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Nateland | Ep #160 - School
Comment 160-01
People: Brian Bates (host) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Brian+Bates Dusty Slay (co-host) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Dusty+Slay Aaron Webber (co-host) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Aaron+Webber Nate (mentioned as being in Australia) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Nate+Bargatze Lauren Harper (mentioned as already being back from Australia) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Lauren+Harper Robert Irwin (mentioned as the son of Steve Irwin) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Robert+Irwin Jesse Daniel (musician, friend of Brian Bates) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Jesse+Daniel Places: Australia (mentioned as Nate’s current location) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Australia New Zealand (mentioned as Nate’s next destination) – https://www.google.com/search?q=New+Zealand Little Rock (mentioned as a location where Dusty visited a zoo) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Little+Rock Charleston (mentioned as a location where Aaron tried to be a big brother) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Charleston Austin, Texas (location of shows for Brian Bates) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Austin%2C+Texas Denver, Colorado (location of a show for Aaron Webber) – https://www.google.com/search?q=Denver%2C+Colorado Brands and Sponsors: Game Time (sponsor, ticket sales app) – https://www.gametime.co/ Fabric by Gerber Life (sponsor, life insurance) – https://www.gerberlife.com/fabric ZocDoc (sponsor, medical appointments app) – https://www.zocdoc.com/ Rocket Money (sponsor, personal finance app) – https://www.rocketmoney.com/ Events and Experiences: The Batesville Podcast (name of the podcast) – https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Batesville+Podcast Show at The Paramount Theater in Austin for Brian Bates – https://www.google.com/search?q=paramount+theater+austin Performance at Joe Rogan’s comedy club in Austin for Brian Bates – https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+rogan%27s+comedy+club Trip to Robert Irwin Zoo in Australia mentioned by Nate – https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+irwin+zoo Jokes and Humor: Comparing zoos to prisons (00:28:00) Discussing the idea of a human zoo (00:33:40) Talking about the “freak show” at fairs and circuses (00:35:50) Wondering if the bear in the Chinese zoo is real or a man in a suit (00:46:00) Joking about the Earth’s rotation speed and perspectives (00:50:00) Media References: No specific media references were mentioned. Comedy Clubs and Restaurants: Joe Rogan’s Comedy Club in Austin – https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+rogan%27s+comedy+club Terry Black’s Barbecue in Austin – https://www.google.com/search?q=terry+black%27s+bbq+austin Products and Items: World’s Finest Chocolate (01:06:00) – https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Finest-Chocolate-Variety-Chocolates/dp/B00DE4GWWY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2SDPHPNL3I2A3&keywords=world%27s+finest+chocolate&qid=1676459109&sprefix=world%27s+finest+chocolate%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1&tag=natelandpod-20 Pesticides mentioned in Dusty’s sales job (00:15:00) Mice mentioned as pets by Dusty (00:44:00) Pencils discussed in context of school memories (01:05:00) – https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Mate-3415-Pre-Sharpened-Woodcase-Assorted/dp/B000J09CO6/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2LOR3JPWZPRZF&keywords=pencils+for+school&qid=1676459347&sprefix=pencils+for+scho%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEySlNZUTg1RlhIM1UmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA1NTM1NzEyNE4zRUxXV1lGTDdHJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA2MDc2MzUzVDFaVlVCTVdBQVAmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl&tag=natelandpod-20 Stories for Comedy Sketches: The conversation about animals in zoos and imagining them talking about their experiences could inspire a humorous sketch from the animals’ perspective. The discussion about jail tours and a “human zoo” could be turned into a sketch approaching the concept satirically. Main Topics and Themes: Reminiscing about school experiences at different grade levels. Perspectives on zoos and animal captivity. Jokes and lighthearted banter about various topics. Personal anecdotes and life experiences. Unique Facts and Trivia: One year the hosts’ high school voted to extend the school day by 15 minutes instead of starting a week earlier. The hosts discuss their experiences with “portables” which were trailer classrooms used when schools had insufficient space. One host had a substitute teacher for Spanish class who allowed rampant cheating until finals.
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You like a zoo?
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hello folks welcome to the Batesville podcast I’m your host Brian Bates Brian Bates in the house here with Dusty
slay Aaron Webber Nate is still in Australia yep
uh but it’s coming back soon this isn’t this isn’t long term yeah Lauren Harper already back well this is how the
Batesville podcast will always be right in what way no Nate well well if it’s
Nate land Nate’s here but if you’re introducing it as the Batesville podcast that’s true it will always be this way that’s true I don’t see Nate signing off
to the Batesville podcast while he’s here you don’t think Nate comes on as a guest every now and then no yeah maybe
you know maybe he does a guest appearance next week maybe he will I think he’s um at this point he’s probably about to
go to go down to New Zealand that’s pretty cool yeah then he heads home that
is awesome I hope he gets into some homesteading while he’s down there I hope he does too I saw some photos he’s been to the zoo the Robert Irwin Zoo
right yes I don’t know if that’s what it’s called Steve Well Robert’s his son he’s the star of the show now wow you
guys like kazoo I’m not a big fan of a zoo yeah I like a zoo what don’t you
like about it I don’t know I I feel like when I was younger I liked it right when I was a kid but now I always feel like
all these animals are locked up well they are you know what I mean though it just feels like God they’re just wishing
they were out on the Range somewhere now they’re locked up and I’m just in here looking at them but a lot of them have never known a life not in the zoo that’s
sadder to me why is it sad they don’t even know what they’re missing yeah but I feel like there’s a natural instinct
like I’m missing something out I don’t think they they missed the Serengeti if they grew up in Little Rock well maybe
I’ve owned mice before in the past I had a little mice collection and and they
spent the collection yeah well mice breed I like that guy from The Green Mile yeah make them do tricks and stuff
well well yeah a little bit I mean mice really get at it though you know what I mean they have kids and uh I had so many
mice and they spend their whole lives trying to escape the cage yeah yeah so when I let them go I turned
them loose in the woods oh that was nice because I figured they all got eight they all died in 10 minutes yeah but at
least for that last 10 minutes they were like I’m free at least I got to feel the sun one last night before all came I’ve
always felt that way about the zoos too but Pro Zoo people say these animals
usually are gonna die so quickly out in the wild because they’re fighting for food and it gets other just scavengers
and they have a life of luxury where they get every meal to them they don’t have to worry about being attacked you
mean the ones that were born in there they’re gonna die or or no I’m just saying if they were just out in the wild
they would have a much harder life than being in a zoo where they know where their meal is coming from there’s not
something about to kill them and they’re not going to die from being eaten by another animal like they inevitably
would be in the wild but like you could make that argument for jail in a way too right you could I don’t know if I want
to but like but that’s a good point but you could be right well you’re in jail listen you’re in jail you don’t have a
lot of room to run around but we’re gonna give you all your meals you’re gonna get some TV yeah you’ll get some companionship you know that’s a good
point but you know people come by and look at you all day yeah yeah we’ll do jail tours what if they had jail too I
know they have jail tours of empty jails but what if they had like like you know jail Active Jail tours well
that wouldn’t be nice I did a juvie tour I don’t know if it was a tour did they yell at you the kids I scared straight
no I I was an adult oh oh okay I was in college and we did a class where we
spent a week at juvie hanging out with kids oh I think you told me about it I used to have a long bit about this but
yeah teach football or something to I was me and the football team okay I was only because I had failed a couple
classes oh yeah summer school I remember this uh and we played pickup basketball and I got picked last and the whole all
of goofy I mean there’s a seven-year-old
ahead of me uh but yeah I guess you can call that a tour
you know I did a like a I tried to do uh like a big brother program one time and
I think I got rejected by the kid like I think the kid was like you know what I’m good no I’m more of a lone wolf
thank you brother yeah we went to like a Chick-fil-A I don’t even know how they let me do it I just took him to a
Chick-fil-A we hung out and I was just trying to give advice but I was probably hungover probably smoke cigarettes on the way where was this Charleston oh
yeah yeah but I was I you know I felt like a good influence but maybe maybe he
stopped it or maybe other people were like he keeps coming back smelling like cigarettes yeah if you’re a big brother
hungover or smell of cigarettes they the program probably stopped it yeah the kid’s probably gonna do better on his
own well I don’t know but maybe what kind of advice were you giving I don’t know uh it’s a long time ago but you
know just good old advice I think well I said back to the zoo I saw a 60 Minutes piece
about there’s some billionaire who’s buying up zoos and closing them because
he agrees with Dusty and thinks that they’re inhumane and he took a bunch of chimpanzees and put them back out in the
wild and they did not last no time yeah see I don’t I don’t agree with this guy
I’m just saying I’m not totally a zoo guy yeah but I don’t agree with buying them up and then just turning them loose
gotta integrate them yeah you ever see the movie Sling Blade yeah you know they
let that they let him go and he didn’t know what to do yeah he’s out he’d been in they’ve been in that place his whole
life very similar yeah you keep comparing them to the jails and prisons well that’s right human beings okay okay
that’s the closest we got we don’t have like a human Zoo now that would be something a human Zoo well yeah you have
like the freak Show at the at the fair yeah I guess that’s as close do they still do that I don’t think so
maybe some of the people walking around here would be like I’m weirder than you guys a circus you ever seen a picture of
like the world’s fattest man from like 1920. yeah I did yeah imagine if you
were like a real heavy time traveler and you went to visit him and they were like whoa look at this dude
we got a new champ here yeah yeah I think I think he weighed like 370 or something where you’re like yeah dude I
know a hundred people the way yeah and go to any Walmart
uh yeah I saw this story about the you want to show that this is that zoo in China yeah where
everybody’s alleging that it’s not really a bear that it’s just a guy dressed in the bear suit have you seen
this Dusty no I want to get your thoughts just your initial Impressions on whether this is a
let’s just sit through this terrible ad for another it’s not even working well you know there’s a uh a man that
apparently has changed himself into a border collie have you seen that I saw that no I
haven’t seen that it looks he was convincing the dogs well it was a suit he didn’t
change he didn’t go he didn’t go full time dog I think they changed him no it’s a suit
that he had made okay you thought he had surgery I don’t know what the guy’s up to listen
there’s a lot going on this is the bear that people were saying
were fake across I mean he gives a Dusty you get a good
shot of it right there what do you think look at the back there I think that’s a bear suit for sure they don’t have the
neck on good so you think they couldn’t afford a real bear so they just put a guy out there
I think it was a punishment they were like you got to be the bear today it is drooping there in the back a
little bit now here’s the thing now there is I thought that too but there is a type of bear called a sun bear
that that’s exactly what it looks like I had never seen this type of bear before their neck looks all weird like that
they stand up straight like human beings that’s a real animal
all right well I support it I think it’s real then yeah but the way he’s standing up though it
looks so fake I saw it and I was like oh come on yeah it does look like like an old man the way standing up and it’s
like his backside is just straight down you know what I mean
well uh you want to get into where we’ve been where we’re going yeah let’s do a little where we’ve been where we’re going I uh I went to Austin Texas this
weekend had a lot of fun I did a theater called the Paramount Theater all right
Weekend recap
hot show my buddies Alec parent Drew Harrison with me yeah hot show very good
and I also yeah that’s look at that yeah
yeah now it wasn’t completely sold out but some people left before we took that picture so okay yeah I zoomed in on that
upper Upper Deck it was not completely sold out but I you know I’ve not done a lot of comedy in Austin so to sell as
