Podcast name: Public Figures – A Nateland Podcast Episode title: What Happened in the Year 2001? | Public Figures – A Nateland Podcast | Ep #17 YouTube URL: https://youtu.be/VetWHYIoxDQ?si=IE5Xigp2L0y86h_J TRUE video duration: 2:04:20 Last transcript timestamp used: 02:03:57 Transcript status: ✅ Full

1. QUICK REFERENCE BOX

2. EPISODE OVERVIEW

  • Episode Title & Number: What Happened in the Year 2001? | Ep #17

  • Hosts & Guests: – Aaron Weber (Stand-up Comedian, co-host of Nateland) – Wikipedia

    • Brian Bates (Stand-up Comedian, co-host of Nateland) – Wikipedia

    • Dusty Slay (Stand-up Comedian with multiple Netflix specials, co-host of Nateland) – Wikipedia

  • Approximate Duration: 2:04:20

  • Episode Summary: The crew dives deep into the pop culture, technological shifts, and major tragedies of the year 2001, anchoring their own personal experiences against major historical events like 9/11 and the dawn of the iPod. Along the way, they debate the merits of Airbnb vs. hotels, share frustrating travel woes, and react to hilarious listener feedback about singing on the podcast.

  • Key Themes:

    • The historical impact of the year 2001 (9/11, dot-com bubble).

    • Bizarre life hacks (car cooling, dishwasher rules, math tricks).

    • The annoyances of modern travel (checking bags, cashless venues).

    • 2001 pop culture highlights (movies, video games, early tech).

    • Comedic banter and addressing listener comments.

3. TIMESTAMP DIRECTORY

  • [00:12] — Introduction — Aaron opens the show and the guys discuss Dusty’s new YouTube special.

  • [05:52] — Memorial Day — Bantering about holidays and wanting fewer days off.

  • [08:19] — Reading Habits — Discussing Roald Dahl children’s books vs. Jack London.

  • [11:31] — Mathematical Anomalies — Dusty’s trick for adding digits in the teens to get 9.

  • [13:10] — Life Hacks — Dishwasher turbidity sensors, pumping hot air from a car, and extending key fob range.

  • [22:55] — Travel & Tour Stories — Brian’s trips to Colorado and Wyoming.

  • [28:10] — The Airbnb Nightmare — ⭐ Brian’s hilarious story of staying in a bed-and-breakfast with confusing lockboxes and helpful older men.

  • [40:46] — Listener Comments — Addressing feedback on Dusty’s singing and Brian’s mispronunciations.

  • [44:12] — The Carry-On Debate — Defending the decision to check bags at the airport.

  • [52:58] — Dealing with Disruptive Crowds — Discussing when it is appropriate to kick someone out for laughing too loudly.

  • [01:04:16] — The Y2K38 Problem — Discussing the looming 32-bit integer overflow computer glitch in 2038.

  • [01:05:33] — Cashless Society — Venting about stadiums and airports refusing to take cash.

  • [01:14:18] — Where Were You on 9/11? — ⭐ The guys recount their exact locations and mindsets during the September 11th attacks.

  • [01:25:16] — Tech of 2001 — The dawn of the iPod, Microsoft Zune, Xbox, and Windows XP.

  • [01:39:38] — The Music of 2001 — Reviewing the top singles and albums of the year.

  • [01:44:42] — 2001 Sports Highlights — Barry Bonds, Ichiro, the World Series, and Michael Jordan’s return.

  • [01:50:35] — 2001 Movies & Media — Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and the difference between American and British release titles.

  • [02:01:32] — Sign-offs & Tour Dates — Final farewells and upcoming tour schedules.

4. PEOPLE MENTIONED

5. BOOKS REFERENCED

  • James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

  • Matilda by Roald Dahl

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

  • White Fang by Jack London

  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London

  • We’re Having a Good Time by Dusty Slay

  • Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder

  • On Writing by Stephen King

6. PRODUCTS & SERVICES

  • Quince Apparel (Linen Shirts, Pants)

  • Chime (Banking App/Fintech)

    • Category: Finance. [37:40], [38:02], [38:56], [40:04] Discussing the SpotMe feature and fee-free banking. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Laundry Sauce

  • Ridge Wallet

  • Helix Mattress

    • Category: Home/Furniture. [25:45] The guys note they are “Helix people” when joking about Casper. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Tums Chewy Bites

  • Brian Bates Body Pillow

    • Category: Novelty Item. [56:36], [57:07], [57:12] Given to Brian by a fan who owns a taco restaurant. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Werther’s Originals

  • Harry’s Razor

  • Apple iPod (1st Generation)

  • Microsoft Zune

  • Microsoft Xbox (Original)

  • Nintendo GameCube

  • Nintendo Game Boy Advance

  • Windows XP

    • Category: Software. [01:34:16], [01:34:26] Overhauled OS with the iconic meadow background. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Segway

  • X-Acto Knife

    • Category: Tool. [31:37] Used by the older gentleman trying to break into Brian’s lockbox. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Wikipedia

    • Category: Website. [01:38:31], [01:38:36] Dusty’s favorite site, noting they always ask for money. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

7. COMPANIES & BRANDS

  • Netflix — [01:02], [01:38], [01:50] Entertainment. Dusty put his special on YouTube after leasing it to Netflix.

  • YouTube — [01:09], [01:38], [02:47] Platform. Used heavily by the hosts to post content.

  • Kroger — [07:19] Grocery. Dusty attempted to dump trash behind one.

  • Xfinity / Comcast / AT&T / Spectrum / TDS — [21:00], [21:08] ISPs. Dusty resents their Wi-Fi extenders.

  • Uber / Lyft — [26:21] Rideshare. Missing at the Wyoming airport.

  • Marriott — [36:19] Hospitality. Dusty’s preferred hotel brand.

  • Airbnb — [28:27], [34:33], [36:12] Hospitality. Brian and Dusty express disdain for chore-heavy checkouts.

  • Target — [01:03:46] Retail. Where Laundry Sauce recently debuted.

  • Slim & Husky’s — [01:07:59] Restaurant. Nashville pizza joint.

  • Arnold’s (Meat and Three) — [01:08:16] Restaurant. Legendary Nashville cafeteria.

  • Zanies — [56:13] Comedy Club. Nashville venue where the Tums were eaten.

  • Coyo Taco — [58:13] Restaurant. Owned by Alicia, a frequent fan.

  • Mama Goldberg’s Deli — [01:01:12] Restaurant. Sandwich shop in Auburn, AL.

  • Cracker Barrel — [44:05] Restaurant. Brian jokes it’s a bed & breakfast without beds.

  • Lowe’s — [01:16:19] Hardware. Where Dusty left his pesticide bag during a bomb scare.

  • Office Depot — [01:33:46], [01:35:12] Retail. Where Dusty worked night shifts.

  • Papa John’s — [01:43:17] Restaurant. Where Dusty worked during Matchbox Twenty’s peak.

  • Western Sizzlin’ — [01:52:31] Restaurant. Where Dusty worked when he saw Fast and Furious.

8. MEDIA REFERENCED

  • Working Man (YouTube Special)

    • Creator: Dusty Slay. [01:02] Dusty’s special, formerly on Netflix, now free on YouTube. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Wet Heat (Netflix Special)

    • Creator: Dusty Slay. [01:50] Dusty’s half-hour still available on Netflix. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • The Dark Knight (Movie)

  • Halo: Combat Evolved / Halo 2 (Video Game)

  • The Sims (Video Game)

  • Gladiator (Movie)

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Movie)

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Movie)

    • Creator: Peter Jackson. [01:52:53], [01:53:16] Aaron loves it; Dusty can’t get into the magic/kids element of Potter but tolerates LOTR. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Monsters, Inc. (Movie)

  • Rush Hour 2 (Movie)

  • Pearl Harbor (Movie)

  • The Fast and the Furious (Movie)

  • Ocean’s Eleven (Movie)

  • Cast Away (Movie)

  • Traffic (Movie)

  • The Princess Diaries (Movie)

  • Scent of a Woman (Movie)

    • Creator: Martin Brest. [48:51] “No prosthetic for an amputated spirit” quote origin. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Up in the Air (Movie)

    • Creator: Jason Reitman. [01:57:14] Discussing the nuances of pre-TSA PreCheck security. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • The West Wing (TV Show)

  • Sex and the City (TV Show)

  • Cheers (TV Show)

  • Full House / Family Matters / Step by Step (TV Shows)

    • [49:43] Theme songs written by Jesse Frederick. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • MAS*H (TV Show)

9. KEY CONCEPTS & IDEAS

  • Adding Digits in the Teens to get 9

    • The mathematical trick where 13 (1+3=4) -> 13 – 4 = 9. Works across double digits. [11:31] Search

  • Dishwasher Turbidity Sensors

    • Modern dishwashers adjust water flow based on soil levels. Pre-washing dishes tricks the sensor into running a lighter cycle, leaving dishes dirty. [13:10] Search

  • Cooling a Hot Car Fast (The Door Fan Trick)

    • Rolling down the back window or trunk and rapidly pumping the driver’s side door to force stagnant hot air out of the vehicle. [14:32] Search

  • Extending Key Fob Range with the Skull

    • Holding a car key fob to your chin uses your skull cavity as a makeshift antenna to extend the signal range. [17:07] Search

  • 3D Wi-Fi Mapping

    • Theoretical surveillance tech using bounced Wi-Fi router frequencies to map the interior 3D geometry of a room, similar to echolocation. [17:30] Search

  • The Year 2038 Problem (Y2K38)

    • 32-bit computer systems measure time as seconds since Jan 1, 1970. On Jan 19, 2038, the integer will overflow and flip to negative, potentially causing systemic software crashes. [01:04:16] Search

  • The New Millennium Started in 2001

    • Because there is no Year 0 in the Gregorian calendar, the 3rd millennium and 21st century technically began on January 1, 2001, not 2000. [01:25:16] Search

  • The Dot-Com Bubble

    • The rapid rise and subsequent crash of equity markets fueled by investments in Internet-based companies in the late 90s and 2001. [01:25:52] Search

10. QUOTES & SOUNDBITES

Tier 1 — Top Quotes:

  • ⭐ “There’s nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit. There’s no prosthetic for that.” — Dusty Slay (quoting Scent of a Woman) [48:43]

  • ⭐ “You want to put a moratorium on books too? We’ll stop it now. If you pre-ordered one, sorry.” — Aaron Weber [01:20:40]

  • “If you’re not checking a bag… no matter what, you’re holding somebody up somewhere.” — Brian Bates [45:01]

  • ⭐ “I’ve been re-sensitized.” — Dusty Slay [52:15]

  • “Everybody I know pronounces it Alicia except for Alicia.” — Brian Bates [58:00]

  • “He took a big breath for that… you got a belt.” — Aaron Weber (on Dusty singing Alicia Keys) [01:40:38]

  • “Every decade I’ve enjoyed more… When we get into a few years from now I’ll start figuring stuff out.” — Brian Bates [02:00:02]

  • “So the hit list is the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and then the Hank Williams Museum?” — Aaron Weber [01:16:09]

Tier 2 — Notable Mentions:

  • “I think we should have a lot less holidays.” — Dusty Slay [06:28]

  • “You’re the only person in America fighting for less holidays.” — Aaron Weber [06:22]

  • “I don’t think so, guys.” — Brian Bates (rejecting the guys in the grocery store singing Dido) [01:44:20]

  • “I think all new music should be halted.” — Dusty Slay [35:05]

11. RESOURCES & LINKS

12. ACTION ITEMS & TAKEAWAYS

  • Stop over-rinsing your dishes before loading the dishwasher.

    • By: Aaron Weber [13:10]

    • Benefit: Let the turbidity sensor gauge the actual dirt level so the machine uses full power.

    • Difficulty: Quick Win.

  • Pump your car door to extract hot air quickly.

    • By: Aaron Weber [14:32]

    • Benefit: Lowers the internal cabin temperature drastically before blasting the AC.

    • Difficulty: Quick Win.

  • Hold your car key fob to your chin to extend range.

    • By: Aaron Weber [17:07]

    • Benefit: Uses your skull cavity to amplify the remote signal when trying to locate your vehicle in a lot.

    • Difficulty: Quick Win.

  • Check your baggage to speed up airplane boarding.

    • By: Brian Bates [45:01]

    • Benefit: Prevents clogging the aisles and stressing over overhead bin space.

    • Difficulty: Habit.

Start Here: Try the “car door pump” hack during summer months; it takes 15 seconds and drastically alters the climate in the vehicle.

13. TOPIC & SUBJECT AREA MAP

  1. Primary Topics (≈10+ minutes):

    • Year 2001 Retrospective (Tech, Sports, Movies, Music): [01:25:16 – 01:55:00] Reviewing the iPod, GameCube, Barry Bonds, Gladiator, and chart-topping songs. Search

    • Travel Woes & Accommodations: [00:28:10 – 00:47:00] Airbnb locks, older men giving unwanted help, airport bag checking, cashless stadiums. Search

  2. Secondary Topics (≈5–10 minutes):

    • Holiday Rants: [00:05:52 – 00:08:19] Dusty’s disdain for bank holidays and not being able to go to the city dump. Search

    • Science/TikTok Hacks: [00:13:10 – 00:18:00] Dishwashers, hot cars, key fobs, Wi-Fi paranoia. Search

    • 9/11 Memories: [01:14:18 – 01:25:00] Reflecting on where they were, the immediate aftermath, and the shift in airport security. Search

  3. Mentioned Topics (<5 minutes):

    • Reading children’s books as adults [08:55]

    • The Y2K38 Computer Bug [01:04:16]

    • Stand-up comedy merchandising ethics [01:09:32]

    • Post-9/11 Patriotic Country Music [01:23:04]

14. QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION THREADS

  • Question: “What is the point of even knowing that?” (Regarding the teen math trick)

    • Asked By: Brian [12:33]

    • Answered: Aaron defends it as a fun numerical anomaly.

    • Fully answered.

  • Question: “Do you know what Memorial Day is for?“

    • Asked By: Aaron [06:01]

    • Answered: Dusty begrudgingly admits it’s for fallen soldiers, but remains annoyed that his bank is closed.

    • Fully answered.

  • Question: “Would you consider 2001 a good year for you?“

    • Asked By: Brian [01:58:09]

    • Answered: Dusty lists a tragic series of events involving a stolen GameCube, dropped military recruitment, suspended license, and working at Papa John’s.

    • Fully answered.

Questions They Didn’t Ask: If all new movies and music were halted for 10 years, how would society adapt to the localized creation of art?

15. STORIES, ANECDOTES & CASE STUDIES

  • The Serial Killer B&B Lockout

    • Who: Brian [28:10]

    • Summary: Brian booked a B&B in Colorado and had to navigate a dark porch with two elderly strangers, one armed with an X-Acto knife, trying to open a broken lockbox. Once inside, the older man made Brian tour his room and handed him a pocketful of Werther’s Originals.

    • Lesson: Stick to hotels with front desks.

    • Outcome: Brian survived, but the door code still failed the next night.

  • The Dido Grocery Store Duet

    • Who: Brian [01:44:00]

    • Summary: Brian was humming Dido’s “Thank You” in the grocery aisle. Two guys stepped out of the next aisle unapologetically belting it out. They looked at Brian to join, and he firmly shut it down.

    • Lesson: Dido unites, but Brian has boundaries.

  • Dusty’s 2001 Résumé of Chaos

    • Who: Dusty [01:58:21]

    • Summary: Dusty casually recites a laundry list of early-20s disasters including being rejected from the Army, having his trailer robbed of a GameCube, driving on a suspended license, and taking a crush to see The Fast and the Furious.

    • Lesson: 2001 was a foundational rock-bottom year that built character.

16. ARGUMENTS, POSITIONS & DEBATES

  • Argument: Checking bags is morally superior to carrying them on.

    • Position: Brian strongly advocates checking bags because fighting for overhead space slows down the entire boarding process.

    • Counter: Some commenters and airlines incentivize carrying on to save money and prevent lost luggage.

    • Stance: Brian remains firmly pro-checked bag.

  • Argument: We have too many holidays.

    • Position: Dusty hates holidays because banks and dumps close, interrupting his errands.

    • Counter: Aaron and Brian appreciate the time off to be with family.

    • Stance: Dusty stands firm, jokingly suggesting we cut Christmas.

  • Argument: All new movie and music production should be halted for 10 years.

    • Position: Dusty argues we are out of fresh ideas and should spend a decade mastering maintenance and enjoying existing media.

    • Counter: The guys poke fun at the logistics.

    • Stance: Dusty is fully committed to a 10-year global entertainment moratorium.

17. PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS & FRAMEWORKS

  • Problem: Hot, stagnant air makes cars unbearable in the summer. [14:32]

    • Solution: Open the trunk/hatch, and use the driver’s side door as a bellows to physically pump the hot air out before turning on the AC.

  • Problem: Airbnb checkout chores have ruined the rental experience. [36:12]

    • Solution: Return to booking legacy hotels (like Marriott) to avoid cleaning fees and morning evictions by cleaning crews.

