TCB Infomercial: Dusty Slay

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Speaker 6 And I was talking to a friend of mine one night outside a comedy club, and she was out there smoking a cigarette.

Speaker 6 And I got her so fired up, you know, she was like, dang, I want to have a kid now, too. You know, she goes, but then again, if I get pregnant, I got to quit smoking.

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Speaker 6 Like, it's different for everybody, you know.

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Speaker 7 Okay.

Speaker 6 Nah, that is true, though. And

Speaker 6 they're fine, though. That was years ago.
They're fine.

Speaker 6 But I think my sister liked it at the time, you know, because the hospital wanted to babysit for a while. So

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Speaker 13 Welcome back to the Commercial Break.

Speaker 14 I'm Brian Green.

Speaker 17 This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Holy. Best of you, wherever you are, Kristen Joy Holy.

Speaker 14 Best to you, Brian, and best of you out there in the podcast universe. All right, so let me get it right out.

Speaker 13 I'm just going to address the elephant in the room.

Speaker 13 Chrissy's going to sound weird because for the first time since 2020, Chrissy and I are recording this intro and the outro to our TCB infomercial, who is we're very excited about Dusty Slay.

Speaker 13 We're recording it remotely

Speaker 15 because of

Speaker 19 what you know the story.

Speaker 7 Last week, the whole house had MRSA.

Speaker 18 There's a nasty skin infection.

Speaker 20 Yes, there's a nasty skin infection going around the entire house. And because the strong medication they gave us made me feel additionally worse, we didn't have a lot of recording time.

Speaker 20 And we were excited to get this one out to you.

Speaker 17 Hot off the presses.

Speaker 20 They say that two out of three ain't bad, Chrissy.

Speaker 19 Two out of four ain't bad.

Speaker 28 Because we have now had two out of four of the hosts, the rotating cast of characters known as Nateland.

Speaker 24 Of course, Nate Bargazzi's podcast. We've had Aaron Weber.

Speaker 25 We have long

Speaker 7 tried to get Dusty Slay.

Speaker 18 Yeah, it's been a couple of years in the making, I think.

Speaker 20 We've had some fits and starts with Dusty.

Speaker 7 Not his fault, but mainly our fault.

Speaker 7 Yes. And

Speaker 18 this one almost didn't happen either because we are still having technical issues.

Speaker 23 We almost made it three for three on Dusty Slay.

Speaker 24 So we have already, usually we record the intro previous to the guest, but we have already recorded to Dusty.

Speaker 32 So let's just get that out there.

Speaker 13 We are doing the intro outro.

Speaker 7 We were together when you recorded it.

Speaker 23 Yeah, we were together when we recorded it.

Speaker 34 And because we wanted to get this out very quickly, we decided, let's just go ahead and do the intro outro via remote. Dusty Slay is an American comedian coming out of the very hot

Speaker 20 bed of comedy right now, which is Nashville.

Speaker 25 I think largely in part to Dusty Slay, Aaron Weber, and Nate Vargazzi, who have really taken a lot of comedians under their wing.

Speaker 36 Dusty will share more about why he believes Nashville has become a hotbed of comedy up there.

Speaker 7 But he's what they call a quote-unquote clean comic.

Speaker 5 I don't think it really matters if you use, you know, the fuck or the shit.

Speaker 35 I think it really matters whether you're funny.

Speaker 20 And Dusty certainly is that.

Speaker 38 Yes.

Speaker 33 He has two Netflix specials in the last 18 months: Working Man, which just came out back in early 2024, and his new special, Wet Heat.

Speaker 25 Am I getting that right, Chrissy? Wet Heat.

Speaker 7 Wet heat.

Speaker 18 Wet Heat. Yeah, he's got the funny bone.

Speaker 14 He does. He's got the funny bone.

Speaker 14 And he's also, I mean,

Speaker 1 I got to imagine it's very difficult to come up with just one good hour of comedy in your entire life.

Speaker 33 We have 900 episodes, and I don't know if we could string together.

Speaker 7 We're still trying. We're still trying.
I don't know if we could string together an hour of laughs out of those 900 out.

Speaker 25 Dusty's got two, one hour, two one hour plus specials on Netflix, both of which have now been in the top 10 for a period of time on Netflix.

Speaker 20 So you know he's doing something right in the vein of the great

Speaker 1 Jeff Foxworthy, Jerry Seinfeld, the storytellers of our time who managed to do it and take you, as he will say in the interview, managed to take you to the edge, but make you feel safe that you're not going to cross it.

Speaker 20 And I got to be honest, Chrissy, about this one, saying this before we go into the interview.

Speaker 1 Sometimes you don't really, like I've said this a lot, you don't know what to expect when a stranger comes on the television.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 1 Dusty was one of those people that was like, I don't really know what to expect out of this.

Speaker 41 We're not a clean show.

Speaker 20 We definitely play blue a lot.

Speaker 1 I mean, dick jokes are easy, right?

Speaker 7 Dick jokes are easy. Low hanging fruit.
Low hanging fruit for all of us.

Speaker 1 I didn't know what to expect.

Speaker 5 And I left this interview really

Speaker 27 like the vibe was high with Dusty Slay.

Speaker 31 I had a really good time with him.

Speaker 18 We both, I mean, all three of us, I think, really got along well and just like it just flowed.

Speaker 31 It did. It did just flow.

Speaker 34 So I encourage you to go to dustyslay.com.

Speaker 20 He is on, and he now has a really long set of dates he is stringing together for his fall and winter tour.

Speaker 25 I'm sure that will run even further than that.

Speaker 41 He was just here in Atlanta a week ago as we're releasing this episode a week and some change ago.

Speaker 24 We just recorded this: Hot Off the Presses, Wet Heat, Working Man.

Speaker 33 Both of those are now available on Netflix, as well as the Nateland podcast and his his own podcast with his wife, which he does

Speaker 25 also.

Speaker 1 And I'll link all of those in the show notes below, as I always do.

Speaker 25 And tickets are available at dustyslay.com or whichever local venue he's there. I'm not sure they're all through Ticketmaster, but I know that some of them are.

Speaker 13 So why don't we do this, Chrissy?

Speaker 28 Let's take a short break.

Speaker 40 Let's take a short break from

Speaker 19 the magic of telepodcasting.

Speaker 19 You down on the south side, me up in the north side of the little city known as Atlanta, Georgia, all the way from Nashville will triangulate and get us all in one place with Mr.

Speaker 47 Dusty Slay.

Speaker 7 How does that sound? I think we should do it. All right, we'll take a break.

Speaker 28 We'll be back with Dusty.

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Speaker 12 And Dusty is here with us now.

Speaker 22 Dusty has put out two, not one, but two specials in what, in 18 months?

Speaker 11 I've seen Netflix. Congratulations.

Speaker 7 18 months?

Speaker 6 Yeah,

Speaker 6 that's about right. Yeah.

Speaker 40 That is a good clip.

Speaker 50 Or do you intend to now follow it up with a third one in less than 18 months?

