't even notice.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

It's almost. Yeah. It's like. Well, it's like it's all got to just phase away. Yeah. That sounds like a guy that had come up something. Because it didn't end in 2012.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

No, no, no, it did.

[D]

It did.

[B]

No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. Hear me out. Hear me out.

[E]

Then there's Generation Alpha. People born between 2010, 2024. This would be Daisy Slay.

[C]

All right.

[E]

Eldore Bates. Sam Slay, Olive. But Harper is technically a Zalfa because she's right on. People born between 2010, 2012, they're. So she's following in her dad's dad's footsteps, claiming two generations.

[B]

What does Alpha mean?

[E]

Generation Z and Generation Alpha.

[B]

Yeah. And why? Do they say why, or we just starting over? What are you in between?

[E]

You're in between a generation Z.

[B]

And is there a reason, like, mine was like, you grew up with this why?

[E]

Okay, I understand what you're saying. Just. It just. I don't have it here.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

But, yeah, they're called zalphas. Generation Alpha is the first where the kids are major, major allergies in food. And by 20. By the 20.

[C]

That doesn't sound very Alpha at all. Yeah, we're allergic to everything.

[E]

1 in 12American children, if by 2010, had food allergies, peanut allergies, the most problem.

[B]

But it's funny. It's like, that's because our food's bad. Yeah.

[E]

I was getting dusty.

[B]

That's what. Well, yeah. Well, we blame it on the kids.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

It was my favorite joke of that special where you talked about.

[B]

Yeah. Offend. Yeah. Peanut allergies.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. They're all GMO peanuts out here.

[B]

Yeah. It ain't these kids fault.

[E]

I mean, you're dusty. What do you think about this? So 36 of American children have some type of allergy, but some people think it's because the food's too clean and we need to be exposed to more potentially bad food.

[C]

Nah.

[B]

Yeah. I don't think that's.

[A]

We need.

[C]

Now there's too much glyphosate in the. In the. The soils. And everybody's. I mean, people do talk.

[B]

I think you do need more. I think sickness is more like. That's why I was thinking your immune system. I think comedians have great immune systems. I think we're not typically as sick as often as other because we're on the road constantly.

[A]

Eating exposed.

[C]

Sleeping in sheets.

[B]

Exactly. You're just exposed to so much crazy stuff that you just can tend to, like, kind of power through a lot because you're not. You're just. Every day you're in. You could be in a different time zone, a different city, a different. Yes, A different. That. And so you're able to handle it. And when people are not traveling and they go somewhere they can really get beat up by it.

[D]

Yeah. Makes sense.

[B]

I mean, I got like. Because I was. It was even knocking with another stick. But someone. We filmed the movie. They're like, once you're done filming the movie, you get sick. Everybody gets sick. I didn't get sick, but I mean, I was touring during the movie.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

And then I. Yeah. Stayed on tour. So it's like your. My body's just. I mean, look, it's. Yeah.

[A]

You got people from all over the country sick, but you.

[B]

Oh, yeah. He goes. I started.

[E]

That's on there.

[B]

I am covet. Like. Like Entourage because I'm Queens Boulevard. I'm cool.

[A]

I am coronavirus.

[C]

But no, I do just. Just on. I do think I. There's too much stuff in our food. I don't think it's the kids. I don't think they're not exposed to enough. I think.

[A]

But also the lost generation. They would get diarrhea and just die.

[E]

Yes.

[B]

You know what I mean?

[A]

So we're also doing better in a lot of ways.

[E]

I think I explained it badly. I think it's kind of suggesting what he's saying that they need to be exposed to more germs. Don't wash your hands every time. Dusty when you go to the bathroom. Stuff like that.

[C]

No worries on that. But I, I, Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I. Yeah, there could be something to that, but I think that there is.

[B]

Their environments are too clean.

[C]

There is like too much pesticides in our water supply. And I mean, I think that's just. That's not even like a conspiracy.

[E]

This is the Amish in Indiana. Only 7% of the kids have allergies, whereas 36%.

[C]

Yeah. And they grow a lot of their own stuff.

[A]

0% of them get tested for allergies.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

We have no idea.

[E]

It's a fair point.

[B]

All right.

[E]

And then the last one's Generation Beta started this year, 2025 to 2039. It's the first generation that will only know AI. I mean, I guess our kids only know AI, but, you know. But AI is going to. From the out of the gate, be. You know.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

That's a tough label to put.

[B]

What if Yalls kids might be like me? Yeah, Yalls kids are going to be like me. Where it's. You're kind of.

[E]

Especially olive.

[B]

You're. You're better than the others.

[E]

Yeah. The lucky ones.

[B]

You're the. You're the lucky ones because you're kind of in between.

[D]

It used to be that we would name the generation. It seems like, Like, I don't remember being called Generation X until we were like third grown.

[B]

Oh, yeah. I never even heard anything called anything.