many tickets as I did in a theater yeah yeah it felt very good it was awesome it’s a big theater the last time I was
there is 2018 I did that with Bert Kreischer so here’s a picture for me and Brian’s show
I wish so in five years I guess I’ll be doing stadiums like bird I mean that’s
six reaction yeah yeah that’s what happens you’re gonna have a movie yeah and you’re gonna take your shirt off
yeah I also did a set at Joe Rogan’s
Club the mothership the comedy Mothership here’s a picture of that yeah I did the little boy room yeah well that
didn’t the way you just said it sounds kind of weird but I know they have a they have the fat man room yeah little boy room which are the two bombs that
were dropped in World War II oh is it did you know that that’s what they were called fat man a little boy okay and you
know why I chose that Beyond just the reason you gave no because you know he’s
big into UFOs Joe Rogan is oh why Rogan shows I thought I meant why I’m sorry yeah why Joe or whoever whoever named
that no why Joe Rogan was that because he’s you know he’s big into UFOs and UFO sightings
started to really take off after those two atomic bombs were dropped oh okay
and the theory is that after that they got their attention and they’re coming here to Earth to watch us to make sure
we don’t destroy ourselves oh well it’s kind of reassuring right here to keep an eye on it you don’t like it at all no
like we always we talked about this so many times but we’re always like painting aliens like they’re just like
these wise uh powerful intelligent B I think they’re just rednecks out there
loss if they even exist at all they’re demons but you know what I mean
yeah what is funny they come from billions of miles away but then they they crash a lot to to yeah they have a
lot of mechanical problems that landing’s the tough part how was that club it was great yeah it was really
good like if I lived in Austin I’d be trying to do that club every day well I think they all are yeah yeah those
Comics there I mean it was really great I mean it was both it was sold out well before
um well before the day of the show there was no not a single comic listed on the website it just sold out on its own wow
and it was great I mean that’s a city we didn’t mention last week if you got drafted to a city Austin’s got a lot of
clubs yeah Austin’s great but it was uh uh a 103 to 105 the whole time I was
there even at night it was in the high 90s Austin is a hot place well sixth
Street’s beautiful yeah it is Sixth Street is bizarre
because you’re walking down the middle of it you’re like this is chaotic but it’s not insane and then you look every
Alleyway you just look you’re like oh dude I’m not walking down there it’s so crazy and you know I this time I got to
experience a little of the outskirts of uh Austin which you liked a lot better yeah yeah I went to Terry Black’s
Barbecue I went to a couple of Tex-Mex places had a brisket Taco in the morning
and that’s what I’m all about I did pay is that a famous barbecue place Terry
Black’s Barbecue I think so okay I did pay 36 for three strips of
uh brisket and some coleslaw that doesn’t surprise me but it was delicious yeah I’m sure it was good dude
I was at the airport this weekend and I I was like I just need something to eat I grab a sandwich one of those like
pre-packaged sandwich from like I don’t even know what you call it like
a little shelf a refrigerated shelf yeah and I grabbed that in a water
and I put on the counter and the the girl goes that’s thirty dollars oh my God and I go can I see the breakdown of
that and the sandwich was like 22 dollars what and the water was seven so
like the airport is this uh Burbank okay Burbank Airport California yeah yeah so
I go I think I’m good on this I think I’ll just suck it up till I get to where I’ll just go have some water from the
fountain that is twenty dollars it wasn’t even like a good like a 20 sandwich from Terry black
like a barbecue place yeah I at least understand it it was yeah and I had three strips and I ate two of them and
none of the coleslaw and I was stuffed oh man it was great
I had I had at the Mexican restaurant I had queso and I had a little ground beef
in it and guacamole oh yeah mixed it up big time by the time I was full on the queso yeah and then I ate the meal
that’s how they get you yeah I fill up on chips and salsa every time I’m at a Mexican restaurant oh yeah yeah but we
ordered a sweet tea and the guy was like we have unsweet tea sweeten it yourself right real condescending first off I’m
like this is Texas I don’t know why you’re treating us like this but even in the north they always act
like you’re some hillbilly Backwoods redneck because you want sweet tea right
right but they have the sugar so the only difference is you’re putting it in there for me instead of me doing it yeah
I’m just asking you to mix it up a little yeah just do a little something try to earn it before you ask me the
question of whether you want a tip or not you know what I mean it’s like come on I’m at a phase now if that guy had
said that’s me and that sort of voice I probably was got up and left I know were you tempted to well I was with such a
big group of people that this would be really awkward uh and they were all there like for my show so I feel like
they would all be like well do we all need to leave or what so but it’s like yeah this guy was pretty rude uh-huh
like he asked Drew Harrison ordered like a chicken enchilada and somebody else had ordered steak and the guy was like
how do you want how do you want it cooked chicken enchiladas like I don’t know all the way
you know what I mean I don’t want raw chicken and I gotta go so you don’t want the steak then he’s like I’ve never
wanted this still acts a little bit the steak has never been on the table yeah yeah what are you talking about yeah
tough well that’s awesome dude yeah it was great we had a great time well I think you guys are going to win
as far because I know you had an exciting weekend too um I was in uh
um Foley Alabama all right did a shame of the state yeah did a show at uh
snook Christian Academy um back to school event for the teachers in service there and they were great and
we had a good time you guys know Foley is that a secret school it’s not like snook sounds like
like a secret Like We snuck in I think that’s someone’s name this is the Hat I’m wearing for their school
and uh I think it’s a different snook and um
I know Foley because that’s where Julio Jones played for Foley that’s right yeah there’s a lot of yeah and that’s around
the Mobile area where uh yeah my dad’s family’s from yeah in fact didn’t they used to live in Fairhope yeah they did
yeah after I left I visited a friend who lived in fairhope’s beautiful isn’t it yeah yeah it’s great and they uh they
just did a personality test at the school and they wanted me to take it it’s one of those like it’s called who
who am I okay I can’t wait to hear that and well it’s not going to make a lot of sense because they’re colors but I’m a blue if you’re very listening I’m a blue
there’s a gold orange blue and green they kept talking about it what does it mean to be a blue yeah how do you know
that you’re that well I did this test and I brought you guys a test if you ever want to take it Color Me Blue so
just one though you’re a mediator a caretaker
well optimistic there’s a test if you ever want to take it Dustin geez oh yeah you’re a true romantic Brian I wish
you’d give him this always has a kind word I mean you’ve been disqualified already
well you know off the podcast Brian does always have a kind word I think
she didn’t realize I was so brutal on the podcast no here’s what you need you
need understanding support empathy yeah Harmony acceptance yes yes inspiration I
wish Nate was here yes yes and you need to be authentic understood
nurturing and free to find meaning this is very beautiful dude how do you
find out what the my the back of mine doesn’t have the uh well that’s just the once you’re done but you’re either a
blue or gold that’s it I wish you’d given us this before the the world’s divided into two types of people we
could all took the test I was going to but you know some of us got here last minute and I just decided to abandon
seriously hmm
well I mean you came straight from the airport I’m not blaming you okay all right I’m just like I just I didn’t know there was paperwork
to be done I could have done it on the car car right here what’s up ogbg that’s the color it’s a doctor for women
[Laughter] it could be orange I’m guessing or green
or blue or gold yes yes and I mine was very very tight did
this does snook Academy make this up or is this like a scientific thing I think it’s a scientific Right End
have you guys ever done any Enneagram and any I know that’s where you’re a number yeah right I’ve never taken the
test but I’ve heard people talk about it yeah I did take it I’ve also heard that it’s demonic and so I reject it
that’s one reason why I didn’t even offer this to you Dusty because I didn’t think you’d want to do a personality test
I did hear that though and I don’t I don’t I do reject it okay okay so what’s
too late you took it so I guess we’ll move on Bobby boucher’s mom over here yeah it’s
the devil anyway I had a great time there um first time ever you guys ever done
this phone to a gig and flown back same day I’ve done that once and it’s unbelievable dude
I don’t think I ever have it’s an amazing feeling it’s like it never even happened you just pop in pop out
it is wild sometimes like I’m sitting around at the house after coming home from a gig and I’m like just a few hours
ago I was across the country yeah I always feel that way too yeah I was in Denver this morning yeah isn’t that
crazy it is crazy yeah how far we’ve come I know yeah that would have been a
trip that you might not ever come back from you probably wouldn’t like if you go to Hannah says people back in the day
on the frontier when someone would leave they would stand out and wave to them
until they completely disappeared because they probably never see him again yeah
and it might take a long time for them to pass over the whatever they pass over Horizon Darkness
Maybe you don’t believe in a horizon out of the frame of vision well come on what’s
the Horizon I mean well just okay
I’m trying to think what a horizon well I think that you know you just at some point so you can’t see them anymore
because the Horizon means going over right the idea of the Horizon is that we pass out we’re talking about the same
thing yeah let’s not get into the weeds yeah but modern day zoom lenses have proven
that you know when somebody is out of your vision you’re like I can’t see them anymore you can zoom in and they come
right back they’re still there walking or or driving however there okay however
they’re going about it yeah boating yeah and if you zoom out far you can see the Burj Khalifa from here
uh I don’t know what that is but that’s the tallest building in the world
uh where were you Aaron I was in uh Los Angeles for a few days where I got to do
a pretty cool moment I got to do a spot at The Comedy Store look at that the legendary comedy store when you are a
comedian you start this is a place everybody talks about fans of Comedy talk about it I hung out there like
three nights in a row first time I got there the photographer was like it’s your first time here he’s like let’s take some pictures he’s like a photo
shoot of me in the club so that’s pretty exciting I did it one time and they didn’t take any photos of it well you
gotta you know yeah did you do the main route did you talk to the guy about lenses for a while maybe that’s probably
well yeah all right I’m good I just spot in the belly room okay which was awesome too yeah it’s the smallest room of the
three but it was sold out packed it’s one of those shows where like everybody before me was like very murdering yeah
so hard that party used like I’m not supposed to be on this show but it went great that’s how I all that’s how I felt
at Joe Rogan’s Club I always feel like any like the cool clubs like yes L.A New
York Chicago I’m like ah I feel like I’m like I feel like I’m like a road comic
all of a sudden when I’m up in there 100 I felt that way all weekend I felt like I was an outsider and and I’m like not
really a part of the club everybody was nice and welcoming so it’s all in my head yeah I never have a problem I did
the main room at this Comedy Store one time and I came I was first there was no host I was first on the lineup I came
out there’s a little step I tripped and I’m like I’m open I already feel
like an outsider and then I trip and I I pulled it together though it was a hot five minutes but I but it did not start
well it was a lot of fun for me and then oh yesterday I’d uh headlined that
Comedy Works in Denver for the first time all right a lot of folks came out very exciting to see everybody that club
is like perfect dude yeah yes it is have you done the uh The Comedy Works I have
not I had never done that downtown room you walk out there they’re like right they’re almost on stage it feels like
they’re so close to you yeah and they’re just packed in and it was just like
I mean it felt so good I don’t know if it felt good to the audience if it was just a me thing yeah I’m hesitant to say
I was like it was unbelievable the show fell back yeah it’s so good I just did
it this year it’s so good like I the first show I did I did a weekend the first show I was like it felt like they
were almost like laughing at me where it was like some joke was happening where they were laughing at everything I mean
I checked my zipper like four times yeah yeah I was like these jokes are normally not this funny yeah you know yeah the
jokes that are funny are getting less but parts that usually don’t get a big laugh is like getting a real laugh and
like what’s going on here yeah just a great crowd yeah great Club so it was a really fun weekend
I’m happy to be back with YouTube guys man and I’m pumped to be here you met Jesse Daniel right I did well I met him
before but come to my show in Austin yeah big fan of Jesse Daniel yeah here you two are right here yeah having a
