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It's time to see what you can accomplish with Shopify by your side. public figure you are gonna allow the public some people know who i am public figures public figures public figures public figures i think it's america it's the public figures of america yeah when you're a public figure this is what happens good evening welcome in grab a seat pull yourself up to the table belly up here we are and we're doing it and that's the way it's gonna go welcome into the public figures podcast i'm aaron weber alongside two very funny comedians two good friends two excellent people brian bates hello and dusty slay okay as seen on netflix he's got two specials out brian's got multiple specials he's headlining clubs all over the country dusty's doing theaters i'm hanging out we're doing it baby three professional comedians three public figures. We've got a very exciting episode ahead of us right now. Very good. I'm looking forward to getting into it. Brian, how are things going? Good. I'm going to be at Arlington Drafthouse in Arlington, Virginia, February 22nd. How about that? This has been a strong intro, I think. Hey, thanks. I actually felt good about it just now. Now it's been a strong intro. Arlington Drafthouse, great club. Have you been there before? I mentioned last week how I set the record for myself for most time on a show. That's rated an hour and 20 minutes. And you also, I think you said last time that you plan to beat that record this time around. Not only beat it, I plan on beating Dusty's record. Oh, and that's about an hour and 31 minutes. I do not plan on beating Dusty's record. No, I hope. I don't know if anybody wants you to chase that right now. No, they're asking for less, not more. But come see me at Arlington Draft House. They're not asking. February 22nd. Ryan, the show was great. We wanted a little less, I think. Yeah, it went about 30 minutes too long. There you go. Loved it. Loved it. But, yeah, about 15 minutes at the end. I'll be like, well, I only did 45. And they're like, yeah, I should have featured. Now, I keep underselling myself. Sorry. It's a great show. It's a hot show. Go see Brian at the Arlington Draft House. A great club, a great comedian. I'm sure it'll be a great night of comedy, one that you'll remember for years to come. I, myself, I'm going to be in Texas soon. I'm going to be in Houston. It's a Houston improv. And then all weekend, my first full weekend at the Addison Improv in Dallas, which I'm pretty excited about. So come on out and see me, Texas, and Houston, and Dallas. Look, reach out to the Webbers. They're friends of mine, and they saw me at Addison. You can get them to come to the show? Tell them to come, yeah. How about that? Boston and Jane? Diane. Diane, sorry. That's a pretty good guest. Pretty good guest. Come on out and see me in Texas. Dusty, where are you going to be? February 20th and 21st. June 21st, I'm going to be in Traverse City, Michigan and Saginaw, Michigan. There's a country song about Saginaw, Michigan, so I'm pretty excited to go. I've been to Traverse City. Saginaw, Michigan. You have been to Traverse City. Yeah, that was bad. We did a bar there. We did a bar. This time it'll be a theater. Yeah, this time it'll be a little different. But we did a bar, and it was just a show that we got a video of it. It's on, you know, I got a couple of travel videos out there. This is maybe the first one I ever did. Me and you traveling around Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but we did a thing in Traverse City, and there was a handful of people in the audience. And then I remember that guy and another guy, I think, invited us to get lunch the next day. They invited us to his bar to get food, and then we paid for it. This is how he sold it to us. He goes, I was thinking about doing a comedy show at the restaurant I own. Would you guys be willing to come by the place, grab lunch, and I'll talk to you about it? We're like, great. Get a free lunch on our way out of town. We show up. We get all this food. He comes out and just like, yeah, we'd love to do a show here. All right, here's the bill. It was like 50 bucks. He just gives us the bill for it. We're like, all right, we'll probably never come back. And it's like, you don't have to give me a free meal. But I wouldn't have come here otherwise. I would have, I'd rather spend my money somewhere else. I think it was good, though. It was fine. If he'd have given you guys a free meal, do you think you would have been enough that you're like, yeah, we should come do this? Nah. Well, that was the time I would have done anything. Yeah. You know, I would have. The way he did you guys a favor, because it was going to be a terrible show. And once he tipped his hand at he's making you pay for lunch, you're like, there's no way I'm coming here. Yeah, probably. But it was, it's just fun to, I don't know if he purposefully misled us, but we were definitely like, he's about to pick up his restaurant. The way they made it seem, it was like you come on out to the restaurant and I'll give you a meal and we'll talk about possible business venture. But in the end, he's like I need some business to my current business. Come on in, buy some sandwich. Some chicken fingers. It's like a pyramid scheme. You guys get two guys to go in there. Yeah, exactly. Well, we're back from the cruise We are back from the cruise There was an incident on the boat There was, you probably heard about it in the news Ryan went overboard Dusty had to jump in and swim And get him And I'm the only one that could Nate jumped in too, but Dusty got to me first Yeah So now we know, right? Who's the fastest? I'm terrified about falling off a cruise ship That's actually why we decided Not to bring our kids We were going to bring our whole family. I was going to bring my wife and kids. My wife got a little paranoid about maybe one of our kids falling off the side. Are you worried that your kids might hear the call of the void? You ever hear that? I don't know that I've heard of it, but I feel like I have. Like when sailors would be out for a long time and then the sirens or the mermaids would come up. I think it's when – I don't know about it in a nautical context. But I've heard people say, like, they'll walk to the edge of a cliff or, like, the top of a tall building, and they feel an almost uncontrollable urge to jump off the top. Wow. They just imagine themselves jumping off, and then they want to do it. It's called the call of the void. I've had that in, like, a line somewhere, and there's a cop in front of me, and there's his gun. i want to grab it so bad i'm like i can i can do this yeah then hold up the whole store tie them up well i've had that it's kind of the same thing before with people if i knew something bad about them or something where I, in my mind, I'm like, don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it. Right, right. Because you want to say it. I don't want to say it. Right. But it makes you trick you in almost saying it. Yeah. Yeah. And for the record, because every time we do these future episodes and we say something, people think it's real. Yeah. We're pre-taping this. We have not left for the cruise yet. Yeah. I did not fall off. It may happen, but I haven't done it yet. You're probably like, none of y'all got a tan, huh? We haven't been yet. We're looking forward to it, but we had to pre-tape this because we're on the boat. That's right. Well, we'll be back by the time this comes out. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, right. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we changed clothes to make people think we're doing a separate episode. Just trying to visually separate the episodes from each other. That's right. But excited to be back from the cruise. I do have some Nate Land news I want to share. I'd love to hear each and every one of them. February 22nd, 23rd, and 24th at the Lab at Zaney's here in Nashville. Nate Land presents the Showcase Season 4. Come and join us. Tickets are available for that. February 22nd, I already said. I won't be here, but never mind. I don't know why I'm going back to our schedule. Come to the show. I love it, by the way. I'll be in Arlington, Virginia, February 22nd. But if you're in Nashville, come to the Lab. Tickets available for that. And Nate Land presents Brad Upton. Brad's filming his hour special March 29th at the Franklin Theater. We've all done the Franklin Theater. That is a beautiful movie. I've not done it. It is a beautiful movie. You've never done it? I'll be in Minneapolis that weekend. No, I've always been loyal to Zanies. I've done a corporate. I'm just kidding. Come on, dude. I've done shows there opening for Nate. Really? Yep. For what? Just like Nate, the headline there? Yeah, when he was. yeah. It seems like a different time, but yeah. How big is the Franklin Theater? Like $400? $400 or $500? I don't even know if it's that. Yeah. So Nate could probably sell out two of those. $300? Yes, $300. It's not that big, but it's a beautiful theater. So tickets are on sale for that. May 29th, don't forget the Breadwinner is coming out. Yeah, so editors are needing a little bit more time to cut us out of our scenes, but now you're safe, Dustin. That's been said. Yeah, I mean, they always say that, but is anything really safe? That's true. I mean, on the cutting room floor, it could all be changed. Yeah, yeah, but we're excited about it. With CGI now, they could just Photoshop my face right out of there. With your hair, it would take a little bit more time. How funny that would be if we showed up and they imposed Lachlan Patterson in the scene. We needed somebody with better hair. Well, we did a little different thing with my hair. what did you oh i don't want to i don't want to say okay they actually that the hairstylist was like i got an idea we'll do this with your hair and then we'll do this and um and then when we did the first thing we were actually like oh this is pretty cool why don't we do that and i go great and then nate walked in to the thing and i go do you mind if we do this and he goes great love it That's awesome. Yeah. Can you think about having your hair like that in everyday life? I flew out later that day. Left it in. And I left it in at the airport, and then I took it out before I got home. Well, that's very interesting about your family on the crew. I just assume because Hannah is having a baby, that's why she didn't go. Well, that's another thing. It's like she's pretty pregnant now, and so we're like – there's a lot. And then we did take a trip to Mexico without the kids, and we don't really want to do that again. We missed the kids. And I felt weird about it because I leave all the time, right? But they're always with their mom. And then we were both gone, and I thought, they never really been without one of us or without both of us. Maybe it'll be good for them. Maybe, but they're – Just to have one, you know, to learn to – I don't know. But, you know – Trying to spin this. Yeah, but we're – you know, she's going to stay. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. It's not happening, my dear friend. So, but Hannah had that fear a little bit that the kids would, you know, might fall off. And, you know, for me, it's like if my kid falls off, I got to fall off. You know, I got to jump right off after him. I'll tell you one time, my dad came, brought my little brother to a birthday party, came back in a suit soaking wet. My little brother jumped in the deep end of the pool. Oh, gosh. Couldn't swim. My dad jumped in full suit. Wow. Yeah. Boston? Yeah. Yeah, your good friend, my dad. Wow. But you just got to do it. You got to do it. You don't even think about it. You got to do it. Well, that was before cell phones. Who knows what he would have done if he had a cell phone in his pocket. It can't ruin the phone. Right. He'd be like, hey, film this. Before I go in. Got to go viral. Dad of the year. Before I jump, I'll turn it vertical. Does it bother you when you see, because I watch some of these videos, and I'm a sucker for them, where a guy will go, ma'am, you're amazing. Here's 500 grand. You can get off the street. Have you seen these videos? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. I like them. And then I go, should I like this? Because it's all like, why are you taping this? I go back and forth. How do you feel about it? I'm like you, I think. I like it from the standpoint of it's entertaining to me. Yeah. I watched one recently where it was like a Christian guy, and he went up to this preacher, and he goes, oh, I'm homeless. and the preacher takes him to a restaurant. He goes, come on, I'll get you something to eat. And he takes him, and then he prays for him. And then the guy goes, he goes, after that, he goes, actually, I want to tell you something. I'm not homeless. Here's $500. And it's just like, and the guy, the preacher, and then another guy pulls up out of nowhere in his car and goes, here's $1,000. And it's like, the preacher got emotional, and it's like, you like it from a standpoint, but it's like, you just manipulated this guy. How were they being filmed? I don't know. Like the preacher didn't see the guy from outside the restaurant, I guess. I don't know, but it seemed like it was more of a personal camera on the guy. Okay. But it's just like you just manipulated this guy, and it's like just give him the money. You act like you want to help him, but you're only helping for your own viral content. You said something one time about people shouldn't do this, And it's such an obvious thing that we shouldn't do that I'm embarrassed that I was even doing it. Not a lot, but just don't film anybody in public if they don't know they're being filmed or don't ask to be filmed. And I'm not saying I was doing that all the time, but if I was, I don't know, out in public somewhere and I saw something funny, I might do it. And it's not right. So now when I make videos on public, I mean, if there's somebody far in the background, I don't blur their face, but I don't try to find somebody and show their face doing something. Yeah, I had a buddy of mine get filmed at a Walmart by one of these, like, Walmart prankster guys. And it really, like, it really was not nice to do that. What happened? He was, um. Was it you? I don't try to think of how much of the story to tell, because it's a guy you all both know. I'll tell you after. But he was. I hate those prankster videos. He was, like, a hard, he was going through, like, it was a terrible day for him. And then he gets to Walmart. It's one of those guy walks up with the, starts asking him questions. and he's being filmed. Yeah. He just answered them awkwardly and then the video got a ton of views just kind of making fun of him. And he's like, I just kind of hate that. And that guy is, believe it or not, that guy's doing comedy now. The Walmart prankster. Yeah. And it's just, I don't like it. Yeah. You just got to not talk to them at all. Any of the prankster, any of the people. Well, that's if somebody will walk up and you don't even know you're being, somebody will just walk up and like to make you look silly. And you're like, all I did was, come to this Walmart to try to like get groceries or something. Yeah, yeah. And now I'm being ridiculed online. Yeah. It goes back to what we were talking about last episode, the difference between like willfully entering into this versus I'm just trying to stay out of everyone's business and now you're put on blast. I filmed yesterday at the airport. I didn't post it, but everyone's back was to me. The moving walkway at Nashville Airport, everybody's standing on it right now. Oh, I hate that. I hate that. And I was going to post it like, oh, we're still learning how this works, but I didn't. There's not a thing that bothers me in the world more than that, I think. It's not a ride, people. But in people's defense on this. Stand to the right. Stand to the right. If one group of people, I guess you could just say move, but I don't think everybody on there was, they know how to do it. But if one person up front or two people are blocking. It traps everybody. You just got to go, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. I guess everybody's being nice. You got to Sparta kick the person in the back. Yeah. And knock them over like that. And if they have headphones in and they don't hear you, you just kind of scooch by them. Well, this is my big theory. I always see that. You know the subway takes guy online? Yeah. You ask people what their take is. If I ever do that. I think headphones are a net bad for society. Yeah. Why? Because you can't hear what's going on. We need you in the world. Yeah. Come join us. We're living a life out here. There's a world going. Maybe I don't understand. I don't know if it's necessarily a good thing. He doesn't mean us wearing headphones. No, I mean, I'm not saying this should be illegal. I'm saying it should be if you're in a public place where we're all relying on each other to be in the moment. Take the headphones off. I'm sorry. I missed where this is at. What are you talking about in public? This is just my take. If I were ever on a show and they go, what's your hot? But not not on a plane. No, a plane's different. I'm talking about, but at the airport, like walking to your date at the airport. Yeah. These guys will have, I don't know if it's a good thing to just go, let me retreat into my own little world real quick. And then they're in everybody's way. Maybe earbuds are okay, but noise-canceling headphones where you can't hear anything is bad. Well, earbuds, it's the same thing. They're not listening to nothing. They've got a song on. If somebody yelled for you, you'd hear them. But if I have my headphones in and they're not loud, I'm still in the world while enjoying my entertainment. But these big noise-canceling headphones, you are completely removed. And you're walking, and they don't even think I'm existing in a living, breathing airport where there's things moving around. They're just clogging up hallways. Take the headphones off. I think the moving sidewalk thing, though, even the escalators, it's like move to the right and let me pass you. Let me pass you. Even going up, right? I don't want to go. I'm not trying to run up the stairs, but I like to take a step here and there. Yeah, on the escalator. It moves along a little faster. Right. We don't have – just because it – Where are you going to go? Well, I'm trying to catch flights. Late for a flight. Just because it moves – Signed up for clear, though. He doesn't even really need to rush. You guys both get to the airport five hours early. But just because it moves doesn't mean it's a ride. I agree. I agree with that. I agree with you. Move along. So you get on an elevator and what, jump? I mean, Brian sits down on the escalator. Try to get up there quicker. Sit down on the stairs. If there was a ladder in there that you could climb and it would make it go a little faster, I would. With a suitcase. Yeah. Up a ladder. Yeah. That's funny. Anyway. Well, I got this weekend and I got on the plane and the lady in the middle, I was getting ready to put my earbuds in. And the lady in the middle is like, I can't remember what she asked now. Are you from here or something like that? And then I'm like, yeah. I can't remember. Yes. No, I think she asked, is Houston your final stop? And I said, yes. And I put my earbuds in. And she turns to the other guy, but he's already got his headphones on, so he doesn't answer. Or if he heard her, he could pretend like he did. I'm like, oh, crap, I'm too late. Because now she's starting talking to me. And I'm like, this is going to be tough. It's been a long time since someone started talking to me on a plane. But once we took off, she quieted down. She was good. She was good. As soon as we landed, she started talking to me again. I think before taking off and after landing, that's all fair game. Talked it. I don't like it. Because it feels like it's kind of over. Come on. Come on. You guys need to be in the world, dude. We need you. We need you out here. Not on a plane. We need you. I'll talk to you. You just got Christopher Cross playing in your headphones. I wear an eye. Four hours. I do. I wear an eye mask. You wear an eye mask on a plane? Do you? I'm surprised we didn't talk about it. The new boarding process at Southwest now. I've not boarded. How about it, man? I've not boarded a flight yet with Southwest, but I've been booking them, and I got to tell you, it's nice to push my own seat. And I have had entire rows to myself every time I've flown with it, the new system. Because I got A-list preferred. I can get the priority seating or the exit row that you have to pay more for. So the schlubs, they're not paying for that. I got A-list preferred, too. They're clogging up the back of the plane or the front, and I got all these rows. It's been unbelievable so far. I want it to be publicly known. People hate it, but I love it. On the Public Figures podcast. I'd like it to be publicly known that I'm making a total switch from American Airlines to Southwest. I'm doing the switch. Welcome, man. I'm doing the switch. Southwest has tons of direct flights out of Nashville. And now that the seating change is different. Now that you can pick your seat. That was my only problem with Southwest. You don't care about all the free borders now. Yeah, that was my only problem with Southwest. Aaron, a few weeks ago, I don't think Dusty was here for this episode. I shared how I got my hotel room in Houston next to the airport, but I was next to the wrong airport. The wrong airport. Oh, yeah. I was 30 miles away on the other side of Houston. This weekend, it was almost a similar situation where I was, again, closer to the other airport than where I was staying. But they don't have Southwest. So I chose to find a hobby, direct flight Southwest. Got to drive longer, but it's direct. or I could do a connecting to George Bush, another airline. To me, it's worth it, just the direct flight. Totally. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. Direct flights are where it's at. I'm all about it. 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Let's do it. Okay. These comments, they come from Twitter, X, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and mail at natelandpodcast.com. Which we'll be forwarding to our new email that has yet to be created. Yeah. Or I guess it's the Nate. Yeah, yeah. Anyway. Sorry. Robert. I've been having trouble reading today. robin dietrich you think that's right love the podcast every week but especially when dusty and erin are on their game and brian tries to keep them on task thank you for bringing the laughter and positive vibes every week on their game so he's like two episodes i'm the teacher i mean when we're on our game we're on our game you know what i mean so So even if it's only a couple episodes, it's still very fun. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Robin. And you know what, Robin? We like when you're on your game too. You know what I mean? I don't. I like to say, you know what I mean, when people don't know what I mean. Yeah. If your name's Robin, do you think you have to hear about Batman a lot? Like every day of your life, do you think it gets brought up? I don't think so anymore. I mean, we've not had a Robin character since Batman and Robin in the late 90s. Robin was in the Christopher Nolan Batman movies. Yeah, but never referenced. It wasn't like a big character. Never referenced. They kind of say his name is Robin at the end. Yeah, but it's not like a big. I don't know why they did that because those movies were over. I know. Why would you even tease that? They must have thought maybe he was going to do his own thing. I agree. I just really soon watched that movie. I would think more Robin Hood. Oh, Robin Hood. It kind of depends on if it's a man or a woman. I guess so. If it's a woman, I don't think people are like, oh. Yeah, if you're like a tiny guy named Robin. And you're like in gymnastics. And you say like E. Gadd and stuff a lot like that. Are there any public figures now named Robin? I mean Robin. Ventura? Yeah, and Robin from. That's still pretty old too. Howard Stern. Oh, yeah. Robin Thicke. Robin Thicke. Alan Thicke's son. Robin Roberts. You guys know her? Mm-mm. She's a sportscaster. Okay. Robin Roberts. Yeah. I think she's on Good Morning America, maybe. Yeah, okay. Yeah. All right, here we go. Keeping it going. Bart Scarborough. My daughter flew Southwest Airlines into Nashville and had a five-hour layover. I told her to be on the lookout for one of you guys while she waited. She was trying to get some shut eye and was interrupted by someone singing. It was Dusty singing out loud for all the world to hear. Before she could say hello, he was out the doors and she was left to gawk. She missed her big chance to meet a real public figure. Now, does this sound like you? Do you sing out loud like that in public? Yeah. I love the fact you're not denying this at all No, you know, it depends on the day Sometimes He's got his noise cancelling headphones in Sometimes I'm very happy and I just walk around singing You just walk around, White Iverson No I never heard that Never heard that in my life But, you know, I walk around singing a country song Can you give us an example? Well, I've sang on this podcast many times It'll come naturally probably before this episode's over That's a night that the lights went out in Georgia. You know what I mean? That's usually what happens. I wonder when this was, though. Sounds like it could have been any weekend. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I was singing. There was this Fair and Young song, Four in the Morning. It's four in the morning. And I got really, I don't even know how it goes anymore, but I really got into singing that. And I was singing that a lot. Yeah. That's probably what it was. What was the song you were singing? Just now. Oh, Post Malone. Alright. Jordan Fordyce. Fordyce. Fordyce. Has anyone told Aaron that his sports team changing all the players' questions is similar to the ship of thesis problem? The problem states if you replace every piece of an old ship board by board until no pieces left, is it still the same ship? Also, if you were to take all those old boards and reassemble them, would that now be the true ship? That's a great question. That's an interesting – yeah, somebody wrote in about that ship of Theseus. Somebody wrote about that before and I think it kind of It my first time thinking about it like this but it not like what I saying is if I see a U battleship in the ocean right I would go, that battleship represents the United States. What if the battleship had its own name? Battleship Aaron Weber. Okay, yeah, the USS whatever, I don't care. But it represents it's an extension of whatever country put it out there. Right. So I care less about the ship and if the ship. But if you don't have if it's just a rogue ship by itself, then who cares? Well, it's just kind of also I'm going to I'm going to say if you were to take all those boards and reassemble them, would that now be the true ship? I would say yes, if you were able to keep all the boards and then reassemble them, that would be the true ship. But why are you replacing the boards? Just over time, wear and tear? No, but I'm saying, though, if they can still be reassembled, then why are you even replacing them? Because if they're all torn up, then you can't reassemble them. Oh, okay. Yeah, well, I think it's just a thought experience. Well, I mean, I'm thinking about it. You're thinking about it. Because if you replace them board by board, it's like a college football team, right? You take some guy leaves and a new guy comes and it's like it's always still the team. Yeah. You know, because the new guy comes on. But then in a few years, the new guy is the veteran. And then there's a new guy. So at the same way, the new board that you're putting on, eventually that new board, that's going to be an old board. That's been a part of this ship for a long time. okay yeah i mean i like how the thought experiment you guys want to check out on the thinking this moment we start thinking you guys go ah you're experimenting with different stuff it's just a thing it's fun but it's different than uh anyway thank you oh yeah thanks jordan i've brought a lot if you fold a piece of paper yeah let's get to lisa lisa b thomas I bet she's got something going on. Lisa B. Thomas. That's a name you throw in a middle initial in there. Yeah. Lisa B. Thomas. There was a Lisa. Women be shopping. Go ahead, Dusty. My favorite part of every episode is watching Aaron crack up and turn around in his chair. His laugh is more contagious than COVID. Yeah. Only one of those is real. You know what I mean? Yeah, I didn't know Dusty would be reading the comments when I put that one in. Thank you, Lisa. I appreciate that. Yeah, thank you, Lisa B. Thomas. Lisa B. Thomas. Yeah. I thought about being a A.J. Weber instead of Aaron Weber. I don't like that. You think A.J. Weber's got a little – Sounds like an athlete. J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien. Oh, so you're thinking like a writer. I like when authors do that. What's your minimum? I don't know. There's something powerful about James. I like Aaron James Weber. Aaron James Weber on stage? Yeah. I sound like a shooter, don't I? It's all three names. Well, I think it's just because there's a couple. Isn't there a couple of shooters with James in the name? Have you heard that? I wish I could credit the guy, but it was a joke that went super viral of a comic. It said when a shooter or an assassin, they call them all three names, it's because they're in really big trouble. When a parent goes, John Wilkes Booth, get over here. Aaron James Weber. Or AJ. I think you could change it. People wouldn't even notice. I don't think anybody cares. It's still early enough. Call yourself whatever you want. It's still early enough. It hasn't caught on me. My name hasn't caught on me. Okay. The next one, keeping it very simple with the name Cam. My wife is a lovely person, but has a real problem with getting any sayings or phrases right. Instead of the normal nursery rhyme, she says, Nick-nack, paddywhack, buy yourself a dog. Wow. I'm just going to stop right there for a second and just say, that's really bad. I like that. Nick-nack, paddywhack, buy yourself a dog. Just because you hate dogs. Yeah. Which I guess makes sense. Before you give a dog a bone, you should be sure it's your dog. Of course, she also says, Billy pops corn and I don't care. And like a moth to a fly. Not sure there's an explanation for that. I bet moths and flies hang out. You think they turn around? Billy pops corn and I don't care. Well. I don't know what is cracking corn? Jimmy Crack Corn? Yeah, what does it mean to crack corn? I think you're like making it, turning it into like a cornmeal Okay, I don't know I think you're cracking it Crack Corn refers to dried corn kernels that have been broken, ground, or fractured into smaller pieces, primarily used as animal feed for poultry and livestock Or for grits oh i didn't even know jimmy cracked corn the phrase implies breaking down corn to create food or metaphorically celebrating the death of an enslaver it's an old folks folks song jimmy cracked corn that seems like a scratch but but i guess yeah i get but why would you care right i mean if he cracks corn hey i don't care Put his two-week notice. Go ahead and crack corn. Yeah, oh, and crack corn, good. Good, yeah. You've got some poultry there. Yeah, I wish it was, Billy Pops. This episode of the Public Figures Podcast is brought to you by IQ Bar, our exclusive snack, hydration, and coffee sponsor. That's a big category to carve out with this show. 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All right, Chad Greenhaw. Sounds like that's missing an S. It is. Greenshaw? Greenhaw. Okay. The question is for Brian and Dusty. At Dusty's show in Huntsville back in August, there was a female audience member in the front row dressed in a Where's Waldo outfit, including the striped hat. I kept thinking the guys would call her out, but neither ever did. So my question is, at what point do you decide to interact with an audience member? Well, let me ask you guys, do you remember the person that they're talking about? I do, but it's not my show, so I'm not going to make it. Now, did it feel like that person wanted to be addressed in some way? She was in the front row. Was it obnoxious enough of an outfit where you're like, oh, that's not just how you dress? You're doing something? No, she was sitting like your face, and she was sitting right over here. Okay. And you think she wants a little interaction? I don't know why she would dress like that. See, that would stop me from doing it. I asked to have her kicked out, but no one could find her. I swear she's in there. I don't. Yeah, I mean, I'm not into that. One time, a long time ago, I was one of my first headlining gigs at Crackers in Indianapolis. There was a bachelorette party, and I shouted them out at the very end of the show just to like because I felt like they probably wanted some attention. But, you know, I was nervous and I was just trying to do my show. So at the end, I kind of go, hey, thanks for celebrating here. And then you could tell the girl had this attitude like, oh, now you mention us. And it was just like, okay, well, so I'm not into recognizing the audience member that's trying to get attention. Yeah, totally. Yeah, I don't know this person's motivation. I didn't see them, though, for the record. I don't really look at the audience. I don't know. You have your back to the crowd. If I make eye contact with someone in the audience, it can mess me up for a second. You just throw them one of these. Yeah, that's what I do. I'm putting it in the eye line. You block. Yeah. That's what the wave is really all about. But he said, so my question is, at what point do you decide to interact with an audience member? Now, Brian, he go out there guns blazing. I dare someone to say something. I only interact when they talk to me. Yeah. Yeah. And even then. You try to shut it down. Yeah. Yeah. Stephanie Neal. I got laryngitis last week when I had a rare string, had a rare string of public speaking responsibilities that could not be easily rescheduled. Brutal. As professional comedians, what do you do when your whole job is to talk and you lose your voice? She put public speaking in quotation marks. Is that a euphemism for something? Yeah, let's just say I have a lot of public speaking going on. I think she's making fun of herself, like talking in front of her team members or something at work, maybe. Or she's making fun of public figures. Well, this was before. Okay. I think I'm guessing she's just like compared to you guys, it's not really public speaking. But for me, it is. I don't know. That's just my guess. Okay. I like how you really put her below us, though. Well, he's trying to think there's some underground dark web thing going on. I'm just asking questions, right, Dustin? Exactly. Nobody seems to have answers. Well, now you know where I'm coming from all the time. I'm trying to ask a question. They go, hey, it's just a thought experiment. but this is what i do throat coat lozenge is your best friend that specifically the throat coat lozenge uh not any other lozenge no other lozenge does it like throat coat tea is very good i like that but i mean the throat coat lozenge is you can really only find it in like whole foods powerful it's the best doesn't do a lot for the cough if you got a cough but fisherman's lozenge is the best for a cough all right just letting you guys know about that i just man up and do it i smoke yeah well i did a bunch of shows in i did five shows in uh spokane washington where I had already canceled a weekend because I got sick. I flew there for the rescheduled dates on a Thursday, and I called my wife, and I go, I think I'm getting sick. And you got sick there. I got sick in Spokane, too. There's something in the air. Yeah. It gets you. And then I did my first show on Thursday, and I thought if I could just get a good night's sleep, I'll be good. That night in my hotel, the fire alarm went off in a way that there was a voice coming through the PA that said, there's a fire, get out of the building, there's a fire. It was a robotic voice, but also I could hear people running down the hall. And I thought, I never leave during a fire alarm, but maybe I should. And then my... Wait, okay. Why don't you usually leave during a fire alarm? I always assume it's just a malfunction. Okay. And I've never left. I never left the hotel during a fire alarm. And then my feature, Alec Perrin, he starts knocking on the door. He goes, we've got to get out of here. And then I go, okay. And then we have to go down the stairs. We're on like the seventh floor. I can see through the glass doorway people passing through there. And I go, oh, gosh. So I'm waiting on him to get his camera equipment. I go, we've got to get out of here. You can film this out. I would get that too. And then we go down like seven flights of stairs. It puts us, basically dumps us out in the street. And then we walk around. I expect to walk around front. There'd be fire trucks and people everywhere. And there's nothing. And we walk in. They're not apologetic. They go, somebody pulled the fire alarm. You can go back up. And then, so Friday I had two shows. I was very sick. Saturday, I thought about canceling the shows. Even more sick. It was so bad. But throat coat tea. Throat coat tea. And the lozenge. That's where it's at. I never heard that story. That's crazy. Yeah. Josiah Stein. My wife and I rented a car from Enterprise so we could drive around Dallas to visit her grandma and various other family members. We got in the car and I thought it smelled weird. As I opened up the mirror flap, I came to find the source of the funky smell, a bag of marijuana. Needless to say, we reversed all the way back to the front and requested a new drug-free vehicle to which the employees were flabbergasted. Yeah, you're one of the few people that would – I think a lot of people would go, what, am I a platinum member? Yes, sir. And then they'd drive away. Enjoy that visit with Grandma. I'm a big enterprise guy. I like them. Yeah, me too. I've been doing – I'm platinum on Enterprise. I need to just pick one and stick with it. And there are most major airports. And most of them you can just walk right to the lot, to the car. I did Avis this weekend, and I checked in early. It didn't do me any good because the line was still crumbly long to get up there. Yeah. Yeah. Enterprise is where it's at. I'll refer you if you want. Get some points that way? I don't