287: Nateland | Ep #287 The Penultimate Episode

Summary

The Nateland Podcast | Ep. 287: The Penultimate Episode

Host: Nate Bargatze
Co-hosts: Brian Bates, Aaron Weber (Dusty Slay absent)
Date: January 14, 2026

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Overview

This “penultimate episode” of The Nateland Podcast marks the last recording in their current studio, featuring the original three hosts: Nate, Brian, and Aaron. With Dusty Slay absent, the trio reflects on the evolution of the podcast, ongoing and future projects, and dives into a wide-ranging, lighthearted discussion on movie theaters—covering everything from the changing industry landscape to personal nostalgia and movie etiquette. The episode is laced with self-deprecating humor, playful banter, and a sense of nostalgia as the show approaches a major transition.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The End of an Era: Reflecting on Nateland's Journey

• The three hosts reminisce on returning to the original lineup for their next-to-last episode.
• Dusty's absence is discussed, noting he'll appear in the final, live episode.
• The origin and meaning of "penultimate" becomes a recurring (and humorously confusing) theme.
  • (03:18, Aaron): “It’s the penultimate episode.”
  • (04:09, Nate): “That’s when I think stuff probably started going wrong in the world, when they invented that word.”

Announcements and Updates

• Graham K.'s Special: Nate promotes an upcoming taping, “Nateland Presents: Graham K,” at Gotham Comedy Club (02:02).
• Upcoming Challenges: The crew teases ongoing podcast challenges, such as Aaron throwing a golf ball across a baseball field and long-discussed athletic stunts (“the swim one, the golf one... all these challenges can still happen on their podcast,” 17:09).
• Movie Release: Excitement mounts around Nate’s family film "The Breadwinner," its trailer, premiere, and promotional cutouts seen in theaters (08:23).

“Movie Theaters”: Main Topic Deep-Dive

The Decline and Reinvention of Theaters

• Recap of 2025’s underperforming box office numbers, especially for superhero franchises (47:16).
• Brian: “[Movie theaters] have yet to hit pre-pandemic numbers.”
• Discuss factors affecting attendance: superhero film fatigue, lack of diverse movie options, high costs.
• Nate expresses optimism that people still crave out-of-home entertainment:
  (49:41, Nate): “People want to go to the movies. I know it’s expensive… but it just is what it is. I do still think people want to go out.”

Movie Theater Experiences: Then & Now

• Reminisce about:
  • Calling movie theaters or checking newspapers for times (73:07).
  • Waiting in line for tickets, saving seats pre-cell phone, the disposable flashlight on phones (74:45).
  • Sneaking into movies and food etiquette.
    • (44:27, Brian): “Our whole life at the beginning was sneaking your own snacks. You would go to Dollar General and get candy and then sneak the candy in.”
  • The evolution from traditional to reclining seats.
    • (65:58, Brian): “I like it [reclining seats] … You notice it when there’s an old school seat—it feels primitive now.”

Etiquette, Seating, and Weird Theater Moments

• The “buffer seat” code of conduct among friends (66:43).
• Annoyance at people sitting right next to you in empty theaters:
  • (69:01, Brian): “I remember one time being in a movie and there’s just no one in there. And then these people came and sat right behind us.”
• The value of trailers and how their overabundance is hurting the experience.

Modern Movie Tech, Subscriptions, and Apps

• Discussion on MoviePass, AMC subscriptions, and whether membership models could revive theaters (50:03).
• Movie theaters’ financial dependence on concessions, the high markup on popcorn, and tactics for sneaking in food.
• Apps/websites for optimal viewing:
  • RunPee.com: Best time during a movie to go to the bathroom (77:03).
  • AfterCredits.com: Whether to stick around for post-credit scenes.

Movies and Family Memories

• Thoughts on movie ratings—how PG/PG-13/R have shifted, awkward moments with inappropriate family movies (62:03).
• Parental resources (Common Sense Media, Kids-In-Mind, VidAngel for filtering content).
• Movie poster artistry and why they matter to marketing (80:16).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On “Penultimate” & Podcast Nostalgia:

  • (03:18, Aaron): “It’s the penultimate episode.”
  • (04:09, Nate): “That’s when I think stuff probably started going wrong in the world, when they invented that word.”

• On Movie Attendance:

  • (49:41, Nate): “People want to go to the movies. I know it’s expensive… but it just is what it is. I do still think people want to go out.”

• On Experience Economy:

  • (54:06, Nate): “The new world is going towards experience. It is leaving your house, it is doing stuff with your family and going to things… It’s just, I mean, like—what are we doing?”

• On Buffer Seats:

  • (66:43, Brian): “Unless the movie theater’s full, there’s one seat between you.”

• On Sneaking Food & Crime:

  • (44:27, Brian): “Our whole life at the beginning was sneaking your own snacks…”
  • (44:19, Aaron): “It’s about as close to a victimless crime as I can imagine.”

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Audience Interaction: Listener Comments & Reflections

• The Podcast’s Legacy: Michael Bridge asks if Nate's goal was to introduce less-known comics and then pass things along – the answer is yes, and the hosts reflect on how the show has evolved in that direction (26:10).
• Nateland Theme Park: Nate fields multiple listener suggestions about roles in the theme park and shares his dreams for a full-circle, family-focused experience.
  • (28:49, Amy): “I think a full circle moment would be to visit Nate's theme park, and he is sweeping the walkways.”
• Missed Swim Meet Challenge: Listener-made t-shirts commemorate running podcast challenges that have yet to be fulfilled.
• Movie Crime Confessions: Various audience and host stories of sneaking into movies, bringing in outside food, and when the “life of crime” ended.

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Fun Exchanges & Banter

• Nate, Brian, and Aaron jokingly debate whether hitting a home run or other sports feats feel best (10:24).
• A running joke about Brian’s “swing” at batting practice and ongoing challenges (15:01).
• Aaron’s lamentations about being sick for the New Year (24:26).
• Debates about how often people actually use their phone’s flashlight, with Aaron claiming “15 times a day!” (76:01).

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Penultimate definition/running joke: 02:47–06:38
• Reflections on the podcast’s beginnings and goals: 26:00–27:52
• Movie theater attendance trends and box office: 47:16–52:13
• Nostalgia for movie-going rituals: 73:07–74:57
• Modern theater amenities and etiquette: 65:58–68:00
• Apps for movie-goers (RunPee, AfterCredits): 77:01
• Listener comments & theme park ideas: 27:52–34:09
• Poster art and "Breadwinner" movie marketing: 80:16–83:52
• Trailer overload & movie start times: 85:11–86:55

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What’s Next

• The final regular episode will be recorded live with Dusty joining, promising surprises and a fitting sendoff.

  • (98:11, Aaron): “Dusty will be here. We got some fun surprises. It's gonna be a good time.”

• The hosts are all hitting the road with stand-up dates and looking ahead to new projects. The spirit of the podcast—camaraderie, curiosity, and accessible comedy—promises to continue, even as this chapter draws to a close.

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This summary preserves the warm, self-effacing tone of the Nateland Podcast, capturing inside jokes, thoughtful reflections, and the everyday observations that made the show feel like time spent with friends.

Transcript

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All right. Hello, folks. And hey, bear, you don't. I'm not supposed to throw it that. All right. But we did.

[A]

You'll get it figured out eventually.

[B]

Eventually we're figured out. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetsi. Brian Bates and Aaron Weber. Dusty's out. So we're back to the original how.

[A]

We always wanted it.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

This is our last podcast in this room, so, I mean, Dusty was flying back from something that just couldn't make it.

[C]

No way.

[B]

So. But it did work out.

[C]

That really bookend in this thing.

[B]

Yeah. It's probably better. He'll be on the last one.

[C]

Yeah, of course.

[B]

But yeah. Yeah, we get to do one. Just back to the original US3.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Just one more to remind us while we're stopping.

[B]

Yeah. Yes. Before we start Date Land presents, Graham K. Is at Gotham Comedy Club January 21st. Get tickets for that. We're taking that special. Graham's been out with me on the road a bunch. You know, we've been together since we started, so make sure you go check that out. Gotham Covenant Club in New York City taping Graham's Nateland Presents with Graham K. So get your tickets for that. Yeah. So this is it. We just got, you know, the beginning. The beginning of the end?

[C]

Yeah, I think so.

[B]

I don't know. I like to go down.

[C]

I mean, it's the end of the end, technically.

[B]

Yeah. The end of the end.

[C]

Yeah. The penultimate episode.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

The what?

[C]

Penultimate.

[B]

Isn't that a Great word, penultimate.

[C]

What does it mean, second to last?

[B]

Oh, really?

[C]

Yeah. I don't know.

[B]

I didn't. Why would they ever use that?

[C]

I don't know. The East Room open mic here in town, when Brad Edwards was host, he would always say, are you ready for your penultimate comedian tonight? The second to last guy. And I just like the word so much.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

And it was always you.

[C]

Sometimes it was me, but you don't get many opportunities to use that, so it's nice.

[B]

Penultimate.

[C]

It's the penultimate episode.

[B]

Penultimate episode. There, that's what this is called.

[C]

There you go.

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Sure.

[B]

That's a good name.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Nateland. 289. 290.

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What are we.

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Yeah.

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287. I jumped the gun a little bit.

[B]

Double murder. I don't.

[A]

Is that double jeopardy?

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180.

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187 is homicide.

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Homicide to penultimate. Yep. Well, you know, that's like one. You're like, why would they even need to do.

[C]

Why does that need its own work?

[B]

Yeah. Last but one in a series of things. Second to last. Is there a third to last?

[C]

It follows the anti penult. Right there. That's. I guess that's.

[B]

And proceeds the ultima.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So the ultima is the last.

[C]

The ultima is the last one. Yeah.

[B]

And then the anti panault. We've already done.

[C]

We did that last week.

[B]

The anti panal. And now we're at the penultimate.

[C]

Penultimate, yeah.

[B]

Pin ultimate. Yeah. Why would. Like. What are you doing? That's when I think stuff price started going wrong in the world. When that. When they invented that word, it was.

[C]

Like, out of stuff to do.

[B]

We were out of stuff to do. And then they go, well, we need a word for, you know, they had ultima. And they're like, that's great. Then a new generation comes in and goes, well, what about, you know, the second to last episode?

[C]

How about this example in use the runner finished in the penultimate position. Can you imagine watching the Olympics and talking like that?

[B]

Well, that sounds good.

[A]

Yeah, it does.

[B]

It does sound. It doesn't sound bad.

[C]

You think that sounds better than he came in second?

[B]

It can be. Second to last is the penultimate. Yeah. Oh, that's what that says. Maybe putting ultimate is not.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, good point, Good point.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That sounds way better.

[B]

So is this not the penultimate? Because it's not. Oh, wait, it is the second to last. Yeah. The real. Yeah. That's brutal. The runner finished. Abigail, you want to put them in? Yeah, don't worry. Just the penultimate episode. Abigail's Abigail's.

[A]

Second to last. That makes me feel like there's two more before the last one.

[C]

Well, I guess so. Yeah.

[A]

But there's.