Speaker 6 I'm ready to go. I don't know.

Speaker 6 You know, I don't really know how fast you should or shouldn't put these out.

Speaker 6 But, you know, I felt, you know, I felt good about wet heat. And I was like, you know, some of these jokes I'm tired of telling.

Speaker 6 And I'd like to get them recorded so they don't, you know, you get tired of telling something, you push it out of the set. Yeah.
And if it's not recorded, then it just kind of goes into this abyss.

Speaker 1 It's in the ether.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Where you forget how to tell it and now, and then it's just gone.
So I was like, we got to record it. But I really liked it.
I was very happy with Wet Heat.

Speaker 6 I think Wet Heat's better than Working Man.

Speaker 6 And in between,

Speaker 6 you know, Working Man and

Speaker 6 my last album, Son of a Ditch, was, you know, eight years. Yeah.
So

Speaker 6 it really doesn't take that long, I don't think, if you're on a flow.

Speaker 14 Yeah, but I guess that's, I guess that's a good point.

Speaker 1 And it leads to my next question is like, you're in the zone, right?

Speaker 31 There's this kind of like.

Speaker 31 propagating creativity that's just you're feeling and i i like what you said that if you if a joke goes out into the ether you forget how to tell it So, and that probably has to do with being in the zone, too.

Speaker 43 This is my material.

Speaker 1 I'm in the zone. I know how to read the audience.

Speaker 44 I know how to get them to react.

Speaker 1 I know when to pause and all that other stuff.

Speaker 51 It's just like natural to you.

Speaker 1 And you're going through kind of this like creativity.

Speaker 38 You're going through a growth spurt, if you will, Dusty.

Speaker 43 You're having growing.

Speaker 7 You're growing.

Speaker 52 You're a growing boy.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Well, I think you're right.
You know, and it's like, you know, the more you create stuff, the more you want to create stuff, the more you feel the flow, the more you're in with it.

Speaker 6 I mean, I have a new hour now since putting out wet heat. I mean, I got right to work.

Speaker 6 And, you know, in Atlanta, I did an hour and 20 minutes

Speaker 6 of all stuff that's not on the special.

Speaker 6 And I thought it was really good. I mean, you know, it's, you know,

Speaker 6 I feel like I have a pretty good gauge of when it's not good. Right.
You know, I don't like to do not good stuff.

Speaker 7 Fair enough. Yeah.
You know,

Speaker 6 I don't like the, you know, some comics do it and I realize you have to do it sometimes, but they'll go, I'm on tour, and this tour is the working on jokes tour or whatever, or the new jokes tour.

Speaker 6 I don't like doing that. I don't want to do that.
So, you know, I had about an hour and a half of material when I recorded Wet Heat. So then you record an hour.

Speaker 6 Then I have an hour that I have a half hour that I like.

Speaker 6 And then, and then, you know, as I go along, I'm, I'm doing the half hour that I didn't record. I'm doing, you know, a half hour of new stuff.
Sure.

Speaker 6 And then I'm doing about 20 minutes of stuff that's on the special. Yeah.
So that way we're getting all good jokes, but I can pepper in the new stuff.

Speaker 6 And you do that while it takes time for the special to come out. So by the time the special's out, you should be done with all the other stuff.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And at a good enough place to where you can still work on some jokes without your whole act being read from a notebook.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 7 And And go ahead, Chrissy.

Speaker 18 Well, how does your I'm curious kind of just how do you come up with your material?

Speaker 18 Is it do you sit down and really dedicate some time to work on it, or do the things kind of simmer and bubble up throughout your everyday living and you write them down?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I think it just simmers up and bubbles up throughout everyday because

Speaker 6 when I sit down to write, I like now this could be an excuse that I've created for myself

Speaker 7 because I'm Lasconators Unite.

Speaker 6 Yeah,

Speaker 6 but I do believe that when when I sit down and I write,

Speaker 6 I write not the way that I tell jokes. I have a different, you know, so I write and it's funny to me.
And then I go tell what I wrote and then it's not funny to the audience. Yeah.

Speaker 6 And then I've almost cemented it in my mind because I wrote it down. So now I'm like, no, this is the funny way,

Speaker 6 even though the audience is not laughing at it.

Speaker 6 But if I just have an idea and I take it to the stage, mess around with it a little bit,

Speaker 6 you know, if it doesn't work, we wave, we say we're having a good time, and you move on, you know? Yeah. But and then the audience laughs because they're in on it and everything's fun.

Speaker 6 But if,

Speaker 6 you know, but then that way I get to work that you get to go through those natural instincts of just being a funny person in life.

Speaker 22 Yeah, it's a living and breathing thing.

Speaker 1 And in that moment, it stretches and it contracts or whatever it is.

Speaker 47 You can can think of it like, you know, like, I don't know, like a ball of jelly.

Speaker 44 You're playing with it to find out.

Speaker 7 I wrote it.

Speaker 1 I know it's funny.

Speaker 44 I just have to figure out how it's funny in this moment and connects, you know, and then the connective tissue to the last joke or the next joke or whatever.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I mean, yes, it feels like it. I don't know if I lost you, but you, you froze on me, but I think maybe I'm still there.

Speaker 7 Oh, you're still here. Yeah, we can still hear you.

Speaker 6 But the, I, like a joke starts, it's a ton of words, very long, and then you're just telling it and you're trying to find those funny parts. You're like, okay, where am I getting laughs?

Speaker 6 And then where you start to, you start to get a little bit of a structure of the laughter, and then you take away all that other stuff that doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 And then once you've got that firm little skeleton of a joke, then you can start adding all these other tags. Right.
I love it. Which is why so many of my jokes, I say I like to tell triangle jokes.

Speaker 6 I'm just making fun of myself, but where I like the laugh, we go up, up, up, then we hit a funny part and then i'm still telling the joke even though it's getting less funny and less funny because i found it i'm like this is it yeah this is the punchline but then i want to add on all these tags yeah to where we eventually get to a place where we're like are we still telling this joke are we still here

Speaker 50 you know

Speaker 31 that's that's really interesting i love hearing i you know i think comedy in some ways is a noble profession i really do and i love hearing how some of the, you know, we've had a lot of comedians on here, some of the best joke writers and storytellers of our time comedically, how they do their craft, how they work in their craft, how they see their craft is very obvious to me that, you know, you may be lazy, your word's not mine, but you're very much a tactician.

Speaker 44 You're a technician of the joke, right?

Speaker 54 You're thinking about it and you understand

Speaker 1 after all these years, how to put it together and how to do it.

Speaker 22 When you, but I think you have an advantage too, and tell me if I'm wrong, you you sit in a room often with a bunch of other really funny people bantering about you're all very funny I'm Nateland and you're all very funny just kind of you know this like comedic stew that's going on all the time do you find that that I'm sure you do does you find that that helps when you're

Speaker 6 just the energy like just the energy the the energy in the room Well, I think, yeah, I mean, you want to hang out with funny people, right?

