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of the aforementioned podcast. And alongside me in a state-of-the-art recording studio, not in San Diego, but in Nashville, Tennessee, is my lovely wife,

My co-host, my CFO and overall great gal, Melissa Nickerson. Hi there. How are you, Mel? I'm great. I like your shirt. I'm great. You kind of got like 90s McDonald's vibes, kind of Playplace vibes. Yes. I like it. It's a good look. And alongside Melissa, because today is a very special day of Don't Make Me Come Back There, is...

three-fourths of the crew of Nate Land. So it's wild. Nate, it's a lot. Brian Bates, Aaron, Josephus Weber. Yeah.

You come out of the gate hot. I know. I told this was like the big adjustment. It was like we come out real... We're like above a coffee shop in La Mesa. We get caffeinated. We get our kids off to school. And we like... I think we... It's like when you're doing a bad gig and you have to throw...

you do an hour worth of material in about 20 minutes. Yeah. That's the pace we run on. Yeah. So there's people who listen to Nate Land right now. They're like, I don't like any of this. We can't even keep up with you. Yeah. I don't know what he's saying. That is nothing's worse than when you do a show. That's one of those that...

I guess if people understood comedy or if you could feel comedy to feel that you can do an hour worth of material in 25 minutes. Yes. This is fun. We have a segment on our podcast called, uh, Dustin's comedy corner, the DCC where every once in a while, we just apologize to the audience for talking about something that I, I know bores them. Yeah. But you know, there's always like a small segment of the population who wants that. Yeah. But they, well,

the majority of the population has no idea that you're like, no, sometimes you got to do this bad gig, you know, for like 20 people. And you're like, they're like, you got to do an hour. Yeah. You look down your clock, you're like 11 minutes. Oh. And you're looking, you're normally like, this is usually the halfway marker. Yeah. This weekend, I forgot something out of an order and I was hitting like,

stuff about my parents and i was like golly i'm already there's like 27 minutes 30 minutes and i'm like already in it i'm like i think i should be winding down yeah and then i did figure out i left a whole chunk out so then i got to figure out how to get it back in yeah so it doesn't just look like yeah i don't know what i'm doing yeah

Well, we're happy. We will. We're honored. You're so we have started a podcast network, the alien podcast network. And this is you guys are our first podcast that we have have that we have on the network. Thank you. And we're super pumped about it. Yeah, we're honored to be a part of it.

Yeah, we're big fans. You know, known you guys forever. And Dusty, you've been out with us and you guys are killing it. And I think you fit very well. You obviously fit very well into the world that we are doing. And so thanks for having us on your first podcast. Dusty refused. He's just standing right behind the camera.

I only have one Dustin with glasses. I can't be associated with another. Can't have two. No. Can't have two. No, Dustin B is flight, big flight stuff this week. Bad flight. Yeah. Yeah. I drove from Huntsville, so it was kind of, I got out ahead of it and

And then we drove from Huntsville and I thought I would feel worse for all my friends getting delayed. But I didn't. Yeah. I don't know why. I think I just I'm like, it happens. What are you going to do? Yeah. Yeah. For me, I would only there. I was thinking about I was like next week and I'm in Fort Wayne.

And I was like, I wouldn't I wouldn't mind missing maybe one of those shows. Yeah. Like if I had to miss the Friday late and they had to go to the Saturday, I'd probably be OK with me. Actually, you guys should just stay here. Yeah. What do you like when he's what if he's delayed? Like if you miss. Well, I'm kind of used to it right now. Yeah, it's it's

it's getting pretty bad. Yeah. Just like you kind of expect like at least two hours. You know, I mean, were you like, I wish she was here? Do you sometimes, is it, well, sometimes you're like, you know what? Are you excited? Are you excited that it's,

Could you be a little... No, no. I'm like, you got to get home and help me. That's what it is. You're not happy to see me. You're happy for the relief. The second shift. Yeah. It's like the, you know, like, where were you? A swing shift comes in. Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly it. You get really, and I wonder if Lars the same way, around the holidays is like when it... Yeah, I get a little triggered. You know, like in December, I'm like...

okay, what time's your flight? Like, planes, trains, and automobiles stop. Like, because it's just too important. You know, like, we don't mess with, like, the week before Christmas, but... You don't take them that serious. Do you, you know, like, you, uh, when you travel a lot for work, like, we'll celebrate your birthday on a different day. Oh, yeah. But you do that with Jesus Christ. Yeah, yeah. Jesus, well, he's there the whole time. So, he understands. Yeah.

I don't talk to him irregularly like you do. I talk to him every day, Justin. He's in this room. He's in this room right now. I don't know that. He came in this room just to meet you for a second. Are you talking about the doctrine of an omnipresent God? Because I'm ready to go. I'll theologize this podcast all day. I didn't go to, you know, I'm a proper Christian too, you know. That's philosophy major over here. I studied the book, not the question.

questions yeah did you take a whole class on thomas aquinas and angels i did no i was like dang but i know who that is yeah you know thomas aquinas yeah he was uh he was kind of the mystic of the old group right he was he broke a little bit okay you had you had augustine who was little more a little more like kind of your what would you call like uh i don't know like more reform like kind of like by the book

But Aquinas, he got a little more mystical. He was a little more kind of out there on some of the ideas. He was just an Aristotelian. He just loved Aristotle. All right, now we're just throwing words. I don't know. I mean, you dropped omnipresent earlier. You kind of raised the bar here. Well, to be fair, Nate said I wasn't a Christian. You're a California Christian. That's a different scale. You're like the Pope out there. That's fair enough.

I think that the if I think it might be in there, but the shade the last week, the impression that Aaron did of me, which Dusty was right, was very insulting. Like you really the nasal. Yeah. But what you said, and I don't know if you was much meaner.

Do you remember what you said? You go, first off, it's an impression of somebody nobody knows. I don't know if that's... It is what is me. But you weren't there, so it was easier to do it. Now,

Now everybody knows you. I knew this was happening. He's planting the seed for us. Then everybody goes, well, who is that guy? Oh, I'll tell you who that guy is. Now you know. Now you know who that guy is. Brilliant. Pulling the strings. A real Aquinas.

I know that doesn't make sense at all. No, Dustin's one of the most requested guests we've had to be on our podcast. Yes. Excellent. Yeah. Awesome. We have some comments. I don't believe y'all do comments. We read comments on our podcast. Yeah, we do emails. We do email. Yeah. We got a Facebook group. We're Nate Land Light in that regard. Oh, yeah. We're working on it. Yeah. We're just doing barely better than you. And then...

