281: #281 Mount Everest

Summary

The Nateland Podcast – Episode 281: Mount Everest (December 3, 2025)

Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Absent: Brian Bates (out sick)

---

Overview

This episode of The Nateland Podcast takes a comedic yet insightful look at the topic of Mount Everest, meandering through stories of hiking, achievement, and the absurdities that surround the world’s tallest mountain. Nate, Aaron, and Dusty, joined in spirit by the ailing Brian Bates, discuss everything from the spectacle and commercialization of Everest to personal stories of getting in over your head—literally and metaphorically. They pepper the conversation with trademark banter, old stand-up bits, and musings on ambition, triumph, and failure, all delivered in their signature, easygoing style.

---

Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Sick Days, College Football, and the Reluctant Absence of Bates ([00:42] – [11:51])

• The episode opens with light-hearted chatter about Brian Bates being out sick, leading to a humorous run on “old timey diseases” like mumps and polio.
• Anecdotes about drooling in sleep and the relative seriousness of various childhood illnesses.
• Nate shares details of attending a pivotal Vanderbilt football game and recounts being part of locker room celebrations—emphasizing how much Bates missed out.
• Discussion of college football playoff drama, biases in playoff committees, and the tendency of big-name teams (e.g., Notre Dame) to receive favorable treatment.

Quote:
“Bates is out cold because, I mean, this was a big a...this podcast. And he was going to come with me to the ... game.” – Nate ([05:33])

2. Stand-Up Updates, Thanksgiving, and Celebrity Meetups ([25:44] – [27:44])

• Dusty recounts appearing on The Tonight Show and meeting Tim Allen.
• The group discusses the value of asking seasoned comedians about their first late-night TV appearances.

Quote:
“I got to meet Tim Allen. He was great. Very nice. Talked to him for a bit about his first time doing Johnny Carson.” – Dusty ([26:57])

3. Listener Comments: On Balloons, Bathrooms, and Schizophrenia Commercials ([27:47] – [44:42])

• The hosts read and riff on user-submitted comments—stories range from crazy bathroom stall encounters to front-yard dumpster pools in Florida.
• Audience stories about sending balloons with messages and receiving calls from far-away finders segue into a mini-history of the Macy’s Day Parade balloons.

Quote:
“A house where I grew up in Florida had one. Of course, it wasn’t as much as a pool as it was a 30-yard dumpster lined with a tarp…” – Listener (‘Cam Rom’), read by Nate ([32:25])

4. Jokes About Climbing: From Banff to Mount Everest ([46:01] – [56:04])

• Nate dusts off an old joke about attending a corporate talk from an Everest climber: “What’s your Mount Everest?” “His Mount Everest was Mount Everest!” ([46:34])
• The group relives grueling hiking trips—12 hours in Banff, Montana—and the surreal experience of rejoining regular society after such an expedition.

Quote:
“We walked in, and it was like, we might as well have just been on the moon and came back, because everybody’s normal. And you’ve just been out for 12 hours.” – Nate ([49:39])

5. The Realities of Everest: History, Logistics, and Dying at the Summit ([59:02] – [94:32])

• Everest Facts: At 29,000 feet, Everest is the highest point above sea level, but not technically the tallest base-to-peak mountain (that’s Mauna Kea).
• First Ascent: Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (Sherpa) first summited in 1953, refusing to state who set foot on the summit first, illustrating the team spirit of the achievement.
• Modern Commercialization: Thousands attempt Everest annually, leading to overcrowding and shocking amounts of trash and abandoned climbing gear. Sherpa guide Kami Rita has climbed it a record 31 times.
• Dangers and the 'Death Zone': Above 8,000 meters (~26,000 ft), oxygen is so low that survival is limited. Many climbers die and their remains become landmarks.
• Overcrowding: The infamous summit queue—sometimes dozens waiting to snap a summit photo. The accomplishment can feel diminished due to the crowds.

Quote:
“He died upset with what it was like... he was like, just... the over-commercialization of it... and all the trash and everything up there.” – Aaron on Sir Edmund Hillary ([80:51])

Quote (on dying short of the peak):
“Imagine dying before the death zone. You didn't even make it to the death…” – Dusty ([84:22])

6. Reflections: Why Climb? Ambition, Regret, and Sherpa Humor ([67:25] – [95:05])

• The discussion turns philosophical: What drives someone to conquer Everest? Is it the achievement, the story, or the challenge?
• The hosts weigh whether feats of endurance “count” if thousands have done them, or if the Sherpas (who guide and rescue multiple expeditions each year) are the real MVPs.
• They joke about how dying (or being immortalized as a frozen landmark, like “Green Boots”) is the only way to truly 'last' on Everest.

Quote (Sherpa perspective):
“I'd have him [Sherpa record-holder] come sit in the front row as they start their speech…‘Now, please tell us about your one time.’” – Nate ([94:50])

---

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On College Football and Life’s “Mount Everest”:

  • "What's your Mount Everest?...Keep in mind, this guy's Mount Everest was Mount Everest." – Aaron, recalling Nate’s old stand-up ([47:09])

• On Climbing’s Aftermath:

  • “We walked in, and it was like, we might as well have been on the moon and came back, because everybody's normal. And you've just been out for 12 hours.” – Nate ([49:39])

• On Everest Tourism:

  • “When people climb Mount Everest, are they at the peak?...Are they putting an arm around it, waving a flag?” – Dusty ([59:54])

• On Sherpas' Accomplishments:

  • “There was one dude...has climbed Mount Everest the most times, 31 times...Just another day at the office.” – Aaron ([94:13])

• On Deathly Ambition:

  • "Imagine dying before the death zone. You didn’t even make it to the death..." – Dusty ([84:22])

• On Regret:

  • “You like to think about regrets in the last moment of life.” – Aaron ([95:35])

• On Outdoing Each Other:

  • “I would like to have that guy [the 31-time Sherpa]...come sit in the front row as they start their speech …‘Now, please tell us about your one time.’” – Nate ([94:50])

---

Key Everest Facts from the Episode

• Height: 29,032 feet (5.5 miles); highest point above sea level ([59:02])
• First climbed: 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay ([60:13])
• Death Zone: Above 8,000 meters (~26,000 feet), oxygen too thin to sustain life ([84:58])
• Current commercialization: Up to 1,000 climbers/year; $35,000–$100,000 per expedition ([67:02])
• Record: Kami Rita Sherpa—31 summits ([94:13])
• Notorious features: Dead bodies as landmarks (“Green Boots,” “Rainbow Valley”) ([90:19])

---

Comic Relief & Tangents

• Front-yard pools made from lined dumpsters: “Not sure I've seen a man with more confidence…just living life, floating around in his front yard dumpster pool.” ([32:25])
• Balloon anecdotes and the Macy’s Parade history—$100 reward for finding a parade balloon in the 1920s–’30s ([42:52])
• Over-medication and “normalizing” heartburn and schizophrenia via commercials ([29:44])

---

Timestamps for Important Segments

• [00:42] – Show opens, Bates’ illness & “old timey diseases”
• [07:46] – College football playoff talk
• [25:44] – Thanksgiving and Tonight Show update
• [27:47] – Listener Comments
• [32:25] – Dumpster pool anecdote
• [46:01] – Everest segment begins (old joke and Banff hike)
• [59:02] – Everest facts: height, base-to-summit, “death zone”
• [60:13] – First ascent, Hillary and Norgay
• [67:02] – Modern Everest, cost, and numbers
• [80:51] – Hillary’s regrets about commercialization
• [84:58] – “Death Zone” explained
• [90:19] – “Green Boots” and “Rainbow Valley” (dead body landmarks)
• [94:13] – Sherpa record (31 summits)
• [98:12] – Comparisons of personal mountain hikes

---

Tone & Style

As always, the tone is irreverent, observational, and full of playful jabs—both at each other and at the broader absurdities of life, aspiration, and human frailty. Tangents flow freely; insights are delivered through the lens of self-deprecating humor and southern logic.

---

Closing

The episode closes with talk of future tour dates—Nate’s upcoming performances, Aaron’s East Coast stops, and Dusty’s casino gigs—plus well-wishes for the perennially missed Brian Bates.

Final sentiment:
“Mount Everest is fun. It is fun. Let’s go do it.” – Aaron ([95:58])

---

In Summary

For both fans and first-time listeners, this episode offers a blend of laughter, relatable storytelling, and a surprising amount of Everest trivia—all delivered with the camaraderie and comedic timing that defines The Nateland Podcast. Whether you’re contemplating your own “Everest” or just grateful your “death zone” is surviving Thanksgiving dinner, the episode reminds listeners that life’s greatest peaks (and pitfalls) are best approached with a sense of humor.

Transcript

[A]

Okay, only 10 more presents to wrap. You're almost at the finish line. But first. There, the last one. Enjoy a Coca Cola for a pause that refreshes.

[B]

Hello, folks. And hey, bear. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetsi. Aaron Weber. Dusty Slay.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

No, Brian Bates. Brian Bates is sick of everybody. And I got that bug.

[C]

Yeah. Did you catch it?

[B]

Yeah, yeah. I don't. I mean, I think it's gone.

[C]

It got the mess.

[B]

No, it's there.

[A]

There's a.

[B]

You did get it in the air? I got it in the air. It was walking. I think it killed its flying.

[A]

Clipped its wings.

[B]

But then it was like. It felt too aggressive to do that.

[A]

Ralph Macchio in here.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. So what a start.

[C]

I mean, that was. We're laughing about it, but that was impressive to see.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. To get it on camera.

[C]

I'll Swat at it 12 or 13 times before I get.

[A]

Depending on how high def this is. Maybe they can slow that down and actually catch you catching.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

The bug.

[B]

They should be able to. Yeah, yeah. So Bates is sick and my voice sounds bad. I'm not sick. I was at the Vanderbilt game. Aaron's weak and sick, so his voice is bad. And Dusty hasn't had a shot in 35 years.

[A]

So. Tip top.

[B]

He's tip top.

[A]

Exactly.

[B]

Bill's great. He's not in the. What everybody gets.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, he does have measles.

[B]

He's got measles. What would be an old timey polio po. That would be very funny.

[A]

My cousin, but yeah.

[C]

Really?

[A]

Yeah. She was, you know, like my dad's age but she had polio. It's in the family.

[B]

Is it before? Yeah, that would be. We should have. That's what we should have done. Every time you're out, we just give one of those that you're like, well, he's got polio.

[A]

I think he should too.

[B]

That's very funny.

[A]

You could Photoshop a picture of me with mumps.

[B]

I feel like the mumps are like the cousin of the chickenpox.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Are they same family.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

It's a yellow fever or something like that.

[B]

That's where it starts from.

[C]

Oh, no, I'm just saying old timey diseases.

[B]

But I mean are mumps are chicken pox.

[A]

I think it's like a. You could get the mumps, measles and rubella shot back in the day. I think they made us get that at school.

[C]

Mumps and chickenpox are not related diseases. Mumps is caused by the mumps virus, while chickenpox is caused by the varicella zoster virus.

[B]

Well, agree to disagree. So I think they're the same.

[A]

I like that.

[B]

I think you got mumps. You got chickenpox. I like. I think mumps is actually pretty fun to have.

[A]

It's caused by the mumps virus.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Whereas chickenpox is some other virus altogether.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

How'd you get mumps? The mumps virus.

[B]

Yeah, Yeah.

[C]

I was exposed to it.

[B]

What? Yeah. What? It's.

[C]

Mumps is the. A key symptom of mumps is swelling of the salivary glands.

[A]

I may have that all the time.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Drool a lot.

[C]

Do you have excess saliva?

[A]

Sometimes, yeah.

[B]

Could be hydrated.

[C]

Do you really?

[A]

Yeah, I do drool in my sleep sometimes.

[B]

Oh, really?

[A]

You know, guys don't wake up a little.

[B]

I don't know.

[C]

I mean, I sweat.

[B]

I don't know if I even check. I think you'd have to drool a ton to even. Well, you know, to be a problem.

[A]

My beard's wet.

[B]

I mean, how. I know, but I would think it would dry overnight. Yeah. You're in there for eight hours.

[A]

Yeah, but it's coming out while you're.

[B]

Yeah, I know, but it's coming out to the last second.

[A]

Maybe. Maybe it's what wakes me up. It's the last minute, get into a deep sleep and then it comes out. And then I go, oh, I had.

[B]

You got a babbling creek coming out of your mouth. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

It won't unleash the mumps virus last night.

[B]

Take a wake up, get a drink and go back to bed. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

You got to keep it, you know, you gotta keep it in. You gotta stay hydrated.

[B]

All right, I like it. So Bates got the mumps. He would. Bates would get the mumps over chickenpox. He would, yeah, he would have the mumps.

[A]

Well, he's had shingles. I've had shingles. It's, you know. And that's a chickenpox related virus.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Probably from the varicella zoster virus.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I think it all comes from the same place. But Bates is. I mean, Bates is. He's only missed this podcast once for being sick in five years. That was when he had a stroke.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Remember, he thought he had a stroke.