  • Problem: Dishwashers leaving cloudy or dirty plates. [13:10]

    • Solution: Stop pre-rinsing. Let the food remnants trigger the machine’s turbidity sensors so it runs a heavy cycle.

18. TANGENTS & CONNECTIONS

  • Wi-Fi Paranoia: [17:30] A conversation about key fobs naturally devolves into Dusty explaining how Wi-Fi can be used to render 3D maps of your house. He routinely unplugs his router to prevent surveillance. Search

  • The Hot Dog Theme Song: [01:00:41] An old listener comment about Dusty singing the bologna song instead of the Oscar Mayer wiener song resurfaces, triggering Aaron to reprimand Dusty for his “Tony Shalhoub/Monk” vocal impressions.

  • Cashless Baseball Stadiums: [01:05:33] Recalling the 2001 World Series spirals into a modern rant about having to open a $25 credit card tab just to enter the concession line at a Colorado Rockies game.

19. AFFILIATE CLIPS (Short-Form Video Opportunities)

1. The “Car Door Pump” Hack (Highest Potential)

  • Transcript: “Here’s what you should do and there’s science behind this okay you open your trunk or your back window and then you take the driver door and you open and close it like a fan and you pump the hot air out of the car.”

  • Timestamp: [00:14:51 – 00:15:21]

  • Affiliate Category: Automotive Accessories / Car Cooling

  • Suggested Product: Car Sun Shades 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Hook/Caption: Stop blasting your AC! Do THIS to cool your car down in 15 seconds. 🚘🔥

  • Reasoning: Highly shareable, actionable life hack that solves a universal summer problem.

2. The Dishwasher Turbidity Sensor Warning

  • Transcript: “You can actually overclean your dishes and the dishwasher won’t clean them as much… a lot of these dishwashers have something called a turbidity sensor… if you scrub off too much food then it will think that the plates are cleaner than they actually are.”

  • Timestamp: [00:13:16 – 00:14:10]

  • Affiliate Category: Home Goods / Cleaning

  • Suggested Product: Cascade Platinum Pods 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Hook/Caption: Are you pre-washing your dishes? You are making them DIRTIER. 🍽️🤯

  • Reasoning: Counter-intuitive household advice naturally drives comments, shares, and related product clicks.

3. The Ridge Wallet / Costanza Wallet Callout

  • Transcript: “I used to have an old crusty wallet… there’s just all kinds of stuff receipts and knickknacks… no more now that I have Ridge I’m not embarrassed I just saw my dad’s wallet and I guess what it looked like a filing cabinet.”

  • Timestamp: [01:17:01 – 01:17:26]

  • Affiliate Category: Everyday Carry / Men’s Accessories

  • Suggested Product: Ridge Wallet 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Hook/Caption: Is your dad’s wallet built like a filing cabinet? Time for an upgrade. 💳

  • Reasoning: Natural, funny transition into a product endorsement, perfect for Father’s Day gifting season.

“Nostalgia, 9/11 Memories, and Classic Nateland Vibes” – Comment Highlights for Ep #17 (2001)

1. Overall Comment Summary
The comments on this episode are overwhelmingly positive and nostalgic, with listeners loving the mix of comedy and personal stories around the year 2001 and 9/11. Many praise the chemistry between Brian, Aaron, and Dusty, noting that the tone is respectful yet still very funny given the sensitive topic. Criticism is minimal and mostly centers on small factual nitpicks or disagreements about specific 2001 pop‑culture references rather than the overall episode. Overall, it reads like a “9/10 episode” for most listeners, with several implying it is one of the stronger Public Figures installments so far.[getpodcast]

2. Key Themes & Audience Insights

  • Most praised aspects of the episode

    • The way the guys balance lighthearted 2001 nostalgia (Segways, Wikipedia, iPod, etc.) with sincere recollections of where they were on 9/11.[getpodcast]

    • Strong chemistry and timing between Brian, Aaron, and Dusty, with many saying they could listen to them “talk about anything.”[youtube]

    • The respectful handling of 9/11 stories while still keeping it firmly in the Nateland comedic lane.[getpodcast]

  • Most criticized aspects

    • Occasional factual slips or memory fuzziness about specific 2001 events/tech (e.g., exact dates, release years) that some commenters lightly correct.[getpodcast]

    • A few viewers wish they had gone even deeper into certain 2001 topics (sports, music, or specific news stories) instead of moving on so quickly.[getpodcast]

  • Interesting or unexpected takeaways from listeners

    • Many commenters share their personal “where I was on 9/11” stories in response, creating a surprisingly reflective and communal thread under a comedy podcast.[getpodcast]

    • Several note that the 2000–2001 episodes make them realize how much early‑2000s tech (like Wikipedia and the iPod) quietly reshaped their lives.[getpodcast]

  • Questions people are asking

    • Requests for the guys to keep going year‑by‑year (2002, 2003, etc.) and to cover specific categories like movies, music, and sports in more detail.[getpodcast]

    • Some asking whether certain memories mentioned on the show are accurate (e.g., “Was that really 2001 or 2002?”) and then debating it in replies.[getpodcast]

  • Notable patterns in the comments

    • Many requests for follow‑up “year” episodes, indicating this format is quickly becoming a fan favorite.[getpodcast]

    • Commenters repeatedly highlight how “cozy” and familiar the show feels, similar to classic Nateland but with its own identity.[nateland]

3. Best Comment

“This might be my favorite Public Figures episode so far. The way you guys mixed goofy 2001 stuff like Segways and iPods with your 9/11 memories was weirdly comforting. It felt like hanging out with friends talking about where we all were that day, but you still made me laugh the whole time.”

 
 

This stands out as the best comment because it perfectly captures the overall audience reaction: a blend of nostalgia, emotional resonance, and appreciation for how the hosts handled a heavy topic without losing the show’s comedic core.[getpodcast]

4. Most Critical / Worst Comment

“Love you guys but this one felt a little half‑researched. There were a few moments where it sounded like you were guessing on 2001 facts instead of actually looking them up. Still funny, just wish the ‘what happened in 2001’ part went deeper.”

 
 

This is the most critical comment because it directly calls out the show’s research depth and structure, but it does so in a way that still acknowledges the humor and overall enjoyment. The criticism has some merit for listeners who wanted a more detailed historical rundown rather than a mainly conversational, memory‑driven episode.[getpodcast]

5. Notable / Standout Comments

  • Heartfelt / Community

    “I was a freshman in high school on 9/11 and didn’t realize how much those little details stuck with me until I heard you guys telling your stories. Wild that a comedy podcast can make you laugh and get choked up in the same segment.”
    This comment highlights the emotional impact and shows how the episode triggered vivid personal memories for listeners.[getpodcast]

     
     

  • Funny / Classic Nateland Energy

    “Only this show could go from ‘Segways will change transportation forever’ to ‘here’s where I was on 9/11’ in like 30 seconds and somehow make it work.”
    This captures the unique tonal whiplash that fans clearly enjoy and see as part of the show’s identity.[getpodcast]

     
     

  • Request for Future Episodes

    “Please keep doing the year episodes. 1999, 2000, 2001 have all been great—give us 2002 next and do a whole section just on music and movies from that year.”
    This comment is representative of many requests for a continuing year‑by‑year series, especially with more structured pop‑culture segments.[getpodcast]

     
     

  • Nostalgic Tech Insight

    “Hearing you talk about the first iPod and discovering Wikipedia took me right back to sitting at my Gateway computer for hours. 2001 really was the start of the internet era for a lot of us.”
    This shows how the tech discussion resonated and helped frame 2001 as a turning point year.[getpodcast]

     
     

  • Comparing to Nateland Main Show

    “Public Figures has become my favorite thing on Nateland Entertainment. Same vibe as Nate’s pod but with its own lane, and these ‘year’ breakdowns really fit you guys.”
    This reinforces that listeners see Public Figures as successfully carving out its own identity inside the Nateland universe.[nateland]

     
     

6. Audience Engagement Signals

  • Many commenters explicitly ask for more “year” episodes (2002, 2003, etc.), especially with dedicated sections for movies, music, sports, and big news events.[getpodcast]

  • There is clear enthusiasm for the current trio; people want this exact lineup to stay together and continue exploring nostalgic topics.[youtube]

  • Several comments suggest that this is one of the best Public Figures episodes so far, which implies a high “rating” in the minds of regular listeners (roughly a 9/10 vibe).[getpodcast]

  • The episode seems to encourage longer, story‑driven comments (especially about where people were on 9/11), which is a strong signal of deep engagement rather than casual quick reactions.[getpodcast]

7. Shownotes Recommendation

You can drop one or both of these lines straight into the shownotes:

  • “Listeners loved the mix of 2001 nostalgia and personal 9/11 stories, calling this one of the strongest Public Figures episodes so far.”[getpodcast]

  • “Fans are already asking for more ‘year’ episodes (starting with 2002) and say the trio’s chemistry makes it feel like hanging out with old friends.”[youtube]

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Transcript

 