good time at the Paramount Theater yeah it’s great he lives in Austin or just outside and uh he’s great how do you say
Losing your accent
theater theater you say it that way too I think so theater theater okay theater I may say I
get in my head about it it’s a word I think about as I’m saying it maybe I say theater sometimes too though yeah I used
to say theater look at that I put like through an r in there yeah and I said
that for years and then I got called out on it pretty heavily yeah and so now I try to
overcompensate theater that’s what happens to Accents once you become aware of what you’re saying and other people
around you aren’t saying it like y’all is like that for me I used to say y’all all the time and then I just kind of
became aware that I was saying it and I don’t think I say it at all now yeah and I don’t I didn’t I don’t hate
y’all right you can hardly tell your Southern but I just uh you know what I mean like yeah like Hannah said would
say a uh and then she says pasta instead of pasta pasta pasta
whoa and now she’s like really become aware that she’s saying pasta and I
think we’re gonna lose it and I’m I’m sad about it honey Pasta Pasta Pasta Pasta no it’s Pasta Pasta I know but if
she’s trying to change uh she’s gonna now say pasta but yeah you’re right it would be yeah Rastafarian
yeah okay but I would say Rastafarian yeah that’s how you’re supposed to say oh she would say I was saying if you said
you ever see like Old School Tennessee people will say wash it’s gonna wash yes
wash they put an R like you’re gonna wash your clothes you gotta wash my family
does that yeah your family still does yeah yeah some of them do it is wild like like I’ve met someone in
Charleston from Tennessee and it was a girl probably a year younger than me and she was saying warsh and I I’m from
Alabama I’m like I almost don’t believe I don’t believe she did that no I believe she did but I don’t believe
she did it without thinking about it well I think I don’t know anything about this girl I didn’t I barely was wishing
to you talking about it just now she’s in a small town yeah I think so I think she thought this
would be an interesting thing to do if I say wash wash and it worked because you’re still talking about I guess so
yeah and I met her like 15 uh-huh years ago yeah she’s still doing that 20 years ago yeah I just washed my Cur
car the other day I don’t believe she does that anyway well she’s one of these things about your family you think
they’re making it up you think Brian’s family’s making it up no they started it they don’t but I’m guessing the oh how
old is this girl you were talking to I don’t know let’s say 40. okay at the time 20. okay I don’t believe any 20
year old is unironically saying wash I mean I have to believe that I just
don’t think it’s cool enough to be like making that up I think it is okay
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Comment roundup
uh Matt K where these comments come from oh these comments come from Twitter Instagram YouTube Apple podcast reviews
and nateland at natebragazzi.com or DM Brian Bates which many people do I know
but most do actually Matt K I’ve never related to an episode more than this one
you can’t read all these like it’s an ad read I can’t do that dude
it’s hard to do a an ad read and then into the guy just just read it conversationally listen I’ve never
I’ve never related to an episode more than this one I was a beverage vendor for seven years
and I’m a paint vendor for Home Depot for the last six years and I feel like I could sit down and talk for days with
Dusty and Greg we share way too many of the same opinions and situations
that was worse I don’t know if that’s better yet it’s worse that was fun
though wasn’t it yeah except for Matt we will say some nice things yeah I’ll be I don’t process and process a word or what
all right let’s get with it I’ve never related to an episode more than this one I was a beverage vendor for seven years
and I’m a paint vendor for Home Depot for the last six years and I feel like I could sit down and talk for days with
Dusty and Greg we share way too many of the same opinions and situations all right well I used to talk to the paint
people all the time in the Home Depot I love the paint vendors Valspar and
that’s all I can remember but Sherman Williams Sherman Williams yeah I
love the paint people and people always seem fancier than me are they a different type of people than the
pesticide people yeah I mean we’re dirtier you know what I mean we’re out there stacking fertilizers we’re getting
real work done they’re making cosmetic changes yeah you’re trying to keep people well that’s true they’re coming in with paint strips to be like look at
the new colors that we have embarrassing yeah and they got probably they got a lot of them have company cars very nice
and you say the Home Depot it is the Home Depot isn’t it most most people just say it’s Home Depot yeah there is a
bit of a Mandela effect out there on that some people say it used to be Home Depot and now it’s the Home Depot it’s
the lows though right I think it’s just like it’s like Eagles the band the Eagles yeah
which is my favorite point to make I make it all the time and nobody’s happy and when I say it but it’s just Eagles
it’s just Eagles yeah but it’s hard to use that in somebody you know what’s your favorite I’m gonna go see Eagles later yeah it seems like they made a
mistake and they’re like just trying to cover it now now we’re just Eagles I’m
going to see Eagles concert yeah yeah it sounds crazy yeah anyway all right Jasmine Lozano oh
I was not looking forward to comment reads with Nate missing but Aaron didn’t disappoint oh thank you love seeing
Dusty and Greg on their first day it was adorable and entertaining all right he
did do a good job and I’m sorry Jasmine that I’m reading them this week you’re doing a great job now cutting it
down we’ve got a lot more to go that was a tough one to be number two though Parker Jones can we have Nate walk Aaron
through how to properly Dismount an episode that Aaron land ending was rough
okay well how do we normally end up we love you all none of this is lost on
us there you go we love you all and uh all right yep let’s see how Brian does it this week yeah Brian you’re you’re
dismounting you’re dismounting this time all right because you’re running the ship be practicing Benny I’ll be
practicing over here on the side Benny Esquivel
who do you think it is [Laughter]
something like that Greg and Dusty May repeat jokes but at least they add value
other than being the butt of the joke that’d be a harsh comment if I knew that
if I didn’t know Brian was the one putting these together well I just that’s 90 of this podcast so it’s a
pretty big part I guess you do still have to read it yeah either way I’m gonna see it so I
mean some people don’t even read comments but you have to read them and put them together yeah Aaron encouraged
me one time just don’t even read them I told you we’re scaling to the point where we need we need to stop looking at
stuff yeah I had to stop looking at stuff because look are the listeners podcast for all
things considered are very nice and friendly and they get what we’re doing but it’s just it’s like being a comic on
stage you see one person with their arms crossed and you focus on them and uh on
my own personal podcast that we’re having a good time podcast I did uh a 20-minute rant on the uh Nate land uh
Facebook group about the people call me out for not eating bacon and then edited
it out and never published it really but just go ahead and tell us now yeah well I went through a lot of the
comments comment by comment kind of answering their questions yeah because some people I don’t know I can’t
get into it but uh um yeah it’s all love it is you know it’s all love what’s the
fact that anybody cares whether you you know what I mean yeah it’s pretty crazy but they want me to do it
they’re like you better do it eat that bacon I’ll get them too don’t worry guys I’d say to Benny besides researching the
top just coming up the topic researching the topic doing all the work all the comments all the emails yeah I agree
with you yeah absolutely I mean I’ve not done any of these things this is all new to me
someone replied truer words have never been spoken to that comment was that Me Maybe my burger account
all right Aaron brauner if a significant portion of your total compensation isn’t
in the form of bonuses or commissions you are not a Salesman you simply work
in sales real technicality there most of these products are established brands
that the customer contractually has to carry in their stores well yeah that’s true you’re not
necessarily selling it to the store you’re trying to get the customer to buy
your product over the other product and there is uh you know there’s not well
there is bonuses we did get bonuses but not commissions um and I yeah I mean I’m not out here I
mean you know I don’t know the difference in working in sales and being a Salesman I didn’t go door to door
being like you got a lot of weeds out here um but that’s a big generational
difference where 50 years ago if you ask people what they do for a living almost everyone would just
say I’m a blank oh yeah and now it’s I’m in or I’m involved with it’s like yeah
it’s interesting yeah my official title was uh seasonal merchandising
coordinator and then they’ve restructured the company and I became known as a district manager there you go
but the pay was still the same yeah so if you’re a comedian or I’m in comedy
yeah a year ago about I’m a comedian now I’m in comedy yeah yeah I mean it’s like
but the the sales part is like you’re trying to get the customer to buy it but you’re also trying to get the store to
order more so sure the store already carries it but I don’t know if there’s anybody going into a corporation going
hey uh I’ve been making some of my own pesticides back at the house wondering
if you could start stocking them here you know what I mean come on guy and I’m with Aaron on this
okay what was Aaron’s day well I’m with Aaron
Browner yeah uh Tyler Hodge boulder dash baits
has never been more on point with his family’s love of Crossville Tennessee and Mariner’s Point I’m from
northeastern Pennsylvania but I went to Crossville with my grandparents and brothers every summer as kids it’s truly
Paradise for pickleball Putt-Putt and most notably Nate’s favorite sport golf
well they didn’t have pickleball when I went I think that’s a relatively new sport football’s been around two months I would dominate if we did they were
just inventing pickles back then a paradise for pickles do you play a lot
of Putt-Putt there girl we did play some Putt-Putt and some shuffleboard and
all the other old people stuff that you’d imagine dominoes Bingo well I don’t think anybody was really making
fun of well maybe we were making fun of Crossville a little bit it was just funny that your you live so close to
Crossville and you have a uh what what do we call it last week time share time share yeah which I also did sell a
little bit back in the day did you know that no did you know when we talked about that maybe I did did I yeah okay
people sent me a clip of Brian doesn’t remember so people sent me a clip of uh
Parks and Recreation where if you watch that show Jerry uh the old guy
yeah I mean I guess he’s the oldest one in the group to me he’s a young strapping ladder no Jerry he’s like
that’s his whole character as he’s old right well he’s the loser the butt of the jokes of okay he’s the fat old guy I
guess for sure old um but he uh he looks like Newt Gingrich
dude what are you talking about well you don’t think this is the old guy of the group yeah I mean I’m a little bit older
you guys I mean I think I only got like 80 that guy’s not much older than I am
how old is he he is uh oh I’m looking at this is the characters page Jim O’Hare
sorry who I didn’t mean to insult the actor I apologize 61. he’s 61 now so that means on Parks and Rec he was my
age [Laughter] well he was probably just like 40s that
show started he was playing up in age yeah yeah they do that but anyway on the show he talked about having a timeshare
in Muncie Indiana and that show set in Indiana so they all laughed it was the same exact same situation okay yeah see
this guy Tyler Hodge is from Pennsylvania so he’s traveling a bit to get to Crossville they’re going down to
Tennessee yeah he’s visiting his grandparents yeah yeah well we loved it and we summered there and
back off well just the fact that you got to go somewhere for the summer that was pretty impressive I mean we were not
summering it no I was joking about summary okay but we took one vacation one big vacation my childhood what was
it again went to Washington DC of course yeah of course yeah education
museums yeah the one big vacation they’re like let’s
learn something yeah haha and how old were you
uh maybe nine or ten not Disney World not an amusement no Washington DC we did
go to Vision land in Birmingham oh yes pretty weak pretty weak I never even heard of it I haven’t even that was like
our Six Flags Okay Vision land yeah you had a Six Flags type place and you never even heard of
it we would go to Six Flags in in Georgia okay Atlanta I think was a bit closer to us
than Birmingham about an hour and 45 to Atlanta two two hours to Birmingham so
and Six Flags was awesome Opelika might be a good comedy City you got
either directions there’s a club in Opelika or in Auburn there is a club there’s Club in our crown of common
crown of Comedy yeah yeah it’s an unfortunate location for crown of Comedy they they bought an a spot that used to
be an old pool hall that I used to go to and then later a a plasma donation place
moved in next to them I mean they share a wall yeah like plasma donation makes
every area look Shady it sure does yeah and then catacorner to that is a discount mattress yeah Lee County
discount beds or something right there yeah yeah so it’s like it’s unfortunate it’s kind of wedged in between I mean
when it was a pool hall it was a pretty hot place yeah pretty hot it was sketchy but it’s pretty hopping and that club’s
still open I think so yeah I’ve been I’ve been in a couple years but yeah
