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1:00

everybody, excited to

1:02

be here. We're here, we're

1:05

doing it. Kind

1:08

of, yeah. I

1:11

feel like I'm, yeah, we're rolling. It's

1:13

already started. Here we go. We're in

1:15

it. I gotta get it to, my mind was, it's

1:19

gotta get it together.

1:21

But it's, yeah, we're doing

1:23

good. I had

1:26

a good weekend in Florida. Well,

1:29

it's been a month since we've all been here together. Yeah.

1:32

So it's going to take a few minutes to get back into the swing

1:34

of it. Yeah, yeah. People just, can you

1:36

imagine someone listening and they go, and someone's like,

1:38

I want to turn it off. He goes, no, no, no, you got to

1:41

give them... They could fast forward it. Give them 15

1:43

minutes. But he goes, give it... That's

1:45

our... And our podcast is that, where they tell... Some

1:48

people say that like you got to give it a

1:50

chance. Yeah, Dusty, what do you call your comedy

1:53

sometimes on stage? Oh, crock pot comedy.

1:55

Yeah. Takes a while to heat up. Yeah,

1:57

yeah. you don't even know if this thing's on.

2:00

Yeah. Before

2:02

you know it. You got a pot roast. You got a nice meal,

2:04

yeah. Yeah. You gotta

2:06

start it a day early. You gotta

2:08

think about it. Yeah. Know what you're buying.

2:12

Yeah, I, well, I

2:14

mean, that's where we would be the most like Seinfeld. Seinfeld

2:17

was like that where you're like, you gotta watch it. And

2:19

if you watch it, you're gonna love it.

2:21

Yeah. FAU, which is in the Final

2:23

Four basketball, they released a hype

2:25

video put together with

2:27

Seinfeld clips. Oh, really? Very

2:30

funny. It's like showing Frank Costanza

2:32

when he called Jerry's

2:34

dad. Yeah. And said... I'll be all over that.

2:37

Yeah. Shuffleboard, court.

2:38

Try to keep us out. Try to keep... Yeah, that's

2:41

great. Yeah. Oh, look at that.

2:44

So you find like they need to hire

2:46

a younger social media person. You

2:48

and I are the only two that like it. They're

2:50

like, yeah. People are like, what is

2:53

that? Who's your social media guy? You're like, I'd

2:55

imagine is he 43 years old? And

2:57

then he'd go, yeah, how'd you know that? Well,

3:00

who would? You know, he's never going

3:03

to get a chance. Nobody thought FAU would go

3:05

this far. So they're like, just let Harold do

3:07

it. Yeah,

3:08

that's funny. You had a big birthday. I

3:10

had a big birthday. 44-year-old. 44 years

3:13

old. Happy birthday. Thanks.

3:15

It was in Tallahassee

3:18

at Fort Estate basketball, their arena.

3:21

And they did nice things,

3:24

and they had some stuff. And when

3:26

I went out, I had a lot of people yell,

3:28

happy birthday, which is like,

3:31

is this sign,

3:33

I took it as a, you

3:35

know, because I've gone on, I've probably done shows

3:37

almost all my birthdays,

3:40

if they're at least Thursday to Sunday. And

3:44

I, before,

3:46

I almost want to say last year, I

3:50

try to remember where we were, I

3:53

don't know if anybody yelled happy birthday last year. I'm

3:57

just saying no one would know. Right, right. You

4:00

sit down and you're like, no one- You made some major moves though in a

4:02

year. Yeah, and maybe

4:04

someone yelled at that in here, but it wouldn't be an overwhelming

4:08

happy birthday. And before that, you usually

4:10

have to tell the

4:11

crowd, it's my birthday.

4:13

You gotta fish for a bit. You gotta go, you guys, I don't

4:15

know, man, I'm getting older today's my birthday. You

4:18

just gotta slowly like let it slide.

4:22

No, no, no, you guys sit down, it's my

4:24

birthday. But this

4:27

one was a giant yelling of

4:30

happy birthdays. So

4:32

it was very, it felt,

4:36

I mean, they make it, every audience

4:38

and it's what I love. Everything

4:41

feels very warm.

4:43

And I just like to picture that they're all,

4:46

everybody's just nice to each other there and we're just

4:48

having a wonderful, just a good

4:50

time. And so it was very sweet. And

4:53

then I ate,

4:54

I mean just, they had

4:56

ice cream cake, cupcakes. I

5:00

was mixing the ice cream cake. I mean, I was like, I

5:02

had ice cream cake before I went on Florida

5:05

State, the Donald

5:08

L. Tucker play,

5:12

that's the name of it, convention or whatever.

5:14

Civic Center? Civic Center, Donald L. Tucker

5:16

Civic Center. So everybody that worked there, they

5:19

brought me all this stuff. And then, uh,

5:21

was

5:22

that you on stage? That is me. Yeah. No,

5:25

they were yelling out happy birthday

5:28

arms raised. Oh yeah. Bring

5:30

it in. What you don't see

5:32

is the screens behind me go guys. It's Nate's birthday.

5:35

Everybody on three. And I'm like,

5:37

guys, quit it. Quit it. Now

5:39

there was no acknowledgement of my birthday

5:42

that I know of. Maybe someone sent it before. I

5:44

didn't hear, uh, Julian or Justin.

5:47

I don't think they would have. But

5:49

it was, yeah, it was very nice. And then,

5:52

so they had, as I was doing Ice Cream Cake, and

5:55

then Outback, who's our promoters,

5:57

Not an Outback Steakhouse, a lot of people think that.

6:00

It's a company called Outback. And

6:02

so they, or the promoters, they got

6:04

me something, and they got me these cupcakes, and the

6:06

cupcakes were awesome. And we did a little Elaine,

6:09

the muffin, top of the muffin,

6:11

top of the muffin to you. We

6:14

took it, I mean, the top was unreal,

6:18

unreal. And so then, and then

6:20

we had like, after we got done, we went to this hotel.

6:22

What would you do at the stumps?

6:25

I would then kind of get after the stump a little

6:27

bit. I did a little bit of stump, But I mean,

6:29

they left them in there. Okay. You

6:32

know? Wow. And we gave them to a homeless guy also.

6:34

No. We go to this- He

6:36

was so mad. Yeah, we go to this hotel

6:39

afterwards, Travis and my tour manager, and they

6:42

set up like a fun, you know, you're

6:44

usually working at birth, they set up a very fun night.

6:46

We went to this hotel and like, they

6:49

had a room that had like a pool table and

6:51

like we played cards and just had

6:53

that cake. And we ate at this steak

6:56

restaurant before, so it was a nice thing.

6:59

And then people just got married in this room,

7:01

like this hotel has a room that like you can rent out

7:03

for I guess like a wedding

7:06

or like a reception or something after.

7:08

So then they- You

7:10

crashed it? No, no, but they left. We

7:13

booked it after them. So they

7:15

had to leave, but then they, I

7:17

think they were big fans. So they came out and met them. And

7:19

then they came back in and we took pictures. They just got

7:22

married, which was fun.

7:23

On my birthday, I always remember their

7:26

wedding anniversary. Yeah. They'll

7:28

always remember your birthday. They'll always remember my birthday. I

7:31

hope so. Maybe they forget. You're like, dude,

7:33

come on. You go, why got y'all something? So this is

7:35

awkward.

7:38

And then so yeah, we went there. Ricky,

7:40

our bus driver, broke the door to the

7:42

hotel. We walk into these

7:45

glass doors and Travis

7:47

is up, because you go to the steak restaurant.

7:50

Steak restaurant was in the Don

7:52

Chula's, like a Don Chula, like

7:55

his restaurant. And so you

7:58

go in there to the steak restaurant. And

8:00

then it's a glass door. So Ricky

8:03

comes in and just, it's

8:06

a 400 pound glass door that just comes

8:08

off the hinge and Ricky just, he's

8:10

like got it up against his face, like just holding

8:12

it. And Travis just looks at him, he's like,

8:15

oh, because his door's broke. So

8:18

it was- What a strong guy though. Oh yeah.

8:20

Yeah, then Travis went over there and then his kid came-

8:22

That's who you want driving the bus. That guy can handle

8:25

things. Oh yeah, Ricky can do it all. Yeah.

8:27

And so then they had to like hold the door. then that

8:30

entrance was just shut off for the rest of the night.

8:33

So we put

8:33

a stop to that. He

8:36

didn't break it. Something was wrong with it, but

8:38

yeah, it was fun. But

8:41

I've officially got my, I'm back

8:43

to my starting weight, almost

8:45

back to when we started. I'm 185. All

8:48

right, we can start over. Start over. Yeah, we

8:51

can start over. I'm starting today. Yeah. You're

8:53

back in it. I'm back in it. What are you at,

8:55

Brian? Okay. Oh,

8:58

look at that. We never moved. Were you at 185 back

9:00

then too? Yeah. All

9:02

right, we're back in it.

9:03

All right, here we go. Round two. What's

9:06

the race to? What are we racing back down to? I'm gonna,

9:08

mine's gonna fluctuate. I mean, at least

9:10

I'm gonna go back to 160. I was 160 when

9:12

I shot the special. Wow. And so, and

9:15

I might even go below. I'm gonna go and

9:17

see what my body does. I can't believe you've gained

9:19

that much. Doesn't look like

9:21

it. No. It's, I have. It's

9:23

tough, man. It

9:25

is such a letdown. It

9:28

breaks my heart. I know. It's

9:30

so sad. Yeah. That's

9:32

the hardest. I

9:34

mean, and I'm at a point

9:37

where I'm like, I'm not gonna have

9:39

Eric on the road. Even if you can have someone,

9:42

you think, I'll just have someone on the road with me that does

9:44

this. But he doesn't, you

9:46

gotta do it and understand it on your own.

9:48

Right. Because it's like, then we get off the road

9:51

and then I come here and I eat

9:53

a 32 ounce granola with

9:55

yogurt. I mean, I'm eating like a full

9:57

pizza worth of yogurt or not.

10:00

How do you even get these things that are

10:02

healthy, combine them to

10:04

make them unhealthy? It takes work. It

10:07

takes a lot of work. I don't know that granola is

10:09

that great for you. They really sell it. They really push

10:11

it on us like it's good for us. And I don't think

10:13

it is. Oh, it's so good. That's why

10:16

it's not. It tastes good. It's got all that sugar and honey

10:18

on it. Yeah. Oh man, that is fun. I ran into

10:20

Shay the other day and I didn't even recognize him. Yeah.

10:22

He has totally changed. Shay Mooney, Dana

10:25

and Shay. Shay was on the podcast. Shay, if

10:28

you go look at that podcast and go look at Shay

10:30

now. Shay, we just golfed last week and

10:32

I mean, he is tiny.

10:34

Yeah. Like tiny, he weighs 140, I think.

10:38

Wow. Look at that picture right there. You got it before

10:40

and after right here. Look at it. I'd like to say I

10:42

started all this because I

10:45

lost weight before he did. Looking

10:48

like Burt Kreischer. I got down and then he started doing

10:50

it. So I'd like to say I was the

10:52

start of Shay.

10:53

I'd call him fat a lot to his face. He's

10:56

got a Burt Kreischer before and by. That

10:58

is very effective. It's a very effective strategy

11:00

to have your friends call you fat to your face. Yeah,

11:03

yeah. People are against it, but

11:05

I can tell you it works. Yeah, Shay looks

11:07

crazy, dude. Like he's just,

11:10

he looks so good. And

11:12

like, I mean, it's just looking at him.

11:14

And yeah, I'm back to that Shay's

11:17

body before. I wish my nipples looked like that. And-

11:21

You know what's tough is scrolling through your phone and you have

11:23

a bunch of before pictures like that that there was

11:25

just never an aftertaste. you

11:28

were like, here we go, here we go. And

11:32

you forget about it? Yeah. Yeah,

11:34

I'm going

11:35

to go. I'm making a big,

11:39

my mindset's got to change to be like, I'm

11:42

starting to run.

11:44

So I want

11:46

to be a runner. And I want to be, I

11:49

just want to be healthy and be like, you

11:52

know, I think

11:54

your mind gets with food.

11:57

your mind gets all foggy

11:59

and you're just.

12:00

It's just not, and you think, it's the same way

12:02

when I stop drinking. Like, when you stop drinking, you

12:04

think like, well, I'm gonna lose who I am,

12:06

and what makes me a comic and all this kind of stuff.

12:09

And so you feel like an identity with food too.

12:12

There you go, well, I'm not gonna go to McDonald's. Like, if I'm

12:14

not going to McDonald's or stuff, like am I even the

12:16

person? You think- Hey,

12:18

that's real, man. Yeah, you do, you believe

12:20

that. You know, like, what do I do in my nights? It

12:23

is true. Yeah. I've gone through that with drinking,

12:25

cigarettes, food, all sorts of things,

12:27

where you give it up and you think, oh, well,

12:29

yeah, now I won't, what will I even

12:32

joke about? Yes. How do I make

12:34

jokes if I feel good all the time?

12:36

Yeah, but you go do more stuff and

12:38

you're just trying to like, not,

12:42

you know, your body's just, it's

12:44

just so hard, man. We're so addicted,

12:46

I am so addicted to sugar.

12:49

It's insane. And

12:53

it's frustrating to be like, so,

12:56

like, You know, I mean, dude, so my

12:58

plan was, I have a before picture from

13:01

Red Rocks. So

13:03

when I started losing this weight, it was February, so

13:06

my special 22, was it February of 22? February

13:10

of 22, yeah, my

13:11

special came out this year, 23, taped

13:14

it in 20. So it was February of 22.

13:17

And I was doing the

13:20

Paramount Theater in Denver. And so we

13:22

drove to Red Rocks just to go see it.

13:25

And then it was the day I started working out.

