283: #283 Next Act

Summary

Nateland Podcast — Episode 283: "Next Act"

Date: December 17, 2025
Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Length: ~113 minutes
[Audioboom Studios]

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Overview

This deeply personal, reflective episode titled "Next Act" centers on significant transitions—both in comedy and life, but most crucially for the podcast itself. Nate announces that he will be stepping away from the Nateland Podcast to pursue new creative ambitions, including film and theme park projects. The group discusses the concept of "quitting" versus "moving on," reflecting on personal stories, pop culture, sports, and the evolution of the show itself. The episode is filled with warmth, good-natured ribbing, nostalgia, and thoughtful examination of change.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Major Announcement — Nate’s Departure

• [66:58-67:48]
  • Nate Bargatze delivers an emotional pre-recorded message explaining his decision to leave Nateland to focus on movie making and building a theme park.
  • Quote:

    "It's absolutely insane to even say I'm leaving a podcast to go make movies and build a theme park. And everything I'm trying to do going forward is...I want you to be able to do it with your family."
    — Nate (66:58)

  • Expresses gratitude to fans, crew, and his family for supporting the podcast and affirms "Nateland" will live on with the other hosts.
  • Announces a live finale podcast planned for January.

2. Opening Banter: Sports Talk & Traditions

• [02:00-08:50]

  • College football bowl season reactions: Notre Dame in the Pop Tarts Bowl, Vanderbilt in ReliaQuest Bowl, and team traditions.
  • Ruminations on what bowls mean for players, the importance of senior participation, and sentimental traditions in sports.
  • Playful jabs at Michigan, Notre Dame, and the nature of college bowl sponsorships.

• [07:16]
  Dusty Slay:

  "We need more trash talk. We need more drama. That's what I think."

  • The group agrees, reminiscing about bold college athletes and memorable Heisman campaigns.

3. Comedy Milestones & Audience Support

• [09:03-16:00]
  • Nate recounts breaking attendance records at Bridgestone Arena and the camaraderie among Nashville comedians.
  • Local comics (e.g., Keith Alberstadt, Julian Moa) and tour mates experience sold-out shows after opening for Nate, highlighting the show's supportive community.
  • Quote:

    "It's cool... you guys have... the audience have been awesome. Like, we've done that with a lot of people."
    — Nate (13:35)

4. Personal Upkeep & Health Adventures

• [21:06-27:54]
  • Brian Bates details a frightening incident with dizziness and an ER trip, eventually being diagnosed with vertigo.
  • Comedic detours on old age, health, and group ribbing about home remedies and medical protocols.

5. On Tour: The Comics’ Life

• [28:04-36:28]
  • Aaron and Dusty recount recent road gigs: from Des Moines and Lincoln to a Cancun music festival and a casino in Iowa. Tales of weird airline experiences, comedy-within-music festivals, and unique fan encounters (even pilots who listen to the podcast!) fill this segment.
  • Dusty:

    "I spent three full days in the airport... You know, I hate it." (32:35)

6. Listener Comments & Podcast Culture

• [36:28-59:00]
  • The hosts riff on listener comments—ranging from Everest topics and metal teeth to the evolution of stand-up jokes and who writes their material.
  • Insight into the creative process, joke ownership, and the natural evolution of a comedian’s craft.
  • Key quote on writing comedy:

    "The hardest thing to come up with is...the premise. The premise is impossible."
    — Nate (56:51)

  • Dusty recounts a fan-submitted tag:

    "That's trickle down economics."
    — listener to Dusty, about peeing on ant hills (57:44)

7. Theme: "Quitting" and the 'Next Act'

• [69:12-107:00]
  • Following Nate’s recorded message, the group dives humorously and thoughtfully into the idea of quitting—who counts as a quitter, when quitting is necessary, and the difference between quitting, retiring, and "moving on."
  • Lists of famous quitters in sports (Barry Sanders, Calvin Johnson, Andrew Luck, Dave Chappelle), politics (Richard Nixon, King Edward VIII), and pop culture (Amanda Bynes).
  • Brian:

    "If this, If Nateland podcast is technically ending, then you didn’t quit. You’ve...completed it." (85:47)

  • Debate over what constitutes quitting:

    "But if you're doing something and then you stop doing it, you quit...I wouldn’t call you a quitter, but...you quit doing it."
    — Dusty (84:25)

  • Jokes about famous resignation speeches, the popes, boxers (Roberto Duran's "No Mas"—or "No Seagull"—fight), and the enduring nature of non-quitters (the centuries-old Salisbury Cathedral clock).

8. The Future for Nateland & Its Hosts

• [108:54-end]
  • Each host plugs upcoming gigs and reflects briefly on their journeys.
  • Mutual encouragement and anticipation for the show's next version post-Nate.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Nate Leaving:

  "The Nateland Network...is going to continue to go. These guys are going to do a podcast and start their own...Let them do their thing."
  — Nate Bargatze [67:30]

• On Community:

  "The audience have been awesome...We've done that with a lot of people."
  — Nate [13:35]

• On Trash Talk in Sports:

  "We need more trash talk. We need more drama."
  — Dusty Slay [07:16]

• On Quit/Resignation:

  "Embracing the promotion back from public servant to sovereign citizen."
  — Read by Aaron, resignation letter of Thaddeus McCotter [95:56]

• Debate on Quitting vs. Finishing:

  "If this, If Nateland podcast is technically ending, then you didn’t quit. You’ve...completed it."
  — Brian [85:47]

• Classic Nateland Energy:

  "That's trickle down economics."
  — As suggested to Dusty by an audience member, about his ants/peeing bit [57:44]

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Highlighted Segments (Timestamps)

• Nate’s Farewell Video: [66:58–68:39]
• Banter About “Real” Quitting: [69:12–86:10]
• Sports Quitters & Chappelle Discussion: [77:01–95:01]
• Roberto Duran No Mas / No Seagull: [89:34–94:11]
• Non-Quitters & The Sun Quitting: [101:16–106:16]

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Tone & Feel

• Warm, reflective, and affectionate, even as the group teases and jokes as usual.
• Authentic camaraderie: Classic call-backs, ribbing, laughter, and sincere moments.
• Nostalgic: Tribute to favorite podcast moments and acknowledgment of fans.
• Philosophical: Playful yet honest talk about what it means to quit—and move on to new acts in life.

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Final Thoughts

"Next Act" is a pivotal, emotionally resonant episode that acknowledges the growth and change inherent in creative lives. Nate’s departure is handled with gratitude, vulnerability, and optimism. The episode delivers a natural blend of deep-dive discussion and classic Nateland comedy, providing closure and anticipation for what's ahead—for the show and its hosts.

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Upcoming Live Finale

• A special live episode in January will serve as both a finale and a celebration of the original Nateland Podcast format.

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Hosts' Upcoming Appearances

• Brian Bates:
  • Dec 26–27: Skyline Comedy Club, Appleton, WI
  • Jan 6–8: Texas run (Austin, Addison, Houston)
• Aaron Weber:
  • Dec 26: Pecola, OK (Choctaw Casino)
  • Naples, FL: Off the Hook Comedy Club (New Year)
  • 2026 tour: San Francisco, Sacramento, Toronto, La Jolla, Salt Lake City, and more.
• Dusty Slay:
  • Casino and comedy club runs; more details at end of episode.

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For fans and newcomers—this episode is a heartfelt guide to change, creative risk, and the joy of a well-loved podcast. The journey isn't over; it's just the next act.

Transcript

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[B]

Hello, folks and hey bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetsi. Brian Bates. Aaron Weber. Dusty Slay. Okay, we're here. We're all here together. Yeah. You all right?

[A]

Yeah, I'm good.

[B]

All right.

[A]

It's tough to cough immediately, but out of the gate. Yeah, I know.

[B]

I'm sorry. Can't handle it. Yeah, we're excited to be here. Happy to. Yeah. Pumped up. We've had a fun time. I'mma read this one thing I read. It was a. A comment I saw. I'm just starting with it. Exactly. It said, where does the Notre Dame get off? Is that right? It's. Yeah. I think it said that it was from. Let me get it right. Bait. Nargetzy.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

What a name. What a name.

[A]

I figured something was coming.

[B]

Aaron, do you want to answer any of those?

[A]

I think we can all agree. At least we're not Michigan right now, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm glad they took the heat off of us a little bit. We were not looking good for a while.

[B]

They did. And I would think y' all would be. Y' all were probably behind that.

[D]

What was the bowl that Notre Dame was going to go to the Pop.

[A]

Tarts bowl is what we got invited to versus byu. The prestigious Pop Tarts Bowl. Pop Tarts.

[B]

Yeah. They do. The actual Pop Tart goes down in there.

[D]

Frosting on there.

[A]

Oh yeah. They probably have the most fun with the theme.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

They're all kind of like goofy. There's no prestige to them really anymore. So.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Just like Notre Dame and Vanderbilt goes 10 and 2. Our best season in the history of our program.

[A]

That's right.

[C]

And we go to the ReliaQuest Bowl.

[B]

But it's a Citrus bowl or something. Or Gator Bowl. Citrus Bowl. It's one of those. It's. It is an old. They all have titles but I believe it's, you know.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Gator Bowl. It's.

[D]

Well, there's not enough money in college football so they need those sponsored.

[C]

But let me. We don't make. We hope to make the playoffs. We don't.

[B]

Maybe it's not a Gator. Maybe it's just. I thought it was the Gator Bowl.

[D]

Reliaquest is always a classic bowl. I. From my childhood, I remember the record.

[C]

But Notre Dame goes 10 and two.

[A]

That's right.

[C]

And like we're done.

[B]

We're out of here.

[C]

We have the same record.

[B]

I feel bad for the kid, but the seniors and stuff and the guys that are never going to play apparently.

[A]

What if the team voted on it?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, apparently the team was like you.

[B]

Can'T tell me there's. You go there off. Why would they. That's great. They're. They're going to those people. A lot of them. I don't. Maybe not the ones that will be stars, but the other ones will be. Will regret it. And you should go do it for the people that are this their senior year. They're never going to go play again. And you know what? If you don't care about it, then let them play. Then don't. Then every. Everybody that's big. Whatever, go sit and whatever and then celebrate the guys that have been there that haven't got to play and go.

[A]

Do that and go lose in the Pop Tarts Bowl.

[D]

They probably doesn't.

[B]

It just doesn't. Because you know what? It's not about you. It's about. It's about them.

[D]

That's how I Kiffin letting him play an old man.

[B]

It would be like Rudy getting in. You'd be like, go let the Rudy's play.

[D]

Then they probably won't even be able to eat Pop Tarts in their house in the future.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Any mention of you can't get over that.

[A]

It's called.

[D]

Any mention of Pop Tarts, they'll go. Don't bring it up. Don't bring it up.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So you want your Pop Tarts in a bowl?

[B]

No, I don't.

[D]

A plate, please.

[A]

I've lost track of what you're talking about, but yeah. College football. A lot of wild things going on. It was a fun. A fun couple weeks just following all the madness.

[B]

A lot of stuff. It will be. Yeah. We're going to the. I'll be. I'm going to go to the game. The Vandy game.

[C]

I think I'm going to.

[B]

Yeah, you are. I told you.

[D]

Unless you get sick.

[B]

I like to say I made it up.

[A]

You made it up to him that quickly?

[B]

I made it up and he's coming.

[A]

And you wouldn't take him to the playoffs, though, if y' all made it in, right?

[B]

I would have made it up. Well, I've always made up something. I don't think I've ever left you hanging. If you were.

[C]

No.

[B]

So he's going to go to that and I'm not taking anybody else. The ones that did get to go.

[C]

Are you serious?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Wow.

[D]

Stay healthy.

[A]

How about that?

[B]

Yeah, man.

[D]

Don't start smoking.

[B]

They had their chance. You're going to the Real Deal thing. That's right. That's real. A quest.

[C]

Thank you. Thank you.

[B]

The real. Really a quest Bowl. But we're gonna be in Tampa. It won't be 8 degrees. Yeah. Which would be nice, but. Yeah. So anyway, I was just doing a quick joke about Notre Dame.

[A]

We deserve it. I'll take it.

[B]

Pavia should have won the Heisman too. I still. And I agree with everything he tweeted and.

[C]

Yeah, I thought he held back.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I would have said much worse.

[B]

I like that. No, I. I do think he deserved it, but it's. You know, I'm. That. That guy's an impressive. He's an impressive person. Really. No, Pavia. I'm sure Mendoza is great, but Pavia is an impressive.

