274: #274 Art featuring Nick Thune

Summary

The Nateland Podcast

Episode 274: "Art" featuring Nick Thune

Date: October 15, 2025
Hosts: Nate Bargatze (absent), Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Guest: Nick Thune
Studio: Nateland Studios, Nashville, TN

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Episode Overview

This episode is a lively and humorous roundtable exploring the topic of art, hosted by the regular Nateland crew alongside special guest, comedian and artist Nick Thune. The group dives into everything from painting and the definition of art, to personal stories about creating and appreciating various forms of art—including stand-up comedy itself. Along the way, they share anecdotes, discuss the intersection of humor and art, and reflect on notable artistic achievements and oddities.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Weekend Catch-ups & Tour Updates

• The episode opens with the hosts sharing updates from recent stand-up gigs, hiking adventures, and personal milestones.
• Nick Thune discusses being on the road with Nate and recent art showcases.
  • "I got into a car accident last week...my car's totaled." (09:01) Nick shares a harrowing but ultimately safe T-bone accident story right outside his house.
• Brian Bates comedically boasts about selling out a smaller Cleveland room after Nate performed at a big arena.
• Dusty Slay discusses winning "Best Comedian" in the Nashville Scene, sparking playful ribbing among the hosts about critics' vs. audience picks.
  • "You're not the people's favorite and you've always been that way. You've always been establishment and not people." – Aaron (26:59)

2. Nick Thune’s Comedy and Art Career

• Nick talks about becoming a paid regular at the Comedy Store—a major career accomplishment after 20 years of persistence.
  • "It feels like a family...the camaraderie is great." (15:50)
• Discusses his appearance on the new Office spinoff "The Paper" and HBO’s "Florida Man," describing the experience of acting out real Florida stories in a "Drunk History" style (17:43).
• Nick reveals how he started painting only because he "couldn't afford art" for his house, eventually being recognized and exhibited in galleries (68:12).

3. What is Art? Defining the Subject

• The hosts debate what qualifies as art: is standup comedy an art form? Where is the line drawn between art and entertainment?
  • "I don't think all standup comedy is art, but there is art in standup comedy." – Dusty (65:37)
• Quick rundown of the Western tradition’s three classical branches: painting, sculpture, and architecture, with other media (theater, film, music) in a broader definition (66:02).

4. Inside Nick Thune’s Creative Process

• Nick shares visuals of his work—mostly abstract and multi-layered pieces—sometimes including words covered up or left exposed, echoing how stand-up material evolves.
  • "The most fun thing I’ve learned about it is, who cares? Cover it again...None of it lasts. None of it matters. Then you might have something." (69:32)
• On learning to draw: "I never thought I’d learn how to draw...but I’ve gotten really into architectural drawing and, like, dimensional drawing of things." (70:06)

5. Childhood, Cartoons, and Artistic Practice

• The crew reminisces about childhood drawing—recreating comic strips, Family Circus, Peanuts, and more (73:23).
• Brian brings in his daughter’s painting, sparking a playful "critique" and a discussion of Picasso's quote on trying to draw with the freedom of a child (77:05).
• On skill vs. practice: "You’re made to believe you have to be naturally talented, but you can just learn to be better at things." – Dusty (70:33)

6. Art in Society, Value, and ‘High vs. Bad’ Art

• Do the greatest artists live only in the past? Nick and the hosts discuss how value in art is often about "scarcity and death," and the arbitrary nature of fame and worth (83:14).
• The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) is highlighted, poking fun at art and taste (92:02).

7. AI, Technology, and the Future of Art

• Cautious optimism about AI-generated art: Nick tried AI joke-writing, but "it was a worse joke" than his own (89:01).
  • "AI is going to be its own art. The art of AI is knowing what to tell it." – Nick (90:05)
• The group touches on AI’s impact on careers like police sketch artist and poster creation and wonders whether people will always prefer human-made art.

8. Conspiracy Theories & Odd Art Stories

• Exploration of art world oddities and conspiracies:
  • Mona Lisa: Was she da Vinci’s self-portrait? (100:33)
  • Murals at the Denver airport: New World Order conspiracies, “Blucifer,” and buried secrets (102:44).
  • The infamous botched “Behold the Man” fresco restoration that led to a tourism boom (97:42).

9. Lighthearted Listener Mail & Banter

• Multiple rounds of reading and riffing on listener comments:
  • The perils of accessible restroom stalls, regional sandwich name disputes, the “real” inventor of flight (Brazil’s Santos Dumont!), and prank calling dorms in college.
  • "If people stopped gardening, we wouldn’t have any food!" – Dusty (19:54)
  • "I got hit t-boned and...the worst part was, it was right in front of my house and my son was upstairs and I was going to get him a cinnamon roll." – Nick (09:27)

10. Bob Ross and Art for Joy

• Praise for Bob Ross as a positive, process-focused teacher whose advice translates beyond painting:
  • "The show was called The Joy of Painting...It was about just like finding joy in doing it." – Brian (98:32)
  • Bob Ross originals now fetch high prices—$32,000 to $850,000 (99:26).
• Philosophical asides about the value and joy of the act of making ("You just gotta enjoy yourself in your life." – Dusty, 99:05).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On standup comedy as art:
  "I don't think all standup comedy is art, but there is art in standup comedy." – Dusty (65:37)

• On the pain and freedom of art:
  "Who cares? Cover it again...None of it lasts. None of it matters. Then you might have something." – Nick (69:32)

• On the Nashville Scene award debate:
  "You're not the people's favorite and you've always been that way. You've always been establishment and not people." – Aaron (26:59)

• On childhood creativity:
  "It takes you ten years to learn how to draw, and the rest of your life to learn how to draw like a kid." – Attributed to Picasso (77:05, paraphrased by Nick)

• On AI jokes:
  "I wanted to see what it wrote. And it was a worse joke...just a very obvious take. Like what an audience member would say." – Nick (89:01)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment / Topic | |-------------|---------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:19 | Weekend catch-up, hiking stories | | 04:07 | Nateland showcase & upcoming tour updates | | 08:56 | Nick Thune returning, car accident story | | 13:26 | Helix mattress sponsor banter | | 14:42 | Nick becomes a Comedy Store paid regular (career reflection) | | 15:53 | Crowd work, taping his special | | 17:44 | Appearances on "The Paper," HBO's "Florida Man" | | 65:06 | Defining "art," classical & broader meanings | | 67:33 | Nick’s art: process, showing works, selling paintings | | 73:23 | Sunday comics, childhood cartoon drawing | | 77:01 | Picasso quote, child’s painting as art | | 83:14 | Are the greatest artists all from the past? | | 88:18 | AI/technology in art & comedy | | 95:37 | Police sketch art & courtroom drawing | | 97:42 | Botched art restoration generates tourism | | 98:07 | Bob Ross, process vs. product | | 100:33 | Mona Lisa conspiracies, Denver Airport Murals | | 102:56 | Banksy; Charleston graffiti spots | | 106:07 | Show plugs, where to see everyone live |

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The Nateland Tone

Through it all, the conversation is warm, self-deprecating, and full of dry, observational humor. The hosts riff with each other, calling back old bits, and never shy from poking fun at themselves, standup comedy, or "the establishment." Nick Thune's easy rapport allows deeper dives into the overlap of comedy and visual art, with practical encouragement for listeners interested in creative pursuits.

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Closing Announcements

• Where to see each host live is covered around 106:07.
• Nick Thune’s art and comedy are promoted, including his YouTube special "Born Young."
• Brian’s upcoming charity show for Prader-Willi Syndrome at Zanies, Nashville is highlighted (32:57).

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For New Listeners

This episode is a great showcase of Nateland’s signature mix of curiosity, wit, and humility—offering behind-the-scenes comedy stories, earnest advice for aspiring artists, and plenty of offbeat facts. Whether you care about fine art or just want to laugh, you’ll walk away entertained and maybe a little inspired to start your own creative project—no matter your skill level.

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"Come see our art. Won an award locally here in Nashville. Some people say it's just the newspaper picking it, but either way, I got picked." – Dusty (107:41)

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Transcript

[A]

Foreign.

[B]

Hello, folks. And hey, Bear. Welcome to another thrilling edition of the Nate Land podcast. We're here at the Nateland Studios live, Nashville, Tennessee, Music City now, Comedy City. And I'm sitting alongside my co host, Dusty Slay.

[C]

All right.

[B]

And Brian Bates.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

And sitting in with the Core 3 is our old friend, our old pal, good friend of the podcast, Nick Thune. Nick Thune. Welcome back, buddy.

[C]

All right. Welcome.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, I thought we were all gonna kind of.

[C]

Nah.

[D]

Someone that I often get mixed up for. Do you get mixed. Do people sometimes think.

[A]

I don't know if most people that know me know you.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[B]

Well.

[D]

I guess we run in different circles.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, happy to have you here, man. This is exciting. I'm excited to see you guys. It feels like it's been a while. I don't think it has been a while, but it feels. Sometimes it feels like. I don't know. I lived. I lived a long life over the weekend and it feels like it's been a while since I've seen you guys.

[A]

Feelings aren't facts. That's something that you know they'll tell you better help.

[B]

Well, we're off to the races here at Nateland Studios. Buckle in.

[C]

You seem like you got a little son. Were you out hiking?

[B]

Yeah, I did go. I did go on a hike. Yeah. One of a long hike. He killed me this weekend.

[C]

Oh, yeah?

[B]

Yeah, it was. It was intense.

[C]

How far?

[B]

About six miles. But it was. It was a lot of uphill. What did you say?

[D]

I'll joke. I said six tenths of a mile.

[A]

What was the ground like? Was it cement or was it.

[D]

No, it was.

[B]

It was outdoors. It was in the woods, man.

[A]

Cements outdoors, too.

[B]

I guess so. Yeah. This was. I was in Huntsville this weekend at Stand Up Live. Shout out to everybody who came.

[C]

Levity Live.

[B]

At Levity Live.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Did I say Stand up live?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, I did live Stand up, but it was at Levity Live.

[C]

Oh, yeah, that's what I meant. You stood Up Live.

[B]

And golly, the prices are so much lower there.

[C]

Lower than they used to be. That's. That's what, Huh?

[A]

I saw you watch the baseball game in the green room.

[B]

I did. I started. There was a game. I don't know if you saw it, Dusty. There's a. There's a playoff baseball game that went to 15 innings. Was it? Yeah. You're a Seattle Mariners fan.

[C]

Must be a good.

[B]

Congratulations.

[D]

Used to be.

[B]

This is the best Seattle Mariners season in 25 years.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So it's pretty crazy. It Was a game. It went 15 innings, so it was on in the green room. It was on in the green. I mean, it was unbelievable. And it's playoff atmosphere, so it felt like every pitch had the weight of the world on it.

[C]

Let me take all. What was. Were they. Did they keep scoring in each inning or.

[A]

No, they weren't scoring. The defense was on both sides. Was phenomenal. And. And it was like any moment, except for, you know, every time, the bottom of the inning, every time that the. The Tigers were up or. No, the Mariners were up. Yeah, it's. They could have just walked it off, but they just kept. The Tigers kept doing it. Kept doing it.

[B]

There wasn't scoring, but there was bases loaded. There was. And then it was like they got out of the jam and then. So it was like.

[C]

It was a lot of action.

[B]

It was the most exciting baseball game I've watched a long time.

[C]

Was three up, three down sort of thing.

[B]

But, dude, it. We were like, let's finish. After the show. We go, let's finish the game. It was the ninth inning. Let's just watch this. And then we're going to 10 innings and then we're in 11. And I was like, we went and met the staff. We had dinner somewhere watching the game during that. Then we left and the game's still going on. And we just. I mean, it just. It was awesome. It was one of those, like, I remember thinking, I'll. I'll want to have said that I watched this game. So I. So I made sure to watch, you know, for three hours.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It was a five hour game, but I watched three hours of it.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. At one point they go. And that was The Detroit. Detroit Tigers. 250th pitch of the game.

[B]

Yeah, it's just crazy. It's just crazy. But anyway, that's where I was hiking in a park out there in Huntsville.

[C]

All right.

[B]

And it killed me.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But I was happy.

[C]

I had to do a show after.

[B]

I had to do a show, but I had a lot of time in between. We did it early in the morning, but here we are back at the Nateland Studios. I want to give you a couple updates here. A lot happening. Nateland presents the showcase. Season three is coming to a close this Friday, October 17th. Tune into the Nateland YouTube channel for the premiere of John de Toy.

[C]

Oh, yeah, the Yo Yo Champion. That's right.

[B]

World We've talked about, literally a world Yo Yo Champion. Former Yoyo champion, friend of the podcast here. We've talked about him on the podcast. He's done shows with me. I think he's done shows with all of us and not with me.

[D]

Dusty would never have him on his show.

[A]

Does he do yo yo on stage?

[C]

I'm just kidding.

[B]

Sometimes John's great on the show.

[C]

John's great. But I just like how Aaron just put that on us.

[B]

I go now, yeah, you've never done the Nate Lynch.

[C]

No, I have. And John. John's great.

[D]

I've taken him and Paul on the road with a few times, mainly because of Paula.

[B]

But, yeah, we try to help.

[D]

John has to come along.

[C]

No, John's great. I just. You just were like, yeah, with all of us. I go, well, take it easy.