[D]

Yeah, yeah. Now we're like labeling them before.

[A]

I think you weren't even talking about this stuff.

[E]

I think they retroactively went back.

[B]

Yeah. And did a lot of.

[D]

Right. Yeah.

[E]

Like Tom Brokaw's book came out in the 90s, I think.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

That's part. Yeah. That's. Yeah. The way everybody talks about it now. It's like horoscopes. Yeah. Where, you know.

[D]

Right.

[B]

It's. It's. This is like a. This is like a blue collar guy that doesn't want to believe in horoscopes. So he goes, well, I'll do this one.

[C]

And then this is people in an office playing with their guns, coming up with this.

[D]

Yeah. It's kind of like predicting the future versus studying the past.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, the idea of a newscaster writing a book, that. That's why we call it. That is crazy. Now I can't even think of anybody. Like, nobody could have that.

[B]

Well, yeah, but I mean, I think you could. If you called the right. If you called anything the greatest. You got a lot of people that are like, yeah, yeah, we are the greatest generation. I mean.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

The big Dumb Eyes generation.

[C]

They would call that the goat generation.

[A]

They would.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yep. But it's like the going forward is like, they're not going to get good names because it's already taken.

[E]

What comes after Beta.

[C]

The end.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Omega. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

There you go.

[D]

There it is.

[A]

That's Generations.

[E]

We did it.

[A]

We did it. We learned a lot. What do you think is actually the greatest generation?

[E]

I think that generation.

[A]

You think that one just for what.

[E]

They went through during World War II.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'll give it to them.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They've earned it.

[D]

World War I was a picnic. But that's true.

[B]

Yeah, that's true.

[A]

But there aren't as many fun movies made about.

[D]

Yeah, exactly. We love to study World War I or World War II.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

But I don't know. There was something about that gender. Like, I, I specifically know spending time with my grandparents, it felt like they were like all kind of united. Like, it felt like that generation to me was all of the same. A similar mindset, which I don't know if that's existed like that ever since.

[E]

Yeah. Well, they didn't have social media.

[D]

Yeah. To. To divide, to make divisions.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

All right.

[D]

Anyway. Funny stuff. Funny. I'm bringing the heat today, boys.

[E]

They Were wearing those yard right here.

[A]

More about this on the Netflix special.

[B]

Yeah, this is kind of what it's all about. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. All right. Yeah. Where y'?

[D]

All?

[E]

August 31st, zany Chicago, 4pm Show.

[D]

Really?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

There you go.

[A]

Dark Tour.

[E]

Yeah, that's. That's Labor Day weekend, so you don't have to work the next day, but either way, you'll. Yeah, you know, you'll be there. September 5th, Cincinnati. September 7th, Indianapolis. September 13th, Brookhaven, Mississippi. September 16th, Franklin Theater here, Middle Tennessee. And September 21st, Perrygold, Arkansas. You have a show that night, the Simmons Bank Arena, I think, in Little Rock. So if it's a little lights, because I met First Methodist Church, Perigord.

[B]

Are you the same now? Is it near?

[E]

No, it's three hours away. But I bet I'll get some of your people.

[B]

You're gonna pull some?

[E]

Yep, I'll pull some.

[D]

So where am I? I got. Well, the special in October 4th. That's my big one.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Yeah. Seattle.

[B]

Seattle, Neptune.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So that two shows, Netflix special come out to that. It's gonna be unbelievable.

[D]

Thank you. Yeah, that's a good one. We also got Vegas coming up at Wise Guys. I just added a show in Salt Lake City at Wise Guys, Thanksgiving weekend, Chicago. Lots of stuff, but Seattle is the big one. Yeah.

[C]

Okay. Yeah, Love Seattle.

[D]

Thanks. Me too.

[A]

This weekend, Lowell, Arkansas, at the Grove. Come see me perform at the building with Dusty's face and hand on the side. After that, we're in Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta, Charleston, Tampa.

[B]

All over the place.

[A]

This is Aaron Weber, by the way.

[D]

Lol.

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Lowell, Northwest Arkansas. It's gonna call the whole area the NWA nwa.

[B]

Oh, really?

[C]

This weekend, Prestonburg, Kentucky. This is my Easier to Drive tour. And then Princeton, West Virginia. I'll be there this weekend, 22nd, 23rd. Next weekend I'm in Biloxi, Mississippi. I never been in Biloxi.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And then after that, on August, whatever. September 4th. Yes. I'm doing a show in Auburn, Alabama, which is right next to my hometown of Opelika, Alabama. And that show is close to being sold out. So get some tickets if you want to come. It's going to be great.

[E]

That's great.

[B]

Yeah. All right. I. I think I'm in Baltimore and somewhere this week. Columbus.

[E]

No writing, Pennsylvania.

[B]

Reading. Baltimore. Columbus, Ohio. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This weekend and then. Yep. All right. Have a good one. We love you. See you. Bye. Bye.

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