[C]

There's one more after this, and that'll be the Ultima.

[B]

The. The penultimate episode of the show aired last night.

[C]

We learned a lot of Latin on this show. Isn't that pretty nice?

[B]

That is a funny way to put the runner finished in penultimate position. And someone. If you said that so they'd be like, man, I appreciate that.

[A]

Yeah. I wish I'd known that as a kid.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I finished in the penultimate a lot.

[B]

Yeah. Ari could have said the ultimate, too. That's the last.

[A]

Yeah, I fished the ultimate position.

[B]

Yeah. Feeling ultimate. Ultimate.

[A]

We just got through doing.

[B]

Look, it's got a picture of you next to it a little.

[A]

Yeah, it does look like. That.

[B]

Looks like a guy that has spent his life in the penultimate just finally gave it.

[A]

What if I get you, buddy? I get you.

[B]

Yeah. If it was a guy that just, you know, just always second to last and just said, we gotta call it something.

[A]

Yeah, it's a smart move because it does sound better.

[B]

I've decided last place gets. Is. It's.

[A]

It's.

[B]

You're least going to say, I'm last. So there's some pride in that.

[C]

What do you mean?

[B]

Well, if you're last, you're at least like, I was last. There's definition. Everybody goes, wow, you're the last. You go, yeah, I was last play. And then the guy that's like, well, I was second to last. And no one's like, well, let's hear him talk.

[C]

Yeah, it's not even interesting.

[B]

Mr. Reverent.

[A]

Irrelevant.

[B]

Irrelevant is, you know, but whoever gets second to last drafted doesn't get talked about.

[A]

Right?

[B]

But Mr. Irrelevant, like, I mean, that guy's kind of famous. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. It's all wording. And I've decided, assuming Aaron and I make it in the final code, your movie, I'm going to frame it different, Aaron, because we're in there, what, 15 second, 20 seconds?

[C]

If that.

[A]

Yeah, but when celebrities are in movies that short, what do they call it?

[C]

They call it a cameo.

[A]

I'm telling people now, I got a cameo.

[C]

He added a brief cameo.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That is. Y'. All. You really did a cameo. That's really what it was.

[A]

Yeah, but guys like us, usually, they're going to say that. But I'm going to say, but what you.

[B]

But you are a cameo.

[A]

I guess you think of cameos of celebrities, like, yeah, yeah.

[B]

I mean. But in this. In this world.

[C]

Yeah. It's like when you say I popped in on a show, but nobody in the crowd knew who I was.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I was just doing a gu spot.

[B]

But you guys did a cameo for me.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

In the. In this world.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Now, the amount of people. If the people that knew you guys only watched this movie, we're in big trouble. If the people that truly are like, wow, did you see Mates and Aaron's cameo? If those people only show up.

[C]

Yeah, it's not gonna be good. There won't be a breadwinner today.

[B]

I tell you what, there's going to be a Nayland podcast, and we're going right back at it. All right. We're restarting this thing because it did not work.

[A]

I would tell you something. The Roxy in Lebanon. It's going to do well there.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Go to Demas's, then walk over, have a night out. Yeah, Yeah.

[B]

I saw the trailer in the. In the theaters.

[C]

Oh, that's cool.

[B]

Yeah, it was very cool. They were showing it this weekend or the past weekend, and we saw. We went and watched David, and then we also watched Anaconda, so the opposites, but it was. It was the. The. The trailer's been played in both.

[C]

That's nice.

[B]

And seen a lot of pictures of the. Some. I have not physically seen it yet, but I've seen pictures of the board, like, you know, the cardboard cut out and stuff. Yeah.

[C]

Posters and stuff.

[B]

Yeah, it's starting. It's all. Yeah, we're gearing up. We're gearing up. It's fun.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

We just shot some other stuff. Additional shooting and.

[A]

Yeah, well, we just shot some additional stuff today. That's going to be.

[B]

We did. We. We answered one question today. We were. And we answered one.

[C]

We followed through on one thing.

[B]

We followed through on one thing, which.

[C]

Is more than you think we were gonna do.

[B]

Yeah.

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Yeah.

[B]

But I mean. Yeah, you will see next. Next week, the. Can Aaron throw a golf ball the full length of a baseball field?

[C]

We found out.

[B]

We found out a little Maitland field.

[C]

Trip, which you're going to see, and I think it's.

[B]

It's more interesting than you think.

[C]

Yeah, I hope so.

[B]

And we took some bp, which was very fun.

[C]

Feels good, doesn't it?

[B]

Feels good. I. We were hitting some. We hit some. You know, they. We went to the Sounds. Nashville Sounds. They were very generous, very great, and let us come out and mess around. And so, you know, we did our golf ball challenge, and then we, you know, took a little bp, just had A little fun.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Everybody got, everybody was really hitting the ball.

[C]

I wonder if that's the best feeling in sports to hit a home run. You think that's the best feeling versus dunking a basketball or like, I don't know, a pick six in a sold out stadium?

[B]

One at a. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

I just think just crushing a home run, that probably feels so good.

[B]

Well, walk off stadium, walk off home run.

[A]

Trotting around, you don't.

[C]

Yeah, just take time around the bases.

[B]

Because it's like when a touchdown happens, it's like a very quick celebration. Then you just blend back in.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And, and even but like a walk off home run, it's like that you actually want to burn off some of that excitement. And so you get a, you get a jot it and go, no, I want to take the walk. Even if, I bet if they, I wonder if they pulled baseball players and said if you hit a home run, you don't have to walk around the bases. If they would be like, aund what, what's the percentage? That would be like, no, we want to walk.

[C]

You still, you still want to, you still want.

[B]

But I'm saying I think it would have to be 100%.

[C]

Couple big fat guys, like just turn around. Yeah, exactly.

[B]

Yeah. You think like Maguire, Bonds, maybe they're, they're, you know, they've just done it so many times. I don't need to, I wonder like in a season of 60, you know, if they would. I wonder if they're going like, I don't need to wonder. If you let them choose, what would the percentage be like? If you go, if you hit a home run, you can choose to walk around, run around the bases. They should do that. You can choose to run around the bases or you can choose not to run around the bases and see what's the percentage? You know, one of the first, you know, you know, first 20 games you're like, you hit a home run and maybe you're down by 10 and the home run doesn't matter. That guy's just like, nah. Yeah, yeah, I'll just, I just, I don't care. But then, you know, in a big game, you're like, yeah, I want to milk it. That actually could add some excitement.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know.

[A]

Yeah, you'd be seeing the showboating.

[B]

If you actually did it well, it would flame up the, the game a little bit. Like if someone did it and then they, and then they go, and they go, take those steps and it's defeatedness. If you're down 8, 0. And you hit a one run home run and you just go, nah, I'm good. And then if you, if you run the bases, the crowd booze, you're like, you're wasting everybody's time. Y' all ain't coming back.

[A]

What if you could choose to do it twice?

[B]

I think it's once or, I think it's once or none. I, I, I don't, I don't think that's a bad, I like it.

[C]

Yeah, why not?

[B]

You know, it's like the first base thing. You're walking on the first base. You all want the four pitches and no four pitches, you kind of do the opposite. You're like, if you don't run around the base, then, you know, let's just be efficient. Yeah, but if you want to, you do. You are allowed to. And if some guy, like, some guy could be down, you could be down 10, nothing and you hit a one home run and you go, I'm going to do it and I'm going to do it in the posing stadium and get booed and I'm going to like, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's like, what does he do?

[C]

Talk trash all the way around?

[B]

Talk trash all the way around. Yell at the picture just to like go, like. And then you go, well, I can't wait for that team. Like, how fun is it going to be when they play again? Because you got to be excited. This is unbelievable.

[C]

Changing the sport right now.

[B]

Changing the sport.

[A]

I think it's till they miss a base.

[C]

Yeah, that's true.

[B]

But I mean, yeah, it's the base thing. But I mean, when's, when is the last time that happened? Like, I don't, you know, I don't know if that happened a while. It's been a while. So you just go, you know, if it's a guy's first one, he's like, I had to go. I was excited. But then, you know, some of the.

[C]

Big guys, yeah, I've done it 500 times. Like, I've seen the bases.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, you have some, some guys and they, they hit a home run and they walk off. I mean, dude, even there will be some home runs hit and they go, I don't need to walk around the bases. You could choose. I, I, I, the excitement of it is, you know, is, is pretty fun. They get a choice.

[C]

When the Neyland baseball league gets going, we'll have to implement that.

[B]

We, we took some BP today and we all, we all got some hits. I did not get Adrian is pitching at first.

[A]

Yeah. He's already spinning this whole thing.

[B]

It wasn't spinning. I did not get any hits. And I think Adrian's. Right before I hit Aaron goes Adrian's good BP pitcher. And then it was garbage. And then Ethan's left handed.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And then I pitched to Bates, and I think I threw him perfectly.

[A]

You didn't throw a strike.

[B]

You were hitting them.

[A]

Yeah, I was.

[B]

I was jumping up to the one that I threw. A strike. You didn't hit.

[A]

That is true.

[B]

Yeah, but. So I'm throwing them where your body. Your old body will swing and not hurt. It was perfectly placed.

[A]

This is what happens to Hollywood celebrities. They live in this fantasy world where they can't just accept that they're not good at something.

[B]

There.

[C]

But you're making some solid.

[B]

But I made. Then I. Then I said I would like Aaron to pitch. And I was. I was rocking it. I had a couple. I said, I think I could hit metal bat with a baseball. I think I could hit a home run. I think I could get there.

[A]

I.

[B]

It's. I'm probably gonna have to add some strength, and I think I could get a home run.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

I think I hit one out of the park.

[C]

You're making solid contact with it.

[B]

I think it's going to be left. Left to right field. Left field.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But I think, you know, I got one.

[C]

You're getting to the warning track.

[A]

Pretty much insane.

[C]

What are you talking about?

[B]

You don't think get a home run.

[A]

After what I just saw today?

[B]

Yeah, no, I could if I get. If. If I work out, if I get stronger.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

If you grow a third arm and.

[B]

Well, if I get stronger, I might still get stronger. You don't know. I could do it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I think I need strength for all that. I'm.

[A]

We've been talking about it for five years on this podcast.

[B]

I know, but I need it more than now and ever. I got to carry you through the rest of your life.

[A]

So we should do it.

[B]

Sorry.

[A]

Well, that part is true. We should have Eric do a donut eating challenge when you hit one out.

[B]

If I get a home run, Eric.

[A]

Has to eat a thousand donuts.

[B]

Thousand? Yeah, for however many. What is it? 310ft down right field?

[C]

Yeah, that's the shortest part of the Nashville Sounds field. 310ft.

[B]

So if I can get a home run. Yeah, we make Eric. Eric has to eat the donuts.

[C]

A dozen donuts.

[B]

Look, y' all might think these challenges are done, but they're just getting Started. Yes. All these challenges can still happen on their podcast. I. I think I'm allowed to say that. So, like the swimming.

[C]

Say whatever you want.

[B]

Yeah. You know, but it.

[C]

Yeah, it'll happen.

