Teachers, Waffle House, and Philly: A Hilarious Discussion with Mike Vecchione on Nateland

[Full transcript of Nateland Podcast Episode #265 — Teachers feat. Mike Vecchione & Philly]Hello folks and hey bear. Welcome to the Natland podcast. I'm Brian Bates joined 0:17 today with Dusty Slay. He's back. Aaron Weber as always. Nate will be 0:24 here. He is on his way so don't turn it off yet. and our good friend Mike Veong. 0:30 Hey, thanks for having me back, guys. Been a while. It's been a while. It's been a while. Yeah. Since I've been invited 0:36 back, but thank you for having me. Finally. First time on the podcast since the release of lowincome whites. 0:44 Yes. And there's a lot down here. And there's also a lot in the north also. I'm not saying that just it's just down 0:51 here. Higher percentage up there, right? Yeah, I think it is. If you did you look that up? No, I just think we just know. 0:59 I I kept calling your uh I was here the night of your taping and I I kept calling it sarcastic. 1:04 I thought you were saying amazing for a while. Were you not? We're pressing flesh. We're networking and you said 1:10 amazing a little bit without making eye contact with me and looking for someone more famous in the room. 1:15 Over the top of your head. Yeah, it was amazing. It was a great special. But but Aaron used a better term, I 1:22 think, than sar I don't know sarcastic's right. He said tongue and cheek, right? And did I do we have this conversation? 1:28 I was texting with you one day. Okay. Okay. And and about how funny it was. We were both saying that and 1:34 we were talking about the punching down on the South. Right. Yes. The reason I think it it didn't bother 1:41 me is cuz it it's very transparently tongue and cheek. Right. Right. Or maybe just having some fun. Just an outsider 1:48 poking a little fun. Just a man who walks into a Waffle House who's never been to a Waffle House before. He's a 1:53 little shocked by it's a little fun ribbing going back and forth. It's being playful. When was the first time you went to a 1:59 Waffle House? When I was in Mississippi with Nate. How old were you on a tour? 50. 2:04 Wow. It's your first time. Mississippi Waffle House. Mississippi Waffle House. That's baptism by fire. 2:10 You even miss the heyday of the Waffle House. I don't even feel like it's the same as it used to be. 2:16 Mississippi. I bet it is. But does it it depends I guess where where Yeah. The 2:21 whole thing is it always stays open. So even during a hurricane, it the hurricane might be the only reason it 2:28 closes. The different levels of the hurricanes, I think. Isn't that true? You tell how bad the hurricane is by if 2:33 the Waffle House closes. It's a metric that FEMA uses. Yes, it's a metric. 2:39 I remember the first time I thought, "Wow, this CO thing might actually have some wheels." Was in rural Georgia. I 2:48 went to a Waffle House and they were takeout only. Wow. And I was like, I I didn't even think they were set up to do that. This 2:53 I didn't think they believed it was real. No. Well, that's when I was like, "Oh, man. This is Well, it was They didn't believe it was 2:58 real, but the government was forcing the government was forcing it was real. They didn't 3:04 The Waffle House wasn't like, "Oh, we're scared." Yeah. No, the Waffle House, 3:09 especially not cholesterol. Government overreach again. That's what I think. 3:15 It was Okay. Do you remember where Miss I might have been? Well, was I with you guys in Mississippi? I don't think so. I've 3:22 been on the road very much with you. Yeah, I guess that's true. I I did Buxy, Mississippi, Nate, last year and we stopped at a Waffle House, but I don't 3:28 guess you were with us. I went with Travis. So, that's a that's a guy you want to go to a Waffle House with. Yep. 3:34 He's got a a knife in his boot. He's ready for anything, that guy. He's ready for action. I love I liked him 3:40 immediately when I met him. Did you find the Waffle House to be dangerous? Did you feel unsafe in there? I felt safe with that manager walking 3:47 around talking at high volumes to a way I could hear everybody's conversation. He had uh 3:52 no secrets in 1100 keys on his uh just walking around. That's a man with responsibility. 3:58 God, you got a lot of locks to unlock. You got a lot of keys in your keychain? I do got a lot of keys. Yeah. 4:03 You have it in your pocket? I got a lot of keys. I got a lot of locks. You don't have to show it to the camera, but I'd like to hear what kind of 4:09 Well, I mean Yeah. I mean, I got a lot of That's a fair amount of keys. You know what all of them are for? You got some Yeah. I mean, I got, you know, I got 4:14 some these are my my land keys. So, I got my four-wheeler. I've got the lock 4:20 to the gate. You got them organized. This is uh these are a couple of shed keys. Okay. Is that a T falls? 4:26 And these are some shed keys out there. Still still. Still land. Then this is the cabin door. 4:31 Oh, wow. Uh and then yeah, this is my post office box. Where's the key for the bunker? 4:37 Uh well, you know, you don't keep them all in one. That's a thumb print. Shed. Shed. 4:44 shed. You know, these are my Nashville key. And then we just bought a a house, so we have new keys now. So, and the car keys in it. 4:49 Is that Tennessee balls? Uh, yeah, but it it's, you know, it's a pharmacy care of Tennessee. I don't, you 4:55 know, I don't use them, but I it came with a key keychain. Oh, okay. H 5:00 I thought you support Alabama, Auburn, and now Tennessee. No, no, this is a pharmacy, which I also don't support. 5:11 You get your medications from the underground? Yes. Underground meds? Yes. I like it. Yeah. 5:16 Well, uh, no, but I immediately love the waffle. It's like a tribute to the W I'm sorry, I'm trying to overexlain. It's it's a 5:22 tribute to the Waffle House. Really? I I enjoyed it. Uh, the this guy was at the counter. First thing uh the manager 5:30 said, he's like, "Hey," he comes and sees him. He goes, "Don't let anybody in here, huh?" Oh, yeah. That's classic southern joke. 5:36 I love it. Classic southern joke. I love everything about it. Truckers and just let anybody in these days. 5:41 And then I was on the road somewhere else and I went to a Waffle House and they saw me at the show and they bought me my meal. It's friendship at the Waffle House. 5:49 Have you paid it forward yet? Did you pay it forward in some way? Next time you go to the Waffle House, no, the next time I have to get somebody 5:54 else's meal at the Waffle House. And um do you guys uh divide it between the 5:59 Waffle House people and the Cracker Barrel people? Is there a big divide? There is a difference. My dad is a big W 6:06 house guy and he doesn't go to Cracker Barrel. Obviously I'm a Cracker Barrel guy, you know. Uh love Cracker Barrel. 6:12 Uh I do both, but Cracker Barrel is a little bit more upscale. I'm doing You think so? Oh, yeah. Is it the flea market that's attached 6:19 on Thursday? Oh, you do. You do. You're doing He's in a national ad campaign for 6:24 Cracker Barrel. Yeah. He's literally the face of Cracker Barrel. Wow. Mhm. But my dad always my dad's always 6:31 been more of a Waffle House guy, but personally I'm not into the whatever Waffle House is using to cook with these 6:38 days. It doesn't do me well. It ain't butter. It may look like butter, but 6:43 is it lard? It It's something because that's actually reverse good for you. It's not whatever they're using is not 6:49 good for you. It's carnivore. Yeah, but it's uh I'm just saying I don't I don't feel good. I I still love 6:56 the taste of Waffle House, but I do think it's undergone a change. Yeah. Yeah. It definitely doesn't have 7:02 that big health kick that Cracker Barrel has, but uh Right. But it's still pretty good. 7:07 Cracker Barrel has a campfire menu that's I know. I learned all about it from you. I would say there's more of a 7:13 situational divide between Cracker Barrel and Waffle House. I think a lot of people go to both, but you you go 7:18 there in very different times of your life. Oh, really? Yeah. You don't go to like Cracker Barrel. I think they're open 7:24 kind of late, but you're not going to a Cracker Barrel at 3:00 in the morning. But you're saying Waffle House is a young man's game. 7:30 Well, it's a young man or just what you got going on does serve beer now. So, you could 7:36 pregame at the Cracker Barrel and then go to Waffle House later before you shop at the flea market 7:42 that's attached to it. Is that what you're saying, Dustin? Well, yeah. You get loose, get loose in there. Yeah. 7:47 Eating and shopping. Yeah. I want buy yourself an American. I want an electric ball with a ferret wheel attached to it. Yeah. A ferret 7:54 tail. Yeah. You seen those things? I have two in my house. 7:59 Wilson County Fair starts this week. So, how about that? You can win one there. Wow. Well, welcome, Mike. We're excited to 8:06 have Thank you for having me. Little Natland news. Uh Nate presents the showcase. Season 3 is here. Uh we Nateland News 8:13 all host it this Friday. Tune in to Nate YouTube channel for the premiere of Kellen Earth. I almost said wrong. 8:20 Kell's great. Very funny. Is super funny. Very funny guy. Very funny. The bike lock joke that went super 8:26 funny. You remember that joke about him with a bike lock? Very funny stuff. I could have said it before y'all did 8:31 the phonetics. They got in my head. They're like, "Say it like this." And I Oh, they had it written out on there for 8:36 you. Yes, I know, Kellen. But I got in my head. It's a hard last name. He knows it's a 8:43 hard last name. If they didn't wrote that, I would have said it perfectly. But you know, Adrian's got to have something to do. It's okay. He's dealt with that his 8:49 whole life. Yep. He knows. Anyway, um Dusty, we have not seen you 8:54 since Wet Heat. Yeah, premiered on Netflix. I've been out and about. Yeah, I went to New York for a couple of uh a 9:00 couple of days. Went to uh LA for a few days. I've been out and about. And what's the reception been? 9:06 I think it's been good. I mean, it's it seems good. Yeah. You know, I'm excited. I had two shows this weekend. I did 9:12 Atlanta did a theater Atlanta Symphony Hall and I did uh a theater gig in 9:18 Huntsville. I forgot what it was called, but it was attached to the Warner von Braun Center. Uh, it was great. Great 9:24 shows. What do you think of New York as a city, Dusty? And just be honest. I like it. I like I do like that I don't 9:30 live there. Uh, and I You don't like it that much. Then he's being as honest about New York as you were about. 9:36 You're being positive about being negative. I like to visit. You like not living there is what you 9:42 exa said. Exactly. I like visiting. It's fun to breathe in, bounce around the city a little bit. eat 9:48 some food, have a good time, and then get out to a bit more of a relaxed environment. 9:54 Likes being there, loves leaving. That's how I feel. I feel I do like it. 9:59 You You feel that way also? 100%. Yeah. I do like it though. I do enjoy being 10:05 there. I think it's really fun. But I do like, you know, What is it that you hate about living there? Just the people on top of each 10:11 other. It just never ends. It's an endless city where it feels like you can't really get away from it. I wonder if I'd like it 10:17 more if I were thinner. I honestly think if I lost 100 lbs, I'd 10:24 like it way more. Really? But you can maneuver more. Everything in the tight spaces. They're always in the way. There's 10:30 nowhere to just like stretch your arms out and scream. Right. I never feel like I have just like a 10:35 space. You doing that a lot around you? Yeah. But I I could There's plenty of places for me to do that if I'd like to. 10:41 Well, in New York, people just do it on the street. Or in the subways. They just scream. 10:46 I mean, I do like it. There is something I like to get in the subway. It's like it's fun to zip around. I like to get in 10:52 a cab. I like I love doing all that. I think it's fun. I like How's your yelling? You like to yell at 10:58 a stranger? I'm not much of a yeller. I yell at my kids a little bit. Mostly in the car. I like uh I go to I went to a restaurant 11:04 one time and they were like the servers were taking turns like singing show tunes, right? 11:09 I was like, "This is great. I'm into this." You know? Yeah. But yeah, I do like I like a more 11:15 relaxed environment. You go to a really nice restaurant in New York and the table is about as big as my laptop and then there's another 11:22 table right next, you know, everything's packed. You're all up in people's business. Yeah. And I feel like if I I wonder how 11:29 much of that is I didn't grow up that way versus I I'm taking up more space 11:35 than I should in those places. It's almost being at a Waffle House on a Sunday morning at the countertop. Yeah. Or Saturday at midnight or 11:42 something. Yeah. But get involved in someone else's conversation. Is do they want you to do I think so. Okay. I think it's fun. 11:48 I'll try it next time. Bates, your thoughts on New York City. I remember uh going one time with my mom 11:54 to New York on some type of trip and we had to share a table with some lady on her work break like literally stand both 12:01 eat our pizza or whatever with another lady and my mom had to start talking to her and I don't think that woman wanted to us to 12:07 get conversation. She wanted to get on with her life. Uh woman probably needed 12:13 that. She probably needed a little little southern love instead of just, you know, and you take a risk when you engage, but 12:20 even if it doesn't pay off, it still pays off because you took the risk. You know what I mean? How many years have you lived there? 12:26 20. Wow. Wow. So, this is the kind of stuff. This kind of stuff you have to tell yourself after being in there for 20 years. 12:32 No, I mean, it's too late to realize you've made a mistake and that you'd be happier somewhere else. Well, I mean, that is true. That is 12:39 true. There are a lot of uh you guys are making a lot of good points about how terrible the city is to live, but um I 12:48 enjoy it. I enjoy the tight spaces. I enjoy the high rents. Just charge me 10 grand a month. Just let's do it. 12:55 Why not? And uh poor healthc care uh choices just extremely. If you don't if you're not 13:00 part of a SAG after part of an organization, if you're just part of the New York marketplace, just just give me 13:06 $1,000 with an $8,000 deductible. That's great. I have fun. I 13:11 I do like this subway. The subway is now No, no, no. The the subway that you ride 13:17 in, you can now tap to pay on your credit card and not have to get the metro card, 13:23 which I enjoy that. That's a good one. I'm much smoother with that. And the subways, be honest, they're not 13:29 scary. They scare me a little bit, but um but I do it and I do enjoy it. But you're armed. 13:35 Uh well, not in New York. I feel like you can't be in New York. Yeah, it's 3 years in prison if you're armed 13:41 in New York. You're caught with a gun. Wow. Yeah. So, everybody knows you're not armed. 