Speaker 6 They say if you want to learn another language, you go to that country and immerse yourself in that. So I think hanging out with funny people, being on showcases, being in the green room,

Speaker 6 going on, you know, the road with other comics, you're always talking about stuff. You're always trying to make each other laugh.
So you're keeping those muscles going.

Speaker 6 But I think for me, I mean, I love to talk about doing an hour and 20 minutes because when I started doing comedy, like when I started headlining, it's kind of like the mandatory amount of time you have to do is 45 minutes and so when i started headlining i was like oh man 45 minutes that's a long time sure is and then uh and then but i i quickly realized that i wanted to get to do an hour because the show is 90 minutes so the more i can do on the show the less the other comics are doing and i only mean that because you know you may get paired up with someone that's very funny and you don't want to give them too much of the show you don't don't.

Speaker 6 You got to come at the end. Yeah.

Speaker 6 You know, so you're like, you know, you, you know, so I wanted to do an hour and now that I'm doing theaters, I, you know, I do the hour 20 part of that is so I have plenty of time to do some jokes that might not be as funny that I weave in between funnier jokes just so I can,

Speaker 6 you know, keep building my material.

Speaker 1 That's it. So you had the Atlanta show this last weekend.
You were at Symphony Hall.

Speaker 12 Beautiful place, by the way.

Speaker 1 Beautiful place to go see a show. I don't know.

Speaker 44 I think there are a number of comics who have done Symphony Hall.

Speaker 55 I've never seen comics.

Speaker 7 Nurse Blake was. Oh, yeah, Nurse Blake was there.

Speaker 1 How was it? Did you feel that?

Speaker 22 Was the energy good in Atlanta?

Speaker 40 Did we represent?

Speaker 6 I've been coming to Atlanta for years. Of course.
Atlanta's always great for me. I mean, really, Atlanta doing the Laughing Skull Festival.

Speaker 6 Now it's my third time doing it, but that's where I really had a break.

Speaker 6 You know, and people from JFL, people from the Tonight Show were all at Laughing Skull when I got, you know, that's where I started to get things in 2017.

Speaker 36 Oh, really? Tell me more about that.

Speaker 5 So, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, and you've got some people in the audience, some movers and shakers, people who could give you a spotlight, essentially.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I had already done Laughing Skull twice back when it was a competition. Yeah.

Speaker 6 I remember that.

Speaker 14 I was there a couple times.

Speaker 6 Okay, well, I had some good sets, but I never won. I never got far in the contest at all.
So then I took a year off.

Speaker 6 I didn't

Speaker 6 try for it in 2016. And then 2017, I came back.
But this time, I was just happy with my career. I was happy with how things were going for the most part.

Speaker 6 So I didn't put this weird pressure on myself to like impress people. I was just like, I'm just going to enjoy myself.

Speaker 6 And I'm like, I come to Atlanta all the time. I do the punchline.
I'm doing the laughing skull. It's like, these are people I make laugh all the time.
There's really no pressure here.

Speaker 6 And then that's when I had a really great set

Speaker 6 in front of the industry.

Speaker 6 So yeah, Atlanta has always been good for me.

Speaker 6 But

Speaker 6 just to the Symphony Hall question, I love classical music and I think it's just amazing music.

Speaker 6 So to do comedy where I know that music is happening feels a little wild,

Speaker 6 you know, just to

Speaker 6 know that they're putting out like the most beautiful music in the world. And then here I am telling jokes.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 But I am happy to do it.

Speaker 22 Why are you a symphony?

Speaker 54 Why are you a music or a fan of classical music, symphonic music?

Speaker 6 Not to be cliche about it, but I do think I like all music.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 6 But classical is a not it's just nice music. to have on.

Speaker 6 I like cello, classical music specifically. Interesting.
Because it's the most relaxing music in the world.

Speaker 6 There is no doubt about that. My wife says it's depressing.

Speaker 6 I like some organ music too. And my brother-in-law said it sounds like we're at a funeral.

Speaker 6 But I just find it really relaxing. And sometimes I'll take long road trips where I just listen to classical or I'll sit around my hotel with a Bluetooth speaker and just listen to classical.

Speaker 6 And I feel like it just relaxes me. And I think it helps me be creative.

Speaker 6 creative i think we're uh you know we're all doing podcasts i do two podcasts a week most of the time sometimes more uh you know everybody you know we're all doing we're all talking and we're also all taking it in and i feel like we take in so much and sometimes we're like i don't feel like we're processing it that's so interesting that stuff's always just going in yeah i feel like listening to some classical uh i feel like just helps me process things and i like that but did someone turn you on to that?

Speaker 46 Was that something that was in the house when you were young? Did you just like hear it one day and you're like, oh, that's good.

Speaker 1 I like whatever that is is making me feel good.

Speaker 6 Well, I, you know, I grew up in Alabama and I grew up in a trailer park. And I think at some point, I just wanted to

Speaker 6 feel like I was classing it up a bit.

Speaker 6 I wanted to feel like I was better than everyone, even though I don't want to feel like that now, but I feel like at the time I did, I just started listening to this music and then I was like, oh, this is really great.

Speaker 6 yeah and you know I'll go through periods where I don't listen to it for a long time or I'll go through a little jazz period yeah I like jazz too me too not as relaxing but it is it does uh you know like jazz piano and I don't like sometimes you go to New Orleans and they got that real uh walking out on the street with the drum I'm not as into that marching band jazz but I like you know, maybe nightclub jazz.

Speaker 14 Yeah, nightclub jazz is good.

Speaker 1 I agree with you.

Speaker 1 Some jazz can be a little chaotic and disjointed for my taste, but

Speaker 1 in general, I'm a fan of jazz.

Speaker 4 My dad used to listen to Beethoven and Bach and Mozart when we were kids.

Speaker 5 He would listen to that and he liked it.

Speaker 54 And that turned me on to it.

Speaker 46 And so for me, it's comforting.

Speaker 1 It is a bit of escapism.

Speaker 27 It's very

Speaker 39 beautiful.

Speaker 46 To think that some of those people wrote that music, you know, blind, one-eye, the deaf, you know, they're writing that mute, these complicated orchestral pieces, symphonies, with hundreds of instruments and people singing, and they did that without the benefit of auto-tune or editing software, is just a feat of immense godlike creativity.

Speaker 46 It's crazy to me. It's crazy.

Speaker 6 It is crazy. And,

Speaker 6 and I don't, I mean, I would never be able to prove this sort of thing, but they say that, you know, there's frequencies, right?

Speaker 6 And they say a lot of our music today is the wrong frequency, very low, and it's like dumbing us down. And,

Speaker 6 you know, but whereas classical is a is a different frequency that, you know, helps our brain. I saw this video on TikTok.

Speaker 6 Probably not true, but I guess they said, they were saying that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony helps people with cancer. They were saying it helps kill cancer cells.

Speaker 6 Like, again, probably not true, and I'm not saying it.

Speaker 50 But might be true for someone.