[D]

Well, he brought Vanderbilt a winning season. That's pretty impressive.

[A]

Not only winning season, but the best.

[B]

Season they've ever had.

[D]

Pretty impressive.

[A]

Yeah. It's unbelievable.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, it was. It's gonna be a statue of him. And I think, Corbin, we need more.

[D]

Stuff like that in sports. We need more trash talk. We need more drama. That's what I think.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

More drama.

[D]

I do need more trash talk. Well, drama. That's. Back behind the scenes drama with the Michigan guy, you know, But I. I think we need More trash.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

On the field.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

Trash talk is some cockiness.

[B]

Maybe like some bravado. Bravado. I mean, dude ran his mouth and backed it all up. Like that's what's crazy.

[C]

I remember in the 80s, Vanderbilt had a quarterback that they touted for the Heisman.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Erik Jones. And he had a great junior season. And they put up billboards around Nashville touted him for the Heisman Trophy. And of course Vandy went. We went like 3 and 8 or something like that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And there he is right there. Eric Jeff.

[D]

Showtime.

[C]

This was our Heisman.

[B]

Were you in the background of this picture?

[C]

Now those kids are too young.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Oh, look at that.

[B]

You were driving the limo. 1988 media guy.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, I remember this.

[B]

Yeah, I remember the name. Eric Jones.

[C]

Yeah. It didn't work out, but there full fledged Heisman Trophy campaign.

[A]

He did the beginning of the season.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Usually wait until they.

[C]

We kind of knew.

[B]

Okay. Yeah.

[D]

Was he really good?

[C]

He had a really good junior year. And we're like, hey, let's just. I say we. Like I was part of the campaign.

[D]

But you know, we've been with him since the 80s.

[A]

He was second team all SEC the year before.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

2500 passing yards, led the team in rushing for two straight years. Yeah, he was a stud.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And they thought, let's put, let's put all the chips in this.

[B]

Lost out to Barry Sanders. Where's that guy at now? Yeah. What did he ever do? That's a tough one. Yeah. All right, well, this, this week was a big. We had. I had a big show at home, Bridgestone Arena. That. Yeah, it was great.

[D]

Did you re. Break the attendance record?

[B]

He did, yeah.

[D]

All right.

[B]

No, not for Wednesday. So there's, there's the records go. There's single tickets records and then there's more. So I have the most for a single show. But the difference is that. But then what I broke is the comedy record of the most tickets because we did three shows and so a lot of records like that. Like, you know, like, you know, I beat out like Taylor Swift when she played Bridgestone. As far as the single attendance, she could do 40 shows. Garth Brooks did 12. I beat. And I would have beat him out technically in the single one.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Just because we can. Because that first time we did it. So it's.

[D]

But you did it though.

[B]

I did it. But It's. He did 12 shows, so if he, if he wanted to. But I think I'm.

[D]

But he doesn't, he doesn't want to. Because he can't sit there on the stage by himself.

[A]

Yeah, that's true.

[D]

Well band. He needs a whole Garth Brooks acoustic show. Gonna burn a break the attendance record.

[B]

It's probably gonna do pretty good.

[D]

And I don't think so. There's a reason he doesn't do it.

[B]

Yes. Yeah.

[C]

More like Gaines.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, it's. But it's. But the. But it's. It's definitely the. Yeah, it's the mo.

[D]

I don't.

[B]

I don't know. The whole. I don't know. Yeah, the. Like where I would stand in the things. The full on rankings of most shows. But. Yeah.

[A]

But fair to say. Pretty good weekend, huh?

[B]

No, no. Like. No, no, no. I mean, I think I'm in the top. Yeah. Like top five.

[A]

Yeah. I'm being sarcastic. This looks. And say we're watching videos of the.

[B]

Crowd and had some good locals. Sorry. Had great local stuff. I was pretty excited about that.

[A]

You had some local stuff?

[B]

Yeah. Open with local stuff. I could probably post that.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I was gonna say Nashville specific.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Had a joke about Demumbrian street exit. I go, I've lived here my whole life. I've. I've made. I've caught that exit twice. I go, you have about four seconds to get over. And then you're like, all right, Church street. It is.

[C]

Yeah, that's true.

[B]

It's a good. Yeah. You know the membrane street.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, I do know it. I took it today.

[B]

I'm gonna do a special.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

It was a decent locals.

[C]

Well, yeah, it's good.

[B]

Yeah. Debunking is a fun word, and then it is church. I didn't say Broadway. Broadway is really what you would make church streets funnier.

[A]

Church is funnier word in that context. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Were people chanting, we want breakfast. We want.

[B]

They did. They did. We got. Y' all were not on the show this year. You were part of the last one. And this one was my dad and Keith Alberstadt.

[D]

I'm happy to see Keith.

[B]

Keith.

[A]

Nashville native.

[B]

Nashville native. Nashville comic. First comics I ever met. When I was talking to my mom about starting. My mom worked at Vanderbilt. Keith just started comedy. Keith was at Vanderbilt. So I was excited to be able to get Keith on this show. So it was. And Julian Moa hosted. He's actually here with us.

[C]

Julian was selling out Zanies in real time. Like, I mean, it was crazy.

[A]

It was fun to refresh the website.

[C]

Refresh the website. He's doing another show.

[B]

Yeah. When's your show?

[C]

January 21st is two shows.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

26 is one.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Sold out.

[B]

So, yeah. January 21st, two shows sold out. January 26th, sold out.

[A]

The crazy thing that I've just.

[C]

Because I've never sold out a show.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And before he was off stage, I sold out the first show. Wow.

[A]

Oh, that's awesome.

[C]

That's crazy. So nobody's listening to him.

[A]

They're all on their phone during Nate.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, that's.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I felt it. I go, I just can't get. Why can't I get this crowd? If you couldn't hear. Julian said he was. He. It was this show sold out in real time. As before, I was off stage.

[A]

It's really cool.

[B]

So it's. It's cool. Yeah, we've. You know, it's. You guys have. The audience have been awesome. Like, we've. We've done that with a lot of people. I mean, Greg Warren is one specific way.

[A]

Greg Warren broke the record at the club in Kansas City.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

After opening.

[B]

He did. We did two set. We did two shows in Kansas City. He had a date at the Kansas City Improv, and I think it's at 14 shows.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

He was at four.

[A]

Adding them.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

He was at four shows. And I don't. They were not sold out, but he's been. And Greg does great, but, like, he was at four shows and then they.

[A]

They.

[B]

They're at 14. That's how many people.

[A]

Look at that.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah. And they're all sold out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He is. He's the. He's the Garth Brooks.

[C]

He's doing Falla tonight.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that. Yeah, yeah. He's very. Yeah. Very excited. Yeah. He's been. He's been killing it. Stroop had one of that, too. Yeah. At the Salt Lake City. I think they were. He had. He had four shows on sale, and I think there went up to nine. So it's very cool that. That's big.

[D]

Greg Warren's on the Tonight show tonight. I mean, as we're taping.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what. Yeah.

[D]

Oh, did you just say that?

[B]

Yeah. Thanks for being a part of the podcast.

[A]

It's tough to jump in.

[B]

I get it. Yeah.

[D]

I got stuff going on.

[C]

You did clarify, though, as we're taping, so.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Right. Like, right now.

[C]

That was helpful.

[D]

Yeah. Because if people are watching.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

They're gonna go, well, I thought he was on tonight. And then they're gonna think he got kicked off.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Right. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So it's on YouTube if you want to go check it.

[D]

Out.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You need all that.

[B]

It's Monday.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. As we're taping.

[B]

So if you're listening to this, it would have been Monday.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I did not. I. I thought you meant Wednesday, too.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So that was.

[C]

You helped us out. Yeah.

[B]

You actually came in big. Yeah. Appreciate that.

[D]

You don't want to mess up Greg Streak here and think he got kicked off the. Tonight.

[B]

Yeah. They go, he can make it at Kansas City, but he can't make it in New York City.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, that's true.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So. Yeah. But the. Yeah, the Nashville shows where, you know, when you're doing your home shows, it's. They're the best. It's. It's, you know, it's a. It's a lot of people. It's a lot of. You got a lot of backstage. You got just a lot going on. But the shows were. The. Were great. I got a nice little break till 1-15-67, 18. Somewhere around in there. And so it'll be. This break will be nice and fun. Go do some theme park stuff and. Yeah, all that stuff. Go to bowl game.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. And then come back. I got this. I got to work on some jokes. I got this AI chunk that I need to keep working on, so I might come down Zany's.

[A]

Have you tried using AI to write it?

[B]

No, I don't want to write it. AI. I've already. I've started. I've started playing. I've started playing with AI and it says, like, it will give you options to write. Like, he'll be. I'll write you a tight little thing. But even the things that could. It's like, you would never do it. And I don't ever ask it to do that. But I. I'm just playing with it in the context of the joke because I'm trying to. It's a very fun.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Joke. But I need to go. Even though in the. In the middle of this tour, it's like, I need to, like, kind of use some of this time to go work on it. So. Yeah. So that's where. That's what I was at.

[A]

You know what they say? Every. Every search quote query on Chat GPT uses one bottle of water. Have you heard that?

[D]

How big of a bottle?

[A]

Like a normal bottle of water.

[B]

Why are they thirsty?

[A]

The. The servers use liquid cooling.

[D]

Oh.

[A]

So the math works out that every time you interact with chat GPT in any way, it uses the equivalent of 1.

[D]

Why would they not invent a different cooling system? What about antifreeze?

[B]

Yeah. What about the ocean?

[A]

I don't know. Look, I think.

[B]

What about air conditioning?

[A]

I think it's the most cost efficient way to do it. It just. People say it wastes a lot when.

[D]

You search on Google and it gives you an AI result.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Then that's an A. That's an AI.

[D]

So you don't even ask for that. They just do it.

[B]

So Google, does it get a sip of that water?

[A]

I don't. I don't know how the water's being.

[D]

Used, soaking up all our water.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Point is, a lot of water is.

[D]

Being, you know, in like.

[B]

But you could reuse that.

[D]

Mad Max.

[A]

I think it evaporates something.

[D]

That's what I'm saying. Mad Max. There's no water.

[A]

So there's no AI. There's no AI in Mad Max.

[D]

Well, I'm saying.

[C]

But that's the future.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

The future is people controlling the water.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[C]

So if I say thank you to Chad gbt.

[A]

I saw some stat. The amount of water wasted literally just from people thanking. Chat GPT is like a Niagara Falls worth of water.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like all the time. So never think Chat GPT. Like don't. Don't be polite to it. Or you're just wasting. Wasting stuff. That's what they say.

[B]

Okay. All right.

[A]

Just throwing that out.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't mean to kill the energy in here, but.

[D]

Well, just thinking about a future with no water. And that's where I go to when you start to bring that up, because that is what's happening. They put these data centers near people's houses, and then suddenly they turn the tap on and the water comes out.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Or the water's polluted.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

That can happen.

[D]

That is what's happening.

[A]

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[C]

Yes.

[A]

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[C]

That's good, Aaron.

[D]

That is good.

[A]

That's good. I. I wish I wrote it, but that's good stuff.

[C]

That's good, Abby.

[A]

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[C]

Well, I was at. I was at Stardome Comedy Club in Birmingham on Saturday. But generally speaking, the last few weeks, I've been on the Christmas party tour. Lots of corporate Christmas party welcome back. I'm glad you're feeling better than Isaiah117 house. I'm wearing this. It's a wonderful organization. Helps foster kids.

[D]

That's where you went to get healed.

[C]

I have been sick for three weeks, basically.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

And I came close to missing some gigs, but I never did.

[B]

There you go.

[A]

We joked that you had the mumps, and I want to make it clear that you didn't actually have them.

[C]

So what happened?

[D]

Well, did you.

[C]

I. I was waking up a few days, I'd be like, dizzy. When I'd wake up in the morning and, like, lightheaded. I'm like, I can't figure out what's going on. So I finally scheduled an appointment with my doctor the day before Thanksgiving just because I didn't want to go through Thanksgiving.

[B]

Every doctor was thrilled. Who's this? Oh, God. All right. Yeah. So he knows it. When your rings on the caller id, he just goes, it's at his house because he gets forwarded. And his wife looks at him. He goes, it's Brian, isn't it? All right, sorry.

[C]

So the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, I'm at the park with my daughter, feeling okay. Not great, but feeling okay. Texting. That's the day you're on Fallon. You sent me and Aaron A picture of you with Tim Allen? Yeah, I sent you guys one back. A picture.