[B]

Well, be sure to check that out. Maitland will also be producing Brad Upton's next hour special on January 25th. It's two shows at the Den in Chicago. If you're in the area, make sure you grab tickets for that. Also, the set came out. John Novasad from Denver. Yeah, he just won the Big Sky Comedy Festival this weekend. So he's just on a terror right now. So make sure you go check out that set.

[C]

John's the best now.

[B]

He's a very funny guy. And Nixon, Nick's with us because he is going to be out with Nate this weekend. You're launching out of Nashville. You're going to be heading to Lincoln, Nebraska, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Texas, Tulsa. Check out the tour vlogs every week to see what those guys are up to. It's a hoot and a half out there on the big dumb eyes written down. No, that's me vamping a little bit. New dates have been announced for 2026. Go out there and see a show. A lot happening and we're happier here. We're happy you're along for the ride. Tell me about your guys's weekend, man. What'd you guys get into?

[D]

I was in Cleveland, Ohio, and, you know, I was with Nate last week in Cleveland, two nights at Rocket arena. And this week I was at Stella's Art Gallery and Skyview Lodge. But unlike Nate, I sold mine out. So I don't want to get into numbers, but who's the better comic? But I got this shirt. This is from Doug and Denise.

[B]

All right?

[D]

They said, what could be more Brian like than a cool championship shirt of the losing team in the first round?

[A]

Also, you can just. If you could see this handwriting, you could. You would assume These people are 80.

[D]

Oh, that's good handwriting.

[C]

They might have been 80.

[D]

And then they.

[B]

I mean, that's beautiful. Penmanship.

[C]

That is beautiful.

[B]

It does look like it was written home during the Korean War.

[D]

And then they said. They said, give me two. Our championship for this week is you coming to Cleveland.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

Our team is done. If you're listening, it's a Cleveland Guardians T shirt. They got put out in the first round.

[B]

And they had a great season, though.

[D]

They did.

[C]

So it was just short road. The road to the championship.

[B]

Yeah, it was a dead end.

[D]

And they got this 75% off, I'm sure. But anyway.

[A]

And the Guardians were. Who was in North America first, right?

[B]

Yeah, yeah. When Columbus landed here, he met with the Guardians.

[A]

They didn't really guard.

[C]

They weren't able to guard it. They weren't able to guard it.

[D]

Today's Guardian day, actually. All right.

[B]

Oh, it's Columbus Day today, isn't it?

[D]

And indigenous people.

[B]

All right, my bad, my bad, my bad. I'm slow, I'm slow.

[D]

My bad. All right. So that's where I was. I was in Cleveland. So thank you for everyone who came out.

[B]

Nice, dude. What about you, Nick? What have you been up to, man? It's been a while. When's the last time you were here? Have you been in the new studio yet?

[A]

I think I have been in here once.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

It's been over a year. I couldn't believe.

[B]

I think it was when you taped your special, which available now on the Na Land YouTube channel. Nick Thunes very funny special. Brian and I opened. If you're wondering why the crowd's hot right away. Yeah, that's why.

[A]

They were. We actually used a lot of the laughs from your set.

[B]

I don't think that's true.

[A]

Yeah, they did. They didn't record yours. I don't know why. I think. I think there was an audio. Something had nothing to do with you.

[D]

They got your dad introducing and then they.

[A]

Something happened right after he did that classic comedy.

[C]

You know, they go. They go. Comedy clubs always go. We'll film your set. Don't set up your camera. We'll film your.

[A]

No, yeah, we got it.

[C]

And then they go, ah, I don't know what happened, but the audio went out halfway through your set. You know the joke that you wanted cut off?

[B]

The crowd wasn't miked. Also, it's 360p and there's a watermark on it. And it'll be six months before we get it to you.

[C]

And 50 bucks and you're actually 50 buck.

[B]

Exactly.

[A]

I love how they're really starting to think they're making money off that.

[C]

It's Like, Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Now, we did both hope, and it was great. I can't believe you haven't been here since then, but.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, it has been since then. I got into a car accident last week. Yeah.

[B]

Your fault.

[A]

No.

[B]

Okay, that's good.

[A]

Yeah. No, but it feels like my fault.

[D]

Were you wearing your glasses?

[A]

Grew up Catholic, ma'.

[D]

Am.

[A]

No, I wasn't wearing my readers. I should have been.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

I bet the. Yeah, it's the worst. But my car. My car's totaled, so I've got a.

[B]

Oh, it was a bad accident.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Wow. I was in Los Angeles.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, I got hit. I got t boned, and I was alone in the car. The. The worst part about it was it was right in front of my house and my son was upstairs and I was going to get him like a cinema.

[C]

Why am I just learning that you have kids?

[A]

You didn't know that now?

[C]

I had no idea.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. Sorry. Keep going.

[A]

He's 11.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

Nick's a. He's a comedian.

[C]

I do know that.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

And he know anything about his personal life?

[A]

He heard the accident because he was. I was getting him a cinnamon roll and he rushed to the window, and the guy that hit me was already out of his car, but I wasn't. And so he. I didn't find this out till later. Like, called his mom, crying, thinking that I was, like, badly hurt. Yeah. And then he, like, ran down and I was fine, but it. Cinnamon roll me up. Cinnamon. I didn't even get to the cinnamon roll.

[B]

Oh, you're on your way there.

[A]

He hasn't eaten.

[D]

That's why he's crying.

[A]

Yeah, he is hungry. Listen, I got. He doesn't.

[D]

Mom, can you stop? Get a cinnamon roll.

[A]

Mom, dad got hit. I'm milking it for everything. Yeah. But no, I get a new car, which is fun. You know, why not? I've had the same car for 11.

[B]

Years, so it was time.

[D]

So it's a good story.

[B]

So this is like. Yeah, it all worked out.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. I'm not injured or anything.

[C]

Yeah. And they're probably giving you, you know, 150 bucks for 11 year old car insurance.

[A]

I know that's. I'm gonna find that out later today.

[B]

How was the woman? Was she apologetic?

[A]

You think it was a woman? Huh? That says a lot.

[B]

Just realizing you never said that.

[D]

I'm sorry. We just assumed it was a man.

[B]

My bad. Was he apologetic?

[A]

Yes, he apologized immediately.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

It's one of those things where, like, he came out and he's like, I'm so sorry. That was all my fault. I'm like, I wish I was recording that.

[C]

Yeah. They say you're not supposed to say it.

[A]

They say that you're not supposed to say it.

[C]

Even if you t bone someone, you get out and go, I don't know what happened. It could have been either of our.

[B]

Yeah, let's wait for the cops to sort this out. And you sit in your car.

[A]

Don't say, he lives on my street too, which is okay. Yeah. And he was. We were basically. He was taking a kid to a soccer game. I was about to take a kid to a soccer game. It was like, you know? And I. I know what it's like to get in your car and you're putting in directions, and who knows either.

[B]

Way, in a bad wreck like that before.

[A]

One time, I got hit from behind with my son in the car. We were on our way to go camping. This is great, actually. So we got hit and out like Bakersfield, and it was bad, but my car seemed fine. It was just the back of my truck. Their car was totaled, all the airbags. So I go out, get all the information. I was like, all right, well, I'm gonna take off. I'm not gonna let this ruin my camping trip. So I leave, and as we're driving, I think maybe I should call the police and just make sure. And so I call the police, and they go, yeah, we're actually on a hunt for you right now as leaving the scene of an accident.

[D]

Whoa.

[A]

And I was like, oh, well, I'm not. I'm here. And they're like, okay, we'll tell them that. We'll call them off. But, yeah, if you just leave, you have to, like, report it or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I was like, I want to go camping. I don't want to sit here on the freeway waiting for this lady ruined her car. It's her fault. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Okay. We love talking about our Helix mattresses. I've had my Helix mattress almost three years now. Can you believe it does. It does. And we all have Helix mattresses, and we all love it. I used to get the worst sleep, and I never knew why I thought my mattress was fine until I didn't. Once I got my Helix, I knew what a bad mattress finally was by having a great one.

[B]

See, I think you knew you had a bad mattress the whole time, right?

[C]

I one time took a mattress out and threw it in the dumpster. I have a video of it on YouTube. It's called Dusty. I think it's called new mattress or maybe called old mattress. It's a good video, but I won't be making any videos like that anymore because I have a good mattress. So my comedy will now be like, I got great sleep last night because I have a Helix mattress. Won't be as funny, but I'll be well rested.

[B]

It's really hurting your career, honestly. Yeah.

[C]

But I feel good and that's what's important. It's. Comedy's not as important as quality of life. And it improved how I sleep every. 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 is getting better sleep. It's great for hot sleepers, people with back pain, snorers, people with sleep apnea. It's for everyone. Even for people with none of those problems.

[B]

Yeah. Even for perfect people like you and Nick.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

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[B]

I think that's 27% off.

[C]

That would I say 2020.

[B]

It's even better than you.

[C]

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[D]

Well, since we've seen you, you had a pretty big comedy honor. You come a paid regular at the Comedy Store?

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Wow. That's awesome.

[D]

That's about as big tough as it is. Right?

[B]

All right.

[A]

It took a long time.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

It took. Well, I start. I started a long butt time trying to be long butt time.

[B]

Long butt time really isn't the. That sounds. That might be the one time I was like, just go ahead and cuss if the alternative is a long butt time.

[D]

No, no.

[A]

We'll mark that down. Sorry, guys.

[B]

That's all good.

[A]

Yeah. 20 years ago, I started trying to go up there and I almost got it. And then I got into an argument with Tommy, who was the booker at the time.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And. And I basically was like, yeah, I'm never coming back here because he sucked. And then he got fired eventually for stealing money. Like, Like a hundred thousand worth. Like a doll. Like worth of dollars. Yeah.

[B]

Worth of money.

[A]

Is that how they do that?

[D]

What do you think this money was worth?

[A]

A hundred thousand?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

But yeah. So I Made it. It's fun.

[B]

It's cool, man.

[A]

It feels like a family. I feel like, you know, it's weird. It's like the camaraderie is pretty great.

[B]

Where's your name on the wall? Is it next to some other cool names? No, no, it's not.

[A]

It is by cool names, but it's. It's on a part of the wall that no one sees except the comedians, because it's out in the back parking lot on, like, the back. Because it's all full.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's awesome, man. Congratulations.

[C]

But you're there, though.

[A]

Frankie Keones is right there, you know, some good. Yeah.

[B]

You just did Merin's podcast, too, right.

[A]

When the special came out. I did it.

[B]

Okay. Yeah. It's ending, so you. You got it.

[C]

You got.

[B]

Got that in?

[A]

Yeah. I want to see that documentary I keep seeing that is out there about his. Are we good? Or something like that?

[B]

I haven't seen it.

[A]

I don't think it's out, but it's coming out. He's been promoting it.

[D]

I was watching. Big fan of the Office, so I was excited when they launched the paper. And right out of the gate, there's Nick Thune.

[A]

Yep.

[D]

Episode two, I believe.

[A]

I think so. Yeah.

[B]

That's crazy. I watched the first episode. Tapped out.

[C]

I didn't know what's the.

[B]

I almost made it to you. The Paper. It's like another show in the Office universe.

[A]

And I think there's even a character from the Office that carried over Oscar.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Oscar. Everyone's favorite character.

[D]

Oscar's great. He's the only one.

[A]

Yeah, he was everyone's.

[B]

He's the only one, like, grounded enough that would make sense in the new show.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

It's like. It's a little less cartoonish than it is less.

[D]

You could maybe have Creed or somebody who doesn't have a big part.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Bob Vance is at the very beginning, but Creed.

[B]

The Office ends with Creed getting arrested for being a serial killer.

[D]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[B]

You know, does it. It'd be tough to explain. Yeah.

[C]

I never made it all the way to the end.

[B]

Oh, the end's great. Skip the whole last season, but go to the finale.

[A]

Oh, I'll watch the finale.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

But that was really cool. See you on there.

[A]

Yeah, that was fun. Yeah. And I just did an episode of that show the Florida man, which. I don't know if you guys watched that, but it's really funny on. It's the Danny McBride show on HBO where they do you Know the Florida stories?

[B]

Sure, yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

So every episode is a true Florida man story. Kind of like drunk history. They tell the story and then people like us act out the story.

[B]

That's. Oh, I love that idea.

[A]

Yeah, it was really fun.

[B]

I used to love that show, Drunk History. I stopped doing it, but it was awesome, man. Do you ever see that show?

[C]

No. They film some in Charleston.

[B]

Oh, really?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, they do? Yeah. Yeah. Cuz that's where Danny's from, right?

[C]

He lives there.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

He's like, I love getting drunk, but I don't believe in history.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I still believed in history when I was drinking.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, but I don't think I knew anything.

[D]

Also, Nick, last time I saw you, which I think was when we were on the road with Nate back in June, I asked you if the Mariners and the Dodgers.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

With the World Series, what would you do? And it looks like. I mean, that could happen.

[A]

It is very. Yeah.

[D]

So what are you gonna. What are you gonna do?

[A]

My son has already said he's rooting for the Dodgers, but he was born in California.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

He grew up.

[A]

Dodger fan. I mean, I would. I would root for the Mariners.