[B]

The swim one, the golf. Y' all playing golf. I want to do with you throwing.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

All these challenges can still. They're. They're.

[C]

They're gonna happen.

[B]

Yeah, they happen on. They'll just happen on Yalls podcast.

[A]

Yeah. I love it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

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[A]

Aaron. Over New Year's, we're with Nate to the Vanderbilts bowl game.

[C]

That's right, the Reliaquest bowl.

[A]

And our friend Michael Clay was standing with me and we saw Earl Bennett, who is one of the Vanderbilt all time great. Not just Vanderbilt, one of the all time great receivers in sec. I think he at the time set the record for most receptions in the sec. And he was standing there and Michael said to me, do you think if you started at the 30 and he started at the goal line and raced down, could you beat him and we debated it all day long. And then at the end of the day, I say, yes, I can. I still say that. Nate goes over and ask him at the end of the game if. If he could win.

[B]

He game is still going on.

[A]

Yeah, it might have been.

[B]

It might have been.

[A]

Yeah, it was. I don't know.

[B]

It's close.

[A]

It was at the very end. And Earl confidently said he. Yeah, he didn't even.

[B]

Didn't even question.

[C]

So it's. You're both running 100 yard dash, but he has a 30 yard head start. You have a 30 yard.

[A]

I'm running 70, basically.

[C]

Yeah, you have a 30 yard head start.

[B]

And he was like. He said 50 would be where he was. He was at least getting nervous.

[C]

Is just based on looking at him.

[B]

Yeah. This is based on nothing but looks. He goes 50, goes 30 is not. 30 would be insane.

[A]

I mean, he's 38, but he looked great shape.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So maybe that'll happen.

[B]

So we're. Yeah, maybe we'll get Earl.

[A]

Just bring it outside, people.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, we'll get Earl to come do it. Yeah. Yeah. So we have a bunch of fun challenges that maybe they get maybe just to pop up. To be. Pop up surprises in Yalls podcasts.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

When it dips.

[C]

You're welcome anytime.

[B]

And there's a fun little jab. Y' all didn't hear it. When it dips.

[A]

Yeah. Week two.

[B]

No, y' all just to be great. Yalls first podcast is all of our challenges.

[A]

We spread it out.

[B]

We have to spread it out back.

[A]

Next week for some more.

[B]

Yeah. All right. Yeah. So, yeah, we had a good new. Yeah. So New Year's Vandy game.

[A]

I had a big. Were you on the road this weekend?

[B]

No, no, I'm going out next weekend.

[A]

I. I was in Austin at Cap City. Then that was Tuesday. Then Dallas Addison Improv Wednesday, Houston Improv Thursday. So many folks came out. Great shows, all of them. People brought us gifts. Just so. So nice. And then I flew to Oregon on Friday and did a corporate there, but I was. So my flight was at 7am Friday morning.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Flying out of Houston. So I'm like, I'm gonna.

[C]

Houston to Oregon.

[A]

Yeah, to Portland.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Very funny comedy. I guess, because it is New Year's, but it seems very funny that your comedy weekend was Tuesday to Friday. But it was like.

[A]

No, I'm talking about this past week. This was January.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But it's still January 6th through 10th.

[C]

That is odd.

[A]

It is what it is when you know. But my flight was at 7am out of Houston. So very early flight. So I'm like, I'm going to get a hotel next to the airport, you know, So I do. And then the night before, I'm looking at my boarding pass and I'm like, I'm staying next to Houston Hobby and the flights out of George Bush, other side of the city, 30 miles away. So first I got to figure out my rental car situation because I'm dropping it off at the wrong airport. And I was already debating like, do I just drop it off and take an Uber to the other airport.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[C]

What time's your flight? Seven.

[B]

Seven.

[C]

Oh my.

[A]

But I called. I called the rental car company, got that changed. But my whole deal, I just had to get up and leave early enough to make it.

[C]

Would you leave at like 4:30 or so?

[A]

Yeah, I just walked off stage and just went straight to the airport.

[B]

Yeah. What time you guys get up? 5.

[A]

I think it was 4:30. I said, yeah.

[B]

You were like, you're like, dude, I'm gonna wake up at, you know, probably 5:30, I guess roll out. Yeah.

[C]

Cup of coffee downstairs.

[B]

Yeah, easy. Instead you got in double airport traffic.

[A]

30 miles.

[B]

It's so far away.

[C]

Dude, I would have paid money just for a video of your reaction when you noticed on the board.

[A]

Why does it say.

[B]

I think. You know what I think. I think that should show full circle about when I called you a cow. It's, you know, it's a nice payoff for me to go still. I mean, that's so. Yeah. I mean, I would looked at flights and like. Yeah, I would. I don't know.

[A]

I mean, there's not a change.

[B]

Your rental car and you just got up and drove.

[A]

Yeah, that was. I mean, there's not a lot of direct flights from Houston to Portland. At least at a hobby.

[C]

It's a tough one to get to. Oh, that's great.

[A]

Yeah. So.

[B]

But anyway, booked it. Your daughter.

[A]

Hey, it can happen.

[B]

Look, it happens to the best of us.

[C]

Yeah, well, you might hear it. I'm recovering. I had the flu. A dude.

[B]

What does it mean to flu?

[C]

I don't know. It's some. Some variant of the flu that's going around. It's just knocking people out left and right, really. But it got me good, man. I had to cancel my weekend in California.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[C]

Sorry to everybody in San Francisco and Sacramento.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Hoping to re. I was pumped about those dates. And then that week I was like, I just can't. Can't do it, man. So we're gonna Reschedule that and I'll be back. But I'm back at it this week. But it knocked me out, man. I couldn't even look at my phone for like three or four days. I was just in bed. And then, you know, Lucy ended up getting sick and we end up flying my mom in just to, like, watch the baby because we were, like, worried the baby is gonna get sick. Baby avoided it somehow. Oh, wow, that's superior genes.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Because it, it, yeah, dude, it took me out. Could not do anything. But I'm on the men now. I feel good, so.

[B]

All right.

[C]

Sorry about that. Stinks to like, first weekend of the year. Just have to cancel. But I felt it. I, I could, I, I. The exact moment I felt New Year's Eve, I opened for Derek Stroop here at Zany's. It five sold out shows. It was great. And I was standing outside and I just felt like, boom, something's, Something's wrong. The next day I woke up, I.

[B]

Was like, oh, that first night I.

[C]

Was there, New Year's Eve, the next day.

[B]

Yeah, I know. I might have gave it to you.

[C]

Might have given it.

[B]

And then I didn't get it. So that's why I got rid of it. Out of me. Yeah. Yeah. I threw it to you.

[C]

I appreciate it.

[B]

I threw it to the, Like a demon. I threw it to the weekend that didn't matter.

[A]

If he was off. Yeah.

[B]

All right, well, that started off you guys. Comments. Michael Bridge. I came for Nate, but stayed for the rest of the game. Was that Nate's goal to introduce other great comics, but maybe not as well known at the time, and then turn it over now. I can't imagine not seeing Dusty Bates and Aaron on the podcast. Love that. It will continue. Thank you, Nate. Thank you, Michael Bridge. Yes, that's.

[A]

Was that your goal?

[C]

No, it wasn't. It became the goal. But do you remember the conversations at first you're like, you guys might not even be on it some weeks. You remember that?

[B]

Did I?

[A]

Yeah, it was after the first episode.

[C]

It was like at the very beginning, you're like, I mean, Brian might not even be in the room. Like, yeah, we'll just kind of figure it out some days.

[B]

Well, you're figuring out the podcast. I don't think it was going to be just me by myself.

[C]

No, no. But I'm saying it definitely has evolved over, over time.

[B]

It has.

[C]

Which I appreciate.

[B]

Yeah, I, I, it started because I wanted to stay funny during Company and, But I mean, I went to you guys. I didn't it's not like I went to anybody else and they said, no, you're the only people that I talked to. Where y' all were going to be sitting near me was a question. But you were the only two I talked to. And then. So, yeah, and then as it evolved and as everything else in Nan Evolved, it's exactly been this. When I'm trying to 100% introduce other comics, I know I have to move on. I, I. There's a lot of stuff I'm going, that's the. Literally couldn't have written it better. What I. That's what I want to do with a lot of things, actually.

[C]

Michael. Bridge. Building a bridge.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. I just want to be able to do it, then kind of be able to be like, all right, we got it taken care of, and then hand it off, and I'll go do whatever I got to do next. Thank you, Michael. Lynette. Adam, build a theme park. Nate. I mean, we, you know, so many will go to Nashville and take their families. I love that you're sharing your dream about it, because we feel like we're part of the dream. It's going to be amazing. Thank you, Lynette. Yes, we are. Be excited. We're, you know, it's, you know, the city of Nashville is excited about it. I'm excited about it. Yeah, we're gonna, you know, that's the goal. We're gonna make stuff you and your family to come to. This is all hopefully way past me, and so. Yeah. Thank you, Lynette. Amy Winsell. I think a full circle moment would be to visit Nate's theme park, and he is sweeping the walkways. I agree.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I'll get out there and sweep it up. Let a dog out. Let a job. Let dog out. Maybe it's a ride.

[C]

Did I ever tell you the first time I worked Comedy Zone in Charlotte, the owner of all the comedy zones, Brian Hefron, he met me. He told me he was the janitor.

[B]

Oh, really?

[C]

Talked to him for, like, 30 minutes.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

He's like, yeah, I work here. I sweep the floors. He just want to see if I was, like, a jerk.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Talk to him forever.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, you should do that.

[C]

Just a little undercover boss action at.

[B]

Your own theme park and go on the janitor. It's probably not going so good if they. I'm not in disguise. And they still. And they believe it and then know if we have a Nate land. I go, hey, I'm the janitor. They go, it's good to Meet you, man. My name's on the bark.

[A]

You don't even wear disguise.

[B]

I don't wear disguise. They just. Yeah.

[C]

Good.

[B]

Good to meet you, man. Excited, you know, because one day you'll move up in this. I hope so. Jay Kramer, 324. Nate, if John and Jane Doe could see you now. Oh, man, I wish they could. You know, who knows where they're at right now? But they wouldn't. They wouldn't believe it.

[A]

They wouldn't.

[B]

They wouldn't.

[A]

They may know who you are.

[C]

We'll get Dustin. We'll get Dusty to explain that comment later.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. If John. If you don't. It's from my act. John and I met a John and Jane Doe at Opryland theme park. And I thought, what are the odds? So if they are, it would be interesting to find out if they. Yeah, it's either they lied to me or maybe they truly come.

[A]

I mean, if they're a couple, that. That was a joke. They like to tell people over and over.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And they remember that and they were not. Yeah, they maybe put it together.

[B]

They can maybe put it together. But maybe there really was. Because I remember them going, it's really. Our names are really that. So I do remember that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I was 15. Adam D. I think Bates should be the star of the safety videos shown before rides at Nate's theme park. Always sporting his classic worried expression. I don't know if I'm. I could be for that. I think I would like. But I would have the safety video start and it shows everybody getting in, how to buckle up, and then you're the one that gets off. You go, I can't do this. And then you get up. And so then you're the example of how if you think the ride's too much, wave your hand and then we come, let you off, and then you come back down.