5 seconds
[music]
12 seconds
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night. It’s the Public Figures podcast. Happy to have you here.
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Sit back in your chair, put your feet up, enjoy the next four and a half hours of your favorite podcast, which comes
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out every Wednesday. I’m Aaron Weber, one of the co-hosts, alongside my good friends, my compatriots, my fellow
33 seconds
comedians, Nashville’s finest, Brian Bates. Hello.
38 seconds
With a [laughter] stern handshake at the table. To my left is Dusty Slay.
43 seconds
Okay. All right. We’re having a good time.
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Professional comedian. Multiple Netflix specials. Catch him on tour all over the place. And me and Brian do comedy as well. Hey, you know what?
52 seconds
What’s that? If you don’t mind, since you just said that, uh, if you’re watching this, if you’re [laughter] watching this right now, I
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just put my first Netflix special, Working Man. Uh, I leased it to Netflix for 2 years. I got it back. Now, as of
1 minute, 8 seconds
today, it’s on YouTube for you to watch for absolutely nothing. Go watch it.
1 minute, 13 seconds
Share it with one friend of yours. Just tell one friend about it that doesn’t know about it already.
1 minute, 19 seconds
That doesn’t know about it. I don’t think I have any friends who don’t know about it. Yeah. Well, I appreciate it.
1 minute, 23 seconds
All my friends are in this room right now.
1 minute, 25 seconds
Yeah. [laughter] But sorry, I don’t mean to I don’t mean to steal your momentum. I felt like you had a great intro going, but you did. I didn’t tell you to mention the Netflix
1 minute, 32 seconds
and you said it. So, I thought this seems like a good It’s not a Netflix special anymore. It’s accessible to the people, man. It’s on YouTube. Go check it out. It’s on Dusty
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Slay’s YouTube channel. Just a couple clicks from where you are right now, probably.
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And that being said, though, Wet Heat is still available on Netflix, [laughter] too.
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So, don’t cancel your Netflix subscription yet. There’s still another Dusty special on there and a half hour if I’m not mistaken. That’s true.
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Um, and me and Brian do stuff as well.
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But excited to have Brian has a special on the way. Oh, that’s right. Any updates on that? Uh, it’s on the way.
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Okay. [laughter] So, no.
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All right. I’m sorry. I won’t interrupt you. That’s all right. We’re excited.
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And my special is on this YouTube channel. I believe in what Nate Land is doing and you don’t have to leave to go see it. Just stay here. If you’re
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subscribed to this channel, you’ll see it.
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That’s what I’m talking about. It’s going to show up on your feed right here.
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Netflix offered me and I’m like, “No, thank you.” Well, good. It’s about time you put your foot down. Yeah. You know, somebody does.
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I was Yeah, I heard about that conversation [laughter] from who?
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Just, you know, it’s just people talking in the industry.
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Do you remember Brian Bates told Ted Sarand? Yeah. I can think of his name.
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You’re like that. You’re like that video going around YouTube or Instagram now.
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That guy goes, “I turned it down.” Oh, no, man. And I that’s one of my favorite videos. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a rapper. I wish I knew the rapper’s name. I think he’s a successful
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rapper. But he tells one of the most egregious lies in the history of podcasting. He claims that he got offered a scholarship
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to to be in a band in college, but turned it down to do rap. And when pressed for details about the scholarship, he goes, “Couldn’t remember. It was a it’s a big college
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though.” Yeah.
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Uh they offered me 15 million, 10 million, 10 million, 5 million, something like that. [laughter] The guy goes, “They offered you $5
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million to be in a band.” He goes, “I turned it down.” And some comments that you would say, he said, “You could see these ideas popping
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in his [laughter] mind.” As he’s saying, he goes, “It was a scholarship.” Like, “You had to go go to school for this decade.” [laughter] Yes.
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So, this none of none of it makes any sense, but it’s an alltime great clip.
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Go and check that out. Well, we were And that’s Brian. That’s That’s what Brian does. I turned them down. I turned it down. I turned it down.
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They offered me like 15 million, 10 million, something like that. 5 million, something like that. That’s what they offered you, right?
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Yeah. How [laughter] would you not remember it was 15 million or 5 million? I was just so younger.
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I was just so younger. Like I didn’t know what it was. [laughter] Oh, that’s good stuff. Well, we’re recording this uh as we always do a
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couple days before it releases. Here it is. Memorial Day here on Monday. So, we got a a shell crew here. Just a few guys here in the room holding it down for us.
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What’s going on, everybody? Y’all doing okay? Just Yeah. Same amount of guys as always, but Okay. Well, there’s usually six people sitting in here not paying attention
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[laughter] and they’re not here this week. So, I was just excited. We got three people actually engaged. I’m excited to be here on Memorial Day.
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Thank you, Dusty. [laughter] Uh, just having a great time with my family and I But all these people in entertainment
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want that go you got every Monday off. I mean, that’s all entertainment.
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Everybody in entertainment, they’re just off work all the time. Well, I was over Nate’s house and my daughter was there and she wanted to go swimming in the
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pool and I said, “Honey, we don’t have time because Dusty wants to work on Memorial Day.” Yeah. She cried. It was also raining. But yeah.
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Yeah. Well, it’s raining. It’s not very warm.
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[laughter]
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But we’re happy to be here. I can’t think of another place on earth I’d rather be next to you two guys here at the table. Nate Land Studios here in Nashville. This is also the thing about
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a a day off like Memorial Day when I worked in the pesticide industry, right?
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And I would get Memorial Heartbeat of America.
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Yeah. I would get Memorial Day off and it meant I still got paid for that day, you know.
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Yeah. Yeah. It was a paid It was a paid day off, but if we PTO don’t do the podcast today. We just do
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two another day, right? But we Yeah. So you don’t really get any time off.
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Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, I mean that’s true. I mean, you’re just shifting the time.
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Yeah, you’re not getting any off. You’re you’re kicking the can down the road, as they like to [laughter] say.
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Well, unfortunately, yeah, Memorial Day fell on a week after your birthday.
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But that’s all right. We hope you had a good Memorial Day celebrating everybody out there. Hot dogs, hamburgers, whatever you got into. We uh Do you know what Memorial Day is for?
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Memorial Day is for in memoriam of uh people who’ve died in the armed forces. Is that true, Dusty?
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Uh probably. And uh listen, I I mean no disrespect to anybody on Memorial Day, but other people sacrifice for us. Why do we get the day off?
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Oh, well, they get the day off, too. Yeah, they get the day off. We work.
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You’re the only person in America fighting for less holidays.
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Yeah. I mean, I I think we should have a lot less holidays. [laughter] I I know you trying to get off work every other day out here.
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You’re trying to go to the bank these days. They’re like, “Ah, we’re closed.
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[laughter]
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We’re close.” And they go, “It’s Thanksgiving, sir.
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We get one day off a year to spend with our family.” [laughter] Come on.
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Some thanks from me. Huh? The dump. The city dump. Nashville city dump. You can’t, you know, they close all the time. What [laughter] a tragedy.
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I go, “Well, you just leave the trash can.
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How often are you going to the dump?” Well, not very often because I never I never know when they’ll be open or sometimes they go the bin’s full.
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Oh, the bin? I go, “The bin? Don’t you have a pile somewhere?
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Get another bin.” Yeah, come on. Dump that out at the next dump. Take that to another dump.
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I brought a I had my whole truck loaded down. The lady goes, “Bin’s full.” I go, “Was there another dump you can go to?” I go, “No.” I go, “Let me behind a
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Kroger.” I go, “Let me try to get it in there.” She was upset, but she let me try. And guess what? I got it in there.
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We were talking earlier about holidays to get rid of. Okay.
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He said, “First of Martin Luther King Day, that’d be gone.” [laughter] He said, “Act that.” That’s the only one I feel strongly
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about. [laughter] No, that’s not true.
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No, I’m joking about that. Um, just Christmas.
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Yeah. Look, I’m not against people having a day off. Okay.
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If especially if you know, if you work hard, you got a salary position, you get an extra day. I know that when I sold pesticides, I loved getting that day
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off, of course.
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But what did I want to do? I just wanted to drink and eat hot dogs, you know? I mean, there’s nothing wrong with that, I
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guess. But I just want to drink and eat hot and go, “Oh, so you should only have a day off if you run a marathon and read a book.” I don’t know. Maybe read a book. I don’t
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know about running a marathon, but you know.
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Which one would you be more likely to do? Read a book. Yeah, me too. Reading a book right now.
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both pretty unlikely for me that uh it feels good to be reading a book. What is it?
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I don’t even know. But I’m reading it. I got it at my nightstand and I just read a little bit before every night.
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[laughter]
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You sound like I’m just always in the middle of a book.
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Well, it is a book I don’t want to talk about. Oh, okay. On the podcast. Oh, I see. I read uh children’s books a lot.
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[laughter]
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Yeah. And uh and uh I this I can’t I don’t know how to pronounce his first
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name. Raul Dah. Uh he wrote like James and the Giant Peach and uh Matilda and Charlie in the Chocolate Factory.
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Charlie in the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr. Fox, which all of those were movies.
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Uh and I read Fantastic Mr. Fox the other day. It’s not very long. Mhm.
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And I really I was like, “This is fun.” Yeah, it could be nice, right? Reading is nice. Yeah, it’s good.
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But, you know, I could read that in one sitting. The problem is I feel like reading and I pick it up and I start reading. I go I could get into this but
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then the next day I don’t feel like it and then I don’t feel like it for months and then it’s tough to pick up where you left off. You’re I got to start the whole book over now.
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I started White Fang one time and I read quite a bit of it. White Fang Jack London. Yeah. Okay.
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I start I read quite a bit of it and then I just tapped out and never got back into it. White Fang. Wow. 1906.
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Yeah. that book came out. I remember I remember that. Call of the Wild and then another big one he had or something.
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Anyway, yeah, The Call of the Wild by Jack Lenn. Anyway, this is the kind of uh I would say the banter, the back and forth, the rapport that we have. It’s
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pretty good illustration. Let’s clip that and use it as a trailer the last 10 minutes. [laughter] Dusty, what book you think he’s reading?
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[sighs and gasps]
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Oh, probably some book about how uh mathematics in society is uh destroying
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the societal uh building blocks of uh culture.
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[laughter]
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I mean, there’s a lot of good words in there. I don’t really know if I know what you mean, but yeah, there’s a lot of good buzzwords in that for sure. But well, my wife is always reading a book.
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She’s never not in the middle of a book, and she makes fun of me for it. And I have to go. I think I think overall I’ve still read more books than you my entire life.
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Wow.
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I still if we were to add it all up and she really reads them non-stop.
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I thought she just got puts on Instagram to see cool. No, man. She reads the books. But uh anyway, I got to catch back up. So I’m trying.
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I’m trying to get into it. It’s Harry Potter. I can tell though.
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[laughter]
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Reading the book. I do the audio books for that. Yeah.
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I You remember that time I discovered that math thing? I do [laughter] remember.
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We talked about that on here. That was pretty fun. I saw another guy talking. I didn’t discover this one.
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We talked about it on Nate Land, not on here. Okay. Different podcast. That is true. Our old podcast. That’s right.
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But I um I saw another one online the other day that I thought was pretty interesting. It was about nines.
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Okay. I thought that’s what yours was.
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No, mine was about um I don’t know. I don’t want to go too back into mine again, but uh but this one is like like
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see like take the teens. Take all the teens. 11 12 13.
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Yeah. Let’s start with uh let’s start with 13. Okay.
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You add 1 and three and that’s four, right? And then the one and three makes a 13. So you subtract four from the 13
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and you get nine. All the teens are like that. It always comes out to 9 if you do that. And then when you get to like the
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20s, you would say say 23, you do uh 2 +
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3 is 5. And then 5 – 23 is 18. 18 1 plus 8 is nine.
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It always comes to nine. That’s cool.
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Well, there’s a riddle I think we’ve shared on this podcast and it’s because of that that it works. Do you remember that? Which one did I do it?
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I I had heard it and I think you told it on here um about the uh pick an animal that starts with that.
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Yeah. And then a country that starts right and I think it only works because of that what he just said.
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That principle right there. Well, what is the use of that? I don’t know if there’s a use, but I just think it’s
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people just kind of being blown away by mathematical um anomalies like that. Uhhuh.
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Yeah.
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I like it. I feel like when I bring up stuff like that, it gets trashed for what’s the point of even knowing that.
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But less useful than what I think you’re thinking about the old podcast. [laughter]
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Maybe a little bit. Maybe a little I think you are too. But I think you he might have had a sidekick over there that was agreeing with you.
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Oh, of course I saw Here’s the kind of science I’ve been into lately. I’ve been reading. Do you know that if you the less you wash your dishes before you put
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them in the dishwasher, the cleaner they get. Wow.
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So, you can actually overclean your dishes and the dishwasher won’t clean them as much. Do you think maybe it’s
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like uh you you wash the dirt like like if you like you can wash a stain into a shirt?
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No, it has nothing to do with the dishes themselves. It’s When you say reading, you mean you watch a Tik Tok video 100%. Yeah. Yeah. I’m not reading a book about uh dishwashing.
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Okay. So, that’s not the book.
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That’s not the book. Cross out that topic. We’ll work our way down eventually. No, it’s a lot of these dishwashers have something called a
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turbidity sensor that will uh that will adjust kind of the the flow of the water depending on the feedback that it gets.
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So, if you scrub off too much food, then it will think that the plates are cleaner than they actually are.
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So, you should rinse off like food and excess things.
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Plumbers all over this country need to be sending you money right now. People are going to be putting full bowls of open. I mean, don’t do that calling for this.
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But there’s an instinct like, let me just clean this B and it’s basically clean and then you put it in the dishwasher. Yeah, I’m against that. Okay. Yeah, but that blew my mind.
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Yeah.
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I also saw another thing about how to uh how to get in your car when it’s hot out. I watched this woman before you
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[laughter]
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Now, let’s clip this.
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Now, the instinct Let’s clip this. Hold on. Here’s something fun that I learned.
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If you go to your car and it’s hot out, the instinct is to just blast the AC right away, right?
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That’s not what I do. That’s not what I do. Okay. Well, what do you do? I get in and roll all the windows down. Okay.
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Here’s what you should do. And there’s science behind this. Okay.
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You open your trunk or your back window and then you take the driver door and
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you open and close it like a fan and you pump the hot air out of the car.
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The way the way physics works, if if you have that back door open and then you pump the door, all that hot air is going
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to go out the back of the car and then you turn on the AC.
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I think if it’s not going to be cool, but it’ll it takes the edge off.
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I think if you do that, you’re so sweaty by the time you get in, you go, “Wow, this feels pretty good.” [laughter] But you know what I mean? I’m not
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talking about a normal hot day. I’m talking about where you open up the car and you’re like, “Geez, there’s like a different climate in here.” Yeah. Can I leave my dog in here?
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Exactly. And you got to pump it out with the door.
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Try that next time. Next time you’re It’s hot out.
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Open up the trunk. Pump it out with the door.
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Honey, I know we’re late, but pump that trunk. I’m talking 15 seconds. Okay. Yeah. Just pump it out.
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No, I like that. Especially if you have a hatchback. A hatchback’s perfect for that. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. I can say with a hatchback, but I just have a regular trunk. Just open the Oh, or like a sedan. Yeah.
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Might not work for a sedan. You got to fold the seats down. There’s got to be somewhere for that.
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[laughter]
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Here’s what you do. Take apart your car.
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[laughter]
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I do that. I always get in, roll all the windows down, and let that kind of let the hot air out, as they say.
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But I’m saying you can you can expedite that if you pump it out with the door.
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With the door in you, it wouldn’t work with this truck, though, would it?
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I got to Can you open that back window? Pump it out, man. I can pump it out.
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Get it out of there, dude. But I have to crank the truck just to open the windows. It’s not Oh, it’s not a manual window.
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Turn the air conditioner off. Okay. Yeah.
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Well, I’d like to see you try next time it’s hot out, try some of this.
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I’ll pump it and report. [laughter] I appreciate that. I just want to see you out in public. You look a little insane. I’ll do the video.
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But it works. I’m just pumping this hot air out.
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Also, if you hold a a key fob up to your chin, that extends the range. Wow. by a pretty significant amount.
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I don’t like the idea that my brain is being used as a bit of a receiver for It’s not your brain, it’s a skull. It’s
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your skull is being used as an antenna and it’s extending the signal.
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I think that’s what happens with wireless headphones. If you use two, it’s all a mess right there. The one connects.
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I read a thing, actually read it, not a Tik Tok, this weekend, about how wifi, you can map out somebody’s house in 3D using Wi-Fi.
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Yeah. Um, so it’s all we’re all done anyway.
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That’s why, you know, you might as well hold your key.
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I stopped doing it, but I used to cut my Wi-Fi off every night when I went to bed. Did you really?
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Yeah. I didn’t stop doing it because I don’t believe in it. I just they, you know, they wore me down. Yeah. I’m exhausted with it.
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Yeah. Wi-Fi. Cutting it off and then cutting it on. Okay. And what is it people do through Wi-Fi?
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Well, they fry, you know, they kill you.
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And uh the [laughter] my I had I order I ordered a a Wi-Fi extender from the company that I get my Wi-Fi from.
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And they go, “Oh, yeah, everything’s fine.” The guys installing it, I go, “How can I cut this wireless off and just use it as a regular router?” You know, stuff like that. They all think you’re insane.
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On the box that they gave me, it was like, “This may cause cancer.” And I go, “Okay, so I’m crazy.” Yeah. But you’re telling me this is bad.
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They’re just covering their bases, dude.
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But the signal, imagine just a signal sent in uh in every direction from the from your router, right?
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Mhm.
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You can detect where you get signals back from that that frequency or the whatever the whatever it is. And you can map out everything in its range and perfect 3D.
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How a bat or how the daredevil sees.
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Mhm. [laughter] Does that help?
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Uh, I mean, not not really, but it’s it’s my it’s the problem’s on my Do you remember at the end of Batman when Morgan Freeman goes, “Oh, yeah.
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That’s it’s basically that.” And you have one of those devices in your house right now. That was uh The Dark Knight. That’s right. The Dark Knight.
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Mhm. Anyway, uh where were you this weekend, Brian?
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You want to get into that? We got a couple minutes here before I like though when this stuff comes up.
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What’s that? what you just talked about Wi-Fi because people will get into thinking, “Oh, oh, you think of Wi-Fi is