Speaker 7 We just don't know.

Speaker 6 You know, if I have a pain in my body, I put on a little fifth symphony, and I go, No, I'm going to listen to the whole thing because

Speaker 6 I'm curing myself here.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know, I knew a guy went to Georgia Tech, and he was studying very complicated physics in some way, shape, or form.

Speaker 22 And somehow he went to go get his doctorate, and he was doing some thesis in that education where him and a couple of other students were trying to prove that there was a key of life.

Speaker 4 There was a note, a frequency of life, like all that connected all things throughout the universe.

Speaker 1 It was a very interesting thing.

Speaker 22 I am not smart enough to repeat what he said this many years ago, but that turned me on to the idea that, you know, music is frequency and you can listen to stuff that obviously gives you

Speaker 1 a boost in mood, just like if you go see a comedy show or, you know, your favorite movie or whatever it is.

Speaker 46 And then there's things that just don't seem to jive the same way.

Speaker 1 And I do think the music today, not all of it, but some of it, feels,

Speaker 52 I don't know,

Speaker 30 not like some of the music that I've heard before, like older music.

Speaker 29 But that's not a knock on younger folks.

Speaker 47 That's just they are, you know, we're in this world that we're in and they're reflecting that back to us.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean, you know, because I, you know, I used to listen to Limp Biscuit, you know, when I was in high school, and I still love limp biscuit, right?

Speaker 6 But I'm like, you can listen to limp biscuit and suddenly you're like angry and resentful. Yes.
And I'm like, you know, you're like, why am I

Speaker 7 angry and resentful? Yeah. I'm like,

Speaker 6 you know, and I'm like, you just listen to some classical. You just relax for a second and chill out of that.

Speaker 56 Have you met Limp Biscuit in your travels?

Speaker 58 Have you been?

Speaker 6 I wish that I could, though. I mean,

Speaker 6 I was into it. I mean, I love, I mean, the first three albums at least, I know that the third one, the chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water or whatever that's called.

Speaker 6 That one was a jam to me at the time. Yeah.
Doesn't hold up as well.

Speaker 6 But the first two, still unbelievable.

Speaker 46 I am fascinated, always been fascinated, will continue to be fascinated by the relationship between Fred Durst and Corey, Corey Feldman.

Speaker 58 It's fascinating.

Speaker 22 If you follow those two on the internet, it's a weird, wild relationship.

Speaker 1 Corey Feldman wannabe musician, Fred Durst, actual musician, but they support each other. They seem like brothers.

Speaker 7 It's like kind of, you know, like a bromance, so to speak, but they're the funniest odd couple I've ever seen in my entire life.

Speaker 24 And Lim Biscuit's still out there touring just this last year and absolutely killing it.

Speaker 29 You mentioned being in a trailer park.

Speaker 1 You went from trailer park, and then I read that you were the youngest comedian to

Speaker 20 be on stage at the grand old Opry.

Speaker 39 Is that true, or is that internet mythology?

Speaker 6 Well, you know, I don't have a way to know if that's true. Okay.

Speaker 7 I do know this.

Speaker 6 I do know it's not true now.

Speaker 6 At the time, I might have been the youngest comic to do the Opry. Uh, but then I know John Christ and Aaron Weber are both younger than me, and they've done it since then.

Speaker 5 Oh, you know what?

Speaker 22 We had Aaron on, and I think we had this same stat for Aaron now that you're saying it out loud.

Speaker 6 Aaron, I don't think Aaron did it, and maybe, but maybe he did, uh, because we had a running joke for a while.

Speaker 6 Someone made like a fake Wikipedia for me, and the Wikipedia bio was, I was once the youngest comic to ever do the Opry, and then that title was taken by Aaron Weather.

Speaker 7 That's so funny.

Speaker 7 Aaron, I think we talked to him about this. I can recall.

Speaker 6 But, you know, I think I,

Speaker 6 and I don't know, but I think that I kind of ushered in a bit of a new era of comedy at the at the Opry. Now, you know, for a long time, Henry Cho and,

Speaker 6 oh, gosh, I can't, Gary Muldeer. Okay.
They're both members of the Opry, and they were doing it for a long time. They were like, I don't know, maybe the only guys doing it for years and years.
Okay.

Speaker 6 And then I think one of the directors saw me at Zaney's, our club in Nashville, and they liked what I did, and they invited me

Speaker 6 to do the Opry.

Speaker 6 Or my manager made it happen. I got a new manager, and all of a sudden, the moment I signed with my new manager, i was doing the opera pay him double pay him double yeah but the um

Speaker 6 but i you know after i did it uh you know then there was kind of a new wave of comics from zanies and stuff and and i don't mean that it was me necessarily but i think that once i did it and it went well i think the opera was like oh this can work right let's get more new younger people in here you ushered in the opportunity to kind of turn a new leaf and say hey listen, this works here in a certain brand and a certain style and the right person, we can get them in here and

Speaker 1 they can do it. And that must be acceptable.

Speaker 6 Because it's possible if I'd gone out and just bombed that they would have been

Speaker 7 back to Henry Joe. Yeah.

Speaker 7 That was the test.

Speaker 9 Yeah, Nashville is, we talked to Aaron about this.

Speaker 7 Nashville is like a hotbed of

Speaker 7 comedy.

Speaker 13 And, you know, I think if I might

Speaker 11 praise you, compliment you a little little bit, I think it might have something to do with Nate and you.

Speaker 10 And even though I'm sure Aaron wouldn't admit this, you know, it's like there are a lot of really good comics that are basing themselves in Nashville or out of Nashville.

Speaker 46 Do you feel that energy in the air when you're in Nashville?

Speaker 6 Yeah, for sure. I mean,

Speaker 6 when I moved there in 2014,

Speaker 6 there was Zane's was there, and Zane's was really good. And we had, Zane's has always been great.
And we have a,

Speaker 6 you know, I had a pretty good open mic scene, you know, so I got involved in that. And then around about 2015, I started doing my show, which is a monthly showcase that I still do at Zaney's.

Speaker 6 And, you know, I started putting all these comics on. And,

Speaker 6 and then, you know, when COVID hit, so I was doing, you know, and then there were some other showcases too, but I've been doing my show for a really long time. And then when COVID hit,

Speaker 6 they started kind of doing other showcases.

Speaker 6 A lot of LA people, a lot of New York people moved to Nashville. Some left, but some are still there.
So they started doing other kind of like sort of open mics.

Speaker 6 And now Nate has a, starting about last year, Nate started doing a weekly showcase.

Speaker 7 Oh, interesting.

Speaker 6 You know, which is, I've always done, my show's always been relatively clean. I don't require people to be super clean, but just keep it within reason.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 Keep it in some balance. Far round.

Speaker 6 Because if you've been to open mics, you know know it's

Speaker 6 pretty wild. Yes.

Speaker 6 I've been there. I think there's a, like, there's clean and then there's, you know, people think there's clean and then everything else in the world.
I think there's a little space in between. Yeah.