13:27

So we took a before

13:29

picture, a

13:31

forebody picture that day. And

13:34

we're like, all right. And I was like in my head, I'm

13:36

like, all right, you know what, next time I come here, I'm

13:39

gonna have an after body

13:41

and I'm gonna be playing Red Rocks. Well,

13:44

I'm going to Red Rocks in May, sold

13:46

out 9,000 people. And

13:49

I am back to my before body. And

13:52

it breaks my heart. But if

13:54

you had to choose one of the two to have come true,

13:56

it's like the right one happened.

13:58

Maybe meant to be. Yes. It's maybe meant to be

14:00

the right, but it's the,

14:03

it's the let down in your own, like

14:05

to go,

14:06

you can't even control the easier

14:09

one to control.

14:10

The harder one might be to get the tickets, to

14:13

sell the tickets and become good enough to

14:15

do that. Yeah, that's definitely harder. But the one that's like, just

14:17

don't- That's definitely harder than losing 20 pounds. Yes.

14:19

Simple cardboard cutout when you're at 165, put

14:22

it on stage and you're mission accomplished. Dude,

14:24

I would have been,

14:25

there's a chance I could have been shredded

14:28

by the time- We still got two months, man.

14:30

Yeah. Don't tell yourself short. I

14:32

mean, I have to go on.

14:35

I mean, I just basically can't eat. Maybe

14:37

double down. Be heavier. Go 225.

14:41

Go big. That's true.

14:43

Yeah, you know, you're like, I sold this out. Who needs

14:45

to lose weight? Yeah.

14:47

Yeah. That is true. Yeah,

14:51

I can do it. Let's do a weight gain

14:53

challenge. Oh, I like this. Yeah, let's switch it

14:55

up a bit, huh? started off with a Krispy

14:57

Kreme challenge.

14:59

Yeah, I like it.

15:02

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I look, I like

15:04

eating all this stuff. I don't think I'll ever not eat McDonald's

15:07

but it's just your relationship with food has got to be much

15:09

different. It's

15:10

got to be, you

15:12

know what you're doing and the mindset's

15:14

got to be different. And I want to be

15:16

able to get into that stuff.

15:18

It is sugar though. Sugar's the death. I

15:21

mean, sugar is the death. It's crazy dude. Sugar's-

15:23

I did a show Friday night. I was listening to Dusty's podcast

15:26

in the car on the way home. I was in a McDonald's drive-through

15:29

while Dusty talked about how McDonald's is poison.

15:32

It did not deter me one bit. Well,

15:34

I don't talk about it a lot on this podcast because

15:36

I know this is a very favorable McDonald's

15:38

podcast. So I don't talk about it. If

15:41

anything, it made me want to get it more. I don't diss McDonald's

15:43

when I'm here. Yeah, yeah,

15:45

good. You know where you're bread for butter.

15:47

Yes, yes, yes. You're not on this side of the table anymore.

15:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It makes it where

15:53

you do want, you know, and I look I

15:56

I think about

15:56

I do think about that a lot I don't know what if I do get

15:59

healthy and like I'm not

16:00

I try to say, I don't want to be jacked. I'd

16:02

like to be where you're that in shape where

16:04

you just look good. You can't even really

16:06

tell when you have a jacket on stage.

16:09

But I think I can do more if

16:11

I'm

16:12

in that shape. Sometimes

16:15

people, too, they're like, oh, I liked it. I liked

16:18

Fat Nate was funnier and

16:21

all this stuff. And you're

16:23

like, dude, I'm trying not to. Yeah,

16:25

I mean, I'm trying to go to the cities

16:27

to come do shows. I can't, I'll

16:30

have to quit. You have to go,

16:32

I can't physically do it. When

16:37

you're on the road so much,

16:39

it's brutal. Like you, and

16:41

you, if you're, I mean, people that, listen

16:43

to this, there's probably a ton of people that travel. A

16:46

lot of truck drivers, listen to this. You know how hard it

16:48

is for those guys? It's

16:51

impossible.

16:52

Cause you just are like, what are you gonna,

16:54

you're bored, you gotta

16:56

go to a lot of gas stations

16:59

and all this stuff, you just, you know,

17:01

it's insane. Yeah, and gas stations,

17:03

even the truck stops are not bringing

17:05

in a lot of healthy options. They're

17:08

not, they got a lot of hot dogs on the roof. You have to

17:10

make your own, yeah.

17:11

I mean, you have to like do a lot of things. You

17:13

gotta make your own kind of thing. And

17:16

so it's like the mindset has to

17:18

be, like

17:20

you gotta just, you know, be like, all right. You

17:22

know, like we were reading some of the Eric

17:24

this week and there's a book called Atomic

17:27

Habits.

17:28

And I was like, I started reading

17:30

and I told Eric about it because I was

17:33

trying to basically be like, why

17:35

don't you read it and then we can talk about it.

17:38

So I don't have, but it's, a

17:41

lot of it is like the mindset, some of it's

17:43

a mindset. Like you just gotta be like,

17:45

if I'm a, like I'm a run, like if I want to start

17:47

running, I just am like, I'm a runner.

17:49

Like if you asked me something to go do, I'm like, well,

17:52

I'm a run, I got to run today. I'm

17:54

a guy that runs.

17:55

and you just start saying you're this guy

17:58

and you live like that guy.

18:00

So instead of being like, I'm

18:02

trying to start running. Cause then you're

18:04

like, well now you've already, I won't do

18:06

it. You've given yourself an out a little bit. Yeah, yeah.

18:08

I'm now, my brain, I'm talking a little bit this

18:11

on stage at the beginning.

18:13

But it's like, yeah, I can find,

18:15

I'm not saying that I'm a runner thing. Like

18:18

I'm not just starting with super positive. I go, let me

18:20

tell you something guys. I look at this

18:22

crowd

18:23

and I don't want to look like you just

18:25

make me so mad. You know, they're

18:28

all super healthy and

18:30

everybody's in good shape.

18:33

You know, you see,

18:36

I've never been healthy.

18:39

I've never done it. 44 years,

18:42

never worked out, never, you know, I mean,

18:45

I did it for the special and

18:47

I had the motivation for that special and

18:50

then I hit it and it just slowly,

18:52

I just couldn't stop

18:54

the old me.

18:56

I didn't go like, all right, dude, we're now 160. We're

18:59

a body that's 160s and that's what we

19:02

are. And now let's like

19:04

work out and keep it going. I

19:06

just slowly

19:09

went the other way. Specials in the can. Specials

19:11

in the can. Welcome back, Nate. I think you

19:13

argue there in one time on this podcast that keeping

19:15

it off is not as hard as keep going.

19:18

And I would say most people would say

19:20

keeping it off is the hard part. I

19:23

think they're both. Yeah. Yeah, because

19:25

it's easy to feel good about your progress

19:27

that you've made and be like, all right, I did it. That's

19:29

why they say it like AA, right? They say you get a

19:31

chip for the, when you go in, you get a chip for the

19:33

first month, you get a chip for the second month, because

19:35

the second month is where people start to

19:38

convince themselves that now that they've

19:40

quit drinking, now they're like, oh,

19:42

I can quit anytime. I've

19:44

already quit, I've accomplished this.

19:47

So now I can go back to drinking because I

19:49

can quit

19:49

whenever I want to. And maybe don't give a chip the

19:51

first month then. Well,

19:52

I think you get a, you know, you get a chip for coming in

19:55

and you get a chip for 30 days. Okay.

19:58

you know, the second month chip is like

20:00

All right, you've made a you've hit

20:02

a milestone, but don't turn back now.

20:04

Right? Yeah. Well, that was like

20:06

the drinking

20:10

It's just understanding what this

20:12

stuff is and that's the same with food It's

20:15

like just understanding what it is and just being

20:17

like, you know, there's you think you're

20:19

like good it's you just feel like you're

20:22

you don't you don't have you don't have any energy

20:24

and you don't have any like drive

20:27

to go do anything. And you just feel like you're

20:29

like the world's trying to keep you like that, just

20:31

to be like, you don't, you know,

20:33

achieve anything. And then if you grow

20:35

up anywhere

20:37

that's not New York or like, you know, and

20:39

now, especially growing up when we grew up, I mean,

20:42

there just, there weren't restaurants, there

20:44

wasn't,

20:45

you know, all these like

20:47

new restaurants or new places to

20:49

go eat or all this, you had to go to like, either

20:52

you went and made stuff at home,

20:54

or you went to McDonald's or you went to, if

20:56

any of you, it was a big trip,

20:59

you get to go to O'Charlie's or something. Like, you know,

21:01

and then, but there's no,

21:03

you weren't, you know, they didn't have, I'm trying to think.

21:06

Aquabees was a big deal in the night. I mean, I know you worked there,

21:08

but yeah, the 90s, I mean, it was a nice restaurant

21:11

that you would, you know, it'd be like really fancy

21:13

to go to. Yeah.

21:15

For my family it was, I was like, we had a place

21:17

called Ryan's. Oh yeah, you know

21:19

Ryan's. I know Ryan's. Oh, that was a big deal.

21:22

I've tore up some Ryans, man. Yeah,

21:25

Ryans was great.

21:27

Ryans, Golden Corral, Western Sizzlin.

21:30

Yeah, is it Sizzlin or Sizzler?

21:32

Well, there's the Sizzler out West, but

21:35

in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, there's the Western

21:37

Sizzlin,

21:38

little apostrophe at the end, no G, Sizzlin.

21:42

I like Sizzler better. I

21:44

never been to Sizzler, but I worked at Western Sizzlin.

21:46

I've got the name. Oh yeah. Yeah.

21:49

Are they the same person? I don't think so.

21:51

Wow. I think we would call it the Sizzler

21:53

sometimes. It does have a cool name. The

21:55

Sizzler. It's easier to say. Western Sizzlin is

21:58

like kind of difficult to say. Sizzler sound.

22:00

It sounds like a drink to me. It's like an icy. Like

22:02

let's go get a sizzler at the 7-Eleven. Oh yeah.

22:05

That's what it sounds like to me. Like a lot of, yeah,

22:07

like 7-Up and Ice. I think I associated it with

22:09

Western sizzler too much. About

22:12

Ponderosa.

22:13

Oh, I've been to a Ponderosa. Yeah, that was good. Lebanon

22:16

had a Ponderosa and a Western sizzler. Well,

22:18

that's money. If you have money, you have a Ponderosa. Yeah,

22:20

yeah. So we went to Western sizzling. Yeah,

22:22

yeah. And then they passed liquor

22:25

by the drink, I think in early 90s and

22:27

we got a, Oh, Charlie's and

22:29

Applebee's. It was a big time. Yeah.

22:31

Yeah, I mean- But we didn't go, because

22:33

we protested. Oh, because they're drinking? Yeah. We

22:37

went to an, I went on a retreat

22:41

with my dad, like his company, he won

22:43

an award and they got to go to a trip. And

22:45

it was a bunch of people from his work. And

22:47

we went to an Oh, Charlie's one night and like

22:50

hamburgers were like 10 bucks. And my dad

22:52

was not broke, but he got really

22:54

fired up about it being a $10 hamburger. And

22:57

it was a big deal. A fight happened

23:00

the next year, same situation.

23:02

My dad refused to go to O'Charlie's. So

23:04

me, him and my stepmom went to a Shoney's

23:07

and ate a $7 hamburger to avoid the $10 hamburger at

23:12

O'Charlie's. We ate alone as opposed to

23:14

eating with the group. We

23:17

saved $9. Yeah.

23:20

Yeah, and yeah. Wait, so y'all left? We

23:23

were all like, we're going to O'Charlie's

23:25

and my dad got mad. He's like, I will never go

23:27

to O'Charlie's again. I still don't eat

23:29

there now because of this.

23:31

I mean, I'm with my dad, it's principal, but

23:34

it was kind of like, I was like, I'll throw you the nine

23:36

bucks just so we can eat with the rest of the people.

23:39

Yeah, yeah, wow.

23:40

I mean, O'Charlie's,

23:43

it is uppity. I talked

23:45

to a guy this weekend

23:49

who doesn't, the Steak N' Shake, I guess, has

23:52

a thing where you order, it's not people

23:54

coming to your table anymore. Oh yeah.

23:56

Oh,

23:57

and so that was part of the charm of

23:59

it. It was like a... Yeah,

24:00

yeah. And so he just went

24:02

in there and he goes, oh, I

24:04

went in there and told him, oh, I go, these are taking people's

24:06

jobs. And then just like lost

24:08

it. You know, not like angrily,

24:10

but like just like, his wife's like,

24:13

oh gosh. And he's like, and he couldn't,

24:15

and they left. And he goes, we won't eat here. Cause

24:17

he goes, this is,

24:19

you're just having these computers work for people

24:21

and you're taking people's jobs. I don't like that that's happened.

24:24

I saw somebody just do that at McDonald's. You

24:27

could only order on one of those mobile

24:29

screens at this particular McDonald's and it was older guy, he was

24:31

just like,

24:32

uh-uh, I'm outta, I think he was just mad

24:34

that he couldn't talk to

24:36

her. Probably harder to order. He's like, yeah, just let me

24:38

tell somebody. Yeah, you just wanna

24:40

sometimes go, I don't wanna go,

24:43

I like it sometimes, cause it's like, I'm gonna be

24:45

no one, I'm gonna do all these like no things.

24:48

So you like to kind of do the screen, cause you're like, I

24:50

don't feel bad about doing it, telling someone. But

24:53

I do understand too, when you're like, yeah

24:56

dude, like an older person going in,

24:58

or I'm gonna be that older person, you're gonna

25:00

be like, I don't know how to do this. Yeah.

25:03

So Steak and Jake spent $50 million

25:06

to eliminate table service at its restaurants

25:09

in favor of self-service ordering, and

25:11

it kind of worked for them. They had three

25:14

years of losses,

25:16

and since then they've posted

25:18

profits of 11.5 million, 13.5 million.

25:22

They also closed a lot of stores too. I

25:25

mean, I just physically saw them disappear.