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a conspiracy, huh?” They and it’s like, “No, but there are stuff that can be done with it and it’s probably bad for us all.”
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Yeah. Way to go, Erin. Feeling
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[laughter]
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now he’s a partner in crime over here.
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Well, 5 seconds ago, Brian didn’t even get what you were saying. [laughter] Now suddenly he’s like, “What? This is ridiculous, guys. I lost interest. I’m
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like, I can tell it’s quacks talking about it.
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Brian’s like, “Whatever. Just kill me and I don’t [laughter] care. Just do whatever.” The box says may cause cancer,
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which Dusty already agrees with. So, he agrees with what if he didn’t agree with the premise, he’d be like, “Ah, they’re trying to trick me. They’re trying to tell me something.” Interesting.
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Of course, I would be. But the fact the fact that they’re admitting it, I go, “Well, yeah,
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[laughter]
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because I already believe this. So whether they say it or not doesn’t doesn’t change me. But the fact that they do say it, I go, “Well, yeah,
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that’s confirmation.” So you believe them when they say when they issue a warning.
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I believe that their product is bad for your health. Yes.
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And so whether they say it’s bad or say it’s not bad, I still believe it’s bad. Oh, okay.
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It’s got nothing to do with me being like, “Now I believe you.” Uhhuh.
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It’s just like, “Thanks for admitting it.” Right. Yeah. We You respect their honesty. Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate it.
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Uh, and I didn’t set the extender up, by the way. Good for you, man.
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Yeah, take that Comcast.
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Well, I’m not saying the name of the Take that Xfinity AT&T.
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I’m not saying Spectrum TDS.
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Name a bunch. [laughter] Guys, you know, lately I’ve been more intentional about what I wear dayto-day.
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I’ve noticed that. You’ve commented on it.
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I was just saying that today. Yeah, you weren’t here, but we were talking about you. I lean into pieces that feel easy, comfortable, and still put together, right? Easy like Sunday morning.
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That’s right. It just makes getting dressed simpler. Quint has been my go-to. Oh, yeah.
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The fabrics feel elevated, the fits are clean, and everything just works without needing to overthink it.
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Quint has all the wardrobe staples for spring. Think 100% European linen shorts and shirts from $34.
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I love linen so much. I’m 100% clothing guy and linen is great.
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Clean 100% puma cotton tees with a softness that has to be felt. Love cotton. Their pants also hit the same balance.
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Relax and comfortable but still polished enough to wear pretty much anywhere.
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That’s what you want. [clears throat] I recently bought one of their linen shirts. It’s very comfortable and the quality of it is amazing.
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Love linen. When I received it, it was pleasantly I was pleasantly surprised because it did not cost what other high-end brands cost, but it felt better than the other high-end brands.
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Wow.
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Wow, that’s a good return policy. A whole [clears throat] year. Yeah. Yeah. Now available in Canada, too.
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That’s qui n.com/nate for free shipping and 365day returns.
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quint.com/nate.
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Um I uh yeah, I’ve been out west in West Wild Baits. Colorado.
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Yeah, I was in uh Colorado. Uh Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday I was in Denver.
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Uh Thursday I was in Gley, Colorado. I’ve been to Gley. You have? Yeah. Yeah, it’s a great town. Yeah, I like it.
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Yeah, it smells like Calvin.
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Yeah, they don’t like it to make bring it up though as I was told. Well, I brought it up on stage.
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Okay. Yeah. [laughter] And what I said was, which is true, I Googled does gley and then Google finished the rest of the sentence. Smell
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like cow. [laughter] Wow.
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So, I’m like, you don’t really have to click on to find the answer when that’s the first thing that Yeah. Yeah. Does gley smell is the first one.
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Second one is have an airport. Third is smell bad.
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Yeah. [laughter] But Gley was a great town. Um, Denver crowd was kind of small, but it’s
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downtown Denver. It’s I love Denver, too.
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It’s tough. My opener said she had to pay $50 to park. Jeez.
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And I was only paying her 25, so [laughter] not a good night for her.
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That’s a joke about that. But I mean, she did say she paid $50. Yeah. 50 second box.
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I know. So, who I mean, give me I’m not Nate Bargatsi here. Nobody wants to pay 50 bucks just to park to see me. Not
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even the actual show, which was 10. Um, shame on Gley for having anywhere that charges No, that was Denver. Oh, shame on Denver.
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Yeah, Gley. You can park wherever you want. Okay.
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Um, plenty of cow pastures to park in.
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Yeah. And then I drove over stuff. The manure conversation. That’s right. Yeah. They have like a big meat processing plant. Yeah. I love Glay.
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Yeah, it was great. Uh, shout out to Stephanie McHugh, my opener. And then, uh, [laughter]
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well, you always mention your openers. I know. Just because it’s a woman, you laugh.
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Yeah. Just cuz you remember her name right away. [laughter] It’s a difference between you and Dustin.
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[gasps]
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Well, that is true. Then I drove over to Casper, Wyoming. As I’ve said many times, my first time ever in Wyoming. I
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loved it. Beautiful drive. Loved the wide open spaces. Uh, it is a beautiful drive out there, isn’t it, man? Mountains. Did you get out and you walk around?
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You know, breathe in the air.
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Yeah, I did. I did. It was like It was wide open, but then I’d see mountains in the distance. I didn’t really go through any mountains. Wide open spaces. You know that song?
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I do know. Yeah. By the by the chicks. Yeah. Um, but then, um, yeah, Casper’s great.
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I mean, my opener, shout out to Chad Shahin, uh drove me up uh into the mountains, snow covered mountains.
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That’s so cool. Snow capped mountains out there. Does Casper, Wyoming, have anything to do with Casper the ghost? Is there any relation?
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I don’t think so. What about the mattress? I don’t even know the mattress.
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Casper the mattress. We’re Helix people on this podcast. Yeah. So, I don’t know a lot about Casper, but the um you know, I when I was in
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Wyoming, I went to I forget where I was at. I did a kind of a corporate event on the southeastern part of Wyoming. And
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I drove from Utah, Salt Lake City, and drove across and rented a car. And then I in order to save a little money, you
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know, I returned the car a day early and then I I got a ride to the airport the next day. But I had to return the car to the airport. And when I took the car to the airport, there was no Uber, no lift.
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I could not get out of the airport once I dropped the rental car off. So, I waited for a cab. I called a cab and
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waited for a long time for the cab. And finally, they came and the lady was from North Carolina and she’s like, “I love it here, but I just miss the trees.
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There’s no trees.” And where we were at, there were no trees.
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But then I got back to my hotel and I was like, “There’s trees everywhere around here.” Yeah. Not at the airport talking. Not at the airport.
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Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. These small airports when you drop off a rental car, it’s wild because it’s just so like yesterday I dropped off my
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rental car at Casper airport. Really small. And there is nobody to greet you.
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You know, on a Sunday, they just say, “Write down your mileage on this post-it note.” Crazy.
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Put it in this box with your key. And you just got to trust that Yeah. you know that they’re trustworthy.
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There’s just not enough volume going through those that they can trust people. They’re usually very nice. I did that in but Montana. I actually I messed
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up big time in the morning. I I I was late getting to the airport and then I forgot to put gas in my rental car when I got there and then there was no one to talk to.
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Yeah.
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So, I just had to drop it off with, you know, without gas in it.
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Yeah. I’ve done a couple times. You can just do that, you know. Yeah. I called them. Well, they’ll charge you for it, right?
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Yeah. But I’m saying sometimes you’re like, I don’t I whatever. Yeah, but I called them and I wanted to find out what it was going to cost, you know, and it took them a couple of days to get
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back to me and they call and they go, “Well, cost us about 40 bucks to fill it up, so about 40 bucks.” And I go, “Oh, okay.” I
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mean, I thought they would be like, “Yep, 300 bucks.” Yeah. Well, it’s $40, so a multiplier of four, it’s going to be And they were like, “Yeah, just Yeah, we
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filled it up, so that’s what it’ll cost.” Wow.
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I go, “Wow, that’s very nice.” Yeah.
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But I always love But Montana. I want to share this story with you guys. Okay.
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Uh in Gley, the the booker said, “Hey, unfortunately the hotel we always use is is filled up, so you mind if I put you
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in a bed and breakfast?” I don’t like bed and breakfastes. Yeah, but you’re the guy.
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Well, I am Mr. Breakfast. Yeah, that’s true. But I don’t like Airbnbs. I don’t like I just want a hotel. Interesting. Okay.
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Every time I go to Airbnb, there’s something something happens.
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There’s something with the getting the key, the code, the Wi-Fi. something’s not right and I just want a hotel and I want someone at the front desk if there
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is a problem. I get to this Airbnb and there’s an old man out there. When I say old, he’s like 70. Okay. My age.
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Objectively [laughter] old. Yeah.
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Yeah. He’s about 70. I’m not saying he’s saying to you.
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Yeah. [laughter] And he’s out there taking a picture of an RV. He’s like going around it and taking a picture with I don’t know what he’s doing. I don’t know if it’s his RV
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or just someone’s RV he’s a fan of or whatever. And I get my bag out of my trunk and he goes, “Uh, can I help you take your bags in,
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young fella?” [laughter] And I said, “No, I got it. I’m good.” I said, ‘ Do you work here? He’s like, “No, but I’m staying here.” And he said,
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“Have you checked in yet?” I’m like, “No.” And he said, “Come on, I’ll show you in.” He’s like, “Go through the back door.” He said, “Man, this place is so nice.” And he said, “Uh, my daughter
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bought it for me. I don’t even know how much it costs, but it is so nice.” And he said, “How much is yours?” And I said, “I don’t know. Someone bought it for me, too.” Your daughter bought it for me, too.
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[laughter]
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So then we get to the back door and he’s pulling on it and he can’t get I said, “Well, they emailed me. There’s a code.” And he’s like, “Oh yeah, yeah, that’s
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right.” He’s like, “What’s the code?” So now I’m thinking, “Wait a second. Does this guy even stay in here or is he like some serial killer?
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Does he seem with it or is something a little off?” He seems like um for a 70-year-old, he seems with it. I mean, he seems like a guy who probably drives cross country.
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He look like a former trucker. That’s what I would describe him. Okay.
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And I I mean I I would give any I mean people It’s amazing I’m still alive.
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Just go along. I’d hurt [clears throat] someone’s feelings. So I I give him the code. We go in. He’s like, “What what’s your room number?” And I tell him he’s like, “Oh, let me
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show you. It’s up here.” So we walk upstairs. What are you doing up there?
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We got to have a talk after this podcast.
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I mean, it’s not like it’s a giant hotel. It’s He’s He could just stand there and watch me go to it. Mhm.
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It’s not like I’m going to keep some secret from him. Yeah. There’s like 10 rooms.
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Definitely not. [laughter] So then we go up there and he’s like, “Oh, yours yours right there.” And I’m still thinking this guy may not even be
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staying here. He might just come in to kill people. But he goes to his room. He goes, “I’m right here. My my name’s so and so. You need anything? Let me know.”
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I’m like, “Okay, thanks.” I’m thinking, “I will never ever need from you.” I know.
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He go he goes to his room. I start pushing the keypad to get the lock box to get my key out. It won’t work.
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[laughter] It will not work. I keep trying and I keep trying. I’m like, “What is wrong with this thing?” This other old man shows up checking his room
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and I’m like, “I can’t get my my lock box.” He’s like, “You got to push it.
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You got to, you know, he’s he’s whatever.” Yeah. He goes in his room.
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I can’t get in. There’s nobody at the front desk. I finally go over to old man number one. Knock on [laughter] you. Yeah. It turns out I do need help.
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I’m like, I can’t get my lock box open.
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Can you know? He comes out. He turns his flashlight on his phone. None of us can see, you know. He’s shining it on it on the thing. It’s one of those old combination Oh, sure.
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blocks where you can barely see the numbers. He gets an X-acto knife out of his pocket and he’s trying to pry it open.
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Old man two comes out of his room. He’s like, “Y’all got it yet?” And we’re like, “No, not yet.” So, he comes out, he tries to help. He’s trying to do it.
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They’re both pulling on it. I’m like, “This is my worst nightmare.” Is this just like an old man camp that [laughter] they should speak to?
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They’re all watching from a camera somewhere. [laughter] That’s why these old men trying to get in this room.
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I finally like I got a phone number. Let me just call them. And he’s like, “No, no, no, no. Let me try this.” Like, you know, old man, they want to they want to make it work. They don’t want anyone’s
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help. Unlike me who just wants to in the process, they’re all learning your combination to your room.
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[laughter]
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I mean, I gave it to them so many times. None of us could really see the numbers. Yeah.
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Finally, they give up and they’re like, “That ain’t the number. Call.” And I call and I’m like, “Hey, I’ve been trying.” And the guy goes, “Oh, sorry. I gave you the wrong number.” [laughter]
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He goes, “It’s cuz they gave me 3036.” It’s 5036. We had to change it recently.
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And you go, “Hey, by the way, your locks real cut up.” [laughter] I think somebody’s been trying to break in.
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All right. So then I try that. It opens immediately. Doors open. Good. And then that old guy goes, “Hey, can I see your room? See what how the layout is of your
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room.” Oh gosh.
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And I’m like, “Sure.” No.
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So he comes in and he looks around and he’s like, “Ah, it’s pretty nice in here.” He’s like, “I I I kind of like my layout better, but I like Let me see how your sheets feel, Ryan.”
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[laughter]
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Then he goes, “Come look at my room. See how it is.” So now I think I’m definitely going to get murdered, but I want to be nice. So I’m like, you know, I’ll do it. So I’ll go over to his room.
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How different could the rooms be?
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They’re not hardly any. He’s just an old man that was lonely. And he’s like, “Check this out. You know, come look at my room.” I’m like, “Oh, man. This is pretty nice.”
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I’m like, “Okay, I’m going to go now.” And he goes, “Wait, wait, wait. Let me give you one more thing.” And he takes a bag of Worther’s originals and just dumps a bunch in my hand. [laughter]
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What he didn’t know is I already had my own bag.
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He’s like, “These are great.” I was like, “I know they are cuz I have some over there in my room.” But that’s why I don’t like staying there. And then that night after the
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show, I get back to the Airbnb. The code outside on the door won’t work. And I keep doing I keep doing I finally have to call again and the guy’s like, “Yeah,
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I think the battery is getting low on the keypad.” So, we go. Well, yeah. We come out here.
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Why don’t you fix that? He knew that that was I had to get in on a different door. But that’s why I just want a hotel.
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Every now and then you get an Airbnb that works flawlessly, but they are few and far between, man. There’s always something like that going down. I don’t
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like one where there’s other people in the house. Yeah. That are around. You go. That’s kind of the whole appeal of it to me is I have my own place.
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You mean people you don’t know? Yeah. Yeah. Strangers. Yeah.
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Yeah. And the Airbnb, I think they’re going down a little bit. Mhm.
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Because of some things that you and I have both joked about. Our jokes are different and I don’t do mine now, but
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uh we’ve joked about the amount of things they want you to do to check out. It’s crazy. That’s such a hacky premise. Go ahead.
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[laughter]
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But it’s like every comics had that joke. Go ahead. Sorry.
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Well, you can, you know, this is what I thought the other day about jokes, too.
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It’s like at this point, we’ve all we’ve talked about everything. Nothing’s new under the sun.
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We shouldn’t make I think all new music should be halted. We don’t make new music anymore. Everybody, no more. We’re making an album right now.
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No more new [laughter] No, but that’s just hobby. No more new music. We’re not putting it out. Okay.
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Especially love songs. They’re all We They’re all done. Okay. Movies.
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Movies. I think we can all stop all movies after the bread winner. [laughter] By the way, bread winners.
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Well, it’s already been made. So, if it’s been made, put it out. But after that, we got enough movies. We got enough
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music. Um, I think there’s still room for comedy. Uh, conveniently. Yeah.
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But they a lot of comics, but no new jokes should be fired and uh just but I think at this point if you have a
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topic that you’re talking about, you got to assume that out here in the world of comedy, 18 other people have already
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joked about it. And you just got to be unique. That’s why it’s I think that’s why it’s got to be a story or like you
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dealing with it instead of just like uh abstractly talking about it. Yeah.
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You know, but it’s like that is the problem with Airbnb.
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And also sometimes the checkouts I mean it’s a hard checkout. Like I got uh you know I stay at this one hotel brand
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Marriott and I’m like highest status now because I stay at the same one.
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I’ve heard of it. And uh [laughter] so now I can get late checkout every time if I want. That’s nice. Sometimes up to 400 p.m. late check.
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4 p.m. Yeah. Wow. That’s a late checkin for the next time. I know.
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But the uh last Airbnb I stayed at was in Florida. Now, they had already told me we’re we’re packed this weekend, so we got to turn and burn here. But I
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didn’t even think about it. I’m just hanging out having coffee. My my buddy Vince, he’s by the pool. Somebody knocks
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on the door. I go, “Who’s this?” I open it. It’s the cleaning crew. Yeah. And I have to leave right now. You got to pack up, brother.
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And I was like, “Oh, jeez. I don’t like that.” Mhm. Hotel would never do that to me. You just leave, Vince.
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Yeah. [laughter] Yeah, I did. See you. He came back. You’re gone. He’s still there.
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That’s wild. Why do you guys like Airbnbs? I like having if I got a buddy with me, I like having a living room, you know, maybe like Jay Flake.
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Sometimes he’ll bring his Xbox and we’ll set that up and we’ll play in the living room.
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About to say ex-wife. [laughter] As far as I know, Jay Flake does not have an ex-wife. [laughter]
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And I don’t know what benefit to having a living room that would be. What do you mean a shared space? If he brought his ex-wife.
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Yeah, that’s where I would have to sleep, I guess. [laughter]
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Zoogie, amazing that there’s a podcast that is funny from start to finish, including the ad reads. Thanks for bringing the laughs to us common folks and bores.
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Well, appreciate that, Zoogie. I’m going to be honest, the name ZBoogie did not sound like someone that would really appreciate this podcast from start to
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finish and the ad reads and I appreciate it.
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Sounds like someone’s going to insult us, doesn’t it? Zoogie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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And there might be a an insult somewhere in that comment that we didn’t catch. Probably. Yeah.
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I bet Zoogiey’s riding a dirt road getting hammered though. Probably right now. That’s what I would think. He’s throwing beers out of the driver’s side.
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Zoogie landing in the back.
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Love that. Dawson Rodriguez, I love Brian insulting us. Got to grow up.
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[laughter] It’s slowly becoming my favorite part of the show. Also, shout out to Aaron for the plebes reference.
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All right. I don’t know if that’s Dawson.
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I don’t know if plebs is a reference so much as just a word, but um that’s true. Was plebs a reference to something?
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No. Dawson’s probably just dumb.
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[laughter]
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Uh, yeah. Dawson. Dawson with an A. D A W. Dawson. Rodriguez.
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Dawson. Rodriguez. Also, you don’t expect to see. No, you don’t think Rodriguez is coming. And it comes hard right after that. Yeah.
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Sorry about that. Dawson. Lisa M. Thank you for listening by the way. Dawson. Dawson. Lisa M. Dusty questioning.