yeah it’s a good time all right all right Matthew Howard I really enjoy that the four of you found out that Dusty had
a relative who was a literal nobility in England and the high Sheriff
of London but you were more fascinated by what was going on with the people’s ties and the picture of his grandfather
best podcast ever keep up the good work yeah I mean I actually want to know more
about my nobility in in London I’d like to go in back to London and try to you
know see if I got some inheritance how great would it be if you had Royal Blood in you yeah hi sheriff and you guys
probably grew up not being fans of authority yeah well that’s true so something flipped there yeah
High Sheriff of Opelika yeah much different I love it thank you Matthew you know you
know what my uh my sister’s last name was uh Howard so maybe I’m related to this guy too Lori
peacock yeah because yeah
I remember those pea coats you remember those people tell them I can’t really remember them they’re still around the
girl told me one time she had a peek out and her and her boyfriend broke up and he got you they were drinking he got real mad and he peed on her coat and it
was a pea coat
you can’t debate animal fights without knowing the St Louis Zoo has to be in
the top five they probably house the winners sorry
halfway through this I got real confused you can’t debate animal fights without knowing the St Louis Zoo has to be in
the top five they probably house the winners well I agree it’s I mean I love it one
because it was free it is free but they have good animals there it’s not sad
like the one you said he went to in Little Rock we just got Komodo dragons in Nashville yeah you see that that’s big time yeah I’m gonna go check them
out see what they’re all about yeah I want to take my daughter to the zoo I would like her to see it
we’ve been once yeah and she was just a little too young to and this is just a couple months ago but
to really like notice anything maybe right in front of it because of you and she’s looking over
here but just in that couple months time she’s changed and now she’s she’s fighting deer and I mean we have a zoo
at our house so we have squirrels and you got a lot going on beavers and everything I want to take my daughter
but you know when she’s old enough to be able to take it in but not too old to
have sympathy you know what I mean yeah what’s The Sweet Spot there I think
she’s in it I gotta get there quick all right Rebecca Ryan this sales episode
Selling the World’s Finest Chocolate
couldn’t help but remind me of selling world’s finest chocolate during my grade
school years every year the world’s finest chocolate wraps would come in and get a bunch of 9 to 12 year olds all
pumped up on selling chocolate using the prize catalog as the incentive I hated
selling it and never did very well I lived on the outskirts of what was already a rural town so I had about four
people on my sales list every year this is exactly me
everything about it we sold world’s finest chocolate every year I lived
out in the country very small school she also said I didn’t I couldn’t put it all
in there but her other kids would take it their parents work and they would oh yeah sell it and stuff and their mom did
it every time for me dominate but she said she never would do that and I mean I never first of all we’re
selling it for a dollar candy bar for a dollar in 19 like 82 when candy bars
like 20 cents or something yeah that’s the world’s finest I would say that’s why they had to call it that the world’s
finest I remember one time we went to Charlie Daniels days in Mount Juliet he would have a like a well just that a
date on her Charlie Daniels we walked around I walked around trying to sell world’s finest chocolate candy bar and
uh it didn’t go well but okay well
um well you know you gotta you gotta use what you got all the tools at hand if you’re in sales you know what I mean if
your mom can run it up to work we never sold this but I would sell other things and she would always just get everybody
at work to buy it I always did well it was magazine subscriptions yeah it’s big in our in our school I think we were
doing fruit mm-hmm we would get like boxes of fruits I remember I was having boxes of
grapefruit and oranges and we would do chocolate I think but I don’t know if it was the world’s finest it was you know
pretty good we had to return what we didn’t sell oh we never physically had it
Oh I thought you I was picturing walking around with a box like this we did no we never physically had it like they would
order it and we would place the order for them and then it would come to them I believe we had the physical things and
I’d be like would you like to buy a candy bar I thought you had to buy it first and then you have to like you buy
the Box oh so you’re telling me that Rebecca Ryan was sitting in class oh yeah and some uh poacher of a of
chocolate salesman comes into these Kid 9 and 12 year olds and goes buy all this chocolate for me and then you go sell it
yep I don’t like it it’s brilliant I don’t like that it’s a perspective great for that sales respect the hustle yeah
those are Dirtbag tags they are dirty yeah you you return what you don’t sell and so there’s there’s no buying ahead
of time but kids are sitting around with all this chocolate in there I know it’s very tempting so you’re eating it up and now your parents are like ah well that’s
true yeah I don’t like that I’m with Rebecca here yeah Zach today was officially my last
day at my current job I hope I hope you did a two-week notice I arrived a little early this morning and was just sitting
in my car listening to the episode when Aaron told the etiquette at a cat story
and I lost it the mental image of him trying to be polite and accept that
brutal advice sent me into a total laughing fit unfortunately this happened while most of my soon-to-be former
co-workers were showing up to start their work day yeah I mean that was funny I mean it was
hard to even contain it when Aaron was telling me while we were there yeah at a cat the lady was very nice she was she
was great but that’s the the worst idea I’ve ever gotten in my life
let me hear me hit you she’s selling world’s finest chocolate here and a cat [Laughter]
Jake Jesse or gessie I bet Jesse Jake Jesse
he didn’t want to be called JJ they were like do it with a G though they didn’t change his last name yeah
am I crazy or does bread toast always sound like he’s about to
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Jake Jesse oh JJ all right last comment Gabe Allen my my
I dated a girl one time and she told me that her stepdad was named Gabe and whenever he would say it he would always go Gabe you gotta hit that yeah you
gotta hit the beat yeah the Earth isn’t really spinning that fast because speed is relative the fact
that it is uh so big makes the thousand miles per hour so unnoticeable
uh for comparison spend yourself at a rate of one degree every four minutes
for 24 hours and you will have spun once completely the Earth is doing the exact
same thing all right that’s a good example how do we I wish that there was something else that was that big that
spun a thousand miles an hour that we can compare it to yeah because science is all about being able to recreate yeah
and and and do actual experiments it’d be cool if there are eight other planets and a bunch of moons we could look at
close enough that we can get to right right you know if we had devices that could see them from far away if we could
if we could that would be very nice that would be great I don’t really get the point of this comment no because if it’s
if if the because if if I’m if I spin slow like that to spend once every 24 hours then I’m not spinning fast so if
the Earth it’s like it’s like the heat index right when they’re like it’s this hot but it feels hotter he’s like listen
it’s spinning fast but it doesn’t feel that way because it’s so big but he says it’s not spinning fast but it’s
but science tells us that spinning a thousand miles per hour yeah that’s our perception he said it’s relative so it’s
thousand miles per hour is fast to us it’s not my perception it’s to some people’s perception a thousand miles per
hour but thousand miles per hour is fast if you’re not if you’re as big as the
Earth but how how was that that’s what I’m saying though it’s like fast is fast you don’t get it doesn’t feel slower
because you’re big but I’m I think you guys would agree maybe look at me does it
you don’t think an ant thinks I’m a pretty fast Walker but I bet you guys don’t think I’m a faster but you’re
walking this whatever the speed is you’re walking it’s still the speed you’re walking yeah that’s right he says
it’s all relative to what you’re talking about but it’s it’s not real it’s like the speed is the speed no matter what so
but whether you think it’s fast or slow is is your own opinion there you go that’s that’s right right but but but
the point is like we should be able to feel something going that fast like if you’re walking five miles per hour to
the ant the ant is like wow five miles per hour that’s really fast I can’t go that fast right so
um you know so to that ant uh you know but it’s you’re still going five miles per hour no matter what it’s not not
uh you know what I mean does that make sense not really I don’t I don’t understand what’s happening thousand
miles per hour is a thousand miles per hour yeah yeah we’re not arguing that I’m back I’m back on
I’m I guess we’re just debating whether I mean it’s not doing that so it’s easy you know what I mean it’s just it’s just
kind of hanging out not even hanging really just resting but let me ask you this and I know it
probably shouldn’t even get off on this but other planets in the Solar System you think they’re out there
or do some people think they’re out there some people do yeah yeah do some people think they’re not
yeah some people do think they’re not yeah because you can see them through a telescope well have you have you pulled up images
on the internet of people actually like zooming in on these planets and not the NASA uh images I I saw uh I took a
cosmology class in college and I saw the planet was that your own telescope
of a telescope and I can see Saturn what’s so when you zoom in on Saturn it
looks just like they show you it sure does man you can see the Rings I zoomed in on Jupiter and you can see the red
the Reds but you saw it from a school telescope so who knows what Mine mine’s not big and powerful enough to I can see
it but I can’t zoom in on it what’s it look like when you see it I can see the ring it’s very small it’s very faint but
I can see a ring and I can see I didn’t know we would talk about this I would have brought some some videos I
mean now again you know these are somebody else’s videos I don’t know but I’ve seen it right like zooming in on Stars I mean it’s wild they’re like
they’re like changing all the time and it looks it’s so wild it doesn’t look at all like the sun
you know we’re a lot closer to ours right but I can’t but but the sun’s not
doing this thing I don’t know it just doesn’t like change everything about it because it’s closer
I think we just got we got a different view of it yeah we would yeah I mean but I’d love I wish I had known we would
talk about this I would have brought these next time me too but I think planets are keep going on camera I’m
gonna show it to you all right yeah we’ll talk about it yeah when we stop rolling we’ll really get into it
well today we are talking about school all right it’s back to school this week
here that go well I think it’s still picking up I don’t
think we’ve really hit our stride yet okay but I think within the next 10 minutes it’ll be like I’ll look around
and be like this is actually going pretty good okay but we’re done with the comments yes you’re asking about the comments specifically yeah yeah they go
well yeah I think I don’t read them a lot oh you just met your reading oh just all together the flow I thought you did
a good job man yeah I appreciate that but uh today we’re talking about school it’s back to school this week here in at
Back to school season and our school histories
least Nashville and I think pretty much everywhere in the country people go back to school in August
um I think when I was in school we would start after Labor Day that was kind of the September
yeah like maybe I think that’s how it was for me too it could have been like the Tuesday like literally the day after
Labor Day I don’t remember but Laura was telling us uh about how now they’re cons
here considered year-round schools it’s not that different but they do start
earlier because um they have fall break and a spring break we never had a fall break we never
had a fall break well there’s a lot of data to suggest that a better model would be to eliminate summer vacation
altogether and just have year-round school I think I’d prefer that and you
just have in this and you have another like fall brand another like week break somewhere in there but
taken two months off some you know you don’t retain a lot of what you learn
there’s a lot of data that says all the kids will be better off what do you think about that
I don’t know I think there’s so much useless stuff that goes on in school anyway I just think about the stuff you
think the lack of retention is good yeah I mean so we do need to get a little forget some of this yeah well it’s like
I think we should like be learning really practical things like so that when we get out of school we know how to
do stuff like people don’t know how to pay bills they don’t know how to balance checkbooks they don’t know how to do their taxes they don’t I think we should
be learning all this stuff I think you should know how to cook basic food for yourself I mean and then we come out very
productive humans instead of being like we just come out ready to go to college
we’re like let’s get in debt now there are some classes in high school that do some of that but their class their
electives that you can they are I think we should folk like it’s like uh you know like calculus was a class that you