[B]

He thought he had a stroke. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

So.

[B]

But did he miss it just again recently or. He was late when he came.

[C]

He was pretty late. But he still games. Yeah, came from the airport. He's about an hour late.

[B]

But this is the first.

[C]

This is the first. Like, I'm straight. He texted us yesterday. Yeah, I'm not gonna be able to make it tomorrow. So Bates out cold.

[B]

He's out cold because, I mean, this was a big a. This podcast. And he was going to come with me to the Vanity Tennessee game.

[C]

Oh. And he had to miss that.

[B]

And he had to miss that.

[C]

Oh, and that wasn't a good game or anything.

[B]

Yeah. And we had an experience.

[C]

You're on the field too.

[B]

On the field. I mean, Brian's dream week on the field. Went to the locker room with the team afterwards. Clark coach Clark Lee brought me into the locker room with the staff first. And then I went in with all the players.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[B]

And then.

[A]

Would Brian have gotten to go in if he were there?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That's the worst.

[B]

Oh, man. He would have been.

[C]

Are you giving him updates while you're doing all this? Hey, here's what you're missing right now.

[B]

Diego Pavia said, do you have anybody in their 50s I can put on my shoulder? That's what he said to me. And I said, I don't. I go, a guy was supposed to come that is in, that is in his 50s. And he goes, well, I go, can I do it? He goes, I need you to be in their 50s.

[A]

He's like, I'm looking for an adopted dad.

[B]

Yes, exactly. He said exactly that. He goes, do you have a worried man that I could put on my shoulders for one of my viral clips? And I go, a guy was coming, but he got the mumps and he couldn't be here. No seriousness.

[C]

Poor Brian, man.

[B]

Yeah, no, he's real sick.

[A]

But that would be.

[B]

I think he's, he's sick. If it's our normal, it's a normal.

[A]

That would be an experience, though.

[B]

It was. I, I'll make it up to him. We're in, in, in. I'll make it up to him.

[C]

You've done enough.

[B]

Yeah, well. But I would give him. I, I. You know, as a long venue fan.

[A]

I understand this game snapped a 16 game losing streak against Tennessee. Is that right?

[B]

I don't think 16. I thought it was, I think it was six maybe. I don't know. We were winning because Tennessee has been through some bad years.

[C]

When's the last time you won at Tennessee, though?

[B]

Oh, that.

[A]

Maybe that's it. Maybe that's it. Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Because somebody heard that I watched a little bit of the game at a bar in McMinnville.

[B]

Game was unbelievable.

[A]

They were sad. They were All Tennessee fans. And it was a sad bar and.

[C]

Not only beat them, but dominate them. The second half was like, yeah, tough to watch.

[B]

This vanity team is unbelievable.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And I mean, they're a truly, truly great team. And it was unbelievable to watch. I went down. I went as funny as I went down there the Wednesday before, just like, I haven't seen the new stadium. And we were downtown, so we hit up people over at Vandy and was like, hey, we're going to come through. And so we saw, like, they were. They're finishing practice. And I saw. And then next thing I know, like, coach is like, hey, I want you to say something to the team. I was like, I'm not. I didn't even know y' all were going to be out here. I was like, coming to look at, like, the, you know, the sweets or.

[A]

Say something to the team after or before. Okay. After is better.

[B]

So. Wise words. Yeah, yeah. That's what they say. And then so I. I had to just off the dump, like, so you know when you're having to say something, so you're just like. You kind of zoned out in your head, like, I'm about to have to give a speech. And so you're just like, all right, what if I say this? You know, you're just trying to, like, somebody have to do it. Is like, hey, do you mind go up to Mitch? You're like, I wasn't planning on it. And then you're like, all right, I'll do this.

[A]

But. But. But at least if you're doing 10 minutes, that's what you do.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And not a speech after a foot. Like, what do you do? You think it went well?

[B]

You saw what happened. You know what I mean? Yeah.

[A]

Oh, so this was before this practice Wednesday. Oh. Oh, yeah. So that's harder, I think. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Y. Yeah.

[C]

But that was a little. The little boost they needed.

[B]

That was the boost.

[C]

Now you get some laughs out of them.

[B]

Not really. They go, I gave up more. I mean, it was like, you know, more serious speech, but, like, really just thinking, tell my. Look, I. I mean, I've been a Vanny fan my whole life.

[A]

They go, what'd that guy say? And they were like, I don't know. I think he's sick.

[B]

Yeah, we gotta win.

[A]

Yeah, we gotta win.

[B]

We gotta win for him because he's sick.

[C]

He was drooling.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I think he had the mumps.

[B]

Yeah, I think I gave some good. You know, from. Overall, I heard from. You know, they're like. They thought it Was a good out of the team. But like, some people that heard his speech were like, yeah, no, it was great. It all made sense. Like, it's all you want. When I get done, I go, did it make sense? Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because you're not just jabbering and being.

[A]

Like, well, you're not like that guy in the water boy locker room.

[C]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Farmer Fran.

[B]

Yeah. But it was. Yeah. Going to that game was unbelievable. Diego Pavia should win the Heisman. I mean, I. I don't even know how you could argue against it. Honestly. Honestly believe it. Notre Dame is infuriating. I mean, just infuriate. You're gonna be the reason we don't get in.

[C]

Well, there are a bunch of reasons.

[B]

No, that's gonna be the main.

[C]

We're one of them.

[B]

Yeah, now you're the main.

[C]

Auburn not beating Alabama in the end, that could have helped.

[B]

It could help Notre Dame get in a conference and actually have to play some people, be nice. So then they could, you know, not get in the first playoff game and lose by 40. And Vandy should. I wish. I wish Notre Dame. I wish Vandy. Notre Dame would play right now.

[C]

Oh, I'd love it.

[B]

Oh, my God, I would love it. I would love it. That's.

[A]

They should really do that. When it comes down to it like that, where there is a. They should go, all right, we got to do a little.

[C]

Do a play in game.

[A]

We got to do something.

[B]

Well, Notre Dame's always in. They start as number one. And then, I mean, they basically have theirs to lose. Oh, yeah. They have to have, like.

[C]

They're like innocent until proven guilty.

[B]

They're basically. It's crazy. It's. It's. And you know, you always kind of feel that. And now being where we're at right now, I mean, no offense, I'm, you know, I'm excited. Good for you. Like, but it's. Yeah, it's crazy. Notre Dame just, they. It's like Texas, like, all of them, they just, they can't. This committee just can't open their mind to new way of fake. So they're like, it's got to be hit. The main ones that have been always there.

[A]

Is Diego there.

[B]

Invented in 1645. And everybody can't move past that.

[A]

Is Diego there next year?

[B]

No. No.

[A]

So this is it.

[B]

This is it. And I mean, he should. They should. They should be in the playoffs, I think.

[A]

Could he come back? I mean, is he a millionaire now, you think? And he could just come back?

[B]

I bet he's made I bet he is. No, he can't. He's. He's done.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I mean, I think that.

[A]

Like, where's he been all this time?

[B]

Well, he was in New Mexico State. Here's how unbelievable coach Clark Lee is. He went and found New Mexico State. New Mexico State is like the future. Whatever they had there, it was like the future of college football. And he went and got it and pulled it out. There's another kid, I think, that the star running back for maybe Tennessee or someone else that was also at New Mexico State, but Diego and a few of their players, and then the coaches and one coach is going to retire from Mexico State. That was like this great coach. And Clark Lee was like, just come be a consultant. Just be around. Like, he was that good. And they just brought all of them over there. And so we have a coaching staff that is just unbelievable. And it's. They got them out of New Mexico State, and it was just a brilliant, brilliant move.

[A]

So he ruined New Mexico State for them.

[B]

I mean, they were New Mexico. New Mexico State was about to get ruined anyway because. But to go find them in. Bring all over. But, yeah, I mean, they had. They had a great team. New Mexico. They beat Auburn. And so it's. You know, and I mean, Diego, look, I'll tell you this story. I talked to Diego last year, and we were just talking, and he said, this is after the season last year. And he goes, next year. Like, we're just talking about next season. He's like, you know, next year I'll be in the Heisman race. And he said that to me. And I. Look, I'm on board. Like, I love when you believe in yourself that much. To be at that moment. It was, like, kind of crazy to hear it, dude.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You're like, all right. Like, I mean, all right, dude. I like, you know, it's like one of those. I don't doubt him. But you're like, okay.

[A]

Like, you know, and I like cocky athletes. I'm into that.

[B]

It wasn't even said cocky. It was said, matter of fact, next year, I'll be in the Heisman race. So then we'll be doing this and that. And. But that's what. I mean, that's. That's. That's how much that says about that kid. Whatever you want to say. Like, I get Diego's. What I've. What I've seen about him. Very. A very aware person. Very aware. Like, I've watched him and I can see him really notice. He's always kind of noticing people and noticing everything that's going around. I think everything he does is kind of. It is the show. You are selling tickets, you are doing this thing and that's what he is doing. But for him to say that and then be in it right now that like whatever it's. Whatever is said, whatever happens, that's out of the hands. He should win the Heisman and he should be there. Even 150 guaranteed should be there. I think he should win it. And I think most people do think he wins when you go look at it. But to see that now, like you're rare to even get to meet someone that can do that. That's not a normal thing to be able to meet someone that says that to you. And then they go do it and then they deliver and then they deliver and go do it. You're just not going to be around. That's a rare person to even get to meet. And for him to do that at Vanderbilt, you know, it's not like he's, you know, this 611 quarterback. Like whatever all this stuff it means obviously his passings got great. He's clearly worked to get better. It's just unbelievable. He was, he gave the game ball. Our chancellor, Candace Lee, a great chancellor. One that I think people, you know, were worried that they were not going to be. She's turned. She's. I mean she's unbelievable and all right. Not Chance athletic director. Yeah.

[A]

So he gets drafted to the Titans then now, huh? They gotta have the number one draft.

[B]

But he gave her the game. But he. This is how great in the moment of that they're all celebrating after the Tennessee games to be the game. He's like the single season passing record or something. Vandy. All this stuff he's done like crazy. The game he had, you know, he had over 400 total yards of rushing bat like all this nuts. And then he goes, hey, before we leave, he goes at the game ball and he gave it to Candace Lee.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

And for him to even notice she wasn't. She was in the locker room. But it's also like kind of like right outside like it's a bunch of dudes just like kind of being crazy. And for him to stop everybody and see it and notice her and give her that and. And that meant a lot to her. And it was like that's. I don't know what everyone say about the guy. I didn't see nobody else think like that. No one even thought to go. It wasn't like prompted. It wasn't like, hey, don't forget to go do the blah. Whatever. It was like he was thinking and appreciative of what I think everybody that has done for him for that team. And I know he has silver teeth and that's frustrating. No, I'm joking.

[A]

I like silver teeth, too. I always wanted to get a gold tooth, honestly. And, yeah, I could see. I like it.

[B]

I think you could do it.

[A]

I like it. I like the look.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm married now. I can't do it, but I like the look.

[B]

You could do it.

[A]

Give it some time.

[B]

Yeah, but it would be when you come out of the woods and like, it's someone that's trespassing. Yeah. And you show a little bullet for a tooth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because. Yeah. Boys know where you're at.

[A]

Exactly. Yeah, exactly. But I like it. It's exciting.

[B]

I mean, exciting.

[A]

Very exciting. So seriously, though, you think he gets drafted to the. I mean, they have to have the worst record, right?

[B]

He want, I mean, nobody we're see. I mean, we'll see him. He's a great quarterback. I don't know if the size, like, he might not get drafted that high, but I think he'll get a chance to go.

[A]

I think they gotta do it, though. You just got it. If you got first pick and you're. Nashville, he's been winning in Nashville. You got to take it. You got to pick.

[B]

Yeah. They just drafted a quarterback last year.

[A]

And, you know, how's that going, though?

[B]

I, I, I understand, but it would be, it, it would be a bold statement to die. I think he should first. It would, I think they should. It would be talked about for many years.

[A]

I think they should.

[B]

Yeah. Diego tell you if he, he believes.

[A]

It, you know, but that's what I'm saying.

[B]

Yeah, let's do it. Let's. Yeah.

[A]

I mean, obviously, whatever we got going on right now is not working out well.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Well, I'm excited you guys are going to dominate in the Pinstripe bowl this year.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly what's going to happen. Notre Dame gets to walk.

[C]

I mean, it's walking 10 games in a row, dude.

[B]

Nothing dominated Miami.

[C]

Miami and A and M. Yeah. Two teams that are also in the playoffs, probably.

[B]

Oh, and then you played like, who.

[C]

Like USC was ranked. What are you talking.

[B]

Who else? Yeah, USC played Wake Forest twice. God, that's unbelievable. Twice.