25:27

We lost the one in Hermitage. Oh

25:29

yeah, what a burger showed up. I

25:32

just ate at the one, Darrell

25:34

Walter Ponda, when I go there, I go

25:36

across the street that steak and shake and yeah, you got a order

25:39

on the screen and then they just yell your

25:41

name. You go up there and get your food.

25:43

Is it no tipping? I'm

25:46

sure they still want to tip. No,

25:49

I think I paid

25:51

there at the thing and I

25:53

don't remember. Give it

25:55

some time, the machine will want to tip. Yeah.

25:58

Yeah. You know?

26:00

parking machine asked for a tip. It was the craziest thing I've

26:02

ever seen. Where? In Houston.

26:04

I had a parking garage. It was like $30 a night

26:06

and then I swiped my card at the end and asked

26:08

for a tip

26:10

for a machine. I didn't interact with a human

26:12

being the whole time. I was furious,

26:15

dude. I put $0 tip. Oh,

26:17

yeah.

26:18

Got out of there. I had a guy at a car wash do

26:20

that to me. It's like a self-serve thing, but he

26:23

came up to help me and I'm like, it

26:25

was irritating me. I'm like, I got it. I know how to work the And

26:27

then he goes, do you want to tip? And I go, well,

26:29

what do you do? He goes, oh, you don't have to tip

26:31

if you don't want to. And I go, well, no, well, what do you do?

26:34

He goes, oh, we just, you know, he

26:36

didn't really, I was like, well, no then, I don't, he didn't,

26:39

we just help out and I

26:40

was like, I go through a machine. Nobody's washing

26:43

the car. Yeah. Well, yeah. You're tipping

26:45

for like the, you're like, well, we have to

26:47

like shut the building down the night. Like, yeah.

26:52

And like that tip to the, yeah,

26:53

that one, The parking

26:56

thing, you want to tip to go, I'd like to follow

26:58

this money. Where's that going? Yeah. Who's

27:00

getting the money for this? Yeah. Because I did not see

27:02

a human being in this parking area. That's AI in there. He's like, tip

27:05

me. Yeah.

27:07

Chat GB too. Yeah, yeah. I feel like

27:09

sometimes they have this setting from

27:12

something, I wonder if it's a setting from, you're

27:15

you doing a restaurant

27:17

check system that has

27:19

a spot for tipping and then you're like,

27:21

and they just haven't changed over? I think they just

27:23

go, Let's just see if any idiots actually

27:26

throw a tip, just leave it

27:28

on there. People do, I bet.

27:30

Oh yeah, I mean, I probably would get caught.

27:33

Like you just,

27:34

anybody can make you tip. I mean, a guy could

27:36

walk up like that, like that

27:39

gassed, you know, unless you're gonna be

27:41

confrontational, like you

27:43

come from the slaves, this

27:46

is what they do. They're

27:48

used to people walking up and being like, oh,

27:50

I'll talk to you about it. But most people,

27:53

you know, are some people, like

27:55

you could just feel pressured and be like,

27:58

Okay, yeah, two.

28:00

$200, you know, you

28:02

something and they're like, oh, thank, you know, and

28:04

then you just feel uncomfortable

28:06

about them. Yeah.

28:07

Yeah. I mean, that place,

28:10

it's like, there's a thing where I do

28:12

the stuff and the guys coming up to the window

28:14

helping me and I'm like, I don't need

28:16

help here. I need, you've made it more complicated.

28:19

Yeah. It's like, you've made this more complicated for me.

28:21

I just want to pull up here and

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28:25

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All right. I wonder if they are going to

30:17

start doing, they do tipping where it's

30:19

like you're just not businesses like what

30:22

just don't pay,

30:23

pay the minimum of

30:27

the or something? You know, a model

30:29

I've seen a lot, I see it on mostly with

30:32

software, like I'll download

30:34

an app or something and it has variable pricing

30:36

where you just choose how much you want to pay for it.

30:39

It'd be like $8.24 or $38. And

30:42

a surprising amount of people don't pay the minimum. They're

30:45

like, I actually like this product. I'll

30:47

just pay more for it. Wow.

30:50

Wait, what is it? Oh. It's

30:52

variable pricing. You download the app and then you decide

30:54

how much you want to pay for it. For

30:56

what? I had

30:58

this old, they're

31:00

like web development apps that I used to use

31:03

that were variable pricing. You

31:06

just got to choose how much you paid. Yeah, it's not

31:08

like a shirt or something. No, no,

31:10

it's just like for like- And no matter what you pay, it'll be

31:13

the same thing. Yeah, it'll be the same thing, you just decide.

31:15

Yeah. It's interesting. And if you're genuinely

31:18

like, this is a small company that

31:20

makes this app, I wanna support them, I'll

31:22

pay a little more for it. Yeah.

31:24

I wouldn't do it, but some people do. Yeah.

31:28

Yeah, that kind of stuff. There was a coffee shop in

31:30

Opelika that I went to one time and I ordered

31:32

a cup of coffee and I was like, what does it cost?

31:35

And they go,

31:36

whatever you want, just pay whatever you want. And

31:38

I'm like, I don't like that. Was it a Christian

31:40

coffee shop? I don't know. They didn't seem

31:42

overwhelmingly Christian. They

31:44

weren't really putting it out there. But

31:47

they're like, pay whatever you want.

31:53

I'm like, don't do me like that. You know what I mean?

31:55

Now I feel inclined to pay

31:58

a little more so that I don't seem cheap.

32:00

Right. Yeah. I'm

32:02

paying $5 a cup now because I'm like, well, I don't

32:04

know. I feel weird about it. Coffee

32:07

shops, there's no music. They're just, it's quiet.

32:10

You're staring right at the person.

32:12

Yeah, I thought of it this weekend with, I

32:14

went to, I bought some new

32:17

golf balls, the

32:19

Pro-V ones, which they

32:21

have a new one that they came out with. Pro-V is the

32:23

most expensive ball. And

32:26

I haven't like complete, I mean, I always

32:29

play like, I've played Callaway, I've played

32:31

like a bunch of different golf balls, but like I

32:33

started thinking about it. Some

32:35

reason it hit me, I was with Justice

32:38

Smith, medium run around, and it just, it

32:40

hit me as I, I had

32:42

a ball go, you know, a lot,

32:44

like into the

32:46

rough stuff. And

32:48

I'm like, this is $5 a ball. And

32:53

I don't know if it's like I'm getting, It's almost

32:55

like I made my 44 year old showed up

32:58

and it's never showed up until right then.

33:01

And I thought, this is $5 a ball. Yeah.

33:05

And you're like, am I, you start the gear like,

33:07

am I even good enough to even

33:09

know the difference or all this

33:11

stuff? And then you're like, these balls are so

33:14

expensive. Do you still lose a lot of balls

33:16

when you play? I mean, how many balls

33:18

would you lose in a normal round of golf? I

33:22

mean, it can, you know, I'm like. I'll

33:24

burn through 20 or 30. Yeah. Oh,

33:26

no, no, no. You lose that many balls? Oh,

33:28

yeah. It's been what I'm

33:30

doing. If it's not going up, I could

33:32

easily lose five, six

33:35

balls.

33:35

But like, that'd be $100 or more for

33:37

me. Well, I'm not. I'm hitting

33:39

balls I stole from the driving range. Yeah, I'm not.

33:42

Yeah. I don't have Titleist V1s

33:44

out there. Yeah, yeah. But it makes

33:46

you go like, oh, yeah, if

33:48

you're having whatever rounds, you're like, maybe

33:50

I need to just use some other.

33:53

They're so expensive. five

33:56

dollars every time you

33:58

hit that thing. Well, just

34:01

for some comparison, Aaron's saying he's losing 20

34:03

to 30. How many

34:06

are you saying you're losing?

34:07

I mean, you would hope

34:09

to, it depends on the

34:12

day, the course.

34:15

At least, you know, I don't

34:17

know, I could have some, the other day I played, I didn't

34:19

lose,

34:20

I lost one.

34:21

Okay. But then I've lost like three,

34:24

but I mean, I can easily lose like, I've had days

34:27

recently where it's just I'm not,

34:29

I'm just,

34:31

it's not together and I've lost like six. Yeah.

34:34

And that's 30 bucks. So a bad

34:37

day for you, you lost six. Yeah.

34:39

That's a very bad, I've played with you where you've not lost any. Yeah.

34:43

Okay. So I just, well, I never golfed, so

34:45

I just want to get an idea. Yeah. 10 to, or 20,

34:47

30 is- Yeah, some important context here is,

34:49

Nate's a way better golfer than I am. Yeah, yeah. Just

34:51

keep that in mind. But it would be, yeah. But

34:54

it could be that, it's that, but you know,

34:57

It's in ball. You can lose a ball in the

34:59

fairway. You can lose it. I get

35:01

so impatient. I'm like, I think if I don't see

35:03

it right away, I'm out dropping. I'm not keeping

35:05

score anyway, dude. Yeah. I

35:08

go to Walmart and just buy a giant bag

35:11

of balls and they're like mixed, just different. And

35:14

you and I were playing one time with Henry Cho and

35:18

he needed a ball and he's like, give me a ball. And

35:20

I tossed him one and it was like a Wilson. He's

35:22

like, I'm not hitting this. Yeah. He

35:25

made me go get him a real ball.

35:27

He threw it back to me. Yeah. What

35:31

makes, you know, what really, what's

35:33

the difference in a Wilson? And like,

35:35

not even like a Titleist, the best.

35:38

What's the difference in a Wilson and a?

35:40

You can feel if it's a really cheap ball.

35:43

You can just feel it. It gets marked up pretty quick. I mean, a

35:45

cheaper ball will break

35:47

a lot. It gets scuffed up and like, you can

35:49

have cuts in it pretty quickly. We're like a

35:51

Pro-V. That's the thing

35:53

though, Besides losing it, if

35:56

you're not losing it, a Pro-V, you

35:58

can hit it a lot longer. It's not gonna.

36:00

Yeah, they're supposed to go

36:02

farther, faster. Yeah, they're

36:04

doing a thing where they're trying to roll back the balls

36:06

for the pros.

36:08

Like they're trying to make balls that are not gonna go

36:10

as far because everything's

36:13

going too far now. Like the wooden bat

36:15

with the baseball. Or tennis.

36:17

There's been talk about going back to wooden tennis

36:19

rackets. Really? Because they're hitting

36:21

too far. Because they serve so fast that there's not even

36:23

a lot of balling. It's just,

36:25

you know, power. They

36:27

think it'd make it more interesting. The power's pretty fun

36:29

though. Yeah. Yeah, I bet it's

36:32

after like three, you'd be like, okay.

36:35

Somebody returned the serve. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm.

36:37

All right, we, uh, I

36:39

saw you guys' comments. Madison

36:43

Hill, I would have bet my life that

36:45

we would never get a guy on this podcast more well-versed

36:47

in the subject matter than Greg Warren and his

36:49

grocery store products. I stand

36:52

corrected. The

36:55

confidence in which Mike spoke

36:57

about the mafia was mind blowing. Never

36:59

once was he stumped or stuttered on any response

37:02

or question that was put his way. He could

37:04

easily be an adjunct professor in a mafia class

37:06

at an elite

37:07

university. That is true. He

37:09

was very good at what he does. It was something

37:12

because it was like, I wanted

37:14

to like throw in jokes, but I'm

37:16

like, Mike really knows what he's talking

37:18

about. There's not really a lot of room for error. Yeah,

37:21

yeah, yeah, it's interesting. Matt

37:24

Budd, I'm not sure how I feel about having a guest

37:26

who's actually knowledgeable about the topic. Can

37:28

we go back to summer interns and

37:30

people who work with Nate's sister? It's true.

37:33

Yeah. Mike was too much. He knew too

37:35

much. It is better if he no less. Like

37:37

that's

37:37

what I thought coming into this. I'm like, I know nothing

37:39

about the mafia. This will be fun. Yeah. I

37:42

had no idea Mike was a real expert. I would like to

37:44

check in with Mr. Giada at some

37:46

point,

37:47

see what he's up to. Bigfoot expert.

37:50

He forgot his actual name. Oh yeah. We

37:52

call him the Bigfoot guy so often. Yeah. But

37:54

I think about that guy a lot. Yeah. doing

37:56

yeah

37:57

Michael delays

38:00

The Laz-er-zer-z-eez.

38:03

The Laz-er. We

38:06

absolutely need a part two. The fact Lucky Luciano

38:08

was barely mentioned and Al Capone was completely

38:11

left out as criminal. No pun intended.

38:14

Yeah, another great show. We didn't talk about Boardwalk

38:16

Empire. Yeah. Both of those characters

38:18

in that. Which a friend of the podcast,

38:21

Nick Novicki was on. Yeah. Yeah.

38:24

Yeah, he was at our house when

38:26

he was doing it.

38:27

Oh, really? Yeah, you'd stay with us. Michael

38:30

Mitchell.

38:32

I've told that story by going to that after party,

38:34

right? I think so. I think so, yeah. Michael

38:37

Mitchell. Instead of searching for the actor

38:39

in Black Mass, I'm pretty sure

38:41

Dusty was just watching some YouTube conspiracy

38:43

videos. The responsibility distracted

38:45

him so much, he is so much more involved when Aaron

38:48

does the web searches. Yeah, I'm telling you, the

38:50

computer's too much pressure. It

38:52

is too much pressure. Well,

38:55

people get mad. I see comments all the time that go,

38:57

They're sitting there talking about something. Eric can just

38:59

look it up. Well, that kind of just kills the conversation.

39:02

You can look stuff up right away. It's

39:04

a balance. Yeah, you don't want to look up stuff right away. You want to have

39:06

the conversation. Josh,

39:11

Josh, foot, footy.

39:15

Foot, foot, which is probably Josh

39:18

foot. Probably, with an

39:20

E, they put an E. I think that's how Shelby

39:22

foot. I think that's how he spells his name. You

39:25

know Shelby Foote?

39:27

He's a historian. Oh.

39:32

Why would I know? He's in a lot of

39:34

the Ken Burns documentaries. He's not even

39:36

fun. I've never listened to anything like Ken. I've never listened to Ken Burns.