could take in my and it’s like uh we you know it’s like if you want to get into math later on if I get into it
in college Oh I thought you mean like once you retire no I didn’t take up a hobby yeah it’s like I don’t need
calculus in in high school like let’s go algebra let’s do algebra one but here’s do you think the kid that
wants to take calculus is also the kid that needs to take a class on how to button this shirt I well but button sure
is I mean that’s a strategy if he doesn’t know how to button this year then the answer is yes uh but I don’t I
think these are classes that people need to be taken where they learned like we took a sew in class it was an elective
we took some but you know I know how to say sewing as an elective yeah well I don’t know it was middle school so it
was a kind of a requirement really so I know how to sell with a needle and thread you know I learned to use a
sewing machine I haven’t done that in a long time so I don’t know if I could do it but that’s pretty cool yeah and I
think you know how can you do calculus not and I don’t even know what calculus is to be honest with you yeah I barely
let’s go over like what where we went like mine’s pretty simple I was first through eighth grade
at the same school it was the smallest School in the county first through eight yeah I didn’t go to kindergarten okay
first through eighth grade at the same school and then I went from the smallest School in the county to the biggest school in the county in high school and
and so I was only at two schools before College when you got to the big school
like because this happened to my mom too was that a real adjustment oh yeah but it was great because I was with the same
kids for eight years and there’s just a few of us yeah and then you get to high school and you’re a freshman you see the
senior girls you’re like they’re like they’re women yeah oh yeah and they seem so mature and and
just put together and yeah it was a huge adjustment it was so nice though to be around other kids that you hadn’t been
around all the time though right and doing stuff there’s a I was hot I mean there’s
a whoa I mean that’s probably that’s a good look though I’m gonna be honest it
is a good look you got kind of the dusty sleigh glasses yeah yeah that’s why you think it’s a good look okay I I think
it’s a good look I mean you got a uh my head hair what is that yeah I mean there’s yeah I like it I mean is that a
Lacoste sure it could be it could be that’s a good it’s a good call on that that was third grade maybe I mean your
hair looks good you gotta go good ahead of hair man yeah yeah I’ve had a haircut like that I had a haircut like that most
of my life is that kind of Alabama bangs I would say like a Alabama swoop yeah the Bama
swoops okay so that’s pretty much I mean that’s a good Public Schools oh yeah
yeah were there like was there ever talk would there were like Christian Schools
or private schools that you you would have maybe gone to or was it there is one in Lebanon that I mean it’s still
there but I don’t ever remember when you talk about it I don’t I just don’t think we could afford it and yeah uh so
and I mean no you went to private Christian School I see advantages and disadvantages
uh-huh I mean I mean my daughter now you know I’ll be considering for her in a few years word extended school and
there are some advantages to public school but what are the advantages I feel like you’re around a more diverse
group of people I may be wrong because I wasn’t in private school but but I feel like you’re diverse in what way well in race
and economics and just different you know uh just not
everyone’s maybe some a similar to you I may be wrong but that’s how I feel there’s probably some truth to that I
think it depends a lot on the school like I got stabbed in eighth grade there you go that’s the kind of diversity
I got punched in the bathroom busted my eye yeah and luckily you could do your own stitches after you got stuck yeah
that’s true yes because I learned things I had to go to a nurse and they had to do my locker
got broken into a lot I lost a lot of money you know what I mean so I mean how many schools did you go to Growing Up
well I was just talking about this the other day it was weird for me because some schools were being built you know
black guy went to a school called Carver from uh kindergarten and first grade and
then the new school was being built so I went to another school called Brown
while that one was being finished and then I went I was the first class at South View Primary so I did second grade
there and then I did third grade at a school called Martin third fourth and fifth which would later be called
Northside and then I went to Middle School uh Opelika Middle School for
sixth seventh eighth and then High School OHS uh 9th 10th 11 12. damn
that’s a lot yeah jumped around a lot it was a military family that’s what I was about to say all in the same town so all
these primary and elementary schools we all came together in middle school so it was similar to that so you had friends
that made all these jumps with you yes okay so you had friends that you went from kindergarten all the way through
High School absolutely matter of fact the girl who told me that her boyfriend peed on her peacoat uh we were in
kindergarten together went all the way through school together wow yeah such a huge chunkier life
in the same room with another person yeah now she wasn’t in every class with me but we made the journey yeah yeah I
mean you agree you were five when you started yeah her last name was her name was Lindsay Savage so Savage and slay we
were always like you know when you your last names are close you’re always like kind of like in the same homeroom
together and stuff like that a lot of the s’s yeah you were taking an elective in junior
high yeah I don’t know if they were called electives but they were like just you know you’d be you’d have all your
regular classes and then you had it’s elective in that like you decided whether you went to school that day or
not that is true yeah I got it homie I did chorus you know stuff like that I did a
little chorus thing I just realized we were singing uh God Bless the USA by Lee
Greenwood in Middle School oh no maybe uh elementary school and I looked at the
dates and that song was brand new at that time wow so because I was like man
this song must be way older but it was like brand new I thought it came out after 9 11. at a Resurgence had a bit of
a research yes it did I remember hearing it all over after that like I met Lee Greenwood a couple of times and it’s like you don’t hear other Lee Greenwood
songs you don’t need another thing yeah you’ve got the song yes but I remember when that song came out and I knew who
Lee Greenwood was because he had stuff right he has he has a few albums but
it’s uh yeah I mean when that song when you got that song yeah career changes yeah now we’re all 10 years well you and
I are 20 years apart but we’re 10 years different so I graduated high school in 1990 did you graduate in two thousand
two thousand twenty two thousand ten all right the class of the New Millennium here me
oh you know yeah what does that mean well first graduating class of 2000 you know I
think it’d be 2001 would be well that was the argument that 2001 people but we’re the first we’re the first class
did not use 19. you know the first 20. okay all the 2001 kids made that
argument we were the first because you don’t start with zero you start with one yeah and I get it but those are the
Nerds yeah it’s like you know what we mean exactly I think I my first grade
year I think was 1978 79. that’s a good year it was a good year
there’s a lot going on yeah there was a lot of happening back then but so oh look here here we go this is oh yeah
Saint bead gray basketball team look how happy you are I’m pretty excited man I’m
excited to be playing hoops and a few poinsettias on your back yeah in front of a uh weird kind of mural of the
Virgin Mary how many skills do you go to Aaron I went to the same before I went to Catholic
School my entire life yeah kindergarten through college it’s pretty crazy but I went to Saint bead
K through six and then the uh it was a feeder school for
Montgomery Catholic middle school and then that fed right into Catholic High
School and then I moved in the Middle High School to Nashville was that hard it was pretty hard I’ve been growing
like you found it you’re talking about I’ve been going to school with the same Kids kindergarten through 10th grade yeah and those are all the people in my
life and then we all moved were you cool at the new school did you fit right in or was it hard like
obviously it was hard we just ask you that question you said yes it’s hard but I mean in class in class was I cool I
don’t know if I could be cool in class I wasn’t a Class Clown I wasn’t doing you didn’t make a lot of
jokes I think I was probably thinking funny stuff you made a lot of jokes oh yeah
did you make a lot of jokes well I wasn’t the class clown I would say stuff
under my breast to my friends to make them laugh but yeah most comedians aren’t the class clown I had no concept
for getting an education I was like I’m just here because they’re making me come oh really yeah I mean did you ever have
first day of school nerves or excitement or yeah every time I mean yeah there’s always some nerds also always like I
don’t want to go back to school I’m enjoying yeah the summer break oh look at this
oh yeah wow that isn’t a saint bead gold team
this is uh this is how I used to pose in every picture right here is it because football players would never smile
that’s a good look for you thanks dude just a frown almost a little bit of a flat top going on here
like you almost had like a military cut that you let grow out it’s like the same hair I have right now yeah
you know I’ve always had that weird widows but it feels a little more a little more flat toppish in this picture
I think that’s because my my just my mom was cutting my hair yeah you know because they didn’t put a whole lot of
thought into the the shape of it or anything so what about that guy next to you are you still in contact with that
that’s Wallace Harvey yeah yeah I know Wallace really well actually so which which tough picture of him
which kid did not start there’s six of you there uh I don’t oh who wrote the I don’t not the girl
I don’t know that’s that’s an interesting question I don’t remember a whole lot about this too I like that you got to keep the ball though you got it
between my feet yeah you’re a real star were you guys good I don’t know this does not look like a
good basketball shirt your friend who’s having the rough picture I think the public school would win this player on
the table yeah or what about this team this is the team from uh from the next year all right well that’s a lot different you guys have grown yeah you
look like you’ve aged a lot in one year here I remember all these kids man
and how old is a girl the girl got kicked off yeah yeah really we’re trying to win some games you get out of here uh
how about that yeah and your other buddy Walter or whatever he’s off the team too Wallace yes yeah well he was a great
above me so I think he’s in a different League now that I’ve moved up a year so these are fun to look at I hadn’t
looked at these pictures in a long time but no we were not a basketball school who’s on the wall back there uh that’s
Mary okay she’s a mother of Jesus and in the Catholic Church they like her a lot
gotcha they do like her a lot [Laughter]
they love her yeah they talk about her yeah you know I’m like that’s not even
really a main character and they really get into well she’s a supporting actress yeah like probably yeah Oscar
Oscar now I mean she plays a big role that’s what I’m saying yeah well she’s
probably the lead actress if if if the Bible were a movie she’d be
nominated lead actress I think I’m watching
Ruth they wrote a whole book after Ruth they were trying to be nice
Gotta Throw a woman in here old men names
I’m watching he talks about Ruth I was talking about her a lot yeah really well
my wife tell me one thing oh that’s your wife’s name okay she named after the Book of Ruth yeah okay all right I’ll
stop talking about it no I mean to your point so her brothers are John and Steve there’s some million male biblical names
that’s Stephen in the Bible yeah first Christian martyr okay
um and then for girls you’re like Mary yeah and okay I guess we’ll go through if you
want to do that Esther Mary magdal that’s still married so I’m watching uh you guys know the show The
The Chosen
Chosen I’ve heard of it I’ve heard of it yeah I’ve heard you I’ve heard you and Nate talk about it on the podcast I I’ve
just started it so I didn’t know anything about it um he’d mentioned it on Rogan I think oh
that’s where he talked about it yeah yeah I just started it and I had a hard time getting into it because they
created because you know how it ends well
um they create backstories for these Biblical characters nice that aren’t in the Bible artistic license yeah so I had
a hard time you know I won’t watch it but because of that just because I don’t like any of that stuff when they when
they create we’re not supposed to do that and would
you watch a movie in the first person from Jesus’s perspective so you never see him oh maybe maybe
a body cam like a buddy that’s interesting like if Jesus had body cam footage we’re coming in body cam footage
of the crucifixion yeah would be tough so you didn’t say The Passion of the
Christ no yeah for the same reason well I didn’t see that one because they talk about you know the whole uh scene
of what happens to Jesus and I’m like I don’t want to see that yeah it’s too brutal to me I don’t want to
watch but you’ll read about it yeah but God forbid somebody put it on film well they’re allowed to do it I just don’t
want to see it okay like UFC for instance right like I’m glad it exists people love it but I don’t want to watch
people get beat up like that okay I can’t handle it yeah yeah that’s fair like even fictional stuff for the most
part it’s okay I actually I like uh Quentin Tarantino the most because most