[A]

So what about. So what about Lane Kiffin drama? See, I'm gonna, I took this, take that. I think they should let him play the rest of the season for the Team.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I put it on X. Everybody's upset with me. I, I think they should let him. I'm not saying for him, for the team.

[B]

I get it. I think it's more of a. You've got a NCAA college football problem. They shouldn't even be allowed to be talking to these coaches.

[A]

I agree.

[C]

I agree.

[B]

It's a problem.

[A]

True.

[B]

And so like it's not even though Lane Kiffin's doing what he's doing. Know. Yeah. He's probably. I don't know if he's handled everything great and whatever. You got a college football problem. And that's like most everything. Whenever you, anytime you want to blame an individual, just always back away and go. I bet it's not the individual.

[A]

But I think they should probably the system. I think they should let him play. Well, now imagine you're playing on the team.

[B]

I agree. But this. They don't want him. They put a vote up to the.

[A]

The player said we don't want him.

[B]

They don't want him because. Okay. Did that happen?

[C]

You. He knew that they were going to let him do that. I think you say that to try to.

[B]

No, he said it. Well.

[A]

But what's crazy is I don't care about him. But I'm just like. But.

[B]

Well, it's. What's crazy too is you want. What if you go. What if you're laying Kiffin? I would think, what if you just go like, no, go find another coach then? Because they're not. They're going to sit and wait for him. Like they could say they're going to go look somewhere else. But like, how do you not like have some back end deal and go, I'll do it. But like, you know, and it's, it's a lot of money now. We want to hear him say yes now. And all this.

[A]

What do they say?

[B]

You're the one in the driver's seat.

[C]

A hundred million dollars, ninety million, fifteen million a year.

[B]

What was it? What were they going to give him?

[C]

I think they were going to match it.

[B]

Yeah. I see here's my thing that I believe. And that's where the only thing I could say that think is mistake. It's old thinking. It's. It's. If college football is changing and the old guard is. Got it. They're going to have an awaking.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

If you look at lsu, Ole Miss is the better job right now.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Ole Miss is the better team.

[A]

I like seeing Ole Miss.

[B]

You can go. Ole Miss can be good. If they're gonna Pay and they're gonna match and they're gonna do this stuff. You're stuck because you. In ways. And this is. I. It's like the legacy of a lot of stuff is about to flip. And I think you're seeing that in all industries. Hollywood and this. Like, it's flipping. It's, it's, it's. They're gonna. You, you see the Indiana and Vanderbilts and all this. And these kids that are going to start coming up are not like, if you're like, yeah, well we here, Alabama and we have seven championships and blah, blah, whenever. And you're like, yeah, but I mean in 25 years you're like, I don't know Gonzaga, like in basketball where you're like, you're just going to have that within I L. Because it's, it's kind of leveling it out to where it's like people can go spend the money. So now you start looking at the cities that you're going to go to and then you really see it. So you could build something. If Lane Kiffin stayed at Ole Miss and built something, it's like they're gonna have a statue now if he goes to lsu, it's like, I agree, I.

[A]

Agree with all that. But I think just for this, I think they should let him stay and help them because Ole Miss never won a national championship, right?

[C]

Not since the 60s. Yeah.

[B]

The only problem would be is the universities being stuck in their ways and maybe not giving them everything that they need to go do it. But I don't know if I, you know, that's what they always tell you. Texas is the best job in the country. And like all this, like, it just doesn't look, look at where they all end up. Like it doesn't matter. Like Texas ain't like they. None of it matters anymore. It just doesn't matter. And it can switch and you're in a window that can switch because now you can't sit there and go like, we've won seven championships when everybody's like, well, no one cares anymore. It's like Ohio State's the one that's. That's. I think figured it. They're. They're dangerous. They're. And I think they figured out the most in the. Because I think they have kept the old. Where they've adapted to the news so well. That. That's just. Ohio State's a problem. Yeah. And you're in like. I feel like they've even. I mean, maybe I'm down here in the south or Whatever. But it's kind of quiet. Like, it's not like just a bunch of up and down noise. And, you know, I know they wanted to fire him for the Michigan game last year, but it's. They've just like, kind of like, go. I went to their facilities and it's just like, nice right there. It's crazy.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And then they. And they're just. They're doing the nil stuff the right way. They're doing. They just kind of said, oh, all right. It's a new system. Okay, let's just dominate that new system. And I honestly think Ohio State's going to be. I mean, that's going to be. They're going to be dominant for a while.

[C]

Yeah. Unfortunately, I think you're right.

[B]

All right. I'm sure they love that.

[A]

I think it was hot. I think it was.

[B]

I enjoyed it.

[C]

I enjoyed it.

[A]

It was hot.

[C]

It's labeled on the bottom.

[B]

You can.

[C]

If it's this, just skip it.

[B]

Skip it.

[A]

But get in on the Lane Kiffin debate, though.

[B]

Yeah. Leave that separate.

[C]

Delete Me makes it easy, quick and safe to remove your personal data online at a time when surveillance and data breaches are common enough to make everyone. Even you, even you, Dusty, vulnerable. What do data brokers do? Your name, your contact info, your Social Security number, home address, even information about your family. That could all be compiled by data brokers and sold online. The New York Times Wirecutter has named Delete Me their top pick for data removal services. I like to keep my private life private. It's important to me. It's important to Nate and Laura. They've been using this way before they were sponsoring this show.

[A]

It's important to me, too.

[C]

And Dusty, you can. We already knew that. You can quickly become a victim of identity theft, harassment and doxing, but not anymore. Take control of your data and keep your private life private by signing up for Delete Me now at a special discount for our listeners. Get 20% off your delete me plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com Nate and use promo code Nate at checkout. The only way to get 20% off is to go to JoinDeleteMe.com Nate and enter code Nate at checkout. That's JoinDeleteMe.com Nate. Code Nate.

[B]

Did y' all have anything? Well, we went to the game, so that was it.

[C]

How's Thanksgiving?

[B]

Yeah, Thanksgiving. Good Thanksgiving.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Good Thanksgiving. Oh, I did the Tonight show last week.

[B]

Oh, that's right. Yes.

[A]

But I. I like the shirt.

[C]

You were Wearing. Oh, did you like suede?

[B]

Yeah, Yeah.

[A]

I got a, you know, I did a gig and they, you know, they hired somebody to pick out clothing for me.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And then I just use that.

[C]

Oh, nice.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Doubled up.

[A]

I doubled up.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look good.

[A]

Yeah. Matched my hair. So some people said it looked like my hair was made out of the jacket. I said the jacket was made out of my own hair.

[B]

Yeah. Not 4o.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But, yeah, it was good. Good Thanksgiving. Great. Everything was great. You know, it's nice to sneak into.

[B]

Tonight'S show when they're like, you know, like, just like at the end, holidays are coming up, all this stuff just kind of sneak up.

[C]

You didn't even tell us. I just. I saw on Instagram.

[A]

Well. Oh, well, we. I feel like there was something that happened where we were not. We didn't do an episode that week.

[C]

It's just funny to open up Instagram, like, oh, Dusty's on the Tonight show tonight.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That's crazy.

[B]

Yeah, it was good.

[A]

It was fun. I had a great time.

[C]

Yeah. Tim Allen was on with you.

[A]

Yeah, I got to meet Tim Allen. He was great. Very nice.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Talked to him for a bit about his first time doing Johnny Carson. Very nice.

[B]

Yeah, that's the key when you talk to older guys. I always do it, too. Ask them about their late first late night.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And it's like, you know, it's. It's because they like talking about it and whatever. Then you. And then you get to hear. And you want to hear the story anyway. It's just an easy icebreaker. Then you kind of go, all right, I see.

[A]

Yeah. And what a monster career. I mean, I think he's got Toy Story 5 coming out. He's had three Santa Claus movies, three sitcoms.

[C]

Great show.

[B]

That was Scooby Doo. More. No, for.

[A]

I think it's similar.

[C]

No, that's.

[B]

That's crazy.

[C]

What are you talking about?

[B]

That's not.

[C]

Hold on. I'm talking about in the theme song.

[A]

I think he might do a little of both.

[C]

I think he. When he's talking in person.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

All right.

[B]

I'll give you that.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Okay. Yeah, I'll give you that.

[C]

In person.

[B]

He goes, well, I would watch the whole show and not just the theme. I know you like to bell after the jingle for six seconds, but.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Three sitcoms, though. He's on his third one right now.

[B]

That's crazy.

[A]

Always crushing them.

[B]

Yeah. All right, started off your guys. Comments. Joanna Richardson saw Nate in Charleston, West Virginia, this past weekend. Wowza.

[C]

Wowza.

[B]

I was hoping for some of the Breakfast Club with him, but was still very excited to see his openers. Didn't think it was possible for them to be even funnier in the wild, but they all were so, so great. Thanks, Nate, for coming to West Virginia. Yeah. We had Julian, Nick Foon, Joe Zimmerman, Steven Rogers.

[C]

It's a great lineup. Who's the Breakfast Club? Is that me and Dusty?

[B]

I think it's like, just.

[C]

Yeah, the Breakfast Club.

[A]

But there is already a, you know, a show called the Breakfast Club.

[C]

Yeah. I was hoping Charlemagne, the God would be there, but he wasn't.

[A]

And a movie. I know.

[B]

I think everybody got it, but you could be.

[C]

No, I got it. I just. I didn't.

[B]

I've never been.

[A]

Maybe Emilio Estevez would show up.

[B]

Yeah. Brody Martin. Nate. Schizophrenia rant. Felt like old times. Happy Thanksgiving. Yep. Yep. The real Mapron. Mapron. I'm 99. Sure. The schizophrenia commercial is trying to show you how the medicine, medication will improve the everyday life of someone diagnosed. But I like your story way more. Yeah, I. Look, I think. Yeah, I'm sure it's. It's a real thing, and people have it.

[A]

Pretty commonplace now. They're trying to say, though.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

You never know who's just a schizophrenic out here.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Just levels of it.

[A]

Just forget to take your medication and just, you know, I take. You know, sometimes I'll take a vitamin or an acid reflux pill, and sometimes I forget, and then I get heartburn all of a sudden. You do that with schizophrenia medication. What happens?

[B]

You're howling at the moon.

[C]

But if I see a Pepto commercial, I don't go, ah, they're normalizing heartburn.

[A]

Well, I do. I do think that.

[B]

Yeah, he's consistent.

[A]

Our body shouldn't be raging against us all the time.

[B]

I agree with that. I think about that when you're eating and you're like, if heartburn, you're like, yeah, I'm putting so much stuff, your body's fighting back.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, that's all it is.

[A]

Be quiet, body.

[B]

Yeah. Take this and it doesn't feel good.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Shout out to Toms. By the way, officially sponsored by Toms now.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Well, Toms are good.

[C]

I'm a Tom's guy. Toms gets it done.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Tom gets it done. Ryan McColman. Nate's saying it's got a friend. French accent in Ariel, referring to Sebastian the Crab having a Jamaican accent and a little mermaid. And then no one calling him out on it is the most n. Thing. Thing ever. Yeah, I. I mean, I.

[A]

You know, I don't think we're all current on the Little Mermaid.

[C]

Yeah. You're talking about the Kees.

[A]

The go.

[B]

That guy.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. I guess that's Jamaican. I've never thought that was Jamaican though. I thought it was. I thought it was like a weird European guy. Yeah, maybe I haven't heard it in a while.

[B]

Yeah. Sunrise addict. Nate, I had such a tough day yesterday and put your video some compilation. And my tears started streaming from laughing. So thank you. Thank you.

[A]

So still crying, but now still addicted.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I like Back to the Little Mermaid. I do like that it's a Nateland thing, that we don't know the Little Mermaid very well.

[B]

I know it very well.

[C]

Classic.

[A]

I was gonna say if they were like, oh, so unlike Nateland to not know every line from the Little Mermaid.

[B]

I could. I could probably do every line because of Abigail, because that was her favorite movie.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

So we watched it. So I should have got it, right? I mean, I don't know if I've been asked that question before, but yeah, we were. We were big Little Mermaid people. Cam Rom. It's like his own rom com.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Nate is not the only one that I've seen a front yard pool. A house where I grew up in Florida had one. Of course, it wasn't as much of a pool as it was a 30 yard dumpster lined with a tarp and fill it up with water. But to that hillbilly's credit, he did have it set up with a pump and a filter system on it. Not sure I've seen the man with more confidence just living life, floating around in his front yard dumpster pool.

[A]

Wow. Well, you got to do what you got to do.

[B]

You got to do what you got.

[C]

To do those Florida summers, you know.

[A]

Yeah. Why go in debt for a pool when you could just set up a dumpster with a tar.

[B]

You know, expensive. You can make an argument that it's, you know, it's like, well, you got your dumpster in the yard because you're renovating and everybody just thinks that's okay. It's like, well, mine's in there. Mine's actually useful.

[A]

Yeah. And as dumpsters, really expensive. I mean, is it more expensive than a. What if he just had a dumpster? Or what if he was renting it?