39:39

Well, you would watch him.

39:42

He had documentaries. I've never watched any of it. I

39:48

always hear about it. I've never read any Ken Burns stuff.

39:50

Yeah, I'm sure he wrote. He wrote a book. He

39:53

probably wrote a book. I think he's famous for documentaries.

39:55

You'd watch it. But there's a guy Shelby

39:57

Foote who might be related to Joshfoot.

40:00

I feel like it's when your last name's Foot, and

40:03

they're like,

40:04

we're getting destroyed over here. They go, we're throwing a year at

40:06

the end of it. He got churched it up a bit.

40:08

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's Shelby

40:10

Foot. I mean, doesn't that look like a guy

40:13

that you'd want to hear history from? You

40:15

don't recognize him at all? No. I

40:17

don't even know what Ken Burns looks like. That

40:20

guy looks like everybody I've ever seen. Well, Ken Burns

40:22

has an interesting look. Yeah, Ken Burns is

40:24

a looker. Where would you watch Ken Burns at?

40:26

PBS. So y'all all watched

40:29

him a lot, Dusty? I never watched him. Yeah.

40:32

No. College educated watches him. Yes,

40:34

yes. That's exactly. I watched the one on

40:36

baseball and- Baseball ones. I

40:38

hear he did a good one on country music. I would like

40:40

to watch it, but I never watched it.

40:42

I think, yeah, it's a

40:44

college thing. Yeah, I think so. The educated.

40:47

Yeah, he just wouldn't understand. I like a documentary made

40:49

in a basement somewhere. That's my story. Yeah.

40:51

I like some rough cuts. I want a guy that, your

40:54

documentary needs to be, The FBI

40:56

is probably about to knock on his door. There's a

40:58

chance they're outside. Yeah. You

41:01

wanna lay it on iMovie? Yeah, you gotta watch it today

41:03

because it might be deleted. Yeah.

41:09

Oh, Joshua, for about a 48 hour period in 2003,

41:13

the world thought that Jimmy Hoffa had been

41:15

buried in my aunt and uncle's crawl space

41:17

in Bay City, Michigan. A

41:20

guy who was writing a book from prison about

41:22

the old Teamster boss claimed that he hid

41:24

Hoffa's body in my family's home back.

41:28

What, in my family's home back?

41:31

Home back when he owned the home. Oh. I'd

41:35

say when you look at some words and then it's almost like I

41:37

just forgot the context of the sentence I

41:39

was in. And then you're like, well that doesn't

41:41

make sense at all.

41:43

All right. The old teams were

41:45

both claimed that he hit Hoffa's body in

41:47

my family's home back when he owned the

41:49

home. I did

41:52

not expect another home to be in that sense. You

41:54

should have went with House on that second one. Right. It's

41:56

not a great sentence, to be fair. There wasn't...

41:59

And he's like.

42:00

I'm like, look, this guy's like, I'm reading,

42:02

which I typed in a comment and I'm not writing a book,

42:04

you know, and guy

42:06

that can't get through it, we're like, all right. Sure

42:08

thing to say. Yeah, it's your fault, Josh. Josh,

42:11

there was in fact a body in the crawl space

42:14

wrapped in a garbage bag, but it was not Hoffa.

42:16

My uncle and cousin rarely go in the crawl space to put

42:18

mice in pest repellent and had no idea they

42:21

were right above a victim. Wow.

42:23

We got video of this. Oh man. This

42:25

morning, they've been using a backhoe and metal

42:28

detectors to search the ground Mmm.

42:31

Got some, but they got it growing there, Dusty. You

42:34

got some grapes. Maybe some grapes.

42:37

Muscadines. Yeah, some Muscadines. Muscadines.

42:41

Muscadines. All right, yeah.

42:45

Pretty crazy. I don't know if you're gonna watch the entire

42:47

night. You're like,

42:49

you started with that weather of that night. It

42:52

was an entire news show. It's a

42:54

one minute long video. Yeah, it's

42:57

a minute 40. Yeah, a minute, you know.

42:59

We got 20 seconds in. Yeah, we made it 20

43:01

seconds, yeah.

43:04

And we're just moving

43:06

on from it. Like that's, you'd be like,

43:08

let's watch it. And you go, all right. All

43:10

right. Steven Vitry,

43:13

Vitry. My mom was a hairdresser

43:16

in Hallworth, New Jersey. She

43:18

had this one customer who came in twice a week for

43:20

a blowout. And even though

43:23

she came so often, her husband always came

43:25

along. So a mom built a relationship with both

43:27

of them. One day my mom was watching TV and

43:30

sees this

43:31

guy's face on the screen. Her

43:33

customer's husband was the Iceman.

43:35

That's wild, dude.

43:37

Yeah, I mean, if the husband's

43:39

coming with the wife every hairdresser appointment,

43:42

there's something going on. Yeah.

43:45

They don't just have that good of a relationship. There's

43:48

something going on. Yeah. That's crazy.

43:51

I mean, that's gotta be... Not that Iceman. Yeah.

43:55

That's gotta be such a, he

43:57

was like, like it's cold in here.

44:00

Yeah. It's fun. I

44:03

bet she's glad she was nice to him. Yeah.

44:07

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

44:09

Man. Yeah, just

44:11

see that later on. Be like, you're just with pure

44:14

evil. Yeah. I wonder if you could

44:17

tell. I wonder if the wife kept coming in for

44:19

the haircut though. I

44:21

bet you look back and things make sense. Yeah.

44:24

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

44:27

Yeah. and things make sense. Yeah.

44:30

Yeah. You never think that at the time, but once you find

44:33

out, you're like, maybe he did act a little weird that one

44:35

time. Well, even like Dusty said, the fact he comes every

44:37

time with her, I don't know what that means, but something's

44:39

weird. I've not been with my wife one

44:42

time to get her haircut. Yeah, almost

44:44

wouldn't even know where she goes. Yeah, I don't

44:46

know where mine goes either.

44:48

So every

44:50

time, you're like, this guy doesn't have a job.

44:55

I like that young Shaves his own

44:57

head, stands over a newspaper and does

44:59

it

45:00

in his house. So that's

45:02

maybe the opposite of... Stands over a newspaper?

45:04

Yeah, so the hair doesn't get everywhere. Oh,

45:07

okay. Just Shaves

45:10

his... So the middle of his living room or what? Yeah,

45:13

yeah, I think he takes all his clothes off and

45:16

stands over a newspaper and just grinds

45:19

it in. That's impressive. He is, yeah. I'm

45:22

just saying, he's the opposite of

45:24

this. He's the ice man. He

45:26

tells Katie to leave while he does it. Yeah,

45:29

his girl goes, I'm also there when he gets

45:32

a haircut, and you're like, because he's a psycho,

45:35

he does it.

45:37

Brooke Bonanno,

45:41

Bonanno. Hey folks,

45:44

direct Mafia Descent here.

45:46

Ascent it. Oh, Descent it. As

45:50

soon as I saw the topic

45:51

of the podcast this week, I immediately

45:54

knew Nate was gonna butcher my last name. I've

45:56

heard it said a million different ways, But

45:58

go Nate for keeping it.

46:00

Original and dyslexic. Usually

46:02

it's annoying, but this time I couldn't feel more

46:04

honored. I absolutely love you guys. Thanks

46:07

for making a hard week better.

46:09

All right. That's one of the five families. Bonno,

46:11

no. I think it was the Bonnano family. Bonno.

46:13

Yeah. Bonnano, Bonnano. Wow.

46:16

That's crazy. It's

46:21

crazy. Yeah, you really don't even want to make fun of this guy's

46:23

comment because you're like, yeah, you've really given

46:25

us some information there at the beginning. Brooke,

46:27

it's Brooke, might be a girl. Yeah, so you're in

46:30

trouble, Dusty. Well, Brooke. Well, I

46:32

know a guy named Brooke. I do

46:34

know a guy named Brooke. Yeah.

46:36

He doesn't spell it with the E. Yeah, I think that's probably

46:39

distinguish it. Yeah, it's probably a pretty big difference.

46:42

Yeah.

46:44

Garrett

46:48

Moore, two-tons Burgette, he's a perfect mob

46:50

name, I agree. Yeah.

46:52

I agree. Josh

46:54

Fox, hey Bear, I'm glad Dusty's back.

46:57

All right. in an RV park in Florida

46:59

and then lived in a trailer park in Georgia for years.

47:02

Good to have someone on this pod for our

47:04

kind of people. We're having a good time here.

47:06

Well, that's true. Although RV's pretty

47:09

fancy in my view. See,

47:11

I would have thought that'd be moving up to go from an

47:13

RV park to a trailer park, but you think it's the

47:15

opposite. Yeah, I think that the RV being so

47:17

mobile.

47:18

I mean, like I know that they call a trailer a mobile

47:20

home, but it's not that mobile. No. You're there.

47:23

Yeah. The police can come get you. Yeah.

47:25

RV.

47:26

You can move your address quick. I

47:29

mean, you can be out of town in

47:31

no time. Mm-hmm. Abby

47:34

Wainwright,

47:35

Dusty basically said, so I went to this place

47:37

called Cookie Dough Magic,

47:40

and I was shocked to see they served me cookie dough

47:42

instead of ice cream. Well, it's true. That's true.

47:44

That's my favorite point. There's no

47:46

justifying it, but when I typed in ice

47:49

cream on Google and cookie dough magic came

47:51

up, and then I went there and they had the cooler

47:53

set up like it was ice cream. when

47:55

inside was cookie dough. And you look at this,

47:58

I mean, that looks like cookie dough.

48:00

That looks like ice cream, you know what I mean? Yeah.

48:04

But you put a spoon in there and

48:07

eat some of it and you're like, this is warm. Well,

48:09

I think that particular picture we're looking at is

48:12

cookie doughy and ice cream. But if you look, some of these

48:14

other, I mean, that's pretty clear. Do they serve ice cream

48:16

at all? They did not at the place I went to.

48:19

And it also closed.

48:21

So no one else. They look like they're pretty good now.

48:23

Where's the, yeah. Tressville,

48:26

Alabama. In Huntsville, Alabama, they

48:28

did not care for it. Yeah,

48:31

smoothest cookie dough you could imagine.

48:35

There in Charles, Alabama. The roughness is

48:37

what I always had a problem with. Try

48:39

our cookie dough in a cone, cup,

48:42

milkshake, or sundae. How

48:44

do you cook your dough? It's not smooth enough,

48:46

dude. They have dough cream.

48:49

So, that's probably the dough cream.

48:52

Yeah. But it's cookie dough magic.

48:54

I mean, it's being like, hey, we're doing cookie dough

48:56

here and that's what we do. I mean, it is true. I

48:59

mean, they let you know. That is my mistake.

49:01

How do you feel about doing a free sample? I've

49:03

always, I hate,

49:04

I always judge people that do free

49:06

samples at these places. It's

49:08

like part of it is you just, if it's, you

49:11

know, you might not like it. Yeah, but I think

49:13

part of it is the fun of like, let me try

49:15

that, you know, you wanna go.

49:17

I think you're allowed. Holding up the line for 20

49:19

minutes. I think you're allowed one or two free

49:21

samples. I would say one or two. But if you're doing all of them,

49:23

it's too much. Yeah, just the whole one

49:25

or two. Yeah, that's good. I'll do it. I

49:27

mean, you could never do that. Let's try the Rocky Road. And

49:30

then you go, I'll have vanilla. That's delicious,

49:32

but I'll have vanilla. Yeah, yeah. Well, you're

49:34

a guy that's going in there like clocking in, clocking

49:36

out. You're there to do work, you know? Most

49:39

people are treating it like a vacation.

49:42

So yeah, I would be annoyed too. Let's

49:45

go. You're walking in there

49:47

like it's your job. You

49:49

know, go, what are we doing here? You're

49:51

like, enough. I need,

49:53

I mean they should just have you,

49:56

the usual. And then they just hand

49:58

it to you and you walk out.

50:00

You're there for business. They're there

50:02

for pleasure. That's

50:04

the difference. And I would understand

50:07

the frustration of, I've

50:09

gone to places and you're frustrated with everybody

50:11

being fun. And you're like,

50:14

I've got a problem here. And so I'm

50:16

here to fix this problem. And I know what

50:18

I want. I want chocolate. I want you out of my

50:20

way. And I want to get about my day and go

50:22

eat this in my car alone and order

50:25

a large and act like I'm giving it to other people.

50:27

Yes. Yeah.

50:30

Chandler

50:32

Rapper, I guess, R-A-P-E-R. So,

50:36

it'll win. Man.

50:39

He stopped it there. I mean, how's

50:41

anybody not saying it that way? I don't know.

50:43

It could be. Chandler Rapper. Give that

50:45

E to him. Rapper. For Pier. It's

50:48

gotta be Reaper or something. Yeah, for Pier.

50:50

Maybe it's for Pier. You hope

50:52

it is. You hope it is. That's a tough

50:54

last name. Man, what a life. Yeah.

50:57

Vincent D'Onofrio was in

50:59

Full Metal Jacket, The

51:02

Breakup, Men in Black, and Law and Order. And

51:04

Dusty went with, he played the

51:06

Thor guy in Adventures in Babysitting,

51:09

classic Nate Lynn. Well, I thought

51:11

it was fun that he ended up in another

51:13

superhero TV show later.

51:16

And then so back in the day, he played kind

51:18

of a Thor character in that movie. But

51:20

you're right, that's a good point though. He has a lot

51:22

of great movies. I went with this one

51:25

bit part when he was very young.

51:28

This guy's great though. Yeah. Card

51:32

Ye West. Card

51:34

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51:37

scale stuff. I've recently found

51:39

the enjoyment in creating using artificial

51:41

intelligence. So

51:44

I made this recent card I call the Bright

51:47

Future Set. Photo attached.

51:51

There it is. Oh, wow. than

51:53

Nate Lynn crew as babies. Well,

51:55

that's crazy. I

51:58

love how

52:00

Brian is not really a baby there.