You will, in two weeks, you acquire us. And now we're like, golly, that went way wrong. Yeah. I don't know what happened. Let's read. Here's some of our comments. David Bushy. That's his last name. Bushy.

Bushy. You hit it so hard, though. David Bushy. That's tough. I bet he prefers to not even say his last name. It's tough when your last name is an adjective. That's true. You don't want... I would just tell everybody it's Boucher. Yeah. David Boucher. Oh, yeah, that'll clear that up. Just call me Bush. Yeah. Boucher. I may be... I may be...

I may be in the minority here, but I actually think Aaron Webber did a good Dustin Nickerson impression. If you close your eyes and listen, you can picture Dustin. There you go. I've heard him enough. I think I've got it down. Oh, man. Yeah. That sounded like you've heard too much. I mean, yeah. I've had to sit through enough. We haven't done that many dates together. You did enough. You officiated my wedding. That's true. I'm familiar with your voice. That is true. I had a hot set.

Did you get paid for that? No. That's crazy. They did give us a hotel. No flight. No travel buyout. Wow. My wife made a bad deal. This was before I could sell tickets. So Sinsheimer gave me a bad no door deal. He goes, look, there'll be a lot of industry there. Yeah.

There was actually. It was pretty good exposure. I got bookings from it. I got passed at the comedy zones from that. Oh, yeah. This guy's good. Yeah. This preacher's good. Yeah. He's got a pretty little set here. That reminds me of the first time I ever met Dustin. Hold on, David Bushy. Yeah. First time I ever met Dustin. I don't know if you remember this.

Christian Comedy Association conference. There's a lot of C's in there. CCAC. I barely got to go because I'm not a Christian. West Coast Christian. We're doing this showcase show and I hear there's industry here. This is exciting. And I go up there and I do my set and I see a guy in the audience. No, wait, wait. You went. Mm-hmm.

And this guy gets up when you get off stage and rushes you. And I'm like, who is that? And they're like, that guy's like a manager. He wants to manage Dustin. And I'm like, I got to impress him. And I get up there and do my set. And I look out. That guy's asleep in the audience. Literally like this. Oh, man. Do you remember that? Whoa. And did you go wake him up and say, can you manage me? What do you think? And he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll do it.

I forgot about that. No. But you remember it now? I do now. Absolutely. Yeah. That's a really hammering home to make sure he remembers it. Yeah. Remember that? Remember that, Dustin? He goes, no. What about now? No. I remember. What about now, Dustin? He's right behind you. And then this weekend I did a podcast and I said beforehand, I was like, who else you guys got coming on? And they're like, well, we're going to get Dustin Nickerson tomorrow. And I'm like,

And I guess that was it while we're in town. And then I asked at the end of the podcast, when will this come out? And they said, well, we're pretty backlogged. We've got Mark Norman coming up. We got Dustin Nickerson coming up. And I'm like, you just told me you're doing Dustin tomorrow. And they're like, yeah, but come on. They just got to. They're like, we fell asleep during the editing. This is why we're starting a podcast with him and not you. I thought it was on this one.

And you've been on ours. And then we stopped having guests. It's just us now. It's not a bad thing. It's a lot to book guests. It is. And you have a dynamic. And we were like, we like a husband-wife thing. Is it like too much? Y'all feel like y'all talk too much now? Because of the podcast? We'll save stuff.

Do you guys do that too? You'll be like, save it for the podcast. I got this funny story from this weekend, but I'm not going to tell you yet. I'm saying as a wife. If I had to do a podcast with my wife, it's already a lot. You live with them. I don't know how most marriages are, but in our marriage, we live together.

And then. Old fashioned values. I would think that it is good that you do travel. Because then there is like some. The travel does help to bring together like more stories and antidotes. Yeah. You know. It's a lot of like, how was your weekend? Like there is an amount of like catching up that we start every episode with like a weekend recap. And I'm like, I was in Fort Wayne. And you're like, well, I had a volleyball tournament.

And I was like, okay, well, say hi to the kids. Do you ever have to pause a fight or pause an argument to do a podcast? Yes. And do you think you can tell if you listen to it? Or do you guys hide it pretty well? My energy, I can't lie about anything. Not a liar. So there will be some times when we just gotta circle the block. We cannot record yet. Yeah.

- I'm like seething. - Yeah. - And you can't banter and be witty when you're like literally like, you know, die. - You're the reason. - You wanna go be funny together? Can we start off saying we're a funny podcast about family? - You should do it by, you do those by Zoom. And y'all are just, you're like in separate bedrooms. - I'm like, hi. - And alongside me is my wife. - Yeah.

We are here. I'll take her or leave her. No, it's difficult for sure. But we enjoy it. We have fun. It's fun to be creative together. Yeah. I think that's a great thing. I think it adds... It is a special thing to the relationship and then you're both involved in it. In your careers. It's like we have... With my wife and... Because it's hard. It's hard. You don't want to just be completely...

even though you're separate, you know, you want to be like, you know, because you've been here the whole time. So it's like, it's all. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, and I think fans and like they enjoy, you know, like seeing like your life, your story, your family, you know, I think, I think it's similar to why your podcast works and that it is

And then it's like four or five comics, not just like one comic talking because like that exists and they're the biggest podcast in the world. And so what you guys are doing is different. And we started off with guests. And then during COVID, I was like, can we just do this? Because you first off, there's a different side of me because you're different with your spouse. Yeah. Anyways. And I think you're so funny. And like what I try to make you. So it is like it just it's a totally it's different than the act. It's different than me being. And I'm not a comic.

and I'm just like goofy and hitting stuff. That was well-timed. Get your phone on the table. I can't have the headphones. They'll just distract me. I get confused. But I try to just be myself and

bring myself to the table. - Cries, we've had a couple cries. - Yeah, I cry sometimes. - Have you? - Yeah, I am like, I wear my heart on my sleeve. - Nate's like, we're out. - No, we've done that. - Yeah, Brian's cried a few times. - Yeah. - A few times. - Awesome. - That's usually after the episode. - No, I think it adds to it. - When's the last time you cried? - In life? - Yeah. - Ooh, when was the last time I cried? I usually have a pretty heavy, like a big Christmas cry.

Just at Christmas? I cry a lot at Christmas. You put the angel on the tree and you start crying? Yeah, Christmas is real melancholy. It's a kid thing. It's a parent thing. Movies and TV shows make you cry? I cried...

Yeah, what was the last? Some songs. There's some songs. I cry a decent amount. Cry from a song? Yeah. Just in the car? Yeah. What kind of song? Do songs not make you cry? What are you listening to? I don't listen to the words. I've never cried in a song. I don't know any songs talking about it. Yeah.