know. I don't know. Probably. All right. Woo. Tang. Gway. Woo Gway. Woo Gway. You guys know each other so well. I would love an episode where you all pretend to be another host. It'd be funny to see how Brian acts like Dusty. Well, Brian's done that on a Halloween episode. That's true. He already stole my catchphrase. I could do Dusty on We're Having a Good Time podcast. If you want people to stop stealing your catchphrase, you can't stop catchphrasing everyday saying. No, it's only... We're having a good time. It's only the most common phrases that I will claim as my own. Hello. Yeah, hello's mine too. How we doing? You're doing dusty. Any greeting, any personal greeting. Thank you all for coming. That's dusty. Dusty always tells them thank you for coming. He's stealing Dusty's thank in the crowd bit. You know that. I'd like to do that. Can you do an impression of me or Dusty? I think I'm hard to do an impression of versus Dusty. Well, Dusty, I could do – I listen to his podcast every week. Welcome to – I can't do the voice. We're having a good time. The voice is admittedly a big part of it. It's a big part of an impression. What's the other big part? The content. Okay. I'll do that part. Okay. Let's hear it. Welcome to We're Having a Good Time. All right. Welcome to We're Having a Good Time podcast. I'm your host, Dusty Slay. This weekend I was in Syracuse New York Hot Shows Worked with my good friend, very funny Oh God, what's his name? I hate that I can't remember his name because he was very funny Very funny, and we're good friends And we went to eat barbecue, of course I don't eat pork Because the Bible says don't eat pork Look, everyone always emails me that Jesus said it was okay But I don't care Well, I don't say I don't care, I say he didn't say that Let me get it right, though. But then we go to the barbecue restaurant, and there's a dog in there. And look, I don't hate dogs. I wish they were all gone, but I don't hate them. That's true. That was unbelievable. This is not bad. If you could get the voice, this would be a spot on. This weekend, I was in Syracuse, New York. I feel like this was a very negative episode that I maybe ran into a little bit. But I think we had a good time, folks. Jeez. Yeah. He's a great impression. So I just got to get the voice down. All right. I'll do Brian. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. My CPAP went out last night. I was breathing too good. That was great. Let's stop there. Let's do an Aaron one. You can do you, Aaron. You can't. Neither. Let's do an Aaron one. I went to the buffet today, and they ran out of plates. he ran out of plates not food god you nailed it I feel like Aaron's in the room I don't think y'all know what an impression is here's my impression of Aaron hey I'm a big fat guy and I'm like I thought it was spot on Yeah, what are you, Frank Caliendo? Well, thank you, Wu. That was really funny. You know what we did do? I may have talked about it on the show before, but I did a show years ago. No, this is episode two. You haven't. That's true. It's all fair game now. Yeah, exactly. Start all over. Did a show at Third Coast Comedy Club here in Nashville years ago called Set Swap, where two comedians who were friends would do each other's sets. and it was so much fun it was me and Brad Sativa did each other's oh yeah Brad uses a lot of words I don't I'm not allowed to use yeah but it was fun Aaron Croft has Aaron Weber ever explained to the group the difference between correlation and causation may be worth a discussion no because there's a I would say a causal relationship between conversations like that and how bad the episode is. Does that make sense? No. What's an example? I don't know why he doesn't think we know what it means. Do you know? Correlation is X and Y happening at the same time. Causation would be X happening because of Y. What's Y doing? It's a thought experiment. It depends. But you can do, okay, like the cost of TVs has gone down over time, right? Because people are on their phones. Yeah. All right. Yeah, that just killed whatever I was doing. You guys get it. You guys get it. Here's one. So. I want to hear it. Dusty got laughs. Really? Because of me. Okay. Because I got the audience warmed up. Whereas Aaron bombs because he couldn't follow Dusty. I don't know. I don't know. I think that's right. I thought I had one and I didn't. Okay. I was in Chicago this weekend. There was a disproportionate amount of murders that night in the city. Okay. That's a correlation between those two things. Okay. My being in Chicago didn't cause. Ah. Now, could it have? Maybe. Maybe I did that well that people died. Oh, there was more murders than normal. I'm saying if there's any kind of statistical anomaly. Not than normal. Aaron Croft, this is why we don't get into the weeks. If there were fewer murders, I would say I was the causation because people were at my show. Well, there you go. You could. You could argue there's a causal relationship between those two things. Yeah. Or they would have might have had a heart attack on their own. Andrea Boyles. I've unintentionally incorporated Dusty's nah, nah, nah into my daily vocabulary. I was recently asked by a cashier in a department store if I wanted to apply for a credit card. And I replied, nah. And she said, was that a yes or a no? I quickly replied, that was a nah. Thank you, Dusty, for helping me add some extra snark to my day. Yeah, Andrea, listen, the cashier, she knew what you said. But she goes, was that a yes or a no? It's like, listen, lady, you're not my English teacher. I don't want to apply for the credit card. Yeah. Thank you, Andrea. I'm glad you're doing that. Jordan Padnick. Padnick. You ever hear the show Below Deck? You ever hear the show? Anybody? No. You guys listening? Yeah, I'm listening. I remember Nate making fun of you for watching this. This is a clip for the show. They're asking the chef. The chef is, I think, French. And he asked them how the steak was cooked. And this is what he said. Besides, we are four million well. Four million well. Wait, what did he say? Medium red or medium well? Medium wall. Medium wall. Yeah, I don't know what you said. Is Below Deck a show like about ships and crew? It's about the crew that works on a chartered yacht. Oh, so it's not like what we're doing, the crews. No, this is like a private group of like 10 to 12 people will run out of yachts. I got you. Yeah. Okay, last comment. Jordan Payton Nick. I'm a fan of Dusty, but I just want to know what his reaction is to 1 Corinthians 11, 14. Oh, geez. Go ahead, Dusty. Tell us. Okay. This is NIV, first off. Okay. Well, let's find the King James. Yeah. Let's find the King James version. Okay. Doth. Yeah. We'll read it for the listeners. Well, it says, doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him. Well, I've read this many times. And I'll say, you know, in Corinthians, they don't give away, they don't give commandment. So it doesn't mean that you can't have long hair. And what does long mean? does it mean long down to your hips long down to where i haven't yeah or maybe even your hair's a little too long i mean not i'm good yeah hey brian's going to heaven right away so you know i think it's vague but i also don't think it's a command why is this dude this is corinthians so this is paul right yeah why is he talking about this well there's been an explanation like an epidemic of long-haired dudes there was an explanation uh it's kind of weird though but this guy uh who's this guy michael heiser and he has a podcast uh where he talked about this verse and it's pretty weird actually what he talks about and even though it's a bible cop podcast it would probably seem like not clean to do it on this podcast but he got into what they actually believed about long hair and that somehow men would not be able to have children if they had hair that was long but it's still unclear if that's true well no but uh but i walkman's doing great but that yeah i mean i actually had a guy at the courthouse i got out of my car at the courthouse in opelika when I was 18, I had long hair, and a guy with his Bible came running up to me and showed me that verse all that long. You're like, that's the new law, and I don't abide by it. Well, I didn't know any of that back then. Like playfully? No, he was like out there. A guy playfully runs up with his Bible? I thought he was like new dusty. No, he was an old man. And he was telling you, you need to cut your hair? Yeah. That's crazy. Out of all the injustices, this is, let's focus on it. Yeah. But look at all the injustices he focuses on, but he's like, I look good with his hair, so it ain't a commandment. Well, I don't focus on injustices. I focus on the Old Testament laws. Okay, that's true. And that long hair is not listed. The only thing I found is that there's maybe mention if you want to be a priest not having long hair. Interesting. Huh. Do you want to be a priest? Well, if I do, I'll cut my hair. Okay. That'd be great if you became a priest. Yeah. A Catholic priest? Yeah, obviously the right kind. Yeah. Well, thank you, Jordan. Yeah, thanks, Jordan. I appreciate that question. I like that last name, Peyton Nitsch. Me too. All right. So this week, it is Valentine's week. I think this comes out maybe February 12th. Guys, happy Valentine's Day. Yeah, same to you guys. It's one of our favorite holidays. Happy St. Valentine's Day. I don't celebrate Valentine's Day, but this comes out February 11th. I knew you didn't celebrate Valentine's. We did a Valentine's episode, just the three of us, on Nate Land one time. Oh, yeah. Looked at the history, so like, let's don't do that again. All right. But I think we all believe in love, right? I think we believe in love. Love is all you need. Sure, yeah. That's what they say. That's what Valentine's, you know, that's kind of the theme. So today we're talking about love, and we've got some things to unbox, I believe. Oh. Get some things to unbox. Yeah. All right. Tristan's getting the things. Oh, we've got a few things. Does it matter who opens what? All you need is love. You're going to go with that one? Oh, I get the big one. I'll open the tissue box right here. Okay. If you're listening, we've got cardboard boxes. This is a thing we do on this show. We do an unboxing. I love this. So far. All right. Okay. All right. I've got an action figure. Oh, that's Master Splinter. Oh, Master Splinter from Teenage Mutant. Yeah. Action figure of him. Okay. Okay. I've got some, oh, wired headphones. Okay. And I've got a Nintendo 64 shirt. Oh, that's awesome. What size is that? Let's see here. This is XL. All right, you can hold on to it. It looks bigger than that, though, doesn't it? You think that until you put it on. Well, just try and see. Give it a shot. We're a new podcast that could go viral. Okay, so this is supposed to be a theme. Yeah, so these are... Listen, teach, play. Whoa. That's what I'm thinking. Wow. Well, that's better than what I was going to say, but these are all things that, at one time or another, we might have loved. It's from three different eras here. Yeah. What do you got over there? I still love wired headphones. There you go. Is that a USB-C or is that a lightning? Oh, it's a USB. No, it's an AUX. AUX, yeah. Nice. And you must have been in Master Splinter because you knew who that was. Yeah. I was into the Ninja Turtles. I wasn't really into. That was before your time and after my time. A humanoid rat and a geek. He was a villain, right? No he the trainer of the Ninja Turtles Oh he a good guy Yeah Oh why is he training the Turtles Well he Master Splinter But he a what a pigeon He a rat A rat So Nate was really into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So that era. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And then Nintendo 64. Is that what 64? Yeah. Yeah. That's about when I was in college. Tech Mobile, stuff like that. Tech Mobile. Yeah. It's not 64. No. You're probably thinking about regular Nintendo. Super Nintendo. Oh. Super Nintendo. Yeah, Super Nintendo. 64 had a really weird controller, had GoldenEye. 