[B]

You could rent it, and I bet you could stumble upon them pretty easy. Yeah, I bet. If you know someone. I bet it's impossible to get a dumpster until you meet the one guy and then it becomes, brother, I can get you whatever dumpster you want. You know what I mean? Yeah, but it's like before, you're like, you can't get. No one can just get a dumpster. Yeah. And you meet one person and he's like, everybody can get a dumpster.

[A]

Yeah. You want a dumpster? I'll get you a dumpster right now.

[C]

Dumpster guy.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Derek Skinner. Derek with a C. Wow. Crazy.

[C]

T, E R E C D E.

[B]

R E, C. Probably because the K's were. I don't know. The bathroom stall issue keeps coming. At a stop at a Burger King on a road trip to use the restroom. Shortly after entering, a father with a young rambunctious toddler came in needing the stall. After checking quickly and finding the door locked, the toddler slid under the door standing up. Standing up to quickly finally sitting. Gosh, I said hello as he quickly crawled back out. Need to say we both didn't have it our way that day. I like, that's so funny that he made it to standing up.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Can you imagine?

[A]

Yeah. Where you at on that? Going, hey, hey.

[B]

You.

[C]

Also, I probably put my foot out when I saw the kid. You know what I mean? You kick him. Kick him out.

[B]

Yeah. Big boy in that stall, the fact that you can have stuff squirt out of it. You got your. I mean, my goodness. You gotta walk in. Sir, do you mind scooting your legs in? I'm trying to wash my hands at the sink. I mean, golly, out of here. How do you gonna get your foot out of the front?

[C]

No, I'm saying if the kid comes in, I'll kick him on the head a little bit.

[B]

I think you. You're. You got.

[C]

You, I think aren't hanging out.

[B]

I think you go in there and you sit and cross your legs like a recliner and lean back and you. And you do a horse with no name.

[A]

Reading the paper.

[B]

It's maybe one of the best days of your life and you hope a child walks in.

[C]

Man. Man, that's so a Burger King to use the bathroom. That was desperation. Yeah, well, though it had to be nothing else at that exit.

[A]

Well, the fast food spots are good for it. Yeah, I think so. Because it's because.

[B]

No, because they're all drive through and no one's.

[C]

You know what the move is.

[A]

Yeah. And they're not gonna.

[C]

Hotel.

[A]

Hotel is the way to go.

[C]

Oh, yeah, man.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Get a little breakfast too.

[B]

You just go, I gotta.

[C]

Where's my you go, where's the. Yeah, you just walk with purpose and nobody There you go.

[A]

Good to see you. How are you? Good morning.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, cold out.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Do something like that. They don't care.

[B]

They don't. Yeah.

[C]

They also. Yeah, they don't care at all.

[A]

Okay, let's be honest. Let's do be honest. Finding clothes that feel just as good on your couch as they do out in the real world, nearly impossible. Can't do it. But then I tried Viori and yes, the hype is real. I like Vori.

[C]

You think of your life as before Vori and after.

[A]

Yeah, that's how I think. That's how all of us on this podcast feel. It's like one day we were like lounging around in comfortable but really unattractive clothing.

[C]

Dust in the wind.

[A]

Yeah. Or good looking clothing. Just so uncomfortable. And then we found Viori. It's versatile and comfortable. It's a loungewear, but looks good. You can be out in the airport and not look like, you know, not like you're about to cause a problem. The softest joggers on the planet. I mean, I've not been all around the planet or plane as some people call it, but, but, but I. They've been the most comfortable that I found. Specifically the dream knit performance joggers. And I'm excited to get the Coronado hoodie and seaside pullover hoodie. And you know, I'm not a hoodie guy.

[C]

No, you're not.

[A]

But when it's viori, I'll put it on, I'll do it. A lot of hoodies, they really crowd up around my neck.

[C]

Oh, you just don't tie it up.

[A]

No, no. Even untied, it digs in there.

[C]

Yeah. Cut a little bit.

[A]

Yeah. Like, who was that? The old Patriots cup. Bill Belichick.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[C]

Yeah, he cut the sleeves off too.

[A]

But Vori is an investment in your happiness for our listeners. They are offering 20% off your first purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the [e-mail] Nate that's V U O R I.com/nate exclusions apply. Visit the website for full terms and conditions. Not only will you receive 20% off your first purchase, but enjoy free shipping on any US orders over $75 and free returns. Go to vor.comnate and discover the versatility of Vori. Clothing exclusions apply. Visit the website for full terms and conditions.

[B]

Casey Lee Carlson. I love how Aaron said it's hard to play yourself at chess, saying it's because of objectivity. OB sentence is tough, but ultimately his problem was all the walking around the board.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

Wow. Casey Lee really taking shots at you.

[B]

Taking shots.

[C]

That's very funny.

[B]

It is very funny.

[C]

You can just spin the board.

[A]

Yeah, that's the funny part.

[B]

Yeah, I think you'd get tired there, too.

[A]

You probably got a lazy Susan. You know, you got him in his fridge and it's, you know, I got.

[B]

A lot of lazy Susan. I bet you let one side win quicker.

[C]

That's what I'm saying.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[C]

It's hard to. You start just really pulling for one side.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, do you think if you.

[B]

The side with the recliner, the other side's a hard stool?

[A]

Keeps winning.

[B]

He's good, man. Chris Totten, if Mary gave birth to Jesus and Jesus is the Lamb of God, does that mean that Mary really did have a little lamb?

[A]

Oh, that's interesting.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I didn't like where that was going for a minute, but. And.

[B]

And in the end, it's.

[A]

Yeah, all right, I guess I give it to you, Chris Tottenham.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

God forbid we honor Mary for more than two seconds, you know?

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, y'.

[A]

All.

[B]

Yeah, she. I think she's honored. Notre Dame.

[C]

That's our lady.

[B]

Yeah, I know. She's in the playoffs every year.

[C]

Say Jesus doesn't care about football, but his mom does.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah.

[C]

It's a pretty good line.

[B]

Andrea Dyser live in a small town in Southern Illinois. My parents let some balloons go at their 50th wedding anniversary party. They had had attached their names and phone number and reason in reason for them. They end up landing in Owensboro, Kentucky, and the couple called, and my parents went to meet them and share a meal together. Love the pod, guys.

[C]

That's cool.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Southern Illinois to Owensboro, Kentucky.

[A]

I just did a gig in Owensboro, Kentucky. Yeah, you know, we used to do that. We would send out balloons like that. Nobody ever called.

[B]

Oh, really?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. That's nice that they. They called.

[A]

That is fun.

[B]

That's.

[A]

I always wanted that to happen.

[B]

And then you want to meet them and share and.

[A]

And go, can we borrow some money?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, thanks for finding the balloon.

[B]

Yeah. Clearly you can see that we have no phone.

[A]

Southern Illinois, though, depending on how southern is that really?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I'm guessing it's like Carbondale.

[B]

That's pretty far.

[C]

That's pretty far. I mean, that's several towns over.

[B]

Where's. Oh, we're. Evansville's.

[C]

Evansville's southwest corner of Indiana.

[A]

Owensboro.

[C]

Owensboro.

[A]

Owensboro is a little further over, which is like just.

[C]

Yeah. Outside of Evansville.

[A]

Owensboro is a nice, nice city. I did a corporate gig there not long ago.

[C]

It was great. So that's. I mean, that's far for a balloon to go. That's farther than I would thought. I would thought.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

A couple neighborhoods.

[A]

How big of a balloon?

[C]

It must have been a sturdy one, dude.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Some good helium in there. Not some weak helium.

[B]

Yeah, imagine that.

[A]

Some NASA helium.

[B]

The husband of that. The wife found that balloon. We're going to eat.

[A]

With who?

[C]

You remember, they found our balloon.

[B]

They found our. Why didn't send him a balloon? Like he's mad about it. I gotta go hang talking.

[A]

I'd like to know more about the meal. What'd you guys talk about?

[B]

Where did you go eat?

[A]

Yeah. What do you think? Waffle House.

[C]

That feels like a Cracker Barrel.

[A]

It does feel like a cracker.

[B]

Early man. Yeah.

[A]

11:00Am, 3:00pm dinner.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Let's get out of there.

[B]

What do you. Yeah, you just go. What's your life? Yeah. And then you go. Do you ever talk to him again? No.

[C]

No.

[A]

We didn't enjoy the dinner. Didn't like them as people. I don't know why we did that.

[B]

They wanted to go to cracker barrel.

[A]

At 9pm I guess they knew it was a 50th wedding anniversary. So they're like. No, they're into it. They're 70 years old.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

They got nothing going on.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. And they just landed. Yeah. Mary Night. Fun fact. From 1927 to 1932, the Macy's Day Parade would let the balloons go at the end of the parade. And if you found one and turned it in, you got $100.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

I think that's. They should do that.

[C]

$100 in 1927. That's like 100 grand now.

[B]

I don't know about that.

[A]

How many balloons was it?

[C]

We're talking about the big. The big balloons. What kind of balloons are we talking about? Mary Night. What do you think a hundred dollars in 1927 is now?

[A]

I think it's. It's like two thousand dollars.

[C]

1900. 1900 dollars.

[B]

1800.

[C]

I mean, that's crazy.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, wow. So that was a lot. So I would be out there hunting for those balloons.

[A]

Yeah. They track you down, beat you up, take it back.

[B]

Yeah. Macy. Darren West.

[A]

What's your address? We'll mail it to you.

[B]

Darren West. Macy's balloon could float 10 to 300 miles. Six to 10 hours. If it somehow climbed much higher and caught a jet stream, it could go thousands of miles. Real world. Real world constraints such as hitting a building or over inflation slash expansion could cause the fabric to rip or pop. Aaron got results for the floats, not the balloon.

[C]

Fair enough. Fair enough. I wasn't thinking about the distinction there.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Appreciate that, Darren.

[B]

Aaron and Darren, I wonder how they. Yeah. How big were the balloons in 1927, 1932.

[A]

Like you used, probably when they had the good helium.

[C]

What does that mean?

[A]

It's been watered down now.

[C]

With what, oxygen?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

They should let them go, man.

[A]

Too much climate change.

[B]

We should. We should be doing more balloon stuff.

[C]

Look at the 1930s. I mean, so this is what they look like.

[B]

That's a big old.

[C]

They're bigger than you think.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

If that thing popped up in your yard, though, you'd be.

[B]

It's a big Mickey Mouse the size of a building.

[A]

That Mickey Mouse popped up in your yard. You'd be like, get in the house.

[C]

Oh, dude.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

The world was ending.

[B]

I mean. Yeah. I mean, what if it floated, you know, like West Virginia. They don't have. They don't know what's going on.

[C]

They're not watching the Macy's parade.

[B]

Yeah. They don't even have a television. Just like, they just go, it's happening.

[A]

That Donald Duck's terrified.

[C]

It sure is, man.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Look at that thing.

[B]

But it made it fun. Look at that building. Like, it looks. That's New York City. That looks like here.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Like a. Like a two hours outside of tennis Nashville.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It's 1935. That picture is different world.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

Pre war, dude.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Not. Not war in general, but pre, though. You know what I'm talking about?

[B]

All right. All right.

[C]

Well, we want to talk about something. You know, Nate used to have a joke. We're talking about Mount Everest.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And Nate used to have a joke. Hard to segue.

[A]

I like that you were like. It felt like you were going to try to, like, really set it up slow. And they go, we're talking about Mount Everest, but let me do my thing.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. You just said that Donald Duck is. It's like the size of Mount Everest.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What are we talking about today?

[A]

But you die on the way to the top of that thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Nate used to have a joke about the guy that came in to talk to your job about climbing Mount Everest. Do you remember that joke?

[B]

Yeah, I like that. It was a good joke. Yeah, I liked it.

[C]

I don't remember what it's from. I tried to find it.

[B]

It was. I. I don't remember where it was at either, what it was on. I feel like something pre Netflix, but.

[C]

Yeah, that might have been full time magic.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But it was a guy who came in who. I mean, I don't know if you want to say. Yeah, a guy who came in as inspirational speaker who had climbed Mount Everest, and he was like, what's your Mount Everest? What are you going to call? Like, what. What's your Mount Everest? And Nate was like, keep in mind, this guy's Mount Everest was Mount Everest.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

That's the joke.

[B]

Yeah. So what could you possibly say to.

[C]

A guy who's ever.

[B]

Like, how, as a regular person, how do you even take advice from this guy?

[C]

You can't relate to him at all.

[A]

No.

[C]

Now, would y' all ever do something. Have you ever climbed a mountain, hiked a mountain or anything like that?

[B]

I've hiked a mountain. Yeah. Like in we're over 10,000. What was it? You remember that mountain Madison Chase? It was in Montana. We were way up there, man. There wasn't Banff. We went to Banff, went to the top of that. But I mean, that's not mount Ever. It's none of the, you know. But dude, we. We hiked that mountain in Banff.