[B]

I mean, you told me you got to.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. And it. It's like the. Also the underdog. I mean, it's. And I. I was there the year, you know, in 95. I was like, at those games that like. That was like the year it was like. Oh, God, you know, when. Not when Griffey and everybody and Edgar Martinez, a rod and. Yeah. That was big. So. Yeah. It's crazy. It's crazy when a team that seems like it's built without stars.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Can go this far.

[D]

Just the guy with 60 home runs as a catcher.

[A]

I know, but did you know no one knew that was going to happen?

[D]

No.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

We talk about star power. I wonder if. Dusty. Have you heard. Did you hear about this guy at all? I know you don't follow baseball, but I'm wondering if, like, sometimes people can transcend the sport in a way.

[C]

Now I could totally zoned out. When you guys are talking about. The longer you guys talk about baseball, the further I drift from you guys.

[D]

That's why we do.

[B]

It's like us with gardening and most of your interest.

[C]

Yeah. Anything else?

[B]

There's a guy. There's a guy named Big Dumper on the Mariner. That's what they call.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Because he just has a large. She has a big butt.

[C]

You know, if people stopped gardening, we wouldn't have any food.

[B]

If we Stopped playing baseball.

[C]

We would focus on gardening, eat better.

[B]

I don't know. I don't know if everybody who follows baseball would go, what do I do with all this free time?

[A]

How much food do you think these guys eat that has to do with gardening?

[B]

Come on, man.

[C]

I think Brian will have a salad now and again. But I've seen Aaron eat one salad. But. But I was actually.

[B]

Meals have we had together a lot of meals.

[C]

And I was pretty disappointed that he had that.

[A]

Leafy greens.

[D]

Leafy greens mess with your stomach.

[A]

I just assume that you guys all have Nate's appetite. Like Nate. I've never seen it. Nate eat a salad.

[B]

I don't know. Nate eats like a four year old. Yeah, he eats like a four year old that found $10 on the sidewalk. And he goes, you know, I still remember during that drive in tour, we're at a drive in movie theater and we got a bunch of food from the concession stand. And it was like, concession stand food, hamburgers, fries, you know, And Nate was like, I think this is my favorite restaurant.

[C]

Like a league baseball. Concession stand does have a good hamburger.

[A]

I do.

[C]

But I feel like those times are changing. It used to be good.

[B]

Everything Cisco.

[C]

Now it is all Cisco. And I've been saying that for a long time.

[B]

And you, you actually have been.

[C]

People are finally catching on to the fact that comes from Cisco now. Every restaurant, unless, you know, there's a few, but most restaurants, it's all the Cisco truck.

[B]

I just watched a video, I'll send it to you, of this. This guy. They got food from restaurants all over the country and order the same thing and then brought them all together and it was like the same. It was the same.

[C]

Wait until you just. More and more things that I've said will start to come to in the.

[B]

Well, some of them haven't panned out.

[C]

But they will, though.

[B]

We just keep track of the wind.

[D]

I listen to Desti's podcast. We're Never having a Good Time. And.

[A]

Is that the name of it?

[C]

I was thinking of changing the name. It's called the we're having a Good Time podcast. But I get. I get a little.

[B]

It's called I Used to have a Good Time.

[C]

Yeah, I get a little ranty back.

[D]

In May, he's complaining about where's the sun? When are we going to get some heat? I want the heat. And then this week he's like, it's so hot out here. I'm so tired of the heat.

[C]

I've owned up to that, though, to my own Hypocrisy with that, because I was saying that, but it felt like this year it was, like, cold, cold, rainy cold. And then one day, out of nowhere, it was just unbelievably hot.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, it was like we went from, like, winter into the middle of summer.

[B]

Well, Bill Gates pulled the lever down.

[C]

Yeah. I get. I think so. And it just was, like, so hot, and I couldn't handle it.

[D]

I couldn't.

[C]

I think I'm getting older, but I couldn't.

[B]

Part of it. Do you feel the weather in your. In your joints? I just.

[A]

Because I kind of looked over.

[B]

That is a real thing.

[C]

Does your knee hurt? And you go, it's gonna rain today.

[B]

Yeah. That is a real thing.

[D]

Not really, but I think. Yeah.

[B]

I didn't know when that starts happening. I kind of look forward to that.

[D]

Yeah. Okay. No, I don't.

[B]

Okay. All right. I'm sorry, man.

[D]

I'm sorry.

[A]

Sorry. Yeah.

[B]

Nick, you ever get here, feel something in your knee, and you go, there's a squall coming?

[A]

Every now and again. No, but every now and again, I'll take a. Like, I'll go up a step, and I'll hit one step, and my knee will be like. Yeah, not this one step. And it's like, my knee would have probably gone out if I tried.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

But then it'll be fine again. Like, it's. I don't know why. It's. I'm sure it's something I'll have to deal with surgically at some point.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah, I do that. I feel like my knees about to.

[B]

Give away that feeling where you think there's another step, but it's the. It's the end.

[A]

The worst.

[B]

You look. You look so dumb in that moment.

[A]

Oh, what do you. You look dumber when you think there's another step or when you don't know there's a step.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

I think you look dumber when you don't know there's a step when you trip. As opposed to. Oh, you know, the step.

[A]

There's.

[D]

I actually went to. Back to baseball. Cleveland. I went to the 1997 World Series in Cleveland.

[B]

What were you there for?

[D]

I just wanted a buddy.

[B]

Oh, that's awesome. We drove up there.

[D]

It was the Indians and The Marlins. Marlins 1 and 7. But the game. We went to the Indians 1. It was the coldest World Series on record.

[B]

Oh, man.

[D]

Snow flurries. That's when I went to the Rock and Roll hall of Fame.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

My food store. I stayed on the first floor. I didn't realize there's multip levels.

[B]

Oh, yes.

[D]

So I just walked around the bottom floor all day, and then they're 10 minutes before they close. They're like, we're closing. And I see people coming downstairs like, what's going on up there? It's the whole rest of the COVID The next five floors in the last 10 minutes.

[A]

What was the bottom floor all just like.

[D]

It's mostly.

[A]

He's like, man, what a rip off rag time stuff.

[D]

I wish. Yeah.

[C]

Somebody should have said something to you.

[A]

They probably were like, let's see how long it takes them, the whole staff.

[C]

You should. They should have gave you another pass.

[B]

You're an at the rock and roll hall of fame. You see Brian just making circles. How do you say to him, hey, do you know that there's a. How would you say I go, hey.

[C]

Just want you to know there's, you know, there's four floors here. I didn't know if you knew. I seen you down here for a long time. I think you just got to say it. You got to go, hey, listen, buddy, listen. I don't know if it's your first time here, but there's, you know, it's four floors here.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Feel free to browse around or you yell out, you know, you just go, I'm going to the sixth floor. You know, you do something like that. So he goes, oh, here's the sixth floor.

[A]

Here's. What I'm wondering is if you realized it right away and you thought, okay, I'm going to spend. If you. If you kept going back to the same things or if you realized, I'll spend like 30 minutes on each thing that I see. Knowing how much time I don't remember.

[D]

I just remember thinking, this place is cool, I guess. But it's not that much to it. I can't remember what I paid to.

[B]

You just have to sprint through the rest of the.

[D]

Yeah, yeah. But I went last weekend when was.

[B]

There with Nate and you got to enjoy it.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

He had all the floors this time.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Did you. They open it just for you guys.

[D]

They did let us in. If you're show your badge that you're performing at Rocket arena, they let you in free, so.

[C]

Oh, so you did get a free trip in the end.

[A]

Redemption.

[C]

This was your redemption trip.

[A]

That's a cool promo. Anyone performing at the arena gets in free. I wonder if they.

[D]

Maybe I shouldn't be advertising that. So.

[A]

Yeah, because everyone's gonna try and perform there now.

[D]

Yeah, everyone's gonna try to Get a headlining date, so.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Well, you guys didn't ask about my weekend.

[B]

Well, we're still. We're still working our way down the table.

[C]

Yeah. But I was off. But I did win best local. Our best comedian by the national scene. I saw that and I think, Nate.

[B]

You got the media's pick.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

You're a media favorite. You're not. You're not the people's favorite and you've always been that way. You've always been establishment and not people. I'm just kidding, dude. I'm very happy.

[D]

I was waiting for Nate to come back so I can make that joke.

[C]

It just says best comedian.

[B]

Yeah, it's obviously awesome.

[C]

It doesn't say media pick.

[B]

Well, it's the scenes pick. It's. It's cool. I was just making a joke.

[C]

Yeah. Who was running funny? The. There were no runner ups. They just picked me. What'd you guys get?

[B]

I didn't get anything.

[D]

You're a big fan of the national scene. I know.

[C]

Would you guys get.

[D]

I can't believe Dusty's joking.

[C]

Yeah, well, what did you guys get though?

[B]

I've never got anything. I don't read the Nashville Scene. Like most of the city.

[D]

I got a participation trophy.

[C]

Well, I'm just saying, guys, I won and then Nate won first best stand up comic. So this podcast, we're rocking it. So you guys got to get up in there, try to get the media to pick you or some fans.

[B]

I would never bow down to the media like you have. Okay, guys, the joke is that's obviously not the case. That's the joke I was making and I'm very happy for you. It's a very cool thing.

[C]

Evident now why you're not winning anything from the.

[A]

Did you have to live here to get that is nominated?

[C]

You do have to live here.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So we don't know what would have happened if I was involved.

[C]

You would have. You would have. Yeah. You would have got at least second. At least second.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Maybe. I'd hope maybe first by the audience, but clearly not seeing what it meant to me, but.

[D]

Well, congratulations.

[C]

Yeah, well, it's a little late for that. Brian.

[B]

Too.

[D]

No, no, no, no.

[C]

I'm not being sensitive.

[D]

No, it's not too late. I'm not being sincere, but it's not too late.

[C]

It is too late. It light, guys. It's too late.

[D]

Well, something to shoot for someday. You were also the best comedian in Charleston, right?

[C]

I was.

[B]

I wonder how many guys have won best comedian in multiple cities like that.

[C]

Well, I Don't know. I don't know, guys.

[A]

That's something to.

[D]

All right, we're getting these comments.

[C]

Yeah, I just thought, well, I was trying to build up to a cooler thing, and then you. You kind of suck the air out of it. But I was going to say that me and Nate both wonder in this thing. So this is good. It's a good look, but you really suck the.

[B]

It's a great look.

[C]

You suck the air out.

[B]

It's a great look.

[C]

And you. And I'm being overly serious, and I think for comedic. You guys are. You guys are really taking it the wrong way. I'm also wearing my Hyman shirt. Whoa.

[B]

Little golf shirt that they sent you.

[C]

They gave me the shirt and I forgot about it.

[B]

Speaking of hymens, I'm going to be in Charleston, South Carolina, this weekend, home of Highlands Hyman Seafood.

[C]

And I think that.

[B]

And I'm going to go by there and say, dusty Slates, you should go eat there.

[C]

Because you. Last time you were there, you went to Fleet Landing.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Which is a great restaurant. But then Zach Townsend was in Charleston, and he was like, where should I go? And then he goes, oh. And then by the time I got back to him, he goes, oh, we're at Fleet Landing. I go, it sounds like an Aaron recommendation.

[B]

Well, he was like, yes, it is.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, now I want to go to.

[C]

So you guys got to go to Hyman's.

[D]

Yeah, well, he looked in the Charles magazine. The critics picked Hyman's, but the fans picked Landing.

[C]

Well, you messed up.

[A]

Up.

[C]

You messed up.

[B]

You got to go to Hyman this weekend. Wit's End comedy.

[A]

I've never heard Hyman said so many times. Meaning what it mean? I don't know what it means.

[B]

It's a restaurant.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Last name. The last name's Hyman.

[B]

It's probably a confusing conversation if you don't know, but. Yeah, that's a seafood restaurant that Dusty worked at and has talked about in a lot of his. Lot of his bits.

[C]

You went?

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

When I was in Charleston, I went to Hyman's, and I went in there just to find somebody who knew you. And I met, I think, the woman who runs it. I mean, her and her husband.

[C]

Oh, I don't know.

[D]

Is it a family?

[C]

It is a family, but I didn't know his wife to ever be there.

[D]

Okay, well, there's an older lady who said she knew you, and Was her name Rita? Yeah, Rita.

[C]

Rita. Yeah. She's just friend of the family, I think Rita, the greater I don't remember.

[B]

Is that really what they call. Yeah, she's a hostess.

[C]

She's like a greeter. She just kind of walks around.

[B]

Rita the Greeter.

[D]

And somebody sent in a comment. I was saving it for a future episode, but they said that they went to Hyman's just this past week and that they said, do you guys know Dusty Slay? And they're like, no, him. And they took him back and showed him a back room, and they said he performed at a Christmas party. Or a Christmas party here.

[C]

Whoa. Oh, yeah.

[A]

How much other stuff are you saving for future episodes?

[D]

Well, I bring it out when we need it.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

That's a weird thing to say for future episodes.

[D]

I mean, I got a whole log of stuff. There's stuff I save for guests.

[C]

Lots of secrets.

[D]

Secrets? It's not secrets. It's just like when we have special guests on. You know, I save it the right occasion. So that one I was probably saving for. I don't know.

[B]

Lots of secrets.

[C]

Restaurants, Christmas parties.

[D]

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

[A]

That was for the Christmas episode. He was.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I performed at quite a few Hyman's Christmas parties. I didn't perform. I didn't perform. I don't think I performed at the one at the restaurant, though.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

They might have said that, but I don't think I did.