[A]

Yeah, I like that.

[B]

You know, they don't ever show that at a theme park.

[C]

They show you how to bail out if you're nervous.

[B]

Yes. I think we need to do that. What theme park goes, by the way? If you're this far into the video and you get nervous, hi, I don't think I can do this. You go, just tell us. No one's going to make fun of you. No one's going to laugh at you.

[C]

It's.

[B]

You know, everybody gets nervous of times. So I. I enjoy that. I enjoy that.

[A]

I'd like to point out you're the one that had issue on a ride, though.

[B]

I did try to get off. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I got. Well, I wrote it. Yeah, you had to. They unlocked it. Simpsons ride. And then we got back in and then started. Changed my life. Claustrophobia for the rest of my life. So. Yeah, I'm glad you have fun with it. That's gonna be one of the rods. Claustrophobia. This room gets smaller and smaller.

[C]

We got video from Valerie here of you taking BP and Brian trying to catch your. Do you not want to watch it?

[A]

Yeah, let's just pile on Bates. Go ahead.

[B]

Well, one he by. No.

[A]

This.

[B]

Did he catch it?

[A]

No. Listen.

[B]

Let's see. Here we go.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

Zoomed out.

[C]

Yeah. He laid out on the ground to zoom in later. Yeah, you laid out, though, man.

[B]

You put your body.

[A]

But see.

[B]

He was upset. He was upset.

[A]

Can you show it one more time? Yeah, because Adrian got my way. That's the problem.

[B]

Yeah. Can we look?

[C]

I can't zoom in here.

[A]

But look, Adrian crosses my path. Right?

[B]

And Adrian's got no glove.

[A]

Get out of the way.

[B]

He's got no reason to be out there. There's a man out there really doing things. And. And I will say Bates did catch one of them.

[A]

I'm sure that one didn't make the cut, but that's actually a pretty good swing you got there.

[B]

Thank you. That one.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

See how I laid it out?

[A]

I mean, I had it.

[B]

And then he had it.

[A]

Mr. Butterfly.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Just comes flying by.

[B]

Wanted it. Yeah, he wanted it.

[C]

That was good.

[B]

Hazard. I tell you what, I'm on board this. Adam D in this. I think we could have some fun with that hazard. I can just imagine someone having too much fun on a roller coaster. And from the seat behind him, Aaron puts his hand on the shoulders and says, enough.

[A]

I could see that too.

[B]

I think that would be maybe. Maybe. Aaron, you're, like, kind of the. You're the inspiration between our security. Okay, so it's like you're polite. Perform polite. Yes. And they. It's just guys that walk around and just go, enough.

[C]

Yeah. Fun. Within reason.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Come on.

[B]

Enough. Enough. If you get told enough.

[C]

I'm just picturing if at any point you feel overwhelmed, raise your hand and say, that's good. That's it.

[A]

Fol.

[B]

Brian going. And then we show you how we unlock it. Look, you can always get out.

[A]

For the record, I'm for this too.

[B]

And then we shut it. And then it's just a sea of people that go, have fun. All right. Kyla. Kayla. Kayla Byram. When Nate announced that he was leaving the podcast, I literally had tears in my eyes. Very next Wednesday, I remembered that Nate would not be on the podcast. He was. Then I thought, it's the first Wednesday of the new year and I won't get to see Nate. However, he, he is here again. At this point, I'm a little annoyed that Nate is on the podcast. I'm dragging it out.

[A]

I hear you, Caleb.

[B]

I'm taking my, you know like the, the NBA players or all that when they take their final.

[A]

Like the retirement.

[B]

Retirement.

[C]

Yeah. Well, this is like when you told your daughter the dog was going to die, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And then it just kept living.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Eventually you're like, yeah, kill this.

[B]

I'm living the exact people over. Next week will be the final. It'll be a live one, Caleb.

[C]

So Ultima episode.

[B]

So that's the one you want to be. Yeah, the one on the one big one on the cruise. The cruise I think will be much looser.

[C]

It's a special thing. Yes.

[B]

It's its own thing. It's its own thing. But next week is the expect to see some tears.

[C]

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They say that's the most healthy, right?

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[B]

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[C]

Faff.

[B]

That's a tough one, man. That's probably annoying to even spell all those.

[C]

Yeah, I think just ignore the pfaff.

[B]

I think Micah. But I bet he just goes, call me Micah P. And then we go, what about just Micah? And he goes, I prefer a little bit of it. I listened every week since the beginning of the Nateland podcast and have to share how inspiring this podcast has been for me. Aaron's courage to walk into Planet Fitness and cancel his membership several years ago gave me the confidence to do so as well. Just last week, after six years and three to five total workouts in that Spanish. Congratulations. That's so funny.

[C]

It's amazing how much the world's changed since this podcast because that's. Now most states, they legally have to allow you to cancel over the phone now.

[B]

Oh, they do.

[C]

And I like to think we got the ball rolling with that legislation, I think.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You know.

[B]

Oh, wow. Yeah. So Planet Fitness, they. You can't.

[C]

Do you remember reading about this or something? Yeah. They changed the law because so many people were being exploited like. Like I was for years that they had to change the law.

[B]

It's funny to be, like, exploited by going, we're not exploiting. Just come. Just come in. You came in and signed up?

[C]

No. You sign up online. I signed up the day after Ralphie May died.

[A]

Good for you, buddy.

[C]

And then literally never went until I canceled.

[B]

I think Ralphie would love that.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. And he would love that. It went nowhere, man. Six. That's so funny. Six years and three and a half total workouts. And that's. How much money were you giving him?

[A]

$10 a month.

[C]

Yeah. 12 or 13amonth for six years.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It's a fair. Hundreds of bucks. Yeah.

[B]

What is it?

[A]

Close to a thousand, right?

[B]

Yeah. 144, 150.

[C]

12 times 300. I mean, it's a thousand bucks.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So they. They got their money's worth out of you.

[B]

They got Micah.

[C]

They got Micah.

[B]

Micahs are what kept it going. Micah and Aaron, Mark Armstrong. After all the talk on the pod, I was really hoping to see the big swim meet play out live. Since it appears the race may never actually happen, I started to make a T shirt to commemorate the greatest race to never take place. Planning to wear it on the cruise. Hope y' all get a kick out of the. Kick out of it. Here's the image. Oh, yeah, that's good.

[A]

That is good.

[B]

That is a good image.

[A]

I like my hair.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I got my Shirt on.

[B]

Dude, come on. I. I look great. That's what I. That's what I'm gonna look like when I hit a home run.

[A]

What does Dusty's hat say? Thanks.

[C]

Just AI slop.

[B]

Yeah, I think it says thanks. I love that shirt. Hey, that race can still happen in y' all spot.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Or on the cruise.

[B]

I don't know if the pool's big enough on the cruise. It's a small pool. Yeah.

[A]

Cheat it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's not like a lane.

[B]

It's a. Yeah, we could get a feel.

[C]

It's a kid's pool.

[B]

Well, yeah, I don't. The pools on cruises are not giant pools.

[C]

These are not Olympic sized pools.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I can do a belly flop or a cannonball into them, though.

[B]

Yeah, we're gonna have you do that like a donkey. We're gonna pick up every. There's gonna be three shows a day of Aaron. Everybody go watch Aaron do cannonballs into the pool.

[A]

That audience. Audience demographics. Right on.

[B]

Yeah. Which Aaron's showing? All girls. Or MLE of Stonetown? Congratulations, Nate, on the new endeavor. Endeavors. Congratulations, Nate, on the new. And divers.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And what is it?

[A]

Endeavors.

[B]

Endeavors. My husband and I can't wait to have a date night and go see a movie in theaters. Use your fame to introduce fans to your friends, and they've become our friends as well. I love Aaron, Brian, and Dusty, and I'm excited to keep listening to the podcast. Thank you very much.

[C]

See, we're big in Stone Town.

[B]

Passing along, wherever that is. Thank you very much. That's very, very nice, Cam. Like Aaron, the only time I tried sneaking into a place was at the movie theater. And the good news was there was plenty of seats available. As I waited for the free movie to start, the bright lights flipped on and some teenager came in to say, no one bought tickets to this movie and I needed to le. That's when I stopped my life of crime. Yeah, man, that's tough. I thought they just played it no matter what.

[A]

I would have thought so too.

[B]

Maybe that was back when there's a projector and then still a projector, right? Yeah, but it's like automatic now. I don't know if there's a person there, I think, like. But I mean, my buddy Ryan worked at. At the. I forget the name. Hermitage Movie Theater. I forget the name of it. Courtyard Cinemas.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

And I think he ran the projector or he did some of that. And like, so back then, you would. You would start the projector. So I think they just started it. So I Thought it was kind of at a place. Even if no one bought one, you just still.

[C]

It was still running then.

[B]

It was still running. Why would you not. Why would you not run it?

[C]

But why, if the room's empty, might as well just turn it off, save some electricity.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Would you run it if there's somebody in there?

[B]

Well, what if someone shows up late? Shows up because I want to.

[C]

I guess you're right.

[B]

You go, I want to watch it. You're. You're. You're hopeful.

[C]

I've shown up late to movies like that.

[B]

Yeah. You got to show the trailer. You don't know if someone's about to buy a ticket or if someone's, you know, you just shutting down the possibility. I don't know if that's. That's what you did.

[A]

Well, it's a great segue because today we're talking about movie theaters, Right? So you've snuck into a movie. I have. Have you?

[B]

I have. I've stayed. Never. No, no.

[A]

This weekend he saw his trailer. Anaconda and David.

[B]

I. I will be honest. Yeah, I left. I was watching one of them, and I did leave in the middle to try to go see the trailer in the other one. Yeah, it makes sense. But no, it. I have not. It was. We did it like when I lived with Nick in the Queens, like a couple times where you would stay and just go watch. We watched one movie and then we sat and went and watched another one.

[C]

That's when he just had nothing to do all day.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Sit through two movies.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Seven hours.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. So it's. It wasn't the right thing to do, but, yeah, I have done it. Have you never done it?

[C]

It's about as close to a victimless crime as I can imagine.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

What about bringing food in?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that was our whole life at the beginning was sneaking your own snakes. I mean, you would go to Dollar General and get candy and then sneak.

[C]

The candy and bring, like, burgers and stuff.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

A full meal.

[B]

No, not a full. You've had a dine in service before. They had dining services.

[C]

I think I brought like a McDouble or something in.

[B]

No way. Really? Yeah, way back in the day, getting a jacket. You got a big jacket. The jacket that's got an oven in it.

[A]

You can smell it as you walk in.

[B]

Yeah, I'll.

[C]

I'll.

[B]

I've. You know, I've had a water in my back pocket.

[C]

Water.

[B]

And then that's why I buy. Can't I buy it now, because I. I think I just have a. I remember just not liking doing that when I was a kid that you just get older.

[C]

You never got a rush from it. You never liked the feeling of you got one past them.

[B]

No, no. It was just like, Brian, you liked it.

[C]

I bet you liked that feeling.