I mean, I like sad music, man. I like a lot of sad songs. It's like the, you know, Seattle. Yeah. You like to be miserable. That Zach Bryan song, Going South, that's a sad song. That's a sad song. Because y'all don't like coming to the South? No. That guy's like, I don't know if you know the premise of the song, but it's like,

he's talking about his childhood and he has these big dreams and these ambitions and everyone's like calling him like a riser like you can't do this you're just the kid who plays in the dirt and he's like so the song's about going south where people let you play your music loud and then it's like and then he calls his dad he's like I'm never coming back you never believed in me and I'm going south and I was like that one gets me but you have to listen to the lyrics yeah

His dad didn't believe him? Yeah, he said, oh, I don't know if he's the character in it necessarily. But he calls and he's like, calls his dad and say, I'm never coming back, you know, because they sing my songs out here. See, I think I would like that. The one song, what was the song?

It was... The Sugarland song? Yeah. What's that? Yeah, that Sugarland song. Hey, Mama, Dad. Dear Mama, Dad, please send money. I'm so broke, it ain't funny. So that song, that song could make me cry. But that would be...

it's the same as Zach Bryant, but it's like, that's where my mentality goes is like, it's not a, uh, which is, I mean, fortunately, I know people don't like their parents, but it's like, it's such a, it's more of a positive, like, right, right, right. It's like, yeah, they supported you like, or they did, you know? And then the other way is like,

Because that song is, I've succeeded, and now I'm going to come back and lift up the family who lifted me up the whole way through. You like the other way. I like it all. Everybody. You want it to be like, oh, you stupid idiot. It could be both. We don't trash on our parents. We don't trash on our parents. No, no, I'm saying your song. His song, he likes it.

But even though I ever hear him listen to a song and then you walk in, you're like, good. Is that like the Christmas bell? I like Mel walked in on me one time doing the dishes during Christmas bawling because I was listening to Johnny Cash and I was thinking about my uncle Butch. So my house growing up was my dad and my sister and my uncle Butch. And Butch was like.

6'6", like 280, always wore big NASCAR jackets everywhere he'd go. He was a big Terry Labonte fan, so he'd have the cornflakes guy everywhere he went, drove a big lifted truck. Earned the name. Earned the name. He was a butch because that family had three Jims. They had Jim Nickerson, who was my grandpa, who ran illegal gambling rooms, and then his son, James Nickerson, went by butch, and then his son, Jimmy, went by tater.

So this is why I told you and I showed you the picture. My favorite of your SNL was Lake Beach. Yeah, you were crying because I was like, I sent it to my sister and I was like, she's like the Lake Beach thing because she's in the picture. She's like, she's like, Lake Beach looks like a good time. And I'm like, no, Lake Beach is a good time. But Butch had this like really baritone voice and he could like sing Johnny Cash and Johnny Cash is an excellent Christmas album.

And so I was crying and was doing the dishes and you walked in and I was kind of like, I don't know if you've ever happened with your partner or your spouse. And you're like, I'm like, I'm trying to be vulnerable. And you did not know how to receive it. No, because sometimes like if you're in a place and then you come to your partner, like you're ready. And I'm like, I'm not ready to be sad. I got to go wrap all these gifts. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I got work to do. Now he was being productive sad because he was doing the dishes. Still adults. Yes, and parents. But I'm like, I'm not ready to cry right now. Yeah, that's stuff to do. I think that's one of the hardest things about a relationship. Like being married is like, I'm not feeling what you're feeling right now. So if you're mad or sad or happy, I could be the complete different emotion. And now we just have to exist together somehow. And I think sometimes with men, it's like,

I'm still learning how to be supportive of you when you actually like

like are sad. Well, yeah, because we all express the sadness annually. Sounds like you cry a lot. Because I'm like, what's this? I think you're backing off about how much you do cry. What can I say here that's not every day? Christmas. I think I went too far. I had an annual cry and I was like, hey, I think I might, you know, have feelings now. And I was like, we're really backlogged on these feelings. So they're just coming up a little. You just broke the seal. Does anyone have a tissue? Yeah.

Anyway. Aaron, you cry. You and Lucy cry together. I can't imagine. I've just seen Aaron and Lucy. Why can you not imagine? You and Lucy crying together? Yeah. Either one of you. Yeah. I bet Lucy would make fun of you if you cried. Yeah. That's for sure. Yeah. That's for sure. Yeah, it's more Lucy than you. Yeah. I think it's, yeah. Yeah, I would enjoy seeing it. I think y'all probably cry quite a bit. I do. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why I'm laughing.

Ruth just comes in just like, oh, man. Thank you, Melissa. Thank you. One of those nights. I'm laughing, but I'm also like, oh, no. Yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah. We're in touch with our feelings. Yeah. Sorry for caring so much. Sorry for caring so much. That's my motto. That's my motto. Sorry for caring so much. Yeah. To my kids, to my husband, I'm sorry. I wish you were on our podcast.

Oh, man. High five across the table. Oh, man, no. Over Nate. Yeah. I'm sorry. We're not here for alliances, guys. We're... J.C. Lee Pulford. I was a Dustin Ickerson fan before I even heard of Nate for years, so I'm a big fan of what they're both doing. Let's go, folks. There you go. Let's go, folks. All right. Backseaters, Hey Bear, all the things. I know J.C. Yeah, she runs the Batesville podcast. Yeah. I don't know.

and post on there how Nate's her favorite comic all the time. Just do it on your own personal page. She's a Nickerson. She's an original Nickerson fan. She was an early adopter because you, like, and I'm just barely out of it now.

But like when you have such a small amount of fans that you know their name. Oh, yeah. They'll like come in your line and you'll be like the Marius. It's great to see you. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How are the kids? Yeah. Yeah. Damaris. Damaris. I always say last night. I know Damaris. Yeah. Yeah. She's a patron. She's great.

She drove from Sacramento. She drove like drove a ready. She drove out from California for the show. That's crazy. I mean, there were other things attached to it. Sure. She never been attached to the RV. Her daughter at our my. So we had to like meet and greet merch table. And I was like selling, you know, selling shirts, sign of the books and stuff. And the there

there was like a mint on the table all of a sudden. She's like a 19 year old daughter. And I was like, Oh, I'm going to eat that mint. Cause I thought Zany's put it out. Yeah. So I ate the mints and then another mint appeared. And I was like, who's putting these mints out. And it was the daughter. The daughter just carries a little bit and thought it was funny. Uh,

Oh, that's funny. And it was funny. It was so funny. And I was like, who's putting these mints out? She just did like a little smirk. I was like, I love a little bit like that. Yeah, yeah. And you thought it was hilarious that I ate it. She's replacing it. Yeah, yeah. She replaced the one that I ate. You kept eating? Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're going to keep giving me free mints. Yeah. Yeah. Go to town. Bree Puckett. I just saw Dustin's new hour. It is so good.