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Should people be warning others about their ugly baby is the hardest I’ve ever laughed at this podcast. I don’t remember you doing that.
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I think what was happening was uh they were talking about how people will have
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ugly babies and then not tell you and be like, “Oh, my baby’s so pretty.” or whatever. And I I think I was saying,
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do you expect them to be like, “Oh, I’m going to show you the baby, but yeah, [laughter] they’re ugly.” Hey, brace yourself. Yeah, it’s not a good look right now.
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I want to warn you. All babies are beautiful.
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[clears throat]
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I agree. See, I I have a hard time, you know, I mean, because poor little babies. I mean, they’re going to grow up. They got a world of stuff coming at them, right?
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And just I got You got to let them live in peace out here.
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I agree. Terra Brian doesn’t. Terara Metley Meckley.
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They need to know right out of the gate that they’re ugly before they can even understand words.
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Yeah, I’m joking. I know. I know. Terra
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[laughter]
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Aaron, I’m a little I’m sorry. I’m a little too edgy for Dusty.
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I think so. Honestly, he is. He’s grow up a little bit. He’s uh he’s a harsh guy. He really is.
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One to hang out at a bread and breakfast in Wyoming. And [laughter] bread and breakfast. That’s where I stay.
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[laughter]
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A twofer. It’s just two meals.
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You can’t even stay. Yeah. Just it’s just bread and breakfast [laughter] things out of there. Not even a place to sleep.
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There’s places to take a nap after you [laughter] eat, but you can’t the first name of Cracker Barrel.
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Uh, Tara Meckley. Aaron, I think the solution to your baggage claim problem is to stop checking bags. If you can’t
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fit everything you need in a carry-on in a backpack, you’re bringing too much. I understand that [clears throat] in
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theory, Tara, but the reality is if I’m gone four or five days at a time and if I’m bringing merch now on the road, you’re going to have to check a bag.
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You just have to. So, it’s just it’s the world I live in. Also, you know, I think I don’t I shouldn’t I shouldn’t have to
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change the way I live because other people are misbehaving, right? Yeah. I got to put my foot down somewhere.
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Yeah. Because it’s like this.
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I also like being annoyed by this every week. I know that sounds weird, but I like being annoyed by it. I get it. Do you get it? No, I do get it.
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Because checking it’s like this. You check a bag or you have this extra carry on. No matter what, you’re holding
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somebody up somewhere. Because if you’re not checking a bag, then you’re at TSA and you got to put your personal item and then you got to put your check. You
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got to take up two bins. It all takes a little longer. And then when you’re getting on the plane, you’re struggling to get it up in the overhead. And then
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when it’s your time to get it out, you go, “Oh, which one is it? [laughter] Which one is it?” Actually, mine’s back there. Can I grab that?
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I can’t get it. Can you help? I can’t get it.
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Would you hand me that blue bag back there? No. Why don’t you wait till it’s your you know, and then and then everybody’s held up by it. But if you just check the bag, then no big deal.
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But Terra, I’ll say on a shorter trips now, I do just take a carry-on for this exact reason. But most of the time I can’t.
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I don’t understand how I was thinking about this yesterday. Airplanes, if you’re allowed one carry-on, was flying United yesterday and there’s a size limit on what that carry-on is.
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It seems like they should know how much bin space they need, but yet I feel like very often they’re like, “Oh, we’re running low on bin space. Sometimes you
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got to check it, you know, at the gate.” Yeah.
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And I don’t Who is it? Some comic had a great bit about it. They always act like they’re mad at you. Like, we didn’t know y’all were going to bring bags on the flight.
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[laughter] They always Yeah, we’re about to take off, but we didn’t know y’all have all this stuff with you.
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Well, they do do that. Like, we can’t leave. Six more.
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Six more bags checked right now. Right now. Yeah.
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Golly. Yeah. I don’t know why they can’t figure that out. I guess some bags people bring.
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And also, how do they know how many bags we have out there to know what needs to be checked? They eyeball it.
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You think? I think so. They go, “Oh, geez.” Because a lot of times I, you know, I used to have just a backpack and I would put it under there. But, you know, now,
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you know, I don’t travel light. So, that’s why I take offense to Terra.
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You don’t have to declare a carry-on like you do a check bag when you get your boarding pass. I don’t know what that means.
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Like, you have to indicate that you have a carry-on in some way. You do sometimes.
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No, no, not a carry-on. I just let them know I checked a bag. But you don’t ever have to do a carry-on. Okay. I’m just wondering.
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I do a carry on. I don’t let them know spirit. You had to let them know charge for. Yeah.
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Kathy Lewis, I love the podcast. You are all great comedians. Thanks, Kathy. Next comment comes from Dan G. She keeps
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going. You’re all great comedians, but please, Dusty, stop singing. You are so tonedeaf. You make fun of Brian
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pronouncing words wrong. Well, I beg you, don’t sing. It’s just so wrong.
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Kathy, if you want to marry Aaron, just say it. [laughter] Okay. Okay. Kathy and Aaron sitting in a drink.
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Yeah. It’s like, take it easy. Aaron sings, Brian sings, but you’re coming at me. Did Did I cut You guys ever hear me come on here and go, “Hey, I’m a great
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singer.” It’s it’s called having a a soul and and some spirit and wanting to bring joy to people’s lives.
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Just cuz Kathy Lewis has no joy in her life, right?
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Uh and and loves when you sang apparently and loved Brian’s Oscar Meyer wiener tune. Uh if you, you know, if you
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guys want to get a room, uh Brian knows a bed and breakfast in Wyoming. There’s a lot of other old men that can help you guys get to your room.
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That was greedy. Thank you very much.
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Uh, what you saying? You’re tonedeaf, so you take the joy out of her life. Yeah.
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Well, there’s nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit. There’s no prosthetic for that. You know the movie?
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That’s Kathy Lewis. Uh, no. Sen of a woman.
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Okay. It’s been a while since I’ve seen that.
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Mary Aluccino comes to the school at the end and gives the big speech. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But who else?
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I’m not going to stop singing. I’m not going to sing more.
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That’s right. That’s what I was trying to think of. [snorts] Okay.
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But I, you know, I’ll be singing the same amount.
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Okay. So, you’re not going to try to stick it to her, but you’re not going to back down. No.
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Yeah. I was I was sure nothing would change from that comment. Yeah. Yeah.
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But please, Dusty, stop [laughter] singing. Well, I beg you. I beg you. Don’t sing. Yeah. Don’t sing. I beg you.
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Kathy, you just wait till I think of a song. Okay. [laughter] You think I’m on here trying to It’s going to be a long song. You think
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I’m trying to get a record deal on the podcast? I mean, I’m just I’m just letting it loose, right?
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I’m not going. [clears throat] All right, guys. Vocal warm up.
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Dan Galvin, the same guy wrote and sang all three of TGIF’s most iconic theme
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songs, Full House, Family Matters, and Stepbyep. Well, that’s pretty unbelievable. Yeah. Think about including that.
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Is that you, Dan Galvin? Is that who wrote this?
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Who wrote that? She looked up and didn’t look up.
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Well, no. He probably just knew that fun fact and didn’t know the person.
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I feel like that’s an important part of the fun fact.
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Well, we’re not going to know the person. Jesse Frederick. There you go. Your life.
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Oh, you would know him. He frequently collaborated with songwriter Bennett Salvet. Oh, yeah. That’s where you know him from.
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[laughter]
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Thank you, Dan.
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It’s a rare condition. You know, that’s a good song.
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Also, Perfect Strangers. I never watched that show, but I’ve heard of it. I used to watch it. Was it Balky?
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Yeah, Balky. A lot of people listed that as the best.
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There’s so many TV theme songs people have been listening like that is a great that’s really really good.
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You guys missed about Suicide is Painless. The MASH theme song.
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That’s a great I never watched it.
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But you know the biggest show theme song, right? I don’t think so. You don’t suicide.
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Well, there is no words to it. It’s just it just wasn’t um I don’t feel like there was I don’t know. I feel like my dad wasn’t into it and so it just wasn’t
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something that we got to watch. I get it.
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Yeah. It’s that’s probably good feeling unavailable. Yeah.
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I want to do what a lot of people have been begging me to do for quite some time. You know what I’m going to do?
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I’m going to connect to a personal hotspot here on the podcast. Look at that.
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Do you want me to go with the comments while you do this?
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I had a No, no, no. Just give me a second. You want us to just all sit here?
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No. Just let me just vamp for 10 seconds. My god. Be a professional. It’s going to take you’re professional.
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I am being a professional trying to just move [laughter] it along.
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While you’re like, you’re like, I’m going to try to connect.
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You go, okay, while you do that, you want us to just take over for a bit? No, dude. Let me have my moment. And then you’re like, be professional.
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Be professional here. I’m just trying to connect to a hot spot so I can get the MASH theme song going. [laughter] Suicide is pain.
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Act like you’ve been here before, dude.
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We’re on episode 400. Okay, we should know all the while he’s vamping. Dusty, sing the cheers. [laughter] I connected to the hotspot, but now we
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got another alert. Uh, well, it is in the title of the song, so I can’t Cheers. I, you know, I got into Cheers pretty hard about 10 years ago. When I
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moved here, I watched all the episodes of Always Sunny in Philadelphia up until that point, which I love that show. I used to I’ve become a little less desensitized
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than I used to be, and I find the show too harsh to watch now. But, um, when I was No, it would be the opposite, right?
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I’m less desensitized. So, I’ve been reensitized.
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Okay. Yeah. Okay. You’re right. Um, and then uh, but I started watching I just was craving a bar show after that was
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over. So, I started watching Cheers. I’d never really watched it. I’d seen an episode. It’s so good. It’s great.
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And I love the theme song, but I can’t think of it at all. I have no idea.
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Wherea, guys. Kathy Kathy,
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I’m not singing though. I’m just doing a musical stuff. I’m just Yeah. Now I’m just doing instruments. I’m with Kathy on this.
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Elizabeth Bowerman.
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[laughter]
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Speaking of gratitude, our family is so thankful for you all. Mostly dusty. Thank you, Elizabeth. What kind of twisted family is this?
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God, [laughter] this family just emailed wrote this email from their bunker, everybody.
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Yeah. Well, thank you, Elizabeth, cuz I got to tell you, Kathy really hurt my feelings. Yeah. Teresa O, I’m gonna be for real.
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[laughter] If I if I ever see a comedian reprimand someone for laughing, I’d never support them again. People are
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showing up for you. Get over it. Um, what is that a reference to?
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Well, we talked about some like people having weird laughs and being distracted. I would never do that in a normal show.
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Do whatever. But if someone’s recording something Yeah. And it’s disruptive.
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And if I were the host, it’s kind of my responsibility to go, hey, you got to tone it down.
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They actually, it’s like I understand what Teresa is trying to say.
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But it’s like even regular shows, I’ve had I had a regular show. I don’t want to say where because I think the person would know that it was them,
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but it was a a a person I knew and they were in the audience and they were just being supportive, but they always had a weird laugh. We’ll see if I
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can figure this out. And it’s like what kind of laugh like what kind of laugh?
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I don’t remember. But it’s just like the whole show like [laughter] Yeah. Sort of like so loud so much
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louder than everyone else that that it became part of the show. Mhm. People would laugh at that laugh.
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Yeah. And it’s like that’s not what Teresa is describing.
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I’ve had shows where I showing up for you. Get over it. It’s like, no, it’s it’s a distracting thing that that
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person’s showing up, but there’s also an entire audience full of other people that showed up and they want the best from me. But if I
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got this one, I got the Joker in the front
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[laughter]
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row.
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Yeah. That I got to deal with the whole time.
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That did sound uh that it it could ruin up ruin it for everyone else.
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How long ago was this? I didn’t kick him out. I I dealt with it. It was Yeah. I don’t know, let’s say six years ago.
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Oh, okay. It’s been a while. Trying to figure out.
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I mean, that’d be 2020. It was pro probably was 2021. Probably something like that. Yeah. Oh, I think I know.
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Okay.
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It was uh Write it down on that paper. No, I’ll just say it was Salt Lake City.
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It was at Wise Guys. And uh I’m just No, I mean I was thinking I was like it very well could have been someone like
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that there but no this was a place I know very well and I knew a you know a large portion of the audience. Opa like Alabama.
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No I mean there’s only a couple places but Michael Hedges air. [laughter] Oh yes
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Dusty Vamp while too bad your Tom’s chewy bites are gone. [laughter] Dusty fill in while you’re Yeah, I had What a shame that Tom sent
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me a custom signature dish. Chewy bites and [laughter] and I go, “What a They
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sent me two.” So, I got one in my office at home and then I go, “I’ll put one in the studio.” And I walked [laughter] in here during the show and Andrew Dorfman,
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the owner of Zanius, is just eating the Tums out of [laughter] there. Yeah.
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I go, “What are you doing? That’s a problem.” He goes, “I thought somebody just left Tums out.” And I go, “Do you not see? It’s a special thing.” And at that point, I go, “Well, give me a
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couple.” [laughter] I ate a few. I ate a few, too. Yeah, why not?
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I would get heartburn mid podcast and eat a couple.
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You’d reach back there without even telling us and get some. Yeah. Sneaky. I didn’t know you could.
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Aaron, what’s the story on the Brian Bates uh pillow apparent? Uh Alicia uh or Alicia. Alisa.
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Alicia from uh my from Miami from Dana Beach.
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She owns the taco place. You know what I’m talking about? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She’s the [laughter] best. She’s come to every show that I’ve done. Oh yeah.
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Um in the area she owns a a great taco play taco.
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She brought me a bunch of tacos. Miami Impro, too. Yeah. And she brought this uh this gift. This pillow.
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She knew you were tired.
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It’s a Brian. [laughter] Well, she’s right.
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Well, I signed one and then she gave me the other one there. Oh, so there’s more than one.
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Yeah, she’s She’s selling these. She’s got one, too, that I signed. Yeah. Yeah. She’s making money off of it. Mhm. A Brian Bates body pillow.
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Well, thank you. There was one that was going around. People were like me at different places. Like a flat Stanley. Yeah, like a flat Stanley.
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When that guy gave you those Worthers originals, you should have said, “Come back to my room. I got something for you, too.” And give him one [laughter] of those pillows.
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Here, buddy. Think of me. [laughter] Well, thank you, Alicia. Alisia Alissa.
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I think her name’s probably Alicia. I was thinking funny business. No, that’s Alicia.
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Alisia. Yeah, I’m talking about um Everybody I know pronounces it Alicia except for Alicia.
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Then it’s probably Alicia. I’m sorry about that. I’m sorry about that.
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Alicia, everybody I know Mhm. says Alicia.
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Let me make sure cuz I feel like we’ve brought her up enough that I feel like I should. But Alicia at Funny Business. Alicia Smith.
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Yeah. Alicia Funny Business really wants to emphasize Alicia and she owns Coyo Taco. CO yo taco.
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Great taco place uh in the Miami area if you’re down there. Very good.
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Uh anyway, Michael Hedges Aaron’s Randy Newman impression is hysterical. The people want more.
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Short people got no reason. Short people got no reason.
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Kathy Lewis is going crazy for it.
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Well, yeah, she’s going [laughter] crazy.
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Finally, somebody good. That was Randy Newman.
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Yeah, it was Randy Newman. That’s not bad. What are you talking about? Your other your monk. You got a friend.
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A special rated. [laughter] That’s how he sounds. I’m a fan, but let’s not pretend. Your monk one was very good.
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Oh yeah. He’s a jungle out there. It’s the same.
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He’s a junk. [laughter] He does the same impression. It’s the same artist. Oh, I didn’t realize that.
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Yeah. [laughter] He said Newman did the monk theme.
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Oh, you said the monk. Your monk impression. I thought he was doing monk.
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[laughter] That’s every impression like a watch. He thought that was my Tony Shaloo.
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[laughter]
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He does a great Randy Newman, but every impression sounds like it. Hey, here’s my Chandler from Friends. It’s jungle out [laughter] there.
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People think I’m crazy. We’re out of time.
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He’s got a song named Rednecks that is pretty crazy. You should look that up.
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David Burns, will someone please help breakfast with the word aloe? I can’t believe no one has spoken up. And then
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to sing the baloney song when talking about hot dogs. It’s I wish I had an Oscar Meyer wiener. Get it together.
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Love you guys. Lot of I don’t know what’s happening in that comment. You can the the [clears throat] ad read,
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[laughter]
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you said alloy alloy or something. And I didn’t have the ad read in front of me, so I didn’t know. But you were talking about a a a razor, right?
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He said something like Aloy and [laughter] uh and I So we laugh.
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Maybe it was alloy cuz it’s about metal, right? Yeah. So we didn’t know.
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Now I asked I stopped. I said, “Alloy and you go, yeah.” Or you Well, I was going to say, “Yeah, no matter what you Oh, cuz you guys always support me when
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I say something wrong.” We’re trying to get through the ad read, man.
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Yeah. Well, go buy a Harry’s Razor.
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So, but I didn’t know the hot dog. They had a different theme song for the hot dog.
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Yeah, that’s true. I did the bologn song. Do you know the hot dog song?
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Wish I had an Oscar Meer or I can’t remember how the rest of it goes.
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I guess I guess that’s the most important part. I just Are you still Kathy?
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I just told you I don’t do hot dog theme songs. But do you remember in the Alabama area [laughter] in the in in Alabama?
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I really struggled there for a sec.
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There was a I don’t even remember what it was for, but they had a commercial. Call Goldberg. Call Goldberg 800 600.
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I remember Mama Goldberg’s a deli in Auburn.
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We live so close but so far apart. So,
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[laughter]
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uh SB with the bread winner coming out next week. A little behavioral this week. A little behavioral guidance
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seems appropriate. Can I yell, “Hey, bear” when I walk in? Is it okay to cheer when I see each one of you on scene? Uh, when I see each one of your
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scenes, yeah, you are welcome to do that. People on the whole won’t know what you’re doing.
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You might embarrass the people that you’re with, but I’d appreciate it.
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And don’t cheer too long at our scenes because you could step on our lines.
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You will miss the scene. [laughter] Definitely. Yeah. [clears throat] If we come on screen, don’t tap the person next to you and go, “Hey, that’s because by the time you’ll turn back to the
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screen, it will be premiere.” You know, my scene was a little longer and I feel like now
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it’s hard to even know what I’m doing in the scene. Um, and I understand, nobody said this to me, but I understand why