[B]

I got a picture too.

[C]

Oh, that must have been a separate.

[A]

Thread with Tim Allen.

[B]

No, I think. I think he was all, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.

[D]

Me and Tim were hanging, kicking it. We're best friends now.

[C]

Yeah, I.

[D]

He's coming over to help me build some stuff.

[C]

Anyway, I'm feeling okay. I picked my daughter up. She. She wants to touch, like a branch or something or a tree. I pick her up over my head and I lean my head back and I get so dizzy that I'm like stumbling around the park like a drunk. I can't walk straight.

[B]

Wow. And I just like that image. Yeah.

[C]

I'm grabbing playground equipment and I called my wife and I said, you gotta come pick us up. I don't think I can drive home. And I kept thinking I'd get better, but it wasn't going away. And I have to like, sit down on the ground and my daughter doesn't. She's like, putting grass on top of me, stuff like that. Just playing and stuff like that. And I finally managed to get up and get us to the car, but I was getting worse and worse. And I called my wife, I said, you need to hurry. And when she got there, she said I was covered in sweat, I was pale as a ghost. And she called 911 and they sent an ambulance to pick me up. They thought I was having a heart attack or stroke. And so they're running all these tests and stuff and I'm just out of it. And the guy, paramedic in the aimless goes, you look familiar.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And I was like, I'm stand up comedian. He goes, oh, yeah, Nateland. I'm like, oh, I do. I do other stuff, but. But he knew me from Nateland.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

Did he call you? Breakfast in the elevator?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

In the ambulance, whatever it was.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, same thing.

[C]

Are you even here, Dusty?

[D]

He might have got in an elevator at some point. When you got the same hospital, right?

[A]

On the Tonight show tonight, yeah.

[D]

Did you get into an elevator at.

[A]

The hospital at some point?

[C]

Sure, sure. So they take me to the hospital and they're running all these tests and stuff, but everything's coming back. Okay.

[B]

I picture like a little House in the Prairie hospital.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

No, this is. Well, I won't say where, but yeah.

[B]

We don't want them tracking you down.

[A]

No, I think you're about to talk negatively about the experience.

[C]

No, no, no, no, no. But, but anyway, this I'll I'll wrap.

[A]

This up because I'm enjoying it.

[C]

We'll drag it out forever. But they couldn't find anything wrong. They thought I was just dehydrated and. And I just. I was feeling better in the hospital. By the time I left, I started feeling really bad again. All right, so that was Tuesday. While I'm there in the er, Felix text and says, we got to hit the road early because Nate's going to be on SEC Network.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

For Saturday. I'm still thinking that's a few days away. I'll be okay.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Thanksgiving, I. I'm okay. I feel. Not great, but better. Whatever. And Friday, I'm not feeling great, but I'm okay. And you and I are texting back and forth, writing jokes for the.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

SEC Network thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And then I woke up in the middle of the night, just so sick. Throwing up. Just. Just. Just terrible. And.

[D]

And you think that was Thanksgiving food that you ate?

[C]

No, it's just. Whatever.

[D]

You think they were linked?

[C]

No, I don't. So, yeah, I had to miss the game.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Which I hated. I mean, but I was so sick that I didn't even care. It's like. It's not like I sit on the couch watching the game, thinking, oh, man, I wish I could have been there. I didn't even know who won until much later.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So anyway, I've been so sick, and then it's just kind of come off and on and stuff like that.

[A]

But.

[C]

But they think, Dusty, you can just step out.

[D]

I'm sorry. I'm with you.

[C]

They. You'll like this part.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

Now they think I have some type of vertigo, and the crystals in my ears, you know, are out of whack. So I have an appointment tomorrow with a physical therapist.

[D]

I can do the Epwe maneuver for you right now.

[C]

No, thank you, but, yeah, I'll do it.

[A]

What are we talking about?

[D]

If you dizzy, I can fag fix it.

[B]

Sorry. Dizzy right now.

[C]

I'm not too bad right now, but I still. I mean, you can fix it. I was going to come your show. I was home Friday night.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

The Bridgetown. And I didn't feel like it.

[D]

This podcast desk is big enough. Really? You could lay back on this and you could do it live.

[B]

Why don't we let him.

[C]

I think I just. Like a professional.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I think I'll veto it if we're waiting on somebody to veto it.

[D]

Yeah, I've. I've. You know, I've had it done to me many times, but have you Done.

[A]

It to somebody else?

[D]

Well, no, but I, you know, I know how it goes.

[C]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You didn't have a doctor do it, though?

[D]

I had my. My wife do it a couple of times. And then a chiropractor who's a doctor.

[B]

Is a monkey do it.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

So it's been a rough.

[D]

Anybody.

[A]

I'm glad you're on the Come up, man.

[C]

Thank you.

[B]

Yeah, it was.

[C]

We'll see.

[A]

It was.

[C]

Don't.

[D]

Don't let them put you on medication. You can do the Epley maneuver and it'll fix it.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

That's why I'm going to.

[D]

Better than physical therapist. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Because people tell me they get on medication. Don't do that.

[C]

Okay. Okay. So that's what's been going on with me.

[A]

I just got back. I got back early this morning. I was in Des Moines, Iowa, at the Funny Bone. Three shows at the Funny Bone. Thank you to everybody who came. Then. I was in Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Bourbon Theater. Got to do a little theater.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

I got to do. I did, like, you know, brought up the opener on the. The mic backstage. Was just fun to get to do a theater like that. I had a fun experience that day. You know, Philip Rivers was starting for the Indianapolis Colts after being retired for five years. And where has he been the last five years? The head coach of my dad's high school that he started in Fairhope, Alabama. So this is the head coach of my dad's high school. It's a fun story. I'm trying to find a bar to go watch this, the Colts game at. So we're walking through downtown Lincoln. It's me, Zach Townsend's with me and a guy, Michael Blank from Kansas City. We're walking around. There's one sports bar open. It is packed to the gills. They're not watching football. They're all watching Nebraska volleyball. That whole town there. It's like they're.

[B]

They're a volleyball school now in Des Moines.

[A]

Oh, no, this is in Lincoln, Nebraska. So the bar is packed. They got the volleyball game on every tv.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

The state. Like, they're played in the arena there. It's sold out. It sounds like a football game. It's going. Yeah, they're so loud and going crazy. And I got, you know, I put the game on my phone, and then I got swept up in the volleyball game. If. If people are cheering and going crazy, it's a lot of fun.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They ended up losing in five matches, but it was just. We spent like two hours Watching women's volleyball.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Did not think that's how my weekend would end up, but it was just fun. It was a cool thing to get, like, into something I'd never really watched before.

[D]

Country's really slipping worse than I thought.

[B]

I mean, they're a college town. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Did they have like 90, 000 people in a women's game?

[A]

They did a game in the football stadium a year or two ago and sold over 90, 000 tickets.

[D]

Let me ask this, though. Do you. Can you gamble on women's volleyball, you think? I think you can. You think that's. They got some of that.

[B]

I know they probably got the best. They had like, the best.

[A]

They were the number one ranked team and they're playing A and M, which was number three.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So it was a big. And then the. The winner advanced to the next round of the playoff or whatever. So it was a big game, but it was just surprising. It wasn't like it was all women in this bar. It's all.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Dudes and, you know, like work jackets and they're watching and going crazy. For this volleyball, it was just kind of a bizarre, bizarre experience.

[B]

I think Vandy women's volleyball, they might have got knocked out, but they were.

[C]

Was it that or soccer?

[B]

I don't know.

[C]

I think Vandy's women's soccer went really far.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, that I won't get into, but I, you know, volleyball's fun.

[B]

Volleyball is fun.

[A]

But thank you to everybody. Came to the Bourbon Theater. That was very cool to. To get to do. And then Des Moines was fun. It's just a great weekend in the Midwest. Just got back. Came right from the airport. So.

[D]

Well, I went to Cancun, Mexico. Did a. The hideaway. What is it? What does it say?

[A]

High tide getaway.

[D]

High tide getaway with BlackBerry smoke. Real kind of rock band.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Yeah. My buddy Charlie, star front man. They're rocking it. Great. I did a show. A few other bands. Elizabeth Cook out of Nashville.

[B]

Oh. It was like a festival.

[D]

Festival. All music. I was the one comic.

[A]

All right.

[D]

And this is outdoors. I was in kind of a pavilion.

[A]

All right.

[D]

11:30Pm show after a music festival all day.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

But was a very good show.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

Because it was older people. They've been drinking all day. But they're respectful people.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

They're not like young country fans. They're not total maniacs and vaping in the crowd or nothing.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And just actual cigarettes.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah. But it was great. Yeah. Band of heathens. A band. I'm A. I was a big fan of Still Am, but they had an album in 2008 that I really loved, and it was great. I just felt like I was hanging out with all these people I used to listen to on Outlaw Country. It was awesome.

[A]

Do you take the family with you?

[D]

I took my wife.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

And the weather was great. It's 80 degrees. Two days later, I was in Iowa, and it was 6 degrees.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. It was like. Feels like negative 18 in Iowa.

[D]

Yeah. And then I did a show in Dubuque, Iowa, at Diamond Joe Casino.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And it was all great. I had two shows there. It was a great week. Very busy. I'm tired. I spent three full days in the airport. I sat in the Chicago airport over two days, a total of, you know, like, 15 hours. And, you know, I hate it. I hate that airport now. I flew Denver Air. I never even heard of this Key Lime Air.

[A]

Key Lime.

[D]

It's kind of like it shows up Key Lime Air on the app. It's Denver Air. When you check in that. You can't check in on the app. It was through. Booked through. American Airlines.

[A]

Key Lime Air fleet of over 30 aircraft.

[D]

There's no.

[A]

I feel like you can give us the exact number.

[D]

There's no 31.

[C]

When they say that, it means 31.

[D]

There's no. There's no seat assignments. There's no boarding group. They just go, all right, we're boarding now. And then everybody gets on and just picks a seat. Whoa.

[B]

How are the seats?

[C]

Yeah, how are the seats?

[D]

It's a small plane. They're okay.

[B]

Yeah. You know, it's no first class. Every seat's the same.

[D]

Every seat's the same.

[A]

Three across or two across.

[D]

So one on one side and two on the other.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

Small plane.

[C]

Was everybody rushing on?

[D]

Not really. Everybody was pretty chill. I mean, I. I wasn't into that, you know, sort of thing.

[B]

I imagine everybody's on something because they're like, who knows what's about to happen on this?

[C]

Yeah, yeah, that's true.

[D]

Yeah. But the. The pilot on my way to Dubuque and my way back from Dubuque was a Nateland listener.

[B]

Oh, nice.

[D]

Yeah. So we talked a bit. Very nice guy. So it was fun. I mean, the flight was fine. I mean, it was totally fine. But it's a small plane, and I'd never really had that no boarding group, no seat assignment experience.

[B]

I feel like planes like. It's like this kind of thing's popping up where it's this. You know, they're not Private flights, but they're like these kind of weird boutique airlines. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's just. Yeah, maybe it's a little more.

[D]

And it was really the only way to fly direct to Dubuque, so I was pretty excited. Well, not direct, but to get to Dubuque without having to, you know, from Cancun.

[B]

Yeah. And how do they choose Dubuque? They just walk around the airport and go, does anybody want to go to Dubuque?

[D]

Just about.

[B]

And then there's enough of you. And they go, all right, we're going to Dubuque.

[D]

Actually, we were delayed in Chicago because they. The fl. The plane coming in, they were like, it's too small for the people coming from Dubuque tomorrow, so we got to switch flights. Cuz we need to take a bigger plane into there so we can get those people out.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

They're just figuring it out as they go.

[D]

They really are. They really.

[C]

Are you saying the pilot going, incoming was an 8. Land. Is that the same guy?

[D]

Same guy, yeah.

[C]

So they have like, just a lot of rep. Like Bob here, he works for Key Lim Air and he's gonna be your pilot.

[D]

Yeah, he. I mean, yeah, he's a young guy, but yeah, it was cool.

[A]

In good shape.

[D]

Yeah, pretty good.

[A]

I feel if you're a fat pilot, you don't want to work for Key Lime Air. Yeah, just a lot of.

[D]

Well, he was a very skinny guy. I wouldn't say like sickly skinny, but he was very thin. Yeah, yeah, it's great.

[B]

They do Key lime pies as that's what they don't.

[D]

You know what. But they do have little better snacks. I'm not so into it, but they had, you know, packs of Oreos with six Oreos in it. You know, Delta. Delta will give you the pack.