13:46 Everybody knows you're not armed. But then people have different they people have knives. They have different uh 13:52 you know different ways to get around it. Yeah. Okay. And since you've been here last, you got married. I did get married. 13:59 All right. Congrats. Well, I was forced to by Natand. They said if you want another special, you 14:04 will be married. Otherwise, you're a weird uncle and we can't have you in the Neland compound. You're going to be 14:10 deported from Nateland. Deported. Either marry like a Christian or get out of Nateland. 14:17 I'm just saying how it was put to me. Did they say marry like a Christian or they say marry and be Christian? 14:23 Marry and be Christian. Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought. Yeah. Mhm. You're half of the way there. Yeah. Yeah. Well, congratulations. How long you been 14:30 married? Uh, a few months now. Yeah. Really paying off for me. I love it. I don't know why I didn't do it sooner. 14:36 Yep. Yep. Probably because in New York in New York, yeah, we're all just mixed 14:41 together and you're kind of like animals. You guys haven't said it, but you meant it. And we're just kind of mixed together and just, 14:50 you know, but I did the right thing and I love her and I love her family. Her family is fantastic. They're from the 14:56 Middle West. Oh, yeah. Of the United States. And where where at? Indiana. 15:01 Okay. Yeah. Indiana. Indiana's like the south without the accent. Yeah, it is kind of like the south. It's 15:06 rural, too. Where they live is very rural. Northern Indiana. Um, Indianapolis outside of 15:12 Indianapolis. 2 hours. Oh, I'm in Helium. Uh, September 7th. Tell them. I I absolutely will. 15:17 Okay. Thank you. Helium September 7th. Yeah. I don't know if y'all been to a store lately, but prices are up. Feels like 15:25 everything's more expensive these days, right? Dealing with money can be stressful. trying to manage subscriptions, track spending, and cut 15:32 costs. That can feel all a little overwhelming. 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That's how you hide it. 17:15 That's how you dusty. That's how you hide it. The dark market. You're like the dark market or whatever. 17:21 I like what you said better. Look at that. Isn't that something? How about that? You got people sneaking backstage for stuff? I mean, you got 17:28 high security now in the store. No, nobody nobody sneaks back, but I because you have a system 17:34 where I do invite people back, but yeah. How many people get one of those, Dusty? 17:39 Uh, not very many people. Honestly, I didn't even know Brian had that one to be honest with you. 17:45 Well, I won't for long. Do you order your security to shoot first and ask questions later? Yeah, I'd say shoot a person a show just 17:51 so they know we're serious. But, uh, yeah, Dusty was nice enough to 17:57 let me come down to a set. Had a great time and it was a great show. Was fun. 18:02 Yeah. I remember a time that we all were in Michigan and Dusty was headlining the club there and Dusty was kind. There was 18:09 11 of us and Dusty was kind enough to let all of us do guest spots. I love that. He let all of us do guest spots in front 18:16 of him and they were all there to see him and then they watched all of us go up and do five minute guest spots and 18:23 that was so I don't think that the audience really understood that night how great of a show they saw. I was I was like this is 18:30 a great show. You guys just got a phenomenal show. Mhm. 18:35 That was a great one. But for you to be like yeah each of you guys can do 5 minutes in like an hour. 18:41 Yeah. It was who? It was you, Nate. Joe Zimmerman, I think. Joe Zimmerman. Steve Rogers. Steve Rogers. 18:47 Nick. Uh, no. Nick Thoon. Yeah. Wow. Um, yeah. My guy Alec, who was Alec Parent, who 18:53 was already featuring a bunch of headlighters. Yeah, it was unbelievable show. Yeah, it was Michigan. It was uh great. 19:00 Yeah, it was fantastic. Where were you this weekend? I was with Nate uh opening in Erie, 19:08 Pennsylvania and then Philadelphia and then we finished out in Boston. 19:14 Fun weekend. It was a great times in Erie's last laugh. Junior's last laugh was in Eerie. 19:20 Um Helium and uh there's another one there that Boston. 19:25 Oh, Laugh Boston. No, it was incredible. like it was where the 19:31 uh 76ers play the Sixers. It was Wells Fargo was in Philly. I lived in Philly for 8 19:37 years. I actually started comedy in Philly and um and then made the move to New York, but um so that was great. And 19:45 then and Boston Garden was unreal. Everything is it's it's like you never get I don't know how you guys feel on 19:51 the I haven't been on the road with you guys really, but I don't know how you feel, but like you never get used to it. It's always mindblowing. Do you figure 19:58 like after a couple of like, "Oh, I'll just get adjusted to get used to it." It's like you never do. It's always 20:03 the most thrilling thing that you've ever seen in your life. Yeah, I figured it out pretty quick. But I get how you could 20:10 cuz you're in small spaces. Probably because I'm living in small spaces and um I'm too much stimulation. No, it stretch out a little. 20:18 It is insane. when I was out with him last weekend. Yeah. Like the the show 20:23 that everyone kind of overlooked that weekend was an added show and it was it was only 13,000 20:28 and it felt like all right let's get through this kind of nothing show you know it was just it's crazy. Well, if you're doing a comedy club 20:34 you'll get off stage and say hey that table is a little rowdy show section 317 20:40 a little rowdy and the 3:00 shows blow my mind. It's like he's selling more at 3:00. I mean, 20:46 I was in Kansas City one time just doing the club and the openers were like, "Well, Nate is in town 20:51 on Saturday." Yes, you were on that one. Cuz he said, he text me, he's like, "Come over, do the 3:00, announce that 20:57 your show and then and then we'll send some people over to your show." And it was the Super Bowl weekend. Kansas City 21:04 was in the Super Bowl and he sold out a 300 p.m. show on the weekend that Kansas City was in 21:10 the Super Bowl. I'm like, this is I've never seen anything I don't think anybody's ever seen anything like that. Yeah. Pretty wild. 21:16 Wild. Yeah. You're out again with them this weekend? No, I'm in Iowa at the Funny Bone in 21:22 Iowa. I have my own dates. I um selling at the Iowa Funny Bone De Mo Funny Bone. 21:27 De Mo Funny Bone that Great. It's a great club. I love it. And I love the people of Iowa. 21:32 I do too. But that's kind of like, you're right, the Midwest, the Cracker Barrel people. I equate Cracker Barrel with the middle 21:39 west and I I equate Waffle House with the South. Am I wrong? Well, you know, Cracker headquarters is right here in 21:45 Nashville, Lebanon. Brian's hometown, Lebanon. Wow. Yeah. Lebanon. We really have it all here in the south. 21:52 Well, it's a sweet It's a sweet spot. Yeah. The Cracker Barrel and a Waffle House. The same place. 21:57 Mhm. But you several exits have both. 22:02 Just driving down the And you're going to tell me that there's not a healthy rivalry between the two? No, I'm going to say I think so. I think 22:08 they're probably, but Aaron says like at different parts of your life. So, if you're an older and you're an established person with a 22:14 family, you're headed to a Cracker Barrel. I thought they said they just got beer. What's that mean? I'm trying to think. I worded it wrong. 22:20 Not what's going on in your life, but what you're doing in that moment. Like, if I have my my parents are in 22:26 town and you want to have like a Sunday brunch, that's a Cracker Barrel situation. If my buddy from high school is in town 22:34 and we just saw a show or something, right, that's a Waffle House situation. I feel 22:39 like I can dip my toe in both and be accepted by both. Cracker Barrel has chicken and dumplings which are really good, but you can also 22:46 get dumplings as a side, you know? So, you can get chicken and dumplings and dumplings. 22:51 You can't do that most places. Wow. I don't think you can do that in a Waffle House. But isn't there like um It's kind of 22:58 like a museum in a Cracker Barrel, too, cuz there's old guns and old pictures like on the walls and stuff. 23:04 There's guns, but Yeah. Well, no, there's like there's like musketss and stuff. actually doing a remodel. They're remodeling all Cracker Barrels and they 23:11 are doing a more modern look and there's less of that. People, a lot of people have said that to me. They said they don't like it, but 23:16 it's I've not seen the new look, but I haven't been a Crack Barrel last few weeks, but I bet Christmas decorations 23:22 are already up in there. Not decorations, but stuff they're selling for. I mean, it feels like Christmas in there. Are they updating from the 1800s to the 23:28 1900s? [Music] The 1880s. 23:34 1880s. To me, Cracker Barrels rivals. I mean, they're the top dog, but it would be like more like a Bob Evans or 23:40 one of those places where Waffle House is more like Huddle House or Right. I feel like, right? Or an IHOP. 23:46 Yeah. Or an IHOP. IHOP is I think Huddle House is better than Waffle House. Oh, that's one of the dumbest things 23:52 you've ever said. Wow. I What does Huddle House have that Waffle House? Well, the Patty Melt that they have is 23:59 way better than the Waffle House Patty Melt. And what do you think they cook with? I Huddle House used to have uh a 24:05 restaurant on James Island and I would go drink downtown and then drive home and stop at the Huddle House on the way 24:10 home. You have better memories associated with Huddle House. Yeah. It's not a better restaurant. 24:15 Huddle House. You talking about it's in like the back of a of gas station sometimes. Yeah. Behind a dumpster. 24:22 He likes it. Yeah. That's what makes it better. Behind a dumpster. Sometimes huddle house. McMinnville has like a brand new huddle 24:28 house. Oh, I didn't even know they were They're making new huddle houses. I thought they were almost out of business. I thought we were just left with the ones we had. They go, "Let's 24:34 just try to keep those alive." That shows how a new Huddle House uneducated you guys are Huddle House. I 24:39 never heard of Huddle House. I unsubscribed from Huddle House Weekly a few years ago, so I haven't I only see 24:45 the one on the way down to Huntsville. I think they do pancakes and Waffle House only does waffles, 24:52 but maybe Waffle House does pancakes now. No, no, no. They're strictly waffles. Yeah, I think so. Huddle House does 24:59 pancakes. Wow. Okay, so that's the key differentiator. They're all crushing IHOP, though these 25:04 days. IHOP is taking a Breakfast is very lucrative. Breakfast any time of the day is a very lucrative idea. 25:10 Yeah. Um, I think we solved a lot of problems here. I think I'm happy to be a part of 25:16 it. Aaron, did you tell us where you were? I was at the Grand Old Opry this weekend. The Grand Old Opry. I got to 25:24 bring the baby. First time at the oprey. It was very cool. Did you take her out on stage? No, I 25:29 don't think I would. I thought about Would that be weird if I did that? Probably. So, yeah. I'm like, "Nobody knows who I am." And they're like, "Why does he bring his 25:35 kid out there?" If I were Gar Brooks and I go, "Hey, my kids with me." That's a fun moment. 25:41 A guy they don't know brings their kid out. They're like, "What's happening right now? What kind of show is this?" 25:47 You do think about doing that. Like one time, that kid should be in bed. One time, one of the best sets I had at 25:53 the Aubrey ever. It was like sold out and I was just h you know you're just like it's just going well right now and 25:59 I did a joke where I mentioned my mom and my mom was there and I go my mom's actually here side stage. She didn't 26:05 come out thank god but that would have been weird. Come on out here and they're like well you're not doing that well but 26:11 you could start bringing family members out on stage but we got to take her around and get some good pictures and it 26:16 was a fun weekend. Yeah. Did the audience really cheer though when you said my mom's here right now? It got a huge pop. Yeah. 26:22 And I feel like that was as And then you're like, "Yeah, she drove me here. 26:27 I don't have a license." Did you say, "Good luck getting backstage cuz you don't have one of these." Exactly. 26:32 Flashed a pass at her. Exactly. Uh they're so great at the Opry. 26:38 Everybody there. They gave They gave uh they gave uh Olive a Opry baby blanket. 26:43 Oh, isn't that fun? Wow. I got two kids. I've not gotten a blanket yet. Well, you just got Maybe I have 26:49 actually. You just got to be weird about it then. Yeah, I may actually have gotten a blanket. Where were you, Dusty? 26:54 Well, I was in I've been all over, as I've said. I did a show at the Comedy Store in LA. It was really fun. I 26:59 headlined there. First time headlining in the main room. Very fun. Who else was on it? Um Um 27:06 That's okay. I'm sorry. Was it like a lot of comics did it? No, I had a few. My my guy uh Willie 27:12 Simon uh was on it and uh gosh, I you know, I can't think of names. Oh, you 27:17 know, sorry to interrupt. You he did a show with Will Smith of the Dodgers. Oh, yeah. I did. Did that show? Yeah, I did that show. 27:24 Nickerson was on that show, too. Yep. He was uh Tigntoro and Tom Papa and u Jim Jeff. 27:30 This is in LA. Jud Appatile. Jud Appatile. Yeah. Yeah. You remember all the famous people's names? You don't remember the 27:36 guys? Well, I asked the people to be on my show that that did my show. That's what's so sad about it. But I didn't. 27:43 You and you? No. Uh Jean Whitney, my friend Jean Whitney and um 27:48 I remember Jean Whitney. Um well, another friend I've just we've become friends recently, but now I 27:55 can't uh not one of my dear buddies. Yeah. Not coming up with her. I She We did a couple of shows together. She's 28:00 very funny. It's a real shame. I'll come up with it. Whitney Cummings. No, no, I'll come up with it later. 28:06 Can we fix it in post? Uh yeah, it's too late. You know, there's no there's no post. 28:11 No, there's no post here. No, it's all pre. No, it's embarrassing. But um Well, Dusty, you got a lot going on 28:17 though. It's like you're always moving. Things are going well for all of you guys. The podcast like is really it 28:23 really bumps you guys, right? Did you get a big pop on on Dusty show because of the podcast? Well, uh Oh, yeah. Not as big as I'd 28:30 hope though, right? Yeah. It's never as big as I hope. I I had this vision when I started going on the road with Nate at these arenas that 28:36 everybody there would know. I would I would imagine that they would. Yeah. Nobody knows. Well, this is the reality is that while I think the podcast is 28:42 really big for me and Brian, Nate and Dusty have so much going on outside of it, right? That we're uh we're a very 28:48 small part of that. Yeah. Which is kind of fun cuz Britney Ross Brittney Ross was was on 28:53 the show. Well, um I saw Dusty's new Hour 20 and 28:59 it was hot. Is that what you were doing? You're doing about an hour 20. That's insane, man. He did the uh You know what I'm talking 29:05 about. Yeah, he did the voice of God and that was about 5 minutes. Was it really? 