of his movies it seems so wild and so over the top that it seems fictional
because it’s like Reservoir Dogs I can’t handle but the others are so over the top that it’s like this is silly yeah
but like Saving Private Ryan like war movies yeah too realistic two it’s very
painful I hate it uh-huh well anyway the chosen I had some of the same issues because
they’re creating these stories of these people that you know they’ve taken artistic license but now we’re getting
into the parts that are in the Bible and so okay I’m starting to get on board with it all right
pretty good well I hear nothing but good things people love it people are always
telling me and I know all the stories in the Bible I’ve read them so many times it’s nice now to even do a pretend
thinking about what they look like or putting some personality to to the characters you know what I mean yeah
yeah sure now to your point Jesus does some stuff like the human has him so much I’m like I don’t know would Jesus
really hit his thumb hammering or or whatever oh yeah he would he probably would but
it’s just it’s hard to think of him that way I don’t think Jesus misses he answers them if he wants to
I don’t know that’s fair so there’s some of that that’s that’s hard to get I don’t know how we got off to that oh yeah I asked you about the picture on
the wall oh yeah that spiral but Mary Magdalene is a is a big role in oh okay in the show that’s nice so anyway
um so what about going to school for the first time would you guys like you had like a hole going to the where would you go shop yeah that’s what I was about to
Shopping for school clothes and uniforms
ask how was it yeah all right where would you go shop for your uh for your new clothes like what’d you like to get
well my older brother’s dresser okay that’s where I got all my clothes from what kind of stuff would he have well we
have school uniforms oh okay I always had school uniforms my that makes it easy I actually like that
well now it’s all in Alabama it’s all the public schools have uniforms really most of them yeah at least in Montgomery
County I like a school uniform thing because um I’m surprised I well I like to get
wild with it but yeah when you’re when you don’t have a lot of money like you end up feeling self-conscious about your
clothes that you’re wearing to school that’s a big part of the reasoning is that it just alienates kids from each
other and it causes all kinds of problems yeah it’s like every Tommy Hilfiger was the was the thing when I
was growing up right and it’s like I was never gonna get Tommy Hilfiger right and it’s high yeah
but I’d be wearing like Duck heads sometimes or or you know I I really pleaded to not
get close at Walmart that was my thing I was like anything we’ll go to Sears well now we gotta we gotta stay away
from those but you know uh and so it was hard so I ended up getting more creative
with what I would wear um you know and so I think it you know created some creativity but but it would
have been nice to just wake up and put the same thing on absolutely every day and knowing that your friends are all gonna be wearing the same thing yes yeah
yeah I think it annoyed me we’d have dress down days at school you know usually it was like a fundraiser like
you bring two dollars in you get to dress down so the kids have got no money still wearing the uniforms yeah yeah we
still found ways to alienate the kids yeah you know uh but uh looking back it’s like I I didn’t mind the uniforms
at all they’re probably a good thing yeah you know yeah I could say that I don’t think in elementary school I was
even thinking about like just whatever my mom bought it’s probably what I wore but by High School
Lebanon the options were pretty Limited and uh we had one clothing store that
opened goodies I remember goodies and to us that was high fashion so you’d buy a
nice shirt from there and then go to school the next week and or the first day of school and there’d be three different guys wearing the same shirt oh
yeah that’s the problem yeah and you get some new clothes and it’s all right well there’s still five days in a week yeah
so you’re like you’re trying to rotate them out and and well I told a story on here before you joined us Dusty that my
first day of my senior year in high school I wrote a war and New Kids on the Block uh I’m sure to school because somehow I
missed it that’s not cool so was it a fresh one I’d just been to their concert oh no so this is fresh as you can get
almost like a faded one you could get away with being like it’s my sisters I’m wearing it ironically yeah Aaron said
that I think yeah before I said once you realize everybody’s making fun of it just go yeah this isn’t the hilarious that I’m wearing though yeah that’s all
it was that’s how cool I am I should have done that but I did not yeah I had a couple I had a Toby Keith shirt I
remember wearing I think I wore it like one time didn’t feel it nobody’s making fun of Toby Keith but it just felt weird
what was the shirt it was big dog or something dog oh yeah there was a big
dog there was a there was some other stuff um but there was some like big dog like
if you can’t hang with a big dog stay on the porch yeah stuff like that I remember those shirts those were big
dress down days People Big Dog shirts on that was after my time I remember you
wanted something weird okay well that’s why it’s like any of those shirts I can think to bring up are all inappropriate
because you go to like the you go down to Panama City and go to one of those uh Beach stores and they had all the I had
a lot of shirts like that I would get in trouble all the time about shirts Spencer’s type stuff yeah like like you
know not airbrush but like you know I can’t even describe some of the things that I had I shouldn’t have been wearing something crass yeah yes but nobody was
nobody was monitoring what I was wearing by the time I got to high school I just was you know I was getting myself
dressed and heading out even in earlier school my mom worked third shift most of the time I’d catch the bus before she
even got home so nobody knew what I was waiting did you guys ride the bus to school I never did no because your
parents were or your dad was driving yeah my parents worked at the school or I had older siblings yeah that would
drive me uh but in Alabama I don’t even think we have the option to take a bus
you know I rode the bus usually about half and half I’d ride the bus to school
my mom would pick me up or the other way around I’d ride she’d take me to school I’d ride it home how do you coordinate stuff
like that back then no cell phone I guess you just you know they would give you just the you know my mom would just
be like I’m gonna pick you up you know or or I guess you might call the school and say hey let Dusty know I’ll be
picking him up today or let does he know to ride the bus okay but it’s a lot of say tell this to this person oh yeah
it’s a lot of give us a message too I think it was mostly just they tell you that morning and that’s the plan but do
you remember there being a lot of like problems caused by this lack of communication or were you even thinking
about it at all I don’t think there was ever problems for me I mean maybe one or two I got I got banned for the bus for a
little while one time for throwing pencils but
but that didn’t have anything to do with no cell phones no that was only like a week too yeah that was nice man I knew I
wasn’t I wasn’t malicious I think school bus drivers have one of the most stressful jobs out there dealing with
all those kids and driving this huge gigantic vehicle yeah and the kids aren’t even wearing seat belts no and
they’re just going crazy no seat belts at all I threw up on the school bus one time and there’s that with three to a
seat and I was middle and it hit the seat in front of us it
went all over the other kids I remember the kid digging throw up out of the crease of his bag
you’re gonna buy me a new bag and I’m like well I’m about to get off at a trailer park here so you just hold your
breath there buddy and a laptop up yeah uh what’d you throw up
from just like General being a kid yeah I mean food was never good and who knows
I mean the food at the school was always crap I mean it was yeah I was gonna ask you did you take your lunch or did you do cafeteria I would do about not half
and half I’d take my lunch sometimes but um but it you know it’s probably about 10 percent of the
time I’d buy lunch I had a sack lunch most of the time do you ever have a lunch box
never really a lunch box was just a brown brown paper bag I had a lunch box as a kid do you remember what it was
they got a GI Joe and a he-man those are my favorite two cartoons I had Super Friends and Dukes of Hazzard
oh man oh yeah I would have beat you all up in elementary school what are you talking about those are
cool they weren’t cool back then no I had a little GI Joe lunchbox with a little GI Joe thermos inside they
sometimes you put soup in there it’s not cool to like stuff dude
that might be a different generation it’s just not cool to care dude even as you got older for sure it wasn’t yeah
I’m just kidding for sure though when you got older it was like you wear one strap of the backpack and you’d rather
give yourself back problems than just wear it correctly yeah because it looks so cool to just carry it with one yeah
yeah the movie 21 Jump Street they had to talk about that very funny oh yeah okay yeah but that was true I mean
Hannah would talk about you know growing up in Canada the cool thing was to not wear coats like if you were like cool
you would just be freezing to death I think that’s what it’s going on now kids or at least boys will wear shorts
to school when it’s 10 degrees outside I used to do that I get that I would I would I would pride myself and I don’t
need a jacket and I’m wearing shorts I think he had a school uniform flip-flops I’m talking about just like in general
oh yeah you know so weekends what about using the bathroom at school like like number
two would you do it I was I never did I don’t think I ever did it a single time my whole career of high school I don’t
think I did either I would I was so terrified dude in high school you’re looking for yeah I’ll take I’ll go take
a break I’d rather check out of school high school is like oh like a job in an
office yeah I’m gonna go use the bathroom are you playing a horse with no name yeah I never would do it I don’t I never
remember school I bet I was too too scared to do that but high school it’s like I’m running the show now I don’t
care yeah let them yeah let them in I’m taking care of business I was not for it I like to be very discreet about
my we had a poop Bandit at my high school ever talk about that yeah we had a guy who would uh was van was
vandalizing the bathrooms with oh gross yeah hence the name of the poop
Bandit that’s disgusting you want to fasten up right now he was it’s not me and I don’t know who it was
but it was it was a thing for a while that’s disgusting I agree
now did you guys do recess or was that banned by the time you got in school I did recess in primary school but it was
done by Elementary School primarily was first kindergarten first second I don’t think we had it after
that I think Middle School we had a little breaks but it wasn’t called recess it was like a 15 minute break or
something k-6 we had legit play kickball we had PE and I guess yeah what recess
was yeah when you’re younger you have just like a general go out in the playground do whatever first second uh
kindergarten for a second we had that I don’t remember it after that I don’t think in third grade you had recess I don’t think so wow I think it was PE so
you didn’t have recess you’re learning how to sew did you go to school at a sweatshop that’s what it feels sounds
like it yeah it does sound like yeah we had Portables so in a way I did live in a trailer for a while you guys know
what Portables are no I had art and a portable basically if they didn’t have enough classrooms they would bring in
that was like a trailer yeah oh yeah we had some poor I took some classes some Portables I’d never heard him called that just come trailers he just called
yeah just trailers I just call it art class there’s enough trailers around it we didn’t think it was weird
we were complaining Dusty’s like this is nice yeah that’s a good trailer honestly it’s a double wide yeah
did you do a lot of after school like activities Just Sports
After school activities
all the way through yeah all the way through I did some sports but for the
most part it was I was heading on to the house I didn’t do a lot of activity do campus life or anything I did Campus
Life yeah you know what the campus life people from Orlando came to see me not long ago
and I’ve been wanting to wear that shirt in here campus life was like a Christian uh kind of after school thing and in
high school I was really into campus life I loved it I became a leader at campus really and then I started
throwing a lot of parties and I got demoted from leader oh they didn’t kick me out of Campus either they’re like we really can’t have you being a leader a
lot of parties this is in high school yeah I love Middle School
Rangers at the trailer seventh grade yeah see I’m at by High School by by
10th grade we had moved out of the trailer and so 10th grade I lived in a house just a mile in front of the school
so um you know so I would walk to school a lot before I got a license and
it was great it was so easy to invite people I might just go down this road yeah last house on the right
you’ll hear it follows the music leader senior year was hot for me I really made
some Waves by senior year Senior High School you kind of came into your own yeah it was hot yeah let your hair down
yeah you know you’re popular yeah it was a hot year for me I don’t like to use the word popular but uh that was cool
you know what I mean your popular seems more douchey yeah people liked me yeah yeah you’re a
well-liked guy yeah that’s fair to say yeah yeah what about you Brian uh well liked yeah I mean I think I was liked
yeah I wasn’t popular but were there what do you think of high school were there like that’s the