[B]

I remember just wanting to be like, I want to just go buy candy.

[C]

I want to just do it by the books and not worry.

[B]

Yes. Yeah. And I. And I, I, and I. And I think that I like, that's why I do that now. Because it was like I just wanted to be. I just wanted to do it the norm like you. I want to go be in that line. I. You know, it's like. And just do it the normal way where no one, you know, you don't feel like no one can come up to you and say anything to you and go like, hey, you're not supposed to be something. You're like, I know. I'm doing everything right.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

When Aaron and I came down to shoot our senior movie, the night before we went to see the Tom.

[B]

A scene in your. I thought you said you.

[C]

Our cameo.

[B]

Your cameo.

[A]

Our cameo in your movie the night before we went to see the last Mission Impossible. And the line at the concession stand was so long and so slow, but we both still waited it out. You probably ate $20 worth before you got up there to pay. I mean, he had finished so many things.

[B]

Oh, because you were just saying, Yeah.

[C]

I just bought an empty box.

[A]

Makes around. And you just keep seeing more things there.

[B]

You just paid for trash pretty much by the end of it.

[A]

Hey, I just want to let you know that this is all mine.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So I did some research, but have.

[B]

You ever snuck into or, like, stayed watched another movie?

[A]

I don't think I have.

[B]

Yeah, I don't think. I don't think he would have thought about it.

[C]

Gone with the Wind or something.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, I guess.

[A]

Well, Castle Blanca's starting. Might as well stick around.

[B]

Might as well hang out. You left during the intermission. Thought that was it. That movie ended weird.

[A]

There's an article that I think Variety put out a couple weeks ago about how 2025 was another dud year for movie theaters. They thought it was going to be the big comeback year, but it just didn't happen. It. We have yet to hit pre pandemic numbers, which was, you know, 10 to 11 billion, I think it says they thought it would hit 9 billion this year in the US and it didn't.

[C]

Man.

[A]

And that article Speculates that it's these superhero movies. People just aren't into them as much. They've oversaturated. The Marvel movies aren't doing as well. Some of these other. What's the other big franchise. I don't know. Superman did pretty well, but Avatar.

[C]

Avatar or.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Jurassic Park.

[A]

Yeah. They just didn't. And those are. They've carried the box office over the last however many years, and. And they're just not doing as well.

[B]

Well, I think people, you know, you want to go see different stuff, so you kind of want to see different types of movies. I think everybody loves movies, but it's. It does feel like kind of the same movies are kind of coming out.

[C]

Look at this trend, Nate. The second consecutive year that PG films outgrow their PG13 counterparts.

[B]

Yeah, how about that?

[A]

Yeah, I read an article about that. It's. It's all kid. It's like cartoons and mostly.

[B]

Well, it's. Yeah.

[C]

Well, that families can go see.

[B]

The families go, do. I mean, our movie will be PG I. That's the plan. I mean, I don't. You know, I don't know how all that works, but, I mean, that's what I've said, but it's. You want it to be. I want every. You know, I want you all to go out. I need you to go out. To be honest, I want to. I mean, I could be wrong. My gut is that I think people want to go to the movies. I know it's expensive. I know it's all this stuff, but there's, you know, life is expensive now. It's like. It just is what it is. But it's. I do still think people want to go out and. Yeah. I don't think there's enough different types of things, and people want to go see. You know, you want to go like. I mean, a movie night would be like, yeah, you want. Hey, let's go do something. You know? But there's people. You go. You could go see a movie once a week, but if there's got to be options. And it's just when you look at it, there's times I've been like, I could go see a movie. And you go look. And you're like, there's not. I don't even know what I would go see. Yeah.

[A]

And there's so many movies being released. It's not like it's one a month. There's multiple each week. But. Yeah.

[C]

You remember when movie pass was a thing for a minute. Did you have it? I did, yeah.

[A]

It's back now, right?

[C]

Oh, I don't know.

[B]

I don't think so. I think they got. Well I was just talking about it. They got in trouble. We were just talking about moving.

[C]

I remember it was like the least sustainable thing of all time.

[A]

But yeah, yeah, I had it.

[B]

It was great.

[C]

I used it for like a month or something. Yeah, awesome.

[B]

It's in there, right in that way. But it's. Yeah, they did kind of messed.

[A]

I think it made a comeback last year.

[B]

Well, amc. Amc, yeah. Yeah, I guess. But it was like the idea of it was great but then it's like everybody started going and then it's because I thought what they were saying. I want to say at one point I thought what I heard the idea of what they were doing is they were just basically buying all the tickets to these movies and then they thought like enough would, you know like something like that if they bought all the tickets to the movie and then they just sold moviepass like it would all kind of like even itself out to be there was something along those lines that happened and. But it did not pan out the way it was. It worked.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I read an article but that's the way I believe they should go is there's some kind of version of that where you have like a subscription and you want to go see something in or don't or just go back to the old fashioned way. But yeah, you got to make it be you know, subscription based stuff seems easier to digest when you pay than the. When you do it the one time.

[A]

Yeah, I agree. A red article that said especially if.

[B]

You like throwing pop, you know, be like you could do that like you get popcorn or soda. It's like that's not. Those are non expensive things to do. And the candy can be the same expensive if you want. But like if you do popcorn, I mean you know throwing popcorn in a soda and you get to go to movie, you get one this, that and then you know, it's like if you want candy, it's like then have candy be normal price. That's not.

[C]

You know.

[A]

Movie Studios take between 80 to 100 of a movie theater sales revenue in the first two weeks and then it ratio gradually becomes more favorable for the theater. Okay, getting to 50 50. So movie theaters, not surprising. They make their money from concession stands. They inflate inflate the average price of movie theater popcorn by 1,275% and around 70% of movie patrons buy snacks at the theater.

[C]

Yeah. How much is like a large popcorn Movie theater is what, like 15 bucks now or something? Sometimes more than that. Probably for the huge tub.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But then they say you get infinite refills.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Right. Then you start going, how many times am I going to go back?

[A]

Just three.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, you got to walk. You got to leave the movie.

[A]

Well, that's.

[C]

Yeah. If they would. If they would bring you.

[B]

They would.

[C]

I go, I'll give you ten bucks. Bring me a new one every ten minutes.

[B]

He goes, I'll tell you when to stop.

[A]

Do you ever feel yourself in a movie now with the era of DVRs, if you miss something, you're wanting to stop it and rewind it. I've been in movies where I miss something. I'm like, I wish I had a remote.

[C]

You know what I do think about? Because I watch almost everything at home now with closed captions.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And I'm not happy about it. I don't like that I've become that guy. But I don't know if I ever have closed caption off now. It's always on. And I notice it at a movie theater when it's not on. I go, I gotta really pay attention to the dialogue.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, you know, when we went and watched Anaconda, it was like, fun because it was like. It was like pretty packed and hearing, like, people laugh and like, you know, it was like the. The, you know, it was a fun.

[A]

Yeah. I was gonna ask, because what is the advantage of going to the movie theater? One of it is the community of it.

[B]

I think that's the thing with stand up. I mean, that's when they say, live stand up, or even doing stand up in these arenas is like, you know, it's like the new way is the. I believe the new world is going towards experience. It is leaving your house. It is doing stuff with your family and going to things. Banana ball or, you know, like that kind of like where you're able to. Experiences are really where stuff is heading. And so I. That's why I don't think it's. I'm betting on that is what I'm betting on, is that you want to just be in the experience space. And, you know, because it's just. I. I mean, like. I mean, you want. What do you.

[C]

What are we doing?

[B]

What are we doing? Yeah. What are you working for? What are you doing? You're not having any fun. It's like, I don't. Yeah. Because I always look at this stuff where you're like, I don't think it's the Audiences, It's. It's like the same way you think in Stand up, where you go. Even though, like, you know, yes, some shows can be crazy, but in your 95% of stand up, it's. It's not the audience's fault. It's not. It's going to be. It's. You think it's lower than that? I don't think. I think not in.

[C]

I think it's some of the shows I'm doing. Yeah, well, I mean, audience. But the situation.

[B]

The situation you're in, the setup, everything. Yeah. So. But even on this stuff, anything business wise, I don't think it's the audience. When you go and you go, oh, well, the audience is the. They don't want to go out. You're like, I don't believe that. I don't believe it's the audience. I believe it's you.

[C]

Yeah, well, that the audience. They're already out. They've already proven that wrong. Like, they're there, right?

[B]

Yeah, Yeah. I mean, that's.

[A]

No, they're not, but.

[B]

I know, but they're. They're not because of. It's not because they just. That's how life goes and they never go out again.

[A]

I'm talking about myself.

[B]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, that's. Oh, I thought you. I thought you turned about movies, but it's. Yeah, like, I think it's because you're not, you know, building enough stuff to go like, you know, to have. These are how you go on dates, and this is how you have a date night and a family night and all this. All this little kind of fun stuff that's memories for your life. Life and things that you go do. And that all comes from going to provide some entertainment, a break from the stress, the. You know, something. What are you doing tonight? Ah, we're going to the movie tonight. Like an exciting, like, you know, it's like that's the stuff that, like, you know, that's why you work. That's why you do it. Like, you need that release valve and you can't just be going home every night.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And just sitting and watching the longest, heaviest show on earth.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. The Stranger Things finale. It was on Netflix, but they also put it in theaters.

[C]

I saw that. Did it do well, Nina?

[A]

I don't know, but I'm guessing for that reason, so I think it did Okay.

[B]

I don't think it had to do well. Yeah, but I think it did. Okay, that's cool. Like, I. I think I'm not complete, but I think it was like, yeah. I mean, people.

[C]

I get the appeal of that. If it's a show, especially that show's been on for 35 years now.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So it's like, by the end of it, you're like, all right, let's have a human experience.

[B]

That's where you could do. You could put a series on in the thing and go like, all right, it's 10 weeks, you know, and every Tuesday at this time.

[A]

I think the Chosen does that.

[B]

Oh, it does.

[A]

The Chosen will put it in movie theaters, I think, first, and then put it out on streaming, at least some of the seasons.

[B]

But I. I think people want to go see stuff and go see movies and. Yeah.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

And, I mean, I read a lot of articles that say, no, they don't. So, I mean, everybody in my business, I'm trying to make these movies. Everybody. I'm trying to do a theme park. I'm saying everything that I've been told is that people don't want to go, and I'm just betting that they're wrong. And I think. I think they're off.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So we're seeing. That's the scariest thing about man. When this movie comes out, like, I just pray people come out, because it's. It's. You know, there'll be a real. See what happens.

[A]

I think the. The last movie I can remember that I went to where there was a real, like, cheering and. And all that was when the new Star wars, the Force Awakens.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I went opening night. And I mean, like, there were scenes dressed up. I didn't dress up, but I don't have a problem with people who do.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And there were scenes where, like, when a character, Old character, came on for the first time, people cheered in the audience.

[C]

Yeah, but that's fun.

[A]

I didn't cheer, but I kind of got goosebumps as it happened.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I saw a miracle in the movie theaters, and the crowd was cheering like the game was on. I remember thinking, that was fun.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

We were there chanting, usa.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

We're watching a movie about it.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. It was fun, though.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. When people eat together, it's fun.