[D]

All right, well, maybe that's why I didn't put it in.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

But then I felt like we needed it now, so.

[A]

Yeah, pulled it out.

[B]

Well, I'm there at Wits End Comedy Club this weekend. If you'll come out to Charleston, South Carolina.

[C]

I'll be in Wilmington, just above.

[B]

Oh, how about that?

[C]

Just above. You swing by.

[B]

Come to both.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

A little road trip.

[A]

How far?

[C]

About three and a half hours. Come see me on Friday. Come see you on Saturday.

[B]

All right. Yeah, that works.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. I could use you on Friday, too.

[C]

Me, too. Me, too.

[B]

Also, I want to say real quickly before we move on that my. We have the fundraiser show we've talked about a little bit on this podcast, but it's next week. It's the 22nd. It's put on by me and my wife. Mostly my wife, but it's for an organization called pwsa. PWSA usa. It's the organization for. For Prader Willie Syndrome, which. Which our daughter has that show. Sold out. It's sold out next week. They've raised $140,000 already for the organization, which is pretty crazy. If you go to Pradders, how much.

[C]

Of that do you get silly?

[B]

I get zero. I get zero.

[D]

I got a 50, 50 door deal.

[B]

We got a lot of. We got a lot of very nice people donating their time to. To make that a really great show. So I do want to say if you want to read more about it or donate or anything like that. Prodder. Silly. P R A d e r. Silly.com has all the info on there, but I'm excited about that. That's next week.

[D]

Nice.

[B]

At Zany's right here in Nashville.

[C]

Who came up with the title for that website?

[B]

I came. Well, I came up with Prader Silly as a joke and then Lucy really ran with it.

[D]

Okay, who built that website?

[B]

Not me. I bought the domain name and pointed it there.

[D]

Gotcha.

[B]

But the condition is called Prader Willie. And I was like, yeah, the show should be Pradder Silly. You know, like a bazinga that kind of. To have that. She was like, yep, that's it. Oh, man.

[D]

So that's awesome.

[B]

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[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, shoot. I'm looking to you, Brian. I just got the energy, like you're controlling it.

[A]

I always thought, I thought that he was the one that did every time.

[D]

No, I mean, when Nate was here, he would kind of start it and run it.

[B]

I saw a comment last week that said, please don't let Dusty run the episode. We need him to bring the comedy oh, it's. And when you're bring the funny. It was. You start to read it and you think they're insulting you, but they're actually giving you the highest compliment, where they're like, give Aaron and Brian the clerical work. Let Dusty be there for the jokes.

[C]

Well, I appreciate that.

[B]

It was written by the Nashville Scene. Sorry.

[C]

What'd they say about you?

[B]

They have never talked about me, dude. They never thought.

[D]

He's got a great laugh.

[B]

Comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and our new email. Mail. Mail M A I [e-mail] My headphones.

[C]

Are too loud now.

[B]

Are they really?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Maverick Pitch.

[C]

When he yells like that, how does that make you guys feel?

[D]

It sounds fine.

[A]

Nothing. I don't feel anything anymore.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Was I yelling just now?

[C]

Well, I think my headphones are too loud.

[B]

What did I. What did I yell?

[C]

Mail.

[B]

Oh, my bad. Mail.

[C]

No, it feels better now.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

But. But it was like. It really hit me.

[B]

I can really. Yeah, I have trouble modulating my volume sometimes. I'm sorry.

[C]

No, it's fine. Everybody else said it was fine.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Maverick pitchforward.

[C]

I thought it said Pitchfork the whole time.

[B]

That's why you laugh when you first saw it.

[C]

Yeah, I've been looking at that for a long time.

[B]

Maverick Pitchford. You need to borrow his readers.

[C]

Maybe.

[B]

It's official.

[C]

I need two glasses.

[B]

I forgot.

[C]

I need two glasses.

[B]

Maverick Pitchford. It's official. I can't listen to this podcast in public anymore. When Dusty reminded Brian that he said he didn't know anyone from Connecticut, then pointed out he just said his wife was from there, I lost it. Spit my coffee out in the middle of a coffee shop. Worth it. Thanks for the laughs.

[C]

Thanks, Maverick.

[A]

Again. It sounded like it was going to be bad at first. I can't listen to this podcast. And I almost stopped listening right there.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

Well, Maverick, that's what I deal with on this podcast all the time.

[B]

I.

[C]

People act like all. Everything I say is crazy. And then Brian doesn't even know where his wife's from.

[D]

Apparently not. And Nick. No. Vicky. People pointed out Nick, which I either I didn't know or at least forgot.

[C]

That's excusable, though. Your wife.

[A]

Why? Because of the.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Carrie Knowlton. I live in Connecticut and was unaware that Subway originated there. It's also surprising because we call them Grinders, not subs. So, yeah, Grinder Way is a much worse name for a restaurant, I think.

[C]

Why do you. How do you think the. The app Grinder Affected this name of that sandwich. Yeah.

[B]

I think a lot of people started calling them hoagies.

[A]

A lot of. And a lot of, you know, men, you know, husbands that got caught with Grindr on their phone, like, oh, that's my hoagie app.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm just trying to get a.

[C]

You know, I love sandwiches. Is that not what this is for? I thought this is where you meet men that bring you sandwiches.

[B]

Donna Jenkins. Guys, I love the podcast, but I couldn't let this one pass. How did you do an episode on Connecticut without mentioning the holiday classic Christmas in Connecticut starring Barbara Stanwyck? What an oversight. Also, the show Gilmore Girls was set there. I did know that Stars Hollow. The show premiered 25 years ago and is still having. Is having a huge resurgence. It is. I apologize for that. Should have thrown that in.

[C]

Yeah, you should have Christmas in Connecticut, though. I think that might have only been popular in Connecticut.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And Barbara Stanwyck. I. Maybe I should know that name, but it's not ringing about.

[D]

I think she's from the 40s and 50s, maybe.

[B]

Okay. If. If this. If this is an ironic message. It's very funny, Donna, but I've never heard of this. This movie.

[D]

I wish somebody could look it up. But you're reading.

[B]

That'd be great.

[A]

So I like how he's like, I think it was from the 40s or 50s or something. I don't know. It's.

[D]

I think she's.

[B]

Maybe you can shine some light on my thought process, because it's. It's a difficult balance I'm trying to strike as the guy with the computer, because I feel like a lot of the great moments in this podcast, a lot of the funny conversations with the three of us are when we don't know the right answer to something. Right.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So how long do I let that simmer and. Or do I just immediately look up the right answer? Or do I just let us.

[C]

I think that's just life in general. Right. When. When. Remember, you know, you just used to go, who was that in that? And then no one ever knew, and you couldn't look it up. And then you go, you just didn't know.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And we think now we go, yeah, but now we're learning, but we don't need to know who Barbara Stanwyck is. It's not going to enhance our lives.

[A]

No, it used to. And I was. This book I'm reading right now, like, this guy's in a cab with a girl on a date, and it takes place when self. Like, when Cell phones were just starting, like, you know, barely anyone had them. And he's starting to say, like, you know, they're not having a good date. And he's like. And I looked over at her, and in my mind, I was. I thought, and she's in her phone.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

But then I was like, oh, yeah. No, she was, like, looking at her compact makeup thing, like, you know, whatever. But there were no phones then, so she couldn't step into another world and text her friends and all of a sudden do this. She was stuck in a bad date.

[B]

She had to just be in the moment.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Wow. She had to look at herself in her compact mirror and go, what are you doing.

[B]

Michelle Cuddy. Aaron was so spot on. That's great.

[A]

Leave it there.

[B]

Yeah. And impressive.

[A]

There we go.

[B]

Yeah. And impressive with presidential facts. And then five seconds later says that Connecticut was so important in the Revolutionary War because of events like Lexington and Concord, but unfortunately, that's Massachusetts. I love the mix of really good knowledge and mistakes mixed in comedy gold, even if unintentionally. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. I thought. I thought my whole life that was in Connecticut. Lexington and Concord.

[C]

I had no idea. I wouldn't have known to correct you.

[B]

You know, shot heard around the world. Isn't that what they called it?

[D]

Yep.

[A]

It's too bad that all those places aren't. They don't have, like. Because Gettysburg Address. They actually. There was an address there, you know, you knew.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

That all these places.

[B]

Yeah. Who knows?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Who knows?

[D]

You also said, jokingly, I'm about 90. Sure.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

About Connecticut being the show me state.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

And we didn't make that obvious. It was a joke. And a lot of people called us out on it.

[A]

Isn't that Missouri?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I didn't know. It didn't sound right that it was Connecticut, but I didn't know.

[B]

I got, like, three bits I do in everyday life that never get a laugh, but I just. I hang on to them. Somebody says, I was in Ohio. Oh, the Sunshine State.

[C]

Right.

[B]

That gets nothing. Or you go, I was in Omaha. Ah, the Windy City. Never gets a laugh. The other one I do is when I got people in the car and I'm turning like I'm just merging to another lane. I like, act like I'm doing a big turn on the steering wheel. It's never gotten a laugh.

[A]

Oh, the best. My. This is my favorite. I still believe in it, you know? You know, when you drive over the. The things that you can't reverse over the.

[B]

Like for returning a rental car. Yeah.

[A]

Like, anywhere you're. Wherever they have that. Like, you can't back up. Like, you go over the first part. Do this next time you're doing it. This is my favorite thing to do to people because everyone in the car is aware, like, oh, we're driving over those things now. Right. When you drive with the front wheels, hit your brakes and act like you're putting it in reverse and go like that.

[B]

Oh, that's good. That's good.

[A]

It's a nice. It's a nice little kind of.

[C]

I like that.

[A]

That. Yeah.

[C]

See that?

[B]

Like that better than.

[C]

I think this is why that works. And your other jokes aren't working, because when you go. When you go, oh, the Sunshine State, I think people in their head go, Ohio.

[D]

I don't think that's right.

[C]

But they don't know. So they're like. And you say it confidently. And they go, I don't know. Maybe it is. That doesn't sound.

[B]

But people know Louisville, Kentucky's not the Big Apple, you know?

[C]

Yeah, but I just think there's something.

[A]

They might think, oh, maybe that's what they call themselves, you know, like, as a joke.

[C]

And then this thing. I don't know. You'll have to explain that thing again to me.

[B]

Do you know? I'll do what you're doing. I'll do it.

[D]

Like, if you're listening, has his hands up.

[C]

I'm in the car.

[B]

So now he's turning them, you know, like, you do a big turn where you. You do this with the steering wheel where, like, you.

[A]

Yeah, he's driving.

[B]

I do that, but I'm only moving over one lane. But I act like it's a huge turn.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

I don't say anything. I just do it. The only person who ever even acknowledged it in the car was Monty Mitchell. And he goes, what are you doing? And it's pretty funny, right? And nobody's thought it was funny, but I'll do it. Time we're in the car together when we go out to eat together and I get a salad. Brandy. Fuzzy Schwartz, what are you heading in the. Golly, Fuzzy Schwartz.

[C]

All right, Fuzzy.

[B]

I'm in a. Yeah, the Big band in the 30s.

[C]

It sounds like she's wearing, like, shorts made of fur.

[B]

Oh, fuzzy shorts.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I wish the end credits were still over. The blurred video that kept rolling so we could see how fast Dusty got away from that cat.

[C]

O. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Pretty fast.

[C]

Yeah. Anytime an animal comes in here, I'm ready to leave.

[D]

Get a hairless cat on table. And fuzzy didn't care for it, apparently.

[C]

Well, she knew that I didn't care for it.

[B]

That cat was not fuzzy, tell you that.

[D]

No, that was.

[C]

No, that's what I was. That's a weird cat. Oh, I am. I am not into hairless animals. It's.

[B]

It's an odd looking thing. It's odd looking.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I guess I could understand how somebody could find it cute.

[A]

Those cats have propecia. Is that what that's called?

[B]

Alopecia.

[A]

Alopecia.

[C]

I think propecia is to grow hair.

[D]

Yeah, I mean, I hear. I don't know.

[A]

I wonder if that. So alopecia is. You don't have hair, but propecia.

[C]

Are they saying Al is, like, negative? Yeah, Al. Yeah.

[B]

That Rachel Johansson. Dusty, it broke my heart to hear you question the Wright brothers and the first flight. Please learn more about the Wright brothers, because I think you would love them. They were kind of misanthropes when they first flew. No one. What's that?

[D]

I'm just. Misanthropes. Like that's going to mean something.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[C]

I'm on board.

[B]

When they first flew, no one believed them, so they had to go to great pains to prove them it. When the first crowd saw them fly a plane, the crowd started screaming.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, I bet. And I'm sure they're great guys, but I just. I don't. I don't believe it. I just, you know, at some point, someone had to fly first. I get it. But I just never believe whoever they say did it first. I believe somebody else did it. And then somebody else was like, no, we can take advantage of this.

[B]

We can kill this guy and do it.

[D]

Yeah, we'll do these two guys who run a bicycle shop. Yeah, that would make sense.

[C]

Well, but that's the thing. They tell you they run a bike.

[D]

Shop, but it's all up front.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, but where's the money coming in from?

[C]

All right.

[D]

Exactly.

[B]

Like a mattress firm.

[C]

It's like, yeah, exactly.

[D]

Who's Paulos?