52:02

Yeah. Brian's got a

52:04

little, he's got a Benjamin Button situation

52:06

going on. For sure. I

52:09

do, I love these. Yeah, Nate, that really

52:11

does look like you. I bet if you line that

52:13

up with one of your childhood pictures. Well,

52:15

your dad commented and said nothing like

52:17

you, but... Oh, okay. I look Asian in there,

52:19

I think. I think it looks most like Nate,

52:22

if you just said, guess who these people are. Right. I

52:25

look like Augustus Gloop. Yeah, I don't really think it looks like you. You

52:27

got a little stuff on the side of your mouth like you

52:29

just ate something Got

52:34

a little cookie dough magic on the side of the lips

52:36

there

52:37

Yeah, it does look like you what kind of hat

52:39

you wearing there dusty. I don't know it looks like a

52:41

fish I look Asian. I got like a fisherman's

52:44

hair. I

52:45

Think what I'm on board with all of yeah,

52:48

I think they all look great I'm

52:51

ready to man a boat out here. Bait's

52:54

is great. Yeah. Yeah.

52:57

Those

52:57

are a lot of fun. Those are fun. That's

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awesome. Well, this is fun. A little

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it's fun, but that's the point. Sometimes

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not always fun, but it

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sounds professional. Very professional. Thank

54:49

you, man. Yeah. That's how

54:51

my comedy is described very often too. It's

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not always fun. Sounds all

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right. But I'd imagine

54:57

that's what a comic would be. All

55:01

right, what are we talking about this week? This week

55:03

we're talking about pranks and practical jokes. This

55:07

Saturday is April Fool's Day.

55:09

So that'd be a good time to talk about. Dusty,

55:12

I think a few weeks ago in the podcast, you

55:14

kind of identified the origin of

55:16

April Fool's. Do you remember? Well,

55:18

I mean, well, my belief, I don't know

55:20

if it's true, but my belief is that, you

55:22

know, April used to be the

55:25

first month, at least in a sense. That

55:27

was when the new year came in. So,

55:30

and it makes sense when life is new

55:32

and things are springing out of the ground and things

55:35

are coming back to life. So they changed

55:37

the calendar from April 1st, being

55:39

the new year to January. So

55:41

anybody that kept celebrating April 1st

55:44

as a new year was called April Fool's.

55:46

That's the most popular theory.

55:49

They went from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian

55:51

calendar. We all know that, right? Everybody knows it.

55:53

A lot of people didn't get the word, so

55:56

April 1st rolls around, they're celebrating New Years

55:58

people would make fun of them. You're a fool.

56:01

Yes. They put a fish on your back.

56:04

And it makes so much more sense that, did they put

56:06

a fish on your back? Yeah, like your real

56:08

jean, just a guppy, gullible.

56:12

They'd walk up and just put a fish on your back? Yeah,

56:14

like slap it on your back. Like a kid would put a sign

56:16

that says kick me? Yeah, I think so, I think so. They'd just slap

56:19

a fish on your back. Because the new year was

56:21

April 1st?

56:22

Yeah. What a weird reason to bully somebody. When

56:24

did they change it? Did

56:28

it make a big announcement? How

56:30

could you back then? You get at the same time.

56:32

Yeah, so I mean, how do people even know?

56:35

I just think it makes sense, right?

56:37

It's like when things are coming to life. I mean, January

56:39

1st, I mean, it does not feel like a- Yeah,

56:41

it does make sense. It just feels like a really dead time.

56:44

Yeah.

56:45

Yeah. You wanna go back to the Julian calendar? Yeah.

56:48

I mean, that's how I do now anyway. I

56:51

don't yell it out loud. I don't want people to fish

56:53

on me, but- You really-

56:56

You shoot fireworks. Yeah, but I feel like, yeah, I mean, I like

56:58

that. I like to go with that. Saturday's gonna be a

57:00

big day for you. Yeah, I mean,

57:02

I'll be alone, but

57:05

I'll be doing comedy, but

57:08

nobody will be celebrating with me.

57:10

You think you're dressed a little better? Yeah. Maybe

57:13

so, I'll be at Comedy Works in Denver. I don't

57:15

know that anyone is gonna celebrate with me, but

57:17

I may come out, pop a confetti

57:19

bun, just to see if- Friday night? Happy

57:22

New Year. Do a countdown so you joins in? Yeah, just

57:24

see if they'll get into it. Yeah, happy

57:26

New Year. Yeah.

57:28

So do you have a favorite

57:31

practical joke or prank? Because

57:33

I found, I'm going to tell

57:35

you, I found an article from last year from LA

57:37

Magazine where they ask you and your dad. Yeah.

57:40

Do you remember this? Yeah. Do you remember

57:42

what you said? No. Lotion

57:46

and conditioner? Yeah,

57:49

yeah, I did Kurt Metzger.

57:52

We were on the road years

57:55

ago.

57:56

And I was opening for Kurt and

57:59

like back. when

58:00

you then would open, it's like Kurt would be headlining

58:02

and I'd be opening, we would have to share hotel

58:06

room. And so we're sharing the hotel room.

58:09

And then so we're gonna go do radio and then Kurt

58:12

walks,

58:13

a, Kurt kept calling me his opener all weekend.

58:18

And like, and Kurt's

58:20

older than me in comedy, like about,

58:23

you know, not much, but he was

58:25

above me in the scene, but not like, I mean, I

58:27

was like, exactly, like he was with Big J And

58:31

so I was like right below, was

58:33

like me, DeRosa, Mike Beckion, like the

58:36

newer guys. And then there was

58:38

Jay and Kurt, kind

58:40

of, they were right above it. So

58:43

I'd opened for Jay a lot, opened for Kurt

58:45

a lot.

58:45

And so we go out and

58:48

we're doing, we're in like, Connecticut, this is the whole time, he's like,

58:50

I used to be on the phone and he'd be like, what?

58:53

He's talking to somebody and he goes, no, it's just my opener. And

58:55

I'm like, Kurt, A, we're friends. And...

58:58

That person knows me. You

59:00

could just told him my name. And

59:03

then he

59:05

goes, and so

59:08

we're going to do something, and he was like, hey,

59:10

where's the lotion at? And I said, it's in

59:12

there, it says conditioner. He just asked me like the hotel.

59:15

And he got to go, it says, I

59:17

said, I go, it should be in the bathroom. Then he goes, is

59:19

it the conditioner? I go, yeah, yeah, like conditioner

59:21

for your skin. And so I just said

59:24

that. And I wasn't doing too crazy.

59:26

And then I walk over and I mean, he's just

59:28

rubbing it all over his body. All

59:32

over his body. And I was like, that's

59:35

not it. He

59:37

was

59:37

so mad. Cause we had to leave

59:40

cause we were late. So he just, he couldn't

59:42

change or anything. It just,

59:44

we had to leave. We left and it just, his whole

59:46

body was sticky. And

59:49

it made it super, it's super,

59:51

it was super funny. And that like,

59:54

Kurt would, yeah. Conditioner

59:57

for your skin. Oh yeah, dude.

59:59

ridiculous And then Kurt had- Well, the question, I

1:00:01

mean, even him asking you, is it the

1:00:03

conditioner at Sike? I just

1:00:06

take advantage of a situation,

1:00:08

is what I would do. Kurt would be like, Kurt

1:00:10

was like a guy that was like,

1:00:12

I mean, just a real, like

1:00:14

a genius as far as a joke

1:00:16

writer. And was one of the comics

1:00:19

when I first saw, when I moved to New York,

1:00:21

that was, I just was

1:00:24

like really couldn't believe I was

1:00:27

like seeing someone

1:00:29

that good. That was us, that was nobody. We

1:00:32

were all just starting. But it was like,

1:00:35

Jay was always the funniest person I've

1:00:37

ever met. And then

1:00:40

Kurt was like, because

1:00:41

they were coming together, they just, from

1:00:43

Philly and then Kurt

1:00:46

was just like the jokes he was saying, it was like,

1:00:48

he just could. I was like, this

1:00:51

is crazy, dude. This dude is,

1:00:54

and

1:00:55

like he's extremely

1:00:57

dirty. Like all, you know, like everybody,

1:00:59

I don't have it.

1:01:00

Everybody I'm friends with is, nobody's

1:01:03

really clean except the guys

1:01:05

here. But

1:01:07

it's there, but it's like he was just brilliant.

1:01:10

And like, I mean, I just was like, I can't, I

1:01:12

couldn't believe like how good, you know,

1:01:15

someone was. As I felt, Shane

1:01:17

Gillis was like that now. Like Shane, for

1:01:20

the same way I felt when I saw Kurt, is

1:01:23

when I watched Shane and

1:01:25

I was like, golly. Like it

1:01:27

was the exact same, much different in the fact

1:01:29

that I've been doing comic law, like an old

1:01:32

comic, but seeing Shane Gillis was

1:01:34

like that, where I was like, this dude

1:01:37

is, it's just different.

1:01:40

But yeah,

1:01:42

that was my big lotion

1:01:44

dream. And then your dad's was the wheels

1:01:47

and I mean, at the wheels and doors, sorry, the

1:01:49

different debate, the doorknobs and

1:01:51

the. Yeah, I'm saying that on stage. Oh,

1:01:53

so we should get into that.

1:01:56

Yeah, right now.

1:01:57

I mean, you know.

1:02:00

Another one he did was...

1:02:03

Well,

1:02:05

you guys, let me just say, if you Google,

1:02:08

I mean, you got a lot of pranks that you've played.

1:02:10

You talked about in your act, if I just Google it. The most popular

1:02:12

one is the McDonald's taking the bite out of the burger. But

1:02:16

then you've done numerous to Nick

1:02:19

that you've talked about on stage. The Wolf.

1:02:21

The Wolf is good. Then they, the

1:02:24

Wolf is good. And I mean,

1:02:27

you watched a prank.

1:02:29

like the greatest average American, we showed

1:02:31

a prank. Oh, that's true. The

1:02:33

Betsy Kerrigan and- That's one of my happier

1:02:35

moments

1:02:37

of just being able to

1:02:39

truly show you, we show

1:02:41

you, because at the end of it, we show

1:02:43

you when it happened, because

1:02:45

we were filming.

1:02:47

And then we thought of, and

1:02:49

then I just kept it that way. And then I was like,

1:02:52

the first time I say, when

1:02:54

you see the joke about with Nick, the

1:02:56

first time I say that is on that

1:02:59

stage. I've never, cause I was never able

1:03:01

to

1:03:03

tell that cause he was with me the whole time. So

1:03:07

Dusty, you've never seen Nate's comedy, but he has

1:03:09

a bit about... That's

1:03:12

my favorite running joke. Cause he

1:03:15

just, he doesn't know. So what he does pretty

1:03:17

funny. So you're,

1:03:18

how long have you been doing comedy? You do comedy too? Yeah.

1:03:22

I was, it was when we were on the road doing the drive-in

1:03:25

tour, I can't remember who texted me, but I

1:03:27

was outside the bus and they texted me and said,

1:03:30

we're all lying to Nick Novicki and

1:03:32

telling him we've never heard of Nancy Kerrigan.

1:03:35

And Tonya Harding. And Tonya Harding. Oh

1:03:37

yeah. Yeah, we've never heard of it. And I remember

1:03:39

I walked in and he was like in a fierce debate.

1:03:41

Y'all haven't heard of this? I mean, my

1:03:44

God. And we're all just pretending.

1:03:46

We were like, wow. That's a crazy story. It's

1:03:48

a great story because it's on the surface. It is figure

1:03:51

skating. So you'd be like, Nick, why would

1:03:53

we know figure skaters? Yeah, yeah. But

1:03:55

obviously it's so much bigger than that.

1:03:57

So that was a great one. We played one on him.

1:04:00

while we were on the road. And

1:04:02

now you and Nick have been friends for so long

1:04:05

and y'all are so close. And we were

1:04:07

walking around, I think we were in Dallas. This is Austin.

1:04:10

Austin, okay. We were walking around

1:04:12

and you bet Nick, could you ride

1:04:14

your bicycle all the way down to the certain

1:04:17

location? It's pitch black at night out

1:04:19

in this drive-in. And Nick's

1:04:21

like, of course I can do that. He takes off and

1:04:24

you tell everybody, everybody go hide. And

1:04:27

we all take off when we go hide. And

1:04:30

I knew,

1:04:30

I've known Nick for a while. I think that was the first

1:04:32

time you'd really been around Nick much.

1:04:35

And to show how good of a person

1:04:37

Aaron is, he and I were hiding together and he

1:04:39

said, I don't really feel comfortable

1:04:41

doing this. I don't know Nick that well.

1:04:45

You come back and remember Nick's blind and it's nice.

1:04:48

So he goes back and we're watching Nick look

1:04:50

around for us and we're all just hiding

1:04:52

behind bushes. Yeah, it shows you're

1:04:54

a good person because you felt

1:04:57

bad about it. We watched him get on the bus and look

1:04:59

for everybody and see nobody was there, then he

1:05:01

comes back. Yeah. Yeah.

1:05:04

Wait, I mean, we hit for a while. Yeah. Yeah.

1:05:06

Oh, it was great. That was, I do remember that now. It was all

1:05:08

in a parking lot. Yeah.

1:05:10

And he thought we were in the bus. We saw

1:05:12

him like go in and... Yeah. Yeah,

1:05:15

yeah, that was fun. Yeah, it's

1:05:17

all, it's all, yeah, look, I do a lot

1:05:20

of pranks with Nick

1:05:22

and...

1:05:23

Louis with the rollerblades? Yeah. Yeah.

1:05:28

Yeah, I've not told that. Luis

1:05:30

J. Gomez, whose birthday is April 1st.

1:05:35

I was wearing for Gary Veter's wedding.