I loved how much he talks about parenting and being married. I hope to see more of Nate and Dustin together. Well, this will be the last time. So, no, yeah. Yeah, you murdered, dude, at the shows. It's always, it's very fun, you know, because you just come out and destroy and...

It's that's what I love a lot of everybody does very good. It's nice to see comics So you've been someone I always talk about a lot because you've done it on your own you went on the road you learned how you talked about doing those Wednesdays and those off nights and Really and then teaming up when you're with me or you with Taylor you something but you always were moving forward and You know and then I mean now in your own right. I

I still trick you into coming out with me some just because of where it's fun. But it's, you know, your headline you're doing. It's all it's all moving forward. Thanks, man. It's good. Yeah, it's been it's fun. I always say to the my team, which is like new to have a team. It's like just brick by brick.

You know, just trying to compete with myself. Like, did I sell better than last year? Am I getting some fans? Did I get a little funnier? Did I write a new joke? You know, and it's been it's last year. So you did a guest set last time is this weekend last year. And you were talking to me in the parking lot. It was really nice. You're like, hey, man, like it's about to get really fun. Yeah. And listen, there's some rough ticket counts on the calendar. I'm not going to act like.

We got some markets we're building and there's a half a brick laid so far. But like a weekend like this where it was like just short of like three sellouts and it was it was fun and their fans and they're on board with you like out of the gate. It's like, oh, this has gotten I've gotten better and it's gotten easier. Yeah. Like.

I don't have to dance the way that I used to, you know, or like, you know, you come out and you're like, I don't have to prove to them that I'm funny. They're already invested, which is, which is nice. It's a good feeling. Yeah. Thanks for all the boost and support. Absolutely. So you're, you guys podcast about parenting. What are we, I don't, what are we talking? Yeah. We're talking about parenting today. I'm a new parent.

- Aaron's about to be a parent. - About to be a parent. - I got a lot of questions for you guys. - Good, yeah. We had our kids really young, so we did the math. So even counting Dustin, we've been parents longer than all you guys combined.

But it is fun that we're at the different stages. You have... How old's Harper? 12. So pre-teen. She's right between our girls. Yeah, pre-teen. How old's... What's the... How old's your kiddo? Eleanor. Eleanor, I'm sorry. No, no, no. He was just going to sit on that. What's that chick that lives in your house? How old's Ruth? I was asking how old your wife was. No, I'm just kidding. All right. How much is she white? Yeah. Where's your... I want to know.

I'm here for Ruth's stats. No, I don't care about your daughter. What's your home address? What's she pulling annual income, Ruth, these days? More than me. Let's just leave it at that. And then you got a baby. Eleanor's two. Eleanor's two. I was right. I'm right. So, anyway.

I'm not good at that stuff. I have nieces and nephews that I don't remember how many kids they have and their ages, but you really... I lock in. I know all the birthdays. My mom knows all birthdays. She's always remembered everybody's birthday. That's a good mom. You can also just have a note in your phone. Yeah, that's true. Or Facebook does it for me.

Not for the kids, though. For Eleanor? Eleanor is on Facebook. This is the only social media we allow. Facebook. The second she starts talking, we're going to get her. Monetized. I mean, we just, you know. She's almost there, but like, yeah. We need to get some young blood in this podcast. Well, she's been on before. She has. Oh, nice. Yeah. That's awesome. So you guys have three kids. We have three kids. You're one of three. I'm one of three.

Is the whole birth order thing, which you always hear about, is it true? Mel loves talking about birth order. I do love birth order. Where are you at in order? I'm first. You're first. And then you have a sister. Then I have my brother, Derek. Yeah. Then my sister, Abigail. Okay. Okay.

So is it true? Birth order. Birth order for our kids? Yeah. First, what are the stereotypical high achieving? Independence. Here's what psychologists say. Firstborn children typically motivated to meet their parents' expectations, described as perfectionist, reliable, conscientious. Middle children more enjoy negotiation and compromise. They're peacemakers.

younger children um are develop natural confidence from attention they they receive i would think that's true yeah my brother's very peaceful oh yeah for sure yeah he's the only one i can talk to in your family the brother's a missionary wasn't he yeah he is yeah yeah he's a principal uh

But they did a lot of mission work. He just went over to Uganda and came back. We have that in... You guys have that in common. You have a missionary sibling. Yep. Well, and my sister was too. Siblings, yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, I would think it's certainly... It doesn't matter if it's a boy or girl. They'll order. You've read otherwise on that. Mel loves this stuff. I do love this stuff. Well, the reason I love it is because I'm a first daughter, but I have an older brother. But then I have twins under me. So I kind of like meet all...

the boxes except the youngest. Right. Because I think you told me once that birth order can, if it is sometimes, if the top two are different genders, that they can end up kind of both being first born. Yeah. Because they don't necessarily live in the shadow and get the comparison. Or if there's enough years in between, it can change too. But I would say like our son is not a perfectionist, but he is the most reliable of the three kids. Yeah.

for sure and then our youngest is like the baby of babies like yeah for sure so um she's gonna work for us one day she's 10 let's get real here can you sell merch because i gotta stop soon our middle is really good at makeup so maybe yeah yeah

I feel like all our kids. Yeah. I feel like at least where our kids are at right now, like life wise, 17 year old boy, 14 year old girl, 10 year old girl. There are things about their life that are more dominant than their birth order. Like, yeah, there might be parts of it that Gloria or middle child represents being a middle child. But really what she is is a 14 year old girl. That's what she is. So like, that's the driving thing.

Force and like kind of makes her who she is But I think I wonder if some of the birth order stuff like makes more sense as your adult like there are see where they yeah They are he's but also he could be a part-time. I don't know He's so mad he's not at the beach right now. Yeah, you know and

He's like, oh, it's a perfectly good Monday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. San Diego is the most. I love. We've ruined him. Yeah. We've ruined him. We love living in San Diego. But I'm from Seattle and it's such an unmotivated group of people.

because what do you do? You already won. Every day is the best. It's called America's Finest City. They have a phrase, San Diego, no bad days. Just go get delicious tacos. What did you do? I longboarded to get some fish tacos. Surfed.

you know, I called my family. We're all really close still. Yeah. He did a bonfire. Someone has to work though. Yeah. You're like, yeah, I feel like in every family, like the families all agree with that. And then there's one guy like, it's a lot of pressure. Yeah. Because I, he's paying for it all. I'm not to pay you.