[C]

Were you. Let me ask you, were you back home sleeping that night?

[B]

No.

[C]

Okay. You camped out there on the mountain?

[B]

Oh, no, we were back.

[C]

It was a day trip.

[B]

No.

[A]

Bam.

[C]

I know, I know. Yeah. Wherever you were staying.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, the home really messed me up.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But it was the. Yeah, we were doing.

[A]

I had a show that night.

[B]

Yeah. We had one day off and we drove out to Banff, and so it was the day after the show and went hiking. Very funny. We listen to this podcast, Chase in back of the. Driving in the back of the car or riding in the back of the car. And we listen to this. We're talking about bear attacks, bears and all this kind of crazy stuff, you know? And it's like, we're in a big car. It's like we're going to get car sick anyway just because it's a long drive. And then I was like, yeah, listen to this podcast about this bear that ate someone. And then I just started showing them the video, and Chase is already car sick. And then it just starts going. I mean, extremely graphic into this bear thing. And then it. We had a. We had to pull over for a second. But then we go hiking. So it's me, him, and Eric, and it was. We. We. It was 12 hours. And I mean, dude, this. So Banff is obviously one of the prettiest places in the world. And so we go hiking all up in there. It's 12 hours, so we. They have a hotel there at the bottom. We weren't staying there, but we were going to. We met, like, Travis and whoever was with us. We're gonna meet you. The moon walk in. And we walked in, and it was like, we might as well have just been on the moon and came back, because everybody's normal. And you've just been out.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

For 12 hours. And you just. You feel so weird. Yeah. Because you're like. It's. You, like, almost can't believe that people are. You're like, what are they doing? What conversations could they be having? You just been. Just on another planet.

[C]

You feel superior to them in a way. What have y' all been doing down here? Back on.

[B]

It feels like you don't belong. It just feels. You're like, we shouldn't have come into a somewhat nice. Ish restaurant. Like, you're. It's just such a weird.

[A]

It's like a spiritual experience up there.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Skiing is like that, where you get done skiing, and then you go into, like, some restaurant and you're like, I was just on top of that mountain.

[A]

I think people skiing do feel better than other people.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, they're better than other people.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[A]

You fell off a mountain one time. How did you feel after that?

[C]

I didn't feel good. I didn't fall off a mountain, but I. I slid down the cliff.

[A]

Pretty good bit, though.

[C]

Yeah, I fell pretty good. Chunk and pulled myself up. That was in Kentucky.

[A]

And you got real muddy.

[C]

I got real muddy.

[A]

And then you were walking by people, like, coming down the mountain, and people are coming up and they're going, oh, you had a good time.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And you're like, no, I almost died. Yeah.

[C]

I had a pretty traumatic experience. Thanks, man.

[B]

What do they got rides up there?

[C]

Hope you and your daughter have a fun time out here. I almost died over there.

[B]

Well, I fell off a cliff and don't remember the whole day. So.

[C]

You did, right? Yeah.

[A]

You fell off a cliff.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You had a concussion.

[B]

Hickory.

[C]

Yeah, it's got a pretty big bit about it.

[B]

Landed in the water. Got a big bit about it. Yeah. Got it. Landed in the water. Don't remember the whole day. If I landed face down, I would have drowned. Wow. Yeah.

[A]

You know, Hank Williams Jr. Fell off a mountain, too.

[B]

Almost died. Oh, really?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You write a song about do you.

[B]

Let's go talk about Aaron's dumb story where he.

[A]

Where were you at?

[B]

Did not fall.

[A]

Where were you at career wise? Like after that?

[B]

I was 12.

[A]

It all. It all happened after the fall.

[B]

It all happened.

[A]

Well, did you decide to become a comedian after you fell off the mountain?

[B]

No, no. No. I mean I was 12, so it was. But I do remember I always did great in school. I got. Won all the awards in seventh grade, like at like smart awards and all this stuff. And then eighth grade after I fell. I never won another award in my school. I barely made it out of high school.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

And I. I bet something. Something got knocked loose up there.

[A]

So maybe that' Coming down off the mountain after being there for 12 hours, somehow your body is going. Your mind is going back to that place.

[B]

Maybe. Yeah. No, we just felt like weird and grow like you're just.

[A]

But what if the rest of them were just going along with you? What if they were like, actually, we feel fine.

[B]

No, Chase. Chase felt. You felt gross, right? Yeah, we were like caving. Yeah. You come off and you just got dirt on earth. You're a mess.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And you've been around nobody and so you're just like. It's just been us three and it's so it's. It was such a long day and then you come back and you're just like. And then, you know, and then you walk back in. It's like the norm. Like Travis is just sitting there having a meal and it just. You're like.

[A]

It's.

[B]

Everything's normal again. And you're like. Yeah, you're like.

[A]

So it's six hours up, six hours back, sort of.

[B]

Well, we went up back and then we went another way too. And so that's why it was. There is a. It's a. It's a crazy hike. They have a little.

[A]

Yeah. I mean that's an insane amount of time.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've done some pretty big hikes on the road where we've. That was our longest. The other one we did was in. Didn't you do that one where we. Where we went to that top of the mountain? Right. That one was great. That was. I don't remember where that. It was in Montana and it was over 10, 000ft elevation.

[A]

That's where Hank Williams Jr. Fell off a mountain.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

In Montana.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Ours was. This one was. It was up. I mean, you're up there and it was over 10ft. There's. We have a. On. There's a Ajax Mountain. There's a. We wrote over a review on trails.

[C]

All trails.

[B]

All trails. We. I wrote a review on all trails about us being up there because we. You would leave something up there.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And we left the thing. A football. Like, we had like a little football or something for some reason.

[C]

There's a bunch of trash.

[B]

But that one was pretty intense, too. We did not feel as crazy when we came back on that one, but that one was very intense. And we got. Yeah, we got all the way up there. And then it was. I mean, you're just up there, man. We hiked a bunch. Hiking is. It's. It's.

[C]

It's really fun. Feels good to be all the way out there. All the way out there. Mount Everest is right between Nepal and China. It's actually owned jointly by both countries as it's. It's right on the board.

[B]

Own it.

[C]

Well, they just, you know, the same way the US Owns, I think.

[A]

You know, I feel like if you own anything with China, China owns.

[B]

Yeah, I would say so, too. Nepal's like, no, you can do whatever you want. Well, don't go to that side, but you can do whatever you want. Sorry, Mountain.

[C]

Nepal has the southern side.

[B]

Hey, can I come play over here? Don't go play with it. But he goes, I thought you owned the mountain. I owned the mountain. I'm saying I owned the mountain. Of course I own the mountain, but just don't. That side's a different side. So you're only one side? Nah, we're the whole thing. But just share it. We shared. That side is. I don't want to get into it. But that side just aside. Don't go on. Go on the side I'm on.

[C]

This is one of the first jokes I remember hearing as a young kid. Do you know what the tallest mouse. Tallest mountain before Mount Everest. Before Mount Everest was discovered. You know what the tallest mountain was? It was still Mount Everest. They just hadn't discovered.

[B]

Oh, that's funny.

[C]

Pretty. Yeah.

[B]

As a young kid, I was a pretty good joke. And you got it. Yeah, yeah, Yeah.

[C]

I was 14. That's a.

[B]

But I mean, that's a. That's a good joke to. Were you younger than that?

[C]

Yeah, I was way younger.

[A]

It's just one of those. One of those trick jokes where it's like, oh, well. Yeah, but I thought you were asking me.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What the tallest discovery as a kid.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. I thought you're being serious, but now be serious.

[A]

If a little kid told me that joke, I'd tell him to go home.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, with your gold tooth.

[A]

Yeah, I'd go. Get out of here.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Mount Everest.

[A]

I do want a gold tooth.

[C]

It is mountain.

[A]

I don't want the whole tooth. Gold. I want. Want like a ring around it almost.

[C]

Oh, you want. You want like a. Yeah, just get a grill.

[A]

I kind of want a grill.

[B]

No, he wants just. I think he wants one that.

[A]

Like a pirate.

[B]

Yeah, you want. Yeah, he wants someone to go, does that guy have a gold tooth?

[A]

But not bring it up.

[B]

But not bring it up.

[C]

Yeah, because they're too scared to talk to you. Or just like this.

[B]

Not. I think that's too much.

[A]

Just the. Just the canine. Yeah, just the gold on the.

[C]

Okay, so not one of the front.

[A]

Teeth, but not so.

[C]

Just like this.

[B]

But these are all like.

[A]

Like the canine on this one where it's just around it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You see it?

[C]

Wait, where?

[A]

Right here. Where it's just around the.

[C]

Oh, okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That's the look.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

All right. I wish you luck, ma'.

[B]

Am. Yeah.

[A]

How are you preparing for the colder seasons?

[C]

Not at all.

[A]

We tend to spend time indoors.

[C]

Oh, right.

[A]

So why not stay comfortable inside with your Helix mattress? Stay in bed. This is the perfect invest in a new mattress. We all know how important good sleep is, but this happens to be cold and flu season. Don't get caught on a terrible mattress. Yeah. I mean, you spend the time eating a lot of turkey and dressing and cranberry sauce, and then you get sick and you go, oh, the flu. When you probably poisoned yourself with bad ingredients. But Helix mattress gives you a place to rely. You know, Brian's out right now, and I bet he's relaxing on a Helix mattress, healing up. I bet he's even fine now. He's just like, I don't want to get off this mattress. He's probably fine now. He is lazy, but he's like, this mattress is too good. I know it improved how I sleep. Everyone knows I love their pillows. We talk about that all the time. I mean, all the time. Even off air, I go, how about those Helix pillows? But taking the Helix sleep quiz is so easy. And it helps you pick the perfect mattress for you. Helix is the most awarded mattress brand.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

Tested and reviewed by experts like Forbes and Wired. Plus, Helix delivers your mattress right to your door with free shipping in the US I really do love my Helix mattress. I really do. I've had it about three years now. It's going strong. So we got one for our guest room as well. As well. And everyone compliments how great they sleep. That's true. And I make sure to ask them. Go to helixsleep.com nate for the cyber Monday sale Best of the web and get 27 off site wide. This is exclusive for listeners of the Nateland podcast. That's helixsleep.com Nate for 27 off site wide. Make sure you enter our show name into the post purchase survey so they know we sent you helix sleep.

[C]

Mount Everest is 5.5 miles high. It's about 29,000ft. And as you know, that's the highest point from sea level. It's the highest point on Earth. But did you know that's not the tallest mountain? If you were to hike it, it's not the longest base to summit. It's actually. It's shorter than that, but it's just. Because it just starts higher up above sea level. It's not technically the tall.

[B]

What's technically what is there?

[C]

I have it on here somewhere. That is Mona Kea. That is the tallest from base to summit. But Mount Everest is the highest.

[A]

Gets colder up there above sea level. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So Mount Everest is the highest you can get on Earth.

[C]

29,000Ft. I mean, that's about the height of commercial airline flights.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Like you ever think about look out the window of a plane and you're like, dude, the top of a mountain. Mountain is up here. That's pretty insane.

[A]

Well, when people climb Mount Everest, are they at the peak? I mean, are they putting an arm around it, waving a flag?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, there's another section that's up there. Then you go, yeah, no, I think they're at the peak.

[C]

Yeah. You can see like that's the. That's the peak of it. Right. They were looking at like a 3D map of it.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, it's not super sharp to a point. Like, yeah, there's. It's a little bit of a plateau at the top, but you can get all the way up there. The first people ever to do it, 1953, is Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Hillary.

[B]

Two guys that would do it.

[C]

Hillary was from New Zealand. He was an explorer and just a rich guy philanthropist. Tenzing was a Sherpa. And neither of them, to this day, neither of them would say who stepped on the summit first.

[B]

Oh, really didn't want to.

[C]

They didn't want to say because they were like, it's not important. We did this together. It's an achievement for mankind. It's not like a one particular person achievement.

[A]

At one point, are they both Dead?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

This was in 1953. They died in it for it. What's that?

[A]

Well, I just say if one died, would the other go, actually, it was me?

[B]

Yeah. Well, what if you. Why won't you just go, let's step on it together?

[C]

Well, that's what they claim they did.

[B]

Okay. So they. So they would say, well, we did it together at the same time.

[C]

Yeah, that's what they agreed to say. But at one point. So Tenzing at one point said that Hillary took the first step, and then the media had this big hubbub about it and they tried to like pull them apart and to make a big story about it. And they were like, nah, nah, nah, I retract that. I want to be friends with. It became a big thing. You know, it's like, who stepped foot on the moon first? So you're like, we want to make it a big deal about who was on there first.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

They both say that.

[B]

It's so funny that you could be second to the moon and it's like you don't exist.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Isn't that crazy?

[C]

You know the second guy, Buzz Aldrin.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Do you know the third? There's a third guy just in the thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That didn't get to come out. Do you know that guy's name?