[A]

Will give you two.

[D]

Yeah, they'll give you two on Delta too. But they got packs of six. They got chips and free water and, you know, even in the airport in Dubuque, none of that. When I was flying out, none of the concession stands were open. They just had like snacks and water for you to just grab.

[A]

Oh, that's fun.

[D]

So, yeah, you know, you didn't have to pay for. You know, it was nice. Yeah, I don't want any of those. But I did. I'll be honest with you. I've been at the airport all day. I ate four Oreos. I was into it.

[A]

You've been bad.

[D]

I was into it.

[B]

All right, Started off with your comments. Mount Everest episode. Jackson Jack. Yeah, you like it? It's a cool name. Jackson Jack, but beat you up. Glad y' all talked about Everest for a whole two minutes.

[A]

Hold on. I think. I actually think that was one of the topics we covered pretty thoroughly.

[B]

I thought we did too.

[D]

I did too. I think we talked about it like too long, to be honest.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought we talked a little bit.

[A]

A lot too. I'm gonna push back on that. Jackson Jack.

[D]

I mean, what do you want to suggest? Just talk about the mountain. I mean, we talked about hiking and getting there and stuff like that, so maybe that's what he means. He wanted. He wanted the mountain itself to get a little more.

[A]

You want a little more geology?

[D]

Yes.

[B]

What the.

[D]

What the rocks consist of that make up Mount Everest? What's the. It's the wildlife like or nature on it. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. I wonder, is there nature on it? Is there?

[A]

At a certain point, things can't survive up there, but there's probably stuff on the. The base, I'm sure. Yeah.

[B]

Like goats.

[C]

Yeah. Mountain goats.

[A]

Yetis.

[D]

You don't think any mountain goats could survive up that high?

[B]

No.

[A]

They literally treat like the tree line where trees can't even live up there. Yeah. There can't be life up there.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Wow. I bet there can.

[D]

I bet there's something.

[B]

I bet there's something microbes and maybe.

[D]

That'S what Jackson Jack's talking about. He's like, there's some stuff up there that you guys didn't get to.

[B]

Yeah. There's like gorillas up there.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Mountain gorillas. What. What happened to that?

[D]

Low oxygen mountain gorillas. Yeah.

[A]

We just talked about it now for more than two minutes.

[B]

Justin Higgins. If I was to climb Mount Everest, I would leave a light bulb at the top with a wire running down a ways connected to a switch. That way you can flip the light on to let the people who are taking the time to talk know that there are folks out there waiting.

[A]

That's fun.

[D]

Yeah, I like that. That's a good idea, Justin.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I think if you're an electric.

[B]

The line takes care of that as well, though.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Like you. But I'm sure when you're in a line, you're always like, man, is there one person that just turned around and then looks back and goes, oh, it's been my turn for a while.

[D]

I always think. Did you actually check the door to see if someone was in there or did you just. I've been at a restroom waiting in line for a while behind people, only to find Out. The guy waiting just didn't do the door well enough. And no one was in there.

[A]

Oh, man. And then he's causing you a lot.

[D]

That's why you push your own elevator buttons. You don't trust the people that's about.

[C]

To say, I bet you push your own.

[D]

I go, sorry, guys, I gotta do it.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, you make it a scene.

[D]

I will let him.

[B]

It's like a show.

[D]

Yeah, you gotta let them know.

[B]

Braden Meadows. I'm a dental lab technician and make crowns and bridges. Last week, I made a purple titanium front crown for a man. Dusty. The sky's the limit if you want a metal tooth.

[D]

I've been thinking more and more about it. I. I'm pretty into it.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I don't want. Not. Not one of the front teeth. Do you want it, you know, so you can see it, but it's not.

[C]

It's not prominent.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

He sent you that.

[A]

No, I got something coming up out there.

[D]

Oh. I was. Wanted to see the tooth. What is a purple titanium front crown?

[B]

But it's like a purple. Little purple outlining of the. Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Braden, send us a peck, man.

[A]

Yeah, I want to see what you're talking about. I'm only getting actual, like, tiaras.

[B]

Eric Watts. Michael Collins was orbiting the moon. Couldn't really jump out.

[A]

That is true.

[B]

That's still frustrating.

[A]

Yeah, it is frustrating, but somebody had to stay in the. The thing, you know?

[B]

But I bet when they. It's like, how do you ask him to tell him he's going? He's got to be like.

[A]

I think it's like, ranks, right? They're ranks. Like. Like, they're a military, you know, unit. So he's probably the lowest ranking of the three.

[B]

But do you think they pull them all in the same room and then they go, hey, we're going to the moon? They're like, oh, my gosh. And then they see Michael Collins getting a little too excited, and they go, oh, man, Michael, I shouldn't have brought y' all in together. I'm sorry. You are going to be orbiting the moon.

[A]

You're going to get a good view of it.

[B]

You're going to get. Yeah, you're going to see it. You will be the closest to it. Besides these other two.

[C]

You try to spin it like, you're actually going to have a better view than us. Yeah, we're going to be too close.

[B]

Yeah, that would be good. Yeah, that's exactly what I would say.

[A]

It's like how you think about the Grand Canyon.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'D rather fly over it than fly over the.

[B]

Mean it. Because you're just like. It's too. It's hard to. Yeah, Yeah.

[D]

I think they tell them all a secret, and they go, which one of these guys is. Can't keep a secret? The best. And I bet it was Michael Collins. They got this guy. He ain't going to keep this lie.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So they go, we'll have you in. We'll just so set up some monitors. He thinks he's.

[B]

What you believe is Michael Collins. Drove around the block for a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

And they had an earpiece in, and.

[B]

They go, ah, you're orbiting the moon.

[C]

Play the part.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So in Apollo 13, was it Kevin Bacon that was going to stay on?

[A]

I think so. I think he was the guy. Yeah.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah. Josh Horton. It was nice of Diego Pavia to give Candace Lee the game ball after he realized breakfast wasn't there. Yeah. He was going to give it to you.

[C]

We got a special young man here today, guys. C10. No, he's 54.

[B]

But, yeah, when we were trying to leave, you'd be over there getting everybody's autograph. Jeff Taylor. If you're looking to hike a mountain together, then I suggest you go to Clingman. Clingman's Dome, now called Kuwohai. At 6,643ft, it is the tallest mountain in Tennessee and second tallest east of the Mississippi. You can see seven states from the top. The best part for y' all is you can drive most of the way up. The actual trail is only a half mile long. There you go.

[C]

I've done that.

[D]

That's my kind of.

[C]

I mean, it's. They make it pretty easy for you.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Where's it at?

[A]

In the Smoky Mountains?

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I always think it's funny when they say you can see seven states, and they're like, yeah, I see 50, I guess.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, it's like, what is it? Yeah, I can see Russia if you're counting it. I don't. You know, what are we doing? Like, yeah, it's all that way. Yeah. It's all somewhere. See everything. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Get high enough?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No curvature.

[B]

And what if you were up there and you go, what about eight? They go, come on.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Who do you think it'll be ridiculous.

[B]

He goes, where are you seeing?

[A]

I think I see Florida down there.

[B]

Yeah. You ain't seeing Florida. Florida. This guy's out of his mind. Don't Listen to him, folks.

[C]

I know in Chattanooga Lookout Mountain, they. That's the big selling point. C. Seven states.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But I don't know where. How you can see from where the Smoky Mountains are.

[B]

I think if you're the highest point.

[D]

And they got that little extra ramp there boosting you up a little bit.

[C]

Yeah, you have. I guess I'm questioning Jeff's information.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Jeff. Jeff's just trying to be a fun guy. Writing thing. Getting attacked by. Well, he's breakfast.

[C]

He's a dummy.

[B]

Good night.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Sorry, Jeff. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah, Jeff. I mean, sometimes I tug a little smack to the commenters, but I don't call them dummies.

[C]

He's a dum dum.

[B]

Yeah. Yes. Boats. This is when we talk about boats. Linda Schaefer. I was so proud of Aaron when he quickly corrected Dusty and I to me and Dusty. But then a few minutes later, he's saying less things instead of fewer things, and my heart dropped. In his defense, he wasn't an English major.

[D]

Well, thanks for that, Linda, but she's fun at parties.

[A]

I'm working on it.

[D]

What? Did you correct me?

[A]

No, I was speaking and I said Dusty and I when I should have said dusty and me, and I corrected it in real time, but I didn't do that when I said less instead of fewer. Do you know when to use fewer and when to use less?

[D]

I never use fewer.

[B]

Really? I don't think I ever use fewer either.

[A]

Really?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Fewer is when you're talking about individual, separate items. Less is when you're talking about a smaller amount of some. So, like, if I drank out of your cup, you'd have less water. Right. You wouldn't say you have fewer water in your cup.

[D]

Yeah, but if.

[A]

If you had three basketballs on you and I and I took one away, you would have fewer basketballs, but you.

[D]

Could argue it's still less. I still have less than I had before.

[A]

Right. But it's not less of. It's not a smaller amount of one thing. Does that make sense? I think that's technically the. The difference, but just fun. Just fun English stuff for you.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Well, I appreciate Linda sending that in. Definitely not a dumb person.

[A]

Definitely not a dumb. Dumb.

[C]

I agree with, like, Jeff Taylor.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I agree with Linda Groucho T. Aaron. I support the she. The sea shanties.

[C]

All right.

[B]

What a great culture that has kept going. They were sung on ships to keep rhythm and time while sailors work to complete tasks that had to be done in unison, like raising a gale.

[A]

I don't Know what it is?

[C]

Either.

[B]

It's a bird. If you are ever near Mystic, Connecticut on a weekend, see if they still have the concert nights where sea shanties are performed. It's pretty fun to go listen. You know what's funny is I.

[C]

We.

[B]

I listened. Someone listened to sea shanties was. It was on, like, the radio.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

And maybe one of, like, our runners. Cars or something. It. I heard it this, like. Or either this. Not this weekend. The weekend before. I heard c Shanties, and it was being played, and I was like, is this sea shanties? I go, dude. I go, some we. I was just. And I forgot where I was talking about it, but I. I just heard it. I've never heard.

[A]

Did you get into it, man? Were you singing along?

[B]

I. I just. It was, like, so crazy that someone was playing it, and I was right.

[A]

After we talked about it.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I had a roommate in college who's from Ireland, and he. And there's a big part of, like, European pub culture where they sing songs and stuff in the bar, and I've always thought that was cool, but I've never been in a bar in America where everybody starts singing, you know, the. Stand up on the table and start singing a song.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Doesn't that look like fun?

[B]

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[C]

I bet you've done some bar singing.

[D]

Yeah, a little bit in Charleston, I mean, I think. Not like that, but, you know, it's been some, you know, karaoke nights where the whole bar singing a song.

[B]

What is it like? Sweet Caroline is like, that'll do.

[D]

And they'll do it. Yeah, that. Just a small town boy living in a.

[A]

Don't stop believing.

[D]

Yeah. Don't stop believing. I've seen a whole bar sing that. Yeah, That's a good time.

[B]

Blake Draper. Great name. Blake Draper. I like that a lot. It's two names that don't look like they would go together, but they go perfect together. Parents. Nailed it by far. The highlight of the episode was Dusty saying he didn't understand the references Nate and Aaron were making about watching Shawshank Redemption and throwing golf balls. Even though Dusty was there for it, I loved it because I can picture myself in Dusty's position of not remembering something I was there for.

[D]

Yeah, I mean, I. You know, I. I remember conversations about Aaron saying he can throw a. A golf ball really far. I support Aaron. I think you can do it. I appreciate it, but I was not getting what you guys were talking about.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

In that moment. Moment. But I appreciate the support from Blake Draper. And now I Also agree. Great name.

[B]

Great name. Blake Draper.

[D]

Yeah. Really goes together in a way you don't expect.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

I think his parents really nailed it.

[B]

I mean, nailed it. Blake Draper.

[C]

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[D]

I don't.

[A]

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[C]

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[A]

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[B]

All I'm thinking about throughout the whole boat discussion is Nate's bit about Abigail's boat and jet ski. I'm wondering if she still has them. How well can they recall the bits? So many thoughts, questions. I don't think I could recall the bit at all right now. She has a. She has the boat. I think Jet skis are gone. Does she. Did she keep the boat? I think she still has the boat. Thought she got rid of a boat, but then she might still have a boat. She still likes it.

[A]

I. I learned nothing from that. I don't know how.

[D]

Yeah, she says she likes to fish. That's what I.