For these, everybody beneath me that's just like, it's easy, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This guy's out here like, and this guy's out. But they don't require much, though. Yeah. Because it's like, you get on the surfboard. Yeah. The ocean's free. The ocean is free. No, and he only wears vintage, like, resale clothes. So that's really cheap. This is one that he picked up in a thrift store right here. Yeah. He finds his clothes. 1991, he found it in a thrift store for like $2. Yeah. Wow.

But he does have an entrepreneurial spirit. He sells. He's got a little business. Yes, that's right. I think, yeah, you told us that. He sells vintage clothes, which is really cool. Yeah, we're proud of him. Now, he's almost an adult. At what age, or is it there yet, you start becoming friends with your kids? I think there's this saying, it's like, okay, this is good. It's like cop when they're little, and then it's like coach when they're young.

And then I don't remember the third one. It's like three Cs. You set that up so strong. I was so ready. This is good. This is going to be so good. Listen up. You really had like, I got something real insightful. That started off great. Yeah. Yeah. Come to me later. I'm so sorry. Co-captain. Yeah. Maybe it's co-captain. Cheerleader. Is it one of them? That kind of sounds right. Yeah. So like we're kind of in that coach to cheerleader part because like we're still financing his life. Yeah. Yeah. But we're also like, hey, this is your life.

Not our life. These are your grades. These are your friends. Teens are a weird tension. Your decisions. They affect us. Absolutely. And kind of like Nate was saying earlier, we're paying for all this still. So it's like they have this fierce sense of independence. They're like, dude, I pay for your house.

Your phone. Yeah. Your car. Your insurance. I'm still... They don't want you to be in charge, but you absolutely... They need you. So... It's a tough transition, you know, growing up. Can he beat you in sports now? So Joel...

Joel might run in college. Joel runs like a 430 mile. He's like crazy fast. And Mel ran in college, a distance runner. And we'll just see. He's at tension with like, I'm a high achieving firstborn and I'm crazy athletic and an honor roll student, but also these vibes, bro. It's like, I don't know if I want to go to college to like try. And you're like, you know, okay. It'd be great if you did. Because your coach is like, you could run D1. He's like, no.

I don't know, though. I'd like to go to the beach. I gotta go to the beach. Yeah. The beach is so overpowering. Do they do surfing at colleges out there? Oh, I don't know. You know, he's not a great surfer. He's a great skateboarder, though. He just goes out and barrel rolls in waves. Do you feel this, though, Nate? I have a blast. Tugging into Harper where, like...

My dad always said to my sister, because me and my sister were both first generation college students. It was like really harped on us. Like my dad was like single dad, union worker. My uncle lived with us to help pay rent. And he was like, you have to go to college and you have to get a degree. And like, but it's like hard to have this job and tell my kids that like, you got to go to college. Yeah. You got to like get a business degree or be an because they're like, well, you just you

You just talk about what you talk about on stage, and you made more money than we ever... It's stupid. You made more money than you did in your old day jobs. Yeah. I mean, yeah. My college didn't work out, so... My dad went to college later. My mom didn't. Then my...

it was but yeah i don't i don't think i would make her go to i would you know it just depends on what she wants to do yeah it would be like if you're really going to something to you know if she really wants to do something that is like all right an engineer right you're like all right we need to go to school for that stuff right but if it's almost anything outside of that yeah you could just be like well just you know just go learn how to do it right we uh justin galindo our uh

He's a... He'd be my production manager. Comes out of the road with me. He was just out with us. And he was like that guy. He just started working at like in Anaheim. The arena there at like 14 and just was like, you know, started at the very bottom. And then he's just like... And he knows everything. Has been in every situation. And so, I mean, he's...

People coming out of college wouldn't even could even compete with him because he's already had to deal with everything. I think you're right. I think that like we college, not only is it from our point of view, we can't.

harp like a traditional job search like because of what we do for a living but also people kind of like are realizing there's so many different paths now and college isn't not necessary not only is it maybe not the like the best idea in some cases it's a bad idea if you have to go meander for a while we're like hey community college is free maybe get a taste of it yeah it could slowly become like a

almost a privileged idea because you, to be able to go and waste your time and money and so much money, but, but like a lot of people, it's like, it doesn't matter. They just do it and then they don't ever have a debt or stuff like that. Yeah. It's yeah. There's, uh, you know, there, yeah. I mean, I don't know what they're,

I don't know what classes are taken. It's all weird. Yeah. I don't know. College, I feel like in the next 25 years, people are going to really keep start looking at colleges and be like, what is going on? Right. It's kind of already happening. It's already happening. Gen Z isn't going to college nearly as much. No, enrollment is down everywhere. Yeah. And prices are up. Yes, they are. Good combo. Now, Erin, both of you and Lucy are both in entertainment. Do you think your daughter will?

Go to college. We encourage her. I don't know her too well yet. I haven't seen that GPA yet. Well, this is an interesting question. I was going to ask you, how often do you find yourself letting your kids do something or pursue something that you think is a mistake or you think they have no future in? How often do you just sit back and let your kids make a mistake versus trying to steer them in the right direction initially? Yeah.

Well, a current one that I have is travel volleyball because we have an incoming freshman. And we've kind of sidestepped that by doing like local travel and like camps, like which are less travel based. Yeah. But you're also like.

You want to give her, you know, the best opportunity to play in high school and have a group. But also you're like, I don't know. It's not quite exactly what you asked me, but it was the first thing that came to mind. Yeah. Yeah. But you're like, am I stifling her or is it just like not going to happen? Well, that basketball stuff with the kids or sports with kids is out of control. Travel stuff. Travel sports. It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. And there it's I thought I just or you see stuff.

Because people want to get in that travel and they're just telling kids, like, just go play near your house. Right. Right. No, you're costing parents. Yeah.

There's tons of money and time. Yeah. Yeah. Or you could play travel all your whole life to it. Who knows that this kid will want to play baseball or basketball. Right. When a lot of time they don't, but it is, it is tough because there is a tension because like, uh, you know, growing up playing sports, like if you did, there are a lot of good core memories there and it was very good outlets, you know? Um,

There's also some trauma and bad memories the sliding back into first base is a Yeah, that came around 40 years later I guess son your kid up for travel sports. Yeah, but it is it is like it got so competitive But if you want your kids to play in high school, especially like we go to a big

High school. Public school. Yeah. A big public school that has a big sports program. Yeah. And like if if Gloria didn't do some of those camps and play some of those, she probably wouldn't make the team. There's 15 spots. Yeah. 600 incoming freshmen. And the more specialized the sport is.

like particularly a baseball, a soccer, a basketball, those kind of things. Running is great because you're faster. You're not. Yeah. You got a pair of shoes. Yeah, you can get out there. But it is. So you I think a lot of parents, they do that and they their heart is good. And they're like, I want the best for my kid. I want them to. And the worst part is your kids get older. You don't want teens without

with downtime. That's the old, what's the, idle hands makes the devils work. Like, you can't be bored. I need you to have something to do. So you're, I feel like, do you agree with that? Do you think, do you try to eliminate boredom or are you saying you disagree with that? No, I try and keep it, we try and keep it as busy as possible. No, no, no, no, there's this new movement that you gotta let your kids be bored so they can be creative and like learn. You can't just like have them on an iPad all day.