[C]

You ever buy a mattress from a mattress store? I know we all have Helix mattresses, but one time I bought a mattress from a mattress store and they had to order it. And it was a real hassle because I called the it. This was Tempur Pedic, and I had to call the hotline, and the hotline was like, oh, did you order it from the store? Yeah, we can't help you.

[B]

I thought the buildings were, like, huge. Do they not have mattresses in there?

[C]

Not the One I wanted. Oh, man, it's a real hassle.

[B]

Next comment. Joao Hawa. Roberto. J. Roberto. It's J. O, A with a. What do you call the squiggly line over in A. Tilda. Is that what that is?

[C]

Swinton?

[D]

I don't know.

[B]

Jo. Tilda. Swinton. O Roberto. I'm not sure how many people in Brazil are Nateland fans, but I'm doing my part spreading the word about how great you all are. Dusty mentioned that he is not so confident about the Wright brothers achievements, and I want to say that he is right.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Every Brazilian already knows that Santos Dumont is the one who actually invented the airplane. It is time for the world to know the truth. Joao, I just want to say. Just Sculpe. Well, I'm Portuguese.

[C]

I appreciate you, because I'd never heard the name Santos Dumont, but I assume that this is.

[B]

You're immediately on board with this?

[C]

Yes, I am.

[B]

But Santos is claiming, just like the Wright brothers claim, that he was the first one to do it. Why do you believe him?

[C]

Well, because I'm saying he. Santos doesn't have the back.

[A]

Right.

[C]

So I think that makes sense to me. Some guy. I don't know if Santos was poor. I'm thinking he was poor and he figured out how to work this. And then they go, ooh, how can we make this an American achievement?

[B]

Probably. Alberto Santos Dumont. He died in 1932. He's one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter than air and heavier than air aircraft. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers. He's a rich silver spoon. He dedicated himself to aeronautical study and experimentation in Paris, where he spent most of his adult life. So this guy is a rich kid. A rich kid who hung out in.

[D]

France, one of the most famous people in the world. Early 20th century.

[B]

He's a national hero in Brazil, where it is popularly held that he preceded the Wright brothers. Wow. A lot of roads, schools, monuments, and airports there are dedicated to him. And his name is inscribed on something I can't pronounce. How about that?

[C]

Well, how about that?

[B]

I've never heard of this.

[C]

I was wrong about him being poor, but.

[B]

But you just look at his picture, and I kind of believe that guy flew first.

[C]

I think so. Look at this guy.

[B]

He looks like he's seen some things in the sky.

[A]

I mean, he looks like he's on opiates, to be honest.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. His eyes are pretty glossed over.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Those pupils are screaming.

[B]

Isn't that back? I Don't know when this picture was taken, but I was always taught these pictures, you'd have to sit there for, like, 30 minutes while they did the picture. Right. So that's why none of them were smiling, because he can't hold the smile.

[A]

Nor McDonald had it. Did you see that? He did that on Letterman where he. He's like. His grandfather has one picture, and he just looks angry because he's just saying, I got to get back and feed the hogs.

[B]

Yeah. This guy's. I gotta get back up to the sky.

[C]

I wish I knew how to pronounce this Roberto guy's name.

[B]

Joel.

[C]

Joel.

[B]

Let me. Let me look it up. It's okay. It's pronounced Joao.

[C]

Joao.

[B]

Joao.

[C]

Joao.

[B]

It's the way it's written out is ZH Dash. Wow. With a nasal ow at the end of the sound.

[D]

Sound. Why did you need to know that? Dusty.

[B]

Well, I want to give him his due because he had Dusty's back. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Right?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Let's. Let's hear where this sounds.

[D]

I'm so old, I can't even hear it. In Brazil, it is said as.

[C]

That doesn't sound like how people are saying it. Yeah.

[B]

Thank you, Joan. I like that name. I love Brazil. I was not. I've been there. Probably not going back.

[C]

I'm happy that we're getting the word out about Santos Dumont.

[B]

That's right.

[D]

You started it.

[B]

This is going to be the podcast that breaks it.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Max. Goodness.

[C]

The most goodness.

[B]

You're gonna have maximum goodness. When Aaron reads ads, it feels like your buddy experienced something amazing and is selling you on the experience as if you were there. Whereas Dusty's ads reads like you were part of a group project in school and one member didn't participate at all. And when you get to the class presentation, you all decide he's going to earn his part of the grade and tell him to do the oral presentation.

[C]

Yeah. That's how I learned to read out loud.

[B]

Yeah. Really?

[A]

By doing. By doing these ads.

[C]

By not participating.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And then they would be like, you read like in your class. This really happens.

[C]

Yeah. I used to host trivia, too.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. That's where I dressed as Elvis. Right? Is that when you're dressed as Elvis that one time?

[C]

No, no, I was. Then I was doing. I was hosting Elvis Bingo.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

You just do trivia as yourself. Yeah, I was like, fortunately, they didn't.

[C]

Make me dress up as Elvis every week when I did trivia.

[D]

That was in Charleston, right?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I was Hyman's Is I was that guy, the guy that Max Goodness is describing. That was me. In, in college, we had a lot of group projects and I would contribute nothing.

[C]

I'm gonna say that until the presentation, you get a lot of compliments and I. On your ad reading. And I think that's because I compliment you so often. I think people go, you know what? Dusty's really backing up.

[D]

Dusty's always right.

[C]

And if the rest of the podcast could get on board with that sort of thing.

[B]

Wait, what do you.

[C]

I think this would be a supportive. More supportive podcast.

[A]

Oh, like they were complimenting you more.

[C]

Often if we were all supportive, supporting each other.

[A]

Well, I mean, I feel like I believe that he got praise for his ad reads and you got a comment where you got praised for your comedy.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And then you also got a article.

[C]

Yeah, well, that's true. That is true.

[D]

So you're in the lead. I've gotten nothing so far.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I'm the one that picks the comments.

[C]

Yeah. But I would, I would imagine there's a lot of good compliments for you that you leave out. You're a humble guy.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

There's not.

[C]

But thank you, Dusty.

[D]

Dusty's always right. That's what I say.

[B]

Dusty's always right. Danny Eben, as a woman with a disability, I'd like to respectfully speak on the accessible bathroom thing. We can't just hold it in the same way. I've run into some very aggravating and embarrassing situations that could have been avoided had an able bodied person not been in the accessible stall. Hope that helps.

[C]

Well, it does help, but I also, I stand by the idea that just don't take all day in the stall. Just use the stall and then get out of there. Don't pull out your phone. Don't be on there. I think all. I'm having a lot of trouble with these headphones. I think all stalls need a little switch on it to let people know. Hey, people are waiting. Let's wrap it up in here. I. I sympathize with you.

[A]

You think that they need to have a switch.

[C]

Yeah, I think so.

[A]

Huh.

[C]

I think because like, if you go to the. Because if you have a good stall system where you can't see through the cracks, you're just sitting in there.

[A]

It's nice.

[C]

Yeah, it is nice. But you may not know.

[B]

Settle in.

[C]

You may not know people are waiting.

[A]

Right. That's how I like to go. Yeah, Yeah. I don't like to know people are out there.

[C]

People come up and they go, you're.

[B]

Saying you need a little bit of pressure.

[D]

I don't.

[B]

Hey, hey.

[A]

Yeah. I don't want any of that pressure.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

We said we want a ring doorbell, camera and then a screen so you can see who's waiting. Maybe we can make that happen.

[C]

Yeah. Come on. Ring doorbell.

[B]

Yeah. Or Vivint. Remember Vivint? They were sponsored 15 years ago.

[A]

You.

[B]

Let's get Vivint on that.

[C]

But, Danny.

[B]

Yeah, that's a great point, Danny.

[C]

Sympathize.

[B]

It's a good example of. I. You know, I never would have thought about that, so I appreciate you letting us.

[A]

Never would have thought that people with disability needed the disability stall.

[B]

We knew that. But, but, but we were talking last week, we were like, well, everybody has to wait.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Why. Why do we. Like, why don't you have to wait the way other people have to wait?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like. Well, because our situation's different.

[A]

Because they can't go on. The majority of them.

[B]

Yeah. They can't go on a regular stall. Some of them. So appreciate that. Danny Ebon. Daniel Watson. I would encourage Aaron to look up on son Durant's Anson Dorrance before claiming Gino is the most dominant coach in college. Well, you know what? You're encouraging me, Daniel. I'm going to go ahead and look this guy up. Anson Durant typed it in wrong.

[A]

Absorb difference.

[B]

Retired coach. Okay. He's a retired American soccer coach. Well, I'm gonna stop you right there.

[A]

I don't.

[B]

Could not care less.

[C]

Daniel. Yeah. Don't bring. I mean, like, not to be so, like. We don't care about soccer, but don't. We're talking about basketball here.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Don't bring in.

[B]

We're talking about the Big Four.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, the Big Four sports.

[A]

This guy was born in Bombay.

[B]

Another reason to not care about. I'm just kidding. Yeah, no, he was. He was the head coach of North Carolina women's soccer, where they were just unbelievably dominant. They went on a 101 game unbeaten streak.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

That's 21 of 41 soccer championships.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's insane. That's insane. Women's soccer. Bit of a blind spot for me as a sports fan. I'm sorry about that.

[D]

I'm glad.

[A]

It's crazy because they get all that TV coverage. Yeah.

[B]

That. That is more dominant by the numbers. That's more dominant than Gene.

[C]

What's that? Yeah, I mean, what's the competition?

[D]

The guy we mentioned last week that we can't say is, like, Gino Ariema.

[B]

Yeah. Who's the head coach of UConn women's basketball. And then who else is even in the.

[D]

John Wooden.

[B]

John Wooden. I could make an argument for Saban.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Just because I think it's like a. A different era, and it's just. Football's different. But anyway, good to know. I'm learning a lot. See, this is what this is all about. Trying to. We're all trying to become better.

[D]

Educational podcast.

[B]

We're all trying to become better people here. Ella Pillsbury.

[C]

That can't be the real last name. If it is, I hope you're. You're involved in that family. Yeah. Because otherwise, wow. It was a brutal. Brutal childhood.

[B]

Pillsbury. You hope that. Dude, if you're a fat kid.

[C]

Yeah, you gotta.

[B]

Your name was Pillsbury.

[C]

You gotta be real thin.

[D]

Oh, man.

[B]

You were wondering why anyone would want their phone number published in a phone book. Actually, if you did not want it published, you had to pay a fee to have an unlisted phone number. Things were different back in the day. That's crazy.

[D]

You know, I kind of remember this now.

[C]

Yeah, I remember it, too. But what was nice about the phone book back in the day, it's like, really, Like, I'd be at my dad's house. House, Right. He had in Laette. I mean, it was a very small phone book pamphlet. And you would go, oh, I need to talk to, you know, Frank Jones or whatever. And then you just flip through. There's Frank Jones. You call him, you go, hey, Frank, blah, blah, blah. You know, it's pretty nice. Just easy to do where you don't have to go, do you know Frank's number? Frank's number's in the phone book. And if you didn't answer, his address is in there, too.

[A]

We used to do prank. I mean, it was made prank phone calling so easy, too.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

You know, you just.

[C]

Just.

[A]

And okay, we're going to call random number.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And we know their name.

[B]

What would you do? What were your prank calls? Do you remember the script?

[A]

I remember. So what we got. I got a hold of a. A phone book for the A dorm at Seattle Pacific University.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And so I started calling with my friends, each dorm saying I was with the. This was like in 99, right. Or 2000 or something, saying that I was with the computer department or whatever what it's called. And we're having an issue, and we need you to change your. And I'd walk them through, basically a step on, like, you need to get to your computer. Okay. Go to Settings, Go to the mouse. Okay. I need you to click it to left handed. Okay, good. Okay. And now I need you to put it as slow as you can. The speed of it. Okay, good, good, good. And now I need you to lock your screen. Okay. And back then, if that happened, it would take you about five minutes to get your screen.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Because you're just like. You have to be like. And then you get there to do it and you hit the wrong. You know, they just get confused. It was just, you know, simple stuff.

[B]

That's fun stuff.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's more elaborate than anything I've heard that sounds like.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, that's like. You're like, well on your way to a different road. Could have led you to scamming people out of money.

[A]

Yeah, we were recording them too, and like.

[D]

Yeah, wow.

[A]

Yeah. Adding a little backstory to the character. Yeah, I loved it.

[D]

What would you do with the recordings?

[A]

Not, I mean, nothing.

[C]

Show them to your friends when they came over. Yeah, yeah. You drink and you go. Hey, listen to this.

[B]

Next comment. Faith Warwick. Warwick, done.

[C]

Remember him?

[B]

Oh, yeah, Faith Warwick. I'm beginning to think next year's Bargetsy bowl experience on the Nateland Cruise is really just part of Dusty's new mission to reinvent the halftime show. But hey, hey, I'm all for it.

[C]

Well, everybody's doing it. I don't think it's my idea, but I, I'm, I'm for it. I think we all should have our own halftime shows.

[D]

Well, there are some alternative halftime shows that are coming about, I've heard, but yeah, we're going to be on the cruise. And from what I understand from Nate, we can't see the halftime show.

[A]

Oh, we're going to be on the cruise during the Super Bowl.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

God, I'm.

[B]

The Titans aren't in it.

[D]

Hey, we got a new coach, so.