1:05:38

We had to get tuxes

1:05:40

at like,

1:05:41

you know, men's warehouse. And

1:05:44

so I was there in the city getting a tuck,

1:05:47

getting fitted for, and so

1:05:49

Luis calls me and I said, he goes, where you at? I

1:05:51

go, I'm at men's warehouse. And

1:05:53

he's like, all right, I'm gonna come by. And I told him, I was like,

1:05:55

all right, I'm at this one. I told him where I was. And

1:05:57

then he called.

1:05:58

calls

1:06:00

me and he goes, I'm here, I

1:06:02

don't see, he's at the wrong one.

1:06:04

I go, well they know you're coming, just ask for Nate.

1:06:07

And then I hang up and then

1:06:11

not knowing that Lewis

1:06:13

is on rollerblades. And

1:06:15

so when he first gets there, he's in front

1:06:18

of the window like rollerblading, like they're trying

1:06:20

to be funny because he thinks I'm out there watching.

1:06:22

And then he comes in with rollerblades, starts

1:06:25

rollerblading through the store and they're like, you can't

1:06:27

rollerblade through in the store. Mark

1:06:29

of the story. And he goes,

1:06:31

it's fine, I'm with Nate, he's in the back.

1:06:34

And he's just in there like, we don't know what that

1:06:36

means. There is no, like, I don't know what,

1:06:38

you know, with who? And then he goes,

1:06:41

why would he lie to me? And then he's

1:06:43

like, well,

1:06:44

he would lie to me about this. And

1:06:48

then, yeah, he didn't go, that was

1:06:50

my big boo. I like to let stuff

1:06:52

happen. If something's about to happen, like

1:06:55

Nick, hiding from Nick at the thing is I

1:06:57

don't always do it like that, like where it's like,

1:06:59

you know. But I let like, if you're gonna

1:07:02

do something,

1:07:03

I'll let you do it.

1:07:04

And then I'll go from that. Even if you

1:07:06

know it's not gonna go great, yeah. Even if I,

1:07:08

yeah, it's like, it doesn't make sense what you're doing. But if you're

1:07:11

gonna, if, yeah, if you're

1:07:13

like, Louis calls me and says these are the wrong story.

1:07:15

You're like, I'm not gonna go, you're at the wrong one.

1:07:18

I'll just go, yeah, okay. Well,

1:07:20

come on in, I'm here. And then I

1:07:22

just hang up and

1:07:23

just know it. And then I just picture

1:07:25

the,

1:07:26

you just having to talk to people and they don't know what you're talking

1:07:29

about.

1:07:30

Because you told the other story about somebody getting in a car.

1:07:33

John F. O'Donnell. Almost got in the wrong car. Almost

1:07:35

got in the wrong car and I stopped it. And

1:07:37

I always think about that. He was about

1:07:40

to get in, I was on the phone with him and he goes,

1:07:42

this you? And I go, no, that's, and I was

1:07:44

like, Emmy's hand was on the handle

1:07:47

of a wrong car. So I was like,

1:07:49

why did I stop? You should have just let it happen. Yeah,

1:07:51

it's like, and it's usually like, I'm telling the

1:07:53

person, I'm in a white car and they're just

1:07:56

not really thinking.

1:08:00

and so then I just let it,

1:08:02

if you're not being aware amongst yourself, I'm

1:08:04

gonna let you not be aware, I'm gonna let you walk

1:08:07

into something. You know, I

1:08:09

enjoy that.

1:08:11

You guys do

1:08:13

pranks or been a victim of one? Well,

1:08:16

you know, I was the son of a high school principal

1:08:18

my entire life, so it was every year senior

1:08:21

prank was a pretty big deal. Things

1:08:23

would happen to our house almost every year.

1:08:26

The house would get egged pretty

1:08:29

regularly. We'd get rolled, we only had

1:08:31

two trees in our front yard, but

1:08:33

they would get rolled and the house would get rolled. I

1:08:37

remember one year was actually a problem was they

1:08:39

paintballed our minivan. Like

1:08:42

just lit it up with paintballs.

1:08:46

And so where it was like dense and stuff.

1:08:48

So that was a problem. Which are no serious. I

1:08:51

think he was probably mad about that one. The other stuff

1:08:53

didn't bother him that much. Well,

1:08:56

my mom, what my mom started doing is she

1:08:58

realized

1:08:59

that these kids, they trashed

1:09:01

the house, but they wanted to see it in

1:09:04

the daylight. So they trashed

1:09:06

it at like two, three in the morning. And

1:09:08

then once sunrise it, they come back

1:09:11

to like, you know, maybe get pictures,

1:09:13

but to see what they'd done. So my mom

1:09:16

would clean it up between those

1:09:18

hours. My mom would sit there

1:09:20

in

1:09:20

the living room and watch them through the window

1:09:23

do this to the house. And then when they leave,

1:09:25

she'd go out and clean it up. And

1:09:27

then she'd stay awake, get a cup

1:09:29

of coffee and watch them pull around to

1:09:32

look at the house. And it was all perfectly clean. She

1:09:34

did that for, I mean, 20 years. So

1:09:37

your mom would know when they were coming

1:09:39

to do it? Yeah. It would be like,

1:09:41

there would be something happening that she would know.

1:09:43

Or she'd hear it. It was just, you kind of hear it and you're like,

1:09:45

oh, it's the time of year where this is gonna happen. Yeah.

1:09:48

Yeah, you just go out there. I like that she did took

1:09:50

that approach rather than just being out there

1:09:52

when they show up to have them not. And

1:09:54

just scare them off. Yeah. That's

1:09:57

a lot of work on her part. Yeah, yeah, it was

1:09:59

a lot. But it's.

1:10:00

I didn't help at all. She stays up all night. It's probably

1:10:02

satisfying though, to sit on the front porch

1:10:04

with your cup of coffee and watch them come to

1:10:06

see their work. Oh, that's why she did it. You know that

1:10:08

you foiled it, yeah. That's why she did it. She

1:10:10

was like, that just felt so good for them to be so

1:10:12

disappointed. It's all gone.

1:10:14

Yeah. But did

1:10:17

you guys do senior pranks when you were in high

1:10:20

school? I feel like we rolled

1:10:22

somebody.

1:10:23

Yeah. No, I never wasn't. That's

1:10:25

one that you do, and then you're like, what are we doing?

1:10:28

You're just making someone clean up. Cause

1:10:31

I feel like I had, my house got rolled. Cause that

1:10:33

was a big thing to get rolled. I don't know if that still

1:10:35

is, but like you would roll, you

1:10:38

could get your house rolled or someone else rolled. When

1:10:40

I was in middle school, it was big. Not since

1:10:42

COVID.

1:10:43

Now you gotta save that time. Oh, that's true. Yeah,

1:10:45

I didn't think about that. It

1:10:47

was a big thing. You asked from

1:10:49

stage, don't you? Senior pranks,

1:10:52

V1. I did. I had a

1:10:54

bit where I talked about it. Yeah, and asked what people

1:10:56

do. Yeah. school and

1:10:58

I think this is an approach that more schools

1:11:00

are doing is it's sort of a school sanctioned

1:11:03

senior prank.

1:11:05

It's where they allow it to happen. They

1:11:07

understand there's gonna be some kind of senior prank.

1:11:10

So what we'll do is we'll kind of we'll

1:11:12

allow it but we'll just make sure it doesn't go too

1:11:14

crazy. That's how ours was. Like

1:11:17

a teacher was there with us when we were

1:11:19

doing stuff to the school. They

1:11:21

let us in but a teacher's there to make sure we didn't light

1:11:23

the building on fire.

1:11:25

You know, but I think we took all the desks and chairs

1:11:27

out

1:11:28

and built this huge pyramid on the front lawn,

1:11:31

did a bunch of other stuff. A

1:11:33

common one is

1:11:35

taking red solo cups and filling them up with

1:11:37

water and then just like

1:11:40

paving the floor with it, where

1:11:42

there's just thousands of solo cups full

1:11:44

of water. In the yard?

1:11:47

No, like inside in the school. Like in the hallway.

1:11:50

In the hallway of a school. So like, you just

1:11:52

can't even take a step without... And now you mean you

1:11:54

have to individually empty all the cups. You

1:11:56

can't just

1:11:57

flood the school floor with water.

1:12:00

Yeah, so the pranks are just making someone

1:12:02

do- It's making the janitor's job real hard.

1:12:04

Yeah, well, my school, it was the kids would come

1:12:07

in and the other kids would have to help fix

1:12:09

all this. The younger kids. Yeah,

1:12:12

the underclassmen. So the kids that called in sick

1:12:14

that day, they're the ones that did it. No,

1:12:17

this would be a school night, we'd do this, man. Okay,

1:12:20

right, right, so the next day when somebody's like, I'm

1:12:22

sick today, they're like, oh, you did this. Oh,

1:12:24

right, right, but they know it was us. It

1:12:26

was like approved by the school. Oh, okay.

1:12:29

And so, yeah,

1:12:30

and then you just know, all right, juniors

1:12:32

have to go do it or something every

1:12:34

year. Yeah. Because then it gets cleaned

1:12:36

up probably pretty easily. I think ours,

1:12:39

it was like, it took like three and a half, four

1:12:41

hours for them to where they could

1:12:43

resume school. Does someone have to run it

1:12:45

by the administration to make sure

1:12:48

it's safe and- I don't know, there's probably

1:12:50

more of that going on than they let us know about, but

1:12:52

we had like a cool teacher that was

1:12:55

like,

1:12:55

I'll just make sure it's not crossing the line.

1:12:58

We didn't have those kind of cool vibes at my

1:13:00

school. There were no, you know what I mean? There were no school

1:13:03

sanctioned pranks. Yeah.

1:13:05

That I'm aware of. Do you remember, did y'all do anything? I

1:13:07

don't know. The statue didn't get stolen.

1:13:10

I don't know. I'm like you with the, like if

1:13:12

Nate had been like, go hide, I would be like, well,

1:13:14

I'm on tour with Nate. So I have to

1:13:16

do what Nate says, but I don't really want

1:13:18

to hide from Nick, you know? I

1:13:21

was the guy, when we would go roll people's house in middle

1:13:23

school, I was always the guy that was like, come on guys.

1:13:26

I was the lame guy. Yeah. We don't

1:13:28

know, we don't know. We'd do it to strangers' houses. Yeah,

1:13:30

yeah, yeah, yeah. And it always made

1:13:32

me so uncomfortable. Yeah, I didn't like that either. I

1:13:35

never liked, yeah. I mean, the pranking

1:13:37

thing is like, most of mine is just,

1:13:39

I let it happen. If it's gonna happen,

1:13:41

then I'm gonna just let it happen. And like,

1:13:43

that's, you know, I don't like

1:13:46

doing, I don't like necessarily

1:13:49

doing something. I forget why I would have did, like

1:13:51

that woman, Nick, was like, I don't know why.

1:13:53

It was just right place, right time. Yeah. And it

1:13:56

just happened where he was riding his

1:13:59

bike. We are in a par...

1:14:00

parking lot, he kept making, I don't

1:14:02

think he, I said that he just

1:14:04

kept riding it like way

1:14:07

off and coming back. He might've been

1:14:09

making circles, but then you bet it, could you

1:14:11

go all the way down there? Yeah. Which is a

1:14:13

crazy bet. Yeah, obviously I could

1:14:15

ride my bike to the end of this. Yeah. Paved

1:14:18

parking lot. And he comes back and yeah. But

1:14:21

yeah, I don't, I don't necessarily like

1:14:25

lying to someone's face. Like I don't,

1:14:27

you know.

1:14:28

You don't pre meditate though.

1:14:31

Yeah. A friend is different though. I've always, a

1:14:33

friend is different. Strangers, it makes me so

1:14:35

uncomfortable. Dude, I watched, I was

1:14:37

watching a

1:14:40

video on Instagram and

1:14:42

it showed a kid

1:14:44

that's like, I duct taped my parents

1:14:46

house and he duct taped his whole, and

1:14:48

like his dad flips out all the time. And you're like,

1:14:51

you see these kids and you're like, you're just

1:14:53

doing it

1:14:55

to be, Like,

1:14:58

what is this for? It's for, it's for

1:15:00

clip. And it's just constantly

1:15:02

like he does stuff. He

1:15:04

put peanut butter on all his parents'

1:15:07

kitchen.

1:15:08

Does he live with his parents? Yeah. And

1:15:10

so there's a, there's a point that

1:15:13

it's like, you know, it's, it's close, but it's like

1:15:15

some of them, he had some views

1:15:17

that were like 4 million views and then some

1:15:19

were like 150,000. You're like, is it

1:15:21

worth it? I mean, my dad would not

1:15:24

play that. If my dad

1:15:26

came in and there was peanut butter everywhere, I wouldn't

1:15:28

be living with him anymore. I'll tell you that. Yeah.

1:15:31

There was a case here in Nashville just a couple of years ago. They

1:15:34

were making a YouTube video at,

1:15:36

in Hermitage, Earl Hickory at that urban

1:15:38

air trampoline. You guys know that place?

1:15:41

And they pulled butcher

1:15:43

knives on some people in a parking

1:15:45

lot. And one of the people didn't know

1:15:48

it was a, and he had a gun and he

1:15:50

shot and killed the guy. Wow. Really?

1:15:52

Yeah. Wow. They

1:15:54

were just making a YouTube video. Yeah. I

1:15:57

don't know why I'm laughing, but I just you're gonna

1:15:59

pull a knife on Somebody has a prank. It's so

1:16:01

dumb, just a prank, bro. Yeah, it's just

1:16:03

so dumb. I mean, the guy obviously wasn't charged

1:16:05

because, I mean.

1:16:06

One of my guilty pleasures is this

1:16:09

guy on TikTok I follow, and I'm not proud

1:16:11

of, I don't like what he does, I'm

1:16:13

against what he does, but the videos are so

1:16:15

funny. It's just him, he's

1:16:18

got a GoPro on, and he just

1:16:20

walks up to people at Walmart and just

1:16:23

picks fights with people. Oh, absolutely.