Speaker 24 I agree with you.

Speaker 1 And you go to some of those open mics, it becomes like the most X-rated slam poetry sometimes.

Speaker 22 And I think people.

Speaker 4 sometimes are misguided in their idea of what might or might not be funny.

Speaker 24 I think some people do it for shock value.

Speaker 32 I I think other people just talk that way.

Speaker 22 I think there is a third version that is very funny and they work blue, so to speak, blue, right?

Speaker 4 And but you go to those open mics sometimes and it just gets a little out of control. But Chrissy and I were talking about this before you came on.

Speaker 57 And we've had lots of clean, quote-unquote comics.

Speaker 21 Is that a choice that you make?

Speaker 1 Or is it just, listen, I want to be accessible to the most amount of my fans as possible?

Speaker 29 So I, and I'm not interested in shaking the tree in that manner.

Speaker 22 So when you do a clean show,

Speaker 5 what is the reasoning behind that?

Speaker 6 Well, I think it's

Speaker 6 a little bit of both of those things where you say,

Speaker 6 I do want to be accessible to more people. I want people, I want to do the kind of comedy.
I don't want to do comedy for kids. I always say that.

Speaker 6 I don't recommend kids for people.

Speaker 36 You're definitely not comedy for kids.

Speaker 5 Yeah, definitely not that.

Speaker 6 But

Speaker 6 I want you to be able to bring your aunt or your mom or your dad to the show and you not be embarrassed that you brought them. Yeah.

Speaker 6 You know, I'm not doing something where you're like, oh, I wish my dad wasn't a show. I wish my mom didn't know I was into this type of comedy.
Yes. You know,

Speaker 6 I have a friend just in, you know, there's a lot of dirty comedy that I do like. I have a friend, Jordan Jensen, is her name, and she lived in Nashville for a while.

Speaker 6 She's back in New York, and she is very dirty, right?

Speaker 6 But she's dirty in a way that it feels like that's just who she is.

Speaker 21 It's authentic to her.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 And so it's like, it really doesn't feel that bad. Yeah.
Right. But, but for me, if I'm saying what Jordan's saying, you would be like, oh, gosh,

Speaker 7 Justy, settle down.

Speaker 6 So I'm just not naturally that dirty of a person, but I do like to say some things. I do like to talk about drugs.
I do like to talk about this and that.

Speaker 6 But I try to, and if I am making, you know, sex jokes, I try to do it in the cleanest possible way.

Speaker 7 Yeah, Yeah, you know what I mean? You know what I'm saying, but I'm not throwing it out there.

Speaker 6 Right.

Speaker 22 It's innuendo, and sometimes innuendo is the harder joke to make.

Speaker 60 It's easy to say whatever.

Speaker 30 You know,

Speaker 5 we can say it here on the show, but I want to make sure I keep it relatively clean so your audience likes it too.

Speaker 22 But you can say whatever, but if the innuendo or the look or the motion that you make on stage, sometimes that's, in my opinion, the harder thing to do and something that you do do well.

Speaker 18 And funnier.

Speaker 7 And funnier sometimes.

Speaker 39 That's true.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I think if you establish some sort of line, like where the audience kind of feels like you'll never cross this line, then you can kind of inch up to the line and it feels edgy.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 6 even if it's not really that edgy. Yeah.

Speaker 6 It feels, it's like the, it's like the, you know, the dirty guy in church or whatever. You're like, oh, he said that no one else will say, but it's not so far that it gets you kicked out.

Speaker 24 That's right. I always thought this about like Andrew Dice Clay.

Speaker 30 Like, when you start off with Hickory Dickory Doc, and anybody who knows Andrew knows that, the rest of that, when you start off with Hickory Dickory Doc, where do you go from there in the set?

Speaker 30 It's like it can't get any crazier than Hickory Dickory Doc, right?

Speaker 1 So I don't know, but again, that's a choice he made, and it worked for him at least for a period of time.

Speaker 38 It worked for him very well.

Speaker 6 Well, I agree with that. And like, I went to see, I saw a magician when I was in Vegas recently.
Very good. Very good.
I'm not even into magic. Very good.

Speaker 6 But, you know, he kind of blows your mind with the first trick.

Speaker 6 And then the rest of the time, he's doing tricks that are like, yeah, this is mind-blowing too, but you've already blown my mind.

Speaker 6 So I'm like, yeah, of course you can do this.

Speaker 7 I just want you to do something.

Speaker 6 Of course you can do that.

Speaker 9 That's like Pink Floyd or Roger Waters doing Comfortably Numb is the opener.

Speaker 7 You're like, what the is going on here why did he start with comfortably numb i'm not even high yet

Speaker 6 you know they say billy ray cyrus when he came out with achy breaky heart every live show he would open and close with achy breaky heart

Speaker 1 okay ready there's a there you remember this song from two from the pandemic despacito remember the despacito song and i think justin bieber did a version of it and usher did a verse you know with the guy singing luis fonsi in the back despacito my wife's Venezuelan.

Speaker 22 We go to the Luis Fonsi show.

Speaker 28 I swear this is the absolute truth.

Speaker 6 He played Despacito four separate times during a two and a half hour show, four separate times.

Speaker 14 And the crowd ate it up every time.

Speaker 39 It got crazier.

Speaker 28 The crowd got crazier and crazier.

Speaker 1 And the last one was like a seven and a half minute version. And I was like, oh my God, if I hear this,

Speaker 7 give the people what they want. That's almost like a callback.

Speaker 6 You're like, you hype them up, and later on, you do it again. You You go, remember that?

Speaker 14 It's good.

Speaker 28 You always got to have the callback.

Speaker 5 We always try to end the shit.

Speaker 32 I mean, this is a little technical on just about the inside baseball, but you try and end the show on a callback, right?

Speaker 54 What you started with, or something from the first segment, or whatever it is.

Speaker 59 All right, Chrissy came up with a good game.

Speaker 1 And so we're going to play a game with you.

Speaker 36 It's clean, I promise. We won't.

Speaker 6 It's not set, by the way. I love this sign.
This looks good.

Speaker 7 Thank you, buddy.

Speaker 7 This feels good.

Speaker 6 You guys are on the same screen. It really feels like we're just in the room together.

Speaker 7 I know.

Speaker 22 Well, since if we can't be here in person, hopefully someday that'll happen.

Speaker 34 But if we can't be here in person, we wanted to cozy it up a little bit.

Speaker 28 We used to sit at a table.

Speaker 5 It just looked a little weird. You know, we look like we're at an office or something.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it did.

Speaker 9 We were staring at people like this.

Speaker 7 This is more conversational. Yeah.
Yes. Yeah.
All right. Go, Chrissy.

Speaker 18 All right. This is a, we're having a good time rapid fire round.

Speaker 7 Yes or no.

Speaker 9 Yeah. Just a yes or no.

Speaker 18 All right. Get started here.
So Waffle House at 2 a.m.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 14 Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 7 Yes.