29:11 I walked away and came back and he was still doing it. I'll do a five minute set then I'll bring the host out. That's really great. Yeah, it was good. 29:17 Here we go. Look at this. Welcome in. Wow. This Hello. 29:23 Welcome to Or Welcome Philly. This is Philly. This Philly's here! And Mike's Philadelphia moment. 29:29 is our our her new dog. She's fine walking on the table, right? Uh, I'm a great I'm a great dog 29:36 owner. I love it. Well, she's thirsty. Well, she's thirsty, Mike. And that's 29:42 immediately drink. I don't have a problem with it. Drinking out of Veon's glass. That's a That's a good omen. 29:47 Yeah. This is also how Veion drinks out of uh this poor dog. Have you any water? 29:55 They uh we kept her uh No. Yeah, we've been giving her water. We get her. She drinks a lot of water. She's been eating 30:01 very good. Uh, she knows how to pee inside of arenas. Unbelievably, she's 30:06 one of the best at it. Uh, but yeah, this is Philly drink. 30:12 Philly's drinking water like she's from Camden. No, I don't get it. It's like a local 30:20 reference. Should have used it this weekend. He's off Mike's off a high cuz he hit the 30:26 motherload. The motherload of local references. Yes. In Philadelphia, dude. cuz he lived 30:32 there. I mean, it was like Wayne Newton. 30:37 It's Wayne. It's Elvis. He's He Oh, 30:43 great. Yeah. Abigail's there. She's not going. Everybody's here watching. I know, but this looks bad. 30:48 Uh, it's great. It's controlled. How you doing, Philly? So, girl or boy? Girl. 30:53 Okay. And, uh, Billy, you went to the wrong direction. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, that's Philly. 31:00 Philly. and very very cute. So it was uh so sometimes these well talk about his 31:06 mother. So he's just doing local references of Philadelphia and dude it was how long? 31:12 Oh I did I did some of my act look comics and I feel your judgment. I feel the 31:18 judgment coming at me. So let me defend myself. I'm into it. I did a couple of jokes first to to 31:24 establish myself as a valid comic. But then I said, "Who's got the 610 area 31:31 code?" What? He knows our area code. And like, 31:36 "Maybe you're from the 215." And they're like, "Oh my god." And Nick was on the show and Nick is from that area. And he 31:42 he was blown away. Yeah. 215 is the What's the other area? 215. 215 is in Philadelphia. 61 is right 31:49 outside. So Derek Stroop kept saying he's sitting next to Nick when Mike's on and he's and Nick's like, "Oh my god." And he goes, 31:57 and then I mean he's like a fan. And he's like, "This is unbelievable." And he goes, "Uh," he goes, "I'm 215." He 32:04 goes, "I moved to 610." Nick's like, "Oh." And he goes to Derek and he's like, "That's literally right outside 32:10 the city." Like Derek wasn't getting it. He goes, "You got to understand that's right." He goes, "It's just right 32:16 outside." He was like losing it, dude. And so it was it was uh it was it was it 32:22 was great. But he hit I mean it was like area codes or you No, I went area codes. Dusty, don't 32:29 minimize this. Don't see what Yeah. No, he did zip codes, too. Area code. I 32:35 went um Wawa, which is uh local, but it's now in Florida. But uh you guys don't have 32:41 Wawas here, do you? Wawa is we know about Waw Wa is a easy one for Phil. But I was doing I was like Hogy the 32:48 Hogy. I was your favorite movie is Rocky. Did you talk about Rocky? No. No. No. Okay. Way. That's entry level stuff. 32:56 You were like, you would have been embarrassed to talk about Rocky. No, this is Julian. Julian did a Rocky joke. 33:01 So, it's like we can't And Julian's from there, too. He's hosting. He's got to get the low hanging fruit, right? You can dig out. 33:07 He can't step on each other. So, we have to do teamwork in front of Nate. Nate doesn't realize it. He's in the back. 33:12 He's petting his dog. I walk up to a not excited crowd is all I know. 33:18 I don't know how they got there, but apparently they've been working together to get them like that. 33:23 Uh, you bring a dog on stage just to get them back. I Does anybody have a I need a prop. Go find a dog outside. 33:30 Go without me a dog. It was it was so fun to watch Mike do 33:38 these references in cuz they were they were not like your like you said like you would do the Rocky and the Waw Wa 33:44 reference. Waw Wa is even something that is a big reference, but he was doing even I mean the area code thing to the uh mmers the 33:52 mummers like mummers I don't even know what that and it was mummer it exploded. It's a it's a thing once a year on New 33:59 Year's. It's uh these guys in South Philly they're workingass guys they get together and they dress up and it's a 34:05 big parade. They dress up uh as like in clown costumes and all that stuff and they play music and march down the 34:13 streets and they prepare for it all year. Wow. So, sounds awful. It's But that but everybody knows what it's 34:18 about. Everybody knows what it is. That's the important thing. And you were a Philly comic for seven years. Murmuring about it all year or how long? 34:24 Three and a half. Okay. So, you you the are these old jokes or you're just like you're just 34:29 weaving. No, I mean I I was I was riffing them in the moment cuz I know Philadelphia and I went to I got my 34:35 masters from uh Cababrini College which is in the area and then night school but yeah it was school. It went out of business. 34:42 We talked about that. It's a master's degree. Mhm. But we said it went out of business and the joke was 34:48 it was bought by Villanova and then bought by a super waw wa. That was the joke and big pop and I was 34:55 like yes. better joke would have been that it's easier cuz it's at night. 35:00 That'd be more of a point. That's why I should have went up and said it was he we talked about it when you 35:06 were here cuz I think we talked about it in a negative way. Yeah, you called it a loose masters because it was 35:13 and it doesn't matter that the college went out of business. I was working a day job and I went to get my masters at 35:19 night for 5 years and I want a little credit. That is impressive. It is impressive. 35:24 Yeah. Thank you. Respect the work eth. That's a Philly work ethic. That's a work ethic, Nate. Yeah. 35:29 Well, it was it it was like it was just so I mean it was just very fun, man. 35:34 because it's always fun when you can do you have local jokes, but to hear them 35:40 with that many people is I that's I've never heard and it was 35:47 like it like man it was so it's so many people and so it's it's just it's 35:53 whatever your dream of of being local jokes in whatever venue or whatever you 35:59 could go do he he lived it. He rode the ride. It was it was awesome because I 36:04 started comedy there so and I lived there for eight year. I went through some tough times there and to have that like emotional uh 36:11 homecoming off of those jokes. Is this your first time back? No, no, no. I've I've worked 36:17 but you get to go I mean in that arena is like that's like that's like a 36:23 two shows. They were both like 15,000 something people. That's crazy. And people are texting me that I know in 36:29 the area. They're like I heard you were on the show with I heard you were opening for Nate. Why didn't you tell like people that I know I've got like 36:35 six texts out of the woodwork from people just from the area I heard or somebody's at the show and they 36:40 texted me that you're there and you're opening for an eight. It's like Yeah. Mind-blowing. And you're like, I come here once a 36:47 year. Yeah. How about you come for my shows? You 36:52 know what I mean? How about you fill in? I need some seats filled at my shows. No, they want the glory. 36:58 Well, their his friends were like, "Oh, did he do like the murmur stuff?" go. Yeah, he did a lot of murmur. Is that 37:04 what it is? Murmur. Mummers. Mmer. Oh, yeah. Mummers. He goes, "Was it all mummers?" He goes, "It was a good 37:10 Most of it was mummer. Most of it was mummer." Uh, yeah. It was 37:15 awesome. So, so Philadelphia, they brought uh we've had it happen before. Sometimes they bring uh some rescue 37:21 puppies to the venue and, you know, the all the crew gets to go hang out with 37:26 puppies. It's very cool event. I we have uh you if you know from my special I've 37:32 talked about wanting a second dog. Uh and I just kind of figured like I kind 37:37 of was like you know what if it happens it happens. I didn't want to go uh necessarily purchase one or go like 37:44 forcefully try to get one. It was like I want to just let's see what happens. Yeah. If I come upon a dog 37:51 and then I'll take the dog. That's honestly what I thought. And then so Philly usually when these rescue dogs 37:57 come in it's a lot of like mixed pit mix some big dogs like dogs that are not going to be able to kind of come on the 38:03 road or hang out or you know even be around. Yeah. Loose pitbull on the on the tour bus is what you want. That's what you 38:09 want. I like a loose pit. Harper really wants uh Holly doesn't always sleep with Harper and so 38:15 Harper wants a dog that would go sleep and cuddle with her. Like so there's a lot of uh factors and so yeah we got in 38:22 there and I mean I was like I honestly when I walked in I thought it was the woman's dog that was holding I like I 38:27 didn't know it would be a rescue and I didn't think about it with the breeders cuz breeding is like uh so out of 38:33 control now and people were making so much money uh that they're breeding they they rescued this person from a breeder 38:40 that was not a good breeder that took like 26 dogs from them and they kept them in some back room locked 38:47 It was uh the temperature I think they said was 112°. Uh and these dogs were all just living 38:54 in that kind of cage. Her peeing in an arena on a hard floor. 39:00 Uh you know that's what she was having to she was just peeing kind of on herself and so 39:05 she didn't have grass. She didn't have grass. Uh so it's we think it's they thought it 39:10 was like a cocker spananiel. We've heard English setter. Uh we've heard a few things. I don't know if we know exactly, 39:16 but it just kind of was like, you know what, like you going to I'm going to do it. I'm 39:22 trying to not, you know, just be like, yeah, we have a lot of guys on the road. Everybody was pretty excited about it. 39:29 Uh she's a puppy. We're going to we're getting some help training her and like I'm not bringing her out this weekend 39:34 cuz we're going to she it's she's four months. She I need to get her a little more trained so we can it's not as much 39:42 of a burden on everybody to have to kind of be on top of her at all times. But uh she was uh she's the best we did. 39:50 Did you get her some open mics and then maybe some club shows so she would work her way up to the arenas 39:56 club first? Yeah. A little bit of something. There was uh at first there was a good day and a half I did not realize like they kept 40:03 giving her water and they some reason people started they were doing Fiji waters and I was like I was like there's 40:10 two days of this dog. I'm like this dog's only had Fiji w like it hasn't even dog is living. This dog's living it. 40:16 Uh so but it's had tap now it's back to reality. Uh, and so it's Yeah, it was, you know, it's 40:25 in my mind. I mean, like we're going to see how much Harper's going to take this dog from me. She loves it. She's very 40:31 excited. But it's like when I'm on the road, it's uh it'll be good to cuz I you can get 40:36 pulled in so many different directions. So, it's nice to have like I need to go back and walk the dog or take a you 40:42 know, like you know, just kind of slow me down. Now, are you going to work the dog into the schedule like for like when we come 40:48 on the road? Yeah. So, it's like when Joe Zimmerman comes on, Philly comes. Yes. 40:53 Like coordinate it with somebody. Yeah. If I have people that are not dog like I don't know if I'd have it with you cuz I feel like you're 41:00 I'm a dog person. You're more of a I'm going to drink this water. Yeah. You're more of a direct uh You're 41:07 going to say something to everybody about that after. Wow. Yeah. Look at that. How much of a dog person I am? 41:12 Yeah, that is a dog person. Yeah. And I have worms. 41:18 Yeah. Yeah, I try to be he's Mike's a rescue as well. So, and what does Holly think? 41:24 Uh, so it was like that was the thing. I brought her in last night. We got in pretty late and uh and so it was like I 41:32 mean I'm just throwing this dog in. Holly's like what? Uh but Holly did 41:37 good. Holly wasn't nothing crazy. It's kind of like what's going on? Kind of ignoring her. Uh this dog is just too we 41:43 got this dog is so chill. like when you it's she goes up to everybody. She's 41:50 been good with other dogs. She's been I mean she's very very friendly. It's just you know she's got to get her bearings. 41:56 Uh Chase has been that was the thing is when Chase basically the one that's got a dog now. Uh but Chase was the one that 42:04 happened to kind of watch her all week. Where was this dog that you just found it? Like this lady just had it. 42:10 I'm neighbor do standup comedy. It was in Philadelphia. They had rescues and they brought them to the show. So, the 42:16 people brought the rags to the You said I thought it was the ladies. 42:21 No, I was saying I think at the beginning I said they brought a bunch of dogs and this was and they do that sometimes at the arena. 42:27 They bring their own dog. We're glad to have you. So, you said on your special that you if you could just find a dog that 42:34 I said on my special I I said I wanted a sec I've always wanted a second dog. My wife doesn't want a second. You've been saying it publicly, 42:41 honestly. Not the fine. I said I wanted a dog at a joke saying 42:46 so they showed up. They were like this guy wants it. We know somebody could be but they we know somebody that Yeah. Did they show up with that intent 42:52 that we're going to unload one of these on me? I mean no but they've showed up with other like I've had this happen before. 42:58 I mean, the a lot of rescues sometimes when they show up, they're not it's it's like, you know, for the situation that 43:04 you're in, you can't always take everything like and so a lot of it is all these kind of 43:10 variables that go into it. But yeah, I've talked about wanting a second dog, but I did not publicly say I'm letting 43:17 it open. I just kind of privately minded my own business and thought, you know, if I'm supposed to have a dog, 43:23 I'll I'll let it happen. The dog will find me. Yeah. like and then you know uh 43:30 then but I'm I'm just I'm asking if you had said this. Yeah. Oh, if a dog finds me, it finds me. And 43:37 then this lady goes, "Oh, I know how a dog can find you." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I 43:42 You were just driving down the road in the tour bus and you saw this dog. And pulled over. Well, one time we had a dog that came up 43:49 on on the road, but it it it was like it was the most fun dog. Uh, but it had 43:55 like it had all the information, the call, whatever. And it was like a dog that you're like, "This dog like this 44:01 dude knows this dog. It'll go home. It knows how to go home." Like it's just in the 44:06 dog that found you. You let it go. Well, it it had it has its phone number. 44:12 Yeah. It was like clearly call. Uh, I don't think we called because it was it was like it was in Fort Worth, 44:19 Texas, and they were having a rodeo thing. So there's a lot of like the horses and trucks and people staying in 44:25 the cabins and stuff like this. So there was there was essentially kind of a couple dogs like kind of hanging animals 44:31 about this animals about and and so this dog was clearly like it like 44:38 the guy the guy knew the dog I feel like the person knows this dog will run around and go to anybody. So I'm going 44:44 to load it up to make sure you know that this is someone's dog and the dog's fine. And then the dog, you know, next 44:52 morning, uh, it was, I'm sure it went back home or or the dog's got a lot of personality. 44:58 It did have a lot of personality. It was a very fun dog. So, extrovert. Uh, yeah. But yeah, I did not 45:03 specifically say it publicly cuz I figured that's what would happen. I just said, 45:09 I didn't even mention it to anybody like in my tour. I didn't mention to anybody 45:14 anywhere. They've done this. That's a They just saw chatter about it online. So I guess 45:20 it happened at the Philly show. You announced that you had this because I saw some chatter about it. It happened that night. 45:25 Yeah. Uh and so those people that they were wonderful is the Pennsylvania uh ASPCA. 45:31 Yeah. ASPCA. And they were great. Uh very nice. But 45:37 yeah. Yeah. They they do that a lot. They did it with like, you know, they said they had like Kendrick Lamar when they come they brought in P. Like people 45:44 do it for these these band for anybody that comes to arena. It's like they do it, you know, and I think they hope for 45:49 them to get, you know, but I don't think it happens. I think most people don't take a dog home cuz it's like you're on the road. Like what are you going to do? 45:55 It's just a unique situation where you just go like, "Oh, you know what? This is going to be the one." And it was 46:02 like, "All right, you know what? Let's do it." It was not the weekend to do it. We I was couldn't have been busier and 46:08 more stuff going on even outside of the show and all this. But with everybody's help, with Chase, when we have enough we 46:14 have enough guys on the road that you're like, everybody was a Tony uh 46:20 promoter, he he babysat. Yeah. One night we went out and he uh he was like, "Look, I'll I'll babysit." 46:26 So he he's kept the dog that night and u and so now I want to get the dog's 46:31 bearings a little bit. Uh get it trained, get its bearings a little bit. Uh, and then I'll bring him uh I'll 46:38 bring him back out, you know, when I when I can when the bearings are there. When it's I know we're not just making 46:44 this dog be like, "What is happening?" So, yeah. There we go. That's awesome. 46:50 Well, dogs probably happy just to not be in a 112 degree. Oh, he went from zero. He went to from 46:57 zero to hero. He's like living the best life now. We said that on That's crazy. It's unbelievable. He'll be able to always say though, man, 47:03 I had a hard upbringing. And he's he's going to use that. He's going to play on that hard. He's going to use that narrative 47:09 and it's not fair. Barely had enough cuz he's rich now. Yeah. He's got Yeah. Now he's he's buying 47:15 whatever he wants. I wonder if Wu Tang adopted a Cuz Wuang was there a few weeks before. So I 47:21 wonder if they adopted a dog. Mhm. There's like eight of them. Eight guys. So it's tough to say. We've had we've had 47:28 it uh we had a guy on our crew adopt one last year uh on the last tour 47:35 and so Oh, so they got your number. They know they bring some dogs. Somebody's taking one. 47:40 But I mean out of all the ones that's happened, we've had two dogs be adopted. Did he take it on the other bus? 47:46 No. No, he he's he took his home. But I mean, he quit he quit the tour out with you that weekend and kept it. 47:52 He had to have it on that bus probably. No. No. I I think they they did it a way 47:58 that it was different where I was able to take this dog. I think he they got the dog to his house and like 48:03 it was another kind of uh aspect to it. I got you. Yeah. Uh all right. Any more questions? 48:12 Uh is Laura happy to open the door twice now? Yeah, she opens it up twice. Yeah, she's been with the dog. She did good all day 48:18 cuz it's like, you know, it's not completely potty trained yet. So, she's been kind of all over it. But yeah, Laura, I mean, Harper uh subbed the dog 48:26 last night, woke up this morning, you know, great energy. Walk the dog like, you know, it's fun. 48:32 Oh, man. Summer may be ending, but And everyone's going back to school. 48:38 Is it almost over? Summer. Yeah, it feels so hot. Yeah. 48:43 Yeah. I mean, I think I think we're going to have an endless summer. 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You were probably making fun of this alphabet and she was No, I um this was Boston. So, uh I did 50:40 say in Boston I was like, "God, I love being here. This is it makes me want to rob a bank. I just want to feel cuz of 50:46 all the movies. But it's got to be hard to move from the south out of the wall material when you got to 50:52 Boston. Well, I had to. I was searching around for local references. 50:57 I just want to be a janitor at a um upscale college and solve math problems. 51:02 Hey, uh I got that one. You guys know about the Mummers, right? I was just in uh Yeah. 51:08 Just trying to bring it back. You try to bring local references to a new town. I'm from Philly. I bet y'all don't you 51:13 know about the mummers? A couple people like I think so. That's enough. Uh 51:20 John Kesler, I just watched Dusty's Wet Heat special and I never thought Working Man could be topped, but Dusty crushed 51:26 it. So much fun and still clean with a grimy little edge. Wow. That's right, John. Thank you, 51:32 John. Appreciate that. What do you want? It's a hot special. Mhm. Wet heat. Did great. 51:37 Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. top. Yeah. Yeah. Uh Scott Reed, Dusty Zoo special 51:45 special, which is stellar by the way, masterfully demonstrates the art of the call back. 51:50 Boom. When you're writing a joke that you will call back to later in the show, do you know when you're writing it that you 51:55 want to use it as a call back later? Most of the time. Can I set it up, Dusty? What's your 52:01 process? Well, you know, not most of the time. Most of the time as you start to do the 52:06 hour, the hour 20, depending on what you're doing, you um you know, it just 52:12 you start to remember it and then you do a new joke and then you go, "Oh, I could I could bring that back right here." 52:18 Yes. Yeah. It's fun. Yeah. Do you listen back? I don't really know. But it's just a new joke. I might go, 52:26 "How did I tell it on that show?" When you're doing a bunch of shows in a row, you kind of don't need you're just in the rhythm of it, so you can kind of 52:32 like sit back and reflect on it. Yeah. That's why, you know, I mean, for me, clubs, like you can do like four or 52:39 five shows like boom, boom, boom. That's where it's that's where it's at. I love a good call back, though. I love it. 52:44 Yeah. Yeah. You don't want a forced call back. Sometimes I force it and then I go, "Nah, that's too forced." 52:50 Yeah. Well, sometimes they seem obvious. Yeah. I've had call backs where if they feel too obvious. I don't like a call back, 52:56 but if it if it can naturally kind of happen. I don't want to do it if I think 53:03 you think I'm going to do it. Well, yeah. You don't Yeah. If it That's what I mean. Like it seems for Yeah. 53:08 You're like, but if you That's why I never said that. And the dead sleeping horse thing. Everybody could be like, "Why don't you beat a 53:14 dead?" Like your last special closes on a call back though. Yes. But I was able to get that 53:20 in a way that I don't think anybody saw it happening. Yeah. If you can't see, you want to Yeah. You don't want call back in this new hour. 53:27 My closer in this thing has a call back, but I uh I don't call back within the bid itself. 53:32 Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Which I don't want to give too much weight like but it's Yeah. There's but you do it. Yeah. You you 53:39 want to be able to hide it. Yeah. And then it's like oh yeah you can cuz you could a very easy thing 53:45 to do is have a call back that's obvious everybody claps cuz they go oh look at that how you called. You'd rather it be 53:51 Yeah. I'd like to stagger them. you know, have something at the beginning that you bring back towards the very end, but then also throughout there's 53:57 little ones and it's like, yeah, you're little. Littles are not bad. You can't you can't be you got to feel how far you if you 54:03 get too far. They got to remember it. They got to remember it. You can feel, oh, if I get too far from it, then they're not they're like, what? And you're like, 54:09 remember that was like 4 hours ago. Remember I set up? Yeah. I like to say that sometimes. I like I like to say that. I like to 54:16 say, remember that back then? I like to do a phone motion with my hand. Yeah. Yeah. Let them let them 54:22 know. And then you you hang it up cuz you go, "Call's over." Yeah. And they go, "Oh, so it's all new stuff 54:29 from here on out." You go, "Yeah." Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Uh Tom Jobson or Jobson. Tom Jobson 54:38 seems like a good guy. I bet everybody just go That's a nice guy. The Yeah, he's unemployed. 54:44 No, he's not unemployed. Tom Joson. Jobson is I was going for the joke. 54:49 Yeah. Yeah. Hello. Check. Is my mic on? Comedy podcast. 54:54 I'm telling a joke, too, that he just seems like a name that would be a very nice person. You go, you mean Tom 55:00 Jobson? You go, I know him. Love him. What about him? Uh, you think Jobson is biblical 55:07 or Jobson? Job's son. Son died. Got a tough life. A good example of exponential growth 55:14 that Nate can relate to would be betting 10 cents to win the first hole on the 55:19 golf course. The loser then agrees to double or nothing on the next 17 holes. 55:25 If he loses every hole, he will have to pay the winner $13,7. 55:31 Wow. I mean, that's uh that's crazy, right? That's my That's insane. Sounds like a mathematician. That's a 55:38 crazy gambling game. If you started a game and someone you could you could almost make anybody get into this 55:43 gambling game and they would be like, "Yeah, I'll do it." And then Yeah. So 10 cents. So then the 55:50 next hole would be 20 cents. Yeah. And then 40 80 $160 $320. 55:56 What do you think? So me at the end I would go, "Oh, no. I'm not paying any of that." 56:02 How many holes you think you'd have to get to realize, "Oh, this was a mistake." Well, because it would be like you could almost you could you could you 56:09 could lose the first eight. Yeah. You could lose probably the first seven 56:14 holes and it doesn't matter and then it starts mattering. Yeah. And then you start realizing what 56:19 I've done. Yeah. Right. Huh. That's interesting. You like that better in the folding paper, huh? I do. I like it better. I don't know if 56:26 I It still It's hard to It still seems crazy that it could get to that high, but uh 56:33 yeah, I like it better than full. I still don't understand. It just Well, it doesn't make sense because you lose little bit of the paper 56:38 each time you fold. Can I ask Mike's just guess and we can move on? I just want to hear I guess so. 56:44 Did you hear the paper folding thing? You watch an alien every week. You sit down and watch it. The last have it on in the background 56:51 when I shower. If you were to fold this piece of paper in half and it doubles, you know, it'll double in thickness. You fold it in 56:56 half. And if you were to fold it in half, it would double again in thickness. How many times would you have to increase double the thickness for it to get from 57:03 here to the moon? Do you think if you had to guess how many times you have to fold? 57:08 Oh, I know what you guys want me to say. Infinity. No, I don't know. I I don't know. 57:13 42. Only 42 times. That's the real answer. Yeah, that's the real I thought it was an imaginary. 57:19 Yeah, it is an imaginary. But the paper there's not enough paper here. That's the problem is there's not enough paper to get to the moon. 57:25 So, the problem is that you need a huge Yeah. But the problem nobody has enough dimes for Tom Jobson's example to work 57:32 either. These are you can get that visual change. 57:37 Come on. I think Tom is up this much money on a coin. You would just convert it to Bitcoin. 57:42 Mhm. William Taylor, I went to college for physics and engineering and had to 57:48 endure a lot of thought experiments. Oh, a lot of thought experiments. Oh, 57:54 yeah. Thought experiments. That's how they That's how they get you in college, boy. They just Yeah. They just come in and 57:59 just be like, "How much air can be in a tire if the tire had a bubble on the side of it?" Everybody, oh, I don't 58:05 know. That's an important question if you're building a car. Oh, god. Uh, actually sounds like a 58:11 question in your college. That's one of the more pract I'm going to show youall how to change a 58:17 tire. Yeah. Cuz y'all going to be on some rough roads and you're going to need to change your tire. I agree. There isn't always a 58:24 lot of value in things like that. However, my brain equates it to going to the gym. Am I ever going to need to do 58:31 tricep extensions to save my life? Probably not. But it might help me do other things. Thought experiments like 58:38 this help your brain with more advanced problem solving and critical thinking. All right, you got me a little bit of 58:45 that. So, like because I need to work out and I've I struggle with the idea of why. Like I know it's the the grand 58:51 scheme of it is to be healthy and I but I sometimes have trouble uh like 58:57 wrapping my head because it feels like it's something for me and it feels uh I had this idea that it's uh did we talk 59:04 about this before? Like it's like it's lux luxurious. This feels privileged to work out and sometimes in my head feel 59:11 self-indulgent. Self-indulgent. Yeah. And so I can feel that and so it I I don't know. It's hard for me to do it 59:17 when I can't think why am I doing this but just for me but it's but if I could 59:22 think I'm doing it for something else your daughter I know but it's like I know that's the 59:28 idea of health and living longer but it's like the idea if you were like trying to get strong or trying to get 59:33 whatever there's there is things that you can be healthy but it's it's like what am I really you know if you're in 59:40 the military and you're like I've got to go fight for this everything, 59:45 but you might need to physically defend yourself. That that's getting a little bit harder 59:51 to have. There's so many other outlets too now where you can physically like you can keep yourself kind of out of 59:56 trouble and says, "Yes, in situations you might have it, but if you're but it's like you can then go like all right 1:00:02 well like you could learn be learn how to use a gun better than anybody on earth and all these other things that 1:00:08 could go into it. So then that gets rid of that kind of concept. In fact, just being somewhat able by 1:00:13 three months in prison if you carry a gun in New York City. I just found out. Yeah, that's real. I thought three years. Three years. 