popular group or whatever there was and I I can’t say that was in that group maybe I was in the minor leagues of that
group I knew some people called that in the farm you know I do feel like my senior year was by far the most fun year
because I mean I guess that’s true for most people but there’s something about when you’re the oldest ones yeah you
just have a different attitude I’ve been waiting four years to run this place ninth grade was really my worst year I
think just in the way that I I and I don’t think it hadn’t necessarily anything to do with changing schools to high school but it was just like that’s
the year I felt the most insecure you know in my life so it was a real turnaround for for my senior year well
that’s probably true for freshman years probably I wasn’t getting picked on or anything I just was oh you’re going
through some changes personally at that yeah in life yeah you know there’s a lot going on there is a lot going on uh I
get that yeah I don’t know if ninth grade I didn’t peak in ninth grade either you know I mean the size
difference some of the the kids there’s that it’s men and kids there’s freshmen in high school that are haven’t hit
puberty yet and you’re in the same locker room with with grown men now yeah I remember there was a guy I don’t know
if he was in 11th grade or 12th grade when I was in ninth grade named Rex story and I remember seeing that guy and
I was like this is a grown man yeah he’s going to the school he had a five
o’clock shadow all the time yeah this guy’s in school shaving between classes
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that’s a tough one that is tough yeah um so I looked up uh number two pencils
were very big back in my day I got banned on the bus for throwing them and then you got stabbed by one did well
I think that it might have been that it might have been a lead pencil that’s what number two pencil is right
well I mean like a a mechanical piece yeah yeah did you have mechanical pencils growing up yeah okay all right
yeah uh I mean we didn’t use them much but they did exist we had the pins that
for like four different colors and oh yeah oh those ones yeah purple green and yeah do you have the erasable pens those
were so weird yeah yeah they were weak I used to hate those erasable pens yeah they didn’t write well that didn’t erase
well what are we doing I got an erasable pen you mean a pencil yeah what about a Trapper Keeper I you know what I have a
Trapper Keeper at home from mental middle school that I almost brought but I thought you know what I bet people
know what it looks like I wish you had what is it I don’t even know what you’re talking about a Trapper you don’t know what a Trapper Keeper is Trapper Keeper
yeah is it like a you don’t know either Lauren I have a Trapper Keeper in in
perfect condition uh we should have brought it I should have brought it I still don’t know well it’s a folder it’s
like a three ring binder that’s a mechanical pencil it folds and then it has another piece that comes over and
velcro’s on and then it has other little pockets in it I had a lot of cool designs on it none of those are doesn’t
open up like an accordion not one of those no it’s just a three ring binder really with another piece that comes
over that one right there on the right with the football that’s a Trapper this one right here oh far right yeah yeah Trapper Keeper okay yeah that’s it it’s
all your stuff in there I should have brought it it’s in such good condition what’s inside of it a three ring binder
with other Pockets no but what’s inside yours you just have oh yeah I had uh card comic cards from when I was a kid
oh okay comment cards that’s what I thought you said too like comments like Marvel
Comics like a comedy club comment card yeah actually I hated the feature I have
a lot of comment cards from when I worked at the restaurant that way I love to keep that were just not always about me just funny ones
any mean about you not really mean about me that that I was able to get now there could have been
some that I didn’t acquire but yeah I mean there would be some mean about the restaurant or or funny or nice about me
that I liked uh but yeah I mean I saw I got a guy was like give me a real
attitude one time when I was working there and I see him pull the comment card out of the thing so I take a pin
out click it hand it to her oh I was like that’s a power move yeah dude I was
like get it fill it out wow yeah
did uh we had um on our pencils a little I don’t know what you call them little
rubber things you’d put on the pencil to kind of grip it yeah dude you guys know what I’m talking about oh yeah big time
yeah those are really fun they’re supposed to keep your hand from from cramping up but if you’re left-handed I’ve never used these triangular ones
these look well that’s what I was talking about that’s probably the original I’m talking about they were just flush with the pencil by the time
you had oh cylindrical by the time you didn’t come along they perfected it so we had tried let’s keep it from Rolling
off the desk oh that’s what it was for I think it would play that role was that an eraser too could you use that as an eraser I
think there were some you remember the little eraser that went over the top oh big time yeah those are fun those were a
good time yeah hmm and what about the mechanical pencil that you would twist
and then the lead would come out real far never saw that you never saw that there’s a yellow one and it would twist
at the end and then the lead would come out real far I think it was way back I think it was
made by Mead Aaron did but did you use pencils in school mechanical yeah yeah we we
ran the gamut I read where I was none of those doing the research oh maybe that
pencil mate there it is yeah those I know you I know what you’re talking about now the SAT is going all digital
starting next year oh so now so no more number two pencils needed that’s a huge
blow for the number two pencil industry because that’s kind of the last time you needed to use one they should have been
prepping for this yeah should have been getting themselves prepared how do they do it digitally now do you go in like a
voting booth you go in and take it that’s a good question I don’t know I read that it’s supposed to be it right
more fair it did seem like an ad rate he goes that’s a good question papers here we’ll provide devices to
students who don’t own their own computers some people don’t oh okay so you’re just attend schools without
access technology on like a Chromebook in a classroom I guess it’ll now be shorter moving from three hours to just
two hours and give more students more time per question you should be able to take the SAT and then just get your
score back that night wow yeah
what was that reaction I know it sounded like I was thinking that’s a hot take but wow did you ever like cheat off
people’s papers or have other people cheat off your papers like copy it like in class when you’d be
caught you’d be copying off them I I was in Spanish in 11th grade I didn’t want to take it you had to take one foreign
language and my teacher Was Pregnant and So halfway through the year she left and we
got a substitute and this substitute there was these two girls Haley and Katie and they would let me copy all and
they were very good at Spanish they would let me copy their paper every day the teacher knew it was happening they
were just straight up let me copy wow nobody cared finals time came
The Substitute wouldn’t let me set next to them so and then the entire final was in
Spanish I hadn’t I didn’t know a single no bueno yeah I just went I was the first one
done I just went that’s it was no point and even reading you can read the instructions yeah I just went all the
way through it I failed that test so bad I had like a hundred in the class yeah but I failed the final so bad I almost
failed to class that’s why the teacher let you do it I know they’re like you’re shooting but that’s really but she’s
you know what I mean that was really I I don’t I don’t appreciate her method because it’s like come on and uh it’s
not become it’s not been a problem for me to not know it to no no Spanish but it would have been
nice to know it right yeah but I bet I bet Haley and Katie don’t even know no you know what I mean
not from that class if you were doing stand-up in Spanish right now your career be a lot different well yeah for
sure you were definitely sold out in Austin for sure yeah you know yeah I mean yeah no you’re right it could have
played you do one night in English do the next night in Spanish but who knows you know what if I’d learned Spanish and end up you know going into a different
field I may be uh more successful in another area you know I mean who knows what road I would have went down maybe
learning would have become something important to me and I would have said you know what actually learning the language has opened different parts of
my mind I can search they’re spitting so fast I could be a scientist or something talking about planets yeah I would have
gone to DC for a vacation yeah yeah yeah yeah I’m glad that Dusty doesn’t exist you’d be an astronomer yeah that’s the
end of it yeah maybe it would have got so into languages I would have been like let’s
learn another one yeah and then another one but you know what my substitute teacher she didn’t know anything about Spanish right right you know what I mean
don’t don’t be like you gotta learn but you can’t teach it
I was hoping that would be a sponsor that would be great yeah that would have been perfect this episode do you guys ever have the dream that you can’t
remember your locker combination and have to get into it it’s a very common dream apparently never had it I had a dream I haven’t had
it in a couple years now but I used to have a recurring dream that I was in
college and it was the day of final exams and I
found out I was in a class that I had never been to or I was signed up for a class I didn’t know about
and I had that dream oh I mean and then I’d wake up and be like oh did I
graduated four years ago yeah it’s such a relief yeah I don’t know what that is in my brain but I think that’s a common
one it is I’ve had that too God isn’t that bizarre yeah what is that
I don’t know I’d never have school dreams but I will tell you something that happened my mom brought up some
Middle School yearbooks to me and I had I had seen this the high school yearbooks over the years I had looked at
those the Middle School yearbook it felt like it opened parts of my brain memories that had been shut down as I’m
turning these pages and seeing this and it shook me up for a couple of weeks this is about a year ago and I just was
like it was just bringing back like not necessarily bad memories but just things I had completely forgotten these weren’t
memories you’ve repressed these are just just stuff you forgot about yeah it just was like because I remember high school
well but I don’t really think about Middle School that often right but it was just bringing that up and I was like
this is weird and I think I might have had a couple of Dreams around that time it shook me in a weird way I could say
that just brings you back to Memory Lane I went back to my Elementary School a few years ago for some event and went
into the some of the same rooms like the cafeteria it seems so big to me as a kid and now
it just seems so tiny I couldn’t believe it was the same room yeah yeah everything seems so much
smaller right yeah there’s there’s a crazy there’s a crazy scene in the office where they go back to uh Pam’s
High School when they’re doing that career career event have you seen the office I’ve seen a lot of it I’ve not
seen this episode they she goes back to the art room
thinking that a picture she Drew when she was in high school would still be hanging up do you remember that part of
it I thought I might be hanging up 35 at this point I don’t think she’s
supposed to be that old but to your point I think your terrible drawing is going to be hanging up here yeah 17
years later yeah well that that part always annoyed me well that’s what people always think
though in a way people always think like when when they leave a job or they leave a school that oh they’re gonna remember
me and it’s like when you work at a restaurant and you think the moment you leave people are just like can I get
your shift yeah we had kids you have this I I don’t know
if this is common or if this is just a my school thing but we had kids who graduated the year before
they would show up the next year and just come to class like the first second
day of school like isn’t that funny we’re here but we graduated wow in uniform that’s weird it is weird I
remember thinking God these kids are nerds dude you’re done with high school yeah get out of here it’s not funny that
you’re here well you know if you peek in high school it is I think it is hard to let it go
but most of those kids gave it a chance I’m assuming most of the kids a year ago went to college afterwards
yeah so weren’t they shouldn’t they been at College somewhere well I guess maybe it started early yeah yeah that’s my
high school gave us the option I remember my senior year they gave us the option
um we voted as a senior class do you want to extend the school day by 15
minutes every day or we start the school year a week early
so we started July 31st that year in July rather than just having an extra
15 minutes yeah yeah we voted on that I voted to start early too
I thought it’s going to be tough for a week but then every day the whole school
year I’d be thinking gosh I’d be out of here by now this last 15 minutes is brutal I think I would have done that
too yeah it’s like let’s just get it over probably at the time but I think I would go the extra 15. every day though
give me that week off yeah if it was on the back end it would be more appealing
oh that’s true yeah you end a little bit earlier yeah what about now though let’s say you’re doing stand up and they’re
like all right they’re gonna go you come in on Thursday do a show on Thursday or
the Friday the two shows on Friday two shows on Saturday you do an extra 15.