Yeah. But I do think that's different with teens because they have so much time. Yeah. Like they don't go to sleep. Like they're up at one in the morning. Yeah. Like I'm asleep, but they're up. Yeah. So like they need to get tired by doing a sport. Or I mean, we've got a drama kid. We got a karate kid. Like it doesn't matter what. Yeah. You remember. Yeah. It's like when you have like a and I feel for you guys, like with the young kid.

And you're like, you'll have a whole day. And it's just you and that kid. And you're like, hey, let's draw. And that kills eight minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Get back on your iPad. Yeah. Let's play some cards. Oh, you don't know how to play any games. All

All right. Well, I don't know. What game can I teach you? They're like, it's there's so much day to eat up when you're at all. And so when your kids get older Saturday. Yeah. You just don't want them to do anything. So they our kids still have free time. But yeah, we try and if we can get them in programs just to like go be active for a couple hours, just move, go do something somewhere else and also go succeed, go fail, go be part of a team, get a different voice into your life. Yeah.

you know, like anything. Yeah. Ideally a good one, but even a bad one, we can be like, that's a bad one. Listen to us. Yeah. So yeah, we're at the age where independent play is not there yet. No. Yeah. She's got to have us there with her. Yeah. Watching even. Yeah. And it's like, uh,

It's probably similar. Like you might be a little out of it, but like we, I'm definitely eight, nine, eight, nine, 10, 11 year old, or like, we'll come up and tell you you're bored. And like, that's a thing we would never tell our parents. Yeah.

It would not. It was not our parents' responsibility to entertain us. Yeah, you would go do stuff. Yeah. I remember I said if I was bored, my dad would go, oh, I got some stuff you can do. Go mow the yard. Go rake it. Like, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if you don't want to do that, you're not really bored. Yeah, yeah. But now the shift it is they kind of like look to the parents to like,

be the cruise director of the home. Like, what do we got going on next? Yeah. Here's the agenda for the day. Yeah. I'm tired. Well, maybe because you can't send them out like you used to. No. I mean, we would just roam. Yeah. Yeah. Just be free. That is kind of dead, huh? It is. Getting on a bike and leaving. Like, old people, or no offense, but like, people will call the police if they see a child out. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, an eight, nine-year-old. That's like,

socially unacceptable in a lot of ways. Wow. I used to just get on the bike and I'd be gone all day. Yeah. Yeah. Not really doing anything, but I'd just be riding around. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, you would, especially during summer. We talked about this one of the episodes. You would just like disappear all day. Yeah.

And you got home and your parents like what they wouldn't even ask you what you do. But you had like jumped off the school roof that day. You had like you'd been playing in the ravine. You'd met a friend. You got to fight. You saw, you know, stole from a store. You stole from a store. Yeah. You were like, it wasn't all good. All right. Trying to elevate a bit. Oh, boy. Try to elevate. Did you steal?

I stole once, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Get in my car. I got caught. It was bad. What did you steal? Bubble gum. Yeah. I knew it was candy.

So, yeah, we try and keep them busy. Especially one of our kids had to go to summer school and we were like, awesome. Yeah. That's good. I like that you... It was like a week and a half. Yeah, yeah. I like that you got to get up and have to do something. And that's a natural consequence. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, you can't get mad at us. Yeah. Your grades. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

I listen to your podcast. You guys talk about some good and some bad with your kid. A lot of bad. Do you ever run anything by them beforehand or be like, that's too much? Well, notice I didn't say which kid went to summer school. We try and keep it vague. They would know. Yeah. But you wouldn't know which one of my kids struggles. Well, more than one of them struggles in math, but that's my fault.

Math is hard. Yeah, they were pre-qualified to be bad at math based on half of the DNA being mine. But yeah, we try to talk about them in a way that is vague if we're telling a maybe negative story. But I don't think we're really like...

making them look too bad. But you're a listener. So you tell me, are you like, I can't believe we say that about our kids? Brian was disgusted. I was. Brian was disgusted. We are using our children for content. Don't act like we aren't all here. No, I'm kidding.

But you did say something very funny last week about how you have to buy all this expensive sports equipment to try out and you don't even know if they're going to make the team. They should let you rent it and then if they don't make the team, return it. That's why second hand sporting goods are full. It's because you buy the volleyball cleats and the knee pads and then you don't know if they made the team or not. Volleyball cleats? I'm sorry. Is that why she's not making them? She's got her track spikes. Yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, there is like you're like there. It's like a down payment. You're like, I have to make all this in here like an onboarding. And then they get cut. And you're like, I mean, I my last year of baseball growing up was like I had gotten hurt during like the spring. I was on like an American Legion. We were supposed to be on the travel ball team. And the coach pulled me aside and he was like, hey, man, like like you're pretty hurt.

And you're probably not going to get a lot of playing time based on that. And like, you know, like we've got some other players that we're going to get in here. And I was like, I took it and I was like, I was like, dude, this is going to be my moment. This is like my like motivation. I got all hyped. I was like, I'm going to come back and I'm going to show this guy. I'm going to be I'm going to be the team captain this year. I'm going to go off. And I went home and told my dad and my dad goes like, I mean,

It's a lot of money for you to ride the bench. And I quit. And you got a job. Yeah. And I was like, I mean, because when you're just a single dad paying for this, he's like, I don't want to. There is an element where you know you're someone's paying to watch their kid, right? They're sitting there in like $200 LeBrons. Yeah. No scuffs on them. Yeah. Yeah. Still sticky. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm okay if you ride the bench. I think the team element, you can still contribute. You can still practice. You still have a social group. I'm totally fine if you don't get any playing time. Yeah, that's fair. As long as you try hard. Yeah. And you can afford it. I mean, that's the problem is like travel and these high school sports, they're very expensive. But at least there's no entry fee in high school sports. That's true. But some of them require quite a bit of skill.