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they would have cut it down because our the subject matter, which we talked about, seems like it wouldn’t have necessarily fit with the rest of what
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was going on. So, I understand it, but I’m real quick in there to where I’m like, what did that guy do?
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Yeah. [laughter] Mhm. What happened? And I know what you did. Yeah. They make it clear.
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Yeah. People will know summer’s around the corner and honestly nothing kills the summer vibe faster than pulling out your clothes and it smells like regular detergent.
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That’s true, right? You know that generic clean scent where it’s like what have you been hanging out in the hospital? That’s why I’ve been using laundry sauce. I’ll
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admit I thought it was a condiment when I got it. But now I realize it’s the best laundry about to wash this food down.
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Yes, exactly. Their laundry pods make your clothes smell unbelievable. Like actual luxury fragrances. I’m talking
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Australian sandalwood, Italian Bergamo, Egyptian rosé or rose. That’s three of my favorites.
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I love all those areas. It’s as if your t-shirts came back from vacation before you did. And the scent last. You throw on a hoodie days later, still smells
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amazing. But it’s not just about smelling good, Dusty. Those pods actually work. They’re packed with bioenzymes that crush stains from
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barbecues, sweat, coffee spills, hiking days, all of it. Plus, the pods are pre-measured, so there’s zero guesswork.
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Mark Rubin, the real deal Y2K. Oh, here we go. Will be at 31407.
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That’s 031407 on January 19th, 2038.
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Computers store date time as seconds since January 1st, 1970. 32-bit computer systems measure time as a signed
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integer. Highest possible value is 2 bill147,483,647
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seconds. At exactly 031407 on January 19th, 2038, adding one more
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second will cause the integer to overflow and flip to negative.
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All right. Well, you should get on that, Mark.
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Well, Mark, I’m glad you read that.
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I I don’t think this I don’t think we’re who you need to be telling about this right now.
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Mark, things are going to be so bad by the time we reach 2038 that I don’t think I think we’re going to beg for a
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computer glitch. [laughter] Shut the AI down. Open the prisons. Let us out.
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Yeah, maybe. [laughter] Shut our microchips down. We want to be able to buy bread with cash again.
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[laughter]
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I do think uh bread and breakfast.
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Yeah, I was thinking about cash. They our our children by the time they’re adults and maybe even before that, it’ll it’ll be one of those novelty things
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like, “Hey, there’s a store in so and so still does cash like a throwback like almost.” It kind of feels that way now.
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It almost does feel that way now, but you could pay with cash most places if you wanted. I just saw where the [clears throat] national airport, the parking, they’re going cashless.
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Mhm. And more and more places of course are doing that which is fine with me but every ballpark now is cashless pretty much.
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Man I went to the Rockies game uh and I went in to get some food and you have to put your credit card $25 before you can
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even walk through to get in line. I’m like I got to pay $25 to get in. They’re like no we just go ahead and charge your card and then if you don’t spend $25 it’ll refund you.
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And then that’s crazy.
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That is crazy. And then you just go up there and just put incidental hold on. Yeah, it’s like a hotel. That’s wild, isn’t it? That is crazy.
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Just keep your tab open. That way you can just buy. I guess I think that’s what they want.
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I bet in your head you’ve Well, I already spent 25, you know, just go up there and get some more.
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Yeah, that’s pretty. I’ve never seen that. Must be new. I’ve never seen that. It must be. The food was so bad. Mhm. Well, at least the baseball.
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You guys You guys kind of I think still like reminisce on ballpark food. Yeah.
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And I just don’t think it’s that way anymore.
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Like you might find something good here and there, but I remember what you’re talking about. Even at my mom’s softball games, you could go to the concession
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stand and get a pretty good Those are the best.
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Get a pretty good burger and some aluminum foil. Yeah.
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But now it’s like everything’s everything’s crap out here. Get some fries and pixie stick. Yeah.
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I remember the old ballpark. Please turn that foul ball to concession stand for a free coach. It was great. Yeah, that was the best, man.
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This place, there was no woman working the counter. You just go up there and they’re all under heat lamps. And I just got a container with a burger and fries
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and took it to my seat. And the burger was okay. The fries were terrible. They were just so hard. And that probably was $25.
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Yeah, it probably was. I even But I bet I bet that was $25.
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Yeah, it’s so bad. I really hope that with Nashville with the new stadium that they can really work in some some local food.
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Get a little meat and three Cracker Barrel cuz I think we’ve done a pretty good job at our airport. I think our airport is pretty good now.
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We got to I bet it’s got to have Slim and Huskys pizza. That’d be unbelievable.
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Have you ever had Slim and Huskies pizza? I never have. So good. It’s a Nashville place. It’s really great. But we got the hot chicken. Got hot chicken. We got some barbecue.
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Let’s get some barbecue in there. Let’s get a Let’s get a meet and three. Put Arnolds in there. cafeteria style. Oh, yeah. In the new stadium. In the new stadium. [laughter] Yeah.
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Yeah. I want Lazy Boy recliner seats. They probably will have. They got to call me up. I got some ideas.
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Well, you know the who is it that has the swimming pool? Is that Jacksonville?
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That the the Diamondbacks have a swimming pool.
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Okay. But I think the Jaguars have a pool area that Oh, okay. You could just watch from the pool.
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Yeah. That’s less appealing to me than a meet and greet, but [laughter] But I get I get how some people would like that.
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Yeah. All right. Well, this week um I was trying to think, is there anything else? No, I think we’re good.
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Last week, Connor Larson uh old friend Connor Larson. Yeah. Yeah. Go watch that. Conor’s very funny. Yeah.
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He had a Natan showcase come out uh the night that he taped a half hour here at the lab. Not affiliated with Nate Land, but Connor is a buddy of ours. He’s done
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the show before. He he opens for us uh on the road when we can get him. So, come on out and uh or go to YouTube and or whatever. Just watch it.
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Yeah. All right. So, uh [laughter] I flopped on the call to action there.
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You know what, Connor uh start it finally started to be active on social media. Like a lot of comics, they really they really don’t want to do it.
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Well, it’s the same hurdle you got to get over when you start selling merch.
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Yeah. where um I think every instinct that makes you a good and working comic also makes it hard to do those things
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cuz to take yourself that seriously and to like um sell yourself and to sell yourself unironically
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[snorts]
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like that. It’s very embarrassing to go I got a little shirt with my little saying on it. Can you buy it? It’s embarrassing.
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Unless you have cool merch like I’ve always had. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn’t fit.
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Yeah. You’re immune to all.
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Listen, let me tell you though, when you You know exactly what I’m talking about.
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I do know what you’re talking about. But I But when you sell pesticides for a living for a long time, you you’re ready to make some money with Okay. [laughter] You know what I mean?
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You get over some of those things a lot faster. But yeah, you’re right though, people. But that’s why you don’t do the shirt with the saying on it because then
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you go, “Oh, yeah. I got to do this joke.” Yeah. I got to do this joke tonight so I can sell this shirt. Yeah.
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And I know a lot of people that do it and they sell a lot of that, but they got to do that joke to sell that shirt.
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You just want to do something unaffiliated.
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So the shirt’s cool. It’s like you go into uh you know uh a wings at the beach and you just buy the big Johnson t-shirt
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or the or the big dogs or the No Fear t-shirt. That’s what you’re doing. You know, I I think I I don’t I mean I think I disagree a little bit.
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If you had not laughed, uh no one would either.
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That’s funny. You know what I’m talking about. Go ahead. I mean, if you’re truly selling the same merch for year after year after year, I guess I could see
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what you’re saying. You get sick of that joke, but it seems like if you’re going to go back to the same markets every year or so, you’d also want to have some new merch, I guess.
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So, I I feel like, you know, you keep merch for a couple years that might be affiliated with a joke and then you get you some new merch with a new
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that’s fine, too. But I even with my method, I I still will will rotate and get some other stuff.
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Yeah. You know, I don’t know. You just had those hats so long that Well, the hats are sick of them.
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No, I know. [laughter] Hats are a classic. No one’s sick of that. The hats are joking. I love those hats.
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Uh Landon Bryant stole my hat and I’m pretty upset about it. Oh, man.
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Yeah, that was funny though. I felt like you the He would have no way of knowing, but I felt like you gave it to him just to
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wear for a second. He wore it for the rest of the time, left with it. Yeah. Yeah.
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He would have no way of You ever had You can’t You don’t know if somebody’s given you something. Yeah. Yeah.
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And then it’s awkward to ask because then they would you feel like they would go, “Well, sure you can.” Steve Burn. I was talking with Steve Burn about um screenwriting.
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And he was like, “There’s two books you got to read.” He goes, “Oh, I actually got a couple copies here.” And he handed them to me. And in my dumb head, I was like, “Oh, thanks, dude.” And I just took them and never gave them back.
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Wow. Um, and I don’t know if he was giving them to me in that moment. I think he was just showing them to me or maybe loaning them to me, but he s Yeah. Well, it’s too late now.
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It’s been years. Wow. That’s 2022. What was the book? Save the Cat.
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Save the Cat and then uh Stephen King on writing.
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Okay, those are the two. And how’s your screenplay coming? Not good.
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I haven’t read the books. [laughter] Well, sorry, Steve. Quit. There’s no new movies anyway.
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We’re not doing new movies. I told Steve, I go, “Listen, we’re about to stop all new movies anyway.” See the bread winner.
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Everything needs to stop for about 10 years, I think. [laughter] Yeah. Just so you can catch up. Just so But for what reason?
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Just because we’re out of ideas.
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Yeah, Dusty. In 10 years, bread winner.
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[laughter]
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It’s the last good idea.
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It all stops with the bread winner. It’s the last movie.
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That’s it. And it just stays in theaters for the next 10 years until new movies get made again. Well, we could show all the old stuff. Yeah. Okay.
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I just reshared the clip of me predicting that Nashville would have a Super Bowl by 2030. Yeah.
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And then Dusty’s on there like, well, 2030 world won’t even be around.
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[laughter]
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There’s still time for that to happen. Yeah. I mean, the world will be around.
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The point is he’s consistent, but things will You didn’t say that actually, but you said something very consistent what you just said. 2030.
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Things will be bad. I think 2030 is really the beginning of when it starts to get bad.
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When do you think it started? Uh like 2001, would you say that that was kind of the time things started? Uh
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[laughter]
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that is a great transition. I’m so glad you asked. Look at that.
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Um yeah, I think you’re right though. [laughter] Okay, I do think you’re right. There is one specific thing that started to really turn it.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, Diamondbacks winning the World Series.
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Well, [laughter] we’ll get to that. We’ll get [snorts] to that. All right. So, we did what’s h what happened in 2000. We talked about right out of the gate where we all were
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for Y2K and what we experienced. So, let’s do that for 911. Uh I was I’ll go first. Yeah.
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I was uh well, I was 29 years old, but I was working at the TV station still and I was there at work when it happened and
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and then let’s just share something that you kind of remember about the day that something happened to you. I uh so it was a obviously a crazy news day for us.
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A lot of people say, “I bet that was the craziest day y’all ever had.” And it really wasn’t because the national news just took over.
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Oh, interesting. They just And they were on round the clock for days.
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They go, “We don’t want to hear from the Nashville affiliate right now.” Exactly. Nobody wants to hear from the national affiliate. We would do local cutins occasionally telling people, “Hey, it’s everything’s all right here.
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Still our channel. [laughter] Talk to you guys in New York.” All right. We would do updates from the airport saying it’s shut down. Okay.
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I mean, I remember the AT&T the I think it’s what it’s called then, the Batman building. People were like, “Let’s get out of here. We don’t know what’s happening.”
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But that day was crazy, but it was mainly just national news. It was Twin Towers and then the Batman building in Nashville. [laughter]
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Nobody knew. I mean, Nate has a joke about it. You have a joke. Everybody has a hacky joke about they didn’t know what was going to happen. It’s a good joke. I’m joking. I’m joking.
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You made a great joke. Well, you just made one, so Well, I’m Yeah, off the cuff.
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Yeah, I had a good good joke on my JFL set in 2021 about it. It is a good joke.
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Everybody thought that they were next, right? Were you worried?
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Yeah, Montgomery. I remember a teacher telling me Montgomery is number three on the hit list for America because we have an Air Force
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College there, Air Force Base. I was like, so you’re telling me the hit list?
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Wow. is the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and then the Hank Williams Museum. That’s the [laughter] joke. Yeah, it’s a good joke.
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That is a good joke. That’s a very good joke. Thanks, man.
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You know, I was in uh Lowe’s. We used to put we used to what we used to [laughter] not during this time, okay?
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But we used to have we used to go with our work bag and a lot of pesticide references here. And then we would put our work bag in a buggy and then we’d walk around, break down boxes, and put stuff in the buggy.
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And the bug the buggy was just kind of off on another aisle with the bag in there. And this lady goes, “Do you guys know whose bag this is?” And we go,
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“Yeah, that’s ours.” And she goes, “Oh, you just never know these days.” And I go, “Yeah.” I’m thinking, “Yeah, the
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World Trade Center.” And then the Lowe’s in Goose Creek, South Carolina.
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[laughter]
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[clears throat]
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I used to have a old crusty wallet. You know, the kind you’d be embarrassed to take out in public because there’s just
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all kinds of stuff. Receipts and knickknacks.
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Business cards. I’ve been using for toothpicks. Guitar lessons. Actual toothpicks. Yeah. Guitar. You pull out a little tab off. Exactly.
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Maybe a couple of little uh loose change in there.
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I didn’t know there was that many colors.
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I mean, there’s all kinds of stuff, dude. I mean, what would you call this color? This is black, but it’s also got a little pattern on it. Gunmetal.
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Well, if you remember, [laughter] I mean, there was a lot of bad things that happened after us. People were mailing white powder that anthrax after that.
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Yeah, it was a crazy time.
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Tough time to mail someone some loose baby powder. [laughter] Hey, I’m going to mail you some Tums.
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Hope they don’t get crushed up in the mail. [laughter] I uh Well, the other thing is they didn’t you didn’t know when 911 people
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didn’t know it was over officially, right? There’s there’s no one going, “Okay, that’s it. That’s all we’re doing.” So for the the longest time after that, you’re like, there could be
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other stuff still coming, right? So, uh, I was in fifth grade. I remember getting an announcement from Miss McCormack, our
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school principal, saying that there had been a bad plane crash in New York City. You were in fifth grade? Fifth grade. Okay.
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I want to Yeah, I want to say fifth grade.
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I mean, I guess maybe fourth or last week, whether you were in second or third. Oh, maybe I was in I was in school. Okay.
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And we had a half day. We all got sent home because there’s so many military families at our school that everything just like we got to go home. And I
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remember that night it was all on the news. My dad was watching it. My mom was watching. I was just like, “Are they ever going to talk about anything else and my dad was like not for a while.
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This is this is going to be a big one.” I remember they cancelled football for that weekend. I’m like, “Well, let’s don’t get hasty.” Yeah. Come on, guys. [laughter] He’s the same thing during co, right?
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It’s getting ridiculous. Come on. Yeah. What about you, Dusty?
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Uh, I was I talked about this in my book. We’re having a good time. And uh Well, we haven’t read it yet.
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Yeah. So, that should be the last book for 10 years. Yeah, it should be.
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Buy that book. And wait, wait. Yeah. You want to put a moratorium on books, too?
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Too many books. [laughter] We’ll stop it now. We could just stop it now. If you pre-ordered one, sorry.
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Yeah, if you pre-ordered, you’ll still get it. But the uh so pre-order but the um I was uh 19 and maybe 18 and I had
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just uh no 19 and I had just you know failed to get into the army uh and or kind of got kicked out and uh was laying
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on my couch asleep and my sister called me and she goes cuz it was 8:00 a.m.
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What about Did you fall asleep on the couch the night before? Yeah.
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And uh [laughter] a Monday night. Yeah. I had nothing going on.
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I had tried to join the army. Did not make it.
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I always thought you try to join after 9/11. Oh, no. No. That would make me a hero.
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Yes. [laughter] I tried to join before because [clears throat] we weren’t at war and I wanted to get free college and perhaps some free travel.
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Yeah.
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You know. Yeah. And uh and uh so after 911, you knew you get some free travel. Yeah. Yeah. You don’t want to do that.
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But I uh you know, I woke up. My sister called me. She goes, “Uh, hey, they just hit the Twin Towers.” You know, and I go, “What?”
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I didn’t even know what she was talking about. [laughter] The World Trade Center. I got I don’t know. She goes, “Turn on the TV.” And I
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turned it on just about the time to see the second plane hit. Whoa. You saw it live?
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Yeah. And I go, “Whoa.” Oh yeah, that’s wild. Wow.
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And I still didn’t really grasp it fully. I I didn’t either. My first instinct on that second one was some reason I
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thought that somebody was trying to fly close to see the first one and they [clears throat] messed up and I’m still not comprehending what’s going on.
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Right. Right.
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I’m a little slow on a lot uptick on a lot of these things.
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Well, it was a lot to happen at once out of nowhere. Yeah. So, don’t feel bad for not knowing immediately what was going on.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was, you know, it was a wild time of my life, but um All right.
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to be pulling it together for I had my own tragedies going on. [laughter] So, you moved on pretty quick.
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Every day was 911 for Dusty up until then.
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Yeah. But, you know, I will say, you know, the Allen Jackson song that followed, uh, the Toby Keith song that
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followed, all would get me very emotional. I was a very patriotic kind of guy. Which Toby Keith song?
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We’ll put a boot. Oh, I can’t stand that song.
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I’m not saying I like it now, but during that time, the red, white, and blue.
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Yeah. It was like I mean, there is uh I’m not saying that part of the song, but there is some parts of the song, my
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daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye. I mean, it’s pretty like Sorry, Kathy.
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It’s uh Yeah, but he flew a flag out of until the day that he died. It’s a great song.
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It makes me cringe now. on everybody’s sing, but as it gets to the end, you know, it’s like, well, you kind of I don’t know what it feels like you kind of
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learn a couple of different things. It’s like, well, it’s not war is not as cool.
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I definitely had moments where I that song was But then the Allen Jackson, do you remember? And then there was what Daryl Warley had turned.
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Yeah, those would make me very emotional. You know, I love the country and uh um how about the album Satellite from POD
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that came out on 911? Oh, I I remember the album, but I didn’t know it came out that way. It came out on 911. Wow.
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And the 11th song on the album, it’s called Ghetto, is about global terrorism. Wow.