Speaker 6 I have a side. You're just looking for yes or no's just yesterday.

Speaker 7 No, please, if you have something funny to say, go for it.

Speaker 6 2 p.m. It makes no difference.

Speaker 7 Exactly. Anytime.
Anytime.

Speaker 22 How many times in a

Speaker 25 week or a month will you visit a Waffle House?

Speaker 6 Well, it depends on if I'm hanging out with my dad or not. Yes.
My dad lives in Alabama. I live in Nashville.
That's a five-hour drive.

Speaker 7 What's up, 300 Waffle Houses between?

Speaker 6 I visited the Waffle House two times on the way up.

Speaker 7 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 7 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 35 Oh, I'd eat there every day if I could.

Speaker 24 There is nothing like Waffle House to me.

Speaker 30 Okay.

Speaker 39 Free motel breakfast worth waking up for.

Speaker 6 I'm going to go no there.

Speaker 6 You know,

Speaker 6 I go down to the breakfast sometimes and I just walk through.

Speaker 7 I know.

Speaker 7 No.

Speaker 7 I know. I'm like, no.

Speaker 21 If there's not a large cup of highly caffeinated coffee at the end of the breakfast bar with cream in it and sugar, then I'm not going.

Speaker 59 That's it.

Speaker 18 All right. So the next one is fishing just to get out of mowing the lawn.

Speaker 6 Yes or no? Yeah, I'm going to go. No, I love mowing the lawn.

Speaker 7 That's a narrow one.

Speaker 6 Mowing the lawn is fun. Yeah.

Speaker 7 It is therapeutic with making the lines.

Speaker 58 Yes, you make the lines.

Speaker 7 You get away from the kids.

Speaker 6 I like a riding more

Speaker 6 with no headphones, just listening to the engine. I love it.

Speaker 7 Smelling the grass.

Speaker 1 I like Dusty's version of escapism.

Speaker 7 He actually turns it all off.

Speaker 36 I wish for one freaking second I was able to do that.

Speaker 7 It is hard.

Speaker 6 That's why

Speaker 6 the lawnmower is great.

Speaker 39 Yes, I agree with you.

Speaker 6 I got some land in McMinnville, Tennessee, a little too hilly for a zero turn. But I ride the zero turn out there.
So you really got to be focused. You don't need distractions.
It's really good.

Speaker 6 That's fun.

Speaker 7 All right.

Speaker 5 I'll come help you one time.

Speaker 47 You show me how to relax, Doug.

Speaker 7 You can show me how to relax.

Speaker 5 Duct tape has a legitimate home repair.

Speaker 6 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 28 I agree with you on this. That's pretty straightforward.

Speaker 58 I think any man who has half

Speaker 4 the ability to fix anything, like I'm a guy who can probably figure it out, but most likely to call the dude who knows how, duct tape is a good replacement.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I built a, I've been trying to feed crows. I've been trying to make friends with crows.
Oh, nice. So I built a long

Speaker 6 thing to put up top, some crows to get it land on. Yeah.
And I used PVC pipe, and I couldn't figure out how to connect to the base, though.

Speaker 6 So I stuck a stick inside, put the pipe over, and then dumped it

Speaker 6 and then painted it. And it works great.
You got a perch.

Speaker 7 Did the crows come?

Speaker 6 They do. They do come.

Speaker 7 That's so fun.

Speaker 22 Crows are super smart animals. They are.

Speaker 36 Yeah. They're like one of the more intelligent birds, I think.

Speaker 52 I don't know if that's what I've heard.

Speaker 18 All right. So eating boiled peanuts in the car.

Speaker 9 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 7 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 6 I love boiled peanuts anyway.

Speaker 7 Me too. I love them anytime.

Speaker 7 Anyway.

Speaker 6 I love eating boiled peanuts anywhere, but I love them in the car.

Speaker 6 Okay, but hot or cold is the question because i do not like them cold but i love them hot i prefer hot i can do cold but i do prefer hot i can go either way i love them both i love them anytime they probably don't really like i'm out of a can no no they've got to be in the bag from the side of the road for sure canned boil peanuts and i can't remember i could do without that yeah yeah they give it to you in the styrofoam cup which to me

Speaker 22 is the best and not because it's not great for the earth but at the end of the day why i like that is because they stay warmer longer you can dig down in the bottom and get a hot one, even 15 minutes after you've gotten it.

Speaker 7 That's true. Yeah.
All right.

Speaker 34 Saying y'all at a job interview or a proper setting.

Speaker 35 I say y'all everywhere. Me too.

Speaker 6 Yeah. I mean, I say yes to it, but I, you know what? I used to wait tables.
I moved to Charleston. I waited tables.
And I noticed myself one day saying y'all every five seconds.

Speaker 7 And I just started, I go, How long do I

Speaker 6 just over and over again? And I thought, well, let me try to work some other things in.

Speaker 6 And then I kind of don't say y'all very much anymore. And I, it kind of goes against everything I believe in, but I

Speaker 6 don't really say it. Because it feels now I've gone a long time without saying it in a way that I feel like I'm some kind of phony if I try to say it.

Speaker 7 Right. I can see that.

Speaker 7 That's interesting. It is.

Speaker 36 And with the accent, you would think y'all would come out every a couple of sentences, or that's just how you.

Speaker 33 So here's a funny story real quick.

Speaker 24 So I waited tables for a very long time, worked in the restaurant business, and I was waiting tables at a fine dining restaurant.

Speaker 22 I walk up to a table full of women, older ladies, older southern ladies, and I say, hi, you guys. And

Speaker 14 all of them looked at each other, and the lady said, Excuse me.

Speaker 34 And I said, I just said, hi, you guys. And she said,

Speaker 5 there's not a guy in the group. And I said, oh, it's just the thing that we northerners say because I was born in Chicago.

Speaker 14 I said, oh, it's just a way that we express it.

Speaker 31 She goes, it's y'all or hello, ladies.

Speaker 44 And I thought to myself, wow.

Speaker 22 And that was the first time that I think I used y'all in conversation.

Speaker 1 That's when I'm 20 something years old.

Speaker 59 First time.

Speaker 7 And now I use it probably way too often. Now Dusty's got me reconsidering.

Speaker 6 That's happened to me before, too, where I, because I was trying to find other things. She is a thing.
And I had women say that to me.

Speaker 6 We're not guys.

Speaker 7 And I'm like, I was just kind of like, what? Yeah.

Speaker 7 I understand that. I got it.
10-4. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6 It wasn't 2025 when I went up and said this.

Speaker 50 I'll just let you know.

Speaker 58 It wasn't confusing then.

Speaker 31 And then I hate when people say, you guys.

Speaker 7 What are your guyses doing?

Speaker 6 It doesn't sound weird, but I get it. Like if it were all guys and you went up and go, what up, guys?

Speaker 7 So in that sense, it's

Speaker 6 a mental sense that they wouldn't like it.

Speaker 6 Fair enough.

Speaker 7 I know, that's true.