1:00:21 Three years. Three months. But I I'm saying I the thought experiment of that is I I've actually 1:00:26 been having my own thought experiments because I've been trying to find the the click to make me become obsessed with 1:00:33 it. Yeah. And and really know why I'm doing it other because I don't have the thing that makes me want to do it just to for 1:00:40 health reason. But there's a mental toughness aspect to it, too. That's when you're going through it and you're going through sets of 10 and you watch 1:00:46 start watching your mind when you get to five and it's you're exhausted and you're like, I have to push through five 1:00:51 more. Let me see what my mind you mind starts to go crazy. Your mind starts to like how can we get out of this? 1:00:58 It's like you want to push through. That's so lately and I haven't done it yet, but I've been realizing the even 1:01:05 the mental toughness of as creatively as I go forward, I'm now having to I I I 1:01:13 would need to stand my ground more than I ever would because there's going to be more opinions into what I want to go do. 1:01:18 And so I there's you and I stand my ground like it's not like it's I'm trying to be like everybody's trying to 1:01:24 knock me make clear decisive decisions. The mind and body are connected. Yes. If I have the vision, it's and I 1:01:31 and someone comes up and then I'm going to get a lot of like it's the idea when you write a movie. If I don't want this 1:01:37 movie to have this little dumb like stuff that bothers me, well, I've got to 1:01:43 mentally be able to have the uh strength and the uh the energy to sit here with 1:01:52 anybody that's going to try to go against me and not become tired and go like, "Fine, dude. do whatever cuz I 1:01:57 can't do whatever is and then destroy them in front of them. Yes. Destroy them. Take their power. 1:02:03 No, but what you're talking about is like fighting for an idea and working out does help with that. It helps the mental with the physical. 1:02:09 And you've kind of already done it. You cut out drinking cuz you you couldn't get to the But you're right with this with saying that. It's like I know you for years. 1:02:16 It's like when you get obsessed with it, then you'll just do it all the time. Yeah. But you It's like finding the hook. 1:02:21 It's finding the hook. And so I I'm a little bit more Yeah. I did like that helped with that. So the food aspect is 1:02:28 kind of like it's helping that but then I feel I'm so busy and so crazy. It's like I never even have a moment to like 1:02:35 reset and I I want all this. I love it. So it's like I I you know I think about 1:02:42 it. I pray about it. I talk like it's like mentally like it's it's going to come. It's going to click for me. I'm uh 1:02:49 finding my way. I'm seeing how it's doing it. And uh I enjoy it. I enjoy trying to find the thing to do it. And 1:02:55 it's it's more of that that mentality of going I know if I want to stand 1:03:01 and go like this is the vision I want. I'm going to have most people say they don't they're going to have their ideas. 1:03:07 So I have to be able to knock their ideas down or accept the ones that I 1:03:13 want to do. But then the ones that they think is stupid, right? You know, be able to stand there and go 1:03:18 like, I know I think it's but this it's just my thing. I kind of want it to be like this and trusted that, you know, 1:03:25 got to do it. So, we'll see. We'll see. It's either that or Nate Land will become uh rated R and got bought out. Uh 1:03:33 either one or the other. I give up and then it's all Now, I like the idea of you winning the 1:03:39 argument and then demoralizing the person and sending them packing. Yes. 1:03:44 Well, fighting them in that moment. Yeah. Yeah. Arm wrestling them. Uh, for 1:03:49 a while I felt like my house was a hideaway for bugs. You know how that is. I don't mind bugs. I just prefer them 1:03:56 outside. But now I have Pesty. Pesty is do-it-yourself pest control. 1:04:03 They give you the same products the pros use at a quarter of the cost. Their kit 1:04:08 makes it so easy it only takes a few minutes to apply. 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Wow. Now is the time to protect your home 1:05:29 from bugs with Pesty. Go to pesty.com/nate for an extra 10% off your order. That's 1:05:35 p s i e.com/nate 1:05:41 for an extra 10% off. Uh Sam Yonak. 1:05:48 That's a fun one, man. It's a good last name. I bet everybody calls them Yonak. Yonax. How do you not call the Yonaxs all by 1:05:56 their last name? Oh, you have to. This guy Sam's a great first name, but the Yonack. And this guy sounds like he was a nose 1:06:01 tackle. I don't. We are completely on different pages. Samak 1:06:07 has a nose tackle. You're crazy. Yon is like No. No. Yak drinks beer. Shotguns, 1:06:14 beers. A guy that didn't play sports but can play all the sports, but like he just didn't like he was 1:06:20 almost too good at them and but he didn't was like he was like a gifted guy. 1:06:25 Uh it seems like obviously obviously and the Yonax are stupid. 1:06:30 Yeah, the Yak everybody. No, we're just in different pages. Yeah, his to to to Michael. Yonak is a nose 1:06:38 guard. Nose guard. Nose tackle. No neck. Uh it seems like Aaron just casually Aaron Weber - Youth Governor of Tennessee 1:06:44 glossed over the fact that he was youth governor of Tennessee. This seems like a 1:06:49 big deal. What did it involve? Yeah. Get into the week. Did you talk about this last week? Yeah, he broke this news last week. 1:06:54 You're the youth guy. I see it. Last week it Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's one of those things that felt like a very big deal to me at the time, but in 1:07:00 retrospect, it's not. Yeah. Everybody was. Did you get voted in? Yeah. What is youth governor? 1:07:06 Somebody posted a video of you giving your speech at the capital, I think. Oh, wow. Yeah. If you similar like boy state or 1:07:13 girl state, I don't know if you've heard of those. I'll tell you how I picture it. You're the highest level of the Boy Scouts. 1:07:19 And then you have to run for now. You have to run for You're like above the the what's the 1:07:24 leaders called of Boy Scouts? Like the ones that go Eagle Scout? No, the the head the adult. That's the troop. 1:07:31 Yeah. What is it that takes them out? It has nothing to do with Boy Scouts. You're above that. Okay. But I am above that. 1:07:36 But is the Boy Scouts the military wing of the youth governor? If you go to attack another region, 1:07:42 that is a good question. That is a good question. Dusty, he legalized marijuana. I decriminalized it in the state of 1:07:47 Tennessee in 2010. People shouldn't go to jail for it whether you want to do it or not. Well, that's why we did it. But it 1:07:54 there's a a lot of states have a program program in Tennessee. It's called YMCA youth legislature and kids from all over 1:08:00 the state come and they essentially take over the state government for a weekend. 1:08:06 They act as senators and and congressmen and they pass bills and there's a whole 1:08:12 state government of high school kids. So, uh my junior year of high school I ran for governor of Tennessee and then 1:08:18 senior year I was the governor for for the whole state. Kids running the state government. 1:08:23 Yeah. What's that look like? Money is now jello-. We got a lot done. None of us were corrupted. You know what I mean? We got 1:08:29 a we got a lot done, actually. Yeah. Why would you? H I don't know. What do you mean? 1:08:34 I don't know. Were there other of these or you were the youth governor? You were the youth governor. 1:08:39 I was a youth governor for my year and then the next kid runs and there's a new one every year. But like so all of Tennessee you were 1:08:45 top dog of the youth. I think there might have been two conferences in Tennessee, but I was the guy for my my part. run against other 1:08:52 people in other schools. Yeah, I think we ran kids from all all over the state. The election was the 1:08:57 most fun part of it. So this guy because you really are governor. Yeah, I was Yeah, that dude right there. Yeah, 1:09:04 with with that hair, too. I love it. I had a camel skin jacket that I wore. Those are great. The election was the 1:09:10 most fun thing cuz you're like you're treated like you're, you know, the the 1:09:15 newspaper interviewing you and you're doing debates in front of everybody and it's it's like a little like almost like 1:09:22 a presidential debate like that that whole thing. It it was a lot of fun. If you decriminalize 1:09:27 uh marijuana like you said, is it but you didn't make it legal? Well, it is legal if you decriminalized it, right? 1:09:34 I think you just can't go to jail for it. You can't sell it. Uh but you can't 1:09:40 marijuana caught with possession of it. You don't go to jail. It's regulated at a federal level, but the state can decide we're we're no 1:09:47 longer going to uh So it would be I think there is a difference in being legal and being decriminalized. 1:09:54 Yeah. They can still get like a ticket for it, right? You can still give them like a a ticket. Like you can't open a store that sells 1:10:01 it, but if you have it, it's illegal. But if you put them in jail. Yeah. So if you illegally can get it, 1:10:09 we won't I think it's still like illegal to sell, but it's like But then why would you not like if they 1:10:14 came to your house and you had tons of it, you'd be like, "Ah, this is all my personal use. I got it." 1:10:20 You could do that. I don't remember the particulars of of how we did it, but we we decriminalized. 1:10:25 I think there's like they can they can they can say there's an intent to sell, right? 1:10:30 Like you could be like a certain you have a certain amount. Yeah. And if it's like in all individual things like you 1:10:36 are going to sell it then it you know it's different than a little personal some kid in the state of Tennessee wrote 1:10:42 a bill decriminalizing it. I signed it into law. Okay. Okay. It wasn't like a part of my 1:10:48 campaign platform. Yeah. I think that's what I was confused about. Okay. Yeah. No, cuz it seemed like it was like you 1:10:54 Yeah, it felt like that was like what you ran on. No. No. It wasn't like my main thing. But what what were some of your other 1:11:00 initiatives? vending machines in every school. Free free second lunch. 1:11:05 Uh yeah, there's all food stuff. It goes uh you know in one of those 1:11:10 freezers, those big walk-in freezers unlocks from the inside. Yeah. For safety. 1:11:16 Yeah. That was a big him thing. He goes mandatory shirts in the pool kind of 1:11:22 thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have to wear one. 1:11:28 Air condition set on 63. Yeah, the era of big government is back, baby. 1:11:34 Shirts on in the pool. Uh, I don't remember a lot of what we did. We were a good government, though. We We were You 1:11:40 know what? I saw the video of you speaking. That's impressive. Thank you. And even then, you have that commanding voice that gets your attention. 1:11:47 I've always had I think that's why that was way before I did standup obviously, but the debates I was like I was going 1:11:52 for laughs in the debates and I think that might have been where Did you say we need to drain the swamp? 1:11:57 Did you have like a catchphrase? This is pre- swamp. Pre- swamp. This is pre- swamp. He was trying to get He goes, "We need 1:12:03 to build a swamp. We need to build Yeah. He He was going for a swamp. We're going to make Kentucky pay for it." Yeah. Yeah. 1:12:09 Yeah. Uh John, uh no, Kristen Mayberry. 1:12:16 Mayberry. I live and work in Las Vegas. I'm thrilled to see you guys doing shows out here. I'm certain I saw Dusty in the 1:12:23 hotel parking lot. As I walked by, I saw Dusty walk around his car and take out some boxes of Chaita bananas. 1:12:31 Did I see Dusty or does Dusty have a twin in Vegas delivering bananas? 1:12:38 It wasn't me. I mean, you might have saw me, you know, with a banana or two, but I didn't have 1:12:44 a car out there and I wasn't. Uh, and you don't support Chua. No, you were you walking around cars 1:12:51 with bananas? Probably. Um, no. The last time I was out there was 112° and uh, you had your 1:12:58 shirt off. I was a dry heat, which I'm not a fan of, and I try to keep it inside. Yeah, 1:13:04 wet heat now in Netflix. Yeah, wet. I like the wet heat, guys. Mhm. 1:13:09 Uh, John Blanderson. Mike Veion is truly a unique talent. 1:13:16 Nobody has his original cadence. I agree with that. His jokes have no fat. Oh god, 1:13:22 thank you for posting this amazing special. Everyone who liked this, please go watch the attractives on also on the 1:13:27 channel. It's also incredible. Thank you, John. What made you choose John Blinderson as a name? 1:13:33 I wrote this myself. Yeah. Uh John's a fan. Thank you, John. Thank you for saying something, John. 1:13:39 There is no fat. Yeah. I try to get as lean as possible cuz as Nate knows in New York City, 1:13:44 there's a gun to your head when you're on stage to get to the punch line immediately because everybody's busy. 1:13:50 Yes. But uh John, you're the best. Thank you. That really touched my heart. I made my day. Very funny. 1:13:56 Thank you, Dusty. Yeah. And I don't think you deliver bananas. You're more of an avocado. Yeah. Guy. I do like a banana here and there. 1:14:02 I wouldn't have a case. Well, it's good to know that Kristen is a stalker. Yeah. And she's following you. Yeah. 1:14:08 Well, she's following someone else, but Yeah. We should probably tell him, you know. Yeah. 1:14:14 Uh Tony Richardson, I was at Mike Veone's low-inccome white special taping 1:14:19 in December. It was great, but there was a tremendous storm during the first set. I'm wondering if that was distracting to 1:14:26 Mike as a performer. Do you remember that, Mike? How was the storm? 