each show what would you do I think that the show would suffer if I had it
the audience votes too yeah how about doing Wednesday as
well yeah do them all that’s a good question I don’t know I in college our
classes Monday Wednesday Friday we’re 50 minutes and Tuesday and Thursday we’re an hour 15. and I like the Monday
Wednesday Friday classes but even though I went three times a week just because hour 15 felt so long yeah I just wanted
to get out of there see block scheduling came in while I was in school so we would do we were doing six classes a day
sometimes seven for about an hour and then uh after ninth grade in tenth grade
we went to block scheduling where we did four classes a day all about an hour and a half really yeah it’s an hour and a
half class tough man yeah and then you gotta leave and go right to another one and start it but it was great in the
sense that like you you know you’d have your your two uh main classes your two
and and then and then you do that half the year and then the second half of the Year you’d switch to four other classes
now let me ask you a more extreme version of this so my my High School in Alabama Catholic High School in the
early 90s I think they they the senior class voted to move to a four day
school week so they went like eight to five Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
then they had Fridays off and they did that for one year and then they all voted like let’s go back oh wow yeah huh
yeah it’s a really long day to be in school and it’s long for its long for the
teachers it’s long for everybody and if you play sports then what do you do stay till seven Yeah well yeah we’d surprise
stay that late anyway but you say way later than you would yeah you know if you can’t start practice until 5 45 yeah
that’s tough on everybody was it cool having your dad as the principal or was it not fun
Your Dad as your principal
um it was convenient sometimes I had no things before other people that
kind of stuff do you think that’s why you weren’t Class Clown like what because you’re like there’s immediate
consequences if I’m getting in trouble here I think actually if I’m being honest it it gave me a little more leeway with
okay with people because the the dynamic between me and the teachers was different oh yeah because that’s their
boss Yes actually so that probably played into it I don’t know it was just never that there were
always guys that were funnier than me you know that we’re like doing physical stuff and I’m getting big laughs you
know then I was never that guy but I like snow days were were big yeah and um so
my my school here in in Hendersonville Tennessee we had maybe two snow days when I was
there and it was a big deal to get a snow today Sumner County Public Schools if there’s a cold breeze they go we’re
out for a week almost every Public’s going yeah they’re like oh we can’t we can’t do it we were out all the time and
my dad would wake up at like four a.m he would drive to the school to see the
roads he’d drive like back roads and be like the roads are fine out here and we’d be the only School in the county
wow all the time dude um so parents like that or they get mad I don’t know if the parents liked it the
kids weren’t pumped about it I’m sure you know so I would if the parents still have to go to work they like it that’s
probably true but if the parents like you know my my particular road is dangerous whatever you know and your
dad’s like well I’ll drive there and see yeah I drove by your house last night yeah
everything’s fine would that be an excuse absence if they said hey it’s not safe I think so yeah I think so
um but you know I love that your dad would make the drive oh dude my dad when
the Nashville flood happened the the big one come on in yeah it’s not over our neck the the jp2 in
Hendersonville was like it was like a moat around it yeah it was so flooded and you could not get to it we had to
take our AP test that weekend and they’re like well we’re gonna have to reschedule because the AP tests the
physical tests are in the building and my dad got in a robe my dad got the boat and went to the
school to get the tests and then took them back at a boat and we took the test like off campus somewhere wow your dad
was he said I’m not gonna let us get behind on stuff just because of the weather you know they’re gonna say helicoptered in I like that I like the
boat though I like the idea your dad’s like rescuing the test the tests are trapped there’s all kinds
of animals in there getting drowned yeah just gotta grab these tests real quick they’re like oh Mr Weber you’re here
he’s like I’m just here for the test I don’t have enough room for you in the boat well I don’t have a good segue for this
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the 297 million people that aren’t on it but that made it sound bad yeah yeah as I said one of the others
did uh were chalkboard still a thing when you’re in school we were fading them out
we were going we started chalkboard when I was in school and I see I feel like I’m the in between you are for us you
are yeah and then it went all dry erase by the time I was in high school it was all dryer like a whiteboard yeah
and did you in Alabama we were all white boards when I came to Tennessee every classroom had a smart board wow that’s
not what I thought you were going to say I think I was like y’all still had chalkboards here no smart board so is
that like you will you operate from an iPad or they it was like a TV that you could touch
it was you gasped it was still a projected image but you could touch and
control things by touching the screen wow what about the the um what about the
thing the little um it’s like a a little oh another box that had like a
glass top with a light in it and then that had a mirror and then it would project it and they would have little
plastic and even like you could roll the plastic sometimes and it was in that thing you had earlier
um I forgot what it’s called it’s called a projector maybe it’s if you scroll down it’s on there and it had you know they could write on it with a little dry
erase markers anyway I thought it’s just what that overhead projector projector yeah we use these oh yeah yeah it was
big plenty of these the overhead projector was big time yeah you could write right if you had a
you know a a racable marker you could write right on the glass really yeah oh man I mean it was big
time I would never do that I loved an overhead projector yeah but once you once you get a smart
board you’re like yeah the overheads are weak yeah well obviously they didn’t have cell
phones when I was in school they weren’t invented but I bet it was pretty crazy maybe when you’re in high school for me
either yeah a cell phone was probably invented but
it was not prevalent no smartphones yeah I didn’t get a cell phone until my sophomore year of high school I didn’t
have a smartphone until my sophomore year college okay so I had like a dumb
cell phone yeah through high school yeah still a bit of an issue with people texting I didn’t have texting in high
school maybe I did towards the end but it was not that big of an issue I it’s
probably insane right now oh yeah you’re doing everything on your phone I think it got to a point where they’re like they can’t even tell you to put your
phones away they’re like we just got to figure out how to teach you they should do all the phones Zanies does and have the the under a bag you know Yonder back
schools are actually yonder’s some of their biggest clients oh yeah that’s what they should have you lock your
phone up in a little pouch at the beginning of the day and then at the end of the day they open it for you yeah that’s the way they should do it yeah
yeah and I want to say I invited uh Harper bargatzi to come on to tell us about what school’s like today she
declined the offer she had action it is I asked Laura asked Laura Laura said no
as well so uh I gotta talk to you guys they moved out of here
we don’t even know what’s going on we just show up but the uh yeah I mean
pistol sharpener like that oh dude yeah I love that pencil sharpener this was an
excuse to get out of your chair yeah yeah you know oh yeah if you sat on the other side of the room can I go sharpen
my pencil you’d walk around see what’s going on and there’s nothing like a freshly sharpened pencil oh that’s great
especially from one of those bad boys yeah dude the mechan the electric ones never worked nah it wasn’t as good it wasn’t
as satisfying you know yeah just to really feel it I have one of these in my house oh yeah just randomly just on a
wall I haven’t used it you have it now yeah oh right now okay my grandmother had one
growing up so maybe that’s just a thing how old is your house like old yeah 50 60s and 60s yeah maybe yeah they just
came with pencil sharpeners back and stuff down you were using the number two pencils all the time got a sharpener
yeah what an industry number two pencils used to be what a fall from grace yeah they they ran the country back in the
day yeah what happened to number one what about pencil break do you ever play that number two pencils where you breaking each other’s pencils no but we
used to play that a lot we hope you hold it that’s why you got stabbed and then other no I got stabbed for
um yeah it wasn’t a game it wasn’t a game
well yeah not getting stabbed that was never a game okay pencil break was uh you know you could you know you snap and
then also thump did you play that where you’d hold your knuckles out like that and you’d thump each other’s knuckles
have you ever do that laughs
you don’t see that yeah yeah yeah yeah oh yeah like a little tracer it’s a it’s like flimsy yeah oh like
it’s an optical illusion it’s like it’s bending and flexible yeah okay see that oh yeah that’s pretty crazy that’s a
solid wow that’s physics what about pencils on the nose would you do that
I like to put pencils in the nose and then I could hold a pencil with my chin you know like uh
I can’t this is not a pencil I can’t do this but you know it’s also been a long time since I’ve
done it but yeah and then you do do this mustache before I had a real mustache for the
record Nate’s back next week this is the good stuff this is what I’ve
been waiting for that’s what I’m talking about this is this is what school’s really all about what we were doing in school what about football like with a
little paper yeah paper footballs football paper airplanes I remember do
you have nap time in kindergarten oh yeah we play paper football during nap time we’d have a towel you brought a
towel to use as like your blanket yeah huh like a bath towel yeah I remember that we played paper paper football what
did you sleep on though on the floor I never slept during nap time but you think you’re supposed to just sleep on the uh on the towel we had a little mat
Senior pranks
that we would bring I guess you could bring them I think I did have an answer I did have a little mad action she had bath towels this is a late 70s yeah I
know not in kindergarten I didn’t go to camera but like first grade this is like yeah I mean to me this is the stuff on
the on the bus it was pencil break it was thump you didn’t do that though you hold your knuckles out like that you try
to thump it wrong oh we would do that yeah yeah yeah no pencils weren’t involved no pencil it was two there’s two different games okay Stomp and
pencil break yeah we would play this game oh yeah remember that game where you
look at it below the waist you punch them on the I used to come home from middle school just huge bruises all over my my arm my mom’s
like what are you doing all day but yeah you know I’m respecting the game you have a joke about seeing your prank and
when I was in Fairhope this past weekend yeah somebody had poured like laundry detergent in the
water fountain and it was bubbling out everywhere oh that’s yeah that probably cost a lot to fix
that probably caused some real problems my buddy said that on this next door app people were not happy yeah dude ain’t
that laundry detergent in the the water system of the high school no it wasn’t this was just like the city Fountain
like there in Fairhope oh like a decorative Fountain yeah oh
yeah not like I’m sorry water system of the high school or like the water fountain like everybody’s eating Tide Pods no no no I’m sorry I’m sorry like a
decorative oh okay I kind of like that a little more I I thought y’all were taking it hard I don’t like it but I I
don’t like vandalism but I you know I was also in an Airbnb this weekend and they it was clear there last week you
talked about vandalism stores the whole time uh well I’m vandalizing a competition that’s uh that’s different
it’s an evil Corporation you know what I mean yeah the city’s water supply well
yeah I don’t think the the decorative fountains tied into that drinking water that’s where they get it so it’s all the
wishing well pennies are down there too yeah so they get it you got ill copper is good for you know this water tastes
weird yeah but I was in the Airbnb and they clear they had used too much fabric
softener and I woke up in the night and all I could smell was I couldn’t even sleep I feel like I was just breathing
in poi poison dude I had a guy on the plane this morning smells so bad smelled so bad
worst I’ve ever smelled a person sat it was that seed in Southwest where there’s
no chair in front of me yeah and then so the row right in front the guy smelled
so he sat down Joe Kelly is with me he texted me he goes this dude stinks and then I caught a whiff of him I was like
oh my god dude it was that bad and he kept sticking his arm out to touch to
touch the uh like the window thing up and down and every time he did that I would like I was sleeping and it kept
waking me up like oh he’s reaching over you no just reaching to the side just making movement just there’s no chair in
front of me so I’m catching all the Backdraft from this dude and he had like greased up oiled hair he
spent some time on his hair but he hadn’t taken a shower in probably a week wow I mean it was my whole flight was
this guy stunk it’s awful yeah I was at the airport I never I forgot all about
this until you talk about this but this guy I was sitting looking at the airline that was taking off yeah and this guy
was facing me he had big headphones on he was so hungover he was making like
these groaning moaning noises very loud in the airport like he was just in
horrific pain just oh he kept doing it I don’t know if he could even hear how loud he was being because he had the
headphones on yeah and his flight uh boarded and shut the door while he’s
just and then he finally gets up and looks around and sees what’s happening he starts losing his mind at the counter
he’s like I’m right here I’ve been right here the whole time as I do you got to take those headphones off I know yeah
you gotta exist in the world yeah yeah he missed his flight he’s sitting right there obviously in a lot of hungover
pain and I’m like oh dude you messed up and it was so satisfying to me for some
reason you were glad it happened oh good stuff well we’re at two hours so
probably a good time to stop well this is great I appreciate this I I you know I hope this was fun because uh I you
guys were making fun of me when I started talking about pencils and stuff but to me that’s that’s when I was the most engaged and Brian shot it down real
Where we’re at this week.
quick but this weekend I’m going to be in Kansas City at the Kansas City improv I go there every year I’m pumped to come
back I love Kansas City so please come see the shows I’m gonna get some barbecue back on me yeah oh I had a lot
of barbecue this weekend but I probably will again burn-ins actually you know what last time I was in Kansas City I ate at an Indian restaurant and that was
so good yeah a hole in the wall Indian restaurant is the best big time I’ll probably go there
uh see August 27th I’m in Irwin Pennsylvania that’s right outside Pittsburgh I’m at Community Church it’s
open to the public so anybody can come nice uh September 2nd um Skyline comedy club in Appleton
Wisconsin two shows and September 9th uh
North Charleston South Carolina all right comedy at the sparrow oh awesome yeah yeah so Sparrow a few times I’ve
never been really good uh I think his last name’s Bates actually I think his name’s oh Josh
Bates yeah Josh Bates all right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um so Beach unite yeah I’m there in
December so let me know how that is all right I’ve heard nothing but good things all right I am in a city I always loved
and never said anything bad about I’m in Louisville Kentucky
I don’t even remember what you’re talking about but I’m in lovely Louisville at Laff Louisville comedy
club which is a new club we’ve always said that’s one of our favorites Eddies I’ll talk about it Ad nauseam yes uh
I’ll be a laugh Louisville all weekend next weekend I’m in Cleveland at hilarities all right I love I love
hilarious I’m knocking off all these clubs that I’ve heard nothing about since I started they’re the best like
it’s very exciting hilarious is one of my favorites so come on out Louisville Cleveland Pittsburgh Boston Cape Cod
oh I’m supposed to wrap this up right yeah yeah that would have been a great time to put a button on it Brian you
know it’s not as easy as it looks you’re right you’re right I made fun of you earlier and now two hours later I love you all this is not lost on us we’re
having a good time uh again I love you all this none of this is lost on me none
of it because Kevin shows you just the nicest fans and thank you so much uh Nate is back next week so last time
we did two shows two podcasts the first one man like this is great and by week two they’re like now when’s Nate back
yeah yeah so Nate’s back next week don’t worry and uh he’ll have a lot of stories
to tell I’m sure an Australian accent yeah he comes back yeah he might he might so uh thanks everybody for
listening and we’re having a good time [Music]
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