[B]

She likes to fish.

[D]

I know she likes.

[B]

She was going on the boat. I think they got rid of the boat. I think they did get rid of.

[D]

It, because, you know, what they say about people, what boat stands for.

[A]

That's right. Bust out another thousand.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Which I determined. That's from an episode of Pawn Stars.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

Back in the day, they bought a boat and they tried to sell it, and then, you know, the renovations just kept increasing.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

So that'll happen.

[B]

So. Yes. I'm sorry, I don't remember. I'd have to listen to it. I had to do a corporate gig this week, and they wanted me to do the water meter. Reading the water meter bit. And I mean, I had to listen to it before I went on. And I did not. I mean, I. I made. Made it through it enough, but it was.

[D]

They really do go away.

[A]

How different do you think it would be if you were to write that joke now? Do you think it would be different than the way you wrote it a year ago?

[B]

Yeah, I think it would be. I also think it would be impossible. I don't know if I could. Like, I. I mean, it would have to be different.

[A]

You mean that it wouldn't fit in your hour right now or what? I'm like, I think it would be.

[B]

It would be different, but I think it's because I did it. It would almost be like my brain wouldn't let me. I'd probably get back to kind of how I had it.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Just because it's still. It's got to be in there somewhere.

[A]

I mean, if you had gotten the idea now, do you think even where you're at as a comic a year or two later.

[B]

Yeah. It would be different.

[A]

You would have written it much?

[B]

Yeah, I think it's. Yeah. I think every year I've gotten. I've gotten different with stuff. I was thinking about that the other night on stage. Like, I was like, it's sometimes because some. Some things you do have are actual jokes, and some of them I'm just like drawing a situation, and you're just in the situation. So then it's like, that's what it is.

[A]

So they're in the situation through you, through me.

[B]

And so it's like you could, you know, where it's. You get to where you're like, don't have. I can. There's. There's certain things I have that are actual jokes. And then some of it is just the build up of. I'm explaining a situation that I was in. That's. And so you're just. It's like, again, you're. It's like watching a movie. It's like hearing about a movie. Like, so that's Completely changed. I thought that the other night, I'll defend my own self. Sometimes when I'm on stage, if I think someone tells me I don't know how to write a joke in my head, I'm like, that was a joke. And I defend it. Look at me in real time. Yeah. Set up punch. I go, what are they talking about? I don't do jokes. I go, that was clearly a joke.

[C]

You dropped the mic.

[B]

And then there's times in my head I go, that's not a joke. But it's like. But it's a situation. I go there laughing. And it's because I made them picture it.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I always reference the dead horse joke because when we were together, we first thought that really was a dead horse.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And then we came back and saw it was it. And I thought, well, that joke is over. So when you started telling it on stage, I'm like, I can't believe he's telling a joke that's not true. But then the way you told it, you still made it work.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah. No, I appreciate it. No, I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're. Yeah. I think people think too, like they. That we don't write, you know, Sam, comics don't write their own stuff. I think that's becoming a problem or it's not a problem, but people are starting to think that we all write our own stuff. Like we were talking about you writing jokes for me. Like when I'm going on TV to do. When I'm going on TV to do that kind of thing. I.

[A]

That's not your act.

[B]

That's not my act.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So. But I still come up with those jokes. Julian's here. We wrote jokes for a lot of stuff. You're writing stuff for different situations. But yeah, I think I, I just feel like there's a vibe. I think comics do have people writing jokes for them, but in overall, it's like no one's writing jokes for you. You're. You're coming up with the jokes.

[D]

They, they're too many people talking about comedy. You know what I mean? And they're just coming up with all these.

[B]

I think they can't believe that stand up comedians can come up with this much stuff.

[C]

Especially at your level.

[B]

Yeah. They think you have a, they think you have a team. Yes. And that's the, the part that you want to. I wanna almost for young comics to go, it doesn't work like that.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Now if you're one liners, if you're this, you know, I'm not. There are comics that do. Can that get writers maybe when they get older and, and so you just get some guys that write some stuff. That's all great and all, but yeah, it's like, it's, it's very, very hard to come up with an act. And so most of it is you're like, I'm just telling you this stuff or that, or you go like, what about this? I said, this, Is this funny? And then you say, oh, yeah, what, Whatever. But I mean, really the hardest thing to come up with is the what? You're going to talk about the premise. That the premise is impossible.

[D]

I like to let strangers write them for me. I go, I see them at the airport and they go, do something with this interaction we've had.

[A]

Then you do something and then I.

[D]

Do something with it. Yeah, take it. And I go, I ran into a guy.

[A]

Do you remember? Somebody gave you. Somebody gave you.

[D]

Oh, I have had. Yeah, some.

[A]

I think it was at Kazi's in Newport News. Somebody gave you a really great tag for you.

[D]

I had a joke about peeing on ants.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And you know, I was saying I was stimulating the, an economy because the ants, they build the house, they build the bed, and then they got nothing to do.

[A]

So there's, there's ants on his house outside. He would pee on the ants.

[D]

Yeah, because. Yeah, because I pee outside a lot and they'd be crying. I like to pee them off the wall. That's fun for me because what. They keep coming back. What are you guys doing? So I would step on an ant bed to, to give them work.

[A]

They need work.

[D]

They're out of work now.

[A]

Creating jobs.

[D]

Creating jobs. So then I pee on it. And the guy said, that's trickle down economics.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I go, you know what? That's a good joke. Yeah, that's a good bit. I will take that.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. And that's. But that's exactly like a perfect. But no one's writing that joke. Like you're like, you, you. No one's. You're putting them in a. The world.

[A]

Right, exactly.

[B]

And you get to do it and you get lucky sometimes. Sometimes someone will say that to you where you go, that's great. But I won't be able to say that. Yes, that happens probably 95 of the times you're like, I'm styled. You're like, yeah, dude, that's so funny.

[D]

I gotta bring that joke back.

[B]

There you go, that's a good one. But then that, but you get a situation like that where you're like, yeah, yeah. You're like. That is. I've definitely had. You have, like, a line where you're like, oh, yeah, someone else said that. And you're like, oh, you know what? I can make that work.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And it adds to it. But you're. Yeah. This mix of comics are writing in. If comics are. The majority are writing their own. Their own acts. That's why it's hard to keep writing a new hour. That's when you see a comic put a special out and they're stressed about the new hour they got to come up with. Because it is hard. It would be like writing a movie every year. Like, it's going to be kind of hard.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And then you got to go try it and run it and. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Justin Wilson. Mookie Blaylock was the original name of the name Pearl Jam. Lawyers told them they had to change his name, so they went with Pearl Jam, but named their first record 10 because that was Mookie. Mookie's number. They're just fans of Mookie Blaylock, I guess.

[A]

I love the guy.

[C]

Last week, someone wrote in and their name was Mookie Blaylock. And that's why this person.

[D]

Yeah. That's interesting. Would he play for Seattle?

[C]

I can't remember who. Mookie Blaine.

[D]

That's where Pearl Jam's from, right?

[A]

Play for the Sonics, maybe. That would make sense.

[B]

Oh, yeah, that would make sense.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah, he played for. He was. He's from Texas. And no, he did not play. Play for the Nets.

[D]

Thought that's where they're from. Maybe they're not from Seattle, but I. I got into some.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Pearl Jam rock stuff the other day, and there was a band, you know that.

[B]

Seattle.

[D]

Yeah. What's the band? Where they did the.

[A]

Nirvana.

[D]

I don't Mind Stealing Bread. You know that song? It's. I Got Some People. It's not Soundgarden, but it's a different.

[C]

The Dog.

[D]

Temple of the Dog.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And I think that had people from Pearl Jam in it, people from Sound Garden in it.

[B]

Why were they. Were they fans of Mickey Blaylock? Do you know?

[C]

Yeah. Jeff, the guitarist for Pearl Jam, was a huge basketball fan and.

[A]

And Portland is a huge Portland fan, right?

[C]

He was.

[B]

He played on them.

[D]

Oh, he played. If he played in Portland. That's close enough. Yeah. So that's. Yeah, that makes sense.

[B]

He played Golden State. That was the 90s. Yeah.

[D]

I got in a Tik Tok wormhole about some bands, 90s bands. The other day.

[A]

Good or not good?

[D]

It was really great.

[A]

Okay.

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[C]

Thank you.

[B]

Thank you, Nate. Brian, Aaron and Dusty for all the laughs on here are in your other adventures and always coming back for our benefit. Well, thank you very much. Thank you, Darren. Darren. And with. With that, I recorded something earlier alone, without you guys here, and. And for the fans. And so, uh, the. The title of this podcast, this one is called the Next act. And we're talking about just some changes, but so you guys can watch this video along with the audience and yeah, here we go. What's up, everybody? Nate Burgazier. I'm just sitting here, sitting here alone for the moment. The other guys will be in here. No one's in the room with me. I am going to be leaving the podcast. So I want to tell you personally, when I started this podcast, I guess five years ago during COVID I did it, you know, really to stay sharp to, you know, because it was during COVID Like, I. I think as a comedian, you have to. You have to stay. You got to stay funny. It's just. Look how long it came it. I mean, here we are. I think it's like 280 something episodes we've done. It's been a part of my career and life that I will love forever. All the people I've got to meet on the road, all the kids that listen to this podcast and people that been on long rides and long drives and they've just listened to the podcast. And that stuff does mean the most to me. We have a great crew. Everybody that's ever worked on this podcast, you know, it's been amazing. My wife, you know, she was the producer at the beginning of this and she's always continued to be very much a part of this. I could not do any of everything I've done in my life, I could not do without her. It's absolutely insane to even say I'm leaving a podcast to go make movies and build a theme park. And everything I'm trying to do going forward is I want you to be able to do it with your family. You want it to just be this place where everybody can come and feel safe and just get away from the kind of chaos. So I want to create moments for you guys and your families and I want to continue to gain your trust because you don't owe this to me. You've never owed us listening to this podcast to me. So I need to just continue to make sure that you trust me and. Or that you can trust me and know that I'm building stuff with you in mind. You know, we titled this the Next act and it's because I think that's just. It's kind of where I am heading. And with this network, I think we're going into that also. And with Naatland, Nateland's growing. Nateland is. It's moving along and I'm going to. I believe in it so much. The Nateland Network and the world that we've built here is going to continue to go. These guys are going to do a podcast and start their own. These are all Aaron Bates, Dusty, super talented, obviously, and let them do their thing. And we are going to do a live podcast in January, a finale live podcast of the Nateland Podcast. I want this to be a celebration. We're going to have fun. This podcast. We're going to have fun the next few weeks. We're going to have fun. I'm still around. I'm not going anywhere. Got a game show coming out and then a movie coming out March 13th. And I'll hopefully be able to start kind of moving towards that stuff and continue making stuff for you. Thank you. From the bottom. I mean, from the bottom of our. Do know that I love you and I promise you I'm always. I will. I think of you at all times, as always. I love you, but. Yeah. So this is. You know, we have. We have a few. We won't get more.

[C]

More.

[B]

You know, I just talked about it. I won't be on the. I think I'm on every podcast from here on out, which is one. No, it's. I think there's like two.

[C]

Two couple weeks a month.

[A]

I mean.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have a big. The. The last one will be a big one. And so. Yeah. And that's why. And. And you guys are gonna continue on. It's. You know, it's been wonderful. This podcast has been the best. Having you guys here has been the. The best. It's been very fun. It's, you know, when we're in here and, like, just talking about the dumbest stuff, like, it really does help. It takes it. You know, the world doesn't exist kind of outside of this when we're in here, like, and we're on it. We've had. And I've even gone back and watched old podcast clips. Not, you know, kind of recent, recently, like seeing them on YouTube and stuff. And there's just. Man, there was just some. There's just some stuff. It's so funny.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, it was like, fun times. Yes. Yeah. I watched Civilian Station the other day. Like, and it's. It's an old one. It's like. But it's just so. Yeah. So funny. And people still bring that up to.

[A]

Me all the time.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just where it started and where it's all gone to, so. But yeah, I'm trust you guys. You guys are gonna carry it on.

[A]

And this has been Brian's plan the whole time.

[B]

I think waiting it out.

[A]

Brian, he waited took five years, but.

[B]

He pushed you out.

[C]

Five and a half, to be exact.

[A]

He's gonna slide over and take that.

[B]

Back that.

[A]

Take that seat on the table and.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And we'll be like. We'll save the emotional stuff for the last episode, I guess.

[C]

But no, I'm not emotional at all.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Happy emotion.