1:14:32 Um, I do remember it. I remember um I remember the second show being the 1:14:38 better show. Yeah, but uh I don't know. Maybe that's why maybe that's why the first show because 1:14:45 there was a storm. tremendous meteor meteorological. The second show was better because Nate 1:14:52 went out and said, "Guys, can you laugh at this, please?" Yeah, Nate did go out and lobby for me. It was the first like that new uh thing 1:14:59 on social media where they go, "Hey, my buddy Mike's coming out here. Might as well do comedy. Y'all going to like it." 1:15:05 Yeah. Yeah. It's like that. No, it was uh Yeah, Mike killed it. Joel Thompson. Uh Joel 1:15:13 Thompson, how do you know when to draw the line between roasting someone, for example, when doing crowd work without 1:15:18 offending them? I just put out a crowdwork video last night. 1:15:23 I did. Yes, I've been doing that on the road. And uh I like to do it at the end of my sets because I like to do my uh set and not 1:15:30 put anybody on the spot, you know, cold play. So I like to make sure that 1:15:35 everybody's comfortable and then if uh there was a cheating scandal with the cold play. 1:15:40 Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Anyway, um I have people Philly. It wasn't Philly, was it? 1:15:46 No, I I don't know where it was. 601. Area code call back. 1:15:52 Yeah. 61. Is it 610? 610. Yeah. But uh like 601 feels like Tampa. 1:15:59 Yeah. I never uh what was I even saying? Uh talking about crowd work. Crowd work. 1:16:06 Oh, I do it at the end. I take requests. I have people raise their hands and I I tell them what's going to happen. I say, 1:16:12 "Let's try to get a clip out of it." Um, kind of wish my guy wouldn't have included it. I kind of wish my guy 1:16:18 wouldn't have included it in the clip, but he did. And I love him for it. And if they raise their hands, then we try 1:16:24 to talk and uh get to some something funny. Yeah. This that that's you your 1:16:31 personalities. Like you go on stage, you go, "Hello everybody. Uh, this is a business transaction. Y'all paid for 1:16:37 this. I'm going to put on a show. I hope you guys enjoy the show. I'll do it to my abilities. And here we go. We start 1:16:43 the show now. That's exactly what he did. Yeah. Well, that's Mike. He said, "Don't raise your hand if you 1:16:48 don't want to be talked to, right?" Well, that's good, though, cuz people have a choice. They have a choice. And it's the end. I 1:16:54 already done my set, so that's why. Yeah. Have any of y'all done cuz I was a a 1:17:00 judge on the roast battle show here last week in in the lab, and I've never been a part of a roast. 1:17:06 Have you all done one of I know you've done I've done roast. Yeah. But have you done a well roast battle? I think different. Okay. 1:17:12 But it's like first of all it's a tremendous amount of work because it's a jokew writing exercise and at the end of 1:17:17 it you're like well I could have just worked on my act. Yes. You know what I mean? So and then it all comes from a place where where do you 1:17:23 know the when the line is? It's like where your intent is. If you're like a if you're coming at it from a place 1:17:29 where it's like a jokewriting exercise and you're like, you know, just respect the other person as a comic and it comes 1:17:35 in an intentionally loving way, then it comes through. But if you're just trying 1:17:41 to be as, you know, I understand the concept of roasting, but if you're trying to just be as vicious as possible, 1:17:46 yeah, if you don't know the person, you're just making fun of the woman. Yeah. Then you're trying to kind of win 1:17:52 off of that, and that's not really the way it should go. This one was super fun because except for one of them, they 1:17:58 were all matchups between good friends. So, it was very good naturatured. They were like they would hug after they were 1:18:04 done. It was it was fun. Yeah. That's like the same thing with somebody breaking your chops. Someone's breaking your chops and you're good naturatured 1:18:10 like you know if it's coming from a loving place, but if they're doing it in such a way like they're trying to put you down, you can kind of feel that 1:18:16 energy. Yeah. Breaking your chops. Yeah. Busting. Busting. Busting your chops. That's what I always the 1:18:23 Is it different down here? You say breaking your chops. Busting your chops and breaking your Yeah. Something else. 1:18:30 Yeah. Uh yeah, I agree with you that it's like when you're you shouldn't be just working on your act, 1:18:35 right? That's the man. That's what I always think. But yeah, but it's like now it's like people that the clips are what get 1:18:41 social media following and then that's what gets people. I mean, I'm I'm not doing it, but I I get it now. It's like 1:18:47 that's how you get the following. there is no system and hopefully we can help you get but I did I've done good on a roast 1:18:53 before and people were like you were great on that roast it's like well but have you seen my act and they're like no I don't know but it's like yeah we'll 1:19:00 get my act it gets you the clips but if you don't when they show up you then you got to 1:19:07 keep doing what you're doing in the video and if you do that then you can that's the only thing I would tell young comics 1:19:13 you can do the stuff to get the clips you better do that stuff when they show 1:19:18 or they're going to stop coming. They're going to expect it. And if they and if you don't do it and then you try to go, "No, then I'll just 1:19:24 do my acting." They're not going to be on board that. And how much energy and time and mind and creativity you put 1:19:31 into that. You got to put in a lot into it, right? You're taking from your other thing. Everything that comes out of your mouth 1:19:38 borderline should be like if it's anything that feels could be a joke, you should pull it back immediately. If 1:19:44 you're on a podcast, you're on not that some stuff does, but you kind of just anything you kind of go just catch 1:19:49 yourself and go, I don't know if I need that right now. Like, and let me save it for my act. Yeah. I mean, I agree with you, but that 1:19:55 is how I mean, people are selling tickets like that now. It's like it's a whole They are, but it's it's 1:20:02 look at the longevity of it. What are we doing? You know, I mean, I get it. I mean, I'm with you. Yeah. 1:20:07 I mean, I try to follow that, too. But I Yeah. I mean, people are they blowing up out here off of off podcast, off off 1:20:15 crowd work clips. They they are, but I I if you really wanted to go through the weeds of it and 1:20:21 like did a numbers of it, it's not as much as you think, I believe. 1:20:26 I don't think it's as many as people think. They think it is cuz there's there's there's ones that are, but 1:20:33 they're not as much as you if you really started going through it and doing it. 1:20:38 It's it's there's no way there's as much as you think. They can do it maybe one time, right? 1:20:44 But but when they look at it like I'm nowhere right now, so I'm looking for any leg up. They're looking at they're looking at it 1:20:50 like that. Yeah. Yeah. I understand. I understand it. I know why you're doing it. It's And 1:20:55 yeah, I want It's like uh you know, we do Nate Land live show. Come down and 1:21:01 try to It'd be better to learn a a craft that you can do for a long time. 1:21:06 I agree. No, you don't. I do. I'm with it. I came up there. I came up through the same system you came up. 1:21:12 You didn't cop from 2008. Start screaming my credits. 1:21:17 You're wearing that jacket. Uh Noah Eden, I started my junior year of 1:21:23 high school the other day. While my English teacher was introducing himself, he mentioned that Nate was his favorite comedian. I immediately yelled, "Hello, 1:21:30 folks." He stared at me for a solid minute, then said, "Okay." He clearly 1:21:36 didn't get the reference. I'm pretty sure he thinks I'm insane, but I'm not. I'm just a folk. Well, you know, might 1:21:41 not have known the Hello Folks reference. Just as a comedian, a big fan. 1:21:46 He doesn't listen to the pod. Doesn't listen. Maybe don't yell at a guy. He said, "I immediately yell." 1:21:52 I agree with that. It's like, how about as a teacher, you should be raising your hand. Junior year, you should know that. Sorry 1:21:59 if I had to. But I would think in this circumstance you would if someone if you you would you would go uh you know like was it 1:22:05 like Howard Stern if the if the teacher goes uh I love Howard Stern and someone goes hey now 1:22:12 or Baba Buouie. Yeah. Yeah. Like that you would yell. You wouldn't raise your hand and then go Baba Buouie. 1:22:17 You would go Baba Buouie. So I think he did it the right way. But there's certain rules in a classroom. I have to take issue with 1:22:24 this is because I worked out and now I have to fight for my idea. Call back. It's a call back. I I have to take issue 1:22:30 with it is a classroom. There needs to be rules within a classroom. Otherwise, you have anarchy. Well, don't then don't be personal and 1:22:37 say that you're personal stuff. What if you're trying to teach anarchy? Yeah. That's a good example. And that's from a 1:22:44 former youth governor. It also should tell you about something about your teacher, though, too. Your 1:22:50 teacher's probably a liar, right? If he doesn't how how favorite how much is he really into it, 1:22:56 right? You know, right? Yeah. Well, I forget that all teachers are liars. Is a small part of people's lives. 1:23:03 You know what I mean? Cuz it's our entire life. Yeah. Even somebody would say, "I'm a big comedy fan." They maybe go to three 1:23:09 shows in their life. Well, it's a mix of both, too. Is like when we go to these arenas, you know, not everybody knows there's a 1:23:16 podcast. A lot of them don't or they kind of vaguely know. Yeah. But they're not, you know, there's going 1:23:23 to be stuff the the the difference of where people are. This would be more of 1:23:28 the niche section of what the arenas are when you go out 1:23:33 more there because they the the specials and the other stuff like that. And they all feed off each other. But yeah, we 1:23:41 need the hello folks in there and we love them. 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I got seven. p.m. 8:00 p.m. and 1:25:38 a 9:30 p.m. and then nothing and then at 12:30 a.m. Then a free period at 10:00 p.m. 1:25:44 Oh, I guess I'm going to go see a movie and then I'll come back to him at 12:30 1:25:50 a.m. These are classes. They weren't spots. Bounce back. 1:25:55 Your dad was a teacher. Yeah. My dad briefly a teacher. My grandmother was teacher entire life. Both your 1:26:01 parents teachers? Both my parents are teachers. Met in school. They met as teachers at the same high school. Yeah. 1:26:07 Was that a scandal? I don't I don't know. It was a scandal. They they were two teachers and they and they were engaged within two months of 1:26:14 meeting each other. Pretty cool. I wonder if they had to let the principal know that they were dating. And then he wasn't the principal yet. 1:26:20 And then within two or three years, he became My dad was a high school principal at 27. Wow. And that seems so young now. 1:26:27 I was seeing these comics that I'm hanging out with that are like 26 or 27. Like Yeah. Yeah. My dad was a high school principal 1:26:32 when he was your age. That's pretty crazy. Did you go to the school where you was a principal? I did. Yeah. All my siblings. 1:26:37 Were you held to a higher standard? Uh, I don't. He was always pretty good at keeping things separate. 1:26:43 Yeah. Did the kids give you a hard time? A little bit at first, especially I moved to a different high school. I moved to Tennessee in the middle of high 1:26:49 school, right? Uh, for my junior year, we moved to Tennessee. So, my dad was the principal at a new school. I was the new kid 1:26:56 coming in. Um, so a little bit at first, but people were pretty nice. That's good. Yeah. Did your alter ego ego hat help? 1:27:04 What do you ad says alter ego? Oh, I don't. What is that? 1:27:09 Uh, this is a company. Oh, really? It's called Alter Ego. Alter Ego running. 1:27:14 Oh, yeah. Oh, really? Running? Yeah. They sponsor you? No, that is his alter ego. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's perfect. 1:27:20 It's actually a perfect hat. He goes, "Yeah, it's brilliant." He wants Alter Ego is a runner. 1:27:25 Yeah. And mine is too, buddy. Mine is too. All right. There's 3.8 8 million public 1:27:31 school teachers in the United States. Wow. About 3/4 77% women. 1:27:36 I didn't know this was going to be on teachers and I said uh I called all teachers liars. I know. I know. And you guys Nobody said anything so it 1:27:43 made it seem way worse. Why did you call them liars for a joke? No. Yeah. I was just making a joke and then you guys all looked at me. 1:27:48 That's a good way to get into it. Made it real serious. Yeah. I think it was tongue and cheek. Yeah. No, I think I Yeah, I just didn't get 1:27:55 the joke, I think. And then it was like uh call back. Call back. Yeah. and hang it up now. You remember 1:28:00 that? Once you call back, you got to hang the That's the cuz the call back's over. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. 1:28:07 Uh yeah. 89% of teachers in elementary school are women and then it's gradually 1:28:13 becomes more men. It would get the high school. Why do you think that is? Why do you think it's uh so dominated by women, 1:28:18 patient, caring? Maybe they don't want men around little kids. My daughter's in preschool and I 1:28:23 wouldn't want the movie Kindergarten Cop would see you wrong. That was a great film. Same way 1:28:28 you want Yeah. You don't want a men massage. You're right. Exactly. Exactly. 1:28:36 Do women prefer women massuses as well? Yes, I think so. I think everybody does. 1:28:42 But for a for like a leisure leisure massage. Now, if you do physical therapy, I think 1:28:47 some dudes say if you're an athlete, you want somebody athlete, you might you might want because you just need the it's then it's 1:28:54 outside the scope of you're in a specialty. So, I think it's like outside the scope. Like, in generalities, you 1:29:00 want I think a woman. Yeah. You want women want women, men want women, and then you don't want to 1:29:05 be in that awkward situation, but nobody wants it. I got a a ringdinger done in Chicago. 1:29:10 You ever seen the ringer on YouTube? It's a clean podcast, Aaron. Yeah. I don't know what that means. 1:29:15 Let's cut that. It's a chiropractic adjustment. Total spinal decompression. You lay on 1:29:21 your back, they lock your hips in, they grab your head and yank it and just yank it back. 1:29:27 It's called a ring digger. Wow. I think what you're talking about is high school wrestling. And uh it was a Thank you for that transition. 