Speaker 18 Okay. Wearing socks with sandals if nobody's looking.

Speaker 6 I'm still going no. I'm going no whether they're looking or not.
I'm not into it.

Speaker 6 I'm not saying I've never done it. But I feel like if you're wearing sandals, it's time to feel free.
I mean, let the socks off.

Speaker 18 Let the piggies breathe.

Speaker 5 I'm a big fan of sandals, and I don't think I've ever worn socks with sandals.

Speaker 54 I've seen lots of people who do, and I don't understand why.

Speaker 18 Like, if I have socks on and I just have to run outside really quick with them.

Speaker 58 Okay, that's one thing.

Speaker 57 For socks. You're doing a chore.

Speaker 18 Like, I can't get in the yard with the socks.

Speaker 7 But that's the only time I'm

Speaker 6 doing the socks feel like the hot part of the whole shoe is.

Speaker 7 Yes, yes. Yes.

Speaker 22 I want to free my foot from all of that.

Speaker 11 I guess if you have nasty feet, free the foot.

Speaker 60 Now, if you've got athlete's foot or some gangrene or some shit.

Speaker 7 Keep that in closed. Yeah, keep that in closed.

Speaker 51 Okay, wear your socks.

Speaker 5 Taking home shampoo bottles of shampoo bottles and or soap from the hotel.

Speaker 6 Well, I'm not against it, and I've done it a lot. Yeah, I'm going to go a no.

Speaker 6 I don't think it's bad to do it, but I just think you can buy better shampoo. You can do better.

Speaker 7 You can definitely

Speaker 6 just treat yourself better than that.

Speaker 56 Well, now let me ask you this.

Speaker 14 Do you get to stay,

Speaker 1 and I'm sure it's a mixed bag, but do you get to stay when you go on tour at the

Speaker 54 fancier

Speaker 5 accommodations?

Speaker 6 Well, here's the secret about when you get into theaters.

Speaker 6 You book your own hotels

Speaker 6 unless you have somebody that you pay to book them.

Speaker 6 You book your own hotels. And I am a real middle.
I get kind of cheap with hotels

Speaker 6 because I'm in and out.

Speaker 7 I'm here for one day.

Speaker 6 Exactly. And I just, I don't, I don't go, I don't go, you know, Motel 6 or Super 8.

Speaker 7 But you're not at the Ritz.

Speaker 6 I like a Marriott,

Speaker 6 you know, a Hilton. I'm good with the Hilton Garden Inn.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 Because garden ins are nice, yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but I don't, yeah, I mean, because sometimes, especially in a city, you go, Atlanta wasn't so bad uh but they can be where you pull in and then you've already paid for the hotel now you're paying 50 bucks to park yeah

Speaker 6 or somebody has to park the car for you and and and it's like i don't i don't necessarily mind but every time i want to get the car now i got to go give somebody a slip it's crazy it's crazy and then you have to and if they hand them a 20 bill or they think you're a cheap ass and they're going to drive your car again like the fenders into the road

Speaker 7 we went

Speaker 6 stupid we went down to have a nice you got to have a raggedy car, and then you don't have to take.

Speaker 7 They're not attractive.

Speaker 25 You tell Avis, can I get the worst car on?

Speaker 56 Can I drive your car?

Speaker 7 Why don't you take my rent to car?

Speaker 6 If I pull up in a nice car, people think I stole it.

Speaker 6 I pull, I was in a meeting, I went to a meeting in LA and I pulled up in a rental car. I got the cheap rental car.

Speaker 6 And the guy pulled into the garage, and the guy goes, Uber eats.

Speaker 7 Oh my god, that's real.

Speaker 7 Meanwhile, we got to tell you a story. We have Ari Shafir on, right? You know, Ari?

Speaker 6 I don't know him, but I know who he is.

Speaker 5 Okay, Ari and Nate are apparently friendly with each other, right?

Speaker 39 So Ari is texts us before he comes on the show.

Speaker 32 And he, he, like, we very rarely have an actual, like, the comedian actually text our cell phones.

Speaker 21 And it's like, hey, guys, can we push this like 30 minutes?

Speaker 1 I'm having lunch with a friend.

Speaker 22 And we're like, yes.

Speaker 9 So he comes on and I said, how was lunch?

Speaker 12 And he goes, great.

Speaker 1 I was catching up with an old buddy. You might know him.

Speaker 57 His name is Nate Marcati.

Speaker 22 And I was like, oh, of course, we know him.

Speaker 14 What were you, where did you guys go to eat?

Speaker 21 He's like, oh, he got off the private, he, he flew in on his private jet.

Speaker 7 So I went and met him at the airport for dinner or lunch. And I was like, geez, holy potatoes.

Speaker 12 Do you, do you feel like your career is on a similar trajectory as Nate's?

Speaker 22 And is, does Nate push you to be better?

Speaker 1 Because he's, I mean, he's been phenomenally successful and he's really good at what he does.

Speaker 6 I mean, Nate's reached this incredible level, but I've always believed, you know, up until where he's at right now, that Nate is just a couple of years ahead of me.

Speaker 6 It always, you know, would seem like he would get something and then a couple of years later, I would get that. Yes.

Speaker 6 I don't really have aspirations like that. I don't, you know, I did the arena with him at Bridgestone where we were in the round and there was 18,000 people in there.

Speaker 6 I mean, that show was fun, but I don't know. I'm not really into that.

Speaker 6 I mean, I would be into the money, sure. Yeah.
But I think there is something to me about comedy being in a tighter spot.

Speaker 6 Now, I'm doing 2,000-seat theaters, but still those theaters, a lot of them are old or they're just built for that kind of acoustics.

Speaker 6 And I just really enjoy that.

Speaker 6 I don't, I mean, still more intact.

Speaker 7 Well, listen,

Speaker 5 this is a trope with musicians and with comedians, with a lot of people who perform on stage, but big movie stars.

Speaker 14 They go back to

Speaker 50 the smaller events.

Speaker 31 They want to go back to the days when

Speaker 22 400 or 500 people in the audience.

Speaker 39 I mean, Rolling Stones have been on, you know, they play clubs with 300 people.

Speaker 54 And, you know, Pearl Jam will warm up at a 200-seat theater in Washington because I think that's where the magic happens, where you can see someone in the eyes, you can see them laughing, and it connects with what brought you there in the first place.

Speaker 29 It's that life life force that comes through you when you're at the Bridgestone Arena.

Speaker 38 It's,

Speaker 1 I can imagine it's just got to be like a little bit overwhelming, sensory overload.

Speaker 6 Yeah. And I also feel like

Speaker 6 the more money that people make, I don't know. Sometimes I see people and I think they don't look very happy.
Yeah. And they've made so much money.

Speaker 6 And I'm like, I just feel like there's something to, like, I've,

Speaker 6 you know, worked for a long time. You know, I'm 43 and I was, you know, still working a full-time job up until 30.

Speaker 6 And so it's like this has just been,

Speaker 6 and even then, I mean, I went to part-time for a few years. So I've been about a full-time comic for about 10 years.