[C]

Oh, is there a new now?

[D]

Well, I got fired. Okay, so we'll see.

[C]

I'm sure the.

[D]

By the time this comes out, I hope we do.

[C]

I'm sure the Instagram feed is filled with comments to get the old coach back. Yeah, that's what everybody used to do. They go on the Instagram. They'd go, we need a new coach. And they'd go, I hear Mike Vrabel's available.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I did that. Well, he's come to town this Sunday. The Patriots come, and I think the ownership was like, like, look, if we get beat by him and fire our coaches, it'll look like just because of Rabel. So let's go ahead and fire him now.

[C]

Yeah, I think it's a good move. I don't even know who the coach was, but things are not looking good. I think it's a good move.

[B]

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[C]

I mean, they won. They didn't. They did. They did win one, but it was very close at the very end.

[D]

They didn't even win. The Cardinals lost. That.

[C]

That. Yeah.

[D]

Crazy.

[B]

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[B]

On well, we're all professional artists. Well, so to speak. Right.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

State of comedy is an art form.

[C]

It is.

[D]

Do you need to get paid to be a professional?

[B]

I think definitionally, yeah.

[D]

All right, I'm out. I'm joking.

[B]

I would never call.

[D]

I would look at me like, he's never been paid.

[C]

No. I know. You guys are taking me so serious.

[D]

Well, you weren't smiling.

[B]

Yeah, it was 10:30. I'm happy you're back, but it was tense.

[C]

Smiling with my eyes.

[D]

Well, we have a professional. When I think of when I. I don't.

[B]

Yeah, you're right. Sorry.

[D]

That's all right. When I think of art, there's a different lot of different. I think of painting. That's what I think of. Don't you think that's what most people first thought is for?

[B]

Sure.

[C]

I think of drawing similar vein.

[B]

I don't think people go, let's go to Levity Live and see an artist this weekend. I don't think they see that.

[A]

Yeah, they don't. And then when. And then when you try and say you're an artist, people are like, you're a comedian.

[C]

Yeah. I don't think all standup comedy is hard, but there are. There is.

[D]

I agree with that.

[C]

There is our art. Stand up comedy.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Where's the line drawn?

[C]

I don't know.

[D]

Name someone right over it and write.

[C]

I'm not going to be the one to draw the line. But I just feel like you see stuff and you go, well, this is art. And then this is, you know, you're a clown. Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

Well, there are. In the Western tradition, that's usually.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

The three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture and architecture, theater, dance and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media are interactive or such as interactive media are included in a broader definition of the arts. But generally speaking, visual arts are painting, sculpture and architecture.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

And you paint. Do you sculpt?

[B]

Helped?

[A]

No, I've never tried, but it's. I find that as I'm going through like learning about art that I keep trying new things because it's kind of. Kind of leads. You just kind of get led to trying something, you know, over and over again. But I wouldn't even call myself a professional artist. I have sold some paintings, though. That's nice. One NBA player bought one of my paintings.

[B]

Really?

[C]

Really.

[A]

And a late night talk show host that I didn't. I wasn't involved. I didn't like. It's not. It wasn't Jimmy Fallon, who you'd think Arsenio Hall. Yeah.

[D]

Jay Leto.

[A]

No, no.

[D]

Can you say the NBA player? Okay.

[A]

I don't think. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. He didn't like.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

You gotta have some client convention.

[D]

What is it, attorney client privilege?

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Confidentiality.

[A]

I was very surprised, though. It was very. Because I was at an art show. I had my paintings in a show and. And these. I guess, people that are rich, they send people to look at paintings and then they buy for them. They have people that buy their art. But I do know that it went into his baby's room. So that's. My Art's good for baby rooms, I guess.

[D]

Can you tell us what the art was?

[A]

Yeah, it was just a abstract kind of piece. There's some words in it. Like, a lot of my stuff will have some words.

[D]

Can you pull up Nick Thune Art?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

We get a look at what we're talking about here.

[A]

That's the painting on the top corner, actually, that.

[B]

This one right here? Yeah, That's a cool painting.

[C]

It looks like a sewing machine.

[A]

Yeah. It's a lot of.

[D]

Is this all abstract?

[A]

Yeah, pretty much. I mean, it's. You know, it's just kind of. I. I honestly didn't. I only. I started painting just because I wanted art in my house and I just couldn't afford art.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And then I really. Somebody came over and they were like, wait, you made all these? And she took some pictures and then she's a friend of mine's wife, and a month later, she was like, hey, I submitted you to a show and you're in.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Wow. That's a good friend.

[A]

Yeah, it was pretty cool. Had you and that one in the top corner sent that. The late night host bought it. And it's at a house in Rome, actually.

[B]

Man.

[A]

And because it. It actually says Rome in the painting, which I was going to. Because a lot of times I'll write stuff on them and then I'll cover it up. And I was going to cover that one. And. And the art people are like, don't. No, we like that. And then the person bought it specifically to put it in Rome.

[B]

Oh, that's fine. You'll write stuff and then cover it up and only, you know, it's in the.

[A]

Yeah. Or like, sometimes it works and I like it, you know, but other times I don't. I just thought that that was like. I don't know. A lot of times. That's what I love. My favorite thing about art Is also what we do in standup is, you know. You know, half the time, the joke that you start with it does not. You know, if you see it when you record it, it's, like, so different. And painting is the. The most fun thing I've learned about it is, who cares? It's just, cover it, cover it. Who cares? Cover it again, cover it again. None of it lasts. None of it matters. You know? And then in the end, you might have something. Huh.

[D]

So that's the attitude you should take. Like, if you think you have something good, just keep going.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

How do you know when to stop?

[A]

A lot of times I'll ask people, or I'll just feel like, oh, that's probably done on that one. But I'm actually learning how to draw. I never thought I'd learn how to draw because I thought drawing was. When I was young, I remember thinking, like, oh, people that can draw things, that's just. They're born with that or something. But I've gotten really into architectural drawing and, like. Like, dimensional drawing of things. And I did one freehand the other day because I've been using, like, paper that helps you. And I was like, oh, I'm actually learning how to do this. It's kind of cool.

[C]

I think that's the thing about so much art is they. You're, like, made to believe because there are people that are just naturally talented with things. So you're made to believe that you have to be that in order to do it. But you can just learn to be better at things. Like, you know, if you were learning guitar, you would probably never be as good as Jimi Hendrix, but you could be very good.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, and. And. And, yeah, and you practice. And I think with art and with drawing, it's like, it's. It's your art. Right. It's like, it doesn't matter if it looks as good as somebody else's. Like, you're drawing what you want to draw.

[A]

Well, it's the same thing with comedy. It's just. What is. Some people like it, some people don't. Some people like this kind of art. Some people like that.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I like. For me, it was. I started just because of color in general. I was like, oh, I like certain colors. When I see somebody's house, I'm like, oh, it's like. Like, cool how this room has that blue kind of thing in the corner. And so that's what I started doing it for is just, like, putting colors together. Because that. That seemed doable to me.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, stand up's a little more objective because you're getting feedback in real time.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And, you know, if it's not going well.

[C]

Yeah, I think. But there are comics who maybe would not be very good, like, mainstream, but they find their audience of people that.

[A]

Love what they do, and that audience is so. Because I did a couple shows where I had to stand for six hours a day for a week with paintings of mine and, like, a wall and talk to people, you know, and that is. That was scary. That was like, so, like, so what, What's. What is this? Why? And you're like, I don't. I like that color.

[B]

Did it feel vulnerable to you at first? First when you started showing people these. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

It still feels kind of weird, but I, I, I. Because I didn't think they were any. I honestly, I don't know. I still don't even know if I think they're good. But when other people are like, I like. No, I like that. And people I trust, and I just think, okay, well, keep doing it.

[C]

I mean, you've sold two at least that we know about.

[A]

So, like, six.

[C]

So that says something.

[B]

Six more than I've sold.

[D]

And does someone help you price them?

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. And it's a really weird world. It's so different than the comedy world as far as the way that money works and stuff. And I know nothing really about it, but it is very fascinating. And there are people that have a lot of money that want to buy art. It's crazy.

[D]

Yeah. I don't.

[C]

So we should get to painting.

[D]

Well, I used to draw a lot as a kid, and I felt like I was really good. And now I try to draw stuff for my daughter because I haven't drawn in forever, and it goes away. Like, it's just like anything, practice. I, I agree. I mean, there's a certain talent probably for all these skills if. To be a comedian, it helps if you're funny. But obviously practice and hard work is so important. I used to think singers. I used to always think, either you're a great singer that you're born with, or you can't sing. And then I would hear about these singers that have coaches and take lessons, and it's just like anything. There's a lot more to it.

[A]

Right, Right.

[B]

What would you draw? Back in the day?

[D]

I would draw a lot of just, like, cartoons.

[B]

Like, okay. Comic book stuff and.

[D]

Yeah. Like, peanut stuff and Bugs Bunny.

[C]

And I used to draw, like, the Sunday, like, comics.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I would draw the. I would redraw those Family Circus. Yeah, stuff like that. Like Calvin and Hobbes. Like Snuffy. What was that? Snuffy Smith.

[B]

Snuffy Smith.

[C]

Come on.

[D]

It's Opalika.

[B]

Original Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.

[C]

Yeah. You don't remember those?

[B]

No, I've never heard of these guys. It looks like the Monopoly guy and Elmer Fudd.

[C]

Oh, now that I see it, what's the. Snuffy Smith's? The guy with the gun there.

[D]

Okay, okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Barney Google.

[C]

Yeah, I don't remember Barney Google. He wasn't in the. Yeah, it was a Snuffy Smith comic strip in the paper.

[B]

Oh, this is great. It's a big fat woman on a seesaw with a little baby. And the big woman is saying, push down. Yeah, it doesn't look like a baby.

[A]

It's like an old man.

[C]

I think that's their character, Benjamin Button. That's his wife, and that's Snuffy back in the. Back there. And that's their little kid.

[D]

Looks like me.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Little bit.

[C]

Yeah. So I used to draw those.

[D]

I'm just gonna go ahead and say that. So everyone who comments.

[C]

I made a Snuffy Smith comic book one time.

[D]

What do you mean you drew. Drew your own?

[C]

Yeah, no one bought it, but I just drew it.

[D]

But like, you wrote your own dialogue.

[C]

Yeah, he was like an action, action.

[A]

See, that's the same way that people start standup, though. They like a comedian, then you. They start writing jokes like that comedian, and then they find their own voice, you know? Yeah, People, like, draw the things that they like and they learn how to do that and they figure out their own angle.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. This top right one, that was definitely like. I don't know that one, but that was definitely what you would see in the paper.

[B]

Oh, this is great.

[C]

That. Yeah.

[B]

He says, Little Tater still ain't talking, Doc. And she says. He says, maybe it's time to wean him off the bottle. She says, oh, I can't go through that again, Doc. Weaning Paul from the jug was bad enough. That's good stuff.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So the alcoholic dad.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. They all got problems.

[A]

The story. We all.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Just in the Sunday funnies.

[B]

And the baby's name is Little Tater.

[A]

I love the far side. When. I don't know.

[B]

Far side. So great.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. And then there was Peanuts. Always peanuts in there. And.

[B]

Dilbert.

[C]

Dilbert.

[B]

Dilbert.

[C]

Dilbert was my favorite. When I was working. I used to work at Office Depot and I used to cut out the Dilbert comics put on the fridge.

[A]

Remember the La Bamba movie? His brother was like painting or. No, his brother was trying to draw comic books and he like got. Got him to Disney or something.

[B]

No, I've never heard of this guy. Bamba movie.

[C]

I know the movie, but I never watched them.

[A]

Richie Valens brother in it. Like his dream is to like draw like comics and he does some really good ones, but then he like. I forget, he like steals a car or something and goes to jail or something. Like murder somebody.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Didn't Alex Ludo's dad, doesn't he draw comic books?

[B]

I never heard that. That's awesome.

[D]

I think he does like Marvel.

[C]

I think Chris Killian's making a comic book, huh?

[B]

Yeah, I got more connections in this world.

[D]

I brought in some art. This is my daughter's. She's three.

[B]

That's awesome.

[D]

This is her art. And I guess my question, I don't know art, but how is this any different than what, what we just saw from.

[B]

She's got great penmanship. First of all.

[C]

There'S no layers. I mean, you know, a little bit of layers on this one.

[A]

But I was just.

[C]

We'd have to get a real art.

[D]

Critic in here, but so we don't know for sure.

[A]

Well, here's the thing about what this is, is it's like a Picasco, but. Picasco. Have you ever been there? You have to have a membership. Yeah.

[C]

No organization and there's a Costco with just stuff all over.

[A]

Picasso had some saying that was like, you know, you learn how to draw. Takes you like, you know, 10 years, and then it takes you the rest of your life to learn how to draw like a kid, you know, like to be able to get to that place of being that free. Cause this really is beautiful. I mean, I'm looking at it and I'm thinking it's simple, it's not overdone, it's not trying hard, you know, I.

[C]

Didn'T know we were bringing in our kids paintings, so I would have brought in some of my daughters drawings.

[D]

Well, you knew what the topic was.

[C]

Yeah, but you said if I had any art.

[D]

Well, you can. Anyway, if you ever want to contribute to the podcast, you're welcome to.

[C]

Well, you didn't say. Well, Aaron would probably just trash it though.