1:29:34 It sounds like that. Go ahead. I was going to say it was it was a tiny woman that did it to me 1:29:40 and that was the first time after she did. I wish I had just like a dude. Yeah. 1:29:45 Just like a big dude to that could do it, right? Yes. cuz I felt like she wasn't doing it enough. 1:29:52 How do they even learn what works in that? Wait, what do you mean? Like how do you go like I got an idea. 1:29:58 I'm going lock their hips in and jerk their head back and he goes, "Well, we've never done this before." And they go, "It's the first one. Don't go nuts. 1:30:05 Don't go nuts." It was a guy in Houston, a chiropractor invented that technique and now he licenses it out to chiropractors all 1:30:12 over the country. So, she couldn't do it though. She couldn't really get that. She She I felt like she wasn't getting 1:30:17 in there enough. It wasn't a good enough pull to But do you look at it like when you try a bit and it doesn't, you know, it does, 1:30:24 it's not all the way there. It's like maybe on the next guy she'll get it a little closer and that's how she'll get a little bit 1:30:29 closer. She tried three times. She did I did a triple dinger. Yeah. Yeah. I think she's It's the And I you 1:30:37 know, it's the reason when you have like Yeah. It's the reason you can ring the ding or not. I mean, come on. 1:30:42 It's e Yeah. When you get a refrigerator delivered, it's not two women that show up and cuz she's got to break a 1:30:48 refrigerator. Uh Yeah. This is the guy that invented it. Yeah. Yeah. That dude. 1:30:54 Yeah. You want it to be quick and like That's Nate's dad. And then that way if it if it kills you, 1:30:59 it's over fast. Is what they do. They lock your They lock your hips in. 1:31:06 Yeah. And then I'll just fast forward to this. You can see it. Oh my gosh. Is this going to be insane? 1:31:11 It seems pain. Yeah. Doesn't that look like it feels 1:31:17 incredible? No, I don't know. Rip your hand. What does it do? It's to It's It's spine. Look, now 1:31:24 there's Does it make you just come back again? Uh, 1:31:29 I haven't gone back. I haven't gone back. He goes, "Uh, you're never going to have to do this until once I do it, you're 1:31:34 going to always have to do this." Kind of popping your knuckles. There's, 1:31:39 you know, there's all kinds of people saying that chiropractors are it's whatever. And I I don't even disagree 1:31:46 with any of it. It feels good. I love the And so I saw all these videos. I went 1:31:51 down a rabbit hole. Then I was in Chicago and me and my buddy Zach, who was with me, go, "Let's go get a ring dinner." We went and got one. Yeah. 1:31:57 That was like our afternoon. And you had no back pain before that. You just sort this might be fun. I've got chronic pain. Yeah. Yeah. I 1:32:03 mean, I've got horrible. I've got a million things that this would help. I mean, this looks like an interrogation technique. 1:32:09 Yeah, it really does. Zach didn't know what this was. Oh, he was, you know, he was into it, too. That's why I You know what I pictured when you said 1:32:15 it? I thought you were laying on your stomach and they were somehow grabbing the back 1:32:21 of your feet in your head and squeezing you up. I thought Yeah, I thought they were No, I thought they were bringing you back. I 1:32:26 didn't know what you meant by lock the hips in. But this makes it very clear. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I did not. This is not what I 1:32:32 thought. I want a follow-up video with this patient. I want to know how he's doing 6 months later. Yeah, he's a foot shorter 1:32:38 cuz it all resettled and then and his bones are loose in his body like a sack. 1:32:46 Yeah, there's Jack Arlo getting pulled out of his I don't know if we need to go watch the history of it. So, I think I'm good. 1:32:52 Pulled the cartilage out of that guy's back bone on bone now. 1:32:57 So, uh about a third of teachers say they're extremely or uh are not very satisfied in their job. 1:33:04 Uh yeah, I went down a rabbit hole. Rabbit hole is a great call back. I went 1:33:09 down a rabbit hole of uh teachers quitting. Like teachers are doing YouTube videos of why they quit. And all 1:33:16 of it makes sense. All of it makes sense cuz it's like every other profession. It's changed over the years. 1:33:22 And now uh you know the parents are tough to deal with. The kids are tough to deal with. And the administration 1:33:28 mostly backs they don't want to fight the parent. They don't want to be sued. So they back the parent. And a lot of 1:33:33 these parents are many of them have their kids' best interest in mind, but they're not correct about education. 1:33:38 That's why you go to school for all these years and get a degree and get a masters and stuff so that you know 1:33:45 education and they they have there's probably a balance. The other side too is that the school and the 1:33:50 administration needs to adjust to like everybody needs to readjust. Totally. It can't be just blamed on like 1:33:57 I understand the parents the parents I I do agree with that people are going to just say whatever they want but then 1:34:02 there has to be a give and take too with and I think other teachers like adapting to their way because it's a very old 1:34:08 school union kind of idea that it's like you do this you do this there's a lot of that in the public school system so 1:34:14 there's got to be like and now you're having these private schools pop up and they're expensive and these other types of schools so now there's different 1:34:21 options that people are seeing. So like if you're just a competitor, if you're a 1:34:26 public school system, you would go like we need to step up our game to compete 1:34:32 with these other schools. I agree with that. I like the idea of like a school where it's like you bring 1:34:37 your kid, we tell you what what we're going to do, what the plan is and everything and then you sign into that. 1:34:44 you sign up for that and then if something goes you and you can't mitigate the problem and you can't solve 1:34:49 it it's like okay your kid is not right for this school take them to another school I would yeah 1:34:56 but uh the parents have like a working knowledge of their kid and that's important and they need to work with the 1:35:02 you know the school I think Mhm. So that's what needs to happen. But some parents go there and they try to 1:35:08 bulldo and be like, I want this. I want this and I'm if I don't get this, then I'm going to put all kinds of pressure 1:35:14 and all this stuff. And it's like that's that's a nightmare. Yeah. And you can't have that either. And there's some that are so hands off that 1:35:20 they look at it as like it's a you're you're supposed to parent my kid. Yes. It's and so they the kids are there all 1:35:27 day. Yeah. There's a there's it's all like it goes back to Yeah. You just, you 1:35:32 know, I'll say the idea of my parents taking my side over a teachers is so foreign to 1:35:38 me. I think that must be a new thing, too. Right. Uh like I would have thought by the time you were who would the school system 1:35:45 if there's like a like a idea that a parent will come in and go my kid and 1:35:50 take the kids side versus the teachers. Oh yeah. I think that's new. I think that's like that would never have happened when I 1:35:56 was grow. Yes. But that's I mean, you know, I think people have time on their hand more now and they're it's not it's not Different ways to teach and teacher stats 1:36:03 cut and dry anymore and it's all kind of loose and everything's kind of like, you know, you can get degrees and you can 1:36:10 get all like, you know, you got to think like the way everything is now, we're so it was just like us growing up was like 1:36:18 we're we're not 100 and when we grew up, you were still on the tail end of this like there's no 1:36:24 internet, there's no access to even and it just all kind work structured in communities and it just went forward 1:36:31 like that and then now you're like well we know what China does 1:36:36 or any country in the world does cuz I can see and how they're doing it and then they're like well we do it this way 1:36:42 and it goes great well it does because you are in a village that's like beautiful and perfect you know what I 1:36:48 mean like whatever it is and so you just have all these different like different ways and then that's where I would 1:36:55 imagine the public school system is got to go. All right, we need to let's let's 1:37:00 counteract this. We what you should be doing is competing against private schools and you should be like we should 1:37:06 be providing that kind of level to where there's not you know all these people starting their other schools or you 1:37:13 start other schools and public schools are just going to go the other way and you get into like a mail the mail system 1:37:18 where it's FedEx or you people are using this other kind of thing and then you're like well then now that's kind of what 1:37:24 it is and then school is you know that's kind of what happened in Nashville when I was growing up Nashville public schools there's a ton 1:37:30 of great schools But in the last 10, 20 years, everyone's pulled their kids out and put 1:37:36 them into private school. So then what's left is not great schools, right? The schools also have schools, 1:37:41 too, right? Charter schools. The school is an extension of the neighborhood, too. It's like if the neighborhood is terrible and drug and violent, then people go, "Well, 1:37:48 the schools aren't." It's like, "Yeah, but the school's an extension of the It's not It's not 1:37:54 It's not It's not It's not fair." I don't think it's necessarily like on the teachers. There's probably a much bigger problem. It's not on the teachers. It's 1:38:00 a much bigger problem and it's putting the teachers and the parents to fight where you want to go someone else needs 1:38:06 to come in and be like we got to look but the teachers are thrown into these situations very yeah unwinable 1:38:12 situations and you're lucky to even get some of these teachers that like the fact they even go in there is like to be 1:38:17 honest you're like some of they're angels that they even would be willing to go do this 1:38:22 totally uh there's a major underst staffing in schools just last year alone 400,000 1:38:28 teacher positions either or unfilled or filled by teachers not fully certified for their assignment. 1:38:34 Nobody wants to be a teacher anymore. Well, no. The suburbs, they want to be a teacher because they make better money and it's better conditions. They don't 1:38:40 want to be teachers in the city because they don't make as much money and it's it's rougher. It's rougher 1:38:46 conditions. So, that's the big misconception. There's a teacher shortage in certain areas, 1:38:51 but there's not in other areas. You know, everybody's fighting for the same wants better jobs, 1:38:58 better situation. Median annual wage average is 63,000 a year. Some states 1:39:04 more, some less. Nashville is about 52,000. But uh 90% of teachers say they 1:39:09 spend their own money on classroom supplies. On average between $500, $750 1:39:14 of their own money every year. Yeah. Did you do that? I did. Yeah. But I was like that wasn't 1:39:20 that was the least of the problems. The bigger problem. I mean different I taught in three different districts. kid 1:39:26 he had to fight every day. He go I didn't care about the fire. It 1:39:31 was every morning I walked in this one kid had to fight him to get to my desk. He goes that was where I had trouble in 1:39:38 town. Let's go. You taught special education, right? Yeah. I taught kids with emotional and behavioral problems. 1:39:44 So 12 kids in a class, but it's just uh different challenges in different areas. 1:39:49 I taught in a city school. I taught in a behavioral school. I taught in a city school. I taught in a workingclass 1:39:54 suburb which was the best situation because the parents were supportive but not overbearing and this the 1:40:00 administration was supportive. It's but very bluecollar and then I taught in a wealthier area and that had its 1:40:07 different challenges where it's like either the parents were not around or they talk to you like you clean their 1:40:14 toilets. You know what I mean? So it's like different challenges in different situations. Do you think if you had done 1:40:19 standup comedy, you would have stuck with education? Well, that's the thing with with if you're in a bad situation, like the 1:40:25 situation could change over time. So, you're in there 5 years, you're making a certain amount of money. You get married, you buy a house. It's like, 1:40:31 well, I want to quit this now because it's a nightmare. It's like, well, now you can't because you're making a certain amount of money. You're not 1:40:37 going to make it anywhere else. You can't quit your job now. Now, you have to bite down and just uh figure it out 1:40:43 because you have other people. You have a wife. You have kids. You have a house. People are depending on you. So, you can't leave. And I saw that I saw at the 1:40:49 end of it of my teaching career. I saw that's where it was headed. They were like, "You're going to because I I quit 1:40:54 my job. I didn't like the way my year went." So, uh, I didn't like the way I was dealt with by the administration. 1:41:00 So, I said, "I'll just leave." I'll just leave and look for another job or figure it out. Mid- semester. 1:41:06 No, no, no. At the end of the year. Middle of class. Middle class. Just get up. It's over. I'm out of here. 1:41:11 No, but the at the end of the year. But I could see I could see what they were doing. It's like you could get and same thing with like policing and these other 1:41:18 difficult professions. You could get locked in and then you know you can't 1:41:23 leave. You just can't. You're you're you're living for your family. That's the whole system design. 1:41:29 It's designed to Yeah. It's a trap. Yeah. H it can be a trap if you're in the wrong situation. Yes. 1:41:35 You know what IP is? Yes. Indivi individualized educational plan. 1:41:40 Did you have one? I had one myself. For yourself? Yeah. for yourself. No, each kid in a 1:41:46 special education classroom has an individualized educational plan. They don't get grades. They have goals. Goals 1:41:52 within the plan. It's actually good for every kid. It's good for every kid to have goals. I bel I check that on what it was, but 1:41:59 instead of grades, goals. Oh, yeah. Goals. Yeah. Goals. I do that to myself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 1:42:05 All right. So, there's a lot of comedians or former teachers. There's at least two tours I know of of teachers. 