[B]

No.

[C]

Exactly.

[B]

He wasn't allowed to get out of the.

[C]

Yeah. He had to stay in the thing.

[B]

Why would they not. How do you not talk yourself and go, I'm going to get out.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Who's going to stop me at this point?

[B]

I mean, how would you not do that and go, why am getting out?

[A]

I think we've come this far.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I think somebody had to man the things. Like somebody's got to keep the car.

[A]

Yeah. You go, hey, Buzz, Neil, jump back in here.

[B]

Jump back in for a second. Let me touch the moon.

[C]

Nope.

[B]

You arrogant. I would get into a pretty big fight about it.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So they were up there, these two guys, first time spent about 15 minutes up there. They took a. They took a photo. I got a picture right here. Which is pretty cool. You got a picture? The first they. They left gifts up there like you did. This is Sir Edmund Hillary right here.

[A]

I bet he did it first.

[B]

Well, if he. Well, I'll be based on him. If he paid for it and did it.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But I could see.

[A]

So you get up there, you gotta climb back down. There's no. There's no.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You're not hang gliding or zip lining back down.

[C]

You just take the elevator down.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

You gotta, you gotta go back down.

[A]

I don't like that.

[C]

They spent 15 minutes up there. They left a gift. What did they leave? Hillary left a little cross given to him. And then Tenzing left chocolates at the summit as an offering. There was over 400 people.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

To the mountain. An offering to the mountain. There was 400 people in this entire expedition. It was a huge deal to, to get up there. So these two people did it, but.

[B]

They'Re gonna fight on the way back down. Hey, you got those chocolates?

[A]

I gave them to this mountain.

[B]

No, I gave them. I gave them to the mountain.

[C]

Gave him the.

[B]

What you gave them to what? I gave them. Well, you had a cross and I didn't think about. I didn't really think about leaving something up there. And all I had was these chocolates.

[A]

And he's like, I gave you that cross and you left it up here.

[B]

He goes, well, we could have ate them and just left a wrapper up there. Leave a ring. Leave a. You don't have a quarter.

[A]

Yeah, my blood sugar is low after all this climbing.

[B]

Put a nickel up there, that'd be a pretty cool story. Can anybody find the nickel?

[C]

Buffalo nickel. The hardest part of the Summit was a 40 foot rock face that is now called Hillary Step, named after Sir Edmund Hillary.

[B]

It was like, well, that's who stepped on at first when you got the.

[C]

That's a good point.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

He's like, well, I'll take credit for that. That step has now, basically, there was an earthquake in 2015, and that 40 foot rock face that was like completely vertical and really hard to climb, that got all eroded and now it's like pretty easy to. To get over.

[B]

So now it's not worth it.

[C]

Well, now it's like kind of. It's like thin. It's a bottleneck where there'll be like a lot. There's like a line waiting to get through. It's like funneling people. It's really. It's caused a bottleneck of people getting up there.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You have any idea how long it takes if you were to go. Let's say you wanted to go climb Everest. You do all the training. How long does it take from when you do?

[A]

40 years. You're talking me?

[B]

Yeah. No, no, you talking about like from your house, like from today to get on.

[C]

If you were to like, all right, I want to do it. I'm in shape enough to do it. Let me call some company that does tours. How long the actual trip takes?

[B]

I think six months.

[C]

Takes about two months, which is still longer than I thought. I thought you could knock it out in the weekend. That's all dumb.

[B]

Oh no.

[C]

Go out there Friday, I'll climb it.

[B]

I bet it's six months. Is your. I bet it's a year like when you, if you want to go do it.

[A]

I would think more than two months from the couch to the mountain.

[B]

Couch to mountain is got to be a year. Yeah, they should have that as one of those, you know, they do that couch to marathon, you know, couch to.

[C]

Couch to 5K.

[B]

Couch. 5K cows. Couch Everest.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I bet they go that's 5 to 10 years.

[C]

It's usually it's a 3 to 5 day arrival in Nepal. They check all your gear. It's an 8 to 12 day trek to base camp and then you have to acclimate for 30 to 35 days to just the altitude and the oxygen level and everything. And then the actual push up to the summit is four, four to eight days. And there's only like a certain two week window where you can do this every year in May. This is the only time where the weather even.

[B]

And it's like, even, isn't it like 24 hours like when you. I think it's 24 hours when you go, when you're going to the peak. Like it's like four day. But then when you make the push to the peak and back down where.

[C]

There'S something called eight hours. The 2:00pm rule. Yeah, that's like a critical safety guideline that requires climbers to turn back and begin coming back down by 2pm so that last day when you get up to the top, you have to leave it like midnight or like a little bit after midnight to get up there. Everything, you're at the mercy of the weather and everything when you're up there. So there's that little two week window when you, when you can.

[A]

How many people have done this?

[C]

Well, when in the 1950s, right after those first two guys did it, there was only, you know, like less than 100 a year. That would do it now. Close to a thousand a year go do this. And it costs anywhere from 35,000 to $100,000 to do it. So it's pretty cost prohibitive for most people.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, I wonder if it's. Yeah, I could see wanting to. Like there is. I have something in me that kind of wants to do it.

[C]

You want to do. You want to do the equivalent. You want to be one of these two guys though.

[B]

That is true.

[C]

You want to be one of the first guys to do it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You don't want to be one of the idiots that's still doing it. Right?

[B]

I don't. I mean, it's like, I, I, I wouldn't mind trying to cut. Like, maybe it's like, if, maybe it'd be like, all right, I don't want to, like, I don't, I don't need to do Mount Everest, but, like, I need to go accomplish something like, like this, a physical, physical feat that you can go like, wow, I did that. I got over some stuff, you know, whatever that is. And then to see if you go, yeah, I want to do this other, other thing. Because I think that in career stuff, you can have where you think you want to do something, and then you kind of get, get maybe even past it or near it, and then you're like, I don't know if I really want to do that.

[C]

Because you would have thought years ago, you'd have thought headlining Madison Square Garden is the Mount Everest of your career.

[B]

That would be it.

[C]

And then you climbed it three times in one weekend.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So you're like, well, what's, what's my.

[A]

Let's say this. You're on Everest, Right. You go, I've needed to do this physical thing. And then you're up there, and now your leg is frostbitten, and you go, I'm probably gonna die up here.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And you'd think, did I really need to do this?

[B]

Well, that's where you gotta be.

[A]

That's what I think about.

[B]

But I mean, that's where it's, I think it's gotta be in you. Because then when you do die up there, you are like, yo, this is, this was, this is what I wanted.

[A]

But your last little bit, you go, I couldn't do it. This is in me to do it, but I couldn't do it.

[C]

I think the last thought you have is, I died trying, and maybe that's.

[A]

The achievement and failed.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I died, I think, with. Remember the.

[B]

Right. When you get to heaven, God goes, why'd you go to Mount Everest?

[A]

Yeah. You had a pretty good life.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I gave you everything you needed.

[C]

Yeah. Why did you need it?

[B]

Because, you know, there's two mountains over. You would have made it. Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Nobody in your life was even that impressed.

[A]

Maybe try the smaller one first.

[B]

I've met someone that climbed Mount Everest.

[C]

They talk about it a lot. It.

[B]

I asked them. Well, it was like, it was in the fashion of, Ah, you know what? It was like, very random. It wasn't. It was. It was more random than it is. I could be in situations where someone you're with, someone that's climbing out of us, like if you're at a speaking thing or something. But yeah, it was kind of crazy. And I tell you what, there's. It's, you know, it's not. Not a lot to talk about. It's hard to, you know, I mean, you know, even to, like, go, I've met someone to climb Mount Everest. The odds of that are pretty small for you to meet someone that has climbed Mount Everest.

[A]

Especially the circles I run in.

[B]

Yes. And so the. The odds of that are very. Are very small.

[C]

But Clown Mount Juliet.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, it's. But, yeah, like, you know, you go, how. You know, you go, how was it? You know, it's. It's not. It's a little bit longer of a conversation than when I asked about y' all's Thanksgiving.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because there's only. I mean, I don't know what else. But you don't really know what to.

[A]

Say if you're a guy and you're talking to a girl about the time you climb Mount Everest. I'm sure it can be longer and very exciting. But if you're telling some other guys, they go, well, that's cool, dude.

[C]

That's awesome, man.

[B]

You know what, man? It was a game.

[A]

What do you think about Link?

[B]

It was a. It was a flight attendant.

[A]

Coming from a guy that climbed Mount Everest. Do you think Lane Kiffin should stay it?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

As a flight attendant. So he just can't get enough. Climbed it now. Still gotta travel.

[B]

Yeah, it was, but it is. No, it's very. It's like you're almost in awe of it that you just are like. But then you're. It's too big to really under. You know, to. No one knows that. It'd be like Neil Armstrong. Like, if you want to talk to a guy, come to moon. It's like, well, how. Like, there's going to be a lot of conversations that you're going to just be like, yeah, man, how was the moon?

[C]

And then, you know, he's sick of talking about it. So you're like.

[B]

And you don't even know how to wrap your head around it. Yeah. Like, you. You can't. No.

[A]

I'm sure he's like, I had to tell this lie again.

[C]

He's just way down from the line.

[B]

Yeah. He goes, oh, traffic was bad that day. What? He drove to a studio. That's the joke. He goes, but I Remember is the traffic. Why was there traffic? I mean, there was no traffic because we were the first to do it. Yeah.

[A]

The space junk.

[B]

Yeah. Right. It's. Yeah. I mean, I think you could listen to a store. Like, I could watch a movie on. I think there's. There's a great amount Everest movie. And I've watched. I could watch movies and all this kind of stuff all the time. I like it that they're doing. But there is something funny, too, that you just. I'm you. You know, the most frustrating thing they probably hear is they go, I climb Mount Everest. And they go, why?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

You go, oh, well, because I want it. You know, like, that's got to be infuriated.

[C]

Yeah. When. When I was in Alaska, you know, the. The biggest mountain, I think, in the western hemisphere, Denali is out there. And the first kind of climb, it was just like some American guy back in this time, probably.

[B]

And I asked.

[C]

I was like, was there not like a native person that summited it? And they were like, no, they would, like, laugh at the idea. They're like, why would you even want to climb up there? Well, we just looked at it. It and we admired it. But, like. Yeah, to think I have to go get to the top of that.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

A lot of people don't think that.

[A]

Way, and that's how I think.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I like walking in the woods. I'm into that. I like being in nature. But mountain climbing does not appeal to me.

[C]

You don't feel the need to. You don't want to conquer something? You don't ever feel that?

[A]

No.

[C]

And you. But you do want to conquer something.

[B]

I do. I don't know if.

[C]

Metaphorically or whatever.

[B]

Yeah. Yes.

[A]

I like growing things. I mean, that can be. Yeah, you're conquering the.

[B]

But I don't want to con. Like, I mean, I can't.

[A]

I, like.

[B]

I don't know if I get the thrill of conquering a. The mountain over. Conquering, like, you know, like being in comedy or building a theme park or. Yeah, like, actually, like. Like, I like that.

[C]

By the way, congrats on. We even talked about that.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Thanks. Yeah, man. Yeah.

[C]

I mean, do you want to go to detail about it later or. Or. I feel crazy that I forgot to mention that.

[B]

It's a bit hard to talk about. It's. Yeah, it's hard to. You know, until it's built, no one cares. So. Yeah. But yeah, like, I enjoy, like that. Like, I enjoy, like, that's what I've come into. Where You. I really want to. Because, you know, it's a mix of. Yeah, it's. It's inwardly outwardly versus not that one way is bad or the other. I feel very much like outwardly. I mean, the comedy aspect is inwardly, I guess, but, like, the theme park and movies is outwardly. Like, you want to make stuff. I really want to make stuff that people go to and.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Are able to go to. And I like, the. The carry the weight of their trust on me that I want to them, you know, so. But, yeah, I don't know.

[C]

It's exciting. It's so funny. It's crazy the way the podcast has changed. There's so many things that. That are happening with both of you. Like the fact that you're like, oh, by the way, I was on Tonight show last week and then, oh, yeah, building a theme park.

[A]

And you, too. You got a new corduroy shirt.

[B]

That you would wear on. Do you think that's how you address on. That's how you address on Mount Everest? Because you might get too hot. They go, you get up there in the death zone, and they go, I think you should put something more on. He goes, I think about taking this jacket off, brother. He goes, you're waving yourself here in the top of Mount Everest.

[A]

Sweats, freezing.

[B]

Yeah. He goes, what is it, summer here, man?

[C]

Sweat free? You ever had sweat freeze on you like that? No, I. I took spin class in college for my PE Credit, and then I had a class across campus and I didn't have time to shower, so I get off the exercise bike, miserable, so sweaty, and I walk across campus, and it would all freeze to me. Freeze in your armpits. All the snot would freeze in your. It just felt disgusting. Dude, it's one of the worst feelings.