Yeah. That you have to learn in batting coaches and training camps. I would imagine if you're getting asked to go do it, it's almost like that. Like, you got to go, like, you know, if you're just naturally, like, you can tell they're like, yo, we need this kid to go. Yeah. Because you know that a lot of these kids get into this stuff, and there's ways to get in where it's not costing anything.

everybody. It's not everybody can afford all this stuff. And then, and then, but maybe the ones that are keeping alive are the ones that are, you know,

that can't afford it. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're right. Yeah. And I think that there are sometimes like there's obviously these exceptions. Like when you hear like Khalil Mack didn't play football until his junior year and you're like, that was an exception. Yeah. Antonio Gates. Yeah. San Diego. Yeah. Played. Yeah. Basketball. Yeah, exactly. He's in a Hall of Fame as an NFL title. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. That's like a kid that you're

I don't think they ever came and said, hey, we need you to play travel ball. Like it was like, he's like, I'll do whatever I want. Just naturally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you got a kid that has to work at it and is just not naturally gifted, it's like, yeah, then you are going to probably have to really get them in stuff. It's also tough if they're on the good team and they don't get

playing time. You're right. But they practice with good kids or you get them on the bad team and they get a lot of playing time. Yeah. But they're not getting like. Yeah. Quite the same experience. There's people do that in small schools too. Like they'll be like yeah I went to state and I was like dude you're

what what division you know like you can if you go to a small enough school you can be a high achieving athlete yeah and maybe that's better i don't know yeah because in your mind you're on big fish and then later on in life you're like no i was like a four-year letterman and you're like i mean you had eight students yeah everyone that went to the school was on the basketball team there's uh uh there's a school here mjca and my buddy michael clay who i started comedy with uh

They have, I want to say, five people in their class. Wow. So the basketball team was all hands on deck. I still wouldn't start. We're like, we're better with four. Just play a diamond. They just have you stand in the corner of the...

They're going to just stay in there the whole game. Technically, we need you on the court. Yes. But just be in there. Don't move. Don't play offense. Don't play defense. We think they were all friends.

I mean, you got to. Yeah. I still talk to a few of them. Yeah. And I didn't even go to that school. Like, yeah, you can't not. Because they all worked at the water company, too. So when I went there. They all went to work together after school? That's fine. Yeah. On Mount Juliet. Yeah. You're all out there. It's a five-person class. I think the school is going to be a lot bigger. There's like a bully in the group. Yeah. Four of them. Kind of mix it up. Yeah. A lot of cliques. It was. Yeah. Five kids. Yeah. Yeah.

They all have their own lunch table. Talk about a graduation. I mean, it was quick. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Our eighth grade. They did like so our kids like the eighth grade promotion. It was he almost died. I was like I for it was like two and a half hours. It was long. Yeah. Nickerson is too deep. You can't.

move early. Plus, Gloria's a singer, so she performed. And that was great. I'm not a monster. That was great. But it's like, we had to get there at like 6.30 in the morning. Yes. To get a seat. We work at night. This is crazy. It might as well be... For 8th grade? For 8th grade. 3 in the morning would be easier for me than 6 in the morning. I'll just remain up. Oh, and we had to have flowers. She's chewing us out.

because we're running late, you know, and she's stressed out. We're like, we love you and we bought you this dress and these shoes and this makeup and these nails and go hate us. And then we got grandma and we're just like rolling out. Like, yeah, it was terrible. And it's so long. And,

you're looking at what's tough about graduations is you can see how much time is left it's like the loading bar yeah you're like oh my gosh we're only in the second out of 14 rows and it's going and then there's like the speeches like there was like three kids speeches and one of them was good yeah one of them was great actually and then one girl like

was like, rapped about the school and you're like, I got so bad, you know, and then they're all trying to be like, remember when we got here in seventh grade and we were wearing as I look out here today. Oh, we went home and quoted. And you know what drove me the most crazy is, is that there was a retiring teacher who gave a speech. I was like, I don't care that you're retiring.

This isn't your moment to shine. It's at least meaningful for that person. These kids won't remember this. But not for us. I don't know this teacher. Let the teacher have something. No. I'd rather the teacher than the, I don't know, the salutatorian of the eighth grade. That teacher gets an hour every day. That teacher gets six hours to talk every day to those kids. They get beaten up every day and now they get a place of honor. I love teachers. Love teachers. All right. I don't need to hear about. He's saying, would you give them, but you just go give them a moment and be like, you don't got to talk.

We can honor that. How long are we talking? What's the speech like? I mean, what did it feel like? Yeah. I mean, if it's a five-minute speech. Five minutes is like, that guy's earned five minutes. But what is he? I know. But you go honor him. You honor him. You bring him out. It's a big thing. Give him a plaque or something. Thank you for your years of service. You do most of the talking. You just celebrate him. You know, and if he's got a... Aaron, you spoke for 60 seconds at your wedding. Yeah. Yeah.

That's about right. Thank you. This has meant a lot to me. I devoted my life to education. I'm so thankful for this opportunity. Thank you. Yeah, well, how long did it take? I think he should get a minute for every year he'd been there. There you go. We've been sitting outside for two and a half hours on cement. I'm not kidding. That changes everything. The outdoor thing. The fact that you're outside, that changes everything. But is it shaded?

No. No. No. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Ridiculous. You're like, you're like, un-unionize the teachers. I was picturing in a gym or a church or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, in church, that's how they do a lot of them.

That's how we did ours. They moved to church? Yeah, they did. California. In the cathedral. Oh, yeah. It is a bit of a SoCal flex, right? That even that they're like, well, we'll just do it outside. The weather. It's a given. Like that's ever an option in May or June. Yeah, 4 p.m. That would have been rough. We got... Yeah, I was always lucky with Bargetzi. We were...

Did your parents leave after you got announced? No. Now, my high school, I graduated 56 people. Yeah. So it's not that small. That's efficient. Yeah. So we were never a big part of the giant...

high school graduation, but we went to my nieces and, you know, they're outside and you hear them go up and talk. Right. You know, I don't know. It's like you just I think it's one of those you got to go like, hey, this is going to be this is a lot today and you accept it. And yeah, ours, we both we went to different high schools. We've been together like we're high school sweethearts. We met like in church at a church youth group trip, but we went to different high schools, but we both had graduations because we had in the Tacoma Dome.

which if you play it, it's like a big, that's how big it was. Like, hey, we got to get this local arena to do, you know, I don't know if you've ever been in an arena. And it's a whole, is it five hours? I've heard of them. How long is that? I mean, three to four at least, plus the driving. I don't remember my parents complaining about it. Yeah. We're just different. Did y'all like it though? What's your maiden name?