64 came out in 96. Okay. That's a little after me then. Yeah, it had – yeah. I mean, it's maybe the greatest gaming console of all time. It's aged better than just about anything. People still play an N64. I have an N64. I have one, yeah. That I'll play occasionally, take it on the road sometimes. Well, today we're going to talk about some things we love. The things we've loved along the way. Yeah. But before we get into that, I'm going to share a little bit of information about love itself. I'd like to hear. I don't know much about it. Well, you'll like this, Aaron. Ancient Greek philosophers. That's what I'm talking about. Aristotle's. Baroque love down into eight different types. Who did? Who? It doesn't say. It just says Greek philosophers. Okay. The good ones. Okay. Do you know any of them? No, because I don't even know who you're talking about. Well, I'm talking about the different types of love. There's love that's like – I'm looking for the Greek word. Oh, the Greek word. Agape love. Agape. There you go. That's the shirt you're wearing. I didn't even realize that. That's so true. That is crazy. That is so true. So you and I have both done a fundraiser for this organization. At the Franklin Theater. At the Franklin Theater. Agape, it's a Christian organization. There's a lot of Agapes that are Christian organizations, but this one is here in Nashville. What kind of love is that? It's for children that need adoption or foster care. That's the organization. Okay. He said, what kind of love is that? Oh, I'm sorry. Children that need adoption. That's pretty specific. I'm sorry. Agape love is very popular among Christians, so let me tell you what it is. Okay. It's unconditional, selfless love for everyone and everything. The highest form of love. God's love for us. Nothing, you know. So is it possible to have agape love as a human? Can you have agape love for other people? No chance. You're supposed to strive to do that. Probably the closest, I would say, is for our children. Right? I hope so Yeah But we're supposed to have a gapé love for each other Or at least try to At least try to Alright, here's some others Eros, that's sexual and passionate love Okay Like you guys have for Sorry philia that's love between friends based on deep trust and mutual respect Philadelphia the city of brotherly love that's where it comes from what's the first part Ophelia there's also a song Ophelia by Marshall Tucker the band Ophelia's the band Storge or Storge I don't know how S-T-O-R-G. I think it's storage. Love between family members. Okay, like you're all in storage. Yeah. Stowed away. And agape where I covered. Ludus, that's playful love that involves flirting and casual relationship. Ludus! Kind of like what you guys have for each other. Pragma, that's long-lasting love grounded in commitment, duty, and responsibility. That sounds good. Like a marriage. Like a marriage. Like practical. Pragmatic. Pragmatic. Practical is a little close, but a little different. It's like what I tell my daughter. They both start with Ps. That's half the battle right there, bud. Well, they both start with P-R-A. Yeah. Wow. So they're basically the same word. Yeah. I mean, if we're going to do the joke, though. And mania. That's obsessive, jealous love. Oh. So, like a maniac. That's the only one that's bad so far. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. I guess so. You don't want to have that. Yeah. And then, these are the Greek philosophers. Now, modern psychologists have come up with their own types of love. Did I lose a piece? Philosophers are never good enough. It's postmodern. Well, you got to update it because they have the internet now. There's different kinds of love now. You can obsess over the internet. You can stalk people who like all their posts. All right. These are more practical. Number one, non-love, indifference toward another person. No passion, no emotional intimacy, no commitment. I think that's kind of obvious. That's kind of like – well, if – I think I have non-love for a lot of people. Is it non-love? Well, yeah. I mean that's not a type of love. A non-love is not – That's Faison loves me. Yeah, that's a type of love. I agree. This is from – I love non. Yeah. We have non. Yeah. So good. Number two, liking. Yeah. This is most friendships, no passion, high levels of emotional intimacy, no commitment. Also not love. You like them. Yes, I still agree. In this type of love, you're more focused on the real close bond you share with someone else. All right, number three, infatuation. It's starting to get weird. High levels of passion, no emotional intimacy, no commitment. Infatuation is not love. So far, we're 0 for 3, right? Yeah. You get butterflies in your stomach and a flush of desire. Not love. Number four, empty love. People who stay together out of obligation, indifference, or simplicity. couples who choose to stay together for their kids that sounds like love for the kids love for the kids but not for each other just a general lack of responsibility still not really love number five romantic love that could probably be covered under one of the other types of love skip to the good one number six companionate love I was about to say compassionate, but companionate. Maybe you've been friends for years, and you're best friends who rely on each other through thick and thin. So it's like friendship is so close, it's weird. So Aristotle was called eating salt together. So two friends have gone through some crazy experience. Okay, okay. And that kind of elevates the friendship into something. Like joining a fraternity. You have to go through an initiation. You go through the same. Potentially, yeah. You go through the pain. You eat some salt together to get in. Eat some salt together. Yeah. Not literally, but yeah. Yeah. It's a thought experiment. Yeah. You want me to keep going? Yes. Number seven, fatuous love. For fat people. This is when two heavy people find each other, and they use all the plates at the buffet. No. So you feel a lot of sparks toward this person and you're committed, but all of a sudden you might start to realize there's no emotional connection. I love you fatuously. And number eight, consummate love. Okay. This is what you're supposed to try to achieve. High level of passion, high level of emotional intimacy. I can't say that word. High level of commitment. This is the gold standard of relationships. Okay. Yeah, this is why everything's a mess now. Because they've all, like, you're supposed to achieve that. It's like, come on, guys. We're trying out here. Well, that's what character's in the trying, right? What? The virtue is in the trying. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Yeah. It's a deliberately unattainable standard of perfection. But you're defined by your pursuit of that perfection. Mm-hmm. Not whether you achieve it or not. Bars. Have either of you read The Five Love Languages? I know about it from every comedian on earth, but I've never actually read it. I knew you hadn't really. I was just trying to be nice and close you. Appreciate it. Yeah. Nate told the story on this podcast about how when they got married, his parents gave them that book. Parents? Did I say it wrong? I thought you said parents. Parents? Pretty advanced bird. Yeah. Bought him a book. His parents gave him, gave them that book. And they kept asking, have y'all read it? Have y'all read it? And they were like, oh, yeah, we're getting around to it. And they finally were like, look, there's a $100 bill we put in there for you guys. So if you're never going to read it, you need to know that's it. Oh, that's hilarious. Was there actually in there? Yeah, I think so. I think so. It would be a good lie to tell people. All right. Let me give you the five. Look through every page. Couldn't find it. I'll give you the five love languages, and you tell me if you know which one you think you are. Well, does it mean how you like to express love to people or how you like to receive love from people? I've always got confused on that because you'll do a test, say, with your partner. You'll each be one of these two. And I guess it's supposed just to help you know what they like. And I guess do that for them. a video to my wife that I saw the other day. It was a guy hugging his wife and she looked real annoyed. Yeah. And it said when his love language is affection and your love language is acts of service and there's work to be done at home. I think I saw that. And I said that to her because I think that's us. Yeah. I want a hug from my wife and I think she'd like me to clean up the house. So that means her love language is acts of service. Yes. Because she wants you to express your love by doing things. Yes. Okay. I had it. And all I want is a hug. Oh. You know what I mean? All right. The five love languages are acts of service. Okay. Receiving gifts. Quality time. Definitely not that. What, quality time? Just kidding, everybody. Words of affirmation. Yeah. And physical touch. Okay. So which one do you think you would be? Words of affirmation. Oh, physical touch. Yeah, yeah. Okay. When I was younger, physical touch. Now I just want a nice word. Keep at it, buddy. I just want somebody to tell me good time and don't touch me, actually. So, yeah. So couples do this. It's supposed to help them in their relationship. What are you supposed to do with that? at the least understand what motivates your partner and you know if you're trying to do something for them and they're not receiving it the way that you think they should it's probably because that doesn't even mean much for them like acts of service mowing the yard or something may not mean much for your spouse and then you get frustrated but shouldn't the goldman be oh we need to recalibrate things in that person's mind because it is a bigger deal the mow it is a to scratch your back. I don't know. I love to have my back. Well, me too. I even try to get my kids to do it now. I go. Really? Yeah, I'm like, yeah. You know what I can't wait for? When Olive is big enough to walk on my back. Yeah. You like people walking on your back? Oh, God, it feels so good. At least he won't do it. Makes me furious, but. You walk on hers? That's very funny, Brian. I could use a word of affirmation from you, Dusty. You look very good. Oh, man. The shirt you're wearing, you got gold emblem matched with your gold hat right now. Your eyes? I thought it was Brad Pitt over here. It's too much, guys. Yeah, hubba hubba. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you. This is a quality touch. A physical touch. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to touch the skin, though. I'm good on that. All right. We all love our family, I think, that goes out of the same, so we don't have to get into that. Let's get into some stuff, non-people, non-personal. Let's get into what life is really about, material things. That's right, stuff we have loved over the years. So I thought it would be fun. We're all 10 years apart, so if we take a decade and pick some things, I think we're going to have some very different answers. Oh, I love this. Yeah. So let's do the 90s, 2000s, 2010s and then 2020s. Perfect. Perfect. And I picked four things to talk about. Is there one you guys want to get into first? Does it matter? I think we should just start in order. Yeah. Like in 90s. Well, I know that, but I'm talking about the topics. All right. We'll start with toys. OK. So obviously it's going to be very different for you and I. I'll start and we can just I don't know how we want to do this. Some of mine are lame on here, but for toys, 1990s, for me, I chose golf clubs. I never played golf growing up, never took golf lessons. But in the 90s and college, my buddy liked to go to these cheap courses and play. And I bought some really cheap golf clubs and we would go. They were toys. Well, I'm I'm in my 20s. This is the closest thing. Tools for me. But yeah, for Brian, they're more like toys. I get work done on the green. You know what I mean? I'm not going to have any real toys in my 20s. It's the closest thing I can come up with. I was just trying to get caught because you were saying we'd go to these cheap golf courses. I was 25. I got a slinky. And I was thinking you had some plastic golf clubs. Yeah. So that's what I'm choosing. Golf clubs. I've started playing golf. I've never been good at golf, but I was having fun in college. Those were the closest things I have to a toy. Yeah, that's a real good one. Mine would probably be a bike in the 90s. I had a bike with pegs. You ever have a bike with pegs on them? Yeah. Oh, yeah. When I got the pegs put in. Well, 90s were my heyday for toys. I mean, I was eight years old in 1990. I mean, I had G.I. Joe's. I had He-Man, Masters of the Universe toys. I had Ninja Turtle toys. That's how I know about Master Splinter. Me and my stepbrother, we had the whole sewer thing going. You had the city on the top and the sewer underneath. I had, gosh. Those action figures. Oh, yeah. That was it. I mean, I was all, I had race cars. I had a remote control car. Remote control car with a cord, but still a remote control car. Oh, man. My dad had four-wheelers. We had bikes. So you're just listening to a bunch of stuff that you had that you loved as a kid, which is fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, the 90s was my heyday for toys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're saying we're picking one thing. G.I. Joe. Oh, yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. And do you think that that translated into you eventually joining the Army? Maybe. Was he an Army guy, G.I. Joe? Or was he just kind of vague military? There was lots of G.I. Joes. I thought it was one dude named Joe. No, no, no. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought it was one guy named Joe. No, it's a whole world of. So it was G.I. Joe's. G.I. Joe. I thought it was a guy who was a G.I. and his name was Joe. I did too. That's crazy. Who's – okay. So they don't have names? Look up the – yeah, they all have names. But you've got to look up action figures from the 90s. I mean, but, yeah, it's like it stands for something, I think. But it's – Well, G.I. stands for General Infantryman, right? But it's, yeah, I mean, there was so many. I don't, you know, I was just playing with the toys. But in the trailer park. You didn't have the whole back story. In the trailer park, the whole front yard was all sand. Okay. So we, and then Desert Storm was going on at some point in my life as a child. So we had Desert Storm kind of trucks and tanks. And so, and then the yard was sand. So we were building bunkers and roads, and we had G.I. Joes all over the place. It was unbelievable. I think Desert Storm was like 91. Yeah, I mean, it was, you know. Yeah, so that was your heyday. Yeah, I mean, I had a Sergeant Slaughter G.I. Joe. You were right, Dusty. G.I. Joe was not originally one guy, but a brand name for four different action figures representing the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. Yeah. Launched in 1964. I mean, but there was so – my dad – you know, my dad would pick me up every other Sunday because I lived with my mom. And he would take me to lunch, and then we would go to Walmart, and he would usually buy me a G.I. Joe. I had so many G.I. Joes. So how would they make them different then if it was – I don't – I'm pretty blown away that you guys don't know about G.I. Joes. But I think G.I. Joe – I know it's wrong, but I grew up with – I had the little plastic green army guys. That's what I grew up with. Yeah, no. You know what I'm talking about? G.I. Joe's had – Is this them right here? Yeah, they had wrists that moved. They had elbows. They had shoulders. They were not like this. That's some form of G.I. Joe, but you want to look up the 90s plastic G.I. Joe's. They were about this tall, but they were real slender guys. And, yeah, like this one right there. Like this right here? Yeah, more like that, yeah. Okay. And, oh, man, they had guns and grenades, and it was unbelievable. Look at that vintage G.I. Joe collection right there. Yeah. That's what you had? Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. That's awesome. G.I. Joes were the best. But I also loved He-Man, Masters of the Universe. By the power of Grayskull. Should we stick with the 90s or go to a different topic? I say stick with the 90s. Okay. So keep it fresh. All right. So the 90s, TV shows. Yeah. For me, Seinfeld. Now, I will say this. I didn't start watching Seinfeld episode one. I was kind of late to the game. When I was in college, I remember my roommate watched Seinfeld some, and I didn't really get into it or care for it. But then mid to late 90s, I started to really get into it. And then, obviously, by the time it finished. But, I mean, I've watched. It's like a lot of shows. The show's in syndication. I've gotten much more into it than even when it aired. Yeah, but you picked it up while it was on TV. Yeah, I probably – You watched the finale live? Yeah. Do you remember that? Yeah, I went to a friend's house, and we all watched it. Oh, that's funny. He had like a Seinfeld watch party. I was in middle school when Seinfeld was coming out. I remember watching it. We loved it back then. Yeah, but you're probably – I wasn't allowed to watch it. Yeah, yeah. For a while. Yeah, so I was in college and then working when that came out. What about Family Matters, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? When were those out? Early 90s, right? Yeah. Yeah, I mean that whole TGI Friday, I mean those shows and then TGI Friday also had Step by Step, Step by Step, Day by Day. Fresh Star. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's something you and Nate, so you make similar age and similar interests. Those shows I was already a little too old for, like Full House and Family Matters. Family Matters, yeah. You know, I was, like I said, in college and working. I don't care about Urkel. Yeah. So by the time Boy Meets World comes around, you're like, I'm not watching this. Yeah, I don't even really hardly know what that is. You don't know Topanga? You don't know Topanga's? Mm-mm. I'm trying to think of 90s. For me, there was one show in the 90s, cartoon. I was young in the 90s. But Hey Arnold was, I think, the best cartoon of that era for me. Okay. It's a big show. Yeah. It didn't actually last that long. Where did it air? It was a cartoon. It was a Nickelodeon cartoon. It came out in 96. Doug? It's about, Doug was a different show. What about Hey Dude? Never heard of that. But Hey Arnold is about all these, what is Hey Dude? The shoes? No, Hey Dude was a TV show I think came on Nickelodeon about a dude ranch. Oh, never heard of that. Hey Arnold was about street kids. And it's like the main character has a football-shaped head. Yeah. And they call him football head. Yeah, I remember this show. And it's just about him and his friends, and there's zero parental supervision this whole show, and it's just these kids running around the city, and it was just, it was the best. I loved it. So you were born late 91. Yeah, late 91. So this is, I mean, you're young. Yeah, I mean, by the time I was watching, I was seven or eight or nine, so at the end of the 90s. So it's clean enough that your parents let you watch it. Yeah, it was Nickelodeon. It's for kids. Okay. So it's not an adult cartoon. Gotcha. What about you, Dusty? well i mean yeah tv show the 90s i mean if i i mean it's so hard because like i say the 90s that was my era yeah so i mean what in the 90s was bad i mean that i didn't i mean fresh prince was such a great show well you remember the good stuff yeah i'm sure there's a ton of trash yeah they got canceled real fast um but i you know there was some like i used to i watched a lot of TV. Bill Engvall show? You got into that? I did get into Bill Engvall, but I never watched the Bill Engvall show. Friends had a spinoff. Joey. But Friends was out in the 90s, right? Yeah, in the 90s was Friends. Yeah, so you were saying it was all great. We're saying you got to pick one. That's the point of this. Oh, but Joey, Blossom. I remember that. You remember Blossom? No. I think that might have been the 80s. Yeah, Blossom. Oh, was it? I don't think so. You may be right. Yeah. I got to pick one show from the 90s? Yeah, that's what we're doing. I mean – You're picking one thing from each of these categories. That's too hard. I got to pass. Okay. It's like Kevin on The Office when he's doing the CPR, they pass. No, he says call it. All right. A car from the 90s, which should be interesting, R3. So when I got my job at News Channel 5 in 1995, I bought – I guess the two cars I had previously my parents had bought for me, I bought a Ford Probe. And I think it was like two years old, so it was very new to me. And it had tinted windows. What year? Do you remember? It was a 93 Ford Probe, and I bought it in 95. and yeah, except it was black. And... It was a sweet car back then. Yeah. Did the headlights pop up like that? Yep. I mean, it looked cool. That's pretty sweet. That was a cool guy. It doesn't sound like it's going to be a nice looking car with a name like Probe. Once it starts to get raggedy and only one headlight comes up, that gives you a little wink. Yep, I think that ended up happening. Yeah. But, yeah, that was like my first car that I bought myself and made payments on myself. Oh, yeah. That's a big moment. Yeah. What car were you driving in the 90s? I was not driving yet, but our family car, we had a 1991 Toyota Previa minivan. Yeah. It was a white one. All the hubcaps fell off. It's so funny. A lot of the pictures of this same model car, the hubcaps are missing. That's truly the worst-looking van in all of history. Yeah, that was the Weber family minivan right there. Wow. That was a nice car when it came out. Family truckster. That is the worst. It had a sliding door, but only on one side of it. Yeah, I remember those. And our minivan, we were at the ballpark. My brother was playing, and that sliding door slid right off the car. Wow. And we had to drive back to the house, my brother on top of the car, holding it. Wow. And we brought it back to the house. But that was our car. I mean, we took all our road trips in that car. You know, my dad and brother in the front and my mom and sister in the middle. Yeah, that's the way we did it. We put six people in that car, man. Wow. We missed it. We donated it to, like, I don't know, something. Cars for kids? Something like that. And we used to see it around town every now and then. We'd see it. Don't you wish you could have it, Mal? I would like it back. It looks like a novelty car now. It doesn't even look like a real vehicle. I was just watching. That's the ugliest car you've ever had. It is the ugliest car in the history of Vans. It's not that good looking. We had a little thing on top, too, where we put extra stuff in. Oh, yeah. Dusty was just on Millionaires in Cars getting coffee. Isn't that what it's called? That is what it's called. If you're a millionaire, you can come on, too. Well, I didn't know that there was any kind of criteria. But anyway, it's titled. I just agreed to do the podcast. Yeah, yeah. But you were talking about on there, I think, a car that you wish you still had. Well, there's several that I wish I still had. But the car I drove in the 90s that I liked the most and wish I still had was a 1989 Ford Bronco, full size. It's, I mean, that's what I had. What color was it? It was a white. That's OJ. Yeah, but it was. Oh, that's awesome. It was 1989. Dude, that's such a cool looking car. It was the best. I love that. But my. That car play in it? Yeah. My dad gave it to me, and it broke down a lot. So one day my dad traded it in, and then the car that I had in the 90s for the rest of the 90s was a 1999 Saturn SL. One or two? I don't even know if there was a one or a two back then. It's probably one. Is that one of the blue ones? It's probably the top left. So a real downgrade from the Ford Broncos. You graduated in 2000? Yeah. Okay, so this is your high school. So I drove it senior year. Yeah. And gosh. Like the second one from the left up there. Yeah, that one. That looks almost identical. And mine had gray bumpers, which are called five-mile-per-hour bumpers. So you could hit anybody going five miles per hour, and it wouldn't hurt their car. Wow. That was smart. It was. It saved me a lot. But that car ended up being really great for me. I would end up wrecking it in a ditch. I flipped it. But it was great for me. But a car I wish I had back was a 2000s car. We can get into that in the next decade. All right. You know, a little Saturn trivia. I don't think Saturns exist anymore. No. They started in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Did they really? Yep. Spring Hill was nothing, and then this Saturn plant came there and blew up. Good for Spring Hill. It was really a great car for me. It was good on gas. We used to call it incognito because it looked like the kind of car that you wouldn't get pulled over in. It looked like nothing bad was going on in there. Nothing good, but nothing bad. Would you drive your friends around? All the time. I used to deliver pizza in that car, and they'd come meet me at the pizza place, and we'd drive around and deliver pizzas. Did you put a thing on top of the car? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's great. A local pizza place? Papa John's Oh, Papa John's, yeah That's awesome Yeah, local joint Alright A place called Domino's And then music we loved in the 90s I guess this could be a singer or a song or album Whatever we choose I chose The 90s was when Early 90s was when country music kind of blew up And obviously Garth Brooks was the biggest But there were so many big acts And George Strait was already big in the 80s, so it's not like he was new. But at that time, when I was in college, it's crazy saying this now, Nashville did not have any big venues for big acts. This was before Bridgestone Arena was built. So if there was a big act coming, they would come to Murfreesboro, to MTSU's Murphy Center. So I saw Garth Brooks there but I saw George Strait numerous times at MTSU Murphy Center and I still love George Strait but in the 90s you know I love George Strait That's a great one. That was mine. Yeah, mine's a little different. Okay. Boys to men. Is that a small child? Boys to men. I remember I saw boys to men either at the Super Bowl or some NFL game. I thought you were going to say, like, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. No, that's when I was six or seven. What was the song, the big song? I remember Boyz II Men. Well, The End of the Road was the big hit. Did you all make love to you? I was more into the love stuff. Yeah. It's a love episode. I remember my dad. We went to the mall. My dad bought me. You're going to say your dad took you to Boyz II Men. No, I never saw them live. But I bought this album, Evolution, right here by Boyz II Men. They had a song called A Song for Mama on it. That's like the greatest song from a son to a mom. Yeah. And I love that album. That came out in 97, so I was sick when we got it. Wow. This was New Edition, right? They're boys to men because they used to be a boy band, and then they became men? I have no idea. Are you making a joke or is that real? No, no, no. I believe New Edition changed their name. They were like a boy band, and then I feel like they got older, and they changed their name to boys to men. I've never heard that. I've never heard that either. I mean, that might be true. I have no idea. Surely it's on there. They found inspiration in new additions, harmonies, and routines. Oh. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'll look this up later. Wow. There might be some truth. They eventually renamed the group Boys to Men. Wow. Oh, yeah. Wow. That's crazy. It's nice to have an old guy on the pod. Yeah, you remember when that happened? Old head. I do remember when that happened. I was getting mixed up a little bit with Belle, Biv, DeVoe because I think some of them are in there too. All right, Dusty, music from the 90s. Well, I would say early 90s, I mean, I was all country, all country. Probably Hank Jr. was my favorite. Which one you loved? Yeah, Hank Jr. And then as I got later 90s, as I got my own car in 98, I started to drive around a bit, listen to the radio, started to branch out a little bit found some 90s alternative rock i would say probably by the end of the 90s i matchbox 20 was a big fan of the matchbox 20 yourself or someone like you i wouldn't go right to they were my favorite band i also liked live um lightning lightning that album unbelievable wildest creed was really popping off at the end of the 90s In the end, yeah, my own prison and all that. My own prison, and then, you know, I think I was a senior when the album came out. Well, 99 is when I started my Creed fan website when I was a kid. It's true. It ran for a year or two. All right. Now we're in the 2000s. 2000s. A toy. I mean, it's getting harder and harder for me. So it's a little bit of a stretch. You're like a hot water heater. I chose Titan season tickets. Oh, wow. Technically, it was 1999. It was their first year. But I had season tickets all through the 2000s and loved it. They were actually good a lot of those years. And I had two tickets, so I would take friends to games. I just thought it was the coolest thing ever. It is awesome to have season tickets. It really is. And then I just couldn't believe that Nashville had a professional sports team and guys that I just watched on TV are actually playing here. They're right there. Live. I mean, my seats were so high, but still, I loved it. I loved it. So that's mine. I would say I got a drum set at the early 2000s. Spatula? No, full-on Tama. Five-piece drum set with a ride cymbal and a crash cymbal. So this is ages like two. No, it was like nine. Like early 2000 probably. And I had a drum set. And I played drums seriously for a long time. So that drum set was huge. You're still a good drummer? I haven't played it forever, but I think I could be all right. I was never like exceptionally good or anything. But I played in like our church group and stuff as a young kid. I would play occasionally. Catholics have drummers? Usually one mass a weekend. They try to modernize it for people like y'all. Yeah. And then. Well, not me. Yeah, you don't like any instruments, right? Yeah. Yeah. And then I played with, like, groups through middle school and high school. Anyway, drum set for me. What about you, Dustin? I would say horseshoes. Early 2000s, I moved to Folling Beach, South Carolina. Go hang out on the beach a lot. I'd say it'd be tough to say whether a horseshoe, a set of horseshoes or a cooler was my favorite toy. But a good cooler can change your life. But horseshoes is a toy, yeah. And we would go down to the beach and we'd play horseshoes a lot. In the sand? Yeah. Oh, that's fun. That's good. I used to do that all the time. It's before Cornhole took over the world. Horseshoes was the game. Yeah, yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. All right, TV shows in the 2000s. This was tough for me because I love Sopranos. There's a lot of good shows. But I chose The Office. Yeah, yeah. It actually ran over the next decade, but by then the show wasn't as good. So I think it started in 2005. That long ago. The West Wing for me. Go check it out. The West Wing. Best show of all time. Early 2000s. I blacked out most of the early 2000s. I don't even know that I watched a TV show at all. The whole decade. I don't know that I ever got into a TV show in the decade of 2010. Okay. Like Guy Fieri or something? You're watching any of that? I might have watched it. Who's the guy you like? Restaurant Impossible. Yeah. But I didn't get into that until after. Yeah. I would say maybe, yeah, Diners, Dives, and Drive-Ins or whatever. We watched a little bit of that because he came to Charleston. But, yeah, I don't think I watched a TV show at all, really. Well, that's me for music. I stopped after the night. I really almost stopped music. But I chose, I wouldn't say I really love them, but I had to pick something. So I chose Coldplay. Wow. I like The Scientist. That's a good album. The first album was a good album. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's what I chose. A decade for them. That's got to be John Mayer for me, that whole ten years. Room for Squares comes out early, early, aughts, and then he just goes on a tear for the next ten years, culminates in the greatest live album of all time, live at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. And that was the decade of John Mayer for me. Oh, yeah. I got into Radiohead in the 2000s, and also I liked the first two albums of Kings of Leon and the first two albums by The Killers. I would say those really rounded out the 2000s for me, but I had a real Radiohead because I'd never listened to Radiohead. So I got caught up on all of them in the 2000s. And it's the next decade where your life changes a lot. Yeah, where I start to get it together. All right, now we're in the 2010s. So for a toy, I chose the iPhone. I'm still being my toy now, but I got my first iPhone around that time. And, I mean, I'm addicted to my phone. I love it. I love it more than my family, but I shouldn't. So that's me. It's a laptop for me. I remember I got my first laptop in 2010. I graduated high school. and I'm a big computer guy, not as much as I used to be. I used to do a lot on there, but yeah, that's it. It's the best. Even though truthfully my toy is probably my iPhone 2, but in 2012 I quit drinking. And so for the next two – I thought you meant like an iPhone 2. No, no. That's what I currently am. My iPhone 2 is incredible. But I rode a bike for two years from 2012 to 2014, and it completely changed my life. So I'm going to say a bike. That's a good one. Yeah. TV show for me, again, this is tough because there's so many good ones, but I chose Breaking Bad. Yeah, Breaking Bad's mine as well. Okay. Best show of the decade. I'm going to go Portlandia. Never watched it, but I hear it's great. That was my favorite show. I mean, I watched Breaking Bad, and obviously it's a better show. But Portlandia is so funny. Now, Better Call Saul is considered one of the best spinoffs of any show ever Oh, it has to be It might be better than Breaking Bad Kind of like us with Maitland Yeah, we're the Better Call Saul of Yeah A car from the 2000... Did I skip? You skipped car for the last one, that's alright Oh, I'm sorry That's okay Well, for me, the 2000s and 2010s, it's a Honda Accord Two different Honda Accords, but... Sorry, you want to do your cars? That's all right. Early 2000s would be a Dodge Avenger for me because that was my first car that I actually bought on my own, and I wore that car out. By flipping it in the water? I didn't flip it. I flipped the Saturn. The Dodge Avenger I threw up in, and I wrecked several times. What was your first car that was yours? I had a 2004 Toyota Tacoma. I remember that truck. That truck right there. I bought it from my grandpa for a dollar. And he used to carry his dog around in it, and it smelled like his dog for maybe two or three years before I finally got the smell out of there. You know, I had to mask it with. Dip spit. And cigarettes. Yeah. Everything else he put in there. But, yeah, I got in a bad wreck in that car driving back from Gregory's Comedy Club in Cocoa Beach. Driving back, got in a wreck, smashed up the front of the car, couldn't afford to fix it. Drove around for years with a smashed up front of that truck. Ended up selling it to a waiter at Zaney's here for $400. Wow. Selling the car. So it's still out there somewhere. But I like to think my grandpa protected me in that truck. Yeah. Yeah, because it got pretty smashed up. And they were like, they go, it looks terrible, but it's fine. I go, well, then that's all I need. Yeah. Yeah. 2010's car for me, 2005 Volvo S60. We drove around with me a lot in that car. That's my favorite car that I ever owned. I drove all over the country in that car. 2004? 2005, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, that white one. Gosh. That was my favorite car in the world. I drove that car all over the country. I traded it in with 317,000 miles. Wow. Love that car. It was fast. I remember driving Aaron around in Upper Peninsula, Michigan. Not a soul around, just flying. Yeah, 95. Yeah. I tried down two-lane roads. God, it was amazing. Just flying, scared to my life. That was the best. And then, so now we're in the 2020s. The 2020s, the current decade. Yeah, this gets harder and harder for me. That's more than halfway over. That's crazy. We're closer to 2030 than we are in 2020. That is crazy. That's when it all goes down. 2030? Yeah. Yeah. It was 2012, remember? It was 2030. Do you think 2030 is when? It's every year. No, 2030. Okay. Is when? I'll beat that by then. Okay. 2020s for me I mean I'm sorry what can I think of I got a telescope so I haven't had much chance since I've had a kid but I used to love to go out there and look at the stars look at the moon and observe you know don't even know what I was looking at but it was fun to see stuff up close remember that there was one Christmas a few years ago where the planets aligned and they called it like the Christmas star or whatever. And I brought it to Nate's house after the podcast, and we got out in his cul-de-sac. Did you get a good view of it? It was okay. I think Nate was a little disappointed. I think he thought I was going to have like a Dyer Observatory telescope. It's the one I bought for $80 at Walmart. But it was fun, so that's mine. Mine is probably the fattest thing ever. It's got an outdoor fridge. Not outdoor, but a garage fridge. Yeah. Just for drinks. Where's Nate when you need it? That's the dream. Yeah. The dream is a separate fridge with all the stuff, the fun stuff. You keep it in the garage? Keep it in the garage. Yeah, I got it out there. It's not a great one. It's a small one from Costco, but that's a milestone in my life. Yeah. A separate fridge. Yeah. I got to work on a separate freezer out there. That's going to be next. But anyway. I'm going to try to piggyback off that. Please do. Because the reality is the real toy that I got in the 2020s is my children's toys because I had my first child in 2021, my daughter. But I got an outdoor heater so that I could sit outside and smoke cigars in the wintertime. Big time. So. One of those ones that. It's not like that. It's like this. But it, I mean, it pumps it out. And it is. You sit right in front of it. It's like I'm like too hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. It's funny the stuff that makes you excited. Yeah. It's the best. Getting my dryer fixed tomorrow morning. I'm so pumped. Yeah. I'm so excited. Yeah. I love that. It's been running continuously. Oh. Really? And you turn it off and it still runs. You have to unplug it. Oh, yeah. And as soon as you plug it in, it starts going again. Wow. That sounds fine to me. It's a fairly common error with it. It sounds fine to me. You can't control any of it. Yeah. You just got to get yourself one of those surge protectors with a little switch on it. I mean, honestly. Yeah. That might be the way to do it. Yeah. But I'm going to have a guy look at it. Yeah, that's probably the way. Our TV shows that we love of the 2020s. I almost said Game of Thrones because I was into Game of Thrones. Time flies. That was over. I think that maybe ended in 2020 or maybe. That was when I was in college. 