[D]

Yeah, you're probably right.

[A]

Oh, I like this side.

[B]

What are you talking about? What would I have made fun of your daughter's art? You think I'd make fun of your kids?

[C]

This is the critics pick here.

[B]

Yeah, I'm sure The establishment loves that painting, but the people. People.

[A]

She's using oil or what? Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Acrylic oil. Yeah, we see.

[B]

Part of what makes that beautiful and nice is you see it and you think about your daughter making it and everything that goes into it.

[C]

Right.

[B]

And what it means to her, maybe what she's seeing in her head as she makes it.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

But it would also. I mean, if you. I would encourage you to take this and, like, actually put it in a nice frame and put it up, and it would. People would walk by it and think, that looks good, you know, because it really. Because the colors that she used in this are very complimentary, and it's.

[C]

And then go sparse. You looking to buy something?

[D]

Do you know any NBA players or former talk show hosts?

[B]

I'm just trying to sell more than six. Just kidding.

[D]

Huh? What? The fire hydrant. What's the story on that?

[A]

Oh, that was at. At somebody. They, like, had this leftover fire hydrant, and they were like, hey, can you paint on it and we'll sell it? And then they sold. Sold it. I don't know. I don't know why. And I put it up there just because I thought it was kind of. It looked kind of cool, but, I mean, all I did was just cover it in pink. Really? It's.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Nothing. But it sold for. I think. I don't. I don't know how much it sold for like a grand or something.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

So I got some fire hydrants laying around.

[D]

Do you really? Let me ask you this.

[B]

That'd be weird.

[D]

Every. I looked up the greatest artist of all time, and it's the names that even I've heard of, which is not many.

[B]

Da Vinci. What was. What was that? Was that the number one?

[D]

Yeah. There's not consensus number one, because art is subjective, it said. But Da Vinci is the name that kept coming up. Michelangelo, Van Gogh, the, you know, Picasso who lived during my lifetime.

[A]

I know. That's. So who has a joke. Somebody has a joke about that.

[B]

Joe List has a great joke about it.

[A]

Yeah. How he likes.

[B]

You think Picasso. You think he died in, like, the 1300s?

[D]

Yeah, he was.

[B]

He was. He saw six Super Bowls.

[C]

Wow. That is crazy.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

He's drinking Mountain Dew.

[A]

Yeah. He was, like, driving a Mercedes.

[D]

He died in 1973.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Isn't that wild?

[A]

There's a great documentary you can watch of him painting. That's pretty cool. I mean, you see it and you're like, wow. That. It's. It was on the Criterion Channel, but it's. Yeah. It's beautiful. It's really fun to watch. But you know, when you look at his paintings, you just think, think it is so simplistic and beautiful and yeah.

[B]

I remember seeing this because the, the joke about Picasso used to be like, yeah, dude, it's like it. I don't know, it's not realistic painting.

[A]

Right.

[B]

But he has a lot of stuff that he could do that if he wanted to. This is just his style.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That he liked.

[C]

Right. I know that girl. I think.

[D]

You dated her.

[A]

Yeah.

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[B]

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[D]

Actors are clearly better now than they were back whenever.

[C]

I don't know if that's true, but.

[D]

Well, if you watch some really old. I'm talking about from the early days of film, I would. Most, I would say are better actors.

[B]

Like, early, early films were like, yeah, it's still kind of like stage and theater acting a little bit where it hasn't really adjusted to the medium, I think.

[D]

But my question is the greatest painters of all time are all hundreds of years ago is that. Have we just never gotten as good as those guys?

[A]

I don't know. I think it's. Art is just so much about value. People see dollar signs and scarcity and death. And so that means if someone's dead, there's a limit on the amount of art you can get from them.

[B]

Right.

[A]

There's new stuff that comes out and it's like, oh, these are sketchbooks, you know, like, like, it's. It's funny. Like I went to the. The Mocha in, In la.

[D]

What's the Mocha?

[A]

The Modern Art Museum. And. Or I guess moma or whatever. Modern. Whatever Modern Art museum.

[D]

Went to a coffee shop.

[A]

It. And then there was a whole.

[D]

That's what it was.

[A]

There was a whole section that was just sketchbooks from artists. And, And a lot of times that's like, you know, once you start going through like. Well, we've got all of Picasso's works now. We found some like, napkins that he drew on, you know, or like little things that he did that are like, really good actually, and they're small and simple and different. But yeah, I mean, there's this artist I'm following on Instagram. I can't. His name's Mark something and he's selling paintings for like. And he just does like these western kind of, you know, things that like $400,000 and it's like that to me, I don't feel like that's very common now.

[D]

Oh, really?

[A]

Yeah. I don't. For like living artists.

[D]

I couldn't tell you. A living artist.

[A]

These.

[D]

Not that I follow.

[B]

Banksy.

[D]

Banksy is the only one, I guess that I could tell you is the graffiti a street artist. Someone. We don't know who it is, but.

[B]

My, My wife's cousin. Cousin who's technically her uncle but is like. He's our age.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So we just, we, you know, you think of him like a cousin more than an uncle. He, he does, he does murals and stuff. And he's. He's a really good artist. We had a fun debate in the family over who is more blue collar. Who has a more blue collar job, me or him? What do you think he was like, say you. Yeah, you know, stand up. It's kind of a We're out a lot of. It's kind of a factory of ideas.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

As dumb as that sounds.

[C]

Well, I don't know, though. I mean, this guy was. He spent a lot of time painting.

[B]

He's like, I'm on a scaffolding with a hard hat.

[C]

That's pretty blue collar.

[B]

That's pretty blue collar.

[D]

Okay, I'll change my.

[B]

I haven't worn a hard hat in months.

[A]

Yeah, that's gotta be pretty fun to do something so big like that.

[B]

He has a big side of a building and stuff. When the guy, he goes by 1.4 points. 4.0. I wish I could remember.

[C]

I want to see the uncanny. Fantastic section.

[B]

Uncanny, Fantastic. It's just pictures of people looking at his art. But check out JD Deardorf is his name. He's really. We got some of his paintings at our house. But the guy who did the mural of all the comics around this building, he was here for, like.

[C]

Yeah, months.

[B]

Right. Just living here and. And doing all these. And it was fun to watch because he'd start one out and you. I can't even tell who that is. And then once you see the face start to take shape, it really is. It really is impressive to see somebody who's good at this stuff. Like, just to see him do it, like, it's. It's. It's awesome.

[A]

And the thing about it is that it's. You can learn how to draw a face. I mean, some people are really, really good at it. Technical drawing. But in the end, how much do you want to see a photorealistic drawing of a face? How much do you want to see somebody's interpretation of it? You know, like. And then the value of that person's interpretation compared to, you know, so that. That, to me is. It's the same thing in comedy. It's like, yeah, we could tell a story the same way the guy down the street can tell the story, but then we can now spin it.

[C]

Yeah, it's always fun to me to see, like, a drawing of a face of a person, like a famous person, where you're like, it's not, like, very good, but it's also way better than what I could do.

[B]

Yeah, of course.

[C]

So you're, like, able to criticize it, but yet you still recognize the person. So it's good enough. Like, specifically, there was a mural in the Oklahoma City looney bin. And I don't know if that picture would be anywhere, but when you look at it, you're like, so many of these are bad, but you can Recognize them all.

[D]

Still figure it out.

[A]

The improv at one point had the worst mural up, and it was like, it was wild. And the Hollywood improv and people were just like. I mean, you could barely tell who some of them were supposed to be, and they took it down. But I'm wondering if.

[B]

Yeah, like this one right here.

[A]

No, that was the old one. That one wasn't bad. That one. That one was like. You could kind of see and tell. That one.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

This one when it was up.

[B]

I don't know if I recognize any of these people right away.

[A]

No. And, like, Owen Benjamin was even on there.

[B]

Okay, interesting.

[D]

That's Adler right there.

[B]

Looks like Jay Leno. I have no idea.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Do you worry, Nick? Do you worry about AI and what it's doing to art? Or do you think people are always going to want real stuff? Like, what do you. What do you think about all this? Because, dude, it's just like, I can't even go on social media this weekend without seeing these videos that people are making. People can just go make an art thing. How do you think about all that with what you do?

[A]

I don't know. I don't think about it much. I mean, have you guys tried it with jokes? Because I. I gave it a shot.

[C]

Brian is using his. But.

[A]

I typed in.

[C]

Well, you were looking at me.

[D]

I don't know why I come on this podcast. Dusty just insults me the whole time. But.

[C]

Oh, come on.

[A]

The. I took a. So I. I wrote a joke on a plane where I was like. It was just like a bad joke about waves. And so when I got off the plane, I was thinking somebody was talking about AI. So I typed into AI My. The app or whatever, like, write a joke in the style of Nick th. About waves. And so I. Com. Like, I wanted to see what it wrote. And it was a worse joke. It was a worse joke, even though it was a joke I barely wrote and didn't try very hard with. And it was a very obvious take on the joke. You know, it was basically like what an audience member would say. Like, hey, did you ever think about doing this? And you're like, yeah, that's way to go. Thought about not doing.

[C]

Here's an idea. Yeah, do something with this.

[D]

That's a good question. I think. I hope people always want human interaction. There's already machines now that could beat us in so many sports. Yeah, but there's machines that could shoot a. Hit a hole in one in golf every time. But you still want the human good and bad of it, for sure.

[A]

I think, too, AI is going to be its own art. It's already becoming that. And part of the art of AI is knowing what to tell it. And that takes a special skill to know exactly how to explain something to this computer that doesn't have, you know, the same references as you.

[D]

I just say, write me a joke in the style of someone other than me. I was gonna say dusty Slay, but.

[B]

Then I was like, no, I think there's already. There's a growing. There's a backlash to AI now that I think is actually, like, you'll get trashed if you like, it's good. People will call you out and go, AI slop. Get this off my feed. Whatever.

[C]

Well, when I first. First discovered I could make a poster with AI, I go, oh, this is very easy.

[B]

It was awesome.

[C]

But already I'm like, now I want to find a real person again.

[B]

Yeah, because you can. You can tell. I think the problem is going to be. And we're. We're so close to, like, it will be indistinguishable from stuff. So, I don't know. I think about it a lot. I think it'll be a problem very soon.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

With a lot of stuff.

[D]

I don't like the, the. When they put a real person in a scene, you know, it's funny, but also it looks so real now that, yeah, you know, it'll become a tool.

[A]

It's the same thing with text messaging. It's like, when, you know, when things start, people like. So you're just going to text people now? Why don't you call them? It's like, well, there, there's going to be a time for texting and a time for calling. There's going to be a time for this and a time for that.

[B]

And I remember trying to convince my dad to add texting to our cell phone plan. He could not wrap his head around it. Yeah, he's like, what now? Just call him.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And now we, the family texts each other more than we call each other now. Yeah.

[D]

It's funny how that changed. There's a museum of bad art called moba, and it's a privately owned museum, celebrates the labor of artists whose work wouldn't be appreciated in normal form.

[A]

Him.

[B]

I mean, this looks pretty good.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, I'm into it.

[B]

Portraits, doppel hangers in the nude sports section. All right, so, yeah, some of it was nice.

[D]

I mean, some of this is. Well, it's better. I could.

[A]

I mean, the thing is, it has to be Of a certain. Good enough to be bad.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

That's almost too good. That one right there.

[C]

Well, that's kind of what I'm talking about. Like, when I say bad art, like. Like this. This mural.

[B]

Did you hang that in your house?

[A]

Dusty like that? That looks bad.

[C]

The mural in Oklahoma City, it had a Bill Cosby in it, in the mix, and it's like, it. It looked enough like Bill Cosby to go, that's Bill Cosby. But it looked so bad. Oh, yeah. Like, stuff like this, like. Yeah, that is bad.

[B]

Yeah, that's pretty.

[C]

But it's also better than I could do.

[B]

That's not a bad painting.

[C]

That's pretty. I don't know. It's not.

[D]

The baby looks scary.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It's not good, though.

[A]

Yeah, that baby.

[B]

That's Jesus.

[C]

They may be trying to make it that. But I'm not gonna say that's Jesus.

[A]

That's not my Jesus.

[B]

It's supposed to be Jesus. Yeah.

[D]

So there's. Oh, I think we maybe showed this last time. Worst police sketches.

[B]

This. Sorry, sorry.

[D]

Yeah, the baby's good. The mom.

[B]

Oh, I thought the baby looked horrible.

[C]

The baby's arm looks really bad.

[D]

Well, the mom doesn't look great. Yeah, but she just had a baby, so let's cut her some slack.

[A]

That's true. Yeah. So her hands should be messed up.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, Aaron got an email from. Oh, sorry. Worst police sketches. That guy was arrested, though. They caught him.

[B]

No, I don't think the sketch helped at all.

[A]

How do you miss a goatee?

[B]

That's true.

[A]

And that. I mean, that guy, they gave him a full head of hair, too.

[D]

That guy might be innocent.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And the ears. I mean, it's not that guy's ears. I mean, come on.

[D]

But besides that, it's spot on. Yeah, well, they caught him.

[C]

He does have a round head, though.

[B]

They got the shape of the head, right.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Y.

[A]

He has a neck.

[B]

That's true.

[C]

And he is looking more up in the mug shot than in the sketch. So maybe if he's looking more down, he looks more like this.