[A]

I just remember another thing happened this week. So the Houston thing where I didn't go to the different airport. Then I'm flying to Oregon on the night of the game between Oregon and Indiana. And the guy, I'm like, he. I talked to him ahead of time. It's a corporate event. And I'm like, what about the game? And he was like, well, the game starts at 4:30 Pacific. You're going on about 745, 750. We're going to watch the game and then we'll wait till it's over before you come up. I'm like, I really hope they win. So they're upset and then, I mean, you know how bad it wasn't even.

[C]

The game was over by 4.45Pacific.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Basically it actually worked in my favor because they were over it. Like I didn't get there till the third quarter, but nobody was even watching.

[C]

Yeah, if they had lost in a heartbreaker at the end or something, that'd be much.

[A]

Yeah, nobody cared. They don't even moved on with their life.

[B]

But yeah, you could. I wonder if that's the best scenario for them to lose. Like the way they lost.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because if they would have won, maybe it had been. People be like excited and being like, I don't want to go to a show now. But like, if they're. Yes, you know.

[A]

Exactly. So when I was.

[B]

I get a guy that looks like the state of Indiana porn. Perform.

[A]

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[C]

Really?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

What was it?

[A]

Just PG and R. Those are the only two. There was no G. No, there was G, but I'm saying there was no.

[C]

Gap in between G, PG and R. Yeah.

[A]

And then maybe in C17 or rated X or whatever. So there were some movies I saw as a kid that were so inappropriate. My sister was five and a half years older than I was, so occasionally she'd want to go see a movie. Like when she was 15, my mom would take us, and I would sit with my mom. And she. And I was 10. We saw 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton.

[C]

Okay. Yeah.

[A]

And there's a lot of innuendo in that movie. And Dabney Coleman, I still remember this, played the boss, and he would say the word holy, which I knew was a church word, and then a bad word at the end behind it. And I was blown away. That something.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I couldn't even. My little brain couldn't fathom.

[C]

And it was pg. It was PG because it was closer to PG than R, I guess, apparently. Wow.

[B]

Oh, yeah. There's stuff in. I mean. Yeah, Airplane.

[C]

I know. I know about Airplane.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

That's rated PG, right?

[A]

And it finally changed and they still rated PG. Yeah, they don't change. Jaws is PG.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

They changed it in 1984 after Gremlins and Indiana Jones. The Temple of Doom, they were just too intense. And they're like, we got to do something about it. So they. That's when they brought in PG 13.

[B]

It makes sense. It's right there. It's right there for the taking.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

See, a PG and R. You want to go.

[A]

I mean, there are some, what I would consider family movies that I love. Like, I just watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I love that movie. But there's a scene where Steve Martin, the rental counter.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Just goes off on, you know, multiple times vacation. There's a. There's scenes in it. Yeah, I remember, Doc, Hollywood had a scene just out of the blue that, you know, you're watching it with your family, it's awkward and embarrassing. I mean, there's no reason for it to be in there.

[B]

No.

[C]

I remember growing up, my dad had some. I don't know, some diocesan website where some. Some dork priest reviewed all these movies. Just go through and be like, this is inappropriate. And I couldn't see any of these.

[A]

These movies.

[B]

Now that there's a common sense one now. Yeah, there's one good, too.

[A]

It is. I. I used to love bringing movies home to show my. My parents. Like, it was such an important thing to me to pick out A good movie and showed it to them. And if my dad was laughing, I mean to me it was just like such a win.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And I mean even when I. The Internet was around, there was a website kids in my dot com.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And it's for children to you know whether or not. But I would go check it out to see what was bad about a movie.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So I would know if it was appropriate to bring home.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

To watch with my parents.

[C]

I get that.

[B]

Common. Yeah. I think Common Sense media. Have you heard of Common Sense Media or something? Just reviews of Common Sense. Yeah.

[C]

Age based media reviews.

[B]

Yeah. It's great.

[C]

These parents trust here.

[B]

Yeah, it's great. Yeah, I think it's. I mean I've. We've, we've looked at it and like I don't. You know but it's like. Yeah, you can read it and it'll tell you kind of there's this, there's that, whatever. You know, it's smart. I think that would help people too go. You know you can. And then you read it. You decide on the level of whatever.

[A]

Yeah. You know, Vid angel takes out scenes from movies.

[B]

Well, they got sued for that.

[A]

Yeah. But they won, I think.

[C]

Did they?

[B]

I don't think they did. Oh, I don't think. I don't know how they would say that.

[C]

Andrew. Stanley, this is great bit. You know the bit I'm talking about.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Where his dad would go in and edit. Edit out all the scenes from these movies. So he's like now I just kind of think on my dad's laptop somewhere there's just a folder. Just all the best scenes from these movies.

[A]

And Andrew's dad's a well known own pastor.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What do you guys think about reclining seats in movie theater?

[B]

I like it.

[C]

I like it and I notice it when you. When there's like an old school traditional seat. It feels. Feels primitive now.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You know.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. We just were in it and I enjoyed it. They make a lot of noise.

[A]

I know. That's the thing. I've been in movies where it's a very pivotal scene and then I push the button and you just hear a fart sound.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know as it's.

[B]

Why do you, why do you push it in?

[A]

That's I gotta get up and go to the bathroom.

[B]

Pivotal scene.

[A]

Well, it's the sad scene.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That's what I want. That's what I want to go.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But you and I have been to many movies together and there's a kind of a Seating. This is pre recliner seating. Yeah. A code.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's. Unless the movie theater's full, there's one seat between you.

[C]

Always.

[B]

No.

[C]

At least one.

[A]

Yeah. And it's.

[C]

What are we talking about?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What's the word?

[C]

Penultimate.

[B]

You don't mind?

[C]

Why would. If you had the whole theater yourself, would you.

[A]

Because it's still.

[B]

Would you go, you could do a couple. Yeah, I could maybe do a couple.

[C]

I would say so. I would go. I'm. I'll give you a little bit of room.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, you don't have to make it weird. Wouldn't you like to spread your arms out like that?

[B]

You know what I mean? Just like a. Like a bear. Sunny. Just want to stretch him. Was it to fit all your popcorn and all you got? I wanted both these seats for my beverage. Luggage I brought he kind of igloo of diet Mountain Dew you're gonna pound through in a garbage bag of popcorn that you snuck in. Just acted like you were Santa and just came in.

[A]

Yeah. Two's okay.

[B]

I guess I don't mind too. I'm joking. But it's funny to go.

[A]

At least one is good. Like if you want to say something.

[C]

I'll take an aisle, you take the other.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. I was definitely one for a long time. And I think the older I've gotten, I've. I've preferred. I can prefer two.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But sometimes you do want one. If you're like. If you're going to be talking about it.

[A]

That's what I say. If you just want to say something to somebody.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, you don't be yelling reclining seats, though.

[B]

I don't.

[C]

I don't.

[B]

I think reclining. I'm fine. Next. Because it's. I mean.

[C]

Yeah. Why wouldn't you.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You're still side by side if you need.

[B]

But you gotta. You side by side. But there's just a lot more room.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So you don't feel okay if you.

[A]

Need two in a Old school.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Probably at least need one for reclining. Right?

[B]

I mean, reclining. You go. Yeah. Yeah. I think he puts them both flat out. One of them to lay all his coats on and get a coat. Chair. I remember going to movies where I remember one time being in a movie and there's just no one in there. And then these people came and set right behind us.

[C]

Oh, it's the worst.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Did you do anything?

[B]

I think I moved.

[C]

Yeah, you should.

[B]

Yeah. And you just go. You go get something. You go to the bathroom and Then.

[C]

Come back, sit somewhere else.

[B]

Come back and sit somewhere else. And then they go to the bathroom. They come back and sit next.

[C]

Just following you around.

[A]

Yeah, I remember going to see. I think it was the movie was. I went with my date to see Simon Birch.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And we were the only two in the theater. And then this older lady came in and she sat.

[B]

When did that movie come out?

[C]

1998.

[B]

Oh, I must have said 88. I thought it said 88 at first.

[A]

Yeah, that's right. This older lady came in and sat right next to us and we had the whole theater. But I think she wanted. She was probably lonely and she wanted some community, you know?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Even with us.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

This movie looks terrible.

[B]

Yeah, it seems. What is it?

[C]

The film. The main plot centers on a 12 year old boy and his best friend Simon Burch, who's born with dwarfism. The film received negative reviews from critics. It was a box office bomb, Chris.

[A]

Well, it's not the point of pride.

[B]

In an old lady.

[A]

Two thumbs up, way up. Sorry, I.

[C]

It's a good cast though.

[A]

I can remember.

[B]

Excuse me. Would you like to go to see Simon Burch tonight? I've heard great things.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I never went on a second date. Yeah, now you mentioned it, that old lady, baby.

[B]

Is Jim Carrey in it?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt. It's a good, good cast.

[A]

David Stratham.

[C]

There you go.

[A]

I remember as a kid, if you wanted to know. What? If you're listening, Aaron's still laughing.

[B]

Two thumbs, way up.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

That's a. That's a pretty. Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey at this point. Or no.

[A]

98. I would think so.

[B]

I mean, he's in the peak of it, dude.

[A]

Yeah, I think.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Yeah. Because Ace Ventura had already happened.

[B]

Maybe it's because he wanted to do a serious one. I know it was Ace venture. Was it 1995 or six or something like that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And so 94. 94. I mean he is.

[C]

So he's just doing a little cameo.

[A]

I don't remember him. I don't remember anything about the movie, but I don't remember Jim Carrey.

[C]

He had a small, small role, I guess.

[A]

A cameo.

[C]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

Said starring.

[C]

So I guess they use Jim Carrey as a flash forward for. For the kid. Adult. Adult Joe Wentworth.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's pretty. Yeah. That's crazy, man. Because that dude was on top of the world. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

When Dumb and Dumber come, I mean.

[C]

Was it like Dumb and Dumber was all 1990, 1994. He had ACE Ventura, Pet Detective, the Mask, Dumb and Dumber all that year. And then 95 yet the next Ace Ventura and Batman Forever. So that was a pretty busy couple years for him. Yeah.

[B]

And then I'll look at like two. Then liar liars 97.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Cable guy was 96, which was. Did that do good or.

[A]

No, I don't think it did.

[B]

But it's a great movie.

[C]

Yeah, it did. I mean, it made $60 million.

[A]

I don't. I just think he got paid bad reviews. Bad reviews?

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

But I mean, mixed reviews, but attained a cult following. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had a. He was on such a tear there.

[B]

Yeah, he was on a tear, man.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So as a kid, I remember if you wanted to know what movies came out on Friday, either called the movie theater.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And this is when someone would answer.

[C]

It'd be a human being telling you.

[A]

Human being.

[C]

And you go, what are. What movies are playing?

[A]

You know what? Actually, I take that back. You would call the movie theater and they would record it, a message, Someone that works there. These are the movies.

[C]

Thank you for calling Lebanon Movie Theater. What?