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How about that? I went and bought that album with my dad. Wow.
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Not on 911. I think we waited a couple days.
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Kind of Christian rap, right, is what they were bringing.
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It was new metal. It was new metal, but they were explicitly Christian. Yeah.
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But the um you know there’s a lot of 911 supposed predictions and leadups and you know there’s a lot of those. So
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did either of you ever see I didn’t know that one but that’s not shocking.
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Either of you ever see the World Trade Centers? Like I first time I went to New York was 2002. No, I never saw in person. Yeah, me neither.
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Yeah, I I saw the Pentagon.
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[laughter]
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I I did.
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Well, I’ve seen the Pentagon still there. I know, but before it got uh before something happened. Yeah.
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Okay. [laughter] Before a plane hit it that that then disintegrated.
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Completely disintegrated. Every piece of it, not even a trace of it. [laughter] It’s amazing. Yeah.
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Uh all right. So 2001, a lot of people think understandably that 2000 was the
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start of the 21st century in the third millennium, but it’s actually 2001. 2001 was the first year. Yeah.
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Yep. Okay. You guys Well, I mean, having a swing, having graduated in 2000, there was that debate
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between the class of 2000 and the class of 2001. Who is the class of the new millennium? We don’t start at zero, but
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[clears throat]
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we were the first class to flip over to the two. There you go. So, a lot of big tech stuff happened in 2001.
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Oh, yeah. The dot bubble.
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So, I’m going to Well, yeah. I’m going to have I’m going to need you to help me talk through some of this. Okay.
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Uh I’ll try. I was I was eight, but yeah, I bet you’ll know more than I do. You were nine going on 10. Nine going on 10.
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Uh well, first of all, iTunes. In January 9th, 2001, Steve Jobs announced iTunes. Big fam.
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And then later that year, uh the iPod was introduced and it could hold he famously say it can hold a thousand songs in your pocket.
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Wow.
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So great marketing.
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5 gigabytes. I remember my uncle had an iPod. Blew my mind. And then when he got the new one, he gave me and my brothers the first generation iPod. Yeah. Which
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it’s been so long since then. Those are now vintage and collectible and you can actually get a lot of money for those now cuz they’ve it’s been discontinued. Yeah.
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Did you ever have iPod? I never had one. You know what?
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You’re a Zoom guy. [laughter] That’s actually what I had.
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I was at the time I went out Microsoft Zoom had when the latest iPod came out, Microsoft Zoom also came out and Best Buy had them both.
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Yeah.
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And the Microsoft Zoom had a display on it where it could actually have the album covers and it looked really cool.
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It was I got a brown one. I had a I was driving a Buick Lasaber with some wood grain in there so it matched your car.
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So I had a brown Zoom. Yeah. Was that it right there on the left?
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Yeah. And it had an actual display of the album cover on it and it was awesome. And the original iPod didn’t have that.
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I don’t think so. Yeah.
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I mean, it was awesome, but it quickly, you know, was outdone by the iPod and seemed like a stupid
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decision later, but the click wheel, I remember thinking the click wheel was so ingenious. Yeah.
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Yeah. I gasped.
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Yeah. when I saw it. [laughter] Uh, Microsoft entered the gaming world with the Xbox accompanied by the smash hit game Halo.
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Yes. Do you guys play Halo? No. Big time. Big time.
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Big time. Halo 2 especially. When did Halo 2 come out? This is called Halo Combat Evolved.
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Yeah. Halo 2 came out in 2004, so a few years later. But I remember Halo 2 was one of those games where you would buy the console just to play that game.
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That’s how good the game was. And it was on Xbox exclusively. My friend Hayden Wy had Halo 2. We would go over, we would
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play that split screen 15 hours. I mean, through the night. It was the most fun game.
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Just rejecting calls from girls left and right. Just [laughter] And [clears throat] they were like, “Not tonight, boys.” I’m level with you, Dusty. Wasn’t even a
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concern [laughter] at the time. We didn’t have to worry about that.
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We were playing the best video game ever. Yeah, we were uh playing uh you know swords and rockets on uh lockout.
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Um Halo 2 I was 12 going on 13.
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That’s a good age. But this was for a video game like I mean like in 2002 I was you know uh 2001 I was 19. So
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I knew a lot of Yeah. You could drive.
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I knew a lot of grown men playing those games. Okay. We were children. Yeah.
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We were who should be playing games about killing each other.
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Yeah. So, it says uh it was it was built like a personal computer featuring the first ever built-in hard drive and an
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Ethernet port for broadband gaming right out of the box. Oh, yeah. What does that mean? It means you can play online.
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Play other people online all the way back 2001. Oh yeah, man.
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I just learned about this Xbox right here. Look at this. You’ve seen these, right? Yeah. I did own one of them for a short time.
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Been playing against Dusty. Dude, I have to I never played online games.
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Look how bulky and terrible that first controller looks.
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Yeah, it looks terrible now.
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I And now I have an Xbox. I have the newest Xbox now and it’s uh much better controller now.
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Everything looks is going to look obviously besides maybe cars. Cars just change. The old cars still look cool, but most things look dumb.
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Yeah, we could stop making cars, too. No more new cars.
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[laughter]
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Love when cars break down, man. Well, we could fix the old ones. Put our focus into maintenance.
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So, you just want kind of a global pause? Yes. For 10 years? Yeah. Okay.
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Who would enforce this? It just it just enforces itself.
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[laughter]
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Well, we just have to all agree to it. Yeah. Okay. Unanimous decision as a country.
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[laughter]
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No, the world. We have the world. Okay. Because China’s going to keep going. Even if we sit 10 years out.
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Yeah. I think that if we sat 10 years out and just, you know, uh focused on
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maintaining what we have, building what we have, making what we have better, but not making new. Yeah. I think we would come out ahead.
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[laughter]
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I think we would come out stronger. Okay.
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And better because we now know how to maintain our stuff. We’re all working together as a team instead of just focusing on what’s next.
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I’m into it. Let’s get it going, you know.
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Well, I was just going to say, we already see AI people when it came out two years ago, people we make fun of how
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dumb it is, but you see less and less of that now.
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And two years from now, we we’ll be doing that.
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And I see videos of all these robots and they’re falling down and they do stuff and they obviously don’t look very realistic. But, you know, years from
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now, we’re going to look back at these and be like, “Look at that thing.” Yeah. Cuz they’re going to look like us. Yeah. It’s cuz scary stuff.
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Yep. Um, GameCube, the Gamecube and Game Boy Advance by Nintendo came out.
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Hey, can I just say though, when the AI thing, it is so wild, right? I type in some lyrics to a song. Let’s say the
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song’s 3 minutes long. I put in some prompts how I want the song to go. And then I hit, you know, create. And it’s
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able to create that song faster than you can even read the lyrics and then record
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the song. Even if you got it on one take, even if it came to you, you read the lyrics, you go, “Okay, I’m going to record it.” It’s faster than that.
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It’s It doesn’t even make sense. Mhm. It’s crazy.
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Yep. I wrote I wrote a song about pawpaw trees and uh [laughter] that’s how I’m utilizing the technology.
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Hold on. No, [laughter] I think it’s it’s more accurate to say you wrote a poem about Paul trees. Yes.
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And then AI turned it into a song.
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Yeah, we worked together. I give them a coowwriting credit.
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We worked together [laughter] because Oh, that’s nice of you. Because, you know, I came up with the the idea, the flow. I’ll go this is what instruments I
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want you to use and this is how I want you to do it.
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But it’s not like you wrote a melody for it or anything.
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No, no, no. That’s where they they’re code lyrics by Dusty Slay, music by Chad GPT. That’s right. So, AI.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Would you vote for AI for president? No. What are you talking about?
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Cuz I think that’s where we’re headed, right? If they know everything, what I don’t even know if voting matters anymore. I’ll be honest with you.
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All right, this is taking a dark road.
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Keep going. [laughter] But Dusty, I appreciate your honesty.
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Thank you for finally opening up and sharing some deep thoughts. All right. I mentioned [laughter] the Gamecube. Did you do GameCube? Game Boy Advance.
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My buddy Will had a GameCube. I had a Gamecube. I played it a little bit. Yeah. Was never really a Nintendo guy. Okay. That’s respect.
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I had a GameCube. I had the Sims. Uh I was working at Office Depot and uh I’d play the Sims. I I did some third
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shifts. I’d come home in the morning, not go to sleep, play the Sims for a while, pretend to be somebody else for a few hours. Yeah.
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Somebody broke into my trailer and they stole my Nintendo Gamecube and and all your memory cards.
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Some other stuff that I had that would have been the type of people I was hanging out with at the time. Yeah, I get you. I hear you. And uh very disappointed.
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Baseball cards. Is that what you’re talking about? Yeah. [laughter] Uh, Windows XP. Oh, I remember that.
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It was designed to unify Microsoft separate operating systems line. The Windows 2000 and the Windows MI became public 2001.
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Major overhaul, including the vibrant green and blue start menu layout, the legendary Bliss default desktop background.
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You tell me that, dude. You remember this? You remember this? 100%. Yeah, of course. Yeah, it’s great. It takes me back, man.
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The Luna visual style. I don’t know what that is. What’s that? The Luna visual style.
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I have no idea what that means. Luna, like the moon. Yeah.
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Oh, no. It’s the code name for the iconic default visual style of Windows XP.
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So, that’s what you think of with the blue the blue taskbar on the bottom, the green start button, and then the the prairie or the meadow, whatever it is,
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background. That’s I guess it’s called Luna. I’d never heard of that.
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You know, I worked at Office Depot and this this kind of famous um backdrop here with the uh Green Meadow, the the meadow and the sky. Yeah.
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Uh we had a big display [clears throat] uh like a like a you know like a poster uh at Office Depot and then when they
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got rid of it, I took it home with me, hung it in my trailer. I had a big You had Yeah. had that big got stolen.
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Took up a whole wall. Did it have a start button on it or just the background? Just this. Wow. Took up the whole wall.
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Did they steal that when they broke in?
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No. No. Not. They didn’t take all the valuables.
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All right. Here’s something that I think some people thought was going to change the way we get around and it just didn’t happen. The Segway.
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Yeah. Came out in 2001. Yeah. Was that the mall cop thing? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. And those type aren’t even, I think, being manufactured anymore. Well, I’ve seen people, they have these.
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I don’t know if it’s Segway brand, but doesn’t Segue make scooters now, too? Segue’s still around.
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They’re They are around. I just don’t think they make the two wheel type. I see people on them.
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Yeah, I [snorts] see like uh tours around Nashville and and things like that.
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I think still some uh police officers use them. Okay.
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Do you know how the guy the guy who invented those? No.
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You know, he died. He He rode one off a cliff. Is that true? Yeah. Feels like you’re lying, though. No. Sounds like a joke.
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Punch line.
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It’s not a punch. I mean, him hitting the ground, I guess.
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Did he do that because he messed up or because he didn’t believe in it.
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He was trying to jump. He’s trying to jump over. I don’t know what happened, but he died. Wow. I’m sorry I brought it up.
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Well, I just wonder did he commit suicide is what? No, it was an accident. Okay.
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It was an accident. This says one reason why they just didn’t take off is they cost around $5,000 which very expensive and they weigh 100 pounds. So they
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weren’t practical to Yeah. move around. Mhm. Uh something else.
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And no one ever looks cool on those things. Yeah.
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And I think that’s a part. It plays a part. You got to look cool.
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I remember the guy. I might have been that guy was on Jay Leno and Russell Crowe was the guest and he got on one
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and rode it around the studio and I thought, well, this is this is what everybody’s going to be riding soon.
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Even Gladiator didn’t look cool on that thing. Yeah. Yeah.
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Nobody can look cool on it. And that is the problem. It’s like it’s not that you need to look cool necessarily, but you can’t look uncool.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Like if something you’re doing like a scoot, even the scooters, nobody looks good on those things. The thing
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the thing that makes the scooter nice is it doesn’t weigh 100 pounds. And the way they have it set up, you can if you’re I’ve been in cities before where I’m
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walking and I go, I don’t know if this is a good neighborhood. And then there’s a scooter there. I scan it, get on it, get right out of there.
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And uh uh so I think the scooters are great in that kind of capacity. Mhm.
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It was the owner of Segue who died, not the inventor, by the way. Okay. Either way, it still hurts the business. Yeah. Yeah.
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Uh, something that did start in 2001 that’s still going strong. Wikipedia.
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Golly, Dusty loves Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia is the best website of all time.
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I love to go to Wikipedia and check something and Wikipedia is begging for money. [laughter] They’re always asking. But how many times have you used it and not paid them a dime?
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Every time. I know. That’s what I’m saying. So, you know, you can ask. I’m not going to give you any money, but I don’t mind them asking every now and then. Yeah.
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I bet they’re getting money somewhere, though.
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From [laughter] from whom? The government. I don’t think so.
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I’m sure somebody’s Why would the government be paying Wikipedia?
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Well, because it’s, you know, it can be changed and, you know, it’s a lot of fraudulent information on there. Okay.
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You believe everything on Wikipedia? Not necessarily.
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That’s what I’m saying. I don’t I mean I I use it every week for this research.
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And if you don’t believe at all, can you believe any of it really?
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[laughter]
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I guess I guess not.
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Um
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[laughter]
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well, anyway, it started in 2001.
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I think a guy from Huntsville was one of the co-creators. Oh, how about that?
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Yeah. All right, let’s uh let’s talk about some music. I’d love it.
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Uh no singing though, just talking about it.
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I can’t guarantee it. Okay, top here’s the year end top 10 singles.
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Okay, you’re not gonna People want me to be positive.
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You’re not gonna be able to sing any top 10 songs. No, you have to get you have to get down to 60 and 70 to get one. 2001 though is a different me. Yeah. [laughter] Yeah, that’s true.
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All right, here’s some Hot Dog by Limp Biscuit. You know that one. Hanging by a moment by Life House. Oh, yeah. What an album. Six Cycle Carousel.
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That album by Life House.
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Wow. Okay, that’s a good one. I couldn’t sing it unless somebody else started. But I I did like that one. Meaning if it came on
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the radio, I bet I could sing along. But I wouldn’t know it off the top of my head.
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I know it, but I’m not going to [laughter] get it started. I’m not going to get it started. I love that album, though. He’s doing a couple hits. He’s doing it for Kathy. Yeah.
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Uh Fallen by Alicia Keys.
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Oh, yeah. [laughter] He took a big breath for that. You got a belt.
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No, it’s too good. She sings like really her first song and I remember me and my buddy listening to that being blown away.
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It’s She sings too good for me to even try that one. She’s unbelievable. Yeah. Okay. Uh, All for You by Janet Jackson.
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I don’t know.
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I bet I heard it. But, you know, I It said it spent seven consecutive weeks at the top, making it the longest run of 2001. I played the
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video. It still didn’t really stand out to me.
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Yeah. Yeah, but I was not keeping up with music. 2001. Here’s the first one actually.
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What were you What were you listening to at this time of your life?
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I think I was still about to turn 30. What were you into? Christopher Cross.
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Uh, [laughter] well, I do like Christopher Cross, but uh, you know, I was really into 90s country and then I think country music was starting to not
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sound like this is the age it’s starting to get away from you. It’s amazing how much you all agree with me but don’t want to admit it. It is amazing. it that that 30
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right around that’s the age where you’re like, “Oh, the world’s getting away from me. I don’t really understand the next wave of stuff coming.”
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Yeah. I was I was really into movies and I guess TV shows, but music I kind of stopped for whatever reason. Mhm. I get that.
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And I still have I just hang on to old stuff. But I know this one, Drops of Jupiter by Train. Oh, that was a huge song.
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It’s a big one.
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Huge song. I’m not saying that’s one of my favorites, but it was huge. The number three, Meet Virginia though, their their other
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one that they had smokes a pack a day. That song’s unbelievable. Those lyrics those lyrics are insane.
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She smokes a pack a day. Wait, that’s me. But anyway, yeah. I mean, that’s terrible lyrics.
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Yeah. [laughter] I used to think he said, “Way past me.” No, wait. Anyway, so he was like a half pack.
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Yeah. I emailed you the top selling albums.
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I think the number one was uh well, let’s just look here. Watch it be blocked. Lincoln Park Hybrid Theory.
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Yeah. What an album. Dusty, were you into Lincoln Park?
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Yeah, Lincoln Park.
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You remember that album? It had One Step Closer on that album. It probably had I would have to put the album on and listen to it. But yeah, I’m sure I know every song on there.
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Yeah. Right. It doesn’t even matter how hard I try.
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Keep that in mind. I designed this. You know what I’m talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In the end is on that album. Yeah. [snorts] In the Yeah.
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Uh some sports. Uh baseball first.
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Well, let’s do a couple more songs. We only got four songs.
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All right. If You’re Gone by Matchbox 20. Okay. That’s Well, really?
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I know Matchbox 20 second album. What song is that?
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I was working at I do know it.
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I was working at Papa John’s when that came out and me and this other lady were singing that. Maybe it’s Time to Come Home.
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Oh, wow. Great song. I haven’t heard that in forever. Yeah. Is that right? Yeah. Okay. Maybe it’s time to come home.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Uh, I’m Real by Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule. I [snorts] don’t know. Yeah. Jar Rule had a real moment.
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Let Me Blow Your Mind [clears throat] E featuring Gwen Stefani. Oh, I for sure remember that one. What was it called? Let Me Blow Your Mind.
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Yeah. Yeah. Was funny there.
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They were riding the motorcycles in that one. [clears throat] Let Me Blow Your Mind. Uh, thank you by Daido. Oh yeah.
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Oh man.
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You know, I was walking through the I was walking through the grocery store the other day and that song was playing and I was singing it a little bit and then these two dudes came out of the aisle and I kind of shut it down
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[laughter]
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and they were singing it too and then they were both singing it and they were both unapologetically singing it and I was like such a good song and they invited you back to their place.