[D]

Just like him.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Can you show the other one? Nessa. Jared.

[B]

Yeah. The other link. The. Yeah, yeah. I've seen this one before. It looks.

[C]

This seems fake.

[B]

I mean, how do you do? No, I remember this one was when this happened.

[C]

What do they say, though? Small eyes, pretty close together, long nose, small mouth.

[B]

That was the act. Yeah.

[C]

Let's go back up to see the guy's actual face there. Though his mouth's not really that Bit.

[B]

Of an odd looking duck, huh?

[A]

That doesn't even look like a mouth. It looks like they just did the part under the mouth.

[C]

Yeah. Maybe they caught him before they finished this one.

[B]

They're still working on it.

[D]

Sir, do you have a hat like this?

[A]

The hair is pretty good.

[B]

The eyes are so funny. They're just dots for eyes.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

It just looks.

[C]

I say the eyes are the only thing that nailed it here.

[A]

There's just. There's two of them.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

And I imagine now this is another profession. This is a job that if there's a police sketch artist, you're losing your job. Right.

[D]

Because. AI. Yeah.

[B]

Somebody could come literally just type in and it will be. You can get like. Like a 3D rendering of them. I never thought of that immediately. What use is this?

[D]

What about.

[A]

Well, because while they're doing it, they're like, yeah, yeah, like that. No, you know, like.

[B]

Yeah, you can just change it. Yeah.

[D]

What about like courtroom artist?

[B]

I think about that. You know, they don't. A lot of these courtroom proceedings, they don't allow photography.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

But they allow a guy to draw.

[A]

Always. That's always so funny to me that they do that. But I love.

[D]

Remember the Tom Brady one?

[B]

The Tom Brady one. There's a Trump one that was really funny to. Oh, my. You teed me up nicely too. Yeah, the Tom Brady sketch.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

It's almost like if. If you were too good of a. An artist, would they not let you do it if it was too photorealistic?

[D]

I don't know.

[C]

They really wanted to make it look like he was, you know, not having a good time. Like he's not enjoying himself in his suits role.

[B]

They achieved that.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

There was the.

[C]

What was he in court for?

[D]

Deflate gate. Oh, yeah, there was crazy that went.

[B]

To an actual court.

[C]

Ridiculous.

[D]

In 2012, an amateur art restorer in her small village of Bora, Spain, turned her attention to a fresco of Jesus called Behold the Man. She fixed the renderings, rendered the face of Jesus painted in 1930, pretty unrecognizable, but. Oh, gosh, but it is. It's benefited them because tourists now can't get enough, visitors flock to the Sanctuary of Mercy Church. Since the botch restoration, they buy souvenirs, different things of it. And it's led to a boom in tourism that's allowed restaurants and museums to thrive.

[B]

There.

[D]

Visitors are charged €1.

[C]

Did they even vet this lady? Like, they're like. Have you ever drawn anything?

[D]

I don't know. There's a. There's a musical or an opera about it.

[B]

About it.

[D]

Yeah. I think I sent you a link to that too. It's so that's how big it's become.

[A]

Gosh.

[B]

Behold the man opera inspired by a true story.

[C]

It's like Bean the movie. Didn't he. Mr. Bean. Didn't he, I don't know, try to redo the Mona Lisa or something?

[B]

That's funny.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Never seen. See that.

[D]

What do you guys. What do you think of Bob Ross?

[A]

I mean, he seemed like such a positive. I love watching it.

[D]

He feel like he's a true artist in the sense like Van Go. He didn't get really popular until after his death.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, he was popular enough to have a TV show. He was, but.

[D]

And, but now he's like a legend.

[A]

I've learned a lot of stuff by watching his thing just by the way that he talks about, like, not letting your. Your, you know, your base dry so that your colors mix together better.

[B]

White. Yeah. Start with a little liquid white.

[A]

Yeah. Keep it wet so that they, you know, and just like, you know, this tree here is going to be darker and bigger and this and that, you know, like all those kind of descriptions are. Are pretty. Pretty good. You know, he was so good at teaching it. I don't. I didn't watch that documentary, but it.

[D]

Seemed like I didn't even know there was one.

[B]

I liked it. His whole thing. The show was called the Joy of Painting. Painting. So it was all about joy in the process. And he was never like, this is a great painting. Even though I think they're. A lot of them are awesome. It was never really about that. It was about just like finding joy and doing it. Yeah.

[C]

You just gotta enjoy yourself in your life.

[A]

I wonder what a Bob Ross goes for. Does. Do people have.

[B]

Yeah, you can buy actual Bob Ross paintings.

[A]

Original.

[B]

Yeah. They're pretty expensive.

[D]

I bet that.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

There was a Owen Wilson movie a couple years ago where he played a Bob Ross character.

[B]

Here's one. There's one for looking at the range here from 32 grand to 850 grand.

[C]

To contact for price.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

That's what I put on my website.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

All right, let's get a little.

[C]

Was the Owen Wilson movie good?

[D]

I didn't see it.

[C]

I never watched it either. I love Owen Wilson. I never watched Bob Ross.

[B]

You ever see. Oh, dude, you would love it, man. Just put it on. Put it on. Just background.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

He's just so very relaxing.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. And he'll.

[B]

He'll be like, weirdly profound while he's doing something. Like there's this great clip of him where he's like, got to put a little light in there. You need a little bit. Put a little dark. You need a little, little dark to balance out the light. It's like life. Dark times, Light times. And he looks at the camera and he goes, I'm waiting on the good times right now. And you're like, geez, what is Bob Ross going through? But it's like, it's captivating.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Let's get into some conspiracy theories.

[B]

All right.

[D]

Mona Lisa. There's a ton about the Mona Lisa. Some say it's a. A self portrait of da Vinci.

[B]

Self portrait of him?

[D]

Yep.

[B]

So we know what da Vinci. I mean. Okay, I could see that. Which one is a Mona Lisa is.

[C]

A self portrait of him.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's a conspiracy.

[A]

Nah.

[D]

With similarities between the painting and his self portrait. So I guess he painted himself.

[C]

Oh, so he's saying this is me. If I were a woman.

[D]

I mean, I don't know. Maybe. Maybe.

[A]

I buy it.

[D]

Italian art historian so. And so claimed to have found letters and numbers in the painting's eyes, which some interpret as clues to the model's identity. Possibly his apprentice, Celia. However, the Lou has stated that. That laboratory tests have found no such inscription and that it's just cracks due to age.

[A]

And why is that painting so significant? Does it? No one knows.

[D]

I don't know.

[B]

Do we know who. Who it is?

[D]

No. That's what I'm say. There's a lot of dispute about who I know.

[B]

But who do. What's the official story? That it's just some woman named Mona Lisa?

[D]

I don't. Yeah, I don't think. I don't think we know who. I mean, I don't even think he ever maybe revealed who it was.

[B]

Okay. Okay.

[D]

But I don't know for sure. I just know there's a lot of speculation on. I mean, if he said who it was, I don't know why people would be so quick to speculate.

[C]

I just bought some Bob Ross DVDs.

[A]

All right. Hard.

[C]

Yeah. Well, I want to see it.

[D]

Some theories claim that Michelangelo hid images of the brain stem and spinal cord in his paintings as a way to mock the Catholic Church.

[B]

Church.

[D]

And suggests direct communication with God.

[B]

In which paintings? All of them.

[D]

I didn't say.

[B]

Okay, trying to. Trying to look for those.

[C]

I think he'd say any. Hit him?

[B]

Okay. Yeah, yeah, he probably hit a lot of stuff.

[D]

All right, here's. Here's one Dusty. The murals at the Denver airport.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Subject of numerous conspiracy theories, including claims that they depict a New World Order hidden agenda. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[A]

There's a lot about the Denver airport people though.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. The first reason why they say is because when the Denver airport was built, there was already a well functioning airport in Denver. So everybody's like, why are you building another airport? And.

[C]

Yeah. And then. Yeah. All these paintings. This guy's, you know, a soldier and he's gas.

[D]

Beyond the airport being unnecessary.

[A]

How would they have that?

[C]

And he's killing that dove.

[D]

And the airport was also completed two years behind schedule.

[C]

And it has like a skyscrapers worth of basement in there.

[D]

Weirdly due to many contractors being fired during construction and grossly over budget by the time it was finished. Theorists say that they switched contractors so many times to make sure no one truly knew what was going on there.

[C]

And then the blue horse out front, nicknamed Lucifer.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

Killed the guy who built it.

[D]

Is that right?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

It fell on him.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Really?

[C]

That's what they say.

[B]

I know. I looked at this up close in a while. It's pretty ridiculous looking.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

It's just hanging out there with the red eyes.

[D]

See, we mentioned briefly Banksy, there's some theories about who he is. I thought a lot of people, they got a pretty good idea.

[B]

Do they?

[D]

From what I read.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

You're a Banksy fan.

[A]

No, don't really care.

[D]

It seemed like something you'd be on board with.

[A]

I mean, sure, it seems cool.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't like that. I don't really like that kind of art. Really that much.

[C]

But I don't know what it is.

[B]

It's like you've never seen his. He does these paintings. Nobody knows who he is. And you know, they're always like.

[C]

Oh yeah, they pop.

[D]

They pop up some.

[C]

You know, they're in. In Charleston on James island, there used to be. There was an old shopping center. Center. And behind it was this really cool graffiti and. Yeah. This guy. Really great stuff back there. Just an old abandoned shopping center. And then you just drive behind there and it's just like this really cool, like, you know, spray paint art back there.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

I used to drive back. I used to take people there all the time. They visited Charleston. That was like an attraction for me.

[B]

This is a cool thing. People don't know about this.

[C]

Yeah. Because it's just an abandoned shopping center. And then you drive around behind it and this is going on back.

[B]

Maybe I'll go out there and check that out this weekend.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm at Wits End.

[C]

Yes. I mean, it's been years ago, so who knows? And it'll be far from where Wit's End is at. I think Wit's Ends in North Charleston.

[B]

North Charleston.

[C]

This is in James Allen, so. But go to James Allen. Go to Folly Beach.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

I'll send you some places.

[B]

All right. I'd like that.

[C]

Tell them we're friends.

[D]

Dusty, what's your top five country songs about? Painting, about art.

[C]

Well, I wish I'd have known. I would have put one together, but I got one.

[D]

Paint Me a Birmingham.

[C]

Paint Me a Birmingham? Yeah.

[D]

It's the only one I could think of.

[C]

That's a good one.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

All right, we gotta get out of here, right? Because you gotta go do sound check. So we want to pitch Word. Oh, I'm sorry. You're leading the show.

[A]

Go.

[C]

He'll be in Charleston this weekend.

[B]

I forgot that I was. All right, I'd like you to do it.

[D]

All right. This weekend. This is Brian Bait speaking. I will. I'm not anywhere this weekend, so. This is Brian Bait speaking. November 7th, I'm in Canada for the first time. Limgton, Ontario, Lake Point church. And then November 12th through 16th, I'm in Plano, Texas. Waco, Texas. Tacoma, Washington, for two days, and Portland, Oregon, on the Easier to Fly tour.

[C]

All right, okay.

[A]

I've got dates that are on my website. I was gonna look them up, but it's like, not till the New Year. I'm like. I'm not doing a lot of touring until then, but Oklahoma, Kansas City, stuff like that.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Charleston this weekend I'm in New York. Next weekend, Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo. For the first time ever, Charleston. And then upstate New York. What about you, Dusty?

[C]

I got four dates that I'd like to. I'd like to hear about all four this weekend. Friday, I'm in Wilmington, North Carolina. Saturday, I'm in Richmond, Virginia.

[A]

I like that city.

[C]

Yeah, that's good. Tuesday, I'm going to be at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. And then. But it's a public gig. It's not a college gig. And then the next Saturday, Akron, Ohio.

[D]

Oh, yeah, I was just in Cleveland. They were like, dusty's coming.

[C]

Yeah. So come check those shows out. They're going to be great. I'm very funny.

[B]

Come see our art.

[C]

Won an award locally here in Nashville. Some people say it's just. Just the newspaper picking it, but either way, I got picked. And so see that comedy live.

[D]

And if you haven't seen Born Young.

[C]

Yet, and by the way, there was when Nate won stand up comic by the Nashville scene. There was a second place and third place.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

I don't know who those were, but they weren't them. But it wasn't you guys.

[A]

So the way.

[B]

What I. My understanding is the way they do every award is they have the fan votes and then they have the critics pick.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So it's the same. It's the same category. It's not two different categories.

[C]

Mine doesn't say, but it just says I was the best. Doesn't say who picked it, but critics.

[B]

Pick, which is awesome.

[C]

But they picked it. And.

[D]

And, well, when I look at movie reviews, I go to the critics picks and over the fans.

[B]

So do I.

[D]

Because people are dumb out there, you know?

[C]

Well, that's not my words, but that's mine.

[D]

If you pick Nate, you're stupid. This guy's at anything but anyway, born young.

[B]

Born young on YouTube.

[A]

Yep.

[D]

Go check it out.

[A]

Born young.

[D]

Very funny.

[A]

YouTube.com mom.

[D]

All right, Aaron.

[B]

Oh, that's it, everybody. God bless. Thank you for tuning in. Tune in next week.

[D]

We love you.

[B]

None of this is lost on us. Have a good. Have a pleasant evening.

[A]

All right, strong end, Sam.