Speaker 6 And I'm like, I'm very happy with what I'm making. And I still have a lot of time to hang with my family.

Speaker 6 And it's like, I like, you know, I like being able to mingle with the big-time comics. I just went to LA, did like a charity show for the Dodgers, and a lot of those guys were in the audience.

Speaker 6 And then there are all these other comics on the show with me that I, some that I had opened before in the past, but now I'm kind of on an equal level with.

Speaker 6 And yeah, it feels good. I mean, I love that sort of stuff, but I really like the art of comedy.
What I want is to be able to look back and have a bunch of albums that are really funny.

Speaker 6 I want people to be able to, you know, when Wet Heat becomes an album, then I'll have five albums

Speaker 6 that I've put out and I like all of them.

Speaker 6 So I just want to be able to keep doing that,

Speaker 6 have albums that are good and just tons of comedy that people can watch. And yeah, I want to make money too, but I don't want to

Speaker 6 lose touch.

Speaker 22 Right. I'm with you on that.

Speaker 4 I don't think there's any fear of that happening with us here.

Speaker 1 But, you know, we have almost a thousand episodes and I was

Speaker 5 maybe fussing a little bit a couple of months back and with our agent.

Speaker 22 And I was like, Well, we redoing this, and be doing.

Speaker 54 He's like, Dude, you have almost a thousand episodes.

Speaker 29 You've built an incredible thing over there.

Speaker 44 You should be damn proud of yourself, regardless if you get invited to this hoobie-doo or that you know, function.

Speaker 29 It doesn't really matter.

Speaker 44 You've built it, you've done it.

Speaker 5 Some things that people will never do, and you have too.

Speaker 7 And congratulations, this will be the first and the last time today you're called absolutely delightful by Brian Gray.

Speaker 6 Well, you know, that's a thing, though, right? It's like no matter where we get, we can always find something to go, oh, I didn't get invited.

Speaker 6 We can be mad about not getting invited to something that a year ago we would go, oh, well, I'll never be invited to that.

Speaker 6 And then now we're like, well, yeah, I should be invited to that.

Speaker 7 Why am I not?

Speaker 6 And I get like that too. I mean, you know, you can find yourself in that spot, and that's where you're like, you know, you just put on a little classical.

Speaker 40 He did the callback.

Speaker 7 He did the callback he got it i knew you were gonna work it in yay

Speaker 1 dusty slay's brand new special is available he's also out on tour you're funny you're a technician of comedy uh we've now had two out of three of the netherlands uh podcast guy uh gentlemen guys

Speaker 4 here and You're welcome back anytime.

Speaker 47 I hope we get to do this again.

Speaker 7 Yeah, we enjoyed this.

Speaker 6 Thank you. I would love to come.
I mean, I used to come to Atlanta all the time, but now that I am doing theaters, I mean, I don't get to come as much.

Speaker 6 I think 2021, I did the punchline three times because they were just

Speaker 6 looking for people that could come from close around.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so I used to come to Atlanta. My wife used to do comedy, and she used to come to Atlanta all the time, too.

Speaker 7 And I love it.

Speaker 5 Well, next time you're in the area or next time we're up in Nashville, let's connect.

Speaker 22 All of the links are in the show notes, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 47 Dusty Slay.

Speaker 7 Thank you. Thank you, Dusty.

Speaker 6 Thank you very much. I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 9 Well, there you heard it.

Speaker 33 That interview with Dusty Slay is now one of my top five.

Speaker 35 I have a running list going on in my head.

Speaker 25 I because I'm mainly because I can only remember five of the guests that we've had.

Speaker 18 No, I agree, though. That was a great interview.

Speaker 7 Okay, now listen.

Speaker 34 I don't want you any wise ideas about maybe getting a better microphone.

Speaker 65 That way we could record remotely because I like you here in the studio.

Speaker 18 No, I love being there in the studio.

Speaker 14 Yeah, there's nothing like being in the studio.

Speaker 1 Not quite the same magic when you're so far away.

Speaker 12 But Dusty was fantastic.

Speaker 25 I think we all agreed walking out of that interview that it was just a good vibe with Dusty.

Speaker 24 He said, I think on two separate occasions, it felt like he was here with us sitting in the room.

Speaker 33 And I wish he was here with us sitting in the room. And hopefully, he can do that in

Speaker 14 dustyslay.com.

Speaker 25 You can listen to him him on the very popular Natelyn podcast.

Speaker 35 We often bounce back and forth on the charts with each other, although I can guarantee they have more listeners than we do.

Speaker 31 He also does a podcast with his wife.

Speaker 5 And then Wet Heat, go check it out.

Speaker 27 It's his brand new special on Netflix, as well as the tour that is available right now.

Speaker 15 So, what else is there to say?

Speaker 15 An hour of Dusty Slay. What else to slay, Dusty Slay?

Speaker 7 Go, buddy. He's slayed.
He is.

Speaker 18 He is. He's slagging.

Speaker 65 So listen, I hadn't seen Wet Heat when we did the interview.

Speaker 35 I'd seen like cuts of it, right? But I hadn't seen like promotional reels, but I had not seen it. And so over the weekend, I couldn't sleep because I was hopped up on very strong antibiotics.

Speaker 35 So I watched it and it made me laugh out loud on a number of occasions.

Speaker 22 Him and Nate and

Speaker 25 And our good friend Aaron, all three of them, working clean and being very good at it.

Speaker 17 Like they're very funny. I didn't miss the fucks or the shits or the dirty jokes, or

Speaker 65 I didn't miss it. I mean, listen, I still love a good Carlin every once in a while, but I didn't miss it.

Speaker 16 It was actually pretty funny.

Speaker 65 And

Speaker 16 so, it's, and you, I think most of the family can watch it.

Speaker 65 Anybody 13 and up can go and watch that show.

Speaker 18 So, it's PG-13.

Speaker 65 That's Brian's rating for it.

Speaker 7 PG-13. That's Brian's rating for it.

Speaker 16 PG-13.

Speaker 15 Like, there's 13 kids in the house, and I got to do something besides watch another another fucking episode of Spider-Man.

Speaker 7 Spider-Kids are.

Speaker 48 You're in the Spider-Verse?

Speaker 19 We're in the Spidey-verse.

Speaker 26 We're in the Diana, which is like one of these YouTube stars that now is on the Disney Plus channel.

Speaker 35 These kids are making billions of dollars, Chris.

Speaker 18 Oh, my God.

Speaker 7 I know.

Speaker 17 If I had just a little less scruples than I do, which is not meant, then I would be putting my kids to work on YouTube.

Speaker 40 Fuck the commercial break.

Speaker 35 The kid break.

Speaker 65 Like, I'd have them in this my in this studio no you're not eating until you do another take they're itching to get be in there anyway they oh they are they're already making their own videos my one of my kids asked me for a youtube channel the other day and i was like

Speaker 7 maybe

Speaker 7 maybe

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