[A]

It's kind of like coming off a mountain.

[C]

Exactly.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

That was my Mount Everest.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Right there.

[B]

So this guy Hillary, that was in my joke. I said, that was my. Yeah. He goes, what's your Mount Everest? And he goes, oh, yeah. I was like, I'm trying not to do more McDonald's.

[C]

Trying to walk to McDonald's.

[B]

Yeah. That's my ego. That's my Mount Everest. And then the guy that climbed on air says to go, that's great, man.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Can't even fathom that that's a problem.

[C]

So Sir Edmund Hillary, one of the first two up there, he died in 2008. That's how recent this is.

[B]

I tell you what, we're talking about a guy quite a bit that said he did not step on this thing first. And you go. There you go. I don't know what to tell you.

[C]

Well, there's a language barrier with the other guys.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I think you would almost. If you wanted to be that Hillary guy, you should have let him do it first. And then know you're the one that's going to get talked about. But you go. You do it first.

[C]

I think you. Don't. You want to be. I want to be the first guy to actually do it.

[B]

You know what's funny is, I think you just would be. And then in your heart, you know. No, I let him.

[A]

I think if he did it, Hillary would have killed that guy. And he. He died on the way up there.

[B]

On the way.

[C]

He died at the top. Yeah, right before he.

[A]

Because he said he had 200 people. Sorry. He funded the whole thing. He's like, listen, I'll do whatever I want up here.

[B]

Wait, it was just 200 or it was two.

[C]

It was hundreds of people that were part of the whole thing.

[B]

Oh.

[C]

But just the two of them that made that last little trek up to the top.

[B]

Why did no one else? They probably didn't let them.

[C]

I think it was just dangerous at that time. It was super dangerous.

[A]

They were all that third man in the spaceship.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

But we're so close. And he's like, yeah, but I'm paying.

[B]

You just hang back here in the death zone for eight hours because we'll be right back.

[C]

You ever have that one person that you cannot shop for? Every year I'm walking around the mall going, do they like candles? Do they need another blanket? Do I even know this person at all? Not this year. I finally grown up. I am getting these people an aura frame, and then I'm cutting them out of my life for good. Because apparently you can't wrap togetherness, but you can frame it.

[A]

That's good.

[C]

And that feels a lot better than the emergency Fritos I gave them last year. I'm a big fat idiot. I don't know how to do anything.

[A]

I don't know what's.

[C]

But not anymore, because I like aura frames. I'm giving one of these to my aunt. She's the hardest person in the world to buy for. This woman returns gifts. Gift cards. Cheers, dude. One time, I had a. My brother got a gift card to one store, and he tried to use it to buy a gift card from that store for another store that he wanted to shop from.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

And it was hard to. It took him, like, four or five different stores. Before they let him do that.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

What I'm saying is just get guys like that and. Or a frame.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You can load it up with a bunch of family photos. Before it ships, they're gonna open it and boom. Instant favorite family member status. And honestly, it's the easiest gift I've ever given or gotten. Upload all the photos you want from your phone, add a little message, and you're done.

[A]

Boom.

[C]

Comes in this fancy gift box. You look like you tried real hard even though you didn't.

[A]

You can even send them embarrassing pictures of themselves to the frame. And they don't even know. They're just sitting around the living room. All of a sudden it pops up.

[C]

No, that's what I do all the time. Or like a meme that, that, you.

[A]

Know.

[C]

People don't want to see. For a limited time, save on the perfect gift by visiting auraframes.com to get $35 off Aura's best selling Carver mat frames named number one by Wirecutter. By using promo code Nate at checkout. That's a U R A frames.com promo code Nate. This deal is exclusive to our listeners and frames sell out fast, especially this time of year. So order yours now to get it in time for the holidays. Support the show by mention us at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. So this guy, he died in 2008 and he said even, even 15 to 20 years after he first, like just 15, 20 years ago, he was like, I'm kind of upset with what Mount Everest has become, like the over commercialization of it. And he feels like a lot of the people, modern climbers now, they don't have any sense of adventure. They're not doing it for the same reasons he did. They're doing it just because they can pay for it. And then he looked at all the trash and everything up there and he was like, just. He died upset with what it was like. And it's gotten way worse since he died. So he'd probably be pretty unhappy with what, what he did. I mean, I think somebody would have climbed it after if he hadn't. But. Yeah, but to get. Imagine being the first person. It's like pure, untouched. And now look at some of these pictures of trash on Mount Everest.

[A]

It is.

[C]

I mean, disgusting, dude.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

Disgusting. So much trash. If you're just listening when you get just Google trash on Mount Everest. I mean, some people are trying to get up there and help it.

[B]

But you wanted to ask him though, to be honest, go, well, did you leave any trash up there?

[A]

You left some trash.

[B]

Well, I did, but we were the only ones up there. You go, well, yeah, I mean, like, honestly, to that guy, you go, did you leave anything up there? There? I'd imagine in 1950 you probably had to leave some stuff up there.

[C]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[B]

And it's like now it's. Look, it's the tallest mountain in the world. It's like, yeah, they should. Yeah. Not saying you don't. I get it.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

There's a weird back when you were.

[A]

The only one pooping on the mountain. It wasn't a big deal.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like there's a. I don't know why I was confused with that kind of thing where they go do something. Like someone does something like this and they look back and they're like, almost regret it because of what it became. A. I think it's like, who do you think you are? Like that you're. You did it. Like, it's like celebrate that you did it. You can be frustrated that it is like this and so many people are doing it. You're like, you're right. None of us want this to be that. But then maybe spend all your money into trying to fix it and trying to get rid of it. But it's. It's.

[C]

Well, he's dead now.

[B]

Well, I know, but it's.

[C]

I.

[B]

It's like a weird.

[A]

Just feels like he's going, talk about me again, guys. Well, I. I did it first.

[B]

You've seen it with just. There's just times where someone. I don't like when somebody gets to be the first of something and then they kind of can guilt everybody.

[A]

I'm not trying like somebody now going, I wish. I wish I'd never done a crowd work video. Now look what it's become.

[B]

Look what it's become. And you're.

[C]

I know who we're talking about too. I know who to blame for that.

[B]

They're doing away before, but yeah, they should. I mean. Yeah. I mean, there's a ton of trash like, you know, but it's. I don't know. Go. Yeah, pick it up. Go, go pick it up. You guys are. Look, that's a. That to me is a. A you guys problem. So we go clean it up. Yeah.

[C]

I'm never going up there.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You're like, oh, I gotta figure it out.

[B]

Yeah, figure it out.

[A]

What's my Everest Cleaning up the trash you left behind.

[B]

Did you make it up there? No, because I got stuck on base camp getting rid of all your cans.

[C]

So there's Been a place.

[B]

What are you supposed to do with the trash?

[C]

Well, that's the thing. It's so high up. It's so dangerous to go up there and get it. It's like, do we really want to risk human lives to go take this Diet Coke can?

[B]

And there's like. I know. There's like. And people have died, and there's dead bodies up there, right? Yeah. Huh.

[A]

Imagine dying before the death zone. You didn't even make it to the death.

[B]

Yeah. And then. Oh, that's how you could do this. I think you give them the death zone. I think you just.

[C]

You scoot the body a little bit.

[B]

I think you do the right thing and you go, the least we could do is scoot this body into the death zone. And, you know, it's the opposite of, like, you never leave a seal behind. You move them to the death zone.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You get them. Get my foot in the death zone or something.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Or tell him he's. I mean, he must have slid back down because he was deep.

[A]

Yeah, he was. He was in it.

[B]

What's the death zone? It's the.

[C]

It's 8. 8,000 meters. And that's the point where, like the ox. Your body cannot.

[B]

200Ft.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

What now? Your body can't function.

[C]

Your body doesn't have the oxygen. I mean, it. It just can't function at that level. So you have, like, limited time up there. Yeah, in theory. There's like.

[B]

And you got to go above it.

[C]

You got to go way above it.

[B]

So is the death zone not from here to the top? Because when you look at that mountain, it looks like it's only one little section, and then it goes to the peak. So death zone is like. Starts here, and then it gets all the way. You know what I mean?

[C]

Listen. Right there. So there's about 3,000. About 3,000ft between the death. The start of the death zone, and the summit. So you got to get up there and you got to get out.

[B]

Yeah, but they should also say, well, so we can summit. Just a reminder, you are still in the death zone.

[C]

Oh, yeah?

[B]

Yeah. Why?

[A]

And camp two is not the death zone, guys. Okay. Camp two. Yeah, you should be fine.

[C]

You die in camp two, you're just weak.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. If you died. Yeah, I mean, if you died at.

[A]

Base camp, it's like you just came here to die.

[B]

Yeah. You're like. You're just. They don't even count it.

[C]

How many bodies are up there?

[B]

Base camp is pretty crazy to get to, right?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It's like an 8 to 12 day hike to get. To get there.

[B]

Can you just do Base Camp?

[C]

I think you can go. Actually, Nate, one of your. One of your old pals, Mandy Moore in 2019, your wife.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

From the Breadwinner. Coming out this march, Mandy Moore went to Everest base camp in 2019. She did not summit the mountain, but she did a week long trek to the base camp, which is at an altitude of 17, 600ft. She described it as a spiritual and challenging experience.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So she went out there, did a.

[A]

Little party at base Camp, headed on back.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I think I left a long track.

[C]

Week long track.

[B]

Yeah, I think I could do that. Like, and I think it would be like you're going, yeah, I want to go like that would be to get that up close to the mountain and go. But how do you not go? Like, let me go to Camp two. What is. How's their Camp two? And then what's the IV right below it?

[C]

That's four.

[B]

Four. So why. Where's three?

[A]

Yeah, where's three?

[B]

And I mean, that's very.

[C]

I mean, that is a good question.

[A]

Why is it in reverse?

[B]

No, Camp one. We go base Camp. Camp four. Camp two. Dad Zone. What?

[A]

Maybe you got the dead zones getting confused. Looking for Camp 1.

[C]

I've got a breakdown here.

[B]

So he goes, no, no, no, I'm going to Camp one.

[A]

They go, yeah.

[B]

You know, it's hard to like, have your steps about you. They go, no, buddy, there's no Camp one. Well, that would be ridiculous because there's a camp too.

[C]

That'S just not in the.

[B]

The.

[C]

That diagram for some reason.

[B]

And why is base. Why does it not go Base camp? Camp two Camp. Camp four, Death zone Summit.

[C]

Camp four is.

[A]

Oh, it's actually higher than the. Than Camp two.

[C]

Yeah, it is right there. So Camp four is technically in the death zone. You see it?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Same height.

[B]

No, it's not. It says 23 and death zone says 26. Well, and actually camp two is lower somehow.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

How's camp two lower than camp four? What?

[C]

Abigail's. I don't know. I don't know enough.

[B]

Is it.

[C]

He texted me the link. Oh, all right, I'll pull it up.

[B]

Yeah, I'll pull that. All right, here we go.

[C]

Okay. Mount Everest says two. Is this the one you. Oh, this, this right here. There.

[A]

Go to that website.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And then this website really breaks it down. Oh, this makes a lot more sense.

[B]

Okay. Yeah. All right, so there's base camp. And then you go to abc, which Is ridiculous. And then you go to North Call, which is, yeah, those two are not even worth going to. I would get there and go, base Camp. And then I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go ahead and go to Camp 2. He goes, Jonah, go to ABC. He's like, or maybe Camp 1. Why don't you go Camp 1, 2, 3, 4, and then summit? Did you ever think of that? Yeah.

[A]

What do you think's going on at Camp 2? I mean, that's got to be a tremendous amount of less people than at Base Camp.

[B]

Yes. I think Camp Twos, where it's going to thin out.

[C]

Each one.

[B]

It goes. The rubber hits the road. Yeah, it goes, what are we doing here?

[A]

Camp two, Everybody's got a little more hair on their bodies and a little more rugged looking.

[C]

Camp two, also known as Advanced Base Camp. That's abc. Oh, this has them as two different Advanced Base.

[B]

That's why that makes sending information. I want to apologize for the ABC thing.

[A]

Yeah. Well, they should make it more clear, though.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

They've got better tents, better communication equipment. It's just stops along the way. If you're going to summit, you got.

[B]

A lot of chances to back off.

[C]

You got a lot of opportunities to go, this maybe isn't for me and I might die if I get up there. Yeah, there's. You mentioned it. We don't have to get into detail, but there's a ton of dead bodies up there. And they're working on getting them back. But they're, you know, they're perfectly preserved up there because it's so cold. So a lot of them have become landmarks.

[B]

Right?

[C]

Landmarks. Yeah.

[A]

There's a guy gift to the mountain.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It's way more valuable than chocolate.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

There's a guy named Green Boots who's famous because he had green boots. And then everyone go, you know, take a left at Green Boots.

[B]

You just see it and you see green boots.

[C]

You see a guy who's dead with wearing green boots.