[A]

Even that. It was just some teenager that's like, this is the movies today. Terminator 145. Whatever. Or. Or you look in. Or you looked in the newspaper and it would list the movies.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That's how you knew. Then when the 90s came along and Moviefone became a thing, that was such a big upgrade.

[C]

I only really know about Moviefone from Seinfeld.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. I remember calling movie phone. Trying to think. I remember. I might. I remember. I remember the newspaper. Yeah, sure. I want to say maybe calling the theater. Yeah. The newspaper was a big one and the movie phone was great. Yeah.

[A]

And then I also remember going before it seems a million years ago, but, you know, you go stand in line for a movie and you just have tickets. You wait your turn and then it might sell out while you're in line.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

Yeah. And then before cell phones, you know, then you get in there and one of you goes and save seats.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

The other one gets the food or whatever. And then you gotta find that person in a dark theater.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Because there's no texting and you don't.

[C]

Have a light on your phone.

[B]

No.

[A]

You're just in there yelling like you're walking up and down the aisles.

[C]

I always thought that doesn't get talked about enough, the fact that everyone has a flashlight on them now.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And you just didn't, like 10 years ago. Not everybody has a flashlight. Yeah. I Use that flashlight all the time?

[B]

Yeah. Getting up to eat at night. I don't know. Where are you going that you need a flashlight that much?

[C]

How often do you think you use the flashlight on your phone? Four or five times a day?

[B]

No. What? No, no, I don't think I use it once. I mean, what. I use it.

[A]

I use mine every night walking my dog.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, I don't. Yeah, I don't think I use it at all. I use it when I'm going to bed. If I'm in a hotel.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And. Or only if I'm like, going to bed. If I go to the bathroom, go back, I'll lay it. Sit them face up.

[C]

Drop something on the. You know, drop something in the car or something. You don't use the flashlight for that. What are you talking. What is that?

[A]

Where's that fry at?

[C]

No, come on.

[A]

It's down here somewhere.

[C]

Not everything's a french fry, dude.

[B]

The crevices you're digging through, I don't know you. I don't think I use it that much.

[C]

That's cra. I probably use it 15 times a day.

[A]

Like, for what?

[C]

Just for anything. Yeah, Like, I just had to see, you know, I'm in bedroom or something. Yeah, yeah, it's. It's right there.

[B]

Maybe I'll keep trying.

[C]

Just leave the lights on all the time, everywhere. Like, sometimes a room's dark and you got to look around or you got to find, I don't know, like a USB port behind something, you know, and you turn your light on your phone real quick.

[A]

I use it in a restaurant because I can't see the bill anymore.

[B]

That's where I see.

[C]

You're using it for all the old people.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Walking your dog and.

[A]

Well, that's not people thing.

[B]

I do not have to use it for that.

[C]

For menus.

[B]

For menus. But I mean, I'm. I'm now in the circles where, buddy, a menu goes around and it's just seven phones just light up the restaurant and everybody's trying to read a menu.

[A]

This also affects me. A website called runp.com tells you when the best time in a movie to go to the bathroom.

[C]

Runp.com.

[B]

Oh, it's an app.

[C]

The world's most indispensable movie.

[A]

No, I just. Before I go see a movie, I'll just go on the website and see what it says.

[B]

And you just wait for the part.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, wow. And what it just tells you?

[C]

Like, you ever go to a movie and it's just like, Just go whenever. Dude, it does. It doesn't matter.

[B]

So Marty supreme. It tells you when to.

[A]

Yeah, it'll tell you a scene that's not pivotal or whatever.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because you know, I go and then I'll ask whoever I'm with what I miss. Yeah, like they gotta update me in the theater, two seats over. There's also a website called aftercredits.com tells you if there's any post credit scenes.

[C]

Oh, I like that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

All right. So you know, so there's gonna be.

[A]

Like, there's gonna be like some big spoiler, some big thing at the end.

[B]

Of the breadwinner and after gr. I don't know. I don't know.

[A]

We'll have to wait around and see.

[B]

Have to wait and see. Yep.

[A]

So the. Because all these Marvel movies, all these superhero movies now will have Marvel started.

[C]

It, but now they all, they usually tease the next movie or something after.

[A]

The credits they'll have a mid credit scene and then an end credit like two of them. And I mean it's another 10 minutes probably of the movie just rolling. You know, you're waiting.

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[A]

So the guy who famously created a lot of the movie posters just passed away, so I can't. Nobody can blame me for this. This guy's already gone. But he did some of the iconic movie posters, like the Star wars ones. Indiana Jones, Back to the Future.

[C]

What was his name?

[A]

The Goonies. So I hope he doesn't ask me. Drew Strozzan.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

All these movies, I could picture the image without even looking. The only one I couldn't. I didn't know is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I don't know that one offhand. But the rest of these that I mentioned, like, the Goonies, I picture that Back to the Future, him getting out of the DeLorean and Risky Business. Tom Cruise with the.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

And they talk about how there's an art to movie posters and conveying what you want to convey about a movie without giving too much away but teasing people. I looked at your movie poster. I mean, they put things in that aren't in the actual movie. And you're not even trying to make. Like, you've got. You're holding a mug that says number Two Parents. Right. That's. I'm assuming that's not really in the movie.

[B]

I don't think so.

[A]

I think that's just a funny way of showing what the movie's about.

[B]

Yes. Oh, our poster was. Yeah. I mean, we had. There's multiple conversations about our poster and what to put, and they. You go through it, and you see, you know, like, a list of, like, there was some that were very simple, some that were a little bit more crazy and a little bit whatever. And you're trying to, you know, just be like, all right, we want this one to. Where people see it and they go, like, all right, it's gonna be. You know, you see our. If you look at our movie poster, it's like the decision on, like, go look at. I'll explain it to you on our. If you look at, like, our movie poster. Because.

[C]

Okay, about this one.

[B]

Yeah. So it's. We had a bunch that we went through. So you see Mandy, she's got luggage, so she goes out of town. But at first, she had just a bag. And then I was like, I think it needs to be more suitcasey. Whatever. And then it was like another version of a suitcase. But I was like, I don't. Still don't think that feels. I was like, I think it needs to be Luggage.

[A]

Oh, wow. So you're consulting on this.

[B]

Yeah. And I was like, echo, it needs to be luggage. So they, they know it's for sure. She's travel. So Mandy's completely. Now it's got that luggage. The, the horse on the top was a debate, but then we kind of, you know, it's like, it's a fun movie. It's a fun. It's a. It's an exaggerated.

[C]

Yeah, it's not Schindler's List. Like.

[B]

Yeah, it's like, it's supposed to be like a horse. Yeah, it's like. Yeah, yeah, it's got a horse on. On the roof. And, you know, it's like this idea, too, that we're making it. I'm sensitive to the idea of it being like, not just some, you know, a dads or dumb movie. It's. I don't. It's not that it's, you know, if it's a typical. I always go back to my, my bus joke when I say I didn't know what bus my daughter's going to be on. That's the joke. The most. The most people come up to me and say they relate to it. Every. In every city in America, in every Hollywood meeting I've been into, into every city I've traveled to the middle. Right? So it's like everybody goes through that. If. Yeah, it's like this. If a husband had to take over and run the house, it would be some hiccups.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah, sure.

[B]

And so it's like, that's essentially what this is. It's not the idea of it being just like, dad doesn't know how to do anything. It's, you know, he's gonna learn from that.

[A]

Right?

[B]

So it's a, you know, it's just fun and silly. We've added some. Yeah, it's very. It's just fun. The, the girls are just so good in it. The Mandy, I mean, they're all of them.

[A]

Like, I saw one of them in Stranger Things.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Birdie and. But that phrase, one dad, three kids, zero. Clue. Somebody came up with that.

[B]

Yes. That was a. That was a big day. 1 Dad 3 yeah, it was like, what's the quickest way the idea. I, I came up with the name the Breadwinner. And it's funny. I came with that name. You go through it times where I'm like, I don't know if that should be the name. And then it's like, then it's just kind of everywhere.

[C]

And you're like, yeah, it's Too late.

[B]

You're like, I guess this is.

[C]

Yeah, I guess we're doing it.

[A]

You know, sometimes they have changed. Like. Yeah, Return of the Jedi was originally Revenge of the Jedi.

[C]

Oh.

[A]

And then I think they just like, Jedis don't seek revenge. So they changed it.

[C]

You know, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is. It was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. They change it to Sorcerers for America. I thought it'd be more palatable for American kids.

[A]

Are you, when you go to movies, do you have to get there for trailers? Are you a trailer person?

[B]

I used to be, but I'm not as much anymore. And I think that's. Again, that's your problem. I would look that if I was ran movies. What? Huh?

[A]

It almost sound like you're directing at me. Yeah, that's your problem.

[B]

I meant I think you have problems.

[A]

I know you do.

[B]

No, they're, they're. I would say that's, that would should have been your first sign is that people are not coming to trailers like they did. And I think it's too many trailers. I think it's too long and everybody is excited to see what movies are going to come out. But it's like almost too much now.

[C]

It's a lot. And then 45 minutes of trailers.

[B]

Yes. And then the trailers are, you know, it can be just, you know, I don't know, you're in the movie that you're in. They're just gearing towards you. Just. I mean, I have no control over that. But.

[A]

Well, they used to be.

[B]

It used to be. That's how you found out. Yeah.

[A]

And very often trailers are better than the movie themselves. And I've been to movies where the most exciting part of the night was the trailers. It's better than the movie. But then they started putting ads before the trailers and now the movie start time can be 7:35. They'll still be showing ads.

[C]

Yeah. Start the movie at 8:30.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It's crazy.

[B]

I think it'll start at 8. I think it's 20.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I think they've shrunk it a little bit because I showed up late to one of these movies and I, you know, I mean, I was like, if the movie starts at 8, you get there 8:30, you're fine.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But then I've been to them now. I think they're in more than that.

[C]

That's good.

[B]

20. Yeah. I think it's gone down where it is, you know. But again, if you, if you, if you rev up this industry Revit the movie stuff. You got kind of steered off with the Marvels and they went down that big route. And if you go into this kind of. I mean, this is my movie, so I'm gonna try to sell you on my movie. But I.

[A]

If you.

[B]

I mean, the thing that I'm happy about is our. I don't think there's a. You see our trailer, and I just don't think there's a movie like that. And this might feel like an old movie that you've seen in the past and all that, you know, but it's. It's for this next audience and this stuff that you're doing, it's. I don't think you're seeing anything like this. I think we're. We feel we're different. That's the.

[C]

That's good.

[B]

Yeah. I think that's. That's what you're trying to be, is just to be. To go like, oh, yeah, what's this? It's gonna be a fun night, fun day whenever you see it.

[A]

So the. The most takes of a single scene ever in a movie. A crew member submitted this to. From the Shining. Submitted to Guinness World Records claim a scene was shot 127 times. But another person on the film is said that's inaccurate. It was more like 35 to 45 times.

[C]

Still a lot.

[A]

Still a lot. But supposedly Charlie Chaplin shot 1 scene 342 times. What's.

[B]

I wonder if there. You're like, you better have used that 342.

[A]

Number four.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, I bet back then that you couldn't.