1:42:10 I've been on a couple. Board teachers. Board. I've been on board teachers. Really? It's a great tour. Yeah. What's a different teachers for 1:42:16 teachers? No, it's not a cruise. They might have a cruise, but it's just uh different uh uh 1:42:22 venues that you go and it's all teachers and you're on the show with like four 1:42:28 other teachers and everybody does like 20 minutes. Oh, and you're performing four teachers. You're performing four teachers. Yeah. 1:42:34 And and everybody performing like you get to do like teacher crowd work. Yes. Like teacher jokes that you all get. 1:42:41 That's fun. Yeah, I did a show once opening for Joe Dumbrosski. I don't know if you guys know him or not. And he his crowd just 1:42:48 loved him. All teachers hated me, but loved him. Yeah. Yeah. 1:42:53 Yeah. Yeah. Uh but four teachers is a great tour. That's fun. Just to get to do comedy in front of 1:43:00 people that know that you know that job very well. Well, it's the like doing the show in 1:43:05 the Philly where you get to you're just resonating. So that's what his what Philly was like is he got to do 1:43:12 an arena full of teachers. Yeah. Yeah. And I go what if the joke's not going well. I go what are you guys 1:43:17 part of the administration? Yeah. Yeah. 1:43:22 Apparently finding some schools have teachers have to find their own substitute if they're out that day. Oh, that's I never had to do that. Yeah. 1:43:29 So, a Nashville teacher created a new app called Subie where you can go on and find 1:43:34 Yeah, cuz you you find like there's sometimes it's probably like a decent job as a comic now cuz you could just be 1:43:39 like a substitute teacher and just like pick it up now and just go like, "Oh, yeah." Cuz I I always hear people some 1:43:45 like they go, "I substitute teach sometimes." Yeah. Imagine when you substitute you were you a substitute? No. But there was the thing was there 1:43:52 was no YouTube back then. I told my kids like when I was teaching high school that I did comedy and they were like 1:43:58 cool and that was like my night thing but there was no YouTube there was no social media all that came later so now 1:44:04 it's got to be very difficult I believe I would think yes I would think so now to do the two yeah uh 1:44:10 you almost got to use a stage name or a fake name or something yeah but it's hard to remain anonymous 1:44:15 with everything I I don't want to come off like I was bashing uh it's not that hard parents or teaching profession but 1:44:22 it was but forbid that teacher have a dream. Mike, uh, no, he was defending the teachers, right? 1:44:28 I was defending the I could defend my people, the teachers. Yeah. I think people don't, you know, 1:44:34 the uh, let's do some more not fun stuff. The Key and Pill substitute teacher 1:44:39 sketch has 226 million views on YouTube. The Key and Pill substitute teacher support group sketch has 334,000 views 1:44:46 on Aaron's Instagram. Oh, how about that? No, it has way more. It has way more than that. Oh, well, not as of this morning. So 1:44:52 that's the most viral thing I've ever ever made was I did a sketch about that. You know this the the sketch the key 1:44:58 appeal the aon. Aaon I'm still I mean every day somebody brings that up to me still. A 1:45:04 aon. Yeah. Um yeah that's that's the most viral thing I've ever done was sketch. 1:45:09 Where was the biggest ad which Tik Tok and Instagram? Okay. It probably has 15 million views across 1:45:16 all the platforms. Wow. People resonate with it. But that sketch was so so viral, dude. 1:45:23 Yeah. That came out when I was in college and it was like referenced all the time. All I mean just the next day aon I'm a aon Movies and Tv shows about teachers 1:45:30 everywhere. And then Yeah. Dice and all all those names. It's very fun. Yeah, it is. It's the best. All right. 1:45:37 Uh movies about teachers. You got a favorite? Uh there was a movie called Teachers. I 1:45:44 don't remember. It was Nick Noly. Oh, I like the substitute with Tom Behringer. Ooh, that's a good one. 1:45:50 Dangerous minds. Dangerous minds. What about Only the Strong? That's where they did the Brazilian jiu-jitsu. The 1:45:56 guy goes in and he teachs the bad kids and teaches them jiu-jitsu. Okay. Freedom Writers. Freedom Writers. 1:46:02 Lean on Me. Oh, Lean on Me is the best. Best of all time. You kill your brain cells, son. You kill 1:46:07 your brain. Dead Poet Society. Dead Society. Sure. That's another good one. Finding Forester with Chan Connory. 1:46:15 Yeah. Sort of a teacher. It's a good one. How about Two Ser with Love? No, I didn't have that one. 1:46:21 That's Sydney Portier. That's an old one. Well, I was a teenager back then. I don't think I can even think it like 1:46:28 I guess Dangerous Minds I would uh School of Rock. School of Rock. School of Rock. Low on the list, but 1:46:34 still good. Dead Poet Society has got to be the best one. Is a Substitute like a scary movie or Substitute is Tom Behringer. No, it's 1:46:40 like Dangerous Minds but with Tom Behringer basically. How about Summer School with Mark Harmon? 1:46:46 I just watched that the other night. I love that movie. One of my favorites. I think Dead Poet I don't know. I think uh 1:46:53 Dangerous Minds is is maybe up there above it. I think he got criticized later society. 1:46:58 Wow. Because there was this wave of movies where white women go into black schools 1:47:04 and and is that what Dangerous Minds is? Yes. Was that movie? 1:47:10 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, how's it like that's where you see the Rotten Tomatoes 34%. 1:47:16 You're like, "That movie was huge." And like you're like, "What does that even mean?" Evan had that that song. Coolio had the 1:47:21 song. Yeah. That's the only song that everybody knows. Gangster Paradise. Oh, it's 64% popcorn meter. That I feel 1:47:28 like it did better than It was way better than that. Yeah, it was way better at the critics didn't like it, but people liked it. Yeah. 1:47:33 But yeah, the Tom Behringer one was was a play off that. Only the Strong was a 1:47:39 bit that, too. But uh some TV show, I guess. Will uh Goodwill Hunting is that teaching? 1:47:45 Yeah, I would say so. Robin Williams was a He's a therapist. But he's still teaching. 1:47:50 He's a jo. You guys are stretching. They are stretching. You guys are stretching. I'm sorry. I gave the complete list, guys. Everything 1:47:56 else is a stretch. Now, TV shows. Uh Abbott Elementary, probably the biggest sitcom on today. 1:48:01 Oh, I just watched uh AP Bio with the guy who the season one is unbelievable. 1:48:08 Yeah, it's very funny. He's great. Season two was a real drop off right away, but season one was unbelievable. 1:48:14 AP bio I did watch uh Welcome Back Cotter. Say by the bill, head of the class, I guess. Say by more 1:48:20 about the kids. Oh, totally about school though, right? Yeah, that's true. Well, then Breaking Bad. 1:48:26 Yes. Mhm. Friday Night Lights. Yeah. Is about 1:48:31 I've still never watched that whole movie series. Oh, okay. I think I've seen the movie. I never watched the TV series. 1:48:36 You read the book? No. those who those who can't. But you haven't finished the show. 1:48:41 I don't think I ever started it. Oh, it's so good. So, I you know, it's the one show that uh I 1:48:46 remember Ted Alexandro, very funny comedian, and he uh called me one day 1:48:52 out of nowhere and just goes, "Have you seen Friday Night Lights?" And I go, "No." He goes, "I think you really would 1:49:00 like it." I appreciate that, man. I think you would. Yeah. I was thinking about that. Like it was that was it. just a good just a 1:49:06 wonderful person just going. He had a very funny web series called Teachers Lounge. He was a teacher by the way. 1:49:11 He was a teacher. He was a music teacher, Ted. And he's one of our He's a great comic. Unreal. So funny. Yeah, he had a very funny web series. 1:49:17 Yeah, teachers lounge. He has a lot of jokes about teaching. Yeah, that's funny that that came up. And uh yes, they very 1:49:24 very funny jokes about teaching. He's a great comic. Yeah. Those who can't. It was uh is it the Growlix? 1:49:30 Is that what Yeah, the guys from Denver. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was their show. Then Roy Scoville was the principal. Well, it was very funny. 1:49:35 Oh, wow. Yeah. And songs about teachers. Hot for teacher. Hot for teacher. 1:49:41 Hot for teacher has to be the only one. Another brick in the wall. Yes. Oh, what about uh we don't? No. No. 1:49:46 That's another brick of the wall. But what about schools out for summer? 1:49:51 It's in screen. I like that one. Schools out for Yeah. Alice Cooper. That's when teachers are not involved. 1:49:58 Yeah. Well, let's show about it though. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That's teachers. 1:50:04 Teachers. All right. We did it. We covered it all. Thank you for your service, Mike. No, thank you for having me on the Are 1:50:11 we Are we winding down or se Well, thank you. Can I do a big reveal? I did a reveal on stage uh over the 1:50:19 weekend. Crack the Cracker Barrel. 1:50:24 You're listening. He's wearing a Cracker Barrel shirt. Cracker Barrel short. Dusty, I didn't know that you were representing them. 1:50:30 The face of Cracker Barrel. Yeah, face of Cracker Barrel. But I want you to know that I'm on board. And if you need another face, maybe somebody 1:50:35 from the north, I'm a candidate. Yeah. Yeah. Are those commercials still running? 1:50:41 I don't know. I I bet they are, though. Okay. Yeah. All right. My neighbor told me they were running 1:50:47 quite a bit. She uh alluded to the fact that she was sick of seeing it. Yeah, I've seen a lot of it. 1:50:52 Yeah, I saw a lot of that in I'm sick of you on Cracker Barrel. I'm sick of you at the airport every time I'm there. 1:50:57 Yeah. Check your bags, Snake Baretti. Check your bags. Someone's got to tell them, man. 1:51:04 Someone's got That was one of my goals. Make sure it's your suitcase. Snake Baretti. I'm trying to get my bag. 1:51:09 That's because you're here. It's too much. You know what? I'm going to start calling you when you're there. 1:51:14 So, you can get a double dose. Just remind me to check my bag. Oh, I have flashbacks. Yeah. Just to go, he should. Yeah, 1:51:22 I jump. He does need to check his bags. Yeah. You've heard that? Y'all heard that at the I heard it one time when I was in a 1:51:28 bookstore and then I saw your book on the shelf in the airport. There is a lot of Natoo. 1:51:33 Yeah. Yeah. Uh you want to talk about your Sorry about it's all you know worked really 1:51:38 hard. Uh yeah, I'll be in uh South Carolina uh 1:51:46 Columbia, Jacksonville, and Orlando this weekend. Uh very very very pumped and 1:51:53 excited. The tour has been great. And then Reading, Pennsylvania. Yeah. Then it'll keep rolling, man. And uh 1:52:00 we're Yeah, we love it. We're having a blast. We got We got a new dog. I don't know if he's going to make all the 1:52:06 dates, but he'll be Philly will be there. Not this weekend. So, actually, don't. 1:52:13 Yeah. Uh this is Brian Bait speaking. Um can I say thank you guys for having me on? I really appreciate it. 1:52:19 Yeah, we're going to Are we going around? Okay. Well, I didn't know if we were closing. No, that's really nice of you. We are going to go. 1:52:25 You'll have the floor real soon. Okay. Well, let me know when it's my turn. Okay. Yeah. Uh I'm sorry, folks. That's That was 1:52:31 Mike Vick. This is Brian Bay speaking. Uh let's see. Uh the Home Before Dark Tour comes to Huntsville 1:52:37 this Sunday, 6 PM show. It'll be over by 7:30. You'll be home before dark. Come 1:52:43 on out. Great time. A lot of people I did. Is you calling it that or you just made that up right now? Uh, now somebody was 1:52:51 it somebody on here or maybe somebody wrote in and I think I just Why would it not be called the easy to drive tour? That's 1:52:57 it is but it's it's morphed into a bunch of different tours. Easy to drive was the that was the tour 1:53:03 name. Easier to drive. Yeah, I know. Yeah, it's been it's been it's just trying to help you out by going 1:53:09 maybe don't change your tour name up every five cities. Dark. Well, it's not Home. That's good though. 1:53:15 Home Before Dark. Yeah. Yeah. Um, well, it never had an official name because quite frankly, the places 1:53:21 I'm going these days are not easier to drive. Thank you very much. Boom. So, um, but anyway, I am in Chicago 1:53:28 August 31st at Zanies. That's a 4:00 show. So, that so you'll really be home before dark for that. 1:53:34 Then, uh, good thing in Chicago, right? Right. Cuz it's dangerous. 1:53:39 Yeah, it's very dangerous. Then Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and 1:53:45 Brook Haven, Mississippi. M. Uh-huh. All right. Oh, yeah. Perig, Arkansas. You don't 1:53:51 have to keep pulling those. That's all right. Yeah, I'll stop when you stop. You started it. So, okay. 1:53:57 Okay. All right. Go ahead, Aaron. No, Mike. Are you You want to save him for last? No, I was joking cuz he because I jumped 1:54:05 it. Cuz he jumped it. I was going to skip him. I didn't know what we were I'm sorry. I was confused. I didn't know what we were doing. 1:54:12 Please. Uh, I have some dates of my own. These are um I didn't update my website 1:54:17 so I'm sorry about that. Um De Moine, Iowa, August 15th and 16th. That's this 1:54:23 weekend. Nice. At the Funny Bone, uh Harford, Connecticut. The Harford Funny Bone. Funny Bones love me 1:54:29 and I love them. I love the Funny Bones. Yeah. In Nashville, Tennessee, right here at the Z Lab right after Christmas. 1:54:36 Awesome. 26th 27th. Um uh comic mikev on all social media 1:54:42 platforms. Please follow me. if you don't. And uh I appreciate going on your tour, Nate. It's unbelievable every 1:54:49 time. And uh I appreciate being on the Natelland uh YouTube page. And if you 1:54:54 haven't watched my special, Low-Income White, I put a lot of work into it. I do not even have my own podcast. I put 1:54:59 everything into standup. So please go and watch it. 1:55:04 Oh, yeah. I appreciate it. Thank you. It's great. Aaron Weber here. The Grove comedy club 1:55:11 called Lowel, Arkansas at the end of this month, August 22nd, 23rd, throwing out the first pitch of the minor league 1:55:16 baseball team. No, I've been saying it for a while now. I'm about the tour's about to kick in, dude. So, 1:55:21 apparently you gave the wrong name of the team. I did give the wrong name of the team. I'm sorry about that. The minor league baseball team in Northwest Arkansas. 1:55:29 That's the one I'm doing it for. So, that and then that's all I'll plug now. 1:55:34 I'm at the Opry on Friday, but Okay. On Thursday, I'm doing a Cracker Barrel corporate gig. 1:55:40 Nice. Yeah. And then Yeah. And then Friday, I'm in Madison, Wisconsin. Saturday, Milwaukee, 1:55:46 Wisconsin. And then the next weekend, I got a Zany show on a Tuesday, the 19th. 1:55:52 And then I'm in Prestonburg, Kentucky, and Princeton, West Virginia. 1:55:57 Oh, wow. Awesome. Wow. Where in Milwaukee? Paps. Paps. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. That's cool. Yeah. 1:56:04 Uh All right. That's it. We love you, Philly. Say bye. Uh, we love you. All 1:56:11 right. Talk to you later. Bye. [Music] [Applause]