1:16:25

Out of nowhere. And the guy's looking at stakes, right?

1:16:29

And he just walks up and he goes, yeah,

1:16:32

you're not the only one getting steaks tonight, buddy. And

1:16:35

the guy's like, what? He

1:16:38

goes, move along, pipsqueak. He keeps calling

1:16:40

people pipsqueaks. And it's

1:16:42

so funny, but I don't like it. But

1:16:44

it's so much fun. And they fight him?

1:16:47

He just eggs him on it. Don't get into

1:16:49

it with him. Yeah, but most people are just so

1:16:52

shocked by somebody walking. Imagine

1:16:54

somebody saying that to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not the only

1:16:57

one getting steaks tonight. There is that guy that would

1:16:59

do. He did a bunch of different things, but he would go, would

1:17:01

you look at that? Would you look at

1:17:03

that? He would always, he would

1:17:05

get real close to people and he did

1:17:07

a bunch of different things where he would go

1:17:09

try to buy cars and he would kick the tires

1:17:12

and stuff. And he'd go, yeah, that's pretty good. I

1:17:14

forget what he, I forget the

1:17:16

guy's name. It's great though. Yeah, that stuff

1:17:18

though is, so your talent is you

1:17:21

are just, you don't care that, say

1:17:24

you're doing something awkward. You got no talent. The

1:17:27

talent or whatever, what they have

1:17:29

that I don't is that ability. I could

1:17:31

never do that to a stranger public.

1:17:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So your town is like, you're

1:17:35

a rude person. Totally. Yeah.

1:17:38

Like, and so you don't care. Yeah, I don't approve of it, but it's just,

1:17:41

God, it's fun to watch sometimes. I don't like,

1:17:44

yes, there's some of it. I could see laughing

1:17:46

at it. Some of it, I don't like if someone's,

1:17:51

you're making someone that doesn't want to be a part of

1:17:53

something be- Agreed. Like, feel

1:17:56

bad, which I, I thought you could already do it with Nick,

1:17:58

but I mean, me and Nick are buddies.

1:18:00

and like we, I would never, I

1:18:03

just do pranks in him cause he falls for it. And

1:18:05

there's, but there's, I love Nick.

1:18:07

Yes. I like, you know. Yes, of

1:18:10

course. And Practical Jokers is about as far as I can go.

1:18:12

Yeah. Cause it's mostly them, obviously it's

1:18:14

them that has to do the dumb stuff. Yeah. I

1:18:16

still sometimes feel bad for the people around them. Yeah,

1:18:19

yeah. But it's really them. It is. And

1:18:21

Practical Jokers is weirdly the best show on TV.

1:18:24

I never am like, I want to go watch a Practical

1:18:26

Jokers, but if it's on, I can watch it for 18

1:18:29

hours. It's

1:18:30

on true TV around the clock. When I opened

1:18:32

for Dusty at Leavity Live,

1:18:34

where is that? In New York? West

1:18:36

Nyack. Yeah, remember the green

1:18:38

room had a little TV in the corner that was

1:18:41

just stuck on impractical jokers

1:18:43

all weekend. That's part of the weekend. And we would just sit back

1:18:45

there. And you start, when you're first, you're like, ah, I don't

1:18:47

wanna watch this. And then like 20 minutes go by,

1:18:49

we haven't said anything. We're just like, this show's

1:18:51

pretty great. It's great. I've hung out

1:18:53

with them a couple of times with you. They're like rock stars.

1:18:56

Everyone knows them. Do

1:18:58

you know, like, I don't know how they're still pulling off

1:19:01

pranks without everyone being like, let's obviously

1:19:03

sal or? Well, I mean, stuff

1:19:05

moves on. And then, I mean, I

1:19:08

think you could, I think it's become

1:19:10

a lot harder for them. I bet it has. And

1:19:12

they have to do maybe some makeup

1:19:14

or they, when they did the movie, they had to do, you

1:19:17

have to try a few more times where someone's not gonna,

1:19:20

you know, but you're still, even if you're

1:19:22

the biggest show on the

1:19:24

planet, like

1:19:26

still like a million people are watching

1:19:28

too, and five million people are watching. Like it's not. You'll

1:19:31

still find people. Yeah, you're still gonna find people, like,

1:19:34

you know. But I think it became very hard

1:19:36

for them. Cause they're always like in a mall or something.

1:19:38

Yeah. There's a lot of people. Yeah. Like Sasha

1:19:40

Barricoan, he had to basically stop that

1:19:43

cause he couldn't get away with him. Yeah, I would,

1:19:45

sometimes his were, it was

1:19:48

very funny, but I would, it was some of

1:19:50

them I thought was very mean spirited.

1:19:52

Like, and that's the, where,

1:19:55

how it's coming off to be like, It's

1:19:57

very funny, but you're trying to make someone...

1:20:00

look dumb. And some of that

1:20:02

I'm like, I don't really find that to be

1:20:04

fair. Like it just doesn't feel to be

1:20:06

fair. Cause you're like, you're really,

1:20:09

you're making money off that.

1:20:12

The first Borat I thought was so great.

1:20:14

And then later I went back and watched it. And I was

1:20:16

just like,

1:20:17

the only reason this is working is

1:20:19

because all of these people are nice to you. They

1:20:23

think that they're dealing with a situation

1:20:25

where you don't know better. And you're making

1:20:27

them look dumb because they're being Nice

1:20:30

to you. Yeah, because they're talking to you and being...

1:20:32

Yes. So

1:20:34

one of the first original pranksters was

1:20:37

a Roman emperor named Alagibulus.

1:20:40

I guess that's how you say it. He was a teenager when he became

1:20:42

emperor and he loved playing pranks. And

1:20:46

he would, for his papa's

1:20:48

dinner guests, would put a whoopee cushion in their seat that

1:20:51

made a farting noise. He's

1:20:53

the first known person to use a whoopee cushion. Wow.

1:20:56

Farts are timeless, huh? Timeless. But

1:20:59

he did some crazy, crazy stuff. Like

1:21:01

if his guest got drunk

1:21:03

and passed out in the room, he'd put a bear

1:21:05

in the room with them. They

1:21:07

just wake up with a bear in there. Just

1:21:11

a harmless prank. Just a harmless prank.

1:21:13

Really escalated from a whoopee cushion. It gets much,

1:21:16

much worse. He did some terrible stuff.

1:21:18

He would do like a

1:21:20

lottery system or a raffle where he would give away

1:21:22

prizes, but he never knew what to get. He'd

1:21:24

give away like gold and stuff, He also give away

1:21:26

a beehive or

1:21:29

a dead dog or something like that. Or

1:21:31

he would have them

1:21:33

catapult gold all over the ground.

1:21:35

Everyone would be scrambling to get it. And then he catapult

1:21:38

snakes. Wow.

1:21:41

So you'd be fighting snakes. It says something like pranks.

1:21:43

This is torture. He was a terrible person.

1:21:45

This is an emperor? Yeah. Teenage

1:21:48

emperor. He was a

1:21:49

convert. Fourteen. I mean, imagine being 14.

1:21:51

You can just do whatever you want. No repercussions.

1:21:54

Well, he was assassinated at 18, so that shows. Okay.

1:21:57

He only made it four years. Yeah. Yeah.

1:22:00

Yeah,

1:22:01

but he would just do crazy stuff like that.

1:22:03

A lot of pranks are, you gotta think

1:22:05

about them, you're going, this sounds better,

1:22:08

it sounds, you

1:22:10

wanna hear someone say they did it. Like

1:22:12

being like, you wake up with a bear in the room, you're

1:22:14

like, that's hilarious. Be like, I just need

1:22:16

to hear it. It doesn't mean everybody needs to go do

1:22:19

that.

1:22:19

But that's very funny when you hear it. A

1:22:22

lot of pranks, like they sound good like the plant, can

1:22:24

you imagine if a guy woke up with a bear

1:22:26

in the room? That's all, like that's all it takes.

1:22:29

You don't need to go do it. Yeah. But

1:22:32

like Jackass, like when they, like

1:22:34

I love their

1:22:36

stuff is very fun. They're doing that

1:22:38

to each other and they're assigned, like it's,

1:22:40

you know, they have, I think BAM,

1:22:43

they put him in with a Cobra.

1:22:46

No, that's one of the all time great sketches.

1:22:49

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But at least like he's

1:22:51

in on it. He may not be

1:22:53

in on that sketch, but you know what you're in

1:22:55

for. He signed up to do the movie. Yeah.

1:22:59

But he signed him to the movie, but that's

1:23:01

like his,

1:23:02

I feel like that was like the line. He

1:23:05

was very afraid of snakes. Yeah, he's like,

1:23:07

thinks he's filming another sketch and then he falls through

1:23:09

the ground in a pit of snakes. Wow. Well

1:23:12

that one, or the one they put him, they locked him up

1:23:14

with a King Cobra.

1:23:15

And I think they must have messed with him

1:23:17

a bunch of times. Yeah,

1:23:19

yeah, they did a lot of crazies. They were, it

1:23:21

was,

1:23:24

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1:23:28

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1:25:39

Now Richard Branson, billionaire

1:25:43

Richard Branson, he played a prank. I

1:25:45

guess he's been rich for a long time because this was in 1989. I

1:25:49

couldn't find video of this, but he somehow

1:25:51

he and his buddy took a hot air balloon and decorated

1:25:55

to look like a UFO.

1:25:56

and flew it over London and

1:25:59

on April. and people freaked

1:26:01

out

1:26:02

and like, oh my gosh, it's UFO and police and

1:26:04

everything, everybody came. And

1:26:06

then they land it and police like

1:26:08

surround it. And

1:26:10

somehow they opened the door up, a hot air balloon. I'm not sure

1:26:12

how

1:26:13

they did that, but they had like dry

1:26:16

ice to make it, just like you see in a movie with

1:26:18

them smoke everything. And his buddy dressed up as ET

1:26:21

and walked out. And he said the cop that was

1:26:23

approaching him freaked out and ran the other way.

1:26:25

He's like, you didn't get shot, but they ran the other

1:26:27

way. but he said that's his favorite April

1:26:29

Fool's break. I'd say so. Yeah, that's

1:26:32

a pretty impressive one. Yeah. Or

1:26:34

maybe that's how Richard Branson actually came

1:26:36

to earth. That

1:26:38

was how he is an alien. Maybe.

1:26:42

He's like, oh, this is a prank. I've been

1:26:43

here the whole time. But no one

1:26:46

knew him before then? Yeah, I don't know. That's how

1:26:48

he got there? Maybe so. Maybe

1:26:50

so. There was the great moon hoax,

1:26:53

the New York sun. Don't start

1:26:55

dusty. The New York sun ran an article about

1:27:00

a scientist, a stromer who had found

1:27:02

pyramids and vegetation and

1:27:05

humanoid creatures living on

1:27:07

the moon. This was 1835,

1:27:10

so people again believed it and they

1:27:12

went with it.

1:27:13

Problem is all these things, it

1:27:16

takes a while for people to figure out it's

1:27:18

not real. This is just

1:27:21

a few years ago in Alabama. Still not sure

1:27:23

that last one's not real. Yeah. In

1:27:26

Alabama, on

1:27:27

April 4th, there was an article that said, state

1:27:30

of Alabama, the lawmakers change pi from 3.14,

1:27:33

whatever, whatever, to just three.

1:27:35

Because it's like three's a good solid number, it's in the

1:27:38

Bible, it's a lot easier, not all those

1:27:40

other numbers. And then they issued a press

1:27:42

release, saying NASA scientists and Huntsville

1:27:44

were all upset about changing pi. It

1:27:46

was not true. Some New Mexico

1:27:49

paper,

1:27:51

I think, wrote it, but it makes Alabama look dumb,

1:27:54

like they're doing this. but a lot of people bought

1:27:56

into it and believed it. I think it's a kind

1:27:58

of overestimate.

1:28:00

I assume we all know what pie is. Oh,

1:28:03

you think they gave it more credit. I think for this

1:28:06

joke to work, you'd have to first explain

1:28:08

the concept of pie to a lot of people. Yeah.

1:28:11

And then be like, it's actually three. Yeah.

1:28:13

I couldn't tell you why pie is 3.14.

1:28:17

I just know what it is or what that means. Oh, he saw

1:28:21

the space thing. We saw Elon, Elon Musk

1:28:24

rocket go up in Melbourne, Florida. Really?

1:28:27

Yeah. When it came back down and landed?

1:28:29

No, no, when it was taken off.

1:28:32

Oh, I thought that. They were doing a launch. Okay. Where'd

1:28:35

it go? Let the rockets come back down. Yeah, I'm sure

1:28:37

it will. I saw at the beginning. I

1:28:39

don't know what conversation we're having.

1:28:42

I watched the launch. Where did it

1:28:44

go? So what do you,

1:28:46

you're like, why didn't I see the end of it?

1:28:48

My understanding was that SpaceX, one

1:28:50

of their big innovations was that the rockets were

1:28:52

reusable and they'd launched something

1:28:55

and then the rocket comes back down on lands where

1:28:57

it took off. I'm sure it does in a couple of days. No,

1:28:59

this is like at the moment. So it didn't happen.

1:29:02

That's all I wanted. Oh, in the moment,

1:29:04

you let it rock and come. Yeah, it comes right

1:29:06

back down and does it. I don't think that's

1:29:08

right.

1:29:09

Is it? I think eventually it comes back down. Yeah,

1:29:12

I thought it was up there for a while, taking payload

1:29:14

or whatever, and then it eventually comes back down.

1:29:17

Maybe. Like where does it go though?

1:29:20

It hits the dome. I got a joke about it now.

1:29:22

Cause I took, cause

1:29:24

when you, I opened with a joke about it,

1:29:26

I almost see if it works everywhere. but

1:29:29

like, yeah, that rocket takes a hard right.

1:29:33

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it does.