[B]

I think if you're going to do it, that's, that's how you want to go. You want to. If you do it, you want to make sure.

[A]

You got to be a landmark.

[B]

Yeah, I would. Your last move should be to get you in a good spot.

[A]

Do not take my body from this mountain.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You leave me here.

[B]

I want to be on a turn.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, there's one part, there's a.

[C]

Place called, like Rainbow. It's Rainbow Road, Rainbow Trail or Rainbow Valley. Rainbow Valley, where there's so many dead bodies all Wearing brightly colored stuff. They call it Rainbow Valley because all the different jackets and everything.

[A]

I love that. Yeah, yeah. Gifts to the mountain.

[B]

It's. It's like. It's one of those. It's. I mean, look, it's very sad, but it's. It's like also like, that's. I think when you go there, that's what gets talked about.

[C]

About.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And that pro. That, like, you know.

[A]

I Bet Base Camp 3 has a lot of jokes about Rainbow Valley. I bet they're like, you see those guys? They couldn't even make it. Basic three.

[B]

Yeah. Or they don't want to be in Rainbow. Where are they? Are they in the death zone?

[C]

I don't know where they're. I'm sure it's the death zone.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. They go, once you get the flip flop and you get flip flop. He goes, yeah, it's right below Base camp. That guy didn't make it.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

He wore flip flops. He goes, but once you see flip flop, you know you're about to hit the flat spot of base camp because why? What? The audacity of that guy wearing flip flop. He's got your Walmart slides on.

[A]

He was living that salt life.

[B]

He's living that. Yeah. And he's just sitting there. Houses his feet. Not bad.

[C]

Still preserved.

[B]

Real preserved.

[C]

Look at this picture, man. It's one of the craziest pictures. Overcrowding on Mount Everest. Drivers.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

For the reason that we talked about earlier, like the bottleneck issues and stuff.

[A]

Is that the top?

[B]

This is the top.

[C]

I don't know if that's the exact top of it. Is it? That's the.

[B]

That's the summit. Yeah. And so then you got to go. And then. Yeah.

[A]

If you're that high, if you reach the top and there's that many people there, that has to diminish the accomplishment in your mind. You have to go.

[B]

I could see that.

[A]

Yeah, you have to go. See that. This many people are doing it.

[C]

Well, you want to kind of line on ground. Filmed. Yeah. The airport or something. This is like. This is the worst place on earth for a line.

[B]

But if you. If you. I don't know. I mean, you're still like, got to be one of some.

[A]

You know, it's like you climb all the way up there and you get like. I can't even get a second.

[B]

Can you do. How many people have climbed Mount Everest? Is it 10,000? Is it?

[A]

You can't even get a second up here because there's somebody else waiting to be at the top.

[B]

Oh, yeah. No, it's like in front of those Taylor Swift wings. Yeah, it's the same thing.

[C]

So they think there have been 12, almost 13,000 successful ascents by approximately 7,200 different people.

[B]

Yeah. So I would. You know, it's still. Still pretty good, though, man. Like 13,000 people of the population.

[C]

Only 7,000 people.

[B]

Oh, only seven.

[C]

A lot of people have done it multiple times. Yeah.

[B]

So, like. Yeah, so seven. So if you're one of 7,000 people that have done it, like, it's still pretty crazy. Sherpa guides. Those are the. Yet I had another joke about Mount Everest. With the Sherpa. Yeah.

[C]

There was one dude, the guy who has the record. His name is Kami Rita. Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest the most times, 31 times as of May 2025. He. He broke his own record. Has the Guinness world record for most Everest thumbs. I mean, 31 times he's done this.

[B]

Yeah, he does it, like, every day.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

This guy needs to find a new hobby, huh?

[C]

What's your evidence job?

[A]

I've done it 31 times. Yeah.

[C]

Just another day at the office.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, seven, 200 people only 900 women.

[A]

Almost a thousand.

[C]

Almost a thousand.

[A]

Thousand.

[B]

That's a lot. Yeah. That's a lot of women, though. Are they. I would, you know, be funny to have this Sherpa, like, I would like to have that guy. Anybody that goes and gives a speech about Mount Everest, I'd have him come sit in the front row as they start their speech.

[C]

A Sherpa.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. And then it. He. And he just. He goes, now please tell us about your one time.

[C]

31.

[B]

31 times.

[C]

31. I remember my first time, dude. I remember my first time.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, that's the thing too, right? It's like. Yeah. You can't. You can't even be like, oh, yeah, climb Mount Everest because somebody's done it 31 times.

[B]

How many want that guy?

[A]

How many of the people you think died on their second attempt? Can you imagine that?

[C]

You got a little more confidence.

[A]

Yeah. You're like, oh, I should have just stuck with the one. As your body is slowly freezing over, you go, should have just did it.

[C]

The one you like to think about regrets in the last moment of life.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Kind of a funny.

[A]

You never know when it's going to come. Don't have any regrets.

[C]

Okay. Oh.

[B]

All right.

[C]

That's about it. I think this one can be a little short.

[B]

Good job.

[C]

Thank you. Thank you, Abigail, for looking all this up.

[B]

It's good information.

[C]

All right.

[B]

Mount Everest is fun.

[C]

It is fun. Let's go do it.

[A]

I enjoy it.

[C]

Let's go do it. Would you go do it with us? We did a field trip.

[B]

Let's pick.

[C]

I mean, you didn't come to Paducah with us.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You're not coming to Everest.

[B]

Yeah, but that was during the eclipse.

[A]

Yeah, I might go to. I might go to base Camp, but I doubt it. I mean, I might maybe go to Nepal with you guys.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And then I'll hang in Nepal while you guys go hiking.

[B]

Okay, let's go.

[A]

Just.

[B]

Let's pick a mountain here, and then we're. We're gonna do it.

[C]

I'm down.

[B]

It's a little bit easier.

[C]

It's Mount Mitchell in North Carolina.

[B]

There you go.

[C]

It's a good one.

[B]

It's a big one.

[A]

It's a bit.

[C]

It's okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Doable.

[B]

You gotta spend night.

[C]

No, no. You can be back in your car by noon. Dude, we go eat a Panera that day.

[B]

We already did that. How high have you been?

[C]

I don't. I know. I've been low to the Grand Canyon. I did a long hike. Grand Canyon. I hiked down.

[B]

You went down? Yeah.

[C]

You went low, which is actually wor. It's worse to have to hike at the end.

[B]

That's what they would say. That's what they would say.

[C]

So you hiking up a mountain, then you're like the easy part, and then you just have fun at the end.

[B]

Yeah, I got to end it on. Yeah, no, it's still climbing. Well, how much did you hike up?

[C]

I mean, if I did five miles down, five miles up.

[B]

And how. How many feet is that?

[C]

I mean, it was over a mile of elevation.

[B]

Do you know the feet? Like, I think. What did we. We did like over 5,000 or 12, 000. Right. It was like 10 to 12,000 elevation. All right, so is that above that?

[C]

Yeah, that's like two miles.

[B]

No, it's not.

[C]

I mean, a mile is 5,280ft.

[B]

Oh, so you did five miles?

[C]

I did five miles down and then five miles up. But it's not completely vertical. But it was a lot of elevation. It's like. It's pretty steep. I'm not trying to claim that.

[B]

No way. So 5,000. You did 25, 000ft. You did Mount Everest?

[C]

No, I did the Grand Canyon.

[B]

Well, Mount Everest was 29,000ft.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So if a mile is 5,000ft, five miles is 25,000ft. So you did Mount Everest 29.

[C]

Yeah, but that would be straight up. But, yeah, essentially, that distance.

[B]

The way you're. You're wording this in a way that's insane.

[C]

What do you mean?

[B]

This is what notary. This is why the Notre Dame's in the playoffs, because you word it in such a way that everybody's like, they've got to be in. And then you're like, what? And then you're. You're like. Like you're confusing me.

[C]

The trail itself is five miles. Well, I went five miles down, and then at any point you turn around and come back up. So I had to walk the same way, back up. So I walked 10 miles. I only did about a mile in elevation on the way.

[B]

So I guess that's the. So the elevate. So you did. So you only did. All right, so elevation. You went on a hike, but you. What I. All right, you see what I'm trying to say?

[C]

You see kind of.

[B]

No, I think you do. Okay, so it's. If we went up 12,000 elevation. Oh, yeah. And then you rode an escalator for a few hours and you went. You said a th000 elevation. That's like nothing. That's like nothing. You did a long hike. Like, we hiked that day. Was it 12, 13 miles, something like that in Canada. So I guess if you want to go. Yeah, if we put it up right then we did. We would have done more than Mount Everest.

[A]

12, 000 elevation in miles is 2.2 miles. So you did double a little more than what he did.

[B]

Yeah. So you're 6, 000 elevation. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Well, that.

[B]

Let me tell you, that last mile, ours was. Ours was pretty straight up the whole time. That's much different than, you know, you. You know, basically crisscrossing.

[A]

But he was also in the desert, though, right. So it was hot and dry.

[C]

Cold in the morning and got hot by the.

[B]

He was going down.

[C]

Lizards going up when it was hot.

[B]

Yeah, you're up you go.

[C]

And I was wearing khakis. I didn't dress well.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

First time I did it, yours was about the size of the building. And then you just went. You kept walking where you're never really were on in la. You basically. You're. Was your trip ever. Did you ever think, are we walking up? Because that's how. All right, look, look. Agree to disagree.

[C]

Yeah, that's fair.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, we can move on.

[B]

All right, that's it. That's it. I'll be in Salt Lake City this week. In Boise. Hey. And then Bridgestone and that's the end of this year. Awesome. And so. Yeah.

[C]

And then you're taking a lot of time off.

[B]

No, no, no, no. Well, I'll be off about a month and then we have the rest of next year. The August 26th, but after that, you.

[C]

Know, back at it.

[B]

No, no, there will be. It could be after. Once I'm done with next year. I bet it's the end of 27, 28 before we tour. So that will be a decent break. So if you want to come out, come out. And then I got to be doing some movie and theme park things.

[C]

Big time stuff.

[B]

Big stuff.

[C]

Mount Everest type stuff. Speaking of Mount Everest type stuff, I'm in the Mohegan sun in Connecticut. It Uncastville. Unville.

[B]

That's Durmount. Everest, that is.

[C]

Yeah. At a comics roadhouse this weekend. And then the Philadelphia Helium Great club this Sunday. That's December 7th. So coming out, see me, Connecticut and Philadelphia this weekend.

[A]

All right. I got four dates for the year this week. I mean. Yeah, for the rest of the year. This week I'm gonna be. Or next week I'm gonna be in Mexico. Cancun, Mexico. Oh, it's gonna be great. The I never been to Cancun. December 12th, I'm gonna be in Dubuque, Iowa at a casino. December 16th, I'm here at Zany's. December 26th Pola, Oklahoma casino. So that's where I'll be at all@dusty slay.com.

[C]

Feel better, Brian. I want to plug a couple. Brian Day. He's going to be at the Skyline Comedy Club in Appleton, Wisconsin.

[B]

Great club.

[C]

At the end of this month, Famous club really is a great club. Brian's got three shows there, so go check him out. At the end of this month, Cap.

[B]

City in January, Addison Improv.

[C]

Brian's got a lot of great shows. Brian Bates, comedy.com. get those tickets now. We wish you well, Brian. Feel better.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Those mumps off and all that kind of stuff.

[B]

The old months.

[A]

We love you.

[C]

I'll let you close it out, Nate.

[B]

No, you're doing a great job. All right. Yeah, that's it. Love you. Bye. Foreign.

[A]

Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and Safeway. The holiday season can be exhausting with all the parties and the end of year celebrations. But don't forget to take care of yourself by stocking up on your favorite nutritional products. Now through December 30, shop in store and online and save on items like Cliff snack bars. Luna Bars Boost nutritional energy drinks, Premier Protein Shakes, Z Bar Variety Packs Open Nature Powder and Body Fortress Protein powder offers end December 30th. Restrictions apply. Offers may vary. Visit albertsons or safeway.com for more details. This time of year, most of us are checking off our holiday gift lists. But identity thieves have lists, too, and your personal information might be on them. Protect your identity with LifeLock LifeLock monitors millions of data points every second and alerts you to threats you could miss. If your identity is stolen, LifeLock will fix it, guaranteed, or your money back. Make this season about joy, not identity theft. With LifeLock, save up to 40% your first year at LifeLock.com iHeart terms apply.

[B]

Hey, this is Sarah. Look, I'm standing out front of a.m. p.m. Right now and, well, you're sweet and all, but I found something more fulfilling, even kind of cheesy. But I like it. Sure, you met some of my dietary needs, but they've just got it all. So farewell. Oatmeal, so long. Use strange soggy Break up with bland breakfast and taste AM PM's bacon, egg and cheese biscuit made with K tree egg, smoked bacon and melty cheese on a buttery biscuit. AM PM Too much Good stuff.