2019. Yeah. So I chose Succession. short lived but I thought it was really good HBO yeah three seasons but I really enjoyed it I'm going to say a show that also died soon Mindhunter on Netflix David Fincher it's about the two guys they're kind of fictionalized in a way it's about the group of people at the FBI that first started investigating serial killers and it's just like interviews with serial killers it's unbelievable two seasons and then they stop doing it. Every now and then I see an article, we're coming back for season three, but it's not going to happen. That was my favorite. What about you? I should have said Always Sunny for the last decade, but I didn't and I'm going to stick with Portlandia. You can't go back. For the 2020s, I've not watched many shows at all. I watched a lot of old shows, but I'm going to say the show that I watched that I liked, AP Bio. Only season one. I'm really surprised you liked that show. I love that show. season one is unbelievable so funny I've never even heard of this show I just happened to stumble on it I like the actor season one is so funny to me I think I skipped again one of the categories the 2010s for music this is where I'm really getting desperate I couldn't even think of anything but I really I'm supposed to stuff something I love but I really liked Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton that song just that one song on loop the whole decade I couldn't think of anything. I really stopped listening to music. That whole album is good. I'm going to say this, Traveler. I bought that at, what is this music shop over here? Fairly popular record shop right near Zane's. Grimies. Grimies. I went into Grimies one day probably to pick up my CDs making that fudge that they let me put on their shelves that they never sold any of. And they asked me to come pick them up. And I bought. Did you sign them? No, no, I didn't sign them. Yeah, but The Traveler, I bought it in there. I'd never heard of Chris Stapleton, had no idea who he was. I listened to that album for a week, and I was like, this is the best. Did you just like the cover? I think it was displayed or something, and they were – but I had never heard of this guy. And I listened to it, and I was like, this is unbelievable. I don't know if I've ever taken a chance on a CD like that. I used to do it all the time. Really? But then – so I'm like, I wanted to make a Facebook post about how good it was. And then the next week, like a week later, he does whatever award show with Justin Timberlake where he plays Tennessee Whiskey. And everybody knows now. That's how I learned of him. And I was like, ah, I wish I'd have made the post. I want everybody to know that I was on this first. Yeah. But now y'all are friends. That's called a hipster. Yeah. That's like the definition of a hipster. But I like that one. I also, Sturgill Simpson, Meta Modern Sounds of Country Music came out in that. Very good. very good. That was a good time. Did you have one for 2010s? 2010s is probably, I got into jam stuff a lot, probably Tedeschi trucks. That probably dominated that era for me. Whitey Morgan. Very good. Country 2. Sorry, I kind of messed this up by getting out of words. So now we're back to the 2020s cars. So in 2010, the 2010s, I bought a in 2012, I bought a a brand new hondo cord first time and probably only time in my life i'll big time buy one we always bought slightly used and i'm like i'll do it this one time i'll buy a brand new car and i'm still driving that car today the the one i have out there now it hit 200 000 miles a few months ago wow and i posted a video of all the well-known comedians that have rode in my car with me that's yeah and uh you know dusty wasn't on there because he never did but then a couple weeks ago nate land finale we're both parked outside and uh couldn't find anywhere to park and he's like let me just jump in your car and we'll pull over here so we drove about 50 feet yeah that counts that counts yeah it's a road trip it's a road trip so now i can say i can add dusty to the list of people in my car that's not the car we drove to huntsville that time didn't you drive No, I think, well, maybe I did. You may be right. You are both drunk. Now, you may be right. How did we get home? I don't know. Because we've done two Huntsville shows. Are you talking about that corporate? Yeah. I think you're right. I think I did drive. So never mind. That's true. I forgot about that. That was when you all performed for janitors at lunch? Yeah. Yes. Yeah. The other time we... Well, Brian performed for everybody, and then they started to leave. during my set. And he would not let up. He'll do his time, man. Finally, people who booked you said, hey, you can stop. The other time we drove to Huntsville together is when I had shingles. Oh, yeah. On my face, I had to wear a hat. I drove that time. Yeah, you had me sit in the back. Yeah. In the back of the truck. The bed of the truck. And put a trash bag on. So, anyway, my car was the same for two decades that I choose because it's the only one I've had. So, what's a car for you? I had that 2010 Chrysler Town & Country minivan, and I beat that thing into the ground, and it gave me nothing. It fought back the whole time. Nothing but problems, dude. It would – Oh, I remember that car. It used to turn off in the middle of driving and the steering – I mean, it gave me nothing but problems. I love the look of it though and it had stow and go seats I remember I bought it it's got stow and go seats worst case scenario I can always sleep in the back of this minivan A. never clean enough to do that B. thankfully never had to but I love that minivan and I put 250,000 miles on it is that the one that ran out of gas that you had a joke about it did run out of gas I got a lot of material from this minivan you let me smoke a cigar in there in Columbus, Ohio. You can do whatever you wanted. It was so cold, and we sat out there, and you let me smoke a cigar in there. Of course. You can do it. I was like, are you sure? Yeah. So that's the one you had when the podcast first started, Nate Land started. You just drive that to Nate's house. I think so. Yeah, I still had that. Yeah. And I loved it as much as it was a nightmare, and I'll never buy a Chrysler ever again. Chrysler's like, hey, your headlight's out. What we got to do is we got to take all four tires off and take apart the car, and then we could put a new light bulb in. I mean, they're dealership traps. They're awful. But, God, I loved it. I loved every second of it. And then music of the 20. Oh, go ahead. I want to just, well, my car. I mean, not that it's going to. I'm sorry, did I skip you? Yeah, you did. My apologies. But I have a 2018 Toyota Tacoma that I still drive. Yeah. And I love that. I love that truck. It's a nice car. It's a very nice. Yeah, thank you. How long have you had it? I don't know maybe the whole decade maybe maybe maybe five maybe I got it yeah I might have got it at 2021 I bet after COVID yeah here's how old my car is this had nothing to do with it it was just a pure coincidence I bought my car on election day the year Obama and Romney or I guess each other okay didn't that seem like such a long time ago I mean, it feels like a whole different country. Yeah, I was riding a bike back then. It was like a whole different country. Obama and Romney? Yeah, 2012 is when I bought it. That's when I quit drinking. I was riding a bike around. I'm still driving it. Wow. I hope to get to 300,000 miles, but we'll see. You remember the things that were scandalous during that election? Binders full of women. You remember all that? Oh, I forgot about it. Yeah, it was crazy. That's amazing because in that time, I bought a car in 2014 with 100,000 miles, and I put 217,000 on it by 2018. Yeah. I mean, talk about an easier-to-drive tour. I have no other option. Yeah. You ever feel a connection with a car and you hate to give it up because you don't think I've been through so much with that car? Yeah, I mean, I felt that way with that one, even though it hated me. I keep cars so long that I feel sad when I see men. I still think about the Volvo. As men get older, they become more and more sentimental about that kind of stuff. I sure do. Oh, yeah. If you ever move from your current house, do you think you would get sentimental about leaving that house? Absolutely, because we may do that. I think about how often my daughter runs up and down that hallway. Yeah. Well, I can tell you as somebody who just moved houses and my kids had been in the house the whole time. You know, that was the house they'd been in their whole lives. I don't miss it at all. So I thought I would. I thought I would be very sentimental about it, but I don't. I did come up. We talked about a top five country songs about loving things. Yeah. Did y'all want to do music? Time-wise. all right because i only have four normally i have all right i have two i can throw in because we we talked about not making it about love because there's so many all songs everything's about love about romantic love right so i thought about other things we can do agape love though these are some songs about love so i'm gonna go number four i love a rainy night oh that's a good By Eddie Rabbit. Yeah, by Eddie Rabbit. There's a song called I Love by Tom T. Hall. I love little baby ducks, old pickup trucks. It's a great song. Yeah, it's a great song. Frogs. And then there's another one called I Love This Bar. I had that one. By Toby Keith. I love this bar. Yep. And then my number one, he doesn't actually say he loves things, But it just it kind of piggybacks off. We and I which I never say piggybacking. I've said it a couple of times here off being sentimental about things. But it's a guy named Guy Clark. And the song is Stuff That Works. Stuff that works. Yeah. Stuff that holds. Oh, you really do know it. Yeah. Now it's a great song. And the stuff they'll never let you down. Yeah. Stuff like that. Yeah. And it's it's just like he talks about things that he loves in his life. that he that he that just it works and he loves it because it works what about so one of them was i love this bar the other one i thought of uh kind of fits is i'm gonna miss her by brad paisley oh yeah i'm gonna miss that's about he loves fishing plus fishing more than his wife yeah that's a good one yeah there's five yeah yeah all right i still think stuff that works is number one okay just if we're ranking them okay i'm not gonna argue that i don't know the song i would We put Brad Paisley's song at number five. I'm fine with that because I – what were the other three? I know them all. Eddie Rabbit, I Love a Rainy Night. That's a great song. Humpty Hall, Love, and I Love This Bar. I Love This Bar, yeah. All right. I like my truck. I like my girlfriend. You know this song. I like to take her out to dinner. I like a movie now and then. But I love this bar. Oh, okay. I love the way he pauses before his... You know, you don't really sing melodically, so it's tough sometimes. Well, you don't get it. Bart Scarborough's daughter gets it. You're just a drummer. What do you know? You know what I mean? They say, what's the difference between a drummer and a... They tell all these drummer jokes. Yeah. How do you know if a drummer's at your door? I don't know. The knocking gets faster and faster. Oh, yeah. That's funny. And then what's the difference between a drummer and a large pizza? It takes longer to break down your drum kit than it does to eat the whole pizza. It's not really an answer to the question. As a pizza can feed a family of four. That's good. We didn't get to show the video this week because we recorded two back-to-back from last week. Are we asking for another one? What video? Let's ask for another one. Maybe something that you love? something that you loved in a particular decade of your life. Yeah, keep it short. Shorter the better. I know it's sometimes hard to go into detail, but if it's too long, we're not going to be able to use it. So, give us a story and we may show it on the podcast. And then you too can be a public figure. Is that our motto? I like that. Yeah, if we show you, you're now a public figure. Anyone, even you, can be a public figure. Yeah. Alright, Aaron, you can wrap it up. This is Public Figures. Brought to you by... Is that a pretty good impression? It's a good impression in my head. You know who I'm doing? Pablo Francisco. Oh, well, it's SportsCenter. Yeah. This is SportsCenter. Yeah. Brought to you by Men's Warehouse. You're going to like the way you look. Anyway, thank you for joining the Public Figures podcast. this is it, we've reached the end and you know what they say all ends come to it at the window have a great Valentine we're having a good time I'd like to tell you where I'm at I'm in Texas, Houston at the Houston Improv Dallas at the Addison Improv and then in a couple weeks heading up to Canada in Edmonton, Alberta at the comic strip Brian, where can the people find you? I'm in Arlington, Virginia at the Arlington Draft House, February 22nd. All right, Valentine's Day, Sioux City, Iowa. Love it. All right. Love it. All right. And that's all she wrote. And tune in next week. Thank you.