[B]

Yeah. And.

[C]

Wait, let's talk next act.

[B]

So. Yeah. So. Well, that's why this is. This. This podcast is titled the Next act and because I feel like we can talk about the next act of just stuff or whatever. I don't know. You picked a topic, so. Yeah, I'm sure. What are we talking about?

[C]

Well, you did mention that. I'll be honest with you. I did kind of forget you mentioned that. So today's episode is about quitters. You're talking about quitters.

[B]

So, I mean, I'm not. I don't think it counts as quitting.

[C]

No, I think it's. You're quitting us. You're leaving.

[B]

Yes, it's not quitting.

[C]

What would it be?

[B]

Well, like, if someone retired the next. I'm moving on to the next act. And then. Yeah, but you are, too, y'. All. You haven't. You're all. Everybody's moving to the next act.

[C]

Well, okay.

[D]

Well, I guess we're all quitting this.

[B]

You're all quitting this part. Yeah. Yeah, but we're not quitting. I'm moving on. You guys are quitting the podcast. Well.

[D]

Well, we'd be moving on, too, though, to a new podcast.

[B]

You will be moving to a new podcast. But you're. You're the one that.

[D]

The band's breaking up.

[B]

Yeah, but you're. But you're quitting. That sounds. That sounds mean.

[D]

Well, but we're called. You know, they call us the band. So I think that's an apt.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Analogy. The band's breaking up.

[B]

But I. Yeah, I think there'll be times of the band. Maybe I could come back on Yalls podcast.

[C]

I don't think so.

[D]

If.

[B]

Well, what if I'm in town and it's.

[C]

I mean, I. Maybe, man.

[A]

We like to start on time.

[B]

I got a movie. Yeah, that's true. When the movie comes out, maybe I can come promote the movie or something.

[D]

Yeah, well, we are in the movie.

[A]

Yeah. So that's true.

[D]

Reach out to emotion.

[C]

I mean, I ain't gonna promise anything.

[B]

And I had a fight to keep y' all in that movie.

[D]

A little cross promotion.

[A]

Did you really? That wouldn't surprise me, actually, because Brian and I was. Brian and I seen. There's no plot.

[C]

No. There's no reason for us.

[A]

It would be the first thing to cut if you need it.

[B]

Yeah, no, no, it's. Everybody's in as of right now.

[A]

So let me.

[B]

I say that as of right now. Let's. Let's let it come out. But I. They know it's important to me to have everybody.

[A]

Well, thank you, man.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And it is your movie. So if we're cut out, then we know that you had the final decision.

[B]

Well, if I would cut. Look, for the benefit for the. I am. I can't be ruthless in. I have no emotion. If it doesn't fit, I will Cut. Yeah, I have no, like, I already had that in my act.

[A]

Have you already had the cut stuff or like.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That you thought you was going to be really?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They've, they've gone through it a bunch. I mean, I, I've seen it once and so, and we had some notes from that and then. But it's, you know. Yeah, we have the trailers out and the trailer's not out, but I have. But you should see the trailer soon. The trailer is very exciting. The trailer was like that one. Like, even watching the movie was intense because it's just you and you're like just hard to wrap your head around.

[A]

How did you watch it? Just you alone in front of.

[B]

No, no, we had it. We had a couple, couple people and, or a few people. We wanted some bodies in the room. Yeah, they do screenings. We did a screening and then there will be one more screening where people are, you know, they, they don't really know what movie they're seeing. And then so you kind of take notes from that and stuff.

[C]

Nerve wracking.

[B]

Yeah, I, I, I was not there for that. I, I think I, I was not there for that and then. So. But yeah, it's like you kind of can hear, you know, you hear where people laugh and hear. They don't laugh. I think that process. It seems pretty fun though. Like it's, or it's, it's just like, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's a equivalent of doing your act in a sense. Like, you know, but I mean, I'm, Look, I'll cut. I don't mind cutting because it's, you do it in your act, all your whole act.

[D]

But we're saying though, we'll, we'll know it was you though. We're not saying that you mind doing it.

[B]

We'll know that. Yeah. If I get told that you do it, it is funny. It's like Dusty scene is a scene that I think would, it would be the tougher one to cut.

[A]

That's what I'm saying. There's legitimate plot in his.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I, but the opening.

[A]

But there's character development in ours.

[B]

There's character development in your, in yours. Is, is a part that I came up with to start the movie. So I did come up with the idea and that we like the way it starts. So it's like you're. Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah. So I think, I think you'll be good.

[A]

I'm excited.

[C]

Yeah, I'm excited too.

[D]

Up until this point, I didn't actually think there was any doubt that we would be in there.

[A]

Oh, I barely told people about it.

[B]

I know.

[D]

This is the first that. This is seeping into my mind.

[C]

Yeah, but you are.

[D]

This is sadder than the video we would just watch.

[B]

Yeah, well, show business, baby. No, you're. Yeah, yours is. Yeah, you got. You actually do have a. A thing that happens that we have.

[A]

To have the story advances.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Aaron and Aaron, our scene. I can see where we could cut right there and right there.

[B]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I think you're being there.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, I think everybody. Everybody will be in there. Don't blink. No, No, no, I'm joking. I think everybody did great. So.

[C]

Yeah. All right. Anyway, we're talking about quitters.

[B]

I'm not quitting. It's.

[C]

But that's up for debate.

[A]

Just quitters slash cowards at the top.

[B]

Can't handle.

[C]

I googled quitters and everything that came up was just Notre Dame. Notre Dame.

[B]

Notre Dame. Yeah. So come on.

[C]

I mean, most of this is just about Notre Dame and how they.

[B]

It is. That is good. It's a great one to start it with because Notre Dame quit more than I quit. I'm at least moving forward. Like, if Notre Dame quit and said we're getting into a conference, that's what I'm doing. I'm. They're at least moving forward. All right. Yeah. Yawning during the pond.

[C]

Bored of this conversation. Let's move on.

[D]

What was the bowl.

[A]

A yawn came, and it just came at a fun time for me, so.

[B]

I let it happen on the mic. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

I thought it'd be funny because I'm.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Maybe that's why I'm quitting the podcast, because.

[A]

This is the dead weight you've been carrying.

[B]

Yeah. It's hard to. Yeah.

[C]

There is a quitters day, a national quitters Day. It's January 9th.

[D]

That's when everybody quits their New Year's resolutions.

[C]

That's correct.

[D]

All right.

[C]

It's actually the second Friday in January, but this year it falls on January 9th. And, yeah, that's when people start tending to quit their New Year's resolutions.

[D]

That's where everybody smoking cigarettes goes. You know what? I'm not going to quit. They've not been quit up to nine, but they've just decided finally, all right, I'm not going to do it.

[A]

Wow.

[D]

I'm going to keep this going. That's what I used to do when I smoked. I would always wait till New Year's. And I would go, you know what, I'm just gonna smoke a lot tonight at the party so that my chest hurts so that I'll quit tomorrow.

[A]

And it worked one time.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. Eventually it did.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But usually it didn't. Usually I just addicted myself further.

[C]

Aaron, anybody come to mind when you think of famous quitters?

[A]

Famous quitters. I mean, there are a lot of sports.

[B]

I mean, it's a tough.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

A lot of.

[B]

But that's where you're like, all right, so Barry Sanders. You. You can't really. You call that Andrew Luck?

[A]

I would say for the. Now, let me think, let me, let me zoom out a little bit. Think outside of sports. Richard Nixon.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

The only president to ever resign in the middle of a term.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Was he on there?

[B]

But didn't he get in trouble?

[C]

Yeah, that's why he resigned. He was about to be impeached and he just.

[A]

So he didn't ever end up actually getting impeached. He beat him to the punch.

[B]

So he might have done.

[D]

I like Richard Nixon. I think he was. I think he was.

[A]

Was.

[D]

He was scammed.

[A]

I am not a cook.

[C]

Yeah. He was the president for the moon landing. So he's a lot of good stuff.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Well, you got to go along with it.

[A]

Yes. You got to play ball. All right.

[D]

You got to take the landline call.

[B]

You think they. Yeah, they probably. They didn't tell him?

[C]

Well, there's a. I've told. I think I've told this story before in here, but supposedly he and Jackie Gleason were good friends. They were having drinks one night at the White House and he was like, you want to see some UFOs and show Jackie Gleason a bunch of UFO stuff that they had.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

On hand?

[D]

Who.

[A]

Who told that? Jackie Gleason told it.

[C]

Yeah. Jackie Gleason shared that story later, talking.

[A]

About betraying your buddy.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

He promised not to tell anybody.

[B]

Well, maybe every Watergate happened, he goes, all right, I'll get it. He goes, what does it matter now? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Jackie Gleason's catchphrase, to the moon.

[A]

To the moon.

[B]

Whoa.

[A]

That's when it started.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But, yeah, I had Barry Sanders. Now he retired at age 31 despite being only 1400 yards away from breaking the all time rushing record.

[A]

So that would have been how many more seasons that. I mean, just a few more at.

[C]

His pace, Maybe one.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

If.

[C]

But probably two.

[B]

Did he ever say, like, he retired.

[C]

Due to lack of desire to continue playing in frustration with the Detroit Lions? Lack of success.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

As bad as the Titans are, he retired. One of the best ever.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Calvin Johnson, one of the best wide receivers ever, retired at 30 for the same reason.

[A]

From the same team.

[C]

Yeah. Because he's sick of the lines.

[D]

And then Matthew Stafford goes to the Rams and wins the Super Bowl.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But the Lions are pretty good. Have been great.

[A]

They've been good the last two years.

[B]

But it was.

[A]

It was so, like, so many years.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

There's a great clip of, I think, Stafford's first year when he's on the Rams and they're playing the Lions and he's miked up and the games ended and he's. Or it's maybe a timeout and he's talking to his former teammates on the Lions.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And he's. And he's just saying, I know, guys. I know, I know. I know. I'm with you. I know. So they're all just voicing the same complaints.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It must be. You're like, yeah, am I going to just put my body through this for nothing? For.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I'll be brain dead in another four years.

[C]

Why?

[A]

Let me just go out on top. I get it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

He and Jared Goff kind of switched teams, and then.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

They played each other yesterday.

[A]

That'll be Nate when he comes back and visit you guys after.

[B]

Yeah, I know, I know. Yeah. Y' all dealing with breakfast?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Andrew Luck retired at 29. He'd still be a lot younger than Philip Rivers right now.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

But he tore his body up, though, Right? Wasn't he, like, all messed up?

[C]

He had some injuries and he was a smart guy. And he's like, I just getting out.

[A]

Nothing exceptional, though.

[B]

Yeah. I thought that was. That. That would be the craziest one to me.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

That was. That was insane.

[C]

Because it was out of nowhere and it was right before the season started. Yeah.

[A]

And he was being heralded as kind of the next great quarterback in the NFL.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Right. The next Peyton Manning. And then, bam. Gone. Now he's a GM of Stanford.

[B]

Yeah. Something was weird. Yeah. That was. Because it was. It was like before the season is just like, like. It's like one of those. You're like, dude, it's like very. You know, and I don't know, maybe there's more to it than we know, but it's like, how do you do that? Right. Like that.

[C]

Yeah. Jim Brown also retired at 29.

[B]

Really? Yep. I didn't know that.

[C]

Pursue an acting career.

[B]

Well, probably was going to go make some money and that worked.

[D]

Out pretty well for him.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, he did some stuff.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That's what I mean. He probably was like, yeah, I'm gonna go make some money as an actor.

[D]

He was in quite a few things.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, nothing highly acclaimed, but he did some stuff.

[B]

He was in a lot of attacks.

[C]

He was in what?

[A]

Okay, but I. But you know him as a football player is what I'm.

[B]

Yeah, he was in Any Given Sunday. The Dirty Dozen.

[A]

Okay. The Running Man.

[D]

Yeah, the Running Man. That's a great movie.

[C]

Vanderbilt. Can you think of a quitter?

[B]

Bobby Johnson.

[C]

That's right. Bobby Johnson, our football coach quit right before the season started.

[B]

Yeah. I think it was health concerns.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

It was health. Something I've heard Bobby's the. Oh, I've never met him, but I heard he's. Urban Meyer. Was a big.

[D]

Yeah. Urban Meyer on that list.

[C]

Now that's a good one.

[B]

Yeah. But Bobby Johnson was out of nowhere and it was like. And we were like, he was a great coach and we were making.

[C]

Yeah. He finally. When I finally had a winning record, we went to a bowl game first.