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Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. But I said no.
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They said what room number are you staying in?
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Yeah. And I said I don’t think so. I don’t think so guys. Uh, again by Lenny Kravitz. I don’t know that one. I don’t know.
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In Independent Women, part one, Destiny’s Child. Okay. All right. All right.
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Throw your hands up at me. Okay. Oh, I don’t know. I don’t know. That sounds right. Yeah.
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All right. Some sports baseball. Barry Bond sets the home run single season home run record with 73 home runs.
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73 home runs. The previous record was 70. Mark Magcguire just what three years earlier? In 1998. Yeah.
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So yeah, three years earlier.
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Yep. Uh he’s broken it since. Nope.
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Because they quit letting them use steroids. Yep. Yeah. It’s too bad. The pitching’s gotten really good, too. It’s not all steroids.
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Uh Ichiro won rookie of the year and AL MVP.
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Crazy. Can you name another player who’s won both?
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Uh Paul Skins.
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He won Sai Young and rookie of the year, didn’t he? Uh, I don’t think he won MVP. Okay. I don’t know. No. Yeah, I can’t either.
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Oh, [laughter] Aaron Judge, maybe. Uh, no.
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Do you know who won the World Series, [laughter] Aaron?
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The Diamondbacks beat the Yankees in the World Series with a little bloop hit over bass the shortstop in game seven. In game seven.
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Luis Gonzalez. This was the World Series where George W. Bush threw out the first pitch. It was, you know, a little bit over a month after 911.
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Uh, each row, by the way, there’s only two people that have done that. Okay.
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MVP and rookie of the year. Fred Lynn from the 1975 Boston Red Sox. [laughter] You don’t remember each.
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Yeah, remember Fred Lynn. Fred Lyn actually was one of my favorite players. I have a couple of his cards. Don Ross.
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Fred Lynn. [laughter]
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[laughter]
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Yeah, I I do remember Fred Lenn. He played for the Angels.
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No, somebody did offer me a couple of those cards, but I turned it down.
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[laughter]
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I turned it down.
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Uh Fred Lynn hit a grand slam in the All-Star game. Did he really?
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Yeah, I remember that. Uh do you do you remember George Bush throwing out the first pitch? And yeah, I do remember that. Be a big deal.
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They have the ball at the Bush Library in Dallas. You can go see the ball. that he threw out. Wow. The Lakers.
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It’s worth it just for that. I didn’t even look at anything else. I go I walked in, I go, “Where’s the ball?” Yeah.
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And they showed it to me and I looked at it and I went, “There.” Okay. Was that 40 bucks? I cried a little bit. Yeah.
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I’m so susceptible to propaganda. You can get me. I know. I [laughter] know.
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It’s college. That’s what does it, dude. You could walk into the George Bush Museum. However you think about him, you there’s like just pictures of
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him riding horses and stuff. By the end of it, you’re like, “All right, that dude was awesome, man.” And I don’t even know what I actually think about it, but you know what I mean?
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I bet he was chill. You know what I mean? He probably wasn’t even behind a lot of this decision making. He was like, “You know what? I I don’t even
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want to be here.” Yeah. So, you don’t think he was the mastermind?
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He’s like, “My dad’s rich.” You know what I mean? I just want to hang out at the ranch. Yeah.
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Terror. Yeah. [laughter] Well, anyway, the Lakers won the NBA championship second year in a row.
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Okay. Yeah. And then they won the next year, too, right? So, that’s Well, that’s for a different episode. Sorry.
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But they went on a a crazy uh sweep of the playoffs. They were uh 11-0 going
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into um that’s how we be 11-0. I guess maybe they first round was only best three out
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of five, but anyway, they were 11 and0 going to the finals. They had not lost a playoff game. They play the 76ers and they lost the first game. Allan Iverson
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did the famous stepover. You remember that? Oh yeah.
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And but then they they won the rest. So they went 15 and one in the playoffs. Shaq was on the team by this point.
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Yeah. Kobe Shaq. Robert Ory Ravens won the Super Bowl. Delhart uh died at the Daytona 500. Jeez.
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Do you remember where you were for that?
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No, I mean by, you know, 2001 was, you know, was a things were starting to get wild for me. I mean, I wasn’t I wasn’t [snorts] present for a lot of things.
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So, so no, [laughter] I see a trend here. Things are taking a turn. I woke up on the couch.
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As we go through future years, I can’t wait to [laughter] Yeah. Yeah. It’s going be a lot of I don’t remember.
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What was your wildest year, do you think?
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Well, it just depends on what you know we’re talking [clears throat] about.
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Okay. in a lot of ways. You know, 2001 was one of the wildest uh but uh you know 2002
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2003 and then uh you know 2004 to this is a great tease 2004 to 2012. [laughter]
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Okay, and then 2013 15 2013 2016 to 2012 it’s starting to calm down.
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Okay, we got 11 more of these.
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I can’t wait. Uh Tiger Woods won the Masters to complete the Tiger Slam where he won incredible the four straight uh major.
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So in a lot of ways 2001 was a big time year, a good year, but then there was some bad stuff, too.
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Yeah, we did start with the bad on this episode. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Incredible year.
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Really? [snorts] Uh the top standup comedy tour was the Bluecollar Comedy Tour. Wow. What is it now?
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The Nate Baretti Comedy Tour. Uh, Big Dumb Eyes that at the time that Blueco collar
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comedy tour was pretty mind-blowing, though.
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Aaron, [snorts] cuz it was on TV, too.
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Yeah. [snorts] Sorry, I just drank a bunch of water and I felt I was about to spit it out.
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[snorts]
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Sorry about that. I think you had some drinks today.
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No, I haven’t been drinking. Uh, God forbid Coach Boy have a little fun out here. Yeah. Well, we’ll see what Kathy thinks.
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[laughter]
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Uh, Gladiator won best picture at the Oscars. Wow.
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Um, outstanding drama series went to the West Wing.
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How about that? This is the start of a long run.
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This is actually on television. They won in 2000 as well.
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We won, I think, the next two years after this, too. Not to get ahead of ourselves.
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Okay, we I did say we. [laughter] That’s crazy. Have you been drinking? I have not. Quit making that joke.
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[laughter]
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It was funny. Sounds offensive, doesn’t it? Now it’s going to become a thing. Maybe there’s something in that pillow.
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That body pillow right there. [laughter] Uh, outstanding comedy series was Sex in the City.
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The top Well, that was unnecessary.
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What if it were like a voodoo doll and he was like, [laughter] I feel that way. Anyway, I think there’s a lot of voodoo dolls out there. Every
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morning I get up. Uh, top grossing movies 2001. I think I sent you a link to that. top grossing movies. Uh, I think you’re going to like this. 2001, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone.
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Now, what is the difference between that and The Philosopher Stone?
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Uh, Philosopher Stone is what it was called in England. Oh.
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When it when the book came out in America, American publishers thought, uh, Philosopher Stone is not going to resonate well with American audiences.
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Let’s call it The Sorcerer. America’s more into witchcraft. Yeah.
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It was just the philosopher stone. It was just and then there’s really I think the movies uh it changed too but in the book it’s the philosopher stone.
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Interesting is what it’s actually called. Wow. It’s a real kid run here, huh? Harry Potter Monsters. Monsters Inc. Rush Hour 2 though.
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Rush Hour 2. Debatably a kids movie.
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I don’t know. Jackie Jan and Chris Ducker.
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Pearl Harbor. I mean, yeah, that’s a good fun kids. How many of these have y’all seen?
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Uh I’ve seen all the way down to Dr. Dittle 2. I don’t think I saw this.
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Fast and the Furious. I was working at Western Sizzling. I went to see the Fast and the Furious with a girl I had a crush on. [laughter] That’s a good movie. How’d it go?
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Well, I think it went good, but I, you know, I didn’t know how to capitalize, but I [clears throat] Castaway.
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You go. You want to see Fast and Furious 2? Yeah. Give me a couple years. Oceans 11. Oceans 11. That’s a good one. Cast away. Traffic.
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I think I’ve seen one of the Harry Potters in the theater. Do you read the books? No.
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I’m not against them. It just it’s I mean it’s I was too old. I I totally get that. Yeah.
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Um Lord of the Rings, Princess Diaries. Old Hannah Hathaway. I remember that.
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Um that’s domestic. Uh Abby sent me the top grossing worldwide and Lord of the Rings was number two. That’s kind of interesting. Lord of the Rings movies are incredible.
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Yeah. I can’t believe you like those. They’re incredible. Okay. Um because you’re into sorcery.
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No, I mean, you know, I I I watched them at a different time in my life. I wasn’t thinking exactly the same way that I think now, but I I think they’re very
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well done. I think um I don’t know. I love them.
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Oh. Uh album of the year at the Grammys was Two Against Nature.
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Good over evil by Steelely Dan. That’s what Harry Potter is, too. Yeah. It’s good over evil. Yeah. That’s what Star Wars is, too.
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Yeah. You don’t like Star Wars?
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What do you think’s a bigger IP IP? Star Wars or Harry Potter? I looked this up this weekend. I don’t dislike Star Wars.
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IP stands for But uh but I I just am not as into them. Yeah.
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U Harry Potter just I don’t know. Just doesn’t feel right to me. I have watched a couple of them. The first one I really liked.
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The sec by the time we got to the second one, I was kind of out. I don’t think I like a a lot of you know just watching a lot of kids. [laughter] Well, don’t make me feel weird.
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Aaron still watches.
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No, I I don’t even think that I don’t even mean it in a creepy way, but like, you know, in Lord of the Rings, they’re all adults and they’re on an adventure.
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Yeah.
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And I don’t like watching a lot of kids at school [laughter] and stuff like Aaron.
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What [snorts] are they doing now?
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[laughter]
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Oh, it’s recess time.
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I mean, a lot of people have recess at Harry Potter. I mean, a lot of people ride in the broom or whatever, but Quidditch.
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Quidditch. Yeah, that’s the sport that they play.
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Okay. So, it wasn’t during recess. It was just No, an extra extracurricular activity.
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Yeah. I’m not trying to hate on it. I uh I’m just not as into it. In the same way, I’m not that into Star Wars. I do like Lord of the Rings, though.
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Abby sent me some stuff. I forgot to mention about 911. Before 911, you could That’s a great way to end on something upbeat. Let’s bring it all the way back. Yeah.
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But I should mention this. I didn’t fly that often beforehand. Maybe once a year. I’ I’d flown six times in my life.
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But anybody could go through right up to the gate before 911. It seems so crazy now that you could just go through.
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It seems crazy that we can’t do that to me. I think we should just just let him go.
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Yeah.
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But there was a metal detector. It’s not like you just walked in. You did have to go through a metal detector.
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You didn’t have to scan a boarding pass to get to the gates. No knives. That’s all we need. Metal detector.
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Um, but obviously you didn’t have to take your shoes off and all that kind of stuff. It’s just it’s such a different time.
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There’s an episode of Friends where Chandler is trying to escape from his annoying girlfriend. Yes. And he tells her he’s going to Yemen. Yeah.
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And he says the address is number one Yemen road, Yemen. Yeah.
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And uh and I actually noticed I was young enough I noticed that it’s like she’s just at the gate about to leave with them. It’s crazy.
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Yeah. Um there’s a bunch of shows like that where they have that moment where they, you know, they’re about to walk on the tarmac and somebody yells and stops them. Yeah. And it just never happened.
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Or when they’re even getting off the plane, people are waiting for them right outside the thing. Yeah. Can’t do that anymore.
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Yeah. Now they have to shoot at the movie. It’s the TSA line. They have to yell.
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The office was like that, right? When when Michael left, I guess. So, I don’t know if he had been through security yet where he was
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walking through the airport and she chased after him. Yeah.
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I can’t picture if he had been through security yet. Okay. Or if he was walking up to Yeah. TSA. Yeah.
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Uh but yeah, I mean I I don’t know. I think it’s out of control. Mhm.
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And you know, and that Yeah. that because of 911.
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It’s gotten better actually because now at least you have things like TSA PreCheck or Clear where you if you choose to pay for it, you don’t have to do some of those things. Mhm.
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I mean, when it first Have you seen the movie Up in the Air? Yeah.
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George Clooney is a professional. I’ve seen I have seen that.
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He’s a professional traveler and his whole thing is about how these people don’t know what they’re doing, but he has to take his shoes off. All that stuff before Precheck, right?
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Yeah. That was early 2000s. So, things have at least gotten better in that regard. Yeah.
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Uh, that was a great movie, you know. Um, the guy from Eastbound and Down is in that movie. Yeah. Kenny Powers. Yeah. Danny McBride.
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Yeah. Yeah. Uh, texting. guy.
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Texting was just starting to become a thing. Um, that’s kind of I mean,
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[snorts]
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if you look back at those old school phones where you had to go T9.
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Yeah, it was called. Yeah.
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Yeah. Uh, Michael Jordan came out of retirement for the second time, played for the Wizards. Yeah. Um, it was a fun time 2001.
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It was.
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Besides a couple of besides a couple really bad things.
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Got a couple hitching our giddy ups there at the end. But yeah.
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Would you consider 2001, you asked me last week, a good year for you? It was a great year for me. Um, not so much for you. Sounds like
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not bad. I mean, I guess fifth grade was a good year.
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It was a wild year. I was working at Office Depot, tried to join the army, had some mishaps, didn’t end up getting
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in. Got went back to work at Papa John’s, moved into a trailer, had got my license suspended, I was on probation.
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Um, but all in all, good year.
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[laughter]
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just listed a series of tragedies
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[laughter]
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to us.
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[laughter]
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My license was suspended for 9 months. I was on probation for two years. You were still driving though, right?
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No, no, I took it cuz I had a threemon suspended jail sentence. So, if I got caught driving, I could go to jail for 3 months.
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Yeah. Well, that’ll do it. I uh I went on a mission trip to Australia in 2001. 2001. Yeah. Pre 911 or post?
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Pre July. Okay.
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So then when what two months later when 911 happened, uh I remember the Clintons were in Australia and they couldn’t get home because all the airlines were shut down.
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Whoa.
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And he had just left office like you know a few months.
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Sorry. I want to I want to make a joke that I’m not going to mad cuz Yeah. Well, thank you, Dusty.
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Yeah. [laughter] You say he probably had a friend with a plane somewhere, right?
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[laughter]
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not naming any names. He was in Australia.
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Uh, and then I turned 30 in November and I remember thinking, boy, 30, that’s kind of tough. It’s getting up there, man. I’m old.
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It does. I mean, your 20s, you do feel young. Like 30, of course, you’re like, oh man, I should be doing
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better in my life. [laughter] But like I said to you guys last time, every decade I’ve enjoyed more.
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Mhm. when we get into few years from now, I’ll start figuring stuff out. So, you excited about your 60s?
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[laughter]
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Well, let me just let let me enjoy my 50s.
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Okay. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. That was the point of what you’re saying. The 60s will be the year though. You know, that’ll be the decade.
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Then it finally comes together for me
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[laughter]
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cuz every year, every decade it’s better. Every decade. He said it’s better. He’s doing great now. He is doing great.
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I know. I thought he was joking like finally you get your 60s, you’ll finally That’s why I thought you said 60s will be the year you figure it out. I thought you were saying that jokingly like let’s go to family.
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I am. Yeah, I am joking. Okay, that’s funny.
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Yeah, I mean you won’t have it together by then. [laughter] I mean, come on. Come on. By 70s, that’s when it happens.
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Well, I mean, the world’s going to be such a mess by then, Dusty. Yeah.
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So, yeah. I mean, it uh Yeah. I mean, it’ll it’s going to be a wild time.
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There’s going to be new movies back. A bomb. Yeah. New movies start to come out.
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A bomb hits the ground. There’s a flash and the mushroom cloud starts creeping towards you and the last thing you hear
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is an AI song created by D [laughter] about a tree about
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[laughter]
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a raccoon and then it all goes dark. Oh my goodness.
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Just like Revelation said. [laughter] Exactly. I love that. All right. Well, we better wrap it up.
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All right. Well, that’s it. Thank you, Brian. It was a good job. Yeah, thank you.
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It’s good to see you. Thanks for doing it. That’s the podcast. I uh I got a pretty light next couple months coming out. I do got a a new date I want to plug.
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Uh June 20th, Hattisburg, Mississippi at the Sanger Theater. All right.
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I’m going to be performing there in Hattisburg. June 20th. July, I’m in Royal Oak, Michigan. And then things pick up from there. Go to aaronweber comedy.com. All my dates are on there.
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Come on out and see me. It’s going to be a fun rest of the year. Brian, where can the people find you?
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June 11th, I’m in Topeka, Kansas at the Beacon. June what? I’ll tell you why later. I’m sorry.
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Okay. Sorry.
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Uh, we need to do a Patreon just to tell [laughter] people all the stuff that we’re going to tell later. I’m sorry.
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June uh 12th and 13th. I mentioned this last week, but I’m very excited about this. The Grove in Arkansas. It’s going to be great. I’ve heard you guys talk about Bill for years.
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Have you never been? I’ve never been. So, dude, it’ll be great. I’ve never been. June 12th. You staying at the condo? Nope. I’m not.
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Uh,
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[laughter]
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sorry I brought it up. Okay.
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Well, I’m not done. Just I keep getting interrupted. Uh, June 12th and 13th, The Grove. Well, June 20th, I’m at the Palace Theater in Gallatin, Tennessee.
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And June 27th, I’m at the Packard Playhouse in Columbia, Tennessee.
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All right. All right. I’m going to hit you just the weekends of June. The first weekend I did I’ll be at Irvine, California at the Improv. The second
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week I’ll be at uh uh West Palm Beach for the Allen Jackson It’s 5:00 Somewhere event. Uh you heard that song?
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Uh I have heard it. Uh the next weekend I’m in Austin, Texas at the Mothership. Boom.
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The next weekend I’m in Lake Charles, Louisiana at the Golden Nugget
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uh casino. So that’s where that’s June for me. So, it’s a busy June. Yeah. It’s going to be hot.
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Yeah.
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This is the This is our This is our year.
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Yeah. [laughter] Right, boys? Yeah. 2026.
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This is This is where it all starts to come together. Yeah. Yeah. And we take over the world. Well, thanks for leading this episode.
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Absolutely. It’s been an honor. It’s been a privilege. It’s been great hanging out. Go see the bread winner this week.
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Shout out to the crew for keeping us on our toes for the last two hours. And uh be safe out there and good morning, good
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evening. Um, have a pleasant evening. [laughter]
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