1:29:35

Yeah. But it's like, I got a very, I

1:29:37

got a joke about it. So I don't want to do it because

1:29:39

it was very fun. It's very fun to

1:29:41

talk about. Yeah. Just being silly. Maybe

1:29:44

it is not instantly. Yeah.

1:29:47

I thought it took- I imagine you sitting next to Elon

1:29:49

and the whole time you're like, but it doesn't come back. He's like,

1:29:52

I mean, you're not impressed with what's going on right now.

1:29:54

And you're like, well, I just was under the impression. I've

1:29:57

read The New York Sun and they...

1:30:00

said that it comes back

1:30:02

immediately. So I guess, uh, I like, you

1:30:05

just say when someone tells someone, when they were like, well, I read

1:30:07

this other thing, when someone's realizing that they're wrong,

1:30:10

and then they have to, you have

1:30:13

to kind of wrap your head around and you're like, well, you were just wrong.

1:30:16

And then you just, I'm not saying this, this is just

1:30:18

a good point. No, no, I understand. I understand. And then you

1:30:20

see the person that go, well, I, I read

1:30:23

it.

1:30:23

I read it. I, that was what I was told that they were

1:30:25

like, they're, you know,

1:30:27

You're not just going like, yeah, but you couldn't

1:30:29

be wrong. I'm admitting.

1:30:31

I'm pretty good at admitting. Yeah. It

1:30:34

just made me think of when

1:30:37

you have to just go, yeah, I was way wrong. Well,

1:30:40

yeah, I just would like be curious

1:30:42

about what the point of the

1:30:44

rocket is. What?

1:30:46

I mean, like, especially

1:30:48

if it just comes right back, but what, you

1:30:50

know, just the, is that a prank? It

1:30:53

takes something up. Yeah. where

1:30:56

it's taken up, detaches itself from the rocket.

1:30:59

Now, traditionally how rockets have worked up until

1:31:01

now is that rocket then dies.

1:31:03

Yeah. Crashes into the ocean. Crashes into the ocean

1:31:06

or whatever. And it's tremendously expensive.

1:31:09

Yeah.

1:31:09

So this idea is that rocket will then comes

1:31:12

back down and lands right where

1:31:14

it was. Yeah.

1:31:16

So that's what's happening. So you could be throwing stuff there all

1:31:18

day.

1:31:19

Yeah. Just like a volleyball. Just

1:31:21

goes up there. Just like, zoop,

1:31:23

and then comes back down.

1:31:25

Just launch stuff.

1:31:28

Yeah.

1:31:30

But the piece then

1:31:32

doesn't come back. Where's

1:31:35

it going? To outer space. To space.

1:31:38

We did see the fire thing went away.

1:31:40

Like you see the fire thing and then it

1:31:42

does go away. And I don't see the fire. So

1:31:45

his rockets are just up in space right now. Does he

1:31:47

have any video of it going from earth

1:31:49

into space? Yeah.

1:31:50

Let's see. That'd be amazing. There

1:31:53

it is landing. So, so it took

1:31:55

whatever up then it, then it comes back. I

1:31:59

think it It takes like satellites or- That seems like

1:32:01

just they did the video in reverse. That's

1:32:04

true. You don't know that they didn't do that. But

1:32:06

I don't- But the smoke is still billowing? Yeah. Even

1:32:09

in reverse? So that with, I

1:32:11

did not see that. Maybe I didn't pay attention to that.

1:32:13

So maybe it did come back. So maybe you're exactly right, Aaron.

1:32:18

Cause where would that part go?

1:32:19

Well, I think it comes back, but just not immediately.

1:32:22

Well, what's it doing? It just hangs out where? Well, it

1:32:24

takes a while to get up there. I don't think it's just 30

1:32:27

feet in the air. I think it- but then

1:32:29

it's, I

1:32:31

wonder when, how quick it

1:32:33

comes back. Yeah,

1:32:35

I can't find the answer to that. That's what I would look at.

1:32:38

Nate's like, what? Everyone's still hanging out here. That's how it all

1:32:40

kind of works out, right? It's almost like, hey, you could, if you'd

1:32:42

have waited 10 more minutes, you'd have seen it come back. Why are

1:32:44

y'all still hanging here? Let's go. Let's

1:32:47

go, everybody. It seems like seeing a rocket

1:32:49

land would be more exciting than seeing it

1:32:51

take off. Well, it is these days.

1:32:54

We've seen a rocket take off, but

1:32:56

you don't see it land too often.

1:32:59

Have you ever seen a rocket take off? No. Okay.

1:33:02

You said it like, you're like, I

1:33:05

don't know why you even bothered to go outside.

1:33:08

Like you go, hey, this rocket's about to take off. You're

1:33:10

like, I'm good. Who cares? You could find

1:33:12

kids now that would be like, hey, this rocket's

1:33:14

about to take off and they'd be like, I'm good. So

1:33:17

I finally found the answer. The whole thing takes about nine

1:33:19

minutes

1:33:20

from takeoff to landing, nine

1:33:23

minutes. All right, I guess I'm all

1:33:25

right. That's pretty impressive. I

1:33:27

guess I have to admit that I'm wrong. I feel like, yeah,

1:33:30

well, I was right. So

1:33:32

we're looking at about four and a half minutes to get to

1:33:34

space then. No, no, just to get

1:33:37

to whatever on top of the thing is.

1:33:40

Yeah, but if that thing just shoots off, but it's

1:33:42

got to have some force behind it to get it on into

1:33:44

space. Well, it probably comes down a lot more slowly

1:33:46

than it goes up because

1:33:48

on the way up, it's literally a rocket

1:33:50

being launched. So less than, so

1:33:52

two minutes to space. Yeah, probably.

1:33:55

Yeah, probably less than that. I'm

1:33:59

confused. The rocket goes up for

1:34:01

a couple of minutes and then the payload or

1:34:03

whatever it's taking keeps going. It detaches

1:34:05

from the rocket. And how does it keep going to outer space?

1:34:08

Well, it's got a pretty good amount of acceleration

1:34:11

and momentum because it's been attached to a rocket.

1:34:13

But that'll be enough to keep it going. It'll

1:34:15

just keep going. Hard work. Practice,

1:34:18

practice, practice. Puts in the work,

1:34:20

huh? Yeah. All right. That's

1:34:24

the biggest prank of all, huh, Dusty? Well,

1:34:26

we're still not seeing the video in

1:34:28

going from earth into space, but.

1:34:32

Well, they were talking about. I'm

1:34:34

sure it's out there though. Is there a video of

1:34:37

it? I'm sure there is. Yeah,

1:34:39

yeah. Yeah, this video of this. Just look

1:34:42

up a video and just show. When

1:34:45

the Cowboys stadium opened,

1:34:47

gosh, how many years has that been

1:34:49

now? 10 maybe? Yeah. I

1:34:51

don't know. In Jerry's world, they would, the punter sometimes,

1:34:54

if they kicked it ball too high, it would hit the dome, you know? Yeah.

1:34:56

And they had to, they were talking about. Oh yeah.

1:34:59

It hit the scoreboard. Yeah, you're right. The

1:35:01

scoreboard. I mean, they were talking about how you had to adjust

1:35:03

for that and that didn't happen anymore. And

1:35:05

I was thinking about Dusty, how these rockets, you

1:35:08

know, you can only go so high or might hit something and

1:35:10

bounce back, but they've learned to adapt

1:35:13

to it. Yeah. So, maybe not

1:35:16

the best method. I'm not saying it hits anything. I'm just

1:35:18

wondering. I just would love to see it. Okay.

1:35:20

All right. What's the nickname? Well, we talked

1:35:23

about when Nick was here, because we did hoaxes

1:35:25

once before. Sid Finch.

1:35:27

Yeah.

1:35:28

Sid Finch

1:35:30

was made up stories. Baseball, big girl.

1:35:33

Sports Illustrated did an April Fool's issue about

1:35:35

a guy who could throw 168 miles per hour. Wow.

1:35:39

And he was an orphan and just all these

1:35:41

crazy things he could do and people

1:35:43

bought into it. Henry Rowengardner. Yeah,

1:35:46

kind of like Henry Rowengardner. People bought into

1:35:48

it and a lot of people

1:35:50

believed it and they really played it up. Winnie Dijkstra

1:35:53

who played for the Mets at the time was being

1:35:55

on it and I think

1:35:58

Nick halfway believed it when he was on.

1:36:00

Oh yeah. This episode. That

1:36:02

was one that, yeah. Yeah. So.

1:36:05

Yeah. So we just redid that

1:36:07

one to catch Dusty back up. You

1:36:09

get all these people listening and you're like, everybody,

1:36:11

we want to tell Dusty this stuff. Well,

1:36:14

it's an interesting, if you're going to play a prank like

1:36:16

that,

1:36:17

that's like way too high of a number. Yes,

1:36:21

I agree. I agree. I

1:36:23

was thinking that when I read that. If you told me a kit through 120. Yeah,

1:36:25

I was going to say like 112. That's still unbelievable. Yeah.

1:36:28

you'd be like, whoa, 168 is crazy. Yeah.

1:36:32

Yeah. But they, but they're, who was, I

1:36:35

watched some of the

1:36:37

world baseball, what was it? It

1:36:39

was awesome. World baseball class. World baseball class.

1:36:41

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and they had, at

1:36:43

the end of it, Oh Tawny and

1:36:46

Trout. I mean, that was the whole thing was

1:36:48

that matchup and it came down to

1:36:51

two outs, bottom of the ninth,

1:36:53

Oh Hawny versus Trout. Wild.

1:36:56

Insane that that worked out. That Otani

1:36:59

guy is... He's probably the best baseball

1:37:01

player ever. Yeah, I mean,

1:37:04

he's Babe Ruth, but now.

1:37:06

Like, B Babe Ruth now is insane.

1:37:09

Like, Babe Ruth back then, I feel like people

1:37:11

pitched and batted more and stuff like that. He

1:37:13

only did both for two years. Only

1:37:15

two seasons he pitched and hit. Oh,

1:37:17

really? And then after two seasons, he just became

1:37:20

an outfielder

1:37:22

and just hit. So Otani's

1:37:24

already done more than Babe

1:37:27

Ruth ever really did. You're saying Babe Ruth Oin

1:37:29

did it two seasons. Yeah, did I say Otani? No, you

1:37:31

said right. Okay. Yeah, Babe Ruth

1:37:33

Oin did both for two years. So the comparison's

1:37:35

not even fair to Otani anymore. Yeah,

1:37:37

yeah. And also back then, what were they throwing?

1:37:40

I mean, Max, maybe low

1:37:43

80s. Yeah. Which was crazy

1:37:45

at the time, but it's like- Yes. Yeah, Otani

1:37:47

threw 100 miles an hour. Otani threw the fastest

1:37:49

pitch of the entire tournament and hit

1:37:52

the hardest ball in the entire tournament.

1:37:54

Insane. Insane. Nobody's

1:37:57

done what he's done.

1:37:58

Yeah, it's crazy. Crazy.

1:38:01

All right, there you go. Here's the rocket coming back

1:38:03

down. You've been watching this whole thing. Yeah, I mean,

1:38:05

I mean, still, yeah, it's not a good video. You're saying

1:38:07

you watch USC, I mean. What

1:38:09

do you want, like a first person

1:38:11

GoPro video? I'd like a video attached

1:38:13

to the rocket. And it's like almost like

1:38:16

giving you a ladder, or like a, I

1:38:18

don't know the view, but like you're looking out

1:38:20

at, you can see people watching the rocket

1:38:23

take off, and then it takes off,

1:38:25

and then we go way high, and then next thing you know,

1:38:27

we're

1:38:28

entering space. I want to see him go through

1:38:30

the atmosphere.

1:38:32

I want to see it all. I want to see what it looks

1:38:34

like. Oh, I feel like I've seen

1:38:36

what you're talking about. I feel like I have too. I've never

1:38:38

seen it. Well, yeah, look at the point of view, POV,

1:38:41

all right. Here's a good one. NPR

1:38:44

did this back in 2014 on April Fools. They

1:38:47

posted an article

1:38:48

entitled, Why Doesn't America Read Anymore?

1:38:52

And people flipped out with all their comments

1:38:54

and sharing their opinions and stuff

1:38:56

like that. but if you open the article,

1:38:59

it tells you it's an April Fool's joke. So

1:39:02

they prove their point about America

1:39:04

not reading because no one read the article.

1:39:07

That's awesome. Yeah, so that's

1:39:09

a pretty good one.

1:39:10

Yeah.

1:39:11

Wow.

1:39:13

I wonder, yeah, that's great. When was that? That's

1:39:16

like the old test they used to give us in school.

1:39:18

They would say, you know, read all the

1:39:20

instructions before you take the test. And

1:39:23

then if you read all the instructions, the instructions

1:39:25

say, do not take this test. And

1:39:27

you knew who didn't read it because it'd be filling

1:39:30

in the blanks. And that was me, I

1:39:32

don't read these instructions. I

1:39:34

don't know how to take a test. I

1:39:36

would just not take tests and just hope it works out.

1:39:38

And one day it worked out.

1:39:42

Well, you wanna be like, well, why does the last step

1:39:46

override all the other steps? Yeah.

1:39:50

You know? Yeah, that's the argument I would make. Is this the

1:39:52

video? Here's literally a video

1:39:54

from GoPro of a GoPro attached

1:39:56

to a rocket being launched in the space. Let's

1:40:00

see, all right, well, all right. There's

1:40:02

people. There's people waving down there.

1:40:06

Okay, so we already cut away, so we've already

1:40:08

edited it, okay. Yeah, there is. It's

1:40:10

spinning real fast, so. Yeah, it's gonna spin,

1:40:12

it's gotta go quick. Gotta get this motion sickness

1:40:15

here. Yeah.

1:40:16

Well, we'd have to show, you'd have to watch it on

1:40:18

your own to be like, go

1:40:20

like, can we fast forward a little bit? Yeah,

1:40:23

well, I wanna get to the exact moment when

1:40:25

it comes in.

1:40:26

Now it's like, look how high

1:40:29