Hoagland. Oh, so you're right in the middle. Highland, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what's your maiden name? What are we doing there? Hoagland. I mean, it depends on what order she goes in. Oh, yeah. Oh, that was relevant. I'm sorry. Well, actually, my brother got a bloody nose at his graduation, his high school graduation. And the wrestling coach came to help. Yeah. They plug noses. You know, some kids just get bloody noses. We got one. Are you guys, anybody, is there any bloody nosers in your life? Not anymore. I used to get them. Yeah. Yeah.

You wake up, pillow's all bloody. Yeah, that's scary. Yeah, that happened to me one time. I had a sleepover. Signs of gout. It starts up top. Yeah. You go, you didn't get that looked into? You wake up, you get it. Looks like the godfather. You just get up and you're like, I had one last night, boy. He hadn't slept through it. Didn't even wake up.

That's a sign of youth. That you're a good heavy sleeper. That you could sleep through a bloody nose. We can do it now because of our CPAPs. Because you're going to drown. That would not be good now. Do you guys put that in a carry-on? Can you?

When you travel? You carry yours everywhere, right? Yeah. They actually give you a... I've never used it, but they just let you take it as an additional carry-on. That's nice. Yeah, there's some kind of medical exception. I'm just curious. I just put it in a... It's an oxygen tank behind us. You got some liquid. And a walker. Goes down the aisle. Excuse me.

I put it in the suitcase. I don't want to carry it around. Yeah. Specifically. That's good. Cause it was, you don't, I get mad when people got like extra gear, even if they need, there's part of you like, yes, I understand.

But also, I mean, do you tighten up? It's like when we had this debate, we were flying out here. And when someone puts a I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. When someone puts a guitar in the overhead bin, we get a lot of that in Nashville. Yeah. I mean, basically every flight there's a musical. What are your thoughts on that? Because my instinct was like, go on a Southwest flight. That's taken up a lot of spots. But also, you don't want to break your guitar. Yeah, you can't check it.

Yeah. You can't check a guitar. They just get destroyed. Yeah. So you have to hold on to it. Nick Foon, comedian, Seattle. Yeah. He has a guitar. He'll get confrontational with it. Yeah. He enjoys it. Yeah. He likes to come in and just be like, I got a guitar and he's going to... I think you have to be willing to...

be a little conversation or at least talk to everybody. Yeah. Cause you have this guitar. Yeah. I think you're right because it is annoying because there's limited seat that that's the big thing. Yeah. When you're, especially when you're in those back boarding groups, you're like, is there going to be, and so you walk by, you're not sure. And you see a guitar taking three spots. You know, I think you should have to declare like what you're bringing it for at like the level of gig you're going to do.

And then the airlines get to determine whether or not it's worth it. You have to prove you can play it. And then the TSA gets to go, okay, he can bring it. He can bring it. You should rent one. When you land, go rent a guitar. And you should quit. I think we're about to wrap here, but I do have a gift for you. Just for Nate? Just for Nate.

Yeah, but it can go it could go up here. Well, this was it was hanging.

I hope it goes right there. It was meant to be... Well, it kind of worked out nicely because we weren't sure when we were going to do this. We were going to announce it. But I was going to do a thank you for being out on the tour. The Be Funny Tour, which was incredible. The dates that I did, they were so fun. They're great. I'd say it's like comedy camp. It's so fun. And then just this and then everything. I mean, I say all the time, you're like...

like a mentor to me. I'm very grateful. I'm in like this big boost behind me. So for context, we, when we were in Springfield, there's a very kind of iconic comedian named Yakov Smirnoff. Yes. Who have you, did you tell this on the pod? I thought you did. I missed it. No, we haven't seen him since then. I didn't. Yeah, I didn't tell, I'll tell it here. Cause I don't, I don't, we, so, so,

So I always have the lights dark when I'm on stage. So like when I can never really see the crowd, I could barely see the front row, maybe a little neck down. Maybe I just can't really see the crowd. I like it dark because it's just easier to perform not having to look at me. Right. This one show in Springfield.

One show of my entire career, 10 years on the road, 10 straight years on the road, I've never asked for lights to be up. And this one, when Springfield, I go, you know what? I was like, let me have the lights up a little bit. I was like, maybe I'll think I'll enjoy seeing people having fun and stuff like that. And I do it. And there's one spot.

When we do it, I get on stage. I have no warning. And I make a lap and I go, is that Yakov Spirinov? And then I have to keep, you know, because I'm in the round, so I'm circling. And so in my head, I'm like,

And then I kind of come back around and I'm looking at him again. So the whole show, I'm like, is that Yakov Smirnoff? And he was lit up. It looked like I asked, hey, Yakov's going to be there. Light him up. Yeah.

And that's the only time I've ever asked for lights up. They've been down ever since. I've never had them up since. And of all the comedians. Yeah. He was a wonderful dude. We all got to meet him. Yeah. That guy was enormous. Seinfeld opened for him. Yeah. That's how long he's been doing it. He was doing like... Seinfeld was like doing... He was doing 3,000 seat theaters. Yeah.

This is back early 80s when they just didn't do theaters. It was just that big of an act. Yeah. Great dude. So my son helped me track down this. My son, who's very into vintage items and very good at finding these right here. This is a gift to you. So we found this online.

Oh, wow. This is autographed. This is from my son dates it to probably about 1988. What a country. Yakov. What a country. What a country. And autographed. And signed by Yakov. That's awesome. How did you find that? That is so cool. Yeah.

Your son is good. He's very good. I was like, hey, we're looking for some Yakov merch. And we found it together. And he dated it. And he's like, this is actually a good deal. And he's like, whoever's selling this right now can't believe this is actually being sold. Because that's the thing with vintage items. You have an item like this that you've had for years. And then somebody's like, dude, I need some Yakov smear.

off merch. Yeah. And he's like, oh man, for such a moment as this. So, oh, that's awesome. Thank you. What a country. Yeah. Well, we're, uh, thanks for, uh, you know, being a part of this. Uh, I know you guys don't have to. And, uh, but we appreciate it. I think we're, it's all building up into a nice, awesome thing. And we love seeing what you guys do. And, and, uh,

We can't, you know, wherever we're sent over from our, to go listen and, you know, it's good. It's fun. Yeah. Sweet. Awesome. Well, glad to have you. Thank you for having us. It's an honor. Thanks. How do y'all get out of your podcast? Do you just say bye? Uh, we go, uh, that's it. We go, that's it. Bye. Bye. Bye. Nate land is produced by Nate land productions and by me, Nate Bargetti and my wife, Laura on the audio boom platform.

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