[A]

Yeah. You just start over, probably.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You have to start the whole movie over. That's the way it works.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

From the top we had.

[B]

I remember we. There was. I remember there was one scene early on in the movie where it was. Or. I don't know if I don't remember where it was in the movie or I kind of. And I was having really trouble with it. And it was. It was really one.

[C]

Just like the wording of it or something.

[B]

The wording of it and just remembering it and. And I mean, I. It was embarrassed. It's embarrassing. And, you know, everybody's there. Everybody's. There's so many people. And you just have to keep going. I was like.

[C]

And everybody's like a professional actor and stuff around.

[B]

Yeah. They're all there. And you're like, I'm just wasting everybody's time. And I felt bad. And I mean that. I mean, it wasn't anything like that, but it was There was a bunch of takes of it, and it was a long kind of scene. And you're gonna do a lot of takes anyway because you do kind of a wide shot. Then you do, you know.

[A]

That scene from the trailer where you crash and the stuff goes all over you. Did you have to do that over and over?

[B]

Not a. Not a ton. I mean. Yeah. I mean, we had to do it. Yeah. I don't know, maybe three or four times. I don't think it's that crazy because you have to clean the whole car up.

[A]

Yeah. That's why I was.

[B]

So you're hoping to kind of get it when you get it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, maybe we did it. Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

You ever been to a movie theater that serves, like, a really nice dinner.

[C]

And I've been to a movie theater with table service. Like, a server comes to your table. I don't know if I like.

[B]

Yeah. You know Eric Capel, who directed this, our movie, it was wonderful.

[C]

He.

[B]

But he was talking about going to movies that are in la. Like, they have these where they show them on old. They show them on old films and Star wars real to real, like, where it's like, you, like, you go to these experiences and they're. Because it's like, that's what you think with movies is like, why are you not just, like, showing old movies? Like, why would you not just go down a route of just being like, I'm gonna. This week we have in your prime spot, too. Like, if. If you're a movie. If you're. This would be obvious. If you're a movie theater chain, why do you not just go, like, hey, you know what? If you don't have a movie for me, then I'm going to show Die Hard this week and, like, we're just going to go do that or I'm going to go show Simon Burch. Simon Burch.

[A]

Die Hard is one of those movies that, if you'd asked me, have you seen Die Hard? I've seen so much of it on tv.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Over the years. I don't think I could actually answer if I've seen it. I was on a plane other day, and I'm like, I'm just going to watch this movie.

[C]

Yeah. Start to finish.

[A]

Start to finish. Yeah.

[C]

All right.

[A]

Because I just seen on a tbs, you know, as I'm flipping around stuff like that. Adrian took his kids to see Elf at the Scummer Horn, where the symphony plays the music.

[C]

Oh, that's cool.

[A]

I did that with Star Wars Live.

[C]

Orchestra There in front of the movie theater.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, it's.

[B]

It's.

[A]

It's really cool.

[B]

But I mean, I think you got to get, like, you can. Oh, some of these changes. Like, you can. You can open it up. And I mean, LA is a perfect spot for something like this because it's showing people, the people that really into film and, like, really, you want to go and experience it. They. He was saying how they went and saw some films where they would have an intermission. He took his daughter and his daughter. It's, like, fun to have an intermission. And it's.

[C]

It's.

[B]

It's, you know, going back to, like, where it's a real experience now.

[A]

Next. I was watching the Golden Globes last night. Next year when Breadwinner wins, I was looking at how many people could come up on stage. I'm not saying it was for personal reasons, but maybe I was thinking, like.

[B]

Could I be there?

[A]

Could I fit up there?

[C]

Brian gets on the mic.

[A]

Nate, I want to say something.

[B]

I don't think our movies even would be included in.

[A]

Well, for my fantasy also, they gave an award last night for best podcast.

[B]

Oh, really?

[C]

They did.

[A]

First time ever, Amy.

[C]

Amy Poehler's one.

[B]

Oh, really?

[C]

Yeah, she had a funny line. They kind of. Nikki Glaser did a great. Have you seen the video of. It's before the movie theater where it's Nicole Kidman walking through the theater. Yeah, she did one of those, but it was like her in her car listening to podcasts. It was all just ads. It was really funny. But then Amy Poehler kind of. You kind of. It was all tongue in cheek. Like, everybody's like, this is kind of absurd.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

This is even a category.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

You know, it was like, well, like, there was like a PBS one that was nominated or NPR or something, right?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

There was Smartless, then a couple others.

[A]

But yeah, who's your daddy? Or something like that.

[C]

You call your dad?

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Can you. Yeah. And that's, you know what's funny is like to be like. But that podcast. Yeah. Such a big podcast. And then you're like, oh, my gosh. Like, it would mean a lot for them to win an Emmy. And then they just give it to the people that have 30 Emmys already.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, if Smart List or the other ones. Or they informed that one. It get like, they're like, oh, we've been coming to the Emmys for years. We have Emmys.

[C]

Yeah, I'll add it to my shelf.

[B]

Yeah. And then you're like the ones that are like, we've never been nominated for anything like this and you don't give it to them. That's the. Why it seems pointless is because you're not giving it to someone that it really would have meant a lot to. Not that it doesn't mean a lot to me, but.

[A]

But yeah, I was thinking that too as I watched last night, because I. I plan on winning that and going up on Nate's. I plan on taking the stage twice next year. Yeah, I've got big plans.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

You guys familiar with the Machete order for Star Wars?

[B]

Yes, I think I went over the.

[C]

First things we ever talked about on this podcast.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

The very first episode was it really. I wanted to wrap it up.

[B]

Yeah. That's fun.

[A]

Very fun. You. It was during COVID and you watched it with Harper.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, that's what I remember watching it. Yeah.

[A]

So if you haven't watched all 280 something episodes, I'll tell you, it's. You start off with a new hope, which is when Luke is the first one that was released in the theater.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Then Empire Strikes Back. You find out the big reveal that.

[B]

Yeah. Don't you don't say it.

[A]

Okay. Well, we said it five and a half years ago.

[B]

Yeah. But now it's new. Yeah.

[A]

Well, the famous spoiler reason not just to go in the order they released or or in chronological order is because you'll find there won't be any big reveals if you watch them. Does that make sense?

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Oh, if you watch them, like if.

[A]

You started with the first one in this, in the storyline is the Phantom Menace. They said to skip that altogether. And then Attack of the Clones would be the next. That's when Anakin Skywalker is a. Like a young man.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

But if you watch them like that, you're going to know a big reveal.

[C]

How long does this take to watch all these? This is like a month.

[A]

It's like 15.

[B]

No, we did it pretty quick. And like, all right. I mean, not that too long. I mean, but we did this with the Harry Potters. We did not go in order. They have a Machete order for Harry.

[C]

Potters and start with Order of the Phoenix.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You won't have a clue what's going.

[B]

On, but by the beginning you go, okay. Oh, that was decent.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, it was decent.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, I like that. They. Yeah, I was like going through it and. Oh yeah, it's fun. I would do that because I was upset that some of the big twist because some parents might go through. Go look up this machete way. We won't give out anything because you might go watch it with your kids. And then. Yeah. I was upset that Harper knew something before we got there and I was like excited to really see her. Like the twist.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You said again on the podcast, episode one that the. When the. She was so excited that that was a big.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Big thing for you. I guess I shouldn't have told that part either.

[B]

Yeah. So. Yeah. Yeah, we're bleep that out. Can we for real believe that?

[C]

You believe it. Wait, what did Brian say?

[B]

Yeah, no, Brian did not use any language, but he spoiled something if from.

[A]

A 50 year old movie.

[B]

But, but you got. You're going to watch these moves with your daughter and you're going to want her not to. You're going to want to watch.

[A]

I've already told her.

[B]

Oh, yeah, you go. All right, before we get started, here's the lay of the land.

[A]

My buddy said that he did go see Empire Strikes Back and then.

[C]

Or.

[A]

Or his buddy's older brother went and then took them, drove them there and as they were getting out of the car, he's like, oh, just by the way. And then tells them.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That before they go in. Ruined it for him.

[B]

Yeah. So anyway.

[A]

All right, that's movie theaters.

[C]

There it is. Yeah, the penultimate episode.

[B]

Penultimate.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

We did it. Big one next week.

[B]

Big one next week.

[C]

Dusty will be here. We got some fun surprises. It's gonna be. It's gonna be a good time.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Next week. One. Yeah. I don't. I do not know much about it, so.

[C]

Me either.

[A]

Me either.

[B]

Oh, really? All right. Fun shit's gonna go good. Like.

[C]

No, we got things planned, though.

[B]

Every week.

[A]

You're back on the road.

[B]

I'm back on the road. Eugene, Montana, knocking off Montana. Last state. Last state for me to perform in.

[A]

Wow. Montana State just won the national championship.

[C]

They sure did.

[B]

I think they win all the time.

[A]

Vanderbilt Stadium. I think it was the first time.

[B]

Yeah. At Vanderbilt Stadium.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What?

[A]

The championship game was played at Vanderbilt.

[B]

For stadium. For what?

[A]

For FBS or.

[B]

Oh, really?

[A]

Yeah. It was a great game. And then.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Tuesday morning, the airport, everybody's wearing Montana State stuff.

[C]

You got Eugene, Yakima, Missoula, Billings, Bismarck.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That's America, man. That's out there.

[B]

We're going, baby. Yeah. It's fun. Montana. Yeah. Billings and Missoula. Yeah. Knocking them off. That'll be it. It's crazy. Next week will also be rounded out. America.

[A]

So you're gonna be in Bismarck the night before we do our final episode.

[B]

Coming in hot.

[A]

Yep. January 30th, 31st, I'm at the Riot Comedy Club in Conroe, Texas.

[C]

Conroe?

[A]

Yes. They've got one in Houston now. They got one.

[C]

Oh, cool.

[A]

In Conroe. So come see me.

[C]

You're like the Texas guy now.

[A]

I know.

[C]

He's just all over.

[A]

I know. I got a corporate in Texas this week.

[C]

Yeah. Aaron Weber here. I'm in Toronto, Ontario, this weekend at Comedy Bar in Danforth. I've never been to Toronto. I'm super excited. I got a lot of great recommendations for things to do. So I'm going to be in Toronto this weekend, and then next weekend I'm in La Jolla, California, at the Comedy Store. Out there all weekend. So come out and see me in Toronto and San Diego. Thanks.

[B]

Is Dusty.

[A]

Oh, I know Dusty.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Dusty has his show here at Zany's tonight because I'm on it.

[C]

Nice. Dusty's all over. He's going to be in Munhall, Pennsylvania. Cleveland, Ohio, Charleston, West Virginia. Dayton, Ohio. That rounds out the month of January. Go see Dusty at a show near you.

[B]

All right. Well, that's it.

[C]

There it is.

[B]

We did it.

[C]

We did it.

[B]

Back to the original three. Full circle.

[A]

Feels good.

[B]

All right.

[C]

All right. We'll see.

[B]

I do love you. Always will love you.

[C]

It's not lost on us.

[B]

Yeah. Goodbye.

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