[D]

Time and put me on that list. When I worked for Spectra side. I quit that job. I did quit that job.

[A]

Equal stakes.

[D]

I quit working at Hyman's, quit working at Papa John's. I've quit a lot of jobs.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Western sizzling two times.

[C]

All right, I'll add you to the list. But Bobby Johnson, back to him.

[D]

People that don't quit things. I'm right here.

[A]

I've never not quit.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Put in a two week notice.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I've never quit a job.

[D]

I've stopped still work at all. Your job.

[A]

To working them. But there's a difference between I'm no longer working that job and I quit.

[D]

I don't think so. What's quitting?

[C]

Are you saying you were fired?

[A]

I've been fired from one job. The rest of them, I'm just like, all right, this chapter of my life is over.

[D]

But that's.

[A]

I'm not working there. I just stopped picking up shifts.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

That's not quitting.

[D]

I think you're, you're, you're saying like give up. I don't think you're giving up to quit. You just quit.

[A]

What I mean is I didn't quit because I was frustrated with the job.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And then let me find something else. It was just like my circumstances changed.

[D]

But you quit, though.

[A]

But it feels. I didn't storm out in a huff.

[B]

Circumstances. It was hard.

[D]

I never stormed out in a huff either. I like a two week notice. But it's still quitting.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

So Nate's doing right now.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

I guess it just feels different to.

[A]

Be like, yeah, I got fed up at work one day and like I quit versus I'm going full time stand up comedy.

[B]

Yeah, that would be. I understand what he's saying because that's just what I talk about. Like it's being titled quitters. It's like, I'm not quitting. I'm moving on to do other things.

[A]

Cleaner pastures. No, said that's what you said.

[D]

Yeah, but I guess.

[B]

But the greener pet, the stuff I'm moving on to is still bringing this world along with me.

[A]

Still grass.

[D]

But if you're doing something and then you stop doing it, you quit. You've quit doing that.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I wouldn't call you a quitter, but you die. But you quit doing it.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

So when people die, you call them quitters.

[B]

But if you move up, like, so say you're. You're. I don't even know. Like you run a company and then you go be president and then you resign.

[A]

Yeah. What's the difference between resigning and quitting?

[B]

I think it's still.

[A]

It's the, the prestige of the job.

[B]

I think it is.

[A]

You don't resign from Wendy's.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, if you were in there for a long time. But if you work, you resign. If you're. But if you're in CEO of Wendy's, you resign.

[A]

Yes, exactly.

[D]

If you work at Wendy's and then Burger King offers you more money, you quit Wendy's to go work at Burger King.

[B]

But I would say you take a better opportunity, you go the. Yeah. That if you pay more money and you go do it and then the offer's better over there. Yeah, you're. Yeah. I think quitting is if it. Maybe if it. You leave with there's bad blood.

[D]

Maybe the only way to not quit is if the job doesn't exist anymore. Like. Right. Because if I'm eating food and I don't finish the food, but I quit eating it, then I've quit. But if I eat all the food, I didn't quit. I finished it.

[B]

So you finished.

[D]

So if this, If Nateland podcast is technically ending, then you didn't quit. You've the.

[B]

Yes. The whole podcast will jump to completion. Yeah. We want a new podcast will be.

[D]

Here and then a phoenix will emerge.

[B]

A phoenix.

[D]

Rubble of the old podcast.

[B]

Nate. The Nate Land podcast is. You're so technically, everybody's quitting.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

So don't make me a quitter because of your decision.

[B]

You're.

[C]

I would be here with it forever.

[D]

If we view that it's come to conclusion.

[B]

It's come to a conclusion.

[D]

It's completely. We completed it. It's a task complete.

[B]

It's a task complete.

[D]

Now we have to move on to the next.

[B]

We did a very good task complete. And then now y' all will move on and drive it right into the ground.

[C]

You'll come back like Mr. Peterman. Congratulations on a job done.

[A]

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[D]

That's what I'm talking about.

[A]

So if you got a thing of coffee, just pop it right on there. I'm gonna flip it over to you, Brian, so you can see it rotating it around on the table right now with the 360 degree wheels.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

So this thing glides all over the airport floor. And I was sick of zippers breaking. Yeah, on suitcases.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Not.

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[C]

One of the most famous quitting in sports was Roberto Duran against Sugar Ray Leonard in a boxing match where he famously said, no, Moss.

[D]

Oh, I've seen that.

[B]

That's.

[D]

I saw it. 30.

[B]

So that's quitting.

[C]

Yeah. Now, he later claimed he did not say that. That Howard Cosell just said he said that. But he clearly quit in the ring. He said he was having stomach cramps, but supposedly he said no, Moss. And Yeah, there's a 30 for 30 about it.

[B]

Well, I think I've seen 30. You talking about the one where someone had something in their gloves?

[C]

No, that's a different one.

[A]

He.

[C]

He was known as Hands of Steel or whatever. He had the. But that. But not. You're talking about one where a guy cheated.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And.

[B]

And he had like something in his gloves.

[A]

Who was he saying no, Moss to?

[C]

Just no more fighting. I'm done.

[A]

No, but who is he saying? Because he's. It's in Spanish. Was he saying it to Sugar Ray Leonard?

[C]

I think he. The ref was maybe the closest. You think they couldn't translate it?

[A]

No, I'm just saying he claims he never said it. So I was wondering, who do they claim he said this to?

[D]

Maybe he said it to himself. Just, I'm done.

[C]

I think he was just like, corner.

[A]

Like, no mas, no Moss to his. His team.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

I mean, there's Video of him quitting, but you don't hear it. You don't. You can't hear him.

[A]

Oh, and Sugar Ray was taunting him.

[C]

And he was kind of waving up. So he had just beaten Sugar Ray Leonard. I saw a video about this. Sugar Ray said Roberto Duran had a history of partying and living it up right after a big fight. So he asked for a rematch six weeks later, and they accepted. And Roberto Duran was out of shape for this rematch.

[A]

Whoa.

[D]

So they cheated him.

[C]

Well, he didn't have to accept it.

[D]

I bet his team accepted.

[B]

Yeah, But Sugar A. Leonard is the biggest thing in the world that you're like, well, you have to accept it.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

And then you can't, you know? And then they want Sugar Ray back on top because he's the star.

[D]

Yeah. I think they.

[B]

They ruined that, probably in that. Which would make him say, no, Moss, because he's like, I don't even care. Like, y'. All.

[D]

Yeah, I already beat you.

[B]

I beat you. We wouldn't have even.

[A]

Duran insists he never said no moss, but was mumbling something else. No seagull, which means I'm not going on due to illness and dehydration. Feels like the same thing.

[C]

No seagulls.

[B]

They go, no seagulls. There's no seagulls here. I go out, he's out of his mind. He's singing seagulls. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Well, maybe the difference.

[B]

He goes, we got to call the fight. He thinks there's seagulls flying around in here.

[D]

Maybe no moss would mean, like, I can't take it anymore, as opposed to no seagulls, which means this is. I don't. I just. You know, I don't want to do this.

[B]

It's very funny. That is it. No seagulls.

[C]

That can't be right.

[A]

Yeah. Okay, I got to look that up.

[B]

This could be those seagulls.

[C]

I think AI is messing with us.

[A]

I mean, no seagull is a misinterpretation or mishearing of Roberto Durant's famous controversial declaration of no moss. Yeah. Duran claimed he said no seagull.

[D]

So he's not saying, I'm giving up.

[A]

Just no seagull.

[D]

I ain't doing that.

[B]

But there's no. What does seagull mean?

[C]

Yes, that's what I'm wondering.

[A]

Duran's alleged explanation was that he mumbled no seagull, which is a phonetic approximation of no, moss.

[B]

What does that mean?

[A]

Nothing.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But if you Google no, no seagull in Spanish.

[A]

Yeah, okay. Well. Yeah.

[C]

Okay, I guess.

[A]

Okay. That didn't help.

[D]

That's not it.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Seagull in Spanish is.

[A]

Yeah, siga is a verb in Spanish.

[B]

So.

[A]

Yeah, it just sounded. It just sounded like it. C. C Guy. No, no, no more.

[D]

No more.

[A]

I'm not even. I'm not. I don't even have the right languages up. We get it, we get it. The guy, the guy.

[B]

No seagull.

[A]

The guy gave us.

[B]

He said no.

[A]

And there were no birds in the arena. That's.

[B]

There was no birds in the arena and that was a clear tail. No seagull.

[D]

And no seagull is a confusing title for a 30 for 30 about boxing.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. He goes, no seagulls. And they go, I promised you there was no seagulls. And he goes, no, no seagull. He goes, I don't know what to tell you. I know the first fight you said there were seagulls. There are no seagulls.

[A]

None, nada. No mops.

[C]

Smother for famous quitting. Dave Chappelle.

[A]

Oh yeah, he's back but he quit his show.

[C]

But it's peak.

[B]

That could be. You could say that. That, that was. I think yeah, I could say quitting because you have a lot of people working for you. A lot of like stuff like that.

[D]

Well based on some stuff that feels like he said like they other people were basically writing his show at that point. So he just was like, I don't like they were like you come back. But as a team of writers like doing the show now that's some things I've. I've seen him say in an old interviews where it's like, well, so are you quitting? Are you going? I'm not doing this new thing that you're doing.

[B]

Well, you have writer. Yeah, no see, no seagulls. Neil Brennan might say something else, but.

[A]

This is a famous resignation later from Thaddeus McCotter. He was a congressman from Michigan and he resigned I think in the middle of a scandal. And I know this just full disclosure. There's an episode of the Newsroom where they talk about this. But listen to this resignation letter. The recent events, totalities and calamities and dignities and deceits have weighed most heavily upon my family. Thus acutely aware one cannot rebuild their hearth of home, home amongst the ruins of their U.S. house office. For the sake of my loved ones, I must strike another match. Go start anew by embracing the promotion back from public servant to sovereign citizen.

[C]

I like the seagull better.

[A]

You have to resign. And you say I'm embracing the promotion back to sovereign citizen.

[B]

I like that.

[A]

I love that.

[D]

I like it, too.

[B]

And then I love the striking the match.

[A]

Strike another match, go start anew.

[D]

Yeah, that seems like that's in a song.

[B]

Strike a match, go start a new.

[A]

Maybe it's in quotation marks in this. In the. Yeah. What is that resignation there?

[C]

I've noticed Paul Kaharski posted this up, pointed this out that used to be always teams just release players, like if they weren't.

[D]

Oh, Bob Dylan. It's all over now, Baby blue. Yeah.

[C]

But now they'll spin it to say they've granted so and so their release to make it seem like it was the players.

[A]

Softens it a little bit.

[C]

Players decision. Yeah.

[A]

I've allowed you to no longer live your dream and go back down to the Miners.

[B]

Well, but it's. But I bet it's just if people. No, I think it's magic if someone's like, release me so I can go play somewhere else that's granted a release that would. They release you where it's over.

[D]

Another Bob Dylan song. Any day now I must be released.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Like quitting time. Like five o'clock somewhere.

[D]

Quitting time. That's a. Another song.

[A]

Did y' all ever quit anything as a child? Like quitting time? Yeah. Like what? Like a sports team or anything or.

[D]

I almost.

[C]

No, they chose for me.

[D]

I almost quit football. I was in 8th grade playing football.

[A]

And you wanted to quit?

[D]

I had all my pads. I came out, my mom goes, what are you doing? I go, I'm quitting. She goes, all right, go tell your coach. And I go, all right. And I played the rest of the season.

[B]

I don't think so. But I quit baseball at 13. But I played that season. I just didn't.

[A]

Yeah, that was always what my parents would say. They would go, you don't have to play next year. You don't have to do it next year. But you're not going to quit the middle.

[B]

The middle of it.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I did quit the wrestling team. I did quit that.

[A]

What happened?

[D]

But no one cared.

[A]

Fighting for you. Yeah.

[D]

There's a guy. He's still my friend, but there's a guy, he's like a Army Ranger now, but he was.

[A]

What a loser.

[D]

He was in my weight class, so I had to beat him to go, you know, play actual matches.

[B]

And he was.

[D]

Well, I didn't want to work that hard. I mean, he was a beast. And. And he was, you know, he was ripped. I don't know how he weighed the same as me, but doesn't sound like.

[A]

Wrestling was the sport for you to begin with.

[D]

There's no sport if you're like, I.

[A]

Don'T want to work that hard.

[D]

No, there's no sport for me.

[C]

But no swimming, no seagulls going.

[D]

There was no sweat. We didn't have a swim team, I don't think. But. But yeah, so I did quit that. I think that's the only sport I quit mid season.

[C]

A couple more quitters. Pope Benedict. Well, he did.

[B]

That's true, I guess.

[A]

I guess so.

[C]

Supposedly there's conspiracy theories. He knew too much and they forced him out.

[A]

Knew too much about what?

[C]

Well, some stuff going.

[B]

Not anymore. Joining a conference.

[A]

Football.

[C]

Has it come out the Notre Dame, like they're giving them like some special privileges?

[B]

Oh, yeah, no, the. Oh, they asked for special. They asked for.

[A]

Yeah. Okay. I thought you're still talking about the Vatican. I go, no, I don't think they're.

[B]

Notre Dame said they should be allowed to be in because like, something that no other team, nobody else gets.

[A]

Yeah, sounds right. Sounds all right to me.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

King Edward viii, he abdicated the throne in England so he can marry a American divorcee. It was a scandal. And so he. He gave up his. The crown as king.

[A]

We created the Church of England too. No, this is the guy that beheaded all his wives.

[C]

This is 1936.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

That's King Henry.

[D]

How did that work out for him in the end?

[B]

Her name was Wallace.

[C]

Yeah, Wallace Simpson.

[D]

How did that work out for him in the end?

[B]

Good.

[C]

I mean, they stayed together. He moved to the United States. I believe his brother took over the throne. And that was Queen Elizabeth's dad.

[D]

Wow, that's interesting.

[C]

Have you seen the movie the King's Speech?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[C]

That's the brother that took over.

[A]

Wow, okay. I remember.

[C]

Speech.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Amanda Bynes. You big Amanda Bynes fan, right?

[A]

I loved Amanda Bynes. One of the most talented people of my generation. Probably most talented comedic actors. How did she quit?

[C]

I think she had a lot of problems and she walked away just for her own mental health.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[C]

And yeah.

[A]

So walking away, quitting, a lot of.

[D]

People say that a lot of one hit wonders, that's what they do, is like, it's not that they just couldn't create more great music, but they got involved in the industry and we're like, I don't want any part of this.

[B]

I disagree.

[A]

I think some people only got one in them.

[B]

I disagree. I think it's very. I think it's Very, very hard to.

[A]

Sustained.

[B]

Sustain it.

[D]

No doubt. But I. I don't know. I think they're.

[B]

They quit to it.

[D]

They quit? Yeah.

[C]

I think I want to talk about fun.

[B]

Quick joke. Yeah.

[C]

Some non.

[B]

The band.

[C]

Some non quitters.

[D]

Are they still being Quitting time is a Keith Whitley.

[A]

Gwen Stefani still around, I don't think. No doubt still.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Too legit to quit. That's a mc.

[D]

Oh, yeah. Keith Whitley had Quitting Quitting time. That's how it goes. It's a good one.

[C]

Walter Orthman worked at the same job for 84 years in a Guinness World Record. He started at 15, and he was almost 100 when he was released for sexual harassment.

[A]

Is that true?

[B]

Okay. I was like, wow.

[C]

During the Me Too movement.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

No, that part's not true.

[A]

Did he get promoted or anything? Or is it just the same job?

[C]

He worked at a textile company as an assistant in the shipping department when he was 15. As he continued his career, he was promoted to administrative assistant. Okay. Eventually sales manager.

[B]

Well, he didn't. And he didn't quit. He retired. That's not quitting.

[C]

Yeah, I said non quitters. These are guys.

[A]

These are. These are the opposite of non quitters.

[B]

Well, I'm retiring.

[A]

These are like the. The Brian's of the world.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Like never quit.

[B]

They never quit.

[C]

That's right. That's right.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

People are going, you should quit.

[B]

And I mean, nobody wants them there, but they go, well, since you are. That guy of this podcast is gonna be.

[A]

But when you said that, I thought I was picturing a guy at like the same assembly line for a hundred years or something. So I'm glad he was at least moving up.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But Doug McMillan. Who?

[D]

The CEO assembly line job.

[B]

Yeah, the CEO of Walmart who just retired or whatever. He worked at Walmart since he was 15. Yeah.

[D]

What about. But do you have. Are you got. Do you have music or something up for quitting songs?

[C]

I had a few.

[D]

Take this job and shove it.

[A]

That's got to be Johnny Paycheck. Yeah, that's got to be the number.

[C]

Hard Working man by Brooks and Dunn.

[D]

I don't think they quit their job.

[C]

But he says it's quitting time.

[A]

Well, quitting time means you're done for the day. Yeah.

[C]

Talking about quitting.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

I'm just trying to. This is episode 2 million 4. This guy quit. This guy checked out before the podcast even started.

[A]

I'm coming on the Tonight Show.

[D]

I've been very engaged.

[C]

Well, Julian said more than you have.

[D]

So well, Julian's coming out of left field.

[A]

This is what I'm talking about, dude. This is. This is. This is the vintage episode, right?

[D]

Yeah. Brian's losing it. The sickness did something to you.

[C]

Everybody shut up. We got five minutes left. I gotta wrap this up. Salisbury Cathedral clock has been running since the year 1386. That's a pretty good piece of machinery.

[A]

Is it so accurate?

[B]

This is something that's never quit.

[C]

Yeah, these are. We're still talking about the non quitters here.

[B]

That's where they get the eight minutes off, I think.

[A]

Salisbury. Yeah, it must be Salisbury steak.

[C]

Why would you like that?

[A]

Because, I mean, where do you see the word Salisbury?

[B]

Yeah, but then I'll tell you, you.

[A]

Know, it's Salisbury steak created by a guy named James Salisbury.

[B]

Yeah, there's. Why would a clock get into, like a mediocre steak?

[D]

I love a South.

[B]

Well, that's fine, but it's not. It's not Wagyu. You got a clock that's been running since 19, since 1300. And then they also go, you want to get into some microwaveable stuff.

[D]

I don't know that you couldn't put gravy over a wagyu beef steak.

[B]

I mean, yeah, you want a top notch Salisbury. I'm sure the Salisbury Cathedral Club, they go, do you want to. They. They thought of it and go, we can't hurt our image.

[D]

They go, you want a steak that doesn't quit?

[B]

I bought a Salisbury that would be quitting if you. If you quit to get into the Salisbury steak business. And then I would like to say, I'm not doing that. I would like to say we are a clock that are going to move on and try to continue to be a better clock.

[D]

I think I'm a mistake to not serve Salisbury steak at the theme park.

[B]

I. We could maybe have such a mistake.

[D]

At the theme park under a clock.

[B]

We're having your section of the theme park, the Dusty Town.

[D]

I want a replica of the Salisbury clock.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And where you eat Salisbury steak, gravy comes out of the clock at noon.

[B]

Clock strikes.

[A]

There's a whole thing just for us. It's the least popular part of the whole park.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I don't know. Gravy clocks.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Come on.

[A]

Well, you're gonna have no tomatoes, no onions in the theme park.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess so. Yeah. No tomatoes, no onions.

[A]

At least one of the concession stands, no tomatoes.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. No tomatoes, no ends. We have some. I got some fun ideas. We're gonna do. Do one.

[A]

Are you gonna Recreate the Six Flags ads, but it's Brian instead of that guy. Remember the guy dance?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

It's an older version.

[B]

Yeah. I'll use Brad. Brian as my. As my. Yeah, he won't ride anything.

[C]

Future quitter. The sun. The sun's going to burn out in 5 billion years. That's right.

[A]

So we better get out now. So we gotta take some steps.

[B]

But would that be quitting or it's just gonna. It dies.

[D]

Completed its cycle.

[B]

It is.

[A]

Yeah. It's gonna run out of.

[B]

It's not like the sun's gonna move on to another galaxy.

[A]

No, it's going to explode.

[B]

That's the way you're saying that.

[A]

But that's what you're doing.

[B]

That's. Yes. No, but the way you're reading that is like, the sun's going to go, all right, I'm going to go find a new. There's a better Earth. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm going to go check out Andromeda.

[B]

Andromeda. Yeah. Seagulls. No seagulls.

[C]

Voyager. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

They've been going for about 40 years longer than they anticipated, and they're going.

[A]

To go just indefinitely.

[D]

Is that the people lost at space?

[C]

Yeah, the people lost in space.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

It's the two probes that. But they're still sending back information.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Still signals from the. It was launched in the 70s.

[A]

So. Crazy.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

We got the Chuck Berry on it and all that kind of.

[C]

Yeah. Isn't that amazing, Dusty?

[D]

It is amazing.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

That. You guys believe that stuff.

[A]

It is crazy.

[C]

Well, I do.

[B]

They put Chuck Berry up there. He's in the car.

[C]

They put some gold records. And someday, millions of years from now, some civilization will find it.

[B]

Find it.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

Yeah. We've never found anything.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

They play it.

[A]

They're like, man, this guy's terrible.

[B]

We haven't found anything from another galaxy.

[C]

No, not yet.

[B]

Like, they're. You know. Can imagine if you have. Finding that, like, just.

[A]

But you got to watch the show Pluribus, dude.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

My favorite show I've seen in a long time. It's a guy that made Breaking Bad and.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

And it's about kind of that.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Get. They get something from. From space and then things get crazy.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[C]

It's awesome.

[A]

I think you'd like it.

[B]

All right, well. And on that board to starting stuff, I'll start that.

[D]

Give this podcast up. Start that show.

[B]

Yeah. Do I have to watch Shawshank Redemption?

[A]

No, we'll watch that together. At some point. Some point. But I'm saying if you're looking for a fun show, there's only a few episodes out.

[C]

Are you asking before you leave?

[B]

Before I leave?

[A]

I mean, I'd like to do it. I think that should be the live show.

[D]

A full breakdown of Shaw.

[A]

The whole crowd watches it with us.

[B]

Yeah. Furious and I go to the bathroom.

[D]

Yeah, you gotta pause it.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. All right. Well, yeah. Thank you. We have few. We have more episodes coming, so it'll be a lot more. We're just kind of letting you know and then. So. But yeah. Oh, y' all want to say where you guys are?

[C]

Yes. December 26th and 27th, I am at Skyline Comedy Club at Appleton, Wisconsin. One show Friday, two shows Saturday.

[B]

Did you ask for the 25th?

[C]

I'm open.

[A]

Let's do it.

[C]

These shows are all ages 13 and up. Family friendly show. So if your family's in town, you got your aunt, your grandma, your cousins, whatever, bring them to the show. Now, little. Little setback for me when I, you know, anybody knows Appleton knows it's basically a suburb of Green Bay, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And when I chose these dates, schedule looked pretty wide open. Then the NFL this week decided to move the packers game to Saturday night.

[B]

Oh, did they really?

[C]

December 27th. So if you live in Green Bay and you're not a Packers fan, come to my show.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

The Skyline Comedy Club.

[B]

If you've quit the Packers. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Maybe the packers have it all wrapped up by then. And then it's like. Yeah.

[A]

And a tough loss yesterday, though.

[C]

Yeah, I don't think they will. But anyway, come to my shows. And then January 6th, I'm doing a Texas run. January 6th at Cap City Comedy Club in Austin. January 7th at Addison Improvisation in Addison in January 8th, and at the Houston Improv in Houston, Texas.

[D]

All right. Yeah, that's a hot run.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

This is my. Is there and we're speaking. This is my last weekend.

[C]

Of.

[A]

Of. I mean, maybe of the year. I'm in grand rapids, Michigan, at Dr. Grins this weekend. And then I got one show at Skyline Comedy Club in Appleton, Wisconsin. And just. Just one. And then I. I just announced a bunch of dates for 2026. These are a lot of cities that I've been wanting to go to for such a long time. I got San Francisco, Sacramento, Toronto. For the first time. I'm doing the La Jolla Comedy Store in San Diego. Cleveland, Texas, Going back to Canada. There's Salt Lake City, too. Minneapolis. A lot of fun places. Some clubs I've never been to. So come on out and see me in 2026.

[D]

Aaron webcomedy.com okay, December 26th, I'm at Pecola, Oklahoma at the Choctaw Casino. Very fun. Me and Adam Bush. And then did you ask for December 25th? I did not. I would take it, though. I'm actually flying there on December 25th. The and then first of the year, I'm at Naples, Florida, off the Hook Comedy Club with Connor Larson. It's going to be great.

[C]

Nice.

[B]

All right. I'll be out next year. All right. Well, we'll see you soon. And yeah, again, thank you and love you. Bye.

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